secondaryhenry

Thanks for the input, Miriel. You know what the good news is, though? I don't work for IntSys, so I'm allowed to write and portray every Fire Emblem character however I want. My power is infinite! Ahahahaha!! Right? He looks cool. He's just fun, too, even if his character motivations are A) be powerful and B) Grima is cool.

That's a fair point! I just wish she had a little more going on, you dig? (And, she very well could--I haven't poured over Miriel's supports like I have over other characters'. I just wish I could remember some other diverse character traits about her, or at least come up with some to pretend that she has. Ha ha!) Here's a potentially unpopular opinion: AwakeFates characters should have less characters that they are able to S-Support, and more platonic opposite-sex supports.

I always figured that the Grimleal leaders were under the "control" of Grima, because of the scene where Validar mind-control summons all the followers of Grima to aide him in battle against the Shepherds. Sooomething like that. (It's still pretty weak reasoning, though. And just what are the extent of Grima's powers?)

Ideally the introduction and standardization of male, playable manaketes would also encourage more interesting character designs. The Three Default Manakete Designs (cutesy childlike girl that transforms into equivalently cutesy dragon, older woman with green hair and a gaze cast aside, evil old man in robes) are way ultra stale by now, and some more interesting character designs are in order. Some cooler dragon forms, too! Like Idunn's, or Rajaion's, or TMS Tiki's.

Certainly. Miriel, while I admire her dedication to her studies and continuing her mother's legacy, comes off as rather one-note. How unfortunate it is!

Ahaha, I love that picture! But, yes, I understand where you're coming from. Ricken's "I'm a capable adult, shut up!!!" trait is something that is greatly overplayed, and it's frustrating because that's almost all you see of him outside supports. So many of his other, cooler, more interesting personality traits--struggling with the morality of war and combat, his admiration of Chrom and the reasons for it, his pride in and dedication to his family, his insatiable curiosity, how he bases almost his entire view of himself on how others view him, the contrast between his desire to be respected (by Chrom and by others as well) and these childhood pleasures that he still wants to enjoy and cherish, yadda yadda yadda--are just kinda tamped down into supports and hidden by weird stats and incentives to use other mages instead. (He's lucky I'm so biased towards mages that I always use them. Haha!) And Nowi...oh, Nowi just warms my heart. She's been through so much, and yet she still tries so hard to make people happy. Love that girl! I just love her! I think that his supports with Lissa, Miriel, Panne, and Henry all do good jobs of displaying his other character traits. His support with Henry is wonderful! One of my all-time favorites. In addition to the ones I mentioned above, his support with Olivia is also really fun and nice, even if not too substantial. It's just...it's just really cute... (Also, you're right, why doesn't he have a support with Chrom? Their Summer Scramble conversation isn't even really that good, and I feel cheated.) I'm not particularly savvy on the FE14 supports, but I think a lot of the opposite-sex supports suffer from shoehorned romance. I usually don't pay much attention to S-Supports because they tend to make the support sequence feel dragged-on and less conclusive (or, all the development they make throughout the chain is thrown out the window; See: Nowi & Kellam)--and on the other hand, there are supports that aren't really complete without their S-Support! (See: Henry & Nowi) Sometimes the fact that almost every character supports with every other character of the opposite sex (with certain Chrom/Sumia/Robinsexual exceptions) also puts a damper on things, because some of the pairs just...aren't very compatible, you feel? Whereas the characters of the same sex that they support with are picked out particularly for their character chemistry. Or maybe it's for their stats. I don't know much about stats.

I think Ricken and Nowi are good characters. ...they're just poorly written sometimes a lot maybe.

What do you think of FE14 diviners? They're just mage reskins, of course, but their cosmetics are so endearing, aren't they? Whoosh, whoosh...