#General FE

[rorah]

To celebrate the Anniversary, I redrew the first thing I did for this game and gave it cohesion

... And played with it. Here are all the individual pieces 💙💛❤️💚

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

Personally I hate the "no meaningful way" argument. Imo it's meaningful just by those characters being who they are and not having to constantly remind people "I'm queer!" or "I'm bi!", etc. Rosado, and I know some others feel similarly, is the only one I'd argue is way too "in your face" and is similar to Heather from RD/FE10, where you keep getting a constant reminder about the primary trait of that character.

Writing characters should just come out naturally. You shouldn't need the character to say "I'm xyz" - you should be able to infer that from dialogue alone. For most of the Engage cast, that's definitely the case. You can generally figure out where the characters stand from dialogue, behavior and actions.

Characters shouldn't be written simply to fulfill an LGBTQ+ stereotype, but should be those things as part of their character - it should not be their character. Real people are just that - people, but some are LGBTQ+ and that's just one facet of them.

Typically when it's done in what these people are suggesting is a "meaningful" way, it's the only aspect that character has, repeated over and over until you forget they may even have other characterization. Frankly, as someone who is LGBTQ+, I find it to be a huge disservice to make characters whose personalities revolve solely around being LGBTQ+.

Kyza, also from RD, is another awkward instance of LGBTQ+ whose existence solely revolves around his/their (masculine appearance and uses gender neutral pronouns in the JP script - you can thank the localization for taking that out) one-sided love for Ranulf. Personality whomst? All I see is a character that exists for the sole purpose of filling the FE LGBTQ+ quota.

Imo it's almost always the actual LGBTQ+ characters that are written the most shallow. The primary aspect of their existence is to obsessively remind the audience that they're LGBTQ+. Monica reaaaaally blurs the lines, since I'd argue she has some personality outside of Edelgard, but they basically just made her obsessively in love with Edelgard to the point it's like 80 percent of what she talks about, rather than making her a good, intricate character who also happens to be in love with Edelgard. Considering I shipped them before Hopes even existed, I'd like to think it says a lot that the level of reminding of her romantic feelings is absolutely overboard.

Also, Niles iirc was kind of controversial because of his oversexualized characterization and being the only same sex option for men. It ended up feeling more like a fetish situation, and I'm sure there were ace men (or even not even ace but just generally uncomfortable with it) who didn't like it and wanted another options.

Basically I find that IS is not particularly capable of writing openly LGBTQ+ characters. If the character has to say they are and we can't infer that just from dialogue/etc alone (ex. Alfred), chances are that's going to be more or less their only personality trait and they're not going to have much of a characterization outside of that.

I feel like we got very lucky with Yuri. One could somewhat argue for Jeritza, but since his only same sex marriage option is Byleth and he has zero indication of any romantic interests with any other guys, it feels more like a forced "here let's add another same sex marriage option to shut them up".

Yuri is a man who views himself as a man, and wears makeup for the sake of appearance (i.e. not to hide injuries, etc) and because he likes it. He calls men "cute" from time to time without it being explicitly romantic, and it's not a constant repetitive quote that happens so many times that you can predict every conversation he's going to have.

Those among other things, he breaks gender norms perfectly while still having a complex and wonderfully written character. He's a good character who also happens to be queer - not a queer character who is just written to be queer for the sake of being queer. Wouldn't ya know it too - he's one of Houses' most popular characters. He's one of the best written characters as well imo and clearly written with more attention and care than most LGBTQ+ characters.

Also funny how people argue about the supports being so gender neutral about Alear, when people were actively complaining that Dimitri and Claude weren't made bi and saying their supports could've been, like Edelgard's with Byleth, just the same exact thing regardless of Byleth's gender. That people just wanted the options and didn't even care if the conversations were altered based on gender. Now all of a sudden, now that we have that, it's a problem?

There really is no making most of this fanbase happy, I swear.

People on Twitter denying that Engage’s cast is very queer coded is really funny to me lmao

Like, to an extent, I can understand it seems cheap and inoffensive just to make Alear’s romances gender neutral and them being the only ones to have paired endings is sad. Fair.

But deliberately ignoring how fruity the Engage cast is? What? Supports between Fogado/Alcryst, Fogado/Pandreo, Diamant/Amber, Etie/Goldmary, Celine/Hortensia are very gay! Anything that comes out of Alfred’s mouth is gay! Merrin is very les to the point her personal skill is her escorting women like the handsome gal she is!  Kagetsu and Chloe are very open and brazen with their gay words (okay maybe the former is explained by language barriers but honestly he’s probably queer, too)! Rosado personally executed the gender police himself!

Part of the criticism of Engage’s queerness is that no character “uses it in a meaningful way” i.e. explain deeper parts of their characters, and Twitter people compared it to X, Y, and Z characters from the game that shall not be named, and idk, personally in a game with a tone like Engage, it matters less to be specifically descriptive and matters more to be more playful and fun with it. It’s not like Fates where there were only two same sex S support characters and so they had to be written with that directly in mind for their characters (which Treehouse then removed, damn thee), but Engage from the jump tries to be more feel good and hopeful, so not only does there not really need to be character arcs intertwined with implied differing sexualities, that opens the avenue for more of the cast to be read as queer/queer coded by fans.

Idk, that’s what I feel anyway

[moeblob]

Twins about to either get ice cream or commit war crimes pre-war.

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

No more alts for the Three Houses lords until the rest of the students get their Academy AND post-time skip looks. Y'all notice who's missing from the Golden Deer from just their Academy attire? And when the hell are we going to get Ferdinand von Aegir's amazing cape? Seriously, give the rest of the students love, FEH.

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[stupitunclehal]

heavy sigh. parts 1 and 2. checked my phone so we're hopefully free from the penis curse at last.

[moe-broey]

Quick and rough Plumeria redesign, mostly just cause...... I gotta do what comes naturally to me, man. Give me some Shapes. Simplify that design or so help me.

I don't have a lot of complex thoughts about it, actually! Just the idea of having a "sexy" outfit that draws the eyes to certain parts of the body -- while simultaneously being modest and Sharp. Having an edge to it. Also!!!! The luna moth inspired wings!!! I wanted to stay within her og color palette, but I've also always thought luna moth wings would suit her... the top wing is vaguely heart shaped, too!

[jaredxenoengage]

🤝

Both having abusive parents who would use them for their ends.

[ciarre]

Frieren Emblem: Radiant Dawn

[sieglinde-freud]

worst yaoi youve ever seen

[cyanide-butter]

[sapphsquared]

Six new fan concepts (Including first concept of Igor)

here is a compilation of new concepts. the first concept is Ari in one of his casual attires and a blue butterfly. the second one features Dai, concept 3, 4, and 5 are Hana. one of them is a shadow version of her. concept 3 actually reveals that she will have black hair in the epilogue of the story. the fifth concept shows Hana in the dark with a puppet shadow behind her.

I was going to use the image for another Reincarnation track on the P6 IP soundtrack but i couldn't find a remix anywhere. and last but not least, the first fan concept of Igor for P6.

[moeblob]

Thinking about Dimitri Fire Emblem today. I miss my son.

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Been a while since I've submitted one so here's a The 🐍 take: Sometimes it's good to go out on a limb and use community claimed "F Tier" units because sometimes those units aren't actually bad, they're just slow or have unreliable RNG or something else minor to make them less appealing for ironman or LTC runners. Use that mediocre character, and you might just get a new random favorite character because they hit 3 crits in a row despite low hit chance!

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[dirtyoldmanhole]

not gonna lie i loooooove all the different flavors of guilt that gunter would have if he gets romantically/sexually involved with corrin.

off the top of my head you've got a choice of:

* guilt over the obvious age difference and yeah, i'm gonna say it: him raising corrin as a father figure (corrin's line lol). it's not *not* a skeevy look. even if they start their relationship years after the game events (doubtful, with his age). personally love how their S-support indirectly acknowledges this with him dancing around a way of getting her to reject him without either one of them acknowledging that he has feelings for her in the first place. mind games right from the start!!! (fuckin. hilariously backfired on the old man when he realizes corrin's even more thirsty for him.)

* sort of related with the above re: the mentor/mentee power differential guilt at bare minimum. this one kind of lessens as corrin grows into the authority of a royal, but it's pretty obvious she still has a authorital respect towards him in every route. i know for sure he'd have occasional pangs of guilt as to if he's taking advantage of her trust there.

* garon's "father""" connection with corrin. >:)c and just. holy fuck the potent hatred gunter has against garon and it bleeding out on corrin in the bedroom. him wanting to possessively mark corrin-as-garon's-heir as his (-and then him having the understandable horror/guilt over that.)

* (conquest-specific) guilt over not telling corrin about his late wife and all the skeletons that would dredge up. i honestly headcanon that in cq he never mentions his history to corrin just to let sleeping dogs lie and avoid painful questions, but it forever remains a kind of albatross around his neck. that's not even counting widower's guilt on some level - he's human, it happens.

* (revelation-specific) guilt over whether anankos manipulated any affections/lust for corrin just to get closer to her... >:3c (what if hell, he's right?)

* revelation also has loads more with guilt over his possessed actions. and then guilt if they're fucking while he's possessed and he can't tell corrin anything. and and and-

* more generic guilt that a commoner (and punished for being a commoner) knight lusting over his liege/princess, especially if you introduce pregnancy/children/heirs as a factor.

* we're straying into blatantly headcanon territory briefly here but [mumbles something about my sadist/top/kinky thoughts >_>]

* more benign guilt over him being obviously older and dying earlier/being dependent on corrin when he becomes invalid. lots of conflicted feelings about wanting her but realizing it's a selfish want when he's going to break her heart by dying at minimum 20+ years earlier even if you introduce some magical shit.

like dear lord

the guilt with the already potent chemistry i see those two having would be one hell of a cocktail of unresolved sexual tension, and i don't think it goes away even if they do consummate it .....

[moe-broey]

SO CUTES....

[fore-seer]