#I think Robin and Shez would be good friends

[randomnameless]

Something I thought about since you got some Billy asks: they also don’t have their own theme song. In terms of Avatars being, well, treated well or fairly by Intsys, though I am utterly indifferent towards the subject, we’ve seen that Robin has Id and all its variations and how it’s about Robin’s choices to believe in their bonds with the Shepherds; Fates’ Gray Waves is Azura singing to Corrin about the shape their fate takes if they choose either side to fight for, or another route entirely and how it means finding the truth about Valla; Emblem, Engage! is a feel-good shonen anime opening style song about Alear and their allies and the Emblems and how they fight for good. Billy…well, what does Byleth get? They get Edelgard’s theme song, actually, where she admits to lying to Byleth/the player and she’s just so sad and torn up about it—not that she’ll actually change her mind, but that she’s just so sad. Hopes doubled down on making the game all about Edelgard and treating Byleth as a cardboard stand-in for the player until it was time to cast them aside for Shez/Edelgard’s newest merc toy friend by having the Song of Nabateans remixed for the scene where Rhea is unceremoniously killed off by Clout, whereas Byleth finally gets a song, but it’s conspicuously mashed together with Edge of Dawn and has been received by fans as a scary, demonic theme meant to show how the Ashen Demon (which is a title they hate) is viewed by others. Truth in game design!

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I'd say Fodlan Winds would be Billy's theme, but it's so generic...

It's kind of fun how Edge of Yawn is remixed to be Billy's ominous theme though, but yeah, I'm personally not fond, but not at all of the Nopes soundtracks, Rhea dies to a remix of FoF but FoF was, imo, that good of a piece because it was a tragic song meant to convey all kinds of feelings the character have in SS's finale, to warp in a "yay for the future!" song when Clout kills her defeats, imo, the purpose of that theme!

I think that's the core issue with Billy's character, at least in FE16 - they are a character, or a self insert, are they Sothis, or someone else, or just a prop to their Lord of choice?

[doodlesandbooks]

Tell me about your favourite 3H characters and their interactions with your favourite Engage characters!

I am not quite sure if this is the answer you had in mind, but I enjoyed answering so:

My favourite 3 houses characters are as follows:

Byleth (I personally play as male, but have little preference between m and f), Dimitri, Claude, Sylvain, Dedue and Catherine. Perhaps this list will change after I have done other routes, but for now, this will do.

My favourite of the engage cast is quite a long list, so for now, what I will do is just spill ideas on the page about the 3H characters and the various engage ones they would hang with.

I think Alfred and Dimitri, purely because of the similarity of appearance (at least until time skip) would get into conversation. Whilst they are very different, I think that after Alfred wares Dimitri down with his unending positivity, they would be good friends.

whilst I do think that Claude would get on well with Fogado because of how similar they are, I can't help but wonder if he would get on better with Celine. They are both calculating and kind, and I think they would find each-other's company at the least entertaining.

Catherine would get on well with Saphir for obvious reasons. I also think that she would enjoy spending time with Jade... and for a reason that I can't quite explain, Jean and Amber.

Dedue would click with Boucheron I think, I also think that he would enjoy Kigetsu's company, and would probably be Zelkov's favourite person.

Sylvain would not enjoy Celine's company, I just think that she would rip him a new one and that he would try to avoid her. (she does have the sharpest tongue in the army after all) However, I think he would get on well with Yunaka and probably also Alfred.

The Byleths, in whatever world that the engage and 3H crew end up together in, probably are also both there. I think that they are like inseparable twins and would get along really well.

They and Alear also get along really well. I like to imagine that they would have fun karaoke nights out together with Shez, and have the craziest DnD group with Corrin and Robin.

These four protagonists would be inseparable friends I think. Edit. This has in fact changed. Manuella has my heart and lindhart is a bop actually. Lindhart and Jean would be besties. Manuella would get on well with everyone, but I have the sneaking suspicion that she would get on best with Zelestia and Zelkov. Don’t ask me why, i don’t know

[almoststedytimetravel]

6, 7, 17, 26, 29 for the ask game :)

Hi Ann!

6) My favourite Lord is Lyn! She, for what ever reason was incredibly cracked in my first ever play through of fe7. Almost all of my Lyn mode units were absolutely excellent and her prologue, while it is a slog in terms of game play, really endeared me to her. Of the three fe7 lords Lyn is the one who really felt like she was my friend, both Eliwood and Hector feel more like their Mark's employer, but Lyn? She's my homie.

7) Favourite character... Can I cop out and say I don't have a favourite? There's no one character that truly stands above the rest. However Soleil is the character I have as my icon so I think I'll say she's may favourite character.

17) I first played fire emblem three houses in 2020ish. It was maybe the second or third game I bought for my switch but, honestly, I didn't really like it. So I wouldn't say it's what go me into fire emblem. That honour goes to the one and only Fire Emblem Engage! I don't know what it was about engage that rotted out the hole where my brain used to be but I really loved it! To start I really loved the art style so seeing people trash it made me like it even more. I think I just really missed the colourful and bright art direction this game had! All the voice acting was amazing and after it first came out I replayed it like four, maybe five times in row just so I could use all the units. Defiantly one of my favourite full casts out of any fe game, or even any cast of any game I've played! Also I ask myself the real questions, "If the story is mid why am I ugly crying?" 3H was the first game I played but engage made mw want to play more fire emblem.

26) My pitch for a new game? Personally I'd like a game that is similar Awakening in that it takes place in the far future of one of the worlds from previous games, either Magvel or Fate's unnamed continent would be what I'd want. Give Kana or Myrrh the Tiki treatment and show them as adults? You could also do Elibe or Tellius but I wouldn't want Jugdral or Achenea/Valentia.

29) Avatars? It depends honestly. Most games with an Avatar give us one solid character who we stick with, so they at least provide narrative stability which is especially helpful in games with branching paths. I like certain Avatar characters more then others and I think the main thing that separates Avatars I like (Shez, Robin, Corrin, and Alear) from those I don't like very much (Byleth, and Kris) is that the first four feel like the character I play as, with their own past, motivations, and agency where as Three Houses Byleth and Kris don't really feel like their own characters. I like the stability that having an avatar provides but in the case of Robin and Kris I do wish they were less customisable. Like giving Robin only a handful of reclass options comparable with the other characters. Also because this is the Byleth hate hours, you can not convince me that they are, one, a good teacher or even a passable teacher, two, that their decision on what class to teach would have any actual impact on the story. They don't show any genuine investment in their students, even in supports and prior to Jeralt's death they didn't show any emotion. You can not convince me they are any good at their job, certainly not as good as the game wants you to think. Corrin's choice having an actual effect on the narrative is believable Byleth, not so much.

[methinkethashipeth]

More modern/college AU shenanigans, Byleth is still a teacher lol

Shez can hold a serious grudge but Byleth barely remembers him lol-

Also did wanna add these two chaotic edgy twins, thought to name them Shez and Shea (pronounced Shee-ah or Shay-ah idk yet-)