#It wasn't even a GOOD unusual pick like Bonnie Gordon was for Silque

[childofaura]

Any thoughts you have on Cristina Vee?

She did Athena, Lachesis, Tatiana, Merrin and Nerthuz.

I uhhhh... DO have thoughts on her acting. Bit mixed. Also RIP I meant to respond to this but I got bodied by allergies yesterday.

But anyways, I like her as an actress, I think it's awesome that she plays Tulin (and she had me fooled because I thought it was Veronica Taylor from the trailer we first got), she does a great job playing Marinette (even though I haven't seen Miraculous, though that's one I've kind of wanted to check out), and... I feel SO bad that she's apparently part of that trainwreck Oye Primos show. But she's a great actress! Just... when it comes to FEH I have some opinions.

But to start, she plays Athena, Lachesis, Tatiana, and Nerthuz... And also actually plays as Fjorm's singing voice for Flower of Ice!

Ok so performance... Let's focus on the positives first. Athena is really fun, and like I mentioned in the Faye Mata review, Cristina got to give Athena an accent of some kind (what it really was, I have no idea, lol) which really sells the foreign tongue aspect of Athena's character. And it makes her lines really fun to listen to, especially because she gets to fluctuate her tone a lot. Tatiana is very sweet, she definitely has the delicate maiden voice but the absolute scandalous nature of her thinking you poking her is Zeke getting saucy makes me laugh super hard. And... For what it's worth, Nerthuz, though I can't stand her character being a shallow milf-type (pardon my use of the word) character, has great regular lines and I'm convinced that this is a character who genuinely finds life on earth adorable. Just... cannot stand her critical lines, and I pulled three copies of that lousy lady when I was trying to get Freyr. But it's still a good performance. Now the not-so-good performance... That would be Lachesis. I think it's less Cristina's fault and more the casting director's fault, because I think Cristina can obviously do younger character voices pretty well; look at her lines as Marinette, playing a teenager. But Lachesis is just so low-energy and monotone and... the voice is kind of deeper than the character's youthful appearance. So in that regard, I'd say that Lachesis isn't her strongest display of her acting. Oh, also, her singing role as Fjorm: I think she sings very well! But, and this 100% isn't her fault, the translated lyrics for Flower of Ice have the WORST tempo. Translated songs from Japanese to English usually don't flow very well, and unfortunately Flower of Ice falls into that category. The only song I think that was actually translated the best in Fire Emblem was Heritors of Arcadia; the archaic word choice ("Lo, an angel they see" or "Hark, an anthem he drums; can you hear?").

I think she was a good fit for Athena, Tatiana, and Nerthuz. Just... not really for Lachesis.

I can actually say there's quite a decent range between Athena and Tatiana/Nerthuz, and even Lachesis. They're pretty noticeably different from each other; not drastic but pretty well-distinguished.

So I think overall, I'd put Cristina at an 8/10. The Lachesis bit drags her score down a little, but she's really a good actress. Haven't heard her Merrin yet, but I'll definitely built Merrin up when she gets added to FEH, to make up for the fact that I ignored her in Engage.