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Top 5 Favorite Posts/Asks!

This list is based off my favorite asks I’ve done so far for Three Houses, whether that be short fics I did myself, or did an ask for and how it came to be to begin with!

This is also in response for celebrating a thousand followers!

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1. Unsuitable Suitors 

Dimitri Felix Sylvain and Ingri doing dumb things (Requested)

This was my favorite ask of all time because of how much fun I was having when writing this, because I can totally see the boys about to commit fucking homicide to protect Ingrid, and how much it made me laugh.

2. Confessing for Dummies

Ashe x Marianne. (Requested)

I actually based the fic’s name off one I saw for Trails of Cold Steel for Fie and Elliot. Regardless, I love their supports so much but was so salty that their A support didn’t happen until the damn timeskip, which support-wise makes NO sense whatsoever. Oh, and I also like writing Marianne being happy in general, as well as gud boi Ashe. If Ingrid didn’t exist, then I would always pair Ashe with Marianne, no questions asked.

3. Digging the Dancing King

Felix as the dancer for the White Heron Cup. (OC)

This popped into my head after choosing people as a dancer to see their responses as a joke. Then it hit me “...No one’s ever made Felix their dancer, have they?” And I was also in a shitposty mood and wanted Felix to dance.

4. A Reason for Dimitri

Post-Chapter 17 cutscene with Child!Byleth. (Requested)

After the battle of Gronder, this scene hit me like a damn truck. I was waiting to answer this ask when I finally got to the scene, and DAMN did Dimitri’s voice actor do an amazing job with it. 

5. A Professor’s Daily Life

Blue Lions see how we move around and what we do ingame-style. (OC)

Honestly, there wasn’t much thought put into this ask other than the above reason and ‘Cause it’s funny to think about’. I’m fairly sure that THIS is the post that got people’s attention and how I made myself present in the Imagines community of 3H, cause at this point and time, this post was the fastest thing to ever explode in popularity besides my Child!Byleth post. In other words, this is what sparked my 3H reign officially, even though I’ve written a few short fics here and there before.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Reunion (Edelgard and Byleth Timeskip)  

Dancing in Moonlight (Dorothea x Byleth) 

SANS CLAUDE (IT’S CLAUDE VON RIEGAN FIRE EMBLEM OH GOD OH FUCK)

Golden Deer Defend Child Byleth

Persona 4 Cast meets Black Eagles 

Byleth saying hi to Bernadetta in the most horrifying way possible

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Kisekae Insights #5: Kai Hirasawa and the Keions

Let’s divert to what this series is really about; there’ll be more time for story overviews later.

K-On has been a pretty big influence in my project, even though I’m not sure how I exactly introduced it in the first place. If the Keions were simply characters in the series, then explaining their involvement in the first year would be a breeze, but there’s one thing I did back then that I’ll explain in this.

As I stated in #3, Ritsu Tainaka replaced Amy Pond in Series 1, 2 and 6. Her story as the Doctor’s companion is the same as Amy’s, so there’s no need to go into detail about that. All you need to know in that regard is that the Ritsu I’ll be talking about is the original HTT counterpart and not the Amy counterpart; I’ll explain her later.

Kai Hirasawa: The Adopted Husband

This “adopted husband” business is going to happen for a few other OC’s, so take note of that. Some of them were also known by other names in the past, but for this, they will be addressed by their current names.

This is Kai Hirasawa, the K-On OC I made for the project.

Kai Hirasawa was originally born as the older sibling of Tomoko and Tomoki Kuroki, but his parents put him up for adoption since they didn’t feel ready to bring a child up at the time. He was adopted by a Chinese family and moved to Hong Kong until the age of five. In a plotline inspired from the movie McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten, his adoptive parents sent him to the Wudang Mountains in Hubei, China after his kindergarten teacher discovered his gift for kung fu.

At the age of twelve, Kai graduated and his parents sent him to Japan to attend middle school and high school. The high school Kai attended was a sister school to Sakuragaoka High, where the HTT girls attended, so he became good friends with them at some point, eventually becoming a couple with Yui.

Some time after he graduated, Kai’s life was merged with the Doctor’s by Yuki Nagato just before the events of The End of Time, because she believed that it would help him in his final battle. When he was separated again following the Doctor’s regeneration, he and Yui (because she had ties with him) became amnesiac for a short period of time. During that time, they got married and it wasn’t until right at the wedding ceremony that the Doctor passes by, during his final reward, and recovers their memories, returning them to their true identities.

From that point on, Kai lived with the Hirasawa family. Like Yui’s parents before them, Kai and Yui became a lovey-dovey couple, perhaps even more than Yui’s parents were. He became a part of the Zhuge family, or rather, one of its founding members, when he met the protagonist and one of his prototypes, Kyōko Izumi, and helped them fight off the Karn Army.

In an alternate timeline, where Yui became famous before she Michael Jackson’d herself ala Takotsuboya’s That Is It, Kai became depressed and committed suicide by gaining the power to open the Time Vortex and throw himself in it. Of course, the Doctor immediately destroys that timeline so it never really happened. This is one of the fanfiction stories I published online years ago.

Character highlights in the series

In the 50th Anniversary Series, I did a little character arc with Nodoka. In Block 6, she would be revealed to be one of the protagonist’s echoes that got created when he scattered himself throughout his own timeline (or a baby made out of dust and clay by the echo, which is what I wrote in the episode). In Block 9, we have her and Azusa saying that Yui doesn’t love them anymore (as friends) because she became so close with Kai. At the final climax, when the Master activates a nuclear device to destroy Koshi Castle, Nodoka prepares to sacrifice herself to deactivate it, but the Fourth and Fifth Doctors along with Momoka stop her from doing so, convincing her and Azusa that they, at the very least, still have other friends. In the end, the Doctor had them talk it out with Yui, Kai and Ui and they got back on good terms, not that they were ever on bad terms in the first place.

In one of the 2014 CNY Specials, the HTT girls are featured in a cameo as they have a naked pool party (it was topless in the version I did, but it might as well be, plus those scenes were removed in the family-friendly version of the episode).

The Keions have never fought as an army because K-On was adapted after the period Three Kingdoms was set in. However, in the Series 9 finale, Kai and the Keions are part of an army fighting on Hiroki’s side against Girl Power and the Kurayami Alliance in Ōsaka.

HTT becomes Boukenger

By 2018, things had changed for the Light Music Club girls. Ho-kago Tea Time and Wakaba Girls joined forces and became an indie music collective called the Light Music Studio (Japanese here, K-On Studio?), but we wouldn’t see that until Soulbound Series 3 the year after.

By that time, the other members of the Light Music Club got boyfriends as well. Banding together under Kai, the group called themselves Home-Away Support Boys Time, but the year after, they joined the Light Music Studio and renamed themselves Midnight Boys. Here are the members of that group:

Kai Hirasawa (leader, Yui’s husband)

Yūto Tamaki (Ritsu’s boyfriend)

Nozomu Setana (Mio’s boyfriend)

Makoto Kunemiya (Tsumugi’s boyfriend)

Satoshi Tainaka (Ritsu’s brother and Azusa’s fuck buddy boyfriend)

Hirosuke Masaki (Ui’s boyfriend)

Yōta Kiyono (Jun’s boyfriend)

As a bonus, here’s a little design of Hirosuke I did for Yui’s birthday spam in 2015.

Fun fact: Back in 2017, I posted a commissioned fanart of Mio with “Nozomu” on the K-On page and triggered a lot of fans, but I only did it because another admin was doing it as well. Also, with the exception of Kai, Satoshi and Hirosuke, the other boyfriends didn’t have last names in Gokaiger until I added them in Soulbound Series 3. Am I homophobic for denying yuri headcanon ships? Maybe, but it’s just how my story goes.

So the K-On girls joined the Superhero Project, gaining the powers of the Boukengers as follows:

Ritsu Tainaka (BoukenRed)

Azusa Nakano (BoukenBlack)

Tsumugi Kotobuki (BoukenBlue)

Ui Hirasawa (BoukenYellow)

Mio Akiyama (BoukenPink)

Jun Suzuki (BoukenSilver)

There were two other members of the Boukengers who got promoted and joined the Gokaigers by the start of the series:

Yui Hirasawa (GokaiYellow, formerly BoukenYellow) Yui was selected to be a Gokaiger in the series prelude because of her swordsmanship and her determination to overcome her airheadedness.

Kai Hirasawa (GokaiSilver, formerly BoukenSilver) When Yui became a Gokaiger, Kai was determined to be with her for fear of her dying like she did in That is It. In the first episode, he picks up the Gokai Cellular and GokaiSilver key that the Doctor (GokaiRed) dropped in a battle. He then abandons his role as BoukenSilver and disappears as he fights as GokaiSilver in secret. After revealing himself and explaining to everyone what happened, the Doctor takes back Kai’s morpher and key, asking him to think of what he can do to impress them. Soon after, he finds his courage to protect the world from the Zangyack Armada, which leads to the Doctor giving Kai back his morpher and key, as well as giving him the Q-Rex Megazord.

How Ritsu became “Amy”

This was a question that was buried in the back of my head for years until I finally decided to answer it in the Space Squad trilogy. Truth be told, I probably would have forgotten otherwise.

In the third Space Squad movie, Rassilon, who made his way to the 21st century after his exile from Gallifrey in Hell Bent, lured the Doctor to Trenzalore (which in my canon is just an area on Earth) in the Makū Dimension and used the TARDIS to power up an Axis Converter, which kills it and causes the dimension to expand throughout the universe. Rassilon fast-forwards time around him and the Doctor so that it becomes the Trenzalore as seen in The Name of the Doctor (this implies that said episode and the Block 6 adaptation took place in the Makū Dimension).

The Doctor goes to his size-leaking TARDIS and merges himself with the exposed heart of the TARDIS, causing the column to become an entrance to the Doctor’s timestream. As he uses his regenerative energy to repair his TARDIS and his timestream, the events of The Name of the Doctor (and its adaptation) take place, meaning that the Doctor can’t get out for the time being, even though he knows that being inside of the heart for too long is no better than looking into the Time Vortex. Clara Oswald fixes the damage to the Doctor’s timeline caused by the Great Intelligence (and Hiroki’s past self does the same to his as well), but there is still some damage left, specifically towards the beginning of the Fifth Doctor’s life.

Meanwhile, Ritsu and the Boukengers encounter Ritsu’s older self in 1968 New York (after the Weeping Angels sent her back in The Angels Take Manhattan). 1968 Ritsu tells 2018 Ritsu what happened, which leads her to go into the Doctor’s timeline when everyone regroups at the TARDIS. She sends an echo of herself to fix the remaining damage, creating the Ritsu Tainaka who became the first companion to travel with the Fifth Doctor following his regeneration. With his timeline now fixed, the Doctor repairs his TARDIS, allowing everyone to leave the Makū Dimension. Of course, the Doctor and Ritsu survive as well.

In a special feature included with the final episode of Doctor Who, the 2018 Christmas Special, HTT perform three songs at the UNIT Christmas Formal, namely Fuwa Fuwa Time, Pure Pure Heart and Tenshi ni Fureta yo! Kai and Azusa join in with the last song as well. You can argue that it would have been a good ending song for the series, but I felt that it was originally more a song for Azusa compared to Anna Tsuchiya’s Voyagers, which I used as the ending song because it signified farewells in general.

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What is your cat's name and why do they look so cute?

This little shit is named Eli, and he’s my brother’s cat, but he likes sleeping and hanging around my room alongside my other brother’s cat, Delilah.

They love my room, and I have no idea why.

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Do you have a voice in mind for child Byleth? Like what voice actor or (if you prefer) fictional character would be a good reference for what he sounds like?

Hm, I actually never thought about his voice honestly.

The best comparison I can say is Laphicet from Tales of Berseria.

Though this is the JP voice, his tone and delivery is what I had in mind for child!Byleth, seeing how young he is.

Here’s a video for reference.

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Why is it that you dislike cyril? I'm just curious really. All the kid seems to do is over work himself.

Without memery, he is the worst character for me in 3H.

For me, he’s Catherine if she wasn’t interesting. They both adore the hell out of Rhea, but the thing is with Catherine, there’s more to her than that.

I.E her supports with Ashe show that although she’s willing to follow orders, she’ll be haunted by the things she had to do, and though she’s willing to lay down her life for Rhea, she’s also willing to do the same for those she cares for, like Shamir. That’s what makes her interesting alongside her devotion to Rhea.

And also, she knows how to have fun, main example of that being her supports with Ingrid.

As for Cyril, I cannot recall a single moment in which a sentence didn’t end with some form of “IMUSTWORKFORLADYRHEA”. There’s ways to be grateful to a character without that being literally all you say.

Again, example being Catherine, plus Leonie.

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Number 29?

29 - What’s a game that you thought you wouldn’t like and ended up loving?

Wouldn’t ya know it, Fire Emblem Three Houses!

I originally thought it was going to be another Fates situation, too many waifus in the bad way, horrific story, bad characters, etc.

I was so disappointed by Fates, and honestly the gaming industry as a whole lately, I was ready for a let down.

Then the Black Eagles campaign and all the students RKO’d me and the entire blog so hard, I changed the entire blog to dedicate to Three Houses for probably a VERY long time.

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Hello, mod Makoto. I had a harmless question. If you managed to sneak in a unit based on yourself, what data would you give it? Wich talents and class? Yes, i am asking you if you ever thought about making a fire emblem OC.

Simple question really. 

Ever since I played Shadow Dragon, and then Mystery of the Emblem (Where I got to do all the above things), I have thought about it.

Without a doubt, the General/Heavy Armor classes.

As much as I love being a mage, in FE games I LOVE being an absolute fuckin tank.

Boon : DEF

Bane: Speed

When I played MOTE, and was assigned as Marth’s personal guard, I felt like an actual royal guard considering I could become the WALL for my liege and Caeda.

To quote the wise scholar, Sundowner:

I’M FUCKING INVINCIBLE!

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Hit us with 3. Use your platform to promote a game people should play.

3 - A game that is underrated

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel

This game is fucking FANTASTIC

The cast was one of the very best ones I’ve ever seen for a JRPG, only being recently usurped by Fire Emblem Three Houses.

If you love Fire Emblem/Persona for the characters, then you’ll absolutely adore Trails of Cold Steel.

With fun gameplay, great characters, and a very interesting story/world, this game is something everyone should play!

And fun fact, for you fossils who have played Trails in the Sky, this game is a sequel to that!

1 and 2 are on Steam, with the remasters being on PS4! 3 and 4 are on their way to the America’s as we speak!

So PLEASE play Trails of Cold Steel! 

(I NEED ASKS OF THESE CHARACTERS PLEASE)

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How about number 5?

5 - Game character you feel like you relate to the most/want to be like the most

There are 3 major ones I feel like I relate to the most.

Marianne Von Edmund (Fire Emblem Three Houses)

She is technically the one I most relate to, amazingly, both pre and post timeskip.

Elliot Craig (The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel)

Elliot is someone who I wish to be/relate to a bit.

Yukiko Amagi (Persona 4)

Yukiko hits a bit closer to home than Elliot, but not as hard as Marianne.

Warning: Regarding this topic, reasons might get a little personal, putting it under a cut

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Marianne:

I used to relate to Marianne because it was only a few years ago, I was in the exact mindset regarding myself.

I absolutely hated myself, and there wasn’t a single aspect of it that I remotely liked. I figured that I was a blight on everyone, and that everyone would be far better off without me. I even wished for the same thing as Marianne, wanting to die since I really didn’t care if I stuck around or anything.

It absolutely shocked me how well the writers were able to nail the amount of despair I felt towards myself, and the wanting to stay out of everyone’s way. Marianne was exactly how I felt, to a very uncomfortable degree.

Now, amazingly enough, she was brought out of that mindset because she found someone to live for, that being the Professor, and now cherishes life after the timeskip.

For me, it was my best friend, Liam. Had it not been for him, I’m not sure if I would’ve been around, but now I feel like I have lots of things to live for now, just like Marianne.

Elliot:

In Trails of Cold Steel, Elliot is not that physically strong as his father, who was a military general, and felt out of place for it, considering he wanted to go to a music school instead of a military academy.

Despite that, Elliot still managed to keep an upbeat attitude and was very friendly with the people he met.

Most of all though, he’d do anything for his friends, though he’s not as strong as the rest of them.

Elliot is who I aspire to be, because with the struggle of not being as strong as the other guys, he still pulls his own weight and even helps out the others when they need him the most.

Yukiko:

In Persona 4, her social link consisted of her feeling like her life was on rails, and that she had no say in it whatsoever. 

After a bit of time, she begins to realize that staying in her hometown with her family was something she wanted to do, realizing how much her family did for her, even though she used to think they didn’t really seem to notice.

I felt the same way she did, being pressured by my parents to pursue in the nail career to make money. However, I am now pursuing a Psychology major, but I am still doing it ultimately for the family and to help other people.

I used to think that I was going to be railroaded into something I didn’t enjoy, but in the end they were looking out for me. It did take a bit of time to realize that, just like Yukiko.

Oh, and she also has a really fucking weird side to her, that she only shows to her best friends, similar to how I do.

Plus, her sense of humor is similar to mine.

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So, I was tagged to answer some questions

A lovely writing blog in the Fire Emblem imagines community has tagged me for this...question game thingy that’s going around.

Their name is @fireemblemfrappuchino​, (No idea if you actually follow me, but thanks for the mention! Wasn’t really aware the other imagines blogs paid me much mind than like the one blog that followed) and I checked out their writing, and its very enjoyable, and they do more than Three Houses, so I say give em a shot!

Anywho, I basically went NANI as soon as I read “You’ve been mentioned!” in my activity bar, so eh, why not?

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Name/Alias - My real name’s Chris, but I go by Admin Makoto due to my origins in Danganronpa (and the admin part is just because i run this blog, and I’m the only one here)

Birthday - December 2nd

Zodiac -  Sagittarius

Height - Fairly sure I’m like what, 5′6ish? Either slightly taller/shorter, but either way, for a guy I’m short as SHIT

Hobbies - Building model kits (Gunpla), Tabletop games (Mainly Warhammer 40,000), video games, occasionally watching TV (that mainly being Mecha anime), writing (what a shocker), and very RARELY reading (And they’re either manga or Warhammer 40k books). Walking is something I enjoy as well.

Favorite Colors - Black and bright pink.

Favorite Book - OVERLORD light novels

Last song I listened to - Reign from Yakuza 0

Inspiration - Regarding this blog? The FO4 companions reactions is what honestly inspired me to write, but for the shitpost aspect? That’s just the shitposting communities in all the games I’ve played in general. Irl? My good online buddy after we played Danganronpa 1 and 2.

Dream Career - Librarian, or some form of a job that helps other people.

Meaning Behind URL: For those new, I used to be known as drcrackimagines, mainly because the Danganronpa imagines community mostly focused on romantics and stuff, much like what you see here in the Three Houses community, so I took it upon myself to meme my way into writing. Then very recently, I went multi-fandom, dropped the dr and became crackimagines. Course as you’ve all seen, I’m not exactly JUST a memester, what with all my serious posts flying about.

Tagging: I’m actually much too shy to tag anyone, cause like I said before hand, I’ve always been an isolationist blog. Though feel free to take this upon yourselves and spread this to folks who you wanna talk to!

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28 seems interesting enough or maybe that's just me

28 - Favorite Game Developer

Favorite, huh? That’s a bit hard to choose honestly.

There’s Nintendo, ATLUS, Bandai/Namco, Kojima Productions, MonolithSOFT, RELIC studios, Firaxis...

Honestly, if I had to choose one, that’d probably go to Firaxis. XCOM: Enemy Unknown changed how I thought about video games forever, and with it’s organic gameplay, it’s what sparked my feelings for writing for video games since Middle School.

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Just wondering who are your ships in 3H ?

HOO BOY, thats a bit of a list, anon!

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Mercedes and Annette

Ingrid and Ashe

Shamir and Catherine

Dorothea and m!Byleth

Edelgard and f!Byleth

Marianne and Dimitri

Bernadetta and Dorothea

Ingrid and Dorothea

Marianne and Ashe

Ashe and Byleth

And that about covers it! Well, top of my head anyway.

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Lists of stuff I can write about

While I write mainly for the fandoms written here:

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Only 1st Game)

Danganronpa (1 2 and v3)

Tales of Berseria

Tales of Vesperia

Persona (3 4 and 5)

Fire Emblem (Shadow Dragon, Mystery of the Emblem, Awakening, Fates)

Fallout 4

Pokemon (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Kalos, Alola games)

I do know a fair amount of other things I can crossover with, which is written below!

XCOM (EU/EW and 2)

Monster Hunter

Mobile Suit Gundam (The Entire Franchise)

Metroid (The Entire Franchise)

Metal Gear Solid (The Entire Franchise)

Red vs Blue

Attack on Titan

Star Wars (Lots of the games too like Republic Commando and KOTOR)

Konosuba

Watamote

Yakuza (0 and Kiwami)

Xenoblade Chronicles ( 1 and X)

Halo (Entire Franchise)

DOOM

Fallout (New Vegas and 3)

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Devil May Cry Series (OG Dante, not the edgelord one)

Dark Souls (1 and 3)

Berserk

Bayonetta

Warhammer 40,000

Life is Strange

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (Parts 1-4)

Mass Effect Trilogy

Deadly Premonition

Super Best Friends Play (Liam Era as well)

Resident Evil (1-6)

Team Fortress 2

Overwatch

L.A Noire

Darling in the FranXX

Tokyo Xanadu

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5, 7 and 26?

5 is right here,

7 is right here,

26 - Best Voice Acting

...As much as I love genuine voice acting, there’s no acting like MOTHERFUCKING CAMPY ACTING

Metal Wolf Chaos

Words alone can not describe the beauty that is voice acting in this game.

PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO THAT IS THE MOST AMERICAN THING DEVELOPED BY THE JAPANESE

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21?

21 - Game with Best Story

I honestly had to think about this for quite a bit, but I eventually decided onto a game that had the best story for me.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

When I first played this game, I honestly didn’t know what to expect, seeing how it was on my 3DS.

I loved this game to bits though for the story. It was like a spy movie mixed in with whacky anime bullshit, which Kojima SOMEHOW knows how to blend perfectly in together without it feeling too weird.

The ending made me cry, which few games have managed to do in recent years.

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Number 25?

25 - A Game I plan to play

Honestly? The gaming industry has been disappointing me as a whole lately, so I haven’t paid that much mind to games other than the Japanese.

BUT, there is an upcoming release that’s technically a remake, so I count that. EAT MY ASS EA/ACTIVISION/UBISOFT/LITERALLYEVERYAMERICANGAMEINDUSTRYATM

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE

AKA Persona Fire Emblem.

I have it on the Wii U, but I’m just gonna wait for the new one to come out on Switch.

It weirds me out SO FUCKING MUCH, but I really want to play it properly!