#fe5 cain

[petraevesplace]

Flower Language for Jugdral, Pt. 15

Shiva- Sea Holly: Independence, severity, toughness

Carrion- Forsythia: Anticipation, excitement, devoted love, optimism, dependability, loyalty, new beginnings

Selfina- Rosemary: Remembrance, friendship, fidelity, commitment, love, respect for the deceased, happiness in marriage

Cain- Salvia: Wisdom, thoughtfulness, esteem

Alva- Sunflower: Loyalty, optimism, honesty, peace, positivity, faithfulness, friendship

Robert- Cyclamen: Devoted heart, timid, innocence, lacking self-confidence

Fred- Red Camellia: Deep love, long-lasting devotion, admiration, empathy, passion, loyalty, boldness in facing adversity, courage, strength

Olwen- Black-Eyed Susan: Justice, truth, motivation, encouragement, resilience, positive change

Mareeta- Liatris: Apology, a desire to try again, resilience, determination, joy

Salem- Dandelion: Healing from emotional pain/physical injury, spiritual/emotional intelligence, surviving through challenges and difficulties

[fefuckability]

Thracia Qualifier 2

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[memie-art-blog]

Day 2 of sketching my votes for #CYL8!

[twobiit]

The world needs more Brighton/Machyua posting

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Headcannoning characters you like to be queer, while understandable, has grown tiresome. People should start coming up with queer HCs about characters that they don’t feel strongly about either way.

All this to say: Carrion FE5 is in a poly relationship with Cain and Alva.

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[barensian]

abel archetypes.

[pangtasias-atelier]

Which Fire Emblem characters do you love to use and which you hate or don’t bother with, and why? Outside of Heroes of course

Characters I love to use everytime:

FE1/11: Merric, Linde, Maria, Wolf, Cain, Abel

FE2/15: Luthier, Delthea, Atlus

FE3/12: Kris, Sirius, Yubello, Yumina, Michalis

FE4: Azelle, Tailtiu, Finn, Arthur, Tinny

FE5: Salem, Sara, Miranda, Dean

FE6: Lugh, Raigh, Sue

FE7: Lyn, Rath, Nino, Liouse

FE8: Artur, Knoll, Natasha, Amelia, Cormag

FE9: Tormod, Muarim, Rolf, Mist, Astrid

FE10: Pelleas, Micaiah, all Dawn Brigade

FE13: Robin, Frederick, Panne, Henry, Tharja

FE14: Saizo, Corrin, Keaton, Kaden, Silas, Kaze

FE15: Byleth, Seteth, Flayn, Claude, Dimitri

For characters I hate? There's no real ones I hate. I don't mind using characters you have to baby, hell, most of these units are subpar lmao.

Sure there's a bunch I've never used outside of their joining chapter, but none that I downright despise.

[sireneia-a]

mount names... i’ve got a few hc ones since i tend to gravitate towards the characters who don’t have canonical ones smh

i’ve mentioned in a thread before that thea’s pegasus is named demeter. my reasoning behind this is because i was thinking about how karin’s is named hermes so i wanted to go with another mythology one. thea cares a lot about the safety of others and so i thought demeter was a good pick for her!

for silas, i headcanon his horse to be named kain. i want it to match sophie’s being named avel after abel, and now that CYL has romanized fe5 cain as.... cain, i’ve decided this corruption of the name can work for silas’s horse!

[markoftheasphodel]

Some highlights of the Roundtable as translated by @garms-translations.

K: “In the previous game, we saw the world on a micro-level through Marth’s eyes, but in this game, I wanted to portray a large world which contains the thoughts and perspectives of many people.”

K: Although Sigurd is the protagonist, he is also heavily flawed, his aforementioned love included. He is also extremely naïve, even compared to Seliph. The tragedy would not have happened were he a more competent person.“

(WHAM. We’re done with that argument. Also...)

K: “None of the characters are perfect; all of them have flaws because it is human nature, and it is precisely because of their flaws that they meet the fates that they do. The enemies are by no means the only ones with evil in their hearts.“

K: “Ethlyn being tomboyish comes from anecdotes of her as a child. Since she is a woman of noble birth, I would think she would’ve changed after marrying Quan, so it’s not as if she necessarily retains her tomboyish qualities. Deirdre isn’t the most sophisticated woman, so Ethlyn might be closer to a traditional heroine instead; at least, that’s how I had planned it.”

(Reminds one of the beta rumors where she was a Lord-class character.)

“Heuga: By the way, I’ve been wondering, why did Quan bring Finn with him when Finn’s still just a knight-in-training?

Kaga’s comment: Finn was orphaned after his parents passed away; basically, he and Oifey are in similar situations. He’s like a page in terms of ranking. The reason Finn is brought to battle may also partly be due to his own wishes to join in.”

(Why the hell does Team Leonster let fifteen-year-olds wage war because they feel like it? Even Sigurd has more sense than that. To revive an old argument, no wonder Finn signed off on Leif going to war in FE5.)

K: “The size of the troops in reality would be larger than what is shown in-game; there’s no way Sigurd’s army consists only of the characters you control. Similarly, Finn would be but one of the hundreds of subordinates led by Quan.“

(That contradicts what Quan says in-game, but OK...)

K: “Each person has flaws of their own, and while Eldigan is great as a person, his over-conscientiousness was his flaw. Basically, he’s just too straight-laced.”

K: “While I won’t say I intended for Sigurd to feel the same way, Edain feels friendship for Sigurd due to the time they spent together as childhood friends. Her courters are only interested in her romantically, so Sigurd may be one of the only ones she holds respect for. Edain is Edain, and she’s not really the type to be head-over-heels in love, not to mention that she also has her own goal of searching for her elder sister.“

(YOW.)

Tsukamoto: Naoise didn’t end up with anyone in my game.

Kaga’s comment: Right, he’s barely in any events. He’s like Cain from the previous games, a character who walks the righteous path of a knight. In a way, he kind of reeks of masculinity. Naoise, Alec, and Arden are like ‘transparent’ characters who don’t carry any special bloodlines or outstanding stats, like Cain, Abel, and Draug from the previous games. They weren’t given any backstory either.

(Double YOW)

K: “While [Finn’d] be about 34-35 years old in Seliph’s chapter, I didn’t want to age his appearance like I did for Oifey.”

(BIAS. Poor Oifey.)

K: “Altena resembles Ethlyn, after all…Finn has a strong sense of admiration for Ethlyn. Not in a romantic way, more of looking up to her as an elder sister figure.”

(Yaaaaaaay. Big sis Ethlyn.)

K: “Sigurd is a highly flawed person, so when Azelle says “He’s nothing like Arvis” when he meets Sigurd, it was because Arvis was closer to a ‘perfect being’ than Sigurd was.“

;_;

“Heuga: By the way, Lester and Lex resemble each other a lot for some reason.Kaga’s comment: Although the children are determined by their mothers in the final game, the initial plan was to decide each pairing’s children based on both the father and mother. However, we couldn’t implement that no matter how hard we tried due to capacity limitations, and so it ended up the way it is right now. Since some of the children were taken from those we had originally created before having to cut them down, you might find that some children actually resemble someone else. “

(MYSTERY SOLVED)

I gotta leave. Go read the rest if you haven’t.

[gascon-en-exil]

Joyeuses Pâques and all that. When not otherwise occupied with entertaining and nominal displays of reverence (not in this case at the same time, though that’s always fun) my weekend has been taken up with the Project Exile patch for FE5. I’ve gotten up through Chapter 14, because even with Action Replay this game still manages to be a pain to play. Worth noting is that I’ve only encountered one or two notable glitches. The Crusader scrolls are the buggiest parts of the patch, and more than once the game crashed on me when I tried to read the tooltip on one or when the cursor landed on one in the armory. The armory itself has bits of glitchy text fairly often, although nothing else that breaks the game. So far I’ve encountered only one instance of the text wrapping incorrectly as the older patch did rather often, in a cutscene in Chapter 14. It’s still vastly more playable than the older translation. Thoughts on the script:

Like Project Naga, this patch uses a smaller font than the old patch which is much more pleasing to the eye and allows for more text to appear at once. The menus also look smoother as a result.

Most of the character names are faithful to recent localized sources like Heroes, but there’s a few that have been changed that I actually kind of like and hope IS takes a look at again for a remake. Stuff like Safy -> Safiya (sounds like Sophia/”wisdom” while also retaining the similarity to “sapphic” that they really should do something with), Carrion -> Callion, Perne -> Pan, Machyua -> Macha (still not a great name, but at least I have an idea of how to pronounce it), and Cain and Alva -> Kane and Alba (it would not surprise me at all to learn that these guys’ Japanese names are identical to those of the Archanea Christmas knights - and localizers have been doing their best to obscure that bit of laziness ever since)

I never liked the name Manster District, as a district is to me a municipal division and not an entity large and autonomous enough to be its own country. The translator goes for Northern Thracia instead which better expresses the point that both sides think of the peninsula as one entity divided over an extended family squabble over who gets to rule it. The preeminence of Manster is however preserved in a somewhat odd way, when August(us) refers to it as Leif’s “native Manster” while talking (mostly) about the city during the escape sequence. His point is that the Empire is conducting child hunts in the territories they control, including all of Northern Thracia, but it’s odd since Leif is everywhere else identified heavily as a scion of Leonster specifically.

Kempf no longer makes memes, and even more miraculously his battle tactic that gives Chapter 11x its title gets a rename that actually means something. No more Murder Hollace!

The sexual and romantic ambiguities come largely intact. Nanna’s is referred to early on as both Finn’s daughter and his “ward,” a term one normally does not use for biological children. Homer might swing both ways, but nothing is done with Dagdar and Marty and in fact the script implies that Dagdar has the hots for Eyvel earlier on. There’s less of an implied threat of rape in Tina’s introduction, or at least it’s obvious that the only person is implying rape at all is Saf(i)y(a) leaping to conclusions. Finn remains as impossible to parse as ever.

Bit characters like Ronan and Hicks and even generic house NPCs get some much-needed flavor added, in the form of colloquial dialects and slightly stronger character moments. Other highlights include Fergus talking down to Leif and Karin as children (he is a few years older than the rest of the Gen 2 cohort) and Tina commenting on Salem’s dumb hair.

If the script is indeed unfinished I guess I’ll find out in a few chapters, but so far this is really an exemplary work...pasted onto a nightmare of a game.

[wecthil]

People I want to get out of this new Choose your Legends and also in general (in no particular order, save for perhaps the game the appear in):

Wolf (FE1/3/11/12)

Frey (FE1/3/11/12, because he was always my second cavalier. Little Wec reasoned that Cain had come back barely alive just now and probably would still be on death’s door so it would make sense to leave him there and not Abel or Frey. Eh.)

Norne (FE11/12)

GHB Eremiya (FE12)

Phina (FE12, dancers. All the dancers.)

Fernand (FE15, I really liked that guy, I mean for once a motivation one could understand (if not support) in a villain.)

Any one of the rigelian generals like Massena because that artwork was on ♪ poooooint ♪

Rinea (FE15, reunite her with Berkut you animals)

(No FE4 and FE5 units here because I still know criminally little about those two games)

The rest of the wyvern generals aka Brunnya & Murdock (FE6)

Echidna (FE6)

GHB Idoun (FE6)

Igrene (FE6)

Marcus (Idc if FE6, FE7, or even FE7x, but Marcus is too good to not give him to us. But this time, don’t make the same mistakes as with Seth. Give him a good stat-spread, skills, and let Sachiko Wada do his art. There.)

Ephidel & Limstella (FE7)

Pent & Louise (FE7)

Vaida (FE7)

Gerik, Tethys and Marisa (FE8)

GHB Ashnard, Sephiran, Levail, Bryce, Petrine... (FE9/10, PoR and RD had some damn good villains imho.)

Greil & Elena (FE9, let me dream ok?)

Literally ANY heron (FE9/10)

Naesala, Tibarn, Nailah, Giffca, Skrimir, Ranulf, Nasir, Ena, GHB Deghinsea... (FE9/10, laguz when?)

Jill & Darahan/Haar (FE9/10, given that his german name would otherwise be “hair”, I think it’s obvious why we opted to change that.)

Nolan (FE10)

Pelleas (FE10, and you better give him his song back, I was disappointed by Oliver.)

Juri/Bastian (FE9/10)

Renning (FE10)

Basilio & Flavia (FE13)

Gregor (FE13)

(yeah, FE13 didn’t really catch me with characters and besides, we’ve got a metric ton of FE13 & 14 chars in the game already, so...)

Flora (FE14, and god help you if you don’t let HAKO do the artwork and it isn’t on par with Felicia.)

GHB Iago & Garon (FE14, what can I say, I like their design, if not their characters)

Mikoto & Arete (FE14)

For that matter, all the concubine-mamas of @lightningbug-lane too, please while we’re at it (FE14, again, let me dream)

Orochi & Reina (FE14)

Keaton & Velouria (FE14)

So... small and comprehensive list...right?

[fefuckability]

FINALS: Finn vs the glove guy

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[of-invisible-ties]

Fire Emblem: Similar and Rhyming Names!

Let’s face it. Fire Emblem is a huge series, so, doubtless to say, there are a ton of names that sound similar or are the exact same, but refer to two entirely different characters! Under the cut is an entertaining list of examples, but feel free to add to them!

Arthur (FE4), Artur (FE8), and Arthur (FE14)

Leon (FE2/15) and Leo (FE14)

Robin (FE2/15) and Robin (FE13)

Kleine (FE12) and Klein (FE6)

Celica (FE2/15), Cecilia (FE6), Celice (FE4), and Cecille (FE3/12)

Nyna (FE1/11), Nina (FE14), and Nino (FE7)

Tana (FE8) and Hana (FE14)

Elice (FE1/11) and Elise (FE14)

Zeke (FE2/15) and Deke (FE6)

Kamui (FE2/15) and Kamui (FE14)

Corrin (FE14) and Soren (FE9/10)

Marth (FE1/11) and Barth (FE2/15)

Barth (FE2/15), Barthe (FE6), and Barst (FE1/11)

Owain (FE13) and Gawain (FE9)

Yarne (pronounced YARN; FE13) and Tibarn (FE9/10)

Danved (FE10) and Devdan (FE9)

Vanessa (FE8) and Manessa (FE2/15)

Larissa (FE11) and Marissa (FE8)

Morgan (FE6) and Morgan (FE13)

Naga (multiple FE’s) and Kurthnaga (FE9/10)

Kurth (FE4) and Kurthnaga (FE9/10)

Naga (multiple FE’s) and Nagi (FE11/12)

Xane (FE1/11), Cain (FE1/11), and Sain (FE7)

Bord (FE1/11) and Cord (FE1/11)

Shanan (FE4) and Shinon (FE9/10)

Orsin (FE5) and Orson (FE8)

Ralf (FE5) and Rolf (FE9/10)

Finn (FE4/5) and Shin (FE6)

Linde (FE1/11), Linda (FE4), and Lyndis (FE7)

Glade (FE5) and Slayde (FE2/15)

Eda (FE5) and Ena (FE9/10)

Dean (FE5) and Deen (FE2/15)

Sonya (FE2/15) and Sonia (FE7)

Fred (FE5) and Frederick (FE13)

Largo (FE5) and Largo (FE9/10)

Yubel (FE5) and Yubello (FE3/12)

Katarina (FE12) and Katerina (FE14)

Roy and Ray/Raigh (both from FE6)

Canas (FE7) and Camus (FE1/11)

Noah (FE6) and Boah (FE1/11)

Lloyd (FE7) and Lloyd (FE14)

Nils (FE7) and Niles (FE14)

Athena (FE11/12) and Altenna (FE4)

Wrys (FE1/11) and Rhys (FE9/10)

Wolf (FE1/11) and Rolf (FE9/10)

Matthis (FE1/11) and Matthew (FE7)

Frey (FE11/12) and Fae (FE6)

Gazzak (FE1/11) and Gazak (FE14)

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

something i wish feh did more of is retconning characters' backstories/personalities etc. ESPECIALLY when it comes to characters with virtually nothing in their original game. i'm tired of the only modern portrayal of a character being them expressing how much they want to live up to their ideal of knighthood in a forging bonds conversation. this obscure unit is a blank canvas so please, go hog-wild. for example it'll be YEARS before cain (fe5) has a chance to get in but when he does i hope he's a freak. we see you with that glove sir

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[barensian]

cain archetypes.

[sireneia-a]

Operating under the headcanon that Fates is actually just a myth / fairy tale in Fire Emblem canon, I was thinking I'd like to make a post where I choose what "character" each of my main muses have or have had as their favorite growing up! I'm also adding Clive to this list cause for the former I already had his fully written out before I removed him from my roster LOL 

I'll be following Bruno Bettelheim's model of children taking to certain characters in fairy tales because they are an externalization of whatever existential predicament they are going through at the time. I'm aware Bettelheim was a problematic man, yes, but I think his theory on developmental psychology in relation to fairy tales is really interesting ( assuming it’s his to begin with ) and I've been working to apply it to other media besides fairy tales anyway, so might as well combine my schoolwork with what I love.

As a result, I'll be using his theory as a guide for this post. All explanations and match-ups under the cut! As fun as it would be to also think up what version of the tale, ( Birthright vs Conquest vs Revelation, Second Gen included vs not, Heirs of Fate also known or not ) I'm just working with the idea that all of my muses know any and all content.

KLIFF - His favorite would've been Hayato! Kliff in general would've connected more strongly to a mage due to his grandmother being a powerful mage herself, sparking his own interest in magic, but he also would have identified with his plight of being embarrassed by his own habits and insecurities. They're not the same as Kliff's own, but he still relates to him.

CLIVE - Clive's favorite as a child versus his favorite nowadays is very different mostly because he underwent different struggles when he was younger. Whilst when he's older he finds himself fond of Xander and Corrin due to struggles of following one's heart versus doing what's best for one's countrymen, as a youth he would've been very partial to Laslow. Laslow, for him, represents a man with ties to military service yet a free heart that longs to partake in life's simpler pleasures such as asking women out for tea and dancing. Clive was a lot less stressed as a youth, merely being a noble's son who wanted to spend his days lounging about with his friends and later on gossiping about their taste in women and heroes.

TATIANA - Her favorite has always been Caeldori! At first it was because she admired Caeldori for being so put together and wishing to do so much tireless work for the army, being an absolute paragon that Tatiana herself wished she could be in order to repay the church for taking her in when she was younger. Tatiana looked to Caeldori to help her get through and come to terms with her own clumsiness and shortcomings so long as she put in the effort. As she grew older though, she revisits the tale and finds herself relating hardcore to Caeldori’s sighs of romantic love.

DEW - Dew’s favorite is very vocally Shiro. He probably gets pretty upset if you’re only familiar with a version of the tale that doesn’t include the children units. Dew particularly finds himself fond of Shiro because of how Shiro operates: he does what he wants, living freely despite the burden of being a prince and he knows it. It’s a philosophy that Dew understands and it surprised him when he was younger to totally just get a royal even if he’s only fictional. He loves the fact Shiro just kinda wants to stick it to his old man too and just picked up spears to be able to have an edge over him. 

IUCHAR - I feel like this could either be super surprising or not at all, but Iuchar has been partial to Forrest since he was first read Fates alongside his brothers. He tries to be quiet about it nowadays though cause I can totally see someone making fun of him when he was younger proclaiming that he liked Leo’s son. Nowadays, his fake answer is more along the lines of Laslow or Soleil. The truth to his fondness for Forrest is because he feels for his arc of wishing to be accepted. Even if they’re not dealing with the same things exactly, Iuchar most likely held some sort of insecurity when he was younger as not only the middle child but also being constantly on even ground with Iucharba yet not wielding major holy blood. When he got older, his concerns shifted because he was able to use Forrest’s story to cope and eventually move on! He DOES enjoy Forrest’s personality a lot though and probably got his eye for aesthetics after seeing Forrest get so interested in it.

TINE - Tine’s favorite operates based on the idea that she was first read Fates while she’s living under the Frieges and not in Silesse. With that in mind, she’s attached to Azura and even to the present day mid-FE4 keeps going back and back again to reading Fates because she has yet to move on from the existential dilemma she’s living with. She finds comfort in knowing Azura was moved from her home to another family as a young child and feeling trapped and cursed. She especially feels for Azura in Conquest when she’s placed under such heavy suspicion by the Hoshidan family, drawing parallels between Azura’s story and her own with Hilda. 

LENE - Lene since the dawn of time has been a Hinoka stan I’ll be real. Much like Tine, she hasn’t solved her existential predicament but she doesn’t revisit the tale nearly as often as Tine does. She admires and feels for Hinoka with how they both are yearning to search for someone, specifically a family member, and they just can’t give up on it, choosing their pathways in life to be a means to an end in finally finding them. 

COIRPRE - Coirpre, when he was extremely young, identified with Corrin. I headcanon that when he was very young, the mercenaries of Thracia would often poke fun and point out Hannibal’s bachelor life with statements like “Where’s the wifey?” or otherwise making it apparent that Coirpre is missing a mother. Coirpre finds solace in Corrin’s arc because Corrin deals with strange family dynamics and being adopted into the Nohrian family, something much like himself even if Corrin’s family is much, much bigger than his own. He ends up coming to terms with this predicament very quickly though, moving on from Fates to a different story soon after since he had decided he was okay with not having a mother because he loved being Hannibal’s son and also spending time with the Thracian royal family. He closes the book, merely only commenting on it afterwards saying that he thinks Corrin ought to align themself with Nohr and not Hoshido and he doesn’t understand why they would choose anything besides the Conquest route. Later on in life during FE4 though, he finds himself returning to it again and reliving his attachment to Corrin once more because of Lewyn revealing to him his true parentage: something he didn’t want to know and now that he does, it rocks his core ESPECIALLY if it means he has a duke or a prince for a father. He would find Corrin’s tale that much more necessary to cope with his dilemma, finally understanding the crisis between choosing one’s birthright versus the family they were raised with as he struggles to choose whether to return to Thracia after the war or to take up his late father’s lands and abandon the happy life he once knew.

LEIF - Leif is firmly Team Takumi and you can’t convince him otherwise. He especially feels for him in Conquest and will rant about how Takumi deserved better for days on end if you let him. I can totally see both him and Ares sharing a favorite in Takumi and them being able to potentially bond over that actually. Regardless, he has always been frustrated over his situation with his home life being destroyed and would totally latch onto how when Mikoto dies, Takumi blames Corrin for it. Leif would also as a child blindly see Corrin in the wrong and always side with Takumi. He understands Takumi’s anguish over his mother dying. At the same time though, as he gets older, Leif does learn to identify with Corrin considering Corrin’s situation as a fugitive but he feels weird because it’s not as if he thinks Takumi is any less valid. 

LIFIS - Lifis is one of the more fun ones to come up with for this post haha! Anyhow, Lifi’s fav as a child is Nyx and he honestly still probably is attached to her story mid-FE5 since I don’t think he got past the issues he held onto which made him like her in the first place. He finds her maturity really cool and feels for her since she gets asked intrusive questions a lot too. He ends up misinterpreting her situation as a form of being bullied and connects with her as a result; he ultimately sees her as how he wishes he handled situations, respecting and admiring her a lot. 

MARK - This is solely from the perspective of Mark as a young child in Bern because at this point he’s come to terms with the fact that he’s a tactician and tries to make use of his gift, making him parallel with his favorite’s canon ending actually. Regardless, under the headcanon that Mark at first tried to follow his parents’ footsteps as wyvern riders and being active in the military, he relates to Felicia. He sees her getting praised at something she didn’t aim to be ( being heralded as a good military commander and combatant and not the maid she wants to be ) and gains a feeling of solidarity out of it even if their positions are mostly reversed: he used to wish to be better as a soldier but instead turns out to be better at something off the battlefield. 

KENT - bfbfbhfhfhfh I’m so sorry Kent you’re getting one of the more boring answers I’ve written especially since you’ve been on this blog so long..... But I’d say his favorite is Saizo! Partly because Saizo is a Cain and Abel archetype just like himself so that’s neato, but he chooses to latch onto Saizo moreso because ever since he was young, he has always striven to one day become a knight for Caelin and he’d use Saizo as a model of what an “ideal retainer” is. If we operate under the headcanon that him and Sain are childhood friends, he probably also empathized with Saizo more because both of them are associated with green guys who keep getting distracted by women even if for completely different reasons.

ELIWOOD - gREAT QUESTION... i’ll be real i forgot eliwood on this list at first, Regardless, it’s difficult to think of because I haven’t really thought of nor used Eliwood enough to warrant many headcanons ( mostly because there’s plenty of other Eliwood rpers who I love to read and the FE7 community isn’t that big, so I don’t really get the chance to throw him out that much ) and canon doesn’t really give me a hell of a lot for his young childhood except that he hung out a lot with Hector and well, I didn’t really develop any ideas on what his youth was like besides that. We definitely get to know his existential predicament in his late teens considering that’s when FE7 starts up, but until then it’s a blank. Even then, I don’t really know if there’s really a character in Fates that captures the feeling of “wants to believe in their father no matter what even if he’s shifty???” Like unless you want to argue Corrin in Conquest? And the children units don’t really explore that, either being like they just like their dads or they dislike their dads. Honestly, just based on hunches, I could see him really liking Shigure or Hisame though. At the same time though, I could see him relating him and Hector to Siegbert and Shiro respectively in terms of their friendly sparring matches.

STAHL - Well, this one isn’t particularly deep or anything either, but I’m pretty sure Stahl would be a fan of Silas. He views Silas as a nice guy with simple dreams and can’t fault him for that. He does see Silas for a deeper character and honestly analyzes the other characters in Fates for that, but he doesn’t really connect to any of them. He didn’t spend a lot of time with Fates as a story truth be told. He does at least feel the whole “passing up on a former love” arc though when gets a little older.

MARIBELLE - Though part of me was wanting to say Hana due to the fact that Maribelle would be able to relate to the whole devotion to her best friend and totally agrees with Hana on her strong conviction to aim to be a samurai despite others looking down upon her, I think that if Maribelle gets exposed to Fates before she ever meets Lissa, she’d truthfully identify much more with Rhajat. Maribelle was picked on and treated as an utter outcast by all the other noble children, and she’d find comfort in how Rhajat seems to be seen weirdly upon others and gets scolded for scaring them even if Rhajat at times doesn’t actually intend to. Nowadays she totally says her favorite character is Hana though, but she’s grateful to how much Rhajat helped her through the rough patch in her early life. Bonus in that she sees Tharja and gawks a little at first, finding her so similar to the character from the fairy tale she enjoyed so much as a little girl.

BERKUT - Berkut’s choice in favorite isn’t particularly deep, mostly brought about by his own restrictions. He probably would only let himself relate specifically to royal characters with how his mother encouraged him to act like the heir to the throne that he was and to elevate himself, so he wouldn’t let himself relate to anything less. He then ends up picking Siegbert as his favorite character because it’s like Berkut pointing at him and thinking: He’s an awkward prince!!! Same!!! cause i 100% totally see Berkut being fairly socially awkward especially in childhood. He admired Siegbert’s dedication to his father and trying to become a good ruler, uses him as an example before he ends up moving on from the story and at this point probably just looks at Siegbert and thinks of him as “too soft” or something like that.