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y'know, last year, the least voted character in CYL had just 2 votes to his name, so I thought this might be the first year we ever see a character get 0 votes!

this did not happen -- our least voted character this year has 1 vote. fucking incredible. anyway, shall we go all-in on this year's biggest losers?

AKANEIA #1: Dice, also Roberto (3 votes) #3: Reiden (6 votes) #4: we all still think of Luke as a small fry (11 votes) #5: Frost (13 votes) #6: Malledus (16 votes) #7: Boah (17 votes) #8: Roderick, also Belf, also Ymir (18 votes)

VALENTIA #1: Tatarrah, also Garth (3 votes) #3: Dolth (4 votes) #4: Barth, also Jerome (6 votes) #6: Grieth (7 votes) #7: Halcyon (11 votes) #8: Slayde, also Blake (15 votes) #10: Marla (16 votes)

JUGDRAL #1: Danann (3 votes) #2: Scipio (4 votes) #3: Hilda, also Halvan (8 votes) #5: Sandima, also Alva, also Perne (10 votes) #8: Munnir (11 votes) #9: Tristan, also Deimne, also Safy (12 votes)

ELIBE #1: Lundgren (6 votes) #2: Zelot, also FE7!Murdock (8 votes) #4: FE6!Merlinus (10 votes) #5: Desmond, also FE6!Murdock (11 votes) #6: Hellene (14 votes) #7: Barthe (18 votes) #8: Saul (19 votes) #9: Fargus, also Durban (20 votes)

MAGVEL #1: Riev (8 votes) #2: Hayden (11 votes) #3: Rennac, also Vigarde (13 votes) #5: Dozla (26 votes) #6: Fado (28 votes) #7: Caellach (33 votes) #8: Orson (41 votes) #9: Natasha (42 votes) #10: Tethys (43 votes)

TELLIUS #1: Muston (1 vote) #2: Bertram (3 votes) #3: Daniel and Jorge twinning it the FUCK up (4 votes) #5: Hetzel (6 votes) #6: Kasatai (8 votes) #7: Bastian (10 votes) (I'M ONE OF THEM. YOU ABSOLUTE DASTARDS--) #8: Ludveck (12 votes) #9: Izuka (13 votes) #10: Numida (14 votes)

YLISSE #1: Cervantes (14 mustache hairs) #2: Validar (16 votes) #3: Phila (17 votes) #4: Kjelle (24 votes) #5: Flavia and Basilio sitting under a tree, F-I-G-H-T-I-N-G (25 votes) #7: Mustafa, also Excellus (31 votes) #9: Brady (33 votes) #10: Yen'fay (37 votes)

TMS#FE #1: Teru & Garrick (8 votes) #2: Kuen & Excellus (11 votes) #3: Chikaomi & Lon'qu (12 votes) #4: Chouten & Pheros (13 votes) #5: Nobu & Gangrel (19 votes)

HOSHIDO/NOHR #1: Tarba (7 votes) #2: Zhara, also Lloyd (8 votes) #4: Fuga (9 votes) #5: Llewelyn (11 votes) #6: Funke (12 votes) #7: Senno (15 votes) #8: Hans (17 votes) #9: Daichi (24 votes) #10: Arete, also Kumagera (30 votes)

FÓDLAN #1: Tomas, also Gwendal (4 votes) #3: Lonato (5 votes) #4: Pallardó (6 votes) #5: Aelfric (8 votes) #6: Ludwig aka Duke Aegir (9 votes) #7: Solon (11 votes) #8: Kostas (12 votes) #9: Volkhard aka Lord Arundel (13 votes) #10: Grégoire aka Count Varley (16 votes)

ELYOS #1: Hyacinth (38 votes) #2: Seforia (68 votes) (god dammit I knew I should have voted for her--) #3: Saphir (74 votes) (I DID VOTE FOR HER THOUGH YOU ABSOLUTE--) #4: Lindon (97 votes) #5: Morion (142 votes) #6: Bunet, also Zephia (158 votes) #8: Marni (187 votes) #9: not Marni (201 votes) (ie Madeline btw) #10: Vander (215 votes)

ZENITH #1: Ganglöt (50 votes) #2: Hel (69 votes) (nice) #3: Ótr (77 votes) #4: Nótt (88 votes) #5: Freyr (91 votes) #6: Ylgr (94 votes) #7: Múspell (116 votes) #8: Reginn (121 votes) #9: Letizia (122 votes) #10: Gustav (148 votes)

[yusuke-of-valla]

Everyone remembers Cover/manual artwork Alm had green hair, but his ingame sprites including portrait and other artwork had blue hair!

Oh nice

I’m kind of 80% sure “Lords with Blue Hair and pronouns” is one of those things that’s like not actually universal and games just as often have a lord (also out of 16 main series games, Marth happens to be the lord for four of them which skews the data) I haven’t actually crunched the numbers but it is still very funny

[emblemxeno]

What do you think of the FEH OCs?

Alfonse is fuckin nuts and I love him, Sharena's cool and I appreciate her optimistic outlook on things, Anna is... there. Veronica is hilarious because she evolved into tag-along kid, Bruno's hot and that's enough for me.

Fjorm... is nice? She was great in Book 2 but I'm kind of indifferent to her in Forging Bonds and in that TT storyline. It's the same way I feel about Corrin in FEH and Warriors, when they're not the main character making hard decisions or whatnot, the appeal of the character is lost to me (at least the base forms, the feral Corrins were great). The Nifl siblings I feel didn't get enough individual time for them to stick, though Ylgr is fun. The Muspell sisters were good antagonists, and I liked their bond. Killing off Helbindi was a mistake I won't ever forgive. Surtr was like Garon but with no underlying substance or secret machination controlling him to justify his being like that, so he's kinda weak to me. Nifl and Muspell themselves are just quarreling gods and I lack interest in their story/feud besides imagining their potential feelings for whoever they gift power to.

Book 3 has been my favorite of the FEH stories so far, and Eir has a really interesting character regarding her conflicting feelings with her mother, as well as her perspective on death. Lif and Thrasir had a really good tragedy to them, though the latter got pretty shafted compared to the former. Hel herself is full gung-ho evil, and in a way that I find more entertaining than Surtr, since the book was about rejecting death's supposed inevitability.

Book 4 came close to Book 3 in terms of story, if only because the 4 alfar being mistreated human children wanting to save people really is a heartwarming underlying plot thread. Peony is sweet, Mirabilis is pretty funny, Triandra's cool and Plumeria is pretty neat. Freyr and Freyja crack me up, honestly. It's like they took the Eldigan+Lachesis tragedy, made them into gods and made the sister go crazy over it.

Book 5 was fine. Reginn has a pretty typical "lost princess reclaims her rightful homeland" but the story beats were there and executed well enough; nothing spectacular but certainly not terrible. The Jotnar twins kind of felt... a bit shoehorned in? I liked their inheritance feud and their opposite personalities, but honestly I feel like they should've been saved for a different book. Fafnir, the poor sap, he really got fucked over huh. Hope we get an alt of him where he's happy and reunited with his family. Eitri brings an interesting conversation about the "Morals of Summoning" but out of story it doesn't really matter since, y'know. That kind of aesop barely matters irl since summoning doesn't exist in real life and unless you really project yourself into the FEH avatar, it probably won't matter to you for the game's story after a minute or two. Otr? Brocon who really needs sleep, those eye bags are crazy.

Ash is pretty endearing so far, and Book 6 looks like a neat story given they're going back to Askr and Embla. I have hopes for where the plot goes with that.

I will start caring more about Thorr's and Loki's characters once they do something meaningful in the plot besides talk about Alfaðör's business.

...And if you meant how the Book 5 OCs look in their New Years getups? Ignore all of the above lol. Reginn's pretty cute, Fafnir is supreme eye candy in his damaged art, and the Jotnar twins look nice.

[soren-apologist]

so that meme i made about trans reginn and dagr got me thinking, and after doing a bit of research i’ve got some fun info about norse mythology that reflects pretty interestingly on feh

líf and thrasir are based off the mythological líf and lífþrasir (lífthrasir), thing is líf was a woman and lífþrasir a man. as much as i’d like to think it’s the characters showing gender non-conformity, considering this is intsys we’re talking about they probably just got the genders of the names confused tbh. also in the mythology those two were the only humans to survive ragnarok which... yeah, makes sense why the feh characters would be given those names

did you know that loki fucked a horse? and then he gave birth to an eight-legged horse? can’t wait until sleipnir is revealed as feh loki’s centaur daughter. i hope she can use canto

pretty sure most people already know a bit about freyr and freyja’s etymology, but people typically aren’t aware of how they’re simultaneously considered the same deity in two genders *and* twins. oh, and the whole incestuous-ish aspect of them seems only to have been added in feh, but at this point it’s not a real fire emblem game if siblings aren’t fucking. fun fact: alfonse’s sword fólkvangr is actually named after her domain. congrats al, ya got yourself the legendary blade LSDland.

so the character of alfaðor has been alluded to a few times at this point, and considering that’s just another name for odin (because ya boi owain already called dibs on that name), probably gonna end up being the big bad when we reach asgard. in the original canon freyja is actually his concubine, and that along with how it seems that líf and thrasir are probably gonna show up again means that things are likely gonna get pretty spicy. it’d be pretty cool to see a revenge plot between alfaðor and the dökkalfar that the hel generals get involved in, i’d actually really like to see something like that happen.

did you know that loki turned himself into a female horse, and then proceeded to not only have sex with a stallion, but also become pregnant, and then give birth to a mutant horse baby?

the niflans are all named after rivers in ginunngagap, along with the weapons of hríd (gjöll), fjorm (leiptr), and ylgr (slgr), so poor gunnthra got left with her boring blizzard tome. interestingly about gjöll, it’s the river that flows closest to hel and is also spanned by the bridge gjallarbrú (b!fjorm’s staff), so it’s kind of disappointing that hríd didn’t show up in book 3 or wield gjallarbrú himself, but we all know how biased intsys is towards female characters. oh well.

yeah, not a whole lot to say about surtr, considering his feh appearance is about the same as how he’s presented in mythology. just thought it interesting to mention that he uses a sword instead of a scythe in the original canon, and feh surtr’s axe, sinmara, is actually named after one of mythological surtr’s consorts. also want to mention that surtr and frey are supposed to duke it out when the end of the world happens, but considering that both characters are dead in feh, that seems like a lost opportunity. but hey, we’ve seen the dead raised, maybe hel will come back and we’ll get to see goat man vs. spicy redhead. also laevatein is named after a norse sword (so she also didn’t change much).

honestly with all the gender changing of norse figures (thórr, reginn, etc.), along with loki being gender fluid in the original mythological canon, at this point i’m just choosing to believe that everyone in feh is trans

i could probably go on, but this bitch is getting really long and i have to wake up for classes in like 4 hours, so i think i’ll close it off here

but never forget:

loki fucked a horse

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Fáfnir made it for me when I was young— so I wouldn't get lost. Not that I get lost all the time, but I always carry it with me... Like a protection charm!