I've always wanted an Echoes: Genealogy game with an awakening-like support system. That shit would be fire, especially with the god system. I doubt we'd get it tho.
I always loved Saias in FE5, I wish they made more use of the fact that he's the bastard son of Arvis cause it really feels like they did so little with a huge fact.
Considering how often Faerghast calls her his waifu I'm surprised he's not in the comments. You also didn't mention that not only is she OP in the early game of Thracia, she literally cannot die--not a game over scenario, the game is literally coded so that she cannot, and will not, die. What's more is that if you set up Chapter 5 or whichever one she gets petrified in right, you can keep the immortality thing on her when you get her back. Niche, but maybe useful for cheesing the couple chapters you have her for again at the end.
Cool vid. Since you invited talking about FE characters in the comments, I am now mandated to mentioned one of my faves who I know is underrated: FE8's Forde. Supports as a system have the major issue of being disconnected from each other. Regardless of how much 2 individuals talk, and how much a single person SEEMS to change, they could go right back with a later C support in another chain, or if they pop up in the main story, their changes aren't going to be accounted for. Goldmary is ALWAYS going to be self-absorbed and flaunt herself. Caspar is always going to be a hotheaded brawler. Hilda is always going to be pawning off the hard work on others. This isn't a flaw with the characters, persay, it's a flaw with the system. So, reasonably, you can only have supports either A: reveal unknown information about a character (EG: backstory and motives), or B: have someone change how they interact with VERY SPECIFICALLY that 1 person (EG: Hilda and Marrianne's 3 Hopes support showing Hilda going above and beyond to help Marianne, because she considers her a friend, and worth the trouble) So, in comes Forde. Forde makes the typical introduction of a red cav, he's a lazy, goofy, artistic knight to contrast with Kyle, the stern and no-nonsense green cav. In just 5 total support chains, we learn a lot. A: He can be a hard worker, but he's modest. His support with Vanessa has the pegasus knight come to understand he's been working behind the scenes to help her specifically. His support with Eirika has the princess thanking him for his service and his fighting skill, even as Forde brushes it off. Then, his support with Franz has his younger brother come to admire his every deed as valorous-fishing to feed the recruits good food, acting the fool to raise morale, painting the terrain in combat to get a lay of the land, and of course, fighting like hell to protect people. Though, whether all of this is 100% true is unclear, it may be his brother reading into things too much, and Forde does deny some of it. B: He used to be an incredible fighter, easily motivated, and very skilled. His support with Kyle has the green cav lamenting the fact that Forde beat his ass so soundly when they were kids that Kyle swore to work his way up and past Forde as a knight, only for Forde to, basically, give up on his regiment and spend time plenty more time relaxing than directly training. C: Forde lost his mother, then later, his father, at a young age, and had to raise his brother by himself. His father is stated to be away frequently, even after his mother passed, while his mother loved Forde not as a fighter, but as an artist-someone who could create rather than who could win. But really, the coup-de-grace that forms Forde into someone complicated and fascinating is what he does when he's confronted with the idea that Franz, his younger brother, admires his dedication as a fighter and a knight. Forde, instead of accepting his brother's love, rejects it. He says that he should be looking up to Seth, a proper commander, rather than Forde. When Franz insists, Forde still doesn't outwardly accept it, instead, he resolves, internally, to finish the war as soon as possible, and finally have the chance to rebuild a peaceful life. The reason why Forde rejects Franz's love, I think, is because Forde doesn't want Franz to love him as a knight. He wants Franz to love him as an artist, a painter, someone who doesn't fight for winning's sake, but who fights for necessity, for his younger brother. He wants to be loved like his mother loved him, as a final connection to that person he lost. But he also wants to be a hero, someone who can raise his younger brother and give him the safety he deserves, and someone who defends the innocent and does the right thing. This isn't to say that there aren't equally strong characters in other games, or even in FE8. I just really, really like Forde specifically.
Apologies for the worse audiovisual quality this time around. There was some electronic buzzing in my microphone that I had to cover with audio correction filters and music (if you listen closely at certain parts, you can still hear it), and RU-vid's encoding does not do MK1 justice visually at anything less than 4K. Even still, I hope you enjoy. I went back and forth on it, but ultimately I thought it better for the video to exist than for it to not. Hopefully it's still entertaining. 🦎
Eyvel is best mom and is the perfection of the strong female character trope. She's super cool going back to FE4, and I don't want to spoil FE5 because her writing is so phenomenal that you can feel when something happens to her.
Brigid being a bow user may have also had a hand in her crew's decision to mutiny. Most of the pirates are close range axe fighters. They probably want a leader that can lead the charge in raids.
