Merrin, The Lesbian Furry || 🏳️‍🌈 SRPG Sapphics 🏳️‍🌈 

Unrelated, but I just had a dream where I was helping two middle aged lesbians move into their new house. They had a bunch of pets, all named after FE6 characters, they even told me trivia about the characters, which I thought it was crazy that it was actually accurate. I then woke up and realized I had fallen asleep listening to your FE6 tier lists lol

As a gay man, I appreciate the thought that IS has been making more and more queer romance options in the Fire Emblem games, but I feel like Engage kinda went too far into the realm of it losing all meaning. It's because these characters aren't actually bisexual in most cases, they're just avatarsexual as people call it. Characters like Edelgard and Dorothea being more canonically bisexual hit a lot harder than the entire cast being willing to get on both one or two knees for Alear specifically. I feel like it's more meaningful when it's not just anyone that has these sorts of things. There are some characters in Engage that don't make sense to have same sex pairings, some that don't make sense for opposite sex. I hope they eventually come around and realize that the representation is more meaningful when it's done intentionally and not just a big blanket. Also bring back letting us ship the whole army together lol

Unrelated to her identity but Merrin has a line for defeating an enemy, "Was that not cool?" That whenever I hear it I can't help but say, in my best impression of her voice, "Was that not sick as hell?" I just thought I should share that

Surprised you didn't mention the chloé support. It covers a lot of the same ground as the Citrinne support thematically, but it's also practically the gayest support in the whole game

As an autistic person I really love Fire Emblem Engage because of characters like Merrin and Zelkov who’s eccentricities aren’t the butt of the joke. It’s also probably why as a trans masc person I love how confident Rosado is in his gender. Engage good.

Great video. Merrin is one of the few characters I like in Engage (shocker, the queer autistic furry relates to the queer autistic furry). That said, and this is an incredibly small nitpick, Lysithea isn't autistic. Her obsessions come from the circumstances of her having a shortened lifespan, rather than her being autistic. Always bugs me when people say she has autism because it feels pretty clear to me that it wasn't close to the intent at all.

chloé and merrin’s supports are really funny to me because of how they’re already flirting in the C support, and as a big fan of chloé who happens to be a lesbian it made me smile

i'll always be thankful that IS includes queer S supports for the player character but making every single character "player-sexual" is the single worst way to do it. one of the biggest FU's to me about this is Shamir and Catherine in Three Houses, they should be explicitly in a weird rivalry relationship but because of Byleth they cant be

I married her myself. The lesbian vibes are awesome, even though ppl dislike engage's character design some of them like merrin really work for me. And it doesn't hurt she's one of the most out of the box Good units not needing any particular investment to contribute.

Honestly, I found the Merrin and Timerra support kinda boring at first and a victim of the “Retelling stuff that both characters already know for the sake of the audience trope” but now seeing how it can be read or at least implided to contain lesbian aspects, it does make the support much more interesting for both characters. I have a decent hope that Fire Emblem will continue to touch and go even further with these topics, Rosado and their obvious points towards trans people and self identity as a whole has me quite hopeful

One thing to note about Merrin is that her personal skill too only activates if there’s multiple women on the field so it’s quite blatant who she finds attraction to.

As a queer autistic fire emblem player partially named after a wolf, Merrin speaks to me very personally.

I think making everyone bisexual more or less shows a lack of respect to the player. The game treats me as if i won't be content as a player if I cannot date everyone at any time. 3h shows restraint with blatant gay characters that you CANNOT marry as the same gender. Catherine and Shamir is the go to example. It shows that Byleth doesnt immediately make their brains stop functioning and induce instant devotion like the divine dragon. 3h showed me people being queer, some of them which i can be queer with. Engage gave me homunculi that CAN be characters but their most important function is being a pair of jiggling keys for the player

Furry is in the spectrum of gay. And she is furry. Anyways happy pride month.

I love the random clips you sneak into these. That butter dog had cracked stats, though.

YEAH THE FURRY QUEEN

They gayed They gayed the emblem

Im the only stright person i know who plays fe.

I feel like this is a bit incomplete without mention of the Chloe support and how Merrin fits in yuri/class S tropes.

Merrin the best autistic lesbian ever, also this video is very great! :D

i don't know if it's just me, but fogado and cramme's support is very cute and feels kinda gay

I really don’t see how merrin is a furry really the only thing she has that might make her go in that direction is the wolf tail but every single wolf rider has one

Merrin: The only responsible Pact Ring recipient and the biggest argument for playing with DLC since Merrin in Sage doesn't have drip; *Merrin in Sage has the entire faucet*

I love the merrin S support, I really felt is one of the fews that is romantic and I am a sucker for book related things so writting a book of a person or dedicating a book to one seems like one of the most vulnerable and romantic things you can do

LET'S GO LESBIANS LET'S GO!! Happy pride everybody!

Merrin has been my phone wallpaper for a while. I love how she’s living her best life

I fughyving love Merrin

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I love how all of the Engage casts eccentricities are played straight rather than being used to make a joke most of the time. It makes the whole cast feel very sincere and if I'm honest the most real cast to me (although maybe maybe thats just a me thing, i can relate to a lot of the cast after all)

This video was as well-made as the other entries in the SRPG Sapphics video but it just wasn’t as interesting since it was covering a much less deep character with a lot less under the surface compared to past analyzed characters, both in the sense of Merrin just not being very deep and the ease of attaining her supports without many of them adding much to her character. 😔