Why The Hell Is Geralt My Dad In 3 Houses?

Why the hell is Geralt my dad in 3 Houses?

HE'S THE ONE I WANT TO BONE! Seriously, out of every character I saw in that trailer, he was only one of two that got my interest. I'm already wary of this game (the head-on cutscenes with Byleth makes me think they've removed customization, and I wouldn't be surprised if this avatar was like Mark- a glorified NPC), why you gotta take away the one thing that makes me smile in modern FE?

So, I actually drew this some time last year, but I never really liked it, so into the corner it went. I fished it out a few weeks ago and decided to try and finish it. There were lots of mistakes with the linework, and while I managed fix *some* of them, I couldn't make it *right*, partially due to the acrylic paint I use as whiteout being really hard to draw on this time for some reason.

I fucking LOVE New Mystery of the Emblem. It's my second favorite game in the series, after Conquest. These are my favorite characters from the game (and Barst, but these are the top three). NM is honestly the only game whose cast I actually like. It's amazing how three conversations can make a character more sympathetic, interesting and likeable than several pages worth of dialogue. Sad that IntSys decided to forego quality in favor of quantity these days. And I know Cecil is from the original Mystery and Norne and Frey are from Shadow Dragon, but the non-main characters in the famicom games were pretty much NPCs, and characters that are locked out of all but the easiest game mode might as well not exist. If IS remakes Shadow Dragon in another twenty years, for the love of Naga, make the prologue a part of the whole game. It was literally the best part of the story!

I DO make it. I made so much of it, it burned me out. Sure would be nice if the actual property holders maybe contributed a little...

IntSys: "Did you say 'content'???"

Young, starry-eyed women who become jaded and nihillistic over the course of the story, usually falling in love with older men who have played the role of savior for them in some regard (love may or may not be requited. Usually won't because I'm a proud sadist)

20-something guys in bands who chain smoke and are just a fucking mess

Star-crossed lovers

Lazy, dead-meme spouting jackasses who speak entirely in Simpsons and King of the Hill quotes. So.... me, but like, prettier

 What is a theme you see in most of your OCs?

I like Heroes solely because it's the only place Gunther can be a beast of a unit who's actually a threat on lunatic mode. The way he was MEANT to be. WHO'S THE EXP SPONGE NOW?!?!

FEH will continue to be my favourite thing b/c it has created a world where the possibility exists that I can be the middle of a Gunter sandwich

Well, I have a rubrik for how much things matter. If someone messes up a coffee order or says something that makes someone mad without meaning to, then it can be easily forgotten. That's not what happens in thesr cases. These characters aren't just making little oopsie daisies- they are the direct cause for cataclysmic, near world ending events. That is something that should be remembered and talked about for years to come. Remember when that guy assassinated the archduke of Prussia and it sparked a war the whole world got involved in? Remember when America literally erased thousands of people with a nuclear weapon? I do, and I wasn't even alive when those things happened, so why wouldn't the worlds of Fire Emblem remember that time when a princess unlocked the demon king that threatened to deatroy their world, or that time when a princess gave her soul to restart the evil dragon that threatened to destroy their world, or that time a prince(ss) lead an army that killed 3/5th of their royal family and countless soldiers? There are epilogues in the games; why does the person directly responsible for so much of the problems get to be forgotten? If their good deeds are remembered, shouldn't the bad ones- especially THIS bad- also be remembered through the ages?

Over-explaining is annoying, sure, but that's one thing I'd never accuse Fire Emblem games of doing, unless it's overexplaining how much Cordelia loves Chrom or overexplaining how much Oboro hates Nohrians. World-changing events fall into the category of world-building, and that's something IS is always lacking in. If you can spare an entire opening scene to telling me the history of how Duma and Mila's reigns shaped their countries, you can spare a few seconds to tell me how Celica unsealing the evil from it's can shaped the country, especially after she became their empress. Am I supposed to believe that everyone, even Kamui, just kept mum about that whole "we killed a god because of someone" debacle?

And while Echoes and Sacred Stones might need to squeeze a tidbit in during the epilogue, Corrin's giant mistakes take place throughout the entire game. Oh, the wind tribe don't trust Nohrians because of a Faceless attack from who knows how many years ago, not because of that attack they just launched in Izumo where they took the Hoshidan royal family hostage? An entire palace full of innocent guards was murdered in Macarath, and a band of Hoshidans can just waltz into the Nohrian capital unimpeded (and no, Shura's band of brigands doesn't count because where the hell are any city guards? What, did pirates set up those balistas?)?

Most of the games skip out on the war part of their war story because they're bad at writing. Fire Emblem reads to me like a scifi story written by someone who hates science, and it's a point I'll always detract from the games- if you don't like/know how to write about war, don't set your story about a war during a war.

You say people who get mad are assholes, I say they're people. If I spill coffee on someone, my saying sorry isn't going to miraculously fix their now ruined clothes. If a doctor accidentally sews a sponge into a patient who then gets an infection, them learning a lesson doesn't negate the suffering they inflicted on that person. They have every right to be mad after you've said your sorries and fixing the problem doesn't undo what that person went through BECAUSE of said problem. Small, minor infractions should be made up for with apologies and lessons learned. Those consequences don't last forever, but they still last. But when it comes to Fire Emblem, the mistakes being made don't result in peoples' feelings getting hurt or their day being made worse. They result in lives lost, countries and worlds threatened with destruction. If someone drove my sibling to suicide and gave me a "sorry", I'd respond with a close-fisted punch to the face (and yes, we the player know why Takumi killed himself, but what are Hinoka and Sakura supposed to believe? That an evil force took over their brother, or that the evil Corrin's evil army cornered him and he found dying more honorable than being Garon's captive?)

Too many FE fans: We want really imperfect main characters that show weakness and flaws!

Intelligent Systems: Okay, sure. *Eirika, Micaiah, Corrin and Celica exist*

Those fans: These characters are f*cking dumbasses.This isn’t what we wanted.

IS: