Meta Month, Day 22: Peerless Warrior
Sep. 23rd, 2011 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodel"You’ll be my master strategist, and I’ll be your peerless warrior!"
Thus, a million and twelve visions of Tactician glory were born.
I think it's worth contemplating exactly who, and exactly what, is speaking this line at the outset of FE7. The speaker is a teenaged girl who's lost her family, her place in society, her entire network of associates, and who has been getting by alone for several months. I've seen a lot of straight-faced interpretations of this line, when actually, it's pretty fantastic-- and appropriately so. Again, Lyn is a grieving and lonely teenaged girl who just had some stranger fall into her life with positive consequences. A little indulgence in fantasy can be justified.
But I do feel that line ought to be met by the player with something less than a solemn nod and the taking of the sentiment to heart.
Thus, a million and twelve visions of Tactician glory were born.
I think it's worth contemplating exactly who, and exactly what, is speaking this line at the outset of FE7. The speaker is a teenaged girl who's lost her family, her place in society, her entire network of associates, and who has been getting by alone for several months. I've seen a lot of straight-faced interpretations of this line, when actually, it's pretty fantastic-- and appropriately so. Again, Lyn is a grieving and lonely teenaged girl who just had some stranger fall into her life with positive consequences. A little indulgence in fantasy can be justified.
But I do feel that line ought to be met by the player with something less than a solemn nod and the taking of the sentiment to heart.
