Thirty(?) Days of Fire Emblem, Day "Two"
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mark_asphodel Yay, another four-day weekend. I've never gotten New Year's Eve off as a holiday before, not as a working adult, anyway.
And the fact that I helped get this holiday for the division makes it especially sweet.
I want to get out of town this weekend. Not sure to where... just get.
-x-
Anyway, Day Two: Favorite Pairing.
If we're going to discount crack and stuff whose appeal for me rests entirely on great reams of speculation...
Alm/Cellica is a couple I don't have a single misgiving about, and my affection for them has nothing to do with the potential for it becoming a train wreck. They have a solid childhood friendship for their first ten years, the bond between them is still incredibly strong when they meet up six years later, and they feel like they're on such an equal footing. Yeah, its embedded in the game mechanics, but the quest literally cannot be accomplished without each of them taking action and doing things.
Like when Hark asks Cellica what her desires are, and she uses that wish to bless Alm. And it doesn't feel like a cop-out in any sense-- it's just right.
And neither of them comes through the war a mess, and they live happily ever after and found their thousand-year dynasty and all that.
Runners-Up:
Leaf/Nanna. Awwww.
Saleh/Eirika, for reasons went I into over on the Magvel comm.
Kyle/Lute. LOL. I think he can handle her.
Innes/Vanessa, because every cliche objection to a royal/knight match-up just doesn't seem to matter and then they have a kid. Go, Innes!
Ike/Soren for existing even if I still think Ike's a bore. I can't tell you how tickled I was to find out that the rumors about Ike's FE10 ending were actually canon. "Whoa, really? Nintendo went there? Seriously? That's awesome!" (And I was perfectly happy to assume, prior to this, that Ike got with Elincia. Talk about violation of expectations...)
Samson/Sheema because that's a case of two great characters getting away from it all to be great lovers together on their own terms.
And, finally, Marth/Caeda, because after all the iterations of canon and inconsistencies and wtf-ery, there's something very good underneath. A lot of the appeal comes because I like Caeda so damn much and I want her to be happy, and I think she has the strength of character and interpersonal skills to make the relationship work (genuine interpersonal skills do NOT appear to be a strong point of Marth's unless the situation is "please join my army"!).
Even if some of what I've seen in FE12 made me think she deserves better. :/
I'm not feeling passionate enough about Elibe at the moment to have a genuine favorite.
And the fact that I helped get this holiday for the division makes it especially sweet.
I want to get out of town this weekend. Not sure to where... just get.
-x-
Anyway, Day Two: Favorite Pairing.
If we're going to discount crack and stuff whose appeal for me rests entirely on great reams of speculation...
Alm/Cellica is a couple I don't have a single misgiving about, and my affection for them has nothing to do with the potential for it becoming a train wreck. They have a solid childhood friendship for their first ten years, the bond between them is still incredibly strong when they meet up six years later, and they feel like they're on such an equal footing. Yeah, its embedded in the game mechanics, but the quest literally cannot be accomplished without each of them taking action and doing things.
Like when Hark asks Cellica what her desires are, and she uses that wish to bless Alm. And it doesn't feel like a cop-out in any sense-- it's just right.
And neither of them comes through the war a mess, and they live happily ever after and found their thousand-year dynasty and all that.
Runners-Up:
Leaf/Nanna. Awwww.
Saleh/Eirika, for reasons went I into over on the Magvel comm.
Kyle/Lute. LOL. I think he can handle her.
Innes/Vanessa, because every cliche objection to a royal/knight match-up just doesn't seem to matter and then they have a kid. Go, Innes!
Ike/Soren for existing even if I still think Ike's a bore. I can't tell you how tickled I was to find out that the rumors about Ike's FE10 ending were actually canon. "Whoa, really? Nintendo went there? Seriously? That's awesome!" (And I was perfectly happy to assume, prior to this, that Ike got with Elincia. Talk about violation of expectations...)
Samson/Sheema because that's a case of two great characters getting away from it all to be great lovers together on their own terms.
And, finally, Marth/Caeda, because after all the iterations of canon and inconsistencies and wtf-ery, there's something very good underneath. A lot of the appeal comes because I like Caeda so damn much and I want her to be happy, and I think she has the strength of character and interpersonal skills to make the relationship work (genuine interpersonal skills do NOT appear to be a strong point of Marth's unless the situation is "please join my army"!).
Even if some of what I've seen in FE12 made me think she deserves better. :/
I'm not feeling passionate enough about Elibe at the moment to have a genuine favorite.
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Date: 2011-12-30 03:26 pm (UTC)I think I like Ike/Soren mostly because Ike is the least boring when Soren's involved. He just reacts in a way I found really genuine, but not too sappy or gushy-smushy.
Hope your weekend goes well and is relaxing c:
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Date: 2011-12-30 07:23 pm (UTC)Well, they're a couple of teenaged orphans who just went through a civil war and have a country to unify and heal. And that's enough. Absolutely enough, and in a sense it's appropriate that canon left them alone thereafter. It's an earned happy ending, for certain.
Still haven't decided on a destination, yet. Mebbe Toronto.
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Date: 2011-12-30 05:54 pm (UTC)Probably because Marth has a lot of problems expressing his true feelings to begin with. Poor kid's just really messed up :/
Even if some of what I've seen in FE12 made me think she deserves better. :/
Part of me hopes that Caeda's able to help Marth heal a bit and overcome some of the obstacles.
...dammit now I want to write meta about this.
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Date: 2011-12-30 07:38 pm (UTC)He functions very well within narrowly defined parameters. If you deviate from the course he expects (failure to recruit Horace, failure to recruit Camus, dealing with Lang, getting his head around the fact that Hardin's gone dark), he kind of flails about until someone else (Nyna, Jagen, etc.) steps in to salvage the situation. Before FE12, I took that as a sign that Marth was kind of hyper-rational (actually appropriate to his age, given what we're learning about the teenaged brain)-- when he's dealing with someone like Lorenz, who is also rational, things work perfectly. Throw someone like Camus into the equation and it's just fail all around.
And when Marth is dealing with a genuine manipulator like Lang, who has sized him up and knows exactly how to play him, then he's just flat-out going to lose. Clearly Lang knows how Marth works as well or better than Marth does.
Part of me hopes that Caeda's able to help Marth heal a bit and overcome some of the obstacles.
Oh, I'm sure that's exactly what we're intended to think.
Their FE3 character endings still suck rocks compared to the other games, though.
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Date: 2011-12-30 08:20 pm (UTC)Oh, is this why my mathsci classmates are so irritatingly logical that they are beyond reality?
/mathsci major
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Date: 2011-12-30 08:28 pm (UTC)Hahah.
Maybe. Have you seen any of the recent studies on teenage risk-taking behavior and such? The data's pointing toward teenagers being dangerous not because they're irrational, but because they're overly so. They look at a bad situation, weigh the odds, decide (correctly) the odds are in their favor, and do the dangerous thing. Whereas adults who view the same decision and oft for the safe route do so for irrational reasons not related to the odds of success/death/maiming.
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Date: 2011-12-30 10:01 pm (UTC)I was one of those teenagers who looked at adult propaganda, decided that there were too many ways to die young no matter what you'd prepared for the future, and became an incredible pessimist.
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Date: 2011-12-30 09:03 pm (UTC)