Top Eleven Fire Emblem Characters (11)
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mark_asphodel Boy, raphiael has some good memes going on her tumblr, and some really good material posted to cover them. I stole this one, too.
Top Eleven Fire Emblem Characters. The catch here is that I'm not bringing headcanon or ficcing potential into it, so a character whose appeal to me derives largely from what they could be instead of what they are on the screen (Lilina), or who annoy me onscreen but are redeemed by meta and fanfic (Eirika) will not place highly. Or place at all.
#11: Serra and Lute (tie)
I'd read piles of fanfiction involving Serra before playing FE7, and in almost every fanfic, I loathed Serra. Shrill, shallow, loud-mouthed, deliberately obnoxious... no thanks. Upon playing FE7, I realized Serra was the victim of gross mischaracterization at the hands of fandom. Yes, she can be shrill. Yes, she is a manipulative little minx. Yes, in some aspects, she's flat-out delusional, or at the very least consciously trying to fool herself and everyone else. But the chinks in her facade show plainly (especially in her supports with Hector) give her a poignancy and depth that, IMO, the other "flaky staff chicks" don't have.
And no, she's not the original flaky staff chick. I would argue, based on design and their darn-near identical death quotes (death is annoying!), that she's an expy of FE3's daft little Malliesia... except the single-minded fixation on getting swept off her feet by the local Lord has, in Serra's case, been broadened and deepened into a bundle of "issues" on class and status and her very value as a person. Malliesia needs to grow up. Serra isn't really after vassals and buckets of jewels so much as she needs outside confirmation that she's not human rubbish who was stashed in an orphanage because her parents didn't love her.
A wonderful character, handled poorly by fandom. IMO.
And then we have Lute. She is, aslyndis as pointed out, basically trolling her way through life. She doesn't get people and doesn't attempt to understand them on their own terms, because her terms of understanding are the only ones she finds relevant. She studies bugs and has a head packed full of facts and arcane lore. She'd just as soon converse with a pegasus in place of a human being. She reminds me of my mother. She reminds me of myself about fifteen years ago. I didn't much care for FE8 at first, but I reacted in a positive way to her from the get-go, and in spite (or because?) of her flaws, I adore Lute.
And I ship her with Kyle something fierce.
I would probably not want to spend time with either of these girls in real life, which is why they're down at eleven.
raphiael has some good memes going on her tumblr, and some really good material posted to cover them. I stole this one, too. Top Eleven Fire Emblem Characters. The catch here is that I'm not bringing headcanon or ficcing potential into it, so a character whose appeal to me derives largely from what they could be instead of what they are on the screen (Lilina), or who annoy me onscreen but are redeemed by meta and fanfic (Eirika) will not place highly. Or place at all.
#11: Serra and Lute (tie)
I'd read piles of fanfiction involving Serra before playing FE7, and in almost every fanfic, I loathed Serra. Shrill, shallow, loud-mouthed, deliberately obnoxious... no thanks. Upon playing FE7, I realized Serra was the victim of gross mischaracterization at the hands of fandom. Yes, she can be shrill. Yes, she is a manipulative little minx. Yes, in some aspects, she's flat-out delusional, or at the very least consciously trying to fool herself and everyone else. But the chinks in her facade show plainly (especially in her supports with Hector) give her a poignancy and depth that, IMO, the other "flaky staff chicks" don't have.
And no, she's not the original flaky staff chick. I would argue, based on design and their darn-near identical death quotes (death is annoying!), that she's an expy of FE3's daft little Malliesia... except the single-minded fixation on getting swept off her feet by the local Lord has, in Serra's case, been broadened and deepened into a bundle of "issues" on class and status and her very value as a person. Malliesia needs to grow up. Serra isn't really after vassals and buckets of jewels so much as she needs outside confirmation that she's not human rubbish who was stashed in an orphanage because her parents didn't love her.
A wonderful character, handled poorly by fandom. IMO.
And then we have Lute. She is, as
lyndis as pointed out, basically trolling her way through life. She doesn't get people and doesn't attempt to understand them on their own terms, because her terms of understanding are the only ones she finds relevant. She studies bugs and has a head packed full of facts and arcane lore. She'd just as soon converse with a pegasus in place of a human being. She reminds me of my mother. She reminds me of myself about fifteen years ago. I didn't much care for FE8 at first, but I reacted in a positive way to her from the get-go, and in spite (or because?) of her flaws, I adore Lute.And I ship her with Kyle something fierce.
I would probably not want to spend time with either of these girls in real life, which is why they're down at eleven.
