More Random FE13 babble

[mark_asphodel]

Some of the supports actually feature character development (not backstory-- development), including cross-generational development.  That's nice.  Roughly half the characters seem pretty meh or annoying at present, though.

Speaking of cross-generational...

Of course you're a comrade, and you're also the daughter of my close friend.

And that's why you shouldn't be on the verge of knocking boots with her, MyUnit.  Man, what a thrill-inducing pickup line that is, too.  I don't think I'd mind nearly as much if it weren't the self-insert speaking... or if said self-insert weren't the only "Gen 1" character able to breed with "Gen 2" which seems like making deliberate exceptions for maximum fan-person gratification.  

I am tickled by the fact that MyUnit can marry Anna and have a little time-traveling Markette with her.  I plan on using that MU pairing, I think.  It fits my views of canon.

Hypothesis: I'm guessing that "Mark" (that's MyUnit's little moonbat child) ends up in Elibe with amnesia after a time-portal mishap.  I think I'd actually like to see some FE7 'fic with FE13!Mark's characterization-- seriously, the kid is a space cadet. 

Comments

[raphiael]

Yeah, I'm trying to forget the fact that MU can shack up with the child of the dragonloli. Too many levels of WTF there.

I do think "Mark" being an FE7 tie-in, as much as I don't like it, is a logical idea. And flighty spaceshot Mark might be a nice change of pace.

[mark_asphodel]

I do like that Nono's kid has a support convo with her father in which she calls him out for being a creeper who's into little girls: "I don't understand how father could see mother as a woman when she acts/looks so much like a child. You aren't one of those weirdos that only like little girls are you?" (as translated by Skyrius at SF's forum.)

And flighty spaceshot Mark might be a nice change of pace.

Lord, yes. I mean, honestly after seeing him (and I've yet to see any of girl!Mark's supports) I realize how many things I don't like about fan-created FE7 tacticians. If s/he grows up to be the actual Tact... thank you IS for giving him/her a personality at last.

[raphiael]

Yeah, in honesty? It's not even the special snowflake attributes of tacticians that get me at this point. Are they annoying? Sure, but it's a symptom of the more widespread problem - fandom as a whole just has no idea how to make "Mark" interesting. So all the super-sparkly powers/pairings/weapons/origins get piled on in attempt to do something different, and yet they're all still boring.

I suspect, given Sturgeon's Law, most things that draw from FE13 will just latch onto any "special" attributes offered and ignore the rest, but any chance of some things using it to improve is great.

[samuraiter]

I'm still tickled pink that my off-the-wall notion of Mark being placed in Elibe deliberately by Anna is no longer just the musing of an aged 'ficcer. *cackles* Who'd've thought I'd be right about something so many years before the fact?

[mark_asphodel]

You can also have a genuine manakete Mark if you hook MU up with Tiki or Nono... or Nono's kid. The only catch is, in all of those cases it's a girl Mark.

[samuraiter]

it's a girl Mark.

:-) The universe knows best, IMO.