Dutiful Knight Characterization Wibbling
Jun. 4th, 2012 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodelOK. Last time I was complaining that Jugdral didn't offer me nerds I could identify with. Today, imma complain about something else, of more recent origin.
The current conception of a SRS BZNS knight. [FE12 data obtained from playthroughs byshimizu_hitomi , Big Klingy, and others.]
FE12 gives us "Chris," Marth's invaluable source of support, alter ego, etc. Chris expresses her devotion to Marth bygetting all up in his business being obsessed with training. And sparring. And training. And challenging people. It's pretty dull, actually. Even worse, Cain-- a character who was set up for some beautiful characterization in FE11-- appeared to have been sketched in the same way, as this really bland training-obsessed sort of guy. It was a real disappointment, as FE12!Cain seemed to have less depth than FE3!Cain.
Then we get FE13.
Frederick looks cool. I was pleased to see that he was SRS Knight and I hoped that he'd lend some gravitas to a cast that included Liz and Sariya and all these flaky weirdoes. Unfortunately, his defining character trait according to the supports being translated here (spoilers abound) make him out to be an exercise freak. That's his conception of duty, apparently-- his motto would appear to be mens sana in corpore sano... especially given that he thinks he can will away physical illness. And in execution, he's like the kind of guy who perpetually has a white towel around his neck and a bottle of Gatorade in his fist. One support of it was kind of meh... multiple supports of it is just... no.
Gimme back Seth and Titania and conceptions of being a dedicated knight that didn't involve doing calisthenics 24/7.
PS: Please comment at DW if you have a DW account. Otherwise I'm going to start locking comments from LJ again. I re-opened it to be inclusive, but I don't want the majority of my content at LJ. Thanks.
The current conception of a SRS BZNS knight. [FE12 data obtained from playthroughs by
shimizu_hitomi , Big Klingy, and others.]FE12 gives us "Chris," Marth's invaluable source of support, alter ego, etc. Chris expresses her devotion to Marth by
Then we get FE13.
Frederick looks cool. I was pleased to see that he was SRS Knight and I hoped that he'd lend some gravitas to a cast that included Liz and Sariya and all these flaky weirdoes. Unfortunately, his defining character trait according to the supports being translated here (spoilers abound) make him out to be an exercise freak. That's his conception of duty, apparently-- his motto would appear to be mens sana in corpore sano... especially given that he thinks he can will away physical illness. And in execution, he's like the kind of guy who perpetually has a white towel around his neck and a bottle of Gatorade in his fist. One support of it was kind of meh... multiple supports of it is just... no.
Gimme back Seth and Titania and conceptions of being a dedicated knight that didn't involve doing calisthenics 24/7.
PS: Please comment at DW if you have a DW account. Otherwise I'm going to start locking comments from LJ again. I re-opened it to be inclusive, but I don't want the majority of my content at LJ. Thanks.
