Love and Marriage in Fire Emblem (pre-GBA)

 So I spent a couple of hours ripping through script translations of FE4 and FE5 to try to figure out how this whole world comes together.  I don't think there's any way to "get" Jugdral in its various permutations except to play the games repeatedly, and I don't have time for that right now.  But I did come away amused by the ways in which game content was already being recycled in the SNES era.  The FE4 "take my granddaughter, please" village-visit, for example, was a pretty clear rework of Mallesia's recruitment scene in FE3, only this time played for strictly for laughs, without the intimations of rape.

But I've already come away from the Judgral scripts with an overwhelming impression of love, marriage, and family life that carries across the early games.

( First Girl Wins and More.... )