Thirty(?) Days of Fire Emblem, Days 11, 18, 23

Back to the meme.

#11: Favorite Level-- Uhhhh.  That one that's a TARDIS.  FE6 16X = FE8 Valni 8 = FE11 24X.  Because it's a TARDIS!  WMG on TV Tropes said so. 

#18: Best Storyline-- 

Storyline in FE is a little hard to evaluate because of prequel/sequel/sidestory issues; FE7 gains a great deal of resonance if one has foreknowledge of FE6, for example, though as Raphi and others have pointed out, the two could've been tied together better.  FE1 and FE9 turn out to be set-ups for sequels that knock over key assumptions about Archanea and Tellius respectively.  Also, FE recycles itself.  A lot.

As a self-contained story, I adore FE2.  It's not epic.  But it's a sweet little story about two great kids and their battle against some deeply ugly forces, featuring a human "villain" and a not-human Big Bad who just aren't the usual "Rawr, destroy humans" enemies.

But, overall... I still love the War of Heroes plotline from FE3.  Both in the way it's set up, as a mundane and often brutal political story whose extra-ordinary dimensions are revealed one facet at a time, and in the way it deepens, expands, and in key senses inverts Archanea as presented in FE1.  For a retcon job, it's a damned good one, one that makes sense of things (like the titular Fire Emblem) that could've been left unexplained as just your basic gameplay assumptions.  And, crucially, the relationship between humans and The Other-- so essential to the character of the franchise as a whole-- first takes shape here as the player learns what's really gone on between humans and the various dragon tribes.  FE4 gets the props for its horrific Chapter 5 plot twist, and the FE10 plot does a similar demolition job on the received truths of FE9, but I don't think they-- or key revelations contained in FE6 or the essential core structure of FE8-- would ever have existed if Kaga and the gang hadn't first cut their teeth on FE3 Book II.  

#23: Something Epic--

Jagen in FE3.  Because he's the BAMF Tactician to beat all BAMF Tacticians.

OK, Second-Gen Levin's pretty epic, too.

Fic Update: "That Cute Child," aka "How to Raise Your Dragon Loli"

The backyard is such a nice place on a winter's day. Woodpeckers on the suet block, red squirrels in the pine tree, fox squirrels begging on the deck, a pair of mourning doves shuffling along the path...

A hawk on the fence.

Whoops. That does not belong there. The Neighborhood Enforcement Force, aka the local blue jay population, caught up with said hawk and spread the alarm, though. Blue jays are awesome.

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So, a while back, I started toying with the idea of a Tiki-centric story from Caeda's perspective. That dynamic is a question that the FE3 script basically sets before the player during the "grand ending," the one where Tiki is squealing and glomping Marth, Melissa is bawling at Tiki to get her hands off, and Caeda's just going, "No, I'm fine with this." And Marth, of course, has nothing whatsoever to say for himself.

( ...and Tiki makes three. )

It was intended as an FE100 fill. I guess that's the second one I've completed.