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On (Genderswapped) Fury
May. 22nd, 2013 06:06 pmWell, I touched on this in the comments of the previous post, but there was more I wanted to say about it.
Fury occupies a special place in Jugdral canon as the only one of the "breeder pool" of FE4 ladies to have her marriage, uh, canonized via FE5 and other sources like the current Jugdral family tree. She's Lewyn's wife, reigning queen of Silesse in his absence, and mother of Forseti!Ced and Fee. She's also dead by the time Year 776 rolls around, but that'd be true regardless of her status re: Lewyn.
Anyway, there's a lot about Fury that's related to us that's really compelling. Once Lewyn bails, it's Fury who has to hold together the tattered remains of the kingdom from their court in Thove/Tovae while at the same time raising and educating Ced'n'Fee. The kids, quite plainly, think the world of her. I love the detail in FE4 about how Fury inspired Fee to become a crusader by telling her stories about Sigurd's campaign. It feels real and natural and yet so many kids kind of blunder into the war or have it otherwise forced upon them that it gives Fee a unique dimension to her character-- and it's all the better for being a warrior mother inspiring her daughter. Lewyn references her stubborness and Ced notes that his mother "could never turn a blind eye to somebody in trouble," traits her crusader kiddies share. Offstage!Fury is all kinds of awesome.
[She's also totally hot. Let us not minimize this aspect of Fury's appeal.]
The Fury get we on screen, however, kind of underwhelms.
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Fury occupies a special place in Jugdral canon as the only one of the "breeder pool" of FE4 ladies to have her marriage, uh, canonized via FE5 and other sources like the current Jugdral family tree. She's Lewyn's wife, reigning queen of Silesse in his absence, and mother of Forseti!Ced and Fee. She's also dead by the time Year 776 rolls around, but that'd be true regardless of her status re: Lewyn.
Anyway, there's a lot about Fury that's related to us that's really compelling. Once Lewyn bails, it's Fury who has to hold together the tattered remains of the kingdom from their court in Thove/Tovae while at the same time raising and educating Ced'n'Fee. The kids, quite plainly, think the world of her. I love the detail in FE4 about how Fury inspired Fee to become a crusader by telling her stories about Sigurd's campaign. It feels real and natural and yet so many kids kind of blunder into the war or have it otherwise forced upon them that it gives Fee a unique dimension to her character-- and it's all the better for being a warrior mother inspiring her daughter. Lewyn references her stubborness and Ced notes that his mother "could never turn a blind eye to somebody in trouble," traits her crusader kiddies share. Offstage!Fury is all kinds of awesome.
[She's also totally hot. Let us not minimize this aspect of Fury's appeal.]
The Fury get we on screen, however, kind of underwhelms.
( Cut. )
