"Cold Lieutenant"
Feb. 22nd, 2013 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodelMore like "Queer Lieutenant," amirite?
Seriously.
The subtexty-stuff between Frederick and Chrom is so blatant that people aren't missing it. The peach-colored blanket and the naked inspirational pictures are a little hard to miss.
Seriously.
Given that this installment of Fire Emblem decided to retroactively canonize the "Catria" as an archetype, I don't find this juiced-up rendition of The Devoted Lieutenant role to be insignificant. Call it a tease, call it queer baiting, it's been going on for a damn long time with progressively less subtlety, and this time it's front-and-center and not even relegated to an optional subplot like the Percival/Elphin stuff or the side of the red team like the whole Sephiran/Zelgius/Levail business.
Nope. C'mon guys. If we're gonna have this Catria archetype kicking around now, can at least we all agree that the Queer Lieutenant thing is, well, A Thing? And has been since well before the GBA days? All we gotta agree on is who started the archetype and we're in business.
[I wanna vote for Cain to give it the same pedigree as The Catria, but he already spawned one well-known archetype and my evidence on this particular point is not the best in his case-- he's so tied to Marth he never leaves nor gets married, that's hardly open-and-shut. So, boo.]
And no, the fact that Frederick can get married to chicks doesn't deep-six my argument. Never has, never will. The lack of resolution on the queer angle appears to be part of the point, the same way it is with Les Catrias.
PS: Did anyone get his supports with Maribell? They just seemed really flippin' weird.
Seriously.
The subtexty-stuff between Frederick and Chrom is so blatant that people aren't missing it. The peach-colored blanket and the naked inspirational pictures are a little hard to miss.
Seriously.
Given that this installment of Fire Emblem decided to retroactively canonize the "Catria" as an archetype, I don't find this juiced-up rendition of The Devoted Lieutenant role to be insignificant. Call it a tease, call it queer baiting, it's been going on for a damn long time with progressively less subtlety, and this time it's front-and-center and not even relegated to an optional subplot like the Percival/Elphin stuff or the side of the red team like the whole Sephiran/Zelgius/Levail business.
Nope. C'mon guys. If we're gonna have this Catria archetype kicking around now, can at least we all agree that the Queer Lieutenant thing is, well, A Thing? And has been since well before the GBA days? All we gotta agree on is who started the archetype and we're in business.
[I wanna vote for Cain to give it the same pedigree as The Catria, but he already spawned one well-known archetype and my evidence on this particular point is not the best in his case-- he's so tied to Marth he never leaves nor gets married, that's hardly open-and-shut. So, boo.]
And no, the fact that Frederick can get married to chicks doesn't deep-six my argument. Never has, never will. The lack of resolution on the queer angle appears to be part of the point, the same way it is with Les Catrias.
PS: Did anyone get his supports with Maribell? They just seemed really flippin' weird.
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Date: 2013-02-23 11:41 am (UTC)But now I want to hold up Kyle, too /shotno subject
Date: 2013-02-23 03:48 pm (UTC)I'd count Kyle. I think Frederick owes a bit to him.