I've covered this before, but Holyn!Patty will be quite capable offensively once she's raised. As a tradeoff, she'll be a glass sword -- hard-hitting with lots of HP, but she'll get hit hard in turn, so you'll still need to be careful with her. The irony in this, IMO, is it makes her somewhat comparable to a traditional axefighter, except with overSkill.

In a playthrough of ages past, I had some brief trouble recruiting Hannibal because she kept killing his face to pieces and decorating her sword with his beard. (It's worth noting, though that I also let her keep the first Hero Sword in this run, which had become thoroughly crithanced by the time I'd reached that particular chapter. On top of four strikes per assault thanks to her class-based Pursuit, and the cranked-up SKL...yeah, she could tear shit up pretty handily, but she couldn't handle prolonged assault. A tank she definitely is not - unless her dad's Lex, and in that case you're back to the hard-to-train + low SKL problem.)

Ethlyn and Azel: yeah, I remember having pretty much the same luck with them. Ethy's for staffing and chipping, not much else.

I'm curious to see how the other pairs go, as I'd considered each of 'em at least once. Finntilt surprised me, maybe this will too. =]


(Oh yeah -- and if you ever write Hannipatty, maybe she can be Forseti!Pat for extra crack?)