Stolen Tumblr Meme

[mark_asphodel]

Stolen from half the f-list on tumbr.

Send me a character name and I’ll tell you:

My first impressions of them.
What I think of their design.
What I think of their role in the story.
What I think of their interactions with other characters.
My favorite aspect of the character overall.
What could have been improved or changed with regards to the character.
My number one wish for this character.

Be prepared for a long blank stare if you ask me about, say, Fiona, though.

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[wolt]

Adean? Aideen? Edin? However you prefer to spell it?

[mark_asphodel]

I prefer Aideen these days.

My first impressions of them.

Damn, what is this ugly blonde staffchick that everyone is drooling over? I hear this game has a great plot but all I'm seeing is characters fapping over this fugly chick. They should've called it Genealogy of Dudes Who Want to Bang Adean or something.

What I think of their design.

In-game: SUUUUUUUUUX. And how.

Artbook: SUUUUUUUXXXXXXX

TCG: Better but incredibly bland. Chick in white robes with long blonde hair. That's it. Closed eyes and an aura of "saintliness" to boot. Zzzzzz.

What I think of their role in the story.

Well, as the damsel in distress that gets the plot moving she does OK. Also apparently a good source of child care but since she's left offscreen in Gen 2 we don't get to see that. Aideen is saved as a character by her rare flinty moments, and even those are implied-- dragging her feet upon capture, starting off as a knight become choosing to be a nun, and so on. There seems to be things below the surface. But overall, she's kind of a poster child for the shortcomings of how women are portrayed in these games. Capture bait in part one, and a benevolent offscreen presence in part two while the menfolk charge back into battle. We have ONE surviving female character confirmed in FE4 and she gets left in the convent. That says it all, man.

What I think of their interactions with other characters.

Um... onscreen or in my head? Onscreen she's best with Sigurd and Ethlyn, I guess. Her romances are kind of gross, but at least the Claude one is really WTF gross instead of just the undercurrent of unequal ick in her relationships with Midir and Azel. And don't get me started on the nonsensical "pairing" with Finn as related in the Lana conversation. Makes good kids but LOL, no.

My favorite aspect of the character overall.

She has an awesome twin sister.

What could have been improved or changed with regards to the character.

Y'know, I liked her in what I read of the Fujimori Nuts manga. She seemed like a brave young lady worth fighting WITH and not just fighting OVER. Looked pretty cute there, too. But overall, less Men Drooling Over Aideen and more Aideen Kicking Ass would've been nice.

My number one wish for this character.

Huh. Well, it'd be nice for her to reunite with Mr. Aideen but I'm pretty sure he's dead, so that's out. But she has the opportunity to find Briggid (again) and see her kids and in-laws and her niece and nephew and later grand-kids and grandnieces and such, so overall Aideen is set up for some very nice golden years as long as she doesn't live too long.

She strikes me as the type to live too long.

[wolt]

Yeah, Aideen did wind up being less than awesome in the end of things, didn't she? She had so much potential, being the driving force of Sigurd's campaign, and the reason Oifey and Shanan didn't completely fail as surrogate parents. It always felt a little unfair to me that Briggid showed up out of nowhere and managed to be a BAMF - not once, but twice in her lifetime, while Aideen just got the stereotypical princess end of the stick, and the job of "awakening her twin's memories~" - which would have been better if it hadn't been credited entirely to Ichival's powers. If she'd had other motivations for joining the church after the knighthood thing, or had been waging a battle against the arsewipes from Verdane instead of just getting kidnapped, or had stronger feelings about Andrey's douchebaggery, or anything, she would have come across as a much better character. It's almost as if they gave her that second generation role as a last minute decision, instead of justifying it somehow. Which is sad, because, again, she had so much potential.

[mark_asphodel]

or had stronger feelings about Andrey's douchebaggery

Yeah. She actually knew her father-- who seems to have been a genuinely good guy. Briggid barely knew the dude and she's all RAWR, Andrei disgraced our house, gonna kill him. Aideen just seems way too mellow over, uh, parricide and treason.

[booksandanimals2000]

Which reminds me...did Adean ever explain her logic in carrying the Yewfelle around in the off chance that Briggid might appear? I mean, that's a pretty valuable bow to be toting it around without using it.

[wolt]

Not really. Mighta been cool if she'd offered, like, "I don't want it falling into the wrong hands, since my home seems to be in a bit of chaos right now" or... you know, something more reasonable than what she offers in the script.