the answer, incidentally, is 9-- yeah, I was taken aback too)
Wow. I guess I don't feel bad about defending FE4 anymore.
and I still can't decide whether Zealot becoming king of Ilia is actually progressive or not.
Yeah.
So yeah, of course the prequel is going to seem more old-fashioned when all the evidence from FE6 indicates that things in Elibe are changing pretty rapidly.
That's a nice explanation for meta, but I really don't give IS that much credit, especially when they go ahead and invent an irrelevant character like Lyn in FE7, and then handle Eirika with kid gloves in FE8, and then insert all these lovely moments of sexist bullshit in FE13... not to mention the tremendous step back in female empowerment between FE1 and FE3. They're all over the place, with no clear progression IMO. '
but what about Jugdral?
No. If anything, Gen 2 was worse off, because all the inheritance for everything defaults to the male child. The only way women end up ruling anything, even if they have major holy blood (and their brothers don't), is if their male relations are a) dead or b) inherit something better. Tinny inherits Freege *if* Arthur gets something else. Patty inherits her mother's lands only IF her brother gets a separate inheritance from their father. And Julia, heiress of the great god-powers of Naga, hangs around assisting Lord Emperor Seliph. So you end up going from a few female rulers to potentially zero.
All that and the Amazing Disappearing Linoan.
The important thing that IMO FE essentially gets right is to include a wide variety of female characters, so there isn't one single representative for womankind that everything is riding on,
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Date: 2013-08-11 05:22 pm (UTC)Wow. I guess I don't feel bad about defending FE4 anymore.
and I still can't decide whether Zealot becoming king of Ilia is actually progressive or not.
Yeah.
So yeah, of course the prequel is going to seem more old-fashioned when all the evidence from FE6 indicates that things in Elibe are changing pretty rapidly.
That's a nice explanation for meta, but I really don't give IS that much credit, especially when they go ahead and invent an irrelevant character like Lyn in FE7, and then handle Eirika with kid gloves in FE8, and then insert all these lovely moments of sexist bullshit in FE13... not to mention the tremendous step back in female empowerment between FE1 and FE3. They're all over the place, with no clear progression IMO. '
but what about Jugdral?
No. If anything, Gen 2 was worse off, because all the inheritance for everything defaults to the male child. The only way women end up ruling anything, even if they have major holy blood (and their brothers don't), is if their male relations are a) dead or b) inherit something better. Tinny inherits Freege *if* Arthur gets something else. Patty inherits her mother's lands only IF her brother gets a separate inheritance from their father. And Julia, heiress of the great god-powers of Naga, hangs around assisting Lord Emperor Seliph. So you end up going from a few female rulers to potentially zero.
All that and the Amazing Disappearing Linoan.
The important thing that IMO FE essentially gets right is to include a wide variety of female characters, so there isn't one single representative for womankind that everything is riding on,
Very true.