FE12 and Stuff
Aug. 23rd, 2010 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodel Today was not the greatest day. Somebody got injured at work, plus one of my direct subordinates is having his bi-monthly meltdown and I had to talk him down from the metaphorical tree again. This always makes me pretty angry.
I need to stop looking for information about FE12, because what I'm finding just disturbs me.
This piece of fanart pretty much sums up my feelings about Abel and Est in light of FE12. Yes, that's Nino and the twins, but the treatment of the subject matter-- let's sprinkle pretty purple flowers on top of despair!-- applies to this situation as well.
In related wtf-ery, this thread over at SerenesForum tackles a topic that seems to bother a number of fans-- why the four captive priestesses in FE3/12 can't be recruited by alternate options (Michalis for Maria, Matthis for Lena, and so on). Aside from the obvious answer "Coz Matthis sucks at everything," one of the posters there let off with this little gem:
"Elice doesn't think very highly of Marth. To her, he's an idealist who can't do anything without the help of others...somebody to be protected, not somebody to rely on."
Allegedly Elice drops this bombshell in her Prologue conversation with MyUnit. And I'm scratching my head at this point, because if Marth is so useless, why does everybody and their kid sister cede power to him, again? Seriously, IS... this looks more and more like an intentional dystopia.
I need to stop looking for information about FE12, because what I'm finding just disturbs me.
This piece of fanart pretty much sums up my feelings about Abel and Est in light of FE12. Yes, that's Nino and the twins, but the treatment of the subject matter-- let's sprinkle pretty purple flowers on top of despair!-- applies to this situation as well.
In related wtf-ery, this thread over at SerenesForum tackles a topic that seems to bother a number of fans-- why the four captive priestesses in FE3/12 can't be recruited by alternate options (Michalis for Maria, Matthis for Lena, and so on). Aside from the obvious answer "Coz Matthis sucks at everything," one of the posters there let off with this little gem:
"Elice doesn't think very highly of Marth. To her, he's an idealist who can't do anything without the help of others...somebody to be protected, not somebody to rely on."
Allegedly Elice drops this bombshell in her Prologue conversation with MyUnit. And I'm scratching my head at this point, because if Marth is so useless, why does everybody and their kid sister cede power to him, again? Seriously, IS... this looks more and more like an intentional dystopia.
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Date: 2010-08-24 01:13 am (UTC)Yeah, but that makes sense in the Prologue when he's all of fourteen and clearly can't do much of anything on his own. I didn't notice anything amiss in their dialogue after she's rescued... though, I admit, I was reading their interactions with filters on. Fannish portrayals had led me to expect the usual Fire Emblem incest vibes, and their dynamic seemed so utterly normal that I didn't see anything odd in their relationship.
Elice does tell Marth that she's proud of him in FE3... if you get the bad ending. Hmm. I don't think she says anything if you get the good ending.
Yeah, this is fucked up.