That Bro-King Business...
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mark_asphodel Holy hell, you guys. I'm ecstatic that FE8 has a meme that doesn't involve Gheb in any way, shape, or form, but I can't keep up with reading your brainwaves. I don't know how you all post that fast.
Alm would make a good bro, so it's sad that nobody's invited him to the fun. I'm not sure Cellica is she-bro material, exactly, but she would get along nicely with Eirika, I'm sure.
Marth, unfortunately, is not capable of being bros with anyone other than MyUnit, and MyUnit is persona non grata around all self-respecting canon characters. So Marth doesn't get to join in the fun... but he's used to that and probably won't notice.
But Alm really ought to get an invitation to the Bro-King Club. :(
ETA: I need to resurrect that Generic Lords Club plotbunny I've been toying with since 2009....
Alm would make a good bro, so it's sad that nobody's invited him to the fun. I'm not sure Cellica is she-bro material, exactly, but she would get along nicely with Eirika, I'm sure.
Marth, unfortunately, is not capable of being bros with anyone other than MyUnit, and MyUnit is persona non grata around all self-respecting canon characters. So Marth doesn't get to join in the fun... but he's used to that and probably won't notice.
But Alm really ought to get an invitation to the Bro-King Club. :(
ETA: I need to resurrect that Generic Lords Club plotbunny I've been toying with since 2009....
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Date: 2011-01-28 01:16 am (UTC)Celica and Eirika would probably be awesome together. ♥
I'm ecstatic that FE8 has a meme that doesn't involve Gheb in any way, shape, or form
I never have, nor ever will understand the appeal of the Gheb meme business. He's a mook who makes perverted comments about a girl, then dies. And leaves you his awesome Killer Axe.
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Date: 2011-01-28 01:24 am (UTC)Not sure I got far enough in the game? But maybe I did. IDEK.no subject
Date: 2011-01-28 01:39 am (UTC)@_@
-_-
*DIES*
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Date: 2011-01-28 01:41 am (UTC)*Casts resurrection*
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Date: 2011-01-28 01:42 am (UTC)I am now officially terrified.
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:23 am (UTC)...well, that didn't work out too well. Five years after his death, after the war had ended, peace returned to Magvel...or so the people thought. Deep in the bowels of Grado, beneath the earth in caverns engulfed in flame, a group dedicated to the dark arts gathered, seeking a way to bring back to life the greatest evil the world has ever known.
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Date: 2011-01-28 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-28 01:43 am (UTC)@_@
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:11 am (UTC)You are more ruthless than I imagined, Ms. Manna.
Good. *Emperor face*
And Wallace has gotta be a bro.
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Date: 2011-01-28 05:27 am (UTC)That is so terrifyingly awesome on so many levels.
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Date: 2011-01-28 01:39 am (UTC)I'm not entirely sure what they'd be doing together, though. I mean, in the "bro-tastic" sense as opposed to the OTHER thing the three of them could be doing together. :)
Somebody needs to write that, though. I'm just not fun enough to pull it off.
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-28 02:21 am (UTC)Hurray~
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:31 am (UTC)I really shouldn't speak of it, as I can't read the Japanese or the Chinese scanlations, but DAMN if the FE1 manga didn't appear to have "fanservice" going on-- of a very non-het variety. And no, it wasn't a doujinishi. I own most of the set and giggle over it now and again.
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:44 am (UTC)I can't decide if this is "must see now for massive lulz" or "oh gawd do not want."
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:48 am (UTC)That'll take you to the index for Merric's debut.
But the whole way it's drawn, man-- big dreamy close-ups of one boy or the other, with floating sparkly bits in the background... as they think about their dear friendship.
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:53 am (UTC)you're right, this does sound like FE8*shot*no subject
Date: 2011-01-28 03:04 am (UTC)Well, seriously back when the fanwank first broke over Ike/Soren in FE10, I was all, "OK, so you're upset that Game Hero Dude is apparently making with his cute little Wind Mage Buddy. Well, DUH, that's just HOW THINGS GO."
Well, except Levin. Levin was too busy with his harem of pretty ladies to contemplate messing around with Sigurd in FE4. But Merric, Asvel, and Soren, man...
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Date: 2011-01-28 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-28 03:20 am (UTC)I need to play the older stuff. But I have like. 4 I'm playing at once. And it gets very confusing - especially when half the main guys use the same weapons. Mushing them all together rarely ends well.
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:13 am (UTC)Making out with him is totally optional.
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Date: 2011-01-28 03:56 am (UTC)"Friendship".
There are no sparkles in friendship! Sparkles happen in romance when they don't want anyone to know except the readers!
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:13 am (UTC)I went into the manga knowing about Marth/Caeda and Merric/Elice, right? So I was thrown for a loop by all the sparkle-boy affection-- in particular, the part where Marth got knocked out by Gharnef's minions (in Port Warren, I think) and Merric was the only one who could wake him up. Yeeeeaaah.
Hard to ignore stuff like this: http://www.feplanet.net/media/manga/view.php?id=1&key=2&page=26
And this: http://www.feplanet.net/media/manga/1/2/111.png
See the Editor's Note. And there was more of that to come, oh yes. These are not isolated instances.
'Course they went straight in the end.
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:17 am (UTC)THIS WAS BEFORE MYUNIT COULD STOP PEOPLE FROM SEEING MARTH.
Maybe that's why Maric can't see Marth when MyUnit's around... MyUnit is jealous of the sparkles.
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:31 am (UTC)At the very least. At the VERY least.
'Course, in my comic!headcanon (as opposed to srsbzns!headcanon), while Marth loves Caeda very much and Merric loves Elice very much, the ladies know exactly what is going on during the guys' periodic "training expeditions," and said ladies kick back with a bottle of wine and have a giggle over it.
Manga contamination? Yep. Right from the text that gave us tactician!Matthis and I don't care.
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:36 am (UTC)I used to have headcanon for the anime but then I realised the anime was too much fail to try to wrap my head around properly. I just watched it for Midorikawa Hikaru. I am not ashamed.
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Date: 2011-01-28 12:06 pm (UTC)Now, were the anime developers privy to legit designers' notes from the games, and these details surfaced later in the remakes, or were Ascended Fanboys who enjoyed the anime working on FE12?
We may never know.
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:50 pm (UTC)I don't know either, but it'd be nice to find out. Maybe the anime developers worked side by side with the game developers? Or, as I said before, they said Sheeda + Girl = Cooking knowledge.
Not that all girls can cook and bake and sew. I can cook decently, I can't bake worth crap, and my hems are always crooked. My dad, on the other hand, could do all three wonderfully.
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:26 am (UTC)They drink in the manga. IIRC, Merric is a total lightweight. Though I suspect that's true for all three of them.
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:46 am (UTC)Oh, really? XD I'll have to check out the Akaneia manga sometime, if I can find it...I can't see Marth or Gordon holding their liquor very well myself. Damn, now I'm wondering about alcohol tolerance among FE characters...
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:52 am (UTC)Here's the extant English scanlation: http://www.feplanet.net/manga
I bought most of the hard-copy manga volumes-- off Aquantis, no less. Turns out she lives pretty close to me.
Damn, now I'm wondering about alcohol tolerance among FE characters...
Minerva could drink any of those boys under the table. Hell, Catria probably could drink them under the table.
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:59 am (UTC)Oh, cool. XD *bookmarks*
She does?! Holy crap, that's awesome. XD
Minerva could drink any of those boys under the table. Hell, Catria probably could drink them under the table.
...I'm picturing this right now, and it's a fun little mental image. XD Though I bet Sheema would be a close contender as well.
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