That Bro-King Business...

[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....

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[raphiael]

*dramatic flourishy bow*
I love this fandom.

Duessel: not king, but absolutely bro, yes?

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

Eh, Marth has Maric and Gordon. XD

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.

[hooves.livejournal.com]

I have no idea who Gheb even is. And I'm the one who filled the weird-ass disturbing troll prompt on the kink meme. SO WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT ME. Not sure I got far enough in the game? But maybe I did. IDEK.

[hooves.livejournal.com]

That broking stuff just cracks me up so bad. I don't know why. It's just that awesome!

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

YES

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Eh, Marth has Maric and Gordon. XD

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.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

@_@

@_@

-_-

*DIES*

[hooves.livejournal.com]

N-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! MARK!

*Casts resurrection*

[hooves.livejournal.com]

Wait you didn't expect that did you. DID YOU. My fill was a troll-fill anyway. If you didn't read it.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

*wakes up*

I am now officially terrified.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I sure did. I just had to see what someone had dared do with that prompt.

@_@

[hooves.livejournal.com]

Terrified of me not knowing who Gheb is, the prompt, the three-minute trollfic, or because you're now a zombie?

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't think any of them are the drinking type, but they could still share amusing stories? "Say, did I tell you about the time I mistook Marth for his sister in the dark?" "Maric!!" "Oops...I forgot no one was supposed to know that." "S-say, let's talk about the time we tried to beat Jeigan at cards!"

[raphiael]

Well, this is going to color my Shadow Dragon experience in a most hilarious way.
Hurray~

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Hahah. Yeah, that's more like it!

They drink in the manga. IIRC, Merric is a total lightweight. Though I suspect that's true for all three of them.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah. See, there's a manga adaptation... and in it, Merric runs around in this little short skirt... and is really, uh... focused on his dear friend Marth...

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.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

The three-minute trollfic, of course!

[raphiael]

Uhhhhmmmm. Oh wow.
I can't decide if this is "must see now for massive lulz" or "oh gawd do not want."

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

And then they start up a game of poker and flail as they try to discuss the ladies. "Well, I've always loved Elice, but Linda is cute too..." "Hey! I...I was gonna ask Linda out, Maric, don't go trying to ninja her away!" "Does she even know you?" "...well, we fight in the same army!" "Sheeda's the only one for me!" "So you and Princess Nina ARE just friends?" "GORDON!"

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...

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

http://www.feplanet.net/manga/1/2

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.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

LOL! Gotta admit, I'm warming up to Gordin/Linde, even if I do think he's crushing on George.

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.

[raphiael]

you're right, this does sound like FE8 *shot*

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

Gordon/Linda has crossed my mind a couple times, thanks to that one NSFW pic. I feel like Linda would be a cool match for quite a few guys...I found a fanart of her and George once, and I'm warming up to Maric/Linda. But yeah, Gordon definitely seems to have a thing for George.

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.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Hah.

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...

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

The moment you mentioned Maric in his skirt chasing after Marth, I immediately thought of Leaf and Asvel. XD

[raphiael]

S-so this is a precedent I should keep an eye out for? XD
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.

[sailorvfan10.livejournal.com]

*is totally going to write that now*

[sailorvfan10.livejournal.com]

as they think about their dear friendship.
"Friendship".

There are no sparkles in friendship! Sparkles happen in romance when they don't want anyone to know except the readers!

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

YAY~~~~

[sailorvfan10.livejournal.com]

I mean Marth and Elice could be twins, they look so much alike. And in the dark... Well, you can't see as well, soooo.

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

*steeples fingers*

You are more ruthless than I imagined, Ms. Manna.

Good. *Emperor face*

And Wallace has gotta be a bro.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah.

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.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Wind Mage Buddy is an established trope, yeah.

Making out with him is totally optional.

[sailorvfan10.livejournal.com]

Maybe they were just experimenting. It happens.

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.

[writerawakened.livejournal.com]

Gheb was a being of pure energy sent by Latona to test the patience and faith of man. Latona did this so that She may find one kind and selfless enough to love even the most detestable creature.

...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.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Maybe they were just experimenting. It happens.

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.

[sailorvfan10.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, they probably gossip over it too, and start bets and things too. Oh manga canon...

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.

[xirysa.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Wallacebro.

That is so terrifyingly awesome on so many levels.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

One odd thing about the anime is that some details in it do seem to gel with later developments in the canon. Frex, in one of the many scenes that Caeda is bawling Marth out, I think she mentions having put extra effort into cooking that night? (I think he was trying to skip out on dinner, but I'm not rewatching it to find out.) And then, come FE12, we find out that Caeda can cook.

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.

[sailorvfan10.livejournal.com]

Well I think their line of thinking was probably more like, "Sheeda is a girl, therefore, she knows how to cook!" (Marth wasn't skipping out on dinner, he heard people talking shit about him and his kingdom, and it left a bad taste in his mouth, so he was all :| about it and decided to leave to not be a burden, etc. etc. The fact that I remember that is amazing.)

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.