FE_Contest Time Again!
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mark_asphodel I wasn't going to enter this time, despite the wonderful "woman king" prompt from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xirysa , because a) 500-word limit? Moi? and b) the one idea I had dealt with a very obscure character about whom I already wrote back for Challenge 002!
Oh well. Have some more Yumina anyway. It's not like anyone else is writing about her, and I love her to bits.
Yumina and her brother Yubello are twins, but don't go thinking they're Eirika and Ephraim with golden hair. Yubello is a sweet little squishy mage (sickeningly cute in the reboot, too) while Yumina is a staff chick made out of steel. You know how healers tend to fall into two camps-- the gracious, gentle Lena/Ellen/Natasha types, and the, er, somewhat daft Melissa/Clarine/Serra/L'Arachel types?
Yumina is neither. She may be a princess, but the overriding vibe I get out of her is anger and frustration. Being orphaned, horrifically abused, kidnapped and sentenced to execution before your fourteenth birthday will do that to you. In the first chapter we encounter her, she's threatening to commit suicide... which, given that her guardian has just fallen on his own sword, is less a melodramatic threat and more an expression of intent.
The Grust kiddies, as I call them, are kind of problematic in FE3. It never says that Yubello actually is allowed to become King of Grust when he grows up... but it never says he gives up his birthright the way everyone else just hands their kingdom to Marth. The issue is left hanging, and I've played with it in various ways across various 'fics ("Another Piece of Blue," "A Dark-Adapted Eye," "The Golden Age"). I often portray Yubello as a pushover because... well, he is!
Yumina, on the other hand, is one hot little handful. And, given that the kiddies never, ever, bond with Marth (who failed to save them) and are eventually deprived of all their protectors (Lorenz, Ogma, Sirius), that leaves some very interesting political avenues to explore.
[I kind of crackship adult!Yumina with Ellerean because they'd have amazing destructive potential. Elly would actually be the more moderate of the two, IMO. Also, Marth/Yumina would be the political marriage from hell. Like, operatically awful.]
Anyway, this little 'fic doesn't get into all that. But I think I managed to say what I wanted to say in the word limit, which was nice.
xirysa , because a) 500-word limit? Moi? and b) the one idea I had dealt with a very obscure character about whom I already wrote back for Challenge 002!Oh well. Have some more Yumina anyway. It's not like anyone else is writing about her, and I love her to bits.
Yumina and her brother Yubello are twins, but don't go thinking they're Eirika and Ephraim with golden hair. Yubello is a sweet little squishy mage (sickeningly cute in the reboot, too) while Yumina is a staff chick made out of steel. You know how healers tend to fall into two camps-- the gracious, gentle Lena/Ellen/Natasha types, and the, er, somewhat daft Melissa/Clarine/Serra/L'Arachel types?
Yumina is neither. She may be a princess, but the overriding vibe I get out of her is anger and frustration. Being orphaned, horrifically abused, kidnapped and sentenced to execution before your fourteenth birthday will do that to you. In the first chapter we encounter her, she's threatening to commit suicide... which, given that her guardian has just fallen on his own sword, is less a melodramatic threat and more an expression of intent.
The Grust kiddies, as I call them, are kind of problematic in FE3. It never says that Yubello actually is allowed to become King of Grust when he grows up... but it never says he gives up his birthright the way everyone else just hands their kingdom to Marth. The issue is left hanging, and I've played with it in various ways across various 'fics ("Another Piece of Blue," "A Dark-Adapted Eye," "The Golden Age"). I often portray Yubello as a pushover because... well, he is!
Yumina, on the other hand, is one hot little handful. And, given that the kiddies never, ever, bond with Marth (who failed to save them) and are eventually deprived of all their protectors (Lorenz, Ogma, Sirius), that leaves some very interesting political avenues to explore.
[I kind of crackship adult!Yumina with Ellerean because they'd have amazing destructive potential. Elly would actually be the more moderate of the two, IMO. Also, Marth/Yumina would be the political marriage from hell. Like, operatically awful.]
Anyway, this little 'fic doesn't get into all that. But I think I managed to say what I wanted to say in the word limit, which was nice.
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Date: 2011-02-10 11:55 am (UTC)Mm, he has to kill an enemy he was hoping to save for the entire duration of the war (Marth's relationship with Hardin gave rise to the FE8 twins and Lyon, IMO).
Also, at one point in the game he's advised by the tactician to kill his own sister (which causes him to flip out) and if certain game conditions are not met, you'd BETTER kill Elice and the three other priestesses. However, if you do this, there are no consequences that I'm aware of in terms of the script or the character endings (other than dead characters stay dead).