Ooh. Now I need to disengage my original views on him from the post-Raphi-meta ones.
Keeping in mind that I played Eirika's route first...
1) I think he's great. I think he's a fine balance of the "princely" type of FE protagonist and the "badass" type (Alm-->Hector-->Ike), which makes sense... given he's born a prince but thinks he wants to be a mercenary. I like that he's an adult, I like that he takes the initiative and is a capable commander... but he's far from perfect with his "don't need books" attitude and general recklessness... which means he needs foils like Seth and Innes, which just adds to the fun. And a lot of his dialogue makes me go "right on!" I think he's likely to make a fine king, and frankly I'd rather have Ephraim leading my nation than almost any other FE main character (Eliwood's fine, too). On the negative side, his personal life is pretty sketchy.
2) Based off canon, Ephraim/L'Arachel. Eph/Tana is one of my major Do Not Like pairings because I think their supports are ghastly. I have a fairly well-advertised fondness for Ephraim/Kyle, though.
3) Oh, his non-romantic OTP has got to be Eirika. And if not her, then Myrrh.
4) Unpopular opinions... what's the popular opinion on him at present? I take issue with the stance that he's bland and generic. He looks like he came off the FE Lord cookie-cutter conveyor belt... at first glance, anyway... but IS did some pretty interesting things with Ephraim in his route for the game, and unless someone shows me notes from IS that prove otherwise, I think Ephraim was used as a template for the massive retconning that Marth got in FE11.
5) The Tana supports. Oh, god, the Tana supports. When I feel a game is shoving a pairing at me and the "courtship" is that horrible... no. No. NO!
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Date: 2011-04-19 04:20 am (UTC)Keeping in mind that I played Eirika's route first...
1) I think he's great. I think he's a fine balance of the "princely" type of FE protagonist and the "badass" type (Alm-->Hector-->Ike), which makes sense... given he's born a prince but thinks he wants to be a mercenary. I like that he's an adult, I like that he takes the initiative and is a capable commander... but he's far from perfect with his "don't need books" attitude and general recklessness... which means he needs foils like Seth and Innes, which just adds to the fun. And a lot of his dialogue makes me go "right on!" I think he's likely to make a fine king, and frankly I'd rather have Ephraim leading my nation than almost any other FE main character (Eliwood's fine, too). On the negative side, his personal life is pretty sketchy.
2) Based off canon, Ephraim/L'Arachel. Eph/Tana is one of my major Do Not Like pairings because I think their supports are ghastly. I have a fairly well-advertised fondness for Ephraim/Kyle, though.
3) Oh, his non-romantic OTP has got to be Eirika. And if not her, then Myrrh.
4) Unpopular opinions... what's the popular opinion on him at present? I take issue with the stance that he's bland and generic. He looks like he came off the FE Lord cookie-cutter conveyor belt... at first glance, anyway... but IS did some pretty interesting things with Ephraim in his route for the game, and unless someone shows me notes from IS that prove otherwise, I think Ephraim was used as a template for the massive retconning that Marth got in FE11.
5) The Tana supports. Oh, god, the Tana supports. When I feel a game is shoving a pairing at me and the "courtship" is that horrible... no. No. NO!