Fire Emblem: Fates liveplay! (inactive)

[sincere]

Shut up.

I don't think people livestream Nintendo 3DS without equipment and expensive/obnoxious jury rigging, so, screw that, even if I wanted to. I will update this post throughout playing on my commentary etc.


Currently: Chapter 17

Support threads link for my reference

Comments

[sincere]

Your phone is super into her.

Ooh! I currently know nothing about her other than that she's mysterious, so I look forward to finding out more. I personally resist that pairing because you know how I am about Main... uh... Main Character/Main Female, and Azura is featured very main female-edly in the artwork. But I certainly see where it is coming from because I am not blind, and I'm interested in their relationship. Even if their C support was practically a placeholder

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The thing about Fire Emblem supports is, I have a lot of difficulty deriving legit ships from them since they're: three conversations → boom, married... plus, often times, the S-rank scenes are so sappy and abrupt that they give me incredible secondhand embarrassment. So if I want to ship something, I have to get my interaction elsewhere! That's how Awakening sold me on Sumia/Chrom, even though she had a much better support with Gaius. (RP changed my mind later, when I played Lucina for two years and ended up with an Olivia family for her.)

But Azura has a lot going on and their interaction is deeper than their support! I'm only into it on the lady-lady side, though. Dude Corrin can sit and spin.

[sincere]

I 100% agree, actual interaction is waaaay superior than the support scenes in determining shippiness. But so few of the eventual pairings have literally any canon interaction, so I do judge compatibility to some extent on the supports -- even though in the case of a pair with real canon interaction, like Corrin and Azura, it would mostly be tonal.

But that's exactly how I felt about the S scenes. In FE:A I would watch every S scene I unlocked and then say, "No, that feels like it comes out of fucking nowhere and it's forced and OOC." Then I would reload! I tried to go for pairs where the S support was IC and engaging. Like, Lon'qu and Miriel were like, a super random pairing, but I felt like their supports... supported the S rank conclusion instead of it abruptly just being "By the way, everything that happened was because of my feelings for you! Which are just -- the strongest! Here is a ring so we can marry, my dearest love."

No thank you, please try to have some sort of natural flow

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Yeah, which is why I've more or less given up shipping in Fire Emblem! Except for a few outliers that break the mold but, even then, I have to kind of... ignore the S-rank scene because jesus christmas this is gross.