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It's August 3rd in Japan.
In the new Fire Emblem there's gonna be an antisocial, brooding dark mage named Jarhat and she's gonna be obsessed with that angel player character regardless of gender.Trust me, my aunt works at Nintendo.
>>4585129This happened for real.
>>4585194These two really need more porn.
>>4585193It's happening in the episode two weeks from now so there may be more than the one second we've seen in the preview, like them still clinging to each other after the jumpscare. My favorite part in the full shot is that Navi is clinging to Uruto as well so the group looks like two couples and Roy as the odd one out.
Figured since I made a list of my favorite Pokemon couples for another thread, I'd post it here
>>4585438This is the third time this week, when the FUCK is Canari beating that new stage in Cafe Remix?
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Direct for Fortunes Weave announced for tomorrowPlease have some good news...
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>>4585129Wait, WHAT? Purple hair is a girl? I've avoided watching the Liko Pokemon anime because it's just Liko and then a sausage fest
>>4585807She's pretty androgynous but yeah.>it's just Liko and then a sausage festThe relevant cast has always skewed majority female by around two thirds actually. The core protagonist group started as two girls and a guy, then added a second guy and now a third girl. The vast majority of recurring characters taken from the games is female too, from SV they mainly used Nemona, Penny, Iono and Carmine while Arven and Kieran got two-second voiceless cameos.
>>4585807>>Wait, WHAT? Purple hair is a girl?I can understand the confusion, but /u/ hasn't even kept quiet about it in the general thread, especially the moments the two of them have together (not to mention that Liko's Pokémon openly show interest in her, the girls of course)>>4585817>>The relevant cast has always skewed majority female That's been the funny thing, especially when you realize that these people are actually important and even recurring characters.I also find it amusing how much unnecessary hate the series receives for not having Ash, even though those were the same people who stopped watching the anime altogether and only showed up when he became the great champion. Then there are the people who try to claim it's the worst season when PM was much worse. You know that season is bad when the anime not only ignores it but literally retcons the stupidest things. Erika's second appearance in Journeys is a slap in the face to her episode in PM, or even the appearance of the alien girl in Lt. Surge's gym.
Even though they didn't show it, FE Fortune Weave does have a FemC
>>4585862We already knew it. What we didn't know was them being the "true protagonist" pseudo Lucina fixing the bad end timeline. This can end up really badly (the story literally doesn't matter until the self-insert arrives to improve things and then won't matter in the end since it's probably a prequel), but I will keep from dooming too much.
>>4585871I agree, but at the end of the day, who even plays fire emblem for the story anymore?With all games in the series so far I've seen enough '(hidden) band of villains wants to take over the world, gotta gather the collectibles and stop them!' to last me a lifetime; even the gameplay is same old, same old.All that matters to me at this point is whether you can pair females party members with each other, sans self-insert.
Did /u/ watched Fortune Weave presentation?Did /u/ rike it.
>>4585892I for one, cannot believe they added a playable lesbian sex minigame
>>4585892Not yet. I have the game preordered because it was 70€ physical for a bit on Amazon but I may cancel it before release depending on how I feel then. I've been playing Fire Emblem since 7 but I've come to realize I've never enjoyed the series that much aside from Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn.
>>4585892I'm not gonna lie the "avatar is the actual important protagonist" bit is making me deeply uncomfortable because this just means the plot can go Fates/Engage levels of sideways.On the other hand the "Theodora and Leda can support each other" icon from previous trailers wasn't just an red herring so having all the girls in one big ass army able to support each other is massively improving the support potential.
y can't Intelligent Systems make decent graphics???
>>4585926you're playing nintendo
>>4585892I didnt watch it because I was at work and the little discussions I browsed on the other boards just left me confusedSo you always get to play the Avatar? Eshmel or something? But you start off at the "end" and you can help all four lords? And then you get sent back in time and choose one Lord specifically to make sure they dont end up in a Bad End?Or do you not get to play Eshmel early on and you only get to play the player character when you time travel?
>>4585927Dimishing returns are in full force by now, stuff like Star Fox 2026 could not look better. Sticking to fantasy anime style, games like Monster Hunter Stories 3 and Xenoblade Genesis look awesome. Fortune's Weave just looks like a less fuzzy Three Houses, and that game looked like complete ass. I think they could do way better on the hardware.
>>4585862its a crime we're in 2026 and the "default" player character in big trailers in so many games is still the m*** one
>>4585937Xenoblade Genesis looks pretty mediocre.
So is Theodora Edelgard 2?
>>4586007Forget the story, who actually looks better with Eshmel?
>>4586007She is Rhea painted brown.
>>4585943I'm genuinely sad no character on the cover is randomly upside down.
Is it true that Edelgard got killed in canon after 3H?
>>4586043Yup
>>4586059>>4586043Retards
>>4586043Edelgard died at the age of 120 after 100 years happy marriage to sensei Byleth
>>4586071Guessing she didn't became immortal just like Rhea. It would be insane if she did.
>>4586043>>4586059>>4586064>>4586071>>4586080This takes place in some corner of the world far away from Fodlan, probably so they don't have to commit to one ending or another.
>>4586071>>4586223Here lies Edelgard, She Never Scored
>>4586071What are the chances they ever had children together?
>>4586238One of the characters profiles says that he hails from the distant land of Fodlan, see that as however you want.
>>4586223It's weird. They show Sothis as older, and Dietrich is supposedly from a non-existent Fodlan noble house that somehow got a crest that was originally owned by two other houses that have become extinct by the time of TH itself.
>>4586258Someone on /v/ hinted Dietrich might be related toMercedes and Annette kid. Explain that to me huh?
>>4586274Didn't know they banged. Cool, I guess.
>>4586043Looks more like it's based on Three Hopes
I really, really hope that Fortune's Weave finally gives us what I, for one, have been wanting out of Fire Emblem for years: the chance to have an all-female force. Give me my army of lesbians without me having to use mods to build it, dammit.
>>4586259>non-existent Fodlan houseHouse Lamine is already extinct by the time of 3H, that's why its crest continues through the Martritz family and both Jeritza and Mercedes inherited the Lamine crest through their mother. I think people are relying way too much on Sothis's physical appearance to be indicative of anything other than her actual ability to project power, especially with how much every Fodlanverse game involves fucking with time. She's basically an ascended 4 dimensional entity at this point and her child appearance was more her just being limited in her abilities and memory rather than something that ages conventionally.It also would account for Answerer not existing during 3H. Edelgard mentions outside of Faerghus already being way more militarized and having more manpower to deploy even before the Church of Seiros throws its knights in with them, the biggest disadvantage in direct combat is that the empire has far less crest bearers and can only rely on sacred weapons, hence why she needed Aymr made. If they knew where Answerer was they'd probably have a dedicated task force to try to find it and get it into the hands of Jeritza.
Shit I don't really remember any of 3H lore because I only did the Edeleth route.There's supposed to be hidden technology and nuclear missiles and shit?
>>4586374Yeah basically. Every FE setting has some magical "super highly developed civilization then some dragon shit happened and it died so everybody lives like medieval knights" except this is the only FE that actually does shit with it like the missiles and the giant robots.
>>4586377It's honestly funny if you consider FE1/Gaiden and Awakening being the same setting, meaning the entire world was stuck in perpetual medieval times for 2000 years.
>>4586423Medieval stasis/dark ages nonsense is so popular in fantasy mostly as a brainless way to keep your chivalrous paladins from getting moved down by some dumbfucks with a rifle (also completely ignoring how actual early firearms worked).
>>4586423Even longer since FE4/5 take place in the same setting and FE4/5 takes place roughly a thousand years before FE1. This is one of those "writers don't understand scale" things where they just say thousands of years so they don't have to commit to anything real and then not really wrap their heads around the longterm implications.There's 300 years between the fall of the Roman Empire and Charlemagne being crowned. Then 300 more years to William the Conqueror and then a thousand years after that, from the Battle Hastings to us shitposting on a Mongolian basket weaving forum about anime lesbians.Shit, Zelda and Metroid are celebrating their 40th anniversaries this year. NES games are 40 years old. ASOIAF at least got this, with House of the Dragon taking a century after the big legendary first king Aegon's conquest, and then Game of Thrones 200 years afterwards, with all the big events just barely out of living memory but still having concrete consequences.3H kinda justifies it with the church fucking with technological and scientific development and then here in Dagda during FW where the dragon people are still living out in the open you have robots and people with guns and shit. Meanwhile during 3H you don't see the robots until you go spelunking in slitherland or when Rhea is up against the wall and brings out the robots she named after Wilhelm.
>>4586007Only statwise; it looks like she's supposed to be the tanky powerhouse of the four but also doesn't have Edelgard's "basically good at everything" mag/res flexibility and who can basically slot well into any class that uses a sword, axe or black magic. Will probably just focus on stabbing shit really well and chucking rocks at people.Edelgard is too much a perfect raging storm of a character and honestly I think people are going to be cynical if they try to overtly rehash it. Way forward is just making female MCs
>>4586441>accidentally hit fucking postWay forward is just making female lords not passive nonentities in the plot.
>>4586441wait i thought theodora is the bard girl
one thing to note is edelgard doesnt "look" like a melee powerhouse at a glancethat's also what makes her appealing
>>4586452couldn't possibly give less of a shit about that honestly. FE units love being retarded and nonsensical so a skinny midget like her being a melee powerhouse has never been surprising when she's not even the first.
>>4586452Edelgard is a design masterpiece but sometimes you just want the tall dark Amazon with 24 pack abs and a toned body in a battle bikini
>>4586466I’m a practical personI go where the flagship is and I’m skeptical the amazon will take the lead when the bard will probably be the one attracting most of the content creators
>>4586471Leda's the obvious most popular one and her having a designated rival in her starting army is yuri heroin but this game is actually actively encouraging everyone to engage with every lord so I think it helps to play a big spread. You could even end up with a surprise like how Petra won't marry a female Byleth but will marry Dorothea.
>>4585817>The relevant cast has always skewed majority female by around two thirds actually.Oh really? You'll have to excuse the ignorance since almost everything I know about Liko anime comes from /vp/. Which, now looking back at it, probably wasn't the most trustworthy of information.>>4585859>I can understand the confusion, but /u/ hasn't even kept quiet about it in the general threadI don't even remember the last time I actually visited the general thread. Wow, well these two responses have completely turned around my stance on watching Liko anime. I'm glad I dropped by, thanks.
I need the FE:FW fanart to pour in now that we've seen FemEshmel
>>4586641I'm not really putting too much stock on Eshmel and Byleth being related in any way but I like that one of Ishmael's likes is "small nameless flowers" which is what Edelgard calls herself in Edge of Dawn.Anyway Edeleth already had the whole feral autistic teacher/ambitious ace class leader student vibe built in. I think people are waiting to see exactly what the dynamic between Eshmel and the lords are, if there'll be anything more than Pokemon trainer and pokemon, but like the humans are the pokemon and the trainer is a bird.
>>4586455Not entirely true within Fire Emblem. Beefy classes usually were also depicted by beefy/heavily armored characters. Compare Edelgard with Hector who is likewise an immovable wall of NO DAMAGE.
>>4586651What's Eshmel even supposed to be? Some sorta angel of Sothis?
>>4586674The armored ladies exist on a different axis than the armored dudes, sadly, so it's not a great point of comparison. Of the handful of lady armors we've gotten, most are skinny bitches, and the one with the most body mass is probably Meg.
>>4586675Yes, she's an angel sent by Sothis to help save the people from the doomed future. The comparisons to Lucina seem very warranted.
>>4586778>mc is an angel>guns in the trailerYou all thinking...what I'm thinking....
>>4586860I'm an angel with a shotgun, fighting 'til the war's wonI don't care if heaven won't take me backI'll throw away my faith, babe, just to keep you safeDon't you know you're everything I have?
>>4586887Fucking hell onee-san, I won't forgive you for making me read that. I wasn't ready for the sudden throwback.
>>4586887>>4586901It actually fits insanely well with what we know of the premise of the storyEven the part where Eshmel ultimately does something "wrong" against Sothis' orders/guidance just to save her love and as a result "heaven wont take her back" could very well happenI'm actually starting to think I'm hyping myself to be disappointed now.
>>4586912Totally agree. I actually wrote a pre-release fic (as I did with Three Houses several eons ago) with something relatred to this as its premise. I just really, really hope we don't get smacked in the face with a Teutates Pike of disappointment if the game does end up not living up to the hype.
>>4587234You're getting Engage writing with further Treehouse lobotomizing. I'm sorry.
>>4587250Romhacks will save us in the worst-case scenario. Drums of War's sequel is coming along nicely from what I've heard.
>>4587253>Romhacks will save usI wish FE games never got full voice acting, at least for support conversations, now we can never get stuff like Gay Awakening or Gay Fates again, and those mopped the floor with with any timid effort by Nintendo to be marginally more inclusive.
>first Eshmel-associated unit is literally just Chinese EdelgardYou know if Theodora and Leda get good yuri pairings with non-avatar characters, the calculus might just work itself out.
>>4588228Don't know about Theodora but Leda already has one
>>4588229Girls having a support chain, having a paired ending and an actual paired yuri ending are three different things.
>>4588231Well unless they haven't learned anything from Engage and try pandering solely to self inserters they'll probably have one and at this point I don't think they'd be scared to commit
>>4588228>Chinese EdelgardThe name even translates to Crimson Flower.
>>4588239I get what you're saying but I don't think Engage was specifically pandering to self-inserters inasmuch as it was just Intelligent Systems trying to de-emphasize OC supports vs engaging with the past FE characters to the point they didn't even bother trying to write better supports or variable endings. You could maybe leverage this accusation at FE6 for how much it was just rehashing FE1/3 and then stapling the "only Roy gets paired endings" shit to it.Engage is lazy and taking what people like about Fire Emblem for granted, not malicious and insidious in the way something like how nobody in a Persona game has a life with agency independent of the MC.
I love Edeleth in every universe
>>4588228Who what
>>4588841Her. She even has Byleth's autistically blank stare.
>>4588869To be fair, putting aside her horrifically traumatic past, Edelgard was at a rich military academy surrounded by luxury. Cookie is dragging Eshmel's artificial ass across an apocalyptic hellscape filled with zombies. No time for tea parties.
>>4589120Still funny her name translates into Red/Crimson Flower.
>>4588869I know nothing about the characters but I already want to ship her with Leda.
>>4589120>>4588869I'm not sure if I'm seeing what I'm suppose to be seeingFor me it's Eshmel x Leda for now until we actulaly learn the story
With the reveal that FW's reimagined tea parties as "Bird Time," I assume that any Eshmel/past timeline character ship is to be problematic due to implied zoophilia.
I'm on phone, but still take this crudely censored support list
>>4589447So is Mu and other people gonna get like an older version or we just gonna assume Mu went into malnourished Auschwitz mode
>>4589259There's nothing really to see. Her name is literally Crimson Flower and she has dark hair, purple eyes and a red color and flower motif like Edelgard. It's basically rehashing Edelgard without committing to a specific 3H link or plot. None of the saint crests have been seen in Fortune's Weave (besides Seteth for obvious reasons) while all the elite crests are there.
>>4589448Everybody will be off-screen dead or a recolored corrupted monster in the bad future before (you) fix things by probably teleporting the cast straight from the end point of their routes.
>Leda literally having a kill list where every name is strike out with the victims bloodBased
I wonder if it's possible to permadeath all the males so you can have an all-female squad.
>>4589482I was a bit afraid that since the guy she's trying to kill seems to be decent, they were going to tone her down so they do a 'no harm no foul' when she inevitably has to learn her lesson and forgive him, but she still seems to be really vicious and I'm looking forward to seeing where they go with her.
Stolen from Reddit. It apparently says she likes pretty girls.
>>4589500>>4589482This is the good stuff that (usually) gets artists going
>>4589500Don't get your hopes up for the Treehouse "localization":>Profile: she/them, iguana enthusiast>Likes: iguanas, painting iguanas, reading about iguanas
>>4589500It's unfair to hold something against IS for something they made 10 years ago, and they've more than made up for it, but I still remember that this is the company that made Soleil. I still have that slightest bit of fear in me.
>>4589447>>4589500I hope there's a scene where she hits on Theodora.
>>4589502Yeah Path of Radiance had such retarded writing it was embarrassing.
>>4589502This is a stupid comment and you know it.
>>4589517Recruitment quotes: >I "guana" work with you!Battle taunts:>You're looking GREEN today!>Don't hurt me, I'm an herbivore!Death quotes:>If only I could have detached my tail to escape...
>>4589518>Feel the full scale of my power
>>4589514JP>Black Knight: Uuuuh my teleportation powder malfunctioned and only warped my spirit out.EN>Black Knight: I let you win because I saw the potential to surpass Greil in you.Treehouse used to be good.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/148421874
>>4589628Yeah chest compressions are so sexy
>>4589497Every gameplay demo clip has 3H-sized deployments and getting the lords on board with Esh is optional you probably don't even need to kill off anyone you probably just need to get an A-list squad of 10 female units which you're already pretty much halfway there with a female Eshmel, Hong Hua and the two female lords, and after that initial 10, 5-6 flexible/spare ones which is already doable with the huge number of playable characters we've seen.
RIP Brigette another Pokemon NPC design set to be lost to the ages
>>4589859Not me, I own a Gamecube copy of Pokemon Box.
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p cute
>>4590199You can tell the artist is sincere about this because they didn't draw Hex Maniac with gigantic tits.
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>>4591243AZ didn't die so two girls could lez out in his hotel.
Bit on the nose with this one, IntSys.
>>4591276All men should die for the sake of lezzing out.
Dovefucking for posterity.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/148644562
>playing Duskbloods and only accepting Sigil of Love proposals from female characters while playing female characters
>>4592326Based.
>>4592602Not only does this have a male, he's literally eating her pussy. Yuri doesn't just mean 2 women exist
>>4592619Just report and move on he's posting in every thread in the catalog. You think he's actually looking at what he's posting?
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>>4593299>>4593301I love these two OP dorks.
>artists reactivating like yuri fanart sleeper agents the closer we get to FW's release
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