[ SECRET POST #2434 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2434 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[A7X]


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03.
[Stargate Atlantis]


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04.
[Merlin]


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05.
[Audrey Cooper, Twin Peaks]


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06.
[Fire Emblem: Awakening]


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07.
[Avril Lavigne, Tank Girl]


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08.
[Meet the Robinsons]


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09.
[Blood+]


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10.
[Monty Python's Flying Circus]


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11.
[Valentine Morgenstern, The Mortal Instruments]


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Comments

[fscom]

06. http://i.imgur.com/BxCKkVS.png
[Fire Emblem: Awakening]

[type_wild]

My only problem with Chrom is that I don't like him as much as I've liked the previous lords. Don't know why, though.

[fuusen]

I honestly feel that to make him appeal to everyone, the writers..
tried to put too much into his character and the traits don't mesh all that well? I've not been into FE before Awakening, but according to some he's a composite of previous lords in the series. With the plot and supports, he doesn't feel like a cohesive person.

I also only like a few out of his little support pool, so there's that.

[(Anonymous)]

This. He wants the "prince" appeal of Marth, plus the mercenary appeal of Ike, plus the zombie-slaying renegade appeal of Ephraim, all wrapped in a Sigurd color scheme and storyline. I really wanted to like him because I like all the main characters, but I just kept wishing he was any of the people he was trying so hard to be.

[(Anonymous)]

I really wanted to like him because I like all the main characters, but I just kept wishing he was any of the people he was trying so hard to be.

In a nutshell, this. I'm at a crossroads when it comes to Awakening. I love playing the game, fighting the risen and the potential world set up. Most would argue this point (and they probably will!) but where they'd say Robin/My Unit/Avatar was a weak point. I found Robin a better selling point, as a character, than Chrom.

The same goes for certain members of Chrom's Shepards (which they felt like a lesser appealing adaption of The Greil Mercenaries). I didn't have that sense of bonds between all of them as much as the game alluded to it. Robin was really the one running around, trying to learn everything about everybody, as both strategist and as a person, as it gave (to assign Robin a gender to avoid being vague) her a purpose. Even moreso when she's without memory of her years before joining the Shepards.

I'm conflicted about Lucina and the other children just as much, since without the First Generation... They wouldn't (though again, it's debatable) be as interesting from a story perspective since we'd lack what makes them appealing in the first place (death of their parents, the world on the brink of hell, etc).

I think that if they spent a little more time on the game, making more supports between connecting characters (to name a few, Flavia, Basilio, Olivia and Lon'qu, who're all from Regna Ferox, and they can't support?) and making the Final Five Paralogue chapters interconnect for backstory and even more supports outside of the Outrealm. The game could've easily competed with Tellius for this Anon.

They dropped the ball so hard on those last two points.

[chibichan]

Both comments have opened my eyes as to why I felt so 'meh' towards Chrom. I couldn't put my finger on it, but now I know! It's because he's trying to be all the other lords at the same time.

Thanks to both of you, anons!

[(Anonymous)]

None of the characters in the game really make any sense when you try to reconcile all the supports. They all seem written to be as generic as possible to avoid hiccups with the million possible pairing combinations.

[(Anonymous)]

You sure about that, anon? No matter what weird thing one learns about a character from a different support, at least it feels thing like it adds some sort of insight, positive and negative. Think of a somewhat uneven web.

Chrom in comparison, is like glitter paper mache over a balloon. The only thing underneath is the vague, airy concept "he's supposed to be a good person to look up to."

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, quite sure. I just can't rectify the idea that, say, Inigo as Chrom's son and prince of Ylisse is going to turn out the exact same as Inigo as wacky-weirdo mage Henry's son. Or that Henry who marries Cherche would speak to Gerome the same way Virion who marries Cherche would. (For a really good example, see Virion being appalled at Inigo's playboy antics without a scrap of self-reflection.) And yet, with only a few speech quirks and a small segment of actually unique conversations, the game expects me to believe just that. It makes sense that they'd do it that way considering the number of combinations, but for me it makes just about everyone seem like interchangeable archetypes. (And in some cases like the father conversations almost everyone is.)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, you were referring to the second generation and their parent-supports tha sometimes don't make sense. That, I can agree with.

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is Chrom from the videogame "Fire Emblem: Awakening". He is a young man with pale olive skin, short dark purple-grayish hair and dark gray eyes. He is wearing brown gloves, a dark shirt and pieces of armor. He is holding a large sword or lance and is leaning on it, with its blade down.]

Unlike a dozen past secrets with a similar mold, I do understand the love for Chrom. But if I ever took this game more seriously, I'm sure I'd dislike him.

[(Anonymous)]

I went into the game thinking I'd love him from what I'd seen. By the end I honestly hated his guts. It was really disappointing. I just feel like fandom sees "ooh hot guy" and latches onto him as a boyfriend for their avatars and that's where the appeal comes from. So I understand it, but can't get into it myself at all.

[(Anonymous)]

I think I'm kind of fond of him because he comes off as really unabashedly gay and also affectionate for all his friends and I like that the game doesn't really punish him for that, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

I really wish he was actually gay/bi because his supports with male Robin are about 50 times as romantic as female Robin. :(

[chibichan]

I wanted to like Chrom, but instead I felt very 'meh' towards him. He's just... a very generic character? As some other anons said, he's trying too hard to be a mix of the lords of the other FE games and he just... fails at it. I still like him as a unit to use in battle (but I like lords in general, so), but that's about it.

Also, am I the only one who doesn't like the marriage system in Awakening? Idk, it just feels... weird. I wouldn't mind so much if people had at least a pre-chosen partner that they ended up with if you saw all the support conversations (kind of like Harvest Moon), but anyone can just marry anyone... It feels to me like a giant mess.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the same way about the marriage system. There are an incredible amount of potential pairings and I ended up not feeling strongly about any of them, which is really weird for me in FE/