Fire Emblem Engage has been pretty fun so far. I'm on chapter 12 now, I've played it for (according to my save file) 25-26 hours. The worst part is managing all my monetary resources, though. It's impossible to gain resources in game. Especially money. It's so hard to gain money. I don't know how I'm supposed to grind for money, and that frustrates me even more than everything else. More than my paranoia about overleveling, more than my annoyance at not having any B level alear supports, more than anything else.
How am I supposed to grind money in this game!! In Three Houses, I could easily grind whilst also getting lots of gold via things like bullions and whatever. But that's not exactly an option in Engage, so I don't know how I'm supposed to train and level up and maintain a cash flow while dealing with all this! I hate it.
It's also hard to gain alear's supports with people, for some reason. I'm on chapter 12 and I still only have C supports for Alear. I don't know how other people get the supports, and I'm baffled by how much easier it was for me to get Byleth's supports in Three Houses. It's baffling to me, and it's kind of frustrating.
Hello I wanted to ask you if you had by any chance translated Alear and Anna's support conversations ? As you might know this one is quite controversial and I wanted to see how it was in the original version
Thank you for your hard work
I've talked in general about Alear's Ring supports and the changes to the convos with under-18 characters, and talked in detail about a few in particular (like Etie in Etie's peronality post). But I don't think I've detailed Anna's Ring support before now.
In short, the Japanese Ring conversation had Alear and Anna discuss that Anna is too young to enter a romantic relationship right now, so they can exchange the necklace and Pact Ring as friends and business partners until Anna is older. The localization tweaks their dialogue to have them be only friends and business partners, removing the lines about them potentially having a romantic relationship in the future. Their support convos are otherwise pretty closely translated from the Japanese.
For those who want to see the full details, I translated all 4 Alear / Anna supports, from C - Ring! The convos were straightforward and it was easy to work up a full translation. They are queued to post next week, so keep an eye out for them then.
Started playing Fates again after getting it before the eShop shutdown and...
Has anybody written a support chain for Camilla and Azura yet? Doesn’t matter if it’s C-S or C-A; I just want to see them talking about their history and (possibly) what life was like for the younger Nohrian nobles. If anyone has, I would love to read it because I feel like it was a HUGE missed opportunity in the main game, especially with Camilla talking about it after she’s recruited in Revelations Chapter 12...
Edit: I have found their fan-made support. Thanks to
Time for one last chunk of Supports with the old Hoshidans before we get a bunch of new ones.
Support: Corrin/Saizo
C: Saizo spies on Corrin because she's a royal from the country they're at war with.
B: Corrin, exhausted from looking over her back to check for Saizo, has trouble moving boxes. Saizo sneaks up and carries the boxes for her, because he's honorable.
A: Corrin gives Saizo candy, which he despises. Saizo tells her that he's done spying on her, because she's so fucking stupid that she couldn't possibly be scheming anything. Corrin decides that the two of them are friends, much to Saizo's chagrin.
S: Saizo says he fell in love with Corrin while stalking her.
Review: Overall, pretty decent. Saizo stalking Corrin and Corrin just shouting at him to get him to come out is fun.
Support: Kaze/Sakura
C: Kaze finds Sakura crying because she lost her doll. Sakura is embarrassed, but Kaze understands that it's important to her and helps her look.
B: Kaze helps Sakura find her doll, which was taken to a shop for repairs by Subaki. Sakura pretends she doesn't sleep with the doll.
A: Sakura shows Kaze all of her dolls, one for each of her siblings.
S: Sakura asks Kaze to see her as a woman, not a child, because she's an adult with a woman's feelings. Something contradicted by the rest of this Support.
Review: This one is cute. Sakura acts like a kid and Kaze is nice to her, treating her lost doll as serious. I’d really like this one, if it didn’t remind me that Sakura is a child soldier who marries much older men.
Support: Jakob/Setsuna
C: Setsuna falls into a pit. Jakob sarcastically asks Setsuna if she's having fun, which tricks her into wanting to stay in the pit.
B: Setsuna falls into another pit. Jakob makes fun of her.
A: Jakob falls into a trap himself and begs Setsuna for help; Setsuna tries to help him out but falls in too.
S: Jakob decides to babysit Setsuna to keep her from falling into pits, an excuse to spend more time with her. The two of them get married.
Review: As I’ve stated previously, Jakob and Setsuna are my favorite characters. Jakob’s dry snark pairs nicely with Setsuna’s stupidity. My only complaint is that it isn’t quite as funny as I hoped and Jakob is a bit of a dick.
Support: Azura/Hayato
C: Hayato asks Azura to tell him about all the places she's seen while traveling the world. She says no and Hayato monologues that she's hiding something.
B: Azura apologizes for being closed off, explaining that her childhood wasn't very happy. With a little more prodding, she describes several beautiful things she saw as a kid.
A: Azura describes more places and thanks Hayato for helping her remember the good times in her past.
S: Hayato proposes to Azura, saying they can visit all of those nice places together. Azura says turns him down and says she'd rather just be friends. Despite this, the two get married and have a kid immediately after this scene.
Review: Not bad, although it does raise one question: how much traveling did Azura do before her mother and her arrived in Nohr? I assumed it wasn’t too much travel, and that it happened when she was very young, but apparently not. I suppose she could be talking about traveling done later, but she was mostly confined to the castle in both of her later homes.
Support: Felicia/Ryoma
C: Felicia, wanting to be friends with Ryoma for Corrin's sake, makes Ryoma rice balls. They contain dark chocolate, which makes Ryoma gag.
B: Felicia tries again, this time filling them with massive lumps of salt.
A: Felicia, on Ryoma's suggestion, makes a Nohrian dish: sandwiches. As a child who watched Pokemon as a kid, this confuses me, because I thought sandwiches and riceballs were the same thing. Surprisingly, the sandwich is good.
S: Felicia and Ryoma eat together, her making sandwiches and him rice balls. Ryoma proposes because Felicia is cute.
Review: A simple, but cute Support.
Support: Oboro/Silas
C: Silas tries to befriend Oboro, but she turns him away because she despises Nohrians to the point of wanting to kill Silas for just existing.
B: Silas, after finding out about Oboro's parents, apologizes to her. She threatened to commit a hate crime, so I think she should be the one apologizing, but whatever. Oboro says she's cool with Silas now apparently because they fought together. Silas tells her that lots of Nohrians are good people, which Oboro kinda accepts but not really.
A: After Silas saves a Hoshidan village from Nohrian bandits off-screen, Oboro asks him if he only did it to prove his loyalty. Silas explains that he's a decent goddamn person, in less harsh words.
S: Oboro apologizes for being awful. Silas proposes and Oboro accepts.
Review: Yeah, this one isn’t great. Oboro is at her most awful here, and the game really doesn’t treat her harshly for that, with Silas treating her as just being misguided. Like, Oboro flat out says she wants to murder Silas for his race and he just shrugs it off. Oboro is a shitty person. And this problem is compounded by the fact that Nohr is constantly played as cartoonishly evil and Hoshido as unquestionably good, meaning that Oboro’s bullshit is somewhat justified by the narrative.
Support: Hinata/Mozu
C: Hinata, scammed by a pretty shopkeeper, pays way too much for supplies. Mozu explains that he needs to haggle.
B: Mozu teaches Hinata to haggle by figuring out people’s personalities.
A: Hinata says that haggling is like fighting.
S: Hinata asks Mozu out because she taught him to look at people differently.
Review: Not bad.
Support: Hana/Takumi
C: Takumi finds Hana training early in the morning. Hana suggests they train together, like they did when they were younger, and Takumi runs away.
B: Takumi reveals he stopped training with Hana after she kicked his ass in front of Sakura. He claims that it was because he held back to avoid beating up his sister's best friend, but I prefer the idea that Takumi got beat up by a child then ran away and never fought her again.
A: Hana swears that she'll protect Takumi to restore her honor. Takumi tells her to focus on protecting Sakura, because Hana really cares about her.
S: Hana reports in everytime she defends Sakura as an excuse to talk to Takumi. Takumi says he likes her too.
Review: A fairly bland Support, all things considered. The stuff about Hana wanting to protect Sakura is fine, but other than that it's fairly mediocre.
Support: Azama/Kagero
C: Azama asks about Kagero's clothing. Kagero tells Azama to fuck off.
B: Azama tries talking to Kagero. She puts a knife to his throat and tells him to never talk to her again.
A: Kagero says she should probably do research into ninja clothes.
S: Kagero explains that ninja clothes are good for stealth. Azama says he likes her.
Review: This one went from zero to one hundred really fast. And I’d call Kagero out for being insanely violent when Azama did nothing to her, but I’ve read his other Supports. Threatening to kill him if he talks to you is completely reasonable. Still, this one completely fails to be a romantic Support line.
Support: Ryoma/Silas
C: Ryoma asks about Corrin's childhood in Nohr. Silas explains that they played together as kids. Ryoma tells Silas to stay with Corrin, because it's important for her to have friends.
B: Silas confides that he was a lonely, isolated child before meeting Corrin. Ryoma and Silas bond over their mutual love of Corrin.
A: Silas swears a blood oath out of their respect for each other.
Review: Not bad. I especially like that this is the only Silas Support thus far to actually give a good reason for Silas’s loyalty. Him being a lonely kid with Corrin as his only friend is a great bit of characterization that should have been mentioned in their Support.
(I’m rewriting his supports with Raphael but not Marianne because his support chain with Marianne is perfect)
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Raphael - Rewritten
C - Support
Raphael: Thirty-one! Thirty-two!
Dimitri: Ah, is that Raphael?
*Dimitri enters the training ground to see Raphael exercising*
Raphael: Heya Your Highness! You here to train with me?
Dimitri: Actually I’m here on cleaning duty. And please, call me Dimitri.
Raphael: Heh, sure thing Dimitri! But since you’re here, you wanna train? Maybe have a sparring match? I always wondered how I’d stack up against you. Muscle strength vs. Crest strength. Let’s go!
Dimitri: Heh, heh. You know, Raphael, I’ve always admired you.
Raphael: Eh? Me?
Dimitri: Your work ethic and your drive. It’s... admirable.
Raphael: Well, I don’t really have much of a choice. I’ve gotta become a Knight. It’s the only way I can support my little sister.
Dimitri: And an admirable goal to boot. I’d say you already have the heart of a Knight Raphael.
Raphael, rubbing the back of his neck: aw, come on Dimitri. You’re gonna make me blush. Now, how about we have that match!
Dimitri: Very well, let us go!
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B - Support
*note: this support only becomes available after the Paralogue : Death Toll*
Raphael: Ah, that was one fine meal!
Dimitri, off to the side: Ahem.
Raphael: I really outta thank the Kitchen Staff. They really went the extra mile on this one.
Dimitri: Ahem!
Raphael: Aha! I’ll cook for them this time and-
Dimitri: AHEM!
Raphael: Huh? Oh, hey Dimitri! Didn’t see you there! Are you hungry? I could order another meal from the kitchen.
Dimitri: No, Raphael. I actually wished to have a word with you.
Raphael: Oh. Okay! What’s up buddy?
Dimitri: Raphael... you loved your parents did you not?
Raphael: Huh? Course I did.
Dimitri: Then why, pray tell, are you allowing their deaths to go unavenged?!
Raphael: Huh? My parents were killed by monsters Dimitri. There’s not much to avenge there.
Dimitri: I am referring to Count Gloucester.
Raphael: Oh. That.
Dimitri: How can you stand knowing that the man responsible for their deaths is still alive?! How can you have any thought other than bringing them justice?!
Raphael: Hey, there’s no real proof he did anything! And besides, if I went running out there for revenge there’s a good chance I’d get killed. And then who’d look after my sister and grandpa?
Dimitri: So you are willing to let your parents’ deaths go unanswered to save your own hide?
Raphael: Look, Dimitri, I don’t know why you’re so upset, but I’ll tell it to you square. I’ve got people I love. People I’ve gotta look after. And I’m not about to make them lose even more by going and getting myself killed. If my parents do care about what I do now, they’d want me to look after what I’ve got left.
Dimitri: I was wrong about you Raphael. You are a coward.
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Post-Timeskip
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A - Support
*note: this Support is only available after the Battle of Gronder Field*
Raphael, watering plants: There we go, all nice and watered! Drink up and you’ll grow big and strong!
*Dimitri enters the greenhouse*
Raphael: Oh! Hey Dimitri! You’re looking better.
Dimitri: Yes. I’m feeling better as well.
Raphael: I see that! You smell better too. You took a shower?
Dimitri: Ah-hah! Yes. The Professor insisted.
Raphael: I’m glad you’re doing better Dimitri. You were pretty scary there for awhile. Glad you’re back to normal.
Dimitri: Normal... I’m not sure what normal is anymore Raphael. I’m trying to be better, though. Better than what I was.
Raphael: Well, whatever you’re doing, it’s working for ya.
Dimitri: Indeed... Raphael... I wanted to apologize. For what I said.
Raphael: Huh? For what?
Dimitri: What I said to you before the war, when I called you a coward. That was wrong. I was wrong.
Raphael: Really? I’d practically forgotten about it all. Thanks, though!
Dimitri: … That’s it? You can forgive me that easily?
Raphael: Why not? You apologized.
Dimitri: Yes but, I was so cruel to you! I said such awful things.
Raphael: Hey, Dimitri, it’s okay. It was five years ago anyway. We’re buddies again now, so let’s put it behind us!
Dimitri: Heh, ha, a-hahaha! You truly are one of a kind Raphael. I wish I were half that man you are.
Raphael: What? But we’re the same height. I guess I might be a little taller than you...
Dimitri: Nevermind, my friend. Now, how about we get something to eat. You must be starving.
Raphael: Alright! Let’s go!
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A+ - Support
Raphael, in the Archbishop’s Garden: Heya Dimitri! Didn’t expect to see you here.
Dimitri: Raphael. I’m surprised to see you up here... stargazing? I didn’t know you practiced that hobby.
Raphael: Nah, my little sister does though. I like to stare up sometimes I think that she’s looking up at the same stars I am.
Dimitri: I see... Raphael, I have a question for you.
Raphael: Eh? Sure, what is it?
Dimitri: I- How do you do it? How do you forgive so easily?
Raphael: Huh? Well geez, I dunno. I just, I guess I never really had time for grudges, you know. It just seemed like a waste of time to me. I mean, if someone apologizes and means it, why shouldn’t I forgive them?
Dimitri: Even the death of your parents?
Raphael: Oh, yeah, that. I mean, I don’t really think I do.
Dimitri: What do you mean?
Raphael: Well, if Count Gloucester was behind it, I don’t think I do. But revenge... I just don’t have time for it, you know? I got family to look after, a war to win. And it never really seemed worth the effort. Going out and causing more pain just to still feel bad about losing my parents.
Dimitri: ... Raphael, even if you never reach Knighthood, you have a the soul of one.
Raphael: Heh, thanks Dimitri.
Dimitri: Raphael... I care for you. a great deal. When this is over, I would ask if you would enter my service, as an advisor.
Raphael: Huh? Really? Me? I mean, I don’t know how good at it I’d be.
Dimitri: You would have to be made a Lord, of course.
Raphael: Really?! Me?!
Dimitri: Yes. You and your family would want for nothing ever again. And I cannot think of a person more deserving of the post.
Raphael: Well jeez. Sounds great! I just, you know, need to think about it.
Dimitri: Thank you, my friend. I... I would be happy to have you at my side.
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Paired Ending: The Savior King and the Forgiving Knight: When King Dimitri returned home, he brought with him Lord Raphael and his family, set to become the King’s most trusted advisor and dearest friend. Some speculated that their relationship was more... intimate than that, but nothing was ever confirmed. Raphael remained by his friend’s side till their dying days. Whatever their relationship, there was a bond between them that could not be broken.
I’m starting a post of, in my opinion, supports we were robbed of in three houses and that I would love to maybe write myself some day for fun
I mean like big wish would be everyone recruitable to each route had supports with everyone, but these are the ones that I feel very strongly about and I’ll give a quick reason why
Sylvain and Dimitri A support (their support chain is my favorite in the entire game even with just C and B)
Dimitri and Ferdinand (might be biased they are my two favorite characters, but I think this would be interesting based on Ferdinand’s opinion that Dimitri is too emotional for a king, flat out saying so in BE and stating “if he can put his emotions aside, he will be a fine king someday” in BL)
Ferdinand and Ashe (Both have a strong sense of justice, so I think their support would have the same tone as their supports with Caspar. These three boys, just want to stand up and fight for the world!)
Dedue and Petra (I think they would have very interesting conversations about what Fodlan is like from an outside perspective. It could even be about Petra teaching Dedue about Brigid cooking)
Sylvain and Ferdinand (They have very different, opposing ideas of nobility. I think Sylvain could help Ferdinand understand why people dislike nobility, and Ferdinand would help Sylvain realize that even with the bitter taste he has, he still wants to become the Head of House Gautier because he wants to help people; also it’d be really funny to see Ferdinand react to Sylvain’s skirt chasing)
Sylvain and Claude (Claude is by no means a flirt, but they sorta have similar personalities. Sylvains kind of a schemer, I think Claude would appreciate him. This is the one I feel strongest about)
Marianne and Bernadetta (two girls with somewhat similar situations who don’t really like t be around other people, theyre kind of kindred spirits to me. Marianne’s gentleness would probably put Bernadetta at ease)
Mercedes and Bernadetta (Bernadetta’s House is the House of religious affairs for the empire, and same like Marianne, Mercedes is very gentle. I definitely think Bernadetta would like her)
Ashe and Lysithea (being afraid of ghosts heck yeah, we all thought this one was gonna happen)
Dedue and Bernadetta (OKAY BUT THREE SUPPORTS JUST ABOUT HOW GREAT PLANTS ARE)
Felix and Hubert (I think their support would be really strange but interesting)
Marianne and Mercedes (they have a lot in common, I was very surprised they don’t have any supports)
Marianne with just any more girls, all her interhouse supports are with boys
Dorothea and Ingrid??? Still can’t believe they’re like one of the biggest ships and their paralogue acts like they’re mega close but they don’t have any supports like wtf that should have been obvious EDIT: Dorothea and Ingrid supports exist but they only go up to B so I will say, A support for them!!
That’s all I can think of rn feel free to yell some more good ideas at me
Yes I know it’s very obvious who my favorite characters are lmao but listen I feel like we were robbed of a lot of great Sylvain supports
