Arnault, Gautier, Macneary?
Hello there!! Thanks for playing with me~
Arnault: Favorite piece of music?
The Spirit Dias, aka Sothis’ theme! It’s so haunting and ethereal, but also strangely peaceful, and I love all the tones in the background and the soft chanting of the chorus. I could listen to it for hours.... my second favorite track would be God Shattering Star though, because I am a person who breathes so yeah, I like that one a lot too!!
Gautier: Favorite supports?
my dear what have you done
Full disclosure.... I feel like I could just fill this entire section with Mercedes supports. She’s such a wonderful individual, and though it feels odd to phrase it exactly like this, but Mercedes just saves everyone. All of her supports, she can find the good and the wonder and the faith and the hope in everyone it’s just... she’s a powerful character with the ability to reach the heart into people like that. Some standouts imo are Sylvain, Ingrid, and Dedue with her, though like I said, I could just fill this entire section with her supports.
Another favorite would definitely be Dedue and Ashe’s. Though I now ship them, I did not originally, and the content of their supports is wholesome and heartrending whichever stance you take on them- romantic or platonic. They are people who understand each other’s quite different but still quite similar grief in powerful ways, and they share several interests which allows them activities they enjoy and bond over together. Their friendship is clearly so important to the both of them for the unique perspectives it offers, and the ability to heal and grow is so strong there. And I’d be lying if their A support didn’t make me tear up as well dkgndkjgdgn
I suppose I can’t do a support list without mentioning Felix. Anyone who had even breathed in me or my blog’s direction knows that my love for this fool is fathomless. He is unique within the game for the high amount of A supports and endings he has- 10 female I believe and two male. (Compare that real quick to Sylvain who is on the complete opposite end, with only 5 paired endings, four female and one male (Felix).) I’m working very hard to get as many of Felix’s supports as I can hahaha, and I’ve seen a fair few of them at this point, so I can say with a decent amount of knowledge and expertise what are the favorites.
Seteth’s is the first that comes to mind. Despite that there’s only a C and B support for them, what is accomplished between the two is incredible. Seteth basically helps Felix to rationalize and realize that it’s okay to love his friends and all the emotions that come attached with it; Seteth doesn’t get much out of this support (other than to continue demonstrating that he’s a deeply wise individual and a wonder elder brother figure) but this support feels integral to Felix’s emotional growth, especially in the second half of the game.
More favorites are Annette and Lysithea’s. What I loved to discover was that though Felix is still rather sarcastic and smarmy in nearly all of his supports, his ones with the people he has no prior relationship with are... light-hearted, and show other sides of him. It demonstrates his full capacity as a character- he’s not edgy for no reason, especially not towards people who have done nothing to him. He talks about sweets with Lysithea, and enjoys Annette’s singing; he interacts with these girls with curiosity and an openess that is so sweet to see. I love to see my boy happy. ‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º·˚ And it’s terrible to say that he’s not happy that often- many of his closest bonds no longer make him happy. And as much work that I, as the player, go through to salvage those bonds, it’s so nice to see him interacting and becoming close to others with that lightheartedness, where his kind nature can show itself more readily without years of baggage or prior knowledge weighing on him.
Which brings me to the final one I’ll talk about for now. Dimitri and Felix, the famed soured relationship. I knew going into the game that whatever was between them was going to be a fucking doozy, but oh, it was worse than I ever could have imagined. Looking through the rosters that first time and reading up on everyone’s timelines and life events, the pieces were already falling into place when I found out about Glenn, the Tragedy, and the western rebellion. I immediately went to work getting the boys’ support level up so I could further dig into it; I actually got them up so quickly I had them ready for their A support by the time I was halfway through the school year. Anyways, my first consensus on my feelings about their supports was... disappointed, actually. I wanted more- an A+ support for sure, but also a broader range of discussion in all areas. But with retrospect and some time to think, I’ve reached a new conclusion: their supports are very indicative of them. It’s the things not seen and not heard that are what’s most important. The things we witness in their supports are the context with which we apply all their other interactions to. We can’t take things at face value, because Felix doesn’t always say what he means and Dimitri doesn’t always say the things he should, and both characters realize this about each other because even after all these years, that is something that still rings true. But in the end, they ultimately aren’t creatures of words. Dimitri needs words, but is a person of action at the end of the day, just as Felix is. And Felix’s love for Dimitri is so overwhelming apparent once I realized these things. I believe that when considering them as a whole, it’s important to consider teenage Felix and adult Felix separately, but there is love in every action- even when its also so terribly intermixed with grief and sadness and hate. But that’s just them. That is what they have become. My final note on the subject: though I was sad that there wasn’t an A+ support for them, I feel this too is indicative of them as a pair. All they need is that one conversation to begin healing. It’s all they need to be ready to devote themselves entirely to each other once again.
An honorable mention for this list is Hubert and Ferdinand’s. I’ve not actually unlocked it myself as I’ve not played a BE run, but it’s so cute and they’re prep/goth vampire solidarity, we stan the drink boyfriends.
Macneary: Favorite paired endings?
Oof, I haven’t unlocked that many yet, and I’ve purposely kept myself from looking up too many of them but??? I guess I’d say Hubert and Ferdinand’s, Flayn and Seteth’s, Dedue and Ashe, Dedue and Dimitri (though I can’t exactly ship them, this ending is so sweet dkjgndjg), Sylvain and Mercedes, Dedue and Mercedes, Felix and Dimitri, Felix and Annette, Felix and Leonie (that mlm and wlw solidarity hahahah), Claude and Lorenz, and Claude and Hilda.
