#fe phila

[rainbowdonkee]

New heroes are here! Rearmed is F! Robin (Grima) and Eir is our Ascended unit!

Also!!!! RICKEN IN FEH!

[yourladystar]

You really mean to tell me that the random NPC with 5 lines of dialogue whose only role in the story is to suck at her job and die got in before Laurent?!

Gatekeeper I like; he's a meme king and mega wholesome. Brigand Boss; he's apparently also a meme, though I never got why, but I'll ignore it since he's a freebie. But this, no.

Was there anyone who wanted Phila to be added to Heroes? I know every character has its fans but was there a single person clamoring for Awakening's most worthless character to be added, into the summoning pool no less?!

Show me one person who was unironically wishing for her inclusion and I will draw myself wearing the "I'm sorry, I was born stupid" button as an apology.

[dangerouseggwolfangel]

Wow, the new banner sure was surprising and unexpected.

To begin with I would have never have guessed they would choose Awakening when three other games were ahead of it in the rotation (Radiant Dawn, Fates and Mystery) AND they had the option to choose TMS since they just reminded everyone of its existence. Still, I love Awakening so it's not like I can complain.

I also can't complain that they chose to focus on Gen 1 since I always prefer when they introduce new characters rather than "rescue" characters from "alt hell".

Ricken, Gregor and Phila (!!!!) are good picks and I personally love it when they give us minor characters who were never playable before. So much that I actually voted for Phila in CYL.

And Cervantes is also a based pick. I never would have expected a free Armor Knight from IS. Feels bad to be a Validar fan... tho at this point it has to be intentional. I'm starting to think Validar will be the last character from Awakening added.

The Rearmed hero was really disappointing tho, ngl. Not only it's another Ascended!Celica situation since they gave a character that already has a Legendary the shiny new alt. But even if they picked someone else I would have preferred to have no Rearmed rather than another banner with a Rearmed and an Ascended. Because together with the last NH banner it begins to set a precedent, an expectation...

The expectation that every new heroes banner will have both Ascended AND Rearmed is extremely scary to me as someone who mostly cares about getting every character EVER in this game. Because as long as we have OCs like Eir, Lif and probably Thrasir it's tolerable. We still get 4 brand new characters and only one Forging Bond slot is taken by an alt.

But in the future, we could get only 3 new characters per banner with 2 forging bond slots being wasted. THAT I do not want.

The next Awakening banner could very well be: an Ascended alt, a Rearmed alt, Vaike, Kellam and GHB Pheros. The one after could be an Ascended alt, a Rearmed alt, Inigo, Severa and GHB Noire. R.I.P. Laurent...

I sincerely hope that I'm wrong about this and that they will start alternating between Ascended and Rearmed alts like they already do with Duos and Harmonics. For everyone's sake.

[raimi]

Look at these 100% real canon screenshots :)

[rainbowdonkee]

Full art for Phila - Pegasus Master!

Artist: Hirooka Masaki

[yourladystar]

So, I was actually expecting to get a response from my last post confirming there was someone who was excited for Phila. What I wasn't expecting was how many people responded and how fast it happened. And I wanna say this now to make it nice and clear.

If you are one of the people who responded to my post or just saw it in passing who is excited about Phila being added to Heroes, good for you. I'm not being sarcastic, I am happy for you. I'm glad you were able to feel the satisfaction that every Heroes player wants to experience having their most requested character finally added. And I can guarantee that I will be the loudest b*tch popping off when Laurent and Shura are added.

So no, I don't begrudge anyone for being happy about Phila's inclusion. But it doesn't make me like it. Honestly, this whole banner feels a bit underwhelming, and not just because of Phila.

Only half of the banner is of actual new units with an additional freebie. The other half is taken up by Eir's ascended form, which I'm not bothered by since I was expecting it, and female Grima, who feels like the artist is just completely leaning into the "hot evil b*tch you wanna f*ck" archetype. Which I'm really f*cking sick of at this point.

Not only because I'm just so over all villains needing to be f*ckable for lonely straights to fantasize about, but because it feels like they're just forgetting who Grima actually is and what they've done. You do know this is the same being that brought about an apocalypse, horrifically traumatized the entire second generation of the Awakening cast, is the reason why almost all of them are orphans, and turned their own child into their servant?

If the fell dragon in Engage gets the same treatment, I don't think I can take it. Can't we just let villains be obstacles for our main characters?

Anyway, that's my follow-up to my last post and, as promised, here's the drawing I promised.

I would have gotten this post done sooner, but I made the mistake of letting my brother borrow my colored pencils. I assumed he would need them for a day or two, maybe three, only for him to borrow them for nearly two weeks and then leave them at his friend's house.

This is why I don't let my brothers near my stuff.

[dangerouseggwolfangel]

My vote for day 3 is Phila from Awakening.

Look for the brief time she was in the game she seemed like a nice character and one of the best things Heroes does is giving spotlight to forgotten characters.

Remember what happened with Mustafa? Can it happen again but with Phila?

[raimi]

Phila: I did not “die.” Canon is wrong.