#neffi's random posts

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If y'all still wanna see my stuff, you should follow me on Twitter because I've pretty much abandoned Tumblr at this point. I post a lot there

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Reaching B support with laguz is my new favorite thing in FEH

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For the record I am still alive

I’ve just... almost completely moved to Twitter at this point dghljsdfg

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So I made a Twitter account I guess, click here to check out and follow me

Obviously it’s pretty barren rn because it’s like an hour old, but I will be posting things there, including art

Also if we’ve talked, lemme know who you are, here or on Twitter, and I’ll follow you as well owo

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SAD ELIWOOD LOOKS LIKE A PUPPY AND I WANT TO GIVE HIM A HUG

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Choose Your Legends has only just started and I already can’t wait for it to be over

Will people ever realize that trying to get others to vote on their fave by being obnoxious about them usually results in the exact opposite? Doubt it

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Finished Shadow Dragon today, shoutout to Medeus for having exactly 60 HP and to Marth for doing exactly 30 damage per hit

The game’s kinda barebones, so I see where that criticism’s coming from, but a lot of fun! Gameplay is solid and I think the writing is very underrated, probably because due to lack of supports and whatnot there sadly isn’t much of it. But moments like “Humanity’s hopes rest on your shoulders, I would not want to see them crushed” “Which, humanity’s hopes or my shoulders?” will stay with me forever

Time to play Elibe games (starting with FE7 and then going to 6), this should also be fun because I’m going into them almost completely blind

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Neffi Begins To Play FE7: An Archive

So a few days ago, I began to play through Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword. It’s interesting to say the least, because I arrived to Elibe almost entirely blind, only with whatever knowledge Heroes could provide.

As I’ve been running through the game, I’ve been sort of liveblogging about it in the @historyoftheemblem Discord chat, and because parts of that ended up being quite entertaining, I figured I’d share some of that.

This here is mostly going to be me being surprised at things, joking around with people, discovering the game’s story, characters and features for the first time, and overall doing whatever I could to entertain myself during the tutorial.

(So first of all, I’m “Canada is my favorite Mage”. Don’t ask for now. It’ll be explained later)

“alolan clive” is Nebbles, one of my first wonderful guides.

Zebra comes in, another wonderful guide. (Their name will be explained soon too.) Also I discover that the tutorial is, well, a tutorial. I guess things like that need to be explained when you’re the first game coming to the west.

I then proceed to learn that this is Sain, and then meet Kent. Because Sain is one letter away from Cain, it takes me a while to get used to Sain not being the red guy. I still confuse them a little.

“alolan sigurd” is Arch, one more wonderful guide. Also at this point I’m not sure if I’ll like Sain, because I’m not a fan of womanizer type guys, but I’m convinced to give him a chance. (Which was a good call, I like him much better now.) Sain also learns, to his shock and disbelief, that axes beat lances, and so do I. We also learn that trading exists. Wow, I had no idea.

“Max Strength Kent”, aka Alma, another wonderful guide, joins in. They mention they probably could have sent me a patch to skip the tutorial, but it’s fine, I’m having fun. This is also the point when my units start leveling up, so we talk about that briefly before the tutorial smacks me in the face again.

(I’m serious there, btw. Last time I attempted a run through FE8, which I never finished, my Eirika gained 2 points of Spd in 16 levels. With a 60% growth. She got Str screwed, too.) Just as I’m having flashbacks to that, Lyn gains a levelup of nothing but HP, and we all scream. But I press on, I learn someone’s poisoning Lyn’s grandpa, the game teaches me that I can recruit people, Florina and Wil appear and we smush some more bandits.

I then learn that at that point at least, Florina has androphobia. (And I’m slowly starting to discover I want to protect her with my life. Even if she refuses to grow Str.)

Natalie and Dorcas appear, causing Ippei flashbacks. Kent and Sain both get garbage levelups in this chapter, but I have to restart anyway, because Lyn gets killed by reinforcements I didn’t notice, so it’s fine. They do better next time. I also finally learn where the line of “When you’re not sure, just try using Lyn” comes from. I also hear some legends about the dreaded Hector Hard Mode.

And then they appear. I don’t think I’ll ever like Serra, but hey, I have a healer? And we have convo a convo comparing Erk to Nino. Before that though, because it gets late, I get some sleep. I can’t fall asleep for nearly an hour, because I have the gosh darn Wind Across The Plains stuck in my head.

Oh gods, it’s not over yet.

“alolan rudolf” is Shadow. Another wonderful guide.

And at this point, Zebra changed their nickname to “anime is truth magic”. Shortly after that, Erk gets a bad levelup.

A talk about magic weight and the usefulness of various Mages ensues.

Shadow discovers their true origin. The “uwu” was the moment when I changed my nickname.

Arch’s autocorrect, mobile, or whatever the heck caused “Ccamqcj” to happen is a gift to mankind.

I learn, the hard way, how Con works. I switch the Armorslayer over to Kent, who actually can wield it properly, and he kills the boss. His reward? A levelup of only HP. Then the meeting with that one dude who hates Sacaeans goes as well as I expected it to.

I move on and squeal as Nils and Lucius appear.

I play through the chapter, Eliwood appears and I squeal again. Some time passes, I meet Wallace, whose existence I literally had no idea whatsoever about. We’re nearing the end of Lyn’s story. I think.

“Tea obtained, chocolate eaten, dog kissed, let’s get back to killing people” was a thing I said once while playing Shadow Dragon. I mean, what better way to play Fire Emblem? Anyway, I then learn that this game has a rain weather effect, and it sucks.

I finish the battle, actually succeed in killing Lundgren with Lyn (thanks Lancereaver), have a reunion with Lyn’s grandpa and discover that wow, he actually doesn’t die.

And then Lyn’s story ends. That was fun. Time to go through Eliwood’s tale.

If you made it to the end, I hope you enjoyed this ride. Dunno if I’ll do this for the rest of the game, if someone wants me to I can.