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... did Cai's eyes change color?
Uhh yeah. It seems at some point his eyes turn red.
It's not just his weird power either bc he has yellow eyes in this scene
So that's fun. As far as I know Shez is the only time we've seen red glowy eyes before but also if those who slither in the dark come back I'm gonna be so pissed
Ok everybody place your bets on who gets which thief outfit as dlc. I'm thinking obviously Yu is Joker, Teddie is Morgana, Rise is Oracle, Kanji is Skull.
Which would leave Yosuke as Fox which is funny because I think it makes more sense for Naoto to be Crow.
Chie's gonna be Queen, Yukiko should be Noir if we're being honest but they're not creative with these things so she's going to be Panther.
I do think the funniest timeline is that, you know how Hubert looks like the evil dark mage manipulating the emperor trope à la Gharnef, but actually he's just 100% on board with Edelgard's plan and is overall pretty chill?
Well Fabio IS manipulating Dietrich but in a "aren't you tired of being apeshit? Don't you want to go nice?" way. Tricking him into being less bloodthirsty and more chill.
Since Nintendo Today is almost caught up with the JP Twitter and might be by this weekend if the posting trends persist and also I'm less likely to fuck up trying to make the translation I've been getting legible I'll probably wait to post the profiles from there after this one
Anyway this Mu (pronounced like the sound a cow makes) Thought for a second this might be a femboy, but no this is a girl disguised as boy to not get mugged and is looking for his missing mother (which people think is Mikaela but I don't think that makes sense because Mikaela is explicitly sending money back to her kid, so the kid would not need to go looking for her.)
Mu is also the first confirmed cross recruitable character, because he has a support with Peter. Though in that support he mentions Sirocco, so he probably starts out in Leda's party and you can recruit him after you fight them. 
(I am going to be using he/him pronouns for this character for now even though I fully expect we're going to get the whole "I actually prefer using she/her pronouns" spiel because from the above video it seems like this character's Bit is that he doesn't pass, which he seems disappointed by, and that makes me sad and I wanna encourage him
Like I'm not trying to get anyone's hopes up, I don't think Fire Emblem is brave enough to suggest transgressive gender outside of the mobile games, this is just what I'm doing and it might be dumb idk.)
Wait hold on if the cover's anything to go by. Is. Is the player character in Fortune's Weave the healer with a gun????
Look for my own mental health I'm not entertaining Fortune's Weave as a direct sequel to Three Houses until the game's out because there's not a way to do that *doesn't decanonize at least one route* especially now that we know Dietrich's full name is Dietrich Von Lamine. And the route most likely to be fucked over is Crimson Flower.
And I'm not doing that discourse longer than necessary. Fuck you. If they confirm it we can discourse for seven years in September but I'm not acknowledging it a second sooner.
Also Fire Emblem refuses to confirm any given Corrin as canon despite multiverse existing, and even Thraccia canonized maybe two potential pairings that they've insisted aren't actually canon and aren't taken as canon in spinoffs, it would ACTUALLY be really weird to do that with Three Houses all of a sudden
It would be massively incompetent, risk undoing anything interesting Three Houses attempted to do, and piss off a large swath of the fan base because they have the data that Edelgard's the most popular character in the franchise. Which maybe they are incompetent but i'm going to be stressed if I assume that so thank you and goodnight
God if Fortune's Weave is giving us different factions I hope to GOD you can't do cross recruitment.
Hot(?) take the recruitment system in Three Houses sucked and whatever good points it had (like how recruiting Caspar on Blue Lions gets you an extra scene or insights) are outweighed by the problems:
Like with the reclass system just letting everyone have access to every class, it doesn't encourage variety, it encourages using the same good thing for every route. Every one of your female magic users is probably going to end up a Gremory, everyone recruits Lysithea to Dark Spikes T the Death Knight.
This is especially bad because a lot of maps are reused across routes. If you were limited to just the initial class, then you'd actually have to use different strategies and think about what you're doing. A map full of armored knights is going to be a bigger problem for the Blue Lions than the magic heavy Black Eagles. Maps with a lot of fliers will be different for the Golden Deer than anyone else. Coughing Baby vs Hydrogen Bomb ass example here, but V'ehxness could very easily become a Death Knight style meme with how many times you fight her, because once you've got a handle on the mechanics you can do a stupid amount of damage. BUT that fight can be legitimately stressful even 50 endings in just by changing the units you have access to. What happens when your reliable damage dealers are replaced by a squishy healer, and tank who can't attack without literally becoming immobilized for a turn (also the fewer characters you have the less AP you have so you have to be more careful). Hundred Line has literally the same map for every battle and yet it feels different by limiting your access
Another thing Hundred Line does is actually build intrigue for other routes! You will find information out on one route and then start wondering what's going on in that route you passed three choices back. Characters will mention things you have no context for until 10 hours later and you're like "OH FUCKING SHIT SO THAT'S WHY" You're not going to play Crimson Flower and then play Golden Deer because you want to know Lysithea's deal, because you already know it because you recruited Lysithea. That means the only possible intrigue can be the lords themselves and their retainers, which is kind of limiting, especially for Edelgard or Dimitri, who don't come off well if you play the other route first! And it doesn't necessarily discourage playing multiple routes, it means people playing multiple routes are bored out of their minds because they're only getting a couple of bits of new information.
It fucking sucks for the characterization of just about every character. We can argue until the cows come home about why certain characters could be convinced to join one side or another, but the fact of the matter is that textually, Ingrid will abandon her homeland and then turn around and evade not because of anything to do with Edelgard, but because she had a (presumed dead) teacher who was really good with Pegasi for a few months. And that means we miss out on fun characterization for the lords, because we don't get to see how they actually inspire people to join their cause by having to persuade them, and we miss out on fun characterization for everyone else! What a character will never do is just as important as what they will do. The fact that Hilda will join in Azure Moon and Silver Snow but not CF says way more about her than the fact that you can recruit Raphael on all three routes. It just makes it seem like most of the characters don't actually have closely held beliefs?
I could live with it characterization-wise if we could just get something closer to Three Hopes, where not only are more units route locked, there's actually an opportunity cost to recruiting units because it means giving up on some advantages in battle so it requires some strategy instead of running around getting everyone, and it requires actually convincing someone after you beat them. When you recruit Shamir on Scarlet Blaze iirc Hubert says something like "if you join us, we'll spare Catherine" which is interesting for everyone involved.
(Also blah blah blah if Eshmel is the Sothis and doesn't actually exist on the physical map for most battles so recruitment is achieved via being magic that'd be less characterization breaking but still kind of boring)
However my point about the map thing remains. Contrary to popular belief I think you can have interesting storytelling AND good gameplay, and in fact those can go together, and one way to do that would be to put restrictions on the player for the love of GOD
(My absolute ideal is less different routes and more Shadows of Valentia/Radiant Dawn where you swap between all four protagonists' perspective of the same narrative, and then everyone comes together at the end, so at the least there's some opportunity cost between recruiting people to one army over the other)
Oh wait. What are the gods? Are they Nabatean???? If so where is the green hair/eyes?
Also Fortuna being a Kalpa Dragon/Crest of Goneril seems to indicate that Kalpas might have some control over time? I guess???
They all have the pointy ears, my best guess is like, all the ones that are directly descended from Sothis have the green hair/eyes? They're all described as her making them or something, right?
I mean it's not like any of the other Nabateans are referred to as "gods" or have the powers we see, so they're presumably something different. And we know seteth is a different type of dragon than Flayn, so the type of dragon might not be specifically genetic in the way we think of it, it might be determined randomly based on the kids stats when they're born.
