3/8/2023 0 Comments Fire emblem fates leoLeo and Takumi are well-defined, strong-enough characters that playing as them would have necessitated removing all decision making from the game. When playing a game of this type, a good majority of players are going to impose something of themselves upon the player character - I think that's only natural. I think the reason why both characters work as well as they do is because they aren't the protagonist. Are they really the ones with the power then? Who then was the group in power? In BR the majority of the game is a counter invasion of Nohr, and one of the reasons Nohr invades is due to famine. Imperial Japan was racist towards Whites among others, and had power over them, but the US also had power over some Japanese. Invading also doesn't necessarily mean dominant. So then is Takumi racist when Hoshido occupies Nohr? Because then they totally have power. But I subscribe to the definition of racism as prejudice + power in Fates, Nohr is the dominant, invasive power. I personally don't think he's racist - prejudiced (with good reason), but not racist. He has the anxiety/confidence issues for sure, but he's otherwise well-grounded. In some ways Takumi comes across as a well more-rounded character, if you read all his supports in Birthright. His ending in Birthright works better than it would have in the Conquest route because he undergoes a little more development in Birthright. He's a fairly typical young adult in that regard. He's also arrogant and a little unworldly, plus he's not without his own insecurities. Leo is smart and strategic but those two qualities alone do not make a leader. I dunno, I'm a little wonkey in the head. I mean, in my mind it all ends with the protag developing the mindset of belief in their uselessness and trying to kill the big bad guy themselves so nobody else has to die trying to do so, even going as far as to attack their army with magically created clones of the army (they're a mage in my mind) to force them to abandon him, but hey maybe it's more interesting than "a lord who fights for his country". whatever the superbig conflict is in the game. The way it's usually been going in my mind is that they were forcibly sent into the present day (our time), but were summoned back to their original time and forgot ever living in the future (kinda combining the Deeprealms of Fates and the children going back in time in Awakening), and tried to live normally and developing combat training, before getting roped into. What I feel would make the most interesting protagonist is someone who is, by all accounts, a normal person who is being roped into bigger problems by some outside force. Hinoka and Camilla are characters who seem really built around Avatar worship, so I don't know what they would be like without them around. Sakura and Elise would make for interesting protags in terms of their starting class, but as characters? Don't ask me. Ryoma and Xander would have most certainly followed the same path that the lord characters of past games would follow. What would they have been like if there WERE no Avatar to compare to? I mean, they both seem to have inferiority issues when being compared to their siblings, but especially in comparison to the Avatar in some cases. They would have been more interesting choices as the protag as opposed to generic "universally awesome and/or liked protagonist" character #infinity.
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