User blog:Worldracer99/Drace Liveblogs Fire Emblem: Awakening (Chapter Five: The Exalt and the King/Chapter Six: Foreseer/Random Side Battle)

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The team (and Emmeryn) nears the border between Ylisse and Plegia to rescue Maribelle and meet with Gangrel (King of Plegia) and Aversa (his... I dunno... advisor I guess? It wasn't really clear).

Now. I should let you all know that now that Aversa has appeared in the game, I have to worry about fanservice.

I'm sure there are some of you reading this who don't know what fanservice is. TV Tropes sums it up best: "Characters in skimpy clothing, or skin-tight clothing, or none at all, under the assumption that it will attract or 'reward' viewers."

So. I'm sure the mods here all have very differing policies on what sort of fanservice I'm allowed to let through. Mad would probably be relatively relaxed ("I don't mind some fanservice, just not ridiculous amounts"), Guac probably less so ("Try to keep it to an absolute minimum if at all possible... I'm OK with you posting it, but other people probably aren't"), and Ale would probably say something along the lines of "They could be running around starkers for all I care, just so long as they aren't using caps."

I won't be censoring all fanservice (nobody seems to care about Sully or Sumia's absolute territory or about shirtless Vaike), but I will try to play it safe.

And what better way to censor fanservice than with the ones who want me to censor it: the mods!





Gangrel and Aversa claim that Maribelle crossed the border into Plegia without permission, and that she attacked and wounded the Plegian soldiers who tried to escort her back over the border. Maribelle says that she saw Plegians attacking a nearby village and tried to stop them, but was captured. Gangrel denies this, saying it was just a group of non-Plegian bandits. The King also threatens to execute Maribelle right then and there- unless Emmeryn gives Plegia the Fire Emblem (title drop, yay!).



The Fire Emblem is apparently some sort of treasure that is only to be used to save the world in a time of desperation. Gangrel wants to use it to wipe out Ylisse.

Apparently, Emmeryn's dad lead a brutal crusade against Plegia, killing hundreds of thousands of Plegians, including Gangrel's friends and family. Now that Emmeryn is in power, however, she's lead Ylisse to be a peaceful country.

Gangrel threatens to kill Emmeryn for the Fire Emblem, and Chrom actually kills a Plegian bandit. Gangrel takes this as a declaration of war. Nice work, Chrom.

A battle begins, and Ricken (the mage from earlier who's actually not just a little kid- he just looks like one) shows up, and he and Maribelle join the battle. Maribelle is apparently a Troubadour, which basically just means a healer who gets more movement range because of her horse.

The battle ends and the team returns (with Maribelle) to Ylisstol to make preparations.

I then got a C-Support in between Chrom and Lissa. From this point on, I'm going to just give summaries of the Supports, unless I find them funny, adorable, or they're an S-Support (which means marriage). Basically, poor Lissa thinks that she's not as royal and dignified as Chrom and Emmeryn, and Chrom just gives her a vague "you're fine how you are" answer and leaves. Lissa then calls him a jerkface and tells him that she hopes he trips and breaks his nose. This is immensely entertaining.

As Chapter Six begins, Chrom and Robin are hanging out outside the castle, where Chrom's making plans to head back to Regna Ferox and request additional soldiers. He also provides more information about the previous Exalt's crusade against Plegia. It happened fifteen years ago, and Ylisse nearly collapsed because of all the innocents that were being sent into battle. Chrom's father died and Emmeryn took over, and though the people hated her at first, she brought Ylisse back to being a peaceful nation. And then Marth shows up. He apparently snuck into the castle through a hole in the wall. He tells Chrom that apparently assassins are showing up to kill Emmeryn and that he apparently knows this because he's from a timeline where Emmeryn dies. Obviously Chrom doesn't believe him without proof. Then an assassin jumps out of a nearby bush, but Marth takes him out while barely even looking at him. Another assassin tries to attack, but Chrom gets rid of him. The assassin does, however, slice Marth's mask off, revealing that Marth is actually a girl. I kinda saw this coming, what with "his" voice.



Battle preparations to take care of the other assassins begins and...

NO. WHAT. NO. YOU'RE DEAD. I KILLED YOU.

VALIDAR IS LEADING THE ASSASSINS. AND APPARENTLY HE'S BEEN LOOKING FOR ROBIN.

HOW THE HAY DOES THE OPENING PREMONITION TIE INTO ALL OF THIS?

Also, there's a thief named Gaius involved in all of this. He didn't want to kill Emmeryn, he was just there to rob the place.



Meanwhile, Marth's Parallel Falchion starts glowing, and Chrom orders Marth to stay by Emmeryn's door.

Chrom goes to recruit Gaius, who reveals that he had no intention of killing the Exalt. Gaius also says that he's not joining our side unless Chrom... sweetens the deal.

Not with money though. He notices that Chrom has a bag of Lissa's candies, which he accepts. We then have one more thief for the battle.

One turn later, a creature named Panne joins the battle. She's not human, as you can tell by her lack of human ears on the sides of her head. She instead has floppy bunny ears on the top of her head. This is as adorable as it sounds.



Also she can shapeshift into a giant rabbit monster in battle. "That's not menacing!" you cry. I beg to differ.



Apparently Panne is allied with Marth, and she has some sort of debt that she owes to humans.

The battle ends and Validar retreats, leaving the team to discuss other matters. Marth's disappeared again. She's like Batman in TAS.

Except not because we find her outside. According to Marth in the timeline where Emmeryn dies, the assassins would have stolen the Fire Emblem, but since Emmeryn's still alive, we're back on track to the normal timeline. Marth then leaves. Again.

Then we have exposition on Panne. Apparently her species is the Taguel, and that she's the last of her kind. Humans hunted the Taguel to extinction, and the only reason she helped in this battle is because of the debt to Ylisse that her warren (a group of rabbits) owed. Panne doesn't believe Emmeryn's truly sorry- she wasn't involved in the Taguel's extinction, so why would she care?- but she agrees to help the Shepherds.

Meanwhile, Validar awakens in some dark void after we killed him. Some sort of dark figure walks up to him, and says that Validar will not die here. This dark figure's presence is impossible according to Validar. The figure then introduces himself as the Fell Dragon, Grima.



NOT THAT GRIMA.

Anyways, the team makes plans to move Emmeryn to the eastern palace for her safety, and the chapter ends.

Frederick and Robin get a C-Support, where they talk about some training, and Robin goes "bro, I owe you a favor for helping me train."

Then I had a random challenge battle against some Risen to levelgrind. This battle is notable because Sumia actually didn't die during it. And thanks to that, I got a C-Support between her and Chrom (I've been trying to pair them up. Yes, I ship them. :P). Chrom confides in Sumia about the pressure of not showing weakness as a leader, and then she blackmails Chrom into taking a nap and getting some relaxation by threatening to tell everybody that he got rekt after he tripped over a rock.

My Thoughts
I got soldiers killed a lot in Chapter Six. A LOT. I'm honestly surprised it only took two tries to beat the Chapter.

Ricken's proven to be able to do INSANE amounts of damage. When he took the boss of Chapter Five down from 22 health to 2 health, my jaw hit the floor.

I've also discovered that pairing Sumia up with other characters is a helpful way to keep her alive. Chrom gave her a pretty great defense boost. And I'm glad that they finally got a support together.

Panne's an interesting character, too. Can't wait to see more about her.

Current Party

 * Chrom (Level 10 Lord, C-level Support with Robin, Lissa, and Sumia)
 * Sumia (Level 4 Pegasus Knight, C-level Support with Chrom)
 * Sully (Level 4 Cavalier, C-level Support with Robin and Stahl)
 * Robin (Level 8 Tactician, C-level Support with Chrom, Frederick, and Sully)
 * Ricken (Level 7 Mage)
 * Maribelle (Level 3 Troubadour)
 * Panne (Level 8 Taguel)
 * Gaius (Level 8 Thief)
 * Kellam (Level 8 Knight)
 * Virion (Level 4 Archer)
 * Stahl (Level 4 Cavalier, C-level Support with Sully)
 * Frederick (Level 2 Great Knight, C-level Support with Robin)
 * Lissa (Level 3 Cleric, C-level Support with Chrom)
 * Lon'qu (Level 4 Myrmidon)
 * Vaike (Level 3 Fighter)
 * Miriel (Level 1 Mage)

Next Time: Chapters Seven and Eight, and Paralogue One...