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Fire Emblem is a video game franchise using turn-based tactics a la Xcom or Valkyria Chronicles. Just like Xcom, characters can die permanently, but unlike it, you cannot have an indefinite amount of them, they're all set in script and you must be cautious not to end the game with a skeleton crew. To avoid this, you have in each game a myriad of literallywho characters whose entire personality can only be assumed with as little as one line of dialogue. Naturally, you've had ship wars occurring because of this in the depths of obscure niche forums because of this.
Back in the early 2010's, The franchise was on death row after a few releases that were commercial flops, until they pulled out one last-ditch effort and released Awakening on 3DS. The devs made it a "Swan Song" game to they could properly bow down with the curtain-fall, placing references and shout-outs to previous opuses, and especially, adding a long-asked self-insert character as well as dating sim mechanics to their game. And guess what, it was a huge fricking success and brought the series back from palliative care. Fire Emblem decided to ride this success by adding more and more development to this dating mechanic, including Same-s*x relationships and whatnot.
In the most commercially successful opus so far, Fire Emblem: Three Houses that came out in 2019. They opted for a fun mechanic. The Game is not linear. Instead, you can follow different routes, each with different ending, and none canon.In this game (You) are Byleth, a Self-Insert Avatar with the personality of a plastic cup, mercenary-turned-instructor at an academy that gathers the sons and daughters of Nobility throughout three different kingdoms. Ensues a 5 years time-skip, the continent is now drowned in a three-sided war, and you have to pick which class of former students to do war crimes and murder your other former students with.
All sides have righteous and less righteous causes and motives, so naturally this makes the path for pages and pages of discourse. But we're talking about a video game played by neurodivergents so really, their allegiance entirely depends on which teenage noble makes their peepee the hardest.
Thus lot of people love to side with the white-hair Empress girl Edelgard, (on the left), because she wants to establish social reforms & get rid of a caste system & burn the catholic church & other gay shit. But most importantly she's le heckin bisexual and you can frick her as a male AND female avatar! So it's a huge lesbian victory. To the point, Female!Avatarxedelgard shipper regularly bully Male!AvatarxEdelgard because they commit lesbian erasure by shipping her with a dude!
But many as well ride with the blonde guy in the middle, Dimitri, prince of a northern kingdom and estranged step-brother of Edelgard, whom, Spoiler alert
And that makes the Pro-Edelgard team fricking mad. Because 1, Dimitri's route exposes the bad sides of their precious waifu bean's self-righteous extremism, and 2, like the braindead shippers they are, they can't stand the fact people don't masturbate to their waifu in general.
Because of the above, ever since the game came out in 2019, the Fire Emblem forums are flooded with non-stop posts and longposts of Edelgard (Called Edeleth, for shipping her with the avatar, Byleth), whom are definitely the most rabid shippers of the bunch. This essentially has become the local meme in the local subs and forums, which Edelth occupy the role of your schizophrenic downstairs neighbour. /r/shitpostemblem, the meme sub of the franchise regularly likes to jab at them for their unhinged behaviour
NOW THE REAL DRAMA
Anyway, couple days ago the weekly Edeleth discourse post was submitted as a wordswordswords meme on /r/shitpostemblem by a rabid shipper.
OP proceeds to get shat on in the comment section:
here comes the coup de théâtre
My, what could be the post they're linking to? Answer: An r/honesttransgender rant:
Turns out OP is a 16 year-old, MtF poster
BUT WAIT, IT GETS BETTER
tl;DR: Neurodivergent franchise shipper embodies the stereotypical meme of its own self on a shitpost subreddit. Proceeds to get shat on by the community, is revealed to be an mtf teenager.
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The fire emblem series is now know for 4 things:
Shipstrag containment series.
Increasingly stupider MC.
FEH is the worst thing ever conceived by men.
/feh/ is the worst board on /vg/
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I really hate the MC avatars at this point. Byleth serves no purpose and you should've just played as the lords instead.
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The MC avatars exist solely for relationship mechanics. Byleth was the most obvious with this, being the professor as you literally would marry a student of your choosing
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Not grooming btw
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Hey look, Dorothea accepts the fact that she's gonna get groomed and pick up someone rich/powerful to marry.
And that's why she's best girl.
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Bring back radiant dawn era Ike, just a bear of a man single handedly destroying entire countries
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That's just replacing yurishit with yaoicute twinkry.Which I approve of, btw.
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Straggotshippers are the most oppressed minority.
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Non-yuristrag heteros just become waifustrags. Shipping doesn't make sense unless you're a foid or want to bang both characters being shipped.
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I can't frick a piece of paper or pixels on my computer screen, why should I even bother? Romance works, romance is nice and makes me feel better. 😌
I also find it hilarious when a foid writes 350k+ words without even getting to the main romance.
Anyways, Straggotshipping is valid and is the ONLY valid form of shipping. God, I want to kill yuristrags. As Hidefu Kitayan says, "They go after us because we like normal relationships."
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My brother from another mother.
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I guarantee the people reading this sentence have no idea how bad it is
That said as far as gacha threads go it's not actually the worst, one of the schizopedos who simps for Elizabeth over in /fgo/ got arrested a few months ago
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They remade FE Gaiden a while back for the DS called Shadows over Valencia oranges or something like that. It's the last good FE game Nintendo has ever done.
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