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waltzoidBecause wasting my time on TV Tropes is my second-favorite pastime behind video games, I found myself wiki walking to the X Meets Y page, and under the Fire Emblem: Three Houses character list, I saw the following comparison:
So we have two of our leads compared to two sets of characters from two different series. I'm way late on the ASoIaF train (evidence that I'm maybe one of the 0.1% of the world who hasn't torn all their hair out at the ending to Game of Thrones), so I can't figure out the parallels between Danaerys and Jon yet. I do, however, know enough about Code Geass to be amused by the Lelouch/Suzaku comparison.
Edelgard, like Lelouch, is a princess of an empire and prepared to sacrifice everything to rebel against what they see as a hopelessly corrupt system (for Lelouch, it's the very empire he was born into, while for Edelgard, it's the Church of Seiros). Dimitri, like Suzaku, is secretly wracked with guilt over a personal tragedy (Dimitri witnessing his father die in a massacre, and Suzaku killing his father in the hope of stopping a bloody war against Britannia), and prefer to reform broken systems instead of removing them entirely.
I don't know why, but now I want to see a Fire Emblem or Advance Wars game adopt regular use of giant mecha, Gundam or Front Mission-style. Maybe they can reverse-engineer all that weapons tech the Agarthans are using in order to make it happen.
- Edelgard is Mitsuru Kirijo (Persona 3; both Mitsuru and Edelgard are voiced in English by the same person) meets Danaerys Targaryen (A Song of Ice and Fire) meets [spoiler character] meets Lelouch Lamperouge (Code Geass)
- Dimitri is Camus (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light) meets Jon Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire) meets Sigurd (Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War) meets [spoiler character] meets Suzaku Kururugi (Code Geass)
So we have two of our leads compared to two sets of characters from two different series. I'm way late on the ASoIaF train (evidence that I'm maybe one of the 0.1% of the world who hasn't torn all their hair out at the ending to Game of Thrones), so I can't figure out the parallels between Danaerys and Jon yet. I do, however, know enough about Code Geass to be amused by the Lelouch/Suzaku comparison.
Edelgard, like Lelouch, is a princess of an empire and prepared to sacrifice everything to rebel against what they see as a hopelessly corrupt system (for Lelouch, it's the very empire he was born into, while for Edelgard, it's the Church of Seiros). Dimitri, like Suzaku, is secretly wracked with guilt over a personal tragedy (Dimitri witnessing his father die in a massacre, and Suzaku killing his father in the hope of stopping a bloody war against Britannia), and prefer to reform broken systems instead of removing them entirely.
I don't know why, but now I want to see a Fire Emblem or Advance Wars game adopt regular use of giant mecha, Gundam or Front Mission-style. Maybe they can reverse-engineer all that weapons tech the Agarthans are using in order to make it happen.
