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[kradeelav]

been itching to finish conquest lately for a few reasons (getting to the dang spoilers so i can write the cast better, so i can read some more of y'alls work, and i miss FE gameplay) ~ here's me plowin' through the endgame maps!

first of, been planning my revelations teams and ships! especially since i have a few of you friendos reccing characters. :3

• more firm ships: leo x takumi, xander x hinoka, tentatively kaze x corrin tho i'm still gonna glue gunter onto corrin whenever he appears and make the absolute worst joke about kaze being cucked twice with the possession angle too l m a o snerk
• unpaired characters: saizo, charlotte (would those two make for a cute ship...? feels like it), shura (more ossans <3), and ... i know i'm missing people. anyone have any favorites they'd like to rec? my teams tend to skew smaller on average than probably most, to milk everyone for max experience points, but that still feels pretty small.

* i really, really liked camilia and hinoka's talk at the end of the latter's conquest chapter. there was a realistic weight to that surrender that was imo treated with dignity by both sides and by the meta itself, weirdly resigned in a way that felt emotionally resonant. corrin clearly learning from leo how to do the fake-out method but also appear ruthless enough that she could even pull that feint. (kind of lowkey could be talked into shipping camilia x hinoka since i sense some fun tension between the two ~) 

* there's also just such a lovely aesthetic tension when you get these sharply clashing images of nohr soldiers in their black armor galloping around hoshido that's all delicate and light and airy. after reading the Fates manga (still the best idea ever), it in hindsight was the best artistic direction to just lean into those two  absurdly contrasting styles just to make the tension that much sharper -- it really feels like clashing ideologies.

* still lowkey miffed that the emulator crashes every time you do the bond/neutered petting scene >:( i can get as far as when the hearts appear on the screen, but then it freezes when the screen goes white. ahhhh well i have the script for it. and that's what fanworks are for anyway LOL

* hinoka's map was easy. ryoma's though, on the other hand.... sheeeesh. (his entrance was pretty damn badass too. s2g, fates has the best cutsenes i think of any fire emblem game to this day). there's also some prime fanfic fuel considering corrin got trapped in that one room with ryoma with the duel about to start holy shit. even if i didn't have moonlight (watered down nosferatsu) parked on her, that would still give me the willies. speaking of, i have a hard time feeling much for hoshidan royals for now (that will likely change with revelations) given they keep going 'nohrian scum!' but ryoma's death scene was also.... well, well done. that little smirk he gives you before doing the deed gave me Almost a feel. [salutes] y'aright, my dude.

* currently slowly working through the map where you finally get to fight hans and iago ... iirc i'm pretty sure this is the second to last of endgame.  god killing hans is going to feel so satisfying >:)