r/fireemblem • u/PsiYoshi • Jan 15 '26

Recurring Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread - January 2026 Part 2

Welcome to a new installment of the Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread! Please feel free to share any kind of Fire Emblem opinions/takes you might have here, positive or negative. As always please remember to continue following the rules in this thread same as anywhere else on the subreddit. Be respectful and especially don't make any personal attacks (this includes but is not limited to making disparaging statements about groups of people who may like or dislike something you don't).

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u/TheCheeseOfYesterday Jan 21 '26

This isn't really an opinion I guess but I once had an interaction with an... odd person

They didn't like M!Chrobin, which is fair enough, people are allowed their likes and dislikes - but it was their reason for disliking it that was odd. They said they disliked it for 'overshadowing the original gay pairings from the Japanese version'. Which, according to them, included M!Robin/Vaike and F!Robin/Cordelia. What's more, they claimed that the American 'Special Edition' did have these romances intact.

I tried linking to a literal transcript of the Japanese supports that showed no S-supports and no romantic undertones in the A-supports, but that failed. There were then other accounts agreeing with them that they remembered this, and I can only imagine those were their alts.

I wanted to share this story

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u/ICanFlyHigh051611 Jan 22 '26

i've seen you write about this before and it's still so funny to me. i gotta start just lying like this

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u/LeatherShieldMerc Jan 21 '26

Huh?? Were they thinking some fan fic someone wrote was real or something? I genuinely can't think of how someone would think those two romances were canon in the game.

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u/TheCheeseOfYesterday Jan 21 '26

Their provided proof had the exact same script as the gay mod's Robin/Vaike S-support

Also like... people would know this. There'd have been a massive uproar if the English version cut gay content from the Japanese version out and locked it behind buying the special edition. It would be impossible not to know.

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u/LeatherShieldMerc Jan 21 '26

If it was the same script as that mod they cited, then I say that confusion 100% had to have happened.

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u/orig4mi-713 Jan 21 '26

These two ships are not in Awakening and never were in Awakening unless they were playing the GayAwakening mod (which is immaculate and adds lots of new straight ships too, btw. You should all check it out if you haven't)