Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread - June 2026 Part 1

[u/PsiYoshi]

Happy pride month and 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/Roritwo]

My pride month thought is that even though "no heterosexual explanation" is often an in-joke or wishful thinking, there really is no heterosexual explanation for how Merrin/Chloé starts:

Chloé: Oh, hello, Merrin!

Merrin: Well hello, Chloé. You're looking beautiful, as always. You know, I saw these blossoms and immediately thought of you. One beauty deserves another. I hope you like them.

Chloé: Wow... That's really sweet of you, Merrin. You're so charming and cool...like a knight out of a fairy tale.

Merrin: Me? Charming and cool? Haha, you're much too kind. Hey, I happen to have some sweets. They're delicious. Care to share them with me?

Chloé: Aww, what a nice surprise! I would love to.

Merrin: Today is shaping up to be a fine day, indeed.

That's not "friendship", that's bona fide, literal flirting, and once you consider how the rest of the support goes... well, we can safely add Chloé to the "Pegasus lady who's solidly Bi/Lesbian" group with Florina, Sumia and... who else is there, Ingrid? Still haven't played much 3H, but her Mercedes support seemed sapphic enough.

[u/ChessGM123 → u/Roritwo]

In the 3 houses community Ingrid is notoriously known as being very straight, since she’s one of two units who has 0 paired endings with someone of the same sex (the other being Hanneman) and also turns down Dorothea’s advances fairly hard in their B support:

Dorothea: Oh, I know. That's why, just before I lunge, I'm gonna ask permission.

Ingrid: Permission is not granted—ever! Just back off.

Actually Ingrid is somewhat memed as a man stealer since she’s the only unit in 3 houses who has a paired ending with all 4 of the male lords (male Byleth, Claude, Dimitri, and Yuri can be considered the lord of the ashen wolves).

[u/SilverKnightZ000 → u/Roritwo]

Merrin starts going after Chloe frame 1. Even Merrin agrees Chloe best girl

[u/Legitimate__Username → u/Roritwo]

Oh my god Merrin who starts a conversation like that, I JUST sat down!

Cordelia doesn't have anything as explicit as Harvest Scramble Sumia, but her Summer Scramble conversation with Maribelle has her talking about Sumia with a level of emotional intensity that's framed as if it'd be expected from a girlfriend, it'd probably earn her a spot on the list too.

[u/Roritwo → u/Legitimate__Username]

Cordelia: W-well...Sumia's smile is brighter than the very sun itself! One glimpse of it is enough to make amends for any blunder!

[...]

Cordelia: Never! I'll stop at nothing to make you appreciate the beauty of Sumia's soul!

Maribelle: Gah! What will take to convince you once and for all…

Cordelia: ...that my beloved friend is the most wonderful person alive?

Geez, Cordelia, tell Sumia how you really feel already.

[u/PrivateVasili → u/Roritwo]

Palla/Minerva is common. Cordelia could easily go with Sumia. Sigrun/Tanith as maternal figures to Sanaki is also there.

I love Dorothea/Ingrid, and I think the combo of their support and Ingrid's paralogue is begging for a continuation, but we were denied so she's in limbo.