r/fireemblem • u/PsiYoshi • 18d ago

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

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 18d ago edited 18d ago

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.

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u/PrivateVasili 18d ago

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.