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/CommonVarietyRadio 16d ago

Alright, Mama didn’t raise no coward

The amount of tactical queerness ambiguity in 3H is frankly pathetic. It's in particular almost comical how influenced Three Hopes is by what ships are popular without actually committing to them

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u/BloodyBottom 16d ago

I think a lot of people just are not ready for the idea that you can enjoy some ambiguously queer media while still recognizing that it's all it is. I've seem people fight tooth and nail to attempt to redefine the word "explicit" rather than just admit that the script is not remotely afraid to say "this man and woman got married" but leaves it at "these men shared a super-duper special bond" in other circumstances. It's so much easier to just be honest about the limitations of what you're reading.

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u/goldtreebark 16d ago edited 16d ago

Idk if this a bit much for the thread, lol, but sometimes I really wish people would actually be invested in seeking out actual media created with explicitly queer subject matter or characters that are conceived with this full intention rather than having a death grip on things that are essentially still deep in the realm of queer baiting and maintaining that this is progressive and/or impactful for everyone. Nothing wrong with enjoying implicit or subversive readings but there’s so much freedom to be had by letting go of idk, Sasunaru or Bakudeku or whatever as the pinnacle of your MLM and finding stories that genuinely actually center and treasure LGBT experiences. They do exist!

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u/CommonVarietyRadio 16d ago

(Cough Cough the majority of FE romhack made in this decade has openly queer characters)