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    Glad you liked my last writing prompt thing. I doubt I'll write the bigger story that it's a part of, mainly because I have too many other projects to worry about. And this one is a bit too dark for my mood at the moment anyways, haha.
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    No guarantees it will work, but we'll see. xD
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    Yeah okay, fair enough; when you first saw me you said you were going to add me to the people you sent mognet reminders to, so I thought you must've had some sort of list. I might do a mognet to some folks when I put the prompt up anyway, just to see if that might garner interest and get things moving again. The Man was talking to me recently about how he might try doing prompts but isn't very confident with his writing, and Psychotic posted that little piece of writing recently too, so I might see if they're interested as well.
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    Yeah, I can absolutely do that. Do you have an updated list of those participating/wanting to participate, since the list on the main page of the thread seems to have not been updated in a little while? And has anyone on that first list expressly said that they are no longer interested and please stop PMing them? Coz I might round some folks up and see if I can get a few responses this week.
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    He's stupid and I hate him
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    I'm having a hard time against Xord ;___________;
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    Nope, the others are unavailable, just left over as you thought.

    You're right in that min-maxing is easier on a second play after you have more experience.

    My general min-maxing advice: Galeforce is the best skill in the game. Any female who can become a Pegasus Knight can become a Dark Flier and learn Galeforce. Do so, and try to pass that on to their children, especially any who have sons.

    Also, Gaius is best paired with Sully, Nowi, or Tharja.
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    You don't have the other restricted romance characters yet. You can tell from the Support page, because all potential Supports are visible. You'll notice that Chrom can't S Rank with Lissa, for example, so her Supports on the page only list C through A.

    There is no limit to Supports in this game except for the "one S Rank" rule (in most previous games in the series, you were restricted to five Supports per character). So you can potentially fill in basically every Support on the page.

    Well, aren't kids these days precocious. But, Yes, when a mommy warrior and a daddy warrior love each other very much...

    Children units are unlocked by S Rank Supports. The actual character is usually determined by the mother (though Chrom and the male Avatar have their own set children as well). The father can supply skills and potential classes, though.

    Remember how I said units can become one of three basic classes? Children can become any of the jobs of their parents (with some replacements for special jobs, or jobs restricted by gender, like Pegasus Knight). So Cordelia can become a Dark Mage, Pegasus Knight, or Mercenary. Her child (another awesome character named Severa) can become those classes as well (though she starts as a Mercenary). Plus the classes of her father. So if you pair Cordelia and Stahl, for example, Severa will gain the ability to change to Myrmidon, Cavalier, and Archer (one of my favorite pairings for Cordelia, both for story and for skill potential it gives to Severa).

    Skills can also be inherited directly. A child unit gains the last skill equipped by each parent at the time you meet the child unit. This is great because it lets you get gender specific class skills (like Galeforce, learned by the Pegasus Knight promotion Dark Flier, and which is the probably the best skill in the game) over to the other gender child.

    There is also stat inheritance. Each character has certain base stats. For a child unit, those base stats are averaged into the stats of the parents. So if you grind up a lot of stats for parents, the children will start pretty darn powerful (I have had child characters start with max stats in their base class by grinding a lot).

    Stat caps are also inherited. While each class has its own maximum stats, each individual unit raises those caps for some stats, and lowers them for others (Miriel boosts Magic and lowers Strength, for example). Children get the caps of both parents added together, and then a +1 bonus to all stat caps on top of that.

    As you may be able to tell, children are pretty broken (relatively, the game is still difficult), and allow for a ton of min-maxing, but it gets worse.

    Remember how I said that any character can basically S Rank with any other? Yeah, they can't with the restricted units or child units. Except for your Avatar, who can S Rank with anyone.

    The Avatar's kid gets access to all non-unique jobs available (male Avatar has female kid, and vice versa), and the stats and stat caps of the parent (though the +1 stat cap for being a child doesn't stack).

    So I would hold off marrying your Avatar yet. You have a lot of characters to meet still, including all the children, so don't rush into marriage. Or, if you do want to S Rank before getting everyone (depends on grinding and DLC you do) go for Chrom's daughter. Both from story and gameplay, she's the best unit, and her child with the male Avatar is almost game-breaking. If you have a female Avatar, marry Chrom yourself. Trust me, worth it.
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    To boost relationships, just fight together. Either Paired or just adjacent. Healing each other also works, as does using Seeds of Trust on Paired units, or sometimes standing Paired units on shiny tiles.

    Barracks events are identical to shiny tile events, but occur every couple of hours and affect random characters. They can also give 2 point bonuses to two random stats for the duration of one battle. And there are special events for a character on their birthday, where they'll get one of every event type.
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    Whoa. Slow down.

    Yes, S Ranks are romantic (marriage proposals specifically). They actually have a huge impact on both gameplay and story. You have to marry Chrom by the end of the war with Plegia (Chapter 13, I think), or the game will marry him to the girl he has the highest Support with. Two chapters after that, you'll see the full impact.

    I would recommend building as many A Ranks as you can, but making no S Ranks (except Chrom) until after you know what they do (tell me if you want those spoilers, but I'll be as non spoilery with them as I can if you do want to know).

    The best girls for Chrom to marry are Sumia and Olivia. Olivia is really hard to marry, though, because if Chrom has even a C Rank Support with any female, you can't marry her, because she only arrives in the Chapter he gets married in.

    Most characters can marry any member of the main opposite gender cast (special characters like Anna and a couple others you'll get later are restricted to opposite-gender Avatars only). Sumia and Chrom both have restricted options, but everyone else is fairly free.

    Supports boost combat stats. It gives higher stat bonuses when using Pair Up, and it increases the adjacent combat bonuses. Basically any time characters are paired or standing side-by-side, you get boosts. They're little green numbers that pop up at the start of a fight. You get +10 to Hit for being beside one character, then each additional increases it further. +10 Dodge, +10 Crit, +10 Avoid, then it cycles back to +5 additional Hit, and keeps going in increments of 5 after that. Each Support Rank acts as an extra level, so Pairing with one A Rank is the same as being completely surrounded by friendly units.
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Part of your world

by Fynn on 06-06-2017 at 04:37 PM
So there's this nagging issue I've had for quite some time now. It's a pretty abstract issue but one I think is pretty interesting and perhaps even important to share nonetheless. For many reasons, it has only become more pronounced recently.

As some of you may know, I want to be a writer. I try to do as much writing as I can. I even do writing for a living, though as an SEO copywriter, it's not exactly that I have an opportunity to spread my creative wings as part of what keeps giving

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On FFVII (part of my Fmarathon rant)

by Fynn on 11-23-2016 at 11:16 AM
Decided this is worthy of being a blog-post, since it turned out to be a much bigger rant than I expected and I'm not sure the marathon's audience is really there for that kind of stuff

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Welp, got all the way to the Shinra building. I was thinking of barging in for once, but it just feels so stupid. I just had to take the stairs again. What sane person would just charge in, guns blazing, when there's a clearly safer, less-disruptive option?

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Frustrations of the writerly sort

by Fynn on 07-01-2016 at 11:13 AM
So there's this thing I've been struggling for quite some time. I don't want to call it a "writer's block" because it kind of seems like an excuse for being lazy. And it usually doesn't last long. This is something that's been eating at me for a long time.

I just kinda feel that I can't write anymore.

I mean, I still write articles for the site sometimes and I write other texts at my work, but it seems like, creatively, I've dried up. I'll come up with ideas

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On story expectations

by Fynn on 03-30-2016 at 11:57 AM
So this is kind of a general discussion, but the general rant I have is based on three popular 3DS RPGs: Bravely Default, Fire Emblem: Awakening, and Shin Megami Tensei IV. Sorry if this is chaotic, as I'm just writing this as it comes into my mind. Also, spoilers from the three games abound.

All of those games were very well received, though for different reasons. SMT is kind of here to serve as a neutral ground, as the evaluation of its story is pretty divided, whereas the consensus

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Character Appreciation: Junpei Iori

by Fynn on 03-30-2016 at 10:37 AM
This is in no way an idea I stole from Pumpkin, no siree.


Junpei Iori is a character from the Persona franchise. He first appears in Persona 3 and all of its subsequent releases as a playable party member. He becomes a social link character as well in the female path of Persona 3 Portable, though he isn't date-able. He is also playable in

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