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poorlywrittennovel
Oct 9, 2012

Melth posted:

Evidently not. But if it would make it more palatable, I could provide some dressing for it.


Yes, yes, of course it's just a portrait recolor. But unlike most portrait recolors, 1) this one is of a person who didn't die yet, 2) their personalities are quite similar, 3) Marquess Araphen was not officially named during Lyn's story, and 4) there are several fairly plausible explanations for how Marquess Araphen could have ended up working with the Black Fang (I gave one: that his actions during Lyn's campaign put him on very shaky ground, so he decided to throw in with Darin and is now here for more or less the same reason Darin is).

Dude, out of all the things you read way too much into, this is the most egregious. You want to know what other character has a recolor? loving Glass. Aion and Araphen have totally different personalities, and (this is the more damning point against your theory) you can theoretically never actually meet Araphen. He's literally a throw away featured in a single chapter in Lyn mode. Aion is a throw away boss from a gaiden you never have to go to. If they were the same dude, the game would have pointed it out explicitly. FE games are many things, but being good at subtlety is not one of them.

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poorlywrittennovel
Oct 9, 2012

The problem with talking about the schools of magic in FE games is that we never see them used for non-combat purposes. Even Athos whipping up an eternal sandstorm is a destructive application of anima's natural bend. Our only perspectives on how dark magic works from heroic characters are Canas's family in FE6 and 7, and they're all hosed up in their own ways. Anima and light could theoretically have non-violent applications with their tomes we see in games, but we have literally no idea what dark magic can do outside of combat.

poorlywrittennovel fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Mar 2, 2015

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