Welp Another CYL Is Over. I Probably Should Have Sticked To My Guns And Voted Eirika But My Desire For

Welp another CYL is over. I probably should have sticked to my guns and voted Eirika but my desire for yet unreleased faves got the better of me.

Malice was the first female mercenary of the series and also one of the exclusive character of the most forgotten game in the series, on a level even beyond Thracia. And as the only character of that bunch who is somewhat popular (cries in Frost) she is the one chance of getting that part of Fire Emblem represented.

Kind of like the most popular subsitute kid is the only chance to get the substitutes characters in the game (if it wasn't for the fact that none of them are popular).

As someone who hopes to get representation of every part of FE (Warriors banner when, IS?) I'm hoping beyond hope that this is Malice's year.

P.S.: If Eirika loses for one vote I will cry.

Day 2

I voted for Elena, Ike and Mist's mom because she is exactly the kind of character I want to see expanded on in FEH.

If they can create a personality for the likes of Altina, Ullr and Duma, they can do the same for Elena!

Anyway keep voting for your faves and don't let the day 1 results tempt you.

(Not shown here: Winter!Zephiel, Nino, Delthea, Young Eirika and Ephraim, and Tana, and L'Arachel, and Merric, and Caeda, and the Morgans.)

Ylgr?????????

What were the developers smoking when writing this forging bonds? Askr is basycally a daycare at this point. Look Ylgr, look! There are children about your age everywhere. And I'm excluding the ones that are centuries old (Nils, Nah and the Kanas are confirmed as aging more like humans) but should really count because Tiki and Fae are children, probably less developed than Ylgr herself, it's just that their kind need millennia to reach adolescense.

Nevermind the fact some of them, like Veronica and Sanaki have multiple versions running around.

Day 3

My vote goes to Ayaha from TMS.

It REALLY sucks that TMS got ignored despite the surprising amount of support it got in CYL 5. Voting for a TMS character is almost a moral obligation to fight such injustice.

But why Ayaha? Well, the thing is, the remaining main characters are conveniently enough to fill a banner + TT with Touma, Maiko, Yashiro, Tiki and Barry. But doing so would leave out Ayaha who is also an amazing character and deserves to get in FEH. Which is why I vote for her, because if she gets enough votes she might still get in as a Fallen Hero, or in a seasonal banner, or something. That's my hope anyway. Remember to keep voting your faves.

I TOLD YOU GUYS! I TOLD YOU THAT THERE ARE DOZENS OF PHILA FANS!

PHILA IN FIRE EMBLEM HEROES ?? IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2022 ???????

NOT TO BE OVERDRAMATIC BUT I'VE NEVER IMAGINED IN A THOUSAND YEARS THEY'D ADD HER ONE DAY

SHE'S FINALLY PLAYABLE I'M SOBBING

If you'll excuse me, I will now go cry tears of joy for the rest of the day ( ；∀；)

Wow, the new banner sure was surprising and unexpected.

To begin with I would have never have guessed they would choose Awakening when three other games were ahead of it in the rotation (Radiant Dawn, Fates and Mystery) AND they had the option to choose TMS since they just reminded everyone of its existence. Still, I love Awakening so it's not like I can complain.

I also can't complain that they chose to focus on Gen 1 since I always prefer when they introduce new characters rather than "rescue" characters from "alt hell".

Ricken, Gregor and Phila (!!!!) are good picks and I personally love it when they give us minor characters who were never playable before. So much that I actually voted for Phila in CYL.

And Cervantes is also a based pick. I never would have expected a free Armor Knight from IS. Feels bad to be a Validar fan... tho at this point it has to be intentional. I'm starting to think Validar will be the last character from Awakening added.

The Rearmed hero was really disappointing tho, ngl. Not only it's another Ascended!Celica situation since they gave a character that already has a Legendary the shiny new alt. But even if they picked someone else I would have preferred to have no Rearmed rather than another banner with a Rearmed and an Ascended. Because together with the last NH banner it begins to set a precedent, an expectation...

The expectation that every new heroes banner will have both Ascended AND Rearmed is extremely scary to me as someone who mostly cares about getting every character EVER in this game. Because as long as we have OCs like Eir, Lif and probably Thrasir it's tolerable. We still get 4 brand new characters and only one Forging Bond slot is taken by an alt.

But in the future, we could get only 3 new characters per banner with 2 forging bond slots being wasted. THAT I do not want.

The next Awakening banner could very well be: an Ascended alt, a Rearmed alt, Vaike, Kellam and GHB Pheros. The one after could be an Ascended alt, a Rearmed alt, Inigo, Severa and GHB Noire. R.I.P. Laurent...

I sincerely hope that I'm wrong about this and that they will start alternating between Ascended and Rearmed alts like they already do with Duos and Harmonics. For everyone's sake.