Fire Emblem Heroes Skill Activation Quotes

Soren’s skill activation quotes. View image caption for translation.

Winter Convoy Chrom’s skill activation lines. View image caption for translation.

Winter Lissa’s skill activation quotes. View image for translation.

Brave Lyn’s skill activation quotes. View image caption for translation.

Black Knight’s skill activation quotes. View image caption for translation.

Arvis’s skill activation quotes. View image caption for translation.

Effie’s skill activation quotes. View image caption for translation.

Pretty sure these are based on her lines in Fates. One of her lines, ギタギタにする is shared between her, Elise, and Arthur. I’m not actually sure how to translate this, not sure what ギタギタ is supposed to be...

Male Robin’s skill activation quotes. View image caption for the (literal) translation.

Parent-child Japanese quote comparison Part 1: Chrom and Lucina

In Awakening and Fates, children units share a couple of crit lines with their parents. What I find interesting is that in Heroes, Chrom, Winter Chrom, Lucina, and Marthcina have some common lines between them. (I don’t have the spring Chrom or Lucina to compare with, and Brave Lucina doesn’t share any lines)

Row 1 - “I will change my fate!” Row 2 - “This is [the strength of] our bonds!” Row 3 - “I won’t lose!” Row 4 - "I will take this seriously" (as in, "coming at you with my full strength")

Chrom speaks in a masculine, informal / direct way, Lucina speaks in a polite, gender-neutral way, and Marthcina is somewhere in the middle using masculine but more humble speech (僕 (boku) for first person pronoun, sentence ending ぞ like Chrom)

Individual English comparison lines:

Masked Marth’s skill activation quotes. Click on image for translation.

The first and last line are the same as normal Lucina’s. Interestingly, for the 3rd line, it seems that the Japanese and English official translation are switched. That is, Masked Marth’s line in Japanese “僕は負けない！” matches more to Lucina’s line “I will never give up!” and Lucina’s line of “絶望なんかしない！” more accurately reflects Masked Marth’s “Hope will never die!”

I wonder if that was intentional, or if there was a mix-up somewhere...

Siegbert’s skill activation quotes. View image for translation.

These are probably based on his lines in Fates. Two of his lines (the 1st and 4th one here) are mirrored from Xander’s lines. Unlike Ryoma and Shiro’s lines though, it seems that the official English translation kept the link probably because they didn’t change Xander’s lines like they did with Ryoma’s

I’m also pretty sure that his 3rd line is also repeating one of Xander’s lines. I can’t remember what context (maybe even in Warriors) but I’ve def heard Xander say them at some point.

Shiro’s skill activation quotes. View image caption for translation.

Pretty sure these are based on his Fates lines. His last two lines in Japanese are actually a copy of what Ryoma says . However, it seems that the English official translation did not keep this link.

Also, unlike Ryoma, where the official version totally changed what he says, Shiro’s lines are actually pretty literally translated ‘cept the last one (奥義, which doesn’t really have a good simple translation)

Also to note in Japanese, Shiro speaks a lot more casually than Ryoma. For example, the line he shares with Ryoma: 諦めねえよ vs 諦めるものか, they mean the same thing but the way Shiro says it is a lot more casual.

Tharja’s skill activation quotes. View image caption for translations.