#{support conversations}

How am I supposed to grind money in this game!! In Three Houses, I could easily grind whilst also getting lots of gold via things like bullions and whatever. But that's not exactly an option in Engage, so I don't know how I'm supposed to train and level up and maintain a cash flow while dealing with all this! I hate it.

Thank you for your hard work

I've talked in general about Alear's Ring supports and the changes to the convos with under-18 characters, and talked in detail about a few in particular (like Etie in Etie's peronality post). But I don't think I've detailed Anna's Ring support before now.

In short, the Japanese Ring conversation had Alear and Anna discuss that Anna is too young to enter a romantic relationship right now, so they can exchange the necklace and Pact Ring as friends and business partners until Anna is older. The localization tweaks their dialogue to have them be only friends and business partners, removing the lines about them potentially having a romantic relationship in the future. Their support convos are otherwise pretty closely translated from the Japanese.

Has anybody written a support chain for Camilla and Azura yet? Doesn’t matter if it’s C-S or C-A; I just want to see them talking about their history and (possibly) what life was like for the younger Nohrian nobles. If anyone has, I would love to read it because I feel like it was a HUGE missed opportunity in the main game, especially with Camilla talking about it after she’s recruited in Revelations Chapter 12...

Time for one last chunk of Supports with the old Hoshidans before we get a bunch of new ones.

Support: Corrin/Saizo 

C: Saizo spies on Corrin because she's a royal from the country they're at war with.

B: Corrin, exhausted from looking over her back to check for Saizo, has trouble moving boxes. Saizo sneaks up and carries the boxes for her, because he's honorable.

A: Corrin gives Saizo candy, which he despises. Saizo tells her that he's done spying on her, because she's so fucking stupid that she couldn't possibly be scheming anything. Corrin decides that the two of them are friends, much to Saizo's chagrin.

S: Saizo says he fell in love with Corrin while stalking her.

Review: Overall, pretty decent. Saizo stalking Corrin and Corrin just shouting at him to get him to come out is fun.

Support: Kaze/Sakura

C: Kaze finds Sakura crying because she lost her doll. Sakura is embarrassed, but Kaze understands that it's important to her and helps her look.

B: Kaze helps Sakura find her doll, which was taken to a shop for repairs by Subaki. Sakura pretends she doesn't sleep with the doll.

A: Sakura shows Kaze all of her dolls, one for each of her siblings.

S: Sakura asks Kaze to see her as a woman, not a child, because she's an adult with a woman's feelings. Something contradicted by the rest of this Support.

Review: This one is cute. Sakura acts like a kid and Kaze is nice to her, treating her lost doll as serious. I’d really like this one, if it didn’t remind me that Sakura is a child soldier who marries much older men.

Support: Jakob/Setsuna

C: Setsuna falls into a pit. Jakob sarcastically asks Setsuna if she's having fun, which tricks her into wanting to stay in the pit.

B: Setsuna falls into another pit. Jakob makes fun of her.

A: Jakob falls into a trap himself and begs Setsuna for help; Setsuna tries to help him out but falls in too.

S: Jakob decides to babysit Setsuna to keep her from falling into pits, an excuse to spend more time with her. The two of them get married.

Review: As I’ve stated previously, Jakob and Setsuna are my favorite characters. Jakob’s dry snark pairs nicely with Setsuna’s stupidity. My only complaint is that it isn’t quite as funny as I hoped and Jakob is a bit of a dick.

Support: Azura/Hayato

C: Hayato asks Azura to tell him about all the places she's seen while traveling the world. She says no and Hayato monologues that she's hiding something.

B: Azura apologizes for being closed off, explaining that her childhood wasn't very happy. With a little more prodding, she describes several beautiful things she saw as a kid.

A: Azura describes more places and thanks Hayato for helping her remember the good times in her past.

S: Hayato proposes to Azura, saying they can visit all of those nice places together. Azura says turns him down and says she'd rather just be friends. Despite this, the two get married and have a kid immediately after this scene.

Review: Not bad, although it does raise one question: how much traveling did Azura do before her mother and her arrived in Nohr? I assumed it wasn’t too much travel, and that it happened when she was very young, but apparently not. I suppose she could be talking about traveling done later, but she was mostly confined to the castle in both of her later homes.

Support: Felicia/Ryoma

C: Felicia, wanting to be friends with Ryoma for Corrin's sake, makes Ryoma rice balls. They contain dark chocolate, which makes Ryoma gag.

B: Felicia tries again, this time filling them with massive lumps of salt.

A: Felicia, on Ryoma's suggestion, makes a Nohrian dish: sandwiches. As a child who watched Pokemon as a kid, this confuses me, because I thought sandwiches and riceballs were the same thing. Surprisingly, the sandwich is good.

S: Felicia and Ryoma eat together, her making sandwiches and him rice balls. Ryoma proposes because Felicia is cute.

Review: A simple, but cute Support.

Support: Oboro/Silas

C: Silas tries to befriend Oboro, but she turns him away because she despises Nohrians to the point of wanting to kill Silas for just existing.

B: Silas, after finding out about Oboro's parents, apologizes to her. She threatened to commit a hate crime, so I think she should be the one apologizing, but whatever. Oboro says she's cool with Silas now apparently because they fought together. Silas tells her that lots of Nohrians are good people, which Oboro kinda accepts but not really.

A: After Silas saves a Hoshidan village from Nohrian bandits off-screen, Oboro asks him if he only did it to prove his loyalty. Silas explains that he's a decent goddamn person, in less harsh words.

S: Oboro apologizes for being awful. Silas proposes and Oboro accepts.

Review: Yeah, this one isn’t great. Oboro is at her most awful here, and the game really doesn’t treat her harshly for that, with Silas treating her as just being misguided. Like, Oboro flat out says she wants to murder Silas for his race and he just shrugs it off. Oboro is a shitty person. And this problem is compounded by the fact that Nohr is constantly played as cartoonishly evil and Hoshido as unquestionably good, meaning that Oboro’s bullshit is somewhat justified by the narrative.

Support: Hinata/Mozu

C: Hinata, scammed by a pretty shopkeeper, pays way too much for supplies. Mozu explains that he needs to haggle.

B: Mozu teaches Hinata to haggle by figuring out people’s personalities.

A: Hinata says that haggling is like fighting.

S: Hinata asks Mozu out because she taught him to look at people differently.

Review: Not bad.

Support: Hana/Takumi

C: Takumi finds Hana training early in the morning. Hana suggests they train together, like they did when they were younger, and Takumi runs away.

B: Takumi reveals he stopped training with Hana after she kicked his ass in front of Sakura. He claims that it was because he held back to avoid beating up his sister's best friend, but I prefer the idea that Takumi got beat up by a child then ran away and never fought her again.

A: Hana swears that she'll protect Takumi to restore her honor. Takumi tells her to focus on protecting Sakura, because Hana really cares about her.

S: Hana reports in everytime she defends Sakura as an excuse to talk to Takumi. Takumi says he likes her too.

Review: A fairly bland Support, all things considered. The stuff about Hana wanting to protect Sakura is fine, but other than that it's fairly mediocre.

Support: Azama/Kagero

C: Azama asks about Kagero's clothing. Kagero tells Azama to fuck off.

B: Azama tries talking to Kagero. She puts a knife to his throat and tells him to never talk to her again.

A: Kagero says she should probably do research into ninja clothes.

S: Kagero explains that ninja clothes are good for stealth. Azama says he likes her.

Review: This one went from zero to one hundred really fast. And I’d call Kagero out for being insanely violent when Azama did nothing to her, but I’ve read his other Supports. Threatening to kill him if he talks to you is completely reasonable. Still, this one completely fails to be a romantic Support line.

Support: Ryoma/Silas

C: Ryoma asks about Corrin's childhood in Nohr. Silas explains that they played together as kids. Ryoma tells Silas to stay with Corrin, because it's important for her to have friends.

B: Silas confides that he was a lonely, isolated child before meeting Corrin. Ryoma and Silas bond over their mutual love of Corrin.

A: Silas swears a blood oath out of their respect for each other.

(I’m rewriting his supports with Raphael but not Marianne because his support chain with Marianne is perfect)

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I mean like big wish would be everyone recruitable to each route had supports with everyone, but these are the ones that I feel very strongly about and I’ll give a quick reason why

Sylvain and Dimitri A support (their support chain is my favorite in the entire game even with just C and B)

Dimitri and Ferdinand (might be biased they are my two favorite characters, but I think this would be interesting based on Ferdinand’s opinion that Dimitri is too emotional for a king, flat out saying so in BE and stating “if he can put his emotions aside, he will be a fine king someday” in BL)

Ferdinand and Ashe (Both have a strong sense of justice, so I think their support would have the same tone as their supports with Caspar. These three boys, just want to stand up and fight for the world!)

Dedue and Petra (I think they would have very interesting conversations about what Fodlan is like from an outside perspective. It could even be about Petra teaching Dedue about Brigid cooking)

Sylvain and Ferdinand (They have very different, opposing ideas of nobility. I think Sylvain could help Ferdinand understand why people dislike nobility, and Ferdinand would help Sylvain realize that even with the bitter taste he has, he still wants to become the Head of House Gautier because he wants to help people; also it’d be really funny to see Ferdinand react to Sylvain’s skirt chasing)

Sylvain and Claude (Claude is by no means a flirt, but they sorta have similar personalities. Sylvains kind of a schemer, I think Claude would appreciate him. This is the one I feel strongest about)

Marianne and Bernadetta (two girls with somewhat similar situations who don’t really like t be around other people, theyre kind of kindred spirits to me. Marianne’s gentleness would probably put Bernadetta at ease)

Mercedes and Bernadetta (Bernadetta’s House is the House of religious affairs for the empire, and same like Marianne, Mercedes is very gentle. I definitely think Bernadetta would like her)

Ashe and Lysithea (being afraid of ghosts heck yeah, we all thought this one was gonna happen)

Dedue and Bernadetta (OKAY BUT THREE SUPPORTS JUST ABOUT HOW GREAT PLANTS ARE)

Felix and Hubert (I think their support would be really strange but interesting)

Marianne and Mercedes (they have a lot in common, I was very surprised they don’t have any supports)

Marianne with just any more girls, all her interhouse supports are with boys

Dorothea and Ingrid??? Still can’t believe they’re like one of the biggest ships and their paralogue acts like they’re mega close but they don’t have any supports like wtf that should have been obvious EDIT: Dorothea and Ingrid supports exist but they only go up to B so I will say, A support for them!!

That’s all I can think of rn feel free to yell some more good ideas at me