I hate Veyle's role in the story of Fire Emblem Engage. She's being mind controlled for 70% of it, and then it makes me just feel like I never get a chance to meet the real veyle or care about her. Also, evil veyle isn't even entertainingly evil. She's better than Sombron, but that's a low freaking bar. She's no Zephia or Griss or Marni.
What saves Veyle is her support conversations. For a character who I find very badly handled within the story, her supports are delightfully silly. Her and Clanne seem to just be pickling friends, and that's funny. I didn't know it'd devolve into tongue twisters about pickled peppers, but it's pretty funny. And veyle otherwise having a ridiculous spice tolerance is weirdly funny to me. I find it just very silly. Even her supports with Gregory, Zelestia and Madeline seem more interesting than Mauvier's supports with them. Mainly because Veyle has some actual emotion in her voice, because she's got trauma from the four hounds and their behaviour towards her.
Mauvier is still a blank slate to me. He's a stoic devoted to veyle and depressingly dedicated to penance. At least veyle is silly and multifaceted. She's sad about everything she did, she has trauma from being hurt by people, she has a weird spice tolerance, she's at least more interesting than mauvier is to me. I don't want to say I hate the two of them, but I do wish Mauvier at least had some sort of bonus personality trait. All the characters in this game have at least some kind of quirk. And yet mauvier is just...well, he's lacking in any personality to me beyond his story relevance. And that's something I think the game needed to fix.
