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But, it also feels like it cheapens it if it'd happen everytime.Instead I'd make em be extended hospital stays and maybe partially disabling injuries(not trying to step on Barbaras deal as Orcale, bur you know as human vigilantes that get as horrible injuries as the Batfam do, maybe real physical cost should be a bit of the price of that, still not really certain who would it be)

Anywho going over all that, what do you think the Batfam would do think some fun or sad interactions they could have with their allies and teams(maybe non-canon friendships if you have any of those) instead as injuries rather than their deaths in comic canon? Maybe a bit post the hopsice stay if you like the idea?

death in comics stops feeling meaningful when it becomes a revolving door, and the Batfamily in particular works best when the stakes feel grounded. Replacing “death arcs” with severe injuries or long rehab stays actually keeps things more emotionally consistent.

Long-term injury arcs give you:

Characters are forced to sit with vulnerability, fear, guilt, and responsibility rather than having a magical reset button.

Injuries create downtime and downtime is where the Batfamily actually bonds.

Dick jokes through pain, Jason pretends he doesn’t need help, Tim works anyway, Damian gets stubborn, Bruce gets anxious. Everyone interacts differently and that’s compelling.

Characters can grow from surviving trauma, not from returning from death.

So yeah I think this approach gives you way more narrative potential and keeps the stakes meaningful.

And maybe, what's another series you'd like to have a Fire Emblem style game?

Honest answer for a Fire Emblem spinoff would be Mario Party. I think that'd be unhinged and hilarious

As for something that makes more sense, a proper rhythm game is the safest bet but a tower defense or a real time strategy game would be great! (Although the latter is basically Unicorn Overlord. That game's a Fire Emblem in my heart)

As for a series that would be fun in Fire Emblem's style... I'd say Octopath Traveler but that's basically what Triangle Strategy is.

Xenoblade wouldn't mix well with Fire Emblem at all gameplay wise so...

Hey! I've been puzzling over this for a couple of days, and after consulting with the council (@hatchuu) we've unfortunately reached the conclusion that... there isn't a neat or cool answer to this, mostly because Maiya, by design, doesn't really have enough going on to qualify for a Pseudo Servant! If she's a character with very little sense of self, maybe that means she'd make a great "empty vessel" for any Heroic Spirit wandering around looking for a body to inhabit, but it also means that she doesn't have enough thematic resonance to call to anyone in particular.

We were trying to think of mythical figures who are famous for loyally supporting other, more famous characters, to the point where they're subsumed into their legends and don't really exist in their own context, because that could telegraph nicely onto how Maiya really only moves through the world in connection to Kiritsugu and could be a cool thing to explore... but even the examples I could come up with are still too famous. e.g. Patroclus is mostly known for his relationship to Achilles and isn't necessarily remembered on his own merit in popular culture, but he's still one of the big plot-relevant players in The Iliad, you know? Much as I personally feel devastated every time I think of it, Fate/Zero's actual story was not altered by Maiya's death in any way nearly as significant as many other mythic "sidekicks". She also doesn't telegraph nicely with any mythic or historical figures famous for being a mistress/lover, since they tend to operate within a very different archetype, so that also doesn't work.

Without getting too deep into the weeds on different views of friendship among peoples and cultures, the short version is Bambietta has very few friends and they tend to be localized to Soul Society in her present day. My view is she always knew that her relationships with the other Bambies weren't friendships (with maybe a possible exception in Candice) but she took what she could get at the time. Her current interactions, largely with Shinigami, are better but not by that much.

They're often fairly awkward and stilted. She deliberately picks Rangiku as someone to hang out with (much like Soifon seemed to simply decide Kiyone was her friend) but is overly blunt and kind of parasocial. She winds up interacting with Momo a decent amount due to some shared similarities. She has a one-sided pseudo-rivalry with my own Yoruichi (which the latter thinks is rather amusing) but I can see that being a crush on a different one.

She's kind of a homebody outside of work or Quincy functions, but has done things like show up at Shinigami Women's Association meetings (in a shihakushō, no less).

I can imagine her readily having interactions with other women in the Seireitei too. I interpret some of Kubo's art as suggesting she has a thing for horror movies, so she might try and get others interested in that too, and that could make for funny interactions with Rukia and Isane? Nanao probably wouldn't like her as she'd likely try and get Shunsui interested in beer.

She would have a very awkward time if she ran into Sajin again. Her efforts to regain her Vollständig might attract the attention of 12th Division, which she would very much not be crazy about.

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My eyes a huge and i am LISTENING

I heard about this ship before and I also considered their respective one-sided/incompatible pinings for Unohana and Yoruichi as a basis for them.

It helps that Soi Fon has more tolerance for women and respects those that follow authority (as seen in Soul Society arc), and Isane has proven time and time again to be steadfast, so I do believe she has Soi Fon's respect (and vice versa of course, Isane isn't rude)

They're also very avid members of the Shinigami Women's Association, so they already have some unspoken familiarity there. And for the physical attraction bit, Isane already thinks Soi Fon is cute on account of being petite, which is something she envies too so 👀👀👀 I like that.

I like this idea of them meeting when they're younger, too. And it's been confirmed that she knows little to no kaido, so whenever Soi Fon would need medical assistance, Isane would be one of her primary physicians once she becomes a lieutenant. It would be pretty fun seeing them have a sort of rough start tho, when Isane tries to get her information for medical history reasons and Soi Fon starts redacting every single detail 😂😂😂 stealth force antics and all that.