drawn June 4, '04
posted for Feb17, 2007
(79)
This picture is the counterpart to this picture,
and based on another Enya song: On Your Shore from the Watermark CD. You
see, I played through the game the first time without getting any supports
(though I broke down and supported Eliwood and Hector
to C at the Shrine of Seals level because the 'support' option in the menu
was bugging me) and then Ninian left for her otherworld home (well, she died first, and I cried for two days because Nergal was so evil and Ninian was so good). So, I wondered, if she was in love with Eliwood, how did they get a happy ending? How was Roy born?The obvious answer is... Eliwood married someone else. But that couldn't be! Of all the Fire Emblem games I have played, Blazing Sword is the one with the most obvious pairings - or at least with the ones I'm most set in (Wil and Florina, for example). So Ninian had to marry him somehow.
So, that's why I drew this picture. I made up a story where Ninian can't bear being seperated from Eliwood anymore and tells her brother Nils to seal the Dragon's Gate behind her; she's going back to the Elibe world. And she doesn't swim from Valor Isle - where the Dragon's Gate is - to Elibe, either... some boat comes along since Eliwood and Hector and Lyn started publishing the fact that the island is NOT cursed. On the left is her exiting the front door of the Dragon's Gate, and the middle is her on the sea shore of Valor Isle, and the one on the right is her meeting Eliwood in the garden of Castle Pherae.
Explanation of 'Supporting': If two characters stand next to each other (or, in FE9, fight in the same battle) for many turns (or many battles) the option to 'support' will come up in their action menus. Selecting this will make them talk to each other, revealing back-story or building character, and will also give them a slight combat bonus when they're standing within three map squares of each other. This is quite beneficial when two characters have talked to each other three times (C support, B support, and lastly A support). Each character have have a total of five conversations. Pent and Louise come automatically supported to A level, so each of them can only have two more conversations. Afterwards, if they fall in love, they get married in the epilogue.
So Eliwood and Ninian can now have a happy ending that makes sense, and no laws are broken in doing so.
I went to an open orchestra rehearsal, and they played Beethoven, Haydn, and J.C. Bach, which made me happy.
Also, I listened to my Allens Parsons Project MD, and the last song Old and Wise made me want to make a CG music video of it, but my gmax (a 3D program) skills aren't nearly good enough, so for now I'm going to stick with finishing Lyn's next sentance in my more easily animated movie: "Who are you?" 10 letters. Probably 10 minutes. Then Ceniro can start talking! Cool!