EVERY Gender Difference in Fire Emblem (FE1-Engage)

[@Faerghast]

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[@nessdbest8708]

Its War Mage not Mage Fighter.

[@Direblade11]

tbh please make a video about fighting landlords

[@LittleMisZorua]

18:40 small correction there! Rosado wasn’t the first man to use a female base model, Forrest was! His troubadour and strategist models both use female base models. He just uses the male model if reclassed into anything else. Because he uses the shortest fem model at base, he suddenly jumps in height if he’s ever reclassed into anything outside of troubadour or strategist

[@DrunkedOwly]

It works so weird, I remember that the game stutters if you change his body type through clothing

[@finaldusk1821]

In addition, Forrest also used female animations / poses while in those classes or whilst at My Castle.

[@kityanokurane4394]

There are actually more gender-locked DLC classes than were mentioned in this video! Awakening has Dread Fighter for males and Bride for females. Fates has Ballistician, Grandmaster, Vanguard, and Lodestar for males plus Witch and Great Lord for females. Interestingly, Fates also has Dread Fighter and Dark Flier as DLC classes and while they were gender-locked in Awakening they are no longer gender-locked in Fates.

[@TheWanderingLPer]

It's so silly that the Dark Mage line is male-locked in Three Houses, and then the best actual user of Dark Magic (which very few characters even get at all) is Lysithea.

[@Underworlder5]

also, out of the four units who naturally learn dark magic, only one of them is male. the majority of dark magic users are female, yet the class that specializes in dark magic is male exclusive

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

​@@Underworlder52, Jeritza learns Death

[@zimonzieclown1633]

And it's also dumb that War Master is locked to males only, especially since the replacement for Hilda as an enemy unit is a War Master, but she can't be one herself.

[@jaidora]

The dark cavalier class is also a very desirable class for Lorenz because of his adapt talent in both lances, horseback riding, and black magic but he can’t become a Valkyrie, or a male equivalent to a Valkyrie.

[@disgustof-riley]

Correction: Hapi, but point still stands

[@skaparinn]

Great video Ghast! But small inaccuracy at 5:57 : Machuya isn't the first female axe-wielding unit. Lachesis can wield axes after promotion in FE4. Granted, there is absolutely no reason to ever do that in a game dominated by swords, but still.

[@Faerghast]

the video is ruined

[@thesuperthingymabob8209]

Glad I'm not the only one that noticed this lol

[@nessdbest8708]

@@Faerghast Also, its Fae not Feh

[@evanseifert8858]

@@nessdbest8708 You mean it's Fah not Fae.

[@nessdbest8708]

@@evanseifert8858 pronated the same way

[@Kwang_Ko]

15:39 I believe Siegbert, Xander's son also has a personal based on gender, and it's called Gallant. "When user is the support unit, if the lead unit is female, the lead unit’s damage +2." Speaking of Fates... technically speaking Felicia and Jakob join time being based on the Avatar's gender is also a gender difference... even though both will join you eventually... that counts, right?

[@ivanbluecool]

Charlotte doing her best to wear the "fighter" attire to be all inclusive. Charlotte best girl for that.

[@thunderknight4149]

Meanwhile Subaki try his best to fly a pegasus

[@AlexArtsHere]

She could be trying harder….

[@ivanbluecool]

@@AlexArtsHere you're right. All male fighters and brigands should get a bow too

[@waluigihentai]

​@@AlexArtsHereI think there's some art of her wearing the full thing

[@SpanHam]

Charlotte personal skill is violence against women

[@fiendishcaterpie83]

Male Pegasus Knights actually exist in fe3, but only as enemies. They have a different sprite than the female ones and wear a helmet. This is notably a bit weird since there are no named characters at all that use it.

[@Faerghast]

oh cool i didn't know that at all!

[@Dakress23]

IIRC male Pegasus Knight can sometimes appear in skirmishes in Three Houses as well, using the generic mercenary class icon given the male units were never intended to use it (not unlike Hilda's female War Master replacement from Azure Moon).

[@JacobNintendoNerd99]

​​@@Faerghastadding to the above, this is retconned by FE5 which started the "Pegasi can only be ridden by women" thing and 11/12 made sure to retcon the instances of enemy male Peg Knights to be female in line with this

[@mattinsula7143]

It's ironic how the "definitive" dark mage class in 3H is objectively the worst male-locked blass and is just a stepping stone for Hubert to reach Dark Knight

[@Dakress23]

Hubert IMO doesn't need Dark Knight that much, if only because the last maps of CF are very unfriendly towards cavalry.

[@mattinsula7143]

@@Dakress23 I'd rather not deploy Hubert at all than have him in another class

[@schmae3503]

I still find Houses makning the base game brawling classes gender locked pretty ridiculous. Even with War Cleric it always feels weird trying to use a character like Catherine as a Brawling unit outside of just using gauntlets with unintended classes. Oh and also welcome back, glad to hear the land lord boss battle was successful.

[@banbanthebandit4002]

All the gender locked classes in 3h were kinda silly. Like why is Dark Mage male only when only 1 male unit even uses Dark Magic compared to the 3 female units who use Dark Magic. To me it always felt like the gender locked classes were just made gender locked for the sake of it, there’s no actual reason male units can’t be Pegasus Knights or Valkyrie’s but the game said no, there’s no reason female units can’t be Hero’s or War Master’s but the game said no. Side note it still kinda weird how Pegasus Knight was still gender exclusive in Engage for no reason again, like why even bother making it gender locked, it’s a base class that no one’s gonna go into.

[@Underworlder5]

@@banbanthebandit4002 three houses even has a generic female war master, further showing how arbitrary the restriction is

[@JacobNintendoNerd99]

​​​​@@banbanthebandit4002because it's explicitly canon that Pegasi don't allow men to ride them unless they are passengers. There *is* an actual reason for Pegasus Knights to be gender locked. I think the way Engage handles it is the best way to have Pegasi adhere to the lore without leaving men out entirely by ditching Falcon Knights and replacing them with Griffins, which would be nice to see going forward for the series. Sky Knights in Fates have the excuse that they aren't riding Pegasi at all but some kind of Hoshidan specific creature. (The Japanese only DLC class for Minerva is the proper Awakening style Pegasus Knight) Everything else though is entirely arbitrary like you said. I am 90% sure literally the only reason Dark Mage is male only is to ensure Hubert is the only player unit who would get any use out of it for whatever reason since otherwise Hapi and Lysithea would be clear choices for it.

[@damiand6818]

It always bothered the hell out of me that Dark Flier and Valkyrie were -both- female only, with how dominating flight is in the game. It feels like it makes my boy Hubert just needlessly knee capped even more compared to Lysithea/Hapi/Constance.. also that 3/5 of the DLC classes were female only- though I don't much count War Cleric/War Monk because they're the same class, just gendered (for some reason).

[@finaldusk1821]

@@JacobNintendoNerd99 The canon excuse, which came up as recently as Warriors, is itself pretty damn arbitrary. Outside of being somewhat heavier on average, a saddled male rider presents no real difference to their mount. Given the heavy lances and limited plate armour some pegasus riders carry (see Sumia for instance, whose mount could fly just fine while dodging javelins with both her and Chrom on its back), a slightly heavier rider doesn't hold up as an excuse. And it's obviously not down to any assumption about the rider's temperament or ethics either. For temperament, compare Clair to Ashe or Ignatz (nothing against Clair, she's a good person, caring and dignified most of the time, but you can't look at her more snobbish or short-sighted moments and tell me she's more mild-mannered than those two). For ethics, compare Aversa to ALMOST ANYONE ELSE. I don't think the designers meant to imply any offence or anything BTW, they likely figured pegasi are a more traditionally feminine image and rolled with it as a series tradition after that. But the idea that a pegasus would refuse a male pilot because "reasons" makes as much sense to me as the idea that a muscular woman swinging an axe as frontline infantry is somehow 'impossible'.

[@Faerghast]

I AM BACK WITH A BIG TRIVIA VIDEO!! Thank you all so much for your support! What is YOUR favorite gender quirk/difference in Fire Emblem? Any of yours I didn't mention in the video itself? I hope you learned something fun!

[@Faerghast]

The pain of reviewing a trivia video at the 11th hour and realizing you forgot very obvious gender differences....

[@nessdbest8708]

you forgot about Bride & Dread fighter for fe13.

[@audreyschicksalholmwiltz3872]

This discussion made me realize that Idunn was the first female dragon/Manakete to become a final boss. Until finally Rhea comes in and continues this long forgotten "archetype"

[@troykv96]

She is also the first female final boss as a whole.

[@Zwei-II]

You are not counting Female Robin Grima tho

[@NihilOni]

Did you forget about female grima ?

[@cyndit9054]

@@troykv96 How many female final bosses are there in general? Idunn, Ashera, fGrima, Edelgard, and Rhea?

[@troykv96]

@@cyndit9054 Yes, they're indeed the female bosses that exist in Fire Emblem.

[@garretschinkel2740]

Fates veteran here; one thing that I never hear people mention is that there are different attack animations for boys and girls. It’s very noticeable in victory animations and some crit animations for ranged weapons. One outlier to this rule (and how I noticed these animation differences in the first place) is Forrest. Forrest uses the more feminine animations to match his personality which is an amazing attention to detail that I’m surprised more people don’t know about it.

[@Arkholt2]

One notable difference in Gaiden and Echoes that wasn't mentioned is promotion levels. In general, melee classes can promote starting at level 7, then 10, then 10, and magic and flyer classes can promote starting at level 12. However, female mages are different. In Echoes, female mages can't promote until level 14, and in Gaiden they can't promote until all the way to level 20. This is, of course, unless you use some kind of patch (the Echoes remove gender lock class patch is really good).

[@draydthundroz8098]

RIP Subaki not even being mentionned as the first Male Pegasus Knight in the series unlike other units in the video ;-; Instead being brushed aside by saying males can now reclass in it.

[@Technicellie]

And then there is Shigure who also does that. Kinda nice to see how diversity in gender expression got increased by a lot since awakening and fates. ^^

[@davidgeorge1943]

18:06 another fun fact, Felix also knows Darting Blow, but only as an enemy. This is most likely in reference to the fact that his ancestor, Fraldarius of the Ten Elites, was a Falcon Knight.

[@crysosisback7115]

In FE5, it's not that "male archers" have +1 mov, it's just ronan having a bonus of +1 mov at base, to make him a tad different. if you randomise the game, the male archers you get have 5 mov. And said randomiser also specifies that some units can roll with a +1 move, which is what some specific units have in the game. Edit : Kinda wrong, added context down below

[@hozus.7330]

No, he's correct. If he wasn't, Ronan would gain a point of movement on promotion, but he doesn't. Only Tanya does. Male archer and sniper classes both have 7 movement, while female archer has 6, and female sniper has 7.

[@crysosisback7115]

@@hozus.7330 Had to double check, it's a tad more complicated. There are 2 "bow infantry classes" in Thracia 776. The "Bow Fighter" and the "Archer", one is available to the player at base, (Bow Fighter), in which case, the males DO have 6 mov, and the female have 5 MOV, but the actual "Archer", which is locked to the enemy without a randomiser, will have 5 MOV for both Female and Male. That's how i got a Leif archer that's coming with 5 MOV at base. So i'm kinda wrong, but it's because archer and bow fighter are different classes entirely. It's still weird that males have 6 moves, i'm pretty sure that they did that to showcase that ronan was faster in the end, since they didn't develop with "randomised" units in mind. (He's a hella meh unit at base, with more mov, and good vigor, thus making him better on some aspects)

[@themettking]

Something funny I found in FE8, in ch 17 there’s a few Valkyrie, a female only class, the enemy starts off with, but if you check their stats their aid uses the male’s 25 base for mounted instead of 20. It doesn’t affect anything since they’re generic enemies but it’s still there.

[@MythrilZenith]

Glad to finally see this script make it through! The editing is class as always 👌

[@neog8029]

Slight correction about Fates' personal skills around 15:20. Siegbert's Gallant anf Forrest's Fierce Counter are also gender depemdant. Gallant requires a female as the lead Pair Up unit, and Fierce Counter requires a male enemy to initiate combat Can't say I blame the oversight since Fates' kids' petsonal skills are often overlooked, but I figured it should be pointed out since you remembered Sisterhood and Daydream.

[@rhododendron2511]

Siegbert’s personal skill, “Gallant,” boosts a female ally’s damage by +2 when she is the leading unit in a pair with him (when Siegbert is backpacking).

[@holosimpleo1334]

Siegbert the simp lol

[@gamervictor6761]

16:22 Actually, you can forge the Golden Dagger Celica starts out with into a Ladyblade for 1 gold mark so if you either use DLC or defeat Grieth in Act 3 you can get the Ladyblade before Duma's Tower

[@rigistroni]

Only error i noticed in this video is that in order to unlock the combined class pool in New Mystery, you don't just have to beat the game. You have to beat the game on hard and beat medeus. If you play on normal and/or get the bad ending the class pool is still restricted on the next playthrough Aside from that really small mistake, great video!

[@Wlightning25]

Glad to see you uploading again. Great video!

[@invenblocker]

You missed two gender bases personal skills in Fates. Forrest's Fierce Counter deals +2 damage on Enemy Phase against male enemies. Siegbert's Gallant gives +2 damage to a paired female ally if he's the support.

[@legacytag]

I think the gender differences in Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes are also a pretty big thing to note as there are some pretty stark differences, though it is a spinoff and not mainline, and also the wikis SUCK for this, so I don't expect anyone to talk about it lol In terms of classes, the Pegasus Knight, Falcon Knight, and Gremory are locked to female units. While the Brawler, Grappler, War Master, Dark Mage, and Dark Bishop are all locked to male units. The unique classes of Saint (though it is just a female variant of Mortal Savant with unique skills), Armored Lord, and Emperor are exclusive to female characters. And the unique classes of Death Knight (A version of Dark Knight with enhanced abilities), High Lord, Great Lord, Wyvern Master and Barbarossa are exclusive to male characters Due to how the weapon ranks work in Three Hopes, you unlock a class as you unlock the next level of weapon rank depending on what weapon that class uses. (IE, an advanced class that uses axes will unlock B rank axes). However female classes don't learn any classes that wield gauntlets aside from the beginner Fighter class, so instead they will automatically be given A+ in gauntlets when unlocking Great Knight, Wyvern Lord or Bow Knight. This also means that the skills learned in these classes are gender exclusives: For Pegasus and Falcon Knight: Their class abilities of Alert Stance and Alert Stance+, and the learned skills of Pegasus Knight's Ploy, Pegasus Knight's Wisdom, Darting Blow, Harmonious Specials, Sol, Speed Catalyst, Tableturner, Muster and Item Expertise. However, the two lance combat arts learned exclusively by that class, Stormblade and Lance Jab, can be taught to any male character by Ingrid. For Gremory: Their class ability Bow Breaker 4 is exclusive purely to their class, and their learned skills of Flare, Magic Attack Range+, Defiant Magic, Ice Assist, Fire Assist, Dark Assist, Lightning Assist and Light Assist. For Dark Mage and Dark Bishop: Their class abilities of Miasma Δ, Impair, Cavalry Buster 3 & Lv 4 are exclusive, with Miasma Δ also being exclusive to male characters excluding Lysithea. Their learned skills are Dark Mage's Ploy, Dark Mage's Wisdom, Essence of Darkness, Poison Strike, Transmute, Lifetaker, Impossible Feat, Covenant, Absorb Strength, Absorb Magic, Absorb Dex, Absorb Speed, Absorb Luck, Absorb Defense, Absorb Resistance, and Absorb Charm. For Brawlers, Grapplers, and War Masters: Their class abilities of Tome Buster Lv 2, 3, & Lv 4, and Shatter are exclusive, and their learned skills Brawler's Ploy, Brawler's Wisdom, Brawling Prowess (All 3 levels), Concentration, Underdog, Apex Gauntlet, Rejuvenation, Boost Critical, Piercing Cry, Piercing Gaze, Quick Reposte, and Tomebreaker. The combat arts learned by Raphael and Balthus, Draining Blow, Mystic Blow, Lightning Fist, Steady Stance, Frozen Fist, Fierce Iron Fist, Mighty Blow, and Flamewhorl Kick can be taught to any character. As well as the 3 combat arts, Rushing Blow, Dual Devastators, and Battle Trance can be learned by all characters. The combat art Whirlwind Kick is exclusive to male characters however. Leonie's Rivalry skill also is back, but instead of giving her damage and damage reduction, it will boost her Warrior Gauge fill rate when a male ally is nearby or her adjutaunt. Sylvain's Philanderer Skill (Renamed to Adept Flirt) is the same, accept it fills his Awakening Gauge. Hilda's Advocate skill now fills her Adjutant, aptly named Adjutant Gauge and increases the Adjutant follow up damage she does when paired with a male ally as their Adjutant back up support. Seteth's Gaurdian skill however has been changed and no longer has anything to do with the gender of the characters, instead healing other units nearby when picking up healing items regardless of their gender. I believe that's everything in Three Hopes. I have...Way too much time in this game but I might've missed something.

[@MissMichiiFaye]

I remember that Awakening also had the gender-locked DLC classes of Bride and Dread Fighter! Didn’t know dread fighters dropped being male-only in fates tbh. It was really cool to watch all the differences throughout the franchise!!

[@Xan4591]

No love for Nephenee? First (and only) playable Soldier which is otherwise an enemy-only male unit. I was about to include the promotions, then I remembered Devdan and he starts in Halberdier. Also, more soldier classes playable when? Nephenee was always one of my favorites for that

[@Kruggov]

Well, Neph is neither first playable Soldier (that'd be Lukas), nor is she only (there's also Lukas and Forsyth from Gaiden/Echoes, and Aran from RD). Also games where Soldier or Soldier-like (unpromoted infantry lance) class is playable: Gaiden The Sacred Stones (thank you Ephraim) Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn Awakening (except it's Villager, so yeah) Fates (not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR playable unpromoted lance infantry, though Lancer is only usable by captured generics) Echoes Three Houses/Warriors: Three Hopes Engage (Timerra and others can be reclassed into Lance Fighter)

[@Xan4591]

@Kruggov Gaiden was only released in the west as Echoes, so I didn't really think about those two. For some reason, I thought they were the red and green cavaliers of the game. Ephraim is a lord, so I didn't count him. He's not a generic unit. I'm surprised you didn't pull Amelia's Super Recruit Anything after PoR is after PoR, which is why I called Nephenee the first playable Soldier. It helped she was amazing.

[@Kruggov]

@@Xan4591 I kinda forgot about Amelia. As for Nephenee, yeah she is amazing, if only she didn't start with E in lances.

[@wishfuldentochoosensilver3923]

Nina having a BL skill is outrageous 😭

[@SuperLuigiKart64]

The Engage ones are also insane; *Chloe ships whatever het couple is within her line of sight as if it were a prince-and-princess courtship *Louis is trying to protect (imagined) lesbians so hard he takes less damage. *Rosado and Goldmary are exuding so much cute/femme fatale energy that they're weaponizing it.

[@kmon9911]

Ooo a randomized engage playthrough sounds fun to watch, hopefully there's a way to randomize the emblem rings too somehow

[@Zwei-II]

There is, I saw a playthrough where Warp Ragnarok was Lodestar Ush and is funny cuz the Teleport sequence plays but withou the camera angles so Celine just point blank tps and shoots

[@squirenonny]

Agreed! This sounds super fun!

[@lunasperidot8760]

I actually just finished one myself. It was very fun

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

He should finish his reverse recruitment playthrough first imo

[@Ramperdos]

Banger video! I really enjoyed your episodic playthrough of Echoes, so I'd thrilled to have another one.

[@SodaCrab]

Definitely didn't have "Ghast video with SEX in thumbnail" on my 2024 bingo card

[@Jman19781]

Really appreciated the work you put into this video!! Learned a ton about games I haven’t had the chance to play but now want to. Sorry you have been burned out! A let’s play sounds amazing!!

[@NyteLyte_]

It’s always fun seeing just how much information we can find and discussions we can have involving this series. Love the video Ghast!

[@issacsmith8963]

It's nice to hear from you again! Hope moving has been relatively okay

[@exbeyo]

Loved the old randomized playthroughs back in the day, hope you end up doin another! Great video.

[@MaxCheng95]

In Fates, Leon’s son Forrest uses female action models due to his feminine appeals despite being male himself.

[@zephyare1700]

So i dont know if this counts at all but another difference in radiant dawn is all male sentinal (levail, devdan, and aran) class impale skills plays 5 hits both visually and audibly *the extra bit coming after the 3rd hit when pulling back the lance* while the only female *nephenee* plays it correctly with only 4 (though this is only as an audio and visual bug in the 3d battles)

[@barnertalik1806]

Glad to see you're back ghast, i hope you're doing well. Dont burn yourself out!

[@sebastianooo6910]

the only real SEX difference in radiant dawn is whether Ike has it with Soren or Ranulf

[@federicogou]

Happy to see you back :)❤

[@Skepten]

Small addition when it comes to FE4, Male Mage Fighter had a higher sword rank than their female counterpart, while female Mage Fighter had access to staves (which their counterpart didn't even have). And their base (and therefore max) stats were different too. Also, IIRC Shaman was women exclusive.

[@jestermaiden9673]

the difference between the two terms is that i did not have gender with Lady Rhea

[@yeah351]

I think it’s worth mentioning that female paladins in FE4 had C rank staves in exchange for having a lower lance rank (C rank as opposed to the male’s B). This sort carried over to thracia, but with the weapon rank rework, they lost access to lances entirely.

[@Mar-lf3ni]

17:41 literally the goat, Sylvian is iconic

[@PsychoPenguin1919]

welcome back

[@betterthanbrooklyn5806]

u are da goat Ghast I been watching since ghast station and ur content just keeps getting better

[@maverick5169]

As a certified Hopes enjoyer, I have a few nice informations Just like in the base game, Death Knight is Jeritza (male) exclusive class, which means that only a man can get the lone wolf skill, which increases damage if allies aren't near him. Women are also locked out Dark Mage/Bishop classes which include - Absorb skills, which increase a certain stat upon defeating commanders - Essence of Darkness which increase the range and seemingly the power of dark spells - Impossible Feat which takes some of your health away when you attack to increase your power And valuable brawler skills such Tomebreaker, a skill that keeps the hit count on screen more time and another one that heals you whenever you reach 800 blows or any multiplier of that number. Meaning that only some men can get a suicide build that counts on keeping the hit score on screen in a cycle of self harm and healing. Only a NG+ Shez can get Essence of Darkness and the other skills, but she can only get Absorb Speed since Male Shez is a speed focused character. Not a single woman will get Absorb Magic or Absorb Strength. It's pretty ironic since women are usually magic oriented in this series but the strongest mage in the series stat-wise is gonna be a Male Arval with the Mag+ skills and Absorb Magic, with Hubert being in second place, he misses out on Mag+10 since Dark Bishop is his canon classes which gives him Bow-Breaker Men do miss out on the Gremory and Pegasus Knight skills but those are fairly niche, like reducing the enemy's res Edit: Essence of Darkness only increases range, I tested a combat art with and without the boost and the damage is the exact same

[@stick9898]

Fates and then continually in 3H games marked a revolution where the most prominent figures of axe wielders were female units. 3H made all sacred axes unique weapons for females

[@JajajaAhhaha-t2f]

I think they different aid system in gba games is a way to balance the fact that most female units have really low con compared to male units, so while a flying wyvern guy had 10 con a flying pegasus girl 5, she would have been able to carry more if not for the limitations. But this also applies to female cavalier/paladins and female wyverns that tend to have at least 2 con less than their male counterparts at base and more since some guys have additional con at base compared to their class constitution stat

[@Quick_Nerd]

pretty cool video thank you for making this

[@SpiritualAura96]

If there’s one thing I didn’t get in Fates is why was the Grandmaster class Male only? I did a hack forever ago and tested it on several female units and some of the support skills worked really well with Elise and Camilla, and seeing Azura activate Ignis just looks aesthetically pleasing 😂😊👍

[@SuperLuigiKart64]

Grandmaster is locked to male because it's taken from the Robin amiibo. While Robin could be either gender in Awakening, the amiibo for Robin is only the default male version. This gives it parity with the other amiibo classes, who have defined genders.

[@propoppop9866]

Its interesting to note in three houses lythea despite being locked out of the main black magic lass dark bishop gets black magic skills in other classes. Unfortunately three hopes has all the same gender locks meaning lysthea cannot use black magic (her primary form od magic in three houses) in the game, yeah i kind of wish she had a trait or soemthing that let her pick up dark bishop in thee hopes or maybe a trait so her other mage movesets change into the dark bishop moveset

[@AtcyJAC]

Another great video!

[@jamestopfaff]

Flayn’s skills is the opposite of Hilda’s where it reduces male taken damage by 3

[@angelromero1807]

This is the kinda content I wanna see! I love it

[@TacticianGeek]

An interesting thing with how Awakening's class inheritance works for gender-specific classes is that certain class trees are treated as "equivalent" to each other. If a father has Fighter as one of his reclass options, he will pass on Pegasus Knight to his daughter (with the exception of Vaike who will pass Mercenary to his daughter instead for some reason). And if the father has Barbarian as one of his reclass options, he'll pass on Troubadour to his daughter. The same is true in reverse, Miriel passes on Barbarian to Laurent instead of Troubadour, Olivia passes Fighter on to Inigo instead of Pegasus Knight, and Maribelle passes both on to Brady. This ends up being important since it means that you can get Noire, Nah, and Kjelle to be able to get Galeforce despite Tharja, Nowi, and Sully not having access to it by marrying each of them to male Robin, Gaius, or Donnel. Hence the Awkward Zombie comic about forcing Gaius to marry Tharja.

[@smaza2]

you're pretty safe using sex / gender interchangeably because there are no canonically trans characters in FE, meaning that sex & gender are aligned for all characters. but kudos for acknowledging the distinction

[@JordiumZ]

he just didn't want to be "cancelled" lol

[@YtCensorship]

Please return to your mental institution, your fellow delusional people miss you!

[@mysmallnoman]

The only people who would care about this are people spending too much time on Twitter

[@jemolk8945]

@@JordiumZ No, as stated, he didn't want KZbin's algorithm to see the word "sex" in the title, because that runs the risk of the stupid robot deciding that the video is NSFW and demonetizing it. You weirdos always blame everything on culture war nonsense, though.

[@Dusknoir234]

For pretending there's a distinction you mean

[@jamesellis983]

Hell yeah, he's back!

[@ivanbluecool]

I like seeing the exclusive classes a lot and wish for more to see them branch off more often. Fates could have done more to give the royals their own special classes as sakura has mikotos outfit like Lissa to emmeryn and Leo Elise sakura could have been some cool units with their royal blood affecting their class. Xander easy conquerer Engage opposite since the lords had the skills and that just made things less fun to build arohnd. Do wish they added a second female villager in echoes to play off of Faye since she's the only girl of the group and nobody even acts like she is one. But she was very broken having extra stats and better growths than the other girls.

[@ramenbomberdeluxe4958]

The problem with exclusive classes is that gender should not be the way they're locked. Its just ridiculous, weird and even sexist if we lock it by gender. Locking it by personality/culture on the other hand...

[@ivanbluecool]

@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 a guy can't be a priestess and a girl can't be a monk but it's basically the same thing. It's just a title nothing more so it's a non factor. Plus it's more accurate making the males physical growths higher while the females are more magic based. Plus Charlotte and rinkah exist so you already got your wish with a female fighter in Charlotte and some classes are both male and female based without any class distinction Only real problem is making females archers. Archery is seen as the weaker skill for those with less muscles compared to swords when that's completely wrong. Takumi should be way stronger for example as bows take more training to be able to shoot one off Region based is already a thing in a few ways. awakening Lissa can't be a dark mage. Tharja can't be a healer. Donnel is a diamond in the rough becoming a hero but his kids can get pegasus knight while vaike can have a daughter with the merc class. Meanwhile fates shares classes when you make a marriage or friendship so that system is sorta already there.

[@JajajaAhhaha-t2f]

​@@ivanbluecoolit is sexist in a boring way, like aside for the "pegasus only let maidens ride them" why are gauntlet classes besides enlightened one and war cleric male? Why are dark mages male when in three houses 3 girls learn dark magic instead of black spells? And while i understand the usually male classes having more physical stats and female classes having more magical stats children (not manakete, literally preadolescent kids or really young fighters) have more str, con and def than girls sometimes and that doesn't make sense (it does from a gameplay perspective as they are growth units but no kid that didn't start puberty is stronger than an adult female

[@ivanbluecool]

@@JajajaAhhaha-t2f well even as a kid I was way bigger than most if not all my female family members and I'm not even the tallest in my family. Plus physical strength wise men are usually on par or stronger before adulthood too. It's just how bodies develop for survival or child bearing. Pegasus you see sumia quelling the pegasus showing her more calm heart can resonate with the creature while male fighters need to be more aggressive in a sense or cold to be battle ready. Plus we see the pegasus males as enemies sometimes and fates the breed is different being able to allow males to ride them with some challenges in tsubaki. Manakete makes sense too. The woman have to stay young as the birth rate is low and keeping a body with the ability to have a child as long as possible keeps their species alive. Male ones meanwhile grow faster to be ready for combat but we know the live long too with bantu still being alive in awakening 2000 years later meeting nowi. Their society is more tribe like and naga did warn the earth dragons Dark mages is a ritual so that's more of a religious thing in making a dark mage or a mage in general. They got similar outfits with rickon and mirel. Then we got sully who went to be a horse rider while her daughter was a knight which are usually male classes. Echoes boey was more defense based while his girlfriend is attack as that's how their personalities go with her being a more direct angy girl while he's more focused and worries. So fire emblem as a whole has moved to giving more classes to males and females in a sense giving some males magic and some females magic boosts so it's more about the individual than the male female thing seeing a male mage vs a female warrior and vice versa. I doubt we'd see a male bride or a female butler class as they'd just change them to appropriate names like groom and maid which honestly I would have liked to see more of to allow males and females to have more classes to play with. Not 3 houses bad in being everything but more branches like fates

[@KanaIzumiya]

I read the thumbnail as "Sex references in Fire Emblem"

[@TheBukketz]

5:10 Erynis is the only playable pegasus knight in FE4 first gen, second gen has 3 playable flying units (one being a replacement unit)

[@reubenbailey7491]

You know, I always thought it was a bit sus that child units in Fates had personality's dictated by their father and hair colour dictated by their mother, but now I feel dumb and like I should have done my research now that I know that it was the opposite way round in Awakening. That makes a lotta sense.

[@adaxhí]

shigure was introduced as a pegasus class in fates, and he was the only one

[@Acrimonie]

YES PLEASE RANDOMIZED ENGAGE LET’S PLAY

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video

[@gwillermoh1963]

I think forrest also does the same thing as rosado where he uses the female model/animations!

[@joshuafisher5447]

Great video

[@yoh2525]

If you're including dlc awakening has bride and dread fighter as gender locked classes

[@sunkeyavad6528]

Since randomized runs were mentioned, let me just recommend Ghasts randomized three houses playthroughs. I especially recommend seasons 1 & 3, because those got the funniest characters swaps overall.

[@SWad250]

Loved the editing, especially with the sprite screens. Loved the motion and energy.

[@CeaZeaL]

So here’s a few fun factoids about Fates through probably the least talked about feature of the game: Bond Units and how gender-specific personal skills were distributed. Of all of the Personal Skills that come from playable characters. Only one gender-specific Personal Skill is available on a unit of the same gender as the unit the skill is sourced from: Nina’s Daydream. Meaning that Soleil’s Sisterhood is available to only male Bond Units. While Forrest’s Fierce Counter is only available to female Bond Units. Additionally, Percy’s skill Fortunate Son, while not affected by gender, is also only available from the pool of female Bond units (which is more so because in Japanese, his skill means “Lucky Soul”, and is not gendered like with the English version). However, two gender specific Personal Skills are not available at all in either Bond Unit pools: Siegbert’s Gallant, which is odd as he is the only child unit of a Royal that is not Kana, to not be available to any Bond Units. And the other is Charlotte’s Unmask, which was maybe a blessing in disguise, given that most of these skills trended to being available on Bond Units of the opposite gender. Though more likely, IS ran out of skills they could make be Bond Units personal skills be evenly distributed. As they distributed the skills to be in groups of 18 per route combination, or 9 per gender of Bond Unit. (Birthright/Birthright, Conquest/Revelation, Revelation/Revelation, etc…) There is also one more quirk of Bond Units I never got to experience, but felt is interesting enough to share, to see if maybe someone knows definitively: So Bond Units have their gender, appearance, classes and skills determined upon entering a My Castle that you will make a Bond Unit with. However there is a (likely extremely rare) chance that the appearance will be that of the Hooded Man (Sumeragi) from Chapter 5. As I have never personally experienced this phenomenon, I can’t verify if this is just something that is just a visual trait. As in, if the actual gender of the Hooded Bond Unit is exclusively only for male Bond Units.

[@glasssawsslipperstraws7410]

I really hate that gender locked classes are STILL a thing even after Fates removed that restriction (mostly). What is the problem that IS has with men being pegasus knights or women being warriors???

[@marcomorgen300]

Cope

[@GrunkusDunkus]

​@@marcomorgen300 as long as we're telling eachother what to do, go outside and eat dirt. 🙂

[@Robin_Robout]

It is especially annoying in 3 Houses where there is a woman with a brawling proficiency and multiple men with flying proficiencies but Catherine can't be a grappler and the fellas can't ride a flying horse.

[@SuperLuigiKart64]

It's a weird sticking point in their Fire Emblem lore they've built up; pegasi are supposedly calmed/accepting of some mystical feminine energy and thus only will be comfortable around them. It's based off classical myths where unicorns had the same feminine-alignment and, depending on the tale, were either attracted to the "purity" of a feminine soul or would only be calmed by the overwhelming grace of a virgin woman.

[@finaldusk1821]

@@SuperLuigiKart64 I get why this became a series tradition but it's an annoying and arbitrary handicap, one that doesn't play by its own 'rules'. For high-hanging fruit, compare Clair to Ashe and Ignatz. Nothing against Clair, she's a good person, kind and dignified most of the time, but you can't look at her many snobbish and short-sighted moments then tell me she's more mild-mannered or consistently compassionate than those two. For rotten, fallen low-hanging fruit, compare Aversa...at all If these oh-so-sensitive animals are happy to work with a sadistic cult fanatic who enjoys little more than bringing death and despair on behalf of her genocidal diety...then just about EVERYONE should meet their bizarre criteria.

[@KhumiSunguard]

Im surprised Rosado cant demote into a peg flier, but that would mean deleting Camille so its totally understandable.

[@Tyler-ob4qp]

Spotted a huge difference you missed Male: No breasts (sans Geb) Female: Breasts

[@norikins1]

Interesting video, but there are many corrections I can make. Firstly, the first game to make pegasus knights all explicitly female was FE4. In FE1, the sprite wears the same full armor as their unwinged cavalier counterpart. In FE2, the sprite's armor was changed but is still androgynous, despite there being no enemy pegasi and thus every pegasus knight in the game being truly female. It seems to me like there was the intention early on for pegasus knights to not necessarily be female. However by FE3 there is undeniable proof, with enemy pegasus knights being male with a different sprite to the playable female ones. This makes sense because, as was put, pegasus knights promoted into Wyvern Knights, and Michalis was a male Wyvern Knight. In fact, in FE11, there are unused male pegasus knight and female cavalier classes, which don't have sprites, but can be modded in as class change options which make the female class options perfectly mirror the first male class set. Of course the female cavalier did eventually make it in next game. Lachesis was the first female axe user, the only way Macha counts is as the first woman to ONLY gain axes on promotion. There are obviously playable fliers in FE4, I think you meant there were no playable MALE fliers. FE4 was notable for being the first time to have the same class, Paladin, be different depending on gender, with Female Paladins being able to use staves in addition to swords and lances. Most classes share the same data regardless of gender, merely coded to display different sprites depending on the character, with Paladin being the exception. Thus in randomizers you can have "male female paladins" able to use staves, although they are very bugged. FE5 in an attempt to make the female paladins not be strictly better than male ones, frustratingly removed their lance access, rather than give male paladins staff access. Apart from this, all of the Kaga games have all classes of the same name be statistically identical. FE6 was the first game to actually give distinctive slots for male and female class variants with different stat bases and caps.

[@66Rokers]

Honestly the Female Paladins in FE5 really got the better end of the deal, mainly not losing access to a weapon type when dismounting and being able to do some funny staff boosts with the flame sword's +5 magic. When Amalda joins she can use the sleep staff at base. With only 3 magic level ups she can sleep any enemy with capped magic while holding a fire sword. She has the incredible niche of being able to use a status effect on Deadlord Canis if she has 19 magic base and someone uses Ensorcel on her. (Nanna can also do this but she has a pretty pitiful magic base and growth. You'll also need to train her sword rank.) I'd like to see Conomor try and do that.

[@mysmallnoman]

​@@66Rokersnanna has C sword rank so it's not hard Also growth scrolls are a thing

[@Whalesharker]

I recall that if you recruit Hilda she will be replaced by (to my knowledge) the only female war master in the game as an NPC ally unit.

[@RigalicReign]

You left out Bride and Dreadnight dlc classes from awakening being gender locked

[@efoy123]

Wasn't fates the first time they introduced subaki the first male Pegasus knight

[@eviltrollface647]

6:16 There is no chapter 18x, not sure if you meant 18 or 14x.

[@Rabbitlord108]

Still want to see a video on the history of Dancers (Or units that serve the same purpose in the case of Herons)

[@fusionoftheaces9097]

I'm confused you said no flying units available in the Fe4 section. What about Erinrys, Fee and Altina who were all females in Pegasus Knight and wyvern knight classes. Or maybe I misunderstood

[@renatocasemiro4695]

Cries in Gwen from fe6 ;(

[@lloydearlofpudding9536]

I love 3H so much, my favourite FE game, but Hilda not being able to become a War Master or Lysithea/Hapi not being Dark Mage hurts. Also, Dimitri as Falcon Knight would go so hard, a class that boosts his speed growth, uses Lances naturally and sooner or later gets access to alert stance+, which would pair so well with falcon knight's avo +10 and his personal skill in part 2.

[@Prof3ssorWalnut]

To point something else out: Chrom and Lucina's great lord are the only classes in awakening to have gender differences in caps.

[@thewindysage1538]

Thracia male archers dont inherently have 6 move and dont get move on promotion, that is a charactheristoc exclusive to Ronan

[@Miacisjaune]

Nope. It is class-based. If you turn Tanya into a male archer, she goes from 6 to 7 move. You might be mistaking Ronan's class with the enemy-only "bow soldiers" (also called Archers in the current translation patches), who have completely different bases, and actually only have 5 move themselves.

[@thewindysage1538]

@@Miacisjaune I stand corrected i guess Now I wonder why they bothered making almost identical bow wielding classes

[@allyrose9494]

Say what you will about Fates, but not counting the DLC it gets credit for being the only game that lets anyone be any class regardless of gender

[@definitelynotshanque]

Idk how good it is for the algo but I will be here for the let's play!!

[@CasualFehPlayer-rf6sl]

Ladyblade was one hell of a drug in Echoes only overshadowed by the Killer Bow but I still loved it doing absurd damage.😂 I’ll never understand why we couldn’t have female brawlers in 3Houses/hopes that would have been so cool.

[@legacytag]

Not the title I was expecting lmao Would definitely love to see a let's play btw!

[@shelbydont]

I would DEFINITELY watch a playthrough :)

[@thekoifishcoyote8762]

Einherjar is pronounced ein-heir-yar but that's just a nitpick. Great video.

[@image44]

Ghast whats your outro song is it from radiant dawn?

[@thefortress167]

In Three Houses, Leonie can be recruited immediately by male Byleth, much like Sylvain with female Byleth.

[@Amalvipls]

>Using the world "gender" to refer to men and women can get you demonitized jesus christ, what a fucking stupid world we live in... great video in any case, I feel your pain

[@marcusclark1339]

yup its depressing state of the world

[@CrossbreedAzure]

Why are you apologizing for only talking about male and female genders at the beginning just make the video and get quick getting political and making everything weird.

[@marcusclark1339]

yup politics ruining everything, he does so cause fear from agenda hive mind if u don't change your language to match their views when one has to tiptoe how one speaks, u know its a problem

[@SweaterPuppys]

I really don’t mind genderlocked classes especially in the games where reclassing isn’t as focused/encouraged. I think it feels a little homogeneous and I point to 3H for example because nothing stops the player from just having all wyverns, as funny as it is.

[@InfinityJKVX]

Congrats on winning against the final boss, the landlord

[@funnynamehere1261]

Yo you forgot Siegberts personal skill.

[@jierdareisa4313]

I love ALL Faerghast videos!!!! ❤