InvestiGAYting L'Arachel's Sexuality || 🏳️‍🌈 SRPG Sapphics 🏳️‍🌈

[@drmajalis1583]

just fyi you might want to add an epilepsy warning between 0:36 and 0:42 because that bit of Sacred Stones' opening has quite a lot of flashes

[@DaniDoyle]

Added, TY for letting me know, it was an oversight on my part

[@drmajalis1583]

@@DaniDoyle no prob

[@ClontonSoup]

I thought Dozla ending was still platonic. It does say she became queen with Dozla at her side but I’m assuming that means as her retainer. Then, it says “Later” L’Arachel was wed, not the two were wed. So, becoming queen with help of her berserker homie and her getting married are two separate events. I imagine he’s just bawling in the crowd while they say their vows.

[@felixfire6583]

Yep, also in the japanese version dozla talks with garcia as if she was his daughter

[@grey-c8138]

I just looked it up, the exact line is "Later, Dozla wept like a baby when L'Arachel was wed." This def is talking about him in the crowd watching the ceremony, rather than him being the one at the altar. (Also, the age gap would make that really weird if he was)

[@someonecommentingonyoutube2596]

Someone already said that Dozla's ending with L'Arachel is very much a "he went to L'Arachel's wedding and fuckin cried the entire time" and how in the Japanese version, Dozla talks about L'Arachel like he's his daughter in Garcia's supports (and it's a big point that he raised her up since her parents couldn't take care of her). As the biggest Dozla fan, that man would let his princess do whatever she wanted!! He wants the best for her!! It sure sucks that she doesn't have a paired ending with Eirika though, because their bond is amazing (though L'Arachel is amazing with everyone in the cast she talks to tbh, she's just that cool), and yet after that is when we got stuff like Ike & Soren's endings and secret conversations and the stuff, and yet Heather still got no love, but personally, I still love our queer princess, slayer of all evil!!

[@Alice-FE]

Girl said Jugdral instead of Magvel

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

The dashing princess of peerless beauty exists outside our labels. She invented her own.

[@Luigiofthegods]

Jugdral? 😱 In FE8? 😱 fE4 rEmAkE cOnFiRmEd??? 😱😱😱

[@empressmako]

that's what i was thinking!

[@kylebennett789]

We all got fe4 on the brain

[@drmajalis1583]

Oh yeah, L'Arachel's A support with Eirika definitely feels like a marriage proposal to me, gives a girl a precious gem and asks to live with her! As for future videos, how about Florina? Her relationship with Lyn seems very close to romantic, at least on Florina's part, there's the bit at the end of Lyn's story where she flat out tells Lyn that she loves her, and in their A support Lyn confesses to Florina that she wants to return to Sacae and invites Florina to go with her, which she readily agrees to Their ending is a bit of cold water though since it states that later, Florina returned to Ilia, I try not to think that was because Florina confessed to Lyn and she didn't return her feelings, but, it does say they went to Sacae together. This definitely reads like the kind of support and relationship that, if it were written in a post Fates world, probably would've been allowed to be explicitly romantic.

[@felixfire6583]

In her paired ending with dozla she isnt marrying him, she is marrying another generic guy or gal ofscreen, also in dozla's support with garcia in the original japanese version remooved from the internationals because alcohol references dozla says to garcia that he views l'arachel as his own daughter, their whole support conversation is even about parenting. It is frankly and thankfuly that dozla's tears in l'arachel's paired ending are the tears of a parent seeing their offspring be grown enough to marry, live a life of her own and have children. Dozla isnt l'arachel's real father, but from what we know, l'arachel parents died when l'arachel was realy young and pontifex mansel could not raise his niece cause reasons so he left her in the hands of a trusted friend, dozla. The reason l'arachel does her don quijote stiles adventures is that growing up she heard the storied of her parents epic adventures so she wanted to live to their memories. Dozla is just a dad who cant say no to his daughter and their paired ending is totaly (and thankfuly cause there is already enough incest jokes in fe8) platonic.

[@maximeminassian6002]

I think L’Arachel is one of those many characters where bisexual/pansexual, if you want to give her a label, is pretty much the best answer you can give because she’s clearly attracted to men, but also shows glimpses of gayness in her supports. Also I’d love to see you investigayte Sylvain, for a bit of man representation, even tho I know you would prefer to stick with sapphic content.

[@McKayla24798]

I’d heard about the Eirika/L’Arachel support before i played sacred stones but didn’t know the full extent of it, so when i got the A support and she fucking proposed i LOST my mind. Trained them both to 20/20 btw.

[@maxyaju4293]

Idk why you are wondering about her orientation on the thumbnail when is pretty clear that she orientates torwards the bench

[@topazlight1586]

Not the first to say this, but I’m pretty sure Dozla’s more of a surrogate father to L’Arachel (which is basically stated outright in his JP support chain with Garcia) and that his and L’Arachel’s paired ending is talking about her marrying some unspecified person while Dozla gets really emotional about it. That said, this is a good video! I think your assessment of L’Arachel is a very sound one, honestly.

[@Khrene]

L'Rachel: "Inness we need to bring Eirika and Ephriam with us on our travels." Me: **Chuckling on Bi and Poly**

[@MrMarket1987]

Well, this was a fascinating thought exercise. L'Arachel really is the sort of lady that would move mountains if it means she furthers her goals, and move them back if it also made her friends happy. With very few exceptions, she's a ray of positivity at just about every given opportunity, and though she clearly has no issues sassing the likes of Rennac out for easy money, or outgambling a cheater like Joshua, she never ever EVER goes out of her way to be a nuisance to anyone else. It might be hard to figure her out and where she might stand on a spectrum, but it's very easy to tell she's just pleasant company to have, and that's something anyone can look forward to in a partner, romantic or otherwise, so at least that part should count for something... Now if I had to guess WHY Eirika would be hesitant, well she IS trying to come to terms with the fact that her Bisexual disaster demon-possed dear friend Lyon is kinda genociding people, so she's probably gonna need some time to ease her heart from all of that baggage.

[@Estratega86099]

She's clearly gay AND european.

[@MongoIndyleo]

I'm glad you mentioned that denying canonical displays of het attraction/love can be biphobic. I'm bi and I have always felt that the alphabet mafia is a little too quick to label someone as specifically homosexual and not bisexual. I understand where it is coming from, but it's still problematic in my eyes, though not greatly. Also, Sacred Stones takes place in Magvel, not Judgral xD

[@DaniDoyle]

Actually the content is named "Great Britain" in the original Japanese script, Magvel is a translation error 🤪

[@luizflavioassismoura6136]

L'Arachel may not be a lesbian, but she's Carly Rae Jepsen-level gay-coded and I'll die on this hill. (Quite frankly, I'm in the "bisexual people exist, Steven" camp regarding L'Ara. She'd be the happiest woman in Magvel if she could marry both Eirika and Eph)

[@ihavekalashnikovyoudomath9275]

"Gay, or European. It's hard to guarantee."

[@BigBoyFargo]

Big crush on Eirika, big crush on Ephraim... Secret poly ending?!?!?

[@lesbibam9702]

You mentioned suggestions. Micaiah bi mayhaps? Her interactions in engage, especially with yunaka had me feeling that.

[@blazerthewyvernwriter]

This was a great analysis on one of my fav magvel characters. Nice work as always! Though, I always thought Dozla was just "by her side, as always" because most of his character is just looking at L'arachel and going "THATS MY GIRL WOOO!!" I thought he was just cheering her on as she married some random ass guy/gal tbh.

[@DarthRayah]

Love that you added timestamps. Really enjoying this series

[@heroicvileplume7184]

I like how you use Oops! All Archers footage here, because it kinda implies that you looked for footage of vanilla L'arachel looking cool, couldn't find any, and then settled on this lol

[@TazTheYellow]

I wheezed and had to do a double-take at "or optimization purposes if you're a blue unit."

[@phiory_is_me]

L'Arachel aka my fav sacred stones character I am biased (and based). One of my fav queer gals

[@MythrilZenith]

10:18 He has no status, he has no grace, this berserker has a funny face. (Send help, the memes have consumed me)

[@DaniDoyle]

LMAO 🤣

[@graymie]

o7 for a real one she's getting used in my next play-through

[@sigmaklim2532]

We love our bi queen L’arachel

[@randyfool2065]

Yeah I always saw L’Arachel as bi as a bit of comparison to the very bi Lyon. Also I thought Dozla didn’t marry her? Like their ending is him crying at her wedding. Not their wedding? Either way, awesome vid!

[@blueberriesinmycoffee1234]

L'Arachel is such a funny lady, very upper crust, cannot dance

[@Paledomain]

"Judgral" oh my god ifkldsjlidsfsdki

[@DaniDoyle]

Certified oopsie moment

[@ryanreyes3085]

I support my bisexual queen.

[@andremelo1670]

Are you accepting suggestions outside of Fire Emblem, because there are some SRPG LGBTQIA+ characters from outside FE that I would want you to look at.

[@DaniDoyle]

Yeah, I'd look at other SRPGs what recommendations do you have

[@andremelo1670]

​​@@DaniDoyleI would personally like to recommend Valkyria Chronicles, though it does take place in a WW2 inspired setting, and although the atrocities comited twords Queer people are not a part of the story as of the last game, the racism and atrocities towards ethinical minorities does take a small part in the lifes of the 4th game's confirmed Non-binary character and in the 2nd game's implied Lesbian couple. Would that be a problem to you or is it okay to this be talked about?

[@andremelo1670]

Here is a rundown of the LGBT+ Characters in Valkyria chronicles, with their full names, classes and ages VC1 Dallas Wyatt, a lesbian 15 years old enginier that has a crush on the main protagonist's love interest, Alicia Melchiott (19). She studied in a all girl's religious school, wich made her distain unrefined men, and the game, in a icky move, speculates that is why she only likes women. Although she has a potential (how skills are called in this game) called Man Hater, that lowers her Acuracy when close to male allies, she actually does not have any ill will towards the protagonist Welkin Gunther (22), having some respect towards him (in contrast to Noce Worswoth,who also has a crush on Alicia, who has the potential Welkin Hater, that lowers acr when close to Welkin).It's Implied that she still thinks boys have cooties. After Alicia and Welkin married, she was devastated, but soon found herself with affections towards Rosie (27), a bar singer turned shocktroper turned professional singer. Her other potentials that are important to this discussion are Fancies woman and Alicia Lover. Jann Walker, a 27 year old gay man with a crush on one of the main characters, Largo Potter (36), a fellow Lancer that confuses his advances in form of cooking for him as just being friendly. His bio states that he is a mother hen type person, acting as a babysitter before the game and as a kindergarten teacher after the finnal battle. He finds Muscular man, like himself, to be attractive. He uses makeup and earrings. Has Fancies man and Largo lover as potentials that show his affection. Ted Ustinov is a 16 year bissexual man of the scout class. Other than his potentials of Fancies man and Fancies woman, there is nothing in his bio that talks about his bisexuality, and mostly talks about he wanting to be a comedian and becoming one after the game's finally. VC2 In this game, there is only one implied Lesbian couple, that being Magari and Rene Randall (both 16) (Magari doesn't have a surname because she is a darcsen, and as a Tactic to dehumanize them, the continent of Europa earesed their surnames). In some memories (wich are basically base conversations between multiple characters or protag + 1 specific unit support conversations), Rene calls Magari cute, and in she is always protecting Magari from advances from man, they are called "Beauty and The Beast" by students of other classes (this one passes in a military school, different of the others that pass in different armys), beig eighther to insult Rene's tomboishenes while complementing Magari, or being racist to Magari while complementing Rene (mostly the first, since is a point that almost everyone finds Magari gorgeous, but most are still racist, with in one scene, someone flirts with her, she refuses his advances, and he says that she should be grateful that he is giving time to her even though she is a Darcsen) Rene is only of two non Darcsen characters to have a darcsen in her like list (a equivalent to fe5 supports), with this liking being mutual (we are ignoring Avan, since he has everyone in his like list and everyone has him in his like list after their personal mission, and the password Characters, which are not Cannon). A dent in their queer coding is that in the end of Rene's personal mission, Avan Hardins, the protagonist, says that if one day he searches for a girlfriend, he would chose Rene. Rene laughs at the proposal in a friendly banter way. Since Avan becames a lone Wanderer, only maintaining contact with the other 2 protagonists, and Rene founds the fist house cleaning service in the country, we do not know if this ever comes to light. Magari, after graduating, works in a book publisher as an editor. VC4 Cannon Rosetta Valeriano is a 28 year old scout, that uses gender neutral pronouns. The game reveals their name before transitioning, being Rossano. They prefer feminine clothing, both because it makes their fell beautiful, but also because they want to encourage world that judges less by aperances.the death of a Darcsen friend of theirs (referred as a partner in the glossary) after a peaceful protest against racism, encourages them to fight for the ideals of both of their ideals. After the war, they oppen a bar to spread mutual understanding, that became popular because of their sympathy. It's unknown if the game's code considers them male, female, neither or both for the purpose of potentials activating. Christel Ward is a 22 year old Scout, that is completely infatuated to her commander, Minerva Victor, another 22 year old scout. She is her right hand woman, and does everything to make her happy and serve her (from helping her get out of tunell vision, to buying all the bacon and bread of a city, to *SPOILERS*) she spends her free time fantasizing about her, and she refuses to let any man even flirt with her. Christel bio states that she thinks that Claude Wallace (this game protagonist) may trie to woo Minerva, which is false, they do not feel any attraction towards each other. *the spoiler that happened with Christel is that she Sacrifices her life for minervas, being stated in the glossary "she died on the coast of the Crystal Sea, fighting to protect her love."

[@andremelo1670]

​@@DaniDoyleMagari is an engineer and Renne is a Lancer, I fogot to put this in the comment.

[@dubiouslobo9190]

A real simple way to describe L'Arachel's sexualality is to just play the "EVERYONE" scene from The Professional

[@AllenWalker15735]

Innes and La'Rachel are each others beard /j.

[@pksprite6401]

Dozla and L’arachel don’t actually get married in their support…

[@DaniDoyle]

They do on the paired ending

[@pksprite6401]

@@DaniDoyle I don’t think that’s what their paired ending means. I always read that as Dozla staying loyal to L’arachel as a bodyguard, she marries some rando, and Dozla weeps at the wedding out of joy.

[@Artu_emblem]

She's very much british, duh!

[@tylerferguson3193]

Hope you're having a good day

[@damediadora4160]

I'd like to point out that the "best of friends" line is actually only there in english. Eirika's final lines in Japanese are "yes... let's both return safely and talk about all sorts of things. I'm sure it will be a very wonderful time", so no friendzoning there.

[@thagomizer4711]

Gah, thank you for avoiding the biphobia. Got a little itchy there for a sec haha

[@Tomouryu]

I don't think L'Arachel is gay. Her comment on how pretty Eirika is is just that. After all, Eirika is pretty and L'Arachel can be rather careless in her speech. Her giving Eirika the gem is also just a sign of friendship. Remember, L'Arachel is a person who has no friends prior to joining the group. She didn't have to give anything and Eirika would've been happy to be friends. But since L'Arachel has next to no common social skills, she does this. Now if y'all wanna ship her and Eirika, by all means go on and let your imagination run wild. After all, that's part of the fun. LOL

[@DaniDoyle]

TFW I have poor social skills so i give engagement rings to everyone I meet 🙄🙄🙄

[@casualjacob776]

Nice thumbnail

[@melovepeas]

Guys I think Byleth might be gay can we get a video

[@DaniDoyle]

I actually made a video on byleth :) I'll link it below

[@DaniDoyle]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5u1ZX15odmpqMksi=MnYYoUZ3Merx60gu Its less Byleth Specifically and more "Bisexual Self Insert Characters" as a whole, and a Byleth specific video will probably come... Eventually... But its what I've got for now :)