Welcome to Gaia! ::

But things seem different.

Where is the party?

Where is the cheer?

We have fallen asleep.

We need to be...

...Awakened.

You all hold the key. Together. Express what FEF means to you.

From the depths of your soul.

Hold nothing back.

I think I was about 19 when I joined FEF. I remember I'd just been hired at Seaworld (back in '08 if I'm not mistaken.) I remember playing Fire Emblem for the very first time, and I became determined to find a place to meet my fellow fans. This was just before I beat Eliwood mode. (I remember thinking Hector Mode was actually a hoax until I played it.)

A lot has changed since then. I've matured in many ways. I realized the importance of true interaction in RP thanks to FEF, along with how fun it can be to make one's own OC. I watched my characters all grow and change and become someone new, just like I did.

There are some people I hang around with every now and then. Some I gush about my current other fandoms, others that I just talk about life with. ^^ Most of the people are wonderful, helpful, and all around amazing. And boy, can we tell some stories. We could all write a book about "The Life and Times of FEF" and I think it would be pretty darn interesting.

It's hard to imagine what everything would be like if I hadn't stayed here. I will admit, I had some hard times IRL and online, but I stuck through it. Because you guys are totally worth it.

I have changed a lot since I first joined. I feel like the guild has changed too, but that doesn't stop me from being a part of it, in the small way that I can.

So how do I feel? Well, that's kind of hard to say. I feel a lot of things. Most of all, I suppose I feel grateful to have met everyone here. ^^ You've been there for me and I hope that I was able to be there for you guys (in general) all the same.

You tell me not to hold back, I won't.

I came here at the age of 17. My friend, who is now my boyfriend, introduced me to Gaia. I don't remember how I found FEF, but I did. At first I was shy about things. Then came the first rp event Halloween 08 and not long after, the blast group on AIM. I felt more at place as I got to learn more about you, even as I was going through a time where I was depressed most of the time. I know I wasn't well liked to begin with, but I was that way and not caring what anyone else thought.

I try to be the best person that I can be, but as people have found out I'm one who's quick to anger (Firey Redhead trope applying to an actual redhead). Some people have caused trouble in the past, but that is life. There are always people like that. Some of us have been here and we've matured, and some of us haven't matured enough. Almost all, if not all of us are adults. We've gotten into the adult life style where now time isn't as free.

People have come and gone. I've wanted to leave many times because of issues I've got with others. Give Rath a damn award for having to put up with not only me, but everyone else. I know I'm not the only one that's caused problems and stuff for everyone else. I'm not going to say who, I don't need to. If any of you see anything wrong, come have a little PRIVATE chat with me.

At this point I think I'm actually beating around the bush and not getting to my point. To me FEF is friends, closer than friends in some cases. I thank you for the memories.

We've been here for a year, I think? But never really active... It wasn't until recently when we hit a real bad bump that we ended up reaching out with a hand towards FEF for support. Since joining the blast, we've become more active and we are more than grateful to find people who accept us without question. I personally have a hard time relating to and trusting people, but I've found people here to make my day go by a little easer. So I just want to say, thanks for that ^___^.

Yeah, I think Mand said it all for me. Our struggle have been monumentous and since joining the blast and atleast trying to be active here has been a great help. We'd like to thank Seth, Ninian, Rhys, Mel, Tiki, Gale, Tiban, Roy, Isa, and everyone else who has at least tried to talk and undestand our unique circumstances. It's definitely not easy, but its less painful to have people like you guys around to talk with an stuff. Here's hoping for a while longer time with you all!

It should be about a year since I joined here at this fantastic guild at FEF, with such great people here. Actually, when I first joined gaia here around 2009 or so, and I believe I was 17 years old at the time so wow... It's been four years already since then huh. o_o I was kinda introduced to this site to a few good buddies of mine that I knew back in high school. Unfortunately they're no longer apart of gaia and have been long gone for a very long time, but I still do contact with them sometimes since they're busy with irl stuff.

So kinda like Seth, believe it or not I was a little bit of a different type of individual back then. I didn't talk to many people, I was pretty antisocial, even now I'm kind of a silent person.. But I definitely have changed since then I'm a lot more social now.

But yeah, when I first started here on gaia it was around Halloween. If anyone might recall that halloween zomg event that happened?(Yeah I played that game a bit too. xD) I was a hidden fan of the fire emblem series but ironically I didn't know much about guilds or if there was other fans of the games out there. Even my closest friends were never into the series.(Thanks to awakening they're getting a bit of an better understanding of why I loved the games) So with all that said really, my best friend in high school asked me if I wanted to join this Kingdom hearts RP guild another buddy of his was developing here on Gaia, and so I said, "Sure, that sounds pretty fun!" And so I did that for about a couple of years, and yeah I was a pretty terrible at it. All I can say about it was that it's very fanboyish and lulzy. redface But for some reason I had a ton fun with it and surprising the concept that my friend's other friend came up with was kinda clever in some ways. I met a fellow Rper in the same group and even now we still chat sometimes when she's around on gaia.(Though not so much anymore) I started to enjoy Rping a bit more because of her, and I started to understand why I loved stories and the games that I enjoyed. And strangely enough, I felt i was beginning to improve a lot since I first started. I was very glad to be here on Gaia.

Then after awhile the RP was beginning to fade away, everyone that joined was disappearing one after the next. Me and a few other good friends still tried to make something of it the best we could, but it was just unavoidable so it just died off to rest one day. I began to cope with the loss by getting introduced to a different style of RP in Barton town that my friend I got to know through the guild introduced me to. Needless to say, it only lasted about a month. It had a bit of a good start here, and it was definitely a different feeling I had from the other KH guild. It died off very quickly. Then once again, I became a lone wanderer roaming throughout gaia. None of my friends were around much online. I had retired from Rping after that last RP I attempted to try out. I was just your Average Joe hanging around the gaming forums and anime forums and all that jazz. Sometimes I'd check out an interesting topic if I felt like it. Then about one year ago, I'd say around the month of May, I spotted a thread in the gaming forums which was pretty much your favorite Fire Emblem game in the series. I found it rather strange back then because there was rarely any thread topics about Fire Emblem in general. There was maybe a topic or two once in awhile, but it died out pretty fast. So I responded to it and mentioned that FE4 was my personal favorite game in the series.

I was unaware at the time that the thread creator was the former captain of FEF, MagegirlNino. We began to chat some more in the thread and then we became gaia friends after quite some time.. It was thanks to her and that particular thread that I knew about a guild where there was other fans of the FE series. Since barely of my friends knew about the games or let alone heard of them. I just wanted to thank her even though she's not around much.. Just for introducing this guild I began to love. And all of the friends I slowly started getting to know. Especially Tiki, Seth, Nom, Sue, Roy, Oujay, Lethe, Mel... And just about everyone here that's been really friendly and nice to me. I hope it continues like this for a long while! ^_^

*yawn* I hear.. whispers...

...I want to hear you.

Keep going.

Beating Oujay to this even though he hasn't thought of it. I believe this should be the thread's theme song. For Good from Wicked


Well here's my story.

Starting from the beginning, I had been friends with Ganon/Tibarn for a while before he decided to recruit me into FEF. The guild wasn't any thing new to me since I had previously researched FE guilds on Gaia but I didn't join back then because Ranulf was taken. (Yes, I use to be one of those types of fangirls. I had an obsession with a certain blue cat man with heterochromia. I like to believe I've mellowed out since then.) Being lonely in my love for Fire Emblem, I finally decided to join this band of lunatics May of 2009. At first things were a bit awkward like joining any group of close knit friends normally is. It wasn't until I got into the FEF AIM Blast that I finally started to get comfortable with the weirdness.

In the past I use to be an avid roleplayer so I think that also contributed to my fitting in. Lethe's character seemed to come naturally to me at the time. My first RPing event was that year's guildaversary. Unfortunately the speedy pace of the event made it difficult for a newbie like myself to keep up. I must have done something right though. The crew chose me to play a winter event character, Felix the Archanean Legion's kindhearted paladin.

Over the years, FEF has had its very high ups and its extremely low downs, but as a whole the guild survived it all like a champ. We've lost good friends and gained new ones. That's how life goes and I don't think it'll change any time soon. Moving past that, I want to thank Isa, Tib, Vika, Mallow, Nino, FD, Kurai, and most importantly Rath for their leadership and contributions to this guild over the years. But not all of the credit goes to the crew. The regular folks here also make FEF a great community to be a part of. The dedicated friends I've made here will always have a special place in my heart. And if it wasn't for all of you, I wouldn't be the person I am today. I believe I've truly found happiness through this diverse group of people.

...But you already knew that. Every 3rd Saturday in October I make it my mission to remind you. That Sweetest Day tradition isn't going to change as long as I'm around. So look forward to that in 4 months.

Okay here we go.

I'm going to type how I feel about FEF.

And get all mushy.

Here we go.

In 2006 I thought... I love Gaia and I love Fire Emblem and I want a guild, so I'll make one... And I never dreamed it would last 7 years?
No, I never dreamed it would last 7 years. But it's called Fire Emblem Forever for a reason, and that reason is...
Because I intend to love FEF forever. =)
Even when I have school, and a job, and a billion chores, and bad stuff happens in my family, I will make an effort to keep FEF in my life.
I'm sorry I'm not around as often as we'd all like...

I'm proud of you guys. I still want to make this guild better, the best that it can be. As silly as it sounds--- For Generations of FEFers. <3

I want to thank Rath. I want to thank Rath for putting up with me, and for being the rock that keeps FEF stable. And for putting up with everything that goes on around here while I push it all on him and the crew.

I want to thank Izzy, for being here and always being level headed and ready to work, being one of the longest standing crew, always knowing what's up and being the person to step up. Consistently. Love you, Izzy!

I want to thank Tibs and Amelia and FD for being awesome! <3

Thank you Vika, even though you're not Vika anymore, I will probably call you that forever. Thanks for being awesome and friendly and smart. =)

Thanks Lethe and Nini and Mel and Rhys and Roy and Ephy and Legault and everybody who's always in the blast to say hi when I finally come in there. X3

And I look forward to another great year for FEF. I hope to be able to make improvements and check in more often and get involved.

I feel like it's still only the beginning.

Together we ride, no matter what.