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I really have no idea what to objectively base this on. I guess we'll just throw things against the wall and maybe something will stick.

Siblings that come to mind:
-The Whitewings: Paula, Caeda, Est
-Marth and Elice
-Minerva, Maria, and the shitty brother
-basically any mother's children in FE4. And there's a LOT of 'em. Let's include villainous siblings here to save time too, like Ishtar and Ishtore. AND substitute characters that are siblings.
-Olwen and Reindhardt
-Lugh and Rei
-FE6-8 all have peg riders who are siblings (Tana being the only one related to Innes instead of another rider)
-Zephiel and Guinny
-Miledy and Zeiss
-Klein and Clara
-Nils and Ninian
-Rebecca and Dart?
-Lloyd and Linus
-Eirika and Ephraim
-Forde and Franz
-Tethys and Ewan
-Glen and Cormag
-Rolf and Boyd and Oscar
-Marcia and Makalov
-Lethe and Lyre
-the herons
-Geoffrey and Lucia
-Morgan and other possible child character
-Lucina and quite a few child characters
-Emmeryn and Chrom and Lissa
-Anna and Anna and Anna and Anna etc...
-probably some of the bandit-enemy duos? Are they all just gay lovers?

Tempted to vote the Army of Annas because it's established that they're siblings, but I'm going to vote for the trinity of half siblings that are Seliph Celice, Julia, and Julius for selling incest, a protagonist, and a final boss all at the same time! Bonus points for being a family that kills each other, parents and kids! SUPER bonus points for being a trio of siblings that can all wield a different Holy Weapon! What a hot mess it would be if the family ever had to have a reuinion where they weren't allowed to kill each other!

No idea for worst.

Okay, this is really a difficult topic to decide.. But here goes nothing even though I could be a minority on this.


Best: I think Olwen and Reinhardt is my favorite siblings. It's mostly the circumstances that the two are in that make this really touching for me. In a way the relationship that both of them share is very much like a tragedy between siblings.I suppose I'm a bit of a sucker for that. Olwen has no idea of what's going on with the child hunting happening so she questions if she's actually doing the right thing? So once she changes side she has to go up against her own flesh and blood. I think that's a difficult thing for Olwen to go through and really it's a situation for any sibling to face.That conversation that the two of them have still shows that Reinhardt does actually care for her even if it doesn't really seem like it. Heck, he even gives her a really awesome sword as a gift for future battles because he knows he won't be returning back again.

Even when both of them are on total opposite sides he can still have a compassionate side of him. He's a proud man on the battlefield and he doesn't want to lose his honor and dignity. Plus he's an insane boss with all of the best skills and 5 movement stars which makes a chance of extra movement really really high. Olwen still cares for her brother Reinhardt at the same time. Actually the more I think about it, there was a similar situation that happened in chapter 3 between Lachesis and Eltosian.(However you pronounce his name or whatever..)
Besides that, there's a bunch of siblings that I generally like but this one stands out to me the most if I had to choose right here and now.

Edit: Okay now I've thought the worst.

Worst: Makalov and Marcia. I'm sorry but this is the worst siblings in my opinion. Say all you want about Zephiel being a bad man in FE6, but really all of that was partly his father to blame. Actually if you think about it, he really loved his sister when he was a younger prince. They had a pretty loving relationship between siblings at the time. And I honestly don't recall him treating Guinevere what I'd consider to be bad in FE6. But boy.. Makavlov in general is just a bad character altogether, I have no idea what Astrid sees in this guy. >.> Marcia is actually a great sister and she searches all over the place to look for him, and she even abandons and just leaves the Holy Begnion Pegasus knights. But what's his dumb excuse? He's bad with money and loses it easily with the gambling and everything. Makalov is supposed to be the one that shows a good example to his younger sister, but instead he's irresponsible and always makes stupid excuses.

Best: Oscar (to Boyd and Rolf)
Oscar basically quit his job in order to take care of his brothers. There are lots of siblings who make sacrifices for their younger siblings, but Oscar's seems the greatest (when put in the context of how "unimportant" he and his brothers were to his country when he made that decision).

Worst: Makalov (to Marcia)
I might change this later, since I feel like there are other siblings who are worse to each other, but I just can't think of them at the moment. And Zephiel really doesn't really take his sister's feelings into account when he starts invading other countries. Again, probably'll change this later based on what else comes up.
I didn't vote for Makalov (though I did seriously consider it) because while Makalov certainly takes Marcia for granted, he's never outright hostile towards her.

After some discussion, I decided to change my vote. Makalov really is a leech of a brother to Marcia, especially in FE9. Oddly enough, though, I like him as a character. No idea why.

Hey Melethia, I have a question. Do we have to vote siblings that made appearance in the FE game only or not?

Because when you look at the support conversations and perhaps some Based conversations from FE9/10, there are some units who mention having siblings such as Stahl who mentions his brother but his brother isn't in the game or Grietz who is a brother of Geeze but those two aren't in the same game together.

Wait... so Zephiel never called Guinevere a traitor or something akin to that? I could've sworn he did. It's been a while since I played, so maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

What I meant by "hostile" wasn't that he tried to hurt her, but more that he acted like she was an enemy (or potential enemy). But as I said, I may be wrong. I'll need to go back over FE6's script and read his interactions with Guinevere just to be sure.



EDIT: Okay, I went back through the FE6 script, and during Chapter 13, Zephiel says this to Guinevere...

"Guinevere, you are my only sister. Therefore, I will forgive you this time. But not the next. Do you understand?"

I'm fairly certain that this was a threat. This is what I meant by "hostile." Maybe he didn't mean that he would hurt her, but I highly doubt it. And even if it was an empty threat, it still hurt Guinevere. In terms of people on opposite sides of a war, Zephiel's actions make sense, but he still threatened to kill (or otherwise hurt) his sister because they had differing beliefs. That's what I got out of their conversation, so I'll stick with my vote.

Okay, so maybe I was wrong about Zephiel as a brother. Let's look at Guinevere, then. You just said that she's trying to undermine everything he's doing as a king, so wouldn't that warrant a bit of discussion about how she's a bad sibling? The opposite of what you said about Zephiel, in fact. Good person, bad sister. She doesn't support him, she does everything in her power to directly disrupt his goals, and, ultimately, she allows Roy to kill him. Not just capture; kill. I forgot if she asks Roy not to, or if it was just never an option given politics and whatnot, so feel free to disprove me. (Also, not quite sure if defeating a boss but not killing them was a thing back then, but there have been examples since, so, I dunno.)


Note: At this point, I'm just playing devil's advocate. I'll just be voting subjectively from now on, since it seems I'm a sore loser (based on previous discussions) and I don't want to bring down any more conversations. I'll change my vote to Makalov, despite my bizarre fondness for his character. (Don't ask me why I like him; I just do.)

I apologize if I've offended or hurt anyone. sweatdrop

I'm always worried about insulting or offending other people. It's just something I do.

But back to the discussion, where does Guinevere sit? It's obvious that she tries to keep Zephiel from making those horrible decisions, but given how the game ends, doesn't she just give up on him after a point? What are everyone else's thoughts on that?

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