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The thing about Eirika and Ephraim marrying each other in the Japanese version is a made up rumor that got some traction for a while and is actually not true. That was my understanding, at least.

As for her naivete:
-gives the Sacred ********' Stone away to someone established as a villain
-willing to give her Bracelet away to an enemy that doesn't even rank too highly despite Seth clearly knowing s**t she doesn't and telling her not to
-trusts Orsin and would be ******** over if Seth wasn't on it

Wouldn't be surprised if there are more examples I can't immediately think of. The idea of her going off to rescue her brother is objectively foolish though and if King Hayden had any sense of preserving the blood of royalty of another allied country he wouldn't have allowed her to leave whether she liked it or not though, methinks.

And she gives away that stone like a stupid b***h quite late into the game. So you can't say she outgrows her naivete as the game goes on. Like her Einherjar says, she's lucky to have people around to compensate for her own gullibility.

You could say FE13 emphasizes it, but it was there in FE8 plenty to justify emphasizing it.

I'm just going to sum up in one sentence.

If Micaiah hasn't been introduced to Fire Emblem, Eirika would have still be the Fire Emblem Mary-Sue. >>;

What! It's true in my opinion. >>;

I would say FD's reply to Airship pretty much summed up about why Eirika is a Mary-Sue. She's naive, she has half the guys fall in love with her, and she's trying to be a perfectionist in order to save her brother/world (as FD explained why King Hayden didn't stop her.)

Although her stats is quite fragile compare to other Lords, I still feel like her stats is pretty much summed up as one of the Mary-Sue types (tries to be a powerful main character, but ends up as damsel-in-distress.)

I don't think Eirika is actually trying to be a perfectionist. She's just not very interesting. And she does make really really dumb mistakes in the game. Also, I feel alot of people don't give her nearly as much credit to her as a unit. Honestly, she's actually not that bad. Anyways, I'll eventually talk about her a bit more later myself.

I have never seen anyone call Eirika a Mary-Sue. Her mistakes are real. Her flaws are real. She isn't super powered or super special.

Her wanting to go off to save Ephraim being her motivation is fine. It's the game letting her do so and King Hayden giving her his blessing that's unreasonable and a "must progress the plot" moment which looks bad on the game itself and King Hayden, but not so much on Eirika.

I also very much agree with Rath in saying that Eirika is not weak in character. Kindness is not weakness. And she's quite possibly the kindest lord in the series. Her naivete acts as a weakness, especially combined with her other traits, but she certainly isn't weak in character. And she experiences more growth as a character than Ephraim as a lead, as well. Ephraim starts the game as a tactical genius and total badass already. At the end of the game, that hasn't changed (and he's an excellent example of a good flat character, but more on that when it's his week). Meanwhile, Eirika grows quite a bit over the course of the game.

I also agree with Rhys that she's never given her credit as a unit because a lot of people seem to have this inexplicable bias against her.

...Are not rapiers used for thrusting instead of slicing?

Now Eirika is one of the princess lord of the Fire Emblem series. (There has been technically two before her but she‘s the third one) Or rather to say the twin gender to her brother Ephraim. Of course, with FE13 description of her being naïve. And she seriously is in that note. It’s shown plenty of moments in FE8 and she definitely makes some very very dumb mistakes. While she is a princess she doesn’t really seem very princess-like at all. Even through the course of her journey, I don’t really feel she changes very much. Where as the problem that I have with her is that she isn’t very interesting. Sure she is nice and means well but I feel like there could’ve been a far more stronger character. She doesn’t want to be helpless by relying others, and I get that. But she doesn’t really show it or even develop from it that much. There is lots of ideas here and there that I do like about her. The parts where she does actually stand out for me is her supports, and I’m not gonna lie because I actually do find some great enjoyment in them.

The interactions that she has with the other characters I liked for the most part. The support with L’ Arachel is actually rather touching. Honestly, I found it to be a personal favorite of mine. I also liked the Innes support and the one with Ephraim. Also to quickly get this out of the way. There is NO evidence what so ever that they are an incest pairing in the story. I personally never found saw them as incest siblings. But the only one I don’t find interesting is Seth and Eirika’s support. I used to really be all for this pairing years ago. When I revisited their conversations many years later, their relationship just felt pretty bland to me. I just don’t find the whole knight protecting princess thing all that great.

So really it’s the other character she interacts with that makes her stand out a bit I would think… As for her naivety, the actions she makes is really dumb. She almost gives her bracelet to Orson. And she would have if Seth didn’t step in line to intervene and see through his betrayal. She gives the stone to Lyon because she still believes in him. That is the worst, dumbest mistake she ever made.

Anyways as for her as a unit… I don’t see what the problem is with her quite frankly? And most people don’t give her enough credit for some reason. As time goes on she as a unit as can grow fairly well. I think she is a great unit.(Though I don’t know why both herself and Ephraim have the same class name?) She pretty much excels in both skill and speed. Those are bound to be capped that’s for sure. And while her other stats are just fine too on top of it. The only drawback is that her strength isn’t necessarily that high, but I think her speed makes up for it. So you could say statwise she is similar to Lyndis from FE7 except she only uses swords. Later on she’ll get a legendary weapon called the Sieglinde which is rather good against undead enemies. She’ll do exceptionally well with killing edges as well or any other good swords. And there isn’t a secondary weapon for her like bows and such. But one crucial element that I find way better over Lyn, is that she actually gains a mount upon promotion. If you think about it having extra movement is extremely beneficial for maps in general. She practically does everything that Lyn does, but she’s actually more superior and efficient at what she does.

That is a fabulous post to end on, (L)Ewan, and I really wish I had time to keep Eirika the topic and could respond to it myself, but alas, onto the next character!

Sorry for not updating sooner, y'all. I have been super busy all damned weekend.

Anyway, the new character of the week is... Hector!

And following precedence, if you want to mention FE6 Hector, do it this week as well.

Surprise bitches! I bet you thought you'd see Eliwood or Lyn here instead (but instead, we're just going with recruitment in Hector's Tale since it will feature the entire playable cast that way).