You can’t take it with you…/No matter what you do!
Fire Emblem! Wha!
Ahem. This picture is of four of the characters of Fire Emblem 7: Rekka no Ken (Blazing Sword) and they are in a rock band.
Why? Who knows? Well, I now have to tell you my life story, so hold tight. I was playing Super Smash Bros. Melee with my friend Bobby, and I liked being one of these two handsome swordsmen with long cloaks, and I asked him about them, and he didn’t know much, but he told me that Roy was a prince and Marth was some other guy, and they both came from this game called Fire Emblem. I forgot the name several times, but then I began to research it on the Internet, and I found some sites that talked about it. They were talking about the newest (at the time) game, which would be the first to be officially released in English.
Soon after, I read a copy of Nintendo Power somewhere (I sure didn’t own it… school library, maybe?) and was formally introduced to all the characters of the first ten levels, along with a brief walkthrough and a ‘how this game works’ article. Wow, was I intrigued.
So, I was listening to the Alan Parsons Project CD we have, and I started imagining Sain singing the lead… and this picture followed. I plotted out where all the others would stand, but I never got around to drawing them.
Kent took more time than the others, as I was a bit afraid of him since he didn’t have any official art that got released in North America. He was started on December the 2nd, and finished January the 19th, and he still didn’t come out that well! Anyway, I’ll just put a couple of things below about the cast in this crazy excursion…
Character
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Role
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Lyn
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Guitar (rhythm and solos)
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Kent
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Bass guitar, vocals
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Sain
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Lead vocals, solo guitar
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Florina
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First violin
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Wil
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Keyboards, vocals
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Dorcas
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French horn, back-up vocals
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Erk
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Viola
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Serra
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Cello
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Rath
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Second violin
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Matthew
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Saxophone, vocals
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Nils
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Flute
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Lucius
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Clarinet, I think, or was it harp?
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Wallace
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Percussion
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As you can see, I don’t know much about the way rock bands work. I just went by what I heard. Here’s who sings what.
Tracks
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Lead vocals
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I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You
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Sain
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Eye in the Sky
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Sain
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Games People Play
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Sain
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Time
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Kent
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Pyramania
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Sain
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You Don’t Believe
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(Sain?)
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Lucifer
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N/A
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Psychobabble
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Matthew
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D***ed If I Do
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(Sain?)
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Don’t Let it Show
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Sain!
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Can’t Take it With You
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(Sain)
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Old and Wise
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Eliwood guest solo
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My favourites are Eye in the Sky, Time, Don’t Let it Show, and Old and Wise.
In Time, the singer sounds a lot like Kent does in my head. That’s why I put Kent as singing it. Don’t Let it Show is very beautiful, and I imagine Sain writing it for his girlfriend.
SPOILER FOR MY STORY (which hasn’t been put up here yet…)
Old and Wise almost perfectly describes Eliwood after his tactician is killed in the second-last chapter. I had to change a couple of lines:
you follow(ed) where I go
I’ll miss you when you go
When they ask you if you knew me (they being people in the afterlife – not changed, but context added)
as the final curtain falls o’er your eyes
This is Ceniro’s first full-body character design sketch, and he hasn’t changed much since! Actually, it hasn’t changed at all. I faithfully follow every detail of this picture every time I draw him, except when I’m lazy…Compare it with the avatar over there… that thing is based on this picture – i.e. I copied Ceniro’s head into that picture, and then painted over it using FE colouring techniques. More on that when we get to Fall ’05. The avatar should give you an idea of what colours he has, though, like the yellow buttons on his cloak… I like those buttons… His eyes are a bit dark, though. They’re supposed to be a bit lighter grey than that.