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professor_tammi's affection for MBTI typing of FE characters, I decided to figure out what colors a whole bunch of FE characters would be if they were placed in Magic: the Gathering.
WHAT THE COLORS MEAN
Green corresponds strongly with commitment to familial ties, tradition, instinct, and a personal sense of honor and ethics. Often includes an appreciation for nature, though not always. Pop culture example: Al, from Fullmetal Alchemist. Noteable M:tG canon character: Jolrael.
White corresponds with order, peace, obedience to a higher authority, religiosity, and respect for the community and laws. Pop culture example: Captain America. Notable M:tG character: Mangara of Corondor.
Red corresponds with passion, recklessness, dedication, emotion, freedom, and power. Pop culture example: Ash fucking Ketchum. He wants to be the very best! Notable M:tG canon red character: Jaya Ballard, who's got some of the funniest card flavor text ever.
Black isn't the "evil" color, per se, though it sure tends to have a disproportionate share of baddies—it's associated with pragmatism, selfishness, ambition, practicality, and pride. It's basically the Slytherin of Magic colors. Noteable black characters in M:tG canon include Toshiro Umezawa (a hero!) and Yawgmoth (one of the most notorious baddies ever).
Blue corresponds with intellect, cunning, patience, and objectivity. Pop culture example: Spock, predictably. Noteable M:tG character: Teferi.
It's also quite common in Magic for a card to have two colors (or three, or four, or even all five, though for my sanity's sake I limited each character to two colors max). "Ally" colors lie directly next to each other on Magic's color wheel; "enemy" colors lie directly across from each other on the color wheel. This leads to ten possible two-color combinations.
And now, for the breakdown. I put a "?" next to characters I felt uncertain about.
MONOCOLORS
White
ALLIED COLORS
White/Blue
ENEMY COLORS
White/Black
CHARACTERS I WANTED TO PLACE BUT HAD TROUBLE WITH
Partially inspired by
professor_tammi's affection for MBTI typing of FE characters, I decided to figure out what colors a whole bunch of FE characters would be if they were placed in Magic: the Gathering.WHAT THE COLORS MEAN
Green corresponds strongly with commitment to familial ties, tradition, instinct, and a personal sense of honor and ethics. Often includes an appreciation for nature, though not always. Pop culture example: Al, from Fullmetal Alchemist. Noteable M:tG canon character: Jolrael.
White corresponds with order, peace, obedience to a higher authority, religiosity, and respect for the community and laws. Pop culture example: Captain America. Notable M:tG character: Mangara of Corondor.
Red corresponds with passion, recklessness, dedication, emotion, freedom, and power. Pop culture example: Ash fucking Ketchum. He wants to be the very best! Notable M:tG canon red character: Jaya Ballard, who's got some of the funniest card flavor text ever.
Black isn't the "evil" color, per se, though it sure tends to have a disproportionate share of baddies—it's associated with pragmatism, selfishness, ambition, practicality, and pride. It's basically the Slytherin of Magic colors. Noteable black characters in M:tG canon include Toshiro Umezawa (a hero!) and Yawgmoth (one of the most notorious baddies ever).
Blue corresponds with intellect, cunning, patience, and objectivity. Pop culture example: Spock, predictably. Noteable M:tG character: Teferi.
It's also quite common in Magic for a card to have two colors (or three, or four, or even all five, though for my sanity's sake I limited each character to two colors max). "Ally" colors lie directly next to each other on Magic's color wheel; "enemy" colors lie directly across from each other on the color wheel. This leads to ten possible two-color combinations.
And now, for the breakdown. I put a "?" next to characters I felt uncertain about.
MONOCOLORS
White
- Elincia
- Geoffrey
- Eirika
- Kurthnaga
- Innes
- Lute
- Rennac
- Valter
- Makalov
- Mia
- Nailah
- Skrimir (though he gets more red/white-ish as the game progresses)
- Ike
- Ephraim? (Green tends to be pretty associated with instinct/impulse, and honestly I don't know if Ephraim really thinks much before he does stuff—not because he's like overwhelmed with passion or anything, which would be red, just because he's not an introspective guy—so I put him here? :D;;;; /badatmagvel)
ALLIED COLORS
White/Blue
- Lucia
- Sanaki?
- Lyon (if you go with "squishy"/Eirika route Lyon; otherwise, he's more Blue/Black)
- Soren
- Almedha
- Tibarn
- Marcia
- Reyson (honestly, if I were allowing myself to use three colors, I'd go with red/green/white for him, but since I can only use two...)
- Micaiah?
- Titania
- Rafiel
- Rhys
ENEMY COLORS
White/Black
- Naesala (borderline; you could argue he's monoblack)
- Kieran
- L'Arachel
- Zihark? (I feel like he's a bit of a hard case. He eventually becomes Mr. Peacekeeper, which is very white, and I imagine getting involved with a laguz despite the whole Daein thing involved lots of red, but I also get a pretty green vibe from a lot of his conversations—probably his general easygoing-ness and unruffled-ness. I nearly placed him in green/red, and if I were doing three colors, I'd just make him all three.)
- Calill
- Ranulf
- Bastian? (It was either this or blue/white; it's hard to tell whether his dedication to the royal family is due to his friendship with him or out of some higher ideals about order and such)
- Shinon?
CHARACTERS I WANTED TO PLACE BUT HAD TROUBLE WITH
- Pelleas
- Sephiran
- Stefan (probably varies wildly, depending on your particular headcanon regarding him)
- Forde
- Joshua
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Date: 2012-10-13 11:07 pm (UTC)And yeah, green seems like an okay approximation for Pelleas—in general, green seems like a pretty okay "neutral" option for characters I'm unsure of :P
...I felt awkward when I was doing this because I realized I don't have a very clear mental model of Joshua, despite the fact that he's one of my favorites D: