Magic: the Gathering Colors of Magvel and Tellius Characters

[queenlua]

I'm pretty sure the intersection of the sets "people interested in Fire Emblem meta" and "people interested in Magic: the Gathering color types" is like, me and me alone, but OH WELL posting this anyway.

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

Blue

• Innes
• Lute

Black

• Rennac
• Valter
• Makalov

Red

• Mia
• Nailah
• Skrimir (though he gets more red/white-ish as the game progresses)

Green

• 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)

Blue/Black

• Soren

Black/Red

• Almedha

Red/Green

• 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...)

Green/White

• Micaiah?
• Titania
• Rafiel
• Rhys

ENEMY COLORS

White/Black

• Naesala (borderline; you could argue he's monoblack)

White/Red

• 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.)

Blue/Red

• Calill

Blue/Green

• 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)

Black/Green

• 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

Comments

[amielleon]

Yeah, he certainly projects a blue image, but there's something that feels very learned about it to me, like patience is a virtue he adopted because he recognized that he would need it for his goals.

His first instinct, for example, is retaliation:
My laguz blood gives me great power.
I thought about using my power to gain revenge against the people who scorned me, but I decided against it.

When it's clear that Gallia is no place for him, and he no longer has any use for Mordecai, he openly provokes him:
What will you do, Mordecai?
Am I so wretched to you that you feel you must take direct action against me?
You laguz are closer to nature than the beorc.
Are you going to enforce the goddess's law? Is that it?

But then to really decide if the blue doesn't count because it's learned, you'd have to ask what level the colors are meant to represent... :P

But yeah basically if Stefan could be rainbows I would gladly make him rainbows, because I think he has a bit of everything.