WolfTamer's project concept- Fire Emblem: Descendants

So, I can’t upload images yet (I’m still not allowed to yet), so I just decided to describe my project here just for fun. This will just be a text topic for now, and I might upload screenshots of what I’m doing once I can upload images.

So, my project is called Fire Emblem: Descendants. It’s basically a what-if scenario of what would happen if Chrom delivered the final blow to Grima in Awakening. The story takes place roughly a thousand years after Awakening, and it follows a young girl named Marissa (I know there’s already a Sacred Stones character named Marisa, but I liked the name, and there’s other FE characters with identical names) who is a descendant of Chrom, as well as Marth and Lucina. Ylisse is now in ruins, now that the Fell Dragon had been resurrected, and the Exalt and Queen had been murdered by Grima 17 years prior. Marissa, who was a newborn at the time, is living in an orphanage with her childhood friends, Leah, Calvin, and Allen (all descendants of some of Marth’s allies), unaware of her true identity as the Princess of Ylisse, but once she eventually does find out, she must go on a journey to reclaim Ylisse with Marth (and eventually Chrom and Lucina) by her side as she looks for other descendants of heroes from the past.

I haven’t finished the story yet, and some of the characters, I’m still deciding on a couple of Ancestor characters for. I’ve also been toying around with the (kinda bizarre) idea of adding Itsuki Aoi and Touma Akagi from Tokyo Mirage Sessions as Ancestor characters, but never have written a scene or implemented them in my prototype, as I can’t find portraits for any of the TMS characters.

As you can probably tell, this project is FAR from finished, but I wanted to share it and see what other people think about it. I do realize it’s pretty similar to Engage, but I’m trying my best to separate the concept from the concept of Engage. So far, I have succeeded a little bit, but it still needs A LOT of work.

So, what do you guys think so far?

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make it 100 years after awakening, so people actually remember chrom and the gang, 1000 years is very long in human timescales where people die a lot

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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention something important! :sweat_smile:

That’s the whole idea. All of the past heroes have passed, and their stories had been passed down as legends for generations, similar to how the story of the Hero-King was in Awakening. In fact, before she even meets Marth, Marissa believed that the legend of the Hero-King was just a myth. The past heroes actually make appearances as spirits that are bound to the weapons they used to wield, now wielded by their descendants.

Again, sorry for not specifying that in the original post! Lol!

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Ooooooh sounds interesting! I look forward to see the evolution of your idea!

Okay, this is a concept I came up with for Marissa. I tested it, and it looks awful in-game, but it’s my first attempt at a splice, so I’ll take it. :woman_shrugging:

I used TheImperialKnight’s Lucina portrait as a base, as you can see with the chibi portrait, and that’s also where I got Marissa’s circlet from. The mouth and eye animations do not really work, so I can’t really make a prototype with it. :cry:

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I did a couple more splices without eye and mouth animations, which I’ll post here! I’m going to post some of them now, and I’d like to have y’all guess which characters they’re descendants of, based on their appearances, just to have a little fun. :sweat_smile:

Name: Marissa (You guys already know this one)

Name: Leah
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Name: Calvin
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Name: Allen
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Name: Robbert
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Name: Pearl
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Name: Emily
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Name: Danielle (will add another detail to her later)
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Name: Joe (I tried to get his skin tone right) :sob:
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Name: Isaiah
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Name: Addy
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Name: Miki
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Name: Marie
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(More to come later.)

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I think you should seek other portrait parts from other F2U/F2E portraits, it’l help with the “looking too much like vanilla” issue. Also, have you heard of Blade’s hair and skintone sheet?

Blade’s skintone sheet

Blade’s hair sheet

Spritans pin dump thread

My thread shill (creative images by WiiSportsRemote)

Its Joe
Joe mama. (Im sorry I had to do this)

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Lol! I kinda expected that someone would do that! :sweat_smile:

But in all seriousness, he was actually named after Joe Zieja, a pretty well-known voice actor. I’m honestly very surprised how many people are actually surprised by this.

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Thanks! I’ll definitely be using these!

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i’m very concited so if you use parts of my mugs in a image please let me know… lol

Will do! I always do my best to make sure to give credit where it’s due.

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Lol. I just noticed I used the same face for both Miki and Marie. Oops! That was definitely not intentional! :rofl:

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AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!

I lost my progress on my prototype level I was working on!!! It was my first time ever actually modifying the code rather than just replacing the portrait cutscenes!! I was really proud of it, too! My laptop suddenly updated, and I didn’t save it!!! I forgot it would close out while doing it!!

Well, I know what I’m doing this weekend. :sob:

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