Talk:Joshua (Fire Emblem)

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Does Joshua really need an article? Not even Eirika or Myrrh have articles.

Hey, Eirika did have an article, but it was merged with Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. I think that Fire Emblem characters are important and need articles. Robertorulez

Myrrh technically does have an article (see Manakete).

[edit] Joshua vs. Marisa

Technically, Joshua and Marisa’s critical rates are the same at the end of the game (using their average stats at level 20 after promotion from level 20, using identical weapons, not counting support bonuses, and both having an S rank in swords). Joshua’s critical hit will do more damage, but I consider Marisa to be the better character. Joshua does have 3 more strength, 3 more defense, and 2 more constitution, but Marisa has 9 more luck and 1 more resistance. We could get into support pairings and affinities as well, but then the comparison would be too detailed to fit into a character description.

[edit] Last paragraph a complete fan interpretation

Honestly, I can't imagine why an article is made specifically for Joshua when there are literally dozens of other characters in other FE games that have little more than a mention. Joshua has MULTIPLE supports, and Natasha is just one of them. That does NOT immediately make their supports canon in the game.

I know that their supports aren't canon in the game, but you didn't have to delete over half the article. The article was focusing mainly on Joshua's love that was introduced in the main storyline, and if you didn't like how his other support endings weren't mentioned, then you maybe should've added them. Also, do you realize how the section said IF you get 3 supports? And so what if other characters don't have articles. People haven't gotten around to making them. I myself to try to make Fire Emblem character articles (see Gerik's Mercenaries).

The whole point of deleting that one entry in this article was to emphasize that NO supports should be leaned towards in the game. Based on your logic, if you managed to write a paragraph that size for a single character's A-support relationship with another character, you should be able to write those entries for all character A-supports in Sacred Stones, which will obviously lead to a bit of confusion for some people. Should we do that? I admit that Natasha was the first A-support that Joshua had laid eyes upon, but it would be better if the article simply mentioned the possible pairing rather than detail the entire "what if" supports prevalent in the Fire Emblem series. Theodorel 06:48, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I see where your coming from. Fire Emblem characters are important, and only one support ending shouldn't be emphasized so much. We should merely mention the possible support endings. Some people could get confused. Robertorulez