History DarthWiki / HetaliaEmblem

** The female characters tend to have flatter chests thanks to this in their battle portraits and models (as such even [[GagBoobs Iryna]] seems to have a B cup at most), though many apparently take them off or at least loosen them when outside battle as their support portraits show their chests at their full size.

** From a gameplay standpoint, José, Hương Lien, and Francisco. Portugal and Vietnam haven’t appeared that much in the comics, especially the former, with neither showing up in any animated form yet, but they cover very unique niches in the army as a StoneWall and fire mage respectively; meanwhile, Francisco takes this up to eleven, as Ecuador has only ever appeared in drawings on Hima’s blog and never in an actual comic, but in this game is very valuable not only as a mounted flying unit in a game with very few mounted and flying units, but can wield two weapon types by level 18, is a rare axe-user at that, ''and'' is the only one besides Kiku who can use Sol [[spoiler:without DLC]]. Needless to say, they’re extremely valuable as units.

* TheTeamWannabe: Eduard/江戸明戸 is one for the Five Northern Guardians; or more that he’s convinced that it’s his destiny too, and that if they press the gods a liiiittttle more he’d definitely be chosen. He considers himself basically the SixthRanger of the group, though the other Nordics merely think it’s kind of amusing or stupid. He’s also Tino’s biological brother who he grew up with, and often tries begging to him to get him in using that as leverage. Though it’s also revealed that part of the reason Eduard wants to be part of the group is that he wants to spend more time with Tino, and thinks that he might abandon him in favor of his ritual family (though it’s also implied that he could just be saying so to guilt-trip Tino into letting him in (pending)).

* WeaponOfChoice: As characters get the same weapons their WF counterparts get, while you can get fitting weapons for some characters, others can seem... pretty bizarre for their personality type, especially for any other weapon than the standard sword or spear. [[CulturedBadass Roderich?]] He uses a kusarigama, a sickle and flail in one, with an extremely brutal-looking attack animation to boot (and also one of the most brutal Japanese weapons in real life as well). [[NiceGuy Fransisco?]] [[AnAxeToGrind One of the few ax users in the game]]. [[{{Jerkass}} Basch]]? Healer who can’t attack (though many of his supports reveal a personality that is more worthy of a healer). They also often don’t get the weapons they are associated with in canon, if they have any. Feli, who is canonically a great fencer? Lance. [[spoiler:Though the Olympian DLC fixes that]]. Arthur and Lukas, who are often typecast as mages, and even have absurdly high magic and resistance stats and growths (and the former whom is usually typecast as an archer in Alt-talia)? Lance and sword user respectively (though their high resistance is still a nice perk, and Hương Lien and Ion note they can sense their latent magic ability). Simon, who is often depicted with his massive viking battle ax? Sword user. Though for a select few characters weapons which allude to the characters’ Alt-talia counterparts do become usable after a certain level, even if you have better alternatives by then (e.g. Tino gains use of knives and Cuba (name undecided) gains use of healing staves). T

** From a gameplay standpoint, José, Hương Lien, and Francisco. Portugal and Vietnam haven’t appeared that much in the comics, especially the former, with neither showing up in any animated form yet, but they cover very unique niches in the army as a StoneWall and fire mage respectively; meanwhile, Francisco takes this UpToEleven, as Ecuador has only ever appeared in drawings on Hima’s blog and never in an actual comic, but in this game is very valuable not only as a mounted flying unit in a game with very few mounted and flying units, but can wield two weapon types by level 18, is a rare axe-user at that, ''and'' is the only one besides Kiku who can use Sol [[spoiler:without DLC]]. Needless to say, they’re extremely valuable as units.

* HeroicResolve: [[LetsGetDangerous Feliks]] and [[BewareTheNiceOnes Tino’s]] unique skills invoke this. The former’s, “Phoenix”, not only gives him a LastChanceHitPoint but also immediately triggers a counterattack. And then there’s Tino’s ability, “Sisu”, a CriticalStatusBuff which ''doubles his attack, defense, and skill'' at low health, also giving him a set of [[TranquilFury extremely stoic]] proc quotes and fitting portrait to go with it. ''[[UpToEleven For the rest of the entire battle.]]'' And combined with support bonuses, these skills alone can make these characters ludicrous {{Game Breaker}}s if they’re lucky with the RNG; particularly Tino, whose stats are otherwise pretty average at best, especially compared to the other Nordics. It helps that the former is a CloudCuckoolander and the latter is normally extremely sweet, being mischievous at worst. According to supports, the “Sisu” skill at least was born out of the extremely harsh, cold winters of Tino’s hometown, and his desire to protect those important to him (particularly Berwald and Eduard).

* RealMenHateSweets: Averted with not only Sadik, but Ludwig as well, as elaborated in the SweetTooth entry. Note, the three are probably the most RatedMForManly in the entire army.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Yup. Featuring all of the recognized countries in canon (and thensome), the cast is pretty massive, though merely a bit crowded for a FE game (as opposed to if the Alt-talia cast were used, which would balloon the cast to an absurd ''[[UpToEleven 195]]'', not even counting {{NPC}}s).

* RealityEnsues: Some in-story, base, and especially support conversations remind players that yes, indeed, almost AnyoneCanDie, and this is actually shown to weigh on the characters. Though if playing Casual or Phoenix mode it can come across as overdramatic {{Narm}} instead.
** This is why “battle” and “support” portraits/models exist; the battle models remove things that are a bit too impractical even using RuleOfCool as an excuse (e.g. Manon’s overly large hat and spheres hanging from her arm), and the female characters all bind their chests as large breasts aren’t exactly practical in battle. Also, the voice clips for when characters get hurt can sound ''extremely'' painful, which can be really jarring with the closer to canon cast. Some even start to actually bleed if at low health.
** A common theme in Basch’s supports regarding health.

* StepfordSmiler: Ivan. Though it should be pretty obvious. [[spoiler:The East Slav siblings all have a really messed-up past, but apparently it affected Ivan the most, so this is his way of coping with it. He has a lot in common with [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Henry]]; talking blissfully about how the staff of the orphanage he and his sisters were living in abused him horrifically, how he almost froze to death after Iryna took them and ran (pending)... while most others balk in horror at this, it’s made more clear how much this affected him in some of his supports.]] He also apparently sometimes feels that everyone hates him but he doesn’t fully understand why. This is also apparently fueled by alcohol; in one support, this joliness starts to crumble as the realization hits Ivan that they are, indeed, out of booze.
** Yong-Soo to a lesser extent; mainly in his B support with Yao, but also mentioned or implied in others, he states that as part of the whole IdolSinger thing he at times feels pressured to stay cheerful and pretty constantly, even if others find it a bit annoying; even if alongside all his insecurities he’s [[RealityEnsues a teenager fighting a war in which he or any of his friends could die]]. He’s also insecure about his looks and abilities to a huge extent. He’s a bit more willing to be completely honest around Yao, but can open up about it to some of his other support partners, and in his very serious supports such as his with Natallia from C onwards (mainly when it involves his missing brother), the facade completely drops.

* SuperMovePortraitAttack: Just like in the official FE games, whenever critical hits, skills, {{Special Attack}}s or {{Limit Break}}s are activated, this happens with accompanying PreMortemOneLiner; the former two get 3/4 view protraits like in FE, while the latter two get a frontal shot. In the case of LimitBreak or SpecialAttack, this means a SplitScreenReaction shot as well.

** Feliks is an [[CloudCuckooLander extremely quirky]] man with a bit of a TheGadfly streak, at times seeming as airheaded as even Feli, who banters and has full conversations with his pet Polandball who is a SpeechImpairedAnimal at most; and while his apparent femininity has been toned down, it still shows up at times... and he kind of plays into this with his Tsubame-gaeshi critical hit animation, where he appears to miss after making a bombastic PreMortemOneLiner, [[CombatPragmatist only to slash them from underneath]]. [[labelnote:Pending]]While the fact that WF!Poland is a master of the Tsubame-Gaeshi is just plain cool, I also think it was a total wasted opportunity to basically make him a Samurai Hussar. While that’s not possible now due to WF!Poland’s lack of armor, I’m considering the option of making him a horseback unit like Erzsébet, if not a Pegasus-mounted Sky Knight, which would not only reference the Winged Hussars, but the Polish 303 Squadron as well.[[/labelnote]] Oh yeah, did we mention that his Crit rate is almost absurdly high? He also has the exclusive skill [[LastChanceHitPoint Phoenix]], which not only can prevent him from getting {{One Hit KO}}’d, but enables him to strike back in retaliation. And when these are activated, they are accompanied by (while not to the extent of [[DarthWiki/AltTalia Commonwealth]] [[CrazyAwesome Poland]]) some very confident one-liners and a fitting SuperMovePortraitAttack to rub salt on the wound. It’s telling that after the BarBrawl mentioned in his and Tolys’s D support, he came out of it with barely any injuries.

** Feli also, in usual Hetalia fashion, isn’t exactly that fortunate either. In his supports, as a small sample, he gets [[BeeAfraid chased by bees]], caught in a snare trap, tripped by a twig while training, forced to endure [[LethalChef Arthur’s]] cooking (though apparently this was a bit of a BerserkButton for him, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness and he gets extremely]] [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]] with him (pending)), and caught in the crossfire of one of [[PlayingWithFire Hương Lien’s]] practice drills. Though a lot of these are the result of his own ditziness more than anything.

The game (if "canon" route) features only the canon Hetalia cast with some guest stars. It plays much like a typical ''Fire Emblem'' game, except that characters aren't grouped into classes and more big macro-classes, and that if requirements are met, characters can unleash flashy combination {{Special Attack}}s and/or {{Limit Break}}s, some more than others. There are also minor pre-set support bonus-like boosts applied to certain characters if they are Paired Up with or have alongside them a character they already have some kind of bond with pre-story. It also has has giant maps to compensate for the fact that at the end there is a grand total of ''8'' Lords (as well as other characters who absolutely cannot die for story reasons). Due to them being based off of their World Flags designs, sadly Manaketes and beast-shifters are not playable in this game (pending), and the types of units available tend to be rather lopsided (most glaringly in the great dearth of mounted units). The game also has a semi-NoHuggingNoKissing policy, a rarity for Fire Emblem and Hetalia, and focuses on platonic relationships with no supports going above A, though to compensate the game also provides D supports.

* DemonicSpiders: Archers have gotten their range boosted to a whopping ''five'' spaces. At minimum. The only solace is that they tend to [[GlassCannon be fairly fragile]] and as such can be dispatched with one particularly powerful hit, have somewhat below-average accuracy, and can’t shoot what’s right in front of them. While this also means that your archers become fairly useful, you aren’t exactly swimming in them. This in a game in which flying units, who while more durable than your typical [[FragileSpeedster Pegasus Knight]] aren’t exactly the most durable units either, are very hard to come by; and oh yeah, in an aversion of AnnoyingArrows, they can straight-up one-shot or nearly one-shot more delicate units. They can also come out of nowhere as reinforcements. Your flying units can easily fly out of the way on easier difficulties, but on Hard and Lunatic they can be placed in strategic positions that give them, much less your other more squishy units, little space to breathe without getting sniped. Oh, and without a long-range healing spell, don’t even think about sending Basch in, because he won’t last long either. And in at least one map with an archer infestation, you also [[ThatOneLevel absolutely have to use them to complete the level]]. Oh yeah, your main characters from the start are Kiku, a FragileSpeedster who while not the most fragile of {{Fragile Speedster}}s will only be able to take three at absolute most for most of the early game if he can’t dodge them, and Feli, who in the early game is generally a bad unit. This means that multiple archers on a map can become the bane of your existence as you try to keep your units alive and counter with Matthew as they pick you off from a distance, and as soon as you get a long-range status effect-inducing staff spell the best option is to always hit the archers with them first whenever possible. [[TruthInTelevision Much like real archers, actually]]. Though Matthew’s tendency to not attract enemies does make things somewhat better, he will get hit eventually if you rely too much on him, and he’s almost guaranteed to die if that happens. (Pending) And then there’s ThatOneLevel in which you’re StormingTheCastle and are getting shot at by mages (who can also border on DemonicSpiders) and archers... from above castle walls. [[TrollingCreator And you can’t reach them except with flying units, long-range spells, or other archers]]. [[FromBadToWorse and there’s like ten archers in Hard and Lunatic as opposed to the four there are in Normal]]. Mercifully, the objective is to reach the end tile, so you don’t have to engage any of them, and you’ll likely basically be running through and hoping for the best. And the level after it is a BreatherLevel in contrast as none of the bastards are indoors.

** Xiao-Mei (Taiwan), Kalung (Hong Kong), and Macau (name not decided) (pending). [[spoiler:They’re Yao’s younger siblings, and the plot twist that Yao is a Manakete happens via them revealing it to you. They had a falling out with Yao hundreds of years ago (though Macau doesn’t hold any resentment), and as such they haven’t met in that timespan. But as Manaketes they’re very valuable to people who would want to use their power for personal gain, and they’re introduced into the story breaking out of captivity and {{Big Damn Heroes}}-ing you out as your army is about to get pulled into a dark void]]. (VERY MUCH PENDING)

* DualWielding: Certain characters like Lucille (Monaco) and Cameroon (name currently undecided) wield two weapons; and unlike in the mainline games where this is often purely aesthetic, in this game these types of units are guaranteed to strike twice in one turn; sort of like a permanent Brave Sword, but in quick succession, so that the enemy has no window to strike between them. Though individual strikes become weaker to compromise, added up this means they can often cause somewhat more damage than a unit with their strength stats otherwise would. Meaning that if one of them doubles an enemy, they get to strike an impressive four times.

* MassivelyNumberedSiblings: As the Core Anglosphere members who appear are all siblings in this series due to the issue of their age and the aforementioned closeness to canon, Arthur has ''five'' brothers; from oldest to youngest, Arthur, Alfred, Matthew, Kyle (Australia, name pending), Brian (New Zealand, name pending), and Peter, all of the oldest three of course also being Hachi no Dan members, but all of them badass in their own right. This is noted by quite a few characters, though probably due to the low-tech setting they don't take it to be as shocking as modern people would. They're also written like this, their unique personalities both clashing and harmonizing as they interact. (pending: Al may have left the estate for whatever reason)
* ModestRoyalty: Or nobility, rather. Arthur and his siblings are all from a prominent noble family, and while Arthur plays BlingOfWar straight, his outfit invoking [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter#Robes_and_insignia the Order of the Garter]] in the necklace especially, on the other end there's Kyle, who has one of the more simple outfits in the game, with even the World Flags' profile describing it as "Simple is best!" (pending; I'm considering them being royalty as well. I at least know they're some kind of nobility).

''Hetalia Emblem'' (or as the wider AU is known, the “Samuraiverse” or “Flagverse”) is a theoretical ROM Hack of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright]]''; specifically, a three-way ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' x ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' x ''[[https://world-flags.org World Flags]]'' crossover fangame (Hetalia characters, World Flags weapons, abilities and outfits, and Fire Emblem gameplay and story elements) conceptualized by [=WannabeHistorian604=], also known as Tropers/{{shonengirl}}, creator of ''DarthWiki/AltTalia'', with the distinction of being possibly one of the few works [=WannabeHistorian=] would ever think of using canon characterizations in.

** Arthur, when push comes to shove, cares deeply about his family as well. He straight-up says in Alfred’s A support with him that he would willingly take a spear through the heart for any of them. Jett (Australia) and Jake (New Zealand) are the most eager to reciprocate this, but the other two don’t hesitate either.
** Alfred is also shown to be a bit protective of Matt, and Jett similarly to Jake.

* ChainmailBikini: Averted for everyone. The [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys World Flags designs]] are surprisingly not as blatant with the FemaleGaze as one might expect, and their outfits are all almost unchanged here. Many of the female characters are even drawn seemingly with avoiding unnecessary fanservice in mind (and [=WannabeHistorian=] has stated that she wanted to show the female characters having a feminine figure without it being {{Stripperiffic}}).

--> '''Emil:''' What are you freaking out about?

-->'''Emil:''' Alright, alright!

* MassivelyNumberedSiblings: As the Core Anglosphere members who appear are all siblings in this series due to the issue of their age and the aforementioned closeness to canon, Arthur has ''five'' brothers; from oldest to youngest, Arthur, Alfred, Matthew, Brian (New Zealand, name pending), Kyle (Australia, name pending), and Peter, all of the oldest three of course also being Hachi no Dan members, but all of them badass in their own right. This is noted by quite a few characters, though probably due to the low-tech setting they don't take it to be as shocking as modern people would. They're also written like this, their unique personalities both clashing and harmonizing as they interact. (pending: Al may have left the estate for whatever reason)
* MeaningfulName: José (Portugal) has his name rendered as 帆是 when written in kanji. 帆 means “sail”.

--> '''Erzsébet:''' Never mind, just... [[PleasePutYourClothesOn just PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON, PLEASE!]]

* [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Innocent Fanservice Boy]]: In Erzsébet and Emil’s D support (or maybe a scripted event if this allows a My Castle sort of thing or a more extensive barracks?), where they two are discussing the hot springs that are abundant near their homes, Emil offers Erzsébet to come with him, Erzsébet laughing it off thinking it’s a joke... and then he actually starts taking his clothes off. While Emil isn’t shown actually naked, Erzsébet gets very flustered and her portrait blushes like a tomato, much to Emil’s confusion. It’s especially hilarious due to how this isn’t cheerful, carefree Alt-Iceland, but an Emil who acts closer to his melancholy canon self. And he’s dead serious during the whole thing.

--> '''Erzsébet:''' Never mind, just... just PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON, PLEASE!

* [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Innocent Fanservice Boy]]: In Erzsébet and Emil’s D support (or maybe a scripted event if this allows a My Castle sort of thing or a more extensive barracks?), where they two are discussing the hot springs that are abundant near their homes, Emil offers Erzsébet to come with him, Erzsébet laughing it off thinking it’s a joke... and then he actually starts taking his clothes off. While Emil isn’t shown actually naked, Erzsébet gets very flustered and her portrait blushes like a tomato, much to Emil’s confusion. It’s especially hilarious due to how this isn’t cheerful, carefree Alt-Iceland, but an Emil who acts closer to his melancholy canon self. And he’s dead serious during the whole thing.
--> '''Erzsébet:''' EEEEEEEEK! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

--> '''Erzsébet:''' Don’t... don’t you see what’s the slightest bit weird about this?! I’m a woman, you pervert! Can’t you see what’s the slightest bit weird with this?!

--> '''Erzsébet:''' STOP!

--> '''Erzsébet:''' ...You do know that you’re a guy, right?

--> '''Erzsébet:''' Never mind, just... just PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON, PLEASE!

* AerithAndBob: In a sense. All the characters have their human names written in kanji. The East Asian characters of course have the most natural-looking names (Kiku 菊 (obviously), Yao 耀, Yong-Soo 勇洙, Hương Lien 香蓮), albeit it gives their names very nonstandard pronunciations in Japanese; the other names can range from rather plausible (Matthew 真朱, Ivan 伊幡, Natallia 奈田莉愛, Basch 芭珠) to... not so much (Erzsebet 英留尓衛部斗, Feliks 歩栄列句守).

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While not to the extent of ''Alt-talia'' and most of the cast is kept pretty close to canon, there are still changes to some, most often the injection of things mentioned in the World Flags profiles that the writer particularly liked (e.g. Tino finding that he likes pranking the other Nordics), or elements from ''Alt-talia''/real life if innocuous enough and it doesn’t completely contradict pre-existing characterization (e.g. Feliks apparently getting into a BarBrawl and calling it “fun” and being easily suceptible to reverse psychology, Ludwig and Francis being fairly close, Tino having [[HeroicResolve “Sisu”]] as a unique ability that makes him TakeALevelInBadass). Others are more expansions of characters that barely had any originally (e.g. India and Cameroon), or otherwise adding HiddenDepths. Feliciano, however, gets a few noticeable changes; not only isn’t he completely hopeless, but he’s also sort of a DitzyGenius.

** From a gameplay standpoint, José, Hương Lien, and Francisco. Portugal and Vietnam haven’t appeared that much in the comics, especially the former, with neither showing up in any animated form yet, but they cover very unique niches in the army as a StoneWall and fire mage respectively; meanwhile, Francisco takes this UpToEleven, as Ecuador has only ever appeared in drawings on Hima’s blog and never in an actual comic, but in this game is very valuable not only as a mounted flying unit in a game with very few mounted and flying units, but can wield two weapon types by level 18, a rare axe-user at that, ''and'' is the only one besides Kiku who can use Sol [[spoiler:without DLC]]. Needless to say, they’re extremely valuable as units.

** Yao towards Yong-Soo as well; though Yong is less prone to getting himself into extremely stupid situations than Feli, he’s not immune from it either. Though apparently it used to be a lot worse.

* TigerVersusDragon: Subverted, just like their WF counterparts; Yao is likened to a dragon and Yong-Soo to a tiger, but they’re actually a very close SiblingTeam instead of adversaries or even rivals. Some even lampshade this, one joking that next thing they know dogs and monkeys will start becoming friends. Though much like the usual symbolism, Yao is the more wise Blue Oni to the more gung-ho Yong-Soo’s Red Oni.

* {{BFS}}: Vlad (Romania) carries a massive cross-shaped one. It predictably deals quite an amount of damage.

* DemonicSpiders: Archers have gotten their range boosted to a whopping ''five'' spaces. At minimum. The only solace is that they tend to [[GlassCannon be fairly fragile]], have somewhat below-average accuracy, and can’t shoot what’s right in front of them. While this also means that your archers become fairly useful, you aren’t exactly swimming in them. This in a game in which you get only ''one'' flying unit in the form of Francisco, who while more durable than your typical [[FragileSpeedster Pegasus Knight]] isn’t exactly the most durable unit either, and oh yeah, in an aversion of AnnoyingArrows, they can straight-up one-shot or nearly one-shot more delicate units. Francisco can easily fly out of the way on easier difficulties, but on Hard and Lunatic they can be placed in strategic positions that give him little space to breathe without getting sniped. Oh, and without a long-range healing spell, don’t even think about sending Basch in, because he won’t last long either. This means that multiple archers on a map can become the bane of your existence as you try to keep (the extremely useful) Francisco alive and counter with Matthew as they pick you off from a distance, and as soon as you get a long-range status effect-inducing staff spell the best option is to always hit the archers with them first whenever possible. [[TruthInTelevision Much like real archers, actually]]. Though Matthew’s tendency to not attract enemies does make things somewhat better. (Pending)
** Berserk staves are back in the form of Berserk Stones. And they’re as awful as ever. They still have a huge range and can make a unit attack everything in front of them in an insane, uncontrollable rampage. They don’t appear often, but if you see one [[ThisIsGonnaSuck you know it’s going to hurt]]. There’s a reason if guides are turned on the characters treat them as TheDreaded when they first appear. Fortunately, Basch can also use them, so it’s also possible to inflict such destruction on your enemies as well.
* DemotedToExtra: Those who don't have a country in modern day are [=NPCs=] out of necessity, most prominently Prussia/Gilbert and Romano/Lavino. They do still play varying roles in the story, however. [[spoiler:(PENDING) This turns out to be averted for Lavino after all, since [[AdaptationalVillainy he turns out to be the Big Bad’s Brainwashed And Crazy Dragon]]]]. [[labelnote:About the others]]I’m especially not sure if Gilbert would be a really minor character who is mainly developed via other people’s supports, or have some kind of story role. I’m also not sure if Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau will show up; I initially thought they would, but I kind of find Hong Kong and China or Taiwan and China having a non-toxic relationship to be particularly groanworthy for some reason, but making them a broken family would be explicitly referencing sensitive real world politics which WF doesn’t want. But if they do show up they could be anything from being really minor, maybe NPC units you have to rescue in a certain chapter, to actual story-relevant Manaketes.[[/labelnote]]

** [[spoiler:The Olympian DLC patches give certain characters class changes based on areas they excel at in the Summer Olympics, the event World Flags was originally promoting: Feliciano’s gives him a rapier-katana hybrid, Alfred’s gives the options of a {{BFS}} or a musket, Ludwig’s promotes him into a cavalry unit (the only one obtainable in the game at that), and Yong-Soo’s makes him an archer; many of them come with ridiculously good skills as well. All of them with the exception of Ludwig’s can only be downloaded pretty late in the game though, due to how GameBreaker-y they can get.]]
** [[spoiler:The Latin DLC and Yugo DLC unlock the recruitment chapters for the Latin Hetalia cast (except for Francisco (Ecuador), who is already recruitable in-game) and Yugotalia cast respectively. They also change some of Francisco or Herakles, Nikola (Bulgaria), and Vlad’s supports respectively. Notably, these are very much the Latin Hetalia and Yugotalia versions instead of the Alt-talia versions, including the use of [[PluckyGirl Marija]] over [[{{Chuunibyou}} Serije]] to represent North Macedonia, though there is a patch that can be downloaded with them to change differing cast members and to replace Marija with Serije, who has drastically different supports and [[MagikarpPower sta]][[FragileSpeedster ts]] from his female counterpart. These DLC are also able to be downloaded somewhat earlier than the others. [[NoExportForYou However, the patches at least are restricted to the English version due to their connection to Alt-talia.]]]]

* TheGadfly: Vlad is quite fond of mischief, whether that be in the form of general trolling or pitfalls in the ground. In supports, he also tries teaching Yong-Soo and Tino how to prank the rest of the army; and in Tino’s case, while he is a bit hesitant at first, he does a little ''too'' well (a MythologyGag to World Flags, where Finland is indeed a serial prankster), much to the apparent dismay of the other Nordics.

* ISeeDeadPeople: In canon, Belarus can apparently, for whatever reason, see and communicate with ghosts, but it’s AllThereInTheManual; here, however, it’s utilized. She forms an OddFriendship with Vlad over their mutual involvement and experience in the paranormal, and in her supports with Yong-Soo, he seeks her out for these abilities, and after initial [[HormoneAddledTeenager awkwardness]], asks her if his brother is still alive, and if he is dead to be able to speak to his brother and get closure. [[spoiler:It turns out that Natallia can’t find his ghost, so he is indeed still alive somewhere]].

* NoSenseOfHumor: [[GermanicDepressives Ludwig]], as in canon, doesn’t have much of one outside of the occasional [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] comment. His supports from D to B with Vlad are basically Vlad trying to make Ludwig laugh with no success. Until Vlad accidentally steps on a makeshift whoopee cushion Tino left lying around... and Ludwig actually snickers a bit. He immediately denies it, but indeed, it appears that Ludwig’s sense of humor exists, it’s just surprisingly immature.
** Tolys, just like in canon as well. This makes him a favorite target of Vlad, and Tino also says that it’s very hard to resist not pranking him more often either. He’s also obviously a common target for Feliks’ trolling and general quirkiness.

** Erzsebet and Vlad are still like this as well; their supports and other interactions usually devolve into them trying to inconvenience each other in increasingly elaborate ways. Their A support has Vlad showing begrudging respect for Erzsebet being able to outsmart him in their previous support, however.

* WeaponOfChoice: As characters get the same weapons their WF counterparts get, while you can get fitting weapons for some characters, others can seem... pretty bizarre for their personality type, especially for any other weapon than the standard sword or spear. [[CulturedBadass Roderich?]] He uses a kusarigama, a sickle and flail in one. [[NiceGuy Fransisco?]] [[AnAxeToGrind One of the few ax users in the game]]. [[{{Jerkass}} Basch]]? Healer who can’t attack (though many of his supports reveal a personality that is more worthy of a healer). They also often don’t get the weapons they are associated with in canon, if they have any. Feli, who is canonically a great fencer? Lance. [[spoiler:Though the Olympian DLC fixes that]]. Arthur and Lukas, who are often typecast as mages, and even have absurdly high magic and resistance stats and growths (and the former whom is usually typecast as an archer in Alt-talia)? Lance and sword user respectively (though their high resistance is still a nice perk, and Hương Lien and Vlad note they can sense their latent magic ability). Simon, who is often depicted with his Viking battle ax? Sword user.

* WhenSheSmiles: Ludwig, of course, rarely smiles; however, his smiling portrait is often used more often at higher level supports, especially with his fellow G7, and other characters note how he smiles more often when around animals.

** Inverted in two ways by Basch; not only is he a guy, but just like in canon he’s a bit of a greedy, aloof {{Jerkass}}. And unlike Matt, he absolutely cannot attack directly. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold However, in supports he’s shown to sometimes be surprisingly intuitive to the emotions and suffering of others]] (e.g. being able to sense that Ivan is a StepfordSmiler), is pretty serious about the health of others in the army (e.g. he scolds Yong-Soo harshly for practicing dance moves to the point of exhaustion and possible permanent damage, gives Raivis [[AngerBornOfWorry the mother of rants]] for his drinking habits), and even supportive if he’s moved enough by someone’s plight, though he doesn’t like admitting it (Pending). He lampshades this as well, saying that it’s “monk’s intuition”.

** Alfred is also shown to be a bit protective of Matt.
** Basch towards Erika (Liechtenstein), of course. However, Basch is a [[WhiteMage monk]]. Their supports deal with Basch coming to terms with the fact that she's gotten older and can fight on the frontlines as long as he's there to catch her.

** Yong-Soo to a lesser extent; mainly in his B support with Yao, but also mentioned or implied in others, he states that as part of the whole IdolSinger thing he at times feels pressured to stay cheerful constantly, even if others find it a bit annoying; even if alongside all his insecurities he’s [[RealityEnsues a teenager fighting a war in which he or any of his friends could die]]. He’s a bit more willing to be completely honest around Yao, but can open up about it to some of his other support partners, and in his very serious supports such as his with Natallia from C onwards (mainly when it involves his missing brother), the facade completely drops.

* GlacierWaif: Peter, even if he is no José, has surprisingly good defense stats for a 12-year-old boy, especially compared to other child units like Erika or Aurel who tend to be way more fragile, especially initially. In canon Hetalia, this would be due to the fact that he is literally MadeOfIron, but here it's explained by his armor being really good; even then his apparently durability is shown to even perplex his siblings, so it can't be just that. (pending)

* HeroicResolve: [[LetsGetDangerous Feliks]] and [[BewareTheNiceOnes Tino’s]] unique skills invoke this. The former’s, “Phoenix”, not only gives him a LastChanceHitPoint but also immediately triggers a counterattack. And then there’s Tino’s ability, “Sisu”, a CriticalStatusBuff which ''doubles his attack, defense, and skill'' at low health, also giving him a set of [[TranquilFury extremely stoic]] proc quotes and fitting portrait to go with it. For the rest of the entire battle. And combined with support bonuses, these skills alone can make these characters ludicrous {{Game Breaker}}s if they’re lucky with the RNG; particularly Tino, whose stats are otherwise pretty average at best, especially compared to the other Nordics. It helps that the former is a CloudCuckoolander and the latter is normally extremely sweet, being mischievous at worst. According to supports, the “Sisu” skill at least was born out of the extremely harsh, cold winters of Tino’s hometown, and his desire to protect those important to him (particularly Berwald and Eduard).

** In Feli and Emil’s D support, Feli finds Emil staring at a procession of attractive women passing by. He also straight-up admits point blank that he’s ogling them. Though when Feli, being Feli, tries watching with him and sits uncomfortably close to him, Emil gets annoyed and tries to walk away.
---> '''Emil:''' Here’s a teenage boy. Looking at attractive women. Why ''do'' you think I’m here?

* TheLoad: Feliciano is this initially; he can be a real pain to level up, as while defense is his best stat initially he’s likely to die anyway if left alone for too long due to his initially measly attack and mediocre speed. This makes the first chapter harder than it has any right to be (not to mention that Kiku can’t take too much damage either, as he’s more leaning on a FragileSpeedster). In supports, it’s shown that he does at times think of himself as this as well.

* NoSenseOfHumor: Ludwig, as in canon, doesn’t have much of one outside of the occasional [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] comment. His supports from D to B with Vlad are basically Vlad trying to make Ludwig laugh with no success. Until Vlad accidentally steps on a makeshift whoopee cushion Tino left lying around... and Ludwig actually snickers a bit. He immediately denies it, but indeed, it appears that Ludwig’s sense of humor exists, it’s just surprisingly immature.

* RetiredBadass: While younger than most examples (though still a bit more aged than his canon counterpart, with his age given as 29, coincidentally around the same physical age he was in ''Alt-talia'' when raising Germany), Gilbert used to be a fierce fighter before the events of the story, until he badly injured his leg. He apparently often laments how he can't fight anymore.

* ShipSinking: The furthest Feli and Ludwig’s, as well as Berwald and Tino's, interactions go is platonic. The Holy Rome backstory isn’t even adapted in this canon, as confirmed by Ludwig saying that while he knew Feli since childhood, he never really got to know him. As mentioned, the game has a semi-NoHuggingNoKissing policy, and the only pairings that exist in the game at all are Jana (Czechia) x Andil (Slovakia), Tolys having one-sided feelings towards Natallia, and maaaaayyybbbe Roderich x Erzsebet, as well as one-off misunderstandings, so this pretty much happens to all other ships by virtue of the writing. Kiku and Herakles's relationship also isn't shown to be as close as it is in canon (in fact Herakles seems way closer to Feli), though they're still casual friends, so there's especially a lot less base for Giripan shippers to stand on.

** Feliks has the unusual distinction of a good chunk of his supports consisting of him being basically untouchable, almost TheTrickster even, always coming out on top... but also, if he isn’t, being almost guaranteed to be this instead if it’s a lighthearted support (e.g. his and Arthur’s D support, where Arthur [[DarthWiki/{{Alt-talia}} convinces Feliks]] [[MythologyGag to clean the latrines]] with [[DarthWiki/{{Alt-talia}} basic reverse psychology]] on accident... and he keeps falling for the same trick in the same chain, much to Arthur’s amusement, despite telling himself not to, and in other supports as well). Piłka, from what we see of him though, seems to be a more consistent example, just like in Polandball itself.

** Feliks is an [[CloudCuckooLander extremely quirky]] man with a bit of a TheGadfly streak, at times seeming as airheaded as even Feli, who banters and has full conversations with his pet Polandball who is a SpeechImpairedAnimal at most; and while his apparent femininity has been toned down, it still shows up at times... and he kind of plays into this with his Tsubame-gaeshi critical hit animation, where he appears to miss after making a bombastic PreMortemOneLiner, [[CombatPragmatist only to slash them from underneath]]. [[labelnote:Pending]]While the fact that WF!Poland is a master of the Tsubame-Gaeshi is just plain cool, I also think it was a total wasted opportunity to basically make him a Samurai Hussar. While that’s not possible now due to WF!Poland’s lack of armor, I’m considering the option of making him a horseback unit like Erzsébet, if not a Pegasus-mounted Sky Knight, which would not only reference the Winged Hussars, but the Polish 303 Squadron as well.[[/labelnote]] Oh yeah, did we mention that his Crit rate is almost absurdly high? He also has the exclusive skill [[LastChanceHitPoint Phoenix]], which not only can prevent him from getting {{One Hit KO}}’d, but enables him to strike back in retaliation. And when these are activated, they are accompanied by (while not to the extent of [[DarthWiki/{{Alt-talia}} Commonwealth]] [[CrazyAwesome Poland]]) some very confident one-liners and a fitting SuperMovePortraitAttack to rub salt on the wound. It’s telling that after the BarBrawl mentioned in his and Tolys’s D support, he came out of it with barely any injuries.

''Hetalia Emblem'' (or as the wider AU is known, the “Samuraiverse” or “Flagverse”) is a theoretical ROM Hack of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright]]''; specifically, a three-way ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' x ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' x ''[[https://world-flags.org World Flags]]'' crossover fangame (Hetalia characters, World Flags weapons, abilities and outfits, and Fire Emblem gameplay and story elements) conceptualized by [=WannabeHistorian604=], also known as Tropers/{{shonengirl}}, creator of DarthWiki/{{Alt-talia}}, with the distinction of being possibly one of the few works [=WannabeHistorian=] would ever think of using canon characterizations in.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Sort of. [=WannabeHistorian=] has admitted that as much as she is pro-LGBT rights, she doesn't like writing slash or hinting at it. However, unlike Alt-talia, where characters can be shown as {{Heteronormative Crusader}}s, the same solution of "simply never shown to be bi or gay" she uses for the non-homophobic countries is used. This has been stated as part of the motivation for the soft NoHuggingNoKissing rule. As a result, Feli and Ludwig's interactions are entirely platonic (and in fact a bit less close than in canon) and neither shows any signs of their feelings going beyond that, [[ChivalrousPervert Francis]] flirts only with the female characters (who aren’t [[TokenMiniMoe Erika]]), and Berwald and Tino are technically step-brothers and have only platonic interactions. It should also be noted that when [[{{Troll}} Feliks]] [[MythologyGag dresses up as a geisha woman]] and hits on [[MythologyGag José]], and when Feli mistakes [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yao]] for a woman and hits on him in their respective D supports, the one who made the mistake is either awkwardly silent for a few seconds before quietly dropping the topic as Feliks laughs hysterically, notable as when he mistook China for a woman in Alt-talia he treats it as a [[UnsettlingGenderReveal horrible thing]] which he frantically prays to God to forgive him for (José), or apologizing frantically, his words implying more that he's sorry that he made a mistake than being disgusted by the fact he flirted with a man (Feli). The writer doesn't try to draw much attention to it and doesn't explicitly say the characters in this canon are straight either, it just isn't addressed, so technically it's still entirely possible that EveryoneIsBi in this canon as well.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While not to the extent of Alt-talia and most of the cast is kept pretty close to canon, there are still changes to some, most often the injection of things mentioned in the World Flags profiles that the writer particularly liked (e.g. Tino finding that he likes pranking the other Nordics), or elements from Alt-talia/real life if innocuous enough and it doesn’t completely contradict pre-existing characterization (e.g. Feliks apparently getting into a BarBrawl and calling it “fun” and being easily suceptible to reverse psychology, Ludwig and Francis being fairly close, Tino having [[HeroicResolve “Sisu”]] as a unique ability that makes him TakeALevelInBadass). Others are more expansions of characters that barely had any originally (e.g. India and Cameroon), or otherwise adding HiddenDepths. Feliciano, however, gets a few noticeable changes; not only isn’t he completely hopeless, but he’s also sort of a DitzyGenius.

* HeroicResolve: [[LetsGetDangerous Feliks]] and [[BewareTheNiceOnes Tino’s]] unique skills invoke this. The former’s, “Phoenix”, not only gives him a LastChanceHitPoint but also immediately triggers a counterattack. And then there’s Tino’s ability, “Sisu”, a CriticalStatusBuff which ''doubles his attack, defense, and skill'' at low health, also giving him a set of [[TranquilFury extremely stoic]] proc quotes and fitting portrait to go with it. And combined with support bonuses, these skills alone can make these characters ludicrous {{Game Breaker}}s if they’re lucky with the RNG; particularly Tino, whose stats are otherwise pretty average at best, especially compared to the other Nordics. It helps that the former is a CloudCuckoolander and the latter is normally extremely sweet, being mischievous at worst. According to supports, the “Sisu” skill at least was born out of the extremely harsh, cold winters of Tino’s hometown, and his desire to protect those important to him (particularly Berwald and Eduard).

** Feliks is an [[CloudCuckooLander extremely quirky]] man with a bit of a TheGadfly streak, at times seeming as airheaded as even Feli, who banters and has full conversations with his pet Polandball who is a SpeechImpairedAnimal at most; and while his apparent femininity has been toned down, it still shows up at times. However, he’s also a fierce IaijutsuPractitioner with an absurd critical hit rate, with the exclusive skill [[LastChanceHitPoint Phoenix]], which not only can prevent him from getting {{One Hit KO}}’d, but enables him to strike back in retaliation. And when these are activated, they are accompanied by (while not to the extent of [[DarthWiki/{{Alt-talia}} Commonwealth]] [[CrazyAwesome Poland]]) some very confident one-liners and a fitting SuperMovePortraitAttack to rub salt on the wound. It’s telling that after the BarBrawl mentioned in his and Tolys’s D support, he came out of it with barely any injuries.

The game (if "canon" route) features only the canon Hetalia cast with some guest stars. It plays much like a typical ''Fire Emblem'' game, except that characters aren't grouped into classes and more big macro-classes, and that if requirements are met, characters can unleash flashy combination {{Special Attack}}s and/or {{Limit Break}}s, some more than others. There are also minor pre-set support bonus-like boosts applied to certain characters if they are Paired Up with or have alongside them a character they already have some kind of bond with pre-story. It also has has giant maps to compensate for the fact that at the end there is a grand total of ''8'' Lords (as well as other characters who absolutely cannot die for story reasons). Due to them being based off of their World Flags designs, sadly Manaketes and beast-shifters are not playable in this game, and the types of units available tend to be rather lopsided (most glaringly in the great dearth of mounted units). The game also has a semi-NoHuggingNoKissing policy, a rarity for Fire Emblem and Hetalia, and focuses on platonic relationships with no supports going above A, though to compensate the game also provides D supports.

** Also the “child” units ([[ProperLady Liechtenstein]], [[BrattyHalfPint Peter]] and Moldova specifically). While they aren’t shown in a fight in canon, the former has no military, Sealand is a micronation, and the latter is 10 years old physically, so it can be assumed that they aren’t much. [[MagikarpPower In this game, however...]]
** Roderich as well. He’s pretty useful as a unit, but in canon he was a pretty bad wimp in terms of strength who relied on the rest of his empire (mainly Hungary). His character timeline is even sort of an inversion of canon; in canon he often got himself into fights which Switzerland needed to rescue him from as a child, but in his supports with Basch, it’s stated that Roderich in this canon used to be rather frail and weak, but now is much less reluctant about fighting if it’s necessary, but will still rely on Basch to save him if the going gets rough. (Pending) Then again, his fighting style mostly relies on immobilizing enemy units, his unique gimmick.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While not to the extent of Alt-talia and most of the cast is kept pretty close to canon, there are still changes to some, most often the injection of things mentioned in the World Flags profiles that the writer particularly liked (e.g. Tino finding that he likes pranking the other Nordics), or elements from Alt-talia/real life if innocuous enough and it doesn’t completely contradict pre-existing characterization (e.g. Feliks apparently getting into a BarBrawl and calling it “fun” and being easily suceptible to reverse psychology, Ludwig and Francis being fairly close). Others are more expansions of characters that barely had any originally (e.g. India and Cameroon), or otherwise adding HiddenDepths. Feliciano, however, gets a few noticeable changes; not only isn’t he completely hopeless, but he’s also sort of a DitzyGenius.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Sort of. [=WannabeHistorian=] has admitted that as much as she is pro-LGBT rights, she doesn't like writing slash or hinting at it. However, unlike Alt-talia, where characters can be shown as {{Heteronormative Crusader}}s, the same solution of "simply never shown to be bi or gay" she uses for the non-homophobic countries is used. This has been stated as part of the motivation for the soft NoHuggingNoKissing rule. As a result, Feli and Ludwig's interactions are largely platonic (and in fact a bit less close than in canon) and neither shows any signs of their feelings going beyond that, [[ChivalrousPervert Francis]] flirts only with the female characters (who aren’t [[TokenMiniMoe Erika]]), and Berwald and Tino are technically step-brothers and have only platonic interactions. It should also be noted that when [[{{Troll}} Feliks]] [[MythologyGag dresses up as a geisha woman]] and hits on [[MythologyGag José]], and when Feli mistakes [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yao]] for a woman and hits on him in their respective D supports, the one who made the mistake is either awkwardly silent for a few seconds before quietly dropping the topic as Feliks laughs hysterically, notable as when he mistook China for a woman in Alt-talia he treats it as a [[UnsettlingGenderReveal horrible thing]] which he frantically prays to God to forgive him for (José), or apologizing frantically, his words implying more that he's sorry that he made a mistake than being disgusted by the fact he flirted with a man (Feli). The writer doesn't try to draw much attention to it and doesn't explicitly say the characters in this canon are straight either, it just isn't addressed, so technically it's still entirely possible that EveryoneIsBi in this canon as well.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While not to the extent of Alt-talia and most of the cast is kept pretty close to canon, there are still changes to some, most often the injection of things mentioned in the World Flags profiles that the writer particularly liked (e.g. Tino finding that he likes pranking the other Nordics), or elements from Alt-talia/real life if innocuous enough and it doesn’t completely contradict pre-existing characterization (e.g. Feliks apparently getting into a BarBrawl and calling it “fun” and being easily suceptible to reverse psychology, Ludwig and Francis being fairly close). Others are more expansions of characters that barely had any originally (e.g. India and Cameroon). Feliciano, however, gets a few noticeable changes; not only isn’t he completely hopeless, but he’s also sort of a DitzyGenius.

* AuthorAppeal: Some of the character traits and quirks are things that were never in canon, but aside from those that are World Flags references, they can also be Alt-Talia references. Though the influence of Alt-talia can especially be seen in the supports and relationships, as all of the friendships from there have been ported here, albeit with changes to dynamics due to their different personalities, while these references will likely fly over the heads of audiences not familiar with the Alt-talia concept and the IRL relations due to them blending in with the other new relationship dynamics (e.g. Feli and Herakles, Ludwig and Francis, Matthew and Govert (and Manon to a somewhat lesser extent), Feliks and Erzsebet, Sadik and Yong-Soo). Less common but still noticeable are reductions in the closeness of relationships the writer found personally annoying (e.g. Kiku and Herakles, Berwald, Tino, and Peter, the Bad Friends Trio, and most notably Feli and Ludwig).

* OddCouple: The main duo; the disorganized CloudcuckooLander Feli and more by-the-book Kiku. They’re also a pretty unlikely combination meta-wise as well, as when Italy and Japan are depicted together in canon it’s usually in the context of the Axis trio, and in real life their relations aren’t anything special either so in Alt-talia they aren’t exactly close. They’re the leading duo for reasons basically independent from each other; Feli because he is the (at least initial) main character of the comics and is in need of the most character development out of the G7 if he were to work in the story, and Kiku because of the Wutai setting and WF was originally a promotion for the Olympics in Tokyo.

* HiredGuns: Govert (Netherlands, name pending) and Mannon (Belgium, name pending) are mercenaries before they’re recruited (Luxembourg (name currently undecided) apparently used to be part of the group until he hit it big elsewhere (Pending)). The former is very adamant about getting paid as well.

* HeroicResolve: [[LetsGetDangerous Feliks]] and [[BewareTheNiceOnes Tino’s]] unique skills invoke this. The former’s, “Phoenix”, not only gives him a LastChanceHitPoint but also immediately triggers a counterattack. And then there’s Tino’s ability, “Sisu”, a CriticalStatusBuff which ''doubles his attack, defense, and skill'' at low health, also giving him a set of [[TranquilFury extremely stoic]] proc quotes and fitting portrait to go with it. It helps that the former is a CloudCuckoolander and the latter is normally extremely sweet and mischievous at worst.
* HiredGuns: Govert (Netherlands, name pending) and Mano (Belgium, name pending) are mercenaries before they’re recruited (Luxembourg (name currently undecided) apparently used to be part of the group until he hit it big elsewhere (Pending)). The former is very adamant about getting paid as well.

* ChivalrousPervert: Francis/符蘭志洲. While he may be a flirt, beginning every set of support conversations with female characters (those over 16 anyway) with flirting, but unlike many fanon deptictions (especially in the Japanese fandom) he values consent deeply, as while he might keep at it [[ItAmusedMe purely for his amusement]] for a while, if someone is clearly, very uncomfortable with it, he backs off. He tells Tolys in their A support that what matters the most in a relationship is mutuality, and that while he shouldn't give up, if Natallia doesn't feel anything for him he should respect her wishes. He also doesn’t even think about hitting on 13-year-old Erika, replying in horror with basically [[EveryoneHasStandards “I’m a flirt, not a deviant!” when she notices and asks him why]] (after which he also gives her a mini-lecture on not falling to the advances of older men), probably a deliberate TakeThat to the popular (in Japan)/formerly popular (in the west) perception in {{Fanon}} that France is a pedophile ([[NeverLiveItDown which he sadly was in early comic strips]], but it seems to have become OldShame for Himaurya) and possibly {{Lolicon}}s in general. He’s also notably quicker to back off with the 17-year-old Michelle.

* GlacierWaif: Peter, even if he is no José, has surprisingly good defense stats for a 12-year-old boy, especially compared to other child units like Erika or Aurel who tend to be way more fragile, especially initially. In canon Hetalia, this would be due to the fact that he is literally MadeOfIron, but here it's explained by his armor being really good; even then his apparently durability is shown to even perplex his siblings, so it can't be just that.

* MagikarpPower: Erika, Aurel (Moldova), Peter (though Peter actually starts with pretty decent defense for a child unit), [[spoiler:Serije]], and even Feliciano himself are really good examples of this trope. Feliciano especially starts out as a borderline JokeCharacter with his only even decent stat being Defence and to an extent Luck which Kiku has to basically babysit, but unlike in canon by the end of the game he becomes a potent LightningBruiser. It takes a while for him to warm up though, so good luck.
* MassivelyNumberedSiblings: As the Core Anglosphere members who appear are all siblings in this series due to the age issue and the aforementioned closeness to canon, Arthur has ''five'' brothers; from oldest to youngest, Arthur, Alfred, Matthew, Max (name pending), Kyle (name pending), and Peter, all of the oldest three of course being Hachi no Dan members.