History HoYay / FireEmblem

** Dorothea and Ingrid share a paralogue where Dorothea spends the entire time referring to Ingrid as her "darling Ingrid". The paralogue ends with Dorothea effectively (jokingly) proposing to Ingrid. Their B-rank Support also ends with Dorothea talking about her desire to "pounce" on Ingrid... though she is strongly rebuffed.

* An example from outside support and bond conversations is Nel from the Xenologue DLC. [[spoiler:She eventually admits to having been in love with the Alear of the alternate world who is always [[OppositeSexClone the opposite gender of the main Alear meaning that in at least one version of the Fell Xenologue she was unambiguously in love with another woman]]. And of course her S-rank scene is explicitly romantic regardless, naturally, of Alear's gender.

* The intro dialogue for Mercedes and Annette's [[DualBoss Bound Hero Battle]] practically borders on text.

** Chlo&eacute's ending with Alear notes that their love inspired many fairy tales.

* Kagetsu and Boucheron's B support conversation has Kagetsu try to understand how the people in Elyos express friendship. In turn, he shares that his culture expresses friendship with "quizzing" and then asks Boucheron to give him one. Boucheron quickly finds out he actually meant ''kissing''.

* The very premise of Celine and Hortensia's support conversation is already pretty filled with LesYay: Hortensia recognising Celine as her only competitor in cuteness, and struggling to prove herself superior without falling prey to her charms herself, all while Celine sincerely likes Hortensia and finds her extremely cute herself. But it really hits a height in their B support in which Hortensia declares a 'softness competition' and the screen cuts to black as she mumbles [[SkinshipGrope 'poke, poke'...]] She [[ACupAngst immediately calls the competition off]], but Celine insists on returning the favour, causing the screen to go black ''again''... And then in their A support, Celine apparently still hasn't had enough, repeating the whole process all over again simply because Hortensia is so cute!

* Yunaka has some… interesting things to say about some of the female emblems during their bond supports. For example, she apparently gets "starry-eyed" when hanging around with Corrin, peering at Michiah from the shadows "because [she's] pretty," and saying that Erika is as "sleek as a sword, sharp as a razor, those cheek bones could cut glass," saying that Lyn is "So fierce and gorgeous. [Yunaka doesn't] know whether to surrender or buy [Lyn] flowers," etc.

** Kagetsu, even after being told that kissing is usually reserved for romantic relationships, still asks Boucheron to "quiz him on the lips" in their A support. He was joking however...

* Chloé, and Merrin's supports are dripping with this. Their C-support in particular being the best example as it starts with Merrin outright flirting by giving Chloé a flower and complimenting her beauty, then the two agree to share a meal with Merrin insisting that Chloé should take care of her if the weird meal makes her sick. Chloé constantly calling Merrin a dashing knight with Merrin worrying about living up to that image in later supports only adds to this.

* In Timerra's C support with Panette, she reminisces about when they met for the first time, impersonating her retainer's past demeanor. After Panette tells Timerra to stop, she tells Panette that she loves both the old and new versions of Panette, to which Panette responds by saying the feeling is mutual. In their B support, Panette tells Timerra that she caused her to change the way she coped with her pent-up anger while Timerra once again reminisces about how they fought bandits and rode wolves together, and Panette calls htem "thick as thieves", noting that she would've been consumed by her rage without Timerra. Finally, their A-support ends with Timerra declaring that she'll become a queen worthy of Panette's efforts, while Panette declares that she'll continue to serve her.

--->'''Fogado:''' At last, you finally came out and said it! You liiike me! You liiike me!

* Even as emblems it seems that Chrom and male Robin continue to have plenty of ShipTease with the two of them sharing a bracelet and saying they are bound together by bonds stronger than fate. In particular Lucina explicitly calling Robin her fathers other half if they fight and Robin teasing Chrom about constantly worrying for Lucina after the battle really makes them look like a married couple.

* Kagetsu and Boucheron's B support conversation has Kagetsu try to understand how the people in Elyos express friendship, and that it involves "quizzing" and asks Boucheron to give him one, Boucheron quickly finds out he actually meant ''kissing''.

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* There is one example between Rickard and Julian. Rickard tells Julian that he "always fell for a pretty face and the right features." That wouldn't mean much if Rickard himself wasn't so "pretty." Oh, and then he tells him how he dumped him for Rena, and "Did our love mean nothing to you?" in ''New Mystery''.

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* Also Legault/Heath. Legault is all but stated to be bisexual, but it's most overt with Heath. Their supports involve Legault telling Heath that they were "made for each other" and that he was interested in him because of a thing called love. [[spoiler:Turns out he was joking around.]]

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* The way Prince Alfonse talks about Zacharias and his disappearance can be seen as this, considering it soured him towards making friendships with any of the other heroes [[NeverBeHurtAgain out of fear they'd decide to return to their own worlds and leave him behind too]]. It turns out Zacharias is Prince Bruno of the Emblian Empire, and left because his bloodline curse nearly made him kill Alfonse.
** As Prince Bruno, he pretends to have killed 'Zacharias', and goads Alfonse into killing him to avenge his friend. Alfonse almost does, before the Summoner figures out Zacharias' true identity. The final chapter is basically Bruno begging Alfonse to kill him, and Alfonse just trying to understand why Bruno's acting the way he is. After Alfonse refuses to kill him, and Anna convinces Zacharias out of being a DeathSeeker, Zacharias addresses the Summoner and makes them promise to kill him if he tries to hurt Alfonse or Sharena again.
** Book 2 sees little mention of Zacharias until Prince Hrid of Nifl appears, having been saved by Zacharias and given valuable information about Muspell. After the information leads them into a trap, Hrid wonders if Zacharias lied to them, and Alfonse resolutely denies the possibility and says he trusts Zacharias. In Chapter 13, when Zacharias ''finally'' returns in time to save Veronica and Ylgr from Laegjarn, he and Alfonse have the following exchange:
--->'''Alfonse:''' Zacharias... Thank you. You have saved us yet again.\\
'''Bruno:''' It is I who must thank you, Alfonse. You saved me long ago. That moment... it has been in my mind of late.\\
'''Alfonse:''' Zacharias... We can talk later.
** Near the end of Book 6, [[spoiler:Alfonse has the most extreme reaction to Zacharias' death, going into a HeroicBSOD for the first part of Chapter 12, and after recovering, vowing to defeat Embla so that Zacharias' sacrifice is not in vain. It's even worse than Zacharias/Bruno's sister Veronica's reaction, although she's past the DespairEventHorizon after all she's suffered throughout the arc]].
* Another example from the OriginalGeneration royals: Laegjarn and Fjorm. Fjorm respects Laegjarn for her fair treatment of the captured Nifl citizens, and after Laegjarn is captured by the Order, tries to get her to commit a HeelFaceTurn. Laegjarn refuses, and Fjorm muses that she can't bring herself to bear a grudge against her enemy, and that if they'd met under different circumstances, perhaps she and Laegjarn would have been friends. [[spoiler:After Laegjarn uses [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique the Flames of Muspell]], it burns her eyes out and she says, despite her blindness, she finally sees Fjorm as she truly is. Her final words to Fjorm call back to Fjorm's earlier wishes:]]
-->'''Laegjarn:''' [[spoiler:Princess Fjorm... [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Suppose we had chosen a different path back in Nifl...]] Could we have been... With you, could we have been...]]\\
'''Fjorm:''' Laegjarn...
** The two get a duo unit in the "Wyvern Ninja" paralogue, and their closeness ends up making Laegjarn's little sister Laevatein jealous.
* Male Robin reinforces his own HoYay with Chrom from [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening their source game]] in his level 40 conversation, by talking about how [[PlayerCharacter the Summoner]]'s bond with Alfonse reminds him of his own bond with Chrom and offering his support in that relationship, making him sound like a ShipperOnDeck. To drive the point further, Female Robin's own level 40 conversation is just her [[TheMentor offering her support and advice to the Summoner as a fellow tactician who's been at the job longer]], with absolutely no mention of Chrom at all.
* The Love Abounds banner has Valentines Day versions of [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Roy, Lilina]], [[FanPreferredCouple Hector and Lyn]]... Despite this, however, Hector doesn't have any lines related to Lyn. The only characters he talks about are Lilina (his daughter)... and [[FriendlyRivalry Eliwood]]. He even says he can't relax until they spar. The reverse is also true of Eliwood's Love Abounds version, who only talks about Roy and Hector.
* Due to the lack of gender selection, [[AmbiguouslyBi some interactions with the Summoner]] can fall under this trope. Significant instances include:
** Legault flirting with ''you'' when he's tapped on in his info screen, regardless of your gender. His lines even reference his support conversations with Heath and Matthew.
** Anna assumes Sharena wants the bouquet in the Bridal Bloom Paralogue for herself and the Summoner.
** In English, Love Abounds Eliwood will ask you if you have any gifts planned for someone special, then suggest flowers. In French, he specifically asks if you have a ''woman'' in mind. And this is with the French localisation ''having'' gender selection to change pronouns in dialogue.
* The High Tea Jinks event plays this for laughs. Alfonse and Silas become fast friends, and [[YaoiFangirl Nina]] spies on them and interprets their every interaction in the most homoerotic way possible.
* Reyson has a voiced line where he wishes he could be like Tibarn because of his "big body and strong wings" and says it in a rather raspy way.
* The end of the Bridal Belongings paralogue sees Sharena muse about who the alternate version of Fjorm had in mind for the Bridal Bouquet's magic of martial happiness, with Fjorm's dialogue heavily implying it was Sharena herself.
** Similarly, Bridal Belongings Veronica has a line where she wonders if Alfonse knows what love is before saying that [[ObliviousToLove Sharena clearly does not]]. One can't help but read it as if Veronica's frustrated that Sharena doesn't recognize a crush ''she'' has on her.
* If you reach Level 40 with Mathilda, she'll talk about how she wishes she could get along better with Clair. While Clair is Mathilda's future sister-in-law, Mathilda calls Clair, "Attractive, intelligent, and strong," which Mathilda says makes Clair "not so different from" Mathilda's beloved Clive.
* Though never completely explicit, Heroes drops several hints about [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Raven and Lucius’s]] relationship - one of Raven’s resplendent lines is him stating that Lucius liking his outfit makes wearing it worth it, and when the two appear during Constance’s Forging Bonds event, she briefly seems to suspect there’s more to their relationship than just lord and retainer...
* The intro dialogue for [[DualBoss Mercedes and Annette's Bound Hero Battle]] practically borders on text.
-->'''Annette''': I think I love you more than just about anything in the world!\\
'''Mercedes''': You do? Oh, Annie, you're too sweet.

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* Clive and his CanonForeigner best friend Fernand were ''very close'' before the latter's FaceHeelTurn. According to a Memory Prism, both [[https://youtu.be/GotVathuFao?t=27m38s Clive's little sister Clair]] and ''his (Clive's) own girlfriend'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GotVathuFao&t=1513s Mathilda]] seemed to believe that Fernand was ''at least'' a little into him. The fact that [[spoiler: Fernand [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in Clive's arms]] towards the end]] doesn't help.
** It also ''really'' doesn't help that Fernand flat-out admits that he only joined the Deliverance because Clive was the one leading it.
* The ChildhoodFriends Python and Forsyth's standard endings are pretty normal, but the bad endings they get if the other dies are very similar to those of the game's {{official couple}}s. Forsyth [[spoiler: will only marry a nameless woman if Python dies, just like Tatiana losing Zeke]], whereas Python [[spoiler: will experience a personality change and die young if Forsyth dies, just like Clive if he loses Mathilda]].
** Leaving his relationship with Forsyth aside, Python himself is implied to be bisexual. He doesn't dislike the idea of dating women (unlike Leon who does shoot it down), but he refers to Alm and Lukas as "studs."

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* Same-sex relationships make a return, with three romantic male S-ranks for Male!Byleth ([[spoiler: Linhardt, Jeritza, and Yuri]]) and five female S-ranks for Female!Byleth ([[spoiler:Edelgard, Dorothea, Mercedes, Rhea, and Sothis]]).
** This ends up making [[spoiler: Edelgard]] the first main character that isn't an avatar to have an unambiguous romantic ending with a same-sex character, though how much the romance is play out varies in each language.
** [[spoiler: Linhardt]] was the only male same-sex pairing in the base game, with the other two being added in DLC.

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** Chloé calling the relationship between Chrom and Robin like a pair from a fairy tale in their bond support also adds to this

* It's a tradition among ''Fire Emblem'' yaoi fangirls to slash the red knight and the green knight. From Kieran/Oscar in ''Path of Radiance'' to Kent/Sain in ''Blazing Blade'', all the way back to Cain/Abel in ''Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light'', it can't be avoided. (Until ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Awakening]]'' broke the trend with a female Red Knight, making the pairing het...while giving the Red Knight plenty of LesYay of her own.) Some of them are significantly more slashy towards each other than others. Kent and Sain, for example, have paired endings with other female characters, and even in-story, outside of supports, Kent has a BodyguardCrush on Lyn and Sain is a HandsomeLech. [[EyesAlwaysShut Oscar]] and [[HotBlooded Kieran]], on the other hand, don't seem to show interest in female characters: Kieran is ''obsessed'' with Oscar, and Oscar, while initially dismissive, grows friendlier towards Kieran, even giving him a special skill scroll in a base conversation in ''Radiant Dawn'' because Kieran has the tendency to hurt himself while practicing. D'aww!

** Even as emblems it seems that Chrom and male Robin continue to have plenty of ShipTease with the two of them sharing a bracelet and saying they are bound together by bonds stronger than fate. In particular Lucina explicitly calling Robin her fathers other half if they fight and Robin teasing Chrom about constantly worrying for Lucina after the battle really makes them look like a married couple.

* Chloé, and Merrin's supports are dripping with this. Their C-support in particular being the best example as it starts with Merrin giving Chloé a flower and complimenting her beauty, then the two agree to share a meal with Merrin insisting that Chloé should take care of her if the weird meal makes her sick. Chloé constantly calling Merrin a dashing knight with Merrin worrying about living up to that image in later supports only adds to this.

* Emblem Corrin's Bond conversations with Chloé come across as Corrin trying to admit her feelings to Chloé, who has her ShippingGoggles on. Chloé talks about the possible romantic character archetypes that she believes should be with Corrin, while Corrin insists that she is happy with Chloé by her side.
* Chloé and Merrin's support conversation is dripping with this, as Merrin's dashing knight act leads her to chivalrously flirt with Chloé, who is beside herself with the fairytale romance of it all.

** The original Japanese version of Etie and Goldmary's B support has them arguing over whether muscular women like Etie or voluptuous women like Goldmary are more popular with men. The fact that they become friends in the ends gives the impression that they're into each other's body types.

* The very premise of Celine and Hortensia's support conversation is already pretty filled with LesYay: Hortensia recognising Celine as her only competitor in cuteness, and struggling to prove herself superior without falling prey to her charms herself, all while Celine sincerely likes Hortensia and finds her extremely cute herself. But it really hits a height in their B support in which Hortensia declares a 'softness competition' and the screen cuts to black as she mumbles [[SkinshipGrope 'poke, poke'...]] She [[ACupAngst immediately calls the competition off]], but Celine insists on returning the favor, causing the screen to go black ''again''... And then in their A support, Celine apparently still hasn't had enough, repeating the whole process all over again simply because Hortensia is so cute!

* The very premise of Celine and Hortensia's support conversation is already pretty filled with LesYay: Hortensia recognizing Celine as her only competitor in cuteness, and struggling to prove herself superior without falling prey to her charms herself, all while Celine sincerely likes Hortensia and finds her extremely cute herself. But it really hits a height in their B support in which Hortensia declares a 'softness competition' and the screen cuts to black as she mumbles [[SkinshipGrope 'poke, poke'...]] She [[ACupAngst immediately calls the competition off]], but Celine insists on returning the favor, causing the screen to go black ''again''... And then in their A support, Celine apparently still hasn't had enough, repeating the whole process all over again simply because Hortensia is so cute!

* The very premise of Celine and Hortensia's support conversation is already pretty filled with LesYay: Hortensia recognising Celine as her only competitor in cuteness, and struggling to prove herself superior without falling prey to her charms herself, all while Celine sincerely likes Hortensia and finds her extremely cute herself. But it really hits a height in their B support in which Hortensia declares a 'softness competition' and the screen cuts to black as she mumbles [[SkinshipGrope 'poke, poke'...]] She [[ACupAngst immediately calls the competition off]], but Celine insists on returning favour, causing the screen to go black ''again''... And then in their A support, Celine apparently still hasn't had enough, repeating the whole process all over again simply because Hortensia is so cute!

* Chlo&eacute and Merrin's support conversation is dripping with this, as Merrin's dashing knight act leads her to chivalrously flirt with Chlo&eacute, who is beside herself with the fairytale romance of it all.