History HoYay / FireEmblem

* 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 Drsgon 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!

There's plenty of HoYay/Les Yay subtext in the ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' games, most notably with Florina/Lyn (''Blazing Blade'') and Ike/Soren (''Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn''). Due to the emphasis on RelationshipValues to [[{{Shipping}} build trust]] between comrades, anyone can theoretically be paired with anyone. Yes, even [[NoYay Oliver/Reyson]], although that's... not exactly stretching it...

!!Examples from [[VideoGame/FireEmblemArchanea the Archanea games]]:

!!Examples from [[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral the Jugdral games]]:

-->'''Ares:''' Oh, light that guided me. Now, I shall swing this sword for you...

!!Examples from [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe the Elibe games]]:

-->"Even as [[spoiler:a zombie]], you're a handsome one, [[spoiler:Lloyd]]..."
* Rutger and Dieck from ''Binding Blade'' don't have an ending together, as in this game only Roy can have an ending with another character, but their supports really make you think. Especially after Dieck called Rutger his 'partner' and vowed he'd go help him and get his revenge, even though Dieck would get absolutely nothing out of this.

!!Examples from [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius the Tellius games]]:

* As for Elincia? Her relationship with Lucia went from RomanticTwoGirlFriendship in POR to blatant lesbian ship tease in RD!
* 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 Drsgon 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!

!!Examples from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones The Sacred Stones]]'':
* In ''Sacred Stones'': Ephraim/Lyon, and Eirika/L'Arachel are the biggest ones with Lyon telling Ephraim how he simultaneously loved and hated him and L'Arachel compliments Eirika's beauty as much as she talks about herself.
* Eirika's not just limited to L'Arachel, either; she has her fair share of LesYay with childhood friend Tana as well. At the very least, she has a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship going with both.
* Also, if you get an A support between Gerik and Joshua, Gerik follows Joshua to Jehanna and serves him for the rest of his life because he is impressed by his swordplay.
** While it's innocuous enough, Gerik also takes [[BadassBookworm Saleh]] out to dinner. He does no such thing for [[MagicDance Tethys]] or [[LadyOfWar Marisa]], his female supports.
* There's also [[WhiteMagic Artur]] and [[TheGambler Joshua]]'s supports, in which Joshua, as payment for a coin flip he wins, gets Artur to do some late night training sessions with him. All of which occur ''offscreen.'' In their B, a big deal is made over whether Joshua is "exhausting [Artur] in training." And at the end of their A, Joshua says, "I want you to keep being my partner."
* Speaking of Tethys and Marisa, while their A support is primarily just good-natured teasing, sometimes it really sounds like Tethys was slipping in some under-the-radar flirting...
--> '''Tethys:''' What an interesting reaction. Youth is so cute.
-->'''Marisa:''' Wh-why are you smiling?! Ah...
-->'''Tethys:''' Don't be so embarrassed. We're going to be around each other for a long time. We should talk.
* Marisa also goes through a serious DefrostingIceQueen routine with Tana. And Tana mentions that she "doesn't know what she would do" if Marisa said no to being friends with her.

--->'''Maribelle''': Hogwash! You are MINE and mine alone, and I am SICK and tired of sharing you!

-->'''Maribelle:''' So are you ready to finally accept Lissa's superiority to Sumia in every respect?
-->'''Cordelia:''' ''Never!'' I'll stop at nothing to make you appreciate the beauty of Sumia's soul!

--> '''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.

--> '''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...

!!Examples from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEchoesShadowsOfValentia''

* The fortune telling in ''Awakening'' gives us a look into the hearts (minds?) of various characters you have supporting each other, with hearts going back and forth between them if they wanna make babies...even if they ''can't''. The fortune teller is a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] for mocking this in the Japanese script, asking two male characters what they're thinking they're both men!) and considers LesYay to be a "rather ''extreme'' friendship". He's significantly [[{{Woolseyism}} more tolerant]] [[CloudCuckooLander (and zany)]] [[{{Woolseyism}} in the localized script, however.]]

*** Kjelle downs a shady drink, thinking it to be a strength potion. She ends up drunkenly complimenting Severa on her looks and groping at her clothes. The best part is, [[spoiler:that wasn't an alcoholic drink. It was ''a truth potion''.]]
*** It has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBjF7k2Z_jk to be seen to be believed.]]

* And speaking of Henry ''again'', during his and Cherche's S Support Cherche asks him something by the lines of "hey, someone's coming with us if we marry, don't forget mentioning them". Henry's reply? [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Dropping Chrom's name without any reason]]. He then corrects himself via mentioning the one in Cherche's mind, her mount and companion Minerva... and yet Cherche doesn't forget about the "Chrom bomb"

* For all of her {{jerkass}}ery, there is one person that Severa can't bring self to be mean to -- and that person is Noire. That's borderline RomanticTwoGirlFriendship material, there.

* This is the first game where you can have an actual gay marriage. It's only for the Avatar, and there's only one per route, but compared to the "just friends" same-sex endings of the past and the het-only mechanic of ''Awakening'' this is a big deal.

** 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."
* Conrad's ending has shades of this, mentioning how many suitors had fallen in love with him. Many have noted that the term "suitor" is mainly used for males.

* [[DudeLooksLikeALady Forrest]] is so pretty that not only [[YaoiFangirl Nina]] loves to imagine that EvenTheGuysWantHim, but Shigure drops this very HoYay-tastic gem in their [[spoiler:non-sibling]] A support:

* Conrad's ending has shades of this, mentioning how many suitors had fallen in love with him. Many have noted that the term "suitor" is mainly used for males.
* There's also Leon's extreme devotion to Valbar, to the point that it borders on SingleTargetSexuality. It's [[IncompatibleOrientation not reciprocated]], but the fact that it's openly discussed deserves a mention.

* Let's not forget that, for two women who are ''both'' incredibly [[FragileFlower shy and nervous]], Ninian and Florina become ''very'' comfy with each other's presence through their supports...

*** In the Future Past 2 xenologue, if you manage to save all of the kids, you get this cutscene where part of it involves Brady breaking into tears because he was worried ''sick'' about Owain when he decided to use himself as a decoy. [[HeartwarmingMoments Owain promised him that he'll never do it again]]

** InEnglish, 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.

* 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, muses that had they 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:''' Princess Fjorm... [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Suppose we had chosen a different path back in Nifl...]] Could we have been... With you, could we have been...

* 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]].

* Legault will flirt with ''you'' when he's tapped on in his info screen, [[AmbiguouslyBi regardless of your gender.]] His lines were even referencing his support conversations with Heath and Matthew.

!!Examples from [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia the Akaneia games]]:

** 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"
** Conrad's ending has shades of this, mentioning how many suitors had fallen in love with him. Many have noted that the term "suitor" is mainly used for males.

* 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 [[FriendlyRivaly 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.

* 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.

* 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.

There's plenty of HoYay/Les Yay subtext in the ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' games, most notably with Florina/Lyn (''Blazing Sword'') and Ike/Soren (''Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn''). Due to the emphasis on RelationshipValues to [[{{Shipping}} build trust]] between comrades, anyone can theoretically be paired with anyone. Yes, even [[NoYay Oliver/Reyson]], although that's... not exactly stretching it...

** Not to mention, Legault and [[spoiler: Lloyd Reed]]. This quote from Legault says all:
-->"Even as [[spoiler: a zombie]], you're a handsome one, [[spoiler: Lloyd]]..."
* Rutger and Dieck from Sword of Seals don't have an ending together, as in this game only Roy can have an ending with another character, but their supports really make you think. Especially after Dieck called Rutger his 'partner' and vowed he'd go help him and get his revenge, even though Dieck would get absolutely nothing out of this.
* Nino from Blazing Sword has some RomanticTwoGirlFriendship vibes with Rebecca and Florina. Who have some RTGF subtext among themselves, too.

* 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 Sword", all the way back to Cain/Abel in the very first Fire Emblem, 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!

* The fortune telling in Awakening gives us a look into the hearts (minds?) of various characters you have supporting each other, with hearts going back and forth between them if they wanna make babies...even if they ''can't''. The fortune teller is a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] for mocking this in the Japanese script, asking two male characters what they're thinking they're both men!) and considers LesYay to be a "rather ''extreme'' friendship". He's significantly [[{{Woolseyism}} more tolerant]] [[CloudCuckooLander (and zany)]] [[{{Woolseyism}} in the English script, however.]]
** Virion and Libra's supports have Virion gush a lot about how [[DudeLooksLikeALady delicately beautiful]] Libra is. Towards the end, Virion switches gears to praising how much of a {{Hunk}} he is, but his comments are no less appreciative in nature. It's really not helped by Libra's unmarried ending flat-out stating that he was courted by '''both''' men and women.

** Tharja is utterly obsessed with the Avatar, and will pine over you nonstop even during supports with other characters. Even if you're a woman. It seems that Awakening decided to make up for all of the Ho Yay in Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn by heaping on the Les Yay this time around.
** Gregor and the Male!Avatar's C support has Gregor offering to tell Robin a secret only men can do. It involves suggesting the Avatar to sleep with him, though in a literal sense, in order to share body heat. The Japanese version of the conversation has Gregor telling the Avatar that he knows a great secret for sleeping together ''that'' way. Their B Support has the Avatar [[{{Stupid Sexy Flanders}} flustered at the sight of him]] because he had a dream involving the Avatar resting his head on Gregor's lap. Gregor notes that his charm hasn't affected another man before.

*** In the Future Past 2, if you manage to save all of the kids, you get this cutscene where part of it involves Brady breaking into tears because he was worried ''sick'' about Owain when he decided to use himself as a decoy. [[HeartwarmingMoments Owain promised him that he'll never do it again]]

*** Kjelle downs a shady drink, thinking it to be a strength potion. She ends up drunkenly complimenting Severa on her looks and groping at her clothes. The best part is, [[spoiler: that wasn't an alcoholic drink. It was ''a truth potion''.]]

*** Nowi ''feels up Tharja in her sleep'' after talking about her "boingy bits".
*** Severa and Noire, too. Severa fixates quite a bit in a very cute necklace in the Harvest Scramble... [[spoiler: and by the end, she gets matching necklaces for Noire and herself.]]
*** Inigo and Owain have their fair share of HoYay. While the supports are just them teasing each other, their Harvest Scramble talk goes deeper into Inigo's issues and Owain is a very serious listener. Then in The Future Past 2, [[spoiler: Inigo refuses to let Owain sacrifice himself...right after Owain says he was glad to spend his last moments with Inigo!]]
** In ''The Future Past 3'', [[spoiler: Grima in the body of MU]] says that [[spoiler: the last owner of their body loved Chrom.]] They say this even if [[spoiler: you have a male MU.]]

** At the end of ''Revelation'', [[spoiler: the normally cold Leo and Takumi begin to open up to each other, with Takumi even putting his arm around the other and Leo not objecting to it.]]

* [[DudeLooksLikeALady Forrest]] is so pretty that not only [[YaoiFangirl Nina]] loves to imagine that EvenTheGuysWantHim, but Shigure drops this very HoYay-tastic gem in their [[spoiler: non-sibling]] A support:

* The 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.

** Also in the localization, most of Soleil's "marriage" supports were changed to her gently turning them down in favor of being [[HeterosexualLifePartners BFFs]] instead, with two expections: Corrin, who had to do some visualization exercises with her before Soleil even saw him as attractive... and [[DudeLooksLikeALady Forrest]].

* The 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]].

** His supports with the male Avatar start out with the Avatar taking note of how cute Forrest is and asking if he's interested in men. The rest of the supports have the Avatar lavishing praise on Forrest for his beauty, Forrest teasing the Avatar for ogling him so openly, even though he's only interested in women, and the Avatar encouraging Forrest after he talks about living in a world that won't always accept what he does.

-->"There is only one beauty in this entire army, and his name is Forrest."

* The fortune telling in Awakening gives us a look into the hearts (minds?) of various characters you have supporting each other, with hearts going back and forth between them if they wanna make babies...even if they ''can't''. The fortune teller is a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] for mocking this in the Japanese script, asking two male characters what they're thinking ([[SelectiveSquick they're both men!]]) and considers LesYay to be a "rather ''extreme'' friendship". He's significantly [[{{Woolseyism}} more tolerant]] [[CloudCuckooLander (and zany)]] [[{{Woolseyism}} in the English script, however.]]

!!Examples from VideoGame/FireEmblemFates: