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I Need This Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Character To Be Romanceable, For Reasons
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s WeaveFire Emblem: Three Houses
We’re three days out from Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave and Nintendo has released another trailer highlighting the game. But I don’t wanna talk about that right now. Nintendo’s Japanese Fortune’s Weave Twitter account has been doing Seiros’ work, revealing characters and their bios long before they show up anywhere in English (if they can be found in English at all). I need to discuss the latest character info dump, specifically: Him.
【キャラクター】ジェスター（CV：永塚拓馬）道化の化粧で素顔を隠す、謎多き剣闘士。常日頃から狂気に満ちた言動を繰り返し、周囲からは「地獄のジェスター」の異名で恐れられている。●好きなもの：恐怖に顔を引きつらせた対戦相手、ボクを楽しませてくれる白髪鬼 #FE万紫千紅 pic.twitter.com/nwwvNJTbym
According to the auto-translation (and my own rusty katakana-reading skills), this isekai’d Juggalo is named Jester. There’s not too much more information on him. He wields a sword, has an ability that that lets him hit for increased damage after a dodge, and likes “opponents whose faces contort in terror.” Fire Emblem has long had a mechanic in which, if you increased a character’s support level high enough, you could reach an ultimate S-rank and get a special cutscene. Sometimes those cutscenes are platonic in nature, other times they’re romantic. I need to be able to romance this clown.
It speaks to the impressive character design in Fortune’s Weave that I’m so willing to play against my video game type. I like good, wholesome boys. Way back in Fire Emblem Fates, I had a family with the sweet and loyal Jakob. Then, in Three Houses, I ignored the war criminal Edelgard and edgelord Dimitri for the relatively sunnier Claude. Though primed for romantic encounters with its whole bond ring system, I ironically forewent romances in Fire Emblem Engage because the game itself wasn’t all that engaging. But Jester just speaks to me. Not the part of me that that thinks, “I can fix him,” but a smaller one whispering, “We can be worse together.”
Beyond romances, there are all sorts of different characters that I’m fascinated by, specifically all the characters of color in this game. Video games, especially AAA affairs, usually only have a token or two for me to glom onto. But for the first time in my video gaming life, there are so many cool-ass women of color that I’m spoiled for choice.
【キャラクター】ノクチュラ（CV：夏姫りんこ）鍛え抜かれた肉体が自慢の女剣闘士。好戦的な部族の娘として生まれるが、田舎の暮らしと里の男どもに嫌気が差し、幼少期から憧れていた帝都ダグシオンへとやってきた。●好きなもの：都会の生活、都会の人間、拳での殴り合い、鍛錬 #FE万紫千紅 pic.twitter.com/NahY22hlSA
【キャラクター】ヌディーヌ（CV：三浦冴子）ダグシオンで傭兵稼業を営む女性。元はサラミス王国の出身で、賢将ボナパルテも認めるほどの模範的な戦士だった。数年前の内乱をきっかけにダグザの地を放浪し、現在に至る。●好きなもの：義を重んじること、飛駝の世話、武の探求、読書 #FE万紫千紅 pic.twitter.com/hheb73QpKf
【キャラクター】セテス（CV：子安武人）調査のために遠いフォドラの地からやってきた、風変りな旅人。旅先で猫仮面の神官・オルヘルに出会い、以来行動を共にしている。お節介焼きな一面がある。●好きなもの：セイロス教の教え、釣り、自分の娘、勤勉な者、寓話の執筆、説法 #FE万紫千紅 pic.twitter.com/IMsTvc5idn
— 『ファイアーエムブレム』総合 (@FireEmblemJP) September 10, 2026