A bunch of Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave leaks hit the internet over the past 48 hours, thanks to AI-assisted jailbreaking. I worry for the naive person responsible for the leak, given Nintendo's track record of hunting down leakers and pirates. But I'm also a bit worried about some of these endings as a fan of the game.
A bunch of them are good! But more than a few really aren't, and that's before getting into how depressingly straight they all are. Whether they're fated for the game's upcoming DLC expansion is another matter, though. [Ed note: This piece contains major spoilers for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.] You can read them all for yourself, but the questionable endings getting the most attention from Fortune's Weave folks involve Theodora and Leda.
Theodora gets a paired ending with Bonaventure, where the two usher in a new age of writing and educational glory for Saramis. And they get married and have two kids. Considering Bonaventure fills more of a father-type role as her advisor and is also quite a lot older than her.
Intelligent Systems has deployed the trope a few times in the past. But in the case of Frederick and Lissa in Awakening, as an example, you can kinda see the two of them sharing a deeper bond based on their backgrounds and everything that happens. At no point in Fortune's Weave does the relationship between Theo and Bona come across as romantic.
Another contentious leaked ending is also a romantic one, this time between Bertrand and Leda. That one I'm slightly less hostile towards, but only slightly. Leda herself comments on the love-like nature of her hatred for Bertrand multiple times already, and it's not unlikely the two of them could have a weird, unhealthy sort of trauma bond that brings them together.
This one's biggest crime, however, is its blandness. The text basically just says she knew he was the only one for her and did her best for him forever. I guess there's an element of "actions, meet consequences" here in keeping with the game's themes about fate's variations.
Extract — continue reading at the source.
