I gotta be honest with yall, I'm really over your (and other places') doomsaying about how bad Awakening was. I'm an oldschool fan and I've been around a long time and it was perfectly damn harmless. I mean, Kris/Chris existed before Robin and Kamui. I do understand the complaints about anybody supporting with anybody, and the multiclassing stuff made it too easy, but this whole pearl-clutching about how it panders to otaku? Fire Emblem was always an otaku game. It's up there with the Tales series. Florina was there to pander to otaku. Myrrh was there to pander to otaku. Hell, even Sylvia and Ares were there to pander to otaku.

Awakening isn't the first, get over it.