Fantasy Wishlist if there was ever a FE7/FE6 remake:

[guardians_song]

The Tactician would have the Avatar system. For added fanservice, the creation/tutorial process could start like this:
[black screen]
Voiceover/Text: ...You wake. Excellent.
Do you remember your name?
[enter name]
Voiceover/Text: ...Yes. Yes. Good.
Do you remember your form?
[designate appearance and gender]
Voiceover/Text: Ha! Marvelous!
Do you remember your strengths?
[designate Strength/Flaw/more-features-if-added]
Voiceover/Text: Heh heh heh... Wonderful.
Now. Do you remember the last thing
that happened to you?
[Screen fades to white, then to battle screen]
Renault: [Name]! If we make it through this,
I'd say we've got enough to live like kings, eh?
[Name]: It's about time. Now, let's clean up
this trash!
[A tutorial battle with several weak soldiers and
an underpowered boss commences]
[Cutscene follows]
Renault: (voiceover) We did it! I -
[A foe leaps out of hiding and starts swinging his
axe towards Renault]
[Name]: (voiceover) Renault! Look out!
[[Name] knocks Renault out of the path of the blow,
putting himself/herself right into it; the last thing
onscreen is [Name's] bare hand, raised helplessly
to ward off the oncoming battleaxe]
[the screen goes red as the earlier voiceover laughs]
[fade-in to the canon Chapter 1]

I don't know whether the Avatar/Everyone pairings would persist from Awakening, though. On the one hand, it would be interesting. On the other hand, this would create some awkwardness, particularly with strongly implied prior pairings. (Pent and Louise are immune for obvious reasons, but I'm talking about the rest.) But *through gritted teeth* I... suppose... I could... tolerate... Tactician/Nino / Tactician/Jaffar... I suppose...

And in recognition of the Fire Emblem series's new, expanded pairing dynamics, more pairings would likely be introduced to FE7 and FE6 for traditionally few-marriage characters. This would possibly include both Ninian/Hawkeye and Ninian/Tactician! To which I can only say that we all have our own preferences, we must respect different people's points of view and acknowledge the validity of different interpretations, and ELIWOOD/NINIAN SHIPPERS KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.

(I'm joking, actually. Hawkeye/Ninian would be interesting. And I'm sure Tactician/Ninian could be pulled off well. )

Moving on to less rabid topics...

Bosses would have the ability to Pair Up, and this would be an important tactical consideration on certain levels. Most of the time, it would just be a marginal stat boost from pairing with a generic soldier/Morph, but if you don't kill or box Lloyd and Linus in on Light in time to stop them from pairing up? ...Ahaha, I hope you like pain.
(This would also result in certain changes to the plot, such as Limstella surviving and retreating from Victory or Death in order to Pair Up with Nergal. My best guess on how to handle THAT one would be an Athos-Canas Pair Up with double Luna, but I really don't know. Certainly something to haunt a player's nightmares.)

I think Jahn-Idoun would pair (with Jahn in front, Idoun emerging from behind him as the 'true' boss once he fell), Zephiel-Brunya, the obnoxious bandit siblings in Living Legend, and... I don't know, Darin-Ephidel? (With Ephidel fleeing upon Darin's death.) It would be reserved for real this-is-going-to-be-a-bitch boss fights.

(On the bright side, remember that your characters can Pair Up, too! It would be entertaining if certain pairs got exclusive boss-convos. Like Jaffar-Nino versus Sonia, for instance, or Hector-Eliwood versus Erik.)

But most notably for FE6, inheritance would be a mechanic. Not sure how it would be handled in an FE7/FE6 remake, since it would make Lilina much bulkier than anticipated, but it would be fun to try. (And, for similar reasons, it would be nice to give a boost to Ninian for unlocking 19xx. Let her inherit Shadowgift from Daddy or something of the like.) You could pass down hilarious combos to the next gen. Would justify FE6's difficulty...

[I'm not sure what to do to the Tactician and spawn. I don't know of any Morganesque character one could justify including in FE6. Obviously, since this is just a fantasy wishlist, I don't need to make one up, but... still.]

Second Seals would be rare and used strategically. In particular, Renault would almost qualify as an unlockable character depending on whether you had a spare Second Seal when you got to him - in his default Bishop class, he'd be pathetic, but he'd turn into a complete monster if you 'promoted' him back to Hero. Boo-yeah. :P

On the story side, the Tactician's personality would be expanded upon a bit more. Whether an Arcadia refugee, a Morph, the first Morph, an ordinary Eturian, Awakening!Morgan, or whatnot, it wouldn't matter - they would receive more development, since they'd become an actual character. (And if 'Morph' was the route the designers chose, the Tactician would have his/her own private showdown with Nergal, complete with the whole I am Spartacus! 'I am not your tool! I am my own man/woman!' shtick required of such master-creation encounters. :P)

...A nice diversion to think about, anyway. What would you include, if you could? :)

Comments

[sarajayechan]

Pair-up would be SO welcome and so helpful in getting supports. Especially between characters with a high movement range and ones with a tiny one. (Oswin/Priscilla? Vaida/Wallace? Shanna/Dieck? YES PLZ.)

And yeah, the pairing mechanics being changed would generate the Elibe ship wars ALL OVER AGAIN. Diehard "canonshippers" for EliNini, Nino/Jaffar, etc would throw so many shitfits. And yeah, Pent/Louise would stay as is. And Bartre/Karla. And Canas couldn't marry because he IS married, lol. But you could pair Isadora with Sain or Geitz.

BEING ABLE TO RECLASS RENAULT WOULD BE AWESOME.

I would include the event tiles where people could find random rare objects/weapons/etc, or have little relationship-boosting conversations.

Roy would have Manakete as a reclass option if Ninian is his mother, and Cavalier from Fiora. Lyn would def pass down myrmidon. Farina and Fiora would allow Lilina to become a Pegasus knight while Lyn, of course, myrmidon. Serra would pass down Cleric, and if Eliwood could marry Rebecca she'd pass down Archer and Roy would get lots of skill growth. Also, if Jaffar fathered the twins they could reclass to thief.

Oh, and same-sex S supports, too. Because of Lyn/Florina and Raven/Lucius.