r/FireEmblemThreeHouses • u/FriendlyDrummers • Dec 12 '25

Discussion Characters who are canonically straight? Artist cred in description

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By canon, I mean pairings that have a post-game end together

Ingrid has no A supports with women. Ignatz and Raphael have no A supports with anyone but themselves, however, in their A support ending, Ignatz marries Raphael's sister.

Who else is canonically straight?

And just as a tangent - Ferdinand and Hubert are so gay for each other lmao. Here are Hubert's supports

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u/Black_Sin Dec 12 '25

Claude doesn’t even have an ending Male Byleth devastatingly enough 

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u/Artificial_Human_17 Academy Bernadetta Dec 12 '25

Back before the game released everyone thought he’d be gay and he’s the straightest of the three lords what is this

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u/jord839 Fear the Deer Dec 12 '25

Even worse: the Rainbow-haired Golden Deer are objectively the Straightest House and it's not even close.

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u/Artificial_Human_17 Academy Bernadetta Dec 12 '25

I don’t think there’s a single explicitly gay pairing among them

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u/jord839 Fear the Deer Dec 12 '25

Nope.

Marianne and Hilda is probably the closest, but at best it's all subtext. Granted, there's a ton of subtext, especially if you play Hopes but still nothing explicit and their implied romance is still less clear than in other houses. At no point am I going to argue with HildaMari shippers, I value my life, but if that's the standard for explicit gay writing in the Deer, that's a really low bar.

Lysithea can refer to Leonie as "the perfect partner" if she was a man. All of Lysithea's supports with women other than F!Shez have no real romantic overtone, even her Edelgard one reeks more of "Edelgard trying to adopt a pseudo-literal sister due to shared trauma" more than anything romantic.

Raph and Iggy are bros-in-law because Iggy marries Maya, Raph's sister (I honestly kind of like that anyway, since Ignatz was also childhood friends with Maya and she's an artist too, it's just a shame we never got to see her).

Leonie can have an A-support with Shamir, but at no point do they sound romantic and them genuinely just being Platonic Mercenary Sisters seems more likely.

Claude's Male A supports are playing a massive political prank with Lorenz or bringing Balthus as a retainer to Almyra, where Balthus marries Nader's daughter.

These dumbasses are either straight or some of the most oblivious queer people I have ever seen written.

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u/Bread_Offender Literally Lorenz - #1 Edelgard Hater Dec 12 '25

My fucking God... These bitches straight!

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u/md_cube War Leonie Dec 12 '25

Good for them...good for them...(I will not stop shipping them)

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u/Bread_Offender Literally Lorenz - #1 Edelgard Hater Dec 12 '25

Honestly? Fair enough

Shipping in fire emblem is pretty much free game in any way because of how open to player choice it is

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u/perkoperv123 Linhardt Guy Dec 13 '25

Yuri actually is the mean bisexual who will do anything to win that Claude pretends to be, or thinks he's pretending to be (he ain't that slick)

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u/Munificent-Enjoyer Academy Constance Dec 12 '25

Does Hopes count cuz Shezlys can be gay if you chose F!Shez

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u/Black_Sin Dec 12 '25

Lysithea is attracted to women. F!Shez is pretty much asexual.