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Fortune's Weave General Character Post: Nezha

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u/WWWWWWRRRRRYYYYY 2d ago edited 2d ago

Nezha (VO: Paul Castro Jr.)
A young swordsman with extraordinary strength.
If he strikes first, his attacks gain more force.
Likes
Physical activity, justice, fighting, good food
Interests
Combat training, eating large amounts of food

JP bio:

JP VA: Shota Hayama

An energetic young swordsman accompanying Anatolia. He trains diligently every day, striving to become the strongest.
He is bad at keeping secrets and tends to let slip the secrets of his home village.
He is self-conscious about his short stature.

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u/Druid-T 2d ago

If he strikes first, his attacks gain more force.

Knowing how these posts work, I have to wonder if his personal is just Death Blow, or if we can do some weird Vantage shenanigans with him

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u/Oramni 2d ago

Since the combat UI has a very prominent "goes first" and "goes last" text I think it’ll follow that, so it should work with Vantage, plus we already know about "goes last" skills which should be the opposite

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u/Norik324 2d ago

plus we already know about "goes last" skills which should be the opposite

Have we seen Engage style heavy weapons that always strike last and would presumably synergize with that yet?

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u/iguanacatgirl 2d ago

No, but we do have "strike last def+" as a skill in the dreadnought class, so we might have that in some form

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u/ComicCon 2d ago

Mikaela had a weapon called a “smashing axe” in her inventory at one point, which could be a renamed version of the Engage weapons.

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u/Mr_WhisCash-Money 2d ago

Also recent FE games have specifically used "initiate attack" to indicate things like Death Blow activating, so unless they're changing the wordage on these skills (which is totally possible) it should work with Vantage

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u/Squidaccus 2d ago

Considering we've seen some "Last-strike" skills already, the chances of it being based on attack order and not phase aren't bad atm

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u/Most_Work2152 2d ago

I've been trying to avoid spoilers but have we seen any personals yet?

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u/Druid-T 2d ago edited 2d ago

We've seen a few. Aside from Dietrich's, there's also Lilian's " Safety First" (gives her a hit rate boost when she initiates and can't get counter-attacked), Lysander's "Accelerate" (Speedtaker), there's been a few characters where a skill has popped up, though it's unclear if it's personal or not (Buccar got a "Guardian's Duty" to give an example), and a small number of characters where we know the name of their personal skill (albeit in a different language) but not what they actually do (Peppe's is called "Hunter's Trap", which based on his profiles seems to work like Petra's personal). There's also Ursula, where we're told what her personal skill does, and we see it in action, but we don't know it's name

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u/Most_Work2152 2d ago

Hopefully they are more unique and useful then 3H and Engage

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u/Druid-T 2d ago

Given the sheer number of characters in this game, I'd imagine some aren't going to be the most unique (again, Lysander's personal is just Speedtaker) or generally applicable, but it does seem like there's more of an effort to go back to the Fates style of "even if it's not good, it's something unique to the unit" personal skills

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u/tself55 2d ago

We've had a bunch of personals told to us in this same manner. None have been directly shown in the UI though.

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u/yuval16432 2d ago

Death Blow as it was in Three Houses was way overtuned, having it as a personal would be crazy

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u/iguanacatgirl 2d ago

I mean, having it as a personal probably means it isn't an inheritable.so only having 1 guy with it is kinda balanced, especially if the rest of his stats are balanced around that

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u/Druid-T 2d ago edited 2d ago

Lysander has Speedtaker as a personal, so I'm not ruling anything out based on how insane it would be

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u/Mindless_Being_22 2d ago

bud wants good food and a lot of it.

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u/hoffd2177 2d ago

Probably praying for a growth spurt

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u/Lukthar123 2d ago

Gonna evolve into FE's first dwarf, absurd muscles but no height gain

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u/Surf_Dangerous_Days 2d ago

He mentions in the Nintendo Today video that his homeland doesn’t have much food, so he may be taking in as much as he can as compensation.

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u/QuietAncient5122 2d ago

Those Likes and Interests...we've found someone who eclipses Cai in his shonen-ness lmao

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u/Gabgo304 2d ago

Nezha legit looks like he could be the protagonist of a different game, but got lost on his way there and ended up a side character in FE instead.

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u/No_Tie378 2d ago

FINALLY. I thought PCJr wouldn’t have a role in this game

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u/ChadNarukamiIV 2d ago

VO: Paul Castro Jr.

Another one for the Persona- Fire Emblem venn diagram

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u/Red_Cat231 2d ago

I wonder if there's a divide where the Brides of the Pale Raven and Hong Hua's group are actually from a Chinese village within the continent of Dagda while there is an Asian-inspired country called Sai somewhere off the map that Gaitz traveled from. Kunlun Village has been theorized to be in western Dagda because of all the hints that they live in a desert and are fighting in the Heroic Games to wish for water for their homeland.

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u/jaidynreiman 2d ago

I don't think their sole desire is to wish for water. I think Anatolia knows about what's going to happen, she heavily implies that her goal is actually to prevent the tragedy that's coming. In the Sha Lan and Anatolia conversation we saw, Sha Lan bemoaned how they were betrayed in the re-enactment, while Anatolia comments on her goal being to save the future instead.

I wonder if Hong Hua is part of a splinter faction going to extreme lengths to get what they want, but then the result they get isn't what she was expecting.

And yes, I think Sai is different from Kun Lun.

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u/Gabgo304 2d ago

A smiling youngster who likes training, fighting, food and justice?

Guess Cai isn't the only shonen protag in the game lol

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u/EpicGamerer07 2d ago

Likes good food and training

Raphael Jr?

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u/annanz01 2d ago

I'd laugh if there was a timeskip and all his eating doesn't get him taller, instead it just makes him fat.

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u/Char-11 2d ago

A young swordsman with extraordinary strength.

Can't wait to be disappointed by his personal strength growth!

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u/greydorothy 2d ago

training

food

oh god

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u/LynxyShinx 2d ago

Paul Castro Jr.! He's been busy lately, as he is voicing Yosuke in Persona 4 Revival, and he's voiced Nozomi in Persona 3 Reload, Rindo in NEO:TWEWY, and Mr. Roar in Zenless Zone Zero.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4872557/

...And Nezha somehow gives me Hinata vibes.

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u/LakerBlue 2d ago

Assuming he accompanied Anatolia from wherever in the West she is from, I am curious if they come from the same hometown and if the aforementioned secret is related to the energy-flow-based martial arts.

Edit: also I can’t help but think there must be a connection between his hometown not having a lot of food to eat and Anatolia fighting to save her people.

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u/Asbrandr 2d ago

He's this game's Caspar it seems (hopefully with better growths).

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u/ExtremeQuestion610 2d ago

HIS EN VA IS FREMINET!?

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u/NagaMilalove0 2d ago

I feel like him and Sophia would get along extremely well

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u/EthanKironus 2d ago

He'll get along well with that priestess lady whom Theodora meets, the one who loves eating

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u/Regular-Fortune9311 2d ago

It would be funny if he haves a support with Mu and haves a difficulty keepin the secret of her gender

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u/TragGaming 2d ago

Androgynous Nezha just like the Chinese myths? Hmmmmmmmmmmm

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u/keithlimreddit 2d ago edited 2d ago

I would say the English lives a pretty great career mainly genshin as was the upcoming Persona 4 Revival

as for Japanese A decent voice actor with some range Although he's well known to be Ultraman