now that Fire Emblem Engage is out in the wild, players might be wondering “what the hell do I have to do to get some love around here?” If you are not fighting every battle and if you are used to other fire emblem systems, it can be easy to miss the event that lets your toothpaste-haired champion hook up with one of the homies. I’m here to help.
Players familiar with the past fire emblems You might think that reaching support rank “S” with a character will give you the option to romance him in Engage. However, there is no “S” rank available in the game, which may lead players to believe that “romancing” someone is not possible at all. It is, but it works a little differently than you might expect.
For starters, the option to “romance” with a partner doesn’t unlock until relatively late in the game. The triggering event occurs in a paralogue that becomes available shortly after the late-game plot twist that causes Alear to become an emblem. As you collect all 12 emblem rings, you’ll notice that some paralogues require you to fight their emblems to unlock their maximum bond level. While you won’t be fighting Alear, completing his paralogue will grant you the pact ring that you can give to any companion with an “A” rank, allowing you to “romance” them.
It’s not a direct “romance” either. Alear is allowed to “link” with characters regardless of gender, but some of these links will be romantic while others will be platonic. So while it’s possible for a male Alear to bond with, say, thiccums big dad Vander, since he’s one of the platonic options, he’ll have to rely on his own headcanon to do the romantic heavy lifting.
I had a romance with the dancer Seadall, not because of any real attraction (my heart will forever belong to Claude Fire Emblem), but because he was the cutest person I had the highest rank with. Once you give the Pact Ring to your chosen one, they will leave you a nice keepsake on the desk of Alear’s vaults. I have a scarf. Seadall likes scarves.