(retainers on second slide)
These two master classes were designed with kind of a moral grayness in mind, where the twin you don’t pick can easily take on a more villainous role. Minato ends up rising up the ranks in hoshido’s military and as a Warlord, uses swords, bows, and staves to both fight and heal at the very front lines. Marin, on the other hand, becomes the face of Nohrian politics and diplomacy, and her proficiency in swords, tomes, and staves are befitting of someone with an almost magical pull over any crowd.
Their retainers also inform their later roles, with Osore the channeler serving as both Minato’s guardian and advisor to him and the rest of the royal family, granting vital tactical information to sharpen Minato’s mind on the battlefield (and maybe the occasional push towards touting him as a divine, chosen leader), while Maître’D Félix has trained Marin since birth in the ways of high society politicking, etiquitte, and all manner of talents a noblewoman ought to have (though, he is prone to occasional gossip with Marin about the comings and goings of other Nohrian nobility)
Also, I recognize that this might probably be getting a few degrees of separation away from proper FE stuff so i might need to find some kind of dedicated fan content subreddit to post more of tnis concept on….
