Fire Emblem: Engage/YMMV

• Ambiguous Disorder: Alcryst is widely assumed to have anxiety and/or depression by many of his fans.
  • Some fans believe Veyle suffers from dissociative identity disorder due to her switching back and forth between her normal kind-hearted and sadistic evil self, the former always being confused and disoriented after waking up in a strange place after carrying out her father's orders. However, this theory has been debunked due to the fact that Veyle is being mind controlled by Zephia, and that as soon as she breaks the enchanted helmet her evil self never returns under any circumstances.
• Base Breaking Character:
  • Alear. A lot of fans saw their bicolored hair and immediately declared them trash, while others found them "wimpy and whiny" compared to other player Avatars (especially when they were rightfully too afraid to simply walk up to Evil Veyle and take back the Emblem Rings in chapter 10). Some fans, though, found Alear very well-written and a damn good unit, and understood why their hair and eyes were they way they were after the game laid out their backstory.
  • Alcryst became this halfway through the game's life. Initially an Ensemble Darkhorse, he started to receive backlash for his self-deprecation and constant apologizing. Fans either claimed he had no reason to be sad and should "get over it" because he has a loving family and retainers, or suggested Morion being a good parent was bad writing because it didn't explain why Alcryst was such a mess. His fans refute this by pointing out that constantly being put down by others can still damage a person no matter how loving their family or privileged their circumstances.
  • Veyle. While she seems fairly well-liked as a hero, some fans were irritated by her constant switching on and off from Good and Evil, as well as bashing the writers for making it "too obvious".
  • The Four Hounds, due to three of four of them being portrayed as complete assholes throughout the game until their sad backstories were revealed shortly before their deaths. Some fans thought this was a cheap cop-out and bad writing, others thought it made sense due to their status as villains or didn't care how last-minute it was.
• Die for Our Ship: A weird variant in that no characters get bashed for being in the way of an OTP, but many shippers want the developers to "die" for not giving their favored non-Alear pairings romantic endings. This is especially common among Diamant/Ivy and Lapis/Alcryst shippers.
• Ensemble Darkhorse:
  • Alcryst became a fan favorite very quickly due to his over the top apology when he first meets the player, cute looks, and overwhelming woobie factor.
  • Kagetsu. His cheerful attitude, voice acting, and potency as a unit won a lot of people over, as did his handsome character design.
  • Ivy is easily one of the most popular and most frequently S-ranked characters due to her good looks, melancholy yet adorkable personality, and potency in battle.
  • Goldmary. She's egotistical, passive-aggressive, demanding, and spoiled, but is so over the top fans find it hilarious instead of annoying. The fact that she's very attractive doesn't hurt, either.
  • Griss is this for the Four Hounds, due to Evil is Cool and his design appealing to certain fetishes.
• Hilarious and Heartwarming in Hindsight: The fact that Alear can romance Louis as either a guy or a girl becomes even cuter and funnier once you learn that Male Alear's English VA, Brandon McInnis, is married to Louis' VA J. Michael Tatum in real life.
  • More or less the same with Female Alear and Kagetsu, as Laura Stahl and Khoi Dao are together as well.
• Ho Yay/Les Yay: Wouldn't be an FE game without it!
  • Alfred is...quite obsessed with Boucheron's muscles, and is incredibly fond of the man himself.
  • Etie's B support with Yunaka: "You've captured something all right - my interest!" She then proceeds to gush about Yunaka's body.
  • Chloe gushing over Merrin in their supports, and Merrin worrying about looking cool for her. Later, she admits Chloe is the only person she feels screwing up in front of.
  • Etie and Celine's tea times come off like romantic dates, and Celine's words of adoration for her bring Etie to tears.
  • Rosado and Fogado, dear lord. Fogado constantly flirts with Rosado, who gets offended when the former doesn't think he's the cutest thing ever. Granted, he'd be like that with anyone, but the vibes are incredibly strong here.
    • Fogado in general is a bit of a flirt, but his "I like you, and you just admitted you like me" to Alcryst carries a vibe of more than friendship. His supports with his retainers Bunet and Pandreo are also very suggestive and deep.
  • Amber's C support with Diamant has him spill a truth potion that causes him to dreamily confess how great he thinks his prince is. Later in their chain, he compares Diamant to an alpaca, which is his favorite thing ever.
  • Louis's habit in the Japanese version was apparently girl-watching, but the localization made it "people watching." Some of the dialogue is fairly suggestive, though, making him appear bisexual. Especially his supports with Rosado.
• Jerkass Woobie: Marni is quite a moody brat who mocks the heroes and is obsessed with killing them so she can get their Emblem Rings. But she was abandoned by her mother and clung to the Four Hounds because she so desperately wanted a family and to be praised. Unfortunately, Zephia becomes horribly abusive to her when she fails her missions, ultimately killing her when she attempts a Heel Face Turn after realizing they've gone too far in their attempts to control Veyle.
• Narm Charm: The dialogue and the drawn-out death scenes are dripping with melodramatic cheese, but the voice acting is so damn good...
• The Scrappy: King Morion has already gained a small but potent hatedom due to his stubborn insistence on meeting King Hyacinth in battle and subsequent death. This coupled with Brodia's aggressions towards Elusia has led fans to lay all the blame at his feet and ignore any positive traits he had, like being an excellent parent to both his sons. Or the fact that Elusia doesn't exactly smell like roses either.
• They Changed it, Now It Sucks: People who were ensnared by Fodlan's realism immediately criticized Engage's designs for being "too anime". Some fans also called the story bad due to it being more linear, simplified, and unabashedly melodramatic than the two Fodlan games.
• Too Cool to Live: Oh, King Morion, the curse of being a father in a Fire Emblem game...
• The Woobie:
  • Alcryst. The boy has self-esteem in the negatives thanks to people constantly comparing him negatively to his big brother Diamant throughout his childhood, but is unfailingly kind and caring and wants to do better for both himself and Brodia.
  • Alear has had a rough go of it. They were in a coma for a thousand years, lose their mother almost immediately after meeting her, shows deep anxiety over their status and the tasks set for them, and is actually Sombron's child who was mistreated, terrified of him, and in the end died by their father's hand after defecting to help Lumera. Oh, and they die twice and are not happy about it.
  • Veyle. The poor girl's been searching for her missing sibling forever and seems to be all alone in the world. She's not, and it gets worse: She's Sombron's daughter, but he loathes her for being a "defect" due to her kindness and inability to summon Emblems. In order to make her what he needs her to be, he lets Zephia of the Four Hounds brainwash and gaslight her into doing horrible things, and when the real Veyle resurfaces she remembers none of it...then when she realizes what's been going on, she's horrified and her attempts to make things right lead to even more punishment for her. When she finally breaks free of her father's control, Alear has died taking a blow for her, and it takes a literal miracle to bring them back. Also? Alear was the missing sibling she'd been looking for all along.