Who are Your Favorite Fire Emblem Three Houses Characters and Why?

[Deleted member 4034]

As of now I've played Black Eagles, Blue Lions and the DLC.

I think I'll say my overall favorite is Bernie.

This girl annoyed the fuck out of me initially, but her personality makes a great contrast to her ability on the field, someone who hates fighting, but is absolutely lethal with it on the battlefield is great to see develop. She even got the final kill for me in my Blue Lions route. I don't think I'll ever do a playthrough without Bernie.

And I didn't even touch that sad ass backstory.

Dorothea.

Ended up romancing her in my first playthrough. Just a nice presence and is refreshingly practical about her place in life and what she needs to do succeed. Always enjoyed her supports with anyone.

Sylvain.

Okay, so out of the gate Sylvain is not a good person, but I think he is the best example why this game works for fans of older Fire Emblem games, or at least for me as someone who started with Path of Radiance. In Awakening, Sylvain would've just been the "skirt chaser" and that would've been his entire personality, but in Three Houses, we get Mr. Horny that joins you simply because you're a woman, and he ends up being an absolute monster of a unit, but you get to learn why he's the way he is, how his upbringing effected his outlook on life through several conversations. It's a shame he couldn't have a support with Edelgard, those two had a surprising amount in common. But also, he is an absolute monster of a unit.

Hapi.

Waifu.

And rounding out the top 5 is, I'll give a shout-out to my fearless team leader Ms. Chess not Checkers Edelgard and Felix.

Here's the thing about Felix. Knowing how the second half of the game goes, it's nice to observe certain character relationships, recruit one person with a lot of personal ties and then make them do the deed throughout the second half of the game. Sylvain has a good one early, but Felix has some great confrontations in the second half of the Black Eagles playthrough. I love that shit. And what's also good about it is, he's already mad at his team half the time so why not validate his dislike of them.

 

[Doctor Phishshoe]

I was a Felix fan, and ofcourse the great Claude. The best houseleader :)


Btw love the amount of 3 Houses threads today XD

 

[Xavi]

Edelgard, Hapi, Petra, Bernie and Sylvain are my children

Editing my text

 

[Raijinto]

Dedue is just a brilliant character. Love him so much- really elevates the BL campaign, which is still the only one I've played.

Dimitri was my MVP most maps. Was regularly seeing 40x2 with him lol.

And I also really like Annette. She left the biggest impression on me from the 'not important to the plot' characters, though Felix and Mercedes were good too.

 

[Mental Atrophy]

I really liked Bernadetta, a highly offensive character with spears that can penetrate any front line to one-shot just about anything or teleport somebody else there with her. Also Dorothea as a dancer with high Reason, allowing her to give somebody a second attack and still chain link with your entire team from a mile away.

 

[TimeFire]

I still gotta play the DLC, but

Edelgard
Petra
Bernie
Dorothea
Shamir

I'm still kinda bummed that Bernie's story got nerfed to be less horrible, the pre-patch one really made you feel for her

 

[Deleted member 4034]

Dedue is just a brilliant character. Love him so much- really elevates the BL campaign, which is still the only one I've played.

Dimitri was my MVP most maps. Was regularly seeing 40x2 with him lol.

And I also really like Annette. She left the biggest impression on me from the 'not important to the plot' characters, though Felix and Mercedes were good too.

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I really like Dedue, I tend not like characters that are too stoic, but I really felt for him. And buddy has by far the best dedicated mission in the game, I forgot what those were called. It was fun gameplay wise and it impacts the story later on.

Shamir is another character I really like, but my OP was getting a bit long.

 

[UnlimitedRulebook]

Petra is amazing and pure. Love her future design as well.

 

[Woylie]

Dorothea's one of my favorite FE characters ever, I've recruited her for each of my three playthroughs. I like that the students in Three Houses get a lot more room for development than characters in more traditional FE games - I remember like, Dorcas or Lute for example joining up and never getting any dialogue again outside of supports in the GBA games. Sure, you could argue that getting their supports was a part of seeing the characters, and supports are still a major source of characterization in 3H, but it feels like the characters' personalities and development gets put more at the forefront compared to older games.

Yuri's also great, I wish they let him be more central in the main game post-DLC.

 

[Deleted member 66837]

Dorothea, Petra, Claude, and Felix. They're all enriching in their own way where once they're bonding with someone they're close to they reveal themselves and it's beautiful

 

[Nevermeltice]

Ashe.

 

[Saturday]

From an aesthetic standpoint I really like Constance. A distinct but grounded design with undertones of unique bits (she has purple highlights!) a trope that I'm admittingly fond of (ojou-sama,) heavily depressed when outside, has gatekeeper in her confession scene

Bernie, Miss "Warcry in a fight, sobbing in the night" hits kinda blunt with her backstory, but that's Fire Emblem for you. I do enjoy the general energy she brings to her scenes

I.. just have a crush on Shamir

I also really appreciate Claude in this line of thinking but he is also fanatically written and it must be stressed that all the lords are fantastically written in 3H

On the opposite end of this I really dig Rhea's design and general backstory but yeah I do chuckle at the actions she's done to get us where we're at in 3H

Dedue as other members have echoed is super solid as a 'stoic' type character

 

[Neiteio]

Honestly I like all of them. I don't always -agree- with them but I understand them, and that's a sign of rich character development. They all start on a one-dimensional broad stroke but quickly flesh out into something empathetic and interesting. I'm genuinely astonished by the complexity of the game's script.

 

[Deleted member 4034]

Ashe.

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I really liked Ashe until there's a dialogue option with Byleth that points out that his good deeds are a bit self serving and then I couldn't unsee it for the rest of the game.

I did pair him with Anette in my Blue Lions playthrough, they were cute.

 

[DeoGame]

Annette, Lysithea and Marianne are both adorable for completely different reasons.

I think Claude is an all around decent guy and Dimitri a tragic hero.

Hilda is hilarious as are Raphael and Sylvain.

Ingrid and Mercedes are just great people all around.

I need to get back into the Black Eagles route. I put over 100 hours into 3 Houses and I needed a break as playing through the same maps got very repetitive.

 

[Kino]

Too many lol. It'd be easier to list the ones that I don't like.

 

[Quinton]

The game's packed with great characters. Even several of the ones I don't especially care for I'd still call great regardless.

Edelgard is my favorite. She's ambitious and decisive, believing with all her fiery heart in a better future which will necessitate hard choices. It's those hard choices of hers that I admire; her conviction isn't based purely on sentiment, as is frequently the case with JRPG leads.

Dimitri comes close to the top. His character arc is simply the best of any Fire Emblem that I've played. The way the writers manage to present him as stoic, forthright, almost to the point of coming across as a downright boring character, and then they flip that on its face and go wild with him, is aces.

I have so many other faves. Shamir's no-nonsense nature leads to such excellent humor. Felix's character growth via the Blue Lions Route is really something special. Petra and Bernadetta are both delightful. Lysithea's motivations make her fierce dedication so heartfelt and moving. Dedue's awesome. Constance's inside/outside shtick adds so much more complexity and intrigue to her than I had originally anticipated. Seteth's voice actor delivers such a delicious air of mystery humbled over time by humility and trust. Lorenz defies the odds of a bad first impression and really pulls me in over time. Marianne's secret is well-written and her arc is equally up to the task.

 

[TheChungusAmongUs]

Claude - Just the goodest boy. A genuine idealist, who wants the world to be better without the need of war

Dimitri - I think he has the best arc in the whole game, also the best glow up out of all the timeskip characters.

Felix - Vergil memes

Bernie - I love her relationship with Hubert and Felix

Hubert - Even though I don't like Edelgard, I respect Huberts unwavering devotion to her and I appreciate his moments with Bernie

Lysithia - Lysithia is such a good unit, also she has a rough deal placed on her and I genuinely like the relationship with her and Cyrill

Alois - He is such a goober. He's trying his best, and that's what matters.

Dedue - Actually the best

Hilda - HILDA HILDA HILDA

 

[Maxina]

Do i need to say it.

 

[Lusamine]

Rhea because I'm a sucker for caring-motherly types.

 

[Apollo]

For me, Dorothea is the best character in FE3H by a significant margin. She's the character that perfectly represents the fundamental tragedy of the story. She's empathetic and loving at her core, and watching that empathy conflict with her duty to fight against her classmates is heartrending. But she doesn't lose to that conflict. She experiences more and more trauma, but never loses the empathy that defines her.

I honestly consider her A support with Ferdinand to be the best scene in the whole game. It's just raw emotion. It does such a good job at contrasting her desperate desire to believe in the good of people with the deep scars that have haunted her for so long. It doesn't end with everything solved, only with her acknowledgment that, even if she knows better, she still has to work through her shit. Trauma doesn't just go away because you hit rank A. But you know she'll keep fighting against that trauma, because you know she wants to believe in her friend.

 

[NSESN]

Claude - Best Lord
Felix - Best edgeboy
Hubest - Best darkboy
Shamir - Best woman

 

[falcondoc]

Dimitri

 

[Rainy]

All three house leaders. Dorothea, Ferdinand.

 

[Chalphy]

As I get older, I find myself relating more and more to the older characters in the cast, so my top 5 reflects. Not in ranked order.

Gilbert - I liked his search for redemption after failing King Lambert. His polite attitude and steadfast loyalty endeared him to me greatly.

Judith - Fire Emblem needs more older women in its cast, and Judith does a great job of being an experienced advisor to Byleth and Claude without coming across as a stereotypical motherly type. I just wish she was playable in the Verdant Wind section.

Hanneman - His drive to uncovering the mysteries of the crests is quite infectious. Even when he goes overboard with his research, his humanity comes through to take care of his colleagues.

Mercedes - An incredibly compassionate woman despite her past. I don't think there's another character in the entire franchise who comes close to her gentleness.

Seteth - A calming presence no matter how tense the scene gets, yet is able to stand up to Rhea when he thinks she has erred. His knack for writing fables is also quite a nice trait in the larger series context. Just chill when it comes Flayn.

I would also include nods to Hapi, Claude, Ashe, Catherine, Rhea, Shamir, Petra, Rodrigue, and Ignatz; but I generally enjoy the cast as a whole.

 

[SenseiX]

I like Bernie a lot (I really wish we had the opportunity to hang her father) and Lysithea and Caspar are good kids, Manuela too, she's kinder than I expected, but if I had to pick one I'm going with my boy Ferdinand von Aegir. I feel like he's the perfect mix between noble and commoner.

 

[Luke88]

I really like Petra and Shamir. The former is honestly just a briliant individual who excells in almost anything and people often don't realize it simply because she doesn't master the language of Fodlan and that doesn't apply just to her personality, even as a unit she's pretty good at almost anything. Shamir is like the other face of Petra's medal, she's also a foreigner, however she has no issue speaking, her issue is that she's a lone wolf who goes on one-soldier missions and isn't nearly as cheerful as Petra, the duality they created is something very special in my opinion.

Of course we all love Bernie cuz we're closed in our rooms all the time.

 

[Pau]

The character writing in the game is just superb, especially when you consider the size of the cast. I don't think there's anyone I actively dislike or think is poorly written.

For example, Lorenz, Sylvain, and Ferdinand are such fuckbois, but I actually enjoy hating on them and would be sad if they weren't in the game. Lorenz and Ferdinand's glow ups are also so, so fucking bad good and in character. I love it.

I've only really beaten Golden Deer with Sylvain, Ingrid, and Petra as recruits. I unironically adore pretty much everyone in Golden Deer: Claude, Marianne, Lysithea, Leonie, Hilda and Ignatz are at the top and hard to rank. (Raphael stands out a little less, but also not really the type of unit I like to use so I'm biased.) Petra is also amazing, and I really like Ingrid. But that's not to say the characters are without major flaws such as Hilda and Ingrid's racism.

I'm almost at the timeskip for Blue Lions, but I can already tell that I'll feel the same about those characters once I finish.

 

[Hailinel]

Keep in mind that I haven't played the Blue Lions route yet.

My favorite characters are Bernie, Dorothea, Lysithea, Seteth, and Rhea

Three Houses is filled with characters that have tragic and horrible backstories, but Bernie, Jesus Christ. I never thought I'd see Fire Emblem tackle extreme child abuse and related trauma, but Bernie, for all of her comic moments, really stood out to me as a character to sympathize with. To think she turned into an extreme shut-in because her father was basically the worst father in the history of Fodlan is just sad. But even so, she has a pretty strong artistic side, and she grows a lot. I ended up marrying her at the end of my first run.

Dorothea and Lysithea are both stand-outs as well. I know Dorothea is "the flirty one" and Lysithea is a meme with her Death Knight annihilation capability, but they both grow a lot over the course of the game. (And Lysithea grows literally, lolololol Edelgard). Both otherwise make for pretty strong mages (and Dorothea is a natural Dancer).

Seteth is one of the absolute best characters in Three Houses. I played Silver Snow first, which really allowed him to shine the most, but he's a very complex character all around. Especially as it pertains to his relations with Flayn and Rhea.

And Rhea, to me, may be the most tragic character in the game. It's impossible to get into why without extreme spoilers, but suffice it to say, the end of Silver Snow was just agonizing. Like Seteth, there's a lot to her that isn't really obvious at first, and the side of her you see is really going to depend on the route you take, but she's so key to everything that when it all comes together, there's a simultaneous "Aha!" moment and "Oh. Ohhhhhhh..." moment.

Man, I wish I had more time than I do to write about this, because I feel like there's a lot more I could easily say about all of these characters and more.

 

[Bremsstrahlung]

I think I sympathize most with Rhea, Seteth, and Flayn. It helps that Seteth in particular is just a really good character.

 

[ryseing]

Sleepy boi.

 

[JuicyPlayer]

Petra is amazing and pure. Love her future design as well.

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She became my Waifu during my first run. Had to recruit her as soon as I saw her. Love her personality.

 

[Treestump]

Petra is best girl. She purely cares about everyone's well being and will do what she can for the best outcome possible.

 

[MrSaturn99]

A shrinking violet who dreads the mere thought of communication, yet Bernadetta's always there for the team, even when she doesn't want to be. She's always causing trouble for others, yet her compassion's enough to melt down the hardened barriers of Hubert and Felix. After learning of her past, you just can't help but root for her.

Fiercely loyal and empathetic, Bernie's instantly relatable to any and all introverts (like myself) who often shirk attempts to fraternize -- an evasive mask that belies a deep tenderness and intensive passion for their interests. I strive to follow her model.

 

[TradedHats]

Dorothea for me, which I honestly didn't expect going in.

 

[Diarrhea Day-Lewis]

Easily Edelgard, Bernie, Dorothea, Manuela, and Petra for me, but Claude is great too

 

[Pirate Bae]

Edelgard
Dorothea
Hilda
Petra
Ingrid
Marianne
Constance

...and Sylvain

 

[milkyway]

Hapi, Claude, Hilda, Seteth, and Shamir make a good top 5. Constance, Caspar, Yuri, Ashe, and Marianne make a good top 10. There's definitely a lot of more than meets the eye characters that I love like Hilda, Constance and Caspar and I think it's great the game can do that with such a large cast.

 

[King Dodongo]

Tons of them actually. It was my GOTY 2019 for a reason.

 

[Cipher Peon]

Kronya because she has my favorite design by an astronomical margin.

Hilda is second place, because she's awesome, relatable, and looks like Serra who I also really like

 

[Kaz Mk II]

I'm still super attached to all of the Blue Lions and most of the Church folks. Due to my BL and Chruch playthroughs.

I also got oddly invested in Rhea. So it's between her and Dimitri for my favorite characters. Both pretty tragic figures who make some bad decisions but if you work with them you can help change them and build a better future together.

Rhea cute.

Crazy Dimitri was fun

 

[WestEgg]

I've played Black Eagles and Blue Lions, and watched a Let's Play of Golden Deer. The Black Eagles house has most of my favorites, though I did really end up liking pretty much every student except for a few.

I don't know if he's the best or my favorite character in the game, but he's definitely the character I was most surprised by how much I did end up liking, so I'm going to give a big shout out to Hubert. Dude is at once exactly the character he seems to be, but is also so sincere about it, and weirdly overall well meaning that I can't help but love him. Heck, even in the routes he's not it, he's practically singlehandedly responsible for tipping you off to the real threat. And all of his supports are amazing.

 

[Tochtli79]

Not gonna mention the lords, but I love all three.

Dorothea is the character who surprised me the most. Thought she'd be a fanservicey character, but I was quickly proven wrong. I love her backstory, she's someone who's dealt a shit hand but refuses to let that define her life and manages to climb out and involve herself with the nobility she at once despises and aspires to be. I'm not really a fan of how usually battle quotes make the characters seem bloodthirsty or indifferent to the violence around them, with Dorothea you can see exactly how much the fighting wears her down emotionally but she keeps powering through because she needs to believe it's all leading to something worthwhile.

Petra and Linhardt are also great from the BE.

Marianne is probably my favourite from GD. She's just really sweet and pretty much all her supports are great. Also like Hilda and, memes aside, Lorenz. I think the roles they play within the Alliance make them interesting, especially how that translates to their relationship with Claude and in routes not their own.

For BL, Felix and Sylvain, especially when shipped with each other. :) Their backstories and take on the FE tropes they're based on are enjoyable.

Church side, I really only like Seteth and Rhea. The latter as in she's a fascinating character, but she's definitely not *likeable*.

 

[super-famicom]

Marianne critting an enemy unit that was about to kill her teammate as her very first action in combat after recruitment cemented her status as #1 in my heart.

 

[RulkezX]

Just finished the game like an hour ago.

Petra / Dorothea / Sylvian / Shamir / Edelgard

Most the characters were great, but they 5 were pretty much my first 5 picks for any battle.

 

[Hilarious_Bearious]

Claude - he is my bishie jokester twink <3

Leonie - who I actually waifu'd. I like her practicality, generosity and dedication.

Shamir - such a badass. I liked her tough edginess, but then how she opens up over time.

 

[Nocturnowl]

Bernie Bear and Sleepy Lin are my spirit anime animals

There's so many good characters in this game, seeing how the supports unfolded for them was a treat.

 

[RingoGaSuki]

I actually really like all the characters, the writing is just fantastic.

#1 is easy. Petra is just fantastic, too pure and good.

Her future design is straight up my favourite human character design in any game. She's flawless and I really wish they'd put her in Smash over Byleth.

Spoiler: Spoiler if you still haven't played 3H

2nd would go to Dorothea for me. She's such a well-done, fleshed out character. Her interactions with all the other characters and her backstory make her feel so human in a way that most games just can't achieve.

I can't split 3rd. I love Marianne, Raphael, Hapi and Shamir in equal amounts. They're fantastic.

FE3H is just such a good game.

 

[Deleted member 57758]

Dedue, Marianne, Raphael and Shamir are absolutely my favorite characters in the game

Dedue and Marianne respectively have probably some of my favorite supports in the game, they're both just wonderful and despite my issues with how BL handles Dedue, he's my favorite character in the game overall.

Shamir's just a fucking badass, she's cool as shit

Raphael's just wholesome, he deserves more love tbh

 

[Deleted member 18966]

Been a while since I beat the game so I might not explain why I like the characters so much accurately, but here goes anyway. Cast is full of great characters, but my top 3 girls would be:

1-Petra. She's royalty but humble, despite the relationship between Fodlan and Brigid she doesn't hate the people of Fodlan and is even interested in learning more about their culture and history, she remains focused in how to help improve her nations situation withouth becoming a jaded edgelord.
2-Marianne. What can I say, the development she gets post time skip made me happy.
3- Lysithea. You gotta admire her trying to overcome her situation and making the best out of it, once you find out about her situation her personality flaws suddenly seem small and understandable, and the few times she lets her guard down and act her age are endearing.

Edelgard is great as an antagonist, as a companion I actually find her really weak. As for my top 3 boys:

1-Felix. He comes across as your typical edgelord, but he's actually more complex, he pursues strenght and fights but doesn't glorify war, its almost like he's trying to find a place to die while trying to avoid being like his brother because he resents him for dying.
2-Dimitri. The fact that he still feels guilt about killing people during times of war instead of getting jaded or thinking its ok to kill because his cause is just, makes him compelling to me, like sure you might have to kill but that doesn't mean you have to forget the value and weight each life carries.
3-Lorenz. Design aside, while he might come across as annoying due to all his talk about nobility, he doesn't use his status to take advantage of others and actually focuses on the responsability side of his status, his biggest flaw is not realizing that most nobles aren't like him and that that is the source of friction between commoners and nobles, something he eventually realizes.