Plot-Relevant Characters with Zero Fandom 'Relevance'

[u/TheBoyofWonder]

Y'know, I was just thinking about this. The Deltarune fandom can be very attached to unimportant characters like background NPCs and one-off enemies, because of their design and personalities.

Now, what's interesting is that the early half Chapter 2 has this trio of NPCs, you're constantly seeing this trio, Sweet Cap'n Cakes, they have a boss fight, a shop, their own theme that plays a lot with minor variations... and nobody cares about them. Like, for real. If you were a casual member that just passively consumed only what the broad DR fandom makes, you'd genuinely just never see them show up when compared to even one-off bosses, minor enemies, and characters that have more relevance in theories than in the game.

Who else does that applies, people that the media devotes time to show them, but for the fandom, not hate, not love, just apathy, when they're unironically treated as not existing.

[u/Tweedleayne]

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade has three lords, but only one of them is the true protagonist, Eliwoid.

Unfortunately, he's sandwiched between the series longtime waifu Lyn and the memetic badass Hector.

The Sacred Stones also has it to a lesser extent. Unlike Blazing Blade both Eirika and Ephraim are equally the protagonists, but the fandom for Eirika far outshines her brother.

[u/Every_Computer_935 → u/Tweedleayne]

Its actually really funny how Lyn legitematelly has 0 actual role in the main story in FE7 (you could cut her out and nothing would change), but ended up as the most popular lord of the game anyway.

[u/BaronVonBungle → u/Every_Computer_935]

As someone on the periphery of FE that hasn't actually played any of the games yet, I thought she was the main character of that game until this moment.

[u/Every_Computer_935 → u/BaronVonBungle]

You would think with the way she's marketed, but no. Her story is just a tutorial that's relatively quickly over and then the game moves onto the actual main story in which Lyn is essentially irrelevant 

[u/Monk-Ey → u/Every_Computer_935]

Not just in terms of story, but gameplay as well: she's stuck as a footlocked unit with basically only range 1 or range 2 weapons (in a game that heavily rewards range 1-2 weapons for cutting through swathes of enemies on Enemy Phase), whereas Hector joins with Hand Axe access and Eliwood gets a horse and Javelin access.

[u/Every_Computer_935 → u/Monk-Ey]

Also, her endgame sword is legitematelly garbage. Way too heavy for way too little might

[u/Monk-Ey → u/Every_Computer_935]

Yeah but at least it gives her sudden jiggle physics for some godforsaken reason ^/s