Sain: Just an Archetype? [Fire Emblem: Support Science #22] Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2020
- In this Support Science, I talk about Sain, from Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword (FE7). Sain is widely known as a womanizer, and while most of his support conversations focus on this side of his character, I believe that his other traits, like his loyalty, talent as a knight and, being a genuinely caring person, help ground his otherwise archetypical personality.
Sain's role in the story in Lyn Mode was pretty important - he helped find, secure and protect Lyn from the beginning. At the end, despite his transgressions, proves to be among Caelin's most reliable knights, even earning him the position of Knight Subcommander. A year later, Sain is still protecting Lady Lyndis alongside his boon companion, Kent and other members of the Lyndis Legion. Lyn reuniting with Eliwood now allows us to read into Sain's support conversations.
Sain's supports are an extension of his characterization displayed in Lyn mode. He is a hopeless womanizer sleaze, and he's a loyal friend. But, regardless of how light and breezy he is, on the battle field, well, I don’t want to say he’s a hardened veteran, but he was named knight subcommander for a reason. The problem with his supports though is that there are a handful of bafflingly flat support chains which do next to nothing, if nothing at all, to flesh out his character further. This leads a lot of people to determine that Sain isn’t a “good” character. And while I can agree that he’s not the deepest character in the cast, the moments where he is forced to change his behavior into someone who takes himself seriously, however seemingly short-lived they are, round him out and dispel the notion that he’s one note, or even a gag character.
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Hi Fire Emblem fans! Hope you like my latest Support Science on Sain from Blazing Sword. This feels like a more classic Support Science episode, so I hope you enjoy it! *Its also my birthday! So a really nice gift would be a like and a comment down below! And also, if you like my scripted FE content, please consider subscribing for more! Thanks!*
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Oh dang, Happy Birthday Ghast! I hope your day goes wonderfully!
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Happy birthday ghast! Love all of your vids, especially Support Science.
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Sylvain: (insert ridiculously long text and a crying wojak)
Sain: Sorry dude but you disrespected my buddy, prepare to get crit
Sylvain: Nooooooo!!! You don't get it! I'm hitting on every woman I see because I'm actually really mad that crests define a person's worth and how much people wanna marry them!!! I'm really sad that my brother got disowned and lost everything because he didn't have a crest!!! so I'm trying to show that life is way too easy for us people with crests and its unfair I don't really like these women I'm just using them to prove my point!! I swear I'm a very deep and interesting character and not just the typical simplord of the group!!!!!!
Sain: I am Sain, you disrespected my friend, prepare to die to a 1% crit.
Crit? Who need crits when you one round Generals with Iron weapons.
I’ve always had a soft spot for characters like Sain, a light hearted person with a likable personality.
Oh my word I never truly realized how deep that Priscilla support went.
That was just tragic.. but in a beautifully poetic manner.
Man Fire Emblem loves to be super sad when it tries, and leaving a mark on us all.
Priscilla x Sain always have been a favorite of mine. I am glad it was put into the spotlight here.
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 worse yet, Priscilla has three paired endings, but two of them aren't even happy!
@@sauce4279 Not to mention that Sain isn't one of them.
@@sauce4279 Good news about that, apparently the paired ending with Priscilla and Guy was localised incorrectly, they elope in the Japanese translation. So yay?
Sain is one of my favorite fe characters in the series
He is honestly probably the most funny character in the series and all his supports make me love him even more.
His supports with fiora being my favorite
He legit flirts with every single woman in camp and just keeps being rejected.
I'd love to see a support with viada where she tells him to just f*** off and actually get sain to reconsider his unique way of finding love.
Like gosh he should be in heroes already.
Just for saying my nickname on heroes is SainFe7When
When I.S Sain in Heroes?
Welp, he just missed his chance once more, Better luck next year I guess.
@@Daniel-dh4ky now :D
Wish Granted
I, too, am disappointed that Sain doesn't have a paired ending with Priscilla because I love their supports so much. This was a great video! Sain is without a doubt my favorite FE character
Same too once I looked up paired endings while doing the first FE7 run.
It is a crime that his better female supports don't get paired endings. But I've always known the Priscilla line being "usual Sain until the sucker punch to the feels"; makes me wonder how much fanfiction that spawned.
Probably none, us Sain Gangers are few in numbers
@@Dankboi68 I may not be much, but count me in among you.
I doubt much. Neither character were very popular to begin with, far as I know.
I actually love SainxRebecca. When she hands the letter back to him, I die laughing.
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His supports with Kent and Priscilla were always my favorites, and I'm really glad that you highlighted these supports in this video. ^_^
Sadly, I'd totally forgotten that he even had support with Isadora, since 1. I hardly ever used her, and 2. If I did use her, she'd automatically pair up with Harken.
Isadora is such an overlooked character, honestly.
She has lots of great supports (norably one of the only non comedic with Lowen.).
Always used to bug me that I could only support Lyn with Kent and not Sain
It'd love to see the Ralance support triangle from Binding blade put into Blazing sword with a swordmaster as a lord, that would seem op
If I had my way, the original five of Lyndis's Legion would all support one another
It sadly makes sense though. In Kent and Sain support, Sain says he'll keep his distance from Lyn for Kent's sake
Hey Ghast. Mani.Katti from Instagram here. Just wanted to let you know I’ve shared this video with my followers. I love these videos and Sain is a favorite of mine. I hope all goes well for you in these times. We appreciate you!
Damn, I’m shocked how fast you made this, granted, the dimitri one was like an hour long
Well, Sain is a much simpler character than Dimitri.
@@gratedshtick to be fair, 90% of the 3H cast is bound to have more character to talk about, good or bad. There's simply so much more story given to each character, while games like FE7 had far more limited chance to interact and develop each other's characters.
@@OmegaCKL here's hoping the remake fleshes all of them out.
Idk why people dislike and disregard flirty male characters so easily, usually because they're lighthearted and not broody and broken. In most media, but particularly in Fire Emblem, the lighthearted characters are usually the ones who have been through the most and keep their smile face, an unbreakable spirit. They're always my favorites, Inigo and Sylvain at the top.
As someone who isn't fond of Sain and characters like him such as Virion, it isn't about him not being broody, it's the fact that a good chunk of his interactions are just being flirty and being completely dense to a situation and not being anything more. It's like a harem protagonist who can't take a hint when women are dead obvious throwing themselves at him, his archetype is the reverse extreme, who can't seem to get why his approach isn't working and continue to be annoying to the other person, and it's rarely if ever addressed. It just becomes an overused gag at that point. Doesn't help that they add a level of cockiness that some people like me find bothersome.
Sylvain for me is probably my favorite of his archetype. I thought I'd end up hating him initially since omg Virion/Sain 3.0, but nope. He actually is aware how he approaches people and tries to account for how they take to his antics, he's just persistent and would even call people out on characters like Dorothea giving him the act in return. He has his share of relationships that do the same and call him out on how his attitude and lack of care at time can be dangerous be it on the battlefield, or a person's feelings.
The whole idea that the light hearted characters have gone through a lot is part of why I love Raven/Lucius' dynamic so much. Both of them have gone through so much, but Lucius staying as upbeat and nice as he has is part of what helps Raven. His niceness helps him on a baseline level, but his experiences arr what makes Raven listen.
I have only seen playthroughs of Blazing Sword, but I enjoyed Sain quite a lot. And I'm currently playing Three Houses, and Sylvain is like a breath of fresh air.
I AM NOW ANGRY AT THE LACK OF A PAIRED ENDING FOR PRISCILLA AND SAIN.
now i am imagining a paired ending where sain leaves for etruria to stay with priscilla. maybe have him end up as a knight under her service, like marcus for eliwood or oswin for hector
I think his loyalty to Kent outweighs his loyalty to Lyn. Although what if the Skirtchasing persona is a defense mechanism that is also similar to Sylvain but in a different way? While I have my assumptions, I won't go deep with it.
Christmas Cavaliers. They're magnificent. Whether it be Kent and Sain, Oscar and Kieran, and so on. They all have something to contribute
I've never read sains support with Priscilla before. That absolutely made me TEAR UP
Dude, I was just watching the Nino Supports Science. Love your work! :D The god of coincidences and you have blessed us all.
If you do more FE7 characters, I hope you do Pent and Louise. Louise's imparting her wisdom to Rebecca and Pent just gushing about Magic with Canas are some very wholesome times.
1:00 ok but that random village girl in the cipher card is super cute, Sain has good taste 👀
I guess you can say that this video will be INSAIN 😆 (don’t kill me)
I KENT promise you that
I must smite you, It is law.
You will feel my RATH.
@@TheFakeJake Oh no!!! Another one!
I never got around to getting every support in FE7, so learning about that Sain/Priscilla one both touched me and made me a bit sad. I have to agree though, that in my experience, the Kent/Sain support line was really fun to experience the first time around.
Sain and Priscilla's support was always one of my favourites from the first time I unlocked it and I was heartbroken when I saw they didnt have a paired ending at the end of that playthrough
I like this kind of support science cause it highlights how a character can have meaningful moments, even if they’re not as important to the plot. Not all character development needs to be a big breakthrough, it can be through small steps.
But what is a big breakthrough is that it’s Ghast’s birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GHAST!
I have a similar nostalgic love of Sain like you do, boy does he make an impression at the beginning of FE7. Always love to hear you talk about the characters like this, great work!
Sain is the Johnny Cage of the Blazing Sword cast. And Fiora is arguably his Sonya Blade.
Happy birthday! New subscriber, but I'm very much looking forward to getting through this series. The personalities of the characters is honestly what keeps me playing Fire Emblem, so I could watch things like this forever.
Great video as always Ghast, can't wait to see more support science in the future
Happy birthday Ghast! And uh...sorry bout my Ashnard the other week. I was late to the party 😂
Infilite noops are a hell of a drug.
Seeing a video like this makes me want to revisit FE7 again. Great work as always, Ghast! Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to this video - the first Faerghast one I serendipitously found!
The moment Sain became one of my favorite units came on the group's first visit to the Dread Isle. In the mission before Eliwood's father dies, if Sain is deployed, he talks about how Marquess Laus caused Lyn so much grief, and that he wanted to make him pay on behalf of Caelin. Naturally, I had Sain deliver the final blow
This made me so happy. He was my first favorite character when I picked up FE7 when I was like 10 or so. I've been WAITING for an analysis on the green wonder. Wonderful video man!!
You always make me appreciate these characters more.
I thought it was only me. It seems to me that so many people are able to see how deep some supports are, which makes me feel dumb being unable to notice such complexity.
I liked this :) very well put together. I learned a lot!
I always liked Sain as character but I could never find the words. Thanks for this! It helped understand why I think he's so cool!
This might be one of my favorite support sciences that you've done, and that support between priscilla and sain was way better then I thought itd be
I always love the Support Science videos Ghast!
My first time playing through Lyn Mode, I engaged Ludgren with Sain and read the special dialogue, and was thinking, "So because of Sain's reputation, people think of him as dishonorable, and that's why Ludgren thinks he can bribe him."
> tfw you are also a green christmas cavalier and a flirt yet everyone only remembers the one from Elibe
*sad head turban noises*
To be fair, Alec has no supports and not many lines
c cuatro chun
Thank you ghast! I love the video. Sain was one of the first characters in the franchise that I like, but I don't know anything apart the normal story. The supports with Isidora and Priscilla are gold! thank you for doing the support science. Keep the great work!
Happy birthday Ghast! Great video!!
Happy birthday and I liked the video. I haven't really looked at Sain's supports that much but that support with Priscilla was very cute :)
You know, when it comes to Fire Emblem, Sain has always had a place in my heart. I’ve always liked the parts of Sain that didn’t have to do with skirt-chasing, and perhaps this may seem a bit childish, but, in fact, I dare say Sain, despite being fictional, is someone I’ve wished I could be like.
Ah another support science!! I love these videos and how well it's written
Awesome stuff I love fire emblem
Hype
Damn, great to see you back, and with one of my favorites too! If it weren't for Erk, Sain is easily my next favorite and its his confidence and flirty attitude that helped me smile during sadder times and helped me build my own confidence (well, the whole flirt archetype has with Inigo and Sylvain being closer to me nowadays, but Sain will always be my first)
Thank you for highlighting how as simple minded as this flirt may be, he is more than meets the eye and it really shows that with the limits of the GBA, even characters like him were able to grow with what he had. Im glad you've made this so others now can see how he's not a one trick pony~ Cant wait to see your next one
This was a great video! I love Sain :')
Sain in FEH when???
Okay, wow, the Priscilla Support was amazing, I always paired him with Kent because strategy but damn, I want to just pair him with Priscilla every run now
He's definitely my favorite Blazing Blade character because he's just so funny. I hope he finds his way to Askr with a good prf weapon soon.
Preferably something like Sylvain's personal in 3H, where he gets stat boosts the more women around him.
Damn, the support science series strikes again! Its these ones I don't expect that are the best imo. People that I've never really read supports for before, like Zihark, Sain, Forde and Renault make great videos. I think it's funny bc I've only read the crappy supports brought up in this video, being Sera and Louise. I had no idea his support with Kent was so good! Those two should've had a paired ending like Kyle and Forde in fe8. And the Priscilla one was really good too!
Also, Happy Birthday!
More Blazing Sword. And my personal favorite cav in the series. This kinda made my day
I'm glad you saved the Priscilla support for the end. Definitely the best.
Happy Birthday Ghast, keep on being the best FE TH-camr!
Rebecca is an interesting character. Her hopes and dreams and discovery along the journey is thematic and enjoyable.
Nicely done!
I feel like Blazing Blade suffers from somewhat a lack of support conversations. They’re all very hard to unlock and even then very few characters have paired ending thanks to having to fit into Binding Blades preexisting lore.
GBA limits.
@@joshuagabrielcatindig7607 Technically not GBA limits, considering people already figured out how to make characters gain support points by just being deployed alongside each other.
@@lpfan4491 it sure played a factor at the time the game is made.
@@joshuagabrielcatindig7607 If one can just change a few bits of code around to accomplish it, then idk.
It's more akin to them thinking that giving the Hammer 45 hit was a completely neat idea. A silly designflaw, just one that they sadly didn't fix.
Off topic question: How did you get your “Gerik Steel Blade”? Its sooo cool
I was so pissed when I realised my Sain and Isadora could never be canonical thing, after all I did to get them to A
So happy to see a support science on my favorite cavalier in the series and one of my first favorite characters in general. Sain is proof that you dont have to be that deep to be a well beloved character.
I love these vids
whoa my copy of blazing sword just came in and this came out
Thank you for defending my boy. I absolutely saw echoes of Sain in Sylvain, too.
Sain has always been my favorite Cavalier, and in my top 5 FE characters overall. Seeing this video helped shine new light on Sain's supports that I never processed before, even though I've seen them all before. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this beautiful break down of someone who I hold dear, and made them even more beloved in my heart. Thank you.
Also a side note. HE REALLY SHOULDA HAD AN A SUPPORT WITH PRISCILLA AND ISADORA DAMNIT.
Sain needs to be in FEH!!! I’m half expecting the new banner in a few days to be 3H, half expecting it to be Elibe.
Surprised he hasn't been added yet. Kent and Sain are the "Stahl and Sully" of Fe 7, not just in archetype, but in terms of early game characters that make an impression on people.
Feh has been pretty decent about banners the past 1.5 years so it can be anything really. Bar of course FE 4 or 5, not just cause it got alts recently, but in general they don't get a lot of love.
Still no Glorious Voice Acted Sain. FEH sure had one job.
@@DoctorSpacebar yeah, i’m hoping he gets voiced by joe brogie maybe since he already draws a lot of parallels to sylvain lol
He apparently is now and it’s great
The Priscilla A support makes me so sad. Sain the best knight TT
Aaah yes Blazing Sword, it's been a long time since I seen anything from that GOAT game! Sain is 1 of my favorites & easily top 3 of the womanizer archetype. A good boy & a true bro, I loved his relationship with Lyn the most.
Great video as always!
Blazing Sword may lack modern convenience, but it's a solid game.
@@joshuagabrielcatindig7607 true, it's easily top 3 FE game for me.
Happy Birthday, Chief!
Happy Birthday, Ghast!
Sain is my favorite non-lord character in FE7. Thanks for the vid
Not entirely related, but I would also love a Isadora Support science. She is criminally underlooked.
Happy bday my dude!
This video really made me want to read GBA supports. Its a crime that you can only get 1 & 2/3 of a support per run and, as a result, many of the characters come off as shallow.
Hey Ghast! Big fan of your support science! Would love if you did Henry from Awakening or Prince Innes from Sacred Stones :)
Happy birthday!
Does anyone know the name of the background ost that plays starting from 0:00?
Late, but I may have to borrow "Socialite Social Knight". That is just SUCH an awesome turn of phrase.
Im personally a big Lyn and Sain fan, but I do like how Sain sees the fondness his friend has for Lyn and decides to give Kent the opportunity. Makes me love his character more that he is willing to put loyalty and bonds over love.
AAAAAHHHHH!!! I love him so muchhh!!
Sain is the best, glad that your out here putting respect on his name.
I never thought sain was going to be in support science. This is going to good.
Sains death quote kills me every time I get it
Sain is one of my best units atm in FE7
Now i want to see a Saul video of this series, I want to see what can you find in him
JUSTICE FOR BEST BOY LETS DO IT
What's the name of the last song in the background
My two favorite members of the Christmas Knight archetype are Sain and Forde
Love the Twilight Princess bgm
thanks Ghast, very cool
Why was I tearing up so much during that Priscilla support tho :(
God i love this guy
1:55 Lynn mode promoted Sain hype!
Oh hey, the sainarchetype. Gotta give love to the green lance.
Might not still be big on Sain as a whole, but your writing does make me appreciate him more.
Very good! Maybe if they ever remake Blazing Sword, they could add more to the supports. Still one of my favorite games.
Ah yes the peak of perfection.
Ghast went into detail on Priscilla's personality but not Rebecca's, does this mean a future Support Science for Rebecca? Let's fuckin GOOOOOOOO
But in all seriousness good job Ghast! I'm loving this series quite a bit! I love Sain a lot and this episode was fantastic!
I alway preferred Kent but you really sold me on Sain
What about the lucius support? I love that one