u/Typical-Risk-4729

1) Why hybrids don't work in practice: I feel like fire emblem is afraid of making good hybrid units, in a way I get it. Having someone with both good offensive growths would be better than fielding two specialized units, but there are plenty of ways to balance it (a glass cannon assassin like character, with both strenght and magic but with Nyx level of bulk, that relies on dodging and can only take one hit, both physical or magical) but instead they go the "jack of all trades route".This, funnily enough, hybrid classes rewards specialized units more. A caster with high magic but low speed and bulk will prefer mage/dark knight to patch up their weaknesses, meanwhile a jack of all trades will need sage to make their magic competitive. The only "advantage" of mixed units is their versatility, allowing them to choose a physical or magical class, but they tend to be the worst mixed units statistically speaking, barely able to reach solid numbers in both (meanwhile a mage might use a lance or sword against an high res wall and deal decent damage while maintaining their specialization in one main stat, better to have 30 magic and 18 strength than 24 in both).

IS also avoids giving units both high offensive stat bases and growths (with some exception). But even if they were, I feel like most units would opt for the mage route if they had the chance, enemies on average have less res than def, so if a character were to have 45% growths in both strength and magic, instead of getting 55% in both with a mixed class, they'd rather go mage for the 70% instead. Or in the rare case they opt for a physical class, they choose the ones with good magical weapons (shining bow Nyx/Elise Adventurer Nina, Revelation Priestess Sakura, bow knight Engage Anna, Levin Sword Griffon Pandreo etc...)

The best "true hybrids" have always been units with higher strength than magic or with an hard time getting access to tomes. Think of Adventurer Niles with both physical and magical bows, Flame Shuriken/Felicia's Plate + Other daggers or shurikens for Master Ninja/Mechanist Saizo, Cupido Fogado, even malig knight Camilla, while statistically inferior to wyvern lord, has some options with bolt axe despite her strength being like 10 points higher than her magic.

2) Why Celine doesn't work

Now with all the issues I pointed out I want to talk about Céline. The thing about having an exclusive class is that... You don't have to worry about designing an unit, you can just tailor a class to make them into one. Ivy's growths are shit, her magic is ass, but her class saves her with +25% growths in magic, bulk, decent build, a flying mount and good base stats (10 base magic when promoted), so her 30 becomes 55%, Anna, Citrinne, Gregory or Pandreo could reach higher numbers with Sage 30% but that means having less movement, bulk, speed and constitution, alternatively with mage knight they can get 25% (putting them at 75%), but the mage knight has a base magic of 7, 3 more points when you, at best, have 20 levels to grow, makes the 15% higher growths less impressive), and they don't get staves and her high movement (access to levin is good but if you have the dlc Zelestia can do the same as a sidegrade Ivy), and Ivy gets Nova too like sages.

The issues with Céline: Now let's look at Celine. Her growths are impressive, but like other hybrids before her she decided to invest in... Luck, one of the worst stats along with skill (unless you're Arthur, Knoll or Ivy you just need enough luck to avoid crits, and unless you're Elise, Nyx or Diamant, enough skill to hit). Like Odin before her, she's painfully average, and their highest stat is strength, needing an exclusive class to patch their shaky magic. And if course her Ignis is a a percentage skill based on... Dex? She's got like 29, she's no 22 diamant but close, Timerra and Alcryst can get almost coin flip chances to trigger their specials, while relying on percentage base skills isn't usually consistent, with brave weapons you can almost guarantee one proc (it's gimmicky but it's something, she doesn't even have that). Her luck isn't useless, with divine pulse she can do something similar to Hortensia, and she gets staves for utility after her mediocre combat loses its sparkles, but engage gives you so many staffers (ivy, hortensia, a griffin, mauvier is almost always being deployed as you get an additional deployment slot and I doubt you'll have someone else trained as he has good stats and comes at level 12 if I'm not mistaken), there's also Micaiah, and while martial master isn't good as an offensive unit besides Eirika lunar brace quad hits, you'll probably have one for chain guard and/or bonded shield.

Another issue with Celine is swords, lances, axes or daggers are better weapons for hybrids due to their 1-2 range variants, of course swords are better for levin access, but that means having less options for enemy phase, she'll rarely use her strength besides emblem attacks as a result of that. If I was to design

3) Céline as a true hybrid:
Let's make her good, let's assume she's get knives, spears or hammers instead of blades. I'll use Vidame (noble will have the same stats with like -5% here and there like how it already is in engage).

5% HP, Str: 25% (+15), mag: 20% (+5), skill: 5%, Spd: 10% (+5), def: 5%, res: 10% (-5), lck: 5% (-15%), bld: 0

HP:21, str: 7(+1), mag: 10 (+1), skl: 6, spd: 9, def: 4, res: 5 (-1), lck: 3 (-2), bld: 6 (+1).

Base Growths. 50% HP, Str: 35%, mag: 35% (+10), skill: 35% (+5), Spd: 45%, def: 35% (+5), res: 35% (-5), lck: 35% (-15%), bld: 5%.

She'll reach 60% strength growths and 55% magic growths, but she's stuck in this class to work. I feel like this solution is so dumb it works. Because it's based on old fire emblem games, without reclassing you could give units high growths in bad classes or bad growths in good classes to balance things, meanwhile Engage took this option. Now you can use Celine with good growths but she's stuck in her exclusive class to work, otherwise... She's basically Jade.

Sciopero? Okay mi adeguo. Ma questo no, e non è la prima volta, che fanno sti giochetti di merda...

Aspetto 40 minuti un treno, dopo un po' mi chiedo "non è che è stata soppressa la corsa?" Il monitor non diceva niente però. Chiedo e i tizi con la divisa ufficiale dicono "vabbè, aspetta" Poi al quarto commento che chiedo gentilmente, ma con voce stizzita, come faccio a tornare a casa, se ne escono con "e ma per lavori alcune corse sono cancellate e c'è il pullman sostitutivo". Ora... Non è la prima volta che accade ciò, per qualche mese per elettrificare la linea su una tratta avevano messo il pullman, ma l'avevano detto sul sito, c'erano i cartelli, le fasce con gli orari aggiornati del pullman (che non coincidevano del tutto con quelli dei treni), invece adesso niente.

Il display non dice una sega, la vocina robotica che annuncia non avverte della presenza di alcun "autobus sostitutivo", gli orari del pullman sono completamente sfasati di un quarto d'ora e devi uscire ed andare alla fermata che è 5 minuti dalla stazione quindi ovviamente quando mi dicono "e ma passa tra due minuti", si cazzo mi teletrasporto o volo lì, cioè io boh.

Tutto il personale di Trenitalia è scortese se non per qualche anima pia. Mi dispiace per il loro lavoro, per i rischi che corrono, non voglio morissero accoltellati come succede, però a certi un bel colpo di dissenteria e diarrea sì.

Una volta a settimana scioperano. I servizi quando ci sono non funzionano. Ritardi, problemi, mancanza di comunicazione, scortesi per chiarimenti, bagni tenuti a merda, ma tasse, biglietti, abbonamenti, con sti soldi che ci fanno? Poi dicono all'estero sono messi peggio, ma oddio, in generale sì (non sempre vero) ma alcuni paesini sperduti di Italia non sono meglio, sono del sud emigrato al centro-nord per università, i mezzi al sud erano meglio cazzo, meglio collegato, se non alla stazione centrale i furti (che poi mai capitato, se siete nabbi col portafoglio in tasca ve lo cercate) ma qui la sera ci so i tossici dipendenti, non sono razzista ma la sera ad aspettare con un uomo nero in divisa da muratore che parla mezza parola in italiano che puzza d'erba e sudore non è molto rassicurante.

L'unica alternativa sono i taxi, secondo me c'è un business dietro, perché se uno è disperato e deve raggiungere aeroporto, ospedale, o andare in città, c'è sempre il tassista che chiede solo contanti perché il POS non funziona guarda caso.

Tutto ciò per dire: se fate i lavori comunicatelo, l'unica cosa un piccolo avviso in fondo al sito con "promemoria, inizieremo i lavori in data", non in prima pagina, non fatto vedere tutti i giorni (tra cui il periodo incluso, no devi andare indietro una settimana prima tra le notifiche), stazione manco quelli si ricordavano, io boh.

I've played sports since I was a kid and now in college I go to the gym a few times a week, so I'm used to see other guys without clothes on. I don't plan​ to stare much, but even when they're shirtless or have t-shirts​ or pants I either see really hairy dudes, smooth ones (either genetics or waxing) or normal amount of body hairs, and I can't help but feel self-conscious.

In ​my family it's like we're pieces of a puzzle, in my case I complete my dad other half. My father has an hairy chest and an hairy back, quite fuzzy, like a bear, ​really good beard genetics (​although of a completely different color, salt and pepper ​black hair and reddish/ginger beard, he also has eyes that are a mix of green and brown so maybe he's part Ed Sheeran.), but his legs are smoother than a baby, like really fine hair, I have seen my sister in the winter before shaving in the shower and she had thicker hairs on her legs than him. He's also naturally big, he has muscles from his physically demanding blue collar job, but his chest is barrel, his shoulders are broad, and he has zero ass, like his legs and torso feel a single piece, no curve on his glutes, completely flat, his legs despite being muscular are also slim (guess he skips leg day).

Then there's me, the opposite of my dad. My face is so androgynous it could pass for a woman, no Adam apple, long lashes to the point girls asked me if I was wearing mascara or eyeliner, not that there's anything wrong with it, but they either think I'm lying or are jealous, in high school I used to have long hair, and was really skinny and short from never leaving the house and playing videogames so that didn't help, now I have short hair, faint abs and a slim lean body from working out, often wear flannel shirts and glasses to class so I look like a lesbian, not my words​, a friend said it to me and it made me laughed I don't know why.

I ​cannot grow a beard for two reasons (hairs grow slowly, I have patches and holes, during COVID-19 I didn't bother shaving with a razor or use clippers to groom it shorter and it had two naked spots so I gave up, either clean baby face that makes people ask me for my ID to buy beer or faint​ stubble). My chest is also really smooth, my back has no trace of hairs, but then...

From the waist down, including legs and butt (which are both big, I have childbearing hips, no belly fat or love handles as you can see my ribs and feel my bones, they're just like that I guess, and I have a round butt but a slim torso which means, despite being shorter that my dad and weighing a lot less than him our pant size are basically the same) my body said "fuck you", I am really hairy I can braid my legs. Both for hygiene and for aesthetic reasons I either get waxed, shave or at least keep them short with a pair of hair clippers, the butt thing is self-explanatory (don't want pieces of toilet paper or worse stuck on my butt, I also have a bidet both at my home and college dorm and I don't enjoy the sensations of hairs around my fingers while I wash myself), for the leg part, in the winter I don't bother, but during summer it's weird to walk around in shorts or swimsuit looking like I'm wearing hairy leggings.

It's just, my upper and lower half don't match, it's weird and I guess it's genetics but it's annoying. And I don't know, I wanted to ask if others are like that, I got used to it, I just have to groom myself more than the average guy as a result to look nice, all of my friends don't have this issue, they're either a bear or a werewolf, a normal amount of hair, or smooth as a baby, not this weird half thing.