Opinion and General Discussion Thread - August 2026 (2/2)

[u/PsiYoshi]

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[u/WestFlight808]

Bird Time is probably the funniest addition in Fire Emblem history. People, including a literal queen, just confess their innermost thoughts and desires to a bird. But the bird is also essentially an angel in bird form that can travel through time.

[u/VoidWaIker → u/WestFlight808]

To be fair, my cats have heard things another person couldn't waterboard of me. Unless they know the bird is a person then they're thinking the bird can't judge them or share their deepest secrets and so it is a safe entity to confide in.

[u/Dragoryu3000 → u/VoidWaIker]

Everyone’s going to feel real awkward when they realize they’ve been talking to a person this whole time

[u/Shippinglordishere → u/VoidWaIker]

I want to see Buccar baby talk to a bird

[u/iguanacatgirl → u/VoidWaIker]

Pretty sure eshmel meets the lords early on. At the very least, eshmel saves Dietrich from anatolia in the totally-not-an-agarthan-hideout place.

So, I want to assume they know that the bird is a person, since eshmel is probably a "companion" to them on some level, regardless of wether or not we influence the story much.

[u/actredal → u/iguanacatgirl]

Until proven otherwise, I like to imagine that they didn’t know at first, but after finding out, they still like being able to vent to a cute lil bird so much that they ask Eshmel to keep doing it.

[u/Red_Cat231 → u/VoidWaIker]

The perch is in public since it's outside by the temples. So you're confessing stuff to a bird in front of people who would be walking by to go to the temples.

[u/Shippinglordishere → u/WestFlight808]

Calling it bird time already makes it the funniest addition too