Love

Template:Spoiler The Love system is a game mechanic that appeared in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. It is similar to the Support system featured in later games. Several elements of the love system were merged into the support system in Fire Emblem Awakening.

Genealogy of the Holy War

In both generations of Genealogy of the Holy War, most playable characters can fall in love with another character of the opposite gender. There are certain exceptions:

• Sigurd and Deirdre will automatically fall for each other upon Deirdre's recruitment, and thus have no love growths with any other characters.
• Quan and Ethlyn are bound to each other prior to the game's events.
• Finn, Hannibal, and Altena cannot fall in love during the second generation.

Characters will fall in love when they accumulate a total of 500 love points with each other. Certain pairs have a base number of love points. Love points can be earned by the following methods:

• Most characters will gain a certain amount of love points with each other simply by having both end their turns outside the base castle. This ends after the fiftieth turn of each chapter.
• Love points will accumulate faster if the characters end their turns adjacent to each other. The Jealousy system also affects this type of love growth. This ends after the fiftieth turn of each chapter.
• Certain pairs have conversations that may boost their love points by a large amount, e.g. Lewyn and Ferry in Chapter 4.

A character can visit any allied castle and speak to the fortune teller there, who will judge the character's feelings for another character. His message will change depending on how many love points that character has accumulated with another character (<character> will refer to whoever that character has the most love points with):

• 0-199: "You don't have feelings for anybody."
• 200-299: "<character> is on your mind."
• 300-399: "You're fond of <character>."
• 400-499: "You're in love with <character>."
• 500: "You and <character> are bound to each other."

Once a couple reaches 500 love points, they receive the ability to give all of their gold to their lover, and also receive a combination bonus if they enter battle while standing next to each other. Couples in the first generation who fall in love will have two children, who will become playable in the second generation, inheriting certain attributes from their parents. If the female characters (other than Deirdre and Ethlyn) do not fall in love before the end of Chapter 5, or are killed, their children will be replaced by substitute characters.

Awakening

Awakening primarily features the more complex Support system, though it also borrows heavily from Genealogy of the Holy War's love system. Like Genealogy of the Holy War, Awakening features two generations of playable characters, several of whom can fall in love with each other. Only opposite-gendered characters from the same generation can fall in love with each other, except the Avatar, who can support and fall in love with any opposite-gendered character. Every possible pairing from the first generation will produce a child character, who can be recruited at any time after Chapter 13. Unlike Genealogy of the Holy War, there is no time limit before which first-generation characters must be paired up, except Chrom, who will automatically be married to whoever he has the highest support with at the end of Chapter 11. Lovers do not receive combination bonuses, as these have essentially been merged into the support system, though the fact that lovers have an S-rank support with each other will grant them higher stat boosts than they would receive from any other unit.