Fire Emblem: You Choose the Characters! Chapter 6 recap, Chapter 7: Shades of Evil, Chapter 7 recap, and Chapter 8: Despair and Hope

As expected, chapter 6 was quite simple. I did get some great levels too and a couple good pieces of equipment. More importantly, Boyd got a point of speed and Oscar got better everywhere.

Name	Class	Level	Hp	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Skill(s)
Ike	Ranger	11	26	9	3	8	14	10	10	3
Boyd	Fighter	9	37	12	0	7	7	8	5	0	Tempest
Oscar	Lance Kn	8	29	9	4	8	9	6	10	1
Titania	Paladin	1	33	12	4	13	14	11	11	7	Counter
Rhys	Priest	6	22	0	10	8	7	8	1	15	Serenity
Soren	Mage	5	21	0	9	11	10	6	3	10	Adept

It's a Trap!:

 Description: There are quite a few bad guys on this chapter and there are more reinforcements coming in when I pass a certain point on the map. At that time, Shinon and Gatrie also appear on the middle left part of the map. There are also 3 chest on the map containing a new staff, a new skill, and a new sword. Mia also joins in the fray at the end of turn 1. Talk to her with Ike or let her run up and talk to Ike and she joins the party. This is not too hard. As long as I'm careful, I won't lose anyone.

New Character: Mia, the duel loving swordfighter
Class: Myrmidon (Promotes to Swordmaster)

Mia is a young mercenary that joins up with Ike's group because Ike is awesome. (This really does become her reason for staying.)  She has a happy personality and loves to spar. An excellent swordfighter, she quickly earns her keep in the small group.

Statwise, she is a classic myrmidon. High speed, good skill, strength, and luck. With poor defense and resistance. She relies on her evade to stay alive. That being said, her evade normally gets to be so high she dodges everything with ease. Her battle power is also quite high, making her an excellent choice for most missions.

Base Stats:

Mia

Myrmidon

6

21

7

0

10

13

6

7

2

Vantage

 Vantage is a skill that always lets the wielder strike first in combat.

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That chapter had a couple worries in it, but was altogether fine. Everyone got some levels and things were good. I got a new skill that I will talk about later as you will get to choose who it goes to.
 Then Ike became the new leader of the group because his dad kicked the bucket. This made Shinon and Gatrie leave the group because they are complete jerks. We will get them back, but it will awhile before they can be re-recuited. (13 bloody chapters in Shinon's case and 5 in Gatrie's case).

Name	Class	Level	Hp	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Skill(s)		Total Growth
Ike	Ranger	11	26	9	3	8	14	10	10	3			36
Boyd	Fighter	11	39	13	0	7	8	8	6	0	Tempest		25
Oscar	Lance Kn	10	30	11	4	10	11	6	11	3			27
Titania	Paladin	2	34	12	4	13	15	12	11	7	Counter		3
Rhys	Priest	7	23	0	11	8	7	9	2	16	Serenity		10
Soren	Mage	6	21	0	9	12	11	6	3	10	Adept		18
Mia	Myrmidon	6	22	8	0	10	14	6	7	3	Vantage		4
Gatrie	Knight	14	35	14	1	7	5	5	17	0			12
Shinon	Sniper	2	33	10	6	16	14	10	9	6	Provoke		5

The leaving stats of the jerks are included this time. Total growth is a new stat that brandon added that tracks how many stats each character gained via level up compared to the bases.

The mission I really wish I had Gatrie for:

 
Description: This map has a lot of enemies to start and reinforcements will keep coming every few turns or so. I also need to recruit  Ilyana as well with Ike too. There is a red gem I also want to grab as well in the south. Standard tactics include Titana in the south with poleaxe and Mia murdering all of the mounted units, Oscar and Ike to the west to stop the varied units and to recruit Illyana. I then put Boyd in the east opening to stop the armour units comming from the east. Rhys just heals people, and Soren launches attacks from cover. This is a hard mission for new players and on hard mode this mission is horrendously difficult.

New Character:  Ilyana, the hungry thunder mage
Class: Mage (Lighting type) (promotes to Sage)

  
The second mage you get in this game. She loves food, a lot. This make a lot of her support conversations rather funny as they almost always revolve around eating more food than what is humanly possible.

Game play wise she is powerful, but she suffers from a terrible speed growth. Hence, she does tend to get a lot of RNG abuse to force that stat up. Otherwise she has a somewhat reliable stats all around bar speed. She even has a fairly good strength growth for a mage. Also she has to contend with the fact Soren exists. This can make her look less good if Soren turning out really good as mages can be a little difficult to raise.

Bases:

Illyana

Mage

6

20

1

8

10

9

6

3

10

Shade

Shade is a skill that reduces your likelihood of being targeted by enemy attack. Great for a mage character.

I now need your input! I have gained the "miracle" skill. This skill allows a unit to sometimes survive a lethal hit. It's a good safety skill for units, though it is not super reliable. I also have some stat-up items as well. I am on the fence for allowing you the people control over the stat-up items, but if you want to then tell me in the comments.

To wrap this up this is what I need your decision on. 1. Who gets the miracle skill? 2. Do you want control over the stat-up items? People choices for the miracle skill are everyone bar Shinon and Gatrie. You can also choose to save the skill for later use on a different character. Post away!