Intro time. Please excuse any rambling and run on sentences.
My name is PTSD Espurr (my username on most other websites is emu76767), and my real name is Ryan. I'm from New Jersey. And before you start going on about how, "omg new jersey sucks its all dirty industrial **** and the people are obnoxious," (which is what people who have never been here always say) allow me to educate you: this is simply not true. No one says "joisey," and we don't really use any more profanity than people anywhere else in the country. I happen to live in a rather rural, wealthy area with a lot of farms and stuff like that. I grew up with the gamecube, playing games like wind waker, melee, sonic adventure 2 battle, super mario sunshine, 007 nightfire, etc. My older brother and I played melee all the time, and seeing as I sucked at it as a kid, he always tried to teach me how to play properly. I loved zelda and pokemon especially at the time (and I still do), so I played a lot as link, young link, pikachu, mewtwo, and, believe it or not, pichu. Yes, pichu was in fact one of my favorite characters. I played the smash bros on the n64 a few times at other peoples' houses as link, but I never owned an n64 or the original smash bros. When I was about 11, brawl came out. And, contrary to most of the people on this site, I loved it, and continue to love it. My older brother and I then proceeded to play the **** out of brawl, beating the subspace emissary, completing all the events, unlocking all the characters, etc. I played it with friends too, and my favorite character was toon link, due to my love of wind waker. "But PTSD Espurr, toon link is a dirty, inferior, waste of a slot clone!" NO. He plays completely differently to link. In any case, this is a fire emblem-ish thread, so I guess I'll talk about that. My first exposure to anything fire emblem was playing as marth and roy in melee. When I was a little kid, my sister would refer to Roy as "Ron," as in ron from harry potter, as they had similar names and hair colors. Being the irritable little cretin I was, I would always try to correct her. Ah, but I'm digressing. I'd be surprised if anyone reads this far into this long ass, all over the place, scatterbrained mess. A good chunk of years later, my brother tells me that he's playing a rom of this strategy game called fire emblem. It's the game that marth and roy are from, he tells me. Of course, I disregarded this until eventually FE awakening came out, which is surprising considering I also grew up with FF tactics advance, which gave me a love for strategy games. It was then that I decided to give the franchise a chance. So I pulled out the ol' 3ds xl and tried out the demo. And damn, was I blown away. I bought the game immediately, and played it through at least 2.5 times (still working on my third playthrough). When I found out that Robin was going to be in smash bros 4, my hype train switched from full speed to turbo speed (if that's a thing). I began to scour the interwebs for any morsel of information regarding his/her inclusion. It was this that lead me to this site, and this thread in particular. I'd say that I'm pleased to meet you all, but I have to wait and make sure that you're not all secretly reptilian aliens. So I guess I'll say I look forward to observing the event that transpire within the confines of this thread.
