Why do people like Lucina so much? She was boring in Awakening and isn't even a good waifu. At least characters like Tharja and Camilla are pretty obvious as to why they're so popular, but Lucina is just lame
1) She's cool looking, and has Laura Bailey as her VA.
2) She's a strong, serious determinator, like if Sarah Conner went back in time to kick ass and take names instead of the Terminator.
3) Her backstory makes her a woobie on top of it, and those two attributes combined is almost always a recipe for success
4) Her support conversations reveal that outside of combat she's actually a precious cinnamon roll too good for this world with the fashion sense of a five year old.
5) She has the fashion sense of a five year old and seems so earnestly excited to be able to spend time with her mother and Chrom because her actual parents are dead and she never got to have a childhood. All she's ever wanted was her family, and (for example) those ideas she has with her mother are ones she must have been fantasying about nearly all her life.
6) She leaves at the end. All she ever wanted was to spend more time with the people she loves, but she leaves once the battle is done, the future changed, and her parents alive and happy. She took solace that due to her actions, there existed somewhere a Lucina who would grow up with the life she always dreamed of having and left for the Outrealms. She wouldn't lay down her sword in paradise when she had the power and skill to help others.
TL;DR : She's batman.
A dancer with unrestricted movement sounds scary,
*Looks at Wings of Mercy Olivia*
Uhh...
horrible. i've got nothing to do every monday (sunday for other countries) now that i have to wait for 2 years (more or less) for the next season of GoT
Well, you could always read the book instea-oh wait.
2) Not a T
tty Monster for cheap popularity boosting.
Well, there are reasons to like Tharja and Camilla besides their looks. Tharja has a lot of good points and the insistence of T
tty Monster status is honestly a more recent thing. It's not really something that's noticeable ingame, beyond how all Dark Mages in Awakening and Fates wear high class ancient Egyptian (and therefore somewhat transparent) garb.
Camilla is actually pretty well-developed compared to a lot of the other Fates characters it's just, well, they don't really paint her necessarily as a good person. She was a broken, messed up child largely due to her mother (seriously, her backstory is like something out of Game of Thrones), and as such grew up into a broken, messed up adult. Fates doesn't really hide that ever.