Ben Veress is a Contributing Features Writer at DualShockers based in Melbourne, Australia. He has been covering games professionally since 2021, with experience writing features, lists, reviews, and news across gaming, tech, culture, and entertainment.
Before joining DualShockers, Ben wrote for Kotaku AU, Gizmodo AU, Vice AU, Pedestrian.TV, Quest Daily, Blunt Magazine, Impulse Gamer, and Inkl. At Pedestrian.TV, he served as the publication’s sole tech and gaming writer, leading coverage of major gaming releases and events for one of Australia’s major youth publications. He holds a Bachelor of Communications in Media from RMIT University and was nominated for Best Branded Content Journalist at the Australian Samsung IT Awards in 2025.
The Fire Emblem series is known for having a wide variety of loveable characters all with deep ties to worldbuilding and their conflicting loyalties. Which makes sense, given that Fire Emblem is known for letting its characters die in random encounters, losing them for the rest of the playthrough.
That said, not all characters are created equal, and sometimes feel underdeveloped next to other characters. What hurts even more is if a character shows immense promise, yet their potential or even the most important actions are done off-screen, rarely letting you see what makes them unique in person.
That's why, for today, we'll be looking at 10 characters from the Fire Emblem franchise who honestly deserved more input on the story than what their games gave them.
Jill is a pretty interesting character, given that she starts out as an antagonist at the beginning of your playthrough. As a Daien wyvern rider, we naturally butt heads with her early on in the game, although we eventually get to recruit her. Through her character, we learn more about Daien's propaganda and her tense allegiance to her father.
Unfortunately, a lot of Jill's character arc is sped through, and we don't get the opportunity to see how her perspectives have changed and how she struggles with deprogramming from what she was brought up to believe. There is a small payoff where, if you don't get her to as a Support, when you have her engage her own father in combat later on, it's possible for her to be swayed back to his side. Which is pretty tragic, as it means you'll have to cut her down for good in battle.
Jill is a great character, but I yearn for a story where we get to follow her journey in growing out of the role her dad gave her.
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