AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Hallo yay my first post

*throws confetti everywhere*
Also how the heck do I make a signature and change my avatar

Could someone kindly explain this to me a little? Who are the people on the right to him?

Those are the Strategist (Your created character) from FE:Awakening. Heroes Is a gatchapon game where you can collect multiples of presumably unique people. Chrom, the one weighing the options, is the main character from Awakening. And because the post-Awakening games decided the strategy games were dumb and decided to be about shipping...

Wait--Echoes is about shipping?

A quick search says Echoes is a remake, so probably not. I wouldn't know. Maybe? I'm mostly just salty over the fact Birthright/Conquest decided to refine Awakening's shipping system and went a bit too far.

I mean, I've played the game. I think it's safe to say it's not. I was trying to comment on how you said post-Awakening games were about shipping, and technically Echoes is post-Awakening, and your logic is fair seeing how Echoes is a remake of a not-post-Awakening game, and... yeah I'll stop.

Warriors was also pretty explicitly non-shipping, per the developer's (Koei Tecmo, not Nintendo/IS) request.

That said, Fates in general really hamfisted their way through the Support system. The "kids age differently here" mechanic was a total booty-pull (you can only do "kids fight with parents" once, and they'd already done it the right way) and half of the interactions were either asinine or forgettable. Of course, the characters, shipping included, won me over to the series with Awakening - came for the characters, stayed for the mechanics, as it were - so I feel it's an overall good that it was introduced at all.

With Fates messing up in the shipping regards, AND Nintendo's absolutely Horrid translation/localization; I decided to just get Awakening even if it also has a bad translation, though not as nearly as bad as Fates.

Echoes has some new characters, even though the shipping isn't technically in there it kind of is. Like there is a new character made just to be a character with a crush on the main character, Alm. Good thing is that they don't go too far in doing that and from what I've heard most of the characters retain their personalities so that's a plus over Fates as well.

Yeah, Faye right? Speaking of that character, I feel like her one-note personality had a lot of untapped potential as a foil for other characters. While her support with Alm is surprisingly good, her only other one with Silque is throwaway. Just to make things worse that's Silque's ONLY support (lest you count Jesse). Even then her character boils down just to "Mila" almost as much as Faye's does to "Alm".
I feel like both deserved at least one more support, to give us some glimpse of Faye's character beyond "Alm Alm Alm" and to make Silque less, well, boring.