[@Nightmare Bunny]
Hm? What do you mean, Lord character has to do it? ... Oh, is that the case throughout Awakening? No, most certainly not. There will be circumstances where it will be more obvious who is to be recruited by whom. For example, if there is a particular girl that is looking for her brother and suddenly her brother shows up in the battlefield it is a pretty safe bet that you are to talk to him with his sister. And in other cases it is a little bit more obscure what you have to do, like in that one case where what you were supposed to do was first talk to a character with his student (that you didn't even know was his student) and THEN need to defeat him WITH YOUR LORD, an act that would kill any other character, and he won't join if you talk to him with anyone else and there is nothing hinting that defeating him with the right character is the way to recruit him... I still curse over that particular thing! It took until the sequel until I learned one could, in fact, recruit him and didn't have to kill him...!

In any case. You can talk to a person with anyone and you might possibly get the character depending on the words chosen. Might even talk with the right character using the wrong words, and it may fail anyway, assuming it is a player character (NPCs will naturally be led to succeed should they be the ones I intended to recruit a person with, *snicker*). But yeah, those restrictions don't exist. Haha. ... One usually uses one's lord to talk to characters that one did not get any clue on how to recruit. Unless you're playing the first Fire Emblem / Shadow Dragon. Then you're using the Pegasus girl instead. ... Haha.

[@Apollosarcher]Got it~ Take the time you need~