#but unfortunately most of them seem to end up dead

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What Truly Matters

Pairing:Minho x female reader

Summary:No matter how bad Minho's jealousy gets, he'll always end up remembering what's actually important.

I get it on a surface level. Y/N helps out with basically every Greenie. Answering questions with a lot of patience, checking in on them, eating dinner with them if they looked lonely. She was just sweet in general.

She’s just been a lot sweeter to this one. Probably because he never stops asking questions. And in typical Y/N fashion she didn't mind telling him.

He’s seen with Chuck a lot and sometimes Newt. Chances are if he wasn't with them though, he’d be with Y/N. It didn't seem to matter that she was a Runner. It didn't matter that despite having the same job our time together was limited. Her attention was his.

Tonight was supposed to be better though. It's Greenie night, and we always spend just a little bit of it together. Just enough to make up for how little we get to see each other. Even though it's not a ton it's enough to keep us stable. I assumed she would care about that. If we can't have a steady relationship why even have one in the first place? It would clearly be better to go our separate ways at that point.

Tonight was supposed to be better.

As I found myself still sitting in the dark by myself, it was obvious it would not be better. It was actually worse now. I didn't know that was possible before this point.

She has stayed with Greenie. She had stayed before the fight, had watched him during it, celebrated when he won and remembered his name, and until basically the end of the night. She had stayed with Greenie.

And in doing so she had completely forgotten about me.

Fine. I know where I stand now, and it certainly isn't with her. If Thomas means more than she can have Thomas.

Standing up, I stormed off to my hammock, my arms crossed over my chest as I glared at absolutely nothing. Even if there was someone to glare at, I wouldn't care. I don't care about anything at this point. She can have her precious Thomas, but I’ll be damned if I fall second to a Greenie.

♡ - - - ♡

I woke up early for one reason and one reason only.

I’m avoiding her. I don't want to see her. I don't want to speak to her. I don't even want to think about her. As far as I’m concerned, she can stay the shuck away from me.

Unfortunately, she had been up early too, trying to make excuses for not spending Greenie night with me. She apologized profusely, swearing it would be better next time.

Yeah right. With the way things have been going, I don't even think there can be a next time, something I was more than willing to let her know before I started my section, not letting her reply. I don't even think she could if she tried as she stared at me with wide eyes, opening and closing her mouth before her lips started to quiver as she realized the gravity of what I was telling her.

I tried to pretend that wasn't haunting the back of my mind. The image of her heartbroken and shocked face wasn't something I wanted to stick with me.

Still, it played over and over in my head, taunting and torturing me. No matter how badly I didn't want to think about what would most likely lead to a breakup, my brain was determined to make me recognize how much it hurt.

I didn't bother with lunch. I won't be able to stomach anything. I just sat on the ground, wishing that things had played out any way but this.

As I was wallowing in pity, I heard faint cries. The hair on the back of my neck stood up as I glanced around, listening in for the direction it was coming from.

Staying dead silent, I stood up, walking as quietly as possible so I could find out where to go and if I should go. Creeping to the end of the Maze, I looked left and right, determining two things as I did.

It was coming from the wall right beside me.

The cries belonged to a girl.

There's only one girl in this place. That's how it’s been for so long, and even if she’s not mine anymore, I could never leave her behind. I could never not follow her to the end of the world, even if I used all my will to resist her pull.

The same pull that led me around a corner and in front of her.

She was sitting on the ground, holding her bloody leg. Her shoulders were shaking as she sobbed, her face stained with tears.

“Y/N,”I breathed out, rushing to her side. She kept her gaze on the ground as choked cries left her. Placing her palm to her eyes, she hid her tears as best as she could.

“We’re going to the Medjacks,”I said,wrapping one arm around her shoulder and the other under her leg. She didn't object as she met my pick her up, grasping my shirt as she sniffled, burying her face in my chest.

“I'm sorry,”She got out, her voice cracking.

“Don't worry about that right now. We just need to get you better,”I said firmly, pulling her closer to me and doing my best to ignore her blood dripping into the stone with small plops, staining the already tense place.

I don't care about her and Thomas. I don't care about the argument. I don't care about what I said. Maybe I will after this is over, but all that matters right now is that she's okay. No matter what happens to us, her waking up tomorrow is the most important thing in the world.

[iturbide]

Since there’s already a working list of terrible fathers in fire emblem, are there any notable good dads that you can think of? I ask because I’ve recently started on three houses, and Jeralt seems like a cool guy. Also, sorry if this is a repeat ask, the submission screen froze, and I wasn’t sure if it went through.

Actually this is the first time the ask came through, so thanks for re-sending!  Tumblr is constantly full of problems, I swear.

But as for good dads, probably the shining example I will always fall back on is Chrom.  He is canonically a loving husband and doting father (Lucina herself talks about it in their supports), and he personally taught her swordplay, something she brings up not just in her supports, but in an in-game cutscene.  Lucina very clearly loves him dearly, and even when he’s at his most unprepared -- confronted by his daughter from a ruined future after she saved him from almost-certain death -- his thoughts are not about trying to understand the situation, but comforting Lucina, apologizing because she “deserved better than one sword and a world of troubles” and holding her when she breaks down.  He’s just a really, really good father.

There’s also Hector and Eliwood from Binding Blade, both of whom really seemed to be caring, loving fathers to their kids.  Hector stated outright that he would protect his daughter Lilina to his own death (which, unfortunately, ends up happening), and despite his failing health Eliwood seemed intent on facing the threat of Bern himself until it became clear that he physically couldn’t, at which point he tasked his son with leadership -- along with professional soldiers and mercenaries who he hoped would ensure Roy’s safety. 

Other examples, though, weirdly include Arvis.  He’s one of those cases where as a person he does some frankly horrific shit in the name of his goals, but as a parent he seems to be quite devoted and loving.  It’s important to remember that he only found out his blood relation to Deirdre after Julius and Julia were born -- but rather than cast them out or harm them, he kept them close, raised them well -- and even when things went so wrong, once Julius was possessed by Loptyr, he tried to find ways to save and support Julia before his death.  A lot can be said about him, but “he was a terrible parent” doesn’t really fit, especially when his dying words are him literally calling out for his wife and daughter.

Also, not gonna lie, Jeralt is a really, really good dad as far as I can see.  Did he make a ton of mistakes?  Oh, heck yes.  Was it malicious?  Of course not.  He very clearly loved his child and did his best in spite of the difficulties and uncertainties.  Byleth was a weird kid, quiet and seemingly emotionless, not to mention the whole missing heartbeat deal, but Jeralt took care of them, raised them, trained them, and tried so hard to shield them from a danger he couldn’t begin to comprehend.  His death hurt a lot, at least for me, because I was really hoping we could have a decent parent actually live through the full course of the story but noooooo they had to take him too just like they do all the good dads.