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[felikatze]

Why does Grima have two bodies?

okay @ro-botany brought up the question and i think i have an answer.

The hand-wavey explanation is obviously "reincarnation bullshit" but we can get more precise than that. You're gonna have to suppose reincarnation theory with me cuz this doesn't work for possession theory i think but if you know me that's a given anyway.

Regardless. Part of dawn's spectacular reincarnation theory argument is a noted oddity in how future Robin was able to claim the Dragon's Table. bcuz, didn't they already do that in their own timeline? If the table contains Grima's soul, this Robin already has it. If they take what's sealed in the table now, they'd have two of those!

Unless, of course, everything inside the table isn't alive. Then they could claim it as often as they please! So what's in there? Grima's power?

Well, I say, Grima's corpse.

After all, we have precedent for dragons' bodies being sealed inside there, alive or not.

And, the future Robin has a demonstrated proficiency in controlling dead bodies.

If we suppose that the Grima in the table is dead, their soul went on to be reborn as Robin, we run into another fact. Robin isn't a manakete.

No matter if they have a dragon's soul or not, they are physically incapable of transforming. They are human, through and through. Yes, they have "Grima's blood" - in the exact same way Chrom has Naga's. It's likely a blood pact made with some human allied with Grima back during the Schism, same as any other draconic blood pacts throughout the series.

And, listen, Rogrima is such an overdramatic bastard, are they really gonna settle for bringing ruin to the world with a goddamn tome? No.

Yeah it's all assumptions, but it's not contradicting anything per canon, right, and how else do we have fun.

So, combining what I've laid out - everything sealed in the Dragon's Table is likely dead. Future Robin can take control of dead bodies.

Ergo, future Robin took control of their own past dead body, hence two of them.

TLDR: It's just one fuck-off huge Risen made of their own corpse that they now control like an additional limb.

Which would also explain why Chrom & co. only have to take out future Robin's human form. That's where the actual heart is, and without them, the dragon will just be a regular gigantic corpse again. Or even just crumble to dust (which is why we probably don't have one giant clean up action... thank goodness Grima was courteous enough to hold the final battle over the ocean.)