#i feel like a total monster each time I wrote coldly that the future folks's actual parents are dead and that our units are not their actual

[yanderefairyangel]

 Maybe it’s just me but I feel like most of the players never focus on uncanon stuff. 

I am mostly bringing this up because people sometime tries to theorize who are the Awakening’s 2 generation’s canonical father. Unlike in Fates, each children in Awakening has a canonical mother save Lucina and F! Morgan, who are linked to their father. Awakening is hence one of the game where the pairing have very little canonicity with arguable canoncity for Chrom/Sumia though she is most definitely the most favorite candidate for Chrom’s bride. BUT recently enough I’ve seen people speculating that Chrom’s default second kid would be Inigo because, in Heroes, he always wink his right eye which is supposed to have the Exalt brand in it.... Look as much as I love Chrom! Inigo, I think it’s giving Intys a bit too much credit too think they actually care about those little details. In my opinion, the only reason why most of his art have him wink is because it’s his trade mark and that’s it. After all, people were saying the same thing about Henry because of Laslow’s dialogue with Soleil in Fates, others were doing the same thing about Gaius because in Hidden Truth Inigo brings candy with him... and the same thing with Robin because “only Laslow Recognized Amiboo Robin” which is not true as it’s the localization only, in the japanese version Lazwald says that this Robin just look like the one he knew and that’s it.... Asides from the fact that wondering which one is Canon I friendly remind you that game systems can often divorce their plot universe... What do I mean by that ? Well, that we are so bound to the Awakening system only allowing weedings between 2 units that we forgot that the Shepherds girl could have had their kids with literlay any body from a realistic point of view.

Let me explain : do you remember that when Chrom can’t get married to either Sumia, Maribelle, Olivia, F!Robin, Sully, the game systems pairs him up with a random village maiden to be Lucina’s mother ? Well, that’s what I am talking about.

Because of Time travel, normally marrying your units to obtain kids is actually useless. In Fates, it was necessary to marry to have kids because the Fates 2nd generation are the ACTUAL kids of the character. In Awakening however, it is not the case: the future folks are NOT the Shephered’s actual kids, their ACTUAL kids are yet to be born whereas the future folks’s ACTUAL parents were dead. By this logic, normally the future children should be available WITHOUT having to marry their mother to another playable units, a random guy from the army or a random villager could have do as their parents !!! I think the actual reasons why the game decided this system is :

1) To make the system come back as it was, you had to marry 2 of your units since it’s to obtain a powerful units in order to not create an imbalence if you were to lose a unit in Classical mode

2) From a story point of view, this avoid having to explain that the kids can still exist even if their mother marries another man than in their original timeline. But in normal times you would not have need to marry them to unlock the units

Same things for the Future folks : the game system has their love interest be other Time travel folks or MU, but if we put that asides, they could as well end up with any member of the Shepherds, not necessarily one of the playable units, but the other soldiers we never meet, the NPC, the mob, the random characters, literlay anyone from the present timeline other than Robin. 

In short, this means that any of the Shepherds girl could have their kids with a perfect nobody so trying to make canon something that is highly linked to the game system is probably something that won’t happen. And like I said it works only for Awakening since Awakening’s time travel through multitimeline makes it possible to have a situation like marrying Lissa to Lonqu’u when in the original timeline, Owain’s father would be Stahl... it won’t happen in the game, but normally, storywise, this can happen. So actually to unlock the 2nd generation, marrying two units was uncessary, really... even if Owain’s father was Stahl and that you married Lissa to Lonqu’u, Owain won’t dissepear since our timeline Lissa is NOT his actual mother, this one being dead and that Lissa’s ACTUAL son will therefore be able to be born withou erasing Owain’s own existence (kinda ironic as if it was a linear timeline, than Owain’s birth in our timeline should erase Future Owain since he destroyed his own past and that the future version will never become what he became).

As for Fates, when the Time Travel Trio arrived, the purposefully claimmed that their default art hair is actually a dye hair like this they may not destroy any ships, since this make any Awakening or Fates non canon as the Trio is basically a boomerang : if you married them in Fates, means they were single in Awakening and if in Awakening they are married, but not in Fates than they can return to their spouses...and then you have the DLC creating a new timeline, with new version of themseleves... but this works as well as for the Shepherds as their father as if it was a random dude. 

In short, because the marriage possiblity in Awakening is actually wider, the future folks’s possible father’s are not restricted to the Shepherds, but is actually wider... which means that we might never have a CANON Awakening pairing.

That’s why, I think that when they are in Heroes, the Future Folks parents are most likely a random character, a NPC, someone that doesn’t exist in Canon but is supposed to exist in the lore....