#in all honesty I have a preference for Marc's dad to be this oc and a half brother to Inigo but that's my own personal shit

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Awakening MU Headcanons

Did someone ask about my headcanons for the Fire Emblem Avatar characters???  No???  Too bad, here they are!  I’ll be talking a bit about the Awakening, Fates, and New Mystery player characters in what will probably be three posts, because this Robin one is getting ridiculously long.  The Kris one might be really short though, because my headcanons for them at this point are pretty underdeveloped....  Eh.

 Honestly, this is just a messy worddump about by AUs, so I’m posting it mostly for my own benefit.  If you do read it, I hope you enjoy it, and I apologize for the atrocious formatting!

So I’m a big fan of my “stuff every installment and supplementary material into one canon” AUs, so I like the “Both MUs Exist” AUs too.  This will also align with my “All Fire Emblem Games in one world and timeline” AU headcanons.  The Robins are descended from Deirdre and Arvis on Validar’s side of them family (I like to say through Julius/Ishtar).  From the Robin’s mother’s side of the family, the Robins are descended from Katarina and Kris.

= ROBIN =

I set MRobin and FRobin as twins.  Validar had been planning from the beginning of his relationship with Robin’s mother to be breeding a vessel for Grima.  I like to think a lot of the Grimleal’s religion is grounded in the remnants of the Lopt Sect, you know???  So Validar’s breeding his perfect little vessel of chaos.  Before the birth they’ve already decided on the name Robin.

But then Validar’s wife has twins.  Validar thinks, well, fuck, whatever, now we have a back up vessel.  No need for new names, it’s just one Robin plus it’s replacement should anything go wrong.  The twins are trained in magic, war history, swordplay, war theory, etc from an incredibly young age to prepare them for their fate as Literally The Vessel of God.  Might as well train both kids, so you don’t have to reteach one if the other dies.

(I don’t know which twin to have born first.  I sort of like having FAvatar born first, then MAvatar.  That would make the more popular FAvatar the older one, and, in some cultures the twin who comes out first is actually considered the younger one while the twin taken out second is though to have allowed the weaker twin to be birthed first, which would reinforce my later plans of MAvatar being his sister’s protector....But...  Hm, I don’t know, I’ll have to think about it all.)

 The Robin’s...Robins’s.... Robins’ mother eventually succumbs to her love of her children and disdain for how they’re being raised as objects.  She flees with the kids, out of Plegia in hopes of finding a home beyond the Grimleal’s reach.  They make their home in the Ylissean countryside.  I’m thinking this is sometime around when the kids are older than four but younger than ten.  Six-ish maybe???

But this good mama ain’t gonna be raising her kids as objects.  They get their own damn names.

FRobin keeps the name Robin.  Her twin brother is renamed Daraen, the name used for the Avatar in the Spanish version of the games.  I considered using the Japanese name Reflet, but I like to use Reflet as either the twin’s surname or possibly the name of their mother.

I like to think that because of Awakening’s timetravel mess, there are alternate timelines where either Robin or Daraen join the Grimleal and become the game’s Grima, with the other remaining Chrom’s adviser.  I use this storyline to replace the “future Robin coming back in time to target present Robin” in my AU.  Instead of the scene where a future version of Robin, now Grima, comes back in time and attempts to merge with the present version, causing the amnesia, I paint it like this;

The Grimleal found Robin, Daraen, and their mother-who-may-be-named-Reflet.  Actually, let’s just go ahead and call the mother Reflet.  Reflet had been chosen as the mother of Grima’s vessel in the first place because of her high ranking in the Grimleal, being their tactician and adviser during the Plegia-Ylisse war Chrom’s father fought , and basically Validar’s second in command.  She was a genius and incredible mage with mastery of all magic, the dark arts above all.  Basically, she sure as all hell wasn’t going to let the Grimleal take her children back without one hell of a fight.

Reflet dies at the hands of the Grimleal that came for Robin and Daraen, but not without taking the assassins down with her.  She uses some sort of spell aimed to rewrite her children’s memories, to remove all they know of the Grimleal and replace it with a happy Ylissean life to make it harder for the Grimleal to find them again- then a warp spell to get them the hell out of wherever the fight took place.  But Reflet is literally dying at this point, the memory spell fucks up and erases EVERYTHING they know of their pasts.  When the twins are found by Chrom, the first name they remember is Robin, although neither twin can figure out which twin the name belongs to.  They later remember the names Daraen and Reflet, with the brother readopting his name Daraen and the twins deciding Reflet must be their family name.

They could still eerily remember Chrom’s name from the time they spent in Ylisse before shit hit the fan, but IDK.  But, hell, I digress.  Point is, in one timeline Robin returns to Plegia and becomes Grima while Daraen stays by Chrom’s side and, if this timeline isn’t the doomed one, helps kill his own sister.  In the other timeline Daraen becomes Grima while Robin stays Ylisse’s tactician and does the parricide if it even happens.

I like the characterization of the M!Avatar, Daraen, being more timid and empathetic then the F!Avatar, Robin.  Right now I’m considering that the Robin-becomes-Grima timeline is the doomed one, because Daraen is unable to bring himself to kill his own sister- He was raised as her replacement and protector, and even if he doesn’t remember that, it’s still deeply rooted in his mind.

In the good timeline, it’s Daraen who becomes Grima’s vessel, and although it sure as hell isn’t easy for her, Robin is able to make the final blow.  I consider her the more pragmatic of the two- the one who would chose the “sacrifice Emmeryn” option during the game where Daraen would chose the “sacrifice the Fire Emblem.”

Unrelated to the worldbuilding stuff, I also want to mention my personal shipping setups and the Morgans.

To differentiate between the Morgans, I’ll be calling FMorgan Morgan and MMorgan Marc, their Japanese name.  For the sake of the actual, finalized AU, they might actually end up with the same name because thus far I’m planning for neither Morgan to be able to come from the same timeline.

The idea is that Morgan (FMorgan) will only be born in a timeline where Daraen becomes Grima, as she is born to be the next vessel.  Marc, then, can only be born in a timeline where Robin becomes Grima.  Due to timetravel shenanigans, however, they CAN and will end up in the same timeline for the final, ‘True’ timeline that Lucina and friends travel to.  So I don’t know about the names, but for now it’ll be Morgan and Marc.

I don’t have a lot of headcanons for Marc’s timeline yet.  I haven’t but much thought into it, except the traits that they’ll share with Morgan, IE they were born to the Grima of their timeline and raised to be the next vessel, constantly desperate for his mother’s love and basking in the rare, short moments when Robin is more, well, Robin than she is Grima and actually shows him some love.  I don’t really have a character from the first Awakening generation that I want to be Marc’s father.  maybe it’s the generic village maiden

For Morgan’s timeline, though, I’ve kind of gone overboard.  Most of these headcanons revolve around Daraen, honestly.  As of right now I’m a supporter of Daraen/Lissa.  The idea is that, in the Robin-is-Grima timelines, Daraen stays with Ylisse, marries Lissa, and has Owain.  In the Daraen-is-Grima timelines, Tharja follows Daraen back to Plegia as a dedicated Grimleal who later becomes his right hand woman and wife.  They begin ‘breeding’ the next Grima vessel.  First born is Noire, who proves to be unfit to become the next vessel, and receives neglect from her father (except for the rare moments when he’s more Daraen than he is Grima, where he tries to advocate for her) and distain from her mother.  Next born is Morgan, who is considered successful.  Tharja stays with Morgan for a while, but from about the same time Morgan starts walking Daraen/Grima kind of pushes Tharja out of her life and keeps the child close to him as an attempt to prevent what happened when his own mother Reflet grew a conscious and ran off with Grima’s Heir.

In this timeline, I MIGHT have Daraen marry Lissa and at least impregnate her with Owain before he runs off to become an evil demon lord, but I don’t think so.  In theory, the Daraen-is-Grima timeline is either one where Owain isn’t born or one where Lissa has a different husband.  I like the narrative of the first option, personally.

This......... got A LOT longer than I planned for it to be.  And, as usual with my notes, got a lot messier than I had planned.  If anyone actually reads all of this, wow, holy shit, thanks dude.  Hope you thought it was neat.  I’ll post the Corrins and Krises later, although neither of them will be nearly as long as this.  I haven’t worked on them very much yet.