#it’s right up there with chrobin for me

[cenpede]

The couple at the dance that doesn’t switch partners and their gestures are so sickeningly sappy that you have to look away

[sieglinde-freud]

if awakening ever gets a remake in the next twenty years or so my number one want is same sex marriage + still having kids but my number TWO want is a scene after lucina’s judgement where whoever is robin’s kid confronts lucina. bc like from a player’s stand point, or really even just from robin as a character, its really easy to understand lucina’s thought process, sympathize with her, and forgive her. but if you’re one of the future kids, you came back in time to save your parents (and the world i GUESS), and your friend decides that your parent, yours specifically, is expendable, thats kinda fucked up!! her thinking is valid and potentially correct from a logical standpoint, but looking at it from like morgan’s perspective, it might feel selfish or unwarranted.

but my other thing is, unless robin’s second kid is lucina (or they dont have one), i think using their other kid over morgan would be more impactful if only because morgan lost their memories of the past and doesnt have as strong of a connection with lucina as say, someone like gerome or cynthia does. if its chrom!morgan then yeah, theres the connection, but otherwise wouldnt it be fucking wild to see the perspective of someone who went back in time with their friend who promised to go back and save the world, only to find them pointing a sword at your fucking dad? literally insane where is this confrontation. number three want is fix chapter two’s map design

[jorvach]

One Last Embrace

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64808266

Summary:

In a broken world, Lucina confronts her sworn enemy at the summit of a mountain.

Notes:

My first Fire Emblem Awakening fic. I dedicate it to @coralhoneyrose, who's Chrobin fics are freaking amazing and who is fantastic at author-reader interaction.

One Last Embrace _________________ Lucina pants in exhaustion. Her friends, the comrades in arms who’s strength brought her to the summit are far below her now, still fighting unending numbers of Risen. She plants Falchion into the ground, uses it to push herself up on her feet.

She glares straight ahead. Her mother - or rather, Grima wearing her mother’s corpse, stands before her, a cruel, mocking smirk on her face. It doesn’t belong there. Her mother’s smile was encouraging, kind and gentle.

“You made it all the way here, Lucina. Impressive, for a worthless little gnat.” The Fell Dragon sneers in a twisted mixture of her mother’s voice and his own dark, distorted tone. “Your brother is not here? A shame, I should have liked to make you watch each other die.”

“SILENCE!” Lucina shouts. “Do not speak another word! I’ve not come here to talk, only to destroy you! You will pay for what you’ve done! For my father, my mother, my family and all the world, I will strike you down!” She declares, voice steady and determined, far more confident than she feels.

Grima only laughs, a horrific noise that echoes in Lucina’s head. “Come then. Show me your resolve, tiny one.”

Lucina charges ahead, a furious battle cry on her lips as she dodges Grima’s bolts of dark magic. She’s getting closer, leaps high and Falchion cleaves right through a bolt of black lightning. She’s so close, thrusts the sacred sword forth, only milliseconds until she pierces Grima’s black heart. And then she’s thrown back, sliding across the ground away from her enemy. Her head is spinning and she cannot stand.

The Fell Dragon’s puppet strolls up to her leisurely. Sickening fell magic swirls in her hand. She casually flicks that hand towards Lucina, surely releasing the spell that will end her life. Lucina closes her eyes, mentally apologizing to everyone and everything she has ever known. She has failed.

Except death does not come. Instead, she hears a voice she has not heard in years. “Lucina.” Her mother’s voice, gentle and warm and not distorted by Grima. “Darling, you must stand up.”

Lucina opens her eyes to see her mother’s brown eyes, with no baleful red light. Tears overflow from them and down her face. “It can’t be… this is a trick.”

“Listen to me.” Robin’s voice and face strains. “I can’t hold him for long. Take up your sword, Lucina. I will not-” Her voice suddenly changes, once more Grima’s “-FORGIVE THIS! WHY DO YOU RESIST!-” then it’s her mother again. “I won’t let you hurt anyone anymore! Least of all my daughter!”

“Mother? Is it truly you?” she grasps Falchion’s hilt again, struggling to her feet. Robin nods. “It’s me. Listen to me, you have to finish this. Pierce my heart with Falchion and seal him away before it’s too late!” With difficulty she limps closer to the tip of Falchion’s blade.

Lucina is stunned, can barely breathe. She barely holds Falchion up, hands shaking violently.

Robin steps closer, grasps Falchion’s blade hard and steadies it, even as her hands begin to bleed. “I’m sorry, I let this happen. I couldn’t protect you, your brother, or your father. I failed you.”

“No!” Lucina protests. “I can see you’re as much a victim of this as anyone else!” Robin gives her a bittersweet smile. “Your mother-” and then Grima roars again. “-WILL TEAR YOU APART, WRETCH-” Robin pushes him down once more. “-mother loves you. I love you so much!”

Lucina sobs. “I love you too, mother!” And then she thrusts Falchion straight through her mother’s chest. “I’m sorry…”

Robin slumps forward, resting her head on her daughter’s shoulder. “I couldn’t save you.” Lucina laments.”

Shakily, Robin brings her arms around her, embracing her one last time. “You did save me… I’m so proud of you. I love you…” As Lucina sobs brokenly, her mother takes her last breath, dying not as the Fell Dragon Grima, but as Robin of Ylisse, mother of Lucina and Morgan, wife of Chrom.

Lucina cries in horror, in sorrow, in exhaustion, and ultimately, in relief.

It is over

Notes:

I guess you could say this is an alternate version of Future Past, where Lucina and co manage to reach Grima without the "Main Timeline" Shepherds. Hope you enjoyed it <3 I'm pretty proud of it.

[coralhoneyrose]

Oooh I am so glad you let me know that I missed the last chapter of Half Orange! This one was so good! You covered a lot of ground and a lot of tonal shifts, but it all flowed really well. And I think ending where you did, with Emm's death, was perfect--I've been DREADING it for ages but this felt like both ripping the bandaid off and setting things up really well for the fallout. UGH and of course Chrom now being the heir will only make Robin more convinced that they cam never be together. Grrr badly-timed sleepiness!

There were also a ton of really funny parts in this one! I actually cackled out loud at the "hair" bit. Good for you Chrom you discover those kinks <3 Also Chrom being a too-obedient prisoner, only to start wiggling when reminded--hilarious. And his first impulse, when the fighting started, was to head-butt a grimleal? Perfect, 100% in-character that's our boy lol

Also "she is shipwrecked looking into his eyes" is gorgeous aahh

Anyway loved this but am already wincing at how painful the next one is going to (probably) be. It hurts so good! 💔

Oh yay!! I’m so happy you had a chance to read and that you enjoyed the chapter! Or, well—maybe enjoyed isn’t exactly the right word, but you know what I mean LOL. Emmeryn’s death is SO pivotal in awakening, so the fact you felt the chapter navigated the emotional shifts well and that the ending worked is really reassuring—thank you so much for saying that <3

Glad to hear you got a kick out of those parts :D I do love the idea of Chrom, in the middle of this very tense life threatening situation, finding himself vaguely turned on by Robin getting a little rough with him and just sort of having to go “that’s something to unpack later” agshfk. As for the head-butt—I watched Ever After with a friend shortly after getting into Chrobin and there’s this scene where the prince gets disarmed and adapts by just like punching / tackling the guy he’s fighting. My friend called it Chrom-core and I’m pretty sure I’ve wanted to work in a scene like that ever since haha

Oooh I’m so pleased you liked that line, thank you!! 🥰 Honestly even more honored now that I started your fic and have seen just how lovely *your* prose is :D (more extensive praise forthcoming once I’ve had a chance to read chapter two and sit down with my laptop <3)

As for the next one…not sure if it’s reassuring or not to hear I am also wincing right along with you at the prospect of all the pain to come :’) we’ll get to a happy ending eventually though! Thank you for reading and for all the kind words 💕Very much love hearing your thoughts on the story and am sincerely grateful to you for sharing them ^-^

[isthei]

hi, i’m roo! i write and draw (mostly fanfic/fanart since they’re such potent stress relievers).

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dinluke

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

sometimes I wonder what my life could've been if I hadn't been subjected to chrobin.

my life is falling apart. things with my husband aren't the same, I can't even look him in the eye anymore. I think the final straw was when I asked him to recreate the chrobin thoron stab with me. or maybe it was when I got drunk and let it slip that the only reason I wanted to marry him is because he looked like Chrom. I wanted so badly for him to be the chrom to my robin, maybe that's where I messed up. either way, I think it's over for us. He comes home later every night, he's been hanging out with his friend more often. his friend always reminded me of olivia....

either way, I think he's going to divorce me soon. it's all chrobin's fault. if chrobin didn't exist, maybe I could've married someone for the right reasons. maybe I could've been happy.

-🍮

what

[lemon-grey]

I really really REALLY want everyone to see my vision for shipping Lucina and Flayn. Please understand how chaotic and fun this could be and please accept this short little fic:

“Forbidden Love”

word count: 1160 | rating: E

tags: fluff, silliness, crossover ship

Flayn and Lucina have been dating for a few weeks and have finally decided to meet each other’s parents. Things get complicated.

[robin!Lucina x Flayn; m!chrobin established; Robin and Grima share a body; takes place in Askr]

.

.

“Dad! Father! I want you to meet someone.”

Lucina stood, head held high, and waited for her parents to turn their attention to her. Behind her, Flayn shuffled from one foot to the other, fidgeting with the lace of her dress bodice. The two young women had spontaneously decided today was the day to introduce each other to their families, and for Lucina’s part, she was sure everything would go perfectly.

Chrom and Robin both turned to her. Before either could say a word, she gestured toward Flayn and blurted, “This is Flayn and she’s my girlfriend!”

Chrom blinked rapidly. “Your…. what now?”

“What! Lucina!” said Robin, eyes flying wide. “How long have you been dating someone?”

“About a month,” said Lucina with a shrug.

“Hello,” said Flayn, her voice softer than the other three as she gave a little wave. “It’s lovely to meet you both.”

“Oh my god?” said Chrom, giving a little laugh as he strode over toward Flayn with a hand outstretched. “Oh my god, you’re so polite! It’s nice to meet you too—Flayn, was it?”

Flayn nodded and shook his hand as Lucina beamed at them both. A moment later, Robin finished processing this unexpected new information and rushed over to clap a hand on Flayn’s shoulder and offer a handshake as well.

Just as she had with Chrom, Flayn politely returned Robin’s handshake.

And then they both froze.

Hands still locked firmly together, eyes wide and staring, they both fell into silence. Flayn drew herself up into her full height in an uncharacteristic show of—what? Boldness? Strength? Intimidation? Whatever it was, Lucina had never seen it in her girlfriend before, and it was peculiar to say the least.

At the same time, Robin’s shoulders trembled almost imperceptibly and his nostrils flared. Lucina would never have noticed if she hadn’t been so attuned to both of her fathers’ subtle tells, but this was one she knew too well.

“Dad,” she said.

A moment later, Chrom’s voice, now stern: “Robin. Focus.”

At that, Robin dropped Flayn’s hand, shook his head roughly and said, “Hm!”

“Luci, you didn’t tell me your father is a dragon,” said Flayn. “And quite a powerful one, I think!” Her tone was one of awe, even if the tension in her posture still lingered.

“What—you can tell?” said Lucina.

“Of course I can.” Flayn turned toward her, throwing on a pouty little frown. “I told you about being a dragon first thing. Why didn’t you tell me you also have dragon blood?”

“It’s… so complicated,” said Lucina. “Incredibly complicated.”

“There isn’t anything that complicated about being a dragon,” said Flayn. “We’re just what we are.”

“I’m not sure I agree with that,” said Robin, “but in any case, it’s good to know this about you too, Flayn.” A pause; then: “Er…you’re a light dragon, aren’t you?”

“Yes!” Flayn clapped her hands together once with a smile. “I’m not experienced enough to be able to recognize specifics like that. What type of dragon are you?”

Robin stared at her with a smile and said, “No.” Beside him, Chrom opened his mouth and then closed it again.

“I’m sure we’ll have plenty of time to discuss family later,” said Lucina, louder than she had meant to. “You’ve still got to introduce me to your dad!”

“Oh, right!” Flayn said, and the other three breathed a collective sigh of relief as she immediately dropped the subject. “Let’s go, I’m sure we can find him around here somewhere!”

Lucina allowed Flayn to lead her away, looking back over her shoulder at her parents with an apologetic grin as she went.

After she had gone, Chrom cleared his throat and said, “This is going to make holiday dinners…fun?”

Robin sighed. “I’ll remind Grima he isn’t invited,” he said.

—

A short time later, Lucina and Flayn located Seteth, who was reading quietly in a small corner of a grassy courtyard. When he noticed them approaching, he set his book aside and stood up with a small smile.

“Hello Father!” said Flayn, hurrying the last few paces toward him. “I’ve been looking for you!”

“Flayn,” said Seteth. “Who is your friend?”

This time, it was Lucina’s turn to fidget. Flayn had told her very little about her father other than that he was “churchy” and “stern but kind.” Now that it was time to actually meet him, she hoped the kindness would win out.

Flayn took her father’s hand and then Lucina’s, standing between them and smiling softly. “This is my girlfriend, Lucina,” she said, with a nervous little waver that didn’t stop her eyes from sparkling. “Lucina, this is my father.”

“Hello…sir,” said Lucina, suddenly keenly aware of how big and imposing Seteth seemed. “Good to meet you.”

Seteth sized her up, taking his time to pick her apart with his eyes before he finally spoke again. “You know how I feel about you dating,” he said, speaking to Flayn as if Lucina wasn’t there.

“I do know,” said Flayn. “She’s my girlfriend anyway.”

“Hm,” Seteth said, frowning even as he let go of Flayn’s hand in favor of offering a stiff handshake to Lucina. “Well, it’s nice to meet you. You do seem to be a regal young lady.”

“You could say that,” said Lucina. “One of my dads is a king.” And she shook Seteth’s hand.

The moment they touched, he withdraw his hand with a sharp little hiss and said, “Are you a dragon?”

“Shit,” said Lucina under her breath, ignoring the frown her cursing earned from Flayn. To Seteth, she said, “I guess you’re… also a dragon like Flayn, then?”

“Father is a very powerful dragon!” said Lucina, merrily, as if she were divulging some long kept secret to her girlfriend—and Lucina wondered if perhaps she was. “He’s much more powerful than I am.”

“I see—” Lucina began, but she was interrupted by Seteth.

“I’ve gotten used to being less endangered than we were back in our world,” he said, “and I can even get used to the idea of my daughter dating, in time. But honestly, Flayn… a Fell dragon? Really?”

“You’re a what?” said Flayn.

“I’m not!” said Lucina. “I just—I come from a line of descendants with Fell dragon blood—but I’m not a dragon! I can’t transform or magically recognize other dragons or any of the stuff you guys can do. And my dad doesn’t transform or anything either, now, so…give me a chance, okay?”

Seteth crossed his arms over his chest. “I’ll leave this up to my daughter. She’s capable of making her own decisions,” he said, in a tone that indicated he fully believed she would side with him.

Flayn, however, gazed at Lucina as if she was the most beautiful person on the planet and said, “Forbidden love is so romantic!”

And so Lucina and Flayn cemented their blossoming relationship by vaguely horrifying their parents and complicating their family dynamics in the name of young love.

-end-

(At the next holiday meal, Chrom tried to talk to the girls about safe sex while Grima waited all of 20 seconds to force his way past Robin so he could have a loud argument with Seteth about divinity. Morgan made loud kissy noises about Lucina dating someone. Tiki probably showed up.)

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

Head empty, only chrobin roleswap. please help?

I don't know what kind of roleswap you're thinking about, but I ended up thinking about my old roleswap (Robin, Heirophant of the Grimleal and Gangrel's tactician, picks up an amnesiac swordsman and brings him home with her), which then got me to thinking about a scene set in Ch 5 that I never shared the concept for. And then I wrote half of this scene as a summary and the rest as a fic, because I only wanted to actually write the back half of it, so that's all I wrote:

Gangrel sends brigands to attack a border town and takes Maribelle hostage when she intervenes. Emmeryn goes to negotiate with him and Lissa, Frederick, and the Shepherds insist on coming with her. Gangrel and Aversa, meanwhile, dragged Robin along with them. (All three of them fucking hate each other. By the way.)

Emmeryn attempts to get the story of what happened. Gangrel tells her one story and Maribelle tells her another. The negotiation goes south, fast, and even faster once Lissa accuses the Plegians of having captured or killed her brother. Robin, who had not heard that the Ylissean prince has gone missing, attempts to intervene in the conversation then and get some more information about this. She and Emmeryn manage to exchange a few civil words, Robin telling her that Plegia has had nothing to do with the prince's disappearance, before Lissa accuses Robin of lying and generally just starts screaming at her, and Gangrel says that well, such a weighty accusation certainly sounds like a declaration of war to his ears.

(If I recall correctly how this conversation is set up in-game, and what the battle map is like, Gangrel, Aversa, and Robin would be up on a cliff and then Emmeryn and the Shepherds are down below. Chrom is just kind of lurking in the back behind Robin, wearing some hooded cloak because that's how he and Robin both dress all the time. So he's not really part of the conversation, which is how none of the Ylisseans see "hey, that's our prince right there!")

So Gangrel sets the Plegian forces on the Ylisseans, tells Robin that they're under her command, and to make sure that none of the Ylisseans get away alive, before he and Aversa immediately dip. The brigands that Gangrel brought along do not take well to Robin's attempt to give orders, while the Ylisseans are pissed off by everything that's just happened, so Robin finds that, despite having every tactical advantage on paper or a game board, she's losing ground, fast. She attempts to call a retreat and gets called a coward and a traitor by her own soldiers, and with no other choice, Chrom just tries to drag Robin off the battlefield to escape before the Ylisseans can kill them, too.

Emmeryn, meanwhile, was told to stay back, but she's interested in this other Plegian commander, who seemed more willing to parley than either Gangrel or Aversa, and makes the choice to, in the midst of the chaos of the fighting, try to catch up to her.

-

“I did not catch milady’s name,” the Exalt says. She stands alone at the base of the cliff, about fifteen feet below Robin and Chrom. 

“I am Robin,” she replies. “Heirophant of the Grimleal. For what reason do you risk your life to chase after me?”

“You seemed, perhaps, more willing to parley than King Gangrel,” the Exalt says. “I would apologize for my sister’s accusations, as well; fear for her brother has led her emotions to get the better of her. I must ask you again: my brother has gone missing. Have your people anything to do with it?”

“As I said,” Robin says tersely, “Plegia knows nothing of your missing prince. If he were captured, Gangrel would have offered him to trade, rather than grab the first noblelady to pass by the border. And were he dead, he would not have been able to resist gloating.”

A Plegian wyvern wheels about in the sky, tilting to one side as it attempts to fly with an arrow in one wing. “Robin,” Chrom says. “We need to go.”

Were Gangrel here, he would kill the Exalt himself. But Robin is not Gangrel, and Chrom is just here to do what Robin asks of him. If Robin is willing to let the Exalt leave, Chrom won’t stop her. He casts a glance down at her, surprised to find that she is staring directly back at him now. Her eyes are wide. Perhaps she is afraid that this mysterious swordsman will strike at her, if Robin hasn’t yet?

“Wait,” the Exalt calls. “You do not wish for war, either. The way you spoke with your king tells me that much. If you hold such a position of honor amongst the Grimleal, then–”

“You are bold to petition me, standing on your father’s foundation of my people’s bones,” Robin snaps back. “No, I do not wish for a war that will once again send my people to their unnecessary deaths. But the way I spoke with my king may also tell you he does not hold my opinion in any regard. I cannot broker peace for you, Naga’s-blood.”

Arrows fly through the air; a wyvern falls, and then another. “Robin,” Chrom says, grabbing her arm and trying to pull her away from the cliff’s edge and the conversation with the Exalt. “I don’t think the rest of her entourage is going to be so friendly if they catch us.”

Robin relents, stepping away, but once again the Exalt’s eyes are on Chrom. She follows along the ground below, scrambling up onto the rocky base of the cliff like she’ll be able to reach them. “Swordsman,” the Exalt calls. “May I see your face?”

“What?” Chrom asks, and without any clue what she means he looks to Robin - but Robin is watching the Exalt intently now, also trying to figure out what this means. Maybe she’ll explain if he indulges her; Chrom lowers his hood. At this distance, he can make out the Exalt’s face more clearly: the shock frozen upon it, and the faint marking on her forehead. 

She says nothing, and after another moment Chrom turns away. That look on her face disturbs him, but he was the one telling Robin they needed to go; he can’t dally now. Not even if–

If–

Hours later, back firmly in Plegian lands, Chrom stands to the side and grits his teeth as Gangrel berates Robin for “her” loss against the Ylissean forces, as though it wasn’t Gangrel who set them up to fail. Robin simply takes it, as she always does; it’s impossible to tell if she’s really even listening. Aversa delivers a few snide jabs before she leaves, following the king, and then it’s just the two of them. But anyone could still be nearby to listen, and hard as it is to bite his tongue, Chrom waits until they’ve found a more secure position to pull Robin aside.

“You really don’t know anything about this missing Ylissean prince?” he asks.

She shakes her head. “What I said to the Exalt is true,” she says. “I don’t know anything, and Gangrel would let everyone know if he knew something.”

He’s known Robin a few months now. She has always been honest with him, even when she isn’t honest with Gangrel or Aversa. Chrom knows everything that she keeps from them. He’d like to think that he’s pretty good at getting an accurate measure of a person, having only known them a short time, and he’d like to think that he’s got Robin figured out. She doesn’t court war, nor did she strike down the Exalt of Ylisse when she had the opportunity. She would rather have peace and show mercy. She’s generally honest, generally not underhanded, and she doesn’t like to torment her opponents, nor does she relish in their misery.

The person he thinks he knows her to be wouldn’t curse an enemy prince with amnesia and then take him as her right-hand man in some sort of gloating power-play, and then lie to him about it.

But right now, the only thing he knows is that he doesn’t know anything.

“Right,” Chrom says. “Then I guess you don’t know why I have a mark on my shoulder that’s the same as the mark on the Exalt’s forehead.”

He hopes her shock isn’t feigned. The Robin he thinks he knows isn’t that good of a liar - but he doesn’t know what even the Robin he thinks he knows will do, now that she knows she has an enemy prince who’s fallen right into her hands.

[the-priestess-of-dawn]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗 (i love your fics and it'd be cool to see which ones you like most, but no pressure!)

This is a fair question because I have 10 bazillion fics and sometimes I do wish AO3 had like, a showcase or something, so I could usher people right to the best ones instead of them having to look at whatever happens to be most recent. So, yeah, here's the fics I would showcase if that was a real feature:

True Believers - aka the Grimleal!Chrom fic. Pretty sure this is still my magnum opus to this day, even if it does largely follow Awakening's canon plot (just altered because 1, it's original timeline-based, and 2, Chrom started worshipping Grima as a kid). It's not very heavy on Grima, because Robin only awakens at the very end, but it IS full of angsty Chrom feelings and soulful Chrobin moments and sweet, sweet dramatic irony when the god Chrom is praying to for guidance is literally right there guiding him

Find a Way - Okay so uh... sad Chrom (tfw no Robin, sacrifice ending death stuck) goes to another world to try to save Grima from despair, ends up being Grima's malewife "servant" and taking care of Morgan and Lucina. Grima tries to stay evil, but this plan obviously fails. I really like this one because it's a domestic au but it's also fucked up. Happy ending though!

eye of storm - Grima possesses Chrom (with his consent) and they go back in time to get Grima a body (because Robin died, oops. Chrom is heartbroken and Grima is really causing them both a lot of unnecessary struggles by not telling him he was Robin). Anyway, Chrom wants to change things... save Emmeryn... end the war sooner... you know. So basically it's Fire Emblem Awakening but Chrom is Lucina (he even takes a historical name, "Anri") and also he's sharing his body with the vengeful god who is secretly the love of his life :::)

the thing with feathers - "this fic is sfw but emotionally it's for the dragonfuckers okay" <- I think my tag here says it all, really. I wanted to write Chrom kissing dragon Grima's hidden human face and it took me 20k words to get it to work out.

all i want for the black parade is you - Imagine a Bad Christmas Romcom except the whole time they're baking cookies and singing carols and stuff, the love interest is awakening as an ancient dragon god... Look, it may not be the best thing I've ever written, but I'm just so enamored with the concept alone that I HAVE to include it among my favorites.

[threehousing]

storm. storm what's your favorite non-chrobin pair in awakening (it's lon'qu and lissa isn't it <3) and what are they like as parents and partners 👁️👁️

(i ask bc i love the different dynamics that one could derive from all the pairings. currently side-eyeing virion and tharja. hc that virion doesn't even know he has a daughter and the guilt when he learns about her and tharja's treatment of her is immense)

it's lon'qu and lissa 😔 i've been Seen and Percieved 😘

(btw i am SOOOOO about that virion and tharja hc 👀 possibly my fave option i've heard for those two actually?? oh my god?? the juiciness??? the drama??? holding noire so gentle :( )

(okay EDIT upon finding this: oh my god WAIT coming back to this -- is this the origin of virion!noire?? is this the origin of highschoolau geromenoire half siblings)

listen. listen lon'qu and lissa and parents makes me so so so soft. Like, owain deeeeeefinitely got his personality from both his parents but like. amped up to 11. Lissa's love of a prank? Owain's commitment to the bit. Lon'qu's dramatic reactions? Owain's entire theatre-kid deal.

also i feel like, given everything that happened in the other timeline, owain took it upon himself to be the comedy relief, you know? So he dialled his natural tendency towards being a lil dramatic and loud right up.

Anyway. So Lon'qu taught Owain was taught how to use a sword, hence why they're both swordmasters. Lon'qu really does not Get his son's whole persona thing, but I think Owain isn't quite so over the top around his parents -- at least in the game timeline. He tones it down around them because, unlike in his original time, he doesn't feel like he has to make them laugh the same as he used to. Doomed-timeline Lon'qu definitely laughed at his son's antics, but game-timeline Lon'qu is mostly just confused by them, at first. He doesn't have the history or understanding behind it. All the same, once they get to know each other, Lon'qu does start to get it. He becomes increasingly like doomed-timeline Lon'qu (and doesn't that just cause so many confusing emotions for Owain). He's a lil emotionally stunted, but having a son brings it out of him a bit.

Lissa was actually the parent that Owain knew for longer, so it's weirder for him. The Lissa in the game-timeline is very different to the mother that he knew, so he feels a bit awkward at first. Also.... Owain being a dark mage in Fates... I know Lissa's a cleric BUT hc that she's the one who taght him magic. (He can also use an axe bc she taught him, but he's not as good with it. He prefers swords. They're more elegant and he thinks they look cooler.)

Also lastly... lon'qu x lissa relationship dynamics... she's just the right amount of pushy for him -- she gets him out of his comfort zone in a good way, challenges him. He keeps her steady. She soothes his anxieties and he soothes hers. They meet equally in the middle. Insert something upsetting about Lissa losing the firmest presence in her life when Emm died. Something upsetting about how Chrom couldn't be there for her, because he was caught up in his own shit, so Lissa had Maribelle and, suddenly, Lon'qu.

[windupaidoneus]

WAITTT i wanna hear abt the 3h or engage s/is if ud be willing to talk abt them !! - @dmclr

omg HI! !!! ! ! !! ! ! ! my sillies! okay i will put words under the cut teehee (trying to not pass out while typing)

unfortunate news this is gonna be a huge ramble that makes very little sense i'm a few paragraphs in & it's so... um.

so ! korn is. kornseide elfenbein eryn. note the last name. i like the multidimensional fuckery fire emblem likes to do here & there so this one's essentially a chrobin fankid that's been sent to the three houses universe as a child lmao. & he's a cat beast unit! which do not exist in three houses much to my chagrin, but this is my way of changing the facts. & no one can stop me. also yes this does imply in my version of events robin is a catboy. he's also transgender. but that's a whole other story for another time

korn was found & taken in by seteth upon landing in fodlan, like... very dramatic scenario of the terrified child running for his life from an unspecified threat & running into this guy who instantly becomes a father figure. not intentionally. seteth just suffers it bc this kid has Latched onto him hard & he has a good heart

he gets to travel a fair bit for enrichment as he grows & ends up meeting a fair few members of the cast during said travels, notably raphael (the #bestie!!!!), dorothea, ashe, & of course lorenz & claude. back at garreg mach he doesn't really get to associate with seteth too much publicly not bc seteth doesn't want people to know he adopted this kid but bc this kid did a 180° & now finds his dad whom he chose himself deeply embarrassing so he pretends he's just like... a kid who works there. hangs with the ashen wolves. finds deep kinship w constance. thinks hapi's the coolest fucking person to walk the planet. so on so forth.

back to the main topic. um! when we get to the point of the game he kind of. he doesn't enroll! he uh, can't really. seteth won't let flayn in & he certainly won't let him in either. it's fine though. he sneaks into classes constantly or pretexts really urgently needing to clean the classroom so he can listen in on what's going on & learn more about the history of the world, as well as like. combat theory. he can't really get into practice so he practices by begging raphael to fight him every so often & yes he gets his shit rocked everytime

basically he's a silly guy who makes friends pretty easily. he doesn't really think. he has no clue he's from another world. hapi gave him a beaststone once & neither of them realise that's what's making him transform into a big fuckoff kitty creature she just gave him an item that made her think of him. he also lies a lot & he does it horribly bc he's not good at lying & he doesn't like lying but he feels like he'll get in trouble if he doesn't so he does. one thing that's i have failed to mention thus far though is that he has a strong sense of right & wrong so he kinda gets harsher during the timeskip? he can still be silly & jokies & whatnot but he's also like... a lot less lenient & forgiving. very one track mind. needless to say there's a point in time where he can't help but be heavily upset with seteth

now delfin... beast unit 2! !!! admittedly i do not have a lot for him in the way of backstory aside from "yea he worked at firene castle most of his time alive" but he is so personality... something about my s/is is that they tend to be guyfailures which says a lot about Me. & yeah he is no exception. clumsy bastard man who hides a lot. he can be found cowering in horse stalls whenever he messes something up. saddest soggiest cat around

he's pretty good at handling manual labour all things considered & gets along great with the horses. he's generally pretty good with animals but horses just Get Him man. he definitely bonds with amber over their connection to animals, & thinks zelkov caring for children as much as he does is "way too cute". he wanted to be upset with hortensia for a bit when she joined the party but. he could not. lmao. yunaka & alear are such #thebestie characters for him, but louis is like. THE childhood friend. louis will peoplewatch while he's just sitting there loafing next to him glaring at everyone but actually he's zoned the hell out. chloe is like a little sister to him

he doesn't, really have much stakes in the plot aside from like, "oh this is bad we should stop it"? he's here to hang out & do his job & also yearn horribly. yunaka & louis have found him hiding in a barrel after he interacted with boucheron once.....

oh also do NOT give him an emblem ring he will treat it the way cats treat laser pointers & probably land himself in the pool with a miserable yowl

i . .. realise i have nearly entirely avoided elaborating on the selfship dynamics specifically . um . i know why (worried what i will come off as if i do that) & it's a shame but i am not fixing that .. yet

[angstmongertina]

WIP Wednesday Results/Sentences A Day Late

Happy Thursday! I am once again late, but in my defense, I was doing research related things for most of yesterday and I have some sort of little bug (that did test negative for COVID, at least). And then my Wifi died when I tried to work on this last night, and anyway, it's here now.

I truly ended up regretting a little bit putting the option to tell me to work on my research paper because it got way more votes than I was expecting out of a pseudo-joke option. I won't be sharing THOSE accountability sentences, but rest assured that, as I hinted, I have a fair amount of theory typed up already, complete with modeling equations, and a rough draft of a slide deck for presenting to a potential collaborator on Monday? So there has been progress there! I even made slides to present at group meeting today. Work has been done on research, i promise!

Anyway, thanks for voting (even all of you bullying me to do my actual work) and onward to other progress in WIPs below the cut!

Face to Face: Nadia/Thomas (1 sentence but I cheated)

Still, despite his sudden realization, the crowds buffeted him closer, until he could see every bead sparkling in her hair, the fluttering eagerness in her fidgeting. Until he could hear the wry amusement in his aunt’s voice, a perfect lead-in to his introduction. “Lady Nadia.”

forever i'm yours, forever i do: ArtemRosa (1 sentence)

Here and now, he can ask her for reassurance, can beg for the warmth that is the only way to keep those insidious thoughts at bay.

That Which Binds Us: FEA Chrobin (3 sentences plus some smidgeon)

There was something in her expression, in the way she frowned at him, that made it clear what her stance on that belief was, and that she would have no qualms in saying so directly. That, in fact, she was fully prepared to say so directly. Instead, he sighed. “You’re right.”

Officium et Honestas: SWTOR Regency AU (7 sentences plus an exclamation)

“How marvelous!” The man’s exclamation was surely loud enough to be heard in Bath, but even so, there was naught she could do against his honest enthusiasm. “Theron said nothing of the matter to me, else I might have had an opportunity to pursue a greater acquaintance. What are your impressions, my dear? I myself found him a well-bred, intelligent sort of man, if a bit reticent.” “That is hardly a fair comparison coming from you.” Lady Malcom leaned forward, one eyebrow raised as she considered her husband. “I doubt there are half a dozen men in all of London who are as loquacious as yourself.”

Evenly Matched: Jaslen/Falon (2 sentences with a bonus question)

She frowns, recollecting herself in the motion, and reclines back into her seat, draping herself with artful elegance as she surveys him. “Are you certain? You seem rather…” she pauses, tapping her lip with one light finger and barely resisting the urge to laugh at the heat in the man’s eyes as he follows her movements, “agitated.”

Thanks for reading! <3

[coralhoneyrose]

Hiya. I'm curious about something. So in Face-to-Face and Heart-to-Heart, how would Robin have reacted if Chrom had said a different name on instinct, long(ish) term? I'd like to think they'd still have ended up together in the end, but I'm trying to imagine them trying to convince the other woman to go along with it and Robin accidentally making it blatant to her how she feels about it.

Hey! Thank you for reading my work <3

This is an interesting thought exercise! I had to spend a little while rolling it around in my head to give it proper consideration. I definitely think that Robin would have done her best to set her feelings aside to help Chrom and the other person successfully fool the council for the duration they needed to, as well as to help with managing the fall out when he subsequently called it off. Even if she knew it was pretend, it would no doubt be very painful for her to watch the two of them together and see that person living out everything she wished she could have with Chrom, and I can potentially imagine her starting to convince herself that Chrom actually did have feelings for them as well (even though he very much wouldn't). Definitely lots of torturous pining at that stage of things. But Robin being the dutiful friend and tactician she is, she'd no doubt try to see it through…even if that meant her real feelings occasionally started to peek out despite her best efforts.

If we're talking long term though, I think the trouble we run into with this scenario is that when it was all over, it essentially would put them right back where they started. Even if Robin's feelings became obvious to the other person involved in the scheme, and even if that person relayed Robin's feelings to Chrom, Robin would still remain convinced she was unsuitable for him and that being together was an impossibility. In PtLY, the only reason she had her mind changed was because of the actual lived proof that she could fill that role, that the council was forced to go along with it, and that there really was nothing stopping them from being together aside from her own hang ups. Without going through all the motions of proving herself to the council and living out a relationship together, she would have stayed too stubbornly rooted in her preconceptions, and any proposal Chrom made likely would have been rejected.

That doesn't mean he wouldn't have subsequently been able to change her mind some other way, though! I, too, would like to think they would still end up together one way or another. I just think at that point we'd need to have a completely new plot-line take place in addition to everything that had already happened in order to get them there LOL

Honestly though I think my real stumbling block here is just that I can't imagine Chrom blurting out anyone else's name gdkfjdf. It's my chrobin bias, I'm sure, but he's just SO Robin-brained that the thought of him instinctively falling back on any other name is hard for me to wrap my head around. Still, it's some interesting food for thought and definitely gave me something new to chew on! Thank you for the ask, anon!

[melisusthewee]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thank you @nirikeehan and @theluckywizard for tagging me! I think I did this a couple years ago, so it's worth doing again even though I doubt my answers have likely changed... lol.

(Under a cut because it gets a bit long with formatting.)

How many works do you have on AO3? 27!

What's your total AO3 word count? 66, 314 words

What fandoms do you write for? Currently Dragon Age, beginning to consider branching into The Terror (but the latter is mainly just art for now).

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? The Tang of Liquor On His Tongue (Dragon Age; Dorian/Male Trevelyan smut) The Dreamer Sets the Rules (Dragon Age; Solas/Male Trevelyan & Solas/Fade Spirit) mala suledin nadas (Dragon Age; Solas/Male Trevelyan) Impetus (Dragon Age; Cassandra/Male Trevelyan smut) Smut Challenge 2: War Table Boogaloo (Dragon Age; Cassandra/Male Trevelyan smut)

Do you respond to comments? I try really hard to! I fell behind for a period of time and got really anxious about it and have been slowly trying to catch up starting mainly with more recent comments.

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I suppose it might be Lathbora Viran since even though it's more of an implied/hinted at event instead of outright stated, the fic ends with Curiosity (the reborn spirit of Wisdom) becoming the Regret demon from Tevinter Nights.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Um... I suppose in terms of individual fic it would probably be Nothing Else Than What Is Now because the squires confess their feelings, they kiss, and if you stop there then nothing bad ever happened ever again lol.

Do you get hate on fics? No. I am far too insignificant to attract that sort of thing.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? On occasion! I don't really know how to describe the sort of smut I write. I think I tend to bring a sort of dreamy romantic quality to it? I lean very hard into even the smut that's very light on plot as being an important character or relationship study. I guess. I do think I'm a very good smut writer though! So whatever I'm doing, I'm doing it well!

Do you do crossovers? What's the craziest you've ever written? Not really. At least not in recent memory. I wrote a Harry Potter/Beatles oneshot years ago on Livejournal that was inspired by a friend's art. And around that time I also wrote a Dick Grayson/Bucky Barnes fic but that's about the extent of it.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not to my knowledge.

Have you ever had a fic translated? Not to my knowledge. If there's ever a demand for it, I'm very open to it!

Have you ever co-written a fic before? Sort of. I started co-writing a Mirrorverse fic with @rosella-writes about a year ago? It never quite got off the ground though, which is a shame because I think it was a good idea and I think what we did write was very good. Maybe one day the stars will align for work on it to continue. I'm co-author on a special secret project that is wrapping up soon as well, which is very neat and exciting but I can't say much more than that right now!

What's your all-time favourite ship? All-time favourite is a pretty big thing to consider. Out of all fandoms, probably Chrom/F!Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening. I am now and forever Chrobin trash. Have I ever written it? No. Do I have an extensive art collection for it? Yes.

What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? My Qunari War AU. It's mainly just notes and snippets in bits and pieces and while it was definitely canon compliant when I started working on it, I don't think it is anymore. And that sort of made me mostly give up on it.

What are your writing strengths? I'd say dialogue!

What are your writing weaknesses? TRANSITIONS! I'm so bad at figuring out, "Okay, this scene is over/exhausted. Now how do I get things from here to the next one?"

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic? I think when it comes to real languages, it's probably best to avoid it. If a character is speaking another language then there are two possibilities - either the POV narrator understands the language or they don't. In the event of the former, there's then no reason to have the dialogue written in a different language than what the fic is since if the narrator understands what's being said then the reader should too. In the event of the former, it's much easier and far less prone to error if you just write that Character A was speaking in a language that Character B could not understand. With fictional languages that are usually incomplete, however, sometimes a word or an expression can be used for impact but I still think it's best to use them sparingly.

First fandom you wrote for? Technically it was Digimon Adventure. But I was 13 so we're not going to talk about that.

Favourite fic you've ever written? So far in terms of completed and published fics it is either In the Long Hours of the Night or The Many Faces of Wisdom. I think they are both evocative character pieces and if I had the money to commission art to accompany them I very much would.

That was a lot of fun and it was interesting to see that some of my stats and things had actually changed! For any other fic writers out there, I challenge you to give this a go! And I am gently nudging the following people: @ronqueesha @kiastirling @dreadfutures @bluewren @thraaaaaaaanduuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiil @unnecessaryligatures @rosella-writes @n7viper

[felikatze]

ok finally piqued my interest, how exactly does Robin become Grima? What's the difference between them? Is it like, possession? General overall corruption? Clones/doppelgängers? tired of being nice just want to go apeshit? I'm all ears

GREAT QUESTION. see, fea is a time travel story. there are two grimas and two robins.

robin is the "vessel", more like reincarnation, of grima. they awaken to grima's power when their father, validar, performs a magic ritual called, you guessed it, the awakening.

this robin, the original robin, goes on to destroy the world as grima.

however, lucina, chrom's daughter, travels back in time to stop robin from awakening to grima. grima follows her into the past, where robin exists. we now have Two Of Them.

in the endgame of fea, original grima tries to get awakening robin to also become grima by uhh,,,, fusing with them? i guess? awakening robin says "no thanks!" and kills original robin.

so like. there's a dragon called grima who founds the country of plegia and has a cult called the grimleal. in a conflict with chrom's ancestor (no, not marth, another one), grima is sealed for a thousand years. after a thousand years, grima is reborn as robin without their memories of their first life. however, after a ritual is performed to bring out their hidden power, they regain their memories of being grima.

there's also Future Past Grima from the dlc, who is another story altogether. The implication for them is that they're from a bad end timeline where original robin and awakening robin actually fused, so that robin IS two guys and not just one guy in denial.

Do note that me saying robin is grima's reincarnation is mildly contentious in the fanbase since a lot of people view robin as being a separate person from grima who just happened to be a suitable vessel for them due to sharing grima's bloodline. i just understand him better than them trust me.

the general thing is that robin becomes grima immediatly after validar brainwashes them into murdering chrom. regardless of your opinion on chrobin, the two are incredibly close throughout the game and pretty much always each other's most important person. The first thing Robin does after regaining themself is murder validar in retaliation, but at that point it's already too late. Chrom is dead, and they're now officially the Incarnation of Despair. All their other friends weren't present and will only know them as Chrom's murderer. Additionally, the memories of Grima they regained aren't happy ones. Grima has terminal daddy issues AND betrayal issues.

So like recent trauma + past trauma redux + no remaining support network + power of mass destruction + crippling guilt = kill everybody cuz why even live anymore right

the main difference in trajectory is that awakening robin manages to spare chrom even during brainwashing because original robin accidentally gave them prophetic dreams. that's also why awakening robin has amnesia. original robin tried the fusion thing too early, fucked up, accidentally brainwiped awakening robin, and left to go hide in a corner for two years. god i love them.

and that's that on grima.

[yanderefairyangel]

Very interesting reasoning and dynamics, here’s my own setup.

Alear (M)/Marth: the iconic duo, frequently bought together, do not separate.

Alfred/Lucina, Diamant/Roy, Ivy/Lyn, Timerra/Ike: grouped together because they all share the same reason, these duos were featured together in the opening cutscene, so I decided to let them stick together.

Céline/Celica, Yunaka/Micaiah, Seadall/Corrin: These characters were all introduced with their respective Emblems, and that sort of Pre established relationship made me decide to let them continue being partners.

Chloé/Sigurd: I wanted to use Chloé since she was my favorite female character prior to the game’s release, and I decided that Sigurd would make for the best partner. Plus Chloé is a lover of fairytales while Sigurd’s story is basically one long tragedy, so that makes for an interesting dynamic.

Hortensia/Byleth: when she was an enemy she used Byleth the most and it kinda felt right to let them stick together so Hortensia could have some closure for how she abused Byleth’s power. (Read their bonds supports to see what I mean)

Fogado/Leif: …imma be real, I just paired them up due to me not being sure where else to send Leif. They do have the common thread of both having a sis they love and want to support though, so that’s sweet.

Veyle/Eirika: …would it be in poor taste to say that the main reason I gave the twins’ emblem ring to Veyle was because I wanted to reference the two versions of Veyle? It is cute how both of them talk about their desire for peace in their supports.

Anna/Tiki: Since Adult Tiki was friends with Awakening Tiki, I thought it’d be cute to let Young Tiki be friends with Engage Anna.

Alcryst/House Leaders: I thought their skills would mesh well with Alcryst’s own skill set, like the Bow Defense skill, so I paired them up. Plus Alcryst reminding Edelgard of Bernadetta is endearing.

Vander/Hector: Axe boys. Plus I feel like Vander would remind Hector of Oswin and Marcus, which is pretty adorable to me.

Clanne/Soren, Framme/Camilla: I wanted the twins to be able to get in on the action, so I gave the Emblems I felt they’d mesh well with.

Jean/Chrobin: I’m pretty sure Donnel was the first unit in Fe to have Aptitude, and since he was from Chrom’s game, I figured I’d give him the Chrobin bracelet.

Mauvier/Veronica: I feel like he’d remind her of her brother. Plus their bond supports are pretty bittersweet.

(I beat the game before the Fell Xenologue came out, hence why none of the Alt Universe characters were mentioned)

Oh Interesting choice !!

The Tiki and Jean/Chrobin are neat Awakening references !!