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[asterouslyaesthetic]

thinking about crossdresser mark who's always pretended to be a man, even back in bern, because her parents drilled it into her head that it's Not Safe and it was their condition for her leaving (and they never learned she joined the military and deserted it) so she never talks because her voice is really soft and lyn is the first person she can talk to

and they joke about how sain and florina's behavior would change if they knew she was actually a gIrl all along

and eliwood actually finds out before hector, at the end of the war, because lyn invites mark to stay at caelin for a bit before she leaves to wander again and he runs into this brunette who happens to be lyn's lady in waiting, while he's visiting his lover, and marceline just Knows Things

like she'll randomly pop up, leave him a gift, and attribute it to lyn, but when he talks to lyn, she's always desperately trying to pretend that she actually did ask the woman do it because mark is bad about filling her in on this stuff

and once, lyn slips up and calls her mark instead marceline. eliwood puts it together after that, not believing her excuse that they're siblings, so the next time mark tries to do something for him, he quietly tells her he knows and before he can continue, she just sits down next to him with a soft "hi" and then just spills her background to him

but hector only learns two years later when a strange woman shows up at his doorstep, asking to see lyn because she and eliwood are staying at hector's for a bit, and he's strolling around the castle, taking a break, when he sees this.

so he goes up and tries to gauge if she's actually lyn's friend.

but this woman latches onto his arm and starts babbling a mile a minute about lyn and how she heard about the miscarriage and how this isn't exactly the first time she's missed out on something important that is bad and not good, and she ran over as soon as she heard but what does she even say and is lyn okay?? is eliwood okay??

hector's like, "who the hell is this?"

and he subtly tries to figure out who she is because she seems to know lyn and actually seems to know him too because once she catches her breath, she starts quizzing him on how he's been doing after uther's death and managing ostia and have you been eating okay—you haven't gone fighting recently, have you?

which is a weird thing to ask unless she knows about armads and she's subtly trying to ask if he's going to die soon, because most people would just ask if he's been sick since he has family history of dying young

but for the life of him, he can't recall her until he looks at her hair and realizes it's the same shade as mark's and then it just...slips from him

"mark?"

and she's like, "huh?"

so he's about to backpeddle, apologize, and explain he doesn't know who she is, until she's like "oops, i forgot to tell you. actually, i'm a girl. my real name is marceline"

which he sort of remembers as lyn's lady in waiting who never showed to the wedding and he remembers grumbling about it to mark but she was all weird about it

and he's like "oh"

his ears are beet red and she's not looking at him so for the guards who can't hear what's being said, but clearly see a woman clinging onto their lord and him being receptive to holding her hand afterwards because she's scared about lyn and he's dragging her to the grieving couple but the guards don't know that

and that is a story that's passed down to a young lilina after being modified to cut out the parts about her mom being the tactician that two countries nearly went to war over, who was said to have simply disappeared afterwards—about how her parents reunited and their love story started

and the parts about how she was actually that person are something lilina only discovers after she returns to ostia and she's going through her dad's stuff, and she finds her mom's old journals

after the parts she knows, like being saved by aunt lyn, there are little notes about like, klein's parents and his brother and sue's dad and fir's parents and igrene's dad and even about igrene! and notes about tactics and how she just wants everyone survive, but especially aunt lyn

and then there's this little passage about her dad where her mom's like "idk man, i shouldn't feel this way, but i kind of felt hurt that he told me i could leave. i mean, i can't compare to eliwood and he'd definitely tell lyn that, but it still sucks but i guess it's nice he acknowledges me"

and then she gets to like, the fifth volume and her mom's like "yeah, so i decided living as a woman is easier than having to put up with people wanting me to work for them when i don't want to and the only reason i helped eliwood was because he helped lyn and lyn's my bestie"

lilina puts together that her mom was actually famous and when she visits roy, she asks his dad about it, which he confirms.

and it's just something that's nagged at me a lot, like lilina realizing there was a whole other side to her mom she never knew about and there's no way for her to talk to her about it because her mom died to an illness a few years ago

(until she gets to askr, then she goes after her mom so hard that hector briefly gets worried that she might have a thing for "mark" and tries to dissuade her from it.

so lilina has to explain to her dad that she's just curious about "him" because she never met "him" and it sounds like "he" was a good friend of his

the effort to make it seem like they're unrelated becomes a moot point because somehow, little lilina stumbles across mark without a hood, maybe when she's bathing and it's the first time little lilina has seen her because usually, her dad doesn't let her take baths this late at night, and she's like "that's mommy! mommy's here." and she runs around the place telling everyone about her mommy

and older hector is profusely apologetic about it once he hears about this

eliwood frequently reminds him of the fact he once thought his daughter had a crush on her mom because it's lowkey funny. lyn doesn't start it, not because she doesn't think it's hilarious, but because it's way easier to laugh if her hubby's the one doing the teasing, but she does egg eliwood on)

[saijspellhart]

Lyndis x Hector and number 46

46. Kisses that are interrupted by an unsuspecting party walking in. (Hector x Lyn)

“Ow, ow ow…” Hector held the saddle horn in a death grip as they crested the last rocky moor overlooking the low forests of the Caelin march. They could finally see castle Caelin in the distance. Without much prompting his horse started down the winding, rocky trail towards a dense forest below, where there was no doubt a stream with fresh water.

Eliwood and his steed followed Hector’s lead, starting down the path with a little more care than Hector’s mare exhibited. “You doing alright there, friend?”

“Peachy,” Hector grunted as the horse barreled none too gracefully over a particularly rough patch of path.

“Won’t be long until we reach castle Caelin. Lady Lyndis will no doubt have meal and a room waiting for us.”

Eliwood and Hector had come to visit for both a Caelin rain festival, as well as a newly implemented Sacaen Moon and Sky celebration. Lady Lyndis was fighting tooth and nail to incorporate a part of her culture in this new march she’d inherited; Hector and Eliwood came to show their support. They would be staying in Caelin for the next month.

Hector hoped they had a doctor that could amputate his saddle sore ass. “She’ll have a room for you.” He told Eliwood, “I bet six gold pieces that she puts me up in a chicken coop.”

Eliwood laughed, and patted the side of his steed. “And put out the chickens?”

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Lyn was going through a mountain of paperwork when a big blue-maned berserker stormed into her study.

“Lyn!”

She tried to catch a wobbling stack of papers before it toppled over the edge of her desk and onto the floor. She failed.

Lyn ran a hand through her bangs, and looked up as the man stalked over to her massive cluttered desk. “Hello Hector, an elegant entrance as always.”

“What are you doing in here? Eliwood and I have been here for nearly two hours and we’ve not seen hide nor hair of y—gods this place is a wreck.” Hector shook one of his boots to dislodge a letter that had attached itself. He tried to carefully step around the flurry of papers on the floor.

“Not all of us have an Oswin to manage our affairs while we galavant across the countryside.”

“Oh,” Hector leaned a giant palm on Lyn’s desk. “Kent not working out? Tell Sain to pick up the slack.”

“If I did that the only papers leaving this office would be raunchy love letters.”

“A marked improvement over the letters Ostia has received from Caelin of late,” Hector snipped back. He revealed a beautifully carved and stained oak box and slammed it down on Lyn’s desk. He opened the box, plucked out a letter, and waved it at Lyn.

“Why Hector,” she raised her brows and smiled coyly, “I wasn’t aware you desired raunchy letters from me.”

Hector sputtered, and attempted (and failed) to hide the blush that stained his cheeks. She could see him trying to quash an embarrassed smile.

He proceeded to unfold the letter in his hand, a letter marked with the Caelin seal. In fact every letter in the chest was marked with a Caelin seal. “‘Dear Hector,’” he read “‘I find myself at a loss for words that you would propose becoming pen-pals. Delighted as I am, Sir Oswin is busy enough with Ostian affairs, surely he doesn’t have the time to transcribe these letters for you.’” Hector tossed the letter on her messy desk. “Implying I can’t write, Lyn?”

She opened her mouth to answer with a barbed remark, but Hector didn’t even finish the first letter before opening another letter from his box.

“‘The coffee stain footnoting your recent letter was a bold flourish to compliment the elegance of your brigand prose.’” He proceeded to dump the entire contents of his box over the top of her desk. There were a lot of letters. “Say it to my face, Lyn. Tell me again how my penmanship brightens your day like a parade of drunken caterpillars.”

She turned her face, an attempt to hide the smile tugging at the corners of her mouth.

While Hector prattled on about the contents of her letters, Lyn slowly and carefully placed a hand on her own stack of letters sitting on the corner of her desk. Every letter in the stack bore the Ostian seal, and the bundle was tied up neatly and lovingly with a ribbon of dyed and woven Sacaen grasses. She very slowly slid the stack to the edge of her desk, where she had toed open a drawer to receive them.

“‘It’s lonely in Caelin these days.’” Hector unfolded yet another letter in his quest to make up for lost time. As if she hadn’t written these all herself, and knew exactly what she’d put in them, “‘The castle is so dreadfully quiet since Grandfather passed. Sometimes I find myself reminiscing about our adventure, longing for the companionship we had then. Tragically I’d even prefer your snoring, that could shake the walls of a tent, over this mind-numbing solitude.’”

She didn’t normally keep the stack of Ostian letters on her desktop where anyone could find them. But she’d just recently received a letter from Hector, mailed off just before he and Eliwood had departed for Caelin. It had arrived just the other day, but she’d been so inundated with paperwork, she’d only just managed to sit down to read his letter and really appreciate the message today. And like every other letter she received from Hector…it joined a slowly growing collection.

But Hector didn’t need to know that.

Actually, there was a giddy flip in her stomach to find out that Hector kept all her letters in such an ornate box. Or maybe the box was just for the ease of transport while they traveled.

“‘I miss those late nights~,’” Hector quoted in a ridiculously wistful impression. Lyn made a choking noise, ears catching fire, and fumbled her stack of letters, flinging them over the front of her desk instead of into the drawer. Hector continued reading as he blindly bent to scoop the stack of letters from the ground, “‘sparring with you under the stars. Exhausted but determined, pushing ourselves to our respective limits. There was a language between us in those moments that I fear I lose a piece of day by day.’” It was from one of her more recent letters to him. A letter she wrote on a night when she’d been more sentimental and melancholy than usual.

Her face heated when she thought of the letter Hector had sent her in response. She buried her face in her hands and willed the fire in her skin to die out. It still made her heart stutter thinking about it. Regardless of his boorish prose, he certainly had knack for…

“What’s the matter Lyn, can’t stomach your own words?” Hector loomed over the desk, sneer pulling his mouth. “What’s this anyway?” He held up the bundle of letters he’d rescued from the floor.

“They’re nothing!” Lyn bolted up from her seat and made a grab for them.

Hector dodged her. “Ostian seal…” a spark ignited behind Hector’s eyes. She swore his gaze was burning as it shifted between her and the bundle of letters. The biggest grin spread across his face. “No way…is this a Sacaen ribbon? This has to be imported, unless… you made this yourself? But then you definitely imported Sacaen grasses to make it…”

“Give them to me!” She practically leapt over the desk at him.

Hector danced away, escaped papers crunching under his boots. “You keep all my letters!”

“So what,” Lyn snipped, “you kept all mine! In a fancy box no less. I thought for sure you’d burn them.”

“But you’re my best friend.”

Lyn about tripped, and actually did slip on a few papers. Her heart hammered erratically within her chest, knocking the air from her lungs. When she found her voice she said, albeit roughly, “I thought Eliwood was your best friend.”

“He is. I can have two best friends. Don’t put me in a box.”

Clearly the definition of “best” eluded Hector. Despite herself, Lyn began to shake as she broke into a fit of silent giggles. She shut her eyes as tears welled up and spilled down her cheeks. Leave it to Hector to say something so recklessly sincere.

“Wh-what’s wrong.” Hector crossed the room in a couple of strides, he placed a large hand on Lyn’s shaking shoulder. “Gods, I didn’t say something stupid again did I?”

Of course not you oaf. Somehow you say the exact thing I needed to hear. She couldn’t put into words how worn thin she’d felt, running Caelin all by herself after her grandfather passed. How she’d had to hold everyone, even Kent and Sain, at arms length while she erected an icy barrier around herself bit by bit; her only defense from the other nobility and their ever present scrutiny. Everyone around her was pretension. Their words a dagger dipped in honey and poison. She realized quickly she couldn’t trust anyone no matter how flowery and sweet their words.

Hector’s letters were never that.

They were brutish and playfully antagonistic, much like the man himself. But they were also honest and heartfelt. And the longer they traded letters the funnier and sweeter his words had become. She’d be lying if his letters weren’t the highlight of her every week.

She wanted to tell him he was the only person she felt like she could be “just Lyn” with.

Instead, her near hysterical giggling just devolved into straight up sobbing when Hector pulled her into the most awkward hug. He held her like his strength might break her.

Lyn buried her face in his shoulder, blotting tears against his shirt. “H-hug me f-f-for…real, mo-oron.”

The air was forced from her lungs as Hector wrapped her in a crushing embrace. He smelled of horses and sweat and fresh clean linen. A mix of scents that were as grounding as they were familiar.

She needed this. Gods, she needed this. Lyn buried her her fingers in the front of hector’s shirt. In his embrace she finally felt safe enough to let out all the tears she’d kept bottled up inside. Vulnerability she could never let anyone else in Caelin see.

Hector’s body was so warm, radiating heat like a furnace.

Lyn didn’t want to let him go.

He held her until her sobs abated. Until all she felt was the heavy weariness coming down from the emotional high.

“I’m here,” Hector whispered into her hair. “I’m right here.”

“Everyone is so…fake,” Lyn whispered hoarsely back.

As if Hector finally understood, the tension in his body relaxed. He pressed his cheek to the top of Lyn’s head and replied, “I know.”

“You’re not.” She turned her face until her nose brushed his throat.

Hector swallowed thickly and she could feel it. “I’m not,” he agreed. “I promise you, I’m not.”

“Your last letter…” Lyn trailed off, she struggled to say out loud what he’d written.

“I meant it all. Every letter, it was me, Lyn.”

They both fell into pensive silence then, their breathing punctuating the moments. Lyn was pressed so close she could feel Hector’s heartbeat in her own chest. It was a steady thump-thump that comforted her.

Hector loosened his hold just enough to run a hand down her back, smoothing the fabric of her Sacaen clothing. So touch starved, Lyn had to resist the urge to arch into that touch like a cat.

Normally, while in Caelin she wore Lycian fashion. Mostly to appease the Lycian nobles. But lately, homesickness had set in, and she’d begun blending Sacaen and Lycian fashion. Today though, she wore a familiar ensemble. Clothing she’d kept from her late tribe, the Lorca. She’d wanted to dress in something familiar to greet the boys; something from the time she’d spent traveling with Hector and Eliwood.

“The Lycian nobles,” she started to say.

Hector gave a hum of acknowledgment, his hand caressing her back paused briefly to comb through her long ponytail. She shivered, and he must have felt it.

“I’m so tired of the feigned niceties, their insincere flattery; flowery but otherwise shallow talk.” She tilted her face to trace her nose along the corner of Hector’s jaw, causing his breath to hitch. It was a modicum more forward than appropriate, but given the contents of the last couple letters he’d sent…well. When her nose reached his ear she spoke lowly, “I’d trade a million pretty words for one touch that is real.”

Hector made a very tortured noise in the back of his throat.

All at once he twisted his face down and to the side to press a kiss to Lyn’s cheek.

Had her mouth not been at his ear, he might have kissed her lips.

Regardless, the chaste kiss sent a pleased shock from the base of her skull down to her toes.

“Lyn…” he breathed, voice low and throaty at her ear. “Can I touch you?”

Lyn could only nod, pulling back just enough for Hector to capture her mouth in a proper kiss.

It was all the confirmation he needed.

Months of pent-up restrained emotions—having been stoked to a fever pitch by their respective letters—boiled over and set ablaze.

Hector’s fingers dug into her back as he kissed her with all the desperation of a man drowning. She met his enthusiasm in kind, throwing her arms around his neck and burying one hand in his stupidly coiffed hair.

He let out a covetous groan, both his hands running down her body, over her hips, until they reached her exposed thighs. His touch ignited fire against her skin. With strength akin to a bear he gripped her thighs and hoisted her up off the ground effortlessly.

Lyn unconsciously hooked her legs over his hips. She pressed her body to his, chest flush against him, delighting in the touch of someone real.

Nights spent fantasizing paled in comparison to this moment.

Hector tilted his head to deepen the kiss. His lips were rough, almost chapped, no doubt from elements during the long trip from Ostia. But Lyn didn’t mind because this too felt so real. It was him, and he was actually here in Caelin, and he wanted her the way he’d alluded in all his letters. The same way she wanted him.

She tugged at his hair as she kissed him back, matching his energy. When he gasped into her mouth she savored the noise.

Lyn took the opportunity to slip her tongue past Hector’s lips, drawing a throaty moan from him. His grip on her thighs tightened.

Hector took a step back towards her desk, his boots crunching papers.

She should have been concerned about those papers—and she had no idea where Hector had placed her bundle of letters—but found herself too blissed out to give a damn.

She knew the moment his backside reached her desk, because her shins struck it too. The scandal of making out on her desk sent a crack of heat straight to Lyn’s stomach.

With the added support of the desk, Hector shifted her weight to his hips and one arm, so his other hand was free to tug at the saffron colored sash around her waist.

With the shift, their kisses lessened to a series of smaller sweet sensual ones. The glide and pop of lips pulling over lips.

Hector was struggling to find the ends of the sash, and Lyn dropped her hand from his hair, fingers over his, to guide him where to start.

He made an appreciative noise against her mouth, and they both felt the fabric begin to fall away when the door to the office creaked open.

“Excuse me, Lady Lyndis?” A familiar shock of red hair poked into the study. “I don’t mean to intrude while you’re busy, but have you seen Hector, I can’t find-“ Eliwood froze in the threshold, hand still on the door handle, and words stuck in his throat.

“Shit!” Lyn cursed, breaking away from Hector so fast that pain lanced through her neck. She pushed against his chest.

The brute of a man didn’t release her.

Instead he had the audacity to give his best friend an exasperated look.

“I-I am—excuse me. Gods, I’m sorry.” Eliwood clapped a hand over his eyes, “I should have knocked!” He fumbled blindly for the handle of the door with his other hand. The speed in which he slammed the door caused a rush of air that displaced a bunch of the papers littered over the floor. “You have my blessing. Carry on!” They both heard his muffled call from the other side.

Lyn’s whole face, ears neck and shoulders all burned with shame.

Honestly the state of the room looked about as compromising as their position.

“Someone put me to death,” she whined, pushing once more against Hector’s immovable chest.

Hector frowned, turning his cobalt gaze to Lyn. “Why? It was only Eliwood.”

Lyn fixed him with a glare that could have cleaved steel, “because the Marchioness of Caelin was just caught in a compromising position with the Marquess of Ostia! This is a scandal. Never mind that I’ll be seen a Sacaen “dog” whose seduced the most powerful Marquis in Lycia. The other Lycian nobility have been waiting for me screw up, be given reason to depose me from Caelin. Hector, we’re neither engaged, nor courting!”

“Then let me court you,” Hector stated bluntly.

Lyn went slack jawed, stunned silent.

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Thank you so so much for the ask! You’re the best CapnQuaggles! You’ve always been so supportive and kind. Following me through every fandom I’ve been in over the last decade. You’re so dear to me. Thanks for indulging my rekindled interest in these old Fire Emblem games. I hope you like both the art and the fic.

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Okay I’ve never sent a question in to this blog before, but I used to be a HUGE FE fan (read: Autistic hyperfixation for several years) and I need to admit something. I hate- no, DESPISE Eliwood x Ninian, and that’s not to be taken lightly considering Eliwood was and still is my favorite FE character. I’d ship him with Lyn, Hector, Fiora… just not Ninian. I hate Ninian as a character, and I hate it hate it HATE IT when people say Eliwood x Ninian is canon. (Sidenote: I like Ike x Soren but also have mixed feelings on people calling that absolutely positively canon as well.)

🥔 (Note: If the emoji doesn’t show up, it’s supposed to be a potato.)

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[idk6123]

The Morph (Hector X Male Reader)

At the water, Eliwood’s and Hector’s army are fighting the Black Fang once again. This time, they’re fighting against the morph, Sonia. During the battle, both sides are clashing their fullest against each other. Nino does the same but stops when she recognizes one of the morphs.

“Y/N!”

In front of her, a man with black hair and golden eyes looks at the little girl with an emotionless face. He’s on the other side, however, it doesn’t seem he intends to fight her.

“Stand aside. I have zero intention killing you, even if Sonia orders me to do so.”

“You don’t have to kill anyone.” Nino tries her best to safe one of the people she loves dearly. “Me and Jaffar are on the other side. They treat us nice. Please, can’t you join us?”

“I can’t. I’m still a puppet of Lord Nergal. I can’t disobey him. Besides, I’m not human anymore. All I am is the remains of my former life.” Y/N argues.

“So what? You’re still Y/N. You’re a kind guy that is always up to help me. When I’m having trouble casting a spell, you were there to help me. And I know you don’t want to hurt me. Please, can’t you switch sides? Or at least stop fighting.”

Y/N thinks about it. He got nothing to live for. To him, fighting for both sides grant him no benefit. Still, deep down, he cares for the mage. “Very well. I stop fighting.”

Nino gives him a grateful smile. “Really? Thank you!”

And so, the battles continue. Although dangerous, nobody manages to get killed. And with the death of Sonia, the army are taking a break for their next battle at their camp. As everyone dispersed, the lord trio catch up with their units, making sure everyone is alright. When they get to Nino, Jaffar and Y/N tent, they’re surprised to see a morph.

“What the-!?” Hector quickly grabs the nearest weapon and point it towards the morph.

“Don’t!” Nino quickly jumps between them, making Jaffer quickly jumps in front of the girl with his dagger out. “He’s good! He won’t hurt anyone.”

Hector stops and takes a closer at the morph, recognizing him. Eliwood too recognizes the man, while Lyn is focused on the fact a morph is at their base.

“Nino, who is he?” She asks calmly, wanting an explanation.

“This is Y/N. He’s one of my friends. He usually was with my mo- Uhm… Sonia. But unlike her, he’s good.” Nino explains.

“I understand the wary attitude. I don’t expect you to trust me. So if you’re willing to kill me, I understand.”

“Y/N…” Hector mutters. He drops down his weapon. Everyone is curious why he’s acting odd. “It’s really you?”

Y/N raises an eyebrow. “I’m sorry, but I don’t believe we never met, nor should you heard my name.”

Hector’s face saddens. “You don’t remember us, Y/N?”

Still, the morph doesn’t get what he’s talking about. “Remember what?”

Hector frowns further. After looking at him for a second, he turns around and leaves the tent.

“Hector?” Lyn is surprised by his sudden behavior. “What’s up with him?”

Like the brash general, Eliwood also frowns, but a lot less. He looks back at Y/N. “He’s upset to his dead friend back alive.”

“Huh? He knew him before?” Lyn asks.

Eliwood nods. Y/N is curious what their history is. “Lord Eliwood, you know who I am was before, do you?”

“Yes. We three used to be childhood friends. You were a noble of House Nightfall. There was an incident almost two years ago, where the entire house got died by a fire. Looking back, the Black Fang were definitely involved. …We never discovered your body. We definitely thought you were murdered, but we didn’t had any leads. We merely needed to accept what happened and move on, but… I don’t ever think Hector ever did.”

This is the first time Y/N heard this. It’s hard to belief, however he knows it’s true. He remembers his first memory almost two years ago. The timeline makes sense. His family got murdered, he got captured and then he got turned into a morph.

“Thank you for telling me.” The morph now wonders how this is all going to get down.

-

Back at Ostia, the group recovers after the loss of Ninian. With the castle heavily guarded, they got plenty of time to regroup before the next battle. During which, Hector continues to stare at Y/N, who is reading his times. He doesn’t know what to think or feel. Sadness, anger, irritation, he’s feeling it all.

It only took a couple of seconds until Y/N senses Hector staring at him. The man looks back at the general and closes the tome. “Good day, Lord Hector. Is there something you need?”

“That tome… I saw you use it at the last battle. It’s dark magic.” Hector points out.

“It is. What about it?”

“Dark magic was always you’re specialty back when you were… you.” Hector let out a sadden frown. “Is there is any chance you don’t remember me?”

“I don’t. My apologies.” Hector let out a huff. He remains quiet, merely looking at him. “Is everything alright, sir?”

“You look like him. You sound like him. You even have the same skills. But you besides that, you’re nothing like Y/N.” Hector clutches his hands, becoming annoyed. He remains quiet for another few seconds, until he grabs an axe. He wonders if he finishes the morph off, if it makes the real Y/N happy in the afterlife.

As he gets closer to Y/N to strike him down, he stops to look at Y/N’s face. His face is without any emotion, but his eyes look alive. There is definitely some kind of life in front of him, yet he can’t help but view the morph nothing more than a walking corpse. He hesitates, wondering if he should do it, before giving up.

“Hector?”

“Don’t say my name… please.”

Hector leaves, feeling more conflicted then he did before. Y/N wonders if there is anything he can do to make him better.

-

It’s near the end of the journey. The army is at the dread isle, ready to end it the entire conflict. They head to the Dragon’s Gate, guarded by the final, upper morph, Limstella. Though first they have to get through the opposing army. As they get to the other side of the battlefield, Y/N spots Hector as they’re no enemies nearby.

“Everything going well, Lord Hector?”

Hector turns back, somewhat surprised to see the morph. “Oh, it’s you… Everything is alright. What about you?”

“The same can said to me.”

Hector hums. “You don’t feel conflicted about fighting your former allies?”

“I guess I don’t. Besides Nino and the Reed Family, I never had much pleasant times with the Black Fang. Even the short time with your army brought me more joy then spending time with Lord Nergal and his men.” Y/N explains.

“Were you lonely?”

“I don’t know. I don’t know how life is with people I care about, so I never experience feeling loneliness.” Y/N answers. “But enough about me. I’m curious about you. Our last conversation left me wonder what is going on with you.”

Hector’s eyes sadden again. “I’m sorry if you felt scared.”

“I didn’t.” Y/N responds coldly, while sounding casually. “If you were to strike me down, I would be alright with it. Death doesn’t scare me.”

“Don’t say that!” Hector raises his voice. “Don’t say that again.” His shakenly says. “Whatever you are. Whatever parts of Y/N remains in you. I don’t want it gone. You deserve better than that.”

“Do I deserve that, or the Y/N you knew?” Hector remains quiet, refusing to answer. Y/N wonders what his answer is. “Lord Hector-”

“Hector. Drop the lord part.”

The dark mage accepts his request. “Hector, if you don’t mind, after this is all over, can I visit my former self’s house? I’m curious about my past.”

Hector shows a sad smile. “Sure thing. Maybe then you remember something…”

-

And so, after the final battle against the resurrected Black Fang, Nergal and the fire dragons, Lycia is saved once more. And so, the army got disbanded. Some quitted the life of fighting. Some start a family. Others are continuing their ambition. For Y/N, however, is visiting his heritage, alongside with the Marquess of Ostia.

They get to the former house land. Although recently destroyed, the castle looks to be rebuild. As the two looks at the building, Hector wonders if there is any bell ringing back at Y/N.

“We buried your folks in the garden. You want to visit them?”

“Yes.”

The two get to the back of the castle to enter the garden. It looks tranquil, with many water features like fountains placed around with trees sprouting everywhere. In front of the two is a massive shrine. Flowers are placed everywhere. The names of the victims are carved on the stone, even Y/N’s.

“So, here are my real parents…” Y/N looks to his right to talk to his friend. “Can you tell me something about them?”

“They were real bookworms, always hungers for knowledge. Somewhat distant, but you were always positive about them.” Hector shares what he can remembers, making him smile. “Everything you know about them is thanks to him.”

“That so?” The morph looks back at the shrine. There is no emotion on his face, merely looking out with a bleak stare.

Hector wishes he could read Y/N better. Although there are resemblances, the Y/N before and now are completely different. “We used to play in this garden, y’know? Tag, hide and seek, the list goes on. I miss those days.”

“I wish I could remember it.” Y/N confessed. He turns back to his friend. “Not because of me, but because it makes you happy.” Hector gives a genuine smile, happy to hear it. “What about later in our life? Were we also good friends?”

“…The best.” Hector hesitates for a bit before answering, which Y/N notices.

“Hector?”

Hector, who was forcing a smile, drops it. “We weren’t friends. …We were more than that.”

“Oh?” That explains his behavior a lot more. Compared to Eliwood’s behavior, Hector looked distraught, and it appears this is why. “My apology.”

“It’s alright.” Hector reassures. “I’m not mad at you. I’m just… lost. I thought god was playing some cruel joke on me when I saw you like this. I lost the man I loved, and then I got him back, stripped away from his memories and identity. And as I continue looking at you, I can only hope there is some way Y/N can come back at me.”

“I wish I could help, but…”

“You don’t remember.” Hector could’ve guessed that. “I guess I just have to accept the fact the Y/N I knew is gone.” There is an awkward silence between them. The two look back at the shrine, looking at it for a couple of second before the general speaks up. “I stop trying to make you remember the past. You’re not the same Y/N I knew. I probably shouldn’t treat you like the same person. If there is anything you want, ask.”

“What do you mean?”

“I can provide a house if you want to live a normal life. If you have any other desires, I’m sure I can provide it. Whatever life you want to live, all you need to do is say it.” Hector explains. “What do you want to do?”

Y/N thinks about it for a minute. He doesn’t have a place to call home. The only people he properly knows is Nino and Jaffar, but he doesn’t want to interrupt their peace with his presence. He doesn’t have any ambition to live for. There is only one thing he can think of.

“I want to be by your side.”

“Huh!?” Hector gets caught off guard. “Why?”

“I don’t have any other place to go. You’re the closest thing I got. You treated me with kindness.”

“But I tried to kill you.” Hector objects.

“But you didn’t, nor did you want to.” Y/N corrects him. “I know you still mourn my former self, and if really don’t want to see his face anymore, then I’m fine with it. But… I would appreciate holding part of my past, even if I don’t remember it.”

Hector looks at him for some seconds, before he shows a warming smile. “Maybe you aren’t too different from him. You were always considered towards others. Maybe even without you’re memories, parts of the old Y/N remain. I don’t expect you to remember, but maybe we should look at differently. You can make new memories. Happy ones, like we had.”

“Is that a yes?”

Hector smiles wider. “Yes. On this day, you will be by my side. I make sure nothing, or anyone is going to hurt you again.”

[crabknight]

dont know too much about what blorbos are from your shows, but how about eliwood fe7 for the ask game?

Omg yippee I get to talk about Eliwood!

So my favorite thing about him is his personality, it's very endearing to me, especially the way he acts towards his friends

My least favorite thing about him is that he's kinda weak in the actual gameplay and he promotes extremely late

My favorite quote from him is from the last chapter so I'll hide that at the bottom so anyone who doesn't want to get spoiled don't have to

For the brOTP it would be a crime to say anything other than Hector, but I do also really enjoy his relationship with Pent and Lyn

My OTP is very basic, it's Ninian, but I love them so much. I also don't really like any other option, like Hector x Eliwood is funny but I see them more as a platonic duo

The closest thing I have to a nOTP would be Eliwood x Lyn, I don't really think they feel like they should be a couple, but I don't have strong feelings on it

It is my headcannon that Eliwood really enjoys baking and often bakes for all his friends when he gets the chance

I don't really know if it counts as an unpopular opinion but Eliwood deserves more, for being the main character of the first game released in the west it kinda seems like IS don't really like him, like really, both Lyn and Hector are emblems in engage but Eliwood just has to sit on the sidelines as a bond ring? Like at least but him in with Hector like they did with Robin and Chrom

I have never thought about a song for him, but with a quick look through my playlists I decided that "I'm here" by Michael Shirt has Eliwood vibes in the way it makes me feel safe and calm in a way I feel like I would also feel in the same room as Eliwood

This is my favorite picture, the good ol classic

Ok here's the quote

"Nergal! I will defeat you! Here! Today!! But...even now, there is no hatred in my heart. You who were born human, you who lost the heart that defines your humanity... For you, I have nothing but pity."

[mannatea]

💝 for the writers ask meme!

💝what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

Oh, man. I've been surprised a few times in my life by the responses toward stories I've posted online, but a lot of that has come in hindsight. Like, the first darkfic (fic with dark themes?) I ever wrote got a shocking amount of attention (embarrassed to say this was a Tales of Symphonia story) and looking at it now I just...have no clue where all the love from readers came from or why.

For more recent fics, "All of Me" was just a random prompt I saw and yet it's the most popular thing I've written since 2014 by a wide, wide margin. "Pristine" was a similar experience: it's probably my second or third most popular story but it was a prompt someone kind of jokingly gave me to write! Pristine was fun in that I wrote it as a "twist" ending story (with foreshadowing) but I wasn't surprised by the fact that only about 50% of the readers figured it out before they got to the end; I fully anticipated that and consider the fic a success because of it. The wild part was just how much people seemed to like it.

For other stories that got weirdly positive reception when I didn't expect it: Softly (Frederick x Cordelia, FE13), Fools Rush In (Fiora x Eliwood, FE7), A Nohrian Grave in Hoshido (Ryoma x Scarlet, FE14) and The Bravest (Lyn & Eliwood, FE7). The rewrites of the FE7 and FE13 fics didn't get much traction but people don't comment like they did in the old days, so I'm not surprised.

Soliloquy (FE7 KentLyn) was about alcoholism and not only got a surprising amount of support from readers as it was being written, but someone even emailed me RECENTLY asking to reread it (as I deleted it in 2016). If you would have asked me how I felt about that story before I got the email asking to reread it, I would have said I was ashamed of it. I still can't reread it because I'm afraid of it being embarrassing but obviously it resonated with a few people out there.

[teaveetamer]

For Blazing Blade ? let me guess. "Roy x Lilina is incest" and "Roy x Cecilia" is grooming.

Wouldn't know, I haven't played FE6 or FE7 as of yet. I've heard the Lyn shipping got a little strange, tho. I actually found an old fossil Lyn/Eliwood vs. Lyn/Hector ship war post a while back, which was wild.

[irisviel101]

Sorry boo no mfb or Inazuma from my end sooo

Top 5 FE ships >:3

Ooh, this is a good one.

Chrom x Robin: Yeah, no surprise there. I mean, how can you play Awakening and not ship them?

Joshua x Natasha: My first FE ship. I still love the heck out of them. Their supports are really fun.

Roy x Lilina: I love the friends to lovers trope and childhood friends, and these two are basically that combined into one.

Ethlyn x Quan: They did not have to die like that. Idk what it is about them, but I love them.

Eliwood x Lyn: Idk what it is, but this is a fun ship to think about.

[eimaremia]

Crossover Relationships

between characters from different FE games~ Pink indicates romance. Purple italic indicates a potential for romance.

Heroes x Shadows of Valentia

Alfonse & Leon

Heroes x The Binding Blade

Roy & Sharena

Heroes x Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn

Mist & Sharena

Heroes x Awakening

Alfonse & Chrom

Alfonse & Lissa

Brady & Sharena

Robin & Sharena

Sharena & Lissa

Heroes x Fates

Alfonse & Niles

Alfonse & Nina

Alfonse & Takumi

Elise & Sharena

Forrest & Sharena

Leo & Bruno

Niles & Bruno

Orochi & Sharena

Sharena & Niles (siblings-in-law)

Sharena & Velouria

Selkie & Sharena

Heroes x Three Houses

Caspar & Sharena

Ingrid & Sharena

Marianne & Bruno

Mirabilis & Linhardt

Heroes x Engage

Fogado & Sharena

Hortensia & Sharena

Mirabilis & Amber

Mirabilis & Chloé

Mirabilis & Merrin

Mirabilis & Panette

Pandreo & Bruno

Panette & Bruno

Sharena & Amber

Sharena & Rosado

Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light / Mystery of the Emblem x Awakening

Marth & Chrom

Marth & Lucina

Chrom & Caeda

Lucina & Caeda

Shadows of Valentia x Awakening

Nina & Leon

The Binding Blade x Awakening

Libra & Saul

The Binding Blade x Three Houses

Ingrid & Dorothy

Saul & Sylvain

The Binding Blade x Engage

Diamant & Lilina

Diamant & Roy

Dorothy & Pandreo

Saul & Pandreo

The Blazing Blade x The Sacred Stones

Ephraim & Hector

Lyn & Eirika

The Blazing Blade x Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn

Ike & Hector

Hector & Soren

The Blazing Blade x Awakening

Robin & Lyn

Hector & Chrom

Ninian & Inigo

The Blazing Blade x Fates

Leo & Hector

Lyn & Takumi

Ninian & Laslow

Nina & Lyn

The Blazing Blade x Three Houses

Caspar & Hector

Felix & Eliwood

Felix & Hector

Felix & Lyn

The Blazing Blade x Engage

Fogado & Lyn

Lyn & Alcryst

Ninian & Merrin

Ninian & Pandreo

The Sacred Stones x Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn

Ike & Ephraim

The Sacred Stones x Awakening

Lyon & Robin

The Sacred Stones x Fates

Lyon & Takumi

Niles & Eirika

The Sacred Stones x Three Houses

L'Arachel & Sylvain

Lyon & Hilda

Lyon & Linhardt

The Sacred Stones x Engage

Alcryst & Eirika

Chloé & Eirika

Chloé & Ephraim

Chloé & L'Arachel

Hortensia & Eirika

Louis & Eirika

Pandreo & Eirika

Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn x Awakening

Brady & Boyd

Henry & Ranulf

Henry & Soren

Mist & Lissa

Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn x Fates

Elise & Mist

Ike & Nina

Ike & Takumi

Lethe & Selkie

Lethe & Velouria

Nina & Soren

Selkie & Ranulf

Velouria & Ranulf

Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn x Three Houses

Ingrid & Titania

Lethe & Ingrid

Marianne & Ranulf

Lysithea & Soren

Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn x Engage

Fogado & Elincia

Fogado & Soren

Hortensia & Soren

Ike & Amber

Ike & Fogado

Ike & Rosado

Ike & Timerra

Lethe & Merrin

Louis & Soren

Ranulf & Merrin

Timerra & Soren

Awakening x Fates

Brady & Laslow

Brady & Nina

Brady & Selena

Elise & Lissa (daughter and mother-in-law)

Henry & Elise (father and daughter-in-law)

Henry & Nyx (father and daughter-in-law)

Henry & Odin (father and son, default)

Henry & Selkie

Henry & Velouria

Leo & Owain

Libra & Camilla

Libra & Forrest

Libra & Laslow

Libra & Nyx

Lucina & Laslow

Lucina & Laslow (sister and brother)

Niles & Owain

Nina & Inigo

Odin & Lissa

Odin & Lucina

Awakening x Three Houses

Brady & Bernadetta

Dorothea & Inigo

Felix & Lon’qu

Henry & Bernadetta

Inigo & Hilda

Inigo & Sylvain

Marianne & Libra

Libra & Dimitri

Libra & Seteth

Libra & Sylvain

Robin & Linhardt

Awakening x Engage

Brady & Fogado

Brady & Pandreo

Brady & Panette

Chrom & Pandreo

Diamant & Lucina

Fogado & Chrom

Fogado & Inigo

Fogado & Lissa

Goldmary & Inigo

Goldmary & Severa

Henry & Ivy

Henry & Panette

Hortensia & Lissa

Inigo & Rosado

Ivy & Lucina

Libra & Pandreo

Libra & Rosado

Libra & Yunaka

Louis & Chrom

Louis & Lissa

Louis & Lucina

Maribelle & Pandreo

Owain & Amber

Panette & Lon’qu

Panette & Maribelle

Robin & Pandreo

Timerra & Inigo

Fates x Three Houses

Dorothea & Laslow

Dorothea & Forrest

Felix & Takumi

Forrest & Hilda

Laslow & Hilda

Laslow & Sylvain

Leo & Dimitri

Leo & Lysithea

Marianne & Kaze

Marianne & Kiragi

Marianne & Selkie

Marianne & Velouria

Nina & Sylvain

Nyx & Linhardt

Nyx & Lysithea

Nyx & Seteth

Orochi & Sylvain

Fates x Engage

Alcryst & Takumi

Camilla & Yunaka

Chloé & Nina

Diamant & Ryouma

Elise & Rosado

Fogado & Laslow

Fogado & Nina

Forrest & Rosado

Forrest & Timerra

Goldmary & Laslow

Goldmary & Forrest

Hortensia & Elise

Hortensia & Forrest

Ivy & Niles

Lapis & Kiragi

Laslow & Rosado

Leo & Alcryst

Leo & Ivy

Leo & Yunaka

Louis & Forrest

Louis & Nina

Nina & Rosado

Nyx & Yunaka

Odin & Amber

Panette & Niles

Selkie & Merrin

Timerra & Laslow

Velouria & Merrin

Three Houses x Engage

Annette & Timerra

Bernadetta & Alcryst

Byleth & Pandreo

Diamant & Dorothea

Diamant & Linhardt

Dorothea & Merrin

Dorothea & Timerra

Dorothea & Pandreo

Felix & Timerra

Felix & Yunaka

Goldmary & Sylvain

Ingrid & Merrin

Ingrid & Chloé

Jade & Bernadetta

Jade & Nina

Jade & Sylvain

Lapis & Dimitri

Marianne & Alcryst

Marianne & Amber

Marianne & Chloé

Marianne & Merrin

Marianne & Pandreo

Marianne & Rosado

Pandreo & Seteth

Timerra & Linhardt

[variabels]

Sometimes, there are things about your parents you shouldn’t learn about. Roy learned this the hard way.

So there’s this bootleg FEH games that’s popped up recently called Glory Emblem. The protagonist is blond Eliwood Edward and his wife is purple-haired Lyn Wendy.

[fe-aesthetics]

...And he told me about how my parents first met. I would get so excited hearing those stories.

Eliwood, Lyn, and Roy, Fiery Family

*requested by anonymous*

[asterouslyaesthetic]

the thought of roy and lilina dancing after roy convinces his parents to have a wedding reception with their friends...

they talk about how lilina was hoping to get the bouquet for herself, after she comments that seeing her parents getting married would be so so wonderful. they talk about how she's seriously considering re-entering next year for that reason, because askr is the only time she can relive the times when her family was together, just like roy

and roy offers to pair up with her or otherwise help her in her quest. because he knows how much it would mean to her, because her very-obviously-in-love parents are half the reason she wants to get married

when she ends up hinting at who it is that she'd want her fairytale wedding with, he picks it up immediately because they used to talk about it all the time. how could they not?

after all, roy's dad leaves little love notes for his mom, and his mom rolls her eyes lovingly before carefully pasting them into a diary she keeps. she's got at least fifteen of those by the time she dies because he gives out at least one per day and he gets one kiss per so sometimes he writes more. after they spar, if she even just compliments him, his dad feels like he was the one who won their bout instead because he's so happy about it

she buys him a gift every time she heads to town because "it reminds me of you" but they're very, very loosely related things, so much so that even she can't recall what connection they have to her husband. she just thinks about him a lot and it shows in the way she accidentally slips into praising him any time someone says something remotely nice about him

meanwhile, everyone's quietly scared of lilina's mom because they know her dad will be furious if they disrespect or hurt her in any way—he's her biggest supporter and it's something she mentions often whenever lilina talks about wanting to get married. "find someone who supports you like your father supports me. and make sure to support him just as much."

and her mom goes out of her way to give him a singular wild flower—sometimes a weed—she found every day to let him know she's thinking of him. he keeps a list of their descriptions. anytime she complains about any sort of pain, he'll take it as an excuse to carry her around and even though she acts like she'd be fine if he didn't, she makes no moves to let go, even when she's teased about it

but like back to their dream wedding—lilina's dream wedding really is just what they both wanted, what they both talked about as kids. and roy's never really thought about it too hard, because in the back of his mind, he's always assumed it's going to be lilina walking down the aisle and well, he's already talked about it to her

she kisses him on the cheek when the dance ends and he asks, hesitating slightly before telling him that she's always liked him, and apologizes for taking the moment away from his parents

he asks her to dinner instead

lilina never gets to answer because everyone starts taking pictures with the bride and groom, and of course, lyn and eliwood insist on roy being in most of them.

but when he shows up at the place he mentioned, she's waiting for him.

[princesa-zelda]

"MOM! DAD! NOOOO!"

[0katnip0]

Look at these Lovebirds 💚❤️

[ran-orimoto]

Ok kill me, but for now...

1. Kent x Lyn

2. Rath x Lyn (I bet Sue is really their daughter)

3. Eliwood x Lym

4. Hector x Lyn

I’ve said kill me: I’m a poor multishipper XD.