Author's Introduction Paragraph: 'sup everyone, this is Blue Sun Studios on the air with you all. Fire Emblem Awakening is officially one of my most loved games, so I decided to start writing a few fan fictions about it (some of you may have already read my Fire Emblem Re-Awakening story). This particular idea came to me when I read another fan fiction titled "Naga's Choice" by A-Bot54 (a story in which Naga herself joins the Shepherds and the inspiration for this) and thought to myself "What if Naga was a fully playable character?" And me, being the supports-loving person I am, decided to write a story based on the specific supports that Naga has with other people (all of which will be made up by me). Anyways, let's get to the disclaimer.

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Male Avatar and Naga Supports

C Rank

It had been a full week since the Fell Dragon had resurrected, and the Shepherds had gone through a rather taxing chain of events. The most surprising thing that could have happened to this small army was the fact that the Divine Dragon Naga herself had decided to descend into the human's world and aid the Shepherds against the inevitable showdown with the Grima. Reactions towards this event for the most part had been overwhelming surprise, but Naga rarely acknowledged the near constant praises that followed (and the few dissenters') or the raw fear some individuals displayed in her presence. In fact, most of it irritated her but she never let it show, never basking in all of the attention she was getting, and she focused on seeking out a certain snow-haired tactician. She had a select choice of words to speak to the young amnesiac concerning the upcoming conflict and what choice he would end up making in the end.

Sometime late in the night the rest of the army had fallen fast asleep, including the leader Chrom who had curiously opted to tuck in early instead of staying up late discussing tactics with his tactician as he reportedly does. This made it much easier for the Divine Dragon to speak with the amnesiac without any outside influences, especially Chrom. Calmly and quietly strolling into the strategist's tent, she took note of the rather disorderly state the interior was, very ill befitting of the master tactician but understandable given his position. She could hear him mumbling to himself, no doubt contemplating the next move to make to deal with a recent group of hostile Grimleal cultists.

"Hrrmmmm… we'll be veering into mountainous terrain, so that means that anyone who hasn't spent a great deal of time hiking will be at a disadvantage and so would mounted units, which leaves fliers the most effective here. But I've heard that they have quite the number of bow wielders to specifically counter using flying units…"

Naga could only chuckle to herself in amusement; she could practically see steam blowing from his head from the stress he had to deal with right now. She almost felt a tinge of guilt as she knew that she would only put more stress on him and distract him possibly even further, but Naga decided to make her presence known to the fuming tactician.

"Greetings fell one…" she drolly whispered into Robin's ear. She ended up getting the intended result; the man quickly screamed at the top of his lungs, comically flailing before falling out of his own chair. Naga herself had to resist the intense urge to break out laughing and maintain her stoic disposition, seeing Robin scramble on the floor to stand up.

"Urrggghhhhh… bloody Hell," he groaned once he righted himself, his back still facing Naga's form and fighting off his new dizziness. "Alright you smart arse, what made you think it's funny to—" He bit his tongue hard the moment he laid eyes on Naga, not even taking longer than a second to realize the perpetrator. "OH GODS!" Robin quickly recoiled away from the holy figure, right onto his own work table, crashing onto it and smashing it into pieces and causing everything on it to fall to the ground. At this point Naga was trying her best to not crack up at the poor man's luck and apparent ease of being startled.

"At ease, fell one," she assured him while trying to look as straight-faced as currently possible. "I am not here to visit harm upon your soul."

"Agggghhhhh…" If Robin wasn't disoriented any, he certainly was now. "G-good… eveniinnngg Y-your Grace… what c-can I… do for you?"

The Divine Dragon immediately scowled upon being called that, but quickly changed expressions before Robin could look at her clearly. "You can start by simply referring me to 'Nagi' instead of a title such as 'Naga'. I prefer being called by my birth name…"

"Oh, I didn't know that. I apologize for that, Nagi." Robin himself found it awkward to call such a heavenly being by their birth name especially someone who's apparently gone by a different name, but if she wanted him to do so then he wouldn't hesitate in the slightest. "It won't happen again."

"Fell one, ease yourself; it displeases me to see your usual persona suppressed in my presence."

"Er… I'm sorry about that. I, well, it's kind of awkward for me to do so I admit. But I should feel more comfortable around you given time." The man finally decided to actually stand up instead of sitting on the ground. Once he was back on his feet, the height difference between him and the Divine Dragon was made readily apparent; not only was 'Nagi' tall (a rarity for the majority of females in the army), his forehead slightly came up to right above her navel. "Whoa, you are really tall."

"I have been told…" the Manakete chuckled, something that went unnoticed by the tactician below her.

"No, seriously; I'm not exactly short either, but this is really surprising. I don't mean to offend, but a lot of the women here come up to my chin at most. Flavia is an exception though..." Robin stared at 'Nagi's' bare torso for a while before looking up to meet her eyes, catching a glimpse of her partially exposed bosom. 'Huh, for someone so divine she doesn't really wear much clothing to try covering hers—' the moment he thought this, realization hit him that he'd been staring at 'Nagi's' semi-bare torso longer than he should have. "Oh gods!" He quickly jumped back from the taller being in embarrassment. "I—I'm sorry, I didn't to—"

She couldn't take it anymore; she entered Robin's tent intending to start a serious conversation with him, but those tactics had to be thrown out the window with his numerous moments of hilarity, and so she ended up on the floor laughing rather loudly. Robin had managed to get out of his earlier panic quickly and was dumbfounded by the Divine Dragon's sudden outburst.

'Wow… I never would've imagined that she can actually laugh… and Gods she sounds so—' He didn't have much time to think another word as another voice called out from another tent.

"Hey, who's making noise over there?!" the voice loudly declared, causing Robin to jump a little. Chrom was nowhere near being a hard ass, but when he wanted to get some shuteye, he expected others to at least be decent enough to let him have it.

"Um, Nagi? Maybe we should… keep it quiet. People are trying to sleep, and we all need to get some rest for tomorrow." 'Nagi' did keep laughing, but she gradually quieted down and stood to compose herself.

"I apologize for that, but," she spoke while wiping tears from her eyes, "that was quite humorous. Apparently you can stare death itself in its eyes, but you are quite easily startled by the smallest of things?" Robin didn't know what to say to that, but the Manakete spoke again before he had the chance to. "Although, given your position in this army, I suppose that is understandable…" Once she had completely calmed her nerves, she took on a pure look of utmost seriousness, staring directly into the snow-haired man's hazel orbs with her own emerald ones. "I came here to speak to you of another matter, but I figure that I will have to postpone that particular talk for another occasion. Instead, you seem vastly immersed on this specific event with the Grimleal."

"Yeah…" he quietly agreed, getting himself together. "They have several villagers held hostage and are planning to sacrifice them to the Fell Dragon. Obviously I don't want that to happen, but they retreated into some rugged mountains. Not many of our soldiers are experienced with traversing this type of terrain, and horses are a definite no-go here. So naturally, fliers such as pegasus knights or wyvern riders seems like the best choice, but our spies in that area reported to a high number of bow users. I'm stuck between just winging it with either of my options here: if I decide not to deploy the fliers…"

"Then we would be at less of a risk when it comes to the bow users, but our own soldiers can possibly exhaust themselves heavily before we find the Grimleal through the mountains and they could be easily killed in the ensuing skirmish…"

"Exactly. And if I decide to deploy the fliers…"

"We would save much more time, waste less energy, and put less soldiers at risk, but bows are the bane of fliers everywhere…"

"And the Grimleal is known for their high numbers of magic users, meaning that they could also have potent wind magic at their disposal."

"Not to mention that pegasus knights would fare better against magical users but they are easily taken down by bows and not even their high magical resistance could help them against wind magic too much…" At this point 'Nagi' had decided to grab another stool and sit down to speak with the tactician, pulling up another one for the man to sit in.

"And wyvern riders are the opposite; they have good defense compared to pegasus knights, but they have a not so good resistance so magic would utterly destroy them and even bows can do sufficient damage to them."

"What of your infantry?"

"Some of them tend to be well rounded, but not many of them have good resistance against magic. As we all know the Grimleal are filled with magical users, mainly sorcerers and dark knights who have good defense and resistance in general. We have an extremely low amount of them on our side too, and to speak nothing of the few magical users we do have? Their often poor defenses would get them easily killed by the Grimleal's own physical attackers such as berserkers. And many of our own non-magical soldiers aren't equipped with weapons that can be used at a distance, while the enemy have many soldiers who are provided with means of properly dealing with targets from a range. Sorcerers are especially a problem."

"They can effectively take cover in any vantage point, which are numerous, and utilize Mire tomes to safely strike unaware victims while the foremost soldiers can deal with the army…"

"Something that Validar proved to us when we had to escape Plegia Castle. Before that point we never had to deal with Mire users, but once we came to face them we were put in quite a difficult spot. And Gods help us if we have to deal with Risen."

"They oft possess higher power than their human brethren, and they do not possess emotion that would otherwise hold them back in carrying out an order. Risen Chieftains are secondary commanders who possess a level of intelligence usually reserved for military leaders…"

"And the Deadlords, while only twelve in number, also displayed intelligence that scarily rivaled my own. I would not like to face them again, especially if they've been empowered by the Grimleal even further."

'Nagi' could see why the tactician was so conflicted in who to send for this mission. It was almost as if he was lost within the vast recesses of his own mind rather than actually speaking to her, even if he was doing just that. Fortunately for him, she was also something of a tactician, although not officially. She had just a solution for this type of mission.

"Perhaps instead of sending the majority of this army into the mountains, we should gather the most elite of it to deal with the Grimleal. And instead of worrying over which units to send, we should send all of them. Each type of elite soldier we send can cover for another's weakness."

Robin's ears perked up upon hearing 'Nagi' suggest just using a small number of soldiers to combat what was possibly a swarm of Grimleal cultists waiting to spring a trap on them. "How would that work? We'd have to gather some really good soldiers for this mission, especially considering that they could be even more powerful with Grima's influence. And since Grima commands the Risen directly, we'd be in big trouble if we had to come to blows with the Risen. Plus, the Grimleal are capable of doing the same thing of covering for the weaknesses of their own units. Not to mention that the hostage villagers would also be at risk in getting caught up in the conflict."

"That is still a simple answer; we gather the best soldiers we have. Those of the thief line are skilled at function as espionage units. We still do have spies in the mountains where the Grimleal reside do we?"

"Y-yes but…"

"We can utilize the spies we have out there to find out where the hostages are located, send assassins and tricksters to infiltrate the area, and smuggle the villagers out of the Grimleal's vicinity before we engage them in combat..."

"They could also have spies that guard against our own spies."

"If that is a case we must use a distraction that is guaranteed to gather the attention of those spies as well and lead them away from where the hostages would be located. If that is not possible, then we send only the most qualified to deal with them. Once they have been taken out of the picture and the villagers are in the arms of safety, we can engage the main forces in combat."

"Heh, I'm starting to like where this is going. At least I'm not the only one who can come up with such a plan." The Divine Dragon could only chuckle in a sense of pride; she still hasn't lost her touch of warfare after all of these years.

"Berserkers and warriors are skilled in trekking through mountainous regions. They are also often used to deal with soldiers with a poor defense, namely healers such as valkyries, war monks, and war clerics, despite the foremost and sages having lower defenses by comparison. We can lure them into a location that would certainly trap those units with the healers…"

"And then…?"

"At that instant we strike them from higher ground with offensive magic. Sages perform stellar when it comes to magic and many berserkers and warriors are inclined to attack war monks and war clerics because of their common deployment as healers. They will also be capable of striking back with well forged bolt axes should the need arise."

"That's extremely clever, but if that area is supposed to be difficult to navigate through then how will they get out?"

"That is where the fliers will come in. They will transport the healers out of the area to safer locations. If they can be deployed on the battlefield then they will be in a way that they are not in serious risk."

"Alright then, but what about the heroes? They have a decent resistance and they're physical attackers."

"They shall be dealt with by our own equally defensive units such as sorcerers or dark knights. They former will still have a higher resistance than defense but they will not target the heroes' defenses, and the latter have a higher defense than resistance while being more magically inclined when attacking. I advise giving the latter levin swords to deal heavy damage to the axe wielders and any type of tome in case swords are out of the question; the former should preferably be equipped with a Nosferatu tome for close combat and Mire to pick off further targets."

"And if those are out of the question?"

"Then retaliate with units who have an advantage against swords and axes while having high defenses, especially great knights. Since many heroes do not use magical weapons great knights should have no problem attacking them unless an armourslayer sword or a hammer comes into play. Even in those cases they have the option of countering hammers with swords since hammers do have a low accuracy thanks to their weight, and while armourslayers are more accurate they still have a problem against lance users, a weapon type that great knights have access to."

Robin could only stare at the Divine Dragon in a newfound sense of wonder "Wow… I haven't heard of anyone else plan that far ahead. Those units may or may not even show up and you're still coming up with plans to counter them. Most wouldn't even consider doing that and prefer to make up plans on the go but the fact that you are shows how far ahead you can plan in advance for any situation." 'Nagi' chuckled in response to the man's compliments.

"When you have been around for as long as I have then you learn how to plan for anything at any moment, even before the battle begins or even in the absence of war. Such planning takes long work but it will surely aid you in the distant future. You are quite the master strategist, but as they say there is always more room for learning and improvement."

"Those are things that I need to keep this army's soldiers from dying, to win this war..."

"Yes, they can help accomplish those goals. But you must remember this: rest while you can. Do not stress yourself to the point that you yourself are too exhausted to carry out your own strategies. And while no deaths on this side of the war is truly a great blessing, the future is unpredictable and we have no way of knowing if we will succeed, or if we can prevent the deaths of those close to us…"

Robin was silent upon hearing the last statement; it was true that while he wanted nothing more than to see everyone through this whole mess safe and sound, he had to accept that tragedies can happen despite all of the planning put into any given strategy.

"Death is not something that should be treated lightly fell one, but it seems to be easier to do so for those we do not know. Often times the soldiers in this army pray for safety in a battle and for the safety of those close to them, which in itself is similar to not praying for the same for their enemies or anyone outside of their own personal enclave… they fight only for those they care for, often at the cost of others and with little consideration as to why their enemies fight, believing they are in the right…"

The man cringed listening to 'Nagi's' thoughts on death. He admittedly didn't display much sympathy for his enemies in the beginning, but over time he took a good look at himself and viewed the war in a different light. He was a tactician, someone who had to strategize the army's every move, someone who had to plot out the death of an individual or even a group of people because of their position in a war with little consideration for their reasons being there, someone who had to plan how to bring down an entire empire that did not fit with the views of those he worked with and possibly sending an entire continent into a power vacuum like it was before when it split, someone who simply had to systematically annihilate an entire religion because they worshiped the Fell Dragon regardless of their own reasons and that the object of worship essentially had to be sealed away/destroyed. But he did what he had to do to win the war for those he cared about, for the people they cared about in turn, all while not taking a second glance at the enemy.

"It is only natural to feel such an emotion, human or not, but how some feel about death varies depending on who it is that died, as well as the cause for it. I still remember why the dragons and humans of old had perished in their wars against each other and why they had participated; I myself had disagreed with my own brethren with their ideals towards humanity, and I fought against them while devising a way to guard humanity against them. I even had one of my own flesh and blood sealed away to prevent her from turning like the rest of the dragons, and I had even instructed my closest adviser to kill her should she degenerate and turn upon humanity." 'Nagi' paused for a bit before continuing on, observing Robin's expression. His face appeared neutral, but she could tell that he was having some difficulty taking this all in, his thoughts most likely being that of shock at her revelations. "However, I will never forget the cause the dragons and the humans had for their wars, nor the sacrifices they have made; I will never forget all of my own kin that I essentially had slain for the humans' sake regardless of their reasons for hunting them nor the humans who fought to simply protect themselves from my kin whether they failed or not, and I will never forget the eternal pain and loneliness I had inflicted on my daughter Tiki, my sweet, beautiful, and compassionate daughter, simply to protect the humans against her and for her own good. That is why I still guide humanity, and it is why I breathe; I will continue to fight to bring this world closer and to eliminate the need for fighting in this world aside from friendly competition, to end suffering, to make sure that all of the sacrifices made will not be in vain, to make sure that those who died will never be forgotten, and to give my daughter a chance at being truly happy in her life. I cannot ask you to feel sympathy for your enemies in this war, for that is your choice, but I wish for you to make sure that their deaths are not simply seen as inconsequential. Do not treat death as something that is meaningless, even if it is not an ally or innocent. Do not treat another's sacrifice as inconsequential."

Robin took in everything she said, and if he ever thought it was not possible to revere 'Nagi' even more, he was proven wrong. And that was when he saw 'Nagi' in a different light: not as a Goddess who simply does what is right, but a Goddess who had feelings and always put the needs of others above her own, somewhat akin to him. He slowly nodded after a while, renewing his promise to end this war as quickly and as less violent as possible. "Alright, Nagi. I'll forever remember to fight not just for the Shepherds' sake, but for the world." 'Nagi' looked into Robin's hazel eyes and saw that he had meant every word, smiling radiantly at the young man.

"I could not ask more from you. You truly are a man like Marth was in his years of life…" Feeling that she needn't trouble Robin any further for the night, 'Nagi' stood to her feet and motioned to leave Robin's tent. "I feel more at ease knowing that there is someone like you in this army… but I must ask one more thing of you… get some rest, you've already done enough planning for the day if I assume that you have been up making strategies since dawn." Robin did blush at that statement; she was right, he was indeed a workaholic who was up as early as possible and stayed up as late as he could.

"R-right, Nagi."

"I shall visit you again, tomorrow to discuss more matters with you. But for now, I shall bid you a good night's rest, tactician…"

"Heh, good night then, Nagi…" Robin watched 'Nagi' as she walked out of his tent into the night. He could have sworn that her hips were actually swaying sensually, but he convinced himself that it was the sleepiness getting to him. He turned to his desk to blow out the candle before realizing that it had already broke. He panicked when he didn't find the candle but sighed a breath of relief when he saw it still standing upright on the ground. After dousing the flame he disrobed himself and climbed into his sleeping cot, thinking back on 'Nagi's' words. 'She actually called me by something else instead of "Fell One". And she said I was like Marth; maybe she was exaggerating, but getting praise like that from her of all people, I just can't help but smile at that, but I wonder what she came to speak to me about… oh well, we'll see each other more often it seems, so maybe I can get to know her more...' Those were his last thoughts before he drifted off into sleep, awaiting the sun of the next day.

Author's Departure Paragraph: that was the C Rank portion of the supports between a Male Avatar and Naga. For those of you who may have questions about the lack of specific names being mentioned, this was not meant to take others in consideration considering that they aren't too plot important. Another thing I want to get out of the way is that this story does not take place within the Re-Awakening continuity at all and functions more like it took place in the game continuity proper if you had used a male avatar (I refuse to use the term canon period because that term alone is extremely subjective from person to person). The story itself will have one branch off story to accompany it, but this is something of an isolated series. Other than that I hope you enjoyed this little story; this is Blue Sun Studios signing off the air!