Author Note: So I was kind of peeved that you could only recruit people's kids with only their Mothers or Chrom or m!Robin in Morgan's case. Like I understand it'd be a bit of a logistical nightmare given the multiple relationships possible between the kids and possible fathers but I was kind of like: YO WHY CAN'T LUCINA RECRUIT HER FREAKIN' FRIENDS. SHE RECOGNIZES THEM. [X] IS HER SIBLING! WORST SISTER EVER. Like, I haven't tried, because that would be like the MEANEST thing to do, but I'm pretty sure you could probably kill Cynthia by accident with Lucina if you're like the most horrible person in the world or something...Anyhoo, some word vomit on this topic, where its a bit of a combo of Lucina recruiting the others of the Future!Gang and the Fathers doing some of the recruiting as well.

It should be noted that some of the ships for this I am positively rabid about, others I'm a little 'meh, it was kinda cute'.

Fire Emblem Awakening (c) Nintendo

So here we go:

It takes about ten seconds for the sheer coincidence of the universe to hit Lucina. How fitting that only moments after mentioning her colourful cousin to her aunt, should his familiar, boisterous cries echo throughout the air.

Speak of the fell dragon and he appears, as the expression went.

The Shepherds move with such ease and coordination through the village, cutting their way through the bandits as Lucina runs up towards the village centre, where she is certain she saw someone familiar.

"RADIANT DAAAAWNNNNN!"

As per usual with Owain, she hears him before she sees him in all his loud, yellow garbed glory.

"Owain!" Lucina shouts towards him, running towards her cousin. Gods it seems like she has not seen him in forever - given how they had all been separated since arriving in the past. Two years alone in a past so vastly foreign and different from the world they grew up in - Lucina is sure that she is most definitely going to hear stories later.

Owain had not been expecting anyone to shout his name- much less know it. He was traveling incognito after all. So his instinctive reaction to turn was perfectly justified - and he did look pretty heroic, half-turned, most of his face covered in the blood of his enemies, his trusted sword Stabbity Death in hand.

"Lucina?!" his jaw dropping comically open at the sight of her. "What are you doing here?" he exclaimed, before hastily rearranging his features into a more composed manner. "I mean, Greetings fellow scion of the great hero, I greet you as kin and kind and -Father?!"

"Excuse me?" the knight in green armour says, blinking in confusion, before his gaze turns steely and he hurls the spear he's holding right through a man's chest - and Owain was cursing himself for not noticing him - before turning turning his kind gaze back on Owain.

He had not grown at all if his father had to keep saving him. What sort of hero was he shaping out to be if he still couldn't watch his own back?

"I'm not quite sure what's going on, but we'll talk later. And eat. Gods I'm so hungry..." the Viridian Knight groans with a sigh, before spurring his horse towards where Owain instantly recognizing a familiar silhouette and shouting.

His father's hair was messier than he remembered - almost as wild as his mother's - except Mom's hair was like that on purpose...

"Blood... Boiling!" Owain declares with renewed passion before looking towards Lucina. "Come cousin! Let us set forth and crash upon our foes like-" Owain trailed off as he noticed that his cousin was already in the thick of all the fighting, doing all of the aforementioned crashing and crushing of evil that he had been about to describe in vivid detail.

Well no matter, he decided as he and Stabbity moved to fight alongside Lucina and Falchion. It was good to have something and someone familiar to fight alongside again.

AN: Stahl/Lissa is not a ship I would go down fighting with, like it was sweet, but not diabetes inducing.

Up next is Inigo.