Robin: Tactician, Gentleman, and Match Maker

Author's Note: Hey guys this is my first story so it is super crappy in my opinion, but hey you decide how crappy it really is. So I got the idea for this when I was thinking what it'd be like if Robin facilitated most of the relationships in Fire Emblem. Since this is my first story the beginning is pretty slow. Hope you enjoy.

Chapter 1

Robin's life could be considered hectic by some standards. People like Sully would say that his life was a skip and a hop away from happy fun time land whereas the recently acquired thief Gaius would say his life was the equivalent of walking through a pit of broken glass that was thinly layered over burning coal. At said moment Robin would probably agree with the latter.

Ever since Chrom, leader of the Shepherds, found our fine specimen of a man Robin face down in a field some time ago his life had become a hurricane of fecal (dookie) matter as he found that he had a knack for leading troops into battle and had extensive knowledge of tactics. And ever since his skills with tactics, sword, and tome had surfaced in front of Chrom at Southtown (Prologue) he had been proclaimed the Shepherd's Chief Tactician before he could ask Chrom who the dickens the Shepherd's were or why in Naga's green earth his hair was a color that seemed very unnatural. Despite this Robin now stood here in the aftermath of an assassination attempt against Exalt Emmeryn's life with two new recruits for the Shepherds, a woman with bitter feelings toward most "Man-Spawn" who was also quite scantily clad and a thief who had apparently been bribed into joining the Shepherds with a bag of candy. Back to the point, his life just became far more hectic as a man claiming to be the Hero King of Yore, Marth, had saved Chrom's life, helped in the defense in the Exalt, delivered a cryptic message of the future and then disappeared faster than Chrom had recruited the Amnesiac Tactician who currently had a tome placed in front of pantaloons so a certain Taguel wouldn't notice that his friend down under took notice to the fact that she didn't wear any pants.

After all was said and done it was decided that the Shepherds would escort the Exalt and the Fire Emblem itself to a more secluded location for their safety. As Robin had recently learned in his stay within Ylisse, just about everyone and their mother was going to try and ambush the Shepherds, and the fact that Emmeryn was with them only made things that much worse...

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Having been ambushed by many a wyvern rider and betrayed by what was thought to be a family friend of the royal family the Shepherds gain the Fire Emblem and Cordelia as Emmeryn heads back to Ylisstol and the Shepherds heed a distress call from a small village to the south and it is here that the author of this story tries to actually do more than narrate the story we all have played and come to love...

Robin had been told many times that his skull was as thick as the tomes he read, but Chrom took it to a whole different level. Even Robin could see that his Pegasus Knight Sumia was head over heels for him and after a... subtle conversation to goad out information, it was revealed that Chrom had no idea of her feelings

FLASHBACK

"Sooo Lord Chrom I was just walking through the camp and I just so happened to trip on a pebble when I realized that Sumia had tripped and fallen next to me. That is when I noticed that she truly is beautiful is she not?"

A bewildered Chrom simply sat with his trusted friend waiting for some kind of punchline or addition to what seemed like an incomplete sentence, but was met with silence.

"Errr Yes I suppose she is-" and at that moment the Exalt had a very large grin plastered to his face as he elbowed his tactician in the ribs.

"Oh ho ho so you're trying to get chummy with Sumia eh? Well if you'd like I could put in a good word for you since she talks to me quite a bit although she seems flustered when she talks to me..."

Apparently the esteemed leader of the Shepherds was a total dunce when it came to women. Not only that, but Robin had to throw Chrom off as he definitely didn't want him thinking that Robin had any sort of attraction to Sumia, not that she was unattractive or he had an aversion to her, but rather that he saw her feelings for Chrom and desperately wished to help a lovestruck fool in her quest to take the world of love by storm by getting her with his idiot of a friend. So in what he thought was a well constructed play of words he spun a web of lies that showed he had no feelings for Sumia, effectively letting Chrom know she was open after this conversation that would hopefully alert him to her feelings, and testing his mettle as a wordsmith which Gaius informed him he wasn't at one point. He felt that this sentence was by far the greatest lie known to man and that future historians would look back at this after Chrom had married Sumia and realize that this well thought out farce was what drove the King and Queen together. And so the web was spun...

"Sorry, but I think I'd rather be with that woman with the hoops for hair and has an aversion to "low born", Mary, Mara, Maribal, Maribelle! Yes that one, with her rude demeanor and superiority complex what isn't to like about her."

Yes with those sentences alone Robin proved that he could easily deceive another with a lie that was so convoluted that is was simply genius. It was fairly obvious that Chrom had taken the bait as well.

"Uh huh. So you have feelings for someone whose name you hardly remember, but also a woman who you have yet to say a nice thing about?"

"Of course. So back to the topic what do YOU think of Sumia. I personally believe that she has eyes for someone in our army. Yes a gallant man with a muscular build, good with a sword, and perhaps BLUE hair."

At his loud mention of blue hair the exalt began to think on the tacticians words when suddenly he erupted from his thoughts with an epiphany. A thought that would shake the very world to its core and forever change history. Or not.

"I understand now Robin! You came to me so that I might assist Sumia in courting this blue haired man! Well don't worry friend I won't let a fellow Shepherd down in battle or in Love!"

And with those words he flew from the tent with a determination that could rival that of Frederick trying to convince Chrom that posters with his Fleshy Falchion in all the tents was in fact a GOOD idea.

"It seems that if these two are to be together I myself with have to step in even after that masterful display of words including MaryBall."

Now Robin had a purpose as the trip to the small village was a good ways from where they were and by Naga a young woman in love would have her day with her Prince charming even if he was a total dolt.

END FLASHBACK

So now our bold tactician sits stewing in strategy for the soon to be battle against what he assumes to be bandits and in a strategy to give Sumia a chance with Chrom. In the few days that the Shepherds have traveled toward the village Robin has fought from the shadows to see Sumia reign in and mount her hypothetical blue maned Pegasus. At first he subtly suggested that Sumia go and bake Chrom a pie and give it to him. After about twenty failed attempts she finally created an edible one that she soon skipped off to feed to Chrom. Yes Robin's plan was flawless in the fact that he had no real plan besides force those two together as often as possible. With no real plan his plan couldn't possibly fail which was made his plan as genius as his earlier word play. His scheming was interrupted as a young man with what appeared to be a pot on his head barreled toward the Shepherds. After introducing himself as Donnie and then formally and Donnel he proceeded to tell that bandits had attacked his village and had some villagers prisoner including his mother. After convincing him to join their efforts to stop said bandits the Shepherds head off to battle.