Disclaimer/Author's note: A collection of shorts that take place in the same world as Superimpose, if the summary didn't make it clear enough. I'll add more when I feel like it, and then stop adding more when I stop feeling like it. No pressure. Pressure's something I can't let bear down on me nowadays.
I was in no way responsible for the production or development of Fire Emblem Awakening, obvs.
Owain likes stories, but when the world starts to fall apart from the outside in, he begins breathing them, instead. It's easy, in the way that weakness always is. Stories, fairy tales, legends and epics—they make sense. They have an order to them. There is the calling, and the quest, and the path from then to there. In the end, the monster falls.
And the hero—
Owain knows all the steps, has practiced his lines and watched the scene play out over and over again beneath his eyelids till he could breathe that, too. It'll be raining, he's certain of it. An unnatural storm, to herald the final cry of a twisted fate and the ascension of a new future—but that won't come until later. It'll be before that, before then, that his scene will come, as he stands tall alongside his father, staring the fell dragon down as he was never able to alone—
The attack will come for his father, the greater threat to the dragon's machinations, and Owain knows what he'll do. He'll step in, to parry—and Missiletainn will shatter, but it'll be distraction enough, even as he falls, for his father to deal the final blow and seal away the fell beast once and for all.
And afterward, as he lies cradled in his father's arms, a content smile to his face, his trusted friend will slip from loosening hand for one last time, and a future that should never have been will see its own quiet passing.
And then he breaks his ankle outside the Dragon's Table, too late for a healer, and they make him sit the battle out. He's far enough to watch with safety as the altar collapses—as Grima awakes—as the second dragon rises after.
The Shepherds come back without his father, but that makes sense, too. Owain was never the protagonist anyway.