"Don't go through life, grow through life." -Eric Butterworth

Opening my eyes from, dare I say it? A good nap, I found myself looking at a teddy bear that was about the size of, well, me. I suppose everything should have settled with me now but it just didn't. I was angry and frustrated. I was supposed to be taller than this! I wasn't supposed to be as tiny as an ant!

Annoyed with what I was now, I sat up and attempted to punch the toy. Attempt, as in I lost balance and tumbled onto my front. I was angry, I was so very angry. I-I couldn't even make a little s-swing without f-falling a-a-a-a-nd!

I sniffled. That sniffle became a second sniffle, and that became a third, a fourth, and by the fifth I was bawling my eyes, crying because of a way too stupid reason. I was helpless, which meant I couldn't be independant just yet. I couldn't walk because this body was too frail at this age. What was I supposed to do now? Wait until I got older? I had experienced growing up once already, and it felt like forever until the point where I reached the point of two decades, was I really cursed to go through it again?

So there I was in a sky blue painted crib, a teddy bear beside my form, shaking with foolish sobs. If I still had my adult body I would have looked like an idiot.

"Hey there Lucina! Why do you look so upset?" I looked up from my place and saw a young blond haired woman, her hair in two high pigtails, wearing a yellow dress. She picked me up, layed me on my back, and gasped dramatically. "Is this big, mean teddy bear scaring you?" She moved the teddy bear around, and while I felt as if I should have scowled at what she was doing, because I most certainly was not a child, I sat there and took a moment to appreciate her. She wasn't really obligated to take care of me.

I smiled. "See? Beary doesn't seem so scary, now does he?" She placed, Beary, as she had dubbed him, next to me and started to poke him in every other direction so he would sway. She also made random sound effects like explosions or the sound when something whizzes by your face really fast. I giggled a few times I'll admit.

This woman, I could tell was the social butterfly type. Obviously she was good with kids, although a bit overdramatic. She looked like the kind of person who would shake off bad emotions easily, but I didn't know if that was a good thing. Or was she the type who simply had a grand limit to what they could take?

"Really Lissa?" Looking towards my door I found my father. He didn't look surprised, but he didn't look displeased with, what did he call her? Lissa? He didn't look displeased with Lissa, but he looked kind of happy. Maybe Lissa was a good friend of his. His tone was quite teasing, almost as if he did or didn't expect her to be so ridiculous with his child.

"Well of course!" She humphed, placing her fists on her waist. "As Lucina's aunt it's my job to spoil her! See, look how much fun she's having with that bear right now!" I turned away as quick as this uncoordinated body allowed me to and pretended to be playing with the bear like, 'Aunt Lissa,' said. It was mostly just moving my arms around it and a little babble talk. I suppose Aunt Lissa looked quite smug.

"Well, I suppose Lucina likes it, right my little princess?" Father walked over to my crib and started poking my belly lightly, trying to get a giggle or two out of me. I didn't mean to do his will of course. "We'll make sure you have a good home." He whispered.

At that time I wanted nothing more than for his words to be true, and yet as time pased I believed those words less and less with each passing day.

There were many other occasions I could often see my family. Father and Mother would come regularly, many a time dressing me in many of small dresses or onesies, or playing with me and telling me stories.

Aunt Lissa would come and play we me about once a month, and sometimes brought a tall man with her. He had short, spiky, brown hair, and dark pointed eyes. His clothing was strange but I guess I'd compare it to a japanese yukata of some sort.

Observing them became a hobby whenever they came over and it was pretty fun actually. She'd always tease him about something and his face would turn beet red. It was amusing to say the least. I later learned he was my Uncle.

"Oh honey lighten up! I'm only joking!" Aunt Lissa pouted.

"Be silent, woman!" He muttered, embarrassed. It was always hard to imagine someone who looked so cool, could be so easily flustered, especially someone like Uncle, he was always so calm and collected unless he was with Aunt Lissa, then would he smile so carelessly and it was easily known he greatly loved her. Whenever I looked at the two of them I thought Aunt Lissa was Uncle's sun on a rainy day.

"Come on Lon'qu!"

Lon'qu….. That wasn't the same as what I was thinking about right….? I looked over at Uncle again. It couldn't be….! Yet, no matter how much I wanted to convince myself it wasn't the same, I couldn't deny the similarities.

Lon'qu was the name of the unit I had my Avatar, Jasmine, marry in a playthrough of a videogame my little brother once convinced me to play. What was it called, Fire Emblem….Something…. had only passed through Chapter 17 when I decided to stop because my studies required more focus. God, that was more than a year ago at least!

…...My parents, the blue haired man, and the brown haired woman. They were Chrom and Sumia right? So made me exactly what they called me…. Lucina. Lucina, the daughter of the Exalt Chrom. That meant, either, I was born in the first timeline, or the second timeline, the one future Lucina changed for the better. I prayed, prayed to whatever gods or goddesses there were, that this was not the first timeline. As selfish as I might have sounded, I didn't want to live in a world where it was basically the zombie apocalypse, where I would have to go through years of brokenness and death, until the day I would go back in time and save an entire world! I didn't know if I could carry such a great weight on my shoulders. I wasn't in any way strong, even before I was reincarnated. I was always inside usually reading books, or studying. I had gotten little to no exercise, and when I did it was dreadful for me considering the almost non-existent stamina I had. Most of all, I wasn't Lucina...

"Hey, Lucina's looking kinda sad. Maybe you should hold her hun?" Uncle Lon'qu merely grunted and seemed to agree…? It was kinda hard to read his face, when around me, I only saw a few emotions; embarrassment, irritation, impassiveness, and fear. Fear had confused me up until now, but now I knew this was a world where a videogame was real, it made sense. Lon'qu was a gynophobe, which meant he was afraid of the female gender, ergo me, but I didn't know if it really applied to a baby, although it seemed as if it did.

"I'd…. rather not."

"Bah! Nonsense, she'll love you! Come on!"

Uncle Lon'qu took very small steps to my crib, they seemed almost miniscule. Aunt Lissa pushed him too, but it only seemed to encourage him to walk slower than he probably would ever need to in his lifetime.

Me, still being in shock about where I was, plus my brain being rampant with baby hormones, was trying to suppress waterworks. I didn't know back then that whatever emotion I was undergoing would be amplified to such high levels, especially anger; I could throw some of the worst tantrums. So, when Aunt Lissa walked on past Uncle Lon'qu and snatched me up so she could thrust me into his arms, I started wailing.

"Urgh, please don't tell me she defecated…." He scowled and held me as far away as he could from himself.

Aunt Lissa took a moment to ponder and sniffed the air. She shrugged. "It doesn't smell like it. Maybe she's just as scared of you as you are to her. Why don't you smile for her?"

Uncle Lon'qu did as suggested, somewhat reluctantly, and spared me a small smile. Although, it did help me calm down, I started reaching for him, and he tried even harder to hold me further, but it was okay because it let me know he was a real person. Everything here, it wasn't a dream, since I had been living in it for more than a few months now. It wasn't just a game anymore, this was an entire world! These people were part of my new family, my new loved ones, and because of that I wished I had the capability to protect all of them.

This wasn't at all close to the moment when I had actually strengthened my resolve to the point where it might have been greater than the actual Lucina's, but I like to think it was just the seedling in the forest, and I owed it all to Aunt Lissa and Uncle Lon'qu for that.

Mother had tears forming on the corners of her irises, her chocolate eyes reflecting everything her soul had. Her hands were cupped to her mouth, covering it so no large hiccup could escape. Her body shook and her hair was going to become a mess at this rate. Her cheeks were becoming red, and at no point would I understand why she had started in the first place.

"Sumia…? Is something wrong dear?" Father asked once he had found her. It was interesting knowing my father was Chrom. For one, when Sumia- I mean Mother, was sad he looked like a kicked puppy, as much as it was strange to see. He was supposed to be a leader, although it was cute considering they were new parents, and Father was completely sympathetic and even empathetic in some situations with his lover. They very rarely fought.

"I-I-I-I…." She hiccupped. "I'M SO HAPPY!" Mother yelled. I wanted to cover my ears, but with my parents in the same room it probably wouldn't have been possible without them wondering when and where I learned to do it.

"Wh-what!?" Father took a small step back, maybe because of Mother's loudness. "I-Is there any reason as to why?" He asked, baffled. If I were in his situation, I probably would be as confused as he was, if not more.

"Lucy, can you please do it again for me? Please?" Mother asked once she had calmed down. I debated my choices, do as she asked or stay silent and unmoving? My choice was quite clear. Mother was a kind woman and only deserved the best. I couldn't be able to bare the look on her face if I hadn't.

I clapped my chubby hands together. "Maaaa…. Maaaaa!" I squealed happily. Mother smiled from ear to ear and laughed until tears came to her eyes once more. Father, looked frozen into shock, and slowly he gave an overjoyed smile and scooped me up into his arms, laughing like a happy madman.

"Lucina! You're doing so well! Can you try and say Papa for me? Papa? Paaa-paaaa?" I would have said sorry, but I continued laughing. "Come on Lucina! Please! Paaa-paaa?" I was in a gold mine. The leader of an entire halidom was pleading me to say a two syllable word. It was just too good. Even more, Mother was busting her stomach from laughing too hard.

I had to think of this in a more reasonable way. If I said both the words, "Mama," and, "Papa," would I be regarded as more than a dumb baby? No, I wouldn't. Was it too early to be moving? Well, no. It was normal for a baby to be crawling around when they were six to nine months old, but I started a month earlier. Was this too early for a baby to learn how to say two simple words? I wouldn't really know. I never took a course in high school or college that would help me learn how to be a mother or a nanny, I didn't even plan to have children. In fact, there were probably no consequences for me to try to be more than a baby, maybe I could be seen as a, what's it called? A prodigy? From what I knew there were no concerns that the Exalt's daughter could be exceedingly smart.

So I made one of the most disastrous decisions in all of my lives and said both the words, "Mama! Papa!"

Mother and Father were both ecstatic. I couldn't tell back then if they were surprised, they just looked happy. Maybe it was because they thought I would grow up to become a great young woman one day, or because it was all about them and parenthood. Maybe I was just trying to suppress the thought that I might be in a cataclysmic world, but I was so oblivious that I was already expected to do amazing feats for the lone reason, I was and am the daughter of the Exalt.

So there we have it. I wanted to get most of Lucina/OC's baby ages gone and done with, so I'm very sorry if it seems rushed. There's a small timeskip of a few months from birth to about when she's at least a year old, and know we know that Lucina knows about the game she was reincarnated in. She has absolutely no strength, no speed and no stamina, but that is to be expected. She was an introverted person in her past life and never got out of the house. Lucina is an individualistic child, so obviously she wants to have some sense of freedom and wants to be seen as a prodigy child, which will cause some of her problems in the future. The reason she chose Lon'qu as her husband is because she only thought he looked cool. Now if she finished the playthrough she might have been more serious about moving around! *Shakes head in hands* In the first chapter there was a major hint as to how she died so you should all probably know that, if not feel free to guess!

Question: Who did you pair your unit up with in your playthrough of Awakening?

My answer: I didn't really know about the whole the pairing up function until it was too late and I married Chrom. In my second playthrough I married Gaius.

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