Time for Sully! I have to say Sully is one of my favorite characters in FE:A. I love strong female characters like that, I love the way she talks too. She's strong and but chill in a way. I'll stop fangirling over her and get started on the story now. -DBSKLOVER


Sully

"UGH!" Robin roughly pushed the flaps of their tent open as she entered. Sully who was sitting on her bed cleaning her weapons raised an amused eyebrow at the smaller woman. The smaller woman proceeded to her bed and sat punching her pillow. Sully put down her weapon and turned towards the woman with an smirk.

"Something up?"

Robin punched the pillow once more. "Chrom basically called me a man then ran away."

Sully roared with laughter and sat next to Robin, throwing an arm around her shoulder, "welcome to the club." Sully warmed up to Robin quite quickly after the amnesiac joined them. She still got a laugh whenever she thought of how afraid of her Robin was when they first met. Robin was assigned a tent with Sully and for the first week Robin tried to stay to her side of the tent never looking Sully in the eyes, Sully herself was quite entertained. Sully herself was trying to read the woman, she seemed to be quite a good tactician from what she had seen when she first met her but if all she could do was order people into battle while she safely in the back then she would personally kick the tactician out no matter how much Chrom might protest. She was surprised to see that the little amnesiac wasn't that bad with a sword and even knew how to use tomes. After finding work out diets and getting sick together they were best friends. Robin wasn't as tough as Sully but she understood Sully more than any of those sissy ladies of her childhood.

She had always been like this even as a child. As far as she remembered she was just like any other girls when she was little and when she was little every little girl was like every little boy, those where simpler times. Then they all reached age six, the little girls stopped playing bandit king one by one and started playing with flowers, Sully never saw anything wrong with playing bandit king and herself was never interested in flowers and sitting around. It was simple, she liked playing with the boys so she did. The other little girls didn't, they said ladies don't play with boys and that she was being spoiled being the only girl who played with the boys. Sully told them if they wanted to play with the boys then they could too but the girls left in a huff saying that she just didn't understand. Sully just shrugged it off because she really didn't understand, she preferred swordplay over house play so she did what she wanted, why would she do something she didn't like over something she did.

She continued to play with Chrom and the boys even as she got older. The other girls started dressing up doing their hair and wearing make up while Sully was still just Sully, with the same hair from her childhood. Sully got stronger too, being the only girl among a group of guys didn't make her weaker than anyone else, in fact she was stronger than most of them. Now moving into their teens she could still put even Chrom into a head lock and was moving up in ranks as a knight. Some of the girls were actually civil and talked to her now, though now and then she would get a weird girl that would get all blushing and fidget in her presence. She was just joking around with Chrom and the guys when a girl all dressed up in a frilly dressed, followed by a group of other girls in similar frilly dresses approached her. "Miss Sully, I know you come from a long line of knights but," she looked Sully up and down, "you're still a lady, you don't have to follow your father's footsteps."

Sully raised an eyebrow, "what makes you think I'm doing this to impress my pops? He didn't want me doing this either, I'm doing this because I want to."

The lead girl scoffed, "what kind of lady would want to be a knight?"

"Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't be a knight. Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't like what I do, it doesn't make me any less of a girl."

"Please, you still consider yourself a woman, you're a barbaric man with the face of a woman."

"Now that's enough," Chrom, who had been sitting silently during this exchange, stood up to defend Sully. "Sully can do whatever she wants, anyone can be anyone they want in Ylisse. Who are you to dictate how someone is supposed to live?"

The girl so startled being scolded by Chrom ran away crying. Her friends chasing after her trying to comfort her. Sully didn't know why but her heart began speeding up as she looked at Chrom. In front of her was still the scrawny Chrom, who's voice was still cracking, and all he did was say a couple of words in her defense but she couldn't calm her heart. "Chrom are you sure about that," one of the guys in their group whispered to Chrom, "wasn't that the girl you liked?"

"I didn't like her, I just thought she was cute," Chrom waved picking up his sword. "Besides I like girls who are benevolent leaders and she was more of a bully." The guys all began teasing Chrom about he would never get a girl acting like that but Sully was surprised. Chrom had liked a girl? She had never really thought of Chrom as a guy but the idea of him liking another girl left a bad taste in her mouth. After that she noticed that a lot of girls would giggle and glance whenever Chrom walked by. He never noticed but she noticed every single one of them. Sully rolled her eyes when one of the girls "accidentally" bumped into Chrom, he being oblivious as ever helped the girl steady herself and smiled before she left. When she looked closer she had to admit Chrom was pretty handsome but shook that thought off when she remembered this was the same guy she had made cry when they were little.

Sully didn't know why but she found herself staring at Chrom a lot more often then not. She tried everything from scolding herself to actually slapping herself to get her to stop the weird habit. She would not touch the subject on how she felt about Chrom, until one day when they were sparing he finally beat her. He helped her to her feet huffing but smiling, "I finally beat you!"

"You got lucky," Sully mumbled rolling her shoulders.

"No I didn't I've been working out, here feel," he insisted offering is flexed arm.

"Oh please, that ain't nothi-," Sully stopped mid sentence when she felt his arm. It was pretty fit, she looked at the rest of him and wondered when did the boy in front of her turn into a man.

"Pretty solid huh," he smiled at her and Sully noticed how close their faces were and stepped back. She turned her back and walked away from Chrom without another word. "Hey Sully, don't be such upset, your still a lot stronger than me." Sully wasn't listening. She had just realized, in that moment, that she had fallen in love with her childhood friend Chrom.

She had managed to act pretty normal from then on but the girls that giggled whenever Chrom was around were getting more and more annoying. She was never more grateful that Chrom had the overprotective Fredrick around. She began to wonder if she should dress more girly or focus more on her looks when she noticed that most of the other girls in her barracks always at least touched up their hair before heading out. That thought was brushed aside when Chrom came to her with the idea of the Shepherds and he wanted her to be one of the first ones to know. Sully's pride swelled at that, the other girls can dress up all they want but she would be the one at Chrom's side. No one knew Chrom better than she did, they practically had the same minds. So what if she wasn't a woman in his eyes, a woman wouldn't be able to stand by his side and fight for him. She accepted that she wasn't a woman in Chrom's eye. That was until Robin appeared. Sully knew that Robin was a gifted tactician but she missed the days when she and Chrom would plan their next attacks. Chrom would look so excited whenever Robin would finish his thoughts and then rush to draw it down on the map. Sully was a good fighter, no doubt about that but was that good enough to secure her position at Chrom's side. Sully hated it but part of her resented every time Chrom would announce that Robin would be fighting by his side. Sully liked that Robin was so similar to her, Chrom didn't think of her as a woman either but unlike Sully she resented the fact that Chrom didn't see her as a woman. Sully tried to calm the woman down saying, "hey once Chrom see's you as a man, you stay a man in his eyes." At least that's what Sully hoped, she hoped that Chrom didn't see Robin as a woman, because if he did, he would probably fall in love with her.

"SULLY!" She had forgotten that she was on the battlefield thinking of that fear again and failed to notice an arrow coming right at her. The one who had screamed her name was Chrom and he was also the one to shove her out of the way in time. Virion who was standing not far behind took no hesitation to shoot the other archer down.

When Sully got over the shock of being pushed over she cracked her eyes open to see Chrom was still on top of her. She blushed when she noticed that Chrom had his arms wrapped around her, she could smell sweat coming off of him along with a scent that belonged to Chrom alone. "C-Chrom?" She asked nervously when he made no move to get up.

"Unnh," she heard Chrom moan.

"You freakin' pervert," Sully screamed shoving Chrom off her. Once her blush and embarrassment died down she noticed that Chrom still hadn't stood up after she shove him off her. Lissa ran over to her brother and turned him around to see that there was a large gash down his back. He had been scrapped by the arrow, seeing how deep the gash was Sully felt guilty shoving him off like that. But before she could reach him the healers were already around him taking him back to camp. She could only stare at the spot where Chrom was when an arm on her shoulder snapped her out of her thoughts.

"Are you hurt, Milady," Virion looked her up and down searching ferociously for an injury. He let out a large sigh of relief when he saw that she was unharmed. "That barbarian attacking such a beautiful creature as yourself," he muttered menacingly under his breath.

Sully raised an eyebrow, she didn't know that a frilly guy such as Virion even had that side to him. "Calm down Ruffles, people try to kill me all the time, that what it means to be a soldier."

"Well, you are still a lady an no gentleman would every even try to harm a lady."

Sully scoffed, "I've been a soldier before I'm a lady, I can watch over myself."

"You're a lady to me." Virion stared straight into her eyes.

"Wow, I've never seen you so serious Ruffles," this side of Virion was making Sully nervous. Normally he seemed more of a woman than her but seeing him this serious, he was starting to look like a man. "Are you saying that you're going to protect me from everyone that tries to kill me from now on," she joked.

"Yes." Virion had answered her so seriously Sully didn't know what to say.

"Sully, Chrom wanted to see you," Robin approached the two, "I'm sorry was I interrupting something?"

"Do not worry milady, your sweet voice could never be an interruption. I will lead our sweet Sully there myself," Virion smiled kissing Robin's hand before leading Sully towards Chrom's tent.

Sully steeled herself. In all the years she had known Chrom she had never apologized to him before. This would be the first time, ever. But as soon as she stepped into the tent Chrom was glaring at her. "What where you doing, how could you have been so careless."

Feeling the offense she began attacking back out of habit. "Well, who told you to jump in front of that arrow?"

"What, are you seriously criticizing me for saving your life?"

"Well that wasn't what I was trying to do, you attacked me before I could say anything. I came here to apologize you idiot."

"Well, that wasn't a very good one."

"Well then I'll just take it back and get out of your way." Sully stormed out of the tent when she bumped into Robin.

"I'm sorry I wasn't eavesdropping I really was just passing by," Robin said holding up a fig. Sully was too annoyed to talk to her and began walking away. "Wait, Sully," She stopped in my steps and took deep breaths hoping she wouldn't accidentally take out her anger on Robin. "I know Chrom sounds really mad but that was only because he was really worried for you. He was asking if you were okay as soon as he woke up."

Sully nodded, feeling a little better but not enough where she felt it was safe for her to answer without snapping. She continued walking and heard Lon'qu cry out and turned around to see him holding his head and noticed Robin with one fig less. She smiled, she liked Robin for a reason. She was too busy looking back at Robin attacking Lon'qu with figs she didn't see Vaike in front of her.

"AUGH!" On closer inspection she saw that Vaikes right arm was quite bruised up.

"Woah, don't tell me I did that."

"Ouch, technically you did," Vaike winced, "since everyone was busy taking care of Chrom, ol' Teach here had to take on the rest of the enemy single handedly."

Sully rolled her eyes, his story was obviously over exaggerated but she did still feel guilty about the arm, and then she noticed the bathing supplies. "I'll wash your back for you then, only your back."

"Fine, I'm not asking for anything else. Bathing with you is like bathing with a man. OUCH! See?! This is what I mean."

Sully was scrubbing Vaike's back when Chrom came to apologize. He walked in nervously, "hey, um, Sully?"

Sully wasn't mad anymore but she continued to scrub Vaike's back, "hm?"

"I, I just wanted to say sorry for going off on you like that. You know I'm only like that because I was really worried for you, right?"

Sully stopped her scrubbing and sighed, "yeah, I know Chrom."

"So do you forgive me?"

Sully turned to face Chrom and smiled, "yes, all is forgiven."

"Wow, Teach's back is magic or somethin' patchin' up friendships just like that." Sully whipped Vaike's back with the towel. "Ouch!"

Chrom was chuckling when they heard Robin and Lon'qu outside. "Leave me alone woman, this is the men's bathing tent."

"Wait just let me see the injury, I didn't mean to throw it at your head that hard."

"If you didn't mean it why did you do it three more times?"

"Heh, sorry about that. Hey, wait!" Robin had leaped at Lon'qu's back trying to stop him and that did it, the man froze in the spot.

Chrom rushed over to them and ripped Robin away from Lon'qu's back. "Robin, a woman can just cling to a man like that," Sully was surprised Chrom was actually treating Robin like a woman. "And following a man to the men's bathing tent, what were you thinking?"

"Say's the guy who walked in the women's bathing tent," Robin struggled out of Chrom's arms and stood facing him with arms on her hips. While Chrom was busy blushing she turned to chase the speed walking Lon'qu who had tried to escape. "Wait, Lon'qu at least let me check the bruise at your temple!"

"Robin, Robin," Chrom called after her, "don't chase after another man unless you're going to kill him!" He then proceeded to chase after Robin.

Vaike whistled, "who would have ever thought we'd see the day Chrom would get jealous over a woman." Sully began scrubbing Vaike's back again. It was true, she'd never seen this jealous side of Chrom before. He was jealous just because Robin hugged a man's back and here she was scrubbing a man's back. "Ouch, don't scrub so hard!"

"What in heaven's," Virion exclaimed when he walked in the tent to see Sully scrubbing Vaike's back. "How can you be so brutish to make a lady such as herself scrub your back."

"Teach's wearing a towel."

"I don't care if you're fully clothed, here Sully dearest let me do this dirty work," Virion pushed Sully out of the tent.

"I'm fine it was my fault he was hurt in the first place I was just repaying a debt, nothing was going on."

"It wasn't your fault he got hurt and still you're a lady, a lady should never have to step into a man's bathing tent."

"Chrom doesn't seem to think I'm a lady, heck, he held a conversation with me in the men's bathing tent. He see me as another man."

"Not true, when he saw that arrow aimed at you he ran quite a distance from Robin's side to save you," Sully's eyes opened in shock, she hadn't known that. "I of course ran to save you too but Lord Chrom beat me to it. Though I am quite jealous, I am still grateful to him. I've come to the point that my life would be meaningless if you aren't within my sights." With that he walked back into the tent. "No this dirty old sponge will get you no where, here this handkerchief will do much better."

"Woah, you ain't touchin' Teach's back with that bit o' lacce."

"Please, it's silk." Sully smiled as she walked back to her tent. The next few days went by without further problems. Until one battle where Robin and Chrom happened to split up routes. They would lead two teams and meet in the middle after passing the mountains. Chrom had chosen her for his team and their route was pretty clear, enough for them to joke on the path. When they saw Robin's group approaching in the distance Sully saw the smile of relief on Chrom's face. He rushed to her, eyes on her the whole time. When he got close he saw a pegasus knight aiming his lance at Robin from behind. Sully was the one to take down the the pegasus rider this time and the rest of the Shepherds braced themselves for the ambush. Like what happened with Sully Chrom shoved Robin out of the way of the lance the pegasus knight threw. But luckily, unlike with Sully they made it clear of the lance. And unlike with Sully when Chrom shoved Robin over he took the extra precaution of cradling her head to his chest to avoid her head from hitting the ground and she could see even from that distance that his hand would be bruised.

Instead of rising immediately he held Robin's head at a small distnce to look her in the face and ask, "are you okay?" Robin nodded nervously before flipping them over to stab at a risen that had tried to attack them. From that distance she could see Chrom was blushing even as Robin helped him up, probably because of the fact that Robin had flipped and straddled him. Sully was getting the uneasy feeling that while he still didn't see her as a woman, he was starting to see Robin as one.

Her worries were proven true when Robin came back into their tent one night blushing. "What's up with you," Sully asked. Robin's eyes widened as if she was caught doing something wrong, then a blush settled into her cheeks.

"Um, Chrom... he proposed to me," Robin covered her face blushing. "I always thought he just thought of me as one of the guys."

"Wow, so that guy really got the guts to do it huh," Sully laughed trying to remind herself to breath evenly. "Well, I'm just going to go for a walk, don't wait up."

"Sully, wait," Robin called out, "I'm sorry, I always kind of knew you liked Chrom..."

"Me like Chrom," Sully laughed, "When I look at him I still see the snot nosed kid I grew up with."

"But-"

"No buts that's gross, Chrom is like my best guy bud."

"Are you sure?"

"Of course, guys like Chrom aren't even my type."

"Oh," Robin said as if she realized something, "so that's why you are always with Virion."

That really surprised Sully. "How'd Ruffles come into this?"

"Well, I always wondered why you allowed him near you all the time considering he didn't seem like your type but now..."

"No, no, no. I'm not talking about this." Sully walked out of their tent and right into Chrom's chest. "Chrom!"

"Oh hi Sully, I just wanted to talk to Robin about something," he said rubbing the back of his head nervously blushing. "You know, just talk, about strategy stuff."

"Relax, I already know."

"You do?"

"Yeah, congrats. No one would make a better queen then Robin."

Chrom smiled gently at Sully, "thank you, your approval means a lot to me." He placed an arm on her shoulder. "You are one of the most important people in my life, I'm glad I could share this happy moment with you."

"Don't get all sappy with me Chrom," Sully joked swiping Chrom's hand off her shoulder, "well, I'm going on a walk, don't have too much fun, it's my tent too."

"Sully!"

Sully walked away laughing but when she was far enough she stopped. Her smile dropped and she broke into a run. She tried to run fast enough to keep her eyes dry but it wasn't working. She tripped over a rock and pounded the ground. The only man she ever loved was marrying someone else, he hadn't even seen her as a woman. Sully continued to pound the ground, she hated herself for being like this, if she had only worked on being a lady when she was younger. Maybe Chrom would have been her's then...

"What do we have here?" Sully looked up and between her tears she could see bandits. She must have ran quite the distance without noticing and she cursed herself when she realized she had no armor or weapons. She stood up ready to fight, there was six of them but she was more fit than all of them. She managed to take down four of them when two of them attacked her at the same time. Each of them held an arm down while one of them reached for a dagger with his free hand. As he raised it over her an arrow shot him in the neck. Sully looked to the side to see that it was Virion.

He leaped over at the bandits with speed she had never seen from him before rip the arrow out of the dead bandits throat and attack the other bandit. They struggled with each other for a bit before Virion got a punch in and planted the arrow in his hand into the other bandits neck. Sully could only stare in shock, she had never seen him fight with his hands before and was surprised he could take down a bandit let alone two.

He turned back to her completely out of breath. "Are you okay," he managed to wheeze out. She nodded still in shock. "I -huff- saw you -huff- running -huff- and -huff- so fast -huff huff-" He crouched down hands on his knees, he was out of breath, his hair was in disarray and his ruffled shirt was all ripped up but Sully thought he had never looked as much of a man as he did then. "I'm so glad you're okay," he smiled when he got his breath back, "my world would have been lost without you." Sully didn't know why but she felt the tears in her eyes again and hid her face in his shirt. He chuckled a little before holding her gently and patted her back comfortingly.

"You didn't have to be so hard on her dearest," Virion sighed watching their daughter run out of the house crying.

"No, is no. I don't want her on a horse, it's too dangerous," Sully said crossing her arm.

"Didn't your father tell you that when you wanted to become a knight, what have happened if you had listened to him, hm? We probably wouldn't be here together, today." He said wrapping his arms around her.

"Too bad," Sully teased leaning back against him. She then looked at him and groaned, "ugh, are you seriously wearing that apron again?"

"Yes, I was just getting dinner ready, when I heard Kjelle crying."

"That ridiculous apron makes your ridiculous clothes look even more ridiculous."

"Hn, then should I take of my clothes?"

Sully rolled her eyes and was going to turn around to punch him when she heard Inigo outside.

"Kjelle, my sweet, why are you crying? Here cry into my shoulder, I'll hold you."

"What is that boy doing," Virion asked in a dark tone, Sully thought Virion looked most like a man when he was being protective of his daughter even in a frilly apron.

"You know what they say, girls tend to marry guys who are like their father, though I don't know how I ended up with you." Sully smirked leaning on the wall waiting for what was going to happen.

"Over my dead body."


Yup, I paired Sully with Virion because they were together when the game first started. And Virion would seem like just a flirt if you didn't pair him with Sully. He follows Sully the forget about her for another girl? uh uh I know a lot of people don't like Virion and normally I would dislike character like him but idk I like him and I think he's a good pair for Sully. A strong woman with a frilly man, they balance each other out. And imagine how fun it would be seeing how people react to them out together out in public. Yeah, Sully looked kinda weak in the end but hey even strong people have their weak moments and she did take out 4 people to Virion's 2. This is a little longer than the other chapter but there's more RobinxChrom in this chapter. I'm really considering that Chrom as a jealous husband version after I finish this, even have a Tharja story ready in my head LOL -DBSKLOVER