Walhart and Aversa

C

Aversa: Walhart?

Walhart: ... What do you need.

Aversa: Dinner's ready. I was told to get you.

Walhart: I will not eat with them. I still have my pride. I will not eat the scraps of the victors.

Aversa: Walhart... Just because you lost doesn't mean you have to surrender everything-

Walhart: Yes it does. When one loses in war, there is no salvation. We lost, and so we can no longer fight for ourselves. We are slaves to those who conquer us, and that is how it has always been.

Aversa: Walhart... You really are a fool. Maybe we can't find the path we once followed... But that doesn't mean we can't find a new path.

Walhart: ... I can see you will not back down... Now that I am the conquered, I can not say my way is true... Perhaps I'll hear more of your ideals later. But for now, leave me be.

Aversa: Very well, then.

B

Aversa: Walhart, how are you? You're looking as mighty as ever.

Walhart: Spare me your idle flattery. What do you need?

Aversa: You said earlier that you wanted to hear more of my ideals.

Walhart: Yes. My ideas have been proven wrong, and you claim you have new ideals to follow.

Aversa: Correct. I was nothing more than a slave to Validar's ideas, and I never once thought for myself. It was always 'Master Validar wants this' or 'Master Validar needs me to do this'. Even after I regained myself, I still thought I was hopeless. Until Robin and Chrom found me. Together with their aid, I'm slowly starting to recover.

Walhart: I see... You really are quite a pathetic failure.

Aversa: Walhart!

Walhart: However, you are changing. I see a fire in your eyes that such a failure could never possess...

Aversa: You see? I can become someone new. And with enough support Walhart... You can, too.

Walhart: Perhaps you are right... Perhaps I can reform.

Aversa: I'll he right here, ready to help you.

Walhart: No. I need no help. I can do this on my own.

Aversa: Walhart, listen to me. You can't accomplish something like this without help.

Walhart: Aversa. You have found reform your way. Now let me find it my way.

Aversa: Walhart...

A

Aversa: Walhart, tell me. How do you feel? Do you feel any different?

Walhart: No. Though I have made efforts to reform, I still feel as though everything is the same. Like I'm still a loser with no ideals to call his own.

Aversa: Walhart. Can you not see your issue?

Walhart: Oh? What do you know?

Aversa: You cannot change... Because you stand alone.

Walhart: What?

Aversa: The reason you and I were defeated was because we were alone. Sure, we had people fighting with us, but no one we cared for. When I first came to the Shepereds, I had friends for the first time. At first, I was put off. I don't know any other feeling than obsession and loneliness. Overtime, though, I have come to accept them as my friends. And when I did that... That's when things started to turn around.

Walhart: ... Perhaps you are right. Even though I had millions ready to wage war at my command... I don't think I was personally acquainted with any of them... Perhaps that was why I lost. It's funny... I had at first thought that Robin's ramblings about love and friendship were nothing more than pointless rubbish. But all this time, he was telling me the knowledge that I lacked...

Aversa: Walhart... Come. It's time for dinner. And I have a feeling we're going to have a new mouth to feed.

Walhart: Ha... I suppose you are right.

S

Walhart: Aversa.

Aversa: Yes?

Walhart: I wanted to say thank you. Because of you, I have conquered the greatest opponent I've faced... Myself.

Aversa: Haha... By the Gods, that was corny.

Walhart: Perhaps so. But it was the truth. Now, I have found a new path.

Aversa: Oh? And what is that path?

Walhart: I'm going into the outrealms. There, I wish to conquer evil empires from across time and dimensions.

Aversa: Using your old path to make way for a new one... I'm happy that you've found a way to live.

Walhart: However... There is one more thing I must conquer.

Aversa: Oh? And that is?

Walhart: ... You.

Aversa: What?

Walhart: It was because of your aid that I was able to be reborn. Aversa, I want you by my side now and forever. I want you to be there as I take new crowns! I want you to be there as people cheer my name! I WANT YOU TO BE MY WIFE!

Aversa: ... That proposal somehow managed to be both sweet and terrifying... But that doesn't matter. Walhart... I'd be honored to be your bride.

Walhart: Very well then! Come, Aversa! New conquests await!

Epilogue

After the war, Walhart and Aversa left for the outrealms, where they continually conquered new lands. It is said that the evil empires they took over came to reform themselves much like their conquerers had.