Robin: Tactician, Gentleman, and Match Maker

Author's Note: Sorry, but this is going to be a long one. First off, I welcome reviews and the criticism it brings as it is supposed to help me make the story and my writing better. What it doesn't do is make you feel like a big man when all you say is fuck and idiot. If you want to compensate for your dick size I'd suggest doing what all douche bags do and get a truck and then buy a lift kit so it's five feet off the ground. But seriously, I'm not going to hate you for being honest about the story just make sure that when the review is written, I'm not left feeling like someone with trisomy 21 just got on fanfiction to write dumb reviews. Second being that I do in fact realize that Morgan is from a different universe than Lucina and the others, the thing is that they never explained what happened to him/her or what universe they did come from. The note from last chapter was geared more toward Male Morgan coming into the picture since having both around might mess things up a lot. One last thing is that having them be twins was a good idea Fireminer, but I already had an idea and I haven't seen it in any fanfics yet so I thought I'd go for that. If I were you though I'd write a story where they are twins before someone else takes it. Well I'm off my soap box now so I'll get back to brass tacks.

Chapter 12: What a great idea!

"Milady, some of the Shepherds have returned from their mission. They have urgent news."

"We are not the Shepherds. Our parents died along with that name. We're just their children who continue their fight."

Harsh as it sounded, that was how Lucina felt. The Shepherds were a legendary group of warriors who could and had survived the impossible. They brought the Mad King's demise, defeated the Conqueror himself, and had come the closest in defeating Grima. Unfortunately closest meant that they had failed in their fight although the details weren't clear behind all of their deaths. One of the few that seemed to be a known death was Lucina's own father Chrom as he had died by his best friends hand from what stories told and Robin, the Grandmaster of Ylisse, was also critically injured in that fight. Apparently Robin could scarcely remember what had transpired at the Dragon's table and no one else bore witness to Chrom's death. Soon after the Shepherds had all returned to their children where ever they had been and brought all of them to Castle Ylisse before they all began their anti risen campaigns all across the lands. Of course all Shepherds had eventually met their end which is why Tiki had been informed of how the children must perform the awakening in order to gain the power to put Grima back into slumber. Easier said than done. Lucina had sent multiple expeditions to get the missing gemstones and the Fire Emblem which had been stolen upon her father's death. Or so she'd heard. Most of the stories surrounding her Father and any other Shepherd was heard from other people since her father had died when she was young. Her mother Sumia had died when she was young as well, but she'd died much later so Lucina had some memories of her. A proud and graceful Falcon Knight who slew any and all risen threatening innocents and she firmly believed that the world was no longer split into countries like Ylisse and Plegia. Instead they were a unified body of people and Sumia fought to preserve the lives of all, no matter their homeland or heritage. Sadly Sumia had met her end too, although the details were scarce and most other Shepherds were confirmed deaths or they had disappeared in vicious fights, like Robin himself or Miriel, and had been assumed dead.

"LUCINA!"

Lucina had been so engrossed in her stressful plight that she hadn't even noticed that Gerome, Severa, and Laurent had returned.

"I'm sorry Severa, I was just dueling with some unpleasant thoughts."

Lucina had a small grin as her mother had told her that Chrom used to say that when he had some problems on his mind.

"This is no time to be smiling like an idiot! Seriously, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?"

Severa sprinted off, shoving the unfortunate souls that happened to get in her way.

"I don't understand, did I offend her somehow? ...Is this another joke?"

Lucina then noticed that neither the Fire Emblem or Morgan were present.

"Where is Morgan? And the Emblem? Is that why Severa is upset?"

Laurent cringed visibly and Gerome simply stood there with his usual glum look. Then Lucina noticed that Minerva had been injured and was whimpering sadly.

"I'm afraid that we failed our expedition to Plegia milady. In our attempt to take the Fire Emblem we were ambushed masterfully and our options to escape were limited. I... We..."

Laurent had trouble finishing the sentence, but Lucina was no idiot. She knew long before Laurent had spoken what had happened in Plegia.

"Our escape was secured at the cost of Morgan's life. She volunteered to fight of Grima after the decision was made that a distraction was needed to let the others escape."

Gerome had no problem telling Lucina exactly what happened.

"She took on Grima alone?! Why didn't anyone help her? Why did you even let her do something so stupid?"

"Yes, Severa, Gerome, and I surmised that this plan of action was illogical as well, but there is a detail that has been left out. Morgan proposed that she stay behind to fight off Grima alone and after all of our disagreements had been heard, she left us anyway. More importantly she decided all of this after seeing a man that she appeared to recognize as Grima."

Lucina was now even more confused than she was before.

"Explain. Grima is a dragon, not a man. What could possibly warrant her to take on this person alone, be it a servant of Grima or Grima himself."

"Yes well, as I was saying, she seemed to recognize this man that we inferred to be Grima as the Risen bent to his will and he sat on the throne. The more disturbing detail being that the risen parted so that Morgan might meet this man up close. Instead they focused on us, hence why we left Morgan to... die."

Gerome and Laurent bowed their heads as yet another had been claimed by Grima and his ghastly forces. All lives lost were tragic, but this was worse for Lucina as Morgan was her friend. So optimistic and a brilliant tactician, many of the older people in the regular army would tell of how she was doing her father proud. Now she was gone and it was just as bad as hearing that Sumia had fallen from the sky with her lance through her chest.

"Hey Gerome, Laurent! Never thought I'd see your ugly mugs again. I see 'Minervykins' is hurt, I'll see what I can do to help, yeah?"

Brady then began to work on Gerome's companion, quickly sealing all gashes and doing his best to heal her.

"I'm guessin that the lady folk went to go get prettied up again huh? Well, I'm sure Severa did, Morgan is probably stuffing her nose into another book again."

"Brady, I need to inform you of what happened on the retrieval mission."

"What's to say Lucina? Gerome, Severa, Laurent, and Morgan went to Plegia, got the emblem, and gave the risen the butt kicking of a lifetime right?"

Gerome, Laurent, and Lucina all looked to each other as none of them wanted to be the person to tell Brady that his sister had died. Just like them, he lost his mother to Risen and his father had disappeared which Laurent knew all about as well. Lucina had Cynthia and she could never imagine the pain of losing her parents and then her sister. Fact is, Brady had gotten the short end of the stick, losing all blood relatives and now someone had to tell him. Lucina was their leader and responsibility for the failure of the mission fell to her. She stepped forward to tell him the horrible news.

"About your sister Brady..."

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"I don't understand Robin. Why are you here? What's going on?"

Sumia was flying furiously through the sky with Risen on her tail. Or they had been. After Robin had shown up with ethereal wings on his back, the risen fliers had broken off. Problem is, Robin had been assumed dead quite some time ago as he'd "disappeared" during a particularly large fight.

"Just thought I'd pay my best friends wife a visit. Ironic that I was the one who brought you two together the first time. Now I'll reunite you two once again..."

Quickly stealing her lance, he rammed it through her chest. Sumia fell from atop her Pegasus and it quickly flew off in the direction of Ylisse.

Robin circled above to witness the delightful scene he'd just made. What a glorious feeling, marrying off his friends only to murder them. Maybe he'd kill them off in pairs as tribute to how he had gotten them hitched. But none would compare to the feeling of murdering his wife...

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Robin awoke drenched in sweat. This dream he'd just had was just as detailed and felt just as real as the one where he killed Chrom. Of course that was all it was, a dream. He was about to go back to sleep when he felt a large lump in his cot next to him. He was now terrified as he didn't know who or what it was. Chances are if he didn't remember than he'd picked this person up while he was intoxicated and if that was the case than it could be anyone from the red haired merchant girl to Gaius. Terror gripped him as he peeled away the covers, only to reveal Maribelle. He was somewhat relieved as this brought back the memories from only hours ago when he proposed, but this sight still disturbed him. She was laying face down with her knees touching her elbows and her buttocks sticking straight up into the air. If it weren't for the slight snoring, Robin would've assumed that this was a sexual invitation even though he wasn't even going to bark up that tree for quite some time with her. He had to say that in the few hours he'd spent in the same bed as her, he had learned that she had some erratic and some what erotic sleeping positions which finally explained the strange entry for her part in the Shepherds roster. Strangely enough, Robin heard what appeared to be a fire crackling nearby and he knew that it was early in the morning, when Frederick would do morning chores and start fires. Robin figured he'd go ahead and get an early start since he definitely wasn't going back to sleep after another one of his weird dreams that were starting to worry him more. First it was killing Chrom, then he had a strange one about killing Gregor, and now Sumia was in the mix. He knew it wasn't that these people were causing him stress and he was unconsciously taking it out in his dreams because if that were the case then Lon'qu and Cordelia would have been the first to die for their long running role in 'Unrequited love: Afraid of women or a Lust for Men?'

Whatever the case Robin was going to get out and get some fresh air just as he always did whenever something was troubling him.

"And where do you think you're going?"

"Apologies, I didn't realize I woke you dear. I'm just going for a walk to clear my head..."

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Jealous indeed. Robin had been strong armed into walking around with his wife because despite her being of 'superior breeding' that did nothing to shore up her inability to fully trust her husband or his word that he was not in fact going to see a 'strumpet.' He loved her dearly, but he would walk alone to clear his head. Alone. Well if it made her happy and more at ease than he'd gladly give up all of his freedoms and be a slave for the rest of his life. Hopefully that wouldn't be what it came to, but unfortunately he loved her far too much to leave her even if she made Robin her bitch. Although they'd need to have a talk about how there were trust issues one day into the marriage.

"Ah nice to see you Sir Robin, Lady Maribelle. I see that the newly weds are eager to greet the new day!"

"Sir Frederick, nice to see that you're still as vigilant as ever in your duties. Although I see no need for the additional fires you've started around camp, one is sufficient for the morning or is there something happening today that I missed?"

"It is nothing Sir Robin, I was just lost in thought on this morning and I'm afraid that starting camp fires is a way to put myself at ease."

Or a way to distract yourself from Lissa. Robin was one hundred percent sure that with the Shepherds Tactician getting married, everyone would get stir crazy if they were single and Frederick was in a position that wasn't so different from Robin only one day before. In love with some sort of nobility and deathly afraid of rejection, but as Robin had already said, Lissa was frothing at the loins for Freddy and maybe on today's march Robin would assist him in clearing the path of pebbles in order to plant the seed for his proposal to Lissa...

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"...I must say that picking up pebbles like this is a pain staking task that requires much more effort than I thought."

"Indeed Sir Robin, but it is a necessary evil to avoid any twisted ankles or nasty falls. We wouldn't want Chrom or the other Shepherds to have an unfortunate accident now would we? Might I add that it is a pleasure to see that you too are being vigilant by helping me in my knightly duties."

"...I wouldn't say that picking up rocks is an actual requirement of a knight but your welcome. Also as I've said on multiple occasions, it's just Robin, none of this Sir business. Well anyway, how have the lessons in slacking off been going? If their anything like Maribelle's Aristocrat lessons I'm sure that you're being run ragged by now."

"Yes I'd say that being forced to relax is most tiresome indeed, but if Lady Lissa is going to be kind enough to offer someone of my station a chance to learn from her, then it is an offer that I will take. After all it is my job to attend to the Royal family and if taking lessons from the Princess will help me to better protect her then I will suffer anything. Even if it is as painful as the time we had to consume bear."

"Oh my Naga, I completely forgot about that! That one made me laugh for quite some time, with both you and Lissa not eating it, then complaining how you were still hungry. Oh good stuff."

Frederick didn't seem amused in the least after being reminded of that awful night. Robin couldn't tell why he and Lissa abhorred bear meat since even Maribelle had eaten it when necessary and surprisingly without too much complaining.

"Speaking of Lady Lissa, you still haven't acted on that conversation we had about you proposing to her. Are you waiting for a more opportune time or are you getting nervous?"

Tossing away yet another pebble, Robin looked to Frederick to see that his answer was the latter.

"You know I was pretty scared before I asked Maribelle to be my wife as well, but take it from me, Lissa will say yes if you're feeling low on self confidence."

"But how can you be so sure Robin? She is a charismatic young woman who captivates and inspires all who meet her. She could easily marry any Noble she wanted and-"

"Yeah well I've been hearing from Maribelle how Lissa is always talking about you when they're alone for some time. I say strap it on and ask her already. Hell Maribelle was telling me about Lissa's obsession with you this morning on our walk."

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"Look we'll be passing through a town here pretty soon and you could go pick a ring when we get there if you haven't already. Then you can finally get Lissa to gobble down your bear meat."

Robin had spotted the bushes he was to escape in quite some time ago and quickly made his way into the rear of the convoy.

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Just as Robin and Chrom had planned, the Shepherds stopped so that everyone could go into town and do whatever they had to. Thankfully Lissa had dragged Frederick into town so that they could goof off and Robin felt confident that Freddy would get the ring since instead of threatening him for his lewd comment he only had a stern look and shot Robin a quick nod.

"Darling where do you think our son has been all of this time?"

"Eh?"

"Lucina has been here for quite some time and if Brady was with her than it means that he's out there all alone, without his mother to protect him."

"I'm sure our son doesn't need his mother around to protect him, plus if he's got half of the anger issues you do then he should be able to do a pretty good amount of damage with his staff. After all you gave me fairly good beating with just your parasol."

"Yes and I'll do it again should you step out of line darling."

"Believe me, I learned my lesson the first time. I won't be on the receiving end of your assaults for any reason."

"I believe I gave you what for a second time as well."

"I thought we weren't going to bring that up."

"It isn't my fault dear, how am I supposed to forget that my husband saw me naked before we were even wed. What is worse is that he was foul enough to try and spy on me and other bathing women before he was caught red handed. I suppose they were red since you had a fairly good grip on your-"

"Okay that's enough! Who is even doing this to you? I'm pretty sure you would never have said anything like that before we met and now you're making japes about me latching onto my-"

"Sir Robin..."

Thankfully Robin had been interrupted from denying that he latched onto mini Robin out loud while spying on his wife. He turned to see one of the many spies that Ylisse had employed all across the continent and hopefully they'd have them in Valm whenever they made their way over.

"Ah yes, what is it my good man?"

"I'd hardly call myself that, but regardless I have some news that you might find interesting."

"Should I get Chrom and Frederick here as well or can it wait."

"I'd listen first and then decide if they need to hear it."

Robin was relieved since he wasn't sure if Frederick had procured his ring yet or not.

"Alright let us hear it then."

"I heard a rumor of dragon kin to the east near the Ylisse and Regna Ferox border. I investigated and discovered that this young girl was in fact a manakete. For some reason she headed to an island off the Regna Ferox coast to a manor, last I saw."

"Hm another Manakete would be beneficial to the army. I suppose we have time to check before we head to the port again."

"That's not why I came to find you sir."

Now Robin was confused as finding a manakete seemed like the best and only reason to report this girl. That is unless she came from where he thought she did and was friends with a certain blue haired princess.

"I assume that most of the spies in the network had been informed just like I, that we should keep an eye out for young men and women who represent some of the Shepherds in likeness. This young woman was a manakete who also had orange hair, very similar to that of Gaius."

Well this was interesting. Finding yet another child of the Shepherds so quickly would be a very nice use of time since they still had a lot of time before the whole invade Valm and defeat the Conqueror and all of his forces with a miniscule army, so yeah.

"Thank you, I'll inform Chrom immediately so that we might find this girl before something foul befalls her."

After the spy had left Robin went back to shopping with his new wife.

"Shouldn't you inform Lord Chrom of the child? As a prospective parent, I would love to meet my child as soon as the tactician had been informed of it."

Robin needed to stall as Frederick was obviously trying to make his way to the ring store, but Lissa was wanting to laze about under the shade of a tree. Robin agreed that they needed to find this girl right now, but he wasn't about to let Freddy down after trying to get him to secure his ring. Robin needed to craft yet another convoluted farce to get Lissa distracted as well as Maribelle so that Frederick could get the ring and Maribelle would temporarily forget about Nowi and Gaius' child.

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Robin stood in the strategy tent with Chrom, Frederick, Lucina and Lissa. He now found himself in quite the pickle. His convoluted plan had back fired immensely and he now found himself to be the party manager, supply director, activity coordinator, and music planner.

"I must say you surprise me time and time again dear friend. First with your brilliant strategies and now with your delightful non violent ideas as well."

Chrom was almost as ecstatic as every married woman in the army.

"Yeah this is gonna be AWESOME! It might even top your wedding Chrom although there won't be anything too fancy to be worn at the party. But I still think this is the greatest idea ever Robin!"

Even though Lissa wasn't even married, she was by far the most excited. But thanks to Robin and his 'fantastic' idea, Frederick got the ring and soon they'd be married. Of course even if Freddy wimped out, Robin would be there behind the scenes to get him back to it.

"I must say Robin, we never had celebrations like this in the future. I am definitely looking forward to taking part in the festivities for the first time."

Lucina let out a rare smile as she was just as excited even though it was because she had never experienced any kind of party in the future.

"Yes Robin, a most wondrous idea. I'm looking forward to how well it will go with you in charge and all."

Robin mustered up the most serious look he could and shot it straight at Frederick. He had hoped that Freddy would get the message that if he didn't propose to Lissa very soon then he'd suck his soul straight out of his rift door and feed it to Minerva. What Frederick saw was Robin squinting with his eyebrows creased so hard that it looked as if he had a uni-brow and his bottom lip was pushed so far out that everyone in the tent thought that he'd been struck one too many times over the head. Regardless, word spread quickly around camp and soon everyone was abuzz about Robin's ingenious idea. None of them realized how badly Robin had just scrumped himself.

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"Robin darling, I'm so happy you thought of this! Now we can celebrate our marriage before the war ends with everyone else. Oh I'm just so excited! Hopefully we can find a nice dress shop so that I might find something half decent to wear for you!"

Oh yes everything was just SO great for everyone. Everyone except Robin. He'd suggested this to Lissa and Maribelle so that Frederick could make a mad dash for his ring and it worked out perfectly. Then Lissa told Chrom that Robin hadn't suggested it, rather he'd told her that he had been planning this for quite some time. Then Chrom called Robin to the strategy tent and now Robin was here in the tent he shared with Maribelle who also completely over looked the fact that it was a mere suggestion. But that wasn't the problem. No the problem was that now with the gigantic wedding celebration that he was throwing for all of the newly weds in the Shepherds, he had even less time to get the rest of the Shepherds together. Kellam and Panne were going nicely as was Olivia and Virion. Freddy and Lissa were hopefully a done deal and after Tharja's creepy comment the day of his proposal, he figured that he just needed to punch Vaike in the head and tell him to go marry her. Honestly, Robin had no idea about Miriel and Ricken since all they did were menial experiments that had Robins libido wishing he'd bought that lingerie for Maribelle from Anna. What made this whole group marriage celebration worse was that he had some Shepherds that were odd balls since he had absolutely NO idea who to marry them to. Stahl was just out there and he had tried all the remaining options to no avail with Anna just wanting to sell him crap. Henry had no options as well since saying he was eccentric was the understatement of the century. Robin had considered trying to marry off Libra to another man since he appeared to be a woman anyway, but from all of the stories of him fending off men who thought he was a blonde haired temptress, he figured that Libra didn't swing that way. Anna only cared for money and that alone was enough to worry Robin as she seemed to be a nice lady and not a complete pervert like her sister. Basilio and Flavia were a bit older than the rest of the Shepherds and he thought maybe they'd be a good pair, but after hearing them talk to one another Robin felt like he had a better chance with Validar's assistant, Aversa. Yes now he was stressed beyond all reasoning as Maribelle was already planning on what they would wear at the celebration and she was pestering him on the exact date.

"Oh well I have some details to iron out, but I'm sure it'll be soon."

Depends on how fast he can get the last few hitched.

"Plus, we need to find Nowi and Gaius' kid before we do anything and I feel like we may need to wait until after we reach Valm."

"Why? When we get to Valm, it will be nothing but fighting and sleeping in more dark, humid forests or disgusting ditches! Why not before so that we can still have a great time without worrying about Walhart or his army?"

Oh well, you know, just need to get those last few Shepherds to tie the knot.

"Just need to get a few things sorted out with the Shepherds."

"Well if you want, I could help so that you might finish this business quicker and get back to planning the celebration. All of the women couldn't stop talking about it, we're just so excited!"

"Yes I know, it sounds like great fu-"

UUUUUUUUUUUUCK ME, IN THE ASSHOLE!

Author's note: Real quick, my Robin in game is the medium build with the short somewhat spiky /ruffled hair and it's black. I just thought I'd throw that out there since I never actually mentioned what Robin looked like.