Shanzira and Shio: C Support.

Now I should go spread my cheer around. Who could use it... Shio! Yeah, let's see if I can't cheer her up. I dash off to find my tall blonde buddy.

"Shio! Let's have a doodleparty!"

She turns around, confused at first, then she realizes what the hell just happened and puts on a smile. "Sure! Just lemme grab my sketchbook. Whaddaya wanna draw?"

I tilt my head sideways as an "eh" gesture. "Just some shenanigans with the Shepherds. I'd like to be able to show them this crap." Oh boy, this is gonna be good. See, normally, Shio's doodles are straight-up too weird to show people, particularly the Shepherds, but if we make them more cutesy, then we can show 'em off. Her doodles are the best. This one time, she made a gag out of why Chrom's cape always flowed in the wind in the game (which it doesn't here, sadly), and the headcanon Nin and I have come up with it was I made it flow like that via wind magic. She drew that, it's so cute.

She looks a little bit uncertain. "Uh, okay." She must not be used to drawing normal people things. "What kind of shenanigans?"

Now what fits under "cutesy"? "Hm... Why not romantic stuff? That way we get to discuss shipping for the first time in practically forever." OH GODS Thanks to FE13, we had shipping discussions where before they hadn't existed (I'm not much of a shipper, as I've established). Now we get to have those once again. Oh sweet.

"Okay." She seems to brighten up here. Romance is something she can do without being too creepy. "What pairings do you think will happen?"

Let's ninja in the obvious. "I'm calling Chrom–Robin right here and now." If that ship doesn't happen, I need to learn to make edible hats.

Ok, the explanation behind that joke is long. I'll tell it later.

"Of course," This was almost a sigh. Let's face it, that's a given. "Who else? Hm... What about Frederick?"

I give her an affronted snort, which is contrasted by a smirk. "Obvious!" We know I'm marrying Frederick, I just need to reach the S support. "Now, your turn. How about Sully?"

She puts a finger to her chin, covering an old scar (she once had a mole there and got it removed, that's where it came from). "Vaike. Or Virion. Your turn again."

I pause. Hm. Then an evil thoughts hits me, but I can't just throw out a guess on it. "You?"

She blinks. "Huh?"

I show her my smirk. "You heard me! Who are YOU going to marry?" Shio and... Shio and who? Come on, love, who're you gonna marry?

Stammering, she backs away as though to escape the conversation. "I– I don't– I don't think I'll marry anyone..." That last part came out ashamedly.

Aw, please. She's not me, she can marry people. She's not the hero. I renew my shit-eating grin. "Gotta marry someone! Pick one, as long as it isn't Henry." I will die before she marries Henry.

"Okay, um..." She lies back to think. "How about Gaius?"

I give her a shrug. "Works for me. Didn't you marry him in the game?" Knowing her, though, she might marry just about anyone. Hm...

She sits back up to reel off short list. "Well, him, Stahl, and Henry..." Her eyes focus on me. "What about you, huh? You married Chrom."

Ugh!

In a rush: "Everyone marries Chrom. Nin did. I didn't even MEAN to marry him, at least, I just went, "okay yeah fine let's make the hero my husbando–""

Shio's smiling at me. "And then you couldn't stop fangirling for several months."

"SHUT UP!" OH MY GODS SHIO WHY. "Oh, gods, that's so embarrassing... Besides, I also married Frederick..." Yeah, in like, a spare playthrough. Somemoby krill me. Actually, Chrom and Frederick are the only dudes I married ingame. Chrom's off-limits for obvious reasons, that just leaves Frederick.

Sweet, hot, Frederick.

I should go cheer him up.

Shio sees my smile and chuckles, knowing my mind just had a wiki walk. "Heh. It's been a while since we last had a conversation like this."

I look back up at her. "You mean the kind where we embarrass each other to hell and back?" Like we just did? Oh, gods.

"Yep! Aw, it's so much fun."

She's just begging for it.

I take but one second to put together my approach. "Put yourself in my shoes." Hand on chest, pointing to self. "I swear you–" point at her– "had a thing for Stahl. That was when I finally managed to infect you with the fangirl syndrome." Seriously, I tried for years before that happened. And then it did. I won the damn war.

She immediately squirms. Aw, she even has her fingers over her lips to try and shush me! That's so cute. "Ugghhh, stop it! Shanz! What if someone overhears?!"

MISSION. FUCKING. ACCOMPLISHED.

My eyebrows raised in a Severa-esque smirk, "I still say you're too easily embarrassed–"

She lurches forward and puts her hands on my mouth to silence me. "SHANZIRA! Seriously!" She then sits back, very briefly wondering what to do (she just silenced her bff), then with a "gah!" she stands and runs off.

I sit there stunned. Did not see that coming. "Whoa... Whoops... Didn't mean for that to happen. I'll just, um, apologize later." I get up. "In the meantime... There's drawing to be done. I still have project shirtless to work on, among other things..." I hold out my fingers and tick them off in a list. "Oh, yeah, and there was one other thing I wanted to draw."

This support happened in Chapter Seventeen: Storms in the Chest.