(We're back with more Eirika/Takumi! And of course a little cameo from Ephraim at the beginning ;) I've been getting requests from several people for this, so I decided to go ahead and do it. This actually gets to less implied stages than the other romances, just to warn, though it's nothing super definitive.)

"Going to go see you boyfriend?"

"He's not my..."

"Save it, sister. Just go. I got a date of my own! A date with destiny! A-"

"Brother, I'm leaving, stop embarrassing yourself."

"...well goodbye to you too..."

"Hey." He says as Eirika approaches, though he doesn't look back at her, far too absorbed in shooting arrows at a target already littered with holes.

"You really practice archery far too much, Takumi. I'm fairly sure it's unhealthy."

"I'm sure it is." He frowns, pausing for a moment before deciding to shoot another arrow. Bullseye.

She sighs.

"How callused are your hands, exactly?"

"Doesn't matter."

"Yes it does!"

"..." His scowl deepens, and Eirika decides to lay off. She perches on a rock and makes herself as comfortable as possible. She's at just the right angle so that Takumj can only see her out of the corner of his eye, unless he turns to look at her.

"Would you like to hear about Lyon?"

"Who's that?" Bullseye.

"That friend Brother and I had back in our world. The one you remind me of."

"Mm. The one you lost?" Bullseye, yet slightly to the left.

"Correct. He was a very kind boy, shy and quiet, yet more intelligent than Ephraim and I combined. He always managed to keep up a joyful facade when he was with us, but I could tell that he was always a little more unhappy than he was letting on. Eventually I found out why."

"Oh?" He sounds at least slightly intrigued, hazel eyes stealing brief glances at her between each shot.

Bullseye. Bullseye. Bullseye to the left. To the right. To the right. To the left. His arrows never completely miss the center circle, and yet they start to stray further and further away from it.

"Lyon felt inferior. As he put it, he didn't have Ephraim's courage or bravery, my understanding and kindness...he felt like he was unnecessary. He thought every little fault made him more worthless."

Takumi misses the bullseye, and the arrow hits somewhere in the inner rings of the target. Eirika glances up at his face, but sees no other reactions. His feature give none of his emotions away.

"He's gone now. We tried to save him, but...it didn't work out. And you, you're so similar. We all have our faults: I'm naive and far too trusting, Ephraim is reckless beyond belief...yet Lyon never noticed that. He only noticed the good things about us, and the bad things about himself. He was intelligent, well-mannered, kind...yet he only saw his shortcomings."

Takumi shoots again, this one lands on the outer line of the bullseye.

"...you...you do the same thing."

He pulls back another arrow, then stops and frowns.

"You're an amazing archer, you know. The best in the Order, no contest. You're amazing with children, and an excellent teacher. You're a good strategist, you're willing to make sacrifices for the greater good, and you're willing to stand your ground even when others say you're wrong."

"Where I come from they call that stubbornness." He lets the arrow fly, it's a dead-on bullseye.

"Stop! Have you been listening to anything I'm saying?! Here I am telling you your best qualities and all you're doing is making them sound bad! Just listen to me, please!"

"..." He draws another arrow, and gets ready to fire.

Eirika sighs.

"You're beautiful, you know." She whispers, cheeks taking on a pink tint.

Takumi lets go of the arrow rather abruptly, it flies off somewhere that is nowhere near the target. He turns around to face her, finally. She stands up so they're eye to eye.

"You are the most beautiful man I have ever seen. Your hair is so breathtaking, bright silver, and so long..." She resists the urge to run her fingers through the silver locks as she speaks about them, "your eyes are pretty too!" She adds as they begin to scan her inquisitively. "They're this shade somewhere between brown and orange, and it's quite enchanting, really."

"Could you not?"

"Could I not what?"

"Do that. Stop."

"Tell you how beautiful you are?"

"Yes, Eirika. That. I just-I don't want that. That's bad." His face is growing quite red, in frustration and embarrassment.

"We really need to work on this, don't we. And by 'we' I mean 'you', by the way."

"I...Eirika..."

"Takumi. If someone compliments you, what do you say?"

"Thank you. You say thank you. Now let us practice. Takumi, you are beautiful."

"Can we do a different comliment? That one is..."

"No. You can accomplish the task no matter what, Takumi, it isn't particularly hard. Now. I think you're beautiful, Takumi."

He squeezes his eyes shut and clenches his fists.

"Thank you..."

She smiles.

"Perfect."

(YESSSSS SUPPORTS ARE IN FE HEROES! WHAT AWESOMENESS! Support convos aren't, but it isn't realistic to think they would be with the sheer amount of characters. Summoner supports too tho...I've already got S support with mah boi Ephraim XD

On a side note, so happy that Ike won VG...though I'm a little pissed that Lyn lost to Camilla...I mean wtf. But I was on Ike's team for the whole thing, so it's all good.

I picked Ike for my free brave hero, after debating between him and Lyn...and then summoned brave Lyn after around 2 rounds of summoning. Once again, summoning is being very kind to me (not that I'm complaining).)