Shanzira and Sumia: C Support.

"Shanzira?" Oh, it's Sumia standing over me. Hard to see, the sun's in my eyes.

"Myeah, what is it...?" I mumble. Do I really need to reiterate that I'm fucking dead? More dead than I thought I was after we saved Shio?

"I– I was..." She sits down, cross-legged, beside me. "I was wondering if you might help me with something." Jeebus priest, girl. You don't have to be so timid about a request. I should knock some confidence into you.

I close my eyes so as to shut out the sun. "What do you need?"

"Well," she starts, not eased by my apparent shutting her out (closing my eyes), "I'm sure you know that I need to get better at fighting..."

Are you shitting me? She's a godsdamn badass on that pegasus. Then again, she can't see that she's actually pretty awesome. "We all do. But Sumia," I pause for breath here, "you're one of our best. You're fine at this pace."

"Wait, I was..." Another moment of hesitation, gods these are frustrating. Spit it out! "I wanted to know if you would help me train, since you're really good at this, and you haven't been here very long." What, does she expect me to share the secret of Paragon? I have no damn clue how I even got that skill.

"'Really good'?" I quote. "My dear Sumia, you exaggerate." I sit up slightly. "If we didn't have Sully and Frederick around to beat the crap out of everyone, I'd be just as pathetic as the next villager." Oh, gods, how I would be... At any rate, it's not as if Paragon is a share-able thing. Pretty sure only my kid(s) will get it, and that's if I can even HAVE kids. I don't even know. The whole Dreamer deal is confusing and badly thought-out. Who even made this crap up?

"But I've noticed," she sounds like she's picking up energy and confidence AT LAST, "when you train, you don't give up until you can't stand anymore. You train until you hit your limit. Can you teach me how to do that?" You mean like I just did? Oh, gods, Shanz, remember that 150 squats you tried after your first week of the Twilight Knights? 150 squats, and I was out of shape. I could barely stand after finishing that. The friend I was Skyping with remarked on my lack of sanity for attempting such idiocy. But it got results.

"Sumia," I start with a sigh and a heave for air, "it's as simple as refusing to accept weakness. I simply scream at myself not to give up whenever I start getting tired. Look at the results." I weakly wave an arm in the air. Yeah, what results? I can't even move. I need to train more... Once I recover, of course. I'm going to be so sore.

"Well... Okay, if you say so, I'll try it." Maybe this will work. Should I go drill-sergeant on her? It might help. Then again, Chrom would kill me, I'm pretty sure they have a support by now. Nah, I'll defer that role to someone who can get away with it.

"And Frederick's stupid fitness hours help, too." Oh gods, what horrifying fate did I just doom her to?

Her (quite justifiable) fear and hesitation is palpable in her stammering response: "O–oh... Well... Okay..."

Eager to save her, I add hastily, "not mandatory unless he sucks you into them, though."

She melts in relief, almost toppling over me. "Oh, thank goodness!" She picks herself up. "I'll see you later, Shanzira!" And with a trip, she dashes off to go do her own thing.

"Well," I reflect to myself, "that was odd. Well, I guess I'm becoming her teach– fuuuuccckkk," I interrupt, disturbed by a new revelation, "I'm a senpai now... Okay, I think I can stand. Up!" And with a colossal effort, I pull one last sit-up, stand from this, and get walking.

One of Shanz's only same-gender support buddies: Sumia. Nothing much to say, I'm sore and tired...
Edit: This support happens in Chapter Fourteen: Matters of the Heart.