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"Lonny! Cordelia!" Robin exclaimed. "Fancy seeing you two around here!"
"...You invited us." Cordelia said. She was sitting next to her husband and across from Robin, whose office they were in.
"Don't call me Lonny." Lon'qu grumbled.
"Right. Right. I did, didn't I?" Robin said. "Ok. Might as well get this over with. So, there's good news and bad news." Robin explained. "Which do you want to hear first?"
"I would prefer to hear the bad news." Cordelia said. "That way, we can leave feeling uplifted by the good news."
"I have no preference." Lon'qu said.
"Right." Robin said, scratching his head uncomfortably. "Ok, so…Wait. That won't work."
"What?" Lon'qu asked the tactician.
"I actually have to tell you the good news first. That bad news wouldn't make any sense without you first knowing the good news." Robin explained. "I probably should have said that from the start."
"Ok then. Tell us the good news." Cordelia said.
"Alright." Robin sighed. "Let's get this over with...You remember that time a bunch of kids from an apocalyptic future traveled back in time to change the course of fate?"
"...I recall it." Lon'qu replied plainly.
"Well, funny thing is, it turns out that, well, one of them was your daughter." Robin stuttered.
Cordelia's eye's lit up. "I have a daughter?" She asked, turning to her husband. "Lon'qu, you don't think-?"
"Let the man finish." Lon'qu said. "You mentioned bad news?"
"Right...Right!" Robin exclaimed. "So, it turns out our good Exalt crossed paths with her at some point over our journey. She wanted to help some dude she knew, I don't know. The specifics of the plot allude me. Anyway, she refused Chrom's help, rushed into battle by herself and…well…" Robin trailed off.
"...She died, didn't she?" Cordelia said, looking down.
"...I wish I could give you some better news. I have a daughter myself, so I can't imagine how it must feel to lose-"
"That was phenomenally stupid of her." Lon'qu commented.
"...What?" Robin said.
Cordelia raised her head. "I was just about to say that." She added. She didn't appear to be crying.
"But...your daughter…" Robin stuttered.
"I think that a family connection with children of a different time can only be formed if you meet them." Lon'qu said.
"I agree." Cordelia said. "While I feel sorry for the poor girl, the fact of the matter is that she made a poor call in combat. I'm sure that, if I were in a motherly relationship with her, I would be much more distressed."
"...Wait." Robin said. "You're taking the news of finding out you have a child pretty well. You don't mind that you never met her…" His eyes widened. "Congratulations, you two! When's it due?"
Cordelia's eyes widened in surprise. "H-how did you-"
"Don't-!" Lon'qu interrupted.
"Master." Robin said, tapping his head. "Tactician."
Lon'qu signed. "Never mind." He said. "Do we assume it's a girl?"
"I...don't really know." Robin replied. "Given how all this time travel stuff works, as well as how random genetics actually are, the child could turn out completely different than expected."
"I'd be fine with her being a girl." Cordelia smiled.
"...I suppose I could make it work." Lon'qu said.
"Sheesh, Lonny. I don't think you're little problem would cause you to have trouble with your daughter, right?" Robin asked.
"Of course it wouldn't." Lon'qu said.
"Good." Robin said, as he took out a piece of paper. "Now, I figured I should give you a heads up on a few things about the daughter, Severa-"
"That's her name?" Cordelia asked.
"You can change it if you want." Robin said. "It's your kid."
"No. Severa...I like it!" Cordelia smiled.
"Stable time loop complete." Robin muttered to himself. "I questioned some of the past kids about her. I think the two main things you should look out for is spoiling her and mommy issues."
"Mommy issues?" Cordelia asked, frowning. "What do I do?"
"Well, from what I gathered, it's pretty hard having to live up to your standard. Or, that is, the expectations other people set for her because you were her mother." Robin said. "She apparently becomes bitter because of this. So, yeah, she's a bit of a spoiled daddy's girl."
Lon'qu glared at him. "Did they only slander her memory?" He asked threateningly.
Robin looked at him with a blank expression. "...You know, as somebody who has been a victim of the overprotective dad face as well as a user of it, I gotta say, you really settled into the role of overprotective father pretty quickly. The spoiling thing might be unavoidable…And they said good things. I just assumed you wanted to know some of the bad things" Robin admitted. "You can ask the time-displaced dysfunction junction about her."
"Well, if we don't have to focus on a Risen army, I could put more effort into making sure little Severa knows she's loved and unique." Cordelia said.
"We do not know if it is a she." Lon'qu mentioned.
"I like the idea of her being a girl." Cordelia replied. "Is that everything, Robin?"
"Oh. Yeah. Right." Robin said, surprised. "This actually went a lot better than I thought it would. Good luck with the baby!" Robin paused for a second. "...Wait...Was it conceived…?"
"Don't think about it too much." Lon'qu stated, his face turning a deep red.
"We tipped Cinnamon quite a bit!" Cordelia exclaimed, smiling at Robin.
"...I usually have a witty comment at this point, but I really can't think of anything." Robin admitted. "Now get out of here, you crazy sex person!...and Lon'qu." Robin said.
The happy couple left Robin's office.
"...Hmm. It's interesting how relationships started during the war change during peace times." Robin reflected to himself. "I think the normalist couple would be the good old royal family…Time travel kinda fucks with everything."
This is all Severa's fault. I assumed she would work like all the other kids and join you after you had Chrom talk to them. She just ran ahead of me and died.
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