AN: Gerome and Cherche are the exceptions to my - ARMY MUST HAVE GALEFORCE. One because I love Cherche's character design and I love her interactions with Minerva and I love Minerva. And that love extends towards Cherche's progeny because MINERVYKINS. And then there's the Inigo-Gerome support and then there's the Cynthia/Gerome support which was adorable - because I love me a Chilldhood Friend Romance. Though it turns into a bit of a Childhood Friend Romance Love Triangle. There's quite a few in my opinion or I like to interpret the supports this way.

Like there's the Inigo-Cynthia-Gerome triangle, Owain - Kjelle - Gerome (rivalry triangle thing?) , Brady-Noire-ummmm... Yarne-Nah.. Laurent-Severa well they have their own little childhood friend romances and okay so that's only like 2 triangles that I will argue for...and I think all the guys have had a crush on Lucina at one point or another. But with regards to Kid!Ships I tend to support the hilarious (Laurent/Noire or Inigo/Noire or Kjelle/M!Morgan) or ridiculously sweet (Inigo/Severa , Gerome/Cynthia)

Anyhoo on with the word/idea vomit.

The wyvern is hard to miss - the wyvern rider himself even harder, especially with that shock of snow-white hair. And the mask. The mask is rather distinctive.

"Gerome!" she calls out and - well it is hard to tell with that mask of his - he might actually be a little surprised.

"Lucina?" he says and his voice is hoarse and rough as if he has not spoken in a long time, which knowing the man to be likely. Despite his rather rough and intimidating appearance Gerome has always been incredibly shy - perhaps shyer than Inigo depending on the situation. It surprised her sometimes that he too had been part of Owan, Cynthia and Morgan's Justice Cabal... Sort of. He and Cynthia had butchered a veritable army of snapdragons at one point she recalled...and had been scolded for hours...or Cynthia had, it was hard to remember the happier times in that bleak future.

"We are here to defend the village. I would have your aid, sir." Lucina asks him, to which Gerome nods slowly.

"My blade is yours as it always has been," he tells her solemnly. "But why are you here?"

Lucina has already rushed off to inform the rest of the army of their new volunteer - and Gerome turns a wry smile towards his last family member.

"Come, my dear Minerva. Join me on one final flight." he murmurs to her.

"Nya ha!" a vaguely familiar laugh bursts out from behind him, and Gerome nearly jumps out of his own skin, but manages to keep himself composed. Minerva had not given him warning, in fact she lets out a small shriek of joy.

Gerome turns to find himself looking into the smiling face of a man dressed as a Plegian Sorcerer.

"Hello!" the man greets him, the brightness of his smile not diminishing in the slightest at all with the suspicious glare Gerome is giving him. "I'm Henry! Robin says I'm to team up with you to kill the bad guys!"

Gerome does not remember much of his father. Henry and Cherche had died when he had been too young to really form real memories of them - he remembered warm hands and laughter and smiles but their faces were indistinct blurs. There had been stories from other people but none of it had any real meaning for him. Minerva had always been a little reluctant to talk about them and Gerome had always been reluctant to ask, not wanting to bring up painful memories for his only family.

"Man it's not as fun riding a wyvern with a man," Henry mumbles as they take to the air, Gerome doing his level best to ignore the man. The man doesn't know of course - how could he and Gerome pretends that he is not the slightest bit disappointed at all.

"But I guess it's okay if it's with my adorable son, right Minerva?"

Gerome's head whips around to stare at the sorcerer's grinning face that betrays absolutely nothing, while Minerva shrieks an agreement.

He returns his gaze forward, steadfastly ignoring the unwavering smile he knows is pointed towards his back.

"How did you know?" Gerome mumbles, he had not returned with the intention of making friends, or actually seeing his parents. \he did not want a reminder of what he had lost so long ago.

"Nya ha ha! That's the ring I got for Cherche yesterday! Only one in the world, y'know. Since I cursed it and all."

Gerome's not quite sure what to make of that statement so he settles for ignoring the smiling man.

"And you definitely couldn't have stolen it, otherwise your eyeballs would be bleeding and you'd be lying dead in a river of your own blood. So you have to be family." Henry continues, smiling the whole while.

There is something reassuring about having this odd man in the saddle with him with Minerva. It's...nostalgic.

And Minerva seems pleased as well as she shrieks her approval to Henry's statement; though whether it was to the potential fate of any thief that dared to steal something so precious to her mistress or to Henry's declaration of them being family - which they most definitely were not - it was anyone's guess.

Gerome feels a little awkward with learning that his parents apparently got married yesterday or perhaps aren't actually married yet or ... gods he hoped that his father - not his father, his father had died a long time ago - had already proposed otherwise being in the general vicinity of the woman who was (not) his mother was going to be incredibly strange.

So preoccupied he was with that awkward thought, that Gerome nearly misses Minerva's shriek of warning and barely manages to dodge a sniper's shot. Gerome curses his lack of foresight to have brought a hand-axe or three. Then again he had not expected to be brought into battle.

There's a subtle shift in the air and Gerome is suddenly aware of there being a great many more crows in the air then there were a few moments ago.

"I've never really tried this before," Henry says smiling, a tome of dark magic suddenly in hand and open, the pages rustling as they flip rapidly in the wind. "Don't worry Minerva, I never miss," he says a smile that might be considered reassuring under the wrong light in response to a concerned roar from the wyvern.

"Special Delivery!" he giggles as a surge of black magic erupts beneath the sniper's feet and swallows the screaming man whole, as Gerome takes advantage of the other bandits' horror to get in closer and lop off one's head while Minerva tears into another and they rapidly clear the small peak of all foes.

"That was awesome! Let's do that again!" the Sorcerer laughs as his book snaps shut and he jumps down from the wyvern's back onto solid ground.

"Don't fight my battles!" Gerome growls, urging Minerva back up into the air.

"Aww..." the man who is not his father whines almost like a child, before promptly setting an approaching bandit on fire and laughing as the man screams.

He seemed to have the ground forces under control, Gerome thinks, before narrowing his eyes at the incoming wyvern riders and the rider with long flowing pink hair flying towards them, and Minerva growled, to which Gerome nodded.

He had decided it long ago, the moment they came into the past - he would not grieve twice for his parents. They were just going to be taking a more active role in ensuring that.

AN: I ship Cherche/Henry. I mean he can talk to Minerva too! And then there was that hilarious bit at the end of their S support. ("Was your first thought really CHROM?!") And all his paired endings (and honestly I've never not paired him off. like that skill spamming is great.) all talk about him being a great dad! And seriously Henry is one of my favourite Fire Emblem characters ever.

Also yeah, I thought it would be funny if the kid finds out: Wait what. you got married (one map ago) YESTERDAY?! or DAD HASN'T EVEN PROPOSED TO MOM YET? though it'd probably be the most hilarious with Yarne...hmmm...maybe I should saved that idea. Whatever.