A/N: Next up is two excellent characters, Stefan and Soren. Both we very difficult to capture, and although I many other suggestions on who and what to do, I didn't want to be too repetitive by writing another Ike or Mia or Elincia support so I thought I'd throw this one in. You can expect more from Stefan by the way.

Oh and to anyone who hasn't, you may want to read up on Soren and Stefan's previous support in PoR. Enjoy! Please!

C - Support

Soren: You again.

Stefan: I can see you're extremely thrilled to see me again.

Soren: …..

Stefan: I waited for you. I was certain in time you would make your way to the desert.

Soren: I told you, I will not leave Ike's side.

Stefan: I know.

Soren: Then is there something else you're bothering me for?

Stefan: No need to be so rude. We're both comrades here.

Soren: No. I am only here for Ike. He is my only comrade.

Stefan: I know. You and I are more similar than you realize, Soren.

Soren: Shut up. Do not speak my name as if you know me!

Stefan: Unfriendly, reserved, cold, but it's only because we have to be. When enough people hate you, you stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Soren: ….

Stefan: Tell me, how different is Ike from the rest of the world? You know it as well as I do that there will come a day where he sees the monster everyone says is there.

Soren: You don't know Ike.

Stefan: Perhaps not, but people I do know. When the time comes that he forsakes you, remember that you will always have a place to go.

Soren: ….

B - Support

Soren: What are you doing here, Stefan?

Stefan: I should think that's obvious.

Soren: But it isn't. You claim to have given up on the world, and yet here you stand, fighting to protect it.

Stefan: I think you're overlooking things.

Soren: Then please, enlighten me.

Stefan: I fight for my kin. They attacked the girl – one of my own – in the desert. Such crimes do not go unpunished.

Soren: …I see.

Stefan: …I would have done the same, had it been you, Soren.

Soren: Silence. I would not have needed your help.

Stefan: No, I suspect not, but you would have had it all the same.

Soren: …Ike is not like other people.

Stefan: I know.

Soren: He saved my life….

Stefan: And would he have saved if he knew what you were?

Soren: Yes, he saves it every day now. I will not have you speak ill of him again.

Stefan: Good. Then stand by him. Fight for him until he has become all he has aspired to be.

Soren: …What?

Stefan: As I said Soren, you and I are not so different.

Soren: You've always known what kind of man he is, haven't you?

Stefan: You asked me what I'm fighting for, didn't you? Why I'm trying to save a world that has forsaken me, or rather us?

Soren: …..

Stefan: I'm fighting for the day where there is a world of Ike's.

A - Support

Stefan: He was one of us, you know.

Soren: ...Who?

Stefan: The Black Knight.

Soren: You mean Zelgius?

Stefan: I know not his name, the one Ike had just defeated.

Soren: Yes, Zelguis. It's unlikely he was branded; he was a prominent man within the Bengion Empire.

Stefan: It wasn't a question. I'm informing you that he was one of us. I mourn for his passing, I've no doubt life was difficult for him.

Soren: He killed Ike's father, a good man. I hardly think he deserves your sympathies.

Stefan: Perhaps, but still, the two of us can attest to how difficult his life surly was.

Soren: …..I suppose so…..How do you know?

Stefan: I have lived a long time. The Laguz can smell their own kind, Beorc can only see their people, and we, the Branded, can feel one another. You just know.

Soren: ….

Stefan: You've felt it too then?

Soren: Yes, the woman, Micaiah. We battled one another not long ago. The moment her magic touched me I knew she and I were the same.

Stefan: Yes, she bears it well. That's not all we can do either, in time our bloodline gives birth to other talents as well. Unnatural strength and speed, we can see for miles, hear what some barely whisper, and some even say there are those who have some form of foresight.

Soren: How old are you, Stefan?

Stefan: ….Older than most here.

Soren: So then….one day….will I….

Stefan: Yes, one day you will outlive everyone here.

Soren: I see.

Stefan: Know that you will always have a place in the Grann.

Soren: …Perhaps one day then, but for now –

Stefan: I understand.

Soren: ….

Stefan: Perhaps when that day comes I could teach you something of swordsmanship. Far more elegant than your magic tricks.

Soren: I'm not much of a swordsman.

Stefan: You've got time. Life becomes boring if you don't start trying something new.

The Burdened Branded:

After the final battle Soren and Stefan went their separate ways until Soren awoke one day and found that Ike was gone. Believing that there was nothing left for him in Crimea, Soren left as well and found himself wandering the desert in search of the second man to ever gain his trust. He was greeted with out stretched arms and Soren and Stefan led the small settlement within the desert to become a strong and independent nation.

A/N: Ah Stefan, one of the coolest and sadly underdeveloped characters in all of Fire Emblem. Like I said before You can expect more supports from him just because I like him so much.

Anyway as for the writing, I tried to make it so that Soren was his normal cold self towards Stefan at the beginning, but as time went on he began to respect him. Hope it turned out that way. Thank you to all my reviewers! You guys are great on giving me feed back.