At the end of the chapter, I'm going to include a Pokemon profile which will explain how I'll get around Robin as a human and keep his abilities and weaknesses. Speaking of that, I have some ideas that other members of the shepherds should get their own Pokemon. (Not everyone mind you, those with horses/ pegasus /wyvern won't get one. I already have a Pokemon in mind for Lissa but if you have any good ideas for which shepherd should get which Pokemon would be helpful.) I also don't have anything in mind for pairings so I won't focus to heavily on it.

Any new pokemon will be given a profile at the bottom so I can explain how they will use their moves and how their abilities, natures and characteristics will translate if they have a human form like Robin.

Edit: I was planning out some character bios and certain plot points to appear in later chapters when I was struck by an absolutely genius idea. Thankfully I'm not too far along to just slip it in with a few edits here and there and continue on.

And some one asked what kind of pairings I was thinking of, not much. I haven't played enough of Awakening, just read a lot of fanfiction XD, to really understand the support conversations Chrom can have with certain female shepherds. (Though if you ask my sisters it's F!RobinxChrom and Screw Sumia) I personally don't have a pairing in mind at the moment.

I've got one vote for Chrom to get a Honedge, yes? No? Maybe?

Estelle took in every detail of the battlefield, every opponent they had to face, what their strengths and weaknesses were, what type of weapons they used and how the battle would play out. The brigands mainly wielded bronze axes and swords, no archers thankful and only one mage.

From their position away from the battle, Estelle noticed Chrom and Frederick gradually moving away from Lissa who was armed with only simple staff. She was going to get overwhelmed soon and the others would be too far away to help in time.

"Robin, we need to get to Lissa. She won't be able to defend herself with just a staff."

Robin nodded, aiming to make his way towards the yellow clad girl amidst the chaos, rushing past piles of burning rubble and several corpses that made him sick to his stomach. He had been in battles before, hurt his opponents badly enough that their wounds would have led to their deaths without immediate care. It was what he was willing to do to protect his loved ones, but... he's never taken a human life.

When dealing with humans he would hold back, striking them with the force necessary to take them out of the equation but never to have lasting consequences - namely death. There were humans, just like the lowlife scum that was currently raiding this innocent village, that probably deserved to die if only to spare some innocent somewhere of the fate that would befall them if these people lived. He could only hope Rin would understand the next time he saw him, coated in the blood of the humans he'll kill.

Passing another corpse his anger grew, his headache a passing thought as his dark powers flourished. The pain, despair and fear of the villagers tasted like a dry fruit he so detested, but in the end, the villagers would fight back. Their negative emotions feeding his power. These brigand were fortunate indeed, for he hadn't quite figured out how to use anything other than his shadow arms.

For sure, a never-ending nightmare awaits them.


Lissa should have been paying more attention, but her focus slipped when she realized Chrom and Frederick were much farther ahead than her. She gripped her staff as she hurried her step to catch up with her brother, missing the hulking figure of a brigand coming towards her.

"Eep!" Dodging a swing from the brigand's axes, she misplaced her steps, tripping over a rock or maybe her own foot. Regardless, she had fallen and at the mercy of the brigand.

"Well, ain't you a pretty one!" He exclaimed with a malicous grin, raising his axe for the final blow, "Such a shame I have ta kill ya girly."

"Lissa!"

"Milady!"

Swift footsteps sounded to her right and to her disbelief it was Robin, moving at speeds she had never thought possible, weaving past fires and rubble like he had been doing this his whole life. Reaching a large heap of stone, he used the rubble as a spring board, jumping high in the air as if he was made of paper. The black ribbons whipping around violently, the ends swirling together in a large, bladed clump resembling a clenched fist of darkness.

He raised his shadow hand and struck down with the force to shatter bone. "Uup!"

The brigand only had a slow second to see the dark cloaked face with those haunting white eyes gleaming with anger, terror-stricken for an incarnation of darkness was descending a pon him before he knew no more, his body crushed under a curtain of the abyss.

Lissa felt her jaw fall as the shadows raised, unraveling back to the indivudal swaying threads.

"R-Robin?!" Chrom yelped, "What was that? Wait, what are you even doing here?!"

"Oh that?" Robin asked with a grimace, collapsing to the ground with a huff, "Something I won't be doing again for a while, by Arceus I didn't know legs could hurt this much."

"Are you alright, Robin?" Lissa asked, bringing up her staff, "Wow, you really strained your leg muscles with that move."

"Save your strength Lissa, I'll be fine. I just...need a moment. Ouch."

Chrom ran up to the two, sighing in relief, "Thank the gods you showed up when you did."

Robin gave a weak grin, "Your welcome."

Estelle and Frederick finally arrived at their sides, the great knight while suspicious of the duo, reluctantly let some of his grievance go due to the youngsters assistance. The amnesic had a more reserved expression but let slip some awe from the display of his power.

"Oh hey Estelle," Robin greeted with a groan, "Glad you could make it."

"Wow," She said, "I knew you were strong but I didn't think you could do something like that."

Robin gave her a tired, confused expression, Chrom looking at her in interest, "You knew?"

"I can...um See things, numbers and what not. I think I might have studied tactics at one point, though I see a different type of stat and a lot of extra information when I look at you Robin, but even then they're pretty impressive."

"That's a remarkable skill Estelle." Chrom told her, impressed by her knowledge.

"I'll tell you about them later, K?" Robin promised, "Anyways! We have some lowlifes to deal with, no?"

Estelle nodded sharply, turning to the other three in the group, "If we continue to fight this way, we'll eventually be overwhelmed."

"And what do you purpose we do?" Chrom asked.

"We were discussing it on our way here." Estelle replied, "We'll have the main group here, you and Frederick will lead the attack while Lissa will stay behind to support you. With you distracting the grunts, Robin and me will sneak around flank them from the side. They won't be expecting an attack from any other direction than in front of them."

"Are you certain you'll be fine?" questioned Chrom, worried for his new friends being ambushed.

"This...power of mine lets me see the battlefield from a bird's eye view, so I'll be in a better position to avoid an ambuse then you." Estelle responded,"Besides, I'll be giving Robin a crash course in magic while we move."

"Acceptable." Frederick agreed, he couldn't detect any holes that would purposely put his charges in more danger than necessary and the farther away he can keep them from experimental uses of magic the better. He did noticed her 'sudden' knowledge in the art of magic, but put it aside for a time free of danger. At much as he hesitated to put his trust in them, they've proven thus far to be genuinely sincere.

"That's...a wise choice then." Chrom said, both impressed with their plan and grateful to be out of range should a spell go awry.

"You sure you don't need a quick fix Robin before we start? You don't look so good." Lissa asked. She wasn't wrong. Robin's already pale face was a noticable shade lighter, droplets of sweat rolling down his face making him look slightly ill.

"Yeah, I'll...I'll be fine. Won't be pulling a stunt like for a while, and Estelle's going to be pulling most of the punches anyway. I'll explain later, but I have a special skill you could call it, that'll be extremely useful here, as loath as I am to use it." Robin gave a weak smile, he hated to worry anyone but some small instinctual part of him was immensely pleased they believed he was worthy of their concern. "Stay together though, tag teams don't work if one of your decides to be a hero."

Smirking, Chrom gave one final meaningful glance, and prepared to advance, "And the same goes to you friends, stay safe."

He didn't miss the looks the two gave them, Estelle, he understood, she was no doubt surprised he already considered her a friend. The two of them were willing to risk their lives for Ylisse and that marked them as good people in his books. Hell, Robin even saved his sister nearly at the cost of detriment. So he was greatly taken back by the dumbfounded and suspicious expression on his face, like Robin was expecting a bold-faced lie and was amazed that Chrom meant every word.

"I, um...Do you actually mean that?" searching one last time for any trace of deception, even Frederick was hit with a bout of pity and anger at the frightened curosity turned shy, gentle radiance at the sincerity of Chrom's words.

'We're gonna need a chat about this Rin person Robin's mentioned if he has this reaction to someone calling him a friend.' Decision set in stone, Chrom put it aside, leading the charge with Frederick, hacking and slashing any thief foolish enough to challenge the collective might of the lord and great knight.


Estelle led the way across the village, stealth-fully making her way out of the brigands' sights and to the side. One look behind her told her that not only was Robin following close behind but the smile had yet to leave his face. He didn't even appear fatigued at all, the revelation apparently wiped all trace of exhaustion from his form. She couldn't tell if he was just hiding it or if he felt he had to prove his worth to justify earning Chrom's trust.

Biting down a rush of ire and disgust when it seemed like a natural occurrence for someone like Robin, she tried to distract herself from her emotions by carefully explaining the basics of magic and how to draw the energy from around them and their bodies to mold into magic spells. She wasn't sure why she suddenly knew how to use magic or even the best way to help Robin with it, when she couldn't even remember her own name but she'd deal with that later.

Her tome was a standard fire tome with the most generic heat-based spells, and for extra protection, she procured a bronze sword from a deceased bandit. The weight was familiar and reassuring, not doubting she could use it. Why the brown-haired woman didn't have one when Chrom and the others found was puzzling but nothing to ponder on now.

Now Robin's weapons were intriguing, the information her observant mind collected was startling. The tome was a collection of spells that weren't even remotely familiar to, the sword made of a glittering silver and gold like material, with two long black cloths ending with a lavender whorl and ornate shield.

He was rather taken with them, gleefully flipping through the pages of spells. Estelle was able to sneak a quick glance at one of the pages he finally decided on, and was baffled by what was written; Ghost type special - Shadow ball.

"Ooooh, I was so worried I wouldn't be able to use any of my old moves." He beamed, and she would swear to Arceus and back he was literally sparkling, "Sucks I have to use a book, though it could be worse."

"You're old moves? What does that mean?" Estelle asked him.

"My old pokemon moves." He said, as if that was all the answer she needed.

"Po-ke..." She echoed, the word not even registering in her head, but lighting a spark non-the-less. She shook her head, "I'll ask later, you ready Robin?"

He responded by gathering dark, shadowy veins of magic at the cusp of his sparking tome. Grinning an almost psychotic smile, darkness obscuring his face, "Are you?"


The plan was going well, Chrom and Frederick had no issue taking on the bandits, their lack of experience and insufficient training made them little more than a nuisance. Unfortunately even with their lack of skill, there was simply too many of them for the two of them to defeat them all.

He let out a sigh of relief when Robin and Estelle rushed forward, magic crackling at their fingertips. Chrom had to hold back a shudder at Robin's Psychotic smirk, dusk concealing his face giving him an phantom-like appearance that sent a wave of horror through the enemies psyches.

"Keheheheh, do I scare you? Don't worry, IT'LL ALL BE OVER SOON!" he cackled, a distorted alien echo sounding like hundreds of other voices eclipsing his own. "Shadow ball!"

Orbs of darkness exploded from the pages of his tome, striking down numerous brigand, leaving smoky craters in the bandits closest to the magic users. The further away the orbs had to travel, the more mass they lost, causing less and less damage as they struck, flinging opponents back or barely causing a few burns.

"Keheh, wasn't expecting that, not as strong as what I hoped."

Dear Naga that was terrifying, that power alone was a force to be reckoned with, but accompanied with that mask of darkness, Robin became an epitome of shadow.

With the timely arrival of the two mages, and the terror one induced, the shepherds plus two, had no trouble cleaning out the rest of the brigands from the village.

"Well, that's the end of that." Estelle said, dusting off her cloak.

"Lucky for the town, we were close by. But holy wow, you guys were incredible! I've never seen magic like that Robin!" bubbled Lissa, "That was so cool the way you came in, all dark and scary."

Robin flinched at 'scary,' but then her words registered in his mind, "Wait, what way? I wasn't doing anything."

Chrom raised in eyebrow, perplexed, "You don't remember? Your face was shrouded in shadows and your eyes were glowing white. Even your voice was different, like a choir of spirits."

He frowned in confusion, "I-I'm not doing in now am I?"

"No."

Looking at his gloves, he tried to come up with an explanation for earlier. He never had an experience like that, was it something that had changed to fit his human form or was it something else entirely. Arceus he hoped it wasn't the latter.

"I might have an idea what that was," He said, looking back up to see the awaiting eyes of his companions, "I can't prove it now, but I suspect it might be my Disguise ability."

"Disguise ability?" Estelle asked, "How does that work?"

"Eh, I'm not sure how it'll work now, but before, my Disguise acted like decoy and absorbed any attack I took. It also completely negated any damage I might have taken if the hit landed. Only works once, but I could repair the disguise and use it in the next battle."

"Ha, now that is a useful skill." Chrom replied, laughing at the pink flush of Robin's cheeks, " The Shepherds could use someone with your talents."

"Are you certain, Milord?" Frederick cut in, "I still have suspicious on the nature of these two, especially with Robin's rather...disturbing display earlier. We still have no idea who either of these two are."

"I understand your skepticism, Sir Frederick. And I cannot explain why only some knowledge has returned to me. But please, believe me. I have shared all that I know." Estelle avowed.

"D-disturbing display?" Robin mumbled, "Was I really that scary?"

Robin looked to Chrom for confirmation, almost on the verge of tears and Chrom had to bite his tongue from cursing whoever made Robin so afraid of being perceived as scary to others.

"I-it's alright Robin. I honestly thought it was more awe-inspiring than frightening."

He sighed with a wince, "Right, Habit. Sorry, I don't mean to act like a baby mon whenever someone calls me scary. My kind has horrible self-confidence and an irrational fear of being called spooky practically coded into our DNA."

"Your kind?" Frederick snapped, his wary nature rearing its ugly head, suspicion lacing his voice as he glared at him, "And just what is your kind?"

Startled, Robin stared back in confusion, like he couldn't believe they hadn't figured his true nature out or even suspect it, "Um...A Mimikyu? You've at least heard of a Mimikyu right?"

A pit of horror began to well up in his stomach when not a single spark of familiarity flared up in any of them. It might as well have been the first time they had ever heard of the word before. Once again, he was questioning just where the hell he was if he not only had a human form, that could strangely use Pokemon moves and abilities, but no one even knew what a Pokemon was, judging by the looks he was receiving.

Oh freakin' Arceus, what was he gonna do now? What could he do? He had no idea where or hell, when he was. The village was so primal, not a hint of the technology even the most basic and laid-back towns had. Now that he thought about, he hadn't seen a single Pokemon since he woke up. With the chaos of the Brigand raid it had completely slipped his mind.

Unless he went back so far in time that Pokemon simply didn't exist yet, and by that logic humans wouldn't exist either, It could only be inter-dimensional travel, but even that didn't cause one to completely change forms. Oh where the hell was that useless rust Nebby when he needed him. Was Nebby even here? The answer would most likely lie in how the Human Mimikyu got here. Oh sweet Llama lord he was too damn tired to ponder this.

In his tired state, he didn't realize he was muttering every thought he had and that everyone near heard his mumbled words.

"Is he alright?" Lissa asked, "He's muttering some pretty crazy stuff."

"We've picked up a strange one," Chrom agreed, "Now, we should make our way back to Ylisse. Would you like to join us, we could really more people like you?"

"Well, I might as well, I've got nowhere else to go." Estelle said, truthfully with a touch of sadness.

Chrom nodded in approval, "And you Robin?"

Robin glanced up at his name, "Hm, oh sure. I mean if you'll let me. Might be the only chance I get to see if Rin also ended up here. So count me in."

"If you don't mind me asking, who is Rin? You've mentioned that name quite a lot and my curiosity is peaked." The others understood the real reason why Chrom asked and were equally curious about the answer in their own way.

A wide grin replaced his drained expression, "Rin's my trainer and the best friend I could ever ask for." He blinked, "Speaking of that, I...know I've been showing a lot of creepy behavior and I'd totally understand if you don't want to be around me anymore, but if you still want to be friends then I'll gladly offer my power to you."

"Of course, friend," Chrom chuckled, intentionally putting more emphasis on friend to Robin's delight.

"Kind of wish he was here, though. He would have loved to see the bandits' face when I come charging in."

"He would have liked to see you terrify your enemies?" Lissa said, incredulous of his words.

"Oh please, Rin would be laughing his ass off. He lives for terrorizing others."

Pokemon profile (Warning, INFO dump)

Robin - Mimikyu

OT - Rin

Level 78

Ghost/fairy type

Impish and likes to take plenty of siestas

Ability- Disguise

Disguise will act as both a shield and an illusion, the illusion being the psychotic image he had earlier, though once the disguise is broken he appears normal. The shield part is a one-time perfect defense, but nicks and scratches will slowly break down the shield's effectiveness that could potentially lead to injuries leaking through (As the shield will only block part of an attack or not at all if it's been damaged enough by anything other than a direct hit) Though like in the game, opponents or moves with the ability to ignore defenses will pass through Robin's disguise entirely.

Since Robin has a lot of experience with one on one battles, he'll be the expert on small scale battles, perhaps even teaching Estelle some tricks, while Estelle will have more theoretical knowledge on both small and larger scaled battles.

Weapons

Tome, called the Phantom's Ordeal : Authority of Oberon, is a collection of dark, fairy and ghost type special moves and support moves such as will-o-wisp or light screen. The Phantom's Ordeal contains the spiritual energy Robin, as both a Ghost and Fairy, would normally generate in his true form. Since the tome is made from his spiritual force, it acts like an unbreakable weapon like Falchion but will become completely blank if Robin uses too much of his power and will remain blank until he recovers his strength. Due to it's unique spells, only other ghosts, fairies or spiritually sensitive mages (or not-still deciding on that) can use it.

The Nightmare is a silver sword in the shape of an Aegislash, there is no soul in the blade so it simply a sword that looks like the royal sword Pokemon. The sword will be how Robin uses physical attack and support moves like feint attack and swords dance. Any other moves that require claws are used by the shadow ribbon hands-The Eclipse Paws.

Having a silver sword this early in the game seems like overkill, but I choose to make it silver due to silver being closely associated to the moon and the yin side of Yin-Yang (Yin is cooling, calm, and soothing.) The gold part is due to gold supposedly having a healing energy that doubles as a power amp.

With Robin's typing, I choose to have Robin keep his weakness to steel and poison, having his clothes act as a shield, that as long as a steel or iron weapon doesn't cut him (And make him bleed), he won't be affected. But wounds made by steel/iron are much more painful and take more effort to heal even with a stave, same with poison which reacts much faster in his body and has to be dealt with immediately or it'll weaken Robin to the point losing consciousness.

Since there are no moves to make ghost type moves affect normal types, and everyone could be considered a normal type, ghost type moves will affect humans, but will lose power the farther it has to travel away from Robin to hit an opponent. The distance it has to take for a move to lose complete lethality is actually quite short, which is why most of the bandits survived and only the closest died.

Due to his ghost typing, the ghost half of Robin's power grows by feeding off negative emotions which is how he was able to use his powers so effectively during the fight. Once he's away from the action, his little stunts and magic flinging will come to bite him in the ass.

Robin will also keep his immunities, considering most people use weapons that shouldn't be much of a problem, but any weapon not made of Iron, steel or infused with magic will go right through him. Same with dragon-type moves.


I see Mimikyus as lonely Pokemon who will do whatever it takes to be friends with someone, and become more suspicious and wary the older they are or by how many times they were rejected/ignored by others. The more they are rejected and left alone, the closer to insanity they become. They only openly express their true natures and characteristics when they have definitive proof that they won't be abandoned by potential friends. While Robin already has a friend, his insecurities as a Mimikyu are still there, so he flip flops between impish (or at least as close to impish I can get) and a more shy, uncertain personality when faced with offers of friendship. I also see Mimikyus having a strong desire to be seen as cute and adorable, as in their fairy nature to be, and hate being called spooky/scary etc because they've come to associate it with people wanting to avoid them because they find Mimikyu's creepy.