Family
Cast: (Flora, M!Corrin x Felicia)
Prompt: Flora reacts to Corrin and Felicia getting married.

Corrin and Felicia's wedding was a small, quiet, but peaceful affair. Flora just felt so incredibly happy for Felicia. The older twin could always sense a spark between Felicia and their lord. They were a pretty good pair, in her opinion. They both wanted the other to feel on top of the world.

Flora was thankful that she was able to reenter her sister and lord's lives in time to bear witness to this.

After their encounter in the sea, Flora was ashamed. She felt as though she could never look Lord Corrin or even her own sister in the eye again. Sure, they had forgiven her, but Lord Corrin forgave everyone. That didn't make Flora right.

She took her mind off things with her efforts in evacuating the Ice Tribe. But when the evacuation had settled, Flora's mind did not. She could not stop thinking of what trials her sister and Corrin could be going through. Trials she was not helping them overcome, like a good servant. Like a good sister.

Corrin had sent Lilith as correspondence. While Flora was thankful to hear word from Corrin, she insisted that she had nothing to say back to Corrin other than well wishes. She had told Lilith and herself that it was because Corrin had enough to worry about. But in reality, she was scared of Corrin. Scared of the slight chance that he might take it all back and blame her for betraying him. She did not even want to imagine what Felicia might say.

But… she missed her sister. She missed her lord. She missed Gunter. She missed Jakob, whom had recently rejoined Corrin, according to Lilith. All of her friends were together, fighting this fight while she was back home. The Ice Tribe and her sister meant everything to Flora… but over the years, she had found that Corrin, Gunter and Jakob were dear to her as well.

Enough was enough. Even if Corrin and Felicia were mad, Flora had to know for sure. When she had assured that the tribe would go on without her, Flora waited for Lilith to return. The former maid asked that Lilith take her to see Corrin. She would make things right.

Jakob merely nodded. Corrin smiled and shook her hand emphatically. Felicia's reaction was the biggest, practically tackle-hugging Flora. Strangely, Gunter did not appear to notice her.

It took a very short time for Flora to learn that Felicia and Corrin had finally gotten engaged. Apparently they engaged before jumping into the Bottomless Canyon, and agreed that they would wed when they both survived this whole ordeal. Flora sighed, but expected no less from these two.

The day had come, and Flora was pleasantly surprised that Felicia insisted on observing some of the tribal traditions for the ceremony. Perhaps she had underestimated Felicia's loyalty to the Ice Tribe.

So right there in the newly established Valla (a piece of land between Nohr and Hoshido), all of Corrin and Felicia's friends and allies began setting up an Ice Tribe wedding.

Ice Tribe weddings involved traditional garb for both parties. Though Corrin was allowed to keep his noble armor, Felicia wore her mother's wedding dress. It was a simple navy blue, with white fur lining. A little snug, but elegant.

One representative from both families would stand together and officiate. The two lovers would be given a heart carved out of ice and must smash it against the ceremonial altar. If it broke completely in half, that was good luck. Then they embrace.

After the wedding, everyone just mingled around the castle. While Flora had spoken to Corrin since reuniting with him, those occasions were infrequent. But now… he was her sister's husband. Flora needed to get used to talking to him once more.

She caught the happy couple subtly trying to escape from one of Arthur's anecdotes. She called for them. "Felicia? Lord Corrin?"

"Uhh, can you hold that thought, Arthur? We need to talk to my sister."

Arthur smiled. "Of course! To be continued!" He walked off, to Corrin and Felicia's quiet relief. They turned to meet Flora.

"I would just like to congratulate the two of you. I've always hoped you would find happiness together. And…" She hesitated. "I don't wish to offend your heritage, but Father and I welcome you to our family, Lord Corrin."

Corrin smiled. "Oh, Flora. I'm not offended at all! In fact… I always kind of felt like you and Felicia and I were family. But now it's official!"

Flora was struck. "Y-you did?"

"Indeed!" Corrin answered, nodding. "I know I had Xander and my other siblings. And also my family from Hoshido. But Felicia and you… and Jakob, Gunter and Lilith… you're all family to me too."

"Hehee! Now we have a lot of in-laws, Flora!" Felicia joked. "Our family's way bigger now!"

Flora couldn't help but smile. She knew Corrin forgave her long ago, but she could not forgive herself. And now here they were, with Corrin saying that Flora was family to him, even before marrying her sister. A tear ran down her cheek.

"Thank you, Lord Corrin."

"You don't have to call him that anymore, Flora. We're all related, now! You can call him just 'Corrin' if you want!" Felicia told her sister, beaming.

"Yeah. Like I said Flora, we're all family. Especially now."

The room temperature dropped as Flora kept crying tears of joy.

"… Thank you, Corrin. Felicia. And congratulations to you both."

A/N:

Somehow ended up writing another thing about Flora bearing witness to Felicia/Corrin within the span of a few days.

Of all the drabbles I've written for the blog so far, this one made me feel warm and fuzzy when I was done. Flora's still one of my favorite characters, so writing about her finding some measure of happiness was always the angle I wanted to pursue with this prompt. As I said in Blessing, I prefer supportive family skits to overprotective ones.

Also I decided to do a little world-building with the Ice Tribe. The goal for their wedding was to make it sound like something most Nohrians probably wouldn't do. And incorporate ice.