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Minor: Dark Flier, Immortal, Boxer (Pugilist), Exploitive, Swordmaster, Angry Cinnamon Roll, Tripping, Perpetual Cheer, Chef, Blacksmith, Pegasus Knight, Teacher, Librarian, Masochist, Literal-Minded, Authoritative, Middle Age, Wyvern Rider.
Standard: Elemental, Deaf, Foreign, Future sight, Tiny, Nurse/Medic, Valmese Tactician, Medusa, Amazon, Genderfluid, Gift from Validar + evil to good, Mind Control, Banshee, Bard, Dancer, Mimic, Emotionless, Crippling Overspecialization (Idiot Savant), Coward, ESP, POW, PTSD, Magician, Mute, Savage, Handicapped, Secret Helper, Crazy, MPD, Morpher, Dreamwalker, Motherly, Lich, Twins, Regenerating, Animal Whisperer (horse/wyvern), Naga/Tiki Assistant, Sleepless, Plant, Fairy, Deadly Touch, Mind Reader, Doppelganger, Arachne, D&D magic, Umbramancer.
Unlikely: Chrom's child, Minotaur, Paladin, Werewolf, Assassin, Future Soldier, Bounty Hunter, Weather control, Kleptomaniac, Druid, Steampunk, Shadow Familiar, Magic Augmentation, Lucky, Exile, Piper (Charmer), Gladiator, Witch Doctor, Centaur, Drunk, Demon, Punk, Harpy, Revenant, Luck Manipulation, Demon Summoner, Megalomaniac, Kitsune, King of Plegia, Mood Ring, Reverse Aging, Hammerspace, Prostitute, Demon Hunter, Cyborg, Maid/Servant/Butler, Deadlord, Rebellion, Einherjar, Trap, Yandere, Living Weapon, Size Shifter, Queen of Plegia, Gluttonous, Stretchy, Ninja, Alchemist, Protoss, Spirit Manipulation, Invisible, Plegian Honor Guard, Mecha, Kryptonian, Creator, Orc, Memory Stealing Respawn, Racer, Khan, Elder God, Misfortune, Vampire Hunter, Geokinetic, Imaginary Actualization, Death, Resurrection, Arachne.
Other: Pokemon Trainer, Self-insert, Second Generation replacement, Dimensional Walker, Cycle, Fates.
Respawn Robin requested by SirHaloFan, though I doubt this is exactly what he had in mind. Guess what the original idea for this chapter was (aside from Respawn). I don't think I was very subtle.
"Ya know, I probably should have put together what you were doing earlier." Henry says conversationally. "I knew you had some sort of time magic for a while. You reeked of it during big battles, like a walking corpse!"
The other man, with off-peach skin and greasy black hair, gives the dark mage an unnatural grin. His mouth seems to stretch and break the structure with his face as the smile grows wider and wider. His hands are hidden beneath his longcoat, and Henry expects he's gripping his levin sword.
"The fact that our buddies actually died should have been a giveaway." The dark mage continues. "Sure, maybe in a big battle even you couldn't save someone, but Miriel dying of an accident on the road? There's no way you couldn't have stopped that."
"But you never said anything~" The man coos.
"How could I say anything? No one else would ever see you do something wrong, you would just go back in time." Henry huffs. "They'd think I'm crazy! Well, more crazy."
"And now you're the only one left." The tactician breathes. "I have to give you credit, I killed Chrom, I killed Grima, before I managed to corner you."
"You didn't kill Grima on your own though." Henry mocks. "Chrom had to bail you out."
The man's face falls into a brief frown. "So you know what this is all about. The day ended before I could kill myself to force a respawn and fight Grima myself. Still, I can always full restart to kill Grima again after this is all over."
"Well, I had a guess as to what this all was. You want to kill everyone yourself." Henry hums. His eyes flick the chandelier hanging in the air between them. The Ylissian castle is abandoned, with all the inhabitants dead at Robin's hands, but the structure itself is still intact.
"Exactly!" Robin laughs. "How else do I prove I'm a master tactician?"
"To who?"
"To myself of course! If I'm the best, I don't need to answer to someone else." The man scoffs. "Not Chrom, not Naga, and certainly not you."
"Nyahaha... well that's pointless!" Henry chirps. "Good on you for having a goal, but come on, that's what you chose to do to prove yourself? Killing people? Don't get me wrong, that's fun and all, but it's not hard."
The black-haired man scowls. "I don't care what you think."
"Really? 'Cause it seems you care a whole lot about convincing me." Henry shoots back.
Robin's face darkens, and he finally pulls out his levin sword. "I've had enough of this. It's time you died so I can move on. There are still other continents that need exterminating."
"No sneak attack? I'm surprised." Henry laughs. He takes his tome out from his cloak. It's a thick black book with old runes scribbled along the pages. "What's special about me that wasn't about Chrom?"
"It would seem you're my final challenge here. It would be underwhelming to kill you in some back alley from a hundred feet away. I want a satisfying fight." Robin says. "For the record, I was originally planning to make Chrom my last target, but you proved slippery… I thought when I killed that damned bird of yours you'd come out, but you didn't."
"Ahh Fog…" Henry hums. He strokes the single black feather tangled in his hair. He put it there as a momento. "She knew what she was getting into when she offered to spy on you. I owe her my life so many times over..."
"You put your life in the hand of a bird."
"And it worked, because you aren't as good as you want to think you are." Henry mocks. "You had to try a dozen times to kill Walhart on your own, didn't you? Priam took even more than that! You only win because you come back to life and memorize things, not because you're skilled."
That's all Robin is going to put up with. He lunges forwards with a snarl on his face and electricity crackling on his sword.
Henry calmly raises his arm and shoots a thin beam of dark magic at the ceiling. The dark mage smiles in amusement as the chandelier comes crashing down on Robin's head, impaling his skull with the metal spike on the bottom.
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"Nyahaha, I killed you once already huh?" The dark mage says in way of greeting the second time. "Nice, how'd I do it?"
"Chandelier." Robin growls. "Don't pretend you don't remember."
"I don't. I can see time magic so I know how many times it's been rewound, but it's not like I remember what happened." Henry shrugs.
"I won't die again."
"Sure you won't. I bet that's what you told yourself when you fought Priam the second time, right?"
Robin's face contorts into an ugly snarl. He doesn't bother with a warning this time and rips his sword from his hip and sends a bolt of lightning flying at the dark mage. The boy sidesteps the attack with little visible effort and draws his own tome.
The tactician is careful to avoid the chandelier this time and instead runs at the man along the side of the room. Henry lobs a few lazy shots at him, but otherwise doesn't put up much of a fight. He still avoids Robin's attacks but his own in return have no effort behind them.
Even when Robin gets into melee range Henry still doesn't seem to be trying. The tactician hacks and slashes wildly but the dark mage bobs, weaves, and jumps over his strikes with apparent ease.
"Did I tell you killing was easy last time?" Henry asks casually. He leans back to avoid a swipe at his head.
"Yes." Robin grunts in frustration. "And no matter what you say, it is a legitimate way to prove my superiority!"
"Sure sure… but if it's easy, and you've had tons of experience at it by now, why are you still so bad at it?" The dark mage prods.
The black-haired man snarls in anger and swings as fast and hard as he can. The attack goes wide, with Henry effortlessly ducking under it. Robin follows through far too much with the attack, and by consequence he has no change of blocking or avoiding the sudden counter Henry makes.
Black magic courses over Robin's body as Henry grabs the man's throat. The telltale numbing of Nosferatu takes over his senses, and within less than a dozen seconds Robin is a lifeless husk in Henry's grasp.
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"Two down! Many more to go!" Henry chirps. "Hope you're stubborn, because this still feels like my first time! I'm always gonna determined!"
Robin doesn't bother talking this time. He charges headlong before the mage even finishes speaking. The sudden blast of dark magic in his face is unexpected and fatal.
It's his quickest, most pathetic death yet.
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"Three and counting~!"
"How are you killing me in one strike!? Even Grima couldn't do that!"
"Hey, I wasn't feared as the most powerful dark mage in Plegia for no reason." Henry chuckles. "No one could beat me, and by the looks of things that's still true!"
The tactician snarls, but doesn't get baited into a charge this time. He pulls out his sword, again, and settles for a much more patient battle plan this time. Just sit back and shoot, don't run in and get killed.
He gets killed anyways. Henry eventually gets bored of being shot at and swamps the entire room in black magic in less than a second, draining Robin swiftly but painfully.
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"Four!"
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"Five!"
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"Ten!"
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"Twenty~!" Henry says in a sing-song voice. "Wow, you're having a rough time aren't you?"
"Fuck you."
"Nyahaha, no thanks!"
"I will beat you! You are my last challenge, and I won't be stopped by some bird-loving, false happy freak!" The man snaps. All pretenses to composure are totally gone.
"Aww, come on. Do you want to see me moping over a lack of close friends, family, or any significant relationship outside of animals? Or maybe you'd prefer I whine about not being able to understand people at all?"
Henry leans forwards. He's still smiling, technically, but it seems even less genuine than usual.
"Do you really want to see that?" The dark mage whispers. "I keep a pretty tight leash on myself, and you're already struggling as is. Do you really want me to stop hiding?"
"Go ahead, you'll forget about all of this when I respawn." Robin huffs.
"It's funny how you think I care what you say." Henry laughs. He rears back, summoning a truly monstrous storm of magic above his head. The ceiling breaks apart and the chandelier falls, and paintings are ripped from the walls as they're all sucked into the vortex of dark power. Robin is forced to grab onto a pillar to stop himself from being pulled in, but it's rendered pointless a moment later when Henry shouts "have some death!" and throws the storm at him.
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"Fifty. Aren't you getting tired of this? I mean, I'm still fine, I don't remember those times, but you must be boooored." The mage cackles. "I mean, come on, how many times do you have to get violently murdered by your friendly best friend the friendly dark mage before you give up?"
"There's nothing friendly about you." Robin grumbles.
"Nyahaha… not anymore maybe. Not that you'd know, you never really bothered to learn about me or any of the Shepherds."
"Like you know them any better."
"Yeah, that's because I'm a wolf-raised, barely human, blood loving maniac who's at least tried to understand them. What's your excuse?"
"I have to prove I'm a master tactician."
"By killing people? That doesn't prove you know strategy." Henry scoffs. "By that logic, I could be five times the tactician you could ever hope to be!"
"What then, how do I prove I'm a master tactician?" Robin huffs.
"By doing something hard. Killing is easy!"
"You say that like you have an idea."
"I do!"
"What?"
"Make friends with everyone, learn everything you can about them. Now that's hard." Henry laughs. "I would know! I didn't even have one close friend during my entire time with the Shepherds!"
"That's because you're creepy as hell."
"Thanks!"
"That's not a compliment."
"Close enough!"
"It's really not…"
"Sooo, you gonna restart?"
"And waste all my hard work?"
"Hard? You killed people. That's-"
"Easy according to you. But you're the most powerful dark mage in Plegia!"
"Flattery won't work at this point Robin. Everyone's still dead."
"And here I thought you liked death."
"It's cool and all. But too much of a good thing ruins the fun."
"For future reference, what's 'too much'?"
"When you kill our teammates instead of the bad guys."
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Seventy. The chandelier got him again. He'd forgotten about that.
Robin wakes up again at the beginning of the day in Chrom's bed. He really is tired of this. Frustration wore into exhaustion well before the fiftieth try, much less the seventieth.
Henry's words still ring in his mind. Is he really proving his skill by killing everyone? Shouldn't he be doing something more difficult? Learning about others is boring though, no one can be as interesting as himself after all.
Still, Henry has a point. Learning everything about everyone truly would be an endeavor worthy of his greatness… but it would take so long, and he wouldn't get the satisfaction of finally beating Henry.
But, if he thinks about it, not being able to beat Henry is a small price to pay. Besides, Henry did give him a new idea. It's only fitting he be rewarded for his service by not being killed. Robin isn't giving up, he's graciously allowing Henry to live.
Yes, that's what he's doing. It's unfortunate Henry won't remember this and be able to be impressed by his awesomeness when he inevitably learns everything about everyone, but that's only a minor gripe. At least he'll know how great he is, it doesn't really matter if Henry doesn't. Why should he have to prove himself to anyone but himself after all? He's a master tactician, people will naturally look up for him.
Yes, of course. Clearly he's superior. He's doing this as a personal challenge, not out of a need to prove anything to someone else.
Closing his eyes, Robin draws on his time magic. Most of his powers act on their own, but the tactician has control of a single power. He can reset his entire life back to the point of waking up in that field, albeit keeping the memories of the timelines he's reset from.
A reset only takes a few minutes, but he's erasing years of work. This challenge is stupid though, why bother killing people to show his superiority? Clearly knowing everything there is to know about everyone around him is a better show of power, and he's manage it just fine because he's a master tactician.
With a self-satisfied smirk, Robin channels his power into the world around him. Time breaks and shatters, and then reassembles itself to his will back to that fateful point years ago…
This is a strange chapter. I don't know if it's good, terrible, or just mediocre.
I just figured I'd get this off my chest and throw this out there: I'm greedy, I love being able to see how people react to my work (even if the reaction is negative! I usually can't tell a good chapter from a bad one until I see the reviews). I live for comments, requests are just a side-benefit… and I'm frustrated at seeing mostly requests in the reviews with few comments ( I can stand a chapter getting no reviews at all, that just means it's a bad chapter, but it's kinda insulting to get reviews on a chapter just for all of them to be requests and no actual comments on the chapter itself. See chapter 36 reviews as an example).
No offense to the people who request! I know you're just enthusiastic, and I won't ask you to change what you're doing... but if you have a comment about the chapter at least consider speaking up. Requests are ideas, and I appreciate them, but they're not motivating. Comments, feedback, praise, and even constructive criticism are what make this collection worth writing for me.
I'm an artist: it's nice to get more orders because I know people like what I'm making because of it, but actually having a reader say outright "I like your what you've done with X" is infinitely more rewarding and motivating.
So yeah. Carry on what you were doing. This collection isn't going away anytime soon, but if you have an actual comment don't be shy. I really do appreciate them.
CorEagle: Mechanic might be hard to fit into the setting of Fire Emblem, same goes for Science, Geomancer is fine, Actualization is absurdly OP but a viable suggestion, Death is a good one, and I have no idea what you mean by the last one.
Darkness is complete: Maybe I forgot to mention it, but I did put it up on the list. Umbramancer is there. Resurrection will go under unlikely.
Guest (X2): No, no, no, maybe, no, maybe, maybe, already done Risen + that's not too different + I don't do ideas twice in this collection, no.
Appreciate the ideas though! Most just don't work well for this collection.
DarkZilla454: I'll put it on the list.