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Minor: Dark Flier, Immortal, Exploitive, Swordmaster, Tripping, Perpetual Cheer, Chef, Blacksmith, Pegasus Knight, Teacher, Librarian, Masochist, Literal-Minded, Authoritative, Phobia, Thicc, Tsundere, Damsel in Distress, Gangrel's Child, Communist, Bomber, Bear Cavalry, Flying, ADHD, Super Strength, Patriotic, Sassy, One Liner, Seamstress, Shephard, Speedy, Cool, Shy, Bookworm, Sweet, Kung Fu, Buff, Lazy, Wingless Flight, Blunt, Elf, Dwarf, Scottish, Melancholic, Punny, Dark Mage, Dragoon.
Standard: Elemental, Deaf, Nurse/Medic, Valmese Tactician, Medusa, Gift from Validar + Evil to Good, Mimic, Emotionless, Crippling Overspecialization (Idiot Savant), Coward, ESP, PTSD, Magician, Handicapped, Secret Helper, Morpher, Dreamwalker, Twins, Animal Whisperer, Tiki Assistant, Deadly Touch, Mind Reader, Doppelganger, D&D magic, Dominatrix, Songstress, Kinky, Matchmaker, Androphobic, Illusionist, Attraction Aura, Ring Maker, Teleporting, Crippled, Depressed, Slave, Love Curse, Geokinetic, Trauma, Siren, Changeling, Shapeshifter.
Unlikely: Chrom's child, Minotaur, Paladin, Werewolf, Future Soldier, Bounty Hunter, Weather control, Kleptomaniac, Druid, Steampunk, Shadow Familiar, Magic Augmentation, Lucky, Exile, Piper (Charmer), Gladiator, Witch Doctor, Centaur, Drunk, Punk, Harpy, Revenant, Luck Manipulation, Demon Summoner, Megalomaniac, Kitsune, King of Plegia, Mood Ring, Reverse Aging, Hammerspace, Prostitute, Demon Hunter, Cyborg, Deadlord, Rebellion, Einherjar, Trap, Yandere, Living Weapon, Size Shifter, Queen of Plegia, Gluttonous, Stretchy, Alchemist, Protoss, Spirit Manipulation, Invisible, Plegian Honor Guard, Mecha, Kryptonian, Creator, Orc, Memory Stealing Respawn, Racer, Khan, Misfortune, Vampire Hunter, Imaginary Actualization, Death, Resurrection, Force, Merchant, Background Music, Variable, Civilian, Natural Disaster, Mental Noise Projection, Hidden OP, Summoner, Cyclops, Teleporter, Cryokinetic, Genie, Judge, Intangibility, Fortune Teller, Serial Killer, Magic Fixit, Drakengard Restoration, Ying-Yang, Childhood Friend, Cyberpunk, Chrom's Mother, Obsessed, Berserker, Phase Shift, Gravity Manipulation, Hallucinating, Bladesoul, Zombie, Double Entendre, Shared Body/Two Souls, Cannibal, Violent, Waterbender, Casanova, Cupid, Undertaker, Master Thief, Guard, Faceless, Shadow, Age Control, Cradle Snatcher, Emo, Nun, Courier, Haunted Knight Armor, Egyptian, Sentient Object, Shit Lord, Court Wizard, Naga's sibling, Mad Queen, Artist, Predator, Cheshire Cat, Radio Host, Chimera, Wendigo, Witch, Symbiote, Hivemind, Hammerspace, Anna, Mother Nature, Psychopath, Stripper, Painting, Grima Parts, Knightmare, Super, Swimsuit, Bunny Outfit, One Punch, Idol, Chef, Rampage, Housewife, Determination, Vessel of Naga, Instant Expert, Time Travel, Hermit, Alternate Dimension 'Twin', Legendary, Resistance, Memory Regain, Umbra Witch, Naga, Aquatic, Hexblade Warlock, Dragon, Demon of Choice, Demon of Temptation, Affliction, Good Samaritan, Gallant, Rosannite Tactician, Leeroy, Dungeon, Apparition, Unwilling, Wildlife Commander, Consistent Kidnapee, Grenadier, Magic Creature, Alternating Mind Control, Sothis in the Mind, Exalt, Unicorn, Pegasus, Alicorn, Star Lord, Slenderman, Bird Laguz, Junk Dealer, Gate Guardian, Shaman, Ghostbuster, Exorcist, King, Soldier, Bird Wings, Failed Vessel, Of the Corn, Valentian, Harem, Car, Incubus, National Personification, Gravity Magic, Kraken, Zora, Kirby, Moon, Quadruplets, Unnoticed, Inventor, Bastilio's Kid, Treasure Hunter, Future, Mind-Swapping, Criminal, Hunter/Tracker, Biker, Gigantic Sword, Miracle, Medium, Warlord, Greater Good, Acrobat, Mother of Chrom, Soul Stealer, Mid War Memory Loss, Detective, Reverse Memory Loss, Sentient Item, Necron, ARMS, Naga's bride, Titan Sinkhole, Squire, Anti-Magic, Tomesmith.
This was inspired by the Angry Cinnamon Roll suggestion by a Guest. No idea if this chapter actually is that, but whatever. This is a relatively short chapter.
Lon'qu scrutinizes his surroundings. The forest is mostly quiet, with only the chirping of birds being audible. He can't see any animals, and there is no wind. A perfect, peaceful place to practice his swordsmanship away from the noise of the camp.
The man takes his stance and slowly draws his sword. It makes a slight hissing noise as it slides against the sheath, and then ends in a clear, quiet ringing noise once the draw is complete.
Lon'qu focuses on his imaginary target, and prepares for his warmups. He starts with a simple, horizontal slash-
"Fight me!" A high-pitch voice yells, and Lon'qu falters in the middle of his cut. "Fiiight me!"
Lon'qu lets out a long, deep sigh. He casts his eyes around the clearing again, still not seeing anything. Where is she? Nevermind how she followed him here without him knowing, how can he not find her?
That question is answered a moment later when a little girl drops onto his back and wraps her arms around his neck, shouting: "I've got you! Now you have to fight me Lon'qu! I will prove myself superior, I will prove myself stronger, I will-!"
Lon'qu stiffly reaches behind him and removes the girl from his person and holds her out in front of him. She's tiny, not even coming up to his knee, and it's hard to believe she's actually an adult. She has messy red hair longer than her whole body that seems to have collected a dozen new twigs and leaves, and burning red eyes that glare fiercely at him from an otherwise cherubic face. Her small little fists whirl in front of her, trying in vain to make contact with the man holding her.
"Robin, why are you here?" Lon'qu asks. "You should be at camp, and shouldn't jump on people holding swords."
"Because now you'll fight me!" Robin cries. "You can't escape now!"
"I'm taking you back to camp."
"Noo! I told Chrom I was going somewhere, and he said okay, and now I'm here, and you're gonna fight me!"
Lon'qu sheaths his sword with one hand, and throws Robin over his shoulder with the other and marches back to camp. Small fits thump his back, dealing absolutely no damage whatsoever. Lon'qu expects that Chrom said okay because he was busy and not paying attention, and Robin is always a pest so Chrom said okay to get her off his back.
It takes Lon'qu nearly several minutes to get back to camp with Robin complaining and hitting his back the entire time (to no effect). He dumps her in Frederick's lap, turns right around, and stalks back to the clearing.
He wishes what just happened were unusual, but it isn't. Robin seems determined to bother him for some reason, and Lon'qu doesn't understand one bit.
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Lon'qu wakes up to find a small girl on his chest, ineffectual trying to strangle him.
"I've got you now!" Robin proclaims as she struggles to put force into her grip. Lon'qu then uses an incredible counter that took many years to master, sitting up, and Robin tumbles onto his beroll, not able to keep a hold of his neck. "Aha! You counterattacked! That means you're going to fight me!"
"No." He grumbles. Why is she in his tent? Who let her off her leash? "What do you want?"
"To fight-"
"Aside from that. Why are you here?"
"To fight you!" Robin insists. "You've almost slept through breakfast, so you need to get up and eat so I can fight you!"
Lon'qu squints out the flap of his tent to see it's already light out. He almost never sleeps in, so this really is unprecedented.
Robin is now trying to grapple him around the waist to absolutely no effect. Lon'qu grabs her by the back of her coat, like a mother cat grabbing a kitten by the scruff of their neck, and deposits her outside his tent so he can get dressed.
She's still waiting there when he steps out with hands on her hips with a fierce scowl that's probably supposed to be intimidating. She opens her mouth to say something… only for Lon'qu to ignore her and walk right past. She quickly scrambles to catch up, barking at his heels like an overeager dog.
Lon'qu ignores the knowing stares of everyone else as he steps into the mess tent and grabs his food. He also ignores Robin climbing up his leg to get up to the bench, and then hopping up onto the table and jabbering nonsense in his ear as he tries to eat.
It's a relief when Chrom walks by and plucks Robin off the table for a meeting, and Lon'qu can finally have some respite.
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"Hey Lonnie!" Vaike shouts.
"Don't call me that…" Lon'qu grimaces. This is why he doesn't practice in camp. There is no end to the interruptions.
"Have ya seen Robin? Ol' Fred's looking for her!"
"I have not. Look somewhere else." Lon'qu says curtly.
"That's weird, she's always clung to you like a bur."
"Much to my chagrin, now go away."
"Ain't you afraid of women though?" Vaike questions. "Why do ya let Robin hang off ya?"
This buffoon can't take a hint. Lon'qu isn't even being subtle. "She is like a child. If I did not tolerate such actions, she would inevitably wind up in greater trouble. Now leave, and find her."
"Alright, alright, sheesh…"
It's not that surprising when Robin appears out of nowhere five minutes later and (once again) tries to fight him. Lon'qu responds by grabbing her by coat again and hauling her over to Frederick.
Maybe now he can finally get some training done. He's only been in the Shepherds for a few weeks and hasn't yet seen battle with them, and he can already feel his skills slipping from the sheer idiocy surrounding him. How can Robin be the group's tactician? How is Vaike actually someone that's trusted to fight alongside others?
He's starting to suspect Ylisse's "personal elite fighting force" is a bit more of a joke than he initially expected.
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Lon'qu is really starting to get tired of Robin bothering him. He doesn't know why Robin is so focused on him, but it's getting irritating. She doesn't seem to bother anyone else as much. It's just him.
That's why, when Robin bothers him the next time around, Lon'qu finally indulges her.
This time Robin clambers up onto a table in the mess tent while he's writing a letter. The mess hall is otherwise empty, because it's not close to meal time. Lon'qu is here because it's the closest table in camp.
"Lon'qu!" Robin cries, and waves her fits at him. "I've ambushed you! You have to fight me now!"
He fixes the small woman with a tired glare. "You truly want me to fight you?"
"Yes!" Robin shouts. "Ready when you are! Grab your sword and put up your fists! I'm gonna smash you!"
Lon'qu doesn't bother with any of that. Robin is tiny and weak, this won't be a contest. He just reaches out with one hand, plants his hand on her chest, and pushes her down onto the table as easily as wrestling a puppy. "There, we have fought. Now stop-"
Robin's small hands grab his fingers, to try and fail to push his hand off Lon'qu assumes, and he's shocked, literally, when electricity lances through his body and fries his nerves, and sends him toppling off the bench and twitching on the floor.
The tactician jumps down from the table to the bench, and then down onto Lon'qu's chest where she stands proudly with her hands on her hips as Lon'qu tries to get control of his muscles again. "I win! You really should have used your sword. We can do this again when it's more fair if you want!"
Robin has the audacity to sit on Lon'qu's collarbone and chatter at him while his fingers twitch and he tries to get his legs to listen to him again.
"It usually takes people two or three minutes to recover." Robin says cheerfully. "You'll be fine. The spell is made to incapacitate, not kill. I think it's supposed to be a self-defence spell? I've always known it, but I can't remember why because of my whole amnesia thing. It's a great trick!"
Lon'qu has never felt more humiliated than right now. He was bested by a woman barely larger than a doll in a single spell. He finally gets some control back in his limbs and manages to shakily push himself into a sitting position and Robin slips down into his lap, still smiling smugly.
"So, we're friends now, right?" She asks.
"Why would you assume that?" He grunts.
"Because that's how you make friends with fightery people!" Robin chirps. "You fight them, then they like you, and you're friends! Especially if they like strength and stuff, then they'll really like you if you beat them. That's how I made friends with Vaike!"
Lon'qu is mildly offended at the insinuation he has anything in common with Vaike. "You assumed that by beating me I would be your friend."
"Yes!" Robin says with absolute confidence.
There is something very off with this woman, but Lon'qu would be lying if he said he was surprised. This group is just full of oddballs.
"So… we are, right?"
"Fine." If he said no, Lon'qu has no doubt Robin would only try harder to "befriend" him, so this really isn't a choice.
"Yay!" Robin cheers. "So, you'll spar with me, right? I don't get to practice a lot because no one wants to spar for some reason."
"Do you electrocute everyone who spars with you?" Lon'qu asks warily.
"Of course not!" Robin pouts. "I only give them a small shock! I electrocuted you to prove I could actually fight. I won't do it again."
Lon'qu still has apprehensions about sparring with Robin. She's so small. Even if he uses a training weapon, he's quite liable to smash her in the head. "I will not risk injuring you merely for a spar."
"Is it because I'm a woman? It's because I'm a woman, isn't it?" Robin pouts.
"No, it is because you are small." Lon'qu says honestly. "It is far too likely I will hit you in a vulnerable area with too much force, mostly because your head is the easiest place to hit."
"Then I'll wear a helmet!" Robin huffs. "So fight me! Unless you're scared of losing!"
It's almost shameful that he's so easily baited by the same woman to fight her twice in the same day, but Lon'qu can't ignore such a challenge after he was so thoroughly humiliated just a few minutes ago. "Fetch your helmet then, and do not complain when a healer is needed afterwards."
"Woo!" Robin cheers. "I'm gonna win, just you watch!"
I think this is probably the shortest chapter beside the first one. It was a fun, quick little idea that came to mind, so I wrote it to get back into the swing of things after my temporary absence.
FleetwoodPink2Zeppelin: Chapter 101 actually, but yes, there will be another set of those.
Laughing Dog: I'm glad you like it. I had a blast writing that chapter. Tiki could have absolutely pushed the teasing further, and I considered it, but I think the story flowed better without stretching out that scene too much (even though I really wanted to).
Kuroshiroryuu: I considered something more, but with how I wrote Robin's character (him being a bit awkward and only recently realizing Naga was actually humanoid), it didn't seem proper to include in the story. I was sorely tempted to do it though.
RedNephilim: Here here!
Aiba: Character development is deceptively hard to write, so it's relieving to see someone recognize it. Thanks for the kind words, and I'm glad you liked it!
TheGiantRock: I've wanted to use Naga for so long but couldn't get her to work. I needed just the right character to go along with her, and that version of robin was apparently what I needed.
bauers347: I still have no idea where the line between strategy and tactics is actually drawn, I just know what their dictionary definition difference is.
C'mon, how could I not use Dragon Babe? It was too ridiculous to pass up on.
Raj8: Irreverence and rudeness can be hard to use in my opinion. It's easy to make a character outright unlikable when you include those too often. I think what makes it work here is that Robin very obviously has no ill intent, and Naga is obviously onboard with it right from the start, but as the writer I can only guess.
Yay for character development! It's hard to write but very rewarding! Also, writing out Robin's exact reasons during the midpoint took me a long time to get right. I probably changed that section seven or eight times trying to find the right words.
Guest: He absolutely doesn't know. If he didn't know that Tiki or Naga weren't giant lizards, he's not going to know what Mila looked like.
Firehedgehog: :D
Nekoburi: I do too! It's so much fun to write! Glad you like it!
Cyberchao X: Took the words right out of my mouth.
Boopittydoop: Thirsty is not the term I would have used, but I love the idea of it.
I'll write Necron down, but those are very specifically tailored for the Warhammer 40K universe and would be extremely hard to fit into Awakening.
Werefoxz: I too am very disappointed at the lack of RobinXNaga. There's RobinXTiki, but not Naga? Is this what rarepair hell looks like? Probably.
DimensionalistMusicianEviros: I'll note it down, but that's a tough one due to the combat-focused nature of it.
TheForgottenSpartan: All noted, though unfortunately I see a lot of those as being very difficult or overlapping with ideas I've already done. We'll see though. I don't have the rest of the remaining chapters strictly planned out yet, and a lot of my "standard" ideas are a lot harder to use than I expected.
PsychoCells76: Fixed, thanks for pointing it out.
B1ackAshes: A reread? Well there's an unexpected honor. I'm delighted you found that chapter so compelling.
ZALAMBSAUCE: And you as well.