im too lazy to put this on my marth blog but marth is so so passionate about protecting the manaketes too like
we all know the manakete race is dying out at the time of awakening, with only the divine tribe surviving (except that small mention of bantu from nowi in the barracks, and we don’t know what happened to xane)
ive seen speculation that it was chrom’s father’s fault for this, but i think this dying out started a couple thousand years prior, in marth’s era, when all those dragons were turning feral
if you played new mystery of the emblem right and got all the pieces of the starsphere you saved tiki - canonically, if this were an anime or manga and not a game where you can screw up, we all know marth would risk his life for those pieces of the starsphere to save tiki from turning feral
maybe it was for her, maybe it was because of the fact that if tiki turned feral, the entire continent would be destroyed because of her power
we don’t know for sure but going by how much of a loving older brother figure he is to her, i’d say he does this for her
talk trash or threaten the manaketes and marth - pacifist, peace-loving marth who cried when a former friend-turned-sorta enemy of his committed suicide in front of him, who is stunned into sad silence if caeda is dead at the end of either shadow dragon or new mystery - would probably shove falchion so far down your throat it will come out of your ass
you don’t talk shit about manaketes to marth because he would die trying to help them
xane hates humans but look at him, being friendly to marth
telling marth to his face that he’s ‘not like other humans’
and we also know that when tiki wakes up in awakening, she’d been asleep for at least 2,000 years - we know this by how she mentions that marth died during her ‘endless sleep’
at the end of new mystery of the emblem, marth assures tiki that she never has to go back to the ice dragon shrine to sleep again
but lo and behold, she falls asleep again
marth made a promise he probably knew he couldn’t keep but he’d die before he let it happen with no resistance
marth is the greatest person ever okay
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