WIP Wednesday or Saturday or Whatever Good Day It Is
I made a new year’s resolution to finally just fucking WRITE a fic that’s been swimming in my head since like August 2024, it’s crazy how long I’ve been simmering on it. And yet, despite all that time, I’m STILL struggling with what exactly I want the plot to be or what the characters’ motivations are 😔 so please be nice it’s kind of intimidating throwing something so incomplete out there
Anyway, here’s a handful of characters from my Fire Emblem Awakening: Fell Xenologue AU (title extremely pending) that I’ve been thinking about a lot and falling in love with. Details subject to potentially major change.
Sabine: Alternate Robin’s mother. A tactician with a natural talent for creating powerful and obedient Risen. This makes her an attractive asset to several warring factions, none of which she wishes to join. She tends to let other people do most of the talking. Has the same hair color as whatever the player chose for Robin.
Virgil: Alternate Validar. Formerly the most powerful sorcerer in the Grimleal, who defected with Sabine to protect her from being enslaved for her Risen-summoning talents. The only one who can wield Grima’s Truth. Perpetually dour and uncomfortable around Chrom.
Alternate Robin: True name left deliberately ambiguous. They died some time before the events of the xenologue. Unfinished business leaves them bound to their world and able to speak to Robin through their dreams. Just wants the Shepherds to keep their family safe, whatever it takes. They have the opposite gender and homologous features as the playable Robin.
Omega Wolves: Yeah, yeah, get your giggles out, it was the best name I could think of and I’m not changing it. A strange group of individuals hiding behind wolf masks. Their leader, wearing black garments and staying stone silent like a stagehand, wields a strange blade resembling one of the Fell Dragon’s horns. It seems they want the Gemstones as well.
Alternate Chrom: The last Exalt of what was once Ylisse. Often called the “Dread Exalt” for his iron-fisted grip on Ylisstol driven by a deep paranoia of the outside world as a result of what happened during Plegia’s invasion of the castle years ago. The only one who can wield this world’s Falchion. Also owns the Emblem, but it’s unclear if he has any Gemstones. No one has seen him in person for many years.
I also have alternate versions of Aversa (just… pretend she doesn’t have a paralogue), Excellus, and Cervantes in the works, and I’m still trying to hammer out some history that would lead up to current events, and I’m trying to tell myself it doesn’t need to be perfect and mind-blowing to be worth writing lol (it’s fire emblem we’re accepting of medocrity here)
