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beatcroc · 1 year

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excessively long and complex read on pillar john, and the larger john collective

there are a lot of things in pizza tower that, to one extent or another, Are John. some, like the pillar johns, have known and stated canon; but there's a myriad of other things, from mini-johns to the tower itself, that could also be argued as Being John. this post aims to reconcile all of those things as different facets of the whole being that is "John".

now right out of the gate i want to be real. i want to level with you for where im coming from with all this. i do think john is akin to some kind of god. i don't mean this in a super literal sense, but this dude is absolutely [conditionally] immortal to me. he's been around for a very very very long time, and will likely continue to exist almost indefinitely. barring specific circumstances.

i don't have an exact image for the first type of john, so i'm using this scrapped type of block from betas bc it illustrates the concept well enough

this is what i'll henceforth be referring to as "john tower"

this is john in his purest essence; the tower itself, and/or a power or a presence or just a vibe contained in and by the tower's walls and bricks. john tower is 'where' it could be said john's true consciousness and memories lie, but by itself it isn't really "alive" and doesn't have a will its own.

i'm not taking the brick itself Too seriously/literally since it's from beta, but i think it works for the general idea of "John is, and is within, the tower at its most fundamental level; and left to its own the tower will just sorta start making John-type things." Such as the following:

this one i will be calling "real john" this john is the physical, living manifestation of john tower, and what i would properly consider to be "John, Brother Of Gerome". he's a sapient guy with a personality and will and all the stuff that usually comes with being alive. this john is probably the most important type, and under normal circumstances there's only ever one of them at once.

these are just "dead johns". yknow because of the.

yeah. past incarnations of real john that died or got killed, or perhaps just wore out after awhile. real john dying isn't a particularly huge issue because, again, the tower just sorta Makes these things. and boy have there been a lot. they never seem to look quite the same between bodies, but they're all the same john with the same memories nonetheless, and so long as the tower stands, there will be more johns.

these are the pillar johns. this is known. these, as far as i know, are canonically clones of a cursed state of real john, and are mentally all the same guy by way of a hivemind. no speculation to be done here!

this "original john" is also stated canon the current real john, under a curse from pizzahead. physically the same being as real john, so the tower isn't just going to make a new one because this one's not technically Dead. i like to think john is closer to just being another brick of the tower like this, in something of a suspended state between being john tower and real john. still alive and sapient like real john, but much more connected to and in tune with the general sense of Energies of john tower. Has direct control over bits of it, which is primarily expressed as:

mini-johns! as real john is to john tower, so mini-johns are to pillar johns. there is no way to make this less confusing. mini-johns are essentially just random ass bricks and blocks of the tower that pillar john went 'ok little fucker you're gonna be alive now'. they're not part of either the pillar john hivemind OR the john tower collective and operate on their own agenda, which is i suppose is why they attack you, despite john generally seeming to be on your side about what you're doing to the tower. the little guys are a little more removed from their host, and aren't too thrilled about you tearing everything down. or maybe john is just pissed about getting killed over and over since there's no doubt that shit hurted. the john ghost certainly doesn't seem too happy about it either but honestly he's allowed to be a little vengeful in my book.

an aside note but there's also definitely some weird connection between them and [pillar] John Being Dead since they only ever appear during escape, except for in the graveyard-themed level [scrapyard] where everything is already dead... though interestingly not the JOHN graveyard level [john gutter] until pizza time? whatever. i don't have much of a sensible framing for this aside from it just being a general thematic thing and the mini-john section is too long already so i am moving on.

this john i frankly have no fucking clue about and am generally leaning more toward the idea that it's maybe not a literal thing that exists. more just a visual representation of one thing or another?

since it dies when you kill the final/original pillar john my initial read on it was that it's just sorta like an alternate view of original john so you could get a good look at the whole thing not restricted to the space in the 2d plane the player is on, but, crucially, it is missing real/original john's hat, which feels like too central a detail to leave out.

my alternate read on it is that it's a representation of the... overall state of the tower. emotionally, or perhaps structurally, which really might mean thing when you are talking about an arcane structure that is an undetermined amount of alive. either way, it's clear john, the tower, its energies, anything relating to such have been under duress and steadily, irreversibly decaying for....however long it's been since pizzahead took over. bit of a dour note to end on i suppose but that's just the way the tower crumbles man.

you may ask me what all this means for gerome. and i would answer, hell if i know?!? they're said to be brothers and clearly the same Kind of guy, but they don't seem to be cut from the same cloth, as it were. gerome doesn't seem to have Powers:tm: like john does, or pizzahead certainly would have been using him for shit as well, and there's also not a million versions of him lying around to land him in that weird pseudo-immortal space like john.

my best guess is he's something more intrinsically connected to the treasures, and something of a life support system or failsafe for the tower. i'm not sure how to Coherently articulate my thoughts here, but it's something like...little guy fundamental to but also entirely separate from the tower, made to help with its general upkeep [janitor stuff] and also to protect itself in dire straits [treasures]. not in any way attached to the john collective so that if something goes wrong there, at least gerome's small part of the tower's vibe remains untarnished. something about shaping and fragmenting the tower's energies into and across each of the levels by routing and/or stabilizing it through cloned johns; by proxy still this taps in to the gerome part of the tower's energies which manifests as its own separate door/room within that space that can't be altered by any other force re: the background in the treasure rooms always just being normal purple tower brick. treasures being condensed physical standalone bits of the tower's energy, enough of whatever's been channeled into that area to keep john going when given back to him should something disconnect/destroy the energies of the rest of that area. something like that.

honestly, i still have a bit of a hangup in saying gerome is of the same tower origin as john simply because he's not same shade of purple as all the other john tower stuff, but that's really kind of nitpicking at that point, so. hwatever.

ANYWAY all that said and done the most important thing you should take away from this post is that at one point gerome might have had a brother that looked like this

#pizza tower #pillar john #john pillar #im gonna be the worlds foremost pillar bros care-abouter watch me.#pizzaposting #<-tag for my pt rambles btw. most havent been in the tag but we'll see what else i get up to #look i tried very hard to have the gerome part make any sense but it was just not coming to me #im tired of having this in my drafts this is as good as it's getting i want it out.

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jestingknights · 7 years

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TvT ‘Kay. Let’s talk about a timeline where Severa leads the charge back in time. Or rather, let’s just re-imagine the game with Severa in Lucina’s place. (This’ll… get long. Real long.)

Pre-Severa:

It starts when an injury of Chrom’s starts acting up. Cordelia goes out of her way to make sure he’s okay. Everyone does, actually, but there’s something yearning in the way Cordelia treats him, as if she wants him to notice her as more than a comrade in arms or a friend.

Cordelia’s efforts to get Chrom to notice her end up being noticed by the resident tactician (who thankfully, is not as dense as their friend) and they insist on helping her woo him.

Surprise, Robin is a master at this. Robin is the master matchmaker, ask anyone in the army.

Chrom is a bumbling idiot at this and doesn’t realise what’s going on at first. This was expected. Actually, Robin was counting on that, and set up several scenarios to deepen Chrom and Cordelia’s friendship.

(They actually hint to Chrom that Cordelia likes someone when things seem like they’re going well. Chrom starts to feel uneasily unhappy with that notion as time goes on, but pushes the feeling away.)

One time, Chrom asks about Cordelia’s love life.

She chokes.

He says he’d be more than happy to help her out. He says that she deserves to be happy, too.

She says it can’t ever happen because the guy she likes would never look her way.

(Chrom is more than a little upset with this. Cordelia is a beautiful, hard-working, strong, intelligent woman who cares deeply about her loved ones and always goes above and beyond. How could anyone not appreciate her?)

Then Emmeryn happens. She’s killed in the night, right in the capital. Not to mention, the Fire Emblem is stolen and Chrom managed to just barely get away with his own life, what with an assassin after him.

He’s distraught. She’s distraught. They both have lost people they consider family, but as he falls apart, she takes the time to both reprimand him (he is their prince and commander) and comfort him (losses aren’t easy, but losses shared can become lighter).

He thinks she’s absolutely brilliant in the same peaceful way that Emmeryn was. He takes extreme comfort and strength in her company as they storm across the battlefield to the Mad King.

After Gangrel’s death, after retrieving the Emblem, after they’re left alone, Chrom takes Cordelia’s hands, and asks her to marry him. He gives this whole speech on what a wonderful person she is and how he has come to trust and rely on her, and that he knows he can do better and make her happier than the man she has set her sights on because he will always love and appreciate her.

(It’s you, she thinks, it’s always been you. Don’t compete with yourself. But she’s crying too hard to say this out loud. She just throws herself into his arms. She’s too happy to properly process anything, including a tactician who was wiggling their eyebrows.)

They get married, of course. Lucina’s born within the first year, and two years later, a couple of months before being asked to Regna Ferox on the topic of Valm, Severa joins the happy family. There’s a banquet celebrating her birth. What a joyous time! Peace and family and love. The Ylissian royal family has never been happier.

…and well. By now, anyone who knows the bad future can guess where this will go. Chrom dies at the Dragon’s Table. Robin goes missing. It’s the beginning of the end.

Severa, part I:

Cordelia teaches her children to fight, although Lucina has more experience because Chrom taught her some things before he left. Lucina tries to teach Severa the royal swordplay, but Lucina has just taken to it more, much to Severa’s disappointment and annoyance. She works hard to try and master it anyway.

Severa is incredibly upset with Lucina, actually. People constantly compare her to her mother and sister. She acts tough, but it really gets to her, having two admirable figures to contend with.

She’s also both incredibly hurt and incredibly proud when Falchion chooses Lucina over her. Just another thing she couldn’t do but Lucina could. Still, her sister uses the legendary blade to save their people, and she can’t bring herself to be too upset.

(Dang, now I wanna write the Lucina & Severa sibling supports. The roach episode was probably the funniest thing to watch.)

As soon as they are able, they’re out fighting. They’re royalty, after all, they have to take care of their people.

(Even though, as Frederick points out, they should be safe and sound because they are what their people look to for strength, they can’t just sit and do nothing and if Lucina didn’t tag along (as she shouldn’t, she’s the crown princess) Severa was going to head out all by her lonesome to fight.)

They do their best to fight the Risen and Grima but…

Cordelia dies. Several Shepherds do, actually. Most of her friends have either lost their parents or are waiting anxiously for the news.

Severa inherits her lance the same way Lucina inherits Chrom’s sword. Severa keeps her mom’s stuff in her tent as they travel, along with the winged hair clips and an old book.

The children go to collect the stones of the Fire Emblem. The last one, though, the one Severa’s group was tasked with finding, is lost.

Upon arriving at Ylisstol to tell Lucina, all the children who arrived there are attacked by Grima. He mocks Severa and Lucina, saying that their parents are dead and that they would be next.

Severa falls for the taunt and charges at Grima, coming within range of his attack. Lucina intervenes and takes the hit, sustaining a severe injury.

Severa snaps back to her senses at that point and orders a retreat. The 12 heroes fall back and run with the Fire Emblem. Despite all that Brady tries, Lucina dies in transit to Mount Prism.

Lucina passes Falchion on to Severa, along with a request that Severa save everyone and an apology for leaving her, too.

Severa weeps bitterly, but when the sun rises, she helps her friends bury Lucina and they move on to Mount Prism.

As the next in line to be Exalted as well as the person Lucina pinned her hopes on, Severa asks to perform the Awakening despite only having four gemstones.

Naga refuses, not out of malice, but because you really do need all the stones.

That doesn’t make Severa feel any better. She yells at Naga. What kind of a god would let this happen to her people?! How can you just leave everyone with no hope?!

Naga mentions that there is another way, actually. With the current gemstones, she could open up a path to the past and what everyone could do is stop Grima’s revival in the first place. Severa vows darkly that if that’s what it takes, she doesn’t mind ripping apart the universe to keep the dragon from ever taking her family again.

When she comes out from the ceremony, she talks to her remaining friends. Everyone’s in agreement- they go back.

Unlike Lucina, Severa didn’t feel the need to wear a mask or disguise her gender. She did, however, feel the need to don royal clothing. Severa hadn’t before because it wasn’t fashionable except for the tiara, but gods, what does she care about that now?

(In short, I’m fairly certain she’s a Lord class for this timeline, despite everything.)

She also picks up a giant pair of glasses, much to Gerome’s discomfort. She says it’s because Lucina definitely would have picked it up in order to disguise herself if she were in Severa’s shoes.

Owain agrees but cannot in good faith let his liege go looking really stupid. Besides! How cool would it be to show up out of nowhere, donning a mask and being a hero?! He tries to pick one of Gerome’s more colourful masks, before Severa picks a butterfly mask just to shut Owain up.

Gerome does mention that since her brand is in her eye, it might be best to conceal them.

(I don’t know if I want it in her eye, but considering a scene later on, putting it where she would have to disrobe for Chrom to see seems kinda awkward. Or hilarious. She could be yelling at him for being embarrassed as she pulls off her boot if it’s on her ankle or if she starts pulling up her shirt if it’s on her belly or something. But let’s go with the eye for now. The right one, like where it would be for Inigo.)

Anyway, Severa understands that explaining her brand would be difficult, so she puts on the mask. She carries Falchion and Cordelia’s lance on her back, another sword on her hip. In her bag, the clips and ring and book rest.

The portal opens. The heroes go.

Serena:

Owain was right. She feels really cool coming out of the sky to save Aunt Lissa. Her twin pigtails flutter in the wind as she comes haughtily to the rescue.

Er, okay, she bragged a little too much. Does Father hate her now? He at least doesn’t think too kindly of the brash, mask wearing, loud-mouthed ojou-san, but she’s got sword skills. Severa’s starting to feel awkward, so she tries to leave, but not before Chrom asks her her name.

Crud. What does she do?! She panics and says, “Se… Serena. Princess Serena at your service! This -gestures at where the fight took place- is just the beginning. There’s more and worse coming… But that’s why I’m here! We’ll meet again!”

Crud. Double crud. Was that okay? That sounded a lot like Owain actually. (That would just be the OP sucking at dialogue.) She guesses it’s okay. She’s fine. They’re fine. She makes her way to Ylisstol and finds out the date.

Okay, so she can set up at a hotel somewhere for the meanwhile. She remembers the story Mother told her about how someone tried to kill Chrom. She remembers the when very clearly because Cordelia brought it up on the anniversary. If she stops it, would that help the future? Having her father in full health would help against Grima, anyway.

She brought enough gold to last her until the assassination. Hopefully.

(She tries to resist spending money on all the cute clothes. She’s here on a mission. She needs to focus on keeping Chrom alive and not that cute set of pots.)

Shoot, she’s out of money. Now what?

So she sells out as a sellsword. Merc work suits her somehow. She keeps track of time, and when she catches the eye of some Khan, she thinks she has enough of it to knock down the man talking down at her and screaming at her for being a woman and win the tournament before the assassination.

…she wasn’t expecting Chrom to be the other Champion. Oh no.

But she doesn’t back down. Even with Falchion in the fighter’s room and her own blade a dull stick compared to the her father’s legendary sword, Severa Serena refuses to lose. As they face off, Chrom starts noticing something off about the way she carries her blade. He asks her who taught her to fight like that. Serena’s answer: “My sister!”

Serena only surrenders because her sword broke in the clash against the younger Falchion. She takes what she’s got (and maybe she will sell those cute pots along the way) and makes her way back to Ylisstol.

What she did there… wasn’t too much, was it? Well, what can Chrom do even with that information? She buys a new sword when she arrives back in the capital.

She sneaks in through a hole in the wall Lucina showed her a while ago. She comes in during a conversation between Chrom and Robin and can’t stop herself from praising her dad. Gawds, he was just like the stories Mother used to tell her. But she’s here for a reason and she kills the man who dared to try and hurt her father Chrom.

She warns him of the threat against Emmeryn and reassures him that the Taguel (was that… Yarne’s mom? It had to be right?) was not an enemy.

It’s… nice, fighting alongside him. Okay, it’s stressful and weird, honestly. He helps guard the Exalt’s doors with her as Robin takes a team to charge after the leader. He also somehow recruits a thief by offering candy. (Gawds, for Naga’s sake, what the heck?!) She wishes it were under better circumstances, but time with Chrom is cherished no matter what.

(Of course, that’s not her dad. Her dad is dead. Her mom and sister are dead. They died protecting Ylisse.)

(But she wouldn’t let this Chrom join them.)

Gods, was it good to be thanked, though. After the skirmish, hearing the Exalt and Chrom thank her made her smile.

“That’s right! You should be thanking me! After all, I came all this way to help out!”

(Lucina would have refused the reward and do something humble like leave when no one’s looking, but having the positive attention really made Severa happy.)

When Chrom asks her how she knew about the plan, Serena hesitates. She waves him off saying it doesn’t matter. Ah, but if they were really feeling grateful, could she be bothered to take a bath or something? Like, that would something.

Emmeryn of course is super accommodating. But no matter how comfortable she is, Serena leaves at the crack of dawn.

Okay. So Aunt Emm didn’t die! That was actually more than she thought possible. So if Aunt Emm doesn’t die and the Fire Emblem wasn’t stolen then maybe crisis averted right? The time travelling princess could really use some downtime.

…although could she afford it? Her friends were all somewhere. Maybe Serena should go make sure everyone’s okay.

She was investigating Plegia (having heard that someone sounding a lot like Laurent had passed through investigating a rumor of a mirage village) when news came to her that Lady Emmeryn had been captured and was to be killed in the morning.

Oh Hell no! The Plegians did not just do that!

Serena rushes out to help and is met with the sight of the Exalt giving her last speech before willing walking to her death

…no. NO! Serena was supposed to have… changed this… She saved Emmeryn already! That part of the past shouldn’t have happened anyway!

She apologises to Lucina over and over again as she helps the Shepherds escape through Khan Basilio’s route. No time to think about how broken her father looked. No time to be bothered by the sight of her mother and her mount caked in mud and bleeding. Everyone just has to escape safely.

(Please! Let everyone get back safely…! she prays to no one in particular.)

They retreat to Regna Ferox. The air is stifling with grief and regret.

Although, she does admit, seeing her mother literally smack sense into her father was super amusing.

Serena offers her services to Robin and Chrom and marches out with the rest of the Shepherds. It’s satisfying learning of the deserters chanting Emmeryn’s name, and seeing her parents strike down the Mad King does her proud. How cathartic.

But now it is time to go. Serena cannot just hang around anymore. Lucina’ll be born soon. So will she. And besides, she still has to find the other Heroes, buy a new sword,and stop this bad future. No time to fool around and watch her parents grow disgustingly sweet on each other.

(Although news that Ylisse is peaceful and happy with their new princesses makes her heart swell despite the other complicated emotions that comes with.)

Severa, part II:

As she was looking for her friends, Serena heard about another plot by the Plegians to kill her father.

A slight chill settles in her- if she couldn’t prevent Emmeryn’s death, does that mean that her father would also die…?

That thought rushes her to Carrion Isle and lo and behold, who is about to get his arse handed to him via sneak-attack by a Risen? Chrom, of course.

Bad move, though. Serena may or may not have called him father when she defends him. She tries to brush it off as a mistake or something, but Chrom’s not having it and insists they talk by the riverside.

He’s not going to ask her to reveal what she doesn’t want to, though. He just. Thanks her again. Says Ylisse owes her a debt it can never truly repay.

(Lies. She doomed Ylisse once, when she got the crown princess killed. Lucina could have handled this. Cordelia could have handled this. Severa was useless. Severa couldn’t compete with her perfect mother or sister. Severa couldn’t keep her friends together. Severa couldn’t change the future, even though she was trying so, so hard.)

She’s crying. He’s panicking. Chrom walks over and takes off her mask to wipe away her tears and doesn’t understand why she doesn’t want to be thanked.

She barks at him through her tears that he was a goddamned idiot. He takes that and was about the respond when-

“I-Is that… the Brand of the Exalt in your…?”

Her breath hitches and she pushes him away and tries to leave. That’s when he notices Falchion on her back. He has so many questions but…

“Severa…?”

She’s grown really still for a moment, and Chrom worries he may have wronged her, but she nods, glumly. “Surprised you didn’t mistake me for Lucina. Not that you could. I’m sorry that she couldn’t come instead.”

Chrom doesn’t understand why she said that, but he knows more than anything that she’s hurting and crushes her to his chest in an embrace. “I’m sorry. You deserved better from me than one sword and a world of troubles.”

“G-Gosh darn right, I did! I deserved so much better than this…!” she wails, clinging to him and sobbing like a child, complaining but also apologising incessantly.

Gods, when was the last time she was allowed to do this? When Lucina died? When Cordelia died? That felt like a lifetime ago.

She’s muttering under her breath how everyone deserved so much better than this. Owain, Yarne, Inigo, Brady, Gerome, Laurent, Cynthia, Nowi, Kjelle, Noire, Lucina… Lucina definitely deserved better.

When Chrom apologises again, she just cries harder.

It’s not his fault, it’s hers. It all her fault and Chrom did the best he could. Both versions did.

After she calms down, she mumbles an apology and says that it was His Highness’s fault for provoking her, blushing fiercely. Chrom laughs, saying she doesn’t have to call him that, and then sobers up when she says calling him what she wants to will only make it harder if he dies. Not that she has any intention of letting that happen!

That’s the scene Robin and Cordelia walk in on. Chrom is met with a rather despondent wife who is crushed by the notion that he’s lost interest in her already.

Even like this, Severa can’t handle how upset Cordelia looks and quickly remedies that by announcing herself as Princess Severa, time-traveler here on a mission to save the world, challenging the pegasus knight to look her in the eyes if she doesn’t believe her.

And when Cordelia mentions she can’t believe the time travelling thing, Severa reveals Cordelia’s trash taste in books and other embarrassing details she learned from being raised by her.

Cordelia accepts Severa’s story quickly so that Chrom doesn’t have to hear more.

When she approaches Severa, though, Severa is incredibly stand-offish. There’s no hugs to be had with her. …yet.

Congratulations, Robin, you’ve just recruited Severa! Who informs you that there are several other heroes like her that need to be found.

There’s still time before they sail to Valm so they go looking and find Yarne, Laurent, Nah, Noire, Kjelle, and… Morgan?

(She’s utterly confused by this. Morgan was the youngest of them and went missing even before Grima had ever plagued Ylisse. When she hears that they can’t remember anything and had no idea that they had even travelled through time, her heart breaks. What could have happened to them? What couldn’t she save them from?)

Robin pulls that gosh darn clever move that sets Fire on the Water and they cross to the continent of Valm and the rest of the 12 Heroes joins the Shepherds through various shenanigans.

Severa was NOT happy to see everyone safe and sound and she was definitely NOT crying, shut up.

The rest of the campaign is the same and the Conqueror is vanquished.

They head off to Plegia and…

Needless to say, Severa is PISSED when Robin steals the Fire Emblem and gives it to Validar.

She holds it in in front of Chrom, but the moment they’re alone, Severa is threatening Robin with the tip of her mother’s lance drawing blood from their neck.

HOW DARE THEY?! Wasn’t Chrom their best friend?! Now all the stories Cordelia once told her made sense! How could one of Chrom’s best friends kill him? If they could be used by Validar!

She tells them to their face that they’re a liability and that they should be killed. It doesn’t really matter how they respond because Severa will move to act on it that thought regardless… Only to get cut off by Chrom.

“THAT’S ENOUGH!” he roars.

“NO!” she screams back. “You don’t understand the future I’ve lived through!”

“We can change that future, Severa! Together, we can-”

“You don’t get it! You don’t get it at all! Working together didn’t save you or Mom or Luci! You all died and left me to handle this! Well, guess what! I’m handling it!”

She moves to go after Robin but Chrom draws and the two fight until Cordelia comes to calm things down. …and by that, I mean that Cordelia threw herself in front of her husband. Luckily for her, Severa is great at everything and has perfect control and stopped not an inch from a bad hit.

Severa throws her lance down in frustration and has to listen to Chrom give her a speech on how her heart is in the right place, but nothing could be done to shake his faith in Robin. Severa concedes angrily and insists that they not be left alone if only for her sanity. Chrom is forced to at least promise to be okay.

(He won’t be, she thinks, he’ll die again and I’ll be forced to watch this time.)

And boy, isn’t she absolutely distraught when it looks like Robin once again killed Chrom. She’s just about to decapitate them when it turns out to be a big ploy. Surprise! And relief comes in and nearly drowns her.

Validar dies but the future Robin who had come after the Heroes reveals themselves. Severa wants to throw up. In trying to save the world, did she just doom it AGAIN, she thinks as they eat the souls gathered at the table. Grima is revived.

On the way to Mt. Prism, Severa and Chrom have a Talk. About Severa and the future she came from. Of her short comings and his failure to be a father. They talk and cry and apologise.

He promises her that he won’t let her future happen. She isn’t sure what to believe in, but she’s willing to put her faith in him.

She also has a chat with Mom. It goes… reasonably (read: she also bursts into tears there).

Chroms performs the Awakening at Mt. Prism. Naga also asks for Severa to do so.

…what? And Naga explains that she wishes to complete what had been left off before. Severa says she cannot even use Falchion, there’s no real point, but Naga insists and despite everything, she also performs the Awakening.

(The one thing she could do that Lucina could not. …though Luci probably could if she were alive.)

They head off to kill Grima. Naga launches the Shepherds up onto his back after mentioning a particularly nasty detail to Robin.

Severa’s feelings on the matter are a little complicated and made even moreso when Robin tries to protect everyone from Grima after dark magic nearly kills everyone.

“What happened to fighting together and all that sap about invisible ties?! Robin, if you don’t come back here and fight this damn dragon, I’ll never forgive you!”

Robin hears their friends calling for them and manages to bring themselves back on Grima’s back. The real fight begins.

While Chrom and Robin charge ahead, Severa is tasked with clearing away enemies that might distract them from their goal. During the skirmish her mother’s lance finally breaks on her. She’s distressed for a minute before a Risen goes after her father. Again. It’s at this point that Severa draws Falchion for the first time and slices through the Risen with ease.

From here on out, she slaughters the Risen using the holy blade.

The fight’s going well when suddenly she hears Chrom screaming. She panics and looks over to see Robin disappearing with the wind. It would be after they get back to Yllistol that she gets confirmation of Robin’s actions.

She mourns all the losses along with her father, and goes out with him and Lissa and Frederick and Cordelia to search every field in the world for Robin, who, after a long time of searching, does come back.

And there’s a great feast and banquet and all is well! The prince is Newly Exalted and there’s much joy and celebration in the land.

The 12 Heroes all choose a path to follow- some choose to stay in this time, some return to the future.

Severa was going to leave but she really wanted to see baby Lucina and her family be happy to check out some of the new products that a wartorn world couldn’t make. Like, have you ever seen a dress so cute?!

She does leave after a year or so, though, if only because she has a duty to help those Lucina had entrusted to her. Tiny!Lucina cries as she waves good bye to the older Severa, Chrom and Cordelia and Severa all also holding back tears. (Tiny!Severa is more upset that her sister is upset and tries to get Severa to stay. How cute.)

Severa returns to the destroyed Yllistol and gets to work restoring her country and helping her people, refounding the pegasus knights and becoming the new head of the Shepherds.

Owain, Cynthia, Inigo, Kjelle, Gerome, and Brady have all decided to join her in her efforts as they had all, for some reason or another, decided to return to the future as well.

All is fine as the restoration of Ylisse goes swimmingly when Severa hears a mysterious summons…

Selena

To Be Continued (Maybe)

#self-indulgent #long post #fire emblem awakening #severa #one day i intend to write out a full fic of this #for now #if i'm in the mood i might write a conquest or revelations selena with this backstory #imagine #jk rambles

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