User blog:Worldracer99/Drace Liveblogs Fire Emblem: Awakening (Chapter 17: Inexorable Death/Paralogue 12: Disowned by Time/Paralogue 8: A Duel Disgraced)

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I suppose I should talk about the Supports I had in side battles before the actual levels. Henry: Sorry! Nothing sinister over here. I'm just a hale and hearty mage.
 * Lucina tells Chrom about the future in their B-Support. Apparently the only thing Chrom never told her was how he met Sumia. Come to think of it... I don't quite know how they met either... hm...
 * In a C-Support, Robin finds out that Libra paints. And Libra gives Robin a painting he did. Holy crap, it's just like my life- being awful at art, but getting beautiful stuff drawn for me by other, better people.
 * Sully and Stahl get an A-Support, and they're still training. Apparently Stahl's almost taken her down a few times, and Sully's worried that people will think that the only reason Stahl beats her (if he does) is just because of the stupid "men are superior to women" thing. Hush, Sully. I've seen you on the battlefield, and you kick plot. Stop that. You rock.
 * Henry and Tharja get a C-support. Apparently they told tales about Henry back in Plegia, and he's something of a legend. Also, Tharja tries to get Henry to stop smiling (He has to be planning something if he's always grinning like that). We then get a brilliant example of their dynamic between each other:

Tharja: Ugh... Hale? Hearty? Have you no respect for our ancient profession? We're supposed to be harbingers of pestilence and famine and doom!

Henry: I love doom!
 * Libra and Cherche get their B-Support. Apparently Libra's found an animal to befriend. A mole. This does not go well, as you might imagine. So Cherche convinces Libra to hang out with Minerva.
 * Kellam and Maribelle get a C-Support, where we learn that the reason Kellam never takes his armor off is because it's his comfiest outfit. Wonder what it's like inside that thing...

The team gets to Fort Steiger and ohmygosh it's huge. We plan a surgical strike straight into the middle.

The battle progresses OK for so long, and then some reinforcements show up.

THEY'RE PART OF THE RESISTANCE! YAY!

BUT THEN IT TURNS OUT THAT THEY'VE BEEN TURNED OVER TO THE VALMESE FORCES. NOOOOO.

They were convinced to betray our side by Excellus, the Valmese tactician.



Excellus-senp-

NO.

I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO MAKE THAT JOKE

I HATE THIS GUY ALMOST AS MUCH AS GANGREL, LOOK AT HIM. EVEN THE VALMESE HATE HIM.

HE CONVERTED THE RESISTANCE TO THEIR SIDE, RIDICULES SAY'RI, AND WE DON'T EVEN GET TO RIP HIS HEAD OFF.

ROBIN IS GOING TO KILL THIS BUCKER. TACTICIAN VS. TACTICIAN.

OR MAYBE SAY'RI CAN KILL HIM, IDK, JUST SO WE CAN HAVE A SWORD STAINED WITH HIS BLOOD.

OK, now that that's out of my system, Excellus teleports out of the battlefield and we end up trouncing the enemy. Well, not trouncing. We lost a lot of units in that battle, but we came out on top in the end.

And the Valmese have Steiger surrounded after the battle. The rest of the Resistance are with them. And the Feroxi forces were decimated.

We can't fight back. We have to run. And Basilio and Flavia volunteer to lead a distraction party to keep the Valmese from following us. But Lucina says that Basilio apparently died doing exactly that.

Flavia and Basilio leave and fight off who they can, but...

Emperor Walhart the Conquerer himself leads the charge against them.



Basilio fights back, but Walhart strikes him down and kills him. As he lays dying, Basilio entrusts Gules to Flavia.

The chapter ends with Flavia escaping.

However, in the midst of this tragedy, something truly heartwarming happens back with the Shepherds.

In an S-Support, Robin proposes to Panne, and the two of them marry. Now Panne will never be alone again.

...

<3

Now, explanation. Apparently you can unlock Paralogues involving the children in any order? And play them in any order. That's why I went from Paralogue 5 to Paralogue 12 to Paralogue 8.

In a bunch of ancient ruins, a girl named Morgan is wondering where she is and how she ended up here.

Meanwhile, the Shepherds are wandering around, trying to find an ancient treasure called Naga's Tear. And there are Risen starting to show up.

And they have Morgan surrounded.

Once a few attack her, she-

WAIT A SECOND, MORGAN'S A TAGUEL?

SHE TURNED INTO A KILLER RABBIT

BUT PANNE WAS THE LAST TAGUEL.

WAIT...

Apparently at some point or another, Robin got to touch fluffy tail (only Mad gets that joke, and no, I'm not sorry for it) and he and Panne brought a new little Taguel into the world. Meet Morgan, everybody.



Except... well, that's not her hair color. Apparently Morgan's hair color changes depending on who her mother is. So she actually looks like this.



And she's not a Tactician, so in battle, she wears Taguel clothes, like Panne's.

Apparently, Morgan's lost her memory too (like father, like daughter) and has no idea how she ended up in the future. She doesn't even remember Lucina or Owain or anybody. She doesn't even have any memory of her mother.

The team kicks some Risen butt, finds Naga's Tear, and heads back to the barracks.

Morgan tries to bond with her old man by digging a pitfall for him to fall into. Robin doesn't fall for it, and tells Morgan to git gud, scrub.

...Huh. That's two Ken Ashcorp jokes that I've made in this liveblog.

Panne agrees to help Morgan get her memories of her mother back. I sense mother/daughter Taguel bonding about to happen.

Kellam and Olivia get a C-Support where Kellam gives advice to Olivia, but it turns out she thought she was just talking to a tree.

Sully and Stahl are still training, and Stahl's almost managed to take Sully down. And... well, Stahl proposes to Sully!

Honestly, they're perfect together. And also they might have something to to do with the Red and Green Knights from earlier games? IDK. They have the armor colors...

Also, Nowi and Ricken get a B-Support. Apparently some people back in town were talking smack about Chrom, Ricken got mad, and scared them off, probably with a few fireballs. Nowi agrees to keep that incident secret for Ricken- after all, he's keeping her "nearly burning down the camp" thing a secret.

Then Paralogue 8 unlocked, so I decided to head off there.

A girl named Kjelle (I'm assuming that it's pronounced Kyell. Like I've been pronouncing Tharja's name as THAR-ya this whole time) is confronting a guy named Cassius who apparently killed her mentor. So Kjelle challenges Cassius to a duel in some old ruins.

Except when Chrom and the team show up, it turns out it's not a duel. Cassius brought his soldiers to outnumber Kjelle. OK, I see why you said this guy has no honor, Kjelle.

And... well, one battlefield conversation later, it turns out that Sully seems really familiar to Kjelle. No matter! There's a battle!

...And once we take down the commander, Sully and Kjelle hang out and start talking more.

Apparently, Kjelle is Sully's daughter from the future. Meet the newest addition to our team, everybody.



Except Stahl's her dad, so her hair color is different.

Kjelle and Sully get a C-Support where we learn that Sully didn't teach her daughter to ride a horse in the future- apparently Kjelle was awful at riding. But she convinces Sully to train her.

In Stahl and Kjelle's C-Support, we learn that Kjelle's almost as bad a cook as Robin, except she doesn't have a Taguel wife who actually enjoys it.

Tharja and Henry get a B-Support, and Tharja curses Henry (temporarily) so that if he doesn't tell the truth, HE WILL DIE. DUN DUN DUN.

We also get this brilliant line:

Tharja: Now, if you do not speak the truth, you will DIE! Answer me clearly and without hesitation. Are you a foreign spy?

Henry: Nope! Not me! Although I do own a cloak and a couple daggers.

Tharja: Who do you serve? Ylisse or Plegia?

Henry: Aw, I don't get into politics. I just want to toss fireballs at bad guys.

Tharja: Interesting. That's the same reason I joined up.

Also, Henry calls Tharja out on having a thing for Robin.

Lucina and Chrom get a Support where Lucina reveals that she doesn't know what will happen when it's all over. Will she return to her world? She has no idea.

And Chrom thanks her for fighting at his side and everything she's done. Dawwww...

Also there's a side battle where Libra and Panne get a C-Support. Libra thanks Panne for saving Emmeryn's life the first time all those years ago.

And Kellam and Stahl get a Support through the Barracks. Apparently, Kellam's been using his invisibility to his own advantage in past battles, but Stahl reveals that he sees Kellam sometimes. Kellam realizes that this means other people can see him too, so he needs to be more careful.

My Thoughts
Basilio's death was actually pretty tough on me. I liked the guy, and seeing him die was tough. At least he put up a pretty good fight.

The new marriages in the team are adorable. And our kids are great. I am planning to reclass Morgan, though.

These coming battles against Valm are going to be brutal, if what I've seen of Valm is gonna be true for the levels.

But I hope we don't fail.

Current Party

 * Chrom (Level 20 Lord; C-Support with Lissa; A-Support with Lucina, Robin; S-Support with Sumia)
 * Robin (Level 20 Tactician; C-Support with Morgan, Owain, Henry, Tharja, Libra, Stahl, Frederick; B-Support with Sumia, Sully; A-Support with Chrom; S-Support with Panne)
 * Libra (Level 10 War Monk; C-Support with Panne, Robin; B-Support with Cherche)
 * Kellam (Level 20 Knight; C-Support with Donnel, Olivia, Maribelle, Stahl, Sully)
 * Stahl (Level 20 Cavalier; C-Support with Kjelle, Kellam, Miriel, Robin; S-Support with Sully)
 * Cherche (Level 20 Wyvern Rider; C-Support with Nowi; B-Support with Libra)
 * Henry (Level 20 Dark Mage; C-Support with Robin; B-Support with Tharja)
 * Tharja (Level 20 Dark Mage; C-Support with Robin, Ricken; B-Support with Henry)
 * Lucina (Level 20 Lord; B-Support with Sumia; A-Support with Chrom)
 * Sully (Level 20 Cavalier; C-Support with Kjelle, Kellam; B-Support with Robin; S-Support with Stahl)
 * Morgan (Level 11 Taguel; C-Support with Robin, Panne)
 * Olivia (Level 1 Dancer; C-Support with Kellam)
 * Gregor (Level 12 Mercenary)
 * Kjelle (Level 10 Knight; C-Support with Stahl, Sully)
 * Sumia (Level 8 Pegasus Knight; B-Support with Robin, Lucina; S-Support with Chrom)
 * Panne (Level 18 Taguel; C-Support with Morgan, Libra, Cordelia; S-Support with Robin)
 * Ricken (Level 20 Mage; C-Support with Tharja; B-Support with Nowi)
 * Nowi (Level 12 Manakete; C-Support with Cherche; B-Support with Ricken)
 * Cordelia (Level 13 Pegasus Knight; C-Support with Gaius, Panne)
 * Frederick (Level 3 Great Knight; C-Support with Robin)
 * Say'ri (Level 1 Swordmaster)
 * Vaike (Level 14 Fighter; C-Support with Owain; S-Support with Lissa)
 * Owain (Level 12 Myrmidon; C-Support with Lissa, Vaike, Robin)
 * Virion (Level 4 Archer)
 * Maribelle (Level 5 Troubadour; C-Support with Kellam)
 * Anna (Level 5 Trickster)
 * Gaius (Level 14 Thief; C-Support with Cordelia)
 * Lon'qu (Level 8 Myrmidon)
 * Donnel (Level 3 Villager; C-Support with Kellam)
 * Lissa (Level 4 Cleric; C-Support with Chrom, Owain; S-Support with Vaike)
 * Miriel (Level 1 Mage; C-Support with Stahl)