I’ve been having a rough time with life and some friends stuff, could you maybe do a Chrobin fic with Robin feeling really lonely and down with maybe an argument with Chrom as a result? Soft ending with plenty of making up of course.
(I can't see Chrom and Robin arguing over it, they're both too soft ;;;;;;;;; I hope u don't mind that it's less argue and more snuggle ;;; )
It had gotten a lot more lonely since the king had become…well, king. Chrom was growing more distant, though it clearly wasn’t something he wished for.
The poor man would come to bed exhausted, late at night, long after you’d gone to sleep. It was shocking sometimes, seeing as you burned the midnight oil well into the dark mornings, but he still was getting to sleep after you, and then somehow, finding the strength to rise before you.
As the queen and chief tactician, you certainly had your hands full, but at the end of the day, your duties were over long before Chrom’s were.
And worse yet, Chrom’s duties were typically in another wing entirely from where you were at any given moment. It was exhausting, but worse yet, it was isolating. You missed your husband.
After a month of this, you had enough. The adjustment period was starting to end, and you hoped the two of you could find a new normal.
Some sort of new groove for the two of you to fall into, so that you could at least have a meal together.
You were both royals now, but for some reason, your husband was constantly kept at bay, far away from you.
So you finished up your duties that night, a little earlier through sheer force of will, and you headed straight to Chrom.
A few inquiries with maids and a wrong turn eventually led you to his office.
Doors shut tight, preferably to keep the world out. You steeled yourself, and tapped your knuckles against the door.
“...Yes?”
“Er, Chrom? It’s me.”
“Robin?”
His voice was muffled through the door, but you could hear how tired he was. You heard a shuffle in the room, a thud followed by a string of curses, but within a few moments the doors were pulled open.
Oh, Chrom.
He looked utterly exhausted.
“Come in, please.” He sounded almost desperate to bring you in. He looked so pale, and disheveled. One of the buttons on his tunic was improperly fastened, and the circlet he was supposed to have on at all times was haphazardly hung off the back of his chair.
A scatter of parchment across the floor suggested that was indeed the thud you’d heard before, but despite it all, there was still a shadow of a smile on his face.
At least he was happy to see you.
“Chrom, are you all right?” You were worried, of course. He took you into the office and shut the doors behind you, heaving a loud sigh.
“I wish I could tell you I was, but…it’s pretty obvious I’m not. Unfortunately, picking up the pieces after war, on top of a sudden coronation makes for a lot of catch-up work nobody could’ve prepared us for.”
“It has been awfully busy.” You agreed, stooping down to pick up the papers on the floor. Chrom was quick to join you, lopsided stacks in each of your arms. “And it looks like you’re behind on a lot of it, too…”
“Well, Emm’s death caused a massive ripple effect in everything related to the kingdom, all the way down to signatures and wax seals of approval. A lot of it is stuff I had to approve as the new Exalt, but then a whole typhoon of paperwork came in that had to be re-approved from Emm’s previous work. Stuff that hadn’t been processed before she…”
“I get it.” You spoke softly, a hand on his shoulder. Chrom looked up at you wistfully, clearly stretched thin. “It does explain why it’s been so hard to get ahold of you, though, doesn’t it?”
“I suppose it does…” He stood back up, the two of you tidying the stacks.
“I just don’t know what to do with all this.” Chrom looked so defeated, it didn’t sit well with you. It was worrying.
He was a pillar of strength and vitality, but he looked so defeated, and downtrodden.
“Maybe take a break from it.” You suggested, taking the papers from his hands and pulling all the documents together back where they belonged on his desk.
Chrom sank down into his seat behind the heavy old thing, a bitter laugh falling from his lips. “Believe me, if I could have, I would’ve a while ago.”
“You still can,” You mused, coming around and leaning on the desk’s edge, looking down at him. “It’s getting close to a decent hour for bed. Should we turn in early, tonight?”
“Gods, I wish I could. You have no idea how bad I want to.” He sighed again, rubbing his hands over his face. You frowned, arms crossed.
“You can. You’re the king. You’re allowed to take some time away from your paperwork to get a good night’s sleep, for once.”
“It’s true, but I don’t think it’s so simple. There’s just…too many pieces moving at the same time, and somehow I’m expected to keep everything together and under control. It’s impossible, having everybody pull at me in every direction.”
“I would say I can’t imagine, but I am in a similar station as you.”
“That’s true, isn’t it.” He sighed, his head back against the chair. His eyes were closed; as though he were moments from sleep. “I feel bad you’ve been dragged into this. To think I’d shackle you with all this desk work as payment for all you’ve done.”
“I agreed to it, didn’t I? Through good times and bad,” You reminded him with a soft smile, reaching for his hand. Chrom squeezed it tightly, while you lazily swung your arm back and forth. “We can get through this, together. But we should at least try to do it together, you know?”
“Sort of…” He peeked an eye open.
“We should try and go to sleep together, for the first time in a month.”
“Has it really been a month?” He sounded so incredulous, you couldn’t help but laugh. “But I still manage to get back to bed every night!”
“Yes, but…it’s a little different when you’re somehow getting to bed long after me, and then getting up before I have a chance to see you off.”
“Huh.” He looked sheepish, “Sorry. I didn’t think about that.”
“So how about we take an early night and get to bed? You really look like you need a good night’s sleep, love. No offense.”
“None taken.” He groaned, sitting forward. Gently, you placed yourself between him and the desk, letting him rest his head just below your chest. He sank into your touch almost instantly.
The sheer weight of him against you pressed you into the desk, but you knew he was beyond tired. He was leaning into you because he probably would’ve fallen over if you weren’t there.
“Chrom…I’m sorry you’re dealing with so much. It’s not fair that you have to struggle with all this royalty nonsense after everything you’ve been through. I wish I could take it all off your shoulders.” You murmured, stroking his hair.
His arms came loosely around you. “It is what it is. I knew it would probably happen some day. Maybe it wouldn’t be so hard if I’d paid closer attention to Frederick’s etiquette and clerical lessons….”
“At least you got lessons. Poor man’s been trying to teach me and get me to do the proper work at the same time.” You grumbled, and Chrom chuckled.
“That sounds like Hell.”
“It is.”
“...I miss you.” He spoke softly, as though it wasn’t meant to be said. But you nodded, giving him a small squeeze.
“I’ve missed you, too. That’s why I came all the way over here, tonight.”
“I don’t understand why our offices are on complete opposite ends of this place. I guess Mother really did hate our father that much. I can’t blame her, but….I don’t harbor the same feelings. Why can’t we just have our desks in the same room?”
“Well, you’re the Exalt. I’m sure if you really wanted to do that, they wouldn’t be able to stop you.” You reminded him, and he paused, as though it hadn’t occurred to him.
“Do you…should we do that?”
“If you want to, I wouldn’t mind it. At least I’d get to see your face more often, you know?”
“You think Frederick will let us?”
“He’s not the Exalt, dear.”
“I guess I can overrule him, can’t I.” Chrom smiled, leaning back to look up at you. “Maybe…we ought to go to bed early. It would be nice to actually fall asleep together.”
Chrom let you pull him up from his seat, holding onto both your hands. You were close enough that your chests were touching, and that tender affection in his gaze returned beneath the exhaustion.
He was awfully happy to see you.
“I do like the idea of going to bed early…but we don’t necessarily have to sleep, yet.”
Chrom blushed.
“No?”
“I mean, it’s been a month since we’ve done anything at all, you know?”
“Yeah.” Chrom swallowed thickly, recognizing that look in your eyes. You grinned at him, tugging him along. “W-whoa, wait a second!”
“Do you really want to wait?”
“N-no, I mean- well, maybe we shouldn’t look so-”
“Come on, love.” You laughed, a bright and sweet sound. Chrom’s heart skipped a beat. It was such a lovely thing to hear.
As you rushed down the halls together, he made a mental note to push your offices together immediately.
Well, immediately tomorrow morning. Tonight, all he had on his mind was you.
Something he would do well to remember for many happy nights to come.
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anon asked: If you don't mind, thoughts on Henry or Yuri with a childhood friend reader (I don't recall if you said any limits on fe games or if you cover the Ashen wolves dlc)
henry (fea) x gn!reader
yuri (fe3h) x gn!reader
mara’s words: deadass i forgot who henry was until i looked it up and i was like “oh, that guy.”
tw: henry (but to be more specific: human dismemberment, arson), possessiveness (yuri)
✧ Henry
• You two were part of the magic institution that your parents’ ‘lovingly’ enrolled you in. It was personal hell for you, the grown-ups always dogging on the kids as if they were worth less than dirt and giving absolute no empathy at all. The magic classes were fine and all but with the abuse going on inside, you could only keep your rage-filled magic within.
• And so you meet Henry, another poor unfortunate soul who he managed to set himself on fire and yet no one bothered to help him (lest they be punished). It was only by the dead of night that you snuck towards his bedside and gave him a small portion of a tangerine.
“It’s the only thing I managed to pilfer.” You said to him softly, in the dead of night. “I... I hope this makes you feel better.”
• If only you knew how far your kindness went. When you awoke to the stench of blood and rotting flesh, it was the white-haired boy who had a tangerine in his (bloody) hand. When he extended it to you, a manic smile was on his face as his eyes closed.
• Your abusers were dead. And as a child, with no other guide in their life, you took the tangerine and bit into it.
• It wasn’t long that you and Henry became travel partners. Well, ‘partners’ is more of an understatement. It felt as though you were the only one who truly understood Henry. You didn’t bat an eye at the mayhem he caused, rather letting him do as he please all the while reeling him in when need be.
• Even when assigned into the Plegian army, you two are always together. At least, always within what Henry wants. Validar himself doesn’t even want to step in between whatever Henry wants in fear of invoking what hidden horrors that Henry hides from the world. If Validar fears going between you and Henry, then it comes as to no surprise that the rest of the Plegian army avoids going between you two.
• Despite the gore that Henry would always surround himself, he would never bring himself to taint you with this mess. After all, you did save him from going hungry that night after all, and he always remembers who he’s indebted to.
• At least that’s what he says. When he grasps your hand a little too warmly just to swing it around as if you two were kids frolicking about a garden of deteriorating Risen bodies, you wonder if the smile on his face was anything but manic glee.
✧ Yuri
• Street rats growing up, you, your family, and Yuri’s mother, were very well-acquainted. After all, rats stick together to see what slim hope of living they have under all of this grime. Resources were scarce but you were surviving.
• You and Yuri, even though you were young, grew too soon too fast as you pilfered money and precious objects from unsuspecting nobles and rich folk and always splitting the money 50/50. At some point it grew to 60/40, with you pushing the 60 towards Yuri because you knew that he and his mother needed it more than you. Normally, Yuri would take it with no qualms but with you, he still insists on the 50/50.
• After all, he would be remiss to take more of the keep from his partner in crime.
• As the years go by, you and Yuri are attached to the hip as practical underground crime lords (at least in the Abyss). Him as the Savage Mockingbird, always getting what he wants, and you as his partner who works with him in his shadow. None would dare to try and outsmart the mockingbird lest they deal with his shadow instead.
• Yuri doesn’t trust anyone, not even the rest of the Ashen Wolves, but to you, there was a smidgen of humanity left within this rat-turned-bird. When he would willingly betray his allies trust on the whim (as long as the end justifies the means), he would never betray your trust. Anyone who even suggest to sacrifice you or use you as bait will be thrown into the deeper bowels of the Abyss.
“I am not one for romantics. But I will not let anyone toy with your life.”
• Even after being exposed in Garreg Mach, he never let’s you out of his sight. He nearly begs Byleth to make sure you and him were always in the same classes and making sure you two were fighting in the same battalions. Other students wondered if there was something else beyond your “childhood friendship” because of how... for a lack of a better word, fruity, behavior that Yuri shows to you but they could never get a straight answer from him.
• Let them talk, he thinks to himself as he counts you and your pilfered treasures (hey, old habits die hard). After all, you were far more important to be kept in a notebook. He’s kept your name in a scrap of paper, inside a locket, tucked closely beneath his clothes and close to his heart.
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