[ this sure is an entire side conversation they're having at this meeting, huh. ]
Robin, as you may have gathered, is a younger version of myself, though some of the details have gone differently for him in his time due to outside influence. We are the same person, but given that I have lived through things he has not, there are some significant divergences between us.
Naga is the other major god remaining in the world I hail from. The countries built specifically upon worship of either of us have had no small number of wars between each other, for one reason or another. [ he's not going to go into detail about who was the aggressor when and how; as always with these types of things it's cyclic. neither's innocent. ] There are other nations in the world aware of us and our respective faiths, of course, but Ylisse and Plegia are the only countries that claim a more direct tie and involve the religions more directly in their affairs. The Ylissean royal bloodline roots back to the Exalt who made a blood pact with Naga and sealed me away a thousand years ago. Plegia is a theocracy over which Grima ultimately holds a sort of symbolic rule. Otherwise, the heads of the faith are supposed to choose their rulers.
[ of course that sure has been a hell of a mess in recent history, but he's not getting into that. ]
Prince Chrom is the current ruling monarch of Ylisse. He should be King or Exalt at this point, technically, but for the time being he's foregone taking up the actual titles proper in honor of his late sister, the Exalt before him.
[ aka, chrom is the younger counterpart to his late husband, if ahito can put 2 and 2 together. ]
More relevantly, he's the commander in chief of the forces that Robin's attached to as head tactician. I will be difficult to convince, knowing myself, because I will always be suspecting a trick. Chrom, however, is a bleeding heart. [ especially this younger, more naive version of him in some ways, who's experienced a world slightly gentler than the timeline the robin called grima and his husband hailed from.
he's not robin's late husband from a time that might cease to exist if all this shakes out a certain way. but all the same, he can imagine... ] That isn't to say that he wouldn't also be suspicious, of course, but ... If Naga has told them that the only way to slay me permanently instead of just sealing me again is for 'Robin' to be lost as well, Chrom will balk. He will almost certainly want to try to find another way that doesn't involve sacrifice.
It will be suspicious if an offer too good to be true is provided at that point, but it might be the easiest way to approach either of them.
[ it's somewhat manipulative, maybe. but he's always been like this, and his husband is dead. this isn't his chrom. (he'd always told him his sentiment was something people would seek to take advantage of, anyway.) ]
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Robin, as you may have gathered, is a younger version of myself, though some of the details have gone differently for him in his time due to outside influence. We are the same person, but given that I have lived through things he has not, there are some significant divergences between us.
Naga is the other major god remaining in the world I hail from. The countries built specifically upon worship of either of us have had no small number of wars between each other, for one reason or another. [ he's not going to go into detail about who was the aggressor when and how; as always with these types of things it's cyclic. neither's innocent. ] There are other nations in the world aware of us and our respective faiths, of course, but Ylisse and Plegia are the only countries that claim a more direct tie and involve the religions more directly in their affairs. The Ylissean royal bloodline roots back to the Exalt who made a blood pact with Naga and sealed me away a thousand years ago. Plegia is a theocracy over which Grima ultimately holds a sort of symbolic rule. Otherwise, the heads of the faith are supposed to choose their rulers.
[ of course that sure has been a hell of a mess in recent history, but he's not getting into that. ]
Prince Chrom is the current ruling monarch of Ylisse. He should be King or Exalt at this point, technically, but for the time being he's foregone taking up the actual titles proper in honor of his late sister, the Exalt before him.
[ aka, chrom is the younger counterpart to his late husband, if ahito can put 2 and 2 together. ]
More relevantly, he's the commander in chief of the forces that Robin's attached to as head tactician. I will be difficult to convince, knowing myself, because I will always be suspecting a trick. Chrom, however, is a bleeding heart. [ especially this younger, more naive version of him in some ways, who's experienced a world slightly gentler than the timeline the robin called grima and his husband hailed from.
he's not robin's late husband from a time that might cease to exist if all this shakes out a certain way. but all the same, he can imagine... ] That isn't to say that he wouldn't also be suspicious, of course, but ... If Naga has told them that the only way to slay me permanently instead of just sealing me again is for 'Robin' to be lost as well, Chrom will balk. He will almost certainly want to try to find another way that doesn't involve sacrifice.
It will be suspicious if an offer too good to be true is provided at that point, but it might be the easiest way to approach either of them.
[ it's somewhat manipulative, maybe. but he's always been like this, and his husband is dead. this isn't his chrom. (he'd always told him his sentiment was something people would seek to take advantage of, anyway.) ]