#in FE13 it was grima and the risen

[djtitus921]

Yet another AMAZING piece i had commissioned from Dashkaruna

Is it too much to ask Intelligent Systems for a battle royale between the Exalts and the Fallen Exalts

#fire emblem #nintendo #fire emblem awakening #fe awakening #chrom #robin #chrobin #fe morgan #fe lucina #f!robin #twin morgans #exalt family #grima #fallen morgan #f!chrobin #f!grima #risen chrom #risen king chrom #fe13

[trunswicked]

Chrobin Week 2022 entries <3

#fire emblem #fire emblem awakening #fe #fe13 #chrobin #chrom #robin #grima #male robin #risen king chrom #chrobin week #chrobin week 2022 #kassart

[reneke]

my lord

#this took FOREVER but im pretty happy with it :] #i screamed when i first saw chrom omg #i was like YEAAS FINALLY CANON RISEN CHROM!! #especially cause hes still voiced by matt mercer im obsessed #fire emblem #fire emblem awakening #fire emblem heroes #feh #fe13 #robin #chrom #risen king chrom #grima #myart #q

[ro-botany]

Today I was reminded that in Awakening, Validar gets revived by Grima in the game timeline. So like, does Validar get revived with a normal healthy body or is it some weird partial-risen stage? Does that mean that Grima can wholesale revive people and chooses zombies instead? It's just such a weird little detail that probably exists just for plot purposes, but it makes me wonder. Can't quite pin down what it is I feel for it to be true, but it has spawned Thoughts. Do you have any opinions?

Oooo, a very good question! I touched on Validar's condition very very briefly in a previous post about RKC and some possible reasons he exists, but to go into more detail... Largely behind a read more because Post Got Big(tm)...

Validar is a weird one. Within Awakening, he's the person who comes closest to getting a true and complete resurrection. And overall he's much more human-like in form and function than anyone else we've ever seen subjected to resurrection at Grima's hands.

But we know for a fact he isn't a Risen. He doesn't get the vocal distortion, speech difficulty, compulsion for violence, glowing eyes and general corpse-like appearance, or most other characteristics associated with Risen, which imo outright excludes him from the category.

BUT, critically, Grima is nowhere near full power at the moment they revive Validar. They're freshly weakened from time travel at that point! And given the apparent difficulty of any form of necromancy in FE, I'm hesitant to claim Grima could bring him back as fully human in their weakened state. It IS curious that they were able to get him that close, though.

There could be several reasons Validar's condition is even possible. It might have something to do with the blood pact; maybe it's just easier for Grima to resurrect people that have extremely close metaphysical connections to them. Or it might be that necromancy is something Grima is naturally talented at and they do objectively complex feats with it even when very weakened.

In either case, Grima—especially when at full strength—is capable of multiple tiers of resurrection, and very possibly even true revival into a fully human state. Risen appear to be on the easier end of the necromancy spectrum (Forneus managed to manually create some by himself, for one thing; and iirc one of Henry's supports has him conjure some Risen-like creatures accidentally?), and near-human deals like Validar are on the more challenging end. RKC is somewhere in between the two states.

The fact that Grima usually creates Risen instead of people when they're doing necromancy is, in my opinion, a conscious tactical decision. A monster that doesn't think for itself, and attacks people swiftly and indiscriminately, is a perfect tool if your aim is to spread chaos and destruction. Bringing back thinking people to be your soldiers may mean they can make more tactical decisions on their own, but it also comes with an amount of free will that may mean they fuck with your plans, especially if they weren't loyal to you to begin with. And besides, Grima already has the Grimleal to act as their commanders in the small scale. So it ultimately just isn't worth the extra effort to make their resurrected soldiers much more than violent automatons.

(Unless the soldier they're reviving is Chrom, of course. For him they will put in effort to preserve the soul. But notice how they don't make him anywhere close to human; which was absolutely on purpose, because we know based on Validar that they could've. I have FEELINGS about this.)

The decision to bring Validar back as close to human as he ended up being was also very tactical on their part. I can't imagine Grima likes the guy very much beyond liking how useful he makes himself. And they know exactly how critical his continued existence is to ensuring that the main timeline's Robin fulfills their destiny of becoming the fell dragon. They can't afford to let Validar die, nor can they get much use out of a garden variety Risen that looks like him, so as close to true resurrection as they can manage while running on fumes is what he gets.

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As an aside, this aspect of Grima's powers always kinda makes me wonder about the time before they decided to raze the continent. When they were just around and being considered a god by the people of Plegia. Did they not do any necromancy in those days? Or were there circumstances that they DID use that power? Bring some human(s) back to life, either for some logical reason, or perhaps even as a favour granted to someone?

If they did I imagine that would've gotten them in shit with Naga, given the theories that powerful divine dragons are all capable of some form of necromancy but don't do it because it's deeply taboo...

But that's speculation outside of the scope of this post.

#fire emblem #fe13 #fire emblem awakening #validar #grima #grima studies #and also #risen king chrom #however briefly. because i am Obsessed lmao #i love when people ask me questions about awakening. hell YES i have thoughts and opinions and you WILL hear them #long post #at some point i gotta try and noodle out more grima backstory but thats so much time to cover. its very intimidating #robin backstory too that's moderately easier and seems quite fun

[captainschmoe]

what if risen king chrom raised and corrupted baby lucina

#fire emblem #fe13 #fe chrom #fe lucina #risen princess a.k.a. daddy’s little murder weapon #i often think of the death song ‘baptized in blood’ with regards to grima and now rkc would work super well too #risen king chrom #not a reblog for once #plot bunnies

[asterouslyaesthetic]

the double chrom feature on this month's remix (one of them at least) has reminded me of best husband once more

but specifically, RKC

specifically, how, before he released, i wanted a chrom that was able to articulate his every thought and simply thought he awoke from a long rest, to the sight of his beloved wife who nursed him back to health

why? how? he doesn't know.

all he knows is that they're somewhere far away, in the desert still, but validar is dead and the shepherds managed to get away

all he knows is that once they get back to ylisse, they'll be able to resume their normal lives

and then he dies to a grimleal, who catches up to them.

then comes a chrom who vaguely remembers what happened and is told by a tearful robin that she managed to revive him using dark magic, turning him into a risen capable of thought and speech, likely because she's grima's heart, who begs him not to force her to kill him

they just won't tell anyone, they decide.

but when they get to ylisse, they stay in a little cabin and robin disappears for a bit. when she comes back, she's injured, but hides it well, and tells him a sob story about how lissa refused her

chrom dies at a tearful frederick's hands, before he's able to "clear" her name

he dies many more times after that, but robin refuses to go back to lissa.

sometimes he dies to the grimleal, quite often actually. they seem to think his blood compels their master to follow him; that even with falchion gone, he can still exert his influence on her

(he can.

about minuscule things like dinner and what clothes to wear. not about talking to lissa, not about becoming a family again).

once, he dies to tiki, who tracks robin down, who tells him the truth, and kills him as a mercy, but he never remembers it.

once, to a man with red hair, who clicks his tongue when he sees him and talks about someone called "princey" before that.

once, to a kind elderly dragon who can't bear to see him in such a state, in the deserts of plegia after them both.

once, to his brother-in-law, who he takes with him, leaving his sister to grieve another family member.

(for a few weeks after that, he gets pecked by crows a lot, until henry is made a risen as well)

once, to his son, even, by accident—the inciting incident that spurs the young boy to align himself with his mother

and then he stops being able to recognize his wife. her eyes are redder than they ever have been, and she nurses a grudge against their pre-teen daughter and his sister

she sends him on missions with their son, who she cares little for beyond the fact that he looks like him, to kill the people he's meant to lead, and he's unable to overcome her commands. all he can do take hits for little morgan and steadily lose sight of who he is

the worst is when lucina takes up falchion.

he simply can't hurt her, not when his heart fondly remembers his beloved daughter. so all he can do is tell her that morgan lives and that she needs to save him and—

he kills himself that time, as he senses his wife approaching, to spare her the trouble and buy her some time

(that's why lucina's particularly concerned about her father. and also why she never brings up marc before he appears, bearing his sister's name, because she believes him and his twin to be both dead and her greatest failures.

officially, she never learns who grima really is, because chrom does his best to spare her from what he can.

unofficially, she knows all along and only stays her sword because she desperately wants to indulge in such a fantasy.)

he's also partially how and why marc manages to lose his memories. because he implores marc's twin, morgan, to save marc as he's dying to her

(unfortunately, she takes after her mother, so she tries to free marc by recklessly gambling her own life away but fails.

chrom saves her at the last minute and she's able to flee to mount prism, shortly after the kids have all left, and gets sent back in time.

but the element of surprise he had is now gone and "robin" exerts her control even more strongly than before.)

(marc gets to the past thanks to grima, but a little interference from tiki, who now guards mount prism, means he loses his memories.

he does manage to recall his mother and the girl who looks like him, though.

and the name "morgan")

he, of course, is dragged into the future. he has no choice in the matter. he has no will or free thought—beyond an understanding that his wife is gone and grima has taken her over, he has nothing

until he runs into the younger robin, once, while he's meant to be fetching marc.

it should spark an old memory, of a meeting just like this, down to the same horrified expression she's wearing, just before he dies. it should spark a memory that stays with him, that revives some of the optimism that young chrom has about who exactly the woman wearing his wife's face is

it doesn't

but after that, "robin" simply can't take any more chances. he's nothing but a common risen, for someone who's meant to be king.

so she traps him away from where the battle ought to take place, in hopes that once she takes over this world, she might be able to stitch back a whole chrom

he fades alone, not knowing that his children must be safe now and that his wife must be in peace now—he simply thinks grima got tired of him or that she has no need of him anymore. he's given up so badly that he doesn't even register the warmth that floods his body, and when he does, he attributes it to the same weapon that brought him to a foreign land

but there's no lingering question of how much the woman who ruined ylisse was his wife and how much was the fell dragon rumored to bring destruction to the world because that one memory sparked a whole flood

and when he meets her again, there are two of them.

one, the same as the young woman who tearfully killed him

the other, the same as the woman who controlled him and killed his lived ones (though she has no memory of it)

#feh #fe13 #chrobin #f!chrobin #fe morgan #fe lucina #fe chrom #fe robin #f!robin #fe grima #grima!robin poured a truly ridiculous amount of energy into ensuring his existence #but since risen are intrinsically tied to her he dies anyways #but that's why he's capable of speech #when he should be a broken husk #thought about letting him realize grima and robin are the same like canon chrom #but it doesn't mesh with feh dialogue and i wasn't up for mental gymnastics #he says the line about his wife's voice because he thinks his particular robin is lost forever #he also thinks that grima killed him because her lines about replacing him with the younger version make him think she's replacing him #she's just trying to replace his body somehow to cut down on energy consumption #since she wants to maintain all the shepherds #to fulfil her twisted fantasy of being with her loved ones #idk grima who is actually just a murderous robin who witnessed her husband turn into a risen and be killed by her hand #after resolving to live a life of solitude to avoid accidentally murdering her children and family #but completely breaking after the fact and realizing she could also do that but BETTER despite lissa trying to convince her not to #is an idea that deeply appeals to me #it's also why lissa rebuffs her because robin kept her brother and refused to say a word about it so #lissa sent some shepherds because she's worried and uh they die #while robin flees to plegia to get the power she needs and also murder validar

[randomnameless]

I hate how despite Robin having murdered Risen Chrom, IS is still using him to market Chrobin. Like come on what about LUCINA ? IT'S HER REAL FATHER !

Is this Chrom really the dad who taught Lucina how to fight and all?

But yeah, the lack of Lucina mention in that FB was... ugh, so sad, and not even in the FB but in this unit's lines!

Did this Chrom already had her or is it a Chrom who went to hunt Valldar after Gangrel's death, idk - but for Lucina who was supposed to be an important character in FE13 and the daughter of the Lord, she's thrown in the sewers for more Grima wank - uwu Robin was my fwend uwu bonds etc etc wank.

It sucks nearly as bad as F!Billy, but at least F!Billy was redeemed with that video when Chrom has... well.

Nothing?

#replies #anon #chrom pulled an eldie here #it sucks #is IS trying to retcon FE13 in the chrobin fest? #poor Lucina #FE13 stuff

[concert-bflat]

Just some low-effort fe drawings [Click for better Image Quality]

#fire emblem #fire emblem awakening #fe13 #fe nowi #fe lon'qu #fe henry #fe robin #grima #fe grima #???? i think it counts #robin #nowi #lon'qu #henry #okay i'm not going through the rest of the alt tags #anyways yeah #i think lon'qu and nowi's supports are very entertaining #risen henry brainrot is still stuck in my head #and robin's design is absolute suffering #and agony #that's it that's all my thoughts on these #also yes i'm going by the design that my robin had rather than technically canon #i just like drawing her hair like that aight

[fayesdiary]

All Divine Dragons have the ability to revive people back from the dead, but it’s something that takes a very long time to master and drains their own life force (giving the revived person minor draconic powers and physical traits as a side effect), and it’s something you have to be very careful with because, ethics of life and death aside, the process is very easy to mess up. Grima, having the blood of a Divine Dragon, can do the same without the limitations, but they never even learned they could do it until they watched Naga resurrect the First Exalt before striking them down, which is also the first time they met a Divine Dragon. So after they possessed Robin to kill Validar but realized they couldn’t give the tactician back their body they try to revive Chrom to undo Validar’s damage at least, but between being the first time they ever attempted such a thing and Chrom’s body having some remaining thanatophages his immune system had yet to fight off before he died, the whole thing goes horribly, horribly wrong. Because Risen Chrom is effectively stuck in a limbo between life and death and sharing his body with a parasite seeking to reproduce itself and turn more people into Risen as a wild instinct, and is in constant pain. So Grima, horrified, kills Chrom once more, and Robin doesn’t even have the heart to object because as much as they want him back... not like this.

#fire emblem #fire emblem awakening #fe13 #my headcanons #grima #robin #chrom #risen chrom #WHOA I did NOT mean for it to get this angsty when I first wrote this post #it was just the first two paragraphs at first #anyway that's why risen chrom isn't a thing in canon #in Heroes Grima is actually glad breidablik can automatically revive dead heroes #because it's a power they themselves NEVER want to use ever again

[reddachi]

Grima Robin and Risen King Chrom Gotta love this fallen pair 💜

These two acrylic stands are still available on our shop!

#fire emblem awakening #fire emblem fanart #fea #fe13 #robin #robin fire emblem #male robin #m robin #grima fire emblem #grima #grima robin #m grima #male grima #chrom #risen king chrom #rk chrom #acrylic #acrylic standee #acrylic stand

[fejki]

I wanted to do a piece focused around grima and risen king chrom’s dynamic! 

they’re looking down at the fiery destruction of whatever poor villiage is beneath them

please do not repost! reblog instead!

#grima #fire emblem #fire emblem awakening #chrom #robin #risen king chrom #fe13 #fea #print #fire #armor #digital art #art #anime art #anime #fallen angel #evil #wings #csp #clip studio paint #sword #fantasy #body horror #eye horror

[hidewari]

Here’s my piece for Calamity’s Advent, a Fire Emblem horror/angst zine run by Invincible Zine.  You can check it out for free here so please do if you’re interested - there’s an insane amount of fantastic fics and art inside   🙏

#chrom #fire emblem #fe13 #fire emblem awakening #robin #grima #blood #corpse #i really wanted to draw the moment right after chrom's death where grima turns him into risen #i thought that would be raw as fuck #like hes a fresh corpse but hes immediately risen again to serve his killer #brutal as hell chrom im so sorry i do love u i swear

[trunswicked]

Day 05 of Chrobin Week 2020 - RISEN & FALLEN 🗡️

#fire emblem #fe #chrobin #chrom #risen king chrom #robin #grima #chrobin week #chrobin week 2020 #fire emblem awakening #fe13 #feh #fire emblem heroes #kassart

[the-priestess-of-dawn]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Chrom/Gimurei | Grima, Chrom/My Unit | Reflet | Robin Characters: Chrom (Fire Emblem), Gimurei | Grima, My Unit | Reflet | Robin Additional Tags: Risen King Chrom (Fire Emblem), Grima is Robin, Pining, softer than you'd expect from a risen king chrom fic, but right on brand for me as an author honestly Summary:

After Grima throws him into another world, Chrom, the Risen King, runs into a more vulnerable version of his master. And Robin is afraid of waking up.

#chrobin #chrom x grima #fire embem awakening #fe13 #my writing #yes i'm back on my softhearted bs this time ft. the risen king

[spadefish]

Fullshade commission for @golden-emblem (it’s not letting me @ you!! ^^;) I spent more time on this commission than any other piece I’ve done, and I think it turned out pretty good!! I wasn’t running a timer, but I think I’d estimate about 20-ish hours of worktime total(mostly thanks to Chrom’s armour!!) 

Thank you again for the project, and for anyone who’s interested in something like this, commissions are open!!

#fire emblem #fe13 #grima #chrom #risen king chrom #my art #commissions

[teslu]

a god and his king

[dont tag as me/kin]

#grima fe #chrom fe #fire emblem #fire emblem heroes #fire emblem awakening #fea #fe13 #robin fire emblem #robin fe #male robin #my unit #chrobin #gay chrobin #risen chrom #risen king chrom