Kidquest is an AU focusing on the gen2 units of Fire Emblem Fates.
In a world where Corrin was never kidnapped to Hoshido, but figured Nohr would kill her anyways, she chose to withdraw from both sides and try to find her own way through life.
Twenty years later, the home of siblings Dwyer and Kana are attacked by Nohrian assailants. With their father dead and mother missing, Kana decides the only thing left to do is track down the dragon that appeared the day she vanished.
And they meet many friends along the way <3
A lot of fics, content, and shitposts focus on AU worldbuilding. Where the plot of Fates never happened, what happened instead? And it has resulted in a lot of fun lore.
But why is kidquest?
Kidquest began as a Fates Revelation challenge run with the aim of actually using all of the kids to finally get to know them as characters. Hence the name "kidquest", based on the "Corrinquest" challenge run format.
The rules of it were simple: pair off everyone as fast as possible, recruit the kids, and only use them (barring a backpack Corrin), resulting in perhaps some off-beat pairings seen in the AU.
All AU pairings are true to the original run completed by Pix, excluding Ryoma/Scarlet (which was actually Ryoma/Setsuna), because those two not having supports is stupid.
And then came the thought of what the in-universe lore of such a run would be, so the kidquest AU was born...
Kidquest canon pairings
f!Corrin/Jakob
Subaki/Azura
Takumi/Oboro
Kaze/Mozu
Hinata/Rinkah
Hayato/Sakura
Kaden/Kagero
Keaton/Camilla
Arthur/Effie
Silas/Beruka
Saizo/Orochi
Benny/Charlotte
Ryoma/Scarlet
Niles/Felicia
Azama/Hana
Xander/Peri
Leo/Hinoka
Odin/Selena
Laslow/Nyx
Not all of these people are happily straight married. In fact at least one of these pairings is not married at all. And one of them is divorced.
Kidquest canon(ish?) kid pairings
Some of these are hypothetical post-canon, some of them are just fun to play with, and some of them are just canon in the background. Have fun.
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despite what it may seem we do not kill a majority of our parent characters. what we do is maximize the suffering per parent kill.
killing azura affected a whole family. killing takumi is par for the course. killing kaze brings some stakes into the valla arc because he died down there. you know. that sort of stuff.
and then of course the events surrounding jakob's death is why kana and dwyer even left home at all but like hey. maximizing the output of pain from parental death. corrin's missing for most of their adventure dwyer thinks she's also dead.
Mikoto and Xander have been penpals for several years. It started around the beginning of Xander's rule as King and around the time Mikoto stepped down from being Queen- which is why they can't just end this tense not-war not-peace thing their nations have going on.
As for how it started... see, Laslow had gotten a little better at dancing in front of crowds. And he had a friend who he needed to step in for. After the performance, Mikoto went up to him to start chatting with him about his performance, which was a shock because Laslow knew faces and that was The Damn Queen (former) and Laslow was like um. And then Xander showed up.
And they got to having a chat and because Reina and Laslow were the ones around theyre the ones assigned to pass off secret letters from their respective lieges once they decided on the secret penpal thing.
Siegbert is also vaguely aware of this due to being a young child at the time and being around for the performance. He's not super involved but he knows something is going on and he's hopeful!
you know i always love to hear about whats going on with soleil over here if youve got anything <333 but if not… maybe like ignatius?? whats goin on with him
I honestly need to put more thought into Soleil. She's still happy and likes to spread cheer around with people, and likes women. A bit of a voracious reader thanks to her mom. Though she kinda... sucks... at magic, though she's a bit better at it than some of the other people around the group hi physical guys.
I'll definitely need to discuss this with my co-creator to flesh her out more, but as an enjoyer of soleil her impact on the group is still There it's just that her backstory is just. she was raised lovingly by her father and mother and makes jokes about things and is very, very oblivious to the girls with a crush on her. (she does still flirt it's just in a heirs of fate way and she's very oblivious to her own crush #autism)
now, IGNATIUS. I can talk about him a bit. :3
(got long. under cut.)
see, Ignatius is one of the three kids (with Sophie and Percy) that were sent out to try and bring Kana and Dwyer (and their group) back to Xander for some purpose. They do not actually know the real purpose. because percy ran off before Siegbert was able to fully inform him Oops. Ignatius is friends with Percy and Sophie! This is all fun and fine!
Ignatius, alongside Sophie, are immediately doubtful upon seeing the kids but are loyal to their parents and have to be swayed via chatter. He's also a bit easily scared so hearing that kana can turn into a dragon followed by it Happening does convince him. But he does his best anyway!!
... so then it's like... he's friends with... sophie, daughter of beruka (a retainer), and percy, son of elise's retainers.... and he's just the son of two border guards. how the hell did he end up at the castle.
Well, well well! when he was young, he and his parents were out in the town. He got a bit nervous about some of the crowds so he went off to hang out near the edge of the forest. This was where he met a VERY young percy, crying his eyes out. This was then also followed by Sophie, who was still super bad at expressing herself at the time, worried out of her mind because she was supposed to be babysitting percy.
The three of them have a fun time playing at the edge of the woods for a long time until their parents all come by looking for THEM, worried. And the three of them introduced themselves to each other and, due to really liking each other, promising they'll try to meet up again!!
It doesn't really happen. Not for a while. But Ignatius always goes out to the edge of town to stare at the castle, where he knows they are. And Charlotte is especially encouraging him to try and go ask about that knight's daughter, but he really doesn't like that pressure, so he resists... up until there's a tournament to be held!
People are getting antsy at the lack of war, and Xander thought a good way to let some of that energy out is to have a tournament. And those who impress him might get some type of reward.
Charlotte is like omgggg you should do this. Benny also agreed. And Ignatius just kind of wishes he had a chance to see his royal-adjacent friends again. So, he agrees, and he goes.
And he does very, very well. He's good at armored combat, and not many of the others participating are good against it. Not even Sophie.
Sophie, who sees him and goes IGGY???
So after that tournament is concluded, Sophie and Ignatius excitedly meet back up, and Percy is also there (he was forbidden from participating in the tournament.) Ignatius, even if he DIDN'T place well, is invited a spot on the knight's crew with Sophie. And Ignatius is hesitant because he LIKES being with the border guard crew, with his dad. But... well, some part of him also thinks of his mom, and the pressure that comes with wanting some more money. And he kinda hates that he's thinking about that!
But he also wants to be with these friends again. So he accepts.
And he has a very nice time being with them.
... skip forward some time later after the whole capturing kana and dwyer debacle, and suddenly they're a PART of that group, and Ignatius is nervous but trying his best not to be. And even more so when a group of thieves attack where they're trying to sleep for the night. Hi nina's crew. But after that situation is smoothed over, they have a whole lot more people traveling with them.
The one person other than Sophie who tries to comfort him about this... is the nina thief oc, Fenrir.
Hi. Yeah Fenrir is Ignatius' thief boyfriend, the type of guy Ignatius' needs: not concerned about royal life at all, able to comfort him in a way he understands... and also magically strong.
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in an earlier post, you may have seen the fact just floated across that laslow used to be a womanizer before he got married. this is canon information about him of course we know this. but. for most people, this was just... he Stopped right when he got married.
but those closer to the situation know what really happened:
laslow got nervous about dating someone and carried on a relationship in secret and people thought he was still flirting with random ladies when it was the same lady (nyx). and this illusion was kept up until he suddenly rolled up to people like 'i'm inviting you to my wedding. yes i'm serious'.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kagero/Nishiki | Kaden, Kagero/Orochi (Fire Emblem), Kagero/Nishiki | Kaden/Orochi
Characters: Kagero (Fire Emblem), Nishiki | Kaden
Additional Tags: Polyamory Negotiations, or well the start of one lol, Feelings Realization, while married!, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Series: Part 12 of Kidquest
Summary:
kagero’s best friend is divorced. kagero does not exactly expect her own response to be ‘so you’re available?’
she is married.
Even when others thought of it as disturbing, her friend and her husband thought it was worth it for everyone else to come and see.
But the very thought of seeing Orochi and knowing that some part of her longed for her best friend to be ever closer…
Her husband poked his head into her room, ears perked up. “Heya, honey.”
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I think this type of shit is funny. When a relationship slides so easily into dating that nobody notices the shift until its obvious. Anyway go my kiragi/midori (doesnt know the ship tag)
Under cut because its starting to get longer than I thought on mobile ooooops
Kiragi is essentially the third lord here! This may not be a good thing for him.
He's pretty much how he always is- energetic and trying to take things in stride. Sometimes he is not exactly the most successful but he serves a pretty good role for that in the group.
The gang of kana, dwyer, and midori meet him in Castle Izumo, where Kiragi is with Hisame and talking to Izana about where his dad is because he was last spotted there. Nobody had connected the dots because nobody connects random hoshidan talking to Corrin with the Prince of Hoshido.
When both Dwyer party and Kiragi party get told that Izana doesnt know where their parents are, Dwyer is planning on asking for a better job that Jakob had, but Kiragi decides that he's going to look for his dad himself (much to Hisame's chagrin.) And with Kana also wanting to look for his mom, its essentially their party and dwyer and hisame have to deal with it.
With Midori being part of the party, Kiragi and Midori meeting up here means they get to bond extremely early! Theyre both archers and nature enthusiasts so they spend a lot of time hanging out when theyre not fighting and what not its great.
Kiragi is why they go to pick up Rhajat and when the Nohrian Gang attacks them he's rather adept with the bow and helps them out, which is appreciated. Then while running away from that, Kiragi spots an attack from his dad's bow and essentially also starts off that chase...
and after circling around and everything he loses his dad and has to take up the Fujin Yumi for when they go into Valla. Its a rough adjustment period, see heirs of fate. Midori is a big help for helping Kiragi get up about it and a huge emotional support. Because theyre dating. This was not commonly known until possibly the funniest moment which I have not decided on yet because the two of them are very chill about the relationship.
I will get to Midori now.
Midori is the first recruit by Dwyer and Kana due to being attacked by "bandits" that are after the two of them. She's an apothecary by trade, still learning a lot of tricks but able to help support her family- especially after the attack on the town! Mozu can't really farm that much when the town is destroyed, hmm?
But when the two tell that theyre going to Izana to talk about things she gasps and decides to hop onto the group and there she stays.
Kaze did often come to visit her and Mozu. But he wasn't really around a whole lot. There were often periods where he was gone, and then he was back and they got to have a fun time together. He encouraged her following her passions whenever he could, but... yeah, theres a reason he was initially a deadbeat before I just killed him teehee
So its been... a longer time than usual for Midori. So she's like... she doesnt think he's missing, just thinks hes out for a longer time than normal... so she sometimes... tries to look for him? Not actively! Just... scanning horizons and hoping he's just around on his way back. Kinda misses him. But he's just busy!
Kiragi and Midori bond over their nature thing and she has a few fun tricks with arrows that he can't really get a grasp on but its a fun time for both and its cute. And they date but in such a fashion where nobody can tell up until the moment like Midori kisses kiragi's forehead or something lmao
And shes there for Kiragi when his dad is revealed to be dead, which is great! He gets to mourn his dad being dead ever since dwyer got saved, things are all fine and dandy! Then they get to valla and thats when Midori sees Kaze for the first time again.
Because he's dead. And this also shatters her because... she didnt know he was dead. For how long? How long was she scanning the horizon for someone who was actually dead and a puppetted corpse? When did it happen? It takes a bit for her to be able to keep going.
When they put Kaze down, Kaze is able to tell her and everyone about how he died. Which i will keep secret for now heheeee. And Kiragi is the one helping encourage her to keep going like Midori was for him!!
And I'm sure her apothecary potions are helpful, especially when Dwyer and Mitama are wrung dry of their magic.
due to not being a part of the Everything involving the royals shes not as detailed as Rhajat is, but shes still precious and special.
Much like Rhajat, she was also drawn to dark arts. Unlike Rhajat, hers came a lot more in the form of charms that came connected with her poetry. But unlike rhajat, thanks to Hana and Azama being her parents, they reacted a little badly to Mitama developing this magic.
After locking away her charm, Azama and Hana convinced Mitama to pick up something else magic. And Mitama, clear of head after her charm drained her senses, was basically kinda scared into it. But its nice. And her best friend/crush is continuing the dark magic anyway, and seems to be progressing more slowly and carefully.
Mostly because of her, she realizes.
She does travel with the kidquest but only because Rhajat came to visit her and Rhajat was with her when the nohr outlaw group that Iago sent out attacked the village looking for Kana and Dwyer so Mitama felt thankful about it. And was like fine I guess it is time for me to depart!
Hana's only real influence is having Mitama able to be in that royal castle thanks to being Sakura's retainer lol. Hana TRIED to get Mitama to get more active, to be productive! Wield swords, bows, something! But Mitama was like. I have chronic fatigue i will now be wiped for 10 business days
She's the child of Sakura, so she's the youngest of the royal family kids of hoshido! Shiro, Kiragi, and her! And theres someone older than her and Kiragi but shhh.
She developed dark magic at a young age, and much like her best friend/crush Mitama, she tried to develop it and experienced a bit of backlash on her surroundings. She wanted to learn to hone it, so she went into the woods and started doing her shit out there. She left a charm for her mother to help call for her and then was a very lonely 11 year old because of choices she made.
She still makes sure to visit Mitama every now and then between projects.
She's also friends with her cousin Shiro while he's traveling and therefore the one most in the know about things about him! She DOES avoid Ryoma at the family gatherings because of Shiro! Not that she'll say that. And then she spots him running away at the sight of kiragi and is like now thats not right. Get back here. I'm traveling with them by force you are too. (Hands Dwyer a freeze staff.)
Basically: using the fact that shes an emo teenager makes her act the same but she has more family and friend connections to tug on so she can fall back on those. Not that she'd let them know that.
And I have to push my mitama/rhajat agenda of course.
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