#knightofiris

innocent not

This is a fantastic question to which the short answer is yes, I think she really does.  

The long answer is significantly more involved and you know what I feel like writing a novel so let’s talk about Lucina and her parents. 

I think one of my favorite things about this family is the fact that all of them share a common note of character conflict: your blood does not define you.  I think both Chrom and Robin struggle with this in different ways through the Lucina’s timeline: Chrom fears that he inherited too much of his father’s nature and that he won’t be able to live up to his sister’s ideals, while Robin lives in terror of the destiny supposedly written into her blood and evidenced by the six-eyed mark on her right hand.  And it’s through this shared conflict that they come together: Chrom reassures Robin that her blood and her brand do not define her, because if it did, then his father would have been a good man (and he decidedly was not, given that he led a crusade against Plegia that nearly destroyed both nations and likely led to Gangrel’s rise), where she’s put her very life on the line to help complete strangers; and she in turn reassures him that while he might resemble his father, it’s what he does that truly defines him, and from everything she’s seen of him, he always does the very best he can for everyone – not just his own people, but even strangers he happens to find lying in the fields.  

The support and reassurance they offer one another over this mutual fear helps bring them together.  It’s something so deeply personal, something that gets to the core of their vulnerabilities, and by sharing it and helping each other through those anxieties, they bond and fall in love.  From that love comes Lucina and eventually Morgan before everything goes wrong, with Validar manipulating Robin into murdering Chrom and thereby raising Grima.  

Now, there are a few key points that I personally believe (these are headcanons rather than facts, but they inform how I approach things so they’re important here): first, Lucina was in her early teens when everything went awry, probably somewhere around 14/15 (it gives her a reasonable time to hone her sword skills under her father’s tutelage before she’s thrust into a war against undead monsters); second, Lucina might not have been aware of her mother’s fellblood heritage, but she probably grew up with quite a few Plegian traditions, whether she knew them as such or not (they were her mother’s traditions, and that’s how she likely thinks of them); and third, Lucina loves her mom.  The game sadly does a meager job with a lot of the kids’ relationships, since most of them have default dialogues with their fathers and Lucina does with her mother, but I honestly believe that Lucina’s relationship with Robin is as strong as her relationship with Chrom.  Her mother taught her to read, trained her to use magic, and through games with the Justice Cabal showed her the power of strategy.  They’re skills she made good use of in the years between her father’s death and her return to the past, and Lucina’s admiration for Robin rivals her admiration for Chrom.  The reason why she’s so protective of her father, and why she frames him as her goal, is because his death is the event that leads to Grima’s resurrection.  It’s not any lack of love for her mother, it’s simply the only known she has to work with. 

So when Lucina finds out that Robin is Grima’s vessel – that in fact her mother is her father’s murderer – it’s something she has a really hard time accepting.  It means that she, too, has fellblood in her, and knowing what that blood wrought in her own timeline…she struggles with it.  She’s terrified of that part of herself, and worries that there might be evil in her because of it.  And when she’s at her most fearful, she even thinks she hates that part of herself – but that thought just hurts her more, because if she hates the part of her that’s fellblood, it means that she loathes the part of her that came from her mother, one of the people she most loves in all the world.  I think this internal conflict really comes to a head before the battle at the Dragon’s Table, when Lucina attempts to take Robin’s life in order to ensure her father’s survival – and realizes that she can’t do it.  She can’t bring herself to kill her mother, and begs both her parents’ forgiveness for what she tried to do. 

Of course Chrom and Robin are there for her.  Of course they’re willing to forgive her.  But more than that, they’re both there to support her through this struggle, just as they’ve supported one another all this time: Robin’s amnesia may have wiped away her memories of her supposed destiny, but a part of her has always feared that Frederick might be right about her, that she might well be Chrom’s enemy – fears he has done his all to reassure, because her actions have proven the truth of who she is at heart; and while Chrom’s burden is familiar, so too is Robin’s comfort and encouragement as he faces the challenges left in the wake of his sister’s passing.  They both listen to Lucina when she comes to them with the burden of her fears – and they both take them to heart, and offer what advice they can.  

Chrom is the first to explain that there’s a difference between hating her blood and hating a particular ancestor.  He could easily hate the blood he got from his father, but that would mean that the hatred is spread to Emmeryn (who he still holds in his heart as a beacon of hope and peace), because she shares that same blood in equal measure.  It is not Lucina’s blood that defines her, not her heritage, not her ancestors: she alone determines her course, her fate, her destiny – just look how far she’s come, returning through time to change things for the better.  Robin adds that it’s alright to be afraid, to be angry, but she can’t let that control her, because when it does there’s every chance we could become what we most fear or hate.  It’s most important to remain true to herself, because they both know that she is a wonderful young woman, strong and dedicated and just as passionate as her parents – and they are both so proud of her and the person she’s become. 

Omfg, that's the same kid that screamed at me on my grima comic about how Robin wasn't sassy and how childbirth wasn't that bad

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? 

OH THEY GOT OFF EASY WITH ME THEN. NEXT TIME, MY LESBIAN ASS IS GONNA TEAR THEM A NEW ONE.

@shauni-will-never-write