Alright so I am not usually one for shipping at all, but Fire Emblem Awakening is like the one game where I have strong side character shipping opinions. I'd probably go so far as to call it a rarepair, cause I have not seen a lot of it. Hear me it out:
LonMiri. They're adorable. The woman who has no interest in fitting any gender expectations, not out of protest, but cause she's just too busy with science and doesn't give a shit, and the guy who was traumatized into being afraid of women (specifically that he might cause another woman's death) who slowly grows closer to her cause she's just so fucking weird and keeps bothering him with weird as fuck experiments until he's not even thinking about her being a woman anymore. Two of the weirdest and emotionally constipated characters in the game produce the probably most emotionally stable child. I think they're great.
In fact: have some headcanons.
Lon'qu is a stay at home dad. He's also great with babies. Miriel does love her son from the very beginning but she's not really good with very small children, so Lon'qu takes care of Laurent the most in the first few years. When Laurent starts reading at 4 is when Miriel is starting to take over more, teaching their son and bonding with him over magic and science. This causes Lon'qu to slide a bit into the background. While he and Laurent never have a bad realationship, they find it a bit difficult to bond for a few years, until Laurent at 10 shows up with a very determined look and a far too big sword and asks his father for lessons. Laurent was never all that interested in swords, preferring magic like his mother, but he knows his father is and wants to spend more time with him, so they starting bonding over swordplay and Laurent becomes really good.
And of course, then the apocolypse happens. Chrom dies and Ylisse starts crumbeling. One by one the prime line parents leave for missions and never return. Eventually the capital is overrun and those who are left, including Lon'qu, take the children and go into hiding. But it's never enough and still one by one the parents die.
Until only Lon'qu is left, who never left the children's side. He dies while holding back the enemy to allow the children to reach Naga's ritual.
