Chrom/Robin

Pairing
Pairing:	Chrobin
Alternative name(s):	Chrom/Robin, Chrom/My Unit, Krom/Reflet
Gender category:	het (if Female Robin), slash (if Male Robin)
Fandom:	Fire Emblem Awakening
Canonical?:	Heavily implied, not confirmed
Prevalence:	Fandom OTP
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Chrom/Robin is a very popular ship in the Fire Emblem Awakening and the wider Fire Emblem fandom.

Canon

In Awakening

Fire Emblem Awakening, both in mechanics and narrative, makes a compelling case for pairing Robin and Chrom together. On the mechanics side, Robin is considered by most Fire Emblem players to be overpowered compared to most other "avatar" characters, with very high customization and class reassignment opportunities, and strengths in both melee and ranged combat thanks to his magic abilities. In addition, Robin gains experience points at an increased rate. Awakening's difficulty is generally lax, allowing units to change the character's class as many times as they need, provided the player can access the needed items and gold. Again, this can allow you to dump all your resources into Robin in particular and progress through the game extremely easily.

Robin and Chrom are shown fighting side by side constantly, even during the game's opening scene before the prologue. The newly-introduced Pair Up game mechanic allows two units to fight together and act as one, with compounding bonuses for the paired units having high relationship with one another, and both units in a pair slowly earning relationship points with one another as a small bonus. As a result, Robin and Chrom are common candidates for using Pair Up together.

Spoiler Warning: This article or section contains spoilers about late-game story details in Fire Emblem Awakening. If this bothers you, proceed with caution.

About midway through the game's story, the game will force Chrom to get married to a living female unit in your army in order to set up the circumstances of Lucina's birth and eventual timeline hop gambit. Usually, Chrom's wife will be whichever female unit has the highest amount of support points with him, with a small amount bias given towards those who joined later in the campaign up to that point. Most of the time, however, it's very common to have a female Robin be Chrom's wife of choice because the two of them are able to be deployed together from the beginning of the game.

In addition, having Robin and Chrom get married introduces a lot of drama and tragedy into the game's story as it progresses and more details come to light. Destiny and changing fate are prominent motifs in the story of Awakening, and pairing up the heir of a peaceful kingdom with an unwitting harbinger of disaster that will be its ruin, but finding a way to prevent it, is very emotionally impactful. Also, given the fact that Robin is also the vessel for Grima, it makes the circumstances at the end of the game all the more tragic for Chrom and Lucina at the end of the game, as the two of them are forced to put their wife and mother to the sword in order to save the world.

In other official appearances

Chrom and Robin are commonly paired together in spin-off media, including Fire Emblem Engage, where they appear as two souls inhabiting the same ring. In Fire Emblem Heroes, the two of them appear together as a special "Duo Unit", with both a male Robin and a female Robin. In the fourth Super Smash Bros. game, Chrom temporarily appears to aid Robin in his Final Smash. More often than not, these appearances use Robin's default male appearance.

Common Tropes in Fanworks

• Modern AU
• Canon Divergence
• Slow Burn
• Possession involving Robin's status as the vessel for Grima

Links and Communities

• Works tagged Chrom/My Unit | Reflet | Robin on Archive of our Own