Hey, he fits the mold, doesn't he? Tragic, pretty-boy woobie... And as a bonus, he really was trying to do it for a good cause. (Cori would completely ignore what Lyon says in Ephraim's route as EPHRAIM'S DERANGED FANTASY OMG.) Cori would be able to play the canon material alone for sympathy points, and then slap down her usual Knight In Shining Armor routine on top of it... It'd probably look like a fairly innocent, corny piece of Lyon/Eirika sap until Lyon started beating Ewan bloody for talking back to him or something. :| :P
Not sure he'd be a Nice Boss - Cori made a point of adhering to the most recent canon material even when she went completely off the rails, so she'd probably mill out the full canon timeline first (her Eliwood Normal Mode run) and then start writing WYDS in Hector's Mode, chattering naively in Author's Notes that "Chapter 19xx is up next! Time to see what POSSIBLY could be worth those crazy conditions to unlock it! X_X" - and be forced to do some MASSIVE backpedaling the moment That CG flashed up on her GBA.
She wouldn't have the guts to completely overhaul the canon plot, so she couldn't retcon Nergal entirely - but, knowing her, she'd have to overhaul whatever melodramatic backstory she had written for Ninian and Nils (you just know her initial versions of the parents would be Ninian 0.5 and Nils 0.5), would furiously rewrite each and every one of Nergal's sections to make it clear that he was really a good person being controlled by the darkness (just like Lyon!1!11), and probably would have his reformed ghost turn up, thank Eliwood and Ninian for killing him and releasing him from the darkness, and give his angelic blessings on their marriage. Oh gad, I'm cracking up just thinking about it.
Oh, and did I mention that her WYDS of A Glimpse In Time would be a Nergal-Aenir-Ninian-Nils equivalent of "Never Too Late"? Because you know she would. And valorous Roland would be the FE version of Ash Hull Ketchum. (And there's a 50% chance that, the moment Cori decided Nergal was a poor abused woobie, her depiction of Athos would go from being the most awesome old sage ever to the embodiment of callousness and evil.)
I guess it's possible Cori would, instead of the benevolent-ghost thing, redo the final battle so that Nils somehow remembers everything all of a sudden and pulls a "I Know You're In There Somewhere" Fight on Nergal, whereupon Nergal breaks free of the darkness through the power of love... I'm trying so hard not to break down laughing over here... and then does the entire My God What Have I Done thing. If Cori was as fond of Star Wars as she was of LOTR, I'd say it would be a sure thing. ...I GUESS it would still be a possibility, since she could draw a One Ring analogy. Oh dear.
"And she would ruin Nino/Jaffar worse than one fic I read ages ago." You're... er... talking about Two Angels by TheOneAndOnlyT, I take it? *shifty eyes* I admit to cutting TheOneAndOnlyT's fics loads of slack because the very first time I visited fanfiction.net was when I clicked a link to his (?) Eliwood/Ninian story, but... uh, yes. I'll admit that one wasn't terribly IC...
"I can see her temporarily demonizing Fiora, then giving her an angst-filled redemption and tossing her to Kent, who was busy angsting over his unrequited love for Lyn. " Yes, I think you've got it right on the mark. *sigh*
"Poor Nils. ;_; The thought of Ninian getting it on with ANYONE would squick the hell out of him normally." On second thought, we'd be blessed if it was ONLY Nils. Cori would probably haul in half the army to comment on the purity and strength of their... love. D|
(Behind The Scenes, aka When Tactician Cori Has Her Back Turned) Random Member of the Army: Where WERE Eliwood and Ninian all battle? I kept looking for them, but... Nils: *stiffly* They were increasing their support level. Random Member of the Army: But the battle went on for FOUR HOURS! Nils: *even more stiffly* Yes. They were increasing it for four hours straight.
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Not sure he'd be a Nice Boss - Cori made a point of adhering to the most recent canon material even when she went completely off the rails, so she'd probably mill out the full canon timeline first (her Eliwood Normal Mode run) and then start writing WYDS in Hector's Mode, chattering naively in Author's Notes that "Chapter 19xx is up next! Time to see what POSSIBLY could be worth those crazy conditions to unlock it! X_X" - and be forced to do some MASSIVE backpedaling the moment That CG flashed up on her GBA.
She wouldn't have the guts to completely overhaul the canon plot, so she couldn't retcon Nergal entirely - but, knowing her, she'd have to overhaul whatever melodramatic backstory she had written for Ninian and Nils (you just know her initial versions of the parents would be Ninian 0.5 and Nils 0.5), would furiously rewrite each and every one of Nergal's sections to make it clear that he was really a good person being controlled by the darkness (just like Lyon!1!11), and probably would have his reformed ghost turn up, thank Eliwood and Ninian for killing him and releasing him from the darkness, and give his angelic blessings on their marriage.
Oh gad, I'm cracking up just thinking about it.Oh, and did I mention that her WYDS of A Glimpse In Time would be a Nergal-Aenir-Ninian-Nils equivalent of "Never Too Late"? Because you know she would. And valorous Roland would be the FE version of Ash Hull Ketchum.
(And there's a 50% chance that, the moment Cori decided Nergal was a poor abused woobie, her depiction of Athos would go from being the most awesome old sage ever to the embodiment of callousness and evil.)
I guess it's possible Cori would, instead of the benevolent-ghost thing, redo the final battle so that Nils somehow remembers everything all of a sudden and pulls a "I Know You're In There Somewhere" Fight on Nergal, whereupon Nergal breaks free of the darkness through the power of love... I'm trying so hard not to break down laughing over here... and then does the entire My God What Have I Done thing. If Cori was as fond of Star Wars as she was of LOTR, I'd say it would be a sure thing. ...I GUESS it would still be a possibility, since she could draw a One Ring analogy. Oh dear.
"And she would ruin Nino/Jaffar worse than one fic I read ages ago."
You're... er... talking about Two Angels by TheOneAndOnlyT, I take it? *shifty eyes* I admit to cutting TheOneAndOnlyT's fics loads of slack because the very first time I visited fanfiction.net was when I clicked a link to his (?) Eliwood/Ninian story, but... uh, yes. I'll admit that one wasn't terribly IC...
"I can see her temporarily demonizing Fiora, then giving her an angst-filled redemption and tossing her to Kent, who was busy angsting over his unrequited love for Lyn. "
Yes, I think you've got it right on the mark. *sigh*
"Poor Nils. ;_; The thought of Ninian getting it on with ANYONE would squick the hell out of him normally."
On second thought, we'd be blessed if it was ONLY Nils. Cori would probably haul in half the army to comment on the purity and strength of their... love. D|
(Behind The Scenes, aka When Tactician Cori Has Her Back Turned)
Random Member of the Army: Where WERE Eliwood and Ninian all battle? I kept looking for them, but...
Nils: *stiffly* They were increasing their support level.
Random Member of the Army: But the battle went on for FOUR HOURS!
Nils: *even more stiffly* Yes. They were increasing it for four hours straight.