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"For peace, the mother yearns—she weeps for all men." Prologue is fine.
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A ghost came to visit and told you to sleep? And then you must go to the battlefield and gather the ones that won't heal? Hey maybe this should be more prologuish. For my God and for my King I will not rest is about BYLETH, not Mercy.
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Honestly very indicative of Byleth and Mercy both in the Tomb.
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Byleth leaves the Tomb and learns of the state of affairs from Annette, and later Mercedes.
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The gods are you and the gods are me? This is about Byleth's struggle to reconcile with his divinity and what's happened to him. This comes before Mercy's problems.
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Mercy living in the shadow of her parents becomes clear only in Mercedes' chapter. The "run for the hills" by the end of the chapter, and more desperate at the beginning of Felix's.
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A more triumphant and determined need to leave than Jackrabbit.
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The journey across Faerghus dooming children to die is a great place for this :)
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Mercy angry at Agnus, specifically in Derdriu.
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Agnus's secrets come out.
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Agnus tells the team her real name.
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Mercy's bitter vow to Agnus upon finding out she is King of Faerghus.
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Agnus about Mercy. She knows she's in love but absolutely cannot do it like this, not as King and Shield.
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Miss Alexandria... :')
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Mercy realizing she's not worth anything as a Shield because Agnus is freakin' stronger than she is anyway.
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Agnus realizing that she's lying to herself. And also calling herself a monster.
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Agnus going on with the blessing of both of her moms. "I've left behind the home that you made me, but I will carry it along. It's a long way forward, but trust in me. I'll give them shelter like you've done for me."
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Mercy and Agnus have like, whole events in their romantic arc, but I dunno if they're all gonna make it in. This one is though
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Noel time (but very specifically post-battle Noel)
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Wrapped up in the loving arms of a war, what industry's worth dying for? Built a wall to keep us clean ... to keep out all those who disagree. ... We're killing the time before our turn. This is really Noelcore, even though I initially picked it out for Viyan.
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End of book 2. The gravest mistakes with the greatest intentions, with this little time before they go.
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Has to go after we know about TWSitD because of "invisible foes are hard to fight" and talk of having been to all of the earth's four corners, not just, like, two of them