Title: You Can Breathe Now (But The Air Is Running Out)
Series: Fire Emblem: Echoes
Character/Pairing: Kamui/Leon, Leon > Valbar, Valbar/some random woman he married
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 12,255
Summary: Leon should've died of the disease years ago. Kamui, despite all odds, keeps trying to find a cure.
Author's note: Post game.

Technically this is a slight variation on how the trope usually goes. To explain, it got stuck in my mind on what would happen when you applied Hanahaki to someone who canonically had potentially 2 unrequited loves back to back.

Also, to explain the characterization here: there's a bit less banter due people being on the verge of death there. There's also an ending where Kamui takes Jesse's place and becomes the founder of the mercenary desert settlement, so Kamui going more responsible and caring post-game is actually a possible canon point if you let Jesse die.

Jesse's still alive in here, though somewhere doing mercenary things, though. But the potential of Leon dying made Kamui a bit more serious and a bit more likely to care about Things Other Than Money.

I have no clue who Genny married. It mentions her ending but leaves it vague to who she married.

Title comes from You Can Breathe by Jack's Mannequin. It was almost titled "Transplanting."

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