Nepheather

Nepheather is the femslash ship between Nephenee and Heather from the Fire Emblem fandom.

Canon
Nephenee and Heather first meet in Ohma village as Nephenee and Brom try to stop the villagers getting caught up in Ludveck's rebellion. Depending on who speaks to Heather first, her recruitment conversation differs, thought in both cases she only joins for Nephenee. Should Brom speak with her, he will try to convince Heather to lend a hand which she is uninterested in doing at first until he mentions that Nephenee is also fighting, at which point Heather agrees to help. If Nephenee speaks with Heather first, she will warn Heather away due to the upcoming fight, however Heather will ask who she is and then tells Nephenee her name is cute. Healther then decides join the fight as she likes to help "nice country girls" such as Nephenee.

Following the battle, Nephenee and Heather meet with Lucia and begin working for Queen Elincia to prevent Ludveck's plan from spreading further. Heather plans to stay with the group so she can meet more cute girls, which leaves Nephenee bemused but she tells Heather she seems like a good person regardless. As the war escalates they eventually join the Greil Mercenaries and are part of the group not turned to stone upon Ashera's judgement. After the war they both return to their village, where Heather continued to look after her mother and Nephenee lived with family.

Unlike Path of Radiance, and most other Fire Emblem games, Radiant Dawn does not feature traditional support conversation where characters have unique interactions with each other. There are instead a pool of generic greetings each character can give to one another that is tailored toward their rank and social statue. Being both commoners Nephenee and Heather's supports lack formality and are quite friendly. Interestingly, Nephenee's final A support can be "Heather… I, um, I sure do like you, so…please…don’t die." which is normally used for commoner men, instead of "___… I, um, I sure do like you. You’re a good friend. So please…don’t die now." which is used for commoner women.

Fanon
Nepheather is a fairly popular pairing in Radiant Dawn fandom, though possibly not as popular as others due to Heather being introduced after Path of Radiance. Since both of their endings have them return home and have no canon marriages many fans headcanon them living together after the war and having a relatively peaceful life. Some also hope that Heather will be added to Fire Emblem Heroes as the game allows s-Supports with any character and Nephenee has already been in the game for several years now. This sometimes leads to fans rallying behind Heather in the yearly Choose Your Legend voting contest that FEH hosts every year.

On AO3, it is the most written femslash ship within the Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn and Path of Radiance fandom.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

TUMBLR

Trivia

 * Nephenee is featured in the background of one of Heather's Cipher cards, the official Fire Emblem card game, to represent one of her skills "For the smiles of girls!"