Florinian

Florinian is the femslash ship between Florina and Ninian from the Fire Emblem fandom.

Canon
Florina and Ninian are character from the 7th Fire Emblem game. Florina is a shy mercenary pegasus knight in training. Ninian is a mysterious dancer pursued by the Black Fang.

During Lyn's tale
Before meeting Ninian Floriana meet her brother Nils. Florina was a member of Lyndis Legion and was traveling to Caelin. Lyndis legion meet Nils while he was pursued by the Black Fang. Before Lyn's arrival Ninian has already been captured. Nils beg Lyn to save his sister. Florina along with the others members of Lyndis Legion fight the Black Fang. After the fight they learn that they are too late and that Ninian has already been taken away. Fortunately Ninian has been saved by Eliwood after having lost consciousness. Ninian awakes some times after Eliwood's depart, she introduce herself as a travelling dancer. However she twisted her ankle and can't help Lyn army with her dance. After that Lyn defeat her evil uncle and reunite with her grandfather at Caelin ,Florina became a Caelin's knight while Ninian and her brother take their leave of Castle Caelin after a few days.

During Eliwood/Hector's tale
Ninian and Florina reunite on a boat around the Dread Isle. Florina going to the Dread Isle to help Eliwood who was searching for his father. Ninian and Nils were caught once again by Nergal (a evil druid that took the controle of the Black Fang) but thanks to Eliwood's father help Ninian escapes. The dancer is found by Florina's ally on Fargus's pirate ship. The army learns that Ninian had suffered amnesia from her ordeal. On the Dread Isle the army learn that Nergal need Ninian and Nils to open the dragon's gate. Thanks to her brother Ninian regain her memory. The army manage to escape the isle with both Nils and Ninian and go on a quest to stop Nergal. Ninian decide help the army with her dance.

During the quest Ninian and Florina can have somes support conversations. In their first one Ninian ask to Florina if she is from Illia. Florina answer yes and Ninian reveal that she is also from Illia. Florina express that feel so much closer to Ninian since she know that they are from the same country. The two agree that they should talk more. On their second support Florina ask Ninian some advice because she is bad at talking to men. Ninian answer that she doesn't think she's really all that good at talking to people either. Florina ask if they can consider to be friends and Ninian answer yes. In their third support Ninian reveal that she was born on a mountain and Florina deduce that it's the mountain of the Ice Dragon. Florina tell Ninian that long ago a nice ice dragon was living on this mountain but vanished during the war between the dragons and the humans. The pegasus knight say that when she was a kid she wanted to be friend with the ice dragon of the legend. Ninian ask if Florian wasn't afraid of the dragons and the pegasus knight answers that she think the species doesn’t matter.

The army's quest for stopping Nergal led them to the legendary sword Durandal that has been used during the war againts the dragons. But before that the army reach the sword Nergal appear and Ninian go with him in exchange for not hurting the army. The army decide to take Durandal and to save her with the sword help. But after that Eliwood obtains the sword a dragon appear. Eliwood the dragon but it turn that it was Ninian on her true form. Before dying, Ninian reverts to her human form. Florina and her ally go to fight Nergal and defeat him but three fire dragon appear on the dragon gate. Bramimond intervenes, however, and resurrects Ninian with the last of his strength. Ninian use her power to kill two of the fire dragon and the third weakened is slain by the army. If Ninian has archived a A support with Eliwood she will left her brother who will return in the dragon world and she will marry Eliwood and live in Lycia, otherwise she will farawell to her humans friends and return with her brother in the dragon world. If Florian has archived a A support with Hector she will marry him and lives in Lycia, if she has a A support with Lyn she will lives with her on the Saccean plain otherwise she will return to Illia become a full-fledged Pegasus Knight.

Fanon
exists because some people wanted to ship Ninian with someone else than Eliwood and that Florina is the only character (outside Eliwood) that Ninian can support and that looks around the same age as her. This ship is also liked by people who like wlw ships. Due to the fact that Florina's ending with Lyn is ambiguous, many fans consider that she is bisexual. Florinian is also liked for the interaction between the two girls. The ship is also liked for the similarity in their personalities.

Some fanfictions depict Florina's sadness after Ninian's return to the dragon gate. In some others, Ninian decides to stay in the human world like she does in her ending with Eliwood, but for Florina instead. Usually, in those fanfictions they return to Illia, their homeland. Most fanarts show them being alone together.

The Florinian shippers like the fact that in Fire Emblem: Heroes, Ninian rides a pegasus like Florina.

On A03, it's the second most popular ship for Ninian after Elnini and the most popular femslash paring for Ninian. For Florina it's the second most popular femslash ship for Florina after Florilyn on A03.

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Variations

 * Florlynian refers to the ship between Lyn, Florina and Ninian