Unofficial Serenes Forest Advent Calendar Crossword #10

Across

3. Her personal weapon is named the same as herself
6. Perhaps the biggest heart in all of Múspell
7. Obsessed with being part of a periphery demographic, given the target audience of his obsession
9. Pokémon Professor of Sinnoh
10. Might have some heads shaking when this username is revealed to belong to a female
12. ...How did the game even get away with her epithet of "Lewd Dream"?
13. Ancestor to Askr; omit diacritic
17. "Measure's all pine!" Wait...
19. Spent six months starting with her introduction never showing her true form; fooled some sources into thinking she was male by her name alone
20. Not the first dark prince to be voiced by a fighting game narrator; one from a puzzle game had about a six-month head start
22. Claimed by "Meet the Heroes" to be the eldest of all the Nifl siblings...that claim weakened that supplementary material's credibility right out of the gate; omit diacritic
23. His epithet, "Kingsbrother", is self-explanatory; omit diacritic
25. Seeks to make sheer numbers of new friends...even we're not sure how many she's targeting!
26. Only one of the Nifl siblings available via normal summoning...she and the Múspell royals are the only Heroes originals in the normal summoning pool period
28. She is nightmare
29. Her introduction meant that Heroes originals in primary variation finally represented all four movement types
31. First of the Order's known companions not to be royalty
34. ...Gotta wonder, was she the reason Echoes disabled its alcohol drinking? So one of their characters couldn't rival her in that respect?
36. Basically outright confirmed that seasonal paralogues are not along the game's main timeline (as if very many ever suspected they ever were...and the remainder probably think the game only has a single narrative), with her thinking her bridal variation came from her future at a point where the main timeline likely has her dead for months
37. The eldest of all the Nifl siblings...at least according to the game itself (Book II, Chapter 9, Part 5); omit diacritic
38. As of this writing, the only Heroes original who lacks a personal weapon in normal variation...much less any weapon at all
39. Apparently, Heroes isn't a huge fan of him; he's the only available lead protagonist whose primary variation got shunted to an alternative non-summoning distribution
40. Not Betty, but...

Down

1. Ancestor to Embla
2. Warriors's Chaos Dragon
4. Let's just hope she doesn't literally "blast away Hollywood"...
5. "Cool or cute?" Not sure her Mirage would think of herself as either...
8. First of the second generation of Mythic Heroes, to the disappointment of those who were waiting for the first generation Astra-Resistance combination
11. First Heroes original to visibly debut mid-Book to get a Cipher card
14. Given that enemies just won't leave Askr alone, we're still wondering when his coronation's going to be--how many more Books will it take?
15. Sounds like a Japanese work set in Elibe, especially given his surname
16. Contrary to Book II Chapter 10's title, he survives that chapter
18. Somehow his star fell over the years--he went from having a starter deck card in Cipher S06 to not even making a reappearance beyond the B04/S06 era
19. 1983 LGBT-themed film
21. Threw so many clones into her first time onto the battlefield, Fire Emblem Wiki couldn't even fit that whole chapter onto a single page!
24. ____ Mars, singer of "24K Magic"
27. Not to be confused with Heroes's flying dragon enemies; omit diacritic
30. Earliest-introduced Heroes original to have no playable variations period as of this writing
32. First of the Order's companions to clash with the Order at first meeting
33. Have microwave, will cook
35. Keeps getting undercut by her counterparts in other realms when trying to get rich quick