heart to heart to heart

"Alvis," Shulk says, apropos of nothing, "could it have been anyone?"

Fiora looks puzzled, and squints at Alvis for their reaction. Alvis, of course, is unshaken.

"You were Zanza's vessel, Shulk," they patiently (and gently) remind him. "Your programming, so to speak, did...fit with mine."

In other words, creator to creator communication. One supposes.

"But I was Meyneth's vessel!" Fiora cuts in. "So it could have been me who remade the world!"

"But would you have?"

Shulk is watching the both of them adoringly, cheeks propped in loose fists, as Fiora splutters.

"I- wh-- Well, if-"

"Only teasing. Fiora."