Oh damn, I hadn't even thought of comparing Nasir with the Daein contingent's respective "I think my country? might be wrong???" arcs but you're right, he's kinda doing the laguz version of the same thing. Only where the sympathetic Daein characters end up kinda critically examining their relationships to their homeland, the ruling power, the cultural assumptions they were being steeped in - Nasir has his time as a free agent and then is like "nvm I decided Deghinsea is right about everything after all." Which is interesting, and certainly his being a dragon plays into that! As long-lived as the dragons are, they're naturally not going to have the same priorities as the shorter-lived laguz tribes and sure as hell not the same as the beorc. I find it really telling that when Ike and co come through in RD, even Nasir and Ena - who've spent a lot of time outside Goldoa! - just kind of fail to grasp that three years is a non-trivial span of time for them. Any given dragon is going to outlast any-fuckin'-body (bar Lehran), so yeah, loyalty to each other first and foremost and non-interference with all those hotblooded wackos in the rest of the world makes the most sense.
So there are rational reasons for Nasir to land where he does. Ena - implied to be his only surviving family - is back in Goldoa. He had to expend a lot of effort to disguise or downplay his laguz nature while out in the world, for not much reward. The future of peaceful coexistence that he wanted is taking its sweet time in arriving. I'm assuming stealing Lehran's fucking Medallion destroyed the position of trust he had built up with Gallia and Crimea. Where else would he go, right? But I think it's an emotional decision, too - like, looking at how he talks to Ena and especially Kurth in the big Part 4 dragon fight, it's all about atonement. He stepped out of line and failed to take the bigger picture into account, and in getting the medallion to Ena he knowingly helped push Tellius toward world-ending war. And he's not doing that shit anymore. He has to go back to being the model citizen and accept the king's judgment uncritically, he's no longer entitled to do anything else.
(BUT HE STILL WANTS ENA TO LIVE HER OWN CONVICTIONS! HE STRAIGHT UP CAN'T REFUSE HER ANYTHING AND HE KINDA KNOWS SHE'S RIGHT! THE DRAMA!)
...but I also love how his ending card has him resume traveling the world in Kurth's service. imagining Kurth and Ena sitting him down like "listen. what if you were right the first time you told Deghinsea off. do you want a new boat"
Re: wow hi sorry for accidental Nasir meta
So there are rational reasons for Nasir to land where he does. Ena - implied to be his only surviving family - is back in Goldoa. He had to expend a lot of effort to disguise or downplay his laguz nature while out in the world, for not much reward. The future of peaceful coexistence that he wanted is taking its sweet time in arriving. I'm assuming stealing Lehran's fucking Medallion destroyed the position of trust he had built up with Gallia and Crimea. Where else would he go, right? But I think it's an emotional decision, too - like, looking at how he talks to Ena and especially Kurth in the big Part 4 dragon fight, it's all about atonement. He stepped out of line and failed to take the bigger picture into account, and in getting the medallion to Ena he knowingly helped push Tellius toward world-ending war. And he's not doing that shit anymore. He has to go back to being the model citizen and accept the king's judgment uncritically, he's no longer entitled to do anything else.
(BUT HE STILL WANTS ENA TO LIVE HER OWN CONVICTIONS! HE STRAIGHT UP CAN'T REFUSE HER ANYTHING AND HE KINDA KNOWS SHE'S RIGHT! THE DRAMA!)
...but I also love how his ending card has him resume traveling the world in Kurth's service. imagining Kurth and Ena sitting him down like "listen. what if you were right the first time you told Deghinsea off. do you want a new boat"
Anyway. Dragon angst? Dragon angst. :D