History Characters / FireEmblemThreeHousesBlackEagles

* ArchnemesisDad: Between ''Three Houses'' and ''Three Hopes'', only Petra (whose father is deceased) and Dorothea (who doesn't know who hers is) avoid this trope. Bernadetta is the only student with a historically abusive parent, but story events can put the other students at odds with their fathers:

** In ''Three Houses'', Caspar [[spoiler:expresses fear of having to fight his father on routes where Caspar opposes Edelgard, though this does not come to pass.]]

!!Students with their own pages

[[index]]
* '''[[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesEdelgard Edelgard]]'''
* '''[[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesHubert Hubert]]'''
* '''[[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesFerdinand Ferdinand]]'''
* '''[[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesBernadetta Bernadetta]]'''
[[/index]]

!!Students

[[folder:Petra]]
!!Petra Macneary
!!!'''Class:''' Commoner → Myrmidon → Thief → Assassin
!!!'''Age:''' 15 (9/07)
!!!'''Height:''' 161 cm
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShizukaIshigami (Japanese), Creator/FayeMata (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[LadyOfWar Queen]] / [[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes Princess]] of Brigid'']]
->''"I have much gratitude for you, Professor. You always listen with patience. I can read and understand the language of Fódlan, but speak it... gives me difficulty. I hope I will keep having your support. And I will give you my support too, with my whole heart. I have things that I cannot fail to accomplish."''

The granddaughter of the king of Brigid, an archipelago to the west of Fódlan that is under the Empire's suzerainty. As a token of their allegiance, Petra is sent from her homeland as an exchange student to the Officers' Academy. She's not yet used to Fódlan's language, but is committed to learning it.\\\

Her personal ability, ''Hunter's Boon'', grants her increased Crit if her foe is at half health or lower.
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* AbdicateTheThrone: If Petra and Byleth marry, she [[spoiler:leaves the throne of Brigid to her family so she can stay in Fódlan, where they fight those who slither in the dark and then retire (Crimson Flower route) or work to improve relations between Brigid and Fódlan (other routes)]].
* AdaptationalCurves: Not that she wasn't already voluptuous, but ''Heroes'' gives her a chest a boost.
* AmbiguouslyBi: While she cannot attain an S-support with female Byleth, her paired ending with Dorothea states that Dorothea "became the person that Petra loved most."; notably, Dorothea's title in this ending is "Devoted Heart", which is the title she otherwise ''only'' gets in her endings with confirmed marriages (and even then, not all of them). ''Three Hopes'' includes some subtext with Shez regardless of their gender, with Petra's supports having her take an interest in Shez and insist they accompany her back to Brigid once the war is over.
* AloofAlly: In regards to the Empire itself, due to her political hostage status. Outside of Crimson Flower, she's reluctant to stand against them only for Brigid's sake, and being recruited before the TimeSkip sees her doing so. In ''Three Hopes'', [[spoiler:she can be persuaded to defect from the Empire with the assurance her people won't come to harm.]]
* BabiesEverAfter: In her paired endings with Hubert and Linhardt, and many children at that.
* BadassNormal: She doesn't have a Crest and her magical ability is lacking (even having banes in both magical skills), forcing her into physical classes. She's not any less capable for it.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Ferdinand, as both of them have similar optimistic personalities and refuse to let negativity drag them down.
* BodyCountCompetition: One of her partner specials with Edelgard in ''Three Hopes'' has her suggest this.
* BornUnderTheSail: Brigid is an archipelago country with a strong sailing tradition, but Petra admits that what she really loves is swimming in the sea.
* BraidsOfAction: She wears her hair in a high braid, and also has little braids in her hair. She [[LettingHerHairDown changes it to a simple high ponytail]] after the timeskip.
* TheCameo: Watches matches in the Reception Hall alongside Edelgard and Dorothea on the DLC stage Garreg Mach Monastery in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.
* CannotTellAJoke: Petra hopes to learn to make people smile like they do around Alois, so he tells her that jokes are a way to break the ice. The next time Alois finds Petra, she's with two kids who are clamoring to learn the secrets of hunting. She says that the first step to a successful hunt is to "break the eyes," and the kids react with confused silence.
** That said, her support with Edelgard in ''Three Houses'' has her deliver an epic OverlyPreparedGag.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:If not recruited on the Verdant Wind route, she will most likely die during the final assault on Edelgard's palace. While she technically ''can'' be spared, she starts right in front of the door the party needs to open to reach Edelgard, holds the Door Key needed for it, and isn't stationary, making it all but impossible to not have to cut her down.]]
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: In both ''Three Houses'' and ''Three Hopes'', Petra has no duty to participate in war on any side, but still refuses to leave whatever side she has chosen. In ''Three Houses'' on the Crimson Flower route, Edelgard offers her (and everyone) an opportunity to walk away, and in her ''Three Hopes'' supports, Edelgard reminds her she doesn't have to fight alongside them, and could more safely take the throne of Brigid if she wasn't involved. Petra persists because she believes she needs to show her strength as future queen and equal to Edelgard, who is fighting on the front lines.
* ClosetKey: In ''Three Houses'', Petra never shows interest in any other women than [[MsFanservice Dorothea]], and cannot be married by a female Byleth. In ''Three Hopes'', her Supports have her take an interest in Shez regardless of gender, though whether this is romantic or not is left up to interpretation due to the game's lack of S-supports.
* CommonalityConnection: In ''Three Hopes'', Dedue's support conversation with Petra has them bond about the two of them being foreigners who wants to do their best for their respective homes (Duscur and Brigid) and new loyalty to the friends they made in Fódlan.
* CriticalHit: Her personal skill boosts her chances of getting a critical hit when targeting an opponent with less than half their hit points. While regular enemies are overkill for this, it makes her very strong against Beast enemies due to their larger health values. This also helps make up for her low-ish Strength growth since she can throw crits out to finish the enemy, and if given a Killer weapon, she'll be able to land crits frequently enough.
* CultureClash: She's an exchange student that's still getting used to the local language, and is more vocally against discrimination. She quickly bonds with Claude in their supports about their shared goal of freeing Fódlan from discrimination of outsiders.
* CultureEqualsCostume: Her post-timeskip outfit has nothing in common with everyone else's, having a far more Celtic look to it.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Her eyes and hair are both reddish-purple.
* DragonRider: Her strengths in Axes and Flying allow her to easily become a Wyvern Rider. Fittingly, she keeps her post-timeskip outfit as a Wyvern Rider.
* EndearinglyDorky: Her learning of Fódlan's language and her tendency to be LiteralMinded is quite endearing.
* EtTuBrute: When [[spoiler:Edelgard admits she is the Flame Emperor]] if [[spoiler:the Black Eagles house was chosen in Chapter 11]], she can only broken-heartedly ask if they were using her all along.
-->''"You... you made use of us? Why?"''
* FacialMarkings: She has a magenta mark below her right eye and the same dye lining the outer corners of her eyes.
* FanservicePack: Her breasts get bigger post-skip, going from the 9th biggest to surpassing Leonie and Shamir and tying with Marianne for 6th. Her new outfit also shows more skin than before.
* FlashStep: Invoked with her unique ability "Windstorm" in ''Three Hopes'', which extends her evasion distance and deals wind damage to nearby enemies when dodging.
* ForeignExchangeStudent: From an island nation under the Empire's domain. [[spoiler:In reality, it's more of a hostage situation to keep Brighid in line]].
* ForeignFanservice: Petra is visibly not from Fódlan, is quite well-endowed and voluptuous, and her clothes emphasize it.
* ForWantOfANail: Byleth's choice of allegiance and whether Petra was recruited or not determines how she feels about the Empire post-timeskip. On the Crimson Flower route, or if not recruited on other paths, Petra is loyal to the empire by choice and displays UndyingLoyalty to Edelgard. If she's in Byleth's party in the Silver Snow, Azure Moon and Verdant Wind routes, [[spoiler:Petra resents the Empire's attempts to control Brigid and relishes fighting against them and Edelgard]]. This even extends to her Paralogue: on the Crimson Flower route, she'll be protecting her homeland from [[spoiler:Catherine and the Church]], while on all other paths it's from [[spoiler:Hubert and his Imperial forces]]. It even extends to Brigid itself; how they view the Empire is entirely dependent on whose side Petra is really on.
* FragileSpeedster: Her growths give her high Skill and Speed; in fact, she is one of the fastest characters in the game [[note]]While Manuela, Leonie, and Ingrid have the same 60% growth rate, and having Swordmaster as a class before level 20 gives Catherine a boon to her speed, Petra has the highest base Speed, and the highest cap, and only Yuri surpasses her in growth rate.[[/note]], with low Defense and just below average Strength. This makes her well suited for the agile classes like Mercenary or Thief, the latter being a good option for her.
* FriendlyRivalry: Edelgard and Hubert's supports with Petra stir up a rivalry between her and the former as she tries to match her in skill to prove she doesn't need Edelgard's protection and as more political statement that Brigid isn't going to take its vassal status sitting down. Also, unlike Ferdinand's rivalry, Edelgard ''and'' Hubert are willing to admit that Petra is comparable to Edelgard (though Petra outright tells Hubert she awaits the day she makes him concede she truly has surpassed Edelgard in his heart). Whether this rivalry remains friendly is dependent on the route taken. [[spoiler:If Petra is recruited out of the Black Eagles, the rivalry ends entirely because Petra has her nation's interests at stake and believes Edelgard has gone too far. If not recruited out of the Black Eagles, or if the player is on Crimson Flower, the friendly rivalry becomes ''friendlier'' as it's made clear that Brigid will soon be independent, anyway, meaning there's less Petra needs to prove.]]
* FunnyForeigner: Downplayed. While her syntax botches and difficulties with idioms are played for laughs, she's still portrayed as perfectly smart and usually catches her own errors or figures things out from context. Edelgard comments that she is one of the smartest students in their class, and Petra even states she can write and read Fódlan easily but that speaking it is harder.
* GlassesCuriosity: In her supports with Ignatz, she expresses interest in his glasses, and does try them on with his permission, mentioning that glasses aren't a thing in Brigid.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Befitting Brigid's CombatPragmatist culture, Petra defaults to an Assassin, is fine with underhanded tactics, and Hubert considers her on par with Jeritza in brutal efficiency.
* HostageSituation: Her supports reveal that she mainly came to the monastery as a hostage of the Empire, so that Brigid would not go against the Empire again in the future. The terms of this vary based on route and game.
** On all routes of ''Three Houses'', her support with Shamir reveals that while she can't say she doesn't hate the Empire, she can say she doesn't hate Edelgard. In the route where you side with Edelgard, Petra takes it in stride and admits to liking her time with her classmates, and Edelgard and Hubert both apologize for the situation. On routes where you are opposing Edelgard, she will reveal that smashing the Empire has always been a dream of hers.
** In ''Three Hopes'', Edelgard deposing Those Who Slither in the Dark brings this to a quick end, as Petra's supports with Edelgard and Hubert explain that Petra being a hostage was effectively due to Arundel. On Edelgard's route, Petra leaves, becomes the de facto queen of Brigid, and chooses to return of her own accord, while Edelgard, Hubert, and Duke Gerth prepare to make Brigid an equal ally and partner of the Empire.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She deeply resents the Empire's subjugation of her homeland, but never acknowledges that it was the result of Brigid's participation in an unprovoked invasion which ravaged the territory of at least two Imperial noble families. Her father, killed by Count Bergliez during the invasion, was directly responsible for wiping out House Nuvelle. This never gets a resolution in ''Houses,'' but in ''Hopes'' she and Constance talk about her father's own sins during the war, and reconcile.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: An implication given her paired ending with Dorothea. In that ending, Dorothea has the title "Devoted Heart", a title which she has in most of the endings that mention her being married, and it is mentioned that Dorothea was the person that Petra loved the most. However, in all of her other supports Petra shows zero romantic interest in women and cannot S-support female Byleth.
* ImprobableAge: Pre-timeskip, Petra starts out at 15 years old, but she looks like someone at least a few years older than that.
* InHarmonyWithNature: Brigid is a FantasyCounterpartCulture of the various Pacific Ocean cultures. Many of her battle quotes reference being in harmony with spirits such as the Great Flame Spirit, and her supports with Bernadetta show her to be very mindful of the circle of life as a hunter; you must kill to live, but honor the animals. Despite this spirituality, she averts MagicalNativeAmerican, and is instead a MagicallyIneptFighter.
* IntimateMarks: While her facial tattoos are the most visible, Petra has a lot more ink on her arms (which are shown post-timeskip) and elsewhere on her body (which are not shown).
* {{Irony}}: Petra's primary motivation behind her actions on all routes is achieving Brigid's independence from the Adrestian Empire (and by extension Fódlan). However, if she marries [[spoiler:male Byleth]] on a non-Crimson Flower route their ending card states that Brigid eventually [[spoiler:unites with [[TheGoodKingdom the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus/the United Kingdom of Fódlan]], ceasing to exist as an independent nation]].
* JackOfAllTrades: While Petra is a FragileSpeedster growth wise, she's one of the more versatile students of her class when it comes to her skills, second only to Ferdinand. She is good with swords, axes, bows, and flying, and only has weaknesses in magic, which gives her a lot of options for classes. She can easily end up as any melee class by the late game, from Swordmaster, to Wyvern Rider, to Assassin, and she'll be excellent in each role. Even skills she lacks like lances and brawling still fit her due to her stats, making her a FragileSpeedster who can fit many unique roles.
* LadyAndKnight: In her paired ending with Ashe, [[spoiler:he returns with her to Brigid to serve her as her personal guardian knight when she becomes queen (as she had earlier offered him in one of their supports). They fall in love as well, and eventually marry, much to the happiness of the people of Brigid. With Ashe's guidance Petra also founds the Blue Sun order of knights for him (and to declare independence from Fódlan), the order being named for the love the couple have of swimming in the sea.]]
* LiteralMinded:
** When Byleth introduces themselves to the Black Eagles upon choosing to instruct them, Petra takes Caspar's use of "let's break the ice" literally, asking in confusion if it's a custom she missed in her studies of Fódlan. Caspar has to explain the expression's meaning to her.
** In her support with Ashe, she mistakes Anna's sales pitch (which included "cry" and "beating") for a challenge to fight. Petra is only stopped when Ashe sees her draw a sword and breaks it up.
** In her support with Dorothea, the latter mentions she plans to "marry money." Petra takes this completely literally and says that money would make for a poor husband. A romantically frustrated Dorothea forlornly admits she hit the nail on the head there.
** Subverted while discussing politics with Edelgard. In their support conversations, the latter implores her to do the impossible and "kill two birds with one arrow" rather than resign herself to mediocrity. When they speak again later, Edelgard is astonished to learn that Petra has been outside practicing her archery until she ''can'' shoot two birds with one arrow. Edelgard quickly brings up that this wasn't what she meant, but Petra laughs and tells her she was just making a joke and she understood Edelgard the first time.
* LoveMartyr:
** Averted. She develops slight affection for several of the people complicit in her captivity, but she knows it is ''nothing'' like true friendship, and her goal always remains getting free somehow (whether by making the Empire indebted to Brigid, on the Black Eagles route, or outright escaping, on all others).
** Interestingly enough, it later gets subverted entirely because the situation stops being one of captivity in the Black Eagles route. [[spoiler:Edelgard makes it completely clear in the Black Eagles route that Petra and everyone else can step away from the conflict. With Edelgard in complete control of the Empire, there is nothing keeping Petra in Fódlan anymore. By this point in time, her loyalty to Adrestia and Edelgard's ideals are apparent, and ''she herself'' goes to Brigid ''to recruit troops for Adrestia''. Brigid is given the chance to say no, and Brigid forces will even help the Adrestian-aligned army beat back the Church. In the end, Edelgard readily works with Petra to renegotiate Brigid's position (the implication being she literally just didn't have time while a war was going on), and in most cases, Petra ends up married to an Adrestian in what is almost always a loving relationship - even with Hubert.]]
* MagicallyIneptFighter: She's good at several physical weapons and the flying skill, but both of her weaknesses are in magic. Her starting stats also lean towards very low Resistance but good Strength and Speed.
* {{Malaproper}}: Given that Fódlan is her second language she sometimes struggles with quotes and idioms. She's surprisingly sharp at figuring them out from context, though.
* MalignedMixedMarriage:
** Downplayed. If Petra marries Byleth their ending card states that the people of Fodlan were initially skeptical of their union but eventually came to accept her. If she gets a [[AmbiguouslyBi paired ending with Dorothea]] their ending card states that the people of Brigid were initially skeptical of the latter but warmed up to her over time.
** Justified if Petra marries Caspar. The reason why the people of Brigid are initially skeptical of their union is because [[spoiler:Caspar's father, Count Bergliez, was the one who killed Petra's father]].
* MeaningfulEcho: Her post-timeskip PreAssKickingOneLiner is that of Edelgard's pre-timeskip, "I will prevail."
* ModestRoyalty: Despite being the Princess of Brigid, she doesn't see herself as above anyone else. She just wants to be treated like a comrade.
* MoralityPet: {{Downplayed}}, but she's noticeably the only Black Eagle who Hubert never mocks or treats harshly in any way when they are allied, instead empathizing with her situation [[spoiler:as an effective political prisoner, which likely reminds him of Edelgard's own situation.]]
* MsFanservice: While not to the extent that Hilda and Dorothea are, Petra is still very attractive, especially post-timeskip when she wears much more revealing clothing. Her breasts also get larger by this point and she even shows some {{Sideboob}}.
* NiceGirl: Petra is very understanding and polite and is probably one of the friendliest Black Eagles students, along with Ferdinand and Caspar. It's noted multiple times by other characters, including Byleth, that her positivity and earnestness is something they admire. Bernadetta mentions Petra's niceness as the reason why she'd be interested in befriending Petra (although their support chain caps at B). Notably, she's the only one of the Black Eagles who none of the other members have anything really negative to say about and gets along with without issue.
* OnlySaneMan: Difficulties with the Fódlan language aside, Petra has no issues, despite being essentially a glorified hostage of the Empire.
* PoirotSpeak: Petra can read and write the language of Fódlan very well but states she has a little more trouble speaking it. She speaks with an American accent in the English dub and her speech is easily understood, with some mixed idioms and syntax oddities that are nevertheless grammatically correct. Oddly enough, her confessional notes are also written this way; one possible response to them post-timeskip has you address Petra by name (which doesn't happen for any other note), signifying that Byleth immediately knew she wrote it.
* PowerfulButInaccurate: Petra can learn the Wild Abandon combat art at C+ rank and Diamond Axe combat art at A rank in axes. Wild Abandon gives extra damage and critical hit rate and Diamond Axe gives ton more damage to her axes at the cost of reduced accuracy.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
-->"''I will get the victory''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I will prevail.''" (Post-timeskip)
* PreMortemOneLiner:
-->"''I will remove you!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''You will be slapped down!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I am aware of your weakness!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I will win!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''With all of my might!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''You are in my way!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''Fire meets water!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''To survive, I will win!''" (Post-timeskip)
* RecurringBoss: If not recruited, she appears as an enemy on Chapter 17 (both in Azure Moon and Verdant Wind), Chapter 20 of Verdant Wind, and Chapter 21 of Azure Moon.
* SecretAIMoves: As an enemy unit, she knows Keen Intiution, a skill no playable character can ever learn.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: If Byleth doesn't side with Edelgard but recruits Petra, [[spoiler:Petra receives an indirect threat from Edelgard where Petra is told if she does not join Edelgard's army, then Brigid may become the Empire's next target.]]
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: {{Downplayed}}. In her C-support with Byleth, she explains the mark on her face, and mentions she has more on her arms and [[IntimateMarks body]]. If Byleth (male or female) expresses interest in seeing them, she doesn't flinch and offers to show them off when the opportunity comes. Although she does blush a bit if Byleth asks to see them.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Although smart, she is lacking in commoner common-sense as she describes it, and has Ashe show her much of it in their supports.
* {{Sideboob}}: Present with Petra's post-timeskip outfit.
* SinsOfOurFathers: In her supports with Caspar, he tells Petra his father killed her own during the Dagda and Brigid War. While at first it seems Petra doesn't want to talk about it, she eventually brushes it off and tell him that's [[SubvertedTrope no reason for her to hate him for it]]. [[spoiler:After the timeskip, she later admits [[DoubleSubversion she was actually lying]] back then and it's implied she seriously considered killing Caspar over it. However, she also states her friendship with him eventually outweighed her desire for revenge, which leads them to reconcile]]. In ''Three Hopes'', [[spoiler:Caspar repeatedly intercepting her challenge letters to Leopold angers Petra enough to try and kill Caspar instead.]]
* SorryThatImDying: If she's killed as an enemy, with her last breath she will ask [[spoiler:Edelgard]] to forgive her for being unable to keep her promise.
* SpockSpeak: As Fódlan's language is her second language, Petra speaks it in a precise fashion, doesn't use contractions, and sometimes gets confused with slang. She improves somewhat after the time skip.
* StartMyOwn: In her A-rank support with Ashe, when Ashe brings up his dream to be a knight, Petra offers to found her own order of knights in Brigid for Ashe to be a part of. [[spoiler:If the two are paired in the ending, Queen Petra does found the Blue Sun Order with Ashe at its head.]]
* SuddenlyShouting: Petra is normally a calm and collected girl, so it becomes quite shocking when [[spoiler:she furiously shouts that she'll kill Caspar in their ''Three Hopes'' support.]]
-->[[spoiler:Ngh... '''then YOU can be dying in his place, CASPAR VON BERGLIEZ!''']]
* SurvivorGuilt: While not often dwelling upon it, Petra admits to Constance in ''Three Hopes'' that despite everything, she feels sad at the deaths of her people she's had to endure (particularly her father), even wondering why she got to live while they didn't.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Petra is very similar to [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Athena]], another dark-skinned swordfighter from a foreign land who has difficulties with the local language, albeit Petra has a better understanding of the local language in comparison to her.
* TeenGenius: Of the right-brained variety - she self-taught herself the Fódlan language and is absolutely brilliant in most subjects, especially fighting styles. The only thing she's not great at is math.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: This is the reason she's willing to save [[spoiler:Count Bergliez]] during a mission in the Scarlet Blaze route. She would consider it a dishonor if anyone else killed him before she does.
* TokenMinority: She is the only character from Brigid we meet in the game.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She's fond of the Smoked Meat gift and likes meat-based dishes.
* VillainExitStageLeft: While not exactly villainous, she retreats from battle if you defeat her in Chapter 17 on the Azure Moon and Verdant Wind routes. Besides Edelgard and Hubert, she's the only former student who can be fought multiple times post-TimeSkip; others are either killed outright or not fought again.
* WarriorPrincess: Next to Edelgard she is the most physically capable female of the Black Eagles. She looks the part after the TimeSkip, bringing [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena]] to mind.
* WeakButSkilled: Petra has great growths in Speed and Dexterity, but her Strength growth is just below average, and while her base of 9 is tied with Caspar for the second strongest starting Strength of the Black Eagles, her lack of growth modifiers unless she goes into Fighter early can cause her to end up struggling to match her physical allies. However, her high Speed, Skill, good proficiency list, and personal skill can make her a strong unit despite that.
* {{Workaholic}}: Her B-Support with Byleth has the latter finding Petra training late at night and warning her not to push herself too hard, but Petra explains that she feels she has to continue to push herself to her physical limits for the good of Brigid.
* YouKilledMyFather: Her father was killed by Count Bergliez, Caspar's father, and she is ''not'' happy when she sees him in person in ''Three Hopes''.
-->''"Leopold von Bergliez... you will be ruing the day you stole my father's life."''
* YoungerThanTheyLook: The second-youngest student after Lysithea, though she doesn't look or act like it.
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[[folder:Linhardt]]
!!Linhardt von Hevring
!!!'''Class:''' Noble → Monk → Priest → Bishop/Warlock (''Three Houses''), Monk → Priest → Dark Bishop (''Three Hopes'')
!!!'''Age:''' 16 (11/07)
!!!'''Crest:''' Cethleann (Minor)
!!!'''Height:''' 177 cm
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShunHorie (Japanese), Creator/ChrisPatton (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[BrilliantButLazy Sleepy Crest Scholar]]'']]

->''"It's not that I don't have enough motivation. The problem is that I don't have any at all. Not for useless things."''

The son of Count Hevring. He hates constraints and loves his freedom, so he does his best to avoid worries and problems, and indulges in lazing about. However, he's got a genuine interest in Crests, and when he gets into his research he can forget to even eat or sleep. Despite their personalities and hobbies being different, he gets along well with Caspar.\\\

His personal ability, ''Catnap'', restores some of his [=HP=] if he ends the turn by Waiting. He bears the Minor Crest of Cethleann, which has a chance to raise his Might while casting recovery magic.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: His reaction to Caspar remarking that Bernadetta flops around like a fish on land and her subsequent comparison to herself as a fish on a skillet suggests this.
--> '''Linhardt:''' ''[amused]'' On a skillet... Hahaha! Ahem, never mind.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: At the end of the [[spoiler:Silver Snow route, while everyone is saddened to fight [[PowerIncontinence a Rhea who has lost control of her powers]], he thinks it's just a shame to kill her because her form as the Immaculate One could have provided him a treasure trove of research material.]]
* AfraidOfBlood:
** He dislikes the sight of blood and, along with Bernadetta, is one of the students most horrified when he experiences his first kill in combat. He admits to Byleth in their supports that he still can't get over it.
** This fear shows up again in Cindered Shadows, where he freaks out a bit upon seeing [[spoiler:the Ashen Wolves' blood being drained for the Rite of Rising.]]
* AncestralWeapon: Played with. The Staff of Caduceus is linked to his Crest of Cethleann, but the weapon is mostly associated with Flayn, [[spoiler:being Cethleann herself.]] ''Three Hopes'' also introduces the Amalthea, a tome linked to his Crest and ''also'' mostly associated with Flayn, but Linhardt can wield the tome himself if he is recruited in the Azure Gleam route.
* AnimalMotifs: Cats. He sleeps a lot, can be InnocentlyInsensitive, is constantly curious, and his personal ability is ''Catnap''. In his Support with Catherine, she explicitly warns him of his endless curiosity, referring to how it kills the cat. Cats also happen to be one of the conversation topics he's interested in when invited for tea.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He's hopeless at any kind of physical combat, but in his supports with Petra he manages to analyze her spear technique by observing her and ends up fixing some problems with her fighting style likely without ever having held a spear himself.
* BabiesEverAfter: In his endings with Petra, Lysithea and Flayn. Amusingly, it's invoked in his A-Support with the latter, where he mentions an interest in having children with her as part of an experiment due to their shared Crest of Cethleann.
* BlowYouAway: Learns the wind spells Wind, Cutting Gale, and Excalibur when trained in Reason. His unique ability "Easy Breezy" in ''Three Hopes'' summons a pair of wind orbs, after finishing a regular combo string, that automatically fire at enemies as he attacks.
* BluntYes: In his and Catherine's B Support, when Catherine asks if he thinks scholars should be willing to risk their lives, he says yes.
* {{Bookworm}}: He adores reading and researching Crests, and his room is full of books scattered about.
* BoringButPractical: Compared to Marianne and Mercedes, he falls into this. While he lacks Marianne's magical combat arts and strong spells, or Mercedes's mass-heal in Fortify and self-healing personal skill, he has slightly more bulk and learns Warp. Due to his lower stats, he's less valuable as a combat unit and thus takes less investment to get going.
* BrilliantButLazy:
** He has a deep interest in Crests, and many of his peers note that he's actually one of the smartest students in his class, but he has a hard time fighting his drowsiness and admits he gets bored easily.
--->'''Hubert:''' You have an almost unparalleled intellect. A singular focus. An unfettered imagination. In truth, you have talents that many, including myself, will never have the privilege of possessing.\\
'''Linhardt:''' Are you complimenting me, Hubert? That alone deserves to be studied.\\
'''Hubert:''' Let me finish. I haven't an ounce of respect for the cause you have chosen to waste your talents on. Which changes frequently, I might add, with no rhyme, reason, or results.
** He's very adept at weapon combat on a theoretical level. Many of his support conversations have him offering on-point observation and criticism about the form and techniques of his classmates. Linhardt just doesn't have the willingness or energy to actually practice and turn his considerable theoretical skills into practical ones. As least, not without Byleth's influence.
* CharacterDeath: If not recruited on the Verdant Wind path, [[spoiler:failing to defeat the Death Knight before he escapes in Chapter 18 changes the map's objective to rout all enemies, meaning you're potentially forced to kill Linhardt off to end the chapter. Even if you do manage not to directly kill him, his chances of surviving the javelin of light attack afterwards are unfortunately rather slim.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: With Caspar, the two meeting when they were six.
* CombatMedic: He starts off knowing Heal, and his Crest has a chance to increase the effectiveness of his healing, while also having strong potential in offensive Reason magic. Taken even further if you equip him with the Caduceus Staff (the Relic of Saint Cethleann) which boosts his magic range by 1 ''and'' restores HP every turn.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Linhardt is good at primarily one thing and one thing only; healing. He has a Crest designed to help heal more, a close and long range heal, and his skills are focused on just Reason and Faith magic. A player who tries to make him anything else will find him to be a poor unit due to his overall low growths across the board, and even if made a CombatMedic, his late game application is very lackluster. As a healer though, his only rival is [[DownloadableContent Hapi]], which when combined with Warp, makes him a great support unit if he sticks to that role.
* ADayInTheLimelight: He ends up being a pretty major character in Cindered Shadows, being almost as important to the plot as the Wolves and House Leaders [[spoiler:due to being the first to realize the connections between the Ashen Wolves and the four Apostles.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Linhardt generally speaks in the same flat, somewhat critical tone of voice, and his interactions with the other characters often come off as pretty snarky, one good example being with Ferdinand, outwardly humoring Ferdinand's preaching about what it means to be a noble while subtly mocking him. He's also in full snark mode for the entirety of Cindered Shadows.
* DownplayedTrope: An example of the RecurringElement of an [[DudeLooksLikeALady effeminate male healer]], although unlike previous examples he's never mistaken in-game for a woman and his femininity gets only a few passing mentions, rather than being a focal point for his character.
* DoYouWantToCopulate: During their final support, Linhardt rather blandly asks Flayn if she'd like to get married and have babies with him (in order to test his theory about their crests). She is understandably flustered by this.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: During the cutscene introducing the houses and students, Linhardt is caught in the middle of a nap before a sudden jolt wakes him up.
* FighterMageThief: In Cindered Shadows, he acts as the Mage to Hilda's Fighter and Ashe's Thief. All the classes he has access to are magical (Priest, Bishop, Warlock) and he is the squishiest of the three.
* FleetingPassionateHobbies: He admits he tends to pick up random subjects to research, only to drop them again when he gets bored of them. Hubert even mentions this as one of the main reasons he dislikes him in their C Support.
* ForScience: Linhardt is willing to take some dangerous risks and sometimes make [[InnocentlyInsensitive unknowingly inappropriate statements]] in the name of Crest research. In the support with Catherine, he wishes to try wielding Thunderbrand, claiming that there have been no recorded instances of a Crest bearer wielding a weapon of a different Crest only once, and as a man of science, he must be willing to risk his life for the sake of knowledge. That being said, when talked to after the events of Remire Village [[spoiler:he admits Solon made him rethink about the moral and ethical scope of experiments.]]
* GayOption: The first male character that can be romanced by a male Byleth, to be followed by Jeritza and Yuri.
* HiddenDepths:
** You wouldn't expect it given his sleepy personality, but Linhardt is one of only four [[AmbiguousSituation or five]] people who can [[spoiler:cure Lysithea's two-Crests-induced short lifespan if you get their paired ending.]]
** Although his tactlessness when approaching others about their Crests makes it seem like he's more concerned about his research, he wants to instead study them to find ways to make their lives ''better'', and encourage them think positively about what they can do with their potential, in the cases of Lysithea, Marianne and Hapi.
** Despite his lackadaisical attitude, one of his confessional notes expresses concern over what his parents will have to do if he doesn't take on the family title, being the only heir. He actually ''dis''approves if you tell him that he doesn't need to care.
** His Support with Dorothea focuses on this as it cracks down on his carefree attitude as it reveals he runs away because he's scared of his problems, and feels even more anxious once he cannot run away anymore.
** For someone who wishes for nothing more than to be left alone to relax and focus on his Crest research he is rather good at attracting women as he has nine romantic paired endings with female characters. The only other male characters who have more romantic paired endings than him are male Byleth and Ferdinand. Notably, he has more romantic paired endings with women than ''Dimitri'' (who has eight) and is tied with ''Claude'' (who has nine).
* HypocriticalHumor: Linhardt's first conversation with Byleth consists of him stating his name and a blunt "goodbye," and Caspar remarks on Linhardt's rudeness. Then, when Byleth introduces themselves to the Black Eagles upon choosing to instruct the house's students, Linhardt reprimands Caspar for his rudeness and properly greets the new professor, before leaving to go take a nap (and snoring loudly).
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Implied; his only explicitly romantic ending with another man is with male Byleth. His one other male-male ending is with Caspar, and states only that they [[AmbiguouslyGay "eventually settled down".]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive:
** He's very excited to learn that Lysithea has two Crests, and starts asking her questions about them. He even goes so far as to state [[spoiler:he wouldn't want them removed, not knowing the [[YourDaysAreNumbered price]] such power comes with]]. Lysithea naturally accuses him of being completely lacking in empathy, though Linhardt goes out of his way to make it up for her in their A-support and paired ending.
** His support with Flayn has Linhardt's objective, scientific interactions offending Flayn, who tells him that he's being disrespectful when he questions her about her Crest of Cethleann. He ends up pitching marriage and talking about having children with Flayn in the vein of a science experiment. Flayn is aghast and confused by the end of it. If you get Linhardt and Flayn's paired ending, however, the children in their epilogue imply that Flayn did finally agree to it.
** He is one of the only students (one of the others being [[TokenEvilTeammate Hubert]]) who doesn't offer condolences to Byleth after [[spoiler:Jeralt's death]] and instead talks about sneaking into the library.
* IronicName: "Linhardt" is a German name that translates to "lion-hearted" - Linhardt is not particularly brave and is in fact one of the students [[WarIsHell who struggles most with killing and warfare in general.]]
* JackOfAllStats: He is this compared to the other designated spellcasters, as while he has less lopsided stats and growths compared to them, he has the second lowest Magic cap of said mage group at 66[[note]]Only Dorothea's is lower at 61; Anyone below 60 is either more physically inclined or can work as a hybrid unit[[/note]] and a fairly lackluster Black Magic spell list. On the other hand, he only has two growth banes, a very robust Faith Spell list, and his Defense growth of 30% is the highest of any designated spellcaster. [[note]]Notably, it's only 5% less than Edelgard and Ferdinand's.[[/note]]
* KidnappedByTheCall: He's the only character who emphatically ''doesn't'' want to go exploring Abyss in the ''Ashen Wolves'' DLC and announces he's going back to bed, but Edelgard makes him come with them anyway.
* LazyBum: Generally a giant slacker concerned with napping and taking it easy (unless the Crests get involved, to the point where his zeal for research makes him forget to eat and sleep).
* LightEmUp: As an enemy on the Azure Moon and Verdant Wind routes, he knows the light-based Seraphim spell. His Crest is also associated with light.
* LightIsGood: The Crest of Cethleann is associated with light, and while Linhardt is snarky and has no social tact, he's ultimately good at heart. [[spoiler:Even if he's not recruited on the Azure Moon and Verdant Wind paths, he's a PunchClockVillain at worst, and is generally content to ignore the player units and heal his allies anyway. If he and Lysithea are paired up, he rescinds his noble title to find a cure for her. He likewise abandons his title in his paired ending with Hapi, to devote himself to helping her control her power.]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: ''Three Hopes'' shows that his father is a sarcastic, magically-inclined character just like him. Count Hevring is also shown healing up Count Bergliez in one late ''Azure Gleam'' fight, and Linhardt leans toward healing classes as well.
* MaybeEverAfter: If paired with Catherine [[spoiler:on Verdant Wind or if Rhea dies on Silver Snow,]] he accompanies her on her journeys, but whether or not they were romantically involved is left ambiguous. Averted on [[spoiler:Azure Moon or Silver Snow if Rhea survives,]] as their ending specifically calls him Catherine's husband.
* MrExposition: In the ''Ashen Wolves'' route, Linhardt knows quite a bit of lore concerning the Four Apostles and provides an InfoDump about research he's found on the subject.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Linhardt is the student who is the most distraught after killing someone for the first time in chapter 2, and this is his reaction after doing the deed.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Downplayed. If he is recruited on a default route post-timeskip, he admits that [[spoiler:he may feel a ''teeny'' bit guilty for leaving the empire and betraying Edelgard, but he would rather see Byleth again and is willing to risk fighting against Edelgard]].
* OddFriendship: Despite being a calm, thoughtful LazyBum, Linhardt is good friends with Caspar, who's HotBlooded, extremely energetic and prone to leaping before looking.
* OnlySaneMan: Despite his laziness, he's one of the more level-headed Black Eagles and lacks the "quirks" displayed by most of the others.
* PlayingWithFire: Learns the fire spells Fire and Bolganone when trained in Reason.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
-->"''*Yawn* Battle...''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I'm awake...''" (Post-timeskip)
* PreMortemOneLiner:
-->"''I may as well win.''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I guess I have to.''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Let's get this over with.''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Huh. An opening!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I'm doing this for the win.''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''I'll do what I have to!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''I AM trying!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''I'll save my complaints!''" (Post-timeskip)
* ReallyFondOfSleeping: To the point that "Naps" is listed under his likes in his bio. Also reflected in his personal skill, which implies he gets a little health boost when he takes a catnap on the battlefield.
* RecurringElement:
** Linhardt's a minor version of the [[DudeLooksLikeALady "very pretty male priest that could pass as a lady"]] that was popularized by [[Characters/FireEmblemTheBlazingBladeLynsTale Lucius]]. He's one of the most androgynous-looking male characters in the game, as well as being a GayOption, though unlike previous examples of the archetype, no one mistakes him for a girl at first. His preferred classline is the Bishop line, and he has fairly [[WarIsHell pacifistic views about battle]], as is common with the archetype.
** Personality-wise, Linhardt is in line with Arlen archetypes, in particular being a SpearCounterpart to [[Characters/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Lute]] and [[Characters/FireEmblemAwakening Miriel]] due to having a research-based mindset.
* TheRedMage: While true of most magic focused characters, Linhardt has only two proficienies, and both of them are in [[BlackMage Reason Magic]] and [[WhiteMage Faith Magic]], and his growths make him someone who works best as a purely magic focused character.
* RedOniBlueOni: He's the calm, analytical and relaxed Blue Oni to Caspar's excitable, loud and energetic Red Oni.
* ReluctantWarrior: He hates fighting and bloodshed, and fears for both his own mortality and his comrades'. Even during the war phase, he never fully gets over it by his own admission.
* RestingRecovery: If he chooses to do nothing on his turn, he'll restore 10% of his health.
* RunningGag: He's really not good with analogies. In his A-support with Lysithea he presents her with a choice between [[spoiler:removing her twin Crests or letting her keep them]] with a needlessly complicated cake analogy that only confuses her, and in the Abyss DLC he tries to express his surprise at one of his theory being proven correct with a fishing analogy that involves him [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext mistaking a fish for Seteth]]. He admits himself the last one is weird.
* SecretAIMoves: On the Azure Moon and Verdant Wind routes, if not recruited during the academy phase, [[spoiler:Linhardt will appear as an enemy at Fort Merceus.]] He knows the Seraphim and Fortify spells then, spells that the playable Linhardt can never learn. He will also always have White Magic Avoid +20, which only Byleth and Dorothea can learn; and on Azure Moon, he also knows Unsealable Magic, which no playable character can ever learn.
* ShipTease: In ''Three Hopes'', his A rank support is one of the more implicitly romantic with Shez regardless of gender. He tells Shez that after the war, it would be nice for the two of them to stay together. He clarifies that he means being able to produce a sword out of nowhere would make Shez a good bodyguard for him. Shez can get flustered and uspet and say that he should be careful that he doesn't give the wrong idea with his words. He replies that maybe he intended to give that idea. He walks off before Shez gets the chance to ask him what he really means though.
* SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: The Smart Jerk to Caspar's Nice Moron. It's downplayed in his case, as he's not a {{Jerkass}} but rather simply insensitive and blunt.
* SquishyWizard: True to his archetype, his Defense growths are weak, but he possesses strong Magic and Resistance growths. Subverted in GameplayAndStorySegregation style in his support with Ferdinand. The lazy, bookish Linhardt is capable of running from Ferdinand to the point of tiring him out.
* TarotMotifs: The Crest of Cethleann is based on The Lovers.
** Upright, The Lovers represents the concept of choice between two mutually-exclusive things. This is apparent in Linhardt's speech to Lysithea in their A-support, and in the Black Eagles route, Byleth can choose [[spoiler:to side with either the Church or the Empire]]. It also stands for the bonds between people, romantic or otherwise. In a meta-sense, this fits with Linhardt being the only male GayOption before [[spoiler:Jeritza]] and Yuri were added in the 1.1.0 and 1.2.0 updates.
** Reversed, The Lovers stands for indecisiveness, untrustworthiness and poor communication, as seen with Linhardt's BrilliantButLazy nature and [[InnocentlyInsensitive relationships with most others]].
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: While everyone has different reactions to their first kill in Chapter 2, he stands out as having one of the worst.
-->'''Linhardt:''' I...I killed them. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I done?]] The blood...
* ThisIsGonnaSuck:
** In Part 1, this is his reaction if he's in Byleth's class when it dawns on him that Byleth may pick him to be their class' representative.
--->'''Linhardt:''' I assume you've heard about the dance competition? Have you chosen a representative yet? Or... Oh my. You haven't, have you? Have you come to tell me I'm to be it?
** If he meets Byleth during the siege of Fort Merceus, he will say that he knew that the moment when the two would come to blows was gonna happen, and wished that it wasn't gonna happen so soon. He then lets out a hard sigh.
* TheTwink: Downplayed. He's a somewhat androgynous-looking young man who is bisexual as he can be romanced by a Byleth of either gender.
* UncertainDoom: If not recruited on the Verdant Wind path [[spoiler:but he survives the assault on Fort Merceus, it's unclear if he survives its subsequent destruction by the "javelins of light" or is killed.]]
* WarIsHell: Linhardt despises battle, loss of life, and having to kill. Linhardt laments the fact that diplomacy and "decency" don't seem to accomplish much in Fódlan, and in his supports with Byleth reveals he dreams of a war-free, peaceful world.
-->'''Linhardt:''' Professor, I wish to ask something of you. I...I don't want to kill. I don't want blood on my hands. I just want to lie on my back and soak up the sun filtering down through the trees... And I want you to help me make that reality.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He's good friends with Caspar at the beginning of the game, but it's possible for them to end up on opposite sides of a war should you recruit one or the other to the Blue Lions or Golden Deer.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: In his B-support with Byleth, Linhardt remarks that soldiers under his command don't seem to know the value of their lives, and that they died senselessly. He finds the idea of soldiers dying for honor and glory repulsive, and that, even in victory, he can't be satisfied:
-->'''Linhardt:''' In the last battle, some of the soldiers under my command died for foolish reasons. Those soldiers could have pulled back... Instead, they kept fighting...and were overrun. Am I supposed to be satisfied with the victory alone? Even at the cost of such life?
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** On the Azure Moon route, if unrecruited, [[spoiler:if he survives the battle at Fort Merceus,]] what happens to him after is never elaborated on.
** If Linhardt is recruited but falls in battle pre-timeskip if you play in Classic Mode, he vanishes during the timeskip, leaving his final fate unclear.
* WhatTheHellHero: In their B-support, if Byleth says they would be satisfied with a victory at the cost of many lives, Linhardt is taken aback and calls it repulsive.
* WhiteMage: He starts off as the healer for the Black Eagles, and he may ask to be a bishop to keep out of fighting range, but his research-based mindset and high reason stat make him tend towards BlackMage, and he makes one of the best Dark Mages after Hubert if you didn't choose the Black Eagles.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: His supports with Marianne have him convincing her that she isn't the DoomMagnet she believes herself to be and that she, in fact, brings happiness to those around her, particularly himself.
* YouJustToldMe: Uses this tactic to find out about Lysithea's [[spoiler:two Crests]]. He casually brings it up as though he knew all along, then infers from Lysithea's reaction that it's true.
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[[folder:Dorothea]]
!!Dorothea Arnault
!!!'''Class:''' Commoner → Monk → Mage → Warlock (''Three Houses''), Monk → Mage → Gremory (''Three Hopes'')
!!!'''Age:''' 18 (9/29)
!!!'''Height:''' 170 cm
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JuriNagatsuma (Japanese), Creator/AllegraClark (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[DanceBattler Mystical Songstress]] / [[TheHeart Beloved Heart]]'']]
->''"Anyway, I'm not just playing games with these boys. This is for my future. You have no right to object. I very much want to find a good partner here at the academy. Someone who will take care of me for the rest of my life."''

A former songstress who enrolled in the Officers Academy. She was once in the Mittelfrank Opera Company and admires Manuela, who was her senior at said company. She's the only commoner in the Black Eagles, but she tries to treat her classmates as equals.\\\

Her personal ability, ''Songstress'', restores the [=HP=] of any allies adjacent to her at the start of the turn.
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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: InUniverse example. In her support with Edelgard, her improv opera verse ends up flustering Edelgard, not because of her pipes, but because Dorothea's joking attempt at melodrama hits way too close to home.
* AdaptationalModesty: Her post-timeskip outfit in ''Three Hopes'' removes the boob window she had in ''Three Houses'' and no longer shows off her bare shoulders.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Downplayed. Her SugaryMalice towards Ferdinand is mostly gone in ''Three Hopes'' and she's on more cordial terms with him, going so far as to tease and flirt with him and even caring about his feelings when Linhardt brings up his father's death in his presence. [[spoiler:This is because, in her Support with Ferdinand, she overhears him telling Edelgard about the "water nymph" he saw in Enbarr and realizes he ran because he was embarrassed, not disgusted like she thought.]]
* AllLesbiansWantKids: In the Japanese version of the game, her paired ending with female Byleth reveals that they ended up [[HappilyAdopted adopting]] and raising many kids together.
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Dorothea is looking for a spouse she can grow old with and flirts with many noble characters for this reason, but while she has several criteria for them to meet for her to consider them as a potential match, Dorothea seems to think that [[PrettyFreeloader being beautiful is the only thing she's required to contribute to the relationship.]] Her supports with Lorenz show how, when confronted by someone who has the same goal of finding a spouse, but one who has something to offer his family, her motives are ultimately shallow and selfish. She does start to mature out of this mindset post-timeskip as thanks to the war, she's changed her views on what she wants.
* BabiesEverAfter: In her paired endings with Ferdinand and Hanneman. Also in her endings with both of the Byleths in the Japanese version.
* BattleCouple: With Felix on the Azure Moon route, where she throws herself into battle alongside him when his role as right hand of the King inevitably causes him to get into a scuffle.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Zig-zagged. Her artwork doesn't show any scars or blemishes, but her supports reinforce that she has had a tough life despite her natural beauty. Her support with Monica explains that she does have scars, they're just not on parts of her body that are easily exposed or readily talked about.
* BelligerentSexualTension: In her supports with Felix, where he's irritated by her pushiness and she's irritated by his jerkish behavior. However, after a bout of sparring, they develop respect for each other, and start having tea together. Naturally, they can get married.
* BestFriend: With Edelgard, implied in ''Three Houses'' and stated outright in ''Three Hopes''. Notably this does not prevent Dorothea from potentially being recruited to another house or faction in either game. They do repeatedly reaffirm their bond, however, and are apologetic and understanding if they come into conflict. Additionally, both are also [[ShipTease open to the idea]] of a romantic relationship between them.
** In ''Three Hopes'', Dorothea reveals in Chapter 4 camp dialogue that Edelgard even told her about her plans for the war long before they started.
* BondOneLiner:
-->"''All roses have thorns!''" (pre timeskip)\\
"''Only thorns left on this rose...''" (post timeskip)\\
"''This is my stage, now.''" (post timeskip)
* BorrowedCatchphrase: In one monastery conversation, Dorothea mimics the Gatekeeper's catchphrase of "Nothing to report!"
* BrainyBrunette: While she did some "buttering up" (which not only has the usual implication, but more ''[[SexForServices unsavory]]'' things thanks to Manuela's application of the same phrase) to some nobles to get her foot in the door, she also studied and aced all of her entrance exams to the academy. Her most powerful talent is Reason, and she shows a great deal of skill at social manipulation outside of simple seduction. In some of her endings she takes various roles in government and ends up being amazing at it, most notably [[spoiler:if she becomes Petra's lover, where her diplomatic skills and advice make her irreplaceable for Petra's rule over Brigid.]]
* BreakoutCharacter: Thanks to her PennyAmongDiamonds status and refusal to mince words, it's no wonder she's as beloved as she is. This is best shown in the fact that she is often the most recruited character, as well as being one of the most deployed units.
* BrokenBird: After the timeskip, it's clear from her quotes in battle that the past five years of constant warfare have not been kind to her mental state; she keeps it together well enough out of combat, but her battlefield lines have gone from cheerful and somewhat sassy before the skip to sounding weary and worn down afterward.
* BrokenPedestal:
** Subverted in her support with Manuela. A hungover Manuela reveals how proud she is to be Dorothea's primary inspiration and that she does her best to set a good example for her, but is ashamed of her faults and the bad reputation she had even back with the Mittelfrank Opera Company. Manuela is stunned and dismayed by the knowledge that Dorothea was aware of her reputation, but Dorothea laughs it off, telling her that everyone has their faults and that she hasn't lost any respect for her at all.
--->'''Dorothea:''' What I mean to say is... You're my inspiration. I really do admire you.
** Played straight should they come to blows after the timeskip, where Manuela asks Dorothea if she's ready to kill her for what she believes in. Dorothea admits that she isn't, but attacks regardless.
* BrutalHonesty: Dorothea does not hold back at all when she wants to tell people how she truly feels. In her support with Ferdinand for example, when he asks if she hates him, she very bluntly comments that yes, she does, and assumed he was too stupid to notice.
* BuxomBeautyStandard: Dorothea's academy outfit, post-timeskip outfits, and her bikini in ''Heroes'' all show off her ample cleavage, and given how much she flirts with men, it's clear she's using her assets to her advantage.
* TheCameo: Appears alongside Edelgard and Petra on the Garreg Mach Monastery DLC stage in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', watching the fight as it moves into the Reception Hall.
* CannotSpitItOut: More like ''won't'', but she refuses to explain to Ferdinand why she doesn't like him and instead cryptically tells him he reminds her "of a bee," something that puzzles Ferdinand greatly. She only gives him a proper reason once they reunite after the timeskip: [[spoiler:She thought that he glared at her as a child and then ran off, so she now believes his kindness as a noble is a hypocritical front, and he's only nice to her now that she's a beautiful songstress instead of a street urchin, like a bee attracted to a flower in bloom--that's why she compared Ferdinand to a bee. But it actually turns out Ferdinand stared at her as a child because he was entranced by her, and he only ran off because he was embarrassed.]]
* CharacterDevelopment:
** At the start of the game, Dorothea was only interested in finding a rich spouse who'd be able to provide for her. Despite being one of the most kind and empathetic characters in the game, Dorothea acknowledges that her goals are selfish and hates herself for it. She wants a genuine relationship and someone to grow old with, but fear of returning to the streets makes her focus on only finding a rich spouse. After the timeskip, Dorothea has stopped focusing on only finding a rich spouse and wants someone who'll genuinely love her.
** Because of her mistreatment by the nobility, both as a street orphan and as a songstress, Dorothea is very prejudicial and sour against nobles, especially males (though in her B-Support with Hanneman, she says she only hates nobles who are obsessed with their status). This is most evident in her supports with Sylvain for his womanizing and Ferdinand and Lorenz for their pompousness. After the timeskip, Dorothea has learned to let go of her prejudice (mostly) and treats her noble allies more kindly.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome:
** In both ''Three Houses'' and ''Three Hopes'', Dorothea is in the rare scenario of having no duty to participate in war on any side, but still refuses to leave whatever side she has chosen. When fighting for other factions, it's implied she just wants to see the war end quickly, whoever wins.
** In ''Three Houses'' on the Crimson Flower route, Edelgard offers her (and everyone) an opportunity to walk away. In Dorothea's ''Three Hopes'' supports, Edelgard, Hubert, and Monica all remind her she doesn't have to fight alongside them, and could easily serve in other ways if she wished. Dorothea's response to all of this is that her rationale is that Edelgard is fighting on the front lines for what she believes in, and she wants to fight by Edie's side. Additionally, her conscience wouldn't let her be at peace not fighting for her life while others are. But even more, Dorothea confirms that she wants to be the definitive example of Edelgard's goal of commoners and nobles working hand-in-hand.
* ClosetGay: Inverted. Out of all the characters she is the one that is the most open about her bisexuality and unlike most other [[GayOption Gay Options]] it is not [[IfItsYouItsOkay limited to Byleth]] as she also hits on [[TheBeautifulElite Edelgard]] and [[UnkemptBeauty Ingrid]] in her support conversation with them. In ''Three Hopes'' she casually mentions during an expedition with Shez that her hopes for the future include finding a handsome husband ''or'' a beautiful wife.
* CombatMedic: By default, Dorothea's proficient with swords and offensive magic, and while she starts out with a low growth in faith, the skill used for healing, it also doubles as her hidden talent, which converts it into a high growth rate after some work.
* CoolBigSis:
** She acts this way towards Bernadetta in their support, telling Bernadetta she's proud to be her commoner friend, and that if her father tried to attack Dorothea, she'd return the favor and beat him up ''even harder''.
** She's caring and protective of Ingrid in the "Rumored Nuptials" paralogue, assisting Ingrid in the battle to prevent her from being forced into an ArrangedMarriage with a shady merchant, though her attitude is decidedly more flirtatious than "sisterly".
* CutenessProximity: Dorothea clearly finds Caspar to be absolutely adorable. In their support in ''Three Houses'', Dorothea gushes and calls him a "cute little boy" after she makes him call her "big sis", to his annoyance. In ''Three Hopes'', she thinks of him as a "cute baby brother whose cheeks [she] wants to pinch".
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Dorothea believes that she was the illegitimate child of an affair between a noble and a lady-in-waiting. Because she didn't have a Crest, she was tossed out of the household along with her mother who died shortly after. Dorothea grew up alone on the streets while being mistreated by the nobles and outright stated that some of them even physically hurt her. Even after joining the Mittelfrank Opera Company and becoming the Mystical Songstress, she was still objectified by the nobles and viewed only as a beautiful woman to be won rather than a person. It is implied that several people attempted to kidnap her for themselves.
* DeadpanSnarker: Dorothea can be hilariously snarky and sassy at times, particularly towards Ferdinand and Caspar.
* DeathFromAbove: She is one of three units that are capable of learning Meteor, a long-ranged spell that deals damage to the target and deals map damage to adjacent enemies (the others being Hanneman and Anna).
* DepravedBisexual: Inverted. She's openly bisexual and is one of the most kind, supportive and empathetic characters in the game.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Dorothea dislikes most fish-based dishes in the dining hall, and during the fishing tournament in Chapter 7, expresses a distaste for fish.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Part of the reason she dislikes Ferdinand. When she was poor as a child living on the street, [[spoiler:she was washing herself in a fountain when he walked in on her. When he saw her, he stared, then ran away. She assumed he was disgusted by her and her poverty]], and is disgusted with him playing the egalitarian noble who respects everyone when she believes she knows it's all a front. When she finally mentions it to him, Ferdinand reveals that [[spoiler:he was actually smitten with her as a child. So much so he thought her beauty was so great that he lost his nerve and ran away. By the time he worked up the courage to see her, she had left the fountain. He, in fact, didn't make the link that the unearthly beauty he saw as a child was Dorothea when the two met at the Monastery until she mentioned it. Dorothea is understandably rather shaken at the reveal, touched to the point of tears and admitting she had for some time wanted to believe in him, but also admitting she has a lot to let go of regarding her past perceptions of him.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Dorothea has two female marriage possibilties (Petra and Byleth), Edelgard openly discusses being open to a relationship with her, Manuela's paired ending with her states that their relationship was "full of light and [[AmbiguouslyBi love]]", Monica in ''Hopes'' pines for her almost as much as she does for Edelgard, and even Bernadetta remarks that she finds Dorothea "pretty" and "dazzling".
* EveryoneHasStandards: Dorothea rather shamelessly flirts with any noble regardless of gender. However, she makes no attempts to woo Bernadetta, recognizing that the poor girl needs a good friend more than she needs a lover. While the two get along remarkably well, their support caps at B.
* FanservicePack: Her bust goes from the 6th biggest pre-timeskip to the 5th biggest post-timeskip, surpassing Marianne.
* FirstNameBasis: Since she and Manuela were in the same opera company, Dorothea addresses her without the "Professor" title, something Byleth makes note of when asking Dorothea for information in Chapter 6.
* FlowerMotif: Commonly compares herself to a rose, ephemeral and beautiful to look at, but packing a thorny side beneath the petals.
* FriendToAllChildren: Post-timeskip on the Silver Snow route, she says she was looking after kids who lost their parents, and if recruited on the Azure Moon and Verdant Wind routes, near the end of the game, she says that they have to make a world where children can grow up safe and happy.
* GoldDigger: {{Downplayed}}. She has a habit of flirting with different people, but it's because she believes she needs to find someone before her youthful beauty fades away into old age and no one will be interested in her. A lot of her supports in the second half of the game is realizing she was taking it to a self-destructive degree, particularly Petra's. Felix calls her out on it.
* GrowOldWithMe: Her ultimate goal in finding someone. Her ending with Sylvain even mentions that [[spoiler:his promise to do so with her is what convinces her to accept his proposal.]] Of her 14 possible partners, her only English endings that neither explicitly confirm marriage or growing old with someone are with with Edelgard, Hubert, and Yuri (and even then, Edelgard confirmed in their B support that she's open to it).
* HappilyMarried: She is this in the majority of her endings. Notably even in her solo ending she still finds love, with her solo ending citing this trope word for word.
** Dorothea is one of only ten characters to have two possible titles at the end game. Dorothea's title "Devoted Heart" ("For the Sake of Her Beloved" in Japanese) is reserved ''only'' for endings that explicitly confirm a marriage, with two exceptions: She does not get that title with Lorenz, despite the ending stating they married, and she ''does'' get that title with Petra even though their ending is a little bit more [[AmbiguouslyBi ambiguous]].
* TheHeart: Dorothea is one of the most openly kind and supportive members of the Black Eagles, and also voices the most concerns addressing the morality of their actions. She often finds herself sympathizing with the enemy, and is greatly conflicted after the timeskip when she must take up arms and [[spoiler:potentially kill her old classmates.]]
* HeroicBastard: She never knew her father, and believes him to have been a noble who slept with her maid mother, but she's a genuinely kind, thoughtful and well-meaning woman, who, depending on the route, fights to destroy a corrupt system, liberate the Kingdom and Alliance from an invasion, or destroy the yoke of those who slither in the dark.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Dorothea's dislikes include herself.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** When it comes to nobles, Dorothea tends to be very judgmental and harsh towards them even though she frequently displays behavior she criticizes them for, such as being angry with Lorenz for stating he would only marry a noble who can improve his house's standing, even though she came to Garreg Mach to catch herself a wealthy spouse to raise her standing. Luckily, she (mostly) grows out of this mindset after the timeskip and becomes more polite, recognizing that her views were wrongly placed in most of her Supports.
** It's downplayed, but she will mention in her B-Rank support with Byleth that she doesn't actually like talking to them because she feels like Byleth is silently judging her and seeing through all of her insecurities. Which again, given [[JerkassToOne her treatment]] of Lorenz, Sylvain, and Ferdinand, is quite the dissonance.
* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: While thrilled when Byleth proposes in their S-rank, she [[spoiler:needs confirmation that a war hero would really want to be with [[HeroicSelfDeprecation someone like her.]]]]
--> ''"Even though I'm not a songstress anymore? And I don't come from a noble family or have any wealth or land to my name? You won the war. You could pick anyone in the world. Why would you..."''
* IJustWantToBeLoved: In her A-support with Byleth, Dorothea recounts her time with the Mittelfrank Opera Company, surrounded by high-status people who saw her as a spectacle to be admired and cared only for her beauty and status. She reveals that she desires someone to love and accept her for herself, rather than her superficial qualities.
-->'''Dorothea:''' That's why I keep searching for someone who will love me. Someone unaware of the songstress, who can love a girl that used to be scared and alone on the streets of the capital...
* IncompatibleOrientation: PlayedForLaughs. The second she goes from friendly discussion over Ingrid's appeals to straight up flirting Ingrid shuts her down.
-->'''Ingrid:''' Permission ''not'' granted. ''Ever.''
* InterclassFriendship: With most of the cast considering most of them are nobles, but this is especially the case with Edelgard, as they consider each other "dearest friends." In ''Three Hopes'', Dorothea states to Hubert and Monica that part of the reason she is fighting on the front lines and not leveraging her capacity as a celebrity diva is to be the model example of Edelgard's goal - the Emperor and a former street urchin commoner working "side by side and hand in hand."
-->'''Dorothea:''' I want to be here fighting as a representative of the peasant class. However selfish it might be, I feel this is the best way to help Edie as she tries to erase the gap between nobles and commoners.
* {{Irony}}: Dorothea dislikes nobles, yet she's in a house almost entirely comprised of them - she is the only commoner in the Black Eagles. Plus she herself possibly has some noble ancestry on her father's side.
* JackOfAllTrades: As far as the mages in ''Three Houses'' go, Dorothea is one of the most versatile, having access to Physic for long-range healing, Thoron and Meteor for long-range attacks, and Agnea's Arrow for sheer power. She also has an affinity for swords and high Charm (making her ideal for the Dancer class), and her Songstress personal skill lets her heal adjacent allies for free each turn. Having Meteor also allows her to contribute Linked Attack and Gambit Boost bonuses to allies from an extreme distance, and her large number of Support chains allow her to give bonuses to a good portion of the cast. However, she isn't as potent at raw damage as other designated spellcasters like Lysithea or Constance, with her growths being rather average in terms of mages, making her decent overall but not very specialized. She also is not as potent as designated healers like Mercedes or Flayn, nor does she get utility spells like Silence, Warp, etc., which other characters like Manuela can acquire.
* JerkassToOne: She's normally a friendly person, but she holds a level of contempt towards Sylvain, Lorenz, and especially Ferdinand. She views Sylvain as a misogynist while she believes both Lorenz and Ferdinand fall into the AristocratsAreEvil, due to her own bad experiences with nobles.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: She gains a default outfit post-timeskip for the Mage, Warlock and Dancer classes that is essentially a gorgeous ballroom gown and adorned with jewelry.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: A beautiful and flirtatious songstress who styles herself with an elegant air. Her preferred classline is the Mage line, and as a Mage and Warlock post-timeskip she wears a bejeweled ballroom gown.
* LethalChef:
** In her supports with Petra, Dorothea offers to make her a Brigid-style meal to ease any feelings of homesickness. Petra politely declines, as Dorothea's cooking is, to put it lightly, "horrendous."
** If Dorothea is selected to help with food prep at the monastery, she reveals she's of the "it's all the same in your stomach" mindset when it comes to cooking. Though with Byleth's help, she's not entirely hopeless.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Her support with Caspar reveals she sees him like a little brother, and she teasingly reveals doesn't mind him calling her "big sis." She reveals in their A-Support a potential {{subversion}} in that while she still sees him that way, however, she wouldn't mind the idea of spending the rest of her life with him if neither find a significant other.
* LipstickLesbian:
** Downplayed. She is very feminine in her appearance and is also bisexual as she can end up married to either a man or a woman and she openly flirts with Edelgard during one of their support scenes. She also ''tries'' flirting with Ingrid but is quickly [[IncompatibleOrientation rejected]] by her.
** In ''Three Hopes'' she laments that the Officers Academy shutting down means that she lost her best chance to meet a Mr. Right... or ''Ms. Right''. Moreover, if Shez goes on an expedition with her and asks about her hopes for the future she will mention wanting a roguishly handsome husband ''or'' a beautiful wife.
* LongRangeFighter: Several of her magical spells allow her to attack from an extra space away. This makes her useful at sniping enemies without fear of being hit back, and softening up enemies for her allies. If given a staff that increases the range of her magic, she can attack from several tiles away with her basic spells, and her Thoron essentially turns into a Sniper's regular several square range attack in terms of range options. And Meteor can let her hit enemies (potentially multiple enemies) from far across the battlefield.
* MagicMusic: Implied. Dorothea is a skilled singer as well as a mage, and her Songstress personal skill results in any adjacent ally regaining 10 percent of their maximum health back.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: Downplayed. If she gets a [[AmbiguouslyBi paired ending with Petra]] their ending card states that the people of Brigid were initially skeptical of Dorothea but warmed up to her over time.
* MaybeEverAfter: Dorothea flirts with Edelgard (who is also bisexual) by suggesting that they [[RelationshipUpgrade may end up together]] during their support conversation and Edelgard [[ShipTease appears to like the idea]] but their paired ending is ambiguous as it doesn't mention whether their relationship is romantic or not.
* MsFanservice: On par with Hilda for being the biggest provider of {{Fanservice}} among the ''Three Houses'' cast, being a buxom beauty who, post-timeskip, wears a dress that shows off her well-endowed figure. Even pre-timeskip, she wears her uniform jacket partially open, showing plenty of cleavage and her shapely thighs. And that's not even getting into how she debuted in ''Heroes'' in a bikini, or how she wears a very revealing SultryBellyDancer outfit in another form in ''Heroes''. However, this trope is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in that she fears that suitors only see her as eye-candy and don't care about who she is beyond her physical beauty. She wants to marry someone who would love her even when she's old and grey.
* MusicalAssassin: Her unique ability in ''Three Hopes'' is "Prismatic Resonance", spawning musical notes around Dorothea when she attacks. She can then attack the notes to detonate them into shockwaves of random elemental damage.
* NakedFirstImpression: Her dislike of Ferdinand was caused by this. [[spoiler:He saw her bathing in a fountain in Enbarr and ran away, making her believe he was disgusted when in reality he was both entranced and embarassed. She only learns the truth in their A support in ''Three Houses'' and B support in ''Three Hopes'' when Ferdinand tells her outright or she overhears him respectively]].
* NayTheist: Dorothea has no love for the Church of Seiros since their Crest System is the cornerstone upon which the nobility she despises reinforces its influence. She does acknowledge the existence of the Goddess, but admits that she isn't devout. This is reinforced by the fact that the Goddess Statuette is one of her dislikes. Interestingly enough, during tea time, Dorothea says that her ideal partner is religious, but only just.
* NeverMyFault: As an enemy on the Verdant Wind route, she will declare that she can never respect the goddess if [[spoiler:their destiny is to kill each other, meaning that Dorothea considers all of the killing the Goddess's fault, conveniently ignoring that the Empire she's fighting for started the war to destroy the Church.]]
* NiceGirl: While she's initially a JerkassToOne towards Ferdinand, Dorothea's otherwise pleasant (if flirty) to be around, though she is prone to being somewhat passive-aggressive and snarky on occasion, ''especially'' in her supports with Lorenz and Sylvain. Despite this, she's one of the most kind, supportive and empathetic characters in the game.
* TheNicknamer: She calls everyone in her house sans Petra by a shortened version of their name - Edie, Hubie, Ferdie, Monnie, Lin, Bern, and Cas. Outside the Black Eagles, Yuri is "Yurikins".
* NonElemental: Although she starts with [[ShockAndAwe Thunder spells]], Dorothea is notable for being the only character to learn all three spells labeled as non-elemental[[note]]Sagittae, Meteor, and Agnea's Arrow[[/note]].
* NonUniformUniform: She leaves her jacket open, exposing her cleavage, as well as a unique hat and some jewelry.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Though Dorothea likes to put on elegant airs and styles herself as a CoolBigSis, she can be quite immature on occasion herself, such as refusing to explain to Ferdinand why she hates him in their C-Support.
* OddNameOut: The nickname Dorothea gives Bernadetta, "Bern," is a notable aversion to her pattern. She names "Edie," "Hubie," and "Ferdie," but does not call Bernadetta "Bernie," despite Bernadetta calling herself that.
* OldMaid: While she's not old yet, she's absolutely terrified of becoming unmarriagable. As such, Dorothea wants to marry someone before she becomes old and gray.
* PennyAmongDiamonds: She's the only proper commoner among the Black Eagles, and one of two if you count Petra, who's considered a commoner in the Empire but is royalty in Brigid. She's very sensitive about that fact, and tends to be a bit hostile to those who are of nobility for what she sees as them flaunting their status.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
-->"''That's my cue!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''More fighting...''" (Post-timeskip)
* PreMortemOneLiner:
-->"''This is going to hurt, okay?''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Take me seriously!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''You can't stop me!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I can't go easy on you!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''One of us has to die!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''I'll strike you down!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''Time for your last dance!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''I'll leave you breathless!''" (Post-timeskip)
* RagsToRiches: Dorothea was born the illegitimate daughter of a noble and his maid, and as a child grew up on the streets of Imperial capital Enbarr, lonely and destitute. She joined the Mittelfrank Opera Company and became a successful, popular opera singer, rubbing elbows with other performers and nobles, to the point where her enrollment in the Officers Academy was paid for by one of those nobles. Still, she retains her dislike of the superficial nobility, some self-loathing and anxiety over her future, and whether she'll find someone genuine to settle down with.
* RainOfArrows: She can learn Sagittae upon reaching B in Reason.
* RecurringElement: She's a PennyAmongDiamonds with a background in the performing arts with a {{fanservice}}y outfit. The only thing she's missing to be the game's main Dancer character is the class itself, which she stands a fair chance of winning given her high Charisma growth. The game even hints she should take the class, with her stats and weapon affinities lining up correctly as well as Dancer being one of three classes that lets her wear her default outfit to battle post time-skip.
* ReluctantWarrior: Unlike many other characters she doesn't have much taste for battle. She frequently makes comments during battle that indicate that she's reluctant to go into battle and to have to kill others to survive.
* TheScream: She lets out quite a horrifying scream when she is killed post-timeskip.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:If she is defeated pre-time skip in Classic Mode, she flees the war with her opera troupe and doesn't come back.]]
* SecretAIMoves: As an enemy unit post-timeskip, she knows Unsealable Magic, a skill no playable unit can ever learn.
* SecretRelationship: With Hanneman in their ending, mainly to avert the scandal the [[AgeGapRomance difference in their ages]] would cause.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Her canon post-timeskip outfit features a luxurious ball gown with a low cut collar that totally exposes her upper and lower back save for a thin strip that keeps the dress on her, and her bra strap.
* SheKnowsTooMuch: In her and Ingrid's shared paralogue, the merchant who wants to marry Ingrid hires bandits to kill her and the player's party after she digs too deep into said merchant's sordid dealings.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** In her C-support with Bernadetta, she's enthralled when she thinks Bern has a crush on someone and has clear intent on helping her with it.
** On the Azure Moon route, she comments that an opera featuring Byleth and Dimitri would likely have the two being lovers.
** When spoken to on the Crimson Flower route, she suggests a future play about Edelgard would have Byleth as the love interest, whether or not that wound up being historically accurate.
** In ''Three Hopes'', she ships Bernadetta and her commoner friend [[spoiler:Yuri]] when she reveals that they were alive the entire time.
* ShockAndAwe: The first few Reason spells she learns are electricity-based. Her talent in swords and magic make her a good candidate for the Levin Sword.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Downplayed, but present. After the timeskip, five years of war have very obviously taken their toll on Dorothea; she exhibits the most obvious suffering of any of the playable characters, even in her battle quotes, which have gone from spunky to sour. While exploring at the monastery she frequently stands somewhere by herself, gazing at the sky or scenery, and often has dialog where she ponders the cost of war and the people dying because of it.
* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Dorothea admits to "buttering up" a noble to get her foot in the door at Garreg Mach (and given the way an associate of hers uses the term, that's almost certainly sexual). Once there, she's an open GoldDigger looking to secure her future by marrying one of the rich young nobles that attend. However, she makes it very clear that she hated having to do this in order to secure her future, and hates herself for it. It's also explicitly stated that she studied her ass off and aced the entrance exams fair and square, so nobody disputes the fact she earned her place. While she readily will use her beauty and other charms to get the attention of a potential suitor, simple seduction of random rich nobles isn't really her goal as she wants to find someone she genuinely cares about/likes enough to spend the rest of her life with, and someone who cares about her for the long term, unlike her and her mother's past experiences.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: In her B-support with Sylvain, both turn on the superficial charm and flirtatiousness when they agree to go out to dinner together. Both end up needling the other, poking at the ulterior motives each has for agreeing to spend time with the other, but agree to go out to dinner anyway:
-->'''Sylvain:''' And to be clear...the reason you chose to spend time with me is my family, yes? Or is it my Crest? Both?\\
[...]\\
'''Dorothea:''' Actually, I have a question of my own. Say I was a hoarse-voiced old hag... Would you still be flirting with me? Would you still want to hold my hand and whisper sweet nothings?
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Dorothea knows she's very beautiful and has used her beauty to help herself in the past. Unfortunately, she's also attracted the unwanted attention of nobles who see her only as a beautiful woman for the taking rather than a person. It's heavily implied that attempts have been made on her life, including attempted murders and kidnappings.
* SorryThatImDying: Should she get killed as an enemy, Dorothea will ask [[spoiler:Edelgard]] to forgive her.
-->'''Dorothea''' (enemy death quote): [[spoiler:Edelgard]], forgive me... I can't...
* SquishyWizard: Dorothea's talents make her an effective magical nuker, but her physical defense growth is among the worst in the game. [[note]]15% and a base of 4, beating only Lysithea.[[/note]]
* StatuesqueStunner: Very beautiful, and is tied with female Shez for the tallest of all the female students at 170cm tall, and only trails Manuela, Rhea, and Catherine amongst the female cast. This is best shown via the class introduction movie, where Dorothea is shown to stand eye-to-eye with Ferdinand (who is 175 cm) and towers over [[PintsizedPowerhouse Edelgard.]]
* SugaryMalice: When speaking to Ferdinand in their C-support, she retains her usual cheerful, light-hearted manner of speaking and even calls him "Ferdie," while flat-out telling him she hates him. [[spoiler:If you recruit Dorothea and not Ferdinand and kill the latter, she'll later remark how upset she is about it. Moreover, if the two meet in battle under the same conditions, she'll mention that she had "real hopes" for him. It's strongly hinted in this case that she doesn't hate him nearly as much as she says and wants to be friends]]. This is mostly dropped in ''Three Hopes'' as in her and Ferdinand's B-Support [[spoiler:the misunderstanding is cleared up and she's more flustered about the fact that Ferdinand was entranced by her during their ForgottenFirstMeeting]].
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel:
** In the Azure Moon and Crimson Flower routes, Dorothea thinks that in the future, someone will write a play about Byleth and Dimitri/Edelgard. In the latter's case, she thinks that the writer will make the story a little historically inaccurate by making Byleth and Edelgard lovers.
** In her support with Bernadetta in ''Three Hopes'', Dorothea is ecstatic to hear that Bernadetta's childhood friend [[spoiler:(Yuri)]] is still alive and thinks that one day, there will be a play called the "Bernadetta Saga" detailing the reunion of two childhood friends of different social classes which blossoms into love, much to Bernie's embarrassment.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: In her support with Ingrid, she's excited about giving Ingrid a makeover and dressing her up nicely to attend an opera. Ingrid is much more reluctant, as she's unused to getting dressed up and putting on makeup.
* ThousandYardStare: Post-timeskip, she may be seen aimlessly staring up at the sky while exploring. If you speak to her, she is clearly conflicted over her participation in the war.
* TookALevelInCynic: In Part I, she's cheerful and upbeat. In Part II, she's sarcastic and weary. Best exemplified with these two battle quotes.
-->'''Part I''': All roses have thorns!\\
'''Part II''': Only thorns left on this rose.
* WorthyOpponent: To Felix, which is the only reason he starts to warm up to her.
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[[folder:Caspar]]
!!Caspar von Bergliez
!!!'''Class:''' Noble → Fighter → Brigand → Warrior → War Master (''Three Houses''), Fighter → Brawler → War Master (''Three Hopes'')
!!!'''Age:''' 16 (7/01)
!!!'''Height:''' 159 cm (pre-timeskip) -> 173 cm (post-timeskip)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Satoru Murakami (Japanese), Creator/BenDiskin (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[HotBlooded Hotheaded General]]/[[WalkingTheEarth Wandering Instigator]]'']]
->''"Now, let's break the ice with a training session. I want to see our new teacher in action!"''

The second son of Count Bergliez. As he does not stand to inherit the title, he decided to make a name for himself through martial ability, training hard at the Officers' Academy. His hotheadedness holds him back, but he has a strong sense of justice that makes him hate lies and unfair treatment, and overall he has a very honest personality.\\\

His personal ability, ''Born Fighter'', reduces the Avoid of any enemies adjacent to him during combat.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Caspar's father is this to him, as post-time skip chapters have him mention how his father had always been a better fighter to him and on the Verdant Wind route, [[spoiler:he laments and wonders if he'll ever be as strong as his father was at one point]].
* AncestralWeapon: Zigzagged in ''Three Hopes''. While he lacks a Crest, his father passes down the Jarngreipr to him, a pair of sacred gauntlets associated with the Crest of Cichol. As it's a Sacred Weapon, Caspar can wield the gauntlets safely anyway.
* AnimeHair: His hair is ''incredibly'' spiky in ''Three Hopes'', befitting his HotBlooded disposition.
* BabiesEverAfter: His endings with Bernadetta and Hilda result in having many children.
* BadassAdorable: Caspar is quite adorable especially pre-timeskip, with his short height and incredibly energetic personality, and is also quite the proficient fighter. [[BerserkButton Just don't say it to his face.]] Post-timeskip he grows taller, but still retains his adorable charm.
* BadassNormal: He doesn't have a Crest and his magical ability is lacking, forcing him into physical classes. He's no less capable for it. In his A support with Edelgard in ''Hopes'', they spar to the point where Edelgard says that he really kept her on her toes, despite the fact that she has [[spoiler:''two'' crests]].
* BattleCouple: A defining trait of the relationship if he marries Catherine or Shamir. If he's paired with Catherine then the two (depending on Rhea's fate) either become Rhea's bodyguards and spar with each other daily, or live as travelling heroes, their exploits becoming famous either way. If he is paired with Shamir they likewise become crusaders of justice and sources of amusing anecdotes for future generations.
* BerserkButton:
** Downplayed, but he really doesn't like attention being drawn to his height.
** He's really pissed after [[spoiler:Jeralt's death]], especially since the students were backstabbed ''again'' by someone they trusted - first [[spoiler:Tomas]] and then [[spoiler:Monica.]]
* BigEater: He's noted to shovel down a lot of food, to the point Linhardt scolds him for barely chewing and also eating with his mouth open.
* BigNo: In chapter 4 of Golden Wildfire, Caspar will let one out if Linhardt is killed before swearing to avenge him and becoming more powerful as a result.
* BondOneLiner:
-->"Right makes might! Right?" (pre timeskip)\\
"Might makes right!" (post timeskip)\\
"Big win!"\\
"You're all going down!"\\
"Attack at your own risk!"
* BookDumb:
** The Black Eagles' introductory cutscene shows him struggling and scratching his head while reading a book. In the story itself, he's shown to not be much of a thinker, but a dedicated warrior.
** This is played with in he and Dorothea's C-support in ''Three Hopes'', where he shows himself to be remarkably self-determined to study because it'll make him a better commander on the field. Dorothea is impressed and offers to help him.
* CharacterDeath: If not recruited on the Verdant Wind path, [[spoiler:failing to defeat the Death Knight before he escapes in Chapter 18 changes the map's objective to rout all enemies, meaning you're potentially forced to kill Caspar off to end the chapter. Even if you do manage not to directly kill him, his chances of surviving the javelin of light attack afterwards are unfortunately rather slim.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: He's still HotBlooded after the timeskip, but is more tempered and reflective as well.
* ChargedAttack: His unique ability in ''Three Hopes'' is "One for the Books", allowing him to hold down the strong attack button when performing finishers to increase its range and damage.
* ChasteHero: Pretty much anything relating to dating or sex goes completely over his head. In ''Three Houses'', Hilda especially has to take note of his lack of understanding, and Dorothea effectively friend-zones him out of not wanting to corrupt him. In ''Three Hopes'', this extends to metaphors or even concepts regarding dating. He doesn't understand why the "impregnable" fortress Arianrhod is known as "the Silver Maiden", and the others give up trying to tactfully explain it to him. In his support with Balthus, when Balthus suggests competing over ladies, Caspar figures the only way that would make sense would be [[InsaneTrollLogic "to dress up in ladies' clothes and compete to see who looks better."]]
* ChildhoodFriends: With Linhardt, the two meeting when they were 6.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The main source of comedy from his supports, since he's often too dense to pick up on people's signals.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: His hair and eyes are both cyan.
* CuteBruiser: He's cute as a button and packs quite the punch.
* DefectorFromDecadence: If recruited on a default path, [[spoiler:he decides not to return to the Empire after the fall of Garreg Mach, and instead spends the next five years wandering and battling the Empire]].
* DumbassHasAPoint: While not the brightest individual, [[DontYouDarePityMe Caspar gets irritated at Edelgard in their C-support seemingly pitying him]] for being a second son with no inheritance and outright tells her off for both [[InnocentlyInsensitive being thoughtless about his feelings on the matter]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe making everything about her]]. [[spoiler:The Azure Moon route in particular shows that the traits Caspar called her out on are the same ones that prevent Edelgard from agreeing to end the war peacefully because she believes herself to be the only one capable of changing Fódlan, [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans considering the countless bystanders harmed by the war a necessary sacrifice as long a better Fódlan is born in the end]].]]
* DumbMuscle: He's the heavy hitter of the Black Eagles and has a hard time with his studies. He's also extremely oblivious to girls who show an interest in him like Hilda and Bernadetta.
* FearOfThunder: Thunder is listed as one of his dislikes, and one of his lost items is a Grounding Charm, something said to keep lightning away. If taken on a expedition in ''Three Hopes'', he will say that this fear comes from it reminding him of his father whenever Caspar screwed up.
* {{Foil}}: To Hilda, since they come from important noble families that hold an important seat in their respective territories and are often overshadowed by their older siblings, with Caspar's older brother being the heir, while Hilda's older brother Holst is TheAce and the reason she is a LazyBum. Caspar is hot-headed, a bit dense and very passionate while Hilda is lazy, cunning and prefers to let other people do the work for her. They have a PinkGirlBlueBoy scheme going on as a duo and both have unique requirements to be recruited - Caspar is the only student who requires a Brawling proficiency to join another House, while Hilda is the only student to require Axes. They can even get married if you complete their support chain.
* ForGreatJustice: A big believer in the concept, and "injustice" is listed as one of his dislikes.
* FreudianExcuse: Though he's remarkably more well-adjusted than some of the other students who are also overshadowed by their siblings, it's implied that Caspar's impulsive, reckless tendencies stem from being ignored so much at home.
* GlassCannon: Caspar has high offense potential with great speed, strength, and luck growths, with a lacking defense and resistance growths meaning he takes a lot of extra damage, though his HP Growths are generally high enough to take a hit.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Caspar inexplicably has a scar on his forehead in ''Three Hopes''.
* HeightAngst: It's hinted that he has a bit of an issue with his lack of height, though it doesn't seem to bother him as much post-timeskip. He's still the shortest male of his house even after the growth spurt, though.
* HeroicBuild: Post-timeskip, he's broad-shouldered and stands a full head above many of his female housemates. He also fills out considerably to match his suit of heavy armor.
* HiddenDepths:
** Caspar's B-support with Ferdinand shows that he's capable of planning when the situation calls for it. After seeing an elderly shopkeeper on the verge of being robbed, Caspar decides to give his money to the thief and threatens him not to come back, which works out in his favor, giving Caspar the opportunity to chase the thief down, beat him up, and take the money back.
** His C-Support conversation with Edelgard shows that he can be insightful in regards to people, and he calls out Edelgard for having an ItsAllAboutMe attitude.
** His supports with Shamir and Petra show that he feels a lot of responsibility for his father's history of military campaigns, and feels he owes both of them an apology for what happened. No doubt due to not fully agreeing with his father, he tries to apologize for what happened, showing maturity for something he doesn't even have to apologize for.
** His C-support with Dorothea in ''Three Hopes'' has him acknowledge that he needs to study as well if he's to be a proper strategist in battle, so he tries to read two or three "chappers" a day.
* HotBlooded: He's very hotheaded, to his occasional detriment. Caspar often jumps headlong into situations or comes to a conclusion without thinking things through.
* {{Hunk}}: After the timeskip, he's gotten muscular, well-built, and handsome.
* IGotBigger: He grows considerably during the timeskip, although he's the second-shortest male character, only being taller than Ignatz.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He's frank and tends to jump to conclusions without thinking, much to the chagrin of his housemates. He often has trouble figuring out what he's doing wrong until it's pointed out to him, like when Bernadetta gets huffy at him for dragging her around like a piece of luggage because he was too excited to show her a place with a nice view.
* {{Irony}}: During Part I, Caspar can be found in the monastery complaining about how much he despises [[spoiler:the Death Knight]] for his actions and how he wishes to catch him. [[spoiler:In three out of four routes, he ends up working ''alongside the Death Knight'' for the Adrestian Empire during Part II, even directly reporting to him during a cutscene in Azure Moon/Verdant Wind (if he wasn't recruited before the timeskip) once Byleth's chosen faction arrives into Fort Merceus]].
* ItsAllMyFault: In Caspar's support with Byleth, he discovers a suspicious man that Byleth is shadowing. Upon noticing the man heading towards the town square, where a group of children are, he immediately goes after him despite Byleth telling him not to. A Knight of Seiros admonishes him for his action, bringing up the possibility that the man may belong to a group of bandits due to possessing a scorpion tattoo, but were unable to investigate the matter further because the man committed suicide when Caspar confronted him. [[spoiler:Caspar looks back on the incident with shame after the TimeSkip, and sure enough, the knight was correct as a soldier informs Byleth that they suffered casualties from dealing with bandits all bearing a scorpion tattoo, proving Caspar's fears.]]
* LeeroyJenkins: He's not much for strategy and would much rather take on his opponent in a frontal assault.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: His support with Dorothea reveals she sees him like a little brother, and Caspar himself is embarrassed but doesn't mind returning the favor by calling her "big sister." In their A-support, he reveals that he really does see her close like family. He also provides a potential {{subversion}} in the same support: he admits he wouldn't mind spending his life with her (and vice-versa), assuming neither of them can find a significant other.
* LiteralMinded:
** In ''Three Houses'', during his support with Raphael, Caspar wants to 'get bigger' (read: taller) but soon finds that Raphael's advice [[WeightWoe isn't working how he wants it to]]. As they discuss this, he realizes that he also appreciates Raphael's "size of your heart" (read: kindness), and states that he should do the same if he wants to get bigger like Raphael.
** At the end of his and Linhardt's paralogue in ''Three Hopes'', after Shez says that they are the type of warrior that lets their sword do all the talking, Caspar believes they literally got a talking sword.
* {{Malaproper}}: As part of his BookDumb status, he occasionally mispronounces words, with "chapper" (chapter) being one.
* MagicallyIneptFighter: He comes with a good 9 base strength but an abysmal 3 magic. His growths also heavily lean him toward physical classes like Fighter due to his poor magic and resistance growths on top of his very limited spell list.
* MasterOfNone: Among the available martial characters, Caspar is more of a generalist, not particularly exceeding in defense, strength, or speed, like Raphael and Felix, and not having any particularly exciting Combat Arts or a standout Personal Skill, like Ferdinand and Bernadetta.
* MightMakesRight: After the timeskip, one of his victory quotes has him namedrop the trope as an IronicEcho to his previous RightMakesMight beliefs.
* MilitaryBrat: The von Bergliez family has a long history of military service and leading the Empire's Ministry of Military Affairs, Caspar is no exception with his solo Crimson Flower ending having him becoming a general and even on Azure Moon and Verdant Wind, he's present for the assault on Fort Merceus as an enemy commander.
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: In ''Three Hopes'', he's not playable outside of Scarlet Blaze; thus he cannot fight alongside [[spoiler:Dimitri, Dedue, Felix, Ingrid, Sylvain, Annette, Claude, Hilda, Holst, Seteth, Flayn or Catherine]].
* NiceGuy: He's extremely approachable and friendly. Hot-headed as he may be, he cares deeply for all his friends.
* ObliviousToLove:
** He's incapable of realizing in almost all of his romantic A-supports that someone is in love with him with the exception of Dorothea, though the two admit that they'll only go through with it if they don't find anyone else.
** He doesn't understand why Bernadetta always wants to be alone with him, and Hilda eventually decides to tell him that he's coming to her room to carry luggage because he's too dense to understand that she wants to go there to have sex with him.
** In his Goddess Tower Event cutscene, he mentions a girl wanted to see him in the tower but told her he'd be busy eating and dancing. The girl got upset and he doesn't know why.
* OddFriendship: Despite being HotBlooded and prone to leaping before looking, he's good friends with the calm, thoughtful LazyBum Linhardt from the start, and he can develop a strong friendship with the stoic, professional Shamir.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:If he is an enemy on Azure Moon and Verdant Wind and engages a former Black Eagle, he will become noticeably angry, demanding to know how many of their former friends and comrades they cut down to get this far.]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He's fairly short before the timeskip at 159 cm, and is frustrated when Linhardt's assessment that a taller person would win a fight assuming all other things are equal proves correct. Despite this, he has relatively high strength, Dexterity, and Speed growths and eventually wins his fight as planned thanks to Linhardt's advice. Averted after the timeskip, where he's become notably taller at 173 cm (though still the second shortest of all the male students).
* PlayingWithFire: Learns Fire and Bolganone if trained in Reason, which is [[MagicallyIneptFighter not recommended.]]
* PowerfulButInaccurate: Caspar can learn the Wild Abandon combat art at C+ rank in axes. It let him deal 10 additional damage and has 30 extra critical hit at the cost of 30 accuracy.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
-->"''Put me in there!''" (Said in different tones pre and post-timeskip)
* PreMortemOneLiner:
-->"''Don't try and stop me!''"\\
"''This'll do it!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Here we go!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I'll send you flying!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Hope you're ready!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''I'm not going down!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''I'll have your head!''" (Post-timeskip)
* RecurringBoss: In ''Three Hopes'', he is fought twice on both Azure Gleam and Golden Wildfire.
* RecurringElement: He has elements of the [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Bord and Cord]] archetype. He's a cyan-haired, hot-blooded axe fighter that favors health and skill, contrasting Hilda, the rose-haired, apathetic axe fighter with greater focus on speed and defense.
* RedOniBlueOni:
** He's the excitable, loud and energetic Red Oni to Linhardt's calm, analytical and relaxed Blue Oni.
** He and Ashe are polar opposites should they be recruited to the same house. Ashe is level-headed and prefers reconciliation to retribution, while Caspar rushes in and goes for the kill with reckless bravery. [[spoiler:In their paired ending, the two travel the world together as wandering knights, rescuing each other time and again with their own strengths.]]
* RightMakesMight: One of his victory quotes in Part I has him namedrop the trope. By Part II, he's moved on to MightMakesRight.
* ScreamingWarrior: His C-support with Hubert has Hubert complaining about this, which Caspar claims help energize him and he wouldn't do it in a real fight or covert operation, to which Hubert responds that intentionally or not, he will fall back into it because he trained that way. Then their B-Support reveals that's exactly what happens, which causes Caspar to crack down on it and become quieter...only for Hubert to admit that the team has grown so used to his shouting as both a signal and a comfort that the lack of it is actually affecting their performance.
* SecretAIMoves: As an enemy unit on the Azure Moon and Verdant Wind routes, he can know Pass, a skill that he is unable to obtain as a playable unit.
* SiblingYinYang: Edelgard mentions that Caspar's older brother is lazy and greedy, something Caspar pretty much agrees with. Caspar himself is hard-working and selfless.
* SinsOfOurFathers: A recurring theme in his supports is that, because his father played a large role in the military campaigns of the Empire, he feels a sense of responsibility for his father's actions. His supports with Petra and Shamir reveal that he feels guilty due to his father's actions in the Empire's war against Brigid and Dagda, and attempts to make amends to them both for what he sees as his family's actions towards them.
* SkippableBoss: In chapter 14 of Azure Gleam, [[spoiler:[[CharacterDeath he must be killed]] if the Kingdom army wants a chance at catching Duke Aegir because Caspar will be guarding a gate that will block the army once Duke Aegir has passed it. However, if the player manages to seize the area that's supposed to be Aegir's escape, the mission will end once he is killed without the need to fight Caspar.]]
** Can also be this post timeskip of the original ''Three Houses''. As long as the Death Knight is defeated before he can escape Fort Merceus, Caspar can walk away without needing to be fought.
* SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: The Nice Moron to Linhardt's Smart Jerk.
* SorryThatImDying: If he's killed in Classic mode, he blames himself for being weak.
* StockShonenHero: Despite not being one of the protagonists, Caspar takes clear influence from this archetype. He's a HotBlooded, somewhat naïve and BookDumb [[ChasteHero pure]] young man with a big appetite, a strong sense of justice and a strong desire to get stronger. The overlap between that trope's key elements and Caspar's is almost perfect, except that he doesn't have InstantExpert potential. His ''Three Hopes'' support with Ferdinand suggests he does have TheGift for combat, however.
* TakingTheBullet: In his B+ Support with Shamir, he does this for her in the middle of a fight, and he comes dangerously close to dying as a result. Shamir grills him for this when he wakes up, telling him her life is worth no more than his, but admits she owes him one for this.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Caspar namedrops this trope in Shez's paralogue against all three houses in ''Three Hopes'', and expresses to Leonie and Felix his belief that this is the ''only'' way the Triangle Strike can work.
* UncertainDoom: If not recruited on the Verdant Wind path [[spoiler:but he survives the assault on Fort Merceus, it's unclear if he survives its subsequent destruction by the "javelins of light" or is killed]].
* WalkingTheEarth: Several of his endings involve him [[spoiler:giving up his nobility and traveling the world]]. For example, in his paired ending with Annette, he [[spoiler:travels the world and ends up saving her while she was traveling, resulting in their marriage after.]] Only some of his Crimson Flower endings avoid this, [[spoiler:since he usually becomes a general in the Empire]]. His ending with Petra, even outside the Crimson Flower route avoids this [[spoiler:as he goes to Brigid with her]].
* WeightWoe: In his C-Support with Raphael, Caspar takes up his method of bodybuilding, more training and a lot more eating. By the B-Support, however, Caspar laments that he's not grown taller, just ''wider''.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He's good friends with Linhardt at the beginning of the game, but it's possible for them to end up on opposite sides of a war should you recruit one or the other to the Blue Lions or Golden Deer.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never elaborated on as to what happens to an unrecruited Caspar on the Azure Moon route if he [[spoiler:survives the battle at Fort Merceus.]]
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[-''Main Characters:'' [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesByleth Byleth]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesEdelgard Edelgard]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesDimitri Dimitri]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesClaude Claude]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesRhea Rhea]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesShez Shez]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesOtherMainCharacters Other Main Characters]] \\
''Secondary Characters:'' [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesHubert Hubert]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesFerdinand Ferdinand]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesBernadetta Bernadetta]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesSylvain Sylvain]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesIngrid Ingrid]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesFelix Felix]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesLysithea Lysithea]]\\
''Houses:'' '''The Black Eagles''' | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesBlueLions The Blue Lions]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesGoldenDeer The Golden Deer]]\\

* ClosetGay: Inverted. Out of all the characters she is the most open about her bisexuality and unlike most other [[GayOption Gay Options]] it is not [[IfItsYouItsOkay limited to Byleth]] as she also hits on [[TheBeautifulElite Edelgard]] and [[UnkemptBeauty Ingrid]] in her support conversation with them. In ''Three Hopes'' she casually mentions during an expedition with Shez that her hopes for the future include finding a handsome husband ''or'' a beautiful wife.

* ClosetGay: Inverted. Out of all the characters she is the most open about her bisexuality and unlike most other [[GayOption Gay Options]] it is not [[IfItsYouItsOkay limited to Byleth]] as she also hits on [[TheBeautifulElite Edelgard]] and [[UnkemptBeauty Ingrid]] in her support conversation with them. In ''Three Hopes'' she mentions during an expedition with Shez that her hopes for the future include finding a handsome husband ''or'' a beautiful wife.

* ClosetGay: Inverted. Out of all the characters she is the most open about her bisexuality and unlike most other [[GayOption Gay Options]] it is not [[IfItsYouItsOkay limited to Byleth]] as she also hits on [[TheBeautifulElite Edelgard]] and Ingrid in her support conversation with them. In ''Three Hopes'' she mentions during an expedition with Shez that her hopes for the future include finding a handsome husband ''or'' a beautiful wife.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: A minor example, but the students of the Black Eagle house tend to take more time to heat up in the sauna DLC. As the Adrestian Empire is the southernmost region in Fódlan (and Petra states that Brigid is even warmer), they're more accustomed to the heat.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** Petra is a skilled game hunter and has proficiency with bows. In addition, she learns Bane of Monsters as a sword Combat Art, which is effective against Monster-type enemies.
** Despite being extremely intelligent, her weakness in Reason (magic) comes solely from her dislike of math.
** Her personal skill makes it easier for her to finish off wounded enemies. Her preferred class, which she has a unique uniform in and the one she has as an enemy, is Assassin.
** While religious, Petra subscribes to a different faith system than the Church of Seiros, resulting in her weakness in faith magic.
** Brigid has a tropical climate. Petra is naturally one of the slowest characters to heat up in the sauna.
** One of her favorite gifts is a Sunflower, which symbolizes loyalty; this reflects Petra's determination to carry out the will of Brigid no matter what.
** Petra is a princess of Brigid, so her being classed as a Commoner might seem like GameplayAndStorySegregation. However, Brigid's status as a [[VoluntaryVassal Vassal state]] of the Empire with little independence and Petra's hostage situation brings it around to this trope instead.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Despite Riding being the skill required to recruit her out of the Black Eagles, Petra has a neutrality in Riding, her default class line is the infantry Thief/Assassin, she lacks a budding talent in the skill, and even has a penalty towards stable duty.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** Linhardt is AfraidOfBlood and is one of the most affected by their first killing, and the class he is associated with the most is Bishop, the primary function of which is to heal allies. His weaknesses in axes and brawling are a result of them being the most violent weapons.
** He stands out as the only playable character who does not learn any Combat Arts unique to a select few characters, due to a combination of having no strengths or budding talents in swords, lances, axes, bows, or brawling. Given his hatred of violence, he obviously doesn't want to learn any powerful techniques to help him kill his enemies more effectively.
** His love of Crest research gives him a strength in Reason.
** Some of his supports show when it comes to Crest research, Linhardt can act tactless (shown especially in his supports with Lysithea and Flayn) and he's noted as a person who doesn't care about what other people think of him. He fittingly has one of the lowest charm growths in the game. [[note]]20%, ''the'' lowest in the game after accounting for Cyril's personal skill.[[/note]]
** Linhardt is AfraidOfBlood and a ReluctantWarrior. As an enemy unit both pre- and post-timeskip, his AI prioritizes healing his allies and will rarely initiate combat on his own, even if there are no allies in range.
** He's part of the handful of students with the lowest recruitment requirements (the others being Caspar, Petra and Marianne). Given his fascination for Crest research and the fact that Byleth possesses a Crest that was thought to have been lost, it makes sense he'd want to join Byleth's class for more opportunities to study them.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
** If the player attempts to recruit him, and they have met the requirements, his quote mentions "My professor is so strict. So is the house leader." He still says this in chapter 12, [[spoiler:when said house leader is no longer at the academy, and should probably be raising greater concerns than being too strict on her classmates]].
** Despite his disdain towards "the awful bore of ordinary weapons", Linhardt only has a neutral growth in three out of the five physical weapon types, having only a weakness in axes and brawling. In fact, Bernadetta, Lysithea[[note]]Though she can have only two banes in physical weapons after realizing her Budding Talent in swords[[/note]], and Mercedes actually have more skill banes in physical weapons than Linhardt, a total of ''three'', compared to Linhardt's skill bane of only two physical weapons. It's zigzagged in that Linhardt can never gain a strength in any of the physical weapon types whereas the aforementioned Bernadetta, Lysithea, and Mercedes can get at least one.
** In ''Three Hopes'', his second encounter as an enemy on the Azure Gleam route has him classed as a Holy Knight; while it is a magic-using class, it is primarily a ''lance'' wielding class, when Linhardt detests physical weapons.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** In her A-support with Felix, she mentions that back when she was in the opera, she was trained to wield a sword. She has a strong proficiency with sword and one of the best candidates for the Levin Sword, which uses magic.
** As her primary goal in life is to find a romantic partner, few of her supports lack a romantic resolution, with [[IncompatibleOrientation one of those two only lacking any because Ingrid is 100 percent straight (rather than lack of trying to seduce her on Dorothea's part)]]. A lot of her endings, including her solo ending, end with her in a relationship.
** She admits that she doesn't have much in the way of combat ability and dislikes fighting. Her growth rates are some of the lowest in the game, notably having the lowest Magic growth of any designated spellcaster at 40%. That in and of itself is also integration, as she was a street orphan turned Opera Diva turned student. She doesn't have the same history of learning or a Crest to help her studies or power with magic as the rest of the designated spellcasters do.
** Dorothea is the character most fitting for the Dancer Class. Her history and intelligence means that she has experience being the support for more powerful and capable people.
** All of her supports are with nobles (except Byleth and Yuri, and Yuri was adopted by Count Rowe), which makes sense considering she's seeking to marry one.
** She compares herself to a Rose, which is fittingly one of her favorite gifts and symbolizes beauty and love.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Despite her classmates telling her she is a terrible cook, you don't get stat penalties if you choose to cook with her at the monastery like you do with Flayn or Raphael. Although it is possible that thanks to Byleth's help she's able to make decent food.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** He's a HotBlooded musclehead who does nothing but train while struggling in his studies. This is reflected in his relatively high physical stats but poor proficiency in Reason.
** His recklessness earns him a lower defense growth than some of his other physically-oriented peers, notably his counterparts Dedue and Raphael from the other houses.
** His shouting ''does'' boost the morale of people under his command, but as Hubert notes, it makes it difficult for Caspar to do anything covert and can make it difficult for his unit to function. In addition, most of his strategic approaches to combat boil down to 'hit it until it dies.' Naturally, he has a weakness in authority as a result, having a difficult time learning how to command others strategically.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
** Despite wearing heavier armor after the timeskip, he leans towards the Warrior class, which is known to hit hard at the expense of defense.
** Despite his physical training, his base speed of 6 and dexterity of 5 are rather low when deciding to teach his class.
** In ''Three Hopes'' Caspar's preferred class line as a playable character goes through to Wyvern Lord, but he appears as an NPC in the Brawler and War Master classes, and the reward for completing his paralogue is a pair of gauntlets that it's expected Caspar will use.

** Justified if Petra marries Caspar. The reason why the people of Brigid are initially skeptical of their union is because Caspar's father, Count Bergliez, was the one who killed Petra's father.

* ClosetGay: Inverted. Out of all the characters she is the most open about her bisexuality and unlike most other [[GayOption Gay Options]] it is not [[IfItsYouItsOkay limited to Byleth]] as she also hits on Edelgard and Ingrid in her support conversation with them. In ''Three Hopes'' she mentions during an expedition with Shez that her hopes for the future include finding a handsome husband ''or'' a beautiful wife.

* ClosetGay: Inverted. She is very open about her bisexuality and unlike most other [[GayOption Gay Options]] it is not [[IfItsYouItsOkay limited to Byleth]] as she also hits on Edelgard and Ingrid in her support conversation with them. In ''Three Hopes'' she mentions during an expedition with Shez that her hopes for the future include finding a handsome husband ''or'' a beautiful wife.

** In ''Three Hopes'' she laments that Gareg Mach shutting down means that she lost her best chance to meet a Mr. Right... or ''Ms. Right''. Moreover, if Shez goes on an expedition with her and asks about her hopes for the future she will mention wanting a roguishly handsome husband ''or'' a beautiful wife.

* AmbiguouslyBi: While she cannot attain an S-support with female Byleth, her paired ending with Dorothea states that Dorothea "became the person that Petra loved most."; notably, Dorothea's title in this ending is "Devoted Heart", which is the title she otherwise ''only'' gets in her endings with confirmed marriages (and even then, not all of them). ''Three Hopes'' includes some subtext with Shez, with Petra's supports having her take an interest in Shez and insist they accompany her back to Brigid once the war is over.

* MsFanservice: On par with Hilda for being the biggest provider of {{Fanservice}} among the ''Three Houses'' cast, being a buxom beauty who, post-timeskip, wears a dress that shows off her well-endowed figure. Even pre-timeskip, she wears her uniform jacket partially open, showing plenty of cleavage and her shapely thighs. And that's not even getting into how she debuted in ''Heroes'' in a bikini, or how she wears a very revealing BellyDancer outfit in another form in ''Heroes''. However, this trope is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in that she fears that suitors only see her as eye-candy and don't care about who she is beyond her physical beauty. She wants to marry someone who would love her even when she's old and grey.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While not the brightest individual, Caspar gets irritated at Edelgard in their C-support seemingly pitying him for being a second son with no inheritance and outright tells her off for both [[InnocentlyInsensitive being thoughtless about his feelings on the matter]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe making everything about her]]. [[spoiler:The Azure Moon route in particular shows that the traits Caspar called her out on are the same ones that prevent Edelgard from agreeing to end the war peacefully because she believes herself to be the only one capable of changing Fódlan, [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans considering the countless bystanders harmed by the war a necessary sacrifice as long a better Fódlan is born in the end]].]]

** Justified if Petra marries Caspar. The reason that the people of Brigid are initially skeptical of their union is because Caspar's father, Count Bergliez, was the one who killed Petra's father.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Downplayed. If Petra marries Byleth their ending card states that the people of Fodlan were initially skeptical of their union but eventually came to accept her. If she gets a [[AmbiguouslyBi paired ending with Dorothea]] their ending card states that the people of Brigid were initially skeptical of the latter but warmed up to her over time.

* ClosetGay: Inverted. She is very open about her bisexuality and unlike most other [[GayOption Gay Options]] it is not limited to Byleth as she also hits on Edelgard and Ingrid in her support conversation with them. In ''Three Hopes'' she mentions during an expedition with Shez that her hopes for the future include finding a handsome husband ''or'' a beautiful wife.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Downplayed. If Petra marries Byleth as their ending card states that the people of Fodlan were initially skeptical of their union but eventually came to accept her. If she gets a [[AmbiguouslyBi paired ending with Dorothea]] their ending card states that the people of Brigid were initially skeptical of the latter but warmed up to her over time.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Downplayed. If Petra marries Byleth as their ending card states that the people of Fodlan were initially skeptical of their union but warmed up to her over time.

** For someone who wishes for nothing more than to be left alone to relax and focus on his Crest research he is rather good at attracting women as he has nine romantic paired endings with female characters. The only other male characters who have more romantic paired endings than him are male Byleth and Ferdinand. Notably, he has more romantic paired endings with women than ''Dimitri'' (who has eight).

** For someone who wishes nothing more than to be left alone to relax and focus on his Crest research he is rather good at attracting women as he has nine romantic paired endings with female characters. The only other male characters who have more romantic paired endings than him are male Byleth and Ferdinand. Notably, he has more romantic paired endings with women than ''Dimitri'' (who has eight).

* IfItsYouItsOkay: Implied; his only romantic ending with another man is with male Byleth. His one other male-male ending is with Caspar, and states only that they [[AmbiguouslyGay "eventually settled down".]]

** For someone who wishes nothing more than to be left alone to relax and focus on his Crest research he is rather good at attracting women as he has nine romantic paired endings with female characters. The only other male characters who have more romantic paired endings than him are male Byleth and Ferdinand. Notably, he has more romantic paired endings with women than {{Hunk}} Dimitri (who has eight).

** For someone who wishes nothing more than to be left alone to relax and focus on his Crest research he is rather good at attracting women as he has nine romantic paired endings with female characters. The only other male characters who have more romantic paired endings than him are male Byleth and Ferdinand. Notably, he has more romantic paired endings with women than {{Hunk Dimitri}} (who has eight).