History Characters / FireEmblemThreeHousesBlueLions

* Irony: She is one of the most religious characters and yet she can end being recruited to the Black Eagles house and subsequently side with Edelgard after she [[spoiler:declares war on the Church of Seiros]].

* RagsToRiches: He was born a commoner and lived in poverty after his parents succumbed to illness. He was saved when Lonato adopted him and his siblings, making him (upon Christophe's death) the heir to House Gaspard.

* RedOniBlueOni: He and Caspar are polar opposites should they be recruited to the same house. Ashe is level-headed and prefers reconciliation to retribution, 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.]]
* RouteBoss: Averted in ''Three Houses, as Ashe's the only recruitable character that can be fought on every route that doesn't belong to his starter house.

* NiceGuy: Ashe is unfailingly polite and kind, even to those who are rude or impatient toward him. In his support with Byleth, Ashe declares that he loves offering his help to any who need it:

* BoringButPractical: He lacks Bernadetta's gimmicks and Ignatz's utility, but his semi-unique combination of both an axe boon and a bow boon [[note]]Excluding DLC, only Cyril and Petra have this, and Petra doesn't level bows out of house.[[/note]] allows him to easily go Brigand and then set his study plan to bow/authority for the rest of the game, giving the player access to a Sniper with Death Blow at minimal cost and effectively an extra tutoring session for the rest of the game. His lone bane is also in Reason, which doesn't effect his usual builds.

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: In ''Three Hopes'', all of the Blue Lions sans Ashe and Mercedes are locked to Azure Gleam; thus they cannot fight alongside [[spoiler:Edelgard, Hubert, Caspar, Ferdinand, Monica, Manuela, Claude, Hilda, Lysithea, Leonie or Holst]]. Mercedes is only recruitable in Scarlet Blaze and cannot join the party in Golden Wildfire [[spoiler:although she can become a GuestStarPartyMember in the final chapter]].

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: In ''Warriors: Three Hopes'', she cannot be recruited on the Golden Wildfire route, and thus cannot fight directly alongside Claude, Hilda, or Holst.

** On the Crimson Flower route, Dedue will [[spoiler:hand out Crest Stones to random Holy Kingdom soldiers with the intent to have them transform into Demonic Beasts in an attempt to beat back the Imperial army, even doing so himself]]. If not recruited, Sylvain and possibly Mercedes(who arrives with reinforcements later) [[spoiler:are complicit in their knowledge of the plan, with Sylvain even stating his approval of it for the sake of revenge when the first soldier turns]].

* {{Irony}}: If he was recruited on the Crimson Flower route, he stays with the Empire due to blaming the Church for Lonato and Christophe's deaths, believing he'll find the truth for why they are killed. [[spoiler:In the end he remains ignorant of the truth by choosing revenge, and can only learn the truth by opposing the Empire.]]

* RecurringElement:
** He's able to lock pick for free and has the thieving background, much like [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Julian]], but he's also more attuned to archery and can become a powerful Sniper/Bow Knight when raised, which is pioneered by [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Gordin]].
** Outside of archetypes, he's incidentally similar to [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Castor]] (a bowman that originally had to resort to thievery in order to do good and care for his family members).

-->'''Ashe:''' I just want to save my friend, OK?
-->'''Yuri:''' I truly don't get you sometimes. (to himself) Also can't believe I'm going to fall for a cornball line like that.

* LikeGoesWithLike: Inverted. Dedue is a Duscur man and all of his explicitly romantic endings are with non-Duscur women (Annette, Byleth, Flayn, Mercedes, Shamir).

* LikeGoesWithLike: Inverted. Dedue is a Duscur man and all of his explicitly romantic endings are with non-Duscur women (Annette, Flayn, Mercedes, Shamir).

* HereditaryHomosexuality: She is bisexual just like her [[spoiler: brother Jeritza]].

* ParentalIncest: She almost ended up on the receiving end of this trope as her father wanted to marry her once her mother became too old to bear children. Thankfully, she was spared from this fate as [[spoiler: Jeritza killed their father once he found out about his intentions for her]].

* RouteBoss: She only appears as an enemy in Crimson Flower in ''Three Houses''. {{Averted}} in ''Three Hopes'', where she appears as an enemy general in both of the two non-Blue Lions route.

* CovertPervert: Downplayed, but in his supports with Hapi, he's shown to enjoy more "raunchy" stories about knights in addition to more conventional chivalrous tales.

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: In the ''Cindered Shadows'' since he and Claude both are bow focused units, Ashe starts off as a Sniper to differentiate himself from Claude, and focuses on being a long range archer thanks to having several of his long range Combat Arts, whereas Claude starts as a Wyvern Rider, making him more of a close range GlassCannon.

* RouteBoss: Averted, as Ashe's the only recruitable character that can be fought on every route that doesn't belong to his starter house.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Has a vaguely Irish-sounding accent not found on any other character.

* GenderEqualEnsemble: Averted; the Blue Lions is the only house with an uneven gender ratio - five boys and three girls. The recruitable ones, however, play this straight - three boys and three girls.

* PeltsOfTheBarbarian: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] during Part II - in lieu of [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience strict color coordination]], most of the Blue Lions' Part II gear all have furs either lines on capes or within the shirts and tunics themselves. As Faerghus is cited to be [[GrimUpNorth perpetually cold]] in canon, the furs that most of them wear are far more practical and modest in appearance than [[PrettyInMink refined]], but Dimitri's capes as both a High Lord and Great Lord play the trope straighter, especially [[FallenHero early on]]. Dedue, Mercedes, and Ashe avert this; the former two are not originally from Faerghus (instead being from Duscur and Adrestia, respectively), and Ashe lives in a more southern part of Faerghus.

-->'''Dedue''': It is not untrue to assert that our professor led us here for battle experience...

* NotInThisForYourRevolution: On [[spoiler:Silver Snow and Verdant Wind]], [[spoiler:when he teams up with Byleth and co. for the siege of Enbarr, he makes it clear he couldn't care less about their objectives - he's just there for Edelgard's head]].

* GayOption: She is a romancable option for Female Byleth.

* HiddenBuxom: Datamining shows she has the third-biggest breasts in the entire game, behind only Manuela and Byleth. You can tell this after the timeskip by her figure-hugging blouse, which is still rather conservative and doesn't show anything. Before the timeskip, he breasts are just as big, but are concealed by her shawl. Becomes more prominent in her summer Variant in ''Heroes'' where it's shown she's quite stacked, which is made more apparent since she debuts alongside Summer Hilda and Marianne - both wearing bikinis of their own - and still has noticeably bigger breasts than them (with both being very well-endowed themselves).

* NiceGirl: She's one of the sweetest, friendliest and most gentle characters in the cast. In several of her supports, Mercedes declares that she wants to help people - whether through service to the Church of Seiros or otherwise.

** Sweet little Annette is surprisingly at ease with killing people - on your first real mission with the Blue Lions where you actually kill enemy units instead of just defeating them, she'll happily comment on how great a fighter she is, whereas the more seasoned fighters like Dimitri and Sylvain display a far more sober, regretful attitude towards it.

--> '''Ashe''': [[spoiler:Forgive me... But as Lonato's son, I have a duty!]]

[[folder:Sylvain]]
!!Sylvain Jose Gautier
!!!'''Class:''' Noble → Soldier → Cavalier → Paladin → Great Knight (''Three Houses''), Soldier → Paladin → Holy Knight (''Three Hopes'')
!!!'''Age:''' 19 (6/05)
!!!'''Crest:''' Gautier (Minor)
!!!'''Height:''' 186 cm
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakotoFurukawa (Japanese), Joe Brogie (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[NiceGuy Sincerest of Knights]]'' / ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes Consummate Flirt]]'']]

->''"Playing around with girls is the most fun a guy can have. Besides, I don't care what you think of me. I don't intend to change how I live my life."''

The heir to the margravial House of Gautier at the border. He cares for his friends, and is admired as an older brother figure in his class, but his fondness for sweet-talking girls is unmatched, such that he has endless troubles. He has an elder brother who was removed as the heir due to not possessing a Crest.\\\

His personal ability, ''Philanderer'', increases his damage and reduces the damage he takes if he is adjacent to a female ally. He also bears the Minor Crest of Gautier, which has a chance to raise his Might when he uses Combat Arts.

* ActionInitiative: He learns Swift Strikes at A Lances, which allows him two consecutive attacks with any lance weapon for the cost of some weapon durability, even if he was unable to double before. He's notably the only character without a Crest of Cichol to learn this ability.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: He is a lot better behaved in ''Three Hopes'' and his casanova tendencies get downplayed. In particular, the roles have been reversed with him and Felix or Ingrid, where he is the one to get them out of trouble when his friends used to do the same to him when they were younger.
* AdaptationalWimp: His summer variant in ''Heroes'' has a noticeably lower Atk than his ''Three Houses'' self. Possibly justified, as his summer variant is a mage and thus using Sylvain's lower Magic stat.
* AlasPoorVillain: Downplayed. Sylvain admits that the relationship between himself and his brother is very strained. But, and especially after the timeskip, he wonders at times how different their relationship could've been or how much more better off his brother would've been if Crests were really of no importance.
* AmbiguouslyBi: While he's an infamous skirt-chaser and has a strong preference for women, Sylvain's strongly hinted to be equal-opportunity bisexual.
** When Flayn brings up a rumor that he hits on both men and women, Sylvain doesn't exactly deny it.
--->'''Flayn:''' Of course I would prefer to believe that, but no one can never know for certain. Particularly when similar stories are constantly in circulation about you. I have heard that men and women alike have been seduced by your nefarious ways.\\
'''Sylvain:''' I hate to suggest my talents are being oversold, but...
** He also hits on Ashe in the Japanese version of their support conversation, even suggesting that Ashe may have fallen in love with him before being cut off by the latter.
** In his B-support with Ingrid, she suggests he hits on ''everyone'', something he doesn't comment on, though given that he's used to Ingrid flinging accusations at him, he probably thinks it's probably beating a dead horse to try denying it.
--->'''Ingrid:''' You flirt with [[ReallyGetsAround anything that has a pulse]], offend people left and right, and constantly cause commotions.
** In ''Three Hopes'' he flirts with [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yuri]] on accident at first but fully admits he doesn't mind the truth.
* AncestralWeapon: Sylvain gains use of House Gautier’s Relic, the Lance of Ruin[[note]]Called the “Lance of Rupture” in Japanese[[/note]], if he's in Byleth's class either after [[spoiler:his brother Miklan's defeat in chapter 5]] if Byleth refuses to relinquish the lance to Rhea, or after Miklan's gang is dealt with in the Paralogue "The Forgotten" if Byleth agrees to give up the lance. [[spoiler:Unlike his brother,]] Sylvain's Crest allows him to wield it safely.
* AntiAir: Ruined Sky does bonus damage against flying enemies.
* AttackAttackAttack: His unique ability "Gordian Thrust" in ''Three Hopes'' encourages this, increasing his attack range and damage the higher his combo count is, starting at 300 hits and capping at 1500.
* BabiesEverAfter: In his paired endings with Mercedes, Byleth (in non-Azure Moon routes), and Ingrid.
* BaritoneOfStrength: Despite his flippant nature, he's a fully capable and deadly fighter, and he has a deep voice. This is even more apparent in his Japanese voice over particularly when he shifts over to using a more serious tone.
* BeneathTheMask: In his support with Mercedes, Sylvain at first approaches her with his usual superficial philandering, only to be surprised at her insistence that she wants to see "the real him." He rants about being frustrated by his Crest straining his relationship with his brother and making it impossible for him to believe the women interested in him were genuine, and for a moment regrets it, though Mercedes soothes him:
-->'''Sylvain:''' No, I... I should keep my temper better. I don't want you to see me act that way.\\
'''Mercedes:''' Don't say that. I'm glad we were able to talk. I feel like I'm finally seeing the real you.
* BetterAsFriends:
** A large number of his female support options end with him and the other party agreeing that while they develop a good friendship, romance wouldn't work between them due to various factors. Sylvain takes all of them in stride.
** Hilda refuses anything beyond friendship with Sylvain because she doesn't feel he could stand a chance convincing her brother to allow the marriage, and to her admitting that she was just using him.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's a shameless philander and a lighthearted jokester, but he's also the most likely to dole out open death threats when you fight him in Part II.
* BlackKnight: His armor as a mounted class evokes this imagery, being a unique spiky black armor. Suitably, he can be considered a knight (a nobleman who fights on horseback) but lacks traditional virtues and has a cynical outlook on life. He's also one of three playable units to have easy access to the Dark Knight class[[note]]He has strength in Lance and Riding and a budding talent in Reason, which are the three requirements[[/note]], along with Lorenz and [[spoiler:Jeritza]].
* BlessedWithSuck: In several of his supports, Sylvain laments how his Crest has ruined his life - turning his brother's jealousy into murderous rage directed at him, forcing him to deal with the high expectations people had of him, and making it impossible for him to trust that people liked him as a person instead of for his Crest.
* BoringButPractical: Compared to the rest of the Blue Lions, he falls into this. He has decent to good growths in every stat except Resistance, and a budding talent in Reason combined with his only weakness being in bows, allowing him to take up most classes without much issue, and having Pyschic among his Faith spells gives him extra utility. While he can't compete with some dedicated units, he can also adapt quickly on the battlefield making him one of the best characters from Blue Lions and one of the best characters to recruit on any route.
* BrilliantButLazy: He's highly intelligent and insightful, but admits he dislikes hard work and would rather coast through having fun. In ''Three Hopes'', during Shez's B support with him, he admits he's trying to research/work out a new design for a portable fire orb that anyone could use, which would be a definitive improvement over the current large-scale ones that require magical training to use.
* BrokenAce: In his support with Annette, Annette rails against Sylvain for being good at everything he tries effortlessly, while Sylvain reveals that he is ObfuscatingStupidity in order to escape the pressure placed on him by those with high expectations of him, as well as his tendency to hide his true feelings BeneathTheMask of superficiality and laziness.
* CainAndAbel: Sylvain claims that his older brother Miklan so resented him for being the favorite child due to his Crest that he wanted Sylvain dead, and [[spoiler:if Sylvain talks to Miklan in chapter 5, Miklan urges Sylvain to "hurry up and die."]]
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Sylvain's a skirt-chaser but in his A+ Support with Ingrid, he's a blubbering mess who stammers even more than Bernadetta.
* CharacterTics: Tends to hold his hands behind his head, even performing a one-handed variant in his academy phase portrait.
* TheCasanova: He is known to be [[ReallyGetsAround successful with women]] to the point where it earned him a negative [[IntentionalHeartbreaker reputation with them]]. During the games story he trickles between this and HandsomeLech due to said reputation and his insecurities keeping him from forming meaningful relationships with the girls he supports in the main cast.

** In his support with Mercedes, the two bond over how their Crests have caused them misfortune and strife throughout their lives.
** Averted with his supports with Marianne, as even though both of them have had their lives ruined by being Crest-bearing nobles, this doesn't get brought up and instead focuses on Sylvain attempting to encourage Marianne to be more sociable and teaching her to smile.
* CoolBigBro: Seen as one by his classmates, and according to Sylvain, when Felix was younger, looked up to Sylvain and treated him like an older brother. He often offers his comrades advice or assists them in solving their problems. Considering how [[BigBrotherBully Miklan treated Sylvain growing up]], this is probably a direct response to being the opposite of that, as Sylvain knows how awful it is to be bullied by someone you looked up to.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: It's subtle, but his character model has slight dark circles around his eyes when examined closely. Shadow effects are also more prominent on his portraits than most other characters, notably for his sad and angry expressions. A subtle hint that he's far more cynical and bitter than he lets on.
* CrutchCharacter: On Maddening mode in particular, playing as female Byleth in a non-Blue Lions house, he can be easily recruited after the first chapter, starts off at Level 3 (which will be higher than anybody else due to how hard leveling up is in that difficulty) and has access to his exclusive Combat Art Ruined Sky through the Lance of Ruin, effectively the most powerful attack at your disposal until you get access to other Relics.
* TheCynic: Beneath his easygoing nature, Sylvain is quite cynical and distrustful.
* DamageSpongeBoss: He becomes this if not recruited [[spoiler:on the Crimson Flower route,]] especially on Maddening. While he is immobile, he has massive HP and Defense (84 and 40+5, respectively), making him difficult to take out without class-effective weaponry or magic.
* DarkIsNotEvil: His AncestralWeapon is called the Lance of ''Ruin''[[note]]Or the Lance of Rupture in Japanese[[/note]] and said weapon has an overall sinister look to it, he wears dark armor after the timeskip, he is one of two playable characters to ride a black horse, and his generic class outfits are all black and red, but Sylvain is ultimately a good person at heart.
* DeadlyDistantFinale: His ending with Mercedes has him [[spoiler:eventually pass away to be succeeded by his oldest, crestless child]]. His ending with Felix [[spoiler:[[TogetherInDeath has them fulfill their childhood promise of dying together]] after becoming so close that they could not live without each other]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Not as snarky as Felix, but Sylvain makes sarcastic comments from time to time.
* DeathByAdaptation: He can survive all ''Three Houses'' routes if he’s been recruited before the TimeSkip; in ''Three Hopes'', [[spoiler:he inevitably dies on Scarlet Blaze.]]
* DeathGlare: After the timeskip, his angry portrait becomes this.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Exchanges these with Mercedes in their A-support, with both vowing to protect the other.
* DeliberateUnderPerformance: Sylvain intentionally shirks his studies and skips training to flirt with girls because he's tired of the expectations placed on him for bearing a crest. As shown by his wide range of proficiencies, he's actually good at nearly anything he puts his mind to, he just doesn't want the attention.
* DirtyKid: In his younger days. [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten Ingrid won't let him forget the time he hit on her grandmother when he was eight]]. Sylvain's defense [[NotHelpingYourCase is that Ingrid's grandmother was gorgeous]].
* DiscOneNuke: You can get the Lance of Ruin as early as Chapter 5 if you are playing Azure Moon or you recruited him (especially if you are female as he'll immediately request to join you if you talked to him) and deny returning the relic to Rhea. This weapon boasts 22 might and 20 critical rate and the combat art Ruined Sky, which gives 13 extra might and is effective against flying and dragon enemies.
* EasilyForgiven: Discussed. If Byleth talks to Sylvain when exploring the monastery in chapter 18 of the Azure Moon route, a week or a few weeks following [[spoiler:Dimitri's epiphany and RedemptionInTheRain at the end of chapter 17,]] Sylvain muses that he isn't sure if he can just forgive Dimitri after his reprehensible and destructive actions, but decides that he's willing to trust that the prince is genuinely working to atone and give him a chance.
* TheEeyore: A lot more subtle than it is with characters like the constantly-gloomy Hapi, but he is far more cynical and bitter than his initial attitude lets on, as [[HiddenDepths he feels that all women only want him for his Crest instead of him]]. This is especially true should he be recruited on Crimson Flower.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: During the cutscene introducing the houses and students, Sylvain tries flirting with Ingrid only to be rejected with a backhand punch.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Though he's a womanizer and is known for breaking hearts, he doesn't go for people he's aware would be too fragile to handle it and doesn't try to force people into doing something they don't want - for instance, in his supports with Bernadetta, he never flirts with her but instead comes across a book she was writing and goes out of his way to tell her how much he liked it, even though Bernadetta is so shocked by the praise she runs away.
** In his supports with Marianne, when she declines going to town with him and is obviously uncomfortable by his advances, Sylvain backs off and tells her the offer still stands if she changes her mind but doesn't push the issue any further. He then tries to teach Marianne to smile and tells her it will help her feel better about herself, to which she seems to take to heart, and even mentions Sylvain's advice to Ashe in her support with him.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: After the timeskip, while his hair is still spiky, it's noticeably neater than it was during the academy phase. This fits with his more serious nature during the war phase.
* FieryRedhead: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], as he's actually pretty laid-back.
* {{Foil}}:
** He and Dimitri are pretty much direct opposites; Sylvain is easygoing, fun-loving and lighthearted, while Dimitri is serious, responsible, and in Sylvain's words, "uptight." Highlighted by their support chain, where Sylvain promises to act more responsibly if Dimitri will lighten up.
** He and Ingrid are polar opposites; Ingrid is serous, straightforward, responsible and presents as the picture of a traditional, reliable knight. Sylvain is relaxed, somewhat irresponsible, has a fondness for joking around and tends to get into trouble.
** Similar to the above, he is this to Felix as well, being carefree, likable side to Felix’s serious and at times callous exterior.
** As a HandsomeLech, Sylvain is one for [[CasanovaWannabe Lorenz]], as although he flirts around Sylvain holds the girls in contempt despite his charming persona, while Lorenz is actively looking for a wife that would be a good match for him, despite being obnoxious about it. Sylvain resents his status and responsibilities as a noble and heir of his house, while Lorenz is proud of and embraces his own.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Despite being something of a goofball, he's the Responsible to Miklan's Foolish, as despite his own issues, Sylvain is serious about becoming a good leader and copes with GallowsHumor and flirting. His solo ending also has him [[spoiler:make peace with Sreng through diplomacy alone.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: His initial interactions with his fellow Blue Lions classmates come off as this. Dimitri, Felix, and ''especially'' Ingrid are quite annoyed with his skirt chasing tendencies, and even Ashe and Annette find him to be an irritating and lazy slacker. The exceptions are Dedue, who is mostly very quiet, and Mercedes, who is a NiceGirl to just about ''everyone'', and even then, Mercedes ''instantly'' sees through his flirty act and calls him out on it in their supports. That said, everyone either warms up to him or shows they care about him at the culmination of their supports with him.
* FriendlyEnemy: In his, Dimitri, and Rodrigue's paralogue in ''Three Hopes'', Sylvain and the commander of the Sreng army fought in said paralogue aren't too hostile towards each other (aside from Sylvain questioning the commander on why he would care that [[spoiler:Miklan has died]]) and are a bit more jovial towards each other than normal enemies of war, despite the terror the commander and his fellow brothers-in-arms have brought to his father and the Kingdom, and the betrayal he dealt the former. He's very thankful that they managed to get this relation, as he hopes this means that Faerghus and Sreng have a better chance at peace by understanding each other, despite his father thinking that peace is impossible.
* GallowsHumor: He's rather fond of this, choosing to hide his trauma through jokes.

** He's an infamous skirt chaser and tends to follow any woman who remotely catches his attention. Female Byleth can recruit him instantly, no matter what her stats are.
** He secretly dislikes the girls he dates for dating him for his crest and dumps them in a short while. He has a total of 4 potential wives, female Byleth included, and accepts any offer of BetterAsFriends. In fact, he only has ''5'' A ranks at all, and that's his four potential wives and Felix.
** Along with that, likely due to his skirt-chasing ways, Sylvain is a character with the second highest amount of supports in the game after Byleth at 17.
** While a friendly and outgoing person, Sylvain is not particularly open with people, having some of the fewest A-rank supports in the game due to his trust issues. Not even Dimitri, one of his childhood friends, can A-support him, nor can Annette, Ashe, or Dedue. Contrast his prickly friend Felix, who has over twice as many A-supports and far more romantic endings.
** Sylvain comes from the coldest and northernmost region of Faerghus and "hot places" are one of his dislikes, even complaining when the team has to head out to the Valley of Torment. Naturally, he's one of the fastest students to heat up in the sauna.
** Sylvain's Defense growth of 40% is one of the highest outside of obviously-bulky characters such as [[MightyGlacier Dedue, Raphael, or Gilbert]]. He's also implied to have a high tolerance for physical pain in general. Given how [[BigBrotherBully Miklan treated Sylvain]], this makes sense.
** During his supports with Annette, she comments on how he can effortlessly do just about anything, despite the fact that he puts on an obvious veneer of laziness. Sylvain only has a penalty with bows. He has strength in axes, lances, and riding, with a budding talent in reason. Every other skill is neutral, meaning they grow normally. Essentially, Sylvain ''can'' be good at just about anything and be a unit with immense versatility, just as Annette is more or less pointing out in the conversation. This can also be brought up by Sylvain himself, as sometimes he can approach Byleth to ask about switching his study goals over to something like magic to expand on his skills, and is a feasible path for him to take.
* GeniusBruiser: Despite his slacker attitude, he's no less capable than his more hardworking peers on the battlefield. Additionally, he's also [[SmarterThanYouLook considerably more intelligent than he lets on.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Sylvain is jealous of the fact that Byleth grew up with a powerful crest with none of the social baggage that usually comes with it, especially since they didn't even know they had one until it manifests during the game. The first time this comes up, he plays it off with a JustJokingJustification, but during a later conversation, he admits that he really did feel jealous about Byleth. [[spoiler:If he's not recruited, he doesn't get over his jealousy over Byleth and makes it explicitly clear if male Byleth faces him as an opponent]].
-->'''Sylvain:''' (angry) You were free. Nobody pretended to like you. I kind of hate you for that... You were a spoiled brat who should pay for that Crest. Maybe I'll collect the debt.\\
'''Sylvain:''' (smiling) [[BaitAndSwitch Ha! Gotcha!]] Wow, you shoulda seen the look on your face just then.
* GutturalGrowler: Not normally, but one of his hidden critical hit quotes (if he fights a named character in the war phase) has him slip into this for one word.
-->"Let's ''end'' this!"
* HandsomeLech: Played with, as Sylvain is successful with women. However, by the time the game's events transpire, he has earned himself such a negative reputation with women that it makes his attempts to score with most of the girls in the main cast unsuccessful due to their distrust toward him as well as his unwillingness to fully commit himself due to his own insecurities. This often leads to many of his supports ending with them declaring that they’d be [[BetterAsFriends better as friends]] or simply implying that he chooses not to pursue the girl any further. Should he not be paired by the end of the game, his solo ending has his reputation following him despite all the good he is stated to have done in the form of cheaters being known as “The sons of Gautier” out of tradition.
* HeroicBuild: While he's visibly broad-shouldered in ''Three Houses'', his summer variant in ''Heroes'' reveals that he's completely shredded.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Potentially with Felix, at least in the English translation. The Japanese translation, however, uses romantic language to describe their relationship. [[spoiler:They even die on the same day in their Azure Moon paired ending, where to quote the game, "as if conceding that one could not live without the other."]]

** Despite being a skirt-chaser, he actually holds most of the women he dates in contempt because he believes that none of them care about who he actually is, but rather simply want him for his bloodline. Appropriately enough, most of his supports tend to revolve around the other person learning about Sylvain's true motives. Indeed, a majority of his supports with female characters max out at a B-rank, prohibiting them from getting a paired ending together.
** He admits post-timeskip to Byleth that disliking the girls he dates for being interested in him for his Crest is just an excuse to pass blame onto someone for the misfortune he goes through because of Crests, and even before then he admits that despite breaking the hearts of women all the time, he really doesn't enjoy it and he hates to see a girl cry.
** Despite starting out as a basic foot soldier, he's incredibly intelligent and loves tactics board games to go with his pretty good aptitude for magic, Reason being his budding talent. He is able to easily understand a book of magic that Annette struggles with, and one of his requirements for recruitment by male Byleth is for Byleth to have a high Reason stat.[[note]]He'll [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration immediately join if female Byleth asks him to]], regardless of her stats.[[/note]]
** He believes the people of Duscur are not responsible for the conspiracy to kill the previous king of Faerghus and gives a number of reasons why he thinks so. Hence, he's completely fine being around Dedue. He also justifies it to Dedue because he's the victim of even worse rumors and hate than Dedue is, and Sylvain acknowledges that unlike Dedue, he's actually earned that reputation.
** In his support conversation with Ashe, Sylvain reveals that he holds genuinely heroic beliefs, saying that it’s a knight’s job to protect and help out anyone and everyone who needs it. A surprised Ashe even remarks that, were it not for his philandering and troublemaking, Sylvain would be a great person.
** Despite coming off like kind of a goofball, he has a taste for fine art and theatre; one of his favorite gifts is the Landscape Painting and he mentions to Byleth that he likes the opera. In ''Three Hopes'', during Sylvain's support with Ignatz, he admits that at first he got knowledgeable about art to impress the ladies, but genuinely became interested in the craft after a time.
** His support with Bernadetta has him reading a book she wrote, in which he gives great praise to it as well as surprisingly strong in-depth commentary and critique on its contents.
** Despite being the one person in his group of childhood friends who isn't dedicated to some sort of ideal in the first half of the game (with Ingrid focusing on being a knight and Felix focusing on becoming strong), he is the most dedicated to an ideal if recruited to the Black Eagles [[spoiler:during the Crimson Flower route. Ingrid and Felix both become unsure that they've made the correct decision to turn on their homelands (with Ingrid specifically wanting to return home, but feeling she has killed too many of her kin to do so), but Sylvain's hatred of Crests means that he’s willing to support Edelgard's path (even if he has some misgivings). He does, however, express regret in having to turn against and kill his friends as evidenced in his dialogue.]]
** His room is very neat and tidy. Combined with his dislike of the Watering Can gift (said to be enjoyed by people who enjoy gardening, a messy hobby) and "unclean spaces" being in his dislikes, Sylvain obviously has high standards for hygiene and tidiness.
** Despite agreeing to a point about changing societies value on Crests, before the invasion of Faerghus on Crimson Flower [[spoiler:he tests Byleth to see how obedient they are to Edelgard. If they also disagree on the idea of invading Faerghus, not only does he get support points, but he shows a dislike for Edelgard's justifications and her "idiot sidekick" Hubert for invading, even if he's accepted that he can't do anything about it at this point]].
** One of his lost items is a book about "A History of Sreng", the country to the north-east of Fódlan that the Gautier family have long been tasked with defending Faerghus from, showing that despite this, Sylvain is interested in learning more about the people who have by all rights been his family's "enemy".
** During his paralogue he comes up with a pretty decent strategy for dealing with the thieves in his father's territory- cut off their escape routes and hunt the rest down.
** In his supports with Shez in ''Three Hopes'', Sylvain reveals an industrious side to himself. He's eager to experiment with Shez's [[SummonToHand teleporting sword]] and is developing plans for a new portable fire spell that anyone could use (prototype grenades or firearms) to better arm the common man so that Fódlan wouldn't be so reliant on the Hero's Relics for protection.
* HumbleHero: In his support with Annette, he's quick to downplay his intelligence and the fact that he picked up on a magic formula that she struggled with by saying that he just got lucky with it.
* HunterOfMonsters: Sylvain is good at killing monsters, due to Ruined Sky's bonus damage and learning Monster Piercer at C+ Lance. He also has access to Seraphim at B Faith if made a magic class.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Possibly on the Crimson Flower route. [[spoiler:If brought as mission assistance for Chapter 5, he witnesses his brother turn into a demonic beast with appropriate horror. In Chapter 17, if not recruited, he voices his ''approval'' for random Kingdom soldiers being transformed into demonic beasts for the sake of revenge, though he never says Miklan doesn't ''deserve'' to be turned into a monster and the fact it's his own brother probably contributed heavily to his initial reaction.]]
** He accuses Byleth of being a "spoiled brat" in their B-support because they didn't know they had a Crest for most of their life and thus were free do as they pleased, but Sylvain comments in his C-support with Lysithea that he was allowed to do pretty much whatever he wanted as a child because he was the heir to his house. Granted, he does say he was joking, but it's hard to tell with Sylvain.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** In his C-support with Manuela, Sylvain tries to console Manuela regarding a recent breakup of hers, only to condemn someone who exhibited his own normal behavior toward women:
--->'''Manuela:''' What a thoughtful young man you are. You're a real gentleman compared to that jerk who just --\\
'''Sylvain:''' That guy who strung you along, whispered sweet nothings in your ear, then shattered your heart beyond repair? I agree. He's a jerk.
** When talking about the Kingdom's troubles, he criticizes the regent for being a skirt-chaser instead of helping his people, then immediately jokes about how he's well aware of the {{irony}} of his remarks.
* IAmWhatIAm:
** Sylvain is well aware of others' perceptions of him as a troublemaker, but he doesn't care and is adamant about living the life he wants to live.
** His later supports with Byleth and Mercedes reveal that he's more conflicted about himself and his lifestyle than he lets on. He dislikes the way he lives and the society he's stuck in, but doesn't see any way to change, nor does he believe he can escape it.
* InnocentlyInsensitive:
** The laid-back Sylvain has a habit of making off-color jokes during tense situations, or other lighthearted, potentially offensive remarks in serious situations that annoy others. Notably, he's on the receiving end of a slap from Ingrid after suggesting that [[spoiler:Flayn went missing because she eloped in chapter 6.]] He's got a habit of not bothering to filter his thoughts before he speaks them.
** In his support with Ingrid, Sylvain makes lighthearted jokes about the bodily danger his antics put him in, without realizing the impact that seeing someone else close to her hurt or killed would have on Ingrid after losing Glenn. He genuinely apologizes to her once he realizes his mistake.
* IntentionalHeartbreaker: He has this reputation, though unlike usual perpetrators of this trope he actually feels bad for what he does.
* IronicEcho: His and Ingrid's C-support in ''Three Houses'' starts with Ingrid dropping a hard sigh over all the troubles Sylvain gets himself into, to which he remarks on it and asks her what's wrong. Their C-support in ''Three Hopes'' starts with ''Sylvain'' being the one to sigh hard over troubles Ingrid gets into to which she asks him what's wrong.
* {{Irony}}:
** Despite being a total skirt chaser, Sylvain has the fewest potential romantic supports of any student at 3 (4 if Byleth is a girl), with Dorothea being the only girl outside the Blue Lions that he can marry.
** If you level up his Reason skill, most of the spells he learns are fire-based, but Sylvain hates the heat and mentions he hails from the most Northern part of the Faerghus Kingdom, which is very cold.
** Ruined ''Sky'' does bonus damage against flying enemies. The NewGamePlus item that bestows the Crest of Gautier upon its holder is called the Fissure Dragon Sign.
** Despite having much of his life revolving around his Crest and passing it on, Sylvain never explicitly bears a child with a Crest in his endings. Doubles up if he married Ingrid or Mercedes, who are in a similar situation.
* ItsPersonal: In ''Three Hopes'' on the Golden Wildfire route, [[spoiler:he shows the most hostility against the Federation army after they killed his father on their way to Fhirdiad, and he was already infuriated at them given that they invaded Faerghus.]]
-->'''Sylvain (to [[spoiler:Claude]]):''' [[spoiler:You come here, trampling people's homes and murdering their parents... I'm going to make you pay.]]
* JackOfAllStats: His growths are well-balanced with the exception of a low magic growth, making him well-rounded overall.
* JackOfAllTrades: Sylvain only has a negative modifier to his bow skill, and despite his mediocre skill with magic, he does have a fairly respectable spell list, allowing him to become pretty good at just about any class and about as versatile as Byleth.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be rude, smug, and even callous concerning the feelings of others, especially those of the women he dates, but he's a genuinely outgoing, friendly person and ultimately well-meaning.
* TheKirk: He's a balance between Felix's pragmatic logic and Ingrid's knightly virtues.
* LadykillerInLove: He's a shameless philanderer, most of his relationships go nowhere, and in several of his support conversations he outright admits to resenting women who show interest in him, believing their intentions to be shallow. If he gets a paired ending with Byleth, Mercedes, Ingrid, or Dorothea, however, [[spoiler:he genuinely falls for them, and the epilogues states that he happily settled down and was a devoted husband.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: PlayedForLaughs in his support with Ingrid in ''Three Hopes''. Sylvain tells her how he always has to clean up after a particularly unruly knight in his squadron, in which a ''very'' amused Ingrid proceeds to laugh at how Sylvain now knows what she had to deal with when it came to him in the past.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Sylvain is laid-back and jovial while his father Matthias is a lot more stern and serious. Their views on Sreng are also vastly different, as Sylvain hopes to make peace with Sreng through diplomacy and understanding, while Matthias views them as barbarians and has no hope of peace being forged between the two nations.
* LoveableRogue: He tends to skirt the boundaries of responsibility and cares little for the consequences of his actions, but he’s a charming and kind guy regardless.
* MagicKnight: Despite his below average magic stats and growth, he has a budding talent in Reason magic and a solid spell list, making him a decent choice as a Dark Knight.
* MealTicket: What he sees himself as, as he's convinced the women he dates are only interested in him for his noble status and Crest.
* MeaningfulName: Or meaningful last name in his case. “Gautier” is the French variation of the Germanic name “Walter” which means “Ruler of the Army”, hinting at the fact that he inherits the title Margrave Gautier from his father after the war is done. Humorously of note, he shares his last name with two prominent male historical figures associated with women. One who was a saint that founded a monastery for women and a minstrel known for his crass and erotic poetry.
* MessyHair: Pre-timeskip, Sylvain's hair is a mess, sticks out in multiple directions, and partially falls over one eye. It becomes a bit more tidy after the timeskip.
* MrFanservice: He's tall, broad-shouldered, has a deep voice, and is attractive enough in-universe to be successful with the ladies despite being a philanderer. His summer variant in ''Heroes'' also reveals a very muscular physique, with his swim trunks being low on the waist. He's damn proud of it, too.
-->'''Sylvain''': I won't ask if you like my swimsuit. I'll just say... you're welcome.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The In-Between to Ingrid's Nice and Felix's Mean. While Sylvain is genuinely a NiceGuy to his close friends and peers, he does display some cynicism and bitterness on the inside, especially in regards to his feelings on how much his Crest negatively affected his life.
* NonUniformUniform: He leaves his uniform jacket and the topmost button of his dress shirt undone. He also has his sleeves rolled up to his elbows and has a semi-unique boot design (only Felix and Lysithea share this design).
* NoodleIncident: While scolding Sylvain for his skirt-chasing, Ingrid reminds him that he "made eyes at a scarecrow" when he was ten. Sylvain responds, "That was just an accident... a tragic, tragic accident."
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He wants people to see him as a brainless skirt-chaser, even though he's anything but. Perhaps best illustrated in his C-Support with Annette, where he instantly understands and is able to critique a book that she had been having trouble with and then tries to make up excuses about why he could, like pretending he'd read the book before or just got lucky.
* ParentalFavoritism: Because their father values Crests so much, the moment Sylvain was born with one instantly made him the favorite over his older brother Miklan. Noticeably, however, Sylvain seems a bit sympathetic to his older brother, though he doesn't hesitate to state that he hated how selfish and egotistical Miklan would get over it.
* PlayingWithFire: Learns Fire, Bolganone, and Ragnarok through Reason.
* PlotlineDeath: In ''Three Hopes'', [[spoiler:he’ll die trying to avenge Ingrid on Scarlet Blaze.]]

-->"''I'm on it!''" ''(pre-timeskip)''\\
"''What's the plan?''" ''(post-timeskip)''

-->"''Gonna need you to move!''"\\
"''Don't underestimate me!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Open wide!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Take this!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''This'll do it!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''Let's finish this!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''Whatever it takes!''" (Post-timeskip)
* RainOfArrows: He learns Sagittae upon reaching B in Reason.
* ReallyGetsAround: Sylvain has a reputation for being a philanderer (his unique ability is literally named "Philanderer," after all), and according to the rumors his tastes are very broad. Ingrid won't forgive him for flirting with her grandmother when he was only eight and recalls a time where he made eyes at a scarecrow when he was ten. [[note]]This differs in the original Japanese version as it was stated that he flirted with a man dressed as a woman.[[/note]] In his support with Flayn, she accuses him of hitting on horses and chickens, although in fairness, Flayn's source are schoolyard rumors and she is exceptionally gullible. She also suggests he flirts with men too, which he doesn't deny.

** ''Three Houses'' overall downplays the 'Christmas Cavalier' archetype pioneered by [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Cain and Abel]], but Sylvain has several elements of Cain: he's less serious and focuses on strength, but he wears green and some hints of red in his time-skip outfit, and he mostly wears black and red pre and post time skip, particularly in his classes.
** He shares the ChivalrousPervert traits from previous series' perverts (such as [[Characters/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Saul]], [[Characters/FireEmblemTheBlazingBladeLynsTale Sain]], [[Characters/FireEmblemPathOfRadianceGreilMercenaries Gatrie]] and [[Characters/FireEmblemAwakeningSecondGeneration Inigo]].) In this case, he's a complete fit to the archetype (but also [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype deconstructing it]] in the same time)
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: PlayedWith. On the Azure Moon route, Sylvain is a loyal ally to the end, and if recruited on any other route, he remains with Byleth for the rest of the game. However, he is a FallenHero if not recruited on the Crimson Flower route, and on Verdant Wind, he [[spoiler:follows a crazed Dimitri into battle, attacking Alliance and Imperial troops indiscriminately.]] Regardless, his generic class outfits are all black and red, and he wears dark armor with red accents after the timeskip. He is also one of the few units to ride a black horse instead of the standard brown and white horse for the Cavalier and Paladin class, respectively.
* SadClown:
** In his supports with Byleth, Sylvain reveals deep feelings of cynicism regarding his eventual fate of "being forced into an arranged marriage with some random noblewoman," as well as his inability to be free from the burden his Crest places on him. He tends to cover his true feelings of resentment over his Crest with his jokes and philandering.
** His final support with Mercedes begins with the usual flirting, but quickly changes with her revealing that she knows he hates women and comforts him over it, promising that she'll be there to protect him. It's so unexpected and heartfelt that she makes him break down in tears.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: In ''Three Hopes'', he sports a green scarf around his neck after the timeskip.
* SeeYouInHell: One his quotes post-timeskip after defeating an enemy in the Japanese dub is literal about it.
-->English: Burn until we meet again.\\
Japanese: I'll see you again in hell.
* SecretAIMoves: As an enemy unit after the timeskip, he can know Pass, a skill that he is unable to learn as a playable unit.
* SecretArt:
** He's the only playable character to learn Black Magic Avoid +20.
** Additionally, without the NewGamePlus crest-granting items, he's also the only character capable of using Ruined Sky, the Lance of Ruin's combat art. It deals 13 extra damage, increases hit, critical, and avoid by 10, and is effective against dragons and flying units.
** When not including Balthus, who is [[DownloadableContent DLC]], he's the only male character who learns Seraphim.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Inverted, as while he's one of the tallest members of the Blue Lions (only Dedue and post-timeskip Dimitri are taller), he's also quite intelligent and rooted in logic.
* ShutUpHannibal: He calls Miklan out if you choose to have Sylvain fight him, as Miklan tries to blame ''everything'' that happened on Sylvain, who bluntly tells him it's his own fault and he's sick of being blamed for all Miklan's problems.
* SmarterThanYouLook: While on the surface Sylvain is just another foppish flirt of which there have been several in the series, he is actually very intelligent and insightful when he wants to be.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: In his B-support with Dorothea, 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?
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: He doesn't hesitate to call out [[spoiler:Miklan]] as selfish and egotistical after his death, even admitting he ''should'' NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead, but [[spoiler:his brother]] earned it for the hell he put him through in childhood.
* SpikyHair: Sylvain's hair sticks out in many directions, especially before the timeskip.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Sylvain is the mischievous, joke-cracking wise guy to Dimitri's straightforward, strictly serious straight man in their support chain.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Post-timeskip, he looks like an unscarred Miklan with shorter and neater hair.
* SympathyForTheDevil: After [[spoiler:Miklan's death,]] Sylvain has moments of reflection in which he feels sympathy for the way he was mistreated due to his lack of a Crest, though he retains some bitterness about the way he treated him.
-->'''Sylvain:''' Thinking about it, life was probably a lot harder for my brother than it ever has been for me.
* TakingTheBullet:
** Downplayed example, but in his A-Support with Byleth has Byleth visiting him after he took a blow for them in battle and got injured. Sylvain admits that despite being jealous of Byleth, he truly didn't want anything to happen to them and reacted on instinct when he thought they were about to be killed.
** Does this again to Felix in their A+ support, which [[AngerBornOfWorry angers Felix since Sylvain could've been killed for it.]] According to Felix, he's been doing it since they were kids.
* TaremeEyes: His eyes are somewhat droopy, to contrast Felix and Dimitri's TsurimeEyes and matching Ingrid's.
* TarotMotifs: Death, represented by the crest of Gautier. Sylvain represents the Reversed Death Arcana which symbolizes resistance to change. His support conversations with Byleth and Mercedes reveals that as much as he wants to change his life, he doesn't believe that he can change his way of life nor can he make the change in society. However, by the end of the routes, this changed to the Upright Death Arcana which represents change, as in many of his endings, it was stated that he was able to bring out the change that crest and relics are not necessary for society to move on with life.
* TogetherInDeath: He and Felix promised that they would stay together until they die together. [[spoiler:If paired on the Azure Moon route, their ending states that they pass away on the same day.]]
* TranquilFury: Sylvain despises male Byleth when encountered as an enemy on the Crimson Flower route, but he initially hides his contempt behind a friendly greeting, before admitting that he'll celebrate their death. By comparison, he expresses regret about having to kill a female Byleth.
-->'''Sylvain:''' Professor! Has it really been five years? We ought to raise a glass to the occasion. Celebrate your return.\\
'''Sylvain:''' Nah, I'd rather commemorate it with your death.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: His philandering began to show itself at a worryingly young age. When he was eight years old he flirted with Ingrid's grandmother, which she does not let him live down.
* UnskilledButStrong: Sylvain ties for the second-lowest Dexterity growth and cap, and the lowest base Dexterity stat in the game. The Lance of Ruin's 22 Might and 65% base hit only emphasizes this, as Sylvain will do a ton of damage... if he actually hits. This is emphasized further by his only skill weakness being in bows, making it harder for him to get Hit +20 from mastering Archer, which would otherwise help. [[labelnote:For reference...]]The only two characters with a lower Dexterity stat are Dedue and Hilda, who are still neutral in bows.[[/labelnote]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Ingrid. They have a typical ChildhoodFriends relationship for the most part, with Ingrid frequently expressing exasperation at Sylvain's constant philandering, Ingrid teasingly insulting Sylvain and Sylvain playing it off with jokes. Occasionally Sylvain takes it further and makes a pass at Ingrid, but it's mostly just (friendly) teasing. Other times, Sylvain is frustrated by her taking his genuine attempts at interaction as superficial flirting or teasing, and shyly asks to spend time with or be close to her, and Ingrid is gentler with him. This is resolved if they achieve A-support and get an ending together.
* UselessUsefulSpell: He knows Pass as an enemy unit post-timeskip. While he can use it to get the jump on the player on [[spoiler:Verdant Wind,]] it becomes functionally a wasted slot on [[spoiler:Crimson Flower,]] as he cannot move.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He's good friends with Dimitri, Felix, and Ingrid at the beginning of the game, but it's possible for them to end up on opposite sides of a war should you recruit him or his friends to [[spoiler:the Black Eagles and side with Edelgard]].
* WhatTheHellHero: In his B-support with Hilda, Sylvain calls her out on using other people to do things for her and says that while he doesn't mind doing things for pretty girls, she needs to stop being so selfish.
* YoungestChildWins: Because he inherited a Crest while his older brother Miklan didn't, Sylvain is the heir to his house.

[[folder:Ingrid]]
!!Ingrid Brandl Galatea
!!!'''Class:''' Noble → Soldier → Pegasus Knight → Falcon Knight
!!!'''Age:''' 17 (1/04)
!!!'''Crest:''' Daphnel (Minor)
!!!'''Height:''' 165 cm
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ManakaIwami (Japanese), Creator/BrittanyCox (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Ingrid in ''Fire Emblem Heroes'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ingrid_heroes.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''[[KnightInShiningArmor Stalwart Knight]]'' / ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes Galatea's Heir]]'']]

->''"I'm not a tool for furthering my family's fortunes. I'm a knight at heart. Regardless of what my father desires."''

The daughter of Count Galatea and a childhood friend of Dimitri, Felix, and Sylvain. Because of her admiration of noble knights and her inherently serious nature, Dimitri says she's already got a very knightly air to her. However, she forgets herself in the presence of delicious food.\\\

Her personal ability, ''Lady Knight'', increases her Might and Hit Rate when using Gambits. Ingrid bears the Minor Crest of Daphnel, which has a chance to raise her Might while using Combat Arts.

* AbusiveParents: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] overall. While her father is almost constantly trying to marry her off to another noble regardless of what ''she'' truly wants, they do have a loving relationship; Ingrid's angst in the matter comes from feeling that ''she'' is the abuser, due to the fact that their house has fallen on hard times, he worked himself to the bone to make sure she got into the academy, and that her becoming a knight instead would be a betrayal of all his hard work.
* AdaptationalBadass: Her Atk and Def are higher in ''Heroes'' than in ''Three Houses''. Lúin also receives the ability to add 20% of Ingrid's Speed to her damage done and block enemy counterattacks if she initiates combat or is within 2 spaces of an ally. That being said...
* AdaptationalWimp: Her ''Heroes'' incarnation also sports slightly lower Speed and noticeably lower Resistance than her ''Three Houses'' self.
* AloofBigBrother: She mentions in her supports with Mercedes in ''Three Hopes'' that her older brothers were quite strict with her, scolding her if she attempted activities like horseback riding, with her father agreeing with them. Ingrid thinks they were being overprotective due to her status as a Crest-bearer, but Mercedes refutes that they were most likely being protective due to her being the youngest in the family, Crest or no Crest. Not so much in the present, as Ingrid notes that they're aware of her dream to become a knight, and are willing to preside over House Galatea in her stead.
* AncestralWeapon: The Relic lance Lúin, which can be obtained from hers and Dorothea's Paralogue, "Rumored Nupitals." It originally belonged to the Alliance's House Daphnel, but House Galatea's founder ran off with the lance after splitting from the family. It more or less is tied to House Galatea in the current era, as Ingrid is the first and only Daphnel-Crest bearer in generations and House Daphnel has since lost a lot of clout. Naturally, said Crest of Daphnel allows her to wield it safely.
* AngerBornOfWorry: In her support with Sylvain, she gets upset at him for speaking carelessly about the danger his philandering puts him in, revealing that she cares deeply about him and couldn’t stand losing someone else close to her after Glenn’s death.
* ArrangedMarriage:
** In her support with Mercedes she reveals that, when she was young, her hand had been promised in marriage to Glenn, Felix's elder brother; his untimely death prevented it from going through, though her father has continued to hassle her about marriage proposals in the present.
** She is presented one during the game by her father, but Dorothea convinces her not to when she learns the man was a HateSink jerk, and her Paralogue involves fighting off his hired goons who wanted to kidnap her so he could marry her and gain more influence. Her father is very happy to learn she was safe and drops the deal right away upon learning of this incident.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther:
** She and her father often clash, because her goal of becoming a knight conflicts with his desire to marry her off for political advantages that can help benefit their land. However, when one of her suitors attempts to kidnap her and fails, her father is overjoyed that she's safe and rejects the suitor immediately, showing that he does care about his daughter. On non-Azure Moon routes, [[spoiler:several of her supports even change slightly to mention her regret at having "betrayed" her father, while musing over how he wanted her to help the family, only for her to abandon it.]]
** Her supports with her childhood friends (Dimitri, Felix and Sylvain) as well as her supports with Claude and Raphael begin with Ingrid exasperated or annoyed at them for one reason or another (Sylvain's philandering, Felix's antisocial attitude, Dimitri being InnocentlyInsensitive regarding Glenn's death, Claude's informality and teasing, and Raphael's unrefined social habits) and the other participant in the support rebuffing her, but by the end of the support, they make up and she reveals that she cares deeply about them and worries about their well-being and vice versa.
* BabiesEverAfter: In her endings with Sylvain, Felix and Claude.
* BadassAdorable: Ingrid is a very beautiful young woman, who becomes an elegant and powerful knight.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Out of the Blue Lions girls, she's the Brawn to Annette's Brains and Mercedes' Beauty, being a physical attacker who has trained to be a knight since she was a little girl, compared to SquishyWizard Annette and WhiteMagicianGirl Mercedes.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Claude or Sylvain should either route be pursued. The two wind up bickering with each other at every support rank, but slowly fall in love along the way.
* BigEater: Loves food a little too much. She reveals that the place where she lived suffered from poor agriculture, resulting in a lack of food despite her status as nobility. Despite this, she admits to Byleth that she feels guilty about it since her father would often give up his own portion of food while she was growing up to ensure she could eat well. Her love of food is how Yuri manages to bond with her in their supports.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She can end up marrying Ashe over their shared love of novels and aspirations of becoming knights. Their kind and upstanding personalities are also similar.
* BondOneLiner:
-->''"You weren't ready."'' (pre timeskip)\\
''"It is done. Onward!"'' (post timeskip)\\
''"My duty is your death."''"(post timeskip)
* BoyishShortHair: Downplayed. She cuts her hair short after the timeskip, fitting with her desire to be a knight and being a more physical attacker in terms of stats compared to [[SquishyWizard Annette]] and [[WhiteMagicianGirl Mercedes]]. However, she does accent her hair with some ribbons, and in the Japanese version of the game she generally has a more feminine personality compared to the English localization which [[DubPersonalityChange makes her more tomboyish]].
* TheCameo:
** She watches fights in the Marketplace portion of the downloadable Garreg Mach Monastery stage in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' alongside Dimitri and Dedue.
** She also appears in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage Engage]]'' as one of Byleth's Bond Rings.
* CharacterSelectForcing: If playing as the Blue Lions on Maddening, she's basically mandatory to deal with the mages common on this route, due to a combination of proficiency with physical weapons and high Resistance. Her natural lean towards the [[MageKiller Falcon Knight]] class helps.
* CombatStilettos: Before the timeskip as part of her academy uniform, she wears high-heeled boots. Averted after the timeskip, as the armor she wears doesn't have any. The new armor she wears in ''Three Hopes'', however, goes back to Ingrid fighting in heels.
* CommonalityConnection:
** In her supports with Ashe, the two bond over their shared appreciation for the same legends and fairy tales and desire to become [[KnightInShiningArmor knights like the ones in those stories.]] [[spoiler:In their paired ending, they even become knights together.]]
** In her support with Mercedes, the two bond over their shared situation of being hassled by marriage proposals they have no interest in. Ingrid muses that it's something that makes them similar.
** In her support with Bernadetta, Ingrid mentions that she once shut herself in her room. Many of the two's problems also stem from their fathers wanting to marry them off for the good of the family.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: [[spoiler:When fought as an enemy in chapter 7 and Verdant Wind chapter 17, Ingrid uses the completely unobtainable enemy version of the Pegasus Knight class, coded as an Advanced Class. This version of the Pegasus Knight gives her Lancefaire as an innate ability and has 7 movement compared to the regular Pegasus Knight's 6. This is likely due to there being no Advanced Class progression for Pegasus Knight, with Falcon Knight being a Master Class and all other enemy Part 2 students using Advanced Classes (the only two exceptions are Sylvain and the aformentioned Ingrid as enemy units on the Crimson Flower route, who are classed as a [[MightyGlacier Great Knight]] and Falcon Knight, respectively). Notably, in non-Azure Moon playthroughs, this works greatly to her advantage if she's recruited right before the timeskip, giving her considerably much higher stats than normal.]]
* ContraltoOfStrength: She's a more than capable fighter, and has one of the deeper voices amongst the female cast, about on-par with Edelgard's and only exceeded by Catherine.
* ControlFreak: Much of Ingrid's supports involve her lambasting whoever she's talking to for not acting the way she wants them to, ''especially'' Claude, Sylvain and Raphael. In Bernadetta's support she actually kicks the door down and forcibly carries Bernadetta to training when the latter wants to skip it. [[NervousWreck Bernadetta]] is, unsurprisingly, terrified.
* CulturalRebel: While not nearly to the level as Felix, Ingrid does run into this after the TimeSkip on non-Azure Moon playthroughs. Should Ingrid have been recruited [[spoiler:it's treated like a major deal that she explicitly did not stay with the Kingdom to fight for her house. The majority of her endings note that once she returned to rule Galatea, she actually had an uphill journey to regain the support of all the residents because they considered her a traitor.]]
* CynicIdealistDuo: With Felix, as the Idealist.
* DeathByAdaptation: She can survive any route in ''Three Houses'' if she’s been recruited; in ''Three Hopes'', [[spoiler:she inevitably dies on Scarlet Blaze.]]
* DeathByAThousandCuts: Ingrid has equal but mediocre growths in both offensive stats at 35% each, but a high Speed growth of 60% and a lean towards the Pegasus Knight line. While her lower strength means she lacks per-hit damage, she can double most enemies with ease, causing this trope.
* DisappointedInYou: If she isn't recruited, her reaction to Byleth should they [[spoiler:side with the Empire]] is one of cold disappointment.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Ingrid doesn't seem to have a problem hitting Sylvain when he annoys her, such as during the opening sequence when he gets too touchy with her and when he jokes about Flayn's disappearance.
* DubPersonalityChange: Downplayed. While her personality remains largely the same, the English localization portrays her as more tomboyish due to her preference for activities like riding over make-up and baking. However, in Japanese her speech is actually extremely feminine, and she's presented as more of a practical and proper young lady who abstains from flashy fashions. This may be a cultural difference; tomboyishness is far more associated with immaturity in Japan, so Ingrid's polite and serious nature pegs her as feminine by default.
* DudeNotFunny: She takes issue with her classmates joking about [[spoiler:Flayn's disappearance,]] Sylvain in particular, and warns them that this is no laughing matter. She even slaps Sylvain after he remarks that [[spoiler:Flayn must have eloped]].
* EntitledBastard: When it comes to Glenn, Ingrid often acts like she is the most affected by his death and she understood him the best, striving to embody the knightly ideals he portrayed. This causes her to clash with Felix, Glenn's younger brother, who believes that knightly ideals are what got Glenn killed and Ingrid's memory of him doesn't match up with who he really was.
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* FamedInStory: In her solo ending and paired ending with Ashe on the Azure Moon route, [[spoiler:she goes down in history as a peerless knight.]] In her endings with Byleth, [[spoiler:her parrying an assassin's blade meant for her husband is immortalized in storybooks.]]
* FamilyVersusCareer: One of Ingrid’s biggest struggles is deciding between her dream of being a knight and the welfare of her noble house as the only Crest bearer in the Galatea family - in fact, she's only the ''second'' person in the House's lifetime to bear it, as the last one to have it was its founder. While she has knightly aspirations, in several supports she thinks of her dream as selfish or unreasonable in comparison to her responsibility of marrying and continuing the Galatea line, and her father strongly urges her to marry. Most characters she shares her feelings with advise her to follow her dreams, while Byleth can advise her in their support that it’s possible for her to fulfill her family responsibilities ''and'' follow her dream at the same time.
* FireIceLightning: In ''Three Hopes'', Ingrid can utilize fire with her Luin's Burning Quake art, ice with her Icy Plunge ability and ice magic, and lightning with her Thoron spell.
* {{Foil}}:
** She and Sylvain are polar opposites; Ingrid is responsible, rigid and serious, while Sylvain is relaxed, a bit irresponsible, prone to getting into trouble and enjoys joking around. Fittingly, in their default TimeSkip outfits, Ingrid prominently wears green in contrast to Sylvain's red, making it clear that they are the [[RecurringElement red and green knights]] of the game.
** Ingrid's responsible, serious nature contrasts with the relaxed, joke-prone and fond-of-teasing Claude, which is discussed in-universe in their support chain. When Claude objects, Ingrid begrudgingly admits that Claude at least isn't a menace to the opposite sex in the manner of Sylvain.
* FragileSpeedster: She ties for the best speed growth in the base game (only [[DownloadableContent Yuri]] exceeds her), but her strength is fairly middling, and her physical defense is slightly low, making her rely on her high dodge rate to stay on the frontlines.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: One of her favorite things is to take care of the academy's mounts, which shows itself in her high Riding and Flying aptitude.

** She dreams of being a knight which are normally associated with lances, her strongest weapon proficiency. The classes she excels the most in are, fittingly, cavalier and pegasus knight.
** Ingrid loves taking care of the mounts at the academy, and she has a strong aptitude for flying and riding skills.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Despite being extremely polite and having overall feminine speech patterns (especially in the Japanese version) her actual interests aren't really the most feminine, since she has aspirations to become a knight rather than a noble lady. The English localization [[DubPersonalityChange plays up her tomboyish streak a lot more]].
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She’s got blonde hair and aspires to be a noble knight while also being one of the most approachable, kind and well-adjusted characters of the cast.
* HeroSecretService: Essentially becomes Byleth's best bodyguard alongside being their lover, should they reach S rank. In several of their endings, [[spoiler:her foiling an assassination attempt on him becomes a tale that's passed on for generations.]]
* HeroWorshipper: She bears respect for Lady Judith Daphnel of the Leicester Alliance for being a high-ranking warrior and noble, as well as their distant relationship due to House Galatea being an offshoot of House Daphnel. On Crimson Flower, [[spoiler:she evokes her as a WorthyOpponent and muses they might have been allies in another life after her death.]]
* HumbleHero: Ingrid carries herself with dignity and chivalry and is overall a very polite and approachable person. She never boasts about her abilities as a Knight and is willing to take responsibility for her actions, shown in her supports with Claude and Dimitri where she apologizes for her misbehavior towards them.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In her B-Support with Felix, she angrily tells him he has no right to criticize the way she chooses to live her life, yet the majority of her supports have ''her'' constantly lecturing people for not doing things the way she thinks that they should.
** She interrogates Yuri during their C-support during his time with House Rowe, but when he asks her what she's doing at the inn they're at, she defensively snaps at him to mind his own business.
** If recruited to [[spoiler:the Empire]] and made to fight a non-recruited Felix, he calls her out for going on and on about chivalry and loyalty only to stab the Kingdom in the back. She [[ShutUpHannibal answers]] then maybe she's not a traditional knight, but she ''is'' loyal to Byleth and what she herself believes in, even if it means betraying her home.
* ICantDance: She's one of the students who asks Byleth to not pick them as the class representative for the White Heron Cup as she doesn't have any skills in dancing, which is because it wasn't her thing growing up. Though with her decent base and growth in Charm, she does have a good chance at winning, since that stat is what determines if a student wins.
* AnIcePerson: She learns ice magic if her Reason is leveled up.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Despite being nobility, her family is not wealthy at all, on account of holding territory that is inadequate for agricultural use. As the only member of the family who has a Crest, her father plans to marry her off to a wealthier family in order to secure some measure of financial stability.
* InformedAttractiveness:
** Dorothea and Mercedes spend a lot of time gushing over Ingrid's supposedly stunning good looks and Annette manages to get Ingrid to agree to being her makeup tester, even though all the aforementioned girls are quite gorgeous themselves and Ingrid isn't designed or dressed any more attractively than the other female students.
** In her A-support with Sylvain, Ingrid using makeup turns the normally unflappable Casanova into a stuttering schoolboy. Sylvain never has any issues conversing with any of the other beautiful girls in the game (Dorothea, Mercedes, Hilda, Byleth), but Ingrid using makeup apparently makes her so beautiful that he stumbles over his words.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In her supports with Bernadetta, when she's trying to get Bernadetta to come train with the others. Ingrid asks why Bernadetta came to the Officer's Academy, only for Bernadetta to insist that she "was forced" to come (although Bernadetta doesn't mention the part about her mother sending her there in a sack). Ingrid seems somewhat uncomfortable when she concedes that not everyone has to be pleased about being there, before again insisting that Bernadetta come out.
* IncompatibleOrientation: In her paralogue and supports with Dorothea, the other party is pretty obvious about being into her, but Ingrid is not interested in women in the slightest. It’s notable that she’s the only playable student to not have a single same-sex A-support/Ending in the game.
* {{Irony}}:
** Despite her insistence she is still following her own path towards knighthood on the likes of Crimson Flower, her endings on non-Azure Moon routes almost never have her become a knight, and instead she either marries someone or has to work to improve Galatea and make up to her people for betraying them.
** The NewGamePlus item that bestows the Crest of Daphnel on its holder is called the Flame Dragon Sign, and the SecretArt it enables for Luin is called Burning Quake. Ingrid not only does not learn a single fire spell, but even learns ''ice'' magic.
** Is very against the idea of marriage. In her non-Azure Moon ending with [[spoiler:Raphael]] ''she'' is the one who eventually proposes to him.
* IveComeTooFar:
** If recruited on the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:she explains that she wants to return to her father and home, and thinks maybe doing so will help prevent conflict, but feels she has stayed with the Adrestian Empire for too long, and thus she cannot return to her family after helping Edelgard wage war with the church. That said, she ultimately stands by her choice despite her regrets, and emphasizes it with her battle dialogue with an unrecruited Felix.]]
** If recruited, Ingrid starts having second thoughts about her choice of allegiance on the Verdant Wind route, especially after [[spoiler:Dimitri's death]]. Unlike the case on the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:Ingrid is more resolute on staying with the Leicester Alliance and fighting for Byleth till the very end]].
* JackOfAllTrades: She has four weapon proficiencies and no particular weaknesses when handling weapons. She has at least passable growths in every stat, and the highest overall growths [[note]]370, the same as Byleth and Claude and only 5% below Dimitri [[/note]] of all non-Lord students. Even her base stats are only 1 point less than Dimitri [[note]]82 to Dimitri's 83[[/note]] in total, making her a JackOfAllStats.
* JerkassToOne: While quite a few of her supports sees Ingrid start off on shaky terms, she's downright hostile towards Dedue, rooted in the Tragedy of Duscur. She ends up reflecting that it's not fair for her to project her anger onto Dedue and apologizes to him.
* JumpedAtTheCall: In the introduction trailer for the Blue Lions, "tales of chivalry" is listed as one of the things she likes.
* KnightInShiningArmor: She aspires to the ideal of the moralistic, benevolent and stalwart knight, and enjoys reading tales about them in her spare time. In addition, with her own aptitude for lances, riding and flying skills, she makes a great cavalier or pegasus knight.
* LadyAndKnight: Genderflipped in her paired ending with Dimitri. [[spoiler:She serves as his knight after the war, and they eventually marry after falling in love during the events of the game.]]
* LadyOfWar: Ingrid is a calm, straightforward, and dignified female knight skilled at riding, flying, and wielding lances. Her personal skill is even called Lady Knight, which gives bonuses to her might and hit when using Gambit attacks.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Her entire support chain with Claude is essentially her and Claude annoying each other about their personalities. If they get married, [[spoiler:it continues, and their ending states that despite their love, the angry queen chasing Claude around their house was still a common sight.]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: She describes Count Galatea as being incredibly stubborn and set in his ways, two things that fit Ingrid to a T.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: Invoked with her unique ability "Icy Plunge" in ''Three Hopes'', where any enemies that she sends flying with her attacks are frozen, then shattered.
* LostFoodGrievance: For one of her post-timeskip inquiries during tutoring, Ingrid bemoans she has apparently lost her reason for living after her favorite food cart has shut down.
* TheLostLenore: Much of her idolization of knighthood and chivalry comes from the memories of her dead fiancé, Glenn. She adored him and uses him as her picture of an ideal knight. Unfortunately, this causes her to romanticize his death, though this could be viewed as a way of coping.
* LovingAShadow: {{Zigzagged}}. In her support conversations with Felix, he accuses her of not truly knowing Glenn, telling her straight to her face that the Glenn she fell in love is a romantized version of Glenn, and that he was a completely different person from the brother that he knew personality. Ingrid in response calls him out on it, accusing him of not being appreciative of Glenn, and how he gave his life to save Dimitri. This is also discussed in her Supports with Dimitri — the latter eventually explains how Glenn’s death looked to be full of pain and regret, to Ingrid’s solemn sorrow; in their last Support she admits that her image of her fiancé wasn’t an honest and complete image of the man. Accepting this while not dismissing her genuine feelings for Glenn helps her move forward, explicitly telling Dimitri she will pledge her life to him, rather than her death, which pleases him.
* MageKiller: Her good resistance growth, high speed and proficiency with physical weapons make her adept at safely taking out enemy mage threats.
* MagicKnight: Ingrid has identical growths in strength and magic. While she doesn't have proficiencies in reason or faith, she can use magical weapons like the Levin Sword or magic based combat arts like Frozen Lance to hit weak enemy resistance stats. With her respectable spell list, she can perform serviveably in a mixed class such as Dark Knight or Dark Flier.
* MaybeEverAfter: Several of her Azure Moon paired endings leave it ambiguous as to whether she and her partner shared a romantic relationship. Averted with her non-Azure Moon endings, most of which are all explicitly romantic.
** In her paired endings with [[spoiler:Ashe and Raphael]], the two go down in history as legendary knights, but sources can't agree whether they fell in love and got married or not.
** After a stint of serving the crown, she eventually retires and spends the rest of her days together with either [[spoiler:Yuri or Seteth]], but the nature of their relationship is never clarified.
* TheMcCoy: Between herself, Felix, and Sylvain, Ingrid is the most moral and emotional.
* TheMuse: Becomes Ignatz's, if they get a paired ending together.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Nice to Felix's Mean and Sylvain's In-Between. It's played with, though, as while she is thoughtful and friendly, she's also a ControlFreak and can be unnecessarily rude to people for minor offences.
* NotAfraidToDie: Several of her death quotes -- especially as a member of the player's party -- indicate that Ingrid treats dying not with dread or regret, but rather with the hope to meet [[FirstLove Glenn]] in the afterlife:
-->'''Ingrid (if killed as an enemy on Crimson Flower):''' Maybe... I've become like him...\\
'''Ingrid (if killed as a playable unit)''': Glenn... I'll see you soon. Death isn't sad, not... really.
* NotLikeOtherGirls: Before the ball, Ingrid will complain about being dragged by Mercedes to her quarters and having make-up slathered all over her face. In her support chain with Annette, she comments how she's never been interested in girly habits like make-up or haircare beyond basic hygiene and sees her training as way more important.
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** Her mature personality takes a hilarious dive when she's presented with delicious food, or when faced with the prospect of eating delicious food.
** While she comes off as dignified and mature most of the time, her supports with Ashe have her bond with him as they nerd out over the story they're reading.
** Her support with Sylvain in ''Three Hopes'' has her drop her normally mature demeanor to gleefully make fun of Sylvain and the LaserGuidedKarma he's received.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Although she's clearly set up to be a combat unit between her lack of skill weaknesses, high growth rate total, proficiency with physical weapons, and {{Tomboy}} personality, she's also a solid pick for the Dancer class, of all things. [[note]]Ingrid's naturally high Speed and sword proficiency combined with Sword Avoid +20 makes her difficult to hit, allowing her to hang out in the combat zone. Her riding boon enables easy access to the Movement +1 skill. Finally, Ingrid's high charm gives her a high chance to win the contest and strengthens Sword Dance if she actually has to attack.[[/note]]
* OppositesAttract: The serious, reliable and somewhat uptight Ingrid can marry the laid-back, informal and prone to joking Claude or Sylvain should you wish her to.
* OnlySaneWoman: Ingrid comes off as the well-adjusted common sense-having one in some of her supports, such as her exasperation at Raphael's eating habits and Sylvain's skirt-chasing, and she doesn't really have any outstanding personality quirk herself. She's also the only Blue Lion to avoid both the DysfunctionJunction ''and'' FallenHero tropes.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: According to Dimitri in his support with Ingrid, she and her betrothed Glenn were of similar noble, idealistic temperament and adored one another. Unfortunately, their arrangement was made impossible after his death.
* PlatonicLifePartners:
** If paired with Dedue, the two never marry, but become close in service to Dimitri nonetheless.
** Potentially with Ashe on the Azure Moon route, as while they are noted to be close, it's unclear if they married or not.
** If paired with Raphael on the Azure Moon route, marriage is never mentioned, but they become close as knights of Faerghus regardless.
* PlayingWithFire: While Ingrid doesn't learn fire magic herself, the NewGamePlus item that bestows the Crest of Daphnel on its holder is called the Flame Dragon Sign. Her personal Combat Art is also called Burning Quake.
* PlotlineDeath: In ''Three Hopes'' [[spoiler:she dies at Arianrhod, pulling a LastStand to ensure Dimitri can flee and survive for their people.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: A downplayed example, but Sylvain dreads training with or spending time around Ingrid because she is always browbeating him for his carefree attitude, something she comments in her supports with Claude. In their A-support, Ingrid becomes upset when Sylvain starts joking about getting killed, leading him to realize his mistake and apologize, but it seemed Sylvain genuinely believed Ingrid wouldn't have been that affected if he had been killed.
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: She was confirmed as having at least one brother in ''Three Houses'', but ''Three Hopes'' elaborates further on this — both her brothers are considerably older than her, making it hard to relate to them as siblings and due to her being TheBabyOfTheBunch they shared caretaker duty with her father. She chalks this up to being the only Crest-bearer, although Mercedes (to whom she confides this) assures her that even if she was Crestless they’d have likely treated her just the same.

-->"''Ready.''" ''(pre-timeskip)''\\
"''Ready when you are.''" ''(post-timeskip)''

-->"''Defenseless, are we?''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''You're finished!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Try this on for size!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''This should do the trick!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I can do no less!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''Let's end this quickly!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''Prepare yourself!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''I've got you figured out!''" (Post-timeskip)
* RagsToRoyalty: Depending on who she marries, she can go from an ImpoverishedPatrician to queen of Faerghus, [[spoiler:Almyra, or the whole of Fódlan.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Byleth, Felix, and Sylvain over their joining the Empire if she's fought on the Crimson Flower route. If she fights an unrecruited Felix, she'll receive one instead about how for all her talk of being a loyal knight she's ended up betraying her country.
* RecurringBoss: In ''Three Hopes'', she’s fought in Chapters 5 and 8 of Scarlet Blaze.
* RecurringElement:
** Ingrid is pretty close to an Abel part of [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight the Cain and Abel archetype]] (with Sylvain as her pseudo-Cain), but not completely enough to be a complete archetype. While she is dutiful and more speedy, she is that way because she is geared to be more of a Pegasus Knight, being the only named character that defaults to the Pegasus Knight class line (in a similar manner to [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Erinys and Fee]]), and it means that she ends up in a different class than her Cain counterpart (Sylvain). She also only starts wearing green clothing after the TimeSkip.
** On the other hand, Ingrid followed several elements that has been started by Caeda: She is a starter noble, aspiring Pegasus Knight who forms a close bond with her Lord character (in this case, Dimitri, and he's also the closest with Caeda's love interest Marth) and pretty set to be your go-to flyer unit. She's also the only character in the game who specializes in Pegasus Knight class path, much like [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Erinys and her daughter Fee]], and naturally, like them, can't do the traditional Triangle Attack.
** Like [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Palla]], she's associated with the colour green and defaults to the Pegasus Knight line, and can reasonably promote to a Wyvern Rider. She's also a [[TeamMom mother hen]] who browbeats everyone else into behaving themselves.
* RedBaron: Should she marry [[spoiler:Byleth]] on the Verdant Wind route, she eventually gets dubbed [[spoiler:Fódlan's Warrior Queen.]]
* TheReliableOne: She’s calm, responsible, hardworking and noble, and spends some of her time trying to run damage control for the roguish Sylvain and the prickly and antisocial Felix. Several of her supports involve her trying to help others out with whatever she can.
* RightfulKingReturns: In some of her non-Azure Moon endings, [[spoiler:she returns to being the leader of House Galatea's territory, though the relationship between herself and the people is strained due to her previous abandonment. Thankfully, in her paired ending with Ashe, they're able to restore the people's faith in her.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Insists on still serving on the front lines if she marries [[spoiler:Dimitri. Also takes a very active role in governing the whole of Fódlan if she marries Byleth on the Verdant Wind route.]]
* SacrificialLion: In ''Three Hopes'' on Scarlet Blaze, [[spoiler:she's the first member of the playable cast who ''will'' perish in battle rather than [[VillainExitStageLeft retreat after being beaten]], have the option to be [[DefeatMeansFriendship recruited]], or just [[KnowWhenToFoldEm surrender]]. Her death has a noticeable effect not just on Dimitri, but [[AlasPoorVillain several members of the party]]]].
* SecondLove: Anyone she gets with will be this, on account of her nearly PerfectlyArrangedMarriage to Felix's older brother Glenn.
* SecretAIMoves: As an enemy unit, she can know Pass, a skill that is impossible for her to obtain as a playable unit.
* SecretArt: She's the only character outside of a NewGamePlus that can use Burning Quake, Luin's combat art. It deals 8 extra damage and increases critical by 20 and avoid by 10, deals bonus damage based on her speed, and deals effective damage against dragons.
* SettleForSibling: Was to be in a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage with Glenn of House Fraldarius until his death in the Tragedy of Duscur. Ingrid can instead get together with Glenn's younger brother Felix.
* ShockAndAwe: She learns Thoron upon reaching C in Reason.
* SpiritedYoungLady: Despite her status as a young noblewoman, Ingrid vehemently refuses to allow herself to be used as a pawn to be married off at her father's behest, determined to focus on training as a knight. That's not to say she doesn't love her father, as she repeatedly states she's touched by his concern for her, but he's unbelievably stubborn on the marriage subject.
* StepfordSmiler: Not largely, but when it comes to her dream of becoming a knight, Ingrid has shades of this. Because of her Crest, her family regards her as their "last hope" when it comes to their overall situation, and Ingrid doesn't believe she can say no without causing them terrible misfortune, which causes her no end of guilt (particularly since her father provided for her more than he did for himself). At first, she's convinced that she can only be the latter, but supports with others - particularly post-timeskip - manage to make her realize that she can attempt to do both at once.
-->'''Ingrid:''' ''(during their B-support)'' Ashe, I am bound by honor not to to follow through on my own dreams... but I can help you achieve yours.\\
'''Ashe:''' Come on, this isn't like you at all. Please, don't smile when your eyes are so sad...
* TaremeEyes: She has droopy eyes, contrasting with Dimitri and Felix's TsurimeEyes and matching Sylvain's.
* TarotMotifs: The Chariot arcana represented by the crest of Daphnel. The upright Chariot represents overcoming obstacles, will power and ambition, which represents Ingrid's determined goal to train as a knight. She also shares a trait with the reversed Chariot arcana, which can mean lack of direction. Ingrid's dream to become a knight clashes with her sense of duty to her family, which left her feeling lost and guilty towards her father at several points of her life, something that she confessed to Byleth with in their support conversations.
* TeamMom: She tries her hardest to keep Felix and Sylvain out of trouble, and in her support with Sylvain rants in exasperation at having to clean up after his philandering. However, she can also drift into a gender-inverted TeamDad, as many of her supports have her trying to clean up the behavior of others, such as Raphael's messy eating habits and Claude's rather informal demeanor.
* ThroughHisStomach: Her entire support chain with Yuri revolves around them bonding over delicious food.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: In her support with Felix, Ingrid contemplates a scenario question from an essay in which one would be forced to choose between following the orders of a superior that puts one's hometown in danger, or protecting one's hometown from danger. She declares that, while the ''correct'' thing for a knight to do is to follow orders, she'd attempt to stop anyone who tried to do so.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl:
** In her support with Annette, Ingrid is the training-focused girl unconcerned with her appearance beyond basic hygiene, while Annette enjoys traditionally feminine pursuits like putting on makeup. Despite Ingrid’s protests, in the end, Annette manages to persuade Ingrid to put on some makeup anyway.
** Mercedes encourages her to put on makeup and enjoy gossiping over tea instead of training all the time.
** Ingrid befriends Dorothea, who helps to give her a makeover so that she can attend the opera.
* TookALevelInKindness: She starts off ''Three Houses'' being hostile towards the Duscur people, unable to see past her own grief to recognise that even if they ''were'' responsible for Glenn and others’ deaths their slaughter by the Kingdom’s army was abhorrent; in her Supports with Dedue, she comes to realise the injustice of her stance and apologises to him. In ''Three Hopes'', this growth is accelerated after Rufus, Cornelia, and Viscount Kleiman are exposed; after the TimeSkip she’s shown in Azure Gleam being very civil towards the Duscur soldiers in the army’s ranks, is personally good friends with Dedue, and directs her ire solely towards those personally responsible for the Tragedy of Duscur (even then, she refrains from killing a Duscuran dissident who ''was'' involved, determined to follow the legal proceedings for the sake of justice).
* {{Tsundere}}: A mix of Type A and B, flipping from polite and agreeable to bossy {{Jerkass}}, depending who she's speaking to.
* UngratefulBastard: Ingrid views herself as this. In her A-Support with Byleth, Ingrid openly admits that she feels conflicted about turning her back on her father, who sacrificed so much so she could have a happy childhood. While she wishes to pursue her dreams of becoming a Knight, she also acknowledges what her father has done for her and feels regret for not fulfilling her duties to House Galatea.
* UnkemptBeauty: In many of her supports, particularly with Dorothea, Ingrid is noted to be [[InformedAttractiveness absolutely gorgeous]], but she has no ability, or desire, to actually take care of her appearance beyond basic hygiene. In her A-Support with Sylvain, he becomes uncharacteristically flustered when she starts experimenting with makeup.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: On Sylvain's part, for her. They have a typical ChildhoodFriends relationship for the most part, with Ingrid frequently expressing exasperation at Sylvain's constant philandering, Ingrid teasingly insulting Sylvain and Sylvain playing it off with jokes. Occasionally Sylvain takes it further and makes a pass at Ingrid, but it's mostly just (friendly) teasing. Other times, Sylvain is frustrated by her taking his genuine attempts at interaction as superficial flirting or teasing, and shyly asks to spend time with or be close to her, and Ingrid is gentler with him.
* WeakButSkilled: Ingrid's base growths in strength and magic are a somewhat low 35%. She compensates with having a diverse range of weapon and riding proficiencies, as well as weapon skills to strike both defense and resistance.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She's good friends with Dimitri, Felix, and Sylvain at the beginning of the game, but it's possible for them to end up on opposite sides of a war should you recruit her or her friends to [[spoiler:the Black Eagles and side with Edelgard]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: If Ingrid is recruited but falls pre-timeskip, she will return to her home territory but vanish during the timeskip, leaving her final fate unclear.
* WhatTheHellHero: In ''Three Hopes'' on Scarlet Blaze Chapter 8, she drops one of these on [[spoiler:Ashe if he's fighting in Arianrhod, asking if all the tales of chivalry he'd believe in were just things he'd trample over]]. It's noticeable in that she's the ''only'' Blue Lion in the chapter who reacts like that, as of the others on the map Mercedes and Dimitri simply provide their condolences that their paths diverged like this, while Dedue effectively offers a blunt "if you're fighting us, at least fight like you mean it".
* WideEyedIdealist: Ingrid had a romanticized idea of being a knight; she saw Glenn as the embodiment of chivalry and adores figures in the Kingdom for their dedication and loyalty to their wards. Because of it she takes her training seriously and only believes in the most straightforward paths to knighthood. However, some of Ingrid's supports slowly deconstruct her rosy views of knighthood when faced with certain realities. Dimitri and Felix challenge her entitled beliefs towards Glenn and his death since she wasn't the only one affected or even there, Catherine points out how dangerous extreme UndyingLoyalty can be when facing a morally-gray scenario, and Raphael's unorthodox ideas of becoming a knight clash with her own. If she is recruited and fights Felix in the Crimson Flower route, she laments that she couldn't be a traditional knight after all.
* YouDontWantToKnow: In her supports with Bernadetta, Ingrid kicks the door down to drag Bernadetta out to training. Bernadeta asks that if this is what Ingrid does to her classmates, then what does she do to her enemies?
-->'''Ingrid:''' Don't ask questions you don't want answers to.
* YouRemindMeOfX: In her B-rank support with Claude, Ingrid admits that a good deal of her hostility towards him is rooted to how much he reminds her of Sylvain. Although she concedes that Claude, unlike Sylvain is not a womanizer so she admits that this hostility is misplaced on her end.
* YouShallNotPass: In ''Three Hopes'' at the end of the battle in chapter 8 of Scarlet Blaze, [[spoiler:the Imperial Army have beaten Dimitri and Dedue at Arianrhod. Dedue volunteers first to guard Dimitri while he escapes, before Ingrid enters the scene and guards both of their escapes, giving up her life for them. Ingrid then dies with no regrets, seeing as she accomplished what she set out to do, which is something even some of the Black Eagles [[AlasPoorVillain find tragic]]]].

[[folder:Felix]]
!!Felix Hugo Fraldarius
!!!'''Class:''' Noble → Myrmidon → Mercenary → Swordmaster (''Three Houses''), Myrimdon → Swordmaster → Mortal Savant (''Three Hopes'')
!!!'''Age:''' 17 (2/20)
!!!'''Crest:''' Fraldarius (Major)
!!!'''Height:''' 174 cm
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yuichi Jose (Japanese), Creator/LucienDodge (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[WorldsBestWarrior The Shield's Successor]] / [[WalkingTheEarth Meandering Sword]] / [[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes Lone-Wolf Blade]]'']]

->''"I'm not interested in glory or prizes. All I want is a formidable enemy to sink my teeth into."''
The second son of the ducal House of Fraldarius, and a friend of Dimitri since childhood. He is hard to approach and is devoted to honing his swordsmanship to the point he will challenge any strong person he meets to a duel immediately.\\\

His personal ability, ''Lone Wolf'', increases his damage dealt if he does not have a battalion with him. He bears the Major Crest of Fraldarius, which has a chance to raise his Might whenever he uses a weapon.

* AdaptationExpansion: He gets a way bigger role in ''Hopes'', where he becomes Dimitri's NumberTwo and co-retainer alongside Dedue. Dimitri trusts him with leading the Kingdom army if he's otherwise incapacitated and mentions in their supports that he welcomes his criticism and his unwillingness to become a YesMan, a trait that Dimitri finds invaluable. It's worth noting that if the player unlocks [[spoiler: the map where Shez has to confront Epimenides, the latter can summon a phantom of ''Felix'' and not Dedue alongside the other retainers.]]
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Felix is noticeably a ''lot'' nicer in ''Three Hopes'', with his overall prickliness toned down. While he's still a bit of a jerk, his attitude towards Dimitri carries less hostilty and more concern, and he isn't nearly as mean as he was to Dedue. [[spoiler:With the former, it's a little justified in that Felix learns ''why'' Dimitri was grinning like a maniac the day they put down that rebellion, because the person he just killed was involved in the Tragedy of Duscur. Dimitri's display still made Felix see him in a different light, leading to his present day prickliness, but he at least gets why.]]
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Downplayed, but when Catherine shows up with Thunderbrand, most of the students will talk about how intimidating said weapon is and how fearsome Catherine is in battle. Felix? He just wants to spar against a legendary weapon.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Most of his paired endings with female characters (including Byleth) end in marriage, but he seems equally eager to settle down with [[spoiler:Sylvain in their Azure Moon-route paired ending]]. Not to mention, in their A-support Felix blushes. While the English localization keeps things somewhat ambiguous, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lzpvqPKy2Wg the Japanese version]] of their A+ support features heavily romantic undertones. In both the localization and the original Japanese text, it’s stated that they become so close that they pass away on the same day, [[TogetherInDeath thusly fulfilling their childhood promise]]. It’s notable that the ending makes no mention of either of the two marrying anyone.
* AmbiguousEnding:
** In his paired ending with Sylvain on every route that isn't Azure Moon, [[spoiler:Felix throws himself into a life of wandering the land looking for work as a mercenary. After Sylvain, now Margrave of his house, recruits Felix for a job, they part never to meet again. Some years later, Felix's sword arrives at Sylvain's home, with what happened to Felix unknown.]]
** His non-Azure Moon paired endings with Flayn and Mercedes, both notably being worded similarly, end with it being mentioned that [[spoiler:no one knows what became of the pairs after they travelled together, only implying that Felix quit his life as a mercenary.]]
** The "vanished from recorded history, save for several unsubstantiated rumors" variant occurs in [[spoiler:his solo endings on non-Azure Moon routes]], as well as a few other non-Azure Moon paired endings, most notably [[spoiler:Byleth's]].
* AncestralWeapon:
** Ancestral shield, in his case, which also doubles as Fraldarius' namesake as the Shield of Faerghus. Saving all of the villagers in his Paralogue grants you the Aegis Shield, which he can safely use thanks to his Crest, and is also markedly useful in mitigating his GlassCannon stats by not only boosting both his Defense and Resistance, but providing the passive effects of Pavise and Aegis when equipped.
** In Chapter 15 of the Azure Moon route, if Byleth talks to Rodrigue when he appears on the field, they can obtain the Fraldarius Sacred Weapon (as opposed to the shield, which is a Hero's Relic), the Sword of Moralta, which restores HP every turn it's equipped.
* AndThenWhat: As someone dedicated to being the best warrior possible, Byleth asks what his plans are for when the war ends. He dodges the issue, though he admits in his S-rank that [[VictoryIsBoring there hasn't been anything for him to do in a while]]. In most of his endings outside of the Azure Moon route, he [[spoiler:either wanders Fódlan killing and never finds a new purpose, or spends his entire life searching for it only to find it at the end]]. Alternatively, he [[spoiler:becomes a wandering merc with his spouse, with his spouse's presence giving his life meaning]].
* AngerBornOfWorry:
** While his treatment of Dimitri is somewhere between this and genuine disgust for the man he's become in ''Three Houses'', in ''Three Hopes'', it's clear that he's largely just pissed about how Dimitri refuses to trust anyone to help shoulder the burden he carries (Dimitri believing he's the only one who should have to carry it). It finally reaches a breaking point when [[spoiler:Dimitri willingly hands himself over to Cornelia to be executed after Cornelia is able to take all of Ferhdiad hostage with Agarthan turrets]] without letting anyone talk to him about it first, at which point Felix absolutely lays into him.
** In his A+ support with Sylvain, he is visibly shaken when he thinks Sylvain is in critical condition due to protecting him from a fatal blow. [[spoiler:While Sylvain did take a bad wound, he shrugs it off like its no big deal. Felix is naturally upset with how laid-back he's acting and forces Sylvain to tell him he won't be reckless anymore.]]
** He scolds female Byleth for standing around in the cold during his Goddess Tower scene with her because he doesn't want her to get sick.
** In his B-Support with Mercedes, he chastises her for endangering herself in order to heal him during a battle.
* AnimalMotifs:
** Wolves. His personal ability is called "Lone Wolf," and while he's prickly and distant, at the end of the day Felix is a loyal ally through and through, especially on the Azure Moon route.
** He also has a mild cat motif. Felix has a positive reaction to Byleth bring up cats at teatime and says he doesn't dislike cats in his supports with Bernadetta. He's also somewhat antisocial, prefers to stick to his own "territory" (the training grounds) and enjoys hunting.
* AntagonisticOffspring: Felix holds little love for his father. [[spoiler:If recruited to the Black Eagles, he can even kill Lord Rodrigue.]] While he constantly argues with his father on the Azure Moon route, [[spoiler:he is devastated by Rodrigue's death, although he hides it with his tsundere behavior.]] If he isn't recruited on the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:he somberly vows to continue the fight in Rodrigue's name if Rodrigue is killed first in Chapter 16]].
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He's extremely proud of his sword skill, fairly antisocial, and tends to trash talk enemies he defeats.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Post-timeskip on the Azure Moon route, [[spoiler:while outwardly antagonistic towards Dimitri, he's just as concerned as the rest of the Blue Lions, if not more so. After Dimitri calms down, their A-support conversation confirms in a roundabout way that Felix does indeed care about Dimitri.]]
* BabiesEverAfter: Or baby ever after in his non-Azure Moon paired ending with Ingrid. It is notably the only paired ending in which it’s stated that he has a child.
* BadassCape: His post-TimeSkip outfit in ''Three Houses'' features a half cape. ''Three Hopes'' has him wearing a more regal-styled winter cloak in a similar style to that of his father.
* BadassTeacher: In his paired ending with Annette on non-Azure Moon routes, the two of them become teachers at the Officers Academy, with Felix as the new sword-fighting instructor.
* BattleCouple:
** In their S-support, Felix proposes to Byleth not just because he's in love with her, but because he fears that his sword will grow dull and rust if they can't fight side-by-side. On non-Azure Moon routes they [[spoiler:become legendary mercenaries]], while their Azure Moon ending [[spoiler:notes that they're at their happiest when sparring together]].
** In their Azure Moon ending, he and Dorothea [[spoiler:travel together while he serves as the right hand of the king; more often than not she throws herself into battle alongside him.]]
** In their non-Azure Moon endings, he and Ingrid choose to [[spoiler:abandon their noble titles to become a pair of mercenaries.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He tells you in Chapter 12 of Crimson Flower that he's sticking with you so he can finally forge his own path. Unfortunately, he sacrificed his ties to his family, his nation, and at least one childhood friend to do so, and thus the only place his path leads him is the monstrosity he hates.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Very much so with Dorothea in their supports. As the sole surviving heir of the influential and powerful House Fraldarius, as well as the bearer of a Major Crest, Felix is keenly aware of the fact he is a highly desirable marriage candidate. Furthermore, Felix is also ware of Dorothea's reputation as a beautiful vixen looking to marry into a noble family. Naturally, when recruited into the other's house, Dorothea almost immediately fixates on Felix with obvious romantic interest. Given their personalities, they initially mix like oil and water: he's irritated by her forward nature and she is irritated by his standoffish behavior, resulting in some serious snark between them. However, after a bout of sparring, they develop respect for each other, and start having tea together. [[spoiler:Naturally, they can get married on Azure Moon. On the other routes, despite Felix's meaningless wandering and killing, when Dorothea returns to the opera, the wandering swordsman will occasionally come to listen her sing only for him.]]
* BestHerToBedHer: Felix being Felix, one of the main signs of romantic attraction from him is a keen interest in sparring with, and beating, the object of his interest. It's particularly evident with Dorothea and Byleth, both talented swordswomen in their own right.
* BigBrotherWorship: Felix held his brother Glenn to a high esteem. Naturally, he doesn't take his brother's death that well and blames the concept of chivalry on why his brother was killed.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Lysithea, as both of them are quite {{Tsundere}} in their attitudes but have a hidden softer side beneath that, they both have had their personalities drastically affected by a traumatic incident in their pasts (Glenn's death for Felix, [[spoiler:the Crest experimentations]] for Lysithea), they both are considered prodigies in their respective class, tend to be very blunt, have TsurimeEyes and don't like being reminded they are the youngest ones of their friendship groups. Naturally they can get married at the end of their support chain.
* BittersweetEnding:
** The majority of his endings on the other routes besides Azure Moon mention him [[spoiler:living a very sad and meaningless life filled with bloodshed. Sometimes he finds a reason to live in certain parings, but if he settles down, it's usually only after suffering for a long time.]]
** The non-Azure Moon endings endings where he becomes half of a BattleCouple also fall into this trope. [[spoiler:The presence of a lover allows him to retain his humanity and find a greater purpose in life, but it comes at the cost of [[AmbiguousEnding vanishing from the historical record]] and/or cutting all ties with anyone who isn't his spouse.]] His endings where he settles down somewhere can be seen this way too, depending on interpretation (i.e. if one sees it as a stifling life Felix accepted, or him finding new/different and fulfilling purpose), [[spoiler:with a notable one being him marrying Bernadetta. It's noted that as a couple they got along smoothly, however it is also rumored she had to force him to stay home early in their marriage instead of leaving to train in the Oghma Mountains. It's also noted that he ended up taking over much of the work as head of House Varley as Bernadetta became more reclusive over the years, that documents from their later years were increasing signed with the name Felix, Count Varley.]]
** No matter what route, if he falls in love with Lysithea, [[spoiler:her Crests are never removed and she dies very young. He spends what little time they have together making her happier than she had ever been.]]
* BloodKnight: He's always on the hunt for strong, skilled warriors to challenge in battle. And in all of his non-Azure Moon campaign endings, [[spoiler:he at least starts out wandering the world looking for combat.]] However, he draws a line between this trope and mindless bloodshed. Enjoying a fight is fine, but enjoying violence for its own sake is a ''very'' easy way to get on Felix's bad side. He even comments on this if his Goddess Tower scene is obtained.
-->'''Felix''': Blades, blood, and battle. That's what I'm made of and nothing else.
* BondOneLiner:
-->''"Why am I even here..."'' (pre timeskip)\\
"Next time, bring your friends." (pre timeskip)\\
"You haven't ''earned'' my pity." (post timeskip)\\
"One to remember."(post timeskip)\\
"It was meant to be." (post timeskip)
* BookDumb: Or at least "tactically dumb." Felix isn't unintelligent in the slightest, but struggles with tactics and strategy. If his C support with Ingrid is obtained after the timeskip, Felix admits he doesn't know much about tactics and claims he only knows how to swing a sword around. This is supported by his starting banes in Reason and Authority, the more brain/study-intensive fields.
* BornLucky: He's one of the few characters to have a Major Crest [[spoiler:that wasn't forced on them or literally being the originator of it.]]
* BowAndSwordInAccord: Bows are one of his starting proficiencies, and combined with his sword talent, he can become a good Assassin.
* BrilliantButLazy: A variation; Felix is a hard worker when it comes to combat and regularly trains to improve himself, but he is disinterested in forming strategies and plans. Despite this, it's noted by Ingrid he has great potential as a tactician if he applied himself to it, and several supports show him to be very perceptive of other people in ways that make him a good strategist. Felix doesn't care to apply himself for it, though, instead wanting to spar and train.
* BringIt: If fought on the Crimson Flower route, he's the only Blue Lion who isn't angry or sad over Byleth's decision to join the Empire.
-->'''Felix''': Part of me has been waiting for this since I met you. No need for chitchat. Come at me!
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: He's the Brooding Boy to Mercedes, Annette, and Bernadetta's Gentle Girl if they pair up, especially on non-Azure Moon routes [[spoiler:where the guilt of what he's done eats at him and they end up being the major lights in his life.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Felix doesn't mince words; he'll say what he thinks about a person or their actions without regards to their feelings. He repeatedly calls Dimitri monstrous, lays into Dedue for his extreme loyalty to Dimitri, and calls his father foolish for his idealistic attitude.
* CallingTheOldManOut: After his Paralogue battle ends, he lays into his father for [[SkewedPriorities seemingly caring more about his honor and his duty to the late king than about saving the lives of his people]], asking if Rodrigue would have cared if Felix had met the same fate as his brother. Apart from scolding Felix for his rudeness, Rodrigue mostly sits back and takes it.
* TheCameo: He appears in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage Engage]]'' as one of Byleth's Bond Rings.
* CantSeeADamnThing: His Classic Mode death quote, post-timeskip.
-->'''Felix''': Where's my weapon? Damn it! Can't see...anything!
* CareerEndingInjury: If he reaches an A-Support with Ingrid, their Azure Moon ending states that [[spoiler:he took a blow meant for her, crippling his sword arm for life. Despite this, he ends up not regretting it]].
* CassandraTruth: Several of his monastery dialogues in Part 1 have him warn Byleth against Dimitri, even going as far as urging them to kill him on one occasion. Given Dimitri's [[WideEyedIdealist general]] [[HonorBeforeReason behavior]] in Part 1, these come off as rather extreme and unwarranted, and Byleth ignores them. Then Chapter 11 happens and [[spoiler: Dimitri's SanitySlippage reaches its apex, turning him into an AxCrazy BloodKnight [[RevengeBeforeReason obsessed with revenge]]]], and Felix's earlier warnings no longer sound preposterous.
* ClarkKentOutfit: Implied. Leonie remarks that he is heavier than he looks in their B-support. Felix also ties with [[PintSizedPowerhouse Edelgard]] for the second-highest Strength growth in the game, and has the third-highest Strength cap, trailing only Edelgard and [[SuperStrength Dimitri.]]
* CombatStilettos: Gender-inverted. His post-timeskip outfit has noticeable heels on his boots, despite not being used for a riding class.
* CombatPragmatist:
** Believes strongly in this philosophy, as he praises Byleth during their support for being able to mix in fists and feet into their spar rather than only relying on them as a backup when their weapon is lost, as he criticizes that most knights do.
** When Leonie beats him with a pit trap in their support, he takes his loss gracefully and praises her for using that.
* ComicallySerious: The game takes a fair amount of humor with him taking goofy situations completely seriously, particularly with his supports with Annette.
* CoolSword:
** In his B-support with Dimitri, Dimtri notices that Felix has a new, high-quality blade; Felix explains he discovered the Sword of Zoltan, a blade crafted by the finest blacksmith in Fódlan, in a merchant's wares mixed in with a bunch of common swords and bought it. An awed Dimitri asks to swing it only once, but, [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength knowing Dimitri's history with swords]], Felix refuses.[[note]]By default, it goes to Byleth's inventory, and [[GameplayAndStorySegregation if Dimitri has at least an A rank in swords, he's able to wield it like anyone that meets the same requirement.]][[/note]] It's also his weapon as an enemy on Crimson Flower.
** While other units can use the Sword of Moralta, one of Fódlan's Sacred Weapons, which restores HP when equipped at the beginning of each turn, as Felix is the only bearer of the Crest of Fraldarius in the cast, he's the only person who can use it to its fullest potential. It's also his weapon as an enemy on Verdant Wind.
* CrutchCharacter: Not Felix himself, but his personal skill Lone Wolf. In the early game it provides Felix with nearly unparalleled damage output, but later on he’ll want to work against his Authority weakness, as a good battalion can not only match or exceed Lone Wolf’s damage boost, but also provide many other statistical bonuses. It becomes a backup skill in case his battalion loses its endurance.
** Downplayed in ''Three Hopes''. While the bonuses are not quite as drastic as in ''Three Hopes'' he loses out on the coverage a battalion would provide, but can ultimately run without one.
* CulturalRebel: Holds the ideals of knightly honor and chivalry held by the rest of his home country, and most of his classmates, in contempt as a result of his brother's death and his father's approval of it. [[spoiler:His response on Crimson Flower as he stays this path, however, makes clear that this ends up leaving him just as bitter and bloodthirsty as Dimitri, with a number of his paired endings keeping him from being completely consumed by how unhappy his rebelling against those ideals has ultimately left him]].
* TheCynic: He believes wholeheartedly that idealism, honor and nobility are purely for fools, and that writers of idealistic stories control peoples' thoughts.
* CynicIdealistDuo: With Ingrid, as the Cynic.
* CynicismCatalyst: The death of his older brother Glenn, whom Felix idolized. Or more accurately, his father's reaction to his brother's death. Instead of grieving the loss of his son or trying to console Felix, he was proud that "[Glenn] died like a true knight." This made Felix turn his back on the ideals Glenn [[KnightInShiningArmor epitomized]], and instilled in him a belief that chivalry is a flawed system that glorifies death.
* DamageReduction: Completing his Paralogue gives him the Aegis Shield, which only works for him (as he bears the Crest of Fraldarius), and it has a chance of halving the damage Felix takes. This can help his survival, considering he's a GlassCannon.
* DeadlyDistantFinale: In his paired ending with Sylvain on the Azure Moon route, [[spoiler:they pass away on the same day in what's presumed to be the future.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: The guy always seems to have something snarky to say regardless of the situation.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Male version. He's prickly and aloof, but tends to warm up to his partners in supports, especially if they can reach an A-rank.
* DifficultButAwesome: His Intense Velocity ability in ''Three Hopes'' can provide a very powerful speed boost on demand without the need to rack up hit count, but the difficult part comes from its ''very'' short duration that only allows for one full combo before having to dodge cancel to maintain the buff. Miss the window by even a second, and you have to build up speed all over again.
* DiscOneNuke: His Lone Wolf personal skill is an excellent boost to his damage output early on in the game, but it starts to become irrelevant later on as more powerful battalions that offer very good bonuses become available.
* DoesNotLikeSpam:
** He dislikes sweet foods, including cake. This forms the basis of his supports with Lysithea, and other supports, such as with Sylvain and Bernadetta, touch upon this dislike, too. He learns to love Lysithea's cakes, a recipe she developed herself to be as mild as possible to not be offensively sweet to him, by the end of their support. [[spoiler:If they become a couple, on some routes she will leave her recipe with another baker so he can still eat them after she dies young as a last gift]].
** It's subtle and not stated in text, but he's also not fond of vegetables, as he dislikes three of the four vegetable-based dishes, and the fourth he's simply indifferent towards (and it's also as much a seafood/cheese dish as it is vegetables).
* EarlyBirdCameo: In ''Heroes'', he appeared in Annette's section in "Meet the Heroes" months before becoming playable himself (albeit as a seasonal).
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite his seemingly uncaring attitude regarding violence, and considering it a means to get stronger, Felix's supports with Dimitri reveal that he was disgusted by how the prince visibly enjoyed inflicting violent deaths upon rebels they fought a few years before enrolling in the Officers Academy.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange:
** He switches his mostly-contained bun for a more ragged ponytail after the timeskip in ''Three Houses'', showing the stress he's under.
** In ''Three Hopes'', he ties it up in a [[SamuraiPonytail ponytail]] to go more nicely along with his new title of Duke Fraldarius.
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: In his non-Azure Moon paired ending with Leonie, [[spoiler:after mercenary work dries up in the post-war Fódlan, the two become street performers to make ends meet.]]
* FatalFlaw: Cynicism and [[BloodKnight his single-minded pursuit of strength]]. Due to his brother's death and strained relationship with his father, Felix views idealism and honor as useless. His only goal in life is to become stronger with a blade (though this is so he can protect those he cares about). In non-Azure Moon routes, Felix's cynicism and BloodKnight tendencies ultimately cause him to not only live a meaningless and hollow life, but also become as bloodthirsty and violent as Dimitri. Turning his back on his friends and family in the means of pursuing strength ultimately leaves him all alone and unhappy.
* FirstNameBasis: Despite calling Dimitri "the boar" or other variants for much of the story, after [[spoiler:Rodrigue dies, and Dimitri comes to his senses]], Felix starts calling Dimitri by name again as a sign of their relationship being mended.
* FlashStep: Invoked with his unique ability "Intense Velocity" in ''Three Hopes'', increasing his movement speed and attack speed every time he evades in the middle of his combo, stacking up to 7 times.
* FreudianExcuse: A big part of his hatred for the ideals of chivalry and the KnightInShiningArmor has to due with the death of his older brother Glenn during the Tragedy of Duscur where he died protecting Dimitri instead of saving his own life, and his father Rodrigue's ''approval'' of said sacrifice. Rodrigue claims that Glenn was the type who never could have forgiven himself if he ran for his life out of self-preservation, but Felix doesn't see it that way.
* FriendToAllChildren: Felix is one of the few characters that actually likes talking about children if pressed on the subject during teatime. Additionally, while it's subtle, he's overall less prickly and/or rude to characters younger than him.

** Felix hails from one of the coldest and northernmost regions of Faerghus. [[note]]In fact, it's only slightly to the south of Gautier territory (Sylvain's home).[[/note]] He heats up very fast in the sauna, naturally.
** He's almost obsessed with training and improving his swordsmanship - naturally, he is almost always in the Training Grounds or the Blue Lions classroom if you're exploring the monastery.
** His initial three proficiencies are in swords, bows, and brawling. On top of at least two of these boons being specialties of classes that could be considered to be highly non-chivalric (Assassin, War Master), Felix eschews the rules of "chivalry," rule-bound combat often observed by knights, favoring pragmatism and having a diverse arsenal to rely on. These three weapon types certainly fit the bill in terms of diversity - and furthermore, if you unlock his Hidden Talent in Reason Magic and flip it to a boon, you can get a Swords-Reason lesson plan for him in Part II where he'll explain that he'd like to study magic in order to gain an even bigger advantage in battle.
** He's BrilliantButLazy in regards to tactics and strategy, and thus has an authority penalty. This also applies for his initial bane in Reason Magic; while it's hinted that he's BookDumb to an extent, Felix has [[OutsideTheBoxTactic a knack for outside-the-box thinking]] when actually in battle and simply prefers field experience to books.
** A few supports mention he doesn't like sweets. Fittingly, a few of his disliked dishes are of the sweet variety.

** While Lysithea manages to "cure" his dislike of sweets in their supports, he still dislikes the sweet dishes in the dining hall after the event is viewed, although Lysithea does state she bakes Felix cakes herself that have much less sugar in them than is usual, so it might be Felix just grows to like ''Lysithea's'' cakes.
** While he's been focusing on swords since he was a child, and has a talent for the skill, Felix starts with just a D in the skill, only one rank higher than the clearly civilian Ignatz, and one below Petra.
** If he's set to use his timeskip portrait outfit but doesn't have any swords in his inventory, he'll still carry sheathed swords.
** Despite not having issues with delicate work nor constantly breaking things by accident, Felix has a lower Dexterity stat than Dimitri, in terms of base, growth, ''and'' cap.
** The game will act like his sword skill is trained even if the player never levels it.
* GlassCannon: He’s got pretty good strength and speed growths, and his Crest has a chance of raising the might of his weapon when attacking, though his low defense and resistance means he relies on dodging and can’t take much punishment. Furthermore, his personal skill encourages not giving him a battalion, which could otherwise offset his low defenses.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: One of his starting proficiencies is in brawling, and it's half of his default study plan alongside swords. He also praises Byleth for incorporating their fists and feet into their fighting style alongside swordplay. With his stat growths, Felix can notably make a monstrous Grappler or War Master – the double-attack from gauntlets means his Crest’s effect has twice as many chances to activate, greatly helping his damage output.
* HasAType: His supports with Annette and Dorothea show that he likes girls who can sing.
* HatesTheirParent: Felix's father is listed as one of his dislikes. He's shown to be avoiding Rodrigue if you talk with him in the monastery in Chapter 5, and he shows hostility toward his father in most of their conversations. That said, [[spoiler:he's devastated when Rodrigue dies, even if he doesn't openly show it]].
** In ''Three Hopes '''s Azure Gleam route, assuming that [[spoiler:Rodrigue survives as an after effect of recruiting Byleth]], Felix’s A Support with his father allows them to speak on equal terms and mend their estranged relationship.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: He and Dedue have perhaps the worst relationship out of all the playable characters who can support with each other. Felix repeatedly refers to Dedue as a "dog" in service to the "boar" Dimitri, and while Dedue is willing to tolerate the insults against himself, he warns Felix that he won't stand for badmouthing Dimitri.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: If you recruit him on the Crimson Flower route, after the timeskip, he laments that he's become the same mindless murderer he hated Dimitri for becoming.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Knew how to swing a sword before he learned how to write, as is tradition in his homeland. His stats also make him an ideal fit for sword-wielding classes like Myrmidon.
* HeterosexualLifePartners:
** With Dimitri in their paired ending. It's noted that [[spoiler:his grief when Dimitri passes away is said to be stronger than that of the queen's.]]
** Potentially with Sylvain, at least in the English translation. The Japanese translation, however, uses romantic language to describe their relationship. [[spoiler:They even die on the same day in their Azure Moon paired ending, where to quote the game, "as if conceding that one could not live without the other."]]
* HeyYou: His supports with Dorothea and Bernadetta have him getting their attention by calling out "you."
* HiddenDepths:
** In both the ending of his paralogue in Part I and his A-Support with Dimitri taking place post-timeskip, he implies his difference of opinion with his father was not just about Glenn's death, but Rodrigue's insistence on fulfilling his duty to the late king which he found foolish. [[spoiler:For him, there is a boundary between the affairs of the dead and the living, and not understanding this boundary leads to misery when grounded by the dead. Felix admits that yes, he will be pained by Glenn and Rodrigue's deaths for the rest of his life, but he refuses to let himself wallow when he has more important things to do.]]
** He has a "hidden talent" in Reason even though he initially comes with a weakness penalty in the skill.
** The opera is one of his favored topics in tea time events, and his supports with both Dorothea and Annette have him expressing an interest in hearing them sing. (In fact, it's only Dorothea's singing and that she can wield a sword decently that Felix begins to see her as anything other than a pest.) Evidently, Felix is a man with an appreciation for music.
** While he is BookDumb (or at least tactically-challenged), he's also able to deduce that something's up with [[spoiler:Jeritza in Chapter 6.]]
** Despite his cold and mildly antagonistic demeanor towards Dimitri, he makes several comments that implies he ''does'' still care about Dimitri as a friend, even before the timeskip; he makes several comments to Byleth that allude to his concern for Dimitri's mental well-being, especially after [[spoiler:it is revealed who the Flame Emperor actually is. When Dimitri is killed in the Verdant Wind route, he is visibly distraught, even blaming himself for not stopping Dimitri from going insane before this point, and it is even implied that this kicked off his own StartOfDarkness that causes his more bittersweet endings in the postgame.]]
* HonestAdvisor: In his solo Azure Moon ending and paired ending with [[spoiler:Dimitri,]] he becomes this.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** He holds Dimitri in contempt for constantly wallowing in grief and letting the dead guide his actions, yet he admits in his support with Byleth that he is driven by a need to surpass his deceased brother Glenn's power. That said, [[HypocriteHasAPoint Dimitri concedes that Felix isn't wrong about this]].
** On the Crimson Flower route, he becomes the bloodthirsty murderer he always despised Dimitri for being, although to his credit [[HypocrisyNod he's at least aware that he's fallen to Dimitri's level]].
** On Silver Snow and Verdant Wind, after spending some time believing Dimitri is dead and joining the respective route to try to make a better future with those capable of doing so, [[spoiler:his dialogue after Dimitri's actual death has him consumed by a desire to avenge Dimitri and his spirit, chaining himself down the very path that made Dimitri into the boar. By the end of the game, he's also degenerated into the same battle-hungry BloodKnight he despised Dimitri for being, except unlike Crimson Flower he's not even aware of it.]]
** In his C-Support with Sylvain, Felix calls him out on his hedonistic behavior and how he never considers how his actions hurt others. While Felix wasn't wrong about Sylvain's womanizing, he too often doesn't consider how his actions and words hurt others since he's often very prickly towards almost everyone who talks to him.
* HypocrisyNod: On Crimson Flower, he fully acknowledges that he's become just like Dimitri, and no longer has any right to criticize him. If they meet in battle, Felix says that killing Dimitri is something he must do to achieve his goals.
* InformedFlaw: In ''Houses'', Ingrid describes him as a troublemaker on par with Sylvain in her early exploration dialogues, but this never comes up in the game proper. He mostly sticks to training by himself and while his confrontational nature makes him difficult to approach and gets him into all sorts of arguments in his supports there's nothing suggesting he's causing any kind of trouble, unlike Sylvain's rampant womanizing.
* InsultOfEndearment: In ''Three Hopes'', while he still calls Dimitri a boar, it's noticeably less hostile and has a more affectionate tone behind it.
* IntrovertedCatPerson: Felix is the most aloof member of the Blue Lions and prefers to train alone, but he's fond of cats and will respond positively if you mentioned them during teatime.
* IronicName: Felix translates to "happy" in Latin, which is a far cry from his [[{{Jerkass}} usual]] [[{{Tsundere}} demeanor]]. It can also mean "lucky", which is -- again -- not something you'd use to describe [[CynicismCatalyst Felix.]]
* {{Irony}}:
** He's against obsessing over and trying to stay attached to the dead, never realizing his rejection of the ideals of chivalry are his own response to the death of his brother, [[spoiler:and digging himself deeper into trying to reject said path only leads to him being further chained down by the dead in his attempts to reject the ideals he blames for Glenn's death]].
** If he is recruited on the Silver Snow or Verdant Wind campaign, [[spoiler:he dedicates himself to avenging Dimitri's death, falling into the same mentality of living for the dead that he criticized Dimitri so much for.]]
** If recruited on the Crimson Flower campaign, [[spoiler:he defects from Dimitri's army because he is disgusted with how bloodthirsty Dimitri is. Yet in the end, Felix becomes just as bloodthirsty as Dimitri ever was, and without even having a cause to fight for.]]
** The NewGamePlus item that bestows the Crest of Fraldarius on its holder is called the "Shield Dragon Sign." While the Fraldarius Hero Relic ''is'' a shield, Felix is a GlassCannon by default.
** The original Fraldarius was a Falcon Knight, [[spoiler:if the revived version in the Verdant Wind endgame is any indication.]] Felix cannot become a Falcon Knight due to it being a female-only class.
** Despite being prickly and rude and admitting he's avoided romance and love his entire life, Felix has ''twice'' as many romantic supports as his best friend Sylvain, a notorious womanizer.
** While Dimitri struggles with dexterous tasks and regularly breaks weapons by accident, Felix (who does not have either of these issues) has a lower Dexterity stat, in terms of base, cap, ''and'' growth.
** Normally, Sylvain's supports are characters telling him off for immaturity and idiocy, Felix especially. In ''Three Hopes'', Felix and Sylvain's first support is ''Sylvain telling Felix'' off for a recent dumb action Felix committed (namely getting into a fist fight with someone that he easily could have just walked away from, particularly since he has become the head of House Fraldarius at this point). Felix notes that it's bizarre that Sylvain of all people is telling him to grow up, but he does acknowledge that he wasn't acting his best.
* ItIsDehumanizing: After the timeskip on the Azure Moon route, he's grown so disgusted with [[spoiler:Dimitri that he starts referring to him as "it," likely to emphasize Dimitri's descent into madness has left the former ruler with naught but [[TheUnfettered an obsession with revenge.]]]]
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:After Dimitri's horrible death]] on the Verdant Wind route, should he be recruited, he laments about his past [[spoiler:with Dimitri and wonders if he could have done anything to change things. Given Felix's {{tsundere}} nature, he's naturally blaming himself for Dimitri's death.]]
* IWorkAlone: This is reflected in his personal skill, Lone Wolf. The skill gives him 5 extra points of damage if he has no battalion accompanying him, either due to not having been assigned a battalion at all or having his battalion forced to withdraw.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Felix is noticeably rude towards Dimitri, calling him a savage boar. It seems like Felix is just being an ass, but Dimitri never denies that nickname; indeed, Dimitri's sanity begins to wane over the course of the story. To Felix's credit, he never stops calling Dimitri on his issues even once it becomes readily apparent that Dimitri is dangerously unstable and is one of the only Blue Lions to repeatedly address the elephant in the room regarding their leader's spiraling mental health.
** Felix also insults Dimitri for being a "boar who knows nothing save frontal attacks" if Byleth leads the Blue Lions to victory in the mock battle. While Ingrid gets offended, Felix is right about Dimitri being the worst tactician of the three house leaders, [[spoiler:which gets Dimitri killed on all routes besides his own]].
** Felix comes off as a real jerk regarding his opinion of Dedue, whom he views as little more than an animal with no will of his own. Again, Felix turns out to have a point when Dedue outright admits he would do literally anything Dimitri asked of him, even kill children. [[spoiler:Felix's accusation ends up right, but for the wrong reasons. Dedue ultimately knows Dimitri even at his worst would never order him to do such a thing, and so on the Crimson Flower route, Dedue gives likeminded Kingdom soldiers Crest Stones and uses one himself, turning everyone who uses one into Demonic Beasts, to protect their liege without his consent.]]
** In the ending of his Paralogue, Felix gets incensed at his father for appearing to care more about his honor and duty to the late king (the village they just protected was important to Lambert) than prioritizing the lives of his people, which makes his talks about how Glenn's death was an act of true chivalry feel empty. It's implied even Rodrigue acknowledges his son isn't entirely wrong about those observations, but like the above, Felix is blind to his father's own attempts to cope with Glenn's passing.
** Felix rebuffs Dorothea's flirtatious behavior during their support chain, accusing her of being a GoldDigger who is trying to marry into a rich family such as House Fraldarius. Dorothea outright states that marrying rich is her goal at the beginning of her own support chain with Byleth.
** Felix advises Ashe not to obsess over becoming a knight, but words it in a way that makes him sound like he's decrying Ashe's dream. He clears up the misunderstanding later and admits his personal bias against knights left him too hostile to properly get his point across. That being said, [[spoiler:his advice ends up being validated on the Silver Snow and Verdant Wind routes, which will always result in Ashe turning on the Kingdom as a knight of House Rowe, and later attacking Byleth's forces in Ailell. The latter can even result in his death if he wasn't recruited pre-timeskip or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential if the player just kills him anyway.]]]]
** Felix snaps at Mercedes in their C-support for comparing him to her own younger brother, telling her he is ''not'' her brother and to stop bothering him. She may have unintentionally touched a nerve by reminding him of Glenn, but he was right that her mothering behavior was somewhat patronizing.
** Felix hates chivalry and honor because he believes they promote the glorification of death and BlindObedience. His cynicism has some merit; some knights believe their duty is to obey any order without question or argument, rendering them unable to think for themselves. [[spoiler:On Silver Snow and Verdant Wind, Dimitri's charge towards Enbarr ends in his death; given that the Kingdom's knights followed him faithfully (a group that includes Felix himself if he is not recruited), the country is left in shambles upon their failure.]]
** In ''Three Hopes'', Felix doesn't insult Dimitri as much, but tends to frequently scold him, and with the way Dimitri keeps talking about doing things himself, it's easy to see why Felix gets frustrated with him.
* JerkassRealization:
** In his paired ending with Lysithea on non-Azure Moon routes, [[spoiler:after spending years wandering the continent aimlessly as a mercenary, he runs into Lysithea who is living a perfectly happy life as a baker despite being on death's door at that point. Seeing her managing to be happy in spite of her impending death makes him realize how he's been wasting his life, and after she passes he takes over the bakery in her stead.]]
** On the Verdant Wind route, should you recruit him, [[spoiler:he realizes how far gone Dimitri goes and wonders if being by his side would have changed things.]]
* JerkassToOne: He can be rather prickly to most of his classmates, but his behavior toward Dedue (at least until the end of their Supports) is outright hateful due to his disdain of the latter’s BlindObedience. ''Three Hopes'' thankfully tones this down significantly, but they do still bicker at times.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be rude, snide, judgmental and even confrontational, but underneath it all, he does genuinely care about the well-being of his comrades; in their support chain, Ashe compares him to a sarcastic and snide, but still caring protagonist of one of his favorite knightly tales. One conversation post-timeskip demonstrates this particularly well: [[spoiler:In Azure Moon Chapter 14, Felix can be found in the cathedral, looking directly at [[AxCrazy Dimitri]] from a distance. Talking to him will result in him requesting that Byleth "Do something about [[ItIsDehumanizing that creature]]." Which of the 3 responses does he like? The only one of them that agrees to try. In fact, picking either of the other two will make Felix angrily tell Byleth off for giving up so easily.]] ''Three Hopes'' further emphasizes the heart of gold part while toning down the jerk part a bit, showcasing his caring nature a lot more, and the way he talks to Dimitri is not one of contempt, but of genuine concern.
* KindHeartedCatLover:
** ''Felix'', of all people, responds positively if Byleth mentions cats to him during a Teatime event and he says during a conversation with Bernadetta he "doesn't dislike them".
** His C-support with Mercedes in ''Three Hopes'' involves Felix asking her to heal an injured kitten he picked up outside.
* KnightInSourArmor: Many of his non-Azure Moon endings have Felix becoming a sword for hire after the war and the narration desribed that that he "seeks battles as if he had a death wish." Fortunately in these endings, his life is turned around when he is reunited with Mercedes, Flayn, or Lysithea.
* TheLancer: Felix fills in a similar role to most Lancers: The "sarcastic {{Foil}} to the team leader/hero" (Dimitri in this case) that tends to criticize or snark at him a lot, but deep down harbors a strong loyalty to him. While the martial-inclined Azure Moon specialize in spear-fighting, Felix prefers sword-fighting, with high aptitude in the Sword skill, setting him apart.
* LightningBruiser: After he obtains the Aegis Shield and the Strength to not lose much Speed off it, [[note]][[StatingTheSimpleSolution Or just getting Weight -3.]][[/note]] he transitions from a GlassCannon to this. The defensive boosts give Felix a good amount of bulk, and his good Dexterity means that the [[DamageReduction Pavise/Aegis effect]] has a reasonable chance of going off.
* LikeFatherLikeSon:
** Felix ironically fits this trope despite his extremely strained relationship with Rodrigue, since his rebellious streak in the Academy mirrors his father's own rebellious nature back when Rodrigue and Lambert were students. [[spoiler:On the Azure Moon route, Felix even matches his father's devotion to Dimitri, becoming near inconsolable once the king passes away in their paired ending.]]
** In ''Three Hopes'', Shez says that Rodrigue and Felix are both alike in that when something important needs to be done, they're the first to volunteer for it - Rodrigue is flattered, yet also notes that he and his son share a need to have a purpose in life, and cannot bear an existence without one. They also both dislike sweets.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Felix is a cold and aloof swordsman with a budding talent in the reason skill, while his father is an emphatic KnightInShiningArmor that uses faith magic as a [[ThePaladin Holy Knight]].
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His Aegis Shield that reduces damage, making him a rare swordsman to actually use them like a Swashbuckler would.
* MadeMyselfSad: In his B-support with Dimitri, Felix refuses to let Dimitri hold the Sword of Zoltan he bought, citing an incident where the latter managed to carelessly snap a sword in half by swinging it too hard. When Felix brings up how his family kept telling that story years after, his expression darkens and he leaves in a huff, saying there's no use talking about someone who is long dead.
* MagicallyIneptFighter: Zigzagged:
** He starts with a weakness in Reason and despite having a budding talent in the skill, he learns only two spells, which doesn't give much incentive in putting him in magic-oriented classes aside from making the Mortal Savant, the only sword-focused Master class available for Felix, much easier to access.
** Felix's Magic growth of 30%, while higher than most physically-oriented units, [[note]]Only Byleth, Ingrid, Seteth, Jeritza, and Cyril at 35% are higher, and the latter is only due to Aptitude; Lorenz and Edelgard are even higher at 40% and 45%, respectively.[[/note]] pales to designated spellcasters. [[NotCompletelyUseless While the Mortal Savant class is considered a poor fit for him, this does allow him to use magic weapons such as the Levin Sword to decent effect.]]
* MasterSwordsman: What he strives to be.
* MeaningfulEcho: He shares his post-timeskip PreAssKickingOneLiner with pre-timeskip Dimitri; "I'll cut through."
* MeaningfulName:
** While also an IronicName, Felix can also mean "lucky," and he's one of the few characters to have a Major Crest.
** His middle name, Hugo, means "mind," and he's something of an OnlySaneMan (with Ingrid).
* MissingMom: Similarly to Hilda. While Rodrigue plays a small but crucial role in Azure Moon and Glenn's death is a huge moment in the lives of Felix, Dimitri and Ingrid, we never even learn if Felix's mother is still alive or not in ''Three Houses''. All we know about her is Felix got his eye color from her.
** ''Three Hopes'' has Rodrigue clarify in an offhand mention that she is indeed alive and running the Dukedom's affairs while he and Felix are campaigning with Dimitri.
* MoralityChain: His A-support with Dimitri in ''Hopes'' has the latter flat-out admit that Felix is the only reason he hasn't gone off the deep end.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His endings with Lysithea outside of Azure Moon [[spoiler:start with him roaming Fódlan as a vicious sword for hire, leaving a trail of corpses in his wake. Seeing her making the most of life while she's extremely sick and dying, while he coped with his grief by killing, causes him to have a breakdown and put down his sword forever, spending the little time they have together baking sweets and making her happy.]]
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Mean to Ingrid's Nice and Sylvain's In-Between. It's downplayed in the sense that he's merely a JerkWithAHeartOfGold rather than a full-fledged {{Jerkass}}.
* NoPlaceForAWarrior: In his non-Azure Moon endings with Leonie, the two become mercenaries but struggle to find jobs after the post-war chaos is over. Desperate, they are forced to become street performers to earn a living.
* NoSenseOfHumor: Flat out states to Dorothea that he doesn't joke, and one of the notes he leaves in the advice box has him saying that people find him dour and suggest that he should joke more often, which he doesn't see the point of.
* NoSocialSkills: Downplayed, but Felix lacks social tact and is prone to being insensitive.
* NonUniformUniform: Downplayed. Felix wears the vest variant of the uniform, has a belt around one thigh, and has a semi-unique boot design (only Sylvain and Lysithea wear the same boots).
* NotSoAboveItAll: He acts aloof and no-nonsense, but a lot of his supports have him engaging in silly or light-hearted behaviour, like slicing up fruit that Flayn throws to him, eating cake Lysithea baked for him, talking about cats with Bernadetta, listening to Annette singing, etc...
* NotSoDifferentRemark: If recruited and on the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:he laments that he's become no better than Dimitri in his service to the Empire]].
* NotInThisForYourRevolution:
** Zigzagged with Silver Snow and Verdant Wind. He joins up precisely to try to help the continent under those he thought could do so [[spoiler:upon hearing the lie about Dimitri's death, but following Dimitri's actual death descends down a more vengeful path as he obsesses over avenging Dimitri]].
** He doesn't believe in Edelgard's cause if recruited to the Black Eagles on the Crimson Flower route, but his desire to forge his own path leads him to join them. He does make it very clear that their actions ''better'' be worth it in the end.
* NumberTwo: He serves as this in Azure Gleam in ''Three Hopes''. In Chapter 7, Dimitri returns to the capital with just Dedue and Rodrigue, leaving Felix in charge of the standing army at the frontlines. Felix also tends to be the first person he consults for military advice.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Post-timeskip. He barely looks any different than he did as a teenager pre-timeskip (only changing his clothes and hairstyle), but is in fact 22 years old. His model is even the same size for both the academy and war phases.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Despite repeatedly calling Dimitri a "wild boar", [[spoiler:when Felix first sees how far Dimitri has fallen post-timeskip and being a ''lot'' more aggresive than before, he says with a surprised face: "It's like he's a completely different person now."]]
* OnlySaneMan: Downplayed, but for the first half of post-timeskip chapters on the Azure Moon route, he is the only one to [[spoiler:openly question the point of following orders from the clearly insane Dimitri, who is too obsessed with killing his enemies and revenge on Edelgard to think clearly.]]
* PerpetualFrowner: Seeing Felix smile is a rare treat, he's usually quite dour and serious.
* PetTheDog:
** He's genuinely curious about Annette's songs. She's additionally one of the few people he's not initially hostile towards with the others including Flayn, Lysithea, Bernadetta and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Seteth]].
** During his C-support with Bernadetta, despite being confused and annoyed by her panicking in his presence, when he mistakenly believes someone is trying to kill Bernadetta, he ''immediately'' draws his sword to get ready to protect her.
* PickyEater: It's subtle, but Felix dislikes nearly all of the sweet dishes in the Mess Hall and he also doesn't like three out of four of the vegetable ones, being merely neutral on the fourth. He only really seems to like meat and cheese.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Downplayed, but Felix is 174 cm and no taller after the timeskip, putting him on the shorter end for male characters, in addition to his model being noticeably thinner than most other characters. Felix also ties for the second-highest Strength growth (55%) and has the third-highest Strength cap (78).
* PlatonicLifePartners: His relationship with Leonie if their paired endings are achieved. Despite never being romantically attracted to nor marrying each other, they end up as mercenary partners, and eventually, street performers for the rest of their lives, or on Azure Moon he becomes her best employer, keeping her around by exploiting her drinking habit.
* PlotArmor: In Classic Mode of ''Three Hopes'', if his HP drops to 0 in battle, Felix will retreat from battle instead of dying outright, a trait he did not have in ''Three Houses''.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: In a few of his supports, Felix says sexist things. In his support with Ingrid, he tells her to settle down and marry instead of being a knight, and his support with Leonie, he tells her that she's impressive "for a girl" before being reminded she made a fool out of him earlier. Leonie tells him he's better than looking down on her, and he concedes.

-->"''I'll go.''" ''(pre-timeskip)''\\
"''I'll cut through.''" ''(post-timeskip)'' [[note]]Doubles as a MeaningfulEcho on Azure Moon, as this is also used for pre-timeskip Dimitri.[[/note]]

-->"''Too slow!''"\\
"''Is that all?''"\\
"''Worthless!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''An opening!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I'll cut you down!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''Leave my sight!''" (Post-timeskip)
* RealMenEatMeat: One of his favorite gifts is smoked meat, and he likes meat-based dishes in the dining hall.
* RealMenHateSugar: "Sweets" is even in his dislikes, although like [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Saizo]] before him, it's not that he's trying to make a point but rather that he just doesn't like sweets. If you support him with Lysithea however, she manages to get him to start liking sweets after she makes him some special cakes.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: During his C-Support with Sylvain, Felix calls him on his womanizing and hedonistic behavior after he grows irritated with him.
* RecurringElement: The game's [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Navarre]], being an asocial swordsman focused on skill and speed who is mainly focused on improving their swordsmanship. He mainly fulfills this archetype in terms of personality and stats, as he does not start with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter Killing Edge]], nor does he have to be recruited from the enemy's side like [[Characters/FireEmblemAwakeningFirstGenerationMales Lon'qu]] and other members of the archetype before him. In exchange for the Killing Edge, however, he has the Crest of Fraldarius, which boosts his attacks at random (activates more often, but deals less bonus damage).
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Felix is nothing but bitter towards his father during the story due to a falling out they had years ago, but in cut content from the game, [[spoiler:Felix could/would be so infuriated with Dimitri for letting Rodrigue's death happen that [[https://youtu.be/Nxc--LNrzZQ?t=39 he would defect from the Kingdom army and side with Cornelia, claiming that he’ll cut Dimitri down.]]]]
* RunningGag: Most of his supports begin with a girl ([[AmbiguouslyBi or Sylvain]]) following him around the training grounds until he gets annoyed enough to try and run them off. In multiple cases they also end up stalking him for the rest of the support.
%%zce* SamuraiPonytail: His new design in ''Three Hopes'' has him sporting one.
* SecretAIMoves: As an enemy unit, he knows Darting Blow, a skill that is impossible for him to obtain as a playable character. He can also know Axebreaker''+'', which no playable character can learn. [[note]]Not to be confused with the regular Axebreaker (no plus sign), which is not only universal but easy for Felix to obtain as a playable unit.[[/note]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: If recruited on the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:he can kill his own father Rodrigue in battle]].
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In his support chains with Ashe, he mocks and talks down the idea of the KnightInShiningArmor, honor and idealism.
* ShockAndAwe: He learns two magic spells if his Reason is trained: Thunder and Thoron.
* SmugSmiler: Not on his portrait, but his model's default expression during the academy phase is a rather smug grin. He loses this during the war phase.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In ''Three Hopes'', despite being exclusive to the Azure Gleam route, both times he is fought on the other two routes, he retreats when defeated instead of getting killed. This is in contrast to ''Three Houses'' where if not recruited storyline-wise his death is necessary on Crimson Flower due to being one of the commanders guarding Arianrhod, and in Verdant Wind it's possible for him to be killed when he appears as a combatant on Gronder Field.
* SpeedEchoes: In ''Three Hopes'', when his personal skill, ''Intense Velocity'', is active, he leaves afterimages behind whenever he attacks or dodges, emphasizing his buffed attack speed.
* SpiritedCompetitor: Challenging those he sees as {{Worthy Opponent}}s to spars is one of his favorite things to do. When Catherine shows up, everyone starts talking about what a fearsome weapon Thunderbrand is and how they wouldn't want to face her in battle. Felix? He immediately starts talking about how he wants to spar with her, and he shows similar interest when Byleth gets their hands on the Sword of the Creator.
* TheSpock: For the most part, he's the most grounded in reality between himself, Sylvain, and Ingrid.
* SpottingTheThread: When Flayn is kidnapped, Felix is the student to suspect [[spoiler:Jeritza, due to his swordsmanship subtly shifting to a more impulsive, less refined style, something only Felix notices. Jeritza is indeed the Death Knight and Flayn's kidnapper.]]
* StayInTheKitchen: In his support with Ingrid, he coldly tells her to give up her passion of being a knight and get married. It's implied this is because he is worried about her being hurt given how close she was to his brother, and doesn't want to lose someone as important to him as her.
-->'''Felix:''' Stop bothering with all this. You're not meant to be a knight. Go find a husband.
* StrongAndSkilled: Felix ties for both the second-highest Strength growth (55%) and third-highest cap (79). He's also at worst neutral in every physical weapon and movement type, and is dedicated to improving his skills rather than rely on his Crest.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: If he let his hair down and grew a beard, he'd be look like his father with a different eye color.
* TarotMotifs: The Crest of Fraldarius is based off The Emperor, which represents [[BloodKnight aggression]] and [[KnightInSourArmour bravery]], which describes [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Felix]] pretty well. When reversed however, it represents petty emotions and going against authority, playing into his [[BerserkButton disdain]] for chivalry and knighthood, and his feelings towards his father (who advocates said ideas for chivalry and knighthood) and [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy post-timeskip]] Dimitri]].
* TogetherInDeath: He and Sylvain promised that they would stay together until they die together.
** If paired on the Azure Moon route, [[spoiler:their ending states that they pass away on the same day due to conceding that they could not live without each other. Subverted if one is recruited but the other isn't, Felix throwing that promise away immediately the moment they face each other.]]
** Takes a more tragic turn if you recruit one without the other on [[spoiler:Crimson Flower. Sylvain will lament that they promised to die together when they were kids, and that they must now kill each other in battle.]]
* TookTheWifesName: In Bernadetta's non-Azure Moon ending with Felix, she [[spoiler:convinces him to marry into House Varley, rather than having him set out on his own like he normally does. In their later years, he ends up handling most of the house's documents, signing them as Count Varley.]]
* TragicHero: Becomes this if recruited out of the Blue Lions. While other characters do have different endings depending on route, Felix stands out as almost ''all'' of his non-Azure Moon endings are bittersweet at best and outright depressing at worst.
** On Verdant Wind/Silver Snow, Felix leaves Faerghus due to believing [[spoiler:Dimitri is dead and]] that Claude/Byleth's army has better odds of defeating the Empire. [[spoiler:He finds out Dimitri is actually alive shortly before the prince ''does'' die at Gronder Field. This leaves Felix full of regret, as he wonders whether he could have saved him if he'd stuck around, before he becomes obsessed with the idea of avenging Dimitri's death.]]
** On Crimson Flower, his [[spoiler:defection to the Empire]] is framed as [[ATragedyOfImpulsiveness an angry, rebellious teen's last "screw you" to his father at the cost of permanently burned bridges with his family, his friends, and his nation]]. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Free to forge his own path as he wanted, but having nothing left]], Felix becomes the exact same bloodthirsty monster he always accused Dimitri of being, and is fully aware of it.
* {{Tsundere}}:
** One of the most clear-cut male examples in the entire franchise. He's arrogant, brash, shows open disdain for chivalry, and prefers sparring over social interaction. Yet those who become close to him through supports can get many glimpses of his dere side. His Goddess Tower scene with female Byleth in particular involves Felix rambling on about how he has avoided romance his entire life, finding it a waste of time and only interested in being stronger, before telling Byleth she'd better not get sick from standing around in the cold because he'd "hate for such a good sparring partner to be out of commission." Sure, Felix.
** In Dedue's Forging Bonds dialogue in ''Heroes'', his chivalric tendencies towards Dimitri remain such that Felix has grown tired of him being "Dimitri's lapdog prancing around with a leash on his mouth." He goes on to say "just don't waste your life by dying too fast" protecting Dimitri. Who knew he had a soft spot for the big guy?
** In several of his supports with his other childhood friends, Ingrid and Sylvain, Felix scolds them for risking their lives to help him in battle and is clearly worried about their wellbeing but struggles to express that in a way aside from anger and frustration.
** Shez even points this out in their support in ''Three Hopes'', noting how he performs much better when he's fighting with Dimitri, Sylvain, and Ingrid. Felix's reaction is to suddenly choke up in a hilarious manner, make an excuse for each of them, then quickly tries to dismiss the conversation, claiming it's "exhausting". Heh.
** In Shez's B-Support with Dimitri they mention that after Dimitri was knocked out by a stray bolt of magic for several hours, both Dedue ''and'' Felix didn't know what to do with themselves in the interim.
* TsurimeEyes: His eyes point sharply upward, in contrast to Sylvain and Ingrid's TaremeEyes, and matching Dimitri's.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: He's the only student with a Major Crest [[spoiler:that wasn't forced on them through traumatic experimentation and coexisting alongside a natural Minor Crest.]] It's never brought up in-story, despite Crests being a big deal.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to Sylvain, Felix used to be "meek and cute," and looked up to him like a big brother. Felix doesn't like revisiting the memory. Dimitri also comments if Felix and Dimitri are picked to eat together that he used to whine if he couldn't do everything with Dimitri, much to Felix's annoyance.
* VocalDissonance: In the Japanese version, Felix's voice is quite deep, in contrast to his slender physique and relatively small size.
* WalkingTheEarth: On all routes but the Azure Moon, his solo ending sees him [[spoiler:give up his noble title to become a wandering mercenary after the war.]] His paired endings on these routes can avert this trope entirely, or have him become one half of a wandering BattleCouple.
* WallPinOfLove: As befitting a tsundere, he does this to Byleth in his S-rank CG.
* WellDoneSonGuy: In his A-support with Byleth, Felix admits that he's been chasing his brother's shadow ever since his death. His paralogue makes it abundantly clear that his relationship with his father is strained because of the "difference of opinion."
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** While he was once the best of friends with Dimitri an event before the beginning of the story has put a serious strain on his relationship with him, to the point that he freely describes Dimitri as a monster. Namely, he saw Dimitri acting so savagely in their first battle together that he couldn't even believe it was him, and considering what a BloodKnight Felix is, that's saying something. Thankfully their friendship can be renewed and mended (assuming it’s a route where Dimitri lives, anyhow), and their paired ending confirms this.
** It's possible for you to permanently destroy his friendships with Dimitri, Sylvain, and Ingrid if you recruit him or his friends to [[spoiler:the Black Eagles and side with Edelgard]].
* WhatTheHellHero: If he's not recruited on the Crimson Flower route [[spoiler:but Ingrid is, Felix will voice his anger with complete bluntness.]]
-->'''Felix''': All that talk about chivalry and loyalty, only to turn against your homeland!
* WhenHeSmiles: Felix is generally dour, so his smiles are notable. In a support with Bernadetta, she follows him around just to see him smile again, and when she gets a chuckle out of him, she's delighted.
* WorthyOpponent: Right from the very beginning he views Byleth as this, eager to challenge them.
* YouMonster:
** He outright calls Dimitri a 'boar' and a monster in their support chain, disgusted with how bloodily the prince fought during the battle to quell a rebellion.
** He calls Dedue a monster in their support chain after the former's UndyingLoyalty to Dimitri has him claiming he would commit heinous actions, like massacring women and children, without hesitation should the situation arise that prince orders him to.
** If recruited on the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:this can be turned around on him. He can potentially fight Dimitri, Sylvain, Ingrid or even his own father. Needless to say, none of them mince their words when they run into him again (unless they too have been recruited).]] He'll even admit as much, [[spoiler:lamenting about how what he hated so much about Dimitri is something he now has become.]]
* YoungAndInCharge: In ''Three Hopes'', [[spoiler:Rodrigue abdicates early on and names Felix the new Duke Fraldarius.]]

[[folder:Mercedes]]
!!Mercedes von Martritz (formerly Bartels)
!!!'''Class:''' Commoner → Monk → Priest → Bishop
!!!'''Age:''' 22 (5/27)
!!!'''Crest:''' Lamine (Minor)
!!!'''Height:''' 169 cm
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YumiriHanamori (Japanese), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[WhiteMagicianGirl Benevolent Soul]]'' / ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes Kindly Devotee]]'']]

->''"If you get injured, simply say the word and I'll patch you up, straight away."''

A kind-hearted girl who watches her surroundings closely and can't ignore people in need. She is a former noble of the Adrestian Empire, but chose to live in the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus as a commoner. In Faerghus she once attended the Royal School of Sorcery of the kingdom's capital. She says she is "a bit older" than the other students.\\\

Her personal ability, ''Live to Serve'', restores her health equivalent to the amount that heals an ally whenever she uses recovery magic. She bears the Minor Crest of Lamine, which gives her a chance to conserve a use of recovery magic.
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* EleventhHourRanger: On the Golden Wildfire route in ''Three Hopes'', [[spoiler:she can be convinced to pull a HeelFaceTurn by Jeritza, becoming an allied NPC for the back half of the final battle]].
* AffectionateNickname:
** Annette calls her "Mercie."
** Cyril starts calling Mercedes "Mercie" by Mercedes' request due to difficulty pronouncing her name at first, but by their B-support, Cyril says that he sees her as a close older sister figure and Mercedes is happy to hear him using the nickname.
* AncestralWeapon: House Martritz's Relic is a protective gem as opposed to a weapon: The Rafail Gem, which is tied to Lamine's Crest. Mercedes can obtain it upon completing her and Caspar's Paralogue, [[spoiler:given to her by the [[TheBrute Death Knight himself]], no less,]] and it allows for the holder to [[NoSell be protected against effective weaponry, critical hits, and may occasionally halve damage outright]]. As one with Lamine's Crest, Mercedes can safely wear it.[[labelnote:note]]If the player did not recruit Mercedes on either the Crimson Flower or Verdant Wind routes, you can actually steal the gem from Mercedes either during the Tailtean Plains battle (Crimson Flower) or the Grondor Field rematch (Verdant Wind), as she will have it on her person during both of those battles. In the case of Crimson Flower, stealing the gem is the ''only'' way that [[spoiler:Jeritza can get and wear the gem; since he also has Lamine's Crest, he can also wear it safely, but since Mercedes' Paralogue involves fighting the Death Knight, it's naturally not available on Crimson Flower.]] Amusingly, you can also steal its dark equivalent during the final battle on the Verdant Wind route.[[/labelnote]] ''Three Hopes'' also gives her the Ichor Scroll, a Hero's Relic linked to the Crest of Lamine that allows her to wield Abraxas, the most powerful white magic spell.
* AngerBornOfWorry: One of the few ways to upset Mercedes is to put yourself in danger for her sake. She gets into an argument with Annette when the latter puts herself in danger to protect Mercedes from a criminal, and to a lesser extent, she disapproves of Ferdinand putting himself in danger to obtain the evidence that her foster father bribed the church to let him adopt her.
* ArrangedMarriage: Mercedes' foster father wants to get her married off to a nobleman as soon as possible in order to raise his standing through her Crest, and in Byleth's A-support, he presents a marriage to her that Mercedes is exasperated by, but feels that she has no choice in refusing. Mercedes tells Byleth that she'd rather enter the service of the church, and Byleth can advise her to follow her dreams instead. She ends up declining the proposal.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Tathlum Bow is a weapon associated with her Crest, but there's a catch: It's only available in the Blue Lions route and she's unable to synergize well with it even with her budding talent in bows. As such, it's better off on another archer.
* BabiesEverAfter: In her ending with Sylvain.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Within the Blue Lions girls, she's the Beauty to Annette's Brains and Ingrid's Brawn, being the kind, motherly centre of the group with a HairOfGoldHeartOfGold.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mercedes is a very sweet, kind, and gentle woman, but as her supports with Lorenz show, she can be ''quite'' terrifying when sufficiently angered.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She can end up married to Ashe, and both of them are kind, sweet people with a strong desire to help others, as well as their skill and fondness for baking.
* BigOlEyebrows: Her eyebrows are noticeably thicker than all the other female characters.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: [[spoiler:Her supports with Jeritza reveals that he hated his father and wanted to kill him. Mercedes even reveals that both her and their mother had no intention of leaving him behind and it was a spur of the moment decision, but he reveals to Mercedes that he told her to leave him. When she asks why Jeritza killed their father, he states that he wanted to because their father found out their mother was past the age to bear children and intended to marry Mercedes. He snapped and murdered his father in a blind rage. Next thing he knew, everyone was dead and he had no recollection on what happened]].
* BondOneLiner:
-->''"It had to be done..."'' (pre timeskip)\\
"''Let's keep our guard up.''" (said with different inflections pre and post timeskip)\\
''"I don't expect forgiveness."'' (post timeskip)
* BoringButPractical: Compared to the other in-house healers. Linhardt and Marianne eventually stop developing as healers in favor of status and utility spells that open up more advanced and complex tactics. Mercedes continues to develop as a healer and has almost nothing to offer outside of that one niche, but it is an extremely important niche and she is the best at it, allowing her to fit into any possible team.
* BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: Any ending that involves her raising children, adopted or her own.
* BrokenPedestal: She's one of the most devout of the playable cast, but if recruited in Crimson Flower, [[spoiler:she is both horrified and disgusted by what the Church has become under Rhea's madness, and comes to agree with Edelgard the Church is corrupt beyond repair.]]
* CainAndAbel:
** Acts as the sweet, kind and altruistic Abel to [[spoiler:her half-brother Emile, also known as the Death Knight, being the bloodthirsty and eager-to-kill]] Cain. At the end of Mercedes and Caspar's post-timeskip paralogue, even during a PetTheDog moment where he gives Mercedes [[spoiler:their family Relic, he says he won't hesitate to kill her if they meet again]].
** Subverted if you [[spoiler:poach her to the Black Eagles and side with Adrestia, in which case they fight on the same team.]]
** Subverted in ''Warriors: Three Hopes'', where all routes result in [[spoiler:one sibling defecting to the other's cause (she defects in Scarlet Blaze and Golden Wildfire, he defects in Azure Gleam)]].
* CombatMedic: She starts out knowing Heal and using bows, but if her Faith is leveled she learns Nosferatu, and if her Reason is leveled, learns fire and thunder spells alongside her healing abilities. Unlike fellow CombatMedic Marianne, she leans closer to the Medic side of the trope, since while she has a solid Reason spell list, she learns no offensive Faith spells save Nosferatu, and her Bow skills are less helpful due to her stats not being as focused on that. Her unique ability "Radiant Love" in ''Three Hopes'' is a straight example of this, which simultaneously deals heavy damage to all surrounding enemies and greatly heals nearby allies.
* CommonalityConnection:
** In her supports with Ingrid, both young women bond over being hassled by unwanted marriage proposals; Ingrid muses that, despite their outward differences, their similar struggle is something they have in common.
** In her supports with Sylvain, the two bond over how their Crests have caused them misfortune and strife throughout their lives.
* ConflictingLoyalty: On the Crimson Flower Route, if she's recruited to the Black Eagles, [[spoiler:she'll agree that the Church needs to be reformed, but feels uneasy about fighting her classmates and the church.]]
* CoolBigSis:
** In her B-support with Cyril, Cyril tells her that he's come to think of Mercedes as an older sister, and Mercedes assures him that he can rely on her for anything.
** [[spoiler:To Jeritza, who's her ''actual'' little brother Emile.]]
** To Ingrid in ''Three Hopes'', with their support conversations focusing on their respective siblings; Ingrid misses her older brothers and Mercedes misses her younger brother. As a result Mercedes' big sis instincts activate, and she tries to help Ingrid understand that there are all kinds of ways of showing affection, and Ingrid resolves to try to be more like Mercedes and show less 'tough love' in some circumstances.
* CuteClumsyGirl: She regularly forgets obvious things, like wearing clothes, is almost as bad as Annette at causing kitchen disasters, and nearly kills Dimitri by accident while learning swordsmanship from him. She acknowledges this in several supports, including her S-rank. It's one of the reasons she dislikes physical activity, due to causing accidents or hurting herself.
* DamageSpongeBoss: If Mercedes is not recruited, she becomes this, especially on Maddening. While she doesn't have the craziest amount of health or defense (on Crimson Flower, it will be 58 and 20 respectively), she will be carrying the Rafail Gem, which nullifies critical attacks and any bonus damage that can be dealt. She will also have an absolutely busted Resistance stat, taking magic attacks on her out of the question. And because Mercedes bears the Crest of Lamine, she is also granted Pavise and Aegis from the Gem, both allowing her to only recieve half the damage from any attack brought onto her. But with her Dex stat, she only has an 8% chance of activating them, making them not as much of an issue as they could be.
* DeadpanSnarker: An interesting variation due to her voice and attitude, but Mercedes is extremely sarcastic and still manages to slip the remarks in there without changing her behavior.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Exchanges these with Sylvain in their A-support, with both vowing to protect the other.
* ExtremeDoormat: In her A-support with Byleth, she notes that for most of her life she just followed the whims of others, telling herself [[YouCantFightFate that it was the goddess's will]]. Her decision to take a side and fight in the war was the first time she actually ''chose'' for herself alone, even going against her adopted father's wishes, and she does so again to reject the marriage proposal he sent her.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She is amazing at baking sweet things, but struggles with savoury dishes.
* FirstNameBasis: Unlike most of the other Blue Lions, she calls Dimitri by name rather than "your highness".
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** Her clumsiness and loathing of exercise results in penalties to learning all melee weapons and heavy armor.
** As an ally, she can only obtain the Rafail Gem from the Death Knight. [[spoiler:If you join forces with Edelgard after she's revealed to be the Flame Emperor, which also gives you the Death Knight for free, not only does the Death Knight ''not'' have the Rafail Gem, but Mercedes somehow has it as long as she's an enemy.]]
* GayOption: She is a romancable option for Female Byleth.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Despite her kindhearted nature, Mercedes is one of the few who actually approves of Rhea executing the captured Western Church members in Chapter 5, likely because of her religious convictions. Marianne, the TokenReligiousTeammate of the Golden Deer, agrees.
* HatesTheirParent: Downplayed compared to characters like Felix and Hubert, but while Mercedes loves her mother, she does not think well of her adoptive father at all. In her supports with Ferdinand, she notes that a soldier who tries to strong-arm another into selling his sword reminds her of her adoptive father, who used similar tactics to adopt her as a Crest-bearing heiress. After [[spoiler:Fhirdiad is retaken]] on the Azure Moon route, she bitterly notes that her adoptive father quickly switched sides to support Dimitri despite having sucked up to Cornelia ever since the latter came to power. In her S-Support with Byleth, she announces her intention of essentially cutting ties with her adoptive father. And let's not get into her stepfather...
* HealThyself: Mercedes's unique Live to Serve talent recovers her HP by the same amount she heals someone for every time she heals one of her allies.
* HiddenBuxom: Datamining shows she has the third-biggest breasts in the entire game, behind only Manuela and Byleth. You can tell this after the timeskip by her figure-hugging blouse, which is still rather conservative and doesn't show anything. Before the timeskip, he breasts are just as big, but are concealed by her shawl. Becomes more prominent in her summer Variant in ''Heroes'' where it's shown she's quite stacked, which is made more apparent since she debuts alongside Summer Hilda and Marianne - both wearing bikinis of their own - and still has noticeably bigger breasts than them (with both being very well-endowed themselves).
* HiddenDepths:
** One of her likes is ghost stories, and as shown in her supports with Alois, for a kind, sweet and motherly young woman, she's good at telling a pretty dark, haunting story.
** Her supports show she has a surprisingly snarky side, especially around Sylvain and Lorenz.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Most of Mercedes' Supports involve her mixing sternness and gentleness in order to teach her fellow classmates an important life lesson, reinstill their drive, and, in the case of [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Lorenz]] and [[UnknownRival Ferdinand]], scold them for some of their more excessive behavior. [[spoiler:Not only is Mercedes incredibly lazy when it comes to her future in general, or when it comes to the fate of whichever faction she's a part of, but she also refuses to acknowledge that [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse her half-brother Jeritza bears a lot of responsibility for his crimes as the Death Knight]], shoving the blame onto herself.]] She also gives Lorenz a lot of grief for being fairly realistic about how he puts duty ahead of his personal desires, when she herself initially shows no incentive to tell off her adoptive father's attempt to put her in an arranged marriage, along with the aforementioned lack of care regarding her future outside of the academy.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: When appearing in a bikini for her Summer variant in ''Heroes'', Mercedes notes that she bought the bikini due to the ornate embroidery of the ruffles, seemingly oblivious that the focal point ends up being her massive chest due to the deep cleavage. The Japanese text also has her ask the Summoner if they want to see it from behind, again with no agenda in mind other than to show off the stitching.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She touches quite a nerve in her C-support with Felix when she says he reminds her of her little brother. Felix instantly snaps at her that he's ''not'' her brother and not to compare them, leaving a stunned Mercedes to apologize and leave. Given Felix's brother died quite traumatically, it's to be expected Felix took exception to the comparison, even if Mercedes didn't mean it in a bad way.
* {{Irony}}: Having been born into Adrestian nobility and being one of the game's two strongest magic units, one would expect Mercedes to be a member of the Black Eagles. Instead the circumstances of her early life led to her joining the Blue Lions, the class least associated with magic. [[spoiler:Though if the player poaches her to the Black Eagles, Mercedes has a very strong reason to join on the Crimson Flower route.]]
* IWasJustJoking: In her A-Support with Byleth, she mentions how she may tell her father that she found someone she fell in love with to discourage him from trying to arrange her with anyone. When Byleth asks who she is referring to she will say it's Byleth themself....only to immediately say she's only joking. Naturally in her S-rank support she will then say she was actually serious after all.
* ItsAllMyFault: Mercedes blames herself for her half-brother Emile's [[spoiler:fall into villainy as the Death Knight]]. After Emile was born, Mercedes's stepfather treated Mercedes and her mother as if they were expendable, and the two left House Bartels to live in a church, leaving Emile behind. Mercedes and Emile didn't meet again until [[spoiler:Mercedes began attending the Officers Academy, and he was teaching there as Jeritza. By the time she confronts him personally, he [[IveComeTooFar feels he's beyond redemption]] and won't be swayed to join her, and he's eventually defeated by Kingdom forces at Fort Merceus. Mercedes regrets not going back to House Bartels for him sooner and apologizes to her dying brother for being a lousy sister]].
* JerkassToOne: While her tone doesn't change much, the normally sweet-natured Mercedes is noticeably a lot more snarky and snippy with [[UpperClassTwit Lorenz]] in their supports.
* JoinOrDie: Mercedes [[DiscussedTrope muses on the topic]] as a {{Deconstruction}} of the DefeatMeansFriendship mechanic in ''Three Hopes''[[note]]Although in ''Three Houses'', Lysithea on Crimson Flower is the only character who can join this way if she had not previously been part of the player's house[[/note]]. As much as she would prefer to not kill her former friends and classmates, recruiting them during a battle is essentially forcing them to choose between death or betraying their friends and family.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Mercedes is a former Adrestian noble with a gentle, graceful demeanor as well as a high Magic growth, allowing her to cast powerful spells whenever she isn't healing allies. Her strengths in Reason and Faith make her a strong candidate for the [[TheRedMage Gremory]] class.
* LastOfHerKind: In her B-support with Dedue, she reveals that she's the last of House Martritz, and expresses her concern that her family recipe will be lost if she dies.
* LipstickLesbian: Downplayed. She is very feminine and is bisexual as she can get married to female Byleth in one of the endings.
* LongLostSibling: [[spoiler:The Death Knight, also known as Jeritza, a teacher at the Officers' Academy,]] is actually Emile, her younger half-brother, whom she was separated from when she fled his father's house in the Empire.
* LoveRedeems: For a [[DownplayedTrope very]], ''[[HeroAntagonist very]]'' strained definition of "redeems". On the Golden Wildfire route, [[spoiler:love for her brother Emile causes her to abandon the Church of Seiros in the end]].
* LuminescentBlush: In her A-support with Ignatz, she lights up when Ignatz compares her beauty to the Goddess and declares his intent to use her as the basis for his next portrait of said deity. As he runs off, she can only pleasantly muse if declaring such a thing before the altar is a sin and that she'll have to offer an extra prayer for him.
* MageMarksman: Mercedes has high aptitudes in both magic skills, and has Archery as her Budding Talent. If you level her Bow skill, she makes excellent use of the Magic Bow.
* MoralityPet: [[spoiler:To Jeritza on the Crimson Flower route in ''Houses'' and even more so on the Azure Gleam route in ''Hopes'', where she can persuade him to defect to the Kingdom.]]
* MotherhoodIsSuperior:
** Mercedes has a loving mother, but has had a very rough run of father figures. Her birth father, Baron Martritz, would have presumably been loving, but died within one year of her birth. Her stepfather, [[spoiler:Baron Bartels, only brought her and her mother around so that one of them could bear him children with crests, deciding he'd take Mercedes as his spouse once she became old enough]]. Her unnamed adoptive father, like many unsavory parents in the setting, [[spoiler:kept attempting to make her marry someone of standing, so that he could be a CoattailRidingRelative]].
** In some of her endings, [[spoiler:she can run a loving orphanage as a single parental figure]]. She even happens to visually resemble a "Mother Superior" nun or abbess.
* MotherlySidePlait: During her academy days, she wears her hair like this, fitting her kind-hearted nature. Her hair is cut short after the TimeSkip, however. On the other hand, [[https://i.imgur.com/ICtVrMm.png there is a Cipher card of hers that depicts her post-time skip outfit while keeping her side plait.]]
* MsFanservice: Only in her Summer variant in ''Heroes'', where she's put in a bikini with extremely deep cleavage that shows off her large chest.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Leaving her little brother behind in House Bartels. However, her Support with Jeritza reveals he ''asked'' their mother to abandon him as he didn't want them pursued by the House.]]
* NiceGirl: She's one of the sweetest, friendliest and most gentle characters in the cast. In several of her supports, Mercedes declares that she wants to help people - whether through service to the Church of Seiros or otherwise.
* NonUniformUniform: She wears a shawl over her uniform and her boot design is unique.
* OfCorsetsSexy: She wears a corset post-timeskip that makes her ample bosom much more apparant than her academy uniform.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She looks to be around the same age as the other characters you unlock, but she outright says she is a bit older than the others. She's in fact 22 years old at the start of the game, and is the oldest student excluding [[DownloadableContent Balthus]] (who entered the academy before she did).
* {{Oneesama}}: To Constance, who even calls her as such in the Japanese dub. [[spoiler:And to Jeritza, who loves her dearly.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: A minor one [[spoiler:but when Emile finally reveals the [[ParentalIncest true reason]] why he killed his father and decides to leave the monastery permanently to protect Mercedes from his Death Knight side, she raises her voice (which she very rarely does) to tell him how it's not fair for him to tell her all that and leave her forever again.]]
* OrphanageOfLove: Most of her endings involve her opening an orphanage.
* PlayingWithFire: Most of the spells she learns from her Reason skill are fire-based.
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: [[spoiler:When she happens to run into Jeritza's Death Knight persona, she's willing to die due to believing that abandoning him was what made him the Death Knight in the first place.]]
* ThePollyanna: Mercedes has experienced several hardships since she was a child, but she remains positive and optimistic, preferring not to gripe or dwell on her misfortunes.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
-->"''Here we go!''" ''(pre-timeskip)''\\
"''At your service.''" ''(post-timeskip)''
* PreMortemOneLiner:
-->"''Excuse me!''"\\
"''Sorry about this!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I've got this!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Here goes!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Are you prepared for this!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''Your end has come!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''Give me strength!''" (Post-timeskip)
* RecurringElement:
** The religious, motherly, soft-spoken healer as pioneered by [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Lena]].
** Her background and character are reminiscent of [[Characters/FireEmblemTheBlazingBladeMainStory Priscilla]], although Priscilla remained [[HappilyAdopted a noble]] while Mercedes forsook it altogether. Like Priscilla, she is also the kind and gentle healer who also [[spoiler:was separated with her brother due to circumstances. Unlike Raven though, this almost certainly ends in tragedy, as Emile and/or Mercedes will die, depending on the route you take. The only way to save them both is to sway her to the Black Eagles and side with Adrestia over the Church.]]
* RagsToRoyalty: If paired with Dimitri, [[spoiler:the populace of Faerghus are shocked when Dimitri chooses her to be his wife, but realize they were made for each other after she goes out of her way to help people and heal the damage caused by the war]].
* RichesToRags: This girl did not have an easy life. To wit, she was born into a noble family in the Adrestian Empire, but her father passed away before she was born. Her mother would remarry a noble in House Bartels. This marriage produced a son who bore a Crest, but also led to her step-father having [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no further use]] for her mother, and casting them out while she was still ''ten years old''. She would later be adopted by a merchant, who intends to marry her off for his own financial gain and prestige through the fact that she has a Crest.
* SaintlyChurch: She's the most religious of the playable characters, and is the sweetest, nicest, most obliging person you'll meet, even to those who don't follow the Church. Even towards [[UpperClassTwit Lorenz]] (sometimes).
* SecretAIMoves: She knows Abraxas as an enemy on Crimson Flower and Seraphim as an enemy on Verdant Wind, spells that are impossible for her to obtain as a playable unit. She can also know White Magic Avoid +20 and [[ContractualBossImmunity Unsealable Magic]], the former of which is exclusive to Byleth and Dorothea, and the latter being unobtainable by player-controlled units.
* SecretKeeper: If she's recruited on the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:it's implied she's one of the few members of the Imperial Army who knows Jeritza's true identity as Emile von Bartels]].[[note]]Watching Mercedes' C-support with Felix after doing her paralogue in most routes usually [[DevelopersForesight changes the support]] so Felix acknowledges that her lost brother is the Death Knight. Interestingly, this ''does not happen'' in Crimson Flower at all after Jeritza's addition with the Wave 3 DLC, hinting Mercedes is keeping Jeritza's true identity secret. Constance's C-support with Jeritza confirms this seems to be the case, as it's mentioned Jeritza made quite clear to Constance before she can't call him by his true name in public.[[/note]]
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has a hell of a sweet tooth, [[spoiler:just like her brother Jeritza/Emile]].
* ShockAndAwe: She learns Thunder at D-rank in Reason.
* SiblingTeam: [[spoiler:Can become one with Jeritza on the Crimson Flower route in ''Houses'' and on both the Scarlet Blaze and Azure Gleam routes in ''Hopes''.]]
* SilkHidingSteel: Mercedes is a sweet and motherly soul, so it's easy to forget that as an Adrestian noble, she is also a master of both PassiveAggressiveKombat and of magic (white ''and'' black), and will not hesitate to give you a piece of her mind (in the most sugary tone possible) if you annoy her or to blast you to smithereens if you face her in battle.
* SkewedPriorities: If you talk to Mercedes post-timeskip during the war, she will sometimes comment on how she'd like to have tea and cakes with her fellow soldiers, in contrast to the other characters discussing the oncoming battle. Byleth can even lampshade this by pointing out that they shouldn't be wasting provisions.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Although her [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]] attitude can make her come off as something of a ditz sometimes, Mercedes is sharper than she lets on. In her supports with Sylvain and Lorenz, she quickly sees through their actions, pointing out to Lorenz that, despite his noble actions (helping her to the infirmary after she twists her ankle), he still won't look her in the eye or talk to her like a real person because she's a commoner.
* SoleSurvivor: Of her birth father's family, House Martritz, which had been wiped out in the empire.
* SquishyWizard: Mercedes has high Magic and Resistance, but while her initial Defense stat is passable, her weak growths in Defense will make her go down easily to a physical attack. She has the most penalties to skills in the game due to her hatred of exercise, being bad at everything related to that except archery (all melee weapons and heavy armor). This naturally forces her into a magic role.
* SugaryMalice: She almost never changes her tone of speaking or drops her motherly attitude, but while being kind and loving she can drop scathing sarcasm or stealth insults without warning in the same tone if she gets annoyed.
* SweetBaker: She’s fond of baking and according to Ashe is highly skilled at it, while having the sweet, motherly personality to match. It was apparently something she learned from her mother.
* TarotMotifs: The Crest of Lamine (Judgement) represents renewal and change, where Mercedes [[RichesToRags had gone from]] an Imperial noble to a commoner living in Faerghus. When reversed, it instead stands for denying self-forgiveness for past mistakes, just like how Mercedes blames herself for leaving Emile behind at House Bartels. An additional meaning to the card is a deep association to the intangible spiritual forces and devotion to a higher level of consciousness, which Mercedes dutifully does through her religious nature.
* TeamMom: Mercedes is one of the oldest students at the monastery (and one of the few students who is older than Byleth) and has a motherly personality; she often comforts, encourages and advises her friends when they are upset or frustrated with something.
* TheTease: Mercedes seems to enjoy pretending to interpret comments in a romantic light to tease others, such as in her supports with Lorenz.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: To go with her motherly demeanor, Mercedes knows how to sew, and helps teach Dimitri how to mend his clothes.
* TokenAdult: She's the oldest Blue Lion, and the only one in her house older than 20.
* TranquilFury: In her supports with Lorenz, Mercedes maintains her sweet tone of voice and calm emotion as she rips into Lorenz for his classist views.
* VerbalBackspace: After learning of how Ferdinand infiltrated Fhirdiad and obtained the documents proving that her adoptive father bribed the church, she says, "That's amazing! I mean... amazingly irresponsible!"
* VerbalTic: In the Japanese dub, she tends to say "''Ara~''" a lot, which is translated to "oh my" and "my, my" in the English version. This is done to emphasize her motherly role to the class as a whole.
* VocalDissonance: For the oldest student in Garreg Mach (if you don't count Balthus), she has a very high-pitched, squeaky voice.
* WhiteMagicianGirl: She is a kind and gentle young woman with a great aptitude for White Magic. Her Fortify spell makes her one of the strongest healers, and her crest sometimes gives her a free spell.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After the birth of her maternal half-brother, Emile, her step-father saw her and her mother as this, as he married the latter solely to have a Crest-bearing child. Ultimately, Mercedes and her mother moved out of her step-father's residence to live in a church in eastern Faerghus. Her support with her brother reveals that [[spoiler:her step-father eventually found use for them again, but intended to ''marry Mercedes instead'', given that her mother was past childbearing age]].
* YouRemindMeOfX:
** She tells Felix in their supports that he reminds her of her brother Emile. She admits they look nothing alike, but it's more in their personality.
** She tells Cyril that he reminds her of her younger brother Emile in their support in response to Cyril telling her that he sees her as an older sister.
** She mentions in her supports with Ferdinand that an overbearing soldier who tried to force his comrade to sell his sword reminds her of her adoptive father.
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[[folder:Annette]]
!!Annette Fantine Dominic
!!!'''Class:''' Noble → Monk → Mage → Warlock (''Three Houses''), Monk → Warrior (''Three Hopes'')
!!!'''Age:''' 16 (5/09)
!!!'''Crest:''' Dominic (Minor)
!!!'''Height:''' 151 cm (pre-timeskip) -> 153 cm (post-timeskip)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Takako Tanaka (Japanese), Creator/AbbyTrott (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Workaholic}} Bloomed Overachiever]] / [[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes Overachiever]]'']]

->''"I've gonna find out everyone's likes and dislikes, so I know what to cook. Who knows when it will be my turn at kitchen duty."''

The niece of Baron Dominic. She graduated from the Royal School of Sorcery in the kingdom. She's a cheerful and hardworking girl, but there are times when any plans she makes end up going nowhere and fails. She has been friends with Mercedes since their time at the School of Sorcery, and she calls Mercedes "Mercie" while Mercedes calls her "Annie."\\\

Her personal ability, ''Perseverance'', allows her to Rally an ally's Strength. She bears the Minor Crest of Dominic, which gives her a chance of conserving uses of attack magic.
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* AffectionateNickname: Mercedes calls her "Annie" (or "Ann" in the Japanese version), though Mercedes is the only one who uses this name.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: In her support chain with Lysithea, she admits to Lysithea she feels this way since Lysithea is both talented and a hard-worker and Annette feels like she has to give it her all just to keep up with her, but Lysithea responds with a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech.
* AncestralWeapon: Annette gains use of the Dominic family Relic, the axe Crusher, after Baron Dominic's defeat in her and Gilbert's paralogue. As she's the only Crest of Dominic bearer in the cast, she's the only person capable of wielding it safely.
* AntagonisticOffspring: On the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:it's very much possible for her to fight and kill her father Gilbert in the final battle.]] She reveals in several chats before this point that she knows it's a real possibility and dreads it, but [[IveComeTooFar she's staying the course]] for [[UndyingLoyalty Byleth]].
* BadassAdorable: She's a sweet, cute, and energetic girl who also has a high magical growth and quite the talent for Reason magic, learning several powerful spells.
* BadassTeacher: Many of her endings result in her taking up a teaching position after the war.
** In her solo ending and her paired endings with Caspar (on non-Crimson Flower routes), Dedue, Mercedes, Hanneman, and Gilbert, [[spoiler:she returns to Fhirdiad and becomes a teacher at the Royal School of Sorcery]].
** In her paired endings with Linhardt on all routes, Felix on a non-Azure Moon route, and Byleth on the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:she and her husband become teachers at the Officers Academy, with Annette as the new sorcery instructor.]]
** In her paired ending with Claude, [[spoiler:she becomes headmaster of a school of sorcery designed to foster peaceful relations between Fódlan and Almyra]].
** In her paired ending with Byleth in non-Crimson Flower routes, while she doesn't become a teacher [[spoiler:she becomes a frequent guest speaker at the Royal School of Sorcery.]]
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Of the Blue Lions girls, she's the Brains to Ingrid's Brawn and Mercedes' Beauty, being an exceptionally rare Faerghus-born magical prodigy from sheer hard work.
* BenevolentMageRuler: Becomes a wise mage queen if she marries Dimitri, [[spoiler:Claude, or Silver Snow/Verdant Wind Byleth.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** Sweet little Annette is surprisingly at ease with killing people - on your first real mission with the Blue Lions where you actually kill enemy units instead of just defeating them, she'll happily comment on how great a fighter she is, whereas the more seasoned fighters like Dimitri and Sylvain display a far more sober, regretful attitude towards it.
** She's also willing to threaten people if they hurt her friends, like telling a brigand she won't go easy on him if he keeps harassing her and Mercedes in their B-support, much to the horror of the latter.
** On the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:should you kill her father and didn't recruit her, she'll ''snap''.]]
* BeYourself: In her support with Byleth, Annette is frustrated and stressed by how hard a worker she is, and her inability to relax. She resolves at first to "do her best at not doing her best," only for it to feel unnatural for her to just relax on a day off and frustrate her more. At the end of the support chain, Byleth advises her to stay true to her hardworking and energetic nature instead, and a happy Annette agrees.
* BigEater: She really does love eating. Felix notes after hearing one of her songs about food that her stomach isn't far from her heart.
* BittersweetEnding: Her paired ending with Felix on the Azure Moon route has a hint of this thrown in it at the end. [[spoiler:She and Felix live happily and thanks to his encouragement, she becomes a songwriter that has her melodies remembered for decades. However, it’s noted that the lyrics of the songs eventually became distorted and the original meaning of the music was lost.]]
* BlackMagicianGirl: An energetic young woman who excels in Reason Magic.
* BlowYouAway: By leveling up her Reason skill, Annette becomes a master of wind magic.
* CuteClumsyGirl:
** Annette is earnest and hardworking in everything she does, though she's clumsy and often drops or trips over things. While some characters (such as Dedue) point out Annette's clumsiness, nobody holds her in contempt and are usually more worried about her well-being.
** In her support with Dedue, Dedue points out that she often fails to pay attention to her surroundings, resulting in her exploding the kitchen when she tries to cook, wearing mismatched shoes, and other mishaps that result from her being, in her words, "scatterbrained."
** She offers to clean Hilda's room in their C-support and ends up making the place messier, prompting Hilda to clean up the place herself. While unhappy that she has an even bigger mess to clean, Hilda appreciates Annette for trying.
** After conversing with Byleth about her hardworking nature, she rushes away and trips on a barrel, as her professor stares in silence.
** Having tea time with her, Annette mentions having broken another plate. Disagreeing, chatting, and praising nets this approval.
** Annette and Gilbert's paralogue opens with Gilbert speaking with Byleth, and Annette makes her entrance by running into a barrel with a clatter. After the three of them convene at the end of the mission, Annette exits and immediately trips over a box. Gilbert turns back to Byleth and asks them to watch over her.
* TheCutie: ''Very'' much so among the Blue Lions, being the second youngest and shortest among them.
* DisappearedDad: Her father is Gilbert (otherwise known as Gustave), who left the family in order to focus on his duties as a knight. In her support with Dimitri, Annette reveals that her primary motivation for attending the Officers Academy was to find her father, whom she was sure was at Garreg Mach Monastery.
* DragonTheirFeet: On the Crimson Flower route, should you not recruit her, [[spoiler:she outlives Dimitri and commands the last remnants of the Kingdom army in the final battle along with Ashe]].
* DropTheHammer: Her family's Hero's Relic, Crusher, is a hammer that deals magic damage. Like the Hammer weapon, it's classified as an axe in-game.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: She loses her GirlishPigtails during the timeskip, showcasing that she's all grown up.
* FanservicePack: In ''Three Hopes'', Annette's post-timeskip outfit has a CleavageWindow, something noticably absent from her ''Three Houses'' post-timeskip outfit.
* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:When confronted at the end of Crimson Flower, Annette tells her opponent that she won't let them take Fhirdiad and that she will defend it, apparently missing that the entire city is on fire and there isn't much of a city left to defend.]]
* FieryRedhead: She's redheaded, energetic and excitable all at once.
* {{Flanderization}}: ''Three Hopes'' plays up her obsession with singing quite a bit, to the point many of her supports and even her unique ability revolve around the concept of song.
* FriendlyRivalry: Her Supports with Lysithea revolves around the two developing a friendly rivalry in becoming stronger mages.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** She scored high at the school of sorcery. She's also one of the few characters to start with a proficiency in Reason at D+ instead of the usual D or E+.
** Annette is GoodWithNumbers and enjoys studying tactics. She's one of the few non-lord characters with an authority boon.
** For her boon in axes: While Annette is not a physically-oriented unit, the basics of knighthood and battle were taught to her due to being the daughter of a family of Barons who have served as knights for generations, one of them being her father [[FailureKnight Gilbert.]] House Dominic is also one of the noble houses that possesses a Hero's Relic, and theirs is the magical axe Crusher.
** She says her high marks at the school of sorcery were due to hard work instead of natural talent. She lacks a budding talent.
** She has a bane in Bows, which makes sense as Annette is clumsy and archery requires a lot of precision unlike the other methods of attack.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
** While she's said to be clumsy, Dexterity ties with Magic for her highest stat. [[note]]Only Bernadetta, Claude, Lysithea, Leonie, and Shamir exceed her.[[/note]]
** In ''Three Hopes'', her preferred class line is the Gremory, but as an enemy, she is fought as a Warrior due to her wielding the Crusher, and the Gremory only wields tomes[[note]]War Cleric, which would let her use Crusher in addition to magic, is AdaptedOut of ''Three Hopes''[[/note]].
* GirlishPigtails: Hers are donut-shaped, showing that she's an energetic young girl. [[LettingHerHairDown She loses them after the timeskip]]. In ''Three Hopes'', she still wears them as a pair of looped braids.
* GoodWithNumbers: Her C-support with Ashe shows she's quite good at mathematics, and enthusiastically convinces him that knowing the theory can be a lot of help when making strategy.
* HartmanHips: Post-timeskip, while she's still short, her hips are noticeably wider, further emphasized by her outfit.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: When she is paired up with [[TheBigGuy Dedue]], who is over 50 cm taller than she is. She also has this dynamic with [[OneHeadTaller Dimitri]].
* IWantMyMommy: Or daddy, in this case. [[spoiler:Her last words in chapter 18 of the Crimson Flower route are begging her father to save her.]]
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Implied with Mercedes. Their paired ending states that although they were apart for a while, Annette eventually moved to Mercedes' village and remained there. The ending even states they were happy with their modest life.
* JerkassToOne: PlayedForLaughs. While she's a NiceGirl most of the time, she acts hilariously belligerent towards Felix in their supports, refusing to believe that the guy who's usually an asshole is actually being nice to her.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Her post-timeskip appearance has her in a dress that looks tight on her. Not that it stops her from being the same powerful magic wielder she was before the time-skip, or even from being a weapons fighter.
* LethalChef: She spends a lot of time trying to cook. ''Trying'' being the keyword. She's caused at least one explosion in the kitchen during the night. Even her paired ending with Byleth has accounts where she ''still'' makes explosions in the kitchen while he has to save her. She's also one of the few characters with penalties towards cooking.
* LettingHerHairDown: Her post-timeskip design has her ditching her GirlishPigTails and instead letting her hair go straight down.
* MagicKnight: In spite of having a low strength growth, she has axes as a proficiency, and also has Crusher as her relic weapon that deals magic damage, and learns Lightning Axe earlier than Edelgard and Sylvain at a rank of C+.
* NiceGirl: She happens to be very cheerful, sweet, and kind. In fact, she doesn't even hold any personal grudges or hatred towards her own father when he abandoned his family to serve the Knights of Seiros, and can reconcile with him in their supports.
* NotTheIntendedUse: While her stats mostly lean towards a SquishyWizard type, her proficiency in axes, including having her relic weapon being an axe, makes her a viable candidate for the Wyvern Rider and Wyvern Lord classes, of all things.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Pre-timeskip. She has the appearance that can easily be mistaken to be that of a small child or younger teenager, but is actually 16 at the start of the game.
* OneHeadTaller: Although she grows during the time-skip, it is only by two puny cm (which is especially egregious when compared to how much height the two short girls in the other houses, Bernadetta and Lysithea, gains after the time-skip). As such, she is the second-to-shortest playable character after Flayn and many of her potential husbands towers over her.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: While she has a decent spell list, she unfortunately has to compete with Lysithea due to Lysithea's insane magic damage and spell list. That said, she possesses a good amount of rally skills such as Rally Movement, and her proficiency in axes means that she can utilize the Bolt Axe or even Crusher, and makes for a good, if a bit gimmicky Wyvern Rider or Wyvern Lord.
* PintsizePowerhouse: Annette is the shortest Blue Lion, and the second shortest of any unit (after Flayn) during the [[TimeSkip War Phase]]. She also packs a massive punch with her magic.
* PluckyGirl: She's a go-getting, hardworking and cheerful young woman. She loves to come up with silly little songs to help her as she works, which exposes her to teasing from the likes of Claude.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
-->"''Here it goes!''" ''(pre-timeskip)''\\
"''I'm your girl.''" ''(post-timeskip)''
* PreMortemOneLiner:
-->"''Ready or not!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I'm not gonna lose!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Get lost!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''I'll show you!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''You're done!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''I won't back down!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''I have to do this!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''You ready?''" (Post-timeskip)
* RecurringElement: The youthful, friendly, and cheerful prodigy of offensive magic with specialization in [[BlowYouAway wind]], just like [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Merric]]. Annette is notable in that she is the first female who fulfills the archetype, all previous "Merrics" having been male. [[CompositeCharacter She also possesses partial traits of Linde]], besides her gender: [[spoiler:having issues about her father Gustave/Gilbert being a DisappearedDad, and in the Crimson Flower route, if recruited, she could enact father-daughter fatal battle with Gilbert in a reverse of what happened between [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Tailtiu and Reptor]] (except Annette considered herself [[AntagonisticOffspring the bad daughter]] that has gone too far to stop). If she's not recruited, killing Gilbert will [[YouKilledMyFather make Annette snap]] and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge demand revenge]], turning him into her Miloah figure.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: On the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:should she not be recruited and you kill her father Gilbert, Annette will flip out and charge at you disregarding her own position and her own life as a result.]]
* RouteBoss: She only appears as an enemy in Crimson Flower in ''Three Houses''. {{Averted}} in ''Three Hopes'', where she appears as an enemy general in both of the two non-Blue Lions route.
* RunningGag: At the end of conversations, she tends to run off and trip on something offscreen, usually a barrel.
* ScholarshipStudent: Because she lacked the financial means to attend the Officer's Academy right away, Annette worked to receive a recommendation from the Royal School of Sorcery to bypass the tuition costs. Her natural hard-working personality helped her achieve the goal, but gave her a sense of anxiety due to lacking raw talent compared to others.
* SecretAIMoves: As an enemy unit, she can know Seal Speed, a skill that is impossible for her to obtain as a playable unit. She can also have [[ContractualBossImmunity a skill that prevents her from being silenced.]]
* SecretArt: Outside of a NewGamePlus, she's the only character that can use Dust, Crusher's combat art. It deals 20 extra damage, lower enemy's defense by 5, and deals effective damage against dragons.
* SelfMadeOrphan: If recruited on the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:she can kill her own father Gilbert in battle]].
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Like her father Gilbert, Annette has a boon in axes. They also both enjoy the Almond Blend during tea time.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: She's the shortest Blue Lion and one of the shortest characters in the game. She's also a magical genius that enjoys studying battlefield tactics, and is one of the few characters to excel in both Reason and Authority, the two most study-intensive fields. [[note]]The others are Hubert, Lysithea, and Yuri, plus Edelgard and Ignatz with their budding talents.[[/note]]
* SoleSurvivor:
** Assuming no recruitment outside the Azure Moon route, she stands a good chance of becoming this. [[spoiler:On the Crimson Flower route, Dimitri, Dedue, Felix, Ingrid, Sylvain, and Mercedes are required kills, while Ashe starts very close to the player's starting position; Annette, meanwhile, is also an optional target and starts far away. On the Verdant Wind route, Ashe can be killed at Aileil, while everybody else sans Dedue can be killed at Gronder, and even then, he can die at Enbarr. Finally, on Silver Snow, Ashe can once again be killed at Aileil, Dedue can once again be killed at Enbarr, and everybody else presumably dies offscreen. In both cases, Annette is not seen, implying she survived]].
* SquishyWizard: Her talents lie in powerful attack magic, and she's got frail physical defenses.
* SupportPartyMember: Thanks to her boon in Authority, Annette can learn various Rally abilities, allowing her to use her turn to improve the stats of her allies.
* SweetTooth: She has a strong fondness of sweets, fitting into her personality.
* TarotMotifs: The crest of Dominic is based on the arcana of The Empress, which symbolizes accomplishments and development. This fits Annette's constant drive for knowledge and the high scores from her time at the School of Sorcery. When reversed, however, this arcana represents a lack of concentration and anxiety, which Annette experiences a lot of the time.
* TearsOfJoy: If paired with Byleth at the end of the game, she cries when he proposes to her.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: Annette's support with Dimitri has her asking him about how her father, Gustave, who served the Blaiddyd royal line since the time of Dimitri's grandfather, acted when away from home. Dimitri remembers him as a strict, but affectionate mentor figure who used sometimes questionable training methods[[note]]Namely, forcing two youths onto a dark mountain in the middle of a cold winter night to hunt a deer[[/note]], and Annette remarks that she remembers him being much the same at home.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: With Ingrid in their support chain; Ingrid is training-focused and claims to have no time to focus in her appearance beyond basic hygiene, while Annette talks excitedly about traditionally feminine pursuits like putting on makeup. In the end, despite Ingrid’s protests, she manages to persuade Ingrid to put on some makeup anyway.
* TookALevelInBadass: Her Speed and Defense are much higher in ''Heroes'' than her averages in ''Three Houses''. Crusher also targets the lower defensive stat of a target, as opposed to exclusively targeting Resistance as in ''Three Houses''.
* ToughLove: In her support with Dedue, Annette reveals that her uncle Baron Dominic treated her somewhat coldly, expecting her to be skilled at several tasks, sighing in exasperation when she would make mistakes, and telling her that unless she was perfect she was devaluing her Crest. Dedue remarks that his treatment of her seems harsh, while Annette muses that she knows he cared about her, but his manner scared her. She tells Dedue that she appreciates his patience with her. She also notes that her father was somewhat strict with her and her mother.
* {{Tsundere}}: Not usually, but Type B in her supports with Felix. She refuses to believe that the usually rude [[{{Tsundere}} Felix]] has genuinely taken an interest in her singing and assumes he's making fun of her. As a result, she acts mean to him [[PetTheDog even though he's just trying to be nice.]]
* UtilityPartyMember: She has Rally Strength as a personal skill and has the most combination of rallies in Resistance, Speed, and Movement. Her unique ability in ''Three Hopes'' is "Courageous Aria", allowing her to grant a random buff (increased critical rate, increased attack speed, or enchanting attacks with an element based on the character) to her and her nearby allies when the unique ability gauge is filled.
* VerbalTic: She has a tendency to shout "Bah!" if she's caught by surprise.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: On the Scarlet Blaze route in ''Three Hopes'', [[spoiler:there is a chance to spare Annette in the chapter she appears in, even if it doesn't mean recruiting her. To do so, the player must use the secret passage strategy, which causes her to be deployed before her father can be for a second time. As soon as she is defeated, Gilbert will spawn in and save her, urging her to flee and survive. So instead of dying, Annette pulls a ScrewThisImOuttaHere and leaves, saving her life in the end. However, due to her father taking the fall for her, she will probably not be returning the favor to the player]].
* VocalDissonance: Due to her appearance pre-timeskip, her voice in the English dub initially doesn’t quite mesh well despite being suited for her age-range. Averted post-time skip where she looks more like an adult.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic: [[invoked]]Annette's songs are the target of over-analysis, to her dismay. They're supposed to be silly and mean no more than the words say, but Felix questions the lyrical content in her library cleaning song, and Claude assumes a song about growing flowers is really about bitter, regretful souls trapped in the underworld. If Annette and Felix get a paired ending on the Azure Moon route, [[spoiler:the epilogue states that the songs she wrote remained popular for a long time, but their lyrics became distorted over the years and their original meanings forgotten.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: If she is not recruited on the Verdant Wind route, she makes no appearance whatsoever, not even during the [[spoiler:MeleeATrois at Gronder Field,]] making it ambiguous as to where she is. [[spoiler:As Baron Dominic, Annette's uncle, is part of the Pro-empire faction of Kingdom nobles, as revealed in her paralogue with Gilbert, Annette is likely prevented from getting involved in the war by her uncle for her safety and she mentions that she joined Byleth in part 2 to find her father if recruited on the Verdant Wind route]].
* YouRemindMeOfX: In her A-support with Dedue, Annette says that he reminds her of her father Gilbert; both are outwardly intimidating, but have a deep kindness underneath.
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[[folder:Ashe]]
!!Ashe Ubert
!!!'''Class:''' Commoner → Fighter → Archer → Sniper/Assassin (''Three Houses''), Fighter → Archer → Bow Knight (''Three Hopes'')
!!!'''Age:''' 16 (10/17)
!!!'''Height:''' 164 cm (pre-timeskip) -> 174 cm (post-timeskip)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukiInoue (Japanese), Shannon [=McKain=] (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[ArcherArchetype Arrow of Justice]]'']]

->''"It's just my daily training. Maybe you could stand to be a little more eager yourself? If I want to be a great knight, I've got no choice but to put the effort in."''

The adopted son of Lord Lonato of Gaspard. He deeply respects his adoptive father, given that Lonato took him in despite being a commoner and allowed Ashe to go to the Officers Academy. Ashe is a serious young man who trains and studies hard so he can become an admirable adult like his father.\\\

His personal ability, ''Lockpick'', allows him to open chests and doors without keys.
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* AdoptedIntoRoyalty:
** Downplayed. Ashe has been adopted into Lonato's family, but doesn't enjoy the full status of a noble until after the events of the game. He also retains his commoner sensibilities and doesn't refer to himself as a noble either, as shown by his starting class.
** This also shows up in his support with Dimitri, where Ashe acts overly deferential to the young prince and offers to do everything for him due to their difference in status. Dimitri is exasperated by his seeming inability to please Ashe or get him to see them as equals, instead tricking Ashe into asking what kind of sweets he'd want so he can buy them for him above Ashe's protests.
* ApologeticAttacker: If you have recruited him in Silver Snow and Verdant Wind, he says this when he is [[spoiler:confronted as an enemy]].
--> '''Ashe''': [[spoiler:Forgive me... But as Lonato's son, I have a duty!]]
* TheArcher: He starts out wielding bows, and grows well focusing on bows as a fighter, and then a sniper.
* TheAtoner: He considers becoming a knight as a way to atone for his past thieving and honor the man who took him and his siblings in.
* BabiesEverAfter: With Hapi in their paired ending.
* BadassAdorable: Ashe is a very cute and earnest boy who also happens to be quite the proficient archer.
* BadassNormal: He doesn't have a Crest and he's a MagicallyIneptFighter. He's no worse for it.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: In his support with Felix, Felix talks down to him about his idealistic love for knights and knightly tales, and it initially looks like an annoyed Ashe is going to tell him off, only for Ashe to cheerfully compare Felix to the hero of one of the tales.
-->'''Felix:''' Such blind enthusiasm is dangerous. Be more moderate in your passions.\\
'''Ashe:''' ''[annoyed]'' You know something, Felix?\\
'''Felix:''' ...\\
'''Ashe:''' ''[smiles]'' You are exactly like the knight in this story!
* BewareTheNiceOnes: One of the few times Ashe gets straight-up pissed is if he fights the Western Church's bishop in his and Catherine's shared paralogue.
-->'''Ashe:''' ''[angry]'' Lonato's blood is on your hands...\\
'''Bishop:''' Were you Lord Lonato's page or something? Indeed, he was a devout believer. All we did was provide Lord Lonato salvation from his misery!\\
'''Ashe:''' ''[still angry]'' Salvation?! You used him and threw him away!
* BigGuyLittleGuy: The Little to Dedue's Big, even after the timeskip.
* BirdsOfAFeather:
** He can end up marrying Ingrid over their shared love of novels and aspirations of becoming knights. Their kind and upstanding personalities are also similar.
** He and Mercedes can end up married due to their similar aspirations of helping as many people as they can, as well as their fondness for baking. Both are sweet and kind people.
* BlowYouAway: He can learn Wind and Cutting Gale when learning in Reason.
* {{Bookworm}}: He frequents the library and enjoys reading tales of heroic knights.
* BoringButPractical: He lacks Bernadetta's gimmicks and Ignatz's utility, but his semi-unique combination of both an axe boon and a bow boon [[note]]Excluding DLC, only Cyril and Petra have this, and Petra doesn't level bows out of house.[[/note]] allows him to easily go Brigand and then set his study plan to bow/authority for the rest of the game, giving the player access to a Sniper with Death Blow at minimal cost and effectively an extra tutoring session for the rest of the game. His lone bane is also in Reason, which doesn't effect his usual builds.
* BreakTheCutie: When he finds out that his adoptive father Lonato is [[spoiler:rebelling against the church]], he is distraught. [[spoiler:If the Blue Lions house was chosen, he is vocally against the idea of fighting him. Engaging in combat with him]] only wavers his resolve even more and the aftermath leaves Ashe mourning over [[spoiler:the loss of his parental figure.]] He still doesn't fully get over it come the paralogue.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Gender-flipped example, as he's the Gentle Boy to Hapi's Brooding Girl.
* BrokenPedestal: Discussed. Ashe reveals [[spoiler:after Lonato’s death]] that he looked up to and adored his adoptive father Lonato as the epitome of the knight he aspired to be: kind, noble and stalwart, but is ashamed of his failure to notice Lonato’s [[spoiler:pain, grief and anger after the death of his son Christophe at the hands of the Church before he was killed.]]
* CallingParentsByTheirName: He calls his adoptive father "Lonato," rather than "Father" or "Lord Lonato" for unclear reasons.
* CantCatchUp: Due to the recruitment requirements of him on Silver Snow and Verdant Wind [[spoiler:which involve him being an enemy unit at chapter 15 and having to spare him in order to recruit him back to your side]], he will end up falling behind the other units in your play through which can become a problem on Hard and Maddening modes of gameplay (on Normal mode, he can at least catch up via auxiliary battles that don’t take up an activity point).
* CloseToHome:
** In his supports with Byleth, he chases down a thief who stole a rare and valuable book. After the thief says he has a sick child and needed the money to support them, Ashe decides to pay for the book in his stead. Byleth points out that it could have easily been a false sob story used to gain Ashe's sympathy, but Ashe admits that he turned to thievery himself for the same reasons when he was younger. So he decided to help the man even at his own expense. After the timeskip, he encounters the man and his child again, but laments that they were still struggling to get by.
** In his supports with Caspar, the two of them argue over what to do with a pantry thief. While Caspar advocates slaying them on the spot to MakeAnExampleOfThem, Ashe wants to hear them out first, likely because of his own background.
* CommonalityConnection: His supports with Ingrid have them bond over their shared appreciation for Faerghus' legends and fairy tales as well as their shared desire to become [[KnightInShiningArmor knights like the ones in those stories.]]
* CovertPervert: Downplayed, but in his supports with Hapi, he's shown to enjoy more "raunchy" stories about knights in addition to more conventional chivalrous tales.
* CriticalStatusBuff: His Spring Eternal variant in ''Heroes'' grants a bonus in attack and speed when he has less than 25% of his health left.
* TheCutie: He's as cute as Annette and is the youngest of the Blue Lions.
* DeathGlare: His angry portrait, both [[https://i.imgur.com/24wxWY5.png pre-timeskip]] and [[https://i.imgur.com/zljFUSU.png post-timeskip]], sports some noticeable shadowing around his eyes, which when combined with the lack of definition on his pupils, makes his anger look a bit more intimidating than the others.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: On the [[spoiler:Silver Snow and Verdant Wind]] campaigns, [[spoiler:should he have been recruited pre-timeskip, the player can choose to either kill him or spare him; the latter has him join you after the battle]].
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In his support with Marianne, he tries to assure her that she doesn't look like a ghost after she spooks him by accident. He starts rattling off all of her features but quickly realizes that he's only making it worse.
-->'''Ashe:''' It's just, I um... In the dark, with your head down like that, and the hair covering your eyes... I, uh...
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: In the ''Cindered Shadows'' since he and Claude both are bow focused units, Ashe starts off as a Sniper to differentiate himself from Claude, and focuses on being a long range archer thanks to having several of his long range Combat Arts, whereas Claude starts as a Wyvern Rider, making him more of a close range GlassCannon.
* DoYouWantToHaggle: Gets into this with Anna during his supports with Petra. It's implied that he does this a lot to save money.
* DragonRider: He has an axe proficiency and a budding talent in lances, leaving flying as the only serious issue for him. Ashe can also additionally request to be trained as a Wyvern Rider.
* DragonTheirFeet: On the Crimson Flower route, should you not recruit him, [[spoiler:he outlives Dimitri and commands the last remnants of the Kingdom army in the final battle along with Annette]].
* DubNameChange: His last name was changed from "Duran" to "Ubert" in non-Japanese versions of the game.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: His hair is noticeably neater and slightly longer after the timeskip, showing his maturity.
* FaceHeelTurn: A very strange variant on the [[spoiler:Silver Snow and Verdant Wind]] routes. [[spoiler:Ashe is the only Blue Lion that will side with the Empire by default on these routes, even briefly leaving the party to do so. Notably, he harbors no ill will towards your party or faction, and can in fact be re-recruited if he was recruited pre-timeskip]].
* FaceYourFears: In his A support with Annette in ''Three Houses'', they are sent to clean a tower but get locked in. After breaking out, Annette realizes that she lost a doll from her father in there, but decides to not go back in for it out of fear of how spooky the tower was. In their A+ support, Ashe goes alone into the tower to retrieve the doll, despite his fear of ghosts, because he thinks Annette can't leave behind something so important. And while Ashe thinks of his fear of ghosts as pathetic, Annette is instead impressed that he was willing to face that fear and be brave for her.
-->'''Ashe:''' Look at me though. Haha, a grown man, scared of ghosts. Pathetic, right?
-->'''Annette:''' [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre No, I don't think that at all. I think you're something special, Ashe!]] You were really brave. And all for me... That wasn't an easy thing to do. I'm in awe of you!
* FighterMageThief: In Cindered Shadows, he acts as the Thief to Linhardt's Mage and Hilda's Fighter. His classes either let him fight from a distance (Archer, Sniper) or allow him to evade detection (Assassin). He also tends to be the fastest of the three and can pick locks regardless of class.
* {{Foil}}: To Caspar. Both of them are among the younger members of their respective houses, are rather short before the Academy Phase, but grow taller during the War Phase and have a strong sense of justice. Ashe was a commoner who was adopted into House Gaspard while Caspar was born a noble into House Bergliez. Ashe is a FriendlySniper who specializes with the bow while Caspar is a BloodKnight who specializes in close combat, specifically gauntlets and axes. Both of them have an older sibling, but while Ashe remembers Christophe fondly, Caspar doesn't think too much of his own older brother. The biggest difference between Caspar and Ashe is their personalities: [[RedOni Caspar is hot-blooded, quick to get into a fight and loud]] while [[BlueOni Ashe is more calm, collected, and would rather seek a peaceful solution rather than violence.]]
* FragileSpeedster: He has strong growths in dexterity and speed, but mediocre strength, defense and resistance growths. He also says that he's confident in his own speed when chasing down a thief.
* FriendlySniper: He has a predisposition towards bows and is one of the sweetest and most cheerful people in the game.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** His supports reveal that he turned to theft to support his little brother and sister after losing his parents, stealing from passerby, shops, and even mansions. A personal variation of the Lockpick skill is his personal skill; It is normally only available to Thieves and Assassins, hence Ashe can pick doors and chests no matter what class he's in.
** Despite being a bookworm, he has a minus modifier towards Reason, which reflects his lowly birth and tendency to wear his heart on his sleeve rather than think with cold logic.
** For any non-Azure Moon route, despite the fact that Ashe is an archer, recruiting him to any of the other houses requires sufficient skill in Charm and ''lances''. This sounds almost arbitrary until you remember that Ashe idolizes knights and knighthood, so having skill in a weapon typically associated with one is what will win him over to another house.
** He's the only Blue Lion without a previous connection to another member. As a result, he's the only one without attack-boosting supports, and on [[spoiler:the Silver Snow and Verdant Wind]] routes, he [[spoiler:ends up fighting for the Empire post-timeskip]]. In ''Three Hopes'', contrasting the UndyingLoyalty of his classmates (barring Mercedes on Scarlet Blaze), he can be persuaded to defect from the Kingdom. However, there he defects mostly because he follows Dimitri's orders on choosing his own life over fighting to the death for Faerghus, as Ashe became a knight and wanted to fight for Dimitri. As a result, he becomes a bit more cynical as he now has to fight his friends, who either call him out for turning on Faerghus or tells him to hold it together and come at them with all he's got.
** Unlike ''Three Houses'', ''Three Hopes'' acknowledges Ashe and Yuri’s pre-existing relationship by giving them supports and a Paralogue together.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
** While he's good at haggling, Ashe's Charm stat is one of the lowest in the game, tying for the second-lowest growth (25%) and having ''the'' lowest cap in the game (36).
** Despite being confident in his own speed and claiming nobody can outrun him, Ashe's Speed base (9), growth (50%), and cap (71) are simply above-average.
** While he was a thief, Ashe is neutral with swords and has no previous skill with them.
** While he knows Yuri from his past, and even has special dialogue with him on [[spoiler:the Silver Snow and Verdant Wind routes]], Ashe and Yuri have no supports in ''Three Houses''.
* HappilyAdopted: He loves and respects his adoptive father a great deal, which is why it hurts him when he hears [[spoiler:Lonato rebelled against the church.]]
* HiddenDepths: His supports with Sylvain in ''Three Hopes'' shows that Ashe is a quick learner, as he is able to figure out the strategies of previous kings after a description of them from Sylvain.
* HumbleHero: Despite Mercedes calling him an amazing cook in their support, he downplays his own cooking skill as "a little bit of experience" and compliments her baking skills. In his support with Dedue, he's awed by Dedue's knowledge of fish preparation and says Dedue's culinary expertise makes him feel like an amateur.
* IGotBigger: Ashe grows ten centimeters during the timeskip and fills out in the shoulders, although he's still relatively short and slender.
* InTheHood: His uniform has a hood akin to a sniper's around the collar. He keeps it after the timeskip.
* {{Irony}}: If he was recruited on the Crimson Flower route, he stays with the Empire due to blaming the Church for Lonato and Christophe's deaths, believing he'll find the truth for why they are killed. [[spoiler:In the end he remains ignorant of the truth by choosing revenge, and can only learn the truth by opposing the Empire.]]
** For added irony, in ''Three Hopes'', recruiting him to the Empire on the Scarlet Blaze route is now the only way the player can ensure both he and Lonato survive the story.
* ItsPersonal:
** The reason he comes on the mission to punish the Western Church's leadership in his paralogue. He wants to find out just what really is going on, but he also blames them for manipulating Lonato and taking advantage of his grief. He gets special dialog should he fight the bishop during the mission.
--->'''Ashe:''' Lonato's blood is on your hands...\\
'''Bishop:''' Were you Lord Lonato's page or something? Indeed, he was a devout believer. All we did was provide Lord Lonato salvation from his misery!\\
'''Ashe:''' Salvation?! You used him and threw him away!
** Like Sylvain, he has a very important reason for wanting to help Edelgard if he's recruited to Crimson Flower, namely his enormous personal grudge against the church for Lonato's suffering, rather than being entrapped in the Empire's service like most of his classmates. He never regrets switching sides. In his supports with Catherine on non-Crimson Flower routes, where he learns the truth, he ends up subverting this. He has conflicted feelings on Catherine until he gets the full story from her, and learns that Christophe and Lonato were victims of the Western Church and its corruption.
* JumpedAtTheCall: In the Cindered Shadows DLC, each of the house leaders takes one of their house members along with them down to the tunnels underneath Garreg Mach. Lindhart and Hilda are none too pleased when Edelgard and Claude force them to come. Ashe, on the other hand, is all too happy to help, stating he has nothing better to do at the moment anyway.
* JustifiedCriminal: Prior to his adoption, he stole from others in order to support his siblings.
* KnightInShiningArmor: He aspires to become one like the knights in the stories he loves reading about. In his supports with Ingrid, he admits that reality is not as simple as those tales, but wants to be a proud knight nonetheless. In his paired endings with Petra, Byleth and Ingrid, he succeeds in becoming one.
* LadyAndKnight:
** His paired ending with Petra, where he returns with her to Brigid to serve her as knight, forming the Blue Sun Knights for the swimming that they love so much.
** He can achieve this dynamic with Byleth and Ingrid depending on the route chosen, though with Ingrid it's PlayedWith a bit, as the Lady is [[LadyOfWar also a knight]].
* LamePunReaction: A self-inflicted one as a conversation topic during tea:
-->I tried to grow a beard once. It was ''hairrible''. Hahaha... huh. Almost as bad as that joke...
* LauncherMove: His unique ability in ''Three Hopes'' is "Wind Stance", creating a zone of wind that constantly launches enemies upwards in its vicinity and inflicts Windtorn.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: His adoptive father doesn't tell him [[spoiler:he's planning to rebel]], and Dimitri presumes it's because he doesn't want him involved. [[spoiler:If recruited to the Black Eagles and Byleth joins Edelgard, he states this reason as why he follows her; he cannot forgive the church for covering everything up and wants to find out why]].
* LongRangeFighter: His fragility makes him unsuitable for melee combat, and with his bow skill as an archer or sniper he's able to attack foes from several squares away. In fact, he has access to the rare Combat Art Deadeye, which when combined with Bow Knight’s increased bow range gives him an incredible 3-7 range attack.
* MageKiller: While he has low Defense, Ashe has one of the highest Resistance growths on a physically-inclined character. Combined with the lower average Defense scores of enemy mages, Ashe can fight them on better terms than most physical units.
* MagicallyIneptFighter: Between his Reason penalty, low magic growth, and limited spell list, he's much more at home in a physical class than a magical one.
* MasterOfNone: He has almost the exact same growth rates as the archers from the other two houses, with the only true difference between the three being their Luck growth[[note]]Bernadetta has 20%, Ashe has 40%, and Ignatz has 55%[[/note]]. But while Bernadetta has useful Combat Arts and access to the Pegasus and Falcon classes and Ignatz has better accuracy thanks to his Personal Ability and can unlock many Rally abilities, Ashe has nothing unique going for him, doesn't have any impressive Combat Arts, and pretty much everything he can easily do, some other unit, not just the other archers, can do better and even easier.
* MasterOfUnlocking: With his Lockpick personal skill, he can unlock doors and chests without a need for a key or having to reclass into a thief.
* MaybeEverAfter: In his paired ending with Ingrid on the Azure Moon route, the two [[spoiler:go down in history as legendary knights, but sources can't agree whether they fell in love and got married or not. {{Subverted}} on other routes, where the two explicitly do end up marrying.]]
* MessyHair: Before the timeskip, his hair is somewhat messy. After the timeskip, he switches it for a neater, more mature cut.
* MonochromaticEyes: Downplayed, but his pupils are somewhat less defined than most other characters. Certainly makes his DeathGlare a lot more menacing.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: As a child, he was entranced by the picture on the cover of a book in Lonato's library, having grown up without the ability to read or write.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Prior to being taken in by Lonato, Ashe was illiterate due to being raised in poverty and losing his parents to illness early on in life. After being fascinated by Lonato's copy of ''Loog and the Maiden of the Wind'', Lonato offered to take Ashe in and teach him to read personally.
* NiceGuy: Ashe is unfailingly polite and kind, even to those who are rude or impatient toward him. In his support with Byleth, Ashe declares that he loves offering his help to any who need it:
-->'''Ashe:''' I genuinely enjoy helping people. It's a great feeling, making someone smile.
* NonUniformUniform: He wears a hoodie underneath his jacket instead of the usual dress shirt and has tights.
* NoodleIncident: He's implied to have seen... ''something'' that made him scared of ghosts. It's never elaborated on.
-->'''Annette:''' You're not scared of ghosts, are you, Ashe? I didn't think you'd be... \\
'''Ashe:''' ''[in a noticeably scared and higher-pitched voice]'' You haven't seen what I've seen!
* OddCouple: Should he get his paired ending with Hapi. Not only is Ashe something of an eternal optimist whereas Hapi tends to focus on negatives, but Ashe is one of the biggest fans of knights while Hapi is their biggest critic. Hapi ends up being won over by Ashe's devotion to living by the ideals she believes most knights only pay lip service to, and is touched that he trusts her to the point that he'll take her side even if it means going against other knights. She also is charmed by how "racy" the knight stories he shares with her can be. For his part, Hapi helps Ashe to rethink or at least look deeper into his position on certain issues regarding the behavior of knights, what is right and wrong, etc. A commitment to honesty is, interestingly enough, something they share in common and bond over.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Pre-timeskip, he doesn't look it due to his round facial features and small stature, but Ashe is actually 16. This vanishes post-timeskip.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: He and Yuri apparently met in their youth when Yuri was adopted by Count Rowe, according to a conversation they have in ''Cindered Shadows''. Ashe implores Yuri to return home, but Yuri scoffs at him and tells the boy he has no intention of going back.
* ParentalAbandonment: His birth parents died of illness when Ashe was a child, forcing him to take care of his siblings. He was adopted by Lonato, and then, [[spoiler:he's again left without a parental figure when Lonato is killed in an ill-fated rebellion against the Church of Seiros]].
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
-->"''I'll give it my all.''" ''(pre-timeskip)''\\
"''I'd be honored.''" ''(post-timeskip)''
* PrematurelyGreyHaired: Possibly. It's never stated if he was born with grey hair or if it's due to his past.
* PreMortemOneLiner:
-->"''I can't lose!''"\\
"''I've got you!''"\\
"''I will prove myself!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''Try this!''" (Pre-timeskip)\\
"''In the name of justice!''" (Post-timeskip)\\
"''I will end this now!''" (Post-timeskip)
* PromotedToParent: After his parents succumbed to illness, Ashe was forced to find work before he turned nine in order to support his younger siblings. He turned to theft when that wasn't enough, but was taken in by Lonato after he was caught breaking into his mansion.
* PuppyDogEyes: Although it couldn't be shown with the in-game graphics, but Ashe uses these to get Sylvain to discuss more strategies with him in their C-support in ''Three Hopes''.
* RagsToRiches: He was born a commoner and lived in poverty after his parents succumbed to illness. He was saved when Lonato adopted him and his siblings, making him (upon Christophe's death) the heir to House Gaspard.
* RecurringElement:
** He's able to lock pick for free and has the thieving background, much like [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Julian]], but he's also more attuned to archery and can become a powerful Sniper/Bow Knight when raised, which is pioneered by [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Gordin]].
** Outside of archetypes, he's incidentally similar to [[Characters/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Castor]] (a bowman that originally had to resort to thievery in order to do good and care for his family members).
* RequiredPartyMember: In chapter 2 of ''Three Hopes'' if the Blue Lion house is chosen, Ashe is included with Dimitri and Dedue as the required units alongside Shez. Ashe is notably the only required tertiary non-Shez unit that isn't TheLancer to the lord of his house. The reason he is included is to establish his personal ability later on in the chapter, showing that the player can use him to open chests instead of waiting for the thief with the key to it to show up.
* RedOniBlueOni: He and Caspar are polar opposites should they be recruited to the same house. Ashe is level-headed and prefers reconciliation to retribution, 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.]]
* RouteBoss: Averted, as Ashe's the only recruitable character that can be fought on every route that doesn't belong to his starter house.
* SacrificialLion: On Verdant Wind and [[spoiler:Silver Snow]], Ashe is the first student unit encountered as an enemy, showing that it is possible for your former friends to suffer permanent CharacterDeath at your hands. Like Lorenz on Azure Moon and [[spoiler:Silver Snow]], Ashe will show up as an enemy even if recruited before the timeskip, but in this case he can be spared and recruited again if defeated. If he was not recruited at all, he can still be avoided, though he is positioned very close to your starting place and blocks one of the routes to the enemy commander you ''do'' have to kill to complete the map.
* SecretAIMoves: As an enemy unit, he can know Defiant Avoid, a skill that he can never obtain as a playable unit due to it being unlocked by mastering the female-only Falcon Knight. Additionally, [[spoiler:on the Crimson Flower route, if not recruited prior to the timeskip,]] he knows Seal Movement, a skill that only Dimitri can learn.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: His Budding Talent for lances is a nod to Lonato being a lance user.
* SupremeChef: He's a great cook due to his experience working in his birth father's restaurant when he was young. He advises Mercedes in her attempt at cooking spicy food in their support chain and bonds with Dedue over discussing ways to prepare fish. In his paired ending with Dedue, Ashe [[spoiler:refuses knighthood due to his disgust with the lingering prejudice against the people of Duscur, instead opening an inn that specializes in serving Duscur-style cuisine to provide a hub for the people of Faerghus and Duscur to meet and settle their differences.]]
* SweetBaker: He's one of the nicest characters in the story and learns to make pastries with Mercedes in their support together. In their paired ending, they [[spoiler:often baked sweets to show how much they love each other, which became a popular tradition between sweethearts for generations to come.]]
* TenderTears: He cries for Dedue in their A-rank support after tasting a Duscur-style meal and realizing how much this means to Dedue as a way of keeping Duscur's culture and his family's memory alive.
* ThickerThanWater: [[spoiler:Ashe pulls off a FaceHeelTurn during the TimeSkip in the Silver Snow and Verdant Wind routes, joining Gwendal's rebellion in allying with the Empire. Even though Lord Lonato as his foster father, he is still angered over the circumstances of his death and opts to side with the Empire. He can be convinced to change sides once more if you defeat him in battle, but only if he was recruited during the Academy phase.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: In ''Three Houses'', no matter which house is given, Ashe's second father figure has to be killed as early as chapter 3, leaving Ashe without a parental figure again. In ''Three Hopes'', [[spoiler:on the Scarlet Blaze path, Lonato will get aid from the Imperial army during his rebellion against Dimitri for taking in the church, [[SparedByTheAdaptation allowing him to survive]]. And with Ashe being recruitable in the same chapter, he now has the chance to not lose another parent again.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: His seasonal version in ''Heroes'' sports noticeably higher Atk and Def than his ''Three Houses'' counterpart.
* TookALevelInCynic: In ''Three Hopes'', should he be persuaded to join the Empire or the Alliance ([[spoiler:although it has become a Federation by the time Ashe can join]]), he becomes a lot more negative about fighting in the war because he now has to fight his homeland and people he grew to care about. It doesn't help if he's employed in battles where he can battle his own friends and some of them [[WhatTheHellHero call him out for turning on Faerghus]].
* UselessUsefulSpell: On maps without chests or doors, his personal skill becomes completely useless. Not to mention, the Lockpick ability is also one of the default abilities for the Assassin and Trickster classes, meaning everyone can get that ability and it is nothing unique to Ashe. ''Three Hopes'' does fix this by making every personal ability upgradable, giving Ashe’s lockpick more flair that every other unit cannot get.
* VocalDissonance: Ashe has one of the higher-pitched voices amongst the male cast, and has a vaguely-accented, whimsical tone. While his voice is slightly lower after the timeskip, it's not by much. His contrasts with his serious nature.
* WeakButSkilled: Ashe's Strength growth is unimpressive and he has poor durability, but he makes up for it with reasonable Speed, fairly good Luck, and high Dexterity, making him accurate and good at scoring critical hits once he's built up.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: If Ashe is recruited pre-timeskip but falls, he returns home but vanishes during the timeskip, leaving his final fate unclear.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Has a vaguely Irish-sounding accent not found on any other character.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Ashe is terrified of ghosts and they're listed as one of his dislikes. He freaks out when he and Annette accidentally lock themselves into a supposedly haunted tower and is spooked by Marianne when he mistakes her for a ghost at night.
* WideEyedIdealist: Growing up being engrossed in knight stories and being raised by Lonato, whom Ashe sees as the very model of chivalry, is what formed Ashe's high admiration for knights and inspired him to pursue becoming a knight himself, viewing them as honorable spirits. But throughout the game's story and in some of his supports, it gets deconstructed as Ashe gets hit with the harsh reality of how the justice system he has idolized when he was younger actually works. It starts as early as chapter 3 when Lonato [[spoiler:stages a rebellion against the Church of Seiros, using the people of his territories as his army]], which leaves Ashe heartbroken, seeing [[spoiler:the man he has idolized in his years before the academy]] sink to such a low. After his and Catherine's paralogue, Ashe recieves a letter detailing why [[spoiler:Lonato did what he did]], which gets brought up in his supports with Catherine. He then hears from her that [[spoiler:his adoptive brother Christophe was involved in a plot to assassinate Rhea, which was why he was turned in by her executed by the church, which was why Lonato rebelled in the first place]]. Hearing what Catherine had done to her former friend and why she did so made Ashe uncertain on what was right or wrong anymore. But Catherine reassures him that that's something that's up to him to decide, and that he doesn't have to forgive her for what she's done. In his C-support with Felix, he speaks his opinion to Ashe about how the book Ashe recommends to him speaks highly of a system that glorifies deaths, and tells Ashe that he should "be more moderate in his passions". In their B-support, Felix tells Ashe that while he shouldn't give up on his dreams, he shouldn't let them consume him either so that he becomes a knight who dies for stupid reasons, which inspires Ashe to aim towards becoming the kind of knight only he can be. His supports with Hapi has him hearing a viewpoint from someone who despises knights because of their empty promises, telling him to not support them or the church. Ashe does listen to what she says and starts questioning the knights and their methods, all while not abandto which Hapi says that his makes him look like a knight straight out of a storybook. A recurring theme throughout these moments is that while Ashe has to hear the grim truth, he either pulls himself together or gets supportive words from the person he's hearing out and doesn't fully abandon his dreams and ideals, but instead has a change in perspective on them. And by the end of the game if Ashe is recruited, [[spoiler:he is knighted and becomes the successor to House Gaspard, growing to become the kind of knight he always wanted to be]].
* YouthfulFreckles: Notably has these across his face, showing his naivete despite his serious nature. It's even where he gets his nickname from Hapi from.
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* MultiEthnicName: Germanic first and middle name, Greek last name.

* MultiEthnicName: Latin first name, Germanic middle name, and vaguely Welsh last name.

** Averted if you [[spoiler:poach her to the Black Eagles and side with Adrestia, in which case they fight on the same team.]]

* FeminineWomenCanCook: {{Downplayed| trope}}. She is amazing at baking sweet things, but struggles with savoury dishes.