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Tharja || Fire Emblem: Awakening ([personal profile] practhex) wrote2014-01-06 08:59 pm

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PLAYER INFORMATION
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Characters in Game (previously too): Bertholdt Fubar

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Tharja
Canon: Fire Emblem: Awakening
Gender: Female
Age: Somewhere in her 20s, probably.
Suitability: For characters under 16, please talk about how aging them up with affect them and how they will adapt to the setting.
Species: Human. Plegian dark mage, but human.
Canon Point: After meeting her daughter Noire in the future.
World/Setting: {For OCs only! Please talk about the setting your characters are being taken from. It's important to understand why their world makes them who they are.}
History: Wikia!
Personality:

Tharja is, in a word, odd. She is a former dark mage in the Plegian army, but leaves without much question when Chrom asks her to fight for the Halidom of Ylisse. She's largely apathetic, not caring one way or another for many things. "We're all going to die, who cares?" sort of personality. Her main focus in game is the main character, or main unit (MU,) who she falls in love with regardless of what gender you pick for your MU. Her lines with the female MU are exactly the same as the male MU, so her love is pure regardless of her sexuality. Well, as pure as Tharja can be. She is said to have "the nicest body in the army, and the darkest thoughts," leading most to believe she's cursed or scary in some way. Luckily, in most of her support conversations the other characters learn that she's not all she seems. Tharja can be extremely sweet and caring, she just has no "proper" way of showing it. In her support conversations with the priest Libra, she tries to help him fabricate a memory of his childhood, so he can forget its cruelty. When she sees this darkness in his heart she says that she can't use him to cast spells on anymore because "once you see someone's darkest place, it's too easy to curse them." This shows that while yes, she will practice her hexes and curses on her friends, she wouldn't want to push them too far or push them away.

Tharja is really awkward talking to people. She's very "weird," to a "normal" person. She watches the main character sleep and takes note of how much they're eating and how much they work themselves... because she cares about them. She asks the thief Gaius in her supports with him to steal a lock of the MU's hair. While he refuses, it's implied that she wants to make a protection charm for them. When the MU passes out from fever in her supports with them, she quickly rushes to their aid and makes a paste to cool their fever and soothe their dreams, even after the MU says they wouldn't want "someone like her" to take care of them. While "someone like her," or rather, someone in her character trope, might take that as a reason to let someone who scorned them die Tharja is caring enough to put people's cruel words to the side and help them. Tharja goes as far to try and "act normal" when the MU tells her that normal people don't watch others sleep. She changes her wording and learns to bake a pie for the MU. In the end though, it's too strange for the MU and they ask her to go back to her own strange "normal." When it comes to proposing to Tharja as the male MU, she refuses until he lets her hide behind him before accepting his ring, shy to the very end.

She also worries about her daughter Noire when she's sick (and her daughter Morgan, if she marries the male main character,) but she's just awful at portraying it. She protected her daughter when she died... by her a talisman so she'd become possessed when she was in trouble, to keep her safe. In the future, Tharja takes the talisman away from Noire so she can learn to fight on her own and "leave her retribution" to her mother. This only shows how much Tharja cares for her daughter. In the future, she uses Noire as a guinea pig for her curses but their relationship in the past together is mended and it's implied that Tharja won't do it... as much. If Noire doesn't get married, she becomes her mother's apprentice after the war and tries to hone her own magic skill under her wing, instead of Tharja forcing it upon her. In her supports with the manakete class Nowi, who asks Tharja to divine where her parents are, Tharja realizes that they're dead... but only tells Nowi that they are "far away". She's sensitive to others, whether she manages to show it or not.

Abilities/Weaknesses:

Tharja is a dark mage, who uses tomes or grimoires to summon magic spells. She can be upgraded to different fighting classes but I'd be playing her as her base magic set. She can also hex people using different ingredients (eye of newt, frog's eyes, etc,) so even if her magic is gone, she would still be able to make potions and curse people. These vary from something as innocent and helpful as bringing down a fever or fixing a cold, to making someone's nose run constantly, to seeing into the darkness in someone's heart and using it to her advantage. She does, however, have to know the person's name to curse them. It's one of those unwritten rules. She's a strong spell caster and only second in casting hexes next to Henry, as well as being an extremely defensive unit. She can also use manakete (dragon's) claws to divine the future.

RP Samples:

1

Tharja likes to watch her sleep. She wanders into Robin's tent late at night, when no one is awake to see her slinking around (besides, perhaps, Henry... but he doesn't tell on anyone,) and watches her sleep. It started the moment they met, she knew she loved her. Tharja had seen the look in Robin's eyes, right down into her soul, and knew they were in love. So she had vowed it to herself to protect the tactician. She made sure Robin got enough to eat, enough training to keep her safe in battle, and that she always had books to read. She found them, be it in villages or dropped in the forest, and would always bring them to add to the amnesiac's pile. She laid two down on Robin's side table gently as not to wake her before taking her bag of supplies from her hip and pulling out sprigs of mistletoe and marjoram and meadowsweet.

Sitting on a stood next to her bed, she keeps an eye on her love, taking note of ever toss and turn she makes, while her nimble fingers weave the herbs. Marjoram for protection. To keep her darling Robin safe. Mistletoe to persuade her to love her as soon as possible even if both of them had ended up married by now. She formed the two sprigs into a ring and laid them on top of one of the books, the one she thought Robin would like best, and placed dried meadowsweet between them.To balance their love, to bind them together just as it bound the love charm.

She tidies up her tent a bit, while she sleeps, making sure to remain quiet even while she documented her every move. When the sun began to rise, however, Tharja stood and leaned over Robin in the bed, ghosting her lips against her forehead (but never kissing,) and tucking a lock of her hair ever so gently behind an ear before she turned to leave. Outside, however, she was met with a stupid, wide, knowing smile.

"You're reeeeeally persistent, aren't you Tharja? Let's just hope you won't CAWse a scene!"

"I'll hex you into next week if you get in my way," she huffed out a breath, storming passed the other dark mage and Henry only crowed,

"That sounds awful! I can't wait!"