Tiki (FE)

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Tiki is a character from the Fire Emblem games.

Naga's daughter, and the sole survivor of the Divine Dragon tribe who is still capable of taking dragon form. As one of her last acts, Naga placed her in an unending sleep to prevent her from degenerating into madness like all the other dragons, but she was eventually unsealed by Bantu. The two traveled the world for a time until she was captured and brainwashed by Gharnef. Upon being freed from the spell by Bantu, Tiki joined the Altean army and took a liking to Marth. After the war, she was put back to sleep by Gotoh, but he allowed her to reawaken for good upon confirming that Marth would be able to restore the Binding Shield, which would prevent her from degenerating.

Eons later, Tiki has grown up and is now revered as the Voice of the Divine Dragon in the Valmese Empire. When Chrom's band travels to Valm, she appears before them to task them with restoring the Binding Shield, and aids them in challenging the Grimleal.

Appearance
Tiki has a long light-green hair tied in a high messy ponytail tied by a red lace, she has green eyes and has pointy ears. She wears a yellow circlet on her head with a red gem, she wears a pink cape over a red laced tunic dress with stitched and slit sides with a pink ribbon wrapped around her waist, yellow hand brace underneath a red gloves with pink cuffs, pink stockings underneath a red knee-high boots.

Personality
iki is a typical child having an innocent outlook on life and easily attaches to others. She shares a close relationship with both Marth and Bantu, affectionately referring to them as "Mar-Mar" respectively; Bantu being the first person she interacted with when she was first awoken and Marth who protected her after Gharnef brainwashed her. Her relationship with Marth developed into a more of a childish crush. As a result of Tiki's long slumber, she hates falling asleep as it had left her alone for several hundred years. She also refuses to eat vegetables unless they have been pickled first.

2,000 years later in Awakening, Tiki has matured significantly, where she is much calmer and serene, although small glimpses of her childish past emerge, particularly when seeing her beloved, but long-departed, "Mar-Mar" through Lucina and Male Robin, and in her B support with Say'ri. She aspires to preserve the memory of her long departed friends, vowing to protect the future that they had fought for as she does so. However, Tiki laments that all of her friends from long ago have long passed while she remains alive, and at the same time, is well aware that those feelings will happen again when the Shepherds eventually meet the same fate as Marth's army. Despite all this, Tiki still wishes to interact with humans and make friendships with them, saying it's better to go through the loss of having those relationships rather than not having them at all. This ends up becoming the main reason she dislikes her title and status as the Voice of Naga since it creates a barrier for normal interaction with those she meets.

Abilities
Tiki is a brilliant unit and will easily max out Skill, Speed, and Luck. This is not only because of her astute growths, but also the result of each one of her stats possessing caps of 20 (Apart from HP, which caps at 60.) To this end, however, it is difficult to attain these caps without the aid of stat-boosting items. It must be said that even without capping all her stats, Tiki will remain resolutely competent regardless, thanks to the stat increase from her Divinestone. The one main drawback to Tiki is that the Divinestone is only limited to 30 uses, that which can be temporarily fixed by using the Starsphere to prevent it from losing durability until the Starlight is procured. Other options include not obtaining the Starlight tome and keep the Starsphere and Lightsphere separate from each other, simply use the Hammerne Staff on the Divinestone, or have her use a Firestone in place of her Divinestone to level her up. This will allow Tiki to be reach Level 30 with ease, a fact that is especially useful in the final chapter, as the Divinestone is effective against both Manaketes and Earth Dragons alike.

Trivia

 * Not counting Einherjar characters, Tiki is the only playable character in Fire Emblem Awakening to return from a previous entry. There is also an Einherjar in the game based on her appearance from Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon.
 * In Awakening, Tiki is the only first-generation character (barring Robin) to be able to support two children characters who are not her own, Lucina and Nah.
 * A set of map sprites depicting Tiki in the Pegasus Knight class line exists within the game data of Awakening, although they are unused in the main game itself.
 * Tiki shares her English voice actress, Mela Lee, with Naga.
 * Based on the dialogue in Paralogue 17 in Fire Emblem Awakening, Tiki is implied to have most of her powers sealed apart from her Dragonstone, requiring to perform a ritual to regain some of it back.
 * This could be the reason as to why she no longer needs the Binding Shield to be completed any longer in order to avoid degeneration.


 * Tiki is the first character in Fire Emblem Heroes to receive two summer-themed swimsuit variant costumes. The Adult version of Tiki received one in Summer 2017 as part of the Ylissean Summer banner, while the younger Tiki received such a variant in Summer 2018 as part of the A Sketchy Summer banner. Also, Younger Tiki is the first Breath character introduced in a special paralogue.