Cynthia (FE)

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Cynthia is a character from the Fire Emblem Awakening game.

Sumia's daughter, she's optimistic, cheerful, and brimming with energy. Due to her admiration of cool heroes, she diligently studies dramatic entrances. However, being as clumsy as her mother, her entrances are often dramatic for the wrong reasons. Famous for her nonsensical sleep-talking.

Appearance
Cynthia has a dark-brown hair tied in twintails and has brown eyes. She wears an armored chest plate over a dark-blue & white tunic dress with a blue strapped belt, black arm-length gloves with white linings underneath an silver gauntlet and shoulder armor, blue stockings underneath a blue knee-high boots and a white scarf.

Personality
As a child, Cynthia was very girly and hated violence, but with the death of her mother, Cynthia discarded these in order to become a hero. Her pursuit has lead to a love of stories of heroics, especially ones of Sumia, her father, and their comrades, the former two whom she idolizes the most. She also practices dramatic entrances into battle, accompanied by a flashy war cry, fine tuning them so she can become the hero she desires to be. Her imagination can sometimes run wild and easily believes the stories told of her mother in particular, but has some sense in knowing what is actually fiction, instead choosing to believe the outlandish stories to motivate her.

Much of her traits were inherited from Sumia, namely her clumsiness, stumbling on her own feet with some regularity. However, while Sumia sometimes lacks self-worth in these instances, Cynthia takes her clumsiness in stride, remaining enthusiastic. She also enjoys doing flower fortunes like her mother. She has a special bond with her pegasus as well as it was inherited from Sumia in the future, later learning to take care of her mount as her trusty companion in battle.

Cynthia has a strong sense of justice though it can often become misguided, but nevertheless, she seeks to do the right thing. Over-trusting to a fault, following a man who claimed to be Chrom without a single moment's hesitation, but easily abandoned his cause when his ruse was revealed.

Abilities
Cynthia is much like her mother, she has somewhat poor defensive growths unless she is the daughter of a defensive asset Robin. However her strength, speed, and skill growths are much higher, a well needed boost for Cynthia to have over her mother. As a child character she'll have the average of her parent's current stats added to her base stats so the later she is recruited, the stronger she'll be. Cynthia performs well as a Falcon Knight with a decent strength cap though she'll need a strength asset Robin for a father to exceed 40. Still, Lancefaire can give her a needed boost to her strength. Her magic caps, despite their lower growths to her strength, has a higher cap of over 40 if she becomes a Dark Flier. It may take time to boost her stats high enough to abuse this, but nevertheless, Cynthia makes a great Dark Flier much like her mother. Galeforce can be learned from this class for kill-and-run strategies and for quick map clearing tactics.

Trivia

 * Cynthia's birthday is the same day that Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War was first released in Japan.
 * Incidentally, Ribald Tales of the Faith War is one of her mother's favorite novels.
 * In her non-sibling support with Lucina, Cynthia talks about the Whitewings and their famed Triangle Attack.
 * Cynthia shares her English voice actress, Stacy Okada, with Say'ri.
 * One of Cynthia's lines, "Look upon my might, ye wicked, and despair!" is likely a reference to the Percy Shelley poem "Ozymandias", in which a statue's inscription invites the reader to "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
 * Cynthia's official artwork depicts her wielding a Silver Lance.
 * In her concept art, Cynthia is depicted in a pose mimicking that of Kamen Rider 1's, albeit with a different posture. Such a pose is common with most Tokusatsu-esque heroes in Japanese youth culture.
 * If Sumia is married to Chrom, if Cynthia reaches S-Support with Owain, her title will say Companion as it would Lucina's, to prevent implications of incest.