Miriel

Miriel is a character from the Fire Emblem Awakening games.

Miriel is a member of Chrom's Shepherds.

In the AWA fics, Miriel is a student at the AWA Academy.

Appearance
Miriel has a short, red bobcut hair, she has brown eyes and wears glasses. She wears a black mantle with yellow trimmings over a black tight shirt and robes with a white chest collar underneath a black cape, gray & dark-blue baggy pants and brown boots.

Personality
Miriel is a perfectionist who cannot stand having even a single book out of place in the Shepherd's garrison. She is especially harsh when berating anyone who behaves thoughtlessly. An embodiment of efficiency, Miriel keeps track of everything in the army, making sure everything is up to code. In fact, she is efficient enough to keep her own possessions in order, even though she has the most possessions out of everyone in the army. More so, Miriel is an intellectual individual with a vast array of eloquent vocabulary which leaves most of the Shepherds, more often than not, confused or sometimes even annoyed. Miriel tends to be interested only in the theoretical and discovery of the inner workings of the world. If something interests her, she will stop at nothing until she knows all of it.

For all her intellect, Miriel seems to be lacking when it comes to common sense or any social skills. In her supports with Robin, when she obtains an item pouch belonging to them, her interests lie in testing what gravity does to the pouch if dropped instead of giving it back to its owner. In her supports with Libra, she helps him preach to more people, but fails to understand why less people are coming to his sermons. Perhaps the most profound example lies in her supports with Lon'qu, where she puts herself in dangerous situations just to test whether or not he would come to her rescue.

Miriel's personality during her romantic S-Supports are starkly different from other character's S-Supports. While most openly will declare their love, Miriel admits her affections in a scientific and clinical manner, usually saying that she had "developed feelings" for them at best. Still Miriel becomes a loving wife and fully supports her husband throughout the war, but still retains her scientific way of stating her love for him in her romantic Event Tile quotes. Her birthday is February 12.

Abilities
Miriel is a very capable Mage unit and the first magic user recruited in the game, save Robin. Her Magic, Speed, and Skill grow at very steady rates, making her able to inflict more damage, launch more attacks, and better perform critical attacks in battle. Such strengths are, however, offset by her low Defence growth, making it imperative for her to avoid as much strength-based damage as possible. Compared to the other playable Mage hailing from the parent generation, Ricken, Miriel is magically stronger and has better growth rates in Skill, Speed, and Resistance.

As a Sage, Miriel gains the ability to wield staves, and a rather potent one at that since her high Magic stat (second only to Emmeryn) in this class makes her a far more competent healer than both Lissa and Maribelle in any of their stave-wielding classes. Apart from this, Miriel's high Magic also makes her double as an incredible offensive magic unit, a fact that is bolstered by the Tomefaire skill, one that will further strengthen said stat when tomes are equipped. As a Dark Knight, however, Miriel's low Strength makes her the weakest Dark Knight when equipped with a sword. On the contrary, when her high Magic stat is exploited through the heavy usage of tomes, Miriel may thence be considered the most powerful Dark Knight, magic-wise. This, coupled with the tendency for enemies to possess low Resistance, renders the Lifetaker skill a splendid one for Miriel to learn, as she can readily recover copious amounts of HP with each kill that she chalks up.

Trivia

 * Miriel shares her English voice actress, Tara Platt, with Flavia.
 * Tara Platt, Miriel's English voice actress, is married to Yuri Lowenthal, the English voice of Ricken.
 * Miriel's official artwork depicts her wielding a Fire Tome.
 * Miriel has unique battle models as a Mage and Sage.
 * As a Mage, she wears black clothes and a black hat.
 * As a Sage, she wears a black and red version of Emmeryn's outfit.
 * Although a majority of Miriel's map sprites do not feature her wearing her signature mage's hat, all her battle models see her donning it.
 * Miriel was voted the 18th most popular female character in the Fire Emblem Awakening Character Popularity Poll.