Maribelle

Maribelle is a character from the Fire Emblem Awakening games.

Maribelle is a member of Chrom's Shepherds, and is the daughter of the Duke of Themis, an influential noble family in Ylisse.

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

Appearance
Maribelle has a long blonde hair styled in curls and has red eyes. She wears a light-pink shoulder pink with an ascot over a white dress shirt and a pink corset-like waist coat, pink and white baggy pants, brown thigh-high boots, pink arm gloves with red armbands and white bows on her head.

Personality
Maribelle is a typical noblewoman, trained in the classical and finer arts of the higher ranks in society. Ironically, this has sparked within her an interest in the "plebeian" lifestyles of the common citizenry of Ylisse, in turn motivating her aspiration to become a magistrate that fosters equal rights between both the nobility and the common folk alike. She is willing to teach others how to speak in a manner befitting of that of a noble, though she occasionally gets carried off doing so, as shown in her supports with Olivia.

She tends to come off as being snobbish and prideful, warming up rather slowly to others. Once she has developed a fairly intimate relationship with a given individual, she becomes much kinder and is more sensitive to the emotions of the other party. This is shown in her conversations with Brady, where she attempts to remove his thuggish enunciation. However, upon hearing Brady speak properly as expected of a noble, his sudden about-face creeped her out, though she was pleased that he attempted to make the effort to speak properly and allowed him to act independently.

Due to Lissa being the only person she considers her true friend, she is quite possessive of their friendship, with many conversations showing this, going so far as in Harvest Scramble, where she claims she's sick and tired of sharing her and claiming she belongs to herself, much to her embarrassment.

According to her in-game profile, Maribelle is said to have the worst sleeping positions in the army, and frequently tosses in her sleep. Her birthday falls on April 14.

Abilities
Maribelle is a very capable healer in her Troubadour base class. This is attributed to the fact that she possesses a slightly higher Magic growth rate than Lissa does, meaning that she often becomes a more effective healer at a faster rate, alongside the fact that her being on horseback allows her to be fairly mobile. Furthermore, Maribelle's high Luck growth rate will see said stat consistently rising with each level up that she attains, allowing her to not just be able to dodge more proficiently, but also be protected from the threat of enemy critical attacks. However, physically-wise, Maribelle is rather fragile thanks to her abysmally low defensive growth and starting stats. Thankfully enough, her Luck and Speed growth rates helps to remedy these flaws, allowing her to dodge most enemies. Nevertheless, keeping Maribelle out of the fray is the best strategy to keep her alive.

If promoted into a Valkyrie, Maribelle becomes a very effective mage-killer unit. As before, her mid-high Speed and Skill will be able to offset her low Defense, helping her dodge most incoming attacks. Using Dracoshields on Maribelle to remedy her low Defense is a wise choice if planning on using her as other units with high skill and speed, such as Heroes and Swordmasters, can offset her high speed and skill, ensuring heavy damage on her. Adding on to these benefits is the Dual Support+ skill; The best skill the Valkyrie class has to offer, this will allow Maribelle to serve as a potent support unit under Pair Up and Dual System situations.

As a War Cleric, Maribelle will be able to sustain physical damage much better with her higher Defense caps, but in exchange for a drop in Speed, Skill, and Resistance. However, her strength skill is severely low and given her reliance on Axes in this class, Maribelle will have almost no offensive capabilities without considerable amount of stat grinding or Energy Drops. Without a lot of investment and luck, War Cleric Maribelle will need to train enough to promote her Axe Rank to use Bolt Axes which uses her Magic stat instead of her Strength to be offensive viable. Even then, Bolt Axes are decently good for her as a War Cleric, if seeking the most amount of magic damage from her, Valkyrie is a much better option.

Trivia

 * Maribelle shares her English voice actress, Melissa Fahn, with Tana in Fire Emblem Heroes.
 * Maribelle has unique battle models for each of her Troubadour-related classes:
 * As a Troubadour, she wears a pink noble outfit.
 * As a War Cleric, she has a pink color scheme.
 * As a Valkyrie, she has a unique pink battle outfit.