Sully

Sully is a character from the Fire Emblem Awakening games.

Sully is a member of Chrom's Shepherds, and was born into a long line of Ylissean knights. She is the mother of Kjelle, and can potentially be the mother of Lucina and Morgan.

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

Appearance
Sully has a short messy red hair and has red eyes. She wears a red body armor with white linings underneath a white cloth dangling with a brown belt wrapped around her waist, she wears red sleeves underneath white & red armored elbow pads and red gloves, two circular armor on both of her waist, red thigh-high armored boots with red & white armored kneepads.

Personality
Sully is a tomboy. She possesses a personality that is characterized by a spirited zealousness, brimming with self-confidence and passion - a fact that has caused her to be regarded as being cooler than most men, earning her the admiration of many a woman in Ylisse. Such a fact is concretized in her supports with Miriel, who notes that her language is rather brusque and vulgar, alongside her general character being one that is aggressive, traits that are stereotypically instituted as hallmarks of masculinity.

Despite her initial display of apathy towards her femininity, Sully does, in actuality, fret over her appearance and personality. This may be gleaned from her supports with Miriel, where she reveals an insecurity over her inability to fit into the mold of demureness that a typical lady is expected to conform to. After partaking in a series of observations on Sully's social etiquette and conducting an elaborately analogous experiment involving kindling water, Miriel comes to the conclusion that Sully should, instead of vainly attempting to change her behavior in order to befit social standards that are nigh impossible for her to attain, remain true to herself, and be contented just the way she is. In Harvest Scramble if you put up a conversation with her and Miriel, it is revealed that another reason on her “masculine” attitude and is because she had two older brothers who were in the Ylissean knights. She admits to Miriel that’s she also spoke that way to honor their memory by being the ‘toughest roughest knight’ after her brothers got killed protecting a village.

Sully has also proven to be obstinate, headstrong and independent, as is the case during her supports with Vaike, where she reveals that in spite of her being able to leech off her family's reputable standing in society to assail through the ranks in the knightly order, she refuses to do any such thing, preferring to earn the right to attain glory and recognition through sheer determination and grit on her part. Given this fact, it thus comes as hardly any surprise that Sully's ultimate dream is to become a great knight, one that is formidable to even the hardiest of men.

In her pursuit to prove her worth as a knight, Sully has thus neglected honing such domestic skills like cooking and washing clothes. This fact is further compounded by her aversion towards engaging in such activities, as can be gleaned from her casual, dismissive assertion of such a hatred in her supports with Chrom.

In her Summer Scramble conversation with Nowi, it is revealed that she cannot swim.

According to her in-game profile, Sully is the worst chef in the army - a trait that she has, sadly enough, passed down to her immediate daughter. Her birthday falls on December 5.

Abilities
Sully is, without a doubt, one of the strongest of the first generation cast of Awakening. While many point to her lack of Galeforce as a con, they often do not take into account Sully excellent performance within the early game of Awakening, where no unit posses Galeforce. Sully befits the Cain archetypal mould within this game, in which she is not just of the Cavalier class, but also characterised by higher Speed, Skill, and Luck growths relative to those possessed by Stahl, alongside lower growths in Strength, Defense, and HP. This essentially means that Sully will be able to gain the ability to proficiently perform both double attacks much earlier than Stahl can - A fact that is only offset by her awkward defenses, rendering it imperative for her to avoid sustaining too much damage. In addition, Sully's combination of excellent join time and Discipline makes it possible to achieve B rank in Lances before Chapter 5, which can be very helpful in taking out enemies with Frederick Silver Lance if she has more Speed the Frederick does.

As a Great Knight, Sully will gain some much needed Strength, at the expense of her Skill and Speed. While this may make her stat caps rather lopsided, she will still be able to perform moderately well in this class nonetheless, although Stahl and Frederick will probably serve better over her in these classes - Owing to the fact that only her Skill and Speed caps surpass theirs, while their caps in all other stats surpass those possessed by her. Regardless of this, Sully can still deign to benefit by learning the useful Luna and Dual Guard+ skills before being re-classed into a class that better suits her. As a Paladin, Sully's stats will be more balanced, compounded by the fact that her key strengths in Skill and Speed are accentuated by this class. To further complement these benefits, the Defender skill will provide Sully with several decent stat boosts in Pair Up situations, while the Aegis skill allows her to better fend off Magic-based attacks—especially useful for offsetting her atrocious Resistance. Ultimately, Paladin may be the most effective class for Sully, as she has the tools to patch her weaknesses with Aegis and Lancebreaker and augment her strengths with Luna, Astra, and Swordfaire, as well as giving her insane movement range with Deliverer while paired up with her spouse. Overall Sully works better as a Paladin over Great Knight due to having more flexibility with her movement, which can be very help in certain situations, as well as keeping her excellent Speed stat. If the player encounters any major issues with her Strength, the Energy Drop that is dropped by the boss of Chapter 8 can be a solid option in helping her in that regard.

Trivia

 * Sully and Stahl are one of four Cain and Abel pairs to not join the army in the same chapter (the others being Cain/Abel in Mystery of the Emblem, Oscar/Kieran, and Kaze/Saizo), and the only male/female pair themselves.
 * Sully shares her English voice actress, Amanda C. Miller, with Cherche and Elincia in the latter's appearance in Heroes.
 * Sully's official artwork depicts her wielding an Iron Lance.
 * Sully has unique battle models for each of her Cavalier-related classes:
 * As a Cavalier, she has red armor.
 * As a Paladin, she has a red color scheme.
 * As a Great Knight, she has a red color scheme and wears pants instead of a leotard.
 * Sully's birthday is the same day that Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon was released in Europe.
 * In Sully's B-rank Support with Lucina, one of her sound clips is erroneously replaced by one of Olivia's. This only occurs in the European French version of the game.
 * A set of map sprites featuring Sully as a Hero exists within the game data, although they are unused in the main game itself.
 * Sully was voted the 21st most popular female character in the Fire Emblem Awakening Character Popularity Poll.