Henry (FE)

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Henry is a character from the Fire Emblem Awakening game.

A Plegian dark mage with a fetish for bloodshed and an indelible grin. While disarmingly optimistic, he shows a gruesome lack of mercy while on the battlefield.

Appearance
Henry has a short silver hair and his eyes are closed at the moment. He wears a purple & black cape with yellow designs and tailings over a golden shoulder accessory, dark-purple vest, black baggy long-sleeve shirt, a purple cloth with a ribbon lace wrapped around his waist, black tights with yellow rings around his thighs and yellow & black shoes.

Personality
Henry almost always has a smile on his face, and is unusually cheerful. He has strong love for battles, dark magic and blood, which gives a jarring contrast to the cheerful personality he presents to others.

One of Henry's most obvious personality traits is his amorality. Panne notes this when he admits that the only reason he informed her of Gangrel's plan to assassinate Emmeryn was so it would not "waste a perfectly fun war," as Ylisse was "weak enough" as it was.

Henry also cannot seem to comprehend the value of life completely, as in his supports with Robin, Henry did not know what was wrong with sacrificing innocents to win a war, as long as the final result is victory. However, when Robin corrected him and said that sacrificing innocents is not right, he obeyed the orders readily and defended a village despite having a tactical disadvantage. This shows that he is able to be obedient to his superiors, though he states that he will ignore "stupid" orders, such as not letting him fight, and even threatened to kill said superior if they ever did such a thing.

He lacks common scruples, being willing to do anything to make the people he cares about happy, even if it means committing morally objectionable actions, such as cursing someone to death to please someone. He does this not because he is inherently evil, but he simply has no good grasp on what is moral and what is not. This is likely due to his harsh upbringing.

Abilities
Henry is the second recruitable Plegian Dark Mage. He is a bit slower, yet more accurate and durable than Tharja. He is also a bit lopsided with his low resistance and meager speed. However, Henry has a good skill growth, which makes him perfect to abuse Vengeance and Ruin. As a Sorcerer, he has much more balanced caps than Tharja with an average of 42 for all stats but strength, which is not needed for mage-style classes. As a Dark Knight, Henry's strength growth gives him the option to attack with Swords better than Tharja; however, this means he will also have to drop Dark magic in exchange for this class. Slow Burn seems tempting, but it takes a few turns to compile the boost, while others are busy fighting the enemy. Lifetaker can help him recover health while using Vengeance.

Henry's magic support stat boosts in Pair Up and growth rates makes him a good support character for most mage characters like Tharja, Miriel, a magic-based Robin and for their children.

Trivia

 * Henry came in 11th place for males in the Fire Emblem Heroes Choose Your Legends popularity poll. He had 12,131 votes.
 * Both the date Henry was born and Chapter where he is recruited falls on the 13th, a number commonly perceived to bring misfortune.
 * Ironically, November 13 is World Kindness Day.
 * At his first appearance (if Robin is not included in the count), he is also the thirteenth playable male unit.
 * According to the drama CD, Henry had defected the Plegian army by after Chapter 10, attacking their forces.
 * Henry shares his English voice actor, Bryce Papenbrook, with Raven, Oscar and Karel in their appearance in Fire Emblem Heroes, as well as Kamui in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.
 * Henry also shares his Japanese voice actress, Akemi Okamura, with Emmeryn.
 * Henry is one of three playable male characters voiced by a woman in the Japanese version of Awakening, alongside Ricken and Libra (who, unlike Henry and Ricken, was voiced by a woman in both the Japanese and English versions)
 * And this is also one of several instances where a male character was voiced by a woman in the Japanese version, but voiced by a man in the English dub, a trait shared with Ricken, Fates' Hayatoand Percy, and Echoes: Shadows of Valentia's Kliff.
 * Henry has a unique victory pose that depicts him laughing gleefully over his fallen opponent if he is in a class that lacks a mount.
 * In a support conversation with Cherche, he mentions that he smells like ham.
 * In a support conversation with Miriel, Henry references the "band camp" line from American Pie.
 * While normally Henry's eyes are always seen as closed while he smiles gleefully, in Fire Emblem Awakening during a few support conversations, such as with Frederick and Olivia, his irises can be seen. They appear to be grey.
 * In Fire Emblem Heroes, Henry's special attack sprite (or damaged sprite in his Trick or Defeat incarnation) reveals his irises to be a light purplish blue color.