Sumia

Sumia is a character from the Fire Emblem Awakening games.

Sumia is a member of Chrom's Shepherds. She is the mother of Cynthia, and can be a potential mother of Lucina and Morgan.

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

Appearance
Sumia has a long curly darkish-brown hair and has darkish-brown eyes. She wears a pinkish-silvered colored upper body armor over a purple & pink dress that reaches her thighs with two pink belts strapped in a cross, black long-sleeve like gloves underneath armored pads, black thigh-high boots and a head accessory that resembles a feather.

Personality
Sumia is a klutzy individual, prone to small mishaps. In fact, her clumsiness is so bad that she trips over nothing more than anyone in the Shepherds, much to her embarassment. Because of this, she has a rather low self-esteem and feels that she is unsuited for her job, but still does her best whenever she can. Despite her clumsy habits, she holds a hidden strength that most people lack, constantly striving to protect her friends and take care of them.

She has a strong affinity for animals and can read their feelings very well. She used this ability to calm and tame an injured pegasus that was feral to everyone else. Even a horse that Frederick could not tame was quickly quelled by Sumia. Her best friend is her fellow Pegasus Knight Cordelia, who is always there to help her when she is in trouble, and admires her flawless demeanor. Still she has shown to be courageous, caring, and kind, willing to fight for her people.

Sumia loves reading books as she uses them to escape reality and her flaws. She sometimes role plays as the characters in the stories in hopes of becoming more confident. Sumia collects discarded books and loves to recommend them to others such as Robin. Her favorite stories are the Ribald Tales of the Faith War.

Sumia also enjoys doing flower fortunes and often plucks hundreds of flower petals at a time. Sumia does this to give her a boost in confidence in battle; bad fortune readings motivates her to overturn them while good fortunes encourages her to make sure that they come true.

Abilities
As the first aerial unit recruited, Sumia can be very useful utility early on, and continues to be a very solid throughout the game. In terms of her stats, she gains skill, HP, and speed quickly, with her other stats growing decently well. Pairing her up with a compatible unit can highlight her potential, as her mobility is a great asset, and her Speed and Skill pair-up bonuses allow them to frequently double and finish off opponents much more easily. As an archetypal Pegasus Knight, she can be somewhat fragile and sometimes lacks offensive capability against high defense units like knights on higher difficulties. Keeping her out of range of Archers will ensure that she stays as safe as possible.

In contrast to Cordelia, Sumia's magic growth rate and stat caps in magic are higher, giving her utility as a Falcon Knight healer or offensive diversity as a Dark Flier mage. However, the growth is still quite low, and her magical offense may take some time to catch up to other Magic units in the game, but may become worthwhile. Her higher speed and skill will also mean that she will double attack and critical much more often. Sumia should spend some time in the Dark Flier class regardless of the player's final class for her since she can learn the useful Galeforce skill. It is also important to note that her magic caps in the Dark Flier class are higher than her strength caps as a Falcon Knight, and access to both Lancefaire and Tomefaire (as well as the high-damaging Luna skill) make her a potent force while in this class, capitalizing on both her mobility and offensive prowess. Nevertheless, Sumia as a Falcon Knight has its perks of slightly higher speed and skill caps over Dark Flier. Furthermore, her access to Healtouch from the Cleric line makes her capable in healing, in addition to the class's Lancefaire skill padding her offensive capability.

Trivia

 * In her support conversation with Robin, she mentions that she reads a book called "Ribald Tales of the Faith War", a reference to the first Jugdral Series game, Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. The name of the game itself was said in the Japanese version of the game.
 * Sumia's official artwork depicts her wielding a Luna.
 * Although both Sumia and Chrom can marry other units, Sumia is seen as Chrom's wife in the opening movie sequence. Sumia's option of Chrom as her husband could be a reference to Marth's wife, Caeda, who was also a pegasus knight.
 * The Japanese trailer that revealed marriage and children in Awakening showed Sumia and Robin as a couple.
 * Sumia placed 15th out of 25 females in the official popularity poll of Awakening
 * Sumia shares her English voice actress, Eden Riegel, with Nah.
 * She also shares her Japanese voice actress, Ayano Yamamoto, with her daughter Cynthia.
 * There is a glitch during Lucina's reunion scene with Maribelle as her mother; Sumia appears in this scene for no reason and says nothing during this scene.
 * During EXPonential Growth, she says "You shall not pass", possibly referencing the famous quote made by Gandalf in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
 * Sumia has the fewest S Rank support conversations of all the female parent characters in Awakening.
 * Due to her limited amount of potential husbands compared to other female characters, Sumia is the only character who can miss the opportunity to conceive her child if all of her options have been married off, thus preventing the player from recruiting Cynthia.
 * Curiously, the cutscene in which Sumia rescues Chrom at the Longfort is labelled "Lovebirds", which comes from the lasting phrase of two people sharing a moment. However, this cutscene title only applies to the Japanese and North American versions of the game, as it is called "The Rescue" in the European version.
 * In Sumia's Summer Scramble conversation with Miriel, she says "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for your meddling experiments!", which is a reference to the famous quote from the children's media franchise Scooby-Doo.
 * Sumia has a unique color scheme as a Pegasus Knight and Falcon Knight.
 * As a Pegasus Knight, she wears purple and pink clothing and has silver armor.
 * As a Falcon Knight, she wears purple and pink clothing and has gold armor.