Gaius

Gaius is a character from the Fire Emblem Awakening games.

Gaius is a thief living in Ylisse and will do any job if paid the right price. He loves sweets and has candy hidden all over his body.

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

Appearance
Gaius has a short red hair and has yellow eyes. He wears a large black cape over a brown & light-brown tunic with a brown chest strap and belt, black & brown baggy pants with brown straps, black & white laced arm-sleeves, black fingerless gloves, silver & green armored boots and a black headband.

Personality
Gaius is calm and collected, with a clear mind. However, his seriousness breaks whenever candy and other sweet confections are brought into the question. Despite the nature of his job, Gaius has morals and does things with the best interest of others, such as his unwillingness to assassinate Emmeryn because he likes her, or blaming Maribelle's father for his theft incident to protect Maribelle.

Due to his occupation as a thief, he does not believing in "something-for-nothing" as shown with his supports with both male and female Robin where he refuses to forget about them knowing his criminal tattoo on his arm until they reveal one of their own to him. He is also afraid of bugs as shown with his conversations with Lon'qu in the Summer Scramble DLC. Gaius has hypoglycemia, which is why he must carry sweets on him at all times.

As revealed in his supports, he is good at making things by hand, like jewelry and embroidery, and also is good with housework. His support conversations with Olivia also reveals that he enjoys baking his own sweets. Gaius is also very open to criticism, using any feedback people tell him to try and improve his skills further.

Gaius is also a practiced liar, a trait fitting of his profession. In his support with Nowi, he details that he prefers older women ("A poised woman that has class and bearing, but knows exactly what she wants"), but though his description seems very convincing, he later reveals it had been a lie.

Abilities
As per any thief, Gaius' Skill and Speed are very high with low defenses to offset them. The unusual aspect of Gaius lies in his high HP and Strength. Pairing him up with another unit to aid his low defenses is a good idea to keep him alive while in the process of building his levels.

As a Trickster, Gaius will not be able to make too much use of the ability to use staves due to his low Magic. The Lucky Seven skill that he learns in this class is, however, incredibly useful for 7 turns, allowing him to take on the initial wave of enemies in any given battle. Further complementing this is the Acrobat skill, which may prove instrumental in helping him to escape from danger on ground movement-hindering terrain.

As an Assassin, Gaius gains the ability to wield Bows as his secondary weapon, allowing him to steer away from melee combat. Lethality may not activate very often due to it having a low chance of activating, but it can potentially strike down an enemy who possesses strong Defense and prevent wastage of the equipped weapon's Durability. Pass is a relatively useful skill that Gaius can learn in this class, allowing him to sneak past enemies when the need arises.

Trivia

 * Gaius shares his English voice actor from Awakening, Gideon Emery, with Asugi, Keaton and Dwyer from Fates. He also shares his English voice actor from Heroes, Ray Chase, with Alfonse, Roy from the same game as well as Fernand from Echoes
 * He also shares his Japanese voice actor, Shinobu Matsumoto, with Asugi.
 * In his C-Support with Robin, Gaius references the famous "Phone Scene" from the movie "Taken".
 * Gaius' official artwork depicts him wielding a Steel Sword.
 * In his Summer Scramble cutscene graphic, there is a handkerchief tied around his left forearm. It is likely that he is using it to conceal his prisoner's tattoo mentioned in his C-Support with Robin. The official mangaalso displays this mark in the same location during Gaius' story arc.
 * Gaius is the basis for Asugi, the son of Saizo from Fire Emblem Fates.
 * In the DLC episode Smash Brethren 2, Gaius can speak to Zihark and will mention that Zihark falls out of the usual "archetype" of myrmidons, usually saying things like "cut you down" or "face my blade".
 * Gaius ranked 4th overall out of the entire male cast in the Fire Emblem Awakening Popularity Poll. Gaius was ranked 3rd out of all of the parent generation males, but since Robin could not have a CG in the Summer Scramble due to their customizable appearance, Gaius received a CG scene instead.
 * Gaius came in 15th place for males in the Fire Emblem Heroes Choose Your Legends popularity poll. He had 9,465 votes.