Frederick

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Frederick is a character from the Fire Emblem Awakening games.

Chrom's lieutenant, a Ylissean knight who is sincere to a fault. He tends to demand tremendous effort for seemingly trivial things, and prefaces such exercises with a grin.

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

In the XP4 fics, Frederick debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - Awakening.

Appearance[]

Frederick is tall man with a short brown hair and has brown eyes. He wears a white & blue upper body armor over a white dress shirt, black pants underneath a pair of asymmetrical armored thigh-high combat boots.

Personality[]

Extremely serious and with a no-nonsense personality, all while being in charge with protecting the royal family, it is no surprise that Frederick is a natural skeptic, a fact very aptly encapsulated by the nickname "Frederick the Wary" given to him by Chrom. He is also known to be very patient, dealing with Lissa's antics and Chrom's reckless behavior without displaying any visible signs of resentment. Despite this, it is clear that Frederick deeply cares for Chrom, Lissa, and Emmeryn, feeling the need to protect and serve them at all costs.

The services that Frederick renders to his lieges range from the standard to the absurd. To this end, he is not just known for preparing his lieges' clothes, but also clearing the road ahead of them of rocks and sticks to protect them from tripping. Such comical services in particular tend to go to the extreme, such as when he decides to "boost the morale" of the army by putting up naked posters of Chrom in each and every tent in the camp.

In a support conversation Frederick shares with Lissa, it is revealed that he is so stern that he does not even understand the concept of "how to relax". In fact, when told to tone down his assistance in his supports with Chrom, he ends up doing even more, to the point of trying to dust Robin when they are trying to have a meeting with the latter. Adding on to this, Maribelle remarks that he resembles a steward in the way that he acts, a fact only reinforced by the formal suit he wears under his armor. His conversations with Jakob in the DLC Before Awakening also support this idea of his incapability to shirk from his duties. Here, he expresses immense pleasure at meeting someone he considers an equal in the art of serving one's liege.

In a support with Panne, it is revealed that Frederick suffers from a phobia of large animals. This is due to him being seriously injured by a mountain wolf when he was a child. He also exhibits disdain for meats with gamy textures - especially bear meat - in his support conversations with Robin and in the Before Awakening DLC.

According to his in-game profile, Frederick enjoys making fires the most out of anyone in the army. His birthday is August 26.

XP4 Fanfics[]

Frederick is a member of the Heroes Coalitions as a Solo Hero. He also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.

XP4 Heroes Coalition - Awakening[]

In Chapter 1, Frederick alongside Chrom, Lissa and Robin are wandering around a forest somewhere in Ylisse when they came across the Universal Guardians and Squad of Excellence, and quickly befriends them. After having conversation about the Emotionless, both sides decided to work together to eliminate the creatures. They decided to camp for the rest of the night.

In Chapter 2, Frederick, alongside members of the Universal Guardians, the Squad of Excellence and Chrom's group, arrives in Ylisse and met up with Owain. Later, after Chrom decided to have a meeting with Geo Stelar, Luna Platz and Frederick, the rest decided to meet up with the Shepherds at the garrison. Later, Frederick and the others arrived and Chrom claims to have an announcement.

In Chapter 4, Frederick is seen having a conversation with Korra, Maka Albarn, Hinata Hyuuga, Stahl, Panne, Maribelle and Kellam about the Unification Ceremony at the garrison before taking notice Dan Kusou, Soul Eater Evans and Ash Ketchum searching for the Blessed like idiots.

In Chapter 5, Frederick, alongside the Universal Guardians, Maribelle, Virion, Kellam, Say'ri, Cherche and Vaike, are seen walking around a large field outside Ylisstol when they came across Dr. Dolan Danger and Jerry Jonny Torr McGee. After the doctor accidentally telling them his plans of obtaining the Ara-Ka Cube, much to everyone's disbelief. After that, the doctor ordered the Zealots to attack them but they quickly defeated them, prompting their enemies to flee.

In Chapter 7, Frederick, alongside Sakura Haruno, Sakura Shinguji, Ichiro Ogami, Hinata Hyuuga, Maribelle, Stahl and Panne having a conversation about the Unification Ceremony at the garrison.

In Chapter 10, Frederick, alongside Maribelle, reunited with their son, Brady, in the garrison.

In Chapter 11, Frederick is at the garrison when they heard a noise, they ran to the corridors to see Ryuuko Matoi and Ricken chasing a strange hooded figure. Everyone went after the figure and led them to a large grassy fields, and reveals itself as a Pokemon known as Hitmonlee. The Pokemon then revealed that he stole an ancient alien artifact called the Ara-Ka Cube inside the castle. Everyone watches in horror as Hitmonlee uses the alien artifact to summon a zombified version of Emmeryn and Phila, much to everyone's disgust and to his distraught. Hitmonlee then summoned a large number of Emotionless, forcing Frederick and everyone to fight. Frederick then witnessed Donnel activating his Gift.

In Chapter 12 & Epilogue, Frederick, alongside everyone, witnessed Donnel activating his Gift turning both Emmeryn and Phila back to life. After defeating the remaining Emotionless, forcing Hitmonlee to flee, life in Ylisstol went back to normal.

DreamTheater Intermix: The World Within[]

Frederick is a student in the City Saints Academy.

Biography[]

In Chapter 18, Frederick took part of that night's patrol where he is part of a group getting briefed by Lelouch Lamperogue. Frederick is thanked by Lelouch for winning them the millennium contract and is later ordered to meet up with Chrom and Robin for a certain task.

Abilities[]

Frederick is the Oifey of Awakening, meaning he is a pre-promoted unit recruited early in the game and an EXP sponge for much of the first half of the game. Frederick is a perfectly capable unit with good strength, skill, and defense growths, with decent speed growths as well, on top of a guaranteed HP boost every level. Frederick can also learn Luna (which would be a good skill to pass down on to his child, if married) before hitting Chapter 11with proper level grinding, making his role as an offensive force much more prominent. Frederick needs to be wary of mages due to his lower resistance, especially as a Great Knight. True to his archetype, he may fall behind later in the game once other units begin to promote, but he is an effective unit on normal by the Endgame without reclassing once. However all is not lost for Frederick as the Reclassing system will break him out of his archetype's curse and eventually, like everyone else, bring him to his maximum potential.

On higher difficulties, Frederick's kit is not good in the long run without reclassing. Still, if playing on Lunatic or Lunatic+, Frederick is critical to survive the initial maps until level grinding can begin. With the majorly buffed and aggressive enemies in this mode, most playable units from the Prologue to Chapter 4 will be unable to take down any enemy on their own and the enemy will almost always one-shot any unit. Frederick is the lone exception in this case as his high starting stats and his Silver Lance makes him the best way to properly deal with the enemies until Chapter 4 has been completed. However he is not invincible so Pair Up him with units who will give him good stat Support Boosts such as Chrom, Robin, and Sully in the mean time.

His base class comes from the Cavalier line, so he will start off with Discipline which will make Frederick a mobile jack-of-all-trades physical unit with a Lance rank of B and a Sword and Axe rank of D. With Discipline in action, he should completely master his three weapons in no time. Outdoor Fighter will boost Frederick's effectiveness in the initial half of the game due to the large amount of outdoor maps. Frederick can slide reclass into a Paladinonce he reaches level 10. He can grab Defender to boost his stats in a Pair Up and most importantly Aegis, to mostly halve incoming magic regardless of his class.

Trivia[]

Frederick shares his English voice actor, Kyle Hebert, with Validar, Valbar, and Bartre.
- Frederick also shares his Japanese voice actor, Daisuke Ono, with Priam and Kaze.
In all official artwork portrayals of Frederick, he dons what appears to be a suit, complete with a tie, beneath his armor. This could possibly be a reference to him assuming the double-duty of not just a knight sworn to protect the Ylissean royalty, but also a professionally-trained steward overseeing the domestic affairs of House Ylisse - as can be gleaned from his Supports with Maribelle.
In Frederick's A-Support with Robin, he makes a reference to the 2007 E3 Wii Fit demonstration by saying the infamous "My body is ready" quote from Nintendo of America's former president, Reggie Fils-Aimé.
In Fates, Frederick has a unique version of the Great Knight class that is labeled as "FrederickMale" in the game's code.