Lysithea

Daughter of Count Ordelia and noble of the Leicester Alliance. A determined high achiever who hates being treated like a child. Appears in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Name: Lysithea von Ordelia Gender: Female Race: Human Birthday: February 28 Age: 15 (Pre-timeskip) 20 (Post-timeskip) Height: 148cm (Pre-timeskip) 160cm (Post-timeskip) Relatives: Count Ordelia (Father), Unnamed Mother Occupation: Student at the Officers Academy (Golden Deer house), Heir of House Ordelia Weapon: Tomes </Personal Information> Lysithea is a short petite teenage girl with long white hair, pink eyes and pale skin. Her attire consists of a black jacket with yellow accents, black long skirt reaching her knees, navy blue pants and white boots. Because of her childlike appearance, people often mistake her as a young child.

In the post-timeskip, Lysithea has grown taller and has became a young adult woman. She now wears a purple dress where the chest part is black and has puffy long white sleeves. She wears white leggings and black heels. Lysithea is hailed by others as a prodigy by her fellow peers. She is constantly throwing herself into opportunities to learn and as a result is a top student of the Academy as a result. She seeks to make meaningful use of her every waking moment, almost as though she will never have enough time to learn what she has to. Once she has completed her tasks and assignments, she already starts her next personal project immediately. She is efficient with her time and is annoyed when others interrupt her, having a wicked tongue when anyone so much as inconveniences her. She is determined to develop her skills as a form of independence so she no longer has to burden her parents, whom she loves dearly.

In truth, Lysithea is an exceptionally hard-working, studious girl. She humbly states that her skills do not come from natural talents, but pure determination and intense application in to her studies everyday. Lysithea's accomplishments let her become the youngest student at the Officers Academy, though this status led to a chip on her shoulder as she dislikes the fact that others treat her like a child due to her age. More often than not, she merely perceives this rather than it actually being the case, but she makes it clear that others could do what she does if they gave similar application to her.

For all her attempts to act like an adult, Lysithea holds onto some childish quirks such as being terrified of ghost and is easily riled up when the subject is brought up. She is extremely fond of sweets, primarily cake, referring to it as "divine essence of the heavens". She treats it as if it was currency, as shown in a conversation with Felix where she gives him some to buy his silence. Try as she might, Lysithea tries to keep this fondness under wraps, but she often surrenders to her fondness and can be coaxed if it's used as an incentive.

Lysithea's impatience is mainly attributed to the horrifying experiments she endured from Those Who Slither in the Dark who implanted a second Crest in her. While she was one of the rare survivors of the procedure, it left her with an extremely shortened lifespan, her hair losing all pigment and was given only a few years to live by Imperial Year 1180. Her desire for independence and separation from her parents is in reality to spare them from having to witness her horrifying fate.

Compared to Edelgard, Lysithea is more open about her tragic childhood, revealing it to others in a majority of her supports. Due to this, she is also able to identify Edelgard as a victim of the same mages, despite Edelgard not telling her about her childhood.

Lysithea has accepted her horrific fate, believing that she would have no place in the world. In the supports which lead to an ending that restores her lifespan, she realizes that her future is not set in stone, and resolves to fight on no matter what.

Her dual crests are a closely guarded secret and few, if any, are aware of it. She displays disdain for Crests as a whole and would rather have been born without her natural Crest. She also resents her peerage and willingly gives it up in most endings. In some endings, she is able to have her second crest removed, restoring her lifespan and living a happy ending. In others, she lives out a short, but happy and peaceful life. Lysithea is a playable character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. She is a student at the Officers Academy who is from the Leicester Alliance and is a member of the Golden Deer. She possesses both a Minor Crest of Charon and a Major Crest of Gloucester.

Lysithea is the eldest daughter and heir to House Ordelia. When she was two years old, her family suffered retribution from the Adrestian Empire for their role in House Hrym's revolt. She is a magical prodigy whose talents developed at an early age.

In retaliation for House Ordelia answering House Hrym's call for aid, the Empire gained temporary control over the family while the Alliance turned a blind eye to avoid confrontation. The Empire killed key members of House Ordelia and replaced them with Imperial officials. Some of those officials were mages of Those Who Slither in the Dark, who then imprisoned the Ordelia children and began conducting Crest experiments on them. Lysithea's parents were powerless to stop them and could only watch in horror as their children perished one by one. Lysithea alone survived the experiments and gained two Crests: a Minor Crest of Charon and a Major Crest of Gloucester. The mages were pleased at their success, but because the procedure of implanting two Crests had dramatically shortened Lysithea's lifespan, they lost interest and departed.

Due to her truncated life and the suffering her family had endured, Lysithea resolved to bring its affairs to an end. After completing her education and ensuring that her parents could live comfortably and in peace, she planned to eschew having children and dissolve House Ordelia.

Lysithea enrolled in Garreg Mach Monastery Officers Academy in Imperial Year 1180, and joins the Golden Deer. She was the youngest student admitted. After the end of the Academy phase, she returns to Ordelia to assist her parents with governmental affairs. Lysithea uses tomes as her main weapons.