Bernadetta is a playable character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. She is a student of the Officers Academy who hails from the Adrestian Empire, and is therefore a member of the Black Eagles. She is also of noble birth and a member of House Varley. She possesses a minor Crest of Saint Indech.

== Appearance == Bernadetta is around 17-18 years old and is approximately 4'11" to 5'5" (150-165cm) tall. She has a light skin tone and short, somewhat messy purple hair styled in a bob with bangs. She is wearing a black military-style jacket with gold accents over what appears to be a blue hooded top or shirt. This is paired with a short black pleated skirt, black shorts or bloomers underneath, and black thigh-high socks or boots with gold bands near the top, finished with black shoes.

== Personality == Bernadetta is a skittish, timid, and reclusive girl, a result mostly because of the suffering she endured at the hands of her father for years. Her father, obsessed with money, only saw Bernadetta as Crest-bearing bait for a rich husband instead of his daughter. To that end, he subjected her to years of "training," which included tying her to a chair and leaving her there all day, challenging her to stay quiet. This sustained mental torture badly affected Bernadetta, developing an intense fear of her father, almost everyone in general, and essentially everything in existence.

Bernadetta suffers from a persecution complex: false beliefs or perceptions in which a person believes that they are treated with malicious intent, hostility, or harassment, hence the name of her personal skill, and she suffers from a compulsive need to run and hide whenever possible. She deeply fears other people, and it is extremely difficult for her to trust them, even if they show her patience and kindness. It is common for her to fall into extreme panic and anxiety just by having someone approach her to talk, as she often thinks that people want to kill her. She can be so absorbed by her fears that she can freeze on the spot, lose all sense of her surroundings, and in extreme cases, faint, as shown with Hubert. She often jumps to delusional conclusions about what people think of her, and can even be suspicious of honest compliments, such as when Linhardt complimented her lifestyle. As her outbursts usually only serve to annoy the other person, combined with her low self-esteem, it often results in her apologizing for things she did not do and insulting herself in the process.

As a result of her deep fear of people, Bernadetta spends nearly all of her time in her room, pursuing her hobbies and interests while protecting herself from the outside world. If something requires her attention, she will usually speak through her door rather than opening it as a measure of self-protection. She can even feign illness when she doesn't want to talk to other people. She is also noticeably defensive about her lifestyle and how no one else understands her motives, though she acknowledges that she does need to go outside every once in a while, as shown with Ferdinand.

Bernadetta suffers from severely low self-esteem, a result of constant scorn from her father. She often insults and berates herself in the third person when she messes up something, and commonly calls herself useless, stupid, and unmarriageable. In addition, she has trouble accepting help from those who offer it to her, because of both her persecution complex and her being convinced that she is a lost cause and not worth it, as shown with Ingrid. Ironically, she's actually quite talented in various things such as drawing, playing an instrument, and sewing, as shown with Linhardt, Raphael, and Leonie. She also greatly admires her classmates, whom she views as fearless warriors compared to herself, as shown with Edelgard.

Despite her innate fears and paranoia, Bernadetta does truly want to make friends, though she often does so in very socially clumsy ways, a result of her constant self-imposed isolation, as shown with Petra. Surprisingly, however, Bernadetta has a playful side to her, especially around flowers, carnivorous plants, and typically intimidating certain people, such as Felix. And when she isn't panicking, shutting herself away, or wallowing in self-depreciation, she can actually be quite gentle, sweet, even confident, and extremely easy to get along with. She is also fond of flowers, and particularly of carnivorous plants, as they are able to live in one place and wait for their meals to come to them, which she describes as her dream life.

While on the battlefield, Bernadetta often acts on compulsion, running and hiding whenever she possibly can rather than fighting. If she does have to fight, she prefers to do so from the backline, and can be very surprised and shocked when she actually defeats an enemy.

Bernadetta is notably at ease around people who remind her of her uncle, the only adult in her life who treated her with genuine warmth. Alois is one such individual, and he was so surprised that she spoke to him without a hint of panic that he mistook her for someone else. In addition, she is also able to settle down around Byleth, although she does not know the reason why. In Three Hopes, Bernadetta is able to get along with Marianne very well, with their supports mentioning how comfortable they are talking to each other as opposed to recusing themselves when dealing with everyone else, in part due to both having many shared interests and personality traits, and even keep trying to overcome their shared reclusiveness while trying to converse with one another. Her Brave variation in Heroes also has her talking positively about her mother.

By the time the war rolled around, Bernadetta had improved significantly, even if she hadn't completely gotten over her fear of strangers or her compulsive need to run and hide. On the battlefield, she no longer runs and cowers but instead accepts her duty to fight, even if she doesn't necessarily enjoy it. Socially, her panic attacks have subsided in quantity and severity, and in Crimson Flower, she makes attempts to finally be outside of her room. In addition, her self-esteem has also gradually improved, leaving her more confident in herself than before. She even goes to actively encourage herself to do better.

Bernadetta likes reading, drawing, music, embroidery, unusual creatures, stuffed animals, and solitude. She dislikes speaking to people, imposing figures, and overbearing fathers.

== Trivia ==

• Bernadetta is a variant of the French name Bernadette, a female version of Bernard, meaning "brave bear." The French Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who was said to have visions of the Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Lourdes), popularized the name.
• The interior of Bernadetta's dorm room is decorated with unique items, including rolls of fabric and a teddy bear. Bernadetta has a unique post-timeskip battle model as an Archer and Sniper. Otherwise, she uses purple colors for her classes. She is the only female to do so, meaning that all of her battle models are technically unique. She shares this distinction with Lorenz, Leonie, Constance, and Yuri.
• In Bernadetta's second Cipher card, the chair where the teddy bear rests is slightly different than the one in-game.
• Bernadetta bears a striking resemblance to Katarina's design in Awakening.
• Excluding Byleth, Bernadetta is tied with Lysithea and Sylvain for the highest number of support chains with 17 total, but only if DLCs are included.
• Bernadetta, Hilda, Anna, and Hapi are tied with having the highest number of favorite gifts, at a total of seven.
• In a survey conducted by Nintendo DREAM Magazine, Bernadetta placed 8th with 10.9% of the vote overall and ranked 5th with 15.1% among those who completed the game in the character popularity poll for Three Houses. The male-female vote ratio was 1:2.
• In the second survey conducted by Nintendo DREAM Magazine, Bernadetta placed 7th in the character popularity poll for Three Houses. The male-female vote ratio was 1:3. She ranked 7th among those who completed the game with 134 points.
• In a survey conducted by Famitsu Magazine, Bernadetta won 1st place for females and ranked 4th overall with 1,083 votes in the character popularity poll for Three Houses. She also placed 6th among S-Supports chosen in the first playthrough with 179 votes.
• In the third survey conducted by Nintendo DREAM Magazine, Bernadetta placed 10th in the character popularity poll for Three Houses. The male-female vote ratio was 1:3. She ranked 10th among those who completed the game with 105 points.
• In the fourth survey conducted by Nintendo DREAM Magazine, Bernadetta placed 11th in the character popularity poll for Three Houses. The male-female vote ratio was 1:4. She ranked 11th among those who completed the game with 63 points.
• In the fifth survey conducted by Nintendo DREAM Magazine, Bernadetta placed 11th in the character popularity poll for Three Houses. The male-female vote ratio was 1:4. She ranked 11th among those who completed the game with 8.7% of the vote.
• In coming in first overall in the 2024 Choose Your Legends ballot, Bernadetta also became the first non-Lord Black Eagle to win the ballot.

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