Elise

Princess of Nohr who adores her siblings. A bit childish, but has a pure heart and keen eyes. Appears in Fire Emblem Fates. Name: Elise Gender: Female Race: Human Birthday: March 19 Relatives: Garon (Father), Unnamed Mother, Arete (Step-Mother), Xander (Oldest Half-Brother), Camilla (Older Half-Sister), Leo (Older Half-Brother), Azura (Step-Sister), Corrin (Adoptive Sibling), Siegbert (Nephew), Forrest (Nephew) Occupation: Princess of Nohr Weapon: Staffs </Personal Information> Elise is a young short preteen girl with long blonde hair tied into twintails adorned with black ribbons, purple eyes and light skin. Her attire consists of a black and silver dress, large black gloves, a pink bowtie with a white rose on the center and black long boots with pink ribbons wrapping around them. As the youngest of the Nohrian siblings, Elise has very little memories of the hostile nature of the Nohrian royal court. As a result, Elise's personality is defined by a pronounced lack of jadedness or cynicism. She is often described as "the light of Nohr" for her innocent, pure, and sweet demeanor. Her spirit of positivity is a source of morale for her comrades despite the many horrors the conflict between Nohr and Hoshido bring. She is playful and eager to make friends with other members of the army and has an especially tight bond with her childhood friend and personal retainer Effie.

Elise adores her older siblings as she supports Xander's efforts and vision for Nohr and encourages him to consider peaceful approaches, rather than the Nohrian standard of "force must be met with force" mentality. She admires Camilla's mature charm and wants to be like her. However, Camilla admires her positivity and encourages her to simply be the person she has always been. She dyed strands of her hair purple out of affection and admiration to Camilla. With Leo she admires his intellect and usually goes to him when she needs a question answered.

Though they are adopted, she adores her older sibling Corrin. As such, she is unrestrained in showing her affection for them, even hurling herself upon Corrin into a tender hug right from her very introduction. Despite being ordered not to accompany Corrin on their first mission by King Garon in Conquest, Elise openly defied the order and followed them, even assisting them. Likewise in Revelation, Elise excitedly joined Corrin without much need for persuasion to their cause, unlike her other siblings. She has always viewed them as an integral part of the family and hated seeing Xander and Corrin duel in Birthright. It is this love for her family that Elise put herself between Xander's finishing blow onto Corrin in a desperate bid to end the conflict between her precious family at the cost of her life.

Unlike her other siblings, Elise has a much more positive outlook on her Hoshidan royal sibling counterpart Sakura. Even when on opposing sides, she shows a much friendlier disposition compared to her older siblings and wanted to be friends with her. Their support has them bonding over their talents in music with Elise playing a violin and Sakura playing a koto. While her siblings have memories of Azura, she has none and she immediately wants to bond with her when they are recruited together. Though disappointed that Azura initially did not share this sentiment due to her own circumstances, her persistence won over Azura and she even received a kimono gifted to Azura by Queen Mikoto as an apology gift for hurting her initial feelings.

Elise is pained by the fact that she is the child of a concubine and that she was merely sired as a means to gain favor with Garon. The fact that her mother only seemed to care for Garon in her final moments despite Elise being next to her caused further hurt. She also has very little memories of her father and seemingly fears him in his current state. Nonetheless, Elise received much love from her wet nurse Cassita, whom she shares a true mother-daughter relationship and can be seen as the true source of Elise's spirit and cheer.

For all of her childish antics at times and innocence, Elise displays great observational skill and astuteness, adeptly adjusting her behavior to suit the occasion. Elise holds an altruistic approach with conflict and believes that Nohr needs to be lead by a person who can rule with both strength and compassion. She is more than willing to heal anyone, regardless of their past or their current action. Despite a sharp warning from Xander, she chose to heal enemy pirates. When they ultimately abandoned their captain as a result of her benevolence, it caused even Xander a moment of introspection on his beliefs.

Like all of her half-siblings, Elise despises all of her father's retainers Iago, Hans and Zola. When Iago attempts to kill Corrin for sparing Hinoka, Elise steps in, and along with the Nohrian royals, stands up to him by vowing to kill Iago for his cruel, disgraceful, and cowardly ways, even stated she always hated Iago for attempting to kill Corrin many times and becomes grateful when Leo executes Iago, knowing he will not harm Corrin any longer.

She is the best at remembering birthdays in the army. Elise is the youngest daughter and the youngest child of five in the Nohrian royal family and the daughter of King Garon and an unnamed concubine. Much like Camilla and Leo, Elise was unfortunately used as a tool by her mother in order to gain favor with Garon after the death of Katerina, his first wife. Elise was by her mother when she was on her death bed, but to her anguish, Elise's mother only seemed concerned about Garon who was not even present in the room and not Elise.

Despite her dysfunctional relationship with her mother, Elise's childhood was not mired in darkness. She was wet-nursed by a kindly matron Cassita whom Elise views as her true mother figure. She would exude a cheerful energy in the otherwise dour and cold Castle Krakenburg where she was raised, become the beloved younger sister to Xander, Camilla, and Leo. Much to her joy, she later gained an older adopted sibling in Corrin. Alongside her elder siblings, they would make frequent visits to the Northern Fortress where they were living at.

Elise also spent her youth getting into occasional mischief. One such instance involved Elise sneaking out of Castle Krakenburg in order to amuse herself within the underground city. There, she met a young girl, Effie, and the two quickly became fast friends. Upon returning to the capital, the two were almost apprehended by the palace guards, only to be unhanded when Elise reluctantly revealed her identity. Following this incident, Elise was unfortunately prohibited from leaving the castle without a chaperone, a fact that forced her to part ways with Effie. Several years came to pass before Effie appeared before Elise once again, this time outfitted in full armor. When questioned, Effie revealed that she had joined the Nohrian royal knights in hopes of reuniting with her best friend, and Elise immediately responded by getting approval to make Effie her personal retainer. She would also later be assigned Arthur as a retainer. Elise uses staffs as her weapon.