Henry

A dark mage of Plegia with a bright grin and a taste for the gruesome in battle. Appears in Fire Emblem Awakening. Name: Henry Gender: Male Race: Human Birthday: November 13 Relatives: Unnamed parents Occupation: Member of the Shepards Weapon: Tomes </Personal Information> Henry is a young man with pale skin, short white hair and his eyes are always closed. His attire consists of a gray shirt with black sleeves, black pants with a purple cloth wrapped around it, black and purple cape with golden eye-like patterns, and black shoes with golden parts. Approaching every situation with a constant, yet eerily cheerful expression, Henry is an unorthodox Dark Mage with a bright enthusiasm towards bloodshed and war that contrasts with the usually dour nature of the art. He is prone to fits of laughter and glee whenever carnage or the macabre is involved. He is utterly fearless as a result and does not fear death, even finding it, should it happen to him, particularly cathartic.

He is amoral, notably being the one to alert Panne of the assassination attempt on Emmeryn, simply because he thought that Ylisse was weak and the war would be too short. Many of his actions are simply on a whim and to satiate his odd desires for battle and death. He initially does not see any issue with sacrificing innocents if it will win the war, but does amend his ways after Robin tells him not to. He states he will obey the orders of his superiors, but also claims he will outright ignore anything he finds stupid. At his core, Henry is not evil, but severely maladjusted.

In the localization, he is a jokester, making puns and macabre jokes often at other people's expense. He takes life in a carefree manner and hardly gets serious, even making jokes in inappropriate situations. He is presented as simple, but a bit of an oddball compared to the rest of the cast. In the original Japanese version, he is much more subdued, mainly laughing at inopportune times, and has difficulty expressing his emotions properly. His natural smile is, in reality, a coping mechanism; he believes if he smiles, he won't feel bad, and he doesn't much care to dwell on sad things.

Henry does exhibit positive traits in his supports as he is capable of caring for others. Maribelle at one point describes him as "having the oddest ways of putting a person's mind at ease" due to his cavalier yet upbeat attitudes concerning mortality. While Henry has "happy" memories of his time in the Plegian army, even telling Ricken some tidbits of some of their leadership, Henry had no true loyalty to it. Even his association with the Grimleal is treated with nonchalant dismissal, and he prefers to live in the present rather than his past. Whatever it was that he lacked in Plegia was apparently found in the Shepherds as he becomes loyal to the cause, if only because they assign him tasks that interest him. However, he does admit to Ricken that he would feel genuinely sad and angry if any of his Shepherd comrades were to die, though he cannot explain why he feels so differently about them compared to his "allies" in the past. He does go on to become a relatively normal father and dearly loves his family if he gets married. He does truly desire to help and make people feel better, especially his comrades, if only in his own special way.

Despite his cheery and fearless nature, Henry has abandonment issues due to his childhood. Not only does he beg Panne not to leave him in their supports, he makes a point of reassuring Nowi in their S-support that she'll no longer be alone if they're together and have children (as Nowi also fears being left behind due to her long life span). He admits to having lived some time in the wilderness and has an affinity for animals, especially crows. According to Panne, Henry has an "odd feral air."

Henry has the lowest heart rate out of all the people in the army. When Henry was a child, his parents wanted nothing to do with him for unknown reasons, and had him sent to an elite magic school to get rid of him (in the Japanese version, he was sent to an orphanage). The institution that he was sent to was a cruel and neglectful place, where they carried out painful punishments, barely taking any action when he accidentally set himself on fire. There, Henry endured great hardships, and as a result, he ended up becoming slow to feel any pain.

Due to being neglected, Henry enjoyed being in the company of animals, who all seemed to be attracted to him many times for some reason. As a child, he was particularly close to a wolf, but one day, when the wolf attempted to visit him, it was killed by the villagers, and Henry found the wolf's body surrounded by other villagers. This made Henry snap and slaughter everyone out of blind rage.

Eventually, he grew into a powerful user of sorcery in Plegia, which earned him quite a reputation, even to Tharja, though Henry's identity was obscured to others due to always having a murder of crows around him. Henry had also befriended Mustafa and his family, where he would often be invited over, and Henry would be given a bag of peaches by Mustafa, since Henry reminded him of his son. Mustafa also wanted Henry to consider himself part of the family. Henry had also gotten to know Campari and Vasto, though for all of them, Henry never felt a true attachment as friends.

When the war started between Ylisse and Plegia, Henry had learned about the assassination plot of Emmeryn led by Validar. Feeling that such a thing would ruin some of the fun of war, Henry simply decided on a whim to inform Panne, a Taguel, of the plot, which resulted in her making her way to Ylisstol to save Emmeryn to repay the debt of her tribe.

Later on, after Emmeryn's sacrifice, and some Plegian soldiers began to defect but were stamped down, Henry later on defects himself, though not truly because of Emmeryn's sacrifice, and began attacking his former comrades while laughing maniacally during a battle against Chrom and his Shepherds.

Afterwards, Henry later encountered "Marth", who had been holding off a large number of Plegian soldiers by herself, and began to assist her, giving her the help she needed to defeat her foes. After they were all killed, Henry informed Marth that there were even more enemies that would be heading towards Chrom and his group, but it was far too late for either of them to go and help them. Instead, Henry offered Marth a spell allow someone's voice to be heard by Chrom and the others without being there themselves. After deciding, Marth chose to have Chrom and the others hear the sickly Robin's voice, where their words allowed Chrom and the others to gain the morale they needed to overcome their odds and defeat their enemies.

Henry would not resurface for almost two years after the war with Plegia, and decides to join Chrom and the Shepherds after they are ambushed by a group of Risen sent by Validar. As a sudden flock of crows surrounds Chrom and his army, Henry appears, offering to give Chrom and his forces aid. While his sudden appearance and Plegian origin immediately put suspicion on him, Chrom nonetheless allows him to join the fight. Henry remains a member of Chrom's army from then on, simply to find some enjoyment in the chaos of war.

After the war, Henry is said to have "made a clean cut with history, never to stain its pages again." Henry uses tomes as his weapon. He mainly uses dark magic.