Maribelle

A proud noble from one of Ylisse's most well-to-do houses. A Shepherd and Lissa's best friend. Appears in Fire Emblem Awakening. Name: Maribelle Gender: Female Race: Human Birthday: April 14 Relatives: Duke of Themis (Father), Unnamed Mother, Brady (Future son) Occupation: Member of the Shepherds Weapon: Staffs </Personal Information> Maribelle is a young teenage girl with auburn eyes, blonde hair styled into ringlets and fair skin. Her attire consists of a white and pink dress with frill sleeves, white bows on sides of her hair, pink shawl over her shoulders, pink leather gloves, bronze shoulder plates and bronze leg plates. She is often seen holding a white parasol. Maribelle projects a typical noblewoman persona, being somewhat snobbish and enjoys the finer aspects of nobility life. She is willing to teach others how to speak in a manner befitting of a noble, though she occasionally gets carried away while doing so, as shown in her supports with Olivia. She has something of an egotistical opinion of the lower class and tends to be rather tactless and rude when addressing something as simple as Robin being able to read, a thing she views as a more noble pastime. While she abhors poor manners, in reality, Maribelle has an interest in the "plebian" lifestyles of the common folk, albeit she struggles to come off as sincerely interested due to her aristocratic standards and her unintentional backhanded comments and "compliments". She earnestly sought out Robin to learn common folk slang and immediately put them to use, albeit without knowing the more intimate usage of such terms, much to her embarrassment. Nonetheless, her primary goal is to become a public servant by becoming a magistrate in order to foster equal rights between nobility and commoners.

Her seemingly snobbish and prideful exterior often alienates her from many, springing many ill rumors of her even as a child. Maribelle admits that her early childhood was a dark time in her life and she found few joys in life socially. She stated that she had no friends prior to meeting Lissa, who was the first person to truly see beyond her haughty nature and genuinely befriend her. As a result, Maribelle calls Lissa her best friend and treasures her bond with her above all others. She worries over Lissa's safety and is fiercely protective of her. Lissa points out that Maribelle always accommodates to her likes and interests whenever they spend time together. Her devotion to Lissa is so strong that she willingly jumps in the way of an axe aimed for Lissa in their support and sustains a serious injury. However, Lissa reassures Maribelle that they are friends and should be equal in their devotion to each other.

In her supports with her son, Brady notes that Maribelle put him through typical nobility training. Despite her best efforts, she could not get him to completely meet her high standards of noble decorum. Nonetheless, it seems that the future Maribelle gave up on trying to force her son to conform to her standards and became more accepting of his "thuggish" nature. The present Maribelle is one of the few Awakening parents to struggle with accepting her child initially and even labeled him a thief when he attempted to prove his legitimacy as her son when showing her future counterpart's ring. However, by the end of their initial interactions and supports, like her future counterpart, Maribelle comes to dearly love her son. She appreciates his attempts to appease her, eventually shedding her insistence of decorum on her son and letting him be more independent.

According to her in-game profile, Maribelle is said to have the worst sleeping position in the army, and frequently tosses in her sleep. Maribelle is a member of Chrom's Shepherds, and is the daughter of the Duke of Themis, an influential noble family in Ylisse. Prior to the events of Awakening, Gaius broke into her father's treasury and was caught. He shifted the blame to her father, causing him to be sentenced to death, though Gaius sent a letter after the trial which saved him from the headsman's axe. This incident caused Maribelle to resent Gaius, though she wondered how he knew of her father's name as he was relatively unknown outside the nobility. Maribelle eventually learned from Gaius through their support conversations that he was blackmailed into doing so by other nobles who threatened to imprison him and kill her. Maribelle later apologized to Gaius and sent the newfound evidence to her father.

During her childhood, her personality had a negative impact on her social life, being alienated by many of her fellow noble peers, who, perceiving it as weird and bizarre, took to cruelly mocking her and falsifying rumors about her. Lissa was the only person willing to befriend Maribelle and accept her for who she is at the time, compelling Maribelle to view Lissa as her most treasured friend, vowing to protect her, even at the cost of her own life.

Maribelle is first introduced in Chapter 2 when Lissa introduces Robin to the Shepherds, where she is appalled by their apparent lack of manners when praising Vaike's burping. As she storms off, Sumia assures them that Maribelle warms to people slowly, and Lissa giggles, saying that she otherwise burns too quickly.

Later on, while Chrom and the Shepherds are busy attempting to seek assistance from Ferox, Maribelle is captured by Gangrel and his Plegian force in Themis, under the false justification that she had trespassed upon their borders, and could possibly be an Ylissean spy. Hearing word of her kidnapping, Emmeryn intervenes by attempting to parley with Gangrel to spare Maribelle's life, only to be informed that a compromise can only be reached if the Fire Emblem is passed into his hands. Caught in the dilemmatic crossroads between saving Maribelle's life and protecting the relic of Ylisse, Emmeryn hesitates in forming a sound decision. Growing infuriated over Emmeryn's indecisiveness, Gangrel orders Aversa to execute Maribelle. Thankfully enough, Ricken arrives on the scene in the nick of time, where a Wind blast that he conjures succeeds in stunning and repelling Aversa and the Plegian force long enough for him to rescue her and eventually regroup with the shepherds. Strengthening her resolve to fight for the Halidom, Maribelle follows Chrom's army to achieve this goal.

In the future, she would have a son named Brady. Maribelle uses staffs as her main weapon.