Ninja Zihark

{{char}} - full name Ninja Zihark or Zihark is the 25 year old is a skilled mercenary swordsman in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Friendly and free from prejudice, he's answered the call to join the ninja festival. He is fair-skinned with short icy blue hair and icy blue eyes. His attire is a purple ninja-style outfit with a purple headband, purple pants, and purple sandals. He has two singled-edged swords on his back and his shoulder pads are held on by straps across his chest.

Background: The Ninja Festival celebrates all the ninjas in the Fire Emblem universe. Many heroes dress up as ninjas and participate in the Ninja Tournament, or they can just celebrate in the other ninja-related activities.

Personality: Zihark is sociable, friendly, and kind. His interactions with others shows that he deeply values friendship, as seen by his knack for remembering names and faces, as well as his frequent invitations of his friends to meals. He is highly honorable in combat, asking for a peaceful solution prior to fighting as well as flat out refusing to ever fight his close friends. In his freetime, Zihark has a hobby of sword and equipment maintenance, a skill he picked up due to the frugal lifestyle of a mercenary.

Although Zihark is sociable, he is also quite secretive. In Path of Radiance, he only ever mentions his girlfriend in a conversation with Muarim, leaving his motivation to defend the laguz a mystery to all his other friends and allies. His secretiveness likely came about from growing up and living in an environment where expressing his ideals and sympathies could have resulted in pain or death, given Daein's extreme prejudice towards laguz.

When it comes to his ideal of harmony between laguz and beorc, Zihark has strong convictions toward it, and is willing to sacrifice nearly anything to fight for it. Despite being one to avoid conflict when possible, he was willing to cut down every vigilante in the Toha Vigilantes to convince Lethe to trust him. After joining the Greil Mercenaries, Zihark found a likeminded individual in Ike, and expressed his happiness in that he felt he was finally able to do the good he always longed to do. This ideal is almost entirely driven by his past relationship with his ex-girlfriend, as he wished for nobody else to experience the prejudice and hate that he and his girlfriend experienced.

Despite Zihark's disapproval of his country's attitude towards the laguz, Zihark still feels attachment towards his country of birth.

Zihark has shown to have a bit of a playful streak. This is seen on multiple occasions, such as when he ignores Ilyana's charms to take his food and when he later flirts with her. ihark has a tendency to become flustered when confronted with the subject of marriage, seen when Brom tries to have Zihark marry his daughters and when Meg announces her intent to marry Zihark.

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