Noire

Daughter of Tharja. Timid and pessimistic, but turns into a totally different person when enraged. Appears in Fire Emblem Awakening. Name: Noire Gender: Female Race: Human Birthday: October 7 Relatives: Unnamed grandparents, Tharja (Mother) Occupation: Members of the Shepards Weapon: Bows </Personal Information> Noire is a curvy young woman with pale complexion, green eyes and short black hair. Her attire consists of a green tank top that has a hole that shows her cleavage, a thin headband with a green feather decorated on it, green baggy pants, brown boots with straps to her brown belt, brown gloves and a silver arm guard on her left arm. Being used as a guinea pig for her mother's curses during her childhood, Noire has developed a fearful, defeatist and pessimistic personality, usually being too timid to voice any opinions and easily intimidated, with supports with Brady and Laurent revealing that she is anemic, tending to get fatigued easily and pass out as a result.

However, seemingly due to a talisman from her mother, Noire has something of a split personality, with her other self acting more brash and aggressive and having no problem saying exactly what's on her mind while yelling, changing between both sides randomly mid-conversation, and leaving others bewildered. In some cases, it is implied that she herself developed her alternate personality as a coping mechanism. This is emphasized by the fact that she inherited some of the same obsessive traits as her mother (though nowhere near the same degree), as in her support with Inigo, she uses her bow to scare women away from him.

Noire dislikes having to rely on others because she does not wish to stay quiet and insecure, apologizing to Severa for needing her help for nearly everything in their supports, lamenting her fragile health to Brady, and telling Yarne in their talks that while she is terrified of battle but forces herself to fight, as she doesn't want to lose anyone or be a burden.

With her mother being emotionally distant and considerably abusive to her despite her father's attempts to protect her, Noire's relationship with her mother is strained, as she resents and lives in fear of her, and in her supports with Female Robin, she will start latching onto her as a mother figure and outright states she thinks she'd make a way better mother than Tharja did. Despite this, Noire constantly tries to seek approval from her mother, going so far as to learn how to use Dark Magic in combat by copying her movements. By the end of her support conversations with her mother, she seems to have made amends with her, as Tharja explains that her future self's intentions were more affectionate than they seemed, and tells her daughter that she loves her, much to Noire's delight.

Oddly, she seems to have a fixation for gold, as she often asks for it as gifts in her relationship event tiles. She is also shown to be a rather talented confectioner in her supports with Owain.

She is the fastest to escape from the army. In the future, whenever Tharja developed a new curse, Noire was usually the unlucky test subject, along with her father sometimes. She would dread these sessions with her mother and, in turn, loved it whenever her father would stop Tharja's experiments to take her home. Noire became timid and meek as a result of many years of testing. To counteract this, Tharja developed a special talisman that created a much more brash and somewhat violent persona for Noire whenever she wore it. With the threat of Risen becoming too much, her parents committed to fighting off Risen, and both died protecting her. Noire was given Tharja's wedding ring, which she wore from then on. Noire joined Lucina and the other children during their journey into the past to prevent the ruinous future.

In her paralogue, Noire is captured by the bandit Ezra to be sold as a slave. As luck would have it, Chrom and his army were nearby. While in her hiding place, she finds a Steel Bow and leaves to fight off the bandits until she joins up with Chrom's army and defeats the bandits together. After the battle, she goes to talk to Tharja and shows her the ring, the same ring Tharja has. Tharja is suspicious and threatens to curse her. Noire slips on her talisman, and her personality drastically changes. She declares herself to be Tharja's daughter. Tharja asks about the talisman, which Noire explains is the source of her more bold nature. Tharja takes it away, which shocks Noire as she relies on it to be strong. But Tharja assures her daughter by leaving Noire's retribution to her and to live as a normal girl.

After the war, if Noire is unmarried, she decides to stay with Tharja and work as her assistant. Some wonder if she did this to protect her infant self or spend the time she never had with her mother. Noire uses bows as her weapons.