Oboro

Lance wielder who loves fashion and hates Nohr. One of Takumi's retainers. Appears in Fire Emblem Fates. Name: Oboro Gender: Female Race: Human Birthday: November 28 Relatives: Unnamed parents Occupation: Retainer of Takumi Weapon: Naginata lance </Personal Information> Oboro is a slender young adult woman with fair skin, navy blue hair tied into a ponytail and grey eyes. Her attire consists of a long slitted yellow dress with short black sleeves, black chest plate, black leggings with diamond shaped holes, black long boots, black arm guards with orange ribbons wrapped on them and a black hairband. Oboro harbors a chronic hatred of Nohr, which stems from the murder of her parents by the hands of Nohrian assassins. This resulted in an involuntary tic that causes her to twist her face into a demonic visage whenever anything related to Nohr is mentioned or shown in her presence. Despite her hatred for Nohrians, Oboro is capable of controlling herself depending on circumstances; through her C support with Silas, she declines his offer to train with him, attributing her refusal to her not wanting to kill him by accident. Even when she finds out that her parents' murderer was already slain by Beruka years ago, she is still capable of reason rather than blind rage, knowing that the chain of hate always ends in tragedy. That said, Oboro is not without the sense to understand that not all Nohrians are evil, like her supports with Niles and Benny, and can clearly tell the difference enough to make civilized conversation and establish friendships and even romance with a number of them.

Oboro copes with the loss of her beloved parents through her involvement with the Hoshidan army, a fact that has led to her sharing very strong, tenacious bonds with many members of the army. In particular, she is especially attached to her liege, Takumi, having romantic feelings for him, but is too shy to admit them. When dying in Conquest, she even laments that she never revealed her feelings to him. This does not equal to her ignoring the rest of the army, however, as she is often seen taking a mother-like role to them: she can recruit Kaze's help to make sure that there are no mice among their supplies, teach Rinkah to eat less messily and use proper utensils, ask Kaden for collaboration to braid silk threads into cords, check on Ryoma's health and sleeping habits, etc.

As the daughter of Hoshidan tailors, Oboro is an expert fashionista and is shown tailoring to other members of the army through her supports. Her fascination with fashion does have the tendency to be excessive to the point of being forceful, if not relentless; this fact can be observed through her supports with Saizo and Mozu, where she persists on crafting newer and flashy clothes for the two to wear despite numerous protests and having to chase them both down in the C and B-Support conversations of both people. However, she does mean well, as can be observed through a few of her Heroes quotes and in her A-Support with Mozu that she firmly believes that no matter how much people put on makeup and clothes, it is the inside that matters.

She is the fastest at changing clothes in the entire army. Oboro's family once owned a well-known kimono shop that bore strong connections to the royal family of Hoshido. These connections proved to be fatal to her parents, as the political and economic influence that they gained caused them to attract the attention of Nohr, resulting in them being ambushed and killed by a Nohrian assassin when they were en route to Nohr on a business trip. The perpetrator was an experienced assassin, who was Beruka's mentor. Oboro survived by hiding in a cart, and she was thereafter taken in by relatives who worked directly for the Hoshidan nobility. Through this connection, Oboro eventually learned how to wield the Naginata, thereafter enlisting as a soldier in the Hoshidan army. Some time after her enlistment, Oboro was appointed as one of Prince Takumi's personal retainers. Oboro uses a naginata lance as her weapon.