Owain

Lissa's son who tends to be overly theatrical. He loves to give weapons dramatic names. Appears in Fire Emblem Awakening. Name: Owain Gender: Male Race: Human Birthday: July Age: 15 Relatives: Altea Royalty (Ancestors), First Exalt (Ancestor), Unnamed Grandfather, Emmeryn (Aunt), Chrom (Uncle), Lissa (Mother), Lucina (Cousin), Ophelia (Daughter) Occupation: Member of Shepards Weapon: Sword </Personal Information> Owain is a young man with short spiky light blonde hair, gray eyes and light skin. His attire consists of a beige tunic with a red sash on his waist and covered with 2 brown belts, white pants, black long boots, black arm guards and beige fingerless gloves. Described as a "colorful" character by Lucina, Owain has a habit of speaking in an overly theatrical fashion that most find tiresome and some find endearing. His over the top theatrics suggests a need to stand out. Always eager to engage others in duels, Owain attributes this to his sword hand craving battle, even though this is, in actuality, due to his desire to prove his mettle and improve his combat skills. Moreover, when facing people with actual bloodlust, such as Navarre, Owain quickly drops the act and desperately tries to diffuse the situation upon realizing that he went too far with it.

He gives his weapons and equipment names out of a belief that these give them more power and is not shy from shouting impressive sounding attack names in the heat of battle as a means of pumping himself up. Many of these names are direct names to past Fire Emblem titles and individuals, albeit he has no knowledge of the "coincidental" significance of these names. Owain's relationship with his parents is equally strange and devoted as well, as in his supports with Lissa, he thinks she is doting to a fault, ironically claiming it's as if she lives in her own fantasy world. His father ponders why Owain goes on and on with his theatrical antics when neither of him nor his wife have ever been anything like that. However, due to Owain's parents and the rest of the exalted bloodline being viewed as heroes to Owain, he vows to protect them.

Such behavior comes as a strength and as a flaw, as in his supports with Lucina, it is revealed that he is very skilled in weapons maintenance, as he notices flaws on the Parallel Falchion immediately when she shows it to him due to his related hobby. On the other hand, he is somewhat too preoccupied with the idea of being a hero and seeking the fabled sword Missiletainn in his quest, it makes him unaware that it is not the Mystletainn until much later. Yet, despite his tendency for melodramatic flourishes, Owain is known to be able to subdue this tendency and adopt a manner of speech that is considered to be more normal and easier to comprehend. According to his supports with Lucina, he is revealed to be able to understand when situations call for him to tone down his theatrics. In this particular context, he first greets Lucina in a more subdued manner after personally deeming it inappropriate to address members of royalty in his usual style of melodrama.

Owain's personality has similarities with the "chuunibyou" archetype in Japanese media, where a character has delusions of grandeur yet try to play it off as being cool, whilst believing they have a great hidden power. Owain is the son of Lissa and the cousin of Lucina from the future. Owain's supports and conversations with Laurent during the Hot-Spring Scramble, and his ending in Fates, reveal that he is a prolific writer. He is quite proud of his heroic lineage and bears the Brand of the Exalt on his arm, proving that he and Lissa are of the Ylissean royal bloodline. Owain has an "uncontrollable sword hand" which apparently seeks battle. However, this is revealed to be mostly for dramatic effect, and he admits in the Hot-Spring Scramble that he actually does not have uncontrollable power. He is part of the Justice Cabal along with Cynthia, Morgan, and formerly Gerome.

In the future, Owain helped his parents fight off the Risen. According to Owain, during a battle a Risen archer attempted to attack Owain from behind, but his father pushed him out of the way and died taking the arrow intended for Owain. Later, during another battle, Owain says Lissa was killed while she was healing the wounded. Owain was given his mother's ring, which he continues to wear. In an Event Tile conversation with Lissa, it is revealed he also took a piece of the staff she was holding when she was killed— he named it "Lissa." He joined Lucina and the other children to return to the past and prevent the ruinous future.

In his Paralogue, the Sage's Hamlet is attacked by bandits. Owain steps in and attempts to quell the bandits. He successfully manages to take one down, but messes up trying to deal with another. Chrom and the Shepherds are standing off to side watching Owain's theatrics and decide to help him out. Upon meeting his mother on the battlefield, Owain drops his dramatic speech style, happy to be reunited with her and happily teams up with Chrom's army. After the battle, Lissa notices that his arm bears the Mark of the Exalt. Lissa is relieved to know that she is true Ylissean royalty, since her brand never surfaced. Owain promises to protect Lissa as he joins Chrom's army.

After the defeat of Grima, Owain goes on a lengthy journey to "stay his sword hand." Many tales of a man matching his description begin to pop up from time to time.

Some time after the events of Awakening, Owain, alongside Severa and Inigo, travels to the world of Fates and joins the Nohrian army, taking on the alias "Odin Dark". Odin, who performs daily research into "amazing special moves" and still enjoys naming his weapons, becomes a dark mage in service to Prince Leo alongside Niles. He also have a daughter named Ophelia. Owain uses swords as his weapons.