Raphael Kirsten

Eldest son of a Leicester Alliance merchant. A Golden Deer student with a big appetite and a burly physique. What he lacks in book learning he makes up for in devotion to training. Appears in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Name: Raphael Kirsten Gender: Male Race: Human Birthday: May 18 Age: 17 (Pre-timeskip) 23-24 (Post-timeskip) Height: 190cm Relatives: Grandfather, deceased parents, Maya (Younger sister) Occupation: Student at the Officers Academy (Golden Deer house) Weapon: Gauntlets </Personal Information> Raphael is a tall muscular teenage boy with spiky blonde hair and yellow eyes. His face seems to be older than his actual age (17-18), resembling a middle aged man. His attire consists of a white shirt, black suspender pants and bright shoes.

After the timeskip, he now wears a yellow-orange bandana on his head, a sleeveless armor top with grey, yellow and brown colors, brown arm guards with bandages wrapped around his hands, brown pants and dark brown shoes. Friendly, optimistic, and straightforward, Raphael is a simple man who lives life day-by-day in a casual, easygoing manner. The tragedy that lead to his parents' death does not weigh heavily on him as he maintains a cheerful demeanor ever since. While Ignatz, his best friend, blames himself for the circumstances of Raphael's parent's death, Raphael reminds him that he does not blame him or his family for their deaths and has moved passed any grief he ever had. He cherishes his friendship with Ignaz since the two are childhood friends and wants to live life with simple pleasures and happiness.

While he is far from the most academically gifted of his classmates, he dutifully shows up to class partially because he knows that he risks being expelled and wasting all of the resources spent to get him into the Officers Academy. He has difficulty grasping some of the basic materials given to him in class, though he is not shy from asking for Byleth's tutoring to better understand them, making him a genuine student at heart and one of the most reliable students in the class.

Raphael enthusiastically trains his body every day, taking great pride in his physique. It is not unusual to see him weight training and sparring with others during his free time, even encouraging others to join him. If he is not training or exercising, Raphael is usually found in the Mess Hall satiating his voracious appetite to help in his efforts to bulk up. He is known to carry mountains of food and even encourages his leaner classmates to eat more. He adores meat above all other foods, but he knows to also eat the recommended grains and vegetables as well.

Raphael's goal in life is to become a knight as part of why he diligently trains. While he does not understand the exact means of becoming one, he often takes to heart advice given to him on ways to be more "knightly", finding comradery with Ingrid. Aside from becoming stronger, he wants to become a knight to make a decent living so he can support his last remaining immediate family, his younger sister, Maya. He admits to Byleth that he considered becoming a mercenary, but the lifestyle of one would make supporting his sister far harder. He often spends him time collecting and making trinkets for her throughout his travels across Fódlan and will even go to the ends of the continent just to get something she may like. He has a weird sibling-like with Lysithea who reminds him of Maya, much to her initial displeasure.

Due to being a commoner, Raphael is rather boorish in his treatment of manners in general settings such as offering Lorenz his half-eaten food scraps and eating so wildly that he made a mess of himself in his support with Ingrid. He is mostly unaware of Crests and has a rather simplistic view of the world as it is mostly self-contained to those most precious to him. Raphael is a playable character from Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. He is a student at the Officers Academy who hails from the Leicester Alliance and is part of the Golden Deer.

Raphael is the son of a Leicester merchant family and has a younger sister Maya. In his youth, his family was acquainted with Ignatz's family and the two are childhood friends. Tragedy struck Raphael and his sister when his parents were killed in a freak tragedy in 1177. Orphaned with his sister, Raphael and Maya moved in with his grandfather. Unsure of what to do with his future and wanting to make ends meet for his sister, Raphael decided that he was not suited to be a merchant like his parents. Two years later, at the advice of his grandfather, Raphael decided to pursue a dream of becoming a knight. He sold his family estate and closed their merchant business in order to enroll in the Officers Academy.

It is revealed through Raphael's support conversations with Ignatz that Raphael's parents were killed because they took on a job in the stead of Ignatz's family. Despite this, Raphael wishes to remain friends with Ignatz as he has always been, indicating that what happened is about their parents rather than the two of them.

During the paralogue Death Toll, Raphael and Ignatz learn that Raphael's parents did not die in an "accident" but rather were collateral damage in a plot hatched by Lorenz's father, Erwin, to kill the previous Duke Riegan. However, Raphael again insists that it is in the past and between their parents, having nothing to do with Lorenz or Ignatz.

Raphael enrolls in Garreg Mach Monastery Officers Academy in Imperial Year 1180 and joins the Golden Deer. Raphael uses gauntlets as his weapon.