Tharja

A mage from Plegia with a dark side and a possessive streak, especially with Robin. Appears in Fire Emblem Awakening. Name: Tharja Gender: Female Race: Human Birthday: April 2 Relatives: Unnamed Parents, Noire (Future Daughter) Occupation: Member of the Plegian Army (Formerly), Member of the Shepherds Weapon: Tomes </Personal Information> Tharja is a tall woman with a curvaceous body (having the biggest breasts of all women in the group), pale skin, grey eyes and black long hair that is tied into pigtails and a golden headband on it. Her outfit is considered revealing- consisting of a grey bodysuit that hugs her features well and her navel can be seen through the bodysuit. Over her bodysuit, she wears a black bikini armor with gold outlines (which exposes her cleavage), golden heels and a black cloak. Dark, brooding, and moody, Tharja is a reclusive woman who prefers to keep her interests to herself and does not enjoy the company of most people. This is reflected by the fact that Tharja has the least amount of friendship support option as, not including female Robin, her only friendship support is Nowi. She even states that while she was serving the Plegian army, she held no particular bonds with anyone in it. Upon joining the Shepherds, she is immediately interested in Robin, eventually developing an intense obsession with them. She stalks them from a distance and keeps meticulous records of their every action down to the number of times they have tossed in bed compared to previous nights or the slightest changes in their routines and habits. Her deepest desire is to be of use to them and vies for their attention and possible affection as well. She is receptive to their requests and sometimes minor comments towards her. When Robin stated that "normal girls" would not act like Tharja, she literally took this to heart and remodeled herself into an ideal "normal girl." Her reeducation was so thorough that she struggled to return to her normal self when they told her they preferred her real personality.

Other than Robin, Tharja actively avoids most people. Whenever someone tries to interact with her, most of the time she simply tries to disengage as soon as she can. If they are particularly pushy, she will threaten if not outright curse them. With time, she is able to open her heart to others, though she makes it clear that Robin still remains at the forefront of her mind. While she comes off as cold and uncaring, Tharja is surprisingly a sympathetic person as she laments of all those who lost their lives to Gangrel's ambitions. She openly spites him in her support with Vaike and declared him unworthy of the crown. Tharja does actually care for her Shepherd allies, even subtly telling Nowi that her parents are "far away" to spare her the grief of knowing that her parents have since passed on. She is close enough to her parents to send regular letters to during the course of the war and does receive them back with good news of their current conditions. In her supports with Frederick and Virion, Tharja tends to their wounds after they protected her in the previous battles. Hearing of Lon'qu's aversion to women, she offers to help remove his "curse".

Tharja ultimately embodies the concepts of Dark Magic as she can be dubious at times, but does have a moral center and does use her skills for ultimately just reasons. She has developed numerous curses over the years and has used them on some allies who annoy her, though most of these are minor nuisances like runny noses and does not inflict anything that would be detrimental to their well-being. If someone were to harm Robin, she would unleash the fullest extent of her curses upon the perpetrator. Likewise, she has developed and learned curses that provide positive effects like cooling fevers and repelling insects. When asked, she does offer these skills willingly to her allies.

Her relationship with her daughter Noire is complicated as her future-self used her as a guinea pig for some of her curses and even taught her the dark arts. Deep down she does not wish for her daughter to be plagued by the risks of dark magic and while having difficulty expressing it, she does love her daughter. Ultimately, her future self sacrificed her life to protect her as a testament to the strong maternal love she holds for her. In The Future Past, she also shows a overprotective streak towards the Noire of that particular world.

While having no idea of her own sex appeal due to her figure and fairly revealing outfit, Tharja was quickly embarrassed when it was pointed out to her in her conversation with Cordelia in Xenologue 17, becoming more self-conscious of her appearance and developing a talisman to suppress this newfound feeling. In her conversations with Nowi in Xenologue 16, she was also embarrassed when Nowi said that she had the largest breasts out of the women of the army. Tharja is a Dark Mage from Plegia skilled with curses and hexes. Very little of her history is known other than that she hails from a family of powerful mages and occasionally sends them letters. Tharja joined the Plegian army for unknown reasons but never expressed true loyalty to King Gangrel, whom she felt disdainful towards for his pointless aggression against the neighboring country of Ylisse.

Tharja is among the forces present at Plegia Castle as Gangrel prepared to execute Exalt Emmeryn. Just before the start of it, Tharja vocally questioned why she has to be there. Suddenly, the Ylissean prince Chrom arrives with the Shepherds to rescue Emmeryn. During the battle, Chrom can notice Tharja among the enemy as the sole Plegian soldier refusing to engage against the Shepherds. Tharja somewhat expresses "respect" for her king, but she tells Chrom that she holds no loyalty to Gangrel and would leave in a heartbeat just so she can live. When Chrom offers her a chance to join his cause, she tells him that welcoming an enemy could result in him getting stabbed in the back. Though he accepts the possibility, Chrom still extends his offer to her as he claims Emmeryn would do the same before leaving to resume battle. Amused that he still trusts her enough despite most people immediately rejecting her when she makes such threats, Tharja joins the Shepherds.

At some point after the battle, while wandering the Barracks, the Shepherd's Tactician Robin catches her attention for some reason. Tharja develops a fierce fixation to them, stalking them day and night, keeping meticulous records of their every action. It is due to this obsession that Tharja remains loyal to the Shepherd's cause, just so she can be close to them.

In the future, Tharja would have a daughter named Noire. Tharja uses tomes as her weapons. She is skilled on dark magic and curses.