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Name: Elia
Age: 29
Contact info: tuchanka

Character: Felix Hugo Fraldarius
Canon: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Canon Point: Azure Moon (Blue Lions route), post-ending, pre-epilogues - also, as a note, the route I'm pulling him from has a) a female Byleth and b) no recruitable students!
CRAU, Canon AU: n/a
Character age: 24

Canon Abilities/Powers:

• Swordsmanship: Felix "Sword is Life" Fraldarius takes his training very, very seriously—and it shows! He is known as one of the finest swordsmen that the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus has to offer, and while a great deal of this can be attributed to how long he's wielded his chosen weapon—"I learned to thrust a sword before I learned to write my name," he tells his professor—he's also the type of person who's at the training ground well before the sun rises, hacking away at training dummy after training dummy...
  
• Offensive Magic: Despite having a budding talent for Reason (Fire Emblem's term for what is essentially dark magic), Felix only has access to two spells: Thunder (minor lightning magic; 8 uses) and Thoron (advanced lightning magic; 4 uses). He rarely uses these spells? He prefers to take things apart up close, ie with his swords, but he'll fall back on his spells if he's backed into a corner—and they do pack a punch.
  
• Major Crest of Fraldarius: Felix possesses a Crest, which is an inherited ability that Felix... doesn't have control over, per se? It ~activates~ of its own accord during random attacks, increasing the MT (attack power) of Felix's weapon—which means that Felix occasionally hits harder than he normally does. His Crest is also closely tied to the Aegis Shield, allowing Felix to effectively wield it.
  
• Aegis Shield: The Aegis Shield is a Hero's Relic (a thousand-year-old weapon crafted from the bones of a dragon, although only a select few know this) passed down through the Fraldarius family for generations. Only a person with a Crest of Fraldarius can wield it, and as for what it does... well, it functions just like a normal shield, but sometimes it halves the damage its wielder takes? We're not really given any stats regarding how often that happens, sadly; it's something I'll either work out with the person I'm threading, or let a roll determine.
  
• Upbringing: As the heir to one of Faerghus' most prestigious noble houses, Felix was certainly given a first-class education centering around various important subjects/skills: hunting (ft. proficiency with a bow), horsemanship, etiquette, territory government, politics (Faerghus- and Fódlan-specific), etc. He's a well-bred, well-learned man, even if he sees no reason to brag about such things. His status also allowed him to attend the Officer's Academy at Garreg Mach Monastery, where his lessons centered on both general subjects and military tactics.

What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:

Chivalry is the cornerstone of Faerghan culture—and Felix, a Faerghan born and bred, detests it. Truly. When he was younger, he, like so many others, eagerly devoured tales of gallant knights and their gallant deeds; he looked up to his older brother, Glenn, who became a knight at the impressively young age of fifteen, and wished to follow in his footsteps. It seemed destined, really, given that his closest childhood friend—Dimitri—was the heir to the Faerghan throne.

And then Felix's life was upended.

Glenn, the brother he so admired, died while defending Dimitri in the midst of an attack on the royal family—and while Felix mourned the loss of Glenn, the person, everyone around him mourned the loss of Glenn, the knight. "When my brother's armor was brought back to the castle," Felix later told someone, "do you know what he said? 'He died like a true knight.' Chivalry begets the worship and glorification of death. Am I alone in finding that grotesque?"

But chivalry didn't just take his brother from him? Felix lost Dimitri after the attack, when the trauma of him twisted him into someone new, someone obsessed with avenging his father's death; Felix lost his father, their presumably close relationship morphing into a markedly bitter one; Felix almost loses his other friends as, time and time and time again, Felix watches them charge headfirst into dangerous situations, paying little mind to their own well-being while upholding chivalric values. Felix is, quite frankly, so very tired of losing people—and thus Felix rejects chivalry and all that comes with it. Life shouldn't be about putting yourself into harm's way without a second thought, all in the pursuit of the perfect, heroic death; life should be about living, and he won't hesitate to remind others of this.

How aware are they of this negative emotion, and how do they act on it in canon?:

Oh, boy. Felix is incredibly aware of his disdain for chivalry, so on a scale of one to ten, I'm going to rank this as... a solid nine. Does he spend any time examining where, exactly, this disdain stems from? Is he eager to share the story of his brother's death/Dimitri's descent into madness with anyone else? Not really, but it's definitely why he throws himself headfirst into his training, dedicating himself to becoming stronger than anyone and everyone. If he is the strongest, you see, then no one can challenge him—and no one can sacrifice their life for him. He, again, is so very tired of losing people blinded by chivalry, and thus he is determined to do everything that he can to prevent it.

Aside from spending a majority of his free time working to become stronger, though, Felix is also just... very vocal re: his dislike for chivalry? He's the first time to find his friends/allies after they attempt any sort of risky maneuver, just so he can snap at them for it; when anyone around him says anything that even hints of self-sacrificial nonsense, Felix is there to challenge them, to (rudely) order them to examine their thought process and reevaluate their priorities. He prefers to keep to himself, as a general rule, but when it comes to chivalry, he isn't the least bit shy about calling it precisely as he sees it!

What is their greatest virtue?:

When Felix was a child, Felix was known to be a bit of a crybaby? Felix felt everything so, so deeply—and Felix continues to feel everything so, so deeply, which he does his absolute best to hide beneath a prickly persona. He genuinely cares for those around them! It's partly why he's so opposed to chivalric values, as I outlined above. He doesn't want to lose anyone; he will—and frequently does—go to great lengths to be there for/protect his friends/allies, even as he's quick to remind them that they should deal with their problems on their time. He will always, always be there when he's needed, even if he's snapping at them all the while.

And it's also interesting, really, how someone as openly anti-chivalry as Felix unknowingly loops back around to embody key chivalric values? Like, he's always there to help those he knows, but he can and will throw himself into a fray to help people he does not know, simply because it's the right thing to do. You see this in his paralogue, wherein Felix is forced to work alongside his father to defend a village from attack. When the battle is finished, Felix's father, Rodrigue, says that he's pleased they managed to save a village that was so important to the late king; Felix, then, wastes no time snapping back, telling his father that they "were protecting your subjects, not your ego." He even admits that he came to this village's aid to "hone [his] blade, and to save innocent people," which is yet another example of Felix's compassion. He can hide it/deny it all he likes, but it's there...

How aware are they of their virtue, and how do they act on it in canon?:

Felix is honestly terrible at separating himself from others, despite his best efforts, and his in-game supports are littered with examples to illustrate this. He took it upon himself to help Ingrid with her chores after she was wounded in battle; he fussed at Sylvain for attempting to protect him during a fight, then rushed to his bedside when he heard that he was grievously wounded (spoiler alert: he was NOT); he told Ashe to never give up on his dream of becoming a knight, despite his own aversion to the title; he stopped everything to listen to Bernadetta when she simply asked him to; he worked around his hatred of sweets because Lysithea baked a cake just for him—like, need I go on? It's obvious that, while he tries to bury his care and concern for others, he just... can't. Oh, he'll snap at them, and he'll continue to call them out for their foolish behavior, but if people can patiently look past that—which people frequently do, given that he isn't as hard to read as he'd like to think—then he'll wind up (grudgingly) accepting them.

So in the face of all the evidence, I'm going to say that, on a scale of one to ten, this is an eight! He's aware that he cares—far more than he thinks he should, in some cases—but good luck getting him to openly admit such sappy nonsense. Let him just silently help out when and where he can...

Items:

• The Sword of Moralta (restores a bit of health to its wielder each turn, and Felix's Major Crest of Fraldarius increases its effect—but this is something I'm honestly not going to mess with this in the game if he ever does regain his sword)
• A Zoltan-forged sword, which is just a regular sword from his favorite blacksmith of all time...
• The Aegis Shield, the abilities of which I outlined above!

Samples: ta-da
Special Notes: n/a