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Player Information

Name: Elia
Contact: tuchanka
Over 18?: Yep!

Character Information

Name: Felix Hugo Fraldarius
Canon: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Canon Point: Azure Moon, the end of Chapter 22 - right as the battle of Enbarr ends and the war is won. (As an aside: In the run I'm taking Felix from, his professor (Byleth) was female, and no recruitable students were brought into the Blue Lions house.)
Age: 23
History: Here we go!
Personality:

Prickly

Honestly, as far as first impressions go, Felix... doesn't go out of his way to make a good one. He generally doesn't care how people view him, so he's brusque! He's blunt! He will tell someone precisely what he thinks of them/their plans/their opinions without any reservations whatsoever, because he is, quite honestly, a prickly, prickly man—and that's because he deliberately seeks to keep others at an arm's length. Over the course of his life, he's lost far too many of those he cares for; those that remain are reckless, or self-sacrificing, or some combination of the two, and thus Felix's approach is meant to protect both himself and those around him. If he puts up a metaphorical wall between himself and the rest of the world, then no one will feel the need to risk their life for his sake? He won't suffer through yet another loss? It's a carefully calculated front, meant to disguise the fact that Felix is...

Compassionate

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 with that aforementioned prickly persona. He's terrible at separating himself from others, despite his best efforts, and his in-game supports are littered with examples to illustrate this. He helped 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. He will always, always be there when he's needed, even if he's snapping at them all the while.

Sensible

Felix is sharp-tongued, sure, but he keeps a cool head, recognizing the importance of thinking things through before acting upon them—and as he isn't afraid to say what others may be thinking, he often serves as a sort of voice of reason. I'd say the best example of this is the fact that Felix is the first to notice, and therefore call out, Dimitri's deteriorating mental state? He frequently snaps at Dimitri whenever Dimitri goes on about savagely murdering his enemies, or mentions hearing the voices of the dead, because Dimitri is clearly unwell—and that does not bode well for the forces he leads. "If we keep running down this path," Felix warns his old professor after witnessing another one of Dimitri's rampages, "it's only a matter of time before the ground beneath us collapses." He recognizes that Dimitri is dividing them, and he knows that the key to winning the war is sticking together. He's surprisingly good at seeing the big picture.

Cynical

This ties in with his prickliness, I suppose, but Felix's cynicism truly is the stuff of legends. He rarely expects things to go/work out well? He's, again, sensible enough to see what needs to be done to ensure the optimal outcome, but unless he's handling it himself, he's just... so sure it isn't going to happen. Other people are too weak, or too emotional, or too tied up in the ideological—and that last bit is of, ah, particular concern to Felix, given that he grew up in the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus. Chivalry is a cornerstone of Faerghan culture, and Felix detests that so many people are willing to throw their lives away in the pursuit of a "good" death, that so many others see that as the only thing worth recognizing. "Chivalry begets the worship and glorification of death," he explains. "Am I alone in finding that grotesque?" There's a truly personal reason for this; like, Felix's older brother, Glenn, was a knight who died in the service of the king, and when his broken, burned armor was all that was returned t his family, Felix's father proudly declared that his son "died like a true knight." Felix, mourning the loss of the person he knew, found the focus on Glenn's death disgusting—and he still does.

Self-Sufficient

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 for that purpose, Felix throws himself into his training time and time again, 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. It goes back to his compassion, in a sense? Felix's ultimate goal in life is to be strong enough to ensure his own survival while keeping a close eye on those he cares for. Strength became... everything, to Felix! It's why he's known to challenge people to spar with him within the first, like, ten minutes of meeting them. Better to know then and there if they're worth his time, you know... better to push them away before a bond forms, while testing his skills in the process...

Stubborn

Felix is so stubborn! My God, Felix is so stubborn—and it's both a strength and a weakness. Entrust him with a task and, if he deems it worthy of his time, Felix will stop at nothing to accomplish it; like, he will push himself to his absolute limits to see it through, simply because Felix refuses to half-ass anything. On the other hand, though, if Felix sees something to be a waste of his time, neither hell nor high water will convince him to move. He would rather bicker and/or suffer the inevitable consequences than compromise anything about himself, so don't expect him to back down? Don't expect him to easily change his views, especially those as deeply rooted as, say, his opinions re: chivalry? It's not, like, an impossibility, but Felix is so set in his ways that it will take quite a bit to make him step back and reassess himself.

Where and how did your character enter the Hedge? After the battle drew to a close, Felix found himself stalking through the corridors of the palace, ensuring all threats were dealt with before the inevitable victory celebration. One corridor, however, seemed to stretch on far longer than it necessarily should—and as Felix pressed ever onward, too stubborn to turn around, his surroundings grew darker, and darker, and darker...
Additional Memories Lost: n/a
Skillsets:

Swordsmanship/Battle Prowess: 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. He's built for speed! He's also a quick thinker, always looking for his opponent's weakness(es) before striking.

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: 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.

Hobbies: Felix enjoys hunting, so he's fairly decent with a bow? He's also good with hand-to-hand combat, always seeking to add more techniques to his repertoire. He also... genuinely enjoys collecting weapons/weapon maintenance as a whole, so he's Knowledgeable.

Inventory:

+ Felix's truly terrible outfit... I'm going to hope and pray all those buckles are missing, because that's what he deserves.
+ The Aegis Shield, the Relic tied to House Fraldarius—which is now just, you know. A kind of gross-looking shield.
+ Two empty scabbards for two beloved swords, taken from us too soon 😔 RIP...

Sample: One | Two I'm sorry it's shippy