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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Ran
Contact: RandomProphet
Age: 25
Current Characters: N/A


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Cynthia
Age: I don’t know, 16-ish?
Canon: Fire Emblem: Awakening
Canon Point: Postgame, single, and Chrom’s daughter!

Background: Wiki link!

Personality: There are some heroes that go down in history as the stuff of legends. They refuse to back down from any challenge, are always prepared to help the weak, and pursue the forces of evil with all the strength they can muster. There are songs and sagas dedicated to their names, and even their weapons have wide renown. Cynthia, having grown up on tales of her mother and her companions' (occasionally exaggerated) deeds, has a drive and enthusiasm for becoming a hero that's practically unmatched.

...Unfortunately, she's a little less El Cid and a little more Don Quixote. But she tries. Oh my god, does she try.

One of the major factors hampering Cynthia as being seen as one of the more dignified sorts of heroes is the fact that she's... honestly not the brightest bulb in the box. She tends to charge into situations without thinking... well, that wouldn't be entirely correct. She thinks a lot before charging into situations, but it's usually about what cool move she'll execute or what heroic phrase she'll yell when she makes her entrance rather than anything resembling strategy. Also, both as part of taking her primary inspiration from heroic tales and coming from a future where all her enemies are mindless zombies, she's a bit naive about how living, breathing people tend to act in battle. This leaves her open to being easily fooled by dirty tricks, and also makes her fairly gullible. She's not necessarily the sort to go tilting at windmills unprovoked, but if you can accomplish the fairly easy task of convincing her that those windmills are some evildoer's base then by Naga will she try.

...and possibly trip on her way there if she's on foot, because one of the major qualities she inherited from her mother was her klutziness. She doesn't spend quite as much time tripping over her Pegasus Knight boots as her mother did, but it's still hampered a dramatic entrance or two in her time.

All of that may make her sound a bit... difficult to get along with, and to some degree, that's true. Her bullheadedness makes her react poorly to criticism of the whole hero thing, and she can seem a bit egocentric, self-glorifying, and... well... self-absorbed. That's... partially right, though it can't be said that she doesn't actually care about other people. In fact, she does do her best to live up to the whole fighting for Justice and protecting the weak thing, and when she notices someone having a problem, she'll do her best to help people out with it.

There are two problems with that, unfortunately. The first is that, between her tendency not to spend too much time thinking about things that aren't heroism and just being generally a bit unobservant overall, she can be a bit oblivious to someone's problems if they're not told to her explicitly. She even fails to notice that she's been failing to care properly for her pegasus due to being so wrapped up in her dreams and ambitions, despite the pegasus being both her trusty mount and one of the few mementos she has of her mother, and only really notices it when Sumia advises her to slow down and think about things.

The other problem is that... well... she doesn't always get the idea that her ways of solving problems or approaching things isn't everyone's way of solving problems --- or even just approaching friendships, in more casual circumstances. While her heart's generally in the right place and she doesn't mean to make fun of people, her tendency to cast herself in the role as the protagonist of her own personal story can make her seem a bit callous or like she's making fun of the other party when she's just trying to be friendly. If she casts someone as her mount or the villain in her current LARP storyline, she's not trying to humiliate them, it's just... how she operates. And she doesn't quite understand that she's doing something that might humiliate the other person, because hey, the villain is a great role!

With that said, when she does bother to slow down to think things through, she can prove that she's not totally oblivious to everything that goes on around her. For example, she does seem mildly self-conscious about how other people view the hero thing at some points (though not enough to actually stop it). Even more surprisingly, she's fully aware that she's from a different timeline than the one that Fire Emblem: Awakening's story follows, so her father and mother from that timeline aren't really her parents but the parents of a different version of her. She suggests that she's already accepted this fact even before traveling to the past, and wants to be able to spend as much time with her family as possible before their Cynthia is born.

Her ability to accept this leads to one of her strongest qualities: even in the face of despair, she continues to remain cheerful and optimistic. She is far more resilient than one would think, and her strength of will keeps her going even when most people would lose hope and give up. Even if her heroic adventures ultimately turn out to be goofy misadventures more often than not, her determination, resilience, and perseverance are just about the stuff of legend.


Abilities: Cynthia doesn’t really have anything too out of the ordinary for someone in her world, but she is a knight who knows her way around the battlefield. Well… sort of, given that she might head into a swamp. But anyhow, she’s proficient in using spears and wouldn’t have too much trouble learning how to use other weapons. She could also theoretically wield magic through using tomes, but she doesn’t have any innate magic. If she used up all the magic in a tome and that was the only tome she had… well, too bad for her…

Most significant would be the fact that she’s a Pegasus Knight, meaning she has a pegasus that she can ride into battle (or… pretty much wherever she wants). It’s pretty much what it says on the tin, really --- she can get places pretty quickly by flying over rough terrain. However… pegasi tend to have a lot of trouble with projectile weapons like arrows and bullets, so if her pegasus was injured in that way it’d be pretty bad for her.

Alignment: Hoo boy. Cynthia is pretty much on the cusp between Peromei and Thras, because a lot of the characters in her canon note her as being a sort of beacon of hope due to her unfailing optimism and her… just being kind of her, but Thras also fits on her desire to be Super Heroic and Do Brave Things because Heroes Are Brave. I think because she sort of… tends to consciously exhibit bravery a little more often that Thras would be better to start her in, and maybe she could Character Development into Peromei? Or maybe she could stick in Thras and learn True Bravery.

Other: Nothing really!


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Sample: Here is my TDM comment and the attached threads! Let me know if I goofed.


Questions: Nope, I’m good!