Noire (Fire Emblem)

Noire is a playable character in Fire Emblem Awakening, the daughter of Tharja from the future, and can potentially be the mother or sister of Morgan.

Noire is the daughter of Tharja. In the future, whenever Tharja developed a new curse, Noire was usually the unlucky test subject along with her father sometimes. She would dread these sessions with her mother and inversely loved whenever her father would stop Tharja's experiments to take her home. Noire became timid and meek as a result of many years of testing. To counteract this, Tharja developed a special talisman which created a much more brash and somewhat violent persona for Noire whenever she wore it. With the threat of Risen becoming too much, her parents committed to fighting off Risen and both died protecting Noire. Noire was given Tharja's wedding ring, which she wore from then on. Noire joined Lucina and the other children during their journey into the past to prevent the ruinous future.

In her paralogue, she is captured by the bandit Ezra to be sold off to the slave trade. As luck would have it, Chrom and his army were nearby. While in her hiding place, she finds a Steel Bow and leaves to fight off the bandits until she joins up with Chrom's army and defeat the bandits together. After the battle she goes to talk to Tharja and shows her ring, the same ring Tharja has. Tharja is suspicious and threatens to curse her. Noire slips on her talisman and her personality drastically changes. She declares herself as Tharja's daughter. Tharja asks about the talisman, which Noire explains is the source of her more bold nature. Tharja takes it away, which shocks Noire as she relies on it to be strong. But Tharja assures her daughter by leaving Noire's retribution to her and to live as a normal girl.

After the war, if Noire is unmarried, she decides to stay with Tharja and works as her assistant. Some wonder if she did this to protect her infant self or spend the time she never had with her mother.

Appearance

Noire is a teenaged girl with short black hair (default hair color) with feathered circlet. she wears a green outfit with sliver paludron reveals and she shows off her cleavage.

Personality

Being used as a guinea pig for her mother's curses during her childhood, Noire has developed a fearful, defeatist and pessimistic personality, usually being too timid to voice any opinions and easily intimidated, with supports with Brady and Laurent revealing that she is anemic, tending to get fatigued easily and pass out as a result.

However, seemingly due to a talisman from her mother, she has something of a split personality, with her other self acting more brash and aggressive and having no problem saying exactly what's on her mind while yelling, changing between both sides randomly mid-conversation and leaving others bewildered. In some cases it is implied that she herself developed her alternate personality as a coping mechanism. This is emphasized by the fact that she inherited some of the same obsessive traits as her mother (though nowhere near the same degree), as in her support with Inigo, she uses her bow to scare off women away from him.

She dislikes having to rely on others because she does not wish to stay quiet and insecure, apologizing to Severa for needing her help for nearly everything in their supports, lamenting her fragile health to Brady, and tells Yarne in their talks that while she is terrified of battle, she doesn't want to lose anyone or be a burden, so she forces herself to fight.

With her mother being emotionally distant and considerably abusive to her despite her father's attempts to protect her, Noire's relationship with her mother is strained, as she resents and lives in fear of her, and in her supports with the female Robin, she will start latching onto her as a mother figure and outright states she thinks she'd make a way better mother than Tharja did. Despite this, Noire constantly tries to seek approval from her mother, going so far as to learn how to use Dark Magic in combat by copying her movements. By the end of her support conversations with her mother, she seems to have made amends with her, as Tharja explains that her future self's intentions were more affectionate than they seemed, and tells her daughter that she loves her, much to Noire's delight.

Oddly, she seems to have a fixation for gold, as she often asks for it as gifts in her relationship event tiles. She is also shown to be a rather talented confectioner in her supports with Owain.

She is the fastest to escape in the army.

Gallery