Celica (Fire Emblem)

Anthiese Lima, also known as Celica, is one of the two main characters in Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Born in the year 385 in the Valentian calendar and the year of 590 in the Archanean calendar, she was born as Princess Anthiese of Zofia, daughter of Lima IV and Liprica. She has a special mark on the palm of her right hand which can be used to lead her into great destiny alongside another individual who bore a similar mark. Ten years before the game's events, the villa housing of Lima IV's numerous wives and children was set ablaze by Desaix as a means to instigate a coup against the king. A legendary Zofian knight was able to locate Anthiese in the blaze and rescued her thus putting Celica in Ram Village for her safety and it is the same village the she met Alm. She was given the name Celica after that as it would go by for many years. After being separated from Alm, she would spend the rest of her adolescence training in the teachings of Mila.

Why She Rocks

 * 1) Usually, Celica is depicted as a kind and polite person who is often bold yet pure.
 * 2) She often regrets showing her raw emotions like when there are rare moments that she lashes out of anger, bitterness, or even sentiment. This makes Celica to believe that she wants to set aside her emotional candor in order to fulfill her responsibilities as royalty.
 * 3) She believes in bringing peace without fighting as she had a good reason as to why she thinks that mainly because of how a conflict can form further conflicts. Despite all this, she isn't a coward as she still have a will to put her life on the line and fight with her comrades just for protection and rescued.
 * 4) *Similar enough, she still has this moment of wanting to sacrifice herself to the enemy the second her friends are threatened even if they can't be trusted or not even knowing if they would honor their promise in exchange for her compliance. One example of this is when she intentionally allows herself to be captured by Jedah to spare Alm albeit Jedah agrees not to kill either group.
 * 5) Though she is in a high position as a priestess at Novis Priory and as a princess of Zofia, she values the three other children (Mae, Boey, and Genny) at the priory and is fairly close to them, especially Mae.
 * 6) Her backstory is sympathetic as she has gone through some pain in her early years.
 * 7) She feels immense guilt for her father's actions in his reign as king, and despises him greatly for it. Regardless, Celica later states that she secretly wished to be there for him in order to change his attitude, pitying him for who he was.
 * 8) With Alm in play as he's also the main character, she has a deep connection with him due to the days when she was in the village. While Celica's introspective accounts on the outside world gave Alm a greater desire to find his place in it, Alm's warmness allowed Celica to avoid self-isolation and open up to others more easily, which is reflected on her first reunion with him after seven years. However, Celica did acted brashly over Alm's decisions that felt like it was opposite of her's. Later on she rekindles her trust in Alm and accepted his views knowing that she can rely on him to help bring peace to the nations. This alone makes both characters relatable. In the end they wed.
 * 9) She's really cute. That's all as even some pretty faces can be courageous too.
 * 10) She is able to wield the Beloved Zofia which is a sword exclusive to her. It's the final forge form of the Golden Dagger. While the Golden Dagger can be wielded by any unit, the Beloved Zofia can be only be wielded by Celica.
 * 11) The scene where she was restricted by Mila in order to undo Celica's possession after Alm stabbed her for a reason.
 * 12) In the end, Celica became the first queen of the One Kingdom of Valentia. This lead to people think that she is a reincarnation of Mila as she was universally loved for her work fostering peace in the nascent kingdom.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) She holds herself back emotionally to an extent after a series of traumatic events and familial loss which makes her cold and stoic.
 * 2) Celica tends to put everyone else's needs and her duty before her own requirements and feelings.
 * 3) She does not outwardly express it, she greatly lacks self-worth and confidence. This makes her naïve and turns her kindness into a flaw.

Trivia

 * Celica is ultimately derived from the Latin word "caelica", meaning "heavenly" or "celestial".
 * Celica's real name, Anthiese, is ostensibly derived from ancient Greek word "ἄνθος" (ánthos) which means “flower”.
 * The Japanese version of Celica's real name is based on the period in which a flower is fully open, and functional, and also refers to the outset of that period.
 * Celica's last name, Lima, is simply an anagram of "Mila", which means "file", as in the tool, in Latin.
 * In several of Nintendo's promotional materials for the downloadable content in Fire Emblem Awakening, Celica is incorrectly named "Cecilia".
 * Celica is ambidextrous, as she is seen to wield her sword in both her right and left hands.
 * Celica is the first Lord in the Fire Emblem series to not feature the color blue anywhere in her hair or her clothes
 * In the Japanese version, Celica refers to Mycen by his name when they are alone. In the presence of others, she uses various terms that typically refer to an older man who is not necessarily a familial relation. In the prologue, however, Celica calls him "grandpa" one last time before leaving Ram Village for good.
 * Celica has a strong fondness for sweet and refined food, detesting "rough" provisions.
 * In the raw Japanese script of Gaiden, Celica uses very formal vocabulary, and tends to place masculine inflections on her speech mannerisms.
 * She drops said mannerisms in scenes with Alm.
 * In Shadows of Valentia, several playable characters have recorded mourning quotes that were supposed to play after Celica fell in battle. They ultimately remain unused, since her death instantly results in a Game Over, regardless of the stage.
 * As implied in Shadows of Valentia, Celica is younger than Alm, but not by a drastic amount, as she is the same age as him.
 * As insinuated in the flavor text in Shadows of Valentia, Celica is very afraid of fires, the fear of which ostensibly is connected to the trauma of the Imperial Villa's fire. Despite this, she can wield and attack the enemy using fire.
 * Further derived from the flavor text in Shadows of Valentia, Celica is quite fond of cats.
 * In Shadows of Valentia, If a hacking device is used to class change Celica into the Witch class, she will retain her normal skin color and not the pale dark skin that other female units possess.