Serra


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''-- You're likely to starve to death or get hurt and die if I don't look after you! I just stay by your side to make sure that doesn't happen!''

Serra is a playable character in Fire Emblem:Rekka no Ken. She is a high-maintinence student of St. Elimine and believes she deserves praise from everyone around her. She is highly flirtatious and egotistical, although this is stated to have stemmed from years of inadequate feelings from being an orphan. Her lonely childhood has made her very needy and attention-loving, trying to cope with her insecurity.

History
Whatever happened to Serra's parents is unknown (aside of them being from Etruria), but she was raised in a small and poor St. Elimine convent near the Etrurian/Ostian frontier, where she studied St. Elimine's teachings. She eventually became a cleric and began working for House Ostia. Sometime before the beginning of the game, Serra, along with her escort Erk left on a mission for Ostia, ending up entangled in Lyn and her troupe's fights and joining them.

Serra can end up with numerous male characters at the end of the game including Erk, Oswin and Matthew. In all of her support conversations, she is needy and childish at first, but later opens up and drops her princess-like facade to reveal her far more fragile psyche.

In her support conversations with Oswin, she seems to look up to him and crave for his compliments, and is driven to tears when he only harshly criticizes her for "not exceeding expectations" and seeming "distracted." Later, though, Oswin explains that he does not hate her and that he thinks she is an exceptional healer.

Erk also says hurtful things to her when he loses his patience and asks directly why is she pestering him, also making her cry since she's aware of his lack of self-care and doesn't want him to get hurt; later, he too apologizes and says he wants to protect her since nobody else would put up with her.

The same scenario is said for Hector, who unintentionally hurts Serra's feelings by asking too much about her origins, and Matthew, who insults her by asking if she's actually the follower of an evil god.

She also has a rather amusing 'rivalry' with Lucius in their support conversations, whereby she mistakes Lucius for an exceptionally beautiful woman and treats him with disdain and jealousy. This eventually clears up, with them becoming rather fast friends.