Noire

“P-please, just give me... I n-need a moment... M-my talisman... Wh-where is my talisman... ...... I AM BLOOD AND THUNDER! I AM A RIGHTEOUS FURY! ...I AM YOUR FUTURE DAUGHTER!”
—Noire's two personalities introducing herself to her mother

Noire is a child character from Fire Emblem Awakening. She is the future daughter of Tharja.

What is the significance of Noire's talisman in Fire Emblem Awakening? toggle section

In Fire Emblem Awakening, Noire's talisman was created by Tharja to transform Noire's meek personality into a brash, somewhat violent one. This talisman is the source of Noire's boldness, and she depends on it for strength. Despite this, Tharja removes the talisman, encouraging Noire to live normally without its influence.

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How does Noire's dual personality manifest in Fire Emblem Awakening? toggle section

In Fire Emblem Awakening, Noire exhibits a dual personality as a coping strategy. She alternates between a shy, easily scared persona and a bold, assertive one, often switching mid-conversation. This personality was developed due to her complex relationship with her mother, who passed on obsessive traits to her. Noire uses her bow to intimidate women around Inigo and suffers from anemia, leading to quick exhaustion.

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Who are Noire's parents in Fire Emblem Awakening? toggle section

In Fire Emblem Awakening, Noire is the daughter of Tharja and an unnamed father. Her relationship with Tharja is difficult, marked by fear and resentment, yet she strives for her mother's approval, going as far as learning Dark Magic in combat. Her father's identity remains undisclosed, but he is noted for his protective nature towards Noire.

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What is the relationship between Noire and Tharja in Fire Emblem Awakening? toggle section

In Fire Emblem Awakening, Noire's relationship with her mother, Tharja, is marked by fear and resentment due to Tharja's use of her as a test subject for curses. However, Noire strives for Tharja's approval, emulating her Dark Magic techniques. Tharja's talisman, which alters Noire's personality, further complicates their relationship. If unmarried post-war, Noire opts to remain with Tharja as her assistant.

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How does Noire's past experiences with curses affect her character in Fire Emblem Awakening? toggle section

In Fire Emblem Awakening, Noire's character is deeply impacted by her past experiences with her mother's curses. She was frequently the test subject for these curses, resulting in a timid, pessimistic personality. Despite her fear and resentment towards her mother, Noire strives for her approval, even learning Dark Magic by mimicking her. If she remains unmarried after the war, she stays with her mother, potentially to safeguard her younger self or to gain lost time with her mother.

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Profile[]

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 her. 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, Noire is captured by the bandit Ezra to be sold as a slave. 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 work as her assistant. Some wonder if she did this to protect her infant self or spend the time she never had with her mother.

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, Noire 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 women away from him.

Noire 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 telling Yarne in their talks that while she is terrified of battle but forces herself to fight, as she doesn't want to lose anyone or be a burden.

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 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.

In-Game[]

Fire Emblem Awakening[]

Base Stats (Before Inheritance)[]

Starting Class
Archer
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
10	8	5	3	4+2	7	10	4	6	5
Skills			Weapon			Starting Items
Skill +2 Prescience			Bow - C			Steel Bow*

* - She picks up the Steel Bow on Turn 2 when she is recruited.

Max Stat Modifiers[]

Father	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
Robin	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies
Frederick	+3	+2	+2	+2	0	-2	+4
Virion	+1	+4	+2	+4	-3	0	+1
Stahl	+3	+3	+1	+2	-4	+4	0
Vaike	+4	+2	+1	+3	-3	+2	-1
Kellam	+2	+4	+1	0	-4	+5	+1
Donnel	+2	+3	-1	+1	+1	+3	0
Lon'qu	+1	+4	+3	+5	-2	0	-1
Ricken	0	+6	0	+2	-1	+1	+1
Gaius	+2	+3	+2	+4	-4	+1	+1
Gregor	+3	+3	+2	+2	-3	+3	-1
Libra	+1	+5	+1	+2	-3	+2	+2
Henry	+2	+5	+2	+2	-4	+3	0

Supports[]

See also: Noire/Supports

Romantic Supports

Robin (Male) (Can also be Noire's father)
Owain
Inigo
Brady
Gerome
Laurent
Yarne
Male Morgan

Other Supports

Robin (Female)
Tharja
Noire's Father
Severa
Female Morgan (Can also be her sister or daughter)

Class Sets[]

Standard Classes[]

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Archer	Sniper
Archer	Bow Knight
Knight	General
Knight	Great Knight
Dark Mage	Sorcerer
Dark Mage	Dark Knight
Bride Wedding Bouquet required)	-
Bride Wedding Bouquet required)	-

Inherited Sets[]

Father:

Robin

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Tactician	Grandmaster
Tactician	-
All other available female classes.	-
All other available female classes.	-

Frederick

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Cavalier	Paladin
Cavalier	Great Knight
Wyvern Rider	Wyvern Lord
Wyvern Rider	Griffon Rider

Virion

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Mage	Sage
Mage	Dark Knight
Wyvern Rider	Wyvern Lord
Wyvern Rider	Griffon Rider

Stahl

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Cavalier	Paladin
Cavalier	Great Knight
Myrmidon	Swordmaster
Myrmidon	Assassin

Vaike

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Mercenary	Hero
Mercenary	Bow Knight
Thief	Assassin
Thief	Trickster

*Noire is able to inherit a skill that is unique to the Fighter and Barbarian class sets if Vaike is her father.

Kellam

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Thief	Assassin
Thief	Trickster
Cleric	War Cleric
Cleric	Sage

Lon'qu

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Myrmidon	Swordmaster
Myrmidon	Assassin
Thief	Assassin
Thief	Trickster
Wyvern Rider	Wyvern Lord
Wyvern Rider	Griffon Rider

Ricken

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Mage	Sage
Mage	Dark Knight
Cavalier	Paladin
Cavalier	Great Knight

Gaius

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Myrmidon	Swordmaster
Myrmidon	Assassin
Thief	Assassin
Thief	Trickster
Pegasus Knight	Falcon Knight
Pegasus Knight	Dark Flier

*Noire is able to inherit a skill that is unique to the Fighter class set if Gaius is her father.

Donnel

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Mercenary	Hero
Mercenary	Bow Knight
Pegasus Knight	Falcon Knight
Pegasus Knight	Dark Flier
Troubadour	Valkyrie
Troubadour	War Cleric

*Noire is able to inherit a skill that is unique to the Fighter and Villager class sets if Donnel is her father.

Gregor

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Mercenary	Hero
Mercenary	Bow Knight
Myrmidon	Swordmaster
Myrmidon	Assassin
Troubadour	Valkyrie
Troubadour	War Cleric

*Noire is able to inherit a skill that is unique to the Barbarian class set if Gregor is her father.

Libra

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Cleric	War Cleric
Cleric	Sage
Mage	Sage
Mage	Dark Knight

Henry

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Thief	Assassin
Thief	Trickster
Troubadour	Valkyrie
Troubadour	War Cleric

*Noire is able to inherit a skill that is unique to the Barbarian class set if Henry is her father.

Overall[]

Subjective: The following part of this article is based upon the editor's personal experiences and opinions, and therefore may not be applicable for all readers.

Base Class[]

Noire is an Archer by default and, with her magically inclined mother Tharja, has a bit of dissonance with her base stats. She does inherit some very solid Speed for some reliance on follow-up attacks. Tharja provides her with a neutral base Strength modifier which thankfully will result in none of her father giving her a negative cap. She instead gains a +3 Magic modifier which Noire no real means to capitalize it in her base class as there are no Magic Bows in Awakening. As a result, Noire is largely reliant on her father to pick up the slack where she falls behind in. One notable thing about Noire is, despite her good starting Luck stat, almost all of her fathers will leave her with a negative score except for Donnel and a Luck Asset Robin. Overall, Noire is a rather polarizing character since it is clear that her stats are built more for a magical inclined class like her mother, yet her default is a physical unit. Luckily the ability to reclass her gives her flexibility if the player does not wish to keep her in her innate class.
Noire will always come with Skill +2 and Prescience to shore up her rather poor starting Skill stat and increases her Hit/Avoid during her turn.
Noire's promotions are the Sniper and Bow Knight classes. Sniper allows her to invest full into Bow Mastery with Hit Rate +20 to shore up whatever accuracy issues she might have and Bowfaire gives her a much needed boost to he Strength when attacking with bows. Bow Knight gives her increased movement and access to swords, which opens the door to using Levin Swords to make use of her Magic growths can caps. Rally Skill is useful if building Noire to be a Rally user and Bowbreaker lets her fend off bow units.

Maternal Inheritance[]

Tharja provides Noire with the Dark Mage and Knight classes.
Dark Mage is a much more fitting class when trying to maximize damage from her innate stat inheritance. It comes with a host of useful skills regardless from Anathema to lower foe's hit and avoid when near her, Vengeance to take any off received hits and pile it into her attacks, Tomebreaker to fend off Tome users, and Lifetaker to heal half of her health whenever she kills an enemey.
Knight provides mainly Luna, a more reliable skill that does not require Noire to be injured and can help pierce through high defense foes, Dual Guard+ which increase the rate of activating a Dual Guard, and Pavise to shave damage from melee ranged foes.

Paternal Inheritance[]

For Noire's Paternal Inheritance, see here: Noire/Paternal Inheritance

Fire Emblem Heroes[]

Of Two Minds: Daughter of Tharja. Timid and pessimistic, but turns into a totally different person when enraged. Appears in Fire Emblem Awakening.

Base Stats[]

Rarity: ✯✯✯✯✯

		Group
		Title
		Of Two Minds
		Infantry
Level	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res
1 40	15/16/17 34/38/41	10/11/12 43/46/49	7/8/9 44/47/51	12/13/14 31/35/38	5/6/7 24/28/31
Skills			Weapon
Arcane Hex Bow New Moon			Bow

Skills[]

Type	Name	Prerequisite	Default	Unlocked
	Iron Bow	-	-	-
	Steel Bow	-	-	-
	Silver Bow	-	-	-
	Arcane Hex Bow	-		-
	New Moon	-	-	-
	Moonbow	New Moon	-	-
	Curved Shot	Moonbow	-
A	Sorcery Blade 1	-		-
	Sorcery Blade 2	Sorcery Blade 1		-
	Sorcery Blade 3	Sorcery Blade 2		-
	Atk/Spd Hexedge	Sorcery Blade 3		-
B	Speedtaker 1	-		-
	Speedtaker 2	Speedtaker 1		-
	Speedtaker 3	Speedtaker 2		-
	Speedtaker 4	Speedtaker 3
C	Blood & Thunder	-