Nowi

Nowi, also known as Nono, is a character from the Fire Emblem series.
== Charactah Account ==
A manakete from no land in particular. While she looks young and likes to play outside with children, she is actually over 1,000 years and counting.
Nowi, due to her age as a Manakete, mostly acts like a child, but it is often done to cheer others up. She loves playing outside and is always looking for a playmate, though she explains to Nah that her constant playing around also serves as her training regimen. Upon joining the army, Nowi immediately understands her cheerful impact on the army and acts accordingly to keep the army's morale up. Despite this however, Nowi is well aware of her Manakete status and, like Tiki, is afraid of being alone, knowing that one day, her human friends will die while she continues to live on for many more millennia. Nevertheless, Nowi continues to live everyday, enjoying the time she has with everyone in the army.
Nowi has moments showing her maturity, especially with her children to whom she uses mature language and shows such emotion making sure to care for them and raise them the only way she knows how. This is particularly evidenced in her supports with Nah, where she is concerned with Nah's usage of her dragonstone to train, as it is too powerful and may negatively affect younger manaketes. In the following conversations, Nowi shows how much information she picks up while seemingly playing nonchalantly as well as her ability to heed to her child's wishes and incorporate them into her guidance, earning Nah's respect naturally and making her change her initial thoughts about Nowi. Nowi is also shown to be very acute to the emotions of others, such as the instance where she notices Nah's pent up sadness upon a glance and lets her cry in her arms. As such instances reveal, Nowi is able to lead and bond with her child as a parent more naturally than many other casts of Fire Emblem Awakening, perhaps due to her hobby of playing with other children or due to her true age, which puts her above a millennium in age to her child as opposed to a few years' difference that other have.
== Appearance ==
=== Manga ===
* Fire Emblem Heroes: A Day in the Life
* Fire Emblem: Awakening Comic Anthology
=== Video Games ===
* Fire Emblem Awakening
* Fire Emblem Heroes
== Trivia ==
* Nowi came in 10th for females in the Fire Emblem Heroes Choose Your Legends popularity poll. She had 10,571 total votes.
* Despite Nah's appearance being similar in terms of age, among casts of Awakening, Nowi has among the largest age gap from one's children, placing her and Nah about 1,000 years apart; the only character to surpass this difference is Tiki, who has about a 3,000 year difference from Morgan.
* Strangely, Nowi is the only female character that does not trigger Lon'qu's gynophobia.
* An odd continuity error can occur at the end of Chapter 8 if the player does not engage Nowi in a battle, where at the end of it the characters will remark how Nowi can transform into a dragon despite not actually seeing her do so.
* In her supports with Stahl, she finds an injured bird and names it Janaff.
* Nowi has a unique victory pose as a Mage and Bride that depicts her briefly cheering with a wide smile as well as sticking out her tongue.
* Nowi shares her Japanese voice actress, Kumi Tanaka, with Aversa.
* Nowi shares her English voice actress, Hunter MacKenzie Austin, with Rebecca and Clarine in Fire Emblem Heroes.
* Nowi's Dragon tribe is unknown and never brought up. Some speculate she is a Divine Dragon due to using a recolored version of Tiki's dragon form model and her reverence of Naga. Nah's strong connection to Naga such as being able to directly commune with her is another evidence that they are affiliated with the Divine tribe. Also, given the developer's account that Tiki was a last-minute addition to the game, it would have been Nowi performing the Awakening ritual as well as drawing from Naga's power, which strongly suggests that she is indeed a Divine Dragon.
* Within the main game, Nowi's breath is referred to as fiery, yet in the official manga for Fire Emblem Awakening, it is depicted as cold and slushy like ice.
** In the original Japanese script, Nowi's breath is referred to as simply 'breath' with no implication of it being fiery. Furthermore, in her Japanese support conversation with Donnel, Nowi made an offhand comment that she had never breathed fire before (and was going to try it for the first time on the chicken/pheasant she caught with Donnel's stone).
** However, Nowi is quite often ready to start fires with her breath across several other support conversations as well, as evidenced in Robin's support where she offers to start a cooking fire with her breath. The variety of breaths she is depicted using may be a reference to Tiki where she could become any type of dragon and use any type of breath in FE 1&3 with the right Dragonstones.
* The artwork of Nowi and Tiki stargazing is a reference to a conversation they can have in the Harvest Scramble DLC.
* In her EXP boost Event Tile, she mentions she met a dragon friend by the name of "Banter" and "Banta", noting that she cannot remember his name exactly. This may be a reference to Bantu, the Manakete who watched over Tiki for many years. In her conversation with Sully in Summer Scramble hints at her knowing Bantu as well, with him apparently telling her of a Manakete that lives under the sea and causes storms.
* Nowi uses a different Bride battle sprite from other characters which are instead modified versions of the Tactician's DLC placeholder Lance, Bow, and Staff animations.
* While her official artwork depicts her with violet gloves, her confession CG in Awakening depicts her with white ones.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Nowi at Fire Emblem Wiki
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