Corrin (F) (Fire Emblem)

**Corrin** is the main female protagonist of the *Fire Emblem Fates* games.

A youth born into the Hoshidan royal family, but raised by the Nohrian royal family: she become the key to the interaction between both kingdoms, and their decisions will shape the plot as a whole.

Oddly charismatic and easily attracts others. Conceals elusive power. The one with the most hidden potential in the army.

In the AWA fics, Corrin is set to appear in a future AWA storyline.

## **Appearance**

Corrin has a long and messy, light-brownish silver hair with a black ribboned headband on top and has red eyes. She wears a black shirt with a white collar and puffy shoulders underneath a silver tunic-like body armor with scales in the mid-section and blue cloth wrapped on the right side of her body by a brooch and a white scabbard with light-brown patched dangling on the left side of her hip. She wears a black thigh-high frilled leg warmers underneath a thigh-high silver-colored leg armor and she is barefooted. She wears a silver arm gauntlets over a pair of black gloves, and she wears a dark-blue cape.

## **Personality**

Corrin is a kind person who cares deeply for the people they love and will come to the aid of anyone who should ask them for it, rapid-firing apologies if they do something to upset others, likely inheriting this habit from their father. Despite having been sheltered throughout all of their childhood, they are quite social and conversational, as well as persuasive to the point of convincing some enemy soldiers to join their cause. Aside from being unusually charismatic and attracting people to them, Corrin is also mentioned to have a way with animals, as it is said the horses in the stables like them. As they spent the majority of their time growing up within the walls of the Northern Fortress, Corrin is very curious about the outside world, and quite eager to come across new sights. As proven by their support conversations with Silas, however, this trait of theirs has somewhat diminished over time. Corrin is often shown to be very curious and nosy about the members of their army and desires to make friends with their allies, even if they attempt to push them away (such as Beruka, who they still desire to befriend despite her threats, Hana, who despises them for thinking they caused Sakura's sadness and Rinkah, who chooses to isolate herself from the rest of her allies, preferring to be in her own company in that of being in others, despite Corrin saving her life). For the most part, the gender of Corrin does not impact their personality as a whole, however, the male is more laid-back and sweet in his unique supports, while the female is peppier and feisty in hers. Corrin is also shown to have a tendency to oversleep unintentionally.

According to Gunter however, this was not always the case, as Corrin was much more quiet and shy in their childhood, only becoming more outspoken once Gunter showed them kindness by acting as a father figure for them while at the Northern Fortress, though Corrin's supports with Camilla show signs of that introverted side, as they are quite uncomfortable with her excessive doting. Even so, Corrin hopes to get better at empathizing with people such as her and spend lots of time with them. Due to his constant visits to the Fortress, Corrin holds a particularly strong bond with Xander, who was not only Corrin's main sparring partner, but the person they wished to surpass in combat.

Corrin's most notable quirk (noted by a number of members in their army) is that they are quick to trust individuals, even when they are advised not to, likely due to them growing up having no experience of the outside world whatsoever, making them naive. This applies to Zola in *Birthright* and Anthony in *Revelation*, both of whom were tasked with killing them. They do eventually express some level of caution, both in the case of Iago in *Birthright* and the manifestation of Mikoto in *Revelation*, where they do not fall for their deception. While both Ryoma and Xander have stated that this could be a very fatal trait, they have conceded that this unwavering sense of trust makes them more trustworthy themselves, leading to many members of their army placing their faith in Corrin's cause and leadership. Ryoma has stated that this has been their main trait since they were young, having an honest and kind mindset and, in his mind, makes them worthy of being a ruler. While their charisma makes them an excellent leader in skirmishes - and Male Corrin's support with Shiro shows he's good at discerning an immediate opponent's strengths and weaknesses - both genders lack the vision to handle large-scale battles, as their supports with Leo showcase Corrin being upset at their inability to command large forces, leading them to reveal that they feel ashamed of their inexperience and often feel unworthy of leading because they feel they aren't as strong and wise as they should be and claims they are envious of his strategic mind and that they would trade with him if possible.

Their supports with Mozu reveals that they have a good enough academic background to pass knowledge onto her. They are also shown to have some intelligence with ideas like asking Zola to use his powers to change Azura's appearance as Layla to fool King Garon in *Birthright*, forcing Kotaro to reveal his kidnapping of Kagero in *Conquest* and deducing a traitor in their army with little to no information in *Revelation*. Corrin is also very strong-willed in the path they've chosen and never joins the opposing side even if one of their siblings or allies tries to ask them.

Corrin has strong familial attachment to both the Nohrian and Hoshidan royal siblings. Regardless of their choice, they are reluctant to fight against either family whenever they are forced to face them. This also leads them to be extremely merciful and will always try to end a battle against them and their forces with as little casualties as possible, and will always spare their sibling. Even in the instance where Corrin refuses to pick a side, the thought of both families fighting each other are equally bad and they hope that one day, the two families will see eye to eye and become friends. Corrin is also shown to be a very loving and protective parent if they have a child of their own, as when Kana is attacked by Invaders, they display nothing but righteous fury, stating that they will stain the fields of the Deeprealm with the Invaders' blood in retaliation. Lastly, Azura becomes Corrin's closest ally in the army as they share the same circumstances of their lives, almost becoming akin to siblings.

Corrin has shown a wide variety of talents, as Kaze's Private Quarter invite quote reveals that they are a great piano player, while some supports notes that they enjoy writing poetry and reading about philosophy. However, they have trouble with household basics as they were constantly pampered by their retainers, which caused them to lack the skills, with their supports being the very first time they attempt such chores, causing them to burn massive amounts of tea in their support with Jakob and having trouble doing their own laundry in their support with Frederick. They are hardly discouraged by this, however, as their eagerness to learn comes from a desire to be a bit less over-reliant on others. Corrin is the one with the most hidden potential in the army.

## **Abilities**

As one of the two Blue Dragons alongside Nowi upon release, Corrin possesses low ATK, which makes her a less offensive unit than Nowi, but has high HP and DEF and decent SPD, which makes her a good defensive unit. Combining her defensive bulk with her powerful Breath weapon makes her a fearsome counter against powerful Sword users such as Ike and Ryoma, as her Breath weapon can easily shred through their low RES. Corrin's Dark Breath is an excellent option for debuffing multiple enemies, as it reduces their ATK and SPD by 5, which makes it easy for ally units to take less damage and double enemies. When refined, Dark Breath can target the lower of a ranged user's DEF and RES, making it easy for Corrin to deal more damage against them, and can be refined to help augment Corrin's stats. Seal Resistance can augment Corrin's debuffing ability after combat, and Hone Attack can be used as support. Draconic Aura, while not particularly powerful due to Corrin's low ATK, can be used to deal a decent amount of damage to enemies with low RES. Overall, Corrin is a great defensive Dragon unit, but is often overshadowed by Nowi.

### **Counters**

Corrin lacks solid offensive presence due to her mediocre Atk which does not compliment her good Spd. While she has the physical bulk and Spd combination to mostly negate strong physical attacks, she is vastly weak to many strong bulky Blue and Green units like Hector, Sheena, and Effie. Her biggest weakness is her low Res which makes her an easy target for many powerful Blue and Green Mages like Reinhardt, Delthea, Nino, and Summer Elise. Finally, as a Dragon, she has a natural weakness to Dragon effective weapons. Falchions, Breath of Fog, and a weapon refined Binding Blade does deal significant damage to her, but her color advantage does allow her to survive the attack sometimes and retaliate before going down. Julia and Deirdre are her two hardest counters with Naga and Divine Naga tomes as they have Dragon effectiveness and the color advantage over her.

### **Skill Inheritance Options**

Regardless of her final build, Corrin should take Reposition or Swap for her Support skill, giving her utility when repositioning units.

Corrin works better with Lighting Breath+ for its Distant Counter properties as she can make the most out of her role as an enemy phase unit that way. Warding Breath helps to patch her low Res when attacked while accelerating her Special Cooldown. While Quick Riposte compliments this build and is a solid option, Wrath helps to patch her low Atk by giving her Special attacks more power when it activates. All of these come together with Aether for both damage and healing.

If working with her Dark Breath to make her a debuffer, she should take Distant Counter to increase her defensive counterattack options, either Windsweep to allow her to poke enemies with her good speed or Swordbreaker to negate the threat of her Dragon Effective sword opponents. Savage Blow can be a good Skill C as not only will her enemies be debuffed by her attacks, but also they will sustain damage. Luna will help to shave enemy Res so she can deal more damage as well.

## **Trivia**

* Both Corrin's official artwork depicts them wielding Yato.
* In the English and Japanese versions of the game, Corrin shares their voice actors with other characters.
	+ Male Corrin shares his English voice actors Cam Clarke with Arthur, Hinata, and Anankos's human form and Yuri Lowenthal with Ricken from *Awakening,* Kiragi and Marth.
	+ Female Corrin shares her English voice actresses Marcella Lentz-Pope with Scarlet, Danielle Judovits with Mitama, Female Kana, and Lilith and Stephanie Lemelin with Rinkah and Reina.
	+ Both Corrins share their Japanese voice actors, Nobunaga Shimazaki and Satomi Sato, with both genders of Kana.
* If Corrin is male, there will be an equal amount of male and female royal siblings (5 males and 5 females). However, if Corrin is female, the majority amount of royal siblings will be female (4 males and 6 females).
* Corrin is the series' first non-human protagonist.
* Corrin's dragon form may be based off of the Qilin, a Chinese dragon that has deer-like antlers and the body/hooves of a deer, ox or horse.
* Male Corrin in *Fates* is the second male unit in the series capable of wielding Dragonstones, after Bantu.
	+ Both genders of Corrin are the only Avatar characters as well as Lord characters that are able to use Dragonstones.
* While Female Corrin can freely reclass into all non-special classes in *Revelation* using nothing but Friendship Seals, Male Corrin does not have this ability as the Oni Savage and Apothecary classes are not available to them without having to marry a character who has the classes or have the classes as their secondary class.
* Rhajat implies in her *Japanese* support with Corrin that they are Robin's previous incarnation, and that she is a previous incarnation of Tharja and so she promised to fall for them at first sight and love them eternally.
* Corrin's default name in the Japanese version is shared with Kamui from *Fire Emblem Gaiden* and its remake, *Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia*.
* The original official artwork of Female Corrin shows her having two left feet. This is most likely an overlooked error. The artwork on the official website was later modified to show the correct feet.
* According to Kozaki, Corrin was given bare feet due to the animalistic impression he had after hearing of their strong ties to dragons, along with creating a "hook" for players equivalent to other characters in the game.
* Depictions of Male Corrin in marketing and other media typically depict him as a Hoshido Noble while Female Corrin is a Nohr Noble. This holds true for the box art of *Fire Emblem Fates Birthright* (featuring Male Corrin) and *Conquest* (featuring Female Corrin). These depictions are carried over into *Fire Emblem Heroes* and *Fire Emblem Warriors* as well, where Male and Female Corrin bear default classes aligning them respectively with Hoshido and Nohr.
	+ In the *Cipher* trading card game, Male Corrin is often shown as a Hoshido Noble, while Female Corrin is often shown as a Nohr Noble. In third series of the trading card game, the master cards of Male Corrin depict him as a Nohr Noble and Female Corrin is depicted as a Hoshido Noble.
		- In both the second and third series of *Fates*' characters in the Cipher trading card game, Male Corrin is always shown with his Hoshido siblings, and Female Corrin is always with her Nohr siblings. This alignment holds true even for cards that depict the siblings as classes otherwise exclusive to their rival nation.
	+ In *Fire Emblem Warriors*, Female Corrin promotes into a Nohr Noble while Male Corrin promotes into a Hoshido Noble. Both versions have DLC costumes that swap their respective national representation.
	+ This alignment also holds true for both genders of Kana in the Heirs of Fate DLC - Female Kana (Male Corrin's daughter) follows Hoshidan characters, uses Noble/Blazing Yato and is a Hoshido Noble in later parts, while Male Kana (Female Corrin's son) follows Nohrian characters, uses Grim/Shadow Yato and is a Nohr Noble in later parts.
	+ In *Fire Emblem: Three Houses*, the Male Corrin Amiibo unlocks Alight (Storm), a Hoshidan-aligned music, while the Female Corrin Amiibo unlocks A Dark Fall (Fire), a Nohrian-aligned music.
* Corrin is the first Lord character and Avatar in the series to have a branching promotion from their base class, though only in the *Revelation* route.
* Female Corrin came in 1st in the Nintendo Official Popularity Poll for females while Male Corrin came in 5th for males.
	+ Corrin came 3rd in the character popularity poll issued by Nintendo Dream.
	+ Female Corrin of *Fates* is the only Avatar in the series to place first in an official popularity poll.
	+ Female Corrin came in 5th for females in the *Fire Emblem Heroes Choose Your Legends* popularity poll. She had 19,599 total votes. Male Corrin came in 21st place for males and had 7,691 total votes.
* In The Making of Fire Emblem 25th Anniversary Book early concept art show that Corrin at one point was going to have the Nohrian royal color scheme but was scrapped for the black and silver color scheme instead. This early concept also depicted Corrin with longer ears similar in length to Tiki's.
	+ The designer and development team apparently had trouble deciding Corrin's hair color; white hair was their first choice but was changed to black (which they likely inherited from their mother Mikoto) before reverting back to the original default hair color.
* With 89 in-game support conversations (69 normal/romantic supports and 20 children supports), Female Corrin has the highest number of unique conversations out of all characters in *Fates* and the *Fire Emblem* franchise as a whole.
* Corrin is the only first-party DLC Newcomer in *Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U*.
	+ They are also the only DLC character with gender variants.
	+ They are the only *Fire Emblem* representative to not enter a stage via a Warp circle.
	+ While *Fates* was released in Japan prior to Corrin's release, Corrin is one of the few characters to debut in *Smash* internationally prior to their flagship game's release; Marth, Roy, and Lucas are the others.
		- With the release of *Fates* in Japan in 2015 and international release of *Fates* in 2016, Corrin is the most recent character in the *Smash* series by the release date of their original game.
	+ Female Corrin's tights were altered in *Smash 4* to cover her inner thighs, likely to maintain *Smash 4's* ESRB rating of E10+.
		- Despite her change in *Smash 4*, her *Fates'* official artwork is still unchanged in *Ultimate*. This is most likely an oversight.
* Male Corrin can have an S-Support with the also Male Niles, while Female Corrin can S-Support the also Female Rhajat. This makes them the first lead characters of the series who can potentially marry characters of the same gender.
	+ Unlike the Japanese version, the English version supports between both genders are identical to one another.
* Corrin has three unique critical quotes depending on which route you take.
	+ This makes Corrin the only character in *Fates* with more than 4 critical quotes.
		- This also makes them the only Avatar units and Lord units with more than 4 critical quotes.
* Corrin has the most retainers out of both royal families, having 5. They are Felicia, Flora, Jakob, Gunter and Kaze (if an A-Support is achieved.)
	+ Due to the passing of some of these characters, Corrin can have at most three retainers as Gunter does not appear at all in *Birthright*, Flora will not join the Hoshidan Army and commits suicide in *Birthright* and Kaze will sacrifice himself if A support (at least) is not obtained in *Birthright*. So in *Birthright*, Corrin can have Jakob, Felicia, and possible Kaze. And in *Conquest* and *Revelation*, they can have Jakob, Felicia, Kaze, Gunter and Flora as retainers.
* The eyebrows of both Male and Female Corrin will always be black regardless of what hair color the player chooses.
* Despite their aversion towards intense violence and killing due to them being pacifist, Corrin has occasionally had to kill their enemies due to not having any others options to safely contain them at the time. However, Hans, Iago and Garon are the only ones that Corrin is willing to kill without remorse or hesitation.
* The Fire Emblem Fates Drama CD reveals that Female Corrin is afraid of bugs.
* *Super Smash Bros.* amiibo figures for both genders of Corrin were announced on December 15, 2015 but didn't release to retail until July 21, 2017. The Corrin amiibo, as well as the Bayonetta and Cloud amiibo, hold the current record for the the longest period between an amiibo figure's initial announcement and subsequent retail release.
* The female version of Corrin (Nohrian Summer) is the winner of the fifth Voting Gauntlet (Battle at the Beach) in *Fire Emblem Heroes*. This victory also made her the first Avatar unit to have won the Voting Gauntlet.
* Unlike the other royal siblings, Corrin shares a critical quote, "This ends now!", with only one of their retainers, that being Gunter. They also shares that quote with Kana.
	+ Furthermore, Corrin also shares the phrase "You won't stop me!" and "I won't surrender!" with Kana, due to being parent and child. However, regardless of path chosen, Kana does not use any phrases such as "For Hoshido!", "For Nohr!", and "I make my own fate!".
* In *Heroes*, both Corrin are the only Avatar units, as well as the only Lord units, to not appear in any of the main story chapters. However, this is no longer the case as of May 10th 2019, as the Wailing Soul Female Corrin is an enemy in Book 3.
* In *Warriors*, Female Corrin is the only Avatar unit to have a Gleamstone, as well as the only female member of the roster to bear one in general.