Hilda Valentine Goneril

**Hilda** is a playable character in *Fire Emblem: Three Houses* and *Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes*. She possesses a minor Crest of Goneril. She is 18 at the start of the game, and 23 after the time skip. She is the heir to house Goneril, the wife to Caspar Von Bergliez, and the younger sister of Holst. She uses Axes as her main weapon, and wields the relic **Freikugel.**

## Hilda Valentine Goneril

### Relatives

Goneril (Ancestor)Unnamed FatherHolst (Older Brother)

### Affiliation

AlyraThe Alliance (Formerly)The Golden Deer House

### Occupation

Retainer Of ClaudeStudent at the Officers Academy

## Appearances

### Appears in

Fire Emblem Three HousesFire Emblem Three Hopes

### Early life

Hilda is the only daughter and youngest child of House Goneril. Her older brother, Lord Holst, ascended to head of the family and made a name for himself as Leicester's greatest general.

### Academy Phase

Hilda enrolls in Garreg Mach Monastery Officers Academy in Imperial Year 1180, and joins the Golden Deer.

### Verdant wind

If the Golden Deer route is chosen, Hilda continues as an unofficial retainer of Claude's. She helps him come up with the idea that they employ to infiltrate and capture Fort Merceus, and she also witnesses Dimitri's death after the Alliance defeats both the Kingdom and the Empire at Gronder – something she relates almost tearfully to Claude and Byleth.

## Personality

Hilda is spoiled and lazy, which is attributed to her upbringing as the sole daughter and youngest child of a noble. She will often make excuses to opt out of any strenuous work or simply avoid doing things she does not want to. She is rather adept at manipulating others into doing her chores for her. She does this by not directly asking people to help her, and describes this habit herself as drawing attention to her wants and letting people address them on their own. Her laziness stems from her brother Holst, as he had set such a perfect example that Hilda believes that anything she does will only cause disappointment.

Despite her laziness, Hilda is friendly, charismatic, and can be genuinely helpful if she puts effort in. She is a fashionable girl and enjoys fancy things. As a side hobby, she enjoys making handcrafted accessories for herself and her close friends. Hilda does want things to be done correctly, and will exert herself when she recognizes a friend may not be able to do something right.

Similar to Claude, Hilda is also shown to be remarkably perceptive. She is one of the only characters to notice that the Hero's Relics look oddly sinister and almost alive, alluding to their true nature. Hilda is also the only student who notes how bizarre it is that Monica seems so happy and friendly after almost a year of imprisonment. The fact that Hilda refuses to follow Edelgard after she declares war, and is even willing to die protecting Claude during the War Phase, also indicates that she is far more loyal than she lets on. She is also on good terms with Balthus, Holst's best friend, affectionately referring to him as "Baltie".

## Relationships

### Caspar Von Bergliez

*Caspar and Hilda, under no pressure to inherit any noble titles, spent the early years of peace after the war traveling. They journeyed to every corner of Fódlan, and even ventured abroad now and again. Caspar's antics caused endless entertainment for Hilda, who loved to stand by and watch him fight or squirm his way out of trouble. Eventually, their free-spirited adventure was called to an end by Hilda's brother, Holst, who offered Caspar a position as a knight in service of House Goneril. Caspar accepted, and before long, he and Hilda were married. The couple raised many children, and were said to have a notoriously lively household.*

## Trivia

* Hilda stands at 154cm (just above 5’0”).
* Hilda has a unique post-timeskip battle model as a Brigand and Warrior.
	+ Otherwise, she uses pink colours for her classes.
* Hilda shares her Japanese voice actress, Yūki Kuwahara, with Effie and Ophelia from *Fates*.
* Hilda has the highest stat total requirement to be recruited out of all students, requiring 30 in Charm without any support formed.
	+ She is also the only student who requires a subject proficiency in Axes as her recruitment requirement.
* Hilda's official art depicts her wielding the Axe of Zoltan.
* If the Black Eagles are chosen, Hilda's lost items will still appear, but they cannot be returned unless the player commits to the *Silver Snow* path, at which point Hilda can be interacted with like any other student.
* Despite not being recruitable in *Crimson Flower*, Hilda has a paired ending with male Byleth coded into the game that ultimately goes unused. This suggests that she was, initially, intended to be recruitable.
* She is one of the few characters that will retreat if defeated on Classic Mode at the War Phase, the other four are Hubert and Gilbert, Seteth and Flayn.
	+ However, she won't be playable at all and the ending screen says that she dies from her wounds soon after the war.
		- She only retreats if the Verdant Wind route is chosen, else she dies normally if the Azure Moon or Silver Snow route is chosen.
* Hilda's ancestor, Goneril, was a War Master, a class Hilda can never obtain due to it being a male-only class. She shares this distinction, albeit gender-flipped, with Felix.
* If Hilda is recruited in Azure Moon, she is replaced during Saving Derdriu by a generic female War Master. This is odd as female characters do not have access to the War Master class, and if Hilda was not recruited, she appears as a Warrior.
* Bernadetta, Hilda, Anna, and Hapi are tied with having the highest number of favorite gifts, at a total of seven.
* According to unused data, Hilda was originally going to be 15 years old in the start of the academy phase before being changed to 18 in the final game.
* In the second survey conducted by Nintendo DREAM Magazine, Hilda placed 10th in the character popularity poll for *Fire Emblem: Three Houses*. The male-female vote ratio was 1:3. She ranked 10th among those who completed the game with 119 points.
* In a survey conducted by Famitsu Magazine, Hilda placed 3rd for females and 6th overall with 988 votes in the character popularity poll for *Fire Emblem: Three Houses*.
* In the third survey conducted by Nintendo DREAM Magazine, Hilda placed 8th in the character popularity poll for *Fire Emblem: Three Houses*. The male-female vote ratio was 1:3. She ranked 8th among those who completed the game with 123 points.
* In the fourth survey conducted by Nintendo DREAM Magazine, Hilda placed 7th in the character popularity poll for *Fire Emblem: Three Houses*. The male-female vote ratio was 1:4. She ranked 7th among those who completed the game with 13.8% of the vote.
* In the fourth *Fire Emblem Heroes: Choose Your Legends* popularity poll, Hilda ranked 10th place for females with 11,702 votes.