Lawine

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**Lawine** 「ラヴィ―ネ, *Rawīne*?」 is a third-class mage who participated in the First Class Mage Examinations, where she was paired with Kanne and Frieren for the first exam. She specializes in manipulating ice.

## Personality

Lawine is usually calm and collected. However, her temper can have a very short fuse, especially with her childhood friend Kanne.

## Appearance

Lawine is a young female mage with ash brown hair and blue eyes. She has blunt bangs and her hair is waist length, with the end of her hair tied off with a ribbon. The strands of her hair at the sides of her face have been braided and are pinned together at the back of her head. Lawine wears a blue dress that goes to mid thigh and is lined with ruffles at the hem. The front of her dress is cut into a deep, laced v-neck layered over a white blouse. On top of the dress, Lawine wears a matching blue capelet similarly lined with ruffles at the hem. On her feet, she wears thigh high white laced boots with heels.

## Synopsis

### History

Lawine and Kanne study at the Academy of Magic together. During their first session of flight training, where their class practiced flying over the water, Lawine stayed behind with Kanne who froze up. She praised Kanne's good points when Kanne claimed she was someone who improved with praise, going as far as to call Kanne cute when she laughed. This caused Kanne to call her compliment creepy, and Lawine kicked Kanne off the cliff and towards the water, prompting Kanne to use her flight magic. Lawine then joined Kanne in the air, proclaiming that Kanne could fly after all, and that she wouldn't be so nice in the future.

### First Class Mage Exam

#### First Stage

Lawine participates in the First Class Mage Exam in Äußerst. She is placed in the second party along with Frieren and Kanne. Before the exam even begins, she and Kanne are already fighting, with Lawine sitting on Kanne's back and pulling her pigtails. Upon entering the exam grounds, the two continue to fight, with the argument shifting to who will hold onto the cage they have been given to hold the Stille in.

Once the exam begins, she wins Frieren's proposed rock-paper-scissors match with Kanne to decide who will hold the Stille cage. She introduces herself to the party as a third-class mage. Neither she nor Kanne know anything about the Stille they are meant to catch, so the three of them spend some time searching for a Stille to observe. When Kanne grows tired and Frieren calls for a rest, Lawine declares she will scout ahead. Frieren inquires after Lawine's strength, and she tells Frieren that she is stronger than Kanne, but she wouldn't want to fight Frieren. Frieren lets her go with a warning to be wary of the sky, and Lawine replies that she already knows about the Geisel patrolling the skies.

A short while later, Lawine returns to the party having found a Stille bathing in a shallow puddle. She and Kanne perfectly coordinate their magic, with Kanne manipulating the water to envelop part of the Stille's body, and Lawine instantly freezing the water to trap the Stille. Frieren praises their coordination, but tells them to take cover, before the Stille breaks out of their restraint and flies away. After, Frieren says they will spend the rest of the day learning about the Stille, so they continue to traverse through the exam grounds while observing Stilles. The next day, after noting in particular the Stilles' sensitivity to mana and the inability for water to break through the antimatter barrier surrounding the exam grounds, the party enacts their plan to capture a Stille. Lawine freezes over the lake in the center of the exam grounds, making it so that any Stilles in the area will not approach it, before escaping and rendezvousing with Frieren and Kanne.

After Frieren captures a Stille and then promptly has it stolen by Laufen, a fight breaks out between the thirteenth and second parties. Their opponent is the earth-control mage Richter, who raises a plateau in the exam grounds to separate them from Frieren's battle with Denken. Though Richter initially intends to kill them, Denken implores him to just babysit instead. Richter quickly defeats both Kanne and Lawine, as they are unable to deal with his attacks that use the mass of the earth to his advantage. However, when Frieren breaks the barrier over the exam grounds and lets in the rain, Lawine quickly freezes Richter's feet to the ground to prevent him from dodging Kanne's attack.

## Relationships

### Kanne

Lawine and Kanne are childhood friends. They went to the same Academy of Magic. Lawine and Kanne frequently argue, and Lawine is especially quick to anger around Kanne, resulting in her sitting on Kanne's back and pulling her pigtails. Despite their constant bickering, Lawine is shown to understand Kanne well. She praises Kanne for being hard working despite her cowardice and even when others are not paying attention, for being considerate, for paying attention to others, and for being cute when she laughs. Lawine and Kanne work well together in fights, usually with Lawine utilizing the water that Kanne manipulates for her own ice magic.

## Abilities

* Ice Magic: Lawine specializes in elemental ice magic. She is able to manipulate water in her surroundings and turn it to ice. This includes water shaped by others, such as Kanne.
	+ **Arrows of Ice: Nephtear**: Lawine produces large spears of ice around herself that are then fired at the target.

## Trivia

* Lawine is German / Dutch for "avalanche".

## References

1. ↑ *Frieren: Beyond Journey's End* Manga:
 Chapter 38 (pp. 14-15).