Seraphina Manos

**Seraphina "Fina" Manos** is a protagonist in *Senki Zesshou Symphogear.*

Fina's relic is Harpe and her armed gear is a sword. Her theme color is gold, with an addition of silver.

## Etymology

**St. Fina (or Serafina)** was a thirteenth century Italian saint.

**Manos** is a Greek surname.

## History

### Childhood

Seraphina was born in Greece, but moved to Japan very early in her life due to her parents gaining new jobs in the country. Settled in a small house with her mother, father, and maternal grandfather, she enjoyed a peaceful childhood, and became good friends with Hotaru Fukui soon after arriving in Japan, as the two attended the same daycare.

She struggled to learn Japanese when she first moved to the country, and was repeatedly teased for it by her peers in school. The bullying, while difficult, inspired Fina to improve in the language and fit in with her classmates. She was only than accepted in her class and the bullying stopped, but from then on she had difficulty expressing her emotions properly, and despised the kind of people who took joy in making others feel pain.

### Getting Harpe

Fina obtained Harpe when she was taken out of school by S.O.N.G to be told that she was a candidate for a relic, and is taken to S.O.N.G headquarters, where she meets Hibiki, Kanade, and the others. Fina, confused, asks them what a relic is, and for more information, but before they can answer, Hibiki and the other users get called to fight Noise, but she is quickly given a relic by Genjuro, who then pushes her into a helicopter with the rest. Fina, who is frightened and confused, again asks for a explanation from Tsubasa, who explains to her the situation. Fina, though still slightly confused, agrees to fight the Noise, though has no idea how to activate her relic. Tsubasa tells her to sing. Fina does, and somehow is able to activate her relic, Harpe. After the battle, Fina gets a more thorough explanation from Genjuro, and agrees to join S.O.N.G.

### Meeting Brittany

After agreeing to join S.O.N.G, Fina is told about S.O.N.G's INTERNATIONAL program, a program in which S.O.N.G locates candidates for a Symphogear from all over the world, and bring them to Japan to fight the various threats associated with the Noise. Genjuro introduces her to Brittany Parker, a candidate from the United States who came to Japan 5 months earlier. Fina immediately hit it off with Brittany, and they became good friends despite Brittany's poor Japanese.

## Appearance

Fina's school uniform consists of a maroon blazer with a sweater vest underneath and a purple skirt. She wears her hair in braids and buns.

Fina's casual wear in *Un Atre* consists of a white off shoulder sweater with a black skirt and lace up boots with leg warmers.

## Personality

Fina is usually a happy sort of person, though not as cheery as Hibiki. She goes with the flow, never being able to make decisions when she is given long periods of time to think, but when under pressure, acts on her instincts. She never talks to any of her friends about her problems and doesn't allow herself to show any negative emotion for fear of making others worry, but after she had a breakdown at the end of *Y* because of this, she starts to work on handling her emotions properly.

She has no problem with fighting anyone who is the enemy, often being the first on the battlefield as the fighting is good stress relief for her. She sometimes clashes with Hibiki over this, but they stay on good terms nevertheless.

She values the friendship of Brittany and the others immensely, and is deeply hurt whenever someone suggests that isn't the case. However, after Genny, Catherine, and Dagrun defects to their side, she has a hard time forgiving them for all the terrible acts they committed.

On the battlefield, she finds strange pleasure in taunting enemies before killing them mercilessly, though this is probably due to her using battles as her "punching bags" to let loose her anger.

## Attacks and Abilities

### Abilities

As the user of the Harpe relic, Fina has the power the fight the Noise using Anti-Noise armor. She is a natural user, not requiring LiNKER to keep her powers stable. Her armed gear takes the form of a sword.

### Attacks

* **Enedra Murder Spree**
* **Trelos Berserker**

## Songs

### Y

* **Eiyu no Ken Harpe**
* **Trapped Inside of Me**

### IN.

* **Mizu no Shita no Niwa**
* **Tsukiakari no Uta**

### YV

* **Kami no Negai**
* **A Heart Ripped Apart**

## Relationships

### Brittany Parker

Fina became friends with Brittany almost immediately after joining S.O.N.G, but as Brittany moved from America only five months prior, her Japanese was limited. However, Fina still became Brittany's partner and they fought together for two months before Polly and Mathilde joined.

### Hibiki Tachibana

The two of the get along quite well, often spending time together outside of their missions for S.O.N.G. Hibiki and Fina sometimes clash over their conflicted beliefs of combat, but they stay on good terms.

## Trivia

* Misty Gerhardt owned the Harpe relic before Fina.
* Her genre of music is Pop.
* All of her attacks are in Greek.
* Her gear has several similarities to Finé's Nehushtan Armor.
* Her name is a reference to Fine's name.