Edea Lee

⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Wighty
Contact: Holsety
Age: 25
Current Characters: N/A


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Edea Lee
Age: 18 (NA Age)
Canon: Bravely Default
Canon Point: After proceeding through the end of the cycles and destroying Ouroboros.

Background: Wiki Link for Edea Lee! Scroll down to the ‘Story’ section.

Personality: Edea is an incredibly headstrong character guided by a strong sense of morality and justice instilled in her by her father and her sword instructor. Raised from a young age to be a knight and a warrior, she vowed to always protect the innocent, defend the weak, and right the wrongs of the world. From the first scene in which she appears, it is clear that she has a keen sense of right and wrong – or as she terms it, black and white. All that she views to be black, she fights against with the whole of her strength. She does nothing half-heartedly and feels everything very keenly. The slightest injustice sets her on the warpath to punish those who would seek to oppress others…

Unfortunately, this means that in short order, she realizes that the people who are so heavily tarred with black are the very same ones who first instilled these values in her. The daughter of the Templar of Eternia, Edea is the heir to the Eternian throne - the throne of a country who, amongst other atrocities, promotes the enslavement of an entire people, encourages the murder of sacred creatures to create a potion that causes anyone who scents it to go mad with rage, rapes and murders women, starts wars all over the world, and uses debilitating poison gas to fight their battles.

Edea did not approve.

When she finds out the truth of what is happening, she has no qualms about immediately turning against her people, despite being their future leader. The same people who once inspired her – the hero knight, Heinkel, her sister warrior, Einheria, her swordmaster, Kamiizumi, her would-be lover, Alternis… even her father, Braev. All had become truly corrupted by the philosophy of ‘the ends justify the means’. Though their actions were ostensibly to save the world from a terrible fate, they had already plunged it into darkness through their truly black crimes. Edea is too noble of heart to ever be able to accept this. For the good of the world, she has no choice but to strike down her former friends and heroes. The only person she does not eventually kill is her father… but Braev Lee is crippled for life at her hand. Despite the incredible amount of personal loss that she will suffer – the deaths of her friends and family, the loss of her status due to the betrayal of her country, Edea places the needs of the world before herself.

She, of course, does not do this lightly. Though her decision is made without hesitation, each time she has to face a former ally, she begs and pleads with them to understand that their actions are madness. They never listen. On their side, they accuse her of being too quick to judge without knowing the truth. And this is a fair criticism of Edea’s faults. Her name, Edea Lee, speaks to her character – she’s incredibly idealistic and believes in a world that’s entirely black and white. She fails to see shades of gray and she judges incredibly quickly. Often, she will immediately pronounce something as ‘black’ when she has barely any knowledge of the situation – if she sees something she sees as unjust, she will make her judgment on the spot. In the case of the game, she turns out to be right in many cases. It is the people of Eternia who have been so corrupted by the idea of ‘grey’ that they cannot see that their actions have strayed from the gray to become truly black. But in other circumstances, Edea’s snap judgments could certainly lead to trouble.

Worth noting as well is the fact that despite her firm ideals and quick judgments, Edea also appears to be slightly too trusting. She is baffled and angry as to why Agnes is incapable of accepting her help at first, indicating that Edea herself would have no qualms about accepting this sort of help – failing to realize that being the daughter of the Templar of Eternia, being a Sky Knight, and being a complete stranger might possibly make it hard to trust her. She is also the last party member to recognize that they are being misled. Ringabel begins to entertain suspicions early on and shares them with Tiz, who eventually leads Agnes to the same conclusion. Edea stays in the dark for a bit longer than the rest.

Despite the more serious aspects of her nature, Edea can be relaxed and act more at ease as well. Of the party members, she and Ringabel are the more worldly, given that Tiz is a shepherd boy and Agnes is the Wind Vestal (essentially a nun). This often leads to situations where Edea and Ringabel tease the other two good-naturedly about their naivete and their lack of experience with big cities. She also likes to act a big sister to the others despite the fact that she is the youngest of them all, encouraging Tiz’s budding romance with Agnes, for example, or pushing Agnes to put herself out there and become less of an introvert. With her friends and close companion, Edea drops a lot of her fervor about JUSTICE and MORALS and simply relaxes and enjoys herself.

Abilities: In Bravely Default, abilities are bestowed by objects called asterisks. There are 23 Asterisks and 24 ability sets in total (called Jobs), with the default Job set of Freelancer. At the end of the game, Edea will have mastered the Valkyrie, Swordmaster, and Templar Asterisks, out of respect for her relationships with her ‘sister’, Einheria, her master, Kamiizumi, and her father, Braev, respectively. She will also be proficient with the Red Mage and Performer Asterisks as support abilities.

Incidentally, the Asterisks also provide magical changes of clothes. Edea herself, even without the Asterisks (in her Freelancer form), is an extremely proficient master of the sword and shield and the katana due to her lifelong training with Master Kamiizumi.

Edea can also use Specials, which are basically just super powered attacks depending on what weapon she’s holding. These require a great deal of ‘charging’ and can’t be used often.

Edea also has the ability to cook amazing concoctions that are guaranteed to be inedible for anybody besides Edea. She prefers her food to be composed of 90% sugar and has invented such dishes as jam and butter omelets, whipped chestnut and sweet potato toast, and marshmallow and condensed milk risotto.

Other: Edea will come with her signature katana, Ise-no-Kami.


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
First Person Sample:
Sample from a Mafia game called Dreamland. And here’s a more standard character interaction sample.

Third Person Sample:
Empatheias. An island where emotions were made manifest.
It was a difficult premise to accept at first – well. Right up until two minutes after she arrived, when her overwhelming joy at seeing Ouroboros disintegrate and at the salvation of thousands of worlds had caused her to temporarily become some sort of diminutive goddess of spring. She had wondered at first if this was the result of their victory. Perhaps this the true form that Luxendarc was meant to take without the interference of the self-proclaimed god of destruction and his servants. But it had become clear soon enough that this was an entirely different world in need of salvation.

She had, of course, been fully prepared to rise to the task. No rest for the weary – but then, the situation was much less pressing than the one at home. After this world was saved… after all was at peace, she could rest. Go home at last and reunite with her family…

She wondered if her people would accept her. …She wondered if her actions would have reversed themselves at all. Would Einheria and Alternis still be alive? Would her father be well? This parallel universe business was tricky to figure out.

But until then, there was still work to be done. It had been hard going, at first, living in this odd place. She wasn’t a person who felt things by halves – joy was just as overwhelming for her as anger; no matter what her emotions, she wore them clearly on her sleeve. In that sense, perhaps, it was less alarming to see their physical manifestations. She never hid them from herself; she believed in being honest and transparent. But in some ways, it seemed that made them all the more intense.

She ended her musings as Ise no Kami drew one last stroke through the air. The sword strokes she practiced – the sword strokes Master had taught her – were so automatic at this point that she hardly even had to think about them. She had allowed her mind to wander– bad form, she recognized. A flush of embarrassment at what her Master would have thought accompanied a vague acknowledgment that, perhaps, she was beyond her Master now.

…But no. That wasn’t quite true.

“…I’ll still make you proud.”

The person that she had admired… the person that she had viewed as a hero before everything had gone wrong. That person still deserved her respect.

“And I will see that this world does not fall to the black. Please… continue to watch out for me.”

Questions: The party in Bravely Default also has access to an item called a Strange Hourglass which allows for an ability called Bravely Second – essentially stopping time for a moment to take a breather. It requires charging, so perhaps it would be reasonable to say that it can be used only once every three days or something along those lines? Is this something Edea (and Tiz) can have access to?

Hello.

[She'd gone back to her room after the vote was over, her face pale.]

Thanks for coming. ...It looks like... Levi truly was innocent.

After their conversation and before the trial happens, a note will be slipped under Patchy's door for whenever she returns.

Missile is the true Detective or the Buddy-Cop.

If I'm gone by the time you read this, good luck!

-Edea

Um...

Patchouli, right?

[There's a lull during the day and Edea will approach the grumpy librarian when it looks like she's alone.]

I wanted to ask you something about what happened today. Is that alright?

Ibuki!

I think I've got almost all your crossword!

[Edea will grab Ibuki in the middle of the day with an excited expression. No one is around, but you can't be too careful...]

Come see.