I'm glad I finally see a blog that sees Faye as an actual character, instead of just bashing her and calling her a crazy bitch in love. I really do like her, her design is so cute and tidy, and while most say she doesn't have much personality outside of loving Alm, I like to think of stuff for her.
thank you anon ! i’m really glad that you enjoy my ideas behind faye ! i’ve always really enjoyed her as a character, and i’ve spent a lot of time thinking about her character and personality so it makes me happy that you can enjoy such as well!
What type of clothes does your character like to wear?
faye + clothes.
faye’s fashion sense is very simple, effective and comfortable. she’s definitely not a girl who wants to have pretty dresses of fine material, especially if they’re not convenient to wear-- preferring to wear things that are less restrictive of her, letting her be more flexible in general when it comes to movement. movement is a very important part of any outfit that she’d enjoy wearing, not feeling it trying to crush her waist, as well as being more comfortable with clothing leaning on the more modest side.
part of this is probably dealing with animals and agriculture, more modest clothing so that her body is not covered in filth is definitely a big thing, shown as her design is shown to have an apron, probably used especially if she helps with preparing food and such, with boots that reach higher up to the knee, more suited for better for the terrain. she also carries a side pouch of sorts, which could be used for keeping important things close to her as well as being able to bring things back home if need be.
overall, as long as they’re comfortable and don’t get in the way of her doing the things she needs to do, she’s not really picky.
Pulling away from prying eyes that were glued to the unveiled true heir of Rigel, the grand feast sapping energy from his body. His right shoulder’s stiff and sore for reasons unknown. Rigelian food was an odd delicacy from what little bites he had — anxiety of all the Rigelians’ perplexed eyes on him as he tried to have a taste of his meal had sucked out his appetite. Sure, Alm had been complimented on what a well-mannered commonborn ( or believed ) he was at the table, but he has seen how the nobility eats. How the backwater noble Lukas’ differs from Clair’s, the primitiveness and particularity could not be matched. The regality and not the boorish manners they expect from him.
It did not help they were also at a loss like he was. Although his close companions tried to persuade him to relax, it couldn’t vanquish the ringing in his ears, his soulless stare ( and their soulless stares ) at every one of their faces—all of them the same. Disjointed, hesitance, awed disbelief, lost—a mirror reflection of his own’s one face. Except with an addition of stage fright on Alm’s end.
The dead silence. The thick air weighed heavily on Alm’s shoulders, and he wanted to excuse himself from the mess hall as soon as possible. It was a stark difference to the usual rowdiness back in Zofia, people danced and played music beats within ten minutes of a supper gathering there and hardly quietened down after someone suggests card games or poker later on in the evening.
Once free, he considers approaching his friends all the way across the hall yet they felt distant once he laid his searching eyes upon them—are they avoiding him or is it just his imagination?
Slipping into a room with a parted door after shuffling past many rooms with closed doors—felt it invasive to peek what areas lie beyond. A soft glow of flickering flames from a fireplace lights up what looks like a common room, the sky outside pitch dark of late winter through high small-framed windows. Not even moonlight or the shine of snowfall is visible.
He spots a small figure tucked away at the far end, and it takes him a few moments to realize who it was judging from their back and the faint glow to their hair.
“Faye? How come you’re in here?”
Surrounded by a beautiful main hall, lights and candles flickering in the festivity and food surrounded them– contrasting greatly from their cold nights in camp, scraping by for food with Rigel’s barren climate, now presented a feast. Perhaps the situation made her realize how overbearing the situation felt on her, an emotional strain from her quiet life in the village, slipping away from the rest of her comrades the moment their attention was drawn elsewhere, wanting to go somewhere much quieter.
Footsteps softly echoed in the grand hallways, how Rigel’s royal castle was gorgeous, an infrastructure truly built for royalty, with endless doors leading to rooms unknown– pondering on the thought of how one could memorize which door let to where, an endless maze compared to the Ram Village in it’s entirety. Peaking her head through room after room, she came across what would seem like a common room of sorts, something that felt much more comfortable, a sigh of relief washing over her composure as she relaxed a little.
Heat from the fireplace soothed her, closing her eyes for a moment, imagining the sound from it like the oven at home, crackling as sparks fly from the flames– feeling as if she had uncovered a memory that had been long forgotten, realizing how long it had been since she had left the village on this journey. Finding a comfortable spot, fatigue letting her mind drift only to be snapped back to reality as she heard a familiar voice–
“A-Alm?”
Surprise filled her voice, turning around to see her childhood friend, crush and newly founded prince. If anything, Alm was the last person she had expected to have come, with all the commotion centered around him– she had expected him to be back with everyone else, cheeks flushing from surprise and embarrassment.
“ U-Um… the atmosphere was a little too much for me… so… I came here to relax…”
Words trailing off, unsure if her reasoning was even good enough, should she apologize? After all… it was supposed to be a celebration– stumbling on her words as she quickly tried to compose herself again, after all, damping the mood would be no good.
“ But what brings you here Alm? I thought you’d be with everyone else in the hall…”
Faye!
Someone on twitter suggested her when I asked for characters to draw, and her design is just too adorable~ I’m planning on drawing more Echoes fanart and I can’t wait for the game!
Clammy hands hardened from the chill of the cold Rigelian winter, with a climate contrasting her small town at the southern tip of Zofia made her all the more grateful for the blessings the Mother Mila had blessed them with, made her much more conscious to the fact that the gods were dying. She wouldn’t be able to pray to the mother, with her faith crumbling and slipping between her fingers-- she struggled to give her life more meaning... and even that had started to crumble.
And yet here she stood, in front of a man who had forfeited any love for their cause, bruised and beaten as she did the only job she had come to know how to-- of course she would do anything in her power to help, to save a life when it came to such, staying away from the front lines in order to help the ones wounded, letting go of the very person she swore to support through and through.
The sound of the silver haired knight coming to his senses, a small smile curled on her lips-- ultimately finding some small happiness in helping others, saving lives instead of taking, being a backbone to an army so that they may fight without worry of dread and despair falling on them. Her voice was calm, asking softly--
this is going to be a headcanon post directly analyzing her in-game dialogue, specifically her support dialogue. i will be referring to both localization and original japanese dialogue in my analysis. some things to note,
1. although i have a lot of credentials in japanese, to the extent that i am somewhat fluent in the language, i am no way an official source and i may make mistakes so if i do, please forgive me.
2. these are my personal take on faye as a character and are no way intending to be claimed as canon.
3. although alm is a lot of her dialogue, most of her in game speech is directed at alm, and not a lot else, i will not see it as her entire character representation since she hardly gets any dialogue in the first place.
faye & emotions.
this has been stated in my bio, but i would like to bring it up in more depth, faye experiences a wider range of emotions, allowing her to feel more extreme emotions than what would be normal for a human being. due to this, her feelings can get amplified if the situation is right, causing her to be rather unaware of some extreme things that she may say.
although she is brutally honest with how she feels, the things she says doesn’t necessarily reflect her actual feelings (eg. silque and faye) and realizes to some extent that her selfish actions create real consequences that she takes responsibility to amend if need be (still being rather honest about her feelings without sugar coating them, in silque’s case)
her heart is in a good place but her lack of control over her extreme and intense emotions can cause jealously and cause her to say rude things though, i don’t believe that she means them wholeheartedly (eg. her comment on celica, saying that she would never treat alm like that feels more that she’s upset that celica wouldn’t look at his side of things, and a mix of frustration for alm’s sake and a little jealousy comes out, though i don’t feel it was meant to purposely jab celica) as alm brings out a lot of intense emotions from her.
faye & alm.
faye’s relationship with alm is something that is very hard for me to pinpoint, for one-- i do believe to some extent that her feelings have reason, though i will admit that i’m not as happy with the idea of her life revolving around him. alm is an incredibly big part of her life, seeing him as a shining light in her life and idealizing him extensively. she admires his courage and strength, showing his dependability even as a child, pushed faye to want to become stronger like him.
she puts a lot of ideals and vitures in alm, which are a lot of the cause for her intense love for him, along with her feelings amplifying such that could lead to her “obsessive” behavior over him, though nothing more than intense feelings. even though she thinks about him a lot, she does not/rarely crosses the point of invading his personal boundaries.
due to faye’s selfless nature, and her want to do anything she can for alm, puts her into a position where her feelings become almost one with how she perceives that alm is doing. although there are times where she may say selfish things, she doesn’t do such out of malice towards others ( lack of control on her emotions, especially very strong and amplified ones.)
her supports with alm in the localization feel a bit over the top to me. take for example her c support,
faye: hey, if i defeat a lot of enemies, will you be happy?
alm: eh? um... i don’t want you to think i’d be happy... but it’d help... i guess.
faye: is that so. as i thought it’d be best to defeat lots of enemies. understood! i’ll do my best then.
alm: yea, be careful.
compared to the localization,
faye: now, shall i head back out there and slay more of your enemies for you?!
alm: slay...enemies for me? um... er, I would hope you're doing it for a better reason than just...me.
faye: oh! is THAT what you want? ...because i'll do it. i'll fight for any cause you desire! just promise you'll be watching, alm! promise to look at me!
alm: faye, i... look, just please be careful, all right?
although faye generally misses alm’s point in both conversations, i don’t feel that faye is as forceful in the japanese context of the games. it’s the same for her b support as well, the localization comes off as a lot more extreme in emotions, but in both cases-- faye lets her emotions take control of her words and actions, i believe strongly enough that she doesn’t have a lot of control, and can get very overstimulated with emotions being around alm due to her intense feelings of what i consider “puppy love”.
even though she idealizes the idea of her dream ( going back to ram village, and living a quiet peaceful life with him ) she is very down to earth, knowing that such is out of her reach, and in alm’s a support with her, she states this clearly. (though admittingly in the japanese version she doesn’t state that she was hoping that they’d find something together, and just states that ‘after this is over, they’ll part ways’)
eventually i feel that to some extent, faye would be able to learn to handle such intense emotions in a more healthy way, knowing that her feelings are unrequited, though she would most likely struggle with such continuously-- but joining the deliverance was also a journey for her as well, getting out of her comfort zone and opening her heart to new people that don’t revolve around alm.
faye & silque.
faye and silque is the only time that we get to see faye interact as a proper support with someone that isn’t alm. although their relationship seems rather rocky at first, it honestly shows how poorly faye seems to fair with new relationships. though it seems that she brings up that ‘its not alm’ in her conversations, i think that there is also a sense of unease when it comes to silque. faye doesn’t seem to interact a lot with lukas and silque seems to be primarily the outsider that has interest in talking with her, growing up in a village that was rather stoic, a tight knit community that she was comfortable with-- which makes her rather off put (but not against) silque interacting with her.
joining the deliverance is the first time she’s actively put out of her comfort zone, with people from different backgrounds meshing with her own, and willingly throwing herself out of her comfort zone to protect the people she cares for. it’s emotionally draining on her and frankly a relatively new experience. She is rather direct towards silque’s advances in trying to talk to each other, and i think in the japanese it’s a little nicer approach,
エフィ：えっと・・・、楽しくはないよ。だって、アルムがいないもん。もういいよ。私に構わないで。
translating to something like,
faye: um... it wouldn’t be fun. after all, alm isn’t here. it’s ok, please don’t mind me.
compared to the localization,
faye: talking about alm isn't fun unless alm himself is there. look, it's okay. not everyone has to be friends, right?
her words in japanese seem less harsh than the localization but she does state that she doesn’t want to be bothered by silque because of her wanting to have girls talk/gossip, making a statement to be left alone consequentially puts her in a position where the weight of her words do not carry the exact meaning and her opposition to socializing with others outside her group that she is comfortable with ends up coming back and biting her, having time to realize that she did enjoy silque’s company, but the lack of it made her realize her misjudgment and even admits to her selfishness.
faye & the villagers + celica.
although this is the most vague part of the entire post since there is very little to no interaction between faye and the rest of the villagers outside of the prologue and the very beginning of chapter 1, i do believe that faye also has a good relationship with each of the villagers, and cares about them a fair amount-- just as alm. she also cares about celica, as shown if you decide to recruit her on celica’s route, she is shown to be more than happy to see celica back around the village. although she may hold a little jealousy towards celica, i feel that faye has a good grasp on the fact that alm and celica have feelings towards each other in canon, and with alm’s support shown that she respects both of their feelings, even if she may not personally enjoy it.
this was really long and i spent over 6 hours writing and revising this, so i really hope that if you made it this far, it gives you a better understanding how i see and interpret faye’s dialogue and action in game, and try to give more depth to her character that i already love.
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