Alexia Midgar is one of the main female protagonists of Eminence in Shadow series. She is one of the students of Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy and the second princess of the Midgar Kingdom. Cid fake confessed to her in order to enhance her character as a "mob" of her own, but she only accepted to annoy her fiancée, Zenon Griffery. At first it was her acting, but over time she developed genuine feelings for him and she became involved in many affairs due to her close proximity to him.
Appearance[]
Alexia is a beautiful young girl with red eyes and long silver hair. She usually uses a large black ribbon to tie her hair in a pigtail, and wears an academy uniform consisting of a blazer jacket, dress shirt, stockings, and knee-high boots with crossed laces.
In her casual clothes, Alexia usually wears comfortable clothes, preferably a turtleneck sweater and shorts, and thigh-high stockings and sneakers when worn. Alexia was also seen wearing a dress that had ruffles around her shoulder loops and bust, with the body of her dress lengthened to her lower legs just above her ankles.
Personality[]
Alexia is portrayed as a well-mannered young lady during her school days, but she is actually spoiled and aggressive, condescending to others and thinking that if they offer her money, she will be easily upset. This is best exemplified by her relationship with Cid Kageno, which she uses to avoid her unwanted advances.
This stems from her feelings of envy, constantly being compared to her sister Iris, and her desire to have her people view her on her own merits. After spending time with her Cid as a couple, she begins to show a softer side and she even develops her liking and respect for him. Alexia was worried about him when she was kidnapped. Her roots are a really good girl, and she will risk her life to protect the people she cares about.
Powers & Abilities[]
Alexia's magic and swordsmanship are noted to be "average". However, thanks to her efforts, she rose to become one of the top students at the Midgar Royal Magic Sword Academy. Also, as her sister pointed out, she is very skilled in politics but has no real power in that field.
Physical Dexterity[]
Like other Magic Knights, Alexia is not obvious at first glance, but she has developed a strong physical constitution in terms of her athletic ability, mainly resistance, and is strong at the normal level of a normal swordsman or magic knight. It can withstand blows.
At first, Alexia said that she felt a sense of fulfillment because she didn't have the physical development and natural talent for the sword that his older sister Iris Midgar did, but after meeting Cid and then Shadow, he began to imitate warm-up exercises. She was inspired by the close resemblance of Cid's stretches and her intensive Shadow swordsmanship to the "perfect and ordinary swordsmanship" that she strongly admires. This allowed Alexia to hone her physical resistance even further as the events of the story progressed, to the point where she could momentarily resist powerful attacks from Zenon, a very powerful magical swordsman and a candidate for participation. A member of the Cult of Devils (to this day, Alexia's progress still continues).
Swordsmanship[]
Cid describes Alexia's fencing style as "orthodox" and fairly simple with nothing special. As such, she is considered "mediocre" by those who compare her to her genius sister, Iris. But in reality, her Alexia shortcomings were the result of her trying to imitate her older sister, even though her fighting style didn't suit her. Luckily, she stopped trying to follow her sister after she witnessed Shadow's swordsmanship, which was the result of hard work rather than her talent as much as she did.
Intelligence[]
In stark contrast to her lack of prowess, Alexia has shown to be quite intelligent in interpersonal relationships, often seeing the big picture and glimpsing people's true personalities like Zenon and Beta.
Strong Intuition[]
Alexia has greater intuition and much better analytical powers than her sister Iris, and in the usual sense other magic swordsmen and magic knights, which shows how strong her enemies and humans are. She can feel and recognize, when she did not decide to hide her abilities. When the Sanctuary invasion incident occurred, Alexia, who met Alpha, realized that Alpha was a much stronger opponent than her sister, Iris Midgar.
This ability or specialization itself can be acquired in the usual way, but unlike the others, Alexia seems to have it innately, but it's not like Beatrix's "warrior detection" ability or specialization. It is far from being compared with sex and Shadow.
Magic[]
Like her swordsmanship, Alexia's magical skills are also noted to be "very average". Alexia's magic was originally light yellow-green in the anime and games, but her mana turned light pink during her confrontation with Rose Oriana.
Relationships[]
- Cid Kagenō
- Rose Oriana (friendly rival)
- Beta/Natsume Kafka (arch-rival)
- Claire Kagenō (uneasy ally)
- Crimson Order
- Sherry Barnett
- Nina
- Christina Hope
- Issac (formerly)
- Eliza
- Shadow Garden
- Zenon Griffey (former instructor and ex-fiancee)
- Cult of Diabolos
- Luna/Gamma
Trivia[]
- In the novel, Alexia's mana color is pale pink.
- In the anime and game, Alexia's mana is light yellow-green. However, mysteriously, during a confrontation with Rose Oriana, its color changes to pink.
- In the series, it is revealed that Cid is the most important person to Alexia, and just being by Cid's side is enough to calm her down and remove her anxiety.
- Alexia was rejected by Cid for her disrespect, and even after avenging her rejection of her love, she remains extremely jealous of anyone who tries to flatter him. This is seen when Sherry Barnett comes to ask if they are still dating and she answers no, then when she finds out that Cid gave Sherry chocolates, Alexia was so furious that she broke a glass of coffee when Sherry left her room.
- Since falling in love with Cid Kageno, Alexia has imitated all of Sid's actions and certain tendencies, which Cid says makes him look great. One such imitation was slapping the crotch with a towel, mimicking what Alexia would do in hot springs and saunas.
- Similar to Shadow, when she saw him fight for the first time, she decided to keep the "Ideal Sword" practice he had developed, and eventually she unknowingly realized that Cid and Shadow were one and the same. associated with being a person.
- Alexia was one of the few people, aside from Epsilon, who took an outdoor bath with Cid, where she was shocked to see Cid with everything and his "Excalibur". She attempts a power play to anger Cid, but he tells her to stop looking at her so much Cid, just as he respects her for not seeing her in that state.
- According to Alexia, Aurora was summoned as Shadow's ideal companion during the Trial of the Goddess, and Shadow has reached enough levels to cause chaos in the world. According to experiments, Shadow has a mighty power comparable to that of Aurora, the witch who once brought destruction to the world.
- When Alexia and Beta as Natsume fought Rose Oriana, who was looking for her, she improved her swordsmanship so that she was able to withstand her attacks for a split second, causing Rose to become vulnerable to Shadow's effects. Rose made her aware without revealing. Even she admired him. Alexia was still defeated by Rose's mighty magic power.
- Alexia held great admiration and respect for her older sister Iris Midgar, but at the same time became envious and jealous when the two were often compared. After her kidnapping and Shadow's appearance, Alexia stopped being jealous of Iris and focused on her own path.
- In the events of Volume 5, after Iris and Beatrix were defeated at the Bushin Festival with Shadow, Alexia saw Iris corrupted and manipulated for the cult. She becomes increasingly afraid that her own sister will kill her.