English Name: Willow

Japanese Name: Yanagi

Characters: 柳

English Nicknames/Alias: Wil, Willie, Lifeless Mage

Japanese Nicknames/Alias: Nagi

Birthdate: June 19 (Gemini)

Gender: Female

Nationality: Valmese 

Asset: Skl

Flaw: Str

Starting Class: Dark Mage

Love Interest: Henry

Children: Celeste

Heroes Title: Emotionless Doll

Help Description: A gentle dark mage once brainwashed, but snapped out of it thanks to the shepherds. Very guilty of herself.

Roster: A kidnapped young woman of Valm brainwashed to kill. It was never her true intention and now she lives with heavy guilt. The most conscientious soldier of the army. Born on 6/19.

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PROFILE
"Apologies are not enough are they...? ... That's correct... They're never enough. It won't bring back anyone from the dead."

Define Name:
Willow means "slender" and "graceful" in English.
Yanagi means "willows" in Japanese.

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Personality:
Willow is a silently observant woman who hopes to change her life and put it back on track once again. She is very terrible at hiding anything that she does-- examples would be like her mistakes, activities-- and her deepest and darkest thoughts. It is always shown through her expression even when she changes it even the slightest. She tends to keep up a straight face as best as she could to not let anyone know how much she wants to come out of her shell to socialize and learn more about others in general-- most of the time it's very obvious because she tends to lean forward a little, but she is very hesitant to interact fearing she may hurt someone. To her it is best to keep to herself that way no one falls into harm's way. It is noted that she is scared to make contact with others due to her deleterious actions during her brainwashed days though it was clearly not her fault yet she still takes full blame for all the problems she had caused and the lives she involuntarily took. The dark mage has yet to blame anyone for her mistakes and her dreadful activities she had partook nor will she ever. Willow is very obedient to her acquaintances though it could possibly only be because she is being torn down from her own guilt that continues to linger in the entirety of her mind. Even though Willow is a dark mage, she dislikes cursing anything that moves, lives, and breathes as well as the sight of blood and carcasses. Besides all of her bad qualities that tend to slow her down, she is very gentle and diligent in her tasks-- despite being emotionless or even just completely depressing-- and is willing to help the Shepherds fight in return for their mercy and kindness she needed to repay. While brainwashed, she was more blood thirsty than ever and a soulless cold woman who would kill just about anyone and anything for her enjoyment and for the revival of Grima's sake. She still retained her obedient trait but during the time she was obedient to the Grimleal Organization. Even so, her obedience towards the group slowly deteriorated into deception. Soon after her brainwash, Willow also ended up growing into a self-centered young woman after acquiring the skills to wield powerful dark magic. Her falsified beliefs for Grima and her fabricated trust towards Validar were much over the top to where she would do anything to have the Fell Dragon reappear back into the world and reign terror under Validar's orders, but she also had thoughts of overthrowing Validar himself despite being loyal to work and ruin the land with Grima thus making her work harder towards the goal. Her loyalty to Validar could be a facade so she wouldn't get killed. This also happens to show that she remains diligent in her work and actions brainwashed or not. It is know that she wishes to correct her mistakes and make it right in the army.

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Appearance:
Cotton pink hair, eggplant purple(left) and brownish-gold(right) eyes, and fair skin

Willow has long bangs with the sides pulled back to flow with the rest of her hair. The center part of her bangs sweep a little to the left and reach to the tip of her upper lip-- this slightly covers up a part of her sharp left eye. Her hair is slightly wavy and messy, but she ties her hair up loosely with a golden tie near the end into a very loose messy bun-- the tips of her hair flares out messily like a peacock's tail when tied up and covers her hair tie. The bun reaches up to her lower back, but if it wasn't tied, then it'd reach to her bottom. Locks of her hair are also pulled over to her shoulders, having it reach over her chest. A golden circlet sits snug on her head with a connected black high low veil covering the sides and back of her hair-- there are two amethyst colored teardrop gems hanging down in front. The circlet isn't fused together, but simply has two thin chains hanging loosely in the front to keep it connected. The front of the veil reaches to her collarbones while the back reaches to the center of her back.

*She is seen in the standard uniform of a dark mage in the shades of gold, black, and red.

*Willow's extra wear consists of a gold two-band choker that connects to her puffy sleeves. Around her wrists are dark grey cuffs with gold designs around the edge that makes her sleeves puff up. From the top of her underarms up to above her elbows, skin is visible due to the giant opening of her sleeves. Gold decor can be seen wrapped around her right arm from underneath her sleeve. She wears a black and gold tube top that is pinched in the center and cut into a heart shape-- both top and bottom. Her tube top has a gold ornament that connects to a black and gold two piece skirt that covers only her backside-- skin around the shoulders, collar bones, waist, back, and stomach are all visible. The back of her top skirt reaches to her knees and the front that wraps around her sides reaches above her mid thigh while the bottom skirt reaches to her calves, both skirts are connected to each other from behind. Her dark grey panties decorated in gold are secured by small bows on each side of her hips. There is a thick gold cuff around her left thigh while the majority of her right leg and up to the shin of her left are covered in gold curling decor-- they connect to her short black and gold heels. The underside of her clothes are colored in a deep scarlet red.

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Biography:
As a child, Willow was often seen to be a loud and cheerful young girl living in Valm. Her family was very close to Rosanne, but was not directly in the area of the dukedom. She often roamed around the fields nearby her home by herself to watch the clouds and bugs go by to kill time. Willow's family never trained her in any sort of combat nor got her interested in magic arts which left her defenseless during her younger ages, but she didn't mind the lack of combat knowledge because she never liked the thought of spilling blood with her own hands-- she feared it. In general the family didn't know much combat, but her father, Corbyn, did know a little way with the sword, but not enough to sufficiently protect the family-- her mother Freya knew nothing. They were more of a bakery family than anything and would merely produce pastries to sell off and enjoy thus why combat was to no interest to any of them. During one of her walks one day, Willow had ended up meeting the young duke of Rosanne, Virion, out nearby Rosanne and soon had the visits become a common thing for the two to do. Willow had grown close to the young man despite his developing flirtatious and pompous ways of speaking to women-- she didn't mind nor did it have an affect on her. In fact, she appreciated his unnecessary company whenever she explores around Rosanne before heading home because she usually stuck around places by her lonesome. Willow and Virion would simply share tea brought by Virion himself in random parts of Rosanne where the gardens were visible while Willow simply brought her family's pastries to share with him. Though his flirtatious side grew worse each day, the two grew even closer by the minute to where the young girl would even point out things about him she would like him to fix like flirting and how he'll never get a girl that way. The two continued to see each other and take walks for a while longer each day when Virion was available to where Willow would lose track of time when she is with him. The walks eventually ended after the surprise appearance of the Grimleal happened, Willow's usual life in Valm took a completely different turn she never thought could happen. When she is married in the future, she'll have a daughter named Celeste.

In her youthful days, Willow was forcefully separated from her parents by the group of Grimleal who snuck into the land of Valm in hopes of looking for young vessels who held strong abilities to wield magic-- specifically dark-- that could be used for their advantage.Though Rosanne where Virion resided was somewhat safe from the attack, Willow's home was not-- it was in utter ruins with no sign of life breathing a single breath. Her two guardians resulted in dying under the hands of Validar though her strong connection with Virion was never hindered with due to it being unknown to the Grimleal Organization. Those that happened to be living in her small town outside of Rosanne were also gotten rid of-- the residents there were killed in hopes of not allowing them the chance to pursue the group of Grimleal members for the victims being taken away. This was also a prevention from having anything interfere with Validar's brainwashing performed on the victims. After Willow and a few others were successfully captured by Validar's organization, the group was brought back to Plegia after being completely brainwashed and made to train harshly with wielding magic and physical weapons in order to bring the Fall Dragon back to the world with full success and no one to impede with his plan. The weaker new members were gotten disposed of if they didn't pass Validar's expectations while those who did were immediately given a task and position. Willow managed to survive the training given to her for she was no physical combatant but more of a magic wielder. Dark magic ended up taking a large toll on her body, but she proved to be able to wield destructive spells at the cost of her well-being and mobility due to it being unmastered. As these events were going on, Willow had withheld no memory of anything or anyone she knew; she only could tell the present and onward which consisted of the Grimleal and becoming a full-fledged dark mage-- she even ended up worshiping Grima along with the group despite dedicating her beliefs to Naga at one point in her life yet she cannot remember. After all her training, her task was mainly to kill the unnecessary victims in the Grimleal's way and those who opposed them to reign terror. As she continued to reign chaos all around her with large amount of exuberance for her actions Willow and Henry eventually crossed paths. The young woman had heard about him and his well-known dark magic as well as cruel murderous intentions of war and thought to challenge his abilities before, but seeing him out of the blue for the first time made her rethink the plan. It did perk her interest to see what she could get and learn from him as she watched him kill or fight for his own enjoyment from afar.

The young woman-- who is now dull from any sort of expression-- always isolates herself from people outside of the Grimleal Organization and is seen going off in a war-like mode where she'll be killing anyone with little to no power against herself in hopes of rising the Fell Dragon, Grima. She even labels them as sacrifices worth killing for her own pleasure despite shedding unnecessary blood onto the field. Willow is also known for killing other Grimleal members who get in her way without caring. Seeing how blood thirsty she was, the young woman as sent off along with Plegian knights and Aversa to kidnap other possible Grimleal members on the land of Ylisse whilst sending terror and death on those opposing her. She was merely doing a side job as Gangrel and Aversa pursued the Ylisseans for the Fire Emblem. Taking full advantage of the job, the young woman decided to kill all first and take possible survivors after. Upon fulfilling her task, the dark mage met with Chrom's army during her assist with the kidnapping of Maribelle much to her dismay. Willow had intended to kill the prince's army before leaving the area for getting in her way until she caught a glimpse of Virion where she began to waver. The dark mage was then conflicted with her plans and whether she wanted to kill them all or not. Though she did fight the small army that day, she eventually fled the area mid-battle, confused with her own train of thoughts as to wondering what was stopping her from trying to obliterate them when she got the clear chance to. This also had left Virion wondering if they have crossed paths before after only seeing a small clip of her face and why she was so hesitant on a battlefield after being seen completely ruthless to everyone. Willow decided to brush off the feeling and appointed it as a fluke that she was feeling unwell or hallucinating that very day, but soon again encountered the group with the same feeling of conflict of whether to kill or not to kill during the Grimleal's attempt to capture Nowi after seeing Virion again. This time, the young woman was captured instead, an event that would unbind her with Validar and his organization. Virion had instantly recognized her to be the run-away mage at first but after a while later realized who she really was and attempted to get her to remember him. Though it wasn't in an instant that she remembered, but a majority of her memories eventually came flowing back slowly from that day on-- it lasted for a few days-- after her temporary imprisonment with the Shepherds. Filled with remorse towards the Shepherds and resentment towards the Grimleal Organization, Willow retains her dull expression as well as her actions now while brainwashed memories eat away at her mind.

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