Fiora

Fiora (, Fiorung) is one of the playable Characters in Xenoblade Chronicles.

Appearance and personality
Fiora is a Homs with shoulder-length blonde hair, green eyes, and a somewhat small stature. Her main appearance comprises a white tube top, white disconnected sleeves, a brown skirt, brown legging, white boots, and several brown straps everywhere.

Fiora is an outgoing, cheerful person who is good at reading people. She can see others' emotions easily and tries to get them to be more open about them, while almost never hiding her own. This is taken to an extreme with Shulk, for whom her soft spot is evident (to everyone except him), as she constantly cooks food for him and tries to get him to be less of a lab shut-in. While she generally hates violence and will always try to solve situations peacefully, she will do anything to protect her friends and family - both from others and from themselves - even though she does so recklessly without regard for the consequences.

Story arc
Fiora lives in Colony 9 with her older brother Dunban. She sees Shulk as a best friend and subtle boyfriend project, and Reyn as a good friend with some trust and attitude issues. When Dunban is injured in the Battle of Sword Valley, she spends the next year tending to him. She distrusts the Monado, which caused Dunban's injury, and greatly dislikes any of his talk that he wants to be ready to use it again if need be.

After an incident with Reyn and the Monado, Fiora hears that he and Shulk are off to Tephra Cave to collect ether cylinders for the mobile artillery. Having realized they forgot to take any carrying cases with them, she demands to tag along. Once the job is complete, Colony 9 is attacked by Mechon. After rushing back, Fiora cannot find Dunban, and the trio goes to get the Monado. But the way is blocked, and the only way through is to blast apart the rubble with the mobile artillery. The group become separated by the Mechon, with Fiora ending up successfully getting to the artillery.

It takes some time for Fiora to load the artillery with the ether cylinders and figure out how to control it. Once she does, she next sees Shulk and Reyn with Dunban in the Residential District, facing down a huge Mechon later known as Metal Face. She tries to destroy the Mechon, but it seems to be immune to bullets and ether salvos, only becoming a bit scuffed from a point-blank main cannon to the face. Out of resources and out of nerve, Fiora gets slammed into a building and brutally stabbed by Metal Face, who lazily tosses her body over to a bunch of scavenger Mechon and shows off his kill to Shulk.

The Mechon soon abandon the colony and take many Homs back to Mechonis, her among them. Fiora's body is operated on to act as a Core Unit for a new Face Mechon, called Face Nemesis. Once construction is complete, the next task set by Egil, leader of Mechonis, is to attack the regions above the Bionis' head - specifically, the city of Alcamoth and the mysterious Prison Island. In contrast to Metal Face's bloodlust, Face Nemesis joins the battle with cool precision.

The Faces land upon Prison Island, just after Metal Face has launched an anti-ether spear to kill the Giant within, whose power was being used to counter-attack the Mechon. Also present are Shulk, Reyn, Dunban, and some unknown people of varied species. Face Nemesis attempts to talk with the Giant, Zanza, but Shulk only sees anger and the opportunity for revenge. The Monado has been strengthened, and whilte trying to attack Metal Face he accidentally cuts open the cockpit of Face Nemesis, revealing to him and the others that Fiora is not dead. However, she appears to have lost her memory, and the voice she speaks is of someone else. Before any questions can be answered, the Mechon all leave, and Shulk screams after them.

The occupant of Fiora's body is concerned about the people she saw, specifically Shulk, and once repairs to Face Nemesis are complete decides to try and meet with him. They meet at Valak Mountain, where Shulk tries to find a hint of Fiora's memory. But Metal Face arrives, having now recognized Fiora as Dunban's sister, and threatens to kill her if Shulk doesn't give him the Monado. After a fight, Egil swoops in to break it up, and the Mechon get away for free once more.

Face Nemesis is next seen deep within Galahad Fortress. She does not want to fight Shulk, but Egil is forcing it, and taunts Shulk over killing or being killed by his old friend. When Shulk's group begins to lose the battle, a breaking point is reached, and Face Nemesis breaks free of Egil's control to attack him. In the ensuring scuffle the fortress is destroyed, and both sides save for Egil fall towards the Fallen Arm.

After Shulk awakens on a beach, he finds the wreackge of Face Nemesis, and extracts Fiora's body from it. When she wakes up, this time Fiora herself answers. She has been awake and aware the entire time, allowing the unknown person sharing her body to do what she felt was important to do, and it pained her to be unable to let any of the others know that she was alright underneath. Shulk is not entirely pleased about this but goes along with it.