Micaiah for Smash. Why she is unique? Explanations and opinions.

Hello Smash and Fire Emblem Fans! There is a new article to talk about Micaiah's possible content for Smash.

This time I'm going to talk about something that is (in my opinion) an incredibly important thing when in comes to thinking about a new character in the next Smash Games. What exactly this character can offer?.  Which gimmicks would they have?

Micaiah is an interesting case between the Fire Emblem Main Characters, and while she may be overshadowed for the already represented Ike, Micaiah is likely the Fire Emblem character not already present in Smash that can offer more diversity with her introduction as a playable character.

A Light Magic User

Micaiah is a Magician, and her main weapon are Light Magic Tomes, She is able to perform a lot of interesting tricks when use them. Some Light Magic Tomes are known for their high power (like many versions of Aura Tome), their incredible high accuracy (like the Light Tome) or be magic weapons with high Critical hit ratio (like the FE7 and FE8 Versions Divine and Aura Tomes). There also exists a Light Magic Tome able to do Long-Range Attacks (Purge).

At this point someone probably will say: "But we already have Robin for all this magic thing stuff". And that's partially true, Robin can also use magic like Micaiah, but unlike Micaiah, she/he still depends of his/her main weapon: The Bronce (or Levin if you still have it) Sword. Micaiah can expand the use of the magic to her whole moveset.

Micaiah even has a book completely associated with her: Thani, the book mostly known for be the Rapier-like Magic.

A unique element that only she can represent: Staves.

In her original game, Radiant Dawn, Micaiah has as relatively early access to her second weapon of her class: the Staves. 

Staves are one of the earliest elements in the Fire Emblem Series (they're as old as the first game itself) able to give a lot of utilities to the user... In fact, many of the Staff-Users are considered Key Characters to many incredible strategies... Talking about them; instead of wondering what can staves exactly do, the really question is... what can't they do?

This include healing (Heal, Mend, Physic, etc.), rescue an ally (Rescue), teleport a ally (Warp), teleport the user (Rewarp), inflict status-effects (Silence, Sleep, Berseker), apply buffs (Ward), apply debuffs (Hexing Rod) and other miscellaneous utilities (Restore, Unlock, Torch), there a lot of things to work and they help to increase even more the differences between Micaiah and the other magic-based characters.

What about her other skills?

Micaiah has two skills associated with her. One of them only she can use it (Sacrifice) and the other one only the Light-Magic Class can learn in their last promotion (Corona).

Sacrifice is a interesting case for a skill that can work if some creative liberties are taken. The original Sacrifice works like it's expected: Micaiah use her own Hit Points to heal another character (this can also be used to cure Status-Effects without drawbacks). How could work the skill? Perhaps as a buff ability with a back-firing efffect?

Corona on the other hand is a skill that denies the enemies's resistence. Like Ike's Aether this is Micaiah's Ultimate Skill. And would work perfectly as a Final Smash.

Here is a example of how would work the Micaiah Final Smash using Corona's and RexAura's Animation:

Micaiah summons a small light ball that knocks enemies upwards if they touch it, then a brief moment, a bigger light magic sphere appears above Micaiah and it start to fall in a diagonal trayectory, if oponents are hit by the sphere, they will be pulled inside until it hits the ground, then explodes and sends them flying.

Other Miscellaneous aspects

Micaiah's unique atributes extend to other areas beyond the superficial.

An unique female character: Micaiah is very appealing for being a female character, and unlike the other Fire Emblem Female Characters (F!Robin, F!Corrin and Lucina) she isn't a Clone or a Glorified Skinswap; Micaiah'd be her own character.

Micaiah's clothing: She has a very interesting set of clothes that differ from the other FE characters already in the game, having three different class (the outfits in the picture above) to chose from her own game.

Stats

Micaiah in her game is considered a "Glass Cannon". This being carried over Smash would make for an interesting character with high magical power but low weight and decent speed.

Also her Magic Traits can make her a very floaty character like Zelda or Ness

- Troykv (The Dawn's Historian and Micaiah4Smash Main Admin)