Terminal Tokyo Revised Personality section
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atmagecampThis is Henry: he’s a near constantly sunny dark mage. And sunny is likely the most apt description of him. It’s been pointed out from at least two different people that his cheery disposition doesn’t match his job description. He’s a near opposite from the other dark mage in the game. While she sticks to being sour and generally unenthusiastic about most things, Henry’s unfailingly cheerful and is almost constantly pleased throughout the course of the game.
The game’s introduction to Henry, in Chapter 13, is him flat out ignoring the very heavy tone of the last chapter, where Chrom’s older sister, the ruler of Ylisse dies. Henry appears with no regard for her sacrifice, instead arriving on the scene in a hurricane of puns and with a murder of crows. He has absolutely no care about the tragedy that just occurred. (It should be noted that the other Plegian soldiers took her sacrifice to heart.) Instead he’s acting quite selfishly in this scene, deciding to join with the Shepherds because he believed that it meant he could fight more. And in order to join them, he gives them the choice between allowing him to join… or having him kill them. He’s not above violence to get his way, and he’s certainly not above threatening people either. Especially when it comes down to something he really wants.
Furthermore, in one of his Support conversations he reveals that though the members of the Plegian army were very kind to him, Henry didn’t care that they died. He simply brushed it off and didn’t dwell on it. He shows a startling lack of empathy, and deep connections with people before joining the Shepherds. He recounts the deaths in the Plegian army with a smile on his face and very casually. There’s not one hint of sadness that they’re dead. The person he’s speaking to, Ricken, feels really uncomfortable with this subject, since he’s learning that the army he’s had to fight was made up of really ordinary, normal people. Ricken also asks Henry if he wants revenge on The Shepherds. Henry, on the other hand, doesn’t understand why Ricken is so distressed about the subject. In Henry’s mind it’s a war and people die. There’s simply no reason to want revenge. It’s just people doing what they were told to do. Henry doesn’t care who dies, just as long as he gets to fight since that’s the most important part of war to him. Fighting and being able to hone his skill and experience is far more important than soldier’s lives.
Death is a complete non-issue for Henry- much to the concern of his fellow soldiers. He will very casually mention that he has a spell or hex to cure whatever is ailing a person, but not mention people what these curses entail or require. If a hex requires a sacrifice, Henry will not say so beforehand, instead very casually mentioning it after the fact, like a normal person would comment on what they put into the soup. And if somebody tells him to place a curse on them, Henry will continue attempting to place curses on them until he finds one that actually works. That means that he will go all the way up to using a fatal curse on somebody if everything else doesn’t work, and again, he will not tell the object of his curse what he’s doing until they’re already suffering from his handiwork. If they ask him to stop, however, he’ll stop.
Despite all of that, Henry will declare his plan, even if he doesn’t always give out the finer details. He doesn’t even make an attempt to hide his intentions if people ask about it. If somebody voices an objection to his plan, he will usually ask why, and then go along with what they said. He tends to be very accommodating and extremely impressionable. If somebody tells him “No, you shouldn’t do that,” along with reasoning he will generally take it to heart. However, if he thinks that their orders are stupid, he won’t hesitate to “cut them in half and feed them to the crows.” Fortunately, the orders he considers stupid are “don’t kill the enemy.” Anything else and he’s ready and willing to do them, this includes menial chores, such as organizing strategy books. Again, showing that Henry places battle and improving his own technique beyond other people’s lives.
The reason he has no issues with death is because his mindset is: everybody’s going to die eventually so there’s no real reason to get upset about it. He believes when everybody’s dead, they’ll all meet up again in the afterlife. He voices a slight concern that the people he has killed will show up, but he shrugs it off saying that he’ll just have to kill them twice over. However, though he says he’s alright with dying, he doesn’t want to die with “ouchies.” He prepared a curse to kill himself or others before they feel any pain. He’s stated he’s willing to cast it on a comrade who was worried about dying, as a way to comfort her about the inevitability of death. She does say he has the strangest ways of comforting people, but she is actually comforted by his warped gesture of kindness.
Henry does have more issues than his surface level cruelty and lack of empathy. For example, his parents did absolutely anything to get rid of him: abandoning him in the woods, sending him off to wizard school (in the original Japanese it's an institution) and mage camp. As a result Henry was mostly raised by animals and has a soft spot for them. He also says that his best friend was a giant wolf, when she was killed Henry took revenge by killing the people who killed the wolf. This act of revenge illustrates that he care a lot more about his animal companion than he ever did his fellow soldiers. In his supports with people who have animals, Henry has a clear love and respect of the animals- even if the animal might not have much affection for him at first. He also says that he’s been playing hide and seek with a black cat. Despite his love of animals, he won’t hesitate to kill them for use in a curse.
Henry’s treatment by his parents has left him with some severe abandonment issues. Said issues are likely the root cause of Henry’s inability to properly empathize with people. He didn’t spend a lot of time around people so he doesn’t know how to properly connect or talk with them. And perhaps why he doesn’t know why his actions are so disturbing to people. He seems to believe what he’s doing is completely normal.
The reason he’s so constantly obliging is because he doesn’t want to be left alone again. In most of his marriage conversations, he says things like “don’t ever leave me,” “I want to be with you forever,” or some variation on the theme. Whenever people voice the very idea of leaving him, and he’s actually built a connection with them, he seems genuinely upset. The usual smile drops off of his face and he seems in pain.
Speaking of his emotions, his conversations with the Dancer, Olivia, are generally centered on them. Specifically that Henry’s constant smile is nothing more than a mask. He denies her fairly pleasantly, saying that’s he’s just a cheerful guy, but she doesn’t buy it. At the end of the series of conversations, Olivia is cursed by an enemy dark mage and almost dies. Henry shows genuine worry and concern for her, in fact, he even starts to cry. So Henry is capable of showing honest emotion, it just takes severe circumstances to have them show on his face.
His impressionability really shows in some of the downloadable content, specifically the ones where he can speak to his future child. The way he talks to his child and what he encourages them to do changes quite drastically depending on who Henry married. If Henry marries the empathetic dancer, he’s a father who tells his child that it’s okay to cry. If Henry marries the scientist mage, he’s a father who tells his child that he needs to look at a situation subjectively without his emotions playing a role. It's the person who's closest to him that makes the deepest impression on him.
The game’s introduction to Henry, in Chapter 13, is him flat out ignoring the very heavy tone of the last chapter, where Chrom’s older sister, the ruler of Ylisse dies. Henry appears with no regard for her sacrifice, instead arriving on the scene in a hurricane of puns and with a murder of crows. He has absolutely no care about the tragedy that just occurred. (It should be noted that the other Plegian soldiers took her sacrifice to heart.) Instead he’s acting quite selfishly in this scene, deciding to join with the Shepherds because he believed that it meant he could fight more. And in order to join them, he gives them the choice between allowing him to join… or having him kill them. He’s not above violence to get his way, and he’s certainly not above threatening people either. Especially when it comes down to something he really wants.
Furthermore, in one of his Support conversations he reveals that though the members of the Plegian army were very kind to him, Henry didn’t care that they died. He simply brushed it off and didn’t dwell on it. He shows a startling lack of empathy, and deep connections with people before joining the Shepherds. He recounts the deaths in the Plegian army with a smile on his face and very casually. There’s not one hint of sadness that they’re dead. The person he’s speaking to, Ricken, feels really uncomfortable with this subject, since he’s learning that the army he’s had to fight was made up of really ordinary, normal people. Ricken also asks Henry if he wants revenge on The Shepherds. Henry, on the other hand, doesn’t understand why Ricken is so distressed about the subject. In Henry’s mind it’s a war and people die. There’s simply no reason to want revenge. It’s just people doing what they were told to do. Henry doesn’t care who dies, just as long as he gets to fight since that’s the most important part of war to him. Fighting and being able to hone his skill and experience is far more important than soldier’s lives.
Death is a complete non-issue for Henry- much to the concern of his fellow soldiers. He will very casually mention that he has a spell or hex to cure whatever is ailing a person, but not mention people what these curses entail or require. If a hex requires a sacrifice, Henry will not say so beforehand, instead very casually mentioning it after the fact, like a normal person would comment on what they put into the soup. And if somebody tells him to place a curse on them, Henry will continue attempting to place curses on them until he finds one that actually works. That means that he will go all the way up to using a fatal curse on somebody if everything else doesn’t work, and again, he will not tell the object of his curse what he’s doing until they’re already suffering from his handiwork. If they ask him to stop, however, he’ll stop.
Despite all of that, Henry will declare his plan, even if he doesn’t always give out the finer details. He doesn’t even make an attempt to hide his intentions if people ask about it. If somebody voices an objection to his plan, he will usually ask why, and then go along with what they said. He tends to be very accommodating and extremely impressionable. If somebody tells him “No, you shouldn’t do that,” along with reasoning he will generally take it to heart. However, if he thinks that their orders are stupid, he won’t hesitate to “cut them in half and feed them to the crows.” Fortunately, the orders he considers stupid are “don’t kill the enemy.” Anything else and he’s ready and willing to do them, this includes menial chores, such as organizing strategy books. Again, showing that Henry places battle and improving his own technique beyond other people’s lives.
The reason he has no issues with death is because his mindset is: everybody’s going to die eventually so there’s no real reason to get upset about it. He believes when everybody’s dead, they’ll all meet up again in the afterlife. He voices a slight concern that the people he has killed will show up, but he shrugs it off saying that he’ll just have to kill them twice over. However, though he says he’s alright with dying, he doesn’t want to die with “ouchies.” He prepared a curse to kill himself or others before they feel any pain. He’s stated he’s willing to cast it on a comrade who was worried about dying, as a way to comfort her about the inevitability of death. She does say he has the strangest ways of comforting people, but she is actually comforted by his warped gesture of kindness.
Henry does have more issues than his surface level cruelty and lack of empathy. For example, his parents did absolutely anything to get rid of him: abandoning him in the woods, sending him off to wizard school (in the original Japanese it's an institution) and mage camp. As a result Henry was mostly raised by animals and has a soft spot for them. He also says that his best friend was a giant wolf, when she was killed Henry took revenge by killing the people who killed the wolf. This act of revenge illustrates that he care a lot more about his animal companion than he ever did his fellow soldiers. In his supports with people who have animals, Henry has a clear love and respect of the animals- even if the animal might not have much affection for him at first. He also says that he’s been playing hide and seek with a black cat. Despite his love of animals, he won’t hesitate to kill them for use in a curse.
Henry’s treatment by his parents has left him with some severe abandonment issues. Said issues are likely the root cause of Henry’s inability to properly empathize with people. He didn’t spend a lot of time around people so he doesn’t know how to properly connect or talk with them. And perhaps why he doesn’t know why his actions are so disturbing to people. He seems to believe what he’s doing is completely normal.
The reason he’s so constantly obliging is because he doesn’t want to be left alone again. In most of his marriage conversations, he says things like “don’t ever leave me,” “I want to be with you forever,” or some variation on the theme. Whenever people voice the very idea of leaving him, and he’s actually built a connection with them, he seems genuinely upset. The usual smile drops off of his face and he seems in pain.
Speaking of his emotions, his conversations with the Dancer, Olivia, are generally centered on them. Specifically that Henry’s constant smile is nothing more than a mask. He denies her fairly pleasantly, saying that’s he’s just a cheerful guy, but she doesn’t buy it. At the end of the series of conversations, Olivia is cursed by an enemy dark mage and almost dies. Henry shows genuine worry and concern for her, in fact, he even starts to cry. So Henry is capable of showing honest emotion, it just takes severe circumstances to have them show on his face.
His impressionability really shows in some of the downloadable content, specifically the ones where he can speak to his future child. The way he talks to his child and what he encourages them to do changes quite drastically depending on who Henry married. If Henry marries the empathetic dancer, he’s a father who tells his child that it’s okay to cry. If Henry marries the scientist mage, he’s a father who tells his child that he needs to look at a situation subjectively without his emotions playing a role. It's the person who's closest to him that makes the deepest impression on him.