Sylvain Jose Gautier

Heir to House Gautier. Finds the allure of beautiful women irresistible. Appears in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Name: Sylvain Jose Gautier Gender: Male Race: Human Birthday: June 5 Age: 19 (Pre-timeskip) 25-26 (Post-timeskip) Height: 186 cm Relatives: Gautier (Ancestor), Laetitia (Ancestor), Matthias (Father), Miklan (Elder half-brother) Occupation: Student at the Officers Academy (Blue Lions dorm), Heir of House Gautier Weapon: Lance </Personal Information> Sylvain is a tall handsome young man with light skin, messy red hair and orange eyes. He wears a white shirt, black jacket with golden patterns, black pants and white boots. In the post-timeskip, he wears a full body silver armor with red pants underneath and a green cloth wrapped around his hip.

Caring for his friends and admired as an older brother figure in his class, Sylvain is a perpetual skirt-chaser and often attempts to woo women with sweet words to a fault, with the most notable example including Ingrid's grandmother when he was only eight. He is fond of women, but his easygoing, shallow, womanizing behavior stems from the fact that he feels unable to form proper romances, and so he dates around without any particular commitment. Despite his light-hearted manner, he is often inconsiderate with his words around women, which cause him unintentional harm - even admitting in a support with Ingrid that the truth hurts. This builds up unintentional notoriety on himself, such as Flayn avoiding him for that exact reason, even though he wanted to pass her a message from Byleth. As the game progresses, Sylvain decides to make a change for himself by being who he is, and not what his Crest dictates him to be. Due to his philandering, his proposals are often met with skepticism, which in turn prompts him to provide proof that he intends to turn a new leaf. In his married endings, Sylvain treats all of his children with equal respect, regardless if they bear Crests or not. Despite the impression he gives off to people, Sylvain's actually quite intelligent, being shown to easily grasp complicated magic formulas at a glance when magic isn't even one of his areas of expertise, which is referenced in his budding talent of Reason. In his supports with Annette, it is seen that he intentionally leads people to think he is not very smart because he dislikes the pressure of people's expectations and them believing they know what he is capable of, saying he finds it suffocating. In his supports with Dedue, Sylvain explains his suspicions behind the Tragedy of Duscur, as Duscur and Faerghus had enjoyed good relations up until that point and the fact that the king's elite guard was effortlessly slaughtered, a feat not plausible for a smaller, less skilled military. Sylvain holds a strong level of disdain for the way Crests influence the lives of those in Fódlan, with a bulk of his dialogue throughout the story focusing on their negative impact, and showing sympathy and envy in his supports with Mercedes and Byleth respectively. Furthermore, he holds noble women in contempt, as he believes they show interest in him solely due to his Crest in an attempt to curry favor with him without actually getting to know him. Despite this, in conversations with Byleth, Sylvain admits that hating women is merely an "easy answer" and seems to recognize that he cannot blame them for all his problems. It is because of his Crest that he had a rough childhood with Miklan, though he did not hold a grudge against his brother because he already knew the reason behind his aggression. Following Miklan's death however, Sylvain only held pity for him.

Sylvain was born as the son of Margrave Matthias of House Gautier in the Imperial Year 1160 through his second wife. He had one older half-brother, Miklan, though Sylvain had a contentious relationship with him as Miklan was born Crestless while Sylvain was the one to inherit the Crest of Gautier. Feeling deprived of his birthright and outright ignored by their father in favor of Sylvain, Miklan had attempted numerous times to murder Sylvain, only to fail each time and eventually resulting in his banishment. Despite Miklan's aggressiveness towards him, Sylvain understood why his brother loathed him. As future heir to House Gautier, Sylvain grew up with his fellow future Faerghus heirs and childhood friends Dimitri, Felix, and Ingrid. Sylvain enrolls in Garreg Mach Monastery Officers Academy in Imperial Year 1180, and joins the Blue Lions. During the Verdant Rain Moon of 1180, Byleth's class is tasked with subduing a bandit group led by Sylvain's older brother Miklan, whom had stolen House Gautier's Hero's Relic, the Lance of Ruin. If Sylvain is being taught by Byleth, he can be among the forces confronting his brother. Should the two meet in battle, Miklan expresses his lifelong contempt for Sylvain inheriting the Crest of Gautier. Sylvain retorts that it was never his fault that he inherited the Crest nor that their family effectively disowned him. He is horrified when his brother transforms into a Demonic Beast, but with the assistance of Byleth and his classmates, his brother is defeated. While he somewhat laments his fallen brother's death, he reclaims the Lance of Ruin. Back at the monastery, the Lance is given to Rhea in order to return to House Gautier. Sylvain's main weapons are lances.