Alexia Midgar

"Good Boy, Pooch. Now fetch!"

- Alexia Midgar

Alexia Midgar (アレクシア・ミドガル) is the second princess of the Midgar Kingdom and a student at the Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy. Cid fake confessed to her to boost his "mob" persona, only for her to accept to annoy her fiancé. Though initially an act, she developed genuine feelings for him over time and her proximity to him caused her to get caught in many incidents.

Appearance
Alexia is a pretty young girl with red eyes and long silver hair. She usually ties her hair in pig tails using a large black bow and is often seen wearing her academy uniform consisting of a blazer jacket, with gold accents, a white dress shirt, a navy-blue cummerbund, a plaid pattern on the skirt, white stockings, and knee-high boots with crosscutting laces.

In her civilian attire, Alexia usually wears a rather comfortable clothing, preferably a turtleneck sweater with shorts, and thigh-high stocking while wearing and (what seem to be) sneakers. She can also be seen wearing a dress, with shoulder loops and frills around the bust, and the dress body lengthened down to her lower leg just above her ankles.

Personality
"You're welcome, my flawed pooch. Now fetch!"

- Alexia to Cid Kagenou

Alexia on surface is shown to be a well-mannered young lady whenever she is in the academy, but in actuality, she is quite spoiled and abrasive, looking down on others and thinking they could be swayed easily if offered money. This is best exemplified by her relationship with Cid, whom she used to avoid unwanted advancements. She is in reality an extremely sadistic princess who to hide her own frustrations from being inferior likes to feel superior by undermining others she feels that are inferior to hers.

This stemmed from feelings of envy, being constantly compared to her sister, Iris, and her wish for people to see her based on her own merits. However, after spending time as a couple with Cid, she started to show a kinder side, developing fondness and even respect for him. When she was kidnapped, Alexia expressed deep worry for him. Deep down, she is a genuinely good girl who will put her own life on the line to protect others that she cares for. In a twist of fate, as Alexia focuses more on her future and self-growth, her older sister Iris is seen to regress into Alexia's old state of mind, with her becoming even more mentally unstable than Alexia ever was since Iris is the crown princess. Seeing this change, Alexia decides to take a step in, and no matter how her older sister lashes out, she tries to show her that she is still loved and valued by her.

After the events of Bushin Festival, Alexia chooses to no longer be a mere "bystander" and become strong enough to be able to stand up and fight for what she believes in, however, this time she changes her methods, and instead of just practicing with her sword Alexia wants to have full knowledge of everything regarding her kingdom, so she begins focusing more in studying various subjects (politics, economics, law, engineering, finance, even ancient linguistics) to cultivate her intelligence and be absolutely aware of why, when and how she wields her sword and protect others. She believes she needs to start by earning the right to stand in that place and realizes sometimes that road to that place starts in an area where you don't wield a sword.

Powers & Abilities
Alexia's magic and swordsmanship are noted to be "just average". However, through sheer effort, she managed to rise through the ranks to become one of the top students at Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy. Also, as noted by her sister, she is quite skilled at politics, but lacks any real power in that space.

Physical Dexterity
Alexia, like every magical knight, has developed a strong physical constitution in athletic abilities, mainly in her resistance, although this is not noticeable at first glance, being able to resist strong blows, at the normal level of a normal swordsman or magical knight.

Although Alexia initially stated that she felt fruitful and everything since she did not have the physical development and natural talent of the sword, like her older sister Iris Midgar, after meeting Cid and then Shadow, she began to imitate the warm-ups so much. and Cid's stretching, and hard training Shadow's swordsmanship, which she was inspired by, as it closely resembles the "perfect and ordinary swordsmanship" style that she strongly yearns to achieve. This made that with the passing of the events of the story, Alexia further perfected her physical resistance until she was able to resist, for brief moments, a strong attack from Zenon, who he was, a very strong magical swordsman, candidate to be part of the round table of the Cult of Devils, (to date, Alexia's progress still continues).

Swordsmanship
Cid describes Alexia's fencing style as "orthodox", with nothing special about it, which earned her the nickname "Fencing Ordinaire." Because of this, she is considered "mediocre" by those comparing her to her sister, Iris who is considered the best in the entire Midgar Kingdom. In reality, Alexia's shortcomings were the result of her trying to replicate her sister, despite her fighting style not suiting her. However, after witnessing Shadow's swordsmanship, which is quite her ideal style, she was inspired and stopped trying to follow her sister's footsteps. Her hard work would eventually bear fruit, as her rapid growth became more noticeable.

Intelligence
In contrast to her lack of martial prowess, Alexia has been shown to be rather intelligent in interpersonal interaction, often capable of seeing through the larger picture and becoming suspicious enough on the likes of Zenon and "Natsume". When it comes to politics, Iris admitted to herself that Alexia is smarter and could be a better leader. However, upon learning the existence of the Cult of Diablos and Shadow Garden and the stronger individuals involved, Alexia humbles herself down and couldn't bear to just keep watching while not knowing anything. She acknowledges that she must also strengthen other areas aside from her swordsmanship. Since then she has been reading books apart from training, hoping to become more knowledgeable and more helpful.

Strong Intuition
Alexia has a strong intuition and very good analysis, more than that of her sister Iris than any other magical swordsman, or magical knight, in normal terms, which allows her to feel and realize how strong an adversary or person can be, when he/she does not hide his/her abilities. When the Sanctuary infiltration incident occurred, Alexia, upon meeting Alpha, was able to realize that she is a very strong opponent, even than his own sister Iris Midgar.

Although this ability can be learned but unlike the others, Alexia seems to have it innately, but still far from being compared to "warrior detection" abilities and specialties, such as those of Beatrix and Shadow's. The truth of this ability is that alongside Alexia's increasing Empathy, she can see the cause and effect of a person's actions.

Magic
Like her swordsmanship, Alexia's magical skills are noted to be "just average". Alexia's magic was originally light-yellow green in the anime and in the game, but during her confrontation with Rose Oriana her mana changes to light pink. This is explained that one's mental state changes the color of the mana. Calm mental states show off brilliant White, while delusional mental states show off as deep purple, almost black.

Trivia

 * Alexia is the only person who verbally and physically abuses Cid, without suffering any retaliation from the 7 shadows, despite having aroused their hatred and jealousy. This is because they believe that Cid has plans for Alexia that are beyond their understanding, in addition to her title as princess.
 * In the novels, Alexia's mana color is light pink.
 * In the anime and game, Alexia's mana is light yellow green. But curiously, it changes color to pink, during her confrontation with Rose Oriana.
 * In the series, it is revealed that Cid is the most important person for Alexia, the fact just being by Cid's side is enough to calm her down and clear away her worries.
 * Even after Alexia was rudely rejected by Cid and taking revenge for rejecting her love, she has had strong jealousy against anyone who tries to flirt with Cid. This is seen when Sherry Barnett came to ask if they were still dating, and after answering no, when she found out that Cid gave Sherry chocolates, Alexia got so angry to the point of breaking her glass of coffee when Sherry left the room.
 * After falling in love with Cid Kagenou, Alexia has been imitating everything that Cid has done, both his practices and certain tendencies, which according to Cid make him look great. One such imitation was hitting his crotch with a towel, something that Alexia emulated doing, in the hot springs or in the sauna.
 * As with Shadow, upon seeing him fight for the first time, she decided to hold on to the "ideal sword" practice that he had developed, which in the end she unknowingly linked that both Cid and Shadow are the same person.
 * Alexia is one of the few people, apart from Epsilon, who has taken an open hot springs bath with Cid, where she has seen him with everything and his "Excalibur", leaving her in shock. Although she tries to offend Cid in her attempts at power play, he just tells her to stop looking at him so much, just like he respects her by not looking at her in that state.
 * According to Alexia, Shadow reached a sufficient level to generate chaos in the world, since during the "Goddess's Trial", Aurora was invoked as an ideal opponent for Shadow. Since according to the test, Shadow has a level of very great power that could only be compared to that of Aurora, once known as the witch who brought ruin to the world.
 * When Alexia fought Rose Oriana, in which she and Natsume were looking for her, she was able to hold out her attacks for a brief moment as she improved her swordsmanship, causing Rose to notice that she had been influenced by Shadow, without Rose disclosing she also admired him. Alexia still lost to Rose's sheer magical force.
 * Alexia had immense admiration and respect for her older sister, Iris Midgar, although she was concurrently envious and jealous when the two were often compared. After the events of her kidnapping and the appearance of Shadow, Alexia stopped being envious of Iris and became focused on following her own path.
 * With the events of Volume 5, after Iris's and Beatrix's defeat in the Bushin Festival against Shadow, Alexia saw Iris become corrupted and manipulated for the Cult. Becoming increasingly afraid that her own sister would end up killing her, however as she realized her fear, she realized deep down that see herself might have followed a similar path, and alongside Claire (with unintentional help from her younger brother) sets out to stop Iris from making a grievous and horrendous mistake, challenging her to a standstill and making Iris see the truth behind the Cult's actions.