Alexia Midgar

Alexia Midgar (アレクシア・ミドガル) is a student at Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy and the second princess of the Midgar Kingdom. Cid fake confessed to her to boost his "mob" persona, only for her to accept to annoy her fiancé. Though initially an act, over time she developed genuine feelings for him 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, dress shirt, stockings, and knee-high boots with crosscutting laces.

In her civilian attire, Alexia usually wears comfortable clothing, preferably a turtleneck sweater with shorts, and thigh-high stocking while wearing and (what seem to be) sneakers. Alexia 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 Kagenō

Alexia is shown as a well-mannered young lady whenever she was in school, but in actuality, she is spoiled and abrasive, looking down on others and think they could be swayed easily if offered money. This is best exemplified by her relationship with Cid Kagenō who she uses to avoid unwanted advancements.

This stems from feelings of envy, being constantly compared to her sister, Iris, and her wish for people to see her based on her own merits. After spending time as a couple with Cid, she starts to show a kinder side, developing fondness and even respect for him. When she was kidnapped, Alexia expresses 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.

Background
Prior to the events of the series, Alexia grew up with her older sister and they to spend entire afternoons training together, although Iris always defeated Alexia. As a result, Alexia devoted herself to becoming stronger in the hopes of surpassing her. With the passage of the next years, their relationship became very distant and strained due to her job as the first princess and leader of the Royal Knights.

She was later arranged to marry Zenon Griffey, who had a very prestigious reputation, but Alexia was suspicious of him because he didn't seem to have a flaw.

The Kidnapping of Alexia Midgar
She found herself getting unwanted advancements from Zenon Griffey, her arranged betrothed. This makes her suspicious of him and had to find a way to get rid of him. Alexia decided it was best to form a relationship with a person of a lower status to anger him, so she rejected a fellow high noble and accepts Cid Kagenō as her boyfriend when he "confessed" to her. As a result, the school was surprised by the union but Zenon was not fooled. Eventually, Cid found out, but Alexia reveals her knowledge of the bet that Cid's friends arranged after talking to them. She casually insults Cid and manages to bribe him with gold coins to get him to comply. Despite initially abusing her relationship, mainly to vent her frustrations, Alexia starts to warm up to Cid by confiding him of her problem with Cid and becoming the first to compliment her on her sword skills.

She was later kidnapped by Zenon's men and was sent to a laboratory. She manages to escape with the help from Millia but was stopped by Zenon, who revealed his true colors to her. Alexia was almost recaptured until Shadow came to her aid and kills Zenon. After being rescued, Alexia was reunited with her concerned sister who she shares a hug with. She also became determined to learn more about Shadow as she came to realize her swordsmanship upon witnessing him in action.

Afterwards, she meets Cid and remarks on her freedom from her betrothal while showing she has genuinely fallen for Cid by thanking him for complimenting her swordsmanship. Thinking his job was done, he tries to leave but Alexia asks Cid to continue their relationship a little longer, but Cid rudely refused to do so, causing an angry Alexia to attack him.

Midgar Academy Terrorist Attack
Having become curious about Shadow Garden and the Cult of Diablos, Alexia decides to take a more active role in the internal affairs of her kingdom by joining Iris's investigations. During a night patrol, she encountered three imposters who are disguising themselves as part of Shadow Garden. They had a brief fight until Shadow saves her. Alexia warns Shadow to not become an enemy of her kingdom, which is met with cold indifference. After the event, Alexia was put on lockdown by her sister.

In the anime, Alexia returns to Academy, but sees the gate is closed and the school guard is already dead.

Sanctuary Infiltration
Alexia made preparations by visiting Mitsugoshi Company's store along with Iris Midgar for her departure at Lindwurm as a special guest of the "Goddess's Trial" event, in order investigate the Archbishop Drake regarding dark rumors of corruption and missing orphans. While at the hot springs, she saw Cid arrive and was surprised by his nudity though he does not ogle her. They casually talked about their arrival and she apologized for the attempted murder from the rejection. Alexia told him of the event and that she alongside Rose Oriana will be attending as special guests. Cid thought she would participate as she clarified that she is unable to due to important matters and offered him into the Crimson Kinghts for her reiteration of her withdrawal. Despite her insistence, Cid bluntly refused as the conversation ended when he left while retorting her fixation on his "Excalibur".

Hearing the news of the archbishop death, Alexia goes to the church and having an audit with acting archbishop Jack Nelson, explaining that she was there to investigate the previous archbishop's death, to which he replied that the Church will be handling the investigation and she will need to be reapproved to conduct an investigation on the issue as Nelson already send the letter to the king Klaus Midgar and also telling her to enjoy the "Goddess's Trial" event.

At the trial, she was irritated by the Archbishop Nelson being flirted with by Miss Natsume Kafka. When Cid was called up for the challenge, Alexia alongside the three were shocked to see Shadow instead of him. There, he would call out Auroa and challenge her as the princesses was informed of the Witch in elaborate detail to much of Alexia's peeve on the writer's approach. Although Nelson and many of the spectators believed that the Witch would win, Alexia disagreed to Natsume's delight when she was able to analyze the closing distance and positions of the two combatants.

Upon Shadow's victory, chaos ensued as the Paladin Knights attempt to capture him, the Door of Beckoning appearing, and lastly members of Shadow Garden appearing. She and Rose went to the gateway alongside members of Alpha's squad with the captured Nelson to find themselves in the sanctuary. Alexia and Rose would then come to learn the connection with the recent events with the two organizations and the truth about the Cult of Diablos. After the destruction of the Sanctuary taking Nelson with it, Alexia alongside Rose and Natsume made an alliance in hopes of protecting what's most dear to them (Cid).

Bushin Festival Tournament
Alexia heard the news about Rose going into hiding after stabbing her fiancé Perv Asshat and tried to investigate the incident with Natsume Kafka when she gave her information that she didn't had access to. The two thought that if Rose was caught, she would be in serious trouble, but confident that she would not recieve the death penalty due to her royal status. Alexia wanted to confirm Rose's predicament by finding her before the Oriana Kingdom does, in the matter in hopes of getting her side of the story much to Natsume's protest. Despite being irritated by her words, Alexia understood her reasonable advice and decided to consult her older sister. Natsume will try to gather more information about Rose, especially about the Chancellor as she heard unsavory rumors about him. In the anime after Alexia left, she was given more info about Perv by Beta without her knowing, so as to keep her busy and not do anything to get into trouble.

While investigating, Natsume provided Rose's whereabouts to Alexia and went to Midgar's tunnel systems to track her. Natsume then shared some information to Alexia about the Chancellor to confirm their suspicions of him by recalling the incident that Rose instigated when he was attacked by her without any injuries and thought he was possibly connected with the Cult of Diablos. Natsume noted that it will be difficult to provide evidence of his involvement with the Cult the situation is a matter of national and religious relevance which meant that normal evidence will not suffice. Alexia added that her father told her that they needed something that would convince the masses and the neighboring countries, if they wanted to link the Cult's relationship with the Divine Teachings Holy Church and she thinks that some of their top brass were involved with the Cult. Even Natsume stated that if they continued to deny the Church, they would be considered as heretics.

Alexia was irritated by her father's inaction due to his long-standing policy of not showing any antagonism with the Church and told Natsume that Iris told her that King Raphael Oriana doesn't seem to be affected by Rose's actions which made her suspicious as when Iris had said that the King seemed to have a somewhat hollow. Alexia intended to meet him and she slightly smelled the sweet scent from the King's body. Hearing the King's irregularity, Natsume notices it and tells Alexia that it seems they are too late. Alexia is also sure that the Cult is definitely make their move and if they continue to do nothing as her father suggests, the Cult will end up causing a lot of trouble for the kingdom. While still doing their search, Alexia and Beta suddenly feel a burst of magic and they run towards it and upon finding Rose Oriana, the two witnessed her bloodied with dozens of assailants corpses. Alexia demanded Rose what happen and her side side of the incident and tried to beat her into answering. This backfired as Rose incapacitated her with ease and left the sewers to confront her father and fiancé.

In the anime, Alexia went to meet Natsume but already left, leaving a document which contained information that Alexia needed there. Alexia was practicing her swordsmanship skills when Shadow was about to release his "I Am Atomic", but ignored it as continued her practice.

Great Trading Company Conflict
Sometime after the Bushin festival and Red Moon incident, Alexia came to check up on a pondering Cid and the two sparred. The two noticed improvement in Alexia's swordsmen ship but she dwelled in her defeat against Rose and sought to continue improving. The two parted ways as Cid started his collaboration with Yukime as "John Smith".

The Academy Disappearances
After the Academy's Winter break, Alexia investigated the disappearance of Claire to find Cid's collar. There she discovered ancient texts on the collar and questioned Cid about it. Later in the night in the aftermath of Delta and Zeta's fight, Alexia found Shadow and misunderstood the situation as she was almost ready to apprehend him before he knocked the knights unconscious and fled the scene.

Sometime after Claire's reappearance, Alexia talked to Claire much to her protest for her fake relationship with her brother. The two discussed that Cult of Diablos infiltrated the Academy and Knights with Diablos' right arm being revealed to be sealed in the Academy. The two formed an uneasy alliance to further investigate the matter with their first hint being a book from the Forbidden Library. Alexia along with Claire then went to meet Claire's friend, Nina because she heard a story that she helped Cid to get forbidden books from the library.

At the Library, they were able to translate the book before being ambushed by the head librarian. In the ambush, the head librarian revealed himself as a agent for the Cult. Alexia started to feel strange and became incapacitated when the head librarian told them the stories of Fenrir and confirmed his existence after Alexia concluded that Fenrir is a Cult's member. Before he went to incapacitate Alexia and Claire after taking the effect of the drugs scent, Shadow then appeared to defeat the head librarian and in his last moments, the dying librarian revealed that he was a Bushin Festival champion and Knight who sought justice until he found the evidence regarding the corruption of the Holy Church without knowledge of the Cult's existence and investigated. The investigation went horribly wrong as his subordinates were massacred and his arms was cut off by Fenrir, also his wife become a hostage. In exchange for his wife's safety, he forego his identity to join the Cult and told Alexia that he was powerless to rebel against the Cult while warning the princess that she'll walk the same path as him.

After Alexia stated her resolve to protect her kingdom as a princess, the Head Librarian revealed the Cult's true objective is to gain more power as he revealed to truth abut the Three Heroes, Demon Possession and Diablos Cells are only customize for woman through using the red pills that Zenon Griffey used to have, which he called him as a poor student. The Head Librarian didn't take the drugs because it's a shame for a swordsman, but he stated the potential of these drugs that if the Cult can bring the Demon Diablos back to life and success to develop the perfect drugs, which is very effective without side effect, the Cult of Diablos will have extraordinary power that even surpass the heroes.

Also, the Head Librarian revealed that the quantity for the Tears of Diablos have been decreasing and he doesn't know what cause of it. Because the eternal life from the Tears will soon disappear if the number continues to decrease, even the Cult's leadership will not tolerate it as they want to revive the demon so they can harvest the "Tears of Diablos" again in large quantities. With the perfect eternal life in mind, their leaders could to rule over the world and run it with their hands from the shadows. However if that Tears disappear, it will destroy the eternal life.

The Head Librarian stated that it was no coincidence that Shadow Garden appeared in this era as they'll bring the end of the Cult's long reign and warned Alexia to be careful as the organization are the strongest people in the world to which he questioned if they even really are on the side of justice to protect the peace of the world or they want to take everything on the eternal life and the world from the Cult after the Cult's fall. As the Head Librarian breathed with pain, he entrust the kingdom's future to Alexia before passing.

Alexia collected the testimony and book as evidence and tried to use them to convince her sister of their involvement. To her dismay, Iris became a puppet for the cult as she was being manipulated by Hubb into believing that the cult doesn't exist and it was a fabrication done by Shadow Garden. Hubb provided fabricated evidence of an insider's document with Alexia refuting them as she tried to reach out her sister. However, her plea was written off by her as she threaten her with no mercy if she were to get in her way in the matter before leaving.

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.

Swordsmanship
Cid describes Alexia's fencing style as "orthodox", being rather straightforward with nothing special about it. Because of this, she is considered "mediocre" by those comparing her to her genius sister, Iris. In reality, however, Alexia's shortcomings were the result of her trying to replicate her sister, even though her fighting style does not suit her. Fortunately, after witnessing Shadow's swordsmanship, which like her is the result of hard work rather than talent, she stopped trying to pursue her sister.

Intelligence
In complete contrast to her lack of martial prowess, Alexia has shown to be rather intelligent in interpersonal interaction, often being capable of seeing the larger picture and getting a glace of the true personas of people like Zenon and "Natsume".

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, but during her confrontation with Rose Oriana her mana change to light pink.

Klaus Midgar
While annoyed by her father's seeming inaction, Alexia still maintains some familial love toward him, silencing Natsume when the latter criticized the monarch.

Iris Midgar
Alexia deeply loves and respects her older sister, however by constantly being compared to her, Alexia began to distance herself from Iris. This changed when she was kidnapped, and she managed to understand the true meaning of her sister's words regarding her sword technique. She was also touched by her sister rushing to find her after the conflict with Zenon before they share a hug to celebrate Alexia's rescue.

While having reconciled with her sister and her feelings of inferiority, Alexia's relationship with Iris has now become strained regarding the topic of Shadow Garden. Despite her continued warning to Iris to not interfere with the Shadow, having witnessed his overwhelming might, the latter refuses to listen, believing the masked vigilante must be using some sort of Artifact to boost his strength.

Unfortunately, their relationship would become strained once more when the cult began manipulating Iris into believing that they do not actually exist and are merely a fabrication of Shadow Garden, causing her to ignore all of the evidence Alexia managed to gather on the organization.

Cid Kagenō / Shadow
At the beginning, Alexia started her relationship with Cid (after his fake confession) as a way to annoy Zenon, her betrothed. However, not having the need to behave like a princess and being able to be herself when she was with Cid, Alexia genuinely fell in love with him. Despite him having put an end to their fake relationship, Alexia still loves him and usually bothers him whenever she has free time. She also tries to include him in other activities to spend more time with him though is annoyed by his lack of interest. Due to the time they were together and the affinity they have in their swordsmanship, Alexia began to imitate the stretching and sword exercises that Cid did, this resulted in a significant growth in Alexia's strength, something that other people quickly noticed. Alexia also remains unaware that Cid is actually Shadow who had been responsible for saving her. However, it is hinted that she may be putting it together.

Alexia was deeply inspired by the Shadow Garden leader as his fight against Zenon moved her and reignited her passion for her old swordsmanship she discarded long ago. However, despite Shadow saving her, Alexia remained cautious about him as she was unsure what his true motives were. She was also terrified of the vast power he possessed which was another reason for her distrust. After being saved on multiple occasions by Shadow, Alexia does believed that Shadow to be a heroic individual.

Rose Oriana
Both hailing from royal backgrounds, Alexia and Rose usually get along and tend to have a friendly relationship, this has led them to form an alliance (along with Natsume) in order to protect the people who are important to them. They are unaware that they are love rivals for Cid.

Their friendship appeared to have become distant when Rose fought her off and later became queen of Oriana when she dwelled about her after her sparring session and she looked for allies after winter break.

Natsume Kafka
From the moment they met, the two despised each other. This stems from the princess seeing right through the façade the writer puts up, along with the latter throwing several hints at her that she is mocking her and being jealous of Natsume's more developed figure. Despite this, though, they decided to form an alliance with Rose in order to uncover the truth of Shadow Garden and the Cult of Diablos. However, this did not stop Natsume from continuing to annoy Alexia while working together. Alexia also remains unaware that Natsume is actually Beta from Shadow Garden.

The two has not contacted each other after Rose became queen of Oriana as she thought she was good as useless.

Claire Kagenō
Claire despised Alexia for "breaking" her brother's heart and has not interacted with her until the two were investigating matters regarding Cult of Diablos. During their first interaction, the two made an uneasy alliance to further investigate the cult and student disappearances. To some extent, Alexia cares for Claire since she's Cid's brother. The two are unaware of Shadow's true identity and are beginning to pick up hints about it.

Glen
Late Vice Commander for the Order, Alexia's safety was one of Glen's priority until his death. He was also one of few people to learn Iris' secrets through her.

Marco Granger
Glen's friend and protégé. Alexia is Marco's superior in peerage and will prioritize Alexia's safety is she is in his reach, being the younger sister of his commander.

Their relationship alongside Iris seemed to deteriorate when he was unable to stop her from Hubb's manipulation, even having the younger sister question his stance regarding the matter.

Hubb
Agent for the Cult of Diablos. Alexia first meet him when she tried to give her sister evidence and testimony regarding the Cult. However the agent posing as Vice Commander manipulated Iris from listening to her with false evidence presented to her first.

Sherry Barnett
Assumedly Alexia's former upperclassman, not much is known of their interactions aside from being entrusted to decipher a device founded from the Zenon incident and notably when she talked to her about her relationship with Cid, learning that the two never dated in the first place. Upon hearing the nature of their relationship, she was glad and reiterated that they weren't dating much to the princess' ire.

In the game, The princess expressed jealousy to Cid whenever she talked about her.

Nina
The first met when she and Claire investigated the Cult's presence in the Academy. Nina gave the two a book from the forbidden library and pinned the source on Cid. Alexia alongside Claire is unaware of her true allegiance to Zeta.

Alpha
The two seemed to have recognized each other possibly through Iris. Unlike Beta, Alpha does not seem to take concern when the Princess tried to get closer to Cid assuming it was part of his investigation of the Cult.

Delta
Upon witnessing her fight, Alexia came to view Delta as a savage, feeling pity for her opponents and even wondering how someone so violent could possibly be connected to Shadow.

Epsilon
The princess may recognize her as "Shiron" since the former is noted to take notice in people of influence. The princess is also one of many to know of her fake breasts.

Zenon Griffey
From the very beginning, Alexia was suspicious of her seeming "perfect" fiancée, since "no one is perfect". She thus started a fake relationship with Cid to annoy him. After being kidnapped, Alexia's suspicions were proven correct when it was revealed that Zenon was the mastermind. The princess subsequently lost their duel for her freedom through Zenon throwing her off by constantly belittling her. In the end, following Zenon's death at Shadow's hands, Alexia did not seem bothered by her fiancée's passing at all.

Jack Nelson
Archbishop and a person of interest, Alexia with the support of her sister and Midgar tried to investigate him for his involvement in the former Archbishop's death and the Holy Church's corruption but to no avail. It was arriving at Lindwurm for the Goddess Trial was when she witnessed the Archbishop's corruption and involvement in the cult when Shadow annihilated the Sanctuary with him alongside it.

Luna/Gamma
One of the Seven Shadows and CEO of Mitsugoshi, Alexia is unaware of Luna's true identity. Contrast to her sister, the princess seems to be a fanatic of her clothing line in hopes of arousing Cid.

Trivia

 * In the novels, Alexia's mana color is light pink.
 * In the anime y 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 Kagenō, 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.