Atla Fayon

"If Raphtalia is your sword, then I want to be the shield that protects you."

- Atla

Personality
Atla is strong-willed and exceptionally smart. She always seeks to gain Naofumi's attention and would do anything to gain his affection. She has a tendency to punish anyone who gets between her and Naofumi, especially her elder brother Fohl. The love she has for Naofumi borders on the obsessive.

Appearance
Atla has the appearance of a 10 year old demi-human of the Hakuko race. She has ears and a tail similar to that of her older brother, Fohl, but it's hard to tell if they are from the same race. Despite being a slave, her white and black hair is glossy while her skin is smooth and pale. Her appearance has been compared to that of a porcelain doll.

When we first meet Atla her body is covered entirely in bandages. Beneath those bandages hid festering and painful sores. Upon seeing her for the first time Naofumi wonders "Is this mummy even alive?".

Abilities
Multilingual

Ki Manipulation

Stamina Recovery

Tiger Break

Musou Kassei

Enhanced Senses

Background
From the time of her birth Atla has had a hereditary illness. Due to this illness she couldn't see or walk, and was given a short life expectancy. If she ever gained the ability to walk she feared that she would always be the one who needed protecting. As her illness got worse and debt increased, from treatment, she and her brother, Fohl, were forced into slavery. While she lay suffering Fohl was forced to fight in the Zelburt Consortium. Her brother learned many languages during this time and when he got back from fighting he would teach them to her. She always looked forward to this as listening to him speak always gave her comfort.

Atla instantly realized who Naofumi was and asked him to take her brother and leave her. To her surprise, he ended up taking both of them in as slaves and treated her illness. It took two doses of Yggdrasil medicine, also known as the "Medicine of Miracles", to jump start her healing. After the second dose she was able to walk almost immediately and begin her new life.

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Atla quickly became proficient in combat, matching up to that of her elder brother's abilities in almost no time. She is also a very fast learner and will adapt quickly to any battle situation even compared to any of her companions. She is very decisive and often takes the initiative when partaking in anything relating to Naofumi.

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Atla can recover her stamina whenever she is involved in any drawn-out battle leading to her being regarded as a very tough opponent that would need to be taken down quickly.

Ren and Itsuki have commented that out of the two Hakuko siblings, Atla is the stronger one due to her adaptability.

Relationships
Heroes

Naofumi is Atla’s absolute doctrine. She treats Naofumi’s orders as absolute and agrees with whatever he says. She often tries to sneak into Naofumi's room to the latter's dismay and is almost always involved in nighttime skirmishes with Raphtalia, Fohl and some other slaves whom Naofumi appointed as guards to prevent Alta from sneaking into his bed.
 * Naofumi Iwatani:

Atla has a strong desire to be Naofumi's shield. Seeing as how Naofumi often takes the brunt of the attack and tries to protect his companions to the point where he disregards his own well being; no one is strong enough to be able to ease Naofumi's burden during battle. Alta wants to be that person.


 * Ren Amaki


 * Itsuki Kawasumi

Aultcray, used to have a little sister who bore a striking resemblance to Alta, although that sister has already long perished due to an action of an Hakuko and her fate remained unknown. It was revealed that Aultcracy's sister married a Hakkuko and gave birth to half breed Hakukos, Atla and Fohl.
 * Aultcray Melromarc XXXII:

when Aultcray first saw Alta; he gave off an expression that bore elements of both happiness and sadness.

The two are love rivals for Naofumi's attention. They are shown to clash constantly whenever it involves love or combat.
 * Raphtalia

Companions
 * Filo


 * Melty Melromarc


 * Rishia


 * Keel


 * Taniko


 * Rat


 * Sadeena

Atla's elder brother. He obsesses over Atla's safety to the point where he becomes overbearing. Needless to say, Atla managed to outwit Fohl's psychologically and physically from bringing him a drink that contained sleeping pills to outright jabbing his pressure points to make him faint.
 * Fohl

Atla also has to constantly remind Fohl that she isn't the sickly child that she once was and kept doing things that Fohl didn't regard as innocent and pure to try and convince him to let her stay by Naofumi's side.


 * Imiya


 * Raph-chan