Leia Rolando

Leia Rolando (レイア・ロランド) is a protagonist from Tales of Xillia. She is an apprentice nurse and childhood friend of Jude Mathis. Leia is employed at a clinic owned by Jude's family in his hometown of Leronde, and she also works as the "poster girl" for her family's inn.

History
After Jude and Milla Maxwell return to his hometown of Leronde, they meet Leia. Leia joins them to search for a valuable ore that is needed to heal Milla's legs, which were severely injured in the fight with Nachtigal Fenn. After healing Milla, Leia decides to join the party, without telling her family, having found a rival in Milla for Jude's affection, and wanting to change herself to become a stronger person.

Appearance and Personality
Leia is a young, 15-year-old girl with short brown hair, covered by a white headband, and green eyes. Her outfit consists of a white dress and small brown boots. She is bright in her appearance and personality, striving to please everyone around her with her positive attitude. Her kind demeanour and cute appearance contrasts sharply with her rabid love of sports and fighting competitions, though she values effort over victory. She is revealed to have "bullied" Jude in their childhood, though she does not realize this, considering everything was part of the games they played. She decided to become a nurse at the Mathis family's clinic to become closer to Jude. In Tales of Xillia 2, Leia discontinues her job as a nurse and instead works as a newspaper journalist in Elympios. In a skit, Alvin states that Leia likes to use emoticons and smileys in her messages, which make her messages seem more like codes.

Fighting Style
Leia uses staves as her weapon. Her primary stat from her Lilium Orb is Stamina, even though her total Stamina stat is not significantly higher than others. She also has relatively high Agility, only beaten by Jude, allowing her to move quickly in battle. Her characteristic skill is "Elongating Staff" (活伸棍術) which is activated when Leia successfully dodges an attack using the back step motion. Her staff then turns white and becomes extended, enlarging her range and attack power for a small duration. Leia has skills available to improve the duration of staff expansion, as well as one to enable the skill upon Flash Guarding an attack. Leia's artes have a focus towards aerial combat. All but one of her attacking artes and her ougi have aerial enabled, and many cause her to become airborne after use.

Being an apprentice nurse, Leia has access to magic that consists primarily of single target healing and support spells. Leia's Elemental Impulse is the only way to enable elemental damage on a weapon with no element. Leia's partner characteristic support skill is "Item Steal" (アイテムスティール). While Leia is the secondary partner, if the primary partner is attacking a downed enemy, she has a chance to attempt to steal an item. Leia is best used against Strange-type monsters due to the fact that the items they possess are valuable for shop expansion, though she can also steal items from enemies of all types.