Cheria Barnes

Cheria Barnes (シェリア･バーンズ) is the granddaughter of the butler working for the Lhant house in Tales of Graces. She holds feelings for Asbel, but refuses to tell him.

Personality
She has a good personality which lets her face difficulty with cheerfulness. Though she holds feelings for Asbel, she is the type who will not be honest about it. Furthermore she grew distant to those feelings during the long seven years they were separated, making their relationship awkward.

She has strong feelings about being useful to the Lhants, as she has been living with them all this time. Also, as a dedicated healer, she tries her best to help every injured individual she can, usually running straight to trouble. After meeting Pascal, Asbel notes that Cheria acts like a mother for the rest of the girls.

Fighting Style
Cheria´s artes style consists of throwing daggers, allowing her to pressure the enemy from a safe distance. Her burst style consists primarily of holy offensive spells and area-based healing magic, with three support spells to augment the party's accuracy, evasion, and resistance against enemies. Cheria is a rather fragile character, having the second lowest physical defense parameter in the whole party coupled with sluggish running speed. However, her base stats are on par with Asbel's and boasts the highest arte defense out of the entire party, meaning her stats are weakened mainly due to weapon balancing. While her some of her arte execution is slow, Cheria's fighting style allows her to be mobile after attacking. This allows the player to be able to constantly moving while pressuring from afar. By guarding and concentrating, Cheria can perform critical hits easier than the other members by striking from a distance. While her healing spells take longer than Sophie's to chant, they have the ability to heal multiple party members at once. Cheria also can lower her chanting time through mastering titles, performing attack chains, and using cast reduction titles.

Bringing the news
Post time-skip, Cheria greets Asbel and Malik in Baronia, and informs him of his father's passing; an event relayed to him by letter from his mother, but one which he never read. She treats Asbel with almost no emotion, acting distant, as a result of him leaving for the seven years, when he went to the Knight's School.

Party
Asbel Lhant - Cheria is a childhood friend of Asbel. She seems to know about the incident that changed Asbel when they were small, and tries to help him through it. She harbors some feelings for him that may be romantic, but she refuses to admit them to him. In the ending, it is implied that she and Asbel had a child (he looked like a young Asbel with more pink-toned hair, Cheria's brown eyes, along with her brooch).

Sophie - Though Cheria is lightly hesitant about Sophie at first in their youth, they get along nicely in the present, and Cheria often acts like a mother toward her.

Trivia

 * It is shown in the game that Cheria has a hobby of collecting stamps.