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==Origin==
==Origin==
Pyra is a {{s|xenoserieswiki|Blade}}, a personification of a weapon, used by a {{s|xenoserieswiki|Driver}}. Blades are essentially immortal, only returning to their {{s|xenoserieswiki|Core Crystal}}s once their Driver dies. Pyra specifically is one of two legendary Blades known as the {{s|xenoserieswiki|Aegis}}, and possesses fire elemental abilities. [[Rex]], the protagonist of ''Xenoblade Chronicles 2'', becomes Pyra's Driver after she shares part of her life force with him to save his life after being mortally wounded. This link makes Pyra dependent on Rex's survival: if he were to die in combat, she would die with him. Rex vows to protect Pyra on their shared quest to find the paradise land of {{s|xenoserieswiki|Elysium}}. Pyra differs quite drastically from [[Mythra]]. Pyra is very friendly, is an excellent cook, and fights more gracefully. In contrast, Mythra is more blunt, is a horrible chef, and fights heavy-handed.  
[[Image:Pyra origin evthumb.png|thumb|left|Pyra with [[Nia]] in ''Xenoblade Chronicles 2''.]]
Pyra is a {{iw|xsw|Blade|XC2}}, a personification of a weapon, whose purpose is to fight alongside a {{iw|xsw|Driver}} in the world of {{iw|xsw|Alrest}}. She is also the {{iw|xsw|Aegis}}, a specific legendary Blade said to have much grander powers. The protagonist [[Rex]] within a sunken {{iw|xsw|Ancient Ship}} on a salvaging mission, and in the following events, he becomes her Driver as they form a party searching for a way to reach {{iw|xsw|Elysium}}, the fabled paradise atop the {{iw|xsw|World Tree}} said to hold a way to avoid the world's sinking continents. Over the course of her adventure with Rex, much of Pyra's past is revealed - most importantly, she is actually an alternate personality of [[Mythra]], the true form of the Aegis who locked herself away for the guilt and regret over what she did to Alrest in the war five hundred years ago. Eventually, Rex connects with both Pyra and Mythra well enough that their trust produces a third form, {{iw|xsw|Pneuma}}, who is able to bestow Rex with additional "Master Driver" powers over Blades and the world at large.


In the aftermath of the {{s|xenoserieswiki|Aegis War}}, Mythra was able to witness firsthand how much destruction her battles against {{s|xenoserieswiki|Malos}}, the other Aegis, had caused. In anguish, she transformed into Pyra to cope with the consequences of her actions, splitting her personality. {{s|xenoserieswiki|Addam}}, the prince of the {{s|xenoserieswiki|Kingdom of Torna}} and her Driver at the time, traveled with Pyra to seal away Mythra's true sword that he was unable to control; then he put Pyra in stasis on the {{s|xenoserieswiki|Ancient Ship}} and sank it under the Cloud Sea to prevent her from reawakening and losing control.
Pyra's personality is mostly a reflection of the person Mythra wishes she was: sweet, caring, graceful, and an excellent cook. While she seems softer on the surface, she is actually the more stubborn one, and tends to take the lead more often once they begin swapping freely. Like Mythra, she is afraid of her powers, and is willing to go a long way to ensure they cannot be misused.
 
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500 years later, Rex, a Leftherian salvager, was hired by the new terrorist organization known as Torna to bring up the Ancient Ship. Rex accidentally touches the core crystal of Aegis and is promptly killed by {{s|xenoserieswiki|Jin}}, the leader of Torna and the antagonist of the game. Just before Rex died, he meets Pyra in a vision at Elysium. Pyra offers half of her life force to Rex to save his life if he helps her reach Elysium, to which Rex agrees. The two managed to escape Jin and go on an adventure to find Elysium. Along the way, they amass a party of other Blades and Drivers that have similar goals.
 
Early on in the adventure, Mythra leaves most of the fighting to Pyra, as she is afraid to use her power after the Aegis War. After Rex has a near death experience at the hands of {{s|xenoserieswiki|Malos}}, Mythra is forced to reawaken and save Rex. After the battle, Pyra explains her past as an Aegis and her battles against Malos to Rex. After a while of reluctantly allowing herself to used in battles, Mythra becomes more open and willing to work with Rex, and she eventually enables herself to swap with Pyra during battles.
 
After many encounters with Torna, Jin eventually dispatches the party and attempts to kill Rex; Pyra ends up offering herself over instead to make sure Rex lives on. After Pyra is taken by Torna, Malos begins to siphon data from Pyra's Core Crystal to regain his lost powers, stealing much of Pyra's life force. Though faced with the setback, Rex and the group are informed of the third Aegis Sword that Addam and Pyra sealed away. At the end of the dungeon known as Spirit Crucible Elpys, they are able to find the sword, but it disintegrates in Rex's hand. Rex, now knowing what he must do, is unfazed and leads the party to where Pyra was taken.
 
Malos reveals that with his powers now intact, Pyra has become akin to a corpse. In the ensuing confrontation, Pyra and Mythra implore Rex to leave them behind; they reveal that, due to their guilt over the Aegis War, they wished to go to Elysium was to beg the Architect, the creator of Alrest, to let them die. Rex, however, assures them that they do have a place in this world and that he will continue to stand by them. In doing so, Rex summons the third sword and becomes the Aegis' true driver; Pyra then rises from the ground and takes on a new form known as {{s|xenoserieswiki|Pneuma}}. With Pneuma and Rex's new powers, the group easily dispatches Jin and Malos.
 
After the battle, Rex, Pyra, and the others begin climbing the World Tree. They face multiple challenges on the journey up, including battles with Jin. With Pyra's newfound powers and Rex's ability as a true Aegis Driver, they are able to surpass these roadblocks and make it to Elysium. There they meet the Architect, a scientist named Klaus, whose experiments to create a new universe split the world into separate dimensions. Alrest's counterpart dimension is the world of the Bionis, where half of Klaus's consciousness resides as the evil god Zanza. Klaus reveals that Pneuma and Logos (Malos's original identity) were originally processor units on a device known as the Conduit. A third processor, Ontos, went missing in the accident that split the worlds (implying that Ontos is in fact Alvis, the personification of the Monado).
 
After meeting the Architect, Rex, Pyra, and the others engage Malos in a final battle to prevent him from destroying Alrest once and for all. Rex and Pneuma eventually deal a fatal blow to Malos, ending the conflict. However, the World Tree begins to collapse, and Pneuma offers to stay behind in order to destroy the World Tree before it crashes down and destroys Alrest, much to Rex's objection. She leaves Rex with her Core Crystal, thereby restoring his heart, and the party escapes as Pneuma self-destructs the World Tree. After the credits, Pneuma's Aegis Core Crystal begins to glow again, and Pyra and Mythra return, now in separate bodies, although it is left ambiguous as to whether they remember Rex or have been reborn without memories as Blades usually are. The story ends with Pyra and Mythra rejoining the group as they travel towards an island that the Titans merge into to create a new, expansive landmass.
 
Pyra is last seen in a photograph taken some time after the events of ''Xenoblade Chronicles 2'' holding a baby with the same hair color as herself, implying it to be her child. Her ultimate fate is unknown, as she does not appear in ''{{iw|xenoserieswiki|Xenoblade Chronicles 3}}''.


==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''==
==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''==

Revision as of 17:34, April 14, 2023

For fighter info, see Pyra (SSBU).
Pyra
XC2 Pyra artwork.png
XenobladeSymbol.svg

Official artwork of Pyra from
Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Universe Xenoblade Chronicles
Debut Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017)
Smash Bros. appearances Ultimate
Most recent non-Smash appearance Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (2022, cameo)
Console/platform of origin Nintendo Switch
Species Blade
Gender Female
Place of origin Alrest
Created by Tetsuya Takahashi
Designed by Masatsugu Saito
English voice actor Skye Bennett
Japanese voice actor Shino Shimoji
Article on Xeno Series Wiki Pyra

Pyra (ホムラ, Homura) is one of the main protagonists of Monolith Soft's Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the third entry in the Xenoblade Chronicles series.

After making a cameo as a spirit in the base version of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Pyra transitioned into a playable character in Ultimate as the fourth character of Fighters Pass Vol. 2.

Origin

File:Pyra origin evthumb.png
Pyra with Nia in Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Pyra is a Blade, a personification of a weapon, whose purpose is to fight alongside a Driver in the world of Alrest. She is also the Aegis, a specific legendary Blade said to have much grander powers. The protagonist Rex within a sunken Ancient Ship on a salvaging mission, and in the following events, he becomes her Driver as they form a party searching for a way to reach Elysium, the fabled paradise atop the World Tree said to hold a way to avoid the world's sinking continents. Over the course of her adventure with Rex, much of Pyra's past is revealed - most importantly, she is actually an alternate personality of Mythra, the true form of the Aegis who locked herself away for the guilt and regret over what she did to Alrest in the war five hundred years ago. Eventually, Rex connects with both Pyra and Mythra well enough that their trust produces a third form, Pneuma, who is able to bestow Rex with additional "Master Driver" powers over Blades and the world at large.

Pyra's personality is mostly a reflection of the person Mythra wishes she was: sweet, caring, graceful, and an excellent cook. While she seems softer on the surface, she is actually the more stubborn one, and tends to take the lead more often once they begin swapping freely. Like Mythra, she is afraid of her powers, and is willing to go a long way to ensure they cannot be misused.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

As a playable character

Main article: Pyra (SSBU)
Pyra, as she appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

During Ultimate's development, Masahiro Sakurai considered adding characters from ARMS and Xenoblade Chronicles 2; however, as their games were announced after he completed the roster early in development in order to secure all returning fighters, he passed them over, and Sakurai chose to have Pyra be a spirit instead. Like Shulk's English voice actor Adam Howden for Super Smash Bros. 4, on June 29, 2020, before her official reveal, Pyra's English voice actress, Skye Bennett, had posted on her Twitter that she had done recording for a game that has "lots of screaming". Three years after the game's release, Pyra would be announced as the tenth DLC fighter alongside Mythra in the February 17, 2021 Nintendo Direct. A character showcase was streamed March 4th, 2021 (March 5th in some time zones), with Pyra being released later that same day.

Spirits

Fighter spirit

  • 1,458. Pyra (Fighter)

    1,458. Pyra (Fighter)

Support spirit

Prior to the release of the Pyra/Mythra fighters, Pyra appeared as a Legend-class support spirit.

Pyra uses a Lucina puppet fighter and is fought on the Halberd's Battlefield form. She is fought along a Shulk puppet fighter representing Rex. During the battle, the floor is lava and the Fire Bar items appear, referencing Pyra's status as a Fire Blade with the ability to engulf the battlefield in flames.

No. Image Name Type Class Cost Ability Series
967
SSBU spirit Pyra.png
 Pyra
Support
 ★★★★ 1 Assist Killer Xenoblade Chronicles Series

Names in other languages

Language Name
Japan Japanese ホムラ, Homura
UK English Pyra
France French Pyra
Germany German Pyra
Spain Spanish Pyra
Italy Italian Pyra
China Chinese 焰, Homura
South Korea Korean 호무라, Homura
Netherlands Dutch Pyra
Russia Russian Пайра

Trivia

  • Pyra and Mythra are the only two-in-one DLC fighters.
  • Pyra's fighter design has been censored in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate by giving her pantyhose underneath her shorts. This was likely done to avoid raising the game's age rating, as Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has a higher age rating than Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in most regions.
    • Unlike Mythra, neither of her spirits use this redesign for their artworks.
    • Additionally, Pyra's redesign does not appear as a costume in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, whereas Mythra would gain the "Massive Melee Mythra" costume in her respective game.
  • Pyra and Mythra are the third and fourth fighters to have debuted on the Nintendo Switch. The first was Byleth (who properly debuted in Fire Emblem: Three Houses after they technically debuted in Fire Emblem Heroes) and the second was Min Min.


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