Alisa Reinford

"It's not like I'm trying to make a big deal out of it. It's just that if everyone knew, it would make things awkward between us and I don't want that."

- Alisa Reinford in regards to her background Alisa Reinford is one of the main protagonists of the video game tetralogy The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel. She is a student at Thors Military Academy and a member of Class VII. Introducing herself as 'Alisa R', she is later revealed to be the only daughter of the Reinford family and the young heiress of the Reinford Group, the largest and wealthiest industrial company in Erebonia.

She is voiced by Yui Horie in the Japanese version and Rachel Hirschfield in the English version, the former of whom also voices Nepgear and Yamraiha.

Appearance
A young woman of a slender build, Alisa sports long blonde hair with pigtails and accented with purple ribbons. In the game's intro, she wears the crimson uniform for Class VII with black thigh-high stockings and brown knee-high boots.

In Trails of Cold Steel, she wears the standard special Class VII Thors uniform with lengthy socks. She sports pigtails while also letting the majority of her hair out.

Personality
Alisa is fiery and strong-willed, often letting her emotions overwhelm her logic. Initially, she comes off as a very petty person who holds grudges over the slightest misunderstanding, slapping Rean for accidentally landing face-first into her breasts in the old schoolhouse and acting coldly towards him for much of the preceding month. On the day of the group's first field study, however, she reveals that she is actually a very kind girl when she wholeheartedly apologises and admits that she had been trying to do so ever since it happened, since she knew all along that it was an unfortunate accident. She even goes so far as to take full responsibility for the incident; Rean felt partially responsible due to his attempts to play the hero, believing he should have known that the trapdoor was designed so they wouldn't get hurt from the fall, but Alisa assures him that there's no way he could have known that, and that she's the one in the wrong regardless of how one looks at it. From then on, she consistently proves herself to be very friendly, sweet and affectionate, not just to Rean, but to all of her friends, though she still gets flustered easily, a trait she shares with Rean, and that they bond over.

Alisa was quite a lonely child growing up, not being able to make many friends due to her status as a member of the Reinford family; the nobles look down on her due to her not being one of them, and the commoners treat her like she's different from them too due to her extreme wealth. Her loneliness is not helped by her familial issues, which are extreme even by Class VII standards; not only did her father supposedly die eight years prior to the story, but her grandfather left the company three years later after her mother went behind his back. Overtime, Alisa came to resent her mother for tearing their family apart and left to enroll at Thors Military Academy. Wanting to distance herself from her family, she hides her heritage from her classmates at first, introducing herself as 'Alisa R'. She frequently expresses her disapproval at how the Reinford Group is run; when Patrick calls her family "a family of upstart arms peddlers", Alisa begrudgingly acknowledges that he has a point. She is also initially sceptical about Class VII's use of the ARCUS units due to the Reinford Group having a hand in making them, though she soon grows to realise they have great potential, even if she hates to admit it.

Although she can be a bit hot-headed at times, Alisa is extremely intelligent; she ranked near the top of her class when she lived back in Roer, which Rean considers to be very impressive for a city that big, and is the fourth-ranked member of Class VII, behind only Emma, Machias and Jusis, who are the three best students in the entire academy. Her hobbies include archery, wielding an orbal bow in combat, and horse-riding, which she puts to good use during the group's field study in the Nord Highlands, even carrying Emma, who has no experience in horse-riding, with her. She learned the former from Sharon and the latter from her grandfather.