Rinoa Heartilly/Dissidia NT

Rinoa Heartilly is a playable character in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT and its arcade version. She represents Final Fantasy VIII.

Appearance

 * Default
 * Forest Owl I - Default coloration. Rinoa's default attire and her original in Final Fantasy VIII. She wears a light blue, sleeveless duster sweater with white angel wings on the back, and matching arm warmers. She wears a black tank top under the duster, cycling shorts with white zippers, laced boots, and a ribbon on her left arm. She wears a denim blue buttoned miniskirt over her black shorts, and her signature necklace with two rings.
 * Forest Owl II - 1st alternate coloration. Recolors her sweater and the zipper on her shorts black, her arm warmers gray, and her tank top white. Her miniskirt is a tartan-patterned with red and black. This may allude to the school theme of Final Fantasy VIII even though Rinoa is not a Garden student.
 * Forest Owl III - 2nd alternate coloration. Retains the black zippers, and recolors her miniskirt into blue-gray, and her sweater, arm warmers, and boots are colored white.


 * 1st Alternate Costume
 * Party Dress I - Default coloration. Rinoa dons the dress she wears in her first in-game appearance and cutscenes during the SeeD inauguration ball in Final Fantasy VIII. She wears an off-white halter dress with her signature necklace, along with matching heeled dancing shoes, and a bracelet on her right wrist.
 * Party Dress II - 1st alternate coloration. Both of her dress and heeled shoes are black.
 * Party Dress III - 2nd alternate coloration. Her dress is a cream yellow and her heeled shoes are silver with added luster.

Rinoa equips long-ranged projectiles named Blaster Edges:
 * Weapons
 * Pinwheel - Default weapon. Her original weapon from Final Fantasy VIII that is mounted and shot from her left wrist, and one of her Limit Breaks involve her pet Angelo being used as a projectile. During her EX Skill, she gains an alternate moveset involving sorceress magic, and her Blaster Edge disappears until after she uses an HP Attack or when the EX Skill ends. The Pinwheel now has more defined depth and detailed luster added to its model.
 * Valkyrie - 1st alternate weapon. As with the Pinwheel, the Valkyrie has a higher, more protruded depth to the large base, with its markings more clearly defined.
 * Rising Sun - 2nd alternate weapon. In addition to added depth and details, the large ring of the base is more circular as opposed to octagonal.
 * Cardinal - 3rd alternate weapon. As with her other blaster edges, the Cardinal gains added depth and additional detailing, more prominently on the main wing design, resembling the GF Diablos.

The Blaster Edges are featured in the Weapons Monthly magazines as customizable models, and can be used by Rinoa in Final Fantasy VIII.

Rinoa's default player title is Nameless Maiden. Her Manikin counterpart, the Otherworldly Maiden, is colored purple.

Personality
Rinoa retains most of her personality from her original game: Upbeat but still afraid of being alone.

She was shown worrying for Yuna when the summoner showed signs of tiredness from their journey on their way to Materia's Tower. Knowing that Yuna wouldn't want to drag others nor voice her concerns, Rinoa took the initiative and asked Locke if they could take a break, something Yuna was grateful for.

Based on Yuna's experience as a former Champion of Cosmos, Rinoa heard stories about the previous cycles and looked forward in meeting the others. She also fears of being alone, thanking Locke and Yuna for being with her since she would have lost all hope if she's left by herself in a foreign world.

Gameplay
Rinoa's fighting style relies on using her Blaster Edge as she can throw the blade from her blaster edge on her opponent once or thrice. She can duplicate her weapon to hit her opponent multiple times and use magic in a similar manner as Terra Branford as her HP attacks. She uses both of her Limit Breaks: Combine and Angel Wing. Some of her Combine moves serve as her Bravery Attacks to knock her opponent using Angelo. In her Angel Wing mode as her EX Skill, she hits her opponent with offensive magic before it wears off. Like Lightning, she is able to switch between both of her Limit Breaks in either physical or magical Bravery Attacks.


 * Type: Marksman - Rinoa can use an array of flexible attacks or partner up with her dog to take down foes.
 * EX Skill: Angel Wing/Combine - Turn bravery attacks into magic spells and dispel all buffs and debuffs on Rinoa. During Angel Wing, Rinoa's HP decreases, she is immune to buffs and debuffs, and she cannot use common EX skills.

In Combine mode, when Rinoa takes a certain amount of damage, Angelo will appear and cast Angelo Recover. Angelo will disappear immediately after she finishes an attack or Rinoa enters Angel Wing mode.

Creation and development
Rinoa was revealed as the third DLC character of the Season Pass on July 10, 2018. She was released on July 12, 2018, in the arcade version, and was released later on August 16, 2018, on consoles.

Voice
Rinoa is voiced by Kana Hanazawa in the Japanese version who also voices Deuce in Final Fantasy Type-0 and Enna Kros and Boko in World of Final Fantasy; and by Skyler Davenport in the English version. Rinoa speaks in a normal voice with a childish tone, but in her Angel Wing form she speaks in a serious but icy tone.

Allusions

 * When fighting Alexander, Rinoa's battle quote, "I've drawn you out of hiding!" is a reference to the respective summon from Final Fantasy VIII being obtained by using Draw on Edea in the second battle against her, or by using Draw on Catoblepas if the first opportunity was missed.
 * When battling Ifrit, Rinoa says, "If I win, maybe I can be a SeeD too!" This is in reference to Ifrit being the first boss encounter of Final Fantasy VIII when Squall is undergoing a field exam as part of his SeeD training.
 * This could also allude to when Rinoa accompanies Squall and his team to Galbadia Garden, where she tells him to pretend that she is also among the SeeD ranks.
 * When fighting against Leviathan, Rinoa's dialogue, "You should choose your allies more carefully," may be a reference to the character NORG, from whom Leviathan can be drawn from, who attempted to side with the Edea by sacrificing the SeeD students.

Trivia

 * Like with Locke's case, Rinoa was an important character in Dissidia Final Fantasy: Secretum since Squall mentioned her more than once during the stageplay.
 * With Locke and Rinoa's addition to the game, only two characters introduced in Secretum have yet to appear in NT: Auron and the summon Phoenix.
 * At the time of her release, Rinoa is the only character in the English dub of Dissidia NT to call the summons by their respective names.
 * Rinoa is also the only character to date who has more than one line of dialogue for summoning, depending on whether her EX Skill has been activated or not.