Phoebe

Overview

A playable character in Wuthering Waves who operates primarily within Ragunna, a city-state in Rinascita. Serving as a devout acolyte of the Order of the Deep, she wields a Spectro-attribute Rectifier in combat. Polished, courteous, and deeply religious, she functions as a welcoming guide for travelers arriving in Ragunna and frequently mediates local disputes. While strictly adhering to clerical doctrines and self-discipline, she retains a remarkably gentle and sincere heart that genuinely rejoices over the things she holds dear.

Appearance

She possesses very long, wavy blonde hair reaching the back of her knees with straight bangs, a half-ponytail, and color gradient strands, paired with clear blue-purple eyes. A blue X-shaped hairpin fastens her left bangs, and a large white flat hat wrapped in a crown of thorns sits on her head. Her Tacet Mark is situated on her left thigh. She wears a white cleric dress accented in blue, featuring a black high-collar, blue braided cord, and a medallion bearing the Sentinel Imperator emblem at her waist. Her outfit includes long-over-short sleeves, gloves, a white skirt with black hem frills, white tights, white boots adorned with blue ribbons at the ankles, a pocket watch, and a bird-headed walking staff.

Personality

She is remarkably gentle, well-mannered, and sincere toward everyone she encounters. While deeply devoted to the Sentinel Imperator, her faith is grounded in understanding rather than blind obedience. Although clerical doctrines forbid intimacy with Echoes, she secretly treats them as divine messengers and cherished friends who comforted her in childhood, affectionately giving each one a personalized name. Despite her composed outer demeanor, she harbors a playful love for flying through the skies. She also displays amusingly firm quirks, such as stubbornly classifying tropical pineapple pizza as defensive armor rather than food and faithfully consuming exceedingly sour laurel salad solely because she believes it was recommended by her deity.

Abilities

Her Resonance ability allows her to materialize light into prisms, manipulating thermal energy through condensation and refraction. This power enables her to stabilize surrounding frequencies, calm enraged individuals into peaceful sleep, alter explosives into rescue tools, and comprehend the speech of Echoes. In battle, she utilizes a Rectifier to inflict Spectro damage. By expending a full Prayer gauge, she can alternate between an offensive Absolution mode and a support-oriented Confession mode that amplifies Spectro damage and reduces enemy resistances. Deploying a Ring of Mirrors alters her attack patterns depending on whether she stands inside or outside its boundary, granting grouping effects or empowering her direct strikes with the Star of Shamuel. Additionally, her staff allows her to glide and maneuver through the air with exceptional mobility.

Background

After losing her parents in a maritime disaster during early childhood, she survived a subsequent shipwreck thanks to a mysterious gentle breeze that carried her ashore, where she awakened as a Resonator. Left penniless when her family's assets were seized, she was taken in by Isabella Donna at the church orphanage her parents once supported. Her exceptional Resonance talents eventually earned her a recommendation to become an acolyte of the Order of the Deep. Upon meeting the Rover as an entry guide in Ragunna, she helped resolve numerous regional crises, including purifying Lorelei in the Cloud Garden, discovering the truth behind historical researchers in the underground vault, and investigating the sea whale on Liqoli Island alongside Zanni and the Rover. Following the battle at Seven Hills, she came to terms with the Sentinel's passing and accepted the Box of Civilization from the Rover to guide Ragunna toward its independent future.

Relationships

She holds deep trust in the Rover, whom she first greeted upon their arrival in Ragunna, frequently joining them on investigations and accepting their guidance regarding the region's future. She maintains a solid working relationship with Zanni during complex missions like the underground vault exploration, and earns strong respect from her superior Finleck and colleague Coletta. She remains profoundly grateful to Isabella Donna, the acolyte who sheltered her during her darkest moments. Furthermore, she forms affectionate bonds with various Echoes—such as Rabby, Benny, Bambu, Livia, and Breno—secretly meeting them despite church prohibitions. She maintains reverent devotion toward the Sentinel Imperator and honors the memory of the Holy Maiden Cartethyia.

Trivia

Her name is derived from Phoibe, the Greek goddess of light, as well as a biblical deaconess, while her surname is identified as Marino. She is humorously known for engaging in "staff therapy," using her bird-headed walking stick to physically knock out quarreling individuals to quickly restore peace and clarity. Within the gaming community, she has inspired numerous fan memes and parodies, notably centered around her repetitive commentary during fishing activities, her extremely cute squeaking voice clips from anniversary celebration events, and a widely shared series of fan-created reaction emotes rendered in a vocaloid-inspired style.