Tita Russell

Tita Russell (ティータ・ラッセル) is a playable character in the Trails in the Sky games. She is the daughter of Dan and Erika Russell. She has learned to tinker with machines, living with her grandfather Albert Russell in Zeiss.

Appearance
In Trails in the Sky, Tita is a twelve-year-old girl with blonde hair covered by a red beret and goggles. She wears red overalls and shorts with a bag holding all of her tools. Her attire is mostly red with black stockings and a white shirt underneath her overalls. She also comes equipped with an orbal cannon to fight off any hostile enemies. She also carries a gunpowder mini-gun, reserved for special occasions.

In Trails of Cold Steel III, Tita has grown much taller from her somewhat petite size, and wearing the Thors girls uniform for the Leeves Campus, wearing a red neck ribbon, navy vest and a striped-bottom skirt. While she leaves behind her red beret, she continues to wear her trademark goggles on her neck while sporting a light turquoise sweater coat sporting her status as an engineer. She wears Strega-brand sneakers given by Estelle and the belt originally worn by Joshua, to whom she considers her other family.

Personality
Tita is a very innocent girl who is very cheerful and cute in appearance to everybody she meets. She loves fiddling with machinery like her grandfather. Every time she sees something interesting in terms of technology, everything around her is zoomed out as she works on it like in a robotic phase. Even with her intelligence, she is still very childish and loving like a typical little girl who can be moved to tears.

Background
Tita is the daughter of Dan and Erika Russell. The was born and raised in Zeiss in southern Liberl. Due to her parents' common unavailability due to travelling, she lives with her grandfather, Albert Russell, while inheriting most of her mechanical knowledge from him. She continues to learn from assisting her grandfather in the Zeiss Central Factory, while also helping Grandma Mao with the hot springs in the neighboring Elmo Village.

Estelle Bright and Joshua first meet Tita while journeying through the Kaldia Tunnel. She was going through the tunnel to repair one of the broken down orbmental lights. When she repaired the lights, monsters soon surrounded her. Fortunately Estelle and Joshua came to fend off the monsters. Out of gratitude, Tita leads the two to the main part of town, before she is called away.

The next time the two bracers run into her is when the factory chief, Murdock calls her up to his office in order to introduce Estelle and Joshua to her grandfather, Albert Russell. She leads them to her house, and ends up getting caught up in the flow of her grandfather's experiment (and unknowingly drags Estelle and Joshua into helping too). Later, after clearing up the misunderstanding, Tita and her grandfather try to scan the Black Orbment, however the orbment activates and shuts down all of the power in town. Mr. Murdock then comes in and chastises the pair. She then lets Estelle and Joshua stay the night.

The next morning, the group have a conversation over breakfast about what happened the previous night and Albert Russell dubs it as an Orbal Shutdown Phenomenon, Tita then accompanies her grandfather to Zeiss' Central Factory and helps him try to open the Orbment. In the midst of the experiment, Mr. Murdock comes in and requests that her grandfather to go to Elmo Village to fix a pump. Seeing her grandfather's troubled face, Tita offers to go in his place with Estelle and Joshua accompanying her.

In Elmo Village, Tita immediately sets to work and when she is done, she joins Estelle in the bath. In the bath, she questions Estelle about her feelings for Joshua, and Estelle insists that they are just siblings. Tita then fails in preventing to warn Estelle that the open air bath is 'unisex.' Joining Estelle in the open bath, Tita reveals that she is jealous of Estelle and Joshua because she doesn't have siblings. When Estelle and Joshua offer to become her new brother and sister, Tita becomes delighted.

Saving Agate
Upon their return to Zeiss, though Tita is shocked to the central factory spewing smoke and goes in with Estelle and Joshua when she hears that her grandfather is still inside. Inside the 3rd workshop, Tita meets Agate Crosner for the first time, and sees her grandfather being kidnapped by a group of men in black armor. Meeting up with Mr. Murdock again, the group decides to go to the Bracer Guild to plan their next move. Upon discovering from Professor Alba that the group was heading to Carnelia Tower, Tita immediately offers to go with Estelle, Joshua and Agate. However, Agate is against it and tells her that she is a liability, leading Tita to run off in tears.

Tita reappears on the roof of Carnelia Tower, having decided to follow Estelle and co. on her accord in order to rescue her grandfather, Yelling, Tita starts firing haphazardly and almost ends up shot by one of the men in black, but Agate protects her. However in the process, the men wind up getting away with her grandfather instead. Apologetically crying, Agate scolds and slaps her, before cheering her up in his own unique way. Tita then thanks him Outside the tower, Tita is then shocked to see Agate collapsing as a result of being scratched by a poisoned bullet, and meets Zin Vathek who offers to carry Agate for them. Tita then helps to recover some Zemurian Moss for an antidote from the Limestone Cave.

After Agate is given the antidote, Tita spends some time watching over him until his fever broke. During one of his dreams, Tita overhears Agate calling her 'Mischa.' When Agate wakes up, Tita escorts him to the Bracer Guild due to being concerned with his health, and ends up helping with the planning for the rescue operation at Leiston Fortress by reminding Estelle of the device that her grandfather created to block the bio-sensors. She then announces her intention of going along with them. After retrieving the device, Tita goes with the group to the ZCF's airship where she goes aboard until take-off.

During the flight, Tita helps Agate with his Orbal device. During a conversation, Agate asks her if she is not scared, to which Tita replies that she isn't because she has Estelle and everyone else. She then asks Agate who Mischa is, to his shock. Agate mysteriously replies that Mischa is his sister, and that she lives back in his hometown. When the airship gets close to their destination, Tita hides with Estelle and co. in a secret panel in a cargo box.

Upon arrival, Tita helps out Estelle and the others to rescue grandfather. Exiting the fortress through a secret water route, Tita is forced to say good-bye to Estelle and Joshua and goes into hiding with Agate and her grandfather.

Turmoil in Grancel
Tita later reunites with Estelle and Joshua in the final chapter, after Estelle and Joshua successfully take back Grancel Palace along with everyone else. She arrives with both her grandfather and Agate and proceeds to hug Estelle and Joshua. She then explains with Agate how they got to Grancel.

When Tita first meets Queen Alicia von Auslese and her granddaughter, Princess Klaudia/Kloe, she becomes nervous and shocked, but quickly becomes friends with the princess and everyone else. After her grandfather fixes the elevator, Tita goes with everyone to the ruins below.

In the ruins, Tita becomes amazed by the ruins and after everyone decides to split into two teams (one for scouting and one for setting up and protecting the base camp) and to make Estelle and Joshua the team leaders, she can recruited as a party member for the scouting team.

During the Queen's Birthday Celebration, Tita is seen watching on as the Queen gives her speech. She then joins her grandfather and goes to get some ice-cream. After that Tita is last seen in her bedroom playing a game with Agate and her Grandfather. She then listens to Joshua's harmonica playing.

In S.1202, Tita meets Estelle and Joshua Bright. She introduces them to her grandfather, Albert Russell and helps them try to scan the Gospel. After being sent to Elmo Village for a repair job, Tita is shocked to discover ZCF full of smoke and her grandfather missing. It is during this that she meets Agate Crosner for the first time. Tita then gets upset when Estelle, Joshua and Agate refuse to take her with them to rescue her grandfather, so she follows them and arrives just as Estelle an co. confront the culprits. Trying to help, Tita causes Agate to get hurt whilst protecting her and allows the culprits to get away with her grandfather.

Feeling guilty, Tita helps to find a cure for Agate who was poisoned by their bullets, Tita then goes with Estelle and the others to rescue her grandfather from Leiston Fortress. After rescuing her grandfather and escaping the fortress, Tita goes into hiding with Agate and her grandfather and reappears after Grancel Castle has been reclaimed from the Intelligence Division. She then helps Estelle and co. defeat Alan Richard and puts a stop to their plans.

Tita then celebrates at the Queen's Birthday Celebration with her grandfather and Agate. She later becomes sad and concerned when she hears about Joshua from Agate and about how he had ran away to pursue Ouroboros.

The party arrives at Zeiss where they see once again Professor Russell and his grand daughter Tita who holds Estelle after hearing about Joshua's disappearance. The region is recently a victim of an earthquake attack that does not seem natural. In order to measure the vibration and find the source of the quakes, the Professor sends Tita with Estelle all around Zeiss to place measurement devices. Once done the party discovers inside a cave near Elmo Spring that it was in fact an experiment of Ouroboros called the Gospel Project.

Tita decides to join the group and arrives with them to Grancel. They are sent to the Erbe Villa to look for some children who have gone missing. Estelle discovers that one of the children is in fact Renne, a young girl that she met at the Air Letten Gate in the Ruan region and who is waiting for her parents. Quickly, Tita and Renne become friends and they spend hours playing at Grancel Bracer Guild waiting for Renne's parents. Tita is greatly horrified to learn that Renne was part of the Ouroboros Society. However, she could do nothing to stop her from leaving. Tita was visibly shaken by the event, but like Estelle, believed her to be misguided.

Saving Agate Again
As the dragon Ragnard went on a rampage following his forced control by a Gospel, Loewe took him to Bose to warn the bracers not to interfere with his experiment. Agate chased after the pair, much to Tita's worry, but she was forced to stay behind to help oversee the rescue efforts. Upon learning that Agate had gone to Ravennue Village to assist in firefighting, Tita requested to join Estelle's group, as she had the equipment to hit a flying target, and a reason of her own.

The group then headed to the nearby abandoned mine, where Tita recognized the chains had been cut recently and was most likely Agate's work. They went inside to pursue him, finding Agate fighting Loewe in the mining pit despite being outmatched. Tita ran off from the others upon seeing Agate in danger. Loewe was about to finish off Agate when Tita stepped between them, taking out her gun, yelling at Loewe to stay away from Agate. Loewe recognized her as Albert's granddaughter, chastising her for being so reckless despite being a genius. He warned her to step aside or he would kill her.

Tita stated that Agate had always saved her, but took this back slightly, feeling that it wasn't enough. She stated that despite his attitude, he always cared for her before proclaiming her love for him, refusing to move even if it meant she would die. Agate was surprised by her words while Loewe commended her bravery, albeit surprised that she cared for such a "blockhead". Loewe decided to spare the two, as the Royal Army had arrived. Tita then patched up Agate's wounds.

When Morgan departed from the ship, Agate accosted him of being too slow as he held him responsible for Micha's death, before he collapsed from exhaustion. Tita continued to take care of Agate; before the group left Ravennue Village, Estelle explained to Tita about the joint army-bracer effort to capture the dragon. Estelle also allowed Tita to remain behind to take care of Agate, telling her not to let him leave until he was fully healed, even if it meant physically restraining him. Tita thanked the group for allowing her to remain behind to take care of him.

Attack on Grancel
After the appearance of the Liber Ark, a widespread orbal shutdown phenomenon affects the entire country. Tita is needed when it comes to help make the protective devices function, which will help bring the phones in the five Bracers Guilds back online. One by one, they restore the phones and proceed to Grancel.

As Estelle and company arrived at Grancel just moments after the Ouroboros Enforcers arrived, they saw all the sprawled soldiers on the ground. Tita nervously stated that they should treat them, only for the commanding officer to plead with them to rescue the Queen and Princess before collapsing. She was forced to leave the soldiers behind as saving the royals was the higher priority. She also expressed worry after seeing the Royal Guard were no match for the Enforcers.

Tita joins the party in the voyage to the Liber Ark, where she meets up with Renne during the fateful confrontation on the Axis Pillar. After defeating Renne and showing her that there are people she can trust, Tita and Estelle watch her flying far away with Pater-Mater hoping that they will see her again in the future. From this moment, Tita really considers Renne as her friend.

In the epilogue, Tita is shown happily holding her parents who have returned to Liberl, seeing the recent events.

Tita was one of the individuals sent to Phantasama by the Recluse Cube. She had slightly grown up in height following the Orbal Shutdown Phenomenon. She was the first person to appear following Kevin and Ries' arrival to Phantasama, surprised by her sudden appearance in an unknown land as she was about to have dinner with Agate, Albert and her parents.

It is shown in the doors that Tita overheard her parents talking about the Orbal Gear Project as a means to fight the society's Gordias-class war machines after her encounter with Pater-Mater. Tita still considered Renne to be her friend despite the events in the previous game, and persuaded her parents to participate as a way to connect with Renne due to their use of machines. Her parents initially refused out of fear, but eventually relented.

To test their prototype out, Tita had Agate come over under the pretense of a dinner meal, although Agate eventually learned the truth but still volunteered to help regardless. The prototype malfunctioned and Agate was injured in the process.

Tita continued working as an engineer at the Zeiss Central Factory. She often thought about Renne, wondering when she would return.

Estelle and Joshua soon brought Renne back from Crossbell following the events of, where she was delighted to see Renne once more.

When she heard about strange happenings in Erebonia from Olivert Reise Arnor, whom she traveled with during his time in Liberl, Tita enrolled at Thors Branch Campus as an exchange student against her mother's wishes in S.1206. Renne voiced her support for Tita, and the two made a promise to show each other their hard work when they met each other again. Enrolled at Class IX under Instructor Towa Herschel, Tita works directly under Professor G. Schmidt on tanks and soldats.

Tita provides technical support to other classes, including Class VII Instructor Rean Schwarzer. Whenever she gets the chance, she is networking with orbal engineers outside of Liberl. While she ditched her hat, she is still wearing her old goggles around her neck. She wears shoes gifted to her by Estelle and the belt originally worn by Joshua, whom she considers an important family in her life.

When the Great Twilight began, Tita was detained and placed alongside Princess Alfin in custody. She was not treated harshly, given her status as a Liberlian, but her disappearance caused her fellow classmates and Agate concern. The two were initially supposed to be sent to Saint-Arkh under Wilhelm Ballad's custody, but both were moved to Dreknor Fortress and placed under the custody of the 4th Armored Division.

After being rescued by Class VII, Tita continued working on her Orbal Gear. She accompanied New Class VII to liberate the branch campus, upon which she showed off her Orbal Gear to Schmidt while fighting Class I of the main academy. Her work paid off, with Schmidt giving her passing marks, commenting that she had solved most of the earlier problems and placed her closer to her grandfather in terms of technological proficiency, much to her delight.

EN = {|class="article-table" ! colspan="4" | Tita Russell ! colspan="4" | ティータ・ラッセル 子ども扱いしつつも見守るアガットと、そんな彼を大切に想うティータ. ２人は仲間以上の固い絆で結ばれている. 故郷リベールにいる大切な人たちへ、“その人らしさ”を意識しながらも新鮮さを取り入れたプレゼントを選んだ. ＺＣＦから開発を続けていたティータ渾身の試作機が完成. 親友と見せあう約束をした頑張った“成果”へと一歩近付いた.
 * rowspan="6" |Tita Russell Note (Sen III).png
 * colspan="3" |Class IX: Military Finance (Cooking Club)
 * colspan="3" |An earnest and hardworking girl. Already a talented engineer, she's begun studying under Professor Schmidt.
 * colspan="3" |Agate's Ally Has a crush on Agate, though it's clear he only treats her like a little sister. Overcame a lot alongside him and their other allies.
 * colspan="3" |Precious People Handpicked special gifts for all her friends and family back in Liberl.
 * colspan="3" |Orbal Gear III Created a functional prototype of the machine her family had been working on. Vowed to show her progress to her friend.
 * }
 * -|JP = {| class="article-table"
 * colspan="3" |Precious People Handpicked special gifts for all her friends and family back in Liberl.
 * colspan="3" |Orbal Gear III Created a functional prototype of the machine her family had been working on. Vowed to show her progress to her friend.
 * }
 * -|JP = {| class="article-table"
 * -|JP = {| class="article-table"
 * rowspan="6" |Tita Russell Note (Sen III).png
 * colspan="3" |Ⅸ組主計科【料理研究会】
 * colspan="3" |何事にもひたむきで一生懸命な女子生徒. 既に若手技術者として活躍しており、今回シュミット博士の新たな弟子になった.
 * colspan="3" |アガットとの絆
 * colspan="3" |何事にもひたむきで一生懸命な女子生徒. 既に若手技術者として活躍しており、今回シュミット博士の新たな弟子になった.
 * colspan="3" |アガットとの絆
 * colspan="3" |アガットとの絆
 * colspan="3" |大切な人たちへ
 * colspan="3" |大切な人たちへ
 * colspan="3" |オーバルギアⅢ
 * colspan="3" |オーバルギアⅢ
 * }

EN={| class=article-table ! colspan=2 | Tita Russell Tita's been working hard on developing her Orbal Gear and her most recent effort got a 'pass' from the Professor--high praise! In spite of her efforts, her relationship with Agate hasn't progressed. However, they're still gradually growing closer. ! colspan=2 | ティータ・ラッセル 入学時から組み立て、ダメ出しを貰いながら開発したオーバルギア. シュミット博士から貰えた“合格”は最大の誉め言葉だ. いつまでも変わらないアガットとの関係にやきもきしているティータ. それでも２人なりに進展しつつあるようだ.
 * rowspan=8 |Tita Russell Note (Sen III).png
 * colspan=3 |Class IX: Military Finance
 * colspan=3 |An earnest and hardworking girl. Already a talented engineer, she is now Professor Schmidt's fourth disciple.
 * colspan=3 |Passing Grade
 * colspan=3 |An earnest and hardworking girl. Already a talented engineer, she is now Professor Schmidt's fourth disciple.
 * colspan=3 |Passing Grade
 * colspan=3 |Passing Grade
 * colspan=3 |Frustration
 * colspan=3 |Frustration
 * }
 * -|JP={| class=article-table
 * rowspan=8 |Tita Russell Note (Sen III).png
 * colspan=3 |Ⅸ組主計科【料理研究会】
 * colspan=3 |何事にもひたむきで一生懸命な女子生徒. 既に若手技術者として活躍しており、シュミット博士の四番弟子になった.
 * colspan=3 |“合格点”
 * colspan=3 |何事にもひたむきで一生懸命な女子生徒. 既に若手技術者として活躍しており、シュミット博士の四番弟子になった.
 * colspan=3 |“合格点”
 * colspan=3 |“合格点”
 * colspan=3 |やきもき
 * colspan=3 |やきもき
 * }

Base Stats

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Crafts

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 * -|Trails of Cold Steel 3=


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 * -|Trails into Reverie=

Weapons

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 * -|Trails into Reverie=

Orbment

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 * -|Trails of Cold Steel 3=


 * -|Akatsuki=

Trivia

 * Tita is the only playable character in for whom it is explicitly confirmed that both of their biological parents are alive (as both make appearances).
 * Tita is tied with Agate Crosner, Estelle Bright, Joshua Bright, and Fie Claussell for having the most number of playable appearances, with 6. Tita is playable in each Sky game, the last two Cold Steel games, and Reverie.