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That's her Adjutant type. Depending on the unit's class an Adjutant has one of three different effects.

The vast majority of classes provide a percentage chance (based on support level between the two units) of attacking the opponent. This is symbolized by the Red Sword Icon.

The White Magic focused classes (Monk, Priest, Bishop, Holy Knight) provide Adjutant healing. If the main unit is under 50% health at the start of the turn, the spell heal is basically autocast. The number of times a unit can be healed this way per chapter is depending on support level.

The armor classes and brawler and grappler provide adjutant defense. This causes any enemy follow-up attacks to be reduced by percentage based on support level (40% at A support). More importantly, it makes it impossible for enemy follow-up attacks to kill a unit. You will always survive with 1 HP.

The usefulness of each varies depending on difficulty. In Normal/Hard where enemies very rarely double, the defense adjutant is largely useless and the healing adjutant is probably the best, if only to help keep units topped off. On Maddening the Defense adjutant is king and can seriously save your units. The attack adjutant is just okay. It's nice when it happens but the activation rate is just too low to be relied upon.

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