Tales of the Abyss/Characters

Protagonists

 * Luke fon Fabre

Seiyuu: Chihiro Suzuki / Voice Actor: Yuri Lowenthal

""It's not my fault!""

Luke is the son of a duke in Kimlasca-Lanvaldear, and has been kept locked up in his family's manor since the age of ten after an incident in which he was kidnapped by an opposing nation and developed complete retrograde amnesia. In that time, he's grown up into a spoiled and selfish person with little regard for anyone outside of his immediate circle of friends. After he is inadvertently teleported halfway across the world with Tear, his journey to return home leads to some startling discoveries about himself: not only is he a prophesied Chosen One, but he possesses the power of hyperresonance, a force that can reshape reality itself.

After, he vows to change himself for the better and gives himself an Important Haircut.

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As the main character, Luke is a pure swordsman. He is balanced in both attack and defence, and his combat style specialises in chaining artes to keep the enemy off-balance.

Luke provides examples of the following tropes:
 * Anti Hero: Type I, maybe II.
 * Ass in Ambassador: His power as ambassador goes to his head, and he uses it to order the party around.
 * The Atoner
 * Bare Your Midriff
 * Bishonen
 * Blessed With Suck: In regards to the fact that he has the power to cause hyperresonances on his own.
 * Book Dumb: Justified.
 * Break the Haughty
 * Butt Monkey: The world of Aldurant seems to exist solely to break Luke's mind into tiny little pieces as often and as brutally as possible, and almost all of his otherwise noble friends and family seem only too glad to help it out.
 * The Chosen One:
 * Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments seen here
 * Doting Parent: His mother.
 * : A complete inversion of the trope in every aspect.
 * Expy: He looks a heck of a lot like Zelos Wilder who is also a member of the nobility who acts like a jerk and tries to use other people.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Good Eyes Apathetic Eyes - His eyes are drawn quite a bit wider after his haircut than before, most likely due to less apathy from him post-. They also give him a younger look.
 * Green Eyed Red Head
 * Guilt Complex: After the events of The Reveal tore Luke's sense of self-worth into little-itty-bitty pieces, he becomes susceptible to this kind of thinking, and the rest of the party have to keep a close eye on him to keep him from going over the edge.
 * Heroes Prefer Swords
 * Heroines Want Redheads: Just ask Tear. Or Anise (though she was more interested in Luke's fortune). Or Natalia
 * Heroic BSOD
 * Horrible Judge of Character: Frankly, after trusting almost anyone at all would qualify him for this trope.
 * Idiot Hero: He even admits it himself. Justified in that, even before the dramatic reveal, its common knowledge that he only remembers the last seven years of his life and was basically under house arrest and deliberately Locked Out of the Loop that entire time.
 * Important Haircut
 * Internalized Categorism: After he finds out that he's, he gets a massive inferiority complex about whether or not he should even exist or not.
 * Its All My Fault: Luke's mindset through about the middle of the game till just before the end.
 * Jerkass: Before, he's abrasive, arrogant, and typically has selfish motives for his good deeds (he wants to save Akzeriuth so that he'll be a hero and be freed more than out of concern for the people)
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Despite his mouth, he pretty much automatically helps people when he sees them in trouble and is one of the few RPG protagonists who are completely and utterly averse to killing.
 * After his Important Haircut, he loses the "jerk" part.
 * Kamehame Hadoken:
 * Kid Hero:.
 * Lethal Chef: No where near as lethal as Natalia, however. At least his food is edible.
 * Limit Break: Radiant Howl and Lost Fon Drive
 * Sphere of Destruction: Radiant Howl
 * Death of a Thousand Cuts, Sword Beam, AND Wave Motion Gun: Lost Fon Drive
 * Long Haired Pretty Boy: Pre-Important Haircut.
 * Meaningful Name
 * The Messiah: Post-Important Haircut.
 * Mr. Fanservice: Taking into account all of the alternative costumes, he easily shows the most skin out of the entire male cast.
 * Multicolored Hair: He has sort of dip-dye style blond tips, thought these get chopped off later on.
 * Never My Fault: After, he refuses to take responsibility for what happened, at one point repeatedly shouting "It's not my fault!" This is.
 * Nice Guy: Post-Important Haircut.
 * Protagonist Centered Morality: He more or less runs off this trope in the beginning, with very little consideration for anybody else's moral notions. He gets called out for it a lot. It gets cut off at the same time as most of his hair.
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Reluctant Warrior
 * Reformed but Rejected: Jade and Anise are initially not too pleased to see him when he reunites with them.
 * Royal Brat: Initially; his mother is the king's sister.
 * Sphere of Destruction: His "Radiant Howl" Mystic Arte has shades of this.
 * The Southpaw:
 * The handshake symbolises more than that..
 * The White Prince
 * Thou Shall Not Kill: He really doesn't like killing.
 * Took a Level In Kindness: After his Important Haircut. Even his quotes during and after battle become more polite.
 * The White Prince -> The Wise Prince
 * :, the kicker being that nobody trustworthy, not even himself, is aware of it.
 * The Southpaw:
 * The handshake symbolises more than that..
 * The White Prince
 * Thou Shall Not Kill: He really doesn't like killing.
 * Took a Level In Kindness: After his Important Haircut. Even his quotes during and after battle become more polite.
 * The White Prince -> The Wise Prince
 * :, the kicker being that nobody trustworthy, not even himself, is aware of it.
 * :, the kicker being that nobody trustworthy, not even himself, is aware of it.

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 * Tear Grants

Seiyuu: Yukana / Voice Actress: Nicole Karrer

Born Mystearica Aura Fende, Tear is a Seventh Fonist who- at the beginning of the game- attempts to assassinate her brother Van Grants. She accidentally teleports herself and Luke halfway across the world, and stricken with guilt she vows to return him home. Though she carries herself as a soldier, Tear possesses a powerful mothering instinct and a weakness for girly or cute things. As a Songstress of Yulia, she can sing hymns that bestow powerful magical effects.

Tear is the main healer of the party, and possesses several spells for creating Fields of Fonons. Though Tear's healing spells heal less damage than Natalia's, they have a large area-of-effect.

Tear provides examples of the following tropes: "M-me-melons, what do you mean melons!? Are you stupid!? Can't you be a little more quiet!?"
 * Action Girl: Kind of. While she's a total Badass, she also happens to be The Medic on the battlefield.
 * Action Girlfriend
 * Badass
 * Badass Long Hair
 * Boobs of Steel
 * Big Breasts Big Deal: She does not like showing off her assets or having other people point them out.
 * Big Eater: Implied by Jade
 * Blue Eyes
 * Boom Stick: She uses her staves to fire beams of light at her enemy rather than using it for closed-quarters combat.
 * Buxom Is Better: People don't seem to pay much attention to her large tracts of land for the most part--until it gets lampshaded in some skits and Luke uses them to taunt Anise.


 * Catgirl: Her "Monster Collector" costume title. It has the handy ability to stop encounters when worn.
 * Combat Medic: Not the best fighter, but plenty competent with her staff and throwing knives.
 * Cuteness Proximity: Put anything cute near her. "So cute..."
 * Cutscene Power to The Max
 * Deadpan Snarker: At times
 * Defrosting Ice Queen: Slightly subverted; she's not really a cold individual, but Luke has so many foot-in-mouth moments that it looks that way.
 * Detached Sleeves
 * Disappeared Dad: They never do explain how her father died even though they did for her mother.
 * Famous Ancestor: Yulia, mother of the Score.
 * Fetish Fuel Station Attendant
 * General Ripper: God Generals on the loose? Van is behind it. Fon Master kidnapped? Van is behind it. Anything slightly suspicious? Just know Van's gotta be involved somehow. Somebody left the cooker on? It has to be Van. It probably was Natalia.]] ... Yeah. See where we're going with this?
 * Heroes Want Redheads
 * Improbable Weapon User: "Pow Hammer!"
 * In the Blood
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Some of the stuff she says can really sting, and she does pull that Moral Dissonance crap (see said trope below), but she's also a very loving and sensitive young lady.
 * Jiggle Physics
 * Lady of War
 * Lawful Stupid: At first.
 * Light Is Good: In direct contrast to her Evil Counterpart.
 * Limit Break: Innocent Shine and Fortune Arc.
 * Holy Hand Grenade
 * Pillars Of Light
 * Death From Above
 * Always Accurate Attack: Fortune Arc
 * There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Fortune Arc has an extension.
 * Magic Music: The fonic hymns.
 * Musical Assassin: Her Fonic Hymns
 * The Medic
 * Meido: Her "Proud Maid" costume title.
 * Moral Dissonance: She chews out Luke for trusting  However, she saw no problem with defending the honor of her direct superior Grand Maestro Mohs, even after it is readily apparent that he  She never seems to bring this up, even when its revealed that   And for added fun, so was , who also gets off with barely a shocked remark.
 * That is a result of Tear being raised as Lawful Stupid.
 * There's also not much to indicate that she even was that close to him outside of him officially adopting her and being the mayor of Yulia City.
 * Parental Abandonment: As stated, an explanation for how Tear's father dies is never given, and her mother.
 * Peek a Bangs
 * Promotion to Parent: In a slightly different sense; Luke's mother promotes her to "sister" in a cutscene, but she still views Tear as someone that takes care of her son while she can't.
 * She was also on the receiving end. She and Van were officially adopted by the mayor of Yulia City, but Van was the one who ultimately took responsibility for raising her.
 * Properly Paranoid:.
 * Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Falls into this as she watches Luke become The Messiah after his Important Haircut.
 * Stocking Filler
 * Sugar and Ice: both her english and Japanese voices. They play to different sides of her character, too.
 * Tall Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tragic Keepsake: Her mother's pendant.
 * White Mage
 * Why Did It Have To Be Ghosts
 * Zettai Ryouiki

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 * Guy Cecil

Seiyuu: Yasunori Matsumoto / Voice Actor: Johnny Yong Bosch

Guy is Luke's personal servant and "best friend", going so far as to travel into the middle of enemy territory looking for Luke when he goes missing. Though Guy is extremely charming, he suffers from a crippling case of gynophobia and freaks out if he is touched by a woman. He also has a geeky obsession with Fon Machines.

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In battle, Guy is a swordsman who sacrifices attack power for pure speed, in both his movement and rate of attack.

Guy provides examples of the following tropes: "Luke: Don't you feel sorry for the women you lead on like that?"
 * Adorkable
 * Allergic to Love: Very justified however.
 * Ambiguous Disorder: Subverted. Guy's condition isn't explicitly pegged as gynophobia when it's introduced, but it's clear that the game isn't dancing around the issue of it.
 * Big Damn Heroes/Dynamic Entry: "Enter the amazing Guy!"
 * Bishonen
 * Bonus Boss: He appears as the cameo boss in Tales of Hearts.
 * Chick Magnet: To his great despair.
 * Chivalrous Pervert: "Well, I do love LOOKING at beautiful women..."
 * Dead Baby Comedy: His fear of women is funny. Until Guy remembers what happened to cause it. On successive playthroughs, the game's treatment of it before Guy gets his memory back can skirt quite close to Dude Not Funny territory.
 * Deadpan Snarker: "Jade is someone's pet."
 * Does Not Like Women: A variant. He doesn't HATE women; he just can't stand being touched by one. And with good reason.
 * Easily Forgiven:
 * Fragile Speedster: Guy is the fastest playable character, but can't take many hits.
 * Jack of All Stats And by mid-game, he's the Jack of All Stats and by endgame he's a full-blown Lightning Bruiser due to his ever improving defenses and HP and an increasing TP pool to spam his cheap self heal with and a reasonable (but not outstanding on higher difficulties) damage output.
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hates Being Touched: But only by women.
 * Hidden Depths
 * Iaijutsu Practitioner: Special Mention goes to Brilliant Overlord.
 * I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
 * Hates Being Touched: But only by women.
 * Hidden Depths
 * Iaijutsu Practitioner: Special Mention goes to Brilliant Overlord.
 * I Didn't Mean to Turn You On


 * Limit Break: Razing Phoenix and Brilliant Overlord
 * Playing With Fire: Razing Phoenix
 * Sword Beam and Sphere of Destruction: Brilliant Overlord
 * Nice Guy: Hehe, GUY, hehehe...
 * Parental Abandonment: Both his parents are dead.
 * Took a Level In Badass:
 * Undying Loyalty: Towards Luke.
 * Why Did It Have To Be Women?: In regards to his gynophobia.
 * Undying Loyalty: Towards Luke.
 * Why Did It Have To Be Women?: In regards to his gynophobia.
 * Why Did It Have To Be Women?: In regards to his gynophobia.

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 * Jade Curtiss

Seiyuu: Takehito Koyasu / Voice Actor: Kirk Thornton

""I merely express distrust as a matter of formality.""

Also known as Jade the Necromancer, Jade is the oldest character to join your party (being in his thirties). Born as Jade Balfour, he is a prodigy in fonon use and research. He grew up with the Emperor of Malkuth as a neighbour, and serves Malkuth's military as commander of the Third Division Forces. Unofficially, he's the Emperor's right-hand-man.

Jade is (usually) calm and collected, and is always ready with a witty or sarcastic remark. He also tends to enjoy playing the age card to get himself out of physical labor (like pushing boxes). His fonic ability is sealed by an Artifact of Doom early in the game, restricting access to all but his most basic spells. He unseals his existing abilities as he levels up.

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Jade is mainly an offensive spellcaster, though he can also summon a spear for close-range combat.

Jade provides examples of the following tropes:
 * Adult Child: Subtly done for the most part, but it really comes out when he joins forces with Anise to tease the others, such as the moment when he joins in on tickling Guy.
 * Adults Are Useless / Competence Zone: Subverted, and lampshaded to hell and back.
 * Anti Hero: Type III/IV.
 * A Taste of Power: That Liger Queen was created so that Jade would brutally murder her with powerful spells.
 * THEN it becomes quite necessary in Unknown given Luke and Tear do Scratch Damage if they're not properly leveled with bonus stats.
 * Badass
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Badass Cape: Gets one in his optional Final Costume
 * Biseinen
 * Black Mage: All his spells focus on dealing offensive magical damage.
 * Blade On a Stick- Uses spears for melee combat.
 * Character Development: Subtle, and rather depressing. While he keeps an almost invariably cool façade, Jade is initially very emotionally detached and aloof to everything. As Luke grows, and Jade gets to see the fruits of both his inventions and his apathetic treatment of others, he begins to increasingly loathe his work and curse his irresponsible detachment from his surroundings. Late in the game, during a particular skit contemplating both,, and for once, he doesn’t seem to be joking.
 * During a private chat with Luke, he confesses that . He’s very aware of the ramifications of keeping everyone in the dark about this, with no small amount of self-loathing.
 * Colonel Badass
 * Complete Monster - Averted in-universe and it's actually one of the most important points in his backstory. He was a sadistic freak with his fonic artes in his younger days, but Gelda Nebilim was able to change him. Tragically, however, it was his immense love and respect for her that led to the Break the Haughty moment
 * Cool Old Guy - Parodied. Jade repeatedly pulls the "old man" card despite being only thirty-five and he's aware of how ridiculous this is when he states that he doesn't consider someone a true adult until they're in their forties. He just invokes it to get out of hard work.
 * Creepy Child Prodigy: To the extent of his own sister calling him a Complete Monster, since he used his genius-level skill in fonic artes to torture even the most helpless of monsters For the Evulz... but he got better after Professor Nebilim showed him the errors of his ways.
 * Colony Drop: A late-game sidequest grants him several "forbidden spells", one of which is Meteor Storm.
 * Crutch Character - Sort of. The first time he joins your party, he's level 45, while Luke and Tear are probably closer to 5. This changes very fast.
 * Cursed With Awesome - Jade admits on several occasions that his intelligence is a curse.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Dressed to Heal - The "Doctor Mambo" costume.
 * Fetish Fuel Station Attendant
 * The Gadfly
 * Gender Blender Name
 * Get a Hold of Yourself Man -
 * Glass Cannon: He's probably putting out better numbers than anyone else on Unknown difficulty, due to his huge Fonic Attack growth and very strong spells. However, he's got low physical defense growth and mediocre health and is the only character incapable of healing himself without special equipment and/or items.
 * Intelligence Equals Isolation
 * It Seemed Trivial: The reason why he kept the information concerning to himself.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * The Leader: Pretty clear Type I for he protagonists.
 * Limit Break - Mystic Cage and Indigination
 * Always Accurate Attack - Mystic Cage
 * Shock and Awe - Indigination
 * Death From Above
 * Instant Runes
 * Mad Doctor - A small sidequest results in him testing out an experimental treatment on the character of your choice. He gets a doctor's outfit costume title as a result. If you equip it for a battle, he tells Anise in a skit that he originally planned on being an autopsist, not a soldier.
 * Mad Scientist - He was the one who invented fomicry. When he was nine. No more needs to be said.
 * Magic Knight - He is actually the game's most powerful offensive magic user, yet he also has high enough attack power and hit points to make him aptly suited for melee combat as well.
 * My Sister Is Off Limits: He is not pleased when he discovers that the rappig Peony named after Nephry has the prettiest collar.
 * Necromantic: Tried to save his.
 * Older Than They Look - He's 35.
 * OOC Is Serious Business:, Jade says that "as (Luke's) friend," he feels compelled to stop it, something Luke says he never heard Jade refer to him as before. Jade then follows with an apology.
 * Overrated and Underleveled - Justified in a way that makes him seem even more awesome. Using a fon slot seal on someone is the equivalent of nuking them from orbit (at least in terms of cost).
 * Perpetual Smiler
 * Phlebotinum Breakdown
 * Professor Guinea Pig: In his youth, he experimented on himself, which increased his Fonic ability by way of the Fonic Sight. However, during an experiment of harnessing the power of Seventh Fonons,.
 * Red Eyes Take Warning - And he did it to himself, when he was eight, by using magic to mutilate his eyes. "Fonic Sight" increased his power, but it's been banned now because the arte usually makes people go blind. Or insane. Or just dead.
 * Sociopathic Hero - Jade is aware of the concepts of right and wrong, but is unable to fully comprehend them. Unlike most Sociopathic Heros, he is troubled by this and makes an effort to do the right thing.
 * Moral Sociopathy
 * Specs of Awesome
 * Stepford Smiler / Stepford Snarker - Manages to hit both by constantly snarking with a cheerful tone and smile.
 * Stoic Spectacles
 * The Glasses Come Off:.
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love: Jade is the only main character in the game who is never shown taking an interest in anyone. This also extends to friendly compassion, to the point that Anise has to tell him flat-out that he's becoming concerned for their well-being when he starts questioning his feelings towards them.

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 * Natalia Luzu Kimlasca Landvaldear

Seiyuu: Michiko Neya / Voice Actress: Stephanie Sheh

Natalia is the princess of the game, being in line for the throne of Kimlasca-Lanvaldear. She is stubborn, haughty and an utter romantic. As Luke proposed to her before his amnesia, she constantly pesters and pressures him to remember the promise they made. When Luke leaves the capital on a diplomatic mission, Natalia stows along and blackmails her way into the party. Despite her overbearing attitude, she is a sincere ruler who only wishes to see her country and people prosper.

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Natalia is an archer who fights at a distance. She also possesses several healing spells; in comparison to Tear, Natalia's spells are more effective but only affect a single person at a time.

Natalia provides examples of the following tropes:
 * Absolute Cleavage - Her Star of Malkuth costume prominently displays her, er, assets.
 * Action Girl - She's an awesome archer.
 * The Archer
 * Artificial Stupidity: Her AI just loves to waste her TP...
 * Badass Princess
 * Boobs of Steel
 * Childhood Marriage Promise - With Luke.
 * Combat Medic - She can be played as either a healer or an offensive fighter.
 * Distressed Damsel - Ends up captured, TWICE; one of which times you actually have to save her.
 * Somewhat subverted, however, as while she does get captured twice, she's actually a very competent fighter.
 * Dude Not Funny / My God What Have I Done: She gives herself this treatment in-universe. She's extremely fond of teasing Guy for his fear of women. However, once she learns exactly why he suffers from it, she apologies instantly and stops ridiculing him for it.
 * Hair Decorations
 * Fragile Speedster - Can usually get in several hits in comparison to other characters, but don't let anything hit her back.
 * Green Eyes
 * Hair of Gold
 * Heroes Want Redheads
 * Idiot Ball - Played purely for laughs. She's the first to swallow Anise's tall tales, and tends to make outright idiot decisions whenever the Rule of Funny calls for it. For example? She set a metal pot on fire by accident and tried to fix it by casting Heal.
 * Infinity Minus One Sword - The Elven Bow. There are a couple bows that have better stat boosts than it, but you can only use her second level mystic arte Noble Roar when the Elven Bow is equipped, so most people end up using it.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold - Yeah, she's a bona fide Royal Brat, but at the same time she has legitimately changed her people's conditions for the better. As she progresses through the game, she loses the "Jerk" part completely.
 * Kissing Cousins -
 * Lethal Chef - In every way imaginable.
 * Limit Break - Astral Rain and Noble Roar
 * Rain of Arrows
 * Death From Above Astral Rain
 * The Medic
 * Missing Mom - Her mother died in childbirth.
 * Modest Royalty - Her outfits are quite un-pimped out. She can get her princess dress as an alternate outfit, but it's still pretty modest for something you'd expect a royal to wear.
 * Ms. Fanservice: To an extent in some of her alternate costumes. Somewhat surprising given that she's not the resident Gag Boobs character.
 * Mythology Gag:.
 * Overly Long Name - Princess Natalia Luzu Kimlasca Lanvaldear... Holy fuck, try saying that five times fast.
 * Plucky Girl
 * Politically Active Princess: Despite her initial brattiness, she is very much one of these. Luke even refers to her as a "wannabe queen" at one point. She uses her influence for the benefit of her people or engaging in international diplomacy, to the point where she's already almost universally considered a much better ruler than her father, the king. The people in fact, are so fond of her that they
 * Royal Brat - Despite all that she goes through she still acts like a stuck up and initialed brat. At one time she said that she was trying not to boss Guy around so much but she was having trouble because she was so used to acting that way.
 * After she ran away and forced her way into the group, Anise asked the question everybody else was thinking- "Anybody else think I should rip daddy's little girl a new hole?"
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something - The reason everyone in Baticul is willing to save her from the guards when . She actually does take good care of Kimlasca, and listen to the needs of its people.
 * Spoiled Sweet
 * Stripperiffic - Although her regular outfit is modest enough, her alternate costumes reveal quite a surprising amount of flesh; much more than anything the Gag Boobs character wears.
 * Strong Family Resemblance:.
 * Ugly Guys Hot Daughter: She does not look like her father..
 * Stripperiffic - Although her regular outfit is modest enough, her alternate costumes reveal quite a surprising amount of flesh; much more than anything the Gag Boobs character wears.
 * Strong Family Resemblance:.
 * Ugly Guys Hot Daughter: She does not look like her father..

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 * Anise Tatlin

Seiyuu: Haruko Momoi / Voice Actress: Jolie Jackson

Anise is a Fon Master Guardian, the personal bodyguard and aide of Fon Master Ion. Her sugary sweet appearance and demeanour hide a ruthless and money-hungry personality that dreams of marrying into money and violently curses out enemies. She also works as a subordinate to Jade.

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She is known as a "puppeteer", and can make her plushie Tokunaga grow to an incredible size. She uses this ability to ride Tokunaga into battle and beat her enemies into submission. Anise is also a powerful spellcaster in her own right.

Anise provides examples of the following tropes:
 * Action Girl: "Ionian Sergerant and Fon Master Guard WINS!"
 * Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: downplayed as they have little screen time but when they do show up they embarrass her with their lack of common sense.
 * Bodyguard Crush: Its hardl a secret that she crushes on Ion.
 * Black Magician Girl: Her speciality is offensive magic and she's so small and squishy that she has to ride Tokunaga just to take part in battle.
 * Casting a Shadow / Light Em Up - Her spells mostly consist of contrasting light and dark elemental powers.
 * Dark Is Not Evil / Light Is Good
 * Cute Bruiser: Tokunaga, her puppet, is cute and can crush monsters with its fists. SHE, on the other hand, is as physically weak as her young age and short stature would suggest.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Uses dark magic. (Negative Gate and Bloody Howling)
 * Detached Sleeves
 * Feminine Women Can Cook - She's the best cook in the party, plays up her cuteness, and looks forward to being married (to a rich guy of course)
 * Genki Girl - Well, compared to the rest of the cast, anyway, she has a lot more energy.
 * Girlish Pigtails: Part of her 'cute girl' act.
 * Glass Cannon - Not so noticeable on your first run through the game, but God, does she die quick on higher difficulty levels.
 * Gold Digger - She does get over this later, and it's also explained that she was so focused on money because
 * Idiot Ball: Really, the amount of opportunities the party had for  are staggering.
 * Improbable Weapon User - While she equips staves and maces, all of her physical attacks use her plushie.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: She's nice to her friends but everyone else either gets the 'cute girl' act or scathing comments.
 * Kawaiiko: She deliberately plays up her age and apperance to invoke this trope.
 * Limit Break - Final Fury and Fever Time
 * Rapid Fire Fisticuffs - Final Fury
 * No Kill Like Overkill / Goomba Stomp / Shoryuken: Final Fury can be extended to Dying Moon.
 * Money to Throw Away - Fever Time
 * Marionette Master
 * Pint Sized Powerhouse: averted. She's is actually weak physically and Tokunaga has to grow to seven or so feet to fight in battle.
 * Precision F Strike: "I'll kill you bastards!" and "We're going to shove ideas up his ass!"
 * Single Woman Seeks Good Man: While she is after someone with a lot of gold what she really wants is someone with a heart of gold.
 * Marionette Master
 * Pint Sized Powerhouse: averted. She's is actually weak physically and Tokunaga has to grow to seven or so feet to fight in battle.
 * Precision F Strike: "I'll kill you bastards!" and "We're going to shove ideas up his ass!"
 * Single Woman Seeks Good Man: While she is after someone with a lot of gold what she really wants is someone with a heart of gold.

Allies

 * Fon Master Ion

Seiyuu: Ikue Ohtani / Voice Actor: Erin Fitzgerald

Ion is the Fon Master of the Order of Lorelei, meaning that he is technically the ruler of the world. He arranges for Malkuth to kidnap him so he can escape from Mohs and investigate the conspiracy that seems to have sprung up. He is one of the few people trained to read the Score. Though he can use powerful techniques known as Daathic Artes, he suffers from a weak constitution and often collapses after using them.


 * Assist Character: He's not playable, but his Mystic Arte can be used as an extension to Luke's during New Game Plus.
 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Distressed Damsel
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady
 * Heroic RROD: Using Daathic fonic artes puts a strain on his body.
 * Ill Boy
 * James Bondage - Ion's been kidnapped! ...AGAIN? We just rescued him!
 * Larynx Dissonance
 * Nice Guy
 * Non Action Guy: He can use Daathic fonic artes, including to extend Luke's Limit Break, but this is greatly taxing on him and he has no other means of self-defense.
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * Squishy Wizard: The main reason he's a Non Action Guy despite his incredible powers: he's so frail that even using them is a threat to his health.
 * Young and In Charge: He's the equivalent of the Pope at fourteen years old.
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * Squishy Wizard: The main reason he's a Non Action Guy despite his incredible powers: he's so frail that even using them is a threat to his health.
 * Young and In Charge: He's the equivalent of the Pope at fourteen years old.

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 * Mieu

Seiyuu: Miki Maruyama / Voice Actress: Sandy Fox

A baby cheagle that accompanies the party. He is banished from his village for one year after accidentally burning down the Liger Woods, and bound to serve Luke for that time. Despite Luke's obvious dislike and abuse towards him, Mieu really doesn't mind and idolises his master.

He uses the Sorcerer's Ring around his belly to communicate with people and help clear obstacles in dungeons.


 * The Atoner - He was banished for accidentally burning down the Liger woods, causing the Ligers to invade the Cheagle Woods and kill cheagles for food.
 * Happiness in Slavery - He either doesn't notice or doesn't care that Luke hates him.
 * Or he's just atoning for burning down the liger's woods and seeing through to Luke's heart of gold.
 * Flight: Namely in the anime
 * Kick the Dog: He's the one being kicked. A lot.
 * Most Annoying Sound - In-universe example. Luke despises the way he sounds early on but Tear finds it adorable. As with everything, the player's mileage may vary.
 * Not So Different: Tries to invoke this with Luke, but Luke is in no mood to hear him out.
 * Playing With Fire: Via the Sorcerer's Ring.
 * Pokémon Speak - When he's upset or not wearing the Sorcerer's Ring.
 * Small Annoying Creature: A relatively tolerable one.
 * Team Pet - Specifically Luke's, but he hangs out with everybody.
 * Verbal Tic - In Japanese, "desuno." In English, "-mieu!"
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter

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 * Emperor Peony IX

Seiyuu: Takumi Yamazaki / Voice Actor: DC Douglas

The current emperor of Malkuth. To keep him safe from the political strife of Grand Chokmah, he was sent to live in Keterburg, where he met and befriended Jade and Dist. He keeps several rappigs as pets, collects weapons, and enjoys flirting.


 * Bishounen
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer - Somewhat.
 * Chivalrous Pervert
 * Darkskinned Blonde
 * Gender Blender Name
 * Heterosexual Life Partners - With Jade.
 * Hundred Percent Adoration Rating - Talk to the NPCs in Grand Chokmah. They all adore him. Even when the world is literally falling apart around them, they trust that Peony has things in hand and will do what's best for everyone.
 * Older Than They Look - He's in his mid-late 30s.
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something
 * Trash of the Titans - Neatness isn't exactly his strong suit.
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend - To Jade's younger sister Nephry, because the Score said she would marry someone else.

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 * Florian

Seiyuu: / Voice Actor:


 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: Even more than Ion initially.
 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: Even more than Ion initially.

The Six God Generals
The Six God-Generals are the highest-ranking members of the Oracle Knights, the military arm of the Order of Lorelai, and answer directly to Van Grants. Despite their supposed allegiance to the Order of Lorelei, they seem to be following their own agendas and act as the main antagonistic force to the party.

The Six God Generals as a group provide examples of the following tropes: -
 * Church Militant
 * Enemy Civil War / Teeth Clenched Teamwork : Each God General is working for his or her own goals. The relationships between them range from simple professionalism to thinly-masked tolerance.
 * Leitmotif: "Oracle - Coercion" and "Awkward Justice".
 * The Magnificent
 * Musical Theme Naming: Apart from Asch, whose Meaningful Name follows a different logic.
 * The Psycho Rangers: They mirror the main party in numbers and serve as their Evil Counterparts (see each of their individual trope lists for more details).
 * Praetorian Guard
 * Recurring Boss: All except Asch are faced as bosses three times, whether alone or with others, and Asch is fought twice.
 * Standard Evil Organization Squad
 * Asch the Bloody

Seiyuu: / Voice Actor:

Asch is a mysterious character that works as one of the Six God-Generals under Van. His appearance is strikingly similar to that of Luke, but personality-wise they are completely different: where Luke is ignorant and naive, Asch is intelligent and hardened. Asch is also stubborn to a fault and easily angered (especially by Luke). Though he appears to be a loyal follower of Van at first, he soon becomes the Wild Card, working against Van as a Double Agent but still showing a venomous hatred of Luke.

Having also studied under Van, he uses the same combat style as Luke. His moveset also includes several offensive spells. He is a Guest Star Party Member on two occasions.

Asch provides examples of the following tropes:
 * Anti Hero: Type III on the very best of days.
 * Badass
 * Bishonen
 * Blessed With Suck -
 * Can't Catch Up - When he joins the party as a Guest Star Party Member for the second time, his level is adjusted accordingly but his equipment is still locked at the power level he was at during his first stint, severely handicapping him.
 * It becomes very sadistical if you're playing in Unknown. He's going to get crushed whenever you're controlling him. And for the record, trying to give him bonus stats with C.Cores is futile and waste of time.
 * Death Seeker
 * Duel Boss
 * The Eeyore - He is never happy. Ever. The closest he gets is 'only slightly annoyed', which is only during his heart-to-heart talks with Natalia.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Good Is Not Nice - Oh dear God, where to begin...
 * Green Eyes
 * Green Eyed Red Head
 * Hidden Depths: He's apparently an excellent cook.
 * Hopeless Boss Fight - Would be subverted by gameplay mechanics if it wheren't for cutscenes.
 * I Was Just Passing Through
 * Jerkass - Considering that he presumably helped slaughter the Tartarus' crew, repeatedly tried to murder Luke for existing until he calmed down and settled for physical assault and constant belittling, repeatedly kidnapped Ion, and that his actions following Coral Castle (during which he had kidapped and held hostage an innocent engineer to lure the party in) gave the Big Bad the opportunity to  which directly led to the event that Luke takes the most crap for, not to mention how he constantly keeps important information from the party throughout the game, Asch is at least ten times the Jerkass that Luke ever was, especially since he's old enough to know better, and probably the only playable character that is almost fully in the loop as to the Big Bad's plans.
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Limit Break - Rending Saber
 * Sadly, if he hits Luke when the latter tries using his own Mystic Arte, the game will freeze.
 * Sword Plant
 * Magic Knight
 * Meaningful Name
 * Mirror Boss: To Luke, as the two have the same fighting style.
 * Murder Is the Best Solution - Somebody trying to destroy Akzeriuth? must be killed! The continents sinking into the Qliphoth? If we kill, everything will fall into place! Planetary-replication threatening to engulf the world? Gee, I wonder what we need to do to fix that...
 * Perpetual Frowner - Often Lampshaded and it's memetic.
 * Red Headed Anti Hero
 * Revenge Before Reason: This is pretty much the reason why he's unhelpful to the party.
 * Say My Name - See the Memetic Mutation.
 * Showthe Forehead - Except in that one scene where his hair gets wet, which appears to have been deliberate in order to make him look more like Luke.
 * Static Character - In contrast to Luke, whose character grows significantly throughout the game. This is the main reason why Luke is eventually able to surpass Asch.
 * Showcased perfectly towards the end, as a self-assured Luke, now confident in his individuality, nonchalantly asks for his help while casually noting his superiority in regards to Hyper-resonance, and Asch simply flips. After a whole game of denigrating Luke, Asch is the one who keeps defining himself by contrast to Luke, and has trouble accepting him as a separate individual from himself who doesn’t care about competing.
 * Stockholm Syndrome:
 * Talking to Himself - With Luke
 * Tsundere - A male version, towards both Natalia and Luke.
 * : The way he used to act according to Natalia most certainly qualifies, and disregarding his more... brusque actions toward Luke, he still has strong tendencies in this direction.
 * We Could Have Avoided All This: Massive chunks of the game could have been skipped had Asch been more cooperative with the party instead of taking turns leading them on with little explanation or antagonising Luke. Gets lampshaded several times later on, as Luke is as baffled as the players by his stubborn uncooperativeness.
 * Showthe Forehead - Except in that one scene where his hair gets wet, which appears to have been deliberate in order to make him look more like Luke.
 * Static Character - In contrast to Luke, whose character grows significantly throughout the game. This is the main reason why Luke is eventually able to surpass Asch.
 * Showcased perfectly towards the end, as a self-assured Luke, now confident in his individuality, nonchalantly asks for his help while casually noting his superiority in regards to Hyper-resonance, and Asch simply flips. After a whole game of denigrating Luke, Asch is the one who keeps defining himself by contrast to Luke, and has trouble accepting him as a separate individual from himself who doesn’t care about competing.
 * Stockholm Syndrome:
 * Talking to Himself - With Luke
 * Tsundere - A male version, towards both Natalia and Luke.
 * : The way he used to act according to Natalia most certainly qualifies, and disregarding his more... brusque actions toward Luke, he still has strong tendencies in this direction.
 * We Could Have Avoided All This: Massive chunks of the game could have been skipped had Asch been more cooperative with the party instead of taking turns leading them on with little explanation or antagonising Luke. Gets lampshaded several times later on, as Luke is as baffled as the players by his stubborn uncooperativeness.
 * : The way he used to act according to Natalia most certainly qualifies, and disregarding his more... brusque actions toward Luke, he still has strong tendencies in this direction.
 * We Could Have Avoided All This: Massive chunks of the game could have been skipped had Asch been more cooperative with the party instead of taking turns leading them on with little explanation or antagonising Luke. Gets lampshaded several times later on, as Luke is as baffled as the players by his stubborn uncooperativeness.


 * Legretta the Quick

Seiyuu: Miki Ito / Voice Actress: Cindy Robinson

The leader of the Six God Generals and Tear's mentor, who carries herself with the composure and integrity of a soldier. She wields two pistols and light-elemental magic.


 * Anti Villain: Type II.
 * Boobs of Steel: Arietta has no chest (possibly due to having an improper diet growing up as a result of being raised by ligers), so Legretta has to compensate (though her first cut-in image is deceptive) in yet another contrast to Tear. Her breast size may have increased in the anime.
 * Blondes Are Anti Villainous.
 * Broken Pedestal - To Tear,.
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Evil Counterpart - Again, to Tear.
 * The Gunslinger
 * Guns Akimbo
 * Lady of War
 * Light Is Not Good - Her primary element. She can also use Playing With Fire and Making a Splash.
 * Limit Break - Prism Ballet
 * More Dakka
 * Wave Motion Gun
 * Sexy Evil Mentor
 * Spell My Name With an S: Her name in Japanese is Regret, which got changed to Legretta. And it seems the Japanese prefer the change, since the anime site has it as such.
 * Treacherous Advisor - To, you guessed it, Tear.
 * Treacherous Advisor - To, you guessed it, Tear.

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 * Dist The Reaper

Seiyuu: Kazuki Yao / Voice Actor: Liam O Brien

Also known as Dist The Rose (his preferred moniker) or Dist The Runny (Jade's preferred moniker for him), Dist is an effeminate Mad Scientist who is also one of the Six God Generals. He hangs out on a floating chair in a permanent Slouch of Villainy, and summons Humongous Mecha to fight in his place. He has a long history with Jade.

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"Jade: Well if it isn't Dist The Runny!
 * Camp Jadesexual - Dist's personality can effectively be summed up as "Jade's Mad Stalker With a Crush". Everything in this guy's world revolves around the Colonel. Oh yeah, and then there's that huge flower collar...
 * Evil Counterpart - To Jade.
 * Gadgeteer Genius - Is incredibly skilled at making fontech and fontech machines.
 * Harmless Villain - No matter how hard he tries, the party just doesn't take him seriously... until he breaks out the Humongous Mechas.
 * Insistent Terminology -

Dist: It's Rose, dammit! R-O-S-E ROSE!

Anise: You mean Dist The Reaper.

Dist: It's DIST THE ROSE! I refuse to have such barbaric name!"


 * Mad Scientist
 * Made of Iron/Nigh Invulnerable
 * Opaque Lenses: Varies between the artwork and the game. In the artwork, only one is opaque, but in-game both are.
 * Pet the Dog: Anise relates a story where she approached Dist in the Oracle Knights lunch hall (where he usually ate alone) and struck up a conversation with him. In return, he modified her Tokunaga doll to allow it to grow to massive proportions. Anise comments that he always seemed lonely.
 * Reliable Traitor: Dist makes it clear that his goal is and that working for  is a means to an end.
 * Sissy Villain: In case you hadn't guessed it from the rest of this list.
 * Unknown Rival - Jade prefers to pretend that he doesn't exist.
 * Unknown Rival - Jade prefers to pretend that he doesn't exist.

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 * Arietta the Wild

Seiyuu: Satsuki Yukino / Voice Actress: Kate Higgins

One of the Six God Generals. When she was orphaned during the Hod War, she was rescued and raised by Ligers. Due to this, she is the only human on the planet that can communicate with monsters. Van found her at an early age and raised her to become a functional- if not entirely sociable- member of society.

She used to be the Fon Master Guardian to Ion, but was transferred to another position two years previously and replaced by Anise. Because of this, she has a bitter hatred of Anise, who she claims "stole" Ion from her.

The party kills her "mother" early in the game (in an unrelated boss fight) and she swears to take vengeance against them. She fights alongside monsters and is a powerful spellcaster.


 * Anti Villain
 * The Beast Master
 * Black Magician Girl
 * Blush Sticker
 * Bodyguard Crush - On Ion.
 * Evil Counterpart - To Anise.
 * Limit Break - Big Bang and Evil Light
 * Death in All Directions - Big Bang
 * Wave Motion Gun - Evil Light
 * Older Than They Look - She's sixteen despite both her appearance and personality being that of a little girl. Though the personality thing comes from being raised by monsters.
 * Psychopathic Manchild
 * Raised By Ligers
 * Rose Haired Girl
 * Wild Child - Although she seems to have assimilated pretty well into human society.
 * Wolfpack Boss: In two of her fights, fights with her monsters, and in another, fights with Largo and Legretta.
 * You Killed My Mother - Yes, YOU. You Bastard.
 * Wild Child - Although she seems to have assimilated pretty well into human society.
 * Wolfpack Boss: In two of her fights, fights with her monsters, and in another, fights with Largo and Legretta.
 * You Killed My Mother - Yes, YOU. You Bastard.

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 * Sync the Tempest

Seiyuu: / Voice Actor:

The youngest of the Six God Generals, who wears a mask at all times. He has a cruel and manipulative personality, and uses powerful Daathic Artes to curse and torture his enemies.

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 * Blow You Away: As if it wasn't obvious enough.
 * Co Dragons: With Legretta
 * Evil Counterpart - To Guy.
 * However, he can be considered a counterpart to Guy in that Sync allowed his thoughts of revenge to consume him, while Guy ultimately put them behind him and moved on.
 * Jerkass
 * Kick the Dog -
 * Limit Break - Akashic Torment and Harrowing Gale
 * Rapid Fire Fisticuffs - Harrowing Gale
 * Talking to Himself: With Ion.
 * Woobie Destroyer of Worlds: Sure, his backstory is sympathetic, but the guy is something of a complete dick.
 * Kick the Dog -
 * Limit Break - Akashic Torment and Harrowing Gale
 * Rapid Fire Fisticuffs - Harrowing Gale
 * Talking to Himself: With Ion.
 * Woobie Destroyer of Worlds: Sure, his backstory is sympathetic, but the guy is something of a complete dick.
 * Woobie Destroyer of Worlds: Sure, his backstory is sympathetic, but the guy is something of a complete dick.

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 * Largo the Black Lion

Seiyuu: Tessho Genda / Voice Actor: Jamieson Price

One of the Six God Generals. A huge man who wields a giant scythe. Though he seems to know Natalia on a personal level, she does not recognise him.

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 * Anti Villain: Type II.
 * Armor Is Useless - Subverted..
 * Badass Beard of Evil
 * Cruel Mercy - Played with. He believes that mercy is an insult to one's opponent.
 * Evil Counterpart - To Natalia.
 * Huge Guy Tiny Girl:.
 * Jamieson Price - His English VA
 * Limit Break - Brimstone Tempest
 * Kill It With Fire
 * Meaningful Epithet - "The Black Lion". He could only live up to its image more if he was an actual big cat.
 * Noble Demon - More so than his comrades.
 * Sinister Scythe - Although his weapon of choice is in no way indicative of his personality.
 * Token Good Teammate - Out of all the God-Generals, he's the one with the strongest moral code.
 * Warrior Poet
 * Worthy Opponent
 * Worthy Opponent

Other Characters

 * Van Grants

Seiyuu: Joji Nakata / Voice Actor: Michael McConnohie

Born Vandesdelca Musto Fende, Van is the commander of the Six God Generals, and Commandant of the Order of Lorelei's Oracle Knights. He is also Luke's sword-instructor and mentor, and one of the few people to treat him with patience and respect. Despite this, Tear seems rather intent on offing him, and the God Generals who are supposedly under his command are wrecking quite a bit of havoc upon Auldrant.

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Van provides examples of the following tropes:
 * Aloof Big Brother - To Tear.
 * Badass Beard / - Lampshaded hilariously. It's the source of all his power, you know. And his eyebrows can fire hypno-beams.
 * Big Brother Mentor - To Luke.
 * BFS & One Handed Zweihander: His sword is pretty darn massive, yet he has no effort in swinging it around with a single hand.
 * Broken Ace - Master Swordsman, top-level Magic Knight, Seventh Fonist, descendent of Yulia, promoted to Oracle Knights Commandant at a young age, has a beautiful singing voice... and yet he has mental and emotional scars deep enough to lose the collective Outer Lands in.
 * Broken Pedestal - For Tear. It's not explained what happened in their past for some time, but it's clear that it was something big for her to be so intent on killing him.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer - Van is effectively "Screw Destiny" incarnate. The Order of Lorelei is dedicated to keeping destiny on its set path. The only reason why he's got such a high rank when he does nothing to hide his attitude is because he's just that damn good at his job.
 * Cain and Abel - Played with.
 * Famous Ancestor - The mother of the Score, Yulia Jue herself.
 * Guest Star Party Member - Japanese version only; though he never fights in battle, he still temporary joins you, and has a status entry in the main menu. This was removed in the American release for some strange reason. He also appears in a skit and gets his own chat face.
 * Rectified for Radiant Mythology 3, however, in which he's fully playable.
 * Improbable Age - This is actually a plot-point for him. He's just so damn good at everything he does that he became the Commandant at a young age. However, he got a lot of stick for it, so he grew his Badass Beard to look older.
 * Informed Ability - According to Tear, Van has an amazing singing voice. Sadly, we never get to hear it. However, we do get to see him play the organ (with one hand) and he uses the Fifth Fonic Hynm.
 * In the Blood: Van can also use Yulia's hymns.
 * The Leader: A Type I/IV hybrid for the Oracle Knights.
 * Limit Break - Imperial Slaughter, Celestial Elergy and Ancient Requiem
 * Magic Knight
 * Meaningful Name - Van's full name,
 * Memetic Badass - An in-universe example according to Luke and Anise, the latter of whom tends to play up his Badassery to ridiculous levels.
 * Obviously Evil - Subverted. His affable nature means is most definitely not this, but that doesn't stop Tear and Asch from suspecting absolutely every little thing he does as part of a plot to take over or blow up the world.
 * Parental Substitute: How Luke views him.
 * Promotion to Parent - Even though they were technically adopted, he did the bulk of the work raising Tear.
 * Say My Name - "Luuuuuuke!"
 * Screw Destiny - Despite being the leader of the Oracle Knights, Van makes it extremely clear that he thinks destiny can go screw itself.
 * Slipknot Ponytail: When Luke gets serious, he fights without concern for the survival of others. When Tear gets serious, she starts performing feats of knife and magic combo-ery that are impossible in-game. When Van gets serious, his... hair comes undone.
 * - Beloved master and father figure, high ranking member of the Order of Lorelei and world renown swordsman, fonist and soldier, who saves Luke from being stabbed in the back and having his powers fired against his will. It makes Tear's unexplained grievances against him come off as all the more egregious
 * Younger Than They Look - Van attained the rank of Dorian General and Commandant of the Oracle Knights at a remarkably young age, and was on the receiving end of a lot of ire because of it. He grew his Badass Beard for the sole purpose of trying to look older so people would leave him alone about his age (he's 27, believe it or not).
 * Memetic Badass - An in-universe example according to Luke and Anise, the latter of whom tends to play up his Badassery to ridiculous levels.
 * Obviously Evil - Subverted. His affable nature means is most definitely not this, but that doesn't stop Tear and Asch from suspecting absolutely every little thing he does as part of a plot to take over or blow up the world.
 * Parental Substitute: How Luke views him.
 * Promotion to Parent - Even though they were technically adopted, he did the bulk of the work raising Tear.
 * Say My Name - "Luuuuuuke!"
 * Screw Destiny - Despite being the leader of the Oracle Knights, Van makes it extremely clear that he thinks destiny can go screw itself.
 * Slipknot Ponytail: When Luke gets serious, he fights without concern for the survival of others. When Tear gets serious, she starts performing feats of knife and magic combo-ery that are impossible in-game. When Van gets serious, his... hair comes undone.
 * - Beloved master and father figure, high ranking member of the Order of Lorelei and world renown swordsman, fonist and soldier, who saves Luke from being stabbed in the back and having his powers fired against his will. It makes Tear's unexplained grievances against him come off as all the more egregious
 * Younger Than They Look - Van attained the rank of Dorian General and Commandant of the Oracle Knights at a remarkably young age, and was on the receiving end of a lot of ire because of it. He grew his Badass Beard for the sole purpose of trying to look older so people would leave him alone about his age (he's 27, believe it or not).
 * Slipknot Ponytail: When Luke gets serious, he fights without concern for the survival of others. When Tear gets serious, she starts performing feats of knife and magic combo-ery that are impossible in-game. When Van gets serious, his... hair comes undone.
 * - Beloved master and father figure, high ranking member of the Order of Lorelei and world renown swordsman, fonist and soldier, who saves Luke from being stabbed in the back and having his powers fired against his will. It makes Tear's unexplained grievances against him come off as all the more egregious
 * Younger Than They Look - Van attained the rank of Dorian General and Commandant of the Oracle Knights at a remarkably young age, and was on the receiving end of a lot of ire because of it. He grew his Badass Beard for the sole purpose of trying to look older so people would leave him alone about his age (he's 27, believe it or not).
 * - Beloved master and father figure, high ranking member of the Order of Lorelei and world renown swordsman, fonist and soldier, who saves Luke from being stabbed in the back and having his powers fired against his will. It makes Tear's unexplained grievances against him come off as all the more egregious
 * Younger Than They Look - Van attained the rank of Dorian General and Commandant of the Oracle Knights at a remarkably young age, and was on the receiving end of a lot of ire because of it. He grew his Badass Beard for the sole purpose of trying to look older so people would leave him alone about his age (he's 27, believe it or not).
 * Younger Than They Look - Van attained the rank of Dorian General and Commandant of the Oracle Knights at a remarkably young age, and was on the receiving end of a lot of ire because of it. He grew his Badass Beard for the sole purpose of trying to look older so people would leave him alone about his age (he's 27, believe it or not).
 * Younger Than They Look - Van attained the rank of Dorian General and Commandant of the Oracle Knights at a remarkably young age, and was on the receiving end of a lot of ire because of it. He grew his Badass Beard for the sole purpose of trying to look older so people would leave him alone about his age (he's 27, believe it or not).
 * Younger Than They Look - Van attained the rank of Dorian General and Commandant of the Oracle Knights at a remarkably young age, and was on the receiving end of a lot of ire because of it. He grew his Badass Beard for the sole purpose of trying to look older so people would leave him alone about his age (he's 27, believe it or not).
 * Younger Than They Look - Van attained the rank of Dorian General and Commandant of the Oracle Knights at a remarkably young age, and was on the receiving end of a lot of ire because of it. He grew his Badass Beard for the sole purpose of trying to look older so people would leave him alone about his age (he's 27, believe it or not).
 * Younger Than They Look - Van attained the rank of Dorian General and Commandant of the Oracle Knights at a remarkably young age, and was on the receiving end of a lot of ire because of it. He grew his Badass Beard for the sole purpose of trying to look older so people would leave him alone about his age (he's 27, believe it or not).

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 * Grand Maestro Mohs

Seiyuu: ??? / Voice Actor: Terrence Stone

The second-in-command of the Order of Lorelei. He is obsessed with the enforcement of the Score, and is attempting to provoke a world war because it is supposedly predetermined.


 * Because Destiny Says So - The defining element of his character.
 * Big Bad - His plan to begin a major war sets him up as this before he's even introduced.
 * The Heavy - He's responsible for a massive chunk of the political drama that the party encounters,
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold / Well Intentioned Extremist - Subverted. This is only how he sees himself.
 * Gonk
 * Manipulative Bastard: If supplementary material is to be believed.
 * Magnificent Bastard: An in-universe subversion. Mohs likes to project this image when he's in his hammiest moments, but he's far from it. Doubles up as Believing Their Own Lies.
 * Obviously Evil: Could very well be the poster man of it. I mean, come on, before he's even introduced properly we're told that he wants to start a war Because Destiny Says So.
 * Smug Snake
 * Unwitting Pawn - To.
 * Villain With Good Publicity - The party can't touch him legally.
 * Well Intentioned Extremist - Everything he does is for the sake of achieving prosperity from the Score.
 * Smug Snake
 * Unwitting Pawn - To.
 * Villain With Good Publicity - The party can't touch him legally.
 * Well Intentioned Extremist - Everything he does is for the sake of achieving prosperity from the Score.
 * Well Intentioned Extremist - Everything he does is for the sake of achieving prosperity from the Score.

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 * Gelda Nebilim

Seiyuu: Mariko Suzuki / Voice Actresss: Tara Platt

Jade and Dist's childhood Hot Teacher. Her ability to use the Seventh Fonon- something even the child prodigy Jade could not- placed her in a rare position of superiority to Jade, and she used his (begrudging) admiration of her to instill him with as much morality as she could. It is due to her influence that Jade did not grow up to be a Complete Monster.


 * Boobs of Steel: She's about the same size as Tear and
 * Combat Medic: Is stated to have used the Seventh Fonon. Her actual combat prowess is never shown.
 * Hot Teacher
 * Magic Knight
 * Purity Sue: This is a Tales game, so it's deliberately invoked to be subverted. Much like Stella, this is only Dist's opinion of her. Jade seems to realise that, as incredible as she was, she was still a human being with her own faults and flaws.
 * Red Eyes Take Warning: A subversion, of the "Kind Red Eyes" variety.
 * White Haired Pretty Girl
 * Hot Teacher
 * Magic Knight
 * Purity Sue: This is a Tales game, so it's deliberately invoked to be subverted. Much like Stella, this is only Dist's opinion of her. Jade seems to realise that, as incredible as she was, she was still a human being with her own faults and flaws.
 * Red Eyes Take Warning: A subversion, of the "Kind Red Eyes" variety.
 * White Haired Pretty Girl
 * Magic Knight
 * Purity Sue: This is a Tales game, so it's deliberately invoked to be subverted. Much like Stella, this is only Dist's opinion of her. Jade seems to realise that, as incredible as she was, she was still a human being with her own faults and flaws.
 * Red Eyes Take Warning: A subversion, of the "Kind Red Eyes" variety.
 * White Haired Pretty Girl