Valkyria Chronicles III/Characters

= Voiced by Yuuichi Nakamura in Japanese
= A 20-year-old ex-officer banished to the Nameless for charges of treason. He now uses his time among the Nameless to gain back his name and redeem himself. His preferred classes are Shocktrooper (his starting class) and Sniper. Despite this, his special ability Direct Command allows up to two allies to move with him for free (beyond the cost of activating the ability) so he is possibly best off as a Scout to maximize how far he can drag low movement allies.


 * The Ace: Was a top Lanseal cadet who graduated shortly before the Imperial invasion of EC 1935.
 * Colonel Badass
 * Depending on the Artist: His pistol changes wildly across depictions. He's shown with a 1911 (promotional art), CZ75 (character portrait), and something else entirely (animated cutscene).
 * Do Not Go Gentle: While framed for treason, stripped of his name, and constantly thrown on suicide missions, Kurt remains rather collected and free of the despair most of the other Nameless exhibit at the start, choosing to instead remain professional and collected.
 * Limit Break: Kurt is able to get two nearby allies to follow him and attack together while only using up his own pool of AP.
 * Real Men Wear Pink: Has a talent for mixing herbs and spices in order to make eating rations more tolerable - sometimes at the entire Squad's expense, though he's generally pretty good at it.
 * Redemption Quest
 * Sweet Tooth: Whenever he's angry, he'd cool his head off with candies.
 * Theme Naming: The number "7", a staple within the series, this time used as his number within the Nameless.
 * Worthy Opponent: Dahau. Ever since their first encounter, Kurt considers defeating Calamity Raven not only a duty to protect his friends, but also to test Dahau's mettle in combat.
 * You Are Number Seven

= Voiced by Masumi Asano in Japansese.
= A 17-year-old Darcsen from an Imperial village very near the Gallian border, armed with a rocket BFS out for revenge against a Valkyria who destroyed her village. Her preferred classes are Lancer (her starting class) and Fencer.


 * Action Girl
 * Area of Effect: Her Open Fire special ability allows her to attack as many enemies as will fit on the screen at once.
 * Badass Normal: Able to go toe to toe with a Valkyria in melee. Notable for being the most consistent way to kill multiple enemies with one Command Point.
 * BFS / BFG: Notable for being both in the same weapon.
 * What mode she uses is dependent on her class: Rocket Mode (for Lancer and Mortarer), Gun Mode (with correct burst modes for Shocktrooper, Scout, Sniper, and Engineer), and Blade Mode (Fencer and Armored Techs).
 * Book Dumb: Her self-study gave her an extensive knowledge of nature and combat, though she tends to oversimplify things.
 * Limit Break: Imca can use her weapon to target multiple enemies and launch a Macross Missile Massacre.
 * Revenge: Her reason for being with the Nameless.
 * Small Girl, Big Gun: She's not really that small, but that gun still dwarfs her considerably.
 * Unstoppable Rage: Her reaction upon seeing a Valkyria.
 * Why Did It Have To Be Mushrooms?: She hates them very much, including non-poisonous variants.
 * Does Not Like Spam: Also afraid of milk.
 * You Are Number One
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: A racial trait.

= Voiced by Aya Endo in Japanese.
= A 21-year-old Valkyria viewed as The Jinx for being only survivor of many doomed army squads. Her preferred classes are Scout (starting class) and Engineer.


 * Action Girl
 * The Jinx: Seen this way by other soldiers due to her being the only survivor of multiple squads.
 * Limit Break: Riela goes into Valkyria mode where she becomes invincible and can do a One-Hit Kill with her lance.
 * Meaningful Name / Thirteen Is Unlucky: She's called Number 13, the unlucky number.
 * Modesty Shorts: Ambiguous her the in-game model but obvious in animated cut-scenes.
 * Sole Survivor: Of multiple squads prior to joining Squad 422.
 * You Are Number Thirteen
 * You Gotta Have Multicolored Hair: Riela's case is an odd gradient of silver and red. There's an in-story reason for that.
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Squad 422 (The Nameless)
Gallia's penal military unit, consisting of criminals, deserters and military offenders whose names are stricken off the record and given numbers in their place. Expected to die for Gallia, they are sent to do Gallia's dirtiest jobs, up to and including taking on Calamity Raven, an Imperial detachment mostly made of Darcsens.


 * Meaningful Name: The unit's number is a stealth reference to the 442nd Infantry Regiment, a Japanese-American unit who fought on the European front during World War II (except with the "4" in the middle digit replaced with "2").
 * Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: More so than those from the previous two games (the first is a militia unit made up of civilian volunteers; the second is an entire class of bottom-rung cadets).
 * Unperson
 * You Are Number Six

Gloria Darrell (Number 3)
An old lady accused of weapons smuggling and was a "madam" at a whorehouse.


 * Badass Grandma
 * I Was Quite a Looker
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair

= Voiced by Takuya Kirimoto in Japanese
=

Squad 422's Darcsen Tank Commander.


 * Cool Tank / Awesome Personnel Carrier: Like the second game, you can customize your tank as either.
 * Tank Goodness
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: A Darcsen racial trait.
 * Tank Goodness
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: A Darcsen racial trait.

Alphonse O'Clair (Number 11)
Also known as the "Gallian Hawk", Alphonse prides himself on being an expert spy. He got sent to the Nameless for his illegal methods of information-gathering.
 * Big Fun: Hes a little chubby.
 * Early-Bird Cameo: He first appeared during Edy and Homer's milestone 100th article for the Valkyria Chronicles Blog.
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something: He was a former nobleman.

Valerie Aynsley (Number 12)
A historian seeking the truth behind the Darcsen Calamity. Wound up as "Number 12" for repeated counts of trespassing into historical ruins and breaking into the royal archives.


 * Adventurer Archaeologist
 * Knife Nut: She executes an imperial in the anime like this.
 * Meganekko
 * Seeker Archetype
 * Suddenly Sexuality: Her being "interested in" Riela is mentioned in one conversation and never again. Generously can be taken as the reason she doesn't care about Kurt's non-interest in a romantic gift giving holiday.

Amy Apple (Number 15)
An ordinary girl tricked into joining the Nameless in a desperate attempt to get enough money to fund her father's artistic career.


 * Alliterative Name
 * Church Militant: She is a devout follower of Yggdism, a religion that worships the Valkyrian's as gods.
 * Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Ada Ansorge (Number 16)
A police officer driven to put Cedric on death row, who, for refusing to cooperate with an officer who decided to send Cedric to the Nameless instead, is sent over to become, ironically, Cedric's squadmate as "Number 16".


 * Alliterative Name
 * Irony: She made it her duty to send Cedric down the death row, only to end up sharing the same unit as him.
 * Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Which is what ended her up as "Number 16".
 * Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: She's keen on bringing Cedric to justice, sometimes bordering on Blood Knight levels.
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Cedric.

Ilmari Gasotto (Number 17)
A young man branded as "Number 17" for failing to show up at a compulsory Militia draft, having felt too lazy at that time.


 * Bishonen
 * Nice Hat
 * Scarf of Asskicking
 * The Slacker

Elliot Oates (Number 18)
A man in a fancy suit and gloves branded as "Number 18" for alleged marriage fraud.


 * Casanova
 * Cultured Badass
 * Custom Uniform: His standard outfit is basically a long coat.
 * Nice Hat
 * Something About a Rose

Frederica Lipps (Number 19)
A beautiful spy who went to the Nameless to escape from people chasing after her.


 * Custom Uniform: Her outfit is pretty much a long-sleeved one-piece with side slits showing her thighs, complete with fishnet stockings.
 * Femme Fatale
 * Honey Trap: Her main technique as a spy.

Felix Crowley (Number 21)
A Shocktrooper (initially) with a strong "big brother" instinct towards his squadmates.


 * Big Brother Instinct: To his peers - which got him into trouble with his superiors and branded him as "Number 21."
 * Dark-Skinned Blond
 * Disproportionate Retribution: He filed a complaint against an incompetent officer and got hauled off to the Nameless for his trouble.
 * Nice Guy: Ohhh yes.

= Voiced by Umeka Shouji in Japanese
= Older sister of VC1's Homer and a domineering woman who calls herself "Queen." She has an overarching desire to toughen up every man in Gallia... and ended up at Squad 422 for "educating" an officer.


 * Determinator: She intends to "toughen up" every man, including Maximilian, in order to put a quick end to the war.
 * Dominatrix: Complete with a riding crop. This may explain Homer.
 * Early-Bird Cameo: She busts into the scene during Edy and Homer's milestone 100th article for the Valkyria Chronicles Blog.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Her domineering personality stems from her genuine desire to toughen up the weak-willed Homer. Unfortunately she went overboard, got banished to the Nameless for setting her sights on an officer... and produced a masochist.
 * Nice Hat
 * Whip It Good: And poor Alphonse O'Clair is the frequent target of her riding crop.
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Annika Olcott (Number 24)
An energetic girl who gets into a lot of fights, and ended up among the Nameless for beating a rogue senseless.


 * Action Girl: She's already one long before she became "Number 24".
 * Bully Hunter
 * Stripperiffic: Ok Ok yes she isn't showing of her tum tum but her MILITARY UNIFORM is very...Professional.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Of the hotpants variety.

Cedric Drake (Number 25)
A notorious criminal drafted into Squad 422 for repeated counts of theft and murder, among other things.


 * Ax Crazy
 * Cool Shades
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars: Of the cool, badass variety.
 * Foe Yay: With Ada, whose dogged determination to send him to death row intrigues him to no end.
 * Heroic Sociopath: He believes in going against tradition and laws.
 * Insane Troll Logic: He believes that if killing one in the alleyway makes him a murderer, killing hundreds in the battlefield will make him a hero.
 * Perma-Stubble
 * Serial Killer: One of the many things that brought him to the Nameless.
 * Token Evil Teammate: Probably the member of the Nameless who most truly deserves his membership.

Gisele Fleming (Number 26)
A pyromaniac sent to the Nameless for repeated counts of arson.


 * Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs
 * Chekhov's Skill: Her pyromania (and consequently her knowledge with anything fire-related) ultimately helped the Nameless defuse a series of explosive death-traps set up by the Imperials for them during a town assault.
 * Conveniently an Orphan
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Playing with Fire: Which is what ended her up as "Number 26".
 * Strange Girl

Giulio Rosso (Number 32)
A former chef banished to the Nameless for stealing rare food ingredients from a high-ranking officer.


 * Anime Hair
 * Badass Beard: He makes the traditionally evil goatee look good.

Margit Ravelli (Number 33)
An Army officer and a Lanseal graduate whose subordinates' failure to comply to her orders in a mission wound her up as Number 33.


 * The Ace: Like Kurt, she was a Lanseal graduate with full honors.
 * Attack! Attack! Attack!: Just like fellow Lancer Juliana Everhart, one of her tactics during a mission when she was at the Army involved attacking the enemy head-on. Her subordinates failed to comply, and she paid the price.
 * Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs
 * Princess Curls
 * Redemption Quest: One of her squadmate missions revolves around reliving the same mission that disgraced her, but this time, having learned from her bitter experience, she opted to use an unmarked bypass to attack the Imperials from the flank and convince Kurt to put her in the reins.

Serge Liebert (Number 45)
A sickly young man who only volunteered to the Nameless so he could die gloriously in a battlefield.


 * Death Seeker: And he wants to go down in a blaze of wartime glory. If you complete his Fragment, he gets over his death-seeking tendency.
 * Ill Boy
 * Nice Hat

Clarissa Callaghan (Number 46)
A nurse sent to the Nameless for allowing a captured Imperial soldier wounded in combat to go free.


 * Alliterative Name
 * Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs
 * Florence Nightingale Effect: Which is what brought her to the Nameless.
 * Hello, Nurse!
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Deight (Number 56)
An armored tech (initially) and a Darcsen.


 * Fantastic Racism: The very reason he became "Number 56".
 * Nice Hat
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: A Darcsen racial trait.

Zahar Alonso (Number 57)
A former general of Fhirald (the same nation Radi Jaeger of VC1 came from), but became a mercenary after it was taken by the Empire. Found a job with the Gallian Army, but his drinking habits got him into trouble.


 * The Alcoholic: Which ended him up becoming "Number 57."
 * Badass Beard
 * Badass Grandpa

Shin Hyuga (Number 58)
An immigrant from a distant realm in the east, with a Gallian mother and a far-eastern father. Using his native homeland's customs, he swore fealty to Princess Cordelia alone, and would not obey orders from the Militia, which is what brought him into the ranks of the Nameless.


 * Badass Long Hair: Of the samurai ponytail variety.
 * But Not Too Foreign
 * Fish Out of Water: His unfamiliarity with Gallian customs brought much trouble to him.
 * Katanas Are Just Better
 * Hachimaki
 * Nakama: Ultimately learns the importance of working together with his fellow squadmates.
 * Undying Loyalty: To the princess

Antonio Jose Rodriguez (Number 100)
A brother of Calvaro Rodriguez (of Valkyria Chronicles and Valkyria Chronicles II fame) and, like him, the drill instructor for Squad 422.


 * Drill Sergeant Nasty

Carisa Contzen
The girl in charge of R&D for this game, although she is not one of the Nameless.


 * Alliterative Name
 * Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs
 * Expy: Of, of all people, Reimu Hakurei of Touhou. It only takes a red hair bow to give her Reimu's appearance, and her "money before everything else" mindset as well as her non-chalant attitude in battle doesn't help.
 * Older Than They Look: She was revealed to be a veteran of the First Europan War.
 * Wrench Wench
 * Wrench Wench
 * Wrench Wench

Ramsey Crow
Kurt's superior officer and the man in charge of Squad 422.


 * Carpet of Virility: Apparently he never button his uniform.
 * Expy: Of the good, late, frikkin' Freddie Mercury of Queen fame.
 * Instant Dogend
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: He treats The Nameless as people, and is willing to risk everything to defend them in the Military Tribunal.

Carl Isler
A member of the Gallian Army and the officer who sent Kurt to join Squad 422.


 * Bling of War

Calamity Raven
The Empire's "Trash", one could say, they are the primary antagonists from Chapter 3 onwards, and consist of mostly Darcsen troops. One could say they are the antithesis of Squad 442.

= Voiced by Koichi Yamadera in Japanese
=

A Darcsen and the leader of Calamity Raven, carries a giant Rifle around (as shown in the Demo).


 * Badass Beard
 * Badass Cape
 * BFG
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy: In the OVAs, he was smart to realize that a fog was coming tomorrow morning and Welkin, Squad 7 and the Gallian army would use it for a surprise attack. So he prepare his troops before the attack began and use Howitzers Cannons to blast the Gallians including damaging the Edelweiss. Yes, this man beat Welkin, the Badass Bookworm by using his own strategies against him!
 * Doomed by Canon / Shaggy Dog Story:.
 * Equal Opportunity Evil
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Once again, a Darcsen racial trait.
 * Utopia Justifies the Means: He is willing to become a Card-Carrying Villain if only to rally the Darscens together instead of being oppressed and hunted down.

= Voiced by Aya Hisakawa in Japanese
= Second-in-command of Calamity Raven, and perhaps the only non-Darcsen member of the squad. She's also their Tank Commander aboard the Batomys-class Echidna.


 * Badass Cape
 * Blondes Are Evil
 * Cool Tank: Her Echidna.
 * Commissar Cap
 * The Mole: Apparently she is Maximilian's eyes into the detachment, keeping Dahau and his men on a leash.
 * Pride
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Zig
A young Darcsen Fencer who admires Dahau.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: You already know this, ok?
 * BFS