The Literary Legacy of Ophelia/Characters

Character sheet for The Literary Legacy of Ophelia.

Ophelia Krueger
"But I'm no hero. You'll find somebody else better."

The protagonist. Unsure of herself and her purpose, living in her older sister's shadow. Knows martial arts and is extremely wise about many social norms, her attempt to make up for her lack of book smarts and "individuality."

"Do you dislike my WONDERFUL choice of SILVERWARE? THE TABLE GODS WILL HUNT YOUR HIDE...!"
 * Badass Abnormal - skilled in Northern Shaolin kungfu before she even knew magic existed.
 * Book Dumb
 * The Chosen One - averted much to her displeasure. Gabriella explains anyone could have taken her place; she was just there when things got dangerous.
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Cool Sword - Gabriella's holy sword given to her.
 * Cornered Rattlesnake - finally snaps on Celia when in the harbor.
 * Custom Uniform - Kinda. She starts wearing a modified version of New Versailles's Watch Corps uniform after taking up Gabriella's sword.
 * The Dog Bites Back - after all the years of psychological manipulation from Celia.
 * Dork Knight
 * Extreme Doormat - in the beginning; it eventually fades completely.
 * Genre Savvy - to an extent.
 * The Hero
 * Killer Rabbit
 * Kung Fu Wizard - while her individualized magic is weak without Gabriella's sword, she still has her knowledge of Northern Shaolin to back her up in fights.
 * Large Ham - constantly.


 * Laser-Guided Amnesia - several times, to the point that it manages to damage her permanent memory.
 * Manic Pixie Dream Girl
 * Named After Somebody Famous - you know the one.
 * The Ophelia - the persona she vows to never have.
 * The Pollyanna
 * The Protagonist
 * Sanity Slippage - mostly played for laughs. She never ends up fully loosing it.
 * Spoiled Sweet - the Kruegers were always very well-off, but she suffered no dip in morale or character for it.
 * Street Smart
 * Took a Level In Badass
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy - always strived for her mother's approval.
 * Witch Species

Kanon Wright, aka Iago
"Pray to the heavens I don't ever find you, unless you like the taste of your own intestines. Harm won't find her, I guarantee it."

Ophelia's longtime friend, and the son of Cassie and Jared Wright, older brother of Ira. A highly skilled sorcerer and the latest in his family's lineage of magic practitioners. He possesses psychic abilities inherited from his mother, in a ploy to breed a psychic magus by the witch's court. Any use of this ability will probably fry him alive. Eternally a smartass and hates the general population.


 * Break the Haughty - when he slowly realizes he's not as skilled in magic as he needed to be for the current crisis.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Do Not Call Me "Paul" - despises his given name.
 * Hates Everyone Equally - with the exceptions of Ira and Ophelia.
 * Insufferable Genius
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold - though you will have to dig a lot to find it.
 * Magic Librarian - his magic's general motif.
 * Named After Somebody Famous - Iago from Othello, and the German pronunciation of Pachelbel's Canon.
 * Sir Swearsalot - when he gets particularly angry or frustrated.
 * Sophisticated As Hell
 * Squishy Wizard - highly skilled in magic, but could easily be outrun by a person three times his age. Wearing a dress and petticoat. In high heels. On grass.
 * Witch Species - of the male variety.

Ira Wright
"The hero saves their friend, right? So go do it. Be the hero they want you to be. Screw destiny."

Kanon's younger brother, and the second son of Cassie and Jared Wright. He developed Sturluson's syndrome just like his father, and possessed neither his mother's psychic abilities or his father's sorcery skills, rendering him fairly useless in the eyes of the Witch's Council. Attempting to throw off the stigma following him around, he decided rebelling would be the best course of action, becoming an incessant prankster and smartass in a direct attitude foil to his brother.


 * Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
 * Badass Normal - sort of. As a human, he had no magic or supernatural abilities whatsoever, but made up for it with wits and good acting in the face of danger. Even as an angel, he's only an ascended soul with the power of teleportation and demon purification, much, much weaker than Sariel and the others. He still manages to assist everyone else greatly.
 * The Collector of the Strange - he collects telephones. They cover every possible inch of his room.
 * Deadpan Snarker - a less severe version than Kanon and Belial, but he's definitely headed there.
 * Disabled Snarker - before dying.
 * Determinator
 * Ill Boy - with his advanced Sturluson's syndrome.
 * Keet
 * The Heart
 * Meaningful Name - "ira" is the Latin word for wrath. His initial death is the catalyst for breaking the Wrath seal.
 * Our Angels Are Different - after his death.
 * Sacrificial Lion - although he does come back as an angel, eventually.
 * Screw Destiny - his chief mindset, as he was determined "destined" to be utterly useless in life.
 * Screwy Squirrel - towards Kanon. Harmless prankster to everyone else.
 * Tranquil Fury - when he does get mad.
 * Trickster Archetype

Belial, aka Emilie Himmelreich
"Do you believe that all good people find one another, eventually?"

68th of the High Council of Hell, Celia summoned her but Ophelia ended up with the contract. Originally a human girl, born in the 1100s of the former Holy Roman Empire in what became Germany. Has a long history with Xander, her familiar and (surprisingly) elder of hell.


 * Animal Motifs - spiders.
 * Anti-Hero - Type IV on the sliding scale.
 * Ars Goetia
 * The Baroness - Sexpot variety.
 * Barrier Maiden - she keeps Hell's Abyss upright.
 * Boy Meets Ghoul - genderflipped with Xander, as he was already a demon when they met.
 * Break the Cutie - after she initially contracted.
 * Cute Monster Girl - spider demon.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Deal with the Devil
 * Dark Is Not Evil - one of the few handfuls of demons who aren't incessantly evil and self-centered...but she still is, biologically, a high-ranked demon.
 * Good Is Not Nice - she might be fighting for the greater good, but she's not the nicest.
 * Hime Cut
 * Knight Templar Big Sister - towards Ophelia, as she sees much of her old self in her.
 * In-Series Nickname - "Bel"
 * Magic Skirt - that she actually uses magic to keep in place.
 * Really 700 Years Old - bordering on 2,000.
 * Slasher Smile
 * Stealth Hi Bye - frequent abuser of the standard demonic teleportation powers.
 * Sugar and Ice Personality
 * Token Evil Teammate - or at least the token teammate with a greater lack of upstanding morals.
 * Undying Loyalty - to Ophelia.
 * The Vamp
 * Was Once a Man
 * Woman in Black - save for her red blazer.
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Xander Moore
"Hey, hey, didn't you ever notice how the stars never appear in bright cities with lots of lights? Maybe they don't like the technology."

Familiar of Belial and a side member of the High Court of Hell. Originally just a human and born in the 700s in the Kingdom of Sussex, his father sold him out to Hell when he was young in exchange for greater prosperity for the rest of the family, condemning Xander to a life of servitude to hell. Has a long history with Belial.


 * Battle Butler - Belial's.
 * The Big Guy
 * Bodyguard Crush - on Belial.
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Dark Is Not Evil - one of hell's oldest residents, and possibly the nicest.
 * Finger-Snap Lighter
 * Flowers for Algernon Syndrome - his "crow blood" constantly threatens to overwhelm his human side and turn him into nothing but a standard bird. He has the necessary will to prevent this from coming at him all at once, but through the years he's noticeably gotten less intelligent and more birdlike.
 * Foil - to Alice.
 * Hidden Depths - his loyalty to Belial, mixed with his motives and past history involving hell.
 * My Greatest Failure - letting Belial become a demon.
 * Pyromaniac / Kill It with Fire
 * Ravens and Crows - crow demon familiar.
 * Really 700 Years Old - over 2,000 years old.
 * Spell My Name with an "S" - in-universe: through the years he's gone through several different spellings and abbreviations of his name, the original being the somewhat archaic "Aleksander".
 * Stepford Smiler - Type A
 * Was Once a Man

Celia Krueger
"I once thought I had a part in tragedy, but...no, everything was a comedy. I was destined for a farce comedy since birth. "

Ophelia's older sister and the Big Bad of the series. Incredibly deceptive and twisted in her motives, planning to unleash hell on earth just because she can. Clearly she's read the Evil Overlord List, as she's often Dangerously Genre Savvy and hard to predict. Her two main weaknesses seem to be a) her own pride, and b) Alice.


 * A God Am I
 * Big Bad
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
 * Blondes Are Evil
 * The Chessmaster
 * Cool Big Sis - what she convinced Ophelia she was.
 * Enthralling Siren - her magic's motif.
 * Faking the Dead
 * For the Evulz - destroying Hell's Gate.
 * From Nobody to Nightmare
 * Heterosexual Life Partners - thought to be so in-series with Alice.
 * Relationship Upgrade
 * The Legions of Hell - controls several factions of them.
 * Manipulative Bitch - subtly made Ophelia into the self-conscious doormat she is.
 * Named After Somebody Famous - Celia from As You Like It.
 * Nightmare Fetishist - if she can somehow stand being with a decrepit, half-rotting skeleton girl and still think of her as attractive.
 * The Ophelia - ironically, a hell of a lot more than Ophelia herself.
 * Sanity Slippage
 * Jumping Off the Slippery Slope - when Alice manages to kill Gabriella.
 * Freak-Out
 * Pride - almost manages to rival Lucifer in the department.
 * Rich Bitch
 * Self-Made Orphan
 * Wicked Cultured
 * Witch Species
 * Xanatos Gambit

Alice Lestrange
"And all the little girls and boys come out to play when the sun sets."

Celia's closest friend and her chief partner in crime. She belonged to a British family of devout Buddhists, and was a noted scam artist and thief while alive, turning her into a jikininki upon her death.


 * Affably Evil - to an extent.
 * Alice Allusion
 * The Atoner - a warped version, wherein she realized she was an awful human being...so she vowed to be a better ghost.
 * Later played straight.
 * Axe Crazy - comes standard with her species territory, but generally only when she's in full "ghost mode" and using her powers.
 * Bi the Way - both had a husband she very much loved in a romantic sense, and then there's...Celia.
 * Body Horror - half of her being a decrepit skeleton with rotting flesh.
 * Cassandra Truth - about unleashing hell and the dangers it would impose for both her and Celia. Celia refuses to listen.
 * Cool Big Sis - dear Lord, she tries to be one to Ophelia, to make up for Celia's abuse, but it doesn't exactly work.
 * Cute Ghost Girl - rather viciously subverted.
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? - Did you just kill an Archangel?
 * The Ditz
 * Genius Ditz - knows a lot about chemistry and physics.
 * The Dragon
 * Dumbass Has a Point - see Cassandra Truth.
 * Fearless Undead
 * Foil - to Xander.
 * Ghost Lights - three follow her around wherever she goes.
 * Glamour Failure - can disguise herself to look like a regular human, but it fades away after too much usage.
 * Heel Realization / Heel Face Turn - eventually.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners - thought to be so in-series with Celia.
 * Relationship Upgrade
 * Hypercompetent Sidekick - to Celia, at least in terms of physical fighting and plan execution.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal - as with all jikininki, she pretty much hates being one.
 * I Owe You My Life - to Celia, again, as she felt Celia gave her a purpose outside of being a miserable soul. Hence why she goes along with Celia's gambit to open Hell's Gate, despite not liking it one bit.
 * Jacob Marley Apparel - forever wears the ball gown she was buried in.
 * Older Than They Look - in her 50s, but appears in her 20s, a side effect of, well, being a ghost.
 * Punch Clock Villain - in terms of destroying Hell's Gate with Celia.
 * Running Gag - getting mistaken for a funayuurei while on ships. Culminates into a minor Berserk Button.
 * Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl / Our Ghosts Are Different - a jikininki.
 * Taking You with Me - dragging Celia down to Hell's Abyss when she opens its gate on herself.
 * Was Once a Man
 * Yandere - haunted her former husband after she died, to the point of killing his new wife.
 * You Are Worth Hell - she follows Celia to Hell's Abyss of her own volition.

Sallos, aka Evangeline
The 19th demon of the High Court of Hell, a grigori named Evangeline. She fell from grace upon attempting to drag souls from Hell in reform efforts, accused of breaking the natural order of things. She seems content with her position in Hell, viewing trying to escape and go back to Heaven a futile effort. One of the few demons who aren't ruthless bastards, she's extremely pleasant to be around in terms of attitude, never letting go of the personality she once had as an angel.


 * An Ice Person
 * Ars Goetia
 * Barrier Warrior
 * The Big Guy - a slightly darker version, and she doesn't go along with a standard Five-Man Band.
 * Broken Angel - her wings are unable to retract, looking bloodied and torn, hanging at odd angles.
 * Crippling Overspecialization - her barrier powers are something every demon has, hers are just a bit stronger.
 * Fallen Angel
 * A Form You Are Comfortable With - has to possess a human body while on Earth, as she was never human.
 * Glacier Waif - ice-related puns aside.
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Our Demons Are Different
 * Plucky Girl
 * Time Abyss - born an angel, likely alive for hundreds of thousands of years.

Hecate Sturluson, aka Bael

 * Ars Goetia
 * Benevolent Boss - head of the Court, and manages to get along with her subordinates quite well.
 * Deal with the Devil
 * Fallen Hero
 * Fiery Redhead
 * From Nobody to Nightmare - a much more extreme example than Celia, which she takes extra time to rub in the latter's face.
 * Jade-Colored Glasses
 * Noble Demon - both literally and in the sense of the trope.
 * Our Demons Are Different
 * Playful Hacker - more recent in Hell's lineup, so she knows tech very well.
 * Reality Warper
 * Satan - moreso than Lucifer himself, at least in terms of keeping Hell in shape and order.
 * Shock and Awe - her preferred method of physical combat.
 * Was Once a Man

Mikaela
""My, my...a thousand holy lights? But dear, even a thousand armies couldn't save you now.""

The head archangel.


 * Archangel Michael -> Gender Flip
 * Blind Seer - her host body on Earth is blind, but her abilities negate it.
 * True Sight - her shtick.
 * Monochromatic Eyes
 * Eye Scream - how her host was blinded.
 * Berserk Button - threaten Heaven, her siblings, or the human race.
 * Broken Smile
 * Brought Down to Normal
 * Dissonant Serenity
 * Freak-Out - when the pressure of being the top angel and acting as the de facto leader while God was away got to her.
 * Hair of Gold
 * Have You Seen My God?
 * Improvised Weapon User - When she loses her connection to Heaven and her abilities, she uses Moses's Staff as a club/baseball bat.
 * Lady of War
 * Madness Mantra - Everything will be all right.
 * Our Angels Are Different
 * Noodle Incident - she blew up China once. And whatever the Whore of Babylon did to her.
 * Reality Warper
 * Time Abyss - born an angel, likely alive for hundreds of thousands of years.

Gabriella
"Hail, fellows! ...nice taste in decor."


 * Archangel Gabriel -> Gender Flip
 * For the Lulz
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Killed Off for Real - by Alice.
 * Screwy Squirrel
 * Time Abyss - born an angel, likely alive for hundreds of thousands of years.

Raphael

 * Archangel Raphael
 * Only Sane Man
 * Our Angels Are Different
 * Time Abyss - born an angel, likely alive for hundreds of thousands of years.
 * Time Master
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy

Sariel
""They call me Sariel. The angel of death, Samhain's spirit, the Mother Witch...what would you prefer?""


 * Badass Bookworm
 * Black Cloak and In the Hood - always wears a lavender-colored cloak and hood that conceals 85% of her.
 * Black Comedy - when she tries to gain a sense of humour.
 * Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress - her cape gives the same effect.
 * Clap Your Hands If You Believe - see Unwanted False Faith.
 * Comically Serious
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Don't Fear the Reaper - she tries, at least.
 * Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry - covered in necklaces, bangles, and rings.
 * Gender Flip
 * Girlish Pigtails - hidden beneath her cloak.
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom - when angered.
 * The Grim Reaper - she's the angel of death, and a member of the Greater Collective of Death, along with reaper figures from other religions.
 * Hypocritical Humor - dislikes the dark persona she's acquired, and yet still enjoys her job skewering lost souls.
 * Immortality - she won't die. Ever. As a messenger of death, she's obligated to live forever, and she regenerates from even fatal angel weaknesses.
 * Monster Progenitor - the first magic-backed 'witch' per se, with her extremely warped angel magic and association with Samhain.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast
 * No Sense of Personal Space
 * No Social Skills
 * Our Angels Are Different
 * Quizzical Tilt
 * Sinister Scythe
 * The Stoic
 * Time Abyss - born an angel, likely alive for hundreds of thousands of years.
 * Torture Technician
 * Unwanted False Faith - started being seen as the spirit of Halloween due to her otherwordly nature and casually visiting Earth every year on the day of Samhaim. She dislikes the stigma, with Samhain/Halloween being distinctly un-angellic—but the 'faith' of those who celebrate Halloween give her power boosts regardless.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair - lavender, matching her cloak.

Lucifer
""Be kind and bring back tacos.""


 * The Alcoholic - likes booze a little too much.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Broken Angel - unable to retract his wings like Mikaela and the others. His hang out at odd angles, charred and bloodied.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass - still a competant angel when free of his cage.
 * Even Evil Has Standards - notably dislikes Celia for her actions.
 * Fallen Angel
 * Large Ham
 * Our Angels Are Different
 * Satan - in more relation to the traditional story of him merely being a powerful fallen soul, and not a ruler of any kind.
 * Time Abyss - born an angel, likely alive for hundreds of thousands of years.
 * Unwitting Pawn - in Celia breaking the Pride seal.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting

Isis
"Reach for the heavens, collect the stars! Gather the moon in your pocket! I believe in you, dear...do you believe in me?"


 * Dye Hard - originally black, currently pink.
 * Enigmatic Empowering Entity - gave Ophelia her magic potential.
 * Generation Xerox - in a way. She resembles an older, more confident Ophelia, in personality. Her struggle with Set after his murder of Osiris mirrors Ophelia's own struggle with Celia after she murdered their parents.
 * Genki Girl
 * God Needs Prayer Badly - her powers are incredibly weak for an almost complete loss of faith, being an ancient god of a mostly dead religion.
 * The Heart
 * Lady of Black Magic
 * Mama Bear
 * Mentor Occupational Hazard - gets knocked around by Alice very badly, to almost death.
 * Originally being Sariel's mentor, too, she suffered from a great loss of faith.
 * Mysterious Protector - Ophelia's.
 * Noblewoman's Laugh
 * Physical God - the original Isis.
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * Witch Species - the original, at least in Sariel's opinion.