The Qwaser of Stigmata/Characters

A list of the main characters that inhabit Seikon no Qwaser. Spoilers might be here.

Alexander Nikolaevich Her, a.k.a. "Martyr Sasha" (Voiced by Yuko Sanpei)
The Qwaser of Iron. A Siberian boy who was once training to become a member of the Adepts. However, after his sister was murdered by the Qwaser of Gold, he was recruited by an organization called Athos operating out of the Eastern Orthodox church. Presently, he is hunting down heretic Qwasers who all happen to be converging in Japan.


 * Accidental Pervert: Not really accidental...he's just paying attention.
 * Attractive Bent Gender: When crossdressing. It gets him in trouble a lot. Then in comes season 2. ..
 * BFS His other weapon.
 * Brutal Honesty
 * Catch Phrase: Tremble!!
 * Celibate Hero: A deconstruction. He engages in sexual activities but it's only for battle or fulfilling a mission. However when it comes to actual relationships, he's not interested...until he falls for Mafuyu.
 * Child Prodigy
 * The Comically Serious
 * Crash Into Hello (his intro in the anime)
 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Dead Older Sister
 * Defrosting Ice Child
 * Expy: Of Allen Walker from D Gray Man. They have the same hair color, facial markings and similar dark powers.
 * Facial Markings: When he activated his power
 * Green Eyes/Blue Eyes: Sort of teal.
 * Gratuitous Russian
 * Brought up to XI with his Precision F-Strike surname. Would you like to be called Mister Dick(ie) yourself? No, not nickname-wise.
 * Although many Russian-speaking people believe Her to be a variation of Dick, in truth, it's not. Not in the actual vocabulary anyway.
 * Heroes Want Redheads
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Usually a jerk to everyone. However, he's very nice toward animals.
 * Kid Hero
 * Kindhearted Cat Lover/Friend to All Living Things
 * Likes Older Women: He likes Mafuyu who can't seem to get a date.
 * No Social Skills: He does grabs girls breasts out of the blue.
 * Recursive Crossdressing - as per typical for young boy's roles, the seiyuu is female. In the first season, Sasha is convinced by Katja that he's a girl changed into a boy.
 * And later.
 * Red Eyes Take Warning: When he activates his powers, usually his left eye glows red.
 * Revenge Before Reason: This drives him at the beginning of the series until Ootori calls him out on it and tells him to focus on the people in front of him instead of the people from the past.
 * Sinister Scythe (Sasha's main weapon)
 * Sitcom Arch Nemesis: With Katja.
 * Sugar and Ice Guy
 * Thanks for The Mammary: He does this a lot.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Curry.
 * When a Jerk Loves A Tsundere
 * Wholesome Crossdresser (debatable, seeing as he doesn't do this willingly)
 * Dragged Into Drag
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Wise Beyond Their Years
 * Dragged Into Drag
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Wise Beyond Their Years
 * Wise Beyond Their Years

Ekaterina Kurae, a.k.a. "Katja" (Voiced by Aya Hirano)
The Qwaser of Copper and a sadistic little girl who also happens to be incredibly skilled at BDSM and (according to the manga) might be the reincarnation of the last Tsaritsa of Russia. Katja is a member of Athos who often walks around with a large copper puppet she calls "Anastasia" or "Mother."


 * Action Girl
 * Anti-Hero: Type V, though she mellows into a Type IV by Season 2.
 * Arrogant Kung Fu Girl
 * Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: She may be a bitch to Hana 90 percent of the time but she's always saving her when Hana is taken hostage.
 * Same for Ayame.
 * Berserk Button: Don't even think of taking "Mother" away from her and don't call her flat chested.
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
 * Blood Knight: At the beginning, she seems to love violent battles...but then she mellows on as the series goes on.
 * Break the Haughty: Episode 20 seems to love doing this to her. Results in a temporary Face Heel Turn.
 * She actually did this to Hana, and while it did basically make Hana cave in to her depraved side, it did have fortunate side effect of making her a relatively better person in other areas.
 * Cute and Psycho
 * The Cutie
 * Deliberately Cute Child
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita
 * Even Evil Has Standards: While not evil, she really hates people that take advantage of a child's relationship with their mother as seen in the OVA.
 * Face Heel Revolving Door
 * The Gadfly
 * Hair of Gold
 * Historical Domain Character
 * Imaginary Friend: Her weapon mother is seen as this seeing as she talks to it like it's her real Mother.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: No matter how bitchy she is, she generally cares for Hana, Miyuri and later Ayame.
 * In the manga she also got Lulu, a girl from her class, who she respects and even gives a circuit as protection.
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Magnetic Weapons: One of her attacks involves using her doll and a handful of coins as a rail gun.
 * Marionette Master
 * Named Weapons
 * Older Than They Look: Possibly via Reincarnation, which is occasionally implied but never outright confirmed.
 * Pet the Dog: She went to save Hana from the Qwaser of Oxygen despite the fact she knew it was a trap.
 * Pettanko
 * Psycho Lesbian
 * Rapunzel Pigtails
 * Mega Twintails
 * Sitcom Arch Nemesis: With Sasha.
 * Token Mini-Moe
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: For one thing, how does she know so much about BDSM?
 * Whip It Good: Her weapon in the Virtual program. How fitting.
 * Womanin Black
 * Womanin Black

Elizabeth/"Lizzy" (Voiced by Ai Shimizu)
The Qwaser of Titanium, spent most of her time training under Shinichiro Ootori and is quite devoted to him. Often mistaken for a boy at first glance. Recently (in the manga) she has joined Teresa and Athos in searching for the Theotokos of Tsaritsyn.


 * Action Girl
 * Bare Your Midriff
 * BFS: (her main weapon)
 * Can't Hold Her Liquor
 * Dropped a Bridget On Him (Inverted in the anime, with Miyuri)
 * Expy: Of Saber from Fate Stay Night.
 * Hot for Teacher: She is hinted to have a crush on Ootori.
 * Innocent Fanservice Girl (Few qualms about stripping when others are present)
 * Les Yay -- with Miyuri (in the anime)
 * Monster of the Week (Ep. #20 of the anime.)
 * Named Weapons (Her BFS is called "Excalibur")
 * Pettanko
 * Petite Pride: Since Ootori said he didn't like big breasts.
 * Raised By Natives (well...if Ootori counts as a "native")
 * Tomboy
 * Tomboyish Ponytail

Tasuku Fujiomi (voiced by Kazuyuki Okitsu)
A perverted punk who happens to be a good guy (in the loosest sense of the term) thanks to the moderating influence of Mutsumi. He is the Qwaser of Neodymium, often carrying a large bracelet strapped to his wrist containing said element, he can manipulate nearly anything metallic by channeling its magnetic properties.

Tasuku is not exactly a member of Athos, as he is more under the employ of Buddhist monks than the Eastern Orthodox church. However, his interests align somewhat with Athos in wanting to stop the Adepts from getting the power of the Theotokos of Tsaritsyn.


 * Bishounen
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Subverted. He does it in front of her and it pisses her off.
 * Comedic Sociopathy
 * Delinquent
 * Handsome Lech
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * What the Hell, Hero?: The first thing he does to the girl that lectures him about hitting on woman? He tries to rape her in the shower with his powers.

Nikuma
Referred to as "Hell's Dairy Cow" by Teresa, she is a master tactician and trainer for the Qwasers of Athos.


 * Action Girl
 * Amazonian Beauty
 * Skinship Grope
 * The Worf Effect (her intro involves her effortlessly defeating Katja)

Ayana Minase (Voiced by Ayahi Takagaki)
Qwaser of Magnesium, one of the Adepts, pretends to be Mafuyu and Tomo's friend to find the Theotokos of Tsaritsyn.


 * Action Girl
 * Badass Bookworm (transforms simple Magnesium into the alloy AZ 91, harder than normal Iron)
 * False Friend
 * Monster of the Week
 * Psycho Lesbian

Croa a.k.a. "Gas Chamber"
The Qwaser of Chlorine. A Croatian Adept who "cleansed" several ethnic Serbians in the old Yugoslavia, including those of Teresa's old church.


 * Badass Longcoat
 * Monster of the Week
 * Psycho for Hire

Aoi/Yuu Kuchiba, a.k.a. "Double Face"
Another member of the Adepts who happens to be the Qwaser of Oxygen. Yuu became a homicidal maniac after the training his church put him through as a kid, and his sister Aoi tried to support him until she was forcibly turned into a "Maria" for his use. Long story short, Aoi's latent powers awoke and she killed her captors, but one of those present was her brother Yuu, and the shock of the event somehow caused Aoi's mind to recreate Yuu as a split personality in her own body.

Despite supposedly being Killed Off for Real (twice), Kuchiba appears to have been resurrected a third time (in the manga, at least) to carry out Tanner's plan.


 * Enemy Within
 * Not Quite Dead
 * Split Personality
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

Eva Silver, a.k.a. "The Queen of Living Silver"
The Qwaser of Mercury who happens to be a brutal sadist and another one of the Adepts. In reality, she is actually Eva Anna Paula Braun, the ex-wife of Adolf Hitler who managed to stay alive this long by creating young clones of herself that she could kill and absorb whenever she needed to regenerate her own body.


 * Cloning Gambit
 * Historical Domain Character
 * Psycho Lesbian
 * Sadist Teacher (carried to its extreme)
 * Why Won't You Die?

Joshua Phrygianos
A member of the Adepts who is stuck with the unfortunate mastery of the element Roentgenium, an element with a half-life of about four seconds that does not exist in nature on Earth. As a result, he tries to prove to his fellow Adepts that he isn't useless, but most of the time even the protagonists just feel sorry for him.


 * Blessed With Suck
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
 * Nice Guy: He and his sister are relatively nice members of the Adepts.
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Supreme Chef: Can rival Mafuyu apperently.
 * Took a Level In Badass:
 * Useless Useful Spell
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway

Qwaser of Lead (real name unknown)
Prefers sniping his targets from long distances, shaping lead into crude bullets without metallic jackets.


 * Cold Sniper
 * Monster of the Week (considering his screen time, Bit Part Badguys might fit better)
 * Sociopathic Soldier

Friedrich Tanner
An enigmatic blonde-haired gentleman who appears to be manipulating both the Adepts and Athos. Though not exactly a Qwaser, he does appear to have some sort of magic powers with tarot cards he carries that allows him to do everything from Mind Control to summoning members of the Adepts to do his bidding. He seeks the Theotokos so that he can destabilize Europe and resurrect the Holy Roman Empire with Germany at its head.


 * Dark Messiah
 * Death Dealer
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome

The Qwaser of Gold
The leader of the Adepts whose true face has never been seen. His only real appearance in the story has been through possessing Tomo using a "golden nail" implanted somewhere in her chest that constantly drains her Soma and strengthens the Qwaser himself. He was the one who killed Sasha's older sister Olja, and apparently used Sasha's anger at him to launch an entire Evil Plan spanning years just so he could later use a large-breasted Japanese schoolgirl to gain the Blade of Maria through a special Faberge Egg and somehow use its power to change the world in his image.

There are hints in the anime and the manga that this Qwaser is actually a Catholic cardinal named Gregori.


 * Big Bad
 * Diabolical Mastermind
 * Demonic Possession
 * Evil Plan: One of them involved aquiring the Blade of Maria to reshape the world as he wanted.
 * The Faceless

Jita Phrygianos, a.k.a. "Black Diamond"
The Qwaser of Carbon and the younger sister of Joshua, though she often looks down on him. She distrusts Tomo at first but slowly opens up to her after she steps in to help break up a fight between herself and Georg. In the anime, she immediately makes a move on Tomo's body after the first scene.

Jita often attacks using ultra-thin diamond strings that can cut through practically anything.


 * Dark Action Girl
 * Hidden Buxom: Without a bra.
 * Idiot Hair
 * Single Target Sexuality: She seems to have fallen for Tomo after she stepped in and saved her from Georg.
 * Tsundere

Georg Tanner
The Qwaser of Cobalt and brother of Friedrich. He is a much more narcissistic and arrogant man than his brother, but he shares his goal in using the power of the Theotokos to resurrect the Holy Roman Empire. He constantly spends time cleaning the cobalt ornament attached to his hand, but said ornament allows him to focus gamma radiation into laser beams that can be used against his opponents.

Milk (a.k.a. "Whisper Bomb")
Not much is known about Milk other than the fact that she is a little pink-haired girl who never speaks and is always shown wearing a gas mask. In the manga, cartoonish little bombs can be seen floating around her. She is the Qwaser of Hydrogen.


 * Mask Power
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * The Voiceless

Wang Chen
A Chinese man who is the Qwaser of Silicon. The manga portrays him as a scientist under the supposedly defunct Parcelsus, and is working on an experiment that involves trapping girls inside a Lotus Eater Machine.


 * Freudian Excuse:
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars

Mafuyu Oribe (Voiced by Ayumi Fujimura)
The female lead of the story who often walks around with a kendo shin'ai, she is Sasha's current partner and self-proclaimed protector of Tomo. Many Qwasers seek her out early in the story, thinking she knows where the Theotokos of Tsaritsyn is hidden. Mafuyu contains one half of the Blade of Maria after accidentally interrupting the ceremony.


 * Breast Expansion: The anime version of the Sword of Maria is a soma collector device which causes her breast to grow twice their natural size.
 * Feminine Women Can Cook: Subverted
 * Heroes Want Redheads: Tomo and Sasha both have the hots for her.
 * Katanas Are Just Better
 * Knight in Shining Armor
 * Les Yay: With Tomo and later Katja.
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Pettanko: At first
 * Plucky Girl
 * Red Headed Heroine
 * Shotacon: She falls in love with Sasha. Naturally it falls into this.
 * Supreme Chef
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl:
 * Training From Hell: AKA being Katja's temporary Maria.
 * Tsundere: Tsuntsun toward everyone but Tomo but eventually becomes deredere for Sasha.
 * Took a Level In Badass (after becoming half of the Blade of Maria in the manga and getting the complete version in the anime)
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Tomo Yamanobe (Voiced by Aki Toyosaki)
The daughter of Yuudai Yamanobe with the most gigantic breasts of the whole cast, she contains one-half of the Blade of Maria after being manipulated by the Qwaser of Gold. She is currently being held by the Adepts after being captured by Tanner.


 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Distressed Damsel
 * Dojikko
 * Hair Decorations
 * Expy: She's basically Yui with HUGE BREASTS and both are voiced by Aki Toyosaki.
 * Casting Gag
 * Gainaxing
 * Heroes Want Redheads
 * Ill Girl
 * Incorruptible Pure Pureness
 * Innocent Fanservice Girl: AND HOW
 * Les Yay: With Mafuyu, Teresa, and Jita. Taken even farther in the manga when Jita had to . Episode 7 of Season 2 contained a short yet rather intense breast sucking sequence between her and Miyuri, culminating in an orgasm.
 * Lethal Chef: Don't let her cook alone.
 * The Messiah: A deconstruction. While she is the nicest character in the series, that did not stop her from getting picked on by the other students along with Mafuyu. However, when she's captured, she plays this role straight.
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Naked Apron in Joshua's Imagine Spot.
 * Parental Abandonment
 * The Pollyanna
 * Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
 * Red Eyes Take Warning: A kind variant.
 * Single Target Sexuality: Her love is only directed to Mafuyu. However, she's able to stand aside so she can have Sasha. She also seems totally oblivious to anyone else's (Joshua, Jita, etc.) feelings for her.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: To Mafuyu's tomboy.
 * Too Dumb to Live: Sometimes...her actions fall into this category. We're talking about the time she tried to fight a fat fire with water. Thankfully Joshua was around her house searching for a victim.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Teresa Beria (Voiced by Minori Chihara)
A nun who tends to the church at St. Mikhailov Academy, also Sasha's original Soma donor.


 * Action Girl
 * Badass
 * Badass in Distress
 * Badass Normal
 * Broken Bird
 * Claustrophobic: She has a huge fear of confined space. This is because
 * Covert Pervert
 * Les Yay: With Tomo.
 * Naughty Nun
 * Only Sane Man: She starts off as this but as the series goes on...
 * The Stoic
 * Unusual Ears (or clumps of hair that look like animal ears)
 * Waif Fu
 * The Worf Effect: While she is Badass Normal most of the times, there are times where she gets either defeated easily or captured easily.
 * The Yugoslav Wars: Her backstory.

Hana Katsuragi (Voiced by Yoko Hikasa)
A bully who continuously torments Mafuyu and Tomo along with Miyuri, but after Katja's appearance she became absolutely devoted to her instead.


 * Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite Hana complaining sometimes about Katja being too cruel to her,
 * Corruption By a Minor: In short, Hana is an implied lesbian pedophile (the only person we see her exercising these urges with mostly revolves around Katja, so what extent this true is uncertain). Regardless, Katja manages to make her succumb to her suppressed predations and she becomes her Maria, though this ironically becomes a good thing, as Hana's former Jerkass exterior fades to reveal a surprisingly large heart of gold, ironically making this trope a good thing.
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Faux Action Girl: Though in her defense, she's not good at it and knows it.
 * Happiness in Slavery/Too Kinky to Torture
 * Jerkass -> Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Notably in the second season where she claims, it's wrong to leave a classmate behind. Now look back at her first appearance in Season 1.
 * Kids Are Cruel
 * Lolicon
 * Noblewoman's Laugh: In the first episode of season II, she even Lampshades that she feel like Miyuri.
 * Playing Against Type: Hard to believe she was voiced by Yoko Hikasa.
 * Too Kinky to Torture: Katja and a villian in Season 2 find out, much to their dismay, there is no way in hell to degrade this woman, as all it does is turn her on.

Mutsumi Sendou
Sasha's former "Maria" back in Russia, she came to Japan with Tasuku.


 * Clingy Jealous Girl: She falls into this when Tasuku starts hitting on other girls.
 * Depraved Bisexual
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Genki Girl
 * Paper Fan of Doom
 * Tsundere: Type B.
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Shinichiro Ootori, a.k.a. "Phoenix" (Voiced by Tooru Ookawa)
The Qwaser of Sodium who wishes to search for the Theotokos on his own, despite offers of help from both Athos and the Adepts. Formerly the Number Two of the Qwaser of Gold.


 * Actor Allusion (Ootori can attack with fire by snapping his fingers. In the anime, he's voiced by Toru Ohkawa. Guess who voiced Roy Mustang in the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime.
 * Badass
 * Badass Grandpa: Well, he's not that old but...
 * Heel Face Revolving Door
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Incendiary Exponent
 * Kill It With Fire (Ootori can ignite the natrium/sodium in anything nearby).
 * Lolicon/Hot for Student: He's hinted to have more feelings for Lizzy than he lets on. Naturally, the Qwaser of Gold calls him this
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Miyuri Tsujido (Voiced by Ayako Kawasumi)
Daughter of the Dean of St. Mikhailov Academy who enjoys lording her status over Mafuyu (and most of the class, by extension). She has an ongoing rivalry with Mafuyu and even lets Hana and Katja stay at her place (in the manga) just to spite her. Briefly became a superhero after stumbling onto an elemental circuit that gave her super strength, but otherwise has no idea what's really going on in the story.


 * A Day in The Limelight ("The Melancholy of Miyuri Tsujido" in both anime and manga form)
 * Alpha Bitch
 * Lovable Alpha Bitch
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Hair Decorations: She has two ribbons in her hair.
 * Les Yay -- With Lizzy (in the first season anime). Gains a few levels in this with a few of the other girls by the second anime.
 * Muggle: Oddly played with the anime. She still seems amazingly ignorant as to the full extent of what's going on despite multiple viewings of things that should have shattered the masquerade, but at the same time, especially after her mellowing she's seems to have some vague idea of the weirdness around her.
 * Noblewoman's Laugh - ironically done when she's posing as a masked vigilante, but played straight a few times before and after showing her self-sacrificing True Colors.
 * Rich Bitch: Though she turns somewhat Spoiled Sweet over time.
 * Rose-Haired Girl


 * Zettai Ryouiki

Noda Yuri, a.k.a. "Father Yuri" (Voiced by Susumu Chiba)
The priest at the church in St. Mikhailov Academy. He wears an eyepatch with a cross on it over his right eye. He is rumored to have been a soldier at one point, but now he mostly serves as the Mission Control for Athos in the area, leaving the fighting to Sasha or someone else.


 * Can't Hold His Liquor: In the filler episode, he seemed to have lost it first before Ootori. (Hence he was drinking the whole body instead of just small portions.)
 * Church Militant
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Estrogen Brigade Bait
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Informed Ability: He's one of the better fighters of Athos...but he never fights.
 * Mission Control
 * Mr. Exposition
 * Non-Action Guy
 * Nun-Too-Holy: He's very sarcastic for a priest and he has his moments of perverted thoughts. This is more evident in the OVA, though it must be noted that despite numerous opportunities to do something perverted, he's one of the few male cast members to date to have the highest ratio of keeping his hands to himself.
 * Sexy Priest
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome

Urada Oikawa (voiced by Sayaka Ohara)
The school nurse at St. Mikhailov Academy. She doesn't appear often, but seems at least somewhat informed about the Qwasers having helped Katja and Sasha get better after they suffered grievous wounds.


 * Big Breasts Big Deal - type 4, she really likes giving out soma.
 * Christmas Cake
 * Gainaxing
 * Hospital Hottie
 * Shotacon
 * The Tease
 * The Tease

Fumika Mitarai (voiced by Kana Hanazawa)
The meek and bullied little girl who somehow became the Class President. Has a crush on Sasha after she saw him save a cat from a tree, and kept the piece of iron he used to do it.


 * A Cup Angst -- In the Hot Springs Episode she was the only one who boobs didn't bounce much to her dismay
 * Class President -- subverted, as she's not nearly assertive enough
 * Expy: Of Anri from Durarara. They even have the same voice actors.
 * Pettanko
 * Peek-a-Bangs
 * Shrinking Violet
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Edgar
Is a mysterious girl who appears after the events in Roman Curia Surei Academy. She befriended and follows Miyuri everywhere mostly when she tries to use any foretelling technique that involves to use her breasts. Edgar is shown to be the one to truly foresee the events Miyuri predicts. She knows that Sasha is a Qwaser from.


 * Eyes of Gold
 * Mysterious Waif:
 * Mysterious Waif:

Astarte
A little girl who has been raised by the Adepts since birth to become a potential "High Maria."


 * Cheerful Child
 * Children Are Innocent