Sands of Destruction (video game)/Characters

Sands of Destruction characters; some tropes will either apply to the anime, manga or video game, so read at your own risk.

Kyrie Illunis
The main character of Sands of Destruction. Kyrie believes he is a normal human being and lives life in an isolated area where both humans and Ferals are treated equally. However, there is more to meets the nice as he has the power to destroy the world. Due to this, he is forced to leave his hometown and journey with Morte who wants to use him to destroy the world.

"Agan: Apologizing to your own . That's a first."
 * Action Survivor: In the anime.
 * Adult Child: More so in the anime than the manga or video game.
 * All Men Are Perverts: Subverted as the one episode where he had the chance to look up Morte’ skirt because it had a huge tear in it and was getting bigger for every movement she made. Instead, he tried the entire episode trying to sew it back together instead of commenting on the rip. It does not go well...
 * Alternate Character Interpretation: Depending on the version, Kyrie may end up being the whiny Non-Action Guy that needs rescuing, the Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass who wants to atone for his powers or the Wide-Eyed Idealist that has Love Martyr for Morte who will follow her anywhere and convince her to change her mind.
 * Apologizes a Lot: All versions of him have him apologizing whether it's to his friends or enemies. However, in the video game, it becomes a quip that he apologizes even if it isn't his fault.


 * Angst? What Angst?: In the video game, destroying a village doesn’t seem to bother him. However this becomes subverted as time goes on in the game.
 * Beware the Nice Ones and I Feel Angry: No matter how the Ferals treat him or what they do, Kyrie generally has the inability to get angry. However, this is subverted hard in the manga
 * Bishounen: More in the video game as in the anime, he's fits the Moe category.
 * Black Eyes/Gray Eyes: Hard to tell.
 * Blessed with Suck
 * Boy Meets Girl: How he meets Morte.
 * Cat Boy: When he needs a disguise, he will disguise himself as a cat boy. An adorable one you might add.
 * The Chick: At his worse, he becomes this instead of The Hero. Then again, in the video game, he's always the one that suggests the least violent method of action similar to The Chick role.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Seems to be this in the game than in the anime. Subverted in the manga.
 * The Cutie
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Inverted in the anime. Played striaght in the manga and video game.
 * Cuteness Proximity: In the manga, he squeals at seeing Toppi for the first time. In the video game, he has a similar experience as he continues to call Toppi a teddy bear every now and then. Subverted in the anime where he's freaked out over Toppi's appearance.
 * Distress Ball: Anime counterpart tends to get himself in situations that could get him killed.
 * Dude in Distress: No matter if it’s the anime, manga or video game, Kyrie will always get captured. Up to Eleven in the anime where every other episode he gets captured and has to wait for his teammates to think of a plan to escape the Ferals.
 * The Ditz: In the anime. He is rather...clumsy...
 * Doomed Hometown: In the manga and the video game. It doesn’t say what his hometown is in the anime though
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: In the manga, one can easily mistake Kyrie for a woman. Blame the artist for that.
 * Fragile Speedster: In the video game, which is odd because he’s the main character. All of his support moves are healing and his offensive special moves are all statue moves. Also, he does the least damage but makes up with incredible accuracy.
 * Gender Blender Name
 * Go-Go Enslavement: Kind of a subversion but in one episode in the anime where he, Morte and Toppi were captured, he was the only one that changed who had an outfit change when he was working in the kitchen.
 * In the game, he was also perfectly willing to accept the Beastmen as humanity's rightful rulers. This says as much about his personality as it says about the fact that Ursa Rex was a kind and benevolent ruler to the humans under his command.
 * The Heart
 * The Hero: A cowardly one.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: In all versions, he eventually has this relationship with Taupy.
 * Hidden Depths: All versions in all different ways.
 * His cheerful self in the anime
 * His manga counterpart is similar to the anime only he's not all smiles.
 * His video game counterpart is a combination of the two and while he really is a happy person,
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: He complains about this in the anime but isn’t taken seriously (since he has control over his power) but played straight in the manga.
 * I’m Taking Him Home With Me!: Kyrie does this to Toppi in the manga because he insists that Toppi is a teddy bear. Toppi is not amused.
 * Katanas Are Better: In the manga.
 * Kindhearted Cat Lover: Stated in the video game that he adores cats. This also explains why he wears the cat ears in the anime.
 * Knife Nut: In the video games.
 * Lethal Chef: In the video game as this is one of his many attacks against enemies.
 * Poisonous Person
 * Lovable Coward: He grows out of this in the manga and video game.
 * Love Martyr: The reason he stays with Morte. This is horribly subverted in the manga as he
 * Mamoru Miyano
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: With Morte.
 * Meaningful Name: Kyrie in Greek is lord.
 * The Medic: While everyone has a healing move, all of his life skills are all healing which range from healing the entire party's HP, statue alignments and regan.
 * Combat Medic: He can fight with knife and is a very fast fighter. However, look at Fragile Speedster.
 * The Messiah: Many of the characters state that because of him, they have hope for humans and Ferals. He is also the only hope in convincing Morte to change her mind.
 * Dark Messiah: Can also be seen as this too because Morte wants him to destroy the world instead of saving it. However, Kyrie's too nice to actually be one.
 * Moe: More so in the anime and manga than the video game.
 * Morality Pet/Morality Chain: Mainly to Morte but applies to the whole group.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: In the video game, he's given the name "Destruct" when he "joins" the World Destruction Committee. Naturally, whenever someone sees Kyrie, they're not convinced that his title doesn't match him at all.
 * Nice Guy
 * Non-Action Guy: In the anime
 * Person of Mass Destruction
 * The Pollyanna: In the anime. Not so much in the manga and video game.
 * The Power of Friendship: Invokes this in the anime and video game but is horribly subverted in the manga.
 * Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Or rather savvy guy, crazy girl.
 * Shounen Hair
 * Shrinking Violet: In the anime.
 * Stay in the Kitchen: Not used by him against females but some beastmen actually tell him that he's better off in the kitchen. This is mainly used to insult Kyrie being a human but since he is physically the weakest of the group and needing constant saving, it fits him well. Naturally, he takes this comment in stride.
 * Supreme Chef: In the anime and is often the one that cooks for the group, and even impresses the prisoners in the jail where the Committee was being held with his skill. In the game, his special moves are all based around cooking. Even his knife is considered a cooking utensil for battle.
 * Team Chef: See above.
 * Team Mom: He tends to try and be the peacemaker of the group, and is fairly domestic.
 * The So-Called Coward: In the anime, while he runs away most of the time
 * Took a Level In Badass: In the video game.
 * Useless Protagonist: Played straight with the anime  Played with in the manga. Subverted in the video game.
 * Weak but Skilled: In the manga.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: Although in the anime he starts out fairly world-weary. Their journey across the world changes this. Played straight in the video game where he thinks that everyone has a chance to get along from the start but it slowly dies away as the game goes on.
 * The Woobie
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Played with as he does have the power to destroy it.
 * Wrong Genre Savvy: In the video game, he’s the only person that believes that humans and Ferals can live together. Boy is he wrong. This is subverted in the anime where Kyrie proves that the world can live with humans and Ferals and in this case, Morte is in the wrong.
 * Team Mom: He tends to try and be the peacemaker of the group, and is fairly domestic.
 * The So-Called Coward: In the anime, while he runs away most of the time
 * Took a Level In Badass: In the video game.
 * Useless Protagonist: Played straight with the anime  Played with in the manga. Subverted in the video game.
 * Weak but Skilled: In the manga.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: Although in the anime he starts out fairly world-weary. Their journey across the world changes this. Played straight in the video game where he thinks that everyone has a chance to get along from the start but it slowly dies away as the game goes on.
 * The Woobie
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Played with as he does have the power to destroy it.
 * Wrong Genre Savvy: In the video game, he’s the only person that believes that humans and Ferals can live together. Boy is he wrong. This is subverted in the anime where Kyrie proves that the world can live with humans and Ferals and in this case, Morte is in the wrong.

Morte Ashera:
A sixteen year old girl with a troubled past and wants to destroy the world because of it. She was originally the only member of the World Destruction Committee (anime wise) until she encountered Kyrie and found out he had the power to destroy the world. With him by her side, she sets her sight of destroying the discrimination in the world.


 * Action Girl: In the anime and more of a Dark Action Girl in the manga and video games.
 * Action Girlfriend: To Kyrie in a sense.
 * Axe Crazy: In the manga and video game. Subverted in the anime.
 * Badass: She has held her own against the World Salvation committee for years before she met Kyrie.
 * Badass in Distress: In the anime where she wouldn’t tell the Ferals where Kyrie and the Destruct Code were despite being beaten (almost to death).
 * Berserk Button: In the video game, hurting Agan is ill advise as Rajiv learns the hard way.
 * BFS
 * Break the Cutie: In the anime. More of a Break the Haughty in the manga.
 * Broken Bird: In the anime. Subverted in the video game.
 * Crutch Character: In the video game, she starts out at higher level than Kyrie and is your primary damage dealer after Taupy. Halfway through the game, you probably will rely on Flurry attacks more, and since hers can only do 7 hits in total, she arguably becomes the least useful character in combat.
 * Cute and Psycho: In the video game.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen: In the anime where she opens up to Kyrie and Toppi. In the video game, it takes longer to open up to the group. Subverted in the manga.
 * Flat Character: In the video game where her actions aren’t explained. Lampshaded when.
 * Ironically, this is subverted to hell and back in the anime
 * Hair-Trigger Temper: In all versions. Played for laughs in the anime and in the video game, its played for laughs most of the time. However, in the manga, it's considered a deconstruction as
 * Jerkass: In the manga.
 * Jerkass Woobie: In the anime.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the anime.
 * Kick the Morality Pet: In the manga
 * Lady of War
 * Magic Skirt: It’s not immune to tears though.
 * Maaya Sakamoto
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: With Kyrie.
 * Meaningful Name: Morte means death.
 * Morality Pet/Morality Chain: Kyrie is this in the manga, but once he tells her
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: She actually has several in the game: "Scarlet Plague", "Beastslayer", and "Lady Death".
 * Omnicidal Maniac: Oh so much.
 * One Women Army: She can take out groups of enemies by herself with ease. However, the only thing that prevents her from going on a killing rampage is when Kyrie gets himself captured.
 * Pet the Dog: She does this a lot in the anime. Inverted in the manga.
 * Sugar and Ice Girl: In the anime toward Kyrie with a mix of Tsundere.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tsundere: Type A in the anime.
 * Villain Protagonist: In the manga and video game. Subverted in the anime in which she tries to be one but ends up helping other people on their journey.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: In the manga, in order to make sure that there would be no more human slaves in a village,  Kyrie calls her out on this.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Mostly in the anime, but even the manga Morte has sympathetic moments.
 * Wrong Genre Savvy: In the anime because despite her insistence that beastmen and humans cannot live together, Kyrie keeps seeing multiple moments where beast men are trying to change the world for the better and humans falling in love with beastmen. Subverted in the video game where she proves to be right on most occasions.
 * Yandere: In the manga, at her worst.
 * Wrong Genre Savvy: In the anime because despite her insistence that beastmen and humans cannot live together, Kyrie keeps seeing multiple moments where beast men are trying to change the world for the better and humans falling in love with beastmen. Subverted in the video game where she proves to be right on most occasions.
 * Yandere: In the manga, at her worst.

Toppi:

 * Badass
 * Badass Adorable: He kicks ass!
 * Bare-Fisted Monk: In the anime and manga, he fights using only his fists. In the game, his weapons are gloves, which is pretty close.
 * Berserk Button: Don't call him a teddy bear. The only person that has been able to live up to this day who called him one is Kyrie. However, in the anime, everyone calls him one and it pisses him off, but never does anything about it.
 * The Big Guy: Despite being the smallest.
 * Bodyguard Crush: While not a crush, he acts as Kyrie’s royal bodyguard. His relationship with Kyrie can be questioned in the manga.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: He's so popular in Japan that he appears as a summon in Phantasy Star Zero.
 * Everything Is Worse With Bears: For the enemies anyway.
 * Eyepatch of Power: It doesn't do anything but it makes him look more badass.
 * Honor Before Reason
 * I Will Definitely Protect You: He says this to Kyrie when he’s first introduced to him in the manga.
 * I Will Protect Him: Toward Kyrie. It is a type 7 in the manga and a "It's Just that Simple" case in the anime and video game. However, both of these later become the "complicated" type because of Kyrie's status of being able to destroy the world.
 * Knife Nut: In the anime, but only the first episode.
 * Lightning Bruiser
 * The Mentor: For Kyrie in the anime.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter: And he hates it.
 * Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: With his wife. He barely reaches three-feet height, while his wife is around two stories tall.
 * Verbal Tic: Kuma in the Japanese version or Bear-o in some translations of the English version.

Agan Mardrus
""I am Agan the Green... and Red.""
 * Badass
 * Badass Cape: You wish Agan.
 * Badass in Distress: In the video game, he gets captured by the beast men and the group has to save him before he ends up in a fate worse than death situation.
 * Bishounen
 * Blue Eyes
 * Break the Cutie: Subverted. Rajiv tries this method on him when captured. It goes horribly wrong.
 * Cargo Ship: He REALLY loves his boat…
 * The Chew Toy: In the video game, to some extent. Morte just loves to abuse him.
 * Cool Boat: Too bad it has a tendency of getting damaged often. The funny thing is that it’s a nice Boat too!
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?: When Agan is captured, you can hear Rajiv beating him with a whip trying to get him to "submit". Naja leaves the area because he's disgusted. Rajiv then tries to break him by telling him that members of the Golden Lions betrayed him and got him captured because they're all selfish bastards. When Agan refuses to submit though, Rajiv then threatens him to use something that would hurt him beyond imagination. Umm, that sounds like something else...
 * Houseboat Hero: In the anime. He’ll get off it every now and then but every time Kyrie’s group meets him, he’s always on a boat.
 * La Résistance: In the video game, he has his own team called the Golden Lions until he got captured and was forced to join the World Destruction committee. In the anime, he helps the Golden Lions but doesn't get involved with the actual battles like in the game.
 * Momma's Boy: Is hinted to be one in the video game to the point that he really doesn't want his mother involved with what he's doing.
 * My Name Is Inigo Montoya: One of his early lines (and his first Quip) in the video game is arguably a parody of this trope.


 * Nice Hat
 * Only Sane Man
 * The Smart Guy
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: In the video game. In the anime though, it’s even worse as Morte and him aren’t even childhood friends.
 * Whip It Good: Video game only as he does not carry a weapon at all in the anime or manga.
 * X Marks the Hero: A cross shaped mark on the left side of his face.

Rhia Dragunel

 * Action Girl
 * Ax Crazy: In the anime.
 * Badass: Her game counterpart but her anime counterpart has some good moments.
 * The Chick
 * Cloudcuckoolander: In the video game.
 * Dumb Blonde: Subverted.
 * The Gunslinger
 * Hair-Trigger Temper: In the anime.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons
 * Last of Her Kind: In the anime and video game.
 * Make Me Wanna Shout: All of her magical attacks in the game have musical-themed names. Using them makes her scream and blast the enemy.
 * More Dakka + Beam Spam: Her in-game Requiem Finishing Move.
 * The Nicknamer: She calls Felix Rex "Mr. Meow" and Kyrie "Destruct".
 * The Ojou: Treated as one in the video game by Felix Rex.
 * Our Dragons Are Different
 * Purple Eyes
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: She's at least 300 years old.
 * Seers
 * Tsundere: Type A to everyone and Type B to Kyrie in the anime.
 * Averted in the video game, at least to Kyrie.
 * Winged Humanoid
 * You Monster!: In the video game, she says this (and becomes her final Quip) to Lacertus Rex.
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Naja Gref

 * Bishounen
 * Fantastic Racism: He suffers the most of racist comments in the manga and video game. Subverted in the anime, when it's only mentioned twice in one of the last episodes.
 * Friendly Enemy: In the anime where he intends to win the Destruct Code from Morte via gambling and is always trying to find a compromise compared to Rhia who just wants to shoot Morte dead. He also gives advice to Kyrie often and never attacks him. This is subverted in the manga.
 * Half-Human Hybrid: And no one lets him forget it. Source of much angst.
 * Honor Before Reason
 * Improbable Weapon User: Those spinners.
 * Noble Demon: He's really a nice guy.
 * The Sixth Ranger: Who didn't see this coming?
 * Stoic Spectacles
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?: In the anime, he tends to fall for the stupidest things. One episode comes to mind where he talks to this robot over again telling it that he and Rhia are part of the World Salvation Committee (which the robot messes up because Alligator Lord did not want them interfering with his plans.) Naturally, Rhia is seen as the smarter one of the two in this situation where using violence actually got her somewhere.
 * Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?: In the anime, he tends to fall for the stupidest things. One episode comes to mind where he talks to this robot over again telling it that he and Rhia are part of the World Salvation Committee (which the robot messes up because Alligator Lord did not want them interfering with his plans.) Naturally, Rhia is seen as the smarter one of the two in this situation where using violence actually got her somewhere.