Claudine...!/Characters

Characters of Riyoko Ikeda's Claudine...! include:

Characters

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Tropes exhibited by this character include:

The Ace: He's more of a Broken Ace, though.
Anguished Declaration of Love: He gives one to Cecilia, but she turns him down.
Bury Your Trans-people
Broken Bird
Break the Cutie: He's more of a handsome boy (in a woman's body) than a cutie, but he is broken nonetheless.
Hair of Gold: He's a blond and very sympathetic.
Princely Young Man: Well, female-bodied man, but otherwise fits the trope. He's pretty much the incarnation of the Yamato Nadeshiko type, if you wonder.
"Shut Up" Kiss: He gives one to Maura when she's grieving over her father's sudden death. His mom catches them and they have a huge fight, which leads to Claudine going to the doctor again.
Snow Means Death: See below. It also snows when Rosemarie visits his grave.
Spurned Into Suicide / Not Good with Rejection: After finding out that Sirene has left him for his older brother Andre, he commits suicide in a snowy night.
Unsettling Gender Reveal: This happens when he first met Louis, who thinks he's a full-bodied boy.
Uptown Boy: His first love was Maura, a cute little maid to his family's home.
Transgender: Female-to-male.

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Arranged Marriage: With Auguste.
No Name Given
Parents as People: She's a good person but is completely unprepared to handle Claudine's situation.
Proper Lady

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Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Arranged Marriage: He and Madame de Montesse.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: He was killed in a house fire along with Cecilia that was set up by Louis, who was his lover, no less.
Parents as People: He seems to be an Open-Minded Parent, though he has his own issues... specially in regards to Cecilia and Louis.
Parental Favoritism: Claudine is clearly his favorite child, since he's the most similar to Auguste himself.
Sacrificial Lamb
Your Cheating Heart: Cheated on Claudine's mom with Louis, and later with Cecilia. That bit EVERYONE in the ass later.

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Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Princely Young Men: They seem to be either the Yamato Nadeshiko or the Defrosting King type.
Sibling Triangle: Both Claudine and Andre love Sirene. It ends... horribly.
Tall, Dark and Handsome: The three, but specially Andre

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Intergenerational Friendship: He (in his 40's at least) and Claudine (who starts the story as a pre-teen boy, by the end is in his late teens)
Narrator All Along
No Name Given
Reasonable Authority Figure: Treats Claudine with respect and doesn't try to "fix" him.

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Break the Cutie: She witnesses all the disgraces that befalls Claudine, and can only give him limited support. and for worse, she gets half her face scarred in the fire that killed August and Cecilia.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Pre-Character Development.
Character Development: By the end of the manga, she's accepted that Claudine will never love her and claims to bear no hard feelings towards him, choosing to support him no matter what.
Christmas Cake: Sorta. Her scarred face "ruined her for marriage", so she sees herself as unfit for any suitor.
Good Scars, Evil Scars - Two-Faced: She has scars on half of her face in the fire that killed Auguste and Cecilia.
Mega Twintails: When she was young, she has pigtails bigger than her head.
The Mourning After: After Claudine's death, she never stopped loving and caring for him, and at the end, she was visiting his grave in the snow.
Unlucky Childhood Friend: In regards to Claudine.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Had she not told Louis about Cecilia's affair with Auguste, things would've not gone worse for everyone involved as it did in the end...

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Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Break the Cutie: Poor Maura! It's hard not to feel sorry for her, specially when she realizes that her first paycheck never arrived home and when her dad dies all of a sudden.
Country Mouse: Her parents worked as retainers for the Montesse family, and she was even born in the main house (with little!Claudine holding newborn!Maura in his arms). Then they moved back to a nearby village, and Maura came to work to the main home...
The Ingenue
Meido
Nice Girl
Sleep Cute: She sleeps into Claudine's shoulder just after arriving to his home. Awww...

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Jerkass
Hot Teacher: He worked as Rosemarie's tutor.
White-Haired Pretty Boy
Yandere: He sets the house on fire that killed Claudine's father and his own sister. Why? because Cecilia had slept with his lover Auguste.

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Birds of a Feather: She and Claudine bonded over their love of books and poetry.
Dropped a Bridge On Her: She was killed in a house fire along with Claudine's father that was set up by her own brother.
Hot Librarian: She worked as the librarian of the local all-girls's school.
Proper Lady
Sacrificial Lamb
Stuffed Into the Fridge: Died in a fire set up by her brother. Subverted as her corpse was never seen, mainly because it the corpse was already burnt.

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Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Chekhov's Gunman: Do you remember that cute dancing girl who a then-15-year-old Claudine saw through the window of a ballet academy? That's the girl.
Sibling Triangle: With Andre and Claudine. She chooses Andre, which led to Claudine to commit suicide.
Tall, Dark and Bishoujo

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