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Characters of [[Riyoko Ikeda]]'s [[Claudine]]

=== Claudine de Montesse ===
* [[The Ace]]: He's more of a [[Broken Ace]], though.
* {{spoiler|[[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: He gives one to Cecilia, but she turns him down.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Bury Your Gays|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 {{spoiler|Maura}} when {{spoiler|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.
* {{spoiler|[[Snow Means Death]]: See below. It also snows when Rosemarie visits his grave.}}
* {{spoiler|[[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 {{spoiler|Louis}}, who thinks he's a full-bodied boy.
* [[Uptown Girl|Uptown Boy]]: His first love was Maura, a cute little maid to his family's home. 
* [[Transsexualism]]: Female-to-male.

=== Madame de Montesse ===

* [[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]]

=== Auguste de Montesse ===

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: He and Madame de Montesse.
* {{spoiler|[[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]], {{spoiler|though he has his own issues... ''specially'' in regards to Cecilia and Louis.}}
* [[Parental Favoritism]]: Claudine is clearly his favorite child, [[Strong Family Resemblance|since he's the most similar to Auguste himself]].
* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lamb]]}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Your Cheating Heart]]: Cheated on Claudine's mom with Louis, and later with Cecilia. [[From Bad to Worse|That bit EVERYONE in the ass later]].}}

=== Andre, Thomas, and Edouard de Montesse ===

* [[Princely Young Man|Princely Young Men]]: They seem to be either the [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] or the Defrosting King type.
*  {{spoiler|[[Sibling Triangle]]: Both Claudine and Andre love Sirene. [[Downer Ending|It ends... horribly]].}}
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: The three, but specially Andre

=== The Doctor ===

* [[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)
*  {{spoiler|[[Narrator All Along]]}}
* [[No Name Given]]
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Treats Claudine with respect and doesn't try to "fix" him.

=== Rosemarie ===

* [[Break the Cutie]]: She witnesses all the disgraces that befalls Claudine, and can only give him limited support.  {{spoiler|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,  {{spoiler|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.}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Christmas Cake]]: Sorta. Her scarred face "ruined her for marriage", so she sees herself as unfit for any suitor.}}
* {{spoiler|[[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.
* {{spoiler|[[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.
* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]]: Had she not told Louis about Cecilia's affair with Auguste, things would've ''not'' [[From Bad to Worse|gone worse]] for everyone involved as it did in the end...}}

=== Maura ===

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Poor Maura! It's hard not to feel sorry for her, specially when  {{spoiler|she realizes that her first paycheck never arrived home}} and when  {{spoiler|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. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Awww...]]

=== Louis Lacques ===

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

=== Cecilia Lacques ===

* [[Birds of a Feather]]: She and Claudine bonded over their love of books and poetry.
* {{spoiler|[[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]]
* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lamb]]}} 
* {{spoiler|[[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.}}

=== Sirene Berge ===

* {{spoiler|[[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. {{spoiler|She chooses Andre, which led to Claudine to commit suicide.}}
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]

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