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When looking at the characters, one can understand what class of Adept a character is by using these tropes as guidelines.

* [[Dishing Out Dirt]] / [[Green Thumb]]: Venus Psynergy.

* [[Blow You Away]] / [[Shock and Awe]] / [[Telepathy]]<ref>Mind Reading only</ref>: Jupiter Psynergy.

* [[An Ice Person]] / [[Making a Splash]]: Mercury Psynergy.

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* [[BFS]]: Ragnarok summons one. Odyssey summons four, and then a fifth that goes [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Combat Medic]]

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: His mother wakes him up and tells him to evacuate for the disaster, and he goes and rescues Garet on his way out, then runs for help when Felix gets in trouble ''twice''. Three years later, he's helping fix the roof of the house, and by his mother's commentary he's apparently still upset he didn't do enough to help in the prologue. [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]] much, Isaac?

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]

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* [[Assist Character]] / [[A Taste of Power]]: He and Garet provide backup for his son and Karis in the game's first tutorial dungeon and even hand the two a few of their Djinn.

* [[Badass Beard]]

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* [[Anime Hair]]

* [[An Axe to Grind]]: He or Isaac are the only ones in your party in the first game able to wield axes.

* [[Dub Name Change]]: Gerald in the Japanese version.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: To an extent. He's the most belligerent character of the party and tends to act thoughtlessly (his first scenes include him crushing his sister's flower garden without realizing it).

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: "It's at times like these that we men have to stick together!" from the prologue establishes his closeness with Isaac.

** His first scene after the prologue shows him mistakenly Moving a rock into his sister's flower garden and awkwardly trying to comfort Jenna about the loss of her entire family, which probably shows him more as a person: he's scatterbrained and inattentive and gets into trouble, but he's trying his best to be helpful.

* [[No Name Given]]: With regards to his family, contrary to what [[Fan Wank|fans wanked]]. The first game's debug room named his family members as "Mr. Jerra," etc., leading to several fans believing he was the only character in the series with a full name. This was found to be a poor translation ("Jerra" is a bad romanization of Gerald, and the Japanese version's debug room had named his family members as "Jera-papa," etc., to signify their relation to him).

* [[Assist Character]] / [[A Taste of Power]]: He and Isaac provide backup for Matthew and Karis in the game's first tutorial dungeon and let the two kids borrow a few of their Djinn.

* [[Badass Mustache|Badass]] [[Porn Stache]]

* [[Adorkable]]

* [[Ambiguous Innocence]]: Since Psynergy is [[Invisible to Normals]] and he was raised by non-Adepts, he hasn't really had anybody to teach him the ethics of mind-reading: he has absolutely no qualm about reading people's minds and in fact makes you corner people in their inn room so he can read theirs. He's actually kind of a sneaky little thing, but you don't realize it because he's just so cute.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: ... especially if you plan on [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue|holding his foster-father for ransom]].

* [[Creepy Child]]: Was seen as this by people unfamiliar with Psynergy (read: everyone except Hammet) before he met Isaac's gang.

* [[Fragile Speedster]]

* [[Happily Adopted|Happily Fostered]]

* [[Mind Over Manners]]: Averted, though he initially [[Ambiguous Innocence|doesn't realize this is wrong]] and [[Moral Dissonance|later rationalizes it]].

* [[Mind Reading]]: Pretty much his signature ability, going by how much of his plot is about it.

* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: The Shaman Rod

* [[Purple Eyes]]

* [[The Smart Guy]]: He's pretty good at reading people, even without reading their minds.

* [[Squishy Wizard]]

* [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]]

* [[Not So Different]] / [[Brick Joke]]: The ''4koma Gag Battle'' depicts her as wanting Babi's immortality potion... {{spoiler|turns out Alex wanted to live forever, too.}}

* [[The Quiet One]]: Especially in "The Lost Age" - the little dialogue she gets, though, is [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|well worth it]].

* [[White Magician Girl]]

* [[Heroic Mime]]: In the second game.

* [[Hero Antagonist]]: In the first game, though it isn't revealed until he becomes the player character in the second game.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Similar to Isaac in this regard.

* [[Magic Knight]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: An interesting case; Felix is Latin for "lucky." Now let's see: {{spoiler|He ''nearly'' drowned, was ''nearly'' crushed by a boulder, ''nearly'' came to blows with Saturos and Menardi, ''nearly'' came to blows with Isaac and company, ''nearly'' drowned ''again'' after ''jumping off a lighthouse into the ocean'', was ''nearly'' killed by a tidal wave, was ''nearly'' killed by Agatio and Karst, and then ''[[Overly Long Gag|NEARLY]]'' killed his own parents.}} If all those [[Department of Redundancy Department|"nearlys"]] didn't indicate, he has survived [[Trauma Conga Line|every single one of these deadly situations]]. So, yes, he is very lucky! In an ironic subversion, stat-wise, his luck is the worst.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: His personality fits the typical Blue Oni mould: when he speaks, he's shown to be more aloof and less impulsive than Isaac is.

* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]

* [[Missing Mom]]: In ''Dark Dawn''. Apparently she lives in Kalay, but she isn't with Matthew and doesn't appear in-game.

* [[The Lancer]]

* [[The Red Mage]]: Offensive spells, debuffing spells, and the ability to heal? Oh yeah, she qualifies.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: From being a [[Distressed Damsel]].

* [[Happily Adopted]]: She's only mildly disappointed not to learn where she came from. Her adopted folks are also very devoted to her, as shown in the first game.

* [[Mystical Waif]]

** She then immediately jumps on Jenna's follow-up comment of wondering about how Garet is doing.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Similar to Jenna, she goes from [[Distressed Damsel]] to a snarky [[Black Magician Girl]].

* [[Privateer]]: Although [[In Name Only|it's just his class title]].

* [[Punny Name]]

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: [[Subverted Trope|Maybe.]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|He refuses to admit his age.]]

* [[Vague Age]]: Deliberately so.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Sadly not playable. Of course, considering that he's a [[Muggle]], this does make sense.

* [[Hostage for McGuffin]]: In the first game; he is more of a free entity in ''The Lost Age''.

* {{spoiler|[[Irony]]: His entire scholarly life was started by trying to find the secret to immortality for Babi. By Dark Dawn, Babi is dead of old age while Kraden has stopped aging due to his travels trying to find the secret for Babi. Whoops.}}

* [[Party in My Pocket]]: He seems to be able to avoid combat, leap across hazardous terrain, and traverse dangerous dungeons simply by walking into Issac (during the Sol Sanctum section of the first game), Felix (in all of ''The Lost Age''), and Matthew (in ''Dark Dawn'') beforehand.

* [[The Philosopher]]

** Possibly recurring in ''Dark Dawn'', where he claims that {{spoiler|Nowell is in love with Piers}}. No definite information to confirm, however; at least not until the 4th game is released.

* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]]: Until ''Dark Dawn'', Kraden lacked any promotional art releases despite being a fairly major character.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Inverted - he's an antagonist, but - as the sequel reveals - he's not actually ''evil''.

* [[Pointy Ears]]

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Crafty trickster with a definite blue theme in his design. He's the blue oni to Menardi's red, but there's a case to be made for both of them as the red oni to Alex's blue.

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: "Get OFF the roof, Tyrell!"

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Barring class changes, Karis is easily the fastest character in the party.

* [[Lady of War]]: Can use light blades.

* [[The Lancer]]

* [[The Medic]]: She has access to the first Jupiter-based healing spells, the Fresh Breeze series, which are the weakest of all healing spells, but [[Boring but Practical|affect everybody and don't require set Djinn to use]].

* [[Missing Mom]]: The game never mentions who Ivan hooked up with though Karis does mention her parent'''s''' in the plural sense, so it's at least implied that her mother is part of her life.

* [[Purple Eyes]]

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Manages to to claim this role despite the apprentice of ''the'' [[The Smart Guy|Smart Guy]] being in the party (primarly because the script chose to use her to do any exposition due to Matthew's [[Heroic Mime|disability]]). Usually she's the first one to figure out puzzles, while Rief is reliable for providing information.

* [[Tsundere]]: Particularly toward Tyrell.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Green.

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* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Unlike Karis and Tyrell, it's his father that is never identified.

* [[Distressed Dude]]: Briefly before he joins the party.

* [[Dub Name Change]]: Crown in the Japanese version, Ricky in Italian and, amusingly, [[Mythology Gag|Robin]] in French.

** [[Woolseyism]]: Crowns are a Tarot suit, the theme used for the villains' dub names in the English-language games. The translators were thinking ahead to avoid confusion.

* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Or at least, a young girl. Dude looks like a loli?

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Most people would be scared to death of a Psynergy Vortex. Rief gets excited, then entranced, and nearly jumps into the damn thing. [[Don't Touch It, You Idiot!|And his sister yells at him.]]

* [[The Quiet One]]: [[Strong Family Resemblance|Gee, I wonder where he got that?]]

* {{spoiler|[[Ship Sinking]]: Like Matthew, he and his sister also serve as a mudshipping torpedo, and unless Tyrell turns out to be their brother, they sank steamshipping too.}}

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Not as drastic as Matthew or Tyrell, but his similarities to Mia had some peg their relationship immediately after his reveal.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: It runs in the family -- his mother, [[Hidden Agenda Villain|mother's cousin]], and sister have blue hair as well. {{spoiler|So does his second cousin once removed, Amiti.}}

** It's been [[Wild Mass Guessing|suggested]] that Nowell could be a future player character in the [[Sequel Hook|implied sequel]].

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* [[Disappeared Dad]]: His father apparently left Ayuthay as quickly as he arrived, so quickly that only his mother knew his father's exact identity, and she took the secret with her to the grave (which wasn't long after Amiti was born). {{spoiler|It's confirmed that [[Luke, I Am Your Father|Alex is the daddy]].}}

* [[Dub Name Change]]: It was Harumani in Japanese, which led to Haru in French. The Italian version has him named "Jao"

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Becomes a [[Warrior Prince]] and joins your group specifically so that he can learn about the world and become [[The Wise Prince]]. [[Character Development|It works]]!

* [[Green Eyes]]: Possibly cyan. It's hard to tell.

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Once he joins the party.

* [[Silk Hiding Steel]]: Rare male example.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Oh, so very much. He has ''one'' openly jerk moment in the game, and it appears to be an [[Black and White Morality|honest mistake]] that is instantly corrected.

* {{spoiler|[[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Enough so that one NPC in Tonfon outright mistakes him for Arcanus and asks where his mask is.}}

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

* [[The Big Guy|The Big Girl]]

* [[Braids of Action]]

* {{spoiler|[[Casting a Shadow]]: The Umbra Gear was worn by ancestral beastmen to protect them while they built the Apollo Sanctum. You need a set to get in, and given the measurements, she's the only one who can wear the full suit.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Skyward Scream]]: After his father dies in his arms.}}

* [[Sleeves Are for Wimps]]

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Nobody seems to care that the "Scourge of the Eastern Sea" is cruising around with an old guy and a bunch of teenagers. In some areas, it's justified by [[It Got Worse|bigger concerns]], but places like Tonfon and Yamatai [[Story and Gameplay Segregation|don't quite have that excuse]].

* [[With This Herring]]: He joins the party with a Cotton Shirt and the cheapest possible axe. Given that he is from a dirt-poor nation and was in prison for the last several days (weeks?), this is justified, albeit a little [[Incredibly Lame Pun|disarming]] under the circumstances.

* [[Facial Markings]]: Become more elaborate when she recieves the Third Eye.

* [[Fainting Seer]]

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: One of her best class options for combat, and one she alone inexplicably accesses in lieu of [[Samurai]] classes, giving her multiple methods of using it.

* [[Lady of War]]: Has light swords among her available weapons and can rock the "Magic" aspect of her part-Mercury and part-Jupiter [[Magic Knight]] classes.

* [[Theme Naming]]: After card suits in Japanese. In English they use a tarot card theme.

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Dark green.

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* [[Too Many Belts]]: Used in lieu of sleeves.

* [[The Vamp]]: She uses her looks to her advantage during her espionage work.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Pinkish-purple.

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