Monster Girl Quest! Paradox RPG/Characters
Character Name
A description of the character goes here.
Luka
The hero of the story. While his general background is the same as the original game, the events of the Paradox setting have completely changed his goals. Rather than striving for coexistence, he sets out in search of his missing father.
- Badass Family'
- Blow You Away: When using Sylph's power.
- Celibate Hero: Can be played as such, if the player never has him make requests of any party member.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Can't resist helping people in need.
- Dishing Out Dirt: When using Gnome's power.
- Establishing Character Moment: Just like the original game, when he hears that a fellow villager is in trouble, he rushes out to save him.
- Genius Ditz: Downplayed, but he can be relatively naive (justified by his inexperience), while he also has an unexpectedly sharp mind.
- Healing Factor: His Mediation power, though it's not as important as in the original game, since there's many other sources of healing.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Though unlike the original game, he can use other weapons.
- Heroic Lineage
- The Leader
- Light'Em Up: Can learn Holy skills from Ilias and through his Angel races.
- Nephilim: Thanks to his mother. In gameplay terms, he can switch between the human and angel races.
- Playing With Fire: Many of his later Heroism skills use the fire element.
- Really Gets Around: Can potentially engage in some manner of sex with almost every single female party member, barring (currently) the Medal Queen and the battle-fuckers. Though some of the monsters are guaranteed to kill him.
- Semi-Divine: On his mother's side, he's just two steps removed from the Goddess Ilias herself.
- Space Master: For some reason, he can use the doors in the Tartarus that lead between universes.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Looks just like his father Marcellus .
- Super Intelligence: Downplayed, but in the Ancient Temple Ruins it's revealed that he is exceptionally good at math. Ilias attributes this to his lineage.
- Superpower Lottery: By the end of Part 1, he's clearly won this. He's been baptised as a Hero (gaining powerful fire-elemental attacks), can use the holy power of angels, can heal his wounds just by meditating, knows a few Cursed Sword techniques (if Alice was recruited), and has the rare ability to travel between alternate universes.
- Supreme Chef
- The Face: He's generally the one who talks to enemy monsters the most.
Alice
The current Monster Lord, inexplicably changed into a younger, weaker form. She has lost contact with her former servants, and is now looking for answers. Her unique trait, "Petite Monster Lord", allows her to always use Black Magic, Dark and Demon Arts skills, and halves the HP cost of all skills.
- Big Eater: As per the original.
- Black Magician Girl: She can always use Black Magic.
- Casting a Shadow: She can always use Dark skills.
- Cute Monster Girl
- Eye Beams: Her Demon Eye skills can inflict various status effects.
- Extreme Omnivore: She eats anything that Luka gives her, even literal rocks.
- Horned Humanoid
- Magic Knight: She starts off able to both use a rapier and black magic.
- Monster Lord
- Riches to Rags: From the ruler of all monsters to having to ally with a novice hero. She's not even considered in the running for the Monster Lord's position.
- Royal Rapier: Starts off wielding one, and is certainly royalty.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
- Snake Person: She looks like a lamia, but it's only one of her many races.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's afraid of ghosts, despite being the Monster Lord.
Ilias
The Goddess who ostensibly created the entire world, also inexplicably changed into a younger, weaker form. Interestingly, she seems unfamiliar with the world, and is confused by half the news she hears. She has lost contact with her angels, and is now looking for answers. Her unique trait, "Goddess of Creation", allows her to always use White Magic and Holy skills, and the MP cost of the latter is halved.
- Fantastic Racism: Still hates all monsters, and if she's in the party, will regularly advise Luka to choose the option that is least beneficial/most harmful to monsters. Amusingly enough, if she isn't recruited, then she has no choice but to swallow her pride and recruit monsters to form her own party.
- Holy Hand Grenade: Has access to skills that do holy damage, which is effective against most monsters.
- The Hunter: Starts off in the Hunter job.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Should you recruit her, she steals the Pocket Monster Lord Castle from Alice for the party to use.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: She can't remember any of the circumstances that led to her being shrunk.
- Light'Em Up
- Omniscient Morality Licence: Sometimes acts as if she has this, despite no longer having the power to back it up.
- Physical God: Was one, rather. Immediately after being sealed, she's so weak that her Thunder of Judgement is compared to static electricity by Luka.
- Shock and Awe: Some of her Holy skills use the lightning element.
- The Rival: If you don't recruit her, she appears at several points along your journey, with her own party of monsters. Notably, unlike the rivals from Pokemon, her party members are weaker than yours (e.g. a Slime Girl and a Dog Girl), especially in the late game.
- Time Abyss: As the embodiment of holy energy, she is billions of years old.
- White Magician Girl: She can always use White Magic.
Sonya
Luka's childhood friend, a priestess at Ilias Temple with a fondness for clubs. She is unique to Paradox, as in the original game her mother Karen died before she could have any children. Sonya was raised by Lazarus after her parents died, although later on she would be the one taking care of him. Her unique trait, "Club Girl", allows her to always equip Clubs and use Club skills and White Magic, and increases her damage with a club and the effectiveness of her White Magic.
- Boobs Of Steel: A physical powerhouse, and her outfit certainly emphasises her chest.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: Despite being a normal human being, she's able to fight on par with monsters and angels.
- Childhood Friend
- Femme Fatale: In the quest in the Nameless Slums, she mentions employing this trope in order to obtain information. That said, she never actually does so over the course of the game.
- Friend to All Children: She encourages the Four Bandits to apologise for their crimes to the town, and apologises with them.
- Form-Fitting Wardrobe
- Happily Adopted: By Lazarus, though in the present, she's the one taking care of him.
- Optional Party Member: Technically, Sonya can be missed if the player doesn't visit the Chief's House. This has a number of inexplicable effects, most notably that Alice/Ilias will not reveal the Pocket Monster Lord Castle and so party members cannot be recruited. Even more strangely, the game was written with this in mind, as many of her lines will be said by Luka instead.
- The Paladin: Albeit one that uses a club.
- Team Mom
- Sir Swears A Lot: She tends to swear more often than other characters.
- Temporal Paradox: Possibly, though it's still unclear. Multiple characters note that she shouldn't exist.
- White Magician Girl: She can always use white magic, but she certainly doesn't fit the other requirements of the trope.
Nuruko
A strange monster found in the first Tartarus. She looks somewhat like a scylla, with even her hair being tentacles. She doesn't speak any words, just the sound effect 'kyu'.
- Combat Tentacles: Used for most of her attacks, and they're highlighted in her attack cut-in.
- Eldrich Abomination: Possibly, given her nature as an Apoptosis.
- Gag Boobs: A hallmark of her artist, they take up most of her torso.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is Japanese for 'slimy child'.
- Scylla and Charybdis: She looks like a scylla, and has it as a race, but it's still unclear exactly what she is. She has the Apoptosis race as well.
- The Unintelligible: She only says 'kyu'. The only person who can understand her, interestingly, is Sonya. This leads to an amusing scene when she makes friends with Gnome, another example of this trope, as they need interpreters to converse with each other.
Promestein
An angel scientist, encountered in the second Tartarus. She isn't the same Promestein from the original game, but neither is she native to the Paradox universe, having apparently come from a universe where the angels won the Great Monster Wars. Her unique trait, "Mad Scientist Angel", allows her to always use Medicine and Magic Science skills and increases the damage of the latter .
- For Science!
- Immortality: Like all angels. She mentions having studied the Remina in Tartarus for 200 years.
- Mad Scientist: She is a Promestein, after all. In her first appearance, she asks Luka if she can dissect his brain to learn the secrets of his ability to cross dimensions.
- During one camp scene, she is glad that her companions are looking happy... and asks if she can stick electrodes in their brains to take readings.
- Magitek: Her Magic Science skills.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is a portmanteau of Prometheus and Frankenstein.
- The Medic: She can always use Medicine skills.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: As in the original. She's introduced studying the temporal anomaly, but she also expresses interest in her companions' brains, asks to sample the plants and insects of alternate worlds, creates a formula that gives Bunni the genes of a beast monster, shows familiarity with the advanced machinery in the Ancient Temple Ruins...
Brynhildr
A gynoid encountered in the Ancient Temple Ruins, the remains of a laboratory. Initially known as the Sleeping Beauty for her dormancy, she suddenly woke up when Luka touched her capsule. After fighting the party in a misunderstanding, she joins them in order to fulfil her mission of saving the world.
- Dual Wielding: She has two curved blades attached to her arms.
- Eldritch Abomination: One of her races is Apoptosis.
- Emotionless Girl: She gives this impression initially, but seems to develop emotions over time. Promestein notes that she has unnecessarily advanced emotional capability.
- Gatling Good: One of her weapons.
- Redemption Demotion: Initially fought as a boss. As a party member, she's useful but obviously not nearly as powerful.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: She has, according to Promestein, advanced emotions and a functional reproductive system, neither of which would be desirable in a combat machine.
- Robot Girl
- Schizo-Tech: She seems to have come from 88 years in the future.
- Sex Bot: She has the relevant hardware and can take requests.
- Unusual Ears: She has what appear to be rabbit ears.
- Yin-Yang Bomb: According to Promestein, she is powered by a holy and dark fusion reactor, whatever that is.
Nero
A bizarrely-dressed stranger who the party encounters several times. It's strongly implied that he is the son of Luka and Alice from another universe, though which one isn't clear. His current purpose is unknown, but he and his sister seem to be helping out Luka's party.
- Beware The Nice Ones: Don't be fooled by his mild demeanour - when he decides to fight, he can decapitate even Eldritch Abominations like the White Rabbit.
- Bunny Ears Lawyer: Highly-questionable fashion sense, a ridiculously-oversized weapon, and a massive ham in battle... but he's one of the most powerful characters in the series.
- Casting a Shadow
- Cool Shades: It's questionable whether they're even needed, or if he just wears them for the appearance.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Supposedly manages to decapitate the White Rabbit, though it doesn't leave any lasting damage.
- Heinz Hybrid: Apparently, he's half-monster, a quarter-human, and a quarter-angel.
- Large Ham: In battle, he tends to make rather grandiose declarations.
- Impossibly Cool Clothes: The only way to describe his outfit. Apparently, he made them himself.
- Nephilim: A quarter-angel. It allows him to use holy power and causes wings of rainbow light to appear when he fights.
- Nice Guy: Apparently in the blood.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
- Sinister Scythe: An enormous one.
- Superpower Lottery: A definite winner. As demonstrated when the player briefly controls him, he has access to high-level holy and dark magic, as well as space and time magic, and is a Master Swordsman on top of that.
- Time Master: Can both stop time, and move when someone else has stopped time.
- Yin-Yang Bomb: Can use both light and dark magic, thanks to his lineage.
Neris
A strange monster who first appears to defeat Nanabi for the party. Known as the mysterious Alice XVII, she's considered one of the three contenders for the Monster Lord's throne. It's strongly implied that she is the daughter of Luka and Alice XVI from another universe, though which one isn't clear. Her current purpose is unknown, but she and her brother seem to be helping out Luka's party.
- BFS: Wields one, as shown in promotional images.
- Big Damn Heroes: On two occasions. She effortlessly defeats Nanabi when the party is struggling against her, and similarly rescues them from the Armored Berserker, alongside her brother.
- Do Not Call Me Paul: She hates being called Alice XVII, preferring the name Neris.
- The Dreaded: After her rampage across the world, she's feared by monsters everywhere for her incredible power.
- Horny Devils: She normally looks like a succubus without the horns or tail, but her true form is actually lamia-shaped like her mother.
- Nephilim: If her proposed lineage is true, she'd be a quarter-angel, three-quarters monster.
- One Man Army: A definite example. In one day, she conquers Plansect Village, defeats Cassandra, defeats and exiles the Arachne faction, and fights Granberia to a draw. She's seen as this in-universe too, being considered one of the three contenders for the title of Monster Lord despite (seemingly) being on her own.
- Parental Incest: For some reason, after defeating Nanabi, she hits on Luka. Granted, it's not the same Luka as her father, but it's still odd.
- Playing With Fire: The only attack she uses onscreen is Vaporising Rebellion Sword.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
- Stripperiffic: To say the least.
- Yin-Yang Bomb
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: While it isn't the same shade, it may have come from her father's side.
- Younger Than She Looks: If she is in fact the daughter who was conceived at the end of the original game, then she should be the same age as Nero, but she doesn't look it. Some fans have joked that she inherited Luka's small stature.
White Rabbit
A mysterious woman who appears throughout the game and appears to lead the party around. It isn't clear whether she is a monster, a human in a costume, or something else entirely.
- Alice Allusion: Lampshaded. Not only is her name an allusion, but she can literally lead around a person named Alice
- Dishing Out Dirt: She creates a pile of dirt at the entrance to the third Tartarus, which automatically moves to block anyone trying to get in. Only Gnome can undo the barrier.
- Nigh Invulnerability: She claims at one point that Nero cut her head off, but she shows no signs of any lasting damage.
- Reality Warper: Among other feats, she can transfer people between universes, which she uses at one point to force the party into a boss battle.
- Stealth Mentor: Possibly. She does give advice to the party on several occasions.
- Time Master: Can stop time.
Reaper
A mysterious woman found in Hades, who appears to be the personification of death itself. Reaper provides a number of services: returning a dead Luka to the world of the living; allowing you to change the difficulty; removing the male characters (except Luka) from the party; and once you've cleared the first chapter, the option to start New Game Plus.
- Anthropomorphic Personification
- Back From the Dead: Probably the service that players use the most.
- Bonus Boss: The strongest one in Part 1. While the superbosses in the Labyrinth of Chaos are stronger than her normal self, her Labyrinth version is arguably still the strongest of the superbosses.
- Foil: To the White Rabbit. Both are incredibly powerful beings with mysterious goals, who seem to know about the threats facing the world. Both have similar abilities. Their color schemes are inverted, with Reaper having red hair and black clothing while the White Rabbit has blue hair and white clothing. Reaper also seems to prefer a passive role, while the White Rabbit actively guides the party around.
- One Hit KO: As befitting her character, she has many attacks that inflict this.
- Physical God: A definite example. She regards Adramelech, a high-ranking Apoptosis responsible for the destruction of at least one world, as a mere annoyance. Before she accepts your challenge, she requires you to first fight an alternate Alice XVI. Even without using her full power, she is the most difficult boss of Part 1.
- Playing With Fire: Has access to powerful fire magic.
- Reality Warper: Can transfer people between universes.
- Sinister Scythe: As in traditional portrayals of the Grim Reaper. It has what look like small faces at the junction of the blade and handle.
- Time Master: Her Labyrinth version can use Chaos Drive, which stops time for 3 turns. It even stops the battle music!
Lilith Sisters
A trio of succubi of immense power, dating to the Great Monster Wars. Created by the ancestor of all succubi, Minagi, they have strength that surpasses almost all monsters in the present day. Despite being thought long-dead, they appear in the Paradox universe.
- Blow You Away: They are all masters of wind magic.
- Brainwashing: They've used this to manipulate at least one major figure (Meia) and possibly others.
- The Chessmaster: They mainly work indirectly, by manipulating other people.
- Horny Devils
- The Man Behind the Man: They're behind many of the problems faced by the party.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Many succubi have been named after them.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Sonya hypothesizes that they didn't intend to spread a lust-causing virus to the harpies, but were unknowingly carriers of the disease. The truth has yet to be confirmed.
Lilith
The eldest of the Lilith sisters.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Presumably the most powerful of the sisters, and their leader.
- Dissonant Serenity: She's unfailingly kind and polite, even as she's slowly killing people.
- Sweater Girl: Amusingly, it covers more of her body than everything her younger sisters wear, combined.
Astaroth
The middle sister of the trio.
- Bare Fisted Monk: Uses some martial arts moves.
- Eye Beams: Her Demon Eyes of Seduction skill.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Inverted. She's the calm one compared to her younger sister Morrigan.
Morrigan
The youngest of the Lilith Sisters.
- Bait and Switch: She appears in the same place that Alma Elma did in the original game, and also offers to duel them while holding back. When the party is starting to win thanks to her handicap, she's annoyed that they haven't given up and prepares to kill them.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: The only reason the party stands a chance in the battle against her is her deliberately holding back. Once she decides to kill them anyway, the only reason they survive is Zion's intervention.
- Person of Mass Destruction: When fighting with Zion, they sink an entire ship as collateral damage.
- Power Glows: It's described as a psychokinetic aura, which she uses to fight.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Inverted. She's the reckless one compared to her older sister Astaroth.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Adramelech
A high-ranking Apoptosis encountered in the dying world beyond the third Tartarus. She was involved in the destruction of that world, and assaults the party in the Administrator's Tower.
- Body Horror: To the point that it almost defies description. Tentacles, asymmetrical wings, a gaping mouth lined with sharp teeth, flesh that seems to include metallic and crystalline components... And even with all of that, she has a roughly human-shaped body.
- Clock Roaches: Like other Apoptosis, her role is to prevent the spread of Chaos, no matter the cost.
- Combat Tentacles
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: She's at 10% of her normal power when she intercepts the party, thanks to La Croix's last stand.
- Combat Tentacles
- Half the Man He Used To Be: Marcellus cuts her in half.
- Physical God: Given that a mere 10% of her normal power is enough to act as the final boss, and she can erase Ilias of all people from existence, she probably qualifies for this.
- Taking You with Me: Attempts this on Luka, but Marcellus saves him by killing her.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Sort of. If you lose to her and go to the Evaluation, Ilias will begin as normal, only for Adramelech to arrive and delete Ilias from existence.
- Yin-Yang Bomb: Like any other Apoptosis. One of her attacks, Necrosis, does both Holy and Dark damage.
Black Alice
The eighth Monster Lord, a notorious tyrant who was eventually killed by the legendary hero Heinrich. Now, she appears to have somehow resurfaced, and is one of the contenders for the Monster Lord position.
- Alice Allusion: She looks the part, and used a drug called White Rabbit.
- Back From the Dead: Although in a different way than expected; she appears to be the same Black Alice from the original game, having somehow survived her defeat at the hands of Luka and Alice.
- Creepy Child: Gives off an extremely strong impression of this, though she isn't really a child.
- The Man Behind The Man: A literal example, she first appears behind Kagetsumugi's throne.
- Monster Lord
Armored Berserker
A mysterious figure that appears in the Forest of Spirits, resembling a knight in a grotesque, twisted suit of armor. Despite its appearance, it didn't seem to be hostile, but the moment Luka's party arrives, it attacks them. It is heavily implied that this is the legendary hero Heinrich Hein, whose body was mentioned in the original game to have been consumed by holy energy from the angels he'd killed. However, it's not certain if it's the Heinrich of the Paradox universe, or an alternate one (though the former seems unlikely, given that he apparently wields his own copy of Angel Halo.
- Animated Armor: In appearance, at least.
- Berserk Button: Angels, whom it attacks on sight. Given his implied identity, it makes some sense.
- BFS: It wields a two-handed sword, a distorted version of Angel Halo.
- Curb Stomp Battle: On both the giving and receiving ends. It effortlessly crushes the party, only for Nero to intervene and take it down easily.
- Expy: To Berserker from Fate/Zero. Note only do they look similar, but they both tend to pursue their Berserk Button with single-minded fury. Though unlike his counterpart, the Armored Berserker doesn't attack anyone else.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: Like Nanabi before him, the Berserker is far too powerful if you've been levelling normally. You're meant to lose and be rescued by Nero and Neris. However, if you do manage to defeat him, the two siblings won't appear and an alternative cutscene will play. Luka will still gain access to his angelic powers, as in the normal course of events.
- Nightmare Fuel: Its body and weapon appear to be made of countless metal angels, melted together into a single mass. On top of that, it's surrounded by a swirling black miasma.
- Non-Malicious Monster: To anything that isn't an angel. The inhabitants of the Forest are surprised by this.
- Playing With Fire: Has access to the fire-elemental Heroism skill, Red Lotus Flame Dance.