Romeo X Juliet/Characters: Difference between revisions

 

== The Montagues and Their Allies ==

=== Romeo Candore Van di Montague ===

The heir to the Montague throne, Romeo is [[Nice Guy|kind, sweet]], and ''nothing'' like his father Laertes. He and Juliet fall in love eventually.

 

* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

 

=== Lord Laertes Montague ===

Romeo's father, and the man who rules Neo Verona with an iron fist. He was the one who murdered Juliet's parents fourteen years ago, starting off the story. {{spoiler|It's revealed that he's an illegitimate child of a Capulet man and a prostitute, and swore revenge against his father's family after his mother died.}}

 

* [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]]: To Romeo, {{spoiler|to the point that he exiles him to the mines and tries to make Mercutio his heir. [[Karmic Death|It backfires]].}}

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

=== Portia Montague ===

Romeo's mother, who left Laertes out of disgust and now lives in a convent. She still loves her son, however, and Romeo visits her regularly.

 

* [[Parental Favoritism]]: Sorta, Laertes keeps thinking Romeo is a failure but Portia openly favors him.

* [[Proper Lady]]: The perfect one, except for one detail: she chose to live in a convent rather than continuing as the puppet wife of Laertes, after he massacres the Capulets.

 

=== Benvolio di Frescobaldi ===

One of Romeo's close friends. He is the son of the mayor of Neo Verona and one of the few people concerned with Romeo's well-being. He often acts as Romeo's voice of reason and moderation.

 

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[The White Prince]]: {{spoiler|Though after he and his clan are stripped of their royalties, he adapts to peasant life very quickly and happily}}

 

=== Vittorio di Frescobaldi ===

Benvolio's father, leader of the House of Frescobaldi, the mayor of Neo Verona, and an old friend of Conrad's, who held reservations concerning Montague's rule.

 

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: As the mayor of Neo Verona, he questioned Laertes's measures more than once. {{spoiler|That almost gets him and his family murdered by Laertes's hitmen}}.

 

=== Mercutio ===

An ambitious and sly noble who wishes to become Montague's heir due to his apparent resentment of his father. He is contemptuous of the common people and is charged by Montague to spy on Romeo.

 

* [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]]: Not shy about telling Romeo that his idealism and kindness is horribly out of place in a [[Crap Saccharine World]] world like theirs. {{spoiler|And considering what happened to Romeo in the end, [[Jerkass Has a Point|he was at least partially right]].}}

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: The manga, only spanning two volumes, actually cuts out and rearranges (with very little effect) whatever plot relevance he had left. He's basically there to seethe about Romeo, and unlike many of the other surviving characters, it's never revealed what happened to him afterwards.

 

=== Titus ===

Mercutio's father who is an alcoholic degenerate of the court.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: His murder at Laertes's hands completely ''shatters'' Mercutio's mental stability.}}

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|He blackmails Laertes to make Mercutio his new heir or he'll spill the beans about his past. Laertes agrees.... and later kills Titus for blackmailing him!}}

 

=== Hermione ===

A young noblewoman of the House of Borromeo, who is betrothed to Romeo in a political marriage at the Rose Ball.

 

* [[Stood Up]]: by Romeo, at the Rose Festival

* [[Yandere]]: Briefly, but she gets better. {{spoiler|More as a consequence of a brief [[Break the Cutie]] than real insanity: [[Stepford Smiler|she kept it all bottled up]], [[Beware the Nice Ones|then exploded when she couldn't handle it anymore]], and got better once it was cleared up.}}

 

== The Capulets and Their Allies ==