Rose of Versailles/Characters
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Characters from Rose of Versailles include:
Oscar
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Action Girl
- Badass
- Heartbroken Badass: After André's death...
- Bifauxnen: Likely the Trope Codifier, as well as the page picture! However, unlike most modern depictions, she's also considered pretty in a womanly way, at least by Andre.
- Blasting It Out of Their Hands: A variation. Oscar shoots De Guément in the hand not to disarm him, but specifically to cripple him so he won't be able to ever fire a weapon.
- Break the Cutie: She's more of a beauty than a cutie. Gets broken nevertheless.
- Colonel Badass: Oscar, as commander of the Royal Guards, holds rank equivalent to a Colonel's.
- Crossdresser: The forerunner of the popular "reverse trap" archetype.
- Died Happily Ever After
- Drowning My Sorrows: Now and then.
- Even the Girls Want Her: She's a stylish Bifauxnen and Action Girl. This was bound to happen.
- Hair of Gold
- White-Haired Pretty Girl: In some artwork.
- Her Heart Will Go On
- The Heroine: In her Five-Man Band.
- Hot-Blooded: She's rather level-headed until someone she cares for is in danger. Then she'll become this, and you'll have a fucking pissed off Oscar after your head.
- If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him: Oscar refuses to kill Bernard "Black Knight" Chatêlet, the one to blame for André's Eye Scream situation, because of this.
- Ill Girl: Subverted. She has an Incurable Cough of Death... but dies of a fatal shot rather than of illness.
- Incurable Cough of Death: See above.
- Let Them Pretend Happy: André starts losing eyesight on his remaining eye, and at some point he stands next to Oscar's new portrait and starts giving a flowery false description of it to not let Oscar know his eyesight problems. Oscar then tearfully says the picture is as gorgeous as he says it is, not having the heart to tell André that she knows he's almost blind.
- Love Epiphany: "My André is in danger!" (...) "My... André...?"
- Momma's Tomboy: Never ever threaten her mother. Or anyone she loves, period.
- Pimped-Out Dress: The one time she wears one, it is pretty grand.
- Pretty in Mink: At least in the manga, she has a fur-trimmed cape.
- Raised as the Opposite Gender: She was the youngest daughter of a high-ranked military man, so she was raised as a boy by her dad.
- Sanae Kobayashi (2008 movie)
- Say My Name: "ANDRÉ!"
- She Cleans Up Nicely: She once puts on a Pimped-Out Dress, when she and Girodelle get engaged. Andre's reaction is different in each media: he gets angry in the manga, but in the anime he laughs about it.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: She and Andre do get together, but then he dies a few days after. She follows him soon.
- Sweet Polly Oliver
- Staring Through the Sword: At least three times.
- Sugar and Ice Personality: Oscar starts out as being seen as this.
- Tomboy: Invoked specifically.
- True-Blue Femininity: Her grand dress is mostly shades of blue.
- Tsundere: A very tragic version of the Type A variety.
- Unrequited Love: For Fersen.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: While they're not an item yet, Oscar completely flips her shit out when Andre is blinded by Bernard, and very nearly kills him.
Andre Grandier
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Anguished Declaration of Love
- Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Fersen's Veronica.
- Big Eater: According to Oscar.
- Bishonen: Sure, they all are in this series, but still.
- Break the Cutie: A handsome commoner guy in love with the noblewoman he's known ever since childhood? Right before the French Revolution? It's bound to happen.
- Character Development: He starts off as Oscar's nice and almost goofy chilhood friend, but as the tragedies pile up he gets more and more serious.
- Childhood Friends: Him and Oscar. Kinda was Unlucky in the beginning when she loved Fersen, then switches to Victorious.
- Despair Event Horizon: When his eyesight is failing more and more and he learns that Oscar plans to die as a man. He confronts her in a very polemic scene that can be easily seen as Near-Rape Experience, though to his credit he does realize he's wrong and apologizes profusely. The incident is also seen (in the anime) as a proof of how immature he is.
- Also, in the manga, he considers poisoning Oscar's wine and killing himself afterwards. However he stops her from drinking just in time.
- Determinator: In one scene of the anime, he gets a serious bashing from the other guards under Oscar's command, who sees him as Oscar's lackey. He keeps fighting back until he can't even move anymore.
- Died Happily Ever After
- Dogged Nice Guy: But he has his limits.
- Driven to Suicide: Averted. See Despair Event Horizon above.
- Drowning My Sorrows: At least once in the anime. Just before the Despair Event Horizon scene.
- Eye Scream: Loses the sight on his left eye messily. He does his best to keep on fighting. Even when his remaining eye starts to malfunction as well.
- First Guy Wins
- Go Out with a Smile
- Green Eyes: Well, certainly fits the 'sexy' part of the trope.
- Heroic Sacrifice: How he dies in the manga. See also Taking the Bullet.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Before he cuts them to impersonate the Black Knight.
- Nice Guy
- Peek-a-Bangs
- Plucky Comic Relief: Starts off as a mild version of it, especially in the manga. But then...
- Raised by Grandparents: His parents died when he was a little boy, so his grandmother took him in. She also happened to be the housekeeper and nanny of the Jarjayes.
- Say My Name: "OSCAAAAAAAAAR!"
- Second Love: For Oscar.
- Shadow Archetype: He and Oscar are often refered to as 'the shadow' and 'the light'.
- Shirtless Scene: In the manga, Oscar walks in on him while he's changing out of his rainsoaked uniform. Her getting all flustered is one of the first signs that she's developping feelings for him.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Andre is very Oscar-sexual.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: He's a commoner while Oscar's a noblewoman.
- Taking the Bullet: How he dies in the manga.
- Tall, Dark and Handsome
- The Lancer: To Oscar's The Heroine.
- Toshiyuki Morikawa (2008 movie)
- Victorious Childhood Friend
The Jarjayes clan
A description of these characters goes here.
Tropes exhibited by these characters include:
- Parents as People: Madame de Jarjayes seems to be a decent and kind Proper Lady, and Oscar loves her very much. General Jarjayes, on the other hand... oh my. The guy has a good heart, but he is a bundle of HUGE issues and many of them pass onto Oscar.
- Team Mom: Andre's grandmother.
Rosalie
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Arranged Marriage: Barely escapes one.
- Bi the Way: She fancies Oscar and has lots of Les Yay with her. Even after she marries Bernard and Oscar dies, there are still lingering feelings for her in Rosalie's heart.
- Break the Cutie: Yep, nary a single cutie is left unbroken in the series.
- The Chick: In Oscar's Five-Man Band. Crush on The Heroine included. Though she marries The Smart Guy instead.
- Demoted to Extra: Rosalie wasn't very well liked by Japanese readers, so she faded away from the spotlight as time passes.
- Hair of Gold
- Historical Domain Character: Loosely. There was a Rosalie Lamorliere in real life (Marie Antoinette's caretaker and maid when she was imprisoned), but she obviously wasn't like the girl we meet in this manga.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Wears quite a few.
- Pretty in Mink: In the manga, she has a fur-trimmed cape and a jacket and muff.
- Rags to Royalty: She's a sort of Sleeping Beauty. Her then-teenaged mother gave her up to a poor family, thus Rosa has no idea of how said mom has gone Rags to Riches in the meantime and considers herself the daughter of Nicole Lamorliere for a long while.
- Rihoko Yoshida
- Mamiko Noto (2008 movie)
- You Killed My Mother : Oscar actually meets Roslie when she tries to kill her mom, mistaking Madame Jarjays as the noblewoman whose carriage ran Nicole over.
Bernard Chatelet
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Beta Couple: With Rosalie.
- Black Knight: Sorta. He does don a black cape and mask and refers to himself as such, while performing what was supposed to be Just Like Robin Hood acts sponsored by the Duke of Orleans.
- Intrepid Reporter: After his "Black Knight" stunt reaches an end thanks to Oscar.
- Hikaru Midorikawa (2008 movie)
- Knight in Sour Armor
- Psycho for Hire: Until he "finds" Oscar and Andre
- Tall, Dark and Snarky: Though he does tone down his cynicism a little.
- The Smart Guy: In Oscar's Five-Man Band.
Jeanne de la Motte aka Jeanne Valois
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Akiko Yajima (2008 movie)
- Historical Domain Character: Sort-of. She's a very highly fictionalized Jean de Valois Saint Remy, the mastermind behind the infamous Affair of the Diamond Necklace.
- Lady Drunk
- Manipulative Bitch
- Rags to Royalty: The most twisted Cinderella type ever. She claims to be a long lost Valois princess and manages to fool an old noblewoman with it, then kills her benefactor to inherit her riches. It gets worse, and worse, and worse...
- Smug Snake
- Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
- Together in Death: She kills her husband Nicolas and then herself, in the anime. In the manga, she falls victim to Death by Falling Over.
- Unholy Matrimony: With Nicholas
Nicholas
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- The Alcoholic
- Con Man
- Jerkass
- Kick the Dog: Whipping and torturing Rosalie.
- Together in Death: In the anime, with Jeanne.
Nicole Lamorlière
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Deathbed Confession: She's morally injured after bieng run over by Polignac's carriage. As she lays dying, she explains to Rosalie that her true mom is a woman named Martine Gabrielle... Polignac herself.
- Dropped a Bridge On Her: Should we stop spoilering that she gets a carriage dropped on her?
- Parental Substitute: For Jeanne and Rosalie.
- Sacrificial Lamb / Stuffed Into the Fridge.
Alain de Soissons
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Badass
- The Big Guy: To Oscar's Five-Man Band
- Heroic BSOD: When his little sister Dianne kills herself, Oscar and Andre find him sitting next to her death bed, his body tense and his eyes full of tears of despair. As Madame de Soissons explains what happened, he apologizes and says he cannot go back for a while, so takes a Ten-Minute Retirement.
- Keaton Yamada
- Rikiya Koyama (2008 movie)
- Knight in Sour Armor
- Tall, Dark and Snarky
- Unrequited Love: In the manga, for Oscar.
Marie Antionette
Marie Antoinette of France
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Arranged Marriage: To Louis XVI
- Ayako Kawasumi (2008 movie)
- The Cutie: Specially when younger.
- Break the Cutie: Oh, boooooy.
- Gem-Encrusted: Several of her dresses, headdresses, and a couple of her ermine dresses and capes.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Has a few dresses in purple. She also wears a royal cape that is purple, but it's worn in a scene that fails to evoke Purple Is Powerful to the people.
- Hair Decorations
- Hair of Gold
- Historical Domain Character
- Honor Before Reason: Some of her problems are made worse with this.
- Pimped-Out Cape
- Pimped-Out Dress: Many of them. many.
- Pink Means Feminine / Princesses Prefer Pink: Has several pink and rose colored dresses.
- Pretty in Mink
- Princess Classic: Horribly and cruelly deconstructed, And boy, does she pay for trying to act like it all the time.
- Princess Curls: Subtle, but she does have them, even when her hairstyles change.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Fersen.
- True-Blue Femininity: Wears quite a few blue dresses.
- Whole Costume Reference: The bejeweled ermine dresses are heavily based on this dress worn by Marie Leszczynska, wife of Lois XV. It's even more clear in some side art for the manga.
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- The High Queen
- Historical Domain Character
- Parents as People: She cares for her children but isn't above using them for her purposes and interferring in their lives. Just like she did in Real Life.
- Pimped-Out Dress
- Pink Means Feminine: Her dress in the anime.
- The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask
Louis XVI
Louis XVI, the Dauphine and later King Louis XVI
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Adaptational Attractiveness: He's quite the Big Beautiful Man here.
- Historical Domain Character
- Shrinking Violet
- Yoshito Yasuhara
- Kenji Nojima (2008 movie)
Axel von Fersen
Hans Axel von Fersen, The Younger
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Chick Magnet: Antoinette and Oscar were very smitten with him. Considering how hot and gentlemanly he is, can you blame them?
- Historical Domain Character
- Nachi Nozawa
- Kazuhiko Inoue (2008 movie)
- Tall, Dark and Handsome
Louis XV
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
Louis Joseph
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Ill Boy
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Was very smart and empathic, and would've been a good Dauphine if shit didn't hit the fan.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Of course he was this, too.
Madame du Barry
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Blondes Are Evil
- Gold Digger
- Historical Domain Character
- Kujira (2008 movie)
- Noblewoman's Laugh
- Pimped-Out Dress
- Smug Snake
Duchesse de Polignac
Madame Gabrielle de Polastron, aka the Duchesse de Polignac aka Martine Gabrielle
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Abusive Parents: She pretty much pawns Charlotte off to a very creepy older man to gain power. And once Charlotte commits suicide out of despair, she blackmails Rosalie into filling the spot.
- Blondes Are Evil
- Hot Mom
- Historical Domain Character
- Masako Katsuki (2008 movie)
- Poisonous Friend: To poor Marie Antoinette.
- Smug Snake
- Teen Pregnancy: Gave birth to Rosalie when she was 14.
Charlotte de Polignac
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Arranged Marriage / Wife Husbandry
- Driven to Suicide
- Fan Girl: Of Oscar.
- Go Mad from the Revelation
- Kill the Cutie
- The Ojou
- The Ophelia
- Pimped-Out Dress
- Pink Means Feminine: Her dress is pink in the anime.
- Spoiled Brat
Duke of Orleans
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Ambition Is Evil: He's the cousin of Louis as well as the second in row to the throne. Of course he plays more than one gambit to knock Louis off, even in the first episodes!
- Historical Domain Character
- Historical Villain Upgrade: While not the only one, his' is one of the most egregious examples.
- Smug Snake
The Duke of Guiche
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Old Man Marrying a Child: He's not an ancient man, but the age difference with Charlotte and Rosalie is squicky enough.
The Count of Girodelle
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Derailing Love Interests: In the live-action movie.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
- Romantic False Lead
- Tall, Dark and Handsome
Henri de Guémént
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Subverted: Oscar shoots him in the hand not to disarm him, but specifically to cripple him so he won't be able to ever fire a weapon. See below for the reason why...
- Would Hurt a Child: Poor Street Urchin Pierre. Rosalie begged Guémént to spare him, and yet he didn't.
Leon de Saint-Just
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
Robespierre
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Tropes exhibited by this character include:
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