Rune Factory/Characters: Difference between revisions

 

{{quote|The main character of the first game and of ''Frontier''. He developed amnesia and wandered up to Mist's door steps where she provided him with a home. In ''Frontier'' she ends up housing him again after he follows her to Trampoli}}

* [[Bishonen]] - Taken even further with the [[Real Men Wear Pink|feminine accessories]] [[Virtual Paper Doll|displayed when equipped]] in ''Frontier''.

* [[The Hero]]: Well, [[Captain Obvious|duh.]] He's this in the sequel too.

* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary|Depends.]] They are the fastest weapon, but not everyone prefers them.

** [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: Well, it is a video game...

* [[Only Sane Man]]

* [[Detached Sleeves]]

* [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm]]

* [[First Girl Wins]]: Or [[Official Couple|is supposed too]], at least.

* [[Flanderization]]: While she has her moments in the original game she's downright bizzare in ''Frontier''.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: In the first game.

* [[Flanderization]]: Her love of baths seems a bit overblown in ''Frontier''.

* [[Rose-Haired Girl]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Class B.

=== Ivan ===

{{quote|A wandering merchant who stops by the village on holidays to sell his goods. }}

* {{spoiler|[[Long-Lost Relative]]}}: {{spoiler|Implied, although Raguna never finds out.}}

 

{{quote|Lady Ann's son and Tori's older brother. An avid explorer who often tries to compete with Raguna.}}

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling|Annoying Older Sibling]]: To Tori.

* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]

=== Kyle ===

The first protagonist of the second game. Like the first, he stumbles into a town with no memories and is given a farm to tend to.

* [[The Hero]]: {{spoiler|[[Decoy Protagonist|Or IS he?]] }}

* [[Hot Dad]]: In the second half of the game.

=== Cecilia ===

{{quote|A elven girl returning from the original game. Is set to marry Jake if you don't marry her first.}}

* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Well, elf, but still...

* [[Green Eyes]]

=== Jake ===

{{quote|A half-elf. He hates humans, and has a crush on Cecilia.}}

* [[Does Not Like People]]: Literally.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: He hates humans. Naturally, he hates you. Even more so if you decide to court Cecilia.

** [[Flower in Her Hair]]

* [[Hime Cut]]

* [[Pair the Spares]]: If you steal someone else's girlfriend she'll fill their spot so that they can have a kid during the second part of the game.

* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]

* [[Blinding Bangs]]: You never see her eyes {{spoiler|until you marry her, but only at the wedding}}.

* [[Character Development]]: As the player befriends her, she'll gradually start opening up and becoming less shy. Eventually, she'll even learn to talk without the aid of her doll.

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Fern is mentioned to become very jealous when she sees Dorothy with other dolls.

* [[Mamiko Noto]]

* [[Hair Decorations]]

* [[The Ojou]]

* [[Teen Genius]]

* [[Ugly Guys Hot Daughter]]

* [[Hot Teacher]]: By second generation, he pretty much counts.

* [[Icy Blue Eyes]]

* [[Official Couple]]: With Dorothy.

* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Not with his bangs, though. You can see both of his eyes if he gets married.

{{quote|The male heir to the De Saint Coquille fortune. He's kind and generous, but a bit proud for his own sake. }}

* [[Camp Straight]]

* [[Fridge Horror]]: If Herman is his father... what's Max going to grow up to look like?

* [[Green Eyes]]

=== Herman ===

{{quote|The patriarch of the De Saint Coquille family. Very influential on the town, and holds most of the festivals and contests.}}

* [[Gonk]]

* [[Ugly Guys Hot Daughter]]: He's the gonk.

* [[Badass Moustache]]

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Especially when he's around Gordon.

 

=== Gordon ===

* [[Kick the Dog]]: A groom gets his bride stolen from him right at the altar. Gordon finds the whole thing hilarious and tells the groom to just laugh it off. "Real men roll with the punches!"

* [[Retired Badass]]: So he claims, anyway.

* [[Tetsu Inada]]

 

* [[The Medic]]

* [[Rose-Haired Girl]]

 

=== Roy ===

* [[Motor Mouth]]: Has the game's longest non-quest or cut scene related dialogs.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Naturally. She even slips money into your pocket despite your polite refusals just for listening to her.

 

=== Leonel ===

{{quote|The son of Dorothy (or Yue) and Barrett, and another potential "[[Childhood Marriage Promise|marriageable candidate]]". Often mistaken for a girl, and annoyed by it. He is also hinted to be a aspiring chef.}}

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Nice Hat]]

{{quote|The son of Cecilia (or Yue) and Jake, and another potential "[[Childhood Marriage Promise|marriageable candidate]]". Though his parents are half-elf, half-human (or in Yue's case, fully human), Orland considers himself fully of elfen blood. Only appears in the second chapter.}}

* [[Does Not Like People]]

* [[Fantastic Racism]]

* [[Icy Blue Eyes]]

{{quote|Twin sisters, and the daughters of Rosalind (or Yue) and Ray. Once again, another potential "[[Childhood Marriage Promise|marriageable candidate]]". Only appears in the second chapter.}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

* [[Kissing Cousins]]: If you married Alicia in the first generation, they're your cousins in the second.

* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]

* [[Green Eyes]]

* [[Super Speed]]

{{quote|'''Anette''': "Pull on me to make me grow taller!"

'''Raguna''': "...You're kidding, right?" }}

=== Brodik ===

{{quote|A loud, abrasive man who shows up in Trampoli at the beginning of Fall. Seems to harbor a grudge against Raguna.}}

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]

 

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]

 

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Hair Decorations]]

* [[Innocent Flower Girl]]: She wears flowers as part of her daily attire, and encourages you to plant them instead of vegetables.

* [[Official Couple]]: She's the canon heroine.

* {{spoiler|[[But Your Wings Are Beautiful]]}}: Pretty much what Micah says to her after she {{spoiler|reveals her phoenix form.}}

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]

* [[Insecure Love Interest]]: Even after they're married, she'll constantly ask Micah for reassurance that he loves her.

* [[Kuudere]]

* [[Pettanko]]: In her normal clothes. Oddly averted when she's in her bathing suit.

* [[Skirt Over Slacks]]: The official artwork has her wearing shorts underneath her skirt.

* [[Secret Diary]]: You find an old one that goes "Dear Diary, I realized today it's too much trouble to keep writing in you, so I won't."

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

* [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male]]: She hits Micah quite often, {{spoiler|even when you're proposing to her.}}

* [[Hollywood Pudgy]] One of her quests involves her asking what sorts of girls you like. One question is if you prefer plump or slender girls, and she's happiest if you say you like plump girls. She must be talking plump in the chest, because she's ''certainly'' not plump in the waist!

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[Tomboy]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]

{{quote|Carmen's big brother. May be considered a jock. Highly protective of Carmen.}}

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: He spends all his time in a frayed tanktop that barely covers his tanned and tattooed muscles.

** The Beach Festival seems more like he's just trying to make sure you're ''not'' looking at the ladies, one of whom is [[My Sister Is Off-Limits|his sister]].

* [[Incest Subtext]]: He's rather... attached to his sister. Their introduction scene has them going totally melodramatic about her going out to go fishing, complete with "My dear brother/my beloved sister"s, and both talk about having trouble finding a boy/girlfriend as good as their sibling.

 

{{quote|An elf artist who stays in the forest just out of town. Highly passionate about her works.}}

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Rainbow!"

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Probably higher up in the clouds than Pia.

* [[Mad Artist]]: Maybe not mad, but still a little, well, screwy.

** Tries to drag you into becoming her assistant, too. [[Catch Phrase|"Go, my assistant!"]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Grade B.

 

* [[Sweet Tooth]]

* [[Odd Name Out]]: Inverted: he's the only member of the family who kept his Japanese name in the English version, and thus the only one still named after a dessert-related topic.

 

=== Marian (JP: Marion) ===

=== Marjorie ===

{{quote|Marion's grandmother. Runs the magic hospital, which sells staves, magic books and medicine. This is also where you'll end up if you faint, even in a dungeon.}}

 

=== Sherman (JP: Donchachos) ===

* [[Hair Decorations]]

* [[Minori Chihara]]

* [[Non-Idle Rich]]: In her bedroom, Micah finds impressive clothing designs, and she seems to have a genuine interest in forging and shopkeeping.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Before she started talking in opposites, she was by far the least quirky member of her family. Her only "odd" feature, her interest in junk, is actually fairly normal. However she basically forced her speech habits on herself when {{spoiler|she hurt her sister's feelings and tried to convince her that she meant the opposite of what she said}}.

* [[Cute Kitten]]

* [[Mad Artist]]: She makes fashions out of ''vegetables'' and ''fish'', and apparently doesn't know what to do with Wooly wool. People talk about giving her fish on her birthday for this purpose. While she's a bit normaller than her family, she's still '''really''' weird.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: When Gaius gives her {{spoiler|an engagement ring}}, she thinks he wants her to ''make an outfit from it''.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: She's one of the nicest charaters in the game.

=== Kuruna (EN: Cururufa) ===

{{quote|One of the horned people, and the headswoman of the Monster Village. Dislikes humans and has a sweet tooth. Always accompanied by her pet fireball, Will.}}

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Even more so than Wells; after everyone has accepted Micah's half-human state, she initially refuses to say a word to him other than calling him a traitor.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: The horned people are distinctly like unicorns, right down to the horn.

{{quote|Resident of the Monster Village. A young man with cat-like eyes and markings.}}

* [[I Call It Vera]]: He names his sword.

* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]] AND [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by him.

 

* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: As always.

* [[Heroic Second Wind]]: Experiences this during the final battle, and is able to defeat {{spoiler|[[The Reveal|Sonja's possessed body]]}} thanks, in part, to thoughts of his [[The Power of Friendship|friends]].

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: To some degree, at least, as he can become rather riled up over certain things.

* [[I Choose to Stay]]

* [[Nice Hat]]: A rather dashing one, of which he wears tilted toward one side of his head.

* [[Not Worth Killing]]: Said to the Goblin Pirate Captain.

* [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]]: Relates to the "Color Coded" trope above in concerns to him and Sonja.

* [[Sharing a Body]]: What he must do with Sonja, given their current circumstances.

* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: It's repeatedly established that Sonja does all of the cooking in her and Aden's relationship, and she claims Aden is only bad at cooking because she always does it for him.

** In an odd case of [[Gameplay and Story Integration]], if you choose to play as Sonja after her and Aden's separation and didn't level Aden's cooking skill much, Sonja's cooking skill is automatically bumped up to 40.

* {{spoiler|[[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]}}

* [[Freaky Is Cool|Freaky Is Cute]]: Sonja thinks ''everything'' is cute. Even the creepy mantis-bug monsters you can tame.

* [[Friendship Moment]]: As previously mentioned, has one early on in the game with Aden, and later on, after the final battle, when her childhood friend protects her as the two free-fall back to earth.

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Because of their current [[Sharing a Body|circumstances]], Sonja will become increasingly more jealous as Aden develops his relationships with those of the opposite gender.

* [[Green Eyes]]: Prominent in that they are rather unique amongst Fenith Island's population, and one of her more notable physical traits.

* [[Magic Music]]: Her Spirit Song has the ability to evoke certain happenings, allowing her to achieve tasks few others can.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Or headband-thingy.

* [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]]: Again, relates to the "Color Coded" trope above in concerns to her and Aden.

* [[Plucky Girl]]: Despite being forced to live in another's body as a virtual spirit for an unspecified amount of time, on top of being trapped in a world that's not her own, her naturally bright disposition is rarely dampened.

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Whenever she attempts to cook something, it inevitably ends in smoke, ashes, and someone fainting.

* [[Team Mom]]: Has taken up this role in the household, often looking after her younger siblings.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Subverted. Despite her personality and [[Kikuko Inoue|voice actress]], she has no domestic traits. [[Character Development|With some help from Aden and her sisters the subversions are mostly removed over time.]]

 

* {{spoiler|[[People Puppets]]: Frequently undergoes this while channeling the Descended Dragon's spirit}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Powers Via Possession]]: Complete with [[Mind Control Eyes|altered eye color]] and a distinctly [[Voices Are Mental|different voice]]. She has some degree of control over this, however, which proves useful in many a situation}}.

* [[Supreme Chef]]: Is a great cook, so much so that she utilizes this for the inn's patrons.

* [[Tsundere]]: Can display traits of this at times, particularly in concerns to Aden.

* [[The Stoic]]: Both played straight ''and'' subverted. While she more often than not can be seen with an unflappable disposition, she can [[Not So Stoic|have her moments]]. Of course, these are only prevalent once her [[Relationship Values]] have been raised enough, or when a [[Cuteness Proximity|small critter]] happens by her path.

* [[Seven Heavenly Virtues]]: Given her profession, she seems to practice the majority of these.

* {{spoiler|[[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Water?]]: Upon asking her why she is rarely seen on the beach despite her fondness of the ocean, a flustered Mikoto admits to Aden and Sonja that she does not swim. And after a [http://wiki.arrowy.org/rfo/index.php?%C2%E6%BB%EC%BD%B8%2F%C3%E7%CE%C9%A4%B7%A5%A4%A5%D9%A5%F3%A5%C8%2F%CC%BF conversation] further concerning this, she offhandedly alludes to her ''possible'' aquaphobia. Seems like she [http://img01.otaden.jp/usr/sukeb/TS3D0397.JPG overcomes her fears] somewhat in the end, though}}.

 

* [[Our Elves Are Better|Our Elves Are Different]]: Seems to be a part of a [[Servant Tropes|growing trend]] in the ''[[Rune Factory]]'' universe, though she doesn't necessarily mind her position in life. Additionally, she frequently makes a direct reference to "Dark Elves," even mentioning that her [[Lampshade Hanging|odd name]] means something to the affect of "white flowers on the water" among her people.

* [[Pointy Ears]]: Has these, of course, though unlike previous representations of those of her race, her ears are at a more perpendicular, somewhat down-facing position upon her head.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]]: But of course.

 

* [[Black Magic|Dark Magic]]: Was once able to wield such power, though she is no longer able to do so.

* [[Minion with an F In Evil|Evil Overlord With An F in Evil]]: Hard to say what she’s worst at, the “sorceress”, or the “evil” part.

* [[Four Is Death]]: Likely the reason she amasses a total of four followers.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]

* [[Talking to Herself]]: She shares a voice actress with Quinn in the English dub, with whom she has regular interaction.

* [[Unusual Ears]]: Has these, of course, which widen at the top and are slightly segmented by ridges, perhaps reinforcing her demonic background.

* [[Take Over the World|World Domination]]: Dialogue reveals this is her ultimate goal, despite her initial denial. She then goes on to induct Aden and Sonja as her chief followers, discusses her strategical tactics with them, and recruits Quinn and Kelsey, two children, to her cause.

 

** His dedication to his sister is a huge part of his character. A lot of his dialogue is about her (compared to the virtually none from Elena about him) and he even claims to forget his own birthday while preparing for hers.

* [[Blue Eyes]]: Shares this and his [[Hair of Gold|blonde hair]] with his sister.

* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Though, admittedly, said long hair is tied in a loose ponytail.

* [[Nice Hat]]: If there is one defining physical trait of James, it's his top hat.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: "[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK HE IS!?]]"

** Interestingly, [[Kyle Hebert|Kamina's English dub VA]] features in the dub, [[Missed Moment of Awesome|but as Father Gerard and the Goblin Pirate Captain instead of Joe.]]

* [[Love At First Sight]]: As stated above, with Sonja.

* [[The Prankster]]: Can be this at times, as previously mentioned.

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Not only is Bonaparte's (JP Name) name typically associated with a [[Napoleon Bonaparte|male]], but she's [[Larynx Dissonance|voiced by one]] as well.

* [[Gonk]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary|Unforunately]] for her, she takes after the de Sainte-Coquille fathers.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Has a peculiar propensity for ending certain words with random suffixes.

 

* [[Genki Girl]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary|Arguably]] not so much as other characters, though she is still [[Cheerful Child|very chipper]].

* [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]]: Unsurprisingly, she wears pink, while Knit wears blue.

* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: ''Kilt'' and ''Knit''. The English names, Quinn and Kelsey also sound alike.

* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?|Who Names Their Kid Dude?]]: It's a wonder what must have been going on in the heads of her parents when she was named. At least for the Japanese version, Quinn is a more sensible name.

* [[Good Shepherd]]: One of the many reasons why the residents of Fenith Island like him so.

* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: A bit older than the standard, though [[Your Mileage May Vary|arguably]] applies nonetheless.