Spice and Wolf/Characters

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Characters from the Light Novel, Anime, and Manga series Spice and Wolf include:

Kraft Lawrence

A traveling merchant. After finding Holo in his cart, he agrees to allow her to travel with him to her home, Yoitsu.

Tropes exhibited by Lawrence include:

Lawrence: Before you ask forgiveness, you should repent for how you live!

Holo

A wolf spirit who hides in wheat. After watching over a town for several hundred years she leaves after they develop new agricultural methods and convert to a new religion, considering herself no longer needed.

Tropes exhibited by Holo include:

Norah Arendt

A shepherdess Lawrence and Holo meet on the way to Lubinhegin.

Tropes exhibited by Norah include:

Dianna Rubens

A keeper of old tales that Lawrence and Holo meet in Kamersun.

Tropes exhibited by Dianna include:

Fermi Amarti

A young merchant our merchant couple meet in Kamersun.

Tropes exhibited by Amarti include:

Abe/Eve Boland

A merchant Holo and Lawrence meet in the port city of Lenos (in the manga, Kerube instead). She pulls the two into a money-making scheme but betrays Lawrence and takes the money herself.

Tropes exhibited by Eve include:
  • Bifauxnen
  • Fan Nickname: Sheik.
  • Foil: Contrasts with Lawrence by being a similar lonely, goal-driven traveling merchant - but she doesn't have a partner like Holo for company and clearly feels bitter about it. While Lawrence learns to value his relationship more than profit, Eve's drive for success becomes obsessive and dangerous. Also, similarly to Holo, she has to cloak her identity, though because she's a woman rather than a pagan deity.
  • Rebellious Princess: The daughter of a nobleman, but ran off.

Tote Col

A boy Lawrence and Holo rescued from some difficulty while journeying down the Roam River from Lenos to Kerube. He appears in the light novels and manga, but not the anime (perhaps if there's a third season). The three of them develop something of a family dynamic -- Holo seems undecided whether she feels more like a mother or an older sister to Col -- and he's apparently still with the main characters into the final volume of the light novels.

Tropes exhibited by Col include:
  • Corrupt Church: In the sense that witnessing the Church's corrupt power prompted Col's actions:

Col was a bright lad. He realized the absurd power that came with wearing the robes of a high-ranking priest--the power to control human lives at will. He would study Church law and eat into its power structures. That was how Col intended to protect his village.

  • Innocent Prodigy: He's very bright, but also naive; his trouble at the time they met was that he'd been tricked into buying a (badly) forged document and tried to use it to collect cash. He needed the money because he'd exhausted his funds and been put out of the school where he'd been studying.
  • Luminescent Blush
  • Puppy Dog Eyes: Lawrence thinks Col's tear-filled look is more powerfully persuasive than any spoken plea for help.
  • Starving Student: When Lawrence and Holo meet him, he's run out of money and can't even be a student anymore, but it's clear he was this as long as he still had enough for tuition.
  • You Gotta Have Gray Hair: On the cover of manga volume 8, his hair is just slightly darker a gray than Lawrence's. He looks like he's maybe twelve or thirteen at the most.

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