Suikoden II/Characters

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Cast of Characters

Suikoden II

Riou (The Hero)

  • Artefact of Doom: The Bright Shield Rune.
  • Badass:
  • Bash Brothers: His unite attack with Jowy.
  • Big Good: Riou is chosen by destiny to bear the Bright Shield Rune and to oppose Highland by becoming the leader of the Orange Army.
  • Blood Brothers: With childhood best friend Jowy.
  • Chick Magnet: Richmond will lampshade this trope if you investigate Eilie.
  • Child Soldier: When the game begins, he is a soldier of the Highland Army's Unicorn Youth Brigade.
  • The Chosen One: Choosen by a True Rune, granting him the power to fight against his enemies and eventually become the leader of an army.
  • Combat Medic: With the Bright Shield Rune.
  • Conveniently an Orphan: He and Nanami had been left orphaned by previous wars and were adopted by a local hero named Genkaku.
  • Dramatic Wind: Later on, when you win against Boss Battles and Duel Battles with Riou, instead of spinning his Tonfa, he'll just feel the wind on his face. Even inside a castle!
  • Dual Tonfas: His weapon of choice, which he wields with ease.
  • Fighting Your Friend: He is forced to fight against Jowy, following his defection to the Highland Kingdom.
  • Hello, Insert Name Here: You can call the hero any name you wish.
  • The Hero:
    • Magnetic Hero: By necessity, with 107 potential recruits on offer.
  • Heroic Mime: As is typical of RPG heroes.
  • Holy Hand Grenade: The Bright Shield Rune's level 2 and level 4 spells. The latter, called Forgiver Sign, which is unlockable by getting all 108 recruits, deals the most damage to a single target when your whole party has full HP.
  • Involuntary Battle to the Death: He has to face Jowy in one final battle to get the games ultimate 'good' ending.
  • Light'Em Up: Thanks to the Bright Shield Rune. Also, Riou has a strong affinity with the Resurrection Rune, which he can use effectively against undead foes.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Very fast, very strong. He has one of the highest dodge, Counter Attack and Critical Hit rates in the game.
  • Ryu and Ken/Brains and Brawn: He and Jowy roughly have the same stats, but Riou has slightly better physical stats than Jowy, making him the Brawn.
  • Shout-Out: His costume design is very similar to the archetypal portrayal of Monkey from Journey to the West.
  • Ten-Minute Retirement: At one point, Nanami tries to convince him to run away from his responsibilities. Accepting leads to a Ten-Minute Retirement, after which the other characters catch up and try to convince him to be their leader again. Refusing here turns the temporary retirement into a permanent one, however.
    • Running away will also lead the storyline to one of the Stars of Destiny, Ridley Wizen, being killed off-screen and later being replaced by his son. However, if you refuse to run away, Ridley will live.
  • Two Guys and a Girl: A classic example: Jowy, Nanami and himself.
  • We Used to Be Friends: Jowy's betrayal.
  • William Telling: He participates in a traveling circus' show by having various pieces of fruit placed on his head while knife-thrower Eilie impales them with expert precision. You can throw off her aim and get hit with a knife yourself by choosing to wimp out and move to either side before she throws.

Nanami

Jowy Atreides later Blight

Pilika

  • Break the Cutie: Following the tragic events at Toto, where her parents killed by Luca Blight. Then, after being rescued, she gets to watch as Luca Blight kills a completely helpless soldier for her viewing pleasure, and is only prevented from killing her by timely heroic intervention.
  • Cheerful Child: When first encountered.....
  • Dark and Troubled Past
  • Dumb Struck: In reaction to the above events, she is no longer able to speak.
  • Parental Substitute: The Hero, Nanami and Jowy, then later on in the game, Jillia Blight, following her marriage to Jowy.
  • Third Person Person: Justified as she is very young.

Luca Blight

  • Ax Crazy: And how...
  • Badass:
    • Badass Normal: Even moreso when you consider that while magic is commonplace, Luca has only a sword, heavy armor and a mere Fire Rune which he uses in conjunction with his attacks. And he's still one of the most terrifying beings in the entire series.
    • Actually, there's no rune symbol when he uses this attack, implying it's not magical. How he does it is anyone's guess, but it's been suggested before that Luca is just lighting his sword on fire, using oil or some other flammable substance.
    • Determinator: His unwillingness to die after absurd amounts of pain is insane.
      • Pain, nothing! His unwillingness to die after absurd amounts of mortal injury is insane.
  • Battle Theme Music: He gets one of the famous Suikoden II one-shot (well, technically three-shot) battle themes for himself, entitled "The Chase": [1]
  • Bishounen
  • The Caligula: When the most murderous, psychopathic member of an army is the royal prince in charge of it, you know you're in trouble.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: It's hard to imagine a guy more gleefully embracing of his title as a Complete Monster than Luca.
  • Difficulty Spike: To actually have a chance of taking him on requires an unforeseeable amount of levelling up and equipping of 18 individual characters, and even when that's done, he still provides a steep jump in terms of difficulty.
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: His sister Jillia is the only person he will hold an equal discourse with. Although it is actually revealed in the Gaiden game that the only reason Luca tolerates Jillia is because of her strong resemblance to their late mother.
  • Evil Laugh
  • Evil Prince: Strong contender for the best example of this trope.
  • Kill It with Fire: Burned down a couple of villages when he invaded Jowston, and is able to light his sword on fire to strengthen his attacks.
  • Lack of Empathy: He kills everything in his path without any hint of remorse.
  • Large Ham: He steals almost every scene he's in.
  • Made of Iron: He takes an absolute beating from three groups of 6 members of the Liberation Army and is shot by a volley of arrows before finally keeling over at the hands of the Hero.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: He hates everyone and everything and wants them all to die; one of his ongoing plans at the time of his death is to release the Beast Rune.
  • Parental Issues: He has harbored a deep hatred for his father Agares, after he had to witness his own mother Sara being raped whilst his cowardly father simply ran away.
  • Pitiful Worms: He shows utter contempt for his subjects.
  • Put the Laughter In Slaughter: He's at his happiest while burning villages to the ground and slaughtering everyone in it.
  • Rasputinian Death: See That One Boss in the YMMV section for details.
  • Self-Made Orphan: He successfully conspires with Jowy Atreides to assassinate Agares.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: Where he is mad, cruel and evil, his sister Jillia is refined, calm and compassionate.
  • Slasher Smile: Judge for yourself. [2]
  • The Sociopath: To a disturbing degree.
  • Tall, Dark and Snarky
  • Warrior Prince: He is referred to as the "Mad Prince".
  • You Have Failed Me...: Luca beheads one of his generals (whose previous record was sterling) because the general had the audacity to lose a battle; it was lost not for strategic or tactical reasons, but because of a wickedly effective public relations move.

Jillia Blight

Flik

Viktor

Gen-Gen

Rikimaru

Millie

Kinnison

Shiro

Zamza

Apple

  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: She realises that she alone cannot act as the army strategist, and so begs a fellow student of Mathiu's, Shu, to join the hero's cause.
  • Ascended Extra: Hoo boy. Back in Suikoden I, Apple was just another recruit that contributes to nearly nothing. Here, she is a plot character in epic proportion (even if she's rather ineffectual).
  • Brainy Brunette: As one of Mathiu's two students (the other being, Shu), she's well-versed in military strategy and tactics. She was effective enough to give the Orange Army a fighting chance, until Leon Silverberg sided with Highland.
  • Character Development: In Suikoden I, she was a sixteen year old brat who fangirled over Mathiu and blamed Tir for his returning to war. In Suikoden II, she's much more mature.
  • Meganekko: She's never seen without her large, round glasses.
  • Nerds Are Sexy
  • Pose of Supplication: In Suikoden II, when Shu tells her to beg him to the hero's cause, she gets down on her knees without hesitation.
  • Recurring Character
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: Pretty straight-forward, she looks quite smart with her large glasses, and she is quite smart to be an effective strategist at such a young age.
  • The Strategist: She's Shu's vice-strategist and assistant.
  • Teen Genius: She was 16 in the original Suikoden and 19 by Suikoden II.

Hanna

Tsai

Tuta

Anita

Templeton

Gilbert

Bolgan

Eilie

Rina

Freed Yamamoto

Shu

  • Armor-Piercing Slap: If you choose the path where you run with Nanami during the Tinto events, Flik, Apple and Shu will eventually catch up to you. If you refuse to come back, you will discover that Ridley made an Heroic Sacrifice, fighting off Neclord zombies, while looking for you. Shu then slaps the Hero, and proceeds to deliver to him a What the Hell, Hero? speech.
  • Awesomeness By Analysis: He is a world renown strategist and is directly responsible for winning many of the battles of the game.
  • Badass Bookworm:
  • Black Sheep: Like Apple, he also trained under Mathiu and was his most promising student until he was cast out when his greed got the better of him.
  • Broken Ace
  • Character Development: He goes from blunt cynic to courageous mentor as the game progresses.
  • Cynical Mentor: He starts out as this, but becomes more of a traditional Obi Wan as he comes to realise that it is sometimes necessary to put himself on the line in order to truly win.
  • Deadpan Snarker: The famous line between he and Leon:

Leon: "Never put your own life in danger; that's the first rule in the book."
Shu: "I had to throw the book away; you read from it too many times."

Barbara

  • Apron Matron: To the Allied Forces.
  • Bag of Sharing: Her speciality: she looks after the HQ warehouse, where all items and equipment can be dropped off, stored and retrieved when necessary.
  • Big Eater: Like Bolgan, she likes most of the dishes served when she judges the Cook Off.
  • Boisterous Bruiser
  • Boobs of Steel
  • Brawn Hilda: Her look: she's pretty well-built from dragging boxes around all day in the warehouse.

Huan

Leona

Luc

  • Badass Abnormal: Bearer of the True Wind Rune.
  • Blow You Away: His speciality: he wields the most powerful wind rune, the Cyclone Rune and the True Wind Rune.
  • Bratty Half-Pint: He's pretty rude to the party when you first encounter him, just as in Suikoden 1.
  • Jerkass: How bad of a jerkass is he? For the entire first two games (from the very beginning), he has the True Wind Rune, whose overwhelming power can easily beat entire armies. Across those entire two games, despite all the hardship and sacrifice and danger the heroes face, he uses it only a single time... because he knows it will piss Sasarai off.
  • Mysterious Past: Snippets of his backstory gradually appear, especially when he encounters Sasarai, a Harmonian High Priest from his past....
  • Recurring Character

Amada

Tai Ho

Yam Koo

Oulan

Richmond

  • The Barnum: When first encountered, but he joins the Allied Forces after the hero beats him in a coin flipping bet (where Richmond used a weighted coin). He apologizes for tricking the Hero and agrees to join, impressed that the Hero saw through his trick.
  • Film Noir: His look: the classic 1940's/50's, trench-coat wearing, coin-flipping, chain-smoking private eye.
  • Hardboiled Detective: He runs the detective sidequests that becomes a fixture of later Suikoden games.
  • Information Desk: His speciality: he can be recruited (for a small fee) to find out the whereabouts of as yet recruited characters, although a certain amount of Figure It Out Yourself is also required.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: Has a pet cat called Bianca who he keeps in his jacket pocket.
  • Knowledge Broker: As well as letting the Hero know the location of potential recruits, he can also investigate current team-mates, offering fun trivia but also useful game information about pairings for unite attacks, for example.
  • Leitmotif: A bluesy, filmic theme tune starts to play whenever the Hero speaks to him.
  • Loveable Rogue
  • Smoking Is Cool: Is one of the few characters shown smoking in the games.

Yoshino Yamamoto

Alex

  • Adventurer Archaeologist: He is obsessed with finding the lost treasure of the Sindar Race. When first encountered, the Hero teams up with him to help his quest.
  • All That Glitters: The "treasure" turns out to be a powerful healing herb, that he orginally disregards in frustration, but whose power he comes to appreciate when Hilda falls ill, and it heals her.
  • Happily Married: To Hilda.
  • Hot-Blooded
  • Ridiculously Average Guy: Only in appearance, see below.
  • We Buy Anything: He opens an item store at HQ, once recruited.
  • We Sell Everything: His store carries any item that has been found available in any other item store already visited by the Hero.

Hilda

Adlai

Clive

Taki

Hans

Tetsu

  • Big Ol' Eyebrows
  • Furo Scene: His speciality: he has a passion for making baths, and once recruited, he builds a large onsen at castle HQ where party characters can be seen enjoying a nice soak. The onsen also serves as an area to display any antique treasures discovered.
    • Bathtub Bonding: Certain combinations of characters and antiques placed within the baths will activate a variety of mini scenes.
  • Hot-Blooded: Literally: he's very passionate and appreciates people who are as "toasty" (flushed) as he is, mostly because it shows they appreciate the benefits of hot baths.

Chaco

Fitcher

Ridley Wizen

  • Anyone Can Die: He can be Killed Off for Real during the attack on Tinto.
  • Badass: More or less dared Luca Blight to kill his ass when he was captured once, knowing full well Luca might actually do it.
  • Batman Gambit: He and Shu cook one up to fool the Highland Army into thinking the Kobolds are still vulnerable to Fantastic Racism post-Two River so they can outflank the Highland Army later when they least expect it.
  • Blue Blood: He is Kobold nobility and is the General of the Two River Army as well as the leader of the Kobold section of Two River.
  • Drill Sergeant Nasty: He does NOT suffer idiocy or incompetence amongst his troops, and he was prepared at one point to horsewhip Fitcher for what he perceived to be cowardice/treason.
  • Fantastic Racism: The three races who live in Two River - Humans, Wingers and Kobolds - do not get along and live in three distinct quarters of the town.
  • Four-Star Badass: So much so that his reputation will make every Kobold in the Jowston City States head for the battlefield without question. Bonus points for being more than happy to join his troops on the front lines.
  • Heroic Dog
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Can perform one if you run away during the Tinto events: Ridley will die fighting off zombies, while looking for you. Shu subsequent slap and What the Hell, Hero? speech to the Hero are well deserved.
  • Hot-Blooded
  • Large and In Charge: Most of the Kobolds are based on fairly small breeds of dog (terriers, for example), whereas Ridley, as the leader, is taller and has a doberman or Alsatian look about him.
  • Our Monsters Are Different: He's a Kobold, but Suikoden Kobolds are more like cute dogs than the more usual lizardine versions.
  • Petting Zoo People
  • Proud Warrior Race Guy

Boris Wizen

Stallion

Hai Yo

Shilo

Sid

Gabocha

Gadget

Meg

Wakaba

Tony

Hix

  • Bishounen: His artwork says it all...
  • Genre Blindness: Hix, of course, has no idea the quest is fake and takes it all in.
  • I Call It Vera: He (wisely) names his weapon "Tengaar".
  • Non-Action Guy: He'd like to be, but Tengaar will NOT hear of it and he knows it.
  • Recurring Character
  • Reluctant Warrior: Oh so very much.
  • Shrinking Violet
  • Sidequest: To prove himself to Tengaar, he agrees to undertake "The Test of the Unicorn" to cure an illness she mysteriously contracts.... which turns out to be an obvious Fetch Quest sham set up by champion tsundere Tengaar to test if he cares enough about her to bother. Coincidently, the pair do encounter Seigfried, a unicorn, and Hix bravely protects Tengaar from it.
  • Sword and Sorcerer: Predominantly Type 1 with Tengaar in this game.
  • To Be a Master: He's still on a "Trial of Manhood" to prove himself to Tengaar.

Tengaar

Emilia

Teresa Wisemail

  • 100% Adoration Rating: She cares for her citizens above all else and is well-loved by the people of Greenhill.
  • Action Girl: In war.
  • The Archer: Again, in war; she's one of the generals of an archery unit.
  • Bodyguard Crush: On her guardian Shin, but these feelings are never communicated.
  • Driven to Suicide: She attempted to take her own life for failing to repel the attack on Greenhill, before agreeing to join the Allied Forces cause.
  • Hair of Gold
  • Heroic Spirit
  • The Messiah
  • The Ojou: Type 1: she comes from a powerful, political family.
  • Purity Personified
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Compared to her father, most definitely.
  • Rescue Arc: The hero's team travel to Greenhill to help reinstate her as mayor from her exile.
  • Self-Deprecation: Felt she was not fit to take over her father's duties. In response, the citizens of Greenhill declared her the "acting mayor" instead.
  • Survivor Guilt: When Muse soldiers threatened to sell her for ransom to Highland, she was rescuded by Shin and hides out in a forest cottage. However, in her solitude (and safety), she blames herself for Greenhill's fall.
  • You Are in Command Now: She had taken over as mayor of Greenhill from her ailing father Alec before the Highland Invasion.

Nina

  • Back-to-Back Badasses: Her rather amusing Unite attack with Flik.
  • Bob Haircut: She sports a curly, blonde bob with an alice-band.
  • Genki Girl
  • Joshikousei: She's a student at Newleaf Academy in Greenville.
  • Little Miss Badass: She's young and petite, but stat-wise, she is surprisingly one of the better characters in the entire game: her unite attack with Flik is especially potent.
  • Lovable Alpha Bitch: Newleaf Academy's answer to this trope: she's quite mean to Nanami, very self-assured and does tease the Hero's party with her ghost stories, but she's a nice girl at heart.
  • Mouthy Kid
  • Playing with Fire: She's one of the best Fire mages in the game.
  • Plucky Girl: She rallies the student body to help repel Highland's forces, and was acting as a mule to keep supplies running to Teresa whilst she was in exile.
  • Smitten Teenage Girl
  • Stalker with a Crush: She has a huge (unrequited) crush on Flik and follows him around wherever he goes.
  • Unknown Rival: Nanami is puzzled when Nina sizes her up as competition for Flik's affections.

Shin

Jeane

Yuzu

  • Cheerful Child
  • Disappeared Dad: She has become separated from her grandpa when the Hero encounters her.
  • Fairy Tale Motifs: Like Little Bo Peep, she has lost her sheep, and the Hero must help her to find them before she'll join him.
  • Farm Girl: She's a farmer's grand-daughter.
  • Free-Range Children: She's ten years old, completely lost in the Kobold woods when first encountered, and her parents are nowhere to be seen!
  • Friend to All Living Things: She's very knowledgeable in animal husbandry. Once recruited, she helps Tony with the livestock at the HQ farm.
  • Girlish Pigtails
  • Ironic Nickname: She loves her farm animals, but is quite objective about their fate, giving them names like "hamburger" and "pork-chop".
  • Mama Bear: ....just don't try to eat her favourite sheep Taro.
  • Non-Human Sidekick: Taro.

Viki

Futch

  • Bash Brothers/Lonely Together: He and Humphrey have teamed up to seek new dragons.
  • The Beast Master
  • Dragon Rider: However, he does not have a mount following Black's death in Suikoden I, and has been cast out of the Dragon Knight order.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Towards Kent, a village boy who he rushes to rescue after he goes missing in search of dragons.
  • Blade on a Stick: His weapon of choice in the first two games.
  • Character Development: He grows up a lot between the first and second Suikoden, and his bratty half-pint trait has all but vanished.
  • Hot-Blooded: His brattiness in the first game morphs into a level of impetuous, hot-headedness in Suikoden II.
  • Pet Baby Wild Animal: He finally adopts Bright, a rare white dragon who is discovered on Mt Rakutei following Kent's rescue.
  • Recurring Character
  • Replacement Goldfish: He's seeking a new dragon mount so he can rejoin the Dragon knights.
  • Survivor Guilt: He's never really forgiven himself for the fact that Black protecting him.

Humphrey Mintz

  • Badass
  • Bash Brothers/Lonely Together: He and Futch have teamed up to seek new dragons.
  • Big Brother Mentor: To Futch. He was asked to take care of him by Joshua, following Futch's expulsion from the Dragon Knights order.
  • The Big Guy
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Why he is so quiet, and one needs to play the first game for the details, though Richmond's investigations will give the player a few hints.
  • Hidden Heart of Gold: This comes across in Suikoden II, where he generously pays the Hero's bill at an inn and is seen to be kinder and less ambivalent than his gruff exterior reveals.
  • Master Swordsman: Amongst the best in the game.
  • Mighty Glacier
  • Odd Friendship: He quickly (and uncharacteristically) befriends the Hero, after what appears to be an awkard, stunted conversation where he barely says two words to him. It's Fridge Brilliance when you consider that while you're playing, the Hero basically is a Heroic Mime, so they have an understanding of sorts.
  • The Quiet One: He doesn't say very much at all, and most of his speech is written as "......".
  • The Stoic
  • Stone Wall: His defense rating is one of the highest in the game.


Camus

Miklotov

Kiba Windamier

  • Badass
  • Badass Beard
  • Bald of Awesome
  • Defeat Means Friendship/Heel Face Turn: He is taken prisoner after battle map 7 and joins the Allied Forces.
  • Determinator: His defense in war battles is so high that in the battle before he can be recruited, it's almost impossible to destroy his unit. In fact, you actually can throw everything at him, and you still have to wait for the plot to take care of things because he just refuses to be defeated.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: Richmond's investigations let you know he had a high rank, but his pay was pretty crappy despite his fine service record.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Acts as a decoy toward the end of the game, giving the main army a fighting chance, but dies in the process. He did this knowing fully well that he wasn't going to come back.
  • Made of Iron: His defense in War Battles turns his unit into this.
  • Master Swordsman: He's a veteran of many previous wars.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Whereas he is powerful, built and typically masculine, his son Klaus is mild-mannered, bookish and comparitively effeminate.
  • The Stoic
  • Take Up My Sword: Asks Shu to take care of his son before the battle in which he dies.
  • They Call Me Mister Tibbs: He get's very angry with Viktor for his lack of respect when he's captured.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: His main motivation to join is because Luca Blight murdered his own father Agares who was his master.

Klaus Windamier

Badeaux

Connell

  • Bishounen
  • The Empath: As a phonologist, he has the ability to listen to the music of the mind, a way is deducing the mood of others.
  • In the Blood: His father is also a gifted phonologist.
  • Music and Sound Effects: His speciality: he can change the menu sound effect options once recruited.
  • Nice Hat: A black beret with a music note motif.

Ayda

  • Action Girl: She doesn't carry that bow and arrow for decoration. Just sayin'.
  • The Archer: She wields the Great Hawk Rune, which allows her to attack all enemy targets when used. The trade-off is that damage is halved.
  • Braids, Beads, and Buckskins: Her look and costume.
  • Distaff Counterpart: She's basically a female Kinnison.
  • Fiery Redhead
  • Friend to All Living Things: When your party finds her in the Forest Village, she's defending Feather from the townspeople, to keep them from killing him. They get scared off when a flock of griffons swoop in to attack. Ayda tries communicating with them and gets wounded for her trouble, propmting your party to save her and Feather.
  • Hachimaki: She wears a headband with a pair of feathers adoring each side.
  • Hot-Blooded
  • Innocent Fanservice Girl: Hilariously subverted. When Nash stumbled across her in the nude, he had to run for his life.
  • Nature Hero: She is the defender of the woodlands and all animals therein.
  • Nubile Savage: She's hot-blooded.... and just plain hot. In fact, Nash from the Suikoden games even stumbles across her when she's naked..... and yes, this trope more than applies.

Feather

Sigfried

  • Bond Creatures: The Hero is able to befriend him, partly by using the magic Listening Crystals Badeaux gives him.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: He will only show up for attractive young maidens.
  • Cool Horse: He's a unicorn.
  • Hilarity Ensues: When recruiting him, bringing Miku-Miku or Sierra to him as a maiden has interesting results.
  • Monster Allies
  • Mythology Upgrade: Unlike traditional unicorns, who's magic is mostly limited to teleportation, he possesses the unique Blessed White Lady Rune, which has 3 powerful magic attacks.
  • Sidequest: He first appears in Hix and Tengaar's sidequest, where Hix agrees to undertake "The Test of the Unicorn".... which turns out to be an obvious Fetch Quest sham, but coincidently, the pair do encounter Sigfried, who backs off when Hix bravely protects Tengaar from him.
  • Virgin Power: The other requirement to recruiting him is to bring a young female character with the Hero to meet him.

Lebrante

  • Fetch Quest: He endlessly collects "Celadon Urns" and will only join the Allied Forces if you bring him one.
  • Grail in the Garbage: The Urn in question is often found out in the wilderness after it's dropped by random monsters.
  • High-Class Glass: Wears a monocle for appraising treasures.
  • The Professor: When it comes to treasures.

Simone Verdricci

Vincent De Boule

Kasumi

Valeria

Sheena

  • Badass Family: As he is the son of Toran President Lepant, he is able to set up a meeting between the Hero and his father with a view to them forming an alliance.
  • The Charmer: And sometimes is a Handsome Lech.
  • Cool Sword: In Suikoden II, he wields his father's heirloom sword Kirinji.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: When NOT hitting on women, he makes a pretty decent Earth Rune mage.
  • The Hedonist
  • Loveable Rogue
  • Magic Knight: He is skilled in both swordsmanship and magic, abilities which he inherited from his parents Eileen and Lepant. Since his three open rune slots and balanced stats make him the most customizable character in the game, the player can decide which to specialize him in, or make him a jack-of-all-trades.
  • Momma's Boy: According to Richmond.
  • Recurring Character
  • Rich Idiot With No Day Job: Which is why Lepant comands him (yet again) to make himself useful and join the Allied Forces.

Lorelai

Gordon

Mondo

Sasuke

Tomo

Bob

Karen

Maximilian

Killey

Annallee

Hoi

  • Criminal Doppelganger: He pretends to be the Hero, mostly in order to afford himself an easy life, with free food, drink and compliments.
    • Bluff the Impostor: He is revealed to be a fake when vilagers ask him to see the Bright Shield rune, and it turns out he has simply drawn it on.
  • Easy Impersonation: He bares little resemblance to the Hero, being short, fat and with only a vaguely similar outfit.
    • Idiot Ball: ...however, the people of Radat seem to be taken in by him to start with.
  • Gonk
  • I Owe You My Life: He pledges to join the Hero, afer he helps him out when the mobs turns on him in Radat when they learn the truth.
  • Loony Fan: Of the Hero: he spends most of his time trying to be just like him.

Long Chan Chan

Tenkou

Raura

Gijimu

Hauser

Kahn Marley

Koyu

Lo Wen

Marlowe

Sierra Mikain

  • Animal Motifs: Bats, clearly.
  • Artifact of Doom: She was possessed by the power of the Moon Rune, a magic artifact symbolising cruelty and compassion, that transforms the bearer into a vampire. She gained mastery over her desire to kill, however, drawing on the compassionate aspect of the rune's powers and retreated into isolation.
  • Hunter of Her Own Kind/Vampire Hunter: Some of the villagers, now lacking the power of the rune to stay alive, went rogue and began to feast on the living again. She was determined to stop the renegade vampires from causing suffering to others, and thus she became a vampire hunter.
  • Badass: She can scare Neclord shitless, and even Kahn is not keen on pissing her off.
    • Badass Abnormal: She's a vampire totally immune to the weaknesses of most of her kind.
  • Badass Cape
  • Hot Witch
  • It's Personal: Neclord, one of the villagers, overtaken by the lust for power, stole the Moon Rune and fled, robbing immortality from the villagers other than Sierra.
  • Monster Town: She was approached by others who desired immortality and so created the Blue Moon Village, a safe haven for other vampires who had cast away their blood-sucking past. The power of the rune allowed the vampires to live without the need to drink the blood of the living.
  • Not a Morning Person: Due to her vampiric nature. Sunlight doesn't actually hurt her, but she still prefers to sleep in.
  • Our Vampires Are Different: She does not need to feed on the living to sustain herself, as above. Nor does sunlight actually harm her, though she doesn't find it pleasant.
  • Really Seven Hundred Years Old: At about a thousand years old, she's the single oldest character yet introduced in the Suikoden series. Even the seemingly-eternal Leknaat and the unseen but ancient Emperor Hikusaak of Harmonia are younger.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Although, she is one of the good guys.
  • Scarf of Asskicking: Her shawl.
  • Sole Survivor: Of her village.
  • Undeathly Pallor
  • White-Haired Pretty Girl

Jess

Georg Prime

  • Badass:
  • Badass Cape: And still wearing his brown cape from the second game.
  • Eyepatch of Power: It covers the eye that was wounded during the battle where Ferid saved him. Though the eye it covers works just fine. He just wears it to remind himself to never get too cocky.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: Suikoden V fleshes out fully the snippets of his backstory revealed in Suikoden II.
  • Hidden Weapons: He is an expert at the quick draw sword style of Iaijutsu.
  • Master Swordsman: Amongst the best, if not the best in the game.
  • Mysterious Past: Richmond can find out details of his past, but these are fully revealed in the events of Suikoden V.
  • Noble Fugitive: He was accused of murdering the Queen of Falena, which is why he is on the run in Dunan. It turns out he did this at the Queen's own request (it's complicated), and left to avoid causing trouble for the next Queen.
  • Old Soldier
  • Retired Badass: Used to be a Four-Star Badass.
  • Sweet Tooth: He's said to have quite a fondness for cheesecake.

Gantetsu

Abizboah

Pico

Alberto

Jude

  • Cool Teacher: He teaches at the Newleaf Academy.
  • Fetch Quest: He's a sculptor and will join the Hero if he brings him some clay.
  • Magnum Opus: He creates a guardian diety sculpture for the HQ entrance hall.
  • Nice Guy: Lampshaded by one of his students even.

Tessai

Genshu

Pesmerga

Mazus

  • The Archmage: His magical abilities far surpass anyone else in the known world, save perhaps his master Crowley. He's the best magic user in the game.
  • Badass
  • Badass Beard
  • Badass Grandpa
  • Badass Long Robe
  • The Beast Master: He wields the Blue Gate Rune, a rune used to summon monsters from another world to attack enemies.
  • Earthshattering Kaboom: During a duel that took place over a hundred years ago, the force of their duel leveled three mountains and evaporated a lake.
  • Hermit Guru
  • Magic Wand: The Nova Rod.
  • Really Seven Hundred Years Old
  • Reincarnation: Implied. He and Crowley have listed years of birth after the time of their epic duel. Word of God confirms this wasn't an error, but doesn't elaborate. Since each sought to produce power equivalent to a True Rune without actually possessing a True Rune, this presumably was their method of matching the immortality that the things grant. It's generally assumed by fans that both of them died in their duel, were reborn, and resumed their rivalry after reaching adulthood again.
  • The Rival: With Crowley from Suikoden I. He is Crowley's ex-pupil, but the two are now bitter rivals.
  • Up to Eleven: His magicial abilities.
  • Witch Species: Possibly.
  • Wizard Duel: With Crowley.

Muku-Muku

Maku-Maku

Miku-Miku

Meku-Meku

Moku-Moku

Rulodia

Chuchura

Star Dragon Sword

Elza

  • Anyone Can Die
  • Badass
  • Badass Cape
  • Death by Irony: Averted. Elza deliberately chose this end for herself which also mirrored the same duel between her and Kelley.
  • Death Seeker: It's revealed in the Gaiden game that Elza is waiting for the day when Clive will kill her. This is in part due to the past when their friend Kelley allowed Elza to kill him during a duel they were forced into by deliberately picking a gun filled with blanks.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars
  • The Gunslinger
  • Murder, Inc.: Like Clive, she was trained Howling Voice Assassins Guild since the age of five.
  • Parental Abandonment: Having come from a poor family, Elza's parents sold her to the Howling Voice Assassins Guild when she was five.

Agares Blight

  • Anyone Can Die
  • Patricide: Luca conspired with Jowy to poison his own father as a result of certain events in the past.

Solon Jhee

Seed

Culgan

Rowd

  • Blond Guys Are Jerks: Rowd isn't necessarily evil, but for much of the game, he pretty much acts like a jerk, although the below trope belies this fact a little.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although many of Rowd's actions in the game could be considered cowardly and underhanded, he is ultimately trying to earn money to take his blind sister to see a doctor.

Yuber

Leon Silverberg

Lucia

  • Anime Hair: In Suikoden II, she sports a flowing, bouffant mane of blonde hair.
  • Assassin Outclassin': To Riou and later to Teresa.
  • Bodyguard Babe: To Jowy.
  • Dark-Skinned Blond: Like most of the Karaya people.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: After Lucia attempts to assassinate Teresa, she stops herself and Teresa promises that she will make up for her father's wrongdoing. She later makes her father's crimes public, and Lucia forgives Teresa.
  • It's Personal: Lucia is primarily fighting with Highland so she may get revenge on the people who murdered her father.

Han Cunningham

Neclord

Granmeyer

Makai

Gustav Pendragon

Lilly Pendragon

  • Spoiled Brat: Though it's not as obvious and pronounced as it is when she appears in the third game.

Lepant

Gorudo

  • The Captain: He is the Captain of the Matilda White Knights and the leader of the Matilida Knights.
  • Jerkass
  • Poison Is Evil: Along with Teresa's father Alec, he poisoned the Karayan chief's leader Kianu who was Lucia's father.

Pohl

Tir McDohl

  • Artifact of Doom: The Soul Eater rune.
  • Badass
  • Cool Hat: His bandana.
  • Folk Hero: To the people of Toran and Dunan, following his actions in Suikoden I.
  • Guest Star Party Member: A Suikoden I save file with all 108 characters alive is necessary to recruit him.
    • Only if you want both him and Gremio. Otherwise, a Suikoden I save file from the final save point in that game will do the trick, regardless of how many are alive.
  • Hello, Insert Name Here: Averted: he is always called McDohl in Suikoden II as he is not the main player character.
  • The Hero: Of the original Suikoden game.
  • Recurring Character
  • Sidequest: Once recruited, he takes part in an epic Rescue Arc to save a young boy from Banner village who has been kidnapped by mountain bandits.
    • If you remove him from your active party, you have to trek back to Banner to pick him up again.
  • Simple Staff: His weapon of choice: a six foot staff.
  • A Taste of Power: He comes equipped with excellent stats.

Gremio

  • Battle Butler: Still refers to McDohl as "young master".
  • Old Retainer: Though he is still young this trope does apply to him.
  • Old Save Bonus: Gremio is only available if a save data file from the final save point in the first game was imported with all 108 stars recruited. Otherwise, his role in this game is taken by Ellie.
  • Recurring Character
  • Reluctant Warrior: He is this, but it's mostly because he is worried about the young master's safety.

Ellie

  • Sidequest Sidestory: Ellie can be involved in the quest to recruit McDohl. It can be relatively minor or she can play more of a role in it depending on the Old Save Bonus (see Gremio's entry for more information).
  • Trauma Inn: She runs the inn at Banner. It's also revealed that she helped Marie run the inn at the Liberation Army Headquarters during the first game as well.

Fu Tan Chen

  • Hilarity Ensues: Some of his comments about a few of the judges provokes some rather amusing outraged reactions.
  • The Host: He's the MC of the cooking contest. He does the introductions of the judges, often slipping in hints about their tastes as well some rather daring commentary about a few of them in a personal sense.
  • Slogan Yelling Megaphone Guy

Leknaat The Seer

  • Aerith and Bob: She and her sister have entirely disparate names despite being sisters: Leknaat and Windy......
  • Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: She is the keeper of the Gate Rune, a True Rune that has the power to open portals to other worlds and dimensions. It was split in two following an attack on her village of the Gate Rune Clan by Harmonia. She kept the back half, her sister Windy kept the front half.
  • Blind Seer: Her role is to provide astrological projections.
  • Cain and Abel: Her power-hungry sister Windy is desperate to reunite the 2 halfs of the rune, something Leknaat will not allow to happen. This has turned the sisters into mortal enemies.
  • Cool Teacher: To her young apprentice Luc.
  • Eyes Always Shut
  • Hermit Guru: She lives in splendid isolation on the Magician's Isle, away from the prying eyes of her sister.
  • Rapunzel Hair: The locks of her hair are long enough to fall halfway down her torso, while the back extends all the way to the floor.
  • Really Seven Hundred Years Old: The power of the Gate Rune has granted her unnatural long-life.
  • Recurring Character
  • Spirit Advisor: In each game, she'll appear at key moments in the protagonist's journey to offer insight about the Rune they've been chosen to bear and how it will shape their destiny.
  • Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
  • The Watcher: She acts as an inspirational guide to all the heroes.
  • Woman in White: As her appearance and mannerism suggests, she's a walking enigma. Little is known about her - from her true age, to the extent of her abilities - despite her prominence throughout the series.
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