Suikoden V/Characters: Difference between revisions

=== Queen Arshtat Falenas ===

* [[Artifact of Doom]]: As Queen, she is bearer of one of Falena's greatest treasures: the Sun Rune. However, its power seems to be affecting her judgment as the game begins...

* [[Badass Family]]

* [[Big Fancy Castle]]: She commands from the sprawling Sun Palace.

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Deadly Decadent Court]]: She has worked tirelessly along with her husband, Ferid, to reform palace life and the darker underbelly of Falena, regardless of what sort of enemies they may have made in the process.

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The Falenan Royals and their guard's designs borrow from a variety of different cultural styles - Egyptian, Greek and Japanese (especially the knights, who have a definite Samurai vibe) seem to be the main influence, and the concept of a powerful ''female'' ruler mirrors British monarchs [[The Virgin Queen|Elizabeth I]] and [[Queen Vicky|Queen Victoria]]. Arshtat's design is the pinnacle of this (brilliant) cultural melange.

* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: As seen when she is under the Sun Rune's corrupting influence.

* [[Happily Married]]

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: When she's not under the Sun Rune's sway.

* [[Requisite Royal Regalia]]

** [[Nice Hat|Nice Crown]]

* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: Trailers for the game made it appear that a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Arshtat would be your main opponent. {{spoiler|She's killed offscreen during the coup.}}

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: To get engaged to Arshat (and thus, to become the Commander of the Queen's Knights) he had to win the Sacred Games.

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* [[Dark Horse Victory]]: His victory in the Sacred Games came as a severe shock to the local aristocracy, who expected one of the gladiators hired to represent one of their own to win; needless to say, while he has become popular with the public since then, many of the nobility still resent him.

* {{spoiler|[[Defusing the Tykebomb]]}}: {{spoiler|Helped a Nether Gate castoff named Mismar become a normal girl.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Domestic Abuse]]}}: {{spoiler|He is literally incinerated by his Sun Rune-crazed wife, Arshtat.}}

* [[Happily Married]]

* [[Hot Dad]]: YES.

* [[Mysterious Past]]: A citizen of the Island Nations Federation, he keeps his family background a secret to avoid political complications, going simply by "Ferid".

* [[One-Man Army]]: In his youth, during the invasion of Falena by bordering Armes, he practically saved the nation single-handedly by fighting on the front lines of the war as Commander of the Queen's Knights.

* [[The Promise]]: {{spoiler|He made an arrangement with Georg that he was to kill Arshtat should she lose her sanity while in control of the Sun Rune, in case he was otherwise incapacitated. Georg reluctantly agreed.}}

* [[Mama Bear|Auntie Bear]]: This is definitely in evidence during the early part of the game, and a significant reason for her {{spoiler|dramatic [[Face Heel Turn]]}} is because of her desire to ''protect'' her young niece and nephew.

* [[Badass Family]]: She's Queen Arshtat's younger sister and the Prince & Lymsleia's aunt.

* [[Blow You Away]]: She specialises in Wind Rune magic.

* [[Christmas Cake]]: Mentioned by a few characters, who refer to her as the Prince's "old auntie", much to her annoyance.

** [["Ma'am" Shock]]

* [[Crutch Character]]: Starts out as a fairly powerful long-range fighter, as well as a decent spellcaster, but is saddled with an irremovable Wind Rune. {{spoiler|And she ditches your party halfway through the game.}}

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]

* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: Her kimono-esque outfit.

* [[Hello, Nurse!]]

* [[It's Personal]]: She utterly ''despises'' Lucretia Merces, mostly because {{spoiler|it was she who convinced her sister Arshtat to take up the Sun Rune in the first place...}}

* [[Oba-san]]: ....although she probably wouldn't appreciate the implications of this title.

* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: She wears her tousled, honey blonde hair in a high pony-tail that falls (sexily) over one side of her face.

* [[Rings of Death]]: She wields a pair of chakram in combat.

=== Lady Haswar Falenas, the Oracle ===

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: ''Really'' into the beavers.

== The Queen's Knights ==

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[Bob Haircut]]

* [[Bodyguard Babes|Body Guard Babe]]: She's the Prince's personal bodygyard.

* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Heavily implied to have one on the Prince

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: {{spoiler|Used to be a member of Nether Gate until it was 'disbanded', and was taken in by Ferid, who helped her grow out of her [[Tyke Bomb]] status.}}

* [[Expy]]: Though not in appearance, her role in the plot is pretty much identical to Gremio from the first game. {{spoiler|Including the [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}

* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: Seriously. A switchblade katana. It's a real weapon too, known as a nagamaki.

* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Ferid outright state she's like his third child, in front of the Prince too, but neither is bothered.

* [[Plucky Girl]]: One of the best examples in the Suikoden series.

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: To the Prince.

=== Georg Prime ===

* [[Badass]]

* [[Bodyguard Betrayal]]: Gets accused of this; {{spoiler|the truth is more complicated than that, see below [[The Promise]]}}.

* [[Breakout Character]]: He went from being a minor character in [[Suikoden II]] to being one of the main characters of this game.

* [[Crutch Character]]: He starts at level 20 and is one of the best physical attackers in the game. Naturally, he is rarely available after the prologue.

* [[Glass Cannon]] / [[Fantastic Fragility]]: He's really weak against magic, but his strong physical stats make up for it.

* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Suikoden 5 fleshes out fully the snippets of his back-story revealed in 2.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: His strength, skill, and speed are among the highest in the game.

* [[The Promise]]: {{spoiler|He is forced to fulfil his vow to Ferid, having reluctantly promised to kill Arshtat in order to prevent her from doing greater damage when she was completely taken over by the Sun Rune's power.}}

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Quite often.

* [[Recurring Character]]: ''Suikoden 5'' marks his second appearance in the series, but is chronologically his first.

* [[The Red Baron]]: His skill with the blade has earned him such names as "Deathblow Georg" and "Georg Who Needs No Second Strike".

* [[Sweet Tooth]]: His [[Trademark Favorite Food]]? Cheesecake.

* [[Time to Unlock More True Potential]]: While this is Zegai's role in the castle, Georg can also teach Physical skills while you're traveling on the map.

=== Miakis ===

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Despite being the most cheerful out of the Queen's Knights, she got that job (as well as being the personal bodyguard to the heiress to the Queendom) for a ''very'' good reason. Best seen when she cheerfully threatens (with one of her knives) to toss Euram into a river after he gets a little too close when trying to court the ten year old Lymsleia. She would have been chosen as a Dragon Knight too if she wasn't female.

* [[Bodyguard Babes|Bodyguard Babe]]: She is Princess Lymsleia's personal bodyguard.

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: She's ''far'' more carefree and lackdaisical than Lyon.

* [[Hot Amazon]]: Rog is attracted to her because she beat up most of the boys in their hometown when they were kids.

* [[Knife Nut]]: She wields two Ghurka-type, curved daggers.

* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: Albeit mostly playfully.

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Ships [[Brother-Sister Incest|Prince/Lym]]. (Though it's hard to tell if she's serious about that or not.)

* [[Silk Hiding Steel]]: Ever cheerful and outgoing, she always does her job with polite words and a nice, big smile—even when she's got a dagger to your throat.

=== Kyle ===

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Like Miakis above, there's a ''very'' good reason why he's one of the Queen's Knights (despite his laid back attitude)

* [[The Casanova]]: Suikoden 5's very own Don Juan.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: In the same vein that the Prince's disguise clothes are a nod to [[Mc Dohl]]'s outfit in [[Suikoden I]], Kyle's disguise seems to be a nod to Viktor's.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: His happy-go-lucky attitude hides his brilliance in combat, and in fact, in battle he holds his sword with a loose, wavering grip to make opponents underestimate him.

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Women seem to be on his mind ''all'' of the time when the Prince interacts with him.

* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: He wields a katana named Tianjin Wind.

* [[Magic Knight]]: He is equally skilled in both magic and combat.

* [[Secret Relationship]]: {{spoiler|Is implied to be in one with Sialeeds.}}

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: With Alenia. {{spoiler|[[Subverted]] later when it's revealed '''he's''' not the one she's attracted to.}}

* [[Amicably Divorced]]: {{spoiler|From Silva.}}

* [[Blade on a Stick]]: He wields the huge Thundering Halberd.

* [[Grumpy Bear]]

* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: Arshtat turned his hometown of Lordlake into a barren wasteland, but he still follows her because she is his queen. {{spoiler|After Lym's coronation, this causes him to do a brief [[Face Heel Turn]] as this technically makes The Prince's army traitors to the throne. Subverted afterwards when Silva convinces him how foolish this is.}}

* [[Stern Teacher]]

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: To the Falenan throne.

* {{spoiler|[[Ax Crazy]]: Before the boss battle against them in Sun Palace, she and Zahhak become this when they take the Raging Nostrum drug.}}

* [[Determinator]]: Her father used to be a knight prior to his death, and she is determined to honor his memory and ensure the Queendom thrives... though she adopts a more combative stance than most of the other knights.

* [[Dual Boss]]: With Zahhak.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|She turns against the Royal Family to side with the Godwin faction.}}

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Even uses a Fire Rune {{spoiler|after her attempt to control the Twilight Rune didn't pan out}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Murder the Hypotenuse]]}}: {{spoiler|She lies to Gizel by telling him that Sialeeds is dead to convince Marscal to use the Sun Rune, which kills Sialeeds.}}

* [[Obstructive Zealot]]

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Red Oni]]: To Zahhak's Blue.

* [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]]: She ''strongly'' disapproves of Kyle's flighty, flirty attitude.

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: With Zahhak

* [[Triang Relations]]: {{spoiler|The A in a Type 4 -- She loves Gizel, but while he is aware of her feelings, he merely manipulates them while pursuing Sialeeds.}}

=== Zahhak ===

* [[Face Heel Turn]] {{spoiler|He turns against the Royal Family to side with the Godwin faction.}}

* [[Obstructive Zealot]]

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: With Alenia.

* [[Uh-Oh Eyes]]: He sports unsettling, ice-blue eyes.

== The Godwin Faction ==