Suikoden V/Characters/Lucretia and Her Allies

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Lucretia and Her Allies

Lucretia Merces

  • Bi the Way: It's implied that she seduced both Lelei and Cius, and had a husband in the past. However, she's far closer to Lelei.
  • Bunny Ears Lawyer: She has a nigh-incomprehensible sense of humor, which includes giving an over the top Awesome McCoolname that's a sentence on its own to your castle when you first get it.
  • But Now I Must Go
  • The Chessmaster
  • Darkskinned Blonde: She has the same look as the Karaya from Suikoden 3. Turns out this is because she is Karayan by blood, and went to Harmonia after her home was scorched by the True Fire Rune during the first Fire Bringer War
  • Expy: Of Zhuge Liang.
  • Heel Face Turn: It's revealed shortly after she's recruited that she used to be a Strategist for the Godwins, and betrayed them the moment she felt that serving them wasn't the right thing to do. In fact, the reason Arashat sent her to the prison in the first place was to prevent the Godwins from executing her.
  • The Mole: Implied to have been one for Harmonia. Whether the reason why she hasn't reported in to her superiors since being released is because she's Become The Mask or because she's been distracted by the war is unknown.
  • Odd Name Out: She's one of the few Suikoden strategists who are not of the Silverberg lineage, the other being Shu in 2. And even with that, it should be noted that Shu was nevertheless the student of a Silverberg. Lucretia has no (known) connection at all.
  • Rescue Arc: The Prince must bust her out of prison before she can be recruited.
  • Shoot the Dog: She convinced Arshtat to take up the Sun Rune to prevent it from being stolen.
  • Shout-Out: Her feather fan and over-all look seems to be a fond nod to legendary strategist, Zhuge Liang. Not to mention her tactics.
  • Strange Syntax Speaker
  • The Strategist: The games makes it firmly clear that she's one of the absolute best in the whole series, and shows it in the actual battles she orchestrates...with planning bordering on precognition, just like the person she's based on.
  • Thousand-Yard Stare: Her portrait expression exhibits this when she is dishing out her strategic advice.

Lelei

Cius

  • Back-to-Back Badasses: With Lelei in their unite attack.
  • The Champion: To Lucretia.
  • The Fettered: He's an honorable sort who values duty above all else.
  • The Generic Guy
  • Out of Focus: Compared to Lelei, he gets very little attention and/development. The epilogue reveals Lucretia and Lelei left him behind when they departed, leaving him temporarily depressed, though he rebounds and eventually comes to lead the Falenan Police Corps.

Cathari

  • Badass
  • Career Killer: She's an assassin.
  • The Gunslinger
  • In the Hood
  • Les Yay: With Lucretia, who she is implied to have been in a relationship of some sort at one point.
  • Murder, Inc.: Like Clive of Suikoden 1 & 2 fame, she is a member of the Howling Voice Assassins Guild and trained there from birth. She is trying to find out why Lucretia hasn't reported in to her Harmonian superiors since she was freed from prison.
  • Mysterious Past
  • Rule of Cool: The outfit, the gun, the mysteriousness, etc.
  • Sniper Rifle: Her weapon - incidently, one of the few gun-users in the Suikoden universe.
  • Super Speed: Like Stallion and Cedric before her, she's the one who gives you the ability to run like the wind across the world map.
Back to Suikoden V/Characters
Back to Suikoden V
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Suikoden_V/Characters/Lucretia_and_Her_Allies?oldid=1796092"