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A former Alliance Marine and adopted brother to Shirley. [[Knight Templar Big Brother|He is hell-bent on protecting her from anything and everything]]. At first he is only concerned with matters that directly affect either himself or Shirley, but slowly begins to open up as he becomes friends with the inhabitants of the ''Legacy''. He uses his fists in battle, the first [[Tales (series)]] main character to not [[Heroes Prefer Swords|use swords]], and uses some traditional [[Tales (series)]] [[The Hero|hero artes]] mixed with his own.

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|He was originally a soldier from Crusand sent to plan an attack on the Ferines settlement so Shirley could be captured and used as a weapon. He eventually assimilated into the Ferines village, to the point where he and Stella were talking about getting married. Then bad things happened.}}

* [[Chewing the Scenery]]": "STELLA, NOOOOOOOOOO!"

* [[Determinator]]": {{spoiler|He's the only one who doesn't lapse into a [[Heroic BSOD]] after Maurits's [[Hannibal Lecture]].}}* [[Facial Markings]]: In ''Radiant Mythology'', [[Tales of Rebirth|Annie]] starts talking about his "scar" and how it must've hurt. Senel admits that it's a tattoo and he just got it because he thought it'd look cool. [http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4936/marinetrooper.jpg It's the symbol of the marine troopers.]

* [[Heavy Sleeper]] : A running gag in the Character Quests features each character trying to wake him up. Will, at one point, resorts to ''kicking him in the head'' (he was asleep on the floor) and that still didn't wake him up.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]];: Chloe essentially yells this at him, coupled slightly with [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]] after he {{spoiler|dumps ShirelyShirley, causing her to go crazy and try to destroy the world, because Senel wants to stay loyal to Stella, even though she's dead.}} He got better.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]] -: When {{spoiler|Fenimore dies.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Costume Switch]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Sounds Deep]]: After she completes the Rite of Accession and awakens as the Merines, her voice is noticeably deeper and no longer squeaky.}}

* [[Honorifics]] -: Once the Character Quests roll around, Shirley is the only member of the main party who still uses them. At the end of Chloe's quest, it's Chloe herself who convinces Shirley not to be so formal with everyone else (though she's still embarrassed when Shirley drops the suffixes completely). Norma has a similar scene with her near the end of Moses' quest.

* [[Is That Cute Kid Yours?]]: In Will's quest; see Senel's profile for details.

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: {{spoiler|After she awakens her Merines powers, she's capable of wiping out the planet in a gigantic flood if she wants to. At the cost of her life, but still. She can also cause lots of other lesser chaos and destruction with no risk to herself. ''Damn.''}}

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|Shirley steps in front of a Ferines woman who was about to be stabbed by the captain of the Gadorian Knights. Fenimore then steps in front of Shirley, [[Taking the Bullet]] for the one who was going to [[Taking the Bullet|Take The Bullet]]}}.

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Ferines can produce a "teriques,", that typically manifests as a pair of wings, either back-mounted or free and butterfly sized. After ShirelyShirley unlocks her Merines powers, her teriques becomes permanently active, as back-mounted wings.

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Her in-game mugshot does ''not'' look fifteen. Her battle model, now that's a different story.

::'''== Will Raynard''' ==

* [[Cool Old Guy]] -: Well, Norma thinks he's old.

* [[Drop the Hammer]]

* [[Dull Surprise]]-: He can be guilty of this sometimes.

* [[Names to Know in Anime]] -: [[Susumu Chiba]]

* [[Older Than They Look]]-: He's actually 28.

A knight from Gadoria who joins the party. She came to the Legacy to find a swordsman with with a snake tattoo on his arm {{spoiler|in order to kill him to avenge the death of her parents and regain the honor of the Valens family name}}. She fights using a sword, and plays a little more like the classic [[Tales (series)]] [[The Hero|Hero]], even using many of their artes combined with some of her own.

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]] -: She has a crush on Senel, which isn't returned.

* [[Dull Surprise]]: Just listen to half of the englishEnglish VA's lines and try to deny she's guilty of this. She also varies between this and [[Large Ham]] in combat.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Well, a sword isn't all that improbable, but a few of her artes involve her using her sword as a pole-vault.

* [[Names to Know in Anime]] -: [[Masumi Asano]]

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption in the Rain]] -: The end of her character quest.}}

* [[Revenge Before Reason]] & [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] -: At first.

* {{spoiler|[[Ship Sinking]]}} -: After her character quest, though she still has feelings for him.

* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: She doesn't die instantly when touching water, but her swimming skills are practically non-existantnonexistent.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: She does this to Senel. And the other characters reacts this way to ''her'' {{spoiler|stabbing Senel when he tries to stop her from taking revenge in her Character Quest.}}

* [[Butt Monkey]] -: Early on, less so once Moses shows up to take the role.

* [[The Chick]] -: Most of her titles have the word "Chick" in them.

* [[Jive Turkey]] -: Lampshaded. "Yo yo yo, moms, pops, what's shakin? ...No, they'd cry if they read that."

* [[The Matchmaker]] -: Norma gives Chloe advice on how to act on her crush on Senel, whether Chloe likes it or not.

* [[Names to Know in Anime]] -: [[Kaori Mizuhashi]], [[Tara Strong]]

* [[Pettanko]] -: Norma actually has a bit of a chest, but when you've got Grune for comparison, everybody looks flat...

* [[Shipper on Deck]] -: Norma happily ships Senel with both Chloe and Shirley, and [[The Matchmaker|actively gives Chloe relationship advice]].

* [[Accent Adaptation]] -: In Japanese, Moses speaks with a Kyuushu regional dialect. In the English localization, he was given a southern accent. [[Woolseyism|It worked.]]

* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|The Bandits Who Don't Do Anything]] -: His bandits don't really do much thieving.

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Never seems to run out of spears no matter how many times he throws this. Norma lampshades this in a skit where she mentions she'll catch the spear next time he throws it.

* [[Leitmotif]] -: "A Cheerful Bandit"

* [[Manly Tears]] -: At the end of his character quest.

* [[Names to Know in Anime]]-: [[Kazuya Nakai]]

* [[Victory Pose]] -: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ydSIzwVgBQ "MOSES HAPPY DANCE! YEE-HAW!"]

* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Chloe notes that Jay has trouble expressing his feelings. Additionally, even though he is told ''several'' times during his Character Quest to let the others know if something is bothering him, he keeps shrugging it off by saying "There really isn't anything", a variation of the typical [[Tales (series)]] quote of "It's nothing". Not very beliaveablebelievable after what the gamers just saw last dungeon. He is also often seen denying his worry or positive emotions for others, most notably Moses.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]] -: Is he ever...

* [[Easily Forgiven]] -: In his character quest, though understandably so.

* [[Hates Being Touched]] -: All too obviously. Shown in both game scenes and victory poses, especially with Moses.

** {{spoiler|This is actually a set of [[Fridge Brilliance]] - he was raised to be emotionless. While his japaneseJapanese version went for the [[Creepy Child]] route, the englishEnglish version went for the "grown-up-fast" type.}}

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]] -: If you look, you first see her in a crowd in Werites Beacon within the first couple hours of gameplay.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] -: Pretty much anything that comes out of her mouth perfectly exemplifies this trope.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] -: The biggest [[Cloudcuckoolander]] in the series by far, would ''you'' expect her to be such a badass fighter with [[Game Breaker|Game Breaking]] spells? And then, once she remembers who she is, {{spoiler|the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] attitude vanishes completely, and stays gone}}.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]] -: If you look closely during the first and second Bantam Bouncers scenes, she's in the crowd that gathers.

* {{spoiler|[[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: theThe game treats the player to an elaborate cutscene of her gaining more power when she gets her memories back, but this causes no change in her gameplay wise. All it really does is change her voice. }}

* [[Girl in a Box]]-: When you first meet her, she's taking a nap in an '' {{spoiler|open coffin. In the deepest spot in a tomb}}''.

** Unless that is you remember her being in Werites Beacon.

* {{spoiler|[[God Is Good]] -: And helps you directly!}}

* [[Marshmallow Hell]]-: Both Senel and Moses have had Grune lovingly smother them in her bosom. [[All Men Are Perverts|Lucky bastards]].

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]

* [[Names to Know in Anime]] -: [[Ayako Kawasumi]], [[Lara Jill Miller]]. Both her voice actors do a ''VERY'' good job with her.

* [[Stripperiffic]] -: The description of her default armor, "Cocktail Dress," reads as follows: "A revealing dress that leaves little to the imagination."

* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] -: {{spoiler|After regaining her memories.}}

* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]] -: Somewhat, as most of her spells are curse and sea elemental. {{spoiler|Makes sense, since she's a goddess.}}

** Hilariously, Curtis does so by appearing and doing his usual singing gig without Isabella. {{spoiler|And then '''[[Talk to the Fist|decks the confused man in the face]]''' mid-sentence, triggering a cartoony curbstomp.}}

* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] -: Though you never actually fight them...at least you aren't ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2_SEh7eDao required]'' to.

* [[The Quiet One]] -: Isabella doesn't speak much aside from the occasional "Yes, Curtis." She does get a solo number introducing the arena, though.

* [[The Evil Prince]] -: [[Captain Obvious|Well, duh]].

* [[Leitmotif]] -: "March"

* [[Obviously Evil]] -: [[Atop the Fourth Wall|"She's red! She has horns!"]]

* [[Red Baron]] -: "The Crimson"

* [[Spikes of Villainy]] -: Her horned helmet, a source of one of Moses's golden lines. "Hey there, horny baby!"

** {{spoiler|It wasn't just about the income. He needed Vaclav's ''knowledge'' as well.}}

** {{spoiler|That and he's an apothacaryapothecary, not a doctor.}}

** {{spoiler|Averted. Remember Chloe's [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]}}

*** {{spoiler|Not to mention the fact that [[Redemption Equals Death|he was willing to die to atone for his crimes]].}}

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: ''ESPECIALLY'' in the Japanese version!

* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]: Not killing him was the right move but he doesn't even get sent to prison for all the people he's killed?}}

* [[That One Boss]]: Considered to be harder than the other terrors and Vaclav since he has an instant death attack.

* [[Red Baron]] -: "The Phantom"

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The ''worst'' amongst all Merines. He is so adamant to see the Orerines destroyed that when Maurits at least stayed civil with the team, Walter is still a huge [[Jerkass]] to them. His reasoning isn't exactly revealed, but implied toward the end that he willfully ignores the blantantblatant goodness of Senel and company (despite them saving his life) due to his jealousy of Senel.

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]] -: [[Face Heel Turn|But not for long...]]}}

* [[Never My Fault]]: His {{spoiler|dying words are blaming Senel for all that has happened to him; he honestly never once considered that maybe he brought alota lot of his problems on himself.}}

* {{spoiler|[[You Can Barely Stand]]}}: {{spoiler|His insistence on fighting the party despite being heavily wounded gets him killed.}}

* [[Cool Old Guy]] : {{spoiler|1=/ [[Evil Old Folks]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Easily Forgiven]] -: [[Karma Houdini|So easily it hurts]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Fantastic Racism]]}}

* [[Meaningful Name]] -: As a Ferines, his last name is by definition meaningful. It translates to "nature person." {{spoiler|And he wants to terraform the planet back to its original state.}}

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] : {{spoiler|Even in the character quests, too.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]] -: See [[Taking the Bullet]] below}}

* {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet]] -: The captain of the Gadorian Knights is about to stab Shirley for "conspiring with the Crusand Empire against Gadoria" for being used to power the Nerifes Cannon. Shirley is prepared to [[Taking the Bullet|take the stab]] that was intended to kill a Ferines woman who was protecting her, but Fenimore jumped in front of Shirley at the last minute. Then [[Moral Event Horizon|Maurits lets Fenimore die]], hoping that her death at the hands of Orerines will be the final push Shirley needs to complete the Rite of Accession. [[It Got Worse|It is]].}}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: When she meets ShirelyShirley, she demands to know why the latter seeks peace after everything the Orienes did to their people, [[Moral Myopia|ignoring of course what the Ferines did.]]

* {{spoiler|[[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]}} -: She takes the form of {{spoiler|Senel's fears and doubts}} towards the end of the main quest. This is not symbolic ''at all,'' we assure you.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]] -}}: And in a further subversion of the [[Purity Sue]] trope, it actually [[It Got Worse|makes things worse]]''.

* {{spoiler|[[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] -: Even if she is a good character, when you look past Senel's [[Unreliable Narrator|unreliable narration]], you'll probably find yourself thinking "[[Jerkass|What a jerk]]!" from time to time.}}

* [[Meaningful Name]] -: Like all the Ferines. "Telmes" means "guiding star", which is appropriate if rather redundant.

* {{spoiler|[[Demonic Possession]]}}: - to To {{spoiler|the Merines.}}

* [[Meaningful Name]] -: Loosely, "the mind of the sea."

* [[Ax Crazy]]: {{spoiler|forces Jay into working for him again by talking about loud about his fantasies of slaughter the Orisorin.}}

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Before he dies, he goes balisticballistic with rage at how Jay and his "family" could be strong enough to defeat him.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]: Of the Character Quests.}}

* [[Cool Mask]]

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Matriarch]]}} -: Some of her lines while you fight her 'definitely'' indicate this!