The Familiar of Zero/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Character Exaggeration]]: In the anime Louise has a ''much shortter'' fuse when dealing with Saito and his [[Accidental Pervert]] moments.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: She ''hates it'' if Saito's looking or even thinking about another girl. Gets worse as more girls get added to Saito's harem, such as Henrietta, Tabitha, and especially Tiffania.

* [[Cry Cute]]: She is ''absolutely adorable'' whenever she allows herself to be emotionally honest to her feelings towards Saito. In fact, [[media:zerolouisecrying.jpg|she's the very poster girl of the trope]].

* [[Covert Pervert]]: Especially in the novels.

Saito is a Japanese boy who, while picking up his laptop after attempting to get it repaired in Akihabara, gets sucked into a portal and into Tristain. As a Familiar he was treated as more of a servant-dog by Louise, although as time passed he came to love her and decided to protect her at all costs.

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** The worst instance is in the second novel where he tries to rape Louise because he assumes that she wants to have sex no matter how many times she says no. He begins to make moves on a sleeping Louise, hugging her and kissing her cheek, before moving to lift her dress, which is when Louise wakes up. He confronts her with the idea that she loves him when she demands an explanation, and she vigorously denies it, no matter how much he insists. Finally he moves to kiss her, and she responds violently. At worst its an attempted rape, at best it's Saito massively overestimating the level of their relationship, and subsequently making a move. While she ''had'' been giving him [[Tsundere|somewhat mixed signals]] prior to this and continues to do so for much of the series, he still comes out looking pretty bad, though it's eventually shown that {{spoiler|it wasn't entirely by free will.}}

* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: {{spoiler|His knighthood, and in the novels, he's also consecrated as an Imperial Guard Sub-Commander.}}

* [[Badass Abnormal]]

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Chick Magnet]]

* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: More chivalrous in the light novels, more perverted in the anime. This is pretty justified; he's a nice guy, but he's ''also'' a 17-year-old human male.

* [[Flanderization]]: Saito becomes increasingly perverted as the series goes on.

* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: He got amused at the sight of Louise and Tiffania groping each other in the women's bath. Also, he got turned on when he saw Montmorency and Beatrice kiss while under the influence of the [[Love Potion]].

* {{spoiler|Happily Married - to Louise in the grand Finale. It is hinted that their wedding took place in the same chapel where they got wed in Season 2's finale. The epilogue shows Louise using the World Door spell and the two go to Japan so Louise can see our world and meet Saito's parents. Counts a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.}}

* [[The Hero]]: Ironically he's made a Vice-Captain in Season 3, making him Guiche's [[The Lancer|Lancer]].

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: He's a pervert, but it's obvious that he cares a lot for Louise, who in turn does care for him in her own violent way.

* [[Lady and Knight]]: He's the Knight, and Louise is the Lady.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Saito is rarely seen without the original clothes he wore when he was pulled to Halkeginia from Earth, even after he was knighted, where he just simply wear a cape over his clothes.

* [[Love Martyr]]: Sometimes verges on this.

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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Of the rather unsavory kind. In the anime, Siesta appears in many situations and events that originally, in the novels, she was no part of; this comes off with Siesta scheming and getting on Louise and Saito's way ''much more'' than usual.

* [[Bob Haircut]]

* {{spoiler|[[But Not Too Foreign]]: She was the descendant of a [[World War II]] [[Imperial Japan|Japanese pilot]] who strayed into Tristain.}}

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Starts to display this trope once Tiffania shows up, and shares Louise's utter contempt for the poor half-elf girl.

* [[Covert Pervert]]: As the anime progressed, she has shown signs of enjoying Louise torturing Saito, going as far as to sexually seduce him, inciting Louise's wrath in return. Seasons 3 & 4 make no attempt to hide this; she's enjoying Saito getting beaten just so she'd be the one to take care of him.

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Her hair is described as being a chestnut brown in the novels. In the anime her hair is a light purple and in the manga her hair is a much darker shade of purple.

* {{spoiler|[[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: To Prince Wales... or better said, the copy of his body, animated with a little of his soul.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Break the Cutie]]: Poor [[Star-Crossed Lovers|Henrietta and Wales...]]}}

* [[The Chains of Commanding]]

** Justified to a degree, as {{spoiler|he's also a Void familiar with more control over his magic than Louise; his primary ability is to control magical creatures}}.

* [[Ambiguously Bi]]: Julio is canonically in love with Louise but may or may not also have an interest in her boyfriend Saito as shown when he tells Saito whether jokingly or not that he loves him and wants to kiss him as well as Louise.

* [[Bishonen]]

* [[Chick Magnet]]

* [[No Social Skills]]

* [[Power of the Void]]

* [[Rescue Romance]]: Sort of -- {{spoiler|she resurrected Saito after he was mortally wounded while fending off a massive Albionian army}}.

* [[Third Option Love Interest]]: The "fight" for Saitou's heart was narrowed to Siesta and Louise, until Tiffania came in.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red to Tabitha's blue

* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: In Season Three, Kirche falls in love with Mr. Colbert, and she tries to instigate this.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Long boots to Grade A.

The soft-spoken, book-reading best friend of Kirche and classmate of Louise with a mysterious past. She specializes in Wind Magic and has a dragon familiar named Sylphid. Apparently has a younger sister named Irukuku {{spoiler|but as it turns out, Irukuku is also Sylphid who is a Rhyme Dragon capable of using nature magic and transforming into a human}}.

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* [[An Ice Person]]: Being a Triangle Mage with a Wind specialty, she's adept at creating blizzards and icicle javelins.

* {{spoiler|[[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]}}: {{spoiler|She becomes Queen of Gallia after Joseph's ultimate defeat.}}

* [[Genre Blindness]]: The Knights of the Water Spirit, for peeking on the girl's baths. Well, Saito DID try to stop them, but... well...

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Kirche and Tabitha, even reflected in their hair colors.

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