History Characters / ArTonelicoMelodyOfElemia

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* PoweredArmor: Linkage significantly increases Shurelia's ability to sing song magic while also making her more durable. [[MundaneUtility It also has an on-board navigation system to help keep her

* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted by Lyner. It's not that he can't win Leard's favor, it's that he's actively refusing to do it, and doing something that makes Leard happy with him is one of the few things that actively annoys Lyner. This makes sense, given that most of the things that make Leard praise Lyner in the early game aren't very nice. In the scene where Leard finally says he's SoProudOfYou, it's noteworthy that the other characters are far more excited about it than Lyner is. Apparently, the extent of Lyner's CharacterDevelopment is not rejecting Leard's feelings: even when Lyner asks Leard to [[spoiler:help craft the hymn at the end of the game,]] it still feels as though Lyner is making the effort because Leard is his father, after all: their relationship is still rocky, and it doesn't get solved until the AT3 novels [[spoiler:in which Lyner admits he must have disappointed Leard due to his career choice because his father wanted Lyner to be a politician like him ever since he was a baby. Ultimately, Leard surprises Lyner by telling him that he has never felt disappointed about his son.]]

* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler:Her hymn code has the name "Mir" in it.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: While every Reyvateil will have this for each successive clearing of their Cosmosphere levels, Aurica's was especially notable as she started as a D-class Reyvateil [[spoiler:as she had subconsciously set a limiter on herself due to her inferiority complex]]. If Lyner managed to make it all the way to the 9th Level in her Cosmosphere, the residents in her Cosmosphere will note that she has grown to become the strongest 3rd generation Reyvateil, with her Song Magic at par with Misha's.

* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Right at the end of her Lv. 6 cosmosphere after she suffers an emotional breakdown from getting trapped in a paradox loop]].

* PoweredArmor: Linkage significantly increases Shurelia's ability to sing song magic while also making her more durable. [[MundaneUtility It also has an on-board navigation system to help keep her from getting lost in her own tower, and the ]]PowerFloats [[MundaneUtility aspect prevents her from tripping and falling on her face.]]
* PowerFloats: While wearing Linkage.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Shurelia [[spoiler:[[WordOfGod (Eoria)]]]], Frelia, and Tyria, as these three are the Origin Reyvateils, and thus, are around the same age as the towers they administrate. Shun's getting on in age too. [[spoiler:Mir is also coming up on her four hundredth birthday - her life extended by being locked in the Binary Field for a few of those centuries.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: Played straight and then subverted. In the backstory, [[spoiler: her foster father and dedicated researcher Eleno gave her that name because she was identical to his deceased daughter, which is why she has that name instead of her original name. This ultimately caused a great conflict between them because Eolia wanted her to be seen as a different person from the dead Shurelia, but this made Eleno apologize to her for not being confident in his ability to raise her as his own child, which made boss break down crying. So Eolia later on ended up adopting the Shurelia name herself much to Eleno's surprise, and she's kept it ever since because it contains both the feelings she had for Eleno and the ones she holds for all the humans.]]
* SchoolSwimsuit: One of her costumes.
* {{Stripperiffic}}
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: Should you complete her Cosmosphere in phase 3, it's possible to enter her ending instead of either Misha or Aurica's. Notably, the girls will start getting jealous of Shurelia instead of each other after this.
* {{Tsundere}}: She has a tendency to fall into some obvious tsundere traps, much to her frustration. She really wants to be more honest, but continues stumbling.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Heroic example [[spoiler:when she's not possessed by Mir, anyway.]] Only in the Japanese dub, though, and only while wearing Linkage, as it's supposed to make her sound as if she was a robot.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Her [[{{meido}} Corsette]] and Monette costumes.
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[[folder:Mir]]

Mir is a legendary sealed evil kept in check by a song sung by special Reyvateil. She spawns viruses when possible and has the ability to infect Reyvateil. She is responsible for a terrible war that occurred four hundred years ago and wishes for the world to be populated by Reyvateil after she destroys all humans.

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* ArtificialHuman: As are all Beta-type Reyvatails.
* BigBad: Mir, the "Mother Virus". All of the first game's conflict begins and ends with her.
* BrainUploading: Mir escaped one form of imprisonment by doing a special Reyvateil version of this. Now instead of being limited by her body, her limitations are those of Ar tonelico itself. [[spoiler:During the true final battle she returns to her physical body.]]
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Poor Mir; created without emotions but developed them anyway only to be abused. Her first song, Harmonious, is called trash, and she's sealed away for trying to improve the lot of Reyvateils.]]
* BullyingADragon: Mir's treatment [[spoiler:during the second age; one does not abuse a pure blood Beta type whose power is on the same scale as the Origins. Eventually she had enough.]]
* [[spoiler:DefeatMeansFriendship]]
* EmotionlessGirl: She was designed not to feel emotions [[spoiler:so the scientists kept torturing her to make her lose them again until she snapped.]]
* EvilPlan: Mir wants to wipe out humanity [[spoiler: to create a world just for Reyvateils because she believes that HumansAreTheRealMonsters.]]
* GodivaHair: She doesn't seem to have any clothes anymore [[spoiler:and post defeat is not really in the habit of wearing them, so she tends to walk around naked.]]
* GoKartingWithBowser: She shows up in Shurelia's cosmosphere and plays along with it, presumably because she has nothing better to do. She turns the story depressing, but is otherwise just goofing around like Shurelia and Lyner.
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: This is the reason for Mir's KillAllHumans and why her listed dislikes are humans. [[spoiler: [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity She gets over it]] thanks to Lyner who ironically is the only human that she still hates because he has ruined her script.]]
* KillAllHumans: Mir's goal. [[spoiler:Of course, she's just doing it for her fellow Reyvateils' sake.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Mir is implied to be one, with the ability to be a major nuisance even when she's trapped in Ar tonelico's equivalent of Cyberspace. Not to mention she's as powerful as the Goddesses of the three towers. She's noted that she could definitely beat Shurelia in a fight simply because she knows all the latter's weaknesses, although doing that would also cause them both to die. It helps that the former has a stronger up-front personality so she could simply bully the latter regardless.
* RapunzelHair: It hasn't been cut for a few centuries.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Though she looks all of about fourteen]] Mir is coming up on her four hundredth birthday - her life extended by being locked in the Binary Field for a few of those centuries.]
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* SealedEvilInACan: Mir is sealed within the Crescent Chronicle. [[spoiler: It is the only thing that can contain her after she [[BrainUploading uploaded her brain]].]]
* [[TalkingToHimself Talking To Herself]]: Aurica and Mir share the same voice actress in Japanese. [[spoiler:Justified: Aurica shares enough certain characteristics with Mir that Ar tonelico mistakenly assigned Mir's Hymn Code to Aurica, which allows Mir to infiltrate Aurica's Cosmosphere and later take complete control of her.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: She plans to wipe out humanity to create her perfect world.
* VoiceOfTheLegion
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Mir's first song, Harmonius, was meant to express her hope for the human race. However, since she was created with the hope of making an emotionless Reyvateil, it led to her being tortured and locked up. Nevermind that to be told "Your song's no good" would be an incredible insult all on its own, considering Reyvateils' songs are born out of their deep, heartfelt feelings. It's no wonder she started hating humans.]] It only got worse after that [[spoiler: while connected to the tower, she is keenly aware of the FantasticRacism against Reyvateils, and her inability to do anything else to stop it leads to her (understandable) declaration that HumansAreTheRealMonsters.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Most of Mir's songs are like this - you could make a bit of a leap to say her role as the BigBad of ''Elemia'' was a Yandere reaction to humanity. [[spoiler: Harmonious Fusion doesn't contain any kind of Yandere-ness in its feelings (and arguably, in the lyrics neither), and Colors is no more than an image song for her, illustrating the development of her feelings.]]
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[[folder:Ayatane Michitaka]]

Ayatane is Shurelia's second knight. He is more composed and calm that Lyner and highly devoted to Shurelia. He appears to make a heroic sacrifice at the beginning, but later shows up again with a rather odd story for his survival.

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* [[spoiler:DefeatMeansFriendship]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[spoiler:Ayatane's in things so his mother, Mir, can finally be happy. Though it should be noted that he's more like LoveMakesYouEvil than a real bad guy.]]
* FacialMarkings: Ayatane [[spoiler:who is a Virus]].
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Ayatane, though he [[HeelFaceTurn gets better]].]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Infiltrated Platina]]
* MommasBoy: [[spoiler: Ayatane. Everything he does is for his mother's sake (i.e Mir's), for [[LoveRedeems better]] or [[LoveMakesYouEvil worse]]]]
* WelcomeBackTraitor: Welcome back [[spoiler: Ayatane, the guy who was the reason why everything turns crazy in Phase 2.]]
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[[folder:Jack Hamilton]]

Jack is the first person Lyner meets on the surface world after being healed of his injuries. As a first introduction, Jack attempts to claim the wreckage and sell it for scrap. Following this, however, he begins assisting Lyner with his goals. He knows more than he lets on.

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* ArtificialLimbs: Jack has a mechanical arm. With a [[GatlingGood gatling gun]].
* InHarmsWay: Jack: "I'm glad the world is peaceful and all but I need some excitement in my life."
* InterspeciesRomance: Human/Reyvateil romance is nothing anyone bats an eye at (they're fully capable of interbreeding), but there's also [[spoiler:the human Krusche and the Teru Jack/Harmonica, at the end of ''Elemia''.]]
* MusicalThemeNaming: Harmonica and Flute are Teru Tribe Members.
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[[folder:Radolf Schnaizen]]

Radolf is the commander of the Church under Bishop Falss and helps to care for Aurica. He is dutiful, honorable and compassionate.

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* ChurchMilitant: That's some spear you got there, Radolf. Justified: [[spoiler: Bishop Falss intended to use the Church as a military group to invade Platina. [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs Which he does]].]]
* GoodShepherd: One of Radolf's first lines is reminding those under his command to take care of their Reyvateil partners and his second apperance is coming to the defense of a Tenba reyvateil being abused by her partner. At all times he's polite and helpful.
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: If the player asks around in Nemo during Phase 3 nearly everyone will tell you how much they love [[spoiler: Bishop]] Radolf. The rest are admittedly jealous of him because they recognize how great he is. [[spoiler: Being the head of]] a SaintlyChurch will do that for you.
* TwentyFourHourArmor: Lyner and Radolf never change out of their armor-plated outfits.
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[[folder:Krusche Elendia]]

Krusche is a boyish engineer that Lyner runs into while attempting to escape from Tenba. She wields a large chainsaw and is fond of airship design and assembly. Her boyfriend disappeared above the Blastline, which motivates her even more to attempt to cross it. Jack owes her an unspecified but large amount of money.

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* BareYourMidriff
* ChainsawGood
* FieryRedhead: Subverted with Krusche. The only time she EVER gets fired up at all is when she's talking about or involved with high-tech airships and getting to the top of the Tower. 99% of the rest of the time she's the incredibly laid-back, droll, DeadpanSnarker type.
* GogglesDoNothing: Krusche wears them and never uses them.
* InterspeciesRomance: Human/Reyvateil romance is nothing anyone bats an eye at (they're fully capable of interbreeding), but there's also [[spoiler:the human Krusche and the Teru Jack/Harmonica, at the end of ''Elemia''.]]
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Krusche says she got into engineering to be closer to her boyfriend, Luke. However it's downplayed to the point that it might as well not exist. 1.) Luke is mentioned three times and one of them is a bonus area. 2.) She was already 'grathmelding missiles for fun' before she met him.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Krusche has this opinion of herself: "If I wore a dress, your (Lyner's) ass would be knocked out." However, she never changes out of her engineer clothes.
* ShortTank: Krusche, although she doesn't get much sexual tension due to not being a Reyvateil, and hence, not a romantic option. (Something she lightly pouts about at one point, asking if Lyner'd be in love with her if she ''were'' a Reyvateil. [[spoiler:She gets paired with Jack/Harmonica.]])
* Stripperiffic
* VitriolicBestBuds: Misha starts off jealous at ''any'' other woman being around Lyner, and Krusche can't resist hassling her back. Before too long they're setting each other silly challenges over anything and everything, and each swiftly "owes" the other hundreds of snacks, dinners, and drinks over them.
* WrenchWench
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[[folder:Minor Characters]]

!!Don Leon

Don Leon is the Mind Guardian of Aurica's Cosmosphere. He is rather abrupt and rude to Lyner, though he eventually comes to develop a grudging respect for his ability to help Aurica. His form is based on a doll that Claire once gave to Aurica.

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* DashingHispanic: His Spanish accent and GratuitousSpanish is an attempt to use this trope for Aurica's mind guardian.
* GuardianEntity: Like all Mind Guardians, a rather weak one, in comparison to other fictional universes.
* LivingToys

!!Hama

Hama is Misha's mind guardian. Like Don Leon, she is pretty unfriendly towards Lyner, although for a reason Lyner doesn't seem to remember. Her form is based on a present that Lyner once gave Misha.

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* CatGirl
* DeadpanSnarker
* GuardianEntity: Like all Mind Guardians, a rather weak one, in comparison to other fictional universes.

Flute is the de facto leader of the Teru tribe. Though the Teru tribe is feared by the humans as an aggressive bunch, he is actually quite civil, if perhaps a stickler for rules and a bit of an isolationist.

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* {{Bishounen}}: A lot of the guys count, but Flute also counts under his hat and mask (he's ''very'' pretty).
* MusicalThemeNaming: Harmonica and Flute are Teru Tribe Members.

!!Claire Branch

Claire is an old friend of Aurica's from when they were younger and a fellow Reyvateil. However, she chooses not to sing magic anymore because she believes that singing should be done for the purpose of art alone.

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!!Bishop Falss

Falss is the Bishop of the church that Aurica and Radolf represent. He tends to act very calm and reasonable and has a great deal of knowledge.

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* [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda]]: [[spoiler:To Mir]].
* [[spoiler:EvilPlan]]: Bishop Falss, [[spoiler:AKA Kyle Clancy wants to resurrect Mir and take over Platina as the first step to taking over the world and returning it to the prosperity of the first age]].
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Bishop Falss, then known by his real name Kyle Clancy, faked suicide in order to flee Platina.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Bishop Falss infiltrated the Church]]
* PunnyName: You should be suspicious if your Bishop is named 'false'.
* SinisterMinister: [[spoiler:Bishop Falss inspires the Church to invade Platina and raise Mir]].
* SmugSnake

!!Bourd Rade

Bourd is the second in command of the Tenba corporation. He is aggressive, cruel and looks down on Reyvateils as puppets. He has been leading Tenba in a much more violent and unethical direction behind Ayano's back.

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* [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda]]: [[spoiler:Both to Mir and to Falss as well]].
* EvilPlan: Bourd wants to continue the kind of research that's based on the 'Reyvateils are replacable dolls' idea and believes Mir to be its greatest fruit.
* SmugSnake
* [[spoiler:TheDogBitesBack: He held Misha hostage in exchange for Aurica's live, then dropped the latter off the airship as an expendable hostage. And then he forced Misha to charge her Song Magic against Lyner's party. Guess how he met his end?]]
** [[spoiler:Why, he was blasted into oblivion by the very Song Magic that he forced her to use against Lyner, of course.]]

!!Leard Barsett

Leard is Lyner's father and the other of the two leaders of Platina, holding the position of governor. He disapproves of Lyner's choice to join the military as he wants him to follow in his footsteps. The two do not get along.

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* TheLeader: Leard is the governor of Platina and his conflict with Lyner is based on him wanting his son to succeed him when Lyner doesn't want to. Over the course of the game, Lyner becomes this for his group.

!!Ayano Raizer Elduke

Ayano is the president of Tenba despite her unique appearance. Unlike Bourd, she's actually an entirely reasonable and ethical individual, but hasn't been keeping an eye on him of late.

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* RetiredBadass: Ayano used to be an adventurer but now she's content to run Tenba. She gives her old sword to Lyner.
* Stripperriffic
* {{Underboobs}}: Ayano.
* VaporWear: Ayano.

!!Spica Neal

Spica is a mysterious individual that shows up in several games. She has a lot of contacts and information as well as quite the teasing, dark personality. In the second game she serves as one of the four synthesis locations where she helps craft potions, explosives, poisons and bath items.

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* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Spica is revealed to be this. She gets better, though is eventually revealed to be something of a ChristmasCake in the process]]
* StockingFiller

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* [[spoiler:TheDogBitesBack: He held Misha hostage in exchange for Aurica's live, then dropped the latter off the airship as an expendable hostage. And then he used said hostage against Lyner's party. Guess how he met his end?]]

* [[TalkingToHimself Talking To Herself]]: Aurica and [[spoiler:Mir]] share the same voice actress in Japanese.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Lyner and Funbuns.

* TookALevelInBadass: While every Reyvateil will have this for each successive clearing of their Cosmosphere levels, Aurica's was especially notable as she started as a D-class Reyvateil [[spoiler:as her subconscious self had set a limiter on herself due to her inferiority complex]]. If Lyner managed to make it all the way to the 9th Level in her Cosmosphere, the characters in her Cosmosphere will note that she has grown to become the strongest 3rd generation Reyvateil, with her Song Magic at par with Misha's.
* {{Yandere}}: Aurica tries to kill Lyner and herself in her Cosmosphere because of her self-loathing, jealousy, and fear of him abandoning her.

As one of Shurelia's personal knights, Lyner is an unmatched physical combatant. Additionally, he is very talented with grathmelding despite not really understanding how a lot of the more complex stuff he makes actually works.

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' mess with Reyvateils around Lyner; he will beat your ass so badly his teammates will call him on it. Also averted by Lyner: despite the fact that according to his in-game character bio the two things he hates most are viruses and traitors [[spoiler:instead of seeking revenge on Ayatane for what he's put Platina and various reyvateils through, he works to understand Ayatane's reasons and eventually causes Ayatane to see that the real way to help his mother is to help Lyner.]]

* ChainedToABed: [[spoiler:Happens to him in Aurica's Lv. 6 cosmosphere. He's ultimately busted out by an Aurica from a deeper level]].

* LoveHurts: Hmm, Lyner can get raped and killed in the Cosmospheres.

* StudentCouncilPresident: Misha takes on this role in one of Aurica's cosmosphere levels.

* TookALevelInBadass: While every Reyvateil will have this for each successive clearing of their Cosmosphere levels, Aurica's was especially notable as she started as a D-class Reyvateil [[spoiler:as her subconscious self had a limiter on herself due to her inferiority complex]]. If Lyner managed to make it all the way to the 9th Level in her Cosmosphere, the characters in her Cosmosphere will note that she has grown to become the strongest 3rd generation Reyvateil, with her Song Magic at par with Misha's.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Third Generations Reyvateils start as humans which change at any time during their childhoods/puberty, and can interbreed with them. The children may be either human or Reyvateils.

* LoveTriangle

* {{Yandere}}: Aurica tries to kill Lyner and herself in her cosmosphere because of her self-loathing, jealousy, and fear of him abandoning her.

* HairDecorations: [[spoiler: older]] Misha wears mini drums.
* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:Her driving motivation in her Lv. 6 cosmosphere. It becomes apparent pretty quickly once she admits to trapping Aurica in the forest]].

* TokenMiniMoe: [[spoiler:Until she gets her adult form back]].

* IdiotHero: Lyner.[[spoiler:Mir discusses in broad strokes how much his idiocy pissed her off in the sequel, despite being the primary beneficiary of it.]] Of course, the real reason Mir resents him is that he [[spoiler:wrote a fixit fic for Shurelia's cosmosphere due to not liking its sad original ending, giving the excuse that the story should have a happy ending because the real world had enough sadness already.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted by Lyner. It's not that he can't win Leard's favor, it's that he's actively refusing to do it, and doing something that makes Leard happy with him is one of the few things that actively annoys Lyner. This makes sense, given that most of the things that make Leard praise Lyner in the early game aren't very nice [[spoiler:and Lyner may resent him for what happened to Misha.]] In the scene where Leard finally says he's SoProudOfYou, it's noteworthy that the other characters are far more excited about it than Lyner is. Apparently, the extent of Lyner's CharacterDevelopment is not rejecting Leard's feelings: even when Lyner asks Leard to [[spoiler:help craft the hymn at the end of the game,]] it still feels as though Lyner is making the effort because Leard is his father, after all: their relationship is still rocky.

* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Lyner, how in the ''hell'' did you forget Misha? Would be justified since [[spoiler:they were pretty young when they separated, and that never communicated again, nor Lyner ever heard of Misha again, until the start of the game. Except the same applies to Misha and she didn't forget. However, it could be justified due to the fact that she didn't need have many things to ponder over aside of the promise Lyner made to her while she was kept imprisoned during all these years.]]

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend / VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Misha can wind up as either, but it's up to the player.

* LikeASonToMe: Inverted. [[spoiler:Shurelia]] repeatedly tells Lyner that he reminds her of her father, probably due to Lyner's grathmelding genius & the fact that he's one of the few people to ever see [[spoiler:the goddess]] as a person who needs help sometimes, just like anyone else.

* ReplacementGoldfish: In the backstory, [[spoiler: her foster father and dedicated researcher Eleno gave her that name because she was identical to his deceased daughter, which is why she has that name instead of her original name. She also has stated that she refuses to use her original name due to the feelings she holds for Eleno, which are represented by the Shurelia name.]]

* VoiceOfTheLegion: Heroic example [[spoiler:when she's not possessed by Mir, anyway.]] Only in the Japanese dub, though, and only while wearing Linkage.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lyner, nice job [[spoiler: forcing Shurelia to wake up and thereby waking Mir up.]] She herself calls him on it. She's happy he did it but says it was the wrong decision. He knew what he was doing would restart their problems, and chose it anyway because he believed the search for the [[TakeAThirdOption Third Option]] was worth the risk.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: Misha's shinobi costume. There's a giant kunai.

* DetachedSleeves

* {{Yandere}}: Misha believes that Lyner's presence is complicating the struggle between her desire for freedom and her fate of becoming the [[BarrierMaiden seal for Mir]]]], so she [[MindRape]]s him, and then attempts to kill him in her Cosmosphere.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lyner, nice job [[spoiler: forcing Shurelia to wake up and thereby waking Mir up.]] She herself calls him on it. She's happy he did it but says it was the wrong decision. Though he also subverts the trope as he knew what he was doing would restart their problems, and chose it anyway because he believed the search for the [[TakeAThirdOption Third Option]] was worth the risk.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Shurelia, nice job [[spoiler:forcing Frelia to drop a lot of what arable land Metafalss had in the first place. Although it isn't like she knew that Suspend would also cause such a disaster, as she didn't knew about Sol Marta's existence and Frelia's SH Server was added after her Administrator training had ended, as well as also her imperfect connection to the Tower leaving her only with less than a 10% of sync with it.]]

[[folder:Misha Artsellec Lune]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lyner, nice job [[spoiler: forcing Shurelia to wake up and thereby waking Mir up.]] She herself calls him on it. She's happy he did it but says it was the wrong decision.

* LethalChef: Averted with Aurica; although her creations look terrible, they taste good.

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Krusche says she got into engineering to be closer to her boyfriend, Luke. However it's downplayed to the point that it might as well not exit. 1.) Luke is mentioned three times and one of them is a bonus area. 2.) She was already 'grathmelding missles for fun' before she met him.

* [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda]]: [[Both to Mir and to Falss as well]].

* [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda]]: [[To Mir]].

The source of the Shadow virus which plagues Ar tonelico, and as such is commonly referred to as the "Mother Virus". It was responsible for great destruction at the end of the Second Era, and has returned to wreak havoc once again.

[[spoiler: Mir is actually a Pureblooded Beta-type Reyvateil who was created as part of an experiment in creating stronger Reyvateils. Though she was created without emotions, she eventually developed them, which did not sit well with her creators who were only interested in her as a weapon. After suffering horrible torture and abuse at the hands of her creators, Mir finally decided that HumansAreTheRealMonsters and declared war on the human race. Mir was opposed and ultimately defeated and imprisoned by Shurelia and Tastiella. However Mir effectively escaped this imprisonment by transferring her entire soulspace into Ar tonelico's Binary Field where it transformed into the Shadow virus. Mir was finally subdued by the development of the Crescent Chronicle and EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/. Mir's physical body still rests in stasis within the Crescent Chronicle.]]

[[spoiler: See also the entries for Jacqli in VideoGame/ArTonelicoIIMelodyOfMetafalica for her appearance in that game.]]

* [[spoiler:ArtificialHuman: As are all Beta-type Reyvatails.]]

* [[spoiler:BrainUploading: Mir escaped one form of imprisonment by doing a special Reyvateil version of this. Now instead of being limited by her body, her limitations are those of Ar tonelico itself.]]
** [[spoiler:During the true final battle she returns to her physical body.]]
* [[spoiler:BreakTheCutie: Poor Mir; created without emotions but developed them anyway only to be abused. Her first song, Harmonious, is called trash, and she's sealed away for trying to improve the lot of Reyvateils.]]
* [[spoiler:BullyingADragon: Mir's treatment during the second age; one does not abuse a pure blood Beta type whose power is on the same scale as the Origins. Eventually she had enough.]]

* [[spoiler:EmotionlessGirl: She was this originally, which was what her creators wanted, but she grew out of it.]]

* [[spoiler:GodivaHair: She usually goes naked and so her hair fills in.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Subverted in that both of the monstrous "Shadow Mir" bosses are not actually Mir herself, but viruses she created. Mir is in her original Reyvateil body when you fight her in the true final battle.]]
* [[spoiler:PersonOfMassDestruction: Mir is implied to be one, with the ability to be a major nuisance even when she's trapped in Ar tonelico's equivalent of Cyberspace. Not to mention she's as powerful as the Goddesses of the three towers. She's noted that she could definitely beat Shurelia in a fight simply because she knows all the latter's weaknesses, although doing that would also cause them both to die. It helps that the former has a stronger up-front personality so she could simply bully the latter regardless.]]
* [[spoiler:RapunzelHair: Justified since it hasn't been cut for a few centuries.]]
* [[spoiler:ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Mir is coming up on her four hundredth birthday - her life extended by being locked in the Binary Field for a few of those centuries.]]
* [[spoiler:RedEyesTakeWarning]]

* [[spoiler:UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Mir was guilty of this, though it was a [[FantasticRacism Reyvateil-only]] utopia.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: Much of the truth regarding Mir doesn't come to light until the last phase of the game.
* [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Mir's first song, Harmonius, was meant to express her hope for the human race. However, since she was created with the hope of making an emotionless Reyvateil, it led to her being tortured and locked up. Nevermind that to be told "Your song's no good" would be an incredible insult all on its own, considering Reyvateils' songs are born out of their deep, heartfelt feelings. It's no wonder she started hating humans.]] It only got worse after that [[spoiler: while connected to the tower, she is keenly aware of the FantasticRacism against Reyvateils, and her inability to do anything else to stop it leads to her (understandable) declaration that HumansAreTheRealMonsters.]]

* ArtificialHuman: As are all Beta-type Reyvatails

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Poor Mir; created without emotions but developed them anyway only to be abused. Her first song, Harmonious, is called trash, and she's sealed away for trying to improve the lot of Reyvateils.]]
* BullyingADragon: Mir's [[spoiler:treatment during the second age; one does not abuse a pure blood Beta type whose power is on the same scale as the Origins. Eventually she had enough.]]

* EmotionlessGirl: [[spoiler:She was this originally, which was what her creators wanted, but she grew out of it.]]

* KillAllHumans: [[spoiler:Mir's goal. Of course, she's just doing it for her fellow Reyvateils' sake.]]

* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:Mir is implied to be one, with the ability to be a major nuisance even when she's trapped in Ar tonelico's equivalent of Cyberspace. Not to mention she's as powerful as the Goddesses of the three towers. She's noted that she could definitely beat Shurelia in a fight simply because she knows all the latter's weaknesses, although doing that would also cause them both to die. It helps that the former has a stronger up-front personality so she could simply bully the latter regardless.]]

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Mir was guilty of this, though it was a [[FantasticRacism Reyvateil-only]] utopia.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Mir's first song, Harmonius, was meant to express her hope for the human race. However, since she was created with the hope of making an emotionless Reyvateil, it led to her being tortured and locked up. Nevermind that to be told "Your song's no good" would be an incredible insult all on its own, considering Reyvateils' songs are born out of their deep, heartfelt feelings. It's no wonder she started hating humans.]] It only got worse after that [[spoiler: while connected to the tower, she is keenly aware of the FantasticRacism against Reyvateils, and her inability to do anything else to stop it leads to her (understandable) declaration that HumansAreTheRealMonsters.]]

[[spoiler: Mir is actually a Pureblooded Beta-type Reyvateil who was created as part of an experiment in creating stronger Reyvateils. Though she was created without emotions, she eventually developed them, which did not sit well with her creators who were only interested in her as a weapon. After suffering horrible torture and abuse at the hands of her creators, Mir finally decided that HumansAreTheRealMonsters and declared war on the human race. Mir was opposed and ultimately defeated by Shurelia and Tastiella, who imprisoned her within the Crescent Chronicle. However Mir's mind was able to escape into Ar tonelico's Binary Field where she continued to wreak havoc as the Shadow virus. Shadow was finally quelled by the development of the Star Singer and EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/. Mir's physical body still rests in stasis within the Crescent Chronicle.]]

* {{Dojikko}}: In a rather bizarre version: while she is only shown to slip up in battle, she can do so ''in a floating mech'', which will fall flat on its face.

* GodivaHair: [[spoiler:She usually goes naked and so her hair fills in.]]

* OneWingedAngel: Shadow Mir. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted. They're just Mir's viruses/servants that she can summon. She can summon them as song magic in ''Metafalica''.]]

* RapunzelHair: [[spoiler:Mir. Justified since it hasn't been cut for a few centuries.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Shurelia [[spoiler:[[WordOfGod (Eoria)]]]], Frelia, and Tyria, as these three are the Origin Reyvateils, and thus, are around the same age as the towers they administrate. Shun's getting on in age too. [[spoiler:Mir is also coming up on her four hundredth birthday - her life extended by being locked in the Binary Field for a few of those centuries.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Mir, the "Mother Virus".
* [[TalkingToHimself Talking To Herself]]: Aurica and Mir share the same voice actress in Japanese.

Mir is a legendary sealed evil kept in check by a song sung by special Reyvateil. She spawns viruses when possible and has the ability to infect Reyvateil. She is responsible for a terrible war that occurred four hundred years ago and wishes for the world to be populated by Reyvateil after she destroys all humans.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: Heroic example [[spoiler:when she's not possessed by Mir, anyway.]] Only in the Japanese dub, though[[spoiler:, and only while wearing Linkage.]]

[[folder:Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia]]
!!Lyner Barsett

Lyner Barsett is one of the knights pledged to the service of Lady Shurelia, one of the leaders of Platina City. The other known knight is Ayatane. Compared to Ayatane, Lyner is quite rash and impatient. However he appears much more compassionate than the cool, polite and distant Ayatane. Though his domineering father is trying to corral him into politics, Lyner steadfastly refuses and pursues his goal of being a knight. This is a source of tension between the pair throughout the story.

As one of Shurelia's personal knights, Lyner is an unmatched physical combatant. Additionally, he is very talented with grathmelding despite not really understanding how a lot of the more complex stuff he makes actually works.

!!Aurica Nestmile

!!Don Leon

Don Leon is the Mind Guardian of Aurica's Cosmosphere. He is rather abrupt and rude to Lyner, though he eventually comes to develop a grudging respect for his ability to help Aurica. His form is based on a doll that Claire once gave to Aurica.

* DashingHispanic: His Spanish accent and GratuitousSpanish is an attempt to use this trope for Aurica's mind guardian.
* GuardianEntity: Like all Mind Guardians, a rather weak one, in comparison to other fictional universes.
* LivingToys

!!Misha Artsellec Lune

Misha is a little girl that claims to be a childhood friend of Lyner's and is irritated that he cannot remember her. She is a different type of Reyvateil from Aurica and is blessed with a great deal of talent. However, she is childish and resents her duty and is thus not exactly heartbroken when her ability to fulfill it is hampered. She claims that her looking so young despite being the same age as Lyner is due to losing the suppression crystal inside her mind.

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!!Hama

Hama is Misha's mind guardian. Like Don Leon, she is pretty unfriendly towards Lyner, although for a reason Lyner doesn't seem to remember. Her form is based on a present that Lyner once gave Misha.

* CatGirl
* DeadpanSnarker
* GuardianEntity: Like all Mind Guardians, a rather weak one, in comparison to other fictional universes.

!!Shurelia

Shurelia is the third heroine of the game, accessible only in Phase 3. She is a very powerful Reyvateil of yet another type and is one of the leaders of Platina city. She wears a bulky suit of song boosting armor at all times and thus very few people actually know her true appearance. She is more lonely and childish than she appears. Unlike Misha and Aurica, she only hosts a prototype Cosmosphere that has no true connection to her inner thoughts and emotions. Rather, it operates as a sort of game that people of the First Era played.

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!!Mir

!!Ayatane Michitaka

!!Jack Hamilton

!!Radolf Schnaizen

!!Krusche Elendia

!!Flute Ross Loria

Flute is the de facto leader of the Teru tribe. Though the Teru tribe is feared by the humans as an aggressive bunch, he is actually quite civil, if perhaps a stickler for rules and a bit of an isolationist.

* {{Bishounen}}: A lot of the guys count, but Flute also counts under his hat and mask (he's ''very'' pretty).
* MusicalThemeNaming: Harmonica and Flute are Teru Tribe Members.

!!Claire Branch

Claire is an old friend of Aurica's from when they were younger and a fellow Reyvateil. However, she chooses not to sing magic anymore because she believes that singing should be done for the purpose of art alone.

* Stripperiffic

!!Bishop Falss

Falss is the Bishop of the church that Aurica and Radolf represent. He tends to act very calm and reasonable and has a great deal of knowledge.