History Characters / AtelierLydieAndSuelleTheAlchemistsAndTheMysteriousPaintings

!!Matthias Ferrié Adalett

Matthias's sister, the princess of the Adalett Kingdom, who works at a receptionist at the castle and gives the twins their exams for their Atelier Ranks.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A non-romantic version. When Matthias was little he'd [[PrecociousCrush naively]] expressed a desire to marry her, and given that she wanted to make him happy but obviously couldn't do so in ''that'' way, she decided that she'd make him into a great king who could make the country happy.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She's in her mid-fifties despite her youthful looks (to the point Matthias tries to hit on her and gets a nasty surprise when he discovers the truth). [[spoiler:She's old enough to be Drossel's mother, in any case.]]

* BadassNormal: He's the ''only'' member of the playable party (even after DLC) to not be an alchemist. When he tries doing alchemy himself at one point, the results are so disastrous that Ald tells him that he should just go back to refining his own talents.

* BishieSparkle: Attempts to turn this on at one point after receiving advice from Ald on how to become more popular with girls. It works [[EpicFail about as well as you'd expect]].

!!Ald

* {{Foreshadowing}}: You can pick up on the fact that Ald [[spoiler:is actually Luard in a new body]] if you're perceptive enough:

** At one point, Lydie and Suelle dig up the first thing they'd ever made with alchemy (a Uni Bag) and ask him what his was. Ald claims he doesn't remember, and Suelle insists that he's got to be lying. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he damn well is, because it's the bottle of fertilizer he made with Plachta, and he considers it to have just as much importance as she does.]]

** When the party first goes to Ethel Nepica, Ald says that he might not want to stay there for too long, hinting there's [[MysteriousPast something in his past he doesn't want other people to see]] -- and indeed, we get to see flashbacks for everyone in the party ''but'' him. During a later trip, he immediately gets nervous when the twins decide to have Sophie and Firis tag along, and as soon as they enter the painting he splits up the group so that they won't accompany him. [[spoiler:This is most certainly because Sophie and Firis potentially bearing witness to his past would immediately out his identity...although it ultimately ends up not mattering as the twins end up putting two and two together anyway.]]

* IHatePastMe: When everyone's shown embarrassing memories of their past in Ethel Nepica, Ald implies that he's also got things he doesn't want people to see. [[spoiler:Sure enough, he's eventually forced to deal with his past as Luard, which he does by literally summoning a copy of his past self and having his party beat it up.]]

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Falls right into the archetype; in addition to his darker personality, he's described directly as {{Bishonen}} in the game to the point it makes him uncomfortably popular with the ladies. [[spoiler:It's unclear whether his current body resembles his original one to any degree, but it turns out he'd had white hair even back then; considering that Plachta and Kald (the descendant of the original Ald, whom he's said to greatly resemble) also have it, it might simply be a trait endemic to their childhood village.]]

* AuraVision: Of a sort; it's not explained exactly how she sees them, but [[spoiler:she's able to sense Meklet and Atomina's presence in Ald, commenting that "it feels like they're both here, but they're also not".]]

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: He's described directly as {{Bishonen}} in the game to the point it makes him uncomfortably popular with the ladies. [[spoiler:It's unclear whether his current body resembles his original one to any degree, but it turns out he'd had white hair even back then.]]

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfit only ''barely'' covers her front and is held together by strings on the side, exposing far more skin than one would expect for a 14-year-old. Even more jarringly, she's apparently been wearing this outfit since she was a ''young child''.

** When the party first goes to Ethel Nepica, Ald says that he might not want to stay there for too long, hinting there's something in his past he doesn't want other people to see -- and indeed, we get to see flashbacks for everyone in the party ''but'' him. During a later trip, he immediately gets nervous when the twins decide to have Sophie and Firis tag along, and as soon as they enter the painting he splits up the group so that they won't accompany him. [[spoiler:This is most certainly because Sophie and Firis potentially bearing witness to his past would immediately out his identity...although it ultimately ends up not mattering as the twins end up putting two and two together anyway.]]

-->You don't even have the minimum amount of talent bring up with hard work. There's absolutely nothing. It's completely hopeless for you. Completely.

* MusicalSpoiler: [[spoiler:His {{Leitmotif}} is a remixed version of Luard's theme from ''Sophie'', so perceptive players may be able to pick his true identity out early.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: For all his attempts to seem cool and collected, he's not without his ButtMonkey moments, to the point where [[spoiler:he eventually gives into the temptation of being coddled by Pamela despite identifying as a grown adult who's lived 500 years.]] As his voice actor comment says, "as soon as you think he's smart, he does something stupid."

* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:He's Luard, Plachta's childhood friend from 500 years ago. Unlike Plachta, who spent much of that time dormant in a book, he's lived through all of those 500 years, too.]]

* VagueAge: His age is given as simply "???" in official materials, and he's only called a "boy" or "young man" by those around him. [[spoiler:It's still unclear how old his current body is supposed to be, but he's been living longer than 500 years.]]

!!Hagel Boldness

* GenerationXerox: While Lydie is marveling at Suelle's questionable naming sense for alchemy items, Roger treats the audience to a flashback where Honette had also given Roger's creations a number of unusual names, including calling a Craft a "Uni Buster". Cut to Lydie presenting Suelle a Craft, and Suelle immediately naming it a "Uni Buster"...

* BalefulPolymorph: Gets subjected to this when Lucia tests medicine on him that turns him into a Puni. (It wears off the next day.)
* ButtMonkey: When he's on screen, it's pretty much a given that nothing is going to go in his favor. For extra humiliation, the player can even have him equip the Puni mask he's wearing in his introduction for the rest of the game.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She's the crown princess of the Adalett Kingdom, yet she's spending her time as a receptionist at the castle.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Bugs, for Suelle. She absolutely cannot ''stand'' them, and will even comment on it in the field if she's set as the player character and has to collect them.

A mysterious young boy about whom almost everything is unknown, who suddenly shows up in Melville, sets up an atelier, and takes an interest in the mysterious paintings the twins are investigating. Despite coming off as cold and blunt, he's actually quite the nice guy.

* ChickMagnet: After word of a "handsome young alchemist" having an atelier in Melville gets out, he ends up getting uncomfortably smothered by women at his atelier for his looks, making it very difficult for him to deal with the giant amount of requests they tend to pile on him when all he wants to do is practice alchemy. After a certain point, he starts hiding in the twins' atelier whenever he's particularly overwhelmed.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He's the final boss of ''Atelier Sophie'', having given up on Ablation Alchemy and come to Melville to start a new life.]]

[[folder:Melville Townspeople]]

The nun from Sophie's town in Kirchen Bell, who got lost on a carriage to Melville and now needs to gather the funds to get home. She retains the same cheery outlook as ever.

* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:After getting the family back together, Drossel decides to depart on a journey to make the best puppet show in the world, leaving her parents behind as Grace isn't quite comfortable with leaving behind her role as a nun in Melville.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Suelle called "Sue" by nearly everyone else in the game, including even the text boxes.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Come off as this superficially, at least in terms of their dispositions. In practice, both of them are equally as prone to mischief -- Lydie is just a lot nicer about it.

* {{Tsundere}}: ...or not; by the time of this game the "tsun" is pretty much gone and she's now shifted entirely to "dere".

Compared to her sister, she has a much softer personality.

!!Lydie Malen
->'''Voiced by:''' Maria Nanagawa (Japanese)

The older of the Malen twins, a kind and sweet young alchemist who dreams of making her family's downtrodden atelier into "the number one atelier in the country". Compared to her sister, she has a much softer personality.

* DeadpanSnarker: Considering she's too nice to be particularly scathing about her criticisms, she tends to come off as this sometimes.
* HearingVoices: Like previous Mysterious series protagonists, she has the ability to hear the voices of alchemy materials, which allows her to make items as according to her wishes. She's also able to hear the mysterious voice ([[spoiler:later revealed to be Honette's]]) coming from the paintings.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite her generally kinder demeanor, she can be just as scathing as Suelle in her observations -- she just delivers it in a nicer manner.
* SquishyWizard: As far as battle goes, Lydie plays as the typical staff-wielding Atelier heroine; she dishes out low skill damage and has poor stats, but she has good support bonuses and is invaluable as an item user.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfit only ''barely'' covers her front and is held together by strings on the side, exposing far more skin than one would expect for a 14-year-old. Even more jarringly, she's apparently been wearing this outfit since she was a ''young child''.

!!Suelle "Sue" Malen
->'''Voiced by:''' Hikaru Akao (Japanese)

The younger of the Malen twins, usually called "Sue". She runs the family atelier with her sister and shares her dream of making it the "best in the country", writing Ambition Notes in a notebook to help them along their goal. Compared to her sister, she's far more outgoing and brash.
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* ActionGirl: Although she plays the role of one of the game's protagonists, in terms of battle she actually plays more like a standard party member than the usual SquishyWizard alchemist (which Lydie takes the role of); although she's not quite as hard-hitting as other party members, her skills do in fact have a reasonable amount of damage and her high speed makes her perfectly viable as a frontliner.
* BookDumb: She has a hard time reading anything above comic book level and is so bad at it that she's borderline illiterate, preferring to leave it all to Lydie.

* FragileSpeedster: Her attacks don't actually do that much damage compared to how much the other members of the party can dish out, but she has high speed and can therefore attack extremely often. This also means that if you put her in the front, whoever's her support partner will be taking a ''lot'' of turns.
* GunsAkimbo: Her weapons of choice. She admits she doesn't actually use them for any reason of practicality; [[RuleOfCool she just thinks they look cool]].
* HearingVoices: Starts off unable to hear voices from the alchemy materials or paintings like Lydie can, but eventually gains the ability over the course of the game.
* TheNicknamer: Has a habit of calling her and Lydie's alchemy creations by extremely odd names -- a trait she apparently got from Honette.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's called "Sue" by nearly everyone else in the game, including even the text boxes.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Early after the game's initial reveal, the official romanization of her name was "Soeur". At some point the name was abruptly changed to "Suelle", with even the logo getting a last-minute change. Presumably, Gust realized that [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign naming a character "Sister" may not be the best idea]].
* TaughtByTelevision: Uses GunsAkimbo mainly because she thinks they look cool in comics.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Bugs. She absolutely cannot ''stand'' them, and will even comment on it in the field if she's set as the player character and has to collect them.

!!Matthias Ferrié Adalet

* {{Tsundere}}: All of her "ambitions" aside, she legitimately wants to be friends with the twins -- she just puts up a front of being hih and mighty.

A childhood friend of the twins, who runs her prestigious family's shop Atelier Voltaire. While known for being a "flower outside everyone's reach" to the townspeople, she's far more ambitious than that might suggest -- but she also is legitimately kind-hearted, and ''really'' wants to be friends with the twins.

* HeroicBSOD: Momentarily ''shuts down completely'' when the twins ask her about her dreams in life -- apparently she'd been so focused on inheriting the family atelier she'd completely forgotten to even consider any personal goals. Eventually, she decides that kind of goal is good enough for her.

* DarkIsNotEvil: His methods of alchemy are dangerous and even "evil" by his own admission, but he's dedicated himself to using it helping the populace. [[spoiler:His entire ordeal with coming to terms with his past makes it abundantly clear he has no intention of going back to using it for selfish purposes, like he did as Luard.]] Fritz comments that if he's using it in that way, it can't be called "evil" alchemy.]]

* ForScience: His main interest is in practicing alchemy for the sake of alchemy itself, to the point he even stops bothering with the alchemy exams after rank B because he doesn't care about the money. He does, however, have a genuine interest in using it to help others, [[spoiler:unlike in the past when his obsession with it led him to develop Ablation Alchemy at the potential cost of everyone's livelihoods]].

* KickChick: Most alchemists use some kind of staff or weapon to ambush enemies, and Firis and Lydie would normally use their staves to break rocks or harvest from trees, but Suelle's preferred method is to just kick them. (This doesn't apply to actual battle, though, where she prefers her pistols.]]

* LegendaryInTheSequel: Although not quite legendary to those around her, Sophie is now so strong she can nearly take down a ''god'' (or, at least, an extremely strong, nearly invincible demon) in one hit. Apparently she could even perform time travel if she wanted to, but abstains...because she doesn't think it's interesting enough.

* HeroicBSOD: Momentarily ''shuts down completely'' when the twins ask her about her dreams in life -- apparently she'd been so focused on inheriting the family atelier she'd completely forgotten to even consider any personal goals. Eventually, she decides that kind of goal is good enough for her.

!!Ilmeria von Leinweber

The protagonist of ''[[VideoGame/AtelierFirisTheAlchemistAndTheMysteriousJourney the previous game]]'', who's still continuing her travels around the world as an alchemist. She's also matured quite greatly in the last four years, and has come to work extremely well with Ilmeria.

!!Grace
->'''Voiced by:''' Sayaka Kinoshita (Japanese)

A nun who works at the local church, who [[OlderThanTheyLook is actually in her fifties despite looking like she's in middle age]]. She seems to be repenting for something in her past...

* SurpassingTheTeacher: Sophie [[spoiler:getting Plachta a human body]] marks the point when she officially surpasses Plachta in alchemic skill. While Plachta maintains that she's surprisingly much happier about this than she would have been in her more competitive youth, she initially worries that she'll be holding Sophie back if she stays with her before Sophie reassures her that she still wants her around as a friend.

* Really500YearsOld: [[spoiler:He's Luard, Plachta's childhood friend from 500 years ago. Unlike Plachta, who spent much of that time dormant in a book, he's lived through all of those 500 years, too.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: As his voice actor comment says, "as soon as you think he's smart, he does something stupid."

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenyuuHoriuchi and Creator/AriOzawa (Japanese)

!!Lydie

!!Suelle Malen

!!Ald

* WalkingSpoiler: His past as [[spoiler:Luard]].