History Characters / BreakBlade

* BadDreams: He's seen at least once having a dream about [[spoiler:apologizing to Girge for the latter's death]].

* HairDecorations: The hair clip Narvi's usually seen wearing is a gift General True had given her in the past. [[RevealingReflection It saves her once when a reflection one of its broken parts gives off alerts her of Niko's presence before the Athens soldier could assassinate her.]]

%% * ActionMom: Just because she's not in a Golem doesn't mean she can't contribute.
* BadassFamily: The Saburafu's are one of the highly regarded families in Athens for their lineage of outstanding female pilots.
* ThickerThanWater: Being a Saburafu, Elia was duty-bound to turn her daughter in and both of them knew it. Instead, she sides with Cleo.

* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Erekt defeats Cleo in a one-on-one, so she hops into a disabled Golem, throws out the pilot, and comes back in time to shoot the hand holding the gun on his golem.]]

* RetiredBadass: If Erekt's reaction is anything to go by, Elia was a force to be reckoned with and highly respected.

* {{Turncoat}}: A heroic example. She herself wouldn't have done anything about it if Cleo hadn't been so driven in the first place.

%% * AntiHero
%% * NominalHero
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: This seems to be the basic reasoning behind his later loyalty towards Rygart, as the man was the first person to honestly try and get Girge to be somebody--not as his father's son, but as himself.

* BrattyHalfPint: He's a bratty boy and awre of it.

%% * NervesOfSteel

* NecessaryEvil: How he views the atrocities he commits - in his mind, they just happen to be the fastest and most efficient way to permanently end a conflict.

* ChickMagnet: Sigyn, Narvi, and Prederica have all fallen for him.

* {{Bishonen}}: The most prominent example of the whole series, [[LongHairePrettyBoy due to his long locks and rather androgynous appearance]].
%% * BloodKnight

%% * DissonantSerenity

%% * FauxAffablyEvil

%% * GodzillaThreshold: The ''only'' reason he's out on the front lines instead of still being in jail.

%% * PunchClockHero

%% * HairDecorations

* MementoMacguffin: Her hair clip was a gift from General True from years ago.

%% * BikerBabe

%% * {{Bishonen}}: The most prominent example of the whole series.

%% * LongHairedPrettyBoy: Even Narvi is not immune to his good looks in the anime.
%% * MilitaryBrat: An [[AxCrazy ax-crazed]] BloodKnight example.

%% * UnSorcerer

%% * ChildSoldier: As per Athens policy. She also comes from a family of renowned Golem pilots.

%% * EyePatchOfPower

* BigBrotherInstinct: Don't mess with Regatz.

* GoGoEnslavement: [[spoiler:While a captive in Athens, courtesy of a very perverted prison warden.]]

* AcePilot
* AntiVillain

--> "If you stay within 10 meters of me, no one will pick a fight with you. Just don't get any closer than three meters."

* BrokenAce

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: More so in the past, as he seems to have mellowed out by the present. On the other hand...

* OnlySaneMan: Between him, Rygart, and Hodr during their academy days.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:After Rygart seriously injures him, he's forced to stay behind in Athens and recuperate for a large portion of the story]].
** TheBusCameBack: He's now the Chief General.
* TheStoic
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Again, not so much anymore.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After becoming Chief General.
* TroubledButCute: Before meeting Rygart and co., though his (now) wife was actually happy to see him return from the academy as a ''less'' troubled person.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Towards his older brother.

* AntiVillain: The most sympathetic character on Athens' side.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: As Rygart found out.

* ChildSoldier: As per Athens policy. She also comes from a family of renowned Golem pilots.
* CryCute

* [[spoiler:GreatEscape: She and her family attempt to break Sigyn out of prison and back into Krishna territory.]]

* UnstoppableRage

* ActionMom: Just because she's not in a Golem doesn't mean she can't contribute.

--->'''Erekt''': ''"Miss Elia! How could a person of your caliber possibly be this impulsive?!"''
--->'''Elia''': ''"I'm a mother, not some omnipotent goddess. And besides, my heart sides with Cleo on this."''

* [[spoiler:BetterToDieThanBeKilled]]
* ChildSoldier
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* [[spoiler:SacrificialLamb]]

* [[spoiler:DefiantToTheEnd: Even after his Golem is wrecked, he gets out of the cockpit and empties his sidearm into the Delphine until Rygert squashes him.]]
* EyePatchOfPower

* FourStarBadass

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* AntiVillain
* DeathSeeker: General Borcuse suggests that he might be one.
* FaceOfAThug
* AFatherToHisMen
* GentleGiant

* WhatTheHellHero: Leto's reaction to him [[spoiler:resigning from the military]].
* WorthyOpponent: To Nile in the OVA.

* AxCrazy
* BerserkButton: Bringing up her real age is not the smartest idea ever.
* [[spoiler:BloodFromTheMouth: When she dies.]]
* BloodKnight
* BreakTheHaughty: Badass with an attitude, is defeated easily by Girge ''twice.'' After which she finds and tries to [[spoiler: kill Narvi by surprise, and subsequently gets nailed when Narvi sees her reflection.]]
* DarkActionGirl
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Not that she's even a child, but.
* TheFakeCutie

* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:Her death scene suggests that she laments not being an ordinary girl.]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* ThirdPersonPerson: When she's playing up the cutesy act.
* UndyingLoyalty: She's very fond of Colonel Io.
* WorfEffect: See Break the Haughty.

* BerserkButton: Borcuse [[spoiler: killing Girge]] serves as one, later on. The deed itself sends him slightly over the edge but Borcuse taunting him with it...well, it did not end well for him.

* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler:After Girge's death]].

* TookALevelInBadass
* UnSorcerer: TropeNamer.

* BikerBabe

* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler:When Athens captures her]].

* HappilyMarried: Averted. She only married Hodr in hopes of Rygart would do something about it. While she doesn't hate Hodr, it's clear she only thinks of him as a friend and doesn't even wear her wedding ring.
* ModestRoyalty: [[spoiler:Until her divorce.]]

* NoSparks: Tried to love Hodr once. While Hodr clearly loves her with all his heart, she couldn't bring herself to see him as more than a friend.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

* SugarAndIcePersonality

* ZettaiRyouiki: Her civilian outfits tend to sport this.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

* UnwantedSpouse: To Sigyn. As stated above, she doesn't hate him, but clearly doesn't see him as anything more than a friend.
* UptownGirl: He married Sigyn, who was a commoner.
* TheWisePrince
* {{Workaholic}}

* AFatherToHisMen

* ParentalSubstitute: To Rygart [[spoiler:which Girge most certainly takes note of]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* TheStoic

* FriendToAllChildren: His greatest redeeming quality.
* GeneralFailure
* HotBlooded
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* ParentalSubstitute: To Narvi and, to an extent, Nile as well.

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:This is what Nile tells Narvi, knowing that she'd be devastated to hear that he's dead]].
* [[spoiler:SacrificialLamb]]

* ActionGirl
* AmbiguouslyBrown
* BareYourMidriff: In her street clothes.
* CoolBigSis: To her fellow orphans.
* CryCute: [[spoiler:Once she finally learns about General True's death.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: See FacingTheBulletsOneLiner below.
* DrillSergeantNasty: While training Rygart, complete with a megaphone that she'll use even when right next to him.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: To Loggin, after [[spoiler:Girge's death]].
* GlorySeeker: Has some shades of this in the beginning, as she wants to look good to impress General True.

* HairDecorations

* TheLeader: Of the Millennium Corps.

* OneOfTheBoys

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: What she eventually develops into.

* TheSquadette
* {{Tomboy}}
* TomboyishPonytail
* {{Tsundere}}: Towards Rygart the only Ship Tease she gets poor guy.
* ZettaiRyouiki: In her formal wear.

* AmbiguouslyBrown

* SiblingYinYang: As noted in Narvi's section, his likes and dislikes are the opposite of hers.
* WorthyOpponent: To Io in the OVA.

!!Loggin G. Garf Ensans
-> Voiced by: Tomoya Kawai (JP), Creator/DavidMatranga (EN)

The third member of Narvi's squad. He specializes in sniping.

* ColdSniper: Though he's stoic, not callous.
* FaceOfAThug
* GentleGiant
* TheQuietOne
* TheStoic
* TeamDad: Loggin serves as this for Narvi's squad, at least in the anime.

!!Girge G. Ledo Le Albatross
-> Voiced by: Creator/KosukeToriumi (JP), Corey Hartzog (EN)

General Baldr's son. Though initially in prison, he's released due to his skill and put in Narvi's squad.
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* AcePilot: To call him an "Ace" does not even begin to touch it.

* AntiHero/NominalHero

* {{Bishonen}}: The most prominent example of the whole series.
* BloodKnight
* BrokenAce
* BrattyHalfPint: not necessarily a kid, but boy, does he aware of it.
--> Rygart: "You're basically just a bratty-kid!"
--> Girge: "That, I already knew."

* DeathSeeker[=/=]NotAfraidToDie: Rygart thinks he might be the former, though it seems less that Girge actively wants to die and more so that he just doesn't care about living (or much of anything) anymore.
* DissonantSerenity
* EvilRedhead
* FauxAffablyEvil
* FourEyesZeroSoul
* FreudianExcuse
* GodzillaThreshold: The ''only'' reason he's out on the front lines instead of still being in jail.

* [[spoiler:HeelFaceDoorSlam / RedemptionEqualsDeath: He shows signs of changing after Rygart gets through to him, expressing some loyalty and friendship towards him--but then they're captured and Girge sacrifices himself for the other man before anything worthwhile can come out of it]].
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: When he and the others are captured, he claims to be Rygart and is executed in his place]].
* [[spoiler:IAmSpartacus: Does this to Rygart's place]].
* {{Jerkass}}
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Even Narvi is not immune to his good looks in the anime.
* MilitaryBrat: An [[AxCrazy ax-crazed]] BloodKnight example.
* NervesOfSteel
* OneManArmy

* PsychoForHire
* PunchClockHero
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: The Manga depicts him as this once, but the anime subverted this into DissonantSerenity.
* [[spoiler:SacrificialLion]]
* SociopathicHero
* SpecsOfAwesome: He handicapped eight Golems, killed a ninth, and after one year in prison defeated an elite troop of five with a handicapped Golem. He [[UnflinchingWalk didn't get to keep it, though.]]
* StoicSpectacles
* TeamKiller

* VillainProtagonist: At times.

* UnSorcerer

* [[spoiler:EvilAllAlong: He's been working against Krisna from the very beginning, back during their time in the academy]].

* HappilyMarried

* JerkassFacade: He's very determined to cut off all ties with Rygart and co.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* JerkassFacade: He prefers responding to negative feelings by acting like an asshole than admitting that he's upset.
* LaughingMad: [[spoiler:When he kills General Borcuse]].
* LovableCoward: At first.

* NominalHero: At worst.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He's either doing this or he's...

* SpecsOfAwesome: He handicapped eight Golems, killed a ninth, and after one year in prison [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ''creamed'' an elite troop of five with a handicapped Golem]]. He [[UnflinchingWalk didn't get to keep it, though.]]

* BlessedWithSuck

* ClassicalAntiHero

* TheStoic

* TheGoodKing

* NiceGuy

* {{Bookworm}}: Said to have spent hours doing research.

* MsFanservice

* WrenchWench

* AmbiguouslyBrown

* {{Bookworm}}

* PerpetualFrowner

* {{Badass}}: It takes a while, but damn, does he get there.

* {{Badass}}: Is he ''ever''. It's the only reason he's allowed on the team.

* HandicappedBadass: Fighting with a one-legged and one-armed Golem didn't make him any less {{Badass}}. In fact, he [[WorfEffect destroyed an elite troop of five]] with it.

* {{Badass}}

* {{Tsundere}}: Twards Rygart the only Ship Tease she gets poor guy.

* BadassAdorable

* BewareTheNiceOnes: As Rygart found out

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Subverted. She was taught that Krishna was a country of barbarians, who would do unspeakable things to their captives. After her stay with Sigyn in Krishna, she doesn't see them that way anymore. On the other side with her own country's ultra-militaristic views and actions, Zess's growing vendetta against Krishna, [[spoiler:and finally news of Sigyn's impending execution,]] she can't stomach it anymore.

* MumLooksLikeASister: She really looks like Cloe's older sister instead of her mother.

* Turncoat

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy

* RescueRomance: Her feelings for Rygart become more evedent after he rescues her.

* AntiHero: Type V.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: She really looks like Cloe's older sister instead of her mother.

* {{Tsundere}}: Especally twards Rygart the only Ship Tease she gets poor guy.

* {{Tsundere}}

* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: The Manga depicts him as this once, but the anime somewhat heavily subverted this into DissonantSerenity.

!!Lee Siuruan Sharon
-> Voiced by: Creator/YukoKaida (JP), Creator/MaggieFlecknoe (EN)

Part of Zess's squad and a friend of Cleo's who despises Krisna.

-> Voiced by: YuuichiNakamura (JP), Kalob Martinez (EN)

-> Voiced by: KenichiOgata (JP), Creator/ChrisAyres (EN)

-> Voiced by: MasumiAsano (JP), Larry Christian (EN)

-> Voiced by: TakumaTerashima (JP), David Wald (EN)