History Characters / BreathOfFireDragonQuarter

A 16 year-old Ranger and the protagonist of the game. He acts as the part's melee unit and tank, wielding a sword and shield.

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Ryu is determined to do anything to save Nina, and doesn't care who gets in.

* DeadlyUpgrade: While drawing on Odjn's power lets Ryu kill enemies quickly, if his counter maxes out he will get a NonStandardGameOver.

* HellishPupils: When drawing on Odjn's power his irises turn red and his pupils become vertical slits.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:After Ryu dies killing Chetyre, Odjn resurrects him as a sign of respect to his Chosen]].

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Ryu is simply drawning the power of a dragon, but when he uses it, it's enough to make him all but invincible given there is almost nothing that can hurt him.
* NoSell: Ryu's dragon form is immune to any attack that doesn't come from other dragons. The only reason the player can't take advantage of its invulnerability to win ever fight in the game is because overusing it causes a NonStandardGameOver.

* CuteMute: Nina's a sweet 12 year-old girl who can't speak -- but for a ''particularly'' disturbing reason. She's mute because the people who experimented on her decided "a tool doesn't need to speak."
* HeroicMime: She ''used'' to be able to speak until the surgeries performed on her. The only thing she is able to say is her name, and even that little bit is implied to be extremely challenging.
Actually a subverted/deconstructed example, deconstructed as her silence is literal mutism rather than being a player insert, and is acknowledged in-universe, and subverted as she's actually not the protagonist, and Ryu talks.

* MysticalWaif: She's a young girl in a white dress with ''very'' potent magical abilities. To say nothing of the [[spoiler:air filters that are her wings.]]

* PeopleJars: Nina is actually a prototype -- at one point, Lin discovers [[spoiler: a room full of [[BodyHorror headless Nina clones]] in jars. Being headless wasn't the only thing biologically wrong about those, either]].

* WingedHumanoid: While she appears to have upside-down wings on her back, unlike the other ''Franchise/BreathOfFire'' Ninas her "wings" are in fact genetically engineered air filters -- basically modified gills or book-lungs.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The polluted air of the underground world is harsher for Nina due to her status as a living air filter - she is outright stated to have very little time left to live if she remains underground. This prompts Ryu's quest to reach for the sky and save her life.

A 21 year-old CatGirl and member of the Resistance, sent to capture Nina. She and Ryu team up to protect Nina; and she serves as the party's ranged unit, wielding a pistol.

* HeelFaceTurn: Lin first appears as an enemy and attacks the train Ryu and Bosch are escorting, but she pulls an EnemyMine with Ryu to escort Nina to Trinity and -- upon learning of Trinity's less-than-noble intentions -- betrays them to help Ryu take her to the surface.

* ComicallyLopsidedRivalry: After being beaten badly by Ryu after he bonded with Odjn, Bosch becomes obsessed with killing Ryu at any cost. Despite Bosch nearly murdering him at one time, Ryu was more concerned about reaching the planet surface with Nina and Lin.

* DraconicHumanoid: After bonding to Chetyre, he becomes able to transform into a humanoid monster pale skin, horns, molten-looking talons and back-spines, and VolcanicVeins.
* EvilCounterpart: He is this to Ryu, coming from a rich family with a high D-Ratio whereas Ryu has a rock-bottom D-Ratio. However, both are swordsmen [[spoiler: and even wind up bonded to rival dragons]].
* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: ''Half Bosch's face'' when he has the [[spoiler: Franchise/{{Terminator}}-esque grafting of Chetyre's arm, and completely when he eventually reaches a HalfHumanHybrid state proper]].

* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Gives one to Ryu early in the game, [[spoiler:and gets one himself from Chetyre at the end of the game.]]
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: This is the biggest reason for Bosch's ComicallyLopsidedRivalry with Ryu. Believing himself to be one of TheProudElite of Sheldar, Bosch gradually becomes obsessed with killing Ryu, whom he saw as a worthless grunt with too much-undeserved power. Bosch's obsession grows each time Ryu beats him or demonstrates his power. [[spoiler:It reaches a point when Bosch willingly sacrifices his humanity in order to gain the power to finally kill Ryu by bonding with Chetyre]].

* TraumaCongaLine: During his WeCanRuleTogether speech, Bosch outlines his plans for the future to Ryu. Then Lin blows up the train they're on, [[spoiler: he's told to destroy the cargo they were transporting at all costs, gets his butt kicked by Ryu's dragon form, and watches his boss get killed in front of his eyes.]] Even after he replaces almost half his body with the arm of one of Chetyre's former Chosen, he still can't keep up with Ryu.
* TronLines: After Bosch has his left arm replaced with that of one of Chetyre's Chosen, it overtakes the left side of his body -- turning it black with glowing blue lines.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Makes the offer to Ryu early in the game, but seeing how he stabbed Ryu in the throat when they next met, the offer was retracted.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Elyon became head of what would become the Regents by kicking Deamoned's ass [[spoiler: when he was still a Chosen of Odjn.]]
* TheChessmaster: Almost ''everything'' in Sheldar ultimately boils down to ThePlan of some sort by Elyon. [[spoiler: The entire establishment of the D-Ratio system and the Regents, the plan to have Ryu become a Chosen of Odjn, and the backup plan of the PeopleJars full of headless Nina clones...]]
* DeadlyUpgrade: Linking with a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent D-Construct]] is pretty much inevitably fatal. [[spoiler: Even the ultimately ''rejected'' link with Odjn is slowly killing Elyon. The scene revealing this even has half of Elyon's face show GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: Elyon is ultimately rejected by [[spoiler: Odjn when he refuses to open the sky -- fearing it was not his decision and fearing he would be placing all of Sheldar at risk.]]
* PrecursorHeroes: Elyon is revealed to have been Odjn's previous Chosen, but became paranoid that his desire to reach the sky was a result of the D-Construct influencing him rather than his own will. He terminated his link with Odjn, killed him, and instigated a SecretTestOfCharacter for future Chosen -- all of whom except Ryu failed]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His irises are red with slitted pupils, a permanent stigmata from when he was [[spoiler:a Chosen.]]

* KnightTemplar: He trains Bosch literally from toddlerhood in gladiatorial combat -- because he feels it's a necessity to protect Sheldar from rogue Genics, [[spoiler: including and ''especially'' the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent D-Constructs]]. It's also ''very'' strongly implied that he killed everyone who bonded with a D-Construct from the time Elyon bonded (and was rejected) by Odjn up to when Ryu became a Chosen.]]

* FoxFolk: She [[LittleBitBeastly has fox ears]] and concept art shows she was going to have a tail too, like Lin, but her final design doesn't have one.

* AntiVillain: He's rooting for the heroes to succeed, even if he's stilling willing to fight them.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: An interesting subversion in Deamoned's case. It's implied he was the original leader of the Regents... [[spoiler:until an Odjn-possessed Elyon kicked his ass and took his eye.]]

* ScarsAreForever: He lost his left eye to [[spoiler:an Odjn-ridden Elyon. He was so impressed by this that he stuck around.]]

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Odjn is a D-Construct -- a powerful Genic bioweapon based on the dragons that rendered the surface world uninhabitable -- and as such possesses a D-Ratio of 1/2.

* PunnyName: Arma -- the girl wielding a sword and shield -- sells a wide assortment of armaments.

* TheDragon: It's revealed he is this [[spoiler: to ''Elyon'', of all people. It's strongly implied that Trinity is in fact a faux LaResistance designed to allow Sheldar's inhabitants to rebel without threatening the Regents and Elyon's plan.]]

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Chetyre is a D-Construct -- a powerful Genic bioweapon based on the dragons that rendered the surface world uninhabitable -- and as such possesses a D-Ratio of 1/2.
* OrganAutonomy: His former Chosen's arm twitches and flexes randomly after being grafted to Bosch, and [[spoiler:seemingly tears his throat out when he loses against Ryu.]]

* NoSell: While other D-Constructs and their Chosen are invulnerable to everything except draconic attacks, Dover's moniker of the "Anti-Dragon" comes from his ability to change his defenses become immune to other dragons.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Like Odjn and Chetyre, Dover is a D-Construct -- a powerful Genic bioweapon based on the dragons that rendered the surface world uninhabitable -- and as such possesses a D-Ratio of 1/2. However, he doesn't doesn't have a Chosen and is instead imprisoned in the depths of Kokon Horay. He also has four legs and two mangled wings, while Odjn and Chetyre are wyvern-type dragons.

* CuteMute: Nina's a sweet 12 year-old girl who can't speak -- but for a ''particularly'' disturbing reason. She's mute because of the experiments performed on her.
* HeroicMime: She ''used'' to be able to speak until the surgeries performed on her. The only thing she is able to say is her name, and even that is implied to be challenging.

* EyesAlwaysShut: She opens them very occasionally. This seems to invoke a BlindSeer archetype given her precognitive abilities but it's not made clear whether she's actually blind or not.

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->Voiced by: Creator/KappeiYamaguchi

* AudienceSurrogate: Per [[WordOfGod Word of Capcom]] in interviews with the producers.
* BattleAura: His D-Dash summons a fiery red one that knocks back enemies.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When transforming his eyes turn solid red.

* HeroicRROD: Maxing out the D-Counter at any point [[spoiler: except at the end]] results in a NonStandardGameOver.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ryu dies killing Chetyre, but gets better thanks to Odjn]].
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Gets one courtesy of Bosch early in the game. It triggers his OneWingedAngel.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Specifically, warning of imminent burnination.

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->Voiced by: Creator/KyokoHikami

* BodyHorror: She was abducted and genetically modified to be an air purifier.

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->Voiced by: Creator/KumikoWatanabe

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[[folder:Others]]

!! Odjn (1/2)
->Voiced by: Creator/UnshoIshizuka

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* BilingualBonus: His name is [[YouAreNumberSix Russian for "one"]].
* BodyHorror: What his contracts tend to inflict on the Chosen. Odjn himself happens to be a rotting corpse crucified against a wall.
* EtTuBrute: He was pinned to that wall [[spoiler:due to Elyon's rejecting their link]], and he is ''pissed.''
* GentleGiant: Particularly compared to Chetyre and Dva, who are both complete basket cases. He calls Ryu his "little friend" [[spoiler:and breaks their link after the sky is finally opened to prevent Ryu's death]].
* GrandTheftMe: A game over by maxing Ryu's D-Counter will show Odjn bursting out of his body.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Associated with the song "Origin", which features an EtherealChoir and often accompanied by a HeartBeatSoundtrack.
* NonHumanUndead: Of the {{Dracolich}} variety. His bond with Ryu will cause him to be reborn if the D-Counter is maxed out.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Odjn is a D-Construct -- a powerful Genic bioweapon based on the dragons that rendered the surface world uninhabitable -- and as such possesses a D-Ratio of 1/2.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:He resurrects Ryu at the end of the game as a show of respect for Ryu's determination.]]
* RedBaron: "The Thousand-Year Destroyer".
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->Voiced by: Creator/KentaroIto

* TraumaCongaLine: During his WeCanRuleTogether speech, Bosch outlines his plans for the future to Ryu. Then Lin blows up the train they're on, [[spoiler: he's told to destroy the cargo they were transporting at all costs, gets his butt kicked by Ryu's dragon form, and watches his boss get killed in front of his eyes.]] Even after he replaces almost half his body with a D-Construct, he still can't keep up with Ryu.
* TronLines: The D-Construct is covered in blue lines.

!! Elyon
->Voiced by: Creator/KentaroIto

* RedEyesTakeWarning: A permanent stigmata from when he was [[spoiler:a Chosen.]]

!! Cupid
->Voiced by: Creator/KumikoWatanabe

!! Vexacion

* [[LastDiscMagic Last Disc Skill]]: One of Ryu's best Level 3 skills, Terabreak, is stolen from him.

!! Violet Zeno (1/128)

* ActionGirl: Eventually transitioning to DarkActionGirl in practice [[spoiler: after Ryu's [HeelFaceTurn.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: This is her claim to Ryu, that Odjn is controlling him. She asks him to come with her so that she can help. Ryu refuses.
* ConsummateProfessional: Zeno takes her job as Ranger Captain very seriously and she expects the same professionalism of her subordinates. She chews out Bosch after she learns that he returned to the Ranger headquarters without checking on the status of the top-secret cargo he and Ryu were guarding. Later, when she is assigned the mission to kill Nina, Violet Zeno does not let her previous friendship with Ryu hinder her, resulting in her death.
* DualWielding: She wields two violet blades. Ryu can take one when he beats her.
* LastDitchMove: She'll use "Last Resort" if her HP goes down far enough, maxing out her attack and setting her defense to zero.
* {{Mentor}}: She was once Ryu's instructor and, among the cast of ''Dragon Quarter'', had the closest friendship with Ryu before he met Nina and Lin.
* {{Ranger}}: She is the Captain of the Sheldar Rangers.
* StoicSpectacles: Stay composed, even when fighting one of her former subordinates.
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!! Hortensia

!! Jezuit
->Voiced by: Creator/KentaroIto

* {{Intangibility}}: Is the main gimmick of his boss fight, along with VisibleInvisibility.

* WolverineClaws: Fights with these.

!! Deamoned

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: An interesting subversion in Deamoned's case. It's implied he was the original leader of the Regents... [[spoiler: Until an Odjn-possessed Elyon kicked his ass and took his eye.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He's almost 1000.
* ScarsAreForever: He lost his left eye to [[spoiler: an Odjn-ridden Elyon. He was so impressed by this that he stuck around.]]

!! Mebeth

* TheDragon: It's revealed he is this [[spoiler: to ''Elyon'', of all people. It's strongly implied that Trinity is in fact a faux LaResistance designed to allow Sheldar's inhabitants to rebel without threatening the Regents and Elyon's plan.]]
* LaResistance: Is the leader of the official resistance to the government.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: And now we ''really'' want to know what sort of life-extension technology the Regents have...

!! Chetyre

* ZeroEffortBoss: He is defeated [[spoiler:by Ryu maxing out his counter using D-Breath on her]].
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* BerserkButton: Threatening Ninja really sets him off, to say nothing of [[ThisIsUnforgivable his reaction]] when meeting with one of the scientists responsible for her current situation and witnessing the treatment she receives.

* FoxFolk: See LittleBitBeastly below.

* LittleBitBeastly: She has fox ears. Concept art shows she was going to have a tail too, like Lin, but her final design doesn't have one.

* Intangibility: Is the main gimmick of his boss fight, along with VisibleInvisibility.

* BerserkButton: Threatening Nina ''really'' sets him off.

* GentleGiant: Particularly compared to Chetyre and Dva, who are both complete basket cases. He calls Ryu his "little friend" [[spoiler:and breaks their link after the sky is finally opened]].

* PettingZooPeople: The long floppy ears makes Cupid look part rabbit.

* PettingZooPeople: She has fox ears. Concept art shows she was going to have a tail too, like Lin, but her final design doesn't have one.

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%%* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally she was to be revealed as being Deis.

[[folder: Non-Playable Characters]]

* Leitmotif: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_5C8JIYmlE Calling from a Distance]], an oppressive song which features an EtherealChoir and an OminousPipeOrgan.

!! Odjn

* BodyHorror: He grafts a D-Construct to his left arm in order to amplify his power.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: A permanent stigmata from when he was [[spoiler: a Chosen.]]

* ShesAManInJapan: Gender-bended for the US release because of his implied relationship with Elyon.

* TheDragon: It's revealed he is this [[spoiler: to ''Elyon'', of all people. It's strongly implied that Trinity is in fact a faux LaResistance designed to allow Sheldar's inhabitants to rebel without threatening the Regents and Elyon's plan.]]

* BigBad: Of the HijackedByGanon variety.
* BilingualBonus / YouAreNumberSix: Her name is Russian for ''[[FourIsDeath four]]''.
* BodyHorror: Until her regeneration, all we see of her is an arm in a test tube.
* DrivenToVillainy: Or something. Whatever happened to her, she is ''not'' happy about it.
* GrandTheftMe: She [[spoiler:takes over Bosch's body]].
* HijackedByGanon: Takes over Bosch and uses him to restore her body.

* OrganAutonomy: Her arm twitches and flexes randomly after being grafted to Bosch, and [[spoiler: seemingly tears his throat out when he loses against Ryu.]]
* RedBaron: She is known as the "Old Deep".
* ZeroEffortBoss: She is defeated [[spoiler: by Ryu maxing out his counter using D-Breath on her]].

* BodyHorror: Genetically modified to be an air purifier.
* CuteMute: But in a ''particularly'' disturbing fashion. She can't speak due to the experiments performed on her.

* SlaveBrand: The symbol on her head is one of these: Nina is marked as a low-D. [[spoiler:This is part of the reason why she was viewed as an object.]]
* WingedHumanoid: A bit of a subversion to the usual Franchise/BreathOfFire Nina Trope. [[spoiler: Her "wings" are in fact genetically engineered air filters -- basically modified gills or book-lungs.]]

* NonHumanUndead: Of the {{Dracolich}} variety. His bond with Ryu will cause him to be reborn.

[[folder: Playable characters]]

* DeadlyUpgrade: While drawing on Odjn's power lets Ryu kill enemies quickly, if his counter maxes out, he will get a NonStandardGameOver.

** AlmightyJanitor: His D-Ratio is 1/8192 but he ends up beating people with D-Ratios over 1/64.

** GlowingEyesOfDoom: When transforming his eyes turn solid red.

* CuteMute: But in a ''particularly'' disturbing fashion.

* MysticalWaif: She's a young girl in a white dress with ''very'' potent magical abilities. To say nothing of the [[spoiler: air filters that are her wings.]]
* PeopleJars: Nina is actually a prototype -- at one point, Lin discovers [[spoiler: a room full of [[BodyHorror headless Nina clones]] in jars]].
** [[spoiler: Being headless]] wasn't the only thing biologically wrong about those, either.

* BilingualBonus / YouAreNumberSix: His name is Russian for "one".

* EtTuBrute: He was pinned to that wall [[spoiler: due to Elyon's rejecting their link]], and he is ''pissed.''
* GentleGiant: Particularly compared to Chetyre and Dva, who are both complete basket cases. He calls Ryu his "little friend" [[spoiler: and breaks their link after the sky is finally opened]].

* NonHumanUndead: Of the {{Dracolich}} variety.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: He resurrects Ryu at the end of the game as a show of respect for Ryu's determination.]]

* BreakTheHaughty: He becomes increasingly psychotic after Dragon!Ryu tears him a new one and kills their boss.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: This is the biggest reason for Bosch's ComicallyLopsidedRivalry with Ryu. Believing himself to be one of TheProudElite of Sheldar, Bosch gradually becomes obsessed with killing Ryu, whom he saw as a worthless grunt with too much undeserved power. Bosch's obsession grows each time Ryu beats him or demonstrates his power. [[spoiler:It reaches a point when Bosch willingly sacrifices his humanity in order to gain the power to finally kill Ryu by bonding with Chetyre]].

* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Silently pleads for Ryu to give him this after being defeated for the final time, presumably because he can feel Chetyre beginning to take over his body. Ryu grants his wish, but Chetyre ends up bursting out of his corpse anyway.]]

* TheRival: Plays this role initially, though he makes a WeCanRuleTogether offer at the beginning of the game. This transitions into...
** RivalTurnedEvil following Ryu siding with Trinity.
* RoyalRapier: His weapon of choice.

* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Gives one to Ryu early in the game, [[spoiler: and gets one himself from Chetyre at the end of the game.]]

* {{Ranger}}: Was a member of the Sheldar Rangers.

!! Zeno (1/128)

* {{Ranger}}: Her job description.

* LukeIAmYourFather: He is Bosch's father. This is only shown in cutscenes, however.

%%* {{Tsundere}}: Type A.

* SoProudOfYou: Secretly, he's happy that a Low-D bonded to a dragon. Jezuit is implied to have a much lower D-ratio than the other reagents.

* HeroicMime: She ''used'' to be able to speak until the surgeries performed on her removed that ability.

* MysticalWaif: She's a young girl in a white dress with ''very'' potent magical abilities.

%%* PettingZooPeople

* LukeIAmYourFather: He is Bosch's father.

* ActionGirl: Eventually transitioning to DarkActionGirl in practice [[spoiler: after Ryu's [[HeelFaceTurn Ranger Trinity Turn]].]]
%%* {{Ranger}}

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* AudienceSurrogate: Per [[WordOfGod Word Of Capcom]] in interviews with the producers.

* HeroicRROD: Maxing out the D-Counter at any point [[spoiler:except at the end]] results in a NonStandardGameOver.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Ryu dies killing Chetyre, but gets better thanks to Odjn]].

* BarefootPoverty: Nina (viewed as an object by the corporation) is dressed only in a tattered white smock, and barefoot. (Her default armor is "slaveclothes.")

* PeopleJars: Nina is actually a prototype -- at one point, Lin discovers [[spoiler:a room full of [[BodyHorror headless Nina clones]] in jars]].
** [[spoiler:Being headless]] wasn't the only thing biologically wrong about those, either.
* WingedHumanoid: A bit of a subversion to the usual Franchise/BreathOfFire Nina Trope. [[spoiler:Her "wings" are in fact genetically engineered air filters--basically modified gills or book-lungs.]]

* BilingualBonus[=/=]YouAreNumberSix: His name is Russian for "one".

* EtTuBrute: He was pinned to that wall [[spoiler:due to Elyon's rejecting their link]], and he is ''pissed.''
* GentleGiant: Particularly compared to Chetyre and Dva, who are both complete basket cases. He calls Ryu his "little friend" [[spoiler:and breaks their link after the sky is finally opened]].
* GrandTheftMe: A game over by maxing Ryu's D-Counter will show Odjn bursting out of his body.

* EvilCounterpart: He is this to Ryu, coming from a rich family with a high D-Ratio whereas Ryu has a rock-bottom D-Ratio. However, both are swordsmen [[spoiler:and even wind up bonded to rival dragons]].
* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: ''Half Bosch's face'' when he has the [[spoiler:Franchise/{{Terminator}}-esque grafting of Chetyre's arm, and completely when he eventually reaches a HalfHumanHybrid state proper]].
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Gives one to Ryu early in the game, [[spoiler:and gets one himself from Chetyre at the end of the game.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: During his WeCanRuleTogether speech, Bosch outlines his plans for the future to Ryu. Then Lin blows up the train they're on, [[spoiler:he's told to destroy the cargo they were transporting at all costs, gets his butt kicked by Ryu's dragon form, and watches his boss get killed in front of his eyes.]] Even after he replaces almost half his body with a D-Construct, he still can't keep up with Ryu.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Elyon became head of what would become the Regents by kicking Deamoned's ass [[spoiler:when he was still a Chosen of Odjn.]]
* TheChessmaster: Almost ''everything'' in Sheldar ultimately boils down to ThePlan of some sort by Elyon. [[spoiler:The entire establishment of the D-Ratio system and the Regents, the plan to have Ryu become a Chosen of Odjn, and the backup plan of the PeopleJars full of headless Nina clones...]]
* DeadlyUpgrade: Linking with a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent D-Construct]] is pretty much inevitably fatal. [[spoiler:Even the ultimately ''rejected'' link with Odjn is slowly killing Elyon. The scene revealing this even has half of Elyon's face show GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath.]]
* {{Expy}}: According to an interview, he is a different take on Fou-lu from the previous installment, specifically, a Fou-lu expy who was ''not'' a GodEmperor.

* MyGreatestFailure: Elyon is ultimately rejected by [[spoiler:Odjn when he refuses to open the sky -- fearing it was not his decision and fearing he would be placing all of Sheldar at risk.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: A permanent stigmata from when he was [[spoiler:a Chosen.]]

* DudeLooksLikeaLady: The outfit doesn't really help matters either.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Cupid is just about as old as Elyon.
* ShesAManInJapan: Gender-bended for the US release because of hir implied relationship with Elyon.

* KnightTemplar: He trains Bosch literally from toddlerhood in gladiatoral combat -- because he feels it's a necessity to protect Sheldar from rogue Genics, [[spoiler:including and ''especially'' the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent D-Constructs]]. It's also ''very'' strongly implied that he killed everyone who bonded with a D-Construct from the time Elyon bonded (and was rejected) by Odjn up to when Ryu became a Chosen.]]
* [[LastDiscMagic Last Disc Skill]]: One of Ryu's best level 3 skills, Terabreak, is stolen from him.

* ActionGirl: Eventually transitioning to DarkActionGirl in practice [[spoiler:after Ryu's [[HeelFaceTurn Ranger Trinity Turn]].]]

* LadyofBlackMagic: Elegant, regal, composed, and sporting a revealing dress that shows her underwear.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: An interesting subversion in Deamoned's case. It's implied he was the original leader of the Regents... [[spoiler:until an Odjn-possessed Elyon kicked his ass and took his eye.]]

* ScarsAreForever: He lost his left eye to [[spoiler:an Odjn-ridden Elyon. He was so impressed by this that he stuck around.]]

* TheDragon: It's revealed he is this [[spoiler:to ''Elyon'', of all people. It's strongly implied that Trinity is in fact a faux LaResistance designed to allow Sheldar's inhabitants to rebel without threatening the Regents and Elyon's plan.]]

* BilingualBonus[=/=]YouAreNumberSix: Her name is Russian for ''[[FourIsDeath four]]''.

* OrganAutonomy: Her arm twitches and flexes randomly after being grafted to Bosch, and [[spoiler:seemingly tears his throat out when he loses against Ryu.]]

* ZeroEffortBoss: She is defeated [[spoiler:by Ryu maxing out his counter using D-Breath on her]].

* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Silently pleads for Ryu to give him this after his last defeat, presumably because he can feel Chetyre beginning to take over his body. Ryu grants his wish, but Chetyre ends up bursting out of his corpse anyway.]]

* HeroicRROD: Maxing out the D-Ratio at any point but the end results in a NonStandardGameOver.

* OneWingedAngel: After Bosch stabs him in the neck, Ryu transforms into his dragon form for the first time. He can transform into it in any subsequent battle, but doing so will quickly max out the D-Ratio.

* GrandTheftMe: A game over by maxing Ryu's D-Ratio will show Odjn bursting out of his body.

* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: ''Half Bosch's face'' when he has the [[spoiler:{{Terminator}}-esque grafting of Chetyre's arm, and completely when he eventually reaches a HalfHumanHybrid state proper]].

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]: Ryu [[spoiler:dies killing Chetyre, but gets better thanks to Odjn]].

* Leitmotif: Associated with the song "Origin", which features an EtherealChoir and often accompanied by a HeartBeatSoundtrack.