History Characters / Gosick

* WaifFu: In Episode 23 [[spoiler:during her fight with de Blois]], Cordelia shows moves that would make [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] [[IncrediblyLamePun green with envy]].

* {{Expy}}: Of ''Manga/RozenMaiden'''s Shinku. The long blond hair, the ElegantGothicLolita dresses, the reserved, yet bossy attitude, the red dress she wears in the OP and the fact she is constantly compared to a doll makes it blatant obvious. Her mother is even voiced by Shinku's [[Creator/MiyukiSawashiro seiyuu]].

* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: As loyal as they are to Cordelia, they have motives that can cause her harm, or at least, her daugther harm]].

* DoggedNiceGuy: [[spoiler:Was initially this to Cordelia, frequenting her stage show to see her and admire her. He didn't stop caring about her after the debalce with Alber du Bois, mind, but their relationship got a lot more complicated very quickly.]]

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Among other things, Victorique is able to use a revolver to hit a target the size of a box of cigarettes at several hundred meters from a speeding train despite never picked one up in her life - all she needed was for Kujo to help her support it.

%%* TeensAreShort

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The queen is adored by most of Sauville before and after her death.

* ShanaClone: She's an OlderThanSheLooks petite teenage {{Tsundere}} with really long blond hair who wears ElegantGothicLolita style dresses and is fond of sweets. She also comes from a noble family and refers to her LoveInterest as her servant. However, she is also based off Shinku from ''Manga/RozenMaiden''.

* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler: As loyal as they are to Cordelia, they have motives that can cause her harm, or at least, her daugther harm]].

%%* CryCute

* GoodParents: Despite the circumstances behind Victorique's birth which made it impossible for Cordelia to raise her, Cordelia loves her daughter more than anything and protecting her is her only wish.

* MamaBear: Her only wish is to protect her precious daughter Victorique.

* HopelessSuitor: She quickly develops a crush on Kujo, but he's too focused
on Victorique to even try to notice it.

* NewTransferStudent: She transfers to St. Marguerite Academy shortly after the series began. She was absent for a while of it, though, [[spoiler: as she was tied up and impersonated by the Second Kuiaran]].

* ConMan: His other job when he's not being a stage magician... and sometimes when he is.

* OffscreenTeleportation: An accomplished expert. [[spoiler:It helps that there's two of him.]]

* PoisonousFriend: To [[spoiler:Cordelia]].

* SingleMindedTwins: [[spoiler:So much that you, the viewer, couldn't tell they are two separate people util both of them appeared side-by-side.]]

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:One of the Roscoes stays behind and dies along Cordelia shortly after she kills Albert.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:In the year after Cordelia's kidnapping, the brothers went from a shy fan to talented magicians able to rescue Cordelia from an asslyum.]]
* TricksterTwins: [[spoiler:Shady, but mostly benign, magcians who are skilled in using their similaity to fool others.]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:The end of Episode 22 is basically one big puppy stomping fest for him. When Kujo comes to him for help after nearly being sent back to Japan, he takes him as hostage to blackmail Victorique into obeying the Ministry of the Occult. This is the first time he does something overtly villainous, showing how misplaced Kujo trust in him is.]]

* NiceHat: Most of the time, he wears a narrow-brimmed hat.

* NiceHat: He has several.

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* NiceHat: He wears a cone-shaped hat.

* ItAmusedMe: In Episode 13 when Kazuya says it should be OK for him to use the library lift Victorique responds: "Seeing you huffing and puffing in agony, your out-of-shape thighs straining as you plod up and down the stairs for me... [[LargeHam Is one of my greatest pleasures!]]"

* BoyishShortHair: Her haircut is roughly as short as Kazuya's, only messier. Cecile states to love it. She herself is not boyish.

* HopelessSuitor: She quickly develops a crush on Kujo, but he's too focused on Victorique to even try to notice it.

* {{Bishonen}}: He's actually quite a looker with his hair down. Kazuya and Cecile initially don't recognize him at one point because they're so used to seeing his [[ImprobableHairstyle hair styled in an improbable manner]].

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* {{Bishounen}}: He's a very pretty-looking boy.

* RapunzelHair: Her blonde hair reaches her ankles, suitably long and beautiful for an aristocratic young girl who doesn't get out much.

* RapunzelHair: Like her daughter, her hair reaches her ankles. Why she keeps her hair this long is not mentioned, since she is much more active than her daughter.

%%* ThinkTwins

* {{Meganekko}}: A cute SenseiChan with large glasses.

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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwaSaito (Drama CD) and Creator/AoiYuki (Anime) (Japanese), Creator/ApphiaYu (English)

* {{Expy}}:
** Of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette (both the [[UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette general version]] and the ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' character): a young, beautiful princess who [[ArrangedMarriage marries]] and moves to a faraway country, only to meet with a tragic end.
** Or, perhaps, of empress Sissi ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Elisabeth_of_Austria Elisabeth of Austria]]), also a young princess who married a foreign sovereign, and remembered as protagonist of a romantic and unhappy history. She loved to stay in the country and was murdered ([[spoiler:stabbed]]). They even have similar sounding names.

* FlowerMotifs: The rose. She is the ''Blue Rose'', and she really liked Leviathan trick with blue roses.

* MixedAncestry: Her father is from Sauville and her mother from the Village of the Grey Wolves, a small HumanSubspecies community with shared characteristics: they're all [[ShorterMeansSmarter short]], and have [[RapunzelHair long blond hair]], green-eyed and [[SuperIntelligence Super Intelligent]], capable of AwesomenessByAnalysis, {{Sherlock Scan}}s and even prophecies.

* MixedAncestry: [[spoiler:They are mixed-blooded Gray Wolves.]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuiHorie (Drama CD) and Yui Kano (Anime) (Japanese), Creator/KristenMcGuire (English)