History Characters / NegimaAlaRubra

* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Arika was a beauty with long blonde hair. Nagi made her his wife, Gödel is still pining after her to this day and even Rakan admits he "fell for her a little". A good percentage of her subjects still adore her despite her being blamed for the destruction of their kingdom.

* IUhYouToo: She couldn't bring herself to tell Nagi "I love you too", but after some prodding, she did admit she couldn't stop thinking about him in the two years she spent in imprisonment.

* ObliviousToLove: Because of her social ineptitude, Arika didn't understand why Nagi went so far to save her until he literally yelled to her that he was in love with her, all while berating her for being so dense. Her son takes after her in romantic cluelessness.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Arika was the princess of a kingdom caught in the crossfire of TheEmpire and TheFederation. Instead of staying comfortable inside a castle, she took an active part in trying and ending the war. It was she, instead of Ala Rubra, who really stopped Cosmo Entelecheia's magic-erasing ritual from destroying the Magic World, although she had to sacrifice her FloatingContinent for it. In the process of Ostia's collapse, Arika led the evacuation of the civilians and personally went to protect the people of the slums from the falling rocks.

* SharedUnusualTrait: Like Asuna, Arika had one blue and one green eye. This serves as a hint that both are princesses of the Ostian royal family.

* DistractedByTheSexy: His weakness is seduction. In fact, Rakan defeated him by making some sexy naked ladies appear to make him flustered, which gave Rakan the perfect chance to knock him out.

* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Shinmeiryuu style.

* FireForgedFriends: He and Arika got along badly since their first meeting, with Nagi calling her the scariest woman he had ever met. After both were attacked by assassins in the middle of shopping, Nagi and Arika took out an enemy base together [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome off-panel]]. They seemed to get friendlier with each other afterwards, although they never stopped getting into fights.

* {{Adorkable}}: The version of Arika in Negi's LotusEaterMachine is constantly nervous and flustered as she wonders how to interact with her own son.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In Chapter 266, the second Ala Rubra flashback starts with Arika hugging Nagi out of nowhere as she sheds a tear and begs him to stay with her for a little longer. Although Nagi tried to joke about it, he knew something ''had'' to be very wrong for a hardass {{Tsundere}} like Arika to act so vulnerable. And soon he learned why; the FloatingContinent of Ostia was about to fall from the sky because of Asuna's sealing so Arika wanted to at least have a moment with peace with Nagi before the catastrophe.

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* NoSocialSkills: Because of her sheltered upbringing, Arika was very blunt, emotionally repressed and avoided getting familiar with Ala Rubra. This is {{exaggerated|trope}} in Negi's LotusEaterMachine where Arika has no idea of how to have a casual conversation with ''her own son'', to Nagi's annoyance.

* CombatMedic: His combat abilities are quite high, but he seems to have played the role of healing mage for Ala Rubra.

* BattleCouple: He and his eventual wife Arika took out an enemy base on what was basically a date.

* {{Tsundere}}: He called Arika a scary cold-hearted princess and denied feeling attracted to her when Rakan teased him about it. He could only admit he did think Arika is cute when his comrades of Ala Rubra tricked him into drinking water of truth.

* BattleCouple: When she forced Nagi to go shopping with her, they were attacked by assassins. Arika refused to sit back and joined Nagi in destroying an enemy headquarters. Both seemed to take a liking to each other afterwards.

* ObliviousToLove: Because of her social ineptitude, Arika didn't understand why Nagi went so far to protect her until he literally yelled to her that he was in love with her, all while berating her for being so dense. Her son takes after her in romantic cluelessness.

* PosthumousCharacter: Barely. He only features as a minor ally of Ala Rubra and an element of the DarkAndTroubledPast of Takamichi and Asuna; we don't know all that much about the man himself.

A calm, collected and skilled warrior excelling in unarmed combat and counter magic. Nagi addresses Zect as "Oshisou", which means the same as "sensei" (i.e. teacher, master in the master/journeyman sense), but is more old-fashioned.

* PosthumousCharacter: Not really. Like Gateau, we know next to nothing about Zect other than him being dead despite him appearing fighting alongside Ala Rubra in flashbacks.

* HimeCut: Her hairstyle consisting of blunt bangs, cheek-length sidelocks, and knee-length straight hair illustrated her status as a princess perfectly.

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He's a very attractive man with long hair worn in a loose ponytail over his left shoulder.

* NervesOfSteel: Arika never lost her cool and kept on a calm facade even in the most dreadful situations, like when Cosmo Entelecheia almost succeeded to erase the Magic World, the collapse of her kingdom in the sky, and her own execution where she was thrown into a canyon full of monsters.

* {{Tsundere}}: A rare [[TheStoic stoic]] Harsh type. Arika was aloof and no-nonsense in general. Nagi came out with one injury or two whenever he talked to Arika. By the end of the war, it was obvious that Arika had fallen for Nagi, but she was too emotionally repressed to show it openly. When Nagi professed his love for her, what was the best she could say in return? "I do not dislike you" with a LuminescentBlush.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never specified what happened to her after giving birth to Negi, although it's safe to assume that she either disappeared or died under unknown circumstances.

His actual age is unknown, but he himself alludes to the fact that he is OlderThanHeLooks. He is currently living underneath Library Island at Mahora.

* BadassBookworm: He was TheSmartGuy for Ala Rubra.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: It's implied early on that Albireo isn't as young as his physical appearance suggests. He later stated that he was "the oldest one present"... at a gathering that included [[OldMaster Headmaster Konoe]], Evangeline, and ''the Lifemaker''.

* TheSmartGuy: Played with role to Nagi for Ala Rubra.

* TimeAbyss: Being older than the Lifemaker (and by extension all of Mundus Magicus) certainly qualifies.

* PermaStubble: Takamichi takes after him in this regard.

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* {{Retcon}}: His first appearance in the group photo of Ala Rubra at Nagi's old house shows him with a different hairstyle than the one he has for most of the Ala Rubra flashback, where his hair looks similar to Nagi's and Negi's. This is HandWaved with the narration stating Princess Theodora cut his hair some time before the climatic battle with Cosmo Entelecheia.

** When Cosmo Entelecheia finished their doomsday ritual and Ala Rubra thought everything was lost, Arika showed up leading TheCavalry and managed to eliminate the ball of light that would erase the Magic World.

Takamichi's master. Deceased.

* BigBrotherMentor: To Takamichi.
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* MultiEthnicName: A French first name, a Japanese middle name, and a Dutch surname.

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* PosthumousCharacter: Barely. He only features as an element of the DarkAndTroubledPast of Takamichi and Asuna; we don't know all that much about the man himself.
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* YinYangBomb: The kanka technique combines magic with ki, which normally isn't possible.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She was quite a bit rude and unfriendly to the members of Ala Rubra, especially Nagi. However, this was caused by having NoSocialSkills instead of a plain meanness. According to Tosaka, Arika was kind to her subjects and their safety was her first priority.

* TsurimeEyes: Her eye shape emphasizes her strong will and {{Tsundere}}ness towards Nagi.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Knows the rules of magic but chooses to ignore them. To be fair, he tries to give a reasonable explanation about some of his "impossible" feats. This is later subverted with Negi's research. He's actually an expert in magical theory and knows the loopholes to just about any "absolute". He even knows enough strategy to take precautions against likely tactics for someone like him, such as gaining physical contact before a battle begins, all the while making it look like he's just a perverted idiot whose first reaction to cute enemies is to steal their panties. Moral being, never assume anything Rakan does is meaningless idiocy.

* ActionDad: Being a dad doesn't stop him from being badass.

* FieryRedhead: Negi got his red hair from his father. Unlike his mild-tempered son, Nagi's personality was as fierce as the color of his hair.

* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler:Asks Negi to come find and kill him, although considering that he's the Lifemaker's current meat-puppet, it's unclear who's really saying it.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: During the great war, Nagi was sort of an insolent brat who tried to solve everything with fighting. He did honestly care about Asuna and especially Arika, going to great lengths to save the latter.
* KnightInShiningArmor: He singlehandedly defeated the leader of the evil organization, was awarded as a war hero and rescued the beautiful princess to marry her.

* SkywardScream: Seems to be fond of this back in his Ala Rubra days.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Was beloved by the people of Ostia. Only a handful of them resented her for the destruction of their country.

* DemotedToSatelliteLoveInterest: This happens to her between the two Ala Rubra movies. In the first part, Arika is a very influential authority figure and Ala Rubra's most valuable ally in the war, to the point she was the one who gathered enough allies to contain Asuna's AntiMagic that would have erased the Magic World. In the second part, Arika loses her kingdom and is sentenced to death by the Megalomesembria senate, reducing her to a DamselInDistress so Nagi can pull off a heroic rescue and ask her to marry him. The story never bothers to address what became of her after that point and there's not even a confirmation of whether she died after the birth of her son Negi.

* {{Knighting}}: Arika informally knighted Nagi when she asked him to fight for her so they could save the Magic World from the war and Cosmo Entelecheia.

* MissingMom: It seems she disappeared off the face of the earth before her son Negi could remember her. Unlike his father, Negi never knew anything about Arika until he saw the Ala Rubra movies and later got a confirmation from Gödel and Rakan that she was his mother. In the end, it's never explained why Arika wasn't present in Negi's life nor confirmed whether she's already dead even if it's very likely.

* SharedUnusualTrait: Like Asuna, Arika had one blue and one green eye. It's possible this is a characteristic trait of the Ostian royal family members.

* WalkThePlank: Her death sentence by the Megalomesembria senate was to jump into a canyon full of monsters and be brutally devoured by them. Of course, they didn't count on Nagi jumping into the canyon too in order to rescue Arika.

* WhiteSheep: Apparently, all the royalty of Vespertatia was either corrupted or manipulated by Cosmo Entelecheia. Arika was the one exception, seeking to save her world from being destroyed by Cosmo Entelecheia's machinations.

* {{BFS}}: His artifact can turn into very large blades, ranging from long daggers to '''Skyscraper-sized''' (the biggest so far being the "Warship Crasher").
* BiggerIsBetter: One of his giant-summoned-sword-based attacks is called the "Zankanken", possibly a pun on the Shinmeiryuu technique "Zanganken", or "Rock-cutting Sword". It means "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Warship-cutting Sword]]"... which has the same meaning as [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha SANGER ZONVOLT's ZANKANTOU]]

* BrickJoke: The attack that he created as Negi's FinishingMove, Eternal Negi Fever. Guess who uses the attack in their fight against each other.

* GladiatorGames: He started out as a slave gladiator, and worked his way up.

* TheRival: Nagi's.

* SelfMadeMan: He was a war slave and fought his way up to freedom and then to most powerful in the world, and he did on hard work.

* ShowerOfAwkward: With Chisame. ''And'' with some conveniently-placed mosaic. He laughs it off.

* SmarterThanYouLook: Negi and about everyone gets the impression that Rakan is just an IdiotHero who wins his fights through sheer idiocy and ridiculous willpower. That's wrong and Rakan ''hates'' to be written off as an idiot; he's a hard-working man who gained his strength through years of experience and determination. That happy-go-lucky attitude is born from the fact that he's been involved in brutal, life-or-death combat for over forty years, so he can ''afford'' to act goofy because there is honestly nothing that poses a serious threat to him at this point. His actual intellect is shown off fully in the magical world tournament: after Negi develops a technique that literally let him ''[[ElementalShapeshifter turn into lightning]]'', increasing his speed to unbelievable levels. And it takes Rakan exactly one observation of said move to analyze it, find all the flaws, and devise counter-techniques which allow him to effortlessly and utterly kick the crap out of 'invincible thunder god Negi'.

Albireo visibly takes delight in tormenting and playing mindgames with Evangeline and is labeled as one of the two of the vampire's natural enemies, the other being Nagi. He's even bold enough to call the Dark Evangel 'Kitty'. His actual age is unknown, but he himself alludes to the fact that he is OlderThanHeLooks. He is currently living underneath Library Island at Mahora.

* ColonelBadass: Only by name though, as "Colonel Sanders".

* DisturbedDoves: When he transforms into Nagi for his tournament match against Negi, Albireo has doves flying around him for dramatic effect. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the hologram of Nagi.
* DittoFighter: His artifact allows him to copy anyone he's met.

* TheGadfly: He gets enormous pleasure out of making Evangeline look like an idiot. He even makes a bet with her where he'll give up valuable information if he wins while the only thing she has to lose is looking ridiculous in her next match. After Eva wins the bet, he tells her he was going to give her the information anyway.

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* LovableSexManiac: Always ready with a plaster smile and eyes closed to hide his true intentions, he is able to spout an irritatingly bad joke even while being strangled. And like the trope dictates, he's not shy about outright lechery.

* TheMedic: His combat abilities are quite high, but he seems to have played this role for Ala Rubra. And in a group shot comparing Ala Rubra and Ala Alba, he appears to have occupied the same position as Konoka.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: His ShapeshifterWeapon allows him to ''become'' the person he transforms into: all the memories, actions, personality traits and instincts he observes of them are recorded into his many books (he has one for every person he's met). While he's subconsciously aware of his own presence, his body acts completely as the person would, so much that the person themself is essentially speaking. He's able to take over when he needs to, but for the most part the consciousness he imitates is in the driver's seat.
* MorphWeapon: He uses a special book mark thanks to the sheer size of his library of names.

* ShapeshifterWeapon: Judging from his ability to mimic other people exactly, Albireo can likely use his pactio item on his larynx.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Negi/Eva, although this may be just to toy with her.

* TooAwesomeToUse: His pactio can briefly make him as powerful as the Thousand Master or any other person that he's met, but if the person is stronger than him it only lasts ten minutes; beyond that, he can duplicate the personality and memories of that person as well, basically becoming them at the moment he 'acquired' their story, but this only works briefly and can never be used again for that person. He uses the power of Nagi, the world's most powerful mage and an unstoppable warrior... To allow Negi ten minutes of knowing what his dad is like.

* BelligerentSexualTension: He and Arika spent a lot of time getting in each other's nerves, but anyone who saw them together knew they had a mutual thing going on. Even when they were confessing their love for each other, they were bickering.

* FriendlyRivalry: With Jack.

* VitriolicBestBuds: His rivalry with Jack meant they often traded blows and Jack wasted no time in teasing him about his infatuation with Arika, yet their comradery is clear.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: The anime adaptation does highlight this.
* DefeatByModesty: His modus operandi when dealing with cute girls.

%%%* FriendlyRivalry: With Nagi.

* PantyThief: He's a master at stealing panties, to the point of using this ''as a fighting move''.

* ShipperOnDeck: Like everyone else, he ships Konoka/Setsuna and makes a special move in honor of their FirstKiss. He also ships Negi/Chisame and, judging from flashbacks, was the ''very first'' to ship Nagi/Arika 20 years ago.

* VitriolicBestBuds: His friendship with Nagi was based on being eternal rivals and he loved to tease him about his crush on Arika.

* OppositesAttract: Nagi is a HotBlooded IdiotHero and he fell in love with the [[TheStoic stoic]], no-nonsense princess Arika.

* OppositesAttract: She was TheStoic and Nagi was HotBlooded. They were meant for each other.

* RoyaltySuperPower: Arika was said to possess the Royal Magic only the members of the Ostian royal bloodline had. It's never specified what it could do, but it made [[WorldsStrongestMan Nagi]] feel a lot of pain, so it must have been a big deal.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Despite her solid characterization in flashbacks, Arika ultimately doesn't receive any significance as a character beyond being the woman who became Nagi's wife and Negi's mother. The story never bothers to even address what became of her after Negi was born.

* SilentScapegoat: The Megalomesembria senate made up that Arika worked for Cosmo Entelecheia to instigate the great war and make Ostia fall from the sky when the real cause was Asuna's AntiMagic. Arika accepted to be accused and executed in order to satiate the hatred of the war victims.

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Though he can use magic, it really isn't his style; he prefers to use swords, fists, and KiAttacks. His decades of experience in battle leave him with few to no weaknesses as a fighter, a fact he tries to hide with his goofy attitude and lack of (apparent) strategy.\\

* MissingMom: It seems she disappeared off the face of the earth before her son Negi could remember her. Unlike his father, Negi never even knew anything about Arika until he saw the Ala Rubra movies and later got a confirmation from Gödel and Rakan that she was his mother. In the end, it's never explained why Arika went missing.

* BookDumb: Dropped out of magic school.

* BattleCouple: He and Arika took out an enemy base on what was basically a date.

* DisappearedDad: Negi has not even properly met him.

* MissingMom: It seems she disappeared off the face of the earth before her son Negi could remember her. In the end, it's never explained why Arika went missing.

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Despite her solid characterization in flashbacks, Arika ultimately doesn't receive any significance as a character aside from the fact that Nagi married her. The story never bothers to even address what became of her after Negi was born.

* KiAttacks: As a Shinmeiryuu swordsman, Eishun is specialized in ki techniques.

* IdiotHero: As the polar opposite of his son, Nagi dropped out of magic school, couldn't memorize complicated spells and preferred to punch things instead of thinking things through.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Arika was the crown princess of the Vespertatia Kingdom of Ostia and she served as an important ally of Ala Rubra during the great war. She was the famous hero Nagi's LoveInterest and the mother of his son Negi.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Arika was the princess of a kingdom caught in the crossfire of TheEmpire and TheFederation. Instead of staying comfortable inside a castle, she took an active part in trying and ending the war. It was she, instead of Ala Rubra, who really stopped Cosmo Entelecheia's magic-erasing ritual from destroying the Magic World, although she had to sacrifice her FloatingContinent for it. In the process of Ostia's collapse, Arika lead the evacuation of the civilians and personally went to protect the people of the slums from the falling rocks.