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* PromotedToLoveInterest: Since they're only provisional members of his crew, as opposed to full-timers like Mei, Mimi, or Elma, not to mention they look like kids, being dwarves and all, Hiro desperately resisted their repeated sexual advances. One day, they insult him into being angry enough to give them that wall-banging sex they've been wanting. They've pretty much moved into his bed at that point.
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* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: She finds out that Hiro can get her pregnant, which is extremely difficult for her species, as only those who MarryForLove are fertile. When Hiro learns of it, [[LampshadeHanging he wonders]] just what kind of BizarreAlienBiology they have.

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* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: She finds out that Hiro can get her pregnant, which is extremely difficult for her species, as only those who MarryForLove are fertile. When Hiro learns of it, [[LampshadeHanging he wonders]] just what kind of BizarreAlienBiology they have.have, especially since they aren't even the same species.
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Meganekko is no longer a trope. It's a Fanspeak term. Moving wicks to Bespectacled Cutie when appropriate.


* {{Meganekko}}: She is a bespectacled beauty, per Hiro's testimony.
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* AgeGapRomance: Hiro's in his mid-twenties, Mimi is fifteen (which is ''barely'' above Japan's national age of consent, and below the age of consent in most prefectures).

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* AgeGapRomance: Hiro's in his mid-twenties, Hiro is twenty seven, Mimi is fifteen (which is ''barely'' above Japan's national age of consent, and below the age of consent in most prefectures).

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* RedOniBlueOni: Tina is red-headed, loud, flamboyant, and reckless. Whisker has blue-hair, is quiet, subdued, and responsible.

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* RedOniBlueOni: Tina is red-headed, loud, flamboyant, and reckless. Whisker has blue-hair, blue hair, is quiet, subdued, and responsible.



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Whisker's hair is blue.

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* ChekhovsArmoury: If he mentions an item, tool, or device is in his possession or his arms locker, it will be plot relevant, no exceptions.

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* ChekhovsArmoury: If he mentions an item, tool, or device is in his possession or his arms locker, it will be plot relevant, no exceptions. The "Singing Crystal" is probably the most straightforward example.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: In spite of his claims of being a PunchClockHero who's OnlyInItForTheMoney, he often goes out of his way to help innocents at personal risk and expense, especially if those innocents are beautiful [[DamselInDistress damsels in distress]].



* IKnowMortalKombat: He quickly becomes a master space pilot and combatant thanks to 4 years of playing ''Stella Online''. The only difference is adapting to using joysticks and foot pedals instead of a mouse and keyboard, which he finds fairly simple.



* LaserGuidedAmnesia: He claims to have suffered this as the result of a "hyperspace accident" as an excuse for his lack of knowledge of the galaxy and its customs. [[spoiler:Elma quickly figures out it's BS.]]



* PowerArmor: He's got a suit of it, and it's a good thing too, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to provide assistance when strange creatures were attacking his home base in the Alein system.

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* PowerArmor: He's got a suit of it, and it's a good thing too, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to provide assistance when strange creatures were attacking his home base in the Alein Alain system.



* PunchClockHero: He does good works, but he expects to be paid for it.

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* PunchClockHero: He does good works, deeds, but he expects to be paid for it.it.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: His default plan when things get too intense is to simply hop in the ''Krishna'' and jump to another star system.



* WhatYouAreInTheDark: He could have dumped off a completely smashed Serena at the military base, destroying her reputation and getting her out of his hair, but instead, takes her to his ship and has Elma and Mimi put her in the med-pod and watch over her until she sobers up.

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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: He could have dumped off a completely smashed Serena at the military base, destroying her reputation and getting her out of his hair, but hair. But instead, takes her to his ship and has Elma and Mimi put her in the med-pod and watch over her until she sobers up.


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* SpottingTheThread: After a short time living with Hiro aboard his ship, Elma quickly figures out his "memory loss" story is a lie, and confronts him about it. She notes his complete lack of common sense knowledge any spacer should know, his MundaneObjectAmazement reaction to the futuristic tech around him, and his DeliberateValuesDissonance all peg him as coming from somewhere else.


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* GreenEyedMonster: She's very jealous of the freedom enjoyed by mercenaries like Hiro and his crew, specifically their ability to fly off at will while she's stuck handling paperwork, noble politics, and commanding space fleets.
** She's also very jealous of Mimi and Elma for hooking up with Hiro, though she doesn't attack or try to screw them over.
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* JailbaitWait: [[spoiler:{{Inverted}}. Hiro isn't interested in her that way, but she's interested in him, and when they part ways she plans to wait until she comes of age at fifteen, at which point she'll be legally legally entitled to pursue him whether her grandfather likes it or not.]]

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* JailbaitWait: [[spoiler:{{Inverted}}. Hiro isn't interested in her that way, but she's interested in him, and when they part ways she plans to wait until she comes of age at fifteen, at which point she'll be legally legally entitled to pursue him whether her grandfather likes it or not.]]

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[[folder: Chris Daleinwald]]
!!Lady Christina "Chris" Daleinwald

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!!Lady Christina "Chris" DaleinwaldDalenwald



A girl that looks to be about 10-12 years old rescued by the Krishna from pirates and found in a stasis pod. She turns out to be the granddaughter of Count Abraham Daleinwald, orphaned during a coup attempt by her father's younger brother.

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A girl that looks to be about 10-12 years old rescued by the Krishna from pirates and found in a stasis pod. She turns out to be the granddaughter of Count Abraham Daleinwald, Dalenwald, orphaned during a coup attempt by her father's younger brother.



* {{Seppuku}}: [[spoiler:{{Implied}}, but avoided. When her grandfather's mothership is boarded by her EvilUncle, she mentions having had a small knife concealed; Hiro (probably correctly) infers she would have performed ''[[SlashedThroat jigai]]'' with it had Balthazar won.]]



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! Graccan Grakkan Imperial Military



! Inagawa Technology

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The researcher whose S.O.S. is answered by Hiro and crew upon entering the Alein system.

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! Inagawa Technology

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!Grakkan Empire Civilians
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!!Count Abraham Dalenwald
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The researcher whose S.O.S. is answered by [[caption-width-right:350:"As both head of the family and her grandfather, I am grateful to you all."]]
Chris's grandfather, ThePatriarch of House Dalenwald and a powerful and extremely wealthy Imperial nobleman. Once he catches up with
Hiro and crew upon entering the Alein Chris in volume 4, he formally hires Hiro to continue acting as her bodyguard until they can return to their home system.



* {{Fiction 500}}: A gold-ranked mercenary under contract typically commands a fee of 80,000 Ener a day. Abraham offers Hiro over two-and-a-half times that to stay on as Chris's bodyguard for the trip home; the crew ultimately leaves them with 16 million in their pockets.
* OldSoldier: He's in his fifties or sixties but is still able to hold his own in a DuelToTheDeath: it's unclear who would have won between him and his rebellious son Balthazar had Hiro not intervened to ensure his employers would still be around to pay him. He also has a sizable personal fleet.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: While he otherwise likes Hiro and is very grateful to him for rescuing his granddaughter, he does his level best to put the kibosh on her PrecociousCrush on the Captain.
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! Inagawa Technology

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The researcher whose S.O.S. is answered by Hiro and crew upon entering the Alein system.
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* JailbaitWait: [[spoiler:{{Inverted}}. Hiro isn't interested in her that way, but she's interested in him, and when they part ways she plans to wait until she comes of age at fifteen, at which point she'll be legally legally entitled to pursue him whether her grandfather likes it or not.]]
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* BareYourMidriff: Tends to wear a crop-top under a bolero jacket.


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* FashionableAsymmetry: Her customary street clothes include a trouser bottom with a full-length left leg but the right leg cut off at her upper thigh, [[ZettaiRyouiki with a thigh-high stocking below]].
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* {{Robosexual}}: Yep, she's "fully functional", and just as in love with Hiro as the rest of the female cast. Hiro designed her according to his own sexual fantasies without actually planning to place an order, but the resort management AI on Cierra III had her built anyway as a marketing ploy.

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* {{Robosexual}}: Yep, she's "fully functional", and just as in love with Hiro as the rest of the female cast. Hiro designed her according to his own sexual fantasies without actually planning to place an order, order (in gaming terms, he was playing "Space Barbie"), but the resort management AI on Cierra III had her built anyway as a marketing ploy.

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[[folder: Takahiro "Hiro" Satou]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:I can't say I came from an alternate dimension, otherwise people are going to think I'm nuts!]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:I can't say I came from an alternate dimension, otherwise people are going to think I'm nuts!]]



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[[caption-width-right:350:You haven't got a lick of common sense, Hiro! What crazy stunt are you going to pull today?!]]

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!!Elma
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[[caption-width-right:350:You [[caption-width-right:350:"You haven't got a lick of common sense, Hiro! What crazy stunt are you going to pull today?!]]today?!"]]



* BoobsAndButtPose: Is depicted this way in the DramatisPersonae of volume 1.



!!Mei



A maidroid Hiro and crew acquire on Sierra III while escorting Chris.

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A custom maidroid Hiro and crew acquire on Sierra III while escorting Chris.



* {{Robosexual}}: Yep, she's "fully functional", and just as in love with Hiro as the rest of the female cast. Hiro designed her according to his own sexual fantasies without actually planning to place an order, but the resort management AI on Cierra III had her built anyway as a marketing ploy.



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[[caption-width-right:350:I never let my prey escape, my dear Hiro!]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:I never let my prey escape, my dear Hiro!]]



* ArrangedMarriage: {{Defied}}: she signed on with the Imperial Navy to avoid getting forced into one, which is also part of the reason

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* ArrangedMarriage: {{Defied}}: she signed on with the Imperial Navy to avoid getting forced into one, which one. This is also part of the reason for her pursuit of Hiro: his mercenary career has the potential to make him an acceptable match, should happen to earn a title of his own.



* BlueBlood: She's the daughter of a Marquis, but is a good, honest, and honorable woman, even if she is a bit manipulative.

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* BlueBlood: She's the daughter of a Marquis, marquess, but is a good, honest, and honorable woman, even if she is a bit manipulative.



* FirstGirlWins: Subverted. She may be the first girl Hiro meets in this new dimension, and shows strong interest in him, but the first girl he hooks up with is Mimi! She lampshades the subversion, ''and hates it!''
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: She is absolutely fascinated and fixated on Hiro, and would bend herself into a pretzel if she has to, if she believes that will get him to serve under her, in ''every'' sense of the term, because he's a BlitheSpirit who will actually chew her out when she steps out of line, despite the fact that she's a daughter of a Marquis.

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* FirstGirlWins: Subverted. She may be the first girl Hiro meets in this new dimension, and shows strong interest in him, but the first girl he hooks up with is Mimi! Mimi--and he actively ''avoids'' her attempts to take their relationship further. She lampshades the subversion, ''and hates it!''
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: She is absolutely fascinated and fixated on Hiro, and would bend herself into a pretzel if she has to, if she believes that will get him to serve under her, in ''every'' sense of the term, because he's a BlitheSpirit who will actually chew her out when she steps out of line, line despite the fact that she's a daughter of a Marquis.marquess.



* RedEyesTakeWarning: She's got eyes red like blood, and she's very calculating, cold, and cunning.

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* RedEyesTakeWarning: {{Downplayed}}. She's got eyes red like blood, and she's very calculating, cold, and cunning.cunning, and has a bit of a {{yandere}} streak, though for all that she's still a pretty decent person.

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* WorkOffTheDebt: Hiro hires her as a crew member to pay him back for buying out the catastrophic debts she inherited from her parents. Since she lacks any actual skills at the time, he has her trained as an "operator" (i.e. sensor and communications officer).



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* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: She finds out that Hiro can get her pregnant, which is extremely difficult for her species, as only those who MarryForLove are fertile. When Hiro learns of it, he wonders just what kind of BizarreAlienBiology they have.

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* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: She finds out that Hiro can get her pregnant, which is extremely difficult for her species, as only those who MarryForLove are fertile. When Hiro learns of it, [[LampshadeHanging he wonders wonders]] just what kind of BizarreAlienBiology they have.



* WorkOffTheDebt: Hiro recruits her as his de facto NumberTwo by paying off the multimillion-Ener fine she incurs from an accidental collision with a police cruiser. As this wipes out most of his funds, he plans to have her pay him back out of her share of their subsequent takes.
* YouDidntAsk: She doesn't bother to tell Hiro about the local "if you're a guy who asks a girl aboard your ship, and she accepts, that means she wants to be your fuck-buddy" custom, until well after ''she's the one who came into his bedroom and propositioned him!'' Presuming he already knew it, even though he repeatedly claimed to have "amnesia" and acted like he didn't understand many of the local customs to begin with.

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* WorkOffTheDebt: Hiro recruits her as his de facto NumberTwo by paying off the multimillion-Ener fine she incurs from an accidental collision with a police cruiser. cruiser during the raid on the pirate base. As this wipes out most of his funds, saving, he plans to have her pay him back out of her share of their subsequent takes.
* YouDidntAsk: She doesn't bother to tell Hiro about the local "if you're a guy who asks a girl aboard your ship, and she accepts, that means she wants she's consenting to be your fuck-buddy" custom, until well after ''she's the one who came into his bedroom and propositioned him!'' Presuming She presumed he already knew it, even though he repeatedly claimed to have "amnesia" and acted like he didn't understand many of the local customs to begin with.



[[folder: Christina Daleinwald]]
A girl that looks to be about 10-12 years old rescued by the Krishna from pirates and found in a stasis pod.

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!!Lady Christina "Chris" Daleinwald
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[[caption-width-right:350:"You may keep it [my necklace] with you. You haven't finished protecting me, after all... my knight."]]
A girl that looks to be about 10-12 years old rescued by the Krishna from pirates and found in a stasis pod. She turns out to be the granddaughter of Count Abraham Daleinwald, orphaned during a coup attempt by her father's younger brother.



* PrecociousCrush: Yeah, Chris falls for Hiro, too. He likes her well enough, but he studiously refuses her advances both because of the politics involved and because she's ''way'' too young for him.



[[folder: May]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:I am here to serve, Hiro-sama. (May is on the far left).]]A maidroid Hiro and crew acquire on Sierra III while escorting Chris.

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Mei]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:I [[caption-width-right:350:"I am here to serve, Hiro-sama. (May is on the far left).]]A Hiro-sama."]]
A
maidroid Hiro and crew acquire on Sierra III while escorting Chris.



* NinjaMaid: Invoked.. Hiro chose a maid with high combat specs in addition to thorough knowledge of house-keeping skills.

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* NinjaMaid: Invoked..Invoked. Hiro chose a maid with high combat specs in addition to thorough knowledge of house-keeping skills.



* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name was initially translated as "May" in the web-novel, but has officially translated as "Mei" in both the light-novel and manga.

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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name was initially translated as "May" in the web-novel, but has is officially translated as "Mei" in both the light-novel and manga.


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!!Lieutenant Commander Lady Serena Holz


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* ArrangedMarriage: {{Defied}}: she signed on with the Imperial Navy to avoid getting forced into one, which is also part of the reason


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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her surname gets corrupted to the nonsensical-in-context "Hoarz" in the manga. Whether to use 'r' or 'l' is a recurring problem in English translations because they're the same sound in Japanese.

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* ButThouMust: After the fiasco, the company wants to get rid of them, rightly so, but firing them would leave a bad taste in Hiro's mouth, so the two get placed as part of the package for Hiro's mother ship as on-board mechanics. Hiro is understandably conflicted about it.



* PleaseIWillDoAnything: After the door is slammed in their face, they begin wailing that if they don't make things up to Hiro, they could lose their jobs, and Mimi's experience showcases how bad ''that'' can be. Mimi convinces Hiro to at least hear them out as a reult.

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* PleaseIWillDoAnything: After the door is slammed in their face, they begin wailing that if they don't make things up to Hiro, they could lose their jobs, and Mimi's experience showcases how bad ''that'' can be. Mimi convinces Hiro to at least hear them out as a reult.result.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: After the fiasco, the company wants to get rid of them, rightly so, but firing them would leave a bad taste in Hiro's mouth, so the two get placed as part of the package for Hiro's mother ship as on-board mechanics. Hiro is understandably conflicted about it.
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* AgeGapRomance: Hiro's in his mid-twenties, Mimi is fifteen (which ''is'' above Japan's age of consent, if only just).

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* AgeGapRomance: Hiro's in his mid-twenties, Mimi is fifteen (which ''is'' is ''barely'' above Japan's national age of consent, if only just).and below the age of consent in most prefectures).

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* ObliviousToLove: {{Downplayed}}. While he's initially surprised by his harem's interest in him, he's ''a lot'' less dense about it than many HaremGenre protagonists, and a lot more willing to take the girls up on it.



The first crew member that Hiro recruits. Mimi was a student in the station's middle-class Second Division when her parents were killed in an industrial accident. The corporation pinned it on them, saddling Mimi with a ridiculous debt that left her homeless and forced down into the Third Division slums, where Hiro rescued her from a gang trying to kidnap her for prostitution.

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The first crew member that Hiro recruits. Mimi was a student in the station's middle-class Second Division when her parents were killed in an industrial accident. The corporation pinned it on them, saddling Mimi with a ridiculous debt that left her homeless and forced down into the Third Division slums, where Hiro rescued her from a gang trying to kidnap her for prostitution.prostitution (against Elma's advice). He bought out her debt and hired her as a trainee crew member--not finding out until way later that, by local customs, he was also taking her aboard as a bed-warmer.


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* CantHoldHisLiquor: He has a very low alcohol tolerance. One bite of the "wine fruit", ie a grape genetically modified to produce more alcohol without fermenting, and he's already tipsy.

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* CantHoldHisLiquor: He has a very low alcohol tolerance. One bite of the "wine fruit", ie i.e. a grape genetically modified to produce more alcohol without fermenting, and he's already tipsy.



* BridgeBunnies: Her specialty is communications, watching the radar, and providing a tactical overlay.

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* BridgeBunnies: She was just a college student when her personal disaster struck; Hiro begins training her as a crew member once he takes her aboard. Her specialty is communications, watching the radar, and providing a tactical overlay.



* TheAlcoholic: She ''lives'' for booze of all stripes.

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* TheAlcoholic: She ''lives'' for booze of all stripes.stripes and is prone to dealing with stress by getting blackout drunk.
* AssShove: After Elma teases Hiro about having had a semen sample taken through means involving anal penetration, he has anal sex with her off-page, and then later threatens her with further sessions to keep her from getting blackout drunk.



** When Elma crashes her ship into one of the military vessels maintaining the blockade, she gives direct orders to ''not'' give Elma punitive fines because it was a bonafide accident, due to a situation beyond Elma's control. In this case, though, her orders were ignored by a petty bureaucrat with a raging hate-boner for mercenaries. Serena responds to ''that'' [[LaserGuidedKarma by sending the pig to a ]] PenalColony, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome but can't get the bureaucracy to refund the fine, since the fine itself was legit.]]

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** When Elma crashes her ship into one of the military vessels maintaining the blockade, she gives direct orders to ''not'' give Elma punitive fines because it was a bonafide accident, due to a situation beyond Elma's control. In this case, though, her orders were ignored by a petty bureaucrat with a raging hate-boner for mercenaries. Serena responds to ''that'' [[LaserGuidedKarma by sending the pig to a ]] a]] PenalColony, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome but can't get the bureaucracy to refund the fine, since the fine itself was legit.]]



* StalkerWithACrush: Double subverted. At first glance, it looks like she's keeping tabs on Hiro and chasing him around purely because he's the best pilot she's ever seen, and she wants to monopolize him, at least to keep him out of enemy hands, foreign or domestic. After maneuvering him into a "date" once she manages to strong-arm him into becoming a temporary subordinate, to train her newly minted independent anti-pirate fleet in pirate hunting, she gets herself completely smashed and admits that she does have romantic feelings for him and resents the fact that Mimi and Elma got to him first.

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* StalkerWithACrush: Double subverted. At first glance, it looks like she's keeping tabs on Hiro and chasing him around purely because he's the best pilot she's ever seen, and she wants to monopolize him, at least to keep him out of enemy hands, foreign or domestic. After maneuvering him into a "date" once she manages to strong-arm him into becoming a temporary subordinate, subordinate to train her newly minted independent anti-pirate fleet in pirate hunting, she gets herself completely smashed and admits that she does have romantic feelings for him and resents the fact that Mimi and Elma got to him first.

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* HaremSeeker: As long as Hiro doesn't neglect to smother her with affection, especially where it involves boinking her silly, she openly pushes for Hiro to hook up with any woman who shows him affection. When Chris's aristocratic duties pulled her off the crew, thus keeping Chris from joining in the sexy-fun times, Mimi '''was devastated''' and spent several days crying herself to sleep.


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* ShipperOnDeck: As long as Hiro doesn't neglect to smother her with affection, especially where it involves boinking her silly, she openly pushes for Hiro to hook up with any woman who shows him affection. When Chris's aristocratic duties pulled her off the crew, thus keeping Chris from joining in the sexy-fun times, Mimi '''was devastated''' and spent several days crying herself to sleep.
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The most experienced of Hiro's crew. A five-year veteran SpaceElf mercenary, Elma starts out as Hiro's de facto {{sempai}} who walks him through getting himself and Mimi registered as mercs. She pilots the White Swan, but it goes berserk during the attack on the pirate base and collides with a police cruiser, leaving Elma shipless and deeply in debt. Hiro buys her debt and takes her on as his second crew member.

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The most experienced of Hiro's crew. A five-year veteran SpaceElf mercenary, Elma starts out as Hiro's de facto {{sempai}} {{sempai|Kohai}} who walks him through getting himself and Mimi registered as mercs. She pilots the White Swan, but it goes berserk during the attack on the pirate base and collides with a police cruiser, leaving Elma shipless and deeply in debt. Hiro buys her debt and takes her on as his second crew member.
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The most experienced of Hiro's crew. A five-year veteran SpaceElf mercenary, Elma starts out as Hiro's {{senpai}} who walks him through getting himself and Mimi registered as mercs. She pilots the White Swan, but it goes berserk during the attack on the pirate base and collides with a police cruiser, leaving Elma shipless and deeply in debt.

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The most experienced of Hiro's crew. A five-year veteran SpaceElf mercenary, Elma starts out as Hiro's {{senpai}} de facto {{sempai}} who walks him through getting himself and Mimi registered as mercs. She pilots the White Swan, but it goes berserk during the attack on the pirate base and collides with a police cruiser, leaving Elma shipless and deeply in debt. Hiro buys her debt and takes her on as his second crew member.

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* UnclePennybags: Good mercs can earn a lot of money very quickly, and Hiro has no problem using it to buy his way out of problems. He gets Mimi and Elma as crew members by buying their debtsdebts: with Elma he gives a pretense of having her WorkOffTheDebt as his first mate, but with Mimi he mostly does it to piss off an annoying bureaucrat.



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The most experienced of Hiro's crew. A five-year veteran SpaceElf mercenary, Elma starts out as Hiro's {{senpai}} who walks him through getting himself and Mimi registered as mercs. She pilots the White Swan, but it goes berserk during the attack on the pirate base and collides with a police cruiser, leaving Elma shipless and deeply in debt.


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* WorkOffTheDebt: Hiro recruits her as his de facto NumberTwo by paying off the multimillion-Ener fine she incurs from an accidental collision with a police cruiser. As this wipes out most of his funds, he plans to have her pay him back out of her share of their subsequent takes.

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The first crew member that Hiro recruits.


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The first crew member that Hiro recruits. Mimi was a student in the station's middle-class Second Division when her parents were killed in an industrial accident. The corporation pinned it on them, saddling Mimi with a ridiculous debt that left her homeless and forced down into the Third Division slums, where Hiro rescued her from a gang trying to kidnap her for prostitution.


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* CleavageWindow: Her shipboard uniform consists of a coat and off-the-shoulder mini-dress that has a cut-out on the upper side of her breasts.


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* RescueRomance: She falls in love with Hiro after he rescues her from sex slavers.
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Our StockLightNovelProtagonist, a network administrator from a Japanese corporation who spent most of his off hours gaming. One night he went to bed, and woke up in the captain's chair of his ship from his favorite ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'' clone.

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Our StockLightNovelProtagonist, StockLightNovelHero, a network administrator from a Japanese corporation who spent most of his off hours gaming. One night he went to bed, and woke up in the captain's chair of his ship from his favorite ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'' clone.
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TheProtagonistOur StockLightNovelProtagonist, a network administrator from a Japanese corporation who spent most of his off hours gaming. One night he went to bed, and woke up in the captain's chair of his ship from his favorite ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'' clone.



* TheAce: When Stella Online was just a game to him, he was among the top players in space-flight, first-person shooting (winning a custom laser gun as a result), and PowerArmor piloting.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Hiro first shows up at Temarine Prime, she bends a few rules to get him out of interrogation, and allows him to go on his way, selling the rare metals the colony needs, giving him the bounty for taking out the pirates and locating their base.
** When Elma crashes her ship into one of the military vessels maintaining the blockade, she gives direct orders to ''not'' give Elma punitive fines because it was a bonna fide accident, due to a situation beyond Elma's control. In this case, though, her orders were ignored by a petty bureaucrat with a raging hate-boner for mercenaries. Serena responds to ''that'' [[LaserGuidedKarma by sending the pig to a ]] PenalColony, [[RealityIsUnrealistic but can't get the bureaucracy to refund the fine, since the fine itself was legit.]]

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When Hiro first shows up at Temarine Prime, she bends a few rules to get him out of interrogation, interrogation (in the LN; in the manga, she blackmails the customs officer by implying he's on the take), and allows him to go on his way, selling the rare metals the colony needs, giving him the bounty for taking out the pirates and locating their base.
** When Elma crashes her ship into one of the military vessels maintaining the blockade, she gives direct orders to ''not'' give Elma punitive fines because it was a bonna fide bonafide accident, due to a situation beyond Elma's control. In this case, though, her orders were ignored by a petty bureaucrat with a raging hate-boner for mercenaries. Serena responds to ''that'' [[LaserGuidedKarma by sending the pig to a ]] PenalColony, [[RealityIsUnrealistic [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome but can't get the bureaucracy to refund the fine, since the fine itself was legit.]]
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* HaremSeeker: Once he learns about the local custom where a woman who willingly sets foot in a man's spaceship is pretty much making herself sexually available to him, he still has no hesitation about asking pretty women unto his ship to be in his crew, albeit it's not ''just'' the sex he's interested in, but he does look for a crew that makes his merc career easier with the members' respective skill sets, even seeking Dr. Shouko to deal with unexpected medical emergencies.

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* HaremSeeker: Once he learns about the local custom where a woman who willingly sets foot in a man's spaceship is pretty much making herself sexually available to him, he still has no hesitation about asking pretty women unto his ship to be in his crew, albeit it's crew. It's not ''just'' the sex he's interested in, but though: he does look for a crew that makes his merc career easier with the members' respective skill sets, even seeking Dr. Shouko to deal with unexpected medical emergencies.


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* HeroicNeutral: He's a good guy, but he has no personal stake in the war between the Empire and the Federation and doesn't want the risk of actively joining the military. He just wants to earn money for a planetside house so he can [[TrademarkFavoriteFood have some damn soda]].
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! Crew of the Krishna (Main Characters)

[[folder: Takahiro "Hiro" Satou]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:I can't say I came from an alternate dimension, otherwise people are going to think I'm nuts!]]
TheProtagonist
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* TheAce: When Stella Online was just a game to him, he was among the top players in space-flight, first-person shooting (winning a custom laser gun as a result), and PowerArmor piloting.
* AceCustom: His ship, the Krishna, is a prize won from a rare in-game event, which he's gone on to customize out the wazoo. It may be a light fighter, but it's got top of the line military grade armor, shields, generators, engines, and weapons. Under the right circumstances, it can even take on a battle-ship, and win.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: He gets Mimi and Elma in his crew because he came to their rescue when they were in extremely dire straits, and he truly expected nothing from them in return.
* AndThenWhat: After he rescues Mimi from a gang-rape, Elma hits him between the eyes with the question of what he's going to to with her next. He lets her loose, the rapists will just go after her again, or maybe she'd find herself in an even worse situation. Seeing no better option, he welcomes Mimi to his crew, and gets boinked silly that very night.
* BenevolentBoss: He genuinely loves his crew and bends over backwards for them, showering them in luxury and affection, [[BathtubBonding sometimes literally]], and far more often than not seeks out their input and advice, but he is still the captain and ultimately calls the shots.
* BloodKnight: He's a serious adrenaline junkie and is at his happiest when he's plunging himself and his crew right into the thick of battle, blasting his way through waves of enemies.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He doesn't have a lick of the local common sense, but he's possibly the greatest spaceship pilot ''in the galaxy.''
* CantHoldHisLiquor: He has a very low alcohol tolerance. One bite of the "wine fruit", ie a grape genetically modified to produce more alcohol without fermenting, and he's already tipsy.
* ChekhovsArmoury: If he mentions an item, tool, or device is in his possession or his arms locker, it will be plot relevant, no exceptions.
* CombatPragmatist: He's not afraid to fight dirty if the situation calls for it.
* DefensiveFeintTrap: Since his Krishna is a light fighter, with its primary weapons hidden away until active combat, many antagonists think he's easy prey. Then out comes the four high-power pulse cannons.
-->“The bastard just transformed!!!”
-->[[KilledMidSentence “N— No! I don’t wanna die! I don’t wanna die! I don’t—!!!”]]
--> [[IWantMyMommy “S— Stooop! Mommy—!”]]
* DoomMagnet: Trouble tends to follow him around like a recently hatched duckling.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: He starts the story with four years of experience piloting the ships provided by Stella Online, which helps immensely when he finds himself piloting one for real.
* FatalFlaw: It's very easy for a girl to guilt trip him into sexual relations with her. Mimi, Elma, and even [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot May]] all just showed him some PuppyDogEyes and said "don't you want me?" and that's all she wrote. The only reason he didn't lay hands on Chris when she tried the same is that he's aware her Grandfather wouldn't take that lightly.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Come after him and his, and he won't have any issue blasting you to atoms.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Elma and Mimi actively enjoy having sex with him, and say so.
* HaremSeeker: Once he learns about the local custom where a woman who willingly sets foot in a man's spaceship is pretty much making herself sexually available to him, he still has no hesitation about asking pretty women unto his ship to be in his crew, albeit it's not ''just'' the sex he's interested in, but he does look for a crew that makes his merc career easier with the members' respective skill sets, even seeking Dr. Shouko to deal with unexpected medical emergencies.
* HelpingWouldBeKillStealing: Averted. He does come to the aid of other mercs in distress, but first announces his intention to help and gets their consent before firing on the attacking pirates, so nobody complains that he's just there to steal the bounty.
* InternalReveal: Once he's been cohabiting with Elma and Mimi long enough that he feels safe, he shares the fact that he's not a native to whatever galaxy or dimension the story takes place in, and his cover story regarding amnesia isn't exactly honest.
* KarmicJackpot: Treat him well, and good things will ultimately happen to you. Treat him poorly, and your comeuppance is just a matter of time.
* PowerArmor: He's got a suit of it, and it's a good thing too, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to provide assistance when strange creatures were attacking his home base in the Alein system.
* ProperlyParanoid: While on vacation on Sierra III, waiting for their SOS to reach Chris's grandfather, Hiro puts forward several vectors of attack Chris's EvilUncle could employ to overwhelm the vacation resort's defenses. While the rest of the party and Miro, the AI assigned to oversee their stay, take the threat seriously, they all pooh-pooh that Hiro's scenarios are extremely unlikely. Turns out Chris's uncle is desperate enough to employ '''all of them''' [[ColonyDrop including setting asteroids on a collision course with the planet.]]
* PunchClockHero: He does good works, but he expects to be paid for it.
* SeriousBusiness: His final goal is to buy a planet-side home with a garden, because he can't get carbonated soda in space.
* SexualExtortion: Unintentionally. When he chances upon Mimi and Elma in some very dire straits, he offers them to become members of his crew, until they get back on their feet. Even paying their debts from his own funds. He was unaware that when a woman agrees to come on a guy's starship, as a member of his crew, she's agreeing to be his sex-toy, in addition to whatever other duties she might be assigned. It's not until long after Mimi and Elma have come into his quarters, wearing sexy lingerie and ''pressuring him into having sex with them'' that he learns this. He does feel some pangs of regret at unwittingly using their debts to get them into his bed, but then shrugs going "what's done is done" and strives to treat them with civility and care, and enjoy the fact that they ''actively enjoy'' boinking him like rabbits in heat.
* SickeningSweethearts: He dotes on and flirts with both Mimi and Elma so much, it's glaringly obvious that he loves them, and it's entirely heartwarming and full of fluff to watch.
* TheSoCalledCoward: When he posits the question if a tactical retreat is permitted during the mass pirate subjugation mission, most of the other mercs look at him with disgust and even Serena scowls at him, implying he might be a troublesome coward. Then he points out that the battle formation, and the Empire's HonorBeforeReason might make the imperial warships command the mercs "fight to the death!" When this is pointed out, Serena is shocked, 30% of the mercs begin to view him with respect, 20% still resent him, and the rest are indifferent.
* StockLightNovelHero: He's dragged into the universe of his favorite video game, with an OP "cheat" ship, and winds up with a harem of lovely ladies who all adore him one way or another, for various reasons.
* TemptingFate: He can't go through a single chapter without raising a flag, which inevitably comes to pass. All the characters around him repeatedly lampshade it, to which he replies NeverMyFault.
* ThatDidntHappen: Not wanting to have an embarrassed and outraged noble to deal with, he happily tells a blushing Serena that he and his crew will pretend that they never saw her passed-out, shit-faced drunk and had to put her in their own private med-pod until the alcohol was out of her system.
* TranslatorMicrobes: When he finally manages to get that physical checkup he'd been wanting at the best medical facility available, the Alein system, he and the doctors learn that he doesn't have the translator implant most people get in infancy, yet he still can communicate just fine. Like everything else he doesn't understand, he just shrugs and goes "I don't have to know '''how''' it works, all I have to know is that it does."
* UnluckilyLucky: He starts the story in an asteroid belt, navigation computer completely blank, all data corrupted, including his ID and his ship's, his Enel account lost, ie no funds, and a cargo-hold full of rare-metals, making him look suspicious as heck. He gets jumped by a trio of pirates as a direct result. Blowing up the pirates gives him PlausibleDeniability as to the fact that he's got legal, but heavily regulated cargo, and the loot he collects from the pirates also includes the coordinates of their base.
* UriahGambit: As a result of TheSoCalledCoward entry above, he's assigned the sector with the most pirates in the subjugation mission. Initially hesitant, once he's in the battle, he laughs as he's getting the most kills! The rank-up to Silver from Bronze doesn't hurt either.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: He could have dumped off a completely smashed Serena at the military base, destroying her reputation and getting her out of his hair, but instead, takes her to his ship and has Elma and Mimi put her in the med-pod and watch over her until she sobers up.
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[[folder: Mimi]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:I'll do my best, Hiro-sama! (Guts pose)]]
The first crew member that Hiro recruits.
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* AnythingButThat: She has no problems sharing Hiro, at all. When it comes to the existence of a maidroid though, she immediately sulks and starts saying "it's no good."
* AscendedFangirl: Since she was a small child, she dreamed of catching the eye of a mercenary and flying off to see the stars, doubly so when she found herself in the slums, trying to survive and avoid being gang-raped. When she's rescued by Hiro, she has no reservations about joining his crew, even knowing that she'd have to give up her virginity in the process.
* AttemptedRape: Hiro encounters her and rescues her from a gang-rape.
* BrainyBrunette: She's a brunette and is actually pretty smart, picking up on her bridge bunny duties with remarkable speed and efficiency.
* BridgeBunnies: Her specialty is communications, watching the radar, and providing a tactical overlay.
* BuxomIsBetter: She's busty and everyone is envious of it.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: She had a boyfriend prior to Hiro, and they were close. One day, he received a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot maidroid]] as a gift from his parents. He very quickly grew distant and eventually just stopped seeing her at all. So when Hiro gets roped into buying a maidroid, she's not happy.
* HaremSeeker: As long as Hiro doesn't neglect to smother her with affection, especially where it involves boinking her silly, she openly pushes for Hiro to hook up with any woman who shows him affection. When Chris's aristocratic duties pulled her off the crew, thus keeping Chris from joining in the sexy-fun times, Mimi '''was devastated''' and spent several days crying herself to sleep.
* LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: Hiro asks her what her overarching goal is in life, seeing as living purely for the sake of living is boring. After a bit of back and forth, she eventually settles on touring the galaxy so she can sample the delicacies of far-off places she's never seen before.
* LoveAtFirstSight: From her POV chapter, it's clear that she came onto Hiro of her own volition, and her feelings for him are genuine, falling in love with him the moment she laid eyes on him.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: When Hiro tries to gently turn her down, insisting that sex with him is not a requisite of being his crew-member, she ''insists'' on sex with him, and guilt-trips him into it.
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: Chapter 177, Selena Holz notices that Mimi is the spitting image of the imperial crown princess. Chapter 178 has Mimi genetically tested to find that she is of royal blood, maybe the princess's second or third cousin. The justification given for why nobody noticed sooner is that the princess herself has been in seclusion since age 5 and just recently made a public appearance at her coming of age party. This leads the imperial inquisitors to conclude that Mimi's past on Termaine III may not have been accidental after all...
* TheirFirstTime: She and Hiro trade virginities the very same night she sets foot in his spaceship, at her insistence.
* WeightWoe: She thinks she's too fat and needs to lose weight. Hiro, in return, thinks she's too skinny and needs to put some weight on!
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[[folder: Elma]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:You haven't got a lick of common sense, Hiro! What crazy stunt are you going to pull today?!]]
The most experienced of Hiro's crew.
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* TheAlcoholic: She ''lives'' for booze of all stripes.
* BlueBlood: Though her family has no peerage, she is of noble blood, the daughter of an administrative viscount.
* BystanderSyndrome: When she and Hiro saw Mimi being sexually assaulted by at least three men, ''she actively tried to stop Hiro from coming to her rescue.''
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: She's got the unpleasant task of trying to keep Hiro's ignorance of the local common sense from getting them into too much trouble.
* DrowningMySorrows: When she learns her mishap on the subjugation mission has her facing a fine way, way too big for her to pay, with too little time to scrape up funds before the deadline, she goes and finds a nice, quiet corner and tries to drink herself into a coma. Fortunately, Hiro finds her and offers his ship as a port in the storm.
* GreenEyedMonster: She's a veteran mercenary with at least five years under her belt, and just barely managed to get to silver rank. Hiro, a complete newbie, shows up and passes the test for gold, without realizing it, as part of his assessment test. Elma is not amused when she sees it.
* HourglassPlot: They first met Mimi when she is completely down on her luck in the middle of the slums. Later, after her ship crashes into a military vessel and forced to go broke to pay it, Hiro and Mimi find her down on her luck in the middle of the slums. Elma even points out how the tables have flipped.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Literally. Unaware of her ship's FatalFlaw, she goes into a major pirate suppression mission and gets hit with a massive Maser. When her White Swan "goes berserk" as a result, the out-of-control craft crashes into one of the military vessels enforcing the blockade, wrecking both. She gets hit by a fine way too high to pay, even after liquidating all her assets, including her ship, and spending all her savings, with a deadline way, way too close for comfort, putting her right into the same situation Mimi faced earlier, [[PrisonRape or worse]], that she actively tried to ignore. Fortunately for her, Hiro was sympathetic to her plight too, and also welcomed her to his crew...
* MortonsFork: After the pirate subjugation mission goes badly for her, she's got three or four options, all bad. 1.) Go to a PenalColony and face the constant threat of PrisonRape, ''or worse'', since most of the inmates are pirates she helped put there. 2.) Go into the slums to flee the military, but wind up like Mimi, sooner or later getting gang-raped and forced into prostitution, for drugs and then thrown away. 3.) Suicide, preferably by alcohol poisoning. (She actively vies for this one.) 4.) Sign on with the crew of the Krishna under the newbie she's jealous and dismissive of. She eventually goes with 4.) and is shell-shocked at how luxurious he lives and how benevolent he is to his crew.
* MsExposition: She's Hiro's most trusted go-to source for the common knowledge of the universe he's been thrust into.
* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: She finds out that Hiro can get her pregnant, which is extremely difficult for her species, as only those who MarryForLove are fertile. When Hiro learns of it, he wonders just what kind of BizarreAlienBiology they have.
* PerfectSolutionFallacy: Since there's no way Hiro can rescue ''everyone'' who winds up in the slums facing a rape experience, then he shouldn't rescue ''anyone.'' Especially if he's not going to take measures to make sure the person he rescues doesn't get in trouble again. Fortunately, Hiro thought differently, or else Mimi's fate was not going to be kind.
* RomanticWingman: She's the one who pushed Mimi and Hiro together, even providing the former with medicines to make the encounter pleasant, successful, and safe.
* RunawayBride: En route to the imperial capital, May discovers that Elma is actually a blue-blood, and when asked about her circumstances, Elma reveals that she fled from an ArrangedMarriage, taking up a mercenary career as inspired by Imperial Princess Cecilia who did the same to escape her imperial duties and live a life of adventure.
* SpaceElves: Which gets lampshaded on a repeated basis. She's an elf and lives in space.
* {{Tsundere}}: In the "uses violence to hide their embarrassment" kind of way. Mimi, of all people, calls her out on it.
* VitriolicBestBuds: She and Hiro bicker and quarrel almost constantly, but they are indeed very, very close and cover for each other when things get rough.
* YouDidntAsk: She doesn't bother to tell Hiro about the local "if you're a guy who asks a girl aboard your ship, and she accepts, that means she wants to be your fuck-buddy" custom, until well after ''she's the one who came into his bedroom and propositioned him!'' Presuming he already knew it, even though he repeatedly claimed to have "amnesia" and acted like he didn't understand many of the local customs to begin with.
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[[folder: Christina Daleinwald]]
A girl that looks to be about 10-12 years old rescued by the Krishna from pirates and found in a stasis pod.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Hiro doesn't ''just'' rescue her from pirates and an escape pod, keeping her safe. He also treated her with caring, compassion, and genuine kindness, even giving her some much needed therapy to cope with her loss. As a result, she fell for him, hard.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Her father and mother shoved her into an escape pod to rescue her from "pirates" that were trying to wipe out her family.
* FallenPrincess: Though she has no hard evidence, she's convinced her EvilUncle sent his personal troops disguised as pirates to seize the cruise ship she was on, murdering all the passengers, including herself, so he could claim her father's rightful inheritance.
* LivingMacGuffin: If her testimony is accurate, her uncle would like to remove the "living" part.
* LadyAndKnight: The Lady to Hiro's Knight, which they had fun lampshading.
* MarshmallowHell: When Mimi hears of her circumstances, her head gets shoved into Mimi's ample bosom until she almost suffocates!
* MundaneObjectAmazement: As an aristocrat, she's never had "commoner" food like hamburgers and pizza. So when she's exposed to it while aboard the Krishna, she eats it with gusto!
* {{Protectorate}}: By law, Hiro's tasked with protecting her for at least a week. Considering his character, even it he wasn't legally required to do so, he would anyway.
* SoleSurvivor: Of the entire crew and passengers of the cruise liner she was on, she's the only known survivor.
* StarCrossedLovers: She very much wants to pursue a romantic relationship with Hiro, but while he's not opposed to it, her aristocratic duties won't let that happen, and if they try anyway, her grandfather will chase down Hiro across the galaxy, something he'd never survive.
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[[folder: May]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:I am here to serve, Hiro-sama. (May is on the far left).]]A maidroid Hiro and crew acquire on Sierra III while escorting Chris.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Invoked. Hiro chose settings where she would have very subdued emotions and long, flowing, black hair.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She is smitten with Hiro, not because it's her programming to serve (though that is a factor), but because he treats her like a sentient being. While the law regards AI's like her as people, the enforcement of said law leaves much to be desired.
* {{BFG}}: In addition to melee weapons made of a heavy alloy, she can wield a laser rifle as big as she is.
* BodyguardBabes: Hiro's primary motive for purchasing her is to be Mimi's bodyguard.
* DifficultButAwesome: She makes the primary weapon on the mothership she pilots an EML Railgun. Such weapons have impressive fire-power but terrible accuracy, which is why they're not normally equipped by the Imperial Military, but with her insane processing capability, she makes it work.
* DoYouWantToCopulate: Once she's finished with her upgrades, as she and Hiro are leaving the factory, she gives him PuppyDogEyes and asks for sex, to make certain she's "fully functional." Hiro's resistance collapses like a crushed paper cup.
* HypercompetentSidekick: She captains Hiro's mothership, Black Lotus.
* NinjaMaid: Invoked.. Hiro chose a maid with high combat specs in addition to thorough knowledge of house-keeping skills.
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: One of the accessories Hiro put in her package is a set of red-rimmed glasses that serve no function other than to look pretty.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name was initially translated as "May" in the web-novel, but has officially translated as "Mei" in both the light-novel and manga.
* SubmissiveBadass: She's as strong as Hiro in power armor, but she's eager to serve.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Per Hiro's request, she's very emotionally subdued and highly professional, but still a good and kind woman.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The first time she goes pirate hunting with the Black Lotus, she nails a fleeing pirate with the EML. What makes this fit the trope is that the EML was designed to deliver heavy damage to large, slow targets like battleships. The fleeing pirate was piloting a light corvette.
* {{Yandere}}: She's a bit ''too'' devoted to Hiro and will easily become extremely violent in response to any perceived slight against him. This is a part of her personality that was ''not'' requested by Hiro, in any way.
* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Despite her hatred for maidroids, Mimi adores her, though their first meeting was rather rocky.
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! Graccan Imperial Military

[[folder: Serena Holz]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:I never let my prey escape, my dear Hiro!]]
Hiro's first contact with a named military official.
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* BeneathTheMask: When she's on a bender, she lets it all out, that she's actually a very lonely and overworked woman and is jealous as all get out that Hiro hooked up with Mimi and Elma first.
* BlueBlood: She's the daughter of a Marquis, but is a good, honest, and honorable woman, even if she is a bit manipulative.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: If she tries to drink like a fish, she becomes a ranting drunk who makes a complete fool of herself. Fortunately Hiro didn't take her up on her "date" alone and brought both Mimi and Elma to help with the aftermath.
* TheCavalry: When Hiro and crew are being sorely pressed by a fleet of over 100 pirates and some asteroids slapped with FTL drives bearing down on Sierra III, she shows up with her independent anti-pirate fleet and aids the planetary defenses to shoot them down.
* DefensiveFeintTrap: She hired Hiro to train a special fleet exclusively for pirate hunting, but since the fleet's composition was ill-suited for most anti-pirate forays (taking a battleship or heavy cruiser into an AsteroidThicket is an expensive form of suicide), she asks him for options. He suggests disguising the battle-ship and heavy cruisers as asteroids and buying up a civilian freighter, which then conveniently has "engine trouble" in areas where pirates are known to operate in large numbers. '''200 pirate ships are completely obliterated before the plan stopped being effective!''' [[LaserGuidedKarma This prompts Serena's superior officers to reimburse her 5 million Enel purchase as legitimate military spending,]] [[CrazyPrepared with plans to use the freighter as a troop transport when its effectiveness as bait ends.]]
* EntitledToHaveYou: Once she admits that she has romantic feelings for Hiro, she forces her way onto his ship every day she has off and tries to monopolize his time. She does not take "no" for an answer.
* {{Expy}}: She's [[Manga/AkameGaKill Esdeath]] [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]], with a few tweaks to her personality that make her a bit more sympathetic.
* FirstGirlWins: Subverted. She may be the first girl Hiro meets in this new dimension, and shows strong interest in him, but the first girl he hooks up with is Mimi! She lampshades the subversion, ''and hates it!''
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: She is absolutely fascinated and fixated on Hiro, and would bend herself into a pretzel if she has to, if she believes that will get him to serve under her, in ''every'' sense of the term, because he's a BlitheSpirit who will actually chew her out when she steps out of line, despite the fact that she's a daughter of a Marquis.
* ManipulativeBitch: She's great at getting others to bend to her will, by pushing the right buttons, even managing to snare Hiro a couple of times, but her hold on him is tenuous and fleeting, which is why she's so, so fascinated by him.
* NominalHero: She is morally upstanding, but the only reason she's in the list of heroes for the story is that she's fascinated by, and wants to control, Hiro, and she's learned that helping him in his pursuits is the best way to do it.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: She loves being in the military and fights with nobility and honor. Hiro's CombatPragmatism does tend to chafe her on occasion.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Hiro first shows up at Temarine Prime, she bends a few rules to get him out of interrogation, and allows him to go on his way, selling the rare metals the colony needs, giving him the bounty for taking out the pirates and locating their base.
** When Elma crashes her ship into one of the military vessels maintaining the blockade, she gives direct orders to ''not'' give Elma punitive fines because it was a bonna fide accident, due to a situation beyond Elma's control. In this case, though, her orders were ignored by a petty bureaucrat with a raging hate-boner for mercenaries. Serena responds to ''that'' [[LaserGuidedKarma by sending the pig to a ]] PenalColony, [[RealityIsUnrealistic but can't get the bureaucracy to refund the fine, since the fine itself was legit.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: She's got eyes red like blood, and she's very calculating, cold, and cunning.
* StalkerWithACrush: Double subverted. At first glance, it looks like she's keeping tabs on Hiro and chasing him around purely because he's the best pilot she's ever seen, and she wants to monopolize him, at least to keep him out of enemy hands, foreign or domestic. After maneuvering him into a "date" once she manages to strong-arm him into becoming a temporary subordinate, to train her newly minted independent anti-pirate fleet in pirate hunting, she gets herself completely smashed and admits that she does have romantic feelings for him and resents the fact that Mimi and Elma got to him first.
--> “Unfair! It’s so unfair–! I was the one who first had my eye on Captain Hiro you know–!”\\
She then stamped her feet while still sitting on her chair and cried loudly.\\
“That’s right you know. I helped you out, ‘kay. I’m the one who first met Captain Hiro…… But why is it that when I met him again, he already had other women sticking to him!?”
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Cold and aloof on one side, sweet and sympathetic on the other, though the "sugar" side tends to come out only when she's shit-faced, about to hit the floor, drunk.
* VitriolicBestBuds: While she and Hiro do like each other on a personal level, their chemistry is horrible. So whenever they wind up having to work together, they just can't resist bickering and backbiting with Serena constantly trying to rein him in and him constantly trying to break away.
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[[folder: Captain Baritone]]
The imperial officer who countermanded Serena's orders and not only slapped Elma with a punitive fine, but made the deadline as short as possible, hoping to send her to an orbital prison.
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* BotheringByTheBook: Rumors were circulated among the mercenaries in Serena's pirate subjugation mission that this bureaucrat was itching to ship the mercs to an orbital prison for IndenturedServitude on the smallest mistake. These rumors prove true when Elma loses control of her ship due to an internal defect and accidentally crashes into a military battleship, wrecking both, with the deadline for the cost of repairs and fines being set way, way sooner than the repairs were scheduled to be completed.
* BullyingADragon: Serena not only has a higher rank than he does but is the prestigious daughter of a Marquis house, yet he doesn't hesitate to harass her. When he's caught red-handed countermanding her orders for no reason than simply to be petty, he gets his comeuppance, but this doesn't help Elma, his victim, in the slightest, as the orders he handed down were legal to obey.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He was fond of shipping mercs to an orbital prison, for the slightest excuse, real or imagined, every chance he got. At the end of his courts-martial, he's shipped off to an orbital prison, full of pirates and mercs he sent there, all of whom would like to have a nice face to face with him...
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He hates mercenaries and Serena who is very, very skilled at employing them cheaply and effectively. As a result, he's fond of BotheringByTheBook to try and sabotage her, and them, every chance he gets.
* TemptingFate: You, in a military organization, give your superior officer(s) grief, every chance you get, purely to be petty, but squeaking by on technicalities, get cocky and countermand orders higher on the chain of command to get the worst possible result? Enjoy your courts-martial and the heaviest possible sentence upon your inevitable conviction.
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[[folder: Colonel Eugen Herrassmith]]
The captain of the Vuestor, the flagship of a rogue military unit that targeted the Krishna on Balthazar's orders.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: He commits suicide rather than be taken into custody, supposedly.
* CorneredRattlesnake: When Serena showed up to protect the Krishna and the Pelican IV, the freighter Hiro was "guarding," the Colonel ordered his fleet to become more aggressive to the Krishna, rather than stand down as Serena commanded, to her ire.
* TheGhost: He never makes an on-screen appearance, though his orders to attack the Krishna are heard by the main characters.
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[[folder: Major Romando Kestrel]]
The Vuestor's first mate.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After Serena's anti-pirate unit disabled or destroyed the rest of the fleet led by the battleship Vuestor, with only the Vuestor itself still combat capable, he orders the fleet to stand down to avoid further meaningless sacrifices.
* OneShotCharacter: Appears only once in the battle attacking the Krishna to try and get at Chris and is never seen again.
* UnreliableExpositor: He claims the captain of the Vuestor committed suicide rather than let himself be taken into custody. This testimony has to be taken with a grain of salt since the actions aboard the battleship are never shown.
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! Inagawa Technology

[[folder: Dr. Shouko]]
The researcher whose S.O.S. is answered by Hiro and crew upon entering the Alein system.
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* DCupDistress: She doesn't like the fact that her breasts are large. They give her back and shoulder pain, and they attract the wrong kind of attention.
* ForScience: Like most of the researchers in the system, research isn't just her job, it's her passion, because what she's working on is "interesting."
* HospitalHottie: Works in the hospital with patients, in addition to the lab, and is gorgeous.
* HotScientist: She's not only a medical doctor but a top-notch medical researcher, and Hiro finds her gorgeous.
* IOweYouMyLife: Though it was merely a paid job to Hiro, protecting her from pirates and then some bizarre new life-form that apparently escaped the cultivation meat plant, she is still immensely grateful that Hiro came to her rescue on a repeated basis.
* MadScientist: Although she's at least ethical about it, practicing the Hippocratic oath "do no harm," she gets downright giddy when she encounters a new branch of medical research to pursue, like Hiro's uncharted DNA...
* {{Meganekko}}: She is a bespectacled beauty, per Hiro's testimony.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: She's a brilliant researcher and wears glasses.
* TheTease: She's hot, knows it, and flirts with Hiro very aggressively once she realizes he finds her sexy, but when asked point blank to join him as a member of his crew, turns him down since she's MarriedToTheJob.
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! Antagonists:

[[folder: Earl Balthazar Daleinwald]]
Chris's uncle.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: His personal sword sliced through Hiro's gatlin laser mounts on his personal power armor like a hot knife through warm butter. Seeing this, Hiro whips out a shield designed to repel spacecraft debris and micro-asteroids then bashes him unconscious with it. For good measure, May then goes and stomps on his limbs, crushing them.
* AmbitionIsEvil: He will happily engage in any villainy to get more power, prestige, and wealth for himself.
* CorneredRattlesnake: After Hiro and Serena have repeatedly foiled his plans and Chris manages to get to her grandfather, he pulls out all the stops and launches himself, along with a commando unit, at his own father, even attacking Hiro's power armor with a sword. He has several cyborg upgrades that managed to make that battle a close fight.
* CuttingThroughEnergy: While fighting Hiro armed with power armor, he used his sword to cut through Hiro's laser fire!
* EvilUncle: Despite being very, very wealthy, he sponsors pirates and disguises his personal guard as pirates in order to murder Chris and her family so he can claim her inheritance for himself.
* FantasticSlur: He angrily calls May a "sex-doll" when she shows up to stop him from murdering his father and niece. May retorts that while the term is technically accurate, it is still derogatory and demands that he retract it.
* TheGhost: He's only made one appearance, on-screen, and that was an audio transmission to his pirate connections and underlings.
* NothingPersonal: As he finishes communicating with his underlings, just before the scene ends, he states "I have no grudge against you, Christina, but I need you to die here for my sake!"
* PlausibleDeniability: He tried to pass off his men attacking a cruise liner as the work of pirates. It might have worked if said "pirates" didn't get greedy and seize Chris herself in an escape pod and then yanked Hiro out of FTL with an interdiction system.
* SunkCostFallacy: The more his plans are foiled, the more desperate and vicious he gets, throwing more and more resources at making sure Chris is dead. What's worse is that in his mad dash to kill her before his father, her grandfather, finds out, he's getting sloppy in covering his tracks, and now the Imperial military is on to him.
--> '''Serena''': "Military grade stealth drop-ships? You're right, Captain Hiro. This is something the Imperial Military can't ignore."
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! Space Dwerg:
The primary maker of spacecraft, and the place where Hiro and company go to purchase a mothership.

[[folder: As a whole]]
* TheAlcoholic: They make ''Elma'' look stone-cold sober by comparison. Cutting them off and making them abstain is the worst possible punishment one can deliver unto them.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: They are the best mechanics and engineers in the galaxy, but calling them "eccentric" is putting it ''mildly.''
* MadScientist: Their dwarven racial traits make them obsessed with researching spaceship designs, and they will got to extremes in their competitive drive to be the first and the best.
* OurDwarvesAreDifferent: They look like human children, as opposed to the short, stocky, bearded humanoids of other works. They still obsess over forging and alcohol though.
* {{Paparazzi}}: Deconstructed. As Hiro and crew are at the Imperial Capital planet, en route to the award ceremony where he is to receive his Imperial Cross medal for meritorious service in the subjugation of the Mother Crystal, Whisker and Tina are besieged by a gaggle of PR agents from the local branch, some of the employees are even human. They pressure the two mechanic girls to let them into the Black Lotus, and while Hiro tries to greet them in the airlock, they shove their way right past him, start taking pictures of every room, force their way into the crew's personal quarters, and start trying to rip open the cargo containers to see what's inside. Enraged, Hiro, Mimi, Elma, and May subdue them and wrap them up like bag-worms with the anti-intruder defenses. While the leaders of Space Dwerg are begging, head to the floor, these yahoos are screaming and shouting about their "rights" until Hiro points to his Silver Wings Sword Assault medal, meaning he's ''nobility'', and tells them that an official complaint has already been sent to their bosses, at which point they quiet down, so Hiro reminds them about several critical things, 1.) Hiro and crew have final say about how and when '''anyone''' comes onto their ship or what is publicly revealed. 2.) Hiro agreed to Space Dwerg having exclusive access to their story in return for a discount to purchase the ship, so he can ''return'' the discount and pretend the agreement doesn't exist, cutting off all access, permanently. 3.) They have competition, and there's nothing preventing Hiro from selling the ship's on-board camera footage, showcasing Space Dwerg's abominable acts. For these Yahoos, Hiro has nothing to gain from employing them, so if they find themselves unemployed and in the slums, too bad.
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[[folder: Sara]]
The liaison Hiro and crew meet to try and buy a mothership.
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* TheFace: She's the company's primary point of contact with customers.
* OnlySaneMan: She may be well-grounded and understand common sense, but the rest of her company is staffed by obsessive-compulsive engineering whackos whose idea of "recruiting" a test pilot is fighting over him, and when they see him, mob him with a "first come, first served" declaration, to the point one of them even throws her co-worker at him to nab him. When this happened to Hiro and he was injured as a result, the next couple chapters involve the company bowing and scraping to try and appease his wrath.
* StepfordSmiler: During her introductory chapter, she spends the entire negotiation over the sale price of the mothership wearing a "zero-yen smile."[[/folder]]

[[folder: Tina and Whisker]]
A couple of dwarf engineers that wind up getting entangled with Hiro.
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* ButThouMust: After the fiasco, the company wants to get rid of them, rightly so, but firing them would leave a bad taste in Hiro's mouth, so the two get placed as part of the package for Hiro's mother ship as on-board mechanics. Hiro is understandably conflicted about it.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After the fiasco's over, Hiro points out that if they wanted to hire him as a test-pilot, the company could have put a quest through the Mercenary Guild and then Hiro could have reviewed it at his leisure and chosen whether or not to participate. Since they tried to do it on the sly and word got out, the engineering bay devolved into a free-for-all where all the rival divisions literally tried to nab him for themselves, resulting in a situation that could have cost the company greatly in its reputation.
* FastballSpecial: Tina throws Whisker at Hiro to try and nab him for their test project, after calling him to the engineering bay early in the morning. This has predictable results.
* FieryRedHead: Tina has red-hair and is extremely hot-blooded.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Tina is the foolish, while Whisker is the responsible, but since Tina is constantly dragging Whisker around, this does the poor girl no favors.
* HoneyTrap: Tina drags Whisker to Hiro's apartment, both wearing sexy lingerie, and tries to have them prostitute themselves to Hiro to "apologize" for their little stunt earlier where Hiro was injured after Whisker was thrown into him. Enraged, Hiro slams the door in their face.
* {{Manchild}}: They may be 27, but they act like hormonal teenagers.
* OlderThanTheyLook: While all dwarves look like children, these two proclaim that they are actually 27-years-old when prompted by Sara.
* PleaseIWillDoAnything: After the door is slammed in their face, they begin wailing that if they don't make things up to Hiro, they could lose their jobs, and Mimi's experience showcases how bad ''that'' can be. Mimi convinces Hiro to at least hear them out as a reult.
* RedOniBlueOni: Tina is red-headed, loud, flamboyant, and reckless. Whisker has blue-hair, is quiet, subdued, and responsible.
* ShrinkingViolet: Whisker is subdued and shy.
* SiblingTeam: Tina and Whisker are twin sisters, and they work together.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Tina is always dragging Whisker into trouble.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Whisker's hair is blue.
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! House Willrose
Elma's family.

[[folder: Ernst Willrose]]
Elma's older brother.
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* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He's a raging sis-con and doesn't want any other guy near Elma. Even after Elma herself chews him out for demanding a duel the instant Hiro sets foot in the Imperial capital, he keeps on coming. ''Losing'' to Hiro doesn't sway him in the slightest.
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