History Characters / SagaFrontier

* NiceHat: That white fluffy thing on her head is actually a bunch of white roses. Her hair underneath is brown.

* FilkSong: The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vSpVhXWRIY Fight! Alkaiser]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_N1TFWh7ac Now sounds like an Anime/Toku Opening theme]] Doubles as Red's own {{Leitmotif}}.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Mesarthim is a low-class Mystic and by far should've been far weaker than any other high class Mystics. However, meta-wise, she's considered one of the best and most powerful Mystics due to not being stuck with Mystic Mail for armor, allowing her to use powerful armors, while coming with a free Rain of Life to sustain her party, making her something of a meta-AlmightyJanitor amongst Mystics.

* {{Expy}}: He's not the only friendly traveling bard in a game in the ''VideoGame/{{SaGa|RPG}}'' series -- the Minstrel in ''VideoGame/{{Romancing SaGa}}'' fits that description as well.

** The Essence of SaGa states that his name is really meant to be Roufas, and in turn the Remaster keeps it that way.

* {{Kitsune}}: A Lummox actually, but the combination of his multiple tails and shape shifting certainly invokes it.

* AnimeChineseGirl: She wears something of a {{Qipao}} and has a very common Chinese girl name.

* IWasNeverHere: In the bad end, [[spoiler:Emilia takes on the final mission of forgetting that she ever joined Gradius on Roufas' request.]]

* PowerTrio: She's usually forming this dynamic with Annie and Liza, as 'Roufas' [[LovelyAngels Angels]]' in Gradius on Emilia's story. She's usually more detached from them in other scenarios as she's recruited via the Arcane Quest.

* LovelyAngels: Along with Annie, Liza is the more constant female of Roufas' Gradius members, contrasting with Annie with her martial arts skills.

* WorkingWithTheEx: Liza used to be Roufas' lover, but they broke up due to Roufas being more focused at his job. But since working with Gradius pays better for providing her family, Liza continues to work with her ex. If you're playing as Blue, you need Roufas on your team in order to recruit her. (For Red, it's more complicated.)

* DubNameChange: In the Japanese version, he's known as "Coon." [[CleanDubName This was changed]] due to "Coon" [[ValuesDissonance being a racial slur in America.]]

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Largely because of a CharmPerson effect.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: It actually ''[[LockedIntoStrangeness changes]]'' to [[JustifiedTrope green,]] although [[SuperMode Mystical Change]] tints it to where it looks blue.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has purple hair.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Dark green

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Light green.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Purple.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green, blue in game.

* BaldOfAwesome: Borderline-- his head is shaved, but for a single braid.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Annie walks around with basically a crop top that reveals her shoulders and the upper part of her generous boobs, her midriff, and THEN wears [[WhoWearsShortShorts short pants]]. And her long boots still reveal her thighs enough that it's an A-grade ZettaiRyouiki.

* OddlySmallOrganization: Roufus, Annie, Liza, Amelia, and a few [=NPCs=] are the only ones confirmed to be members. They do recruit when they see an opportunity.

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* SecretCharacter: Requires defeating a BonusBoss while trying to receive the ShieldCard. Said BonusBoss only manifests if you examine Suzaku's frozen body.

* Cyborg: [[spoiler:She's a cybernetically enhanced Mystic.]]

* ConvenientReplacementCharacter: He joins Ascellus after [[spoiler:White Rose is lost to the Dark Labyrinth]] and fulfills a similar role to [[spoiler:her]] as a reliable, powerful Mystic.

* DistressedDamsel: During the climax of Ascellus' story, [[spoiler:she gets kidnapped by Rastaban, and Asellus either rescues her during the mission or offscreen after defeating Orlouge (with the timing affecting Ascellus' fate)]].

** Orlouge really shouldn't have messed with Asellus, though it's understandable that he'd want to get White Rose back from her. [[spoiler: In the Half-Mystic ending, he forces her into a fight because he thinks her life's worthless, completely missing the fact that he created the most powerful Mystic in the world. His death appropriately ensues.]]

** [[spoiler: Rastaban did this intentionally. He wanted a Mystic strong enough to defeat Lord Orlouge and bring change to Fascinaturu again. However, if she doesn't embrace her Mystical side, then this backfires. She's a stronger Mystic than Orlouge, but she has every reason to hate his guts for what he did to Gina, and has no interest in his ambition. She kills him.]]

* DiscountLesbians: She's gay (or at least bisexual) because of the Charm Lord Orlouge's [[BloodMagic blood]] in her veins. [[spoiler: In the ending where she gives up her Mystic powers, she marries a man.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: In the Full Mystic ending, she decides that as a Mystic, she'll become even more powerful that Orlouge, becoming a nasty EvilOverlord and discarding any notions of humanity with her, turning Gina into her love ''slave''.]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: In the Full Mystic ending, Asellus has become exactly the heir Lord Orlouge wanted, and he couldn't be more proud of the fact that she's about to kill him and take his throne.]]

* HeroicNeutral: Asellus just wants to live her life with White Rose. The problem is that, first, Orlouge considers White Rose his personal property, second, Ciato wants Asellus eliminated as a threat to his power, and third, [[spoiler: Rastaban wants her made into a Mystic who can overthrow Orlouge]]. She has a lot of Mystical asses to kick if she wants to be able to do this. [[spoiler: As a Full Mystic, she abandons this trait once she realizes she can't live as a human anymore; she has to live as a Mystic, which means taking her rightful throne. In the Human path, conversely, she's a lot more proactive about cleaning up Fascinaturu: Not only does she kill Orlouge to free herself from her curse, she calls out and kills Rastaban for being a manipulative dick.]]

* IHateYouVampireDad: [[spoiler: In the Full Human ending, Asellus kills Orlouge to free herself from her Mystical blood.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Asellus just wants to go back home and live an ordinary life. Neither Orlouge nor Ciato will allow that. [[spoiler: In the Full Human ending, she gets what she wants; in the Half-Mystic and Full Mystic endings, she comes to accept that she will never be human, and either comes to terms with her dual heritage or decides to take her place as a Mystic Lord by force.]]

* LockedIntoStrangeness: Comments by other characters, unused artwork, and [[spoiler: her full-human ending, with several photographs of Asellus's human family, apparently going back to her own childhood before the accident)]] reveal that, before she became a half-mystic, her hair was bright red, and would have faded to brownish orange-red if she had aged at all.

* MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: In the Half-Mystic Ending, she and Gina share this; Gina's an old great-grandmother while Asellus is still eternally young and beautiful.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: Stopped aging at 17 after becoming a Half-Mystic, making her 29 when her story starts. [[spoiler: She's at least 70 during her Half-Mystic ending.]]
* PhlebotinumRebel: Though she isn't so much actively rebellious as [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wanting to go home and live a normal life with White Rose]]. [[spoiler: After escaping from the Labyrinth, she comes back to confront Orlouge for one reason or another, depending on how Mystical she's become.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In [[spoiler: her Half-Mystic ending, she tells Orlouge this. Orlouge decides to kill her for it.]]

** [[spoiler: After Orlouge's death, as Half- or especially Full-Mystic, she is the Charm Lord. "Lord" is another gender-neutral Mystic title.]]

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: A very subtle example. [[spoiler: In her Full Mystic ending, Asellus realizes that she will never be able to live among humans or be accepted by them, so she decides to take her place as the new Charm Lord with all that entails, completely abandoning her humanity and morality in the process.]]

* WalkingTheEarth: Asellus doesn't have a quest as such. She's just travelling the regions trying to get away from Orlouge's assassins, at least until [[spoiler: White Rose is trapped in the Dark Labyrinth]]. [[spoiler: In the Half-Mystic ending, she becomes a wandering adventurer, with no real place in the world except for her ties to the aging [[LoveInterest Gina]].]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever - A source of {{Angst}} in the [[spoiler: Half-Mystic]] ending, where she finds it hard to [[spoiler: return to Gina for her yearly reunion, who's [[WeAreAsMayflies living a mayfly human life.]]]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler: In her Full-Mystic ending, she goes mad with power, becoming a worse tyrant than Orlouge was.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Orlouge considers her this [[spoiler: in the Full Mystic ending, when she returns to take his throne as Charm Lord. He's much more contemptuous of her in the other two endings.]]

* EvilTwin: He is Rouge's EvilTwin. [[spoiler: Or rather, Rouge's Evil LiteralSplitPersonality or the part that gets dumped with the majorly negative traits of the original Blue/Rouge.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler: After fusing together with Rouge in their WizardDuel, Blue starts to become more like Rouge, helping out the Magic Kingdom despite them being directly responsible for the strife the two had to go through to become it's magical SuperSoldier. Fuse mentions that [[WhenSheSmiles he also starts to genuinely smile]] as he teaches future magicians in Magic Kingdom to make sure no one has to go through what he went through again and promises to call on Fuse for help if he needs it]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Emilia’s good ending where it’s revealed that [[spoiler: Joker is actually a possessed Ren who tells her to shoot his mask off to free him. Afterward, they finally get married]]. In Essence, however, it's subverted. [[spoiler:Marriage did happen, but Emilia has become broken by her whole quest that she amicably divorced with Ren shortly after.]] But then double-subverted in [[spoiler:Fuse's scenario about her case. Emilia still marries Ren without divorce, and also manages to get back at Fuse for unfairly jailing her.]]

* FairytaleWeddingDress: Emilia tries one on [[spoiler: just before her BigBad crashes in]].

* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Emilia has this [[spoiler: with Ren who is revealed to be bodyjacked by Joker the whole time in her good ending]].

* AllYourPowersCombined: ''[[WordOfGod Essence]]'' states that his quest was finished last, mainly because he was so busy helping out all the other characters. So they returned the favor and all joined him to finish ''his'' quest. ''All'' of them. [[spoiler: The villain of his story is also revealed to be the ManBehindTheMan behind most other villains in the game.]]

* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: In his ending, Red’s Alkaiser powers are taken away by Alkarl, saying his mission is finally over and should live a peaceful live with his rescued family.]]

* ParentalAbandonment: His family is killed by Black X about thirty seconds into his game. [[spoiler: It's revealed that his mother and sister are actually still alive near the end]]

* HeroAntagonist: He's not the most pleasant fellow, but he's far more humane whereas Blue is selfish and petty. This is emphasized in gameplay: you can obtain Rouge as a party member on all of the quests bar [=T260G=] and Riki, while Blue cannot be recruited on any others. In fact, he dismisses Red on his quest solely because his name is similar to Rouge's. [[spoiler: The fact that you can't recruit both in the same party can also be explained due to Rouge actually being Blue's LiteralSplitPersonality.]]

* ThePowerOfFriendship: In ''Essence,'' he's able to muster the strength to [[spoiler: get out of Hell]], because he knew there were people who cared about him outside.

* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler: In Fuse’s story, after escaping Hell, Rouge declines staying to rebuild the Magic Kingdom as he believes he’s not ready to lead it, instead it’s to go on a journey to broaden his horizons before returning home]].

* ConvenientReplacementCharacter: [[spoiler:He joins after White Rose is lost to the Dark Labyrinth and fulfills a similar role to her as a reliable, powerful Mystic]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: Sure, he can use evil magic and [[{{Expy}} looks like]] [[StreetFighter Akuma]], but he's on Asellus's side and helps her cope with the loss of [[spoiler: White Rose]]

!!Leonard/[[spoiler: Leonard B. Edison]]

* UnexpectedSuccessor: [[spoiler: Eventually ends up becoming President of the new government after Trinity is exposed and driven out of power.]]

* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: Kidnapped by Rastaban during the climax. Asellus either rescues her during the mission, or rescues her offscreen after defeating Orlouge.]]

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Implied. [[spoiler: In the Human and Half-Mystic endings, she's seen on a scrapbook card with Asellus, which would in turn imply that Asellus spared her life after defeating her. She's not part of the group who visits Gina, however. Obviously averted in the Full Mystic ending, where Asellus kills all of Orlouge's princesses to start her own harem.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: It's unclear what happened to her after her second defeat by Asellus. In the Human and Half-mystic endings, she shows up on a scrapbook card with no context, although it's implied by the Full-Mystic ending that she and Orlouge's other princesses are killed.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He and Ildon are lovers. He's far more evil than Ildon, but Ildon [[spoiler: is still grief-stricken by his death in the human path]].

* SlaveMooks: [[spoiler: Berva's mooks in Shingrow]] are would-be tomb robbers who've been captured and forced to join.

* BerserkButton: Under no circumstances say you do not know who he is; doing so will result in you being teleported to a random dungeon filled with monsters.[[note]]The dungeon is ''always'' the Koorong cavern where the Hide Rune is located. Anyone (except Asellus) can abuse this for a shortcut if one doesn't want to go through the Koorong back alley, and it can be in character for [[{{Jerkass}} Blue]] too, if he chose to get the Rune Magic gift.[[/note]] Holding an audience with Virgil for no discernible reason will tick him off, but if you admit to at least knowing about him, he'll let you off if only because your audacity kind of amused him.

* BerserkButton: Under no circumstances say you do not know who he is; doing so will result in you being teleported to a random dungeon filled with monsters. Holding an audience with Virgil for no discernible reason will tick him off, but if you admit to at least knowing about him, he'll let you off if only because your audacity kind of amused him.

* SecretKeeper: In his scenario on Red's case, [[spoiler:Fuse figures out that Red is Alkaiser but promises to keep this a secret to everyone.]]

* TookALevelInIdealism: In the original game and supplemental material Fuse is a dirty cop who is only nominally on the side of justice. Come the Remaster his seedier actions are given exculpatory context,and he aggressively pursues the villains of the other protagonists.

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: She's exclusive to Lute's scenario, so if you want to get her, play his scenario.

* PromotedToPlayable: He will be playable [[spoiler:as his own self, not Joker,]] in the Remastered version during Fuse's scenario.

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: In Asellus's scenario, you have to choose between Rei, and Kylin + Space Magic. You cannot have both.

* PermanentlyMissableContent: If you don't visit her room with White Rose at the beginning of Asellus's scenario, she won't even join you.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In the Dark Labyrinth, in order to for anyone to leave, someone has to stay behind.]] White Rose decides that she deserves it as punishment for disobeying Orlouge, and stays so that Asellus and co. may leave.
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler: In Asellus's Full Mystic ending, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she and the rest of Orlouge's harem are left to "sleep" in their coffins forever so Asellus can start a new one]].]]

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: Only appears at all (and thus only recruitable) in Red's story.

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: Only accessible as a party member in [=T260G=]'s scenario.

A mec found in the garden of Kyo. It is trying to find the secret drug base of Metal Black hidden somewhere in town. It's also a property of IRPO, which had their sights on Metal Black.

* BadassBeard: He might not be very action-y, but [[spoiler:he's actually the public identity of Alkarl, and being a superhero, he could kick ass if needs be.]]

* ReplacementScrappy: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when he joins Asellus's party, as [[spoiler:White Rose had to stay behind in the Labyrinth for everyone else to go free]]. [[invoked]]

* NotSoDifferent: At first Red doubts that Asellus is the Asellus he knew, but he's the first to quickly dismiss that and bring her and White Rose to the party, considering that everyone's got their own secret, if Asellus has her immortality secret by being Half-Mystic that she can't disclose, he has a similar secret he can't disclose: Him being Alkaiser.

!!Leonard

* HopelessBossFight: Fighting Virgil isn't a fight as much as it is simply entertaining him[[note]]Getting a score of 10 through combination attacks. [[GuideDangIt Only levels 3 to 5 count, and using the same combination attack twice in a row sets the score to 0.]][[/note]] Trying to deplete his HP is pointless because he has infinite HP, and taking too long to entertain him makes him bored and he decides to start killing everyone. Oh yeah, and you can't run away from battles.

* LockedIntoStrangeness: Comments by other characters, unused artwork, and [[spoiler: her full-human ending, with several photographs of Asellus' human family, apparently going back to her own childhood before the accident)]] reveal that, before she became a half-mystic, her hair was bright red, and would have faded to brownish orange-red if she had aged at all.

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Since the accident happened 12 years before the game started, and not 'yesterday' as she previously believed, Asellus' aunt believed her to be dead.

* DarkIsNotEvil: A very very scary doctor, but also a man dedicated to his job as a doctor and also represents the 'neutral' option for Asellus' case in Remastered, encouraging her to [[BeYourself just be herself and decide what to do with her mystic heritage on her own.]]

Rastaban's lover, who is requested to serve as Asellus' bodyguard for ulterior motives.

* DeadpanSnarker: He's wry and aloof, which makes his commentary across Asellus' route very snarky.

* TookALevelInKindness: In all of the epilogues to Asellus' route he becomes noticeably nicer. Even when he's badmouthing Asellus in the Full Mystic ending it's [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen not unwarranted]].

* HappinessInSlavery: She's ''[[LesYay quite]]'' eager to be Asellus' slave when Asellus comes back to her. She’ll also happily serve Time Lord and Nusakan if in the party. Averted with the Lord of the Manor; she's not happy at all when he confines her to his house, but admits that as a person, he's a good man.
* IOweYouMyLife: If Asellus goes back to Owmi for her after the Dark Labyrinth, Mesarthim invokes this trope, insisting that she be Asellus' slave. Incidentally, she also feels this way about the Lord of the Manor, but can't stand the constant smell of humans or her confinement in his shower.

* BoomerangBigot: In Asellus' game, the first thing she says is "I smell the foul stench of a Mystic," referring to White Rose, despite she herself being one.

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: In Asellus' scenario, you have to choose between Rei, and Kylin + Space Magic. You cannot have both.

* PermanentlyMissableContent: If you don't visit her room with White Rose at the beginning of Asellus' scenario, she won't even join you.

The kindest arch princess of Facinaturu and sworn to be loyal with the Charm Lord Orlouge. White Rose is assigned with the task of being Asellus' caretaker and protects her from harm, but this displeases Orlouge, who wants her back to his side instead of going with Asellus. [[spoiler:She eventually sacrifices herself by becoming Asellus' unwitting sacrifice so she can escape the Dark Labyrinth, feeling guilty for betraying Orlouge. Asellus definitely freed her after defeating Orlouge, but what happens to her afterwards depends on the path Asellus chose.]]

* CrutchCharacter: In Asellus' scenario, she begins as the powerful aide to help Asellus when the latter is horribly weak, but as a full Mystic, her development options were limited. [[spoiler:She later gets stuck inside the Dark Labyrinth and leaves forever, discouraging players to be overly dependent on her.]] Averted in Emilia's scenario, where she's just another recruitable Mystic that joins mid-game.

* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler: In Asellus' Full Mystic ending, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she and the rest of Orlouge's harem are left to "sleep" in their coffins forever so Asellus can start a new one]].]]

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: As Asellus' main traveling partner, she's the Girly Girl for Asellus, the prim and proper Mystic princess, complete with PimpedOutDress and using a curtsy bow as her victory pose.

* AbortedArc: According to the plot notes for Asellus' scenario, Orlouge intended for Zozma to be his heir before the latter rebelled, making Zozma an ongoing source of fascination for a mystic lord that almost always gets what he wants. None of this made it into the game, and Zozma's exile from Fascinaturu is implied to merely be the consequence of his brusque mannerisms.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Sure, he can use evil magic and [[{{Expy}} looks like]] [[StreetFighter Akuma]], but he's on Asellus' side and helps her cope with the loss of [[spoiler: White Rose]]

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: In Asellus' scenario, you can have either Kylin and Space magic, or Rei. You cannot have both.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: If you don't recruit Kylin before going to the Dark Labyrinth in Asellus' scenario and have activated the triggers needed to recruit Rei at the start of her story, then you will never be able to recruit Kylin even if you reject Rei's offer.

* ReplacementScrappy: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when he joins Asellus' party, as [[spoiler:White Rose had to stay behind in the Labyrinth for everyone else to go free]]. [[invoked]]

* BonusBoss: He can be fought with anyone (except Blue), but with little consequences or boons (and the drawback is that if you recruited Blue/Rouge, then you have to dump him because he doesn't want to go back to his home at Magic Kingdom). Even if he has extra scenes in Asellus' story, he's not mandatory.
* DarkIsEvil: He's an evil Mystic when there are just as many DarkIsNotEvil Mystic examples, and his vileness is meant to show just how depraved Mystics can be, even compared to fellow low-rank Mystics like Mesarthim or Time Lord, favoring Asellus' Human Ending.
* DuelBoss: If fought in Asellus' route, he has to be fought alone.

* BittersweetEnding: Things don't end happily for Gina no matter how Asellus' story concludes. [[spoiler:If Asellus remains a Half-Mystic, they do get together, but Gina grows old while Asellus remains young, and the latter's inability to fit in anywhere means she can never remain with her for very long regardless. If Asellus becomes human, then she goes on to have a family of her own, and while they remain close, Gina outlives her. And if Asellus becomes a Full Mystic, she makes Gina her first princess, but she becomes a ruthless tyrant and Gina is now effectively her slave for eternity.]]

* NostalgicNarrator: Narrates Asellus' game in this fashion.
* SuperEmpowering: [[spoiler:In the Full Mystic ending, she becomes Asellus' first princess.]]

* AscendedExtra: Originally, like Furdo, her extra scenes would have been there and directly affecting Asellus' ending. However, it was cut and only restored in the Remastered version, while also lowering the influence on Asellus' ending.

* BadBoss[=/=]VillainousDemotivator: After Asellus' escape, Ciato questions the wisdom of not punishing Ildon... and gets hurled around the room for his trouble. Cut material includes him giving explicit permission to the Bio Research Lab to abduct and experiment on lower class mystics.

* AscendedExtra: Originally, they only served as an inconsequential PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling, but in the Remastered version, they will play a vital part in Asellus' quest, something that was cut in the original version. Most of them are under the Nasheera (their leader) section.

* FamousLastWords: If defeated by Blue, he gives the last bit of their shared last words-
-->How...could...you...ever..beat...me?...This||...is...un...believe...able."