History Characters / SoulEaterTroubledSouls

* TomboyishPonytail: Rowena’s hair is presumably too short (it’s described as chin-length) to have a true ponytail, so she settles on a bun nstead.

** LamarckWasRight: Her dad's got it too.

* TomboyishPonytail: Rowena’s hair is presumably too short (it’s described as chin-length) to have a true ponytail, so she settles on a bun instead.

* FatalFlaw: Impassiveness. Marcellus doesn't quite like responsibility [[spoiler: because his parents and the Chicago Gang put ''so much'' pressure on him. Running away and meeting the Ricardsens finally ensured he's away from that.]] Unfortunately, this has made Marcellus a little ''too''. Oftentimes, he can be a little inconsiderate, especially when he feels he put too much energy into something only to get nothing out of it.

* BrilliantButLazy: Marcellus lives and breathes this trope. He's WiseBeyondHisYears, combines both book smarts and StreetSmarts, and acts as the OnlySaneMan. But, he'd rather sleep, be lazy, and do other things. Or, at the very least, do the things he wants to do. Case in point, he matched [TheSmartGuy Caius’s]] score on a test early on ''without'' studying.

* BrilliantButLazy: Marcellus lives and breathes this trope. He's WiseBeyondHisYears, combines both book smarts and StreetSmarts, and acts the OnlySaneMan. But, he'd rather sleep, be lazy, and do other things.

* FatalFlaw: Impassiveness. Marcellus doesn't quite like responsibility [[spoiler: because his parents and the Chicago Gang put ''so much'' pressure on him. Running away and meeting the Ricardsens finally ensured he's away from that.]] Unfortunately, this has made Marcellus a little TOO lax and oftentimes inconsiderate, especially when he feels he put too much energy into something only to get nothing out of it.

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* BookDumb: According to Claudia, no matter how hard she studies, she eventually gets text anxiety and she consequently does bad on tests. Overall, she's not very strong academically. Time will tell if that test-taking skills class will help or not.
** DumbBlonde

!!Professor Gregory Matilda
The 41-year-old homeroom teacher of the Half Moon Class and godfather of Meredith and Luther. He apparently bears a grudge toward Professor Stein and Class Crescent Moon for presently unknown reasons.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Doesn’t bother to remember those who leave the Half Moon Class and calls Class Crescent Moon “pathetic.” [[ThisIsGonnaSuck This isn’t gonna be fun in the future…]]
* SternTeacher / SadistTeacher: Ox brings forth the rumor that Professor Matilda is very strict in both training and teaching. Caius doesn’t exactly deny those, but his methods do work.
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Knows Soul Fist from the Olmett Family.
* WhatsInItForMe: Says this trope word-for-word when Stein asks for his help for the field exam. Though, he’s keeping his students in mind as well since he doesn’t like that Class Crescent Moon is getting something the others aren’t.

A special class made entirely for the rule-breakers within the Academy.

!!Noel Isaac Ricardsen
In ''Soul Eater: Troubled Souls'', Noel debuts as the 42-year-old father of Tsuji and Rowena Ricardsen and the husband of Rosalind. Noel Isaac Ricardsen is the currently employed as the DWMA's head disciplinarian as well as the homeroom teacher for the Correctional Class. He has an older brother named Edward. Three years prior, in Chicago, he stopped and offered aid to Marcellus and Nayumi and began training his children after the four decided to partner up and join the Academy.

Rewind 23 years earlier, in ''Soul Eater Zeta,'' Noel is infamously regarded as “The Bloody Shield”; a disturbed 19-year-old who mercilessly beat up people who activated an emotional and/or mental trigger in him.

* ActionDad: Even tough guys love their children.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Well, Stein ''did'' say the legend about the Enchanted Eyes said users sacrifice a part of their humanity.. [[WildMassGuessing Who knows if that's true?]]
* ArcVillain: One could make a case that Noel is this in the Joint Resonance Training Arc. He orchestrates all of the events, he’s TheDreaded, and he fights the two strongest characters at the time (Blackstar and Kid).
* {{Badass}}: The story's resident badass OC if no one else comes to take that away from him.
** BadassBaritone
** BadassTeacher
* BareHandedBladeBlock: His battle gloves give him a justified reason for doing so.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: His EstablishingCharacterMoment in the prequel? Knocking two badly beaten students through a wall, walking in while covered in THEIR blood. Everyone flips their shit.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: He does care about good students and his children. That said, he's not consistently nice.
* CloseRangeCombatant: Can only fight opponents when they’re within an arm’s reach of him. Fist of Balam is shown to be a projectile, but that only does so much for him.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: [[SubvertedTrope Sort of]]. His eyes are dark auburn (a shade of orange), but orange is one of two of his hair colors.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Tends to wear black along with orange, but he's a hero. But again..
** GoodIsNotSoft / GoodIsNotNice: Noel isn't afraid to make someone fear him. He can get pretty ruthless.
* TheDreaded: The very first chapter of ''Soul Eater Zeta'' showed that Noel was an extremely feared {{Berserker}}. Even in the present, in ''Troubled Souls'', when he steps into a room, most of the students believe someone is in trouble and don’t want to get hurt themselves.
* DeadpanSnarker / DangerDeadpan: Noel is almost always speaking in a dry, deadpan voice. That said, this story is a WorldOfSnark for a reason.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: The Enchanted Eye.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: He's got a tough and thorny outward demeanor, but Noel can be quite nice. Case in point, he had no reason to stop and give Marcellus and Nayumi shelter (and later take care of them under his house's roof) other than the goodness of his heart.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His weapon form is a Demon Shield as his character biography says.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: See RedBaron. It’s also his Enchanted Eyes theme.
* PeekABangs: They cover the eye that demonstrates the Enchanted Eye, but it’s not always activated. This trope doesn’t exist in ''Soul Eater Zeta''.
** MulticoloredHair: Black and orange.
* RealMenWearPink: Well, he ''is'' a single parent. Someone’s gotta do the cooking and washing while the children are out.
* RedBaron: "The Bloody Shield" and the "Demon of the DWMA"
* TheStoic
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: He supervised the Joint Resonance training and explicitly said to hold back and evaluate the students. He decided that Blackstar and Kid deserved to fight him with his Enchanted Eye activated.
* SuperStrength: His modus operandi.
* TheUnsmile / PerpetualFrowner: Good luck seeing genuine smiles out of this man. Heck, good luck seeing him grin or smirk!
* UnskilledButStrong: He's such a powerful opponent because of his massive strength, Enchanted Eye and experience. However, he's untrained and unrefined. He gets injured a lot because he has to tank certain attacks because his options are so limited. Heck, the reason he got so strong is because Noel got into many fights and was exposed to an array of different fighters.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Apparently soul wavelength attacks, such as Soul Force, disrupt his Enchanted Eye and Demonic Wavelength.

!!Tropes applying to both Jarret and Darrel
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: How else would they be able to sneak into the Academy before opening hours, slip past security, get most of the Correctional Class inside ''undetected'', and then perfectly orchestrate their little raid on the school itself?
* [[GracefulLoser Graceful Losers]]: In Chapter 7 when the Correctional Class are about to be lectured by Lord Death, most of them are scared out of their wits. Not Jarrett and Darrel. Eyes closed and arms crossed, they face everything without a word.
* ChromaticArrangement: Jarret wears a dark red coat while Darrel wears a dark blue coat.

!!Jarret Shuzen
A student of the DWMA who is in the Correctional Class. He seems to be a leader figure among his classmates and fellow delinquents.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Aquamarine.

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!!Kathi Rumeri
A middle-aged woman who acts as another librarian to the Academy’s Library. She also runs the Book Club and coaches Tennis. She is retired from active duty in the DWMA but became a Three-Star Meister during her tenure.

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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: [[SubvertedTrope Sort of]]. He has dark auburn hair (a shade of orange), but orange is one of two of his hair colors.

In ''Soul Eater: Troubled Souls'', Noel debuts as the 42-year-old father of Tsuji and Rowena Ricardsenm and the husband of Rosalind. Noel Isaac Ricardsen is the currently employed as the DWMA's head disciplinarian as well as the homeroom teacher for the Correctional Class He has an older brother named Edward. Three priors prior, in Chicago, he stopped and offered aid to Marcellus and Nayumi and began training his children after the four decided to partner up and join the Academy.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: See RedBaron. It’s also his Enchanted Eyes theme.

* SwissArmyWeapon: Both of them are capable of an ability called Mode Change, meaning they can convert the appearance of their weapons form into a related state, known as a "Form." It’s not quite like Tsubaki’s unique multi-form trait because their Forms need to be at least similar in purpose and/or design. For Marcellus, all Tsuji needs to do is some manual adjustment. For Nayumi, she and Rowena need to conduct a Soul Resonance first before the manual adjustment.
** Demon Bow Marcellus has his Forms that include a regular bow (his Default Form), [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a longbow (Longbow Form), a javelin (Javelin Form), and a crossbow (Crossbow Form)]].
** Nayumi’s Forms include a morning star, a broadax, and a meteor hammer. This does not include her default weapon form, the Demon Sledgehammer.

* SwissArmyWeapon: This section describes Marcellus’s Forms.

* SensorCharacter: She’s got something called Wavelength Radiation. Concentrating her wavelength so that it’s sensitive to infrared radiation, Nayumi is able detect the heat signatures of living objects. This has advantages compared to Soul Perception or Marcellus’s Wavelength Sonar in that she can still detect organisms that are protecting their wavelengths.
* SwissArmyWeapon: Here are her Forms:

A system of the Academy that takes in students incapable of fighting Monsters and Evil Humans and trains them, either to ensure they aren’t a danger to the outside world or for them to become good enough to be promoted to the EAT curriculum. They make up the majority of the Academy’s student body.

* OfficerAndAGentlemen: The “officer” is moreso a “student of an evil-fighting organization/school”, but he’s still a gentlemen.

* ShoutOut: “Meteor Javelin” has the same name as [[FinalFantasyXIII-2 Noel Kreiss’s Full ATB Skill]]. Its description is quite similar to how Noel performs it in-game too.

* LongRangeFighter

** [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang Crossbow Form]]: This form doesn’t shoot arrows, but instead a boomerang-like blade that becomes a spinning buzzsaw upon discharge. Naturally, [[BoomerangComeback]] it will return to its stock whether it scores a direct hit or misses.

* TokenMinority: Of the main OCs introduced, Marcellus is the only African-American. Subverted when you consider Kilik's AscendedExtra role for the story as a whole.

* KickChick: More like [[GenderInvertedTrope Kick]]''[[GenderInvertedTrope Dude]]''! Tsuji prefers to attack using his lower body when in a close-quarters combat situation and is well-versed in kickboxing.
* LongRangeFighter
* MultiMeleeMaster: Tsuji is skilled with every one of Marcellus's Mode Change Forms.

* GamerGirl: By the way, she's a fangirl of the ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' series.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: [[MadeOfIron Durability]]. Par for the course for a possessor of immense physical strength or else she’d be breaking her back and arms every time she punched or swung Nayumi.

* GamerGirl: By the way, she's a fangirl of the ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' series.

* {{Badass}}

** BadassInANiceSuit: See SharpDressedMan.

** CulturedBadass

* {{BFG}}: The Soul Resonance Deus Iratus[[note]]Wrathful God in Latin[[/note]] is a giant missile launcher.

* SpoiledBrat: Must be. She didn't know to clean a kitchen, cook proper cookies, and didn't even know her social security number.

* BrokenTears: In Soul Eater: Saeculum, she sheds these after her rant. It’s a sign that tells Marcellus there is something more to Nayumi than what she’s projecting.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Her favorite animal.

A Half Moon Class student. Her weapon form is a claymore. She appears to be Australian.

* KickChick: More like [[GenderInvertedTrope Kick]] ''[[GenderInvertedTrope Dude]] '! Tsuji prefers to attack using his lower body when in a close-quarters combat situation and is well-versed in kickboxing.

* BreakTheCutie: Before the DWMA, Claudia attended the Academy of the Arts in ballet. Long story short, her best friend Constance was being attacked and bullied by three snobs (Gertrude and her posse). In the midst of the confusion in her attempts to save her, Claudia unknowingly activates her dormant Weapon Gene and injures Gertrude badly. The witnesses, unfortunately Gertrude's posse, [[{{Misblamed}} blamed everything, including what happened to Constance, on Claudia]]. She was banned from the school despite her pleas, forced to leave her dreams and friends behind. ''Ouch''.

* ElegentGothicLolita: Quite a few of her outfits revolved around the Lolita style. They aren’t necessarily gothic though.

* TheCoatComeOff: Removes his blazer in Chapter 24.

* GamerGirl: By the way, she's a fangirl of the ''Franchise/Mario'' series.

* RequiredSecondaryAbility: [[MadeOfIron Durability]]. Par for the course for a possessor of immense physical strength or else she’d be breaking her break and arms every time she punched or swung Nayumi.

* {{Adorkable}}: Loves arts and crafts and origami… as well as ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}" and ''WesterAnimation/InvaderZim''.

* LuckyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His weapon form is a Demon Shield as his character biography says.

* HeroicSelfDepreciation: She laments her inability to do anything despite being a RetiredBadass. She chooses not to do much else after Maka and Caius begin Dorum Dei, believing her moment has expired.

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16-year-old Lance Meister and one of the many students in the Academy.

** BadassInANiceSuit: See SharpDressedMan

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Capable of impaling and knocking around monsters and Kishin Eggs larger than him. Bifurcation and dismemberment aren’t any more difficult for him either.

* EmotionSuppression: Caius highly attempted this. [[spoiler: Because of the trauma he experienced from the Vladingham Family Massacre, he didn't want to get close to anyone no matter his true feelings toward them. Altruistic, but it caused him emotional pain and prevented Joint Resonance. Maka and Soul get him out of this.]]

* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler: The Vladingham Family was killed off two years prior to the beginning of the story by Cancer Lucrenian. He's the sole survivor (although barely if that little flashback at the end of the prologue is anything to go by). His moniker is even "The Last Vladingham"]].

* SharpDressedMan: Caius seems to prefer going around doing ''everything'' with a suit or something similar on.

A 14-year-old Demon Lance who is apart of a very rich family.

* BreakTheCutie: Before the DWMA, Claudia attended the Academy of the Arts in ballet. Long story short, her best friend Constance was being attacked and bullied by three snobs (Gertrude and her posse). In the midst of the confusion in her attempts to save her, Claudia unknowingly activates her dormant Weapon Gene and injures Gertrude badly. The witnesses, unfortunately Gertrude's posse, blamed everything, including what happened to Constance, on Claudia. She was banned from the school despite her pleas, forced to leave her dreams and friends behind. ''Ouch''.

The 15-year-old son of Noel Ricardsen who is a new student to the Academy. He is a Bow Meister.

* TheCoatsAreOff: Removes his blazer in Chapter 24.

* KickChick: More like [[GenderInvertedTrope Kick]] ''[[GenderInvertedTrope Dude]]''! Tsuji prefers to attack using his lower body when in a close-quarters combat situation and is well-versed in kickboxing.

The 15-year-old daughter of Noel Ricardsen who is a new student to the Academy. She is a Sledgehammer Meister.

* ActionGirl: UpToEleven.

* {{Badass}}

* FieryRedhead: An orange-haired ActionGirl.
* GamerGirl: By the way, she's a fangirl of the Mario series.
* PrimAndProperBun: Subverted. You would think Rowena would have a TomboyishPonytail but she doesn't. Her hair's in a bun.
** TomboyishSidetails: Her chin-length hair gives this effect.

* SuperStrength: Good God, this girl is strong. Her physical strength is what makes her stand out as a fighter.

** MightyGlacier: Rowena isn't slow per se, but many other character (even Demon Weapons that don't fight) are usually more mobile and faster than her. That said, Noel and super-strong monsters are the only ones capable of matching or exceeding her physical strength.
** BareFistedMonk: When fighting weaponless.

** TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Nayumi’s GirlyGirl. Though, Nayumi’s definitely not as girly as this trope would imply.

* [[spoiler: TheRunaway]]: They both live in Death City with Ricardsens now.

** Marcellus may be a Demon Bow, but his Forms include a regular bow (his Default Form), [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a longbow (Longbow Form), a javelin (Javelin Form), and a crossbow (Crossbow Form)]].

A 17-year-old Demon Bow who acts as Tsuji's partner. He comes from Chicago, Illinois.

A cheerful 14-year-old partnered with Rowena. She is a Demon Sledgehammer who emigrated from Canada.

* {{Adorkable}}: Loves arts and crafts and origami… as well as "Franchise/{{Pokemon}}" and "WesterAnimation/InvaderZim".

** AwesomeButImpractical: …that weights about 300 pounds and is around Rowena's height even though it looks as light as Soul's weapon form. Even if you can match wavelengths with her, good luck ''picking it up''.

* TheAce: Regarded as the best and strongest Half Moon Class student.

!!Madeline

The 42-year-old father of Tsuji and Rowena Ricardsen. He is the DWMA's head disciplinarian as well as the homeroom teacher for the Correctional Class.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: See RedBaron. It’s also his Enchanted Eyes theme.

A middle-aged woman who acts as another librarian to the Academy’s Library. She also runs the Book Club and coaches Tennis. She is retired from active duty in the DWMA.

The main antagonist of ''Soul Eater: Troubled Souls'', and [[spoiler: The Witch who was behind the Vladingham Family Massacre]]. She apparently wants to create a new world. She is behind the creation of the Anria and the experimental monster, ''00000Ω''.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Capable of impaling and knocking around monsters and Kishin Eggs larger than him. Bifurcation and dismemberment aren’t any more difficult for him either.

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]: That throwaway line in Chapter 9's flashback?[[note]]''The dingy darkness almost looked welcoming…''[[/note]] It was an allusion to this trope. [[AvertedTrope Thankfully]], Caius had enough sense to sit down and read his book.

** In Chapter 22, Caius reveals that [[spoiler: not all deaths were confirmed; there were a few missing and/or unidentified bodies.]] Whether this has significance is yet to be known.

* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]: [[spoiler: Before the DWMA, Claudia attended the Academy of the Arts in ballet. Long story short, her best friend Constance was being attacked and bullied by three snobs (Gertrude and her posse). In the midst of the confusion in her attempts to save her, Claudia unknowingly activates her dormant Weapon Gene and injures Gertrude badly. The witnesses, unfortunately Gertrude's posse, blamed everything, including what happened to Constance, on Claudia. She was banned from the school despite her pleas, forced to leave her dreams and friends behind.]] ''Ouch''.

* HiddenDepths: Claudia may be haughty, but she is actually a nice person. After all, she was the one who (kinda) got through Caius at his most emotionally broken. In addition, [[spoiler: she had to stomach throwing away her initial hopes and dreams all because of a freak accident.]] Couldn't figure that one out at a first glance.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Maka

* [[spoiler: ParentalNeglect]]:

* [[spoiler: TheRunaway]]: They both live in Death City with Ricardsens now.

* SwissArmyWeapon: Both of them are capable of an ability called Mode Change, meaning they can convert the appearance of their weapons form into a related state, known as a "Form." For Marcellus, all Tsuji needs to do is some manual adjustment. For Nayumi, she and Rowena need to conduct a Soul Resonance first before the manual adjustment.

* [[spoiler: DespairEventHorizon]]: According to ''Soul Eater: Saeculum'', [[spoiler: Marcellus was very close to passing this. He hated being apart of the Chicago Gang but was utterly hopeless and too afraid to do anything about it.]]

* [[spoiler: {{Gangsterland}}]]: Originally comes from Chicago [[spoiler: because he is in fact the next-in-line don for one of the most powerful gangs.]]

* OnlySaneMan: Gotta be in order to live with the Ricardsen Twins and Nayumi. In fact, he’s literally one of the most mature and rational people in the story.

* MeaningfulName: Her surname. [[spoiler: Because Marcellus is African-American and Nayumi is Canadian, that's an easy way to let you know they're not related by blood. And they aren't. Marcellus courteously offered his last name to Nayumi because she ''hates her parents'' and doesn't want to be associated with them.]]

* [[spoiler: TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior]]: [[spoiler: In ''Soul Eater: Saeculum,'' Nayumi is a StrawNihilist CreepyChild… at the age of '''twelve'''. Marcellus lampshades this to himself before realizing he's NotSoDifferent.]]