History Characters / SoundHorizon

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His last name is clear enough, but what about his first name? Is it Alber? A'''r'''bel? Albers? A'''l'''be'''r'''ge? A'''r'''be'''l'''ge? ''Auberge''?

The antagonist of "Miezaru Ude". He is the one who severed the Blonde-Haired Laurant's arm, inadvertently plunging the latter into a life of misery and loneliness. Unbeknownst to him, however, the Red-Haired Laurant himself hasn't exactly been enjoying a life of glory and comfort.

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Flambeau and [[spoiler: his kidnappee, Ciel,]] turn out to have married/become lovers at some point after the latter's abduction, the union of which produced one son, [[spoiler: Tyce]]. Laurencin is understandably ''shocked'' when he came to know this.

The story's VillainProtagonist. A sadistic, vengeful [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] haunting a mysterious well, he takes delight in bestowing horrible punishments to people, regardless of whether [[DisproportionateRetribution they really deserve it]] and whether [[MisplacedRetribution the revenge is aimed at the right person]]. He simply carries out the [[RevengeByProxy wishes]] of his victims, who are ghosts like him that are called forth by the Well to the boundary of life and death.

* PainfulTransformation: [[spoiler: His transformation into Märchen von Friedhof is accompanied by a very inharmonious screaming.]]
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: With little explanation, the blindness he used to have is cured all of a sudden. The ''New Testament Märchen'' manga expands on this a little bit more: [[spoiler: the ghost of Idolfried Ehrenberg saved him when he tripped and fell into the well]]. The villagers discovered him a while later and immediately called Therese, who hurried to save him. As März came to his senses, he also came to gain his vision, [[spoiler: which is implied to originate from his interaction with the Well]].

* MeaningfulEcho: During the last seconds of "Gyoukou no Uta", a [[spoiler: repented]] Märchen, [[spoiler: already gaining his memories back,]] repeated a certain young boy's phrase:

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* DeathSeeker: After withdrawing from Whitehaven following his HeelFaceTurn, Albers just wants someone to kill him to atone for his foolish mistakes. [[spoiler: Queen Rose]] quickly snaps him out of it. [[spoiler: He got exactly what he wished just after he stopped being this trope and during a ceasefire agreement that was meant to stop the whole schtick he made worse.]]

* TheDragon: Initially, of Emperor Childebert VI. [[spoiler: After his HeelFaceTurn, he becomes TheLancer of Queen Rose.]]

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: InUniverse. After he died, the world hailed him far and wide as a hero, a symbol of struggle against tyranny, forgetting altogether his ruthlesness. Not only that, he had himself confessed to Queen Rose that he used to massacre thousands of innocents to satisfy his own belligerent impulses.

* PyrrhicVictory: He managed to avenge his hometown by shooting Alvarez...in a heavily-guarded ceasefire meeting. Well, Gefenbauer succeeds, but he was naturally caught and murdered on the spot by security--in this case, Sir Parsifal, Queen Rose's bodyguard.

!!Rose Guine Avalon / "The Supreme Rose"

The [[AChildShallLeadThem very young]] Queen of Britannia, having known to hold the throne since track 5, "Knights of the Rose" (''"Bara no Kishidan"''). She is the niece of the previous Queen, who was so infamous for her cruelty, Rose herself gave her the nickname [[TheDreaded "The Winter Rose"]]. An optimist charismatic, she earnestly believes that she can become a beacon of hope for her people under the guidance of her Goddess, Brigid.

** Also, note her last name--''Avalon''. She is surrounded by knights with names such as "Parsifal"/Percival and "Tristram"/Tristan. Rose is clearly a subtle homage to [[Myth/KingArthur the famed King of Britain]].
* TheHighQueen: Very wise, very charismatic, and loved by her people for her optimism and benevolence.

* StrawNihilist: "Everything you have in this world is meaningless because Death will come for everyone. No exceptions." [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop That's]] the message behind each of her stories, thus the album as a whole.

* TarotMotifs: Saránda is seen carrying around a deck of tarot cards everywhere with her in artworks. This isn't the case in concerts, perhaps because it will be inconvenient for RIKKI to carry a deck of cards and a microphone in each of her hands.

* InfantImmortality: ''Obviously'' [[AvertedTrope averted]]. The poor child had died since they were literally an infant, but their mother vehemently refuses to swallow the bitter pill.

* GildedCage: She was kept inside her home for most of her childhood life due to her sickly disposition. Hell, she's not even ''aware'' that she had been so isolated until she met März. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''New Testament Märchen''--her whole residence is literally ''[[LockedInTheDungeon located in a sparse dwelling underground]]''.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: It seems that all she cares about is her beauty, which she would literally kill somebody (a.k.a. her own daughter) for.

[[caption-width-right:120:''I am such a weak big sister, but...thank you, Pleut, because you were by my side, I can go anywhere...'']]

The protagonist of the song "Hoshikuzu no Kawahimo". Born with poor eyesight which would not even last to her adulthood, she was beset by sadness until Pleut, a big black dog, came to her life, becoming her guide and, slowly but surely, faithful companion.

* MissingMom: Her mother is implied to have died, and since Pleut has the same voice as her mom, it's become a common fan theory that her mom was reincarnated as Pleut.

[[caption-width-right:185:The Blond-Haired Laurant's depiction in the manga.]]

* EpiphanyTherapy: After Laurencin kills the red-headed Laurant (or slightly before, when he sees the red-headed Laurant, in the manga), he recognizes that his life isn't over yet and finally decides to try to clean himself up and move on with his life.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: His lover in the manga is the one who used to nurse him. Her kindness and friendliness made him fall in love with her, and when he's discharged she decided to follow him along.

* AbusiveParents: His actions pretty much show that he is unable to be a good father to his baby. At least he had the incentive to send them away to an orphanage rather than attempt to raise them and make matters even worse than before.

* MayDecemberRomance: In the manga, Auguste looked like this, and he married Natalie, who looked [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/005_6.png like this]].

-->'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/NorioWakamoto Norio Wakamoto]]

The antagonist of "Miezaru Ude". He is the one who severed the Blonde-Haired Laurant's arm, inadvertently plunging the latter into a life of misery and loneliness while grudging him for many years. Unbeknownst to him, however, the Red-Haired Laurant himself hasn't exactly been enjoying a life of glory and comfort.

-->'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/SoichiroHoshi Soichiro Hoshi]]

--> "In a world where I have lost my lover, flowers of what colour will bloom?" ''[[HeroicBSOD "In a world where I have lost my lover, flowers of what colour will bloom?"]]'' '''''[[ILetGwenStacyDie "In a world where I have lost my lover, flowers of what colour will bloom?"]]''''' '''''[[MadnessMantra "IN A WORLD WHERE I HAVE LOST MY LOVER, FLOWERS OF WHAT COLOUR WILL BLOOM?"]]''''' [Repeat ''ad nauseam''.]

* DrivenToSuicide: At the song's end, she is heavily implied to shoot, or stab, herself with the same arrow she used to MercyKill her lover out of desperation.

* FreakOut: In "Thanatos no Gensou wa Owaranai". [[ProperlyParanoid Thanatos is indeed looking at her.]]

* TheOphelia: She's a creepy, kind of unhinged girl who often hears weird voices and spends her whole screentime in the album rambling about death and lament. Due to the plot's coincidental setting, she doubles as a MadwomanInTheAttic.

* CreepyDoll: Her cameo in [[spoiler: ''Nein'']].

* AdaptationExpansion: "Ienakatta Kotonoha" expands greatly upon her minimal background, and reveals that [[spoiler: her child is the result of SexForSolace with a stranger she barely knew, who left her the morning after]].

-->''They noticed how mad she was, though none bothered to tell her''

* HiddenDepths: Her actions in [[spoiler: ''Nein'']]; at first there's something ominous looming about her when she [[spoiler: manipulates Noël into "buying" R.E.V.O.]]. Turns out the circumstances that followed led him [[spoiler: into coming to terms with his own life, [[CharacterDevelopment turning him from the cynical, jaded young man he used to be in ''Vanishing Starlight'' into a determined one ready to embrace both hardship and happiness]]]]. Michèle is, you know, ''[[MagnificentBastard Michèle]]''; it's unlikely she had ''never'' predicted that outcome.

* LyricalDissonance: "Ori no Naka no Yuugi" and "Ori no Naka no Hana" are sexy jazz songs sung with an intoxicatingly seductive voice. Their stories are about [[ParentalIncest having sex with your stepfather]] who wants to bury you alive and murdering young boys [[HumanSacrifice for some sort of a dark ritual]], respectively.

A [[FemmeFatale batshit crazy murderer in the form of a renowned beauty]], her horrible deeds are [[RiddleForTheAges one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries]]. Michèle Malebranche is Sound Horizon's most enigmatic character--her only concrete appearance is in songs that are seemingly only connected to each other and don't have any direct ties to the any other plotlines present, yet astute fans can discern her presence in ''almost all albums''--as the distinct symbolisms used in her songs came to be recurring themes throughout Revo's work, especially in ''Roman''. Indeed, in the album's fourth track she is revealed to have reincarnated as a [[ArtifactOfDoom piece of cursed red diamond]], and is ''the'' source for all the MindScrew occuring within ''Roman'''s world.

A [[FemmeFatale batshit crazy murderer in the form of a renowned beauty]], her horrible deeds became one of the [[RiddleForTheAges world's greatest unsolved mysteries]]. Michèle Malebranche is Sound Horizon's most enigmatic character--her only concrete appearance is in songs that are seemingly only connected to each other and don't have any direct ties to the any other plotlines present, yet astute fans can discern her presence in ''almost all albums''--as the distinct symbolisms used in her songs came to be recurring themes throughout Revo's work, especially in ''Roman''. Indeed, in the album's fourth track she is revealed to have reincarnated as a [[ArtifactOfDoom piece of cursed red diamond]], and is ''the'' source for all the MindScrew occuring within ''Roman'''s world.