History Characters / TalesOfArise

* BadPowersGoodPeople: Deconstructed. She can power her astral artes by draining the astral energy of another being, which allows her to easily defeat Zeugles in Niez by draining them and using their own energy for her attacks. However, the Dahnans of Niez are still traumatized by the hollowing, so this just causes them to fear her more despite her attempts to save them.

* BoringButPractical: A rare example not having to do with gameplay. Law's life philosophy once he leaves Cyslodia's Snake Eyes is noted by Law himself to be fairly simplistic, since he mostly just fixates on 'who do I have to punch next to make things better,' but the party notes multiple times that it nevertheless makes him one of the most dependable party members. From a metanarrative perspective of who Law is as a person, his philosophy also goes a long way, especially early into the story, to help the party get along with one another, since he is the least racist member of the party by far because he always defaults to looking for and beating up ''actual problems''. He understandably takes issue with Lords who treat the Dahnans like expendable resources, but is the quickest member of the party to put aside his prejudices and work with good Renans and against bad Dahnans when the situation calls for it, lacking any of Rinwell's hand-wringing in regards to Renans and Shionne's early difficulty opening up to the party as a Renan speaking to Dahnans. Law is thus placed in the party after Zephyr dies to help stabilize the more extreme opinions of the other party members, and also to help the party quickly acclimate to Elde Menancia, the first real Dahnan territory with nuance to its relationship between Dahnans and Renans.

* DontYouDarePityMe: [[spoiler:He would rather kill himself and doom the world than accept Alphen's sympathy and forgiveness. When Shionne claims his threats to kill Alphen are just bluffs due to him being chained up and restrained as a component to empower the Renas Alma, he partially breaks his bonds to defy this perception and prove that his remaining in this situation is voluntary, that he was waiting for an opportunity to strike against the Helganquil.]]

* DifficultButAwesome: Of all the party members, she has one of the steeper learning curves, up there with [[GlassCannon Law]] and [[CounterAttack Kisara.]] Picking Shionne up and using her is easy enough given her ranged gameplay keeps Shionne relatively safe, but she has some of the hardest combos to master largely because her attacks are grouped up into being effective at different ranges and she's the only character to lack a pop-up attack that gets her airborne to continue combos. This isn't even getting into her Sniper Blast mechanic, which requires the player to track Shionne's ammo count and plan out combos in advance so they don't run out of ammo before they're finished with their combo. Once mastered, however, Shionne has by far the best control of the battlefield of any character, possessing an arte to capitalize on any amount of distance between her and her enemies and having a brutally effective slide arte[[note]]Lunar Corruption[[/note]] that allows her get in close and slam enemies with flip kicks and grenades, in addition to a variety of trick shots with massive amounts of stopping power[[note]]Ignis Diffusus[[/note]], the potential to inflict debilitating ailments[[note]]Toxicity, Gravitas Field, Tonitus Pluvia, Glacio Split, Aranea Nubes[[/note]], and the capability to really rack up an enemy's strike marker to get in quick and efficient Boost Strikes.[[note]]Luke Divisio[[/note]]

* TheTeamNormal: Law is the only party member to not have anything unique about him combat wise. The only other party member like him is Kisara, who explicitly uses special equipment for her weapons, while Law uses only his fists.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Vholran is one of the main antagonists of the main story, and Nazamil is written to be his opposite in many ways. Both went through discrimination, with Vholran being enslaved by the Renans and Nazamil being used as a living weapon by her father. Both went through the Helganquil's Sovereign experiments, but Vholran received complete Sovereign powers while Nazamil received incomplete Sovereign powers. Both are capable of using all six elements, but Nazamil's mastery is greater and is more focused on astral artes while Vholran's usage of the six elements is mainly focused in strike artes. Both are willing to use force to accomplish their goals, but Nazamil tries to avoid injuring people even when she tries to brainwash them while Vholran is eager to kill and hollow people. Finally, the party never learns much of Vholran's mysterious past and fail to negotiate with him, and they make sure to better understand Nazamil's feelings to avoid making the same mistake.

* AntiVillain: Compared to the Renan Lords besides Dohalim, Nazamil is the first ArcVillain in ''Arise'' to act for well-meaning purposes; she's not out to cause havoc, but to just get everyone to stop being assholes and to stop causing trouble for Alphen.

* MythologyGag: Her glowing angel wings she uses to [[PowerFloats float]] in combat and her goal of ending racism through ending free will are a nod to Lord Yggdrassil from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. She even makes the same conclusion as Yggdrassil that making everyone the same will end racism.

* TeamNormal: Law is the only party member to not have anything unique about him combat wise. The only other party member like him is Kisara, who explicitly uses special equipment for her weapons, while Law uses only his fists.

* FlatCharacter: While he does have a backstory [[spoiler:as a Dahnan slave]], he doesn't get much depth aside from being a sadistic, power-hungry OmnicidalManiac. This is intentional, since the story is trying to show what happens when he's essentially a slave to his hatred and to the Renan ideology, [[spoiler:even after he is supposedly free from the Helganquil]]. He truly believes he has nothing and no one to live for outside of his [[spoiler:Sovereign]] title, [[spoiler:to the point where he would rather blow himself up than give up on his evil ambitions]].

* ArchEnemy: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. He goes out of his way to enforce this with Alphen: [[spoiler:kidnapping and almost killing the woman he loves twice and sending countless Dahnans to their deaths to torment him, with his spite for him only growing throughout the story as Alphen proves himself the superior Sovereign again and again. This culminates in his madness growing to threaten all of existence by the climax. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] their similarities during their final encounter on Rena. For Alphen's part, while he clearly despises Vholran, it can't manage to outweigh the pity he feels for him due to his self-inflicted loneliness. Alphen's forgiveness of Vholran's misdeeds pushes the latter over the edge, making him commit suicide by overloading the Renas Alma and seemingly dooming Shionne, but even that fails thanks to Alphen's quick thinking]].

* DuelBoss: [[spoiler:Alphen has to fight him one-on-one as the final battle in the game.]]

* VillainousLegacy: In the DLC, all the remaining other than Hevrekt are in stasis, but their technology is used by [[spoiler:Nazamil to brainwash people]].

* AbusiveParents: Her father never saw her as his heir or child, much less a human being, and treated her more like a living weapon. Whenever Nazamil did something he didn't like, he punished her and locked her up.
* TheArchmage: As a child of both Dahna and Rena, she can use all six elements.

* {{Foil}}: To Shionne, as another person raised in Renan culture who has only ever known loneliness before meeting the rest of the party. Both bond with Alphen because he's the first person in their lives to ever show them genuine kindness, but [[spoiler:whereas Shionne was akin to an ApocalypseMaiden, Nazamil is unremarkable save for her ability to wield all six elements. Furthermore, it's thanks to Alphen's kindness that Shionne resolves to break free from her "curse" and stay by his side whereas Nazamil becomes an ArcVillain to lessen Alphen's burdens after seeing how troubled he is by the Renans and Dahnans constant expectations of him]].

* SaveTheVillain: On the recieving end of this by the party. It is the antagonistic ''force'' behind everything, but it genuinely could not understand what it was doing was wrong, so Alphen comes to the conclusion it itself was a slave to impulses it could not comprehend or act on appropriately. With this in mind, when Alphen and Shionne are given an opportunity to spare the Great Spirit of Rena, they do so, giving it ''exactly'' what it wants content with the knowledge it will leave everyone alone and cause no further issues - which it does.