History Characters / TheAsteriskWar

* DropTheHammer: His main weapon is a large hammer-type Lux.

* BigDamnHeroes: In volume 6, she helps Ayato defeat Gustave Marlowe's chimeras.

* LittleMissBadass: She may be small, but she can fight when she needs to, such as cornering Gustave Marlowe.

* AntiVillain: Of the WellIntentionedExtremist variety. Nicholas wanted to keep his daughter Claudia out of the Gryps Festa by using Gustave Marlowe to try killing Julis.

* InconsistentSpelling: Creator/YenPress's official translation spells it "Nicholas"; some of the other translations spell it "Nicolas". Either one is technically correct, although it's more commonly spelled with an "h" in English-speaking countries (including the UK, where he seems to be from).

* WhatTheHellHero: She calls out Ayato when the latter rescues her from Silas, but Ayato counters it with his ArmorPiercingQuestion.

%%* [placeholder]: They're a highly exclusive all-female institution, and their fighters are not well-thought-of. This is partly because they have fewer students to begin with, though, and in-series it doesn't help that the only mentioned Queenvail team in the Phoenix Festa [[CurbStompBattle is put up against Ayato and Julis]].

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is a princess and is one of the powerful Stregas of her generation.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: As the StudentCouncilPresident at Seidoukan Academy and the second top-ranking student at Seidoukan, she can wipe the floor with other students.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Being a former top-ranking student, she can easily knock down her enemies in one fell swoop.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He is the president of St. Galahadsworth's student council and is a MasterSwordsman to boot. Julis says she's not even in his league.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She's a DarkMagicalGirl and is the top-ranking student at Le Wolf.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She's a powerful Strega and the president of Queenvail Girls' Academy's Student Council.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Creator/YenPress's novel translation spells it "Gallardsworth", which inadvertently makes marginally more sense given [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign aforementioned linguistic issues]] (Gallard is a real surname of Norman origin).

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Arlequint is close to the French for "harlequin", but Yen Press' light novel translations and Aniplex's subtitled translations for the first few episodes of the anime spell it "Allekant". Whether it uses the English or French spelling of "Academy" (or "Académie") is also not consistent.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The anime subtitles spell it "Rewolf" or "Re Wolf" at times. Whether or not there's an 'e' on the end of "Wolf" is also not consistent between translations.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The light novel spells it "Orphelia", the anime subtitles spell it "Ophélia".

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Creator/YenPress spells it "Queenvale", the anime spells it "Queenvail".

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: {{Justified}}, then {{subverted}}. During the first onscreen meeting between the student council presidents (in the prologue of volume 2), Sylvia is conspicuously absent because she's on tour in Europe (which Dirk Eberwein complains about). But then she turns up in person in volume 5 (taking a break from the East Asian leg of her tour) and helps Ayato find Flora.

* OnlySaneWoman: Mahulena has kept track of how many times they've tried to overtake Sylvia as top artist and Queenvale fighter, and half-heartedly tries to dissuade her bandmates from their gambit in volume 7, to little effect. {{Justified}} in that, having the lowest compatibility rating with Lyre-Poros in Rusalka, she's the least affected by its [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity side-effects]].

* OlderThanTheyLook: She's described as very beautiful but won the Lindvolus Festa over 50 years ago, which means she's at least in her mid-sixties. {{Justified}} in that she has the ability to change her appearance.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Creator/YenPress's official translation spells it "Nicholas"; some of the other translations spell it "Nicolas". Either one is technically correct, although it's more commonly spelled with an "h" in English-speaking countries (including the UK, where he seems to be from).

* ShipperOnDeck: He openly ships Julis and Ayato. {{Justified}}: While he ''does'' think they'd make a good royal couple, he also notes that them marrying would prevent the IEF from [[ArrangedMarriage picking her husband for its own benefit]] and to hell with her feelings.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShioriIzawa (Japanese), Creator/SarahWilliams (English)

* EarlyBirdCameo: That guy that beats Haruka in episode 1? That's Madiath.

Asterisk's only all-female school, consistently at the bottom of the Festa rankings due to a combination of a smaller student body and a culture that emphasizes performance arts rather than fighting skill. Their governing IEF is W&W.

A group of six powerful {{megacorp}}orations that arose following the Invertia event and now [[OneNationUnderCopyright rule the world for profit]]: Galaxy, Elliott-Pound, Jie Long, Frauenlob, Solnage, and W&W.

* SenpaiKohai: She is in junior high, and thus is the kouhai to the rest of the main cast.

* MultiMeleeMaster: In addition to being proficient with a sword, he is also good with a [[BladeOnAStick spear]], kodachi (short sword), and grappling. He's still much better with a katana, though.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: His armor covers his school badge and regenerates itself from damage too quickly for Julis to land a second hit. However, it turns out it also traps heat, so she just keeps shooting fireballs at him until he collapses from heat exhaustion. This is TruthInTelevision: heat management has been a problem since the inception of armor, which modern science is only just beginning to solve.

* TheChick: They're a highly exclusive all-female institution, and their fighters are not well-thought-of. This is partly because they have fewer students to begin with, though, and in-series it doesn't help that the only mentioned Queenvail team in the Phoenix Festa [[CurbStompBattle is put up against Ayato and Julis]].

* ContractualPurity: {{Exploited}}, InUniverse. In volume 7 and 8 they briefly attempt to take down Sylvia with the rumor that she has a boyfriend. ([[FridgeLogic One supposes]] they're trying to ruin her reputation in the {{otaku}} community, [[WeAllLiveinAmerica since this probably wouldn't have much effect in the Western world]].)

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: His past swordsmanship training from Haruka and victories in tournaments ends up becoming one of the top-ranking students at Seidoukan.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Their StudentCouncilPresident is the #1-ranked student, the end.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: His manipulative personality towards others led him to become the president of the student council.

* SempaiKohai: She is in junior high, and thus is the kouhai to the rest of the main cast.

* AnAxeToGrind: His preferred lux, Bardiche Leo, takes the form of a two-handed battle axe.

* HeroesPreferSwords: His WeaponOfChoice Ser-Veresta starts as a sword. Notably, though, its basic form is a large two-handed sword, whereas he was trained in katana swordplay, so it actually slows him down slightly (which is why he loses to Kirin the first time: her FantasticFightingStyle is slightly faster than his to begin with and Ser Veresta compounds the issue). Ser Veresta is ''supposed'' to take on a form preferable to its wielder, but Ayato isn't skilled enough at tuning his prana to get it to do that (Julis ultimately helps him when he fights AR-D in the Phoenix championship).

* WeaponOfChoice: His Ser-Veresta which originally belonged to Haruka.

* HeroesPreferSwords: She often uses swords as her WeaponOfChoice.

* WeaponOfChoice: She uses the Rapier Lux Aspera Spina and eventually, the Rect Lux Nova Spina, after her first sword gets destroyed.

* WeaponOfChoice: She primarily uses her Orga-Lux, <Pan-Dora>.

* TheGunslinger: She uses [[MoreDakka Vaporizer]]-type guns as her WeaponOfChoice. Her guns are usually big and destructive, although she has a number of handgun Luxes as well.

* HeroesPreferSwords: She uses her katana [[spoiler:and later the Orga Lux Fudaraku]] as her WeaponOfChoice.

* MasterSwordswoman: Like Ayato, she wields a sword as her WeaponOfChoice. She previously wielded Ser Veresta, and [[spoiler:helps Ayato figure out how to control it properly in volume 13]].

* WeaponOfChoice: She used her sword, Ser-Veresta, as her main weapon before Ayato inherited it.

* MasterSwordsman: He uses a sword as his WeaponOfChoice, and is noted to far better than both Ayato and Kirin with it. [[spoiler: By the time the Glyps finals roll around, Ernest is still better technique-wise than Ayato.]]

Characters in ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'' are sorted according to their main allegiance within the light novels, anime series, manga and video games.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: She has light hair and dark skin. Her name suggests she may be Italian by birth.

* DomesticAbuse: In his EstablishingCharacterMoment, he gives an ArmorPiercingSlap to Kirin for questioning him. Ayato intercepts the second slap and tells him off. But Kouichirou tells Ayato not to interfere, as it's a family matter.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his first scene, he yells for Kirin to come to him so that she won't be late for practice. Later on, he uses an ArmorPiercingSlap on Kirin when the latter disagrees with him, but Ayato quickly intervenes.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Sir Galahad is one of the better-known knights in [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian legend]] (dating to 13th century French additions to the mythos), while the suffix "-worth" (via Old English ''worþ'') is an Anglo-Saxon derivation referring to an enclosed homestead. And there is of course no real-life Catholic saint by that name.

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