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* MythicalMotifs: Suletta's motif is Cú Chulainn, the hero of the Ulster Cycle. Like Cú Chulainn (who's name means "Hound of Chulainn"), Suletta has an {{AnimalMotif|s}} of a hound, and [[spoiler:her second gundam, the Lugh, is named after Cú Chulainn's father/other incarnation]].
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* MythicalMotifs: Suletta's motif is Cú Chulainn, the hero of the Ulster Cycle. Like Cú Chulainn (who's name means "Hound of Chulainn"), Suletta has an {{AnimalMotif|s}} of a hound, and [[spoiler:her second gundam, the Lugh, is named after Cú Chulainn's father/other incarnation]].incarnation, showing that she has graduated from being the Hound to being the Houndmaster]].
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[[folder:Gundam Lugh '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
Suletta's third gundam, constructed from the remains of Gundams Lfrith Thorn and Pharact after the latter was destroyed fighting the Nemain and the Schwarzette was destroyed in battle with Aerial. Unbeknownst to the public, but known by its pilot, the president, and a few others, the Lugh contains the mind of the fourth Peil enhanced person, Elan, who's consciousness had laid semi-dormant in the Pharact until shortly prior to its destruction, and was intentionally brought along when it was rebuilt.
In circumstances where a massive mobile suit body is unwieldy, Elan's consciousness can be expressed through the hound-shaped Failinis bit-stave, which accompanies Suletta when she's not piloting the main body.
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* AffectionateNickname: Norea and Elan (Nemo) calls him "Four", presumably due to OneSteveLimit.
* TheAssimilator: A rare heroic and non-supernatural example. Lugh, as Suletta's latest gundam, combines elements of the mobile suits she defeated during her time at Asticassia; Physically it is made from the bodies of Gundams Lfrith Thorn and Pharact, and its soul is Elan, the second person she ever defeated in a duel.
* BewareMyStingerTail: The Failinis' PrehensileTail ends in a claw-like digit.
* BloodKnight: Elan seems a bit more violent than when he was alive, or at least more willing to indulge in and enjoy it. While occupying the Failinis drone, he is rather enthusiastic about tearing a weaponized Haro to pieces like a real wolf tearing into a kill.
* BrainUploading: Like Ericht before him and Sophie after, Elan's mind was somehow stored in permet particles within the Gundam Pharact at the time of his death.
* CyberCyclops: Failinis has a single red eye.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: The gundam itself is named after the god Lugh, father of Cú Chulainn (tying into Suletta's MythicalMotifs), god of various heroic things. The Failinis, following that motif, is named after Lugh's hunting dog, said to be invulnerable.
* SpeaksInShoutouts: Presumably because he, like Morrigan, still can't get his speech centers working properly, he communicates by playing bits from various classic music ("classic" in the sense that they're from the real-life mid-to-late 1900s), which Norea knows enough about to instantly recognize. The first time he does this is with ''Hotel California'' by Music/TheEagles.
* {{Troll}}: Flashbacks show that he's a bit of a jokester when he's not fearing for his life. When Elan #5 tells him to stop playing ''Hotel California'', he does so but proceeds to quote the lyrics in their conversation to annoy him.
* VirtualGhost: Elan's mind is active within the Lugh and the Failinis, and can on some level communicate.
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Suletta's third gundam, constructed from the remains of Gundams Lfrith Thorn and Pharact after the latter was destroyed fighting the Nemain and the Schwarzette was destroyed in battle with Aerial. Unbeknownst to the public, but known by its pilot, the president, and a few others, the Lugh contains the mind of the fourth Peil enhanced person, Elan, who's consciousness had laid semi-dormant in the Pharact until shortly prior to its destruction, and was intentionally brought along when it was rebuilt.
In circumstances where a massive mobile suit body is unwieldy, Elan's consciousness can be expressed through the hound-shaped Failinis bit-stave, which accompanies Suletta when she's not piloting the main body.
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* AffectionateNickname: Norea and Elan (Nemo) calls him "Four", presumably due to OneSteveLimit.
* TheAssimilator: A rare heroic and non-supernatural example. Lugh, as Suletta's latest gundam, combines elements of the mobile suits she defeated during her time at Asticassia; Physically it is made from the bodies of Gundams Lfrith Thorn and Pharact, and its soul is Elan, the second person she ever defeated in a duel.
* BewareMyStingerTail: The Failinis' PrehensileTail ends in a claw-like digit.
* BloodKnight: Elan seems a bit more violent than when he was alive, or at least more willing to indulge in and enjoy it. While occupying the Failinis drone, he is rather enthusiastic about tearing a weaponized Haro to pieces like a real wolf tearing into a kill.
* BrainUploading: Like Ericht before him and Sophie after, Elan's mind was somehow stored in permet particles within the Gundam Pharact at the time of his death.
* CyberCyclops: Failinis has a single red eye.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: The gundam itself is named after the god Lugh, father of Cú Chulainn (tying into Suletta's MythicalMotifs), god of various heroic things. The Failinis, following that motif, is named after Lugh's hunting dog, said to be invulnerable.
* SpeaksInShoutouts: Presumably because he, like Morrigan, still can't get his speech centers working properly, he communicates by playing bits from various classic music ("classic" in the sense that they're from the real-life mid-to-late 1900s), which Norea knows enough about to instantly recognize. The first time he does this is with ''Hotel California'' by Music/TheEagles.
* {{Troll}}: Flashbacks show that he's a bit of a jokester when he's not fearing for his life. When Elan #5 tells him to stop playing ''Hotel California'', he does so but proceeds to quote the lyrics in their conversation to annoy him.
* VirtualGhost: Elan's mind is active within the Lugh and the Failinis, and can on some level communicate.
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* NeverLiveItDown: His inability to use a tazer properly, first against Suletta (foiled by Guel during the events of "Precious Thigs") and then against Sabina, who woke up shortly after and alerted the guards, has led to many a joke at his expense, especially from Norea.
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* MinorMajorCharacter: He's the top leader of a rebel group-turned-nation that controls most of the planet Earth, effectively making him the most powerful person on the planet (though Nika is arguably more important), but he only appears in a few chapters [[spoiler:even before he's assassinated]].
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* AttackDrones: [[spoiler:Using research from Notrette Rembran, Prospera and Belmeria are able to develop a set of miniature Bit-Staves that can be controlled by Nika's permet arm, which is essentially a giant superdense permet circuit board. It requires charging by Morrigan, lasts for 60 seconds, and is extremely painful for her and leaves her arm useless for a long period after, but it's ''deadly'' in one-to-one combat]].
* ColorMotif: In book 3, when fully awakened, she colours her internal monitors orange, blue, and purple to represent herself and her two wives (they are also circular to indicate wedding rings). She also asked them to paint her tathlum bracer in the same colours, as well as green to represent Norea.
* HiddenDepths: In book 3 she uses emojis and drawings to communicate with, and she's apparently quite the talented artist.
* SecondLove: Nika and Sabina, her wives, are this compared to her first love, Norea, whom she has since moved on from (though they are still close).
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She does not take kindly to anyone or anything threatening her wives, which is unfortunate for whoever did given that she is a giant robot.
* TheVoiceless: Even after fully awakening in book 3, she can't talk or even write due to something messing with the language centers of her "brain". She understands language fully, though, and can communicate through visuals.
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* WistfulAmnesia: Morrigan remembers being ''something'' before, but she doesn't remember ''what''. She has vague recollections of who and what's important to her, and her impressions of other people (she knows that she always liked Chuchu, and that she expected to dislike Felsi), but she doesn't know why she has those impressions. Seeing Norea is enough to temporarily break her out of it.
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* WistfulAmnesia: Morrigan remembers being ''something'' before, but she doesn't remember ''what''. She has vague recollections of who and what's important to her, and her impressions of other people (she knows that she always liked Chuchu, and that she expected to dislike Felsi), but she doesn't know why she has those impressions. Seeing Norea is enough to temporarily break her out of it. By book 3 she is fully awake and remembers everything.
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: She slips into it from time to time. When explaining to Nika how they could [[spoiler:give her her own bit staves]], she had such a hard time phrasing it in simple terms Nika could understand that someone else eventually had to step in and explain it for her.
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* DisabledInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Due to permet strain from her fight with the Valkyries, she uses a wheelchair for the second half of book two and the start of book three. It makes her much more appreciative of Yushura's efforts to make her front accessible for disabled people]].
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* SpiderTank: [[spoiler:The wheelchair she uses in book 3 can turn into one of these through permet technology, and she controls it through the GUND format. It allows her to navigate in areas without proper accessibility, and even climb around in zero gravity]].
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[[folder:Children of the Coven / "Repleris"]]
"Repleris" / "Escutcheon"]]
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[[folder:Prospera Mercury]]
The Witch of Quiet Zero, and Ericht and Suletta's mother. Dedicated to nothing more than the survival and happiness of her oldest daughter, Prospera will ally with anyone or commit any sin to accomplish that goal.
The Witch of Quiet Zero, and Ericht and Suletta's mother. Dedicated to nothing more than the survival and happiness of her oldest daughter, Prospera will ally with anyone or commit any sin to accomplish that goal.
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The Witch
11 spirits of unclear origin who appear alongside Ericht, acting as both her siblings and
Their names are Alphie, Didi, Sam, Fyra, Quin, Sechs (who was the first to
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* AffablyEvil: Her villainy is debatable, but Prospera is very friendly despite her horrifying reputation. Not only is she happy to engage in friendly conversation, but she casually uses affectionate nicknames and makes puns.
* DeathSeeker: Prospera is pushing herself to the point of multiple strokes and heart attacks, and refusing to take a break or let anyone else do things for her, to the point where Eri wonders if she wants to die.
* FictionalDisability: She has Spontaneous Permetic Growth in both her legs, a condition that causes permet to grow throughout the body, causing paralysis and chronic pain.
* RedBaron: Prospera is known as The Witch of Quiet Zero, Fleetbreaker, She of the Black Coffin, etc.
* SecondLove: Ericht thinks she and Notrette Rembran had a thing going on, having noticed how Prospera talks about Notrette the same way she talks about Nadim.
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[[folder:Children of the Coven / "Repleris"]]
11 spirits of unclear origin who appear alongside Ericht, acting as both her siblings and her agents. Each are in control of one of the ''Escutcheon'''s bit-staves. Initially only extensions of Ericht's will, they have since started to develop their own independent identities, coinciding with mysterious "monuments" being built by Prospera Mercury.
Their names are Alphie, Didi, Sam, Fyra, Quin, Sechs (who was the first to make an identity separate from Ericht), Sabine, Octavia, Nona, Dis, and Elvie. Full prophiles can be found [[https://twitter.com/jerkus110/status/1725265450957717953 here]] on the creator's twitter.
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* DeathSeeker: Prospera is pushing herself to the point of multiple strokes and heart attacks, and refusing to take a break or let anyone else do things for her, to the point where Eri wonders if she wants to die.
* FictionalDisability: She has Spontaneous Permetic Growth in both her legs, a condition that causes permet to grow throughout the body, causing paralysis and chronic pain.
* RedBaron: Prospera is known as The Witch of Quiet Zero, Fleetbreaker, She of the Black Coffin, etc.
* SecondLove: Ericht thinks she and Notrette Rembran had a thing going on, having noticed how Prospera talks about Notrette the same way she talks about Nadim.
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[[folder:Children of the Coven / "Repleris"]]
11 spirits of unclear origin who appear alongside Ericht, acting as both her siblings and her agents. Each are in control of one of the ''Escutcheon'''s bit-staves. Initially only extensions of Ericht's will, they have since started to develop their own independent identities, coinciding with mysterious "monuments" being built by Prospera Mercury.
Their names are Alphie, Didi, Sam, Fyra, Quin, Sechs (who was the first to make an identity separate from Ericht), Sabine, Octavia, Nona, Dis, and Elvie. Full prophiles can be found [[https://twitter.com/jerkus110/status/1725265450957717953 here]] on the creator's twitter.
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* AscendedExtra: In the show they don't appear to have any role or personality beyond being Ericht's backup choir. Here they each have different personalities and identities, some of which are wildly different or even in oposition to Ericht.
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!!Others
Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties are faked or temporary.
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Norea Nemo" / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
After her Gundam was destroyed in Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, Norea du Noc was captured and given to Peil Technologies as a gesture of good faith. Since then, she has been put to work piloting their Gundam Pharact, while secretly scheming with her partner to tear down Peil from within.
Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties are faked or temporary.
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Norea Nemo" / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
After her Gundam was destroyed in Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, Norea du Noc was captured and given to Peil Technologies as a gesture of good faith. Since then, she has been put to work piloting their Gundam Pharact, while secretly scheming with her partner to tear down Peil from within.
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Characters without strong loyalty
The Witch of Quiet Zero, and Ericht and Suletta's mother. Dedicated to
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Norea Nemo" / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
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* AffablyEvil: Her villainy is debatable, but Prospera is very friendly despite her horrifying reputation. Not only is she happy to engage in friendly conversation, but she casually uses affectionate nicknames and makes puns.
* DeathSeeker: Prospera is pushing herself to the point of multiple strokes and heart attacks, and refusing to take a break or let anyone else do things for her, to the point where Eri wonders if she wants to die.
* FictionalDisability: She has Spontaneous Permetic Growth in both her legs, a condition that causes permet to grow throughout the body, causing paralysis and chronic pain.
* RedBaron: Prospera is known as The Witch of Quiet Zero, Fleetbreaker, She of the Black Coffin, etc.
* SecondLove: Ericht thinks she and Notrette Rembran had a thing going on, having noticed how Prospera talks about Notrette the same way she talks about Nadim.
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!!Others
Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties are faked or temporary.
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Norea Nemo" / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
After her Gundam was destroyed in Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, Norea du Noc was captured and given to Peil Technologies as a gesture of good faith. Since then, she has been put to work piloting their Gundam Pharact, while secretly scheming with her partner to tear down Peil from within.
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* DeathSeeker: Prospera is pushing herself to the point of multiple strokes and heart attacks, and refusing to take a break or let anyone else do things for her, to the point where Eri wonders if she wants to die.
* FictionalDisability: She has Spontaneous Permetic Growth in both her legs, a condition that causes permet to grow throughout the body, causing paralysis and chronic pain.
* RedBaron: Prospera is known as The Witch of Quiet Zero, Fleetbreaker, She of the Black Coffin, etc.
* SecondLove: Ericht thinks she and Notrette Rembran had a thing going on, having noticed how Prospera talks about Notrette the same way she talks about Nadim.
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!!Others
Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties are faked or temporary.
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Norea Nemo" / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
After her Gundam was destroyed in Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, Norea du Noc was captured and given to Peil Technologies as a gesture of good faith. Since then, she has been put to work piloting their Gundam Pharact, while secretly scheming with her partner to tear down Peil from within.
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* NumericalThemeNaming: Most of them follow this. Alphie is short for Alpha, the first letter in the Greek alphabet; Didi is the same word repeated twice; Sam is Korean for Three; Fyra is from Fire, the Nordic word for the numeral Four; Quin is from Quint, latin for fifth; Sechs is German for Six; Sabina is from Sieben, German for Seven; Octavia is from Oct, Latin for Eight; Nona is Latin for Ninth; Dis is Haitian Kreole for Ten; Elvie is from Eleven.
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* NumericalThemeNaming: Most of them follow this. Alphie is short for Alpha, the first letter in the Greek alphabet; Didi is the same word repeated twice; Sam is Korean for Three; Fyra is from Fire, the Nordic word for the numeral Four; Quin is from Quint, latin for fifth; Sechs is German for Six; Sabina Sabine is from Sieben, German for Seven; Octavia is from Oct, Latin for Eight; Nona is Latin for Ninth; Dis is Haitian Kreole for Ten; Elvie is from Eleven.
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Their names in order of "awakening" are Alphie, Didi, Sam, Fyra, Quin, Sechs, Sabine, Octavia, Nona, Dis, and Elvie. Full prophiles can be found [[https://twitter.com/jerkus110/status/1725265450957717953 here]] on the creator's twitter.
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Their names in order of "awakening" are Alphie, Didi, Sam, Fyra, Quin, Sechs, Sechs (who was the first to make an identity separate from Ericht), Sabine, Octavia, Nona, Dis, and Elvie. Full prophiles can be found [[https://twitter.com/jerkus110/status/1725265450957717953 here]] on the creator's twitter.
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* FieryRedhead: All of them have red hair, but Fyra is noted to be especially energetic and fighty.
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* CabinFever: Sabine is an artist and resents being stuck in Quiet Zero, prefering to be out in the world getting inspiration for her art.
* DarkSecret: Elvie doesn't agree with what Prospera and Ericht are doing, but keeps it secret and doesn't know what to do.
* FieryRedhead: All of them have red hair, but Fyra is noted to be especially energetic and fighty. Sechs also has a short temper.
* HeroWorshipper: Octavia looks up to the version of Sabina she imagines in her head, an unflappable military commander. She tries to emulate her in all the ways she can, styling her hair like her, dressing and talking like her, and learning tactics and military stuff like she pictures her hero knows about.
* LovingAShadow: Platonically, Octavia admires specifically the military unflappable image of Sabina she has in her head, whereas the real Sabina is a bit more emotional.
* DarkSecret: Elvie doesn't agree with what Prospera and Ericht are doing, but keeps it secret and doesn't know what to do.
* FieryRedhead: All of them have red hair, but Fyra is noted to be especially energetic and fighty. Sechs also has a short temper.
* HeroWorshipper: Octavia looks up to the version of Sabina she imagines in her head, an unflappable military commander. She tries to emulate her in all the ways she can, styling her hair like her, dressing and talking like her, and learning tactics and military stuff like she pictures her hero knows about.
* LovingAShadow: Platonically, Octavia admires specifically the military unflappable image of Sabina she has in her head, whereas the real Sabina is a bit more emotional.
* OneSteveLimit: Sabine and Sabina Fardin-Nanaura have nearly the same name. Ironically, Sabine is ''not'' the one who's a HeroWorshipper of Sabina.
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* ProHumanTranshuman: Despite not being particularily connected to their humanity, Dis is deeply compassionate and always shoots to disable, not kill.
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* ThePrankster: Didi is a bit of a prankster. She's not super reliable, but she has a good heart.
* ProHumanTranshuman: Despitenot being particularily connected to actively dismantling their humanity, Dis is deeply compassionate and always shoots to disable, not kill.kill.
* TheResenter: Elvie is angry at Prospera for abandoning Suletta at the onset of the war, and blames her for Ericht's SanitySlippage. She's scared of voicing this, and not even Ericht knows her true feelings.
* ShipperOnDeck: Sam apparently spends a good deal of her time observing and shipping random people.
* ProHumanTranshuman: Despite
* TheResenter: Elvie is angry at Prospera for abandoning Suletta at the onset of the war, and blames her for Ericht's SanitySlippage. She's scared of voicing this, and not even Ericht knows her true feelings.
* ShipperOnDeck: Sam apparently spends a good deal of her time observing and shipping random people.
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* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Nona wanted to decorate her bit-stave with a skull motif, but was vetoed by Ericht.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Quin looks a lot like Suletta, but takes more after Sadim.
* TheSmartGuy: Quin is constantly doing research on all kinds of scientific and cultural subjects, and is described as the most "adult" of the gang.
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Sam is a romantic who loves watching and chronicling "the messy thrills of human love". That said she's not interested in romance for herself, only as an outside observer.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Quin looks a lot like Suletta, but takes more after Sadim.
* TheSmartGuy: Quin is constantly doing research on all kinds of scientific and cultural subjects, and is described as the most "adult" of the gang.
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Sam is a romantic who loves watching and chronicling "the messy thrills of human love". That said she's not interested in romance for herself, only as an outside observer.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Ericht isn't quite sure what they are or where they come from, and she's scared of asking Prospera since the answer might be PoweredByAForsakenChild.
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* PerkyGoth: Nona is described as a cheerfully irreverent goth. Ericht had to veto her before she gave her bit-stave a bunch of skeleton decorations, and she has commissioned Sabine for a "kick-ass skeleton" sculpture.
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* ShoutOut: Nona is named after the titular protagonist of ''Literature/NonaTheNinth'' and seems to combine traits of all three protagonists of that series; She has Nona's cheerfulness, Gideon's irreverence, and Harrow's love of skeletons and skeletal motifs.
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!!Others
Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties are faked or temporary.
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Norea Nemo" / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
After her Gundam was destroyed in Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, Norea du Noc was captured and given to Peil Technologies as a gesture of good faith. Since then, she has been put to work piloting their Gundam Pharact, while secretly scheming with her partner to tear down Peil from within.
Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties are faked or temporary.
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Norea Nemo" / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
After her Gundam was destroyed in Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, Norea du Noc was captured and given to Peil Technologies as a gesture of good faith. Since then, she has been put to work piloting their Gundam Pharact, while secretly scheming with her partner to tear down Peil from within.
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Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties
11 spirits of unclear origin who appear alongside Ericht, acting as both her siblings and her agents. Each are
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Norea Nemo" / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
After her Gundam was destroyed
Their names in order of "awakening" are Alphie, Didi, Sam, Fyra, Quin, Sechs, Sabine, Octavia, Nona, Dis, and Elvie. Full prophiles can be found [[https://twitter.com/jerkus110/status/1725265450957717953 here]] on the creator's twitter.
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* AdaptationalGenderIdentity: At least Sechs identifies as a boy. Dis' gender identity is unspecified, but most likely isn't defined by human gender.
* FieryRedhead: All of them have red hair, but Fyra is noted to be especially energetic and fighty.
* MeaningfulName: In addition to the NumericalThemeNaming, Dis gets their name from Dis Pater, another name for the Roman god of the dead Pluto. Dis is the most {{Transhuman}} of the group.
* NumberTwo: Alphie is described as the one closest to Ericht of the group, seeing herself as an extension of her and wants to help her more than she wants anything else.
* NumericalThemeNaming: Most of them follow this. Alphie is short for Alpha, the first letter in the Greek alphabet; Didi is the same word repeated twice; Sam is Korean for Three; Fyra is from Fire, the Nordic word for the numeral Four; Quin is from Quint, latin for fifth; Sechs is German for Six; Sabina is from Sieben, German for Seven; Octavia is from Oct, Latin for Eight; Nona is Latin for Ninth; Dis is Haitian Kreole for Ten; Elvie is from Eleven.
* ProHumanTranshuman: Despite not being particularily connected to their humanity, Dis is deeply compassionate and always shoots to disable, not kill.
* {{Transhuman}}: All of them are digitized "ghosts" of a human mind (though the exact origin is unclear). Dis is the one who embraces it fully, exploring their inhuman nature.
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!!Others
Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties are faked or temporary.
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Norea Nemo" / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
After her Gundam was destroyed in Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, Norea du Noc was captured and given to Peil Technologies as a gesture of good faith. Since then, she has been put to work piloting their Gundam Pharact, while secretly scheming with her partner to tear down Peil from within.
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* FieryRedhead: All of them have red hair, but Fyra is noted to be especially energetic and fighty.
* MeaningfulName: In addition to the NumericalThemeNaming, Dis gets their name from Dis Pater, another name for the Roman god of the dead Pluto. Dis is the most {{Transhuman}} of the group.
* NumberTwo: Alphie is described as the one closest to Ericht of the group, seeing herself as an extension of her and wants to help her more than she wants anything else.
* NumericalThemeNaming: Most of them follow this. Alphie is short for Alpha, the first letter in the Greek alphabet; Didi is the same word repeated twice; Sam is Korean for Three; Fyra is from Fire, the Nordic word for the numeral Four; Quin is from Quint, latin for fifth; Sechs is German for Six; Sabina is from Sieben, German for Seven; Octavia is from Oct, Latin for Eight; Nona is Latin for Ninth; Dis is Haitian Kreole for Ten; Elvie is from Eleven.
* ProHumanTranshuman: Despite not being particularily connected to their humanity, Dis is deeply compassionate and always shoots to disable, not kill.
* {{Transhuman}}: All of them are digitized "ghosts" of a human mind (though the exact origin is unclear). Dis is the one who embraces it fully, exploring their inhuman nature.
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!!Others
Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties are faked or temporary.
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Norea Nemo" / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
After her Gundam was destroyed in Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, Norea du Noc was captured and given to Peil Technologies as a gesture of good faith. Since then, she has been put to work piloting their Gundam Pharact, while secretly scheming with her partner to tear down Peil from within.
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[[folder:Lauda Neill]]
Acting CEO of the Jeturk group, Guel Jeturk's brother. He does not share his brother's views on perserving lives.
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* BrainsAndBrawn: In the early days after Guel returned, Lauda was the brains who found out where corruption was hiding in Jeturk, while Guel was the brawn, taking it out once it was uncovered.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Guel's character development sadly didn't pass on to Lauda, who still runs Jeturk the same exploitative, oppressive, militaristic way their father did. It gets even worse after his falling out with Shaddiq, as he starts actively refusing to listen to workers' demands and shuts Guel (who's an HonestCorporateExecutive) out of big decisions.
* IHaveNoSon: Sibling example, but still. [[spoiler:Guel revealing that he killed Vim, his insistence that Jeturk stop manufacturing weapons used to oppress Earth, and his quiet accusation that Lauda killed ''children'' with an attack he ordered causes Lauda to leave, declaring "I don’t know what you are, but you’re not my brother."]]
* JackOfAllTrades: When they were kids, Guel, being the more physically inclined of the siblings, was pressured into focusing on piloting and physical endeavors by their father. Lauda, by contrast, studied a wide array of fields ranging from business to the classics to wine tasting.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lauda has sadly not improved much from the events of the show. He calls Chuchu, one of his fiance's best friends, "the Earthian" with notable venom, derides Suletta for losing her fight [[spoiler:with Ericht]], dismisses the civilian casualties of attacks he ordered - attacks Guel saw firsthand - completely, and thinks Guel is insane for wanting to cease weapons manufacturing because of his trauma from Earth.
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[[folder:Petra Itta]]
Lauda's fiance and Jeturk's liaison to the CAUL. Petra was a close friend of Chuchu and Felsi prior to their defection, having outgrown her prejudices.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: She's not a fighter, but she does, in her own words, have a talent for picking up patterns, which leads her to notice that someone has been embezzling arms from Jeturk for decades.
* BestFriend: As in the show, Felsi and Petra are close as can be. Unlike in the show, she's this to Chuchu as well, extending her friendship to her best friend's girlfriend. Surprisingly, they get along very well.
* DaddysGirl: The relationship between them isn't brought up much, but Petra takes after her father in both appearance and fashion, and is happy to have that similarity pointed out.
* OddFriendship: Despite having previously bullied her, Petra quickly became good friends with Chuchu when the latter started dating Felsi.
* TeensLoveShopping: She loves buying and trying on clothes with her friends, and even manages to get Chuchu to enjoy it with her.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the show, she was at best a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Here, she's apparently gotten over that and is a genuinely sweet and kind girl.
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Acting CEO of the Jeturk group, Guel Jeturk's brother. He does not share his brother's views on perserving lives.
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* BrainsAndBrawn: In the early days after Guel returned, Lauda was the brains who found out where corruption was hiding in Jeturk, while Guel was the brawn, taking it out once it was uncovered.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Guel's character development sadly didn't pass on to Lauda, who still runs Jeturk the same exploitative, oppressive, militaristic way their father did. It gets even worse after his falling out with Shaddiq, as he starts actively refusing to listen to workers' demands and shuts Guel (who's an HonestCorporateExecutive) out of big decisions.
* IHaveNoSon: Sibling example, but still. [[spoiler:Guel revealing that he killed Vim, his insistence that Jeturk stop manufacturing weapons used to oppress Earth, and his quiet accusation that Lauda killed ''children'' with an attack he ordered causes Lauda to leave, declaring "I don’t know what you are, but you’re not my brother."]]
* JackOfAllTrades: When they were kids, Guel, being the more physically inclined of the siblings, was pressured into focusing on piloting and physical endeavors by their father. Lauda, by contrast, studied a wide array of fields ranging from business to the classics to wine tasting.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lauda has sadly not improved much from the events of the show. He calls Chuchu, one of his fiance's best friends, "the Earthian" with notable venom, derides Suletta for losing her fight [[spoiler:with Ericht]], dismisses the civilian casualties of attacks he ordered - attacks Guel saw firsthand - completely, and thinks Guel is insane for wanting to cease weapons manufacturing because of his trauma from Earth.
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[[folder:Petra Itta]]
Lauda's fiance and Jeturk's liaison to the CAUL. Petra was a close friend of Chuchu and Felsi prior to their defection, having outgrown her prejudices.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: She's not a fighter, but she does, in her own words, have a talent for picking up patterns, which leads her to notice that someone has been embezzling arms from Jeturk for decades.
* BestFriend: As in the show, Felsi and Petra are close as can be. Unlike in the show, she's this to Chuchu as well, extending her friendship to her best friend's girlfriend. Surprisingly, they get along very well.
* DaddysGirl: The relationship between them isn't brought up much, but Petra takes after her father in both appearance and fashion, and is happy to have that similarity pointed out.
* OddFriendship: Despite having previously bullied her, Petra quickly became good friends with Chuchu when the latter started dating Felsi.
* TeensLoveShopping: She loves buying and trying on clothes with her friends, and even manages to get Chuchu to enjoy it with her.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the show, she was at best a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Here, she's apparently gotten over that and is a genuinely sweet and kind girl.
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* NiceGirl: She is nothing but kind and courteous to everyone.
* TheOneThatGotAway: She is this to Renee, and seems to still carry a torch for her and regrets how their relationship ended.
* BigBeautifulWoman: She's on the portly side, and very easy on the eye, to the point where TheCasanova Renee is heads over heels for her.
* NiceGirl: She is nothing but kind and courteous to everyone.
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* AffectionateNickname: Renee BrainsAndBrawn: In the early days after Guel returned, Lauda was the brains who found out where corruption was hiding in Jeturk, while Guel was the brawn, taking it out once it was uncovered.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Guel's character development sadly didn't pass on to Lauda, who still runs Jeturk the same exploitative, oppressive, militaristic way their father did. It gets even worse after his falling out with Shaddiq, as he starts actively refusing to listen to workers' demands and shuts Guel (who's an HonestCorporateExecutive) out of big decisions.
* IHaveNoSon: Sibling example, but still. [[spoiler:Guel revealing that he killed Vim, his insistence that Jeturk stop manufacturing weapons used tocall her "Lili."
oppress Earth, and his quiet accusation that Lauda killed ''children'' with an attack he ordered causes Lauda to leave, declaring "I don’t know what you are, but you’re not my brother."]]
*BigBeautifulWoman: She's on JackOfAllTrades: When they were kids, Guel, being the portly side, more physically inclined of the siblings, was pressured into focusing on piloting and very easy on the eye, physical endeavors by their father. Lauda, by contrast, studied a wide array of fields ranging from business to the point where TheCasanova Renee is heads over heels classics to wine tasting.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lauda has sadly not improved much from the events of the show. He calls Chuchu, one of his fiance's best friends, "the Earthian" with notable venom, derides Suletta forher.
* NiceGirl: She is nothing but kindlosing her fight [[spoiler:with Ericht]], dismisses the civilian casualties of attacks he ordered - attacks Guel saw firsthand - completely, and courteous to everyone.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Shethinks Guel is this to Renee, and seems to still carry a torch insane for her and regrets how their relationship ended.wanting to cease weapons manufacturing because of his trauma from Earth.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Guel's character development sadly didn't pass on to Lauda, who still runs Jeturk the same exploitative, oppressive, militaristic way their father did. It gets even worse after his falling out with Shaddiq, as he starts actively refusing to listen to workers' demands and shuts Guel (who's an HonestCorporateExecutive) out of big decisions.
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Retired Dominicus commander, the former adjutant of Delling Rembran, and currently the unofficial go-between for the Benerit and SAL wings of the CAUL.
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* DaddysGirl: The relationship between them isn't brought up much, but Petra takes after her father in both appearance and fashion, and is happy to have that similarity pointed out.
* OddFriendship: Despite having previously bullied her, Petra quickly became good friends with Chuchu when the latter started dating Felsi.
* TeensLoveShopping: She loves buying and trying on clothes with her friends, and even manages to get Chuchu to enjoy it with her.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the show, she was at best a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Here, she's apparently gotten over that and is a genuinely sweet and kind girl.
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[[folder:Lilique Kadoka Lipati]]
Acting CEO of Gund-Arm Inc. a close friend of Suletta, Miorine, and Chuchu, and Renee Costa's ex-girlfriend. Lilique is a friendly and kind woman happy to sit down and talk with even complete strangers as if they were old friends.
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* AffectionateNickname: Renee used to call her "Lili."
* BigBeautifulWoman: She's on the portly side, and very easy on the eye, to the point where TheCasanova Renee is heads over heels for her.
* BigDamnHeroes: While it's a bit unclear how much real danger she was in, Lilique gets Petra out of a meeting with [[spoiler:BigBad Rajan Zahi]] by claiming that they're close and had a lunch date Petra forgot about.
* NiceGirl: She is nothing but kind and courteous to everyone.
* TheOneThatGotAway: She is this to Renee, and seems to still carry a torch for her and regrets how their relationship ended.
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[[folder:Rajan Zahi]]
Retired Dominicus commander, the former adjutant of Delling Rembran, and currently the unofficial go-between for the Benerit and SAL wings of the CAUL.
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* BestFriend: As in the show, Felsi and Petra are close as can be. Unlike in the show, she's this to Chuchu as well, extending her friendship to her best friend's girlfriend. Surprisingly, they get along very well.
* DaddysGirl: The relationship between them isn't brought up much, but Petra takes after her father in both appearance and fashion, and is happy to have that similarity pointed out.
* OddFriendship: Despite having previously bullied her, Petra quickly became good friends with Chuchu when the latter started dating Felsi.
* TeensLoveShopping: She loves buying and trying on clothes with her friends, and even manages to get Chuchu to enjoy it with her.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the show, she was at best a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Here, she's apparently gotten over that and is a genuinely sweet and kind girl.
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[[folder:Lilique Kadoka Lipati]]
Acting CEO of Gund-Arm Inc. a close friend of Suletta, Miorine, and Chuchu, and Renee Costa's ex-girlfriend. Lilique is a friendly and kind woman happy to sit down and talk with even complete strangers as if they were old friends.
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* AffectionateNickname: Renee used to call her "Lili."
* BigBeautifulWoman: She's on the portly side, and very easy on the eye, to the point where TheCasanova Renee is heads over heels for her.
* BigDamnHeroes: While it's a bit unclear how much real danger she was in, Lilique gets Petra out of a meeting with [[spoiler:BigBad Rajan Zahi]] by claiming that they're close and had a lunch date Petra forgot about.
* NiceGirl: She is nothing but kind and courteous to everyone.
* TheOneThatGotAway: She is this to Renee, and seems to still carry a torch for her and regrets how their relationship ended.
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[[folder:Rajan Zahi]]
Retired Dominicus commander, the former adjutant of Delling Rembran, and currently the unofficial go-between for the Benerit and SAL wings of the CAUL.
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Retired Dominicus commander, the former adjutant of Delling Rembran, and currently the unofficial go-between for the Benerit and SAL wings of the CAUL.
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[[folder:Rajan Zahi]]
Retired Dominicus commander, the former adjutant of Delling Rembran, and currently the unofficial go-between for the Benerit and SAL wings of the CAUL.
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* FamedInStory: All of them are of course known as prominent Dawn of Fold members. Felsi and Chuchu in particular have reached minor folkhero status among the Earth-born citizens of the CAUL, both as a sign of unification between Earth and Space, and as simply a dramatic love story.
* CommonalityConnection: She and Guel bonded and got closer while working out together, both enjoying the way working out gave them control over their lives.
* CoolShades: She picks up a pair of old-fashioned ones in chapter 40, hoping to impress Norea.
* CoolShades: She picks up a pair of old-fashioned ones in chapter 40, hoping to impress Norea.
* PropagandaHero: She features prominently in CAUL propaganda and enlistment posters, as their most skilled and capable pilot. One in particular depicts her inviting the viewer into the cockpit of a mobile suit, with her arm at a slightly awkward angle to show off her biceps.
* BrainsAndBrawn: In the early days after Guel returned, Guel was the brawn who got rid of the corruption in Jeturk once Lauda has sussed it out.
* BrainsAndBrawn: In the early days after Guel returned, Lauda was the brains who found out where corruption was hiding in Jeturk, while Guel was the brawn, taking it out once it was uncovered.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: She's not a fighter, but she does, in her own words, have a talent for picking up patterns, which leads her to notice that someone has been embezzling arms from Jeturk for decades.
* DaddysGirl: The relationship between them isn't brought up much, but Petra takes after her father in both appearance and fashion, and is happy to have that similarity pointed out.
* PropagandaHero: After [[spoiler:they attacked Norea and Elan, Shaddiq and Miorine spun a story that they had been heroically trying to stop a pair of Dawn of Fold spies and rescue the real Elan Ceres]]. The result was that the Valkyries became heroes of the CAUL and are now feature on propaganda posters almost as much as Suletta.
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* TheMaidenNameDebate: Slightly complicated. Norea's official last name after [[spoiler:being employed by Miorine]] is Nemo, the same as Elan. While they are in a relationship, they are not married, and the name change was more because the word is significant to both of them and they [[spoiler:are officially dead]].
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!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
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* SanitySlippage: It becomes clear throughout the second book that she is losing her grip on her humanity as the war goes on and she forces herself to act more like something between a living weapon and a god. During a fight at the start of book two, she's borderline delirious, flashing back to an earlier encounter with one of her worshippers, and nearly lets herself be killed because she blames herself for her mothers' failing health.
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* {{Foil}}: To [[SiblingYinYang Nika]], in particular in their respective CharacterDevelopment since the events of the show; Norea started out as a cynical and vengeful girl who wanted nothing more than to kill spacians, even if it killed her, but has since mellowed out to a bit of a hedonist with a more positive outlook on life. Nika, while far from as cynical as Norea was, has gone from a hopeful idealist to a seasoned warleader who will kill if there are no other options.
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* HellIsThatNoise: When the Morrigan uses it's water-based cooling system, it causes a sound that's usually described as banshee-like. [[spoiler:The Rebuild upgrades it to a crow-like cry, almost musical but still unsettling]]. It can even be used in space through radiowaves, and is loaded with so much junk data that it overloads systems and senses alike.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: Downplayed since she can't actually cry, but whenever [[spoiler:the Morrigan sees Sophie's grave it feels the need to]].
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: Downplayed since she can't actually cry, but whenever [[spoiler:the Morrigan sees Sophie's grave it feels the need to]].
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* WreckedWeapon: The Morrigan's sword, Fragarach, is broken [[spoiler:by Felsi in the battle with the Demi-Balor. The Morrigan Rebuild keeps it like that, but gives it a permet edge that enhances its abilities]].
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* WreckedWeapon: The Morrigan's sword, Fragarach, is broken [[spoiler:by by Felsi in the battle with the Demi-Balor. The Morrigan Rebuild keeps it like that, but gives it a permet edge that enhances its abilities]].abilities.
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* CharClone: In a bit of a twist on tradition, Suletta is a rare heroic example of this trope. She pilots the AceCustom Schwarzette that fights mostly in close-quarters, wears a visor that obscures her face, and her RedBaron callsign of Barghest at once references her ColorMotif of black. She is TheDragon to Miorine and fights on the opposite side from her sister, who she's technologically inferior than but manages to keep up by sheer ability and skill. Jerkus has even remarked on the similarities many times.
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* TheAce: Nika is a skilled mechanic, technician, battlefield commander, logistician, and master of statecraft, which allowed her to forge scattered rebel cells into a nation.
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!!Dawn of Fold
In the last year, the formerly minor terrorist group Dawn of Fold has grown into a nation in its own right, liberating Earth from the oppression of space.
!!!Inner Circle
[[folder:Shared Tropes]]
* FamilyOfChoice: The Morrigan considers anyone who makes her loved ones happy to be her family too, so Chuchu and Felsi are as much her family as Sabina and Nika, and so are Chuchu's dads by association.
* HappilyMarried: Nika and Sabina are married and love each other deeply. Chuchu and Felsi haven't tied the knot quite yet, but Felsi has said she wants to at some point.
* TheMostWanted: Due to being the leadership and inner circle of someone they view as a terrorist organization, the SAL have rather high bounties on the heads of all four of them, with Chuchu and Felsi getting a little extra for being defectors.
* OddFriendship: Between Felsi, the hot-blooded daughter of wealthy spacians, and Sabina, an IceQueen Earthian freedom fighter. Once Felsi defects, the two of them find themselves becoming best friends very quickly
* SecretHandshake: Felsi and Sabina develop one once the former defects to Dawn of Fold. They perform it with their mobile suits, and drag their reluctant partners into it.
* {{Synchronization}}: When they use the Morrigan's GUND format together, Nika and Sabina are so intermingled that they can barely tell where one ends and the other begins, and feel each others' pain and sensations. This seems to have been strongest the first time in the Lfrith-Ur, and lessened with time and as they perfected the Morrigan's systems.
* TrueCompanions: They slowly develop into this over the course of the second book, fighting together to protect Earth while spending their spare time laughing and joking with each other. Not to mention that all of them are helping Chuchu find her father.
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[[folder:Nika Geor Hija Nanaura-Fardin]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Morrigan
Captain of the Dawn of Fold, and secondary pilot of the Gundam Morrigan. In the year that has passed since her and Sabina's escape from Asticassia, Nika has become a skilled battlefield commander and hailed as the woman who turned the Dawn of Fold from a ragtag terrorist group into a nation.
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* TheAce: Nika is a skilled mechanic, technician, battlefield commander, logistician, and master of statecraft, which allowed her to forge scattered rebel cells into a nation.
* AdaptationalBadass: A minor case. In the show, Nika appears to be entirely a noncombatant, never using any kind of violence and being easily taken down by Sophie before she can even try to fight back. In ths fic, she ''has'' training in both hand-to-hand and shooting, she's just not any good at either.
* AdaptationalProtagonist: Nika, while not a minor character, is part of the supporting cast of the original anime. Whil ''The Morrigan'' is an ensemble story, she is by far one of the most important protagonists.
* BattleCouple: The Morrigan has both her and Sabina as pilots, meaning that they go into battle together, Sabina doing the fighting and Nika backing her up by keeping an eye on everything.
* BreakTheCutie: Nika in the show was an idealist who dreamed of uniting Earth and Space in peaceful cooperation. In the fic, the trauma of being kidnapped by Shaddiq, kept in a room with a woman that wanted to kill her, never being found by her friends at Earth House, the escape from Asticassia, and every event since has broken her to a very angry woman who is fully onboard with using violence and killing to fight for Earth. She still maintains her fundamental idealism, but is now much more willing to accept violent means to reach her goals.
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Nika suffers a FictionalDisability that renders her arm partially paralyzed unless she regularily files down the crystalline permet growths on it.
* FictionalDisability: Nika's silvered left arm is a condition known as Spontanteous Permetic Growth, causing permet crystals to grow across a person's body. Nika's condition is unusually benign, causing her partial paralysis but no pain. [[spoiler:This is because Morrigan has been protecting her from it, the same way Ericht can protect her pilots from the pain of permet burn]].
* GuyInBack: Effectively her role as the Morrigan's secondary pilot. She keeps track of and directs the flow of permet, analyzes the battlefield and develops strategies while Sabina fights, and keeps an eye on things in case she gets distracted.
* HappilyAdopted: Naji is not her biological father, but he raised her and adopted her as his official child, and despite knowing that he was a flawed human being, she has mostly fond memories of her childhood.
* HeelRealization: After her [[spoiler:father's death, Nika very nearly falls into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge until Chuchu begs her to not hurt Felsi or her squadron, causing her to realize that she's grown far more cold and authorative than even she realized or is comfortable with]].
* MythicalMotifs: Nika is associated with Nuada Airgetlám, the first king of the Tuatha de Dannan. Aside from their similar names, they are both good and beloved leaders, they both have an arm made of silver (''Airgetlám'' means Silver-hand, which is one of Nika's monikers), and they both fight an entity named Balor, though unlike Nuada, Nika survives the battle. Morrigan's sword, Fragarach, is also named after Nuada's sword.
* RedBaron: Nika has gained the nicknames "Architect", "Silverhand", and "Bluebird of Victory" for her ability to plan and manage the entirety of Dawn of Fold, and her permet-encrusted hand. She later adds "The Silver Fist," "The Dawnbringer," and "The Butcher of the NEAR Arcology."
* RedRightHand: Nika's entire left arm is covered in permet growths that react when she uses the Morrigan's permet scores. The exact cause is unclear, but it first happened when it got hurt during the escape from Asticassia, and the numbness and pain decreases when in contact with the Morrigan.
* TookALevelInBadass: In between the show and the fic, Nika has grown to be a ''much'' more dangerous and capable combatant (compared to the show where she wasn't a combatant at all), becoming a dangerous battlefield commander.
* WrenchWench: Nika is undoubtedly one of the best mechanics in the world, having among other things turned the broken and damaged Lfrith-Ur into the nigh-unbeatable Gundam Morrigan with nothing but scraps.
* YouAreinCommandNow: [[spoiler:Nika becomes the leader of the Dawn of Fold after Naji is killed in battle]].
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[[folder:Sabina Fardin-Nanaura]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Morrigan
Lieutenant of the Dawn of Fold, primary pilot of the Gundam Morrigan, and Nika's wife. Sabina has long since left behind her loyalty to Shaddiq, and is dedicated to fighting alongside her wife to liberate Earth from the yoke of space. In the meantime, she's working to overcome the training she received as a child to suppress her emotions.
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* AffectionateNickname: Felsi calls her "Bibi."
* BattleCouple: The Morrigan has both her and Nika as pilots, meaning that they go into battle together, Sabina doing the fighting and Nika backing her up by keeping an eye on everything.
* TheComicallySerious: Sabina is a very proper and serious person, which sometimes stands in humerous contrast to the people around her, especially [[{{Troll}} Felsi]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Amusingly averted. She and Norea try to deal with their mutual dislike by having a fistfight. It doesn't work nearly as well for them as it did for Felsi and Chuchu, and they still hate each other by the end of it.
* FallGuy: Because of the circumstances of their escape from Asticassia, and some choice wording on Shaddiq's part, Sabina, and to a lesser extent Nika, ended up taking the public blame for all of Shaddiq's schemes, including the Dawn of Fold attack on Plant Quetta and Asticassia.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Nika describes Sabina's confidence while singing as adorably misplaced.
* InsultOfEndearment: Sabina's nickname for Felsi is "Sissy", partly as a play on her name (Si-si), and part because she finds it delightful that Felsi gets riled up whenever she uses it.
* NeverMyFault: Sabina accuses Norea of having defected from the Dawn of Fold, conveniently ignoring the part where she and Nika blew up Norea's gundam and left her unconscious in the rubble while making their own escape. Norea and Nika both call her out on it, and Norea figures that she's probably projecting her own guilt over not having helped Nika earlier.
* NotSoStoic: Sabina generally keeps a very stoic face through any situation, including ColdBloodedTorture. She's far from emotionless however, and immediately lets herself go when she's in private with Nika. She's also a rather enthusiastic metal musician.
* NumberTwo: Sabina is Nika's second-in-command, the lieutenant to her captain. [[spoiler:Later she becomes the Captain to her General]].
* PsychologicalProjection: Sabina openly dislikes Norea, claiming that it's because Norea beat Nika nearly to death back on Asticassia. Norea points out that Sabina was in the room with them and took her sweet time before helping Nika, leading her to realize that Sabina is projecting her own guilt about the incident onto Norea. Sabina is not happy to be psychoanalyzed.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Sabina, as part of being TheStoic, tends to use a very precise and proper manner of speaking. She does occasionally slip up and swears, much to Nika's delight.
* TheStoic: Sabina was raised by Grassley to dissociate and be as cold and emotionless as possible. She is making an effort to unlearning it to be more open and genuine with Nika.
* SuperstitiousSailors: Gundam Pilots actually. Sabina, despite her serious and stoic demeanor, is actually quite superstitious, using rituals to ward off bad luck and being the first to believe that Morrigan is sapient.
* TortureTechnician: Sabina was trained in torture as part of becoming a Valkyrie, and retains the skills years after. Notably, unlike many torturers, she avoids doing anything that will cause permanent harm, relying mostly on the psychological aspect - fear of pain rather than pain itself. While Grassley taught her to dissociate while torturing someone to be more efficient, she elects not to, staying stoic in public but letting it affect her when in private.
* UndyingLoyalty: Sabina trusts Nika fully and entirely, to the point where she tells her that she would line up and shoot defenseless hostages if she asked her to. This is phrased less as an oath of dedication and more as a warning to not abuse that trust.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Sabina is very protective of Nika, and has it out for Norea for this reason, angry at her for having hurt Nika despite them having long since reconciled. [[spoiler:She's equally protective of the Morrigan, only allowing her wife and her best friend to touch her]].
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[[folder:Chuatury Panlunch / "Chuchu"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Demi-Barding, Demi-Balor
Commander of CAUL's Bilge Rat squadron, and an old friend of Nika. Nika's apparent betrayal hit Chuchu hard and led to a bitter reunion, but they eventually reconciled and Chuchu has taken her squadron to fight for Earth.
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* AceCustom: The Demi-Balor is a unique prototype, piloted only by Chuchu and Felsi as the commanding officers of the Bilge Rats.
* AnimalMotifs: Chuchu tends to be associated with rats; Small, ferocious, and fiercely protective of her young. She has a torso tattoo of a rat and her squadron is called the Bilge Rats. And like a rat, she flees the sinking ship that is CAUL.
* BadassNormal: Chuchu pilots a fairly normal AceCustom mobile suit and is not an enhanced person or Witch, but she (with Felsi's help) managed to fight the Gundam Morrigan to a standstill.
* BattleCouple: Chuchu and Felsi fight together in the Demi-Balor, with Chuchu piloting the main body and Felsi providing backup and support in the Baori pack.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Chuchu is torn between her trust and loyalty to Miorine, who she knows is doing her best to improve the CAUL, and her loyalty to her homeworld, which is being oppressed by CAUL. Eventually circumstances forced her hand and she chose her homeworld.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Chuchu defects from the CAUL between books 1 and 2. While she had harbored doubts and resentment towards the CAUL for a long time, it took being invited to join the Dawn of Fold by Nika directly, as well as not being able to return to the CAUL under threat of execution, for her to finally make the decision.
* DisappearedDad: Chuchu's Papa Nanami was working in space when Quiet Zero's blockade struck, and has been unable or unwilling to get back to Earth. [[spoiler:She eventually finds that he's working with a crime syndicate operating out of Fólkvangr that has been supplying Cathedra, but was kidnapped by a mysterious black-clad faction]].
* EyeLaser: The Demi-Balor has an array of lenses on its head that can fire powerful energy beams. Different lenses has better range, better coverage, and better penetration. It also has a series of lenses it can throw out to serve as reflective surfaces to bounce the beam off of.
* AMotherToHerMen: Chuchu refers to the Bilge Rat squadron as her pups, knows their names by heart and personally grieves every death, and cares deeply about their safety. SAL's disregard for their safety is part of the reason she transfers to Miorine's command and later defects.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Chuchu's Demi-Balor has pistons in its arms that enhance its punches, fitting with its very punchy pilots. They call the enhanced arms "The Dukes", while Felsi calls the Baori pack's arms "The Duchesses."
* TheMostWanted: Due to her defecting, the SAL have put a bounty on Chuchu's head almost as high as the one on Nika and Sabina.
* MoralityChain: To Nika. [[spoiler:After her father's death, Nika was all set to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge until she got to talk to Chuchu in private. Realizing that Chuchu was expecting Nika to execute her, and that she had actually genuinely considered the idea, makes her realize that she's heading down a dark path, and manages to turn back from it]].
* OddFriendship: Due to her dating Felsi, she ended up spending a fair amount of time with Petra, Felsi's best friend, and surprisingly found out that she actually enjoyed her company despite their checkered past.
* TakeMeInstead: When Chuchu realizes that [[spoiler:Nika might actually kill her]], she begs her to ''only'' hurt her, and spare Felsi and [[AMotherToHerMen her pups]].
* TeensLoveShopping: Chuchu, of all people, found herself enjoying trying on clothes that Petra bought for her birthday in a fashion show with them and Felsi, and has since greatly expanded her warderobe.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: After she and Felsi [[spoiler:hand over sensitive information to the Dawn of Fold, per Miorine's request, they can't return to the CAUL without being court martialed and likely executed. Nika instead offers them a place among the Dawn of Fold, which they take]].
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[[folder:Felsi Rollo]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Dilanza, Demi-Balor (Baori Pack)
Chuchu's girlfriend and second-in-command, piloting the Baori pack of her Demi-Balor. Though raised within the Spacian aristocracy, Felsi has since realized the depth of corruption and exploitation needed to maintain her family's empire, and is if anything even more dedicated to the Earthian cause than her partner.
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* AffectionateNickname: Chuchu calls her "Pineapple," a holdover from ''Put Up Your Dukes'' in reference to her hairstyle. Sabina calls her "Sissy", partly as a play on her name (Felsi calls her Bibi) and partially as an InsultOfEndearment.
* TheAtoner: Felsi is very aware that her family have played part in oppressing Earth, and tries to atone for it by learning everything she can about Spacian oppression and later defects to Dawn of Fold.
* BarehandedBladeBlock: During the fight with the Morrigan, Felsi stopped the Fragarach sword by catching it mid-swing and breaking it between her Baori pack's hands.
* BattleCouple: Felsi and Chuchu fight together in the Demi-Balor, with Chuchu piloting the main body and Felsi providing backup and support in the Baori pack.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: ''Put Up Your Dukes'' reveals that Felsi's loyalty to Guel was based on an event in their childhood, when he listened patiently to her concerns over being forced into an unhappy marriage and then prevented it by loudly chewing out her parents (insulting her in the process, but she was fine with it). The public embarassment resulted in Felsi being sent to Asticassia to get her out of her parents' sight, which she is infinitely grateful for.
* CategoryTraitor: A lot of Spacians prejudiced against Earthians see Felsi as a traitor to her kin because she's dating Chuchu and takes her side in arguments about Earthian oppression. Felsi, for her part, fully embraces and revels in it, and makes it official by joining the Dawn of Fold.
* CombatMedic: Or rather Combat Mechanic. Part of her role as the Baori Pack pilot is to perform emergency repairs on the Balor when needed. The Baori pack even has special kits for repairs, which Felsi calls the Ouch Pouch.
* DeadpanSnarker: Felsi is rather irreverent and not afraid of mouthing off to her superiors, as shown when she calls Sabina "Bibi" on a mission. When Sabina objects, Felsi rephrases it in a sarcastically deferential way. While still calling her "Bibi".
-->'''Felsi:''' Oh, sorry! Please, Captain Bibi, Ma’am. Explain it to me again, if it is your prerogative? I humbly do not understand the point your honor was trying to make.\\
'''[[TheComicallySerious Sabina]]''': Is she messing with me?
* DefectorFromDecadence: Felsi was ready to defect to the Dawn of Fold ''long'' before she actually did so, staying with the CAUL because Chuchu hadn't made up her mind yet. She eventually takes the initiative, surrendering herself and Chuchu to the Dawn of Fold and fully defecting soon after.
* GenreRefugee: The Felsi Rollo in this story is the same one as in ''Put Up Your Dukes'', a much less serious fic. As a result, she's essentially a character from a romantic comedy in a grim and gritty war drama. [[https://twitter.com/jerkus110/status/1701936710064468077 Jerkus has stated]] that they write Felsi to be one degree cartoonier than the rest of the cast, such as appearing out of thin air without rhyme or reason.
* KlingonPromotion: Non-violent example. During the [[spoiler:fight between the Balor and the Morrigan, Felsi knocks Chuchu out cold in order to take over command of the Bilge Rats and surrender without further bloodshed]].
* NumberTwo: Felsi is commander Chuchu's lieutenant, and supports her in both combat and as an advisor and supporter.
* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Felsi was aware from a young age that the Spacian system she grew up in was bad, but it was only once she grew close with Chuchu that she realized the extent of it. Thanks to some lessons and reading reccomendations from one of Chuchu's more politically inclined fathers, she's now firecely anti-capitalist and pro-Earth, even joining the Dawn of Fold.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness:
** Felsi has a tendency to launch into lengthy complicated rants about Spacian oppression thanks to having read a ''lot'' of books on the subject of economic inequality.
--->'''Felsi:''' And what constitutes ‘Earthian’ is an ever-shifting subject position based not on geography but on the-” ''Gets food shoved in her mouth by Petra.''
** In chapter 38, she goes on a ramble that includes the words "Blackguard" and "forthwith." Nika isn't sure if she's doing some kind of bit, or if that's just Felsi being Felsi.
* StealthHiBye: Played for laughs. Due to Chuchu's giant hairpuffs, she has two massive blindspots Felsi can use to sneak up on her and play harmless pranks, or appear out of thin air.
* WrenchWench: While not as good as Nika, Felsi took up engineering as an elective at Asticassia after hearing Chuchu complain about the specs of her Demi-Barding. She apparently took to the subject like a fish to water, to the point where she's the only mechanic other than Nika allowed to work on the Morrigan, and [[spoiler:Morrigan herself appreciates her thoroughness]].
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: After she and Chuchu [[spoiler:hand over sensitive information to the Dawn of Fold, per Miorine's request, they can't return to the CAUL without being court martialed and likely executed. Nika instead offers them a place among the Dawn of Fold, which they take]].
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[[folder:Gundam Morrigan '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
The titular Gundam, rebuilt from the broken Lfrith-Ur after it was damaged when Nika and Sabina stole it to escape Asticassia. Unlike most Gundams, the Morrigan requires two pilots, one to do the fighting and one to monitor its systems and control the flow of permet. In the year since escaping Asticassia, the Morrigan has become a symbol of hope and defiance for Earth.
Unbeknownst to anyone, the Morrigan is fully sapient, containing the mind of its previous pilot; Sophie Pulone.
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* AccidentalPervert: Morrigan tries her best to give Nika and Sabina privacy, but she can feel anything they feel, and they frequently have sex in her cockpit without knowing that she's sapient and can feel them. At least two cases resulted in the Morrigan spasming in pleasure in accordance with Nika. It becomes less accidental later, as Nika and Sabina embrace the idea of the Morrigan joining them.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapters 11 and 35 are told entirely from the perspective of Morrigan herself.
* AffectionateNickname: Ericht calls her "Momo."
* AnimalMotifs: The Morrigan Rebuild is painted in dark colours, wears a feathered cape (actually felchettes), has a cry reminiscent of a crow or raven, and is created from pieces salvaged from other mobile suits similar to a carrion bird feeding on the dead, all of it giving it a corvid motif. During the costume party, her pilot Sabina dresses as a raven familiar.
* ArtificialFamilyMember: Nika and Sabina refer to the Morrigan as part of their family, initially as a kid but as it becomes more apparent that the Morrigan has some kind of self-awareness, they start thinking of it as their lover instead. Morrigan for her part returns the sentiment in full.
* AttackDrone: Morrigan Rebuild's flechettes are actually bit-staves, but unlike the Aerial's Escutcheon, they have only enough tech and intelligence to pursue a target and return when called. Some of them secretly have hidden abilities, like the Silver Arrow that can be directed extremely precisely by Nika due to containing a piece of permet from her arm.
* BloodKnight: It ''is'' a giant weapon, after all. She actually carries this over from Sophie Pulone, who also enjoyed fighting. Not to mention that it is one of the few ways she gets to interract with the world around her.
* BoringButPractical: Compared to other Gundams, the Morrigan is actually fairly basic. It lacks bit staves or special abilities, favouring basic weapons that hit hard. This is because neither of its pilots are enanced to resist datastorms, so anything too fancy would likely kill them. She does get a few nifty tricks as the Morrigan Rebuild, however.
* BrainUploading: Somehow, the mind and personality of Sophie Pulone were preserved within the Lfrith-Ur the same way Eri's were in the Lfrith.
* CapedMecha: The Morrigan has a cape of iron chains. The Morrigan Rebuild gets a FashionableAsymmetry shoulder cape carrying flechettes.
* ChainPain: The Morrigan has a cape made from iron chains, each link larger than a human. It's used mostly to store weapons, but can be a weapon in the midst of battle.
* ConflictingLoyalties: A deeply tragic example. As a child, Sophie could have played with Nika and been adopted by Naji, getting the family she always wanted. However, Norea hated the idea of being anything other than a soldier, and especially resented the idea of getting along with Nika. As a result, Sophie had to chose between a family and her best friend. She chose Norea, but when she was alone cried about having lost any chance of ever having the family she desperately wanted.
* DivertingPower: The main difference between the Morrigan and other gundams, and why it requires two pilots. When it enters higher permet scores, rather than empowering the entire system, Nika directs permet to the parts that needs it, which reduces the strain on both pilots from deadly to simply painful.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Nika initially calls Morrigan "Kiddo." She stops after realizing both that Morrigan doesn't like it, and that it's rather awkward to call the being you've been having regular sex in (and with) "kiddo."
* EyeColorChange: Part of the rebuilding, the Lfrith-Ur had green eye-lenses, while the Morrigan has blue. Like Sophie.
* HatesBeingAlone: The Morrigan hates being "asleep" because it means being apart from Nika and Sabina, and completely alone. It gets a bit better after she meets Ericht and can talk to her (as long as they're near Quiet zero), but she still doesn't like being left alone.
* HellIsThatNoise: When the Morrigan uses it's water-based cooling system, it causes a sound that's usually described as banshee-like. [[spoiler:The Rebuild upgrades it to a crow-like cry, almost musical but still unsettling]]. It can even be used in space through radiowaves, and is loaded with so much junk data that it overloads systems and senses alike.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: Downplayed since she can't actually cry, but whenever [[spoiler:the Morrigan sees Sophie's grave it feels the need to]].
* TheLostLenore: Sophie is this to both Suletta and Norea. Suletta blames herself for her death and thinks of her as her would-be little sister, while Norea couldn't find cause to move on after her death, only saved from suicide by Elan convincing her to seek revenge instead.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: Following the second Quinharbour attack, and with input and advice from Prospera, the Morrigan is retrofitted and upgraded from its bulky and mishmash heavy-duty design to the much more sleek and agile Morrigan Rebuild, using Gundvölva parts salvaged from Ochs Earth. It also comes with some nifty new abilities, like using its sword to block beam weapons, a temporary cloak, and bit-staves in the form of guided flechettes.
* MundaneUtility: Similarily to Ericht in the show, Morrigan can cause permet burns on anyone piloting the Morrigan. Unlike Ericht, however, Sophie uses it for intimacy with Nika and Sabina, causing a very small and localized permet burn to imply touch across her lovers' skin.
* NamedWeapons: While all Gundam subsystems tend to have names, the Morrigan's sword in particular is named Fragarach.
* OminousWalk: The Morrigan takes its sweet time approaching a downed Demi-Barding in chapter 9.
* RaisedInALab: Sophie and Norea spent their formative years in an Ochs Earth lab being modified into better gundam pilots. The experience left them deeply codependent, and gave Sophie a desperate desire for a family only outweighed by her fear of losing Norea.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: In addition to her own name, which comes from the Celtic goddess of fate and war, the Morrigan's weapon subsystems are all named after things from Celtic mythology (with one exception); The sword is Fragarach, the sword of high king Nuada Airgetlám; It's beam vulcan wrist-shooters are Tathlum, after the slingstone of the god Lugh; and the the vampiric blades taken from Beguir-Dearg Du is Weregild, after an old judicial system in Scandinavia where the perpetrator of a murder could pay money equivelant to the dead person's value, to prevent blood feuds.
* RevenantZombie: Not literally, but when Belmeria sees the Gundam Morrigan she thinks that it resembles an undead revenant. Considering that it was built from the wreckage of Sophie Pulone's Lfrith Ur, she's half right.
* SchizoTech: InUniverse, the Morrigan is a super-advanced giant mech built using techniques over 200 years beyond the present, but it uses water as a cooling system. Assuming it wasn't just poetic writing, chapter 35 also describes its "clockwork heart".
* ShrinkingViolet: Surprisingly, Sophie was this as a child, hiding behind Norea when scared.
* SuperSmoke: Unlike most mobile suits, that use a permet cooling system, the Morrigan uses water for cooling, allowing it to operate at full efficiency within Quiet Zero's sphere of influence. Whenever it vents, it creates a thick blanket of superhot steam. Rebuild upgrades it to a black fog infused with permet functioning as a cloak.
* {{Synchronization}}: Morrigan can feel Nika's sensations through her permet-encrusted arm, especially when they're in physical contact. Such as when her and Sabina have sex in the cockpit.
* TragicDream: A flashback showed that Norea and Sophie both wanted to see fireflies, which are extinct on Earth and only exist in Spacian preserves and obviously out of reach for two Earthian terrorists. When they finally reunite in chapter 38, it's in a garden at LAFF surrounded by fireflies.
* {{Transhuman}}: The mind of a human being, accidentally uploaded into a gigantic robotic body. She was this prior to death too, a first-generation enhanced human modified from a young age to be more resistant towards datastorms.
* {{Troll}}: In ''Their Fond Pageant'', Morrigan freezes Nika's arm just as she finishes masturbating, resulting in Nika having her fingers stuck in a rather embarassing and obvious position.
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Gundam Morrigan, aka. Sophie Pulone.
* VirtualGhost: Sophie still "lives" as the personality in the Morrigan, though she can't communicate with anyone beyond implications.
* WalkingSpoiler: It is next to impossible to discuss her without revealing the fact that she is sapient and contains the mind of Sophie Pulone.
* WistfulAmnesia: Morrigan remembers being ''something'' before, but she doesn't remember ''what''. She has vague recollections of who and what's important to her, and her impressions of other people (she knows that she always liked Chuchu, and that she expected to dislike Felsi), but she doesn't know why she has those impressions. Seeing Norea is enough to temporarily break her out of it.
* WreckedWeapon: The Morrigan's sword, Fragarach, is broken [[spoiler:by Felsi in the battle with the Demi-Balor. The Morrigan Rebuild keeps it like that, but gives it a permet edge that enhances its abilities]].
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!!!Other
[[folder:Belmeria Winston]]
A scientist who worked on the original Gundam project under Ochs Earth, Belmeria was snatched up by the Dawn of Fold and appointed Chief Medical Officer by virtue of being the foremost expert on the GUND-system's effect on the human body.
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* TheAlcoholic: The entire fic opens on Belmeria getting drunk to deal with how awful her life is. She gets better.
* LetsGetDangerous: Belmeria is usually neurotic, nervous, apologetic, and doesn't strike a very intimidating figure. When she's in her element as a medical doctor, however, she's calm, professional, and even sarcastic and snarky at times.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Nika really doesn't like Belmeria considering her ''many'' crimes against humanity, but she is the foremost expert on permet's effects on the human body, and the only available person qualified to deal with Nika's arm.
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[[folder:Naji Geor Hija]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Desultor
The general and leader of Dawn of Fold, and Nika's father. Naji is a peaceful man at heart, a schoolteacher before he founded Dawn of Fold, but circumstances has forced him to become the leader of an army.
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:He is killed by Ireesha in chapter 15]].
* GoodParents: While acknowledging that he was a flawed human being, Nika has very fond memories of him and he's never shown to be anything but well-meaning with the children under his guardianship.
* HappilyAdopted: Naji adopted Nika as a child and cares about her deeply, and while she acknowledges him as a flawed man, she has mostly fond memories of her upbringing. When Sohie and Norea were delivered to him to be Gundam pilots, he at first wanted to ignore the agreement with Ochs Earth and adopt them as his own.
* ParentsAsPeople: Naji tries his best, but the circumstances often forced his hands in the worst ways possible.
** He did his best to give Nika a happy childhood divorced from the war going on around him, but the fact that he's the head of a militaristic rebel group meant that whether they wanted it or not, Nika would be embroiled in war and conflict from an early age, and became a child soldier as a result.
** When Ochs Earth gave him two child witches and told him to use them as soldiers, he wanted to take them in and adopt them, but as Olcott points out, doing so would ruin their relationship with their most powerful ally, not to mention that Norea ''wanted'' to be a child soldier, having been raised in so gruesome enviroments that she couldn't imagine wanting anything else, and Sophie followed her lead. As a result, Naji felt he had little other choice than to use them as soldiers, leading to both of them being deeply traumatized and maladjusted, not to mention Sophie dying.
* SkewedPriorities: When he sees Norea again for the first time in several years, in the middle of a battlefield while a city burns around them, Naji's first reaction is to ask if she has eaten well.
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!!The Colonial Allied Unification League (CAUL)
A joint alliance of the Space Assembly League and Benerit Group in response to Prospera Mercury and Quiet Zero.
!!!Inner Circle
[[folder:Miorine Mercury]]
President of the Benerit wing of the CAUL and wife of its top pilot, Suletta Rembran. Miorine is caught to her neck in political games, working for an end to the war favorable to all parties despite factions within both the Benerit Group and the SAL wanting her gone.
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* AffectionateNickname: Miorine's mother used to call her "bug" or "ladybug". Suletta calls her "mio-mio" sometimes.
* AlliterativeName: Her married name, '''M'''iorine '''M'''ercury.
* BatmanGambit: Miorine pulls of a rather impressive ''nested'' one to stop the Space Assembly League from using their WaveMotionGun on Quiet Zero. Through Chuchu and Felsi, she [[spoiler:provides the Dawn of Fold with evidence that the SAL are planning on doing it, treating the potential destruction of Earth as a beneficial consequence. As Miorine expected, Nika releases these documents to the public, and Miorine immediately condemsn them as fraudulent lies and fabrications, declaring that the Space Assembly League would never do something so heinous. Again as she expected, the SAL immediately put their plans on hold, or they'd lose any and all support they may have had]].
* TheChessmaster: Miorine is a schemer who has a lot of balls in the air at any point, largely successfully planning and arranging events in ways that ultimately fall in ways that she considers favorable. As a heroic character, she uses this skill to save as many lives as possible.
* GenerationXerox: In a flashback, Miorine realizes that her treatment of Suletta during their breakup was not so different from how Delling treated her; Ignoring her agency, making decisions on her behalf, and refusing to explain or give a reason, all supposedly for her sake. There are several other instances where she acts more like her father's daughter than she'd like to think.
* HappilyMarried: Despite some struggles prior to the marriage, and the wartime they live in, Miorine and Suletta were married soon after the onset of the war, and love each other deeply.
* InternalReformist: Despite knowing how corrupt and rotten the SAL and Benerit Group are, Miorine firmly believes that they can be changed for the better through reforms and replacing the old guard with more qualified new blood. This puts her at odds with the Dawn of Fold leadership, who believe that the whole thing is rotten and needs to be pulled up by the root.
* LaughingMad: After [[spoiler:she killed her first person]], Miorine collapses into maddened giggles due to her shock.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Suletta and Miorine resolved this by taking each others' names, making her Miorine Mercury.
* RageBreakingPoint: When Miorine returns to Asticassia to find [[spoiler:the Valkyries trying to kill Elan and Norea, she furiously threatens to have them executed if they don't stand down. While the Valkyries would consider this an empty threat from Shaddiq, they know better than to ignore a threat like that from Miorine]].
* TranquilFury: When Miorine ''doesn't'' shout in anger, that's when you know she's ''really'' angry.
* XanatosGambit: Miorine uses one during her meeting with [[spoiler:Nika. While she fails her main goal, to ally with her, she does manage to gain a lot of intel about the Dawn of Fold's alliance with Quiet Zero and start rebuilding their friendship]].
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[[folder:Suletta Rembran / "Barghest"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Schwarzette, Gundam Lugh
Wing Commander for the CAUL, Miorine's wife, and Ericht Samaya's sister. Despite fighting on the frontlines as the CAUL's uncontested best pilot, Suletta has maintained her cheerful and kind nature, wanting nothing more than for the war to end so she can be with her friends and family again.
Suletta pilots the Gundam Schwarzette, the CAUL's only gundam, on loan from Jeturk Heavy Machinery. Her callsign is Barghest.
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* AcePilot: Suletta has always been this, but several characters throughout the fic bring up that she's a ''monster'' to face in combat. When she claims that she could beat someone, it's less a case of her being arrogant and more a statement of a matter of fact. [[spoiler:Even Ericht, who ''is'' a Gundam, isn't sure if she could beat Suletta in a fair fight, and has to resort to dirty tricks]].
* AmazonianBeauty: Over the timeskip at the end of book 2, Suletta bulks up from the muscular-but-gangly she was before to a sheer amazon. Norea, after [[EatingTheEyeCandy paying very close attention to the movement of her muscle]], remarks that she looks like she could fold a mobile suit up like tissue paper. During the costume party, one guest thought her muscles where part of the costume.
* AnimalMotifs: Hounds. Suletta is derogatorily thought of as Miorine's attack dog by many within the CAUL, who only does what her mistress tells her. She uses a cane with a handle shaped like a dog's head to navigate despite her blindness, her callsign is from a folkloric black hound of ill omen, and during the costume party in the second book she's dressed as a wolf knight. Suletta embraces the motif, but is frustrated at being dehumanized.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Suletta's callsign, "Barghest", was meant as an insult from Lauda, effectively calling her a dog. She likes it though, and happily embraces the animal motif.
* BeneathNotice: Suletta's veil makes her blind and robs her of individuality by hiding her face. The silver lining of this is that people tend to forget that she's there and that there is nothing wrong with her ''hearing'', resulting in her overhearing a lot of private conversations.
* BerserkButton: Referring to her by her maiden name instead of Rembran gets on her nerves, and is one of the few things that actually gets her to directly ''dislike'' someone.
* BloodKnight: Suletta likes fighting, as long as no one gets actually hurt. She mentions at one point that she's been watching videos of Sabina piloting the Morrigan and is ''really'' excited about getting to fight her. [[spoiler:When she gets the chance to talk to Sabina at the end of book two, she intentionally provokes her to anger in the hopes of getting a duel]].
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Ericht's Cain, though really only in an official capacity. They really just want to hang out and be siblings, even when they have to fight. [[spoiler:Chapter 22 turns it into a more serious case of this trope, as their clashing ideals leads to a borderline murderous fight]].
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Downplayed. Suletta isn't actually disabled, but she has to wear a black veil that hides her face and makes her effectively blind. She uses a white cane to navigate.
* TheDreaded: Suletta, despite being a NiceGirl, is also ''deeply'' terrifying, often without even realizing it. Her appearance as a black-clad pilot silently standing behind her wife, with a black veil hiding her face is intimidating enough, but there's also the fact that she's the best mobile suit pilot in the world and anyone who fights her faces a ''very'' quick defeat. Her enemies know her as the Black Hound of Death.
* TheFaceless: InUniverse. Suletta has a Veil, a sort of holographic projection that displays a dense mesh of junk data in front of her face at all times which hides her face behind a black veil. Unlike other examples of the trope, she can't see out through it either, rendering her effectively blind. [[spoiler:She discards it after her fight with Ericht, having had enough of being kept in the dark]].
* HappilyMarried: Despite some struggles prior to the marriage, and the wartime they live in, Suletta and Miorine were married soon after the onset of the war, and love each other deeply.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When they have a chance to chat, [[spoiler:Sabina remarks that it's a shame she and Suletta never had a chance to have a proper duel. Suletta responds that she thought they did, during the [[Recap/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercuryEpisode13EnvoysFromTheEarth serial duel after Plant Quetta]], unintentionally implying that Sabina is a poor enough pilot that she could be lumped in with that sorry lot. She later admits that this was actually a StealthInsult, as she was trying to goad Sabina into a duel]].
* ItsAllMyFault: Maybe not ''all'', but Suletta insists on taking at least part of the blame for Sophie's death, even though Ericht freely admits to having killed her.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Suletta and Miorine resolved this by taking each others' names, making her Suletta Rembran.
* MeaningfulName: Suletta's callsign while piloting the Schwarzette is "Barghest", a black hound of ill omen. She wears a black flgihtsuit and is an ill omen for anyone facing her. "Schwarz" also means black in German.
* MythicalMotifs: Suletta's motif is Cú Chulainn, the hero of the Ulster Cycle. Like Cú Chulainn (who's name means "Hound of Chulainn"), Suletta has an {{AnimalMotif|s}} of a hound, and [[spoiler:her second gundam, the Lugh, is named after Cú Chulainn's father/other incarnation]].
* NiceGirl: Suletta, as always, is endlessly kind and genuine, caring deeply about the happiness of everyone she loves. Sabina thinks this is her most dangerous trait; She is so sincere that everyone she talks to wants to be sincere as well.
* OocIsSeriousBusiness: Suletta is usually a sweet and forgiving ingénue. As such, her voicing her dislike of Shaddiq is ''very'' notable. [[spoiler:Her violently beating him close to death after learning that he's been keeping Elan's true nature from her even more so, showing that she is truly done with being kept in the dark]].
* RageBreakingPoint: Ericht [[spoiler:attacking and destroying the Peil HQ with everyone inside causes Suletta to finally snap and release all of her previous grievances like Prospera's ParentalFavouritism and Ericht's tendency to treat everything like a game. While Ericht tricks and defeats her in their ensuing duel, the AwfulTruth of Elan's true nature causes her to snap again and violently beat up Shaddiq for keeping it secret]].
* RedBaron: Barghest, though that is her official callsign. she's also known as the black hound of death.
* TranquilFury: After one too many instances of Shaddiq disrespecting her prefered name, Suletta calmly presses the head of her cane to his chest and implies that bad things will happen to him if he doesn't stop.
* TheUnfavorite: Like in the show, it's not hard to see which of her two daughters is Prospera's favourite. Suletta tries to be okay with it, but it grates on her and [[spoiler:is one of several grievances that leads to her and Ericht's confrontation]].
-->''Angry at her Mom for caring so little for her own wellbeing - caring so little for anything or anyone but Eri. For caring so little about'' her.
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[[folder:Guel Jeturk]]
Vice-president of the Benerit wing of the CAUL and close friend of the Mercury-Rembran couple. Despite being Spacian born and bred, Guel has witnessed the suffering caused by the Benerit Group's oppression of Earth first-hand, and is dedicated above all else to preserve lives.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: The show has no indicatino of Guel's sexuality beyond being attracted to women. Here, he is certainly bi, pan, or similar given his relationship with Shaddiq.
* AffluentAscetic: Guel, despite being vice president of a corporate union spanning the entire solar system, lives in a small apartment on the Asticassia campus. He had enough of giant cavernous mansions in his childhood.
* TheAtoner: After witnessing the exploitation of Earth firsthand, Guel works to preserve Earthian lives more than any other member of the CAUL, and is looking into stopping Jeturk's production of weapons of war.
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Guel suffers debilitating back pains, resulting from a mix of accumulated damage from mobile suit piloting, and guilt and trauma
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Guel is not Jeturk's CEO, but he still has influence over the company and he aims to be this, downscaling weapons manufacture and eventually phase it out entirely, and dedicating the company to worker welfare.
* NumberTwo: He is Miorine's vice-president, and supports her in her work to help Earth and Space alike.
* OnlyFriend: Shaddiq remarks that Guel is probably the only person in the solar system who's happy he's not hurt. Guel admits that it's true, though he brought it on himself.
* RealMenCook: Vim Jeturk was of the opinion that men should know their way around the kitchen as well as they do the bathroom, and passed those values on to Guel.
* SurvivalMantra: Guel has used "One foot, then the other. I can do this." to get himself through hard times ever since his brief stay on Earth.
* TranquilFury: With Lauda denying any blame for Seethia's death despite her dying in an attack he ordered, arguing that he was just giving orders and avenging his father's death, Guel goes cold from fury and recounts the events that led up to Vim's death at his hands.
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[[folder:Shaddiq Zenelli]]
The CAUL's secretary of corporate outreach and part of Miorine's inner circle. Despite his history and continued use of deceit and trickery, Shaddiq keeps his position by being too useful to discard, and too dangerous to not keep an eye on.
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* AndThenWhat: Shaddiq confides in Guel that he's worried he's been on his quest to help Earth for so long that he's forgotten the end, only thinking about the means. If he reaches his goal, he doesn't know if he'll know it.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Shaddiq may have wanted to save Earth once, but that goal is long gone, and by now he only plays lipservice to it while ordering attacks that kill thousands of Earthians.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Shaddiq claims that the reason he didn't ally with Prospera Mercury is that he remembers her attack on Quinharbour, right after [[spoiler:he ordered his own attack on Quinharbour for equally petty reasons]].
* MaliciousMisnaming: Shaddiq repeatedly calls Suletta "Mercury" instead of her married last name Rembran, as a way to insult her and take petty shots at her marriage, which he claims is just a slip of the tongue. Suletta eventually has had enough and threatens him with violence if he doesn't stop.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: When the CAUL are planning on launching an attack on greenhouses on Earth, Guel objects since people (Earthians) will die. Shaddiq, who is Earthian himself, argues that it's better that a few die rather than the millions that would die if the SAL got their way.
* NeverMyFault: Shaddiq seems chronically incapable of admitting that he fucked up, always acting like everything was part of the plan and he's on top of things even when he ''clearly'' isn't.
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[[folder:Secelia Dote & Rouji Chante]]
Representatives for the Burion company, as well as Miorine's Chief of Intelligence and Intelligence Administrator respectively. Secelia and Rouji are trusted members of Miorine's inner circle.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: The show has no indication of Rouji's sexuality any which way. Here, he is implied to be aromantic, asexual, or both, based on his mutterings that "allos" (allosexuals or alloromantics, people who experience sexual or romantic attraction) are weird.
* PlatonicLifePartners: There is apparently nothing between Secelia and Rouji beyond close friendship (especially given the indication that Rouji is aromantic), but they are still thick as thieves and as close as ever even two years after the show.
* TheReliableOne: Miorine notes that she can always trust Secelia to do what's best for Burion, and Rouji to follow Secelia's lead, making them the most trustworthy of her inner circle aside from Suletta.
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!!!Other
[[folder:Lauda Neill]]
Acting CEO of the Jeturk group, Guel Jeturk's brother. He does not share his brother's views on perserving lives.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Guel's character development sadly didn't pass on to Lauda, who still runs Jeturk the same exploitative, oppressive, militaristic way their father did.
* IHaveNoSon: Sibling example, but still. [[spoiler:Guel revealing that he killed Vim, his insistence that Jeturk stop manufacturing weapons used to oppress Earth, and his quiet accusation that Lauda killed ''children'' with an attack he ordered causes Lauda to leave, declaring "I don’t know what you are, but you’re not my brother."]]
* JackOfAllTrades: When they were kids, Guel, being the more physically inclined of the siblings, was pressured into focusing on piloting and physical endeavors by their father. Lauda, by contrast, studied a wide array of fields ranging from business to the classics to wine tasting.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lauda has sadly not improved much from the events of the show. He calls Chuchu, one of his fiance's best friends, "the Earthian" with notable venom, derides Suletta for losing her fight [[spoiler:with Ericht]], dismisses the civilian casualties of attacks he ordered - attacks Guel saw firsthand - completely, and thinks Guel is insane for wanting to cease weapons manufacturing because of his trauma from Earth.
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[[folder:Petra Itta]]
Lauda's fiance and Jeturk's liaison to the CAUL. Petra was a close friend of Chuchu and Felsi prior to their defection, having outgrown her prejudices.
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* BestFriend: As in the show, Felsi and Petra are close as can be. Unlike in the show, she's this to Chuchu as well, extending her friendship to her best friend's girlfriend. Surprisingly, they get along very well.
* OddFriendship: Despite having previously bullied her, Petra quickly became good friends with Chuchu when the latter started dating Felsi.
* TeensLoveShopping: She loves buying and trying on clothes with her friends, and even manages to get Chuchu to enjoy it with her.
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[[folder:The Valkyries]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Beguir-Dullahan (Henao), Beguir-Sidhe (Renee), Beguir-Dearg Du (Ireesha), Gundam Nemain
Shaddiq's Knights, a quintet of mobile suit pilots raised alongside him in the Grassley Orphanage and trained to be his agents and confidantes. After Sabina left them and killed Maisie in the process, the three remaining valkyries, Henao Jazz, Renee Costa, and Ireesha Plano have grown coldly dedicated to the cause of revenge.
!!!All three
* AceCustom: Their various Beguirs have unique properties and abilities and don't appear to be mass-produced.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Over the course of the second book it becomes steadily more apparent that the Valkyries are not fully under Shaddiq's control. Though their exact goals are so far unknown, they include [[spoiler:making Shaddiq pay for letting Maisie die due to his arrogance]].
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: They do a variant by [[spoiler:speaking in each others' voices while using the TAT]].
* HiveMind: [[spoiler:The Triune Associative Technology system developed by Grassley and tested on Henao, Ireesha, and Renee, while intended to grant combat telepathy and enable them to share the burden of piloting a gundam, functionally makes them a hivemind. While they all retain individual identities, their personalities start bleeding into each other, physically as they start talking with each others' mouths, and mentally as their memories and emotions start bleeding over]].
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Very much so, though in different ways; Ireesha only manages to go on after Maisie's death because of her fellow valkyries' support, Henao consider them the only ones who love and understand her despite her inability to express emotion, and Renee is deathly afraid of being alone and see them as the only ones who won't leave her.
* {{Polyamory}}: They have a ''very'' close relationship. Though the messed up {{Transhuman}} nature of their relationship makes it impossible to describe properly, they see each other as the most important people in their lives and will go to absurd lengths for each other.
* {{Revenge}}: The Valkyries are almost entirely motivated by a desire for revenge against Sabina, who killed Maisie. For this purpose, they inflict as much pain they can on both Sabina and the people around her. [[spoiler:They also blame Shaddiq for Maisie's death, but haven't made any moves against him yet]].
* ShadowArchetype: To Norea. Like her, they lost their LivingEmotionalCrutch and let anger and bloodthirst consume them afterward. However, while Norea was able to veer off that path and become a better person, the Valkyries haven't stop spiraling yet. Their [[spoiler:attack on Quinharbour]] evokes Norea's attack on Asticassia during ''End of Hope'', but this time with Norea in the role of defender.
* SpeakInUnison: While using the [[spoiler:TAT, the Valkyries speak not in unison, but through each others' bodies. Generally this takes the form of for instance Henao asking a question through Renee's mouth, and Renee answering through Henao's]].
* {{Synchronization}}: [[spoiler:Through the Triune Associative Technology system, or Thou Art That as Henao calls it, the Valkyries can share sensations, thoughts, impressions, and even bodies to a certain degree. The original intent of the system was so a Gundam pilot could "outsource" the painful effects of the GUND system to her co-pilots, but it ends up working more as a HiveMind]].
* {{Transhuman}}: [[spoiler:The TAT system are implants that turn the otherwise human valkyries into a HiveMind]].
* TrueCompanions: The Valkyries certainly have a very close relationship, seeing each other as their only family and willing to [[spoiler:give up their individuality to keep each other safe]]. Since Maisie's death and Sabina's defection, the remaining three have become even closer, to the point of codependency.
* TheWeirdSisters: They are a sci-fi take on this trope, being a trio of ominous {{Transhuman}}s. One scene in the first intermission is even framed as them performing a human sacrifice in a setting reminiscent of a witches' sabbath.
!!!Ireesha Plano
* CorruptTheCutie: Ireesha in the show was seen always looking sleepy and holding an oversized plushie. In the time since her partner's death, she has become cold and vengeful, with a lot of murderous anger directed at the people she holds responsible and a desire to make them suffer as she has suffered. Her mental state is also clearly deteriorating.
* HeroicSacrifice: Non-lethal variant. [[spoiler:While the TAT system is meant to have her partners suffer both the physical effects and the pain of the Datastorm, Ireesha elects to feel the pain herself, sparing the others from it]].
* TheLostLenore: Ireesha clearly didn't take the loss of Maisie well, having gone from TheCutie to a sharp and hard woman who's thin to the point of starvation. Over time it becomes steadily more apparent that her mental state is severely unraveling without her.
* NearDeathExperience: While [[spoiler:piloting the Nemain for the first time, Ireesha is fully submerged in the datastorm. While she's not dying, she sees a vision of what appears to be the afterlife, and even interracts with the souls of Maisie May and Naji Geor Hija]].
!!!Henao Jazz
* AllTheOtherReindeer: Henao was ostracized as a kid, even by her parents, because she never expressed emotion.
* NumberTwo: Henao has taken over as Shaddiq's second in command after Sabina defected. Miorine notes that she takes after Sabina to an almost disturbing degree, emulating her to the point of losing herself in the role.
* SharedDream: Henao somehow experiences one of Ireesha's dreams, a vivid flashback to a conversation only she and Maisie were present for.
* TheStoic: Henao emotes very little and keeps her emotions close to her chest. It turns out that this is not by choice but because she has an unspecified neurodivergence (possible Dysthymia) that makes it difficult for her to express emotions.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Henao, who has an unspecified neurodivergence, was told all her life that she should just be normal, to the point that the word "normal" is a TraumaButton for her, especially when said by someone she cares about like Renee.
!!!Renee Costa
* TheCasanova: Like in the show, Renee is still going through a steady line of boyfriends.
* FreudianExcuse: It's mentioned that Renee was abandoned by her parents as a child, left sick and alone in a ruined building. This informs her later pathological fear of being alone and need to be loved.
* HatesBeingAlone: Renee is pathologically afraid of being alone, which plays into why she is TheCasanova. [[spoiler:She fully embraces the TAT system for this reason, reveling in the feeling of being so closely connected to her loved ones, and seems to develop a kind of addiction to it, being uncomfortable when disconnected from it]].
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Renee Costa just wants someone who loves her and sees her as the most important person in the unvierse. Lilique ''did'' see her that way, but Renee's insecurities and jealousy ruined their relationship.
* LadykillerInLove: Renee has gone through a steady line of boyfriends, but it's obvious that she only has eyes for Lilique, and their relationship ended poorly.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Renee Costa and Lilique had a brief relationship, but it ended poorly. Renee still has feelings for her and wants to try again, but doesn't dare to talk to Lilique about it.
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[[folder:Rajan Zahi]]
Retired Dominicus commander, the former adjutant of Delling Rembran, and currently the unofficial go-between for the Benerit and SAL wings of the CAUL.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the show, Rajan is not a ''good'' person by far, but there's no indication that he's anything more or less than Delling's assistant with some genuine loyalty to him and his family. In the fic, [[spoiler:Rajan is a borderline fascist believer in the exploitative and cruel power structures that allow people like him and Delling to stay on top, and is ''far'' more dedicated to preserving those systems than Delling ever was, even killing him for not being up to his authoritarian standards. He also plans on killing Suletta because he thinks she's a bad influence on Miorine]].
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Rajan ''was'' deeply loyal to Delling, but when he feels that Delling has become too corrupted by love and sentiment to be an effective ruler, he kills him and lays plans for grooming his successor - and if she can't be convinced to follow in his footsteps, he might have to take up the mantle himself]].
* EvilUncle: [[spoiler:To Miorine, wanting to groom her into what he considers a worthy successor to her late father. Which in his eyes means a ruthless and fascist CorruptCorporateExecutive]].
* FamilyBusiness: Rajan's family have worked as adjutants to powerful people going back a ''very'' long time, never as rulers themselves, but as counselors, advisors, and chamberlains. Rajan being Delling's adjutant was simply continuing the family tradition.
* HonoraryUncle: He's not related to the Rembran family, but he worked very closely with Delling and Miorine calls him "Uncle Rajan."
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Rajan laments how good kings and rulers are always succeeded or usurped by inadequate inheritors. One of the examples he cites is the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius being succeeded by the incompetent tyrant Commodus. Soon after, he kills Delling and lays plans for taking over his empire. For added hypocricy, the manner in which he kills him (choking him to death while he's in bed) is very reminiscent of Commodus killing Marcus Aurelius in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'']].
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Rajan is a truly vile person for a lot of reasons, but a relatively minor case of petty cruelty on his part was killing Delling without answering his question if Miorine is alright, meaning that Delling died without ever knowing that his daughter is safe]].
* OldMoney: Guel offhandedly mentions the Zahis as a an example of this trope, alongside the Rembrans and the Zenellis. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that the Zahi family has been powerful since the time of the Habsburgs of the Holy Roman Empire]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Due to Rajan having a very small role in the story up until [[spoiler:TheReveal that he's the BigBad, it's hard to discuss him without revealing that]].
* VirtueIsWeakness: [[spoiler:Rajan believes that an ideal leader has to be dedicated to nothing except leading and preserving their empire, utterly cold and devoid of any sentimentality like love or empathy. When Delling's first words upon waking up from a coma is to ask about the safety of his daughter, rather than the state of his empire, Rajan considers him corrupted by sentiment and kills him]].
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!!Quiet Zero
The effort led by Prospera Mercury to ensure the survival of her oldest daughter.
[[folder:Ericht Samaya / "Aerial"]]
The Ghost Princess of Earth, and Suletta's older sister. Though her body is long dead, Ericht's consciousness lingers within the Gundam Aerial, and, through Quiet Zero, can manifest within any permet particles within Earth-sphere. Despite fighting on different sides, Ericht would rather just spend time with her sister.
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* BrainUploading: For still unknown reasons, the mind of Ericht Samaya was preserved in the Lfrith when she died.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Suletta's Abel, though really only in an official capacity. They really just want to hang out and be siblings, even when they have to fight. [[spoiler:Chapter 22 turns it into a more serious case of this trope, as their clashing ideals leads to a borderline murderous fight]].
* CombatPragmatist: Once it becomes obvious that Suletta [[spoiler:might be good enough to beat her in a fair fight, Ericht promises not to attack her while revealing the AwfulTruth, then uses her bit-staves to sever the Schwarzette's limbs while Suletta is distracted]].
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Ericht is already nigh-godlike, but the endgame of Prospera's plan would expand Quiet Zero's influence across the solar system, allowing her to appear in any place and control any technology she wants. [[AGodIAmNot Ericht herself worries about what this will mean for her humanity]].
* DumbJock: Ericht describes herself and Morrigan as big dumb jocks, admitting that she doesn't really understand how Quiet Zero understands and is mostly just there to hit things. That said she isn't really stupid, just not particularily interested in science or tech.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: More amoral than evil, but Ericht thinks that [[spoiler:Suletta's belief in the sanctity of ''all'' life, even awful people, is "incomprehensible"]].
* FriendlyEnemy: Technically she's Suletta's enemy, but in practice their fights are more like friendly sparring while keeping each other from curb-stomping any of the lesser combatants on each side.
* RedBaron: "The Ghost Princess of Earth", so called because she's a ghostly entity that can manifest and perform miracles across the entire globe.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Ericht [[spoiler:knows who Morrigan is, or was, but hasn't told her out of fear that Sophie would not want to be friends with her killer]].
* StopWorshippingMe: Some people on Earth has started worshipping Ericht as a deity, which she doesn't really like because she doesn't want to lose her humanity, but answers their prayers when she can. While she doesn't discourage them from growing into a cult, she does nothing to encourage them either.
* TheUnfettered: In chapter 36, [[spoiler:Eri declares that she will no longer hold anything back; Before she's tried to avoid hurting innocent people in the way of her targets, but the wealthy ghouls she's trying to kill learned from that and started telling their soldiers she wouldn't hurt her. Now, she will kill anyone in her way, and makes it clear that when the ghouls are ordering people to fight her, they are ordering them to die]].
* VirtualYouTuber: On Suletta's suggestion, Ericht has taken up streaming as a hobby, using a cartoon bunny as her vtuber avatar. [[spoiler:She uses that same streaming platform to livestream her destruction of the Peil facility to the world]].
* VirtualGhost: She's the mind of a young girl, preserved in permet particles that allow her to appear around and influence technology that runs on permet.
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[[folder:Prospera Mercury]]
The Witch of Quiet Zero, and Ericht and Suletta's mother. Dedicated to nothing more than the survival and happiness of her oldest daughter, Prospera will ally with anyone or commit any sin to accomplish that goal.
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* AffablyEvil: Her villainy is debatable, but Prospera is very friendly despite her horrifying reputation. Not only is she happy to engage in friendly conversation, but she casually uses affectionate nicknames and makes puns.
* DeathSeeker: Prospera is pushing herself to the point of multiple strokes and heart attacks, and refusing to take a break or let anyone else do things for her, to the point where Eri wonders if she wants to die.
* FictionalDisability: She has Spontaneous Permetic Growth in both her legs, a condition that causes permet to grow throughout the body, causing paralysis and chronic pain.
* RedBaron: Prospera is known as The Witch of Quiet Zero, Fleetbreaker, She of the Black Coffin, etc.
* SecondLove: Ericht thinks she and Notrette Rembran had a thing going on, having noticed how Prospera talks about Notrette the same way she talks about Nadim.
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!!Others
Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties are faked or temporary.
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
After her Gundam was destroyed in Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, Norea du Noc was captured and given to Peil Technologies as a gesture of good faith. Since then, she has been put to work piloting their Gundam Pharact, while secretly scheming with her partner to tear down Peil from within.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Downplayed since she's still human, but in canon Norea had no indication of being anything but baseline human. Here, she's an enhanced person like Elan.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Whenever she goes into combat, Norea takes a moment to analyze the opponent, taking note of their potential abilities, how many there are, what they can do, and how best to approach them.
* CharacterDevelopment: Norea has undergone a lot, going from the stoic-but-seethingly furious girl in the show who saw herself as nothing more than a weapon to kill Spacians, to a much livelier and snarky woman who wants to enjoy life and doesn't want to cause any undue suffering. [[spoiler:Before the fight with the Nemain, she realizes to her pleasant surprise that she really doesn't want anyone dead anymore]].
* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:In order to get someone who can bring messages between her and Nika without the SAL knowing, Miorine has Norea (officially a Jane Doe) declared dead in the fight with the Nemain]].
* TheDividual: Invoked. Since the Peil Grade AI has trouble distinguishing humans that look alike, Norea and Elan make a conscious attempt at looking and acting as close as possible to the original Elan.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Norea wears one of Elan's earrings. [[spoiler:It actually contains a data drive they use to smuggle information in and out of the facility]].
* HappilyAdopted: Downplayed. Naji ''wanted'' to adopted Norea and Sophie when they were children, but Norea refused, so angry at the world that she didn't want to be a child, but a soldier. That said, she still thinks of him on some level as her father [[spoiler:and Nika as her sister, especially after Naji's death]].
* TheHedonist: Norea has spent most of her life being TheStoic, denying herself even the smallest of life's pleasures unless Sophie dragged her into it. After Elan talked her out of suicide, she resolved to start living, enjoying every pleasure and temptation she can in gratitude to Sophie and Elan for giving her something worth living for.
-->''Why had it taken her so long to realize that life was lived in moments like these? That she was here to fuck around first and work second?''
* HeroicSacrifice: Defied. Norea always idealized the idea of dying heroically for her ideals, but since Sophie's death she has instead resolved to live and refuses to sacrifice anyone else. [[spoiler:Even when she nearly dies for Elan's sake, it's less a sacrifice and more a last stand]].
* LegacyCharacter: While she doesn't undergo any mental or physical changes like the others, Norea intentionally dresses and styles herself to look as close to the original Elan as possible, pilots the Pharact, and is an enhanced person, effectively making her the seventh Elan Ceres Enhanced Person.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: She and Elan can't go five minutes without insulting each other, but it's clear that they care about each other deeply.
* MaliciousMisnaming: To distinguish him from her Elan, Norea decides to call the original Elan Ceres "Nolan" specifically because he hates it.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Norea's first words to Nika, who's arm was broken by Sophie with Norea present years earlier, are "You broke your arm ''again?''" The mental Elan standing in for her conscience immediately admonishes her for it, and it's not made better when Nika explains that it's the same injury.
* RaisedInALab: Norea and Sophie spent their formative years in an Ochs Earth lab being modified into better gundam pilots. Norea's memories of it does not paint a pretty picture, and it led to her seeing herself as nothing but an emotionless SuperSoldier.
* {{Revenge}}: Norea is positively ecstatic at the chance to hunt down the Morrigan, since it was built from the wreck of her dead best friend's gundam. [[spoiler:Subverted when she actually gets the chance, as she decides to put her ideals before her revenge, and that Sophie would be happy with the Morrigan anyway]].
* SignificantHaircut: Norea has styled her hair to be as similar to the original Elan as possible, to fool Peil Grade. [[spoiler:After being entirely free from Peil's control, she cuts it short in a pixie cut]].
* SparedByAdaptation: Because the PointOfDivergence is just before the rampage that killed her in the canon timeline, Norea is still alive over a year after her canonical death in this continuity.
* TragicDream: A flashback showed that Norea and Sophie both wanted to see fireflies, which are extincto n earth and only exist in Spacian preserves and obviously out of reach for two Earthian terrorists. [[spoiler:When they finally reunite in chapter 38, it's in a garden at LAFF surrounded by fireflies]].
* {{Transhuman}}: Norea is a first-generation Enhanced Human, genetically and cybernetically modified from an early age to be more resistant to Datastorms so as to be a better Gundam pilot.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Flashbacks shows that as a result of being RaisedInALab and growing up surrounded by the devastation of Spacian war partitioning, Norea was a ''deeply'' troubled child, filled with so much hatred and anger that she ''wanted'' to be a ChildSoldier, and idealized dying in battle. When she overheard Naji talking about adopting her and Sophie, she outright refused because she would rather see herself as a machine who doesn't need a family.
* {{Tsundere}}:
** With Elan, she's way too snarky and traumatized to ever admit that she likes him. The two of them instead makes a game out of seeing how sincere they can get while pretending they don't care.
** She would also have you know that she does not see Naji as her father figure, thank you very much, even if she has a hard time not smiling when he expresses concern and care for her and calls him annoying in the same breath as she calls dads annoying.
* TheUnsmile: Norea's smile causes Elan to ask why she's making "that expression".
-->'''Norea:''' It's called a smile, dumbass.\\
'''Elan:''' Is that what that is? How alarming.
* VagueAge: Norea has no idea when she or Sophie were born, but she's probably around 18 to 20 when the fic starts.
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[[folder:Elan / "Enhanced Person #5" / "John Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
Norea's partner in crime, one of the Enhanced Persons used as body-doubles for the real Elan Ceres. Like his partner, Elan is scheming to bring down Peil as revenge for their many ''many'' crimes.
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* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:After the fight against the Nemain, Miorine has Elan (officially a John Doe) declared dead so he can work for her in an unofficial capacity]].
* TheDividual: Invoked. Since the Peil Grade AI has trouble distinguishing humans that look alike, Elan and Norea make a conscious attempt at looking and acting as close as possible to the original Elan.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Elan only wears one of his earrings, having given the other to Norea. [[spoiler:It actually contains a data drive they use to smuggle information in and out of the facility, along with a virus that knocks out the surveillance AI for a short while]].
* HypocriticalHumor: At one point Elan admonishes Norea for misnaming Nugen (as "Nougat"). He then immediately calls her "Nugget."
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Elan and Norea spend most of their time together bickering or shouting at each other, but in a way that clearly shows they love each other.
* QueerEstablishingMoment: In a quiet moment with Norea, Elan tells her that he had a name before becoming Elan but considers it a "dead name" and doesn't want to use it, implicitly coming out as trans.
* SecondLove: To Norea. After Sophie's death, she struggled with moving on for a long time, but eventually grew close with Elan.
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Elan managed to talk Norea down from killing herself during their first few days in Peil custody by telling her that he needed her help to kill every last Peil bastard.
* {{Transhuman}}: Elan is an Enhanced Human, someone who has been genetically and cybernetically modified to survive data storms.
* {{Tsundere}}: Because he has closed himself off from showing genuine sincerity for so long that he has a hard time doing it now, Elan prefers to show his concern by snarking and claiming he doesn't care. He and Norea make a game of it, seeing how far they can get without sincerely admitting that they care aobut each other.
* UnbrokenVigil: When Norea wakes up after a month-long coma, she finds Elan waiting by her bedside. When he realizes she's awake he scrambles over so fast that he falls out of his chair.
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[[folder:Yushura Mirzakhani]]
A childhood friend and former partner of Miorine Mercury, now the owner and leader of the neutral Langlands Autonomous Fairgrounds Front. Yushura is an eccentric sort, but dedicated to helping her friends and provide a place for rest, recuperation, and scheming.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Yushura left the Benerit Group with her company sometime at the onset of the Three Witches War, becoming a neutral party.
* EccentricMillionaire: She's the owner of at least one entire space colony, and her company was wealthy and influential enough to be part of the Benerit Group. She is also ''extremely'' eccentric, fond of theatrics and dramatic performances, and often makes absurdly elaborate plans just to have something happen as dramatically as possible.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She's implied to still carry a torch for Miorine, but is nothing but supportive of her and Suletta's relationship.
* OpposeWhatYouSuffered: Yushura, being disabled herself, has worked to make her amusement park-turned-sanctuary as accessible as possible. A currently wheelchair-using [[spoiler:Norea]] appreciates it greatly.
* TruceZone: She owns and operates one, the Langlands Autonomous Fairgrounds Front. An amusement park that doubles as refugee camp and sanctuary where people from all sides of the war are welcome to interact in peace and neutrality.
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[[folder:"Goodfellow"]]
A mysterious information broker active throughout the solar system, with connections to numerous major players.
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* MeaningfulName: The mysterious-but-benevolent Goodfellow takes their name from Robin Goodfellow, a benevolent house spirit in British folklore, better known as a [[Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream Puck]].
* MysteriousStranger: Nothing is known about Goodfellow, but they have repeatedly provided advice to characters and seems to oppose an equally mysterious black-clad faction. Their advice often consists only of the word "RUN" repeated over and over.
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!!Dawn of Fold
In the last year, the formerly minor terrorist group Dawn of Fold has grown into a nation in its own right, liberating Earth from the oppression of space.
!!!Inner Circle
[[folder:Shared Tropes]]
* FamilyOfChoice: The Morrigan considers anyone who makes her loved ones happy to be her family too, so Chuchu and Felsi are as much her family as Sabina and Nika, and so are Chuchu's dads by association.
* HappilyMarried: Nika and Sabina are married and love each other deeply. Chuchu and Felsi haven't tied the knot quite yet, but Felsi has said she wants to at some point.
* TheMostWanted: Due to being the leadership and inner circle of someone they view as a terrorist organization, the SAL have rather high bounties on the heads of all four of them, with Chuchu and Felsi getting a little extra for being defectors.
* OddFriendship: Between Felsi, the hot-blooded daughter of wealthy spacians, and Sabina, an IceQueen Earthian freedom fighter. Once Felsi defects, the two of them find themselves becoming best friends very quickly
* SecretHandshake: Felsi and Sabina develop one once the former defects to Dawn of Fold. They perform it with their mobile suits, and drag their reluctant partners into it.
* {{Synchronization}}: When they use the Morrigan's GUND format together, Nika and Sabina are so intermingled that they can barely tell where one ends and the other begins, and feel each others' pain and sensations. This seems to have been strongest the first time in the Lfrith-Ur, and lessened with time and as they perfected the Morrigan's systems.
* TrueCompanions: They slowly develop into this over the course of the second book, fighting together to protect Earth while spending their spare time laughing and joking with each other. Not to mention that all of them are helping Chuchu find her father.
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[[folder:Nika Geor Hija Nanaura-Fardin]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Morrigan
Captain of the Dawn of Fold, and secondary pilot of the Gundam Morrigan. In the year that has passed since her and Sabina's escape from Asticassia, Nika has become a skilled battlefield commander and hailed as the woman who turned the Dawn of Fold from a ragtag terrorist group into a nation.
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* TheAce: Nika is a skilled mechanic, technician, battlefield commander, logistician, and master of statecraft, which allowed her to forge scattered rebel cells into a nation.
* AdaptationalBadass: A minor case. In the show, Nika appears to be entirely a noncombatant, never using any kind of violence and being easily taken down by Sophie before she can even try to fight back. In ths fic, she ''has'' training in both hand-to-hand and shooting, she's just not any good at either.
* AdaptationalProtagonist: Nika, while not a minor character, is part of the supporting cast of the original anime. Whil ''The Morrigan'' is an ensemble story, she is by far one of the most important protagonists.
* BattleCouple: The Morrigan has both her and Sabina as pilots, meaning that they go into battle together, Sabina doing the fighting and Nika backing her up by keeping an eye on everything.
* BreakTheCutie: Nika in the show was an idealist who dreamed of uniting Earth and Space in peaceful cooperation. In the fic, the trauma of being kidnapped by Shaddiq, kept in a room with a woman that wanted to kill her, never being found by her friends at Earth House, the escape from Asticassia, and every event since has broken her to a very angry woman who is fully onboard with using violence and killing to fight for Earth. She still maintains her fundamental idealism, but is now much more willing to accept violent means to reach her goals.
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Nika suffers a FictionalDisability that renders her arm partially paralyzed unless she regularily files down the crystalline permet growths on it.
* FictionalDisability: Nika's silvered left arm is a condition known as Spontanteous Permetic Growth, causing permet crystals to grow across a person's body. Nika's condition is unusually benign, causing her partial paralysis but no pain. [[spoiler:This is because Morrigan has been protecting her from it, the same way Ericht can protect her pilots from the pain of permet burn]].
* GuyInBack: Effectively her role as the Morrigan's secondary pilot. She keeps track of and directs the flow of permet, analyzes the battlefield and develops strategies while Sabina fights, and keeps an eye on things in case she gets distracted.
* HappilyAdopted: Naji is not her biological father, but he raised her and adopted her as his official child, and despite knowing that he was a flawed human being, she has mostly fond memories of her childhood.
* HeelRealization: After her [[spoiler:father's death, Nika very nearly falls into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge until Chuchu begs her to not hurt Felsi or her squadron, causing her to realize that she's grown far more cold and authorative than even she realized or is comfortable with]].
* MythicalMotifs: Nika is associated with Nuada Airgetlám, the first king of the Tuatha de Dannan. Aside from their similar names, they are both good and beloved leaders, they both have an arm made of silver (''Airgetlám'' means Silver-hand, which is one of Nika's monikers), and they both fight an entity named Balor, though unlike Nuada, Nika survives the battle. Morrigan's sword, Fragarach, is also named after Nuada's sword.
* RedBaron: Nika has gained the nicknames "Architect", "Silverhand", and "Bluebird of Victory" for her ability to plan and manage the entirety of Dawn of Fold, and her permet-encrusted hand. She later adds "The Silver Fist," "The Dawnbringer," and "The Butcher of the NEAR Arcology."
* RedRightHand: Nika's entire left arm is covered in permet growths that react when she uses the Morrigan's permet scores. The exact cause is unclear, but it first happened when it got hurt during the escape from Asticassia, and the numbness and pain decreases when in contact with the Morrigan.
* TookALevelInBadass: In between the show and the fic, Nika has grown to be a ''much'' more dangerous and capable combatant (compared to the show where she wasn't a combatant at all), becoming a dangerous battlefield commander.
* WrenchWench: Nika is undoubtedly one of the best mechanics in the world, having among other things turned the broken and damaged Lfrith-Ur into the nigh-unbeatable Gundam Morrigan with nothing but scraps.
* YouAreinCommandNow: [[spoiler:Nika becomes the leader of the Dawn of Fold after Naji is killed in battle]].
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[[folder:Sabina Fardin-Nanaura]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Morrigan
Lieutenant of the Dawn of Fold, primary pilot of the Gundam Morrigan, and Nika's wife. Sabina has long since left behind her loyalty to Shaddiq, and is dedicated to fighting alongside her wife to liberate Earth from the yoke of space. In the meantime, she's working to overcome the training she received as a child to suppress her emotions.
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* AffectionateNickname: Felsi calls her "Bibi."
* BattleCouple: The Morrigan has both her and Nika as pilots, meaning that they go into battle together, Sabina doing the fighting and Nika backing her up by keeping an eye on everything.
* TheComicallySerious: Sabina is a very proper and serious person, which sometimes stands in humerous contrast to the people around her, especially [[{{Troll}} Felsi]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Amusingly averted. She and Norea try to deal with their mutual dislike by having a fistfight. It doesn't work nearly as well for them as it did for Felsi and Chuchu, and they still hate each other by the end of it.
* FallGuy: Because of the circumstances of their escape from Asticassia, and some choice wording on Shaddiq's part, Sabina, and to a lesser extent Nika, ended up taking the public blame for all of Shaddiq's schemes, including the Dawn of Fold attack on Plant Quetta and Asticassia.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Nika describes Sabina's confidence while singing as adorably misplaced.
* InsultOfEndearment: Sabina's nickname for Felsi is "Sissy", partly as a play on her name (Si-si), and part because she finds it delightful that Felsi gets riled up whenever she uses it.
* NeverMyFault: Sabina accuses Norea of having defected from the Dawn of Fold, conveniently ignoring the part where she and Nika blew up Norea's gundam and left her unconscious in the rubble while making their own escape. Norea and Nika both call her out on it, and Norea figures that she's probably projecting her own guilt over not having helped Nika earlier.
* NotSoStoic: Sabina generally keeps a very stoic face through any situation, including ColdBloodedTorture. She's far from emotionless however, and immediately lets herself go when she's in private with Nika. She's also a rather enthusiastic metal musician.
* NumberTwo: Sabina is Nika's second-in-command, the lieutenant to her captain. [[spoiler:Later she becomes the Captain to her General]].
* PsychologicalProjection: Sabina openly dislikes Norea, claiming that it's because Norea beat Nika nearly to death back on Asticassia. Norea points out that Sabina was in the room with them and took her sweet time before helping Nika, leading her to realize that Sabina is projecting her own guilt about the incident onto Norea. Sabina is not happy to be psychoanalyzed.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Sabina, as part of being TheStoic, tends to use a very precise and proper manner of speaking. She does occasionally slip up and swears, much to Nika's delight.
* TheStoic: Sabina was raised by Grassley to dissociate and be as cold and emotionless as possible. She is making an effort to unlearning it to be more open and genuine with Nika.
* SuperstitiousSailors: Gundam Pilots actually. Sabina, despite her serious and stoic demeanor, is actually quite superstitious, using rituals to ward off bad luck and being the first to believe that Morrigan is sapient.
* TortureTechnician: Sabina was trained in torture as part of becoming a Valkyrie, and retains the skills years after. Notably, unlike many torturers, she avoids doing anything that will cause permanent harm, relying mostly on the psychological aspect - fear of pain rather than pain itself. While Grassley taught her to dissociate while torturing someone to be more efficient, she elects not to, staying stoic in public but letting it affect her when in private.
* UndyingLoyalty: Sabina trusts Nika fully and entirely, to the point where she tells her that she would line up and shoot defenseless hostages if she asked her to. This is phrased less as an oath of dedication and more as a warning to not abuse that trust.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Sabina is very protective of Nika, and has it out for Norea for this reason, angry at her for having hurt Nika despite them having long since reconciled. [[spoiler:She's equally protective of the Morrigan, only allowing her wife and her best friend to touch her]].
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[[folder:Chuatury Panlunch / "Chuchu"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Demi-Barding, Demi-Balor
Commander of CAUL's Bilge Rat squadron, and an old friend of Nika. Nika's apparent betrayal hit Chuchu hard and led to a bitter reunion, but they eventually reconciled and Chuchu has taken her squadron to fight for Earth.
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* AceCustom: The Demi-Balor is a unique prototype, piloted only by Chuchu and Felsi as the commanding officers of the Bilge Rats.
* AnimalMotifs: Chuchu tends to be associated with rats; Small, ferocious, and fiercely protective of her young. She has a torso tattoo of a rat and her squadron is called the Bilge Rats. And like a rat, she flees the sinking ship that is CAUL.
* BadassNormal: Chuchu pilots a fairly normal AceCustom mobile suit and is not an enhanced person or Witch, but she (with Felsi's help) managed to fight the Gundam Morrigan to a standstill.
* BattleCouple: Chuchu and Felsi fight together in the Demi-Balor, with Chuchu piloting the main body and Felsi providing backup and support in the Baori pack.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Chuchu is torn between her trust and loyalty to Miorine, who she knows is doing her best to improve the CAUL, and her loyalty to her homeworld, which is being oppressed by CAUL. Eventually circumstances forced her hand and she chose her homeworld.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Chuchu defects from the CAUL between books 1 and 2. While she had harbored doubts and resentment towards the CAUL for a long time, it took being invited to join the Dawn of Fold by Nika directly, as well as not being able to return to the CAUL under threat of execution, for her to finally make the decision.
* DisappearedDad: Chuchu's Papa Nanami was working in space when Quiet Zero's blockade struck, and has been unable or unwilling to get back to Earth. [[spoiler:She eventually finds that he's working with a crime syndicate operating out of Fólkvangr that has been supplying Cathedra, but was kidnapped by a mysterious black-clad faction]].
* EyeLaser: The Demi-Balor has an array of lenses on its head that can fire powerful energy beams. Different lenses has better range, better coverage, and better penetration. It also has a series of lenses it can throw out to serve as reflective surfaces to bounce the beam off of.
* AMotherToHerMen: Chuchu refers to the Bilge Rat squadron as her pups, knows their names by heart and personally grieves every death, and cares deeply about their safety. SAL's disregard for their safety is part of the reason she transfers to Miorine's command and later defects.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Chuchu's Demi-Balor has pistons in its arms that enhance its punches, fitting with its very punchy pilots. They call the enhanced arms "The Dukes", while Felsi calls the Baori pack's arms "The Duchesses."
* TheMostWanted: Due to her defecting, the SAL have put a bounty on Chuchu's head almost as high as the one on Nika and Sabina.
* MoralityChain: To Nika. [[spoiler:After her father's death, Nika was all set to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge until she got to talk to Chuchu in private. Realizing that Chuchu was expecting Nika to execute her, and that she had actually genuinely considered the idea, makes her realize that she's heading down a dark path, and manages to turn back from it]].
* OddFriendship: Due to her dating Felsi, she ended up spending a fair amount of time with Petra, Felsi's best friend, and surprisingly found out that she actually enjoyed her company despite their checkered past.
* TakeMeInstead: When Chuchu realizes that [[spoiler:Nika might actually kill her]], she begs her to ''only'' hurt her, and spare Felsi and [[AMotherToHerMen her pups]].
* TeensLoveShopping: Chuchu, of all people, found herself enjoying trying on clothes that Petra bought for her birthday in a fashion show with them and Felsi, and has since greatly expanded her warderobe.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: After she and Felsi [[spoiler:hand over sensitive information to the Dawn of Fold, per Miorine's request, they can't return to the CAUL without being court martialed and likely executed. Nika instead offers them a place among the Dawn of Fold, which they take]].
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[[folder:Felsi Rollo]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Dilanza, Demi-Balor (Baori Pack)
Chuchu's girlfriend and second-in-command, piloting the Baori pack of her Demi-Balor. Though raised within the Spacian aristocracy, Felsi has since realized the depth of corruption and exploitation needed to maintain her family's empire, and is if anything even more dedicated to the Earthian cause than her partner.
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* AffectionateNickname: Chuchu calls her "Pineapple," a holdover from ''Put Up Your Dukes'' in reference to her hairstyle. Sabina calls her "Sissy", partly as a play on her name (Felsi calls her Bibi) and partially as an InsultOfEndearment.
* TheAtoner: Felsi is very aware that her family have played part in oppressing Earth, and tries to atone for it by learning everything she can about Spacian oppression and later defects to Dawn of Fold.
* BarehandedBladeBlock: During the fight with the Morrigan, Felsi stopped the Fragarach sword by catching it mid-swing and breaking it between her Baori pack's hands.
* BattleCouple: Felsi and Chuchu fight together in the Demi-Balor, with Chuchu piloting the main body and Felsi providing backup and support in the Baori pack.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: ''Put Up Your Dukes'' reveals that Felsi's loyalty to Guel was based on an event in their childhood, when he listened patiently to her concerns over being forced into an unhappy marriage and then prevented it by loudly chewing out her parents (insulting her in the process, but she was fine with it). The public embarassment resulted in Felsi being sent to Asticassia to get her out of her parents' sight, which she is infinitely grateful for.
* CategoryTraitor: A lot of Spacians prejudiced against Earthians see Felsi as a traitor to her kin because she's dating Chuchu and takes her side in arguments about Earthian oppression. Felsi, for her part, fully embraces and revels in it, and makes it official by joining the Dawn of Fold.
* CombatMedic: Or rather Combat Mechanic. Part of her role as the Baori Pack pilot is to perform emergency repairs on the Balor when needed. The Baori pack even has special kits for repairs, which Felsi calls the Ouch Pouch.
* DeadpanSnarker: Felsi is rather irreverent and not afraid of mouthing off to her superiors, as shown when she calls Sabina "Bibi" on a mission. When Sabina objects, Felsi rephrases it in a sarcastically deferential way. While still calling her "Bibi".
-->'''Felsi:''' Oh, sorry! Please, Captain Bibi, Ma’am. Explain it to me again, if it is your prerogative? I humbly do not understand the point your honor was trying to make.\\
'''[[TheComicallySerious Sabina]]''': Is she messing with me?
* DefectorFromDecadence: Felsi was ready to defect to the Dawn of Fold ''long'' before she actually did so, staying with the CAUL because Chuchu hadn't made up her mind yet. She eventually takes the initiative, surrendering herself and Chuchu to the Dawn of Fold and fully defecting soon after.
* GenreRefugee: The Felsi Rollo in this story is the same one as in ''Put Up Your Dukes'', a much less serious fic. As a result, she's essentially a character from a romantic comedy in a grim and gritty war drama. [[https://twitter.com/jerkus110/status/1701936710064468077 Jerkus has stated]] that they write Felsi to be one degree cartoonier than the rest of the cast, such as appearing out of thin air without rhyme or reason.
* KlingonPromotion: Non-violent example. During the [[spoiler:fight between the Balor and the Morrigan, Felsi knocks Chuchu out cold in order to take over command of the Bilge Rats and surrender without further bloodshed]].
* NumberTwo: Felsi is commander Chuchu's lieutenant, and supports her in both combat and as an advisor and supporter.
* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Felsi was aware from a young age that the Spacian system she grew up in was bad, but it was only once she grew close with Chuchu that she realized the extent of it. Thanks to some lessons and reading reccomendations from one of Chuchu's more politically inclined fathers, she's now firecely anti-capitalist and pro-Earth, even joining the Dawn of Fold.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness:
** Felsi has a tendency to launch into lengthy complicated rants about Spacian oppression thanks to having read a ''lot'' of books on the subject of economic inequality.
--->'''Felsi:''' And what constitutes ‘Earthian’ is an ever-shifting subject position based not on geography but on the-” ''Gets food shoved in her mouth by Petra.''
** In chapter 38, she goes on a ramble that includes the words "Blackguard" and "forthwith." Nika isn't sure if she's doing some kind of bit, or if that's just Felsi being Felsi.
* StealthHiBye: Played for laughs. Due to Chuchu's giant hairpuffs, she has two massive blindspots Felsi can use to sneak up on her and play harmless pranks, or appear out of thin air.
* WrenchWench: While not as good as Nika, Felsi took up engineering as an elective at Asticassia after hearing Chuchu complain about the specs of her Demi-Barding. She apparently took to the subject like a fish to water, to the point where she's the only mechanic other than Nika allowed to work on the Morrigan, and [[spoiler:Morrigan herself appreciates her thoroughness]].
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: After she and Chuchu [[spoiler:hand over sensitive information to the Dawn of Fold, per Miorine's request, they can't return to the CAUL without being court martialed and likely executed. Nika instead offers them a place among the Dawn of Fold, which they take]].
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[[folder:Gundam Morrigan '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
The titular Gundam, rebuilt from the broken Lfrith-Ur after it was damaged when Nika and Sabina stole it to escape Asticassia. Unlike most Gundams, the Morrigan requires two pilots, one to do the fighting and one to monitor its systems and control the flow of permet. In the year since escaping Asticassia, the Morrigan has become a symbol of hope and defiance for Earth.
Unbeknownst to anyone, the Morrigan is fully sapient, containing the mind of its previous pilot; Sophie Pulone.
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* AccidentalPervert: Morrigan tries her best to give Nika and Sabina privacy, but she can feel anything they feel, and they frequently have sex in her cockpit without knowing that she's sapient and can feel them. At least two cases resulted in the Morrigan spasming in pleasure in accordance with Nika. It becomes less accidental later, as Nika and Sabina embrace the idea of the Morrigan joining them.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapters 11 and 35 are told entirely from the perspective of Morrigan herself.
* AffectionateNickname: Ericht calls her "Momo."
* AnimalMotifs: The Morrigan Rebuild is painted in dark colours, wears a feathered cape (actually felchettes), has a cry reminiscent of a crow or raven, and is created from pieces salvaged from other mobile suits similar to a carrion bird feeding on the dead, all of it giving it a corvid motif. During the costume party, her pilot Sabina dresses as a raven familiar.
* ArtificialFamilyMember: Nika and Sabina refer to the Morrigan as part of their family, initially as a kid but as it becomes more apparent that the Morrigan has some kind of self-awareness, they start thinking of it as their lover instead. Morrigan for her part returns the sentiment in full.
* AttackDrone: Morrigan Rebuild's flechettes are actually bit-staves, but unlike the Aerial's Escutcheon, they have only enough tech and intelligence to pursue a target and return when called. Some of them secretly have hidden abilities, like the Silver Arrow that can be directed extremely precisely by Nika due to containing a piece of permet from her arm.
* BloodKnight: It ''is'' a giant weapon, after all. She actually carries this over from Sophie Pulone, who also enjoyed fighting. Not to mention that it is one of the few ways she gets to interract with the world around her.
* BoringButPractical: Compared to other Gundams, the Morrigan is actually fairly basic. It lacks bit staves or special abilities, favouring basic weapons that hit hard. This is because neither of its pilots are enanced to resist datastorms, so anything too fancy would likely kill them. She does get a few nifty tricks as the Morrigan Rebuild, however.
* BrainUploading: Somehow, the mind and personality of Sophie Pulone were preserved within the Lfrith-Ur the same way Eri's were in the Lfrith.
* CapedMecha: The Morrigan has a cape of iron chains. The Morrigan Rebuild gets a FashionableAsymmetry shoulder cape carrying flechettes.
* ChainPain: The Morrigan has a cape made from iron chains, each link larger than a human. It's used mostly to store weapons, but can be a weapon in the midst of battle.
* ConflictingLoyalties: A deeply tragic example. As a child, Sophie could have played with Nika and been adopted by Naji, getting the family she always wanted. However, Norea hated the idea of being anything other than a soldier, and especially resented the idea of getting along with Nika. As a result, Sophie had to chose between a family and her best friend. She chose Norea, but when she was alone cried about having lost any chance of ever having the family she desperately wanted.
* DivertingPower: The main difference between the Morrigan and other gundams, and why it requires two pilots. When it enters higher permet scores, rather than empowering the entire system, Nika directs permet to the parts that needs it, which reduces the strain on both pilots from deadly to simply painful.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Nika initially calls Morrigan "Kiddo." She stops after realizing both that Morrigan doesn't like it, and that it's rather awkward to call the being you've been having regular sex in (and with) "kiddo."
* EyeColorChange: Part of the rebuilding, the Lfrith-Ur had green eye-lenses, while the Morrigan has blue. Like Sophie.
* HatesBeingAlone: The Morrigan hates being "asleep" because it means being apart from Nika and Sabina, and completely alone. It gets a bit better after she meets Ericht and can talk to her (as long as they're near Quiet zero), but she still doesn't like being left alone.
* HellIsThatNoise: When the Morrigan uses it's water-based cooling system, it causes a sound that's usually described as banshee-like. [[spoiler:The Rebuild upgrades it to a crow-like cry, almost musical but still unsettling]]. It can even be used in space through radiowaves, and is loaded with so much junk data that it overloads systems and senses alike.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: Downplayed since she can't actually cry, but whenever [[spoiler:the Morrigan sees Sophie's grave it feels the need to]].
* TheLostLenore: Sophie is this to both Suletta and Norea. Suletta blames herself for her death and thinks of her as her would-be little sister, while Norea couldn't find cause to move on after her death, only saved from suicide by Elan convincing her to seek revenge instead.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: Following the second Quinharbour attack, and with input and advice from Prospera, the Morrigan is retrofitted and upgraded from its bulky and mishmash heavy-duty design to the much more sleek and agile Morrigan Rebuild, using Gundvölva parts salvaged from Ochs Earth. It also comes with some nifty new abilities, like using its sword to block beam weapons, a temporary cloak, and bit-staves in the form of guided flechettes.
* MundaneUtility: Similarily to Ericht in the show, Morrigan can cause permet burns on anyone piloting the Morrigan. Unlike Ericht, however, Sophie uses it for intimacy with Nika and Sabina, causing a very small and localized permet burn to imply touch across her lovers' skin.
* NamedWeapons: While all Gundam subsystems tend to have names, the Morrigan's sword in particular is named Fragarach.
* OminousWalk: The Morrigan takes its sweet time approaching a downed Demi-Barding in chapter 9.
* RaisedInALab: Sophie and Norea spent their formative years in an Ochs Earth lab being modified into better gundam pilots. The experience left them deeply codependent, and gave Sophie a desperate desire for a family only outweighed by her fear of losing Norea.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: In addition to her own name, which comes from the Celtic goddess of fate and war, the Morrigan's weapon subsystems are all named after things from Celtic mythology (with one exception); The sword is Fragarach, the sword of high king Nuada Airgetlám; It's beam vulcan wrist-shooters are Tathlum, after the slingstone of the god Lugh; and the the vampiric blades taken from Beguir-Dearg Du is Weregild, after an old judicial system in Scandinavia where the perpetrator of a murder could pay money equivelant to the dead person's value, to prevent blood feuds.
* RevenantZombie: Not literally, but when Belmeria sees the Gundam Morrigan she thinks that it resembles an undead revenant. Considering that it was built from the wreckage of Sophie Pulone's Lfrith Ur, she's half right.
* SchizoTech: InUniverse, the Morrigan is a super-advanced giant mech built using techniques over 200 years beyond the present, but it uses water as a cooling system. Assuming it wasn't just poetic writing, chapter 35 also describes its "clockwork heart".
* ShrinkingViolet: Surprisingly, Sophie was this as a child, hiding behind Norea when scared.
* SuperSmoke: Unlike most mobile suits, that use a permet cooling system, the Morrigan uses water for cooling, allowing it to operate at full efficiency within Quiet Zero's sphere of influence. Whenever it vents, it creates a thick blanket of superhot steam. Rebuild upgrades it to a black fog infused with permet functioning as a cloak.
* {{Synchronization}}: Morrigan can feel Nika's sensations through her permet-encrusted arm, especially when they're in physical contact. Such as when her and Sabina have sex in the cockpit.
* TragicDream: A flashback showed that Norea and Sophie both wanted to see fireflies, which are extinct on Earth and only exist in Spacian preserves and obviously out of reach for two Earthian terrorists. When they finally reunite in chapter 38, it's in a garden at LAFF surrounded by fireflies.
* {{Transhuman}}: The mind of a human being, accidentally uploaded into a gigantic robotic body. She was this prior to death too, a first-generation enhanced human modified from a young age to be more resistant towards datastorms.
* {{Troll}}: In ''Their Fond Pageant'', Morrigan freezes Nika's arm just as she finishes masturbating, resulting in Nika having her fingers stuck in a rather embarassing and obvious position.
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Gundam Morrigan, aka. Sophie Pulone.
* VirtualGhost: Sophie still "lives" as the personality in the Morrigan, though she can't communicate with anyone beyond implications.
* WalkingSpoiler: It is next to impossible to discuss her without revealing the fact that she is sapient and contains the mind of Sophie Pulone.
* WistfulAmnesia: Morrigan remembers being ''something'' before, but she doesn't remember ''what''. She has vague recollections of who and what's important to her, and her impressions of other people (she knows that she always liked Chuchu, and that she expected to dislike Felsi), but she doesn't know why she has those impressions. Seeing Norea is enough to temporarily break her out of it.
* WreckedWeapon: The Morrigan's sword, Fragarach, is broken [[spoiler:by Felsi in the battle with the Demi-Balor. The Morrigan Rebuild keeps it like that, but gives it a permet edge that enhances its abilities]].
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!!!Other
[[folder:Belmeria Winston]]
A scientist who worked on the original Gundam project under Ochs Earth, Belmeria was snatched up by the Dawn of Fold and appointed Chief Medical Officer by virtue of being the foremost expert on the GUND-system's effect on the human body.
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* TheAlcoholic: The entire fic opens on Belmeria getting drunk to deal with how awful her life is. She gets better.
* LetsGetDangerous: Belmeria is usually neurotic, nervous, apologetic, and doesn't strike a very intimidating figure. When she's in her element as a medical doctor, however, she's calm, professional, and even sarcastic and snarky at times.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Nika really doesn't like Belmeria considering her ''many'' crimes against humanity, but she is the foremost expert on permet's effects on the human body, and the only available person qualified to deal with Nika's arm.
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[[folder:Naji Geor Hija]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Desultor
The general and leader of Dawn of Fold, and Nika's father. Naji is a peaceful man at heart, a schoolteacher before he founded Dawn of Fold, but circumstances has forced him to become the leader of an army.
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:He is killed by Ireesha in chapter 15]].
* GoodParents: While acknowledging that he was a flawed human being, Nika has very fond memories of him and he's never shown to be anything but well-meaning with the children under his guardianship.
* HappilyAdopted: Naji adopted Nika as a child and cares about her deeply, and while she acknowledges him as a flawed man, she has mostly fond memories of her upbringing. When Sohie and Norea were delivered to him to be Gundam pilots, he at first wanted to ignore the agreement with Ochs Earth and adopt them as his own.
* ParentsAsPeople: Naji tries his best, but the circumstances often forced his hands in the worst ways possible.
** He did his best to give Nika a happy childhood divorced from the war going on around him, but the fact that he's the head of a militaristic rebel group meant that whether they wanted it or not, Nika would be embroiled in war and conflict from an early age, and became a child soldier as a result.
** When Ochs Earth gave him two child witches and told him to use them as soldiers, he wanted to take them in and adopt them, but as Olcott points out, doing so would ruin their relationship with their most powerful ally, not to mention that Norea ''wanted'' to be a child soldier, having been raised in so gruesome enviroments that she couldn't imagine wanting anything else, and Sophie followed her lead. As a result, Naji felt he had little other choice than to use them as soldiers, leading to both of them being deeply traumatized and maladjusted, not to mention Sophie dying.
* SkewedPriorities: When he sees Norea again for the first time in several years, in the middle of a battlefield while a city burns around them, Naji's first reaction is to ask if she has eaten well.
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!!The Colonial Allied Unification League (CAUL)
A joint alliance of the Space Assembly League and Benerit Group in response to Prospera Mercury and Quiet Zero.
!!!Inner Circle
[[folder:Miorine Mercury]]
President of the Benerit wing of the CAUL and wife of its top pilot, Suletta Rembran. Miorine is caught to her neck in political games, working for an end to the war favorable to all parties despite factions within both the Benerit Group and the SAL wanting her gone.
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* AffectionateNickname: Miorine's mother used to call her "bug" or "ladybug". Suletta calls her "mio-mio" sometimes.
* AlliterativeName: Her married name, '''M'''iorine '''M'''ercury.
* BatmanGambit: Miorine pulls of a rather impressive ''nested'' one to stop the Space Assembly League from using their WaveMotionGun on Quiet Zero. Through Chuchu and Felsi, she [[spoiler:provides the Dawn of Fold with evidence that the SAL are planning on doing it, treating the potential destruction of Earth as a beneficial consequence. As Miorine expected, Nika releases these documents to the public, and Miorine immediately condemsn them as fraudulent lies and fabrications, declaring that the Space Assembly League would never do something so heinous. Again as she expected, the SAL immediately put their plans on hold, or they'd lose any and all support they may have had]].
* TheChessmaster: Miorine is a schemer who has a lot of balls in the air at any point, largely successfully planning and arranging events in ways that ultimately fall in ways that she considers favorable. As a heroic character, she uses this skill to save as many lives as possible.
* GenerationXerox: In a flashback, Miorine realizes that her treatment of Suletta during their breakup was not so different from how Delling treated her; Ignoring her agency, making decisions on her behalf, and refusing to explain or give a reason, all supposedly for her sake. There are several other instances where she acts more like her father's daughter than she'd like to think.
* HappilyMarried: Despite some struggles prior to the marriage, and the wartime they live in, Miorine and Suletta were married soon after the onset of the war, and love each other deeply.
* InternalReformist: Despite knowing how corrupt and rotten the SAL and Benerit Group are, Miorine firmly believes that they can be changed for the better through reforms and replacing the old guard with more qualified new blood. This puts her at odds with the Dawn of Fold leadership, who believe that the whole thing is rotten and needs to be pulled up by the root.
* LaughingMad: After [[spoiler:she killed her first person]], Miorine collapses into maddened giggles due to her shock.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Suletta and Miorine resolved this by taking each others' names, making her Miorine Mercury.
* RageBreakingPoint: When Miorine returns to Asticassia to find [[spoiler:the Valkyries trying to kill Elan and Norea, she furiously threatens to have them executed if they don't stand down. While the Valkyries would consider this an empty threat from Shaddiq, they know better than to ignore a threat like that from Miorine]].
* TranquilFury: When Miorine ''doesn't'' shout in anger, that's when you know she's ''really'' angry.
* XanatosGambit: Miorine uses one during her meeting with [[spoiler:Nika. While she fails her main goal, to ally with her, she does manage to gain a lot of intel about the Dawn of Fold's alliance with Quiet Zero and start rebuilding their friendship]].
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[[folder:Suletta Rembran / "Barghest"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Schwarzette, Gundam Lugh
Wing Commander for the CAUL, Miorine's wife, and Ericht Samaya's sister. Despite fighting on the frontlines as the CAUL's uncontested best pilot, Suletta has maintained her cheerful and kind nature, wanting nothing more than for the war to end so she can be with her friends and family again.
Suletta pilots the Gundam Schwarzette, the CAUL's only gundam, on loan from Jeturk Heavy Machinery. Her callsign is Barghest.
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* AcePilot: Suletta has always been this, but several characters throughout the fic bring up that she's a ''monster'' to face in combat. When she claims that she could beat someone, it's less a case of her being arrogant and more a statement of a matter of fact. [[spoiler:Even Ericht, who ''is'' a Gundam, isn't sure if she could beat Suletta in a fair fight, and has to resort to dirty tricks]].
* AmazonianBeauty: Over the timeskip at the end of book 2, Suletta bulks up from the muscular-but-gangly she was before to a sheer amazon. Norea, after [[EatingTheEyeCandy paying very close attention to the movement of her muscle]], remarks that she looks like she could fold a mobile suit up like tissue paper. During the costume party, one guest thought her muscles where part of the costume.
* AnimalMotifs: Hounds. Suletta is derogatorily thought of as Miorine's attack dog by many within the CAUL, who only does what her mistress tells her. She uses a cane with a handle shaped like a dog's head to navigate despite her blindness, her callsign is from a folkloric black hound of ill omen, and during the costume party in the second book she's dressed as a wolf knight. Suletta embraces the motif, but is frustrated at being dehumanized.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Suletta's callsign, "Barghest", was meant as an insult from Lauda, effectively calling her a dog. She likes it though, and happily embraces the animal motif.
* BeneathNotice: Suletta's veil makes her blind and robs her of individuality by hiding her face. The silver lining of this is that people tend to forget that she's there and that there is nothing wrong with her ''hearing'', resulting in her overhearing a lot of private conversations.
* BerserkButton: Referring to her by her maiden name instead of Rembran gets on her nerves, and is one of the few things that actually gets her to directly ''dislike'' someone.
* BloodKnight: Suletta likes fighting, as long as no one gets actually hurt. She mentions at one point that she's been watching videos of Sabina piloting the Morrigan and is ''really'' excited about getting to fight her. [[spoiler:When she gets the chance to talk to Sabina at the end of book two, she intentionally provokes her to anger in the hopes of getting a duel]].
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Ericht's Cain, though really only in an official capacity. They really just want to hang out and be siblings, even when they have to fight. [[spoiler:Chapter 22 turns it into a more serious case of this trope, as their clashing ideals leads to a borderline murderous fight]].
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Downplayed. Suletta isn't actually disabled, but she has to wear a black veil that hides her face and makes her effectively blind. She uses a white cane to navigate.
* TheDreaded: Suletta, despite being a NiceGirl, is also ''deeply'' terrifying, often without even realizing it. Her appearance as a black-clad pilot silently standing behind her wife, with a black veil hiding her face is intimidating enough, but there's also the fact that she's the best mobile suit pilot in the world and anyone who fights her faces a ''very'' quick defeat. Her enemies know her as the Black Hound of Death.
* TheFaceless: InUniverse. Suletta has a Veil, a sort of holographic projection that displays a dense mesh of junk data in front of her face at all times which hides her face behind a black veil. Unlike other examples of the trope, she can't see out through it either, rendering her effectively blind. [[spoiler:She discards it after her fight with Ericht, having had enough of being kept in the dark]].
* HappilyMarried: Despite some struggles prior to the marriage, and the wartime they live in, Suletta and Miorine were married soon after the onset of the war, and love each other deeply.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When they have a chance to chat, [[spoiler:Sabina remarks that it's a shame she and Suletta never had a chance to have a proper duel. Suletta responds that she thought they did, during the [[Recap/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercuryEpisode13EnvoysFromTheEarth serial duel after Plant Quetta]], unintentionally implying that Sabina is a poor enough pilot that she could be lumped in with that sorry lot. She later admits that this was actually a StealthInsult, as she was trying to goad Sabina into a duel]].
* ItsAllMyFault: Maybe not ''all'', but Suletta insists on taking at least part of the blame for Sophie's death, even though Ericht freely admits to having killed her.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Suletta and Miorine resolved this by taking each others' names, making her Suletta Rembran.
* MeaningfulName: Suletta's callsign while piloting the Schwarzette is "Barghest", a black hound of ill omen. She wears a black flgihtsuit and is an ill omen for anyone facing her. "Schwarz" also means black in German.
* MythicalMotifs: Suletta's motif is Cú Chulainn, the hero of the Ulster Cycle. Like Cú Chulainn (who's name means "Hound of Chulainn"), Suletta has an {{AnimalMotif|s}} of a hound, and [[spoiler:her second gundam, the Lugh, is named after Cú Chulainn's father/other incarnation]].
* NiceGirl: Suletta, as always, is endlessly kind and genuine, caring deeply about the happiness of everyone she loves. Sabina thinks this is her most dangerous trait; She is so sincere that everyone she talks to wants to be sincere as well.
* OocIsSeriousBusiness: Suletta is usually a sweet and forgiving ingénue. As such, her voicing her dislike of Shaddiq is ''very'' notable. [[spoiler:Her violently beating him close to death after learning that he's been keeping Elan's true nature from her even more so, showing that she is truly done with being kept in the dark]].
* RageBreakingPoint: Ericht [[spoiler:attacking and destroying the Peil HQ with everyone inside causes Suletta to finally snap and release all of her previous grievances like Prospera's ParentalFavouritism and Ericht's tendency to treat everything like a game. While Ericht tricks and defeats her in their ensuing duel, the AwfulTruth of Elan's true nature causes her to snap again and violently beat up Shaddiq for keeping it secret]].
* RedBaron: Barghest, though that is her official callsign. she's also known as the black hound of death.
* TranquilFury: After one too many instances of Shaddiq disrespecting her prefered name, Suletta calmly presses the head of her cane to his chest and implies that bad things will happen to him if he doesn't stop.
* TheUnfavorite: Like in the show, it's not hard to see which of her two daughters is Prospera's favourite. Suletta tries to be okay with it, but it grates on her and [[spoiler:is one of several grievances that leads to her and Ericht's confrontation]].
-->''Angry at her Mom for caring so little for her own wellbeing - caring so little for anything or anyone but Eri. For caring so little about'' her.
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[[folder:Guel Jeturk]]
Vice-president of the Benerit wing of the CAUL and close friend of the Mercury-Rembran couple. Despite being Spacian born and bred, Guel has witnessed the suffering caused by the Benerit Group's oppression of Earth first-hand, and is dedicated above all else to preserve lives.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: The show has no indicatino of Guel's sexuality beyond being attracted to women. Here, he is certainly bi, pan, or similar given his relationship with Shaddiq.
* AffluentAscetic: Guel, despite being vice president of a corporate union spanning the entire solar system, lives in a small apartment on the Asticassia campus. He had enough of giant cavernous mansions in his childhood.
* TheAtoner: After witnessing the exploitation of Earth firsthand, Guel works to preserve Earthian lives more than any other member of the CAUL, and is looking into stopping Jeturk's production of weapons of war.
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Guel suffers debilitating back pains, resulting from a mix of accumulated damage from mobile suit piloting, and guilt and trauma
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Guel is not Jeturk's CEO, but he still has influence over the company and he aims to be this, downscaling weapons manufacture and eventually phase it out entirely, and dedicating the company to worker welfare.
* NumberTwo: He is Miorine's vice-president, and supports her in her work to help Earth and Space alike.
* OnlyFriend: Shaddiq remarks that Guel is probably the only person in the solar system who's happy he's not hurt. Guel admits that it's true, though he brought it on himself.
* RealMenCook: Vim Jeturk was of the opinion that men should know their way around the kitchen as well as they do the bathroom, and passed those values on to Guel.
* SurvivalMantra: Guel has used "One foot, then the other. I can do this." to get himself through hard times ever since his brief stay on Earth.
* TranquilFury: With Lauda denying any blame for Seethia's death despite her dying in an attack he ordered, arguing that he was just giving orders and avenging his father's death, Guel goes cold from fury and recounts the events that led up to Vim's death at his hands.
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[[folder:Shaddiq Zenelli]]
The CAUL's secretary of corporate outreach and part of Miorine's inner circle. Despite his history and continued use of deceit and trickery, Shaddiq keeps his position by being too useful to discard, and too dangerous to not keep an eye on.
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* AndThenWhat: Shaddiq confides in Guel that he's worried he's been on his quest to help Earth for so long that he's forgotten the end, only thinking about the means. If he reaches his goal, he doesn't know if he'll know it.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Shaddiq may have wanted to save Earth once, but that goal is long gone, and by now he only plays lipservice to it while ordering attacks that kill thousands of Earthians.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Shaddiq claims that the reason he didn't ally with Prospera Mercury is that he remembers her attack on Quinharbour, right after [[spoiler:he ordered his own attack on Quinharbour for equally petty reasons]].
* MaliciousMisnaming: Shaddiq repeatedly calls Suletta "Mercury" instead of her married last name Rembran, as a way to insult her and take petty shots at her marriage, which he claims is just a slip of the tongue. Suletta eventually has had enough and threatens him with violence if he doesn't stop.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: When the CAUL are planning on launching an attack on greenhouses on Earth, Guel objects since people (Earthians) will die. Shaddiq, who is Earthian himself, argues that it's better that a few die rather than the millions that would die if the SAL got their way.
* NeverMyFault: Shaddiq seems chronically incapable of admitting that he fucked up, always acting like everything was part of the plan and he's on top of things even when he ''clearly'' isn't.
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[[folder:Secelia Dote & Rouji Chante]]
Representatives for the Burion company, as well as Miorine's Chief of Intelligence and Intelligence Administrator respectively. Secelia and Rouji are trusted members of Miorine's inner circle.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: The show has no indication of Rouji's sexuality any which way. Here, he is implied to be aromantic, asexual, or both, based on his mutterings that "allos" (allosexuals or alloromantics, people who experience sexual or romantic attraction) are weird.
* PlatonicLifePartners: There is apparently nothing between Secelia and Rouji beyond close friendship (especially given the indication that Rouji is aromantic), but they are still thick as thieves and as close as ever even two years after the show.
* TheReliableOne: Miorine notes that she can always trust Secelia to do what's best for Burion, and Rouji to follow Secelia's lead, making them the most trustworthy of her inner circle aside from Suletta.
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!!!Other
[[folder:Lauda Neill]]
Acting CEO of the Jeturk group, Guel Jeturk's brother. He does not share his brother's views on perserving lives.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Guel's character development sadly didn't pass on to Lauda, who still runs Jeturk the same exploitative, oppressive, militaristic way their father did.
* IHaveNoSon: Sibling example, but still. [[spoiler:Guel revealing that he killed Vim, his insistence that Jeturk stop manufacturing weapons used to oppress Earth, and his quiet accusation that Lauda killed ''children'' with an attack he ordered causes Lauda to leave, declaring "I don’t know what you are, but you’re not my brother."]]
* JackOfAllTrades: When they were kids, Guel, being the more physically inclined of the siblings, was pressured into focusing on piloting and physical endeavors by their father. Lauda, by contrast, studied a wide array of fields ranging from business to the classics to wine tasting.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lauda has sadly not improved much from the events of the show. He calls Chuchu, one of his fiance's best friends, "the Earthian" with notable venom, derides Suletta for losing her fight [[spoiler:with Ericht]], dismisses the civilian casualties of attacks he ordered - attacks Guel saw firsthand - completely, and thinks Guel is insane for wanting to cease weapons manufacturing because of his trauma from Earth.
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[[folder:Petra Itta]]
Lauda's fiance and Jeturk's liaison to the CAUL. Petra was a close friend of Chuchu and Felsi prior to their defection, having outgrown her prejudices.
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* BestFriend: As in the show, Felsi and Petra are close as can be. Unlike in the show, she's this to Chuchu as well, extending her friendship to her best friend's girlfriend. Surprisingly, they get along very well.
* OddFriendship: Despite having previously bullied her, Petra quickly became good friends with Chuchu when the latter started dating Felsi.
* TeensLoveShopping: She loves buying and trying on clothes with her friends, and even manages to get Chuchu to enjoy it with her.
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[[folder:The Valkyries]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Beguir-Dullahan (Henao), Beguir-Sidhe (Renee), Beguir-Dearg Du (Ireesha), Gundam Nemain
Shaddiq's Knights, a quintet of mobile suit pilots raised alongside him in the Grassley Orphanage and trained to be his agents and confidantes. After Sabina left them and killed Maisie in the process, the three remaining valkyries, Henao Jazz, Renee Costa, and Ireesha Plano have grown coldly dedicated to the cause of revenge.
!!!All three
* AceCustom: Their various Beguirs have unique properties and abilities and don't appear to be mass-produced.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Over the course of the second book it becomes steadily more apparent that the Valkyries are not fully under Shaddiq's control. Though their exact goals are so far unknown, they include [[spoiler:making Shaddiq pay for letting Maisie die due to his arrogance]].
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: They do a variant by [[spoiler:speaking in each others' voices while using the TAT]].
* HiveMind: [[spoiler:The Triune Associative Technology system developed by Grassley and tested on Henao, Ireesha, and Renee, while intended to grant combat telepathy and enable them to share the burden of piloting a gundam, functionally makes them a hivemind. While they all retain individual identities, their personalities start bleeding into each other, physically as they start talking with each others' mouths, and mentally as their memories and emotions start bleeding over]].
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Very much so, though in different ways; Ireesha only manages to go on after Maisie's death because of her fellow valkyries' support, Henao consider them the only ones who love and understand her despite her inability to express emotion, and Renee is deathly afraid of being alone and see them as the only ones who won't leave her.
* {{Polyamory}}: They have a ''very'' close relationship. Though the messed up {{Transhuman}} nature of their relationship makes it impossible to describe properly, they see each other as the most important people in their lives and will go to absurd lengths for each other.
* {{Revenge}}: The Valkyries are almost entirely motivated by a desire for revenge against Sabina, who killed Maisie. For this purpose, they inflict as much pain they can on both Sabina and the people around her. [[spoiler:They also blame Shaddiq for Maisie's death, but haven't made any moves against him yet]].
* ShadowArchetype: To Norea. Like her, they lost their LivingEmotionalCrutch and let anger and bloodthirst consume them afterward. However, while Norea was able to veer off that path and become a better person, the Valkyries haven't stop spiraling yet. Their [[spoiler:attack on Quinharbour]] evokes Norea's attack on Asticassia during ''End of Hope'', but this time with Norea in the role of defender.
* SpeakInUnison: While using the [[spoiler:TAT, the Valkyries speak not in unison, but through each others' bodies. Generally this takes the form of for instance Henao asking a question through Renee's mouth, and Renee answering through Henao's]].
* {{Synchronization}}: [[spoiler:Through the Triune Associative Technology system, or Thou Art That as Henao calls it, the Valkyries can share sensations, thoughts, impressions, and even bodies to a certain degree. The original intent of the system was so a Gundam pilot could "outsource" the painful effects of the GUND system to her co-pilots, but it ends up working more as a HiveMind]].
* {{Transhuman}}: [[spoiler:The TAT system are implants that turn the otherwise human valkyries into a HiveMind]].
* TrueCompanions: The Valkyries certainly have a very close relationship, seeing each other as their only family and willing to [[spoiler:give up their individuality to keep each other safe]]. Since Maisie's death and Sabina's defection, the remaining three have become even closer, to the point of codependency.
* TheWeirdSisters: They are a sci-fi take on this trope, being a trio of ominous {{Transhuman}}s. One scene in the first intermission is even framed as them performing a human sacrifice in a setting reminiscent of a witches' sabbath.
!!!Ireesha Plano
* CorruptTheCutie: Ireesha in the show was seen always looking sleepy and holding an oversized plushie. In the time since her partner's death, she has become cold and vengeful, with a lot of murderous anger directed at the people she holds responsible and a desire to make them suffer as she has suffered. Her mental state is also clearly deteriorating.
* HeroicSacrifice: Non-lethal variant. [[spoiler:While the TAT system is meant to have her partners suffer both the physical effects and the pain of the Datastorm, Ireesha elects to feel the pain herself, sparing the others from it]].
* TheLostLenore: Ireesha clearly didn't take the loss of Maisie well, having gone from TheCutie to a sharp and hard woman who's thin to the point of starvation. Over time it becomes steadily more apparent that her mental state is severely unraveling without her.
* NearDeathExperience: While [[spoiler:piloting the Nemain for the first time, Ireesha is fully submerged in the datastorm. While she's not dying, she sees a vision of what appears to be the afterlife, and even interracts with the souls of Maisie May and Naji Geor Hija]].
!!!Henao Jazz
* AllTheOtherReindeer: Henao was ostracized as a kid, even by her parents, because she never expressed emotion.
* NumberTwo: Henao has taken over as Shaddiq's second in command after Sabina defected. Miorine notes that she takes after Sabina to an almost disturbing degree, emulating her to the point of losing herself in the role.
* SharedDream: Henao somehow experiences one of Ireesha's dreams, a vivid flashback to a conversation only she and Maisie were present for.
* TheStoic: Henao emotes very little and keeps her emotions close to her chest. It turns out that this is not by choice but because she has an unspecified neurodivergence (possible Dysthymia) that makes it difficult for her to express emotions.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Henao, who has an unspecified neurodivergence, was told all her life that she should just be normal, to the point that the word "normal" is a TraumaButton for her, especially when said by someone she cares about like Renee.
!!!Renee Costa
* TheCasanova: Like in the show, Renee is still going through a steady line of boyfriends.
* FreudianExcuse: It's mentioned that Renee was abandoned by her parents as a child, left sick and alone in a ruined building. This informs her later pathological fear of being alone and need to be loved.
* HatesBeingAlone: Renee is pathologically afraid of being alone, which plays into why she is TheCasanova. [[spoiler:She fully embraces the TAT system for this reason, reveling in the feeling of being so closely connected to her loved ones, and seems to develop a kind of addiction to it, being uncomfortable when disconnected from it]].
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Renee Costa just wants someone who loves her and sees her as the most important person in the unvierse. Lilique ''did'' see her that way, but Renee's insecurities and jealousy ruined their relationship.
* LadykillerInLove: Renee has gone through a steady line of boyfriends, but it's obvious that she only has eyes for Lilique, and their relationship ended poorly.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Renee Costa and Lilique had a brief relationship, but it ended poorly. Renee still has feelings for her and wants to try again, but doesn't dare to talk to Lilique about it.
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[[folder:Rajan Zahi]]
Retired Dominicus commander, the former adjutant of Delling Rembran, and currently the unofficial go-between for the Benerit and SAL wings of the CAUL.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the show, Rajan is not a ''good'' person by far, but there's no indication that he's anything more or less than Delling's assistant with some genuine loyalty to him and his family. In the fic, [[spoiler:Rajan is a borderline fascist believer in the exploitative and cruel power structures that allow people like him and Delling to stay on top, and is ''far'' more dedicated to preserving those systems than Delling ever was, even killing him for not being up to his authoritarian standards. He also plans on killing Suletta because he thinks she's a bad influence on Miorine]].
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Rajan ''was'' deeply loyal to Delling, but when he feels that Delling has become too corrupted by love and sentiment to be an effective ruler, he kills him and lays plans for grooming his successor - and if she can't be convinced to follow in his footsteps, he might have to take up the mantle himself]].
* EvilUncle: [[spoiler:To Miorine, wanting to groom her into what he considers a worthy successor to her late father. Which in his eyes means a ruthless and fascist CorruptCorporateExecutive]].
* FamilyBusiness: Rajan's family have worked as adjutants to powerful people going back a ''very'' long time, never as rulers themselves, but as counselors, advisors, and chamberlains. Rajan being Delling's adjutant was simply continuing the family tradition.
* HonoraryUncle: He's not related to the Rembran family, but he worked very closely with Delling and Miorine calls him "Uncle Rajan."
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Rajan laments how good kings and rulers are always succeeded or usurped by inadequate inheritors. One of the examples he cites is the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius being succeeded by the incompetent tyrant Commodus. Soon after, he kills Delling and lays plans for taking over his empire. For added hypocricy, the manner in which he kills him (choking him to death while he's in bed) is very reminiscent of Commodus killing Marcus Aurelius in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'']].
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Rajan is a truly vile person for a lot of reasons, but a relatively minor case of petty cruelty on his part was killing Delling without answering his question if Miorine is alright, meaning that Delling died without ever knowing that his daughter is safe]].
* OldMoney: Guel offhandedly mentions the Zahis as a an example of this trope, alongside the Rembrans and the Zenellis. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that the Zahi family has been powerful since the time of the Habsburgs of the Holy Roman Empire]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Due to Rajan having a very small role in the story up until [[spoiler:TheReveal that he's the BigBad, it's hard to discuss him without revealing that]].
* VirtueIsWeakness: [[spoiler:Rajan believes that an ideal leader has to be dedicated to nothing except leading and preserving their empire, utterly cold and devoid of any sentimentality like love or empathy. When Delling's first words upon waking up from a coma is to ask about the safety of his daughter, rather than the state of his empire, Rajan considers him corrupted by sentiment and kills him]].
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!!Quiet Zero
The effort led by Prospera Mercury to ensure the survival of her oldest daughter.
[[folder:Ericht Samaya / "Aerial"]]
The Ghost Princess of Earth, and Suletta's older sister. Though her body is long dead, Ericht's consciousness lingers within the Gundam Aerial, and, through Quiet Zero, can manifest within any permet particles within Earth-sphere. Despite fighting on different sides, Ericht would rather just spend time with her sister.
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* BrainUploading: For still unknown reasons, the mind of Ericht Samaya was preserved in the Lfrith when she died.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Suletta's Abel, though really only in an official capacity. They really just want to hang out and be siblings, even when they have to fight. [[spoiler:Chapter 22 turns it into a more serious case of this trope, as their clashing ideals leads to a borderline murderous fight]].
* CombatPragmatist: Once it becomes obvious that Suletta [[spoiler:might be good enough to beat her in a fair fight, Ericht promises not to attack her while revealing the AwfulTruth, then uses her bit-staves to sever the Schwarzette's limbs while Suletta is distracted]].
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Ericht is already nigh-godlike, but the endgame of Prospera's plan would expand Quiet Zero's influence across the solar system, allowing her to appear in any place and control any technology she wants. [[AGodIAmNot Ericht herself worries about what this will mean for her humanity]].
* DumbJock: Ericht describes herself and Morrigan as big dumb jocks, admitting that she doesn't really understand how Quiet Zero understands and is mostly just there to hit things. That said she isn't really stupid, just not particularily interested in science or tech.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: More amoral than evil, but Ericht thinks that [[spoiler:Suletta's belief in the sanctity of ''all'' life, even awful people, is "incomprehensible"]].
* FriendlyEnemy: Technically she's Suletta's enemy, but in practice their fights are more like friendly sparring while keeping each other from curb-stomping any of the lesser combatants on each side.
* RedBaron: "The Ghost Princess of Earth", so called because she's a ghostly entity that can manifest and perform miracles across the entire globe.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Ericht [[spoiler:knows who Morrigan is, or was, but hasn't told her out of fear that Sophie would not want to be friends with her killer]].
* StopWorshippingMe: Some people on Earth has started worshipping Ericht as a deity, which she doesn't really like because she doesn't want to lose her humanity, but answers their prayers when she can. While she doesn't discourage them from growing into a cult, she does nothing to encourage them either.
* TheUnfettered: In chapter 36, [[spoiler:Eri declares that she will no longer hold anything back; Before she's tried to avoid hurting innocent people in the way of her targets, but the wealthy ghouls she's trying to kill learned from that and started telling their soldiers she wouldn't hurt her. Now, she will kill anyone in her way, and makes it clear that when the ghouls are ordering people to fight her, they are ordering them to die]].
* VirtualYouTuber: On Suletta's suggestion, Ericht has taken up streaming as a hobby, using a cartoon bunny as her vtuber avatar. [[spoiler:She uses that same streaming platform to livestream her destruction of the Peil facility to the world]].
* VirtualGhost: She's the mind of a young girl, preserved in permet particles that allow her to appear around and influence technology that runs on permet.
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[[folder:Prospera Mercury]]
The Witch of Quiet Zero, and Ericht and Suletta's mother. Dedicated to nothing more than the survival and happiness of her oldest daughter, Prospera will ally with anyone or commit any sin to accomplish that goal.
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* AffablyEvil: Her villainy is debatable, but Prospera is very friendly despite her horrifying reputation. Not only is she happy to engage in friendly conversation, but she casually uses affectionate nicknames and makes puns.
* DeathSeeker: Prospera is pushing herself to the point of multiple strokes and heart attacks, and refusing to take a break or let anyone else do things for her, to the point where Eri wonders if she wants to die.
* FictionalDisability: She has Spontaneous Permetic Growth in both her legs, a condition that causes permet to grow throughout the body, causing paralysis and chronic pain.
* RedBaron: Prospera is known as The Witch of Quiet Zero, Fleetbreaker, She of the Black Coffin, etc.
* SecondLove: Ericht thinks she and Notrette Rembran had a thing going on, having noticed how Prospera talks about Notrette the same way she talks about Nadim.
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!!Others
Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties are faked or temporary.
[[folder:Norea du Noc / "Jane Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
After her Gundam was destroyed in Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, Norea du Noc was captured and given to Peil Technologies as a gesture of good faith. Since then, she has been put to work piloting their Gundam Pharact, while secretly scheming with her partner to tear down Peil from within.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Downplayed since she's still human, but in canon Norea had no indication of being anything but baseline human. Here, she's an enhanced person like Elan.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Whenever she goes into combat, Norea takes a moment to analyze the opponent, taking note of their potential abilities, how many there are, what they can do, and how best to approach them.
* CharacterDevelopment: Norea has undergone a lot, going from the stoic-but-seethingly furious girl in the show who saw herself as nothing more than a weapon to kill Spacians, to a much livelier and snarky woman who wants to enjoy life and doesn't want to cause any undue suffering. [[spoiler:Before the fight with the Nemain, she realizes to her pleasant surprise that she really doesn't want anyone dead anymore]].
* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:In order to get someone who can bring messages between her and Nika without the SAL knowing, Miorine has Norea (officially a Jane Doe) declared dead in the fight with the Nemain]].
* TheDividual: Invoked. Since the Peil Grade AI has trouble distinguishing humans that look alike, Norea and Elan make a conscious attempt at looking and acting as close as possible to the original Elan.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Norea wears one of Elan's earrings. [[spoiler:It actually contains a data drive they use to smuggle information in and out of the facility]].
* HappilyAdopted: Downplayed. Naji ''wanted'' to adopted Norea and Sophie when they were children, but Norea refused, so angry at the world that she didn't want to be a child, but a soldier. That said, she still thinks of him on some level as her father [[spoiler:and Nika as her sister, especially after Naji's death]].
* TheHedonist: Norea has spent most of her life being TheStoic, denying herself even the smallest of life's pleasures unless Sophie dragged her into it. After Elan talked her out of suicide, she resolved to start living, enjoying every pleasure and temptation she can in gratitude to Sophie and Elan for giving her something worth living for.
-->''Why had it taken her so long to realize that life was lived in moments like these? That she was here to fuck around first and work second?''
* HeroicSacrifice: Defied. Norea always idealized the idea of dying heroically for her ideals, but since Sophie's death she has instead resolved to live and refuses to sacrifice anyone else. [[spoiler:Even when she nearly dies for Elan's sake, it's less a sacrifice and more a last stand]].
* LegacyCharacter: While she doesn't undergo any mental or physical changes like the others, Norea intentionally dresses and styles herself to look as close to the original Elan as possible, pilots the Pharact, and is an enhanced person, effectively making her the seventh Elan Ceres Enhanced Person.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: She and Elan can't go five minutes without insulting each other, but it's clear that they care about each other deeply.
* MaliciousMisnaming: To distinguish him from her Elan, Norea decides to call the original Elan Ceres "Nolan" specifically because he hates it.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Norea's first words to Nika, who's arm was broken by Sophie with Norea present years earlier, are "You broke your arm ''again?''" The mental Elan standing in for her conscience immediately admonishes her for it, and it's not made better when Nika explains that it's the same injury.
* RaisedInALab: Norea and Sophie spent their formative years in an Ochs Earth lab being modified into better gundam pilots. Norea's memories of it does not paint a pretty picture, and it led to her seeing herself as nothing but an emotionless SuperSoldier.
* {{Revenge}}: Norea is positively ecstatic at the chance to hunt down the Morrigan, since it was built from the wreck of her dead best friend's gundam. [[spoiler:Subverted when she actually gets the chance, as she decides to put her ideals before her revenge, and that Sophie would be happy with the Morrigan anyway]].
* SignificantHaircut: Norea has styled her hair to be as similar to the original Elan as possible, to fool Peil Grade. [[spoiler:After being entirely free from Peil's control, she cuts it short in a pixie cut]].
* SparedByAdaptation: Because the PointOfDivergence is just before the rampage that killed her in the canon timeline, Norea is still alive over a year after her canonical death in this continuity.
* TragicDream: A flashback showed that Norea and Sophie both wanted to see fireflies, which are extincto n earth and only exist in Spacian preserves and obviously out of reach for two Earthian terrorists. [[spoiler:When they finally reunite in chapter 38, it's in a garden at LAFF surrounded by fireflies]].
* {{Transhuman}}: Norea is a first-generation Enhanced Human, genetically and cybernetically modified from an early age to be more resistant to Datastorms so as to be a better Gundam pilot.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Flashbacks shows that as a result of being RaisedInALab and growing up surrounded by the devastation of Spacian war partitioning, Norea was a ''deeply'' troubled child, filled with so much hatred and anger that she ''wanted'' to be a ChildSoldier, and idealized dying in battle. When she overheard Naji talking about adopting her and Sophie, she outright refused because she would rather see herself as a machine who doesn't need a family.
* {{Tsundere}}:
** With Elan, she's way too snarky and traumatized to ever admit that she likes him. The two of them instead makes a game out of seeing how sincere they can get while pretending they don't care.
** She would also have you know that she does not see Naji as her father figure, thank you very much, even if she has a hard time not smiling when he expresses concern and care for her and calls him annoying in the same breath as she calls dads annoying.
* TheUnsmile: Norea's smile causes Elan to ask why she's making "that expression".
-->'''Norea:''' It's called a smile, dumbass.\\
'''Elan:''' Is that what that is? How alarming.
* VagueAge: Norea has no idea when she or Sophie were born, but she's probably around 18 to 20 when the fic starts.
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[[folder:Elan / "Enhanced Person #5" / "John Doe"]]
!!!Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact
Norea's partner in crime, one of the Enhanced Persons used as body-doubles for the real Elan Ceres. Like his partner, Elan is scheming to bring down Peil as revenge for their many ''many'' crimes.
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* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:After the fight against the Nemain, Miorine has Elan (officially a John Doe) declared dead so he can work for her in an unofficial capacity]].
* TheDividual: Invoked. Since the Peil Grade AI has trouble distinguishing humans that look alike, Elan and Norea make a conscious attempt at looking and acting as close as possible to the original Elan.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Elan only wears one of his earrings, having given the other to Norea. [[spoiler:It actually contains a data drive they use to smuggle information in and out of the facility, along with a virus that knocks out the surveillance AI for a short while]].
* HypocriticalHumor: At one point Elan admonishes Norea for misnaming Nugen (as "Nougat"). He then immediately calls her "Nugget."
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Elan and Norea spend most of their time together bickering or shouting at each other, but in a way that clearly shows they love each other.
* QueerEstablishingMoment: In a quiet moment with Norea, Elan tells her that he had a name before becoming Elan but considers it a "dead name" and doesn't want to use it, implicitly coming out as trans.
* SecondLove: To Norea. After Sophie's death, she struggled with moving on for a long time, but eventually grew close with Elan.
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Elan managed to talk Norea down from killing herself during their first few days in Peil custody by telling her that he needed her help to kill every last Peil bastard.
* {{Transhuman}}: Elan is an Enhanced Human, someone who has been genetically and cybernetically modified to survive data storms.
* {{Tsundere}}: Because he has closed himself off from showing genuine sincerity for so long that he has a hard time doing it now, Elan prefers to show his concern by snarking and claiming he doesn't care. He and Norea make a game of it, seeing how far they can get without sincerely admitting that they care aobut each other.
* UnbrokenVigil: When Norea wakes up after a month-long coma, she finds Elan waiting by her bedside. When he realizes she's awake he scrambles over so fast that he falls out of his chair.
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[[folder:Yushura Mirzakhani]]
A childhood friend and former partner of Miorine Mercury, now the owner and leader of the neutral Langlands Autonomous Fairgrounds Front. Yushura is an eccentric sort, but dedicated to helping her friends and provide a place for rest, recuperation, and scheming.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Yushura left the Benerit Group with her company sometime at the onset of the Three Witches War, becoming a neutral party.
* EccentricMillionaire: She's the owner of at least one entire space colony, and her company was wealthy and influential enough to be part of the Benerit Group. She is also ''extremely'' eccentric, fond of theatrics and dramatic performances, and often makes absurdly elaborate plans just to have something happen as dramatically as possible.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She's implied to still carry a torch for Miorine, but is nothing but supportive of her and Suletta's relationship.
* OpposeWhatYouSuffered: Yushura, being disabled herself, has worked to make her amusement park-turned-sanctuary as accessible as possible. A currently wheelchair-using [[spoiler:Norea]] appreciates it greatly.
* TruceZone: She owns and operates one, the Langlands Autonomous Fairgrounds Front. An amusement park that doubles as refugee camp and sanctuary where people from all sides of the war are welcome to interact in peace and neutrality.
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[[folder:"Goodfellow"]]
A mysterious information broker active throughout the solar system, with connections to numerous major players.
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* MeaningfulName: The mysterious-but-benevolent Goodfellow takes their name from Robin Goodfellow, a benevolent house spirit in British folklore, better known as a [[Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream Puck]].
* MysteriousStranger: Nothing is known about Goodfellow, but they have repeatedly provided advice to characters and seems to oppose an equally mysterious black-clad faction. Their advice often consists only of the word "RUN" repeated over and over.
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