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* LifeSavingMisfortune: Marie Route reveals that both on a [[ButtMonkey personal]] and a [[DisasterDominoes meta level]], Marie [[HostileShowTakeover usurping Olivia as protagonist]] in the main timeline, was the best thing that could have happened to her.
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* [[SiblingRivalry "Sibling" Rivalry]]: Wants to seize control of Nicks' territory, which is much more substantial compared to Balcus’ barony that Rutart is legally due to inherit. It was given to Nicks specifically to keep it out of Rutart’s hands and he knows it.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Gives Leon one when he tries to justify to himself doing nothing over [[spoiler: Julius [[ILied breaking his deal]] to not punish the Redgrave family after Leon throws their duel on behalf of Angelica.]] Leon essentially says that it's SomebodyElsesProblem and that he doesn't care if they get hurt. Arroganz [[YouLie calls him a liar]], and shames Leon into [[spoiler: delivering an unofficial CurbStompBattle to the five princes in retaliation.]]
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[[center:[- [[WMG:'''''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' [[Characters/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs character index]]'''\\
[[Characters/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobsMainCast The Main Cast]] | [[Characters/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobsHolfort Holfort Kingdom]] | [[Characters/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobsFanoss Principality of Fanoss]] | [[Characters/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobsAlzer Alzer Republic]] | '''Marie Route Side Story''']]-]]]
Tropes only applying to characters within the WhatIf spinoff ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimOtomeGamesAreToughForUsToo'', originally known as the ''Marie Route Side Story.''
Spoilers from the first three mainline Light Novel volumes, and '''the first two parts of Marie Route''' will be unmarked.
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!Marie Route's Main Characters
[[folder:Leon Fou Bartfort]]
!!Leon Fou Bartfort in Marie Route
--> ''“Come on, I’ll carry you back so hop on.”''
After taking Marie under his wing, Leon is known as a powerful warlord who takes care of his friends and loved ones after having escaped the other boys' harsh struggle for marriage with ease, all in the background of the game plot seeming to progress smoothly.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Leon’s snarking and tormenting of Nicks for his own amusement makes him one, which is a RunningGag.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Doesn't mind being known as ''[[RagsToRiches The Upstart]]''.
* BadassBystander: Is much better at being this here than in the main story, staying away from the spotlight of the game plot. His preference for stealth helps in this regard, despite his less stealthy actions also earning him a fearsome reputation.
* CharacterDevelopment: Arguably gets more in Marie Route than in the main story. First off, he learns that a woman's appearance is completely [[TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside insignificant compared to her personality]]. Second, learns the importance of being proactive (where in the main story, Leon is [[VillainsActHeroesReact always reacting]]). Third, instead of avoiding Kingdom politics as much as possible, he basically creates his own political faction.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Leon thinks the Roseblade sisters blushing from Nick’s tirade was indignation. He’s instantly [[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn proven wrong]].
* DefiedTrope: The PointOfDivergence is caused by Leon defying Marie’s attempts at pulling a HijackedDestiny and HostileShowTakeover against Olivia.
* DisasterDominoes: Leon preventing Marie from seducing the princes starts one of these. Somewhat ironic, considering the opening scene of the route could easily be seen as a SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong plot.
* TheDreaded: Downplayed, he ends up feared and respected for his martial accomplishments.
* DuelingScar: The Black Knight gives him one, that gets him called ugly.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Gets bitter looks from his fellow poor noblemen, and pointed remarks from [[ThoseTwoGuys Daniel and Raymond]], over it, with regard to Marie. Arguably, them acting LikeBrotherAndSister comes off as seeming LikeAnOldMarriedCouple to their surroundings due to the horrid state of gender relations in [[LadyLand the society they live in]].
--> ''"Leon, I’ve been thinking this from some time ago but, [[ObliviousToLove are you an idiot]]?"''
* EyepatchOfPower: To cover for the fact Luxion healed the damage he received [[EyeScream to his eye]] from his DuelingScar. This leads to Leon wearing a mask.
* EyeScream: The Black Knight stabs him in the eye through Arroganz's armor.
* FamedInStory: In addition to his pre-PointOfDivergence fame, his actions in the second and fourth parts increase his renown and fearsome reputation. Leon is genuinely looked up to by his fellow poor noblemen, instead of blackmailing them.
* FinishingStomp: [[spoiler: How he obliterates Chris’s mech after Julius double-crosses him.]]
* FixingTheGame: A pointed aversion, as Marie refuses to gamble, even though it'd be an easy source of money. He does it once to help out Olivia whose bullies forced her into a card game.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: [[spoiler: Defeats Brad by hitting his mech with Greg's, after Julius double-crosses him.]]
* GuileHero: While mostly an ActionHero in the main story, he’s more of this here, preferring stealth when action is required. When adequately motivated by TranquilFury, Leon sets up a political ChainOfDeals, leaving him with [[StartMyOwn his own]] political faction.
* HypocriticalHumor: A RunningGag, with Leon criticizing Marie’s past-life brother, who he doesn’t realize is himself.
* IdenticalGrandson: Leon's appearance turns out to be very similar to an ancestor of his: Liia, who was leader of the group of seven adventurers who founded the Kingdom, only to be betrayed by each of them except Saintess Anne who loved him. Liia left for the CallToAgriculture and founded Leon’s House, his importance [[UnPerson erased from history]]. [[spoiler: When the ghosts of Anne see Leon, one is happy to see him together with her descendant ([[SecretLegacy Marie]]), and the other wants to claim him for herself [[{{Yandere}} by any means.]]]]
* {{Irony}}: Leon used to complain about [[ThatOneBoss the Black Knight]] for giving him headaches in the game, but [[LittleDidIKnow little did he know]] that [[spoiler: he would become the Black Knight himself for defeating the main characters of the game.]]
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Leon's over-protectiveness of Marie, which she appreciates, partly stems from her [[RashomonStyle "resembling"]] his past-life sister. Leon having the thought that she really could be said sister prompts his RoaringRampageOfRescue, before deciding she's not his sister, prompts his wedding proposal.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: With Marie.
* LovingBully: Leon shows shades of this with his teasing of Marie.
* MagneticHero: See RagtagBunchOfMisfits.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: However brief, Leon’s MeetCute with Marie is kidnapping her to prevent [[HijackedDestiny her stealing]] Olivia’s first encounter with Julius.
* MetronomicManMashing: [[spoiler: Leon uses Arroganz to do this to a terrified Julius, after Julius [[ILied dishonored their arrangement]] for Leon to throw their duel.]]
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Gets "bad premonitions" when something is happening to Olivia.
* NotBloodSiblings: {{Justified}}. He and Marie ''were'' blood siblings, but due to reincarnation, aren’t anymore. This helps Leon to be protective of her.
* OfficialCouple: As the title suggests, he and Marie are this.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: With Nicks, mostly one sided. It even extends to his InnerMonologue.
* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler: Gives one to the Black Knight that’s a ShoutOut to ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.]]
--> ''[[spoiler:You should have gone for the cockpit!]]''
* ProperlyParanoid: About Marie's safety after giving her the Saintess' amulet. Marie is flattered by his overprotectiveness, and Leon embarrassed. This results in Luxion putting a swarm of {{Surveillance Drone}}s around her, and capturing Anne's ghost.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Leon collects a strange group of allies. It starts off with Marie, most of the poor noblemen, Marie's collection of [[TheShutIn dysfunctional shut-in girls]], and the BunnyEarsLawyer House Roseblade. It then expands to [[spoiler: a fugitive Clarice and her BadassBiker followers, a [[SpiritAdvisor ghost of a long-dead saintess]], and a disgraced and bent-on-revenge Angelica.]]
* RashomonStyle: This is how he and Marie come to the conclusion that they ''weren’t'' past-life-siblings.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Proposes to Marie after crashing her wedding, and she’s referred to as sister-in-law by his family there-after.
* SafeUnderBlankets: Leon’s instinct after seeing a ghost is to do this, which Marie happily teases him for.
* SecretLegacy: The founder of House Bartfort, Liia, was one of the seven adventurers that founded the Kingdom, but was betrayed by five of the others (Holfort, Marmoria, Arclight, Field, and Seburg). This could technically count as a ReallyRoyaltyReveal, as he was the leader of the group, making Holfort a usurper.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Insists this about Marie to his brother Nicks, and his [[EveryoneCanSeeIt observant]] friends, [[RelationshipUpgrade for a while.]]
* StartMyOwn: Instead of piggybacking on Duke Redgrave and his faction like in the main story, Leon and Marie assemble their own RagtagBunchOfMisfits political faction from scratch, with most of the poor noblemen, the [[TheShutIn marriage candidates]] Marie finds for them, and [[BunnyEarsLawyer House Roseblade]] as a base.
** [[spoiler: When the Kingdom goes to war, and Prince Julius [[RedShirtArmy starts a volunteer army,]] Jilk [[PeerPressuredBully creates a campaign of harassment]] to force people to join. Not wanting to interfere directly with the Otome plot by joining, and to keep their friends safe from both the harassment and the battlefield, Leon and Marie decide to make their own volunteer army and have it do logistics missions. This results in the boys of Leon's faction making up most of the surviving boys in the Academy, due to Julius' army being CannonFodder.]]
* ThrowingTheFight: Offers to do this for Julius in this version of Angelica’s duel challenge [[spoiler: in return for showing mercy to House Redgrave. He does a good job of it, [[UngratefulBastard only for]] Julius [[ILied to double cross him]], resulting in an unofficial CurbStompBattle.]]
* TiredOfRunning: Specifically, of running from the spotlight. In the sixth part, Leon declares to Marie that he's done letting problems fester by doing that any longer.
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler: The Black Knight stabbing his father and gloating about it drives Leon into one, that results in the Black Knight’s death, with some help from Nicks.]]
* WallPinOfLove: Does this to stop Marie from escaping when preventing her seduction of Julius.
* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: Leon's phobia of ghosts seems to have this effect on Marie and [[spoiler: Anne's ghost from the Saintess' amulet.]]
* WhatADrag: [[spoiler: Does this to Jilk’s mech after Julius double crosses him.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Ghosts elicit this reaction, much to Marie's amusement.
* WildCard: This is how Leon is perceived by Julius, based on what he saw at meetings in the Royal Court his parents made him attend.
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: Balcus first leaves Leon in charge of his barony, which Leon then pawns onto Deirdre while he attends the Academy.]]
** [[spoiler: After the CivilWar breaks out, Balcus makes Leon dynastic head of the Bartfort Household.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: Marie reminds him of his past life younger sister, because she is her reincarnation. This leads to [[RashomonStyle Marie denying]] she could be [[HypocriticalHumor anything like that horrible person.]]
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[[folder:Luxion]]
!!Luxion in Marie Route
-->''“Looks like master has finally resolved himself.”''
Luxion serves as a bridge between Leon and Marie, helping smooth their relationship, when not being ganged up on by the two in arguments.
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* TheCavalryArrivesLate: [[spoiler: Arrives only ''after'' the Black Knight very nearly kills Leon during the fleet battle with the Principality of Fanoss. At least he healed Leon's [[EyeScream injured eye.]]]]
* ForScience: It’s shown that he keeps a number of creatures as test subjects inside of his main body, prompting Marie to ask him WhatTheHellHero, to which he averts his gaze and forcibly changes the subject.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Proves that despite all the things he's good at, picking someone's accessories is not one of them.
* SequenceBreaking: Gives Leon and Marie the idea to do this. [[spoiler: It turns out that the summoners of the FinalBoss were UnwittingPawns to TheWomanBehindTheMan, the Saintess possessing Olivia, and they still have to fight the Principality’s fleet in a tough battle anyhow.]]
* ShootTheHostageTaker: When Earl Offrey's son takes Marie hostage when confronted by Leon at their wedding, to try and save himself, Luxion snipes his arm with a laser.
* WalkingTheEarth: Due to Leon’s pro-active stance about preventing final-boss like beings from appearing, he sends Luxion investigating all over the world. He ends up getting a little too preoccupied with it.
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[[folder:Marie Fou Lafan]]
!!Marie Fou Lafan in Marie Route
--> ''"Even personality is an important factor. What I want to say is that those five are failures in that respect."''
A pitiful girl with awful family issues, sorting out what it means to find happiness in her second life. All the while being teased by Leon.
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* AmplifierArtifact: Uses the Saint's Necklace in her confrontation with The Saintess in Part 8 to enhance her magic.
* AngerBornOfWorry: In the sixth part, she directs a fair amount of this at Leon for his reckless behavior.
* AppearanceAngst: Due to not fitting Leon's ''[[BuxomBeautyStandard Type]]'', thanks to her determined efforts to [[HealingMagicIsTheHardest learn healing magic]] halting her growth. [[IWasQuiteALooker She was more confident in her past-life body.]]
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Admits in a dream to The Saintess’s spirit trying to possess her, that she’s a bro-con.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: What happens when a ghost attempts to possess her; this is also implied to have happened in the main story with similar results: [[MuggingTheMonster Marie's easy triumph]].
* BelligerentSexualTension: Her general dynamic with Leon here, in particular returning with him from his hot spring, where they argue fiercely but end up HoldingHands.
* BigBrotherAttraction: She likes that Leon [[DramaticIrony "resembles"]] her past-life brother.
* BigEater: Loves eating, having grown up without having much to eat. She can tuck away at least ''10'' plates of steak.
* BlueWithShock: When [[spoiler: The Black Knight, who was ThatOneBoss and the main reason she foisted the Otome Game on Leon, attacks CoolAirship Partner with her on it.]]
** As well as [[spoiler: when she hears that Julius is [[MurderTheHypotenuse intent on crushing]] Leon's Household, and it looking like Luxion has destroyed the Alzer Republic.]]
* CallOnMe:
** Leon crashing her wedding is dramatically timed to her calling out to him in her thoughts.
** Wins a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind by summoning a projection of Leon with [[BatterUp a baseball bat.]]
* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: Marie does this naturally at just the right times to avoid seeming like a ClingyJealousGirl.
* CommonalityConnection: With Leon, due to having Japanese values [[CultureClash as opposed to]] the pseudo-medieval-western values of the Kingdom, and being poor, low status nobles. Despite being a woman, it turns out, without the princes helping her out, she’s not much better off than Leon.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of the WhatIf [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Marie Route]].
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: The most powerful magic user in the Kingdom’s history gets shut up and kicked out of her subconscious, but not before Marie threatens to haunt said ghost for eternity.
* DysfunctionJunction: She assembles, and [[TeamMom is caretaker for]] a growing group of [[TheShutIn shut in noble girls]], to help Leon's fellow poor noblemen find wives who aren't [[RoyalBrat awful]].
* EmbarrassingNickname: After seeing her envy of Olivia being dubbed ''The Goddess of Victory'', Leon dubs Marie ''The Goddess of Material Transport.''
* FanservicePack: DefiedTrope. Due to her AppearanceAngst over her second-life body’s lack of growth, she pleads with Luxion to give her plastic surgery, but he refuses.
* FantasticallyIndifferent: Her first reaction to seeing a ghost is to laugh scornfully at, and mock it.
-->''“There are things even scarier than ghosts in this world. Reality is far more scary."''
* FoodAsBribe: Her price for matchmaking for the poor noble students (basically securing their futures) is pudding from the school cafeteria.
* FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent: Marie essentially builds [[TrueCompanions her own family]] to replace her neglectful ''at best'' second-life blood family.
* HumanoidAbomination: During her BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, her hair turns into tentacles and her eyes shine. Even despite all of that, she still summons a representation of Leon, to handle the invader.
* HypocriticalHumor: Like with Leon, it’s a RunningGag that she criticizes Leon’s past-life sister, but this takes it up a notch:
--> ''"Leon’s little sister in the previous life was like that wasn’t she? A woman who [[BitchInSheepsClothing liked to play innocent]] right? Don’t group me with that kind of detestable fellow. But, if she also liked to drink than she might become a good drinking partner. I’ll punch her if she is just a hypocrite woman though."''
* ImmuneToMindControl: Attributed to her closed heart from trusting the wrong people in the past.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Mentions this about her past-life, doing some FanserviceModel poses while reminiscing.
* KarmicJackpot: Because she and Leon are working together instead of in opposition, with her helping his fellow poor nobles find nice girls to marry, this results in not only their combined efforts freeing her from her abusive family and bringing her out of PerpetualPoverty, but she even ends up getting engaged to Leon and happier than she had been in both of her lives.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: With Leon.
* LifeSavingMisfortune: Leon stops her before she could get her reverse harem. She later admits it was for the best, finding them [[PrinceCharmless rather dull and lacking in charm]].
* LittleSisterHeroine: While Marie was initially conceived as a heavy handed subversion, here she is quite an unusual example. She doesn't realize Leon is her past-life brother, he just reminds her of him.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Averted. Leon tells her what she didn’t know before she could do any damage like she did in the main story.
* LoveEpiphany: When being carried home by Leon after fleeing the party.
* TheMatchmaker: Marie’s handling of TheShutIn girls from the academy is a large scale example. At least she gets paid for it (which she only charges a token amount, when she could get away with charging an arm and a leg due to the boys' desperation).
* TheMedic: Skips classes to heal wounded kids, and gets covered in blood treating wounded refugees.
* MentalWorld: Hers is represented as her past-life bedroom, when The Saintess invades 'her heart'. She seems to have her past-life body there as well.
* {{Motifs}}: Night-time is used as a theme for her romance with Leon, such as when Marie has her LoveEpiphany, and when Leon proposes marriage.
* MoneyFetish: While Luxion does make fun of Marie once for liking money, after she's freed from her family and the debts they were causing, this is ultimately {{Averted}}.
* MuggingTheMonster: When [[VengefulGhost The Saintess' spirit]] tries to [[DemonicPossession possess]] Marie, it ends up being the one terrified.
* MundaneLuxury: She couldn't afford new socks or underwear and gets excited when Leon offers to buy them for her.
* NotBloodSiblings: {{Justified}}. Her and Leon, who ''were'' blood siblings before they each reincarnated. Marie seems to see Leon's "resemblance" to him as a plus.
* OfficialCouple: As the title suggests, she's this with Leon.
* OneOfTheKids: When with Leon’s little brother Colin. Her reacting to his teasing furthers his view of her as like a sibling his own age.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Compared to the original story.
* RageBreakingPoint: Seeing many girls of the Academy happily celebrating WhileRomeBurns in the middle of a bloody war infuriates Marie. This builds up until a girl telling Yulia she should be happy her lover died, and [[BerserkButton calling Leon ugly]], makes Marie snap into an UnstoppableRage.
* RashomonStyle: This is how she and Leon come to the conclusion that they ''weren't'' past-life siblings.
* RelationshipUpgrade: After Leon crashes her ArrangedMarriage wedding, and proposes to her.
* RoleSwapAU: Has her role swapped with Olivia in this universe. This only becomes evident after Olivia gets possessed, becoming an EvilCounterpart to Marie’s main route self.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Gets "bad premonitions" when something is happening to Olivia.
* SecretLegacy: The reason behind her healing power and being recognized by the Holy Relics, is due to being descended from the First Saintess. This also makes it possible for said Saintess, who left behind multiple {{Vengeful Ghost}}s in the [[CursedItem Holy Relics]], to attempt to [[DemonicPossession possess her]], although Marie's heart is too closed for that, and her unconscious [[MuggingTheMonster throws The Saintess out]].
* SpoiledBrat: Marie gets teased by Leon and Luxion over her spoiled tendencies, but also admired for her work ethic when selling doughnuts.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Shows this towards The Saintess.
* TastesLikeFriendship: She and Leon start bonding after he notices she's hungry and buys her all the food she can eat.
* TeamMom: She takes up the task of being caretaker to her assembled DysfunctionJunction of [[TheShutIn shut-in girls]] to help the poor noblemen find decent wives. As well, Marie treats the [[TheBabyOfTheBunch newly created]] A.I. installed in Arroganz like her child.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Steak. She also enjoys {{sweet|Tooth}}s with tea that Leon makes.
* TrappedByGamblingDebts: This element is built on compared to the main story, with debt collectors breaking into her dorm room, and her parents telling her to spend her vacation time earning money in the dungeon. Eventually escalates to them selling off her hand in marriage to the Offrey Household, incurring Leon’s TranquilFury and getting her family stripped of their nobility and land.
* TheUnfavorite: Since her (second-life) family situation is explored in more depth here, it turns out that her older sister wastes money freely, while conversely, the whole family leans on Marie to help pay the bills.
* UnknownRival: To Olivia, envying her success and Leon’s obvious attraction to her.
%%* UnstoppableRage: A noble-girl telling Yulia that she should [[MartyrdomCulture be happy her lover died]], and [[BerserkButton calling Leon ugly]], drives Marie berserk.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Turns menacing at the prospect of Leon being taken from her, besides the whole girl calling Leon ugly incident.
* VirginShaming: Gives Leon a taste of his own teasing medicine with this in an argument, before HoldingHands.
* WhatTheHellHero: The result of her probing after finding out about [[ForScience the tests]] Luxion does on creatures he keeps inside his main body.
-->''"…This guy, is he perhaps not considering anyone else other than us humans?"''
* WillingChanneler: [[spoiler:Offers to let The Saintess possess her in exchange for releasing Olivia, allowing her to be with Lea's descendant through her. Though she makes it clear that she's not giving up control so much as she's allowing them to stay inside of her so they can realize their wish through her happiness with Leon.]]
* YouAreNotAlone: Marie is betrayed by her family, who [[ArrangedMarriage sell her off]] to clear [[TrappedByGamblingDebts their debts]], leaving [[HeroicBSOD her feeling abandoned]] by everyone except her past-life brother. Then, that brother, who she just then sees in Leon, [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rescues her]] with the help of [[MisfitMobilizationMoment all the poor nobles]] she's been aiding, showing that her efforts to make a FamilyOfChoice have [[FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent paid off]].
* YouRemindMeOfX: Leon reminds her of her past life older brother, because he is his reincarnation. This leads to [[RashomonStyle Leon denying]] he could be [[HypocriticalHumor anything like that horrible person.]]
* YoungEntrepreneur: Runs a successful doughnut stand at the SchoolFestival. In her childhood, she would also exchange furs of animals she killed to buy secondhand clothing.
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!The Remaining Original Main Characters
[[folder:Olivia]]
!!Olivia in Marie Route
--> ''“Why won’t he (Julius) leave me alone?”''
Fully the protagonist of the first game, whom Leon dislikes and thinks must be having the time of her life being catered to by five rich high-status men.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ConversedTrope. InUniverse Leon and Marie both came to the conclusion early on, that she was horrible for stealing Angelica’s fiancé. The two end up [[InnocentlyInsensitive being overheard]] gossiping about the situation, which springs the bullying of Olivia into high gear, and possibly [[ShipSinking killed her interest]] in Julius, whose route Luxion determined she was on.
* BreakTheCutie: Poor Livia goes through much worse torment than the main storyline. She is chased around by the five most popular guys in school and harassed by bullies, and later, [[spoiler:gets possessed by the evil spirit of the first saint.]]
* BoundAndGagged: How her mind is represented within her MentalWorld while she’s possessed.
* BullyMagnet: Much more of one here than in the main route, driven by jealousy of her time spent with the dateable cast, as well as her social status.
* ButtMonkey: She'd been better off with Marie stealing the five princes.
* DemonicPossession: The Holy Relics each hold a VengefulGhost fragment of the first saintess Anne, capable of possessing [[SecretLegacy her descendants]]. When Olivia comes into contact with the Saintess' Bracelet, it possesses her due to her soft heart and resentment of the five princes. Olivia becomes trapped within her own body, while Anne [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates everyone]] [[BigBad towards destruction]] in her place.
* DemotedToExtra: She's still important, but no longer one of the main heroines here.
* FightingFromTheInside: First, when she tries to strangle herself. Secondly, [[spoiler: when she reasserts control to beg Leon for help, and hides his identity from her possessor.]]
* HeWillComeForMe: [[spoiler: After seeing Leon a second time and breaking through her possession to plead for his help, Olivia holds onto the hope of Leon rescuing her, remembering how he helped her with the card game.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Leon visiting her, gives her hope that he can free her from DemonicPossession.]]
* InterruptedSuicide: Tries to strangle herself in the bath due to her DemonicPossession, but fails.
* LeaveMeAlone: What she wants to tell the five capture targets, but is too afraid to due to their status.
* LifeSavingMisfortune: Marie Route reveals that both on a [[ButtMonkey personal]] and a [[DisasterDominoes meta level]], Marie [[HostileShowTakeover usurping Olivia as protagonist]] in the main timeline, was the best thing that could have happened to her.
* UnequalPairing: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. The power imbalance between her and the five capture targets means she can't turn them down once they have their sights set on her, and their presumed relationship draws resentment from the rest of the school.
* UnwantedHarem: Since Marie was prevented from interfering. Olivia just wants to study, but due to the five dateable cast being high nobles and her a commoner, she can't refuse their constant date requests, and she starts [[LeaveMeAlone to resent them]]. This has consequences when it helps the first Saintess' VengefulGhost [[DemonicPossession possess her]], said possession being why she seemed willing in later Otome Game events, [[AgentProvocateur to manipulate them]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Angelica Rapha Redgrave]]
!!Angelica Rapha Redgrave in Marie Route
--> ''“…that saintess. No, that witch, I won’t tolerate her even if I have to fall into hell.”''
The scorned villainess, who suffers as her destiny intended.
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* AngerMontage: Trashes her cabin in Partner out of anger at Leon for ThrowingTheFight as her duel challenge champion.
* CassandraTruth: About (Saintess-possessed) Olivia being evil and colluding with Marquess Frampton. By the time she finds out, she’s [[DespairEventHorizon in such a bad mental state]], that she comes off as a raving madwoman.
* DemotedToExtra: She's still important, but no longer one of the main heroines here.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: After discovering the truth behind the war from Hertrude, and having her engagement broken.]]
* ExactWords: Leon noted originally that her fate after losing her duel with the protagonist's ReverseHarem in the Otome Game was to be forced to marry ''an ugly noble from the countryside''. In Marie Route, that nobleman turns out to be none other than Leon himself, who's considered ugly after his [[DuelingScar face is scarred]]. He manages to talk it down to just keeping her safe while pretending to be in talks.
* FreakOut: It turns out that the original version of Angelica ThrowingDownTheGauntlet, was part of one of these.
* GirlInTheTower: Is imprisoned like this due to fears for her sanity.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Once she's pushed past her DespairEventHorizon and starts her quest for revenge. It symbolizes her similarity to Saintess Anne's extreme quest for revenge; said vengeful spirit having such glowing red eyes.
* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler: It turns out she's somewhat of an example of this to the kingdom-founding Saintess Anne, at least according to her [[OurGhostsAreDifferent vengeful spirit]], having similar personalities as well as appearances.]]
* MagicPants: Averted. [[spoiler: Angelica's super-powered rampage destroys all of her clothing.]]
* MeetCute: When she sits on a bench with Leon and eats the doughnuts he offers her. This turns out to be one of the few happy memories she has in her life.
* NoSell: Can resist The Saintess' CompellingVoice through sheer force of will and hatred.
* ThePowerOfHate: Her eyes glow from this, and more.
* {{Revenge}}: Eventually dedicates herself to getting revenge on Olivia.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Breaking out of her imprisonment in a whirlwind of fire while laughing sadly, flying across the sky to try and get revenge on the Saintess.]]
* SecretLegacy: [[spoiler: Being descended from the Saintess Anne’s sister, which seems to be the source of her super powers that are more than a normal human can handle.]]
* StepfordSmiler: During her childhood, when she couldn't handle the pressures of being a ProperLady, she'd hide away in a storage room and cry to herself.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: A 'dark flame' inside of her, and GlowingEyesOfDoom. [[spoiler: Her powers include flight and wrapping herself in a lot of fire.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Five Dateable Cast]]
!!The Five Dateable Cast generally in Marie Route
* AbhorrentAdmirer: All of them are this to Olivia. She resents them for taking up so much of her time and attracting jealous bullies to her, causing a never-ending amount of stress for her. Worse still, she can't voice her complaints because she fears the potential consequences of defying nobility.
* CrazyJealousGuy: All show signs of becoming this, none more so [[{{Yandere}} than Julius]]. Sequestering Olivia in a house and letting no one else enter, for instance.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Their response to even the tiniest mistreatment of Olivia they hear about, is to try to outdo each other and earn her approval. In doing so, they expel a good chunk of the school and blow apart the faction supporting Julius as heir.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The five pushing themselves onto Olivia, and being more interested in the affection they can get from her, rather than her own wellbeing, makes them each an example. But Julius and Jilk take the cake. Jilk with his treatment of Clarice and stated willingness to throw Julius under the bus to have Olivia for himself, and Julius with his not caring about anyone else whatsoever.
* JerkassAtYourDiscretion: The impression they give off to Marie after she fails to seduce them due to Leon’s interference, is that they’re nice to Olivia, and ''only'' her.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Greg, Chris, and Brad are killed during Part 8 as they attempt to defend the capital and Olivia from the alliance of nobles.]]
* LoveMakesYouDumb: In the main story, this was mostly a source of comedy and suffering for Marie. Here, it serves a [[UnwittingPawn much darker purpose.]]
* LoveRuinsTheRealm: They don’t get disinherited, and thus can do a lot more damage. It doesn’t help that the woman they’re in love with is actually trying to destroy the realm.
* RedshirtArmy: Their Volunteer Army consisted of students in the war.
* RemovingTheRival: Once Leon catches their ire, they take this mindset, starting with forcing Leon to wear an ugly mask and cooperating to make sure he has no chance to talk to Olivia. [[spoiler: Eventually it escalates to Jilk and Julius deciding to MurderTheHypotenuse over [[NotWhatItLooksLike a misunderstanding]].]]
* SenselessSacrifice: The ChildSoldiers they send to their deaths, [[FalseFlagOperation unbeknownst to them.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: As opposed to their FriendlyRivalry with one another in the main story, here there is bullying between them and desperation to get ahead.
* ToAbsentFriends: They and their forces cope with high casualty rates by drinking rowdily.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Due to The Saintess manipulating them.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Each of them, when dueling Leon, who they arranged to [[ThrowingTheFight throw the fight.]]
* UnwittingPawn: The Saintess possessing Olivia manipulates them easily to destroy the kingdom from within. With the otome game scenes being set up by her before she [[WolfInSheepsClothing acts out her part]].
* WarIsGlorious: Wholeheartedly believe in, and loudly espouse this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Julius Rapha Holfort]]
!!Julius Rapha Holfort in Marie Route
--> ''"I’ll remove any fool who dare to lay his hand on Olivia. Olivia is mine alone."''
The Crown Prince who cares about Olivia and nothing else.
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* BackingAwaySlowly: [[spoiler: In fear of Leon’s TranquilFury after having CurbStompBattled the other four due to Julius double-crossing him.]]
* BandageMummy: [[spoiler: After Leon gets his revenge for Julius double-crossing him.]]
* ChestOfMedals: While he probably earned two of them through minor accomplishments, he puts on more out of ego and keeps up appearances.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Tore apart his political alliances with full awareness and without a shred of regret, and [[spoiler: double-crosses Leon.]]
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler: After he beheads Marquess Frampton.]]
* ILied: [[spoiler: Goes back on his arrangement with Leon to throw their duel, resulting in Leon beating the four other princes in a quick CurbStompBattle, and giving Julius a MetronomicManMashing.]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: They both think that the Masked Knight's mask is cool, while everyone else is appalled by it.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Ordered Leon’s home island to be burnt to the ground, people included.]]
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: After Leon publicly beats the princes in a CurbStompBattle after being [[ILied double-crossed]], Leon was discovered to have [[NotWhatItLooksLike embraced Olivia, who hushed it up]], and [[FrameUp they think]] that Leon is harboring someone who attacked them and Olivia. Thus, Julius and Jilk decide to murder Leon and crush his Household.]]
* ThisCannotBe: Leon being appointed Olivia’s knight.
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: Leon works hard to [[ThrowingTheFight throw their fight]], and make the proceeding matches look close for Julius. Julius repays this by publicly disgracing Angelica and telling Leon he was a fool to trust their verbal agreement.]]
* WeHaveReserves: Doesn’t care how many ChildSoldiers have to die as long as it will make Olivia like him more than the others.
* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: This version of Julius being King would be a monumental disaster. And he hasn’t been disinherited.
* {{Yandere}}: Tells Leon during their duel, that nobody else’s life matters to him as long as he has Olivia.
[[/folder]]
!House Bartfort
[[folder:Balcus Fou Bartfort]]
!!Balcus Fou Bartfort in Marie Route
--> ''"I see. So you're still a stupid kid.”''
Leon’s actions inadvertently force his father into political and military struggles.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: [[spoiler: Of Leon having caused a CivilWar with the Kingdom, suggesting he’d smack Leon if not for his injuries.]]
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Charges onto Partner's deck after seeing the Black Knight heading towards it, intending to sacrifice himself to let his son Leon escape. Both his sons team up to win the fight, but not before he TakesTheBullet for Leon, leaving Balcus hospitalized.]]
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: Retires and makes Leon dynastic head of the Bartfort Household, due to his own injury and indecision.]]
* SecretKeeper: It's implied he knows the whole story behind Liia Bartfort and the original Saintess. He's only offered a few scraps so far, and told his sons [[YouDoNotWantToKnow they shouldn't know]].
* SecretLegacy: He's revealed that his, and by extension Leon's ancestor Liia, was part of the adventuring party formed by the five dateable cast's ancestors, that founded the Kingdom, but was tricked and fled to live in peace on a remote island.
* ShipperOnDeck: Expects Leon and Marie to marry after she spends a month at their home.
* SuccessionCrisis: [[spoiler: After he gets severely injured, someone must be acting family head and FeudalOverlord for their Household, and Zola and her son Rutart show up to claim it. House Roseblade [[GondorCallsForAid honors]] their [[AltarDiplomacy marriage alliance with Nicks]], and drives them off, leaving [[YouAreInCommandNow Leon in charge.]]]]
* TakingTheBullet:[[spoiler: Does this to save Leon from the BlackKnight, and barely survives.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nicks Fou Bartfort]]
!!Nicks Fou Bartfort in Marie Route
--> ''"A brother who cares about his family wouldn't sell his brother out to some woman!"''
Leon and Balcus essentially force Nicks into a marriage he doesn’t want, and a landed title, for the good of their family. This causes him to hold an impotent grudge against Leon, while doing his best to rule as second fiddle to his new wife Dorothea.
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* ArrangedMarriage: For the sake of [[AltarDiplomacy an alliance]] with House Roseblade, Leon forces him to marry the [[InformedAttribute supposedly sadistic]] Dorothea.
* AscendedExtra: From being MrExposition to a plot pivotal character involved in romance, noble politics, and two {{Sibling Rivalr|y}}ies. Elements of his expanded role here were folded into the main story after the fact.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Nicks complains about having a tough time finding a wife (in the main story as well). When he gets one, it's [[PropertyOfLove more than he bargained for]].
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Protecting Leon and Balcus from TheBlackKnight in the [[BigBadassBattleSequence fleet battle against the Principality.]]]]
* ButtMonkey: Leon loves rubbing in his ArrangedMarriage with sarcasm, and [[HenpeckedHusband threatening to talk to his wife about him]].
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: His ambush of Rutart’s force sent to annihilate Balcus’ barony.]]
* DrawAggro: [[spoiler: Nicks' last-minute distraction allows Leon to kill the Black Knight.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: A source of comedy, and a weak point for Leon to exploit in arguments.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Expresses a similar sentiment to Leon about Marie, after hearing about her tough (second-life) childhood.
* InsultBackfire: Tries to offend Dorothea to wriggle out of their ArrangedMarriage, only for it to earn her respect and affection instead.
* MyOwnPrivateIDo: Dorothea insists on a private wedding before their normal one, with her vows giving Leon and Marie chills.
* PropertyOfLove: This the sort of relationship Dorothea hopes to have with Nicks. Insisting they both wear slave collars during their wedding, much to both families' chagrin. Nicks doesn't seem enthused.
* RulingCouple: With Dorothea, as Earl of a floating island, as a result of Leon’s dealings.
* SiblingRivalry: This is two-fold. First, Nicks holds a grudge against Leon for setting up his ArrangedMarriage, although it's mostly PlayedForLaughs. The two have a [[CainAndAbel more serious]] mutual rivalry with Rutart, whom Nicks planned to murder via UnfriendlyFire.
** [[spoiler: The rivalry with Rutart meets a bloody end when Nicks ambushes Rutart's task force sent to annihilate Balcus' floating island barony.]]
* SlaveCollar: What Dorothea makes him wear in their private wedding, with her wearing one as well, in place of wedding rings.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Says this multiple times to Leon for setting up his ArrangedMarriage. Unlike the trope's usual usage in Japanese works, [[spoiler: he relents somewhat, after learning how rough Marie's childhood was.]]
* UnfriendlyFire: How Nicks hoped to end his SiblingRivalry with Rutart. Nicks didn't get the chance, due to Rutart being [[DirtyCoward too cowardly to show up for battle.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rutart Fou Bartfort]]
!!Rutart in Marie Route
Zola’s son who lives with her in the capitol. Legally the First Son and heir of the Bartfort Household, due to inherit Balcus’ barony upon his death. He’s actually a bastard via Zola’s lover, and resents the success of his two "brothers".
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* AscendedExtra: Goes from being a background character with only one speaking appearance, to having FirstPersonPerspective scenes.
* BastardBastard: Leon and Dorothea both figured out that he’s the son of Zola’s lover instead of Balcus.
* BlingOfWar: Wears a fancy pseudo military outfit to compensate for his lack of prestige compared to his "brothers"; it just gets him laughed at.
* CantCatchUp: Can’t match the accomplishments, assets, and prestige of his two "brothers".
* DirtyCoward: Is widely mocked for this by his countrymen for not going to war, losing his Knighthood. To be fair on him, he had learned that the battle he skipped out on was an UriahGambit, and Nicks could well [[UnfriendlyFire have shot him down in the chaos]].
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Feels like his younger "brothers" overshadowing him has made him a laughing stock. And indeed, other men laugh at him behind his back.
* IdleRich: What Leon suspects his life is like in the capitol. He’s at least treated better by Zola than Leon and Nicks are.
* LineageComesFromTheFather: He has physical traits from his true father instead of Balcus, hinting about him being illegitimate.
* TheResenter: Of Leon and Nicks. Rutart's mother Zola and sister Merce rubbing it in only encourages the grudge.
* RoyalBrat: Entitled, impatient, ambitious, puts on airs, disrespectful.
* [[SiblingRivalry "Sibling" Rivalry]]: Wants to seize control of Nicks' territory, which is much more substantial compared to Balcus’ barony that Rutart is legally due to inherit. It was given to Nicks specifically to keep it out of Rutart’s hands and he knows it.
** [[spoiler: Rutart plots with Julius against Balcus and his blood family, being promised a court rank in the capital for burning Balcus’ barony to the ground. Before Nicks ambushes him.]]
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Rutart's prime motivation. His struggle with Nicks and Leon evokes a typical PrincelingRivalry on a smaller scale. When Balcus dies, Rutart is due to be a Baron, while Nicks is already an Earl, and Leon a feared faction leader and duelist with a powerful CoolAirship. This has a large impact on Rutart's status, contrasting his staying home in their AsskickingLeadsToLeadership culture that venerates adventurers.
* SuccessionCrisis: [[spoiler: Balcus being severely injured by The Black Knight causes one, which Zola takes advantage of with Rutart and her daughter Merce in tow. The Roseblade sisters drive them out and chastise Rutart at the Royal Court.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: Leon feels some sympathy for Rutart. Zola and his blood-sister Merce are pressuring him after all.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Thinks of Leon and Nicks' martial accomplishments as exaggerated rumors.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: He was sent against Leon by Julius to help vilify Leon, [[UriahGambit knowing Rutart would lose]], so that he could sell Rutart’s defeat as a HeroicSacrifice.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Daniel, Raymond, and the Poor Noblemen]]
!!The Poor Noblemen in Marie Route
Initially staring daggers at Leon for seemingly finding a good girlfriend so quickly, while they are left behind. After Marie helps them find good matches, they essentially serve as Leon and Marie's followers.
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* AscendedExtra: More prominent and important here than in the main story.
* CockFight: TheShutIn marriage candidates Marie prepares for them, lead to a lot of competition and outright duels within the group.
* FireForgedFriends: They unite under Leon’s leadership after he [[MisfitMobilizationMoment rallys them]] to [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rescue Marie]] from her forced ArrangedMarriage, and crush the involved Houses Lafan and Offrey.
* GrewASpine: Leon and Marie’s repeated aid and cooperation eventually lets them stand up to the vicious noble girls of the Academy at the party in the route’s fifth part, something [[LadyLand impossible before.]]
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: When Marie is forced out of the Academy by her parents to go into an ArrangedMarriage against her will, Leon rallies them to help rescue her. They rely on her help to find decent marriage candidates, and many consider themselves to owe her a favor for charging such a low price for it.
* NeckLift: Daniel does this to Raymond upon learning that he managed to successfully court a noble girl, which leaves Daniel the last of the three friends single.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: They make up the most normal section of Leon and Marie’s ragtag faction. That being said, they do [[CockFight squabble over girls a lot]].
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: When Leon mobilizes them to rescue Marie and [[WeddingSmashers crash her wedding]].
* TooGoodToBeTrue: What they suspect of Marie’s offers introducing TheShutIn noble girls to them, who are much fairer marriage candidates than the [[RoyalBrat typical academy girls]], who usually [[RichBitch make exorbitant and unfair demands.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Arroganz]]
!!Arroganz
Luxion upgrades Leon's mech Arroganz into a newborn A.I., to take care of Leon while he himself is away. Arroganz is child-like, at first struggling to move properly, prompting Marie to teach and raise him.
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%%* AnimatedArmor
* AnArmAndALeg: Deliberately loses an arm in the arena [[spoiler:as part of Leon's plan to eventually lose against the five Princes. Doesn't hinder him from his RoaringRampageOfRevenge on those princes not long after.]]
* AwesomeYetImpractical: His MidSeasonUpgrade armaments are so demanding that he needs minor A.I.s with him to manage it all.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: His first appearance has him bumbling around like a toddler, and [[TeamMom Marie encourages and is protective of him like one.]]
* EmpathicWeapon: Of the MiniMecha variety. Much like Luxion, he is an emotional A.I., with the most notable example being his WhatTheHellHero moment.
* GatlingGood: Gets equipped with several Gatling guns for MoreDakka to fight TheSwarm of monsters.
* HauntedTechnology: What a number of Leon's faction ''think'' happened to his armor, since a society without computers would have difficulty grasping the concept of A.I.
* LikeASonToMe: Marie sees him like her child.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Arroganz is LiteralMinded, honorable, and reckless, unlike his creator Luxion, who’s a ServileSnarker, RoboticPsychopath, and overprotective of his creations.
* LiteralMinded: Due to being a young A.I.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: In the sixth part, when he realizes he needs MoreDakka, he asks for permission to be loaded up with weapons and armor as well as minor A.I.s to help him manage all of it.
%%* MiniMecha
* {{Overheating}}: Often covered in steam when over-exerting himself in combat.
* RobotBuddy: Fills in for the often absent Luxion as this.
* ThrowAwayGuns: Likes to do this with guns (and armor), in contrast to Luxion who is extremely protective of his creations.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives Leon one when he tries to justify to himself doing nothing over [[spoiler: Julius [[ILied breaking his deal]] to not punish the Redgrave family after Leon throws their duel on behalf of Angelica.]] Leon essentially says that it's SomebodyElsesProblem and that he doesn't care if they get hurt. Arroganz [[YouLie calls him a liar]], and shames Leon into [[spoiler: delivering an unofficial CurbStompBattle to the five princes in retaliation.]]
[[/folder]]
!House Roseblade
House Bartfort's main backers by marriage.
[[folder:Deirdre Fou Roseblade]]
!! Deidre Fou Roseblade in Marie Route
Doesn’t get yelled at by Leon here, so their dynamic is more casual.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Just like her sister Dorothea, she is very skilled politically as well as helpful with said skill to her extended family the Bartforts.
* GondorCallsForAid: [[spoiler: She’s dispatched to help protect the Bartfort household from being stolen by Zola in the family’s SuccessionCrisis.]]
* LuminescentBlush: Seeing Nicks insult Dorothea gives her one that Leon comically mistakes for indignation.
* ShutUpHannibal: Gives one to Zola that sends her scurrying.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dorothea Fou Roseblade]]
!!Dorothea Fou Roseblade
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It doesn't matter how many times you are reborn, I won’t let you get away."'']]
Deirdre’s older sister, who Leon arranges to be married off to his older brother Nicks to form an alliance with the feared Roseblade family, and help him manage his new domain as an Earl, since Nicks wasn’t properly educated to do so. She’s a bit ''too'' enthusiastic.
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* AltarDiplomacy: Her wedding to Nicks was arranged to secure backing in order to keep Nicks' new Earldom from being taken away from him. Even Julius is cautious of the Roseblades.
* AscendedExtra: She was an entirely off-screen character in the Web-Novel that served as a rough draft for the franchise.
* BehindEveryGreatMan: She's basically the one running Nick’s Earldom.
* BrainsAndBondage: Is clearly very intelligent to go along with her liking of bondage play with Nicks.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite all of her BDSM theming, she is extremely good at noble politics and intrigue.
* CanonImmigrant: Is getting adapted into the primary continuity as part of a similar plot.
* DressedLikeADominatrix: At least has the demeanor and theming of one.
* GondorCallsForAid: [[spoiler: Sends her sister to help bail out Leon after Zola tries to seize the Bartfort Household in a SuccessionCrisis after Balcus is incapacitated for months.]]
* HypercompetentSidekick: To the Bartfort Household and faction generally. Although, [[HenPeckedHusband she clearly wears the pants in her marriage]].
* InformedAttribute: Leon calls her sadistic and cold, but she shows a soft side when meeting Marie. Supposedly Luxion investigated the Roseblade family beforehand.
* InsultBackfire: Nicks tries to make her cancel their marriage by insulting and talking down to her. Instead, it just makes her blush and more attracted to Nicks because he is a rare male in the setting willing to stand up to a noblewoman.
* MyOwnPrivateIDo: The compromise that’s reached after she demands a SlaveCollar wedding, is having a private ceremony with that, before their traditional one.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: At least she sees her marriage with Nicks this way. With how much they help each other, there is some merit to the belief, even if Nicks is constantly angry with Leon for arranging it.
* PowerfulPeopleAreSubs: From one of the most powerful and feared noble households, also wants to be tied up in bed, and wear a SlaveCollar at her wedding.
* PropertyOfLove: InvokedTrope with her wedding vows, which gives Leon and Marie chills.
* RulingCouple: For Nicks’ Earldom as his wife. She seems to do most of the work.
* SlaveCollar: She insists on these in place of wedding rings for her wedding with Nicks.
[[/folder]]
!House Atlee
Playing their original game role.
[[folder:Clarice Fia Atlee]]
!!Clarice Fia Atlee in Marie Route
A minor villainess serving her intended role in the game plot, but that's not the end for her.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The third part, partially serves as this for her.
* {{Facepalm}}: She and her followers all do this when, [[spoiler: after hearing that the Palace is moving against him, Leon admits to [[MetronomicManMashing having beat up]] Julius after their duel, which is just like what made them fugitives needing Leon's help in the first place.]]
* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler:She's framed for an attempt on Olivia's life and accused of attacking the Crown Prince as he isn't disowned in this timeline. It nearly gets her killed until Leon helps her escape and sends her off to hide on his island.]]
* HopeIsScary: When realizing she still has the will to live when [[spoiler: her guards are ambushed, with the intent of [[HeKnowsTooMuch silencing her]], before she's rescued.]]
* NobleFugitive: [[spoiler: Being hunted for attacking the Crown Prince and Olivia, after her followers were tricked into assaulting them.]]
* SentIntoHiding: [[spoiler: After being rescued by Leon. Being lax about staying out of sight ended up being an issue when Rutart saw her and told Julius she was at Leon’s estate.]]
* TeamMom: Takes care of Leon’s siblings when their parents aren’t there. [[spoiler: Balcus recovering from severe injuries, and Luce tending to him.]] Leon’s little brother Colin ends up thinking she’ll be Leon’s wife due to this (and seeing Marie as a kid like himself).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Clarice’s Followers]]
!!Clarice’s Followers in Marie Route
Serving their original role as {{Mooks}}.
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* TheAtoner: For [[spoiler: being manipulated into attacking Olivia, and putting Clarice in danger.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Shrug off gun-shots, due to their UndyingLoyalty.
* EliteMooks: It’s shown clearly during a game event, that this was their role in the game.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Frampton tricks them into attacking Olivia to get Clarice's Household out of his way.]]
* WhatTheHellAreYou: Julius' reaction to their fighting prowess and ignoring of bullets.
[[/folder]]
!Other Holfort Academy
[[folder:Master]]
!!Master in Marie Route
Now Leon’s primary political advisor, and source of connections in the Royal Court.
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* TheAtoner: What little he reveals about his MysteriousPast when [[spoiler: asking Leon to rescue Clarice and her followers.]]
* AlmightyJanitor: He seemed to just be a teacher and retired knight in the main story. Here he shows he can pull quite a few strings.
* ApologeticAttacker: Towards [[spoiler:Olivia, since he was the one who invited her into the Academy and it resulted in her being possessed.]]
* BigGood: Leon’s man inside the Royal Palace, since he doesn’t have Duke Redgrave or the Queen supporting him in this timeline.
* CaringGardener: Is entrusted with tending the garden of a mansion.
* CoolTeacher: Still a passionate instructor of tea and etiquette. Also, [[spoiler: it's implied that he was the one who taught Olivia how to use magic.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: Urging Leon to ally with the Principality of Fanoss to stop The Saintess.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler: Reacts to Julius beheading Frampton and laughing like a madman with determination to free the Kingdom.]]
* GuileHero: Mainly contributes using his knowledge and connections, not afraid to break the law in the process.
* HonestAdvisor: A forthright yet polite advisor.
* IHaveMyWays: Considering he was trusted by the queen in the main story, it’s likely at least partially through ties to her that he makes his arrangements.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He gets killed by the Saintess.]]
* MysteriousPast: Which he won’t say much about, besides that he is TheAtoner.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gets this role he had originally, drastically expanded upon.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: When Leon brags about his martial talent, Master quips that Leon [[RoaringRampageOfRescue having crushed]] Houses Lafan and Offrey makes his bragging an understatement.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler: Organizing a prison break, and freeing a fugitive wanted for high-treason, when Clarice [[FrameUp is framed]].]]
* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: When Leon is faced with the choice of either enlisting in Julius’ Volunteer Army, which would interfere with the plot too much, or face Jilk’s severe bullying campaign each day, Master suggests Leon [[StartMyOwn create his own]] logistics army to keep him and his faction away from both the bullying and battlefield.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Olivia's Bullies]]
!!Olivia's Bullies
(Marie Route Original). A group of three noble girls and their exclusive servants who terrorize Olivia, eventually cheating her at cards.
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* TheBully: At least since Leon and Marie [[InnocentlyInsensitive accidently trash-talk Olivia in front of the whole school]] at the party.
* BullyingADragon: They know what Leon is capable of, but having set up a card cheating scheme and looking down on him for being an upstart, they think that they can humble him. Indeed, the only reason he was able to beat them at cards was because he had Luxion, which nobody but Marie knows about.
* CorneredRattlesnake: Leon holding debts over them from the card game, makes them panic and try to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident with their attempted murder of Olivia.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Ambushing Olivia in the dungeons to murder her by throwing her in a forbidden pit, which backfires when she survives, [[DemonicPossession possessed]], and makes them the first targets in her schemes. All Olivia did was let Leon pay back her debts.
* FixingTheGame: Have their Exclusive Servants peek at their opponent’s cards, keep cards up their sleeve, etc. all in the hopes of driving Olivia out of the academy. Which Luxion and Marie help expose when Leon plays with them.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: If they had just kept to regular bullying instead of driving Olivia into ruin, they probably could have gotten away with it.
* InsultBackfire: Calling Leon an Upstart only gives him an AppropriatedAppellation.
* KickTheDog: Dragging a feverish Olivia out of bed and forcing her to gamble so she'd get TrappedByGamblingDebts.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Julius gets them expelled from the Academy for trying to kill Olivia.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Their plan to murder Olivia was to make it look like one of the semi-yearly cases of students perishing fighting in the dungeons, specifically, falling down a pit.
* OhCrap: Leon putting them into debt and threatening to crush their households (which they know he can do).
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Cheat Olivia at cards, get cheated in cards by Leon. Also, threatening her family, before Leon threatens theirs.
* TearsOfFear: When they beg Leon for forgiveness after he beats them at cards and threatens them.
* VillainsWantMercy: After Leon beats them at their own game. He puts their debts on hold as long as they don't try anything with Olivia [[UngratefulBastard but they don't learn]].
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Threaten Olivia’s hometown, which as a non-noble, she can’t do anything to defend. This, along with their servants physically blocking her escape, is what keeps her playing cards with them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Beaudon Brothers]]
!!Alan and Allen Beaudon
(Marie Route Original). Two rich, brash, and arrogant noble sons eager for battle when war strikes the Kingdom.
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* CannonFodder: Alan in Julius’ volunteer army. After his brother Allen's fruitless charge, Duke Redgraves subordinates accuse him as seeing them like this for not rescuing him.
* ChildSoldier: Alan like the rest of the volunteer army.
* GlorySeeker: Both of them expect easy glory in battle and higher status. They meet an early end instead.
* KilledOffscreen: Alan, as befits an arrogant RedShirt.
* LeeroyJenkins: Allen during the BigBadassBattleSequence with the Principality. Him charging ahead to die lowers Kingdom morale and damages the commander, Duke Redgrave’s reputation. At least the Duke didn't charge out in a futile attempt to rescue him.
* PeerPressuredBully: Alan is the face of Jilk’s bullying campaign to fill out Julius’ volunteer army, using his money and followers to do so.
* PimpedOutCar: They have an airship equivalent, which as Jilk notes, a Luxury liner has no place on a battlefield. Alan offers it as Julius’ flagship, before his brother ultimately sends it to its doom.
* RedShirt: Alan, who is KilledOffscreen.
* RoyalBrat: Overconfident and aggressive ones, who think the fancy toys their parents lend them can handle anything.
* SenselessSacrifice: Alan dies as part of an UriahGambit by the Saintess to destroy the kingdom’s nobility, while Allen just makes the battle against the Principality harder.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Both of them, which gets them killed.
* UpperClassTwit: Being SpearCounterpart to all the cruel girls in the Academy. Allen charging out of formation is especially notable in its stupidity.
* WarIsGlorious: They both clearly buy into this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yulia]]
!!Yulia
(Marie Route Original). A Viscount's daughter who is in love with a lower class boyfriend she can't marry, and strikes up a friendship with Marie.
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* MartyrdomCulture: Tries to bury her sadness over her lover's death due to the kingdom having this.
* OvercomeWithDesire: Hardly lets Marie's questioning interfere with her lovemaking.
* QuitYourWhining: Gets essentially told this about her lover's death by a noble girl who has TheSocialDarwinist approach to picking lovers in contrast.
* StarCrossedLovers: Since they're nobles subject to noble politics, her lover is too low in status for her to marry, which is why he joins Julius' army.
[[/folder]]
!Other Holfort Kingdom
[[folder:Kyle]]
!!Kyle in Marie Route
He never drops his façade of being a cute servant kid, but has some suspicions about Olivia.
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* AuraVision: All elves have this, allowing them to see others' magic capabilities, which is apparently how they perceive beauty. Kyle’s vision becomes relevant when he is able to notice a difference when Olivia [[DemonicPossession becomes possessed]] by the Saintess, before she placates him. [[spoiler: Later, once she absorbs another spirit from the Saintess’ Scepter, Kyle is terrified, and the Saintess holds his mother hostage to keep him quiet.]]
* FailedASpotCheck: When he first sees a change in Olivia with his AuraVision when she is possessed, he doesn’t think much of it.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: [[spoiler: After he realizes that [[DemonicPossession Olivia is possessed]], the Saintess doing so holds his mother Yumeria hostage to keep him serving her.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Upon realizing something is horribly wrong with Olivia, even before she tells him she has his mother hostage.]]
* UnwantedGiftPlot: Kyle was an unwanted gift by Julius to Olivia. Since Olivia is a scholarship student, her finances aren't sustainable for both of them, so she is forced to grind in the dungeons as per the game. This, as one of many DisasterDominoes, leads to Olivia being possessed by the first Saintess, causing untold carnage.
* UnwittingPawn: To the Saintess possessing Olivia. [[spoiler: Until he’s a very aware and utterly terrified one.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Duke Redgrave]]
!!Vince Rapha Redgrave in Marie Route
Doesn’t get involved with Leon so easily.
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* BenevolentConspiracy: [[spoiler: Against the Holfort Dynasty, mostly due to Julius's actions ([[TheWomanBehindTheMan which were caused by The Saintess]]).]]
* FrontlineGeneral: Even willing to [[BoardingParty board enemy ships]].
* OvershadowedByAwesome: [[spoiler: Despite seizing the enemy Princess from her flagship during the [[BigBadassBattleSequence fleet battle]] with the Principality, the Bartfort family killing the BlackKnight, and drawing the enemy fleet's fire so the rest could regroup, leaves Vince a target of ridicule.]]
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Allows Mylene and the rest of the the Holfort Royal Family aside from Julius to leave unharmed when the coup happens as part of a deal with Roland to kill the Saintess, even though Roland died before he could uphold his end.]]
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: [[spoiler: He captures princess Hertrude from her flagship, in the [[BigBadassBattleSequence fleet battle]] with the Principality, getting severely injured in the process.]]
* StraightForTheCommander: His strategy for the BigBadassBattleSequence was to capture Princess Hertrude from her flagship.
* SupportingLeader: Leads Holfort’s fleet that intercepts the Principality in an EpicShipOnShipAction. Later lends Leon political support as well, much later than he did in the main story.
* TheUsurper: [[spoiler: Eventually plots with Leon’s other allies to make House Redgrave the new Royal Family, deposing the Holfort Dynasty. They have the blood ties to validate their claim.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Marquess Frampton]]
!!Malcom Fou Frampton in Marie Route
Has just as much ambition, and is just as much of a useful idiot as he was in the main story.
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* BigBadWannabe: Just like in the main story, those he colludes with want to destroy the Kingdom he aims to control.
* FrameUp: [[spoiler: Frampton tricks Clarice's followers into ambushing Julius without her knowledge, at the behest of The Saintess. Then, Frampton tries to have [[HeKnowsTooMuch her and the followers silenced]], but Leon saves them [[AlmightyJanitor with the help of Master]], hiding them on his island.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: All The Saintess needed to do to get him arrested was get his ambitious vassals to spill what they know of his crimes.]]
* MetaphoricallyTrue: [[spoiler: What he told Clarice's followers, that Olivia was a witch bent on destroying the kingdom, wasn't exactly a lie.]]
* NasalTrauma: [[spoiler: Julius chops Frampton’s nose with his sword before beheading him.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: After he abandons The Saintess, she quickly has him exposed, and orders Julius to decapitate him.]]
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: The Saintess was completely prepared for his betrayal of her.]]
* ThreatBackfire: [[spoiler: Threatens to expose The Saintess for their mutual crimes, but she had already prepared to do the same to him.]]
* UriahGambit: It turns out that this was his plan in the Otome Game plot, to have Duke Redgrave and other political opponents of his die to the Principality, before giving them minor concessions, leaving himself in a stronger political position. [[spoiler: Despite the effort by Leon and Marie turning what would have been a massive rout of the Kingdom's forces into a hard earned victory that ends the war, he still succeeds in weakening his opponents politically despite their survival, ending Angie's engagement to Julius.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Threatens to have The Saintess killed and replaced with a puppet to keep her in line, refusing to cooperate any longer, but he has no idea who he’s dealing with.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Saintess (walking spoiler)]]
!!Saintess Anne
One of the long dead founders of the Kingdom of Holfort, and worshipped as a deity within it. She was a member of an adventuring party of non-inheriting nobles, who discovered and settled the continent, with the other members consisting of ancestors of Julius, Jilk, Chris, Brad, Greg, and Leon. The latter ancestor, Liia Bartfort, was the leader of the group and Anne's love, but was betrayed and exiled. Before disappearing, she left behind the three ''Holy Relics'', and put curses on them, leaving fragments of her own soul and desire for vengeance against the other five adventurers' descendants inside.
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* AerithAndBob: LampshadedTrope. Leon and Marie are surprised to find her name was Anne.
* BoldExplorer: Discovered and explored the continent that makes up the bulk of Holfort Kingdom along with her adventurer party, driven by them each being non-inheriting family members from elsewhere.
* CrystalDragonJesus: Prayers are said to her in the Kingdom, and she’s seemingly their savior analogue [[spoiler: [[YouDidntAsk (or was that actually her sister instead?)]] The SpiritAdvisor fragment of her suggests as much. ]]
* CursedItem: She created the Holy Relics as this, infused with parts of her soul and her anger and desire for revenge.
* DemonicPossession: The ultimate ability of the curses she left in the Holy Relics, that can only be done to her descendants. The fragment within the bracelet finds great success possessing Olivia, while the necklace fragment gets a CurbStompBattle from Marie.
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Both the fragments of her spirit within the artifacts express an interest in Leon due to him resembling TheLostLenore Liia, both physically and in personality.
* FounderOfTheKingdom: Widely regarded as this, with the five adventurers. There are some doubts cast upon her role, however. She has been thought to have used the AmplifierArtifact Royal Airship to do so.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Olivia gaining power from the Holy Relics as SwordOfPlotAdvancement, was due to her being possessed more of the spirits Anne left within them.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Her and the other founders were non-inheriting poor nobles.
* JeanneDArchetype: Her role in the Kingdom of Holfort’s history has shades of this. She was an adventurer with WhiteMagic, and also seen as their prophet.
* LightIsNotGood: A master of WhiteMagic turned towards vengeance.
* TheLongGame: Cursing the Holy Relics was definitely a ''long term'' plot for revenge.
* TheLostLenore: Liia, the leader of her adventuring party, who was betrayed by the other five, and exiled, driving her to vengeance. He is the founder of House Bartfort, and had a [[IdenticalGrandson similar personality and appearance to Leon.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Taking revenge on the descendants of her targets, and trying to destroy their entire kingdom, because the man she loved was betrayed by them. One could also consider her using the Royal Airship Weiss to found the Kingdom, this.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: She left three fragments of her spirit, charged with vengeance and ThePowerOfHate, in the [[CursedItem Holy Relics]].
* ThePowerOfHate: Her {{Vengeful Ghost}}s are a physical manifestation of this. Which contrasts with Olivia’s power she used to resolve the Principality's invasion in the main story, being similar to ThePowerOfLove.
* {{Revenge}}: Her playing TheLongGame to get this on the descendants of the five who betrayed her lover Liia, is the main cause of her impact on the plot.
* SinsOfOurFathers: She seeks {{Revenge}} against the descendants of the people who usurped and betrayed her love.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her family in general seems to have these, as descendants have rare and powerful magics to various degrees.
* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: The cursed Holy Relics she made were this in the original Otome Game, as they boost WhiteMagic.
* VengefulGhost: Within her cursed Holy Relics. Even after one of them becomes Leon's SpiritAdvisor, she still tries to talk him into carrying out her revenge.
* WalkingSpoiler: For Marie Route especially.
* WhiteMagic: The ultimate practitioner of it, which mostly includes HealingHands, BarrierWarrior, and CompellingVoice abilities. Her [[SecretLegacy descendants inherit this ability]] to varying degrees.
* YouRemindMeOfX: Each of her ghosts is reminded of her LostLenore Liia, by Leon. Since they’re separate entities, this proves to be both a [[LoveRedeems good thing]], and [[{{Yandere}} bad]].
!! The Saintess' spirit within the Bracelet
--> ''"That’s right, dance. Dance on the palm of my hand."''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darklivia.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A rendition of the possessed Olivia by mangaka Jun Shiosato]]
Enters Marie Route by possessing Olivia, taking advantage of her soft heart and resentment of the five princes. She then starts manipulating the five, and pretty much everyone else, becoming the BigBad, with the intention of destroying the Kingdom that was stolen from her past love. Later absorbs the Scepter's spirit.
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* AgentProvocateur: Her early goal in manipulating the princes, is to get them to drive apart the faction supporting Julius to weaken the Holfort dynasty's grip on the Kingdom. Later on, she moves to making the cream of future nobility die as CannonFodder ChildSoldiers.
* ArchEnemy: For Angelica, explaining Angelica's behavior in the game.
* BigBad: Of the Marie Route side story.
* TheChessMaster: Of XanatosSpeedChess no less. It's not a question of who her pawns are, but who ''isn't one''.
* TheCorrupter: Of Julius. In the main story, Marie uses her power over his heart to influence him into being ModestRoyalty, while in Marie Route, the Saintess influences Julius into a ChronicBackstabbingDisorder {{Yandere}}.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: Was waiting and ready to kill Frampton in case he ever betrayed her.]]
* DeathGlare: Gives Kyle one for not saying Leon’s name respectfully enough.
* EvilCounterpart: To Marie in the main story, with their manipulation of the five princes. Marie was selfish and bratty, while the Saintess is pure evil.
* EvilLaugh: Tends to do this when in private.
* TheFakeCutie: Basically masquerading as Olivia, TheCutie, while manipulating everyone with evil schemes.
* GlamourFailure: After she assimilates the spirit within the Saintess' Scepter, she is no longer capable of fooling Kyle, due to his AuraVision. She resorts to [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure holding his mother Yumeria hostage.]]
* AGlassOfChianti: In many of her scenes, especially if she's scheming something.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Holds Kyle's mother Yumeria hostage after his Elf AuraVision discovers that Olivia is possessed.
* LivingADoubleLife: Appears kind, innocent, and defenseless in front of the five princes. Appears as a ruthless political powermonger when sneaking out to meet with Marquess Frampton, making threats, and vicious schemes. Eventually, [[SanitySlippage cracks in her mask]] start to form.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Holds her [[{{Yandere}} blushing face in both hands]] while Leon [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] the five princes.
* ManipulativeBitch: Masterfully plays with the feelings of Olivia's admirers and her enemies.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Her desire for revenge on the five adventurers got twisted over many years of isolation into this.
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler: Telling Princess Hertrude how she wants to destroy both the Principality and Kingdom before forcing her to drink poison, which backfires on her when Hertrude tells her sister and Leon about it, steeling their resolve to oppose her.]]
* PaperDestructionOfAnger: Repeatedly does this, before ranting to Kyle, who has to clean it up.
* PlayingBothSides: She helps manipulate the Kingdom and Principality into war.
* RevealingCoverup: When she's scheduled to meet Leon, Olivia reasserts control of her body, [[NotWhatItLooksLike grabbing him and then passing out in his arms]] while begging for help. She tries to cover it up, but Jilk being the [[BewareTheQuietOnes underhanded fellow]] that he is, had a spy among her guards, and it ends up making it look like she was having an affair with Leon.
* SanitySlippage: After she as Olivia gets declared a Saintess, and absorbs the Scepter Spirit. At first, the five princes are suddenly able to see that her smiles are fake and something is off. Later, she shows explicit obsessive behavior regarding Leon, and the princes note her smiles are growing even more fake.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The nature of her manipulation of the five princes, stoking their jealousy and rivalries with one another to see who can earn her affection the most, ultimately causes them to act behind her back against her wishes, once she finds someone she's actually interested in and can't hide it.
* VillainousCrush: On Leon, who's behavior is similar enough to her [[TheLostLenore Lost Lenore Liia]], for her to wonder if he is a reincarnation of him. Her interest actually begins from hearing his [[IdenticalGrandson last name]] after he partially foils her plans.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Ensures she's respected when declared a saint, using Olivia's CompellingVoice on a crowd.
* WolfInSheepsClothing: Leon originally believed Olivia to be one based on what he saw in the game, but in this world based on the Otome game at least, the Saintess is the real reason behind her actions, via DemonicPossession. She is good at playing a pure hearted heroine while secretly planning everyone's downfall.
* TheWomanBehindTheMan: The five princes, Frampton, and the Principality, are all ultimately dancing in her palm.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Manipulates many different factions towards her desired goal: As much carnage as possible. She can make other take the fall when she’s targeted, and make other's plans work for her.
* {{Yandere}}: The [[SpiritAdvisor fragment]] of Anne's spirit within the Saintess' Necklace, suggests she'd [[OffingTheOffspring kill all of her own descendants like Marie]] if she had to, in order to be with Leon, because of the cumulative rage of the two spirits within the Bracelet and Scepter possessing Olivia.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Promises to messily murder the man Olivia hopes will free herself from Anne's possession, not knowing that man is Leon. {{Subverted|Trope}} later when she ''does'' learn about Leon, switching over to her {{Yandere}} behavior mentioned above.
!! The Saintess' spirit within the Necklace
--> ''“Certainly I was overflowing with love. I loved Liia more than anybody else. I wanted to convey this feeling. And yet, Holfort and others betrayed Liia.”''
Enters Marie Route's story by trying to possess Marie, failing to do so because her heart is too closed, and then is captured and experimented on by Luxion. Once she meets Leon and enjoys his interactions with Marie, she is freed and joins his team, living out of the necklace, and looking like a ghost of similar appearance to Angelica.
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[FantasticallyIndifferent Marie]] mocks and makes fun of her multiple times, before her HeelFaceTurn. Even telling her, a ghost, that [[NoYou she'll haunt her forever]].
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: While SpiritAdvisor, never seems interested in addressing the issues of Leon and Marie being reincarnated, or having knowledge of future events, or talking about a videogame.
* GloryDays: Reminisces about before Liia was betrayed.
* HeelFaceTurn: After meeting Leon.
* IdenticalStranger: She remarks that Angelica has a similar personality to her own before Liia was betrayed, and her appearance is described as similar.
* {{Intangibility}}: Due to being a ghost, she easily goes through walls.
* LoveRedeems: Seeing Leon and Marie together, reminding her of her past with Liia, as well as them being her own and Liia's descendants, is what prompts her HeelFaceTurn.
* MuggingTheMonster: Tries to possess Marie. Gets booted out of her heart by an unconscious psychological projection of Leon, then captured by Luxion.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing ones]], as she's a spirit of vengeance.
* ShipperOnDeck: Is a big fan of seeing Leon and Marie together, partly because [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple their exchanges]] give her nostalgia for her time with [[TheLostLenore Liia]], and partly because they're her and his descendants.
* SpiritAdvisor: After meeting Leon, her [[TheLostLenore her Lost Lenore's]] IdenticalGrandson, she takes up this role, partly acting as a replacement for an absent Luxion.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Leon walks past Marie playing cards with her, a ghost.
* UnwantedFalseFaith: Expresses exasperation that the people of the Kingdom worship her progenitor, a very powerful [[WhiteMagic white mage]].
* VicariouslyAmbitious: Helps Leon and Marie, because she sees their success as what she and Liia could never have.
* YouDidntAsk: [[spoiler: That Angelica has the SecretLegacy of being descended from Anne's sister, explaining her super-powered rampage.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King Roland]]
!!Roland Rapha Holfort in Marie Route
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Although he serves as TheChewToy and ButtMonkey in the main story, the side story reveals that [[spoiler: if he was really serious, he can even take on the possessed Olivia together with Leon's Master that the latter needs to trick him to even the playing field.]]
* HiddenDepths: The WhatIf reveals that [[spoiler:Roland is one of the few people who can NoSell Saintess Ann's brainwashing magic with pure willpower.]]
* KingIncognito: His role in the Otome Game plot, as The Masked Knight (a scene of which, is in Marie Route SS).
* MasterSwordsman: How good is he? [[spoiler: He can cut magic itself with just a sword.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: In the WhatIf sidestory, Roland's flippant and lazy attitude is absent but is serious and focused on his battle with Saintess Ann. Roland is more ruthless that he is willing to kill Olivia even though he knew she was just possessed, citing it was a better option than lose countless lives. Also for the first time, he called Julius "foolish" (on the main story, he didn't even called out his son's actions even once) and lamented had he knew earlier, he would stop Julius no matter what.]]
[[/folder]]
!Foreign Characters
This section has unmarked spoilers for Marie Route part six.
!!Principality of Fanoss
[[folder:Princess Hertrude]]
!!Hertrude Sera Fanoss in Marie Route
Thanks to Leon, finds out the truth about her nation and tries to set things right.
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* ArrangedMarriage: Frampton planned to set her up with someone from his faction as part of a peace arrangement after abandoning The Saintess, attempting to make Hertrude into his puppet, but this is foiled due to The Saintess having Frampton and Hertrude killed.
* BringNewsBack: Pleads with Leon to take her home to tell what she’s learned from The Saintess' MotiveRant after having been poisoned.
* CruelToBeKind: Rages at and locks up Hertrauda, as a cover for keeping her safe from the WarHawk faction.
* DeathIsDramatic: Continues talking long after being poisoned. Luxion even says she shouldn’t have survived long enough to reach the Principality.
* LastRequest: Makes Leon promise to protect her little sister.
* MurderBySuicide: The Saintess forces her to drink a magical poison, which she eventually dies from.
* TakeUpMySword: Her dying words are encouragements for her little sister to take her place and protect the people of the Principality with the help of Leon.
* YouAreTooLate: Leon rescues her from captivity only after she’s been poisoned.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Princess Hertrauda]]
!!Hertrauda Sera Fanoss in Marie Route
Comes face to face with Leon in her own bedroom, before learning a horrible truth.
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* AChildShallLeadThem: Hertrude encourages her to unite and lead the Principality after her death.
* EtTuBrute: Is devastated to discover that [[VillainousFriendship Vandel]] knew about her parents being assassinated and helped cover it up as part of TheConspiracy.
* TheScapegoat: Earl Garrett tries to make her this during his "revolution".
* TheScream: Screams for help when Leon and Marie infiltrate her bedroom to steal her flute, but Luxion dampened the sound.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Earl Garrett]]
!!Earl Garrett in Marie Route
Garrett gets considerably more political power in Marie Route, playing others against each-other for his own gain, and taking control of his faction.
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* EvilPowerVacuum: His ascent to the top of the war party is a downplayed example. He couldn’t have launched such a blatant coup if Vandel was still around.
* MilitaryCoup: Starts one against Hertrauda, to try and avoid taking the blame for the loss against the Kingdom.
* OpportunisticBastard: Has no morality except his own advancement.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Tries to make his coup look justified as a revolution. Given how much the war party has manipulated the public perception of history before, it might have succeeded if not for Leon.
* {{Slimeball}}: If the Principality loses too badly, he plans to flip sides.
* TheSociopath: Garrett’s InnerMonologue suggests he’s this.
* {{Warhawk}}: Takes over this faction in the Principality after Vandel’s death.
* WouldHurtAChild: Plans to kill Princess Hertrauda as part of his coup.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Tries to pull this on Princess Hertrauda, since Vandel isn’t there to protect her, starting a CivilWar.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Black Knight]]
!!Vandel Him Zenden, 'The Black Knight' in Marie Route
Shows that he cares for the princesses despite everything.
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* AlasPoorVillain: The Fanoss Dynasty loyalists clearly mourn his passing.
* TheAtoner: Sees his protecting Hertrude and Hertrauda as this, for allowing their parents to die. Later events prove he truly was protecting them.
* ForcedToWatch: The Black Knight brags that he'll force Leon to watch his father die, stabbing Balcus in front of him. Fortunately, Balcus barely holds on but is left in intensive care.
* LastWords: Apologizing to Hertrude.
* ThePowerOfHate: He invokes this when Leon complains that he's too strong. It's one of the side-story's running themes.
* RevengeBeforeReason: No matter how much Hertrude argues with him, he won’t back down from his course of revenge, she even tells him that families just like the one he lost will die.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: How Kingdom forces react when Leon kills Vandel [[UnstoppableRage in a rage]].
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Relishes the though of putting the people of the Kingdom through the same pain he went through, and will happily taunt them about it.
[[/folder]]
!! Alzer Republic
[[folder: Louise Sara Rault]]
!!Louise Sara Rault in Marie Route
The last surviving member of the Rault family, and the Six Great Nobles, who escaped with some of her household and refugees.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Indicating her critical condition, as is franchise tradition.
* BringNewsBack: Does her best to inform Leon about what happened in the Republic.
* FriendlyRivalry: Wishes she could have gotten along with Noelle better.
* GoOutWithASmile: Louise dies in peace thinking she’s been reunited with her brother, and that he kept his promise to protect people.
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: Is only kept alive by her Sacred Tree PowerTattoo, until it runs out of magic.
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[[folder: Lelia Zel Lespinasse]]
!! Lelia Zel Lespinasse in Marie Route
The shell-shocked reincarnator for whom everything went wrong.
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* DisasterDominoes: If not for Leon and Marie interfering with her plans, this would be the result: The total destruction of Alzer Republic since they are not present to stop Ideal from wrecking the place and she herself was biased against Raults so she unknowingly stopped their plans to save the Republic. FridgeHorror also sets in with the realization that Noelle experienced all of her [[DomesticAbuse suffering under Loic]] since Leon is not there to stop him, and the fact that Noelle is the one to be sacrificed to the Sacred Tree.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: From her escape airship barely surviving its flight over days, and her guilt.
* HeroicBSOD: Is catatonic and depressed from the trauma of having seen everyone she knows die.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Rightfully blames herself for her country being destroyed.
* ThousandYardStare: Is clearly very traumatized.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Nearly gets lynched by House Rault retainers once they find her on their escape transport.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Thought she was preventing the FinalBoss from appearing by stopping Albergue, but was actually stopping the only chance of resisting Ideal.
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[[folder: Noelle Zel Lespinasse]]
!!Noelle Zel Lespinasse in Marie Route
The priestess sacrificed to the Sacred Tree, remaining as a green ghost within it.
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* FriendlyGhost: And she doesn’t trigger Leon’s phobia of ghosts. She helps stop the tree's heart from being shielded with vines.
* HumanSacrifice: She was offered as a sacrifice to the Sacred Tree in place of Louise in this timeline. Leon wasn’t there to stop it.
* {{Intangibility}}: Can phase through Arroganz because she's a ghost.
* KillHimAlready: Suggests the corrupted Sacred Tree will grow in power if Leon doesn’t finish it.
* UnfinishedBusiness: Both ensuring the corrupted Sacred Tree is destroyed, and delivering a message to Lelia.
* WhatTheHellHero: Mentions having some complaints for Lelia, most likely having to do with Loic (who Leon obviously didn’t rescue her from).
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[[folder: Oliver]]
!!Oliver
A Marie Route original character. An injured middle-aged Knight retainer of House Rault, who speaks for the other retainers and the refugees as a whole.
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* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: As he served the Raults while Leon Sara Rault was still alive, he has some of this for Leon, and it seems like he and the other retainers would be willing to serve Leon.
* MenDontCry: Averted, Louise’ state effects him greatly.
* OldSoldier: A veteran Knight of House Rault.
* StandingBetweenTheEnemies: Marie separates him and Lelia like this until Leon’s timely arrival.
* VigilanteMan: Tries to kill Lelia with the other retainers in a TorchesAndPitchforks manner.
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[[Characters/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobsMainCast The Main Cast]] | [[Characters/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobsHolfort Holfort Kingdom]] | [[Characters/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobsFanoss Principality of Fanoss]] | [[Characters/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobsAlzer Alzer Republic]] | '''Marie Route Side Story''']]-]]]
Tropes only applying to characters within the WhatIf spinoff ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimOtomeGamesAreToughForUsToo'', originally known as the ''Marie Route Side Story.''
Spoilers from the first three mainline Light Novel volumes, and '''the first two parts of Marie Route''' will be unmarked.
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!Marie Route's Main Characters
[[folder:Leon Fou Bartfort]]
!!Leon Fou Bartfort in Marie Route
--> ''“Come on, I’ll carry you back so hop on.”''
After taking Marie under his wing, Leon is known as a powerful warlord who takes care of his friends and loved ones after having escaped the other boys' harsh struggle for marriage with ease, all in the background of the game plot seeming to progress smoothly.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Leon’s snarking and tormenting of Nicks for his own amusement makes him one, which is a RunningGag.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Doesn't mind being known as ''[[RagsToRiches The Upstart]]''.
* BadassBystander: Is much better at being this here than in the main story, staying away from the spotlight of the game plot. His preference for stealth helps in this regard, despite his less stealthy actions also earning him a fearsome reputation.
* CharacterDevelopment: Arguably gets more in Marie Route than in the main story. First off, he learns that a woman's appearance is completely [[TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside insignificant compared to her personality]]. Second, learns the importance of being proactive (where in the main story, Leon is [[VillainsActHeroesReact always reacting]]). Third, instead of avoiding Kingdom politics as much as possible, he basically creates his own political faction.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Leon thinks the Roseblade sisters blushing from Nick’s tirade was indignation. He’s instantly [[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn proven wrong]].
* DefiedTrope: The PointOfDivergence is caused by Leon defying Marie’s attempts at pulling a HijackedDestiny and HostileShowTakeover against Olivia.
* DisasterDominoes: Leon preventing Marie from seducing the princes starts one of these. Somewhat ironic, considering the opening scene of the route could easily be seen as a SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong plot.
* TheDreaded: Downplayed, he ends up feared and respected for his martial accomplishments.
* DuelingScar: The Black Knight gives him one, that gets him called ugly.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Gets bitter looks from his fellow poor noblemen, and pointed remarks from [[ThoseTwoGuys Daniel and Raymond]], over it, with regard to Marie. Arguably, them acting LikeBrotherAndSister comes off as seeming LikeAnOldMarriedCouple to their surroundings due to the horrid state of gender relations in [[LadyLand the society they live in]].
--> ''"Leon, I’ve been thinking this from some time ago but, [[ObliviousToLove are you an idiot]]?"''
* EyepatchOfPower: To cover for the fact Luxion healed the damage he received [[EyeScream to his eye]] from his DuelingScar. This leads to Leon wearing a mask.
* EyeScream: The Black Knight stabs him in the eye through Arroganz's armor.
* FamedInStory: In addition to his pre-PointOfDivergence fame, his actions in the second and fourth parts increase his renown and fearsome reputation. Leon is genuinely looked up to by his fellow poor noblemen, instead of blackmailing them.
* FinishingStomp: [[spoiler: How he obliterates Chris’s mech after Julius double-crosses him.]]
* FixingTheGame: A pointed aversion, as Marie refuses to gamble, even though it'd be an easy source of money. He does it once to help out Olivia whose bullies forced her into a card game.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: [[spoiler: Defeats Brad by hitting his mech with Greg's, after Julius double-crosses him.]]
* GuileHero: While mostly an ActionHero in the main story, he’s more of this here, preferring stealth when action is required. When adequately motivated by TranquilFury, Leon sets up a political ChainOfDeals, leaving him with [[StartMyOwn his own]] political faction.
* HypocriticalHumor: A RunningGag, with Leon criticizing Marie’s past-life brother, who he doesn’t realize is himself.
* IdenticalGrandson: Leon's appearance turns out to be very similar to an ancestor of his: Liia, who was leader of the group of seven adventurers who founded the Kingdom, only to be betrayed by each of them except Saintess Anne who loved him. Liia left for the CallToAgriculture and founded Leon’s House, his importance [[UnPerson erased from history]]. [[spoiler: When the ghosts of Anne see Leon, one is happy to see him together with her descendant ([[SecretLegacy Marie]]), and the other wants to claim him for herself [[{{Yandere}} by any means.]]]]
* {{Irony}}: Leon used to complain about [[ThatOneBoss the Black Knight]] for giving him headaches in the game, but [[LittleDidIKnow little did he know]] that [[spoiler: he would become the Black Knight himself for defeating the main characters of the game.]]
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Leon's over-protectiveness of Marie, which she appreciates, partly stems from her [[RashomonStyle "resembling"]] his past-life sister. Leon having the thought that she really could be said sister prompts his RoaringRampageOfRescue, before deciding she's not his sister, prompts his wedding proposal.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: With Marie.
* LovingBully: Leon shows shades of this with his teasing of Marie.
* MagneticHero: See RagtagBunchOfMisfits.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: However brief, Leon’s MeetCute with Marie is kidnapping her to prevent [[HijackedDestiny her stealing]] Olivia’s first encounter with Julius.
* MetronomicManMashing: [[spoiler: Leon uses Arroganz to do this to a terrified Julius, after Julius [[ILied dishonored their arrangement]] for Leon to throw their duel.]]
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Gets "bad premonitions" when something is happening to Olivia.
* NotBloodSiblings: {{Justified}}. He and Marie ''were'' blood siblings, but due to reincarnation, aren’t anymore. This helps Leon to be protective of her.
* OfficialCouple: As the title suggests, he and Marie are this.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: With Nicks, mostly one sided. It even extends to his InnerMonologue.
* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler: Gives one to the Black Knight that’s a ShoutOut to ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.]]
--> ''[[spoiler:You should have gone for the cockpit!]]''
* ProperlyParanoid: About Marie's safety after giving her the Saintess' amulet. Marie is flattered by his overprotectiveness, and Leon embarrassed. This results in Luxion putting a swarm of {{Surveillance Drone}}s around her, and capturing Anne's ghost.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Leon collects a strange group of allies. It starts off with Marie, most of the poor noblemen, Marie's collection of [[TheShutIn dysfunctional shut-in girls]], and the BunnyEarsLawyer House Roseblade. It then expands to [[spoiler: a fugitive Clarice and her BadassBiker followers, a [[SpiritAdvisor ghost of a long-dead saintess]], and a disgraced and bent-on-revenge Angelica.]]
* RashomonStyle: This is how he and Marie come to the conclusion that they ''weren’t'' past-life-siblings.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Proposes to Marie after crashing her wedding, and she’s referred to as sister-in-law by his family there-after.
* SafeUnderBlankets: Leon’s instinct after seeing a ghost is to do this, which Marie happily teases him for.
* SecretLegacy: The founder of House Bartfort, Liia, was one of the seven adventurers that founded the Kingdom, but was betrayed by five of the others (Holfort, Marmoria, Arclight, Field, and Seburg). This could technically count as a ReallyRoyaltyReveal, as he was the leader of the group, making Holfort a usurper.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Insists this about Marie to his brother Nicks, and his [[EveryoneCanSeeIt observant]] friends, [[RelationshipUpgrade for a while.]]
* StartMyOwn: Instead of piggybacking on Duke Redgrave and his faction like in the main story, Leon and Marie assemble their own RagtagBunchOfMisfits political faction from scratch, with most of the poor noblemen, the [[TheShutIn marriage candidates]] Marie finds for them, and [[BunnyEarsLawyer House Roseblade]] as a base.
** [[spoiler: When the Kingdom goes to war, and Prince Julius [[RedShirtArmy starts a volunteer army,]] Jilk [[PeerPressuredBully creates a campaign of harassment]] to force people to join. Not wanting to interfere directly with the Otome plot by joining, and to keep their friends safe from both the harassment and the battlefield, Leon and Marie decide to make their own volunteer army and have it do logistics missions. This results in the boys of Leon's faction making up most of the surviving boys in the Academy, due to Julius' army being CannonFodder.]]
* ThrowingTheFight: Offers to do this for Julius in this version of Angelica’s duel challenge [[spoiler: in return for showing mercy to House Redgrave. He does a good job of it, [[UngratefulBastard only for]] Julius [[ILied to double cross him]], resulting in an unofficial CurbStompBattle.]]
* TiredOfRunning: Specifically, of running from the spotlight. In the sixth part, Leon declares to Marie that he's done letting problems fester by doing that any longer.
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler: The Black Knight stabbing his father and gloating about it drives Leon into one, that results in the Black Knight’s death, with some help from Nicks.]]
* WallPinOfLove: Does this to stop Marie from escaping when preventing her seduction of Julius.
* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: Leon's phobia of ghosts seems to have this effect on Marie and [[spoiler: Anne's ghost from the Saintess' amulet.]]
* WhatADrag: [[spoiler: Does this to Jilk’s mech after Julius double crosses him.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Ghosts elicit this reaction, much to Marie's amusement.
* WildCard: This is how Leon is perceived by Julius, based on what he saw at meetings in the Royal Court his parents made him attend.
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: Balcus first leaves Leon in charge of his barony, which Leon then pawns onto Deirdre while he attends the Academy.]]
** [[spoiler: After the CivilWar breaks out, Balcus makes Leon dynastic head of the Bartfort Household.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: Marie reminds him of his past life younger sister, because she is her reincarnation. This leads to [[RashomonStyle Marie denying]] she could be [[HypocriticalHumor anything like that horrible person.]]
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[[folder:Luxion]]
!!Luxion in Marie Route
-->''“Looks like master has finally resolved himself.”''
Luxion serves as a bridge between Leon and Marie, helping smooth their relationship, when not being ganged up on by the two in arguments.
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* TheCavalryArrivesLate: [[spoiler: Arrives only ''after'' the Black Knight very nearly kills Leon during the fleet battle with the Principality of Fanoss. At least he healed Leon's [[EyeScream injured eye.]]]]
* ForScience: It’s shown that he keeps a number of creatures as test subjects inside of his main body, prompting Marie to ask him WhatTheHellHero, to which he averts his gaze and forcibly changes the subject.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Proves that despite all the things he's good at, picking someone's accessories is not one of them.
* SequenceBreaking: Gives Leon and Marie the idea to do this. [[spoiler: It turns out that the summoners of the FinalBoss were UnwittingPawns to TheWomanBehindTheMan, the Saintess possessing Olivia, and they still have to fight the Principality’s fleet in a tough battle anyhow.]]
* ShootTheHostageTaker: When Earl Offrey's son takes Marie hostage when confronted by Leon at their wedding, to try and save himself, Luxion snipes his arm with a laser.
* WalkingTheEarth: Due to Leon’s pro-active stance about preventing final-boss like beings from appearing, he sends Luxion investigating all over the world. He ends up getting a little too preoccupied with it.
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[[folder:Marie Fou Lafan]]
!!Marie Fou Lafan in Marie Route
--> ''"Even personality is an important factor. What I want to say is that those five are failures in that respect."''
A pitiful girl with awful family issues, sorting out what it means to find happiness in her second life. All the while being teased by Leon.
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* AmplifierArtifact: Uses the Saint's Necklace in her confrontation with The Saintess in Part 8 to enhance her magic.
* AngerBornOfWorry: In the sixth part, she directs a fair amount of this at Leon for his reckless behavior.
* AppearanceAngst: Due to not fitting Leon's ''[[BuxomBeautyStandard Type]]'', thanks to her determined efforts to [[HealingMagicIsTheHardest learn healing magic]] halting her growth. [[IWasQuiteALooker She was more confident in her past-life body.]]
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Admits in a dream to The Saintess’s spirit trying to possess her, that she’s a bro-con.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: What happens when a ghost attempts to possess her; this is also implied to have happened in the main story with similar results: [[MuggingTheMonster Marie's easy triumph]].
* BelligerentSexualTension: Her general dynamic with Leon here, in particular returning with him from his hot spring, where they argue fiercely but end up HoldingHands.
* BigBrotherAttraction: She likes that Leon [[DramaticIrony "resembles"]] her past-life brother.
* BigEater: Loves eating, having grown up without having much to eat. She can tuck away at least ''10'' plates of steak.
* BlueWithShock: When [[spoiler: The Black Knight, who was ThatOneBoss and the main reason she foisted the Otome Game on Leon, attacks CoolAirship Partner with her on it.]]
** As well as [[spoiler: when she hears that Julius is [[MurderTheHypotenuse intent on crushing]] Leon's Household, and it looking like Luxion has destroyed the Alzer Republic.]]
* CallOnMe:
** Leon crashing her wedding is dramatically timed to her calling out to him in her thoughts.
** Wins a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind by summoning a projection of Leon with [[BatterUp a baseball bat.]]
* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: Marie does this naturally at just the right times to avoid seeming like a ClingyJealousGirl.
* CommonalityConnection: With Leon, due to having Japanese values [[CultureClash as opposed to]] the pseudo-medieval-western values of the Kingdom, and being poor, low status nobles. Despite being a woman, it turns out, without the princes helping her out, she’s not much better off than Leon.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of the WhatIf [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Marie Route]].
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: The most powerful magic user in the Kingdom’s history gets shut up and kicked out of her subconscious, but not before Marie threatens to haunt said ghost for eternity.
* DysfunctionJunction: She assembles, and [[TeamMom is caretaker for]] a growing group of [[TheShutIn shut in noble girls]], to help Leon's fellow poor noblemen find wives who aren't [[RoyalBrat awful]].
* EmbarrassingNickname: After seeing her envy of Olivia being dubbed ''The Goddess of Victory'', Leon dubs Marie ''The Goddess of Material Transport.''
* FanservicePack: DefiedTrope. Due to her AppearanceAngst over her second-life body’s lack of growth, she pleads with Luxion to give her plastic surgery, but he refuses.
* FantasticallyIndifferent: Her first reaction to seeing a ghost is to laugh scornfully at, and mock it.
-->''“There are things even scarier than ghosts in this world. Reality is far more scary."''
* FoodAsBribe: Her price for matchmaking for the poor noble students (basically securing their futures) is pudding from the school cafeteria.
* FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent: Marie essentially builds [[TrueCompanions her own family]] to replace her neglectful ''at best'' second-life blood family.
* HumanoidAbomination: During her BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, her hair turns into tentacles and her eyes shine. Even despite all of that, she still summons a representation of Leon, to handle the invader.
* HypocriticalHumor: Like with Leon, it’s a RunningGag that she criticizes Leon’s past-life sister, but this takes it up a notch:
--> ''"Leon’s little sister in the previous life was like that wasn’t she? A woman who [[BitchInSheepsClothing liked to play innocent]] right? Don’t group me with that kind of detestable fellow. But, if she also liked to drink than she might become a good drinking partner. I’ll punch her if she is just a hypocrite woman though."''
* ImmuneToMindControl: Attributed to her closed heart from trusting the wrong people in the past.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Mentions this about her past-life, doing some FanserviceModel poses while reminiscing.
* KarmicJackpot: Because she and Leon are working together instead of in opposition, with her helping his fellow poor nobles find nice girls to marry, this results in not only their combined efforts freeing her from her abusive family and bringing her out of PerpetualPoverty, but she even ends up getting engaged to Leon and happier than she had been in both of her lives.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: With Leon.
* LifeSavingMisfortune: Leon stops her before she could get her reverse harem. She later admits it was for the best, finding them [[PrinceCharmless rather dull and lacking in charm]].
* LittleSisterHeroine: While Marie was initially conceived as a heavy handed subversion, here she is quite an unusual example. She doesn't realize Leon is her past-life brother, he just reminds her of him.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Averted. Leon tells her what she didn’t know before she could do any damage like she did in the main story.
* LoveEpiphany: When being carried home by Leon after fleeing the party.
* TheMatchmaker: Marie’s handling of TheShutIn girls from the academy is a large scale example. At least she gets paid for it (which she only charges a token amount, when she could get away with charging an arm and a leg due to the boys' desperation).
* TheMedic: Skips classes to heal wounded kids, and gets covered in blood treating wounded refugees.
* MentalWorld: Hers is represented as her past-life bedroom, when The Saintess invades 'her heart'. She seems to have her past-life body there as well.
* {{Motifs}}: Night-time is used as a theme for her romance with Leon, such as when Marie has her LoveEpiphany, and when Leon proposes marriage.
* MoneyFetish: While Luxion does make fun of Marie once for liking money, after she's freed from her family and the debts they were causing, this is ultimately {{Averted}}.
* MuggingTheMonster: When [[VengefulGhost The Saintess' spirit]] tries to [[DemonicPossession possess]] Marie, it ends up being the one terrified.
* MundaneLuxury: She couldn't afford new socks or underwear and gets excited when Leon offers to buy them for her.
* NotBloodSiblings: {{Justified}}. Her and Leon, who ''were'' blood siblings before they each reincarnated. Marie seems to see Leon's "resemblance" to him as a plus.
* OfficialCouple: As the title suggests, she's this with Leon.
* OneOfTheKids: When with Leon’s little brother Colin. Her reacting to his teasing furthers his view of her as like a sibling his own age.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Compared to the original story.
* RageBreakingPoint: Seeing many girls of the Academy happily celebrating WhileRomeBurns in the middle of a bloody war infuriates Marie. This builds up until a girl telling Yulia she should be happy her lover died, and [[BerserkButton calling Leon ugly]], makes Marie snap into an UnstoppableRage.
* RashomonStyle: This is how she and Leon come to the conclusion that they ''weren't'' past-life siblings.
* RelationshipUpgrade: After Leon crashes her ArrangedMarriage wedding, and proposes to her.
* RoleSwapAU: Has her role swapped with Olivia in this universe. This only becomes evident after Olivia gets possessed, becoming an EvilCounterpart to Marie’s main route self.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Gets "bad premonitions" when something is happening to Olivia.
* SecretLegacy: The reason behind her healing power and being recognized by the Holy Relics, is due to being descended from the First Saintess. This also makes it possible for said Saintess, who left behind multiple {{Vengeful Ghost}}s in the [[CursedItem Holy Relics]], to attempt to [[DemonicPossession possess her]], although Marie's heart is too closed for that, and her unconscious [[MuggingTheMonster throws The Saintess out]].
* SpoiledBrat: Marie gets teased by Leon and Luxion over her spoiled tendencies, but also admired for her work ethic when selling doughnuts.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Shows this towards The Saintess.
* TastesLikeFriendship: She and Leon start bonding after he notices she's hungry and buys her all the food she can eat.
* TeamMom: She takes up the task of being caretaker to her assembled DysfunctionJunction of [[TheShutIn shut-in girls]] to help the poor noblemen find decent wives. As well, Marie treats the [[TheBabyOfTheBunch newly created]] A.I. installed in Arroganz like her child.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Steak. She also enjoys {{sweet|Tooth}}s with tea that Leon makes.
* TrappedByGamblingDebts: This element is built on compared to the main story, with debt collectors breaking into her dorm room, and her parents telling her to spend her vacation time earning money in the dungeon. Eventually escalates to them selling off her hand in marriage to the Offrey Household, incurring Leon’s TranquilFury and getting her family stripped of their nobility and land.
* TheUnfavorite: Since her (second-life) family situation is explored in more depth here, it turns out that her older sister wastes money freely, while conversely, the whole family leans on Marie to help pay the bills.
* UnknownRival: To Olivia, envying her success and Leon’s obvious attraction to her.
%%* UnstoppableRage: A noble-girl telling Yulia that she should [[MartyrdomCulture be happy her lover died]], and [[BerserkButton calling Leon ugly]], drives Marie berserk.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Turns menacing at the prospect of Leon being taken from her, besides the whole girl calling Leon ugly incident.
* VirginShaming: Gives Leon a taste of his own teasing medicine with this in an argument, before HoldingHands.
* WhatTheHellHero: The result of her probing after finding out about [[ForScience the tests]] Luxion does on creatures he keeps inside his main body.
-->''"…This guy, is he perhaps not considering anyone else other than us humans?"''
* WillingChanneler: [[spoiler:Offers to let The Saintess possess her in exchange for releasing Olivia, allowing her to be with Lea's descendant through her. Though she makes it clear that she's not giving up control so much as she's allowing them to stay inside of her so they can realize their wish through her happiness with Leon.]]
* YouAreNotAlone: Marie is betrayed by her family, who [[ArrangedMarriage sell her off]] to clear [[TrappedByGamblingDebts their debts]], leaving [[HeroicBSOD her feeling abandoned]] by everyone except her past-life brother. Then, that brother, who she just then sees in Leon, [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rescues her]] with the help of [[MisfitMobilizationMoment all the poor nobles]] she's been aiding, showing that her efforts to make a FamilyOfChoice have [[FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent paid off]].
* YouRemindMeOfX: Leon reminds her of her past life older brother, because he is his reincarnation. This leads to [[RashomonStyle Leon denying]] he could be [[HypocriticalHumor anything like that horrible person.]]
* YoungEntrepreneur: Runs a successful doughnut stand at the SchoolFestival. In her childhood, she would also exchange furs of animals she killed to buy secondhand clothing.
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!The Remaining Original Main Characters
[[folder:Olivia]]
!!Olivia in Marie Route
--> ''“Why won’t he (Julius) leave me alone?”''
Fully the protagonist of the first game, whom Leon dislikes and thinks must be having the time of her life being catered to by five rich high-status men.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ConversedTrope. InUniverse Leon and Marie both came to the conclusion early on, that she was horrible for stealing Angelica’s fiancé. The two end up [[InnocentlyInsensitive being overheard]] gossiping about the situation, which springs the bullying of Olivia into high gear, and possibly [[ShipSinking killed her interest]] in Julius, whose route Luxion determined she was on.
* BreakTheCutie: Poor Livia goes through much worse torment than the main storyline. She is chased around by the five most popular guys in school and harassed by bullies, and later, [[spoiler:gets possessed by the evil spirit of the first saint.]]
* BoundAndGagged: How her mind is represented within her MentalWorld while she’s possessed.
* BullyMagnet: Much more of one here than in the main route, driven by jealousy of her time spent with the dateable cast, as well as her social status.
* ButtMonkey: She'd been better off with Marie stealing the five princes.
* DemonicPossession: The Holy Relics each hold a VengefulGhost fragment of the first saintess Anne, capable of possessing [[SecretLegacy her descendants]]. When Olivia comes into contact with the Saintess' Bracelet, it possesses her due to her soft heart and resentment of the five princes. Olivia becomes trapped within her own body, while Anne [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates everyone]] [[BigBad towards destruction]] in her place.
* DemotedToExtra: She's still important, but no longer one of the main heroines here.
* FightingFromTheInside: First, when she tries to strangle herself. Secondly, [[spoiler: when she reasserts control to beg Leon for help, and hides his identity from her possessor.]]
* HeWillComeForMe: [[spoiler: After seeing Leon a second time and breaking through her possession to plead for his help, Olivia holds onto the hope of Leon rescuing her, remembering how he helped her with the card game.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Leon visiting her, gives her hope that he can free her from DemonicPossession.]]
* InterruptedSuicide: Tries to strangle herself in the bath due to her DemonicPossession, but fails.
* LeaveMeAlone: What she wants to tell the five capture targets, but is too afraid to due to their status.
* LifeSavingMisfortune: Marie Route reveals that both on a [[ButtMonkey personal]] and a [[DisasterDominoes meta level]], Marie [[HostileShowTakeover usurping Olivia as protagonist]] in the main timeline, was the best thing that could have happened to her.
* UnequalPairing: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. The power imbalance between her and the five capture targets means she can't turn them down once they have their sights set on her, and their presumed relationship draws resentment from the rest of the school.
* UnwantedHarem: Since Marie was prevented from interfering. Olivia just wants to study, but due to the five dateable cast being high nobles and her a commoner, she can't refuse their constant date requests, and she starts [[LeaveMeAlone to resent them]]. This has consequences when it helps the first Saintess' VengefulGhost [[DemonicPossession possess her]], said possession being why she seemed willing in later Otome Game events, [[AgentProvocateur to manipulate them]].
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[[folder:Angelica Rapha Redgrave]]
!!Angelica Rapha Redgrave in Marie Route
--> ''“…that saintess. No, that witch, I won’t tolerate her even if I have to fall into hell.”''
The scorned villainess, who suffers as her destiny intended.
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* AngerMontage: Trashes her cabin in Partner out of anger at Leon for ThrowingTheFight as her duel challenge champion.
* CassandraTruth: About (Saintess-possessed) Olivia being evil and colluding with Marquess Frampton. By the time she finds out, she’s [[DespairEventHorizon in such a bad mental state]], that she comes off as a raving madwoman.
* DemotedToExtra: She's still important, but no longer one of the main heroines here.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: After discovering the truth behind the war from Hertrude, and having her engagement broken.]]
* ExactWords: Leon noted originally that her fate after losing her duel with the protagonist's ReverseHarem in the Otome Game was to be forced to marry ''an ugly noble from the countryside''. In Marie Route, that nobleman turns out to be none other than Leon himself, who's considered ugly after his [[DuelingScar face is scarred]]. He manages to talk it down to just keeping her safe while pretending to be in talks.
* FreakOut: It turns out that the original version of Angelica ThrowingDownTheGauntlet, was part of one of these.
* GirlInTheTower: Is imprisoned like this due to fears for her sanity.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Once she's pushed past her DespairEventHorizon and starts her quest for revenge. It symbolizes her similarity to Saintess Anne's extreme quest for revenge; said vengeful spirit having such glowing red eyes.
* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler: It turns out she's somewhat of an example of this to the kingdom-founding Saintess Anne, at least according to her [[OurGhostsAreDifferent vengeful spirit]], having similar personalities as well as appearances.]]
* MagicPants: Averted. [[spoiler: Angelica's super-powered rampage destroys all of her clothing.]]
* MeetCute: When she sits on a bench with Leon and eats the doughnuts he offers her. This turns out to be one of the few happy memories she has in her life.
* NoSell: Can resist The Saintess' CompellingVoice through sheer force of will and hatred.
* ThePowerOfHate: Her eyes glow from this, and more.
* {{Revenge}}: Eventually dedicates herself to getting revenge on Olivia.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Breaking out of her imprisonment in a whirlwind of fire while laughing sadly, flying across the sky to try and get revenge on the Saintess.]]
* SecretLegacy: [[spoiler: Being descended from the Saintess Anne’s sister, which seems to be the source of her super powers that are more than a normal human can handle.]]
* StepfordSmiler: During her childhood, when she couldn't handle the pressures of being a ProperLady, she'd hide away in a storage room and cry to herself.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: A 'dark flame' inside of her, and GlowingEyesOfDoom. [[spoiler: Her powers include flight and wrapping herself in a lot of fire.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Five Dateable Cast]]
!!The Five Dateable Cast generally in Marie Route
* AbhorrentAdmirer: All of them are this to Olivia. She resents them for taking up so much of her time and attracting jealous bullies to her, causing a never-ending amount of stress for her. Worse still, she can't voice her complaints because she fears the potential consequences of defying nobility.
* CrazyJealousGuy: All show signs of becoming this, none more so [[{{Yandere}} than Julius]]. Sequestering Olivia in a house and letting no one else enter, for instance.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Their response to even the tiniest mistreatment of Olivia they hear about, is to try to outdo each other and earn her approval. In doing so, they expel a good chunk of the school and blow apart the faction supporting Julius as heir.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The five pushing themselves onto Olivia, and being more interested in the affection they can get from her, rather than her own wellbeing, makes them each an example. But Julius and Jilk take the cake. Jilk with his treatment of Clarice and stated willingness to throw Julius under the bus to have Olivia for himself, and Julius with his not caring about anyone else whatsoever.
* JerkassAtYourDiscretion: The impression they give off to Marie after she fails to seduce them due to Leon’s interference, is that they’re nice to Olivia, and ''only'' her.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Greg, Chris, and Brad are killed during Part 8 as they attempt to defend the capital and Olivia from the alliance of nobles.]]
* LoveMakesYouDumb: In the main story, this was mostly a source of comedy and suffering for Marie. Here, it serves a [[UnwittingPawn much darker purpose.]]
* LoveRuinsTheRealm: They don’t get disinherited, and thus can do a lot more damage. It doesn’t help that the woman they’re in love with is actually trying to destroy the realm.
* RedshirtArmy: Their Volunteer Army consisted of students in the war.
* RemovingTheRival: Once Leon catches their ire, they take this mindset, starting with forcing Leon to wear an ugly mask and cooperating to make sure he has no chance to talk to Olivia. [[spoiler: Eventually it escalates to Jilk and Julius deciding to MurderTheHypotenuse over [[NotWhatItLooksLike a misunderstanding]].]]
* SenselessSacrifice: The ChildSoldiers they send to their deaths, [[FalseFlagOperation unbeknownst to them.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: As opposed to their FriendlyRivalry with one another in the main story, here there is bullying between them and desperation to get ahead.
* ToAbsentFriends: They and their forces cope with high casualty rates by drinking rowdily.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Due to The Saintess manipulating them.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Each of them, when dueling Leon, who they arranged to [[ThrowingTheFight throw the fight.]]
* UnwittingPawn: The Saintess possessing Olivia manipulates them easily to destroy the kingdom from within. With the otome game scenes being set up by her before she [[WolfInSheepsClothing acts out her part]].
* WarIsGlorious: Wholeheartedly believe in, and loudly espouse this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Julius Rapha Holfort]]
!!Julius Rapha Holfort in Marie Route
--> ''"I’ll remove any fool who dare to lay his hand on Olivia. Olivia is mine alone."''
The Crown Prince who cares about Olivia and nothing else.
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* BackingAwaySlowly: [[spoiler: In fear of Leon’s TranquilFury after having CurbStompBattled the other four due to Julius double-crossing him.]]
* BandageMummy: [[spoiler: After Leon gets his revenge for Julius double-crossing him.]]
* ChestOfMedals: While he probably earned two of them through minor accomplishments, he puts on more out of ego and keeps up appearances.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Tore apart his political alliances with full awareness and without a shred of regret, and [[spoiler: double-crosses Leon.]]
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler: After he beheads Marquess Frampton.]]
* ILied: [[spoiler: Goes back on his arrangement with Leon to throw their duel, resulting in Leon beating the four other princes in a quick CurbStompBattle, and giving Julius a MetronomicManMashing.]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: They both think that the Masked Knight's mask is cool, while everyone else is appalled by it.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Ordered Leon’s home island to be burnt to the ground, people included.]]
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: After Leon publicly beats the princes in a CurbStompBattle after being [[ILied double-crossed]], Leon was discovered to have [[NotWhatItLooksLike embraced Olivia, who hushed it up]], and [[FrameUp they think]] that Leon is harboring someone who attacked them and Olivia. Thus, Julius and Jilk decide to murder Leon and crush his Household.]]
* ThisCannotBe: Leon being appointed Olivia’s knight.
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: Leon works hard to [[ThrowingTheFight throw their fight]], and make the proceeding matches look close for Julius. Julius repays this by publicly disgracing Angelica and telling Leon he was a fool to trust their verbal agreement.]]
* WeHaveReserves: Doesn’t care how many ChildSoldiers have to die as long as it will make Olivia like him more than the others.
* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: This version of Julius being King would be a monumental disaster. And he hasn’t been disinherited.
* {{Yandere}}: Tells Leon during their duel, that nobody else’s life matters to him as long as he has Olivia.
[[/folder]]
!House Bartfort
[[folder:Balcus Fou Bartfort]]
!!Balcus Fou Bartfort in Marie Route
--> ''"I see. So you're still a stupid kid.”''
Leon’s actions inadvertently force his father into political and military struggles.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: [[spoiler: Of Leon having caused a CivilWar with the Kingdom, suggesting he’d smack Leon if not for his injuries.]]
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Charges onto Partner's deck after seeing the Black Knight heading towards it, intending to sacrifice himself to let his son Leon escape. Both his sons team up to win the fight, but not before he TakesTheBullet for Leon, leaving Balcus hospitalized.]]
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: Retires and makes Leon dynastic head of the Bartfort Household, due to his own injury and indecision.]]
* SecretKeeper: It's implied he knows the whole story behind Liia Bartfort and the original Saintess. He's only offered a few scraps so far, and told his sons [[YouDoNotWantToKnow they shouldn't know]].
* SecretLegacy: He's revealed that his, and by extension Leon's ancestor Liia, was part of the adventuring party formed by the five dateable cast's ancestors, that founded the Kingdom, but was tricked and fled to live in peace on a remote island.
* ShipperOnDeck: Expects Leon and Marie to marry after she spends a month at their home.
* SuccessionCrisis: [[spoiler: After he gets severely injured, someone must be acting family head and FeudalOverlord for their Household, and Zola and her son Rutart show up to claim it. House Roseblade [[GondorCallsForAid honors]] their [[AltarDiplomacy marriage alliance with Nicks]], and drives them off, leaving [[YouAreInCommandNow Leon in charge.]]]]
* TakingTheBullet:[[spoiler: Does this to save Leon from the BlackKnight, and barely survives.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nicks Fou Bartfort]]
!!Nicks Fou Bartfort in Marie Route
--> ''"A brother who cares about his family wouldn't sell his brother out to some woman!"''
Leon and Balcus essentially force Nicks into a marriage he doesn’t want, and a landed title, for the good of their family. This causes him to hold an impotent grudge against Leon, while doing his best to rule as second fiddle to his new wife Dorothea.
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* ArrangedMarriage: For the sake of [[AltarDiplomacy an alliance]] with House Roseblade, Leon forces him to marry the [[InformedAttribute supposedly sadistic]] Dorothea.
* AscendedExtra: From being MrExposition to a plot pivotal character involved in romance, noble politics, and two {{Sibling Rivalr|y}}ies. Elements of his expanded role here were folded into the main story after the fact.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Nicks complains about having a tough time finding a wife (in the main story as well). When he gets one, it's [[PropertyOfLove more than he bargained for]].
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Protecting Leon and Balcus from TheBlackKnight in the [[BigBadassBattleSequence fleet battle against the Principality.]]]]
* ButtMonkey: Leon loves rubbing in his ArrangedMarriage with sarcasm, and [[HenpeckedHusband threatening to talk to his wife about him]].
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: His ambush of Rutart’s force sent to annihilate Balcus’ barony.]]
* DrawAggro: [[spoiler: Nicks' last-minute distraction allows Leon to kill the Black Knight.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: A source of comedy, and a weak point for Leon to exploit in arguments.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Expresses a similar sentiment to Leon about Marie, after hearing about her tough (second-life) childhood.
* InsultBackfire: Tries to offend Dorothea to wriggle out of their ArrangedMarriage, only for it to earn her respect and affection instead.
* MyOwnPrivateIDo: Dorothea insists on a private wedding before their normal one, with her vows giving Leon and Marie chills.
* PropertyOfLove: This the sort of relationship Dorothea hopes to have with Nicks. Insisting they both wear slave collars during their wedding, much to both families' chagrin. Nicks doesn't seem enthused.
* RulingCouple: With Dorothea, as Earl of a floating island, as a result of Leon’s dealings.
* SiblingRivalry: This is two-fold. First, Nicks holds a grudge against Leon for setting up his ArrangedMarriage, although it's mostly PlayedForLaughs. The two have a [[CainAndAbel more serious]] mutual rivalry with Rutart, whom Nicks planned to murder via UnfriendlyFire.
** [[spoiler: The rivalry with Rutart meets a bloody end when Nicks ambushes Rutart's task force sent to annihilate Balcus' floating island barony.]]
* SlaveCollar: What Dorothea makes him wear in their private wedding, with her wearing one as well, in place of wedding rings.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Says this multiple times to Leon for setting up his ArrangedMarriage. Unlike the trope's usual usage in Japanese works, [[spoiler: he relents somewhat, after learning how rough Marie's childhood was.]]
* UnfriendlyFire: How Nicks hoped to end his SiblingRivalry with Rutart. Nicks didn't get the chance, due to Rutart being [[DirtyCoward too cowardly to show up for battle.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rutart Fou Bartfort]]
!!Rutart in Marie Route
Zola’s son who lives with her in the capitol. Legally the First Son and heir of the Bartfort Household, due to inherit Balcus’ barony upon his death. He’s actually a bastard via Zola’s lover, and resents the success of his two "brothers".
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* AscendedExtra: Goes from being a background character with only one speaking appearance, to having FirstPersonPerspective scenes.
* BastardBastard: Leon and Dorothea both figured out that he’s the son of Zola’s lover instead of Balcus.
* BlingOfWar: Wears a fancy pseudo military outfit to compensate for his lack of prestige compared to his "brothers"; it just gets him laughed at.
* CantCatchUp: Can’t match the accomplishments, assets, and prestige of his two "brothers".
* DirtyCoward: Is widely mocked for this by his countrymen for not going to war, losing his Knighthood. To be fair on him, he had learned that the battle he skipped out on was an UriahGambit, and Nicks could well [[UnfriendlyFire have shot him down in the chaos]].
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Feels like his younger "brothers" overshadowing him has made him a laughing stock. And indeed, other men laugh at him behind his back.
* IdleRich: What Leon suspects his life is like in the capitol. He’s at least treated better by Zola than Leon and Nicks are.
* LineageComesFromTheFather: He has physical traits from his true father instead of Balcus, hinting about him being illegitimate.
* TheResenter: Of Leon and Nicks. Rutart's mother Zola and sister Merce rubbing it in only encourages the grudge.
* RoyalBrat: Entitled, impatient, ambitious, puts on airs, disrespectful.
* [[SiblingRivalry "Sibling" Rivalry]]: Wants to seize control of Nicks' territory, which is much more substantial compared to Balcus’ barony that Rutart is legally due to inherit. It was given to Nicks specifically to keep it out of Rutart’s hands and he knows it.
** [[spoiler: Rutart plots with Julius against Balcus and his blood family, being promised a court rank in the capital for burning Balcus’ barony to the ground. Before Nicks ambushes him.]]
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Rutart's prime motivation. His struggle with Nicks and Leon evokes a typical PrincelingRivalry on a smaller scale. When Balcus dies, Rutart is due to be a Baron, while Nicks is already an Earl, and Leon a feared faction leader and duelist with a powerful CoolAirship. This has a large impact on Rutart's status, contrasting his staying home in their AsskickingLeadsToLeadership culture that venerates adventurers.
* SuccessionCrisis: [[spoiler: Balcus being severely injured by The Black Knight causes one, which Zola takes advantage of with Rutart and her daughter Merce in tow. The Roseblade sisters drive them out and chastise Rutart at the Royal Court.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: Leon feels some sympathy for Rutart. Zola and his blood-sister Merce are pressuring him after all.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Thinks of Leon and Nicks' martial accomplishments as exaggerated rumors.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: He was sent against Leon by Julius to help vilify Leon, [[UriahGambit knowing Rutart would lose]], so that he could sell Rutart’s defeat as a HeroicSacrifice.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Daniel, Raymond, and the Poor Noblemen]]
!!The Poor Noblemen in Marie Route
Initially staring daggers at Leon for seemingly finding a good girlfriend so quickly, while they are left behind. After Marie helps them find good matches, they essentially serve as Leon and Marie's followers.
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* AscendedExtra: More prominent and important here than in the main story.
* CockFight: TheShutIn marriage candidates Marie prepares for them, lead to a lot of competition and outright duels within the group.
* FireForgedFriends: They unite under Leon’s leadership after he [[MisfitMobilizationMoment rallys them]] to [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rescue Marie]] from her forced ArrangedMarriage, and crush the involved Houses Lafan and Offrey.
* GrewASpine: Leon and Marie’s repeated aid and cooperation eventually lets them stand up to the vicious noble girls of the Academy at the party in the route’s fifth part, something [[LadyLand impossible before.]]
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: When Marie is forced out of the Academy by her parents to go into an ArrangedMarriage against her will, Leon rallies them to help rescue her. They rely on her help to find decent marriage candidates, and many consider themselves to owe her a favor for charging such a low price for it.
* NeckLift: Daniel does this to Raymond upon learning that he managed to successfully court a noble girl, which leaves Daniel the last of the three friends single.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: They make up the most normal section of Leon and Marie’s ragtag faction. That being said, they do [[CockFight squabble over girls a lot]].
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: When Leon mobilizes them to rescue Marie and [[WeddingSmashers crash her wedding]].
* TooGoodToBeTrue: What they suspect of Marie’s offers introducing TheShutIn noble girls to them, who are much fairer marriage candidates than the [[RoyalBrat typical academy girls]], who usually [[RichBitch make exorbitant and unfair demands.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Arroganz]]
!!Arroganz
Luxion upgrades Leon's mech Arroganz into a newborn A.I., to take care of Leon while he himself is away. Arroganz is child-like, at first struggling to move properly, prompting Marie to teach and raise him.
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%%* AnimatedArmor
* AnArmAndALeg: Deliberately loses an arm in the arena [[spoiler:as part of Leon's plan to eventually lose against the five Princes. Doesn't hinder him from his RoaringRampageOfRevenge on those princes not long after.]]
* AwesomeYetImpractical: His MidSeasonUpgrade armaments are so demanding that he needs minor A.I.s with him to manage it all.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: His first appearance has him bumbling around like a toddler, and [[TeamMom Marie encourages and is protective of him like one.]]
* EmpathicWeapon: Of the MiniMecha variety. Much like Luxion, he is an emotional A.I., with the most notable example being his WhatTheHellHero moment.
* GatlingGood: Gets equipped with several Gatling guns for MoreDakka to fight TheSwarm of monsters.
* HauntedTechnology: What a number of Leon's faction ''think'' happened to his armor, since a society without computers would have difficulty grasping the concept of A.I.
* LikeASonToMe: Marie sees him like her child.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Arroganz is LiteralMinded, honorable, and reckless, unlike his creator Luxion, who’s a ServileSnarker, RoboticPsychopath, and overprotective of his creations.
* LiteralMinded: Due to being a young A.I.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: In the sixth part, when he realizes he needs MoreDakka, he asks for permission to be loaded up with weapons and armor as well as minor A.I.s to help him manage all of it.
%%* MiniMecha
* {{Overheating}}: Often covered in steam when over-exerting himself in combat.
* RobotBuddy: Fills in for the often absent Luxion as this.
* ThrowAwayGuns: Likes to do this with guns (and armor), in contrast to Luxion who is extremely protective of his creations.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives Leon one when he tries to justify to himself doing nothing over [[spoiler: Julius [[ILied breaking his deal]] to not punish the Redgrave family after Leon throws their duel on behalf of Angelica.]] Leon essentially says that it's SomebodyElsesProblem and that he doesn't care if they get hurt. Arroganz [[YouLie calls him a liar]], and shames Leon into [[spoiler: delivering an unofficial CurbStompBattle to the five princes in retaliation.]]
[[/folder]]
!House Roseblade
House Bartfort's main backers by marriage.
[[folder:Deirdre Fou Roseblade]]
!! Deidre Fou Roseblade in Marie Route
Doesn’t get yelled at by Leon here, so their dynamic is more casual.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Just like her sister Dorothea, she is very skilled politically as well as helpful with said skill to her extended family the Bartforts.
* GondorCallsForAid: [[spoiler: She’s dispatched to help protect the Bartfort household from being stolen by Zola in the family’s SuccessionCrisis.]]
* LuminescentBlush: Seeing Nicks insult Dorothea gives her one that Leon comically mistakes for indignation.
* ShutUpHannibal: Gives one to Zola that sends her scurrying.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dorothea Fou Roseblade]]
!!Dorothea Fou Roseblade
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mobusekadorothea01.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"It doesn't matter how many times you are reborn, I won’t let you get away."'']]
Deirdre’s older sister, who Leon arranges to be married off to his older brother Nicks to form an alliance with the feared Roseblade family, and help him manage his new domain as an Earl, since Nicks wasn’t properly educated to do so. She’s a bit ''too'' enthusiastic.
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* AltarDiplomacy: Her wedding to Nicks was arranged to secure backing in order to keep Nicks' new Earldom from being taken away from him. Even Julius is cautious of the Roseblades.
* AscendedExtra: She was an entirely off-screen character in the Web-Novel that served as a rough draft for the franchise.
* BehindEveryGreatMan: She's basically the one running Nick’s Earldom.
* BrainsAndBondage: Is clearly very intelligent to go along with her liking of bondage play with Nicks.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite all of her BDSM theming, she is extremely good at noble politics and intrigue.
* CanonImmigrant: Is getting adapted into the primary continuity as part of a similar plot.
* DressedLikeADominatrix: At least has the demeanor and theming of one.
* GondorCallsForAid: [[spoiler: Sends her sister to help bail out Leon after Zola tries to seize the Bartfort Household in a SuccessionCrisis after Balcus is incapacitated for months.]]
* HypercompetentSidekick: To the Bartfort Household and faction generally. Although, [[HenPeckedHusband she clearly wears the pants in her marriage]].
* InformedAttribute: Leon calls her sadistic and cold, but she shows a soft side when meeting Marie. Supposedly Luxion investigated the Roseblade family beforehand.
* InsultBackfire: Nicks tries to make her cancel their marriage by insulting and talking down to her. Instead, it just makes her blush and more attracted to Nicks because he is a rare male in the setting willing to stand up to a noblewoman.
* MyOwnPrivateIDo: The compromise that’s reached after she demands a SlaveCollar wedding, is having a private ceremony with that, before their traditional one.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: At least she sees her marriage with Nicks this way. With how much they help each other, there is some merit to the belief, even if Nicks is constantly angry with Leon for arranging it.
* PowerfulPeopleAreSubs: From one of the most powerful and feared noble households, also wants to be tied up in bed, and wear a SlaveCollar at her wedding.
* PropertyOfLove: InvokedTrope with her wedding vows, which gives Leon and Marie chills.
* RulingCouple: For Nicks’ Earldom as his wife. She seems to do most of the work.
* SlaveCollar: She insists on these in place of wedding rings for her wedding with Nicks.
[[/folder]]
!House Atlee
Playing their original game role.
[[folder:Clarice Fia Atlee]]
!!Clarice Fia Atlee in Marie Route
A minor villainess serving her intended role in the game plot, but that's not the end for her.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The third part, partially serves as this for her.
* {{Facepalm}}: She and her followers all do this when, [[spoiler: after hearing that the Palace is moving against him, Leon admits to [[MetronomicManMashing having beat up]] Julius after their duel, which is just like what made them fugitives needing Leon's help in the first place.]]
* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler:She's framed for an attempt on Olivia's life and accused of attacking the Crown Prince as he isn't disowned in this timeline. It nearly gets her killed until Leon helps her escape and sends her off to hide on his island.]]
* HopeIsScary: When realizing she still has the will to live when [[spoiler: her guards are ambushed, with the intent of [[HeKnowsTooMuch silencing her]], before she's rescued.]]
* NobleFugitive: [[spoiler: Being hunted for attacking the Crown Prince and Olivia, after her followers were tricked into assaulting them.]]
* SentIntoHiding: [[spoiler: After being rescued by Leon. Being lax about staying out of sight ended up being an issue when Rutart saw her and told Julius she was at Leon’s estate.]]
* TeamMom: Takes care of Leon’s siblings when their parents aren’t there. [[spoiler: Balcus recovering from severe injuries, and Luce tending to him.]] Leon’s little brother Colin ends up thinking she’ll be Leon’s wife due to this (and seeing Marie as a kid like himself).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Clarice’s Followers]]
!!Clarice’s Followers in Marie Route
Serving their original role as {{Mooks}}.
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* TheAtoner: For [[spoiler: being manipulated into attacking Olivia, and putting Clarice in danger.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Shrug off gun-shots, due to their UndyingLoyalty.
* EliteMooks: It’s shown clearly during a game event, that this was their role in the game.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Frampton tricks them into attacking Olivia to get Clarice's Household out of his way.]]
* WhatTheHellAreYou: Julius' reaction to their fighting prowess and ignoring of bullets.
[[/folder]]
!Other Holfort Academy
[[folder:Master]]
!!Master in Marie Route
Now Leon’s primary political advisor, and source of connections in the Royal Court.
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* TheAtoner: What little he reveals about his MysteriousPast when [[spoiler: asking Leon to rescue Clarice and her followers.]]
* AlmightyJanitor: He seemed to just be a teacher and retired knight in the main story. Here he shows he can pull quite a few strings.
* ApologeticAttacker: Towards [[spoiler:Olivia, since he was the one who invited her into the Academy and it resulted in her being possessed.]]
* BigGood: Leon’s man inside the Royal Palace, since he doesn’t have Duke Redgrave or the Queen supporting him in this timeline.
* CaringGardener: Is entrusted with tending the garden of a mansion.
* CoolTeacher: Still a passionate instructor of tea and etiquette. Also, [[spoiler: it's implied that he was the one who taught Olivia how to use magic.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: Urging Leon to ally with the Principality of Fanoss to stop The Saintess.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler: Reacts to Julius beheading Frampton and laughing like a madman with determination to free the Kingdom.]]
* GuileHero: Mainly contributes using his knowledge and connections, not afraid to break the law in the process.
* HonestAdvisor: A forthright yet polite advisor.
* IHaveMyWays: Considering he was trusted by the queen in the main story, it’s likely at least partially through ties to her that he makes his arrangements.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He gets killed by the Saintess.]]
* MysteriousPast: Which he won’t say much about, besides that he is TheAtoner.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gets this role he had originally, drastically expanded upon.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: When Leon brags about his martial talent, Master quips that Leon [[RoaringRampageOfRescue having crushed]] Houses Lafan and Offrey makes his bragging an understatement.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler: Organizing a prison break, and freeing a fugitive wanted for high-treason, when Clarice [[FrameUp is framed]].]]
* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: When Leon is faced with the choice of either enlisting in Julius’ Volunteer Army, which would interfere with the plot too much, or face Jilk’s severe bullying campaign each day, Master suggests Leon [[StartMyOwn create his own]] logistics army to keep him and his faction away from both the bullying and battlefield.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Olivia's Bullies]]
!!Olivia's Bullies
(Marie Route Original). A group of three noble girls and their exclusive servants who terrorize Olivia, eventually cheating her at cards.
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* TheBully: At least since Leon and Marie [[InnocentlyInsensitive accidently trash-talk Olivia in front of the whole school]] at the party.
* BullyingADragon: They know what Leon is capable of, but having set up a card cheating scheme and looking down on him for being an upstart, they think that they can humble him. Indeed, the only reason he was able to beat them at cards was because he had Luxion, which nobody but Marie knows about.
* CorneredRattlesnake: Leon holding debts over them from the card game, makes them panic and try to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident with their attempted murder of Olivia.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Ambushing Olivia in the dungeons to murder her by throwing her in a forbidden pit, which backfires when she survives, [[DemonicPossession possessed]], and makes them the first targets in her schemes. All Olivia did was let Leon pay back her debts.
* FixingTheGame: Have their Exclusive Servants peek at their opponent’s cards, keep cards up their sleeve, etc. all in the hopes of driving Olivia out of the academy. Which Luxion and Marie help expose when Leon plays with them.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: If they had just kept to regular bullying instead of driving Olivia into ruin, they probably could have gotten away with it.
* InsultBackfire: Calling Leon an Upstart only gives him an AppropriatedAppellation.
* KickTheDog: Dragging a feverish Olivia out of bed and forcing her to gamble so she'd get TrappedByGamblingDebts.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Julius gets them expelled from the Academy for trying to kill Olivia.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Their plan to murder Olivia was to make it look like one of the semi-yearly cases of students perishing fighting in the dungeons, specifically, falling down a pit.
* OhCrap: Leon putting them into debt and threatening to crush their households (which they know he can do).
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Cheat Olivia at cards, get cheated in cards by Leon. Also, threatening her family, before Leon threatens theirs.
* TearsOfFear: When they beg Leon for forgiveness after he beats them at cards and threatens them.
* VillainsWantMercy: After Leon beats them at their own game. He puts their debts on hold as long as they don't try anything with Olivia [[UngratefulBastard but they don't learn]].
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Threaten Olivia’s hometown, which as a non-noble, she can’t do anything to defend. This, along with their servants physically blocking her escape, is what keeps her playing cards with them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Beaudon Brothers]]
!!Alan and Allen Beaudon
(Marie Route Original). Two rich, brash, and arrogant noble sons eager for battle when war strikes the Kingdom.
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* CannonFodder: Alan in Julius’ volunteer army. After his brother Allen's fruitless charge, Duke Redgraves subordinates accuse him as seeing them like this for not rescuing him.
* ChildSoldier: Alan like the rest of the volunteer army.
* GlorySeeker: Both of them expect easy glory in battle and higher status. They meet an early end instead.
* KilledOffscreen: Alan, as befits an arrogant RedShirt.
* LeeroyJenkins: Allen during the BigBadassBattleSequence with the Principality. Him charging ahead to die lowers Kingdom morale and damages the commander, Duke Redgrave’s reputation. At least the Duke didn't charge out in a futile attempt to rescue him.
* PeerPressuredBully: Alan is the face of Jilk’s bullying campaign to fill out Julius’ volunteer army, using his money and followers to do so.
* PimpedOutCar: They have an airship equivalent, which as Jilk notes, a Luxury liner has no place on a battlefield. Alan offers it as Julius’ flagship, before his brother ultimately sends it to its doom.
* RedShirt: Alan, who is KilledOffscreen.
* RoyalBrat: Overconfident and aggressive ones, who think the fancy toys their parents lend them can handle anything.
* SenselessSacrifice: Alan dies as part of an UriahGambit by the Saintess to destroy the kingdom’s nobility, while Allen just makes the battle against the Principality harder.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Both of them, which gets them killed.
* UpperClassTwit: Being SpearCounterpart to all the cruel girls in the Academy. Allen charging out of formation is especially notable in its stupidity.
* WarIsGlorious: They both clearly buy into this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yulia]]
!!Yulia
(Marie Route Original). A Viscount's daughter who is in love with a lower class boyfriend she can't marry, and strikes up a friendship with Marie.
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* MartyrdomCulture: Tries to bury her sadness over her lover's death due to the kingdom having this.
* OvercomeWithDesire: Hardly lets Marie's questioning interfere with her lovemaking.
* QuitYourWhining: Gets essentially told this about her lover's death by a noble girl who has TheSocialDarwinist approach to picking lovers in contrast.
* StarCrossedLovers: Since they're nobles subject to noble politics, her lover is too low in status for her to marry, which is why he joins Julius' army.
[[/folder]]
!Other Holfort Kingdom
[[folder:Kyle]]
!!Kyle in Marie Route
He never drops his façade of being a cute servant kid, but has some suspicions about Olivia.
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* AuraVision: All elves have this, allowing them to see others' magic capabilities, which is apparently how they perceive beauty. Kyle’s vision becomes relevant when he is able to notice a difference when Olivia [[DemonicPossession becomes possessed]] by the Saintess, before she placates him. [[spoiler: Later, once she absorbs another spirit from the Saintess’ Scepter, Kyle is terrified, and the Saintess holds his mother hostage to keep him quiet.]]
* FailedASpotCheck: When he first sees a change in Olivia with his AuraVision when she is possessed, he doesn’t think much of it.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: [[spoiler: After he realizes that [[DemonicPossession Olivia is possessed]], the Saintess doing so holds his mother Yumeria hostage to keep him serving her.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Upon realizing something is horribly wrong with Olivia, even before she tells him she has his mother hostage.]]
* UnwantedGiftPlot: Kyle was an unwanted gift by Julius to Olivia. Since Olivia is a scholarship student, her finances aren't sustainable for both of them, so she is forced to grind in the dungeons as per the game. This, as one of many DisasterDominoes, leads to Olivia being possessed by the first Saintess, causing untold carnage.
* UnwittingPawn: To the Saintess possessing Olivia. [[spoiler: Until he’s a very aware and utterly terrified one.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Duke Redgrave]]
!!Vince Rapha Redgrave in Marie Route
Doesn’t get involved with Leon so easily.
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* BenevolentConspiracy: [[spoiler: Against the Holfort Dynasty, mostly due to Julius's actions ([[TheWomanBehindTheMan which were caused by The Saintess]]).]]
* FrontlineGeneral: Even willing to [[BoardingParty board enemy ships]].
* OvershadowedByAwesome: [[spoiler: Despite seizing the enemy Princess from her flagship during the [[BigBadassBattleSequence fleet battle]] with the Principality, the Bartfort family killing the BlackKnight, and drawing the enemy fleet's fire so the rest could regroup, leaves Vince a target of ridicule.]]
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Allows Mylene and the rest of the the Holfort Royal Family aside from Julius to leave unharmed when the coup happens as part of a deal with Roland to kill the Saintess, even though Roland died before he could uphold his end.]]
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: [[spoiler: He captures princess Hertrude from her flagship, in the [[BigBadassBattleSequence fleet battle]] with the Principality, getting severely injured in the process.]]
* StraightForTheCommander: His strategy for the BigBadassBattleSequence was to capture Princess Hertrude from her flagship.
* SupportingLeader: Leads Holfort’s fleet that intercepts the Principality in an EpicShipOnShipAction. Later lends Leon political support as well, much later than he did in the main story.
* TheUsurper: [[spoiler: Eventually plots with Leon’s other allies to make House Redgrave the new Royal Family, deposing the Holfort Dynasty. They have the blood ties to validate their claim.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Marquess Frampton]]
!!Malcom Fou Frampton in Marie Route
Has just as much ambition, and is just as much of a useful idiot as he was in the main story.
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* BigBadWannabe: Just like in the main story, those he colludes with want to destroy the Kingdom he aims to control.
* FrameUp: [[spoiler: Frampton tricks Clarice's followers into ambushing Julius without her knowledge, at the behest of The Saintess. Then, Frampton tries to have [[HeKnowsTooMuch her and the followers silenced]], but Leon saves them [[AlmightyJanitor with the help of Master]], hiding them on his island.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: All The Saintess needed to do to get him arrested was get his ambitious vassals to spill what they know of his crimes.]]
* MetaphoricallyTrue: [[spoiler: What he told Clarice's followers, that Olivia was a witch bent on destroying the kingdom, wasn't exactly a lie.]]
* NasalTrauma: [[spoiler: Julius chops Frampton’s nose with his sword before beheading him.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: After he abandons The Saintess, she quickly has him exposed, and orders Julius to decapitate him.]]
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: The Saintess was completely prepared for his betrayal of her.]]
* ThreatBackfire: [[spoiler: Threatens to expose The Saintess for their mutual crimes, but she had already prepared to do the same to him.]]
* UriahGambit: It turns out that this was his plan in the Otome Game plot, to have Duke Redgrave and other political opponents of his die to the Principality, before giving them minor concessions, leaving himself in a stronger political position. [[spoiler: Despite the effort by Leon and Marie turning what would have been a massive rout of the Kingdom's forces into a hard earned victory that ends the war, he still succeeds in weakening his opponents politically despite their survival, ending Angie's engagement to Julius.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Threatens to have The Saintess killed and replaced with a puppet to keep her in line, refusing to cooperate any longer, but he has no idea who he’s dealing with.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Saintess (walking spoiler)]]
!!Saintess Anne
One of the long dead founders of the Kingdom of Holfort, and worshipped as a deity within it. She was a member of an adventuring party of non-inheriting nobles, who discovered and settled the continent, with the other members consisting of ancestors of Julius, Jilk, Chris, Brad, Greg, and Leon. The latter ancestor, Liia Bartfort, was the leader of the group and Anne's love, but was betrayed and exiled. Before disappearing, she left behind the three ''Holy Relics'', and put curses on them, leaving fragments of her own soul and desire for vengeance against the other five adventurers' descendants inside.
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* AerithAndBob: LampshadedTrope. Leon and Marie are surprised to find her name was Anne.
* BoldExplorer: Discovered and explored the continent that makes up the bulk of Holfort Kingdom along with her adventurer party, driven by them each being non-inheriting family members from elsewhere.
* CrystalDragonJesus: Prayers are said to her in the Kingdom, and she’s seemingly their savior analogue [[spoiler: [[YouDidntAsk (or was that actually her sister instead?)]] The SpiritAdvisor fragment of her suggests as much. ]]
* CursedItem: She created the Holy Relics as this, infused with parts of her soul and her anger and desire for revenge.
* DemonicPossession: The ultimate ability of the curses she left in the Holy Relics, that can only be done to her descendants. The fragment within the bracelet finds great success possessing Olivia, while the necklace fragment gets a CurbStompBattle from Marie.
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Both the fragments of her spirit within the artifacts express an interest in Leon due to him resembling TheLostLenore Liia, both physically and in personality.
* FounderOfTheKingdom: Widely regarded as this, with the five adventurers. There are some doubts cast upon her role, however. She has been thought to have used the AmplifierArtifact Royal Airship to do so.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Olivia gaining power from the Holy Relics as SwordOfPlotAdvancement, was due to her being possessed more of the spirits Anne left within them.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Her and the other founders were non-inheriting poor nobles.
* JeanneDArchetype: Her role in the Kingdom of Holfort’s history has shades of this. She was an adventurer with WhiteMagic, and also seen as their prophet.
* LightIsNotGood: A master of WhiteMagic turned towards vengeance.
* TheLongGame: Cursing the Holy Relics was definitely a ''long term'' plot for revenge.
* TheLostLenore: Liia, the leader of her adventuring party, who was betrayed by the other five, and exiled, driving her to vengeance. He is the founder of House Bartfort, and had a [[IdenticalGrandson similar personality and appearance to Leon.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Taking revenge on the descendants of her targets, and trying to destroy their entire kingdom, because the man she loved was betrayed by them. One could also consider her using the Royal Airship Weiss to found the Kingdom, this.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: She left three fragments of her spirit, charged with vengeance and ThePowerOfHate, in the [[CursedItem Holy Relics]].
* ThePowerOfHate: Her {{Vengeful Ghost}}s are a physical manifestation of this. Which contrasts with Olivia’s power she used to resolve the Principality's invasion in the main story, being similar to ThePowerOfLove.
* {{Revenge}}: Her playing TheLongGame to get this on the descendants of the five who betrayed her lover Liia, is the main cause of her impact on the plot.
* SinsOfOurFathers: She seeks {{Revenge}} against the descendants of the people who usurped and betrayed her love.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her family in general seems to have these, as descendants have rare and powerful magics to various degrees.
* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: The cursed Holy Relics she made were this in the original Otome Game, as they boost WhiteMagic.
* VengefulGhost: Within her cursed Holy Relics. Even after one of them becomes Leon's SpiritAdvisor, she still tries to talk him into carrying out her revenge.
* WalkingSpoiler: For Marie Route especially.
* WhiteMagic: The ultimate practitioner of it, which mostly includes HealingHands, BarrierWarrior, and CompellingVoice abilities. Her [[SecretLegacy descendants inherit this ability]] to varying degrees.
* YouRemindMeOfX: Each of her ghosts is reminded of her LostLenore Liia, by Leon. Since they’re separate entities, this proves to be both a [[LoveRedeems good thing]], and [[{{Yandere}} bad]].
!! The Saintess' spirit within the Bracelet
--> ''"That’s right, dance. Dance on the palm of my hand."''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darklivia.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A rendition of the possessed Olivia by mangaka Jun Shiosato]]
Enters Marie Route by possessing Olivia, taking advantage of her soft heart and resentment of the five princes. She then starts manipulating the five, and pretty much everyone else, becoming the BigBad, with the intention of destroying the Kingdom that was stolen from her past love. Later absorbs the Scepter's spirit.
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* AgentProvocateur: Her early goal in manipulating the princes, is to get them to drive apart the faction supporting Julius to weaken the Holfort dynasty's grip on the Kingdom. Later on, she moves to making the cream of future nobility die as CannonFodder ChildSoldiers.
* ArchEnemy: For Angelica, explaining Angelica's behavior in the game.
* BigBad: Of the Marie Route side story.
* TheChessMaster: Of XanatosSpeedChess no less. It's not a question of who her pawns are, but who ''isn't one''.
* TheCorrupter: Of Julius. In the main story, Marie uses her power over his heart to influence him into being ModestRoyalty, while in Marie Route, the Saintess influences Julius into a ChronicBackstabbingDisorder {{Yandere}}.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: Was waiting and ready to kill Frampton in case he ever betrayed her.]]
* DeathGlare: Gives Kyle one for not saying Leon’s name respectfully enough.
* EvilCounterpart: To Marie in the main story, with their manipulation of the five princes. Marie was selfish and bratty, while the Saintess is pure evil.
* EvilLaugh: Tends to do this when in private.
* TheFakeCutie: Basically masquerading as Olivia, TheCutie, while manipulating everyone with evil schemes.
* GlamourFailure: After she assimilates the spirit within the Saintess' Scepter, she is no longer capable of fooling Kyle, due to his AuraVision. She resorts to [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure holding his mother Yumeria hostage.]]
* AGlassOfChianti: In many of her scenes, especially if she's scheming something.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Holds Kyle's mother Yumeria hostage after his Elf AuraVision discovers that Olivia is possessed.
* LivingADoubleLife: Appears kind, innocent, and defenseless in front of the five princes. Appears as a ruthless political powermonger when sneaking out to meet with Marquess Frampton, making threats, and vicious schemes. Eventually, [[SanitySlippage cracks in her mask]] start to form.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Holds her [[{{Yandere}} blushing face in both hands]] while Leon [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] the five princes.
* ManipulativeBitch: Masterfully plays with the feelings of Olivia's admirers and her enemies.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Her desire for revenge on the five adventurers got twisted over many years of isolation into this.
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler: Telling Princess Hertrude how she wants to destroy both the Principality and Kingdom before forcing her to drink poison, which backfires on her when Hertrude tells her sister and Leon about it, steeling their resolve to oppose her.]]
* PaperDestructionOfAnger: Repeatedly does this, before ranting to Kyle, who has to clean it up.
* PlayingBothSides: She helps manipulate the Kingdom and Principality into war.
* RevealingCoverup: When she's scheduled to meet Leon, Olivia reasserts control of her body, [[NotWhatItLooksLike grabbing him and then passing out in his arms]] while begging for help. She tries to cover it up, but Jilk being the [[BewareTheQuietOnes underhanded fellow]] that he is, had a spy among her guards, and it ends up making it look like she was having an affair with Leon.
* SanitySlippage: After she as Olivia gets declared a Saintess, and absorbs the Scepter Spirit. At first, the five princes are suddenly able to see that her smiles are fake and something is off. Later, she shows explicit obsessive behavior regarding Leon, and the princes note her smiles are growing even more fake.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The nature of her manipulation of the five princes, stoking their jealousy and rivalries with one another to see who can earn her affection the most, ultimately causes them to act behind her back against her wishes, once she finds someone she's actually interested in and can't hide it.
* VillainousCrush: On Leon, who's behavior is similar enough to her [[TheLostLenore Lost Lenore Liia]], for her to wonder if he is a reincarnation of him. Her interest actually begins from hearing his [[IdenticalGrandson last name]] after he partially foils her plans.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Ensures she's respected when declared a saint, using Olivia's CompellingVoice on a crowd.
* WolfInSheepsClothing: Leon originally believed Olivia to be one based on what he saw in the game, but in this world based on the Otome game at least, the Saintess is the real reason behind her actions, via DemonicPossession. She is good at playing a pure hearted heroine while secretly planning everyone's downfall.
* TheWomanBehindTheMan: The five princes, Frampton, and the Principality, are all ultimately dancing in her palm.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Manipulates many different factions towards her desired goal: As much carnage as possible. She can make other take the fall when she’s targeted, and make other's plans work for her.
* {{Yandere}}: The [[SpiritAdvisor fragment]] of Anne's spirit within the Saintess' Necklace, suggests she'd [[OffingTheOffspring kill all of her own descendants like Marie]] if she had to, in order to be with Leon, because of the cumulative rage of the two spirits within the Bracelet and Scepter possessing Olivia.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Promises to messily murder the man Olivia hopes will free herself from Anne's possession, not knowing that man is Leon. {{Subverted|Trope}} later when she ''does'' learn about Leon, switching over to her {{Yandere}} behavior mentioned above.
!! The Saintess' spirit within the Necklace
--> ''“Certainly I was overflowing with love. I loved Liia more than anybody else. I wanted to convey this feeling. And yet, Holfort and others betrayed Liia.”''
Enters Marie Route's story by trying to possess Marie, failing to do so because her heart is too closed, and then is captured and experimented on by Luxion. Once she meets Leon and enjoys his interactions with Marie, she is freed and joins his team, living out of the necklace, and looking like a ghost of similar appearance to Angelica.
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[FantasticallyIndifferent Marie]] mocks and makes fun of her multiple times, before her HeelFaceTurn. Even telling her, a ghost, that [[NoYou she'll haunt her forever]].
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: While SpiritAdvisor, never seems interested in addressing the issues of Leon and Marie being reincarnated, or having knowledge of future events, or talking about a videogame.
* GloryDays: Reminisces about before Liia was betrayed.
* HeelFaceTurn: After meeting Leon.
* IdenticalStranger: She remarks that Angelica has a similar personality to her own before Liia was betrayed, and her appearance is described as similar.
* {{Intangibility}}: Due to being a ghost, she easily goes through walls.
* LoveRedeems: Seeing Leon and Marie together, reminding her of her past with Liia, as well as them being her own and Liia's descendants, is what prompts her HeelFaceTurn.
* MuggingTheMonster: Tries to possess Marie. Gets booted out of her heart by an unconscious psychological projection of Leon, then captured by Luxion.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing ones]], as she's a spirit of vengeance.
* ShipperOnDeck: Is a big fan of seeing Leon and Marie together, partly because [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple their exchanges]] give her nostalgia for her time with [[TheLostLenore Liia]], and partly because they're her and his descendants.
* SpiritAdvisor: After meeting Leon, her [[TheLostLenore her Lost Lenore's]] IdenticalGrandson, she takes up this role, partly acting as a replacement for an absent Luxion.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Leon walks past Marie playing cards with her, a ghost.
* UnwantedFalseFaith: Expresses exasperation that the people of the Kingdom worship her progenitor, a very powerful [[WhiteMagic white mage]].
* VicariouslyAmbitious: Helps Leon and Marie, because she sees their success as what she and Liia could never have.
* YouDidntAsk: [[spoiler: That Angelica has the SecretLegacy of being descended from Anne's sister, explaining her super-powered rampage.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King Roland]]
!!Roland Rapha Holfort in Marie Route
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Although he serves as TheChewToy and ButtMonkey in the main story, the side story reveals that [[spoiler: if he was really serious, he can even take on the possessed Olivia together with Leon's Master that the latter needs to trick him to even the playing field.]]
* HiddenDepths: The WhatIf reveals that [[spoiler:Roland is one of the few people who can NoSell Saintess Ann's brainwashing magic with pure willpower.]]
* KingIncognito: His role in the Otome Game plot, as The Masked Knight (a scene of which, is in Marie Route SS).
* MasterSwordsman: How good is he? [[spoiler: He can cut magic itself with just a sword.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: In the WhatIf sidestory, Roland's flippant and lazy attitude is absent but is serious and focused on his battle with Saintess Ann. Roland is more ruthless that he is willing to kill Olivia even though he knew she was just possessed, citing it was a better option than lose countless lives. Also for the first time, he called Julius "foolish" (on the main story, he didn't even called out his son's actions even once) and lamented had he knew earlier, he would stop Julius no matter what.]]
[[/folder]]
!Foreign Characters
This section has unmarked spoilers for Marie Route part six.
!!Principality of Fanoss
[[folder:Princess Hertrude]]
!!Hertrude Sera Fanoss in Marie Route
Thanks to Leon, finds out the truth about her nation and tries to set things right.
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* ArrangedMarriage: Frampton planned to set her up with someone from his faction as part of a peace arrangement after abandoning The Saintess, attempting to make Hertrude into his puppet, but this is foiled due to The Saintess having Frampton and Hertrude killed.
* BringNewsBack: Pleads with Leon to take her home to tell what she’s learned from The Saintess' MotiveRant after having been poisoned.
* CruelToBeKind: Rages at and locks up Hertrauda, as a cover for keeping her safe from the WarHawk faction.
* DeathIsDramatic: Continues talking long after being poisoned. Luxion even says she shouldn’t have survived long enough to reach the Principality.
* LastRequest: Makes Leon promise to protect her little sister.
* MurderBySuicide: The Saintess forces her to drink a magical poison, which she eventually dies from.
* TakeUpMySword: Her dying words are encouragements for her little sister to take her place and protect the people of the Principality with the help of Leon.
* YouAreTooLate: Leon rescues her from captivity only after she’s been poisoned.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Princess Hertrauda]]
!!Hertrauda Sera Fanoss in Marie Route
Comes face to face with Leon in her own bedroom, before learning a horrible truth.
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* AChildShallLeadThem: Hertrude encourages her to unite and lead the Principality after her death.
* EtTuBrute: Is devastated to discover that [[VillainousFriendship Vandel]] knew about her parents being assassinated and helped cover it up as part of TheConspiracy.
* TheScapegoat: Earl Garrett tries to make her this during his "revolution".
* TheScream: Screams for help when Leon and Marie infiltrate her bedroom to steal her flute, but Luxion dampened the sound.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Earl Garrett]]
!!Earl Garrett in Marie Route
Garrett gets considerably more political power in Marie Route, playing others against each-other for his own gain, and taking control of his faction.
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* EvilPowerVacuum: His ascent to the top of the war party is a downplayed example. He couldn’t have launched such a blatant coup if Vandel was still around.
* MilitaryCoup: Starts one against Hertrauda, to try and avoid taking the blame for the loss against the Kingdom.
* OpportunisticBastard: Has no morality except his own advancement.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Tries to make his coup look justified as a revolution. Given how much the war party has manipulated the public perception of history before, it might have succeeded if not for Leon.
* {{Slimeball}}: If the Principality loses too badly, he plans to flip sides.
* TheSociopath: Garrett’s InnerMonologue suggests he’s this.
* {{Warhawk}}: Takes over this faction in the Principality after Vandel’s death.
* WouldHurtAChild: Plans to kill Princess Hertrauda as part of his coup.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Tries to pull this on Princess Hertrauda, since Vandel isn’t there to protect her, starting a CivilWar.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Black Knight]]
!!Vandel Him Zenden, 'The Black Knight' in Marie Route
Shows that he cares for the princesses despite everything.
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* AlasPoorVillain: The Fanoss Dynasty loyalists clearly mourn his passing.
* TheAtoner: Sees his protecting Hertrude and Hertrauda as this, for allowing their parents to die. Later events prove he truly was protecting them.
* ForcedToWatch: The Black Knight brags that he'll force Leon to watch his father die, stabbing Balcus in front of him. Fortunately, Balcus barely holds on but is left in intensive care.
* LastWords: Apologizing to Hertrude.
* ThePowerOfHate: He invokes this when Leon complains that he's too strong. It's one of the side-story's running themes.
* RevengeBeforeReason: No matter how much Hertrude argues with him, he won’t back down from his course of revenge, she even tells him that families just like the one he lost will die.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: How Kingdom forces react when Leon kills Vandel [[UnstoppableRage in a rage]].
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Relishes the though of putting the people of the Kingdom through the same pain he went through, and will happily taunt them about it.
[[/folder]]
!! Alzer Republic
[[folder: Louise Sara Rault]]
!!Louise Sara Rault in Marie Route
The last surviving member of the Rault family, and the Six Great Nobles, who escaped with some of her household and refugees.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Indicating her critical condition, as is franchise tradition.
* BringNewsBack: Does her best to inform Leon about what happened in the Republic.
* FriendlyRivalry: Wishes she could have gotten along with Noelle better.
* GoOutWithASmile: Louise dies in peace thinking she’s been reunited with her brother, and that he kept his promise to protect people.
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: Is only kept alive by her Sacred Tree PowerTattoo, until it runs out of magic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Lelia Zel Lespinasse]]
!! Lelia Zel Lespinasse in Marie Route
The shell-shocked reincarnator for whom everything went wrong.
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* DisasterDominoes: If not for Leon and Marie interfering with her plans, this would be the result: The total destruction of Alzer Republic since they are not present to stop Ideal from wrecking the place and she herself was biased against Raults so she unknowingly stopped their plans to save the Republic. FridgeHorror also sets in with the realization that Noelle experienced all of her [[DomesticAbuse suffering under Loic]] since Leon is not there to stop him, and the fact that Noelle is the one to be sacrificed to the Sacred Tree.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: From her escape airship barely surviving its flight over days, and her guilt.
* HeroicBSOD: Is catatonic and depressed from the trauma of having seen everyone she knows die.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Rightfully blames herself for her country being destroyed.
* ThousandYardStare: Is clearly very traumatized.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Nearly gets lynched by House Rault retainers once they find her on their escape transport.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Thought she was preventing the FinalBoss from appearing by stopping Albergue, but was actually stopping the only chance of resisting Ideal.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Noelle Zel Lespinasse]]
!!Noelle Zel Lespinasse in Marie Route
The priestess sacrificed to the Sacred Tree, remaining as a green ghost within it.
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* FriendlyGhost: And she doesn’t trigger Leon’s phobia of ghosts. She helps stop the tree's heart from being shielded with vines.
* HumanSacrifice: She was offered as a sacrifice to the Sacred Tree in place of Louise in this timeline. Leon wasn’t there to stop it.
* {{Intangibility}}: Can phase through Arroganz because she's a ghost.
* KillHimAlready: Suggests the corrupted Sacred Tree will grow in power if Leon doesn’t finish it.
* UnfinishedBusiness: Both ensuring the corrupted Sacred Tree is destroyed, and delivering a message to Lelia.
* WhatTheHellHero: Mentions having some complaints for Lelia, most likely having to do with Loic (who Leon obviously didn’t rescue her from).
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Oliver]]
!!Oliver
A Marie Route original character. An injured middle-aged Knight retainer of House Rault, who speaks for the other retainers and the refugees as a whole.
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* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: As he served the Raults while Leon Sara Rault was still alive, he has some of this for Leon, and it seems like he and the other retainers would be willing to serve Leon.
* MenDontCry: Averted, Louise’ state effects him greatly.
* OldSoldier: A veteran Knight of House Rault.
* StandingBetweenTheEnemies: Marie separates him and Lelia like this until Leon’s timely arrival.
* VigilanteMan: Tries to kill Lelia with the other retainers in a TorchesAndPitchforks manner.
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