History Characters / VillainessLevel99

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Survives the fight against the Demon Lord in the light novel and anime.]]

* AdaptationalFriendship: In the novel, Alicia writes Yumiella off as her enemy from the start for little to no reason and keeps antagonizing her, [[spoiler:even attempting to kill her during the battle against the Demon Lord]]. In the anime, Alicia does start off scared of Yumiella because she sees the latter as a creepy black foggy figure, but she never openly antagonizes her and treats her fairly nicely despite that. Whenever Alicia's harem doesn't interrupt her interactions with Yumiella, they get along well enough. Later on, she even accepts Yumiella's offer to go into a dungeon with her for some major LevelGrinding, resulting in them bonding and becoming friends.

* CastingAShadow: Like Yumiella, he is a powerful dark magic user, even capable of using the same black hole spell she uses.

* DumbMuscle: She is seen as this by those close to her, who, due to still having a [[PastLifeMemories RPG geek mindset]], is mystified by her obsession with power-enhancing items and weapons when she's already the strongest person in the world.

* PromotedToLoveInterest: [[spoiler:In the novels, Edwin falls out of love with Alicia after she plots to kill Yumiella and this makes him realize how nasty she really is. In the anime, Alicia is mind controlled into attacking Yumiella and Edwin snaps her out of it with ThePowerOfLove, with them ending up as a couple happily in love.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Survives the fight against the Demon Lord in the light novel.]]

* WhiteMagicianGirl: She possesses light attribute magic, and specializes in healing and defense spells while her male harem does the actual fighting. Her personality fits the purehearted aspect of the trope as well.

* DumbBlonde: Despite being a prince and one of the {{The Chosen One}}s, both his [[LoveMakesYouDumb affection for Alicia]] and [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence resentment of Yumiella]] can make him come off as pretty impulsive and short-sighted. Case in point, he informs Alicia about the Demon Lord's return in two years despite the fact that it's meant to be a state secret. And when Alicia tries accusing Yumiella of being the Demon Lord based on this, instead of covering it up as a rumour he heard, he confirms it in front of the student body for the sake of backing up Alicia.

* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler: While the rest of the party attacks Yumiella with the intent of killing her, Edwin is not in agreement with the plan. Not only are they not capable of killing her, their paranoia is giving her just cause to switch sides to the Demon Lord they were actually there to fight, which would doom their country. His party on the other hand rationalise their unprovoked attack and why they'll beat both Yumiella and the Demon Lord.]]

* BackhandedApology: During a school competition, he apologises for his actions and says he heard the knights have confirmed Yumiella to be level 99. This apology is undercut by the fact he had already apologised for this, showing he didn't mean a single word of it the first time and up until then had still considered her to be lying and cheating somehow.

* DumbJock: Yumiella describes him as a musclehead, which isn't a wrong way to put it. When he believes her to be the Demon Lord that will resurrect in two years, she points out she is already here, so how could she be the Demon Lord. He stumbles out an answer that she must be evil.

* BlueMeansSmartOne: Subverted. He's the only one with blue hair of Alicia's love interests, and his glasses and status as a prodigy make him look smart. However, his behavior towards Yumiella proves he isn't any smarter than Edwin and William.

** After befriending Alicia, he learns her truency was because of her ChronicHeroSyndrome and spent time healing an ailing woman. When the woman came to school the other day to report Alicia's kindness, Oswald tells her had she told him she was helping people he would have let her in despite her just missing the curfew point.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Oswald is supposed to be a genius mage that acts as TheSmartGuy for the harem. When Yumiella meets him, however, she figures out that he's not that intelligent compared to the rest of his friends. He believes Alicia's claim that Yumiella is the demon lord despite the evidence against it, [[spoiler:and, in the novels, stabs Yumiella in the back when confronting the demon lord, even if that leaves his party completely outmatched.]]

* SugarAndIcePersonality: He's the coolheaded type of the game's love interests. He's still just as smitten with Alicia as Edwin and William.

The Headmaster of the school when Yumiella arrives. He alongside Edwin try to get her expelled under accusations of her lying about being level 99. The royal family replaces him with Ronald after Yumiella's pushed by him and Edwin to prove her level and she summons a black hole in the sky..

* DidntThinkThisThrough: He presses on with Yumiella's expulsion when told she destroyed a powerful magical item that even a court mage would have difficulty destroying. He reasons that this doesn't prove her level is 99, but Yumiella thinks that expelling and effectively banishing her when she is as strong as a court mage would be still a reckless risk and lose for the country.
* EmptyPromise: While he doesn't believe Yumiella and heavily implies she's faking her level, he says they will learn the truth in the assessments of their physical and magical ability. This at first makes him appear to be somewhat reasonable and impartial, until he returns with completed expulsion paperwork. When a teacher objects to this, it becomes clear that none of the supervising teachers had any input and his claims of a fair assessment were just an act.

* PutOnABus: As he not only made moves to expel and exile the most powerful and person in his country but also insulted her right to her face, he is unceremoniously replaced without any formal declaration and is never seen again.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: [[spoiler:In the original Light and Web Novels, Alicia, William and and Oswald conspire to kill Yumiella out of fear and jealousy. Wheras, in the anime, Alicia is the only one who tries to kill her, as a result of the game's story compelling her to defeat the hidden boss after the Demon Lord is vanquished. The boys are all horrified that she would do such a thing and end up [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight talking]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship her out]] [[ThePowerOfLove of it]], while she herself struggles to resist the game's control.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGirl: The novel had Alicia act extremely suspicious and antagonistic towards Yumiella for no real reason. In the anime and manga, Alicia doesn't have any animosity towards Yumiella and only feels scared of her because [[AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder she can't even see how she really looks like due to their incompatible magic attributes]]. Despite this, she still tries to be friendly and occasionally approaches Yumiella for advice, making her much less prejudiced towards Yumiella than her original novel counterpart despite starting out with similar apprehensions against her.
** [[spoiler:Plus, she only ends up stabbing Yumiella because the game's story was controlling her and forcing her to defeat the hidden boss.]]

** His friendship with Yumiella starts when their first field lessons occur and the regional nobility students are learning to fight monsters with Yumiella monitoring as an instructor. She and he both observe the methods used by the faculty are lacking in efficiency to train the students into a combat unit.
** During a later sparring session, Patrick tells her he got harrassed over his hair color being considered blackish growing up to the point he started hating it. That experience made him vow to not disparge Yumiella for the same reasons, and only added to his admiration of Yumiella.

* {{Foil}}: To Alicia's harem as a whole. While the three are scions to prestigious noble families living in the capital, Patrick is the second son of a provincial noble house that protects the country's borders. Likewise, while Patrick is no slouch in combat, his true strengths lie in battle leadership and commanding compared to the three being more combat orientated. The trio had lived being the best at everything, so Yumiella upstaging them on the first day causes them to develop an InferioritySuperiorityComplex toward her. In contrast, Patrick lacks any sort of pride in his abilities and therefore isn't bothered by Yumiella's strength, being more impressed by it, and ends up being one of the very few people to treat Yumiella with any sense of normalcy. Finally, while the harem's over-protectiveness of Alicia ends up being harmful to her growth and even ends up hindering their own, Patrick's feelings for Yumiella drive him to try LevelGrinding due to believing she'll only marry someone stronger than her, [[spoiler:and he ends up being Level 60 by Yumiella finds out about it. Furthermore, Patrick's kindness toward the isolated Yumiella was what kept Yumiella from just leaving the country earlier and leads to her deciding to become more active in politics to change the perceptions of black hair and dark magic.]]

* MeaningfulName: He's a grey-haired boy with the surname ''Ash''batten. In all Chinese-influenced languages (including Japanese), the colour grey is known as "ash-colour"--for example, hai-iro in Japanese.

* TakingTheBullet: Near the end of their first field lesson after dispatching the second wave of monsters Yumiella summoned to help her classmates level up, one monster is late in coming and launches itself at Yumiella. Patrick jumps in the way to help protect her despite her being level 99. His reasons is he didn't want to risk her getting hurt anyway. The sentiment is appreciated by Yumiella.

A dark magic-attribute dragon hatched by Yumiella from an egg she got as a reward for getting rid of a dragon terrorizing a classmate's home. Because dragons imprint on anyone who poured the most magic into their egg, Ryuu becomes extremely attached to Yumiella, and is just as strong as she is.

* BiteOfAffection: He tends to bite people's heads. Yumiella recognizes it as a sign of affection, but to others it looks like Ryuu is trying to eat them.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Dragons are one of the few monsters that can be tamed by humans, but there's a catch; they will only accept a human if they were the one to pour the most magic into their egg; otherwise, they will either pick someone (or thing) else, or go wild. Since Yumiella's Level 99 magic is so strong, Ryuu became a lovable, friendly pet that is just as strong as his "mommy".

The original heroine of the otome game and her three love interests. Originally they were supposed to work together as a party over the next few years to level up and defeat the Demon Lord (and then Yumiella as the secret boss) in order to save the country. However, when our Yumiella's level is discovered, the boys lash out over their destroyed pride and become fiercely protective of Alicia, hindering her ability to level up properly. Yumiella is expected to join their party in two years to defeat the Demon Lord, much to the boys and Yumiella's dismay.

* BalancedHarem: The three guys all feelings for Alicia and have the same amount of interactions with her. Alicia also seems to treat the trio equally.
* BattleHarem: The guys do all the fighting and protect Alicia while she only provides support. It's {{deconstructed|trope}}, since Alicia is completely dependent on the guys to win all battles and never learns to stand on her own, leaving her underleveled and weak. Worse, said harem further hinders any of Alicia's attempts to do anything for herself. It gets to the point where Alicia in the anime ends up going to a dark-type dungeon on her own so she can gain levels without the harem getting in the way.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The plan to [[spoiler:murder Yumiella]] as they are just about to face the Demon Lord. Best case scenario, they exhaust themselves [[spoiler:and remove their strongest combatant from their ranks when they were already underlevelled to fight the Demon Lord]]. Worst case scenario is [[spoiler:Yumiella kills them all and then goes off to join the Demon Lord, turning her immense power against the kingdom.]] [[spoiler:The Demon Lord takes full advantage of their in-fighting to launch a surprise attack. Furthermore, in the light novel, this action all but ruins a lot of Alicia's future prospects since she, a commoner, tried to murder Yumiella, a noble.]]

** While all three will openly talk down to Yumiella and boast about how they will surpass her easily with some relatively brief training, in private it is revealed they complain about her abilities and make the excuse she levelled up "the wrong way" to explain away why they aren't the best among their peers at their specialties and to protect their pride.
* InSeriesNickname: They call each other Will, Ed and Oz.

* OverratedAndUnderleveled: In-universe. As a consequence of their InferioritySuperiorityComplex involving Yumiella, they flocked to Alicia and became overprotective of her. This consequently stunts their growth to the point that they are far underlevelled than they should be to where it becomes a concern they won't be sufficiently ready for the Demon Lord, not to mention how this is also keeping Alicia from growing physically and mentally as well. [[spoiler:By the time the Demon Lord awakens, none of them are close to the level they need to be able to stand a chance against him.]] Averted in the anime, where Yumiella noted (after a TimeSkip) that the four of them have "levelled up nicely".

* ToxicFriendInfluence: More like toxic love interest influence. Alicia in general is the nice girl that tries to see the best in Yumiella and does her best to raise her levels. But thanks to her harem being insistent on doing everything for her, she becomes low level, meek, and her self-confidence destroyed. [[spoiler:This only contributes to Alicia trying to kill Yumiella right before facing the Demon Lord.]]

* {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler: In the anime, it's implied the game's plot influences Alicia to take certain actions, such as accepting her enrollment into the academy or taking one of the capture targets to a romance event. Yumiella theorizes that this may be due to her being the heroine of the Otome game, so the game's story compels her to do these things to advance the plot. It also recognized that her levels were too low to fight the Demon Lord due to her reliance on her harem, so it compelled her to go level grind on her own.]]

** Patrick is also this to [[spoiler:Prince Edwin. Edwin wouldn't listen to his parents or Knight Commander Adolf and became a bigot who regarded Yumiella with disdain. Patrick is the person who eventually gets through to Edwin and helps him see Yumiella for the person she really is. He is thus the only one of the three love interests who refuses to support Alicia's plan to backstab Yumiella and is horrified instead when it happens]].

* LoveMakesYouDumb: None of the love interests really see the bigger picture and blindly trust Alicia's assessment of Yumiella, which isn't the most unbiased considering Alicia sees her as a shadowy monster due to her light magic and Yumiella's high level. Furthermore, they also fail to realize their overprotectiveness of Alicia is to the point of hampering Alicia's training efforts when she needs to be strong enough to manage the Demon Lord. Eventually, this leads to [[spoiler:Oswald and William assisting Alicia in their attempt to backstab Yumiella ''right before they encounter the Demon Lord'']].

* ImproperlyParanoid: In the novel, she constantly shrieks when she sees Yumiella and misunderstands Yumiella's good intentions to help as Yumiella trying to kill her. [[spoiler:At the end of Volume 1, she backstabs Yumiella. It might have even worked if Yumiella hadn't worn a ProtectiveCharm and Edwin hadn't stopped her from finishing Yumiella off.]]

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Oswald is supposed to be a genius mage that acts as TheSmartGuy for the harem. When Yumiella meets him, however, she figures out that he's not that intelligent compared to the rest of his friends. He believes Alicia's claim that Yumiella is the demon lord despite the evidence against it, [[spoiler:and stabs Yumiella in the back when confronting the demon lord, even if that leaves his party completely outmatched.]]

* DumbJock: She is seen as this by those close to her, who, due to still having a [[PastLifeMemories RPG geek mindset]], is mystified by her obsession with power-enhancing items and weapons when she's already the strongest person in the world.

* RoseHairedSweetie: In the game, she's a sweet and good-natured girl with pink hair. It's subverted in the novel where she's unreasonably paranoid and hostile towards Yumiella, [[spoiler:even plotting to kill her at one point]]. On the other hand, the anime and manga play it straight; Alicia is indeed a good and kind girl at heart, and only feels scared of Yumiella because [[AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder the conflict between light and dark magic causes Alicia to be unable to see Yumiella as a human]].

* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: After going through the darkness-based dungeon along with Yumiella ''several times'', Alicia has gotten to Level 50.]]

* HollywoodGenetics: They look nothing like Yumiella despite being her biological parents. In real life, it would be impossible for a blonde couple to gave a child with jet-black hair.

* ParentalAbandonment: They have been completely absent from Yumiella's life because they live at the royal capital and never bothered to go back to their domain to visit her. Consequently, Yumiella has little issue with threatening her parents to either die or give up their titles when they try to murder her.

* {{InferioritySuperiorityComplex}:

* MistakenForRacist: In the anime and manga, Yumiella and Edwin think Alicia is prejudiced against Yumiella because of her being a black-haired dark magic user. Then Alicia explains her problem with Yumiella isn't her hair color or magic attribute, but that Yumiella doesn't even look like a ''human'' to her; all she sees is a black fog with glowing eyes.

* TheSmartGuy: Played with. While Oswald's talent in magic is undeniable, Oswald's cognitive powers are somewhat less impressive despite him ostensibly being the brains of the trio as he essentially throws a fit over witnessing Yumiella's dark magic. He has the unfortunate habit of only accepting what is convenient for him at the time and will even twist logic to be correct. This comes to a head when [[spoiler:he attempts to kill Yumiella before facing the Demon Lord. He claims that since their total level as a group exceeds hers, Yumiella is no match for them. Yumiella quickly points out that levels don't work that way, as 100 level 1 combatants can't defeat a single level 99 and if he was correct, the Demon Lord would be much easier to deal with in the first place.]]

* SugarAndIcePersonality: He's the coolheaded type of the game's love interests. He's still just as smitten with Alicia as Edwin and William and prone to emotional outbursts when his pride is hurt.

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* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Yumiella being revealed to be level 99 unwittingly causes all three of the guys, who have spent their lives being the best, to develop this toward her and causes them to flock to Alicia far earlier than they should. The headmaster remarks how this fact is causing a lot of problems for their growth since they're so focused on protecting Alicia that they aren't challenging themselves to actually get stronger.

* OverratedAndUnderleveled: In-universe. As a consequence of their InferioritySuperiorityComplex involving Yumiella, they flocked to Alicia and became overprotective of her. This consequently stunts their growth to the point that they are far underlevelled than they should be to where it becomes a concern they won't be sufficiently ready for the Demon Lord, not to mention how this is also keeping Alicia from growing physically and mentally as well. [[spoiler:By the time the Demon Lord awakens, none of them are close to the level they need to be able to stand a chance against him.]]

* EmptyPromise: While he doesn't believe Yumiella and heavily implies she's faking her level, he says they will learn the truth in the assessments of their physical and magical ability. This at first makes him appear to be somewhat reasonable and impartial, until he returns with completed expulsion paperwork which due to the timing would have been completed before Yumiella had actually been assessed and would need to be started as soon as he left the opening ceremony. When a teacher objects to this, it becomes clear that none of the supervising teachers had any input and his claims of a fair assessment were just an act.

* PutOnABus: As he not only made moves to expel and exile the most powerful and person in his country, he is unceremoniously replaced without any formal declaration and is never seen again.

* TheSmartGuy: Played with. While Oswald's talent in magic is undeniable, Oswald's cognitive powers are somewhat less impressive despite him ostensibly being the brains of the trio as he essentially throws a fit over witnessing Yumiella's dark magic.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: He's the coolheaded type of the game's love interests. He's still just as smitten with Alicia as Edwin and William.

* {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler: In the anime, it's implied the game's plot influences Alicia to take certain actions, such as accepting her enrollment into the academy or taking one of the capture targets to a romance event. Yumiella theorizes that this may be due to her being the heroine of the Otome game, so the game's story compels her to do these things to advance the plot.]]

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: She arrives late to the school on her first day at the capital because she got delayed while healing an old lady.

** Her kindness causes her to become an ExtremeDoormat to her overprotective harem. She's therefore constantly blocked from being able to properly talk with Yumiella (who doesn't hold anything against her) or even interact with her other peers, leaving her isolated.

* {{Irony}}: The harem is hostile toward Yumiella for reasons including thinking she's a threat to Alicia. However, they end up being more harmful to Alicia than any assumed threat from Yumiella since their overprotectiveness is at the expense of Alicia's own growth and independence. To further twist the irony, when Yumiella is able to interact with Alicia without them interrupting in the anime, she actually is more helpful to Alicia's overall growth to the point Alicia ends up a higher level than the harem thanks to Yumiella assisting her with dungeon diving.

* BattleHarem: The guys do all the fighting and protect Alicia while she only provides support. It's {{deconstructed|trope}}, since Alicia is completely dependent on the guys to win all battles and never learns to stand on her own, leaving her underleveled and weak. Worse, said harem further hinders any of Alicia's attempts to do anything for herself.

* {{Irony}}: The harem is hostile toward Yumiella for reasons including thinking she's a threat to Alicia. However, they end up being more harmful to Alicia than any assumed threat from Yumiella since their overprotectiveness is at the expense of Alicia's own growth and independence. To further twist the irony, when Yumiella is able to interact with Alicia without them interrupting in the anime and manga, she actually is more helpful to Alicia's overall growth.

* LoveMakesYouDumb: None of the love interests really see the bigger picture and blindly trust Alicia's assessment of Yumiella, which isn't the most unbiased considering Alicia sees her as a shadowy monster due to her light magic and Yumiella's high level. Eventually, this leads to [[spoiler:Oswald and William assisting Alicia in their attempt to backstab Yumiella ''right before they encounter the Demon Lord'']].

* {{Irony}}: The harem is hostile toward Yumiella for reasons including thinking she's a threat to Alicia. However, they end up being more harmful to Alicia than any assumed threat from Yumiella since their overprotectiveness is at the expense of Alicia's own growth and independence. To further twist the irony, when Yumiella is able to talk to Alicia without interruption during summer break in the anime and manga, she actually ends up helping Alicia better understand her light magic.

A fellow student with a commoner background. She's the heroine of the otome game that Yumelia played in her past life.

* ImproperlyParanoid: She constantly shrieks when she sees Yumiella and misunderstands Yumiella's good intentions to help as Yumiella trying to kill her. [[spoiler:At the end of Volume 1, she backstabs Yumiella. It might have even worked if Yumiella hadn't worn a ProtectiveCharm and Edwin hadn't stopped her from finishing Yumiella off.]]
* InconsistentSpelling: The localized manga speels her surname "Enlight."

* MindControl: [[spoiler: In the anime, it's implied the game's plot influences Alicia to take certain actions, such as accepting her enrollment into the academy or taking one of the capture targets to a romance event. Yumiella theorizes that this may be due to her being the heroine of the Otome game, so the game's story compels her to do these things to advance the plot.]]

* RoseHairedSweetie: In the game, she's a sweet and good-natured girl with pink hair. It's subverted in the novel where she's unreasonably paranoid and hostile towards Yumiella, [[spoiler:even plotting to kill her at one point]]. On the other hand, the anime and manga play it straight, as the adaptations make clear Alicia is indeed a good and kind girl at heart, and only feels scared of Yumiella because [[AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder the conflict between light and dark magic causes Alicia to be unable to see Yumiella as a human]].