History Characters / Xenogears

'''Fei Fong Wong''': Eighteen year old painter and martial artist from the small village of Lahan, and the main character of the game. Also known as [[{{Xenosaga}} Abel]], the -Contact-, Kim Kharim, Lacan, Grahf, Id, and the -Coward-.

* CharacterAlignment: Complicated as hell, both good and evil, since he lived very different {{Reincarnation}}s and multiple personalities.
** Abel is NeutralGood.
** Kim Kharim is NeutralGood.
** Lacan starts out NeutralGood, but after Elly (as Sophia) dies, he swings to ChaoticEvil when he becomes Grahf.
** The "fake" Fei is LawfulGood, though necessity matures him to NeutralGood.
** Id is very much ChaoticEvil, representing the polar opposite to Fei's "fake" personality.
** The Coward (Fei's ''real'' personality) is TrueNeutral, having completely withdrawn into himself following his repeated childhood traumas, as well as witnessing (and holding himself responsible for) the death of his mother.
** When the personalities and reincarnations finally merge into one present-day consciousness, Fei has become a cluttered by functioning NeutralGood protagonist.

* HikaruMidorikawa

'''Elhaym "Elly" Van Houten''': Eighteen year old lieutenant in Gebler, Solaris' surface expeditionary force. As known as the -Anti-type-, and in a past life as the Holy Mother Sophia.

* CharacterAlignment: Virtually always LawfulGood or NeutralGood throughout her lifetimes.

* YumiTouma

'''Citan Uzuki''': Village doctor in Lahan. Has a wife and daughter. Spends all day tinkering with junk in his shed. His real name is Hyuga Ricdeau, and he's a native Solarian.

* CharacterAlignment: A total MindScrew through most of the time--Citan's true motives are always hard to pin down. By the end, it turns out that, yes, Citan is a loyal agent of [[TheEmperor Emperor Cain]], and yes, he's one of the game's [[TheChessmaster chessmasters]], but he eventually reveals himself as LawfulGood [[GoodAllAlong all along]].

* HideyukiTanaka

'''Bartholomew "Bart" Fatima''': Young heir to the throne of Aveh and captain of the CoolShip Yggdrasil.

* NeutralGood
* TomokazuSeki

'''Ricardo "Rico" Banderas''': The man at the top of the food chain in Nortune Prison. Initiates new prisoners by beating them.

* CharacterAlignment: Initially ChaoticNeutral, but has a HeroicBSOD, is NeutralNoLonger, and becomes a decidedly ChaoticGood ally of Fei. Rico does live by a highly honorable set of rules--they're just ''his'' rules.

'''Billy Lee Black''': Young clergyman of the Ethos.

* LawfulGood: To a fault, which turns his world upside down when he realizes [[HeelRealization he's been working for]] the ReligionOfEvil.

'''Maria Balthasar''': A Shevite girl whose father Nikolai was captured by Solaris. She has a guardian gear, [[strike:Siebzehn]] [[GratuitousGerman Seibzehn]].

* NeutralGood

'''Chu-Chu''': Small pink creature, originally mistaken for a stuffed toy.

* NeutralGood

'''Emeralda Kharim''': Nanomachine colony developed 4000 years before the start of the game's events.

* NeutralGood

'''Shakhan''': Current leader of Aveh, who established a coup and overthrew the ruling Fatima dynasty.

'''Bishop Stone''': Part of the 'Ethos' organization and actually an undercover agent for Solaris. Has a beef with Jessie Black.

'''Kahran Ramsus'''

'''The Elements''': Kahran Ramsus' [[QuirkyMinibossSquad elite personal squad]]. Group is composed by Dominia, Kelvena, Tolone and Seraphita.

'''Miang'''

'''Grahf'''

'''Krelian'''

* RyotaroOkiayu

'''Sigurd Harcourt''': Bart's right hand man on the Yggdrasil, and also his LongLostSibling. He also has a past in Solaris, and is old friends with Citan, Jessie and Ramsus.

'''Marguerite "Margie" Fatima''': Bart's sixteen year old cousin and current Holy Mother of Nisan.

'''Hammer the Supplier''': A demi-human whom Fei first meets in Kislev, claiming to be a merchant. He was imprisoned in Kislev's D-Block, but escaped alongside with Fei and his allies.

* ChaoticNeutral

'''Jesiah Black''': Billy Lee Black's father. Former agent of Solaris.

'''Primera Black''': Billy Lee Black's little sister.

'''Yui Uzuki''': Citan's wife.

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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident

* CharacterAlignment: Initially ChaoticNeutral, but has a HeroicBSOD, is NeutralNoMore, and becomes a decidedly ChaoticGood ally of Fei. Rico does live by a highly honorable set of rules--they're just ''his'' rules.

* LawfulGood: To a fault, which turns his world upside down when he realizes he's been working for the ReligionOfEvil.

* PowerDyesYourHair[=/=]EvilRedhead: Fei's hair is black, Id's hair is fiery red.

* BadAss: He attacks you during his first boss fight ''on foot'' and is still a significant threat to your party of three gears (to the point of being ThatOneBoss were it not for the fact that [[spoiler: he'll never attack Elly]]). Once you fight him ''with'' his gear, he becomes a HopelessBossFight.

* PetTheDog: Saving [[spoiler: Elly as she falls while trying to stop the Hecht from destroying Norturne.]] The incident also provides a pretty good clue as to who Grahf really is...

* This BrokenBird [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ1WKtl_PYE away it flies]], [[{{EarWorm}} and I ask you]]...

* LargeHam: "'''Doth thou desire the power?'''"

* StarCrossedLovers: with Elly

'''Elhaym "Elly" Van Houten''': Eighteen year old lieutenant in Gebler, Solaris' surface expeditionary force.

* TheMessiah

* StarCrossedLovers: with Fei

'''Maria Balthasar''': A girl who has had her father captured by Solaris. She has a guardian gear, Seibzehn.

'''Emeralda''': Nanomachine colony developed 4000 years before the start of the game's events.
* ArtificialHuman (or RobotGirl, depending on how Nanomachines count)
* EyesOfGold
* {{Fanon}}: The strategy guide gives her the surname "Kasim" after her "father", Kim Kasim. Official materials don't usually follow suit.
* LittleMissBadass
* MagicKnight: She's basically a combination of Elly's magic skills and Fei's combat prowess. That's not a coincidence.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: She constantly calls Fei "Kim" when she first joins. Of course, that's the name she knew him under back in the Zeboim era.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]: Justified by her not being human.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Has a few vaguely HoYay moments (with Fei or Rico) and one vaguely PetHomosexual moment (with Elly). spoiler:And he still has vague HoYay moments after being lost, through Rico's fond reminiscing.
* ArthurDent, {{Muggle}}

'''Sophia''': The First Holy Mother of Nisan, and its founder.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Elly is her Reincarnation.
* TheMessiah, MessianicArchetype: Literally, as she was both to the people of Nisan.
* YamatoNadeshiko: The few flashbacks we see of her portray her as almost saintly.

* JekyllAndHyde: Fei and Id are the same person. Id

* This BrokenBird away it flies, and I ask you...

** The Coward (Fei's ''real'' personality) is TrueNeutral, having completely withdrawn into himself since the repeated childhood traumas he endured culminating in the violent death of his mother.

** Lacan starts out NeutralGood, but

'''Fei Fong Wong''': Eighteen year old painter and martial artist from the small village of Lahan, and the main character of the game.

Character sheet for {{Xenogears}}. Beware of '' '''unmarked spoilers.''' ''

* [[spoiler: MessianicArchetype]]

** [[spoiler: SuperpoweredEvilSide]]

* [[spoiler: StarCrossedLovers: with Elly]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Due to [[SplitPersonality Dissociative Identity Disorder]] ]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Across multiple lives.]]

* [[spoiler: ParentalIncest: Abel wished for the original Elly based off of an image of his mother.]]
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: She has one. You fight them over the course of the game a few times [[spoiler: and they eventually do a HeelFaceTurn with her.]]

* [[spoiler: StarCrossedLovers: with Fei]]
* TheUntwist: [[spoiler: She's a reincarnation of Sophia.]] [[SarcasmMode Totally didn't see that one coming]]

'''Citan Uzuki''': Village doctor in Lahan. Has a wife and daughter. Spends all day tinkering with junk in his shed. [[spoiler:His real name is Hyuga Ricdeau, and he's a native Solarian.]]

* [[spoiler:DoubleAgent]]
* GameBreaker: Arguably so on foot. He's nearly as strong as Fei physically (even moreso once he [[spoiler: gets his sword]]), he has great defense, he's [[LightningBruiser damn fast]], and he packs some decent healing magic for good measure right at the time when you'll probably need it. YourMileageMayVary on whether he becomes more or less of this when piloting Heimdal[[spoiler:/Fenrir]].

* [[spoiler:IaijutsuPractitioner]]

* TheAragorn: Obvious similarities to the TropeNamer aside, much of the first quarter of the game revolves around his attempt to retake Aveh. It's only [[spoiler: after that fails horribly thanks to Id]] that Fei starts to take the reins of the main character role.

* AmbiguouslyGay: In a decidedly StraightGay manner, [[spoiler:most evident after Hammer is lost]]. For someone who treats Hammer with such abuse, some of Rico's later comments reflect a complete indifference towards women and a heartwarming loyalty and partiality to Hammer. [[spoiler:The ones most devastated by Hammer's loss are Rico and Elly.]] The [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything eerily]] ''Xenogears''-like game ''WildArms2'' makes Rico's equivalent CaptainErsatz character StraightGay. Probably best for this entry to end here, because anything more would be WildMassGuessing.

* [[spoiler:RoyalBlood]]

* {{Fanon}}: The strategy guide gives her the surname "Kasim" [[spoiler:after her "father", Kim Kasim]]. Official materials don't usually follow suit.

* MagicKnight: She's basically a combination of Elly's magic skills and Fei's combat prowess. [[spoiler: That's not a coincidence.]]
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: She constantly calls Fei "Kim" when she first joins. [[spoiler:Of course, that's the name she knew him under back in the Zeboim era.]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: Did that stupidly-cute little thing just [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever grow to giant size]] and hold off that HUGE PROTOTYPE GEAR?]]

* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: Causes it to [[LimitBreak break its]] [[IncrediblyLamePun limiters]] and go Gear-scale.]]

* [[spoiler:BigBad [[BigBadDuumvirate (one of them)]]]]
* [[spoiler:EldritchAbomination: More like an ''[[LampshadeHanging Eldridge]]'' Abomination.]]

* [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindtheMan The Woman Behind The Man]]]]
* {{Tsundere}}: To Ramsus again; sometimes treating him like crap and other times giving him the best sex of his life. [[spoiler: Justified; she's [[MindGameShip doing it to mess up his mind]] so he'll go nuts and kill Cain.]]
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]

* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather]]

* [[spoiler: AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence]]

* [[spoiler:BigBad: [[BigBadDuumvirate (one of them)]]]]

* MoralEventHorizon: YourMileageMayVary [[spoiler: The nanomachine virus that he spread about may count, but some still find him sympathetic even near the end.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Krelian, Krellian, and Karellen. Krelian is the official English romanization.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Has a few vaguely HoYay moments (with Fei or Rico) and one vaguely PetHomosexual moment (with Elly). [[spoiler:And he still has vague HoYay moments after being lost, through Rico's fond reminiscing.]]

* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]
* [[spoiler:IJustWantToBeSpecial]]

* [[spoiler:NotSoHarmless]]

* [[spoiler: {{Reincarnation}}: Elly is her Reincarnation.]]

* {{Expy}}: Krellian shares a lot of similarities, both in name and personality, to Karellen of Arther C. Clark's [[{{ptitle2aqvmmww}} Childhood's End]]

* [[spoiler: Reincarnation: Elly is her Reincarnation.]]

'''Hammer''': A demi-human whom Fei first meets in Kislev, claiming to be a merchant. He was imprisoned in Kislev's D-Block, but escaped alongside with Fei and his allies.

'''Hammer''': A demi-huamn whom Fei first meets in Kislev, claiming to be a merchant. He was imprisoned in Kislev's D-Block, but escaped alongside with Fei and his allies.

* FunnyAnimal

'''Citan Uzuki''': Village doctor in Lahan. Has a wife and daughter. Spends all day tinkering with junk in his shed.

* XanatosSucker

* DiscOneNuke: Grind up enough to give her an Ether Doubler and watch stuff die.

* FeminineWomenCanCook: Fei proclaims his love of Yui's cooking.

'''Sophia''': The First Holy Mother of Nisan, and it's founder.