Line #16 Characters/BravelyDefaultDivineBeings


1	The main antagonists of the series and the ones who oppose them. Their DivineConflict has indirectly driven the events of the whole series.
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7	[[folder:The Evil One]]
8	!!Airy, Piercer of Boundaries
9	-> ''Voiced By:'' Makoto Tsumura (JP), Creator/StephanieSheh (EN)
10	[[quoteright:167:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/real_form_airy_2835.jpg]]
11	The real BigBad of ''Bravely Default'', who's been pulling the strings from behind the scenes. Contrary to her words, Airy is a malevolent being, who's been lying to the party from the very beginning. She's not activating the Crystals to save the world, but to help her boss attack the Celestial Realm. She is the evil sent to seduce the vestal and companions into awakening the crystals for her own malevolent purposes.
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13	* BeneathSuspicion: Who would ever expect the sweet little FairyCompanion accompanying you throughout your journey to be a villain?
14	* BigBad: Airy is the main antagonist, being responsible for the heroes' woes and wanting to help the GreaterScopeVillain reach the Celestial Realm.
15	* BigCreepyCrawlies: All of her forms are Bug-family monsters.
16	* BishonenLine: Her first two forms look very monstrous, but her final form resembles a human-sized version of her original form. Ringabel's journal even describes her final form as being beautiful. Probably intentional, considering what they resemble: a larva, a pupa, and a butterfly.
17	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Turns out the little fairy girl following you the whole time was just using you to destroy the universe.
18	* {{Combos}}: In her final battle, Airy loves to use a very simple but devastating combo. She'll Default one turn, and then Brave the next, using Acedia and [[KillItWithFire Zeta Flare]] in sequence. Acedia not only strips all buffs from the party, it places weaknesses upon the party against all elements. Like fire, for example. Even if you know it's coming, it can be ''very'' hard to survive.
19	* CuteIsEvil: The adorable, tiny FairyCompanion and mascot is the real BigBad who wants to open the way for her master Ouroboros to devour the world.
20	* DarkActionGirl: Airy surprisingly packs a mean punch. This is bad news for Agnès and the others.
21	* {{Determinator}}: She's been working ''eleven hundred million years'' on her plan and has traversed at least thousands if not millions of worlds as part of it. That takes an absurd amount of patience and persistence.
22	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The Evil One and true BigBad is, of all people, the FairyCompanion who pops up on the bottom screen reminding you what the current objective is.
23	* TheDragon: [[GreaterScopeVillain Ouroboros's]] most effective agent, whom she uses the heroes for during his inactivity and ends up being the final battle before he tires of her failures and devours her before facing the heroes himself.
24	* DroppedABridgeOnHer: Despite being part of the main character's group, as well as the BigBad of the game, her death comes rather quickly and unexpectedly. After failing to defeat the heroes too many times, Ouroboros grows bored of her and [[EatenAlive devours her]] offscreen, before saying she was like cattle to him and facing the heroes himself.
25	* EatenAlive: You don't get to see it, but you do get to hear nasty crunching sounds.
26	* EtTuBrute: Airy is utterly shocked that the master she revered so much would actually decide to eat her, after she worked tirelessly to help him fulfill his plan to invade the Celestial Realm.
27	* EvilAllAlong: Airy has been manipulating the party into helping her destroy the universe from the beginning, but it's not until near the end when her cute façade cracks to reveal the twisted creature underneath.
28	* EvilMakesYouUgly: Oh boy, does it! Her larval form and pupal forms are quite horrific sights to behold.
29	* EvilVirtues: She's dedicated and patient to an insane degree, considering that she's been manipulating the past versions of the protagonists and going through the same repetitive process for the last 1,100,000,000 years. Even if you delay her plan in the false ending, she's more than willing to do it all over again.
30	* FinalBoss: Of the False Ending.
31	* {{Foreshadowing}}: You're given ample clues that there's something very strange with the fairy that has been accompanying you on your journey. The second GroundhogDayLoop eventually goes just shy of stating it outright... which is around the moment where the subtitle begins to change. In addition, if you read D's Journal, you get to see a drawing of her monstrous larva form, as well as an unfinished drawing of the number six on a fairy's wing. Likewise once the second loop begins, it starts to become more apparent that no matter what is happening in the plot, all she cares about is you reactivating the crystals and dropping what you're doing to go reactivate the crystals.
32	* HateSink: Her true personality is one with no redeeming qualities. She's a despicable liar, takes great pleasure in the pain she causes towards Agnès and co. by manipulating them into unwittingly helping her (and [[GreaterScopeVillain Ouroboros]]) bring ruin to the Celestial Realm, and [[{{Troll}} most of her dialogue consists of taunting the heroes with intent to piss both them and the player off]].
33	* TheHeavy: Ouroboros is her boss but he is a GreaterScopeVillain, while she is given autonomy in his plan, manipulating the heroes as she sees fit to help her master, making her the BigBad despite technically being TheDragon to another villain.
34	* HeroKiller: She killed at least one alternate version of the party. Considering she's gone through several ''thousand'' worlds, and she states in the False Ending that getting this far has taken her ''eleven hundred million years'', it's impossible for them to have been the only ones.
35	* {{Hypocrite}}: She claims to hate humans because of their tendency to blindly do what they're told without questioning if what they're told to do is a good idea or not. She ends up getting murdered by the very being she was taking orders from precisely because she was following their orders.
36	* IronicEcho: During the false ending, she finishes off the HopelessBossFight with "Now, my lambs, to Slaughter!" In the true ending, Ouroboros speaks with the party; when Ringabel asks why he would consume a loyal servant like Airy, the demon explains "She was like cattle, a beastly thrall that has served long. What further use has one for cattle claimed by age or injury, save to be eaten?"
37	* KarmicDeath: Although horrific, being eaten alive by the master she revered and worked so hard to please ends up being a fitting end to Airy after she spent an entire lifetime callously using and betraying other people who saw her as a friend, all the while looking down on them and mocking them for being so gullible and blindly obedient.
38	* KillItWithFire: All of her forms are weak against Fire. Ironically, she's also able to inflict massive damage to you by debilitating you against all elements and casting her own Fire spells: Flare or Zeta Flare.
39	* KnightOfCerebus: Once Airy's true nature is revealed, the story takes for a darker turn than it already had been.
40	* MagicKnight: Of a sort. Airy's first form relies on physical attacks, and her second on magic. Her final form mixes and matches the most dangerous aspects of her first two forms.
41	* MouthOfSauron: Serves as this to Ouroboros.
42	* NothingCanStopUsNow: She gets pretty cocky during the True Ending fight with her, repeatedly receiving support from her master.
43	* OneHitKill: Plague, which she uses in her first and third form, does this to all characters that are under a status ailment. Unfortunately, both forms have multiple ways to set status ailments upon your whole party.
44	* OneWingedAngel: Two or three forms, depending whether you're on the Normal Ending or True Ending route. The forms resemble respectively a larva, a pupa and a butterfly.
45	* OriginalPositionFallacy: Airy mocks and looks down on humans for being blindly obedient, comparing them to livestock to be used and slaughtered. Airy is utterly shocked however when Ouroboros decides to eat her after she fails to kill the heroes too many times, with Ouroboros justifying it with the same logic.
46	* PlayingWithFire: The second form knows Flare. The third form knows Zeta Flare.
47	* PreMortemOneLiner: "Now, my lambs, to [[SignatureMove Slaughter!]]"
48	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In the false ending.
49	-->'''Edea''': You lied to us!\
50	'''Airy''': And you made it so easy. A fine pack of puppets, you lot. Not a thought of your own, so eager to obey. Because obeying is so easy, hmm? You're ''never'' responsible when you're [[JustFollowingOrders only following orders]]. And who would deny what seems so obvious? Who bears the courage to disobey? Precious few. Not one human in a thousand.
51	* SignatureMove: Slaughter for Airy's first form, Flare for her second. Her final form utilizes both Slaughter and an upgraded Flare known as Zeta Flare.
52	* TimeAbyss: Based on how long she said she was working on her plan, she's at least 1,100,000,000 (''1.1 billion'') years old.
53	* TreacherousAdvisor: For the party.
54	* TreacherousQuestGiver: Suddenly it all makes sense why she was so eager to awaken the crystals.
55	* {{Troll}}: A lot of what she says post-reveal is intended to piss the party off -- and probably the player, too.
56	* UndyingLoyalty: She has nothing but the highest adulation for Ouroboros, and seemingly none of it is motivated by fear. The worst she fires off to him as ''he's eating her!!'' is to call him unkind.
57	* WalkingSpoiler: There's really no way to truly talk about Airy in-depth without revealing the plot twist that she's the villain.
58	* WasItAllALie: Asked this by Agnès in the false ending route. Just to drive the point home that yes, it was, she even briefly pretends to have been possessed.
59	* YouHaveFailedMe: Ouroboros eventually tires of having to heal her to keep her in the fight against the party, so he simply eats her instead.
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62	[[folder:God of Destruction]]
63	!!Ouroboros
64	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ouroboros_bravely_default.png]]
65	[[caption-width-right:350:Serpent that devours the horizon]]
66	The ''true'' true villain of ''Default'' and the source of the chaos that plagues Luxendarc. A malevolent God of Destruction seeking to consume all reality in order to conquer the Celestial Realm and rebuild creation as he wishes. Airy is his servant, charged with linking numerous worlds to feed him the power he needs to enact his plan.
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68	* BadBoss: He gets tired of Airy's failed attempts to kill the heroes, so he decides to handle them himself and while he's on his way to the mortal plane, he casually devours her. Later, when talking to Tiz, he compares Airy to cattle, saying she was a tool for him to use and nothing more.
69	* BloodKnight: He seems rather enthusiastic that you are strong enough to face him head on after you defeat his first form.
70	* BreakThemByTalking: Does this both before and throughout the battle with him. Terrifyingly it actually works for a moment and causes the party to surrender until other worlds bolster their courage.
71	* DeadpanSnarker: Surprisingly for an ancient eldritchian entity that plans to destroy creation... Ouroboros is rather snarky.
72	-->'''Edea''': Just who are- \
73	'''Ouroboros''': That has already been answered. I am Ouroboros. Do not make me say it again. \
74	'''Agnes''': How did Airy fit into your plan? \
75	'''Ouroboros''': She gathered the strength I need to breech the Celestial Realm. This, too, was explained. Next.
76	* DestroyerDeity: His title is "God of Destruction."
77	* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: For ultimate power, he'll destroy tens of thousands of realities.
78	* EldritchAbomination: Creator/HPLovecraft would be impressed. Ouroboros is truly something otherworldly.
79	* EvilSoundsDeep: Lord does he ever. His voice is very deep and booming.
80	* EvilVersusEvil: His overall conflict with Providence. In effect, Ouroboros was keeping Providence in check and had a very real chance of ousting him from the Celestial Realm and controlling creation by consuming reality within the Luxendarcs to empower himself, but Providence is no better, looking at each Luxendarc as a fuel source to exploit by terrorizing and killing everyone within each dimension to feed his need for despair.
81	* FauxAffablyEvil: He willingly assumes a human form in order to communicate with the Warriors of Light, answer their questions, and consider them a worthy battle... before destroying entire worlds to break their spirit.
82	* ForTheEvulz: He finds the celestial realm boring, and wishes to deliver suffering and strife to it, and therefore, excitement.
83	* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: He initially takes the form of your four party members to talk to you.
84	* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: During the climax, he begins destroying other worlds Airy has linked to -- namely, the game worlds of people on your 3DS friends list that you've linked to. And that Celestial Realm he's trying to invade? ''The real world'', represented by the 3DS's camera activating and projecting the player's face into the background of the battle, looking down on the battle from the Celestial Realm.
85	* GreaterScopeVillain: He doesn't technically take action himself until the end of the game, and his [[TheDragon dragon]] Airy, drives the plot for him.
86	* HiddenVillain: Ouroboros is hinted at in the False Ending. Only in the True Ending is he revealed and faced.
87	* {{Immortality}}: He cannot truly be destroyed and, in the false ending, it is made clear that he will eventually return. In the True Ending, he is defeated for good.
88	* KillItWithWater: Does not take well to Water attacks.
89	* TheManBehindTheMan: Well, Behind the Woman: Airy may act with a good deal of autonomy but everything she does is for Ouroboros's plan to take over the Celestial Realm. Once the party defeats her, Ouroboros immediately devours her and reveals himself as the ultimate threat to be stopped.
90	* MeaningfulName: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros Ouroboros]] the eternal serpent that eats its own tail. In the good ending, [=DeRosso=] uses a StableTimeLoop to turn Ouroboros' power against itself.
91	* MirrorBoss: The first battle with him has him take the form of Tiz. While in this form, he can use all of the abilities of your current party.
92	* MultiversalConqueror: Tens of thousands of them, all at his mercy.
93	* OminousLatinChanting: Used generously in his final boss theme.
94	* OmnicidalManiac: Slightly subverted in that destroying the world is just the first part of its plan. During the end game, however, he consumes at least six worlds to power his attacks.
95	* OneWingedAngel: Inverted, since his monstrous form is actually his real one. He only has to take AFormYouAreComfortableWith in order to appear in the physical world.
96	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Despite his EldritchAbomination appearance, he is classified as a dragon in terms of damage discrimination.
97	* {{Ouroboros}}: Whenever he devours a world, he makes the symbol surround it.
98	* PlanetEater: Different realities appear simply as a single planet, which he destroys and absorbs all the energy from, making himself stronger.
99	* RageAgainstTheHeavens: He wants to conquer the Celestial Realm and rebuild all of creation in his own image.
100	* SpacetimeEater: His goal is to consume all of reality, then rebuild it in his own image.
101	* TrueFinalBoss: Agnès's party is left to face the God of Destruction, Ouroboros, after he unceremoniously disposes of his minion.
102	* VillainousBreakdown: As the battle with him progresses. At first he treats you more as an entertaining curiosity than a threat. After his regeneration gets sealed, however, he gets more and more annoyed that you are still alive. After the linked worlds break free of his grasp he flies into a complete rage.
103	* WalkingSpoiler: As the HiddenVillain of the story.
104	* YouHaveFailedMe: He gives Airy a power boost in the True Ending, but devours her when she fails to kill the party.
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108	[[folder:The Herald]]
109	!!Anne
110	[[quoteright:183:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cc3b4bac2d94233dd5ebe35a3c81c710.jpg]]
111	--> Voiced by: Makoto Tsumura (JP, ''Default''), Creator/StephanieSheh (EN, ''Default''), Creator/HiromiTsuru (JP, ''Second''), Creator/EdenRiegel (EN, ''Second'').
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113	Airy's sister, who called the player in the first game and appearing near the finale of the true ending. She is the herald of Providence and has been manipulating Emperor Oblivion to serve their ends and the actual BigBad of ''Bravely Second''.
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115	* BigBad: Anne is this in ''Bravely Second'', having manipulated Kaiser Oblivion as part of her plan.
116	* BishonenLine: Anne's single combat form is even more attractive than her normal form, in stark contrast to her sister's array of monstrous combat forms.
117	* {{Brainwashed}}: She does this to the Matriarch and Sylvie to send the crystals out of control in the second loop.
118	* CainAndAbel: Subverted. Although she appears to have been the heroic sibling in aiding the heroes of ''Bravely Default'' to defeat her wicked sister, she's just as sinister and only [[PragmaticVillainy aided them to help kill a rival]].
119	* CastingAShadow: One of her signature moves is Dark Flare. Like her sister's Zeta Flare, she uses Acedia to set up for it by making the party weak to all elements before she uses it.
120	* TheChessmaster: She provides advice to Kaiser Oblivion several times that helps him become a very successful villain. In fact, she's so successful, she actually succeeds in her goal in the first world despite her death, and despite multiple setbacks in the second world, she still managed to fulfill her goal again in the second world.
121	** When Agnès tries to summon help with her pendant, Anne warns the Kaiser, who proceeds to break Agnès's pendant before she can use it.
122	** She advises the Kaiser to send Janne to help Minette obtain the Compass of Space-Time in case she failed, an action that ultimately secured the compass in their possession.
123	** When the heroes foiled her initial plans in the second world, she brainwashes the Matriarch and Sylvie to send the crystals out of control.
124	* DarkActionGirl: Just like her sister, Anne is a force to be reckoned with.
125	* DarkIsEvil: She dresses in all black and has black wings.
126	* TheDragon: As [[GreaterScopeVillain Providence's]] main agent, pulling strings to ensure Providence's success.
127	* EvilAllAlong: Her role in the first game was to inspire the player to begin their journey, and urge them to see the game through to the end, acting as a hint towards getting the full ending and destroying Ouroboros, with the implication that Airy's sister was the good one, helping you put things right. In the second game, it is revealed that everything the player did in that game was simply to oust Ouroboros so that ''her'' master could take over.
128	* EvilerThanThou: To Airy in the first game.
129	* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: She mocks the party for this in her second battle, declaring that fairies are superior to humans because they aren't burdened by an absence of purpose.
130	* EvilVersusEvil: She aided the original heroes in the battle against Ouroboros, but only to kill off a rival to her master.
131	* FaceDeathWithDignity: In both scenarios in which she dies, she does so with no regrets, happy that her actions have paved the way for Providence to enter the world.
132	* FairySexy: Her heels/boots are trendy and her outfit bares her legs.
133	* HoistByTheirOwnPetard:
134	** In ''Default''[='=]s opening, she asks the player to "stay 'til the very end." Unforunately for her, Ouroboros' death [[SequelHook is not the very end]] - which means when ''Second'' comes around, the player is there to interfere with her and Providence's plans all the same.
135	** During battle, the only way to tell Anne's fakes apart from the real one is by any status buffs that were applied to the real one beforehand. She can thus undermine her own defense if she uses Superbia beforehand.
136	* HPToOne: One of her signature moves is Undermine, which sets the victim's ''maximum'' HP to 1 for the rest of the battle even if they die and are revived. Only an Exorcist using Undo quickly enough can remove the status.
137	* IronLady: Completes her duties in a cold and distant manner.
138	* KillItWithFire: Like her sister, she's weak to fire attacks in both her forms.
139	* LightIsNotGood: Her OneWingedAngel form looks almost angelic unlike her sister's, and yet she's still the BigBad.
140	* TheManBehindTheMan: Well, she's the woman behind the man. She is this in the first game, empowering Tiz to defeat [[BigBad Airy]] and [[GreaterScopeVillain Ouroboros]]... which lets Providence attack unopposed.
141	* MesACrowd: Subverted; Now You See Me sets up multiple targets that are all classified as Anne and share the same HP level she had beforehand, but the visuals are more reminiscent of OneToMillionToOne. Attacking any of the fakes will be met with a painful counterattack, making dealing with them using area of effect moves a ''very'' bad idea.
142	* MouthOfSauron: Much like how Airy served this role for Ouroboros, she serves as this for Providence.
143	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her plan to use the Great Chasm as a backdoor for Providence to ship full-strength Ba'al into Luxendarc does far more harm than good in the long run, as the party uses it as their backdoor to kill Providence after dealing with her.
144	* ObviouslyEvil: Works directly for Providence and wears all black.
145	* OneWingedAngel: Unlike Airy, Anne only has one and it is much, MUCH easier on the eyes than Airy's first two forms.
146	* OurAngelsAreDifferent: An in-battle dialogue during her second fight confirms this is true of fairies in the Bravely universe. Their sole purpose is to serve whatever god creates them.
147	* PragmaticVillainy: Any actions of "kindness" are just her taking the most beneficial course of action.
148	** She directed the player to fight Ouroboros and save Luxendarc... because Ouroboros' goal was "kill the Celestials", and Providence ''is'' a Celestial.
149	** When Bella comes back unsuccessful and with her asterisk stolen, Anne suggests Kaiser Oblivion [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill her for her failure]]. When Cú Chulainn offers up his life instead, on the grounds that Bella's magic is what's keeping him alive (thus if she dies, he dies), Anne is willing to agree to the offer.
150	* ShmuckBait: Trying to use area of effect spells to get rid of her clones is a quick path to a total party wipe.
151	* StatusBuffDispel: Her Superbia attack does this to your whole party while also augmenting her own stats.
152	* TreacherousAdvisor: For Kaiser Oblivion. She encourages him to pursue his goals of changing the past and denying Luxendarc as it currently is... and then, before he could use the compass, she affected it to send him two-hundred years into the ''future'' instead.
153	* ViolationOfCommonSense: When she uses Now You See Me, six targets appear listed as "Anne". The only way to tell them apart is statuses or stat buffs/debuffs. She ''opens the fight'' with Now You See Me, which can make finding the real her a challenge... unless you can tag her with something faster than she can disappear. And the Astrologian's Prescience gives ActionInitiative to ''buffing'' spells, which means that the best way to keep track of the real Anne is to ''buff'' her.
154	* WhamLine: It's easy to assume that the black-winged, black-garbed fairy is all but unrelated to the creepy monster from ''Default''... until, in the Moonless World, she turns to face the player directly and takes an incredibly familiar sequence of poses.
155	-->[[MeaningfulEcho Oh, hello!]] [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay I see fire in those eyes!]] How do I put it? [[BatmanGambit They've a strong sense of duty.]] Like, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero whatever you start, you'll always see through, no matter what!]]
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160	[[folder:God of Despair]]
161	!!Providence
162	[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/providence_first_form_bravely_second.png]]
163	[[caption-width-right:340:Deity of the Celestial Realm]]
164	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/providence_second_form_bravely_second.png]]
165	[[caption-width-right:350:New World Order]]
166	The deity of the Celestial Realm and a rival to Ouroboros. He uses Anne as his proxy to bring about the destruction of Luxendarc.
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168	Although the character is referred to as female in the Japanese version, the American version uses male pronouns, which the examples of the tropes below are written with.
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171	* CreepyCrows: His first form resembles a anthropomorphic crow in royal attire. It is possibly meant to be a magpie, in a twisted reference to the Tanabata story that inspired the characters of Altair and Vega.
172	* EldritchAbomination: His appearance may not be especially Lovecraftian, but his ability to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou screw with the game's rules]] can leave a serious impression.
173	* EmotionEater: Feeds on despair to sustain himself. This is why he latched on to Vega, whose despair at being separated from her lover Altair, possibly for forever, practically gave him a never-ending food source. Despite this, Providence would hatch a plot to enter and destroy Luxendarc because his new food source was not perfect: Vega still held out hope that Altair would find a way back to the Celestial Realm from Luxendarc.
174	* EvilVersusEvil: His relationship with Ouroboros. What he wants with Luxendarc is by no means noble, and Ouroboros was keeping his hands tied with his attempted invasion into the Celestial Realm, but the only reason why Ouroboros wanted to invade the Celestial Realm in the first place was to become the ruler of creation and rule everything.
175	* EyeOfProvidence: His second form resembles a black, inverted Eye of Providence pyramid with purple energy lines running through it. Adding onto it is one of his attacks being called "New World Order", referencing the many conspiracy theories surrounding the Illuminati and how Providence looks like their supposed symbol.
176	* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: He looks straight at the player, reprimands them for guiding Agnes' Avengers through their journey, and tries to delete the player's save file.
177	* FinalBoss: He's the final enemy the player must face.
178	* GodIsEvil: This guy has just as little ''or less'' regard for the people of Luxendarc than the Infernal from the first game.
179	* GreaterScopeVillain: As Anne's true boss and the true creator of the Ba'als.
180	* ItAmusedMe: The reason why Providence controlled Vega and planned what happens in ''Bravely Second''? To see ''despair'', as it's what powers him.
181	* JumpScare: Providence's first form appears to be his final defeat, and the player's given control to run around the room as they like after a lengthy cutscene. Approaching the door instantly starts the battle with the second form with no indication beforehand that Providence is even still around. He does it again when he uses [[TimeStandsStill Bravely Second]] in the middle of the player's turn. And [[RuleOfThree again]] in the middle of the battle by switching his dialogue boxes into the ''tutorial'' boxes.
182	* LightIsNotGood: He rules the Celestial Realm, but is just as nasty as those who'd invade it. Appropriately, he's weak to Dark damage.
183	* LoopholeAbuse: His first form will command that, say, Tiz kill Yew, with a move that drops him to -4 BP, and inflicts a TotalPartyKill if ''Tiz specifically'' hasn't landed the killing blow by the time he's at -1. However, the TPK in question is issued by inflicted a set 99999 damage on the entire party, so having a Bishop cast Calm to negate all damage to both sides or an Exorcist to use Undo Action will NoSell the damn thing, which leaves you two turns to kick his Celestial hindquarters without resistance.
184	* MeaningfulName: Providence refers to providing protective or spiritual care, or timely preparation for future eventualities. The latter suits him well, considering that he was fine with Ouroboros's defeat. The former has a thick dose of cruel irony, given that his 'care' of Vega's spirit involves torment from which to gain power. The name could also be a reference to the ''Eye of Providence'', considering his second form's central motif.
185	* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: The [[AvertedTrope aversion]] of this trope is the biggest threat of his second form. Providence's rules ''are'' your rules - specifically, your rules about [[TimeStandsStill Bravely Second]].
186	* RestrainingBolt: The dialogue at the start of Providence's second form suggests Vega actually managed to be this to the Celestial, holding back the fullest extent of Providence's power and cruelty.
187	* ShesAManInJapan: In Japan, Providence is referred to as female. In the Western release, Providence is referred to as male.
188	* SinisterGeometry: His final form is an inverted pyramid with a single massive eye in the center. This creates a StealthPun with his signature attack in this form being called "New World Order", referencing the many conspiracy theories surrounding the Illuminati and the fact that Providence happens to look just like their supposed symbol.
189	* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Providence has access to a Bravely Second effect identical to the player's... save for the SP accumulation. The player builds up one SP over eight hours without using SP drinks; the time between Providence firing off New World Order is best measured in ''seconds''.
190	* ThisCannotBe: After the final blow is delivered, he can't believe that he's actually going to die, finally knowing just what despair is.
191	* VoiceOfTheLegion: His voice echoes.
192	* YouBastard: Attempts to pull this on the player during the fight with the second form, claiming that playing the game means the player is enslaving the characters and making them suffer and die over and over for your own amusement.
193	[[/folder]]
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195	[[folder:The One who Guides]]
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197	!!The Player
198	The player of the game, and a high-ranking inhabitant of the Celestial Realm. The player guides the characters through their adventures, squaring off with all ranges of villainy. Despite being manipulated at times by even greater powers, this mysterious being refuses to give up.
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200	* AuthorAvatar: You're the player of the game, so this goes by [[AccidentalPun default]].
201	* BreakingTheFourthWall: The player has been a character since the beginning of the first game, but ''Second'' makes this most apparent.
202	* EldritchAbomination: Much like Providence you are this more for your abilities rather than your appearance. You are an invisible force in the game universe who guides the heroes, you can occasionally see events happen far away and behind closed doors, you can possess others allowing them to live on even at death's door, and can completely reset time at your leisure via saving and loading. The last is a power that Providence attempts to neutralize.
203	* GodIsGood: Compared to the characters, the player would seem godlike. And the fact that the player wants the protagonists to win would suggest this trope heavily.
204	* GodsHandsAreTied: Beyond guiding the heroes in battle and exploration, there is little the player can do to take direct action against enemies. Your primary offensive ability is your control over time; it's implied that Bravely Second is powered by the player, and events you reset by reloading a save file or using NewGamePlus are so thoroughly undone that only Deneb can perceive what you've done.
205	* GodWasMyCopilot: After all, you '''''are''''' the one playing the game.
206	* NighInvulnerability: A combination of God and Proxy sub-types. Nothing in the game can do anything directly to you, even the other divines can at best merely discourage/mock you either over your own inability to directly intervene or by attempting to mess with one of your few ([[RealityWarper ridiculously powerful]]) abilities.
207	* SpannerInTheWorks: It's the player's guidance that unravels Ouroboros' plans, and consequently Providence's.
208	* SymbioticPossession: Of Tiz in ''Default'' and of Yew in ''Second'' (which also keeps them alive after their opening disasters, though Yew [[NewGamePlus recovers from needing it]] later on). It's implied that the player is the one who's subconsciously guiding the party to where they need/want them to go through said possessions.
209	* TimeMaster: What your abilities amount to, being able to [[SaveScumming begin a battle again if things go wrong]] and decide when to initiate [[TimeStandsStill Bravely Second]]. In ''Default'', if you destroy a crystal and follow the false ending, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Airy reveals that Ouroboros will try again after this result]]; you are then returned to just before the boss fight you went through to trigger it, and can follow the true ending through to stop Ouroboros for good. In ''Second'', the NewGamePlus option allows you to bring Edea, Magnolia, and Tiz to Yew's initial fight with Kaiser Oblivion, thus allowing them to thoroughly dismantle Anne's manipulations before they can get underway.
210	* YouAreNotAlone: Invoked by Yew to save the player from the HeroicBSOD they got from the PlayerPunch Providence had done on them.
211	[[/folder]]
212
213	[[folder:The Star-Crossed]]
214
215	!!Vega
216	Altair's wife, a fellow scientist from the Celestial Realm, who failed to escape the destruction of her realm. Her despair however soon attracted the wicked deity Providence, who would use her for his ascension and scheme to destroy Luxendarc.
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218	* ApocalypseMaiden: Altair's unintentional abandonment has driven her to horrific despair, which attracted Providence, which led to her memories becoming Ba'als.
219	* BoyMeetsGirl: Altair met her for the first time when they were both taking a holiday at a ski resort. As they were sitting on the lift, a blizzard suddenly hit and they were trapped together for a little while. Vega ran when Altair gave her a flower from a nearby tree, but the memory and Altair would be etched into her mind: It's implied she recognized Altair as the same boy she met at the ski resort when he was transferred to her workplace, and it was one of the memories turned into a Ba'al as a result of Providence's attempts to pervert her good memories and cause her despair.
220	* DespairEventHorizon: Crossed this some time after being separated from Altair. And then it got worse once Providence got into the picture. She didn't completely cross it, as she still held hope that Altair would eventually come back to her, and the good memories of their time together, even after Providence got to work on her.
221	* EldritchAbomination: ''All'' of the Ba'als are weaponized monsters made out of her memories with Altair to cause destruction on Luxendarc, with each one of them holding a deep meaning.
222	* FairytaleMotif: UsefulNotes/{{Tanabata}}.
223	* HappilyMarried: To Altair, who confirms that they tied the knot before they were separated.
224	* IceCreamKoan: She actually came up with the idea of using "green proverbs" to try and get Altair to eat more vegetables. It worked, as he started doing just that after they were separated.
225	* LoveHurts: Being forcibly separated from Altair was not healthy for her psyche. And then Providence gets to work on perverting the memories she had of their time together in order to simultaneously cause her more pain AND to gain tools of destruction that he would send to Luxendarc in order to forever extinguish her hopes of seeing her lover again.
226	* WalkingSpoiler: Even more so than her husband. Her character provides a major part of his, and her current circumstances make up one of the biggest twists in the game.
227	[[/folder]]
228
229	[[folder:The Adventurer]]
230
231	!!Deneb
232	A mysterious figure from the Celestial Realm, whose main motive is to save Altair and Vega's souls from Providence's grasp.
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234	* AlmightyJanitor: One must wonder why your party has to save the world when it turns out the walking save point is so strong that she could casually kill them in a single turn if she felt like it. Not only that, but as the end of ''Bravely Second'' reveals, she is a Celestial, capable of traveling with ease through time and to other realms.
235	* TheArtifact: She's from ''4 Heroes of Light'', the game ''Bravely Default'' began development as a sequel to.
236	* ArtificialStupidity: If she has a free turn, she will ''always'' revive her fox companion, without Braving, rather than attack. This is easy to exploit -- the fox only has 50,000 HP, so with a surefire way to keep killing it every turn (very easily done with a Ranger's Beast Slayer ability and some other damage), you can severely slow her down. Made even easier in ''Second'', with Winter Storm negating all healing; as her revival action counts as healing, it effectively renders her helpless.
237	* BigDamnHeroes:
238	** A walking store of items to the most dangerous places in the world! What's not to love?
239	** She resurrected Tiz through manipulating space and time to deliver the hourglass to Tiz in the past so that Agnes could give it to him.
240	* BoringYetPractical: She only uses Meteor when weak, so her only offense is a normal attack and her Mass Slash attack, which is basically a physical attack on all four party members. It's all she needs to do to be challenging, because Mass Slash deals upwards of 5,000 damage even to a Level 99 party with the best equipment in the game.
241	* BladeSpam: Her main attack, Mass Slash, is a rapid series of sword attacks.
242	* ChekhovsGunman:
243	** The Adventurer is extremely related to the story by the end of ''Second''.
244	** That one time she was wearing green in ''Default''? She was traveling back in time.
245	* ColonyDrop: She has access to the Meteor spell, and can upgrade it with Spellcraft in the sequel to Meteor Rain.
246	* GlassCannon: Starts behaving this way as she loses HP. While she begins to Brave more often and attacks several times a turn, she'll go into the negative BP to do so, leaving her very vulnerable and giving you several turns to heal from the onslaught if you survive it.
247	* LimitedWardrobe: Wears her iconic red outfit all the time. Strangely enough, a wary player (who is not colourblind) will notice that she is seen wearing green in ''Default'' the first time Tiz meets her, but after that will wear red all the time. It turns out the Adventurer was traveling to the ''past'' that one time (wearing green) to give Tiz the Bravely Second hourglass the party had been carrying to fill it with wishes in order to revive Tiz.
248	* MeaningfulName: Her real name, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deneb Deneb]], refers to one of the brightest stars in the night sky, as well as one stars of the asterism which forms the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Triangle Summer Triangle]], the other two being ''Altair and Vega''.
249	* NarratorAllAlong: In ''Second'', she serves as the narrator in AttractMode and at the transitions between the first four chapters. She also narrates the intro cutscenes for the Duchy asterisk holders in ''Second''.
250	* NoNameGiven: She goes unnamed throughout ''Default''. Averted with the ending of ''Bravely Second'',where she introduces herself properly as Deneb.
251	* OptionalBoss: Fighting her is entirely optional. Unusually for the series, it isn't even obvious you can fight her in the first game -- you must walk through a wall to find a hidden passage where she waits for you.
252	* SadBattleMusic: During the second half of the fight with Deneb, she removes her hat, comes back with even more hit points, starts using attacks introduced in ''Second'', and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv9kV5Mqen8&list=PLx7mP-9E-Nn2GszUVfd99YbfRsc3Zuycz&index=26 Altair and Vega's theme starts to play.]]
253	* SamusIsAGirl: Only at the end of ''Second'' you find out the guy is a gal.
254	* SavePoint: Her main function.
255	* TookAShortcut: No matter the dungeon, you can always find her deep in its depths ready to help you out. Justified as of ''Second'', as she is shown to have a mysterious ability that lets her teleport at whim through rifts in time and space.
256	* TurnsRed:
257	** As she loses HP, she begins to Brave more, hitting you with multiple attacks a turn.
258	** Taken to its logical conclusion in ''Second'', where an entirely new boss battle is tacked onto the end of the first where she's overall more difficult to deal with.
259	* WalkingSpoiler: Don't go thinking this is just some random individual seemingly stalking you or something.
260	* WeHaveReserves: No matter how many times you kill her fox companion, she'll summon a new one next turn. The reason why is the fox can ''also'' invoke this, reviving the Adventurer if given a turn to do so.

Context Characters / BravelyDefaultDivineBeings