| 1 | Characters for ''Literature/RebornAsASpaceMercenaryIWokeUpPilotingTheStrongestStarship'' |
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| 5 | ! Crew of the ''Krishna'' (Main Characters) |
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| 7 | [[folder:Hiro]] |
| 8 | !!Captain Takahiro "Hiro" Satou |
| 9 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hiro_1.jpg]] |
| 10 | [[caption-width-right:350:I can't say I came from an alternate dimension, otherwise people are going to think I'm nuts!]] |
| 11 | Our StockLightNovelHero, a network administrator from a Japanese corporation who spent most of his off hours gaming. One night he went to bed, and woke up in the captain's chair of his ship from his favorite ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'' clone. |
| 12 | ---- |
| 13 | * AceCustom: His ship, the ''Krishna'', is a prize won from a rare in-game event, which he's gone on to customize out the wazoo. It may be a light fighter, but it's got top of the line military grade armor, shields, generators, engines, and weapons. Under the right circumstances, it can even take on a battle-ship and win. |
| 14 | * AcePilot: When ''Stella Online'' was just a game to him, he was among the top players in space-flight, first-person shooting (winning a custom laser gun as a result), and PowerArmor piloting. |
| 15 | * AlmightyJanitor: He starts at the bottom of the mercenary guild but quickly rises through the ranks with his accomplishments in [[SpaceBattle space battles]]. |
| 16 | * AlwaysSaveTheGirl: He gets Mimi and Elma in his crew because he came to their rescue when they were in extremely dire straits, and he truly expected nothing from them in return. |
| 17 | * AndThenWhat: After he rescues Mimi from a gang-rape, Elma hits him between the eyes with the question of what he's going to to with her next. If he lets her loose, the rapists will just go after her again, or maybe she'd find herself in an even worse situation. Seeing no better option, he welcomes Mimi to his crew, and gets boinked silly that very night. |
| 18 | * AntiHero: Hiro will massacre pirates till the last one unless they immediately surrender, even then if he is in a hurry or simply doesn't feel like it, he won't listen and will murder them likewise. Hiro is also likely willing (he has not done this yet) to destroy those pirates no matter if they claim to have [[ShootTheDog innocent hostages]], [[WouldHurtaChild even kids]] inside their ships. |
| 19 | * AttackReflector: With assistance, he can use his untrained PsychicPowers to produce a psionic DeflectorShield, reflecting off laser beams. |
| 20 | * BenevolentBoss: He genuinely loves his crew and bends over backwards for them, showering them in luxury and affection, [[ShowerOfLove sometimes literally]], and far more often than not seeks out their input and advice, but he is still the captain and ultimately calls the shots. |
| 21 | * BloodKnight: He's a serious adrenaline junkie and is at his happiest when he's plunging himself and his crew right into the thick of battle, blasting his way through waves of enemies. |
| 22 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: He doesn't have a lick of the local common sense, but he's possibly the greatest spaceship pilot ''in the galaxy.'' |
| 23 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: Looking at Mei's design, customized by Hiro himself, the girls assume he prefers large chests. His response is to insist that he doesn't discriminate between bust sizes. |
| 24 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: He has a very low alcohol tolerance. One bite of the "wine fruit", i.e. a grape genetically modified to produce more alcohol without fermenting, and he's already tipsy. |
| 25 | * ChekhovsArmoury: If he mentions an item, tool, or device is in his possession or his arms locker, it will be plot relevant, no exceptions. The "[[EncounterBait Singing Crystal]]" is probably the most straightforward example. |
| 26 | * ChivalrousPervert: Frequently admires attractive ladies in his POV and loves it when a woman presses her boobs on him. |
| 27 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: In spite of his claims of being a PunchClockHero who's OnlyInItForTheMoney, he often goes out of his way to help innocents at personal risk and expense, especially if those innocents are beautiful [[DamselInDistress damsels in distress]]. |
| 28 | * CombatClairvoyance: Part of the reason that he is so skilled. He can briefly sense an opponent's KillingIntent, so he already knows where to dodge before they even shoot. |
| 29 | * CombatPragmatist: He's not afraid to fight dirty if the situation calls for it. For example, if he's being ganged up on by multiple enemies, he may fly close to one ship in their blind spot so the others can't easily target him without risking friendly fire. |
| 30 | * DefensiveFeintTrap: Since his ''Krishna'' is a light fighter, with its primary weapons hidden away until active combat, many antagonists think he's easy prey. Then out comes the four high-power pulse cannons. |
| 31 | -->“The bastard just transformed!!!” \ |
| 32 | [[KilledMidSentence “N— No! I don’t wanna die! I don’t wanna die! I don’t—!!!”]] \ |
| 33 | [[IWantMyMommy “S— Stooop! Mommy—!”]] |
| 34 | * DoomMagnet: Trouble tends to follow him around like a recently hatched duckling. The Emperor lampshades it, saying that him and a handful of others throughout the empire seemingly bend the laws of causality around them. |
| 35 | * DualWielding: He takes a long and a short sword as battle trophies from Balthazar Dalenwald. Initially they're just for show, but Mei trains him to fight with them. |
| 36 | * ExperiencedProtagonist: He starts the story with four years of experience piloting the ships provided by Stella Online, which helps immensely when he finds himself piloting one for real. |
| 37 | * FatalFlaw: It's very easy for a girl to guilt trip him into sexual relations with her. Mimi, Elma, and even [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Mei]] all just showed him some PuppyDogEyes and said "don't you want me?" and that's all she wrote. He was able to resist laying hands on Chris when she tried the same because she's younger than he'd prefer, and he's aware her grandfather wouldn't take that lightly. |
| 38 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Come after him and his, and he won't have any issue blasting you to atoms. |
| 39 | * HaremSeeker: Once he learns about the local custom where a woman who willingly sets foot in a man's spaceship is pretty much making herself sexually available to him, he still has no hesitation about asking pretty women unto his ship to be in his crew. It's not ''just'' the sex he's interested in, though: he does look for a crew that makes his merc career easier with the members' respective skill sets, even seeking Dr. Shouko to deal with unexpected medical emergencies. He also starts making any potential hires aware that sex with him is ''optional''. |
| 40 | * HelpingWouldBeKillStealing: Averted. He does come to the aid of other mercs in distress, but first announces his intention to help and gets their consent before firing on the attacking pirates, so nobody complains that he's just there to steal the bounty. |
| 41 | * HeroicNeutral: He's a good guy, but he has no personal stake in the war between the Empire and the Federation and doesn't want the risk of actively joining the military. He just wants to earn money for a planetside house so he can finally [[TrademarkFavoriteFood have some damn carbonated cola]]. |
| 42 | * HypocriticalHumor: He's a serious adrenaline junkie and loves to go hunt down pirates, even once being caught trying to sneak out on the ''Krishna'' when he's bored. But he has to hunt on his terms. If the battle comes looking for him, he gets mad and protests that he doesn't like getting into trouble or dealing with problematic situations. |
| 43 | * IKnowMortalKombat: He quickly becomes a master space pilot and combatant thanks to 4 years of playing ''Stella Online''. The only difference is adapting to using joysticks and foot pedals instead of a mouse and keyboard, which he finds fairly simple. |
| 44 | * InstantExpert: After a few weeks of TrainingFromHell with Mei, he's able to match blades with nobles who've practiced the sword for years, even before using his time-slowing ability to tip the balance in his favor. Mei later notes the oddity and speculates that his PsychicPowers were giving him a boost. |
| 45 | * InternalReveal: Once he's been cohabiting with Elma and Mimi long enough that he feels safe, he shares the fact that he's not a native to whatever galaxy or dimension the story takes place in, and his cover story regarding amnesia isn't exactly honest. |
| 46 | * KarmicJackpot: Treat him well, and good things will ultimately happen to you. Treat him poorly, and your comeuppance is just a matter of time. |
| 47 | * LackOfEmpathy: Hiro has had a disturbing lack of aversion to killing pirates and enemy soldiers in battle since the beginning. He took his first 3 kills against humans totally well. He also can hear them screaming in fear and asking for their lives before massacring even the last one of them while feeling nothing and even mocking them for it. Is a more perturbing fact knowing he was a completely normal officer-worker guy on Earth that never fought or hurt before. Then again, he is in a universe where survival of the fittest and most pragmatic ''is'' law here. |
| 48 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: He claims to have suffered this as the result of a "hyperspace accident" as an excuse for his lack of knowledge of the galaxy and its customs. Elma quickly figures out it's BS. |
| 49 | * LeaveNoSurvivors: Hiro tends to destroy even the last one of the Pirate Ships not caring about their pilots retreating or begging for their lives. In his view, they are murderer maniacs that have killed innocent people and will do it again if he let them escape. He also has a policy of 'take no prisoners' if they find pirate survivors while looting damaged ships, no matter if they resist or not. |
| 50 | * ManlyTears: He starts crying after Mimi and Elma profess they really do love him, and they affirm their feelings by dragging him to a threesome. |
| 51 | * MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: He has a psychic ability to sense KillingIntent, well above average. |
| 52 | * NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus: Not only does he start off with a powerful starship and retain his in-game skills and (partial) knowledge of the setting, he also gains the ability to [[TimeStandsStill slow down time]] while holding his breath. He is later revealed to have latent PsychicPowers. |
| 53 | * ObliviousToLove: {{Downplayed}}. While he's initially surprised by his harem's interest in him, he's ''a lot'' less dense about it than many HaremGenre protagonists, and a lot more willing to take the girls up on it. |
| 54 | * OneDialogueTwoConversations: Hiro offering to pay off Elma's debt and have her join his crew leaves her a blushing mess, to his confusion. He didn't realize at the time that he was also [[AccidentalProposal propositioning]] Elma when he tells her "one more is fine" and "I expect you'll work hard". |
| 55 | * PhlebotinumOverload: He has to be careful dealing with psionic technology, since most such tech isn't built to withstand the sheer amount of mental energy he releases. |
| 56 | * PingPongNaivete: When it comes to anything related to combat (save for his extremely limited skill in hand-to-hand), Hiro is a true master, coming up with cunning strategies, and executing brilliant maneuvers that allow him to absolutely dominate, especially when he’s behind the controls of the ''Krishna''. However, when it comes to anything related to the customs and social mores of the universe he finds himself in, he’s completely clueless. This is justified as, while the universe he ended up in contains most of the same ships, technology, and equipment that he used in Stella Online, none of the factions or locations matches anything found in the setting of the game, leaving him with almost no frame of reference to work with. |
| 57 | * PowerArmor: He's got a suit of it, and it's a good thing too, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to provide assistance when strange creatures were attacking his home base in the Alain system. |
| 58 | * PowerIncontinence: Hiro refuses training for his PsychicPowers until Kugi shows up, and even then, it's a slow process. As a result, he keeps using them subconsciously, which among other things keeps dragging himself into trouble thanks to his WindsOfDestinyChange power. |
| 59 | * ProperlyParanoid: While on vacation on Cierra III, waiting for their SOS to reach Chris's grandfather, Hiro puts forward several vectors of attack Chris's EvilUncle could employ to overwhelm the vacation resort's defenses. While the rest of the party (and Miro, the AI assigned to oversee their stay) take the threat seriously, they all pooh-pooh that Hiro's scenarios are extremely unlikely. Turns out Chris's uncle is desperate enough to employ '''all of them''' [[ColonyDrop including setting asteroids on a collision course with the planet.]] |
| 60 | * PsychicPowers: It's subtle, he doesn't have enough conscious control to do anything flashy, but he has extremely powerful psychic ability. He can sense KillingIntent from quite a distance and apparently [[WindsOfDestinyChange manipulate fate]] to an extent. If his powers were to be properly developed, he would become a PersonOfMassDestruction. An elf says he could probably destroy mountains, and when Kugi opens his ThirdEye, she has to take great care to make sure he doesn't break time throughout the entire star system. ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest is why he is reluctant to develop them, since power so far out of common sense would result in the Empire keeping him under a tight leash, or failing that, killing him out of fear. |
| 61 | * PunchClockHero: He does good deeds, but he expects to be paid for it since keeping a starship operational and stocked with ammunition is expensive. |
| 62 | * RealMenCook: His harem is impressed he knows how to barbecue skewers. It's particularly impressive in this futuristic setting where artificial food synthesizers are commonplace and real meat is an expensive luxury. |
| 63 | * RedBaron: "Psycho", for all the crazy, risky maneuvers he pulls off with his spaceship. Serena was the first to call him that, and [[NamedByDemocracy the name spread]]. |
| 64 | %%* RescueRomance |
| 65 | * ScrewThisImOutOfHere: His default plan when things get too intense is to simply hop in the ''Krishna'' and jump to another star system. |
| 66 | * SeriousBusiness: His ultimate goal is to buy a planet-side home with a garden, because he can't get carbonated soda in space. |
| 67 | * SexGod: Elma and Mimi actively enjoy having sex with him, and say so. |
| 68 | * SexualExtortion: Unintentionally. When he chances upon Mimi and Elma in some very dire straits, he offers them to become members of his crew, until they get back on their feet. Even paying their debts from his own funds. He was unaware that when a woman agrees to come on a guy's starship, as a member of his crew, she's agreeing to be his sex-toy, in addition to whatever other duties she might be assigned. It's not until after Mimi and Elma have come into his quarters, wearing sexy lingerie and ''pressuring him into having sex with them'' that he learns this. He does feel some pangs of regret at unwittingly using their debts to get them into his bed, but then shrugs going "what's done is done" and strives to treat them with civility and care, and enjoy the fact that they ''actively enjoy'' boinking him like rabbits in heat--though going forward, he makes clear with all his BridgeBunnies that sleeping with him is '''not''' a job requirement. |
| 69 | * SexualKarma: He rescues Mimi from gang-rape and then buys out her debts, welcoming her into his crew. She guilt-trips him into sex that very night. He does the same with Elma, with the same results. He is the MVP in repelling a major pirate and rogue military unit on Cierra III and winds up with Mei, the maidroid, who also takes to boinking him silly. If she wasn't 12 and the granddaughter of Earl Dalenwald, Hiro wouldn't have had an issue with doing the same with Chris Dalenwald. In fact, Mimi was ''devastated'' that Chris couldn't join the sexy-fun times. Tina and Wiska wind up joining the crew as interns then as full-timers after they provoke him into knocking their boots off. In short, it's rare for a girl Hiro is on good terms with to not join his crew and his bed. |
| 70 | * ShootTheDog: Likely. Hiro said that he would destroy pirate ships even when they claim to have hostages with them. Kids, women, philanthropists, etc are considered dead meat by law when they are taken by pirates, so mercenaries will not be punished if they decide to shoot down said ship, killing the captives. |
| 71 | * SickeningSweethearts: He dotes on and flirts with both Mimi and Elma so much, it's glaringly obvious that he loves them, and it's entirely heartwarming and full of fluff to watch. |
| 72 | * SkilledButNaive: Hiro is an excellent pilot and gunfighter, but he knows essentially nothing about galactic culture and has to be helped through that by Mimi and Elma. |
| 73 | * TheSoCalledCoward: When he posits the question if a tactical retreat is permitted during the mass pirate subjugation mission, most of the other mercs look at him with disgust and even Serena scowls at him, implying he might be a troublesome coward. Then he points out that the battle formation, and the Empire's HonorBeforeReason might make the imperial warships command the mercs "fight to the death!" When this is pointed out, Serena is shocked, 30% of the mercs begin to view him with respect, 20% still resent him, and the rest are indifferent. |
| 74 | * StockLightNovelHero: He's dragged into the universe of his favorite video game, with an OP "cheat" ship, and winds up with a harem of lovely ladies who all adore him one way or another, for various reasons. |
| 75 | * SuperReflexes: When he holds his breath, he sees time slow down for him, giving him super fast reaction time. Nobles can do something similar with brain implants, but Hiro somehow does it without. |
| 76 | * TemptingFate: He can't go through a single chapter without raising a flag, which inevitably comes to pass. All the characters around him repeatedly lampshade it, to which he replies NeverMyFault. |
| 77 | * ThatDidntHappen: Not wanting to have an embarrassed and outraged noble to deal with, he happily tells a blushing Serena that he and his crew will pretend that they never saw her passed-out, shit-faced drunk and had to put her in their own private med-pod until the alcohol was out of her system. |
| 78 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Soda pop, to the point where the entire motivation for his mercenary career is to earn enough money to buy a planetside house where he can drink it without worrying about the carbonation making a mess in microgravity. More specifically, cola, which he is ''extremely'' disappointed the resort on Cierra III doesn't have despite having other sodas, including obscure ones such as {{bland name|Product}} Cel-ray. |
| 79 | * TranslatorMicrobes: When he finally manages to get that physical checkup he'd been wanting at the best medical facility available, the Arein system, he and the doctors learn that he doesn't have the translator implant most people get in infancy, yet he still can communicate just fine (Hiro just perceives all dialogue as Japanese). Like everything else he doesn't understand, he just shrugs and goes "I don't have to know '''how''' it works, all I have to know is that it does." It is later implied to be a benefit of his PsychicPowers. |
| 80 | * UnclePennybags: Good mercs can earn a lot of money very quickly, and Hiro has no problem using it to buy his way out of problems. He gets Mimi and Elma as crew members by buying their debts: with Elma he gives a pretense of having her WorkOffTheDebt as his first mate, but with Mimi he mostly does it to piss off an annoying bureaucrat. |
| 81 | * UnluckilyLucky: He starts the story in an asteroid belt, navigation computer completely blank, all data corrupted, including his ID and his ship's, his Ener account lost (i.e. no funds), and a cargo-hold full of rare-metals, making him look suspicious as heck. He gets jumped by a trio of pirates as a direct result. Blowing up the pirates gives him PlausibleDeniability as to the fact that he's got legal, but heavily regulated cargo, and the loot he collects from the pirates also includes the coordinates of their base. |
| 82 | * UriahGambit: As a result of TheSoCalledCoward entry above, he's assigned the sector with the most pirates in the subjugation mission. Initially hesitant, once he's in the battle, he laughs as he's getting the most kills! The rank-up to Silver from Bronze doesn't hurt either. |
| 83 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: He could have dumped off a completely smashed Serena at the military base, destroying her reputation and getting her out of his hair. But instead, takes her to his ship and has Elma and Mimi put her in the med-pod and watch over her until she sobers up. |
| 84 | * WindsOfDestinyChange: Why does he keep running into so many {{Contrived Coincidence}}s? He's subconsciously using his PsychicPowers to manipulate fate. He has no conscious control over it, making it a mixed blessing and him UnluckilyLucky. |
| 85 | [[/folder]] |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [[folder:Mimi]] |
| 88 | !!Mimi |
| 89 | [[quoteright:348:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mimi_5.jpg]] |
| 90 | [[caption-width-right:348:I'll do my best, Hiro-sama! (Guts pose)]] |
| 91 | ->'''Position:''' Operator\ |
| 92 | '''Share:''' 0.5 --> 1% |
| 93 | The first crew member that Hiro recruits. Mimi was a student in the station's middle-class Second Division when her parents were killed in an industrial accident. The corporation pinned it on them, saddling Mimi with a ridiculous debt that left her homeless and forced down into the Third Division slums, where Hiro rescued her (against Elma's advice) from a gang trying to kidnap her for prostitution. He bought out her debt and hired her as a trainee crew member--not finding out until way later that, by local customs, he was also taking her aboard as a bed-warmer. |
| 94 | ---- |
| 95 | * AgeGapRomance: Hiro is twenty seven, Mimi is fifteen (which is ''barely'' above Japan's national age of consent, and below the age of consent in most prefectures). |
| 96 | * AnythingButThat: She has no problems sharing Hiro with Elma, but when it comes to the existence of a maidroid though, she immediately sulks and starts saying "it's no good." Though she does warm to Mei after they talk things through. |
| 97 | * AscendedFangirl: Since she was a small child, she dreamed of catching the eye of a mercenary and flying off to see the stars, doubly so when she found herself in the slums, trying to survive and avoid being gang-raped. When she's rescued by Hiro, she has no reservations about joining his crew, even knowing that she'd have to give up her virginity in the process. |
| 98 | * AttemptedRape: Hiro encounters her and rescues her from a gang-rape. |
| 99 | %%* BigEater: |
| 100 | * BrainyBrunette: She's a brunette and is actually pretty smart, picking up on her bridge bunny duties with remarkable speed and efficiency. |
| 101 | * BridgeBunnies: She was just a college student when her personal disaster struck; Hiro begins training her as a crew member once he takes her aboard. Her specialty is communications, watching the radar, and providing a tactical overlay. |
| 102 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: She's busty and everyone is envious of it. |
| 103 | * CleavageWindow: Her shipboard uniform consists of a coat and off-the-shoulder mini-dress that has a cut-out on the upper side of her breasts. |
| 104 | * TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: She had a boyfriend prior to Hiro, and they were close. One day, he received a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot maidroid]] as a gift from his parents. He very quickly grew distant and eventually just stopped seeing her at all (in the manga she claims [[IHaveThisFriend this happened to her classmates]]). So when Hiro gets roped into buying a maidroid, she's not happy. |
| 105 | * HappilyMarried: She is Hiro's official wife after the events in the Grakkan Imperial Capital, to add an even bigger deterrent to some idiot noble trying something, and Mimi is all too happy to let everyone know about it. She still sees no problem sharing Hiro though, as long as she remains his number one! |
| 106 | * HaveWeMet: Count Dalenwald asks Mimi this in Volume 4, and nobles at the Imperial Capital DoubleTake upon seeing her because she has UncannyFamilyResemblance to the royal family. |
| 107 | * LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: Hiro asks her what her overarching goal is in life, seeing as living purely for the sake of living is boring. After a bit of back and forth, she eventually settles on touring the galaxy so she can sample the delicacies of far-off places she's never seen before. |
| 108 | * LoveAtFirstSight: From her POV chapter, it's clear that she came onto Hiro of her own volition, and her feelings for him are genuine, falling in love with him the moment she laid eyes on him. |
| 109 | * PleaseDontLeaveMe: She has abandonment issues after suddenly losing both of her parents and ending up homeless, and although she understands Hiro isn't going to abandon her, she struggles with feelings of inadequacy when she first joins Hiro's crew and there isn't much she can do to help, so she visits Hiro's bedroom after he gets out of the shower. When Hiro tries to gently turn her down, insisting that sex with him is not a requisite of being his crew-member, she ''insists'' on sex with him, and guilt-trips him into it. |
| 110 | * ReallyRoyaltyReveal: In web novel Chapter 177 (volume 7 of the light novel), Selena Holz notices that Mimi is the spitting image of Princess Luciada, who has just made her first public appearance after coming of age. To get on top of things, she contacts the palace and gets Mimi genetically tested. She turns out to be closely related to the Emperor and likely Luciada's second cousin: her grandmother seems to have been the Emperor's sister, who become something of a romantic folk hero after running away from the palace. |
| 111 | * RescueRomance: She falls in love with Hiro after he rescues her from sex slavers. |
| 112 | * ShipperOnDeck: As long as Hiro doesn't neglect to smother her with affection, especially where it involves boinking her silly, she openly pushes for Hiro to hook up with any woman who shows him affection. When Chris's aristocratic duties pulled her off the crew, thus keeping Chris from joining in the sexy-fun times, Mimi '''was devastated''' and spent several days crying herself to sleep. |
| 113 | * SupportPartyMember: Apart from being the ''Krishna's'' operator, she researches destinations ahead of time and sells their pirate loot. After Hiro purchases a mothership and starts transporting supplies, Mimi also handles purchases and sales of those supplies. |
| 114 | * TheirFirstTime: She and Hiro trade virginities the very same night she sets foot in his spaceship, at her insistence. |
| 115 | * TookALevelInBadass: After working and training with Hiro for a few months, she still shows no talent at piloting a ship, no matter how hard she tries, but she does prove somewhat competent at handling a pistol for self-defense. |
| 116 | * WeightWoe: She thinks she's too fat and needs to lose weight. Hiro, in return, thinks she's too skinny and needs to put some weight on! |
| 117 | * WorkOffTheDebt: Hiro hires her as a crew member to pay him back for buying out the catastrophic debts she inherited from her parents. Since she lacks any actual skills at the time, he has her trained as an "operator" (i.e. sensor and communications officer). |
| 118 | [[/folder]] |
| 119 | |
| 120 | [[folder:Elma]] |
| 121 | !!Elma Willrose |
| 122 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elma_3.jpg]] |
| 123 | [[caption-width-right:350:"You haven't got a lick of common sense, Hiro! What crazy stunt are you going to pull today?!"]] |
| 124 | -->'''Position:''' Copilot\ |
| 125 | '''Share:''' 3% |
| 126 | The most experienced of Hiro's crew. A five-year veteran SpaceElf mercenary, Elma starts out as Hiro's de facto senpai who walks him through getting himself and Mimi registered as mercs. She pilots the White Swan, but it goes berserk during the attack on the pirate base and collides with a police cruiser, leaving Elma shipless and deeply in debt. Hiro buys her debt and takes her on as his second crew member. |
| 127 | ---- |
| 128 | * ActionGirl: She's a decent pilot and shooter but is envious of Hiro's skills in both, though she has him beat in hand-to-hand combat. |
| 129 | * ACupAngst: Downplayed in that she's not really ashamed of having a small bust, but will get embarassed when Hiro points it out. |
| 130 | * AlcoholInducedStupidity: After touring a brewery and getting drunk from the samples, she splurges a whopping 100,000 Ener on top-shelf liquor without regard for her debt. Hiro punishes her with a 1 week ban on drinking, though he relents after 3 days. |
| 131 | * TheAlcoholic: She ''lives'' for booze of all stripes and is prone to dealing with stress by getting blackout drunk. |
| 132 | * AssShove: After Elma teases Hiro about having had a semen sample taken through a prostate massage, he has anal sex with her off-page, and then later threatens her with further sessions to keep her from getting blackout drunk. |
| 133 | * BlueBlood: Though her family has no peerage, she is of noble blood, the daughter of an administrative viscount. |
| 134 | * BoobsAndButtPose: Is depicted this way in the DramatisPersonae of volume 1. |
| 135 | * BystanderSyndrome: When she and Hiro saw Mimi being sexually assaulted by at least three men, she actively ''tried to stop Hiro'' from coming to her rescue. |
| 136 | * CloudCuckoolandersMinder: She's got the unpleasant task of trying to keep Hiro's ignorance of the local common sense from getting them into too much trouble. |
| 137 | * DrowningMySorrows: When she learns her mishap on the subjugation mission has her facing a fine way, way too big for her to pay, with too little time to scrape up funds before the deadline, she goes and finds a nice, quiet corner and tries to drink herself into a coma. Fortunately, Hiro finds her and offers to pay her debt if she joins his crew. |
| 138 | * ExpressiveEars: Her long ears perk up or down depending on her mood, and [[LuminescentBlush turn red]] when she gets embarrassed. |
| 139 | * FashionableAsymmetry: Her customary street clothes include a trouser bottom with a full-length left leg but the right leg cut off at her upper thigh, [[ZettaiRyouiki with a thigh-high stocking below]]. |
| 140 | * GreenEyedMonster: She's a veteran mercenary with at least five years under her belt, and just barely managed to get to Silver rank. Hiro, a complete newbie, shows up and passes the test for Gold, without realizing they gradually cranked it up to the highest difficulty, as part of his assessment test. Elma is not amused when she sees it. |
| 141 | * HourglassPlot: They first met Mimi when she is completely down on her luck in the middle of the slums. Later, after her ship crashes into a military vessel and forced to go broke to pay it, Hiro and Mimi find her down on her luck in the middle of the slums. Elma even points out how the tables have flipped. |
| 142 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Literally. Unaware of her ship's FatalFlaw, she goes into a major pirate suppression mission and gets hit with a massive Maser. When her White Swan "goes berserk" as a result, the out-of-control craft crashes into one of the military vessels enforcing the blockade, wrecking both. She gets hit by a fine way too high to pay, even after liquidating all her assets, including her ship, and spending all her savings, with a deadline way, way too close for comfort, putting her right into the same situation Mimi faced earlier, [[PrisonRape or worse]], that she actively tried to ignore. Fortunately for her, Hiro was sympathetic to her plight too, and also welcomed her to his crew... |
| 143 | * MortonsFork: After the pirate subjugation mission goes badly for her, she's got three or four options, all bad. |
| 144 | ## Go to a PenalColony and face the constant threat of PrisonRape, ''or worse'', since most of the inmates are pirates and she's a mercenary who fights pirates professionally. |
| 145 | ## Go into the slums to flee the military, but wind up like Mimi, sooner or later getting gang-raped and forced into prostitution, for drugs and then thrown away. |
| 146 | ## Suicide, preferably by alcohol poisoning. (She actively vies for this one.) |
| 147 | ## Sign on with the crew of the ''Krishna'' under the newbie she's jealous and dismissive of. She eventually goes with #4 and is shell-shocked at how luxuriously he lives and how benevolent he is to his crew. |
| 148 | * MsExposition: She's Hiro's most trusted go-to source for the common knowledge of the universe he's been thrust into. |
| 149 | * MusclesAreMeaningless: Despite her slender frame, she's physically stronger than the more muscular Hiro, on top of being more skilled in martial arts. This is later explained as having some cybernetic enhancements as a former noble. |
| 150 | * OlderThanTheyLook: She's 53 years old when she meets Hiro but looks 20. SpaceElves typically live around 500 years. |
| 151 | * OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: During a medical checkup, she finds out that Hiro can get her pregnant, which is extremely difficult for her species, as only those who MarryForLove are fertile. When Hiro learns of it, [[LampshadeHanging he wonders]] just what kind of BizarreAlienBiology space elves have, especially since they aren't even the same species. |
| 152 | * PerfectSolutionFallacy: Since there's no way Hiro can rescue ''everyone'' who winds up in the slums facing a rape experience, then he shouldn't rescue ''anyone.'' Especially if he's not going to take measures to make sure the person he rescues doesn't get in trouble again. Fortunately, Hiro thought differently, or else Mimi's fate was not going to be kind. |
| 153 | * PervertRevengeMode: Often smacks Hiro when he ogles her outside the bedroom or teases her about their sex life. |
| 154 | * PsychicPowers: Elves are psychic as a species, and hers are just strong enough to create a lighter's worth of flame. |
| 155 | * RomanticWingman: She's the one who pushed Mimi and Hiro together, even providing the former with medicines to make the encounter pleasant, successful, and safe. |
| 156 | * RunawayBride: En route to the imperial capital, Mei discovers that Elma is actually a blue-blood, and when asked about her circumstances, Elma reveals that she fled from an ArrangedMarriage, taking up a mercenary career as inspired by Imperial Princess Cecilia who did the same to escape her imperial duties and live a life of adventure. |
| 157 | * SpaceElves: Which gets lampshaded on a repeated basis. She's an elf and lives in space. |
| 158 | * SpottingTheThread: After a short time living with Hiro aboard his ship, Elma quickly figures out his "memory loss" story is a lie, and confronts him about it. She notes his complete lack of common sense knowledge any spacer should know, his MundaneObjectAmazement reaction to the futuristic tech around him, and his DeliberateValuesDissonance all peg him as coming from somewhere ''very'' far away. |
| 159 | * {{Tsundere}}: In the "uses violence to hide their embarrassment" kind of way. Mimi, of all people, calls her out on it. |
| 160 | * VitriolicBestBuds: She and Hiro bicker and quarrel almost constantly, but they are indeed very, very close and cover for each other when things get rough. |
| 161 | * WorkOffTheDebt: Hiro recruits her as his de facto NumberTwo by paying off the multimillion-Ener fine she incurs from an accidental collision with a police cruiser during the raid on the pirate base. As this wipes out most of his savings, he plans to have her pay him back out of her share of their subsequent takes. |
| 162 | * YouDidntAsk: She doesn't bother to tell Hiro about the local "if you're a guy who asks a girl aboard your ship, and she accepts, that means she's consenting to be your fuck-buddy" custom, until well after ''she's the one who came into his bedroom and propositioned him!'' She presumed he already knew it, even though he repeatedly claimed to have "amnesia" and acted like he didn't understand many of the local customs to begin with. |
| 163 | [[/folder]] |
| 164 | |
| 165 | [[folder:Mei]] |
| 166 | !!Mei |
| 167 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mei_38.jpg]] |
| 168 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I am here to serve, Hiro-sama."]] |
| 169 | A custom maidroid Hiro and crew acquire on Cierra III while escorting Chris. |
| 170 | ---- |
| 171 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: Invoked. Hiro chose settings where she would have very subdued emotions and long, flowing, black hair. |
| 172 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She is smitten with Hiro, not because it's her programming to serve (though that is a factor), but because he treats her like a sentient being. While the law regards AI's like her as people, the enforcement of said law leaves much to be desired. |
| 173 | * {{BFG}}: In addition to melee weapons made of a heavy alloy, she can wield a laser rifle as big as she is. |
| 174 | * BodyguardBabes: Hiro's primary motive for purchasing her is to be Mimi's bodyguard. |
| 175 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Being ordered to do ''nothing''. Due to her high processing speed, even a few minutes of doing nothing feel unbearable to her. |
| 176 | * DeclarationOfProtection: She takes her duty to guard the lives of Hiro, Mimi, and her crewmates dead seriously from the moment he takes her into his service, pledging to defend their lives at the cost of her own if necessary. |
| 177 | * DebtDetester: She sees her purchase price from when Hiro bought her on Cierra III as a debt that she owes him and pushes Hiro into giving her more duties so she can pay it off as fast as she can. This, aside from her competence, is why she pilots the ''Black Lotus'', giving all the proceeds of her pirate kills to Hiro to pay off "her debt" as quick as possible. |
| 178 | * DifficultButAwesome: She makes the primary weapon on the mothership she pilots an EML Railgun. Such weapons have impressive fire-power but terrible accuracy, which is why they're not normally equipped by the Imperial Military, but with her insane processing capability, she makes it work. |
| 179 | * ADogNamedDog: A {{Robot|Maid}} {{Meido}} named Mei. |
| 180 | * DoYouWantToCopulate: Once she's finished with her upgrades, she gives Hiro PuppyDogEyes and asks for a "fitting" to make certain she's "fully functional." Hiro's resistance collapses like a crushed paper cup. |
| 181 | * EatingOptional: She's able to taste but abstains from meals since she cannot process food. |
| 182 | * TheGlomp: One of her favorite ways to show her affection for Hiro. |
| 183 | * HypercompetentSidekick: She captains Hiro's mothership, the ''Black Lotus''. |
| 184 | * InconsistentSpelling: Her name was initially translated as "May" in the web-novel, but is officially translated as "Mei" in both the light-novel and manga. |
| 185 | * NinjaMaid: Invoked. Hiro chose a maid with high combat specs in addition to thorough knowledge of house-keeping skills. |
| 186 | * PurelyAestheticGlasses: One of the accessories Hiro put in her package is a set of red-rimmed glasses that serve no function other than to look pretty. |
| 187 | * {{Robosexual}}: Yep, she's "fully functional", and just as in love with Hiro as the rest of the female cast. Hiro designed her according to his own sexual fantasies without actually planning to place an order (in gaming terms, he was playing "Space Barbie"), but the resort management AI on Cierra III had her built anyway as a marketing ploy. |
| 188 | * RomanticWingman: Assures the rest of Hiro's crew that she won't get in their way, and advises Chris that she'll be able to take Hiro as her lover after she comes of age and becomes the next Countess Dalenwald. |
| 189 | * SinkOrSwimMentor: She's also equipped with training programs for swordfighting, dancing, etiquette etc., and does not go easy on Hiro. |
| 190 | * SubmissiveBadass: She's as strong as Hiro in power armor, but she's eager to serve. |
| 191 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: Per Hiro's request, she's very emotionally subdued and highly professional, but still a good and kind woman. |
| 192 | * SuperStrength: Hiro had her outfitted with a skeleton made of starship-quality alloys and military-grade artificial muscle tissue. As a result, despite looking like a woman of average proportions, she possesses several times the strength of an ordinary human, being able to fling a solid projectile with enough power to punch through PowerArmor like cardboard, and wave around a {{BFG}} laser cannon like it's a plastic baseball bat. |
| 193 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The first time she goes pirate hunting with the ''Black Lotus'', she nails a fleeing pirate with the EML. What makes this fit the trope is that the EML was designed to deliver heavy damage to large, slow targets like battleships. The fleeing pirate was piloting a light corvette. |
| 194 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She's a bit ''too'' devoted to Hiro and will easily become extremely violent in response to any perceived slight against him. This is a part of her personality that was ''not'' requested by Hiro, in any way. |
| 195 | * YouAreACreditToYourRace: Despite her hatred for maidroids, Mimi adores her, though their first meeting was rather rocky. |
| 196 | * YouRemindMeOfX: Dr. Shouko almost immediately proclaims that Mei has a striking resemblance to herself, something Hiro himself failed to notice, and is visibly pleased at the implications. She also palpably deflates when someone points out that Mei has a different air about her than the dear doctor does. |
| 197 | [[/folder]] |
| 198 | |
| 199 | [[folder:Tina and Wiska]] |
| 200 | !!Tina and Wiska |
| 201 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tina_and_whisker.png]] |
| 202 | A couple of dwarf engineers that wind up getting entangled with Hiro. |
| 203 | ---- |
| 204 | * CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After the fiasco's over, Hiro points out that if they wanted to hire him as a test-pilot, the company could have put a quest through the Mercenary Guild and then Hiro could have reviewed it at his leisure and chosen whether or not to participate. Since they tried to do it on the sly and word got out, the engineering bay devolved into a free-for-all where all the rival divisions literally tried to nab him for themselves, resulting in a situation that could have cost the company greatly in its reputation. |
| 205 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Tina used to run with a criminal guild to survive, but cut ties with them after meeting Wiska. This comes back to bite her when said gangsters kidnap her sister for ransom. |
| 206 | * FastballSpecial: Tina throws Wiska at Hiro to try and nab him for their test project, after calling him to the engineering bay early in the morning. This has predictable results. |
| 207 | * FieryRedHead: Tina has red-hair and is extremely hot-blooded. |
| 208 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Tina is the foolish, while Wiska is the responsible, but since Tina is constantly dragging Wiska around, this does the poor girl no favors. |
| 209 | * HoneyTrap: Tina drags Wiska to Hiro's apartment, both wearing sexy lingerie, and tries to have them prostitute themselves to Hiro to "apologize" for their little stunt earlier where Hiro was injured after Wiska was thrown into him. Enraged, Hiro slams the door in their face. |
| 210 | * LongLostRelative: They were separated at birth and met for the first time 25 years later. |
| 211 | * OlderThanTheyLook: While all dwarves look like children, these two proclaim that they are actually 27-years-old when prompted by Sara. |
| 212 | * PleaseIWillDoAnything: After the door is slammed in their face, they begin wailing that if they don't make things up to Hiro, they could lose their jobs, and Mimi's experience showcases how bad ''that'' can be. Mimi convinces Hiro to at least hear them out as a result. |
| 213 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: Since they're only provisional members of his crew, as opposed to full-timers like Mei, Mimi, or Elma, not to mention they look like kids, being dwarves and all, Hiro desperately resisted their repeated sexual advances. One day, they goad him into finally giving them that wall-banging sex they've been wanting. They've pretty much moved into his bed at that point. |
| 214 | * RichLanguagePoorLanguage: Tina was raised in a lower-class district and speaks in ''kansai-ben''. |
| 215 | * ReassignedToAntarctica: After the fiasco, the company wants to get rid of them, rightly so, but firing them would leave a bad taste in Hiro's mouth, so the two get placed as part of the package for Hiro's mother ship as on-board mechanics. Hiro is understandably conflicted about it. |
| 216 | * RedOniBlueOni: Tina is red-headed, loud, flamboyant, and reckless. Wiska is blue-haired, quiet, subdued, and responsible. |
| 217 | * RelationshipUpgrade: In chapter 324, they discuss quitting Space Dwergr to join Hiro's crew full-time. Hiro gives his consent. By the time chapter 330 rolls around, they've actually done it off-screen. |
| 218 | * ShrinkingViolet: Wiska is subdued and shy. |
| 219 | * SiblingTeam: Tina and Wiska are twin sisters, and they work together. |
| 220 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: Tina is always dragging Wiska into trouble. |
| 221 | * WomanChild: They may be 27, but they act like hormonal teenagers. |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder:Kugi of The Holy Vuelzarus Empire]] |
| 225 | One of many emissaries sent out by the Holy Vuelzarus Empire to find lost wanderers sucked into the new reality, like Hiro. Or so she claims. |
| 226 | ---- |
| 227 | * BeastMan: She's got wolf-ears atop her head and a fox tail. |
| 228 | * TheChosenMany: She is but one of many emissaries sent out to find people like Hiro who were sucked into this new dimension, as a result of the empire's own experiments in psionic energy. |
| 229 | * ContrivedCoincidence: Played with. She just happens to be at the space station Hiro and company dock with after the Refill System (Aka Theta Prime) arc. But since she's one of many emissaries, Hiro meeting one of them should have been only a matter of time. |
| 230 | * MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: She has a psychic ability to sense KillingIntent, well above average. |
| 231 | * PleaseDontLeaveMe: Per her testimony, if Hiro refuses her services, her home country will dispose of her, so she pleads and begs for him to take her into his crew, and all that comes with it, knowing about the Grakkan Empire's sex-friend custom... |
| 232 | * PsychicPowers: She's an expert psychic, and part of the reason she was sent to Hiro was to train his own extremely powerful psychic abilities. |
| 233 | [[/folder]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | [[folder:Dr. Shouko]] |
| 236 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shouko.jpg]] |
| 237 | The researcher whose S.O.S. is answered by Hiro and crew upon entering the Arein system. |
| 238 | ---- |
| 239 | * AmbiguousSituation: In chapter 376, she stuns both Hiro and her foster father, Mr. Dixon, by dropping the relationship bomb regarding the former's harem. Was she being ditzy, trolling them, or genuinely trying to understand her place in the pecking order. One thing's for sure, Mr. Dixon was not amused. |
| 240 | * ArtificialHuman: She's a DesignerBaby, derived from the DNA of some of the smartest humans and grown from an artificial womb. |
| 241 | * TheBusCameBack: She returns to the story in chapter 354, over 200 chapters after she and Hiro parted ways at the research station. |
| 242 | * DCupDistress: She doesn't like the fact that her breasts are large. They give her back and shoulder pain, and they attract the wrong kind of attention. |
| 243 | * DamselInDistress: Gets saved by Hiro multiple times in Volume 2. |
| 244 | * DesignerBabies: She reveals to Hiro that she considers herself an "android" since she was grown in a test-tube and programmed as a fetus to be the research fanatic she is today. |
| 245 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: Hiro offers her a job as his ship's medic. She appreciates it and their attraction is mutual, but she's MarriedToTheJob she has now. |
| 246 | ** Subverted as of chapter 372, where she joins Hiro's crew and occasionally shares his bed, to her amusement. |
| 247 | * ForScience: Like most of the researchers in the system, research isn't just her job, it's her passion, because what she's working on is "interesting." |
| 248 | * HappilyAdopted: Chapter 376 reveals that her direct supervisor, Mr. Dixon, is also her foster father. |
| 249 | * HospitalHottie: Works in the hospital with patients, in addition to the lab, and is gorgeous. |
| 250 | * IOweYouMyLife: Though it was merely a paid job to Hiro, protecting her from pirates and then some bizarre new life-form that apparently escaped the cultivation meat plant, she is still immensely grateful that Hiro came to her rescue on a repeated basis. |
| 251 | * MadScientist: Although she's at least ethical about it, practicing the Hippocratic oath "do no harm," she gets downright giddy when she encounters a new branch of medical research to pursue, like Hiro's uncharted DNA... |
| 252 | * SmartPeopleWearGlasses: She's a brilliant researcher and wears glasses. |
| 253 | * TheTease: She's hot, knows it, and flirts with Hiro very aggressively once she realizes he finds her sexy, but when asked point-blank to join him as a member of his crew, turns him down since she's MarriedToTheJob. |
| 254 | ** Averted when she does later join the crew and graduates from just being a tease to being a full on bedmate. |
| 255 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Since she's a test-tube baby, she has no concept of "romance" and challenges Hiro to show her what that means, a challenge he heartily accepts. |
| 256 | [[/folder]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | ! Grakkan Imperial Military |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[folder:Serena Holz]] |
| 261 | !!Commander Lady Serena Holz |
| 262 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/serena_holz.jpg]] |
| 263 | [[caption-width-right:350:I never let my prey escape, my dear Hiro!]] |
| 264 | Hiro's first contact with a named military official. |
| 265 | ---- |
| 266 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: {{Downplayed}}. Hiro doesn't outright hate her and does consider her attractive (especially when [[SheCleansUpNicely out of uniform]]), and they work well together professionally. But she has a definite possessive streak towards him and tends to be manipulative, and he very much prefers his freedom and keeps her at arm's length as a consequence. |
| 267 | * ArrangedMarriage: {{Defied}}: she signed on with the Imperial Navy to avoid getting forced into one. This is also part of the reason for her pursuit of Hiro: his mercenary career has the potential to make him an acceptable match, should he happen to earn a title of his own. |
| 268 | * BeneathTheMask: When she's [[InVinoVeritas on a bender]], she lets it all out, that she's actually a very lonely and overworked woman and is jealous as all get out that Hiro hooked up with Mimi and Elma first. |
| 269 | * BlueBlood: She's the daughter of a marquess, but is a good, honest, and honorable woman, even if she is a bit manipulative. |
| 270 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: The moment her lips touch alcohol, she tends to overindulge and become a ranting drunk who makes a complete fool of herself. Fortunately Hiro didn't take her up on her "date" alone and brought both Mimi and Elma to help with the aftermath. |
| 271 | * TheCavalry: When Hiro and crew are being sorely pressed by a fleet of over 100 pirates and some asteroids slapped with FTL drives bearing down on Cierra III, she shows up with her independent anti-pirate fleet and aids the planetary defenses to shoot them down. |
| 272 | * DefensiveFeintTrap: She hired Hiro to train a special fleet exclusively for pirate hunting, but since the fleet's composition was ill-suited for most anti-pirate forays (taking a battleship or heavy cruiser into an AsteroidThicket is an expensive form of suicide), she asks him for options. He suggests disguising the larger ships as asteroids and buying up a civilian freighter, which then conveniently has "engine trouble" in areas where pirates are known to operate in large numbers. '''200 pirate ships are completely obliterated before the plan stopped being effective!''' [[LaserGuidedKarma This prompts Serena's superior officers to reimburse her 5 million Ener purchase as legitimate military spending]], [[CrazyPrepared with plans to use the freighter as a troop transport when its effectiveness as bait ends.]] |
| 273 | * EntitledToHaveYou: Once she admits that she has romantic feelings for Hiro, she forces her way onto his ship every day she has off and tries to monopolize his time. She does not take "no" for an answer. |
| 274 | * FirstGirlWins: Subverted. She may be the first girl Hiro meets in this new dimension, and shows strong interest in him, but the first girl he hooks up with is Mimi--and he actively ''avoids'' Serena's attempts to take their relationship further. She lampshades the subversion, ''and hates it!'' |
| 275 | * GreenEyedMonster: She's very jealous of the freedom enjoyed by mercenaries like Hiro and his crew, specifically their ability to fly off at will while she's stuck handling paperwork, noble politics, and commanding space fleets. |
| 276 | ** She's also very jealous of Mimi and Elma for hooking up with Hiro, though she doesn't attack or try to screw them over. |
| 277 | * ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: She is absolutely fascinated and fixated on Hiro, and would bend herself into a pretzel if she has to, if she believes that will get him to serve under her, in ''every'' sense of the term, because he's a BlitheSpirit who will actually chew her out when she steps out of line despite the fact that she's a daughter of a marquess. |
| 278 | * InconsistentSpelling: Her surname gets corrupted to the nonsensical-in-context "Hoarz" in the manga. Whether to use 'r' or 'l' is a recurring problem in English translations because they're the same sound in Japanese. |
| 279 | * ManipulativeBitch: She's great at getting others to bend to her will, by pushing the right buttons, even managing to snare Hiro a couple of times, but her hold on him is tenuous and fleeting, which is why she's so, so fascinated by him. |
| 280 | * NominalHero: She is morally upstanding, but the only reason she's in the list of heroes for the story is that she's fascinated by, and wants to control, Hiro, and she's learned that helping him in his pursuits is the best way to do it. |
| 281 | * NotADate: She invites Hiro out under the pretense of a business lunch while he's contracted to her pirate-hunting fleet. To her annoyance, he brings his crew along "since it's work-related" and she drops the pretense afterwards. |
| 282 | * OutrankingYourJob: {{Inverted}}: she's only a lieutenant when first encountered, but she routinely takes on jobs more suited to a rear admiral like commanding major pirate-hunting missions. |
| 283 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: She loves being in the military and fights with nobility and honor. Hiro's CombatPragmatism does tend to chafe her on occasion. |
| 284 | * RankUp: She's a Lieutenant when she first meets Hiro and gets promoted to Lieutenant Commander for the successful defense of the Tarmein System, in no small part thanks to Hiro. [[spoiler: She ranks up to Commander after the battle against the Mother Crystal, which also elevates Hiro's mercenary rank to Platinum]]. |
| 285 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: |
| 286 | ** When Hiro first shows up at Tarmein Prime, she bends a few rules to get him out of interrogation (in the LN; in the manga, she blackmails the customs officer by implying he's on the take), and allows him to go on his way, selling the rare metals the colony needs, giving him the bounty for taking out the pirates and locating their base. |
| 287 | ** When Elma crashes her ship into one of the military vessels maintaining the blockade, she gives direct orders to ''not'' give Elma punitive fines because it was a bonafide accident, due to a situation beyond Elma's control. In this case, though, her orders were ignored by a petty bureaucrat with a raging hate-boner for mercenaries. Serena responds to ''that'' [[LaserGuidedKarma by sending the pig to a]] PenalColony, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome but can't get the bureaucracy to refund the fine, since the fine itself was legit.]] |
| 288 | * RedBaron: A FlashForward reveals she will later be known as the Princess Admiral. |
| 289 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: {{Downplayed}}. She's got eyes red like blood, and she's very calculating, cold, and cunning, and has a bit of a {{yandere}} streak, though for all that she's still a pretty decent person. |
| 290 | * SoreLoser: In chapter 330, she and Hiro happen to meet in an "invitation only" weapons shop where he was getting his newest PowerArmor fitted, and she had an appointment there as well, for the same reason. She insists on a "friendly spar" with him. She gets spanked no less than 7 times because she just refuses to admit her loss, until Hiro lets her win just to make her stop, and she's still complaining about that. |
| 291 | * StalkerWithACrush: Double subverted. At first glance, it looks like she's keeping tabs on Hiro and chasing him around purely because he's the best pilot she's ever seen, and she wants to monopolize him, at least to keep him out of enemy hands, foreign or domestic. After maneuvering him into a "date" once she manages to strong-arm him into becoming a temporary pirate-hunting subordinate, she gets herself completely smashed and admits that she does have romantic feelings for him and resents the fact that Mimi and Elma got to him first. |
| 292 | --> “Unfair! It’s so unfair–! I was the one who first had my eye on Captain Hiro you know–!”\ |
| 293 | She then stamped her feet while still sitting on her chair and cried loudly.\ |
| 294 | “That’s right you know. I helped you out, ‘kay. I’m the one who first met Captain Hiro…… But why is it that when I met him again, he already had other women sticking to him!?” |
| 295 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: Cold and aloof on one side, sweet and sympathetic on the other, though the "sugar" side tends to come out only when she's shit-faced, about to hit the floor, drunk. |
| 296 | * VirtuousCharacterCopy: Physically she's based heavily on General Esdeath from ''Manga/AkameGaKill'', is similarly a noblewoman and senior officer of the local Imperial military, and she has a similar EntitledToHaveYou unrequited crush on the main character. Unlike Esdeath, though, she actually comprehends that he doesn't return her feelings, painful though that knowledge is, and doesn't try to physically force him to do things he doesn't want to, whereas Esdeath is a full-blown {{Yandere}} who literally kidnapped the protagonist after falling in LoveAtFirstSight with him. It helps that the Grakkan Empire is generally TheGoodKingdom rather than TheEmpire, so the two of them are basically on the same side from day one. |
| 297 | * VitriolicBestBuds: While she and Hiro do like each other on a personal level, their professional relationship is horrible. So whenever they wind up having to work together, they just can't resist bickering and backbiting with Serena constantly trying to rein him in and him constantly [[MilitaryMaverick trying to break away]]. |
| 298 | [[/folder]] |
| 299 | |
| 300 | [[folder:Captain Bariton]] |
| 301 | The imperial officer who countermanded Serena's orders and not only slapped Elma with a punitive fine, but made the deadline as short as possible, hoping to send her to an orbital prison. |
| 302 | ---- |
| 303 | * BobFromAccounting: An accounting officer mentioned and dealt with offscreen after causing grief for Elma and Serena. |
| 304 | * BotheringByTheBook: Rumors were circulated among the mercenaries in Serena's pirate subjugation mission that this bureaucrat was itching to ship the mercs to an orbital prison for IndenturedServitude on the smallest mistake. These rumors prove true when Elma loses control of her ship due to an internal defect and accidentally crashes into a military battleship, wrecking both, with the deadline for the cost of repairs and fines being set way, way sooner than the repairs were scheduled to be completed. |
| 305 | * BullyingADragon: Serena not only has a higher rank than he does but is the prestigious daughter of a Marquis house, yet he doesn't hesitate to harass her. When he's caught red-handed countermanding her orders for no reason than simply to be petty, he gets his comeuppance, but this doesn't help Elma, his victim, in the slightest, as the orders he handed down were legal to obey. %% Though as a captain, shouldn't he be outranking LtCdr Serena? (unless he's a non-naval captain) |
| 306 | * FatBastard: Elma calls him a "fat pig" in her POV chapter. |
| 307 | * LaserGuidedKarma: He was fond of shipping mercs to an orbital prison, for the slightest excuse, real or imagined, every chance he got. At the end of his courts-martial, he's shipped off to an orbital prison, full of pirates and mercs he sent there, all of whom would like to have a nice face to face with him... |
| 308 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: He hates mercenaries and Serena who is very, very skilled at employing them cheaply and effectively. As a result, he's fond of BotheringByTheBook to try and sabotage her, and them, every chance he gets. |
| 309 | * TemptingFate: You, in a military organization, give your superior officer(s) grief every chance you get, purely to be petty, but squeaking by on technicalities, get cocky and countermand orders higher on the chain of command to get the worst possible result? Enjoy your courts-martial and the heaviest possible sentence upon your inevitable conviction. |
| 310 | [[/folder]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[folder:Captain Eugene Herasmus]] |
| 313 | The captain of the Vuestor, the flagship of a rogue military unit that targeted the ''Krishna'' on Balthazar's orders. |
| 314 | ---- |
| 315 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: He commits suicide rather than be taken into custody, supposedly. |
| 316 | * CorneredRattlesnake: When Serena showed up to protect the ''Krishna'' and the ''Pelican IV'', the freighter Hiro was "guarding," the Colonel ordered his fleet to become more aggressive to the ''Krishna'', rather than stand down as Serena commanded, to her ire. |
| 317 | * TheGhost: He never makes an on-screen appearance, though his orders to attack the ''Krishna'' are heard by the main characters. |
| 318 | [[/folder]] |
| 319 | |
| 320 | [[folder:Lt. Commander Romando Kestrel]] |
| 321 | The Vuestor's first mate. |
| 322 | ---- |
| 323 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: After Serena's anti-pirate unit disabled or destroyed the rest of the fleet led by the battleship Vuestor, with only the Vuestor itself still combat capable, he orders the fleet to stand down to avoid further meaningless sacrifices. |
| 324 | * OneShotCharacter: Appears only once in the battle attacking the ''Krishna'' to try and get at Chris and is never seen again. |
| 325 | * UnreliableExpositor: He claims the captain of the Vuestor committed suicide rather than let himself be taken into custody. This testimony has to be taken with a grain of salt since the actions aboard the battleship are never shown. |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | !Grakkan Empire Nobility |
| 329 | [[folder:Abraham Dalenwald]] |
| 330 | !!Count Abraham Dalenwald |
| 331 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/abraham_dalenwald.jpg]] |
| 332 | [[caption-width-right:350:"As both head of the family and her grandfather, I am grateful to you all."]] |
| 333 | Chris's grandfather, ThePatriarch of House Dalenwald and a powerful and extremely wealthy Imperial nobleman. Once he catches up with Hiro and Chris in volume 4, he formally hires Hiro to continue acting as her bodyguard until they can return to their home system. |
| 334 | ---- |
| 335 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: When he asks Mimi "[[HaveWeMet Do I know you from somewhere?]]" As it turns out, she's related to Grakkan royalty, though he doesn't make the connection until much later. |
| 336 | * {{Fiction 500}}: A gold-ranked mercenary under contract typically commands a fee of 80,000 Ener a day. Abraham offers Hiro over two-and-a-half times that to stay on as Chris's bodyguard for the trip home; the crew ultimately leaves them with 16 million in their pockets. |
| 337 | * OldSoldier: He's in his fifties or sixties but is still able to hold his own in a DuelToTheDeath: it's unclear who would have won between him and his rebellious son Balthazar had Hiro not intervened to ensure his employers would still be around to pay him. He also has a sizable personal fleet. |
| 338 | * ParentalMarriageVeto: While he otherwise likes Hiro and is very grateful to him for rescuing his granddaughter, he does his level best to put the kibosh on her PrecociousCrush on the Captain which doesn't really work due to her determination. |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:Chris Dalenwald]] |
| 342 | !!Lady Christina "Chris" Dalenwald |
| 343 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/christina_daleinwald.jpg]] |
| 344 | [[caption-width-right:350:"You may keep it [my necklace] with you. You haven't finished protecting me, after all... my knight."]] |
| 345 | A pre-teen girl rescued by the ''Krishna'' from pirates and found in a stasis pod. She turns out to be the granddaughter of Count Abraham Dalenwald, orphaned during a coup attempt by her father's younger brother. |
| 346 | ---- |
| 347 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Hiro doesn't ''just'' rescue her from pirates and an escape pod, keeping her safe. He also treated her with caring, compassionate, and genuine kindness, even giving her some much needed therapy to cope with her loss. As a result, she fell for him, hard. |
| 348 | * DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Her father and mother shoved her into an escape pod to rescue her from "pirates" that were trying to wipe out her family. |
| 349 | * FallenPrincess: Though she has no hard evidence, she's convinced her EvilUncle sent his personal troops disguised as pirates to seize the cruise ship she was on, murdering all the passengers, including herself, so he could claim her father's rightful inheritance. |
| 350 | * FilleFatale: Despite being 12, she has tried various HoneyTrap ploys on Hiro that would be very, very effective on just about anyone else. |
| 351 | ** This almost comes to a head when she demonstrates how an unscrupulous noble will entrap someone powerful like Hiro: when she and Hiro are alone in her room, she partially strips and almost alerts the guards. She stops at the last moment to warn him not to meet other noble ladies in private. |
| 352 | * JailbaitWait: [[spoiler:{{Inverted}}. Hiro isn't interested in her that way, but she's interested in him, and when they part ways she plans to wait until she comes of age at fifteen, at which point she'll be legally entitled to pursue him whether her grandfather likes it or not.]] |
| 353 | * LivingMacGuffin: If her testimony is accurate, her uncle would like to remove the "living" part. |
| 354 | * LadyAndKnight: The Lady to Hiro's Knight, which they had fun lampshading. |
| 355 | * MarshmallowHell: When Mimi hears of her circumstances, her head gets shoved into Mimi's ample bosom until she almost suffocates! |
| 356 | * MundaneObjectAmazement: As an aristocrat, she's never had "commoner" food like hamburgers and pizza. So when she's exposed to it while aboard the ''Krishna'', she eats it with gusto! |
| 357 | * PrecociousCrush: Yeah, Chris falls for Hiro, too. He likes her well enough, but he studiously refuses her advances both because of the politics involved and because she's ''way'' too young for him. |
| 358 | * {{Protectorate}}: By law, Hiro's tasked with protecting her for at least a week. Considering his character, even it he wasn't legally required to do so, he would anyway. |
| 359 | * {{Seppuku}}: [[spoiler:{{Implied}}, but avoided. When her grandfather's mothership is boarded by her EvilUncle, she mentions having had a small knife concealed; Hiro (probably correctly) infers she would have performed ''[[SlashedThroat jigai]]'' with it had Balthazar won.]] |
| 360 | * SoleSurvivor: Of the entire crew and passengers of the cruise liner she was on, she's the only known survivor. |
| 361 | * StarCrossedLovers: She very much wants to pursue a romantic relationship with Hiro, but while he's not opposed to it, her aristocratic duties won't let that happen, and if they try anyway, her grandfather will chase down Hiro across the galaxy, something he'd never survive. |
| 362 | [[/folder]] |
| 363 | |
| 364 | [[folder:Princess Luciada]] |
| 365 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luciada_and_mimi.png]] |
| 366 | [[caption-width-right:350:Luciada on the left, Mimi on the right.]] |
| 367 | The granddaughter of the Emperor via the current crown prince. |
| 368 | ---- |
| 369 | * GildedCage: Was never allowed outside the palace until her coming-of-age. |
| 370 | * PrinceAndPauper: "Pauper" is a bit of a stretch given how wealthy Hiro's crew are by the time they meet Luciada, but in any event she prevails on Hiro to help her dress as Mimi so she can sneak out of the palace for an afternoon, with Hiro and Elma as escorts. |
| 371 | * ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Mimi's customary minidress turns out to be a lot more revealing than Luciada is used to, much to her embarrassment. Mimi thinks she looks great in them but allows her to add a jacket over the dress and black shorts under it. |
| 372 | * SilkHidingSteel: It's implied that she's trained in the sword and keeps a hidden dagger. She's also calm when threatened and attacked by Alexander, partly thanks to Hiro protecting her. |
| 373 | %%* SlummingIt |
| 374 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Before Luciada's introduction, many Imperial nobles remark that Mimi looks somehow familiar to them. It turns out Luciada is Mimi's second cousin and looks almost exactly like her (aside from having a different hairstyle and slightly smaller breasts). |
| 375 | [[/folder]] |
| 376 | |
| 377 | %% Alexander d'Elzar |
| 378 | %%Son of a Marquis and Elma's ex-fiancee |
| 379 | %% AscendedExtra, EntitledToHaveYou, TooDumbToLive, UpperClassTwit, |
| 380 | |
| 381 | |
| 382 | ! Inagawa Technology |
| 383 | |
| 384 | [[folder:Mr. Dixon]] |
| 385 | Dr. Shouko's direct supervisor and foster father. |
| 386 | ---- |
| 387 | * BoyfriendBlockingDad: In addition to being the one who can decide if Shouko can or cannot resign from her position at Inagawa Technology, he's the one who can give or withhold his blessings if she decides to engage in romance. |
| 388 | * ParentalSubstitute: Since Shouko doesn't really have parents, he adopted and raised her. |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | ! Antagonists: |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[folder:Earl Balthazar Dalenwald]] |
| 394 | Chris's EvilUncle. |
| 395 | ---- |
| 396 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: His personal sword sliced through Hiro's gatling laser mounts on his personal power armor like a hot knife through warm butter. Seeing this, Hiro whips out a shield designed to repel spacecraft debris and micro-asteroids then bashes him unconscious with it. For good measure, Mei then goes and stomps on his limbs, crushing them. |
| 397 | * AmbitionIsEvil: He will happily engage in any villainy to get more power, prestige, and wealth for himself. |
| 398 | * ArcVillain: He's the main antagonist of Volumes 3-4. |
| 399 | * BattleTrophy: Hiro is awarded Balthazar's swords after defeating him. |
| 400 | * CorneredRattlesnake: After Hiro and Serena have repeatedly foiled his plans and Chris manages to get to her grandfather, he pulls out all the stops and launches himself, along with a commando unit, at his own father, even attacking Hiro's power armor with a sword. He has several cyborg upgrades that managed to make that battle a close fight. |
| 401 | * CuttingThroughEnergy: While fighting Hiro armed with power armor, he used his sword to cut through Hiro's laser fire! |
| 402 | * FantasticSlur: He angrily calls Mei a "sex-doll" when she shows up to stop him from murdering his father and niece. Mei retorts that while the term is technically accurate, it is still derogatory and demands that he retract it. |
| 403 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He calls Hiro a "dishonorable boor" for interfering with his duel to the death with his father Abraham. This, coming from the man who hired fleets of pirates, corrupt soldiers, and even threw a damned ''asteroid at a resort planet'' to kill a harmless young girl for her inheritance money. |
| 404 | * InheritanceMurder: Despite being very, very wealthy, he sponsors pirates and disguises his personal guard as pirates in order to murder Chris and her family so he can claim her inheritance for himself. |
| 405 | * MurderInTheFamily: Attempts to kill off his entire family to make himself the next patriarch of House Dalenwald. |
| 406 | * NothingPersonal: As he finishes communicating with his underlings, just before the scene ends, he states "I have no grudge against you, Christina, but I need you to die here for my sake!" |
| 407 | * PlausibleDeniability: He tried to pass off his men attacking a cruise liner as the work of pirates. It might have worked if said "pirates" didn't get greedy and seize Chris herself in an escape pod and then yanked Hiro out of FTL with an interdiction system. |
| 408 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: Gives Hiro a much tougher fight than all of his {{Mooks}} combined, partially thanks to his [[{{Cyborg}} cybernetic implants]]. Hiro needed the assistance of his power armor and Mei to even the odds. |
| 409 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Hiro and the ''Krishna'' crew manage to repeatedly thwart his plans to kill Chris, no matter how elaborate and expensive they are. |
| 410 | * SunkCostFallacy: The more his plans are foiled, the more desperate and vicious he gets, throwing more and more resources at making sure Chris is dead. What's worse is that in his mad dash to kill her before his father, her grandfather, finds out, he's getting sloppy in covering his tracks, and now the Imperial military is on to him. |
| 411 | --> '''Serena''': "Military grade stealth drop-ships? You're right, Captain Hiro. This is something the Imperial Military can't ignore." |
| 412 | [[/folder]] |
| 413 | |
| 414 | ! Space Dwergr: |
| 415 | The primary maker of spacecraft, and the place where Hiro and company go to purchase a mothership. |
| 416 | |
| 417 | [[folder:As a whole]] |
| 418 | * TheAlcoholic: They make ''Elma'' look stone-cold sober by comparison. Cutting them off and making them abstain is the worst possible punishment one can deliver unto them. |
| 419 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: They are the best mechanics and engineers in the galaxy, but calling them "eccentric" is putting it ''mildly.'' |
| 420 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: ''Dvergr'' is Old Norse for "dwarf". |
| 421 | * MadScientist: Their dwarven racial traits make them obsessed with researching spaceship designs, and they will got to extremes in their competitive drive to be the first and the best. |
| 422 | * OurDwarvesAreDifferent: They look like human children, as opposed to the short, stocky, bearded humanoids of other works. They still obsess over forging and alcohol though. |
| 423 | * {{Paparazzi}}: Deconstructed. As Hiro and crew are at the Imperial Capital planet, en route to the award ceremony where he is to receive his Imperial Cross medal for meritorious service in the subjugation of the Mother Crystal, Wiska and Tina are besieged by a gaggle of PR agents from the local branch, some of the employees are even human. They pressure the two mechanic girls to let them into the ''Black Lotus'', and while Hiro tries to greet them in the airlock, they shove their way right past him, start taking pictures of every room, force their way into the crew's personal quarters, and start trying to rip open the cargo containers to see what's inside. Enraged, Hiro, Mimi, Elma, and Mei subdue them and wrap them up like bag-worms with the anti-intruder defenses. While the leaders of Space Dwergr are begging, head to the floor, these yahoos are screaming and shouting about their "rights" until Hiro points to his Silver Wings Sword Assault medal, meaning he's ''nobility'', and tells them that an official complaint has already been sent to their bosses, at which point they quiet down, so Hiro reminds them about several critical things: |
| 424 | ## Hiro and crew have final say about how and when '''anyone''' comes onto their ship or what is publicly revealed. |
| 425 | ## Hiro agreed to Space Dwergr having exclusive access to their story in return for a discount to purchase the ship, so he can ''return'' the discount and pretend the agreement doesn't exist, cutting off all access, permanently. |
| 426 | ## They have competition, and there's nothing preventing Hiro from selling the ship's on-board camera footage, showcasing Space Dwergr's abominable acts. For these Yahoos, Hiro has nothing to gain from employing them, so if they find themselves unemployed and in the slums, too bad. |
| 427 | * PintSizedPowerHouse: Space dwarves tend to be several times stronger than humans despite their size difference. |
| 428 | [[/folder]] |
| 429 | |
| 430 | [[folder:Sara]] |
| 431 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/v5_sara.jpg]] |
| 432 | The liaison Hiro and crew meet to try and buy a mothership. |
| 433 | ---- |
| 434 | * TheFace: She's the company's primary point of contact with customers. |
| 435 | * OnlySaneMan: She may be well-grounded and understand common sense, but the rest of her company is staffed by obsessive-compulsive engineering whackos whose idea of "recruiting" a test pilot is fighting over him, and when they see him, mob him with a "first come, first served" declaration, to the point one of them even throws her co-worker at him to nab him. When this happened to Hiro and he was injured as a result, the next couple chapters involve the company bowing and scraping to try and appease his wrath. |
| 436 | * StepfordSmiler: During her introductory chapter, she spends the entire negotiation over the sale price of the mothership wearing a "zero-yen smile" after Hiro had [[OlderThanTheyLook mistook her]] for a "little girl" |
| 437 | [[/folder]] |
| 438 | |
| 439 | ! House Willrose |
| 440 | Elma's family. |
| 441 | [[folder:In general]] |
| 442 | * LetHerGrowUpDear: Elma's mother and older sister are accepting of her being part of Hiro's crew, and all that entails. Her [[BoyfriendBlockingDad father]] and [[MySisterIsOffLimits brother]], not so much. |
| 443 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: Eldemois ''also'' challenges Hiro for besmirching Elma, only being stopped by his wife and daughter knocking him out. |
| 444 | * MumLooksLikeASister: Elma's SpaceElf parents look young enough to be her siblings. |
| 445 | [[/folder]] |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[folder:Ernst Willrose]] |
| 448 | Elma's older brother. |
| 449 | ---- |
| 450 | * BerserkButton: Doesn't like being called Hiro's "brother-in-law". However, the most he can do is seethe inwardly, lest he draw Elma's wrath. |
| 451 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He did help Elma escape an unwanted ArrangedMarriage and keep the groom-to-be from going after her. |
| 452 | * KnightTemplarBigBrother: He's a raging sis-con and doesn't want any other guy near Elma. Even after Elma herself chews him out for demanding a duel the instant Hiro sets foot in the Imperial capital, he keeps on coming. ''Losing'' to Hiro doesn't sway him in the slightest. |
| 453 | * ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: In his first onscreen appearance, he challenges Hiro to a duel and gets mad when Hiro turns it down. |
| 454 | [[/folder]] |
| 455 | ---- |
| 456 | |
| 457 | ! Crimson Mercenaries: |
| 458 | |
| 459 | [[folder:"Lucky Looter" Marie (UNMARKED SPOILERS)]] |
| 460 | A gold-ranked mercenary that greets Hiro almost immediately after he helps Serena deal with a major pirate outbreak in the Theta system. Hiro smells a rat and is ''immediately'' suspicious of her. His suspicions prove right at the end of the Theta System arc when she tries to assassinate him. |
| 461 | ---- |
| 462 | %%* CardCarryingVillain: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_flag Red Flag]] is also a traditional nautical symbol meaning "[[LeaveNoSurvivors no quarter]]" |
| 463 | * EvilCounterpart: And DistaffCounterpart. She is also from Earth but is a fan of Stella Online's expansion, Stella Online: PIRATES, and wound up in this new universe as TheMole for the Red Flag pirates, who were the primary antagonists of the Theta System arc. She also has a reverse harem, as the sole female of a fleet composed of mostly males. It is ambiguous if they're all sex-friends or not. |
| 464 | * ExactWords: Her final "parting gift" transmission is a promise that ''she'' will treat the Theta System incident as "water under the bridge." Hiro lampshades the many, many loopholes in that statement, not the least of which is that the Red Flag Pirates could still come after him for RevengeMyopia. Because Hiro and company shot them down as they were trying to raid Theta prime while he was there visiting Elma's family. |
| 465 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: After trying to shoot down Hiro and missing 9 times in a row, she realizes he's way, way better than her and she'd better lay off. |
| 466 | * PirateBooty: How she gained her nickname, having the good fortune to discover numerous hidden stashes of pirate loot. Of course, there's a good explanation for her string of "lucky" finds. |
| 467 | * PlausibleDeniability: She stalked Hiro very, very effectively by pretending to be doing pirate-hunting patrols. She also managed to get out of being arrested when she ambushed Hiro by claiming that she was fighting Crystal Lifeforms and Hiro's ship was just caught up in the collateral damage "accidentally." |
| 468 | * RedBaron: "Lucky Looter" |
| 469 | * RedHerring: Invoked with her red and pink ColorMotif and the fact that the Crimson Mercenaries are introduced right after the Red Flag pirates are dealt with. [[TheUnTwist Of course]], it turns out they're ConnectedAllAlong. |
| 470 | * SarcasticConfession: After she's left the Theta System, a time delayed recording goes of in Hiro's email where she all but confesses to being with the Red Flag Pirates and trying to kill him, but the wording is just vague enough that it's inadmissible as proof. |
| 471 | * UnfriendlyFire: As Hiro is trying to leave the Theta System, en route to an appointment with the Grakkan Military, she sets off a [[EncounterBait Singing Crystal]] in his path and while he's fending off the incoming swarm, tries to shoot him down 9 times before the Theta System sentries show up to rescue him. When the sentry patrols arrive, she plays it off as TrialByFriendlyFire instead. She gets away with it because Hiro has no hard evidence. In fact, Hiro is the one who gets detained and questioned for hours instead. |
| 472 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: She rubs Hiro the wrong way, but the mercenary guild doesn't have any dirt on her. She turns out to be very good at covering her tracks. |
| 473 | [[/folder]] |
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