| 1 | This is the character sheet of ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth.'' Multiple {{spoiler}}s are unmarked. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | All spoilers in Emeraude, Sierra, Mokona, and Zagato's entries are also [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked]]. |
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| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | !The Magic Knights |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[folder:As a group]] |
| 10 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/magic_knights_0.jpg]] |
| 11 | |
| 12 | * ActionGirl: The series practically runs on all three of the girls being supreme, butt-kicking heroines. |
| 13 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn |
| 14 | ** Umi - Beauty, taking a LadyOfWar aspect. |
| 15 | ** Fuu - Brains, being the bespectacled SmartGirl. |
| 16 | ** Hikaru - Brawn, the boisterous {{Tomboy}}. |
| 17 | * BrokenBird: All of them got broken [[spoiler:upon learning the truth about their role as Magic Knights]]. |
| 18 | * ChildrenForcedToKill: [[spoiler:Princess Emeraude summoned them to Cephiro to have them kill her.]] |
| 19 | * ColorCodedCharacters |
| 20 | ** Hikaru is red, alongside her [[PlayingWithFire fire]]-theme. |
| 21 | ** Umi is blue, fitting her [[MakingASplash water]]-theme. |
| 22 | ** Fuu is [[WindIsGreen green]], going along with her [[BlowYouAway wind]]-theme. |
| 23 | * DubNameChange: In the Latin American Spanish dub |
| 24 | ** Hikaru to Lucy. |
| 25 | ** Umi to Marina. |
| 26 | ** Fuu to Anaís. |
| 27 | * ElementalEyeColors: Each girls have eyes that fit their element color: Hikaru's red to fit her fire magic, Umi's is blue, and Fuu's [[WindIsGreen green]]. |
| 28 | * ElementalHairColors: |
| 29 | ** Hikaru: Red, though manga illustrations make it more pink. |
| 30 | ** Umi: Long, flowing and blue. |
| 31 | ** Fuu: A bit less obvious that Hikaru and Umi, but her wind spells are stylized in loops and curls like her short hair. |
| 32 | * ElementalPowers: |
| 33 | ** Hikaru: [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], with a touch of [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]]. |
| 34 | ** Umi: Water. |
| 35 | ** Fuu: Over air and wind. |
| 36 | * HeroinesPreferSwords: Their primary weapon. Hikaru's style is based around kendo, Umi's around classical sabre fencing and Fuu's is, well, themed around the stereotypical "swordsmanship" in the fantasy genre as a whole. |
| 37 | * KidHero: All of them are 14 years old. |
| 38 | * MeaningfulName: The girls' given names each refer to the ElementalPowers they're associated with, while their family names reference their Rune Gods. |
| 39 | ** "Hikaru" means "light", referring to the light a [[PlayingWithFire fire]] provides. The "Shi" in Shidou means "lion", referring to Rayearth, who looks like a cross between a lion and a wolf. |
| 40 | ** "Umi" means [[MakingASplash "sea"]], and the "ryuu" in "Ryuuzaki" means "dragon", which refers to her Rune God Seles. |
| 41 | ** "Fuu" means [[BlowYouAway "wind"]], and the "houou" in "Hououji" is the Japanese name for the Fenghuang, a legendary bird in Eastern mythology. Naturally, her Rune God Windam is also a bird. |
| 42 | * TownGirls: Boisterous tomboy Hikaru (Butch), bookish smart girl Fuu (Neither) and long haired ojou Umi (Femme). |
| 43 | [[/folder]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder:Hikaru Shidou]] |
| 46 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hikarushidou241262.jpg]] |
| 47 | -> Voiced by Creator/HekiruShiina (Japanese), Creator/JulieMaddalena (TV Series), [[Creator/TaraSands Tara Jayne]] (OVA), Ivette González (Latin American Spanish), Erika Robledo (Latin American Spanish, episodes 24-30) |
| 48 | |
| 49 | The strong-willed heroine. Hikaru is cheerful and excitable, but shows a lot of wisdom. Her element is Fire and she eventually awakens and wears the Rune God Rayearth. Out of the heroines, she's the quickest to take up the mantle of 'Magic Knight' and is prepared to save Cephiro. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | After returning to Cephiro, she tries desperately to understand everyone's motivations and save Cephiro from its fate of destruction. She begins to wonder about the Pillar system and if she ever saw the 'true' Cephiro. |
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| 53 | |
| 54 | * ACupAngst: Less pronounced than most examples these days. During a bath, Hikaru expressed that she hasn't grown any boobs and thought that it'd be nice if she got them big. No lashing out at the more endowed ladies involved. |
| 55 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Happens both in the second season of the anime series and the OVA, where she is given a more melancholic and guilt-ridden personality in comparison with her manga portrayal. |
| 56 | * AllLovingHero: Particularly noticeable in the second half, where she wants to know everyone's motivation for doing things. She also often mentions Eagle's eyes looking sad. At the end of the series, she proclaims her love for Lantis, Eagle, and everyone else she knows. |
| 57 | * BadassAdorable: Qualifies the most out of the three, partly because she's easily mistaken to be younger. |
| 58 | * BattleAura: Gains a fiery aura when she's excited. |
| 59 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite being very cheerful and innocent, hurting her beloved friends will make one quickly regret to have angered her. Her element ''is'' fire, after all. |
| 60 | * BraidsOfAction: One long braid. |
| 61 | * BroughtDownToNormal: Nova snaps her sword in Episode 30, severing her connection to Rayearth and speeds-up her HeroicBSOD. It takes a dangerous, mental journey to fix the sword over six episodes. |
| 62 | * ElementalShapeshifter: Her body and hair looks like they are made of fire [[spoiler:when she gets chosen as the next Pillar]]. |
| 63 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: She's very popular in her all-girls school, though the Dark Horse re-release altered the translation to sound more like teasing than genuine affection. |
| 64 | * FamilyThemeNaming: She and her older brothers' names all end with "ru"; Sato'''ru''', Masa'''ru''', Kake'''ru''', and Hika'''ru'''. |
| 65 | * FieryRedhead: Even if she looks cute, her red hair and passionate, determined personality proves why fire is her element. |
| 66 | * FireIsMasculine: Hikaru wields the power of fire and is a HotBlooded {{Tomboy}}. |
| 67 | * FlamingSword: If anyone but her touches her sword, it bursts into flames. |
| 68 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: She loves animals and can [[SpeaksFluentAnimal communicate with them]]. However, her love for animals gets used against her by Ascot in the anime. |
| 69 | * GenkiGirl: Extremely cheerful and energetic, though the second half shows that her cheerfulness was dampened by the previous events. She's still happy when seeing old friends. |
| 70 | * HeirToTheDojo: Her family runs a Kendo dojo and as such she's an accomplished kendoka [[note]]kendo practitioner [[/note]], having trained it since a young age. |
| 71 | * HeroesLoveDogs: Owns a dog called Hikari, whom she wished to see again. |
| 72 | * HollywoodToneDeaf: Official material says that music is her worst subject. |
| 73 | * HonorBeforeReason: She insists on fighting Lafarga using only her swordfighting skills because he's a swordfighter himself, meaning it'd be 'cheating' to use her magic. |
| 74 | * HotBlooded: Generally the first to rush into battle. |
| 75 | * IHaveBrothers: When asked why she has such boyish speech patterns, she explains that it's because she has three older brothers. They're also the reason why she's good at kendo, since her family runs a kendo dojo. |
| 76 | * {{Irony}}: Despite being the Magic Knight of Fire, [[AllThereInTheManual according to her bio]], her least favorite food is spicy foods and even weirder one of her favorite foods is ice cream. |
| 77 | * JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Takes one when working on repairing her sword in the anime. |
| 78 | * JumpedAtTheCall: Loved hearing being called a Magic Knight and wasn't worried about other obligations. [[spoiler:This backfired to her horribly: After learning what being a Magic Knight actually entailed, she ended up blaming herself for not reading the situation thoroughly.]] |
| 79 | * TheKirk: The first to try and listen to Clef, asking him what they need to do to return to Tokyo, and reminding the others about their missions. |
| 80 | * MartyrWithoutACause: She'll always get between her friends and danger, trying to protect them. The second half even has Umi tell Hikaru that she can't believe Hikaru's 'I'm fine' because of this. |
| 81 | * NoIndoorVoice: Most of the time averted, while being a HotBlooded girl in general, Hikaru usually raise her voice when fighting, but she usually speaks normally in normal times. However, in episode 7, when she was handed with Ferio's so-called 'wish-granting device'... unlike Umi, Hikaru decided to just ''yell out of her lungs'' ('''"IWANNASEEHIKARIIIIII!!!!"'''). |
| 82 | * ObliviousToLove |
| 83 | ** She doesn't understand why Fuu blushes around Ferio or him kissing her hand. |
| 84 | ** She also doesn't seem to understand what Lantis means when he tells her that he likes her, even wondering why her own heart was skipping a beat around him. She does point out that she loves him, just as much as she loves Eagle [[AllLovingHero and everyone else]]. |
| 85 | ** However, her counterpart in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsT'' gradually subverts this, since there are plenty of older female characters around who aren't afraid to talk about romance, even to a 14-year-old girl. As a result, she's able to understand and acknowledge her romantic feelings towards Lantis and how they differ from her love for everyone else. |
| 86 | * OlderThanTheyLook: She's rather short for her age, which makes Umi and Fuu mistake her for an elementary school student at first. This becomes funnier when you realize, that based on how the Japanese school year works, Hikaru is actually the oldest of the girls born on August 8th.[[labelnote:*]] The Japanese school year starts near the beginning of April to coincide with the start of the new fiscal year. As such, in order to be the same age and grade as Hikaru and Fuu, Umi would have to been born on March 3rd the following year.[[/labelnote]] |
| 87 | * PersonalityPowers: Fire symbolizes energy, passion and will. All of which she possesses in spades. |
| 88 | * PluckyGirl: Barely takes a moment to be not cheerful and bright, though the revelations do shock her. The second half also makes it clear that her cheerfulness has taken a hit, but she still has it and her determination to help Cephiro. [[spoiler:To the point that she breaks the laws of physics the Creator has created for Cephiro.]] |
| 89 | * RedOniBlueOni: The red to Fuu's calming blue. And to Umi, to a lesser extent. |
| 90 | * ScreamingWarrior: The anime depicts her as this as she lets out fearsome battlecries while charging at her foes with her sword. She especially became this when she charged at Lady Debonair to take revenge for [[spoiler: killing Eagle.]] |
| 91 | * SproutingEars: In chibi mode, she tends to sprout cat ears. |
| 92 | * StockShonenHero: Despite being the female protagonist of a shoujo series, she actually hits more requirements for this trope than those of the [[StockShoujoHeroine typical shoujo protagonist]]. She's a HotBlooded AllLovingHero who's associated with [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[RedIsHeroic the color red]], is very protective of her friends, has [[DefeatMeansFriendship befriended some of her enemies]], and is ObliviousToLove. |
| 93 | * TsurimeEyes: Befitting her bold personality. |
| 94 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: The anime depicts her as this as she fiercely battled Nova to protect [[spoiler: and then rescue]] Lantis from her. |
| 95 | * WiseBeyondHerYears: Despite her youthfulness, she's the closet thing the three Magic Knights have to a leader. [[spoiler:And she figures out a way to reinvent the Pillar system.]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[/folder]] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | [[folder:Umi Ryuuzaki]] |
| 100 | [[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/umi.jpg]] |
| 101 | -> Voiced by: Creator/KonamiYoshida (Japanese), Creator/WendeeLee (English, TV Series), Creator/AmyBirnbaum (English, OVA), Angelines Santana (Latin American Spanish) |
| 102 | |
| 103 | The tallest of the girls, [[{{Ojou}} coming from a rich family]] and attends a private school for rich girls. Umi at first is the least willing to do her job, and [[RichBitch comes off very snobbish and uncaring about Cephiro's problems]]. However, amongst the girls, she can be seen as [[CharacterDevelopment the most developed out of them]], as the situation completely demands her to really mature up, and she really did, becoming a much more admirable character. She's also pretty handy with a [[RoyalRapier rapier]], being in the fencing team of the school. She is the Magic Knight of [[MakingASplash Water]] and her Rune God is Seles. Seems a bit obsessed on eating Mokona, who annoys her greatly. |
| 104 | |
| 105 | Umi is affectionate towards Clef, and surprised by Ascot's affection towards her, but the adaptations leave who she chooses vague. |
| 106 | |
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| 108 | |
| 109 | * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: They're good, caring people... but also SickeninglySweethearts. |
| 110 | -->"Quit with the eternal honeymoon. Please." |
| 111 | * AngerBornOfWorry: In the second part, she always yelling at Hikaru for doing dangerous things, wandering off, or not being honest about how bad she feels. |
| 112 | * {{Ballet}}: [[AllThereInTheManual Hinted at in official artwork]] that appeared in ''Magic Knight Rayearth 2 Character Collection'' and ''Magic Knight Rayearth 2 Illustrations Collection'', as well as one of the "Cups" tarot cards (specifically, the one numbered "8"). |
| 113 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Umi is the closest the Magic Knights have at being the big sister, despite being the youngest, especially with the outgoing but naive Hikaru, worrying about her as the latter undergoes a worrying development in attitude. |
| 114 | * ButtMonkey: If the tone gets lighthearted, as most of the humor is about some kind of misfortune befalling Umi, and her short temper flaring up as a result. Mokona is often an offender of this. |
| 115 | * BystanderSyndrome: She really doesn't see why she should be dragged into Cephiro's problems. In the anime, she sticks by this for quite a while, and her sword's first evolution happens once she buries this attitude for good. |
| 116 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Blue hair, blue eyes. |
| 117 | * DefrostingIceQueen: She starts out as a SpoiledBrat who just wants to go home, and chews Clef out when he makes his first appearance. Her later reaction to him... |
| 118 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: She dislikes sweets, but she tests her recipes on her parents. |
| 119 | * DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: In the anime, Umi openly says this when the Chizeta princesses capture her and [[GoGoEnslavement doll her up in]] a {{Stripperiffic}} odalisque outfit that bares her midriff. |
| 120 | * FragileSpeedster: Eagle analyzed that Umi (in Selece) has excellent speed, but lacking in defense. So the moment he locked on her, he disabled her by repeatedly shooting at her legs. |
| 121 | * HimeCut: As fitting her high-class status, she has a neat and trim hairstyle of even bangs and long length. |
| 122 | * HyperspaceArsenal: In humor times, she can whip out a hammer in attempt to smack Mokona around. |
| 123 | * AnIcePerson: Her strongest spell is ice-based. |
| 124 | * {{Irony}}: [[AllThereInTheManual According to her bios]], Umi likes to bake cakes... but she does not like sweet foods (which includes, you know, the cakes she likes to bake). Presumably, unless it's the cakes she personally made, she wouldn't like other sweet foods. |
| 125 | * KirkSummation: She gives one to Ascot when he grieves over his summoned monsters, pointing out that he's the one who sent them into battle in the first place and chastising him [[spoiler:for siding with Zagato instead of trying harder to protect them. It works.]] |
| 126 | * LadyOfWar: Umi is an up and coming fencing pro, she really makes sure she has both precision and grace whenever she fights. This is displayed in full extent during the duel against the Chizeta princess, where she used all those previously mentioned traits for combat (including some jumps). It also helps that her style is identified as a FragileSpeedster. |
| 127 | * MakingASplash: The majority of her spells involve liquid water. |
| 128 | * TheMcCoy: She never does ''not'' say what's on her mind and always acts out of feeling, but is fiercely protective of her friends even while wounded and [[spoiler:convinces Ascot to make a HeelFaceTurn, along with an apology]]. Not to mention that she gets mad at [[TheSpock Fuu]] a ''lot'' for being too calm and matter-of-fact about their situation. |
| 129 | * ObliviousToLove: Subverted with [[spoiler:the reformed Ascot]]. She is aware of his feelings but she doesn't talk about it, feeling they are BetterAsFriends. |
| 130 | * {{Ojou}}: Her parents are very wealthy and she attends a private school famous for its moneyed students. She acts like the "bratty" type at first, then evolves into the "sweet" one. |
| 131 | * PersonalityPowers: Water symbolizes emotion, and Umi is the most temperamental of the Magic Knights. |
| 132 | * ProperTightsWithASkirt: Her school uniform. As the armor evolves, the tights vanish. |
| 133 | * RedOniBlueOni: Blue Oni to Hikaru's Red Oni. Though she may also the the Red Oni to Fuu's Blue Oni. |
| 134 | * ReluctantFanserviceGirl: When she was captured by the the Chizeta princesses Tarta and Tatra in the anime, there maids dress her up in a rather [[{{Stripperiffic}} skimpy]] belly dancer outfit (which is ''still'' less revealing than the latter two's clothes), and lock her up in a cage, causing her to whine at her captors [[GoGoEnslavement for dolling her up like this]]. |
| 135 | * RoyalRapier: The form her sword takes, owing to her being captain of the fencing team at school. She also has a high-class background to match. |
| 136 | * ShipperOnDeck: In Season 1, she's usually the one to take notice of Fuu blushing whenever Ferio is around or being a subject of their conversation and encourages her to get closer with Ferio already. |
| 137 | * ShowgirlSkirt: Her fully powered outfit has the top draped like this below the waist. |
| 138 | * SupremeChef: She bakes as a hobby. In Umi's own words -- "I'm an excellent baker... but a mess in everything else!" |
| 139 | * TemptingFate: When Alcyone reappears in the second season, Umi laughs, seeing how they beat Alcyone before. Naturally, Alcyone wallops her with ''quite'' a powerful spell. |
| 140 | * TrueBlueFemininity: She's a graceful and ladylike {{Ojou}} (at least when her temper isn't getting the better of her). Because her element is water, her hair, eyes, and clothes are all blue. |
| 141 | * TsurimeEyes: To go with her sharp-tongued attitude. |
| 142 | * WaterIsBlue: Her elemental colors. |
| 143 | * WaterIsWomanly: Her element is water, she has long, flowing light blue hair, and is praised as beautiful and elegant by other characters, wielding a rapier with grace. |
| 144 | [[/folder]] |
| 145 | |
| 146 | [[folder:Fuu Hououji]] |
| 147 | [[quoteright:334:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/241264.jpg]] |
| 148 | -> Voiced by: Creator/HirokoKasahara (Japanese), Creator/BridgetHoffman (English, TV Series), Creator/LisaOrtiz (English, OVA), Marcela Bordes (Latin American Spanish) |
| 149 | |
| 150 | The resident bookworm of the trio. She attends a school for intellectually gifted girls. Fuu is polite to a fault, adding suffixes to EVERYONE she meets. Despite that, [[TheStrategist her analytical skills]] are formidable. She also likes {{RPG}}s. She's always seen with her glasses, and only [[TheGlassesComeOff unequips them when she is riding her Rune God]]. She is a member of archery club and for the earlier part, uses a bow and arrow before switching to a {{BFS}}. She is selected as the Magic Knight of [[BlowYouAway Wind]], and her Rune God is Windam. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | She is involved with Ferio, a Cephirean warrior. |
| 153 | ---- |
| 154 | * AdaptationDyeJob: She's blonde in the manga but has light brown hair in the anime, OVA, and Saturn game. ''Super Robot Wars'' splits the difference to a surprising degree, having her be largely blonde in her unit cut-ins, but depending on the lighting it can look more like the anime's old light brown. |
| 155 | * AscendedFangirl: A ''huge'' fantasy RPG fan. See {{Otaku}}. |
| 156 | * AngerBornOfWorry: The only time she gets overtly angry is in the anime, whenever Ferio does something risky on her behalf. |
| 157 | * AssuranceBackfire: When the girls find themselves unexpectedly ''very'' high in the air and start to panic, Fuu tries to calm them down by saying that they'd be ''sure'' to black out before hitting the ground. |
| 158 | * BarrierWarrior: Her Winds of Protection are capable of stopping any attack, if she's prepared for it. |
| 159 | * {{BFS}}: While the other Escudo swords develop more ornate hilts as they evolve, Fuu's just gets bigger and bigger--by the time they're ready to face Zagato, it's a good foot longer than she is tall. |
| 160 | * BlowYouAway: Her magic. |
| 161 | * RedOniBlueOni: Blue Oni to both Hikaru's and Umi's Red Oni. |
| 162 | * CaptainObvious: [[{{Troll}} Sometimes on purpose.]] |
| 163 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Very, very mild example. Every so often she will come to extremely bizarre conclusions. Or try to reassure her friends that they shouldn't worry about falling from the stratosphere because they will black out before they hit the ground. |
| 164 | * CombatMedic: The only Magic Knight to learn a healing spell (Winds of Healing), but spends as much (or more) time swinging her heavy sword to monsters too. In ''SRW T'', this is a particular defining feature of hers, as she not only gets Winds of Healing as a full-on spell ''on top'' of the Spirit Command Trust, but her natural skill set trends for her being a ''tank'' for other army-mates. |
| 165 | * DissonantSerenity: Often, when put into a bizarre or perilous situation, Fuu's immediate reaction is to get ''really smiley'' with flower effects drawn around her. This happens when they're summoned to Cephiro and again when their flying platform rockets up into the sky while Umi is chasing Mokona. |
| 166 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: She’s introduced putting change into the binoculars Hikaru was using, because she was enjoying seeing Hikaru have fun, and Hikaru’s classmates recognize her uniform as one from a prestigious private school. |
| 167 | * FamilyThemeNaming: She has an older sister named '''Kuu.''' |
| 168 | * ForgotAboutHisPowers: Despite having the most versatile power set of the Knights, she has an unfortunate tendency to do this, ie not thinking to try Winds of Protection against Lafarga's shockwaves or even worse, [[spoiler: not thinking to use Winds of Healing on Presea until *after* she'd died.]] But, then again, she ''is'' fourteen [[spoiler:and is not used to having to think about using literal magic powers to save a person's life, RPG experience or no.]] |
| 169 | * FormalCharactersUseKeigo: She always uses polite speech patterns in the Japanese version, complete with attaching [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics "-san"]] to the names of most others. This helps emphasize her Yamato Nadeshiko disposition. |
| 170 | * GenreSavvy: At the beginning, Fuu continually points out the resemblance between their journey and the events of an [=RPG=], such as getting equipment, wondering about the loot drops from monsters, and exclaiming that they don't have enough ExperiencePoints to take on Alcyone. [[spoiler:This ends up subverted, though, since she is as blindsided by the true situation with Emeraude as the others.]] |
| 171 | * TheGlassesComeOff: Her glasses disappear when she's inside her Mashin. Lampshaded when Umi asks her if she can see well and Fuu says that yes, she can. Presumably, Windam is correcting its own display with magic so she can see. |
| 172 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: In the manga. She's polite and generous, and Clef identifies her sense of compassion as the source of her magic strength. Notably, the first spell she learns is for healing. (The adaptations make her a BrainyBrunette.) |
| 173 | * HealingWinds: She is the Magic Knight of Wind and is the only main character to learn a healing spell, appropriately called "Winds of Healing". |
| 174 | * IdiotBall: Ferio calls her an idiot for either not dodging a monster[[note]]in the manga[[/note]] or trying to rescue him completely alone.[[note]]in the anime[[/note]] She laughs and says it's the first time she's ever been called that. |
| 175 | * TheMedic: Her green winds can also heal injuries. |
| 176 | * OfficialCouple: Her and Ferio, pretty much the most canon and obvious in the show. The games try to dial this down slightly, but it's still very obvious. |
| 177 | * {{Otaku}}: In the first volume, she is constantly pointing out the ways their adventure is similar to a fantasy RPG. (Or dismayed when they clearly have not leveled up enough to take on Alcyone, who appears right after they meet Clef.) |
| 178 | * PersonalityPowers: Air symbolizes intellect and communication. Fuu is the most intellectual of the Magic Knights, and she always speaks with precision. |
| 179 | * RazorWind: Her more powerful spells, such as Emerald Typhoon, do this. |
| 180 | * TheSmartGirl: She's very good at devising new spells for the situation and [[spoiler:thinks her way out of Caldina's enchantment, with a hint from Windam]]. |
| 181 | * SmartPeopleWearGlasses: She's the only character who wears glasses, and she's easily the most intelligent of the three Magic Knights. |
| 182 | * TheSpock: An atypical example. She advocates caution and pragmatism because they can't fulfill their objective unless they stay alive, but she also applies her logic to compassion. In Eterna, the loved one she faces is ''herself'', since she knows that any hurt to her would also hurt her family. She also notes early on that Cephiro's system allows only for total peace or total chaos. |
| 183 | * StoneWall: Eagle noted that while Fuu has tremendous defense through Windam, she's lacking in offense. And this isn't before she casts the spell Winds of Protection. ''SRW T'' takes it to the obvious conclusion and her natural skill progression makes her a very serviceable support defender. |
| 184 | * TheStrategist: She's good at analyzing battle situations and makes some insightful comments about the logic of Cephiro's system, pointing out that the only possible outcomes under the Pillar system are total peace or total chaos. [[spoiler:This is long before TheReveal about Emeraude.]] |
| 185 | * TaremeEyes: Fuu's eye are drawn much less sharply than the other two. Although she's not shy, she does have a much more calm and polite personality than Hikaru and Umi. |
| 186 | * TeenGenius: She attends a school for gifted students and studies computer programming. |
| 187 | * UnwantedRescue: [[spoiler:When Ferio breaks her out of the ''Dreamchild'' in the anime, Fuu objects to the risk he took. And it's true that she probably didn't need it--like Hikaru and Umi, she could have broken out with Windam's help and had basically defeated Aska's ninja army on her own.]] |
| 188 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She single-handedly killed a giant monster that was about to eat Ferio alive. |
| 189 | * WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:She thinks they're in a normal [=JRPG=] with BlackAndWhiteMorality, but she's dead wrong about Zagato being the "final boss" and Emeraude's true situation.]] |
| 190 | * YamatoNadeshiko: She is very polite and formal. |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | !Supporting Characters |
| 194 | |
| 195 | [[folder:Cephiro]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | !Clef |
| 198 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mclef_5669.jpg]] |
| 199 | -> Voiced by: Creator/NozomuSasaki (Japanese), Creator/SteveStaley (English, TV Series), Immy Uncle (English, OVA), Víctor Mares Jr. (Latin American Spanish) |
| 200 | |
| 201 | Clef is Cephiro's Guru, the most powerful magician in the land. He is one of Emeraude's most trusted advisers and was sent by her to guide the Magic Knights upon their arrival in Cephiro. Even though he is quite venerable and powerful, he's rather tetchy towards the Magic Knights when they first arrive. |
| 202 | ---- |
| 203 | |
| 204 | * TheArchmage: He is the chief and most powerful mage in all of Cephiro, bearing the title of Guru. Nearly every native Cephiran in the story that can use magic, even Zagato himself, learned it from Clef. |
| 205 | * TheAtoner: In the second half. [[spoiler:He blames himself for letting the situation with Emeraude get as bad as it did, as well as for the heartbreak the Magic Knights suffered as a result]]. |
| 206 | * BerserkButton: Assuming that he's a child and otherwise making cracks about his height. He even [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall leans over another panel]] in a scene he's nowhere near to complain when Umi calls him short. |
| 207 | * CanNotSpitItOut: [[spoiler:Implied to be the reason why he misled the girls in the beginning -- the truth was just too painful.]] |
| 208 | * CutesyDwarf: But [[TheNapoleon don't tell him that.]] |
| 209 | * TheMentor: He's separated from his charges early on (though not by death) and occasionally counsels them from afar. |
| 210 | * MetaphoricallyTrue: He tells the girls that if they can become the Magic Knights, Emeraude's wish will be fulfilled. [[spoiler:He's ''well'' aware of what that wish really is, but he masks it with generalities and by talking about Zagato.]] |
| 211 | ** In both Tokyopop's 10th anniversary translation and the Dark Horse retranslation, this becomes [[MotivationalLie an outright lie]]. [[spoiler:He tells them that defeating Zagato will "restore Emeraude's rule."]] |
| 212 | * MysticalWhiteHair: He's the most powerful mage in the land and one of the few characters to have outright white hair. (Technically, it's pale lavender, but it's still pretty close.) |
| 213 | * TheNapoleon: Benevolent example. He's clearly one of the good guys, yes, but he HATES when people think he's a kid. |
| 214 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He's 745 years old. Go on, tell me he DIDN'T look ten when you first saw him. |
| 215 | * SecretKeeper: In the anime. [[spoiler: He asks Sierra to pose as her sister Presea and keeps her actual identity from everyone else but them and Mokona.]] |
| 216 | * SpiritAdvisor: In Part 1, he communicates through Mokona. |
| 217 | * TakenForGranite: In the anime, he's petrified by Zagato as soon as he sends the Magic Knights on their way, although he's still able to communicate through Mokona for some time. By the end of the first part, however, he's back to normal. |
| 218 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Autozam Clef. |
| 219 | * TheWorfEffect: In the anime only. Zagato gets to show off how powerful is with the aforementioned ambush and petrification, and knocks down the whole cliff face while he's at it. |
| 220 | |
| 221 | !Presea |
| 222 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mpresea_6746.jpg]] |
| 223 | -> Voiced by: Creator/EmiShinohara (Japanese), Creator/MariDevon (English), Gabriela León (Latin American Spanish) |
| 224 | |
| 225 | Presea is the Pharle, a title bestowed on the master blacksmith of Cephiro. She is the first person that the Magic Knights are sent to visit, as she possesses an impressive armory and can craft weapons especially for them. Although her smithing skills are unquestionable, she is... a little odd. |
| 226 | ---- |
| 227 | |
| 228 | * AdaptationalBadass: She gets a fight scene in the anime when a mud monster invades her house. Turns out she can use all those swords she makes. |
| 229 | * TheBlacksmith |
| 230 | ** UltimateBlacksmith: This is what the Pharle of Cephiro is. She's the only one who's able to craft weapons from Escudo. |
| 231 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: She might be skilled, but she is prone to overreactions to trespassing and seems to love daydreaming bizarre methods of punishment. |
| 232 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: She has a lot of fun dreaming up ways to take revenge on Mokona and trespassers, such as cooking them alive or seeing how far their ears will stretch. |
| 233 | * CoolBigSis: To the Magic Knights. |
| 234 | * DeathByAdaptation: Killed off in the anime for no reason, ironically creating a plot hole that had to be filled up. |
| 235 | * LeotardOfPower: Under a half-skirt and her smith's apron. |
| 236 | * OnlyTheChosenMayWield: All of her weapons are custom-made for a single specific person. Most can still be borrowed by others, such as the ones she lends the girls, but the Escudo weapons absolutely ''cannot'' be wielded by anyone else. |
| 237 | * SacrificialLamb: In the anime only. She's killed by Ascot's creatures in the sixth episode, just after she finishes the swords. |
| 238 | * SchrodingersCast: See above. In the manga, meanwhile, there's no attack by Ascot and she's there all the way through Part II. |
| 239 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Nissan Presea. |
| 240 | * WrenchWench: The closest equivalent in a medieval land. |
| 241 | |
| 242 | !Ferio |
| 243 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mferio_8071.jpg]] |
| 244 | -> Voiced by: Creator/TakumiYamazaki (Japanese), Creator/YumiTouma (Japanese, child), Creator/TerrenceStone (English, TV Series), Jim Esnz (English, OVA), Ulises Cuadra (Latin American Spanish), Marcela Bordes (Latin American Spanish, child) |
| 245 | |
| 246 | A swordsman that the Magic Knights encounter in the Forest of Silence. He has a smart-aleck attitude, but he teams up with them temporarily to navigate the monster-ridden forest. He claims to be looking for the Spring of Eterna like they are so that he can become a Magic Knight Himself. He takes a particular shine to Fuu and makes a point of flirting with her. |
| 247 | |
| 248 | ---- |
| 249 | * AdaptationalVillainy: The OVA ''Rayearth'' casts him as one of the invading antagonists from Cephiro who has control over insectoid monsters and a much colder, more sadistic personality. For maximum irony, Fuu is the Magic Knight he fights and attempts to kill. |
| 250 | * BadassNormal: He never displays any kind of magical powers, but he gets by pretty well with just a sword and his wits. |
| 251 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the Saturn game. Alcyone does this to him and orders him to kill Fuu. |
| 252 | * DistressedDude: Inouva binds him up and tells Fuu to give up being a Magic Knight or he'll be killed. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain It backfires hugely]]. |
| 253 | * DubNameChange: In the Latin American dub, he's called Paris. |
| 254 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: In the manga, Fuu wonders how he knows the legend of the Magic Knights when [[spoiler:it's supposed to be secret to those close to Emeraude]]. |
| 255 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a very prominent one on his nose bridge, and an x-shaped one on his left cheek. |
| 256 | * GuileHero: In the anime he assists the girls and hampers their pursuers by various means of trickery. |
| 257 | * HiddenBackupPrince: [[spoiler:In the anime, as a result of the LaserGuidedAmnesia below]]. |
| 258 | %%* HiddenHeartOfGold: Hides one temporarily, in the anime. |
| 259 | * IKissYourHand: He kisses Fuu's hand after their adventure in the Forest of Silence, causing a LuminescentBlush. |
| 260 | * ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: After the incident with Inouva, Ferio decides that he's more of a liability than a help to the trio and tells Fuu to forget him so that she won't be distracted from their quest. |
| 261 | * KingIncognito: [[spoiler:Prince Incognito to be more specific. In the manga, unlike what happened in the anime, he never forgot he's Princess Emeraude's brother but lived as a wandering swordsman until she died and he had to step in]]. |
| 262 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Anime-only. [[spoiler:He doesn't remember he is Emeraude's brother in the first season of, since she deleted his memories of their time together. But he ''asked'' her to do so because he feared it'd be painful to remember a sister with no time for him. He gets his memories back eventually.]] |
| 263 | * LickedByTheDog: Mokona takes to him straight away. It's double-subverted--Umi and Fuu warn Hikaru that this alone isn't a good indicator of Ferio's character, but he does turn out to be a good guy. [[spoiler:And it's really more of Licked By The God.]] |
| 264 | * MysteriousProtector: Fuu actually enlists his help to get them through the Forest of Silence. In the anime he sticks around longer, popping up to help them through a village or a tricky mountain pass. |
| 265 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[spoiler:Sets off to find the Spring of Eterna to see if he can find some Escudo for himself.]] |
| 266 | * TroubledButCute: He isn't happy about [[spoiler:the situation his sister is in at all]]. |
| 267 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Honda Civic Ferio. |
| 268 | |
| 269 | !Lafarga |
| 270 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlafarga_195.jpg]] |
| 271 | -> Voiced by: Creator/YukimasaKishino (Japanese), Creator/BobPapenbrook (English), Rubén Trujillo (Latin American Spanish) |
| 272 | |
| 273 | Lafarga is the Captain of Emeraude's personal guard. He is Cephiro's most skilled swordsman. Even though he doesn't use any magic, he's still a deadly foe when Zagato hypnotizes him and sends him to stop the Magic Knights from acquiring the final Mashin. |
| 274 | |
| 275 | ---- |
| 276 | * BadassNormal: Knows no magic, but can still kick lots of asses with just his sword. |
| 277 | * {{BFS}}: His weapon. |
| 278 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: First season. [[spoiler:Although technically he ''is'' protecting Emeraude by trying to kill the [[LaserGuidedTykebomb Magic Knights]].]] |
| 279 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: He can use RazorWind not with magic, but with the sheer force of air pressure generated when he swings his sword. |
| 280 | * DubNameChange: Known as [[InconsistentSpelling Ráfaga]] in the Latin American dub. |
| 281 | * GentleGiant: Once he's un-brainwashed. |
| 282 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: With Caldina. Or rather, "huge guy, normal girl." |
| 283 | * MasterSwordsman: He's the best and most powerful swordsman in Cephiro, earning him the title of Dal. |
| 284 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Briefly when he realizes he'd been forced to work for Zagato and attack children. |
| 285 | * OfficialCouple: With Caldina, in the anime. Jossed in the games, where he is totally aloof and [[CelibateHero solely concentrated on his knightly duty]]. |
| 286 | * PowerGlows: The anime has his tattoos glow when he tries to fight off his brainwashing. |
| 287 | * TheStoic: He's the most straightlaced person in the palace during the second half. |
| 288 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Honda Rafaga. |
| 289 | * WorthyOpponent: Hikaru considers him to be this. |
| 290 | |
| 291 | !Lantis |
| 292 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlantis_1664.jpg]] |
| 293 | -> Voiced by: Creator/JurotaKosugi (Japanese), Creator/LexLang (English, TV Series), Dan Stevens (English, OVA), Juán Zadala (Latin American Spanish) |
| 294 | |
| 295 | Lantis appears in the second half of the story, when the Magic Knights return to Cephiro. He is Cephiro's only Cail (a swordsman who excels at magic) and the former captain of Princess Emeraude's personal guard. He left the country before the events of the first half, and is under a cloud of suspicion for being Zagato's younger brother and living in Autozam before his return. During his time there, he grew very close to Eagle Vision, the President's son. He returns to Cephiro in the second half of the story, and doesn't say much about why. |
| 296 | |
| 297 | ---- |
| 298 | * AloofAlly: He doesn't bother arguing against the suspicion around him and just does his thing. |
| 299 | * BadassCape: Wears a black one as his trademark uniform. |
| 300 | * BadassInDistress: At one point in the anime, [[spoiler: Nova abducts him.]] |
| 301 | * CoolHorse: A summoned one with a [[HellishHorse fiery mane]]. |
| 302 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Wears all black, shares his brother's dark looks, and rides a HellishHorse. He's a good guy. |
| 303 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: In the anime, he became friends with Eagle after defeating his FTO in a tournament. |
| 304 | * DefectorFromDecadence: He left his cushy job as Cail to travel other worlds after [[spoiler:Zagato starts to question the Pillar system]]. |
| 305 | * DistressedDude: Near the end of the season, [[spoiler:after he is captured by Nova.]] |
| 306 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:In the manga, he threatens to kill Mokona the Creator if it doesn't release Hikaru and Eagle.]] |
| 307 | * {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:The Creator informs him that his will to destroy the Pillar System has made his heart the strongest in all of Cephiro, making him a perfect candidate to be the Pillar himself. [[SubvertedTrope Hikaru and Eagle have stronger hearts]], so he doesn't undergo the trial, but it's still wicked ironic.]] |
| 308 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: With either Hikaru or Primera. |
| 309 | * LickedByTheDog: Mokona bounds right up to him. |
| 310 | * MagicKnight: Not one of ''the'' Magic Knights, obviously. His title of Cail is granted only to those who master both swordsmanship and magic. |
| 311 | * NiceGuy: Behind his stoic facade, he has a big heart willing to help everyone including children, loves nature so much and easily forgives Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu for killing Zagato, his older brother and Emeraude, Cephiro's princess as he understands they would be happy in their afterlife despite being under Cephiro's burden. |
| 312 | * TheMole: Lafarga suspects him of being this for Autozam, as he spent some time there. [[spoiler:But he isn't.]] |
| 313 | * ProfessionalSlacker: When he was Cail, he spent a lot of the day [[HeavySleeper napping in trees.]] However, he genuinely didn't have a lot to do because Emeraude's prayers kept dangers from arising. |
| 314 | %%* TallDarkAndSnarky: |
| 315 | * TheStoic: Doesn't talk much, [[spoiler:probably as a result of recently losing his brother]]. Flashbacks show him as more friendly. |
| 316 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks a LOT like his older brother, their only real physical differences being their clothing and hairstyles. Lampshaded by the girls upon meeting him, and specially by Hikaru. |
| 317 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Mazda Lantis. |
| 318 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:He wants to destroy the Pillar System, regardless of the consequences for Cephiro.]] |
| 319 | |
| 320 | !Primera |
| 321 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/primera_5523.jpg]] |
| 322 | -> Voiced by: Creator/YuriShiratori (Japanese), Creator/RebeccaForstadt (English), Erika Robledo (Latin American Spanish) |
| 323 | Primera is a tiny fairy who is Lantis' self-appointed assistant. She thinks she and Hikaru are in a LoveTriangle; for Lantis' part, he has no such interest and conspicuously ignores her when her overblown sense of possessiveness results in things like Mokona sitting on her. |
| 324 | |
| 325 | ---- |
| 326 | |
| 327 | * ButtMonkey: [[RunningGag She's always getting tackled by Mokona or ignored by Lantis.]] |
| 328 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Her profile lists "getting between her and Lantis" as her least favorite thing. |
| 329 | * DubNameChange: Known as Primavera in the Latin American dub. |
| 330 | * FairyCompanion: To Lantis; she frequently accompanies him and essentially buffs his spells during battle. |
| 331 | * HealingHands: Can heal wounds with her wing magical powder. |
| 332 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: With Lantis. |
| 333 | * HypocriticalHumor: The eight-inch-high fairy mocks Hikaru's shortness. |
| 334 | * IOweYouMyLife: She's devoted to Lantis because he saved her from being trapped in rubble. |
| 335 | * MomentKiller: Quite deliberately. Whenever she sees Hikaru sharing a deep gaze with Lantis, she swoops into berate her (unless Mokona tackles her first). |
| 336 | * PluckyComicRelief: Her only role in the story is to provide some occasional comic relief in the DarkerAndEdgier second season. |
| 337 | * RunningGag: Mokona almost always tries to eat her. |
| 338 | * SupportPartyMember: She basically buffs Lantis' spells. |
| 339 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Nissan Primera. |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[/folder]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:Rune Gods]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | The legendary beings that will don with the Magic Knights to help them fulfill their duty and save Cephiro. Earning their trust will require a test of their willpower and mental fortitude. Their souls reside in a pocket dimension after deeming the Magic Knights worthy, and they can communicate with them via telepathy. |
| 346 | |
| 347 | ---- |
| 348 | * BaritoneOfStrength: With mighty godlike power comes also deep, booming voices. |
| 349 | * BondCreatures: They bond their HumongousMecha form to the Magic Knights and [[MoCapMecha let the latter move the former like moving their own limbs.]] This also means that any damage the mecha receives, the Magic Knights will directly receive them as well. |
| 350 | * ElementalPowers: They govern over the elements the Magic Knights specialized: [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[MakingASplash Water]] and [[BlowYouAway Wind]]. |
| 351 | * HumongousMecha: Yes, a trio of magic and mental powered mecha. Based on their origins and powers, they would be classified as [[SuperRobotGenre Super Robots]]. |
| 352 | * AMechByAnyOtherName: "Rune God" or "Mashin" apparently translate into mecha for Cephirans. |
| 353 | |
| 354 | !Flame God Rayearth |
| 355 | -> Voiced by: Creator/HideyukiTanaka (Japanese), Creator/LexLang (English), Guillermo Romano (Latin American Spanish) |
| 356 | |
| 357 | The Rune God of Fire, taking form of a lion-wolf hybrid with manes made out of fire. He dons with Hikaru. In the OVA, however, he is known as Lexus. |
| 358 | |
| 359 | * AerithAndBob: As opposed to other Rune Gods which has fancy, fantastical names courtesy of VehicularThemeNaming, Rayearth's name is pretty common in comparison, just combining the English words "Ray" and "Earth". This is averted in the OVA, 'Lexus' is still in-line with VehicularThemeNaming. |
| 360 | * KingOfBeasts: Mixed with NobleWolf, but Rayearth's lion features is more known, to match with Hikaru's MeaningfulName on the surname (the 'Shi' part of 'Shidou' is part of 'Shishi/Lion') |
| 361 | * PlayingWithFire: Of course, this is his calling card. As Lexus, it's implied that he also governs [[DishingOutDirt Earth elemental]], but this is never explored. |
| 362 | |
| 363 | !Sea God Selece |
| 364 | -> Voiced by: Creator/TesshoGenda (Japanese), Creator/TerrenceStone (English), Juán Zadala (Latin American Spanish, Episode 15), Juán Cuadra (Latin American Spanish, rest of the series) |
| 365 | |
| 366 | The Rune God of Water, taking form of a blue dragon. He dons with Umi. |
| 367 | |
| 368 | * GenderBlenderName: Selece can be seen as a derivative of 'Celes/Ceres', a very feminine name. However, he's male, with BaritoneOfStrength to match up with it. |
| 369 | * MakingASplash: He governs over water element. |
| 370 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: His form is a Western winged dragon, but is a benevolent figure. In the OVA, however, he's a legless serpentine Eastern dragon. Additionally, his species also matches with Umi's MeaningfulName on the surname (The 'Ryuu' part in 'Ryuuzaki' means 'Dragon') |
| 371 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Toyota Corolla Ceres. |
| 372 | |
| 373 | !Sky God Windam |
| 374 | -> Voiced by: Creator/AkioOtsuka (Japanese), Creator/LexLang (English), Alejandro Abdalah (Latin American Spanish) |
| 375 | |
| 376 | The Rune God of Wind, taking form of a green phoenix. He dons with Fuu. |
| 377 | |
| 378 | * BlowYouAway: While phoenixes are usually affiliated with flames, Windam governs wind instead. |
| 379 | * ThePhoenix: It's a green wind phoenix. Aside of matching Fuu's MeaningfulName on the surname (the 'Houou' part in 'Hououji' means 'Phoenix'), he also compliments the 'immortality' factor by matching with Fuu's healing and protection spell. |
| 380 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Toyota Windom. |
| 381 | |
| 382 | [[/folder]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | [[folder:Autozam]] |
| 385 | |
| 386 | !Eagle Vision |
| 387 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/meagle_1242.jpg]] |
| 388 | -> Voiced by: Creator/MegumiOgata (Japanese), Jerry Gelb (English), Gladys Parra (Latin American Spanish) |
| 389 | |
| 390 | The son of Autozam's president and commander of the battleship sent to Cephrio in Part II. He's also the pilot of the [[HumongousMecha FTO]]. Eagle grew very close to Lantis when the latter settled in Autozam and is deeply regretful of their present emnity, but he doesn't turn back. He's also one of the most dangerous opponents for the Magic Knights and the other invaders. The reason he gives for invasion is that Autozam needs something like the Pillar System to cleanse the rampant pollution that is slowly killing his world. |
| 391 | |
| 392 | ---- |
| 393 | * AcePilot: He comes out on top when his FTO fights solo against the three Magic Knights for the first time. |
| 394 | * AdaptationalHeroism: He's already sympathetic in the manga, but in the anime, [[spoiler: he helps the Magic Knights rescue Lantis from Nova.]] |
| 395 | * AdaptationalVillainy: By contrast, the ''Rayearth'' OVA turns Eagle into the scheming younger brother of Princess Emeraude and the chief antagonist in the story. |
| 396 | * AntiVillain: He wants to bring the Pillar system to Autozam to solve their pollution crisis. [[spoiler:At least, this is the assumption. In reality, he wants to put Cephiro and himself into an eternal sleep so that the Pillar tragedy will not be repeated, because he's worried that Lantis will die trying to destroy the system.]] |
| 397 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: He asks Aska and Chizeta's princesses why they want to become the Pillar. To Aska's desire to treat the world as a toy, he replies that she either has to forget everything but Cephiro or destroy it completely, and to Tarta and Tatra he says that even if they treat Cephiro's citizens gently, they'll still resist being invaded. Tatra replies with one of her own, asking if Autozam is just going to move everyone to Cephiro outright to escape their polluted world. |
| 398 | * BloodFromTheMouth: He has this from [[IncurableCoughOfDeath frequent coughing fits]] in the anime. |
| 399 | * ClimaxBoss: His big attack on Cephiro Castle marks the last turning point in the show before it goes into the final few episodes. |
| 400 | * DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the anime, he's killed by Debonair.]] |
| 401 | * DelicateAndSickly: He becomes sickly and gets an IncurableCoughOfDeath due to his [[PowerAtAPrice overuse]] of Autozam's technology, which is powered by mental energy. |
| 402 | * {{Determinator}}: A prerequisite for being able to open a Road from one world to another. [[spoiler:And to be a candidate for Pillar.]] |
| 403 | * FriendlyEnemy: He's polite to the Magic Knights, as well as the representatives of Fahren and Chizeta, and bears them no ill-will even while they're battling each other. It's even more apparent in the anime, when Hikaru spends some time in Autozam's ship. |
| 404 | * HeavySleeper: He's been known to sleep through important ceremonies at home and takes frequent naps on the ship. It's a sign of his ill health. |
| 405 | * LetsGetDangerous: Whenever he steps into the FTO. |
| 406 | * MoreExpendableThanYou: [[spoiler:He wants to become Pillar because he's afraid Lantis will die trying to end the system.]] |
| 407 | * PowerStrainBlackout: Occurs when he attacks the Roads from Chizeta and Autozam. [[spoiler:Geo and Zazu have to save him from either dying or having his mind wiped by the computer.]] |
| 408 | * ShesAManInJapan: Eagle Vision is depicted as female in the Latin American dub as a way to avoid HoYay with Lantis and Geo Metro. The result is a PseudoRomanticFriendship with Hikaru. |
| 409 | * StepfordSmiler: He almost always has a smile on his face, but Hikaru makes note of his sad eyes. [[spoiler:Mainly because he's slowly dying on top of fighting his old friend Lantis]]. |
| 410 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Eagle Vision. |
| 411 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:According to his medical data, he shouldn't even have survived the trip to Cephiro. He takes it as license to be as reckless as possible.]] |
| 412 | |
| 413 | !Geo Metro |
| 414 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/geometro_7697.jpg]] |
| 415 | -> Voiced by: Creator/KiyoyukiYanada (Japanese), Doug Stone (English), Rubén Trujillo (Latin American Spanish) |
| 416 | |
| 417 | Geo is Eagle's NumberTwo. He spends most of his time being concerned about his commander's poor health and reckless habits. In the anime, he sorties alongside Eagle to fight the Magic Knights. |
| 418 | |
| 419 | ---- |
| 420 | * AcePilot: Of the [[HumongousMecha GTO]], although he only gets to pilot it in the anime. |
| 421 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, Eagle locks down the GTO so Geo can't use it. In the anime, Eagle and Geo sortie together multiple times, and he's quite effective against the Mashin. |
| 422 | * AngerBornOfWorry: Towards Eagle, all the damn time. |
| 423 | * AntiVillain: He's a good guy who's just working for his boss; he just happens to be invading another country. |
| 424 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Has an X-shaped scar on his face. |
| 425 | %%* {{Hachimaki}} |
| 426 | * HotBlooded: Usually expresses himself in a very loud and energetic way. |
| 427 | * TheLancer: To Eagle. |
| 428 | * SweetTooth: Keeps a stash of sweets in his room and in the war room. |
| 429 | * VehicularThemeNaming: Like many, *many* things in the manga, he's named for an automobile: The Geo Metro. |
| 430 | |
| 431 | !Zazu Torque |
| 432 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zazutorque_7192.jpg]] |
| 433 | -> Voiced by: Creator/JunichiKanemaru (Japanese), Creator/BrianneSiddall (English), Humberto Amor (Latin American Spanish) |
| 434 | Zazu is the 15-year-old mech engineer of the ''[=NSX=]''. He joined the mission largely because he admires Eagle's piloting abilities and ''loves'' Autozam's HumongousMecha. |
| 435 | |
| 436 | ---- |
| 437 | * TheAlcoholic: Likes drinking, but [[RunningGag Geo never lets him.]] |
| 438 | * AntiVillain: Apart from being an expert mechanic, he's a completely typical young boy. |
| 439 | * {{Keet}}: Extremely chipper--in fact, he doesn't seem too worried about Autozam's situation at all. |
| 440 | * KidAnova: He likes pretty girls and, when they capture Hikaru in the anime, is elated to learn that she's in his age bracket. |
| 441 | * MeaningfulName: ''Torque'' is something a mechanic needs to know a lot about. |
| 442 | * ShorterMeansSmarter: Zazu is about half the height of Eagle and Geo. He serves as their MissionControl when they sortie and fixes their mechs when they're home. |
| 443 | * TeenGenius: Despite his age, he's trusted with the upkeep of two extremely powerful mechanized weapons and is the third in the ''NSX'''s chain of command. |
| 444 | * VehicularThemeNaming: Not named after a specific model of car, but after the torque that automotive engines produce. |
| 445 | |
| 446 | [[/folder]] |
| 447 | |
| 448 | [[folder:Chizeta]] |
| 449 | |
| 450 | !Tarta and Tatra |
| 451 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mchizeta_6308.jpg]] |
| 452 | -> Voiced by: Creator/AyaHisakawa (Tarta, Japanese), Creator/KikukoInoue (Tatra, Japanese), Creator/MelissaFahn (English, Both of them), Erika Robledo (Tarta, Latin American Spanish), Leyla Home (Tatra, Latin American Spanish) |
| 453 | |
| 454 | Tarta and Tatra are the princesses of Chizeta, a tiny country that neighbors Cephiro. In the second half, they see the leaderless world as a perfect colony for their overpopulated homeland. Although the two of them seem to have completely different personalities, they are extremely effective when they fight together. |
| 455 | |
| 456 | ---- |
| 457 | * AffablyEvil: While "[[AntiVillain evil]]" is a misnomer, they're quite pleasant and polite to the Magic Knights, and even outright admit that they have no intention of oppressing Cephiro's natives. Tatra even serves Umi tea while they're holding her captive. |
| 458 | * AntiVillain: They want to turn Cephiro into a colony to relieve population pressure in Chizeta. When questioned, Tarta says that she has no intention of oppressing Cephiro's people. Later, Tatra says that if the people of Cephiro resisted Chizeta's wishes, Tarta would give up. |
| 459 | * AsYouKnow: Tatra helpfully explains to Tarta that the country they are both princesses of is really small, and that Fahrenese royalty uses summon magic. |
| 460 | * AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Tatra is one of the princesses of Chizeta, and is outright stated by Tarta to be the best fighter in their country. |
| 461 | * BattleStrip: Tatra whips off her harem pants when she duels Umi, fighting her basically in her underwear. |
| 462 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Tatra is a cheerful and pleasant {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, but is, according to her sister, the best fighter in Chizeta. |
| 463 | * BraidsOfAction: Tarta wears her hair in a single braid on the left side of her head. |
| 464 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Tarta has no volume control and a short fuse, Tatra rarely seems engaged and only participates when she's dragged into it. Their character bio says that between both of them, they make about one normal person. |
| 465 | * DuelsDecideEverything: They call off their invasion of Cephiro after Umi beats them both in a duel. |
| 466 | * FieryRedhead: Unlike her sister, Tarta has the hot-headed personality to go along with her red hair. |
| 467 | * GeniusDitz: Tatra is a [[TrademarkFavoriteFood big fan of tea]] and a Cloudcuckoolander. She lasted the longest against Eagle when he tried to stop Chizeta and Fahren from getting to Cephiro and, in the anime, is the best swordfighter in Chizeta, with even Tata getting worried when she gets ready to fight. |
| 468 | * GracefulLoser: When Umi defeats them in a duel, they calmly admit defeat and call off their invasion of Cephiro. |
| 469 | * HiddenDepths: Tatra enjoys acting spacy, but when the situation becomes serious, so does she. When Eagle makes his ultimatum in the manga, she engages with him quite gravely and questions his own motives. In the anime, she also gets serious when battling Alber, a regenerating monster who serves Lady Debonair. |
| 470 | * HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to set Tarta off--a lot of her fight with Umi is just them screaming at each other. |
| 471 | * HonorBeforeReason: |
| 472 | ** When treating Umi to tea after her fight with Tarta, Tatra reassures a suspicious Umi that the tea is ''not'' poisoned, and they would never use underhanded means to defeat their enemies. |
| 473 | ** During Tatra's duel with Umi, Tarta saves Umi from being knocked out of the ring by Tatra in part because Umi herself saved her, allowing Umi to continue fighting; of course, when all is said and done, Tatra remarks that even if Tarta hadn't done so, Umi most likely would have won. |
| 474 | * HotBlooded: Tarta is a very passionate warrior who spends a good chunk of her screentime yelling. |
| 475 | * LetsGetDangerous: Tatra spends most of her time acting spacey and drinking tea, [[spoiler:until Umi bests Tarta in a duel in the anime]]. She's also the one to last longest when Eagle attacks Fahren and Chizeta at once. |
| 476 | * MeaningfulName: Accidental, but in English, Tarta sounds like it's referring to her ''tart'' personality. |
| 477 | * NoIndoorVoice: Tarta has a hard time keeping the volume down. |
| 478 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: Done in-universe when Tarta puts on a more formal accent. Tatra helpfully points out that she's reverting to her natural Kansei-ben while Tarta is ranting loudly, much to the latter's embarrassment. |
| 479 | * PolarOppositeTwins: Tatra is a sweet, whimsical tea-lover who spends most of her time lounging around, while Tarta is a militaristic, short-tempered warrior with NoIndoorVoice. |
| 480 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Apparently it's a Chizetan culture to show as much skin as possible and dress as seductively as possible, even by the royalty. |
| 481 | * SummonMagic: They utilize this to bring out their Djinn. |
| 482 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tarta is the loud and aggressive tomboy, and Tatra is the soft-spoken and gentle girly girl. |
| 483 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Czech car company Tatra. |
| 484 | * WhipSword: Tatra's weapon. |
| 485 | |
| 486 | [[/folder]] |
| 487 | |
| 488 | [[folder:Fahren]] |
| 489 | |
| 490 | !Princess Aska |
| 491 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maska_5860.jpg]] |
| 492 | -> Voiced by: Creator/ChinamiNishimura (Japanese), Creator/SandyFox (English), Gabriela León (Latin American Spanish) |
| 493 | |
| 494 | The child princess of the nation of Fahren. Unlike Autozam and Chizeta, it's unclear if there's any justifiable reason for them to desire Cephiro; she apparently decided to invade it simply because as Princess of Fahren, she feels she's entitled to do so (and so she can turn it into a land of sweets). Despite her immaturity, she is a powerful magician and a dangerous opponent. |
| 495 | |
| 496 | In the anime, she captures Fuu and holds her prisoner on her ship, the ''Dreamchild.'' Fuu's polite and respectful demeanor (which is the polar opposite of Aska's) starts making Aska think more seriously about what she's doing and why. |
| 497 | ---- |
| 498 | |
| 499 | * ArtInitiatesLife: Her magic is to summon whatever she draws into life. Larger than life, in most cases. |
| 500 | * BrattyHalfPint: She's completely disrespectful to Chang Ang and San Yung, and then tries to keep Fuu and Windam as personal possessions in the anime. |
| 501 | * CharacterDevelopment: After meeting Fuu personally, Aska begins to question if what she's doing is a good idea. Shown more in the anime than the manga, where it is Eagle talking to both of the other nations at once. |
| 502 | * AChildShallLeadThem: Technically, Chang Ang is her regent, but she still calls all the shots. |
| 503 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: After Fuu tells her the truth behind the Pillar and escapes, Aska looks forward to their promised tea and defends Cephiro's castle from the ''NSX'' with Great San Yung. |
| 504 | * ImprobableAge: She's twelve years old and has the authority to command her country's battleship, on top of having incredible magic and willpower for her age. |
| 505 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Unlike Autozam and Chizeta, Fahren has no real justification to invade. They only do so because Aska wants it like a toy, until Fuu (Eagle in the manga) explains the truth behind being the Pillar. |
| 506 | * LargeHam: Especially in the dub. |
| 507 | * NoblewomansLaugh: She does this a lot and even teaches San Yung the proper form in the anime. |
| 508 | * {{Ojou}}: She's an actual princess, definitely the bratty type. |
| 509 | * PowerStrainBlackout: Not necessarily an inherent risk of her powers--opening a Road ''and'' recklessly casting giant drawings does it, though. |
| 510 | * RoyalBrat: She wants to become Pillar solely so she can turn Cephiro into a land of desserts and candy. When she's informed that other nations are out to become the Pillar, she throws a tantrum since she believes she's the only one entitled to the position, simply because of her belief that as the Princess of Fahren, she's invincible. |
| 511 | * RoyalWe: She refers to herself this way in the English translation. |
| 512 | * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: In the anime, she says that she'll allow Fuu to leave if she wins an archery contest. When Fuu wins, Aska changes the conditions to fighting an army of ninja. When Fuu defeats ''them''.... |
| 513 | * SummonMagic: She's able to bring paper drawings to life. |
| 514 | * {{Tsundere}}: To San Yung. |
| 515 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Isuzu Aska. |
| 516 | |
| 517 | !San Yung |
| 518 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sanyung_8845.jpg]] |
| 519 | -> Voiced by: Creator/SatomiKoorogi (Japanese), Creator/BarbaraGoodson (English), Rocío Robledo (Latin American Spanish) |
| 520 | One of Aska's two retainers. San Yung is a child too, but unlike Aska he is very conscientious of his studies, cautious about confronting their adversaries, and actually paid attention to the things they were taught about the other countries before their invasion. He and Aska are also quite clearly attracted to each other in a puppy-love way. |
| 521 | ---- |
| 522 | |
| 523 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: He's the same age as Aska, but he's one of her closest advisers and seems to be a pretty smart cookie. |
| 524 | * BeleagueredAssistant: This is inevitable when you're working for Princess Aska. He's subject to her tantrums and is horribly embarrassed when she uses him as a subject for a summoned giant. He also has to be responsible for knowing all the things Aska ''would'' know herself, if she paid any attention to her studies. |
| 525 | * BlackBeadEyes: Notably the only character to have these; his eyes are consistently drawn as two black dots. |
| 526 | * BlushSticker: Most of the time. It becomes a LuminescentBlush when Aska creates Great San Yung. |
| 527 | * InconsistentSpelling: His name is written as Ssanyun in the Dark Horse translation of the manga, and Sang Yung in the English translation of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars30''. |
| 528 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: He is the only character with BlackBeadEyes and [[TheNoseless no visible nose]]. |
| 529 | * SubordinateExcuse: He has a crush on Aska. |
| 530 | |
| 531 | !Chang Ang |
| 532 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/changang_6297.jpg]] |
| 533 | -> Voiced by: Kouhei Miyauchi (episodes 26-31)/Takkou Ishimori (episode 31+) (Japanese), Creator/MiltonJames (English), Alejandro Abdalah (Latin American Spanish) |
| 534 | Aska's regent, but it seems to be a meaningless title given that she's doing whatever she wants anyway. His main role is to vehemently protest anytime Aska does something rash, like casting high-level spells, or lamenting the fact that she didn't bother learning a thing about the dangers they're likely to encounter in Cephiro. |
| 535 | ---- |
| 536 | |
| 537 | * BeleagueredBureaucrat: Technically he's Aska's regent, but he's completely unable to control her. |
| 538 | * BigOlEyebrows: They completely obscure his eyes until he frantically tries to talk Aska out of using her puppet-string spell. |
| 539 | * OldRetainer: To Fahren's royal family. His exact relation to Aska is unclear. |
| 540 | * SoProudOfYou: In the anime. After Aska decides she shouldn't become the Pillar, he pats her head and says that he knew she would realize she needed to stop. He also doesn't protest her use of the summon magic to protect Cephiro. |
| 541 | * TeamDad: For both Aska and San Yung, being the only one there of adult age who's actually going to offer an opinion on what they're doing. |
| 542 | * WizardBeard: He has an extremely long beard, although he doesn't have any apparent magic powers. |
| 543 | |
| 544 | [[/folder]] |
| 545 | |
| 546 | [[folder:Villains]] |
| 547 | !Alcyone |
| 548 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/malcyone_2599.jpg]] |
| 549 | -> Voiced by: Creator/YuriAmano (Japanese), Creator/BarbaraGoodson (English, TV series), Debbie Rabbai (English, OVA), Ana Grinta (Latin American Spanish) |
| 550 | |
| 551 | A sorceress who is in love with Zagato. She was taught by Clef himself, but she is utterly devoted to Zagato and willing to follow any order he gives. She is the first enemy that the Magic Knights face. |
| 552 | |
| 553 | ---- |
| 554 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the OVA where not only is her villainous schemes are all for the welfare of Cephiro but she even is loyal to Princess Emeraude. And in the anime version,[[spoiler:she ends having a RedemptionEqualsDeath in the final episode of the series.]] |
| 555 | * AscendedExtra: She was merely a StarterVillain in the original manga who dies shortly after her second battle against the Magic Knights. The anime largely expands her role, featuring her as a recurring antagonist, being also included in the second season. The games also gave her a bigger role in the story. |
| 556 | * BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica compared to [[spoiler: Emeraude]]'s Betty. |
| 557 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Season 2 of the anime. |
| 558 | * BrokenBird: [[spoiler:In Season 2 of the anime, she's been shattered due to her battles, Zagato's rejection, and her brainwashing by Debonair, leaving her weak and arguably insane. She's pitied more than reviled by the other characters, and ''especially'' during her death scene.]] |
| 559 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:In the manga, she is mortally wounded after her second encounter with the Magic Knights, and Zagato lets her die. In the second season of the anime, Debonair [[CessationOfExistence erases her from existence]] after Alcyone spills the beans on her.]] |
| 560 | * CharacterExaggeration: She's even nastier in the anime. Not only does she laugh at the Magic Knights while trying to kill them, she tricks Ascot into giving one of his beloved creatures a DeadlyUpgrade and freezes Ascot himself solid when he tries to do something about it. |
| 561 | * CombatPragmatist: She knows she isn't powerful enough to defeat Clef, so she summons monsters to keep him busy while she goes after her real target, the Magic Knights. |
| 562 | %%* DarkActionGirl |
| 563 | %%* DeceptiveDisciple: To Clef. |
| 564 | * DespairEventHorizon: More evident in the anime [[spoiler:because she's alive longer. Realizing that Zagato will never love her and that he's in love with Emeraude sent her over the edge. His ''death'' doesn't affect her quite as much because she deludes herself into believing that Lantis is the same person]]. |
| 565 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:She survives the beating she took from the Magic Knights and hangs around for the rest of S1, only to be killed by Debonair in Season 2.]] |
| 566 | * DubNameChange: Known as Alanis in the Latin American dub. |
| 567 | * EmptyShell: [[spoiler:When captured by the Cephireans in the second season, the poor woman is seen vacant and despondent to almost anything. Lantis is the only one who can make her react, and that's just because she thinks he is Zagato.]] |
| 568 | * FauxAffablyEvil: She addresses Clef as "dear teacher" and the Magic Knights with mock affection. |
| 569 | * FemmeFatalons: Sports them, although not for use in battle. |
| 570 | * {{Geas}}: [[spoiler:In Season 2 of the anime, she is under one with the condition that she never reveal Debonair's existence or location to anyone on pain of death. Whenever Alcyone was on the verge of talking about Debonair, she experienced sudden pain as result of the geas. When she finally forces herself to tell the Magic Knights about Debonair's location (Cephiro's Underside), the geas [[CessationOfExistence erases Alcyone from existence.]]]] |
| 571 | * AnIcePerson: Her brand of magic. |
| 572 | * KickTheDog: She proposes a VillainTeamUp with Ascot in Episode 9 of the anime, but tricks him into killing his own creature, laughs at his protests, and then hits him with a freezing spell. |
| 573 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: It also apparently magnifies LoveMakesYouCrazy, even wanting to MurderTheHypotenuse in the anime. |
| 574 | * NavelDeepNeckline: Some of her leotards have necklines that plunge past her navel. |
| 575 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:In the anime. She's killed directly after telling the Magic Knights about Debonair's location (Cephiro's Underside). By this time, Alcyone decides to FaceDeathWithDignity and [[ whispers Zagato's name in one last declaration of love.]] |
| 576 | * ShouldersOfDoom: She sports an elaborate pair of very wide pauldrons. |
| 577 | * ShowgirlSkirt: Wears this over her LeotardOfPower. |
| 578 | * StarterVillain: Subverted. She's the first person the Magic Knights face, but she's ''way'' too powerful for them to handle because (according to Fuu) they don't have enough "experience points." |
| 579 | %%* {{Stripperiffic}}: Really... not subtle. |
| 580 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Subaru Alcyone. |
| 581 | * {{Yandere}}: Over Zagato. |
| 582 | * YouHaveFailedMe: After failing to kill the Magic Knights twice, Zagato abandons her to her wounds. [[spoiler:These are immediately fatal in the manga. In the anime, she survives them and has an emotional breakdown instead.]] |
| 583 | |
| 584 | !Ascot |
| 585 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mascot_9208.jpg]] |
| 586 | -> Voiced by: Creator/MinamiTakayama (Japanese), Creator/MonaMarshall (English), Angelines Santana (Latin American Spanish, child), Humberto Amor (Latin American Spanish, adult) |
| 587 | |
| 588 | One of Zagato's servants. Ascot is a young boy, and a Palu--a monster summoner. He's arrogant and self-centered, dismissive of Alcyone and mocking the Magic Knights. Zagato sends him to the underwater shrine that houses Seles, the first of the Mashin. Despite his brattiness, he does care about the monsters he summons. |
| 589 | |
| 590 | ---- |
| 591 | |
| 592 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: Well, he would be adorable if he wasn't such a pill. |
| 593 | * AngerBornOfWorry: Towards [[spoiler:Umi]] in the second half. |
| 594 | * TheBeastmaster: Summons and directs monsters in battle. |
| 595 | * BrattyHalfPint: He's very dismissive of Alcyone's failure and mocks Hikaru and Fuu for falling to his monsters so easily. |
| 596 | * CreepyChild: [[spoiler:Before his HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 597 | * DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:Just because he has fearsome beasts as friends doesn't make him nor them evil.]] |
| 598 | * DefectingForLove: [[spoiler:His feelings for Umi play a big part in getting him to perform a HeelFaceTurn. This works so well that by the second manga, he aged up because he developed a staggeringly obvious crush on her.]] |
| 599 | * EasilyForgiven: Especially in the anime, [[spoiler:when he actually kills Presea. The girls seem to treat him as a child who's been manipulated and misled more than anything else, though, since he shows genuine care for his creatures and (in the anime) Caldina.]] |
| 600 | * FluffyTamer: He considers the fearsome monsters he summons to be his friends, which makes it difficult to find a place to live. |
| 601 | * HeIsAllGrownUp: Ascot is a little boy in the first part of the series, but [[spoiler:when the Knights return to Cephiro in the second part, he's a handsome teenager tall enough to tower over the girls. Caldina says he "grew up" out of love for Umi, but he denies it.]] |
| 602 | * LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:His feelings for Umi lead him to try and help Cephiro.]] |
| 603 | * MoralMyopia: He sends his monsters to kill the Magic Knights--repeatedly in the anime. Then he gets upset and calls ''them'' murderers when the Knights kill his monsters in legitimate self-defense. And for his revenge he calls more monsters, which also get killed. [[spoiler:Umi sets him straight.]] |
| 604 | * NeverMyFault: Implied; he explains to Umi and the other girls that he works for Zagato because everyone else rejects him and his monsters and accuses them of causing trouble. When Umi asks if they ''do'' cause trouble, Ascot responds that they only do so when he explicitly ''tells'' them do. |
| 605 | * PlotRelevantAgeUp: [[spoiler:Physically ages himself up between the first and second halves of the story out of his feelings for Umi.]] |
| 606 | * SummonMagic: For which he has the title of Palu. |
| 607 | * TakingTheBullet: Intercepts an attack [[spoiler:for the Magic Knights when Caldina is fighting them in the anime]]. Since it wasn't lethal and hit his hover platform, he's okay. [[spoiler:In the Saturn game it ''is'' lethal and Caldina is horrified at what she's done.]] |
| 608 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Honda Ascot. |
| 609 | |
| 610 | !Caldina |
| 611 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcaldina_7432.jpg]] |
| 612 | -> Voiced by: Creator/YukoNagashima (Japanese), Creator/LenoreZann (English), Rocío Gallegos (Latin American Spanish), Gabriela de Marco (Latin American Spanish, Episode 33) |
| 613 | |
| 614 | One of the assassins sent by Zagato to kill the Magic Knights. Caldina is a self-possessed dancer from a foreign land, and is far less concerned with Zagato's motivations than getting paid for her work. |
| 615 | |
| 616 | ---- |
| 617 | |
| 618 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: Turns out to be the skintone of Chizetans, who are loosely based on the Middle East. |
| 619 | * BattleCouple: While she is in love with Lafarga in both versions, the anime has them work as a team in battle when Debonair's monsterous minions invade Cephiro castle. |
| 620 | * CoolBigSis: Particularly to Ascot in the anime. [[spoiler:She takes this role towards the Magic Knights in the second half]]. |
| 621 | * DanceBattler: Partly this. She attacks with her hypnosis, but uses dancing moves to evade Fuu's sword. |
| 622 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:She decides that Fuu and her friends are pretty cool, so she leaves them alone after Fuu breaks her enchantments. But she returns to help Cephiro in the second half.]] |
| 623 | * TheGambler: Ferio tricks her this way in the anime. He stays up all night playing cards with her--she wins, but it lets the Magic Knights slip through her fingers. |
| 624 | * GoodCostumeSwitch: She exchanges her skimpy black dancing outfit for a white one. And ditches the cape. |
| 625 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: With Lafarga. |
| 626 | * MasterOfIllusion: Her favorite tactic is to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hypnotize her targets]] and have them kill each other. |
| 627 | * OfficialCouple: With Lafarga, in the anime. It's [[ShipTease hinted at]] in the manga, but not explicit. |
| 628 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Really the only reason she's fighting the Magic Knights at all. |
| 629 | * ProudBeauty: She's very proud of her "hot bod." |
| 630 | * PunchClockVillain: She's in it for the money, and [[spoiler:quite happy to leave the Magic Knights alone when Fuu defeats her, since she was only obligated to ''try'' and stop them]]. |
| 631 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Her pride in her physical beauty is why she dresses skimpily. |
| 632 | * ShipperOnDeck: Umi/Ascot fangirl. |
| 633 | * SouthernBelle: The English dub of the anime goes with this method of localizing her Kansai accent. |
| 634 | * SquishyWizard: Not very tough in the games, very archetypal mage character. |
| 635 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Moreso than Alcione. Her outfit gets ''more'' revealing after [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn she joins the good guys.]]]] |
| 636 | * ValleyGirl: Tokyopop's translation of the manga had her talk like one in an attempt to depict an English-language equivalent to her Kansai accent in a print medium. |
| 637 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Toyota Caldina. |
| 638 | |
| 639 | !Innouva |
| 640 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/innouva_6639.jpg]] |
| 641 | -> Voiced by: Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (Japanese), Creator/TerrenceStone (English), Ulises Cuadra (Latin American Spanish), Guillermo Romano (Latin American Spanish, true form) |
| 642 | |
| 643 | Innouva is Zagato's number two. Rather than going out to fight the Magic Knights himself, he usually stays by Zagato's side and coordinates the EvilMinions, telling them where to go or to piss off as needed. Like Alcyone, he is fanatically loyal to Zagato and disregards the fate of Cephiro in favor of serving him. The reasons for this only become clear after Zagato's other servants fail to bring down the Magic Knights. |
| 644 | |
| 645 | He does not appear in the original manga; his first appearance was in the animated series, and thus he also appears in works that are sourced mainly from that, namely the Sega Saturn game and ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsT''. |
| 646 | |
| 647 | ---- |
| 648 | |
| 649 | * AchillesHeel: The gem on his forehead. [[spoiler:He dies when Hikaru breaks it.]] |
| 650 | * CanonForeigner: He was created for the anime and gets a significant role. |
| 651 | * CharacterExaggeration: Although he's rather cutting and contemptuous towards Zagato's other minions, the Sega Saturn adaptation turns him into an enforcer of YouHaveFailedMe, and he's the one directly responsible for Lafarga being BrainwashedAndCrazy. |
| 652 | * DisappearsIntoLight: [[spoiler: When defeated, he dissolves into a column of lightning.]] |
| 653 | * TheDragon: He is Zagato's right-hand man and called "Vice Commander." |
| 654 | * ElementalShapeshifter: [[spoiler:He appears to be the ElementalEmbodiment of lightning in his true form.]] |
| 655 | * GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:He dies, but is happy that he was able to serve Zagato.]] |
| 656 | * IOweYouMyLife: It's implied that Innouva was [[FantasticRacism not regarded too highly in Cephiro]] as a result of [[spoiler: his true form]]. Zagato giving him some measure of dignity and self worth is what motivated Innouva to serve him in the first place. |
| 657 | * InconsistentSpelling: A more extreme example than most of his castmates; the precise transliteration of his name can vary a ''lot'' from source to source. The kana for his name are イノーバ, which in standard Hepburn romanization work out to something like "Inohba"; the ノ is elongated, and there's no indication (either through digraphs or modern dakuten-marked U kana) to denote a V instead of a B. Nonetheless, CLAMP has indicated that the name is at least meant to contain a V as opposed to a B, but beyond this, it is chaos: "Inouva", "Innouva" and "Inova" have all been used in major publications and licensed works over the years. |
| 658 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: He threatens to kill Ferio unless Fuu promises to abandon her quest to become a Magic Knight. Fuu, being TheSpock, reasons that it would be immoral, considering what her friends and Ferio himself have gone through. Her refusal proves her heart to Windam, who swiftly dispatches Inouva. |
| 659 | * PointyEars: An indicator [[spoiler:that he is not really human]]. |
| 660 | * SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:He's a CanisMajor in his normal mode, purposedly took the form of a {{bishonen}} to serve Zagato better and only stops doing so for his last battle.]] |
| 661 | * SubordinateExcuse: His devotion to Zagato borders on this. [[spoiler:The fact that he's a canine creature might have something to do with it, too.]] |
| 662 | * SurroundedByIdiots: His opinion of Zagato's other servants is pretty low. And his diary entries in the Saturn game complain about how incompetent they are. |
| 663 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Honda Ascot Innova. |
| 664 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: He takes the appearance of a young woman in Episode 15. [[spoiler:Also, he's not really human.]] |
| 665 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler: Guess who's the only member of the QuirkyMinibossSquad the Magic Knights actually kill?]] |
| 666 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: He's firmly in Zagato's camp. [[spoiler:Later it turns out that he's not as evil as he seems - it was less out of pure evil and more out of MyMasterRightOrWrong. Which makes a lot of sense for a canine who feels loyal to a human.]] |
| 667 | |
| 668 | !Nova |
| 669 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mnova_3886.jpg]] |
| 670 | -> Voiced by: Creator/MikiIto (Japanese), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (English), Rebeca Rambal (Latin American Spanish) |
| 671 | Nova is a mysterious person who appears alongside Lady Debonair and is obsessed with Hikaru. She proclaims hatred of everything Hikaru loves and possesses a Mashin called Regalia, which is just as powerful as the Magic Knights'. Who she is and why she's so fixated on Hikaru is unclear, but she is extremely dangerous. |
| 672 | |
| 673 | ---- |
| 674 | * BerserkButton: Anyone who either gets between her and Hikaru or calls Debonair a liar in her presence. |
| 675 | * CanonForeigner: Like Debonair, she was created for the anime's second season. |
| 676 | * ClingyJealousGirl: She wants Hikaru ''all to herself'' and won't hesitate to kill her friends in order to eliminate competition. |
| 677 | * DarkActionGirl: She is a sadistic and brutal fighter. |
| 678 | * DarkMagicalGirl: [[spoiler:All she wanted is just companionship, particularly from her original self. She got accidentally tossed aside due to Hikaru's guilt, and then also thrown away by Debonair. By the end of the series, Hikaru allowed her to re-merge with her, fixing her problems and redeeming her in the same time.]] |
| 679 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:By the time Nova redeems herself and returns to Hikaru's heart, there's another villain the Magic Knights have to take down: Debonair]]. Though that happens at the start of the last episode, so there wasn't that much of a Disc Two. |
| 680 | * DubNameChange: Called Luz in the Latin American dub. |
| 681 | * EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:She is Hikaru's despair and anguish in physical form.]] |
| 682 | * EvilDoppelganger: Her resemblance to Hikaru is noted early on. |
| 683 | * {{Expy}}: Of Iczer-2, from ''[[Anime/{{Iczer}} Fight! Iczer-One]]'', another anime directed by Toshiki Hirano, which Hirano even admits. |
| 684 | * FormFittingWardrobe: A black catsuit with some armor pieces. |
| 685 | * LaserBlade: She wields a pair as her weapon of choice. |
| 686 | * MindRape: [[spoiler:She attacks Hikaru while she was in a trance to repair her Escudo sword.]] |
| 687 | * MirrorMonster: In episode 45, as Hikaru looks into her mirror, the thoughtful expression on her reflection changes into a SlasherSmile, and her reflection emerges as none other than Nova, who then remains in the castle; after being repelled by Hikaru's amulet, Nova decides to seek out Lantis, leaving Hikaru with one of her minions. |
| 688 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: She wants to kill Hikaru's friends in order to eliminate competition. |
| 689 | * PlayingWithFire: She uses fire-elemental spells like Hikaru. |
| 690 | * PointyEars |
| 691 | * PsychoLesbian: She is constantly proclaiming her love for Hikaru and calls her cute. Then she says Hikaru's blood is ''especially'' cute as are her cries of pain. Though considering her true identity, it’s more of a case of [[spoiler:ScrewYourself]]. |
| 692 | * PsychopathicWomanchild: She characterizes her attempts to murder Hikaru as "playing." |
| 693 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:After Hikaru makes her realize about how she wanted to be loved, Nova fades while returning to Hikaru's heart in an embrace]]. |
| 694 | * ReverseShrapnel: One of her magic spells. |
| 695 | * ShadowArchetype: She's literally Hikaru's dark side. |
| 696 | * ShouldersOfDoom: She has very wide pauldrons. |
| 697 | * StalkerWithACrush: "I'm right beside you!" |
| 698 | %%* SwordBeam |
| 699 | * VehicularThemeNaming: She's named after the Chevrolet Nova. |
| 700 | * {{Yandere}}: She loves Hikaru and hates everything Hikaru loves because it keeps Hikaru from loving her and only her. Later justified in Debonair telling her that [[BlueAndOrangeMorality killing people who eventually make Hikaru sad is what she's supposed to do.]] |
| 701 | |
| 702 | !Lady Debonair |
| 703 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mdebonair_8700.jpg]] |
| 704 | -> Voiced by: Atsuko Takahata (Japanese), Melodee Speevack (English), María Becerril (Latin American Spanish) |
| 705 | Lady Debonair first appears in Hikaru's nightmares as a tall, mysterious being. She claims to be "right beside" Cephiro and that the people wished for her, but she wishes to destroy the world and bring despair to everyone in it. She is also Nova's mother. |
| 706 | |
| 707 | ---- |
| 708 | * AbusiveMom: [[spoiler:She adopted Nova and calls her daughter, but not only does she make Nova part of her plans (which seriously fucks up the girl more than she already is), but she abandons her late in the story while no hesitating to resort to friendly fire in an attempt to kill the Magic Knights.]] |
| 709 | * AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Claims that she will never truly die [[spoiler:because she came from the fears of Cephiro's people. A reasonable assumption until Hikaru decides to reshape the Pillar System.]] |
| 710 | * BigBad: The main antagonist of the anime's second season. |
| 711 | * {{Brainwashing}}: What she does to [[spoiler: Alcyone]]. |
| 712 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:She dies at the hands of the Magic Knights]]. |
| 713 | * CanonForeigner: She only appears in the anime. In the manga, Cephiro is crumbling away quite capably on its own. However: |
| 714 | * CanonImmigrant: She becomes a character in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' in the form of the Kishim. |
| 715 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Where Zagato was a sympathetic AntiVillain who just wanted Princess Emeraude to no longer be burdened by the Pillar System, even if it meant destroying Cephiro in the process, Debonair was just pure evil who had the destruction of Cephiro as her ultimate goal. |
| 716 | * DarkIsEvil: She wears all black and her skin is of a bluish tint--others subvert this trope, but not Debonair. |
| 717 | * DefeatEqualsExplosion: Her body explodes [[spoiler:after the Magic Knights fatally wound her]]. |
| 718 | * EvilCounterpart: She is essentially the anti-Pillar, a being that erodes the world rather than upholding it. |
| 719 | * EvilLaugh: All the time. |
| 720 | * FemmeFatalons: Good grief, they're about a foot long. |
| 721 | * FinalBoss: In the anime's second season, she's the becomes the last threat that the Magic Knights have to encounter. |
| 722 | * TheHeartless: [[spoiler:She was born from the fear and despair in Cephiro's inhabitants.]] |
| 723 | * HopeCrusher: She's not just out for the physical world. She wants to utterly destroy any hope that the people of Cephiro have of salvation. |
| 724 | * LargeHam[=/=]EvilIsHammy: Oh hell yeah! Those evil laughter of hers devours the scene a lot. |
| 725 | * NietzscheWannabe: Her goal is simply the complete destruction of Cephiro. |
| 726 | * NightmareFace: Usually, she looks collected in a sinister way. But when she's excited or stymied, the serene look is replaced by something mad and disturbing. |
| 727 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: For much of season 2 she lurks in her own castle (which is an EvilCounterpart to Cephiro's castle) and occasionally sends out Nova, though it's not clear what sort of reality her castle exists ''in''. However, she does possess Alcyone and infiltrates Cephiro's castle at one point in an attempt to steal the Mark of the Pillar. |
| 728 | * OneWingedAngel: During the final battle with the Magic Knights, she merges with the remains of the destoryed Regalia and turns it into a monstrous form to fight the Magic Knights' Mashin with. |
| 729 | * OutsideContextProblem: Clef and the others are primarily concerned with the invasion from the other countries. They don't even realize that Debonair is out there until [[spoiler: Alcyone]] tells them. |
| 730 | * VehicularThemeNaming: She's named after the Mitsubishi Debonair. |
| 731 | [[/folder]] |
| 732 | |
| 733 | ! Walking Spoilers |
| 734 | [[folder:Emeraude]] |
| 735 | !Princess Emeraude |
| 736 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/memeraude_3534.jpg]] |
| 737 | -> Voiced by: Creator/MegumiOgata (Japanese), Creator/WendeeLee (English), Erika Robledo (Latin American Spanish) |
| 738 | |
| 739 | Emeraude is the Pillar of Cephiro. Her will and heart are the strongest in the land, and she is tasked with praying to keep the world peaceful and free of invaders. If she can't devote herself fully to her prayers, monsters and natural disasters spring up. This is exactly what happens when Zagato abducts her, and she summons the Magic Knights from another world to save Cephiro. |
| 740 | |
| 741 | Except that last sentence isn't quite true. What actually happened was that Emeraude fell in love with Zagato, dividing her heart and compromising her duty. She entered the Water Dungeon in an effort to forget about him, but when this failed she summoned the Magic Knights to kill her before she could harm Cephiro any further. Zagato joined her there to try and dissuade her and to protect her from them. |
| 742 | |
| 743 | ---- |
| 744 | * BarrierMaiden: As the Pillar. She prevents both internal strife and shields Cephiro from its expansionist neighbors. |
| 745 | * BettyAndVeronica: She's the Betty to Alcyone's Veronica towards Zagato. |
| 746 | * BigNO: Lets out an agonized "NO!" after the Magic Knights kill her beloved Zagato followed by screaming his name. |
| 747 | * BrokenBird: As far as the audience knows, she's been imprisoned and forced to watch as Zagato not only lets the country fall to ruin, but repeatedly tries to kill the people she summoned to save it. Actually, it's because she's so torn between her love for Cephiro and Zagato that she sees ''her own death'' as the only solution, and heavily blames herself for the state both her land and her beloved are in. |
| 748 | * DamselInDistress: Subverted, since she entered the dungeon she's "imprisoned" in of her own free will due to her conflicted feelings. Zagato, her supposed kidnapper, is really there because of his love for her; they spend most of their time trying to persuade the other to stop what they're doing. She summons the Magic Knights not because she needs to be rescued, but [[SuicideByCop to kill her]] before her feelings for Zagato compromise her duty as the Pillar and Cephiro falls into ruin. |
| 749 | * DiedHappilyEverAfter: At the end of season 1, she is finally with Zagato, happily forever and ever. |
| 750 | * EvilMeScaresMe: She's terrified of what she'll become if she gives in to her feelings for Zagato--for very good reason, as it turns out. |
| 751 | * FinalBoss: When the Magic Knights go to "free" her, she's already transformed into her OneWingedAngel form. They are rather horrified to learn the truth from Esmeraude herself. |
| 752 | * FatalFlaw: Her tendency to take on burdens alone doesn't do favors for anyone. Mokona states that she could have ended the Pillar system herself, but she didn't quite believe in Cephiro's people to let them understand her burden. |
| 753 | * GoOutWithASmile: Exaggerated. Upon dying, she is joyful, because her death prevents her from destroying Cephiro and allows her to be with Zagato. |
| 754 | * GratuitousPrincess: Emeraude's position is the protector of Cephiro, but she's called a princess anyway. Except that being the Pillar completely ''sucks'' in the end. |
| 755 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: A blonde-haired princess who looks childlike and delicate, in need of rescue and upholding Cephiro with the strength of her pure, selfless prayers. Until she falls in love with Zagato. She's still kind and gentle, but is horribly torn between her desires and her duty. |
| 756 | * HealingHands: Seems to be one of her powers as the Pillar. She is seen using it on Zagato's injured arm in the anime. |
| 757 | * ICannotSelfTerminate: The Pillar cannot harm herself, nor can anyone in Cephiro. Thus, she summons the Magic Knights so they'll kill her, allow Cephiro to have a new pillar, ''and'' be with Zagato after his death. |
| 758 | * LadyAndKnight: With Zagato. |
| 759 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: Poor Emeraude ''loses'' it when Zagato dies despite all of her efforts, this giving birth to her BrokenBird-like SuperpoweredEvilSide. |
| 760 | * OlderAlterEgo: Subverted. She has the form of an adult woman after Zagato is killed- but adulthood is Emeraude's ''true'' form, and the child form was a disguise based on how she looked like when she ascended to Pillarhood. |
| 761 | * OlderThanSheLooks: Looks like a pre-teen girl despite being already an adult, and possibly nearly as old as Clef to boot. |
| 762 | * OneWingedAngel: When Zagato is killed, she takes the form of an adult woman (or better said, makes herself grow to the physical age she ''would'' have had if she wasn't the Pillar) and creates a Mashin of her own. |
| 763 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Zagato dies, she '''loses''' it. |
| 764 | * SayMyName: After the death of her beloved, all she can do is scream his name in grief. |
| 765 | -->'''Emeraude''': Zagato! ''Zagato!'' ZAGATO! |
| 766 | * StarCrossedLovers: With Zagato. The fact that she earnestly loved someone else (and not Cephiro) for even a fleeting moment meant that Cephiro will fall into ruin, no matter what she thought or felt about it. They do get to stay TogetherInDeath. |
| 767 | * StepfordSmiler: Ferio mentions that when they were growing up, he never saw her give a genuinely happy smile; though she'd often appear to be smiling, her eyes were always sad. |
| 768 | * SuicideByCop: [[InvokedTrope This is the real reason why she summoned the Magic Knights from another world]], since it's impossible for the Pillar of Cephiro to take their own life and nobody in Cephiro can harm them. |
| 769 | * TenderTears: She's weeping in most of her appearances thanks to her screwed-up destiny. |
| 770 | * UnstablePoweredWoman: Her fear of becoming this is why she summoned the Magic Knights to kill her, as she doesn't want Cephiro to be destroyed due to her increasing instability as Pillar. When Zagato dies, she descends into madness and forces the Knights to kill her. |
| 771 | * UsingYouAllAlong: The ''actual'' reason she summoned the Magic Knights to Cephiro was to kill her, with saving Cephiro being a byproduct of her death. She deliberately leaves that part out when initially telling the Magic Knights to "Save Cephiro." |
| 772 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Mitsubishi Emeraude. |
| 773 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She tells the Magic Knights that it's within her power to destroy Cephiro. After spending the whole manga uselessly pleading with Zagato to stop his destructive and self-destructive course, seeing him die by the people she'd summoned to kill ''her'', it's no wonder she's been crying the whole time. |
| 774 | [[/folder]] |
| 775 | |
| 776 | [[folder:Sierra]] |
| 777 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/msierra_651.jpg]] |
| 778 | -> Voiced by: Creator/EmiShinohara (Japanese), Creator/MariDevon (English), Gabriela León (Latin American Spanish) |
| 779 | |
| 780 | Sierra appears in the second season of the anime. She is Presea's twin sister, and in addition to appearance shares her skill in smithing. She poses as her sister at Clef's request, making up a story that Presea was revived with Emeraude's last wish so that the girls and Ascot aren't shattered any more than they already are. Although she is genuinely fond of them, the prolonged masquerade takes a toll on her. |
| 781 | |
| 782 | ---- |
| 783 | * AngstySurvivingTwin: She's still mourning her sister while pretending to ''be'' her and unable to let any hint of her true identity slip. It gets worse when she realizes that she's fallen in love with Clef, just like Presea. |
| 784 | * BackupTwin: She takes Presea's place (and identity) as blacksmith and CoolBigSis for the Magic Knights. |
| 785 | * BecomingTheMask: She's not happy about this, especially when she realizes that she's in love with Clef just like Presea was. |
| 786 | * TheBlacksmith: An excellent one, although not quite as good as her sister. She can repair Escudo weapons, but she can't forge them herself. |
| 787 | * BrokenBird: Having to take her twin sister's place in every sense is not the best for her self-esteem. |
| 788 | * CanonForeigner: Since Presea was dead in the anime but alive in the manga, there was quite the case of SchrodingersCast. |
| 789 | * CoolBigSis: To the Magic Knights, like her sister. |
| 790 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: One on her right breast. The only difference between Presea and her. |
| 791 | * IdenticalTwinIDTag: The aforementioned scar on her right breast, which her late twin sister lacked. |
| 792 | * MissFixit: She is able to fix just about any weapon, even those made from Escudo. |
| 793 | * TheUnreveal: The girls never find out who she really is. |
| 794 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Ford Sierra. |
| 795 | * WrenchWench: Presea creates weapons, Sierra mantains and repairs them. |
| 796 | [[/folder]] |
| 797 | |
| 798 | [[folder:Mokona]] |
| 799 | -> Voiced by: Creator/YuriShiratori (All versions) |
| 800 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmokona_2602.jpg]] |
| 801 | A small animal entrusted to the Magic Knights by Presea. He serves as a guide to them on their journey, as well as a supplier and a communication channel to Clef. It's unclear what he is, but Clef calls him a "sacred creature" of Cephiro. |
| 802 | |
| 803 | In the manga, [[TheReveal he eventually reveals]] himself to be the Creator of Cephiro, Earth, and the other nations trying to seize Cephiro. He created the Pillar System after his disappointment with the mess that became of Earth, but Hikaru convinces him that there's [[TakeAThirdOption a middle path]] between chaos and putting it all on one person's shoulders. |
| 804 | |
| 805 | In the anime, he reveals himself to be... nothing at all. He's just a big marshmallow with a knack for breaking the Law of Conservation of Mass. |
| 806 | ---- |
| 807 | |
| 808 | * AuthorAvatar: For Mokona, one of CLAMP's authors. |
| 809 | * BagOfHolding: Kind of. He can conjure anything from his forehead jewel, from a well-furnished tent to a flying platform to food. Which makes a lot of sense in the manga when it's revealed that he created ''everything''. |
| 810 | * BizarreAlienBiology: The girls speculate about the substance of his body and in a bonus comic, find out that he doesn't eat anything. |
| 811 | * ButNowIMustGo: At the end of the manga, Mokona leaves Cephiro together with the Mashin, seeing as, without a Pillar, the latter are no longer needed. |
| 812 | * EyesAlwaysShut: If he has eyes. |
| 813 | * GodWasMyCoPilot: In the manga, Mokona is revealed to be the [[{{God}} Creator]] of Cephiro, Earth, and the Three Countries. |
| 814 | * KingOfAllCosmos: Again, manga version only. He's immensely powerful but makes a hobby of wrecking people's offices, pissing off Umi, and shipping the Magic Knights. |
| 815 | * NonHumanSidekick: Although what species you could call him is unclear. |
| 816 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Most of the time he acts like a [[TheDitz happy go lucky ditz]], much to Umi's eternal consternation. But in episode 14 he's visibly disturbed at the amount of blood Hikaru is losing as she charges through the thorny forest, and [[HeroicSacrifice then knocks her away from the Light Monster.]] Even if he's not explicitly God in the anime, he's a lot more on the ball than he appears. |
| 817 | * TheOmnipotent: He's basically God so he can do many diverse and amazing things. He Took Lantis's sword blows and blocked them with a barrier like they were nothing, sucked up two giant mechs into his mouth like he was eating popcorn, caused Earth to literally stop in a time-frozen mode, created many planets including Earth and Cephiro, and later Clamp series even implies he created other dimensions and universes (including said Clamp series). |
| 818 | * OutsourcingFate: Emeraude's case made him dissatisfied with the system he'd created and allows Hikaru to change it when she becomes the Pillar. |
| 819 | * PowerGivesYouWings: He sprouts angelic-looking wings when he reveals his true identity. |
| 820 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Hikaru and Fuu are delighted with him. (Umi not so much.) |
| 821 | * SeriesMascot: He is basically a fuzzy egg with stubby limbs. |
| 822 | * ShesAManInJapan: The Latin American dub of the anime explicitly refers to Mokona as a "she". |
| 823 | * ShipperOnDeck: He makes sure to pair Umi with Ascot, Fuu with Ferio, and Hikaru with Lantis on the scouting trip in the second half. |
| 824 | * TeamPet: He is a useful one, though. |
| 825 | * {{Troll}}: He ''really'' enjoys bothering people with a HairTriggerTemper. Presea, Umi, and Primera are his favorite targets. |
| 826 | * TheUnintelligible: All he ever says is "Puu!" (Fortunately, Hikaru seems able to understand him.) |
| 827 | ** Eventually reveals he can speak intelligibly through telepathy. |
| 828 | [[/folder]] |
| 829 | |
| 830 | [[folder:Zagato]] |
| 831 | !Zagato |
| 832 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mzagato_5968.jpg]] |
| 833 | -> Voiced by: Creator/JurotaKosugi (Japanese), Creator/LexLang (English), Juan Zadala (Latin American Spanish) |
| 834 | |
| 835 | The villain of part one. Zagato abducted Princess Emeraude, stopping her prayers for Cephiro and plunging the land into chaos. Although he keeps her locked in the Water Dungeon and sends out his servants to stop the Magic Knights, he doesn't seem to have any interest in actually ruling. |
| 836 | |
| 837 | This is because he didn't kidnap Emeraude at all--he's deeply in love with her and is trying to prevent her SuicideByCop by killing the Magic Knights before they get there. Ultimately, all of his efforts fail and he dies in battle against them. |
| 838 | ---- |
| 839 | |
| 840 | * AntiVillain: But he only hints at a motivation other than ForTheEvulz when the Magic Knights actually fight him, making oblique statements about the Pillar System. They don't get the whole story until they meet Emeraude herself. |
| 841 | ** In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsT'', [[spoiler:he intended to evacuate the inhabitants of Cephero to other worlds, making him even less villanous]]. |
| 842 | * BigBad: The main antagonist of the first half. |
| 843 | * BodyguardBetrayal: Subverted. The High Priest's job was to safeguard the Pillar and her prayers, and he is actually still trying to protect her! |
| 844 | * BodyguardCrush: On Emeraude, who loved him back. |
| 845 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: He may have been defeated by the Magic Knights, but all there is left is Emeraude. |
| 846 | * EvilSorceror: His magical power rivals Clef; none of the warriors from Cephiro who tried to stop him survived the encounter. |
| 847 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Creator/JurotaKosugi and Creator/LexLang give him this kind of voice. |
| 848 | * GoodAllAlong: Not ''good'', per se, as he did many evil things (starting with attempting to murder three schoolgirls). But he was hardly the EvilOverlord that he was made out to be and he's a much more sympathetic figure after TheReveal. |
| 849 | * GoOutWithASmile: Downplayed. In the anime, he smiled serenely while saying his LastRequest as the Magic Knights' combined attack annihilated him and his mashin. |
| 850 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: With Emeraude. Subverted in that Emeraude was disguising herself as a child (probably to avoid tempting and being tempted)- in her true adult form, she is almost his same height. |
| 851 | * HumongousMecha: He creates his own Mashin for the battle with the Magic Knights. |
| 852 | * LadyAndKnight: With Princess Emeraude. |
| 853 | * LackOfEmpathy: He doesn't even look at Alcyone when she clings to him, dying of her wounds -- and even allows her to die in the manga. And he professes not to care about the fate of Cephiro. He only cares about Emeraude and her happiness. |
| 854 | * LastRequest: Just one sentence. "Emeraude... be free." |
| 855 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: His hair is the same length as his height. |
| 856 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: In terms what he ''actually'' wanted, subverted heavily, though his actions to achieve said goal hurt and kill many. |
| 857 | * ManipulativeBastard: He's aware of Alcyone's affections and uses them to his advantage, and gains Ascot's support by saying that he'll be able to live with his monsters in peace. |
| 858 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: When the Magic Knights are summoned to Cephiro, his first and only idea to make sure they don't kill Emeraude, instead of trying to explain his reasons and how terrible the Pillar system is, is to send his minions to kill them. If he had at least tried to explain what was really going on, maybe things wouldn't have degenerated as much as they ended up doing. |
| 859 | * ObviouslyEvil: A sorcerer in black robes, with ShouldersOfDoom, who sends out minions to kill a trio of young girls and abandons them when they fail. [[SubvertedTrope It's very easy for the girls to assume that he's a garden-variety RPG villain]]. |
| 860 | * OnlySaneMan: He was the only one who questioned the Pillar System enough to try and do something about it. |
| 861 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: He doesn't go anywhere, instead sending out his lieutenants, and the Magic Knights eventually come to him. |
| 862 | * PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: He tells Emeraude that he loves her in the final episodes of season 1, but the viewers don't get to hear it--though Alcyone does. In the dub, he can be heard, though. |
| 863 | * TeleportSpam: He ambushes Lafarga this way. |
| 864 | * VehicularThemeNaming: After the Italian coachbuilder, Zagato. |
| 865 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Even before he turned into the BigBad, Zagato still disagreed ''heavily'' with the whole Pillar system, therefore he wanted to tear it down to save his beloved Emeraude from pretty much commiting assisted suicide. |
| 866 | * WouldHurtAChild: He acknowledges that the Magic Knights are children, but doesn't hesitate to send his servants to kill them. |
| 867 | [[/folder]] |
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