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!Playable Characters
[[folder:In general]]
* DubNameChange: Downplayed. Every playable character's name was changed, but the differences are minimal.
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers:
** Recruiting Cyuss prevents you from getting both Ashley and Erys, who needs Ashlay to recruit.
** Erys replaces Mavelle's position once she's recruited because [[spoiler:Mavelle WAS her, in a different body]]. Also with Cyuss, as Ashlay is required to recruit her and cannot be in the party with Cyuss.
** Zig-zagged with Phia and T'nique. [[spoiler:They both require 6 party member slots at maximum to acquire. However, Phia can be recruited earlier, but she will not be able to gain the God of War SFT, which means the exclusive members are actually Phia-with-God of War SFT and T'nique. You can still get them together, but you can't put the two together with Erys, who requires you to fill up your roster with Ashlay and Ioshua at bare minimum with her (meaning that you have to not get both Ioshua and Mavelle). Additionally, they don't have this limitation in the SFC version.]]
* OptionalPartyMember: Everyone but Roddick, Millie, Dorne, Ronyx and Illia is optional.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Roddick Farrence]]
!!Roddick Farrence ''(Ratix Farrence)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroYuki (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Creator/MamoruMiyano (JP, FD), Creator/YuriLowenthal (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

The hero of the game. He protects his hometown of Kratus with his friends Dorne and Millie. Once the stone sickness occurs, he and Millie embark on a journey to save Roak from the epidemic.
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* ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: His ''FDR'' look really gives him a more handsome appearance and a ponytail, unlike how boyish, ponytail-less he looks in his ''FD'' look.
* CatBoy: A mainline Fellpool.
* ChickMagnet: Half of the female party members in the party have a thing for him: Millie for being ChildhoodFriends, Pericci because she really liked how Roddick guessed her name correctly and played the ocarina for her, and Welch because it's a PrecociousCrush.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Blue eyes and matching blue hair.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: The first half of the game involves him trying to reunite with Millie and Ronyx. Once that is done, Ronyx pretty much takes over the decisions of the team for the rest of the game with Roddick mostly being around for fights (outside of some Private Action focus).
* DisappearedDad: He died before the start of the game, but not before teaching Roddick how to use the sword.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Ronyx's request to touch his tail makes Roddick all flustered and scolds Ronyx for it, even though Millie did let him hold her tail.
* FishOutOfWater: Naturally, he, Dorne, and Millie have zero clues about what lies beyond space and the highly advanced technology unavailable in Roak.
** Gets upgraded to FishOutOfTemporalWater when traveling to Roak 300 years in the past, when his knowledge of the present Muah Kingdom doesn't do much to help him out.
* HeroesPreferSwords: He is the main sword-using character.
* HeroesLoveDogs: He prefers dogs over cats, moreso when Millie completely failed at making a cat deliver letters (it never arrived at its destination).
* NiceGuy: His main attitude. Most of his reason to embark on the journey to save Roak's petrification is simply to stop whoever is doing it.
* NotSoAboveItAll: One PA has him scaring Pericci in her sleep by yelling that there's a dog nearby, after he learns that she's afraid of them.
--> '''Roddick''': This is gonna be awesome!
* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: It's implied through some of his private thoughts that he was bored with how things were in Kratus, meaning it is peaceful. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Then the plot happens and he suffers for it.]]
%%* PointyEars
* SwordAndSorcerer: Has this dynamic with Millie. Roddick is the swordsman and Millie is a sorceress.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pork, which he's rewarded (by a fan) early in the game for protecting the village from bandits.
* UnevenHybrid: [[spoiler:Revealed at the end of the fourth game to have Earthling ancestry.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Millie Chliette]]
!!Millie Chliette ''(Milly Killet)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KonamiYoshida (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Creator/HitomiNabatame (JP, FD), Creator/KatieLeigh (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

Roddick's childhood friend. She protects her hometown along with him and their friend Dorne, and is apprenticed to her father, the local healer.
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* CatGirl: A mainline Fellpool.
* ClingyJealousGirl: In general, Millie really doesn't like the idea of Roddick being with another woman, getting annoyed when Pericci hugs him during her recruitment and becoming extremely irritated at Welch's flirting with him. If she finds out that Roddick bought some earrings for Ilia, she ''explodes''.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has pink hair and eyes.
%%* DaddysGirl
* FishOutOfWater: Has no clue about what lies beyond space and the advanced technology.
** FishOutOfTemporalWater: And then she gets to go back to Roak 300 years in the past, where she unfortunately lands in the Silvalant continent.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Millie is usually presented as a sweet girly girl who is the party's main healer, [[SweetTooth her favorite food is the sweet Fruit Parfait]] and she writes books to express her girliness (such as either cooking books or a romantic novel). However, Dorne refers her as a {{Tomboy}} thanks to her more headstrong personality. [[RightBehindMe Millie usually hears that behind him]] and then [[DopeSlap smacks him on the head from behind]], proving his point.
%%* TheMedic
* MissingMom: Hers isn't even mentioned.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: She herself points this out. If Ashlay and Ioshua are recruited, she ends up separated from Ronyx by a sudden monster attack that she ends up all the way to Silvalant, where she is incredibly hopeless of contacting Roddick or anyone else that she can only mope around and make letters she can't deliver (which are sent as airplanes by her little friend Lucius). When she starts crying, she quickly complains that it's not like her to be so dependent on Roddick and blames him loudly outside the window... right as he's outside looking for her after an airplane happened to reach him.
%%* PointyEars
* PowerTattoo: Never seen, but they allow her to use her healing symbology.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Pink-haired and very nice as long as Roddick or Dorne aren't doing something to piss her off.
* SwordAndSorcerer: The type B Sorceress to Roddick's Sword.
* {{Tsundere}}: Millie is a ''deredere'' by default, but Roddick and Dorne, especially Dorne, tend to bring out her ''tsuntsun'' side.
* WhiteMagicianGirl: In practice, her spell-set was lifted straight from [[VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia Mint]] [[TropeCodifier Adenade]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dorne Murtough]]
!!Dorne Murtough ''(Dorn Marto)''

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuyukiHiyama (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Creator/KentaroIto (JP, FD), Creator/BrycePapenbrook [[note]]Credited as Dick Smallberries Jr.[[/note]] (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

Roddick and Millie's childhood friend and partner on the local defense force. He succumbs to stone sickness early on, and his friends journey to find the cure on his behalf.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Often appears alongside Roddick and Millie in promotional material, but he's only playable for a little bit in the beginning before getting [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]]. [[spoiler:Even when he returns to normal, he gets conveniently shooed away when Roddick and Millie are called back by Ilia and Ronyx for one last mission.]]
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Implied to have feelings for Millie. However, Millie seems to have feelings for Roddick instead.
* CatBoy: A mainline Fellpool.
* CrazyJealousGuy: He hates how Millie is more interested in Roddick through some subtle hints.
%%* EyesAlwaysShut
* GoneHorriblyWrong: In an attempt to convince Roddick to steer clear from Millie, he ends up badmouthing her while she's not around. Unfortunately, Millie had arrived at the station and heard all the stuff Dorne said and promptly knocks him down [[spoiler:(which happens twice)]].
* GuestStarPartyMember: He is only playable in the beginning of the game.
* IdenticalStranger: Roddick and Millie end up meeting an exact look-alike (named D''i''rne) 300 years in the past in Portmith, whom they wonder if he's perhaps an ancestor to Dorne.
%%* PointyEars
* TakenForGranite: Succumbs to stone sickness early in the game.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ronyx J. Kenny]]
!!Ronyx J. Kenny ''(Ronixis J. Kenny)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Akira Okamori (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Creator/KenjiHamada (JP, FD), Sam Gold (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

The Captain of the starship Calnus. Knowing that the stone sickness plaguing Roak had offworld origins, he traveled there to find the cure. The father of Claude, hero of [[VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory the sequel]].
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* TheAce: He starts out one of the top captains in the Federation and a crack shot with a phase pistol. After he loses access to his futuristic weaponry he manages to completely master archery and Symbology, despite having never even heard of magic before arriving on Roak, in only a few days. And not just basic spells but everything up to dropping Meteors from the sky. [[spoiler:Despite breaking practically every law in the Federation to obtain the stone sickness cure he's not only not punished, but asked to do it again. He gets sole credit from the Federation for the group's heroism in taking down Jie (though to be fair that's partially because Roddick was just as critical opts to return to his quiet life on Roak rather than join the Federation) and is promoted to Admiral at the youngest age in history.]] A recurring problem for his descendants in later games is their struggle to live up to the example that Ronyx set.
* ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: His ''FDR'' look, for some reason, changes his hair color from black to purple.
* BadassNormal: Despite being human, he managed to quickly learn offensive Symbology in a short time (in perhaps a very dangerous continent full of murderous monsters).
* BlackMage: Learned offensive symbology during his time on Roak.
* TheCaptain: Of the starship Calnus.
* ChasteHero: Due to the death of his wife, he has shut off any and all romantic feelings for any woman, even though Ilia believes he's trying to hide such feelings around women like Mavelle. [[spoiler:By the end of the story, he confides in Ilia about his DarkAndTroubledPast and proposes to her.]]
* EmbarrassingTattoo: Does not like to talk about how he obtained the tattoos he uses to cast symbology or where exactly they are on his body.
* TheHero: Once Roddick and Ilia reunite with him, he pretty much takes over the leadership of the group all the way to the end of the story.
* HollywoodAtheist: In an early event, he catches Millie praying to her gods, which brings up the talk that Earth humanity moved on from praying to gods that don't exist. This causes Millie to question him on the fact that he's currently in a world where magic (Symbology) and an epidemic that causes people to turn into stone aren't exactly just fantasy but very real. In order to change his mind about his faith, Millie brings up the idea to teach him about Symbology.
* MageMarksman: An archer and black mage. This is a bit detrimental to him in the UpdatedRerelease because bows don't improve the user's magic stat like a staff does.
* NoodleIncident: He does ''not'' want to divulge how ''exactly'' he learned Symbology through Millie.
* PowerTattoo: Never seen, but they allow him to use his offensive symbology.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: A ''lot'' of the actions he takes to ensure the way to save Roak involves breaking a lot of the Federation laws to get things done, which exasperates Ilia a bit. Despite all his lawbreaking, [[spoiler:he's not punished by his actions.]]
* SecondLove: His first wife died before the events of the game. [[spoiler:He eventually ends up with Ilia.]]
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: Without access to phasers while stuck in Roak's past, he learned how to use bows.
* SwordAndSorcerer: The type A (Fighter and Glass Cannon) with Ilia. Ronyx being the former.
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Between the first two games, he named the family dog Roddick due to their shared fluffy tails.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ilia Silvestri]]
!!Ilia Silvestri ''(Iria Silvestoli)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/WakanaYamazaki (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Creator/SanaeKobayashi (JP, FD), Creator/JulieMaddalena (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

Chief science officer of the Calnus and Ronyx's second-in-command. The mother of Claude, the hero of [[VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory the sequel]].
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%%* ActionGirl
* TheAlcoholic: She displays some extreme deep knowledge about beer, even in another planet. And if Roddick can't keep up the bare minimum with her, she calls him a stick-in-the-mud for it.
* ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: Oh boy. Her ''FDR'' artwork sure as hell doesn't match her in-game sprite or ''FD'' artwork at all that her newest artwork makes her look more motherly than her more ActionGirl ''FD'' look. (On the plus side, her ''FDR'' look makes Welch's teasing more on-point.)
* BareFistedMonk: A martial arts master.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Check out her reaction when you meet up with Millie again, and she explains that the captain is "escorting" Mavelle. And then blithely starts to explain how beautiful Mavelle is.
* CutenessProximity: Is implied to have done this offscreen after the second game. She thought [[TeenGenius Leon]] was adorable and acted as his surrogate mother during his stay on Earth.
* TheCynic: Ronyx vaguely describes her as such since she likes to be more cautious than his adventurous self, though that cynism has gotten both of them out of problems in the past.
* FamedInStory: In later games, Ilia is remembered as the founder of Symbological Science.
* TheGadfly: Has a knack to tease her Roak party members. In particular when trying to share the story of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', she unapologetically tells the DarkerAndEdgier Brothers Grimm version[[note]]The part where the stepsisters chop their own feet to fit the glass slippers, followed by having their eyes plucked out by birds during Cinderella's wedding.[[/note]], reducing Millie to tears and indirectly leading Roddick to have nightmares about Cinder-Roddick.
* GeniusBruiser: Ilia managed to become a maritial arts master while simultaneously getting her PHD by the age of 23.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blonde and very nice.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She's very fond of alcohol.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: She and Welch do ''not'' get along well, as Welch constantly teases her age and feelings for Ronyx.
* ImprobableAge: She has a PHD, is considered a master of her chosen martial art, and is the chief science officer on a military starship. She's 23.
* TheLancer: To Ronyx initially. To Roddick in the game proper.
* MuggleWithADegreeInMagic: Ilia is an expert on Symbology and credited with turning it into its own field of science, but does not have the ability to use it herself.
* PregnantBadass: The official timeline implies she was already pregnant with Claude during the events of Fargett.
* RomancingTheWidow: Knew Ronyx's first wife, [[spoiler:and eventually ends up with him.]]
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Ilia is the reason why the Kennys afterwards had a tendency to rate battle performance by points.
* SwordAndSorcerer: The Fist to Ronyx's Sorcerer.
* TitleDrop: If she's knocked out, sometimes she can say this:
-->'''Ilia''': I...can see...the ''Star''...''Ocean''...
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cyuss Warren]]
!!Cyuss Warren ''(Cius Warren)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HirokiTochi (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR & FD), Creator/GrantGeorge (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

Son of the famed general, Lias Warren. He left his hometown to wander as an adventurer. He meets Roddick and Ilia in the town of Haute and offers to help them get to Portmith.
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* ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: He's described as a big guy, though the in-game sprites don't really give much credit to it as he's as tall as everyone else. Slightly averted with his ''FDR'' artwork, which more or less resembles his ''FD'' look.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Phia.
* {{BFS}}: His preferred weapon.
* TheBigGuy: Cyuss is generally the heaviest hitter in the party. Illustrated in his ''First Departure R'' artwork where he's depicted as much larger than in ''First Departure''.
* BloodKnight: He's always looking for a good fight and training his swordsmanship.
* BoisterousBruiser: In addition of his BloodKnight tendencies, Cyuss is a fun, hearty guy who's more likely invite some friends to drink some booze together. [[TheBigGuy His big build]] and [[{{BFS}} the size of his weapon]] also support this characterization.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: As he was joining Astral's Knight Corps as a soldier, the position for assistant captain opened up and he was nominated as a candidate (not because his father is the current captain). What followed was Cyuss being criticized by his peers for the implied favoritism for being the captain's son, convicing him to desert his home in a journey to become stronger and be worthy of his father's reputation until the time is right.
* GenerationXerox: Looks exactly like his father save for the lack of an eyepatch.
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: During the Lias assassination attempt, Cyuss catches up to “Phia”, demanding to know what happened. “Phia” pleads with Cyuss to let her go as they’re friends. Hearing that, Cyuss immediately took out his sword demanding who the hell is she, saying the real Phia wouldn’t beg to him for mercy. Then the real Phia comes along, exposing the lie.
%%* MightyGlacier
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers:
** Recruit him, and you lose the chance to ever recruit Ashlay.
*** And by extension, if you don't recruit Ashlay, [[spoiler:you never can recruit Erys.]]
* NotBloodSiblings: Him and Phia.
* PantheraAwesome: A Highlander.
%%* PointyEars
* PostFinalBoss: [[spoiler:If recruited, in the ending, he asks for one final duel with Roddick, although winning or losing makes no difference. He just wants to test how much he has advanced in swordsmanship.]]
* SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler:Basically his overall opinion on Roddick before Cyuss goes back to the past.]]
* ToBeAMaster: He wants to be the best swordsman there is. His goal, according to the ending, is to make sure that his legacy lived on for, like, 300 years (Roddick's main timeline).
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Don't like wearing shirts.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He has a tense relationship with Lias, because he feels unworthy to live up to Lias' enormous reputation. He's wandering to make sure he's worthy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ashlay Bernbeldt]]
!!Ashlay Bernbeldt ''(Ashlay Barnbelt)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuhikoInoue (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Creator/NorioWakamoto (JP, FD), Creator/MichaelMcConnohie (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

A veteran of the previous war against Asmodeus and old friend of Lias Warren. He witnessed Roddick's talent in the arena and joins to help him refine his abilities.
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Ashlay can only be recruited if Cyuss is not in the party, though he can also be turned down as well.
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* BerserkButton: Saying dogs are better than cats as he hates dogs due to a past incident involving one.
* ContinuityNod: Appears as an optional boss in the fourth game.
* CrutchCharacter: A textbook Crutch Character. However, the updated remake gives you one utility over recruiting him instead of the much potential-filled Cyuss: He lets you recruit Erys and also lets Roddick gain some better abilities. In the remake, he is still quite viable endgame save for his inability to use shields. He also starts knowing the SFT skills your party can only gain later and gains special techniques like Dragon Slash and Phoenix Blast purely though level ups instead of having to gain them through the skill system. If you grind, he'll gain access to powerful moves well before the rest of the party, but he'll only learn a few so he'll fall behind again.
* HandicappedBadass: Ashley is 50-60 years old and has lost his left arm but can still keep up with the rest of the party and go head to head with some of the nastiest monsters Roak has to offer.
%%* MasterSwordsman
* OldSoldier: He's a war veteran and so his experience and skill can keep up with the rest of the party. In fact, he is the party's [[CrutchCharacter crutch]].
* OneHandedZweihander: Justified, as he lost an arm.
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Ashlay is, in-universe, a skilled swordsman. However, he is actually no stronger than any of your party members and, compared to the other recruitable characters, becomes a little less powerful later on. This actually [[JustifiedTrope makes perfect sense in-universe though]] - For one, Ashlay is sixty years old, is missing an arm, and likely has some other injuries slowing him down. He's still a HandicappedBadass though. It's notable that he comes with the Wyrm King SFT skill, which is the trademark sword skills he personally invented and he cannot learn ANY of them because they need two hands. Instead the point of it is to teach to Roddick, who can learn the special Thundersurge sword techniques.
* PantheraAwesome: A Highlander.
%%* PointyEars
* TakeUpMySword: A strange case. Because Ashlay has lost one of his arms, he's unable to utilize his more powerful sword techniques. To make sure his sword style lives on, he teaches Roddick his lost techniques.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ioshua Jerand]]
!!Ioshua Jerand ''(Jousha Jerand)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuyukiHiyama (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Creator/JunFukuyama (JP, FD), Ezra Weisz (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

A young symbologist who travels the world in search of his younger sister following the murder of their parents. He encounters Roddick outside the Purgatorium.
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After assisting the party in an early dungeon, Ioshua can be asked to join permanently.
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* ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: His ''FDR'' look changes his hair color from white to pale light green.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Toward his lost little sister, Erys.
* BirdsOfAFeather: He shares the same goal as Mavelle to find the Crimson Shield, as both of them seemingly lost loved ones to him. [[spoiler:Though it later turns out that Mavelle is his sister Erys inhabiting the body of a Muan woman.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Should he fail to save Erys from her fate, he decides to travel the world to respect her memories.]]
* CutenessProximity: A big factor behind his adoration for his little sister is that she was too cute when she was little.
* DramaticIrony: His pursuit for the Eye of Truth at the Purgatorium to see where his sister is leads him to see Roddick and Ilia's friends in the Van Kingdom with Mavelle among their group, though one of the three runes mentions Mavelle's presence but brushes it off as not important. [[spoiler:Except it is extremely important, because Mavelle is really Erys inhabiting her body.]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady: It even leads some of the female party members to want to dress him up.
* ExtremeDoormat: From his childhood memories with Erys, she sounded like a real pain to deal with, but Ioshua didn't care about suffering her childish tantrums and pranks because [[CutenessProximity she was too adorable]] in his eyes.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Surprisingly, he's a dog person. He had a horrible experience with a cat who tried to attack him while he was flying, which caused him to see all cats as a menace. If Pericci is recruited, Ioshua suffers from her constant attempts to try to eat him, much to his horror.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He admits so when he has to fight:
-->'''Ioshua''': I do not wish to battle, even if that makes me a hypocrite!
%%* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* MageSpecies: As a Featherfolk, he can use symbology innately.
* MysticalWhiteHair: His FD version was designed with that hair color.
* {{Pacifist}}: He abhors the thought of battling and is even put off by sites like the arena existing, so he attempts to avoid physical conflict. Ironically, most of his magic is offensive magic, and he falls behind by Millie's healing magic repertoire (she can heal status ailments, provide better healing, and can revive knocked out party members).
* TheRedMage: Though his healing magic is really only useful before Millie rejoins. He focuses much more on offensive magic.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Finding a traveling Featherfolk is an extreme rarity in itself when the party points that fact out, though he's got a good reason to do so (find his missing sister Erys).
* WingedHumanoid: A member of the Featherfolk race.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Phia Melle]]
!!Phia Melle ''(Fear Mell)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KonamiYoshida (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Creator/MegumiToyoguchi (JP, FD), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

Current captain of the Astral Knights and adopted daughter of Lias Warren. Roddick earns her respect after helping to clear her name when she was framed for the attempted murder of Lias.
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Phia forcefully joins if the player does not recruit Cyuss or Ashlay, but can also be asked to join later in the game.
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%%* ActionGirl
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Cyuss.
* BreakTheBadass: If recruited via breaking her out of jail. She gets framed for murdering Lias, her adopted father, and gets labeled a fugitive.The man she held great respect for is dead and she couldn’t do a thing to stop it.
* DualWielding: Equips dual daggers, though she can inexplicably use a shield.
* FieryRedHead: She becomes especially fiery when Cyuss is involved.
* GuestStarPartyMember: In routes where the player isn't trying to recruit her early she will still briefly act as a party member: If Cyuss is in the party, then she will temporarily join during the chase through the Astral Caves; if he isn't because they're waiting for Ashlay, then she'll briefly join Roddick and Ilia when they arrive at Autanim and guide them to Astral. She can permanently join much later during the emblem quest.
* HappilyAdopted: As far as she is concerned, Lias is her father, blood or not.
* NotBloodSiblings: Her and Cyuss.
* PantheraAwesome: A Highlander.
%%* PointyEars
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mavelle Froesson]]
!!Mavelle Froesson ''(Marvel Frozen)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nozomi Nonaka (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Creator/HoukoKuwashima (JP, FD), Creator/TaraPlatt (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

A mysterious woman Ronyx and Millie meet on their travels. She seeks revenge against the Crimson Shield for the murder of her family. She seems to have some connection to Ioshua, but refuses to speak about it.
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* ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: Averted. There's nearly nothing off between her ''FD'' and ''FDR'' looks.
* ChronicallyKilledActor: Starting with ''First Departure'', she is voiced by Creator/HoukoKuwashima, a Japanese voice actress infamous for 'having a death star hovering above her' (meaning, a lot of her character die). Seeing that ever since the Super Famicom version, Mavelle holds the distinction of being the only party member that can be removed from the party ([[spoiler:by dying, and in ''First Departure'', being replaced by Erys and her whole moveset dies with her]]), [[CastingGag the casting is most likely deliberate, knowing Kuwashima's reputation.]]
* CombatStilettos: Wear high heels in combat. Since she is a magician, it doesn't bother her. However, she sometimes kicks as a form of normal attack (and she will, because she doesn't do traditional symbology casting).
* DyingToBeReplaced: [[spoiler:If you choose to get Erys, even if Erys carries Mavelle's spirit, she is a traditional spellcaster. All of Mavelle's physical skills will be gone to be replaced with Erys' spells.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Millie can't stop going on about how beautiful she is.
* GlassCannon: She has very high physical attack, but she is also one of the most fragile characters in the game.
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Is actually Erys Jerand inhabiting the dormant body of a Muah woman. Erys says that remnants of the unnamed Muah woman's personality remained.]]
* HumanAliens: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. [[spoiler:Muah are a subspecies of Earthling that were teleported to other worlds when their civilization was struck by a meteor.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses her floating CrystalBall for melee attacks.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: An odd case. Her special attacks act like spells but are treated like physical skills.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Is actually Ioshua's younger sister in a different body.]]
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: You can't have Mavelle and [[spoiler:Ioshua's sister Erys]] in the same team because [[spoiler:Mavelle is Erys inhabiting the body of a Muah woman.]]
* MeaningfulName: Mavelle's Japanese name is Marvel Frozen, [[spoiler:and the real Mavelle is a Muah woman frozen in the Old Race Ruins.]]
* MsFanservice: Downplayed. Mavelle is the prototype of the 'sexy LadyOfBlackMagic' throughout the franchise (followed by [[VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory Celine]], [[VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope Myuria]] and [[VideoGame/StarOceanIntegrityAndFaithlessness Fiore]]), hence, all she has to show fanservice are her ImpossiblyLowNeckline which are enough to showcase her ample bosom, mature charm, and shapely legs while wearing heels. Aside of that, she's more covered than her successors.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Even ''she'' gushes whenever Ronyx and Ilia have a moment together. She also engages in a girl's-only gossiping session during one PA.
* OptionalPartyMember: Mavelle is a very tricky character to recruit, as she will join the party if either Ioshua or Ashlay were recruited, or if you avoided recruiting anyone before meeting her. [[spoiler:She is also the only party member that can be removed after joining.]]
%%* RavenHairIvorySkin
* ShrinkingViolet: Unless her family's murderer is involved, Mavelle is generally withdrawn and shy despite her drop dead gorgeous mature look. [[spoiler:It's not known how much of these are from Erys, or the original Muah woman whose body was used by Erys who still have lingering personalities within.]]
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[[folder:T'nique Arcana]]
!!T'nique Arcana ''(Tinek Arukena)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Takuya Fujisaki (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Creator/ChihiroSuzuki (JP, FD), Creator/VicMignogna (EN, FD)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/11_61.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

A Lycanthrope who saw Roddick in the arena and wished to fight him personally. After being defeated, he asks to travel with Roddick to learn more from him.
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* ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: Averted for both of his ''FD'' and ''FDR'' looks (though the latter one makes him look much less of a [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma Saotome]] look-alike).
* BloodKnight: He's always ready for a fight and will excitedly battle.
* ClothingDamage: His sprite shows this whenever he transforms into his werewolf form (the glasses still stay on), though he will always have them repaired at the end of each battle.
* DuelBoss: The only way for him to appear is through fighting in the Rank D of the Arena, where he will crash the final battle.
* {{Expy}}: His ''FD'' appearance makes him look like a dead ringer for [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma Saotome]] with blue hair and glasses.
* GenkiGuy: Out of all the males, he's the most energetic. Given how two games later it's explained that Lycanthropes only transform when excited, it explains his somewhat hyper attitude.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Due to his status as a werewolf, he will occassionally display his animalistic nature like smelling food from afar.
* OptionalPartyMember: He can only be recruited after the Emblem quest begins and the party is at 6 characters or less.
** Notably, if trying to [[spoiler:recruit Erys]] as well, T'nique can still join the team before getting all four main party members as [[spoiler:Millie]] will only join at Silvalant right after starting the Emblem quest.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lycanthropes in this series harbor a symbiotic virus that alters some of their cells. When the lycanthrope gets excited, these cells expand and transform them. [[AllThereInTheManual This isn't explained until two games later.]]
* SignificantBirthDate: According to ''Star Ocean: Anamnesis'', T'nique was born on October 10 (10/10). This is also the birthday of Creator/RumikoTakahashi, the creator of Manga/RanmaOneHalf.
* TakeAThirdOption: Played For Laughs during a Private Action about prefering cats or dogs, in which he claims to prefer wolves. Roddick counts his vote as one for dogs.
* TrainingFromHell: He is constantly doing any sort of training at any settlement he visits, and he will happily do any requests from other party members if it means he'll get a good workout out of it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pericci]]
!!Pericci ''(Perisie)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/WakanaYamazaki (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Creator/YukariTamura (JP, FD), Alicyn Packard (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

A young Lesser Fellpool that Roddick and Ilia meet while she is being held captive by the Velkent Pirates. After freeing her, Roddick and Millie encounter her in Kratus in the form of a housecat.
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%%* ActionGirl
* {{Animorphism}}: As a Lesser Fellpool, she can take the form of a housecat at will.
* ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: Zigzagged. When compared to her character sprite, her ''FDR'' look is the closest match, except for the leotard being green instead of pink. Her ''FD'' look gets the leotard color right, but there's the fact she actually looked more like a fuzzy anthromorphic CatGirl than her more human-like ''FDR'' look.
* AttackAnimal: Her special move, Multiple Punch, has Pericci summon several cats to attack an enemy.
* BareFistedMonk: Uses cat martial arts. T'Nique tries to learn it.
* CatsAreMean: She constantly wants to find the right time to ''eat Ioshua'', much to his horror.
* CatGirl: Lesser Fellpool are much more catlike than the other inhabitants of Roak.
* ChainmailBikini: Pericci’s armor are all bikinis. Her strongest one is the Kitty Armor, which is also a bikini.
* ChekhovsGunman: Roddick and crew rescue Pericci from the Velkent pirates’ hideout where she then runs off before accidentally dropping her ocarina. She doesn’t get seen again until way later once you’ve reunited with Millie and Ronyx down the line.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has pink hair and eyes.
%%* DanceBattler
* FreudianExcuse: Often very rude to damn near everyone, but her mother abandoned her when she was "old enough" and she's been on her own for a very long time.
* GenkiGirl: She's very hyperactive and often complains whenever the party feels so gloomy to be with.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Invoked. One of her level up quotes has her wondering if she's become sexier.
* LeotardOfPower: Her choice of outfit at all times.
* MagicDance: Some of her special moves.
* NoFullNameGiven: The only party member whose surname isn't known.
* NoSocialSkills: Partly because Lesser Fellpool are so rare and partly because she was kept as a prisoner for so long.
* OptionalPartyMember: Pericci can be recruited if Roddick picked up her ocarina after saving her from the pirates' prison, reunites the four core party members, and correctly identifies her in Kratus as long the party is 7 characters or less.
* ParentalAbandonment: One day Pericci's mother declared her old enough to look after herself and left her.
* RapeAsDrama: In the Japanese version, the pirates who held Pericci prisoner hinted at using her as a sex slave. When getting rescued by Roddick, she was so traumatized that she thought he was going to rape her, too, which was why she was hesitant with leaving with him. The English version changed this to her accusing Roddick of wanting to tie her up in a rope.
* SignificantBirthDate: ''Star Ocean: Anamnesis'' reveals that she was born on February 22 (Cat Day in Japan).
* SingleTargetSexuality: She ''adores'' Roddick so much that she practically clung to him when she first joined the party, but was told to at least hold his cape because otherwise she'd be sad.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She hates dogs, due to a bad encounter with one (She says it was attacking her, but the subtext implies that it was being playful). Humorously, Roddick uses this against her in one PA while she's sleeping.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Erys]]
!!Erys Jerand ''(Eris Jerand)''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaUeda (JP, FDR & FD), Creator/StephanieSheh (EN, FD)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/13_67.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

A character exclusive to the remakes.
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Located in an optional dungeon, Erys can only join a party that includes Ashlay, Ioshua, and Mavelle.
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%%* BlackMagicianGirl
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:In her backstory, by the Crimson Shield.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: Often spouts some rather disturbing imagery. She doesn't like this aspect of herself though.
* MageSpecies: Like Ioshua, being a Featherfolk removes the need to tattoo herself to use symbology.
* TheRedMage: Much more balanced than Ioshua. Edges into MasterOfAll in practice.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Erys Jerand is Ioshua's missing younger sister. When her parents were murdered, she was abducted by the Crimson Shield and brainwashed into an assassin. She recovered her memory after an assignment went wrong, and made her way to the Old Race Ruins. There, she found the bodies of the Muah people encased in ice. Using a Muah device, she switched bodies with a Muah woman, and began seeking revenge against the Crimson Shield under the alias Mavelle Froesson. If Mavelle is taken to her old body at the bottom of the ruins along with Ioshua and Ashlay, she will return to her original form; just having Ioshua reveals her past, but keeps Mavelle in her current form.]]
* WingedHumanoid: She's a Featherfolk, like Ioshua.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Welch Vineyard]]
!!Welch Vineyard
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomoeHanba (JP, FDR & FD), Creator/MelissaFahn (EN, FD)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork from ''First Departure R'']]

Welch is a recruitable character in the PSP Remake. She's an eccentric inventor in a hut hidden away in the Van Kingdom and joins the party with little trouble (with the hidden excuse to romance Roddick).

General tropes about her are listed in the [[Characters/StarOcean main page]].
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* BunglingInventor: Her hut is full of inventions all over the place as a mess, and she creates some questionable items that, while they work, have some unintended side effects.
* GreenEyedMonster: Secretly dislikes Millie for being the girl who crushes after Roddick.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: She enjoys teasing the hell out of Ilia's age and her subtle love for Ronyx, which causes Ilia to retaliate and call her a brat to her face.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Her main weapon is a pointy stick with a glove on top (her signature weapon across the series) that she uses to smack enemies with.
* MysteriousWoman: Well, mysterious ''girl''. She playfully hides anything regarding her backstory and her own race (it's listed as "It's a secret!")
* OptionalPartyMember: She can only join the team if there is an empty eighth slot.
* PrecociousCrush: She has the hots for Roddick.
* YaoiFangirl: One of Welch's private actions involve her talking with a group of girls showing her some yaoi stories they wrote, which she really gets into.
[[/folder]]

!Supporting Cast
[[folder:Martoth Chliette]]
!!Martoth Chliette
Millie's father.
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* CatBoy: A mainline Fellpool.
* TheMedic: He taught Millie everything she knows.
* PointyEars: Being a Fellpool, he have elf-like ears.
%%* PowerTattoo
* TakenForGranite: Succumbs to stone sickness.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lias Warren]]
!!Lias Warren
A general from the previous war with Asmodeus. The father of Cyuss and adopted father of Phia.
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* TheCameo: Appears in [[VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope the fourth game]] in his prime.
* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: Inverted. He makes a cameo in the prequel without his eyepatch.
* PantheraAwesome: A Highlander.
* PointyEars: He is a fellpoll.
%%* RetiredBadass
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Madam Karner]]
!!Madam Karner
An informant from Eckdart.
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* {{Gonk}}: The way she looks, her pose on the chaise, and how she buys and sells information makes her seem like a female Hutt.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yvena]]
!!Yvena
The leader of the Fargettian Resistance Force.
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* DaChief: She leads the resistence in Fargett.
* HumanAliens: [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. She is a Muah: a subspecies of Earthling that was teleported to other worlds after a meteor impact.]]
[[/folder]]

!Villains
[[folder:Crimson Shield]]
!!Crimson Shield / Del Argosy
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YutakaAoyama (JP, FDR & FD), Creator/RichardEpcar (EN, FD)
A famous war hero, whom Mavelle seeks revenge against, he is said to be working with the monsters.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:He was driven insane and became corrupted after touching the [[ArtefactOfDoom Mirror of Incarnation]].]]
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: He doesn't remember killing Mavelle's parents when she confronts him. [[spoiler:Justified, as he meet Mavelle as Erys.]]
* CatBoy: Implied, as he is a Highlander (a Fellpool variant).
* TwentyFourHourArmor: He is always seen wearing his armor, which hides his face.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Asmodeus]]
!!Asmodeus
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (JP, FDR & FD), Joe J. Thomas (EN, FD)
A demon who terrorized Roak in the past.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Zig-zagged. Asmodeus in the SFC version turns into a HumongousMecha or MechanicalAbomination as his combat form, explaining his lack of voice actors (where only those who can get into battle gets a voice actor). He loses this ability in ''First Departure'', and so fights on foot where he's instead modeled after [[VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory the next game's Lucifer]] as a floating powerful mage. All he loses is the intimidation factor of his old look, effectiveness in battle is another story.
* ArcVillain: Asmodeus is the central antagonist of the Past Roak story arc.
* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:He was created to find a way to survive on Fargett.]]
* ClimaxBoss: His defeat ends the Past Roak arc.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He's presented as a major threat whose defeat saves both Roak's past kingdoms and its modern Stone Sickness victims, but the story doesn't end there.
* FlawedPrototype: [[spoiler:He escaped his masters and terrorized Past Roak.]]
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Despite his devilish appearence, Asmodeus is a flawed super-soldier prototype that ended up in Past Roak.]]
%%* SealedEvilInACan
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jie Revorse]]
!!Jie Revorse
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuhikoInoue (JP, 1996 SFC Original), Creator/ShowHayami (JP, FD, FDR), Creator/PaulStPeter (EN, FD)
The tyrannical ruler of the planet Fargett.
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* AlasPoorVillain: After his death, both Ronyx and Ilia acknowledge that he's sympathetic in a way that all he wanted is just to get back home. Additionally, they also take heart of his anger against humanity as a proof that the Pangalactic Federation needs to do better in their treatment to other planets overall.
* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:He was created from Asmodeus' data to create a perfect human to survive on Fargett.]]
* BigBad: The main antagonist of the story. Jie Revorse rules the planet that [[spoiler:created Asmodeus]] and opposes the Pangalactic Federation. He also created the bio-weapon that turned the Roak inhabitants into stone, making him a personal enemy of Roddick and Millie.
* EvilOverlord: The ruthless dictator of planet Fargett.
* FinalBoss: The last enemy of the game.
* HumansAreBastards: In both versions, this is his justifications to eventually antagonize Earth and force them to be busy with the petrification of Roak:
** In the original version, he blames the Pangalactic Federation to be bullying other civilizations to join them, and then ignored them to rot. He refuses to let his people, after being yanked out from their original homes, to suffer such fate, concentrating his hatred to humans in general.
** In ''FD'', while his hatred towards the Pangalactic Federation is nonexistent, Jie doesn't like how humans corrupt everything they touch and it'd be a matter of time until they get into Fargett and the last remnants of Muah after they were yanked from their homes thanks to the humans' actions. He then started adopting the ideology of [[TheSocialDarwinist 'the strong survives, the weak perishes']] and implements that to the people of Fargett in order to facilitate his retaliation against humanity while hoping to return his people to their proper homes.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Jie Revorse seems to come out of nowhere and have little to do with the previous plot in the original version, mainly because his existence is only vaguely alluded to once prior to his reveal late in the game. The remake does a better job of tying him into the main plot.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Becomes Neo Revorse after being defeated for the first time.]]
* YouDontLookLikeYou: [[spoiler:His Neo Revorse form. In the original SFC version, it's a giant robot akin of Asmodeus. In ''FD'', it's a biological demonic form. His former form is also the form used in his event boss fight in ''VideoGame/StarOceanAnamnesis'', which may confuse people who got into this installment via ''First Departure''.]]
[[/folder]]
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