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This is the character page for the characters who are introduced in ''[[Audioplay/StrikersSoundStageX StrikerS Sound Stage X]]''.

'''Beware unmarked spoilers!'''
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[[folder:Dark King Ixpellia]]
!!Ixpellia
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AyakoKawasumi
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ix_6195.jpg]]

Back in the war-torn days of Ancient Belka, there was an empire called Galea, and the one who ruled this place was a tyrant named Ixpellia, who bore the title of Meioh, translatable as either Dark King or King of the Underworld. She loved brutality and wars and took over neighboring countries with her army of Mariage, cyborg zombies whose arms could transform into many weapons, from nigh-indestructible swords to tank-destroying cannons. Battlefields were burned into the ground and her Mariage army grew with every person killed. Worse of all, prophecies state that she will one day return to lead her Mariage army again.

[[ShroudedInMyth At least, that's what the books say]]. Turns out she's mostly just a little girl who was burdened with the duty to win the war for her country, and had gotten really weary of fighting since, with ''every'' country demanding the same from their [[PersonOfMassDestruction personal]] [[WarriorPrince ruler]], all ''that'' happened was a war that dragged out for ages and caused needless bloodshed. Oh, and every Mariage she made had the same war-loving personality who would awaken her in every age; and they were destroy everything; and go back to sleep. Sucks to be her. She was eventually rescued by Subaru who showed her that the endless cycle of war had stopped. That humans and cyborgs were living in peace, and even the Sankt Kaiser was alive again. She even made friends with Vivio, a fellow Ancient Belka ruler. And... with the knowledge that maybe, when she awoke again in 1 year, in 10 years, in 100 or even 1000 years, that humans might be able to protect this peace; she went to sleep peacefully for the first time.

As of ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', she's under the care of the Saint Church. Part-way through the series, she wakes up, and by the time of ''Anime/VividStrike'' she has joined the Saint Church as a cleric.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In ''[=ViVid=]'', Ixpellia's hair is lighter and is more blond than orange.
* AntiAntiChrist: Despite being the Dark King mentioned in the prophecies, Ix hates the endless wars of Belka and prefers to live in an era of peace.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Her power to create Mariages is definitively bad, but she is a nice girl.
* BlessedWithSuck: Can create Mariages which are Cyborg Zombie Super Soldiers but cannot command them in any way.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:In chapter 63, a little Ixpellia has manifested from her main body. Nevertheless, she's awake. In Chapter 90 she wakes up for real just to give Vivio vocal support in her rematch with Miura her little self can't.]]
* TheCameo: Appears several times in the early ''[=ViVid=]'' chapters while still being in a coma.
* ChekhovsGunman: It's obvious that Ixpellia will awaken and appear in ''[=ViVid=]'', since she has several cameo appearances in the early chapters and is still mentioned in the late chapters. [[spoiler:She awakes in chapter 63. [[http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/4f/b0/518106e2196caea513f12b2429408c65.jpg Somehow...]]]]
* ConvenientComa: Was in one since the warring days of Ancient Belka, and has only awakened recently. After the incident ends, she enters another one that's said to last from one to a thousand years. [[spoiler:She eventually awakes in chapter 63 of ''[=ViVid=]''. But not in the traditional sense...]]
* ChineseGirl: The ''Sound Stage X'' artwork and her later appearances in the ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' manga show her wearing a qipao. [[spoiler:The little Ixpellia wears a white dress instead, that only resembles slightly a qipao.]]
* CuteMute: [[spoiler:The little Ixpellia cannot speak.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Her title is "Dark King"[[note]]Meioh[[/note]], but she is a nice girl.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Her last words before passing into a coma are telling Subaru that [[LesYay she loves her]].
* FunSize: [[spoiler:Ixpellia's consciousness has manifested itself in a miniature version of herself, similar the size of Rein and Agito.]]
* {{Flight}}: [[spoiler:The little Ixpellia can fly. It would be really tough for her, if she couldn't.]]
* HealingHands: ''[=ViVid=] Strike!'' reveals that she's skilled enough to [[spoiler:mend shattered ribs]].
* InSeriesNickname: Most characters referred to as "X" (usually transliterated as "Ix" or "Ixy").
* KingInTheMountain: She is the King of Galea who has been asleep in the UnderwaterRuins where the Marine Garden was built on since the warring days of Ancient Belka. There's even a prophecy that foretells her awakening [[ShroudedInMyth to lead the Mariage in another bloody war]].
* LateArrivalSpoiler: [[spoiler: The opening of ''Anime/VividStrike'' shows her fully awake.]]
* MysteriousWaif: The Dark King that everyone has been looking for turns out to be a little girl who had been pressured into the role of war leader due to her powers.
* {{Necromancer}}: She has the power to create an army of Mariage from the corpses in the battlefield.
* NonActionGuy: A notable gender-flipped example. Ix has no fighting ability. In the Belkan days, her role was limited to creating Mariage and [[spoiler:when she wakes up, she becomes a non-combat healer.]] Justified in that Ix hates war and has no desire to learn combat.
* OneLetterName: Officially, Ix is transcribed as "X".
* PinkMeansFeminine: As a big contrast to the Mariage, Ixpellia wears a pink qipao.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Even though she has the form and personality of a little girl, she has been alive since the days of Ancient Belka.
* RecurringElement: "The girl with sad eyes"
* SheIsTheKing: The Dark King of Galea turns out to be a young girl like Vivio.
* ShroudedInMyth: She was believed to be a war-loving king because of her Mariage army.
* SquishyWizard: According to a translation from the SSX booklet, Ix possesses no combat ability.
* UnknownRival: Einhard considers her as rival, just because Ix is an Ancient Belkan king. Due to her sleep, Ixpellia doesn't know.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:The opening for ''Anime/VividStrike'' shows she's awake in her real body, in ''[=ViVid=]'' she's still only awake as the little Ixpellia.]]
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Ultimately, seeing a world that isn't being ravaged by [[WarIsHell the horrors of war]] is what helps her regain the will to live. She spent most of the time before falling into her coma looking at photos of landscapes.
-->'''Ixpellia:''' Subaru! I can see the stars in the sky!
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[[folder:Mariage]]
!!Mariage
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AyakoKawasumi
[[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mariage1_6262.png]]

The Mariage (マリアージュ Mariāju) are the primary antagonists in ''Sound Stage X''. They appear as a group of nearly identical masked women, each about 175 cm tall, who are responsible for the series of murders on Faurus, Vaizen, and Mid-Childa in 0078.

It is revealed in ''SSX'' that Mariage are artificial beings devoid of personality created from control cores produced by Dark King Ixpellia's body. During the Warring Ages, they were used by Galea to combat the Sankt Kaiser's troops, however, Ixpellia was then probably robbed of her power source and fell into hibernation, only rediscovered by certain Tredia Graze in modern times. After Tredia's death, his accomplice Runessa Magnus took over the Mariage production, spawning some 18 of them and causing the Mariage Incident of 0078. All Mariage created up to that date are presumably destroyed in the end of ''Sound Stage X''.
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* ActionBomb / CyanidePill: A Mariage would self-destruct if captured in a final attempt to kill its captor.
* ArmCannon: One of the things that a Mariage could shapeshift her arm into. Capable of firing artillery that could destroy a tank in one shot.
* BadassArmy: The power of the infinitely growing Mariage army is compared with the Saints Cradle.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: A Mariage could shapeshift their arm into a nigh-unbreakable sword or lance.
* BloodKnight: Their defining characteristic - Mariage are absolutely dedicated to victory at any cost and war. Their creator ''hates this''.
* CreepyMonotone: They never change the tone of their voices.
* DarkActionGirl: They are one of the darkest examples in this franchise.
* FacelessGoons: All of the created Mariage wear masks and seem to be identical to one another.
* HiveMind: The Mariage all share data with each other and consider their individual selves expendable. Quattro even mentions that their tactics are like those of insects.
* ImAHumanitarian: Ginga's interrogation of Jail reveals that the Mariage have a taste for human flesh.
* ImplausibleFencingPowers: When the RedshirtArmy tries to gun down a Mariage, she simply deflects all of their shots with her arm blade before killing them.
* MeaningfulName: "Mariage" is supposed to be an Ancient Belkan word for "puppet". However, there is no such word in modern German (which is otherwise identical with Belkan) and the closest-sounding word, "Marionette", is of French origin.
* MonogenderMonsters: The Mariage are all female.
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: The Mariage are created from reanimated corpses.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Nearly literally with the Mariage, with only the Pirate part not fitting.
* NotUsingTheZWord: The Mariage, a horde of single-minded man-eating undead that are raised by a necromancer from corpses, are never referred to as "zombies" or "undead". The term used for them is "Corpse Weapons".
* OneWayVisor: All of them wears a visor. In ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaViVid ViVid]]'', Einhart is wearing a similar one.
* PyroManiac: Modus operandi of the Mariage is to torch down any place that they attack.
* SealedArmyInACan: The Mariage were uncovered during an archaeological dig.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: The Mariage could shapeshift their arms into various weapons.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Mariage speak in a deep and echoey tone.
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[[folder:Tredia Graze]]
!!Tredia Graze

A mysterious figure who once fought for the Orussian Liberation front, and is believed to be responsible for the rise of the Mariage. He was also an associate of [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS Jail Scaglietti]]. It turns out that he's been dead for four years.
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* BigBad: Turns out to be a RedHerring, but he was the PredecessorVillain.
* DeadAllAlong: For four years.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Is eaten by the Mariage four years ago.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Runessa.
* RedHerring: Runessa uses his name as an alias, so nobody would get the idea that she's the culprit.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: He's soldier from a world embroiled in constant war and believes that other worlds should understand the same pain that his did.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Toredia or Tredia?
* VehicularThemeNaming: After [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Tredia Mitsubishi Tredia]]
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[[folder:Runessa Magnus]]
!!Runessa Magnus
!!!Voiced by: Creator/YuuAsakawa
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Runessa_548.jpg]]

Teana's partner on the Mariage case. It's later revealed that the apparent antagonist, Tredia, is dead, and that she was the one responsible for the killings. Teana eventually catches on and arrests her.
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* AffectionateNickname: Teana calls her "Rune"[[note]]not the word "rune", it's pronounced "Roo-Neh"[[/note]].
* BigBad: As Tredia's spiritual successor, she's the main villain of ''SSX''.
* ChildSoldiers: Orussia had a lot of these. Runessa, who was born there, had fought on the battlefields and slept with her gun for as long as she could remember before an NGO rescued her.
* TheCoroner: Handles autopsies and verification, she usually works behind the scenes. And she's 18 at the time when she and Teana work together.
* DarkMagicalGirl: If Teana grew up on Orussia, would she be different at all from Runessa? However, Runessa is not a mage.
* DetectiveMole
* DragonAscendant
* FirstNameBasis: Offers this to Ginga when she offers the same, because of her common surname Magnus. But she also admits her first name "Runessa" is also very common by orphans from her home planet Orussia.
* {{Foil}}: For Teana, as she is basically Teana's personal DarkMagicalGirl (despite not being a mage at all). Both of them are orphans, raised by parental substitutes, who died when they were children, leaving with a huge complex and a desire to prove something to everyone; both have learned shooting and fighting from an early age, but rely more on cunning and calculation than on their martial prowess. On the other hand, Teana had lucked out to spend her formative years on the relatively-peaceful Mid, eventually apprenticed to two of the world's top super-heroines (Nanoha, then Fate), while Runessa had, in her mind, never actually left Orussia, still clinging to her child soldier mindset, it seems.
* HappilyAdopted: By Tredia.
* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: Teana notices from her hesitation and seemingly sounding lonely that her claim that she never knew Tredia was not true.
* InTheBack: Teana shoots her down with a stun bullet from behind.
* TheLancer: To Teana.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Yes, she's evil.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Her Silver Dagger, unlike most of the guns in the series, uses ''real bullets''.
* RightBehindMe: Thinking out loud about her plans is her undoing. {{Lampshaded}} by Teana.
* TheStoic: She has a very professional and serious manner.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Unlike the other characters from the TSAB, Runessa past as a ChildSoldier is played for drama.
* UnSorcerer: She's not a mage, but she's a skilled soldier. However, she has nothing done to be a BadassNormal.
* VehicularThemeNaming: After [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_R%27nessa Nissan R'nessa]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo_Magnus Daewoo Magnus]]. Her fellow Enforcer Teana is also named after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Teana Nissan Teana]].
* WasItAllALie: On Teana's offer for her to become a partner. Teana says she meant it at the time.
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[[folder:Voltz Stan]]
!!Voltz Stan
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AnriKatsu
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Waltz_2410.jpg]]

Subaru's commanding officer, and head of Disaster Relief for the TSAB.
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* TheCameo: He has an appearance in ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid ViVid]]'', when Subaru is going to take her holiday.
* EmergencyServices: Commander of the Disaster Relief branch of TSAB.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Despite being renowned as a hero for his actions during the fire, believes that he's nothing special.
* ItNeverGetsAnyEasier: Voltz and Subaru talk about this in regards to their job as [[EmergencyServices Disaster Relief]] after Subaru watched a man die right in front of her.
* TheMentor: To Subaru.
* ScarsAreForever: From helping out at the airport fire Nanoha saved Subaru from.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Waltz or Voltz?
* VehicularThemeNaming: After [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Voltz Toyota Voltz]].
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