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!Wolves and Cheza

[[folder:Kiba]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/MamoruMiyano (JP), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (EN), Carlos Arraiz (LA)
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An Arctic Wolf who is dedicated solely to finding the Lunar Flower and opening the way to Paradise. Kiba primarily acts on his instincts, which sometimes lead him to behave rashly, and the others to call him idealistic. Full of wolf pride, Kiba initially expresses disgust at wolves who use human disguises, but eventually realizes that it is necessary to survive.

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* AllUpToYou: By way of being TheChosenOne, Kiba is the only one who can find the Flower Maiden.
* ByronicHero: Has many characteristics, being brooding, ruthless in battles and usually self-motivated.
* TheChosenOne: He's the chosen one who is destined to find and open Paradise.
* DeclarationOfProtection: To Cheza.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Having his lover Cheza die in his arms made him lose all hope of paradise. Not only that, he is also assumed to be the last living thing in the world before he dies alone.]]
* {{Determinator}}: He will stop at nothing to open Paradise and find a place where he can live with his folks.
* DoomedMoralVictor: [[spoiler:At the end, Darcia dies and Kiba manages to open paradise. However, he has lost everyone he cared about and he dies before he can enter paradise.]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: Before she even has a single line, Kiba vows to protect Cheza and bring her with them. This is justified, because wolves and the Flower Maiden have an instinctual connection anyway.
* DyingAlone: [[spoiler:Not only does he die after losing all his companions and having Cheza die in his arms, it's implied that he's the last living thing in ''the entire world'' before he falls through the ice and drowns. You can't get much more alone than that.]]
* TheHero: The main character and the one around whom the story revolves.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: In the series finale, he dies as paradise begins to be created from Cheza's seeds.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: His drive to achieve his goals and his pride often lead him to act recklessly, such as not thinking that Lady Jaguara captured Cheza as a way to lure him into her castle.
* HotBlooded: He's hot-tempered and ''extremely'' volatile. His frequent squabbles with the rest of the pack attest to this along with his tendency to hit first and ask questions later.
* IcyBlueEyes: In contrast to the other wolves' human forms with SupernaturalGoldEyes, Kiba's human form has piercing light-blue eyes, to emphasize his connection to cold and winter.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last arctic wolf. Jaguara killed the other arctic wolves when she burned the forest with his pack in it down.
* MessianicArchetype: He is the main wolf needed to open paradise, but the others are instrumental in his rise.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: The other wolves' human illusion's hair and eye colors match their fur and eye color as wolves. He has brown hair and blue eyes in his human illusion, but is a white-furred and yellow-eyed wolf.
* PerpetualFrowner: Kiba doesn't smile or laugh much, except when he's around Cheza.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Darcia at one point claims that the other wolves were never needed to create paradise. Kiba disagrees.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: At first, he was too proud of his wolf heritage to even consider taking his human form. But soon enough he eventually has to concede that this form is not only practical, it's life-saving.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: He's really pale-skinned (aided by his IcyBlueEyes) and his hair looks black depending on the lighting.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Tsume & Darcia's Blue, as he's more brash, hotheaded, and quicker to engage in a fight.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Kiba becomes the sole surviving wolf (and living thing on Earth in general) in the series finale. And he eventually dies too.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: He shows himself as aloof and distant, always keeping his cool. Yet he has a notable soft spot for those close to him, especially Cheza.
* TragicHero: He only wanted to find paradise so he and the other wolves could live in a better place. At the end, [[spoiler:Kiba finds paradise, but he loses all his friends and dies alone before he can enter paradise.]]
* WhiteWolvesAreSpecial: A white wolf destined to find Paradise.
* WildHair: His hair always appears messy and unkempt, to emphasize his wild temper.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tsume]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/KentaMiyake (JP), Creator/CrispinFreeman (EN), Creator/LuisCarreno (LA)
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A Grey Wolf with a large X-shaped scar across his chest, not counting many others. Rough and self-reliant, Tsume is a strong fighter who keeps his true feelings to himself. He joins the others after his human gang in Freeze City betrays him. He does not initially believe in Paradise, but eventually starts to believe in their goal and chooses to follow them not because of a lack of a better option but out of trust.
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* AloofAlly: At first. His tendency to rely solely on himself makes him reluctant to join the pack and search for the Flower Girl. And even when he does decide to join the party for good, he's still quite blunt with the others and seldom expresses concern.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Much like Blue, his ethnicity is never brought up but his skin is noticeably darker than that of the other wolves in human form.
* AntiHero: Stoic, argumentative, bit of a jerk, cold towards Toboe at first, formerly a [[spoiler: DirtyCoward]], started out a loner, etc...
* BigBrotherInstinct: Though not brothers, Tsume develops a close bond and protectiveness over Toboe.
* TheBigGuy: Tallest and physically strongest of the pack. Also, towers above most people he meets, except Darcia.
* CoolShades: Naturally, as part of his cool badass bad boy persona.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Lady Jaguara's wolf-hunting troops attacked his pack, killing most of his family and friends. As Tsume attempted to flee from the battle, he was cast out by his pack and the alpha male attacked him, leaving him with his X-shaped scar, branding him as a coward.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Jabs mercilessly at his mates, oftentimes pointing out their foolishness.
* {{Delinquent}}: Used the be a gang leader before getting expelled by the members of said gang at the beginning of the story.
* DirtyCoward: His backstory has him being one of these, [[spoiler:with him running away leaving his friends to die]]. He's an unusual example in that he's portrayed as ultimately a good person, having grown out of his cowardice by the time the show starts.
* EveryScarHasAStory: His scar is pivotal to his BackStory.
* TheExile: [[spoiler:His old pack rejected him because he betrayed his friends.]]
* GeniusBruiser: Street-smart and highly resourceful, he's the most useful when it comes to searching for clues in urban settings. Also strangely knowledgeable despite not being educated and used to brawling.
* GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld: [[spoiler:Says this to Kiba right before dying from his wounds.]]
* HellBentForLeather: Wears a torn leather jacket and leather pants which is typical of criminals in Japanese culture.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Toboe, ''oh so much''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his gruffness and his blunt jabs, he's actually very considerate but doesn't like to show it.
* TheLancer: Leads the pack when Kiba isn't around or recovering.
* MarkOfShame: The X-shaped scar on his chest [[spoiler:was given to him by the alpha of his old pack as punishment for leaving his friends to die.]]
* MercyKill: He kills [[spoiler:Hige after he's badly wounded by Darcia]] in the finale, as [[spoiler: Hige]] requested.
* MrFanservice: The one whose outfit displays the most skin, namely low-cut leather pants, a tight tank top and a leather jacket that exposes his navel.
* MysticalWhiteHair: His human form has white hair.
* NotSoStoic: Openly weeps after [[spoiler: Toboe's death.]]
* PetTheDog: Gehl (the red-headed kid in episode one, [[spoiler:whom Tsume failed to save]]) serves as one, despite Tsume's refusal of his friendship.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Kiba's Red.
* RegretfulTraitor: [[spoiler:His pack exiled him as a traitor after he escaped from some hunters while leaving his companions behind to be killed. He doesn't want to get close to others in fear of another situation coming up where he will betray and lose them again.]]
* RuggedScar: His distinctive chest scar. [[spoiler:It turns out he did not get it through badassery as you would expect. He got it while being punished for leaving his friends to die.]]
* SourOutsideSadInside: His {{Jerkass}} behavior is a defense mechanism for himself to protect himself from getting close to others because he doesn't want to get close to others for fear of betraying and losing them again.
* SourSupporter: Always there for his fellows but can't help but be unpleasant about it.
* {{Stripperific}}: RareMaleExample. His outfit consists of a shredded vest and skin-tight, low-rise leather pants.
%%* TallDarkAndSnarky
* WarriorPoet: Melancholic, often deep in thought but always up for a fight.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Has shades of this at first, but time reveals him to have good in him.
* XMarksTheHero: Has an X-shaped scar across his chest.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hige]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/AkioSuyama (JP), Creator/JoshuaSeth (EN), Johnny Torres (LA)
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[[caption-width-right:160:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hige_wolf_form.png[[/labelnote]] to see his wolf form]]

A Mexican Wolf with a carefree attitude, who seems quite comfortable living in human society.

After meeting Kiba, he goes along with the idea of searching for Paradise without much argument. Despite his easy-going and apparent laziness, he does hide some secrets of his own.

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* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: His collar is actually a signal transmitter for Jaguara's troops that leads them to wolves' dens so they can exterminate them more easily.]]
* BattleCouple: With Blue, once they become an item.
* BetaCouple: With Blue, to Kiba and Cheza's AlphaCouple.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: It's kinda easy to underestimate him, what with him always being easy-going and goofing around. But once threatened or challenged, he's actually quite a fierce combatant and doesn't back down.
* BigEater: Food is a big motivation for him and he's by far the one who most constantly forages for food.
* BrainWashed: Courtesy of Jaguara.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: His ever present collar, that doesn't disappear when he turns into wolf form, is never remarked upon by anyone all along the story until they enter Lady Jaguara's castle and the collar starts giving him intense headaches.]]
* ChivalrousPervert: Towards Blue. It's hinted several times that he's actually the most interested in the opposite sex out of the pack.
* CollaredByFashion: He wears a leather collar around his neck that has a metal plate inscribed with the number 23. [[spoiler:It's actually a tag/transmitter that causes him to be under constant surveillance. It also appears to be the tag that controlled him, since he was plagued with constant migraines in Jaguara's city just before it was shot off by a soldier.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: No one is safe from his quips.
* EruditeStoner: It's never outright said that he enjoys recreational drugs but he has all the attributes otherwise, being knowledgeable, easy-going, very good at reading other people's motivations and reactions and often saying the right words at the right time.
* InformedAttribute: Tsume will readily remark [[YouAreFat that's he's fat]]. But, aside from him looking poofier than the others when in wolf form, his human form doesn't show him being overweight at all and we never get to see him topless so it's hard to tell.
* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Before Hige met Kiba, he was brainwashed into being Jaguara's lapdog by hunting and leading troops to other wolves. The collar around his neck attracts Lady Jaguara's soldiers, leading him to put the group in danger.]]
* TheNoseKnows: Out of all the characters, he's the one with the most acute sense of smell and is the one who relies the most on this to track people or sense danger.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Played With. [[spoiler: He gets stabbed through the shoulder so hard by Jaguara's sword that it pins him to the floor. While it doesn't kill him, the wound is ultimately so serious that it impedes him for the rest of the series and doesn't heal correctly, helping to cause his death in the final episode since he can't fight properly.]]
* PluckyComicRelief: Often goofs off or makes silly expressions.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Averted. [[spoiler:Aside from Tsume chewing him out once he learns about the function of the 23 collar, Hige doesn't get much flack for having seriously endangered his buddies and helping Jaguara's schemes and is allowed to stay among the pack.]]
* TheSlacker: Often seen sleeping or slacking off when the group settles down somewhere and is often very apathetic towards any given situation.
* TheSmartGuy: By far the most perceptive and ingenious of the pack.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Blue, at whose side he remained until he asked Tsume to finish him off so he could be with Blue.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Toboe]]
-->Voiced by: Hiroki Shimowada (JP), Creator/MonaMarshall (EN), Ricardo Sorondo (LA)
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[[caption-width-right:147:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tooboe_wolf_form.png[[/labelnote]] to see his wolf form]]

A Red Wolf who was raised by an old woman. He is considered the pup or the runt by the others and is the one with the least animosity or contempt towards humans whom he often seeks to initiate contact with.

Inexperienced, emotionally needy and consumed with self-doubt at the beginning, he gradually becomes much more confident and bold.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: He's actually quite skilled but lacks confidence.
* AllLovingHero: He's about the closest thing a predatory animal can get to a FriendToAllLivingThings, and, as a clincher, he's willing to protect and die for the guy who's actively trying to exterminate wolves!
* AndCallHimGeorge: Tying into DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength, he [[spoiler:accidentally killed his owner by greeting her a little vigorously, suffocating her]]. He's a variant in that he's a child (in a sense) who does this with an elderly person.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: He's the youngest in the group, often behaving more like a puppy than a wolf.
* BadassAdorable: He's quite endearing, often seeking the company of humans, much like a guard dog would do.
* BadassAndChildDuo: With Tsume. He might not be under ten years old, but he's a kid nonetheless.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Push him too far and he's capable of biting out your eyes.
* BreakTheCutie: He's been through a lot. Since the death of his caretaker, he has developed into a braver, more independent character, but there seemed to be no letting go of the natural innocence that came with his youth.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "I was just getting ready!"
* ComingOfAgeStory: His own journey is about becoming a self-assured and reliable adult. Both as a wolf and as a human.
* TheCutie: His naivete and childish determination are absolutely ''endearing''.
* {{Determinator}}: During the walrus battle, not only does Toboe [[GoForTheEye attack and actually hurt the beast]], but despite all the walrus' furious thrashing, diving into the freezing water and smashing through giant ice floes to try to dislodge him, Toboe ''does not let go'' until the walrus dies.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Of sorts, [[spoiler:Quent comforts the dying Toboe by petting him, he continues to do this even after Toboe dies and Quent dies with his arm around Toboe's body.]]
* TheHeart: The most sensitive, good-hearted and affable of the pack.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tsume, ''oh so much''.
* HeroWorshipper: Toboe really looks up to Tsume.
* InnocentProdigy: He doesn't realize just how gifted he is until late in the story.
* KillTheCutie: He's innocent, kind and childish and [[spoiler:he gets killed trying to protect a man who was trying to kill him]].
* MoralityPet: To Tsume at the beginning. And then to the rest of his buddies.
* NiceGuy: An actual one, as he's genuinely sweet and innocent, nice to even [[spoiler: enemies, as he saves Quent from freezing to death]]. But BewareTheNiceOnes.
* RaisedInCaptivity: He was raised by an elderly woman who mistook him for a dog. As a result, he's more people-friendly than the other wolves.
* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:In the finale, he unsuccessfully attempts to protect Quent from Darcia and both he and Quent are mortally wounded.]]
* TagalongKid: Initially, he was just there because he was too young and too inexperienced to survive on his own.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Quent, at the end, after he succumbs to his wounds. He's also reunited with his Granny.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: During the walrus fight scene.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Probably the sweetest boy in the series. [[spoiler:He dies trying to protect Quent, the wolf hunter.]]
* TragicKeepsake: He still wears the bracelets the old woman who raised him gave him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cheza]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/ArisaOgasawara (JP), Creator/SherryLynn (EN), Yensi Rivero (LA)
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cheza_cloak.png]]

The Flower Maiden, Cheza is an ArtificialHuman created via alchemy from a Moonflower.

The wolves need Cheza to find and open the gateway to Paradise. Originally asleep and under study in a lab in Freeze City, Cheza is eventually able to join the wolves, whom she loves, and travels with them.
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* AlienBlood: Her blood is green.
* ApocalypseMaiden: Her existence is pivotal to the story and is supposed to bring about the end of the world.
* ArtificialHuman: She was created via alchemy from a lunar flower.
* BlindSeer: The fact that she's blind isn't obvious, since her abilities pretty much make up for it.
* BloodyMurder: Her blood is poisonous when ingested.
* ChainedByFashion: Has golden manacles and a neck chain from her time in the scientists' {{People Jar|s}}. Subverted in that they're so not chain-like that they look like a matching necklace and bracelets.
* CleavageWindow: Diamond-shaped, like all the other slits on her outfit.
* DeclarationOfProtection: A mutual one with the wolves.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: In Kiba's.]]
* ExoticEyeDesigns: She has dark red scleras, red irises and no pupils. Then again she is a genetically engineered flower-human hybrid and blind. Her eyes may indeed have been literally designed to look cool rather than function properly. [[spoiler: All flower maidens seem to have these eyes, as her encounter with an old maiden attests to.]]
* FairyTaleMotifs: One of Cheza's outfits is a red riding hood and her relation with wolves should make the allusion even more obvious.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: She adores wolves and they adore her. She seems to have an innate connection to plants as well.
* HealingHands: Can soothe the pain of wounds with her touch but, apparently, cannot completely heal them.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Kiba acts as her main protector and they're physically affectionate to each other, but it's somewhat hard to tell for sure whether they're a romantic couple since they're a wolf under the illusionary disguise of a human and a magic flower given a human body through alchemy. Kiba and she seem to be more united by fate than by any feeling they may harbor for one another.
* ItIsDehumanizing: A variant. She refers to herself as an "it", due to being an ArtificialHuman (Or, more commonly in the English version, as "This One"). Everyone else uses female pronouns for her.
* IWillWaitForYou: [[spoiler:Before she dies]], she tells Kiba she will be waiting for him [[spoiler:in the next world]].
* LastOfHerKind: The last Flower Maiden alive.
* LittleDeadRidingHood: Late in the story, she dons a red hooded cloak. Things start spiralling downwards from then on.
* MacGuffinSuperPerson: She's an ArtificialHuman created from a lunar flower. The main characters need her to find and open paradise while the BigBad needs her HealingHands to revive his lover.
* MarkedChange: Displays her venous system under her skin when she's ailing or [[spoiler: about to die]].
* MysticalWaif: She's a mystical flower with the form of a young girl and the key to opening paradise. Of course, the BigBad needs her for his own purposes and the main characters constantly protect her so she can take them to paradise.
* NiceGirl: Cheza is a gentle soul who enjoys peace, and cares very much about Kiba's and the other wolves' wellbeing.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:Cheza doesn't just die - ''she disintegrates into flower seeds''.]]
* NoSocialSkills: She has grown up in a laboratory, spending most of her time semi-comatose in a glass vessel. As a result, she has little to no knowledge of the real world, much less how to interact with other people.
* OracularUrchin
* PeopleJars: Cheza was in a jar being studied by Cher Degré before she got busted out by Darcia. In this case, she's not being imprisoned — just studied and kept alive. The second time she gets put in a jar, it follows the trope much more closely because 1) she's been forcibly taken, 2) her most zealous bodyguard Kiba has also been locked in a nearby jar and is having his blood drained out, and 3) [[spoiler:Jaguara and her guests are drinking WOLF BLOOD in front of her, which may or may not be Kiba's]].
* PlantPerson: While she looks like a human girl, she's still technically a flower. She can communicate with plants and becomes weak when deprived of water and sunlight. She also stretches her arms to the sky and spins like an achene seed when she falls from the sky or in a chasm. [[spoiler:At the gates of Paradise, she "blooms" into an elongated, tree-like form before dissolving into thousands of spherical seeds which begin sprouting more lunar flowers.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She's at least 200 years old, but looks about 16 or so.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Inverted.
* ReiAyanamiExpy: An ArtificialHuman with short pink hair, pale skin and red eyes. She's weak-bodied, a MysticalWaif and is usually very calm and demure, although she does perk up quite a bit in the presence of wolves. Her outfit even resembles Rei's plugsuit.
* RoseHairedSweetie: The sweet, low-key romantic subtype. For bonus points, the guy who created her has blue hair.
* TheScream: Upon seeing or just ''sensing'' spilled wolf's blood nearby, she gives an unnervingly loud and high-pitched scream.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's obviously a very sweet girl, but she's also quite monotone and calm most of the time.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Sort of, she only refers to herself as "this one".
* ThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler: Upon dying, she changes to an elongated tree form with lignous extensions for arms and fingers, before eventually exploding into a thousand seeds.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Blue's Tomboy.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: She's a sweet girl who cares a lot about the wolves. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:she dies from her wounds in the finale, to Kiba's sorrow]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Blue Yaiden]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/MayumiAsano (JP), Creator/JessicaStraus (EN), Maritza Rojas (LA)
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A melancholic wolf-dog mutt with blue eyes.

At first, Blue travels along with her master Quent Yaiden, hunting wolves. But Blue finds out that she is actually half-wolf, and unwilling to hunt her own kind, Blue leaves Quent to join the wolves.
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* ActionGirl: The only actual one in the series.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Much like Tsume, she has dark skin but her ethnicity is never mentioned.
* BattleCouple: With Hige. See his entry.
* BetaCouple: With Hige. Ditto.
* BoyishShortHair: To contrast with Cheza and Cher's more feminine hairstyle.
* CombatStilettos: On thigh-high boots.
* HalfBreedAngst: Because she's not a pureblood wolf, she wistfully mentions that she won't be able to join the others in Paradise.
* HeelFaceTurn: At first, she was an antagonist to the wolves. It's only upon interacting with Cheza that she realizes that she's also a wolf, albeit a half-breed.
* HeritageFaceTurn: Blue hunted wolves along with her master for most of her life until she learned she was half-wolf. She then joined the wolves out of disgust.
* HunterOfHerOwnKind: Until she meets Cheza and realizes that she's not just a regular dog.
* IChooseToStay: Upon realizing her ancestry, she was presented with the possibility to join the pack or remain at Quent's side. She chose to remain with the wolves who had accepted her as one of theirs.
* MeaningfulName: Was named after her deep blue eyes.
* MoralityPet: Literally, to Quent [[spoiler: who knew all along that she was a wolf halfbreed]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Downplayed. She doesn't dwell on it, but she's clearly disturbed to learn she's a HunterOfHerOwnKind. One of the reasons she fears she won't be allowed in Paradise is because of how many wolves she helped kill.
* OccultBlueEyes: Is the only one to retain her blue eyes in all her forms, which hints that she's indeed not a pureblood.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Begs Hige to remain with her as long as possible since she knows she won't be able to go to the wolf Paradise. [[spoiler: She eventually dies at his side.]]
* RaisedInCaptivity: She's a wolf-dog who was raised as a normal dog and left in the dark about her parentage until adulthood. Upon learning of her wolf heritage, she escapes into the wild with the others.
* SamusIsAGirl: She's not revealed to be female for quite some time in the series, as Quent refers to her only by her gender-ambiguous name or as "my dog."
* SixthRanger: The last one to join the pack.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Hige.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Cheza's Girly Girl. Also applies during her time with Cher, she even comments on Cher's natural feminine wiles.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Along with Cheza.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Darcia killed her master Quent, whom she calls “Pops”, towards the end of the series.]]
[[/folder]]

!Humans

[[folder:Cher Degré]]
-->Voiced by: Kaho Kouda (JP), Creator/KariWahlgren (EN), María Teresa Hernández (LA)
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A scientist involved in studying Cheza.
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* AmicablyDivorced: At the very least, she and her ex-husband Hubb seemed to be professional with each other after the divorce.
%%* BadassLabcoat
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: After all the stuff she goes through, the worst that happens to her appearance is her hair gets ruffled.
** How untarnished? [[spoiler: Trapped in an armored truck that falls off a cliff, hits smaller ridges along the way, and finally crashes in a drop that had to be several hundred feet, she doesn't even get a bloodied nose!]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:She dies in Hubb's arms.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: [[spoiler:She dies when the cliff she is on breaks off and she falls to her death.]]
* LawOfInverseFertility: According to a few lines in later episodes, a reason she became so devoted to her work with Cheza was because she couldn't have children.
* MarriedToTheJob: She and Hubb got divorced after her work with Cheza became more important to her than their marriage.
* MotherlyScientist: She is fascinated by Cheza and desires to understand her and her purpose. When Cheza escapes, she tries to follow her. [[spoiler:Later she learns about the wolves and helps them escape, at the cost of her own life.]]
* UnkemptBeauty
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hubb Lebowski]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/MitsuruMiyamoto (JP), Creator/RobertBuchholz (EN), Antonio Delli (LA)
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hubb_6625.jpg]]

A police detective and ex-husband of Cher Degré.
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* AgentScully
* AmicablyDivorced: With Cher and he still loves her. In that vein, during much of the time they're seen together, they don't argue.
%%* BadassLongcoat
%%* BadassNormal
* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler:He dies when he loses his grip climbing up a cliff.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: To his ex-wife Cher. He is still very much in love with her and seeks to protect her, often half-jokingly asking if they still have a chance together.
* OddCouple: Becomes one when traveling with Quent. They banter about relationships, alcohol, and time spent on the police force.
* OneLastSmoke: [[spoiler:He is seen inhaling a cigar in his final moments.]]
* PlotAllergy: He seems to be allergic to every animal he encounters.
* SmokingIsCool
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Quent Yaiden]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/UnshoIshizuka (JP), Creator/TomWyner (EN), Carmelo Fernández (LA)
[[quoteright:159:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/profile___quent.png]]

A wolf hunter. He lives a life on the go with only his dog, Blue, to keep him company and aid him in his pursuit of wolves to kill.
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* TheAlcoholic: He's usually seen drinking, and seems to have developed a Delirium Tremor from it. In combat, the liquor can sometimes make him see through the Wolves' disguises but it also makes his shot hard to line up.
%%* BadassLongcoat
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His village was destroyed and his family was killed by what he thought were wolves.
* DrowningMySorrows: As noted above, he's an alcoholic and, from what we can guess, after some serious moments, he drinks to deal with the aftermath of losing his family.
* FantasticRacism: His character arc revolves around his hatred of wolves. [[spoiler: He eventually overcomes this after finding out his beloved "dog" is part wolf. When another wolf dies to save him, it puts the final nail in the coffin of his racism.]]
* FreudianExcuse: The destruction of his village and the killing of his wife and son, Russe, by what he thought was a pack of wolves led to his deep and abiding hatred for wolves.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:He dies smiling, finally letting go of his hatred for wolves.]]
* GrumpyOldMan: While he's not quite old (he's closer to middle age), he's definitely up there and he's pretty bad-tempered
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He hunted the wolves because he perceived them to be vicious, however, he became just as bad as the Nobles.
%%* InspectorJavert
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's brutish, ornery, and usually grumpy, but he does care about Blue, his family, strikes up an OddFriendship with Hubb, and even helps an injured little boy who he had never met before.
* KnightTemplar
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Towards the end, [[spoiler: he lets go of his hatred of wolves, just as he's dying]].
* TheResenter: He really hates wolves.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: His weapon is a lever-action revolver rifle.
* SawedOffShotgun
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Toboe, as he dies with the former in his arms.]]
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[[folder:The Commander]]
-->Voiced by: Kan Tokumaru (JP), Creator/BobPapenbrook (EN), Juan Guzmán (LA)
[[quoteright:235:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2014-05-27_at_10_03_41_pm_29.png]]

The leader of the recapture party in charge of getting Cheza back to the lab.
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* AgentScully: He maintains that there is no such thing as wolves in contrast to Cher and even his own soldiers. He finally does believe in episode 21 after they save him.
%%* BadassLongcoat
* DragonAscendant: After Orkham's passing, he becomes the commander of all the remaining troops.
* DragonInChief: He's the one who leads Orkham's soldiers against the wolves, while Orkham's back in his castle.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He leads his troops off to fight Jaguara's soldiers and is never seen again. Later on, a few are drinking in a bar and remark to Quent that they mopped up the last of the resistance, implying that he was killed, but we never find out [[spoiler:considering the ending it's likely he was killed one way or another]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He's only called the "Commander" or "Retrieval Squad Commander".
* AFatherToHisMen
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Quent looks pretty beaten up after he's interrogated.
* MauveShirt: He appears the most out of all the soldiers and one-off characters, he even made it onto the image on the main page.
* MenOfSherwood: His soldiers while outnumbered and outgunned make a pretty successful stand against Jaguara's army, blowing up airships and routing their soldiers from an occupied City.
* MookLieutenant: He commands Lord Orkham's troops and, as befitting the trope, has a uniform that distinguishes him from the others.
* NobleTopEnforcer: Especially when compared to Jaguara's soldiers. The Commander is rough, but willing to fight for his home. When the wolves save him, he gladly points out Jaguara's keep and has no real grudge against them.
* TheRemnant: He ends up leading the last groups of organized resistance against Lady Jaguara.
* ReverseArmFold: On occasion.
* RousingSpeech: When asked why he's still fighting in spite of Orkham's death he gives one that puts the vigor back into his soldiers.
-->"We're going to Freeze City... This may prove to be the one battle that determines our fate as men. That's why I'll fight, not for the glory of the nobles, but for the honor of protecting our very existence. We'll stand together and we'll fight to save what is ours!"
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!Nobles

[[folder:Lady Jaguara]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/AtsukoTanaka (JP), Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (EN)
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Jagara_4092.jpg]]

The leader of the mysterious Black City and part of one of the three feuding Noble Families.
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* AdaptedOut: She is absent from the manga.
* AristocratsAreEvil: She's actually pretty evil to start with.
* BreastPlate: One can say that hers is a deconstruction, as, while it shows off her "assets", it's not very practical, as [[spoiler: that's where Darcia skewers her]].
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:She's Hamona's twin sister and the one who kills her out of jealousy.]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Has green hair to symbolize her [[GreenEyedMonster jealous and hateful]] personality. Her sister Hamona embodies the other side of the colour, see below.
* CompressedHair: See that helmet in her pic? She fits her floor-sweeping hair loose and unbound underneath it.
* CoolMask: Her helmet is equipped with a white and gold mask that covers the top half of her face.
* DarkActionGirl: The noble who most gets things done, either sending in her EliteMooks or using her own wiles and sword to accomplish things.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Initially, she was set up mostly as the main antagonist and she was for half of the series but really, it's [[spoiler:Darcia]] that's the real antagonist of the series.
* EvilTwin: Quite literally, as she causes much trouble for the wolves (like hunting them down) and even kills her [[spoiler: twin sister because she wanted Darcia's love]].
* GreenEyedMonster: Extremely jealous of Hamona whom Darcia chose over her for being kinder and more loving than her.
* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:She stabs Darcia with a poisoned dagger when he refuses her.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Much of the trouble in the series starts with her, as she wants to be in [[spoiler:Paradise with Darcia but, too bad for her, Darcia doesn't share her feelings]].
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: She [[spoiler: murders Hamona]]while the latter was on life support.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: She stated that [[spoiler:everything she has done was for Darcia so they could be in Paradise together, although he loved her sister]].
* MagicKnight: Competent with both sword and magic.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:She killed her twin sister Hamona, Darcia's lover who had essentially been on life support for years, in order to get her out of the picture.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Over two hundred, at least.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: After killing her sister out of jealousy. It ultimately led to her death, including the entire main cast, and the BigBad.
* SorcerousOverlord: Conspicuously uses magic and spells to wield power over her city.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Manages to pin [[spoiler: Hige]] to the floor by throwing her sword like a lance at him.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has one after the false paradise she's trying create breaks down.
* WomanScorned: Much of the shit she caused comes from Darcia not choosing her.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:She killed her twin sister to have Darcia to herself and when he refuses her, Jaguara stabs Darcia with a poisoned dagger.]]
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[[folder:Lord Darcia]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/TakayaKuroda (JP), Creator/SteveBlum (EN), Rafael Monsalve (LA)
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Darcia_8977.jpg]]

The third generation of the Darcia family of Nobles. He seeks to use Cheza to somehow revive his lover Hamona.
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* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type II]]
* AristocratsAreEvil: Like most of the Nobles, he's antagonistic but he does have some sympathetic qualities as he just wants to be in Paradise with his love, Hamona. [[spoiler:Once she dies, though, he loses all sympathetic qualities and is out to kill the world and everyone in it so only ''he'' can enter Paradise.]]
%%* AxCrazy: In the OVA.
* BadassLongcoat: He dons a long black cloak, which makes him look more imposing
* BigBad:
** BigBadSlippage: Darcia doesn't start out as the BigBad of the series. He initially begins as an AntiVillain trying to bring his true love back to life who happens to oppose the heroes in a few instances. Then [[spoiler:Hamona is killed and he takes revenge by killing Jaguara]], which sends him into severe SanitySlippage. Finally, he emerges as the BigBad during the last four episodes of the series.
* CoolMask: A white mask that covers his entire face.
* TheCorruption: Possibly. [[spoiler:He tries to enter Paradise at the end, but his entire body disintegrates except for his wolf's eye. Cheza's body dissolves into lunar seeds that presumably create Paradise, but Kiba crosses the DespairEventHorizon and [[DyingAlone dies alone]] outside their gates. Darcia's wolf's eye is seen in Paradise, where it dissolves into an evil black goo that seeps into the soil and corrupts the surrounding lunar flowers. Then Kiba awakes in our modern world, with the implication that our world is foul and corrupt [[JustSoStory thanks to Darcia's eye]].]]
* DeathByWomanScorned: Attempted by Jaguara. [[spoiler: It fails and he kills her instead.]]
* DeathWail: Upon discovering [[spoiler: Hamona's murdered body]], he wails and screams in pain and sorrow, all while [[ManlyTears crying his eyes out]].
* DespairEventHorizon: When [[spoiler:[[CainAndAbel Jaguara has Hamona killed]], he loses it and becomes more AxCrazy and doesn't care about anything or anyone anymore.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Even when poisoned, he still nearly succeeds in ending the world.
* DualityMotif: He has one blue eye and one golden wolf's eye, to show that [[spoiler: he's found a way to turn himself into a wolf so that he can enter the Paradise forbidden to humans. Fortunately, his plan is thwarted by Kiba and Cheza, but his evil wolf eye lives on...]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Darcia was already dangerous as a sword-wielding normal human, then [[spoiler:he became a wolf]]...
* EvilCounterpart: To Kiba in the OVA, as he also wanted to find Paradise but for a different reason.
%%* EvilLaugh: Paired up with a SlasherSmile.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Courtesy of his voice actors.
* EyepatchOfPower: {{Subverted}}, as it hides a golden wolf's eye.
* FeelsNoPain: He mentions Jaguara's poison has deadened him to pain.
* FreakOut: Goes through one in episode 12 when [[spoiler: Jaguara finally kills Hamona]].
* HeroKiller: Not at first, but his appearances in the final episodes and [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVAs]] are marked with CharacterDeath.
* ImplacableMan: In the OVA. He keeps getting hit with wounds that should at least slow him down, but they never do.
* InhumanEyeConcealers: Has an eye patch to hide his gold-coloured left eye, apparently the result of a family curse and [[spoiler: being descended from wolves.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: His love for Hamona aside, it's pretty clear he doesn't care about anyone but himself.
* IrrationalHatred: It's never explained why he doesn't like Cheza, but even as he kidnaps her to heal his beloved Hamona, he often strikes her and shoves her around with little to no provocation. [[spoiler:After Hamona dies, the gloves come off and he savagely beats Cheza every chance he gets.]]
* TheJuggernaut: The destruction of his Fortress, being impaled by a poisoned sword, being shot at point blank and viciously mauled by the protagonists. None of this killed him. [[spoiler: Only when he tried to enter in Paradise that he meet his death.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: After [[spoiler:his lover's death]], he becomes extremely mentally unstable and, by the end of the series, he doesn't give a damn about anything other than himself.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy / LoveMakesYouEvil: Everything he had done throughout the series was for the woman he loves. [[spoiler:When she's murdered by her sister, he completely loses it and turns evil and crazy.]]
* NightmareFace: [[spoiler: As a wolf, mostly because he keeps trying to make his new wolf face make human facial expressions]].
* NotQuiteDead: He didn't die when his castle was blown up.
* NotSoStoic: He's very quiet and cold at first, but as the series goes on, it's apparent that not all is well upstairs.
* OneWingedAngel: By the end of the series, Darcia turns himself into [[spoiler:a large, demonic wolf]].
* PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: After [[spoiler:Hamona's death, he decided to deliberately trigger the apocalypse so that he alone can enter Paradise.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: While we can't gauge his age, it's clear he's an example of this as he's been searching for a cure to Hamona's illness for centuries.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Kiba's Red, as he's more cool, calm, and collected in comparison.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:He was the one who killed Quentin's family, in wolf form, some time ago.]]
* SlasherSmile: He does this in the OVA's finale. [[spoiler: As a wolf.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: With Hamona.
* StrawNihilist: After [[spoiler:Harmona dies]] he crosses the DespairEventHorizon while JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, and decides to PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery while throwing a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum.
* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: We get it, Darcia. You're distraught that you and Hamona won't be together in Paradise, but does that give you the right to [[spoiler:deliberately accelerate the apocalypse and prevent everyone ''else'' from reaching Paradise]] just because ''you'' didn't get what you wanted?
* TragicVillain: He only starts off as an antagonist to the heroes because while they want to use LivingMacGuffin Cheza to find the way to paradise, while Darcia wants to use her HealingHands ability to save his lover Hamona, who he's kept on life support for centuries while he's tried to find a cure for her condition. Darcia defeats the heroes without killing them, takes Cheza back to his castle... and finds that Hamona was murdered by another noble just hours before his return. We don't get to see the full effect this has on him until much later. In the OVA that finishes the series, [[spoiler:we see that he's become an Ax-Crazy StrawNihilist, and the hero's Evil Counterpart]].
* TheUnfettered: ''Nothing'' will stop him from kidnapping Cheza to heal his beloved Hamona, and [[spoiler:after Hamona dies]] he throws that same tenacity into [[spoiler:accelerating the apocalypse and preventing everyone but himself from reaching Paradise]].
* VillainousBreakdown: When he crosses the DespairEventHorizon and gets progressively worse throughout the series.
* VillainousWidowsPeak: Exaggerated. His hairline peaks right down to his nose bridge, attesting to his villainy.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Might have this attitude toward Cheza, the artificially created flower maiden. He kidnaps her to heal his fatally ill beloved Hamona, fine, yet often treats her like she's not there and casually hits and shoves her around the few times he does. [[spoiler: After Hamona dies, he completely loses it and ''savagely'' beats into Cheza every time they encounter each other, if he acknowledges she's there at all.]]
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Wears a white mask that covers his entire face.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:He was willing to destroy the new world and everyone in his way because he lost Harmona.]]
* WouldHitAGirl:
** Even while kneeling over the comatose body of his beloved Hamona, Darcia doesn't hesitate to hit or knock Cheza around. After [[spoiler:Hamona]] dies he ''completely'' loses it and savagely beats into Cheza every chance he gets. [[spoiler:To the point that in the finale, in wolf form he ''grips her spine'' and shakes her around like a rag doll.]]
** He also kills [[spoiler:Jaguara]], though considering she [[spoiler:murdered her sister Hamona to have Darcia to herself and tried to kill ''him'' when he rejected her]] this one is completely justified.
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[[folder:Lady Hamona]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/MaayaSakamoto (JP), Peggy O'Neal (EN), Lilo Schmid (LA)
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Harmona_9437.jpg]]

Darcia's love, who has been stricken with "Paradise sickness", in which her soul is "taken by Paradise", via contact with him, causing her to fall into a coma.
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* CainAndAbel: With Jaguara. See her entry above.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Has green hair, associated with her trademark white-lavender dress to symbolize her kindness, the nature she loved and the hope she gave to Darcia for them to enter Paradise together.
* DamselInDistress: Darcia's goal is to save her from Paradise Sickness, an illness that took her soul. It left her comatose, but then [[spoiler: her EvilTwin Jaguara kills her...]]
* DevotedToYou: Even in her catatonic state, Darcia deeply loves her and has devoted many years of his life to finding a cure for her.
* FlowerMotifs: Strongly associated with white flowers as a symbol of her kindness and purity as well as the genuine love she shared with Darcia.
* GodivaHair: She's kept entirely naked while on life support, with only her hair to cover her.
* KilledOffscreen: It is unspecified how [[spoiler: Jaguara killed her]], but in the manga, in which Jaguara was AdaptedOut from, we see something stabbed through her chest, which was not seen in the anime. In the anime, Neige tells Darcia that, "Jaguara's reach extended even here", which implies that due to Hamona being ill, it weakened her light, therefore Jaguara's darkness overpowered her.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Darcia [[spoiler: while she was still alive.]] It is unknown how she was one, but she treated him with love and compassion.
* TheLostLenore: To Darcia, however, she wasn't quite dead, just sick. She becomes this fully [[spoiler: after Jaguara kills her]].
* MeaningfulName: Her name sounds like "Harmony," and she's a LivingEmotionalCrutch to Darcia. [[spoiler:When she dies, he becomes dangerously unstable. Her death also ends any hope for a harmonious world since Darcia sets out to destroy it and prevent anyone but himself from entering Paradise.]]
* MoralityChain: As long as she was there to love him, Darcia was happy and had no nefarious motivations.
* NudeNatureDance: Played with. Her dancing in the nude had no hippie undertones but was rather there to emphasize her [[IncorruptiblePurePureness purity and beauty]].
* NiceGirl: The reason Darcia chose to love her rather than her GreenEyedMonster twin sister Jaguara is because Hamona was the nicer of the two. She was gentle and caring, while Jaguara was ruthless and cruel.
* PosthumousCharacter: In a sense. The only time we ever have a chance to see her out of her coma is in a flashback at the beginning of episode 7, and she's introduced to us in her catatonic state.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: As old as the other nobles like Darcia and it's implied that she's been in her comatose state for over a century.
* RuleOfSymbolism: Her name means "Harmony" and she's a LivingEmotionalCrutch to Darcia. [[spoiler:She's murdered by her jealous sister Jaguara, whose other selfish actions accelerate the literal apocalypse. Darcia's grief over Hamona's death drives him to [[PutThemAllOutOfTheirMisery accelerate the apocalypse]] and [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum prevent anyone]] but ''[[ItsAllAboutMe himself]]'' from reaching Paradise, and in the show's final scenes his evil wolf's eye is shown to taint and corrupt the new Paradise.]] In other words: Hamona's [[spoiler:literal death]] is the symbolic death of any hope of a harmonious world or Paradise.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Darcia.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only good noble in the series. She is also not racist against wolves.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:She was the only good noble in the series and she dies at the hands of her jealous sister.]]
* VirginInAWhiteDress: Subverted. She wears a white maxi dress (as opposed to Jaguara's brown and black armored suit) with [[GracefulLadiesLikePurple purple undertones]] that do symbolize her good heart but not her virginity.
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[[folder:Lord Orkham]]
-->Voiced by: Ritsuo Sawa (JP), Creator/MikeReynolds (EN), José Manuel Vieira (LA)
[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2014-05-27_at_9_53_46_pm_6936.png]]

The leader of Freeze City, and one of the three Leading Noble families of the House of Lords. He stole Cheza from the Darcia Family in order to perform experiments and awaken her so she could lead the way to Paradise.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Like all nobles.
* BigBadWannabe: He's taken Cheza at the start of the series, but his forces and ambitions have nothing on Darcia and Jaguara [[spoiler:and the latter quickly has him killed]].
* TheCaligula: He demonstrates his lifestyle and riches while the people in Freeze City live in slums.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Jaguara sends some troops and they easily kill him]].
* TheFaceless: He never takes off his mask.
* HighCollarOfDoom: Check the picture.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: [[TheFaceless And he never takes it off]].
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver
* WickedCultured: From what little we see of him, his home is decked out with finery.
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