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Lavan
- All-Loving Hero: His defining trait. He wouldn't kill or allow his group to kill anyone that doesn't thoroughly deserve it and haven't caused any harm to him or his group yet.
- Anti-Magic: Although it didn't cancel out all magic, and a sufficiently powerful magic blast is still fatal if not for Shoshnah's quick intervention. That said, he is one of, if not simply THE only human male to not be corrupted into an Incubus during a stay in a demon realm, and the only one to be capable of holding the Power Crystal(s) that unlocks ancient catacombs of Yaleria without breaking said crystals due to his nature.
- Badass Normal: Hell, holding one's own against the friggin Thorn Knight in melee is not something many can brag about. Too bad that most opponents they face thoroughly outclass him both in strength and in equipment, so he's mostly relegated to the Non-Action Guy role, and most instances he actually needs to take on someone by himself, it most likely ends with him knocked out and then spending the rest of the week (if not longer) receiving healing from Shoshanah.
- Brutal Honesty: Early on, and often with an internal "Oh, Crap!" right after. Doesn't seem to affect Rosette by the least bit, though.
- Charles Atlas Super Power: Apparently his training sessions with Rosette allowed his skull to be tough enough to break rocks, thrown by Rose, as part of the "training", for reflexes. Not that his toughness did much good when he is against a towering brute enhanced by Dark Magic so morbid that even Ba'el, a duke of hell, finds a bit too much.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Have a tendency to save others, often to his own detriment and sometimes unintentionally causing other problems as well.
- Guile Hero: His distinctive trait. He is easily the most charismatic of the team, and seems to be putting his conversation skills to good use - be it drawing the attention of Inquisitor Zerin away from a soon-to-be-purged Drider family; or to convince Princess Violetta to have trust in herself and use her powers to defeat Prince Deron, or to convince Minte to merge between her "human" and "mantis" persona. However, it is more than apparent that his charisma, although good at cheering up his friends and drawing attention from his enemies, is less than useful when trying to stop villains from attacking him.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: If his dream sequence is to be believed, he's quite good with guns, and used an Automatic Crossbow (granted, not automatic per se, and the crossbow is closer to a bolt/lever-action rifle than anything else) to shoot the rope hanging cargo crates in a loading dock in an attempt to delay an Inquisitorial Assassin , later revealed to be Minte, from killing him. He hit and split the rope in one go and managed to bury her under a pile of grains. It didn't stop her for longer than a few seconds.
- It Tastes Like Feet: He described the Holy Water Inquisitor Zerin poured over him as "It tasted like pureed grass. Don't ask me how I know." He also sometimes describes his, ahem, intimate moments with his harem like this.
- Journey to the Center of the Mind: How he managed to free Minte from her Brain Washed And Crazy state. Shoshanah used a spell to allow Levan's spirit to enter Minte's while keeping both in a dream/coma like state. After reading through her memories and finding out that she was deeply traumatized by her past, and that the emotionless assassin is a Split Personality formed out of the trauma she experienced and then exploited by the church, and that Minte's original personality was a kind girl who never wanted to hurt anyone, he convinced her to merge with her split personality, freeing her from the mind control.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: When he wakes up in the other world, he had no memories of his own identity. Some of those memories came back as the story progressed as Dream Sequences, though.
- Line-of-Sight Name: How he got his name. Him, due to his aforementioned amnesia, cannot remember his own name; Rosette picked this name for him after the lavenders he was carrying to hide his smell from a group of slave-taking orcs.
- List of Transgressions: Was wanted for Blasphemy, Conspiracy, Treason, and Cattle Rustling at 400 crowns alive and 300 crowns dead. Made much more funny in that he is actually incapable to commit treason as he was never a citizen of any known government body in that world - unless, "treason" by the Inquisition's definition means Category Traitor for being in a sexual relationship with a non-human.
- No-Sell: He doesn't burst into flames when Inquisitor Zerin douses him with holy water, which seems to be some form of blessed oil according to Levan's description, much to the fanatic's confusion. note Later on, inside the Demon Realm, he was apparently hit with twenty times the amount of magic needed to turn a human into an incubus, then managed to walk away scot-free. Same thing goes for his fight against the Iron Golem, when he ripped out its power core - an eldritch blob of concentrated magic - with no ill effects whatsoever.
- Rescue Romance: He only started to have feelings for Rosette after she saved him from a lifetime of sexual slavery. Other girls in his harem are all whom he saved and was saved by, one way or another.
- Taking the Bullet: For Shoshanh. An inquisitional mage fired a VERY powerful blast at her for she's considered as a "false god" (in actuality, she's a minor deity of an ancient pantheon millennia before the Church of the Almighty even existed), Levan took the blast for her, and due to his Anti-Magic nature, wasn't disintegrated on-spot, but was left with a Torso with a View (with the hole slowly growing, that is), had a brief talk with the spirit of Amenenofru the First (the Pharaoh whose tomb Shoshanah was guarding) in an Afterlife Antechamber reserved for Pharaohs of that world in his Near-Death Experience, and healed back to life with Shoshanah's power along with some good ol' Deus Sex Machina.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Towards his enemies, most notably towards Inquisitor Zerin and Prince Deron.
- This Is Wrong On Somany Levels: His thoughts towards Rosette's Double Standard Rape: Female on Male and "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization. As quoted from Chapter 5:"We weren't on the same page; we hadn't even read the same book. I didn't know how to respond to that or where to begin. There were a million things wrong with that statement."
- Training from Hell: From Rosette. Shoshanah is NOT exactly happy about Levan wasting her time and magic for the constant After Action Patch Up, though. Nor is she too happy about what Rosette does after every time she knocks him down, either.
Levan's Harem
In General
- Cute Monster Girl: Well, this IS a Monster Girl Wikipedia fanfic after all, so we have:
- Rosette, a Fiery Salamander, a subspecies of the Lizard Folk;
- Shoshanah, a minor deity with a lot of jackal features as she serves under Anubis of that world;
- Christophaclies, a wyvern, a subspecies of dragons;
- Minte, a mantis girl who was once a human;
- Ba'el, a Baphomet, a hell-beast and a former duke of hell whose "former" status came from her breaking a Magically-Binding Contract by killing the Crone, and currently relies on a contract with Levan to keep herself from being cast into oblivion.
- Fire-Forged Friends: The entirety of the Laven's adventure might as well be concluded as "how the team bailed each other's ass out".
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: to recap, we have
- Levan, who's from modern day Earth with no knowledge of this world, cannot remember who he was, and constantly on the run from The Empire's more fanatical elements for being in a sexual relationship with a monster (which he didn't even have a choice in);
- Rosette, a mercenary who's a bit too enthusiastic about her job and a clingy Lovable Sex Maniac;
- Shoshanah, High Priestess of Anubis and chose to follow Levan as his soul is inexplicably similar to the pharaoh whose tomb she's guarding - on a technicality, she and Levan are the queen and the king... of a lifeless desert formed by a God of Evil;
- Christophaclies, Praetorian Guard of Princess Violetta of Domdracvaria and a high-ranking dragoon, who is also overly melodramatic and tends to describe herself and the situation around her as if she's some sort of Knight in Shining Armor;
- Minte, a former inquisitional assassin and very traumatized by her past experiences; and
- Ba'el, a duke of hell banished from hell for breaking the contract between her and the Crone by killing the Crone, as she found the Crone to be the exact antithesis to what she viewed as the virtues of humanity.
- Rescue Romance: a good description for how Levan and the other girls fell in love with each other
- Levan only started to have feelings for Rosette after she saved him from a lifetime of sexual slavery;
- Rosette is an odd one out in that she had feelings for him before he did anything heroic, but him giving her his sword when her old sword broke and she's on the verge of being killed does deepen her feelings towards him;
- Shoshanah fell for him when he shielded her from the inquisitorial mage's spell;
- Chistophaclies fell for him when he distracted and the helped defeating an Iron Golem going straight at her;
- Minte fell for him when he (and Shoshanah) helped her to free herself from the church's controls and then accepted her into the group; and
- Ba'el fell for him for not leaving her behind as the cave crumpled around them, and then refused to hand her to Cardinal Ulmpher as Ulmpher's political bargaining chip.
- Soldier vs. Warrior: the three primary damage-dealers in the group.
- Rosette is firmly on the side of warrior with her bloodlust and lack of any subtlety;
- Minte is firmly on the side of soldier with her precision and control, along with her stoicism;
- Chistophaclies is somewhere in the middle: on one hand, she's the one with the hammiest personality and her fighting style isn't too different from Rosette, yet on the other hand, she actually knows combat strategy and understands the importance of teamwork. Given her official job as a dragoon, a shock trooper of Domdracvaria that is trained to break through enemy lines, provide air support for more traditional armies on the ground, and gain air superiority if enemy fliers are present, it is all but a given that she would be trained as a mixture between a soldier and a warrior - a soldier who knows the importance of tactics yet also a warrior whose ferocity constitutes a major part of her tactics.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Rosette and Shoshanah does not get along, at all. Ba'el being Ba'el, she does get along with anyone, and seems to take great pleasure in trolling Shoshanah for amusement.
"Rose" Rosette
Rosette, the Thorn Knight
A salamander mercenary who enjoys her job a bit too much and the first love interest of Levan. She thrives in the heat of battle and fell in love with the protagonist after he managed to hold his own against her for far longer than her other adversaries and fought back hard enough to draw her blood and damage her sword.- Action Girl: A superhumanly strong berserking One-Woman Army that thrives in battle, to be exact.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: During her daring rescue of Levan, when shot by dozens of poisoned arrows, surrounded and having to jumping off a cliff into a river down below reason for the Soft Water trope to shake off their pursuers and Levan fearing for her safety for a drop from such height into the water below, she responded with this:(Running along the side of the cliff) "Everything will be okay...""Because!" (Making a sudden halt) "I'm!" (Turning to face the cliff) "In Love!" (Leaps off the cliff)
- Also doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome and a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, d'aww...
- Affluent Ascetic: She don't really seem to care about money. At all. Although she's quite rich, her spendings are pretty much entirely on food and other camping supplies.
- Animal Eyes: Yellow, reptilian/crocodilian eyes, as befitting her Cute Monster Girl nature.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: As befitting for her personality. Her Healing Factor allows her to do so without much repercussion, if any at all.
- The Berserker: The entirety of her fighting style, charging headlong into battle powered by her insatiable bloodlust, cutting down anyone that stands in her way, leaving nothing but a trail of blood and guts in her wake as the fire in her burns ever brighter, both literally and metaphorically.
- Best Her to Bed Her: Why she fell in love with Laven: Most of her opponents goes down without much of a fight, yet he held his own against her for an extended period of time and managed to fight back and damage her weapon without receiving a single direct hit from her before he drew her blood by headbutting her. The only visible injury he received from this fight is from the grappling that ensued after her sword got caught in the curved guard of his sword when he attempted to apply the Mordschlag technique on her note with his sword wrapped in his shirt. She parried the strike and dodged the cross-guard coming straight at her face, and as their swords are locked against each other, she used her Super-Strength to overpower him in the grapple and pushed his sword back far enough that its tip made a slight cut on his chest. He then made the aforementioned headbutt. To say that she was turned on by this fight would be a massive Understatement.
- In the fluff, all Lizard Folks, being a Proud Warrior Race, choose their mates based on combat prowess. Salamanders, being a sub-species, are no exception.
- Big Eater: Eats a lot to compensate for her high body temperature, as well as to keep her powers functioning.
- Birds of a Feather: With Christophaclies. Both are reptile One-Woman Army lightning bruisers with fire-based powers and the shared tactic of "Charge headlong into the fray and leave nothing but a trail of smoldering corpses behind".
- Blood Knight: In spades. She thrives in the heat of battle, is always looking for the next fight, and her favorite memories are all about her past battles.
- Cast from Calories: Her impressive Healing Factor and fire-based powers? It all makes her hungrier after the fight.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Easily the clingiest in the entire harem, which puts her at constant odds with Shoshanah, who believes that Levan (who is granted the title of Pharoh by Shoshanah) should marry someone from higher echelons of the society with proper etiquette, and not a brash, bloodthirsty mercenary like Rosette.
- Cute and Psycho: Beautiful? Check. Lovable? Check. Charging headlong into battle with apparent glee? Triple check.
- Cute Little Fangs: Her teeth have a mostly human appearance with enlarged canines. That said, given that all of her teeth have sharp ridges...
- Cute Monster Girl: A cute salamander girl that loves combat a bit too much, that is.
- Declaration of Protection: When Levan regretted him drawing attention of the inquisition from Victoria and Donald Ceerly so that they would not be purged (the church considers any non-humans as abominations and actively tried to exterminate every non-humans and their sympathizers) and now he is a wanted criminal with a long List of Transgressions, Rosette slapped him to force him out of his trance, and then told him that no matter how many troubles he got himself into, she will be by his side. note "Being kind gets you into trouble. But it doesn't make you a weak guy. I like trouble, and you give me strength. Don't worry about me. If you make trouble with the whole world, nothing would make me happier!"
- Destructo-Nookie: An odd example that's less to do with her physical strength, and more to do with her not being careful with her powers. Early in the story, she managed to set the inn they stayed in on fire when she gets a bit too, ahem, "excited" with Levan. She then managed to put it out with no effort whatsoever.
- Determinator: Nothing is going to stand in her way if her husband Levan is in danger. A slaving matriarchal warrior tribe of devils? Burnt to the ground. Meters of rock? Molten to slag. Armies of mercenaries recruited from violent criminals and equipped with artifacts looted from ancient ruins? A pile of smoldering corpses. An Inquisitorial assassin with Super-Speed and Super-Reflexes? You Shall Not Pass! in full effect. A three-story tall Humanoid Abomination that is insanely tough? She didn't even flinch.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Believes in this, much to Levan's chagrin. Played for Drama in that this caused Levan to walk away the next morning and his subsequent capture by the Amazons (a matriarchal warrior tribe corrupted by the current demon lord into devils that captures human men as sex slaves), forcing her to rescue him.
- The Dreaded: Her presence, or sometimes the mere mentioning of her name is enough to boost morale for her allies and strike fear into her enemies.
- Exploited Immunity: Charges into battle right after Chris's napalm-like fire breath, and in an instance, right through the fire breath when fighting against a ice-magic using lich, as the fire breath cancels out the lich's ice magic. A more generic example would be that all salamanders are born in lava lakes and can swim through lava with trivial ease, although such abilities are yet to be utilized by the party.
- Feed It with Fire: As befitting for someone born in a lava lake and have fire-based powers, fire cannot faze her, and higher temperatures makes her stronger. Conversely, lower temperatures does decrease her effectiveness.
- Fiery Redhead: Both metaphorically and literally.
- Fiery Salamander: How fiery? Her race is born in lakes of lava, and she can start and extinguish fires on a whim.
- Flaming Sword: Any sword she channels her powers into. Granted, the visuals are less "flaming" and more "glowing white-hot". Apparently Levan's sword (made with modern alloys and machinery), when charged with her power, is capable of cutting through enemy weapons and armor with trivial ease.
- Genki Girl: As long as the topic is about fighting, eating, or adventure.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Natural for a Hot-Blooded Lad-ette.
- Healing Factor: Shot with dozens of poisoned arrows? Stabbed by an Absurdly Sharp Blade? Crushed by tentacles of a Humanoid Abomination? With a bright flash of fire she's right as rain, and a few minutes later she's fighting even harder than before. This might also be a Shout-Out to the impressive regenerative abilities of the real-life salamander, one of the only vertebrates that can regenerate entire missing limbs.
- Heroic Second Wind: And the third, and the fourth, and the list goes on and on... Her Healing Factor allows her to stay in combat for a VERY extended period of time. No matter how much you thought you've tired her out, no matter how much damage you think you and your goons have done to her, a sudden burst of flame and she's fully healed, a few minutes later she's fighting even harder than before.
- Hot Blade: See the aforementioned Flaming Sword entry. She can imbue the sword she's wielding with her fire-based powers to make it more destructive, both her old two-handed falchion and the longsword Levan gave her after her old one broke in half.
- Hot-Blooded: Passionate? Check. Determined? Check. Fire-based powers? Double Check. A Berserker powered by insatiable bloodlust? Triple check.
- Human Pincushion: Shielded Laven from dozens of poisoned arrows with her own body during her daring rescue. It slowed her down a bit, but her Healing Factor quickly kicked in and it only seemed to drain her stamina a little bit, which also recovered rather quickly.
- Implacable Woman: Do NOT piss her off if you wanna live. Period. She will hunt you down, break through whatever you put up before her, shrug off whatever damage you've dealt to her, and kill you with extreme prejudice.
- Incendiary Exponent: Her tail constantly exudes a trail of fire and embers, with the intensity of the fire a good indicator of her current mood and stamina. Can cause surrounding objects to catch on fire if she' not careful. Also a good light source.
- In Harm's Way: Goes hand-in-hand with her bloodlust and her job as a mercenary.
- In-Series Nickname: Rose, commonly used by her associates in the mercenary guild she works for. Also counts as an Affectionate Nickname when used by Levan.
- It Was a Gift: The sword she wields since Chapter 7 is given by Levan. In Chapter 6 he threw it to her when her old blade snapped in half when fighting against Tauari, a Dark Action Girl who abducted Levan and wishes to have him as her own sex slave. In Chapter 7, he tells her to keep it as 1) she broke her old blade to save him from a lifetime of sexual slavery, and he gave her his blade as a sign of gratitude; and 2) he is thoroughly outclassed by pretty much everyone else in this world and she, with her powers, would make a much better use of the blade.
- Jack of All Trades: She's tough and strong, although both pale in comparison to Christophaclies; she have Super-Senses and Super-Reflexes, although her eyesight is outclassed by Chris and smell by Minte by an order of magnitude; she can also heal minor injuries on Levan and make him immune from diseases by lending him some of her Fiery Salamander powers, although more serious injuries would require Shoshanah's healing magic. She is not a master of none, however: her Super-Reflexes, when combined with her Healing Factor and nigh-absolute control over fire in her surrounding areas, made her a very effective combatant that cannot be stopped.
- Jumped at the Call: She seems to be overly enthusiastic about going on a grand adventure with her beloved Levan.
- Kung-Shui: Goes side-by-side with her Berserker nature.
- The Lad-ette: She constantly looks for new fights, drinks like no tomorrow, and is very aggressive in her sexual pursuits with Laven compared to everyone else in Laven's harem. As Lampshaded by Levan:"Tact, grace and femininity weren't something she was compatible with. She ran on a whole other operating system."
- Lightning Bruiser: With more focus on the "Lightning" part compared to Chris. She's very agile and can shrug off a lot of damage using her innate Healing Factor to keep herself in combat a lot longer than most.
- Lizard Folk: In the fluff, salamanders are considered as a sub-species of them.
- Logical Weakness: Her high body temperature and her ability to thrive in very high temperatures also meant that she had a hard time swimming in ice-cold water, or weathering an ice-based magic attack.
- Lovable Lizard: Lovable fiery lizard girl, to be exact.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: Seems to count her "love" and "lust" towards Levan as one and the same. Her ideas on how to express her love to Levan is also rather... questionable, to say at least.
- Made of Iron: As befitting a Cute Monster Girl belonging to a Proud Warrior Race, although she is more focused on her Healing Factor than just pure toughness.
- Malaproper: The chances of her actually using an idiom right without mispronouncing something is virtually nil, to say at least.
- Malicious Misnaming: Always calls Shoshanah by something close-but-not-quite to her name, which the anubis hates. Which only encourages Rosette to do it more, of course.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Although her teeth look relatively human on the first glance (sans her large canines), their sharp ridges is what qualified her for this trope.
- Never Gets Drunk: A rare example in that she can get drunk just fine, but when the situation gets serious she can simply use her powers to burn off the alcohol.
- "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: After Levan called her out on her raping him right after defeating him in combat, she retorted with this. Needless to say, he does not buy it, at all. Quoth Levan's internal monologue:"We weren't on the same page; we hadn't even read the same book. I didn't know how to respond to that or where to begin. There were a million things wrong with that statement"
- Odd Friendship: With Minte, the emotionless assassin. Although Rose being Rose, her ways of showing her friendship is rather... questionable, to say at least. The reason for the link to the Squick page
- This starts to make more sense after taking their fighting styles into account: Both primarily rely on their Super-Reflexes to dodge/parry enemy attacks and normally ends the fight within one single hit from their blades; and given Rose's personality, it's likely that she viewed Minte as a Worthy Opponent after their fight on the train. Around the end of Volume 4, when seeing Minte clinging to Levan's arm right after after Minte's Heel–Face Turn, Rosette, needless to say, was a bit jealous, but only decided to cling to Levan closer instead of trying to discredit her, unlike how her dynamic with Shoshanah goes. Rose and Minte are also seen going on hunting trips together after the end of Volume 4, according to the side stories.
- Their differences also cover for each other's weaknesses: Minte's Super-Speed and Double Jump (by using her wings to propel herself mid-air) allows her to catch enemies Rosette would have a hard time chasing (or trying to sneak up on her), while Rosette's Healing Factor allows her to take damage that would take Minte out of the fight, allowing Minte to quickly disengage and reposition herself to a more advantageous location.
- One-Woman Army: Her superhuman strength, stamina, sense, reflexes, along with her Healing Factor, made her more than capable of defeating hordes of enemies with relative ease. Her personality made this her official job, a high-ranking mercenary who charges headlong into the fray without a second thought and indulges in the bloodshed around her that she can never get enough of.
- Playing with Fire: Can apparently start and extinguish fires on a whim, melt through layers of rock with ease, and any blade she imbues her energy with becomes what's better described as a Warhammer 40,000 power sword than anything else. She is also immune to high temperatures, be it the searing sun of a desert, the napalm-like breath of a wyvern, or the extreme temperatures inside a lava lake, which her kind is born in. Her constantly-flaming tail is also apparently a good light source.
- Power Glows: Her tail exudes a constant trail of flame. The intensity of her flame indicates her mood and stamina. Also a good light source.
- Power Incontinence: Yes, those embers her tail give off can and will start a fire if she's not careful.
- Private Military Contractor: A mercenary renowned for her martial prowess.
- Proud Warrior Race Girl: As mentioned in the fluff, all Lizard Folk are this, and salamanders, as a sub-species, are no exception.
- Psycho for Hire: A heroic example. She views her mercenary work as a means for her to satisfy her bloodlust first and foremost, with the money from the contract a mere side benefit. She does earn a lot of money due to her fame and martial prowess, but she seems to care very little about her bank account. For her, as long as there's a fight she can join, life is good.
- Red Baron: Known as the Thorn Knight by friend and foe alike.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The impulsive, brash, violent red oni to the refined, snarky, smart Shoshanah. Their color themes actually reflect this: Rosette have red hair, orange-brown scales with armor matching her scales in color, while Shoshanah have black hair, and wears predominantly blue and gold.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Not abhorrent per se, just way overly enthusiastic about fighting.
- Rescue Romance: Levan only fell in love with her after she saved him from a lifetime of sexual slavery by a matriarchal warrior tribe of devils. Her feelings for him deepened after he gave her his sword after a member of the aforementioned enslaving-warrior-succubus-tribe wrecked her weapon and was on the verge of killing her.
- Sex Is Violence: Fell in love (although her way to express her love is VERY questionable) with Levan after he managed to hold his own against her for extended periods of time, fought back thrice, The first time he fought back he stomped on her left knee to no avail; the second time he applied the Mordschlag technique to try to bludgeon her with the crossguard of his sword, she parried and dodged the attack fast enough so she herself is uninjured but her sword was damaged; and the third time, during the grappling that ensued after the two blades are locked against each other, he headbutted her and drew her blood, and damaged her weapon. Levan mentioned that she was outright aroused after he headbutted her and drew her blood. She then pinned him down immediately and raped him on the spot. Later, her "training sessions" with Levan usually ends up with her defeating Levan after a prolonged fight and then trying to have her way with him when he is knocked down, only to be stopped by other girls in his harem.
- Slobs vs. Snobs: Has this dynamic with Shoshanah, with Rosette being the brash and violent slob and Shoshanah being the refined yet haughty snob.
- Soldier vs. Warrior: Firmly on the warrior side of the spectrum, with her insatiable bloodlust and her Berserker mentality.
- Super Drowning Skills: Downplayed in that she can swim just fine (and she's an excellent swimmer in molten lava), but swimming in ice-cold water does wonders against her stamina and makes her hungry.
- Super-Empowering: Downplayed in that she cannot give others her full extent of her powers, but she is capable of sharing her insane body heat with Levan when they share body contact so that they can walk through a searing desert with trivial ease, or to make him immune from diseases by effectively turning him into what's best described as a temporary human-autoclave. Apparently she can also share a bit of her regenerative abilities with Levan as well, although it only seems to be capable to heal minor cuts and bruises and recharge his stamina.
- Super-Reflexes: Part of what made her so deadly: she can and will dodge slow attacks and parry fast ones with trivial ease. It is only through a series of feints and underhanded techniques (stomping on her knee as he pretends to make a swinging cut from above, applying the Mordschlag technique to try to bludgeon her with the crossguard, and headbutting her after her sword was locked in the curved crossguard of his sword) that Levan managed to fight back at all.
- Super-Senses: She have superhuman eyesight and smell, allowing her to track him down and rescue him. Twice. Granted, her eyesight is nowhere as good as Christophaclies, and her sense of smell is no where as good as Minte's, but if there is one person in the group that is a true Jack of All Trades, it would be Rosette.
- Super-Strength: As befitting for a monster that is known to be a member of a Proud Warrior Race.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Shoshanah. Rosette is brash, bloodthirsty, and is constantly in heat, while Shoshanah is refined, have little capacity in direct combat, and easily the most prudent one in Levan's harem, as befitting for a High Priestess. What prevented them from being Vitriolic Best Buds is that
- a. Rosette is a Clingy Jealous Girl that Shoshanah looks down upon for her unladylike behaviors; and
- b. Rosette's Healing Factor is WAY faster than Shoshanah's healing magic so that she is never dependent on Shoshanah, while also being a poor candidate for protecting Shoshanah if the need arises due to her fighting style.
- Thrill Seeker: Constantly seeks the thrill of combat and adventure, and as pointed out by Levan:"Adrenaline was a drug this girl had an addiction to."
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: If you have the audacity to lay a hand on her husband Levan, make peace with yourself and start praying to whichever god(s) you believe in for mercy, for she will not and have none. She will hunt you down, kill anyone you throw at her, march into your Rain of Arrows without even a flinch, heal any damage you and your goons might have managed to done to her, and she will kill you personally. The only reason you may survive the encounter is if Levan pardoned you himself.
- Wrecked Weapon: Her old sword, a two-handed falchion with two sets of crossguard perpindicular to each other was damaged by Laven during their duel, and snapped in half when she fought against Tauari, a member of matriarchal warrior tribe of devils that abducts human men as sex slaves.
"Susan" Shoshanah
- The Aloner: During the aforementioned trial Shoshanah sentenced Laven to be her servant as punishment for trespassing. It is later revealed that it's because she is very, very, very, lonely.
- Ancient Keeper: Holds shades of this and Threshold Guardian during Lavens first meeting with her. For the last several thousand years Shoshanah had been guarding her pharaohs tombs and protecting it from invaders. Shoshanah accused Laven of being a graverobber and put him under trial.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Her divine magic are good for pretty much anything except direct combat; somewhat justified in that fighting was normally done by the squad of mummies accompanying her if she is on her home-turf... which she definitely isn't on.
- In-Series Nickname: Rosette called her "Susan" when they were bickering as a form of Malicious Misnaming; apparently the name stuck with Levan for some reason. She does not like the nickname, at all.
- A Kind of One: her species name, in the fluff, is "anubis" (notice the lower-case "a"), and they are spirits/minor deities that serve under the god Anubis, the god of judgement and mummification.
- Last of Her Kind: She was a minor deity that guarded the tomb and remains of the last Pharaoh, and all other tombs, pharaohs, and deities (major and minor alike) are destroyed by a God of Evil when his retainers in the Ancient Egypt-esq kingdom decided to revolt for Amenenofru's policies are too kind-hearted and egalitarian for their liking. note
- Physical God: A minor deity of judgement and mummification for... obvious reasons. As such, she can judge people's souls with her staff (using the obligatory Scales of Justice on top of her staff), turn people she deemed guilty into mummies by destroying their souls and turning them into empty shells bound to her magic, and instantaneously know all the laws of the area she's in.
- Scales of Justice: Have one on top of her staff; being a minor deity serving Anubis, this is all but granted. She used it to weigh the soul of Levan and found it to be incredibly light (meaning that he is borderline Incorruptible Pure Pureness), which she then realized that Levan's soul is inexplicably similar to the soul of the Pharaoh she was guarding, and later on to weigh inquisitor Zerin and found his soul to be incredibly heavy, as expected from a psychotic Knight Templar.
- Squishy Wizard: How squishy? She is the the only one in the group that might be physically weaker than Levan - the fact that she have few, if any spells meant for direct combat note doesn't help whatsoever.
- The Smart Gal: Although Shoshanah is not exactly specialized for combat, she more than makes up for it with her abilities outside of it. From reading ancient language (and to learn modern language by using the old language as etymological reference), to analyzing magic spells and magitek machinery, all the way to her expertise in healing magic and her deduction skills, her 160 IQ (as noted in the bio) shows.
- Time Abyss: Her age (and knowledge of ancient culture/relics) is the only one that can that can compete with Ba'el as she was sealed in the tomb thousands of years ago, long before her transformation into the Cute Monster Girl form. That said, suddenly gaining sapience in the middle of an ancient tomb while being bound to said tomb (meaning she can never leave the tomb under normal circumstances) might not be exactly good on anyone's psyche...
Ba'el
- Baphomet: This is technically her species and she did look something like this before the current demon lord. But the relatively new changes made by the aforementioned demon lord turned her into something more resembling a succubus.
- Deal with the Devil: Makes this with the Crone in the backstory and with Laven to save her at the end of her introductary arc. Comes with neat features such as Laven being able to summon Ba'el by saying her name three times in a row. Unfortunately Laven did not understand what exactly the pact he was making with Ba'el entailed so he only found out several dozen chapters later after his entire harem gets seperated because telaportation is not an exact science and all except she and Chris are captured by a radical group.
- Lightning Bruiser: As very much shown during her fight against the Crone Ba'el is hands down the strongest fighter in the entire party when at full power. Which makes sense as she is a twelve-thousand-year-old Demon who was around during the age of the last Demon Lord before the current one.
- Mayfly–December Romance: Discussed, with a shade of Anger Born of Worry. In chapter 109 in which Ba'el spends time stuck in the Astral Plane for what's best described as "the rest of an eternity". Ba'el reveals that mellenia ago she had acted as a pagan goddess of sorts to humans. Ba'el took a nap of a few centuries and when she woke up the civilization was destroyed with the crimes conducted by whoever destroyed the aforementioned civilization blamed on her. Levan correctly deduced that she was worried about him dying of old age, given that her first line after exiting transit is "Thunder Tits (Her nickname for Chris), you still alive? Guess I wasn't out for that long." This might be particularly concerning for her due to her current state as an ex-Duke of Hell surviving only by her Magically-Binding Contract with Levan and that she would most likely be cast into oblivion if Levan was killed. And not knowing if you're going to see the next sunrise due to someone else's death while on a different time scale than the aforementioned person is going to be nerve wracking.
- Really 700 Years Old: Although she looks like a twelve-year old, she is actually a twelve-millennia old Time Abyss.
- Time Abyss: She was twelve thousand years old and have lived through four demon lords. By chpater 109, due to some... problems about teleportation, she stayed in the Astral Plane for at least a few more human lifetimes (given she was surprised that Chris the wyvern is still alive) all way to perhaps another fifty millenia.
- Tsundere: Ba'el has shades of this with her general attitude with Laven in which she calls him "boy" as a way to show the actual age difference. With how emotionally distressed she was after getting out of hyperspace in chapter 109 after from her perspective spending 50,000 something, probably years, not knowing if Laven was alive or not shows some of the dere.