Rebellion
A group of terrorists that wants to destroy the current social order so that Blazers will rule over normal humans. General Tropes
- Boomerang Bigot: Ironically, most of their followers are ordinary humans armed with guns.
- Evil Versus Evil: Their Social Darwinism is despicable and resulted in the deaths of countless innocents, but their collective power keeps the League and Union in a three-way deadlock. If Rebellion were to weaken with the loss of their leader, the Tyrant, the League and Union would start a world war.
- Fantastic Racism: Against non-Blazers.
- Western Terrorists: Though they seem to have members from all over the globe.
- Would Hurt a Child: They nearly killed a child in the mall for throwing ice cream at them.
Current Members
Bishou
Voiced by: Kenji Nojima (Japanese), Mark X. Laskowski (English)
Rank: Unknown
Device: Judgement Ring
A terrorist who attacks the mall that Ikki and his friends are visiting in Volume 1.Device: Judgement Ring
- An Arm and a Leg: Courtesy of Ikki, who cuts off his hands both to disable his device and to punish him for humiliating Stella.
- Attack Reflector: His rings can be used to absorb and fire back attacks from an A-ranked Blazer.
- Hostage Situation: He uses one to force Stella to strip. He also plants one of his mooks among the hostages just in case he and his other mooks are defeated.
- Jerkass: He's not satisfied with merely defeating Stella and proceeds to force her to publicly humiliate herself.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He was explicit in his orders to not touch the hostages, which he admonishes one of his underlings for after they shoot at Stella. Not out of any sort of morality, but because it's counterintuitive to what Bishou wants.
- Put on a Prison Bus: He gets imprisoned after his failed terrorist attack.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: His ability and the way he reflected Stella's attack firmly establishes that a Leeroy Jenkins approach is foolish when fighting Blazers with unknown abilities.
Yui Tatara
Rank C
Device: Sweeping Centipede
Device: Sweeping Centipede
- Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: She's bent 90 degrees, sideways, after Stella punches her, and this is not fatal. Ein also twists several of Tatara's limbs with her plants during their battle in Volume 13.
- Abusive Parents: She was trained to be a professional killer as a "family tradition" by her father, who has been trying to kill her since the age of three!
- An Arm and a Leg: By the end of Volume 15, her fight with Ein cost her an eye, her left arm, and her entire lower half. Only Shizuku's advanced healing skills (and Stella's begging) kept her alive at all.
- Attack Reflector: Her Noble Art works this way, with three forms of varying strength.
- The first, Total Reflect, simply reflects any attack that hits her back on the opponent with increased force. This requires her to see the attack coming and time the reflection properly when the attack hits, making it ineffective against sneak attacks and attacks with deliberately slow timing.
- The second, Damage Reflect, transfers any injuries Yui currently has to her target while completely healing her own. This requires her to stay conscious after being injured and as such cannot be used if she is knocked unconscious in a single blow, like in her fight against Stella.
- The third, Astral Force, reflects the force of the Earth's rotation (about 100,000 Kilometers per hour) onto a targeted area. It is monstrously powerful, but since Yui, herself would have to be in the affected area, the technique has a high chance of killing her too
- Ax-Crazy: She is always looking for an excuse to attack, and kill, people.
- Blood from the Mouth: After Stella's Megaton Punch in volume 6. And again in Volume 13 after Ein forced a thorny vine down her throat.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality:
- She thinks there's "nothing good or evil" about being raised as an assassin, having her "Total Reflect" ability being trained by being threatened with death at any time since the age of three. She's been shot at in her sleep.
- She doesn't fault Ein for killing their family, but for killing the clients who ordered the hit in the first place, which hurts the Abgrund family's professional reputation. Most people would see this as a case of Skewed Priorities.
- Chainsaw Good: Her device manifests as a giant chainsaw.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: No, really. While she only joins the heroes in the Vermillion Empire Arc for the purpose of fighting her sister, she slowly but clearly warms up to Stella over the course of the story, despite repeatedly saying that as an assassin she cares nothing for morality. See Tsundere below.
- Deliberate Injury Gambit: Keeps herself conscious as Ein is torturing her so she can use her Damage Reflect Noble art to give Ein as much damage as possible.
- Made of Iron: Serious Understatement. In addition to surviving Stella's (Admittedly held-back) punch in the Seven Stars Sword Art Festival, during her fight with Ein she survives a series of catastrophic injuries, such as having her limbs horrifically twisted by Ein's plants, getting a thorny vine forced down her throat, losing three of her limbs to bamboo spears, and the backlash of her own Astral Force noble art. Granted, she needed a powerful painkilling stimulant (itself having potentially lethal side-effects) to keep fighting through this and treatment from Shizuku afterwards, but still...
- Professional Killer: Combined with Pragmatic Villainy. She's an Ax-Crazy assassin, but she's against betraying her clients because doing so would destroy her family's credibility.
- Psycho for Hire: She enjoys killing so much that she's displeased that her sponsor ordered Akatsuki to only use illusionary form attacks to defeat Hagun.
- Social Services Does Not Exist: Really, how can any family justify placing their children's lives in constant peril since the age of three without being complete felons?
- Suicidal Overconfidence: She had so much faith in her "Total Reflect" ability that she thought she could take down Stella alone. She wound up getting her bones and some internal organs broken by Stella's One-Hit Kill. Note: Stella could have killed her, easily, and had to carefully gauge her strength to avoid doing just that.
- Training from Hell: Her assassin training involved being targeted for death since the age of three, by her own parents!
- Tsundere: Definitely shows signs of this towards Stella as the Vermillion Empire Arc progresses. At the end of Volume 15, before she leaves to be treated for the injuries she suffered from Ein, she gives Stella her contact info and asks her to address her by her real name, Vier. Not only this, she promises to show up to Ikki and Stella's wedding.
- Tyke Bomb: She was specifically raised to be a psychotic assassin. It's a family tradition going back at least three generations.
Wallenstein
Rank: Unknown
Device: Unknown
One of the 12 Apostles of Rebellion. He has the ability to control friction in the surrounding area.Device: Unknown
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Despite his beliefs, he begs for his life when Shizuku finally gets the upper hand, which she doesn't oblige.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Considering how he nearly killed Shizuku, it's obvious that he's as strong as his position implies.
- BFS: His device is a massive sword, which he has to wield with one arm.
- Blood from the Mouth: Along with foam and spittle.
- The Corrupter: He reached out to Alice during his darkest moments in order to recruit him.
- Faux Affably Evil: Wallenstein acts like a fairly friendly guy in order to lull Alice to his side, only to go apeshit upon his betrayal, showing his sadistic nature.
- Handicapped Badass: Despite lacking an arm, he's still a Master Swordsman with an incredibly powerful Noble Art. This earns him the nickname, "The One-Armed Swordsman".
- Hypocrite: He tends to beat down and butchers assassins who show mercy, but prove to be Not So Above It All when he's on the receiving end.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: From the inside!
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He delivers a brutal one to Alice due to his betrayal.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: He makes perfectly clear to Alice that his "invitation" to join Rebellion was a mere formality. Refusal would have meant being kidnapped and forced to join.
- Red Baron: "The One-Armed Swordsman".
- The Social Darwinist: Lampshaded by the man himself.
- Wallenstein: "That is the undisputed truth of the world. The strong always devour the weak. Everything else is lies."
- Villains Want Mercy: Begs for his life when he finds himself in an unwinnable battle.
Kouzou Kazamatsuri
Carl Islands
Defected Members
Nagi "Alice" Arisuin
See his page here.
Ein Abgrund
A former assassin of Rebellion and the older sister of Yui Abgrund. She became a member of Team Cradleland.
- Cleavage Window: She wears a black dress with a huge opening on the chest area.
- Green Thumb: Her device allows her to control plants.
Big Baby
Or-Gaule (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
The puppeteer of Reisen Hiraga and the leader of Team Cradleland.
- Abhorrent Admirer: He's a sociopath with a bizarre fixation on Stella.
- Animal Motifs: A spider. Fittingly, his Device is named Black Widow.
- Arc Villain: The primary antagonist of the Vermillion Empire Arc.
- Auto-Revive: In Volume 15, after Johann smashes his skull, he unveils his strongest Noble Art, Dance Macabre, which reconstructs his body with flesh and bits of debris from whatever is around.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Iris' Abel.
- Enfante Terrible: Even as a child, he could only derive pleasure from bullying other children and, after his powers awakened, injuring people and breaking up relationships with his People Puppets abilities.
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: His sister Iris still loves him deep down, but she knows he must be taken down for the horrible things he does.
- Evil Wears Black: He wears a black hooded coat to make it even more obvious that he's a bad guy.
- Hero Killer: In volume 15, he butchers Ikki Kurogane. If it wasn't for Shizuku, Ikki would have stayed dead.
- In the Hood: He's dressed in a black hooded coat.
- Karmic Death: He wishes to "break" Stella and take everything away from her. He does so by killing her boyfriend Ikki, and Stella burns him to ashes as revenge.
- The Man Behind the Man: To Reisen Hiraga, who was actually a puppet he created.
- Manipulative Bastard: Aside from the People Puppets deal, he exploits Iris' long-repressed Big Sister Instinct to turn her against Ikki and Stella, which ends up getting her killed.
- Marionette Master: He has both artificial puppets and People Puppets to fight for him, though he is definitely no slouch in one-on-one combat either.
- Mark of the Supernatural: He has heterochromatic eyes, with his left eye being red and the right one being blue, as a hint that he isn't a regular human. He's a Desperado, a person that has broken the chains of fate and possesses an incredible amount of mana.
- Master of Threads: His Device, Black Widow, takes the form of a multitude of strings, which he can use for slicing people up or controlling puppets.
- Meat Puppet: Dance Macabre turns him into one.
- My Death Is Only The Beginning: His Dance Macabre resurrects him after death by piecing his body back together with his threads. This explicitly gives him an exponential power boost, as well as making him immune to most forms of harm by virtue of being a living meat puppet running on magic.
- Mystical White Hair: His white hair is an indicator of his special nature as a Desperado that can break and alter fate.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His murdering Ikki triggers Stella's Excessive Awakening, which she uses to utterly annihilate him. He'd been doing a good job giving hell to the protagonists up until that point.
- People Puppets: One of his favorite applications of his powers. He can insert his strings into the bodies and brains of his victims to control their every move while they are conscious and unable to stop themselves.
- Razor Floss: The threads of his Black Widow are sharp enough to cut through people.
- Sadist: He has stated more than once that the only way for him to feel any joy is by inflicting pain on other people.
- Tears of Remorse: Does this when Stella's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to him as she is burning him to a crisp causes him to realize that Iris loved him the whole time.
- Villains Want Mercy: He starts pleading for his life as Stella is incinerating him at the climax of Volume 15. Stella tells him where he can shove it.
- Where I Was Born and Razed: On his tenth birthday, he used his powers to control all of the residents of his village, including his parents, and make them kill one another, leaving only his sister Iris alive. The incident became known as La Croix Sanglant.
- White Hair, Black Heart: He's a sadistic villain with white hair.
- Wild Card: He seems to have no concrete goal in mind for his atrocities other than amusement. The start of the Vermillion Empire Arc has him and his team betraying and slaughtering most of Rebellion's leadership despite being one of their executives just so he could pursue his interest in Stella.
- Winds of Destiny, Change!: As a Desperado, he's capable of forcing the fate of what he desires to happen upon other people.
Unknown
The Founder (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
