Characters / Fairy Fencer F

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Characters Introduced in Fairy Fencer F.

Main Characters

Fang

^{Fang's alternate outfit}

"I'm the one who decides my fate, even if I have to will that fate into existence. Make sure to never forget that."

Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka (Japanese) and Kaiji Tang (English)

The protagonist of the game, Fang is a 20-year old man who cares about nothing except eating and sleeping. He first gets roped into the story after pulling out a Fury and bonding with its fairy, Eryn, out of a desire to wish for some food to eat. After learning that Eryn had lost her memories, he sets out on a journey to collect the furies, not out of a desire to save the world, but simply to help his new friend retrieve what she had lost.

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• Accidental Misnaming: When challenging Ibfreet to a duel, he can't quite remember his name and ends up calling him Aburameat.
• Accidental Pervert: Near the end of the game, he walks in on Tiara and Eryn bathing. Considering the two of them, the response should be obvious.
• Age Lift: He's 22 in Advent Dark Force, then back to 20 in Refrain Chord. Of the characters who had this done to them only he has an In-Universe excuse; He has no idea when he was born, a fact he reveals when Harley drags him and Marianna into an experiment regarding supposed improvements in Fairize around the time of a person's birthday, so either age is just as likely as the other to be true and would be an answer he'd give depending on which is convenient.
• The Alleged Boss: He becomes the figurehead leader of Dorfa during the Vile God Route.
• Armor-Piercing Question: He delivers one after another to Glace on Refrain Chord's second route. Her loyalty to her master is absolute, she'd even gladly let him kill her if it would serve his goals, and she tells Fang as much when she's preparing to revive both the Goddess and the Vile God for him to destroy along with everything else in the area. He simply asks "Then why are you shaking?" and follows up when that makes her hesitate with "Is that actually going to make him happy, knowing that he killed you?". It works. She hands over the Faith Drop and asks him to find a way to make Al stop with his plan to kill both gods.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: As much as they bicker, he and Eryn really do care about each other a great deal. Various sub-events help cement that throughout the game, though some have more romantic undertones than others.
• Back to School: In Refrain Chord he makes the mistake of telling Ethel he's never once studied anything when she asks him to help with some homework. She just flatly asks him what sort of adult has no education, which convinces him he needs to start studying with her.
• Bad "Bad Acting": His inability to act is made fun of a few times during Refrain Chord:
  • The group's plan to lure Ibfreet to a location they'd have better odds of beating him in a fight starts off like this in one route, loudly and repeatedly announcing where they're going to find another Fury and how glad he is to be out on such a lovely day with his best friends Zagi and Marianna. The rest of the group is visibily put off by how bad he is at just acting normal. He keeps it up, including talking about the great weather outside while inside a volcanic cave. Eryn calls it the worst acting she has ever seen, while Ryushin tells him he has -89% acting ability. When Ibfreet does show up, he tries to kill Fang first specifically because of the bad acting.
  • He does it again when they need to find a way to lure out Bernard out into the desert, except this time he figures it needs him spontaneously breaking into song and dance to really sell it. Paiga, who was being forced to secretly keep an eye on them, completely believes it and runs off to report to Bernard where they're going.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Though all parties involved would vehemently deny it, there's a notable amount of affection between him and both Tiara and Eryn.
• Bishie Sparkles: He has a tendency to get these whenever he appears in cut-scenes talking up his supposedly heroic qualities.
• Big Eater: Throughout most of the game, he just won't stop talking about food. His primary motivation for pulling out Eryn's Fury was thinking he could wish for as much food as he wanted.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Implied to be the reason for his sudden bouts of competence early on; he's a genuinely talented fighter, but he lacks the motivation and willpower to put in the effort. His laziness is made into his Signature Move in Refrain Chord, Slack Off, which heals him for a fixed 50 HP and reduces his mobility.
• Butt-Monkey: He is constantly made fun of, especially by Eryn and Tiara.
• Chick Magnet: In Advent Dark Force, there are numerous scenes for Eryn, Tiara, Harley, Ethel, Lola, and Marianna that involve Ship Tease moments with Fang, and Refrain Chord adds in both Fleur and Rinne.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Rinne finds him outside in the middle of the night doing this to deal with the shock of Al betraying the group and siding with Bernard.
  Fang: "... Gah! Damn it! Traitor! You stupid bastard!! Damn it, damn it, damn it! Moron!! Haa... Haa... Damn it."
• Comically Small Demand: He does this in response to a Comically Small Bribe. In exchange for letting Sherman take the lead for a bit he's offered a single cookie. He demands it be bumped up to four. Chocolate chip.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He may be lazy and prone to saying stupid things, but when he's motivated to fight he's practically unstoppable. This is actually made into a gameplay mechanic where his special ability is called "Serious Face".
• Determinator: Whenever he gets motivated to do something, he will do it, even if he has to go back in time and defeat the Vile God.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Fights, defeats and reseals the Vile God with the aid of Eryn.
• Duel to the Death: Fang ends up in two duels in Refrain Chord, though neither turn out to be fatal.
  • Rather than turning a hospital into a battlefield, Ethel lets him pick a better location for the two to fight. He spares her life after the fight is over.
  • He challenges Ibfreet to one in one route in order to lure him out, as opposed to the Bad "Bad Acting" method mentioned before. His goal is still the same though, just subdue Ibfreet to try convincing him that his worldview is wrong and should let Zagi live.
• Expo Speak: At the start of Refrain Chord he explains the basic outline of how the previous games began and how things like Fencers and Furies work in the world, and then how he ended up in prison again only to cut himself off and insist he'll finish on the next episode. Turns out he's talking to the cockroaches in his cell out of bordom.
• Face–Heel Turn: Is temporarily an antagonist in the Vile God route due to his role as Dorfa's president
• Food as Bribe: In the Vile God timeline, Dorfa gets him to be a figurehead president by giving him food. Then of course there's the cookie bribe mentioned previously.
  Fang: Honestly, I'd kinda lost all my memories at the time. I was starving, but I didn't have any money. They offered to buy me lunch...
  Eryn: So they bribed you with food. I should've guessed...
  • Especially early on convincing Fang he will get food for doing something is frequently the way the rest of the party get Fang to bother to even get out of bed. For example, the only reason he bothers to attend the party at the Dorfa Corporation rather than sleep is that Tiara informs him that there will be a buffet, or the fact that he's only motivated to play the hero to save a village because he's tricked into thinking he's going to get food from the grateful villagers. Regardless, this trope is one of the few ways to get Fang to go all in on something.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He gets extremely irritated by Tiara and Eryn gushing over Sherman, though he denies that it might be out of jealousy. In one late game event with Eryn he admits (in a roundabout way) to being jealous over how she acts with Sherman.
• The Hero: While extremely reluctant at first, he gradually becomes more suitable and willing to have this role as the story progresses.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: His primary weapon is a sword, and the majority of his skills revolve around them.
• I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: The fact that his insults arouse Tiara confuses him quite a bit.
• Idiot Hair: He has a section of hair the sticks out unnaturally from the rest.
• Idiot Hero: His stupidity is pretty consistent from start to finish however.
• If It's You, It's Okay: A non-sexual variation of this trope, but when comforting Eryn while she was feeling jealous of his kindness towards Tiara, he tells her that she is the only one he will allow to worry about him.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Tiara's death really hit him hard. But Fang's meeting with Emily and his regret over Apollonius' death is more in lines with this trope.
• Indy Ploy: When a discussion on Dorfa creating artificial fairies, furies, and fencers becomes too dark he demands the meeting end, resulting in him being scolded for not being willing to understand the enemy and put together a coherent plan to deal with them. But he insists he already has a plan; Anxiety will just drag everyone down and result in failure, so stop with the darkness and just ad lib and freestyle their way to survival.
• Informed Loner: In Refrain Chord, it's repeatedly stated that he has no friends other than cockroaches, especially Gokigoro, and he feels a bond with Sherman and Zagi for being friendless as well. Upon learning about Zenke and Ibfreet respectively, he calls them traitors. Nevermind that Galdo is clearly his best friend, and he gets along with pretty much everyone in the group, normally or otherwise.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A Toshiki Inoue's staple. He refuses to go on the journey, and makes Eryn cry. That said, he's not so bad a person, evidenced when he goes out with Eryn out of pity and feeling genuine guilt over ruining Emily's life after killing her older brother Apollonius, driving him to try his best to save him come the second timeline.
• Laughing Mad: Temporarily at the start of the Evil Goddess route due to the shock of watching Tiara die protecting him.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: He demands as much of Eryn about his talking with cockroaches. It doesn't work at all as she apparently told everyone in the group about it, with them repeatedly teasing him about it for the rest of the game.
• Lightning Bruiser: Fang has very high HP, Strength and Vitality, and yet his speed still remains decent.
• Men Don't Cry:
  • Fang has bloodshot eyes after Tiara is killed at the end of the first timeline. When Eryn asks if he was crying, Fang insists this. When Tiara questioned him about his eyes, he blames stress.
  • Near the end of the game, after the party express their willingness to die for him, he starts tearing up and says it's because his eyes are sweating.
  • A similar conversation, only with just Galdo, comes up toward the end of Refrain Chord. His excuse there is that a bee stung him right in the eye.
• Mercy Kill: During the Final Boss fight of the Goddess Route, he wants to redeem Sherman, but realizes that doing so is impossible due to the Vile God consuming the latter's soul. Thus, Fang has no choice but to kill Sherman in order to save him from a Fate Worse than Death.
• Morph Weapon: His takes the form of a sword, an axe, a greatsword, a gun, a pair of gauntlets, and a gatling gun. In Refrain Chord it is limited to just the sword and gauntlets forms.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In the first timeline, he meets Apollonius' sister Emily after killing him, and sees how badly it's affected her. This clearly haunts him, and is the driving force behind his decision to avoid killing in the second timeline.
  • He has a moment like this for other reasons in Refrain Chord. When he realizes he's helped Al rebuild the weapon that destroyed the region in the past, and that he personally handed over the most important parts, he's completely devastated. He willingly allows Al to try killing him again if it will stop him from making use of the weapon, only to be saved by Fleur once more.
• Next Tier Power-Up: Toward the end of each game his Fairize upgrades into a slightly more armored and much more powerful form, though the exact reason always varies.
• Noodle Incident: Averted. He sets one up in his story to some cockroaches, though the few details already given make it easy to guess where it was going, only to have Eryn finish the story. He's in jail because he couldn't finish the utterly massive bowl of ramen that would've otherwise been free and lost his wallet again.
• No Kill Like Over Kill: His second Ultimate attack, "Force Impact," has him slicing his enemy with a very long energy sword that can be easily seen in orbit.
• Not Quite Dead: Very early on in Refrain Chord Sherman nearly slices him in half while under Glace's control and everyone assumes he's dead, even Eryn who should know better for the simple fact that she's alive. Fleur steps in and sings a song that helps him recover from it, though she denies actually healing or reviving him. All she did was strengthen his own regenerative capabilities, if he had actually died nothing would've helped.
• Oblivious to Hints: The implications of Tiara claiming that it's "just the two of (them)" in her Evil Goddess route ending? They go right over his head.
• Once an Episode: Fang has started every game off in prison due to not paying for food for one reason or another, only to be broken out by Eryn.
• Playing with Fire: His offensive magic techniques are all fire based, and his skills all involve fire as well.
• Rage Breaking Point: Seeing the results of Bernard's failed experiments to create artificial Fairies, namely a mountain of child corpses, Fang utterly snaps and destroys everything in sight so that none of it could ever be used again. Multiple characters comment on the fact that this was the first time they've ever seen him actually angry, and that it was terrifying.
• Refusal of the Call: Almost immediately refuses to become a Fencer. But Eryn convinces him to accept.
• Screw Destiny: Firmly believes that he decides his own fate.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: In the first timeline Tiara ends up dying. Fang's prime goal in the second timeline is to prevent her death from occurring.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: His ending with Fleur in Refrain Chord has the two unable to be together.
• Super Mode: Aside from Fairizing, his special command "Serious Face" boosts his damage output with a 1.5 multiplier. He will use up 30 SP for every normal attack he uses, and the SP consumption of skills and magic will cost 50 percent more than they regularly do. In Refrain Chord it's a passive skill that consumes 5 SP for a 1.1 multiplier to his attack power and can be equipped or unequipped before each battle.
• Take a Third Option: He outright says he's doing this when confronting Al for the second time. Telling him that for a genius he's pretty stupid to think a hero would just sit back and accept the Sadistic Choice he keeps presenting, when there's always the third option and Fairizes into the more powerful second form.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: In the second timeline, he subscribes to this philosophy after seeing the emotional damage killing Apollonius did to his little sister Emily. This naivete ends up nearly killing him as he tried to recruit Zenke, of all people. He also has to give up on this idea when Sherman loses his soul to the Vile God.
  • This mentality seems to be with him by default in Refrain Chord's version of the initial timeline, as instead of killing Ethel in self defense he lets her go and tells her he'd prefer to meet again under better circumstances rather than continue trying to kill each other like idiots. Similarly he immediately wants to spare Apollonius, and his idea of how to deal with Ibfreet is to just keep beating the crap out of him until he sees reason rather than kill him and be done with it.
• Took a Level in Badass: Fang matures and grows much stronger over the course of the story, especially at the second timeline, where his increased battle prowess impresses his allies more than before.
• Tsundere: A male Type A. The fact that he cares about the others is pretty obvious, getting him to admit it will take some work, though. Goes doubly so with his relationship with Tiara and Eryn.
• Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: His interactions with Tiara give off this feel.

Eryn (Alyn)

"How many times do I have to tell you!? I'm your partner. We're in this together. Now c'mon, fight!"'

Voiced by: Rumi Ōkubo (Japanese) and Erica Mendez (English)

The 17-year old fairy residing in the Fury Fang lifted, and thus became bonded to him as his partner. She is considered an irregularity among the fairies because she is an amnesiac, and none of the other fairies they encounter recognize her. Thus one of the main goals of the game is recovering her lost memories and reviving the goddess with the information those memories provide the party. Though she and Fang argue a lot, they are actually very similar in terms of personality and get along well when they are not making snide comments at each other.

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• A-Cup Angst: When bonding with Tiana while bathing, Eryn is impressed by Tiara's bust size and gets peeved when Tiara not only doesn't return the compliment but calls her flat-chested instead. She then claims she's much bigger, which Tiara is incredulous of.
• Amnesiac God: A bit of a twist in that she isn't the Goddess herself, but a fragment of the Goddess's power that became sentient.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Fang, mostly because of their mutual Tsundere personalities.
• Big Eater: For all the crap she gives Fang about his obsession with food, she's not above turning into a glutton periodically herself. They nearly cause an incident at a big event catered by Dorfa because they get into an argument over Fang stealing food from her plate... while stealing food from his plate. And it comes up again over Bahus's cooking, too.
• Big Good: She does have the Goddess's power inside her, which she later ends up using to reseal the Vile God.
• Blatant Lies: Tells the other fairies that she doesn't care whether or not Fang falls in love with someone or not, which doesn't exactly convince them since her voice was cracking as she said it.
• Dying Declaration of Love: Her last words to Fang in Tiara's ending, before she fuses with the Goddess, are "Goodbye, Fang. I love you."
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Her exasperation at Fang refusing to go on a journey with her, can sound quite a bit different out of context.
  Eryn: You're so mean! This is my first time, you know... Take some responsibility!
• Green-Eyed Monster: Expresses jealousy towards Tiara at various points of the game; in one event she sulks and tells Fang that she doesn't like how nicely he treats Tiara compared to her.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She fuses her soul to Fang to save his life. In the Tiara ending, she returns to the Goddess when the Vile God is defeated.
• Love Confession:
  • Gives a very frank one in response to Fang jokingly asking if she had fallen for him, notable in that this occurs regardless of which of the heroines endings you're going for.
  • She gives him another one when she reunites with the Goddess.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: Played with multiple times in Refrain Chord, mostly in that everyone except Fang is exempt from this.
  • Fang fully anticipates this reaction from her and, after realizing that nobody knew Rinne was a girl and is now heading for the women's bath, decides to take the bucket to the face for the girl by rushing in first to buy her time to explain why she's there. She then tells him she wouldn't have done it to Rinne, because children generally don't know better.
  • Shortly after, Apollonius ends up being launched into the women's bath from somewhere by a monster he underestimated. She's more than willing to hear him out and give him the chance to leave, everyone comes rushing in to find out what the commotion is about, and she immediately pelts Fang with another bucket prompting him to demand to know why it's always only him getting hit.
• Pieces of God: To be exact, she is the humanized form of a part of the Goddess's powers.
• Relationship Upgrade: All but said in her ending.
• Spell My Name With An S: In Refrain Chord her name is spelled Alin in her profile, instead of the usual Alyn in the Japanese versions of the other games as well as in the artbook and website for Refrain Chord itself.
• This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!: She's rather disturbed when she finds out that Marianna, Khalara, and Marissa are making and distributing yaoi manga based on Sherman being paired up with either Galdo or Fang. She eventually leaves with plans of sealing off the room, warning men especially to avoid entering for their own sake.
• Tsundere: A mild one. With regards to Fang, Eryn can't seem to make up her mind if she is Dere or Tsun.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: She often gets into petty fights with Tiara, but deep down they become close friends.
• Voice of the Legion: During the final battle, she speaks with both her voice and the Goddess' whenever you use a special attack.
• What Is This Feeling?: Has a moment of this when Fang asks her whether or not Sherman is her ideal type of guy, and gets flustered at the idea that Fang might like her. This riles her up enough that she starts asking Harley of all people, on what Fang's type of girl might be in a later event.
• Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Much like Fang, she also has this reaction towards Tiara's haughty attitude.

Tiara Tiris Tears

^{Tiara's alternate outfit}

Cui

"Oh my. Not one word of gratitude after I just served you some delicious tea? How rude."'

Tiara voiced by: Kaori Ishihara (Japanese) and Natalie Hoover (English)

Cui voiced by: Arisa Noto

An 18-year old fencer and the other main heroine, partnered with the dog-like fairy Cui. Fang and Eryn encounter her on their first attempt at retrieving a Fury, leading to a bad first impression involving paralytic tea, but as the story progresses their relationship improves. The very image of a rich and proper girl, however her masochistic tendencies in response to Fang's verbal abuse makes tends to shatter that ideal image. She claims to be on a journey to revive the Goddess for the sake of world peace.

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• Age Lift: She's 20 in Advent Dark Force, but is once again 18 in Refrain Chord.
• Ambiguous Gender: It's not known whether Cui is supposed to be male or female.
• Anti-Anti-Christ: As a descendant of the Vile God, her blood could be used to resurrect him and end the world, but she's devoted her life to reviving the Goddess and preventing the Vile God from ever being reborn.
• Apocalypse Maiden: Kidnapped by Sherman to serve as a sacrifice to revive the Vile God.
• Barrier Warrior: Her "Barrier" special command generates a Beehive Barrier around her that dramatically boosts her defences, however she can't carry out any actions other than guarding in this state.
• Big-Breast Pride: During one scene where they bathe together, she not only agrees with Eryn's comments about her well-endowed bust, but also insults the latter as "flat."
• Bishie Sparkles: She tends to get these whenever she is turned on by Fang's insults.
• Blatant Lies: In one of her character voice samples, she tries to deny the fact that she is a masochist, and only ends up getting turned on while talking about being abused leading her to excuse herself.
• Breeding Slave: Her body was used to birth out Vile God Cells so that Dorfa can rule with a Vile God descendant army.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Her chest is quite a bit bigger than Eryn's, to the latter's jealousy.
• Casual Kink: Played for Laughs; she's shown to enjoy Fang's verbal abuse.
• Combat Sadomasochist She has a passive ability that gives her SP when taking damage.
• Cosmic Plaything: Both In-Universe and in the meta sense. After all, she will always die one way or the other before you travel back in time in any of the three routes. To be specific:
  • In the Goddess Route, Sherman kills Tiara because of her blood, which could be used as sacrifice to summon the Vile God.
  • In the Vile God Route, she really did get sacrificed to summon the Vile God. Though she survives the ordeal.
  • It is downplayed In-Universe in the Evil Goddess Route, where she took a blow that was meant for Fang. Still the same in the meta sense, with the writers being the cosmic beings.
• Crucified Hero Shot: Positioned this way while inside the Vile God.
• Death Seeker: Near the end of the Goddess route, it's revealed that she gave Sherman permission to kill her in order to prevent the Vile God's revival.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Gradually warms up to the rest of the party as the game progresses despite her harsh attitude and her anger at their antics.
• Double Weapon: Her primary weapon is a dual-sided glaive.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her style of dress involves a lot of black and frilly clothing
• Enraged by Idiocy: Often appears as a Rage Breaking Point. Occasionally Tiara loses it because of Fang and Eryn doing or saying something stupid.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Gets very jealous of Fang and Eryn's closeness and how they don't even need to use words to communicate at times.
• Guest Fighter: Makes an appearance as a playable, albeit DLC, character in Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart.
• Hint Dropping: In her Evil Goddess route ending, she'll note how, since Eryn is with Harley at the moment, it's just her and Fang. Fang, being Fang, reminds her that Cui is also present, which gets Tiara comically upset at his obliviousness.
• Hypocritical Humor: Whenever she tries to lecture people on dirty tactics, they then had to remind her of the tea trick she pulled on them.
• Making a Splash: She specializes in water magic and techniques.
• Naked on Revival: After being absorbed by the Vile God, she is found completely naked (save for Godiva Hair) while inside him, in an obvious birth symbolism. But the situation is still played for laughs with Harley demanding to look away when she's rescued and Tiara having something of a belated Naked Freak-Out once she learns it happened.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Her talking like a delinquent and robbing a hoodlum is one of the first indications to Eryn and Sherman that the personalities of the people they know have changed due to the Vile God's influence.
• Pokémon Speak: Cui is only capable of saying its name.
• Proper Lady: She tries to be proper and elegant, and she certainly looks the part, but her companions try her temper too much. Then there's her masochistic streak.
• Relationship Upgrade: After spending the first half of the game acting like Fang's her suitor, she falls for Fang for real, with the two heavily implied to be an item in her Goddess route ending. This is in contrast to her ending in the Evil Goddess route, where it stays at Ship Tease.
• Rescue Romance: Implied in the first timeline after Fang rescues her from a monster: she tells Fang not to fall in love with her, promising that she won't fall in love for him. The fact that she has to tell him shows that her attitude towards him has changed.
• Reverse Shrapnel: Her "Splash Saucer" attack has her throw two discs made of water that converges toward their targets.
• Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: Downplayed. Almost immediately claims Fang is in love with her and leaves it alone after that unless she is messing with Eryn.
• Too Kinky to Torture: She seems to be turned on by being insulted, so all of Fang's attempts to get under her skin will inevitably backfire. She even has an ability that revolves around this where she recovers mana whenever she gets attacked.
• Tsundere: A mild example, as she is often annoyed by both Fang's foolishness and Eryn's closeness to him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: She often gets into petty fights with Eryn, but deep down they become close friends.
• Water Is Womanly: She's a Girly Girl with a water-motif.

Harley Harler (Harler Harley)

^{Harley's alternate outfit}

"Since I gave you some information, let me tag along. I'd like to thoroughly study how you guys work in the field."

Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (Japanese) and Erika Harlacher (English)

A 24-year-old fairy researcher who joins the party out of interest in the unusual circumstances surrounding Eryn. A complete and utter slob who forgets to even put on clothes most of the time, to the utter despair of her fairy partner. Regardless she is still a diligent worker and strives to have a better understanding of the bonds between human and fairy. Is apparently oblivious to the fact that her looks attract a lot of attention.

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• Age Lift: She's 26 in Advent Dark Force, though unlike Fang and Tiara there is no confirmation on a reversion to this in Refrain Chord.
• Ambiguously Bi: Seems to primarily be interested in examining female fairies (which is sometimes taken to creepy levels when she does), her first words when the party meets Marianna for the first time is that she's cute, she apparently expressed disappointment that Bahus wasn't a girl fairy back when they met each other for the first time, and she openly compliments Tiara's body when she sees her naked when they rescue her from the Vile God. However, her ending in the Vile God route does give her some Ship Tease with Fang.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She has the largest bust among the Fencer girls, which is emphasized by her cleavage and Jiggle Physics, and Eryn is impressed by her top-heavy figure.
• Death from Above: She gained two spells and a physical skill that do this in Refrain Chord, along with Terrain Sculpting.
  • "Create Block" and "Extra Shot" drop small boulders on enemies in an area a short distance in front of her. Any space that wasn't occupied retains the boulder, allowing it to block off tiles that spawn more enemies, potentially prevent vertical enemy movement, or enable you to move to areas that couldn't be reached otherwise.
  • "Create Wall" drops large boulders on enemies in an area right in front of her, and similarly leaves them in the unoccupied spaces and prevents enemy reinforcements from arriving. Due to their size things can not pass them without flying, allowing her to create defensive positions or trap enemies that prefer to keep their distance.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Her magic is all earth-based.
• Ditzy Genius: She's an expert in fairy studies, and knows quite a bit about them. Getting her to focus on the task at hand is another story.
• Enemy Scan: Her "Analysis" special command allows her to view enemy's status such as stats and elemental weaknesses.
• Face–Heel Turn: Joins Dorfa in the Vile God route because in that world she found out that the Goddess didn't exist anymore. She quickly switches back once she realizes that Eryn is a sentient part of the Goddess's power again.
• Failed a Spot Check: She completely failed to notice that Rinne was a girl, even after giving her a medical exam. Of course, said exam was mostly an excuse to study her arm that had a Fury grafted onto it while the rest of her body was entirely irrelevant.
• For Science!: All she cares about is her fairy research, nothing else garners any interest from her. Her start-of-turn quote is "New data!?"
• Guns Akimbo: Her primary weapon is a large-caliber pistol. She also has an attack literally titled this.
• The Gunslinger: Wields a gun in combat. She also starts with a very long range, and even backflips on a few of her attacks to move away from her target.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Played for Laughs. During the Evil Goddess route, Harley takes her investigation of Karin too far and causes Karin to start crying. Ethel starts chasing her around the inn for revenge, and Fang and Bahus know Harley too well to try and save her from Ethel's wrath.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: As part of a fairy's "initiation" she basically molests them to find out their body characteristics and such.
• Mad Scientist: What some of the fairies consider her to be, pretty justified on their part, as Harley often conducts very intrusive and bizarre experiments on them.
• More Dakka: About half of her unlockable combo moves with her gun are simply about filling the air with bullets. It's not unusual to see her miss a lot with these moves, though.
• Narrator All Along: Both endings of the Goddess Route imply she's the narrator from the very start.
• Noodle Implements:
  • In Refrain Chord she mentions needing to head out to get supplies to test something between fairies and tokoroten. Under normal circumstances you'd just assume she's talking about a type of jelly snack, and Bahus even does, but Marissa asks for clarification while Eryn does not want to know and wants nothing to do with any of it. The term is also slang for prostate orgasms. What, exactly, she was really after and what sort of tests she had in mind never gets clarified.
  • Another scene has her debating whether it would be better to use slime or konjac for an experiment on fairies. Once again, there's no explanation on what she was planning.
• Recursive Translation: Originally her name was just Harler, before being changed to Harley in NISA's localization of the first game. IFI tried to find a middle ground, having her give her full name as Harley Harler in Advent Dark Force. Refrain Chord's credits reveal that the Harley name has since worked its way back to the Japanese side of things, becoming her last name there.
• Repetitive Name: Due to Recursive Translation, her full name is Harley Harler.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She has absolutely no qualms stripping off what little she has on to beat the heat, much to Bahus's annoyance and Apollonius's embarrassment.
• Sphere of Destruction: Many of her attack skills ends with this.
• Stripperiffic: There's not much on her, clothing-wise: her outfit exposes an abundance of cleavage and leaves her midriff bare, emphasizing her lack of care for modesty.

Bahus

"You should be grateful. Not everyone gets to enjoy my delicious desserts."

Voiced by: Masaki Terasoma (Japanese) and Ray Chase (English)

Harley's put-upon, 41-year old fairy companion. He's a friendly and genial man who cooks and cleans for Harley because she's too lazy to do anything herself.

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• Chained by Fashion: Wears a large chain around his neck.
• Promotion to Parent: He acts more like Harley's mother than her fairy.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Wears a pink apron while cooking.
• Supreme Chef: He started cooking because Harley wouldn't do it herself, but grew to like it, and ended up getting quite good at it. Fang is more than happy to indulge.
• Team Chef: He regularly prepares the group's food, be it full-blown feasts or snacks to eat while traveling. He also has a few scenes where he's trying to figure out more foods to add to his repertoire.

Galdo Garzuom (Gald)

"After all, our butts belong to Fang now!"

Voiced by: Takatsugu Awazu (Japanese), Derek Stephen Prince (English)

A low-ranking 20-year-old Dorfa operative who works for Zenke. He joins the party after Fang defeats him; the two have a strange synergy and agree on a lot of things.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Marissa calls him "Galdy-kins" in the English version.^note In the Japanese version, she calls him "Gald-chan"
• Alas, Poor Villain: In the Vile God route, he starts remembering his time with Fang in the first timeline before dying.
• Blow You Away: Most of his attacks are wind-based.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Joins your party after beating him as he is moved by Fang's actions to save him.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Even after the changes to the world in the Vile God route had basically turned him into Zenke, Galdo still respects Marissa enough to listen to her suggestions and never lashes out at her as Zenke did with Della. His only regret when dying is that his own death will force Marissa to die.
• Fun Personified: He's even more cheerful and upbeat than Fang is.
• Gory Discretion Shot: Whatever it was that Junown did to him in the Evil Goddess route is never seen, the player is only able to see Marissa breaking down crying at what has happened to him. By the time he's been taken care of at the hospital the only thing able to be seen through the bloody bandages is a single eye and some hair. To compare, the game has no issue displaying the Body Horror involved in Marianna's fusion to the Vile God in the Vile God route, nor the bloody deaths of Tiara and Bernard in the original story.
• Guest-Star Party Member: In the Evil Goddess Route, he joins for one dungeon and is then incapacitated for the rest of the story.
• Heroic Sacrifice: A non-lethal variant near the start of the Evil Goddess route, he blows himself up along with Sherman to buy time for Fang to escape from him.
• Killed Off for Real: In the Vile God route, notable in that his death is what triggers Fang's memories to return.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Pre-Heel–Face Turn, he used to work for Dorfa, not out of pure malice, but because he simply needs work.
• Sinister Scythe: Wields Marissa in this form.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: He wears a sleeveless fur vest and his primary role in the party is to deal out physical damage much like Fang. His level-up Catchphrase is even, "I'm feelin' BUFF!"
• Strange Minds Think Alike: He and Fang both became Fencers because they thought getting a Fury would let them wish for food.
• Super Mode: Other than Fairizing, his "Full Swing" special command doubles his attack power with the drawback of his accuracy being halved.
• Video Game Stealing: Several of his special skills, increasingly more effective for the later ones.
• Walking the Earth: At the end of the Goddess Route, he decides to explore the world and learn more about it.

Marissa

"I apologize for any inconvenience my Galdy-kins causes you."

Voiced by: Kayano Ide (Japanese) and Erika Harlacher (English)

Galdo's 22-year old fairy. They've been together since he was ten, so she basically raised him. She often dotes over him like a mother would to a spoiled child.

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• Aesop Amnesia: One side event in Refrain Chord has her realize her doting on Galdo is reaching excessive levels, he can't even clip his own nails among many other mundane things. So she tells him he needs to start working on these things himself for his own good, no matter how cruel it might seem. And yet, she continues to take care of things for him in excess in just about any scene after that.
• Ascended Extra: Despite Galdo being out of comission for the entirety of the Evil Goddess route, Marissa will stay with you for most of the story in his absence, getting noticeably more screentime than she did in the other routes.
• Crack Pairing: In-Universe Marissa comes to this conclusion about Galdo and Sherman in the Evil Goddess route. She's convinced that it's not just possible, but very likely, that Sherman is keeping him trapped and alive somewhere not as a hostage, but a lover and that his "well trained sword" will pierce Galdo's "body and soul".
• Doting Parent: While she was apparently stricter back when she first met Galdo, by the time the story begins, she does nothing but spoil and gush over him.
• Impossibly-Low Neckline: Her outfit is so low-cut that it looks like it could fall off at any moment.
• Mistaken for Romance: Her fretting over Galdo meeting with a girl was initially interpreted by the party's other fairies as her having a Green-Eyed Epiphany. She then specifies that what she's worried about is the prospect of Galdo's gullibility being taken advantage of, further emphasizing her maternal feelings.
• Nice Girl: She's incredibly sweet towards all those around her.
• One-Note Cook: After realizing that only Bahus and, later, A.J. cook for the group Eryn asks if Marissa had cooked meals for herself and Galdo before they joined. She can make grilled meat, seasoned with salt, grilled fish, seasoned with salt, and fried eggs, seasoned with salt. The lack of variety, and excessive reliance on salt, is immediately commented on by Bahus. She never bothered learning anything more than that, because Galdo was never a picky eater.
• Promotion to Parent: Since Galdo was only ten when he became a Fencer, Marissa had to act as a surrogate mother to him, despite only being 2 years older than him.
• Yaoi Fangirl:
  • On top of her In-Universe Crack Pairing moment above, she also becomes convinced that Sherman and Galdo are a couple in Refrain Chord after walking in on what she assumes is them having sex, admits to wanting to watch, and pays no attention to their attempts to clear the matter up. It's just Sherman cleaning a wound for him since she was out in town at the time.
  • After meeting with Khalara, the two begin drawing lewd manga of the two as well. Eryn is rather creeped out about it when she finds out, especially after finding out they've done some pairing up Sherman and Fang as well.
  • She's the only one of the Fairies present when Harley starts talking about an experiment involving tokoroten to question what was meant. As noted in Harley's Noodle Implements section, while normally just referring to food the term is also gay slang for prostate orgasms.

Pippin (Pipin)

"A human's character is more important than their appearance. You should all learn to be more discerning of others."

Voiced by: Asami Shimoda (Japanese) and Cristina Vee (English)

A very strange Fencer who is often mistaken for a fairy, due to apparently being an animated plushie. He absolutely refuses to explain any aspect of his appearance. He's a veteran Fencer who often gives advice to the younger party members and tells stories about his "youth". He fights with his fists.

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• Ambiguous Gender: In the Japanese release, his gender was never stated and left up to debate, averted in the overseas releases, where he not only sounds male but is addressed as one as well.
  • The "Male Bonding!?" and "A Woman's Garden" trophies both require a male and female only team to defeat a specific boss respectively. Pippin is specifically excluded from both team compositions.
• Cartoon Creature: He looks like a giant green cat with an afro, but the rest of the party isn't sure what Pippin actually is.
• Defeat Means Friendship: In the Goddess and Vile God route, he joins without a fight otherwise.
• For Great Justice: Pippin quotes this trope when he joins Fang in the Goddess route.
• Noodle Incident: We never find out why there is a sword in his head, but he was impaled with several more swords when he was younger. Indeed, many of his stories qualify as they're interrupted by characters talking amongst themselves or a time skip to the end of the story so everything but the beginning and end are left a complete mystery.
• Old Master: While his actual age isn't specified, his dialogue implies that he's much older than the rest of the party. His veteran status backs this up and he gives useful advice to his junior fencers.
• Power Fist: How he wields Soji.
• Rambling Old Man Monologue: His stories are almost always long winded to the point that other characters consider them torture. And if you're not lucky enough to escape before he starts, you're not getting away until it's over. Galdo finds this out the hard way in Refrain Chord, as he tries to jump out the inn's windows and is dragged back in and tied to a chair.
• Shock and Awe: Several of his skills involve electricity.

Soji

"Pippin's story is about to become rather long. Shall I brew you all a cup of tea?"

Voice by: Yuki Ono (Japanese) and Derek Stephen Prince (English)

Pippin's 20-year old fairy, he looks completely human and is often mistaken for the Fencer of the relationship. He doesn't seem to see anything strange about Pippin.

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• Accidental Pervert: He admits to Tiara that he saw her naked and even touching her unconscious body when they were inside the Vile God, though he assures her he has no interest in the female body.
• Ambiguously Gay: He claims has absolutely no interest in the female body, as well as mentioning an interest in "other" bodies after Tiara looks for clarification on his choice of words before eagerly heading off to a bath where Fang and Sherman already are. That said, he has a frequent habit of saying things specifically to mess with people.
• Battle Butler: He dresses and acts like a butler, but he's still Pippin's weapon.
• The Gadfly: He'll occasionally tell outlandish stories about his and Pippin's past, such as it being him who found Pippin after hatching from an egg, before admitting it was made up. Despite stories like the egg one being completely impossible given the way fairies typically work, the completely absurd nature of Pippin himself is enough to make the stories believable.
• Graceful Loser: He's the only one that takes his loss in a hunting match with Noie, Ethel, and Ibfreet well. He's rather satisfied that he came in second, tied with Ethel and Ibfreet, when he was just the weapon being used by Pippin.
• The Jeeves: Fits this to a tee, complete with a British accent in the English dub.

Ethel (Effole)

"Kill!"

Voiced by: Emi Nitta (Japanese) and Kira Buckland (English)

A silent 16-year old Fencer who ambushes Fang and the party when they travel to Bui Valley. She has a cold and mechanical attitude and only communicates using various forms of the word "kill". Her fairy partner, Karin, interprets her words for her. She has no ambition or greater purpose than fighting Fencers.

She has a little more screen time in Advent Dark Force, where she and her fairy also appear at the Katticus Ice Caves and at Dorfa's party.

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• Age Lift: She's 18 in Advent Dark Force. It is unstated if her age was reverted along with other characters in Refrain Chord.
• An Ice Person: Her magic and attacks are ice based.
• Back to School: Her endings in both Advent Dark Force and Refrain Chord see her looking into going to school, as she never had a proper education. In Refrain Chord she has Al tutoring her in a couple of her events, and in her ending ends up roping Fang into studying with her.
• Badass Adorable: Despite her looks, she is a strong and deadly assassin.
• Big Damn Heroes: She saves the party from the exploding wine factory in the Evil Goddess Route.
• Blood Knight: Even after joining the party, she expresses happiness at the idea of fighting strong enemies.
• Bunnies for Cuteness: Karin meant to invoke this when she picked Ethel's second outfit, which sports bunny ears on the hood.
• Chuunibyou: Karin calls her one right to her face in Refrain Chord after attempting to "out-chuuni" her. Her response is to start ranting at her in Kill-speak, only for Karin to remind her that denying it like that just proves her point.
• Defeat Means Friendship: In the Goddess route. Averted in the other routes, where she joins without a fight.
• Department of Redundancy Department: According to Karin, one thing she says to Fang is to threaten to "kill you until you die from it".
• Duel to the Death: She challenges Fang to one after Zenke bails on her. Zenke may normally be willing to turn a hospital into a blood bath, but once alone she offers Fang the opportunity to choose a better place to settle things as she prefers to avoid killing innocent bystanders. Fang, in contrast to the previous games, actively avoids killing her during the fight.
• Elective Unintelligible: She's always been able to say more than some variation of kill, she just chooses not to. She drops it while dying in the initial timeline, and has generally dropped it in secondary timelines though she may slip back into it when enraged. In Refrain Chord she, mostly, drops it during the second encounter admitting that she's bored with trying to force that kind of character.
• Eyepatch of Power: She starts sporting an eyepatch over her left eye in the second timeline.
• Fluffy Tamer: One of the many contests she has won is an annual monster sled race competition. In one of her Refrain Chord sidequests, she tames a giant Calisto for use in the race coming up.
• In the Hood: Both of her outfits have a rather distinct oversized hoods, especially in secondary timelines where it sports bunny ears.
• Noodle Incident: Ethel won a dance contest once. Ethel is good at popping and locking.
• No Social Skills: All she says is "kill," to the point that her fairy has to act as a translator for her. One night, she also climbs into Fang's bed and cuddles with him. Naturally, Tiara and Eryn don't take kindly to it.
• One-Hit Kill: Her Assassinate ability lets her take out anything short of bosses in one hit. It almost always works. Unfortunately, it has to charge and if Ethel takes more than a couple hits during this time the ability is canceled. Naturally her next turn gets delayed and she has to get rather close to the enemy to use it, meaning even one enemy will almost always have the opportunity to interrupt it.
• Orphanage of Fear: According to Karin, she is from one of these. Supposedly, children that failed to become Fencers would vanish.
• Professional Killer: Refrain Chord sees her working under contract for Dorfa, and specifically teamed up with Zenke. She admits to not wanting to live that way, but she knows nothing else and has to to survive.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Played with as she has dark red eyes, works as an assassin, initially seems incapable of saying anything but "kill", and, on some timelines, is a slight Yandere. And yet when anyone actually gets to know her, she's a complete sweetheart who is only working as an assassin because that's what she knows and would rather be doing anything else.
• Renaissance Man: She participates in a wide variety of contests at Karin's insistence. Dancing, racing, monster taming, among many others she almost always walks away the champion. The only competitions that get brought up that she didn't win are the Zelwinds Posing Contest, which is uncertain if she even participated in the first place, and a hunting competition between her, Noie, Ibfreet, and Soji where she lost by one kill.
• Sixth Ranger: She's the last compulsory teammate to join in the Goddess route. Averted in the other two story routes, where other characters join after her.
• Sore Loser: Not quite to the extent that Ibfreet takes it after the results of a hunting competition, but she's unsatisfied with the results and demands a second round under rules that would score by difficulty of the kill rather than the number of things killed.
• Stripperiffic: Her second costume is little more than sleeves and a bra. As it turns out, Karin made it for her to help deal with heat while her first outfit is to deal with the cold. She regrets selling it for food money in Refrain Chord once a heatwave comes along.
• Sweet Tooth: After joining the party, she gains a fondness for sweets.
• Tastes Like Friendship: She's often recruited through food in one way or another, be it snacks from Bahus or simply the promise of consistent meals going forward.
• Third-Person Person: After she joins you and starts speaking normally, she uses this speech method. Though in the ending in the Goddess route, she has come far enough along that she is now referring to herself using pronouns. "But...maybe I wouldn't mind if someone else came along with us..."
• Trap Master: This is her niche in Refrain Chord, being the first member to normally learn trap type skills as well as passive abilities to improve them. She gets to show this off in the second encounter with her, as Fang accidentally wanders into her trap, which was apparently rigged to go off if someone touched her while sleeping, and is instantly tied up and given a choice between his money or his life before she realizes she caught the one person who is broke more often than she is and decides to just kill him for stepping on her.
• Violently Protective Partner: Harley's investigation toward Karin let her discover that Ethel reacts pretty strongly when someone makes Karin cry.
• Yandere: The concept is played with for her on occasion.
  • In her expanded role on the initial timeline in Advent Dark Force, she comes off this way, declaring a hatred of people who are lovey-dovey or "flaunting stupid friendship" and targeting Tiara first in Bui Valley. In battle she prioritizes killing Tiara under all circumstances over anyone else given the choice, followed by anyone other than Fang until critical, at which point Fang finally becomes a potential target. This trait is dropped in all secondary timelines.
  • This characteristic is once again brought up in Refrain Chord, as Fang and Tiara bring up their previous meeting having her trying to kill them for flirting. Al explicitly calls the motivation jealousy and backs off to not get dragged into it. Her behavior in combat, however, did not carry over as she has no forced fixation on Tiara nor low priorities for Fang. By the time they meet her again she's gotten over it however.
  • One of Karin's events in Refrain Chord, as well as an offhand comment of her own about "forcing a character", imply that she was just playing the role until she got bored with it.

Karin

"Ethel says, 'I'll kill you', and... Well, I'll omit the rest."

Voiced by: Ayaka Ohashi (Japanese) and Christine Marie Cabanos (English)

Ethel's 16-year old fairy partner and interpreter. In stark contrast to her Fencer, she is quite friendly, but she still follows her and obeys her whims.

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• I Just Want to Be Special: She's actually quite concerned about the fact that she stops standing out once she no longer needs to serve as Ethel's interpreter, so she tries her best to break out of being the Ridiculously Average Guy of the group. In Refrain Chord she first tries to "out-chuuni" Ethel in one scene, though instead of copying Ethel's "kill" speak she goes for more stereotypical stuff like claiming to be a "messenger of the underworld, here to bring you to Valhalla", when that fails she switches to an overly cutesy personality with big sparkly eyes that's a Third-Person Person who's always Saying Sound Effects Out Loud. That doesn't work well for her either, so she takes Ethel's suggestion of trying a princely personality on Fleur, who is both very confused by the change and more than a little interested.
• Morality Chain: Karin helps level Ethel out by encouraging her to take on less violent activities and socialize, as she would have otherwise had nothing but her training to be an assassin.
• Nice Girl: In contrast to Ethel, Karin is sweet and understanding.
• Noodle Incident: Karin is the one that got Ethel to enter those contests.
• Orphanage of Fear: Karin met Ethel in one.

Sherman Shallancer (Shalman)

^{Sherman's alternate outfit}

"My dream is peace. A peace that will blanket this entire world like pure, white snow."

Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Japanese), Alan Lee (English)

A refined, handsome 21-year old gentleman who believes strongly in justice and wants to use his wish to bring peace to the world. Seemingly perfect in many aspects. He charms Eryn and Tiara almost instantaneously, much to Fang's (and later Galdo's) annoyance.

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• Adaptational Villainy: In the original game, Marianna was the one who decided to use orphans as hostages. In the Goddess Route, he's the one to use them as hostages to pressure her and Zagi.
• Age Lift: He's 23 in Advent Dark Force, but like with Harley and Ethel, it is uncertain if this was reverted for Refrain Chord.
• Big Bad: Takes this spot after killing Hanagata in the Goddess Route.
  • Big Bad Friend: Was originally part of Fang's party until killing Tiara sent him off the deep end in the Goddess Route.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He thinks he's leading the Septerion Club in the Evil Goddess Route, but he's just an Unwitting Pawn for Junown, who kills him after he loses to the party.
• Big Damn Heroes: He comes back as a spirit to help the party when they're losing to the Evil Goddess.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Even before going utterly insane in the Goddess route Sherman was never exactly the good guy he pretends to be. He murdered his own sister simply because she ended up becoming a bandit and made no attempt at all to get her to turn her life around.
  • Becoming the Mask: In the Vile God route Sherman gradually becomes the good man he's pretending to be. Even going so far as to be more willing to admit it was his own actions that took his sister from him, not bandits, and looking to atone for what he had done.
• Black-and-White Insanity: In the Goddess route, he becomes obsessed with his own idea of Justice to the point he slaughters entirely innocent villagers and takes over Dorfa to try ensuring he can revive the Vile God and become one with them.
• Casting a Shadow: As Vile God Sherman.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Gets really upset when Tiara mentions Fang while they were having a private moment.
• Deuteragonist: The Vile God route gives him more focus than pretty much all of the non-Fang party members, with him even serving as the de-facto protagonist during Fang's absence.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Between the final boss's phases, his spirit tells Fang that his fusion with the Vile God ended with his soul being consumed, meaning the god will be in control of their shared body.
• Foil: He serves as a notable contrast to four other characters:
  • Fang — He is charismatic, noble and nice, but ultimately goes batshit insane and kills Tiara in the first timeline Because Destiny Says So. Fang is lazy, slovenly and caustic, but nevertheless is willing to Screw Destiny and save Tiara, and by extension, Apollonius, Ethel and other characters.
  • Apollonius — Sherman is a light-elemental who betrays Fang to take over Dorfa. Apollonius is a dark-elemental who can defect from Dorfa to join Fang's party. Both are deconstructions of Knight in Shining Armor, but in different ways. Apollonius tries to live up to the ideal of an unyielding and honorable swordsman cleansed of worldly desires, but this is mainly to cope with his job and provide for his sister. Sherman is devoted to establishing justice and world peace, even if it means killing his sister, killing Tiara, and using the Vile God. While Apollonius eventually realizes that his gung-ho attitude is eventually going to get him killed and leave his sister distraught, Sherman goes through Sanity Slippage in the Goddess Route and remains a Knight Templar.
  • Pippin — Both characters hunt bandits for justice. Pippin subdues them and attempts to educate them and get them to become good people. Sherman kills them without any mercy. Even if the bandit in question is his own sister.
  • Galdo — Similarly to Apollonius, he also defects from under a villain and joins the hero, constrasting Sherman. Galdo is also constantly looked down on or forgotten, but is actually a good person. Sherman is considered almost perfect by many, but betrays Fang and party in most of the timelines.
• Freudian Excuse: His family was killed by the Vile God tribe and his attempts to shelter his sister from the outside world backfired when she got kidnapped and corrupted by bandits. This caused him to develop an intense hatred towards the Vile God tribe and criminals in general.
• Godhood Seeker: His ultimate goal in the Goddess Route is to fuse with the Vile God and bring "peace" to the world as its new God.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Is temporarily playable for the last few dungeons of the first timeline. Averted in the Vile God route, where he stays in the party.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Despite hating the Vile God and his descendants, Sherman later ends up crazier than Bernard (an antagonistic Vile God descendant) and tries to revive the Vile God for his own purposes.
• Ignored Epiphany: In the first timeline, he feels guilty for killing his sister-turned-bandit and questions his hardline stance against criminals, but in the Goddess route, he ends up sticking to his Black-and-White Insanity. Averted in the Vile God route, where he wants to save Tiara despite her Vile God blood to avoid repeating his past mistakes.
• Invisible to Adults: A more mundane version than normal. Fang, Galdo, and Ethel are the only characters to immediately pick up on the fact that there is just something very wrong with him. In the Vile God route he addresses this directly, mentioning that children notice things are wrong far more easily when Ethel tries to avoid him.
• Killed Off for Real: In the Evil Goddess route, Noie quickly and effortlessly offs him after the party beats him.
• Klingon Promotion: Uses this method to take over the Dorfa corporation.
• Knight Templar: Like Tiara, he wants peace. Unlike her, however, he's willing to do just whatever it takes to reach that end, even going so far as to unseal the Vile God.
• Love Makes You Evil: He does genuinely love Tiara, but the discovery of her bloodline and the guilt of killing her turned him into a psychotic wreck who can't decide if he loves or hates her.
• Light 'em Up: Has light themed spells.
  • Light Is Not Good: After he pulls a Face–Heel Turn in the Goddess and Evil Goddess routes.
• Not What It Looks Like: Galdo ends up pestering him to handle treating some wounds he got saving a cat until he relents just to shut him up due to Marissa being out running errands. The first one he's made to take care of is a scratch on his butt. Cue Marissa walking in on them, Galdo's pants down and complaining about the pain, from the disinfectant, while Sherman is struggling to hold him in place to get things over with. He obviously immediately tells her things are not what they look like, though she has doubts due to Galdo saying that Sherman told him it wouldn't hurt. She just excuses her self, and admits she'll be watching.
• One-Winged Angel: After fusing with the Vile God.
• Promoted to Playable: While he was playable in the first iteration, Advent Dark Force makes him a full-fledged party member for the Vile God route.
• Replacement Goldfish: In the Vile God route, he notices how anxious Eryn is with Fang's absence and realizes that, despite what she says in the contrary about him being better than Fang, he can't replace him for her.
• Secretly Selfish: Despite his claims of fighting for justice, Fang accuses him of killing his bandit sister because of his own ego. His Freudian Excuse implies that deep down, he really wants to seek vengeance against all evil-doers in general.
• Secretly Wealthy: While you get a few hints he's a man of means, a conversation between him and his fairy in the Vile God route after several members join your party reveal that if necessary, he could afford to pay for them to all stay at the inn for 285-410 days, and that's even factoring in for the rate at which they've been growing.
• Start of Darkness: He pins down the consistent point of no return for himself across timelines in Refrain Chord. Killing Zenke is what utterly convinces him that killing anyone and anything that might be evil is the right course of action. Due to Glace's brainwashing convincing him Zenke was a friend he hesitated to cut him down this time, which in turn made him more willing to relent in allowing Apollonius to live and never once even consider killing Tiara for having the Vile God's blood. He outright thanks Zenke for that friendship, however fake it may have been, due to it saving him from himself.
• Super Mode: Aside from his Fury Form and fusion with the Vile God, Sherman has his "Justice" ability in gameplay. Its effects are functionally identical to Fang's "Serious Face".
• Took a Level in Kindness: In the Vile God route, he's more receptive to the idea of sparing or recruiting enemies.
• Unwitting Pawn: When Fang sees his memories, it's revealed that the Vile God took advantage of his guilt from killing Tiara to give him a Breaking Speech, further pushing him into his insanity.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Honestly wants peace and justice for the world, but his actions to achieve this leaves a lot to be desired. Notably, he kills Tiara in the original timeline because of the possibility that she could be used to awaken the Vile God. Then, in the Goddess route, he attempts to control the Vile God's power and become an overseer of sorts for the world. It's not certain whether he would be a benevolent ruler or a tyrant though, but he does say that his goal was to protect the world...

Ryushin

"[Negative. Enemy strength inadequate to require assembly. Probability of victory at your current power level is 100%]"'

Voiced by: Daiki Nakamura (Japanese) and Matthew Mercer (English)

Ryushin is Sherman's Fairy partner. He's a robot-type Fairy with a serious and straight-laced personality. Somewhat thickheaded and unable to adapt to the situation. He is completely devoted to Sherman, and believes there is no better Fencer in the world than him.

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• Badass Armfold: Is always maintaining this pose simply because that is the only picture of him that exists.
• The Confidant: Sherman tells him all of his secrets. Which doesn't work out since Ryushin blabs them all to the other fairies.
• Deadpan Snarker: Mostly towards Eryn in the Vile God route.
• Hates Small Talk: He really doesn't see the point of talking unless he has important information to relate and is slow to warm up to Eryn's attempts to get him to talk in the Vile God route.
• Mundane Utility: Uses his immense power as a fairy in order to kill bugs.
• Not So Stoic: Al brings out a rather new side to Ryushin that others had never seen, to their surprise.
  • His reaction to finding out that Al isn't all that different from Harley, but just prefers to focus on machines? Scream in fear and hide behind Marissa, who is amused by it and comments on how rare it is to see him act like that.
  Ryushin: "EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! DETECTING AN UNPRECEDENTED CRISIS!"
  Marissa: "My my. How rare to see Ryushin panic."
  • Later, Karin bumps into him while both are attempting to hide from Harley and Al. He is definitely not sighing from the stress of the situation, Karin is only imagining it. Once the two of them are found, all he can do is repeatedly utter broken fragments of "No Problem" and "Negative" and has otherwise completely shut down in fear.
• Pet the Dog: He takes care of Cui in the Vile God route after Tiara gets kidnapped, despite having no real reason to do so.
• Put on the Bus: In the original game, He's never seen again after the Disc-One Final Boss fight. Averted in Advent Dark Force, especially in the Vile God route.
• Undying Loyalty: Cannot see anyone but Sherman being his fairy partner.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: In the original game and Goddess route of the remake, he barely gets any screentime compared to the rest of the fairies, and completely disappears from the game after Sherman goes mad. When Sherman fights the party as his normal self at the end of the game, Ryushin is still present and recites the typical "Executing" command of most Fairies, but most likely he ended up much like his master did, consumed by the Vile God. Advent Dark Force gives him far more screentime in the Vile God route.

Lola (Rolo)

"Hey hey, did you know? Love is spelled m-o-n-e-y."

Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi (Japanese) and Cristina Vee (English)

An 12-year old information broker who charges exorbitant prices, but is so useful that everyone pays anyway.

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• Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: Her prices for fury information go up with each new one, even if it isn't particularly better than the last. And, notably, she continues to charge you even after she joins your party.
• The Atoner: Part of the reason she starts selling the antidote for the Septerion wine for so cheap in the Evil Goddess route ending is to atone for what she had done to help the Septerion Club.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: This is her reason for joining up in one route of Refrain Chord. "Nice to me" in this case being "still willing to buy information from me when Dorfa's Fury Radars made me obsolete".
• 11th-Hour Ranger: Provided you fulfill all the steps to unlock her, she only joins just before the Final Dungeon in the Goddess route. Averted in the other two routes, where she joins much earlier. She once again joins up late in one route to Refrain Chord, at the start of the second to last chapter.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her eyes look noticeably electronic compared to the rest of the characters. Being a fairy likely has something to do with it.
• Expy: Lola is basically Gust with less experience.
• Improbable Weapon User: The fact it's a spear isn't strange. The fact it looks like an ice cream cone is.
• Light 'em Up: Has light themed attacks
• Money Fetish: She repeatedly states that she loves money multiple times. And it shows with her progressively expensive wares and her attempts at getting people to buy them.
• Magical Girl: Instead of being impaled by her weapon, her Fairize is closer to a tradtional Magical Girl Transformation Sequence (minus the nudity). The fact that she's a fairy instead of human is a factor into this
• The Mole: Unwillingly in the Evil Goddess Route. She starts leading the party into traps led by the Septerion Club, but only because she would have likely been killed if she didn't do what they said. She starts helping the party for real after she confesses.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Says this once she realizes that she was helping the Septerion Club sell drugged wine to people.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: She joins the group quickly in Refrain Chord's second route for this reason. Dorfa's mass production of its various products got to the point where she could no longer profit off of them, and their mass produced artificial Fencers end up making it impossible to sell Fury information, driving her completely out of business. Sure she could take up monster extermination or start robbing people for money, but if she joins up with Fang she has a chance to utterly crush Dorfa for getting in her way and take over whatever happens to be left.
• Secret Character: In the Goddess route she joins you if you complete all of her side missions.
• Token Mini-Moe: Once she joins the party, it's easily noticeable that she's the youngest-looking and the most childlike member.
• Took a Level in Kindness: She gradually becomes more selfless in the Evil Goddess Route, to the point where she starts selling the antidote for the Septerion wine at a loss in the ending. She even outright says in her own ending that she's okay with it as long as it makes people happier.
• Video Game Stealing: Her Dash Steal skill let's her do this.

Dorfa Corporation

President Hanagata

"We'll continue to expand the company until it's known throughout the entire world."

Voiced by Nobuhiro Fukai (Japanese), Ray Chase (English)

The 52-year old leader of Dorfa. He plans to resurrect the Vile God to conquer the world and bring peace.

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• Big Bad: He’s the one trying to resurrect the Vile God, but gets usurped in each route.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He aims to expand his company until it controls the world.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He's played up to be the Big Bad for the first half of the game, only to be overshadowed by the actual Big Bad in each of the routes.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Implied to be this, as he's the president of Dorfa, which has their own army and a group of powerful fencers at his disposal with plans to conquer the world, however it's not even hinted that he himself is a fencer or if he participates in combat at all.
• Take Over the World: His goal.
• The Unfought: He's never directly fought by the party in any of the story routes, since he’s a Non-Action Big Bad and not even that.
• Ungrateful Bastard: After being saved from the Justice Society Camp in the Evil Goddess route, he orders Paiga to fight Fang to try and curry favor with the Justice Society.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Only appears in a few scenes in the entire game and ends up getting replaced as the Big Bad in each of the story routes.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Oddly, he disappears from the plot entirely in the Vile God route, with Fang and later Marianna replacing him as the president of Dorfa.

Bernard

Sanguina

"Naturally, I plan to separate his head from his shoulders the moment we meet."

Bernard voiced by: Kohei Murakami (Japanese) and Robbie Daymond (English)

Sanguina voiced by: Yuri Komagata (Japanese) and Dorothy Elias-Fahn (English)

One of Dorfa's top executives, partnered with fairy Sanguina (Bloody in Japan). He is ranked as a Financial Director, but not one of the Four Heavenly Czars. In the original timeline, he plans to use Dorfa to help complete his own personal goals, and is quite sadistic and ruthless despite his calm demeanor. He believes that power is the best way to communicate one's intent. Age 35.

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• Amnesiac Dissonance: In the Evil Goddess route, he has no direct memories of being a descendant of the Vile God and only knows about the previous world from hearsay. Without his evil ambitions, he's nothing more than a mellow recluse who wants to live peacefully with Sanguina.
• Apocalypse Maiden: He is a descendant of The Vile God and can be used as a sacrifice to revive him. This actually happens in the Goddess route, where he's unwittingly sacrificed in place of Tiara. This happens again in the Vile God route, where Marianna sacrifices him to control the Vile God.
• Beyond Redemption: He's the only character in Refrain Chord that Fang views this way. Killing enough children that their corpses pile up like a mountain because they were unsuitable for becoming artificial Fairies, and just dumping their bodies into said pile to rot like trash, definitely earns it.
• Big Bad Wannabe: On nearly every timeline he's clearly The Man in Front of the Man to Hanagata, and yet he always gets overtaken by whoever the real Big Bad turns out to be.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Glace and her master go out of their way to protect him or just generally spare his life, despite him clearly planning to betray them. They need him alive until they can sacrifice him to revive the Vile God so he can be truly killed rather than just sealed away. Better to sacrifice a horrible person for the sake of the world than Tiara, who is their backup plan and similarly protected.
• Chekhov's Gunman: While he initially appears to be just another Dorfa official, he ultimately becomes the sacrifice that awakens the Vile God in the original route.
• Heel–Face Turn: At first in the Evil Goddess route. After Dorfa collapsed, he was completely content with living out the rest of his life with Sanguina. Unfortunately, he's Forced into Evil by Junown.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In the Goddess route, he notices the Vile God's awakening and tries to usurp its power from Sherman. It promptly kills him.
• I Have Your Wife: He threatens Emily's safety to keep Apollonius compliant in Refrain Chord after the latter becomes disgusted with Dorfa for experimenting on children.
• Killed Off for Real: In most of the routes.
• Manipulative Bastard: He informs Sherman that someone( Tiara specifically) in his group has the Vile God's blood, presumably to take advantage of his Knight Templar tendencies. In the Goddess route, this ploy succeeds, with Sherman killing Tiara and causing his Sanity Slippage.
• Not Quite Dead: In Refrain Chord's second route Junown repeatedly poisons him, ultimately leading to his apparent death after a battle with Fang. Fang has Lola make arrangements for him to receive a proper burial instead of being left to rot in a cave. Fang was aware he was still just barely alive, and was actually arranging for Bernard to be able to go into hiding as it was to their mutual benefit that neither Al or Junown be able to kill him.
• The Starscream: He doesn't actually have any loyalty towards Dorfa, only intending to use them so that he can control the Vile God himself.
• Tragic Villain: He's only a villain in the Evil Goddess route because Junown would have killed him otherwise, telling the party that he would never have fought again if he had the choice. He's ultimately killed by the party anyway after he fights them.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Marianna saves him from quicksand after his first defeat. He still insists on scheming against Dorfa in the next timeline.
• Villainous Rescue: In Refrain Chord's second route, he repays Fang's assistance in getting away from Al and Junown by helping repair Eryn's Fury that was damaged in battle against Al's weapon before she fades away.

Apollonius (Appolones)

Seguro

"This sword contains my soul."

Apollonius voiced by: Takuya Sato (Japanese) and Matthew Mercer (English)

Seguro voiced by: Toshifumi Maeda

One of Dorfa's Four Heavenly Czars, Apollonius, age 24, is considered one of the strongest Fencers in the world, and has the skills to back that title. Partnered with the dragon-like fairy Seguro, he lives his life adhering to the warriors' code, and would rather die in battle than be treated mercifully in anyway. Extremely stoic and blunt, but has a code of honor that makes him clash with the more detestable parts of Dorfa like Zenke.

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• Aerith and Bob: His name (which includes a Classical Mythology god's name, itself rather uncommon) with his sister's name, Emily.
• The Alcoholic: Reduced to this in the Evil Goddess Route thanks to the Septerion Club.
• Big Damn Heroes: He comes back as a spirit to help the party when they're losing to the Evil Goddess.
• Blood Knight: He seems to live for nothing but fighting. As Fang discovers in the first timeline, he was only pushing himself to adapt to Dorfa's terrible working conditions and provide for Emily.
• BFS: His weapon's default form is a giant two-handed crystal claymore.
• Casting a Shadow: His primary magic attacks are all based on darkness.
• Dark Is Evil: Darkness powers, black and purple color scheme, and working with the antagonists. His name however is closer to Light Is Not Good, being derived and incorporating the name of Apollo, one of the Sun Gods of Greek Mythology.
• Dark Is Not Evil: But only if he joins your party, which provides a nice contrast to Sherman in the Goddess Route if it happens.
• Defeat Means Friendship: In the Goddess route, he only joins the party if Fang is level 40(35 in the remake), otherwise he commits suicide for his defeat. In the Vile God route, he'll join the party by default.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Gets really flustered whenever Fang calls him Pretty Boy.
• Even Evil Has Standards: During his time in Dorfa, he never approved of Zenke's psychopathic lifestyle.
• Heel–Face Turn: If Fang is Level 40 (35 in Advent Dark Force) when you fight him in the Goddess route, he defects from Dorfa and joins Fang.
• Honor Before Reason: In the Evil Goddess route, he refuses to take the antidote for the Septerion Club wine, which ultimately gets him killed.
• Hopeless Boss Fight: In Advent Dark Force, he'll challenge Fang to an unwinnable duel in the town prison.
• Lazy Bum: In the Vile God route, he seems relatively unchanged in personality until the very end when Emily reveals that his claims of honing his skills with a sword have been nothing but a lie to avoid having to get a job.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: After Fang finds out the only girl he's comfortable around is Emily, he asks Apollonius how he'd handle it when she gets a boyfriend. Then immediately goes into character as the hypothetical boyfriend, "I'm dating your sister, nice to meet you big bro!". The response is to start hunting Fang down throughout the inn with his sword, fully intending to kill him for touching his sister despite Fang's protest that it was just a hypothetical situation.
• Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: He's visibly uncomfortable with Fang and Galdo looking through a gravure magazine in public, and goes into a barely contained panic when Harley wanders around without pants on. Fang assumes this means he has no tolerance for women in general, with Apollonius admitting to only being fine around his sister. That said he's generally fine around any woman other than Harley, who he often demands keep her distance, except for the one time Tiara was found naked making it more so this than Cannot Talk to Women.
• Prayer Is a Last Resort: Apollonius is not a praying man, but he openly questions that stance of his after seeing Dorfa's experiments on children.
• Promotion to Parent: He is the breadwinner for his younger sister Emily. At the first timeline, after killing him, Fang meets her and discovers how miserable he made her life.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Mass murder and world domination are one thing, but experimenting on children ultimately drives him to abandon Dorfa in Refrain Chord, though he's still kept on a short leash even unemployed thanks to Bernard's threats toward Emily.
• Secret Character: In the original game and the Goddess Route in the remake he's only unlocked if Fang is Level 40 (35 in Advent Dark Force) by the time the party encounters him. And then the party has to go out of their way to Find the Cure! because Apollonius got fatally injured by Sherman.
• Shrinking Violet: Is apparently somewhat shy, and gets embarrassed when near Harley.
• Stating the Simple Solution: While most of the cast complain in some way about Fang's Bad "Bad Acting", he's the only one to point out that it was entirely unnecessary. Just being anywhere with Zagi would be sufficient to lure out Ibfreet. He also points out they have no need to fight with Fang to get him to stop, Ibfreet is just that obsessed with Zagi that he'll come running in even with Fang making it obvious that it's a trap.
• Survival Mantra: "Worldly desires begone." is something he often finds himself chanting while dealing with Harley suddenly stripping.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Fits this to the bill appearance-wise.
• That Came Out Wrong: One event in Refrain Chord sees him slip up on his usual Survival Mantra, chanting "Tits and ass." instead, which surprises everyone. When he notices, he says this before resuming his chanting with the normal "Worldly desires begone.".
• Theme Naming: All of Apollonius' skill names in Japanese consist of a single character, which translates into being single words in English.

Marianna (Mariano)

Khalara

"...Any betrayal against Dorfa is unforgivable."

Marianna voiced by: Rui Tanabe (Japanese) and Dorothy Elias-Fahn (English)

Khalara voiced by: Moe Toyota (Japanese) and Kira Buckland (English)

One of Dorfa's Four Heavenly Czars, and the one most dedicated to Dorfa's cause. She is partned with the fairy Khalara (Kurara in Japan), and spends her spare time at an orphanage, playing her harp for the children. Age 24.

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• Adaptational Heroism: In the original Fairy Fencer storyline, she was a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk who had no issue using the orphanage children as hostages when her back was against the wall, and she's completely ungrateful when Zagi sacrifices himself to save her. Advent Dark Force changes it so that Dorfa takes the children as hostages under Sherman's orders, much to her disgust, while also mourning Zagi after he dies saving them. Refrain Chord also portrays in her in a much more flattering light.
• Berserk Button: Insulting Dorfa tends to irk her, though in a more comedic sense saying that she has wrinkles will lead to a painful experience.
• Big Bad: She becomes the main villain of the Vile God route.
• Cry into Chest: Does this with Fang after they are forced to kill Zagi in the Evil Goddess route.
• Disc-One Final Boss: She is the last opponent you face in the first timeline.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: In the Vile God route, she fuses with the Vile God, but ends up slowly losing control, as shown by her unstable speech pattern.
• Final Boss: She becomes the last foe you face in the Vile God route after she merges with the Vile God.
• Good Is Not Nice: Even when she switches to the good side, she is still willing to do some nasty things to protect the world. She also takes offense at being described as nice, even resorting to violence when Fang and her fairy take the joke too far.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the Evil Goddess route, she initially joins the party for the purpose of getting back at the Septerian Club for destroying Dorfa, but she eventually warms up to the party and stays with them for real.
• Kick the Morality Pet: In the Vile God route, she sent Zagi to the Human Ranch and later ordered him to be absorbed into the Vile God while taking Bernard with him.
• Klingon Promotion: Indirectly; the death of Hanagata in the Evil Goddess route leads her to take up the position as President at the end.
• Morality Pet: Taking care of the children at the orphanage was initially her main redeeming quality.
• Promoted to Playable: She was an enemy-only character in the original game, but is a playable character in Advent Dark Force and Refrain Chord.
• One-Winged Angel: Her modified fairy form is pretty monstrous, but it pales in comparison to her appearance when she merges with the Vile God.
• Redemption Demotion: While this applies to just about any character who goes from being a boss to a playable character, Marianna is notable in that she no longer uses her One-Winged Angel form upon joining in the Evil Goddess route. Apparently, it's really draining on the user and isn't suited for long battles.
• Rescue Romance: The Evil Goddess route shows her gaining feelings for Fang after being rescued by him, which becomes more apparent during her ending.
• Romantic Spoonfeeding: Indulges in this with Fang during her Evil Goddess ending, saying that she doesn't know what she is feeling but she doesn't hate it.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Her 3D model shows that her outfit has an open back.
• Ship Tease: She gets some notably affectionate moments with Fang after becoming playable in the Evil Goddess route. Her ending even shows her smiling and blushing as she watches him eat.
• Through His Stomach: In her ending for the Evil Goddess route, she attempts to recruit Fang as a Dorfa executive through this method. Though even after he adamantly refuses her offer, she still agrees to treat him to meals for a different reason.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In the Vile God route, she becomes far more ruthless to the point of sending Zagi to the Human Ranch. It's hinted that this is because she became drunk on Dorfa's newfound power.
• Tsundere: Downplayed; she shows her affection in a roundabout way, claiming that Fang is even worse than the children at the orphanage, but that gives her a reason to stick around to take care of him.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: Legitimately believes that Dorfa's actions are necessary in order to create a peaceful world.
• Yaoi Fangirl: Initially it's just Khalara that's like this, and she gets along quite well with Marissa because of it, but she eventually gets Marianna interested as well. Marianna ends up preferring pairing Sherman with Fang rather than Galdo, and is financing and distributing their works.

Zagi (Zaggy)

"Lady Marianna rehired me... I'll cut you to pieces right now!"

Voiced by: Kensho Ono (Japanese) and Kyle Hebert (English)

A low-ranking Dorfa employee who was fired, but re-hired as Marianna's personal guard. As such, he is extremely dedicated to her. Age 19.

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• Bodyguarding a Badass: Zagi is only slightly stronger than the standard Dorfa soldier, and looks the part, and yet he's the bodyguard for Marianna, one of the Four Heavenly Czars.
• Dying as Yourself: In the Evil Goddess route. After Marianna is forced to put him down, he regains all of his memories of the previous timeline and encourages Marianna to keep going before dying.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In the Goddess route of Advent Dark Force, Zagi, though grievously wounded by fighting the party, uses his last strength to take revenge on Sherman's soldiers for kidnapping and using Marianna's orphans as hostages.
• Foil: To Galdo. Both directly serve under one of the Heavenly Czars, but while Zagi idolizes Marianna, Galdo despises Zenke.
• Killed Off for Real: Dies defending Marianna.
• Sanity Slippage: In the Evil Goddess route, he consumes the "wine," and the newfound power eventually drives him mad.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: When you fight the two, Marianna's enormous Fairy Form is an almost laughable contrast to Zagi, who you can barely see since the camera's zoomed out and focused on Marianna.
• Tsundere: Hinted to be one; one of Marianna's orphans ask if he's married to her, and he responds in a way that suggests that he's this.
• Uniformity Exception: Of the Mook Lieutenant variety. His outfit is exactly the same as any other low ranking Dorfa soldier, just uniquely colored and lacking a helmet.

Zenke (Zank)

Della

"You're so cute! I could just eat you up! Would you like that? Do you want me to eat your GUTS?"

Zenke voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Japanese) and Sean Chiplock (English)

Della voiced by: Rina Furukawa (Japanese) and Kira Buckland (English)

One of Dorfa's Four Heavenly Czars, partnered with the fairy Della. He's a bloodthirsty psychopath even by their standards, and often lusts for killing and blood. He often kills his own soldiers at the slightest provocation, and enjoys forcing people to kill their loved ones for his amusement. Age 22.

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• Always Someone Better: He gets away with terrorizing innocent people simply because he's a better fighter than anyone else he comes across. Fang and company put a stop to that, causing Zenke to grow obsessed with beating Fang. Then, there's someone even better than that when Sherman bumps into him. Zenke starts his usual schtick, but Sherman casually cuts him down.
• Ax-Crazy: He terrorizes an entire village and forces close family members to kill other, purely for his own entertainment.
• Bad Boss: Galdo certainly thinks so. Zenke even kills his own underlings if he thinks they're not doing their jobs properly. Even Della isn't spared from his abuse, especially in the Vile God route where he kills himself despite how doing so takes his fairy with him.
• Becoming the Mask: For a short while he plays along with Glace's brainwashing of Fang's group, and plays the role of Galdo to Sherman's Fang. This ends up being enough to convince him to turn against Dorfa. He still wants to kill people, make no mistake, but he wants to kill people that he wants to kill. Not on orders. That also means he wants to not kill some people such as Sherman.
• Bullying a Dragon: After getting defeated by Fang, he runs into Sherman and acts exactly like he's been doing from the start. Sherman kills him.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The guy is a complete jerk.
• Dramatic Stutter: In the Vile God route, Zenke and Galdo practically switch roles; due to his new life under a bloodthirsty master, Zenke picks up a stuttering habit thanks to his constant nervousness.
• Driven to Suicide: In the Vile God route, he enjoys seeing other people die so much that he kills himself after the party beats him in the final dungeon.
• Duel Boss: Briefly with Fang the first time the player encounters him. Tiara and Harley join up with Fang not long after the fight starts. The last time the player fights Zenke, it really is one-on-one.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In Refrain Chord, after being shown Bernard and Glace's master's project that apparently involved children and left Marianna, Paiga, and Apollonius utterly horrified, he calls them devils that deserve hell even more than he does himself. Given his laughter over the situation, however, he may very well be praising them for doing something more monstrous than he could have managed.
• Evil Is Hammy: Gleefully so. "I'll flood the world in BLOOD!" is among the more restrained things he can shout at Fang during their boss battle.
• Hate Sink: His Establishing Character Moment is to force villagers to kill each other, resulting in some of them committing suicide rather than obeying him. As such, it's hard to feel any sympathy for him when Sherman kills him. In the Vile God route, he starts out sympathetic, but eventually devolves into his old self and mocks Galdo's death to twist the knife against Fang and the players.
• It's Personal: After being defeated, he makes it his mission to collect as many Furies as he can to get revenge on Fang for humiliating him. He doesn't get a chance to act on it after Sherman one-shots him.
• I Surrender, Suckers: The last time the player fights him, Fang offers Zenke the chance to join him. Zenke appears to briefly consider it, but then tries to kill Fang when he lets his guard down. Luckily, Galdo sees it coming, and backstabs Zenke instead.
  • Subverted in the Vile God route, where he will wholeheartedly surrender and beg for his life after Sherman beats him.
• Laughing Mad: Both he and his fairy have a tendency to break into evil laughter at the slightest provocation.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Refrain Chord he has Fang's group cornered, Sherman's still recovering from a previous battle, and he has backup from Ethel. To everyone's surprise, he quietly leaves telling Ethel to take care of it and that she can have his share of the reward for killing them too. He pulls it again later with Noie in the middle of town, before finally admitting to Sherman that he's found people he actually doesn't want to kill.
• Sanity Slippage: Throughout the Vile God route. He starts off as a nervous and unconfident Reluctant Warrior who only fights the party out of fear, but he starts losing it after he betrays Galdo. By the time the party finds him the Dansklight Ruins, he's even crazier than he was in the original timeline.
  • In the Evil Goddess route, the wine's influence drives him mad, causing Marianna to look at him with pity.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Refrain Chord starts a little ways into what is normally the first timeline, after the point Sherman should have killed him. He's alive and well, allowing him to play a larger role in the story. He ends up forming an Odd Friendship with Sherman and survives to the end of the game.
• Stripperiffic: Della's clothes consist of little more than a bikini top and some short-shorts.
• Villainous Rescue: In Refrain Chord's second route, he shows up to save Zagi, who had chosen to stay behind to stall Al's army of artificial Fencers alone. His reasoning being that everyone's been making such a big deal out of them so he really wants to kill them now that they've been gathered in one place.
• You Have Failed Me: After his henchmen lose to Fang in Zenke's "tournament," Zenke kills them and calls them useless. He even does this to his own Fairy the last time he's fought.

Paiga Pairon

Vivian

"We especially can't risk damaging Dorfa's reputation! Our stock would fall drastically, we'd lose all public trust, and once that happens, we can kiss our year-end bonuses good-bye! If that happens, how am I supposed to pay my mortgage, my daughter's tuition, or my bar tab?"

Paiga voiced by: Yoji Ueda (Japanese) and Kyle Hebert (English)

Vivian voiced by: Nanako Yasuda (Japanese) and Wendee Lee (English)

One of Dorfa's Four Heavenly Czars, despite the fact that he has no interest in their goals and virtually no applicable skills. He spends most of his time bullied by everyone else, including his fairy partner Vivian (Vivia in Japan), only staying so that he can provide for his wife and three kids. Age 44.

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• Anti-Villain: He's honestly a good person, he's just unfortunately stuck working for Dorfa to take care of his family. Given Bernard's methods of dealing with people who try to leave, he never gets the opportunity to try until Dorfa has more or less fallen apart regardless of which timeline.
• Butt-Monkey: He's rarely treated with any kind of respect from the rest of the cast, including his own fairy Vivian, who frequently makes fun of him.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's the most cowardly of the Czars, but when he has to fight, he's about as strong as the others and has a One-Winged Angel form just like Marianna, Zenke, and Bernard.
• Drowning My Sorrows: After the stress starts affecting him, Vivian convinces him into doing this. The idea is quickly shut down by his wife.
• Heel–Face Turn: Leaves Dorfa in the Vile God route after the party beats him a second time, and he later tells them where the Vile God is being kept at. Downplayed in the Evil Goddess Route, where he leaves the Septerion club and helps take Galdo to the hospital, but he was never very loyal to them to begin with.
• Henpecked Husband: He's constantly at the mercy of his wife.
• I Am Your Opponent: In the Vile God timeline, Fang orders him to fight the party, but he replies that he's not trained for combat. When Fang threatens to defer his next bonus into a research fund for a product that they've never been able to sell, it motivates him.
  Vivian: Strengthen your resolve, Paiga. If you take action here, the president might actually take your advice later on.
  Paiga: ...A-All right, then! Heed me, kidnappers! I am your opponent! Stand and fight me!
• I Have a Family: In the Evil Goddess timeline, he begs Noie not to kill him after he killed Hanagata, saying that he has a family: a wife and kids, and he hasn't finished paying off his mortgage. He prepares to off him anyway, but Junown offers to let him join the Septerion Club instead. After a fashion, he accepts the offer.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He's only in Dorfa because he needs to be a breadwinner both for his wife and daughter.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Sports these whenever he's feeling particularly confident.
• Stripperiffic: Vivian's outfit covers about as much skin as a bikini would.
• These Hands Have Killed: After finding out that he had a part in Bernard's experiments on children, he becomes convinced his hands are stained in blood to the point where he can't even bring himself to touch his wife or daughters anymore out of fear of tainting them.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After he's defeated for the second time in the Vile God route, Fang lets him go after giving him some hot spring buns for him to have with his family, which he later says they loved.
• Wolverine Claws: In his Fury Form. He even has an extra set on his shoulders that he can launch at his opponents.

Other Characters

Emily

Voiced by: Sachika Misawa (Japanese) and Christine Marie Cabanos (English)

The younger sister of Apollonius, she has a chance encounter with Fang after he rescues her from some hoodlums.

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• Older Than They Look: Despite her small frame, she's officially 18 years old.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She only had one scene in the original game, but said scene served as the catalyst for Fang's decision to avoid killing his opponents.

Characters Introduced in Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force.

Junown (Jeune)

Voiced by: Ayumi Fujimura (Japanese, Advent Dark Force), Miho Hayashi (Japanese, Refrain Chord), and Abby Trott (English)

The manager of the Septerion Club. She's selling her wine for ridiculously high prices, with the final goal of reviving the Evil Goddess.

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• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Fond of doing this in order to get people to do what she wants, with her either sending people to a Justice Society camp or killing them outright if they refuse.
• Big Bad: In the Evil Goddess Route.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: In Refrain Chord's second route with Bernard and Al. They're only working together due to needing something from the others, and she's quick to try to kill them once she has what she wants.
• Blow You Away: Many of her attacks have a wind element to them, even after merging with the Evil Goddess.
• Combat Hand Fan: Her weapon of choice.
• Faux Affably Evil: She acts very formal and polite when talking to other people. However, she keeps the same tone while talking about killing them for not doing what she says, and she has no issue killing her own servants when she decides they aren't needed anymore anyway.
• Hate Sink: Despite being a Well-Intentioned Extremist, she doesn't get any tragic or sympathetic moments like the Big Bads of the other two routes. In-universe, her brutal maiming of Galdo and the way she exploits people enrages Fang so much that he doesn't even think of trying to redeem her, in contrast to how he still wanted to show mercy to Sherman in the Goddess Route. She's not as big an example as Zenke though, since she has some Laughably Evil moments like when she offers to give Fang Marshmallow Hell after seeing Harley pull him into her breasts.
• The Man Behind the Man: The Stinger reveals that Anju and her Grandfather are this to her.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: After she's defeated, she claims that she was trying to use the Evil Goddess's power to prevent the beings from the dimension the gods are from from invading their realm, since the Goddess can't stop them by herself.

Noie (Noe)

Voiced by: Takashi Hagashino (Japanese) and Chris Tergliafera (English)

A 29-year old assassin working for the Septerion Club. He constantly talks about wanting to die, hoping to reincarnate as an insect.

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• Blue-and-Orange Morality: His entire life revolves around accumulating just the right amount of karma and then dying in battle to become an insect to obtain true freedom. Suicide's absolutely not allowed, including intentionally losing in battle, as that would net him so much negative karma he'd never become an insect, killing people arbitrarily is negative karma, killing people for work is good karma. There are other numerous factors involved, so much so that making him stop to think about it is about the only way to get him to stop trying to kill you as he needs to make sure that he's got it all right on what kind of insect he'd become and exactly how much a given kill will adjust his karma.
• Casting a Shadow: Several of his skills are darkness based.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He wants to reincarnate into an insect specifically once he dies, despite not actually knowing much about them, and he thinks that taking too long to die will cause him to reincarnate into something else.
• Death Seeker: He's almost always talking about wanting to die, hoping to reincarnate into an insect once he does. He starts questioning this thought process in his own ending.
• The Dragon: To Junown until he leaves the Septerion Club and joins Fang's party.
• Dual Boss: With Ibfreet in one route of Refrain Chord. Fang lures Ibfreet out into the desert for a duel, only to end up finding Noie out there as well. The two agree to work together, as long as Noie is the one to get to kill Fang and Ibfreet gets Zagi.
• 11th-Hour Ranger: He joins the party very late into the Evil Goddess route.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Despite being a Fencer, he's not actually linked with a Fairy, with his gun instead using the Evil Goddess's blood to put him on par with a normal Fencer.
• Everyone Has Standards: He's disgusted after seeing what Junown did to Galdo, saying that even he isn't that vile.
• The Gunslinger: Uses a pistol as his main weapon.
• Hidden Depths: He's quite skilled at flower arrangement, and is encouraged to take it up as a hobby since it's still something relating to insects. He's also the first one to figure out that what Al overlooked in triggering emotions in Fleur and Glace was his own emotions due to also being one of the key materials in their creation.
• Manchild: After Fang refuses to kill him, he starts throwing a tantrum about how he won't let him die. He even starts crying over it.
• Nominal Hero: He only joins the party in Advent Dark Force because Marianna promised to kill him like he wants in exchange for him helping them. In Refrain Chord he joins because Pippin or Marianna, depending on the route, promise to teach him the proper way of accumulating good karma to ensure his desired reincarnation and to obtain freedom even while still being a human in the mean time.
• Scarily Competent Tracker: In Refrain Chord he pursues Fang's group all the way out into the desert, gets knocked unconcious, resumes the hunt immediately after waking up, before finally catching back up to them in the first route after Zenke had already canceled the hit. It's only his timely arrival to inform Noie of that fact and Pippin's promised lessons on managing karma that gets him to stop.
• This Is Unforgivable!: In Refrain Chord he is utterly enraged by the fact that Fang went out of his way to make sure that he was only left unconcious out in the middle of the desert and wouldn't die out there, as that was a really good time and would have certainly become an insect dying there. He's conflicted about killing Fang even without it being a job, uncertain how that'd affect his karma, and is ultimately talked down by Pippin promising to explain the best ways to manage getting the right amount for his desired reincarnation.
• Weak, but Skilled: As a party member, most of his normal attacks do less damage than the rest of the characters. This is offset with them all being able to inflict status effects.

Pappin

Voiced by: Tesshō Genda (Japanese)

Pippin's father, who's working for the Septerion Club. He's strongly devoted to the way of the warrior, and believes in absolute justice.

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• Badass Normal: Despite not being a Fencer, he makes short work of Fang and his party when they fight for the first time.
• Big Damn Heroes: He comes back as a spirit to help the party when they're losing against the Evil Goddess
• Blood from the Mouth: After he's beaten for the first time, showing that he doesn't have much time left.
• Grey-and-Gray Morality: How he sees the world, saying that the opposite of justice isn't evil, but just a different version of justice.
• Old Soldier: He's Pippins father, who's already implied to be pretty old at this point, and he's still a competent fighter.
• So Proud of You: Says this to Pippin as he's dying.
• Spam Attack: One of his attacks is just him repeatedly stabbing his target.

Chiaki

Voiced by: Ari Ozawa (Japanese)

A young girl working for the Septerion Club. According to Sherman, she looks very similar to his deceased sister.

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• Affably Evil: She's pretty polite despite working for the Septerion Club. When she's saved by Fang near the start of the Evil Goddess Route, she gladly treats him to a large feast and pays for their rooms at the Sunflower Inn.
• Big Damn Heroes: She comes back as a spirit to help the party when they're losing to the Evil Goddess.
• Defecting for Love: Was originally sent to keep an eye on Sherman by Junown, only to end up falling for him and deciding to help him for real.
• Senseless Sacrifice: She ends up Taking the Bullet for Sherman, only for him to die a few minutes later anyway.

Characters Introduced in Fairy Fencer F: Refrain Chord.

Fleur

Voiced by: Yui Ishikawa

A 19-year old "diva" Fang meets while in pursuit of Dorfa, her song holds special powers.

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• Amnesiac Hero: She's not aware of it at first, but as the story progresses she begins to notice that there are massive gaps and inconsistencies in her memory and it terrifies her. Among those details are that she had lived and worked in ruins back when they were new, that Al may not be who he claims to be and was incredibly abusive and bordering on homicidal toward her, that she may not even be human, and that she has an instinctive drive to protect Glace. The reason for this memory loss is Glace wiping her mind in order to keep her loyal to Allert and from revealing their plans to anyone.
• Artificial Human: She's a homunculus created using Allert's own flesh, combined with the Goddess and Vile God's blood and a broken Fury in order to have someone else around while trapped outside of reality.
• Character Select Forcing: Played straight with her in the few fights that don't force you to take her. Averted in regards to the Song Fairies as their song skills are given to her regardless of whether or not they're equipped, which would have otherwise forced Nuvanska for Tale of Eternity that applies a near map wide regen effect and Avalanche Harmonics attack after just a couple turns.
• Emotionless Girl: Downplayed; she does have emotions, she just lacks the ability to clearly display them. When explaining it to Fang, she describes it as being aware of what things are "happy" or "sad" and how to respond in the moment, but also being unable to react if she tries recalling those events. Fixing this "flaw" is Al's goal, and will stop at absolutely nothing to see it through.
• Flower Motifs: She wears numerous flowers in her hair, her mic stand staff ends in an unbloomed flower, and her name itself is French for flower.
• Magic Music: Her song can, among other things, enhance the normal capabilities of those hearing it and undo mind control. Her earliest use of this is to "heal" Fang from the brink of death by accelerating his natural regeneration.
• Me's a Crowd: After Harley figures out how Glace was doing it, specifically sensing Fleur whenever she sings and singing her own song to create a double at that location, she teaches Fleur what needs to be done. Fleur then baits Glace into sending another Glace Shadow, only to send her own in response to figure out where she and Al had gone to so they could stop them.
• Required Party Member: There are almost no battles that allow you to not have Fleur in the active party, and the few that do still strongly encourage taking her as her songs greatly increase the range of Avalanche attacks, Tale of Eternity in particular potentially spreading it across the entire map. The story justification for this is that her presence is how Glace is sending in her Glace Shadows in the first place. If Fleur isn't participating, Glace can't pin down where they're at and would lead to Gameplay and Story Segregation.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: She knows how to sing, talk, and walk... And that's about it honestly. She has no idea what a fridge or radio are, thinks eye drops work by stabbing the container into someone's eye, which very nearly happens to Fang, and considers fresh lettuce or gum to be ideal get well gifts for someone comatose in the hospital. Multiple characters comment on her complete and utter cluelessness about how things work, though she is trying her best to learn.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Her ending in Refrain Chord has Fang find a message she left behind. Said message has her talk about how she misses him and how happy she would've been to be with him, with her last words being that she hopes her heart will reach him one day.
• Support Party Member: She doesn't have much in the way of fighting ability, but she learns a wide variety of powerful buffs including her Magic Music. Said music not only provides various buffs but transforms any Avalanche Rush used in the area into an Avalanche Harmonics, increasing its area from a mere 5x5 space to the entire range of her song.
• When She Smiles: In both endings, she finally gets true emotions of her own and smiles, which Fang notes looks much better than her usual fake ones.

Al (All)

Voiced by: Takashi Kondo

Fleur's 36-year old partner and a scientist.

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• And I Must Scream: Allert and his lab were sealed away along with the Goddess and Vile God, and was made immortal in the process. He gradually went mad in that prison and created Fleur and Glace before eventually finding a way to escape.
• Body Horror: He ends up fused to the cockpit of his Humongous Mecha for the Final Boss fight against him. One arm has become a broken black mass with red Tron Lines, and a similar black mass has ruptured out half his head. His remaining eye turns completely black, save for the red iris. Wires and cables are digging into his neck and arms, causing massive bulging veins nearby. In the first route, the damage is so severe that not even the Goddess can do anything for him, aside from opening a portal back in time where his civilization's advanced technology may be able to do something. In the second route, he just suddenly recovers.
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Implied; when he gets dragged into a discussion between Fang and Galdo about which girls are whose type, he's more than willing to join in right up until they start talking about how Fleur's got a nice body, and that it's a shame Al's got no interest in her. Laughter all around, until he stops and is dead serious while telling them that, if they so much as touch her, they're going to regret it.
• The Dreaded: Played for Laughs; being "Harley, but for machines" immediately makes him this for Ryushin, who is completely and utterly terrified of the man to the point of having literal a Heroic BSoD. Played completely straight when it's revealed who he really is. Everyone in the group, except for Fang, immediately understands that he doesn't just share his name with the legendary Allert, but is in fact him, and exactly what that means for them if they cross him.
• Evilutionary Biologist: The second route reveals this about him. Creating artificial Fairies was not merely a way to gain favor with Dorfa to help in reconstructing his ancient weapon, but rather a secondary plan of attack against the Goddess and Vile God. If it was truly impossible for mortals to kill gods, he would create gods from humans by splicing their genetics with the Goddess's blood which ultimately resulted in the artificial Fairies and Fencers.
• Exact Words: His profile refers to him as Fleur's partner. It says absolutely nothing about him being a Fairy unlike other characters' partners, because he isn't.
• His Story Repeats Itself: Swilverch was the name of the city was obliterated by him in his attempt to destroy the Vile God. Naturally he chooses the new Swilverch as the target for his weapon, actually intending to wipe it out this time if Fang doesn't allow Al to kill him.
• Mood-Swinger: Al is normally pretty level headed, but can become just as disturbingly obsessed with machines as Harley does Fairies if something about them interests him. Reminding him of his failures, on the other hand, tends to flip him over to a raving lunatic. He manages to hide it while pretending to be Fleur's partner, only occasionally slipping some quiet but vile comment about the situation. Unfortunately for Fleur she's one of his failures, so he occasionally snaps and starts screaming at her or strangling her just because she spoke to him before calming back down.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Al is just a nickname, and even after this is revealed most characters continue to refer to him as such. Fleur stops using it when she regains her memories and starts using his real name, Allert, instead while Glace had always done so. The few times other characters make use of his real name, it's in reference to the legends about him rather than the man himself.
• Parental Substitute: Fleur is said to admire him like a father, and he says that he views her as a daughter specifically. Subverted, in that he is in fact her actual father.
• The Perils of Being the Best: The Ancients' society put all of their hopes on him, fearing they would be wiped out by the Vile God if he didn't do something about it. The pressure began to strain his sanity, to the point of considering turning on the Goddess next to completely free humanity from the Gods' control. His failure, and the resulting destruction, was the first of many things to drive him insane.
• Pet the Dog: He does genuinely care for Fleur and Glace, despite being failed experiments in his eyes, and tries to fix the flaw of being emotionless. The entire reason he had Glace set up Sherman killing Fang was to attempt to trigger strong emotions in Eryn and Tiara, hoping that it would resonate with them due to the shared divine blood and make it so they could have emotions. When he finally reveals who he is and leaves with Bernard, he allows Fleur to stay with Fang's group and forbids Glace from tampering with any of their minds again.
• Precursors: Al is not truly a Fairy, but rather one of the Ancients who created the advanced civilization that now lies in ruins around Zelwinds. Specifically he is Allert Arlant, also known as The Almighty All, a hero and more commonly villain of legends who created a weapon to destroy the Vile God. Said weapon only managed to wound the Vile God, and in the process obliterated the surrounding area. He also created Fleur and Glace to serve him during his time trapped outside of reality.
• Private Tutor: He ends up taking over teaching Ethel for Karin, since she doesn't quite know how to keep Ethel motivated when it comes to math. The gift he leaves for her in her ending is a complete lesson plan for Fang to help her with. Since he never studied a day in his life, he ends up taking the lessons with her instead of being Al's substitute.
• Sadistic Choice: He offers one to Fang twice in the first route. "Let me kill you, or I kill everyone else." The "everyone else" being Swilverch the first time, and the entire party, excluding Eryn and Tiara, the second time. The first time Fang's so broken from realizing he helped Al restore his ancient weapon that he takes the first option, only to be saved by Fleur. The second time, he calls him a moron for forgetting about the third option and reaches his second Fairize form.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Due to needing to work with Dorfa, and having undergone a Historical Villain Upgrade in the modern era, he gradually gets more and more into the villainous role that he's just playing while trying to trigger Fleur and Glace's emotions before finally permanently leaving the group to commit to working with and using Dorfa full time. In the second route, he even begins to forget his primary goal of helping his daughters and becomes bitter about the fact that the world seems determined to isolate and villify him, despite doing it to himself as Fang points out, and decides to destroy it in retaliation.
• This Is Unforgivable!: He blames the Goddess and Vile God for trapping him with them and makes it his life's goal to destroy them both.
• Villain Respect:
  • He holds Harley in high regard due to being pretty much the only person in the world who could even remotely approach him on an intellectual level. He is especially surprised with her figuring out how Glace was able to create the Glace Shadows and teach Fleur to do the same and praises her for it.
  • In the second route he leaves preserved genetic samples of the Goddess and Vile God for Harley to study, as well as the unused portion of the broken Fury he used in Fleur and Glace's creation, noting that the Fury was a mystery even he couldn't solve beyond being from a fourth god outside of the Goddess, Vile God, and Evil Goddess trinity and hopes that she can surpass him in that regard before whatever it is arrives. The Fury fragment, contrary to his note, is already missing by the time Fang arrives to discover this.
• Voice of the Legion: Once he ends up fused to his own mech, his voice takes on a mechanical echo.
• Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to say almost anything about Al beyond being a parental figure to Fleur without spoiling major details of the game's story.
• Was It All a Lie?: He cuts the group off on this before they can even ask, assuring them quite readily that he did in fact enjoy his time with them and meant every moment of it. Unfortunately for all involved, there are much more important things for him to be doing than being friends.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Everything he does is for the sake of giving Fleur and Glace emotions or helping humanity. For the former, he starts out small, just planning to kill Fang to cause the surge of emotion in Eryn and Tiara to resonate with his daughters toward that end. When that doesn't work out, he bumps it up to "commit genocide", and manipulates both Dorfa and Fang's group into helping him restore his ancient weapon and turns it on Swilverch, a nearby city that the group had been regularly visiting. As for helping humanity, the loss of numerous lives is worth it if only he can give them a way to be free of the gods that he blames for everything going wrong with the world.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: After the reveal of his identity, and that it would mean he's several centuries old, the group asks how he has lived that long. He doesn't know why himself, and he hates that he has been cursed to suffer in pain for eternity. It's likely that he found a way to stop living forever after the Goddess sends him back in time, along with Fleur and Glace, as he's no longer around and implies that he's dead in the note he left for Fang.
• Write Back to the Future: Before being sent back in time, in the first route he gives Fang his personal key card to access a locked room they found in Shuukesoo's Tower earlier in the game, while he just has Fang try to figure everything about this out on his own as a game in the second route. In that room Fang finds a note, letting him know that they were able to undo the damage that was done to him and that the three of them lived good lives, as well as a gift for whichever character's ending you got. Turning it into a game in the second route ends up backfiring on him, as it gave the Mysterious Man time to find the Fury fragment intended for Harley and steal it to prevent her from looking into the fourth god before it can arrive.

Glace

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa

A 19-year old "diva" working with Dorfa, she gathers Furies for her "master."

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• Artificial Human: She's a homunculus created using Allert's own flesh, combined with the Goddess and Vile God's blood and a broken Fury in order to have someone else around while trapped outside of reality.
• Elemental Motifs: Ice. She wears numerous ice styled accessories, her mic stand staff has a blade of ice at the bottom, and her name is derived from Glacial. Curiously, she lacks any sort of ice based attacks though.
• Emotionless Girl: As with Fleur, this is largely just an Informed Attribute. Unlike Fleur she almost seems to go out of her way to force this on herself. She often assures herself that her occasional outbursts, such as giving Marianna a heads up on where the children she grew attached to from the orphanage were taken to be experimented on, were just a whim that means nothing and won't effect her loyalty to her master.
• Magic Music: Her song can allow her to control the minds and memories of others.
• Me's a Crowd: Any battle where Glace herself could not participate due to being elsewhere, she's sent out a Glace Shadow to fight in her stead. This ability is also noted in the story itself, rather than just being a gimmick to excuse her presence in every battle to buff the enemies, as a Glace Shadow assists Ethel in her fight against Fang's group. Initially just a sidequest and free battle gimmick, after that event it becomes quite frequent in story battles as well.
• Support Party Member: Just not your party. Like Fleur, she has almost no actual fighting power. What she does have is a wide array of buffing abilities including her Magic Music. She falls just short of being a Mook Commander, as she can't keep her songs going forever and will have to take a few turns providing simple single target buffs to your enemies instead. She also has passive abilities that make her extremely resistant to damage as long as there are other enemies around in order to actively discourage players from killing her first.
• Ungrateful Bitch: Her response to Fleur saving her from Bernard, who was strangling her to death? Quickly retreat while continuing to provide Bernard support through a Glace Shadow.

Ibfreet (Evefleet)

Ibfreet voiced by: Shouma Yamamoto

Sui voiced by: Keito Okuyama

Zagi's childhood friend and a Fencer working for Dorfa. His partner is Sui, a small white snake that often rides on his shoulders. Age 19.

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• Big Eater: Sui eats a massive amount of food for his small size. It even got to the point where Ibfreet changed from taking assassination jobs to lesser paying monster extermination jobs just to let Sui gorge himself on countless monsters to have significantly more money by saving on food costs.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Only Fencers can be happy. Unhappy people can be made happy by dying. Keeping unhappy people alive is torturing them. Needless to say, attempts at getting him to see reason and stop trying to kill his non-Fencer best friend and Marianna do not work out well.
• The Corrupter: When given one final chance at becoming a Fencer, he's granted access to Dorfa's vault of unused Furies. The overseers panic when he selects Sui's Fury, as it destroyed the minds of everyone else who ever tried to take it. When he succeeds, Sui promptly destroys what little sanity he had left.
• Dual Boss: With Noie in one route of Refrain Chord. Fang lures Ibfreet out into the desert for a duel, only to end up finding Noie out there as well. The two agree to work together, as long as Noie is the one to get to kill Fang and Ibfreet gets Zagi.
• Dub Name Change: The English version changes his name from Evefleet to Ibfreet.
• Dual Wielding: His Fury is a unique pair of daggers.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Mostly just his face and from behind, a fact that causes him no small amount of grief as random men keep flirting with him. In fact, he looks so much like a woman that he was able to pass through an invisible barrier designed to keep men out, making him the only man able to participate in a battle against a bunch of perverted old monsters.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He really can not comprehend how non-Fencers can be happy and want to keep living. He eventually joins up with the group to try finding out how Zagi does it.
• Foil: Serves as one to both Ethel and Rinne, and both of them acknowledge how similar they are to him and that the slightest change in their lives could have sent them down the same path.
  • Like Ethel he was raised to be an assassin, and has a verbal tic of "kill"^*"Korosu" as opposed to Ethel's "Satsu" in combat. Unlike her, his Fairy actively pushes him to indulge in his madness instead of looking to become a better person.
  • Like Rinne he believes that only Fencers can be happy, due to the world treating anyone else like trash at best. Unlike Rinne, he doesn't see that some people can be happy without being Fencers and that not everyone does abuse non-Fencers and he actively pushes his worldview on others.
• Pragmatic Villainy: After getting Sui, Ibfreet admits to having shifted from assassination to monster extermination jobs. He clarifies to Fang that it's not out of some newfound respect for human life, but that even with extermination jobs paying less it's less of a financial strain because he doesn't have to buy Sui food.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has bright red eyes, and is completely and utterly insane.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Various men from around Zelwinds certainly think so, as do a group of perverted monsters. It's even enough for the monsters to decide that maybe men are fine too.
• Snakes Are Sinister: His Fairy Sui is a small white snake that just rides around on his shoulder, hissing into his ear and driving him deeper into insanity.
• Sore Loser: After losing a hunting competition against Noie, Soji, and Ethel, he demands a recount that would score things based on difficulty rather than pure numbers. While Ethel does agree that in hindsight that would have been a better method to determine the best hunter, and wants to start again, he is the only one to outright refuse to admit his loss.
• Token Evil Teammate: The only reason Ibfreet joins the group is to figure out why Zagi doesn't want to die. He's still quite willing to kill the others, Marianna especially.
  • After joining the group Sui urges him to do things like steal someone's dog to feed it to him, but is also willing to settle on an opportunity to eat someone else's Fairy. Ibfreet tries to feed him Khalara since that will get rid of Marianna without killing her directly, though she's able to escape before he can.
  • Sui halfway eats Cui after hearing that Tiara said she'd be eaten if she keeps acting up. Tiara is horrified to find out about this and forces Sui to spit her back up. Ibfreet assures her it was just Sui's way of getting them to make up. Once the two are gone though, it comes out that Sui really did want to eat Cui and has only let her go for now because they were caught.
  • When the group needs to get past a powerful monster on the Dashiro Plains to get to a Fury, Sui and Ibfreet are quick to suggest just offering up Marianna to it.
• Trap Master: He shares this niche in combat with Ethel, though there is no story focus for this ability unlike with her.
• Yandere: He utterly adores his best friend Zagi and wants what's best for him and makes sure everyone knows it. Unfortunately for Zagi "what's best for him" is death to escape the misery that is living while not being a Fencer. Marianna's on his kill list too, not out of a desire to help her though but because she dares to torture his friend with life.

Rinne

Voiced by: Kaede Hondo

An 11-year old girl and the first of Dorfa's artificial Fencers, she has an identical artificial Fairy named Lenne as her partner. She quickly becomes a true Fencer with A.J. as her Fairy partner.

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• Angsty Surviving Twin: Set up, though the angst part is mostly defied. After a lifetime of abuse for the twins, Lenne volunteering to become an artifical fairy and being reduced to a near mindless thing in the process, then dying in battle against Fang almost completely broke Rinne. In an attempt to draw a real Fury to kill him in retaliation, she ends up releasing A.J. who is having precisely none of that. She can be sad about it all she wants but she needs to set the matter aside for now and actually live for once first.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Her artificial Fury is a massive katar grafted onto her arm.
• Constantly Curious: Not quite to an annoying extent, but she's quite eager to learn new things no matter how real they may or may not be.
  • Interacting with Galdo has made her quite interested in learning more languages and dialects, which is further expanded on when Karin joins the group and shares with her various phrases she and Ethel picked up in their travels.
  • Interacting with Al and Bahus has made her interested in legends, even going so far as to drag the group off to a cave rumored to be a Shinigami's lair to meet it. When it turns out that it was just a normal monster, Bahus tells her he'll tell her about some other Youkai and she admits to looking forward to trying to find them personally as well.
  • Lola and Noie get the most straight forward example of this, including being annoyed by it. She presses them on why they're both loners and even asks them if they could try working as partners, if Noie would get her butterfly like wings when they Fairize, if he'd enjoy it, and finally why wouldn't he enjoy it.
• Glacier Waif: After her katar artificial Fury is destroyed, she obtains a large axe type Fury. Her damage and durability are quite exceptional, though her accuracy is quite lacking as many of her physical skills are unlikely to pass 75% even when attacking from behind.
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: The fact that she looks almost exactly like her brother, along with her use of boku, leads to many characters referring to her as though she was a boy. Her equipment restrictions being female gear give it away before the story does. A.J. calls the group out on it, as they're amazed that nobody noticed.
• Madness Mantra: "Come out" is repeated countless times while trying to draw out A.J.'s Fury to kill Fang. He's content to let her exhaust herself before trying to talk to her, right up until she actually succeeds. Fortunately, A.J. was able to talk her down.
• No Social Skills: Being a slave and later lab rat from an extremely young age will have that effect, but Rinne does not really get some basic details about interacting with people. For example, it never occurs to her to go to the women's bath nor to not just follow Fang and Sherman who were going to take her into the men's bath when they believed she was a boy.
• Precocious Crush: Ends up developing one for Fang. She has Karin teach her a phrase for it, though she remains to embarrassed to say it until near the end of the game where she uses the phrase to outright tell him she loves him. He takes it as "water bottle" and asks what was embarassing about it. She just sighs and calls him an idiot. ^*好いと Suito, a mix between the more common 好き/Suki "like" and いと/ito for "greatly", and 水筒/Suitou "water bottle".

Lenne

Voiced by: Misato Murai

An artificial Fairy created by Dorfa, he works with his identical Fencer Rinne. He was created using Rinne's twin brother.

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• Advertised Extra: Shown off as Rinne's mysterious identical artificial fairy partner, Lenne lasts all of two scenes before dying.
• Dying as Yourself: After his artificial Fury is broken he gradually returns to being himself just long enough to let Rinne know he loved her and wants her to live and that they didn't incorporate the binding of a Fencer and Fairy's life so she can live, and then fades away.
• Flawed Prototype: As the first successful artificial fairy, Lenne is clearly defective. He's rendered almost completely incapable of speech, beyond alerting Rinne to their current compatibility levels, and the artificial Fury he was bound to shatters after being used in combat twice, resulting in his death.
• Semi-Divine: The process of creating artificial Fairies is revealed to be taking a human and splicing them with the genes of a god.

A.J.(OJ)

Voiced by: Yuuki Fujiwara

A 30-year old "high-tension genderless man", A.J. is Rinne's true Fairy partner and parental figure.

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• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Physically, they're clearly male. However they're specifically referred to as a "genderless man" in the Japanese version. The English version omits that and simply refers to them using singular they and them.
• Berserk Button: A.J. has a lot of them, bordering on a full blown Hair-Trigger Temper.
  • Despite the fact that she doesn't personally care, do not mistake Rinne for a boy around A.J.. A.J. does not let a single person live down the fact that they made such a simple mistake, and will not tolerate it happening again.
  • Don't touch their makeup. As Fang and Rinne found out, the resulting rampage can only be stopped by Pippin's calming words and Soji promising to get them a replacement for the broken lipstick.
  • Do not call anyone younger than A.J. old in their presence. Ibfreet finds this out the hard way, calling Marianna an old lady within earshot of A.J.. Cue A.J. ranting about how she's not old, she's a young lady, because if she's old then it's just a matter of time before people start calling A.J. "granny". If they hear Ibfreet call Marianna old one more time, he'll be permanently banned from eating.
• Doting Parent: They utterly adore Rinne and do everything they can to give her a good life. Unlike Bahus and Marissa, A.J. knows when to put their foot down about any of the girl's poor behavior before it can become habit.
• Dub Name Change: From OJ to A.J..
• Foil: To Bahus. Both are parental figures with a mix of traditionally masculine and feminine traits. Bahus has difficulties dealing with children, while A.J. is quite good at dealing with Rinne. Bahus comes off as stern but easily gives and lets Harley get away with anything, A.J. comes off as being very hands off on matters but quickly puts their foot down to correct any poor behavior. Bahus's cooking specialties and preferences lie in western foods, while A.J. favors Japanese style foods.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Beauty Equals Goodness is not a good measure for deciding who your allies are, contrary to A.J.'s beliefs. Bernard helps the group once, and A.J. starts fawning over him the same way Eryn does Sherman.
• Innocent Innuendo: They're heading out with Soji for the night and won't be back until morning. Al immediately assumes this means something sexual is going on, and tries to change the subject rather than try to explain it to Fleur and Rinne. When the two return in the morning it turns out they were actually out trying to find a rare flower that only blooms at night as a gift for Rinne.
• Mood-Swinger: A.J. is normally quite friendly, but can in an instant become utterly enraged with just about anyone not named Rinne, then immediately snap back to their cheerful personality once they've scared the hell out of whoever it was that set them off.
• One of the Girls: Outside of Soji, their interactions are heavily limited to the girls. If they're interacting with any other man, it's usually because it's about the group's meals or Rinne is involved in what's going on.
  • They often accompany Tiara and Eryn on shopping trips, and readily joins in on any girl talk they come across.
  • Fang counts A.J. among the women of the group, even noting to himself that it's exhausting being the only man in the room when they all get excited over things.
• The Power of Lust: A.J.'s main reason for urging Rinne to go with Fang's group, instead of just stopping the fight? They're all just so beautiful, so they'd be perfect friends. A.J. does quickly consider that this was a mistake due to Fang's personality, but still holds that they should be friends.
• Promotion to Parent: Rinne's parents were killed, then she and her brother were sold off to be slaves then sold off again to Dorfa. A.J. is very quick to assert theirself as a responsible parental figure to the girl and is utterly determined to make sure she gets to live a normal and decent life.
• Ship Tease: They hit it off quite quickly with Soji, and their interactions can easily be taken as flirting even when it's something else entirely as Al learned first hand.
• Supreme Chef: After joining the group, they occasionally take over for Bahus when preparing meals for the group. While Bahus has a more extravagant style of cooking, they focus heavily on making the meals as nutritious as possible while still maintaining good taste.
• Team Dad: A.J. is quick to assert theirself as this among the other parental fairies, as Bahus and Marissa are both a bit too lenient for their own good. Bahus in particular gets chewed out for this due to him showing that he can be assertive with people due to getting angry at Rinne, an actual child, for making a mess at the table while bending over backwards and making excuses for the walking disaster that is Harley.

Pepen

Voiced by:

An unusual miner/archaeologist, Pepen works with Fencers like Fang to find lost treasures by making use of Furies' "Locate Influence" effect when placed into the ground.

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• Adventurer Archaeologist: For the most part, averted. The most unusual aspect of his "Locate Influence" style of archaeology is that it involves stabbing the ground with Furies to find treasure and ruins to explore. Since he's not a Fencer himself that's where Fang and the others come in, who do get pushed fully into this role upon finding new battlefields to fight for said treasures.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Despite basically being a brown Pippin with a mining helmet on, absolutely nobody finds him unusual in anyway. Pippin, on the other hand, is still treated with facination as a complete and utter mystery.