Fina's party in Season 3. Much like Rain gathered his team in Season 1. Fina initially meets every main party member in a specific world, joining after the work in that world is done. They form a team that is supposed to close every Hollow wormhole in order to restore balance to the universe, according to a legend.
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Tropes associated with the whole team:
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: In line with the "Magical Girl" aesthetic, Fina is blue, Daisy is red, Kalmia is green, Poppy is yellow, Nerine is white and Cleome is black. Curiously, Garote's true Hollow Keepers follow the same color scheme.
- The Fellowship Has Ended: A side effect of Fina ceasing to exist in order to convert the Will of Oblivion to a Will of Light is that her party (both her parties actually) loses The Heart and is completely broken on the following months. Chapter 9 puts the team back together due to Rain's effort of bringing Fina back.
- A second instance happens at the end of Season 3 but on a more positive note as the Will of Balance was put in its place and reformed into the Will of Light and Will of Oblivion by Fina. Even Roca, who is the closest person Fina has now, goes off on a journey of her own.
- Forgotten First Meeting: The main members of Fina's party apparently all met as children at one occasion, courtesy of Fina. They end up remembering it in Chapter 6 amid their own war with the Hollow Keepers. Now let's ask ourselves how Fina managed to temporarily transport five children seven centuries back in time.
- Rule of Sexy: Apparently, if you're a female member of the team, you must expose your midriff in your Hollow Breaker clothing.
- "Super Sentai" Stance: Poppy's idea for introducing Fina's team. Kalmia and Nerine are embarassed at no end at this in Symphonia.
- Theme Naming/Flower Motifs: Save for Fina (who is still represented by the lotus flower), Bruce, Rinora and Roca, all of the main members have their names based on flowers.
- Throw It In!: In-universe example. Chorale is the one who tells Fina about the Hollow Breakers, and Poppy decides to just roll with it as the name for Fina's team. The party has no objections.
Fina
See the Main Character page for more details.Daisy
A resident of Wohlstok. A stage actress by trade, she was the only one not affected by the lack of emotions caused by the Hollow, and this was already getting to her when Fina and Bruce came to her aid. When the emotions of Wohlstok are restored, Daisy feels compelled to follow Fina in her journey.- Action Girl: Daisy may be an actress, but her introduction says all you need to know about how well she handles in combat: she is seen struggling against some monsters but still pulling through.
- Back from the Dead: Fina asks the Will of Light to revive Daisy in Season 3's ending.
- Barrier Warrior: Her main appeal as a physical tank is a party 70% physical mitigation cooldown skill. In her LB, she appears to be creating Beehive Barrier that presumably translates into earth and light resistance.
- Best Friend: Daisy quickly evolves into being this for Fina, and is the most crushed by Fina's Heroic Sacrifice, worse than even Rain.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Seems like her main element. Her summer duo unit with Fina confirms this by means of their Brave Shift focusing on Daisy's specialties.
- Glacier Waif: Daisy's role in Fina's party is that of a physical tank. While she's not as efficient as Awakened Warrior of Light, she can more than pull her own weight, especially in light of WoL's own secondary utility as a healer fading out. Her NVA made her far better in that regard.
- Heroic Sacrifice: After not being able to stop Moneta on her own, Daisy decides to make the ultimate move and give her life to save Rain. Which ends up triggering Fina's own revival.
- Innocently Insensitive: She wasn't aware that calling Nerine a steward would remind the latter of her complicated relationship with Chorale, Couleur Castle's steward. When Kalmia reminds her why it was not a good thing to say that, she thought the one in love with Chorale was Swan.
- Megaton Punch: Known to dish some real raw strength when push comes to shove.
- The Rival: She's this to Milietta as an actress. Despite Milietta looking smug, she and Daisy are actually good friends, even betting food on who gets to act better.
- Ship Tease: With Fina in their CG summer dual unit. Their limit burst involves the two of them staring passionately into each others' eyes, holding hands, and getting closer and closer until a wave obscures their nearly-touching faces.
- Stalker with a Crush: Yes. She's yet another girl who takes romantic interest in Rain upon meeting him, after Fina, Mirfas and Nagi.
- Statuesque Stunner: Pay attention to Fina and Daisy's Summer CG and you'll realize that Daisy has a toned physique and is a good head taller than Fina.
- Sweet Tooth: Daisy can't spend a day without thinking on what sweets she can come across on her travels, almost crossing into Obsessed with Food.
Kalmia
A doctor who used to serve the Illumia Kingdom. When the Queen of Illumia refused to let Kalmia work on a cure for the Withering, a lethal disease that targets men in her world, Kalmia broke off on her own and started scouring the kingdom for both the cure and the responsible. Her luck changes once she meets Fina's team. In gratitude for Fina's efforts, Kalmia ditches her allegiance to Illumia and joins her team.- Combat Medic: When you fight her on the first meeting, she'll first buff herself, then spit an Ultima at you.
- Lazy Bum: For all her dedication to her job as a medic, Kalmia hates homework. Rinora often complains about her clothing and other stuff being scattered around the Farplane Express.
- Lethal Chef: Rain has finally found a competitor in that regard. Her definition of pizza, for example, is basically a burned disc of pasta.
- Stripperiffic: Both in her civilian clothing and as a Hollow Breaker, Kalmia's undercut leaves not much to the imagination, exposing cleavage and her midriff.
- Ship Tease: It's heavily implied she might be interested in Melo.
- White Magician Girl: Kalmia serves as this for Fina's party, being the primary healer.
Poppy
A girl hailing from the poor town of Schnee in the Kingdom of Couleur. Poppy tries to follow her deceased parents' footsteps in being an artist, something people note she doesn't have much talent at. Despite this, she maintains a happy and energetic demeanor. When Fina's party gives her encouragement to push through in spite of Couleur's situation, Poppy decides to tag along.- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Sometimes Poppy's view of things, even for the Pollyanna she is, seems disconnected from reality. She's also prone to Funny Background Event instances, such as dancing around the place while Nerine and Daisy tell Fina about their encounter with Rain and Lasswell in Berga.
- Despair Event Horizon: She starts to plunge into heavy depression once Bruce dies and almost falls prey to Moneta due to this.
- It's further revealed that after her parents' death by illness, she tried to sell their art to no avail and was nearing her mental limit before Fina approached her.
- Dub Name Change: "Pone" in Japanese could easily translate into "Peony". The translators decided instead for "Poppy".
- Genki Girl: Keeping Poppy in a single place is basically impossible.
- Gratuitous Spanish: For some reason, the translators thought that giving Poppy random Spanish phrases to compensate for her Kansai accent in the Japanese version was a good idea. They rapidly ditched it by the start of Chapter 4 and Poppy has better dialogue from then on.
- High Hopes, Zero Talent: Poppy wants to become a recognized artist because her parents were such. Problem is, when your "art" looks like a kid's doodles and you show no interest on improving...
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Poppy is not at her normal if she isn't acting all chippy and energetic. Which starts to be the case after Bruce's death.
- The Pollyanna: The most optimistic and cheery of the team, nacht. When shit doesn't seem to be completely going down the drain, that is. Then it switches into being her Fatal Flaw as she uses it to hide her own despair.
- Stepford Smiler: Poppy's Story Event reveals that life in Schnee is crappy beyond all conception, and the prejudice between artists and non-artists is far worse than Chorale first demonstrated. She does her best to hide her own pain over her experiences from everyone.
- Support Party Member: Her arrival in JP marked a new Power Creep for support units, one that enhanced!Sylvie, Rinora and Yoshikirinote in GL failed to surpass, and one that no other support unit managed to surpass so far save for Yuraisha's NVA and with few others such as enhanced!Sweet Luka and Grim Lord Sakuranote in JP offering any competition. To her own favor, after using her unlock buff, Poppy has 45% physical and magic mitigation, can significantly give killers for Plant and Stone monsters and resistance to damage from these races, can imbue Wind, Water and Holy and amplify its damage (she was the first unit with that ability in JP, with others following not long after), buff for 200~230% in all stats (250% in her LB, only surpassed by Yuraisha's shifted LB), imperil Wind, Water and Holy for 120% in her LB, and lots of other stuff. Her cooldowns include giving massive durability to an unit for a single turn and giving a high charge to the party's LB gauge while buffing its damage.
- Terrible Artist: Take a good look at Poppy's art and try to say to anyone's face that it is not anything short of a kid's scribbles. Not that Poppy minds or even tries to improve; she convinces herself that her graffiti is good.
- Twin Tails: Like Sakura in Season 1, Poppy sports a massive pair of lilac-colored ponytails on the sides of her head.
Nerine
Daughter to knights of Couleur, she grew up to be a Body Double to the kingdom's princess, Swan. When the Hollow hits the kingdom and deprives it of all color, causing the rift between artists and common people to vanish, she is one of the people in opposition to the idea of color coming back, an idea supported by Swan's former steward and current love interest, Chorale of the Hollow Keepers. Once Fina makes her realize the problems of Chorale's rhetoric and the need for a body double in Couleur disappears, Nerine decides to go with Fina in order to track Chorale down.- Awful Truth: Chorale for a long time is none too wiser to the idea that the Swan he's been courting was a Body Double, and Nerine is also not happy with how things turn out between them. Daisy tries to let Chorale in on the loop, but Kalmia stops her, saying this is something he has to figure out for himself.
- Best Friend: Has this friendship dynamic with Swan.
- BFS: Has an alien-looking blade that seems more akin to a spear than it is to a sword.
- Blow You Away: Nerine has access to Wind imbue and imperil.
- Body Double: She was raised from childhood to be one to Princess Swan of Couleur, with the whole process shown in her Story Event.
- Upon her return to Couleur in the season's ending, she decides to take upon Chorale's role to uplift people.
- Crazy-Prepared: Expect Nerine at all times to pull something from some Hammerspace she knows the party will need.
- Making a Splash: Water is one of her main elements.
- Pursuing Parental Perils: Nerine became proficient with a sword out of inspiration from her parents as Knights of Couleur. They died defending their king against brigands in Schnee; when Owl saw in Nerine a potential knight and a perfect body double for Swan, Nerine Jumped at the Call without thinking twice, knowing she'd get the knight training she wanted.
- Secret-Keeper: She has to leave Chorale out of the notion of Swan having a body double for a huge chunk of the story. When Chorale discovers this, he's definitely not happy about it.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: Nerine starts adopting this approach when dealing with Chorale once she realizes he's too far gone as a person.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's the tallest member of Fina's party at 1,75m.
- Talk to the Fist: Get her fed up enough, and she'll go straight into aggression, as Chorale can attest to.
- Twin Switch: This is the mechanic Owl intended between Nerine and Swan when raising the two, having Nerine and her skills as a knight handle more dangerous situations in Swan's place, to the point the two girls learned to constantly switch places between each other. It shows at the endgame parts of her Story Event, where Nerine manages to switch with Swan in order to battle the latter's captors, who were trying to expose her Body Double to the Couleur Kingdom.
- We Used to Be Friends: Once Nerine realizes that Chorale's Black-and-White Morality has completely changed his person, she decides to just turn against him for good, calling him out on his hypocrisy.
Cleome
A young girl studying in Symphonia's Music Academy. She has incredible natural talent with instruments inherited from her parents, and even more talent as a fighter, something Akstar takes notice of. Her growing conflict with her Best Friend Conche causes Cleome to tag along with Fina in order to bring her back home.- Abusive Parents: Her uncle and aunt treated her like little more than a slave, leeched off of her heritage and were all too willing to keep her from following her dreams until Ambie stepped on the scene.
- Badass Adorable: The smallest, youngest member of Fina's party and yet she packs a fiercer punch than even Nerine.
- Berserk Button: Cleome hates pianos. She only tries to play those when it comes to being alongside Conche, as she can put herself on the same level as her Best Friend due to her incapability to concentrate when playing said instrument. It's shown in a flashback that her mother was a pianist; her death (by suicide, no less) followed by her father's (who fell into madness and also killed himself) caused Cleome to take a huge hate of the instrument, to the point the girl outright goes aggressive when people try to make her play it.
- Big Damn Heroes: She saves Rinora from a potentially fatal attack from Garote just in time when she arrives with the rest of Fina's party.
- Big Eater: She's worse than everyone else in the team, and even outside of it if we take Physalis into account. Daisy notes that she spends hours on end eating, to which she excuses that she does it when she's nervous.
- Broken Bird: Her Story Event makes it clear that the girl is depressive. With good reason: she lost her parents (which caused her to have a stark hatred of the instrument her mother used to play her), spent years being exploited by her uncle and aunt, who would refuse to let her sing. Cleome suffered all manners of Parental Abuse from them until a spirit possessed her and locked her into the very instrument she hates, forcing Ambie from the Music Academy to intervene. The problem is that the spirit that possessed Cleome became the only friend she had, so when Ambie finally exorcises it out of the girl, she's devastated rather than relieved. When her uncle tried to throw the authorities at Ambie and Cleome, Ambie turned the police on them for the abuse instead and took Cleome under her wing. While Cleome got better upon meeting Conche and enrolling in the institute, you can see by her first appearances before Fina's team that she's still a heavily withdrawn person.
- Casting a Shadow: Her main element. She has Dark imbues and imperils for herself, with her Brave Shift focusing on that element. Her dual unit with Akstar has the Brave Shift focusing on her side of the duo via Dark-elemental attacks.
- Combination Attack: She gets a dual unit with Akstar centered around this mechanic.
- Cuteness Proximity: Poor Moog, having to handle Cleome and Conche's love for fluffy animals.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Cleome had it shitty her whole life. Her mother was a talented musician who wanted Cleome to follow in her footsteps, but her father thought otherwise. Her father in an argument broke her mother's hands, depriving her of the ability to play piano, eventually leading to her depression and suicide. The same befell Cleome's father as he descended to madness and took his own life as well, which caused Cleome to gain an enormous hate of the instrument. Not helping matters is that her guard went to her aunt and uncle, two assholes who wanted to exploit her dry of her parents' money while treating her as little more than a slave. Then, to top it all off, she is possessed by a spirit that basically locks her into playing a piano, forcing someone from the Music Academy to intervene... Except said spirit was the only person who actually cared for Cleome, which drives the girl further into depression. It's not until she sees Conche sloppily trying to play a guitar that she decides to make something of her own life and make things better for herself.
- Demonic Possession: Cleome was victim of one prior to her enrollment in the Music Academy. Said spirit took massive liking to Cleome, who also saw it as the only friend she had.
- Fatal Flaw: Anger, something Cleome has insane amounts of pent-up inside herself due to her Dark and Troubled Past, and which she threatens to unleash on Rinora after Bruce's death.
- Genius Bruiser: Cleome is an extreme battle analyst capable of finding and exploiting her opponent's flaws in the blink of an eye. In the 5th Anniversary Story Event her Vision manages to do this to a Vision of Edel, a being several magnitudes of power above her, winning her and Akstar a fight.
- Hime Cut
- An Ice Person: One of her main elements is Ice.
- It's Personal: She doesn't take Bruce's death well and considers killing Rinora to avenge him. Akstar, having known a life of searching for Revenge, talks her out of this.
- Katanas Are Just Better: While her CG doesn't show it as particularly big, her sprite has her wielding a blade twice her size, which routinely draws player comparisons between her and Sephiroth.
- Little Miss Badass: She seems no older than fourteen. But between her musical abilities and her fighting prowess, you can just say this teenager is surely fit for this.
- Lonely at the Top: Being the best musician in the Institute caused people to fear Cleome, which further contributed to her isolation, and to her deciding to make friends with Conche, a talentless girl.
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter: The main schtick she has as a finisher when compared to units that were made "cookie cutter" to Regina's kit. Her abilities follow very different patterns to the usual "buff into bomb" finisher, even limiting her to a Triplecast. Due to her interest in music, her abilities also work more akin to a Bard's.
- Playing with Fire: Cleome has Fire imbuing and imperil for her attacks.
- The Rival: Conche started her friendship with Cleome under the pretense that she needed a rival in music. The truth is that they needed one another; Cleome was the only one who liked and was willing to listen to Conche's music, and Cleome, already a very protracted person, knew her reputation as the most talented musician in the Scholastic City left her alienated from other students, while Conche didn't care about this in the slightest.
- The Stoic: Most of the time, Cleome refuses to let her emotions show in front of people.
- Not So Stoic: That said, if something happens regarding Conche, she'll completely lose her shit. Or regarding Bruce for that matter.
- Token Mini-Moe: Cleome is by far the youngest member of Fina's team, and also one of the most adorable as well.
Bruce
The first person Fina encounters once she's pulled into the Farplane Express, an affable man with a taste for magic tricks. He serves as the voice of reason in Fina's party much like Nichol once did for Rain and Lasswell. He's noted to have quite some history that he doesn't disclose with anyone else until it comes to bite him back in the ass in Berga, his homeworld.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Bruce keeps a clean suit to fit his style.
- Determinator: The amount of punishment Bruce takes during the Berga arc even after getting stabbed by Rinora and told by Kalmia that this constant push through will kill him is admirable. This eventually costs his life, but not before he manages to undo the possession on his son.
- Exact Words: Bruce says he can't use any more summon magic, but he never says that he lost it, and that he'll be able to use it again if their journey is complete. That's because the Phantom Express is actually his summoning of Doomtrain, and he can't summon anything else while it's still manifested. Once the journey is complete, he plans on dismissing Doomtrain and will thus be able to use summons again normally.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: Bruce says in-story that he cannot summon anything, but he can use an equipped summon just as well as anyone else if he's pulled.
- Gone Horribly Right: In Bruce's backstory - he's the Hollow Bringer, responsible for bringing the Hollow into the world again. He brought it out because he heard it could take away something bringing pain and suffering into the world. It technically does in fact do that - en route to destroying the world. Bruce did not know about that latter part at first.
- Heroic Resolve / Heroic Sacrifice: Bruce is stabbed and seriously wounded by Rinora in the middle of Chapter 5 and Kalmia warns him he won't last if he decides to push through. Bruce decides to finish what he started anyways, giving his all and far more than that, and by the end of the Chapter, he ends up dying.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Technically, Bruce has this with Fina's entire party, as he's a middle-aged man walking among teen to young adult girls.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He's actually Rinora's father.
- Mage Marksman: Bruce uses guns to fight, and also uses magic from them to seal wormholes.
- Mutually Exclusive Power-Ups: It turns out that Bruce's Summon Magic works this way - he can't use a different summon while another is active. Since the Phantom Express is actually the esper Doomtrain, Bruce can't summon anything else while it's active.
- Mysterious Stranger: Bruce tells Fina he "discarded his past" when they first meet. Chorale in Symphonia suspects Bruce hides more than everyone, including him, knows, and the façade starts falling apart once Diverti enters the scene, forcing him to come clean to Fina and the others.
- Revenge: Bruce and the Will of Oblivion have a serious score to settle. This also applies to Diverti.
- Sharp-Dressed Man
- So Proud of You: After Fina and Bruce battle near the end of Chapter 5 and Bruce wins, Bruce happily notes how she's gotten far more powerful since they first met. This also cements for good Fina's Character Development, both as a person and as a fighter.
- Stage Magician: Bruce prizes himself in his abilities as a magician, often pulling magic tricks for his friends.
- Summon Magic: Bruce states to Fina early on that he was formerly a Summoner. He makes use of this to summon Doomtrain to aid Fina in Berga.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: In Morlocke, Bruce denies to Dacht that Rinora is his son, saying he's only a traveling companion. Dacht, however, doesn't buy it.
- Taking the Bullet: Rinora sets Roca to kill Fina and Bruce sees himself forced to take the blow for her.
- These Hands Have Killed: Bruce believes that Ella's death is his fault, as he dodged the projectile that ended up lethally wounding her. The start of his Story Event even has him mention that his hands are stained with blood.
- Wham Episode: Chapter 5 as a whole is dedicated to Bruce and Rinora, as Berga is their homeworld and Bruce's past is finally made clear to Fina's party.
Rinora
The conductor of the Farplane Express, a boy with no memories and a simple demeanor. Not much is known about him due to him not remembering who he was before joining the Express. He's later revealed to be Bruce's child.- Amnesiac Dissonance: Once Rinora becomes possessed it looks like this, but he's actually a good person trapped in a horrible situation.
- Demonic Possession/Brainwashed and Crazy: The Will of Oblivion possessing Rinora caused him to kill his mother Ella, almost kill Bruce, and in the present, actually finishing the job in Chapter 5. This is not to mention his brainwashing of Roca, which no member in Fina's party takes well. Once back to normal, Rinora shows fierce discontentment over this stint.
- Evil Laugh: Man, does he throw a lot of these when possessed.
- Diabolus ex Machina:
- Rain seemed to be handling Chorale's underlings pretty well on his own until Possessed!Rinora and Diverti showed up. Then the fight got quite even for Rain and Lasswell for a while before Chorale interrupted and decided to make a retreat.
- Every time he appears while possessed, things go From Bad to Worse. This includes stabbing Bruce, brainwashing Roca and giving a fierce, unrivaled trashing to Fina's party that takes his own father's sacrifice to stop.
- Easy Amnesia: Rinora is stated to not have any memories from before he joined the Farplane Express. After Doomtrain attacked a possessed Rinora and knocked him off of a cliff, he hit his head and lost his memories.
- Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Unlike Sol as a villain in Season 2, his acts when possessed by the Will of Oblivion take quite some time to be forgiven, given he killed his own father. Just ask Cleome, the one who got the closest to Bruce.
- Replacement Goldfish: Rinora offers to aid Fina personally to make up for his acts while possessed, which completely triggers Cleome as the slot he suggests to replace is his father Bruce's.
- Sixth Ranger Traitor: Caused by Demonic Possession, but still.
- Stage Magician: Rinora tries to follow after his father from Chapter 6 on, but he's not as good as Bruce. This is not to say how in bad taste this is to Cleome.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Let's put it like this: while possessed by the Will of Oblivion, Rinora takes on Fina's entire party, Roca included, and wins with zero effort. It takes Bruce giving his own life to overpower Rinora and bring him back to normal.
- Support Party Member: Rinora specializes in buffs, contrasting Bruce's ability to fight.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: After the timeskip in Chapter 8 of Season 3, Rinora is distinctly more cocky and rude to everyone, even his friends. Of course, between being possessed by a world-destroying entity that used Rinora's body to kill his own father, plus the fact that Jerk with a Heart of Gold Diverti is now Rinora's guardian/mentor, he's been through a lot and it's clearly affected him.
- Tragic Keepsake: His conductor uniform was made by his mother Ella as a birthday gift.
- Walking Spoiler: Chapter 5 makes him this as he and Bruce are the stars of the whole Wham Episode.
