Character sheet for the sequel series Four Knights of the Apocalypse.

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Four Knights of the Apocalypse

"Famine. Pestilence. War. Death. Four knights, bringin' four world-ending calamities."

— Sin

Four knights prophesied to destroy the constructed realm of Camelot.

In General

Anti-Anti-Christ: The Four Knights of the Apocalypse are called that because they will destroy Arthur's world, an artificial Lotus-Eater Machine built on stolen chunks of reality. It's their enemies who invented the epithet.
Birds of a Feather: All of the Knights' love interests complement them in some way.
- Tristan and Isolde are dedicated Holy Knights who care way too much about what others think of them.
- Lancelot and Guinevere are emotionally expressive manipulators who know how it feels to be objectified.
- Percival and Anne are ambitious warriors not shy about speaking their minds.
The Chosen Many: The four have been identified by oracles as the ones who will defeat King Arthur and destroy his Chaos dimension.
Color-Coded Characters: Each one has the hair or (in Lancelot's case) eye color of one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
- Percival - Green
- Lancelot - Red
- Tristan - White
- Gawain - Black
Cosmic Motifs: Most of them, excepting Percival, are associated with a celestial body.
- Moon - Lancelot is prominently framed by the moon, symbolizing change, love, and impossible goals.
- Stars - Tristan's signature spells are named after stars ("Healing Star", "Falling Star", etc) and his demon mark is shaped like a four-pointed star.
- Sun - Gawain is treated as Escanor's successor and it's stated her magic is related to his Sunshine.
Dysfunction Junction: Percival's grandfather was murdered in front of him, Lancelot was held captive for three years, Tristan lives in the shadow of his far more capable and physically healthy parents, and Gawain had an abusive family member who taught her bullies could do anything they wanted.
Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Percival is The Optimist, being naive, idealistic and the most traditionally heroic of the four. Lancelot is The Apathetic since he's mostly aloof and prefers to not get involved in other people's problems or fights unless these are directly connected to his own goals. Tristan is The Realist because he acts as a mediator among his allies and takes a By-the-Book Cop attitude when dealing with enemies. Gawain is The Cynic, as she firmly believes might makes right and treats those who don't agree with her as foolish weaklings.
- This is reflected in how they deal with Pellegarde: Gawain wants to kill the guy for insulting her, Tristan wants to apprehend him, Lancelot wants to let him go because he doesn't think he's dangerous, and Percival wants to bring him to their side.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Percival is the cheerful, friendly and compassionate Sanguine. Lancelot is the serious, somewhat brooding and wary Melancholic. Tristan is the polite, gentle and virtuous Phlegmatic. Gawain is the cocky, vicious and rebellious Choleric.
Heroes "R" Us: They essentially serve Liones, whose leaders know exactly what the Knights will accomplish in the future (it helps that they saved the city in their first public appearance) and quickly place the country's resources at their disposal.
Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Their prophecy is based on the Four Horsemen who will bring the apocalypse in The Bible. They're called "the Four Knights (Kishi)" because that's what the biblical figures are typically called in Japanese. Each of them is associated with one of the Horsemen's job description; Percival is Death, Lancelot is War, Tristan is Pestilence and Gawain is Famine.
Light Is Good: Three of them have powers with light-related motifs, specifically Gawain's "Sunshine", Lancelot's "Shining Road", and Tristan's "Falling Star".
Nice Job Breaking It, Herod: They're attacking King Arthur because he tried to assassinate them to prevent a prophecy that said they would attack him.
Party of Representatives: All of the major clans (except the giants) have some blood relative in the group.
Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The four are named after one of the Knights of the Round Table from Arthurian Legend.
- Percival is based on and named after Sir Percival, alternatively called Peredur, the Grail knight or one of the Grail knights in numerous medieval and modern stories of the Grail quest. His friend and eventual love interest Anghalhad is named after Angharad Golden-Hand, the lover of Peredur in the myth cycle Mabinogion.
- Lancelot is based on and named after Sir Lancelot du Lac, the son of King Ban of Benwick and Queen Elaine, and King Arthur's greatest knight. His destined lover is Guinevere, who is likewise named after King Arthur's queen and Sir Lancelot's lover.
- Tristan is named after Sir Tristan, or Tristram in Old English, the son of King Meliodas of Lyoness and Queen Elizabeth (sometimes called Isabelle). His love interest is named Isolde, an alternative name for Iseult who is Tristan's lover in their famous tragic love story.
- Gawain is named after Sir Gawain, the nephew of King Arthur.
The Three Faces of Adam: Percival is the The Hunter; the Naïve Newcomer looking for adventure. Lancelot is The Prophet; The Ace whose experience and wisdom make everyone rely on him. Tristan is The Lord; the Warrior Prince trying to find a balance in his demon and goddess heritage.

Percival

"Knight of Death" Percival

Voiced by: Shou Komura (Japanese), Edward A. Mendoza (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Magic: Hope

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The protagonist. Percival is a sixteen-year-old boy who was raised by his grandfather Varghese on the Finger of God. After his grandfather is killed by his long-lost father Ironside, Percival sets out on an adventure across Britannia like his grandfather wanted him to do. He possesses a rare "Hero-type" magic that is fueled by his allies' hope in him.

Accidental Misnaming: He calls Zeldris "Thell" and Gelda "Gedda" because he was a toddler when he first met them and still calls them that way out of habit.
Accidental Pervert: He bumps into Isolde in the street and since she's so tall, he accidentally gets his head under her skirt.
Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Downplayed. In the anime, it takes Percival several days to get over Varghese's death and set off on his adventure, instead cleaning the mess of Ironside's attack and trying to eke out a living on his own, details which are left out of the manga. However, the rest of the episode plays out faithfully to the manga once he strengthens his resolve and returns to his old self, suggesting a minor Time Skip took place in the manga.
Adoption Angst: Percival breaks down crying when he finds out that he isn't Varghese's biological grandson.
All-Loving Hero: He will help and befriend anyone regardless of their species, even demons.
Amazon Chaser: He thinks Anne is cool because of her impressive swordsmanship and strong wish to become a knight.
Amusingly Awful Aim: The first time he tries using a bow, he fires the arrow in the opposite direction he was aiming and nearly shoots Donny in the head.
Angst Coma: After learning the truth behind his origins, Percival believes he shouldn't be allowed to live for being a Life Spirit in a human body and a Knight of the Apocalypse. Choosing to leave the mortal realm with the other Life Spirits, Percival's body is left as an empty shell.
Animal Motifs: Birds. His hair looks like wings, he can use magic to fly with a cape that resembles wings, and he often hunted rocs when he was growing up.
Anime Hair: His hair, besides being naturally green, looks like a large pair of wings.
Attractive Bent-Gender: Percival looks quite cute when turned into a girl in the Gender Bender omake. Nasiens even comments on it.
The Baby of the Bunch: Although he's the same age as his personal companions, Percival's childlike appearance and naivete inspires his friends to protect him even though he's stronger than they are.
Badass Creed: He lives by a creed his grandfather taught him:
"Crush the evil, rescue the weak, and be someone who risks their life for what is important to them."
Bait-and-Switch Sentiment: Percival hugs Anne and tells her he likes her, making her blush. Then Percival goes on to say he likes Donny and Nasiens too, since they're his precious friends just like Anne.
The Beastmaster: His ethereal mini-Percies are sapient creatures that can make independent decisions and answer Percy's questions.
Beware the Nice Ones: He's one of the sweetest and kindest characters in the cast, but if someone hurts or tries to kill his friends, he'll make them regret ever messing with him.
Boyish Shorts: Percival is a 16-year-old teenager, but he looks like a child and all of his outfits have him wear shorts to emphasize his boyishness.
Break the Cutie: Poor Percival is badly broken when he learns that he's not his beloved grandfather's blood-related grandson and that he's not even really a human but a Life Spirit in a human body that died in infancy. Mortlach telling him he shouldn't have been born convinces Percival that Varghese's death and Ironside's fall into darkness are entirely his fault, and his friends will eventually die if he stays alive. Not being able to handle it, Percival chooses to "die" by leaving his human body and he joins the other Life Spirits to be where he should have been if Ironside haven't summoned him.
The Call Knows Where You Live: Percival had chosen to live peacefully with his grandfather despite his wishes to go on an adventure. On his sixteenth birthday, however, his grandfather is killed by his long-lost father and Percival is forced to leave the Finger of God.
Cape Wings: His cape is a magic item that turns into giant wings when he enchants it with his magic.
Chaste Hero: The first time he sees and gropes a naked woman, he only expresses childlike curiosity without any hint of perverted desires. He naively touches a girl's naked breasts and sniffs Isolde's panties, not understanding why they get angry about it.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: His grandfather taught him to defeat evil and rescue those in need. Taking his teachings to heart, Percival jumps in without hesitation whenever he sees someone who needs help.
Clap Your Hands If You Believe: His Hero magic needs people to believe in his power to win for it to work. If his followers aren't nearby or are left unconscious, Percival can't use his magic.
Combat Medic: His Hero magic has properties of numerous magic types, making it useful for offense and healing among other things.
Compressed Hair: He normally keeps his Anime Hair compressed inside his helmet.
Contrasting Sequel Main Character: In the first series, Meliodas is a 3,000-year-old demon with a lot of knowledge and experience. In contrast, Percival is a 16-year-old human teenager who initially doesn't know anything about the world outside his home. Also, while Meliodas is a Lovable Sex Maniac who frequently sexually harasses his love interest, Percival is more innocent about women.
Covert Pervert: Despite how naive he is, Percival does enjoy getting into Accidental Pervert incidents with random girls. He's very bummed out when Anne tells him he can't keep doing that with girls without consent and cheers up as soon as Anne gives him permission to do perverted stuff to her sometimes, not wasting any time in hugging her for some Marshmallow Hell.
Custom-Built Host: Percival was originally the lifeless body of an infant that Ironside stole with the specific purpose of giving it life from the Life Spirit and then transferring his son Diodora's soul into a new immortal body. Varghese stopped this from happening when he took Percival from Camelot and raised him in hiding, which resulted in Percival developing a personality.
Dangerous 16th Birthday: The story starts on his sixteenth birthday, when his long-lost father arrives to kill him and his grandfather.
Dirty Kid: Later on, he comes to like feeling up girls' bodies so much that he's ecstatic when Anne gives him permission to grope her sometimes.
Faux Death: At the end of Part 1, Percival appears to die when his soul chooses to abandon his human body and go back to the world of the Life Spirits, where he believes he's supposed to be. Two years later, it's revealed Percival's body is still alive, but in suspended animation since his soul hasn't returned yet.
Fearless Fool: No matter how dreadful his enemy is, Percival charges in with no fear at all. While everyone else is left paralyzed by Ironside's intimidating aura, Percival isn't even slightly affected and attacks his father immediately.
Fighting Spirit: By tapping into the hopes of all the demons in the Demon Realm, the "Mini-Percival" become able to merge into a single, life-sized duplicate of Percival who can fight for him when he is exhausted. Like the "normal" "Mini-Percival", it appears to be driven by a will of its own, but claims a "piece of their greater being".
Fond Memories That Could Have Been: After he learns he was supposed to be the body host for Ironside's ill son Diodora, Percival imagines the happy life "he" could have had with Ironside and Varghese if things had gone as the former wanted. Since him developing his own consciousness made him useless as a vessel and Ironside killed Varghese for it, Percival believes they couldn't be happy because he exists as himself instead of Diodora.
Genki Guy: His energy never runs out. Even after multiple battles in one day, he's still spritely enough to play-fight with Donny before they go to sleep.
Godiva Hair: After his "death", his naked comatose body is kept in the Fairy Realm and after two years, his hair has grown to the point of covering his whole body.
Goo-Goo-Godlike: When he just was a toddler, Percival was already powerful enough to seal the Behemoth monster that nearly destroyed the Demon Realm, something that only the original Demon King should be able to do.
Good Thing You Can Heal: Thanks to the healing properties of his magic, Percival can quickly recover from injuries that would be fatal otherwise, like being Punched Across the Room by a Chaos-powered demon.
Happily Adopted: Although Percival wasn't aware of it at first, Varghese wasn't his biological grandfather. Varghese still thought of Percival as his grandson and raised him lovingly until the day he died.
Having a Blast: His magic can generate explosions.
Headbutting Heroes: With Gawain. They're both Knights of the Apocalypse, but they almost instantly hate each other. In Percival's case, he can't stand Gawain's arrogant and entitled attitude.
Healing Hands: His magic heals wounds very quickly. He can apply it to other people as well as himself.
The Heart: He's the heart of the Percival Platoon. His followers love him for his acceptance of their difficult personalities and learn to work together despite their differences because they all want to support Percival.
Heroes Prefer Swords: Howzer makes him a sword from the Dragon Handle that once belonged to Meliodas.
Hope Bringer: His friends trust that as long as Percival is with them, everything will turn out well. Also weaponized; Percival's magic runs on the hope he inspires in his allies.
How Do I Shot Web?: He doesn't know how to properly use his Hero magic yet. The first time it activates, Percival doesn't even know what the thing glowing in his hands is. He still has trouble activating it at will afterwards.
Humanity Is Infectious: It's eventually revealed that Percival is a Life Spirit that possessed the body of a human baby. As he grew older, however, he developed the mind and feelings of a human thanks to Varghese raising him as his grandson.
Ideal Hero: Percival is heroic, kindhearted, virtuous, and fights to protect his friends and people in need.
Identity Breakdown: He undergoes a breakdown after he discovers that he is a Life Spirit possessing the body of the original Percival who died as a baby, and he is not actually Varghese's grandson or Ironside's son.
I Just Want to Be Normal: All Percival ever wanted was a normal and peaceful life with his grandfather, but it was ruined when Ironside killed his grandfather and Percival learned he's one of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse who are destined to defeat King Arthur. Discovering that he's really a Life Spirit inhabiting a reanimated corpse results in an existential crisis for Percival. He even comes to wish he had become Diodora's vessel as Ironside wanted since he could have had a more normal and happier life that way.
I Let Gwen Stacy Die: He blames himself for failing to protect his grandfather Varghese from Ironside. Even more so after he finds out Varghese and Ironside became enemies because the former prevented the latter from turning Percival into Diodora's body host, convincing himself Varghese wouldn't have died if he didn't exist as himself.
Imagination-Based Superpower: According to Sin, Percival's magic takes the shape of whatever he envisions in his mind.
Inconsistent Coloring: His eyes are usually colored purple in the manga, but on some chapter covers (e.g. 20, 67 and 116), they're green. The anime adaptation uses purple.
In-Series Nickname: Some call him "Percy", for short.
Innocent Fanservice Guy: He was raised in isolation by his grandfather, so he doesn't really understand gender-segregated bathing or why some people prefer to bathe alone.
Intoxication Ensues: He drinks a potion meant to revitalize an ecosystem, which causes him to collapse on the floor, writhe around groaning, and then zoom out the door to scream a swear word. Basically, what any child given a very high dose of caffeine would do.
It's Personal with the Dragon: Even though he agrees Camelot's evil deeds towards non-human races must be stopped, he has no personal grudge against King Arthur. Instead, he's seeking to avenge his grandfather who was killed by Ironside, his father and one of Arthur's Holy Knights.
Kiddie Kid: He's a sixteen-year-old teenager, but his childlike appearance as well as generally naive and excitable personality makes people of his same age assume he's much younger. Even those who know his age tend to treat him like a child.
Laser Blade: His Hero magic can take the shape of an energy sword.
Logical Weakness: His Hero magic is fueled by his allies' faith in him. Therefore, if his allies aren't with him or are knocked unconscious, Percival can't use his magic.
Magnetic Hero: Percival almost immediately wins over and befriends companions in his journey. His naturally friendly and pure personality makes his new friends know they can trust him with their lives.
Make Them Rot: As the "Knight of Death", he can cause people's bodies to rot by merely touching them. Fortunately, he can reverse the effect by giving the life he drained back.
Man, I Feel Like a Woman: In the Gender Bender omake, Percival checks out his female body by feeling up his own crotch.
More Hero than Thou: Having agreed to be Nasiens' test subject, he is upset when Nasiens consumes an untested pill that causes extreme fatigue.
Percival: You said I was your guinea pig!
Nasiens: (panting) That was...a figure of speech... Didn't really mean it.
Mundane Object Amazement: He adores towns and cities because he'd never been in one before the start of the story. It causes him trouble when the party reaches Liones; he immediately ditches them to go look at all the new things, and runs so fast he crashes into several people.
Muscles Are Meaningless: He's tiny and has little muscle, yet he's several times stronger than a regular human. He easily beats many wrestlers who were all bigger and more muscular than him.
Naïve Newcomer: Until the start of the story, he lived alone with his grandfather in a mountain far away from all civilization. He often asks about things everyone else considers common knowledge.
Nice Guy: He's sweet and purehearted to the core, being able to make friends with anyone almost immediately.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He crashes into Nasiens' home to free someone tied up and calling for help...except that that someone is a villainous demon and the only test subject around for a medicine that might save the almost-dead Echo Gorge.
Oblivious to Hatred: Chion tried to kill Percival during their first meeting, and would try to do it again if his allies supported only Tristan instead of all the Four Knights of the Apocalypse. Despite this, Percival genuinely doesn't get that Chion hates his guts and treats him like a friend.
Oblivious to Love: Percival is oblivious to Anne's and Nasiens' romantic attraction to him, only thinking of them as his close friends.
Odd Name, Normal Nickname: His name is Percival, like the knight he's based on, but some nickname him "Percy".
Older Than He Looks: He looks like a child, even though he's sixteen years old and the oldest of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse according to a databook.
Our Hero Is Dead: Part I ends with Percival "dying" after he becomes convinced that him disappearing is the only way to protect his friends and prevent the prophecy of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse from happening. Although, since Percival is actually a Life Spirit, his "death" is really just him leaving his human vessel, so there's still a chance of him coming back to life again.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He may be small for a teenager, but he has superhuman strength that lets him knock out a giant wolf with one hit.
Possessing a Dead Body: Percival is really a Life Spirit inhabiting the body of a human who died in infancy. Ironside originally summoned the Life Spirit to reanimate the body that he had prepared as a host for his son Diodora, but Varghese took Percival away before Ironside could go ahead with the process, eventually causing Percival to gain his own personality. When he chooses to leave the human world and join the other Life Spirits, his human body goes back to being a corpse.
Powers Do the Fighting: Although Percival is by no means unable to defend himself without his powers, his Hero magic creates an aura that can take various forms to attack his enemies or protect him and his allies in battle.
Raised by Dudes: Percival's grandfather raised him in complete isolation from society. He had never seen a woman before leaving his home and Anne has to tell him groping women without consent is a big no-no.
Raised by Grandparents: He was raised by his grandfather.
Rapid Hair Growth: A prototype rejuvenation potion that Percival drank had the effect of growing his hair quite a bit.
Really Royalty Reveal: According to Ironside, Percival is the seventh prince of an unknown kingdom, but he died in an accident as a baby and Ironside stole his body to create a body vessel infused with a Life Spirit.
Resurrective Immortality: Percival's Hero magic can bring him back to life and heal his wounds after a fatal injury, but only if his comrades firmly believe Percival is too strong to die so easily.
Revenge Before Reason: Percy's main flaw is his inability to think before he acts.
- When his grandfather's killer flees a destroyed village, Percival must be persuaded to care for the wounded villagers instead of chasing him.
- Despite being in no condition to fight when he first meets Arthur, he jumps at him screaming and is immediately curb-stomped.
Rip Van Winkle: Percival "dies" at the end of Part 1, but since he's a Life Spirit, his body entered a hibernation state instead of decomposing. Two years later, his body is still sleeping at the Fairy Realm.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When he thinks the Tristan Platoon has killed his friends, Percival enters a berserk state where he seriously tries to kill them with his powers of Death. He only calms down when his friends let him know they're still alive.
Shoot the Medic First: After finding out Percival can heal his allies with Hero magic, Macduff breaks his neck before continuing his mission and targetting the other Knights of the Apocalypse.
Soul Power: His magic actually runs on the power of life spirits, as Percival himself was one of them until he possessed a human body. His power uses hope to spread life and despair to spread death.
Spirited Competitor: His favorite game is wrestling, and all but the most serious of actual battles register as fun to him.
Stock Shōnen Hero: Percival is a naïve, simpleminded, and purehearted young boy who dreams of adventure and has a natural impulse to save people in need. He even has a rare magic that is literally fueled by his friends' hope in him.
Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish: He can understand and speak demon language, but even Percival himself doesn't know why.
Summon Magic: His magic usually manifests as small blobs resembling him that can immobilize his enemies or heal him and his allies.
Super Gullible: He immediately accepts Sin's claim that his "woodland pals" are who fought off Ironside's zombies.
Superpower Lottery: He has Hero-type magic which has attributes of more than four types of magic.
Supreme Chef: As opposed to Meliodas, Percival is a great cook.
Team Chef: He cooks for his teammates, who find his meals delicious.
Thanks for the Mammary: When he sees a naked woman for the first time, Percival grabs her boobs to see what they feel like. He has also touched Anne's boobs with no perverted intention.
Thou Shalt Not Kill: He doesn't want to kill, no matter who it is.
Tomato in the Mirror: Percival eventually finds out that he's in fact a Life Spirit that took over the body of a human baby who died in an accident. This reveal causes an existential crisis for Percival, as it means he isn't Varghese's biological grandson and technically he isn't a human being but a Life Spirit possessing a soulless body.
Tragic Keepsake: After his grandfather is killed by his father, Percival keeps his grandfather's helmet and cape. The anime also shows his entire first traveling outfit (from his shirt to his boots) to be a gift Varghese meant to give Percival for his first adventure. Percival doesn't find it until after Varghese's death, at which point it gives him the resolve to leave.
Translator Buddy: He acts as an interpreter for the demons at the village looked after by Gowther.
Trauma Button: His father murdered his grandfather and Percival couldn't do anything but watch. When he fears the Tristan Platoon has killed his friends, he's reminded of his grandfather's death and enters a mindless berserker state that activates his Touch of Death for the first time.
The Un-Favourite: His father Ironside doesn't have any qualms with killing Percival, since he knows Percival is fated to help in the destruction of Camelot which Ironside can't allow to happen as long as he wishes to protect his much more favored son Diodra.
Upbringing Makes the Hero: Percival was raised by his loving grandfather who taught him to be heroic, kind, and to always help people in need.
Will Not Tell a Lie: Anne can't perceive even the smallest lie or deception from Percival, since he's a very honest boy who always tells the truth.
"X" Marks the Hero: As a result of his first encounter with Ironside, Percival is left with a large X-shaped scar on his chest.
You Killed My Father: Avenging the murder of his grandfather is the primary reason for his quest. Ironically, his own father is the target of his revenge.

Lancelot

"Knight of War" Lancelot

Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama (Japanese), Aleks Le (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Magic: Hazy Moon

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The prince of a fairy country named Benwick which is ruled by his parents, King Ban and Queen Elaine. When he was ten years old, he and his teacher Jericho mysteriously disappeared on a rainy day. As a teenager, Lancelot has returned as one of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse. He brings Percival's group to the kingdom of Liones.

The Ace: Fittingly for someone named after the legendary King Arthur's best knight, Lancelot is the most powerful Knight of the Apocalypse. He's at least at the same level as the Seven Deadly Sins and can hold his ground in a one-on-one fight against Arthur.
Achilles in His Tent: After watching his pupil and friend commit suicide, Lancelot returns home and grieves for two years, leaving his other pupils to fight the war on their own.
Adorably Precocious Child: After losing to Tristan in a fight, 10-year-old Lancelot starts trying to act more adult-like, going on patrols around the Fairy King Forest, beating up evil-doers, and trying to prove himself however he can. Ban, who had his childhood filled with misery and theft, wishes Lancelot wouldn't rush toward adulthood.
All-Powerful Bystander: He guides Percival and his friends to Liones, but doesn't intervene in the fights outside of giving important advice to the heroes. When he finally has no choice but to fight, he delivers a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle to several Camelot Holy Knights, all at once. Justified Trope because he wanted Percival's group to overcome the obstacles on their way themselves in order to test their strength.
Aloof Ally: He tends to keep his distance from people, and will not help the other Knights of the Apocalypse in battle if he believes they can take care of the enemy by themselves.
Aloof Archer: He mainly fights with a bow, fitting his role as the cool-headed and calculating member of the main heroes.
Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: His fox form has bright pink fur.
Animorphism: Thanks to his fairy blood, Lancelot has the ability to transform into an animal. His favorite transformation is a fox, which is appropriate for the son of the Fox's Sin.
Bait-and-Switch Sentiment: When Jericho tells Lancelot she loves him, he says he loves her too, but in the same way he loves his parents. He needs to use his telepathy to understand Jericho wasn't talking about familial love.
Beat the Curse Out of Him: He jolts Tristan back to his normal self by blasting him with "Shining Road". Tristan survives; his clothing does not.
Because Destiny Says So: He confidently tells Percival that the latter will destroy the world as is prophesied, however much he might not want to.
Big Brother Mentor: He becomes Percival's primary mentor while acting like a cool older brother figure to him.
Boy of My Dreams: Guinevere first met him and fell in love with him in her Prophetic Dreams.
Butt-Monkey: A slaver tried to kidnap him as a kid, he was Trapped in Another World for three years, a 12-year-old stranger steals his first kiss, his beloved Big Sister Mentor defected to the enemy because she developed an obsessive attraction to the underaged Lancelot, and his own pupil commits suicide in front of him.
Captured on Purpose: In a Grudge of Edinburgh scene, he plans to invoke this trope to get inside Deathpierce's fortress. Unfortunately, Tristan has other ideas.
The Cavalry: He arrives to back up Guila in chapter 71, and Meliodas in chapter 79.
Celibate Hero: He initially eschews romance, focusing on the more important and less intimidating task of saving the world. According to Guinevere's precognition, however, Lancelot will return her romantic advances when he's 19.
Childhood Friends: With Tristan. They have known each other since childhood because their fathers are best friends. Lancelot treats Tristan with a lot of familiarity thanks to this.
Cold Sniper: He takes out Elgin and Burgie with precise arrow shots, befitting his pragmatic and thoughtful personality.
Color Motif: Red and white are his favorite colours, which is why he wears them in his clothes. Coincidentally, his father wears red clothes and his mother wears a white dress.
Commonality Connection: The first moment Lancelot truly sympathizes with Guinevere is when he sees her powers cause her emotional pain- a situation he understands all too well.
Guinevere: I thought...that I would never need this kind of magic. I felt like I'd go mad, just having so many dreams about horrible things...
Lancelot: Yeah... I get it.
Consistent Clothing Style: Two of his first outfits have a white hoodie with a red "T" at the front.
Cooldown Hug: He offers Guinevere a hug when she's having a breakdown during their second meeting.
Crippling Overspecialization: He prefers to fight with a bow and arrows because any other weapon can't withstand his massive power and gets shattered into pieces after he uses it only once.
Deadpan Snarker: He likes to snark at his quirky companions.
Desperately Craves Affection: When he was younger, he took a terrible risk mostly because he wanted his father to praise him more.
Deuteragonist: He's the second titular character introduced and his relevance is second only to Percival.
Dirty Mind-Reading: He calls Jericho a pervert for thinking his girly ten-year-old face is cute. Later on, he's very uncomfortable when he hears Jericho letting out her long-repressed lustful thoughts about him.
Ditto Fighter: By reading the mind of an adversary, or the memories of an ally concerning said adversary, Lancelot becomes able to mimic the adversary's fighting style and personality.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: His younger self held a grudge against Tristan, not because Tristan nearly cleaved his skull in two, but because he refused to continue fighting against Lancelot afterwards. This was a big hit to Lancelot's ego since he took Tristan's behavior as the latter looking down on him as the weaker of the two.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: When he was young, a Con Artist tried to kidnap Lancelot under the belief he was a cute fairy girl some noble would love to pimp out. When Lancelot complained to his parents about it, Jericho shaved his hair down to a near-buzz cut, much to his chagrin. As a teenager, he dresses in a way that emphasises his masculinity.
Due to the Dead: After he kills a bunch of Camelot's Holy Knights, he gives them a proper burial.
Earn Your Title: Arthur had earlier dismissed the Knights as weaklings, but was so intimidated by Lancelot's prowess that he officially declared war to wipe the team out. This is one reason that Lancelot's the "Knight of War".
Elemental Motifs: Water recurs in his character arc. His capture by the Lady of the Lake and first meetings with Guinevere both happen on rainy days.
Energy Absorption: He can conjure a large magical sphere that absorbs attackers' spells.
Enraged by Idiocy: His younger self in Grudge of Edinburgh clearly resents having to compensate for his allies' inexperience and impulsive decisions. He yells at Tristan whenever he charges at their enemies without a plan.
Eyes Always Shut: His fox form usually has the eyes closed, as this is the typical expression for foxes in Japanese folklore.
Fairy Sexy: He has fairy blood and is a total Hunk.
Family Eye Resemblance: He has Ban's red Tsurime Eyes.
Fatal Attractor: The two women most attracted to Lancelot come with several issues that cause him to not be happy about their romantic attention. First, Guinevere is only twelve when they first meet and her foresight causes her to act like she and Lancelot have been a couple for a long time, but from his perspective, she's a random stranger who forced a kiss on him without even telling him her name first. The second one is even more problematic; Jericho is Lancelot's big sister figure and teacher, so he's disturbed to find out she has been repressing her lust for him since he was a preteen. To make it worse, Jericho's obsession with Lancelot has driven her to side with Arthur because the latter will create a fake reality where she can keep an older Lancelot as her lover.
The Gadfly: He takes no small degree of pride in winning a hunting contest and taunting the losers. He is even smug to his past self, who he helps Guinevere mess with.
Generation Xerox: Just like his father Ban got a scar from a fight with Meliodas, Lancelot gets a scar from a fight with Meliodas' son Tristan.
Good Is Not Soft: Compared to Percival's group, Lancelot is a lot more brutal and merciless when fighting Camelot's Holy Knights.
Guile Hero: Many of his tactics involve trickery, such as reading his opponents' minds to gain the advantage or shapeshifting to make them lower their guard.
Hair-Contrast Duo: Inverted with him and Guinevere, a black-haired girl. She's affectionate and upbeat, he (despite his cheese-yellow hair) is grumpy and cynical.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He inherited the golden hair of his mother and has a good heart like his parents.
Half-Breed Angst: Lancelot has a human's sense of ambition and impatience, which drove a wedge between him and most of the full-blooded fairies in his hometown. (It didn't help that he could hear their prejudiced thoughts about him.) As a child, he was torn between wanting to protect the forest and hating the carefree lifestyles of its inhabitants.
Half-Human Hybrid: He's the son of a human father and a fairy mother. He grows like a regular human and lacks wings, but has the powers of high-ranking fairies such as Telepathy and transformation.
Head Pet: While in fox form, he sometimes perches on people's heads (or helmets, in Percival's case).
Heroic BSoD: After witnessing Percival's suicide, Lancelot abandons the war entirely and returns home, sobbing to his parents that he couldn't prevent it.
Heroic Ambidexterity: Invoked. Lancelot is right-handed, but likes using his left hand in battle because he thinks being ambidextrous is much cooler.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: As a child, he believed that he had to prove himself 'useful' to his family. This leads him to tragically misunderstand his father's and Jericho's feelings for him as being more negative than they actually are.
Hot in Human Form: He often changes into a fox or a Gonky fairy, but his true form is a fairy hybrid with delicate, almost-feminine features and a muscular build.
Hypocrite: He demands that all serious enemy combatants be killed. Not Jericho or Nanashi, though, because he likes them.
I Am Not Left-Handed: Subverted. Nanashi notices that Lancelot fights with his non-dominant hand, and wonders why. Lancelot replies that he does it because ambidexterity looks cool.
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: In Grudge of Edinburgh, he promises Tristan that he'll beat him back into sanity if Tristan is taken over by his demonic instincts. And he does, fulfilling the same role that his father had to Tristan's father.
Implied Death Threat: He tells an exhausted Sylvan that if he doesn't speed up, the team will have horse kebabs for dinner tonight.
In-Series Nickname: His family and Guinevere call him "Lance" for short.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: A good marker of his closeness to someone is whether he admits his irrational levels of insecurity to them. Around Jericho and Percival he readily admits that he feels useless, but acquaintances or people he wants to prove himself to (like his dad) are subject to boasting.
Interspecies Friendship: He's a half-fairy who befriends Sylvan, a common horse.
Invincible Hero: Every single one of Lancelot's one-on-one fights are a Curb-Stomp Battle where he completely crushes his enemies without breaking a sweat. His enemies can last more than a few seconds against him only because he usually handicaps himself by not using his dominant hand and doesn't release his massive magical energy unless he finds a Worthy Opponent. He even manages to outmatch Arthur and force him to retreat.
Irony: The Knight of War was born among the Fairy Clan, who are by far the most peaceful race in Britannia.
It's All My Fault: He blames himself for Jericho's defection from Benwick, believing she must not be able to stand to see him after his "Well Done, Son" Guy tendencies resulted in him getting trapped in another dimension for three years and dragging Jericho along with him. Turns out Jericho doesn't hate him, but that does nothing to alleviate his guilt since she sided with Arthur because the latter promised her he'd create a fake Lancelot who loves her as a woman, as opposed to the real Lancelot who only loves her as family.
It's Personal: He develops a serious grudge against Arthur because he believes Arthur caused Jericho's Face–Heel Turn.
It Was a Gift: The hoodie he wears was handmade by his uncle King.
I Want to Be a Real Man: When he was twelve, he felt very obligated to live up to his (loving but emotionally undemonstrative) father's example. This was what got him caught by the Lady of the Lake; he disobeyed Ban's orders to stay home, and refused to listen to Jericho when she suggested they wait for backup. It cost him three years.
I Will Find You: He will take Jericho home, even if it takes months of searching, and regardless of Jericho's own wishes.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He casually refers to Percival's group as "freaks" and doesn't have much intention of being friendly. He also tolerates Anne picking him up by the scruff of his neck, defends Donny to the latter's judgmental uncle, and spends no small amount of time trying to do right by the mentor that abandoned him. Guinevere's sight indicates that he will someday defrost enough that he even helps her tease his past self.
Killer Rabbit: He normally takes harmless forms, like a cute fox or a weak-looking fairy, to take his enemies off guard. Once he transforms to his true form, his enemies will be lucky to run away in one piece.
King Incognito: He's a half-fairy prince, but must keep his identity hidden from Camelot because he's one of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse. For this reason, he uses his shapeshifting powers to travel incognito with Percival's group until they reach Liones. Even then, he doesn't tell his friends his true identity; only the Liones royal family knows who he is.
Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: His fairy subjects disliked him because he didn't share their peacefulness ^note. (His tendency to blow off promises he'd made to them didn't help.)
Lady and Knight: Like in the myth, Lancelot is the White Knight to the princess Guinevere's Bright Lady. Soon after Lancelot learns she's his destined lover, she's kidnapped by Ironside. Lancelot is determined to keep his promise of finding her again.
The Lancer: He's the first Knight of the Apocalypse to meet Percival, quickly becoming his main Foil and adviser. Lancelot's cool, savvy and distant attitude makes him a good contrast to a naive All-Loving Hero.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Lancelot being one of the titular knights of the sequel, as well as him and Sin the Fox being the same character, become common knowledge after the first major arc of the sequel.
Like Father, Unlike Son: While he has his father's energy, Lancelot is far more serious and dutiful, going on patrol while Ban is busy lazing around, and chastising his father for allowing humans to scam the fairies.
Limited Wardrobe: While the rest of the main characters repeatedly change clothes, Lancelot keeps his red and white hoodie and pants. Since his uncle made said outfit, Lancelot has a reason for not wanting to stop wearing it.
Living Emotional Crutch: Guinevere clings to him because their relationship is one of the few good things in her future, according to what she has seen in her Prophetic Dreams.
Logical Weakness: Reading thoughts takes up all his concentration, much as physical reading usually does in Real Life. This means that he can't fight while his telepathy is active and people can take advantage of his distraction to sneak up on him.
Lust Object: Deconstructed. Jericho started lusting after Lancelot when he was a preteen. Both because of the age gap and their sibling-like relationship, Jericho seeks the help of Arthur's reality-altering powers to create a fake world where an older Lancelot is hers alone.
Mark of the Supernatural: His fox form's bright pink fur is one of many hints that he's not an ordinary animal.
Mentor in Sour Armor: Despite his young age, he advises the "kids" (as he describes them) in a blunt, casual way. When Percival reassures Lancelot that his aloofness doesn't make him less of a teammate, he's noticeably relieved.
Mentor Mascot: He serves as a guide and expositor for Percival and his friends in early arcs, but does so while in fox form because he's traveling incognito.
A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: From a young age, Lancelot has distrusted humans because his mind-reading let him know most of the humans who came to Benwick were scamming fairies. Being surrounded by fairies was no better since Lancelot got very annoyed from hearing their mocking thoughts about him.
Missing Child: In the special chapter of The Seven Deadly Sins that introduces him, Lancelot and Jericho go to investigate humans disappearing near the Fairy King Forest by going through the same portal that they did. He only reappears years later, as the "Prince of the Lake".
Morality Chain: He reins in the other Knights when they let their anger blind them (like Percival in Sistana, or Tristan when Isolde gets hurt) to the need to protect civilians or stop fighting. Oddly, however, most of them are more merciful than he is when they're in their right minds.
Morphic Resonance: The fairy form Lancelot takes in Grudge of Edinburgh retains his forehead scar and red eyes. An omake also confirms that his eyes look the same in all of his transformations.
Multi-Melee Master: He's fought with bows, spears, and knives, though he prefers the former. Presumably his magic's tendency to break weapons means he learned to improvise.
My Greatest Failure: After the two-year timeskip, Lancelot feels he failed the other Knights of the Apocalypse, especially Percival, when he couldn't do anything to stop Percival from putting himself in a deadlike state out of depression. According to Ban, the shock was so bad for Lancelot that he went back home to cry inconsolably.
My Significance Sense Is Tingling: He casually explains to other characters the outcome of a fight miles away from them.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: By fairy standards, Lancelot is annoyingly proactive and paranoid. It's pretty clear what side of his heritage he takes after.
Mysterious Past: It's about 70 chapters before his past is delved into, and even then there's a lot of gaps.
Nature Hero: A skilled hunter who can talk to animals and tries to enable the circle of life. After escaping the Lake, he wandered Britannia for a few years on missions from Liones and a vendetta against Chaos Knights.
Never Gets Drunk: Ban decides to let Lancelot take a sip of his booze, expecting him to spit it out right afterward. To Ban and Elaine's shock, Lancelot downs the entire cup with no ill effects, merely remarking that it's bitter.
No Badass to His Valet: Most people tend to get intimidated or jealous of Lancelot when they witness his incredibly destructive power. Out of his allies, only Percival treats him like a normal person, even getting worried about him when he watches him fight an enemy alone even though Lancelor is perfectly capable of taking care of himself.
Not So Above It All: Lancelot is usually the most coolheaded and aloof of the teenage heroes, but he lets out his goofy and childish side on occasion.
- In the Demon Realm arc, he pilots an Albion and has a blast doing so. His friends are surprised to see Lancelot can act like a kid after all.
- In chapter 125, he proudly shows off the loot he got from defeating Nanashi.
Oblivious to Love: He thinks Jericho left Benwick because she grew to hate him after he accidentally got himself and her Trapped in Another World for three years. The truth couldn't be more opposite; Jericho ended up falling in love with Lancelot during those three years, but since a relationship between them would be creepy and impossible, she decided to stay away from him. Lancelot only learns about Jericho's secret feelings when she confesses via telepathy during their reunion.
Odd Name, Normal Nickname: Lancelot's name is sometimes shortened to "Lance".
Only Sane Man: Even though he's a teenager, he acts like a levelheaded and responsible adult stuck with a bunch of inexperienced and immature children whenever he teams up with people around his age.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He never cries (seeing it as a sign of weakness) until Percival, his friend and pupil, commits suicide. Then he can't stop.
Perpetual Frowner: His default expression is an aloof and grumpy frown.
Pragmatic Hero: He isn't bound by any particular duty to other people, something he makes clear, but he participates in heroics because he feels it would be kind of shitty for him not to.
Prophetic Name: The French meaning of his name is "servant", so it's either a joke or an incisive comment on how fairies treat their royalty. Anyway, it was an appropriate name for a boy who felt compelled to work at the age of twelve.
Psycho Pink: He's associated with pink because it's the color intermediate between red and white. His enchanted arrows are a bright neon pink and his fox form has pink fur. While not a psycho, he's the Knight of War and shows why he deserves that title with how powerful he is.
Real Men Hate Affection: He mocks Tristan for calling his parents "daddy" and "mommy".
Red Eyes, Take Warning: He inherited his father's red eyes and is considered the most powerful and dangerous Knight of the Apocalypse.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: In Grudge of Edinburgh, he's the coolheaded and cautious Blue Oni to Tristan's hotheaded and impulsive Red Oni. Ironic since Lancelot wears red.
Refused Reunion: Although Lancelot's parents worried about him for years after he went missing, he tries to avoid a reunion because it would make him feel awkward and ashamed of his perceived failure to bring Jericho back with him. His plan is to settle things with Arthur before meeting them again.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: He's a prince of fairies and has spent his whole life doing stuff to protect commoners. In his childhood, he patrolled his kingdom's forest and dealt with Con Artists that try to scam his fairy subjects.
The Runaway: When fairies were mysteriously disappearing around his kingdom, Lancelot decided he needed to fix the problem himself and left home with Jericho, without telling his parents. After being missing for a few years, Lancelot reappeared as one of the Four Knights, but still refused to return home until he settles some personal matters.
Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Lancelot is cool, savvy and jaded, while Guinevere is perky, flirtatious and optimistic.
Scars Are Forever: Lancelot got into a scuffle with Tristan when he visited Liones for Tristan's birthday, earning him a scar on his forehead.
Shapeshifter Default Form: He can shift into forms other than those of the human form he was born in (his true self) or a fox, but finds doing so prohibitively annoying.
Shaping Your Attacks: He can't wield a real weapon without breaking it, but he can shape his magical energy into weapons like an axe, a spear and a sword.
Shonen Hair: As a teenager, Lancelot has spiky hair that's commonly associated with the main character of a Shōnen series.
Signature Scent: All fairies smell of a particular plant; Word of God mentions that Lancelot smells of lemons, a bitter fruit.
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: He has no respect for Percival's aversion to killing, even though it doesn't stop Percival from being brave or fighting to protect people.
Lancelot: Pfft. What a mark.
Sink or Swim Mentor: During their journey to Liones, Lancelot lets Percival's group deal with the Holy Knights pursuing them and pretends he can't help them out in the fights by staying in fox form. This is for the sake of making Percival's group stronger. It even turns out Lancelot did have the means to teleport to Liones instantly, so the whole journey was an excuse to train Percival.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: In contrast with the more innocent kids he shepherds across Liones.
Sleeves Are for Wimps: He always wears sleeveless shirts and, being a Knight of Apocalypse, he's a natural badass.
Socially Awkward Hero: He's incredibly powerful and seemingly unbeatable in battle, but his dislike of talking about himself and being open with his feelings make him bad at social interactions. Just dealing with Guinevere's teasing makes him lose his composure way more easily than facing a Reality Warper.
Speak Ill of the Dead: His callous statement that an enemy who died saving Anne was "a mental lightweight" enrages her.
Speaks Fluent Animal: While transformed into a fox, he's able to communicate with Anne's horse Sylvan. This might be a result of his Telepathy.
Spiky Hair: As a teenager, he has inherited his father's spiky hairstyle.
The Smart Guy: He plays this role for the Knights of the Apocalypse, as he specializes in gathering information from people's minds.
Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: As Sin the Fox, Lancelot constantly throws shade at Percival and his friends.
The Stoic: In contrast to his more expressive younger self, teenage Lancelot is coolheaded and taciturn.
Story-Breaker Power: At the start of the sequel, Lancelot's power level is already on par with the Seven Deadly Sins at the end of the first series. He can insta-kill almost any enemy, including high-ranking monsters of Purgatory. Even Arthur, who is currently a Reality Warper, was forced to retreat when he realized how powerful Lancelot is.
Strong Family Resemblance: He looks a lot like his father Ban, except with his mother's hair color.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He's generally a very cool and aloof guy, but can get relaxed and show a friendlier side of himself around trusted friends like Tristan and Percival's group. According to Guinevere, his standoffish nature is motivated by shyness.
Superpowerful Genetics: He has his mother's Telepathy.
Super-Strong Child: Lancelot has no problems kicking a grown man clear across a field, lifting boulders larger than himself, or hurling a spear hard enough to shatter rock.
Supporting Leader: When traveling with Percival's group, Lancelot is their de facto leader because he's their guide and levelheaded strategist. But since Percival is the protagonist, Lancelot limits himself to instructing the team and stays out of fights until the battle at the Entangled Forest.
Sword Beam: One of his abilities, "Shining Road", is a beam of light that chases down an enemy and pulverizes them. It must be fired from a weapon, which is usually broken in the process.
Talking Animal: Lancelot is still able to speak human language while he's transformed into an animal.
Team Dad: He takes the role of the aloof-but-responsible father figure, both to the other Knights of the Apocalypse and Percival's friends.
Teen Superspy: A Heroic Fantasy equivalent. He's spent much of his adolescence on missions of national importance (escorting important people, assassinating enemy squads, etc), concealing his identity with shapeshifting.
Telepathy: Due to being half-fairy, Lancelot can read minds.
Tsundere:
- A non-romantic example. Like any rebellious teenager, he denies the possibility that he might consider his dad even remotely cool...although his undercover pseudonym is basically one huge reference to him.
- He's a Harsh (Tsun) type towards his future lover Guinevere. He gets irritated and suspicious whenever she acts like she's his girlfriend, especially because she stole his Sacred First Kiss. However, he finds her kind of amusing and goes to see her again not long after their first meeting. Guinevere takes his grumpiness as shyness and thinks it makes him cute.
Two Aliases, One Character: Percival's group initially knows him as Sin, a fox. When he changes into human form, he reveals his true identity as Lancelot.
Unknown Rival: Because of Jericho's defection, Lancelot has an intense personal hatred for Arthur before they even meet...much to Arthur's confusion.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Now he's a cynical hardass who takes pride in leaving no witnesses, but when he was a boy he frolicked through meadows like any other fairy.
Lancelot: (embarrassed, realizing that Jericho is watching him) Master!? Since when!
Jericho: Since you started scattering flowers on your back.
Victor Gains Loser's Powers: He's given Nanashi's katana after defeating him. Since it was made by the giant Dubs, it's a weapon perfect for him.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Tristan. Lancelot likes to tease him to make him annoyed and flustered, but Tristan is clearly his closest friend besides Percival.
Warrior Prince: He's the prince of a fairy kingdom and the first time he joins a battle, he single-handedly kills an entire Camelot Holy Knight squad.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: After Gowther showed him Ban's life story, Lancelot wanted to become a prince who could help his father and make him proud.
White and Red and Eerie All Over: A heroic example. The first time his colour scheme changes from pink fur to red-and-white fabric involves him killing a lot of people very quickly.
Wise Beyond His Years: His stoic attitude and skill as a strategist make him come across as very mature for an 16-year-old boy. Justified because he likes to be taken seriously, and had to mature quickly due to the years he spent Trapped in Another World.

Tristan

"Knight of Pestilence" Tristan Liones

Voiced by: Ayumu Murase, Mikako Komatsu [child] (Japanese), Jeannie Tirado (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Magic: Nova

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The crown prince of Liones, son of King Meliodas and Queen Elizabeth Liones.

Adorably Precocious Child: 10-year-old Tristan tries to act far older than he is, such as trying to thwart a coup and aspiring to become a Holy Knight (later, one of the Sins themselves) in order to "punish bad guys".
Afraid of Their Own Strength: Much like his father, Tristan is aware of the destruction his demon power can cause, especially when he's not able to control it, and tries to avoid using it unless his allies are in mortal danger.
Agent Peacock: He's a gentle prince with a very feminine appearance, including long hair. He's also a demon-goddess hybrid and a Knight of the Apocalypse, making him highly powerful.
Attack! Attack! Attack!: In Assault Mode, he attacks any enemies, however stronger than him they are.
Beneath the Mask: Like his father, he's adopted a "costume" of non-threatening clothing and mannerisms in order to blend in with humanity. Without it, he inflicts much Body Horror.
The Berserker: When Isolde is badly wounded in chapter 75, he manages to restrain himself long enough to carry her out of danger and tell his allies to call Lancelot...because he won't be able to come out of his rage on his own. Then he starts ripping demons' heads off.
Beware the Nice Ones: Tristan has his mother's kindhearted personality, but when things come to blows, he can be a ruthless and deadly demon like his father.
Born of Heaven and Hell: His father is a traitor prince of the Demon Realm and his mother is a former goddess who was exiled from the Celestial Realm for falling in love with a demon.
Boyish Shorts: Tristan wears shorts as a child and young teenager. By the time he's sixteen, he wears long pants.
By-the-Book Cop: The knightly version, anyway. When Lancelot gives an enemy a chance to flee, Tristan is upset because their side "has to" take him prisoner and thereby weaken Arthur's forces.
Cannot Tell a Joke: Only Isolde can laugh at his lame jokes.
Chaste Hero: He thinks of everyone in his platoon as his True Companions, including Isolde, whose romantic feelings he can't understand however obvious she makes it for everyone around them. Also, unlike his father, he has no intention of ever groping a woman.
Child of Forbidden Love: His father is from the Demon Clan and his mother from the Goddess Clan. Since their clans were sworn enemies, the Demon King and the Supreme Deity cursed them for falling in love. After they broke the curse, Meliodas and Elizabeth got married and had Tristan.
Childhood Friends: He has known Lancelot since they were kids, because their fathers are best friends.
Classy Cravat: His second outfit in the sequel has a cravat that makes him look elegant.
Cloudcuckoolander: As a child, he somehow managed to forget his own birthday, and got the idea that his father and the Sins are villains attempting to overthrow the kingdom, although that misunderstanding was cleared up years ago and the SDS are almost universally hailed as heroes. (The latter was at least partly Meliodas' doing, because he thought it would be more "fun" that way.)
Collared by Fashion: In chapter 64, he wears a dog collar on top of an ordinary turtleneck collar- probably symbolic of him being The Fettered. When Arthur repels his berserker attack in chapter 77, the collar is burned open.
Combat Medic: He can heal injuries, thanks to possessing goddess magic while also having inherited his father's massively destructive demonic powers.
Contrasting Sequel Main Character: He's actually the protagonist of the interquel, but he fits the trope in Grudge of Edinburgh. While his father Meliodas is a Lovable Sex Maniac who frequently sexually harasses his love interest, Tristan is more of a Straight Man.
A Day in the Limelight: He's the sole protagonist of the prequel film Grudge of Edinburgh, which is about him seeking a cure for his sick mother.
Dissonant Serenity: In chapter 75, he gently chides a wounded Isolde for risking herself and then proceeds to casually start tearing apart the demon that hurt her.
Dork Knight: One reason he acts like a Knight in Shining Armor is because he wants to be one, and he feels the need to keep the heroes' quest appropriately upbeat and triumphant.
"You see now? I kept mum about it ^noteGawain's heritage because I knew it would cast a pall over this whole thing!"
Dual Wielding: He dual-wields two swords, one made of light and the other of darkness.
Duality Motif: His right eye is blue like Elizabeth's and the left is green like Meliodas'. This is visual proof of him being a Human-Demon Hybrid.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: According to Q&A #90, people who don't know Tristan might mistake him for a woman because of his feminine features.
Effeminate Voice: Tristan is a Long-Haired Pretty Boy voiced by Ayumu Murase, who is known for his high-pitched voice. Taken further in the English and Spanish dubs, where Tristan is voiced by women.
Elemental Personalities: He mainly uses light-related powers, likely because his well-mannered and moralistic personality makes him more inclined to his goddess heritage than to his demon heritage's dark and destructive powers.
Emotional Powers: His demonic powers are directly connected to his emotional state. He tries to keep his emotions in check since getting too excited or angry will make him lose control.
Exotic Eye Designs: When he uses his Goddess powers, his pupils change into the triskelion-like symbol of the Goddess clan.
Failed a Spot Check: He somehow befriended Gawain and travelled all the way back to Liones with her without ever realizing she was a woman.
Family Eye Resemblance: He has his mother Elizabeth's Tareme Eyes.
Fashionable Asymmetry: After the battle against Melagaland, Tristan wears a new outfit with a leg armor, but only for his right leg.
Fastball Special: In an Origin trailer, one of Tristan's allies transforms him into a fox and launches him at an enemy. This somehow inflicts damage on the latter.
The Fettered: He delays defeating Melascula, first because he wants to make sure Gawain and Percival are okay, and then because he doesn't want to draw on his demonic abilities.
Fictional Disability: His hybridity is like a congenital disorder. Using too much demonic magic gives him pain, increasingly debilitating spasms, and hinders his ability to talk. The closer he returns to his usual self, the worse it gets.
Following in Relative's Footsteps: After Gowther's Exposition Beam shows him the story of his parents and their companions, Tristan is inspired to become a great hero like his father.
Freakiness Shame: He is touched when Percy calls his demon form cool, as he considers it quite the opposite.
Generation Xerox: Many compared him more to his mother in terms of their personalities and befriending a Sunshine wielder.
Good Is Old-Fashioned: Gawain and Pellegarde mock him for his refusal to attack friends and badly-injured enemies- not that this makes him any less strong when he does choose to fight.
Half-Breed Angst: He dislikes showing his demon heritage because it has hurt his friends and is accompanied by painful spasms.
Having a Blast: His signature move, "Falling Star", can best be described as the magical version of a carpet-bomb.
Healing Hands: Like his mother, he has the healing magic of the Goddess Clan, although his doesn't work on illness or curses.
The Heart: He's the most polite of the Four Knights and looks after the well-being of his teammates. He's also the only one who can get on Gawain's good side.
Hereditary Hairstyle: His hairstyle is a mix of his parents' hairstyles (long and straight like Elizabeth's, but messy like Meliodas' on top).
Heroes Prefer Swords: His request for his 10th birthday was a "legendary sword" (it was denied), and Word of God states that present-day Tristan has at least four swords in his collection. In keeping with this trope, Tristan becomes more physical with his enemies as he goes deeper into assault mode.
Holy Burns Evil: After leaving Assault Mode, he can heal the injuries he sustained in it with goddess magic. However, the process leaves his body in pain afterwards because the two magics are so incompatible.
Honor Before Reason: He refuses to turn his sword against his allies, even if one of them is a Token Evil Teammate who menaces enemies and allies alike.
How Dare You Die on Me!: After Percival chooses to abandon his human body and dies because of it, Tristan reproaches him for abandoning his mission as a Knight of the Apocalypse after he had sworn to Meliodas that he would protect Britannia from Camelot.
Human-Demon Hybrid: His father is a demon and his mother is a human, although she was a goddess in a past life.
Hybrid Power: Thanks to being the only demon-goddess hybrid, he inherited demonic and holy powers from his father and mother respectively.
I Am Not Left-Handed: Tristan prefers to use his demon powers as a last resort in a battle since he doesn't like to show that side of himself and he can only use said powers for a limited time. Melascula doesn't think Tristan lives up to his parents' power level until he uses his demon form to defeat her giant snake form, convincing her that he's as much of a monster as Meliodas.
Iconic Item: He wears a blue earring like Elizabeth's.
Idiot Hair: He inherited Meliodas' ahoge, which in his case indicates a scatterbrained and panicky nature.
It Was a Gift: His earring is a gift from his aunt Margaret to help him look like his mother.
Large Ham: As a child, Tristan did his best to embody the traits of a (stereo)typical chivalric knight. As such, everything he did was over-the-top, from his gestures to his dialogue. He's more levelheaded as a teenager.
Last Episode, New Character: In The Seven Deadly Sins, Tristan is introduced in the final chapter where the protagonists reunite to celebrate his tenth birthday. He returns as one of the main characters in the sequel.
Leeroy Jenkins: Much of the trouble in Grudge of Edinburgh comes from Tristan instantly running out to find his mother's attacker, with no plan, backup, or warning to his parents. He's Older and Wiser in the main series.
Lethal Chef: He is no better at cooking than his parents, which is why his platoon never put him on chef duty.
Lightning Bruiser: He specializes in going fast (with the help of his wings) and inflicting maximum damage.
Like Father, Unlike Son: Tristan takes his role as a prince quite seriously, whereas his father is a much more laid-back authority figure. He also isn't perverted at all and treats Isolde respectfully, in contrast to Meliodas who gropes Elizabeth a lot.
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He's a cute boy with mid-back length hair.
Love Makes You Crazy: He will fight to protect anyone, but when Isolde is hurt he can't do so logically.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: He's a polite and gentle Long-Haired Pretty Boy who is friends with the more aggressive and burly Gawain.
Meaningful Name: The Celtic meaning of Tristan's name is "loud", and he certainly is.
Momma's Boy: He deeply admires his mother, and overcame his aversion to fighting so he could protect her from Deathpierce's curse.
Morality Chain:
- Gawain is more likely to be nice when Tristan is around, although that is by no means certain.
- Isolde and Chion, his squadmates, are loose cannons mostly kept in check by their desire to look good in front of him.
Motivational Lie: He plays into Gawain's delusions of being "the strongest" so she'll calm down.
My God, What Have I Done?: The first time his Assault Mode activated, he hurt Lancelot and left a scar on his forehead. When Tristan came back to his senses, he felt so scared and guilty that he has hated using his demon powers ever since.
Mystical White Hair: Tristan is the hybrid son of a demon and a reincarnated goddess. He also inherited his mother's white hair.
Nephilim: Tristan is the hybrid son of a goddess and a demon, having inherited the powers of light from his mother and darkness from his father.
Nervous Tics: He's prone to gripping his scalp and/or getting loud when he's flustered.
Nervous Wreck: Despite his strength, he frequently and openly feels anxious. It's likely that his ability to soothe other stressed people, like Isolde and Gawain, comes from personal experience.
Nice Guy: He's just as polite and kindhearted as his mother.
Nom de Mom: He has Elizabeth's surname due to it being the name of the Liones royal family. It's further justified by the fact that his father doesn't even have a surname.
Oblivious to Love: He treats Isolde as his knight and friend who is loyal to him just like Chion and Jade, not realizing that Isolde is so passionately devoted to him because she's completely in love with him.
Odd Friendship: With Gawain. Their personalities couldn't be more opposite, but they get along and understand each other the best out of the chosen Knights.
Overshadowed by Awesome: He's visibly insecure when Lancelot (seemingly) fends off Arthur alone. Never mind that Lancelot had to do so because Tristan was exhausted from defeating a Commandment, fighting a berserk Percival, and healing multiple wounds earlier in the day.
The Paladin: A Magic Knight who draws motivation from a strict code of honor, and has a particular hatred for the forces of Chaos.
Parental Sexuality Squick: His father is constantly fondling his mother in public, and he hates it.
Parental Title Characterization: As a child, he would call Meliodas "Papa-ue" and Elizabeth "Mama-ue", which can be translated as "Respectable Daddy" and "Respectable Mommy". According to a Q&A, teenage Tristan has tried to quit calling his parents "Papa" and "Mama" because that's considered childish for his age, but has a hard time dropping the habit and usually corrects himself mid-sentence.
Parents in Distress: Grudge of Edinburgh is about Tristan's quest to save his mother by finding and defeating those who cursed her.
Patchwork Kids: Tristan has the square face and spiky hair of his father Melidas, but he also has Tareme Eyes with the long eyelashes and long white hair like his mother Elizabeth. Even his eye colors are a mix of his parents'; one green eye like Meliodas' and one blue eye like Elizabeth's.
Peerless Love Interest: To Isolde. She considers Tristan to be the Prince Charming of her dreams, but views herself as unsuitable for him because she's a commoner and too tall to be seen as attractive. Even though she doesn't believe Tristan will ever return her romantic feelings, Isolde is devoted to him.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Gowther marvels that 10-year-old Tristan has an impressive combat class for someone his age. This is hinted at when he fights and manages to scar Lancelot, another child who can lift boulders.
Power Incontinence: When he activates Assault Mode, he cannot control his movements and continues attacking his enemies, even if the intellectual part of him wants to stop.
Prince Charming: Tristan is a very kindhearted, noble, and heroic prince. He has flaws- most notably insecurity and a tendency to act irrationally under pressure- but still fits the image of an ideal prince enough for Isolde to call him the man of her dreams.
Prophetic Name: The French meaning of Tristan's name is "sorrow", appropriate for a Knight of Apocalypse.
Proud Warrior Race Guy: Like many children of Liones, he considers fighting evil on the battlefield to be the highest calling. A tragic accident briefly turned him pacifist, but he quickly resorted to his old ways when someone attacked his mother.
Psychic Block Defense: Mael, one of Tristan's swords, has an enchantment protecting him from mental attacks.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: In Grudge of Edinburgh, he's the hotheaded and impulsive Red Oni to Lancelot's coolheaded and cautious Blue Oni.
Single Specimen Species: Tristan's the only naturally born nephilim (goddess/demon hybrid) in the setting. His mother being both a goddess and a human, something almost as unlikely, probably had something to do with this.
Skilled, but Naive: Before he reentered Holy Knight training, his only combat experience was duels. On a battlefield for the first time, he doesn't anticipate the need for strategy, eschewing dramatic speeches, or Double Tapping enemies. Luckily, his raw power and various goddess spells are enough to get him through the fight.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: His eyes turn gold when he uses his powers of the Goddess Clan.
Super Mode: His demonic side, which he can only manifest briefly.
Team Mom: He is the mother figure of the Four Knights, being gentle and nurturing to his more immature teammates. The way he interacts with a crying Gawain is like a mom comforting her child.
Tears of Blood: Part of his demon mark is shadowy tears dripping down his face.
Technical Pacifist: He doesn't like killing people and prefers to resolve conflicts peacefully if possible. However, if his comrades are in danger and his enemy isn't willing to surrender, he won't hesitate to use violence. He chooses to use his demon powers as a last resort because the damage he causes is easily lethal.
Tranquil Fury: When Tristan is angry, he keeps a serene expression without even raising his voice, but his fury is made obvious from the way he mercilessly rips his enemies apart.
Tsundere: A platonic Sweet/dere type. He makes an effort to be nice in public, but conceals no small amount of anger and often yells at people. The end of the Liones Battle arc reveals that some degree of what he says in assault mode is sincere; specifically, the parts about resenting his father for treating him like a child, and yet wanting his recognition and approval as a warrior.
Unstable Powered Child: As a teenager and a half-demon, he has terrible mood swings that can hurt his loved ones and motivate very bad decisions. Unfortunately, he's strong enough that the consequences of such are a lot worse than they would be for a human kid.
Unwanted Assistance: He nervously urges Lancelot to finish Arthur during the two's first battle.
Uptown Guy: Tristan is the crown prince of Liones and his love interest Isolde is a knight at his service. Isolde knows a commoner such as herself has little chances of marrying a prince, but she's still devoted to Tristan.
Use Your Head: In his fight against a giant Melascula, he dove through her body five times and swooped out, fast enough to ventilate demon flesh.
Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Tristan is very serious-minded for his age, criticizing his father Meliodas for being a carefree king who drinks too much and is obsessed with Elizabeth's boobs.
War Is Glorious: He is too young to understand why his mom might be ashamed of her days as a soldier, or that the first Holy War was more morally ambiguous than the second. Similarly, he interprets his father's protectiveness of him as condescension rather than a Shell-Shocked Veteran's natural desire to protect his son.
Warrior Prince: He's the prince of the Liones kingdom and is powerful enough to fight on equal ground against a berserk Percival.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: He feels that his dad babies him and considers Lancelot more capable. This isn't quite true (Meliodas trusted him with the quest to recruit Gawain, after all), but said dad does overprotect people, as shown in the first series. Tristan not having good control of his demon powers and being prone to going berserk doesn't help.
Winged Humanoid: Thanks to being the son of a goddess, Tristan is able to sprout four angel wings.
The Wise Prince: He stops his platoon from attacking Percival's team and only fights Percival when the latter goes into a Unstoppable Rage and attempts to kill his platoon. He's also sensible enough to realize Chion is lying about "mistaking" Percival for an enemy, and listens to Anne's warning about Chion.
Working Out Their Emotions: The night after fighting Melagaland, he trains while thinking that he should have done better. Jade questions how unhealthy this is.
Yin-Yang Bomb: He possesses the darkness-based powers of a demon and the light-based ones of a goddess.

Gawain

"Knight of Famine" Gawain

Voiced by: Fairouz Ai (Japanese)

Magic: Dawn

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The niece of King Arthur. She possesses "golden magic" and calls herself the "Master of the Sun".

24-Hour Armor: In her debut, she wears a full plate Holy Knight armor with a Cool Helmet that conceals her entire appearance. At least until she eventually ditches it which she blends in among the crowd in the capital city while a Liones soldier puts her armor on to try it out.
Abhorrent Admirer: While Isolde did blush at Gawain's Amazonian Beauty form in their first meeting, she doesn't see Gawain's small form as attractive and gets quite uncomfortable when Gawain keeps making passes at her in that form. Anne also doesn't look flattered when Gawain says she would like to make a harem with her and Isolde.
Adaptation Dye-Job: Gawain has black hair in the manga, but the anime makes her hair blue.
Always Someone Better: She is upset by Galand comparing her to Escanor, a great warrior who was the previous wielder of Sunshine (and had over 20 years of experience on her).
Amazonian Beauty: In her Super Mode, she's an over seven-foot-tall, well-toned, and attractive female knight. When she's low on magic power, however, she turns into a Token Mini-Moe.
Ambiguously Related: She seems to have many parallels to Escanor: her magic seems to be similar to Sunshine, both have Pride as a main part of their character, and both wield weapons named Rhitta. Galand even notes her magic power has a similar scent to Escanor's.
Animal Motifs: Several characters refer to her as a "wild mare", betokening a horse that is strong and proud, yet wilful and undisciplined.
Anti-Magic: She is able to use "Absolute Cancel", a spell that negates any other spell.
Badass Arm-Fold: She tends to fold her arms when acting dominant.
Badass Longcoat: Her second outfit has a long coat that looks identical to Merlin's.
Baritone of Strength: She's one of the most powerful female fighters in the franchise, being a Magic Knight with abilities similar to those of Escanor and Merlin. In the anime, Gawain has a deep voice to match her imposing character.
Berserk Button: She thinks that Pellegarde should die for calling her a "little girl", and accordingly attempts to kill him. Granted, Pellegarde is an enemy knight working for King Arthur, but she only seems to care about the perceived disrespect.
Big Eater: She requests a barrel of pudding as her reward for saving Liones.
The Big Girl: She's the largest of the Four Knights in her big form and has the biggest raw power out of the team.
Blood Knight: She looks forward to battle- often too much- seeing it as a way to "let off steam".
Boyish Short Hair: She has a bob haircut that makes her look somewhat boyish.
Break the Haughty: In her introduction, she boasts about being superior to everyone, claiming the other Four Knights are weaklings next to her. Then she faces Pellegarde who quickly overpowers her and gives her a good lecture on her shortcomings. Seeing herself defeated for the first time, Gawain cries in frustration and humiliation.
Butch Lesbian: She's a short-haired, cocky and tough young woman who likes to hit on other women and ogle at their curvy bodies.
Buxom Beauty Standard: She prefers busty women. When she's in her small form, she sits on Isolde's lap and clearly enjoys feeling up her large breasts in the back of her head.
Capture and Replicate: In the Demon Realm arc, Gawain uses a spell to switch places with Rosebank, one of the knights Arthur sent after the heroes, and disguises herself as Rosebank to infiltrate the knights of Camelot. Although, rather than "capture", Gawain just let Rosebank fall to her potential death since she switched places while she was in midair and she was only saved by Percival's mercy.
The Charmer: Gawain manages to get Isolde quite flustered upon their first meeting by complimenting her looks and asking her to "discuss love together".
Clothing Damage: Her first outfit gets scorched to bits in her battle against Galand.
Curb-Stomp Battle: She delivers one against Mortlach's squad of Camelot Knights during the Demon Realm arc. After transforming into her buff form and breaking free from her restraints, it only takes her a single page to blitz and utterly defeat four of them. Mind you, the same knights had just given a lot of trouble to the Percival Platoon and the Tristan Platoon.
Deep Sleep: After exhausting herself in the Liones battle, she collapses onto the battlefield and doesn't wake even as people carry her off it and the fighting continues.
Dirty Kid: In her small form, Gawain takes the chance to sit on Isolde's lap and feel up her boobs with the back of her head.
Dissonant Serenity: She smiles while suggesting they kill Pellegarde, and remains eerily serene as she goes about trying to do just that.
Dual Age Modes: With magic, she takes the form of an incredibly tall, muscular woman. In her true form, however, she's a little girl.
Early-Bird Cameo: She's first seen in the streets of Liones, walking right past people who are looking for her but unable to recognize her without her armor. She then gets officially introduced when she tries comforting an upset Isolde.
Eating the Eye Candy: When alone with other girls, Gawain spends the entire time staring at their butts and boobs.
Expy Coexistence: She's a mix of Escanor and Merlin from the first series. Like Escanor, she has solar magic, switches between a muscular form and a smaller, skinny form, and is very prideful about her immense power. Like Merlin, she's a black-haired, powerful and attractive mage who uses magic to appear older because her true form is that of a small girl. To bring more attention to the similarities, Gawain is given an outfit that has Merlin's coat and one of Escanor's belts.
Fell Asleep Crying: After her first day in Liones, she sobs under the bedcovers, flashing back to the threats Arthur made.
Flight: She can use magic to fly.
Food as Bribe: Lancelot bribes her with pudding to get her to cast Absolute Cancel to nullify the Perfect Cube around Wallnack.
The Friend Nobody Likes: While she's one of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse, nobody can get along with her selfish, abrasive and arrogant personality. Even Percival dislikes her at first. When she goes missing during the journey to the Demon Realm, no one bothers to look for her. It's later subverted as Percival, Tristan and Lancelot make clear they do consider her a comrade and will protect her no matter what.
Green and Mean: Her first outfit is a green bodysuit and is certainly the meanest of the titular Knights.
Hand Blast: She can fire a powerful explosion from her finger.
Harem Seeker: She loves the idea of sharing a room with Anne and Isolde so she can pretend to have a harem for a night.
Headbutting Heroes: With Percival. They're both Knights of the Apocalypse, but they almost instantly hate each other. In Gawain's case, she finds Percival to be annoying because he won't agree she's the strongest.
Height Angst: As evidenced by her using magic to make herself immensely tall and her reaction to Pellegarde calling her a "little girl", Gawain isn't pleased with being short in her normal size.
Historical Gender Flip: Gawain in Arthurian legend was a male knight. In this series, Gawain is a female knight.
Hopeless Suitor: She tries to woo Isolde, but the latter totally ignores her when Tristan is around.
Humanizing Tears: Gawain spends her introduction acting like an insufferable and self-important jerk. It's not until Pellegarde manages to overpower her that she shows vulnerability for the first time as she starts crying like a little child throwing a tantrum.
Immune to Fire: Due to her sun powers, Gawain is immune to flames and fire-based magic, such as Pellegarde's "Pyre" and the fire breath of the Testament Beast.
Incompatible Orientation: Women she has shown attraction to (namely Isolde and Anne) are straight.
Inconsistent Coloring: Like Percival, there is some inconsistency when it comes to her eye color in the manga. Originally, in chapter 61, they were green. This is also maintained on the cover of chapter 88. However, volume covers and subsequent chapter covers depict her eyes as blue instead. The anime adaptation uses blue.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: She claims to be the strongest and most perfect being in the world. However, Pellegarde overpowers her because of her lack of experience, reducing her to a sobbing mess as she can't process any evidence that she isn't invincible.
Irony: When first introduced, she's wearing a deep green bodysuit lined with artificial daisies- hardly appropriate for a Knight of Famine.
I Want My Mommy!: After Arthur declares he's going to hunt down and exterminate the Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Gawain spends the night hiding under her bedcovers and crying for a hug from her grandparents.
Jerkass: She's prideful, smug, self-centered, and uncaring towards others.
Kick the Morality Pet: She's genuinely fond of Tristan, but that won't stop her from smacking him around when he tries getting in the way of her doing whatever she wants.
Kiddie Kid: Even though she's sixteen and usually carries herself as a proud knight, it takes Tristan comforting and reassuring her as one would a five-year-old to make her snap out of her temper tantrum after she gets defeated by Pellegarde. Even the generally youthful and childish Percival is floored by her display.
Know When to Fold 'Em: For all her arrogance, she recognizes in the Liones arc that she does not stand a chance against Arthur.
Lack of Empathy: She doesn't give a rat's ass about other people's well-being and is perfectly willing to kill them if they get in her way or just annoy her. Mortlach calls her out on being unable to love anyone, even her own family.
The Lad-ette: Gawain uses magic to make herself tall and muscular. She loves fighting and flirting with pretty women.
Lady Looks Like a Dude: At first glance, onlookers often mistake her for a man because of her short hair and muscular build.
Little Miss Badass: Her true form is as small as Percival, but she's still a Knight of the Apocalypse and a powerful mage so underestimating her size is a big mistake.
Lovable Sex Maniac: She suggests Anne and Isolde should take a bath and sleep naked with her to "deepen their bonds of friendship".
Magical Incantation: She uses spells by mumbling incantations herself, rather than relying on incantation orbs.
Magic Knight: She complements her brute strength with high-level spells like Weaponized Teleportation and Absolute Cancel, which often catches her enemies off-guard.
Magic Pants: Her second outfit has an enchantment that makes it adjust itself to her size, meaning she doesn't have to worry about her clothes being torn when she changes to her big form.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: With Tristan. She's aggressive and burly while he's a polite and gentle Long-Haired Pretty Boy.
Mood-Swinger: Within minutes of a sobbing tantrum, she's eager to go back into battle again. She's equally quick to "forgive" Percival for (what she considers) an attack on her.
Mundane Utility: She uses incantation orbs as little fridges to store pudding.
The Napoleon: She is no less imperious in her tiny form than she is when she's a hulking bundle of muscles.
Navel-Deep Neckline: Her second outfit has a coat identical to Merlin's, which Gawain also wears wide open to expose her cleavage and abdomen.
Nigh-Invulnerability: She takes several direct hits from a Chaos-powered demon and it barely manages to leave a scratch on her.
Nominal Hero: While she's one of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Gawain has absolutely no heroic motivations for aiding their cause and is only helping them fight Arthur's forces because she's angry at Arthur for never telling her the truth about what she is. She also has no qualms with killing enemies or endangering her allies' lives to get what she wants.
Not So Above It All: Normally, she gives off a strong aura of power and dignity, but after getting soundly defeated by Pellegarde, she descends into an absolute temper tantrum, crying and flailing around on her back.
Odd Friendship: With Tristan. They get along surprisingly well even though they have polar opposite ideologies.
Older Than She Looks: She's sixteen when introduced and while she uses magic to appear big, her true form is about the same size as the childlike Percival.
Perverted Sniffing: She likes to sniff Isolde's hair and clothes.
Pet the Dog: In her first appearance, she offers a much-needed pep talk to Isolde, showing that however bad she is, she has the potential to become better. She also forgives Percival because she doesn't want to make Tristan unhappy.
Phosphor-Essence: Her magic causes her body to emit a golden light.
The Power of the Sun: Her golden magic is associated with the sun, much like Sunshine.
Power-Strain Blackout: If she uses all her magic, the drain will make her collapse not long after and revert to her much-smaller form. This happens after several consecutive battles in the Liones Arrival arc.
Pride: She views herself as a perfect being and considers everyone else dirt compared to her.
Psycho Knife Nut: She wields a dagger that she calls the Divine Sword Rhitta. In her first fight, she thinks Pellegarde deserves death for a minor slight and attacks him while he's holding Percival, admitting that she doesn't care about the boy's life.
Quest for Identity: She left Camelot because Arthur refused to tell her about her origins. By joining the other Knights of the Apocalypse, Gawain hopes to find answers about who she really is and where she came from.
Rebellious Spirit: She hates being told what to do and refuses to obey anyone unless they're stronger than her.
Red Baron: She calls herself the "Master of the Sun".
Reforged Weapon: Her Divine Sword Rhitta looks like an oversized dagger at first glance, but the shape makes sense when you realize that it's reforged from the broken blade of Escanor's Divine Axe Rhitta.
Samus Is a Girl: Gawain wears bulky armor when arriving in Liones, leaving her gender ambiguous. Right before the reveal, Gawain flirts with Isolde, who mistakes her for a man until she turns to look at her.
Sexier Alter Ego: Her attempts at wooing Isolde were actually having an effect when she was in Amazonian Beauty form. When she tries again in her midget form, Isolde completely ignores her in favor of Tristan.
Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: In her introduction, she wears a tight, anachronistic bodysuit that's made for her bigger form. When she shrinks from mana loss, her outfit doesn't shrink with her and ends up covering her naked body like a bedsheet.
Sleep-Mode Size: If Gawain expends all her magic, she poofs into a tiny form that makes her look like a little girl with big boobs. Unlike Escanor's "night form", hers relies on mana reserves rather than the time of day.
Smug Super: She's very confident and prideful, and has the power to back it up. Upon first meeting Pellegarde, she calls him a "sniveling little fire-eater" and makes a mockery of his flames.
The Smurfette Principle: She's the only woman of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse.
The Social Darwinist: Her reason for not listening to Tristan's orders is that he's weaker than her, and being defeated threatens her sense of self-worth.
"'Friends?' Nothing more than the weak huddling together."
Sociopathic Hero: Being one of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse makes her one of the main heroes, but she's selfish and apathetic to people's safety, enemies and allies alike, to the point of acting like a sociopath at times.
Sore Loser: When she experiences defeat for the first time, she behaves like a toddler throwing a tantrum and refuses to acknowledge her defeat by claiming Pellegarde merely made her "struggle".
Sparing the Final Mook: After curb-stomping four Camelot Knights during the Demon Realm arc, Gawain tells the remaining one, Rosebank, that she will spare her because Rosebank attempted to stop the others from finishing off Gawain's defeated comrades.
Spoiled Brat: Even though she's a teenager, Gawain acts like an arrogant brat who has been pampered her whole life. Her grandparents always telling her she's the strongest fed into her big ego.
Statuesque Stunner: Her Super Mode turns her into an Amazonian Beauty who towers over everyone in the main cast.
Summon to Hand: She can summon Rhitta to her hand by calling its name, just like Escanor.
Super-Toughness: Gawain is able to withstand an absurd beating from a chaos-enhanced Galand, whereas most people would be obliterated by a single attack.
Sweet Tooth: She craves pudding after a battle. According to Q&A #63, she's both a sweet tooth and a glutton.
Taking You with Me: In the Demon Realm arc, Gawain is taken hostage by Mortlach's squad, as they try to use her to make the other Knights of the Apocalypse save them from dying in the miasma of the Behemoth if they don't want Gawain dying alongside them. Gawain then offers herself as a sacrifice so Percival and the others could let their enemy knights die while abandoning her, expecting them to not care what happens to her. Fortunately for Gawain, it's subverted by Percival, Lancelot and Tristan coming to her rescue anyway.
Teleportation: She can use a teleportation spell.
Thwarted Coup de Grâce: She stops Mortlach's squad from killing the defeated Percival Platoon and Tristan Platoon during the Demon Realm arc.
Tiny Tyrannical Girl: She's very tiny in her true form and doesn't lose her dominant attitude with her transformation. If anyone talks down to her because of her height, she'll set them on fire.
Token Evil Teammate: She's the most amoral and vicious of the Four Knights. When the knights meet for the first time, Gawain is the only one who wants to kill the enemy knight Pellegarde, and just because she feels insulted at him calling her a "little girl".
Token Mini-Moe: While in her true form, Gawain is the smallest and most childlike in a group of teenagers. Only the also small Percival is close to her height.
Tomboyish Voice: In the anime, Gawain has a low, deep voice to match her Butch Lesbian character.
Too Important to Walk: After she faints during the Liones arc, Donny picks her up and carries her on his back...which she doesn't leave once she's regained consciousness.
Trademark Favorite Food: Pudding; in Chapter 69, after seemingly defeating Galand and Melascula, she demands a barrel of the stuff as her reward.
Tranquil Fury: When Pellegarde presses her Berserk Button by calling her a "little girl," Gawain keeps her smug attitude and smiles calmly. However, her unleashing a burning aura and declaring her wish to kill Pellegarde are clear indications that she's furious.
Unskilled, but Strong: She has immense raw power, but has never bothered to learn how to wield it with any real deftness, as raw power has been enough to get her by up to this point in her life.
Vapor Wear: Her purple coat barely covers her boobs to show off the fact she doesn't wear a bra.
Weaponized Teleportation: One of the ways she applies her teleportation magic is by teleporting her dagger inside an enemy's body.
What the Hell, Hero?: Gawain gives an unusually soft version of this trope to Percival upon his "death". Sorrowfully, she asks how Percival is going to run away, questioning weren't they are suppose to share and support each other in their pain as allies.
You Are Not Alone: She tells Tristan this while they're fighting the Testament Beast, not long after she calls the Knights her friends for the first time.

The Percival Platoon

The motley crew of teenagers who befriend Percival and follow him to Liones.

In General

Breaking the Fellowship: Subverted. Everyone thinks this is going to happen in chapter 83 (because they're not knights, and therefore not strong enough to help Percy anymore), but then Meliodas knights them and tells them their help is needed with the war.
The City vs. the Country: Compassionate and practical compared to the Tristan Platoon.
Commonality Connection: They're very different people, with the commonality that they all think Percival's pretty cool.
Egocentric Team Naming: Subverted; it was the king of Liones, not Percival, who chose the team's name. Everyone accepted it for that reason, even though Anne acknowledges that it sounds dumb.
Fire-Forged Friends: Many of them tried to hurt Percival the first time they met him. However, as they fight the Holy Knights of Camelot and overcome challenges together, they become his close and loyal friends.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Percival is Sanguine (friendly, optimistic and naive), Donny is Melancholic (worrywart and abrasive, but extremely loyal), Nasiens is Phlegmatic (coolheaded and intellectual, but gentle), and Anne is Choleric (the strong-willed and short-tempered self-proclaimed leader of the team).
Gender Bender: In an omake of Volume 9, Percival and his friends eat a magical pill that makes them change sex. Anne turns into a bulky dude while Percival and Donny turn into attractive women, but Nasiens, strangely, looks the same.
Heroism Equals Job Qualification: Having defeated several Chaos Knights already, they are promoted to Holy Knights the day after they arrive in Liones, bypassing the usual apprenticeship period.
Knighting: Meliodas promotes Anne, Donny and Nasiens into Holy Knights after their arrival in Liones, with the classic sword tap on the shoulder.
La Résistance: During the time skip, they make guerilla efforts to retrieve information and protect refugees from Camelot.
Locked Out of the Loop: They don't learn Sin's identity until chapter 48, which causes some discord.
Masculine, Feminine, Androgyne Trio: Donny is a boorish former delinquent, Anne is a buxom Ojou, and Nasiens is androgynous and slender.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They're a talking fox, a cowardly dropout, an obsessive "mad herbalist", and a feudal lord's arrogant daughter.
Sleep Cute: The first part of the story ends with them (excepting Sylvan) falling asleep together as Lancelot fondly watches over them. It's a callback to an earlier scene of Percival snuggling with his grandfather to keep warm.
True Companions: Donny, Nasiens and Anne become extremely loyal to Percival, not hesitating to risk their lives for him. In return, Percival thinks of them as the people most important to him after the death of his grandfather.
We Were Your Team: After Percival becomes comatose, Nasiens and Lancelot ditch the war.

Donny

Voiced by: Kikunosuke Toya (Japanese), Ryan Colt Levy (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Magic: Telekinesis

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A member of the wandering Katz Street Troupe, and the nephew of Howzer, the captain of the Liones Holy Knights. While trying to protect Percival from a Holy Knight, he gets teleported to a remote zone with Percival and Sin, which forces him to join them in their journey to Liones.

Afraid of Blood: He is pretty good at fighting with a knife, but prefers not to because he hates the blood left behind.
Ascended Extra: According to the volume 6 extras, Donny was originally only supposed to stick around until volume 2, but he quickly became an official member of the main cast. The author Nakaba admits that he didn't even put much thought into Donny's design because of this.
Borrowed Catchphrase: He quotes Percival's Badass Creed ("Crush the evil...") upon making his reentrance in Sistana.
Butt-Monkey: He is the focus of a lot of slapstick.
Close-Call Haircut: He's left with a bald spot on the left side due to Percival's terrible aiming skill with arrows.
Cowardly Lion: Donny ran away from his Holy Knight training because he was afraid to die, causing his uncle Howzer to see him as a coward. After he befriends Percival, Donny finds companions that he's willing to risk his life for. He still tries to run from danger from time to time, but he always comes back to help his friends and protect civilians.
Cowardly Sidekick: He starts as a coward who hates fighting and just follows Percival because Sin accidentally dragged him into their journey. He becomes braver and a more active fighter later on.
The Drag-Along: Unlike Percival's other companions who join him willingly, Donny got dragged into Percival's journey completely by accident when he was caught up in Sin's teleportation. He had no choice but to follow Percival since his other option was being left stranded alone in the middle of nowhere.
Establishing Character Moment: When he first meets Percival, Donny uses his magic to make Percival levitate and robs him.
Following in Relative's Footsteps: After he gains courage, Donny aspires to become a great Holy Knight like his uncle Howzer.
Freudian Excuse: He left his Holy Knight training because he was too scared to die in battle. He later explains to his uncle Howzer that his mother asked him to live on her behalf before she died and that's why Donny was so reluctant to risk his life for strangers. After hearing about it from Donny, Howzer recognizes Donny had a sympathetic reason to run from battle and feels bad for thinking his nephew was a Dirty Coward.
Internalized Categorism: During the team's Heroic BSoD about not being special, Donny shoves Percival away while crying and tells him they can't be friends anymore. It's clear that Donny's just parroting his insecurities rather than saying what he really feels.
I Take Offense to That Last One: He lets it slide when Chion insults him for dropping out of Holy Knight training and having a seemingly weak magic, but the moment Chion calls Percival a "pipsqueak", Donny lifts him in the air with telekinesis and makes it clear he won't go easy on him if he insults any of his friends again.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He starts as selfish, rude, cowardly, and shifty. After he's won over by Percival's heroic will, he proves to be a good person and valuable teammate.
The Lancer: He's the abrasive and cautious companion of the innocent and fearless hero.
Lovable Coward: When running into a big danger or powerful enemy, his first reaction is wanting to run away as far as he can. Despite that, he can't abandon innocent people and ultimately returns to help his companions because he trusts that with Percival at his side, there is nothing to fear.
Man, I Feel Like a Woman: In the Gender Bender omake, the first thing Donny does is groping his own female body's breasts.
Mind over Matter: He can levitate objects and other people in the air.
Mundane Utility: He uses his telekinesis magic to catch a fish from the lake.
Second Episode Introduction: The anime introduces Donny in the second episode.
Took a Level in Badass: Throughout the story, he grows from a cowardly pushover to a heroic knight and trains his initially gimmicky Telekinesis magic into a powerful tool for combat.
- After the two-year timeskip, he has gained a muscular build and his Telekinesis is capable of lifting large areas of land.
Took a Level in Idealism: When he first meets Percival, Donny is a Holy Knight trainee dropout who ran away from his training because he was too much of a self-serving coward to risk his life for other people. After befriending Percival and being inspired by his heroic spirit, Donny aims to become a Holy Knight again, having realized the worth of fighting to protect his friends and civilians, and he isn't afraid to endanger his life anymore since he trusts his friends got his back as well.
Took a Level in Kindness: Donny starts as a selfish jerk who tries to trick and rob Percival in their first meeting. After Percival earns his respect and helps him find the courage to fight, Donny becomes a loyal member of his group of friends and won't forgive anyone who insults or hurts Percival.
Uncanny Family Resemblance: His facial features closely resemble those of his uncle Howzer. He looks even more like Howzer after the two-year timeskip.

Nasiens

Voiced by: Aino Shimada (Japanese), Marin Miller (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Magic: Mix Venom

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A young apothecary who meets Percival at Echo Gorge. He's an expert in drugs and poisons. Percival helps him save Echo Gorge and Nasiens' adoptive grandfather who had been turned into a monster by one of Camelot's Holy Knights. Nasiens joins Percival's journey out of gratitude, and also to see the world so he can become a better druggist.

Acquired Poison Immunity: Thanks to his magic, Nasiens can make his body immune to any poison he has ingested before.
All Genes Are Codominant: His father is a fairy and his mother is a giant, but Nasiens is average-sized.
Ambiguous Gender: Nasiens presents himself as a boy, but his appearance is fairly androgynous and it's repeatedly implied that he's hiding a secret involving his gender. In an omake, a Gender Bender-inducing pill doesn't cause Nasiens' body to change at all. Nasiens also wants to avoid being seen naked by people of both genders. Chapter 140 reveals Nasiens isn't male nor female because fairies can be born with no determinate gender and become either one depending on the person they fall in love with.
Ambiguously Human: Nasiens looks like a human, but he doesn't know his own heritage because he was abandoned as a baby. His profile in the databook lists his species as "human(?)", implying that he might not be a pure human after all. It's also been noted that his poison magic is a type usually associated with fairies rather than humans. Turns out Nasiens isn't human, but a fairy-giant hybrid.
Athletically Challenged: He's often seen running after the others in chase scenes, and apologizes for slowing them down as they climb the Dalflare Range. When Lancelot starts training the Percival Platoon in earnest, he tasks Nasiens simply with normal, non-drug-enhanced exercise.
Awesomeness by Analysis: He realizes that bandits have usurped Cant by noticing small discrepancies in how the "townsfolk" act.
Badass Longcoat: Nasiens always wears a white longcoat that makes him look even cooler when he uses poison magic.
Because You Were Nice to Me: He is naturally dumbstruck when Percival, despite Nasiens treating him awfully, risks death to help him save the Gorge and his grandfather. Out of gratitude, Nasiens joins Percival in his journey.
Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Anne's Veronica. Nasiens is a gentle and reserved medic, in contrast to Anne's louder and more aggressive personality.
Blue Means Smart One: Nasiens is The Smart Guy of Percival's team. He's also the only one in the group who wears blue clothing as part of his initial wardrobe.
Brainy Brunette: Nasiens has brown hair and is the smart scientist of Percival's team.
Brick Joke: In the Gender Bender omake, Nasiens doesn't look any different after drinking a pill that should have changed his gender. Percival wonders why that is. Come Chapter 140 and it's revealed Nasiens has No Biological Sex, explaining why the pill had no effect on him.
Calling the Old Man Out: Although he still isn't aware that King is his biological father at that point, Nasiens calls him out for offering him the Drug of Yore to potentially cure Percival's deadlike state only after two years of Nasiens trying and failing to create a potion that could wake him up. He's also disappointed in King for not offering the miracle cure to Mertyl first, despite knowing his adopted son has weak health because the Fairy Realm's atmosphere is toxic to humans.
Changeling Fantasy: Turns out Nasiens is a half-fairy child who was Switched at Birth with the human Mertyl. Nasiens' real parents are none other than the Fairy King Harlequin and the Giant Queen Diane.
Character Tics: He has a habit of biting his bottom lip when he's excited. This always makes his mouth bleed, which freaks people out.
Closet Gay: When Jade asks him if he has a crush on Anne, Nasiens pretends he's right because that's easier than admitting that he's actually crushing on another boy.
Combat Medic: His poison magic has both offensive and medical uses, as he can instantly create an antidote to any poison he ingests. (However, processing the poison beforehand takes a little more time.)
Defrosting Ice King: Nasiens initially acts distant and aloof, mainly because he isn't used to social interaction outside of his adoptive family. After Percival befriends him and lets him join his journey, Nasiens becomes more cheerful and outgoing.
Determinator: Nasiens won't ever give up on someone in trouble. When Mertyl becomes Brainwashed and Crazy because of Kilbeggan's spell, Nasiens ends up receiving a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Mertyl and his arm gets broken, yet he's still determined to fight the knights of Camelot and save Mertyl.
Doorstop Baby: Nasiens was abandoned at Echo Gorge as a baby. Ordo, a local apothecary, found the baby Nasiens in a basket and adopted him as his own child.
Dual Wielding: He dual-wields the dagger Henbane and the shortsword Belladonna.
Effeminate Voice: The anime has Nasiens voiced by a woman to match his androgynous looks.
Elemental Motifs: Air. His magic often manifests as air that carries particulates like fog.
Expository Pronoun: Nasiens refers to himself with the masculine first-person pronoun "ore". Since he actually has No Biological Sex, his chosen pronoun indicates he prefers to be perceived as male.
Fedora of Asskicking: He's fond of wearing fedoras and his poison magic makes him a strong mage.
Formal Characters Use Keigo: Nasiens is the most polite of Percival's companions, which is reflected in his formal speech patterns.
Friendless Background: He grew up in Echo Gorge, with no one but his adoptive grandfather and adoptive giantess sister. Percival is the first human who Nasiens can call his First Friend, although Nasiens chooses to call him his guinea pig.
Geek Physiques: He's The Smart Guy of Percival's team and is quite scrawny.
Generation Xerox: Nasiens' mother Diane had an unrequited love for Meliodas and felt jealous of Elizabeth for being the woman he loves. Similarly, Nasiens has unrequited feelings for Percival and is jealous of his relationship with Anne, although Nasiens is much more reserved about his jealousy compared to Diane.
Happily Adopted: He was abandoned as a baby at Echo Gorge. He then was found and adopted by Ordo, who lovingly raised him as his own grandson.
Happy Rain: His magic allows him to take in liquids- good or bad- and diffuse them over a large area. He used this rain to purify Echo Gorge.
High-Pressure Emotion: Nasiens burns red and emits steam when Hendrickson and Jade ask him if he has romantic feelings for someone.
Hopeless Suitor: Nasiens has unrequited feelings for Percival, who only treats him like a friend and has a mutual attraction with Anne.
Human Alien Discovery: Nasiens was raised believing himself to be a human like his adoptive grandfather Ordo. He knew there was something strange about his lack of biological sex, but he never questioned the fact that he was a human. That is until Tioreh reveals to him that fairies are commonly born without a determinate sex. This, along the fact that the air of the Fairy Realm doesn't hurt him, confirm that Nasiens carries fairy blood.
Hybrid All Along: Nasiens grew up thinking he was a human, but he later discovers he's really a half-fairy, half-giant hybrid.
Hybrid Power: Inverted. Unlike his biological siblings, Nasiens didn't inherit innate powers related to the races of either his fairy father or giant mother. He can't fly, shapeshift, control plants or read minds like fairies do, and his body is human-sized and can't manipulate the earth like giants do. His only natural ability is his magic Mix Venom.
I Am What I Am: Nasiens is surprised when Tioreh explains to him that he has No Biological Sex because he's actually half-fairy, but he decides he's still himself even though he isn't a human like he thought.
Incompatible Orientation: Nasiens has strong feelings for Percival, but the latter has only expressed interest in girls.
In the Back: Nasiens knocks out Percival from the back in their first meeting.
Jealous Romantic Witness: In Chapter 86, Anne gives her consent to Percival getting Marshmallow Hell from her. Then the scene cuts to Nasiens watching them in shock.
Liminal Being: Nasiens is a half-fairy, half-giant, yet looks more like a human than any of his biological siblings. Still, he has No Biological Sex, which is what gives him away as a non-human.
Locked Out of the Loop: After two years of living in the Fairy Realm, Nasiens is the only one who hasn't realized that King and Diane are his real parents. Everyone else in the fairy-giant royal family picked up on it to some extent because Nasiens resembles his parents and the fact that he doesn't get sick in the Fairy Realm is proof that he's a fairy/giant hybrid. Because he hasn't been told the truth, Nasiens doesn't understand Mertyl dislikes him because he believes he'll be replaced and he misinterprets King's attempt to bond with him by giving him the Drug of Yore as him mocking his failures at reviving Percival.
Long-Lost Relative: Nasiens is a long-lost child of King and Diane, having been Switched at Birth with Mertyl.
Lost Orphaned Royalty: Nasiens was abandoned as a baby at Echo Gorge, being thereafter raised as the apothecary Ordo's adoptive grandchild. The Fairy Realm arc reveals Nasiens' true identity as the long-lost firstborn child of the Fairy King Harlequin and the Giant Queen Diane.
Mad Scientist: Mad Herbalist, to be exact. The fairies of Echo Gorge believe Nasiens is doing some shady experiments that will lead to the destruction of their valley. Then it's subverted; while Nasiens does use Percival as a human guinea pig, he has good intentions in his experiments and is perfectly sane.
Making a Splash: His power can create mists thick enough to inhibit sight, as in the Dalflare forest battle.
A Match Made in Stockholm: In their first meeting, Nasiens knocks out Percival, ties him up, and uses him as a guinea pig for his new drug. After Percival saves Nasiens' grandfather, Nasiens becomes Percival's friend and develops a crush on him.
Never Gets Drunk: His poison magic neutralizes the effects of alcohol. Drinking several shots of a potent liquor is like drinking water to him.
Nice Guy: Nasiens is very polite and nice to everyone, including those who treat him badly like Mertyl.
No Biological Sex: Nasiens has no physical sex, causing him a lot of insecurities since he thought this would make him a freak to humans. Tioreh reveals the cause of this is Nasiens being half-fairy. According to her, fairies can become male or female depending on the gender of the person they fall in love with.
Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Nasiens' real parents are King and Diane, making him a fairy-giant hybrid.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: Nasiens attacks Percival while the boy is comically trying to put on his helmet even though a recent Rapid Hair Growth makes it difficult.
No-Sell: His poison magic is useful to make him resistant to various types of poisons and attacks.
Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: In his introduction, he makes weird drugs and tests them on plants and animals. Some fairies think Nasiens is running suspicious experiments to destroy the environment of Echo Gorge. However, Nasiens was really developing a drug to save the plant and animal life of his home.
Poisoned Weapons: He can enchant his daggers with venom.
Poisonous Person: His special magic is Mix Venom, which enables Nasiens to ingest any kind of poison and "teach" its composition to his body, letting him create his own mix.
Poor Communication Kills: If he had just explained the heroic motive behind his experiments to the fairies of Echo Gorge, none of them would have paranoically assumed Nasiens was making an evil drug to kill them all.
Professor Guinea Pig: Nasiens usually tests his mixes on himself. The Gorge cure is a notable exception, because it might kill him and cut off any hope of the Gorge being saved. Which is why he kidnaps Percival.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calmer and rational Blue Oni to Mertyl's hotheaded and impulsive Red Oni.
Reluctant Mad Scientist: The anime shows that in order to create the drug that would save Echo Gorge, Nasiens used local animals as test subjects and this caused said animals to turn violent. The local fairies saw this and labeled him a "Mad Herbalist", unaware of Nasiens' true motives for the experiments or that he regretted what he had to do to the animals.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: During his stay at the Fairy Realm, Nasiens realizes his presence brings tension to the royal family, especially to Mertyl who gets overly hostile whenever he's around. Initially, he reasons it's merely Fantastic Racism because fairies don't seem to like humans very much. The truth is Nasiens is King and Diane's long-lost firstborn and they, Mertyl and Tioreh have already realized this. The real reason of the tension is Mertyl's Adoption Angst as he's actually a human who got Switched at Birth with Nasiens and now the family worries of what will become of Mertyl if he comes to believe he doesn't belong with the family now that they got Nasiens back.
Selective Obliviousness: As smart as he is, Nasiens chooses to ignore anything related to his own origins because he grew up thinking he was abandoned by his parents and he never wanted to know the reasons for it. He never wished to question his race because he preferred to think of himself as a human like his adoptive grandfather, even though his lack of physical sex is very obvious indication that his biology isn't that of a human. When he incidentally meets his biological family in the Fairy Realm, Nasiens doesn't acknowledge his physical resemblance to them or all the clear hints to him and Mertyl being Switched at Birth.
Shower Shy: Nasiens doesn't like to bathe with other boys. In a manga extra, Nasiens freaks out at being seen naked when Percival sneaks into his bath. Turns out the reason for this is Nasiens hiding the fact that he has No Biological Sex.
Signature Headgear: He wears an immense white top hat.
The Smart Guy: His knowledge in poisons and intellectual mind make him the brain of the team. Lampshaded by Anne who notices he has some talent as a strategist.
Squishy Wizard: His poison magic is amazing and very useful, but is the least suitable for physical combat out of Percival's friends.
Strong Family Resemblance: Nasiens' facial features and body build look very similar to those of his father King, and he has his mother Diane's hair color. Despite never having met him before, Mertyl and Tioreh immediately noticed Nasiens' resemblance to their parents.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He acts serious and no-nonsense when first meeting Percival. After Percival helps save his grandfather, Nasiens smiles and is very grateful to Percival. He still tries to keep some distance by calling Percival his guinea pig instead of his friend, but he's obviously happy that Percival welcomes him into his group.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: Nasiens has amber eyes, hinting at him having supernatural origins. He gets them from his father, the Fairy King Harlequin.
Super-Toughness: By ingesting the poison made from the Ground Cerunnos' antler, Nasiens acquires the ability to immensely boost his body's durability, making him able to take a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown and come out without a scratch.
Tears of Joy: He's overwhelmed with happiness and cries after his grandfather is turned back into a human.
Token Non-Human: The revelation that Nasiens is a half-fairy, half-giant hybrid makes him the only member of the Percival Platoon who isn't a human.
Tranquil Fury: His anger is of the 'cold and creepy' type, as Howzer finds out.
Nasiens: I still outclass the man who punched out Donny in a drunken rage.
Turn the Other Cheek: Mertyl is antagonistic and verbally abusive towards Nasiens for reasons the latter can't really understand. Despite this, Nasiens doesn't hold it against Mertyl and recognizes he's a kind person to everyone else. Even after a Brainwashed and Crazy Mertyl delivers him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, Nasiens forgives him because he knows Mertyl is Not Himself at the moment and only wants to save him from the knights of Camelot.
Unbroken Vigil: After Percival's "death", Anne and Donny continued fighting enemies from Camelot on their own, while Nasiens traveled to the Fairy Realm to watch over Percival's comatose body. It seems he has tirelessly been trying to create a potion to wake Percival up, to no avail, for the past two years.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Anne. They often bicker and butt heads often, but are teammates who work together fairly well.
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Nasiens knows and experiences familial love, but doesn't seem to properly comprehend the difference between friendship and romantic love. He spent his entire life in Echo Gorge with his adoptive family until Percival became his First Friend. He deeply admires and cares for Percival, to the point some assume he's in love, but he doesn't truly understand his feelings for Percival because he never had someone so important outside of his family before. It's later revealed that Nasiens will become a woman after falling in love with a man, but remains genderless even after two years of being close to Percival, indicating that Nasiens hasn't understood or maybe even known romantic love yet.
What You Are in the Dark: After two years of trying and failing to create a potion that can cure Percival's deadlike state, Nasiens is getting sad and desperate. Noticing this, King offers him the Drug of Yore, which is said to cure all diseases and curses, to try it on his friend, but Nasiens immediately refuses it. Besides finding it an insult that King waited two years to make the offer, he believes Mertyl needs it more than he does.

Anne (Anghalhad)

Voiced by: Kanna Nakamura (Japanese), Emi Lo (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Magic: Interrogator

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The daughter of the feudal lord of Sistana, and an aspiring Holy Knight. She joins Percival and his friends when they work together to stop Ironside from sacrificing the people of Sistana in a ritual to summon a demon army.

Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: She accuses Howzer of getting her drunk to make her a victim of his perverted desires. Howzer denies he's into "little whelps" like her and Anne feels so insulted that she goes crying to Percival.
Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: After joining Percival's team, Anne changes her dress for an outfit with a midriff-baring shirt. On the other hand, her male teammates wear regular shirts.
Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Nasiens' Betty. Anne is a loud and aggressive swordswoman, in contrast to the gentle and reserved medic Nasiens.
The Big Girl: She's a Master Swordswoman who can fight off a Camelot Holy Knight with just her sword and speed. This makes her the best in physical combat out of Percival's teammates.
Black-and-White Morality: She has difficulty with understanding that not all liars are maliciously motivated, and with working in non-hierarchical groups (for example, the team's democratic layout confuses her).
Boyish Short Hair: After her fight with Ironside, Anne gets a haircut to better match her role as the tomboyish aspiring female knight.
Braids of Action: She's an Action Girl and has some of her hair tied into a braid at the right side.
Broken Pedestal: Played for Laughs. She builds up an inner portrait of Melodias as being a noble hunk, but when it turns out he's really childish looking and the type to grope his wife in front of a crowd to introduce himself, it absolutely shatters her.
The Cassandra: From the start, she knew Ironside was deceiving everyone in Sistana because she could see he was lying about his motives for the ritual with the Coffin of Eternal Darkness. However, no one believes her warnings, not even her father.
Celibate Heroine: Unlike Percival, Anne does know about romance and sex, but prefers to focus on her dream of becoming a Holy Knight. The author's notes state this is intentional because he wanted Anne to be a female lead with no immediate interest in love, unlike most of the girls of the previous series.
Cleavage Window: In Liones, she's given a new outfit with a hole over her cleavage.
Close-Call Haircut: She gets most of her hair cut by Ironside's sword during their fight.
Close-Range Combatant: She specializes in fighting with swords, since she doesn't have magic that's adept at long-ranged attacks.
Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: While Percival isn't a Cloudcuckoolander, he's very naive and doesn't understand basic social norms because he was sheltered his entire life, such as him not knowing it's wrong to do perverted things to girls without consent. Anne chastises him for this and smoothes over things with Isolde when he inadvertently offends her with his Accidental Pervert habits.
Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Just as Percival is a contrast to Meliodas, Anne is one to Elizabeth in the role of the female lead. Whereas Elizabeth was a Princess Classic and White Magician Girl, Anne is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Master Swordswoman. Their relationships with their love interests are also very different; Elizabeth was more of a Damsel in Distress who needed to be protected by Meliodas and she was lovingly supportive to him all the time, Anne is a battle companion to Percival and shows more of a Tsundere attitude towards him.
Covert Pervert: She tries to teach Percival that he shouldn't do perverted stuff to girls, without consent that is. She doesn't mind Percival to do those things with her and even tells him he's allowed to grope her as much as he likes, but only when they're alone.
Cowardice Callout: She berates Sin as a useless coward because he won't help the group fight Camelot's Holy Knights.
Crocodile Tears: She pretends to cry to turn Percival against Howzer, out of anger at the latter for insulting her pride by stating he has no interest in violating her.
Defiant Strip: Ironside tries using Clothing Damage to make Anne lose the will to fight. In response, Anne takes off her dress to show that fighting in her undergarments won't affect her resolve in the slightest.
Dope Slap: She administers one to Percival after he explains why Isolde was attacking him.
Dramatic Irony: She doesn't know until chapter 83 that Meliodas, who she (rightly) idolizes, is exactly the sort of deceitful, perverted person she would hate if she met in real life.
Empowered Badass Normal: Anne starts as The Team Normal, but she eventually gains a new ability that causes her opponent's body to become heavier and collapse when they lie in front of her.
Fantastic Racism: Dishonesty is one of the first things Anne notices about a person, and so she assigns it more importance than she should. This means she hates shapeshifters regardless of how they act, because their whole body registers as a lie.
Fights Like a Normal: The main use for her magic power is knowing when someone is lying. She's still a capable fighter thanks to the swordsmanship she learned from her mother.
Following in Relative's Footsteps: Her mother was a Holy Knight in the service of King Arthur. Anne wants to become a Holy Knight like her mother and once she gets her father's approval, she joins Percival's journey to train herself.
Friendless Background: Before joining Percival's team, her horse Sylvan was the only one she could call a friend.
Girl of My Dreams: Played With. The mountain of visions is said to cause people to see their future lovers in their dreams. Percival says he dreamed of Anne when he slept at the mountain. Unlike Lancelot's dream with Guinevere, Percival has already met Anne in person at that point, but this is the first hint that their relationship will become romantic later on.
He Is Not My Boyfriend: When Nasiens asks her if she likes Percival, Anne tries to claim he's just a friend to her. She's forced out of denial when her own magic pushes her to the ground for lying about her crush on Percival.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: When Meliodas makes her one of Percival's Holy Knights, Anne doesn't feel she's fit for it because of her status as The Team Normal makes her think she can't be useful to Percival in the same way that Donny and Nasiens. Fortunately, Elizabeth persuades her to accept the job since Anne has the courage to try and help Liones' civilians even though she can't help fight demons.
Hypocrite:
- She hates all liars, but has no trouble lying to sic Percival on Howzer.
- She claims that "men and beasts" can't be trusted with money, but has proven to be no better when she fumbled up with the funds, wasting it all to the point the group is unable to rent lodgings.
I Ate WHAT?!: In bonus pages, she steals one of Nasiens' potions and drinks it. Unfortunately, it's a gender-switching potion.
Iconic Sequel Character: Anne is the female protagonist and Percival's love interest, but she isn't introduced until the end of the second volume.
In-Series Nickname: Her name is Anghalhad, but is called Anne because it's shorter and easier to remember.
Inconvenient Attraction: She's not happy to discover she's falling in love with Percival and tries to deny her own feelings, even though her power literally hurts her when she isn't honest.
Innocently Insensitive: She says, right in front of Percival, that Ironside's son must be as evil as his father. After she learns of Percival's relation to Ironside, Anne admits she owes Percival an apology since he's the noblest and purest guy she has ever met.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's ill-tempered, abrasive and has a hard time empathizing with people's feelings, but is a good person and cares for her friends despite her flaws.
Jumped at the Call: She is very pleased to be starting her journey towards knighthood.
Just a Kid: She does respect Percival's strength, but still thinks of him as a kid despite them being the same age. She doesn't mind letting him grope her because she doesn't see him as a man yet.
The Knights Who Say "Squee!": She goes full fangirl mode when talking about the famous Seven Deadly Sins.
Lady of War: Subverted. In her introduction, Anne wields a rapier while wearing a Pimped-Out Dress, but quickly dispenses with the fancy clothes and self-discipline associated with the role.
Lame Comeback: Anne is genuinely badass, but her wit is not. When the Tristan Platoon threatens Percival, for example, she yells back that their name is dumb.
Leader Wannabe: Immediately after joining the group, Anne wants to be the leader as she considers herself the only one competent enough for the role. None of her teammates take her claims of leadership seriously, though.
Leotard of Power: After becoming a Holy Knight, she's given an orange leotard to wear.
Living Lie Detector: She has the special ability to see a dark aura around people who lie. It also extends to seeing 'passive' lies (like someone concealing their identity in general), and the degree to which someone is lying.
Lost in Translation: Her real name is translated as "Anghalhad", but it's likely supposed to be "Angharad", a Welsh female name. Note the R instead of L, though this is probably more of the translator's fault. A character of that name appears in a medieval Welsh Arthurian story about Sir Percival, though he is called "Peredur" instead.
Love Epiphany: Played for Laughs in Chapter 110. When Nasiens asks her how she feels about Percival, Anne tries to claim she only likes him as a friend... But then her new lie detection power forces her to the ground. Realizing this means she's lying, Anne freaks out as she doesn't want to admit she has romantic feelings for Percival.
Male Might, Female Finesse: She forms this dynamic with Percival. In contrast to Percival whose fighting style is all about brute strength and raw power, Anne is a Master Swordswoman with much more skill and accuracy.
Master Swordswoman: She displays great swordsmanship and can stand on her own in a sword fight against Ironside.
Modesty Shorts: After joining Percival's team, Anne wears a white miniskirt with cycling shorts underneath.
Money Dumb: Even though she considers herself the only one in the group responsible enough to handle the money, Anne ends up spending nearly all of it on lanterns, blankets and clothes. Sin is understandably annoyed and calls Anne out on her leaving no money for lodgings.
Mouth To Mouth Force Feeding: She tries performing mouth-to-mouth in an attempt to feed Nasiens' medical drug to a dead Percival, which doesn't work.
No Listening Skills: Anne doesn't want to listen to those she perceives as liars. In her first meeting with Percival and his friends, Anne assumes they're stealing the piece of the Coffin of Eternal Darkness that she's hiding from Ironside. She doesn't give them the chance to explain themselves and attacks them, but stops when Percival willingly gives her the piece back and Anne realizes he's the only one in the group who doesn't have the aura of a liar.
Non-Idle Rich: Even though her father is a feudal lord, Anne wants to become a Holy Knight as she believes it's her duty to protect the people of her town.
Odd Name, Normal Nickname: She's named Anghalhad, but is called by the more normal-sounding nickname "Anne".
Ojou: While not actually royalty, her father governs over Sistana and she practically lived like a princess until she joined Percival's journey.
Painting the Medium: Her visual perspective includes black shading around characters who are lying.
The Paralyzer: After Jade's death, Anne's Living Lie Detector power gets an upgrade that causes whoever lies in her presence to be painfully forced to the ground and rendered unable to move until they tell the truth.
Please Wake Up: In chapter 128, the Life Spirits in Percival abandon their vessel willingly, leaving a lifeless body behind. Anne refuses to accept Percival has died for real, tearfully begging him to open his eyes.
Plucky Girl: She's strong-willed and very brave, ready to take on anything for her goal of becoming a Holy Knight.
Power Incontinence: Later on, her Living Lie Detector ability evolves and gives her the power to increase the gravity of whoever lies in front of her. The problem is that she has no conscious control over this new power and it affects her when she tries to lie too.
Royal Rapier: She's a high-class lady and wields a rapier in battle.
Shorttank: Anne is the hot-headed and stubborn female lead of the series. After her introduction arc, she changes her more feminine initial appearance for shorts and a tank top to have her character design and characterization fit the trope to a T.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Anne develops feelings for Percival because of his impressive honesty and heroism.
The Smurfette Principle: She's the only girl in the Percival Platoon.
Straw Feminist: She somehow perceives sexism in the team's statement that they don't want to fight her. Later on, she takes control of their funds on the basis that "men and beasts" can't be trusted with money.
Sword Cane: When the group first encounters her, Anne pulls out a sword from her umbrella.
The Team Normal: Leaving aside her Living Lie Detector ability, Anne is the only member of Percival's team who doesn't possess magic. Instead, she only fights with her sword. Subverted after her Truth magic evolves enough for her to apply it to battle.
The Three Faces of Eve: The Child. Unlike Isolde and Guinevere, Anne starts off unexperienced in romance and tends to act immature.
Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Anne is about One Head Taller than Percival and she eventually becomes his love interest. She isn't particularly tall, but Percival is very short. It also happens to be the perfect height difference for Percival to get Marshmallow Hell when hugging her.
Tomboyish Ponytail: After the two-year timeskip, Anne has longer hair and wears it in a ponytail to suit her status as a knight.
Tomboy Princess: She's a feudal lord's daughter instead of a princess, but she fits otherwise. Instead of living a comfortable life in a mansion, Anne wants to be a knight and favors swords over pretty dresses.
Tomboyness Upgrade: When she's introduced, she has long hair and wears a frilly Pimped-Out Dress. After she joins Percival's group, Anne's hair is cut short and she changes her feminine clothes to a more tomboyish style that's better suited for fighting and traveling.
Town Girls: The Butch. Compared to Isolde and Guinevere, Anne is the most tomboyish of the three and dreams of becoming a formidable knight instead of romance.
Trauma Button: Anne sees Jade bleeding to death after protecting Isolde from Macduff. This triggers Anne's memory of her mother's death.
Traumatic Superpower Awakening: She got her Living Lie Detector ability when her mother died. Later on, she acquires a new power when she witnesses Jade taking a fatal hit for Isolde during the battle against Macduff.
Tsundere: Harsh type. Anne is abrasive, irritable and haughty, but she has a soft side and Percival can leave her lovestruck at times.
Upper-Class Equestrian: Since her father is a feudal lord, she has been raised as a rich lady. When traveling with her friends, she rides on her horse Sylvan, who she calls her best friend.
Uptown Girl: Anne is the rich daughter of a feudal lord and has feelings for Percival, who grew up in a mountain as a peasant, away from all society.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Donny. They often bicker and butt heads often, but are teammates who work together fairly well.

Sylvan

Voiced by: Setsuji Satō (Japanese), Brent Mukai (English)^{Foreign VAs}

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A horse who has been Anne's best friend since childhood. He joins the group as her steed.

The Alleged Steed: Zig-Zagged. He has stubby legs and lacks strength, endurance and speed. This is why he's the only free horse in Sistana, as the others are put to work on repairs. After the two-year time skip, he can transform into a cool-looking Pegasus when he eats magic carrots, but his real form is still rather unimpressive.
Animal Talk: He has conversations with Sin the fox who is the only one in the group who can understand him.
Expy Coexistence: He fulfills the role of the heroes' Team Pet and Funny Animal, much like the pig Hawk in the original series. At one point, he's even mistaken for a pig because of his stubby legs and big nose.
Furry Reminder: He understands things like the quest and Sin's dual nature completely, but reacts to Percival swatting his leg like any horse would do; kicking the kid into next week.
Horsing Around: He gets along just fine with Anne, but kicks Percival and leers at the others upon first joining the group.
Interspecies Friendship: He's a horse who gets along with Sin, a fox.
Nearly Normal Animal: He is shown to have human-level intellect and conversations with Sin, but cannot speak to ordinary humans.
Nerves of Steel: Sylvan stays close enough to see the group even while they're fighting magic-wielding assassins in the Dalflare forest. When the assassins target Sin, he charges over in a futile attempt to help him.
Pegasus: With Gawain's "Little Wings" spell, Sylvan becomes a winged horse.
- In Part 2, he can transform into a true pegasus by eating magic carrots.
Power-Up Food: Magic carrots turn him into a pegasus. Unfortunately, they taste disgusting.
Predator-Prey Friendship: As a horse, Sylvan is a herbivore, but Sin the fox threatening to eat him did not prevent them from forming a friendship.
Sapient Steed: To Anne, although she cannot understand him.
Super Mode: Upon eating magical carrots, he temporarily becomes an imposing warhorse with wings and the ability to speak.
Talking Animal: In Part 2, he can converse with humans in his pegasus form.
Team Pet: Sylvan is Anne's horse that she brings along on the journey. He serves no purpose for the Percival Platoon other than being Anne's ride.

The Tristan Platoon

A group of Holy Knights at the direct service of prince Tristan.

In General

Bodyguarding a Badass: Members of the Tristan Platoon are individually weaker than their leader, but 1) there are things out there that Tristan can't take on alone, 2) someone needs to protect him if he has a fit at an inopportune time, and presumably 3) it's just good procedure to have a lot of soldiers bearing witness to things and keeping each other honest.
Childhood Friends: The three have been friends since they were nine years old.
City Guards: As Holy Knights of Liones, their job includes patrolling the city, standing guard, and impeding the heroes.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Tristan is Sanguine (noble-minded, charismatic, and friendly), Isolde is Choleric (tough, passionate, and fiercely loyal to Tristan), Chion is Melancholic (sly, vicious, and overly paranoid), and Jade is Phlegmatic (coolheaded, rational, and cordial).
Hero-Worshipper: The group idolizes Tristan as their heroic prince and savior, to varying degrees. It's especially extreme in Chion's case, but Jade secretly struggles with his feelings of respect and admiration coming into conflict with his jealousy of Isolde's love for Tristan.
I Owe You My Life: They're all loyal to Tristan because he saved them from a dragon when they were kids.
Interclass Friendship: Tristan and Chion are both members of the Liones royal family, while Isolde and Jade are commoners. The social class difference doesn't prevent them from being friends since childhood.
Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Jade is the most rational and laidback of the platoon, as he tries to put effort in getting along with the Four Knights of the Apocalypse and the Percival Platoon. On the other hand, Chion is an obnoxious Jerkass with a zealous obsession with keeping Tristan safe and constantly insults those around him. Meanwhile, Isolde is irritable and easily jealous because of her insecurities about her tallness and her crush on Tristan, but she's still a good person and acts fairly nice as long as others don't mess with her and Tristan.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A gang of maladjusted teenagers who are very good at violence and very prone to abusing it. That their fanaticism can be turned against Liones' enemies is probably the only reason they still have a job.

Isolde

Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki (Japanese)

Magic: Love Bomb

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A female Holy Knight who is devoted to Tristan.

Art Shift: In the part of chapter 56 that focuses on her, its art changes to a light-lined style, with shading and artificial backgrounds more appropriate to a Shōjo manga.
Bodyguard Crush: Protecting Tristan is her job as one of his personal knights. It's also her heart's greatest desire, so much so that it fuels her explosion magic.
Break the Cutie: Poor sweet Isolde gets hit hard by Jade's death, becoming a sobbing mess as she's filled with grief and guilt over her friend giving up his life to protect her.
Clingy Jealous Girl: She gets worried that Tristan might get seduced by a "smaller and sexier" woman. When Tristan is forced to share a hotel room with a mysterious naked woman, Isolde kicks down the door and demands Tristan to switch rooms with her.
Defiled Forever: Played for Laughs. After Percival gets under her skirt and sniffs her panties, Isolde is mortified as she thinks her chastity has been "tarnished" by a man who isn't her beloved Tristan and runs away in shame when she tries telling Tristan what happened.
Epic Flail: Her weapon is a flail.
Expressive Accessory: The black bow in her hair droops to one side when she's ashamed or sad.
Having a Blast: Her magic generates explosions.
Height Angst: She's over six feet tall and hates it because she believes this makes her unattractive to Tristan.
Hidden Depths: Her fangirl tendencies are rooted in genuine love for Tristan, who she is equally concerned for when he is defeated and ranting as when he is his usual charming self.
Huge Schoolgirl: She's sixteen years old, but is so tall that she towers over guys her age and is very self-conscious about it.
Hysterical Woman: She's absent from some scenes in the Liones arc because she ran off to cope with her embarrassment after her Accidental Pervert incident with Percival.
I Am Not Pretty: She thinks she's too tall for anyone to find her attractive, but Tristan, Gawain and Jade think otherwise.
I Got Bigger: When she was a child, Isolde was the same height as Chion and Jade. As a teenager, she towers over them.
I Let Gwen Stacy Die: She feels guilty about Jade dying from taking a fatal attack to protect her.
Ignored Enamored Underling: She's a member of Tristan's platoon and has a big crush on him. Tristan does think of her as a comrade, but can't recognize or return her romantic affections.
The Ingenue: Beneath her tough exterior, she's surprisingly pure and innocent. After Percival gets under her skirt, Isolde gets depressed as she believes he has taken her chastity before she could offer it to Tristan. Anne has to explain to her that she's still a virgin.
Insecure Love Interest: She's very tall and not good at much other than fighting. For these reasons, she considers herself to be unsuitable for Tristan, who she views as an ideal Prince Charming.
It Was a Gift: Her hair ribbon was a gift from Tristan. He even promises to get her a new ribbon in case it gets destroyed.
Just Friends: Tristan doesn't recognize her romantic affections and only sees her as a close friend.
Kiddie Kid: She's emotionally childlike for a 16-year-old teenager. Flashbacks show she hasn't really matured from the time she was a little girl dreaming of her Prince Charming. She tends to act immaturely, especially when her crush on Tristan is involved.
Leotard of Power: Her second outfit has a shirt but no pants, making it look like a leotard.
Letting Her Hair Down: The first scene she has her hair down coincides with her befriending Anne and learning that Percival isn't as bad as she thought.
Made of Iron: Getting her face cracked into concrete barely makes her bleed. She gets up almost immediately afterwards.
Minidress of Power: She wears a minidress as her Holy Knight uniform.
Mood-Swinger: In her first scene, she furiously tries to mutilate Percival, then perks up when Tristan arrives and laughs at his lame jokes, and then starts crying as she remembers Percival has "tainted her chastity".
Oblivious to Love: Isolde is so preoccupied by Tristan and her height that she doesn't notice Jade's crush on her. Even when he directly asks her out on a date, she thinks he's joking. More tragically, his Heroic Sacrifice devastates her because she doesn't understand why a good friend would go so far to protect her.
Pervert Revenge Mode: She first meets Percival when he bumps into her and gets his head under her skirt. Isolde gets so pissed that she tries to smash Percival's balls with her flail.
Pink Means Feminine: She has salmon pink hair and wears pink in her second set of clothes, suiting her girlish personality.
Plucky Girl: Her courage and persistence make her a powerful knight able to trade hits with a Commandment.
The Power of Love: Her explosion magic is powered by her love for Tristan.
Prone to Tears: She cries easily whenever she thinks about how she's "unsuitable" for Tristan.
Psycho Pink: Subverted. Isolde has pink hair and her introduction has her attempting a Crippling Castration on Percival for touching her inappropriately when he accidentally bumped into her. After she calms down and the misunderstanding is solved, she turns out to be a nice person.
Rescue Romance: She loves Tristan because he saved her from a dragon, like the Prince Charming of her dreams.
Rose-Haired Sweetie: She's pink-haired and is quite the romantic sweetie, as long as no one makes her angry or hurts Tristan.
Signature Headgear: She wears a distinctive hair ribbon that resembles rabbit ears.
Single-Target Sexuality: Tristan is the only man she loves, and she majorly freaks out when another man touches her indecently.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She has pledged to love Tristan, who is chivalrous, sweet and treats her like a normal girl despite her large size.
Smitten Teenage Girl: She tries to act tough, but instantly turns into a lovestruck maiden when Tristan is nearby.
The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female member of the Tristan Platoon.
Statuesque Stunner: She's cute and towers over her male teammates.
Subordinate Excuse: She's very loyal and devoted to Tristan as his knight. She doesn't really mind if Tristan never returns her romantic feelings as long as she can be by his side and protect him.
Sweet Tooth: According to invoked Word of God, she makes sweets when it's her turn to cook for the platoon.
Third-Person Person: When she was a child, Isolde referred to herself in the third person.
The Three Faces of Eve: The Wife. Compared to Anne and Guinevere, Isolde is the most protective and devoted to her love interest.
Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Tristan is about half her size. He barely reaches her chest when they're standing next to each other.
Town Girls: The Neither. Isolde is a knight, making her more combat-oriented than Guinevere, but she's girlier and more romantic than Anne.
Tsundere: Sweet type. She's a nice girl and smitten with Tristan, but when she feels victimized or defensive of someone, she instantly gets violent.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: When Tristan is knocked unconscious, she runs at the demon responsible to carve them up.
Younger than She Looks: She is very tall and has a voluptuous figure, even though she's only sixteen years old.

Chion

Voiced by: Soma Saito (Japanese)

Magic: Summon Elemental

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The son of the cardinal Gilthunder and Margaret, the first princess of Liones. He's also Tristan's cousin since the latter's mother is Chion's aunt through adoption. He idolizes Tristan and his possessiveness of the prince is at odds with his official duty to protect people.

Bastard Understudy: After Vivian discovered his talent for Spirit Arts, Chion kept pretending to be her obedient adopted son and apprentice, but once he learned enough magic from her, he used the Sylph spirit to suffocate Vivian during her sleep. Then, he escaped her secret lair with the help of his other spirits.
Berserk Button: Chion wants to curse and kill all people who present even a minor inconvenience for Tristan. When Tristan loses a game of Rock–Paper–Scissors and has to bunk with a stranger for a night, Chion goes batshit and yells Percival deserves to be fed to pigs for just suggesting the second round of the game, even though Tristan lost fairly.
Black-and-White Insanity: Chion worships Tristan, respects the Liones royal family, and trusts his fellow knights in the Tristan Platoon. In his deranged paranoid mind, however, everyone else is evil and a threat to Tristan. He goes as far as trying to kill Percival and Gawain, who are both fated to help Tristan save the world, all while excusing himself by claiming The Prophecy is a sham and the Knights of the Apocalypse only mean harm to Tristan, with no evidence or logical thinking behind this. He can't even stand for Tristan being near strangers without his supervision.
Black Sheep: Chion's Jerkass personality and neurosis have alienated him from the rest of the more benign Liones royal family. His cousin Dreydrin stopped visiting because he couldn't put up with Chion and even his own father Gilthunder feels disturbed by his viciousness. Only his other cousin Tristan seems to tolerate him, but he still doesn't approve of Chion trying to kill people based on paranoid suspicions.
Bullying a Dragon: Not believing in The Prophecy, Chion plots to murder the Knights of the Apocalypse excepting Tristan. He tricks Isolde and Jade into helping him kill Percival and badly injure his friends in the process. This causes Percival to go berserk and Chion's arm gets mummified because of Percival's power as the Knight of Death.
Character Catchphrase: "Always act on the worst-case scenario".
Clashing Cousins: Chion is stated to have a bad relationship with his cousin Dreydrin, mainly caused by Chion's insane obsession with his other cousin Tristan. It's mentioned that Dreydrin doesn't visit Liones anymore because he doesn't want to meet up with Chion.
Corrupted Character Copy: He can be considered one to his father Gilthunder. He's a fanboy to Tristan in a similar way his father was to Tristan's father in the past. However, Chion is much more dangerously extreme about his admiration for Tristan. Lampshaded when Meliodas comments on how Chion takes after his father, but Gilthunder has no idea where his son got the Jerkass attitude from.
Cowardice Callout: He makes fun of Donny for running away from his Holy Knight training after only one month.
Creepy Blue Eyes: His deep blue eyes look soulless.
Dark and Troubled Past: At three years old, he was kidnapped and made prisoner by Vivian, the crazy witch who stalked his father and tried to kill his mother. Six years later, he escaped using the spirit magic that Vivian taught him, but some time later, she kidnapped him again. Tristan saved him the second time and that led to Chion's idolization of his cousin.
The Dog Bites Back: Vivian kidnapped him and held him prisoner for six years. After he got her to teach him spirit magic, Chion used the sylph to asphyxiate Vivian as payback for what she put him through.
Elemental Powers: He is able to command elementals with his spirit arts.
Empty Eyes: The lack of pupils and light reflection in his eyes makes him look suspicious and untrustworthy.
Establishing Character Moment: In his first appearance, he "mistakes" Percival for a Chaos Holy Knight in King Arthur's service and leads an attack on him.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Chion has a drastic black-and-white worldview that makes him into a borderline psychotic Knight Templar, but he has genuine affection for his family and childhood friends. He's dangerously overprotective of his cousin Tristan, but he has had a close friendship with Jade for many years, with Chion even calling Jade his second favorite person after Tristan.
Freudian Excuse: As a child, he was kidnapped by Vivian, his father's insane stalker, and was forced to act like her son for six years. While it doesn't justify his behavior, it does make sense he ended up growing into a big Jerkass.
The Friend Nobody Likes: The Four Knights of the Apocalypse and their companions put up with Chion because he's one of Tristan's most loyal followers, but he's such an annoying and vicious Jerkass that no one can get along with him, except for Jade. In chapter 84, Gawain sets his hair on fire and nobody but Jade reacts.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has an Anti-Hero style vertical scar over his left eye that he keeps covered up.
Hate Sink: Despite his loyalty to Tristan, most of Chion's early appearances have him be obsessively protective and antagonistic to anyone he perceives as a threat to his lord, and even after being proven wrong likes to mock the Four Knights.
Headbutting Heroes: Chion and Donny butt heads whenever they're on the same scene, as Chion's Jerkass behavior majorly pisses Donny off.
Hereditary Hairstyle: His father Gilthunder's hair hides one of his eyes in a similar manner to Chion's hairstyle.
Hiding Behind Your Bangs: His hair covers his left eye and he's a deceitful manipulator. It also hides a scar over his eye.
Hollywood Genetics: His father has pink hair and his mother has lavender hair, but Chion has a dark indigo hair color that looks nothing like his parents'.
I Reject Your Reality: As he says so himself, Chion only believes in himself and those he chooses to believe in, namely Tristan. Because of this, he vehemently refuses to believe in The Prophecy of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse because he refuses to accept there's other chosen heroes besides Tristan. Just before the prophesied knights are gathered, Chion tries to kill two of them to keep the prophecy from coming true and when he fails, he still doesn't acknowledge them as Tristan's equals and treats them like shit.
Irrational Hatred: Chion hates the Four Knights of the Apocalypse, excepting Tristan, to the point of wanting to kill them. He claims to be suspicious that The Prophecy is fake, but he has no real reason to hate Percival, Lancelot and Gawain other than him refusing to accept that Tristan alone isn't enough to save the world. He also feels pissed about them treating Tristan casually as he doesn't see them as the prince's equals.
Jerkass: He's a complete asshole to anyone who isn't Tristan, Liones' royalty or directly at Tristan's service. He's especially detestable and spiteful towards the rest of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse because he thinks they get in the way of Tristan being The Hero. After he realizes he can't get away with killing them, he keeps insulting and cursing Percival, Gawain and Lancelot every chance he gets.
Karma Houdini: He tries to kill Percival and Gawain, only failing because Tristan stops him. Besides being briefly detained at a dungeon, he doesn't get any punishment for his actions.
Kill It with Fire: After Jade is killed by Macduff, Chion summons his salamander and orders it to burn Macduff to death.
Knight Templar: He believes it's his duty to get rid of any and all risks that may befall Tristan. Therefore, he wants to kill any potential enemies, including the other Knights of the Apocalypse, out of psychotic paranoia that they could be a threat to his prince.
The Knights Who Say "Squee!": A villainous example. He gleefully monologues to no-one in particular about Guila's strength...and rumored love life.
Like Father, Unlike Son: His father is the epitome of a Knight in Shining Armor, in contrast to Chion who is an unrepentant Jerkass.
Logical Weakness: Chion needs to recite a Magical Incantation to summon spirits, but if there's something that makes him mess up the pronunciation or lose the ability to speak, he's left powerless.
Loony Fan: His admiration for Tristan is obsessive and dangerous. He believes Tristan will save Britannia from Arthur, but doesn't agree with The Prophecy as it says other three heroes will help Tristan do it. When the Four Knights of the Apocalypse are gathered, Chion immediately tries to kill Percival and Gawain behind Tristan's back. After he's stopped, he makes up unreasonable excuses about doing it for Tristan's sake because there's no guarantee that the other prophesied knights won't cause trouble for Tristan. He also curses at them whenever they merely talk back or disagree with Tristan.
Magical Incantation: His spirit arts require incantations with very specific pronunciations.
Magic Staff: He wields a staff topped with four rings, matching his connection to the four elements.
Mix-and-Match Weapon: His polearm is a Magic Staff on one end, and a two-bladed axe on the other.
Mundane Utility: When Tristan has to share a hotel room with a stranger, Chion uses his sylph spirit to eavesdrop on Tristan.
Never My Fault: When a rampaging Percival drains the life out of Chion's arm, he blames it on Percival if he becomes unable to continue being a Holy Knight, even though Percival rampaged because Chion tricked his platoon into attacking him and his friends.
No Listening Skills: The only people that Chion is willing to listen are Tristan and to a lesser extent, Jade. Due to his paranoid mindset, he refuses to listen to the explanations of anyone that he finds even a little suspicious. In his introduction, he uses his Sylph spirit to purposefully prevent Percival from talking and resolving the misunderstanding that led to their conflict.
No Sympathy: Macduff breaks Percival's neck right in front of Chion, Donny, and Nasiens. Unaware that Percival has Resurrective Immortality, Chion unsympathetically tells Donny and Nasiens to accept their friend is dead because he was too "weak" to be a Knight of the Apocalypse.
Nurture over Nature: Chion was originally a kindhearted child who inherited his parents' good nature. Unfortunately, at three years old, he got kidnapped by Vivian, and was raised by her until he managed to escape from her six years later. As a result, Chion ended up taking up Vivian's twisted and obsessive personality.
The Paranoiac: He has an extreme case of paranoia for whatever involves Tristan. In his opinion, anyone who has even a remote chance of being a danger or burden to Tristan should be eliminated immediately. He even tries to kill the other Knights of the Apocalypse because he believes they could be impostors sent to assassinate Tristan or they could become a burden for Tristan if they ever need to be protected during battle. He can't even stand for Tristan sharing a hotel room with a stranger, getting paranoid about Tristan possibly getting kidnapped and sold to human trafficking.
Politically Incorrect Hero: He's a Holy Knight serving under Meliodas and Tristan, yet he hates that "country hicks" are his equals under Liones' law.
Pragmatic Villainy: He agrees to save Guila because then she'll be indebted to him.
Psycho Sidekick: Chion idolizes Tristan, being the most single-mindedly loyal out of the prince's platoon. However, he's way too fanatical and paranoid, bordering on insanity. He can't understand that not every single stranger means harm for Tristan and repeatedly tries to take it into his own hands to target anyone who just might pose a danger to Tristan.
Royal Brat: His mother is Queen Elizabeth's adopted sister, making him Prince Tristan's cousin. He treats his fellow royals and few selected friends decently, but everyone else is dirt to him.
Screw Destiny: He attempts to kill Percival and Gawain because he doesn't believe The Prophecy of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse is legitimate proof that they can be trusted. He's stopped by Tristan on both occasions.
Sinister Suffocation: He is able to suffocate people by summoning a sylph and removing the air from their lungs.
Sociopathic Hero: He's technically one of the good guys by virtue of being loyal to Tristan, but his unhinged paranoia makes him a borderline sociopath willing to kill anyone he finds suspicious or unworthy of his respect.
Soft-Spoken Sadist: In the anime, Chion normally speaks with a soft and polite voice that makes his more amoral moments all the more unsettling.
Sour Supporter: Chion's childhood with Vivian left him with an extremely negative worldview. He doesn't have faith in anyone but Tristan and initially strongly opposes to becoming allies with the other Knights of the Apocalypse, even trying to kill Percival and Gawain out of paranoia. He's so pessimistic that he gets disturbed when he thinks things are going too well for the team.
Stalker without a Crush: His obsession with watching out for Tristan's safety 24/7 makes him look like a deranged stalker.
Summon Magic: He summons Nature Spirits to fight for him.
Tautological Templar: His very twisted logic allows him to convince himself that everything he does for "Tristan's sake" is a good thing, not matter how amoral it is. Neither Tristan or Jade approve of Chion attempting to murder Percival and Gawain. However, Chion justifies himself by claiming the other prophesied knights could be secretly enemies or they could be a hindrance to Tristan's glory.
Token Evil Teammate: He's a member of the Tristan Platoon, but he's also a deceitful Jerkass who repeatedly goes behind Tristan's back and tries to murder the rest of the Knights of the Apocalypse because he believes they are a threat to Tristan. Even after he stops trying to kill other heroes, he's still antagonistic and unpleasant to most people.
Tongue-Out Insult: He sticks his tongue out when he's being an annoying jerk to Lancelot, who just ignores him.
The Unapologetic: He tricks Isolde and Jade into helping him kill Percival's group. Even though his actions caused Percival's friends to get injured and Percival to go berserk, Tristan has to order Chion to apologize for his "mix-up". Only the naive Percival buys his fake apology.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He started as a good-natured child, but his personality got twisted after he was kidnapped and raised by Vivian for six years. His bad experiences with Vivian have caused him to become belligerent, deceitful, and paranoid as a teenager. His family and childhood friends tolerate him because they know he wasn't always a Jerkass and Vivian made him the way he is today.

Spirits

Alchemic Elementals: The spirits are based on the Elementals, mythic beings described in occultism and alchemy texts.
Classical Elements Ensemble: Chion has four Nature Spirits, with each being one of the four Alchemic Elementals. Sylph is the spirit of air, Gnome is the spirit of earth, Salamander is the spirit of fire, and Undine is the spirit of water.
Fiery Salamander: The spirit of fire takes the form of a salamander.
Water Is Womanly: The spirit of water is the only one that looks feminine.

Jade

Voiced by: Shugo Nakamura (Japanese)

Magic: Monochrome

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Another of Tristan's Holy Knights. He's a childhood friend to Isolde and Chion.

Always Save the Girl: While he does respect Tristan, Jade is in the Tristan Platoon because he wants to protect Isolde. While Isolde and Chion always put Tristan first, Jade's priority is Isolde. He even sacrifices himself to save her from Macduff.
Blunt "Yes": When Tristan asks if Jade blames him for Gawain being difficult to find.
Casting a Shadow: His "Darkness" spell manipulates shadows and can use this to obstruct his opponents' vision.
Childhood Friend Romance: He has unrequited romantic feelings for his childhood friend, Isolde.
The Conscience: He does his best to rein in Chion's cruelty and tries talking some sense into him regarding his Token Evil Teammate tendencies. Unfortunately, he does a bad job at it as he himself admits he can do nothing to stop Chion's excessive paranoia and prickery.
Dark Is Not Evil: A shadow-wielder whose calm rationality contrasts his teammates' explosive magics and personalities.
Died in Your Arms Tonight: After he takes a fatal attack for Isolde, Jade dies in her arms.
Elemental Hair Colors: His hair is white at the top half and black at the bottom half. Fittingly, he uses both darkness and light spells.
Elemental Personalities: Jade is a genuinely polite, friendly and good-natured guy, but he's also very envious, resentful and bitter over Isolde choosing Tristan over him. This contradiction within himself gave him his Monochrome magic as he tries to be "white" out of fear of people disliking him, yet secretly yearns to be more "black" so he could openly express his hatred for Tristan.
Et Tu, Brute?: He's clearly sad as he asks Chion why he betrayed his teammates' trust by trying to kill Percival and Gawain behind Tristan's back.
Hidden Disdain Reveal: He reveals to Chion that while he respects Tristan, he also hates his guts.
Hopeless Suitor: He has a crush on Isolde, but knows she loves Tristan. Since he can't compete with the prince, he has resigned himself to unrequited love.
Horrible Judge of Character: Because of their relationship as Childhood Friends, Jade tends to overlook or underestimate Chion's worst traits. He blindly believes Chion's lies about Percival being a spy from Camelot, only to discover Chion knew Percival was a Knight of the Apocalypse all along yet still wanted to kill him because of his paranoid obsession with eliminating anyone who just could be problematic for Tristan. Later on, Jade tries to defend Chion's horrid behavior as him merely being "overprotective" of Tristan, but Donny and Nasiens can tell Chion just has a rotten character.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: While protecting Isolde, Jade gets impaled through the chest by Macduff.
Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: His magic "Monochrome" gives him the ability create shadows or light. It was born out of his admiration for Chion's uncompromising, black-and-white personality.
Light 'em Up: His "Flash" spell creates a blinding flash of light from the palm of his hand, obstructing the view of anyone nearby.
Light Is Good: Played With. Monochrome gives him light magic because of his friendly and morally upright front, but he also has darkness magic because he has a lot of jealousy and resentment towards Tristan hidden inside.
Only Friend: To Chion, which even he admits. While Chion isn't on the best of terms with anyone on his team, he thinks of Jade as the second most important person in his life, losing out to Tristan of course.
Only Sane Man: Compared to Chion and Isolde, Jade is the only levelheaded member in their platoon and his loyalty to Tristan isn't anywhere as zealous as it is for the other two.
Patient Childhood Love Interest: To Isolde. They grew up together and Jade has been in love with her since he can remember, but he knows Isolde doesn't feel the same way because she wants to marry Tristan. Despite his unrequited feelings, he still stays close to her and is willing to risk his life to protect her.
Romantic Runner-Up: Jade is very devoted to his childhood friend Isolde, but unfortunately for him, she's in love with Tristan and he just can't measure up to the prince.
Sacrificial Lion: Jade gets a fair bit of development before he's killed in action after his introductory story arc, with his death serving to establish that Percival can't resurrect the dead.
Satellite Character: His character is mainly defined by his friendship with Chion and crush on Isolde.
Shirtless Scene: In chapter 81, he wears an open shirt on an evening walk outside.
Stealing the Credit: He lied to Isolde by claiming to have carried her home after she was chased by a dragon. Actually, Tristan was the one who defeated the dragon and carried Isolde on his back.
Taking the Bullet: He takes a fatal hit to the chest to shield Isolde from Macduff's attack.
Toxic Friend Influence: When Chion mocks Donny, Jade suppresses laughter even as he tells him to stop. Later on, it's revealed that even though Jade tried to make a good impression on people, Chion's influence made him he secretly wish to be rude and antagonistic as well.
Why Can't I Hate You?: Tristan is his savior and the prince he has sworn loyalty to, which causes a lot of conflict with Jade's jealousy and bitterness over Isolde being in love with Tristan instead of him. Jade admits to Chion that he both respects and hates Tristan, but doesn't argue when Chion points out that there's nothing to hate about him.

Escanor

Tristan's horse.

Dead Guy Junior: He's named Escanor, after the late Sin of Pride.
Pegasus: Gawain's "Little Wings" spell turns him into a winged horse.
Team Pet: He's this for the Tristan Platoon. Similar to Sylvan, Escanor is a horse that his owner Tristan brings along in the heroes' adventure.
We Named the Monkey "Jack": He shares the same name as the only human member of the Seven Deadly Sins.

King and Diane's Children

Seven half-fairy, half-giant children born between King and Diane.

In General

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Badass Family: As the children of two members of the Seven Deadly Sins, they're all pretty strong. The second son Sixtus is especially powerful, having abilities similar to his father the Fairy King.
Either/Or Offspring: Compared to other hybrids like Lancelot and Tristan, King and Diane's children seem to either lean towards the fairy side or giant side. Sixtus, Belte and Tioreh have the appearance and powers of fairies. On the other hand, Zana, Zilian and Phao are big (although still not as big as regular giants) with no obvious fairy characteristics, aside of Phao being born with No Biological Sex.
Gender-Equal Ensemble: Three are male (Mertyl, Sixtus and Belte) and three are female (Zana, Zilian and Tioreh). Phao and Nasiens are a special case because they're neither male nor female.
Hollywood Genetics: Both King and Diane have brown hair, but most of their children have blonde or pink hair.
Massive Numbered Siblings: They're seven siblings in total. Eight when counting Nasiens.
Meat Versus Veggies: The giant-like Zana and Zilian prefer meat dishes, which prompts the fairy-like Belte to snark about them being carnivores; he prefers fruit. Phao, who is in the middle of sprectrum, wants both meat and fruit.
Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: They're the hybrid children of a fairy and a giant.
Proportional Aging: Subverted. They're the children of two Long-Lived races, but they seem to age at a similar rate to humans, indicating that they're either very self-actualized or that the longevity of both their ancestral species somehow had the opposite effect upon combining.
Town Girls: The three princesses are this; the Tomboy Zana is Butch, the Proper Lady Zilian is Femme, and the cheerful Shameless Fanservice Girl Tioreh is Neither.

Mertyl

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The eldest son of King and Diane. He's actually a changeling, a human who has switched with a fairy at birth. Despite this, he wants to think of himself as King and Diane's true child.

Abandonment-Induced Animosity: In his Brainwashed and Crazy state, Mertyl lashes out at King and Diane because King offering the Drug of Yore to Nasiens has given him the impression that they have abandoned him in favor of Nasiens.
Acquired Poison Immunity: He has developed a resistance to poisons because he needs to frequently take a special pill to be immune to the toxic atmosphere of the Fairy Realm.
Adoption Angst: King and Diane raised him as one of their own, but Mertyl grew up constantly insecure and fearful about being a changeling, questioning whether his adoptive parents would still love him if their real child returned. After Nasiens came to the Fairy Realm, Mertyl thought his worst fears came true and King apparently favoring Nasiens over him drives him past the Despair Event Horizon. He gets over his issues after he finally has a heart-to-heart with Diane and she affirms Mertyl is her and King's son, regardless of lack of blood relation.
Anguished Outburst: After he witnesses King offering the Drug of Yore to Nasiens instead of him, Mertyl runs away, bursts into tears, screams in rage, and uses his whip to rampage around the destroyed Fairy King's Forest.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Mertyl wishes that he was a giant or a fairy. Kilbeggan "grants" this wish by using a curse to transform him into a monstrous giant-fairy hybrid, only he ends up Brainwashed and Crazy in the process.
Berserk Button: Looking at Nasiens' face makes him filled with anger because Nasiens' obvious resemblance to King and Diane is a major trigger for his Adoption Angst.
Black Eyes of Crazy: His eyes turn black after Kilbeggan brainwashes him.
Black Sheep: He has never felt he fits in with the rest of his adoptive family because he's neither a fairy nor a giant. It didn't help most fairies called him out on looking nothing like his parents and spread rumors about him being a changeling, which were true. His adoptive parents and siblings all care a lot about him, but he's still constantly insecure and frustrated with himself for being different from them.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Kilbeggan brainwashes him with a "craving" curse, causing his darkest emotions to go out of control and drive him to attack his adoptive family because they have apparently replaced him with Nasiens.
Combat Tentacles: His monster form fuses his whip with his arm into a tentacle-like appendage, which he uses to attack his adoptive family.
Despair Event Horizon: He falls into deep despair and anger when he believes that his adoptive father King has abandoned him in favor of the biological child Nasiens, and by giving Nasiens the Drug of Yore, destroyed the possibility of Mertyl adapting to the atmosphere of the Fairy Realm. It's subverted after Diane reaffirms her and King's love for him and reveals the Drug of Yore was already given to him in his infancy, but it failed to help him adapt to the Fairy Realm.
Doesn't Trust Those Guys: He doesn't trust humans, and advises his parents not to be too friendly with Nasiens. Although, the real reason is that he suspects Nasiens is King and Diane's true child and he's afraid to be replaced because of being an adoptee.
Establishing Character Moment: In his introduction, he gets annoyed when he sees his parents being nice to Nasiens and reminds them to not trust humans.
Fantastic Racism: He believes humans to be a threat to the fairy and giant races because some friends of his parents were harmed and/or killed by humans. However, he doesn't want the relations between humans and fairies to deteriorate, which is why he's angered by a fairy who abducts a human child.
Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Nasiens' sole presence is a source of anger and disdain for him. Nasiens thinks Mertyl hates him because he's human, but the truth is it's because Nasiens isn't human but the fairy/giant child of King and Diane who got Switched at Birth with Mertyl, who already realized this and resents Nasiens for unwittingly stealing his parents' attention and affection with his arrival to the Fairy Realm.
Foil: To Nasiens.
- They were both abandoned as babies and raised by loving adoptive families after they were Switched at Birth. While Nasiens came to terms with being adopted and was satisfied with the love he got from his adoptive parent, Mertyl never accepted his status as an adopted child because he feared his parents would abandon him after their real child came back.
- Both grew up knowing they were different from those around them; Nasiens because of his lack of physical sex and Mertyl because he's a human surrounded by fairies and giants. While Nasiens is very guarded about his body, he's able to accept himself as he is, but Mertyl is obsessed with the belief that he should be a fairy or a giant to fit in.
- Nasiens is a Squishy Wizard, Mertyl is a Master Swordsman and whip user who doesn't rely on magic to fight.
Freudian Excuse: He tries to kill Puck for switching a human baby with a fairy one, which Nasiens thinks is too cruel of a punishment. Turns out Mertyl has a particular resentment and grudge over being a changeling himself. Also, the true reason of his dislike for Nasiens is that he knows Nasiens is the true child of King and Diane, making him afraid of being replaced and discarded as a "fake".
Green-Eyed Monster: He's very jealous of Nasiens because he's King and Diane's long-lost biological child, and that makes his adoptive parents very fond of him. He grows paranoid about Nasiens stealing his parents' love and King giving the Drug of Yore to Nasiens instead of him is the last straw, culminating in Mertyl trying to kill Nasiens out of envy after Kilbeggan puts him in a Brainwashed and Crazy state.
Happily Adopted: He deeply loves his adoptive parents and siblings. For most of his life, he feared getting a confirmation that he's a changeling because he was insecure about whether his parents would still love him after their biological child returned. Once Diane finally has a heart-to-heart with him to reassure him of her and King's love for him, Mertyl gets over his Adoption Angst and comes to terms with the fact that he doesn't mind being adopted as long as his family loves him.
Hate at First Sight: From the moment he first met Nasiens, Mertyl hated him and wanted him out of the Fairy Realm because Nasiens' Strong Family Resemblance to King and Diane let Mertyl instantly know he was their biological child and he's afraid Nasiens will take his place in the family.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: He's called a guardian angel by the fairies he protects, but he doesn't feel he deserves such praise because he's a mere human and this makes him feel inferior to fairies and giants.
His Own Worst Enemy: All of Mertyl's insecurities and fears are made up by his own head. King and Diane have always been good and loving parents to him, but he convinced himself that their feelings would change after the biological child he got switched with reappeared. Nasiens has no intention of taking his place in the family and isn't even aware that King and Diane are his biological parents, yet Mertyl still treats him as the person who came to take everything from him. Instead of trying to talk things out and confirm his fears are misguided, Mertyl bottles his emotions up for years, lashes out at Nasiens and assumes his parents will abandon him.
Hunk: He's tall, muscular, and has a gruff look compared to other male characters, but is handsome.
Identity Breakdown: His Adoption Angst cultiminates in a breakdown when he witnesses King giving the Drug of Yore to Nasiens, seemingly confirming his fears that he will get replaced by Nasiens and lose his place in the family.
I Just Want to Be Loved: His greatest wish is to feel loved by his adopted family and he sees Nasiens' presence as a threat to that because Nasiens is King and Diane's long-lost biological child. After Diane reaffirms she and King love him as their son even though he's human, Mertyl admits he never really cared about not being a fairy or a giant; all he ever wanted was for his adoptive family to love him.
I Just Want to Be Special: He hates being a normal human surrounded by fairies and giants, as he thinks he doesn't fit into his adoptive family.
Jerkass to One: He is a jerkass solely when it comes to Nasiens, and briefly Puck. Initially, it seems that this is his attitude towards humans in general, but it's actually specific to Nasiens because he realizes that Nasiens is King and Diane's biological child and fears that he will get replaced. He also snaps at Puck for pulling a changeling prank due to the Adoption Angst caused by his own changeling life, but apologizes for going overboard later. Nasiens notes that he is kind towards everyone else in the Fairy Realm.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's short-tempered, rude and antagonistic towards Nasiens. Despite his bad attitude, he's a kindhearted and noble man who deeply loves his fairy/giant family and wants to protect the Fairy Realm and its inhabitants.
Magic Pants: Kilbeggan's curse transforms him into a huge monster, but his pants stay intact after the transformation.
Master Swordsman: He's an extremely capable swordsman.
Melee Disarming: He disarms Nasiens's daggers with his sword when they get into a duel.
No Shirt, Long Jacket: He doesn't wear a shirt under his jacket, to show off his torso.
Perpetual Frowner: He's frowning most of the time.
Psychopathic Manchild: He turns into this when Kilbeggan makes him Brainwashed and Crazy. Mertyl is basically throwing a tantrum because King and Diane are paying more attention to Nasiens than him and he takes it out on Nasiens by delivering him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, only being stopped from killing Nasiens by King's timely arrival. While rampaging as a monster and demanding the Drug of Yore, he keeps acting like a kid who had his toy taken away from him.
Raised by the Supernatural: He's a human who was raised by a fairy and a giant.
Rebuilt Pedestal: Mertyl has a breakdown when he sees King giving the Drug of Yore to Nasiens instead of him, being given the impression that his parents really don't care about him and will throw him aside in favor of Nasiens. In the middle of his curse-induced rampage, Diane calms him down by telling him she and King have always loved him as their son, and they did try giving him the Drug of Yore to help him adapt to the Fairy Realm when he was a baby, but it had no effect because the drug can't change the fact that he's human. Mertyl then gets over his fears regarding his Adoption Angst, now being sure his parents love him and won't abandon him.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The hotheaded and impulsive Red Oni to Nasiens' calmer and rational Blue Oni.
Running Away to Cry: After he walks in on King offering the Drug of Yore to Nasiens, Mertyl breaks down and runs off with tears in his eyes.
Sour Outside, Sad Inside: As he grew up, Mertyl constantly heard fairies telling him that he looks nothing like his parents and that he most definitely wasn't their real son. He acts harsh and abrasive, but beneath that he's plagued with insecurities about being a changeling and fears the day his parents' true firstborn appears, thinking that he'll lose his place to belong.
Switched at Birth: He isn't King and Diane's biological child, but a human who was switched with their real firstborn child Nasiens when he was a baby.
Sword Plant: He makes his debut in this stance.
Team Dad: As the eldest, he plays this role for the siblings. His younger adoptive siblings look up to him as a stern but kind leader figure. Some cases like Sixtus even hold him in higher regard than their actual father.
Tears of Joy: He breaks down crying when Diane reveals that she and King tried to use the Drug of Yore to heal his ill symptoms caused by him being a human living in the Fairy Realm, and they still raised him even after it failed to heal him permanently. With this, Mertyl won't ever doubt his parents' love again.
Token Human: He's the only human resident of the Fairy Realm.
Transformation Horror: Kilbeggan transforms him into a monster that resembles a giant-fairy hybrid.
The Un-Favourite: He feels this way towards Nasiens, who is King and Diane's true firstborn whom Mertyl got Switched at Birth with. Mertyl's biggest fear is that his parents won't love him anymore because they have Nasiens now and he hates it when his parents shower Nasiens with affection in front of him. He believes his fears are confirmed when he sees King giving the Drug of Yore to Nasiens instead of him. It's subverted since King and Diane do love Mertyl as much as they love their biological children. They actually tried to give him the Drug of Yore when he was a baby and decided to raise him even though it didn't work.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: He desperately wants to be acknowledged as a true son of King and Diane, but his status as a changeling makes him very insecure about his parents' love for him.
What You Are in the Dark: After King gives the Drug of Yore to Nasiens, Mertyl becomes furious and depressed because he thinks his parents don't care about him anymore. Noticing his dark emotions, Kilbeggan offers him to ally himself with Camelot and turn against the family who lied to him his entire life. Mertyl refuses and only turns against his family because Kilbeggan uses a spell to brainwash him.
Whip of Dominance: Besides his sword, he also wields a whip. He uses it to tie up Puck and keep him from running away after pulling a changeling prank, and also to hit the ground and let out his frustration after he sees King giving the Drug of Yore to Nasiens.
You Are What You Hate: He dislikes and distrusts humans for hurting the friends of his fairy adoptive father and giant adoptive mother, even though he's a human himself.

Sixtus

The second oldest of King and Diane's children.

Big Brother Instinct: Inverted. He feels very protective of his older brother Mertyl, looking after him more than anyone else in the family. He's quick to attack anyone who threatens Mertyl with his Spirit Sword. He even confronts his own father for not properly caring for Mertyl and favoring Nasiens over him.
Big Brother Worship: He looks up to his older brother Mertyl and praises him for his efforts in protecting fairies. Even after he finds out Mertyl is adopted, he still respects him more than anyone and gets angry at King for prioritizing Nasiens over Mertyl just because the former is his biological first child.
Calling the Old Man Out: He calls out his father King for offering the Drug of Yore to his biological child Nasiens and not to his adopted son Mertyl, who undergoes an Identity Breakdown after King's actions convince him that he isn't considered a true member of the family by his adoptive parents.
Cool Sword: He wields the Spirit Sword "Maglia Stira", similar to the Spirit Spears wielded by the fairy kings.
Family of Choice: After he learns the identity of his biological older sibling, Sixtus still doesn't see Nasiens as family and calls him a "stranger related to (his parents)". To him, his only older brother is Mertyl, not caring at all about him being adopted or a human.
Flying Weapon: Maglia Stira floats in the air and moves according to his will.
Generation Xerox: Not only does he look identical to young King, he also has a complex over being a late bloomer because he still hasn't grown wings much like King took a long time to grow his own. He even wields a Spirit Sword, which can shapeshift much like his father's Spirit Spear.
In the Hood: He wears a hood over his head.
Little Big Brother: He's very short because of his lack of wings, so all of his younger siblings are much taller than him.
Morph Weapon: Spirit Sword Maglia Stira has multiple forms.
- Form One: "Maglia Stira". The standard sword form of the weapon.
- Form Two: "Hummingbird". A swarm of hummingbird-like fragments which can manipulate airflow.
Older Than He Looks: Sixtus is the second oldest of the siblings, but he's the smallest of the family because he hasn't grown wings yet.
The Stoic: Sixtus never loses his cool.
Strong Family Resemblance: Out of the children, he resembles his father the most as he looks identical to King prior to growing wings.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He doesn't show much emotion and has a coolheaded personality, but he cares about his family and smiles around Mertyl, who he looks up to as his older brother.
Telepathy: He possesses the Fairy Clan ability to read the hearts of others, like his father and aunt.
The Worf Effect: He is shown to be very powerful and stated to have such great magic power that some believe he could become the next Fairy King. Soon after that statement, he is easily defeated by Worreldane, one of the Four Evils of Camelot, quickly establishing them as a major threat,

Belte

The third oldest of King and Diane's children.

Freakiness Shame: He hates his Pointy Ears, as none other of his many siblings have them.
Green Thumb: He can control plants.
Pointy Ears: He has long, pointed ears, making him the most fairy-like of King and Diane's children.
Winged Humanoid: He's one of the two children of King and Diane to have grown fairy wings.

Zana and Zilian

The fourth and fifth oldest of King and Diane's children.

Big Eater: Their brother Belte teases them over their big appetite and love for meat.
Big Little Sister: They tower over their three older brothers.
Dishing Out Dirt: Both inherited the Giant Clan's ability to manipulate the earth.
Giant Woman: Their strong giant genes make them much bigger than their siblings, but they're still smaller than regular giants.
Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Zilian is the most ladylike of the fairy/giant princesses and she wears a purple dress.
Height Angst: While they're the biggest of King and Diane's children, they don't like the fact that pure-blooded giants still tower over them.
Hereditary Hairstyle: Zana keeps her hair tied into twintails just like her mother Diane.
One-Steve Limit: In Japanese, Zilian shares her name with a member of Dawn Roar. In the official English translation, the two names are spelled slightly differently (Zilian and Jillian) to play the trope straight.
Prim and Proper Bun: Zilian has her hair tied in a bun, fitting her proper behavior.
Proper Tights with a Skirt: Zilian, the more ladylike of the two, wears a short purple dress and dark leggings.
Sibling Yin-Yang: Zana is a brash and short-tempered tomboy, while Zilian is a prim and proper lady.
Strong Family Resemblance: Zana looks identical to her mother Diane, but with blonde hair instead of brown.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Zilian looks very ladylike, while Zana has a more tomboyish style similar to Diane when she was younger.
Tomboy Princess: Zana is a fairy/giant princess, but she inherited her mother's tomboyish nature.

Phao

The sixth oldest of King and Diane's children.

Exact Eavesdropping: In chapter 142, Phao happens to overhear Tioreh and Diane's discussion about Nasiens and Mertyl being Switched at Birth.
No Biological Sex: Phao is physically genderless because of their fairy blood messing with their biology. They should eventually change into male or female depending on the gender of the person they fall in love with.
Scary Teeth: Phao has shark-like teeth.

Tioreh

Magic: Summon Sin

The seventh and youngest of King and Diane's children.

All Genes Are Codominant: She's the daughter of a fairy father and a giant mother. She looks more like a fairy, but her size is that of an average human teenage girl, unlike her shorter fairy-like older brothers and gigantic older sisters.
Annoying Younger Sibling: She takes an annoying attitude towards her eldest brother Mertyl, particularly when she doesn't him being a jerk to Nasiens.
The Beastmaster: She summons various animals through portals to fight alongside her.
Conflicting Loyalty: She feels put on the spot when it comes to the conflict between Nasiens and Mertyl. On one hand, Mertyl is her eldest brother, but she cares about Nasiens too. After she figures out Mertyl is adopted and Nasiens is her long-lost sibling, she's happy about Nasiens being related to her, but she's also sad because she's afraid Mertyl won't belong with the family anymore.
The Ditz: She's quite an airhead.
Fairy Sexy: Due to being only half-fairy, her figure is closer to that of a teenage girl in contrast to the childlike bodies of pure-blooded fairies. Her minidress really accentuates her large chest and slender legs.
Family Eye Resemblance: She has the same amber eye color as her father.
Flowers of Nature: Tioreh takes after her father's fairy traits and she decorates her hair with a flower.
Genki Girl: She's very energetic and excitable.
Going Commando: Like all fairies, Tioreh doesn't wear underwear.
Historical Gender Flip: Tioreh is based on Tyolet from Arthurian Legend, a male knight who was granted the power to summon animals by a fairy when he was a child.
Magic Skirt: Despite not wearing any underwear and flying everywhere she goes, her short skirt always stays in place to not reveal her private parts.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She kicks Tristan into the hole where the time warp is located, resulting in him touching it and spreading its effects across the continent.
The Nicknamer: She likes giving nicknames to her friends, like "Nassie" for Nasiens and "Tri-Tri" for Tristan.
Numerological Motif: She's the seventh child of King and Diane, and her magic is based on the Seven Deadly Sins.
The Peeping Tom: She peeped on Nasiens taking a bath to confirm that Nasiens has No Biological Sex, meaning that he's half-fairy.
Rose-Haired Sweetie: She's a cheerful and playful girl with pink hair.
Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: She forms this dynamic with Nasiens during the latter's stay in the Fairy Realm. Tioreh's playful and hyper personality forms a contrast with Nasiens' calmer and levelheaded disposition.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: She wears a very short skirt and no panties underneath. She also has no problem with stripping naked in front of other people.
Shipper on Deck: She can see Nasiens' love for Percival, which is why she berates Percival for choosing to "die" and leave all his friends who care about him behind to grieve him.
Smarter Than You Look: At first glance, Tioreh seems to be an airheaded pixie girl, but she's smarter than she appears. She's the first of King and Diane's biological children to figure out Nasiens is her long-lost eldest sibling who got Switched at Birth with the human Mertyl, based on Nasiens' fairy biology, his resemblance to her parents, and his age matching Mertyl's.
Strong Family Resemblance: She has the same face as her mother Diane.
Summon Magic: Her magic, "Summon Sin", allows her to summon beasts based on each of the Seven Deadly Sins (e.g. a boar for the "Boar's Sin of Gluttony" Merlin).
Tender Tears: She breaks down crying when she admits to Diane that she knows Mertyl isn't her biological brother, but he's still family to her and she doesn't want Mertyl to feel excluded because her true eldest sibling Nasiens came back to the family.
What the Hell, Hero?: After Nasiens gets into a fight with Mertyl over whether to punish Puck for kidnapping a human baby, Tioreh questions why Nasiens would defend Puck despite the latter having broken the Fairy King's law by pulling a changeling prank. Nasiens says he was abandoned as a baby and still grew up to have a good life with a loving adoptive family and good friends, but Tioreh still thinks that isn't a good or logical reason for defending a kidnapper, especially considering that changeling incidents can increase friction between the fairies and humans.
Winged Humanoid: She's one of the two children of King and Diane to have grown fairy wings.
Youngest Child Wins: All of her older siblings have struggles with their physical appearance and/or half-breed heritage one way or another. Tioreh has none because she already has wings, isn't too big nor small, and was born as a girl unlike the genderless Phao and Nasiens.

Travel Locations

Finger of God

Varghese

Voiced by: Akio Ōtsuka (Japanese), John Eric Bentley (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Magic: Strength

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Percival's grandfather, who raised him atop the Finger of God. He is killed by the Holy Knight Ironside, his son and Percival's father.

Cool Sword: He wields a sword that was said to be a gift from King Arthur and uses it to defend against Ironside.
Death of a Thousand Cuts: Ironside kills him by using star-shaped cutting attacks to cover Varghese's body in cuts, causing him to bleed to death soon after.
Defector from Decadence: He was once Arthur's Holy Knight, but he deserted Camelot when he realized his king had become corrupted by Chaos magic and was driving the real world to its doom with the creation of a Lotus-Eater Machine dimension. He also left Camelot because Ironside's obsession with preventing Diodora's death drove him to steal the baby Percival's corpse and infuse it with a Life Spirit to create an immortal vessel for Diodora. Varghese took Percival and ran away because he could never allow such madness.
Everyone Has Standards: He cared for his grandson Diodora, and wanted him to recover from his illness, but was utterly horrified by the lengths Ironside was willing to go to preserve his life. He left Camelot with Percival not just to protect the latter from being turned into a body host for Diodora, but also because he believed Ironside was insane for wanting to turn Diodora into an immortal without considering how Diodora would feel about it.
Good Parents: He was an encouraging parent who taught Percy all sorts of things and supported his desire to leave home. It's implied that he stole Percy from Ironside to protect him from the latter's abuse.
It Was a Gift: His cape's medal was a gift from Meliodas, as a proof of their friendship.
Metaphorically True: In his final moments, he told Percival that Ironside is his father, but later revelations about Percival's origins put a twist in Varghese's dying statement. Ironside was indeed responsible for Percival coming to life as a human being, but he and Percival aren't really blood related since Percival wasn't even a human originally. Instead, Percival is a Life Spirit that Ironside summoned and attached to the corpse of a dead baby he picked up for an experiment to create an immortal backup body for Diodora.
Mundane Utility: He uses his sword as a kitchen knife for cooking as Lampshaded by Ironside who then attacked him.
Parental Substitute: He raised Percival in place of his missing parents. It's later revealed he wasn't actually Percival's biological grandfather, but he still loved Percival as his grandson.
Plot-Triggering Death: His death at the hands of Ironside is what motivates Percival to set out on his journey.
Top-Heavy Guy: He has a massive torso and big muscular arms, but regular legs.

Paysan

Katz Street Troupe

A travelling group of performers consisting of Katz, Elva, and Donny.

Magicians Are Wizards: They do magic performances using their real magic abilities.
Street Performer: The troupe travels across Britannia, trying to earn money from spectators.
What Happened to the Mouse?: The whole troupe is left alone in Paysan after Donny gets entangled in Percival's quest. Katz and Elva aren't heard from again, apart from a volume illustration where they wonder how Percival and Donny are doing.

Katz

Voiced by: Hayato Fujii (Japanese), Daniel Walton (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Magic: Spark

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The leader of the Katz Street Troupe.

Continuity Nod: He originally appeared in the previous series as one of the kids in Ordan who pretended to be the "Seven Deadly Sins" and met the real Sins. This time, he runs into Percival, one of the Four Knights of Apocalypse.
Gentle Giant: He is tall and has an imposing figure, but he is a kind man.
Magic Wand: Katz uses a wand in conjuntion with his magic.
Playing with Fire: He possesses a fire-based magic ability. It is relatively weak, but makes for a decent performance.

Elva

Voiced by: Rico Sasaki (Japanese), Michelle Marie (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Magic: Illusion

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A member of the Katz Street Troupe. She performs with a pet monkey.

Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Elva is the only female member of her troupe and also, the only member with a midriff-baring outfit.
Girlish Pigtails: She's a young girl who ties her hair in pigtails.
Master of Illusion: Her magic ability allows her to perform illusions with a hoop, such as making something disappear and reappear.
Mistaken Age: She thinks Percival is a little kid, so she's fine with being naked around him. Then she finds out that he's sixteen just like her...
Skinny Dipping: She bathes a pond with Percival in the nude.
The Smurfette Principle: Elva is the only girl in the Katz Street Troupe.
Spit Take: She spits out her drink when she hears Percival is a 16-year-old despite being so short, which means she just took a bath with a boy of her same age.

Echo Gorge

Dolores

Voiced by: Ryō Hirohashi (Japanese), Kayli Mills (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Magic: Creation

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A giantess nun and Nasiens' adopted sister. She's also an old friend of Diane who thought her to be dead.

Big Sister Instinct: She's very protective of Nasiens, who considers her his older sister, and won't allow others to speak badly of him or do him harm in front of her.
The Eeyore: Due to her own weaknesses and her situation amongst the rest of the Megadozer village, she didn't have a very positive outlook.
Fat Best Friend: She was the slightly chubby best friend of Diane.
Formerly Fat: She lost much of her weight during the years she spent living at Echo Gorge.
Giant Woman: She's a female member of the Giant Clan.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a gentle and peaceful giantess with blonde hair.
Happily Adopted: She has been living happily the last few years at Echo Gorge with her adoptive human grandfather Ordo and sibling Nasiens.
Interspecies Adoption: After the Giant Clan believed her to be dead, Dolores was found and adopted by the human Ordo at Echo Gorge. She then became Nasiens' adopted sister.
Ironic Name: She appears to have a feminine form of the name of the Giant Clan's ancestor, Dolor. Dolor supposedly could harden his body to diamond. Dolores on the other hand, was very weak both mentally and physically.
Meaningful Name: Dolores means sorrowful, sorrows, and pain. When she lived with the Giant Clan, she suffered a lot because of her reluctance to fight.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Similarly to Diane, Dolores could never accommodate to the Giant Clan's Proud Warrior Race culture. She ended up leaving the Giant Clan for a peaceful lifestyle as a nun.
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Diane was told that Dolores died whilst on a job. The sequel reveals Dolores survived whatever happened to her and lives as a nun in Echo Gorge.
Taking the Veil: After deserting the Giant Clan, Dolores became a nun who worships the Goddess Clan, which is rare for a giantess.
Weight Woe: The second Fanbook reveals that she has issues with her weight as rather than a number listed down for her weight, "It's embarrasing" is written instead.

Ordo

Voiced by: Haruo Yamagishi (Japanese), Bill Rogers (English)^{Foreign VAs}

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An elderly apothecary who lives in Echo Gorge, and the adoptive grandfather of Dolores and Nasiens. He recently went missing.

All-Loving Hero: He helped all races equally, providing medicine to fairies, and even adopting a giant girl. When Talisker, a Holy Knight of Camelot, confronted him and demanded that he work for the benefit of humans alone, he refused.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Talisker brainwashes him into destroying the gorge and even attacking his adoptive grandchildren.
Kill the Ones You Love: Downplayed, but Talisker forces Ordo to destroy the gorge himself by threatening him that either he do it or Talisker will. Ordo spreads poison that slowly rots the nature in the gorge, but Talisker notes that he was deliberately being lenient.
Mentor Archetype: Ordo taught Nasiens everything he knows about drugs and medicine.
Mentor Occupational Hazard: Subverted. It initially seems that heroes failed to cure him of his monster transformation despite defeating Talisker, but he is saved when Sin breaks the Chaos Staff.
Muggle Foster Parents: He's an ordinary apothecary who took in Nasiens (poison mage born of a fairy and a giantess) and Dolores (giantess) as his children.
Parental Substitute: After Nasiens was abandoned as a baby, Ordo found him and raised him as his own child.
Transformation Horror: He is transformed into a horrific monster via the Chaos Staff of Talisker.

Sistana

Kalden

Duke Kalden

Voiced by: Kenji Hamada (Japanese), Luis Bermudez (English)^{Foreign VAs}

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The lord of Sistana and father of Anghalhad.

Abusive Parents: Downplayed. He is a very strict father to Anne, slapping her for speaking out against Ironside, while Anne worries he'd order her home once she fulfills her dream of becoming a Holy Knight. However, his support for Anne's dream and Anne's love for him shows he's still a caring father.
Adaptational Sympathy: The anime paints his dismissiveness towards Anne in a more sympathetic light than the manga, showing that he doesn't undervalue his daughter's capability as a Holy Knight or power as a Living Lie Detector, but feels he must follow Ironside to protect her and their town. It also adds a moment where Kalden threatens Ironside for attacking Anne.
Inconsistent Spelling: The official translation spells his name as both "Galden" and "Kalden".
Laser-Guided Karma: He suffers along with everyone else when his 'business associate' summons demons into Sistana.
No Full Name Given: Anne calls herself a Kalden (literally "a daughter of the Kalden family" in the original Japanese) at one point during the Cant arc, implying it's actually a family name. This means his first name is never revealed.
Non-Action Guy: His wife was a powerful Holy Knight and his daughter aspires to become one as well, but he has no combat ability whatsoever.
Parents as People: This trait is greatly emphasized in the anime, where his strict, occasionally abusive attitude towards Anne is explicitly shown as a way to stop her from doing things that would put her in danger.
Taking the Bullet: He shields Anne from Ironside's attack with his body, receiving an injury on his back.

Cant

Edlin

Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi (Japanese), Howard Wang (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Magic: Imitation

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Donny's childhood friend and fellow Holy Knight apprentice in the past. He quit his training to become a bandit and confronts Percival's group in Cant.

Arc Villain: He's the main villain of the Cant arc where he's the leader of the bandits that take Percival's group as prisoners.
Big Bad Wannabe: He styles himself a "bandit king", but his men just see him as a kid and eventually grow tired of him enforcing his morals on them. His only claim to power comes from the fact that the dragon egg in his possession allows him to blackmail an ancient dragon into obeying his orders.
Blackmail Backfire: He blackmailed a dragon by using its egg, but the egg eventually hatched and he had to rely on a replica. Then, the replica egg is smashed to pieces in front of the parent, causing it to go berserk.
Dragon Tamer: Or rather, dragon blackmailer.
Evil Former Friend: To Donny. Downplayed, as he's not really all that evil.
Heel–Face Turn: At the end of the Cant arc, he sees the error of his ways and reforms.
Never Hurt an Innocent: He doesn't allow the other bandits to harm women or children, and lets everyone he captures go in the end.
Reformed Criminal: After his criminal ways blow up in his face, he gives up the bandit life and returns to his Holy Knight training thanks to Donny and Howzer.
Replaced with Replica: His magic, "Imitation", allows him to create illusory replicas of objects and people that appear identical to the original.

Characters / Four Knights of the Apocalypse

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Four Knights of the Apocalypse

"Knight of Death" Percival

Voiced by: Shou Komura (Japanese), Edward A. Mendoza (English) Foreign VAsDiego Rave (Latin American Spanish), Rémi Gutton (French), Alessio De Filippis (Italian), Arthur Carneiro (Brazilian Portuguese)

Magic: Hope

"Knight of War" Lancelot

Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama (Japanese), Aleks Le (English) Foreign VAsÓscar López (Latin American Spanish), Mario García (European Spanish), Jessy Dubuis (French), Alexander Merbeth (German), Matteo Liofredi (Italian), Victor Hugo Fernandes (Brazilian Portuguese)

Magic: Hazy Moon

"Knight of Pestilence" Tristan Liones

Voiced by: Ayumu Murase, Mikako Komatsu [child] (Japanese), Jeannie Tirado (English) Foreign VAsAzul Valadez (Latin American Spanish), Inmaculada Gallego (European Spanish), Cerise Calixte (French), Daniel Kirchberger (German), Lorenzo Crisci (Italian), Enzo Dannemann (Brazilian Portuguese)

Magic: Nova

"Knight of Famine" Gawain

Voiced by: Fairouz Ai (Japanese)

Magic: Dawn

The Percival Platoon

Donny

Voiced by: Kikunosuke Toya (Japanese), Ryan Colt Levy (English) Foreign VAsAlberto Meléndez (Latin American Spanish), Stanislas Forlani (French), Francesco Leone Valeri (Italian), Daniel Machline (Brazilian Portuguese)

Magic: Telekinesis

Nasiens

Voiced by: Aino Shimada (Japanese), Marin Miller (English) Foreign VAsAlex Delint (Latin American Spanish), Julien Portugais (French), Alessandra Cerruti (Italian), Mattheus Caliano (Brazilian Portuguese)

Magic: Mix Venom

Anne (Anghalhad)

Voiced by: Kanna Nakamura (Japanese), Emi Lo (English) Foreign VAsMonserrat Mendoza (Latin American Spanish), Helene Bizot (French), Emma Grasso (Italian), Thainá Lana (Brazilian Portuguese)

Magic: Interrogator

Sylvan

Voiced by: Setsuji Satō (Japanese), Brent Mukai (English) Foreign VAsArturo Cataño (Latin American Spanish), Rodrigo Antas (Brazilian Portuguese)

The Tristan Platoon

Isolde

Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki (Japanese)

Magic: Love Bomb

Chion

Voiced by: Soma Saito (Japanese)

Magic: Summon Elemental

Spirits

Jade

Voiced by: Shugo Nakamura (Japanese)

Magic: Monochrome

Escanor

King and Diane's Children

Mertyl

Sixtus

Belte

Zana and Zilian

Phao

Tioreh

Magic: Summon Sin

Travel Locations

Finger of God

Varghese

Voiced by: Akio Ōtsuka (Japanese), John Eric Bentley (English) Foreign VAsUlises Maynardo Zavala (Latin American Spanish), Serge Biavan (French), Alexandre Soares (Brazilian Portuguese)

Magic: Strength

Paysan

Katz

Voiced by: Hayato Fujii (Japanese), Daniel Walton (English) Foreign VAsÓscar Rangel (Latin American Spanish), Stéphane Miquel (French), Milton Parisi (Brazilian Portuguese)

Magic: Spark

Elva

Voiced by: Rico Sasaki (Japanese), Michelle Marie (English) Foreign VAsRegina Tiscareño (Latin American Spanish), Cécilé Gatto (French), Dayse Richffer (Brazilian Portuguese)

Magic: Illusion

Echo Gorge

Dolores

Voiced by: Ryō Hirohashi (Japanese), Kayli Mills (English) Foreign VAsAdriana Olmedo (Latin American Spanish), Jessie Lambotte (French), Ramona Rockenhausen (German), Paula Martinez [original series], Loretta Martins [Four Knights of the Apocalypse] (Brazilian Portuguese)

Magic: Creation

Ordo

Voiced by: Haruo Yamagishi (Japanese), Bill Rogers (English) Foreign VAsRicardo Brust (Latin American Spanish), Nicolas Beaucaire (French), Wesley Santana (Brazilian Portuguese)

Sistana

Duke Kalden

Voiced by: Kenji Hamada (Japanese), Luis Bermudez (English) Foreign VAsJaime Collepardo (Latin American Spanish), François Pacôme (French), Gutemberg Barros (Brazilian Portuguese)

Cant

Edlin

Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi (Japanese), Howard Wang (English) Foreign VAsDan Frausto (Latin American Spanish), Yoann Borg (French), Yuri Tupper (Brazilian Portuguese)

Magic: Imitation

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