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Introduced in the first game
Playable Characters
Akira/Melody
The Protagonist
- Accidental Murder: Due to having poor control over her magic, she accidentally killed Echo's family when Agares attacked their airship.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: This happens to her when Agares captures her. She breaks out of it briefly when Agares threatens the nameless Kemoneko, and permanently when Tadase uses The Power of Friendship to get through to her.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Has shades of this at first due to her not appreciating Echo for being overprotective, but after Teralolz gets destroyed and the reality of losing her loved ones becomes clear to her, she becomes more respectful of Echo.
- Crutch Character: Due to her unique skill learning events, Akira can learn AOE skills sooner than most other characters. With some level grinding, the other characters can learn their own AOE skills that can rival Akira's.
- Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones:
- Although her Character Development in the Echoed Melodies turned her into an altruistic person who wants to use her powers to save both worlds, she justifiably feels fear and hatred towards Agares, who raised her abusively, killed her loved ones, and exploited her powers. After Agares is trapped in Evermore, this is used against her because Agares feeds on her trauma of him in order to maintain his existence. During the Eeon Festival event in Echoed Memories, she decides to trap him in a crystal prison, which she describes as a Fate Worse than Death. While she feels slightly guilty about it, it's clear that Agares is Beyond Redemption.
- Downplayed towards Earth's Cronan. She's disgusted with the way he treats the kemonekos and people from his own universe. After he tries to open fire on Terrene, she considers leaving him to die in a crashing airship and reluctantly saves him. Even after the fact, she wonders if sparing him is the correct choice, and the only reasons she does so is because Nara wants to redeem him and because Akira believes Echo would have wanted her to show mercy.
- Heroic BSoD: In Echoed Memories, when she attempts to send people from Earth back through the Gate, Agares immediately kills them right in front of her, causing her to have a breakdown and revert to her memories before she first came to Teralolz.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. In Echoed Memories, she attempts to stay in the crumbling Castle of Myth, since Agares will keep coming back unless she dies. Zephyr talks her into giving life another chance for her friends' sakes.
- Forgiveness: Despite Zephyr killing Ea, Akira ends up forgiving him upon realizing that he doesn't want Agares to abuse her powers. She also forgives him for greenlighting the attacks on Teralolz, Arber, and Majikk. Part of this is due to vague memories of their childhood friendship. She subconsciously remembers that she accidentally killed Echo's family, and part of her reason for forgiving Zephyr is because Echo forgave her.
- Little Bit Beastly: She has a monkey's tail. This is because she's a genetically modified clone of Kasumi, the alterations having the side effect on taking traits of the first non human creature seen.
- Meaningful Name: Both her current name and her original name are references to something else.
- Her original name, Melody, refers to the fact she's a test subject from Project Melody.
- Her current name, Akira, comes from Akira herself, as she misheard Echo calling her "A Killer" when regaining consciousness after she lost control of her powers and killing Echo's biological family, causing Echo to pretend she was her real sister.
- Misery Builds Character: Deconstructed. She starts the first game with a bratty attitude, but when Teralolz is destroyed, she's forced to mature quickly and take life more seriously. However, the trauma of the entire journey, as well as her regaining traumatic memories, causes her to shoulder a lot of burden while trying to act like a cheerful leader to her friends. She ends up blaming herself for a lot of tragedies outside her control and she's so emotionally scarred by Agares's atrocities that she unwittingly keeps him alive just by fearing him.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Capable of destroying the world. In the Bad End, she does, albeit accidentally.
- The Piano Player: She's a keen piano player, and actually learns songs, which she can use in battle, by replaying songs she has heard on the piano. She loves the piano so much because before she lost her memory, Agares would force her to play the same song over and over again on the piano in practice for opening the gate, and the habit stayed with after she lost her memories.
- Power Glows: She sometimes emits light when she uses her powers, usually when she's extremely angry or having problems controlling her powers.
- Power Incontinence: Sometimes struggles to control her powers. In the Bad End she ends up destroying the world.
- Super-Empowering: In the second game, it's revealed that her magic power leaks to people nearby her, causing her friends to be become stronger than even trained soldiers.
- Unskilled, but Strong: She has a lot of magic power, but her control over it is so poor that she risks hurting those around her. Gameplay-wise, she can't learn magic through leveling up like other characters and instead can only use it through song skills, since that's a medium she's more comfortable with. She has somewhat more control by Echoed Memories, since she can control an angel-manufactured airship. When she loses her memories of her time as Akira, she loses the ability to pilot the airship and can no longer use her magic in combat.
Tadase
One of Akira's friends, and someone who is madly in love with her.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Tadase is hopelessly in love with Akira, who's completely oblivious to it.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: Gives on of these to Akira when she wakes up after finding the Orb. Unfortunately for him the orb caused Akira and Zephyr to switch bodies.
- Cannot Spit It Out: He actually confessed his love to Akira when she woke up after finding the Orb. Unfortunately for him the orb caused Akira and Zephyr (who became his rival for Akira's affections) to switch bodies. This understandably discourages him from trying again.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Both his eyes and his hair are green.
- Jerkass to One: Even after Zephyr joins and proves himself a genuine ally, Tadase doesn't trust him. This is because of their Love Triangle over Akira and Zephyr's past antagonism.
Kachie
One of Akira's friends.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Her thought process can be very odd at times.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father isn't around.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Can use Earth Magic.
- The Exile: She was exiled from Majikk for being half human, which explains why she always waits at the entrance whenever Akira needs to re-enter the village.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Her father was a human, and her mother was a Kitsunei.
- Muggle Born of Mages: Due to being half-human, she wasn't supposed to be able to use magic naturally. However, being around Akira and absorbing the latter's leaking magic allowed her to unlock earth magic.
Tara
One of Akira's friends.
- Playing with Fire: She starts with a fire-elemental sword skill.
- Young and in Charge: In the epilogue of Echoed Memories, Tara takes over leadership of Terrene. At this point in the story, she's 18-19 years old.
Echo
Akira's big sister.
- Forgiveness: In her backstory with Akira, she attacked the latter in rage for accidentally her family. However, she calms down and realizes that Akira has amnesia, so she instead focuses on protecting Akira and keeping the latter from losing control again.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the true ending, Echo uses her magic to wake Akira from her coma, but dies in the process.
- Knight Templar Big Sister: She's very insistent on making sure Akira never uses magic, despite how many other kids can use it. This is because Akira's magic could wipe out all life on the planet if she loses control of herself.
Kari
A mysterious little girl who appears in Teralolz when it is set ablaze.
- BFG: Her final weapon is a Rocket Launcher.
- Guns Akimbo: Most of her weapons are a pair of handguns.
- Mage Marksman: She wields a gun and specializes in healing and magic damage. Her elemental skills utilize her gun as well.
- Status Buff: She can learn various stat buffs as she levels up, replacing the need to use consumable buff items.
Miki
A Kitsunei and Niki's twin brother.
- Elemental Powers: He starts with a basic fire spell, but can learn spells from other elements as he levels up.
- The Exile: He and Niki are exiled for leaving Majikk to help Akira.
Niki
A Kitsunei and Miki's twin brother.
- Elemental Powers: She specializes in ice magic, though she can learn other elemental spells as she levels up.
- The Exile: She and Miki are exiled for leaving Majikk to help Akira.
Doken
Prince of Eeon and self styled hero.
- Abdicate the Throne: During the Eeon Festival in Echoed Memories, Doken decides to pass on the throne to Kasumi so that he can focus on forming an organization to defend the world from future threats.
- Anger Born of Worry: When Akira and friends return to Eeon after leaving to find a way to control her powers, Doken is not pleased about then leaving, although he manages to control his anger pretty well.
- Badass Longcoat: Sports a very nice one, and when he's seen in the past he's got a nice one as well.
- BFS: He can wield large swords and is required to in order to use Omnideathstrike.
- Duel Boss:
- In Jade, Akira has to fight him one-on-one to prove that she's strong enough to accompany him. Though the post-boss dialogue choice and Doken's diary entry state that he held back.
- In Bravely Cave, Doken has to fight a copy of himself, and he can choose to either fight alone or let Akira assist him. Unlike in the previous game, this version of Doken will spam his best skills without mercy.
- Half-Human Hybrid: His father is a human and his mother is a Ryuu.
- I Let You Win: He doesn't use his full power during his duel with Akira. This is also shown by his bestiary entry, where all of his boss stats except HP and magic attack are somewhat lower than when he's a playable character.
- Magically Inept Fighter: His physical attack, defense, and HP are high, but his magic attack and MP are abysmal.
- Mr. Fanservice: He's considered this In-Universe, to the point it's one reason he has his own fan club, and one female shopkeeper will only serve him.
- My Greatest Failure: Although Doken acts like a confident hero, he secretly carries a lot of guilt over falling for Agares's lies and not noticing the the latter put Kasumi through abusive experiments.
Whyp
Doken's Kemoneko familar.
- Badass Longcoat: Gets one due to being Doken's familiar. When he's seen in the past he hasn't fully got used to it yet.
- Cat Boy: Due to being a Kemoneko.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He starts with a dark elemental physical skill and is on the heroes' side.
- The Stoic: Apart from water making him feel uncomfortable, he rarely emotes.
Ferrik
A Ryuu summoner.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Has red hair and red eyes.
- Demoted to Extra: He doesn't rejoin the party in Echoed Memories due to being preoccupied with his duties in Ryuia.
- Horned Humanoid: Has a nice curved set of horns, courtesy of being a Ryuu.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In Echoed Memories, he can summon large turtle-serpent creatures to guard the village. Unfortunately, he only specified them to tolerate Ryuu, resulting in one of them nearly killing Kachie.
- Summon Magic: Capable of doing this, causing his summoned creatures to replace him in battle. It's why he joins the party in the first place, as Akira and friends need to reach an underwater cave, and decide that the only way of doing so would involve a sea creature.
Zephyr
Son of Agares
- Abdicate the Throne In the Bad and Good Endings, Zephyr seeks out Isha to put her in charge of Mirrikh, since he believes his family caused too much tragedy for the world. Averted in the True Ending, where he accepts his position as leader.
- The Atoner: He deeply regrets killing Ea and attempting to Mercy Kill Akira. This explains why in Echoed Memories, he convinces Akira to keep on living despite the dangers her powers present.
- Blow You Away: He uses wind spells both as a playable character and as a boss.
- Child by Rape: In Echoed Memories, he's enraged when he learns Agares forced the scientist Aneka to bear him.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Played for laughs. In Echoed Memories, he banished his fan club for being overzealous in admiring him. Not only did this fail to deter their obsession with him, they continued to operate underground.
- Duel Boss: In Echoed Memories, he serves as a boss for Tadase twice. The first time is an Open-Ended Boss Battle where the outcome of the story doesn't change whether or not Tadase wins, since Akira doesn't want to leave Zephyr's side even if most of the party distrusts him. Though the game seems to expect Tadase to lose the first match, since if Tadase wins both that match and the rematch, he'll be surprised that he managed to beat one of the strongest party members without acknowledging his first victory.
- Forgotten Friend, New Foe: When Akira meets him for the first time, he appears to be an enemy out to kill her. Due to having amnesia, she doesn't remember that he befriended her during Project Melody. Unfortunately, that same friendship means he wants to Mercy Kill her so that Agares doesn't take control of her.
- Heroic Willpower: How he is able to resist Agares mind control, although it isn't enough to handle Agares enhanced powers inside the Gate.
- Mighty Glacier: He's a magic variation, due to his high Magic stat and very high Magic Defense growth. Since the deadliest enemies in the game spam spells, putting him in the party is practically a win condition as long as the enemies don't proc instant death on him. However, his speed is fairly low compared to other party members.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist:
- He's introduced trying to kill Akira so that her powers aren't used to destroy the world or open the Gate.
- A lot of his more questionable actions are revealed to be part of a scheme to keep Agares from getting Akira's power. He attacked Teralolz, but in a way that would give people time to escape before Agares personally comes in to wipe them out. He has Arber wiped off the map in order to force Akira to use her powers and become aware of them. Finally, he has Majikk attacked so that Eeon will have a just cause to take in Akira and the villagers.
- White Sheep: He's the descendant of the demon who opposed the Void Mage, but unlike his father and ancestors, he doesn't want to use the Gate for evil ambitions.
Antagonists
Agares
Ruler of Merrikh.
- 0% Approval Rating: When Zephyr replaces Agares as the ruler of Merrikh, all the citizens are unambiguously happier with their new ruler. Those who follow Agares mainly do so out of fear, mind control, or a lust for power in Earth!Cronan's case.
- Abusive Parents: In a flashback sequence, he has custody of Akira/Melody and treats her as a tool to open the Gate, with no regard to her physical and mental health. When she escapes, he destroys the town that she stayed at just to spite her. Similarly, he threatens Zephyr for failing him and is so emotionally and physically abusive that many of the Mirrikh soldiers feel bad for Zephyr.
- The Archmage: With the exception of Akira, he's the most powerful person on the planet.
- Bad Boss: At least one of his factory leaders, Tsua, has a bomb implanted in them in case the factories are ever compromised. He chose Tsua in particular because she tried to protect Honoka from his abuse.
- Big Bad: Agares is responsible for all the conflict involved, as everything he does is so he can go through the Gate in his quest for Godhood.
- Bishōnen Line: In the Castle of Myth, his boss form changes to include his human body, though he still has giant spider legs.
- Emperor Scientist: He's the overlord of Merrikh, played a major role in Project Melody and created some impressive robots.
- Evil Overlord: A clear example. He's title as ruler of Merrikh is Overlord, and he's clearly evil.
- Evilutionary Biologist: Had a major role in Project Melody, which was intended to enhance magical potential of clones to allow access to the gate and access the other world. Although he hid the evil part at first.
- Face Framed in Shadow: His bangs causes one side of his face to be covered in shadows.
- Freudian Excuse: Played with. Merrark, the previous king, blames himself for neglecting Agares and failing to notice the latter's obsession with power. At the same time, Agares never shed a tear at his mother's death, so it's clear that he was a sociopath since childhood and that he likely would have turned into a villain anyways.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He created some very impressive robots.
- Godhood Seeker: He wants to become a god. After he gets thrown into the Gate and ends up in Evermore, he starts to become one.
- Informed Ability: He supposedly has enough of a silver tongue to convince Eeon to give up their princess for experimentation for a supposed greater good. However, flashback cutscenes show that he didn't bother putting on an act even in front of Doken, who he was supposed to be scamming. It's likely that Project Melody progressed far enough that he didn't feel the need to pretend to be altruistic. Echoed Memories fixes this by showing flashbacks of when he conned the Eeon royal family, showing that he can put on an act if absolutely necessary.
- Jerkass: He is very arrogant, rude, and easy to anger. Unlike Aaron and Leith, he doesn't even bother acting Faux Affably Evil because he knows he can just use his power to cow everyone into submission. Back when he had to convince Eeon to give up custody of Kasumi, he was able to hide this side of himself. However, Merrark reveals that Agares became more unhinged after barely surviving a pandemic in Mirrikh, causing him to become more openly villainous after becoming aware of his mortality. According to Anika, the Earth version of Agares was also an unpleasant person with no friends.
- Joker Immunity: Agares is considered the most iconic villain of the series and despite the events of Echoed Memories sealing him in a crystal prison, the itch page for Endless Melody: The Symphony of Angels states that he'll return to wreak havoc once more. This is because his life is tied to the Gate, which means he's immortal as long as Akira lives.
- Mind Control: Makes liberal use of this, controlling unruly minions and forcing Akira to open the Gate.
- Motive Decay: He goes from wanting to rule Earth as a god to wanting to destroy both worlds solely to spite the party.
- Near-Villain Victory: Agares manages to get through the Gate, but Akira and co end up following him to Earth, when after fighting him, they throw him inside the Gate, which allows him to become a God, but since he dragged Akira and friends with him, they are able to fight him to a standstill, upon which he gets consumed by the Angel, though that doesn't kill him permanently.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He's more focused on Project Melody than raising Zephyr and left raising Zephyr to Miss Aneka. As a result, Zephyr grew up to be a benevolent ruler thanks to Aneka's good influence.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the past, he sold the idea of Project Melody as a means to unite Gaia and Earth, all so that Eeon would willingly give up the void mage's reincarnation to him for experimentation and cloning. In reality, he cares nothing about Gaia's welfare and seeks to open the Gate and conquer Earth.
- Not Quite Dead: Several times.
- After Akira throws him into the Gate, it seems like he's been killed, but since only his body was destroyed, his mind and soul drags Akira and friends into the Gate, and since he hasn't got a body he starts merging with the world inside the Gate.
- After being beaten inside the Gate, he gets consumed by the Angel, but in the sequel you discover that sometime after Akira and friends beat the Angel, Agares managed to reform himself, although he still hadn't regained his original body. It turns out he has become part of Evermore, which means as long as Akira feels fear towards him, he will keep coming back.
- Person of Mass Destruction: When bested by Akira and friends on Earth, he decides to destroy the planet since he cannot become it's god, and it's implied he would have destroyed the city in a single blast if Nameless hadn't used Akira's powers and summoned the gate.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: During the Eeon Festival in Echoed Memories, Akira traps him in a crystal and impales the crystal with several stakes for good measure. Akira claims that this is a Fate Worse than Death, implying that he's still conscious while being completely frozen.
- The Sociopath: His bestiary description and the DLC guide book describe him as sadistic tyrant devoid of empathy and redeeming qualities. While he can be manipulative, his Hair-Trigger Temper implies that he's of the low-functioning variety.
- Spiders Are Scary: His Final Boss form in Echoed Melodies puts his head on a giant spider. In Echoed Memories, his boss form in the Castle of Myth has webs.
- Spikes of Villainy: His shoulder pads are very pointy.
- Super-Empowering: He is able to give Alt!Cronon and his followers magical powers to help them serve him.
- Taking You with Me: After his defeat on Earth, he tries to destroy the planet out of spite. After Akira's Kemoneko sacrifices herself to seal Agares in the Gate, Agares pulls in the entire party so that they'll be forced to fight him to the death in an inescapable dimension.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In Echoed Memories, Agares is the one helping Earth's Cronan in the background by bringing the latter to Gaia and giving him magic powers. When the party defeats Cronan, Akira opens the Gate so that the earthlings can take him back to the other side to be tried in their home country. Unfortunately, Agares kills everyone who enters the Gate and harvests their souls, both to get rid of failed pawns and to traumatize Akira.
Aaron Brass
One of Zephyr's sidekicks/friends.
- Dishing Out Dirt: As an Earth Mage, he is capable of doing this.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: He's willing to betray Agares in order to help Zephyr, but this doesn't last because Agares places him and Leith under mind control.
- Undying Loyalty: To Zephyr. Agares's Mind Control overcomes this.
Leith
One of Zephyr's sidekicks/friends.
- Elemental Hair Colors: She has blue hair to match her Water Mage powers.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She has a daughter, Misu, who works for Zephyr in the sequel.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: She's willing to betrays Agares in order to help Zephyr, but she and Aaron end up mind-controlled by Agares.
- Ms. Fanservice: Certainly very good looking.
- Making a Splash: She's a powerful water mage.
- Undying Loyalty: To Zephyr. Agares's Mind Control overcomes this.
Honoka
One of Zephyr's sidekicks/friends.
- Ax-Crazy: Comes of at this at first. Akira sees a different side to her when she ends up in Zephyr's body.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being an insane pyromaniac, she sees Tsua as a big sister and is worried that the latter has yet to return from a Mirrikh factory.
- Killed Offscreen: According to the guidebook of Echoed Memories, Agares killed her for secretly sending Kasumi back to Eeon.
- Laughing Mad: Often bursts into psychotic laughter, which actually has an audio file.
- Playing with Fire: She certainly made an impression.
- White Hair, Black Heart: She certainly seems very happy when she's attacking Eeon. When Akira ends up in Zephyr's body she sees that she does have a good side.
Other Characters
Choko
A Usagi summoner who Akira and Kari run into soon after the destruction of Teralolz, who decides to become stronger after surviving the destruction of her hometown.
- Carry a Big Stick: In the sequel, she wields maces in combat.
- Little Bit Beastly: As a Usagi, she has bunny ears.
- Promoted to Playable: She becomes a playable character in the sequel.
- Summon Magic: A variant. As a Usagi summoner, she doesn't summon creatures, but illusions that look like she has. In the sequel, these summons aren't treated as separate combat units, but rather buffs to her stats.
- Took a Level in Badass: She's the first boss of the game and isn't particularly difficult. After training by herself, she returns as a fairly powerful late game boss. In the sequel, she's playable and no longer has her boss stats, but her physical attack growth is even higher than Doken's.
Kasumi
Doken's sister and princess of Eeon.
- The Ageless: One of the effects of Agares's experiments. Whyp thinks she suspects this, but nobody told her about it.
- Cat Girl: As a side effect of Agares experiments, she gained catlike features when she met Whyp.
- Evil Costume Switch: While being mind controlled by Agares, she wears a black and orange outfit, but after he travels through the Gate she switches to a white and blue one.
- Jerkass Realization: In the past, she resented her clones and considered them nothing more than empty shells, but changed her mind when she realized that they also yearn to be free from Agares's experiments so that they can live their lives.
- Not Growing Up Sucks: She knows that she won't age due to Agares's experiments and laments that she won't be able to experience romance like those who age normally.
- Promoted to Playable: She becomes a playable character in the sequel.
- Young and in Charge: In the epilogue of Echoed Memories, she becomes the new queen of Eeon at the age of 24.
Ea
A mysterious girl that has created a island filled with domesticated monsters.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Jumps in front of Zephyr's attack on Akira, taking a fatal wound. Although once you know Zephyr's true intentions, it raises the question if her death was necessary.
- Killed Off for Real: Killed by Zephyr at one of Mirrikh's Research labs.
- Muggle: She's a failure at Merrikh's attempts to artificially create people capable of using magic.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Since she has no magical ability, the teleportation ring she has uses her life force instead. It's heavily implied that by the time Akira and friends meet her, she had very little time left.
Nora
A schoolgirl at Magic School.
- Designer Baby: Subverted. In the second games, Nora tells Cronon that Isha combined her magical powers with Cronon's, then altered her to have a high magical potential, with the side effect of her looking nothing like her parents, but in reality Isha altered her after she was born, and since accelerated aging was a side effect, she didn't want to explain getting pregnant to a 5 year old.
- Disappeared Dad: Her dad is nowhere to be seen. In the second game Cronan turns out to be the father, although he didn't know about Nora, since Isha never told him.
- Morality Pet: Cronan is slightly more patient with Nora than with other characters once he learns that she's his daughter.
- Teen Genius: She's very knowledgeable about magic theory and can follow Cronan's explanations more easily than most people.
Isha
A Ryuu Summoner and a mysterious scholar.
- Horned Humanoid: As a Ryuu, she has an impressive pair of horns.
- Summon Magic: As a Ryuu, she can do this.
Nameless
A Kemoneko whose life Akira saves.
- Cat Girl: Courtesy of being a Kemoneko.
- Forced into Evil: In Echoed Memories, Agares uses her soul to revive her as a minion.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Since Kemoneko's don't have names until their master names then, nameless doesn't have a name until Akira gives her one.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Uses Akira's powers to summon the Gate on Earth to stop Agares from destroying the planet, but her body cannot handle the power and she dies after doing so.
- Power Copying: Subverted. Since Akira became her Master and named her, Nameless gained the ability to swap powers with Akira, and does so on Earth to summon the Gate and stop Agares from destroying the planet at the cost of her own life, with Akira unable to stop her.
Aria
An angel who resides inside the Gate
- Final Boss: She is fought after Agares's One-Winged Angel form, since she is one with the Gate and must be killed so the party can escape.
- Promoted to Playable: In Echoed Memories, Aneka is actually Aria and Eiko sharing a body, so Aria is technically part of the playable cast.
- Took a Level in Cynic: She once split the world into two for the greater good, but in the present, she has no faith in the people of either world.
Elder Erei
The leader of Majikk village.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- He gets a lot of flak for refusing to remove the barrier that stops the monsters around Arber heading toward magic so Akira can find Kari's pendant, but the fact is that doing so would put the life of everyone in Majikk in danger for the sake of one girl that just arrived in Majikk, so the Elder was perfectly justified in protecting his village rather than refusing to help.
- When he gets called out for trying to kick an unconscious Akira out of the village after she had saved everybody, he points out that the village might not have been in danger is Akira wasn't there.
- Lawful Stupid: When Merrikh attacks Majikk, he wants all the residents to stay in their homes instead of evacuating the village, since village laws mandate that they stay. Downplayed when he gives his people the choice to evacuate onto Doken's airship, though he insists on staying in the village by himself.
Introduced in Gaia's Melody 2
Akira's Judge (Unmarked Spoilers)
Aneka/Eiko
Aneka is an amnesiac girl who lives with Akira, Tadase, Kachie, and Tara in New Tera. She is actually Echo's younger sister, Eiko, who is possessed by an angel for the purpose of judging the Gate Key, Akira.- Attack Reflector: When she challenges Akira in the Castle of Myth, she only spams magic reflect on herself, making it so that Akira's powerful magic will backfire.
- The Cynic: She believes Akira's attempts to help other people will just lead to tragedy, since Akira will suffer heartbreak and lose control of her powers if she fails.
- God Was My Co-Pilot: The angel possessing Eiko is actually Aria, the goddess who split the worlds in the first place as well as the Final Boss of the previous game.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: She split the world in order to prevent a war, but she's also the Final Boss of the first game. She then nearly kills Akira sometime before the second game, but becomes her ally as Aneka. In the Castle of Myth, she challenges Akira one more time, but once Akira proves herself, Aneka rejoins for the boss fight against Agares.
- Magikarp Power: She starts with the lowest stats of any of the playable characters, dies in one hit, and cannot gain EXP. After the first boss battle with Agares, she resolves to fight alongside Akira and gains EXP properly. Her endgame stats are very high in most categories and she has the most HP, making her a Lightning Bruiser.
- Obstructive Code of Conduct: Due to being Akira's judge, Aneka isn't allowed to disclose certain pieces of information, such as her identity as Eiko. Though she ends up doing so right before her boss fight.
- Third-Person Person: She refers to herself by her name because she is an angel fused with Eiko while taking the name of Zephyr and Melody's mother figure, making her identity situation complicated.
- Why Can't I Hate You?: She blames Akira because so many people died either as a result of the latter's rampant magic or because of villains who covet Akira's power. At the same time, she admits that she can't bring herself to fully hate Akira because the latter is a good friend to her and tries to help other people.
Antagonists
Cronan
A mysterious scientist who's behind a series of kidnappings. He's actually the Cronan from Earth, who's obsessed with the Gate.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: He's an incredibly nasty Evil Counterpart to Gaia's Cronan who killed his version of Isha, used Nara as a hostage, and killed the Earth versions of Akira and Zephyr, but he's not a sociopath like Agares, since his Mental World shows that he secretly regrets killing so many people for his ambitions.
- Abusive Parents: He imprisons his daughter, Nara, in order to use her as a hostage against Akira.
- Bad Boss: When the party frees his prisoners, he sacrifices one of his scientists to power the Juggernaut. He also orders his airship crew to bombard Terrene, even though doing so would kill his other soldiers. This causes a large chunk of his soldiers to defect to Akira's side.
- Duel Boss: Once Akira convinces Cronan's airship crew to abandon him, she has to fight him one-on-one.
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: While Akira wants to spare him partially on principle, she's also doing so because Nara still loves him as a father.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When defeated in his personal dimension, he can't understand why Akira would spare him despite the atrocities he committed against the people of both worlds. Akira reminds him that his daughter, Nara, would be devastated if she killed him.
- Evil Counterpart: While his Gaia counterpart is a Jerkass too, Earth's Cronan is considerably more unhinged and willing to murder people to advance his research into the Gate. Additionally, Gaia's Cronan started with a Lack of Empathy towards everyone, but is slowly warming up to Isha and Nora. In contrast, Earth's Cronan killed his version of Isha and kidnapped Nara, showing that he has completely disregarded his own family in favor of his obsessions.
- Evil Overlord: After arriving in Gaia, he formed his own country, Terrene, to act as his base of operations.
- Freudian Excuse: He used to be saner in his Gate research, but when Akira sealed the Gate on Earth's side, Cronan faced public ridicule for all his research going to waste. This caused him to snap and become obsessed with taking revenge on Akira and gaining her power.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Downplayed. He's still bitter towards Akira, but after his defeat, he accepts her mercy and agrees to go back to Earth to face legal justice for his crimes. When he, Nara, and other Terrene citizens step into the Gate, Agares immediately kills them.
- Hypocrite: He blames Akira for sealing the Gate and ruining his Gate research, yet he's willing to work with Agares, who is the reason why Akira needed to seal the Gate in the first place.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Although the party saved his home world, he's upset that they also ruined his own research on the Gate and he seeks to exploit Akira's power. He becomes more appreciative after Akira saves his and the Terrene citizens' souls from Agares.
- Unwitting Pawn: Earth's Cronan believes Agares is going to help him with no strings attached. In reality, Agares just wants Cronan to sacrifice more people so that the former can harvest their power. He always planned to kill Cronan's team too, which some of Cronan's allies found obvious, but Cronan was too self-absorbed with the prospect of godly power to consider this possibility.
Other Characters
Cronan
A scientist who formerly worked on Project Melody.
- Abusive Parents: Downplayed compared to his Earth counterpart. He doesn't acknowledge Nora as his daughter because Isha used his magical power to create her without his permission, or so Nora was told. However, he does occasionally praise her for being able to keep up with his explanations and is willing to let her help him in his experiments despite his preference for working alone.
- Everyone Has Standards: In the past, even a jerk like him knew better than to tell Zephyr that Miss Aneka is the latter's mother, since Zephyr was too young to handle this revelation.
- Insufferable Genius: He is arguably the smartest person in the Gaia's Melody games, and he certainly can be very unpleasant at times. Apparently he was so annoying he was kicked on Project Melody by Agares.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He was initially a stuck-up genius who at least cared for his friends, but when Isha fled from Mirrikh without telling him, he became resentful and lost a lot of his kindness. After learning about Nora and reconciling with Isha, he starts acting more like his old self.
- Lack of Empathy: He states that he doesn't care that Kari is suffering from Clone Degeneration and is about to die. He only agrees to help save her if the party helps with his experiments, and not out of sympathy.
- Laughably Evil: He makes it clear that he has no loyalty to Merrikh and that he plans on coercing Zephyr into helping with his scientific experiments by using Kari's treatment as a bargaining chip, making him the Token Evil Teammate of the Merrikh scientists. Unlike Earth's Cronan, he'd rather pull pranks on his colleagues and has no ambitions of becoming a god. He also has a lot of hilarious banter with Nora, who he finds annoying yet can't bring himself to hate.
- Love Hurts: He wasn't always so prickly back then, but he felt betrayed when Isha went into hiding without him, causing him to become a bitter man absorbed with his own research.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: He is possibly the smartest person in the Gaia's Melody games, and he wears glasses.
Ryuan
A knight working for Earth's Cronan.
- Elite Mook: He has a similar basic moveset to the other Terrene soldiers, but is stronger than them.
- Heel–Face Turn: He is initially addicted to the power that Cronan and Agares gave him, but he becomes increasingly regretful of carrying out Cronan's orders. This, combined with his crush on Tara and Cronan's disregard for the Terrene soldiers, causes him to defect.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: He's initially a helmeted villain, but takes off his helmet once he decides to side with Akira's party.
- We Want Our Jerk Back!: The soldier guarding Terrene's castle notes that Ryuan spends a lot of time flirting with Tara instead of doing his duties and states that he misses when Ryuan was a villainous but dutiful soldier.
Kato
One of the Kemonekos who is forced to work for Terrene.- Despair Event Horizon: When Kasumi first meets him, he's completely resigned to being enslaved by Earth's Cronan, to the point where he just accepts the name, "Slave."
- Guest-Star Party Member: In the second Epilogue Quest of Echoed Memories, he's fights alongside Kachie, Whyp, and Kasumi against a trio of monsters, but he's controlled by the AI.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Kasumi gives him his default name of Kato, but he thinks that name sounds too much like "cat," so the player gets the option to give him a different name.
- Hope Is Scary: At first, he rejects all of Kasumi's attempts to convince him that he can live a better than serving Cronan, since he doesn't want to break the Kemoneko code and because he fears that Akira's party isn't capable of beating Cronan. Once the party defeats him, he decides to give hope a chance and become Kasumi's familiar instead.
Merrark
The former king of Mirrikh, who was exiled by his son Agares.- The Hermit: He lives in a small house in the Fallacy Backwoods, even after Agares is usurped.
- My Greatest Failure: He regrets neglecting Agares and failing to correct the latter's sociopathic tendencies as a child, which is why he doesn't believe he's worthy of returning to Merrikh. Akira and Zephyr point out that they also committed dire mistakes and are trying to atone for them, convincing him to rejoin Merrikh as an advisor.
- Parental Neglect: He became obsessed with cloning research in order to revive his deceased wife, and completely overlooked that his son was developing a Lack of Empathy. This leads to Agares hijacking Merrark's research and overthrowing him.
- Younger Than They Look: His hair is slightly grey, but he doesn't look old enough to be Zephyr's grandfather.
