A list of characters appearing in High Guardian Spice.
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The Main Four
Rosemary
- Voiced by: Briana Leon
- Anime Hair: In the Fall Festival, it's revealed that she styled her hair in a pointed up-do while wearing her onesie dragon costume.
- Big Eater: One of her running gags is that she likes to eat a lot.Rosemary: Chewing is for cowards!
- Covert Pervert: Judging from Olive's reaction to her diary, Rosemary has some... interesting interests.Olive: I cannot believe how many dongs Rosemary drew in her diary!note
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Rosemary is prone to tripping over herself and some people view her clumsiness as endearing.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine.
- Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is styled in two big bushy pink ones.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Rosemary fights with a large sword, called Flowering Thorn, that use to belong to her mother. In fact, knowing its name is used a couple of times to reveal people who knew Lavender.
- In-Series Nickname: Sometimes referred to as "Rose". Her diary is even labeled as such, along with a doodle of herself.
- Innocently Insensitive: Rosemary has a pretty bad habit of saying or doing offensive things with little to no thought behind it. Such as her reaction to Caraway being transgender, mimicking the sound of merlanguge, to act as a signal, while with a group of merpeople (luckily it was just gibberish), or sometimes just caring about things she wants to do with no concern of others (something her and Sage end up having a big fight over).
- Lethally Stupid: In the first episode, she swings a sword in a crowded area and nearly decapitates Thyme.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Rosemary gets an immediate crush on a boy named Aster in Episode 6, and ends up insisting that "Rhubarb" is her name when the boy forgets her actual name. Small wonder why Aster is confused when Rosemary decides to correct him.
- Magic Skirt: For all the action she performs, her skirt never flaps up, even when Parsley dares her to stand upside-down using her hands.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When she lands a hit on Olive in their fight, giving her a deep gash on her arm, it noticeably causes Rosemary to freak out as it’s the first time she hurt a person, instead of just monsters. In a later episode, she shows she still hasn't quite been able to get over it.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Impulsive, excitable and energetic Red to Sage’s shy, levelheaded and reasonable Blue.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Has pink hair and has a generally upbeat attitude.
- Small Name, Big Ego: She likes to think she can be as awesome of a guardian as her mom is, but she’s a Cute Clumsy Girl and a bit of an Idiot Hero. It’s justified due to her age and how much of an impression her mom left on her.
- Terrible Artist: This is downplayed in that she can draw other things just fine, if in a child-like doodle way (see her sketchbook in Episode 2), but Rose apparently has trouble drawing swords to the point that they resemble...something else, as Olive later comments. Whether or not they really were swords is up for debate.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Rosemary is an impulsive, mischievous and rough-and-tumble tomboy who enjoys fighting, adventures and weapons but she styled her pink hair into Girlish Pigtails and she usually wears pink outfits, with a frilly dress being her default look.
- Vocal Evolution: Rosemary's voice has a raspy quality to it that gradually disappears as the series goes on.
Sage
- Voiced by: Lauren White
- Ambiguously Gay: What exactly are Sage's feelings for Rosemary is something even the show asks. Sage vehemently denies she has any feelings beside friendship for Rosemary, but she tends to be extremely possessive of her and once gets jealous of Rosemary crushing on another character. The only time she hangs out with other people it's usually to either complain about Rosemary or because she and Rosemary had a fight. She also blushes upon seeing Snapdragon in a mermaid costume at the Fall Festival and while being carried by Thyme off the rooftop.
- Appeal to Tradition: Sage was trained in Old Magic and still greatly prefers it over New Magic, feeling that New Magic is too easy and uncontrolled to be trustworthy. Despite this, she ends up bonding with a terrasphere and begins using new magic little by little.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She gets jealous of Rosemary crushing on Aster and spends all of Episode 6 complaining about the situation.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic.
- Important Haircut: She cuts off her braid, which was pinned down by some debris, to save Rosemary in episode 12. Rosemary uses her sword to even out her hair in a new style.
- Innocently Insensitive: After Snapdragon attempts to comfort her, she bluntly tells Snap that they would never understand that the bonds girls share is different than the ones shared by boys because they're a guy. Thankfully after a What the Hell, Hero? moment from Snapdragon who calls her out on being sexist, Sage realizes how bad what she said was and apologizes to Snapdragon for it.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Played with. She can be pretty easily irritated by her peers whenever they get into antic’s or get snappy at someone whenever they get in an argument. However she generally cares about her friends and is willing to be helpful and trust them.
- Letting Her Hair Down: Her hair comes loose from its braid when she transforms into a mermaid.
- Meaningful Name: She not only follows the Floral Theme Naming like the rest, named after a Sage herb, it also fits her, being The Smart Guy and the mage of the group.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She loses control of her Terrasphere and accidentally, but fatally, injures the Scypeth.
- Oblivious to Love: She doesn’t realize that Snapdragon likes her more than just a friend.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Shy, levelheaded and reasonable Blue to Rosemary’s Impulsive, excitable and energetic Red.
- Witch Classic: Something that gets her made fun of a couple of times as her love of old magic and traditional witch attire clash with the more modern New Magic practitioners, like Amaryllis.
Parsley
- Voiced by: Amber Romero
- All-Loving Hero: Played with. During a game of Gospel or Gauntlet (the show's version of Truth or Dare), Parsley, who chose gospel, answers that she used to have a least favorite brother until said brother saved another brother from drowning. Then she ominously states:Parsley: I don't hate anyone. (in a dark tone) Ever.
- Big Sister Instinct: She and Thyme team up to save one of her brothers from falling from the rooftop.
- Celibate Hero: Is the only one of the main four who is never seen crushing on anyone.
- Cool Big Sis: She is the oldest of 12 brothers and 1 sister and often acts as a second mother to them, something her parents have taken advantage of, if not for malicious reasons at least.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Choleric.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Bright yellow hair and an endless well of understanding and compassion. Often times Parsley more grounded nature helps settle arguments in her friend group and keep everything from getting out of hand.
- Hidden Buxom: When the girls are all turned into mermaids, the more revealing tops show that Parsley has a noticeably larger chest then the others.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: She's the eldest of fourteen siblings.
- Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Zigzagged. She's shown to be very strong and adept at metalworking, which are classic dwarf traits. However, she's female, when dwarven characters tend to be overwhelmingly male, and she's part of a family that has fourteen kids, when dwarves are usually portrayed as a Dying Race afflicted with the Immortal Procreation Clause.
- Promotion to Parent: Of the "her parents have so many kids and are so busy that they expect the eldest kid to pitch in as a tertiary parent" variant.
- Token Good Teammate: It’s downplayed, but she is pretty much a full blown Nice Girl while the other three of the group (Rosemary, Sage, and Thyme) qualify more as Jerks With Hearts Of Gold respectively.
- Vocal Dissonance: Aside from, and despite being the shortest member in the foursome, she also has the deepest voice.
Thyme
- Voiced by: Michelle Deco
- Daddy's Girl: She’s closer to her father and is determined to find a way to aid him in his efforts to save the forest.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She’s a dark-skinned redhead with an affinity for nature.
- Straight Gay:
- Though she doesn't show much interest in anyone, it's not until meeting a Mergirl that we find out that Thyme is gay, or at least bi.
- She once mentioned that she used to have a crush on a boy until she was driven away by his slovenly eating.
- The Stoic: She’s typically emotionally reserved and doesn’t hang around anyone at first.
- Wild Hair: Her dark-red hair certainly has this look befitting of a nature elf, but her stoic personality is atypical of most examples.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: During the ending credits, she gets scared by a ghost while the gang is exploring what seems to be a haunted house.
High Guardian Academy Students
Snapdragon
- Voiced by: Julia Kaye
- Affectionate Nickname: Often called just "Snap" by their friends.
- Character Development: Snapdragon starts off being slightly antagonistic towards Rosemary and Sage to being Sage’s first new friend.
- Fiery Redhead: Is prone to displays of high emotion, and that's on a good day. But get on their nerves enough, and things will start to get physical.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Unleashes this upon Cal when the bully continues to spur them on, breaking their own wrist in the process. When they meet again, Cal is obviously not looking forward to seeing it again.
- Platonic Life-Partners: They and Amaryllis are best friends, and while Snapdragon is shown to be attracted to girls, they scoff slightly at the thought of liking Amaryllis as anything more than a friend. Comparing their and Amaryllis' relationship to Sage and Rosemary's is part of the reason they believe Sage may have a crush on Rosemary.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Comes off as very graceful and soft-spoken compared to Amaryllis' much more rowdy behaviour.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Snapdragon wears a mermaid costume for the Fall Festival whereupon Cal starts flirting with them, much to Cal's disgust after finding out.
- Youthful Freckles: Though it could be due to their pale skin and being a redhead, Snapdragon has freckles to symbolize that they're still currently adjusting to their true self.
Amaryllis
- Voiced by: Katie McVay
- Ax-Crazy: Starts to show shades of this once she starts wielding an axe, pretty much being willing to slash just about anything in her way in the obstacle course maze. Snapdragon even implies she's usually like this during a discussion with Sage about Rosemary going on and on about Aster.Snapdragon: I'd be happy for her! She usually just talks about murder.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: A platonic example with Snapdragon. She gets upset when Snapdragon starts hanging out with Sage after the Fall Festival and teams up with Rosemary so that they can get their best friends back.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: When the Alpha Bitch facade drops, she is shown to be very quick to anger sometimes.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She’s snobbish and selfish, but she’s a loyal friend to Snapdragon. She threatens Cal when he reacts negatively to Snapdragon’s mermaid outfit during the Fall Festival.
- Rich Bitch: Based on her first piece of dialogue, it sounds like she comes from a rich family and she antagonizes Sage due to her Old Magic heritage.
- Tiny Tyrannical Girl: She's smaller than most of the other students and she is a bossy, stuck-up jerk. She's got her nice moments, though.
Parnelle
- Voiced by: Barbara Goodson
- Child Prodigy: Despite attending a school alongside teenagers, he's only 10 years old, having skipped several grades due to being a skilled fighter for his age.
- Dual Wielding: His weapon of choice is a pair of Hunga Munga, African throwing knives.
- Grade Skipper: It's revealed via a tweet by Word of God that he's a ten-year-old boy who attends a school that usually enrolls 14- to 15-year-olds, thanks to the fact that he's a very skilled fighter despite his young age.
- Hidden Depths: Despite his almost childlike personality Parnelle is really good at fighting.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: He is drawn with female style eyelashes. While effeminate in appearance and voice (which he notes is something he's made fun of by his cousin Cal), he is surprisingly competent in combat.
Slime Boy
- Voiced by: Julian Koster
- Actor Allusion: He's a musician voiced by a member of Neutral Milk Hotel. He also plays the same instrument that Julian Koster does (a singing saw).
- Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: His eyes are perpetually in the verge of closing. This highlights his chill and easygoing personality.
- Dull Surprise: He speaks in a soft, somewhat tired-sounding monotone, not once raising his voice.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He earned the name "Slime Boy" due to an incident that happened involving slime. His real name hasn’t been said by anyone.
- Messy Hair: His hair has a lot of loose strands with one large part of it hanging between his eyes. Is in desperate need of a comb.
- Nice Guy: One of the nicest people in the entire show, just because.
- Noodle Incident: Whatever it was that caused him to be caught with Inkles (some sort of slimy creature that's yet to be seen) in his room that earned him his current moniker.
- Only Sane Man: In "Rainy Day Memories" he kept trying to tell Rosemary and Amaryllis that the memory spell was a bad idea.
- Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Of the unpolished variety. Not only does he talk in a slow, slurred speech, but it's also peppered with random pauses and mild stutters.
Aster Tourmaline
- Voiced by: Evan Smith
- Accidental Misnaming: Keeps calling Rosemary "Rhubarb" and even after being corrected, he calls her "Rosebarb" instead.
- Brainless Beauty: As Parsley puts it, "[Aster] might be a few runes short of a full set, but he's a babe."
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Despite taking center stage and being Rosemary's object of infatuation in Episode 6 where he also makes his first appearance, he's never seen again afterwards, not even as a background character despite attending school with the others. However, his name was mentioned by Olive in Episode 12 when Mandrake asks her which bookshelf Rosemary was hiding in judging by the letter of her (Rosemary's) first crush, downplaying it somewhat.
- Dumb Blond: A male example. He hasn't a lot going for him except for his long blond hair (which Rosemary likens to pony hair) and he's none too bright (see Parsley's summation of him in Brainless Beauty).
- Dumb Jock: Subverted. His fairly average build seems to set him up as a decently skilled warrior, but he is repeatedly crushed by the obstacles.
- Flat Character: He has little to no background information, and merely appears as Rose's first crush who turns out to be a pompous jerk with some sexist attitudes.
- Hate Sink: A rather transparent role he fills due to being dismissive of Rosemary's skills while he has repeated delusions of grandeur. Professor Hakone gets upset over him calling Rosemary stuck-up and he isn’t too concerned with punishing Parsley after she intentionally drops her hammer on Aster’s foot.
- Hypocrite: Calls Rosemary "stuck-up" despite spending the majority of the episode talking about himself and how supposedly great he is.
- It's All About Me: Tends to talk about himself a LOT, which is one of the reasons Rosemary begins to tire of him.
- Jerkass: Is an all around unpleasant person to be with, much to Rose's disappointment.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: For all his talk about being a great athlete, he does a terrible job of excelling in the obstacle courses, nearly falling in a rotating climbing wall and/or getting hacked by swinging axes.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Parsley "accidentally" drops a hammer on his foot after his jerkish behavior comes to light in front of the class.
- Prince Charmless: A rather handsome boy with blond hair and sparkling blue eyes, but has an overblown sense of self who treats the girl (Rosemary) whom he knows is crushing on him as lesser than.
- Romantic False Lead: Rosemary immediately develops a crush on him in class and she spends half the episode fawning over him. It’s not until they get paired up for a class activity when she loses interest and drops the crush altogether.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Likes to paint himself as a hero who possesses great athleticism, even though his performance during the training obstacles is evidence to the contrary.
- Straw Misogynist: Downplayed. He doesn't seem to hate girls, though his low opinion of them and his huge ego even after receiving a helping hand from Rosemary doesn't make him any better.
High Guardian Academy Faculty
The Triad
- Voiced by: Salli Saffioti
- Ambiguously Related: While they're obviously related to each other somehow since they all have the same eye color and the two younger women are both blonde, it's ambiguous if they're separate people or the same person in three different times of their life.
- The Hecate Sisters: They consist of a cheerful girl (the Maiden), a mature woman (the Mother), and a grumpy old woman (the Crone).
- Deus Exit Machina: The Triad happens to be away when Mandrake shows up and he’s able to knock out all the teachers (due to some intervention from Olive) and lock the students in the basement without anyone except the main girls to stop him.
- No Name Given: None of the Triad are given official names.
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: While the two younger women are generally polite, the elderly one of the group definitely isn't, as she repeatedly interjects when the other two are talking to make rather blunt remarks.
Professor Caraway
- Voiced by: Raye Rodriguez
- Author Avatar: He strongly represents his voice actor Raye Rodriquez, the creator of the series.
- Badass Longcoat: Somewhat downplayed, but his longcoat still fits with him being kind of a chill teacher.
- Gender Bender: Professor Caraway is openly transgender and requires a monthly dose of a magical potion to keep the male appearance.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He is easily one of the nicest teachers at the academy and the one most willing to help students not just academically but with their personal problems as well. He is a might to lenient on some but he is always willing to hear both sides of an argument.
Witch Country
Olive
- Voiced by: Stephanie Sheh
- Cat Girl: She can transform into a cat at will. When she turns human, she has a pair of black cat ears and a tail.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Before learning her name and seeing her cat girl form in Episode 7, she is seen as early as Episode 2 (in her cat form) glaring at Thyme with slight indication that all is not as it seems.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: There are plenty of moments with Olive that make it clear she will go against the Triumvirate. She expresses hesitation when Smoke Face gives her the mission to kill the girls and only agrees when he informs her that she will be killed if she doesn’t fulfill her orders. In the twelfth episode, she’s paired up with Mandrake who is sadistic and has no problems killing anyone. She repeatedly makes it clear she doesn’t approve of his actions and at one point interferes with his plans by giving him a sleeping potion instead of poison for the teachers.
- Heel–Face Turn: She goes against the Triumvirate and Mandrake in favor of the heroines.
- Stalker without a Crush: She’s spent half the series watching the heroines in her cat form.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Olive's only objection to the triumvirate is when they task her with killing the four main girls. She tries whatever she can to avoid killing them, though at one point it seemed she was okay with others killing them, but even then when the chips are down, Olive just can't kill anyone, even indirectly.
Mandrake
- Voiced by: A.J. Beckles
- Ax-Crazy: Unlike Olive, Mandrake wants to kill the girls. He also looks for other opportunities to cause harm or death to other people that have nothing to do with the main heroines.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Implied when he asks Olive, who is carrying a cat in her arms, if he can crush its neck.
- Deadly Hug: He almost stabs Rosemary in the back while hugging her in his Lavender disguise. He only stops because she mentions Caraway also knowing about the rot growing on plant life.
- Spot the Imposter: He disguised himself as Caraway in order to search his office. Unfortunately for him, Rosemary and her friends and the real Caraway show up. Both Caraways order Sage to fire upon the other, but Rosemary chooses to ask a question only the real one would know the answer to.
- Uncertain Doom: As of now, the audience doesn’t know if Mandrake was executed by the Triumvirate like Lavender recommended.
The Triumvirate
- Big Bad: They serve as the central antagonist of the show. Their first big mission for Olive is sending her to kill Rosemary and her friends.
- Evil Counterpart: To the Triad, as they have a similar make up of one young, one middle-aged, and one old member.
Other
Anise and Aloe
- Voiced by: Haviland Stillwell (Anise), Joy Lerner (Aloe)
- Ambiguously Related: They're a married couple who're said to be Sage's cousins, plural, but Anise is her cousin and Aloe is called like that for affection.
- Bigger on the Inside: By combining their magic they are able to make secret rooms only they can access in their small apartment.
- Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Anise and Aloe are lesbians and fill each role respectively.
- Opposites Attract: Anise is a short haired rocker looking human girl with tattoos who uses new magic is married to an elven Proper Lady who uses old magic.
- Those Two Guys: They're always seen together.
Neppy Cat
- Voiced by: Cam Clarke
- Achievements in Ignorance: Back when he was a normal cat, he simply snuck around and threw a bunch of potions into a cauldron. The mixture not only gave him a muscular, humanoid body, but human-like intelligence and the ability to speak.
- Gentle Giant: He’s a massively buff cat after he transforms and is still a sweetheart.
- Talking Animal: Sort of. Sage managed to create a potion, which allows him to talk. However, he has a limit on words he can say. Also, he will only talk when he’s jumped into the brewed potion.
- Uplifted Animal: He turns into a hulking biped after a potion is accidentally spilled on him, and he's completely aware of his incoming sapience.
Lavender
- Voiced by: Liisa Lee
- Action Mom: She works as a Guardian full-time, which has impacted her ability to spend time with her family. Rosemary has one memory where her mom taught her how to wield Flowering Thorn.
- Missing Mom: She went on a mission four years prior to the main story and hasn’t been home since. Rosemary and her family don’t even know if she’s alive.
- The Reveal: She’s alive and she’s working for the Triumvirate.
