Characters / Lessa

The cast of Lessa. Unmarked spoilers ahead.

Main Characters

Raynold "Rano" Berger

• Angelic Transformation: In Season 2, where he's given the identity of the ninth Apostle, Rayel.
• The Atoner: He doesn't realize it at first, but his life as "Raynold Berger" exists so that he has the chance to atone for what he did to Lessa as "Diane".
• Badass Biker: He loves his Cool Bike, to the extent that when he was (possibly) reunited with it, Jin remarked that he looked even happier than when they saved Lucy.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: When fighting in the Gentle Pub, as it's part of the dress code.
• Big Brother Instinct: His primary motivation is to save Lucy.
• Brother–Sister Team: With Lucy in Season 2.
• The Coats Are Off: While dressed up in the aforementioned suit, he removes the coat when he decides to get serious and ends up shirtless altogether by the match's finish.
• Despair Event Horizon: Subverted in the Darkest Hour of Season 3, where he seemingly breaks down but then quickly goes back to trying to destroy Dark Lessa. This surprises her, who even asks why he still struggles when everyone he loves is gone. In response, he tells her that as long as there's even one person left, he'll keep on fighting.
• Determinator: Nothing holds him back from his goals, whether it's saving Lucy, Lessa, or the world. He rarely ever has a Heroic BSoD, and if he does, it's brief; usually, he's the one pulling Lessa out of one.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Raynold could already hold his own against Demans before gaining his abilities.
• Excellent Judge of Character: Rano notes that he's good at telling when someone is just trying to bullshit him. This seems to apply on a general level as well, as he instinctively doesn't feel like fighting White in the Season 2 finale, even before he's aware that White is one of the more sympathetic Demans.
• Eyepatch of Power: Gains one in the in the 2nd season.
• Fiery Redhead: Both figuratively and literally.
• Genius Bruiser: Despite his rough look and attitude, he was studying for law school before disaster struck.
• Good Is Not Soft: He'll spare Demans if he has reason to think they won't cause any harm, but otherwise, he shows little mercy to anyone who gets in his way.
• Half-Human Hybrid: His father is eventually revealed to have been Michael of the Apostles.
• Heroes Love Dogs: He and Lucy had a dog named Marco.
• Imagination-Based Superpower: What he received from Ra.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's foul, loud-mouthed, and goes at his own pace, but has a good heart.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Towards Lucy.
• Magical Eye: The eye he keeps covered with his Eyepatch of Power is linked to Ra and has abnormal properties as a result.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After he regains his past memories and realizes he betrayed and killed Lessa.
• Nerves of Steel: One of Rano's greatest strengths is that he lets virtually nothing shake him and can immediately roll with the punches. For instance, it takes serious balls to kill yourself because you figure that's the only way to get an audience with God, and you'll just work out how to get revived once you meet the guy.
• No Hero to His Valet: He doesn't particularly care that Lessa is a god. It becomes a minor plot point in Season 3, when Lessa offers to make him his own Apostle, but to do so, he needs Rano to acknowledge his divine nature and not just his friend. Rano responds that he's seen too much of Lessa's clumsy side to be in awe. However, he then subverts it by stating that he has the utmost respect for Lessa's virtue, which allows the process to succeed.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: He's almost exclusively referred to by his nickname, Rano. Lessa is one of the few who uses his proper name instead.
• Reincarnation: Of Diane, Lessa's friend from a thousand years ago.
• Playing with Fire: His power, given by Ra.
• Power Tattoo: In season 1, marking shows up on his face whenever he uses Ra’s powers. He later gains further markings from becoming an Apostle.
• Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: Downplayed in his dynamic with Jin. The latter's not exactly the epitome of politeness either, but he's nicer to Lessa than Rano is.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: In contrast to the formal Lessa, Rano tends to swear every other line.
• Smarter Than You Look: Rano tends to come off as a brute, surprising Lessa with the realization that Rano can actually be quite smart when he wants to be.
• Smoking Is Cool: Subverted. According to a Q&A with the author, Rano used to smoke but quit so that he could be in top form to fight Demans.
• Spiky Hair: To go with his Action Hero attitude.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Due to his Imagination-Based Superpower, he's able to manifest weapons as he needs.
• Supporting Protagonist: As the author has stated, Rano is the protagonist (and The Hero, but more of The Unchosen One) while the story's focus is Lessa.
• Took a Level in Badass: After his powers awaken.
• The Unchosen One: He's Ra's main chess piece now, but it's because of what Diane did in the past. However, it wasn't Diane who was special. Luciel was after Barry—aka Lucy in the present—and used her to reach him.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: As Diane, who couldn't have possibly known that what she did to Lessa would ultimately place the entire universe in danger.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Lessa, after he warms up to him.
• "X" Marks the Hero: He has a small scar in the shape of an x in on his cheek.

Lucy Berger

• Action Girl: As a Deman, she's as capable of holding her own in a fight as her brother.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: She was one to Rano before disaster struck. Not that they don't have their squabbles in the present, but their bickering has gone from who has to walk Marco to "why is my sister so reckless and unconcerned with her own safety".
• Backstory Invader: She isn't Rano's biological sister. Luciel approached his mourning mother after Michael's death, gave her the infant Lucy, and manipulated her and Rano's memories to believe Lucy had always been with them.
• Badass in Distress: In the Season 1 finale. In a vein, she's this for the entirety of the season, as a Deman against her will, but she rejects any attempt to help her because she knows Raynold is too weak for it.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Her friends were murdered and she was abducted and made a Deman (and, though she didn't know it, her mother and dog were killed on the same night). Great fifteenth birthday!
• Break the Cutie: Over the last five years, where she's gone from an ordinary, if somewhat bratty teenage girl to a depressed girl constantly terrified of being killed for disobedience.
• Brother–Sister Team: With Raynold in Season 2.
• Damsel out of Distress: She's technically captured in Season 2 but effortlessly beats her way out of Belle's headquarters and straight to the woman herself in order to rescue Miena.
• Dark Is Not Evil: As a Deman. Played for Laughs at the start of Season 2, where she tells the militia that she's a friend, not a foe, while Rano remarks on how she's giving off a very different impression...
• Enemy Within: Luciel speaks to her from within in Season 2.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Her hair's long again in Season 2 as she cut it short during her captivity under Belle, with the implication that she was trying to look less pretty back then.
• Fiery Redhead: She's generally more stoic than Rano, but she has shades of this when provoked.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Like Rano. She was the one who spoiled Marco and tells Mindy-Mindy she'll show him to her one day, unaware that Marco is already dead.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Mindy-Mindy's death weighs on her mind.
• Just a Kid: Older than the usual example, since she's in her early twenties but still younger than most of the cast, and expresses her frustration that others think she's too young to get involved in the conflict.
• Living Emotional Crutch: According to Rano, the possibility that she was still alive out there was what kept him going all these years.
• Meaningful Name: She's Luciel's pawn.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Invoked, as she has to do some kind of work or else Belle will dispose of her for being useless. White suggests that she help sell vapour balloons since it leaves Belle with no room to criticize her but is a job that doesn't involve harming anyone.
• The Not-Love Interest: She serves as the heroine and Rano's primary motivation in Season 1.
• Outside Man, Inside Man: She befriended Mindy-Mindy during their time together, and tries to convince her to join her in Season 2. It works, although Mindy-Mindy soon pays the price for her redemption.
• Perpetual Frowner: Her default expression is somewhere between depressed and angry. Given her circumstances, it's hard to blame her.
• Reincarnation: Of Barry, Diane's youngest brother.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: Through Luciel's machinations, she's the vessel of Dark Lessa's "soul", with the intention to make her the full vessel.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: To Belle, who asks why Lucy bothers to care about humans, pointing out that in a hundred years, none of them will be alive anymore to stand by her (with her obvious intention being for Lucy to come back to her side).
  Lucy: After 100 years, who's going to stand by me? That will never, ever be you!
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She has a more conventional shade of red for her hair and bright green eyes, unlike her brother. Luciel deliberately gave her them, having promised Barry that in his next life, he would give him hair the colour of the raspberries he loved and gem-like eyes.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She can be rather aloof, telling the children of the militia not to be friendly to Demans only to cave when they make puppy dog eyes, and is initially distrustful of Lessa but warms up to him (much to Rano's displeasure).
• Superpowered Evil Side: In Season 2. It's actually Luciel taking over.
• Take Me Instead: She attempts this when Ryan captures Miena, but fails, and has to resort to letting Luciel out to save her.
• Token Heroic Orc: Unlike other Demans, she refuses to eat humans' souls.
• Tritagonist: Rano and Lessa serve as the main characters, but she follows closely behind, usually with her own subplot.
• Variable-Length Chain: She uses hooked chains that she fires from her gauntlets to fight.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Her "emerald-like" eyes are commented on at least once.

Lessa

• All-Loving Hero: Though his faith has cracked compared to his past self, he still loves all beings deeply and will tolerate almost any mistreatment from humans. He's more willing to kill Demans, but even then, he shows them a certain compassion that most don't.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Like Rano, he dresses up for the fighting tournament in the Gentle Pub (though Rano has to do his tie for him).
• Bare Foot Sage: When he lived with Ares.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Lessa used to be the purest thing in existence, and nowadays, he's still one of the kindest characters around and difficult to truly anger. If he does cross that line, though, remember that you've just provoked the god of death.
• Brought Down to Badass: He's blocked from accessing his full godly strength, and he only gets weaker after the Prelude... and is still one of the most powerful beings around.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Being a Fish out of Temporal Water and not human in general, Lessa's thought process can be... odd. When Rano and co. receive just his boot and are led to believe it's a message from him, they quickly give up on trying to decipher it, chalking it up to one of Lessa's quirks.
• Crisis of Faith: His belief in an "absolute good" broke after being betrayed. Though he still loves the world, this and all the other traumas he's faced give him a much more somber outlook.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's the god of night and death and wears the same outfit as the Demans, but despite initial impressions, he's very much one of the good guys.
• Deuteragonist: To Rano's Supporting Protagonist.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: His face is identical to Dark Lessa's, as he obtained his human form through her attempts to escape his body, and thus his appearance takes after hers.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: He's been asleep for a thousand years and is thus out of touch with modern society.
• God in Human Form: His true form is a Humanoid Abomination, sitting on the throne in the external world, while the form he has currently is only the one he assumed upon descending to the internal world. In the Season 2 finale, Ares kills him, prompting Lessa to break another taboo and enter the human realm directly with his true body.
• Good Is Not Soft: Compared to his past self, who was something of an Actual Pacifist, he's become more ruthless, disturbing Rabiel with how much he's changed when they reunite for the first time in thousands of years. It's largely due to the fact that he created this mess to begin with, so he can't be half-hearted in fixing it; he's often still pacifistic if the moment allows it.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In Season 3, when the Apostles seal Dark Lessa in him once more. Though they act as if it'll be fine, Lessa is aware—as are they, most likely—that he'll fall into another slumber, and this time he may never wake up again.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: He descended to help humanity, but by the end of the Prelude, not only has he changed nothing for the better, he's left drastically weakened, betrayed, and with the current mess on his hands for inadvertently creating a race of genocidal monsters—all because he wanted to save one human.
• The Idealist: He holds himself up to high moral standards and expects others to try and do the same, even if it may take time (much to Ares's frustration; a source of conflict between them in the past was that Ares believed that some people could not be redeemed).
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: This seems to be a pattern for him.
  • In the past, Diane pierced through him with a spear, nearly killing him.
  • In Season 1, he gets impaled on the claw of one of Ares's creations while shielding Rano (Good Thing You Can Heal, at least).
  • The ceremony to seal Dark Lessa in him involves this, using the Apostles' spears. We see their third attempt in Season 3—even reminding Rano of the above incident as Diane—with special mention to Lessa stabbing through himself with Luciel's Neuron. White lampshades it, asking if it had to be THAT extreme and if he couldn't have just gone with a poke.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: He has these, giving him somewhat of a childlike appearance as the series goes on, which goes hand in hand with the fact that he's still rather naive in some ways.
• In-Series Nickname: Rano almost exclusively refers to him as Flour.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: In the past. According to the author, Ares had a hairdresser cut it in the present.
• Messianic Archetype: Extremely self-sacrificial in nature, not helped by the fact that being a sacrifice to protect the world is literally the purpose of his existence. This attitude frustrates Rano, at the same time that he can't actually stop him because of that latter bit.
• Moment of Weakness: Reviving Ares, as it went against the order of the world—which Lessa knew well—and he came to regret it almost immediately. In the present, it's still considered just about the biggest mistake he's ever made.
• Must Make Amends: As the one responsible for the Demans' existence, he chooses to dedicate himself to cleaning up his mess.
• Naked First Impression: When he first arrives on earth and meets Ares. Ares soon offers him some clothes though he misunderstands...
• Parental Substitute: He was one to Ares.
• Reluctant Warrior: He truly does not like killing (humans, at least) and would rather avoid it if he can.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: He acts as Dark Lessa's seal.
• Second Episode Introduction: While he shows up in Raynold's dreams in the first chapter, he's only introduced somewhat later, after the setting has been established.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He forms this dynamic with Rano.
• We Named the Monkey "Jack": His alias while participating in the Gentle Pub is Marco, aka the name of Rano and Lucy's dog.

Humans

Dr. Jin Young-sam

• Badass Normal: Has no supernatural powers but occasionally helps out with fighting off Demans.
• Combat Medic: Knows his way around a gun, and sometimes patrols with Raynold.
• Crazy-Prepared: Rano ditched him and ran off with Lessa? No problems, Jin had a GPS planted on him anyway.
• Feeling Their Age: Played for Laughs. When Miena watches him act as Mission Control for Rano, she calls him out on just sitting back while making Rano do the work, to which Jin points out that Rano is a young guy, unlike him. (Not that it stops Jin from heading out to pull a Big Damn Heroes.)
• Heroic Lineage: He's a descendant of Saint Elsade, making him key to reverting the Demans back into humans.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Despite being a top-notch doctor, the incident with Ryan crushed his confidence in his ability to help anyone. When Lessa tells him that he's key to saving the Demans, he's horrified, as he doesn't feel like he can live up to that expectation.
• Hope Bringer: He tends to bring out the best in people, from pulling Miena back from despair to Anderson seeing him as his only hope at salvation to being Lessa's only hope for reverting the Demans and thus repairing his broken heart, figuratively and literally.
• Interrupted Suicide: Raynold came across him when he was about to kill himself.
• I Owe You My Life: Raynold was the reason he chose to keep on living, and so he's decided to devote his life to the man.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Wears one.
• The Medic: One of his primary roles, as the resident doctor among the heroes.
• Mission Control: Acts as one for Raynold at the start of the series, complete with a 8-screen monitor.
• Older Sidekick: To Rano, who's younger than Jin by some years.
• Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: With Rano, to an extent. At the very least, he treats Lessa less roughly than Rano does, especially at the start of the series.
• We Used to Be Friends: Ryan was his patient once and a good friend of his.

Miena Harrison

• Action Girl: Subverted in Season 1, where she claims to be a badass but doesn't actually realize what she's getting into, much to Jin's exasperation. Played straight in Season 3, where she takes on a combat role thanks to being a Deman.
• Always Someone Better: To Jin during their university days, though it's more of a Friendly Rivalry as he does respect her genius.
• Badass Bookworm: She's a scientific genius who later gets upgraded to an Action Girl, still utilizing her smarts to help her out in battle.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She was always a better student than Jin, but very much didn't act or dress like the typical scholarly scientist type, surprising Jin. Her unconventional approach is noted to be one of the things that make her brilliant.
• Constantly Curious: She's delighted to meet Lessa and bombards him with questions about his godhood. Lessa actually finds her enthusiasm to learn quite endearing.
• Despair Event Horizon: After being turned into a Deman, in which she states that she's lost all hope. Jin manages to bring her back, thankfully.
• Interrupted Suicide: She throws herself out a window after her Despair Event Horizon, only for Lucy to race down the building to catch her.
• Plucky Girl: She's full of enthusiasm and optimism in her debut, and while she has her moments of depression and even a brush with the Despair Event Horizon, she ultimately settles into this category by Season 3.
• Red Herring: Everyone's led to believe that Dark Lessa wants to use her as a new vessel, but she turns out to be only the bait—Luciel was after Lucy.
• Took a Level in Badass: After becoming a Deman, she's able to participate in fights.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Lessa notes how captivating her eyes are when they're brimming with curiosity.

Yuzuru

• Action Survivor: She doesn't quite have the combat abilities of the other members of the party, but manages to do well enough for herself through some luck and sheer bravery.
• Berserk Button: Don’t call her a child.
• Older Than They Look: She has the appearance of a toddler, but she's in her twenties.
• Playful Hacker: She's the most technologically savvy of the group. According to Miena, she's used her skills to obtain top secret info in the past (with the others noting that she might not want to boast about committing a crime...).

Lexter

• Badass Family: He picked up his engineering skills from his father, who's less actively involved in fighting but a Badass Normal as well when he joins the action.
• Badass Normal: He uses his own creations to fight and can hold his own against Demans.
• Gadgeteer Genius: His specialty. He's the one who creates the weapons that the militia uses.
• Guile Hero: He survives through a mixture of his wits and his technological capabilities.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: As Rano and Lessa get ready to head to Zone 2, Rano states that since it started with the two of them, it's appropriate to end it that way... to wich Lexter points out that he's still here.
• Older Than They Look: The author notes him to be this, as while he looks rather young, he's an adult.
• Only Sane Man: He's the most down to earth between him, Rano, and Lessa, making for an amusing moment when Rano and Lessa forego any subtlety in the Gentle Pub and start fighting with their powers, with Lexter wondering what was even the point of going down this route instead of openly breaking into Zone 1.
• Shock and Awe: What his personal weapons tend to utilize, as while it doesn't target a direct weakness, it still catches Demans (who have only learned to defend against the expected flame weapons) off-guard.

Maya Blake

• From Nobody to Nightmare: To another human who was almost killed when Demans took over Hexagon Field to the de facto leader of Zone 2.
• Good All Along: She's initially presented as another human who wants to become a Deman out of self-interest, only for it to be revealed that her goal is save Zone 2 by becoming its leader, and for that, she accepts that she'll have to become a Deman to avoid suspicion. As soon as she and Rano and co. realize their goals align, she swiftly joins them.
• Nerves of Steel: They're how she survived the massacre, as she kept her calm and talked her way out of being killed.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: As Rano puts it, despite being a child, she's doing what even most adults aren't capable of.
• Young and in Charge: Of Zone 2, despite being a minor.

Demans

Ares

• Alas, Poor Villain: Although Lessa knew it had to come to this, Ares's death crushes him, and as an act of kindness, Ra allows him to be the one to send Ares's soul off.
• Big Bad: Of Season 1 & 2.
• Create Your Own Villain: Lessa is the primary cause of why Ares turned out the way he did, and he knows it. A part of Ares deeply resents the strict and moralistic way in which Lessa raised him—Lessa himself later acknowledges he did Ares wrong by not giving him a proper childhood—and seeing how Lessa's kindness never made a difference convinced him that humans weren't worth helping and that an iron fist was necessary to eradicate suffering. As a result, Lessa's attempts to have Ares grow up into a kind and virtuous person are why he instead became so bitter, misanthropic, and obsessed with power.
• Dark Messiah: Ares makes himself out to be this. Ryan even calls him a savior to his people, the Deman. It's not entirely unjustified, as he did pull out many of his immediate subordinates from horrific circumstances by turning them into a Deman.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: Despite everything, Lessa still loves him as family, and it's through their relationship that we see Ares's human side.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His relationship with Lessa is complicated at best, but it's made clear that a part of him still cares for Lessa. Lucy even brings up the confusing nature of their bond, asking Lessa what they are to each other, given that they seem to be enemies and yet she saw Ares crying over Lessa's coffin back when he was comatose.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Implied in his exchange with Ra, to whom he asks why he was born a slave. In response, Ra simply asks if he's still a slave now.
• Godhood Seeker: While some of his boasting appears to be for theatrics, for the sake of swaying over his followers, Lessa outright asks him in Season 2 if he wants to be a god, to which Ares answers yes.
• Graceful Loser: As soon as he realizes he's facing Ra, he accepts that it's over and that his time has come.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • In the past, he pointed out that for all of Lessa's pacifistic compassion to others, none of it had impacted the world at all, and his kindness would likely get him hurt—which it soon did, in the worst way possible.
  • When Anderson becomes disillusioned with Ares, Ares reminds Anderson that he slaughtered people upon becoming a Deman, so it's hypocritical of him to act as though his hands are clean.
• Lonely at the Top: In a way. By the Season 2 finale, Ares is on the verge of getting everything he wanted, at the cost of irreparably ruining his relationship with Lessa, his only family in the world. Though he doesn't show any guilt, it's implied he's not unfeeling over it either, with Anderson stating that he misses Lessa.
• Made a Slave: His backstory. He was a prisoner of war from Palestine and made a slave in Egypt at a young age, until Lessa rescued him.
• Manipulative Bastard: He prefers to blackmail others or pit them against each other rather than bother with fighting them directly. It's a quality he's had since even before his Start of Darkness, as he'd do things like trick thieves so that he could paint himself as a helpful bystander and be rewarded.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Being a slave in early childhood already soured his outlook; then, growing up with a paragon of virtue like Lessa only reinforced how disappointing humans were, in Ares's eyes.
• A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Lessa was his former teacher and Parental Substitute.
• Scars Are Forever: Rano burns his face in the Season 1 finale, and the scars remain, despite his Healing Factor (granted, it wasn't exactly normal fire).
• Start of Darkness: Though he's loathed humanity since childhood, Lessa kept him in check and encouraged him to value life and feel remorse. However, when he encountered Dark Lessa thanks to Lessa inadvertently releasing her and Lessa fell into a coma, depriving Ares of his influence, it all went downhill.
• Third-Person Person: Occasionally refers to himself as such when around Lessa, likely in a mocking form of deference. He also does it around Dark Lessa, but likely with a bit more sincerity.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He was once a normal and relatively kind boy, but a combination of Lessa's awkward parenting, tragic circumstances for the both of them, and manipulation eventually twisted him into what he is now.
• Villainous Breakdown: Briefly, but in the finale, when he waits at the castle, expecting for Lessa to come, he's pissed off when Rano shows up instead, as Ares doesn't consider this his business... and then it's revealed that it's Ra.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Much of his resentment towards Lessa comes from how Lessa was always aloof and strict with him, despite showing kindness and patience even to people Ares felt deserved far less.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: While he's also fueled by his own sense of arrogance, Ares's ultimate goal is noble, in a sense. After growing up amidst cruelty and seeing how Lessa's kindness was constantly thrown back in his face, Ares is determined to turn himself into a god and create an ideal world, feeling that the actual gods have failed to do so.

Bark

• Covered in Scars: His body is covered in horrific-looking scars that he received as a slave, serving as a reminder that Humans Are the Real Monsters.
• Graceful Loser: As he dies in the sunlight, he gives his respect to Lexter for the latter's strength.
• Made a Slave: His backstory, before Ares found him.
• Noble Demon: Unlike other Demans, he doesn't kill for no reason/absorb more souls than he needs and shows quite a bit of respect for his enemies.

Caleb

• Asshole Victim: Dies by White's hands, after years of abusing him. Notably, he's the only Deman we never receive any kind of backstory or Freudian Excuse for, aside from a vague implication in the Season 2 finale that he saw some of himself in White.
• Ax-Crazy: His defining trait. POGO lampshades it in bonus art.
• Bad Boss: He's horribly abusive to White.
• Even Evil Has Standards: When Lessa seemingly kills a human for no reason—given that he doesn't even absorb his soul—Caleb is disturbed by him.
• No Hero to His Valet: He refers to Lessa—their "god"—as a son of a bitch, shocking Belle.
• Pet the Dog: Subverted. When White kills his dogs, Caleb mocks him, asking if he thought that would upset him when he can always replace them. In response, White admits it's kind of a relief that Caleb is so consistently an asshole.

Belle

• All of the Other Reindeer: Her daughter Veronica was persecuted under the belief that she was a witch, ultimately leading to the villagers setting her and Belle's house on fire.
• Bad Boss: Subordinates who act out of line get turned into dolls, aka killed with their bodies preserved for eternity.
• Hime Cut: As the eventual "queen" of Zone 3.
• Mama Bear: She was one in the past to her daughter Veronica, whose horrific death marked Belle's Despair Event Horizon and Start of Darkness.

Ryan Anderson

• Affably Evil: Pre-Sanity Slippage, where he's not horribly torn over the atrocities the Demans commit, but is friendly to Lessa and pokes fun at Caleb's Card-Carrying Villain attitude.
• Heel Realization: Once he realizes that Dark Lessa intends only to destroy and not create, he turns over a new leaf and reconciles with Jin, even offering to be his first test subject to turn back into a human.
• Mad Oracle: After coming into contact with Dark Lessa, he becomes increasingly deluded, obsessing over his "prophecies" and hallucinating fairies.
• Non-Action Guy: As a Deman, he can fight, but typically acts more as the Demans' secretary, given that Ares recruited him for knowing how to use the Internet (what with most of the other high-ranking Demans growing up in an era without it).
• Sanity Slippage: Seeing Dark Lessa results in this. When Lucy meets him again, she comments on how he's lost the sense of humanity he had before.
• Soap Opera Disease: He was previously dying of an unspecified illness, before Ares turned him into a Deman.
• Sole Survivor: After White's death, Anderson's the only one among the First-Third Generation Demans to still be alive, albeit no longer as a Deman.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Jin.

White

• Because You Were Nice to Me: Implied to be why he helps Lessa out in Season 3, albeit in a Tsundere fashion: Lessa's the one person who's shown him kindness—including going out of his way to do so—with no strings attached.
• Body Horror: His upgraded form involves this, as mouths form over his body, including whenever he's wounded.
• The Dog Bites Back: When Ares reveals that he wants to see if a later generation of Demans can surpass a higher one, White is delighted and takes the opportunity to slaughter both Caleb's dogs and Caleb himself, after years of abuse under him.
• Freudian Excuse: His childhood was defined by abandonment, abuse, and survival of the fittest, resulting his current attitude where he chooses only to look out for himself.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He's easily set off, which even he acknowledges as something of a flaw when he impulsively strikes Lessa.
• Heel–Face Turn: He'd deny it, but he begrudgingly develops a soft spot for Lessa and tends to follow his lead in Season 3.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In Season 3, he gives up his life to prevent Luciel from interfering with the sealing ceremony. Though he acknowledges that he doesn't want to die, he accepts that he's willing to for Lucy and Lessa's sakes.
• I Just Want to Be Free: His desire, having always been under someone's abusive control all his life. Ironically, the moment Lessa explicitly grants him his freedom, telling him to run far away from the conflict, White rejects it and chooses to fight alongside him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Abrasive and rude (and proud of it), but Lessa remarks that he's a good person in his own way and that if he hadn't become a Deman, he would've grown to be a fine adult.
• Line-of-Sight Name: "White" is just the colour of his tag from when he was a factory child worker.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: He doesn't care about Ares's plans and is simply out for his own survival.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Narrowly subverted. When the militia try to kill him on account of him being a Deman, before he's yet to do anything, he responds in kind, threatening to be the monster they're accusing him as—before he lets them off with their lives, thanks to Lessa's presence.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Averted. He's one of the first major Demans Rano encounters, but he also grows progressively stronger and is one of the strongest Demans by the end of Season 2.
• Villainous Friendship: He genuinely likes his fellow Third Generation Demans, and most of the other Demans in general who aren't Caleb.

Mindy-Mindy

• Card-Carrying Villain: Subverted. During her recruitment round, everyone else was boasting about the horrible things they'd done as a qualification to become a Deman. When it was Mindy-Mindy's turn, she replied that she'd done nothing, because she "[wasn't] a psychopath like them."
• Dark Action Girl: As a Deman who's chosen to embrace the whole soul-sucking business. With that said...
• Dark Magical Girl: While she acts cruel and vicious, much like the archtypical Dark Action Girl, underneath is someone who saw becoming a Deman as the only way to escape a miserable life. Now that she's one and still miserable, she can never turn back, so she chose to embrace it to shield herself from any guilt.
• Et Tu, Brute?: She was abandoned as a baby and later betrayed by a gang she was completely loyal to, making Lucy's departure from the Demans a bitter pill to swallow, as to her it's yet another example of her being thrown away.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She envies Lucy for having a family to go back to, while she's constantly been abandoned and betrayed.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She allows Belle to kill her, knowing that she'll revive as a "dog" with the power to defeat her.
• Outside Man, Inside Man: The Inside Man to Lucy's Outside Man.
• Redemption Equals Death: As soon as she pulls a Heel–Face Turn to side with Lucy, she dies.
• Taking You with Me: See Heroic Sacrifice.

Gods

Ra

• Big Good: As the god who directly opposes Dark Lessa.
• Eldritch Abomination: His true form is the stuff of nightmares, as Rano discovers. It's likely he took on his more humanoid appearance only after meeting Dark Lessa.
• God in Human Form: His real appearance resembles a monstrous bird, while his humanoid appearance seems to be primarily for aesthetic.
• God Is Good: Though he initially comes off as dubious and Dark Lessa tries to paint him in the opposite light, he cares deeply for the world and sacrifices himself at the start of Season 3 to delay its end.
• Heroic Sacrifice: At the start of Season 3, to protect the universe.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: He is, for all intents and purposes, the mentor of both Rano and Lessa, not to mention the one who leads the Apostles... so of course, he's killed to up the stakes and force all of them to find their own way without his guidance.
• Not So Above It All: As the ultimate god, he cuts an imposing figure... and attempts to cheat at chess and uses comic books as an analogy.
• Not So Omniscient After All: It eventually becomes clear that Ra wasn't born a perfect, static being—just that he's had time to learn from his failures and change his values, not entirely unlike Lessa in more recent years.
• The Omniscient: He can see the futures of his creations, also giving him an Omniscient Morality License as all his actions are for a greater good, even if said good won't occur until far later into the future. However, he admits to Rano that he's not infallible, since anything that's not his creation is a Spanner in the Works—it's just that very, very few things fall under that category.
• Power of Creation: He's the god of it.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Unless they do something truly heinous, Ra generally values his subordinates' free will, doesn't punish them for going against his will, and will work with what they've done. In some ways, this backfires on him, as he let Luciel get away with breaking small rules in the past and failed to stop him from spiralling out of control, with deadly consequences.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: His modern appearance takes the form of a man in a white suit.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: His defining trait. You can tell when he's speaking through Raynold if these are present.

Dark Lessa

• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Granted, she’s not actually human and may not actually have human parts.
• The Corrupter: If you have the misfortune of meeting her, don't be fooled by the fact that she can't do much more than talk: you're already in trouble.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: She feels only for her "hunger". Lucy at one point tries to reason with her, seeing Dark Lessa's fate of either destroying everything or being destroyed to stop as sad, but Dark Lessa is beyond comprehending anything but destruction, as it's the reason behind her existence.
  • Eventually, it's suggested that although she is still a very real threat, this was a false interpretation of her, as Lucy believes that she has more depths than she reveals. When Ra thinks back to her destroying his gift to her—the incident that made him realize the danger she posed to his world—he realizes that she may have actually been sad about the conflicting nature between them and her role as "destruction".
• God in Human Form: Inverted. Ra fashioned humans after her, not the other way around.
• Godiva Hair: She possesses this, being entirely nude.
• God Is Evil: Of a Blue-and-Orange Morality sort. She doesn't seem to have anything personal against the world, but she is hungry. As she flat-out tells Ryan, she is not their god.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Never actually gave explicit commands to Ares or Luciel, but influences them.
• "Not So Different" Remark: So she tells Rano in the Season 3 finale when he begs for her to bring back everyone she's killed, including Lucy: if she could plead with a higher being to bring back her other half—Ra—then she also would've done so.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Ra was so taken by her beauty that he even fashioned humans after her.

Apostles

In General

• The Comically Serious: They take themselves very seriously, despite being rather quirky in their own ways.
• Godzilla Threshold: Destroying their white crown is this for them, as it allows them to reach their full strength but removes their ability to (telepathically) communicate with one another, along with their white crown being a sign of their loyalty to Ra.
• Heavenly Blue: As God's Apostles, they possess vivid blue eyes.
• Power Tattoo: They all have one to mark them as Ra's Apostles, on different parts of their body.
• Undying Loyalty: To Ra.

Luciel

• Bad People Abuse Animals: He hates Lessa, who once ate his flowers as a goat, and so would abuse him before he obtained sentience.
• Big Bad: Of Season 3.
• The Corrupter: Befitting Satan, he casually reveals to the other Apostles that he's been corrupting humanity to ensure that they're failures ever since Ra created them.
• Evil Redhead: He's the traitor among the Apostles.
• Fallen Angel: He's chosen to rebel against Ra.
• Foil: Gabriel suggests he's one for all of humanity: that Ra created such a flawed being like him to reinforce justice. Luciel, however, points out that Ra seemed genuinely confused at Luciel's attempt to the destroy the world, making it clear Ra didn't plan on this.
• Freudian Excuse: Subverted. When Gabriel demands the reason for his actions, Luciel fires off various sad-sounding excuses (Lessa traumatized him by destroying his garden, he was envious of humanity for receiving Ra's unconditional love) but the Apostles call bullshit on them. Though it's later revealed that he does have reasons for being the way he is, his issues are still on him.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: After spending thousands of years and the past three seasons orchestrating Dark Lessa's revival, as well as backstabbing just about every single person who ever cared about him, he's killed by her—the one being he expected to be on his side—for a betrayal of what she actually wanted.
• Manipulative Bastard: His specialty, and what kicked off the conflict between Diane and Lessa. As the others note, he's the Apostle of Keys, so unlocking a human's heart is child's play for him.
• The Mole: Among the Apostles. It was his spear that didn't pierce Dark Lessa, allowing a part of her to escape and roam freely.
• Satan: Eventually confirmed to be the Biblical Satan, as Rabiel refers to him as such when he sees how far Luciel has fallen.
• Start of Darkness: He was never a great person—see: abusing the goat Lessa—but what truly corrupted him was his encounter with Dark Lessa, after Lessa accidentally released her thanks to Luciel's mistreatment.

Gabriel

• Archangel Gabriel: Her identity.
• Badass Adorable: Despite looking like a cute young woman, she's as capable of fighting as the other Apostles.
• Little Big Sister: She's the smallest in stature among the Apostles but the oldest of them.
• Mr. Exposition: She's the one who guides Rano through the creation of the universe and Lessa's origins.
• Team Mom: Among the Apostles and to Lessa, whom she affectionately calls "my little goat" during the sealing ceremony.

Rabiel

• The Ace: Good-looking and considered one of the most competent of the Apostles, as well as being one of Ra's three most loyal. Gabriel even comments that among humanity, Raphael—whom they know him as—is one of God's most beloved angels.
• Aloof Ally: He helps out both Lessa and Rano on separate occasions but isn't exactly what one would call friendly about it, given that Rano is a greenhorn and Rabiel is essentially cleaning up after Lessa's messes. To an extent, though, he's the same towards his fellow Apostles, as he's the first to destroy his white crown without telling the others.
• Archangel Raphael: His identity.
• Combat Medic: He's the Apostle of Medicine.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although he seems cold at first, the other Apostles consider him to have the warmest heart out of all of them (even if he doesn't show it openly).
• "Not So Different" Remark: Subverted. Luciel likes him most among the Apostles, seeing them as cut from the same cloth, but he's clearly mistaken on that front.
• Undying Loyalty: Special mention goes to Rabiel's devotion to Ra: unlike the other Archangels, he never doubts or disobeys Ra's will, and he's the first to state that the Apostles are nothing without Ra after the latter's death. In the past, Luciel even told him that he might have to figure out what he personally believed in, if there ever came a day where Ra was no longer there.

Michael

• Archangel Michael: His identity.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: He was Rano's father.
• Playing with Fire: Part of his powers.
• Posthumous Character: He died sometime before the start of the story.

Uriel

• Archangel Uriel: Her identity, although she isn't an archangel here.
• Non-Action Guy: Has no combat ability, unlike the other Apostles.
• Seers: Her role.

Remiel

• BFS: His "spear" is a very, very big lance. Lampshaded when he apologizes to Lessa when the Apostles are resealing Dark Lessa by piercing him with their spears, since his will hurt a bit...
• Dumb Muscle: He's The Big Guy of the Apostles, but POGO has flat-out stated that he's the stupidest as well.
• Emotional Bruiser: Despite being the most physically imposing of the Apostles, he's by far the most emotional and tends to burst into tears at the drop of a hat.
• Hot-Blooded: He tends to be bombastic, if comically so, in every gesture he makes.
• Shock and Awe: His element.
• Those Two Guys: Almost always with Sandalphon.

Sandalphon

• Friend to All Living Things: He has an affinity with animals, and it's implied he spent a lot of time with the goat Lessa.
• Magic Music: His "spear" is a flute, which he plays both for mundane reasons and to utilize his powers.
• Those Two Guys: Almost always with Remiel.

Mitt

• Angelic Transformation: Her origins are similar to Rano's, as a soul from the previous humanity who was meant to be eradicated but was instead made into an Apostle.
• Super-Strength: She's the physically strongest of the Apostles, to the point where only she can carry the late Michael's weapon.
• Undying Loyalty: To Gabriel, first and foremost.