Characters from the Rhapsody series.
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Characters introduced in A Musical Adventure
Cornet Espoir
Cornet Espoir
Voiced by: Kahoru Fujino (Japanese), Sara Thomas (English, first game), Kira Buckland (English, sequels)
Cornet is the cheerful heroine of the first game. She can sing, play the horn, and even talk to puppets; which most people cannot do. Cornet longs for a passionate relationship and despises toads. She longs for a prince to sweep her off of her feet.
- Babies Ever After: She and Ferdinand eventually have a child named Kurusale in the second game.
- Badass Adorable: Despite being a lovestruck girl who sings and plays a horn, she can command deadly puppets in battle and hold her own in a fight, even without them.
- Girl of My Dreams: Gender-inverted. She has a dream about being saved from a monster by Ferdinand before the event actually happens.
- Goggles Do Nothing: Her traveling clothing includes a pair of goggles on her head which she never uses.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Beautiful, good, young looking, and innocent as an adult.
- Informed Deformity: During the contest, the announcers poke fun at how pudgy she is compared to the other contestants. She's actually only about five pounds heaver than them at worst.
- Instrument of Murder: Her trumpet is her weapon.
- Marionette Master: With the power of her trumpet, she can have various puppets join her on her quest.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Crowdia calls her out for killing a dragon—dragons not only keep the volcano they nest on from erupting, but that particular dragon had just given birth—Cornet is ashamed by her rash actions.
- Paper Fan of Doom: She trades her horn for this as revealed by her older version's regular attacks in the third game after giving her horn to Kururu.
- Raised by Grandparents: She was raised by her grandfather.
- Save the Princess: Inverted. She has to rescue a prince.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She is the main character of the first game.
- V-Sign: Part of her Victory Pose.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She is scared of toads.
Kururu
Kururu
Voiced by: Maria Kawamura (Japanese), Jody Fleischer (English, first game), Xanthe Huynh (English, sequels)
She is a puppet and Cornet's best friend. She follows Cornet throughout the game, often making humorous comments on her behavior. She likes cherries, and dislikes anything sour. Unlike other puppets, Kururu can move around on her own without the powers of Cornet's horn, and she can talk to other humans besides Cornet.
- Character Catch Phrase: "Girls take initiative".
- Fairy Companion: She is a puppet styled like a fairy and who happens to be Cornet's loyal companion since childhood.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Her outfit has a lot of purple in it and she is quite feminine, liking dresses and romance. This also foreshadows her identity.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: To complement her blond hair, Kururu is a loving and supportive puppet friend to Cornet.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Is really possessed by the spirit of Cherie; watching over Cornet.
- Paper Fan of Doom: Her primary weapon both in the original version and when she's Promoted to Playable in the DS remake.
- Promoted to Playable: She is mostly a companion to Cornet, but is fully playable in the DS version of the first game and in the third game.
Cherie
Cherie
Voiced by: Maria Kawamura (Japanese), Jody Fleischer (English, first game), Xanthe Huynh (English, sequels)
Cherie is Cornet's mother, whom is said to have been killed in an accident many years prior to the start of the game. She is at once mature and charmingly childish.
- Angelic Beauty: She is revealed to be an Ancient (the game's equavalent to angels) and is quite beautiful in both her human and Ancient forms.
- Big Good: Her actions dictate or influence events in all three games. In the third game, her status is even "Protagonist."
- Character Catchphrase:
- She is the one who coined "Take the initiative!" for her family when she's facing the thought of the man she loves marrying someone else.
- "I'll never wish for anything more," and its variants are ones she's used since childhood.
- Everyone Can See It: Even well before she gets engaged, several villagers ask her if she and Marius will be getting married.
- Fallen Princess: She is the time-displaced princess of the Ancient civilization.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: She is decked out in various purples and violets and she's a very loving and graceful woman.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde hair and is very good natured.
- I Have This Friend: A Running Gag in her chapter in the third game is asking Siegrind to hear her out about "a girl's" love problems, getting her advice, and running off to take action with Siegrind asking, "Who's the girl...?"
- Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrificed herself to destroy the technology that doomed her civilisation.
- Honorary Aunt: She served as an aunt figure to Etoile when she and Cornet were young.
- Improbable Weapon User: She hammers her enemies with a large, gold cross as both a child and adult.
- Mama Bear: She is extremely protective of her daughter Cornet, to the point that she willingly sacrifices herself to save Cornet from an Ancient weapon.
- Ma'am Shock: When Etoile calls her "Ma'am" in her chapter in the third game, she reacts as if a basin landed on her head.
- Mood Whiplash: Played for Laughs in her chapter in the third game when her internal narration talks about how happy she is for her brother that he found love, but immediately realizes the horrific idea of Marjoly becoming her sister-in-law!
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Because of her well-intentioned goal of wanting to cure her brother and stop war, Cherie takes the Shadow of Beauty and Light of Beauty and inadvertently unseals the Terrible Overlord.
- Not Too Dead to Save the Day: Her soul lives on long past her death in the puppet Kururu.
- Power Gives You Wings: She gains wings when she releases her power.
- Pregnant Badass: Kicked major ass while she was pregnant with Cornet.
- Tomato in the Mirror: She's shocked when she realizes that Marius's painting of the woman he loves is a portait of her when she kept thinking it was someone else.
- War Is Hell: One of her missions after being sent to the future is to warn the people of the futility and destruction of war.
Ferdinand Marl E.
Ferdinand Marl E.
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese), Josh Synard (English)
The prince, and soon to be king, of Marl Kingdom. He often sneaks out of the castle to hunt or visit the city. Cornet has dreamed of him her whole life and falls in love with him after a chance meeting in the forest when he saves her from a dragon summoned by Myao. The two later start to fall in love after meeting the 2nd time in the castle. Then Marjoly appears to get back at Ferdinand for beating Myao, instantly falls in love with him, and tries to teleport him to her castle, but screws up the spell and accidentally turns him to stone, and he's stuck that way till Cornet breaks the spell at the end of the game.
- Badass in Distress: He first appears on screen and single-high-handedly kills a dragon in a couple seconds, but can't do anything for most of the game on account of being turned to stone.
- Beware the Nice Ones: A friendly young man who can kill dragons with one stroke.
- Big Bad: He is the source of conflict in Kururu's chapter in the third game with his near-adamant refusal to allow her to marry Cello. Though it's (mostly) an act and a Secret Test of Character to verify their resolve.
- Dance of Romance: As part of them falling in love, he dances with Cornet at the ball.
- Distressed Dude: He is petrified and kidnapped by Marjorly, with Cornet's rescuing him serving as much of the plot.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Beautiful, good, young, and innocent with blonde hair to match.
- Prince Charming: Ticks most the boxes for the archetypal prince; charming, strong, willing to protect others and is part of a royal family.
- Promoted to Playable: Ferdinand is mostly an NPC in the first two games, but is fully playable in the third game's final chapter.
- Taken for Granite: He spends much of Rhapsody petrified due to Marjoly screwing up a spell which was apparently intended to teleport him to her castle so he would be her plaything. Whether he's better off or not is up to you to decide.
- True Love's Kiss: The kiss of a maiden who loves him will free him from the spell of Marjoly.
- Uptown Guy: He's a prince, Cornet's a commoner but they nevertheless fall in love and get married.
- The Worf Effect: After showing that he's a formidable fighter in his debut scene, he's easily overpowered to show strong Marjoly is.
Etoile Rosenqueen
Etoile Rosenqueen
Voiced by: Yuri Amano (Japanese), Jody Fleischer (English, first game), Lizzie Freeman (English, sequels)
She is Cornet's arrogant rival. Etoile often makes sarcastic remarks about Cornet. She is from a rich background and loves being the center of attention.
- Child Hater: She doesn’t have a high opinion of kids, not that it stop her from helping children in need.
- Dark Secret: She is terrified of the day that Crea learns she is not her biological mother.
- Determinator: She doesn't let a little thing like passing out from shock and anemia stop her when her daughter's in danger.
- Doting Parent: She absolutely loves her daughter.
- Guest-Star Party Member: She and her bodyguards will join for the battle against Phantom Thief Burg in an Act 8 sidequest in the second game.
- The Gunslinger: She uses guns as her primary weapon, a trait she passes on to Crea.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: She genuinely cares about Cornet and wants to help her, but she's sure not going to let Cornet know it.
- Intrepid Merchant: How good is her family at selling? They have store branches in hell. All of the Makai-multiverse Nippon Ichi games have Rosenqueen outlets.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: Has the air of a rich snob, but is a nice person underneath.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Her parents basically worked so hard for her sake that they ended up using stacks of money as a babysitter. She even has an "I Want" Song that reveals how lonely she feels.
- Mama Bear: If you make her daughter cry, Etoile will shoot you dead!
- More Dakka: Her arsenal consists of handguns, rocket launchers, a bazooka, and who knows what else?
- My Greatest Failure: Her Failed a Spot Check moment to confirm the death of a monster she was fighting led to the deaths of Crea's parents.
- Noblewoman's Laugh: Befitting her haughty personality, she always lets out a bombastic "hohohoho!" in her dialogue.
- Non-Idle Rich: Throughout the games, she often uses her wealth to accomplish many things. In the first game, she gathers some people and guns to help Cornet on her quest, while in the second game, she helps Kururu and Crea with their various quests.
- Pimped-Out Dress: She wears very expensive and decorated dresses and often brags about how much one cost.
- Pink Means Feminine: Some of her outfits are pink, which fits her status as a feminine and haughty rich girl.
- Rich Bitch: She acts jerkish and selfish, initially using her money to buy what she wants. She does show a softer side, though.
- Tsundere: Mean and condescending on the outside, kind and helpful on the inside.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was a lot nicer to Cornet when they were kids, but still a brat to most other people (especially her older self).
Marjoly
Marjoly
Voiced by: Michie Tomizawa (Japanese), Carrie Gordon-Lowrey (English, first game), Amber Lee Connors (English, sequels)
She is malevolent and very conceited, with lyrics in her song "Evil Queen" describing herself to be "mightier than the god...more beautiful than the goddess". She fell in love with Prince Ferdinand (immediately after seeing him the first time) and meant to teleport him, only to turn him into stone.
- Ambiguously Human: Alive in the time of the Ancients, and capable of using Ancient spells. The Ancients were a Winged Humanoid race, but they also had the ability to hide said wings, so who knows.
- Bad Boss: Frequently bickers with her underlings, often threatening them. But it works both ways, as they have no respect for her and belittle her every chance they get.
- Benevolent Boss: That said, she attacked Marl Castle after learning about how Prince Ferdinand killed one of Myao's pet dragons after her feline lackey unleashed it on Cornet and Kururu and was clearly willing to make him suffer for it, until she saw he was a handsome young man and changed her mind.
- Berserk Button: She doesn't appreciate being called an "old maid", though she usually won't retaliate when it's her underlings doing it.
- Beware the Silly Ones: She's kind of a mess, with even her own henchladies mocking her eccentricities, but she really is a powerful witch, and those self-same henchgals know when to stop yammering and pay attention.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Gleefully declares herself to be "evil personified".
- Dirty Old Woman: She likes young lads way too much, with even her own lackeys enjoying pointing out in the middle of her song that she's old enough to be Ferdinand's mother."Tell me boy, how about spending an unforgettable night with me?"
- Evil Is Petty: She is quick to go fly into a rage if insulted, which happens a lot because her minions have no respect for her.
- First Love: She fell in love with a prince of the Ancient civilization as a youth, and keeps his memory in the Shadow of Beauty.
- Going Down with the Ship: She keeps Beauty Castle afloat for as long as possible to give everyone time to evacuate during Act 6 of the second game. Even though it fully sinks into the ocean with her still inside, she survives.
- Hot Witch: She's the self-proclaimed Mistress of Magic, and in spite of the cracks her minions make about her age, still is quite attractive looking.
- Inept Mage: She's prone to Magic Misfire, aside from the mentioned-above incident of turning Ferdinand to stone, there's also her attempt at fighting the Ancient Weapon, where she screws up a spell and literally knocks herself out.
- Informed Deformity: The other characters insist that she looks really old and that she does not have the body to wear that kind of outfit. Her Disgaea cameos also state she wears far too much make-up instead, in addition to calling her old. This also can be seen in her character portraits in the second game.
- Laughably Evil: She tries to be threatening, but through a combination of her own stupidity and the fact that her own minions don't take her seriously and mock her at every chance possible (which there are many), scenes with her tend to be the funniest parts of the game.
- Love at First Sight: She comes to Marl Castle ready to avenge Myao's defeat only to drop everything when she sees that the perpetrator is a handsome young man. Whom she then kidnaps.
- Memento MacGuffin: The second game reveals that the Shadow of Beauty was a gift from her lover.
- Narcissist: Her song opens with her declaring herself more powerful than (the) God and that the Devil is her slave, and that she's more beautiful than a goddess, evil personified, etc.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her outfit has a plunging neckline that reaches her stomach.
- Noble Demon: Neither her or her lackeys are bad people.
- Noblewoman's Laugh: Befitting her status as a haughty villainess, she often lets out a bombastic laugh.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Her entire introduction treats her as a joke, but then Cornet calls her an old maid and Marjoly sics all her minions on her. Cue a Hopeless Boss Fight.
- Older Than They Look: She may not look like a spring chicken, but she certainly doesn't look over 1500.
- Really 700 Years Old: 1509 years old as of the third game.
- Stripperific: Her outfit exposes a lot of her cleavage, stomach and legs.
- A Taste of Power: She's the star of the third chapter in the third game and starts at a level 10 times higher than what the main characters of the previous chapters are likely to finish at.
- Villainesses Want Heroes: Her "love" for Ferdinand.
Myao
Myao
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese), Sara Thomas (English, first game), Dawn M. Bennett (English, sequels)
Myao is one of Marjoly's lackeys. She appears to be a child. She often acts childish and selfish, and she can cast powerful magic to summon dragons.
- A-Cup Angst: She is painfully aware of her flat chest and does not like it.
- Bad Boss: She frequently demeans and abuses the Nyankos.
- The Beast Master: She got a bunch of monster pets.
- Breast Expansion: She sells out Beauty Castle's location to Akurjo in the second game in order to get pills that giver her a bigger bust. Unfortunately, only the first one was real, and the rest were cat food.
- Cat Girl: She's got the ears, the tail, and even the name.
- Medium Awareness: As a cameo in Phantom Brave, she is aware that people in that dimension don't break out into song.
- Older Than They Look: In the first game she's apparently 73, and looks the same 18 years later in the third.
- The Rival: She has been rivals with Nyan-Nya, often fighting over who's superior.
- Summon Magic: She likes to summon (and name) dragons.
- Verbal Tic: In the Japanese version, she ends her sentences with "nya". She is a cat girl after all.
Crowdia
Crowdia
Voiced by: Miho Yamada (Japanese), Jody Fleischer (English, first game), Laura Stahl (English, sequels)
Crowdia is another of Marjoly's lackeys. She is very beautiful, but very narcissistic. She has large black wings, like a crow, and fights with a sword.
- Bishie Sparkle: She sometimes seen with various sparkles around, particularly when musing about something she finds beautiful.
- Cultured Badass: Attempted. She tries to present the image of a cool, aloof fighter forced to lower themselves to working alongside peasants, etc. but her compatriots tend to pop that bubble pretty easily.
- Distracted by My Own Sexy: She is so narcissistic that she gets distracted by her own reflection.
- Does Not Like Men: Finds men, particularly muscular ones, repulsive.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When Cornet and her party kill the dragon which had attacked Crowdia and themselves, Crowdia is genuinely appalled. Not only did she personally feel that the dragon was a beautiful creature, but each dragon killed weakens the seal keeping the volcano they nest upon from going into a massive eruption—and this particular dragon had also just laid an egg, now orphaned by Cornet's rash action. Cornet is quite upset to find this out.
- Fate Worse than Death: She considers being in Fon-Fon's body as the worst ever thing she's ever experienced.
- Feathered Fiend: Downplayed. She has black wings and has a bird motif, but she is not very threatening or evil like most of the antagonists either.
- Guest-Star Party Member: She is briefly playable when is she is possessing Fon-Fon's body in the second game.
- In Another Man's Shoes: Although she still believes her way is the correct one, her time in Fon-Fon's body allows her to understand how useful his muscles are and she develops a bit of respect for him.
- Lady of War: She appears as an elegant lady with a graceful fighting style, but she is just as silly and prone to mistakes as her teammates.
- Narcissist: Quite willing to talk up her own intellect and looks, and insists on being called "The Beautiful Crowdia".
- Really 700 Years Old: She is 106 years old, but looks relatively young.
- The Rival: She and Fon-Fon are rivals in terms of what they find attractive in someone.
- Something about a Rose: Seen with a rose in her hand regularly, she's also got her own rose garden.
- Teleportation: She can do this, and saves Cornet's life at one point by doing so.
- Villain Respect: She seems ambiguously impressed at how Cornet has valiantly chosen to rescue the prince on her own and shows respect after Cornet proves willing to risk her life to save the dragon's egg.
Gao
Gao
Voiced by: Yayoi Jinguji (Japanese), Rachel Quaintanes (English, first game), Anjali Kunapaneni (English, sequels)
Gao is Marjoly's third lackey. It is said that she has the strength to fight a dragon with her bare hands. Many people mistake her for a man, including Cornet.
- Guest-Star Party Member: She joins to help fight Lan-Lan for one battle in the second game.
- Hot-Blooded: She is very pumped up over everything, ranging from her muscles, fighting and anything that involves exercising.
- Kick Chick: She's got really strong arms, but she primarily kicks.
- The Lad-ette: She acts very boorish, has a love of exercising and doesn't dress very femininely.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: Many people mistake her for a man thanks to her muscles and her boyish appearance.
- Little Bit Beastly: She is a wolf woman though her clan lacks the animal ears.
- Older Than They Look: 99 in the first game but doesn't look like it.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: She is called werewolf several times and does not deny being one, but she is never seen completely transformed. Interestingly, in Disgaea 4, there appears a werewolf with the same physical attributes, namely Fenrich.
- The Rival: With Lan-Lan of Akurjo's group, another werewolf tribe member. Unlike the other rivalries there no real bad blood here. Lan-Lan has a massive crush and hero worship of Gao, and constantly challenges her to battle to prove her strength and win her hero's affections. Gao doesn't reciprocate the feeling, but she couldn't turn down a good fight if she wanted to.
Mustaki Espoir
Mustaki Espoir
Voiced by: Takashi Nagasako (Japanese), Jason Marnocha (English)
Mustaki is Cornet's grandfather and Cherie's surrogate father. He is a well-known puppet-maker.- Gadgeteer Genius: About eighteen years ago he and Polansky collaborated to rebuild a piece of Lost Technology known as the Ancient Weapon.
Polansky
Polansky
- Dirty Old Man: In the second game, he reveals to have been quite happy to be locked up in a room full of young girls. Kururu's respect for him plummets after hearing that.
- Friendly Rival: He sees Mustaki as his friend and rival.
Minister Golonzo
Minister Golonzo
Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (Japanese), Mike Dent (English)
Minister of Marl Castle.- Big Bad: Of the first game. It's apparent that he's evil, but he doesn't do anything till he shows up out of nowhere at Marjoly's castle with a copy of the Ancient Weapon which plans to use to Take Over the World. Majorly nearly curb-stomps it, but screws up with one of her spells and K.Os herself.
- Beard of Evil: A pointy little Van Dyke.
- The Chew Toy: He's kept prisoner in Beauty Castle after the events of the first game and spends the time as the Marjoly family's punching bag, including repeatedly being used as a human sacrifice during their songs as the third game reveals.
- Evil Chancellor: The advisor to the queen, but secretly working with the Marjoly family to fulfill his ambitions of taking the throne.
- It's All About Me: He wants to revive the Ancient Weapons to first take over Marl Kingdom and eventually the world without caring one iota about innocent lives caught up in it. His blind pursuit of this power indirectly led to Cherie's death.
- Obviously Evil: In a game where almost every named character is pretty or kind-looking, Golonzo rather ugly looks stand out. Unsurprisingly, he is the only truly evil character in the game as the other main villain, Marjoly, is entertaining in her villainy by comparison.
Characters introduced in Ballad of the Little Princess
Princess Kurusale Cherie Marl Q
Princess Kurusale Cherie Marl Q
Voiced by: Maria Kawamura (Japanese), Madeline Dorroh (English)
Also known as Kururu, Kurusale is the game's protagonist and the daughter of Cornet and Ferdinand. She has a tendency to sneak out of the castle instead of studying, and is identified by the other characters as a tomboy.
- Airplane Arms: Her running animation in the third game involves her spreading out her arms, despite being four years older and (supposedly) more mature.
- Blue with Shock: Her face turns blue after she gets to know how they make the softcream she ate earlier.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: She got the catchphrase of "Girls take initiative!" from her mother's puppet Kururu and by extension her grandmother Cherie.
- Cry into Chest: Kururu cries into Crea's chest after the ordeal at the haunted house is over.
- Dead Guy Junior: She is named after Cornet's late mother.
- Father, I Want to Marry My Brother: She told her father she wanted to marry him when she was little.
- Generation Xerox: She wants this to happen in regards to meeting her Prince the same way Cornet met Ferdinand. Subverted in that Cello indeed helps her out of a bind in the Wonder Woods but immediately brushes her off. Double Subverted in that they end up falling in love anyway.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She's got almost all of her mother's old puppets in her room.
- Growling Gut: Kururu's stomach started to growl while she was thinking about how good softcream must be.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Beautiful, good, young, and innocent with blonde hair to match
- High-Pressure Emotion: When angered, she literally lets out steam.
- Holy Hand Grenade: Her "Awakening" ability blasts all enemies with Holy Elemental damage. In Rhapsody III, it's the most-powerul single-character Special Attack in the game, capable of dealing 5,000 damage (when even the strongest four-character Combo Attacks from the Marjoly and Akurjo families usually don't hit more than 3,000).
- Human Hummingbird: During battle, she runs with her arms stretched out and her legs are animated with circles that get smaller and bigger.
- Instrument of Murder: Her trumpet is her weapon.
- Like Parent, Like Spouse: Kururu wants to marry someone just like her father.
- Love Confession: Eventually to Cello. She doesn't just confess to him, she outright proposes to him, and it's adorable.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The excitable and cheerful red oni to Crea's calmer and teasing blue oni.
- Shared Family Quirks: She shares a lot of traits from her mother Cornet. This includes her being proactive in finding love, her love for singing and playing the trumpet and having a fear of toads.
- She Is All Grown Up: Both after the post-game Time Skip at the end of the second game and her character artwork in the third game (despite using the same sprite).
- Strong Family Resemblance: She looks so much like her mother and grandmother that Cello initially believed she was Cherie until he got a closer look and confirmed otherwise.
- Sunny Sunflower Disposition: Kururu holds a bouquet of sunflowers on a promotional artwork, befitting her Genki Girl nature.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Kururu will never forgive Burg and the cats for feeding her cat shit ice cream.
- Victory Pose: Her main pose is a big thumbs up.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Is scared of toads, just like her mother.
- Wingding Eyes: Her eyes burst into empty circles when she is shocked and into spirals when she is angry.
Createur "Crea" Rosenqueen
Createur "Crea" Rosenqueen
Voiced by: Ikue Otani (Japanese), Cassandra Lee Morris (English)
Commonly known as Crea and is Etoile Rosenqueen's little daughter. She has known Kururu since they were children.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Kururu's notes on her mention her uncanny ability to "always have a comeback" and say some pretty disturbing things at times. This is reflected with her "Angelic Smile" ability which can confuse all enemies.
- Childhood Friends: To Kururu.
- The Gunslinger: Her regular attack in battle consists of firing a comically large pistol at the enemy.
- Happily Adopted: It is revealed that Crea was actually adopted by Etoile after Etoile failed to save her parents. However, this doesn't stop the two from having a loving relationship.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: She and Kururu have promised to always be together.
- Hypocritical Humor: One of her battle cries is "Say no to violence!" while shooting her enemy.
- Pink Is Feminine: Very graceful and elegant and wears a lot of pink.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calmer and teasing blue oni to Kururu's excitable and cheerful red oni.
- Spoiled Sweet: Kind, polite, never flaunts her wealth and status, and remains by Kururu's side through thick and thin.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She looks a lot like her mother, even though they are not related.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The graceful and elegant girly girl to Kururu's rambunctious and rebellious tomboy.
Cello
Cello
Voiced by: Ai Orikasa (Japanese), Cristina Vee (English)
He is Kururu's main love interest, although he is initially not very friendly to her.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Ferdinand is the prince of the Marl Kingdom and spends most of the first game petrified, and it is up to Cornet to rescue him. In contrast, Cello appears more frequently in the game, is playable multiple times throughout and it's revealed that he is the adopted son of the main antagonist, Akurjo.
- Babies Ever After: With Kururu, and that's how Homard was born.
- Dark and Troubled Past: As a child his parents were killed in the Ancients' War, then after being essentially adopted as a brother by Cherie when he saved her from a dragon, Cherie's castle was attacked by her uncle's forces and she and Cello were forced to use the Shadow of Beauty to leap forward in time. He arrived years after she died, and was adopted by Akurjo. As another flunky. However, he came to see her as a mother, and willingly did her bidding in order to make her happy.
- Happily Adopted: Although Akurjo mainly adopted him to have his power on her side, something he was aware of, he sees her as his mother. This feeling may be more reciprocated than Akurjo is willing to show.
- Inter-Class Romance: He is a commoner while Kururu is a princess. However, it doesn't stop them from falling in love.
- The Quiet One: After his birth parents were killed in the war, he became taciturn and rarely spoke.
- Opposites Attract: He is a stoic and sometimes rude guy, while Kururu is energetic and hyper. Despite these differences, they still become an item.
- Perpetual Frowner: Almost always seen with a scowl on his face.
- Tsundere: He acts very brash and jerkish, but he soon shows that he has a softer side.
- Vague Age: It's not clear how old he was before being flung forward in time, or how long he's been Akurjo's 'son'. He seems to be around Kururu's age, perhaps a touch older.
- When He Smiles: Cherie encouraged Cello to smile more because of this trope.
- Winged Humanoid: Like all the Ancients, he has a pair of wings which he can conceal.
Randy
Randy
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese), Alejandro Saab (English)
He is a knight who works at the castle. He became a knight in order to become stronger after the death of his little sister, since he felt guilty over not being able to protect her. He is secretly in love with Sonia.
- Childhood Friends: He and Kururu have known each other since they were kids.
- Human Hummingbird: When frightened by Sonia.
- My Greatest Failure: He was unable to protect his little sister and she was killed. This (and little Kururu's plea) made him decide to join the knighthood.
Sonia Francis Zeolight
Sonia Francis Zeolight
Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Laura Stahl (English)
She is a female knight and Geo's daughter. She is popular amongst the people of Mothergreen, particularly the women, and possesses her own fan club, but shows little interest in romance.
- Corporal Punishment: Sonia slaps Kururu after she made a mistake and put everyone in danger.
- Even the Girls Want Her: She has an official fan club consisting entirely of ladies, and when she shows up at a party, several girls vie for a chance to dance with her.
- Important Haircut: Sonia cut her long hair short with a knife and swore she would become a knight after her mother's death.
- Iron Lady: As the only lady in Marl's military, she's had to train twice as hard, work twice as hard, and be twice as hard as any of the others.
- Pregnant Badass: She's pregnant with her and Randy's child in the final chapter of the third game, but this doesn't stop her from kicking ass.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Although she's always wanted to be a knight, she also has a side to her that wants to dress nicely and have a man sweep her off her feet.
Geo
Geo
Voiced by: Takashi Nagasako (Japanese), Brook Chalmers (English)
- I Want Grand Kids: He often pesters Sonia on whether she will have kids, to which she says she isn't ready yet. By the third game, she is officially pregnant.
Akurjo
Akurjo
Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru (Japanese), Dawn M. Bennett (English)
Akurjo is one of the main antagonists of the second game. Having just turned 1,000, she claims to be after the Shadow of Beauty to keep herself looking youthful. Akurjo and Marjoly have been bitter enemies for years.
- Big Bad: She is the main cause of conflict throughout the second game, as she hunts for the Shadow of Beauty.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Marjoly desires to get a beautiful man as a partner, petrifying Ferdinand to be with him (though she asks her minions to find a way to undo the curse). Akurjo, on the other hand, has no desire for romance and looks for the Shadow of Beauty to give her eternal youth and to cure her illness.
- Hot Witch: She's a witch (much like Marjorly before her) and is quite the looker.
- Incurable Cough of Death: As her sickness is shown, she is seen coughing up blood. She wants the Shadow of Beauty in order to cure herself.
- Secretly Dying: She is revealed to be dying from an unknown disease and wants to get the Shadow of Beauty to cure herself.
Nyan-Nyan
Nyan Nyan
Voiced by: Kahoru Fujino (Japanese), Anjali Kunapaneni (English)
Nyan-Nyan is one of Akurjo's lackeys.
- Cat Girl: Got the ears, got the tail, and her name is an onomatopoeia for a cat meowing.
- Crystal Ball: She uses it for scrying.
- Giggling Villain: "Keesheesheeshee...".
- Mad Scientist: A magical variety. She performs experiments with magic, and sees others (including her cohorts) as useful subjects.
- The Rival: To Myao; they fight a lot, it seems, and their families are longtime rivals.
Fon-Fon
Fon-Fon
Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (Japanese), Mike Dent (English)
Fon-Fon is another of Akurjo's lackeys.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: He switches bodies with Crowdia in the second game thanks to Nyan-Nyan.
- He-Man Woman Hater: He likes his manly muscles, and sees being put into Crowdia's slim body as a terrible fate.
- In Another Man's Shoes: Although he still believes his way is the correct one, his time in Crowdia's body allows him to understand how useful her graceful wings are and he develops a bit of respect for her.
- Macho Camp: He will not deny being gay, but don't call him flamboyant!
- Narcissist: It seems be didn't build his body up for the sake of anyone but himself.
- Pec Flex: One of his default animations.
- The Rival: Of Crowdia, regarding whose idea of beauty is correct.
- Shirtless Scene: He likes to take off his vest when he is showing off.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Terrified of heights, because his wings don't work anymore.
- Winged Humanoid: He actually has wings, though they are not visible due to being rather tiny. Apparently they atrophied when he built up the rest of his body.
Lan-Lan
Lan-Lan
Voiced by: Yoshino Takamori (Japanese), Emi Lo (English)
Lan-Lan is Akurjo's third lackey.
- Fangirl: About Gao, Lan-Lan even owns posters of her.
- Kick Chick: She primarily attacks with Shadowless Kicks.
- Little Bit Beastly: She is from the same clan as Gao.
- Rescue Romance: How she fell for Gao hard. Gao rescued her from drowning when she was little.
- The Rival: She is very happy about Gao acknowledging her as Gao's rival.
- Single-Target Sexuality: She's Gao-romantic and possibly Gao-sexual.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Like Gao, she's from a werewolf tribe.
Characters introduced in Memories of Marl Kingdom
Ellie
Ellie
Voiced by: Ikue Otani (Japanese), Emi Lo (English)
Ellie (sometimes spelled Eri/Eli) is a little girl that Cornet, Etoile, and Kururu helped in the original game's part of Memories Of Marl Kingdom. It is eventually revealed that Elly is an Elinger in a human disguise. Elly has appeared in La Pucelle as a shop assistant.
- Curtains Match the Window: She has pink hair and pink eyes.
- Verbal Tic: In the Japanese version, she always ends her sentences with "gya".
Marius Espoir
Marius Espoir
Voiced by: Ai Orikasa (Japanese), Emi Lo (English)
Cherie's husband and Cornet's father. He died during the Minstrel Wars before Cornet was even born.
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Woman!: He's the one who's able to snap Cherie out of her year-long Heroic BSoD after being sent to the future and being separated from Cello by giving her a birthday present and reminding her You Are Not Alone.
- Love Triangle: With Carl Rosenqueen for Cherie, though Carl never truly stood a chance.
- Loving Bully: Of the "boys pick on the girls they like" variety when he and Cherie were still kids without any actual abuse.
- Posthumous Character: He's long dead by the time of the first Rhapsody game and only appears in the Cherie's story in the third game.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He's present for no more than an hour of game time, but his marrying Cherie allows for everything in the story beyond his death to happen.
- Someone to Remember Him By: He and Cherie are able to concieve Cornet before he leaves for and dies in the Minstrel Wars.
- Together in Death: The ending image for Cherie's chapter in the third game shows him waiting to greet her in the afterlife after she ascends to it.
Kieldia
Kieldia
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Mick Lauer (English)
Cherie's older brother.
- Dating Catwoman: He fell in love with Marjoly despite the two being on opposite sides of allegiance of the Ancients and witches. He is even willing to runaway from home to be with her.
- Incurable Cough of Death: His incurable disease becomes a major factor in the tragedies that end the Ancients' rule.
- Love at First Sight: He falls for Marjoly when he first meets her. The feeling is mutual on Marjoly's part.
