Ryosuke Asuturo

• Absolute Xenophobe: Subverted; he's actually frightened of them, more than anything else.
• A Million is a Statistic
• A Nazi by Any Other Name
• Assimilation Academy: He trafficked 900,000 infant children, stolen from twice as many "unfit" (read: suspected to be dissenting) parents, for the purpose of indoctrinating and drafting their kids. On his order, the hospitals kept a dead baby in the fridge, so if any parents questioned the doctors' claims that their baby just died, the doctors would show the dead baby to the parents.
• Authority Equals Asskicking
• Badass
• Bad Boss: Just as dangerous to his allies as he is to his enemies.
• Big Bad Ensemble
• Big Brother Is Watching: Wrist-watches that track the physical activity and sleep pattern of the wearer. The wrist watches can identify the intensity of the wearers' activities, the amount of sleep that they're getting, monitor the wearers' heart rate, scan the wearers' organs, and determine if the wearer has taken drugs before.
• The Caligula: His frustration and obsession with defeating his enemies slowly turned him into this.
• Catch Phrase: "Manifest Our Dynasty".
• The Chessmaster: Even if you disagree with his methods, the man was a genius at getting stuff done.
• Complete Monster: Case in point, he supplied untreated food that was expired, spoiled and contaminated to his troops, while the ice that became water was originally used to carry corpses, and it still had body fluids and putrefied remains. His reasoning for that was because it allowed for cheaper supplies, like leftover waste being recycled into toilet and shower water. This is the same guy that accused his enemies for mistreating their soldiers. invoked
• Dark Messiah: He certainly wants humanity to survive and prosper, but at the cost of the existence of other species.
• Depopulation Bomb: Distributed The Plague to Ogres, effectively depopulating the region for centuries to come, breaking apart their biology and ensuring that they will never advance much beyond tribal potential.
• Evil Overlord
• Fantastic Racism: An interesting case. He's legitimately concerned over the state and safety of humanity, but the species he encounters are so vicious and unsettling, that he's developed a justifiable, though often times irrational fear of anything "transhuman". It's not so much an irrational hatred, as it is a paranoid fear of the unknown and (what he perceives to be) the unusual.
• General Ripper
• Human Resources
• It's All About Me: He took it upon himself to "protect humanity", when the Metropolis humans could handle themselves just fine. In fairness, he probably thought that he had better means to fight transients, but he still gets called out on it.
• Karmic Death: When he was captured and placed in a cell in front of his Arch-Enemy, he smashed onto the door, punching, kicking and clawing at the door in a near animistic fashion. The catch? His repeated attempts to escape further strained his own horribly scarred body, essentially making himself go through self-mutilation in a vain attempt to escape his cell. By the time he stopped, he was so wounded and exhausted that he bled to death from the pain, unable to do a god-damned thing about his predicament or exact his grudge.
• Lack of Empathy: He only cares about you as much as a technician cares about his computer. Your purpose is all that matters, and once you're done, he could care less about what happens to you.
• Manipulative Bastard: "Subversive from within" is his modus operandi. He tapped into the frustration (of the governmental structure), dissatisfaction (of the complicit parliament) and cynicism (of getting any reforms into the system) of Metropolis citizens; invited them to relieve tension in his simulations (chess games, politics games and war games); implant a Catharsis Factor within their mindsets; and build a libertarian ideology of anarchism (holds the state to be immoral).
• Multiversal Conqueror
• N.G.O. Superpower: The Hierarchy.
  • Hegemonic Empire: Gradually evolves into one.
• Obliviously Evil: As awful as he gets, he honestly believes that he's protecting humanity from what he perceives as eldritch threats... and then it's subverted once it's clear that he really doesn't care that he's harming other species.
• One-Man Army
• Private Military Contractors: He devised the Frontier Doctrine, where the Hierarchy would provide covert aid to those oppressed by totalitarian regimes, or threatened by an aggressive foreigner. This included sending its warriors as reinforcements and auxiliaries for their allies during battles, and would remain even afterward, to serve as peacekeepers and security guards, but only as a response to an attack. Sometimes, he follows the idea of a preemptive war, where war is launched in anticipation of immediate enemy aggression. Eventually, it grew to committing entire battalions to subjugate hostile forces that assault their allies, along with deposing foreign regimes - preventive war, where a unilateral attack is instigated at a perceived enemy.
• Sanity Slippage: The more focused he became at defeating his enemies, the less stable his mental state became.
• Thoughtcrime: Microchips are implanted onto your brain, so as to heighten your senses and brain functions (quicker reflexes, quicker learning capabilities, better analysis of a situation, solutions that are developed faster and photographic memory, to name a few). However, your brain waves can be read through those microchips, and if your superiors suspect that you're voicing so much as a blank criticism on them, they'll order the microchip to cease your brain waves, decrease the strengths that come from the microchip, or just flat-out erase your personality and turn you into a Slave Mook.
• Tyrant Takes The Helm: Inverted - the more you learn about him, the worse he appears.
• The Unfettered: He will do anything if it meant protecting humanity.
• Warrior Therapist
• Weaponized Animal
• We Have Reserves

Aloysius Thonnergan

• Authority Equals Asskicking
• Badass: In his prime, he took on Nicrylic.
  • Badass Boast: "I'm the Imperator!"
  • Badass Longcoat: He never takes it off, either. Even in a coma; if you tried to take his coat off, he would give you the comatose equivalent to the middle finger.
• Bound and Gagged: At one point.
• Chick Magnet: Back before he became a Destrier, at least.
• Combat Pragmatist: Took his coat off, flung it around Nicrylic, pulled him down a ledge and tried to stomp on his head to knock him down. The Disney Villain Death was defied, however, when Thonnergan had his leg caught and dragged down , but he still managed to grab hold of both Nicrylisc' arms.
• Creepy Good
• Ethical Slut
• Explosive Breeder: It was his job as a prostitute, but he wasn't allowed to see his children.
• The Faceless: One of the reasons that his colleagues don't trust him.
• Guile Hero: A lot of the time, with varying results.
• Let's Get Dangerous: If he takes off his coat...
• Mr. Fanservice
• Mysterious Backer
• Pay Evil unto Evil
• Rasputinian Death
• Really Gets Around: He used to work as a prostitute under Amylase.
• Two-Person Pool Party: With Alice, once.

Carroyo Equerrean

• Badass: Asshole that is, he's still a powerful fighter.
• Bait the Dog: The whole point of his character, really. One instance comes in the form of dismantling secret overseas prisons that Thelhower formed, but his order barring the Spectres from using "detention facilities" contained a loophole for "facilities used only to hold people on a short-term, transitory basis." Nice Orwellianism there, Carroyo.
• Big Brother Is Watching
• Blatant Lies: On the issue of drone strikes on civilians, he said "This is a covert and focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists. These aren't random killings - they're precise strikes against terrorist affiliates.” The only truth in that statement was that the strikes aren't random killings.
  • The idea of spies and guerrillas remaining in Metropolis, after The Siege, which is how he justifies that, as a legal matter, the Hierarchy is in a state of war.
• The Chamberlain: He won't even investigate Obviously Evil war criminals (e.g. politicians and corporate CEOs), let alone prosecute, because he wants to "look forward, not backward". He honestly acts more like The Quisling, at times.
• Complete Monster: invoked He's just less brazen than imperialists, which makes him seem saner than his rivals.
• Despair Event Horizon: He's far past this by the time he becomes Imperator.
• Draco in Leather Pants: invoked His in-universe supporters always have a convenient little excuse over his gross violations of civil liberties.
• Ethical Slut
• Even Evil Has Standards: Brutally subverted. On the issue of the Hierarchy holding indefinite detentions any anyone it deems to be a dissident, Equerrean threatened to lobby for a veto of that legislation on Metropolis, not because it was morally reprehensable, but because he was outraged that they excluded him in making such a decision.
• Evil Overlord: In the wake of The Siege, Equerrean took the time to militarize Metropolis, so much that he's combined political and business positions with military authority, thereby fully turning Metropolis into a terrorist state and effectively reviving the military industrial complex.
• Fantastic Racism: Seems to view all non-humans in the same vein as objects.
• Full-Circle Revolution: As Imperator, he transformed what was once known as “militant extremism” into bipartisan consensus.
• Hypocrite: He opposed unilateral warrantless wiretapping program, viewing it as as an abuse of power, but when it came down to a consensus, he still pushed for the wiretapping to be put on a legally more defensible statutory basis.
• Insane Troll Logic: "The Hierarchy is in a state of war." Against who? Unless he's declared war on life itself, or he's using the idea of war as a means to justify your dog kicking, his reasoning falls under this distinction.
• Kick the Dog: Constantly.
• Moral Myopia: When an imperialist enslaves entire species, interventionists and isolationists go up in arms. When an interventionist enacts his policies, imperialists find them soft and isolationists bring up the slippery slope argument. However, when an isolationist codifies the militant policies of fringe Executors and previous Imperators, everyone goes along with it.
  • Status Quo Is God: That’s because people assume that if the establishment supports a certain policy, then it must be wise, and because policies that enjoy the status of bipartisan consensus are removed from the realm of mainstream challenge.
• Never My Fault: He uses drones to kill innocent civilians, including children and newborn infants, by the hundreds - that have actually been reported. He even has rescuers and funeral mourners bombed by his attack drones, and he refuses to disclose his legal arguments in defense of targeted killings. Before, he denied its very existence, and when pressed on specific examples, he never explained whether a civilian and the supposed terrorist target were killed ‘collaterally’ or were targeted themselves. Furthering on that, he's never explained what measures, if any, it took to minimize the possibility that individuals not targeted would be killed incidentally. He even covers up the times that civilians are killed and lies about their involvement with enemies of the Hierarchy.
• Punch Clock Villain: No less monstrous, though.
• Rasputinian Death: After getting disemboweled, he's hoisted by his intestines right onto a tree filled with poisonous fumes. While his regeneration kicked in, it evoked Body Horror on par with AKIRA, and while the poison rotted the rest of his body simultaneously.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
• Thoughtcrime: Whistleblowers to the violations of civil liberties and morality are arrested, incarcerated and interrogated without due process. Their data is confiscated, their findings shared with all high-ranking Destriers, and their information is erased.
  • If you criticize his policies, his supporters disparage you. They'll call you insane, overly-demanding - anything to paint you as the Ax Crazy extremist or the Commander Contrarian.
• Up to Eleven: He's strengthening the policies of Avarono and taking ques from Nnalourne, Draldoch and Thrincher, to an incredibly disturbing extent. These include trial by military commissions, racial profiling, indefinite detentions, extraordinary renditions, targeted killings, warantless surveillance, state prisons, drone stalking and disproportionate deportations.
• Undying Loyalty: Inverted. His supporters' only animating “principle” is loyalty to their leader, and they would support anything he did no matter how at odds it was with their prior ostensible beliefs. It's incredibly disturbing to see sophisticated, independent-thinking, reality-based intellectuals tolerate, ignore and even support the same authoritarian policies that they vehemetly railed against when it was used by an imperialist. Because of that, Equerrean has shielded and entrenched outright terrorism as standard Hierarchy policy, and (by leading his supporters to embrace these policies as their own) has done so with far more success than any imperialist ever could have dreamed of achieving.
• Villain with Good Publicity: In a way, mostly on the lesser evil principle. When you actually criticize him for his bullshit, you're disparaged in the same way Fan Dumb disparages you when you don't like their favorite character.

Russell Krauthammer

Nireddel Sequeiles

• Attack Hello: Whenever she's happy to see someone, that is.
• Cool Big Sis
• Empathic Weapon
• Facial Markings
• Mistress and Servant Boy
• Ms. Fanservice
• Naughty by Night: Played with. She doesn't change into a more revealing set of clothes; she leaves them open, letting them gradually fall off, with only the essentials hanging onto her features, basically strutting around in the near-nude whenever she gets a chance to relax.
• No Sense of Personal Space: From her glomping, hugging and humping, to her literally licking others' wounds, she certainly has no grasp of the term "space".
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo

Saiduhr Petraeus

• A Father to His Men
• Authority Equals Asskicking
• Badass
• Combat Pragmatist
• Deliberate Values Dissonance
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Often finishes battles for others, so the credit falls upon him instead of the ones that actually defeat their enemies.
• Hidden Depths: Everyone makes it out as "Petraeus vs Krauthammer" thing, as if he's trying to catch or pass his mentor at six rings, but that's much farther from the truth than you might think. Most of the things that Petraeus learned and does, he owes to Krauthammer. It's not so much "I want to surpass my mentor" as it is more about Petraeus trying to prove that he's not too old yet.
• The Jailer: He took it upon himself to personally incarcerate the various criminals arrested by the Hierarchy.
  • In fact, his Evoker allows him to detain opponents, like turning people into jail cells, manipulating any object to contain someone, even up to becoming a jail cell himself.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He's driven to uphold his version of justice, but his experiences have turned him rather cynical, now fully accepting that the universe is on the lower side of the idealism-cynicism scale. Hence, he's more than willing to break a few dozen necks, bend a few laws and twist a few orders to uphold justice, because "you have to do the wrong thing for the right reasons to get anything done".
• Moral Myopia: He holds quite an isolationist viewpoint; he once described turmoil in Valhalla as "a quarrel in a far-away realm between beings of whom we know nothing."
• Sergeant Rock: He often appears stern and professional on-duty, to such an extent that he can come across as a straight-up Drill Sergeant Nasty. It does help shape them up, and he still is rather protective of his subordinates, but he's a little extreme about it.
• The Strategist
• Tragic Hero
• War Is Hell: It leads to one of his few Pet the Dog moments. His closeness to his soldiers is a good morale booster, as it earns respect from his teammates and keeps them somewhat stable.
• Well Done Son Guy: The reason why he became a captain was so he could gain recognition from his father, due to him being the 'ignored one' of the three sons. Subverted, since his single father was only barely managing to earn a living for his three sons; it wasn't anything personal, it was just that he was working as hard as he could to give them a life worth living. After his father died of an illness, he felt extremely out of place, even purposeless, but he quickly gained a new resolve: follow in his footsteps.

Marylou Kahranna

• Bandage Babe: White bandages wrapping across her breasts in several layers, reaching down to her naval and leaving a small gap, only for the bandages to continue all the way down her thighs and ankles.
• Combat Pragmatist
• Dark-Skinned Blond
• Empathic Weapon
• Glory Hound
• Good Bad Girl
• Hobbes Was Right: She sees moral behavior, in many cases, as something that civilization forces upon the individual rather than a natural expression of human individuality. When left to their own devices, people naturally revert to cruelty, savagery and barbarism, according to her.
• Hot Mom
• Jerkass: She seems perpetually disgusted with anyone and everyone she interacts with, apart from her husband, and even then, she's more than willing to kill him in a heartbeat.
• Kick the Dog: Beat her adoring husband to near-death, on the suspicion that he was contaminated by Seithr. She shows no regret over it, despite supposedly being Happily Married to him.
• Knight Templar
• Lady of War
• Ms. Fanservice: Wears a tiger outfit, complete with stockings, a miniskirt, Opera Gloves and a bra-thing, all colored in orange with black strips.
• Sergeant Rock: She's very cruel when she trains someone else under her wing, offering no hesitation, no reprieve and no relaxation, up to nearly dismembering her trainees' limbs if it meant keeping them alert.
• Social Darwinist: Uniquely, she doesn't believe that she's the strongest; she's made it her goal to become the strongest.
• Übermensch: She always saw morals as useless and irrelevant, even hypocritical since nobody really followed them.

Douglas Thelhower

• Authority Equals Asskicking
• Badass: Cannot be overstated.
  • Badass Angster: Half of his badassery took place when he was upset.
  • Badass Boast: "All bark, some bite, none sting."
  • Badass Longcoat: Which had the bonus of hiding how thin he was and sometimes caused his opponents to miss.
  • Badass Mustache: A handlebar mustache.
  • Handicapped Badass: He was crippled with respiratory problems, bone fractures, severe arthritis in multiple places, and had several bullets that were never removed that caused him constant pain. Still a guy that you did not want to mess with.
• Colonel Kilgore: He gets quite a kick from warfare.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance
• Died Standing Up: Even after knowing that he's absolutely done for, he refuses to let his back hit the ground before his adversary. Read the Famous Last Words entry.
• Dirty Coward: For all his bravado.
• Do Not Go Gentle: His usual policy while fighting, for good reason.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: His final act is to nail himself to the floor with a few swords, bringing his face towards that of his killer, opening his eyes and twitching the corners of his lips into a smirk, as if daring Vasarthe into breaking his balance. He did, by the way, but the effort was appreciated.
• Egomaniac Hunter: Subverted - he was also a staunch conservationist who probably did more to protect nature and wildlife than anyone else.
  • Justified. More preserved nature = more stuff to kill later. In other words, he may have enjoyed hunting, but he wanted to do so sustainably.
• Eye Scream
• Famous Last Words - "I will not bow. I will not bow! I will not bow!"
• Fingore
• Foreshadowing: He once said he'd sooner be crucified than to physically fall in battle.
• Gentleman Adventurer
• Hit-and-Run Tactics
• Immune to Bullets: Even for an Executor, how does a man survive that many point-blank bullet wounds?
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: He exhibits this behavior occasionally.
• Kicked Upstairs: He was promoted to Executor to keep him from indulging in his Colonel Kilgore tendencies.
• Knight Templar: If he believed something was wrong, he would launch a crusade against it.
• Made of Iron: The sheer amount of bullets he tanked would've killed anyone else.
  • Dented Iron: See Handicapped Badass.
• Magnetic Weapons: Uses a railgun and a coilgun.
• Mugging the Monster: Don't steal from this guy. Just don't.
• Must Have Caffeine
• Peace Through Superior Firepower: Intimidation and coercion were some of his strong points.
• Reassignment Backfire: Having him as an Executor arguably made him more dangerous.
• Social Darwinist: He believes that conflict in general is the key to Character Development, and whenever he's defeated, he always tries to see why he lost. If you can't develop past your flaws or mistakes, you're not worthy to continue existing. Since physical exercise works in developing your innate powers, Thelhower weirdly fits the evolutionist ban of an actual Darwinist.
• We Have Reserves: Defied. He believes that every soldier worth his salt should be as strong as an Elite Mook, so he refuses this tactic at every opportunity.

Eraldo Sipryor

• Time Master: His Evoker is a pocket watch, with removable numbers that can be thrown like projectiles, which absorb into the opponent and affect their mindset, in the corresponding amount to the number itself (number 1 absorbs in arm while punching - punches the same way; number 1 absorbs in arm while still - arm stays still; number 1 absorbs in mind - psychology will be severely limited).
  • When the arrows are combined, they create "time drones", who accelerate, decrease or sever time for their opponents, but only to a point. If he keeps the numbers within the watch, he can remove the clock itself, which levitates around him. The clock imposes fields around beings, objects and areas, with the same abilities as the numbers combined with the pocket watch, but on a grander scale. He can even affect himself if he steps within the time field. The time fields can be disrupted, which spell luck or doom depending on what extent it gets disrupted. The time fields impose time restrictions on his enemies - complete the specific conditions within the restrictions, and you'll survive. If someone was brought out of the area before the prerequisite time period ends, then all people inside the area, and the area itself, would perish.
  • When he evolves his powers through training, he gains circular formations on his waist, shoulders and biceps. He can absorb timelines within those circles (i.e. steals the expected lifespan of an opponent), essentially 'storing' them within him. How can he use them? He has knobs around his wrists. If he turns a knob, he manipulates time for himself, but he's limited by the amount of time he's already absorbed with those circles. Quick draw shots to the head can obviously kill him, however, so he prefers to be a supporting unit in a fight.
  • It also grants him the gift of foresight, where he can see all scenarios of any given event.

Nessir Esser

• Bare Your Midriff
• Cleavage Window
• Composite Character: Katen Kyokotsu (older) and Mikako◊ Nonohara◊.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She ears a black outfit, but she's one of the least (overtly) malicious ones here.
• Dark-Skinned Purple Head
• Ethical Slut
• Facial Markings
• The Heart: To her fellow prostitutes.
• Hell-Bent for Leather
• High Class Call Girl
• Information Broker
• Ms. Fanservice
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous
• Nice Hat: So nice, it stays on her head when she's upside down.
• Of Corsets Sexy
• Really Gets Around: In one scene, when she was bored, Nessir went out of her way to... persuade good-looking people to "help her clean up". The next scene shows her leaning on the bed, half-asleep, next to five men and three women, with her hair down and messy, while wearing a loosened kimono that exposed her thighs, shoulders, curves, stomach, arms and half of her boobs (the only things keeping the kimono on), with no bra and a small panty-skirt that's just so tight enough to heavily emphasize her 'important areas'.
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
• Team Mom: The second reason why she's The Heart.
• The Vamp: Another reason why the guys remained under his wing. Though, to be fair, she does find them physically attractive.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Vyse Ancrelly

• Eyepatch of Power
• Good Scars, Evil Scars
• He's Got Legs
• Mr. Fanservice
• Shirtless Scene: With very loose (and unzipped) shorts, giving a clear view of the tight briefs clinging to the 'package' underneath.

Avril Katamaru

• Mr. Fanservice

Aika Thomvence

• Composite Character: Take Orihime Inoue, with Girlish Pigtails, a leather jacket and jeans◊. Add in the risque outfits of Rikku, the nuanced personalities of Aerith and Fiora, and the same broken character as Shirley Fenette.
• Girlish Pigtails

Marina Auclair

• Composite Character: Kan'u Unchou and Kaori Kanzaki.
• Ms. Fanservice

Rosie Haylleck

• Facial Markings
• Dangerously Short Skirt
• Dark Skinned Redhead
• Heroes Want Redheads
• Nice Hat: Her trademark fedora.
• Stocking Filler: Garter belt and fishnets.
• Stripperific: Wears the same outfit as this fanart◊ of Rukia Kuchiki.

Andrew Dosslure

Sohnnel Troeybel

• Blow You Away

Senthrum

• Pointy Ears

Tsolko Highclad

• Bare Your Midriff
• Blood Knight
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A lousy writer and a quirky (at best) soldier, but she's selfless, dutiful and loyal.
• Commissar Cap
• Conflicting Loyalty: She's loyal to the people she cares for, going out of her way to abandon her duties if it meant helping them out, but she has to fulfill her duty as a Spectre. On the other hand, she has to deal with the moral ambiguity in the Dirty Business that comes with her job, she's a Hero with Bad Publicity with a few Marshals eager to take her down, and she has to follow orders from Dothule.
• Giftedly Bad: Whenever she writes, her memoirs contain insanely overcomplicated and frilly language to the point of being intenionally unreadable.
• Good-Looking Privates
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner
• Nice Hat
• Shadow Archetype
• Tsundere: Went from disliking and publicly opposing Ralher, to inordinately gushing hero-worship verging on a crush.

Tam Denueve

• Stationary Boss: Deneuve is a long-ranged fighter, who turns into a humanoid machine gun, so he's normally stationary, but smart enough to change his location with a Flash Step after every consecutive round, even as he can't use cover. Due to having large-scale, explosive shots, he'd end up wounding himself rather severely, which is how he's beaten, by getting tricked into firing a round while simultaneously teleporting himself inside a wall.
• Get Back Here Boss: Deneuve is a lesser example, since he'd normally just spray a specific amount of rounds at his opponents, before Flash Stepping at a farther or safer location.

Cherry Lenhart

Pascal Tristan

• Bunny-Ears Lawyer
• Composite Character: Of Mordin Solus and Pascal.

Judith Cyrill

• Bareyour Midriff
• Creepy Good
• Good Scars, Evil Scars
• Pointy Ears
• The Tease

Amber Scylhu

• The Ace: Comes with being a top-tier Spectre.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Enjoys wearing elaborate disguises, making up ridiculous backstories as false autobiographies, and portraying herself in a flippant manner, among other things, but she's having fun from it, nonetheless. As a soldier, she's manipulative and charismatic, dedicated to her duty, courageous in the face of danger, and a pragmatic idealist, but she hates balloons.
• The Chains of Commanding: Hides it behind her Genki Girl demeanor and eccentricity, but admits that it's very difficult to act detached or dismissive, when half of the stuff she does, causes pain anyway.
• Composite Character: The basis of her character was modeled after Amberley Vail and Mitsuru Kirijo.
• Creepy Good
• Deadpan Snarker
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: She usually comes across as a reasonable officer and a likable woman under normal circumstances, until she casually mentions smiling at the expressions of Vyrrick getting torn apart as a teen. It's these instances where you start realizing that she's a borderline sadist.
  • She admitted that she can't hold back a smile while seeing suspected traitors get hanged in a book she once read as a child.
  • Rare subversion. Glancing around a Marshal precinct, Scylhu notes a room with prisoners being held for interrogation and live-fire executions. Her nonchalant behavior shows that stuff like that is business as usual, and that all is well for the precinct, but she quietly admits (in her thoughts) that she's always felt that such use of force was excessive, needlessly cold and morally hard for her to swallow.
  • She seems quite pleased upon seeing Nierex unwittingly lead a group of Cryslians into a trap, and holds no inclination to warn either. This is more Pragmatic Villainy, actually, as she overheard those same Cryslians plotting to do the exact same thing just moments later; she reassured Nierex about it afterward, to prevent him from feeling guilty for leading a group to their deaths.
  • When two Anquelans recovered a few wounded soldiers that were infected by shards of the infamous monolith (that morphed Delsudol and Dynethal into aberrations), she just smiled and sent them along, without bothering to warn them of the infection.
• Fish out of Water
• Genki Girl
• Manipulative Bitch: Very good at manipulating someones' feelings, but she's still far from a villain.
• Obfuscating Eccentricity: Although it may not entirely be fake, since it's her way of having fun.
• Only Sane Woman: Likes to think of herself as the only sane officer compared to the other Spectres.
• Team Mom: Although she's blunt, snarky and wastes no time grieving when her aide dies, she's clearly fond of her colleagues and treats them like younger siblings.
• Stepford Smiler: Genuinely cheerful, but she often hides her issues and conflicts behind her flippant mask.
• When She Smiles: Laughs, actually.

Alonzo Narrick

• Lightning Bruiser

Norris Cuhvour

Risette Visquall

• Ms. Fanservice

Mischlitt Dovrill

• Creepy Good: Her deadpanning is unsettling.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Shrinking Violet

Jaelus Grohleem

• Bi the Way

Freesia Dreyvor

• Expy: Jaesa Wilsaam

Chloe Lanseal

• Hot Chick with a Sword

Cleyes Stossel

• Badass Biker

Alexis Sadarie

• Ambiguously Bi
• Authority Equals Asskicking
• Badass Bookworm
• Bare Your Midriff
• Blade on a Stick
• Bottle Fairy: Drinks a lot, and gets drunk at every opportunity. Claims that her frequent drinking is the reason why she's a nympho.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer
• Cleavage Window
• Cool Big Sis
• Combat Stilettos
• Creepy Good: Men are understandably apprehensive about being near her.
• Dance Battler: Her specialty.
• Dangerously Short Skirt
• Deadpan Snarker
• Detached Sleeves: Which reveals her entire back, as a bonus.
• Ethical Slut: Goes without saying.
• Expy: Modeled after Lisa Yadomaru.
• Foreshadowing: When two bodies are "connected", it accelerates the Seithr within the participants, allowing them to develop their capabilities quicker due to the boost in accessible energy, from natural talents to combat styles. Most of the beings in Metropolis and Valhalla follow that mindset, while Amylase makes a profit out of forming a prostitution ring.
• Hair Decorations
• Hot Librarian: Worked as one, and still looks like one at times.
• Hot Mom: Eventually. Still has a good figure, too.
• Kicked Upstairs: She was promoted solely to keep her from molesting any more men.
• Lady of War
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Whenever she sees an attractive man, she (calmly) feels up his muscles to make sure they're real. After that, she grades them, based on how real, how hard and how strong those muscles are. If you get a C, she'll kiss your neck. "B" grades get rubbing along the torso. Those with an "A" will get dry-humped.
  • In her spare time, whenever she's bored or if she wants to cheer someone up, she freely signs herself up as a human body brush.
• Manipulative Bitch
• Meganeko: Subverted; she doesn't need her glasses, so she puts them at the edge of her nose and looks above the lenses. In fact, her glasses are her Evoker, which allows her to analyze power levels, scan others' bodily structures, track their energy or heat signatures and blind someones' eyes for a brief period.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Office Lady: Worked as one for minimum wage, before joining the Hierarchy.
• Put on a Bus: Subverted; she remains a fairly recurring character even after her retirement, and she's the one that finds things out before the other major players do.
• Stocking Filler: Garters, specifically.
• Tsundere: To herself. Whenever she kept herself from seriously harming the Therians, she would come up with an excuse for it. Chose not to shoot one? Bullet was a dud. Chose not to attack a convoy? They could be heading to a village. Chose not to raid the village? Their food wasn't edible and their supplies could only work with biological synchronization with the creator. Chose not to trap a family in a cave? Didn't have the 'right' bomb for it.
  • That last one was rather twisted, actually. When she considered trapping them inside, she kept trying to convince herself that they were safer inside than out. Didn't work in convincing herself about it, though.
• Sailor Fuku: Wears a modified variant while off-duty.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Switches between pantyhose and lacey stockings.

Rockey Fourcade

• Fate Worse than Death: Having a Humanoid Abomination possess you will lead to this.
• Grand Theft Me: Gets possessed by Nyurei.

Bouris Giudice

• Acrofatic: Hefty, but fast.
• Big Eater: Eats even when he's hungry, and he always wants the last chip or slice of any given food.
• Book Dumb
• The Big Guy
• Curb-Stomp Battle
• Death by Irony: He eats a lot. Gets disemboweled by Nyurei.
• Food As Bribe
• Glass Cannon
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Abbol.
• Human Shield: Gets used as one by Southwick, but Nyurei ignores him and goes after Southwick first.
• I Am Big Boned: Or just chubby (which heavily implies being overweight, but never tell him that).
• Killed Off for Real
• Lethal Chef: His cooking is bad enough that it makes you want to vomit. He still cooks for them, because he knows that it'll churn their stomachs, but he never reveals that he's the cook until after they eat.
• Mighty Glacier: Gets distracted by two distorted after-images made by Nyurei; one behind, and one in front. Has trouble deciding which is the real one, isn't fast enough to counter their attacks, and gets stabbed by both.
• Motor Mouth: Mostly because of stuttering, which is caused by his fast-talk.
• Stout Strength
• Trademark Favorite Food: Chips and steak.

Ralher Chammings

Thirmly Drethlick

Taylor Strethanne

Willem Dynethal

Donnis Thorvald

Seamus Tornatch

Miles Locklear

• Heroic Wannabe
• Small Name, Big Ego

Veswold

Wilcott

Roy Moultrie

Colscon

Raylen Daschle

Roger Valcourt

Tracy Hannal

Isere Decleir

• Dangerously Short Skirt
• Zettai Ryouiki: In between Grades A and B, with nylon stockings.

Aldric Villum

Craedis Setchel

Lewis Brogguhl

Kony Matchar

Clervo Dothule

Kehmole Jathur

Ramona Cheyenne

Retele Vegulf

• Composite Character: Acts like Rita Mordio, Hitagi Senjogahara and Rutee Katrea, and looks more like Imca.

Swinny Veslorge

Chelsea Dufour

Lloyd Brixham

Wendy Cheslock

Therese Aynsley

• Jerkass
• Ice Queen

Autsuya

• Action Girl
• Zettai Ryouiki: Red and black-striped right thigh-high, orange and black-striped left thigh-high, red-black striped panties, and polka dots on the red skirt-lines.

Merry Nightmare

• Expy: Imagine an older Merry Nightmare.

Lucy Vercel

• Boobs of Steel
• Expy: Lucy Heartfilia.

Melanie Everett

• Biker Babe

Aryn

• Composite Character: Senna Kisaroku mixed with Sheena Fujibayashi and Anko Mitarashi.
• Dominatrix
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Modeled her outfit after it, at least.
• Good Bad Girl
• Ms. Fanservice
• Really Gets Around: Aryn once showed a picture of two men (one on the left, one on the right) getting whipped by her, along with one in front of her, one behind her and another beneath her, when she meant to show a picture of Murakumo when he attacked her.

Sakkel

• Absolute Cleavage
• Affably Evil: She's much more laid-back and well-mannered than her cohorts.
• Anonymous Benefactor
• Expy: Luxa.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Mysterious Backer

Lynniel Vasilyr

• Absolute Cleavage
• Bare Your Midriff
• Canon Foreigner: Imagine an older Lilynette Gingerbuck.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Stripperific
• Walking Swimsuit Scene

Nimaylie Lositchri

• Action Girl
• Armor-Piercing Slap: Her usual method of getting her point across to the guys.
• Buxom Is Better: She certainly believes as much.
• Cool Mask: Takes up half her face, too.
• Dark-Skinned Orange Head
• Facial Markings
• Fiery Redhead
• Guile Hero
• Jerkass Façade
• Ms. Fanservice
• Money Fetish
• Ms. Vice Gal
• Side Boob
• Tattooed Crook: Several tattoos on her stomach, thighs and back.
• Walking Swimsuit Scene: Side-tie panties low enough to reveal her hips, side-tie bra that puts special emphasis on her breasts, a see-through jacket that covers her back and knee-high boots.

Hermosa Saldrana

• Ms. Fanservice

Suicida Abrazar

• Enigmatic Minion

Sunsayu Coussoule

• Anime Chinese Girl
• Bandage Babe
• Deadpan Snarker
• Leotard of Power
• Ms. Fanservice
• Thigh-High Boots: With straps, specifically.

Asceli Saddaloh

• Absolute Cleavage: When she gets older.
• Captain Ersatz: Midna.
• Creepy Good
• Dangerously Short Skirt
• Good Scars, Evil Scars
• Ms. Fanservice
• Stripperific: Her second most commonly seen outfit is that.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Loves wearin' 'em.

Loly Aivirrne

• Absolute Cleavage: She has a choker that connects to a bra, covering only the front half of her boobs (i.e. her nipples).
• Bare Your Midriff
• Captain Ersatz: Imagine an older, saner Loly Aivirrne.
• Cute Little Fangs
• Dangerously Short Skirt
• Deadpan Snarker: A lot of the time.
• Girlish Pigtails: Switches the style a lot, too.
• Implacable Woman: Amusingly, Loly takes it to a new level. Instead of being hard to kill, it's hard to get her to release, on top of how it's impossible to stop her once she takes over.
• Poison Is Corrosive: Anything she touches is instantly eroded away by the poison that drips from her arms. If contacted with skin, the poison devours and disintegrates it down to the bone, leaving it as a broken, shriveled husk of an exoskeleton once done.
• Stocking Filler
• The Tease: She caresses others' faces, invades their personal space, wraps her arms around their necks, pins them to walls and whispers in their ears, to anyone she seems to like.
• Thigh-High Boots: Two different pairs, too.
  • Got a subversion - she used to wear stockings that are tied from the back◊.
• Walking Swimsuit Scene: Another common outfit of hers.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Riela Neisitch

• Boobs of Steel
• Dangerously Short Skirt
• Expy: Of Riela Marcellis.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Quilseth

• Composite Character: Cirucci Sanderwicci and Beast.

Misha Luccarie

• Clothing Damage: She specifically inflicts this upon his enemies, believing that torn clothes is a sign of subservience.
• Combat Pragmatist
• Combat Stilettos
• Composite Character: Misha Arsellec Lune and Luca Trulyworth.
• Dangerously Short Skirt
• Sergeant Rock: Female example. She would boost morale with her eagerness and maintain discipline through her tough demeanor.
• Thigh-High Boots

Tatthok Doughlehm

Hannibal Southwick

• Asshole Victim
• Blow You Away
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Threatens to use it one a convict, but ultimately refrains from doing so, since he ended up getting his answers beforehand.
• Complete Monster: Started off as a Jerkass, until his Moral Event Horizon showed just how low his standards are on the totem pole. invoked
• Creepy Good
• Dirty Coward: He usually takes a stationary stance, flinging sharp objects at his enemies from a distance - cheap shots are his specialty.
• Flechette Storm: Courtesy of his Scimitar.
• For the Evulz: A lot of the stuff he does is for his own amusement.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Gets so worked up over fighting Arihiku that he accidentally stabs himself amid the chaos.
• Human Pincushion: His signature attack.
• It's All About Me: Cares more about his safety over that of his comrades'.
• Karmic Death: Southwick groveled at Arihiku's feet and begged for mercy. Arihiku steps on one of the knife wounds, grabs one 'knife' and drags it along the pelvis, and smashes the head against the fast-moving, razor-sharp wall.
• Kick the Dog: His treatment of Kaevee, when he striped her after she was beaten by Coulomb, was a little too much.
  • Forcing a cheerleader to kiss her sister under the threat of getting stabbed in the neck wasn't any better either.
    • Making both girls strip and taking photos of it, along with sending them to the resident School Newspaper Newshound, was even worse.
  • Forcing a guy to propose to another guy, in a public area, despite both not swinging that way, was also worth mentioning.
  • Tricking a small boy into taking a leak in public, prompting his parents to beat their son for it, is also worth mentioning.
    • Stripping down the mother, hog-tying her and slashing her for a few times; he wanted her to say "You're handsome" while she was gagged.
    • Stabbing the father through the anus and levitating him over a river was uncalled for, as well.
• Moral Event Horizon: Leads half of his team into a trap, abandons them when they need his help, and uses Coulomb as a Human Shield b stabbing and levitating him with a couple of knives. invoked
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Thinks that karma won't affect him if he doesn't believe its existence. Doesn't work.