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Loid Forger aka <Twilight>

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Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (JP), Alex Organ (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Miguel de Leon (LAT), Jesús Motos (SP), Hervé Glen (FR), Tim Knauer (GER), Mattia Bressan (ITA), Wang Chenhua (TW Mandarin), Guilherme Marques (BR)
Played by: Win Morisaki & Hiroki Suzuki (JP musical)

"Dreams of marriage and a normal happy life; I threw those away the day I became a spy, along with my true identity."

Only known by his codename, <Twilight>, he is the top spy of WISE: The Westalian Intelligence Bureau.

For his most recent mission demand from WISE’s headquarters, Twilight takes on the identity as a psychiatrist named Loid Forger to perform WISE’s most dangerous of missions yet—Operation: <STRIX>—to befriend and investigate one of Ostania’s most powerful politicians, Donovan Desmond via a meek middle-class Family Man status in need to work his way up the Ostanian socialite class.

To make himself appear like a typical middle-class civilian, and get close to his target in the shortest timeframe he could possibly can, Twilight proceeds in speed-constructing an instant family by adopting a young orphan girl, Anya, and enter a Marriage of Convenience with an Ostanian woman named Yor Briar—who, unbeknownst to Twilight, are a Telepath and Professional Killer respectively.

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• The Ace: Twilight is often hailed as the world's greatest spy and he more than earned the title. No obstacle is too big or complicated to overcome and there is no danger too great he wouldn't put his own body through. He's intensely motivated, highly calculative, extremely intelligent, exceedingly proficient in combat, and his espionage is nearly unrivaled. He's considered a legendary spy and it's the reason why he was selected for Operation Strix (at one point, a large gathering of fellow spies arrived just to watch him with awe during a moment where all he's doing is playing with his daughter). At the beginning of the series, he's already completed an innumerable amount of missions prior to Strix. It's given a Deconstruction as a Running Gag in the series by how Twilight is often overworked and exhausted by his spywork, with his Ace status requiring him to take on more missions than the average agent due to WISE being understaffed. It doesn't help that Twilight's superiors tend to continuously give him objectives with almost impossible deadlines and requirements for their missions, like creating a fake family in just a few weeks with civilians who cannot know his secret identity as a spy. Although Twilight has been able to complete these tasks by the skin of his teeth, and being unknowingly aided by his family, it only contributes to WISE's mindset that they can just keep giving him near-impossible missions, while maintaining his cover for Operation: <STRIX>, with the assumption that Twilight will always be able to pull them off. Later arcs do show the repercussions of WISE overworking their best spy, as Twilight was too exhausted to take part in Jonas Wellman's mission in Chapter 63, and was away on another mission when a terrorist group kidnapped Anya, Damian, and their classmates, which in turn put his main mission in jeopardy. Twilight also boasts a very broad base of talent, skills, and knowledge.
• Ace Pilot: Twilight has showcased to be an efficient flyer, adding another to his lists of vehicles he's capable of driving in his Universal Driver's License, taking his family and Frankie to the castle he rented for Anya via plane.
  • In Code: White: film, he showed off some extremely skilled flying action to dodge turret fire and anticraft missiles while chasing after Snidel's Zeppelin. Later when the aircraft is about to crash into Frigis, he's able to determine how to control it and steer it into the lake to fly it out of harm's way with the assistance of Yor and Anya.
• Achievements in Ignorance: When Anya is throwing a tantrum because she wants a skeleton keychain, Loid stresses himself out because he can't decide whether to buy it and waste money on something with no practical use, or not buy it, look suspicious, and get arrested. Reading his thoughts gets Anya to calm down and say she doesn't really need it, as she feels bad for stressing him out.
• Action Dad: The dad part was supposed to only be a cover for a mission, but he soon becomes a real adoptive father to Anya and continues working as a spy away from the public's eye. Anya, who knows his secret thanks to her telepathy, is super happy to have a badass spy as her new dad.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Loid's growing fondness towards Anya is often reflected by this. He usually rubs her head to comfort or commend her, which greatly delights Anya.
• Amateur Sleuth: In Mission 94, the Forgers spend a day in a ski resort and manage to get involved with an attempted murder that occurred within the hotel. Despite not being a formal detective, Loid is able to investigate and solve the mystery behind the attempted murder (with the assistance of Anya and Bond's telepathy and foresight) and apprehend the criminal. Though the fact that he's immensely intelligent and his one of his spy skills requires him to gather information also helps.
• Amazon Chaser: He's deeply amused and impressed by Yor's "self-defense" kick sending a mook flying into a wall, and uncharacteristically shares a laugh with her despite being in the middle of a firefight. Part of his growing attachment to her is often based on watching her show her combat skills, each time being notably taken aback. Hilariously, both Nightfall and Becky assume Loid is an exaggerated example of this after seeing Yor's physical strength in action, and believe that they have to be just as monstrously strong as her if they have any chance of winning over his love.
• Anger Born of Worry: The only times he ever really gets openly angry at Anya are when she gets involved in something that could get her hurt.
• Angst Coma: It turns out that the entirety of his Whole Episode Flashback was the result of him passing out in shock over Anya getting a second Tonitrus bolt.
• Anti-Hero: Downplayed. Twilight will use any method he sees fit if it means completing his mission. As an undercover spy, he’s known for utilizing deception strategies, exploiting individuals, and theft, amongst several other ruthless acts. However, even he has shown to have genuine standards. Despite his somewhat unapproachable behavior, at least at first, Loid is actually a caring individual with a secret soft side. Especially towards Anya and other children.
• Anti-Mentor: Despite his prodigious competencies and mountains of effort, Loid's tutelage of Anya has had little success. Partly this is from her own disinterest and the natural difficulty of an adult intellectually engaging with a child. But Sigmund ends up showing Loid's fundamental failing is that he only understands his own way of learning, where one collects knowledge obsessively for any possible use. When mentoring Nightfall, an adult with a similar mindset, Loid apparently performed excellently.
• Apologetic Attacker: During his encounter with the bomb-strapped German Shepherd, Twilight apologizes to him multiple times as he slams him into a dumpster nearby and closes it after removing the explosive device before it was set off.
• Arson, Murder, and Admiration: Mission 31/Episode 22 opens with Nightfall grumbling that Twilight's going soft thanks to Yor and Anya, impairing his efficacy as a spy...and she adores the new Twilight just as much, if not more, than the old one.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: While he's a Master of Disguise who can make himself look like just about anything, his 'practice date' with Franky shows that he only needs to make impressively few adjustments to his appearance to pass as a beautiful woman.
  • In the Code: White film, he is physically and vocally able to pass as a woman as part of a mission.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: He's an insanely fast reader, and also demonstrates exceptional situational awareness. One such instance is when he immediately deduces that Yuri is a Secret Police agent just from his questions and responses to him. Another is how he was able to infer that Martha Marriott, Becky's butler and custodian, was once a former combatant by perceiving her formality.
  • Can end up being Played for Laughs as he uses this skill for even the most ordinary tasks. For example, he formulated 872 dating schedules for him and Yor, based upon her own personal interests.
• Badass Bookworm: Twilight is easily one of - if not the - smartest characters in the entire series so far. He has high foresight and incredible memorization skills that let him maintain a wealth of knowledge, which come in handy when used for Awesomeness by Analysis to out-think his opponents, and he can even pose as a psychiatrist. Almost all of his courses of action consist of him analyzing his opponent's every move and then deciding always on the correct counter strategy.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Loid has worn a vast variety of different colored suits, but his most iconic and the one he normally wears in his missions is a green suit with a red tie.
• Badass in Distress: As much of an experienced fighter as he is, even Twilight has his limits. In Mission 84, after getting getting shot and attacked by Yuri, Twilight encounters Wheeler in the sewers. When Nightfall reaches the scene, Wheeler is bruised and bloodied, but has an unconscious Twilight at his mercy.
• Badass Longcoat: He occasionally wears a long brown trench coat in his missions or meetings.
• Badass Normal: Loid has no super abilities when compared to the other Forgers but it's his genius intellect, flawless disguises, and immaculate stealth that makes him a formidable spy and WISE's best agent.
• Bait-and-Switch: Mission 21/ Episode 14 ended with Twilight pointing his gun at the German Shepherd chasing him, making it look like he was about to shoot the dog but in the following chapter/episode, he actually shot at the straps that connected to the bomb so he could remove them.
• Baritone of Strength: Both Takuya Eguchi and especially Alex Organ voice Twilight with a husky timbre to match with his legendary status.
• Becoming the Mask:
  • Despite only acting the role of Loid Forger to get closer to his target, Twilight begins to cherish Anya deeply, and there are signs that he is beginning to fall for Yor for real. Nightfall has known Twilight well enough to know when he's faking emotions, and laments as she observes him interacting with Anya and Yor that there's sincerity and genuine feeling under his fake smile. By the time he finally encounters his target Donovan in person, he slips up from anger and subtly throws jabs towards Donovan's neglectful attitude towards parenting his son instead of trying to get close to him, which ironically puts him below suspicion.
  • After adopting Anya due to seeing so much of himself in her and acknowledging how she's been passed across multiple families, Loid became more concern and worried about her, despite insisting otherwise, and he does as much as he can to understand her. This is shown during their time on the cruise ship where Loid entertains Anya as much as possible. After he disarmed the bombs across the ship, he also reflects on how he neglected her attention again despite the emergency, with him stumblingly realizing that he actually referred to Anya and the family as his own.
  • Regarding Yor specifically, Twilight is repeatedly baffled sometimes to the point of denial at how differently he feels toward his "fake" wife compared to all the other relationships he's pursued for his missions. He genuinely sees her as a kindred spirit who he comes to greatly respect, and is growing to love despite his frequent efforts to downplay such feelings. This is especially invoked when the thought of how grieved she would be if Yuri were to die causes him to subconsciously stay his hand in a high-stakes fight with the man, an action that leads to the mission nearly failing. When Fiona later tries to confront him about it, Twilight uses a reasonable excuse for sparing him to deter her from accusing him of having been compromised, but she notes all the same that the fact he refers to Yor casually by her first name here when he doesn't need to tells her all she needs to know about the real reason. Later in the shower he is visibly troubled at how "weak" he has become by embracing the mask of Loid Forger to the point that it is bleeding into the man known as Twilight.
• Being Watched: He can sense it when he is being observed, whether he is the only one being observed, and to a degree the intentions of the observers, even before picking them out.
• Belated Injury Realization: Played for Laughs in Mission 35/Episode 24. He at first seems to have taken no damage from Yor's reflexive kick of embarrassment, smoothly flipping back and landing on his feet to the amazement of onlookers. Moments later his knees begin to shake and blood starts dripping from his mouth as his mind reels from both the mental and physical shock of what just happened, it begins to dawn on him just how hard he was kicked, and he promptly falls unconscious for five minutes (something that evidently hasn't happened to him since his training days as a spy).
• Berserk Button: Making children suffer. Despite his normally iron self-control, when Swan spitefully reduced Anya to tears by goading her about her birth mother, Loid actually found himself in mid-lunge across the table with his fist raised before he even realized what he was doing, too late to stop himself, and only able to salvage the situation at the last second by redirecting his blow down towards the table at a passing mosquito.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Twilight is usually shown to be reserved and withdrawn, especially in the beginning of the series where his character is far colder. However, his actions speak far louder than his words in response to inhuman acts, most notably when geared towards his fake family. Many people had to learn the hard way how the best superspy earned his reputation in the intelligence community, such as Edgar after endangering Anya.
• Blatant Lies:
  • When Loid and Yor are attacked by survivors from one of Twilight's missions, his excuse is that they're his clients, and his knocking them senseless is him using the latest innovation, concussive therapy. Yor buys it.
  • Loid tries to convince the Handler that Anya will be able to get eight Stella Stars in four months, but the Handler doesn't believe that for a moment, remarking that Loid "used to be a much better liar."
  • By the time that he tells Yuri how he loves Yor so much he'd block falling spears and meteorites to protect her for the rest of his life, even the narrator notes how blatant his lying was. Thankfully, Yuri at the time was so drunk out of his mind he bought the farce easily, only saying it's a lie from still refusing to accept their marriage.
  • Oh, and his cover name (that he chose) is Loid Forger.
• Bomb Disposal: Is skilled with defusing bombs, as shown in the Cruise Ship Arc where he's able to disarm discovered bombs while posing as a member of the crew.
• Boring, but Practical: Part of what makes him such an excellent spy is simply having a reliable toolkit to draw from in the form of various disguises. He can't read minds like Anya, see the future like Bond, and doesn't possess any of Yor's inhuman physical abilities, but his job is made so much easier just by having a method of infiltration and a means of disguise wherever he goes, which becomes a lot more impressive when we see just how quickly he can change his disguises. Whenever he has to rely on superhuman stealth to complete a task over simple and practical misdirection, it's usually because he's been given a last-minute job that doesn't give him time to set up disguises, something he'll occasionally lament.
• Boxed Crook: His backstory, revealed in the aftermath of Chapter 62, shows that he became a spy after being caught impersonating someone else in order to join the army. He had already risen to the rank of sergeant due to his skill, so <WISE> gave him a choice: put his talents to use for them, or be outed as a liar to the military police.
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: His father, while implied to be well-intentioned, had been very harsh with him, slapping him and calling him a coward. In contrast, Loid's treatment of Anya is much gentler: he would never strike her, no matter how frustrated he gets with her, along with going out of his way to cater to her and protect her well-being both physical and mental. He explicitly calls his father a poor role-model for parenting and resolves to be the exact opposite of him for the sake of the mission.
• Broken Ace: He's incredibly handsome, intelligent, and has multiple talents with his skills and capabilities in espionage being unlike any other. But he has endured a harsh life as a mere child after being subsequently orphaned and buried his emotions and hope in having a normal life after becoming a spy. Even when developing a fondness for his fake family, he often tries to emotionally close himself off.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: The Brooding Boy to Yor's Gentle Girl. Loid is often seen to be serious, reclusive, and reserved with a brooding expression compared to his more emotive fake wife who is a sweet and loving ray of sunshine.
• Busman's Holiday: The climax of the Cruise Ship arc has him go saving civilians again as well as preventing another political disaster after he overhears that there are bombs planted all over the ship which are also done in the style of Westalis in an attempt to frame this as a political attack, going undercover as a crewmember to defuse them.
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: One of the hints that Twilight is Becoming the Mask called "Loid Forger." He's been able to easily seduce his previous targets, but can barely touch Yor's hand without blushing.
• Celibate Hero: He gave up on pursuing romance when he became a spy, and immediately cuts ties with anyone related to his current mission once it's done, such as Edgar's daughter at the beginning. This winds up setting up his downfall shortly after when he's put on Operation Strix, which specifically orders him to start a family. He also plans to dissolve the Forger family once "Strix" is completed, but there are times when it's like he's starting to reconsider, such as putting the mission in jeopardy during the Eden interview when he refuses to put Anya there if a Jerkass Straw Misogynist is in charge.
• Character Development: He becomes less cold and pragmatic, and more empathetic and caring, over the course of the series thanks to building a family of facade that he gradually develops genuine love for.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: While not quite on the level of his wife, Loid is absurdly athletic in his own right; he may not be able to outright defeat dozens of opponents in a row, but he can hold them off through sheer strength and skill long enough to make an escape. The first Databook has Tatsuya give a basic comparison between Loid and Yor’s fighting power, stating that if Yor is a max 100, Loid is between 60 to 70.
  • He easily leaps across an entire crowd from the top of a bridge to faceplant a fleeing purse snatcher without any noticeable strain or injury.
  • He shatters a high-quality wood coffee table with one punch (though not without hurting his hand), with the impact sounding like a gunshot.
  • While working undercover on the cruise vacation, Twilight comes across a bomb set up in a clock, and sees that there's not enough time to disarm it by hand. So he physically tears the thing off its post and chucks it into the ocean (on top of two bad guys, without realizing).
• Chef of Iron: On top of being an extremely skilled spy and experienced stealth fighter who greatly excels in close quarters combat, Twilight is also a great cook. He can cook dishes comparable to the ones normally found in restaurants.
• Chick Magnet: He's considered handsome by many of the women in the series, which helps with seducing targets for his missions.
• Children Raise You: Introduced as an emotionless spy in the beginning of the series, Loid was rather baffled at the thought of raising Anya for Operation Strix. As time has passed, he's increasingly and unknowingly become fond, protective, and concerned for her, even being reminded of the reason he became a spy in the first place.
• Child Soldier: Or rather "teen" soldier and completely of his own volition unlike most examples. He lied about his age to enlist in the military some years after losing his childhood friends (or so he believed) and mother to Ostania's bombings.
• Classified Information: A good half of the personal details in his profile in Volume 1 are redacted, essentially anything that would reveal something about his background. When his birth name's mentioned in Mission 62-1, it's also redacted, with his childhood code name Advisor being used instead. The synopsis of Volume 10 of the Viz-localized manga (which covers Mission 62) also invokes this:
  As a child, [REDACTED] lived an unremarkable life with his parents, playing war games with his friends and quarreling with his father. It never occurred to young [REDACTED] that the life he’d taken for granted might one day end...
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: For all the fake relationships Twilight has been part of during his spy career, he doesn't seem to comprehend the women he's actually acquainted with. He's in denial of Yor's developing feelings for him (due to a disastrous misunderstanding where he took her kicking him as a rejection) and is completely oblivious to Fiona's infatuation.
• The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Downplayed, since that's not his real profession. His cover identity is a psychiatrist, and some stories show him in that line of work; he also displays a lot of knowledge of social behavior and can read the behavioral patterns of other people, which makes his guise as a psychiatrist believable. That being said, he is constantly baffled on how to handle Anya, because his expertise is suited for adults who regularly hide their true intentions.
• Color Motif: Green. Loid has a wide assortment of different colored suits and clothing, but he's mostly associated with the color green, most notably due to his signature suit. Green is a color associated with camouflage and due to the fact that he's an undercover agent, this is pretty fitting.
• The Comically Serious: One regular gag with Loid is his ability to switch into "Twilight Mode" and in less than a second logically think through even the most ridiculous of situations, like a drunk Yuri demanding Loid and Yor make out in front of him to prove how much they love each other. Taken to an extreme in the Cruise Arc, where he approaches having fun as if it's another mission.
• Combat Pragmatist: Twilight uses his tactical insight and cunning nature to apply everything in his advantage. His fighting style generally employs anything and everything in his environment to gain an edge, as he's usually outnumbered or against combat specialists. He uses ambushes, counterstrategies, and traps to even the odds. He's also shown to be capable of improvising, by using unconventional objects as weapons, from using a can of food as a projectile, to disarming a crook with a bucket. Even during his fight with Yuri, he's shown to be not above kicking someone in the groin during a fight. The databook reveals his fighting capacities are about 60-70% compared to someone like Yor in terms of physical abilities, but he would absolutely make use of weapons or traps to try to even the odds.invoked
• Commonality Connection:
  • After saving Anya and dealing with Edgar, Loid is surprised to find Anya still waiting for him despite him (in disguise) telling her to leave. After playing along, he's further surprised that she still wants to go home with him, then remembers that she's been returned from adoption four times already...and each time she changed her last name while trying to find a place to belong, not wanting to be alone, drawing parallels to both his spy work and his own past.
  • Though Loid and Yor don't know about each other's double lives, they have a mutual mindset to do whatever it takes for the greater good, even if that means getting their hands dirty. In particular, Loid tells Yor that being able to endure such self-sacrifices to provide for her brother isn't something that just anyone can do, and moreover is something to be admired. It's this speech, among other things, that leads Yor to privately note that of all the men she'll ever meet, he's the only one who might actually accept her as herself, and leads her to suggest that their agreement extend into a Marriage of Convenience.
• Complexity Addiction: Downplayed; Loid thinking of every possible outcome has certainly served him well as a spy, but as a father he tends to grossly overthink Anya's behavior. He also has a hard time registering genuine emotions as he is so used to everyone around him hiding their true intentions. To demonstrate both, when Anya initially insists on calling Loid "Papa" instead of "Father", Loid falls back on his diplomacy training to consider the other side's point of view to maintain peace. Anya, thinking this means understanding her is the key to peace, declares she likes peanuts. Loid's reaction is "Um... okay." This also causes him to overthink Yor's behavior as well, since he doesn't know that she's thinking like an assassin in everyday scenarios and the sheer absurdity of some of her actions cause him to overlook things that are obviously suspicious about her.
• Consummate Liar: As a master spy, he can lie as naturally as breathing. When Anya confesses to lying to impress her classmates after the cruise ship arc, while half-heartedly telling her lying is bad, he's mentally going thinking about how random or habitual lies are bad, and should always be used properly to facilitate a deception.
• Consummate Professional: Twilight is disciplined, efficient and pragmatic in his approach to spycraft. He almost never lets his emotions get the better of him and always gets the job done no matter what. When he sees other spies screwing around, he is not happy. When he has to pull together a fake family in a matter of days, he gets that done too.
• Cool Plane: In the Code: White movie, initially used for its radio to receive transmission on the special military force that kidnapped Anya, Twilight would later use an old propeller plane seen near the restaurant earlier to chase after them.
• Cool Shades: Twilight is seen wearing a pair of shades while meeting with the minster of Westalis in order to switch places with him.
• Cracks in the Icy Façade: Twilight is a cold and apathetic secret agent who's rather distant and seemingly devoid of feelings or desire to have a normal life due to his line of work. When adopting Anya for his mission, Operation Strix, he displays impatience and disinterest in caring for her to the point he leaves her at home unattended and plans to return her to the poorly maintained orphanage when everything is said and done. As soon as she's abducted by a criminal organization, he initially considers leaving Anya to her fate in the hands of the transgressors to maintain his cover..........only to infiltrate straight inside their stronghold to rescue her right after despite being fully aware of the several risks. After fighting off the criminal group, Twilight tries to get Anya to go to the police so they can put her in a better orphanage, but agrees to stay with her when she insists she wants to and will cry if he makes her leave. This act of solace towards Anya shows clearly the empathy that lies deep within him.
• Crazy-Prepared: As the top spy in Westalis, Twilight is habitually prepared for even the unlikeliest of scenarios and plans contingencies accordingly, and more often than not, these preparations are what keep him one step ahead of his enemies. This gives him some slip-ups with being a family man to Yor and Anya though, as there's nothing that can actually prepare him for the hurdles of a domestic life.
  • In Mission 4/Episode 4, he and Yor bring at least two sets of spare clothes just in case the school tried to test the family and they ended up getting their outfits dirty. Mission 3 reveals that this is how he always prepared for his missions.
  • He later reveals that he bought "lovey-dovey couple accessories" just in case Yuri or anyone else who might question their marriage came over.
  • When he gets wounded with a gunshot to the arm by Yuri, it initially seems like he's covering the wound with his clothing, only for Yuri to notice his impaired moment and correctly suspect Loid of being Twilight...only to expose a seemingly-unharmed arm when he checks to confirm his suspicions. Loid later reveals he used his trademark Latex Perfection on the bullet wound to hide the injury.
• Cultured Badass: Invoked with mixed results. In an effort to prepare Anya to enter Eden Academy, Loid takes his family to visit the art museum, attend an opera and a political rally and dine at a gourmet restaurant. Ultimately, Loid's manners are enough to impress Eden Academy's Professor Henderson, who has lofty standards for elegance and is difficult to please.
• Cunning Linguist: It's revealed in the Spy X Family Code: White Film Files that Loid is actually capable of speaking different languages, as much as necessary at the very least.
• Dad the Veteran: While Yor and Anya don't yet know about it, Loid was a soldier during the war and has a sizeable body count.
• Dark and Troubled Past: In Mission 62 we learn that his home city was one of many of the first bombed during Ostania's invasion of Westalis. His father disappeared before the invasion began, his childhood friends were seemingly killed in the first bombing, months later his mother died in another bombing, and after a few years he threw himself into the war as a soldier, lying about his age to enlist early.
  Twilight: The only things left in my world were the things I despised. And that was reason enough to pick up a gun.
• The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Downplayed as Twilight's goal has always been to protect the fragile peace between Ostania and Westalis. Nonetheless, he's spent so long as a spy (with all the moral ambiguity that brings) that he will do anything to fulfill his mission in the beginning, even (initially) think about leaving a child at the mercy of a criminal, having forgotten he originally became a spy to protect children.
• Deadpan Snarker: Aside from when he's freaking out (inwardly or otherwise) in response to ridiculous situations, much of the humor involving him comes from his deadpan reactions and comments to the quirky behavior of characters around him. In particular he's prone to correcting Anya's various childish misconceptions about everyday things in as stoic and succinct a way as possible.
• Dead Person Impersonation: He used the identity of a dead older man from his hometown, Roland Spoofy, for his first alternate persona.
• Death Glare: He has made intimidating glares several times to some of his opponents. He even gives one to Franky, who threatens to expose his identity, which he naturally changes his mind.
• Deep Cover Agent: Twilight's main mission in the story is to investigate an enemy politician which requires him to get married and have a child, who is to attend the same school as his mark's son, Eden Academy. He takes up the identity of Loid Forger the psychiatrist, adopts an orphan, and marries a civil servant in order to keep up the cover, thus kicking off the story.
• Defrosting Ice King:
  • While Yor settles fairly deeply into the role of the wife and mother early on, Twilight insists on viewing his role as a husband and father in just calculating and pragmatic terms. He slowly begins to shed his cold exterior and act more like a legitimate father due to Anya's continued presence (and some encouragement from Franky). Yor's devotion to her role of wife and mother also causes him to progressively view her as less of an asset and more like an actual wife.
  • The center of Twilight's character development is him regaining his emotions. After years of being a spy, Twilight starts the series cold and efficient, going for the practical move over the moral one. But meeting Anya and Yor allows Twilight to essentially rediscover his lost humanity, such as remembering his goal for becoming a spy, learning to trust and feel pride in others, and becoming more moral in his actions over what is practical.
  • A recurring theme with him is that his actions often betray a lot more kindness and heart than the pragmatic excuses he gives himself. He'll often dismiss such displays as him slipping up or losing his edge, but at the same time he'll take no action to avoid such "slip ups" in the future.
• Despair Event Horizon:
  • Played for Laughs in Mission 26/Episode 18, where he has practically abandoned hope for Operation Strix succeeding, counting the potential Tonitruses Anya can get instead of Stella.
  • Very much Played for Drama during Mission 62, wherein he recounts how he lost absolutely everything about his childhood throughout the war, failed to protect even the few survivors he later encountered in the army, and became a spy in part because he'd realised the pointlessness of blindly fighting an 'enemy' because somebody told him to and lost anything to protect for himself, desiring peace for others out of a morose perception that he had nothing to gain for himself.
    Twilight: I hated the enemy without knowing why. I picked up a gun without knowing why. I obeyed my country without knowing why. Ignorance isn't bliss. Ignorance is weakness. Ignorance is a sin.
• Devoted to You: He seems to inspire complete devotion from his former protégée, Nightfall, with her dreaming of supporting Twilight both domestically and operationally as his actual wife.
• Dramatic High Perching: One of Twilight's many spying methods. He's frequently seen perching and observing from high rooftops in some of his missions. It's usually done to survey his target from afar and access the situation of the matter so he can plan his next move.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: While him being Made of Iron contributed, it's made evident repeatedly that Twilight's fight with Yuri only lasts as long as it does because he is unwilling (subconsciously at that given how he chastised himself for it) to use lethal force against Yor's brother. It's notably the first time his growing feelings for his fake family cause his performance on a mission to suffer to such a degree, even leading to him being shot in the arm when he opts to shoot the gun out of Yuri's hand, and causing him to leave Yuri with a dangerous amount of inferred intel from their fight and being injured enough for Wheeler to get the better of him.
• Eagle-Eye Detection: He is extremely observant and has honed his analyzation skills to a razor's edge. He can detect minor details such as small objects that are mildly out of place and bugs across the cruise ship.
• Education Papa: Part of his mission involves Anya being able to progress up to Eden Academy's top students, which means he's constantly trying to make her pursue higher grades. Chapter 10 explores the ramifications of this attitude, as Loid ends up putting too much pressure on Anya, causing her to bitterly hole up in her room. He agrees with Yor to be gentler with her and let Anya pass her classes on her own merits. His later schemes at education are universally harder on himself than Anya.
• Emotion Suppression: His spy training and years of espionage have formed him into the emotionally absent secret agent that the series introduces us to. The years of traumatic experience and depression as an orphan has also invoked this on him. However, ever since he formed his fake family for Operation Strix, he steadily starts to feel ranges of normal emotions, but he often refutes them or tries to shut them away.
• Encyclopaedic Knowledge: Twilight has acquired a variety of skills and knowledge in order to be able to pull off his disguises. These include skills expected of a spy such as acting and marksmanship to domestic skills like cooking to more obscure fields like the personal details of Ostanian officials. When he visits a small library with Anya, he notes to himself that he's already read every book he sees.
• Enraged by Idiocy: If there is anything that can make him lose his cool, it's seeing something that is incredibly stupid—such as another spy suggesting it's a good idea to leave his name on his work.
• Establishing Character Moment: Right after <WISE> brings him up for a new operation, he's seen on a lower-scale mission where he impersonates a buyer of blackmail material against a foreign minister to get his hands on it first so he can destroy it, then the following night, dumps the buyer's daughter in public since he was only dating her to get close to his mark, privately stating that he long ago threw away his aspirations for romance.
• "Eureka!" Moment: In Mission 92, he realizes that not everyone learns the same way he does. As final exams draw close on Eden College, Loid realizes that if he focuses on Classical Languages, Anya's strongest subject, she won't get another Tonitrus Bolt for failing all her classes. When Sigmund offers to tutor Anya, he proposes that they translate a "Spy Wars" comic to a Classical Language in order to get some practice, but Loid expresses his doubt with that method since his self made cartoon idea did not teach Anya anything, and Anya even states that it sucked. However, when he sees Anya having fun translating the comic book, Loid realizes that whereas he sees learning strictly as a survival skill^note As an orphan during the war he needed to know how to get food and who to trust or starve; as a soldier he needed to know how to fight or he would be killed in the battlefield; as a spy he needed to know how to read people, and use any bit of information to accomplish his missions or an untold number of people would die, and is genuinely surprised that learning can happen when it's made relatable to a fun subject, instead of being instilled through experience and repetition.
• Everyone Has Standards: Twilight is normally The Unfettered when it comes to achieving his dreams of peace. Emphasis on "normally", as there are several lines he will absolutely never cross.
  • He has killed a lot of people in his life as a spy and soldier, all for the sake of peace, but he draws the line at harming children, physically or emotionally. No matter how frustrated with Anya with her grades or her antics he might be, Loid would never harm her in any way, a stark contrast from bad fathers such as his own or Donovan Desmond, and he was willing to punch (possibly even kill) Murdoch Swan for cruelly insulting Anya about her dead mother.
  • He will kill if necessary, but he refrains from harming those who were forced into criminal acts, even animals. During the Doggy Crisis Arc, Loid shot at a dog with a bomb strapped to him on the straps holding the bomb to free him from the explosives and locked him in a dumpster despite the dog biting him while promising he'd release him later.
  • Even if Nightfall would be a better logistical choice as his wife for Operation Strix by virtue of being a fellow spy who could cooperate with him on the mission, Loid still wouldn't take her on as a wife because he's fully aware that she would be a terrible mother due to her being horribly strict and abusive to Anya. He reassures Yor she's a far better mother figure towards Anya due to her actually being a Nice Girl and wanting Anya to be happy with her foster mother.
  • He's willing to go to extreme lengths to ensure STRIX's success and makes it clear from the get-go that Anya needs to get into Eden College at all costs. However, Swan's treatment of Yor and Anya enrages him so much that he nearly assaults the man, then storms out of the interview room in disgust.
  • Despite being someone who lies as easily as he breathes, Loid is willing to tell the truth if he thinks it's a better solution; shortly before Yuri comes to the Forger apartment for the first time, he's the one who suggests simply coming clean and telling Yuri the marriage is fake. It's only after Yor explains that Yuri wouldn't react well to learning that she married someone she didn't love that Loid agrees to keep up the charade.
• Exhausted Eyebags: In the first chapter alone, he gets exhausted after an afternoon of shopping with Anya. He then gets hit with it even harder as he passes out after Anya's entrance exam, exhausted from stressing over the exam. It recurs during the series whenever he's feeling particularly overworked.
• Experienced Protagonist: He's already a master spy at the start of the story, which is why he's picked to handle Operation Strix. He's had countless missions over a period of more than ten years.

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• Famed In-Story: Not among the general public, of course, but within the Westalian intelligence community he's a legend. The off-duty agents who respond to his call at the castle date are awed just being in his presence regardless of the circumstances that he called every spy in Ostania for a children's game. He (or at least his Code Name) is also infamous among Ostanian secret police; they have no idea who he is or what he looks like, but he's their greatest enemy who every agent dreams of taking down.
• Family Man: Invoked; he's a superspy whose cover identity is that of a doting husband and father. Despite this, he's increasingly implied to enjoy playing house more than he should be.
• Fatal Flaw: His biggest one is his difficulty in understanding other people's feelings, even his own. There have been occasions where he questions the reason for his more sincere actions or constantly thinks about scenarios in regard to how they can benefit his mission, often disregarding the feelings of the people involved in the process:
  • During the Eden Academy Interview, he's clearly shown intolerant to the way Swan acts towards Yor and Anya. He becomes defensive and nearly punches Swan square in the face for making the latter cry but ponders afterwards on why he acted that way.
  • He's initially like this towards Anya in her first few days of school. After Anya punches Damian in the face and Loid's told why she did it, he pressures Anya into apologizing to Damian and being friends with him by sending her all sorts of messages. When he believes that plan failed, he desperately tries to improve Anya's academics by tutoring her, but his method just leaves her being frustrated. However, after Yor questions Loid if that's what Anya truly wants, he realizes how harsh he was to her and has been far more patient with her since then. Anya still actively tries to improve in her studies and being friends with Damian though, knowing how much it will help his mission.
  • When training Bond, Loid tries to force him into attack and bomb training as well despite Bond clearly not liking any of it. Franky even calls him out on that, correctly pointing out that Project Apple forced him to likely do the same things and it's bringing back bad memories for him. Thankfully, after Mission 58/Episode 37, Loid apologizes to Bond and agrees to focus more on his duties as a family member.
• Foil: To Donovan Desmond. Both of them are cunning individuals with great poker faces and a child yearning for their affection. But whereas Damian is Donovan's biological son who is constantly stranded by his father's cold and distant personality, Twilight does his best to be a good paternal figure to Anya despite her being his daughter only for the sake of his mission. Their contrasting parenting styles are thrown into sharp relief when Loid meets Donovan for the first time in front of Damian; while Donovan outright dismisses Damian having been punched in the face and encourages his academic achievements so as not to shame the Desmond name, Loid protests that Damian still got hurt, and takes the time to bolster Damian's confidence by sincerely complimenting his work.
• Friend to All Children: He has a soft spot for children. His dream is to not let any more children go through what he went through, which extends to his fatherly affection for Anya. Being a war orphan, Twilight empathizes with Anya, and when she is brought to tears during the Eden interview, it isn't long before he utterly snaps and tries to punch one of the examiners before he even realizes what he's doing, a move that is almost certain to jeopardize his mission. As time goes on, he has repeatedly risked his missions for the sake of children, even when he acknowledges that not interfering, or even making things worse, would be more beneficial to him, such as passive-aggressively criticizing Donovan to his face on the way he treats Damian, when he should have been doing his utmost to get in the man's good graces.
• Genius Bruiser: Twilight is not only an impressively skilled combatant but he's also immensely intelligent and an excellent tactician. His large range of skills and intellect has made him an adaptive and versatile fighter during intensive bouts.
• Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: The Firm Hand to Yor's Gentle Touch, since he's stricter with Anya, in part because he needs her to do well in school for the sake of his mission.
• Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Loid did this in Mission 94, while exposing the murderer for his false alibi.
• Good Feels Good: As a spy, he never gets recognition for what he is doing to preserve peace and he has no problem with that, but he admits it feels nice when he is openly shown gratitude by someone, like helping retrieve a woman's stolen purse.
• Good Is Not Nice: While Loid is polite towards the majority of people he interacts with, on several instances, it's mainly due to getting in their good graces as it usually benefits his mission. The first chapter alone shows that he's perfectly fine with ditching Karen while a couple is proposing after using her to complete his mission and threaten Edgar with her safety, though said woman has been involved with criminal activities. In short, while his goal is noble, he's willing to resort to (almost) any means necessary to achieve it.
• Guile Hero: He is arguably the sharpest character in the whole series. His incredible intellect paired with his quick thinking allows him to manipulate and escape situations to his favor, even with a few scratches along the way.
• Gun Fu: Used during his mission to retrieve the stolen antiquities. Loid was dispatching several armed thugs with close-range combat and gunshots.
• Handbag of Hurt: While Twilight and Bond are ambushing a couple of scientists in a mission given to him at the very last minute, he quickly proceeds to throw the bag he uses to carry all of his gear towards one of the scientists to take him out.
• Harmful to Minors: As a child, he was traumatized by war. This ends up shaping his perspective as a spy and as a father, with one of his motives for being a spy being a hope to live in a world where children do not suffer like he did.
• Heroic Fire Rescue: In Mission 58/Episode 37, Loid and Bond were able to escape from a burning building with a puppy Bond was able to find thanks to his foresight and sense of smell while using their respective skills and abilities to help each other out.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: There are plenty of times when Twilight acts like a father to Anya only to mentally bitterly note his hypocrisy when the Forgers are a fake family that he plans on dissolving when he finishes his mission.
• Hero on Hiatus: During the Red Circus arc; as Twilight was too busy with another lengthy mission at the time, it is made very clear that he will not be around to rescue Anya and the other Eden students when they are kidnapped by the Red Circus terrorist group. But as soon as he hears about what happened he abandons the mission and rushes back along with another agent to help, with the two of them infiltrating the group of riot police preparing to storm the bus, although he fortunately doesn't need to take any action before Anya is able to resolve the incident on her own. He leaves again while thinking he'll make Anya her favorite dinner when he gets home.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Although he is presented as a cold and calculating spy, he has a soft side that's normally seen when he's around his fake family, and has an honorable goal of preventing wars for children's sake. He's even willing to speak for Damian's sake when his father, who was his main target, was dismissing him.
• High-Speed Missile Dodge: In the movie, Code: White, Loid flew a plane, that hasn't been in operation for some time, to rescue Anya from the Military Intelligence's Zeppelin. They naturally responded by firing high-speed anti-aircraft homing missiles at him which Loid evades with some intense aerial maneuvers and piloting skills.
• Honey Trap: A male version. As part of being a spy, Twilight has to do whatever it takes to get close to his target, which includes seducing and sleeping with any woman who may prove useful. In Mission 1, after Twilight, who's going by Robert, gets a hold of and destroys some Blackmail pictures of an Ostanian politician who's useful for Westalis, he's on a date with the would-be blackmailer's daughter at a fancy restaurant, where she thinks "Robert's" going to propose to her, since it's implied they have been dating for sometime, but he outright says she's too dumb to hold a meaningful conversation with and dumps her right there and then before walking out of the restaurant. However, in Mission 35, Twilight, now going as Loid Forger, takes Yor on a date to put her mind at ease following a mission with Nightfall, aka Fiona Frost. As the date progresses, Yor gets drunk, and Loid makes the assumptions that she's jealous of him and Fiona because she's fallen in love with him, and for the sake of his (fake) marriage/Operation Strix he attempts to play to Yor's emotions and tells her he's fallen in love with her as well and proposes that they marry for real. Yor's romantic inexperience, mixed with the booze in her system, results in her kicking him in the face, and Loid assuming she rejected his advances, though once Yor sobers up the following day, they straighten out the situation.
• Hyper-Awareness: Despite the huge blind spot he has for his wife and daughter, Twilight on any other occasion is a master of sensing the intent and abilities of the people around. He can always tell when and where someone is watching him and is also easily able to pick out the various organization types from normal civilians. He had no trouble sensing and then finding the hiding proctors who were observing the Eden Academy exam. He only needed two sentences from Yuri to tell he was a member of the secret police. During the cruise ship arc he was able to discern both the assassins and secret police who were hidden in the crowds, though he did not know what any of them were up to. He was also able to glean the situation of bombs being loaded on the cruise ship with lip reading.
• Hypocrisy Nod: For all his manipulative behavior and lies, Twilight never denies his own hypocrisy. Even when Franky tends to call him out on it, he never denies such statements even when he justifies it for his own life as a spy. Even after telling Anya she has a responsibility to take care of Bond for the rest of her life, Loid silently acknowledges he has no right to talk given his family life is a lie.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Being the cool, calculating, and emotionless spy, Twilight sports eyes that are rather cold, blue, and sometimes lifeless. Though it's a given considering the harshness of his line of work and the scarring experience he endured throughout his horrific history.
• I Hate Past Me: In Mission 1 he's noticeably irritated by children crying and it isn't till the end of the chapter/episode that he realizes the reason is it reminding him too much of himself before he became a spy.
• I Have Many Names: He's adopted numerous personas as part of his spy work: Lionel, from the National Defense Force; Lawrence, a black market dealer; Robert, a politician's secretary; Loid, a psychiatrist; and Twain, a tennis player. He was known as Advisor as a boy, and joined the army under the name 'Roland Spoofy'.
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: In Mission 48/Episode 32, in order to distract Loid from seeing Yor, Anya makes him try on every possible outfit in the store. He convinces himself that "this is the right move" in order to keep the mission. Anya tries to use this to escape, but then remembers he's a quick-changer. Only for Loid to look at himself and start to question if this is right. In the end, Loid comes out dressed in his "tourist" get-up: A shell hat (think Slowbro's tail), sunglasses, a lei, a toy sword, a squirt gun, a tote bag, an inner tube, swim trunks with little octopi, striped socks, and pointed octopus shoes. Anya simply says "So uncool" as Loid looks shocked with Color Failure (despite being a black-and-white manga).
• Improbable Weapon User: Twilight has several cases of using nearby unconventional objects in effective methods.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Twilight is quite the remarkable sharpshooter:
  • He was able to shoot the strapped bomb clean off a German Shepherd without harming it, despite its erratic movement.  
  • While undercover as a tennis player in an underground game, Twilight manages to accurately hit the ball back even while under sniper fire from behind him and in his blind spots. He continues to play perfectly while somersaulting and flipping through the air without crashing into his partner, Nightfall. By the end of the match, he's accurately hitting the ball while also hitting one of those rubber bullets being shot at him at his opponent.
  • In the movie, Code: White, Twilight would also demonstrate this skill again by hitting most of the prizes in a rigged carnival game and one of the soldiers in a shoot-out with a well-timed and precise ricocheting shot.
• Improbable Piloting Skills: During the events of the movie, Code: White, Twilight was able to fly an old propeller plane with such a high skill level, he's capable of evading several turrets firing from several angles and even anti-aircraft missiles with it with death-defying aerial stunts, despite the plane not being in use for a while.
• Improvised Weapon: There are several cases, especially when he's put on the spot, where Twilight is able to use any material he's able to get his hand on as a weapon, showcasing how quick-witted and ingenious he is:
  • While he was fighting off an ambush, he was able to use a can of assorted food to quickly disable a mook firing at him before proceeding to knock his lights out with a chair.
  • When he and Yor were pursued by the remnants of the armed smugglers from his last mission, he fought them off with a pipe. This wouldn't be the last time, as he used one again in his encounter with Yor's brother, Yuri.
  • After detecting a fake ID from an enemy spy, he quickly disarmed his gun with a bucket before he can even fire.
  • During the mission where he infiltrated a laboratory to retrieve a truth serum with Bond, he took out one of the scientists they ambushed using the bag carrying his equipment.
• Improvised Zipline: Judging from his unamused reaction in ziplining across a rope with Yor and Anya in an obstacle course during their cruise vacation, this is pretty much the norm for Twilight. In Episode 5 when the family reenact Anya's favorite TV show, one of the stunts Loid (as Loidman) pulls off as he's pursuing Anya and Franky is riding on the cable line over multiple explosions using his belt.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Initially, his name was romanized as Lloyd Folger, before it was changed to Loid Forger at the author's request, as he is supposed to have a Punny Name.
• Insane Troll Logic: Loid may be incredibly smart but even he has his moments. When Anya is throwing a tantrum over a skeleton keychain she wants, Loid thinks that if he doesn't buy it, he will look suspicious because parents normally buy things for their children, which will lead to him being discovered as a spy and arrested.
• The Insomniac:
  • Endo in Eyes Only says he sleeps for 2 hours out of a full day, and works for the other 22, as part of being a Triple Shifter. It shows well through how he often exhibits Exhausted Eyebags, and sometimes passes out cold after relaxing for even a second.
  • During the time the family visited a ski resort, Loid spent an entire night without sleep solving the mystery of the murder and catching the criminal behind it.
• Instant Expert: Twilight's near superhuman capacity to take up complex tasks quickly and become incredibly adept in numerous areas is one of the multiple attributes that makes him a legendary spy. With minimal practice at playing tennis, Twilight is able to win a tennis tournament against professional tennis players and players with jet-powered rackets.
• I Thought Everyone Could Do That: While advising one of his psychiatric patients with an Awful Wedded Life, he tells the man to become more conscious of what his wife is thinking by reading her body language. He then goes on to describe body language a normal person would be incapable of reading, such as heart rate and blinking rate, to his patient's bafflement.
• Jack of All Trades:
  • In a sense where he's a Master of All. Twilight's an extremely multi-talented man who is unusually competent in most aspects. Aside from his skills in combat, analysis, and information gathering, he's a talented chef, a master of disguise, an escape artist, a very capable athlete, and a strategist, among several other things.
  • Twilight can also be considered this when compared to the other family members, disregarding intelligence since he's easily the smartest. He can't see the future like Bond can but he has high foresight, he lacks Anya's ability to read minds but has showcased to be extremely perceptive, and his physical attributes are inferior to Yor's borderline superhuman capabilities but he's still absurdly skilled and formidable in athletics and combat.
• Jerkass Realization: When his "befriending Damian plan" is assumed to be ruined, Loid starts pushing Anya's studies hard for the sake of his mission, to the point she locks herself in her room. It's only with Yor's gentle guidance that he realizes he's not only been too hard on her, he's also far from the "ideal father" that he was meant to be. After that, he puts more effort into meeting her halfway.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Played straight at first, but later tends to sit between this and Nice Guy. He's introduced as being very cold, detached and job-oriented, initially viewing even Anya and Yor as nothing more than assets for his mission (though Anya does remind him why he became a spy in the first place). Despite being exasperated by their quirks, he quickly warms up to them and insists that everything he does is for the sake of the mission, even though the evidence has blatantly shown otherwise. Although he tends to act somewhat indifferent towards most people, he still has his own way of showing concern such as ordering a round of expensive drinks for Franky after realizing he was dumped. As he warms up, he's more and more capable of showing genuine kindness, even though he's still mildly aloof.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: He wears a labcoat for his cover job as a psychiatrist. When Anya came to observe his job, he admitted that he doesn't need to, but it makes him look more professional.
• Ladykiller in Love: He was quite skilled at wrapping women around his finger when it came to his job as a spy. However, when it comes to Yor, he's noticeably shown more interest and concern for her compared to his past targets.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • Twilight's irresponsible parenting really bites him in the ass in the first chapter/episode. He leaves Anya in the apartment completely unattended, and as a consequence she has free rein to raid his cases of spy gadgets and send out a message for fun that compromises them and gets Anya kidnapped by thugs. Then, after Loid returns home and dispatches the thugs who remained in his house to ambush him, he discovers Anya is kidnapped, and decides rescuing her is unnecessary and needlessly dangerous for the mission. The second he mentally voices his decision to abandon her to the thugs' mercy, however, one of the thugs turns out to still be conscious and attempts to whack him on the head with a pipe. (That said, given how often he thinks one thing and does another, it's unlikely he really intended to leave Anya.)
  • In Mission 35 he comes to the realization that Yor, who is currently drunk, might have actual feelings for him and immediately tries to capitalize on them. The result is a full-force kick straight in the chin, knocking him out and leaving him with a horribly swollen chin that lasts into the next day. This also results in him incorrectly assuming he was dead wrong about her romantic feelings towards him and puts a setback on their growing affection for each other.
• Last Day of Normalcy: In Mission 62, Twilight has a Flashback to his childhood in eastern Westalis, playing soldier with his three closest friends in an old, abandoned, munitions dump. A few days later, he lies to his father before he leaves on a business trip to the Ostanian border about wanting to buy a book and instead buys a toy gun and a toy helmet so he can play soldier with his friends. However, feeling guilty about lying, he ends up leaving early and goes to hang out with the lady at the croquette stand. Only seconds after deciding to apologize to his father when he returns and considering asking his friends if they could play a different game, the town is struck by an air raid, with Twilight knocked unconscious by an explosion. When he comes to, Luwen has been completely destroyed by a bombing, and he and his mother evacuate to a relative's home in Kielberg. His mother then is killed during an air raid on Kielberg, leaving Twilight alone to survive until he's old enough to join the army using a fake name, where he's eventually caught and offered to either take a job at WISE, or be turned over to the Military Police for identity fraud.
• Last Request: Loid's excuse for getting Anya into Eden Academy is that it was his late wife's dying wish.
• Latex Perfection: He has a seemingly endless number of latex masks that he can put on to seamlessly disguise himself as anyone, regardless of gender. He can then tear them off with ease, scattering the pieces to the wind to remove any evidence. How he makes or gets them and how they work is a mystery. Mission 86 shows he's not limited to face masks, as he manages to hide a bullet wound the same way just in case Yuri put two-and-two together and decided to check his arm since he was responsible for said wound.
• Le Parkour: Twilight is quite the acrobatic and athletic spy. He's able to show these skills off while reenacting an episode of Spy Wars for Anya and being chased by a military-trained dog.
• Lovable Rogue: In-universe. As a spy, he deals with various cloak and dagger activities of the job where pragmatism overrides morality. His job necessitates him to lie a lot, even to his own 'family', but Anya, who can read his mind, still finds him very cool for it.
  Anya: Pa's a big fat liar... But a cool liar!
• Love Makes You Dumb: One of the signs that he's developing feelings for Yor is his tendency to completely overlook every one of her poor displays at hiding her true profession, which regardless of his lack of knowledge about what is/isn't normal, is rather bizarre considering how observant he is of people otherwise.
• Married to the Job: After joining WISE, he pretty much gave up the idea of ever having a normal life, and has dedicated his entire well-being to the betterment of the two nations, even making himself forget his birth name so he could fully become Twlight. Because he's very devoted to ensuring world peace to prevent children from suffering and the notion that spies should discard any and all emotions, he struggles most in coping with the genuine feelings he's developing for his family and the belief he will inevitably have to leave them when the mission ends, though he also states he plans to will occasionally check in on them to make sure they are doing okay.
• Master Actor: Paralleling and complementing his Master of Disguise skills is how, even when showing his true face, he's extremely skilled at creating and perfecting false personas that are completely different from his true self, along with engaging in Xanatos Speed Chess where he can near-instantly and effortlessly take new developments and adjust his current mindset to work with them. He boasts early on that as long as he knows what someone wants him to be, becoming that person is easy for him. He only tends to slip up when the other person is someone he actually cares about.
• Master of Disguise: Twilight's specialty is impersonating other people. He can create and perfect a disguise in the span of an hour (including imitating their voice), as shown when he swaps places with one of Edgar's thugs to rescue Anya from his hideout. And while looking out for Anya at Eden Academy, he bounces back and forth between disguising as various staff members like custodians and teachers. He can also perfectly disguise himself as woman should the situation call for it, as seen in "Short mission 2"/Episode 16. What he can't disguise himself as, for obvious reasons, is a young child, something that he lampshades at the very beginning of the series to show that disguising himself as an Eden Academy student is out of the question. This gets turned against him in Chapter 83 where his own meticulousness in disguises ousts him twice and nearly gets him killed, especially the second time when Yuri begins to suspect how close Twilight really is to him with how flawless he is at impersonating Yuri in such a short time, something only possible if he knew him on a regular basis personally to read his mannerisms so well.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Contrasting with Yor and Anya's names, Twilight straightforwardly refers to the time between day and night, reflecting his different roles as husband and spy.
  • When pronounced in a certain dialect, "Loid" and "lied" can sound the same.
  • He and his family live with forged documents, and WISE can supply him with whatever ID he needs for the missions.
  • His other known aliases all use surnames that reference deception or fakery of some sort, such as his tennis player disguise being "Twain Foney" (Phoney) or his alias to enlist in the Westalian Army while underage being "Roland Spoofy".
• Meet Cute: A rarity in that he uses him and Yor awkwardly meeting in the same place by Contrived Coincidence as a literal tool in order to make his story on how he met Yor as believable as possible, since he needed a good cover story for his mission.
• "Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop: As you'd expect from a series with spy thriller elements, Twilight pulls this off in Code: White. While infiltrating a wine cellar, he carefully lowers himself into the room with a rope line.
• Momma's Boy: He holds a lot of fond memories about his mother, in particular the strength she showed in adversity and what a source of comfort she was to him in the early months of the war. It's implied him comparing Yor to her was one of the highest compliments he could give, and he was pushed into becoming a soldier partly by her death from an Ostanian air raid years before. His relationship with his father, on the other hand, was far more contentious due to how harsh the man was in his attempts to dissuade his son from joining the military.
• Mr. Fanservice: Many characters have commented on how handsome he is, and Twilight isn't above using his good looks to help him on his missions. The Campbelldon Tennis Arc in particular takes advantage of Twilight having to play in tennis shorts to give some focus on his muscular legs and butt.
• Mugged for Disguise: This is a very common practice for Twilight when he has to utilize his disguise mastery on an existing person:
  • While rescuing Anya from Edgar, Twilight gave the crime boss a classic switcharoo when he impersonated one of the mooks who ambushed him in his apartment, stealing all his clothes, while said defeated mook wore his clothes to pose as the captured Twilight.
  • During the visit to the aquarium with his family, Twilight has to knockout and disguise himself as a new employee in order to reach the penguin who swallowed a microfilm.
  • In order to bait out and misdirect Keith and his attempt to kill the Westalis Foreign Minister, Twilight reaches the Minister first and snatches his clothes to impersonate him. Of course, the Minster, now only in his boxers, does not take it well and rants about it to Handler over the phone.
• Mundane Utility: As shown in Chapter 77, the same qualities that make him an exceptional spy also make him an exemplary psychiatrist. His ability to sense when people are lying allows him to note when a patient is in denial (though he has some difficulty registering if the patient is lying to him or themselves), his raw determination and willingness to devote himself utterly to a task means he can use his espionage network to get such a detailed report of a patient's history and daily life that he can find the source of their traumas in a week's time (if not faster), and his raw charisma allows him to act as an emotional anchor for his patients that helps them through their troubled times. If he wasn't so utterly devoted to his job as a spy, he'd make a legitimately excellent psychiatrist, due in no small part to the fact that he clearly knows several techniques actual psychiatrists use to help their patients, having studied the role judiciously.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When Loid confirms that Yor really has no idea about her brother being a member of the Secret Police, the look on his face makes it clear he feels terrible for having ever suspected her. While Franky tries to assure him that he doesn't need to feel this way, since doubting people is unavoidable in their line of work, it still clearly bothers him, and Yor's Oblivious Guilt Slinging afterwards just makes him feel even worse.
• My Nayme Is: His cover name is spelled Loid, rather than Lloyd.

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• Name Amnesia: Twilight threw away his original name when he became a spy, instead using his Code Name and false identities. Even in flashbacks to his childhood and time in the army, his name is censored out by black bars as though it were a classified document whenever it is mentioned, and in his thoughts he always refers to himself as Twilight.
• Nerves of Steel: When not dealing with the absurdity of his family, Twilight remains calm and coolheaded in most situations. Regardless of how dire and intense the moment is, he maintains his composure and unyielding commitment to see things through to the very end.
• Never Be Hurt Again: Ignorance of the factors behind the conflict between Westalis and Ostania is ultimately what Loid attributes to his pain: he didn't know why the war started, isn't really so sure Ostania is all to blame, assumed his childhood friends died when in fact they didn't back then, and when they truly died after they were reunited in the army years later, Loid wonders if their fate would have changed if he knew beforehand that they were going to be sent to an unwinnable battle. This all led to Loid being convinced total intelligence gathering was imperative before even taking up arms, which is how he was recruited as a spy, and he's obsessed with knowing and making sure everything goes according to plan to this day as Twilight.
• Never Found the Body: He assumed his childhood friends had died in the initial bombing of their hometown, only to meet up with them much later during the war, and learn they'd survived because they'd gone chasing after him. The next operation they went off on after meeting up again, all that came back were their dog tags. Also, during the initial attack on his hometown, Twilight's father traveled to a border town on business, and it's heavily implied, though not directly stated, that he was killed either by another bombing, or caught in the crossfire between the Westalis and Ostanian armies.
• Never Gets Drunk: While the Forgers are celebrating Anya's admittance into Eden, Franky notices Loid's still sober and wonders if he's bothering to have any booze, unlike him and Yor. Loid tells him he's been trained to drink without getting intoxicated.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: He much prefers to only use lethal force against armed, hostile individuals, and makes a principle out of minimizing the hurt and distress to anyone else who might be caught in the crossfire. Even when a trained bomb-dog attacks him, Twilight goes out of his way to non-lethally incapacitate it and remove the bomb rather than killing it, partially on the grounds that an animal can't be blamed for the actions of the humans who made it a weapon. That said, in that instance he had a plan to handle the dog and the priority was getting rid of the bomb. When he has no other options (such as with the stampede early in the series), he will consider shooting such an animal. He also considers killing the unarmed Daybreak if the man continues to be a threat to his mission. In both cases, alternate solutions came about before he had to take any action.
• Nice Guy: Played with: In his Civilian identity Loid plays this role, being a stern-but-fair father figure who dotes on his family, unflinchingly polite to his neighbors and other parents at Anya's school, and has an overall affable air about him. The fun part is that as the story progresses it becomes hard to tell how much of this is an act.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Of the three adult Forger family members, he's the In-Between to Yor's Nice and Yuri's Mean. He's not as warm or caring as his wife, but definitely a lot more reasonable than his brother-in-law.
• Nightmare Face: When he needs to put the fear of God into his foes, such as the crime boss Edgar and Keith the terrorist, Loid's countenance becomes a mask of monstrous anger. While inspiring such an extreme amount of fear into his enemies, Loid's human features disappear into an impenetrable miasma of darkness, broken only by a pair of Glowing Eyes of Doom, turning him into a tenebrous phantom made of the very shadows itself; faceless death incarnate.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Downplayed. He still considers Ostania's SSS as overall his enemies and a repugnant organization, but ever since the end of the previous war he ceased to see Ostania in general as the enemy and has no desire to see the country fall or be brought to ruin (despite what those in the SSS believe of him).
• Not So Above It All: For all his status as a badass spy, there's still things that can get past him.
  • In Mission 2, when Yor kicks one of the thieves going after them so hard he's sent fifteen feet away and dents a wall, he falls for her excuse that she's taken self-defense lessons.
  • In Mission 6, he sports a mighty blush as he plays out "Loidman" in Anya's fantasy.
• Not So Stoic:
  • A master spy and a Master of Disguise. Then he does a Spit Take at his mission of needing to find a family and it all goes downhill from there.
  • Even though it was the plan to begin with, Loid ends up freezing up and tripping when Yor first suggests they marry.
  • In the second extra chapter, Loid ends up freaking out thinking he upset Yor about asking her to go shopping to the point he ends up taking her on a date, floundering throughout it as she can't concentrate on enjoying it because of her gunshot wound.
  • He grows increasingly annoyed at how incompetent Daybreak is at being a spy throughout the test-changing incident, with it eventually reaching the point where he breaks character while disguised as an Extreme Doormat teacher to explode at Daybreak about how terrible he is at this.
  • He actually had to restrain himself from laughing when he discovers that despite his size, Bond is actually skinny under all that fur.
  (Internally while externally straining not to smile) "Dignity, Twilight... hehe.... you are an emotionally mature and... hahaha... dignified spy!"
  • When reunited with his childhood friends during the war, he bursts into tears, having thought they died years earlier.
• Oblivious to Love: He goes back and forth on this as he is very much aware of using his charm to his advantage, but he has trouble getting a read on Yor's growing feelings for him and his own growing attachment to her and Anya. He also never clicks to Fiona's obsessive crush on him, thinking of their relationship as purely professional.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: He's a natural enemy of Yuri, being the spy to Yuri's Secret Police. Even beyond that reality, he gradually becomes less and less amenable to Yuri's visits. His initial meeting involves elaborate attempts to impress, combined with setting up a "lovey-dovey" apartment to look convincingly devoted to Yor. Several dozen chapters later, he can barely put in the effort to put on a nice sweater when he knows Yuri will be testing Yor's food.
• Odd Friendship: With Franky, the informant. Neither of the two consider each other as a friend or even an acquaintance and claim that their relationship is strictly professional. In addition, they seem to get on each other's nerves, with Franky being envious of Twilight's success and annoyed whenever he assigns him a task, usually related to his family, and Twilight seemingly being irritated by Franky's complaints and antics. In spite of this, they not only generally remain on good terms but they have a pleasant relationship akin to one normally seen with best friends. Twilight even ordered a round of expensive drinks to comfort Franky after a woman turned him down and Franky advised him in raising Bond while rightfully pointing out how he was likely mistreated before being adopted by the Forgers.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: He didn't join <WISE> so much as he was conscripted into it. The director of military intelligence discovered that he had faked his name and age to get into the army and explicitly threatened to get him court-martialed unless he put his infiltration talents towards intelligence gathering. Not that he particularly cared, as all of his loved ones had died by that point.
• Oh, Crap!: Mission 83 has him shocked at running into Yuri Briar in the sewers as he tries to escape while disguised as him. Worse is that, due to his connection to Yor and his growing affections for her, he hesitates in killing Yuri and allows Yuri to recover and shoot him in the arm.
• Old-School Dogfight: In Code: White, Twilight snatches a plane and gets engaged in a rather intense and action-packed one. Granted, he isn't trying to shoot the opposing war aircraft down due to the fact that Anya's held captive within it.
• One-Hit Kill: Downplayed. Twilight beat Franky with a single blow during Anya's game. To be fair, that was Twilight and Franky was very drunk.
• One-Man Army: Downplayed. He can take a room full of enemies single-handedly, but he relies on sneak attacks and ambushes to even the odds. However, there are multiple instances where he played this trope straight. He can take on 38 armed and dangerous smugglers, along with their reinforcements by himself (albeit only in the sense of holding them off until Franky is ready to escape). During his youth as a vengeful Westalis soldier, where the number of Ostanian soldiers he killed single-handedly is represented in his memories as him sitting atop a literal mountain of corpses.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His spywork has led to him abandoning his birth name. Loid Forger is a pseudonym he found in a newspaper. When the series flashes back to his childhood, his birth name is redacted, and he's known by the code name his friends use, Advisor. As an adult, even in his own inner thoughts, he regards himself as Twilight first and foremost.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Loid usually takes Yuri's antics in stride, but Mission 80 has Loid actually snapping at him, yelling at him to shut up as he tries to intervene in Loid's and Yor's relationship over a misunderstanding.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Much to his own surprise, he finds himself very protective of Anya. He only adopted her as cover for his mission, but he steadily finds himself growing paternally attached to the young girl.
    • Mission 1 sees Anya getting kidnapped by thugs she unwittingly alerted by breaking into Twilight's home office and messing with his cipher equipment. When Twilight returns, he immediately realizes he's been compromised (hard not to, given the men left behind to kill him) and that the smart play would be to abandon the cover ID and flee. But he doesn't; Twilight goes One-Man Army and rescues Anya, paving the way for the rest of the plot. Twilight gives Edgar and his men a Mook Horror Show heavily implied to be one of the rare occasions where he's genuinely angry.
    • Swan consistently mocks the Forger family in a meeting to get Anya into a prestigious school. By the end of it, Anya has been reduced to tears from Swan insulting her dead mother. Swan also inadvertently pushes Loid's Trauma Button over being a war orphan at the same time. Loid gets so mad that he recoils his fist, ready to punch Swan into oblivion for making Anya cry. But Loid redirects himself at the last second and punches the table instead, claiming he was aiming at a mosquito there the whole time. Even then, he punched the table so hard that it broke in half. After that, he says that any school that insults children like that isn't worth their time and leaves. This is despite Twilight needing Anya to get into the school for his mission.
  • Heck, don't even think about harming any children while in his presence, whether physically or emotionally. His Dark and Troubled Past also shows that this attitude extends to all children, as his motivation for his work is to make a better world where children won't have to go through what he did.
    • In Mission 38/Episode 25, Loid unsubtly criticizes Donovan's parenting of Damian to his face, even though he's supposed to be trying to get closer to him; contrary to his somewhat dramatic attempts at apology for Anya punching Damian at the start of the school year, he shows genuine kindness and encouragement toward Damian once he realizes how his father treats him and sincerely compliments his aptitude.
    • In Mission 75, once the Red Circus has been arrested, and the children have been reunited with their parents, it's revealed that Twilight had rushed back from his mission abroad, where he and another WISE agent disguised themselves as SWAT operatives. While the situation was resolved by the time he arrived, it indicates he was more than ready to storm the bus and rescue Anya and the other children himself.
  • In the movie, Code: White, Anya gets kidnapped by the Special Military Intelligence due to eating a chocolate containing a microfilm that could cause a war between the East and the West. Unaware that Anya ate the microfilm and despite being told by WISE that retrieving it should be his highest priority, Twilight instead hijacked a plane and used his ace piloting skills to crash into and infiltrate Snidel's Zeppelin while evading its arsenal to rescue Anya. In addition, while he was sneakily looking for Anya around the ship disguised as the Lieutenant, he came across Dmitri and Luca, overhearing their conversation about how they kidnapped Anya and hurt Bond. He effortlessly and thoroughly gave them beating off-screen, clearly showing that he was unwilling to let that slide.
• Parental Abandonment: As far as he knows, Yuri is the Forgers' only living relative. His parents were alive at the war's outset, but his father disappeared, his mother died, and he ended up alone without anyone offering to help.
• The Perfectionist: Played for drama. Twilight is well aware he is not perfect and no matter how skilled he may be, he's still only human and can only do so much, but all the same believes he must seek perfection. When Yor tries to encourage him that he doesn't need to be perfect, he later despairs to himself that Yor can't understand, since she doesn't know his profession and how for a spy anything less than perfection, even the slightest mistake, slip-up, or doubt in his work, is essentially signing his own death warrant.
• Perpetual Frowner: Being a spy, most of the smiles he conveys when interacting with people are fake, as he usually has an aloof and indifferent frown on his face.
• Pet the Dog: Pragmatic as he is, there are times when Loid will do things for people without any ulterior motive:
  • What does he do after needing to learn the names of over 200 penguins for his mission? Use it in a contest being held to win Anya a giant stuffed penguin doll. He also goes out of his way to fix the damaged plushie in Short Mission 3 and cheers Anya up by telling her that the stitches are badges of honor. Why did he do that? Because Anya refused to get a new one, since she treasures Loid's gifts.
  • When he has a bomb dog sicced on him, he chooses to shoot off the bomb strapped to the dog rather than shoot the dog itself, even though this means taking a bite to the arm. Loid apologizes to the dog for it having to get dragged in human conflicts in the first place.
• Photographic Memory: Part of his spy skillset, which he has demonstrated several notable times. In general this lets him keep tabs on almost every person he interacts with, memorizing their professions, quirks, and even dirt for blackmailing.
  • Early in the series we get a look at how his mind works when, after hearing Yor's name, we are shown him mentally scrolling through every name and face of every unmarried woman Franky provided him with information on as if he were looking at a book, until he highlights Yor's photo and proceeds to recite various basic facts about her.
  • He is shown having memorized the names and faces of over 200 penguins in a matter of minutes.
  • He regards a massive conversation flow chart as a good way to plan out a conversation, and tells Franky to memorize one as if it were a relatively simple thing, despite Twilight having written out hundreds of potential dialog choices.
  • He was also able to expose the mystery murderer thanks to his photographic memory.
• Pipe Pain: Loid would fight using a pipe segment on rare occasions. He used one while he was beating down the armed art thieves that were chasing him and even in his fight against Yuri.
• Plot-Sensitive Snooping Skills: An incredibly observant and intelligent spy, who somehow hasn't caught onto the fact that his wife has incredible physical prowess for a supposed government clerk (who was supposedly taught self defense by her much younger brother), and that his adopted child can read minds, despite both of them being pretty bad at hiding these things. He tends to either come up with strange rationalizations for their behavior, dismisses them showing him up as being due to him slipping/getting soft rather than them being being extraordinary, or gets distracted during instances where he might have looked into or thought about things more deeply. There are some implications he purposefully avoids looking into things too much since the answers could complicate his mission, and part of him subconsciously enjoys their current status and doesn't want to upset it, aided by the fact that when he did try to investigate Yor one time, she wound up subjecting him to Oblivious Guilt Slinging.
• Pragmatic Hero: As a spy, he engaged in more than a fair share of morally-grey work, and his true self was rather cold at the start of the story and still slips into it sometimes. But his intentions are still to prevent war and protect children. He avoids harming the innocent and he's becoming more genuinely loving and heroic over time.
• Pretend Boyfriend: When they first meet, Yor asks Loid to pose as her boyfriend at a party. He agrees, as he conveniently needs to find a woman to pose as his wife as part of his mission. Unfortunately, he only makes it to the party after a grueling mission and getting involved in a car crash, and accidentally slips up by saying he's Yor's husband rather than her boyfriend due to mixing up his mission with her cover story from the concussion. After they leave, she asks that they get married to help escape suspicion as a couple.
• Pretty Boy: He's a tall, blonde, and very attractive young man with blue eyes and a slender but well-built figure. Because of his cool looks, a lot of female characters are easily charmed by him.
• Properly Paranoid: He has a tendency to overthink things, but in his line of work, it only takes one mistake to get killed. Cases in point:
  • When arriving at the entrance of a known safehouse of a group of student terrorists, Twilight and his colleague notices the word "No", an ovoid pineapple-like object, and an arrow pointing to the doorknob next to the unknown drawing, all drawn with ketchup. The colleague thinks it's just graffiti and wants to open the door, but Twilight stops him because it's "off" and should be more cautious. It turns out Anya is warning Twilight about the door being boobytrapped, but Anya being Anya, she made what's supposed to be a bomb look like a pineapple.
  • Covering his bullet wound with his Latex Perfection tool was what allowed him to avoid Yuri identifying him as his masked attacker, despite the low odds of Yuri noticing his impaired movement.
• Punny Name: The translation name changes starting from Mission 10 list Twilight's false surname as "Forger". His first name can also be a verb which means "to open a locked door".
• Rage Breaking Point: Unlike Yor, who is very easily tempted into attacking people for upsetting Anya, Loid does his best to maintain an image of calm even in the face of upsetting things to avoid risking the mission. But the admission interview involving Housemaster Murdoch Swan repeatedly making insulting, misogynistic, and child-breaking comments causes Loid to grow increasingly angry no matter how repeatedly he tells himself they're just a pretend family. When he continues to gleefully bully Anya after driving her to tears by mocking her deceased mother, Loid outright snaps and almost punches a hole right through Murdoch's face, with him having barely enough restraint to redirect his fist into the table below and avoiding making a bloody mess out of the terrible man.
• Reading Lips: He can hold secret conversations in public with his fellow agents from WISE by mouthing different words. It's later shown that he's capable of understanding conversations held afar by surreptitious lip reading.
• Really 17 Years Old: He pretended to be older than he really was in order to join the army when he was younger.
• Real Men Take It Black: According to Nightfall, Twilight usually takes his coffee black and she's surprised to see him take it with milk at home, thinking family life has softened him or it's part of the Loid persona. In fact, he's trying to protect his stomach from his stressful life and considering a switch to decaf.^note Before the first acid reducer was introduced in 1977, gastric ulcers were effectively untreatable.
• Real Men Wear Pink:
  • Loid is mainly responsible for cooking, since Yor in general is terrible at it. Yuri begrudgingly had to admit that the dishes Loid makes are delicious.
  • Loid is excellent at sewing, as shown in Short Mission 3, after Anya's penguin plushie was ragged by Bond and (accidentally) Yor.
• Recruiting the Criminal: How he got into intelligence. After discovering he had been in the military using a fake identity for significant periods of time, the director of military intelligence gave him An Offer You Can't Refuse: either use his talents in infiltration for intelligence or be court-martialed for, well, using a fake identity.
• Renaissance Man: What makes him such a legendary spy is his almost superhuman ability to pick up complex skills in very little time, becoming extremely proficient in many areas even outside of his job. Just to name a few, he can cook, sew, play tennis on a professional level, has a photographic memory, is an expert on psychiatry, and is a cultured gentleman. He excels in a lot of areas, making him currently the most versatile character with the largest skillset in the entire series. Justified Trope, since having a wide variety of skills means he can infiltrate and convincingly play more roles, enhancing his spy capabilities. This is what causes problems for him trying to teach Anya as she doesn't have his obsessive memorization skills and he doesn't know how to teach it to a child.
• The Reliable One: Being the cool, calm, intelligent, and level-headed member of the family with several unparalleled talents, Loid would usually have a solution whenever the Forgers find themselves in a pinch.
• Reused Character Design: Twilight's appearance and behavior is mainly inspired by the main character from Endo's I SPY one-shot, down to his spy-fueled paranoia making him misinterpret everything as a threat.
• Revenge Before Reason: His stint as a soldier for Westalis was brought upon by his desire to kill as many Ostanians as he could as payback for the death of his mother and apparent deaths of his friends. It winds up biting him when he gives away his position to an enemy squad because he lashed out at Franky, an Ostanian deserter, trying to relate to him. When he finds out that his friends actually survived the Ostanian bombings only for them to be sent to their deaths because of mismanagement from their own higher-ups, he realizes just how wrong it was for him to pursue the complete destruction of Ostania, as he was acting on ignorance the entire time. He's now as capable as anyone of recognizing that mismanagement and corruption are possible anywhere.
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Starting from Episode 16 in the Anime, he adopted his wife and daughter's habit of incredulously shouting "Ga-n!!", which literally means "Clang!" or an onomatopoeia of "Shock!", when he is well, shocked. An understandable reaction to being told that Yor is making dinner.
• Secret Identity: For his current mission, Twilight takes on the identity of psychiatrist Loid Forger, with Yor as his second wife, and Anya as his daughter from his first marriage.
• Secret-Identity Identity: He has completely abandoned his birth name, to the point of calling himself "Twilight" even in his own thoughts.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: He quickly deduces that Yor's younger brother Yuri is a member of the Secret Police, something that Yor herself is unaware of.
• Selective Obliviousness:
  • Despite being a master spy capable of discerning a person's true motives through just a scant few observations, he seems to truly believe Yor is just an average Ostanian citizen, despite her showing feats of inhuman strength and her rather poor attempts at hiding her own secrets. This is partly due to the fact that he's spent so long as a spy, he no longer has a clear definition of what's normal.
  • Although Fiona's perfect poker face does a good job of hiding her feelings, he's deduced more about others' motivations with less, and she isn't exactly trying to hide her obsession with him, what with constantly trying to push Yor out of the picture and contriving a reason for them to go undercover as husband and wife while showing off her athletic skills and her body in tennis wear. Twilight still often muses he doesn't understand why she does the things she does.
  • Later, he's taken aback to realize that Director Gorey at his cover identity's hospital still hates him to the point of envious obsession and has to be informed about the situation by Fiona. Downplayed in that Twilight was aware of the issue, but had thought his efforts to endear himself to Gorey had helped more than they had.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: In Mission 62, he is separated from his childhood friends when the war begins, and believes them to dead only to learn they survived in a freak chance and be reunited sometime later after they all enlist. They make plans to get together and catch up only for his friends to be sent into a poorly planned and executed operation the same day that gets all three of them killed.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Almost always seen in a tailored suit complete with a vest and tie to reflect his Tuxedo and Martini spy identity. Eyes Only notes well-tailored suits are one of the things he likes.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: He seems to have trauma from his experiences in the war; after waking from his Angst Coma in Mission 62 it takes him a moment to remember where he is and he's left smelling blood, dust, and gunpowder. It's implied he hasn't really thought about that part of his life in a long, long time.
• Sherlock Scan: He frequently displays this skill throughout the series, scanning his surroundings and his targets such as being able to identify a thief by his walking pattern, deducing that Yuri is a member of the secret police, and learning Donovan's security team.
• Shower of Angst: Had one in Mission 86, where after having a very rough mission in tracking down the SSS' mole within WISE, which left him wounded, nearly cost him his life, and even gave Yuri suspicions to his true identity, Twilight vents his frustrations in a shower as he acknowledges his weaknesses and affirms that despite Yor's belief that he shouldn't seek perfection, it is the only way he believes he can survive.
• Signature Headgear: He usually wears a white trilby with his green suit.
• Smoking Is Not Cool: While having a discussion with one of his colleagues from WISE, Twilight is seen smoking a cigarette but is coughing horribly from the experience. Said colleagues asks if he stopped smoking, which Twilight confirms while also referring to the fact he now has a daughter, being yet another hint of how Twilight is slowly becoming settled in being Anya's father.
• The Social Expert: As part of his spy job, Twilight can read people like a book, has excellent social skills to gain others' trust, and has many sources of information at his disposal. On the flip side, sometimes he can find himself stumped in normal social interaction, especially where Anya is concerned.
• Sociopathic Soldier: In the present day, Twilight makes it a point to not take a life lightly. In Mission-62 it's revealed that he became this trope, specifically a mix of "jingonist" and "broken soldier" during the war. After his hometown was destroyed, his father and his friends were thought dead during the opening stages of the war, and his mother died sometime later during an air raid, he spent several years living as a War Orphan on the streets. When he was old enough to pass for eighteen, he enlisted in the Westalis Army under a fake name and sought to get closure for his friends' and parents' deaths by killing as many Ostanian soldiers as possible, while taking to heart Westalis propaganda (i.e: "Kill the beast from the east" was a favorite saying when he was a child), and by his own account he managed to rack up a massive kill count. When he meets Franky, who deserted from his Ostanian Army unit, Twilight was ready to kill him simply because they're enemies, with the heavy implication that Twilight has murdered Ostanian POWs' in the past. After Franky makes Twilight laugh by saying he didn't want to die without first "being with a woman", the former makes the latter consider that Westalis government is not as good as he thinks it is, and it's possible the war is just an excuse for those on the top to get as much glory as possible, while those at the bottom, like them, are sent to their deaths. He notes both sides claim the other started the war, and soldiers like them have no way of knowing which account is the truth. Twilight at first doubts what Franky tells him but he snaps out of killing for the sake of killing out of some misguided revenge plot when his childhood friends turn out to be alive, only for them to die shorltly after their reunion when their comanding officer bungled a mission, and realizes Franky had a point. Twilight's motivation now is above all else to use every available resource to prevent the tensions between his nation and Ostania from escalating into another war that would ruin the lives of countless children (much as his own was ruined by the previous war), and to use his position as a spy to ensure that those who can truly effect such efforts have access to the best and most accurate intel possible. Regardless of which side is at fault, he wishes to never be ignorant again of what is really going on in such a conflict.
• So Proud of You: After Anya earned her first stella, Twilight, although not fully understanding why, expressed great pleasure for her heroic deed and even compared his pride in her accomplishment to the time he foiled a terrorist attack.
• Spotting the Thread: Twilight realizes Yuri is a member of the secret police because Yuri used a template cover story from the SSS's manual for the wine he brought over as well as its inaccuracies, not researching like Twilight that the owner of the shop had recently changed nor that the price of the wine went up this year due to a bad harvest.
• Spies Are Lecherous: Deconstructed. Being the Tuxedo and Martini brand spy, Twilight has seduced countless women for the sake of his missions. However, Twilight has long since given up the idea of having a normal life, and is endlessly working from the shadows to keep the peace between two rivaling countries. As a result, Twilight has no emotional connection to women he seduces and would immediately break up with them the moment they are no longer any use to him. Its not until he has to pose as a family man for a long-term deep cover mission that he is forced to genuinely bond with someone in order to keep up the cover of a loving family. Hilariously, due to Yor's Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality, Twilight's usual Honey Trap methods that he used on other women painfully backfired on him the one time he tried to use them on her.
• Standard '50s Father: Though he's European, a non-smoker, and the series is ostensibly set in the '60s, he tends to fall into this mold in both sides of his life. As Loid Forger, he's a kind and respected psychiatrist, and when not in a lab coat, he usually wears a shirt and tie with dress pants and a cardigan during the day. And while he's wise and diligent, he's kind of a Bumbling Dad who takes raising his daughter to comically serious levels. As Twilight, he's a veteran, and generally unflappable in the face of danger, but he went into his line of work through genuinely altruistic reasons and is a firm but fair disciplinarian toward his adopted daughter.
• Stealing from the Till: During a side-mission involving stolen treasures and artwork, he manages to get Franky to agree with helping him by offering to let him pick some small items to "go missing", and he himself picks out a diamond ring to propose to Yor with later.
• Stealth Expert: Being the world's top spy, Twilight's a master of infiltration. He's able to sneak into buildings and enemies' operations thanks to his flawless disguises and impersonations, being able to quickly swap them on the fly. Even without his disguises, he's just as capable of navigating around tightly secured areas with his pure stealth skills alone.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: Despite being the best spy in the series, the name he picked for Operation: Strix was Forger; a word which means a person who produces fraudulent imitations. This seems to be a habit of his, as one of his other aliases is revealed to have the surname "Spoofy" (which happened to be an in-universe existing name from an old man who lived in his hometown), and Nightfall thinks "Foney" is a suitable surname for another alias.
• Straight Man: Is usually the one trying to play the calm and collected one even in the face of the completely over-the-top comedic misunderstandings and silliness of other characters, including Anya, Yor, Yuri, and Nightfall. It helps that, being a spy, he has by far the most experience of the Forgers in at least pretending to be normal.
  Yuri: (After getting accidentally slapped into a wall by Yor) I was a fool to think I was testing you, when what was being tested all along was... my own feelings!
  Loid: Listen, you're bleeding...
• The Strategist: Twilight has proven to be a cunning and observant tactician due to his erudite intellect and can develop complex strategies, even in his fights. He tends to formulate multiple plans, whether it be for his missions or family.
• The Stoic: He is often shown to be unbothered and focused, making his more emotive and softer moments stand out as a result.
• Strong and Skilled: As a Genius Bruiser, Twilight's an extremely skilled and analytical combatant, who often studies on the information and patterns of a situation and hosts a large skillset such as vehicular usage, firearms, improbable weapon use, and several others. Although his preference of fighting largely focuses on stealth, technique, and tactics, he's also very athletic and is capable of shattering tables and even ripping a clock out of its post.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: The Smart Guy to Yor's Strong Girl. Loid/Twilight is the greatest spy of the country, using his high intelligence, incredible observation skills, and impeccable disguises to deceive his targets and eliminate any threat that may lead to war. His wife Yor, on the other hand, is something of a clueless ditz, but she's also a professional assassin with the strength of an elephant and the ability to single-handedly slay terrorist groups.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Extra Mission 1/Episode 12 starts off with Twilight completing another mission by blowing up a building floor and walking across piles of dead bodies in the aftermath.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: As Twilight, he's coolheaded, collected, and calculating. As Loid, he's a friendly and caring man with a big soft spot for his wife and daughter. He initially intended the "sugar" to be fake, but it soon becomes genuine once he grows attached to Yor and Anya.
• Super-Reflexes: Despite being fired at by various snipers, he was able to dodge all their shots and evade traps while playing tennis against the Campbells and win.
• Super-Speed Reading:
  • Mission 1 shows Loid is capable of reading pages so fast he's basically flipping one after the other.
  • When he's impersonating an employee at the aquarium, he learned to tell apart the 200 penguins there by skimming a list of them. Even the head keeper sometimes mixed them up after 2 years.
• Supreme Chef: Loid handles most of the cooking, and based on Yuri's reaction in Mission 12/Episode 8, his food is very delicious. He once worked in a high-end (fictional equivalent of) Hungarian restaurant as part of a cover, and still remembers their goulash-like stew recipe by heart. In Eyes Only, Endo says Twilight's pretended to be a top chef before, so he can make more or less anythng.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Despite being a blond, he definitely fits this image. He is a tall and handsome young man, with a very cool and elegant appearance.
• Teacher/Student Romance: Twilight's former spy apprentice, Nightfall, is in love with her teacher. However, since she never reveals any emotion, he has no idea.
• Technical Pacifist: He absolutely abhors war, because War Is Hell. However, he will do whatever it takes to prevent a war from happening. It's a response to him claiming enough lives during his tenure as a vengeful Westalis soldier to form a literal hill from their corpses.
• That Man Is Dead: Twilight does not appear to hold any attachment to who he was before he became a spy, in particular due to how as far as he is aware everyone who knew him back then is long dead, his hometown destroyed when the previous war began, and the few personal keepsakes he retained after this burned when he joined WISE. While he holds no animosity toward his childhood, recalling his mother and friends with great fondness, he usually avoids thinking of them, and regards who he was back then as naive. In flashbacks his original name is redacted, and in his thoughts he always calls himself Twilight.
• Themed Aliases:
  • Most of Twilight's undercover aliases use Alphabetical Theme Naming for the first names, with them beginning with 'Ro' in Japanese, interchangeable as 'L' or 'R' in English. The sole exception, 'Twain', was chosen by Nightfall in homage to his codename.
  • Based on the two surnames he selects himself - 'Forger' and 'Spoofy' - he seems to prefer surnames that reference fakery. Nightfall certainly thinks that's what he goes for, as she chooses the surname 'Foney' for them.
• The Team Normal: Of the household family. With a wife of inhuman strength and durability that belies her slim build and goes beyond what training alone can accomplish, a telepathic daughter, and a prophetic dog, he, by comparison, has no supernatural abilities, relying on his memory and intellect to solve his problems.
• Took a Level in Kindness: While he's cold and pragmatic early on, Loid is then shown to be a genuinely kind and selfless man with noble goals. Although aloof most of the time, he's slowly becoming more sincere in his role as a father and husband figure.
• Tough Love: Played for laughs when it comes to Anya:
  • In the first chapter, Loid starts to wonder in his thoughts if Anya is actually stupid and that the crossword was a fluke, and contemplates getting another child. Anya then starts crying, asking him not to get rid of her. As she causes a scene, he offers to buy her peanuts, and she calms down.
  • Loid discovers Anya failed all her tests. He calls out to her, but she tells him she is busy watching Spy Wars. Yor turns on the lights, and Anya tries to run away, but Loid picks her up so they can go to study as they promised at 5 o'clock, but Anya starts throwing a tantrum. They begin studying, and Loid scolds her for being unable to spell correctly. Yor joins them, takes a look at Anya's test, and compliments her for her score being not bad despite still being a failing grade. Loid tries to help her learn idioms by referencing idioms used in Spy Wars, but Anya only had difficulty with the idioms test because she read another student's mind who also failed. She plans to learn who is the best at each subject so she can read their mind for tests. Loid considers having her grades changed in the school's records but realizes it would be suspicious if she did not have some real improvement and believes her classmates will resent her for her unearned accomplishments. Anya reads his mind and contemplates whether it is a good idea or not for her to cheat by reading her classmates' minds, and gets gloomy. Loid sees this and wonders if he is being too strict with studying, deciding instead to have her switch to doing some drawing, but her attempt at drawing a cow turns out poorly, so he gives up on that and tries to get her to do music and sports, but she fails horribly at them too.
  • Anya attempts to enter Loid's room, but he captures her, scolding her as he told her to not enter his room without permission, which makes Anya start to cry, saying she hates both Loid and Yor and will run away from home. Worried about Operation Strix, Loid picks up Penguinman and pretends to be him, saying they should wrap up the tour and head out for their next mission. Yor picks a robot and supports Loid. Anya stops crying and tells them to follow her as bad guys have taken over the candy store on 2nd street. Anya then takes them to the candy store, where after they buy her some candy, she gets happy.
• Tragic Hero: Prior to Operation Strix, the type of life Twilight had was extremely catastrophic. It might not even be considered living either since his feelings were robbed from him as a result. Not only he did he lose all of his loved ones from the Ostania-Westalis War, but he also had to fend for himself to survive. And as a mere child who was all alone too.
• Tranquil Fury: He's doesn't anger easily and most of the times he's seen losing his temper, he's shown with a somewhat blank expression on his face, with his thoughts being the main tell that he's actually feeling very angry.
• Trap Master: He is exceptionally skilled in setting up traps. He's able to create many different types of traps that are effective in different ways against his opponents.
• Trauma Button:
  • The sight of an innocent child weeping exhumes the deeply buried sorrow of his childhood as a war orphan. It's enough so that when Murdoch Swan bullies Anya to tears (by mocking the memories of her deceased mother to boot), Loid flies into a murderous rage and nearly kills Swan in a single blow, only to remind himself at the last second the importance of his mission, and instead drove his fist through the solid-oak coffee table below. The depth of the pain lingering from his childhood is summarized in this cold retort to an indignant Swan:
    If making a mockery of a child's feelings is the educational philosophy of this establishment, then clearly I have chosen the wrong school. Good day to you, Sirs.
  • Played for laughs in Chapter 64, where Anya asking him to help her study makes him think she just got another Tonitrus, leading to shuddering, cold sweats, and fainting.
• Triple Shifter: He's already pretty busy as a spy, but once he starts living with Anya and Yor, the stress of also being a husband/father and a psychiatrist consistently exhausts him. According to Endo, his full workday is 22 hours long(!).
• Troubled, but Cute: Twilight's a very handsome and well-fashioned young man, being able to catch the eyes of several ladies, but the secret agent has it very rough. While he's not troubled in a rebellious fashion, he did, in fact, have a very troubled life that sapped the emotions right out of him in his dark past. Being a spy for years and a survivor of the The War Just Before as a child, among several other things, has induced paranoia in him.
• Tsundere: Harsh type. Whenever he catches himself worrying about Yor and Anya as if they were his real family, he reminds himself he's just doing it "for the mission". He also does like being thanked for his hard work to maintain peace every once in a while, but pretends to not care. Anya, who can see his inner thoughts, outright calls him a tsundere. It's also justified; his line of work as a spy has made him too used to concealing his true feelings and not showing any sign of weakness to avoid being exposed and killed.
• Tsurime Eyes: Reflecting his cool, serious, emotionally detached personality, and thus emphasizing when that detachment breaks.
• Tuxedo and Martini: From his Establishing Character Moment revealing he's romancing a government official's daughter to get intel on him, to his tailored brown suit, to him being a western spy investigating the east in a Cold War analogue, Loid borrows quite a few elements from James Bond.
• Universal Driver's License: He is quite proficient in driving cars and even piloting a plane. In a special illustration for the manga, he's shown to be capable of driving a motorbike with Yor and Anya as passengers. Given his line of work, however, this is quite justified.
• Unperson: When he accepted the WISE director's offer in the flashback, he's asked to bring all his personal belongings. On meeting, the director immediately chucks Twilight's belongings into flames, effectively erasing his past and telling him to be a 'shadow'. The only tie Twilight has to his past is his real name, but the readers don't get to see it, and no one left alive calls him by that name anymore anyway.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Although he has shown to be caring and selfless person at heart, despite his deceptive and cold exterior, he's still a far cry from the earnest and honest child he was before becoming a victim of war. It's because of his horrible childhood. As a young child, he lost his mother, his friends, and all his neighbors at different points during the war. Having nothing left in his life, he joined the army and later was recruited by a WISE agent to become the man Twilight, abandoning his past identity since becoming a spy. This causes him to refuse to get too close to others out of the belief it would never work out, having long since given up on conventional relationships with others.
• Vague Age: His age was redacted in his Volume 1 profile; later chapters show that his birth records were destroyed in the war and he lied about his age to get into the army. However, said Whole Episode Flashback does give enough clues to indicate he's around Yor's age (27) at the minimum, if not slightly older.^note While it's unknown how old he actually was when he enlisted, his childhood friends enlist as privates. Because the minimum enlistment age is 18, this implies Twilight was actually around 18, whether slightly younger or slightly older, during that point of his flashback where he reunites with them. It's also established he's been Twilight for around 10 years, and he joins WISE not long after said reunion with his friends.
• Voice Changeling: Part of his disguise skills is having fine-tuned control over his vocal cords that lets him replicate any voice he's heard at least a few minutes of speaking from. Yuri finds it deeply annoying for an impostor to speak to him with his own voice.
• War Is Hell: Being a child who was orphaned by the last big war, he absolutely loathes it after his firsthand experience in it. It is later revealed that the death of his friends and family drove him lie about his age to join the military, and the sheer number of lives he claimed haunt him to this day. During his mission in stopping a terrorist attack against the Westialian minster, he expressed his great disdain for war, especially after the Handler berates the university students involved in the scheme for knowing nothing about its consequences.
  Twilight: I am DONE with war.
• War Refugees: In mission-62, after the opening attack at the beginning of the Westalis-Ostania war destroys his hometown of Lewen, he and his go to live with some relatives at the city of Kielberg, where his mother is killed during an air raid.
• Warts and All: Played with. When Loid arrives at a party, another woman attempts to shame his wife Yor, implying that she used to be a Secret Sex Worker in the past. Loid says that he knows that, but it's really proof of Yor's resilience and determination to keep going and provide for her loved ones, no matter what (which genuinely endears himself to Yor). Loid says all of this, not knowing that Yor is the Thorn Princess, one of the deadliest assassins in the world, who was obliviously luring men off to discreetly murder them. Even so, what he says about Yor's cover story as a sex worker also applies to her life as an assassin, so it still fits; Loid just didn't intend for it to fit.
• Weak, but Skilled: Downplayed. His physical prowess, while well above the standards of ordinary people, pales in comparison to Yor's borderline Super-Strength. However, he's far more intelligent and his focus in fighting is to rely on surprise and technique more than strength. His fighting technique is impeccable, and he ensures that he already has the upper hand even before actually fighting an opponent.
• Weapon-Based Characterization: As a spy, he carries an easily-concealable Luger P08/Walter PP hybrid. During the war he would use the in-universe counterpart of the H&K G3. Doubly appropriate, as he is a parody of covert operatives found in the Sean Connery and Roger Moore era Cold War 007 movies.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Twilight is a master spy that has killed, lied to, and manipulated countless people in his life, but it's all for the sake of peace between Ostania and Westalis so future children won't suffer the same way he did.
• What Is This Feeling?: In the beginning of the series, Twilight started off as a spy completely disconnected from his emotions. Ever since he started Operation Strix, he's unknowingly developed a fondness for his fake family that he doesn't seem to understand.
  • After Anya takes her entrance exams, Twilight expresses great happiness when she passes, to the point he actually lifts her from her feet before he collapses from exhaustion. He then begins to question why he felt joyful and relaxed afterward.
  • When Anya earns her first Stella, Twilight is surprised at the amount of pride he had in her, comparing it to his success in stopping a terrorist gang in one of his missions.
  • Coming back from an exhausting mission, Twilight's expecting a very upset Yor after she expressed her gripe with him before leaving. To his surprise, she actually welcomes him home with a comforting smile. This leaves Twilight down on his knees, asking himself why he felt relieved.
• When He Smiles: Twilight doesn't smile all that often and when he does, it's usually fake ones for the sake of keeping a desirable image around the people he interacts with in missions he partakes. (Doesn't stop several female characters from being enamored by it) It's usually Anya, Yor, and Bond who can bring out his true soft heartwarming smiles that he locks away.
• Worf Had the Flu: Twilight engages in combat against Winston Wheeler and is defeated for the first time in the series. However, by that point, he was already worn out from fighting against Yuri^*whom it must be noted is so Made of Iron that he required an extensive and repeated beatdown from him because he kept getting back up and suffering from a bullet wound in his arm. That being said, Wheeler was wounded after fighting against Twilight showing he didn't go down without a fight.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: As a boy, he believed his three best friends were killed in the first bombings of the war after finding their warehouse playground blown to smithereens. He's shocked to find them alive and well in the army years later and they all have a happy reunion... only for them to all die for real on their very next deployment.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: He realizes he hasn't exactly been living up to the part of an ideal father in Mission 10/Episode 7, but Yor reminds him Anya thinks he's a wonderful father regardless.