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Main Characters
General
Anne Halford
The protagonist of the series. Anne strives to be a Silver Sugar Master like her deceased mother, Emma Halford.
Voiced by: Yuka Nukui (Japanese), Celeste Perez (English)
- Determinator: If you give her a challenge, she will see it through, no matter how unreasonable.
- Nice to the Waiter: She is unconditionally kind to fairy servants.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Despite it being officially declared taboo, she recreates the crest of House Chamber in sugar confections for Noah, in order to finally get him to eat.
- Showing Up Chauvinists: Most of her struggles come from being a woman in the mostly male-dominated field of sugar artistry, though she continually proves that her skills are genuine.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: While she does end up participating in the same tasks as the men in the Radcliffe workshop, she does struggle from her lack of physical strength, and in the novels even goes to bed aching after her workdays.
Challe Fen Challe
A Warrior-class fairy that Anne purchases to escort her to Lewiston.
Voiced by: Masaaki Mizunaka (Japanese), Ivan Jasso (English)
- Berserk Button: Don't hurt Anne, or you probably won't live to regret it.
- Deadpan Snarker: He will insult you with the same tone one would use to talk about the weather.
- Gemstone Assault: He was born from a piece of Obsidian, which fits with his ability to summon an Absurdly Sharp Blade at will.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Attractive enough that most mistake him to be a Companion fairy.
- Really Royalty Reveal: Challe discovers he along with his two precious stone brothers, are candidates to become the next Fairy King. He was unaware of the truth behind his origins until he met his older brother, Lafalle Fen Lafalle.
- Spontaneous Weapon Creation: He can summon a blade out of thin air.
- Tsundere: He starts out Tsun towards Anne (and basically everybody) and is still prone to calling her "scarecrow" around other people, but as the two grow closer he can get very Dere when they are alone.
Mithril Lid Pod
A small fairy that Anne saves from a cruel master. He later joins up with her to repay what he considers to be a life debt to her.
Voiced by: Rie Takahashi (Japanese), Ciarán Strange (English)
- Big Eater: Can eat through an entire barrel of Silver Sugar (even accounting for how fairies don't necessarily "eat" like humans do).
- Insistent Terminology: Insists on always being called by his full name, even by Anne.
- Making a Splash: He was born from a drop of water and claims to be able to manipulate it to small degrees.
- Shipper on Deck: For Challe and Anne, much to their chagrin.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Tends to aggrandize himself, usually referring to himself as some variation of, "the magnificence that is me".
Fellow Artisans
Hugh Mercury
The current Silver Sugar Viscount, and master of the Mercury School.
Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno (Japanese), Jason Liebrecht (English)
Alph Hingley
A renowned Silver Sugar Master, and one of Anne's idols. Goes by the nickname "Kat", much to his chagrin.
Voiced by: Takuma Terashima (Japanese), Ben Balmaceda (English)
- What the Hell, Hero?: He is very quick to lash out at Elliot when it's revealed that Challe traded his freedom to Bridget in order to retrieve Anne's silver sugar at the exhibition.
Keith Powell
The son of the previous Silver Sugar Viscount.
Voiced by: Yūto Uemura (Japanese), Ryan Negron (English)
Fairies
General
Supernatural beings that inhabit Highland. In the past they once ruled over humanity, until humans overthrew and enslaved them in return.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Aside from the strange circumstances of their births detailed below, they also "eat" by simply absorbing food they touch, dissolving it into nothingness.
- Meaningful Rename: Enslaved fairies are typically given "human names" by their masters and are discouraged from using the real names they are born knowing.
- Our Fairies Are Different: Fairies in this world are born from objects but require the gaze of a living being to manifest. Their wings are functionally their hearts, and destroying even one will kill the fairy. They also vary wildly in size from pixie-sized to humanoid or larger, and their lifespan is determined by whatever they were born from.
- Made a Slave: Fairies are routinely captured by humans and enslaved, using one of their wings as a tool to coerce them into servitude.
Cathy
Jonas' fairy slave.
Voiced by: Aya Yamane (Japanese), Naya Moreno (English)
- Invisibility: She can turn completely invisible, an ability that she uses to steal Anne's silver Sugar barrels.
Lusul El Min
A fairy born from a berry that was awakened by Anne's gaze.
Voiced by: Kana Ichinose (Japanese), Natalie Hoover (English)
- Children Are Innocent: As a freshly born fairy, she trusted Anne implicitly and had to be told by Challe to avoid humans lest she end up enslaved. Lafalle takes full advantage of this to convince her to sacrifice a wing so he can give her "freedom".
- The Bus Came Back: She flew off after her introduction, then returned during the second half as part of Lafalle's fairy army.
- Wham Line: One that exposes Lafalle's true nature.Anne: What happened to your wing? Were you captured by humans?Lusul: No. I removed it and offered it to Master Lafalle.
Benjamin
Alph "Kat" Hingley's fairy.
Voiced by: Minori Suzuki (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
- I Choose to Stay: He knows where Kat keeps his wing, and could leave at any time, but stays of his own will.
- Sleepyhead: Constantly looks on the verge of falling asleep, though this does not diminish his capacity as an assistant.
Christina
A free fairy born of seafoam, and the companion of Duke Alburn.
- Going Native: Willingly took on a "human name" during her time with Duke Alburn, despite being free to use her true name.
- Mayfly–December Romance: She was the mayfly in this scenario, as being born of seafoam guaranteed her a very short lifespan.
- Naked First Impression: Duke Alburn's gaze created her, and fairies are usually born without clothes.
- Posthumous Character: She's been dead for about a year and a half prior to the start of the story.
Daana and Hal
The twin fairy servants of the Paige household.
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- Happiness in Slavery: They have little issue with their place in life, even genuinely seeing themselves as inferior to humans.
Noah
The fairy companion and self-proclaimed Page to Lord Herbert, the former head of House Chamber.
Voiced by: Manaka Iwami (Japanese), Emily Fajardo (English)
- I Will Wait for You: Despite being in possession of his wing he refuses to leave the castle or even eat, holding on to hope that his master will return someday.
- Invisibility: Uses this along with intangibility to try and ward off intruders as a "ghost".
- Undying Loyalty: Even 15 years after the fact, he continues to hold vigil over the Holly Leaf Castle.
Gladus (Unmarked Spoilers)
A companion fairy that Bridget buys on her way to the Holly Leaf Castle, as a replacement to Challe. His real name is Lafalle fen Lafalle, and he was born from an Opal set into the same sword as Challe's obsidian, making them brothers.
Voiced by: Soma Saito (Japanese), Nazeeh Tarsha (English)
- Control Freak: He puts on an air of elegance, but is quick to resort to violence if you don't give him what he wants.
- Entitled to Have You: A non-romantic example, he believes that he and Challe are destined to walk the same path, and is willing to threaten Anne to make him comply.
- Face Death with Dignity: When he sees he's cornered by Challe, his own fairies turned against him, and Challe still unwilling to side with his ideals, he calmly jumps off the edge plummeting to his death. However, we do not see his body so we are unsure if he truly survived or died from his fall.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He resents fairies that still have both their wings, his own being lost to humans long ago.
- Hypocrite: Claims that he wants to free fairies from humankind, but demands that all fairies that work with him give him one of their wings as a sign of loyalty, even if they still had both attached.
- I Have Your Wife: He manages to pull this on both involved parties, threatening both Anne and Challe with each other's well being to keep them in line.
- It's All About Me: Everything he does in the second season is all about him. He demands fairies give them their wing to show their loyalty to him when it's really for him to be able to control him for his own whims against the humans. He's also enraged that Anne willingly makes beautiful sugar confections to heal his wounded subjects but can't (or won't, in his eyes) recreate Hugh's Fief set to the same standard.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: For all his speeches about wanting to free the fairy race from the humans, in reality, he just wants revenge towards humans who took his other wing and doesn't really care for the fairies under his command.
- Razor Floss: His weapon, capable of leveling a forest.
- Revenge: His primary goal is vengeance upon humankind.
- The Sociopath: He shows little remorse for using some other fairy's wing as "his" for the sake of feigning servitude, and even seems amused that some poor fairy must be writhing in pain when Bridget tries to use it against him.
Paige Workshop
General
Glen Paige
The master of the Paige Workshop. He's a very sickly man who has five apprentices and one silver sugar master in his workshop.
Voiced by: Kanehira Yamamoto (Japanese), Bruce DuBose (English)
- Control Freak: Only with his daughter. He does it because she's a female and his daughter who he claims cannot become the master of a workshop since it's a field dominated by males. The actual reason for his controlling behavior is that he's sparing his daughter the stress of being the master of the workshop and knowing how sexist the candy crafters can be.
- Delicate and Sickly: He has a heart disease and it's so bad that he has to be carried around by people to take him to some locations.
- Honor Before Reason: While he's remarkably accepting of Elliot bringing Anne to the workshop, he pushes back hard on any attempts to deviate from the decisions made by his predecessors, even when they can be directly attributed to the shop's current decline.
- Nice Guy: We later learn that the apprentices who work at his shop were either rescued, taken in, and owe a debt to him without any payment back. Even as his apprentices don't appreciate seeing Keith because he used to work at the Paige Workshop, he takes it with grace that Keith wanted to spread his own wings somewhere else.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike Radcliffe, Glen immediately lets Anne be hired and take Orland's place as the Head of the Artisans for the Paige Workshop, considering she's a female and is aware she won the Royal Medal.
Bridget Paige
The only daughter of Glen Paige, master of the Paige Workshop.
Voiced by: Ayumi Mano (Japanese), Marisa Duran (English)
- Abhorrent Admirer: She's madly in love with Challe, but he couldn't care less. Even when she owns his wing, he only responds to direct orders to interact with her and will openly defy orders to leave Anne alone.
- Arranged Marriage: She is to be married to Elliot and inherit her father's workshop. That's why Glen offers Challe back to Anne since it would be inappropriate for the daughter of the workshop to keep a male fairy with her. She breaks it off after the Holy Beginnings Festival, instead proposing that her father adopt Elliot into the family so he can inherit the workshop while she is free to follow her own heart.
- Childhood Friends: With Orland and Elliot.
- Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest: She buys Gladus who looks eerily similar to Challe, to compensate how Challe's wing was taken from her. Turns out this wasn't a coincidence as Gladus was Elliot's attacker and is in fact Challe's brother from the three stones on a sword. Not that she knew.
- Everyone Has Standards: When Anne tries to give her a Sugar Confection and Bridget doesn't accept it, she tells her to break it to which Bridget says that's more of a reason why she can't accept it showing even if she dislikes Anne, she wouldn't break an aesthetically pleasing piece of art. After the attack on Orland by Gladus, it reveals she still kept Orland's and Anne's Sugar Confections.
- She finds Gladus eating the Viscount's Sugar Confections to regain his energy and scolds him saying how the confection is important to Noah. Not that he cares.
- Freudian Excuse: The reason for her abusive, controlling behavior on Challe is due to how much her father denies her control of her life, being unable to become a candy crafter because of her sex and forced to marry Elliot and inherit the Paige Workshop which made her bitter.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: That said, it's no excuse that she abuses Challe if he disobeys her. While Glen is controlling of her for an apparent good reason, he's not abusive to her and even he sees the way she treats Challe is intolerable.
- Green-Eyed Monster: To Anne. She's able to become a Silver Sugar Master, has a good relationship with the fairy that she likes, and to boot Challe loves and cares for Anne but doesn't care and love Bridget understandably. Meanwhile, Bridget is unable to become a Sugar Artisan due to her controlling father who is the master of the workshop, has to marry someone she doesn't love, and the one way she can inherit the workshop is through said marriage.
- Has a Type: Challe, at first glance, is very similar to Orland, who she is actually in love with. Gladus, while he has much lighter hair, is thrown in with this duo too.
- Hypocrite: For a girl who says she's sick of everyone controlling her life, she sure has no hesitation in controlling Challe to do what she wants. This applies to her Freudian Excuse above.
- It's All My Fault: She quickly blames herself when Gladus reveals his true colors and wounds Orland.
- Longing Look: Gives one to Orland in the final episode, implied she's fallen in love with him and is over Challe.
- Love at First Sight: She falls in love with Challe at first sight, wanting to buy him from Anne. Subverted, as it later on shows she is possessive of him and hurts him if he disobeys her, obviously seeing him as a personal toy to control.
- Mirror Character: Bridget, like Anne, was raised by sugar artisans, but her father barred her from pursuing her dream of becoming one herself. She has become a bitter person as a result. She is essentially what Anne would have become if she'd given up on her dream, had no one supporting her desire to become a Silver Sugar Master, and instead chose to coast by on her looks and whatever connections she could get; and if she hadn't decided to treat Challe as her equal. Ultimately, she gets better, but while she never manages to pursue her Sugar Master dream she at the very least got to support the Paige workshop and take steps in mending her relationship with her father.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She experiences this as Gladus reveals his true intentions and attacks Orland, making him lose an eye, not realizing the whole time he was the fairy who attacked Challe and Elliot.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: According to Orland, who grew up with Elliot and Bridget since childhood, he says how the latter was actually a cheerful and sweet girl. In the flashback, we do see how she looked in childhood and he's right. He says right now she's at her worst, likely due to Glen who controls her life. Although when she isn't being annoying and whiny, she does show her nice side once in a while. She returns to this in the last episode after the aftermath with Lafalle resolved and breaking her marriage to Elliot to follow her own heart.
Elliot Collins
A Silver Sugar Master and Bridget's fiancé.
Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Japanese), Jordan Dash Cruz (English)
- Condescending Compassion: He is quick to declare himself an "ally to all women" and tries to suggest that Anne go serve tea when she comes to work at the Radcliffe workshop for the Royal Exhibition.
- Hidden Depths: Despite his carefree demeanor and attitude towards women, he does take his craft seriously and sees Anne as the best chance that the Paige Workshop has to bounce back from its downward spiral.
- Manipulative Bastard: Benevolently so, mind you, but he readily admits to using the fact that Bridget owned Challe to bring Anne to the Paige workshop so she could turn things around; getting the fairy's wing back was just brownie points.
Orland Langston
A sugar artisan working under the Paige workshop, and former Head of Artisans. He has a history with Bridget.
Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (Japanese), Mauricio Ortiz-Segura (English)
- Childhood Friends: He grew up with both Bridget and Elliot.
- Eye Scream: Gladus attacks him as a warning to Challe and Anne, taking out his left eye in the process.
King
A sugar artisan working under the Paige workshop. He has amnesia and is rather squirrely around women.
Voiced by: Koji Okino (Japanese)
- Hidden Depths: Despite his gruff appearance and noted ruffian background, he's the workshop's foremost color expert.
Valentine
A sugar artisan working under the Paige workshop.
Voiced by: Atsushi Tamaru (Japanese), Kiba Walker (English)
- Those Two Guys: Has this dynamic with Nadir.
Nadir
A sugar artisan from a foreign land working under the Paige workshop.
Voiced by: Shoya Chiba (Japanese), Nasim Benelkour (English)
- Nightmare Fetishist: Is positively delighted at the idea that Holly Leaf Castle has a ghost.
- No Sense of Personal Space: He likes to get a little too close for Mithril's comfort, partially due to never seeing a fairy his size before.
- Token Minority: He's specifically notes to be a foreigner, and is so far the only one shown to be a sugar artisan.
Antagonists
Jonas Anders
Anne's childhood friend, and apprentice to the Radcliffe workshop.
Voiced by: Reiji Kawashima (Japanese), Matt Shipman (English)
- Drowning My Sorrows: After the fiasco that was the second Royal Exhibition, Anne finds him drunk in an alley, having given up on sugar artistry.
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite his self-proclaimed hatred of her, he draws the line at attempting to cripple Anne's career just so she can't beat Keith.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He is greatly envious of Anne's skill as a sugar artisan and tries to steal her work and claim it for himself.
Marcus Radcliffe
The sexist master of the Radcliffe workshop, and Jonas' uncle.
Voiced by: Yasuhiro Mamiya (Japanese), Taylor Harris (English)
Sammy Jones
A student of the Radcliffe workshop participating in the Royal Exhibition.
Voiced by: Taishi Murata (Japanese), William Ofoegbu (English)
- Disproportionate Retribution: His reaction to overhearing Keith voice the possibility might lose to Anne at the exhibition is to hatch a plan to boil her hands in molten sugar to destroy her career.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Stealing Anne's silver sugar to disqualify her from the competition ends up getting him exposed and shaming the entire workshop.
