Character sheet for The Comeback Path Of Princess From Mars. Spoilers may be unmarked.
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Main Characters
Baron Olga Perez
Sorry, but I'm no longer the same me!
The protagonist. She starts the story being sold into an Arranged Marriage by her cowardly, literally boot-licking father, and the fiancé doesn't hesitate to beat her up and repeatedly remind her that the instant she comes of age, he not only intends to invoke Marital Rape License, but pass her around as a sex-toy to all his friends. Not being a coward herself nor being willing to endure such a fate, she builds up her strength, and when the time is right, retaliates, showing him and his despicable father exactly what it was like to be on the receiving end of what she endured.- The Ace: As an incoming freshman, she officially scores second place, once her simulation pod is fully investigated, without enhancements of any kind, being beat out only by Valedictorian Ritter Ely, who has enhancements out the wazoo and was on the verge of graduating!
- Action Girl: And how. She's introduced getting even with her abusive "boyfriend" by beating him down with nothing but a fire extinguisher and some strategic use of Encounter Bait, while he had just about every possible advantage, including the best power armor money can buy, and openly cheating by using drugs. Naturally, the last one destroys his entire house by the emperor's decree.
- Assumed Win: Justified. She ignored her house arrest and began walking towards the stage when the dean began calling out the top scorers at the entrance exam. She came in third place out of tens of thousands.
- Best Served Cold: She is extremely patient and bides her time until she has the advantage, giving back exactly as good as she got, as much as humanly possible.
- Crime of Self-Defense: She dares to push off one of her fiancé's lackeys, and then taze him when he tries to punch her, for beating up her maid right in front of her, in public, and she's the one placed under house arrest.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her mother died of illness, and then her father immediately became a boot-licking coward who sold her into an abusive arranged marriage to save himself and never, ever stopped groveling to that douche's equally douchey father until his dying breath, having her suffer at least 10 years of never-ending physical, verbal, and emotional abuse, with the threat of being passed around as a sex toy always lingering over her head, all starting at age 8.
- Empowered Badass Normal: When she is at the entrance exam for the military academy, she's already good enough to score third place out of all the applicants, without enhancements of any kind (Officially ranked second once her simulation pod is investigated). En route to Mars, her father's Tragic Keepsake activates, injecting her with an army of body-enhancing nanites, making her far, far stronger and deadlier.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: From a sweet yet helpless child to a terrifying soldier and no-nonsense nemesis.
- Eye Color Change: Her eyes are normally red, but when she officially assimilates the N2 nanites used against her, they change all sorts of colors, purple, gold, etc.
- Grin of Audacity: If she's sporting one of these, asskicking is guaranteed to ensue, and the target will be very, very deserving of it.
- Like Father, Like Son: She really takes after her mother, both in looks and personality. Especially the Hidden Heart of Gold.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes are normally red, and she's someone you shouldn't provoke.
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine: She lives and breathes this trope. Smack her or her friends around? She'll beat you to death. Ruin her house with despicable schemes? She'll expose you and destroy your house. Go around raping or threatening rape? Castration via laser fire! And then death, if you're lucky.
- Took a Level in Badass: Grinds them like crazy. She's originally an adorable, but helpless, 8-year-old girl who grew up to be a dangerous Action Girl who won't take crap from anyone, any longer than she absolutely has to.
- Used to Be a Sweet Child: Countless flashbacks show her as a very happy, friendly, and well adjusted child. Then her spineless father allowed himself to be strong-armed into selling her into a horrifically toxic and abusive arranged marriage.
Corrie Perez
Miss. It's my turn to protect you!
Introduced acting as Olga's maid, she is actually the poster character's adopted younger sister.- Angst Coma: In her flashbacks, she's shown with eyes of a dead fish and completely unresponsive, until Olga herself started to play with her, and she slowly, but surely lit up, happy at being treated with kindness.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: She's introduced as a pill-popping nervous wreck of a maid. She's actually on par with Olga in combat prowess.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Her eyes are the same shade of gold as her hair.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: In her flashback, her first appearance has her catatonic and almost entirely unresponsive. When she's well enough to be out and about, Olga's dragging her around to chase butterflies and she openly smirks. On her seventh birthday party, when she's being presented the cake and blow out the candles, she's an adorably happy child, and she remains happy to be a member of the Perez house, loyal for life.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde and a sweet girl who absolutely adores her adoptive older sister.
- Happily Adopted: When her parents abandoned her in a hospital, rather than try to fundraise the money they needed to treat her illness, Olga's mother took custody of her, and Olga herself took a liking to the depressed little girl. She's been ecstatic as a member of the family ever since.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: She fights almost as well as Olga, can run the remote camera drones with aplomb, is skilled at field dressing and First Aid, and she's apparently a very good maid
- Idiot Hair: Ever since she was 6, she's had one giant lock of hair that just shoots straight up and then arcs down again into her face. Nobody's ever thought to do anything about it, even though her 6-year-old self had a buzz-cut to go with it.
- Ninja Maid: Competent housekeeper and skilled in combat, though the last part is surprising even to Olga herself.
- Parental Abandonment: Flashbacks showcased in chapter 29 explain why she's in the Perez household. She was abandoned as a child in a hospital where Olga's mother works as the head researcher. Fortunately, both Olga's mother and Olga herself took a liking to her and brought her into the family home.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: She stows away on the transport ship to Mars so she's never away from the side of her mistress and older sister. This turns proves justified when an envious classmate decides to kill Olga to boost his own chances at fame and again when they actually crash on Mars and Olga needs all the allies she can get.
- Undying Loyalty: Given a choice, she will lay down her life to serve Olga, if need be.
- Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: She's introduced as a cute, but clumsy maid, who couldn't defend herself from Olga's abusive fiancé or his lackeys. Truth is, this was an act. She's actually just one step behind Olga's combat prowess, by design.
Perez House:
Kevin Perez
Sorry! My daughter doesn't know how to act!!
Olga's father.- Excalibur in the Rust: Turns out the beat-up bracelet he gave Olga in her coming-of-age party is actually the control device for the [Weaver] nanites that are far, far more advanced than anything else the New Roman Empire can field, even the stuff Emperor Ryan III previously confiscated from the Perez family and supposedly put in his personal vault under lock and key. When Corrie asks him about his behavior in private, he states that that bracelet was an heirloom that the family's been guarding from thieves and scoundrels upon pain of death for generations.
- Extreme Doormat: He's introduced getting kicked in the head by both Morpho Truss and his son, both of whom were using the emperor's name as a club to strong-arm him into liquidating his holdings to them and selling off Olga into a marriage from hell. He's been a literal boot-licking coward ever since.
- Forced into Evil: He does indeed love his daughter, but with the emperor running roughshod over his family, for untold reasons, and the Truss family pounding down his door, and beating him down with physical force until he complied, it's understandable why he signed over the remains of his estate and his daughter to the Truss house and has been a cringing bootlicker ever since.
- Heroic Suicide: After Olga's coming of age party, with the Truss house completely destroyed, and Olga herself slated to go to Mars, that very night, he poisons himself to death so the emperor can't use him as a hostage to traumatize Olga any further.
- Noodle Incident: The Emperor did indeed go to town in confiscating the Perez family assets, leaving the Perez house vulnerable to the schemes of the Truss house. The why is never made clear.
- Redemption Equals Death: He's extremely unsympathetic since chapter 1 for selling his daughter into a toxic "marriage" to save himself, but redeems himself with a Heroic Suicide.
- Tragic Keepsake: The night before Olga is set to fly off to Mars, he gifts her what looks like a beat up bracelet. Turns out that bracelet is actually a well-disguised treasure he hid from the emperor's greedy clutches.
- The Unapologetic: After the Torrus house is dealt with, he takes Olga home and throws a party with several nobles who were present actively cheering for the Torrus house, but shamelessly switched sides, and he gives Olga a list of photos of their sons and heirs like a deck of cards and says "pick your new fiancé". Resigned, Olga calls him drunk and walks off. It's only later, in private, that he explains to Corrie, not Olga, that this was a ploy to protect Olga and the nanotech bracelet his family has a sacred duty to protect, leaving her completely in the dark.
Noah Perez
Become my experimental materials!
Olga's mother and chief of the empire's medical association.- Deceased Parents Are the Best: She was an excellent mother to Olga and little Corrie, and they both mourn her death by disease that even she couldn't cure, and was way, way beyond empire tech to even try.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: She called Corrie "a test subject" and "Olga's toy" to officially adopt the little girl, treat her illness, and give her a happy family.
- Irony: She takes in Corrie and cures her terminal illness, but then succumbs to a terminal illness herself soon after.
- Loophole Abuse: She was able to adopt and cure Corrie by registering the abandoned girl as a clinical test subject and brought her into the family by calling her "[her] daughter's toy" when she noticed Olga take a shine to her.
- Post Humous Character: Dead before the story began.
Torrus House
Mofu Torrus Jr.
How dare you talk back to me! I will pin you down and beat you into a coma!
Olga's Arranged Marriage fiancé.- Barbaric Bully: He's just not happy unless he's brutalizing people who can't fight back.
- Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: With Ritter Ely's backing, he had a huge field advantage over Olga, with Ritter even having Olga dumped into the training forest in an area known for high concentrations of monsters, and Mofu Jr. was decked out in top-of-the-line equipment while Olga just had a fire extinguisher and some field rations, seeing as her side-arm/tazer was confiscated after she dared defend herself from Billy Turner who tried to assault her for daring to defend Corrie. That wasn't enough for him. When he started to lose in spite of this advantage, he doped himself with highly illegal performance enhancing drugs. This causes his house to completely collapse and his father to be driven out of his estate as a penniless commoner at gunpoint.
- Did Not Think This Through: Sure, he had Ritter Ely's backing, but he clearly should have expected that if he needed any medical screening, at all, after the duel, somebody was bound to pick up the fact that he used drugs, even if he won.
- Domestic Abuser: In addition to beating up Olga's father, with his own father backing him, using imperial decree as a club, he loved to torment Olga with physical, verbal, and emotional violence.
- Enfante Terrible: And Teens Are Monsters. In the present, he's a third year while Olga is a freshman, and he began making rape threats against her when she was 8. That means he started brutalizing her when he was 10 and spent all his teenage years doing it.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: It was his own illegal drugs that doomed his house.
- Humiliation Conga: He really, really should have left Olga alone on the academy testing day. First, the pod he had Billy sabotage wasn't sabotaged enough to keep her from breaking out, and when Billy tried to "correct" that, Billy got tazed. Then he learns that Olga managed to get a score that rivals his in spite of the sabotage, so he retaliates by falsely accusing her of cheating, demands the pod be investigated, and demands a duel, presuming that Olga is as cowardly as her father and would balk, already proclaiming how he intends to "marry her." She shames him by agreeing to the duel, unafraid. He uses up all the points he's earned during his three year tenure and accumulated by resting on his laurels to buy himself the sweetest gear he could get, only to be outshone by Olga coming at him with little more than a fire-extinguisher, some rations she used to lure the very same dangerous beasts she was dumped in the middle of, and sheer grit. He starts doping to make up for his short-comings, only to have Olga snatch his drugs and then wail on him when the ones he'd already taken wore off. When he's completely lost the duel, Olga exposes his drug use both to quell any further allegations of her cheating, when she didn't, and to bring the wrath of the emperor down on House Torrus, and lastly, he's shipped off to prison, in a full body cast.
- I Control My Minions Through...: Their most base desires. He gets the cooperation of Billy Turner by promising the guy the opportunity to rape Olga over several consecutive days.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He loved to brutalize Olga, and intended to hamstring her during their duel to make her even easier to treat as a sex-toy. During the duel, she completely outshines him, overcomes his massive advantage, and leaves him a paraplegic by breaking all the bones in his arms and legs, then points out his drug use to the medical examiners. Off to prison you go, pretty boy...
- Lean and Mean: Compared to most other characters, he's as thin as a reed, and he's a horrible human being who loves to beat his fiancé for a laugh, and thinks it's the ultimate sign of affection to brag about how he intends to have her raped by himself and his buddies.
- Like Father, Like Son: He's almost exactly like his father, Mofu Torrus Sr. Both of them love to bully people who can't fight back and hide behind rules and regulations, even if heavily skewed in their favor, when they can.
- Marital Rape License: The threat he constantly held over Olga's head, happily proclaiming that the moment she came of age, he was going to pin her down and not only have his way, but he'd pass her around as a toy to all his barbaric bully buddies.
- Powerful, but Incompetent: Because he preferred to sit on his laurels and let his family name and fortune carry him, he was able to deck himself out in the best gear money could buy during his duel with Olga, but he was atrocious in actually using it. He got completely wrecked when she used her rations as Encounter Bait and sent the swarm of monsters she was dumped into after him, then beat him down with her fists as all his spanking new equipment and fire-arms were on the ground in tatters.
- Psychological Projection: Since he sees nothing wrong with cheating and sabotaging his rival's equipment, then he presumes Olga must have cheated to come out of the testing pod with a score rivaling his, and openly accuses her of it, and before the dean even gets a chance to start the very investigation he demands, takes up Ritter Ely's suggestion of a duel, demanding that if Olga refuses the duel, she forfeit her score and immediately take up her role as his wife (read unwilling sex-slave). The fact that Olga can beat him honestly never crosses his mind until she's pounding away at him while he's helpless on the ground.
- Put on a Prison Bus: Even though he got carried away on a stretcher after losing the duel to Olga, in spite of cheating by using illegal drugs, the fact that he had drugs in his system caused him to be shipped off to prison, and he now no longer has noble backing to protect him.
- Teeth Flying: Olga never gives him a chance to surrender as he's lying on the ground, helpless, she just continues to wail at him, multiple teeth being knocked out of his mouth with each punch until he loses consciousness, at which point, she can't legally keep going, so she shrugs off and throws away her gloves that are covered with his blood.
- Villain Forgot to Level Grind: While he was goofing off, expecting Olga to still be the helpless child he loved to beat up, she was actually learning how to fight by serving in the neighborhood watch militia. Naturally, once the odds are even and she actually has permission to fight back, she completely cleans his clock, even when he actively cheats!
- Villainous Demotivator: He would order Olga to smile as he was beating her up and condemning her when she failed to comply, which naturally gives her even less reason to smile in the first place.
Mofu Torrus Sr.
How dare that woman taze my son's friend when he tried to break her arm! How could the loser Perez family sire such a savage! Kevin-brother, are you sure she's yours?!
Olga's prospective father in law and the man in charge of the imperial military complex.- Bad Boss: He threatens his own reporters with violence if they can't shut off their cameras fast enough when Olga's gaining the upper hand against his son, and if they can't turn them back on fast enough when his son is gaining the upper hand.
- Blaming the Victim: He loves to call Kevin Perez "a loser" because Kevin's completely browbeaten by violence and the fact that Mofu uses the emperor's name as a club to keep him from fighting back. This comes to a screeching end at the end of chapter 10 when he's the one at the center of the emperor's wrath.
- Crime of Self-Defense: He condemns Olga for tazing Billy Turner after the lout attacked Corrie and tried to assault Olga for coming to Corrie's defense, even though it's no secret that Billy Turner is a Barbaric Bully who puts people he doesn't like in intensive care, and threatened to break Olga's arm.
- Fat Bastard: He's overweight and finds it the height of noble "virtue" to go around brutalizing the protagonist's entire house for laughs.
- Hourglass Plot: The very first story arc involves him and his son browbeating Kevin Perez into a boot-licking coward and brutalizing Olga for 10 years, only for Mofu Jr to completely wreck all of it trying to bully Olga one last time in a duel, losing in spite of cheating, and Mofu Sr. being stripped of his noble title, holdings, and being driven into the streets at gunpoint by imperial decree because Mofu Jr. used illegal drugs. Both sides of the fourth wall found it very gratifying.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He loved to use the emperor's name as a club to browbeat Kevin Perez into being a literal bootlicker. Olga turns this on him by calling in Fox NEWS which exposes his son's cheating and drug use to the press, including the emperor himself. The emperor goes in favor of a "light" punishment in stripping the Mofu noble title, taking all his assets and splitting them evenly among all the other noble houses, including the house of Olga Perez, and booting him into the street a penniless commoner, with Mofu Jr sent off to prison in a full-body cast, and if Mofu Sr. dares complain, he's going to prison too.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: In Olga's flashback, he demands Kevin Perez to sign over what little of his estate remains and Olga herself into marriage to his son, as he's got Kevin literally licking his boots, with Kevin showing signs of having been clearly beaten with physical violence.
- Purple Is Powerful: He wears purple and until his son went and used illegal drugs, forcing the emperor to deliver a "light" punishment of stripping him of his title, holdings, and sending him as a penniless commoner into the streets at gunpoint, he was the top military weapons maker and distribution center for the empire, and all the influence that entails.
- Wrong Assumption: When he sees the Minister of Military Affairs arrive and hears the marching of imperial troops, he lights up, presuming they're there to help him contest/cover up the claims of his son's wrongdoing and smite the Perez house because Olga dared to defend herself and stand up to him. The Minister was actually there to deliver the emperor's decree to arrest Mofu Jr. and strip everything from Mofu Sr., save his life.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: When the Minister of Military Affairs tells him he's at the academy to arrest Mofu Jr. and strip Mofu Sr. of his holdings, Mofu Sr. first tries to protest that it's a "misunderstanding," getting a rifle-butt to the face for his insolence, and then when it finally dawns on him that the emperor doesn't have his back anymore, he curls up on the ground crying "you've got to be kidding, right? It's all a joke! IT HAS TO BE!"
Academy Cadets
Billy Turner
How dare a mere maid speak to me! I will beat you to death!
One of Mofu Jr.'s "friends." He's one year lower in the class and brags about sabotaging Olga's simulation pod, at Mofu Jr.'s order. When she escapes anyway, he tries to attack her. He gets tazed for the affront.- Animal Motif: A shark. He has a shark themed battle-aura, is drawn with jagged teeth, has facial features reminiscent of a shark, and even has facial markings that look like gills.
- Barbaric Bully: He's introduced kicking Corrie to the ground for little to no reason, and it's well known among the students that he likes to send his classmates to the ICU by violence whenever the mood hits him. He gets away with it because the faculty looks the other way as long as students don't kill each other.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: The one time he's on screen, he's seen getting enraged for little to no reason.
- Facial Markings: He has marks on the left side of his face that look like gills. Their significance is unclear.
- One-Shot Character: He's only seen in the academy, getting tazed into unconsciousness by Olga and is never seen again.
- Revenge Myopia: He tries to attack Olga with the intent to break her arm, at a minimum, because she distracted him with a plastic bottle of water to the face while he was stomping on Corrie with the intent to do grievous bodily harm.
- Straw Hypocrite: He brags of sabotaging Olga's testing pod to ruin her grades and trap her inside, trying to disqualify her, but when she tazes him instead of going hand-to-hand, he cries out "you cheated!"
Rhett Ely
That bitch! How dare she steal my photo op!
Introduced as the class president of the fourth year class, about to graduate and the top scorer at the academy exam. He is the first of five cadets called forward to the platform of honor.- Ace Pilot: When he's flying his team into Mars's atmosphere, he weaves through surface to space anti-battleship energy beam concentrated fire.
- Assimilation Backfire: He meets his end in chapter 31 through arrogance and overconfidence. Not knowing how much control Olga has over the N2 nanites in her blood, he uses his authority over his nanites to call them back for a power-up. Then after a line or two of Evil Gloating, about how she can no longer resist him, he throws a punch only to look on in horror as his body almost explodes and he collapses to the ground, choking on his own blood and dying ever so slowly.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He first comes across as a calm, reasonable, and fair upper-classman who tries to help his juniors without prejudice. He is, in fact, a borderline psychopath who gets his jollies from mass-murder and making himself look extremely pleasing on camera and whispers to Mofu Sr. that it's more pragmatic to "graduate Olga early" and get her into an Awful Wedded Life than to screw around with the rules to hold her back and give her more time in the academy.
- The Chessmaster: He may be psychotic but he is not stupid. He's always got schemes going in the background. In chapter 3, he provides Mofu Jr. performance enhancing drugs in addition to suggesting a rigged duel against Olga so he can give said drugs a field test while keeping his own hands clean as he is not the one using them and on the trip to Mars fields some particularly effective and dangerous strategies to give himself as much limelight and the empire as much of a Pretext for War as possible. The only reasons Olga stands a chance are because of his ignorance of her [Weaver] brand nanites and he constantly underestimates her intelligence, drive, and determination.
- Disk-One Final Boss: He's the final antagonist Olga has to face for season 1. Soon after, an entire fleet of New Roman frigates, cruisers, and a battleship appears directly overhead.
- Dying Declaration of Hate: As he lies bleeding out in chapter 31, he swears that the New Roman Empire will continue hunting down Olga long after his death, and a warfleet arrives overhead just moments later...
- Engineered Heroics: When he actually makes it to Mars, the plan was to coordinate with a terran sleeper cell, have the cell attack nearby towns disguised as martian terrorists and then he and his buddies would swoop in, make it look like a close fight for the cameras and move on once the cameras were turned off. Olga completely wrecks that plan by accident because the "terrorists" attacked her, forced her to fight back, on camera, and she was defeating them with genuine heroics.
- Evil Is Petty: At the start, he had no personal issue with Olga; his attempts to murder her were under orders from his even more sociopathic father, out of fear for what she might do once she got strong enough. But when Olga dared to steal his limelight, he went completely postal and started plotting to make her suffer as much as possible first.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is a borderline psycho who gets his jollies by making himself look like a hero as he's out to mass-murder.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Chapter 31 reveals that his house was behind the Torrus house's exploitation all along, which is why he was so, so eager to help Mofu Torrus Jr back at the start of the story.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Season 1 ends with him being taken down by the very N2 nanites in his blood, no idea how it's happening.
- Humiliation Conga: Chapters 17-20 are all about Olga completely upstaging him. First, she steals his own Engineered Heroics by having Corrie focus the cameras on her as she legitimately takes down the New Roman agents disguised as Martian soldiers, then when he shows up in frame makes him look like he's her sidekick, she openly mocks him whenever he takes a shot at her and misses, passing it off as him being inept, and then makes it look like he's a coward when the real Martian army shows up and he calls for a retreat of everyone except Olga herself. Naturally, he completely loses it, and swears bloody vengeance.
- Icy Blue Eyes: Close-ups show that he has tiny irises of blue hard as sapphire with slits for pupils, which goes to demonstrate his cold, cunning, and calculative properties.
- Karmic Death: His favorite pass-time was using his N2 nanites to cause people to explode and sucked up the nanites of all his subordinates in the final battle with Olga for a power-up, violently, causing them to pop like bloody balloons. When he assimilates all of Olga's N2 nanites for a power-up, she takes them all back, along with all the rest in his system, violently, watching him die, slowly, choking on his own blood. And letting him know that it's all his nasty deeds of which he boasts coming home to roost.
- Loves the Sound of Screaming: When his troops disguised as Martian soldiers are going around massacring civilians, he's on a nearby rooftop waving a baton as if he's directing an orchestra.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: He rigs the transport ship to explode when they're close enough to Mars to cover his own team's insertion. He even waves Olga goodbye just before he sets off the explosives, for a laugh.
- Moral Sociopathy: He genuinely believes he's a good and honest, morally upright man, but he's utterly psychotic with no regard for life except his own.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By rigging the transport ship to explode, he got rid of a troublesome Glory Hound assassin that was trying to kill Olga so he could hog the emperor's promise of glory, keeping Olga's hands clean. Then while fighting Olga on Mars, infects her with highly aggressive N2 nanites, to eat her body apart, slowly, so she suffers as much as possible. This allows Olga to use her own nanites to wrest control over the N2 nanites, making her even more dangerous, allowing her to rescue Corrie, and beat down his soldiers in open combat.
- Slave to PR: He is so dedicated to his "heroic" public persona that he actively kills his subordinates in disguise on-camera, and then shifts the blame to Olga.
- We Have Reserves: He sees his subordinates as useful, but ultimately disposable resources.
Thacker Spikes
Aside from Rhett who is my equal, I'll kill all you novice fighters for my house's honor!
Mofu's replacement on the five-man team "Wolf Party" being sent to Mars.- Blade Below the Shoulder: He has a huge wrist mounted stinger-like weapon with sharp edges.
- Glory Hound: When Ritter Ely mentioned that the emperor would be giving out the title "Brigadier General" to one member of the party, he gets the "brilliant" idea to try and murder Olga, to narrow down the competition.
- Smug Snake: He genuinely believes he's an equal match for Rhett Ely and everyone else is a weakling. He gets taken down by Olga, without even trying, and at that point, she wasn't close to Rhett despite being rated [S] same as him.
- Too Dumb to Live: Even after Olga warns him that Rhett's promise of the "brigadier general" title is an obvious trap, he still tries attacking her anyway, while Rhett's on an escape shuttle waving, as the ship they're all on is sabotaged and about to blow.
Academy Staff:
Dean Dow Jove
Student Morphus, are you questioning the academy's authority?!
- The Alleged Boss: He's the dean of the academy. Presumably, his word is law. Yet, when Mofu Jr., Mofu Sr., and Rhett Ely demand a duel to contest Olga's score, accusing her of cheating, he doesn't even utter a word of protest. He just nods and lets the students do what they want. It's only after the duel is over that he bothers to investigate the initial claims of Olga's supposed cheating and, at Olga's request, investigates claims of Mofu Jr. using drugs, using bloodwork on both Mofu Jr. and Olga, despite having clear video evidence from the duel itself where Mofu Jr. was openly doping.
- Head-in-the-Sand Management: He and the rest of the staff turned a blind eye to student on student violence as long as there were no deaths.
- Mildly Military: This is supposedly a military academy. Yet the awards ceremony was just shy of unmitigated chaos as the students were all quite unruly and just saying whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted.
New Roman Empire:
Emperor Ryan III
The current emperor.
- Berserk Button: The mere implication that a noble house is building up strength without showing deference to him will almost certainly cause him to turn the full imperial might on said house. Bert Foss exploits this with some lovely Sugary Malice, singing up what sounds like praises for the Torrus house on paper, but were a back-handed accusation that the Torrus house was scheming something.
- The Caligula: He rules through fear and Might Makes Right. The noble houses all walk on eggshells around him and are constantly vying for supremacy through martial merit for fear of being absorbed, per his decree. Also, his laws allow for Marital Rape License.
- Everybody Has Standards: Using illegal drugs is one of the gravest crimes in the New Roman Empire, especially when they're used to cheat in a military exam. Mofu Jr. got caught red-handed doing it and the emperor's normal response is the death penalty. Mofu Sr. was given a "light" punishment by being immediately stripped of his holdings and noble title and kicked out into the streets as a commoner with nothing more than the clothes on his back. Mofu Jr. himself was taken to prison in a full body cast.
- Minor Major Character: He's the emperor but rarely makes any appearances.
- Orcus on His Throne: He is rarely seen anywhere but on his throne.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He may not appear very often, but when he does, the story changes in a big way.
