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Protagonists
Cecily Campbell
Cecily Campbell
- Adaptational Wimp: In the manga and original light novels, Cecily is one of the most badass swordswomen who can defeat enemies with her weapons. The anime version, makes her more incompetent at the start and she needs to get rescued three times in fewer episodes.
- Alliterative Name: Cecily Campbell
- Ancestral Weapon: Cecily's sword belongs to the Campbells, which breaks the first time Cecily tries to use it. Her quest is to get Luke to forge another one.
- Attempted Rape: Averted (in the manga and light novel). Just when Siegfried's attack on Cecily looks like it will end in rape he tells her he hates her too much even if he were capable of doing it. It is intended as the icing on the cake in a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown aiming at breaking her spirit.
- Battle Ballgown: Her armor seems to include a frilly skirt.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Luke and Cecily are constantly getting on each other's nerves even as their attraction to each other deepens.
- Berserk Button: Do not tell Cecily you would like to purchase her friend Aria. Actually, just don't insult her friends in general.
- Blue Blood: She's a high-ranking nobleman in Housman.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Cecily has rather large breasts, a trait which is frequently focused on. Characters often point out how buxom she is, ogling her breasts, wishing their breasts were as big as hers and even wanting to grope her.
- Butt-Monkey: At lot of the humor on the series comes at her expense, with her ending up in embarrassing or humiliating situations.
- Chainmail Bikini: Cecily's armor leaves nothing to the imagination, resembling nothing so much as a polished metal sports bra. It's downplayed somewhat in that her fellow male knights have plating with similar coverage.
- Clothing Damage: Cecily's armor breaks during battle, being about as durable as her sword. One time, it broke when she slapped her hand against it, to her embarrassment.
- Cowboy Cop: While Cecily possesses the single greatest weapon in the city, her unreliability and temperament (trying to punch a diplomat from The Empire because he pissed you off?) makes her unpopular with the rest of the Knights so she's viewed primarily as a Troubleshooter/thug by the city's Powers That Be — with the exception of Hannibal, though he calls her out the most.
- Curtains Match the Window: She has red hair and eyes of the same shade.
- Even the Girls Want Her:
- Lisa refused to stop talking about Cecily's breasts for the first two episodes.
- Aria repeatedly sneaks into Cecily's bed to use her breasts as pillows, declaring pointedly she wants to claim Cecily for herself.
- Fiery Redhead: The flaming temper and red hair pair match together and with her Tsundere.
- Go Through Me: In the first episode, Cecily takes several blows for Luke after the ice demon breaks his katana. She continues guarding him while he forges a new one. She does this in the last episode, too... then uses the katana he forges for her to break a Demon Sword!
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Her sword is a Campbell heirloom, long used in performing knightly deeds.
- Heroic B So D: Cecily has a minor breakdown when she's told she needs to Mercy Kill a zombie. Her coworkers are less than impressed. It gets worse when later in the novels, Cecily suffers a major breakdown when coming close to being raped by the Big Bad.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: Cecily is asked a couple of times about her relationship with Luke by a few characters. She usually vehemently denies it.
- Hot-Blooded: Cecily puts her best into everything and walks with honor, guts, and determination. Too bad this has left her with poor self-control and a lack of foresight, which impair her abilities in politics, diplomacy, commerce, and... normal human interaction.
- Lust Object: Several characters end up lusting after Cecily due to her voluptuous figure, most prominently Luke, who dislikes her but can't help but be attracted to her.
- Made of Iron: Cecily can absorb an insane amount of damage and be fine by the next day/week, when a normal warrior would be crippled for life if he was lucky. She also can bleed around 40 gallons in one go.
- Ms. Fanservice: Cecily is a pretty, well-endowed girl who wears a skintight breastplate that's prone to Wardrobe Malfunction, is constantly under Male Gaze shots, and gets into a variety of fanservice situations.
- Please, I Will Do Anything!: At one point, Cecily begs Luke to help her save Aria, and promises him anything he wants. "If it's money, I will work for you until the day I die. If it's my body, you can do whatever you want with me." Luke doesn't ask for anything.
- Plucky Girl: Though Cecily's anime incarnation lacks the manga and light novel versions' skills, she certainly doesn't lack guts. She knew Jack Stmdr was a seasoned veteran but still challenged him to fulfill her duty as a knight. She didn't stop fighting until her sword broke.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: Cecily is a noblewoman and so she counts as this in the manga and light novels. There she rallies a group of knights and mercenaries against a large number of thieves with werewolves to victory.
- Rape as Drama: While Siegfried doesn't actually rape Cecily, the scene where he beats the crap out of her, strips her naked, and tells her that she's pretty for a country girl while straddling her naked body, as well as Cecily's reaction to it, crying out for help that never comes, and vomiting afterwards, all evoke this trope. This is especially the case when one remembers that rape isn't just about sex, but about power and control, which Sigfried clearly robbed from Cecily.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Often gets put into fanservice situations against her will, such as having a public Wardrobe Malfunction or being forced to wear maid clothing.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Cecily is initially mortified to be seen in a dress and then totally flummoxed when Luke compliments her on it.
- Single-Stroke Battle: Cecily versus Siegfried comes close, although it's actually four strokes total.
- Took a Level in Badass: Cecily's anime incarnation takes her first level in the fight against the fire demon and keeps improving from there. Her second fight with Charlotte's handmaidens/bodyguards is a complete reversal of her first, with her splitting them up and then soundly beating each one with tactics specifically designed to counter their abilities. Hell, even the first fight (three against one and she held her own) showed she had improved. In the manga, she manages to take down all of Charlotte's handmaidens/bodyguards one after another without splitting them, sniping Margot behind from a wall and fighting off the other two.
- Tsundere: Cecily is Tybe B (default:dere-dere) because she is generally friendly or at least well-meaning. She is just easily flustered and/or angered by the guy she has a crush on.
- The Unfair Sex: Cecily is often unfair to Luke though more from being too Hot-Blooded and impulsive for her own good than any malice. She will verbally attack Luke without provocation (or information) because she can't handle her own feelings.
Luke Ainsworth
Luke Ainsworth
- Amusing Injuries: Luke's face gets hilariously swollen after being on the receiving end of Cecily's Megaton Punch (all due to Cecily's Clothing Damage).
- Arms Dealer: Luke is actively avoiding getting into the business of producing katana for others, and even leaders of Independent Trade Cities have a hard time pressing him into it.
- Badass Cape: He wears a cape, which doesn't seem to hinder him in combat or smithing.
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: Luke barely manages to do one in episode 3 after Cecily tries to stab him with a dagger. This happens Aria wonders if the two insulting each other means they are a couple.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Luke and Cecily are constantly getting on each other's nerves even as their attraction to each other deepens.
- Berserk Button: Do not even try to say anything about Lisa being a "replacement" to Luke. While he may acknowledge it, he will, at worst, give you a black eye.
- Big Damn Heroes: Luke saves Cecily often. The very first scene in the anime is a Flash Forward to him rescuing her for the third time. It's defied in the manga and light novels, where Cecily decides that she's not gonna just stand there and let Luke have all the fun.
- Deal with the Devil: Luke believes he created Lisa using a death song, but not quite. Apparently it's also possible for some people to use their death songs to create more benign forms of demon like Lisa (and presumably Aria).
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Averted.Luke:You're sorry? You have a wardrobe malfunction and beat the crap out of me, and you expect sorry is gonna cut it?
- Eye Scream: During a particularly brutal duel in the Manga, Luke takes a blow to the head that causes his fake eye to pop out onto the floor, much to the horror of the nobles watching the fight.
- Glass Eye: Luke's left eye is artificial. His real eye was used to create Lisa.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: His hair often obscures his Glass Eye, and add to his antisocial demeanor.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Luke torments himself (creating a mental block that prevents him from finishing the Sacred Sword) believing his actions led to the death of his childhood friend Lisa (pronounced Leeza, not Leesa...). In fact, Lisa died protecting him against Valbanill, but by her own choice.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Eventually, this becomes Luke's reason for continuing to keep silent about his feelings for Cecily. He knows that his life is coming to a swift end, and he doesn't want his death to cause Cecily the same pain that Lisa Oakwood's caused him. He tells Euen that he's sure that someday Cecily will find happiness with another man. However, when Euen asks Luke if he'd really be okay with watching Cecily fall in love with someone else because of never telling her how he feels, Luke grits his teeth and doesn't answer.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: To a much lesser degreee of jerkiness than heart of gold-nes. He's a great friend to Lisa but less so to others.
- Katanas Are Just Better: His weapon of choice is a katana, and the ones he makes a generally superior to other (non-magical) swords presented in the series.
- Nosebleed: When Cecily's breastplate cracks and falls off, it takes her shirt with it, exposing her naked breasts and causing him to have a massive nosebleed. Lisa later mocks him for having such an immature reaction to nudity.
- Platonic Life-Partners: He and Lisa live together and act very close, but their relationship is purely platonic.
- Power Degeneration: Because their work involves shaping glowing, white-hot pieces of iron, most blacksmiths develop damage to one (or both) of their eyes. Luke starts to lose the vision in his one remaining eye. This turns out to be a lie Luke tells to comfort Lisa but the trope is still being played straight. Luke is using his own flesh for "Demon Sword Materialization".
- The Power of Love: Played with: Luke is convinced that he lacks sufficient hatred to complete the Sacred Sword, but it's The Power of Love that finally allows him to finish it... kinda. He had already completed it but it took even more love to convince him he had succeeded.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Luke learns what Siegfried did to Cecily, he absolutely goes ballistic.
- Swipe Your Blade Off: He does this in the first episode after killing some monsters. He's a sword-maker, so he knows very well the importance of sword maintenance (and it looks cool).
- Thanks for the Mammary: Luke, mainly as Accidental Pervert, occasionally grabs Cecily's breasts.
- Transformation Is a Free Action: Averted. Luke usually has Cecily keeping his opponents busy while he's making a sword or they're so stuck up they think it's fun to watch him struggle.
- Tsundere: Luke is a type A (default:tsun-tsun) because he is generally aloof or jerkish, but he can be really nice to certain people important to him (like Lisa, and eventually Cecily).
- Ultimate Blacksmith: Luke is the eponymous "Sacred blacksmith" from the title, a name he acquired due to his supernatural skill as a blacksmith.
Lisa
Lisa
- Artificial Human: She was created from her sort-of namesake's wish.
- Blush Sticker: She almost always has rosey cheeks.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Is shown in the ending credits tripping to the rhythm of the music.
- The Cutie: She looks like an adorable little girl who has a cute voice and appearance.
- Instant Runes: Lisa's eye generates them for Luke's magic forging.
- Long-Lived: As a demon she doesn't age, so she's still around 300 years after the end of the novel, being a mentor figure to Luke and Cecily's descendants.
- Magic A Is Magic A: To instantly turn tamahagane ores into katana, Luke has Lisa conjure some Instant Runes (by apparently tracing them with one eye), then recites the steps of forging a katana.
- Nice Girl: She's extremely polite and kind, which contrasts with Luke's abrasive behavior.
- Platonic Life-Partners: She and Luke live together and act very close, but their relationship is purely platonic.
- Pointy Ears: She has pointy ears, which hint at her nature as a demon.
- Replacement Goldfish: Subverted. Luke thinks he created Lisa to replace the original Lisa, but it turns out that the original Lisa was the one who did it, in order to give Luke someone to help him around the house.
- Shipper on Deck: She likes Luke and Cecily being paired together and often tries to mediate their Belligerent Sexual Tension.
- The Unfair Sex: When Cecily snarks about Luke's sorest point (the death of his first love) before fleeing in tears Lisa insists that he be the one to apologize.
Aria
Aria
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Her outfit leaves her stomach exposed, emphasizing her femininity.
- Big-Breast Pride: She's overall a fan of large breasts and is proud of her own figure, even though she admits Cecily's are "nicer".
- Big Eater: She loves eating and does so in large quantities.
- Blow You Away: She's the demon sword of wind and can grant her wielder elemental wind powers in battle.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: While her chest isn't as big or as focused on as Cecily's, Aria is still noted to be well-endowed by other characters.
- Color-Coded Elements: She's the demon sword of wind and wears green.
- Color Motif: Green, as she wears green clothing and her wind powers have a green aura.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She has trauma over being used as a weapon of murder and carnage in her past, and dislikes thinking about it.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She sacrifices herself at the end of the novel, sealing hersel away alongside Valbanill. Many years later, Luke and Cecily's descendants free Aria from the seal by forging a new sacred sword to be used in her place.
- I Am Not a Gun: While Aria realizes that she can't fight her fate, she really, really relishes her times of peace. She's also grateful that in Cecily's hands she's used to protect people instead of slaughtering them.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: She has long, straight hair, which adds to her feminine personality, in contrast to Cecily who has shorter hair and tomboyish inclinations.
- Never Gets Fat: She has a thing figure despite the fact she's a Big Eater.
- Nice Girl: She's very kind and caring and wishes to be used as a weapon to protect others.
- Older Than They Look: She looks and acts like a young woman in her early 20s, but is far older than that
- Razor Wind: Aria's magic sword power cuts from a distance with air.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: She's the Demon Sword of Wind who can shift from her human form to her rapier form at will.
- Shipper on Deck: She often teases Cecily about her relationship with Luke and pushes the two to be together.
Supporting Characters
Hannibal Quasar
Hannibal Quasar
Voiced by: Yosuke Akimoto (Japanese), Mark Stoddard (English)note
- Bald of Authority: He's a bald Old Soldier, which adds to his stern, authoritative image.
- A Father to His Men: The leader of the knights of Housman takes good care of the knights.
- The Leader: He's the leader and highest-ranking Knight in Housman.
- Mentor Archetype: Acts as a patient mentor figure to Cecily.
- Old Soldier: Hannibal is 60 years old and the current leader of the Knight Guards of Housman
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: Hannibal may be around 60 years old but the man knows how to kick ass, as expected from a man who's a veteran of the Valbanill War, and The Leader of the town guards.
Hugo Housman
Hugo Housman
- Alliterative Name: Hugo Housman.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's a rational and patient mayor who tends to be forgiving of the protagonist's many antics.
- Supporting Leader: He's the mayor of Housman and Cecily's superior, but plays a supporting role in the narrative.
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Patty Baldwin
Patty Baldwin
Voiced by: Michiru Yuimoto (Japanese), Kara Edwards (English)note
- Satellite Character: She exists solely to be Cecily's friendly co-worker.
- "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: She marries Reginald at the end of the novels.
Reginald Drummond
Reginald Drummond
Voiced by: Hideki Tasaka (Japanese), Chris Cason (English)note
- Jerkass Has a Point: Bawls Cecily out for being unable to kill a zombie in episode 03. He calls her a coward and says that she doesn't deserve to be a Knight Guard. Harsh as his words are, he does have a point, when Cecily's reluctance to killing puts herself and others in danger.
- "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: He marries Patty at the end of the novels.
Charlotte E. Firobisher
Charlotte E. Firobisher
- Defeat Means Friendship: Charlotte and her gang become Cecily's housemates after Luke defeats them but they're still not quite friends. That happens after Cecily defeats all three of them herself.
- The Empire: Charlotte hails from an empire. It's trying to gather the Demon Swords so it can expand.
- Entitled Bitch: In their debut episode, Charlotte and her Girl Posse attack Cecily, try to steal Aria and strong-arm Luke into working for them, then whine about people being rude to them. Then they expect Cecily, whom they just tried to kill, to put them up while they stay in the city, and worse, they're expecting to live it up and be treated like Royalty. Fio does not tolerate this attitude for a second, and puts them to work.
- Fallen Princess: Daughter of the emperor, yet she is kicked out and even UnPersoned by her homeland.
- Girlish Pigtails: She's a bratty young girl who wears her hair in pigtails.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Charlotte is making the transition to Nice Girl but is not quite there yet.
- Meaningful Rename: After her second defeat, she makes peace with her Fallen Princess status and tells Cecily that she is dropping the "E" from her name in acknowledgment of this.
- Pretty Freeloader: Defied. Charlotte and her bodyguards think they're going to be fed and such at the Cambell house until Cecily's maid Fio puts them to work. It's likely that Fio is also punishing them because they ganged up on Cecily and tried to steal Aria from her.
- Skinship Grope: The Meido episode includes a Furo Scene where Charlotte and her Amazon Brigade take the chance to play with Cecily's Gag Boobs.
Doris
Doris
- A-Cup Angst: Part of her dislike of Cecily is due to envy of her buxom figure.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Her uniform as one of Charlotte's companions leaves her midriff bare, to emphasize her girliness.
- BFS: The demon sword Claymore wielded by Doris exceeds the size of any normal sword by a fair amount.
- Boyish Short Hair: She has a tomboying personality and fairly short hair.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Charlotte and her gang become Cecily's housemates after Luke defeats them but they're still not quite friends. That happens after Cecily defeats all three of them herself.
- Dishing Out Dirt: The power of Doris' demonic sword is earth.
- Undying Loyalty: Like all of Charlotte's companions, she's extremely loyal and devoted to Charlotte.
Margot
Margot
- A-Cup Angst: Often expresses jealousy of Aria and Cecily's large breasts, and tends to tease Penelope for being the only girl who is flatter than her.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Her uniform as one of Charlotte's companions leaves her midriff bare, to emphasize her girliness.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Charlotte and her gang become Cecily's housemates after Luke defeats them but they're still not quite friends. That happens after Cecily defeats all three of them herself.
- Idiot Hair: Has a lone hair sticking up.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: She has a tomboying personality and wears her hair in a high ponytail.
- Undying Loyalty: Like all of Charlotte's companions, she's extremely loyal and devoted to Charlotte.
Penelope
Penelope
- A-Cup Angst: She's insecure about her chest size and dislikes that Margot considers her the "smallest" of their trio.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Her uniform as one of Charlotte's companions leaves her midriff bare, to emphasize her girliness.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Charlotte and her gang become Cecily's housemates after Luke defeats them but they're still not quite friends. That happens after Cecily defeats all three of them herself.
- Undying Loyalty: Like all of Charlotte's companions, she's extremely loyal and devoted to Charlotte.
Lisa Oakwood
Lisa Oakwood
Voiced by: Hinako Sasaki (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)note
- Childhood Friend: She was close to Luke when he was a child. She cared so much about him, that she used her death song to create a new friend for him.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She died trying to protect Luke from Valbanill.
- Posthumous Character: She died before the start of the series.
Fio Atkins
Fio Atkins
Voiced by: Nozomi Masu (Japanese), Leah Clark (English)note
- Almighty Janitor: She's just a maid who takes care of the Campbell Family's house, but is so authoritative and scary that she orders around even the people she's supposed to be serving. She even effortlessly beats up Charlotte's bodyguards with her bare hands.
- Berserk Button: She reacts strongly to anyone speaking ill of the Campbell family.
- Hired Help as Family: She's so close and loyal to the Campbell family that she's basically considered part of the family.
- Meido: Inverted. While she dresses the part ad is ultra-competent at her job, she's not meek and submissive and will do things like force her own mistress into a maid outfit for (presumably) fun.
- Supreme Chef: Characters are frequently impressed by her talent as a cook.
Lucy Campbell
Lucy Campbell
- Blue Blood: She's a high-ranking nobleman in the city.
- Parental Substitute: She acts as a mother figure to Charlotte while she and her bodyguards stay in the Campbell house.
Antagonists
Siegfried
Siegfried
- Big Bad: He's a Warhawk who's the source of most of the conflict in the series
- Dark Is Evil: He wears a lot of black, and he is definitely evil.
- Enforced Cold War: According to Siegfried, this is the reason why peace exists in the first place. The war was beyond horrific to the point of severely traumatizing entire nations, which is why: A) they would do anything to avoid another war, and B) Demon Swords are so lusted after by everyone and their mothers. He might be lying, but still it makes a lot of sense in the setting.
- Eunuchs Are Evil: This is the second reason Siegfried doesn't rape Cecily after beating her up; he's physically unable to.
- Kick the Dog: Siegfried's sexual assault of Cecily proves, once and for all, that he is an asshole.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Siegfried's criticism of Cecily is as harsh as the brutal beat-down he deals out at the same time. He broke every bit of her entire psyche until he left her broken in a barn... because he didn't care enough to finish her.
- Straw Nihilist: Talking about the pointlessness of peace and stuff like that. He gets violent when Cecily tells him to shut up.
- White Hair, Black Heart: It is significant in that no one else in the city has white hair, not even old people like Hannibal (who is awesomely bald instead).
Jack Strader
Jack Strader
- BFS: Big sword to go with big man.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: His hair covers one of his eyes, and adds to his introverted demeanour.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Was in the last war and it broke him. Now he's a shell of his former self.
- Spell My Name With An S: His surname is also spelled as "Stmdr".
- Starter Villain: The first antagonist that Cecily deals with in the story.
- War Is Hell: The last war terrified entire nations and created people like Jack.
Augustus Arthur
Francisca
Francisca
- Bodyguard Babes: She's Siegfried's bodyguard.
- The Dragon: She serves as Siegfried's right-hand woman and lieutenant.
- In T He Hood: Wears a hood to add to her enigmatic appearance.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: She's a Demon sword who can shift from her human form to her bastard sword form at will.
Evadne
Evadne
Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (Japanese), Clarine Harp (English)
- Dark Is Evil: Black Flame isn't the sort of thing you'd cook with, you know?
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She's a striking woman with long dark black hair and contrasting pale white skin.
- The Quiet One: She's very taciturn and tends not to speak much.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: She's the Demon Sword of the Black Flame, and can walk around like a human.
Old Knight
Old Knight
Voiced by: Tomohisa Asou (Japanese), Cole Brown (English)
The wielder of Elsa, the Demon Sword of Thunder.
- Blood Knight: He only exists to get revenge on Valbanill.
Elsa
Elsa
- Curtains Match the Window: Black hair and eyes.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: Because she is a weapon, even if she looks human.
