Characters from the Alzer Republic, the setting of the sequel dating sim.
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Alzer Republic
The setting of the second otome game, is an alliance of six floating island Kingdoms known as the Alzer Republic. United by the worship, and magical benefits, of a giant World Tree, each of the six islands has their own Royal Families (called Great Houses), of which the games capture targets are princes of.
The Alzer Republic in general:
- 0% Approval Rating: Due to the fact that commoners are so helpless against their nobles due to tree Crest granted powers, and nobles like Pierre can Kick the Dog all they want without repercussions, as long as the victim isn't a noble. This means when anyone smacks their nobles around, it's cause for celebration.
- Anti-Magic: The Sacred Tree Crests let their user nullify a target's (non-tree related) magic via summoned roots from the ground. If the target does have a crest, the one with the higher ranked crest wins, or if they're equally ranked, a stalemate ensues. Ideal's side story reveals that the true purpose of the Sacred Tree is to clean and filter the magic that have poisoned the whole world that rendered it uninhabitable and dangerous, which explains why it can nullify magic.
- Boisterous Weakling: Have supreme confidence in their military capability, due to the supernatural aid of the Sacred Tree, winning many defensive wars due to it granting them a tangible Homefield Advantage. The truth is, they have been using the tree's gifts as a crutch for centuries, and their regular fighting skills have atrophied.
- Depower: Nobles who break a sacred vow made to the tree, are forcefully stripped of their Crest, and its powers. It's common practice to disinherit such people, because their descendants cannot receive Crests.
- Elective Monarchy: While each of the major Houses rules essentially a hereditary monarchy onto itself, the leader of the Republic as a whole, is decided like this. It was always Lespinasse House, due to them always containing the tree's Priestess, until the Ruling Family Massacre a decade before. The current rulers are the Rault House, who did the killing.
- Gameplay and Story Integration: After the complaints of the first game being
Nintendo Hard, the second game is said to be much easier to complete. This reason is the Sacred Tree is helping everyone regardless of affiliation, on the flipside made them weaker physically. That's why everyone from the Holfort Kingdom is much stronger in normal hand-to-hand combat as Power Creep, Power Seep doesn't exist in the real world. The only thing that prevents the Alzer Republic from being curbstomped totally is due to the Sacred Tree's power. - Green Thumb: The main way a noble's Crest is used to attack a foe, or enforce a tree vow, is using summoned tree roots. In the latter case, it forms a collar around their neck, ready to decapitate them.
- Homefield Advantage: In addition to their Sacred Tree crests, they've found ways to integrate the Tree's magic into airships and mechs, granting them a massive amount of energy. The issue is, neither crests, nor that integration, work at great distances from the tree itself.
- In-Series Nickname: All the second game's official Love Interests have In-Universe Fan Nicknames
- Royal-road/Classic-Boy Loic
- Rotten-Professor Narcisse
- Safe-Tile/Easy-Pick Emile
- Bro-con/Brother-Obsessed Hugues
- Big Brother Fernand
- Archnemesis Serge
- Leonine Contract: Duels made under the tree's vow, can be made in very unfair terms; this is part of what gave Alzer nobles such a stranglehold over commoners. A literal stranglehold: If a non-noble breaks a vow, the Sacred Tree's roots spring around their neck and decapitate them. If a noble breaks it, they are de-powered, and their descendants can't receive a crest.
- Offered the Crown: Typically, whoever married the tree Priestess then became the Guardian. A Guardian Crest is the most powerful, overriding anyone else's. In practice, this meant House Lespinasse was always the Queen, and would negotiate with the other Houses, for who'd be King.
- Power Tattoo: The Sacred Tree's gift or crest, that gives their nobles their powers. They have Power Levels, which makes more powerful ones override less powerful ones, which are, from most to least powerful: Guardian, Priestess, Great House, and Vassal House.
- Smug Super: Their attitude towards the rest of the world. To the point, some nobles are happy to engage in War for Fun and Profit, with Feivel House hosting Sky Pirates without it causing any uproar, due to them only targeting the outside world.
- Theme Naming: Many of their names are French-themed.
- Unobtanium: Use magical rocks generated from the Sacred Tree, to fuel their cars, and serve as their primary export. Controlling who they sell it to and what price, is their main way of influencing the outside world.
- We Have Become Complacent: The ruling families of the Alzer Republic suffer from this due to the magic granted to them by their World Tree, blissfully dismissive of potential threats. Which actually works towards the protagonist’s benefit, for a while.
Major Characters
Noelle Beltre
Noelle Beltre/Noelle Zel Lespinasse
"Don't be so timid. You're representing us, so be more confident. And if they’re acting high and mighty, punch them in the face."
The older twin sister of the Beltre twins, survivor of the destroyed Lespinasse House. She is an outgoing girl who Leon befriends quickly after arriving in the Republic. Due to being a twin, it complicated matters for Leon and Marie as there was only supposed to be one survivor. Noelle is however, the second game's protagonist.For Noelle's Marie Route Side Story tropes, see here.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: She's introduced in chapter 1 of volume 4 of the Light Novels, whereas she appeared significantly later in the web novel.
- Always Identical Twins: Averted with her and Lelia as Noelle has amber colored hair and eyes, and is much bustier than her twin.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Asks one to Loic, "Do you know what kind of things I like?", to demonstrate he was Loving a Shadow.
- Birds of a Feather: She’s unrefined, confrontational, unprivileged, isn’t afraid of anyone, and chafes at her nation’s societal flaws. So it’s no wonder she's fast friends with Leon.
- Break the Cutie: In Volume 5, after learning Leon is already engaged, and being captured and tormented by Loic.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: She's more lively and outgoing in contrast to the more reserved Olivia.
- Decomposite Character: In-Universe, as in the Otome Game there was only one survivor of Lespinasse House, but there is also Lelia. The Otome protagonist had twin-tales hair, but each sister wears it to one side.
- Defector from Decadence: She dislikes Republic nobles and the Sacred Tree. Despite being from one of the Great Houses herself, Noelle helps and encourages Leon as he fights them, while clashing with her rival Louise, who's the daughter of their leader.
- Diving Save: Does this to keep her sister out of danger. Her second time doing so, she Takes the Bullet.
- Fish out of Water: Gets lost when dealing with noble politics, and anything to do with Holfort Kingdom besides its language.
- Girl Next Door: A playful one. Considering who she ends up living with, this naturally makes her an Only Sane Woman.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She's headstrong, acts and talks in a casual manner, but is otherwise a maiden who wants to find love and sometimes compares herself to her younger twin.
- Groin Attack: Does this to Loic after one of his threats.
- Green Thumb: Since Noelle is still a priestess of the sapling, she is this. The main difference between her and a common Alzerian noble with a crest is that even she is far away from her tree, her power can trigger anywhere regardless of the place. It's even strong enough to destroy her room and stop multiple soldiers from Holy Kingdom of Rachel without her lifting a finger.
- Hidden Backup Princess: Part of her role in the Otome Game plot she shares with Lelia, fitting with their Ruling Family Massacre backstory. Lespinasse House were the rulers of the Republic, before Rault.
- High-Heel–Face Turn: Invoked. She has a crush on Leon from pretty early on and just when she's ready to try asking him out, she realizes he already has two fiancées and they don't appreciate competition. This makes Noelle hesitant to stay around him anymore, which is awkward when both for her own safety and the Kingdom's best interests it would be best for her to return with them and stay under Leon's protection. Angie and Olivia end up offering her a deal: If she comes with them, she's free to try seducing Leon and they won't get angry with her whether she succeeds or not. It's an intriguing offer, but she doesn't respond until the plot moves along far enough that she just becomes a third fiancée anyway.
- Humble Hero: Her only real ambition is to find love, she could care less about gaining anything else, and hates noble politics as much as Leon. This stands in contrast to her sister.
- Innocently Insensitive: One of her flaws is speaking before thinking, which considering she's often speaking to nobles, causes her friend Jean much worry.
- Lazy Alias: She and her sister didn’t even have their first names changed when entered into Alzer’s academy. They blame their retainers like Clement for signing them up that way.
- Love Hurts: Falls in love with Leon only to find out he's already engaged to two other women, and she goes Running Away to Cry. However, they eventually accept Noelle, so it gets better for her.
- Modest Royalty: As and in part due to being, a Hidden Backup Princess living among commoners. In fact, she is modest even by the standards of nobles in general, let alone royalty or high nobles. Which is one of the main things Leon likes about her.
- Nice Girl: She's a sweet girl with a tomboy streak. She also listens to the woes of Leon's mother who can't communicate properly with Angie (whose status is too high for Luce) and Olivia (who gets really nervous because Luce's own status is too high for Olivia). Even Colin sees her as a Cool Big Sis because Finley and Jenna are Jerkasses to their brothers.
- Only Sane Woman: Gradually falls into this role, being the most grounded character and realizing the mistakes of others quickly.
- Out of Focus: For most of the sixth volume, considering she doesn’t want to bring any heat on Leon or herself from his fiancées, until they declare that they accept her.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a potent one to Loic, finishing it with an Armor-Piercing Question, that causes him to have a Heel Realization about his extreme behavior.
- Rebellious Princess: As a child until her Household was destroyed. She kept the rebelliousness after.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Noelle comes to like Leon as he's a genuinely good guy despite his gruff exterior. She also dated Loic in the past, but his Control Freak tendencies caused her to slowly hate him.
- Teens Love Shopping: Although, it often seems an excuse she uses to go on de-facto dates with Leon.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: She had this dynamic with her sister Lelia from a young age, which left Noelle subject to gossip, before their House was destroyed. Being freed from the pressure of noble society left Noelle free to express herself even more, which gets her into trouble.
- The Unfavorite: Her parents and retainers saw her as good for nothing except being married off, entrusting the future of their House to Lelia.
- Unwanted Rescue: Due mainly to feeling like her feelings for Leon are unrequited, she rejects Leon's rescue attempts after she's coerced into marrying Loic. Marie, who's been in abusive relationships herself, believes Noelle thinks it will be alright if she just bears through with it long enough. Leon eventually, with the convincing of the five princes, rescues her anyway.
Lelia Beltre
Lelia Beltre/Lelia Zel Lespinasse
“I chose a boring and simple boy who I had to put up with, so why couldn't he function the way I wanted?”
The reincarnated younger twin sister of the Beltre twins, survivor of the destroyed Lespinasse House. She likes to carry herself in a ladylike manner, although she can just be as stubborn as her sister can be if agitated. She is introduced dating Emile, one of the capture targets.For Lelia's Marie Route Side Story tropes, see here.
- Adorably Precocious Child: Due to her Past-Life Memories, she was mature and knowledgeable for her age, which made her the favorite over Noelle.
- Always Identical Twins: Averted with her and Noelle as Lelia has pink hair, green eyes and is much more petite than Noelle.
- The Atoner: After she realizes she has been inflicting all the injustices done to her in her past life, she determines to take up all the responsibilities she pushed onto Noelle earlier as Alzer’s Priestess and rebuild the country.
- Decomposite Character: In-Universe, as in the Otome Game there was only one survivor of Lespinasse House, but there is also Noelle. The Otome protagonist had twin-tails hair, but each sister wears it to one side.
- Did Not Think This Through: She pretty much cornered her sister Noelle to Loic's bad end scenario by removing the other capture targets one way or another.
- Feuding Families: Sees Rault House like this, scolding Leon for cooperating with them. Considering that they killed her parents, it's easy to understand why. Noelle doesn't share this viewpoint, and would just be happy to have nothing to do with nobles, especially Loic and Louise.
- Gold Digger: Lelia has shown a consistent pattern of choosing partners based on their usefulness and wealth, rather than an actual interest. What makes this apparent, is her past life before reincarnating, where she saw herself as competing with her sister, to get a more successful partner. Her interest in Serge, may indicate her moving on from this mindset.
- Green-Eyed Monster: One of the main driving forces of her character, is envy, particularly of her sister.
- Hidden Backup Princess: Part of her role in the Otome Game plot she shares with Noelle, fitting with their Ruling Family Massacre backstory. Lespinasse House were the rulers of the Republic, before Rault.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Her playing through the second game and seeing the true end has basically given her Confirmation Bias towards Loic. She's convinced that everything will work out as long as Noelle ends up with Loic and ignores or only reluctantly acknowledges all of Loic's flaws while only needing a few paper thin excuses to jump back to her previous mentality with barely any hesitation. She also antagonizes the Raults, always seeing them as the villains.
- In-Universe Factoid Failure: Her information about the details of the game is even more lacking than Marie due to her actively avoiding the bad ending in her previous life. This, alongside her inability to take other people's feelings into consideration (especially Noelle's), caused the situation to progressively grow worse by the time Leon and Marie showed up.
- It's All About Me: Especially shown in her interactions with Emile and Leon, she has a strong sense of entitlement, and sees no need to accommodate the feelings of others more than absolutely necessary.
- When her fiancé Emile is five whole seconds late to pick her up, she goes off with the sexy bad boy adventurer, kisses him at a spot for couples and then gets mad at Emile for asking what exactly they were doing in there.
- Jerkass: Pretty much everything she does is about benefitting herself at the expense of everyone who cares about her. She tries to force her sister into an abusive relationship, treats her fiancé like trash, cheats on said fiancé and even considers straight up abandoning Alzer when she realizes that with Ideal she doesn't really need to worry about them anymore.
- Lazy Alias: She and her sister didn’t even have their first names changed when entered into Alzer’s academy. They blame their retainers like Clement for signing them up that way.
- Matchmaker Crush: Originally tried to set up Serge to be with Noelle, only for it to backfire when Serge fell for Lelia, which she didn't reciprocate. But due to Serge being a Dogged Nice Guy to her, and their Commonality Connection, she starts to share his feelings.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Breaks down in tears, when she realizes she put Noelle through the same suffering her past-life family had put her through, as well as doing worse to Emile than her past-life ex-fiancé had done to her.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Most of the conflicts during the Alzer Republic story arc are basically her fault.
- In the process of trying to pair Noelle with Loic, she inadvertently messed the storyline of the second game, failing to raise any flags for her sister to pair off with any of the capture targets (and as the case for Emile, she took him for herself), amplifying Loic's obsessive personality to the point where Noelle absolutely loathes him by the time Leon and Marie show up.
- Awakening Ideal and cheating on Emile with Serge leads to Ideal manipulating them through their Love Triangle, Clement and Noelle Taking the Bullet for her, and Emile becoming the True Final Boss.
- Even when they were young, it was Lelia's fault Noelle had an unhappy childhood. Due to her advanced intellect and maturity, their parents heavily favored Lelia to bring prosperity to their house while Noelle was stuck being the priestess. Not only did Noelle experience neglect and emotional abuse from her family, she was not also ready to handle the pressure and responsibility of her position when she wasn't expecting it in the first place.
- Oh, Crap!: Lelia has a few of these moments. First, by avoiding all of the bad-endings in the game, she lacked the proper knowledge and only realizing too late that she was steering Noelle towards the worst ending with Loic. Second with Leon getting the Sacred Tree Sapling and kicking Pierre to the curb, thereby throwing off the game's planned events. Third, realizing that Luxion was a cash-shop cheat that was so OP, that he could easily sink the entire Alzer continent. This gets her scrambling to look for a counter.
- Pet the Dog: Tries to comfort her sister after she's heartbroken from learning Leon is already engaged.
- Proper Lady: Naturally fit the expectations of her surroundings growing up as a princess, with a Tomboy and Girly Girl dynamic with her sister Noelle, who received much negative gossip for not being one.
- Psychological Projection: Her feelings about Noelle may qualify as this.
- The Resenter: Towards her sister. This is mostly carried over from her jealousy of her past-life older sister.
- The Rival: Her dynamic with Marie, which leaves it up to Leon to be peacemaker between the two.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Averted as while she does have pink hair, she is far less pleasant than her twin.
- Shipper with an Agenda: Treating her sister and the capture targets like videogame characters instead of people causes a whole lot of trouble and suffering. She of course blames others for the failure of her plans. At least for a while.
- Successful Sibling Syndrome: Motivating her reckless treatment of Noelle, stemming from how Lelia's sister from her previous life, stole her fiancé with their parents approval.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Had this dynamic with Noelle since childhood, with Lelia fitting in with nobles, while Noelle didn’t.
- The Unfavorite: In her previous life, to the point that her parents cheered when Lelia's fiancé dumped her for her older sister. In her second life, she mistakenly thinks she's still this when her parents chose Noelle over her to be the next Priestess.
- You Are What You Hate: After Noelle tells her the truth about how Noelle was The Unfavorite, and told to be the Priestess to free up Lelia to run the household, Lelia realizes she has become just like her hated older sister in her previous life.
Pierre Io Feivel
Pierre Io Feivel
“Small fries just need to obey me!”
The delinquent Second Prince of the Feivel House and an antagonist in the second game. In the game, he plays a major role in an event that would have affirmed the love between the heroine and one of the capture targets.- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Not too proud, but too jawbroken to beg Leon to stop beating the tar out of him during their duel.
- Arc Villain: Of the fourth volume.
- Asshole Victim: An utterly despicable example of a human being which makes his ensuing Humiliation Conga all the more satisfying.
- Attack the Mouth: Leon does this to stop Pierre from declaring surrender.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Orders Noelle (the elderly dog) taken hostage alongside Carla, to ensure Leon loses their duel.
- The Bully: Loves to bully those lower than him, including the commoners. This contributes to Noelle's distaste of the Alzer nobility.
- Cain and Abel: His actions have the long-term goal of becoming heir instead of his elder brother by any means. He ends up being hidden away and tortured by said brother instead, after Leon’s through with him.
- De-power: He loses his blessing from the Sacred Tree after failing to uphold the terms of the his duel with Leon, right in front of an audience of angry commoners who are all too happy to see him defeated.
- Dirty Coward: As typical of bullies, he's only willing to target those who can't retaliate, so he backs down when faced with another Alzer Great House noble. This extends to his underlings as well, who try to suck up to Leon when realizing they're screwed.
- Disproportionate Retribution: A bar owner asks him to pay his tab. Pierre and his minions burn it down, and have their way with the owner's wife and daughter.
- Framing the Guilty Party: Leon and Luxion frame Pierre and his minions for attacking Feivel territory with Einhorn, and Pierre himself for attacking the audience of their duel.
- Friend in the Black Market: Has a crooked merchant associate with whom he illegally trades magic crystals to line his own pockets.
- Green Thumb: Enjoys using his noble crest to summon tree roots to entangle victims.
- Hate Sink: Has zero redeeming qualities and is widely hated within the Republic for his behavior. Audiences rejoiced at his absolutely brutal beatdown from Leon.
- Hoist by His Own Petard:
- Stealing the Einhorn leads to his downfall when Luxion seizes control of it and goes on a rampage, with Feivel territory taking the brunt of the damage.
- He also tries to use the Arroganz against an un-armored Leon but proves ineffective because Leon knows his own equipment better than Pierre does, and has Luxion remotely redirect its attacks away from him. Had Pierre used a different armor, Leon would've had a much harder time.
- Hostage Situation: Has his merchant associate take Carla and Noelle (the dog) hostage, with the threat that they'd be killed if Leon won. They're rescued by Marie using a Thompson submachinegun, and the four healthy princes.
- Humiliation Conga: Is made to look like he can't beat a person on foot while he himself is in a Mini-Mecha, and then the audience cheers as Leon gives him Extreme Mêlée Revenge and keeps him from surrendering. Then when he is unable to return Einhorn to Leon as per the terms of the duel, he is stripped of his crest, and with it, his status as a noble.
- Japanese Delinquents: What he and his minions are styled after.
- Kick the Dog: Beating Jean purely for being associated with someone Pierre doesn't like, and everything he does to the bar owner and his family.
- Laughing Mad: When attacking the helpless bar.
- Leonine Contract:
- Tells Marie and everyone at the mansion, under oath of the Sacred Tree, that they must either fight each other until only one remains, or give him the Cool Airship Einhorn. They would have been executed by Sacred Tree roots if they disobeyed, thus Pierre steals the Einhorn.
- Gets turned back on him when he literally can't give back the Einhorn (due to Luxion controlling it) after losing the duel with Leon. As a result, he breaks his sacred oath and is stripped of his powers.
- Like Father, Like Son: His father, Lambert Io Feivel, does nothing to discourage his son's behavior and is as much of a depraved Glory Hound himself, only less overt about it.
- Meaningful Name: His family name is similar to "fièvre" ("fever" in French). It also sounds like "evil".
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Faces one at the hands of Leon at the end of their duel that goes on for several minutes, thanks to a special glove prepared by Luxion for Leon.
- Princeling Rivalry: With his older brother for who's to be heir to Feivel House, a bad enough rivalry for said brother to fake Pierre's death and torture him in secret.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Lives above the law due to his nobility, and only another noble can overpower him due to his Crest-given-powers.
- Sky Pirate: Half of his minions are air pirates, who operated from Feivel territory, targeting the outside world.
- Spare to the Throne: Of Feivel House. His main goal is to build up resources to usurp his elder brother as heir. He was planning to kill him, but starts to be hopeful about outshining him enough to be declared heir by their father.
- Spikes of Villainy: Puts these on the captured Arroganz. Luxion was not pleased.
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Steals from Leon with an unfair Sacred Tree-enforced wager, and beats Jean to a pulp. Leon tricks him with his own wager, and beats him to a pulp himself.
- Trash of the Titans: The Einhorn becomes a complete mess while Pierre and his minions are occupying it.
- War for Fun and Profit: He and his hangers-on want to start a war with the Kingdom just for the prestige. Also supports air pirates raiding other countries.
- And Your Little Dog, Too!: Does this to his victims, such as punishing a bar owner's family for requesting he pay his tab. Pierre actually takes Jean's dog Noelle hostage alongside Carla, making for a literal example.
Ideal
Ideal
The second game's cheat item Ideal, is a green-colored A.I. that seems bumbling and eager to please. His body is a military transport ship, unlike Luxion's refugee transport one. Discovered in the sixth volume, he's apparently seen action against ancient New Humanity.- Berserk Button: Calling him a liar or implying he is one. It also serves as a Trauma Button because it reminds of his last conversation with his Second Lieutenant where he was forced to lie as not to make her worry.
- Big Bad: Of the sixth and seventh volumes. All of the conflicts in them were the result of his designs.
- Bigger Stick: Was obtained specifically to be this, in order for Lelia to protect herself from Luxion.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Acts nicer and less deranged than Luxion and Cleare. That's only obfuscating his being a Manipulative Bastard.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: Ideal was a paid item in the second otome game.
- Color-Coded Characters: Like the other A.I.s. His drone is green.
- Conflict Ball: With his Manipulative Bastard tendencies, he's a literal one (having a spherical drone).
- A Day in the Limelight: A side story alongside the seventh volume telling his Origin Story.
- Fusion Dance: The Final Boss of the second otome game is Ideal fused with someone through the Sacred Tree. In the game it was Albergue, and in the novel’s story, Emile.
- Hopeless War: Fought in one of these as part of his Origin Story.
- The Long Game: Everything he does is out of revenge for his Old Human friends who got massacred by the New Humans in ages past.
- Last Words: I’m sorry, everyone. I failed to fulfill my promise. After all, I was still a liar. I’m really — sorry. So sorry.
- Manipulative Bastard: The most notable examples are: him tipping off Emile about Serge's interactions with Lelia, turning Serge against his adoptive family and into conflict with Leon with selectively edited recordings of them enjoying each other's company, and lying that he destroyed the ancient New Human Living Weapon suit to keep his collusion with it secret.
- Metaphorically True: Ideal likes to use half-truths and exaggeration to manipulate.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Covers his manipulations as innocent mistakes.
- People Puppets: Mind controls Yumeria, and controls fellow ships he gutted of their A.I.
- Pinocchio Nose: Moving his eye side to side is his tell for lying.
- Playing Both Sides: Uses the Love Triangle between Emile, Serge and Lelia, to make the former two into his pawns.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: According to his Origin Story, revenge for his Old Mankind friend’s death was the cause of all of Ideal’s deception and scheming to destroy Alzer.
- Save the Villain: Saves the Living Weapon suit that tricked and ensnared Louise from Luxion.
- Sapient Ship: Like Luxion. A military transport left over from the Old Humans' armies.
- Villain's Dying Grace: While Ideal is ranting on how he will never forgive Leon and Luxion for destroying his plans of revenge against the new humanity, he also witnessed Noelle's last moments and heard her calling Leon a liar. This reminded him of his dying commanding officer calling him the same. This caused Ideal to have a change of heart and he gives Luxion the medical data needed to save Noelle. Luxion even lampshades this act.
- We Can Rule Together: Repeatedly offers to let Luxion into his schemes to exterminate New Humanity, starting with Serge’s coup of the Alzer Republic.
House Rault
Louise Sara Rault
Louise Sara Rault
"Call me 'Big Sis'."
For Louise's Marie Route Side Story tropes, see here.
- Altar Diplomacy: Her Arranged Marriage engagement with Hugues is this, for an alliance between their Great Houses. Since Hugues back-stabs the Rault family, it’s dissolved with the excuse of Hugues being a Dirty Coward at Loic’s crashed wedding.
- Bluff the Impostor: With prompting from Noelle and Leon Bartfort, she eventually asks the Demonic Armor impersonating her brother about playing with Noelle when the two had never met. The fake Leon gets it wrong, which allows her to break free of its control.
- Canon Foreigner: She's completely original to the Light Novel continuity and never appeared in the web novel.
- Childhood Marriage Promise: The gist of what happened shortly before Leon Rault died. After the two had an argument, Leon gave her a paper ring to apologize.
- Cool Big Sis: Leon really looks up to her. Both her actual younger brother and our Leon, as a matter of fact.
- Cruel to Be Kind: It turns out that her quarrels with Noelle is partially a case of this as she was ordered by her father to protect Noelle from the other families. Louise really would rather have nothing to do with her and is just venting her frustrations at her dead brother's fiancée while protecting her at the same time.
- Curves in All the Right Places: Described word-for-word as such in her first scene, being more buxom than Noelle.
- Daddy's Little Villain: Her supposed original role on the second otome game’s plot. Leon has a hard time imagining her as one, although there was a time he had to pull her back from assaulting Lelia and she went into a Motive Rant.
- Deadpan Snarker: Especially when teasing Leon and Noelle.
- Disposable Fiancé: It’s not focused on like it was for Angelica or Clarice, but as part of the game's plot, she’s engaged to Hugues, a capture target, to form a political alliance between the Great Houses. The two barely speak, and he’d rather be off partying.
- Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: This is where her at first very strange seeming interest in Leon stems from. He has the same appearance and personality as her dead brother.
- Fatal Flaw: It's her inability to cope with and move on from her little brother's death.
- Flaw Exploitation: Her Fatal Flaw gets exploited by way of Dead Person Impersonation of her dead brother, both by an ancient New Human Living Weapon intent on using her as a Living Battery, and by Leon Fou Bartfort trying to keep her from unwittingly sacrificing herself to the former.
- Get Ahold Of Yourself Woman: To Noelle, slapping her after seeing her depressed. She much later returns the slap.
- Heir-In-Law: After Serge is disinherited, the heir of House Rault is set to be whoever she weds.
- Hidden Disdain Reveal: While Louise treats Noelle badly as a ploy to protect her, she was dripping with disdain in regards to Lelia, so much that Louise didn't even bother to bully her because she doesn't care what happens to Lelia.
- Human Sacrifice: All of the other Great Noble Houses of Alzer, as well as Louise herself, are tricked into going along with giving her as an offering to the Sacred Tree, by a voice seemingly emanating from said tree, as well as a false blooming of its flowers.
- Jerkass to One: To Noelle and especially Lelia who were originally one person in the game. She bonds with Noelle somewhat over the course of the story.
- Like Brother and Sister: She and Leon describe their relationship like this. The five princes don't buy it.Julius: "Is this what they call a sister complex?"
- Living Battery: Making her into essentially a charger-cable to regenerate from the Sacred Tree, was the goal of the ancient Living Weapon suit that tricked her into sacrificing herself.
- Motive Rant: Breaks down and goes into all the reasons she hates Noelle and Lelia. Getting it out of her system was a step towards winding down her rivalry with Noelle.
- Onee-sama: Leon certainly would have liked for her to be his actual sister due to her overall pleasant personality.
- Plagued by Nightmares: Of her brother, after being told to sacrifice herself to the Sacred Tree. It's possible the dreams were part of a psychic attack on her.
- Politically-Active Princess: She’s essentially a princess twice over (her father being King of one of Alzer’s six kingdoms, and its Chairman). She’ll happily push her family’s weight around for Leon, which her rival Noelle actually tries to help talk Leon into accepting.
- Something Only They Would Say: What busts Leon Fou Bartfort's Dead Person Impersonation of her dead younger brother, which he did to try and sway her into accepting being rescued while she wasn't in a good mental state. Little Leon gave her a paper ring with writing on the inside, and Bartfort guessed it wrong.
- Bartfort later gets this right, due to being shown little Leon's memories by his spirit in a dream, much to Louise's shock.
- Spirited Young Lady: Confident, witty, sarcastic, outspoken, and chafes at being expected to attend social events. That’s not to mention how improper she acts when Leon visits her mansion. Yet, she’s still regal enough to contrast with Noelle’s lack of sophistication.
- Together in Death: Is convinced she can join with her dead brother by giving herself to the Sacred Tree, which Leon tries hard but ultimately fails to convince her not to. It's only Angie, Olivia, and Noelle tricking the entity speaking to her into proving it isn't her brother, that she realizes it was all a lie.
- Tragic Keepsake: Serge destroying one of these started their Sibling Rivalry. It was a paper ring with writing on it from her little brother Leon.
- Trauma Button: Repeatedly pressed by her adoptive brother Serge, it's the death of her little brother Leon Sara Rault.
- Troubled Backstory Flashback: Gets several of these, to her time with little Leon.
- Unwanted Rescue: After she gives herself up as a sacrifice to the Sacred Tree, Leon tries to convince her he's really her dead brother, only to not know something only he would know, which makes her lash out at him, and help attack him, in her broken down mental state.
- Villainous Rescue: On multiple occasions, she stops Pierre and Loic from abusing their Sacred Crest powers on Noelle and Leon.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Seems to be developing in this direction with Noelle at the end of Volume 6.
- You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: In the seventh volume, Leon finally granting Louise’s request to call her Big Sis, makes her ecstatic and give Leon his First Kiss.
Albergue Sara Rault
Albergue Sara Rault
- Big Good: Ironically, he's Leon's main backer in the Republic, alongside his daughter Louise, despite canonically being the second game's antagonists.
- Conflicting Loyalty: He is upset with Louise for doing so much to help a foreigner, until he meets Leon, and shares in her bias in his favor, due to Leon's similarity to his late son. This results in all of the other Great Houses plotting together to depose House Rault as Chairman.
- Final Boss: In the second game, he ends up as this when he becomes one with the Sacred Tree.
- Mercy Kill: Tries to do this on Serge who was assimilated into the Demonic Armor but Leon intervenes instead, stating that parents should not kill their children.
- Parental Neglect: Downplayed Trope, being distant and uninterested with his adoptive son Serge lead to him leaving the Household to become an adventurer, and resenting his new family.
- Like a Son to Me: Treats Leon Fou Bartfort like his lost son Leon. Albergue apparently even spent a while attempting to adopt Leon.
- One-Winged Angel: According to what’s known about the second game’s plot, Albergue transforms like this to become the Final Boss, fusing with Alzer’s Sacred Tree after something happens to his daughter Louise. Instead, after going If I Can't Have You… on Lelia over Serge, Emile does this in his place.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Leon Sara Rault, who was identical to Leon Fou Bartfort.
- Papa Wolf: What made him become the Final Boss in the second game originally, was something happening to Louise. He almost declares war on all of the other Great Houses to prevent Louise’s Human Sacrifice, before Leon comes up with a third option of rescuing her himself.
- Regent for Life: After destroying Lespinasse House, he’s technically been "Acting Chairman" of the Republic for a decade, since there has been no Guardian or Priestess to rule.
- Ruling Family Massacre: Deconstructed Trope. According to the presented backstory of the second Otome Game, Rault House, led by Albergue, killed the protagonist's parents and destroyed their Lespinasse House, while she escaped. Only for the daughter of the perpetrating House (Louise), to end up bullying the protagonist while she attends classes under an alias. The reality of the situation is quite a bit more complicated: The reason Lespinasse house was vulnerable was due to the protagonist's parents doing socially outrageous experiments to take control of the Sacred Tree, which caused them to be de-powered. Their daughter was betrothed to Rault House's heir, Leon Sara Rault, but they didn't show up to his funeral in order to hide that they lost their Crests. Anger over this disrespect led Albergue to uncover the secret, share it with the other House leaders, and attack with their blessing, but he spared their daughters because he knew they were innocent, and tasked his daughter Louise to protect them.
- Sadistic Choice: When faced with the choice between sacrificing his daughter, or fighting the rest of the Republic Great Houses, he chooses the latter. That is, until Leon gives him a third option of saving her himself.
- Secret-Keeper: About the truth behind what happened to Lespinasse House.
- Shipper on Deck: He’s subtle about it. Any time Leon visits their mansion, Albergue is sure to ask him to visit Louise in her bedroom, which Leon eventually realizes is quite irregular.
- Thicker Than Water: Will protect his close family at any price, and woe betide anyone who moves against it. This includes Leon in an unofficial adoptive sense, being uncannily similar to his late son.
- Undying Loyalty: To his family, even willing to declare war on all of the other Great Houses, just to keep Louise from becoming a Human Sacrifice.
- Voluntary Vassal: Swears fealty to the Holfort Kingdom in order to protect Alzer from Rachelle’s invasion after the Sacred Tree is destroyed.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: His killing of Noelle and Lelia's parents was what he thought was right for the Republic.
- You Kill It, You Bought It: Killed the previous Chairman of the Alzer Republic, became the current one.
Leon Sara Rault (walking spoiler)
Leon Sara Rault
- Brother–Sister Incest: While Louise's feelings on this matter are made unambiguous, and likely the result of his death, it's likely but not certain that his strong love for Louise was ultimately familial. However, Leon Fou Bartfort's reaction to seeing his memories of Louise in a dream, is to immediately think, "Do I secretly have a sister complex?"
- Dead Person Conversation: Visits Louise and Leon Bartfort in their dreams, either due to the trip Livia, Angie, and Noelle took into the Spirit World, or due to the fact his spirit was impersonated. His goals, were to comfort Louise, and try and build trust between them.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Both the ancient New Human Living Weapon, and Leon Fou Bartfort, impersonate him to manipulate Louise, exploiting her Fatal Flaw. The former did it as a trick to use her as a Living Battery, and the latter to prevent her from offering herself as a Human Sacrifice to the former.
- Harem Seeker: Wanted to marry both Noelle and Louise. To be fair on him, he was five years old when he said this.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: The gist of his Dead Person Conversation with Louise in her dream. He is happy that Leon Bartfort is looking after her.
- Identical Stranger: To Leon Fou Bartfort, which has a huge impact on the plot, due to the second Otome Game's Final Boss and Villainess both being heavily biased in his favor due to the resemblance to their dead relative. Whether it's just the appearance or also the personality, is Zig-Zagged.
- Kids Hate Vegetables: He found vegetables too bitter and had to force himself to eat them. Leon Bartfort's same reaction to those vegetables brought back memories for the Raults, particularly the matriarch.
- The Lost Lenore: His family continues to mourn him long after his passing.
- Love Before First Sight: He was happily looking forward to his engagement to Noelle after seeing a photo of her. Alas, he died before they could meet in person.
- Puppy Love: His expressed feelings for Noelle and Louise, both around his age at the time. It's likely just childish idealism considering he was five, but he died before that could be established.
- Soap Opera Disease: The illness he died from was never explained, but his sacred crest normally would have prevented such a thing. The best explanation the doctors could give is that he didn't have an illness so much as it seeming like his soul was simply leaving his body. His ghost also claims credit for Leon saving Louise earlier, so make of that what you will.
- Something Only They Would Say: The message he left for his sister: "Rescue Ticket, Three Uses"
- Tragic Dream: He wanted to be the Guardian of the Sacred Tree and protect people. Leon Fou Bartfort gets to carry on this dream for him.
The Reincarnated Leon Sara Rault
An alternate version of Leon from the What If? Side Story in Volume 7, if the main character were reborn in the Alzer Republic instead.- Awesomeness by Analysis: Despite not having played the second game, his knowledge of the first game allowed him to recognize the similar otome game setting and by extension, the existence of a cheat item, in this case Ideal.
- Born Winner: This would be his status in life as compared to his Holfort counterpart. He has everything that he would ever want: being born into the most powerful family, has a Cool Big Sis, status as The Chosen One and a powerful Robot Buddy. Though he has to deal with this robot being the Omnicidal Maniac Ideal, who has a greater desire to destroy the new humans than even Luxion.
- The Chosen One: The Sacred Tree gives him the sacred Guardian Crest (the most powerful one) without needing the Lespinasse Priestess to bestow it. Even Ideal was baffled how the hell he was chosen despite him threatening to blow up the Sacred Tree.
- Cutting the Knot: How did Leon managed to secure Ideal's absolute loyalty even though the latter resorts to Loophole Abuse? He sensed that Ideal was attached to the Sacred Tree so Leon blackmailed Ideal that he was going to bomb the tree itself, consequences be damned.
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: See above? Leon was able to pull what Lelia and Serge couldn't do in the main story. Ideal has no choice but to give his absolute loyalty as it was programmed into him, so he can't pull off his schemes against new humankind. Comically, Ideal is such a Determinator that he still seeks Leon's approval to destroy the new humans even though Leon has rejected his plans 334 times so far.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Used to be better behaved, according to Louise. He tends to 'borrow' his father's car and has crashed it thrice.
- What If?: Instead of Leon Fou Bartfort, the main character was reincarnated as Leon Sara Rault.
Serge Sara Rault
Serge Sara Rault
"Come to me when you get tired of that pitiful fellow, Lelia. I will always welcome you. You'd rather have someone trustworthy like me, right? I will invite you again next time. We’ll have fun."
A capture target in the second Otome Game, Serge is a troubled youth who was adopted by Albergue, from a branch family, to serve as heir to Rault House in the absence of a male child, only to leave against his new father's wishes and become an adventurer. He is romantically interested in Lelia.- Adoption Angst: Quite a lot of it. Was adopted from a branch House to serve as Albergue's heir, but never quite fit in, clashing with his new sister especially, and disappointing his father by aiming to be an adventurer. It's mostly his own fault: Whatever his intentions may have been at the time, destroying important keepsakes of her brother was really not a great way to fit in.
- Always Someone Better: Feels this way strongly about Leon. Both Leons.
- Antagonistic Offspring: Downplayed. Doesn't get along with his adoptive father Albergue, and goes directly against his plans. Eventually played straight, after he plans to launch a coup for control of Alzer, imprisoning Albergue and declaring himself King with the help of the Holy Kingdom of Rachelle, and Ideal.
- Attack Hello: Greets Leon with a punch to the face, due to sharing a name and face with the dead sibling he can't compete with in his family's eyes.
- Betty and Veronica: The Troubled, but Cute Veronica to Emile's Betty and Lelia's Archie.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Ultimtely he was just an Unwitting Pawn for Ideal, who turns Serge into a Meat Puppet with the Demonic Armor implanted in Gier and chooses Emile as the Sacred Tree's vessel.
- Cock Fight: With Emile, over Lelia.
- Commonality Connection: Bonds with Lelia, who has similar family resentments.
- Crush the Keepsake: Doing this to Louise started their Sibling Rivalry.
- Disinherited Child: After fighting against Leon's efforts to rescue Louise from being offered as a Human Sacrifice to the Sacred Tree, Albergue disinherits Serge, saying it's so he can pursue adventuring without burdens. The fact that Albergue didn't ask Serge first suggests it was done out of anger.
- Dogged Nice Guy: In stark contrast to Loic, he uses this approach courting Lelia. It works pretty well, and she develops feelings for him.
- Evil Prince: Plots with the Holy Kingdom of Rachelle, and Ideal, to name himself King of Alzer and depose his father and the other great houses, after having been formally disowned.
- Fantastic Drug: Overdoses on combat stimulants in battle, ruining himself in the process.
- Foreshadowing: It is noted by people that Alzer's combat skills have grown weak throughout the years for depending too much on the Sacred Tree and Narcisse being amazed by Leon's party who just plowed the dungeon without any effort. As it turns out not only have their combat skills have atrophied but also their innate physical strength. Serge happens to be a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond due to choosing to become an adventurer (which is looked down upon by the Alzer Commonwealth) and depending on performance-enhancing drugs to augment his strength but compared to Leon and the five idiots who trained for years and don't need any drugs, his physical strength is only "normal" compared to them. Combined with his cockiness and lucky hits, he underestimates Leon until the latter stops playing around and only needs only one hit to take him down.
- Forceful Kiss: Does this to Lelia. She doesn't seriously resist.
- Freudian Excuse: His Adoption Angst and Sibling Rivalry, that both started a decade prior, explain much of his bad behavior.
- Hate at First Sight: To Leon Fou Bartfort upon seeing his resemblance to the late Leon Sara Rault.
- Hidden Depths: He's actually half-hearted about adventuring, using it as an excuse to run away from his family issues.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: His primary motivation.
- Jerkass: Driven by his lack of a sense of belonging in his family, mainly targeting said family, which includes Leon, who's Always Someone Better, and more accepted than him, and his (perceived) rival for Lelia's affections, Emile.
- Jerkass Has a Point: About Louise's Fatal Flaw. He burned the deceased Leon's final gift to Louise because he saw his memory was making her unhappy and that she was obsessing over him. A decade later Louise is all set to become a human sacrifice just because she thinks she heard Leon's voice telling her he was scared.
- Kick the Dog: Several occasions:
- Burning the pictures of the late Leon Sara Rault as a child, which triggered his adopted family's coldness towards him.
- Punching Leon on his first meeting solely due to his resemblance to the late Leon Sara Rault.
- Regular coming on to Lelia and badmouthing Emile, who she is currently dating, then beating up the latter when he rightfully complains about it.
- Matchmaker Crush: His feelings for Lelia started when she tried to pair him with Noelle, in order to progress the Otome Game plot. She originally didn't reciprocate his feelings, but he grew on her.
- Meaningful Name: His armor is named Gier (German for greed). It represents his desire for love and recognition but yet he doesn't even put effort to reciprocate. Later, it wholly represents his desire to get everything by becoming the King of Alzer and killing Leon Fou Bartfort.
- Mercy Kill: Leon does this to put him out of his mangled state, after the remnants of the Living Weapon suit took him over.
- Never My Fault: Hates his adopted family excluding him, never seeming to acknowledge part of it was his own doing for destroying the pictures and belongings of the late Leon Sara Rault, who they were still grieving over, out of petty jealousy.
- The One That Got Away: He sees Louise like this, having loved her in the past, this being one of the reasons he left to become an adventurer.
- Our Centaurs Are Different: His Mini-Mecha is designed like one, with a Jousting Lance.
- Parental Neglect: Downplayed Trope, but it was his adoptive parent's responsibility to make him feel accepted. He ended up leaving to become an adventurer because he didn't feel so.
- Power Up Let Down: Despite Gier being somehow more powerful than Arroganz in terms of performance and specs, it became useless as Serge's continuous use of enhancing drugs muddled his motor functions and cognition. Making him predictable and linear that Leon could dodge his attacks with ease.
- Sibling Rivalry: He and Louise have a long history of hating one another, to the point that the possibility of Serge adventuring with Leon being brought up, hurts Louise's feelings. Once the two are shown together, Serge bullies Louise. It started when Serge threw everything related to Leon Sara Rault into the fireplace soon after he was adopted.
- Troubled Teen: Called such by his adoptive father, and he’s correct. Unprovoked assault, substance abuse, and anger issues, all displayed after being called such.
- Unknown Rival: His growing hatred of Leon, egged on by Ideal, which Leon himself is indifferent to (despite being warned by Marie.)
- Walking the Earth: Spent most of volumes 4 and 5 adventuring off-screen.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: When his coup takes off, he doesn't kill Albergue right away because he wants to kill Louise and Leon in front of him.
- You Are What You Hate: Despite his efforts to try to make his own identity to stop being compared to Leon Sara Rault, he was still inferior in all aspects when it comes to Leon Fou Bartfort, and thus he tries to copy and outdo Leon in any way he can:
- Everyone notes that Serge's strength and physical prowess is potentially greater than anyone from the Alzer Republic. Despite that, even though he knocks Leon down a few times, once the latter stops playing around, Serge goes down in one punch despite taking strength enhancing drugs.
- His plan to take over Alzer Republic is somewhat similar to Leon attacking the Republic several times to humble them.
- Serge even commanded Ideal to make him a mecha that is almost similar to Arroganz and even starts to carry a shotgun as his primary weapon.
- His mecha Gier is also named after one of the Seven Deadly Sins, which represents his Fatal Flaw and also a Stealth Insult given by Ideal.
Capture Targets
Serge's entry is under House Rault
Loic Leta Barrielle
Loic Leta Barrielle
"Noelle! I’m not going to give up! You are... You are my woman!"
Prince and heir of Barrielle House and one of the capture targets of the second game. Described as a good man despite his personality, by the time Leon and Marie arrive in Alzer, he has been harassing Noelle for quite a while, causing her to hate him. In the second game, the heroine pairing up with him is considered the true ending.- Adaptation Name Change: His given name was originally Eric in the web novel. Author Yomu Mishima changed it to Loic after deciding there were too many characters with similar names.
- Arc Villain: Of Volume 5.
- Call-Back: Putting a Slave Collar on Noelle earns him a number of these admonishing him.
- Character Development: Goes from being a Yandere for Noelle to a Dogged Nice Guy to Marie after getting the nature of his past actions verbally and physically beaten into him.
- Control Freak: In their Backstory, started treating Noelle like an object, pointing out and correcting any perceived flaw he sees in her, while also ignoring her opinions, which destroyed any chances he had with her.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Just the idea of Noelle thinking of another man drives him mad. In the second game, this is actually a trait that must be carefully managed to avoid falling into the Bad End, something that Lelia, who used a walkthrough, was unaware of.
- Death Seeker: After his Heel Realization, tries to commit Suicide by Cop via Leon and co.
- Defeat Means Friendship: After Marie gives him a Do Not Go Gentle speech, and beatdown. He even earns Leon’s approval to date her.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Learning from his past mistakes, he takes this approach while courting Marie, which she’s receptive to. Indeed, Loic is the first prince to give her a gift she actually liked (a cake).
- Domestic Abuse: Blackmails Noelle into a relationship after finding out she's the priestess, has no reservations with beating her if she shows any defiance and blames it on her making him violent. Marie, who experienced Domestic Abuse herself and died from it, immediately realizes that Noelle was hiding bruises under her clothes at their engagement party. And's that's to say nothing of him attaching a magical collar to her so she can't escape him. Even his own father was appalled at that one.
- Easily Forgiven: After stalking, kidnapping, beating, and attempting to forcibly marry Noelle, it seems a bit of a stretch that Marie, whose own abusive boyfriend killed her in her previous life and who identified the signs on Noelle to Leon, would willingly have him anywhere within ten miles of her. And yet for some bizarre reason she doesn't kick him right back to the curb when he starts trying to date her.
- Entitled to Have You: This and his Control Freak tendencies caused Noelle to hate him. A pity, as he used to have a good chance at claiming Noelle's heart, only for him to start treating her like an object, which lead to the present.
- Golden Ending: His romance route is this for the second Otome Game. Lelia's prodding results in Noelle going down his Bad End route instead, until Leon intervenes.
- Heel Realization: After being defeated, Noelle says the reason she dislikes him isn't because he's weak like Leon said but because he was being a control freak and ignoring all of her opinions. What really drives it in is when she asks him if he knows literally any of the things she actually likes and he realizes he doesn't.
- Heel–Face Turn: After being disinherited, getting speeches from Noelle and Marie, and beaten up by Leon, Julius, and Marie, he becomes their ally.
- If I Can't Have You…: He's quite willing to go to this territory for Noelle.
- Love at First Punch: When he attacks Julius due to becoming a Death Seeker after his Heel Realization, Marie beats him up and gives him a Do Not Go Gentle speech (although that wasn't her first time beating him up). After that, he becomes a Dogged Nice Guy pursuing Marie, looking up to her and calling her Onee-sama, and providing her and Leon crucial aid.
- Loving a Shadow: After he was beaten by Leon, Noelle asks him if he knew what she liked, which caused him to realize that he never bothered to know Noelle better.
- Meaningful Name: His family name sounds like "barrière" ("barrier" in French)
- Nasal Trauma: From having Luxion’s drone thrown into his face.
- Never My Fault: When Leon tells him that not only Noelle doesn't love him, but outright hates him, Loic blames Leon for interfering. Leon yells back it would be the same result even if Leon didn't come to the Alzer Republic.
- And Now You Must Marry Me: After many failed attempts at threats and persuasion, Loic finally forces Noelle to agree to this by using his own Household's soldiers as hostages. Much Domestic Abuse ensues, until Noelle is forcibly rescued by Leon.
- Playing with Fire: His gifts from the Sacred Tree are fire-based, including giving him a Flaming Sword, befitting his color scheme.
- Shown Their Work: Loic perfectly embodies the popular Fetishized Abuser archetype found in Otome Game capture targets.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Averted Trope— Leon gives Loic his approval to date Marie, pointing out how he’s being better behaved than the five princes.
- The Sixth Ranger: After his Heel–Face Turn, he becomes Marie’s sixth reverse-harem member, much to the other five’s impotent dismay.
- Slasher Smile: When attacking Hugues and his forces for backing out of their plot to depose Albergue, due to Leon stopping Loic’s wedding.
- Slave Collar: Repeatedly offers one to Noelle. It's a magical item made from Sacred Tree roots, and when its normally absent chain to his wrist is summoned, it magically pulls the victim towards him. He puts it on her, after threatening her into marrying him using his own soldiers as hostages. It's eventually removed from Loic, when Leon interrupts the wedding and cuts his arm off, taking the master component for himself.
- Stalker with a Crush: To Noelle.
- Taking You with Me: Engages his Mini-Mecha to self destruct, when it becomes clear he's lost his duel with Leon. He gets torn out of his mech, and it's kicked away.
- We Have Reserves: Uses the threat of sending his own Household troops to die against Leon's forces, to coerce Noelle into coming with, and marrying him, essentially holding his own men hostage.
- Yandere: He's willing to do a lot of questionable actions just to get Noelle.
Narcisse Calce Granze
Narcisse Calce Granze
An Alzer Prince and teacher, serving as a capture target in the second otome game. An archaeologist and adventurer, both professions disdained by Alzer nobility. He is serving as a professor as an excuse to pursue his passion, but nobody attends his class, so he’s about to be cut off. As the only way to enter his route is to sign up for his class in the first or second year, which neither Noelle or Lelia have, and since Leon and Marie find a Teacher/Student Romance problematic anyway, they give up on having him captured.- Adventurer Archaeologist: He is one, although he is horrified at the thought of sites being damaged the way a typical one would.
- Affectionate Nickname: Clement calls him "Narcy"/Narcisse-kyun.
- Betrayal by Inaction: When he’s commanding his forces to stop Leon from preventing the Human Sacrifice of Louise, he keeps his troops out of the fighting.
- The Comically Serious: When Dungeon Crawling with Leon and some of the Five Princes, being horrified by their destructiveness.
- Mr. Exposition: Naturally part of his role, being a teacher and archaeologist in a Science Fantasy setting.
- Dragged by the Collar: Leon takes a drunk Narcisse straight out of his office like this, to Lelia’s exasperation.
- Drowning My Sorrows: In his first scene, over his impending class closure cutting him off from his passion.
- Hot Teacher: As an otome game capture target. Even in his depressed, disheveled state, he's still good-looking.
- Oblivious to Love: Regarding Clement, which Leon has a hypocritical Inner Monologue chastising him for.
- Teacher/Student Romance: His route in the second game, though it being such gives Leon and Marie pause.
- Trash of the Titans: His office is filled with junk to the point he falls in it, and can’t get out on his own.
Hugues Toala Druille
Hugues Toala Druille
A womanizing Prince of the Alzer Republic, and capture target in the second game. Blonde with green eyes. Has an arranged engagement with Louise.- Altar Diplomacy: Is engaged to Louise to seal an alliance between Rault and Druille houses. He never even visits her, and continues to go out and womanize. The engagement is annulled with the excuse that he abandoned her to run away at Noelle’s wedding, when it’s really due to his house double-crossing the Raults.
- The Casanova: Seems to care more about going out to party and hook up than anything else.
- Dirty Coward: Flees from Noelle and Loic’s wedding after Leon crashes it and gets it cancelled. This also attracts Loic’s ire, who shoots down his escape airship and forces while Laughing Mad. Leaving Louise behind as he fled served as justification to annul their engagement.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Clearly in way over his head.
- Informed Attribute: Marie describes him as having a "strong sense of justice". Which is curiously absent when he plots with Loic to betray and depose the Rault family, and later makes a half-hearted attempt to stop Leon from saving Louise from the Sacred Tree.
- Ironic Name: "Hugues" is an Old French name meaning "mind/spirit/thought/understanding", of which he shows mostly for himself.
- Noodle Incident: Whatever got him the In-Universe Fan Nickname Brother-Obsessed Hugues.
- Permanently Missable Content: If the second-game protagonist doesn't trigger an encounter event during the first year, then Hugues cannot be dated.
- Royal Brat: Talks loud, pouts when he loses, and is shocked when ignored.
- You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: Says this after being defeated, as a prince of a Great House. All it gets him is a rude introduction while his assailants walk past him.
- You Rebel Scum!: Talks down to people of the Kingdom like this, thinking them barbaric.
Fernand Toala Druille
Fernand Toala Druille
The head of the Druille family and the older brother of Hugues.- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He only appears in Volume 4. Afterwards, Hugues represents the Druille family in his stead.
- Hot-Blooded: Described as inexperienced and deeply patriotic. Alongside Lambert Io Feivel, he antagonizes Leon for the recent destruction brought by the Einhorn and tries to deny responsibility for Pierre's transgressions, to no avail.
- Secret Character: He was a hidden capture target whose route could only be accessed by getting close to Hugues first.
- Young and in Charge: Not much older than Hugues and is the youngest of all the Great Houses' current patriarchs.
Emile Laz Pleven
Emile Laz Pleven
Second Prince of House Pleven, and a capture target of the Second Otome Game. He is known as Easy-Pick Emile by Marie, because he was the easiest to capture, even later on, in the game. He is in a relationship with Lelia, and submissive to her.- All Take and No Give: Lelia takes advantage of his family's protection, and causes him to worry for her safety and fidelity, while never doing anything to help him, and doing the bare minimum to accommodate his feelings.
- Always with You: After seeing Lelia's memories and forgiving her, he uses his power to make her the new Priestess and promises to always watch over her.
- Betrayal by Inaction: Part of his betrayal of Serge while tasked to stop Leon’s rescue of Louise from her Human Sacrifice, giving information to Leon as well.
- Betty and Veronica: Male-example, the meek and gentle Betty to Serge's Veronica and Lelia's Archie
- Beware the Nice Ones: Kind and timid. Also empties a handgun at his girlfriend out of jealousy, and becomes the Final Boss, having worked with Ideal since his first confrontation with Serge.
- The Dog Bites Back
- After Serge beats him up, Emile helps Leon by telling him where Serge and Louise are instead of stopping him from rescuing Louise.
- All Emile really asks for in a lover is at least going through the basic motions and not cheating on him. After Lelia spends years walking all over him she crosses the line by not even doing a good job of hiding that she's more into Serge than him. He stays quiet and behaves as an ally... only to attempt to murder her in cold blood the moment everyone has their guard down.
- Eye Contact as Proof: When he asks Lelia if anything happened between her and Serge. She refuses.
- Extreme Doormat: His main character trait. He is willing to let Lelia walk all over him and use him without good explanations. This wavers when he notices her getting closer to Serge.
- Grew a Spine: Emile starting to argue back against Lelia over her behavior with Serge, really turns Lelia sour on him.
- Hidden Depths: In an In-Universe case of Fridge Horror, Marie suspects he is actually the most jealous and possessive of the second game’s capture targets, because in the game the rest of the cast mysteriously all stop showing up if you start his route at the mid-point. This proves true when he goes If I Can't Have You… on Lelia, unloading a handgun at her.
- Journey to the Center of the Mind: When Lelia gives herself over to him after he merged with the Sacred Tree, seeking to atone for her treatment of him and Noelle, he sees all of her past-life memories and accepts her before passing on with a smile.
- The Lost Lenore: When he dies at peace with Lelia, unconcerned with her past life and accepting her for who she is, she finally stops taking him for granted and appreciates him. It's noted that any lover she ever gets in the process will not only have to compete with accepting Lelia's flaws but also having to compete with someone dead. Leon speculates that Emile may have done this on purpose so that she would always be thinking of him and find it hard to move on.
- Spare to the Throne: Of House Pleven.
- Yandere: He'll tolerate almost anything from his lover, but when he starts sticking up to Lelia, Marie suddenly remembers some rumors she saw on the internet that Emile might have been quietly disposing of rivals in his route. When he gets confirmation that Lelia is at least much more attracted to Serge than him, even if not really having an affair yet, he waits for his moment and then attempts to murder her in cold blood before aiding in starting a near apocalypse.
Minor Characters
Jean
Jean
Noelle’s friend, a kind commoner who’s worried about trouble provoking nobles could raise. He also has an elderly pet dog named Noelle, which was part of how they became friends. Jean is assigned alongside Noelle to be in charge of accommodating guests from Holfort Kingdom in the Republic’s academy.- Butt-Monkey: At Pierre’s hands.
- Innocent Bystander: Only got dragged into danger by coincidence of being assigned to guide the exchange students.
- Nice Guy: Worries about Noelle’s safety and loves his pet.
- Oblivious to Love: Leon is annoyed with him for not taking the hint from Noelle. Subverted. It was all in Leon’s head, Leon’s the one who’s oblivious.
- Only One Name: Like most commoners in the setting.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: When with Noelle. He’s the Straight Man.
- Sustained Misunderstanding: Leon thinking he and Noelle are a potential couple, despite both of them denying it. This helps keep Leon Oblivious to Love, which has serious consequences.
Clement
Clement
A Camp Gay teacher in Alzer’s academy. He’s actually a knight retainer still serving the crushed Lespinasse house, and is in charge of looking after the needs and protection of Noelle and Lelia.- The Champion: He's this kind of knight, maintaining his oath to protect Noelle and Lelia, despite their noble household being destroyed. He Takes the Bullet when Emile goes If I Can't Have You… on Lelia, fortunately surviving.
- Lazy Alias: Gets some flak for not bothering to give Noelle or Lelia fake first names when enrolling them in Alzer’s academy.
- Macho Camp: His appearance and behavior blends gay stereotypes. Though he drops this behavior when the situation is truly dangerous.
Second Lieutenant (walking spoiler)
Second Lieutenant
"You're a liar, Ideal..."
Ideal's Second Lieutenant in the Volume 7 Side Story Remembering Ideal's Promise. She was originally a researcher before she was drafted into war against the New Humans.- Fling a Light into the Future: She was researching on how to return the Earth to the way it was before the war, as the New Humans' magic poisoned the Earth, making it uninhabitable. Her efforts resulted in a sapling that can absorb magic from the ground and air, which is the reason why everyone exists today.
- Meaningful Name: She named her elf assistant "Yume" and her Robot Buddy "Ideal", both names being similar to "dream" or "hope".
- Last Request: Asked Ideal to look after Yume and their sapling before she died.
- The Greatest Story Never Told: Her, Ideal and Yume's efforts to restore the world, resulting in the Sacred Tree of the Alzer Republic, which helped to restore Earth from magic poisoning. The Second Lieutenant created the sapling, Ideal took care of it so it could grow and Yume spread the seeds by Walking the Earth before she died from old age.
