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The Vatican
The Vatican stands in Rome as the center of human existence after the Armageddon. In light of the devastation, people sought refuge and protection in the Church, giving the Vatican responsibility and leadership over the humans. Despite its once supreme authority, humans have begun to put their faith in local leaders and nobles, taking authority from the Vatican. Despite its weakening hold over the nations, the Vatican still stands as the greatest form of human leadership after the Armageddon. Alessandro XVIII
- Voiced by: Yoshinori Fujita (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)
- Classical Anti-Hero: A weak-willed coward who is very much out of his depth as the pope. He is nevertheless unmistakably benevolent and eventually grows into his role.
- Improbable Age: Became a Pope at a very young age which is impossible to have in Real Life. Worth noting that this
has actually happened in the real Catholic Church, though this was extremely rare and only one was ever as young as Alessandro. Contemporary rules setting a minimum age are an Obvious Rule Patch because such papacies can only really happen as a result of corruption. As the story takes place 20 Minutes in the Future. Who's to say the rules won't be changed? - Just a Kid: He's repeatedly shown to be out of his depth due to being put in a high position despite his young age.
- Puppet King: His siblings, particularly Caterina, rule through him. He's shown resolve to become a stronger ruler in the future.
- Shrinking Violet: Poor guy... seriously, do. Not. Yell. He will have a meltdown. We don't want the Pope to have meltdowns.
- Young and in Charge: Teenage head of the Catholic Church.
Francesco di Medici
- Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (Japanese), John Gremillion (English)
"Blessed are those who perish in the name of the Lord; the Vatican is the organ of divine will on Earth."
The Duke of Florence, Duke of Tuscany, and a Cardinal of the Vatican, Francesco is a tall and intimidating man. As he is a bastard son, he could not be elected Pope and may harbor some bitterness over it. Using intimidation and loud vocal displays, he frequently attempts to pressure his younger brother to bend to his way of thinking.
- Aloof Big Brother: Alessandro definitely thinks of him as such.
- Anti-Hero: A thug and a bully who is only truly motivated by a desire for power and glory. He is still a defender of humanity, even if only technically.
- Bastard Bastard: He is the bastard son of the late pope with no legitimate claim to the Papal throne as a result.
- Big Brother Bully: He's very bitter about his inability to be the Pope and bullies his brother (who he sees as inadequate) as a result.
- Coat Cape: His coat cape doubles as a long coat, doubling its badass-ness.
- Church Militant: He leads the Inquisition, what do you expect?
- Fantastic Racism: Towards the Methuselah.
- Flat Character: ONLY in that he isn't given a backstory like Caterina but other than that he is by no means this trope as a character in himself.
- Freudian Excuse: He harbors some resentment and bitterness because he could not be Pope because he is a bastard son, so he may be taking it out on Alessandro at times.
- The Fundamentalist: Subverted; he's in the right role as head of the Inquisition, but his motivations are not as straightforward. He's a fanatical inquisitor not out of religious dogmatism, but because of his personal resentments and hatred of vampires.
- Jerkass: Asides from his hatred on vampires, he's basically an asshole to everyone including his siblings
- Kill It with Fire: How he likes to get rid of vampires, though in actuality it's bombs, guns, and his army of heavily armored soldiers with giant weapons with mutilating properties; except in sister Paula's case who uses speed and stealth.
- Knight Templar: Believes that any level of force that he uses is entirely justified, because it is done in God's name.
- The Leader: Of the Inquisitorial Department which is the Badass Army of the Vatican. He is headstrong and charismatic.
- Mirror Character: Francesco and Cain are both older brothers who have rocky relationships with their younger siblings. They both do not want peace between humans and vampires; they do however want war and to create their own new world order. They are also willing to sacrifice anyone to meet their aims even their siblings. The only differences between them are their species and that Francesco wants human domination while Cain wants Humanity's annihilation (although this also extends to the whole world as well).
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Caterina's blue. Paula is also a blue to his red.
- Sibling Rivalry: with his half-sister Caterina Sforza.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He also is one of the few male characters in the series who is masculine; especially in the anime.
- Trigger-Happy: Very much so. Then again he has an entire Badass Army at his command with lots of weapons so who can blame him.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to destroy all vampires because he believes them to be a threat to all humanity which is justified given history and this seems to be general view that much of mankind believes. It's justified even more so in that that there are plenty of vampires who are shown to prove him right such as Endre Kourza, Count Gyula (lesser extent and sympathetic), Astharoshe (though what she did was accidental), and the vampires in Amsterdam who killed an entire church of people.
Caterina Sforza
- Voiced by: Takako Honda (Japanese), Lydia Mackay (English)
- Big Brother Instinct: Gender-inverted. She loves her little brother, Alessandro, very much and she would anything to protect him even from her older brother.
- Childhood Friends: With Abel. She first met him when she was a little girl and Abel saved her from vampires. The two became close friends ever since.
- Da Chief: Of the AX Agency.
- High-Class Glass: She usually wears one except in informal situations.
- Incurable Cough of Death: Only in the manga.
- Love Makes You Evil: She harbors feeling towards Abel and is definitely jealous of his relationship with Esther to the point of trying to get rid of her and using her as a martyr.
- Names The Same: She shares a name with a famous historical Caterina Sforza, who was also the iron-willed Duchess of Milan in a time of chaos and warfare.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike her older brother, she believes that humans and vampires can live together in peace. She also secretly establishes ties with the Empire by sending Abel to work with Astharoshe so they can capture a vampire mass murder in Venice.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Francesco's red.
Alfonso d'Este
- Voiced by: Takashi Taniguchi (Japanese), John Swasey (English)
Archbishop of Cologne, he is uncle to Alessandro XVIII, Francesco and Caterina.
- Evil Uncle: Of a typical "vying for the throne" variety.
- Parental Betrayal: He was their uncle after all. Even more justified in how Francesco refused to believe his uncle was a traitor and terrorist.
- Revenge Before Reason: Wanted this so much that he was willing to destroy Rome and kill his family due to him having not been chosen as Pope.
Abel Nightroad
- Voiced by: Hiroki Tochi (Japanese), Troy Baker (English)
Main character of the series. Most of the time, he appears to be a bumbling, somewhat disorganized priest working for AX, who's always almost penniless and hungry. In truth, he's a Crusnik - a type of vampire that feeds on other vampires only. Plagued by guilt he doesn't let on most of the time, he is, in fact, probably the most kind, gentle and compassionate person in the series and tries to do his best without breaking his oaths.
- Artificial Human: Had a bit of a hang-up about it as a child.
- The Atoner: Implied to have been partially responsible for the apocalypse in the back story, and he certainly caused a genocidal war between Terrans and the Methusalahs that wrecked the world. His body count is sometimes stated to be in the millions, and it was all started over his issues with humanity at large that made him eager to wipe them out. and the ultimate result of all this, his lover Lilith was killed by his beloved but increasingly unstable brother; Abel thereafter went into a long period of mourning several hundred years long, and eventually dedicated himself to Lilith's ideals of protecting humanity and reconciling the Terrans and Methusalahs.
- Ax-Crazy: Not most of the time, but it appears to be a periodic hazard for him when in higher versions of his Crusnik form; it's particularly unsettling due to his Dissonant Serenity and the contrast with his bumbling personality.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: With all of his partners. In particular with Tres and Brother Petro in the Lady Saint arc, when they’re rushing over to save Caterina, Alessandro, Esther, and Shahrazad from D’Annunzio.
- Badass Family: His brother Cain leads the world’s most dangerous terrorist group, and his sister Seth established and guides an entire empire. Not to mention, they’re all genetically imbibed with nanomachines that render them Persons Of Mass Destruction.
- Badass Longcoat: Part of his uniform, but interestingly enough, while almost everyone else has one, it's Abel's totally rockin' coat that everyone remembers.
- Bash Brothers: With Brother Petro in the Lady Saint arc, to rescue Esther.Antonio Borgia: This is the fearsome and powerful pope’s holy command! For the sake of justice, faith, and the Vatican, got to the hotel in question and bring back a salmon bagel sandwich!
- Berserk Button: We all know what he’ll do at the mere sight of Cain…
- Harming Caterina, Esther, or any innocent person will push this. He’s also no fan of the RCO, specifically the Magician.
- Big Damn Heroes: He has quite a few of these moments. Saving Caterina in the crypts when she was younger is one of them.
- He rescues Esther a lot, from being incinerated by Radu, shot by Lt. Dobo, and being cut by D’Annunzio’s henchman. This becomes somewhat of a habit, to the point where Esther thinks Abel is the one saving her from Mary Spencer, when he’s already been killed by Cain.
- Bloody Murder: Other vampires extend weapons from their bodies. Abel makes a gigantic scythe from his own blood and uses it very well.
- Bridal Carry: Does this quite often. He grabs Astha and jumps through a window to avoid getting them killed by Suleyman. He carries Esther when her walking is impaired by drugs and holds Shahrazad as she’s mortally wounded.
- Broken Tears: As he finds himself unable to shut down the Iblis, a hologram of Lilith appears. She states that it can be stopped if he has one Terran with him to activate the system. Unfortunately for him, there’s no one around. He sheds these as he remembers Lilith and realizes that he can’t save Carthage from the Iblis, dooming Caterina and its citizens to a horrible death.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: It's such a massive split in his character, it's understandable to think he might have some form of Multiple Personality Disorder. Less of the moron part though in the anime, where it comes across as Obfuscating Stupidity.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Used to be a murderous borderline psychopath when younger, and it's strongly implied that he directly hates himself for what he's done.
- Dark Is Not Evil: His forms tend to be incredibly demonic looking, and he uses a scythe made from his own blood; he's also a helpful, kindhearted and generally good-natured man.
- Designer Baby: He was created as an improved human in order to help colonize Mars.
- Dissonant Serenity: During Super Mode he is eerily calm.
- The Ditz: In the manga, especially in the earlier chapters where he's traveling with Esther and Tres to Rome and getting into trouble on the way. He acts this way in the anime, but it's unclear if it's an act or genuine.
- Evil Laugh: He does this while absorbing Ion’s blood in the Iblis arc.
- Experienced Protagonist: By his introduction in RAM I, he’s already Crusnik 02, and a former genocidal maniac who’s seen the error of his ways. Hoping to atone for his past sins, he works with the Vatican to maintain peace in a Crapsack World.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With most of the AX Agency, since camaraderie is rather useful on dangerous missions. Tres and Esther are prominent examples, with Ion being a future one, after the events of ROM VI.
- Good Shepherd: A friendly and heroic priest.
- The Hero: By virtue of being a heroic agent of the Vatican and protagonist of the series.
- Knight in Sour Armor: It's pretty clear that while he'd LIKE to be a more classical hero, he's just too messed up and unstable to pull it off.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: He may or may not be this; it's hard to tell if his usual goofy behavior is something to distract attention, a deliberate gambit to make people underestimate him, or just a persona he enjoys playing with.
- Older Than They Look: He was heavily involved in the events of the Dark Ages, which took place 900 years ago.
- One-Man Army: Without becoming the Crusnik, he fights his way through dozens of RCO auto hunters to reach the Iblis deactivation site.
- In the past, he and his two siblings were responsible for the deaths of millions.
- Psycho Electro: When he occasionally becomes Ax-Crazy during higher Crusnik modes and uses electricity.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: He plays the Blue to Cain's Red, but when he's around Tres, his excitable behavior becomes a clear Red to stoic Tres' Blue.
- Religious Bruiser: He's a Catholic priest who specifically fights evil as an agent of the Church. It's pretty much in the job description.
- Religious Vampire: Despite being a Crusnik, he's a friendly Catholic priest with good intentions.
- Running Gag: Abel’s penchant for having a huge appetite and little money is often remarked upon by other characters.
- Sanity Slippage: Happens whenever he activates the nanomachines. Hence, he only uses them as a last resort. This, combined with his hatred of humanity made him a Person of Mass Destruction in the past.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: In a weird case, Abel does this to himself! He acts goofy and hilariously dense most of the time, but when things get intense, his personality goes through an alarmingly intense change, and he get a lot colder and stoic.
- Shock and Awe: He does have lightning powers, after all.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Lilith. They had opposing views on humanity, and thus ended up on opposite sides of the war, as leaders.
- Stepford Smiler: He smiles even in the midst of a terrible situation to make others feel reassured.
- Took a Level in Kindness: As a child, he openly attempted to set off a bomb that would demolish London. In the beginning of the Dark Ages, he helped lead the returners to war against Earth’s remaining humans, killing millions. By the manga’s start, he’s your friendly neighborhood vampire-slaying priest.
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He’s a Person of Mass Destruction wearing a cassock.
Esther Blanchett
- Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)
A young nun who joined AX on Abel's insistence, she initially hated the entire vampire kind, which started to change following her meeting with Abel.
- Badass in Distress: It seems as if Esther is at a perpetual disadvantage in the series, but that can be explained by the fact that many of her adversaries are Methuselah or seasoned fighters from elite organizations.
- Badass Normal: In a cast of unique characters, Esther remains distinctly ordinary, and has to work to improve.
- In the Sleeping Beauty Arc, she grazes Tres as a result of a haphazard effort to save him. The cyborg recommends that she attend to shooting lessons when they arrive at Rome. In a meeting between Caterina and Sister Kate, it’s confirmed that Esther receives top marks in all of her training. She shows good marksmanship throughout the rest of the series.
- Big Damn Heroes: Unable to stop the Iblis from destroying Carthage, Abel succumbs to his despair and accepts death at the behest of the RCO’s auto hunters. Esther swoops in to save him with a rocket launcher, and to apologize for calling him a monster earlier.
- In the Lady Saint arc, she and Shahrazad arrive in time to distract D’Annunzio from hurting Caterina and the pope.
- Big Good: Esther becomes this as Queen of Albion. In Canon Summa Theologica, notes on the series’ future plot development point to mass instability brought by Augusta Vradica’s death and the annihilation of the Vatican. As a result, the Empire declares war on all Terrans and only Albion and Germanicus are left standing. Esther spearheads the resistance and leads what’s left of the AX Agency.
- Big "NO!": Courtesy of Colleen Clinkenbeard, who makes some of Esther's more distressed reactions absolutely heart-wrenching.
- Chekhov's Skill: Esther’s leadership and charisma from her Partisan days will sure come in handy when she becomes Queen of Albion.
- A Child Shall Lead Them: She leads Istvan’s anti-government resistance group, goes on to be the “Lady Saint”, and finally becomes Queen of Albion.
- Despair Event Horizon: She toes this line twice in the series. First, when Bishop Laura Vitez is murdered, and second, when Abel, who’s pretty much her Living Emotional Crutch, is killed by Cain.
- Deuteragonist: In the manga, with Abel.
- Drives Like Crazy: It's visible in the anime episodes of Iblis, when Abel and Petro... unwisely let her drive.
- Famed In-Story: Esther is known widely as the Lady Saint who “saved” Istvan from Gyula. Her exploits are regularly twisted by the Vatican so as to serve as propaganda.
- Fire-Forged Friends: She becomes this with Abel and Tres early in the series. Also with Shahrazad, Seth, and Ion in their respective arcs.
- Fish out of Water: She feels out of place in Rome, even after completing her training. It takes two familiar faces, Abel and Tres, to cheer her up.
- Flower Motif: She’s often depicted with red roses. A symbol of love and passion, the red rose is also England’s official flower. As Albion is England 20 Minutes into the Future, they’re an indication of her true heritage.
- Good Is Not Soft: Is not afraid to step up and neutralize any threat she detects, sometimes to the detriment of her overall mission. When she sees Vanessa threatening to kill Abel, Esther doesn’t hesitate to put a shotgun to the former’s head.
- Hair-Contrast Duo: Given that she’s one of few people in the series with red hair, she’s shades of this with almost every partner she works with. Played straight with Ion as she’s more mature, and subverted with Abel by courtesy of his Dark and Troubled Past. By the latter, she’s noted to have the same red hair and worldview as Lilith.
- Heroic BSoD: She suffers this after Cain beheads Abel. After a failed Roaring Rampage of Revenge, she kneels next to Abel's corpse in complete disbelief. When agents of the Vatican discover her, she mentally pleads for them to not say "his" name. When an astonished Wordsworth does and confirms Abel's death, it's implied in the manga that she faints.
- This is especially hard on Esther, given her recent losses. Over the span of the story, she loses Bishop Vitez, her surrogate mother, and Shahrazad, her best friend. Abel offered his support and helped her through her grief. With him gone, she has very few people to turn to.
- The High Queen: Becomes the queen of Albion.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Dietrich, Cain, and Isaak. By a very wide margin of error.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Played straight with Abel. The contrast is even more striking when the latter is in Crusnik form.
- Jeanne d'Archétype: In the novels in particular.
- La Résistance: In the first novel, Esther led the Partisans, an anti-government group in Istvan.
- Revenge Before Reason: Abel had some time talking her out of this.
- When Cain kills Abel, Esther whips out her shotgun without a second thought and riddles Cain and Isaak with bullets. While an awesome moment in itself, it might not have been the best course of action to take, in hindsight. Cain and Isaak are vastly overpowered, and could have easily killed her for that.
- Silk Hiding Steel: She hides a sawed-off shotgun underneath her petticoats.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Esther looks so similar to the Queen that Virgil mistakenly calls her Bridget on their first meeting. This makes sense, given that Esther is actually Bridget’s granddaughter.
- Tragic Keepsake: Esther carries Abel’s rosary after his death. The rosary she’s usually seen with belongs to her mother, the deceased Crown Princess of Albion, Victoria.
- Tsundere: Type B; usually she's polite and kind, but she has her triggers; especially around Abel in the novels.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Dietrich tricks her into typing the Star of Sorrow’s activation code.
- You Remind Me of X: She reminds a lot of people about a lot of other people.
- Esther reminds Gyula of his late wife Maria when she states that he’s the same as humans. Seth and Abel see her as similar to Lilith, in both her red hair and compassion for others. In her improv speech about peace, Abel fondly notes that there is at least one person around who shares Lilith’s ideals. She also reminds Radu of Ion.
Tres Iqus
- Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (Japanese), Christopher Sabat (English)
Priest working for AX. Tres Iqus is, in fact, a cyborg created long before the start of the series under the name HC-IIIX. He works with ruthless efficiency and large amounts of More Dakka.
- Bodyguard Crush: Towards Caterina.
- Expy: Notes from the manga state him to be one of the second Terminator.
- Fake Defector: He and Caterina seemingly join the Orden after Alessandro's death.
- Machine Monotone
- More Dakka: His primary method of fight. Abel remarks that "he never runs out of bullets".
- No Social Skills
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Abel's Red because of his machine stoicism.
- Religious Robot: He's a Catholic paladin with servos.
- The Spock: In general, he's a coldly logical, efficient killing machine.
- Tin Man: More machine than man, he's nevertheless capable of far more complex emotion than is initially apparent.
- Undying Loyalty: To Caterina. She saves him from being destroyed and gives him his codename, "Gunslinger". After the AX Agency was dissolved, he joins her to destroy the Rosenkreuz Orden from within.
Hugue de Watteau
- Voiced by: Shinya Kitade (Japanese), John Burgmeier (English)
Nicknamed "Sword Dancer", he's AX agent who specializes in blade-staff.
- Artificial Limbs: He lost both his arms fighting Methuselah; they have been replaced with cybernetics, making them stronger and faster.
- Light Is Good: Blond, handsome and heroic.
- Master Swordsman: As seen in his codename, his swordsmanship let him match a vampire on equal footing.
- The Stoic: He rarely talks much and is generally seen as a loner.
Vaclav Havel
- Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki (Japanese), Chuck Huber (English)
Having originally worked for Inquisition, he was then transferred to AX and became Catherina's personal bodyguard.
- Adaptational Heroism: Both in the anime and manga where he never loses his faith or joins Archbishop Alfonso d'Este and remains as a loyal member of the AX
- Famous-Named Foreigner - named after the first Czech president.
- Invisibility: Although it extends to his robe, as well. Much of his body is cybernetic and it seems that camouflage tech was implanted this way.
- Looks Like Jesus: Furthermore, official art often portrays him posed like a martyr.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the novels, he was killed by Sister Paula after he betrayed the AX for kidnapping the Pope. This never happens in the anime and manga because he remains loyal to the AX.
- Visible Invisibility: In anime, it varies. Sometimes he's visible as mostly transparent shape; sometimes, he doesn't reveal himself to viewers before dramatic effect calls for it.
William Walter Wordsworth
- Voiced by: Tōru Ōkawa (Japanese), Jason Douglas (English)
Professor at the University of Rome who prefers taking part in AX operations to teaching.
- Gadgeteer Genius: From time to time.
- Insufferable Genius: In the eyes of sister Kate, though she might be joking. He definitely likes to brag about how his inventions work.
- It's Personal: Towards Isaak, who's responsible for the death of his fiancee.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: He attended medical university, but his expertise seem to run from medicine, mechanical inventions, chemistry and probably a bit of occultism. Petro also mentions attending his lecture on Dante once, not to mention he's also a Vatican ordained priest.
Leon Garcia de Asturias
- Voiced by: Tsuyoshi Koyama (Japanese), Phil Parsons (English)
Ex-AX agent, currently imprisoned, although he is offered to participate in dangerous missions to shorten his sentence.
- Boxed Crook: His missions shorten his sentence.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He really does love his daughter.
Petro Orsini
- Voiced by: Tetsu Inada (Japanese), J. Paul Slavens (English)
Chief Inquisitor who treats his duties very seriously and wishes death to all vampires.
- Badass Boast: His speech before fighting Abel certainly counts: "God judges you, infidel!"
- Badass Normal: He's basically powered by his faith and hot blood.
- Bash Brothers: With Paula.
- Chewing the Scenery: He stops before his fight with Abel (anime) to give a monologue about being God's soldier and punishing the infidel.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite Alessandro openly defying what he should be doing as a Pope by defending vampires in Londinium, Petro convinces Paula not to report this to Francesco.
- Nepotism: He comes from a well-established Orsini family, which is why he was named Chief Inquisitor. He's visibly uncomfortable with this and openly tells Paula she would make a better leader than he does.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Paula's blue.
- Religious Bruiser: Chief Inquisitor slaying vampires for The Lord.
Paula Souwauski
- Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (Japanese), Wendy Powell (English)
Petro's second-in-command.
- Bash Brothers: With Petro.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: Her reflexes and speed are excellent thanks to training.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Towards Alessandro, to a degree.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: To Petro. She is the one Francesco trusts to handle political matters, and knows more secrets than Petro. In RAM III, it is revealed that she knows about Abel's Crusnik power and is able to stop him from activating it, while Pedro doesn't seem to know that even in ROM.
- Ice Queen: She barely ever shows any emotion.
- The Lancer: To Petro.
- Lady of War: Aside from her combat prowess, she shows excellent political insight during her conversation with Petro, who admits she's much more suited to be the commander than he is.
- Red Baron: Her codename is "Lady of Death".
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Petro's Red; possibly Francesco as well.
- Number Two: Petro's second in command.
- Trigger-Happy: In the manga and novel she wanted to launch a missile to destroy an entire city because she believed everyone in the city to be heretics.
- Undying Loyalty: To Francesco and Petro.
The Methuselah Empire
Known officially as The New Human Empire or The Empire of the True Race, it's one of the few places where vampires and humans live in something akin to peace. It was founded by the Empress Vradica, who brought nature back to the lands damaged by the Armageddon. Now the country is a vast land surrounded by airborne particles that filter out the ultraviolet radiation so that the Methuselah may move about by day, which leaves it in perpetual dusk. It is also the most productive and technologically advanced nation on Earth, which is why the Vatican tries not to anger them. Augusta Vradica/Seth Nightroad
- Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)
The Empress of the Metuselah Empire.
- Beware the Silly Ones: She is Crusnik-03, a horrifyingly powerful creature that knows how to fight, yet usually acts goofy when off-duty.
- Cain and Abel and Seth: Sister to The Hero and the Big Bad who forms a third side.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Same as Abel. She is Artificial Human, participated in Human-Methuselah war 900-years prior, her best friend Lilith killed by her brother Cain, her brothers trying to kill each other, her empire wages several wars and losing some of her children, her offer to live together with Abel was refused...
- A Father to His Men: Gender-inverted. She's quite affectionate to her subjects, calling them "her children".
- Immortal Ruler: Normal Methuselahs "only" live about 300 years. She's at least three times that age and still looks like a 14-year-old.
- King Incognito: She occasionally pretends to be a simple peasant girl, working part-time.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: She's truly a cunning and strong-willed older than the hills empress, but she can pretend the part of a cheerful young girl too.
- Pretty Butterflies: She's associated with butterflies, with her clothing often decorated with butterfly wing motifs. Official art for both novels and manga depicts her with butterfly/insect wings in contrast with her feather-winged brothers and Lilith.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the backstory, she injected Cain with 100% Crusnik after he was critically injured in order to save him. But it made him worse to the point of becoming insane as he is today.
- Walking Spoiler: Reading anything about her will reveal she is the Big Good for the Empire and sister of both The Hero and Big Bad.
Ion Fortuna
- Voiced by: Junko Minagawa (Japanese), Aaron Dismuke (English)
High-ranking noble of the Methuselah Empire, he is sent as the Empress' messenger. His mission almost ends in catastrophe. Later, became the heroes' ally in Carthago arc.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Towards humans. In the space of one anime episode, he goes from screaming his hate every time Esther tries to touch him to developing a crush on her.
- Fragile Speedster: Stated to be fastest in the empire.
- Improbable Age: Minor, but for the Methuselah, he is rather young to reach his current rank.
- Tsundere: Towards Esther, very much in the anime.
Astharoshe Asran
- Voiced by: Michiko Neya (Japanese), Carrie Savage (English)
Investigator sent by the Empress to Venice to find a serial killer who escaped the Empire.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair is white/silver in the novels and manga, but blonde in the anime.
- Badass Boast: In the animeI'm Astharoshe Asran, Duchess of Kiev! Die!
- Energy Weapon: Her Gae Bolg is a plasma blade.
- Fiery Redhead / Locked into Strangeness: She used to have red hair until the death of her best friend/girlfriend bleached it white save for a single strand.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Abel.
Gyula Kadar
- Voiced by: Kenji Nomura (Japanese), Kent Williams (English)
Also known as Count Gyula and Marquis of Hungary. Primary antagonist during the Star of Sorrow arc outside of Deitrich.
- Deal with the Devil: His bargain with the Rosencreiutz Orden comes back to bite him in the ass.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: He attempts to use a wandering electrical relay satellite as a weapon of mass destruction capable of wiping out all human life.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: More like Grievous Harm With A Severed Limb And My Own Ribs - see the Our Vampires Are Different entry below.
- Interspecies Romance: His late wife, Maria, was human and he's a vampire.
- It's Personal: Holds a personal grudge against the Vatican for their hand in his wife's murder.
- Kill Sat: Actually, used to be a wandering satellite his wife restored functionality to, for the purpose of converting solar energy into electricity to give Istavan a much-needed power source. Gyula re-purposes it so it can be used as a weapon.
- Love Makes You Evil: Of the avenging a murdered loved one variant.
- Man Behind the Man: Not Gyula himself, but Dietrich.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Especially in the manga, where he's even capable of turning his ribs into biological weaponry.
Rosenkreuz Orden
Primary antagonists of the series, Rosenkreuz Orden is a vampire terrorist organization that aims to erase Vatican and Albion and, instead, demote humans to food. Preferring to work in the background and keeping their activities secret, they often manipulate unsuspecting humans and vampires into doing their dirty work for them. Many of their activities center on triggering a new apocalyptic war between the Vatican, the New Human Empire, and Albion. Cain Nightroad
- Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese), Mike McFarland (English)
Big Bad of the series and leader of Orden. Also, one of Crusniks and Abel's older brother.
- Above Good and Evil: Or rather outside these parameters. Evil is necessary for good to exist, both are important for the world, Esther (and the canon profile) realize Cain isn't evil. He's beyond those definitions and is the absolute enemy of the world because he is totally against it. He's a creature that doesn't belong to the world.
- Adaptation Personality Change: In the anime, he's very serious when committing evil. In the manga and novels, he's very scatterbrained like his younger brother. This is his means to deceive his enemies into thinking that he's not that dangerous. After supposedly killing Abel, he cheerfully teases him.
- Big Bad: Leader of the Orden and the most powerful villain that Abel and co must defeat.
- Big Damn Heroes: He saves Esther from Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper.
- Broken Ace: Before his death and possession/resurrection, he was seemingly the perfect young man...
- Card-Carrying Villain: In the anime he is clearly and unapologetically evil. His manga counterpart's motivations are less clear.
- The Ditz: In the manga and novels, shockingly enough. His first appearance sees him almost getting run over by a car... several times in a row because he was staring at Esther.
- Dissonant Serenity: He and his brother have this in common: eerie calmness during Crusnik mode.
- Friendly Enemy: In novels and manga he adores Esther. Isaac refrains from killing her explicitly because he knows Cain wouldn't want it.
- Light Is Not Good: He is blond, generally wears white, his powers appear to be energy-based and his Crusnik form looks like a classical angel. He is also a genocidal lunatic who would like to destroy everything again.
- Person of Mass Destruction: A given, being a Crusnik.
- Superpower Meltdown: The reason for his being evil; it's unclear whether it was a genuine turn to evil, if the nanomites amplified his pre-existing antisocial traits, or if he's just their host now.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: During his youth.
- Yandere: For Abel and Esther. In the novels, he wants to "devour" them, so they would exist within him forever.
Isaak Fernand von Kämpfer
- Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), Chris Ayres (English)
High-ranking member of Orden who mastered the Silent Noise system.
- Affably Evil: He's perfectly nice to Esther and Shahrazad when they meet for the first time, even helping them when they're chased by D'Annunzio's soldiers.
- Battle Butler: Poses as one for Cain, but he's much more than that.
- Big Damn Heroes: For Esther during the Lady Saint arc.
- The Chessmaster: To the point where he sometimes manipulates Cain himself.
- Cultured Badass: Shown enjoying opera and fine wine in official art.
- The Dragon: To Cain.
- Enemy Mine: Teamed up with Abel against Helga's faction in RAM VI.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In manga, when Cain used Esther as a shield, Isaak, the self-proclaimed normal person couldn't understand why Abel didn't cut down both of them.
- Evil Sorcerer: Uses dark magic, particularly some seriously disturbing summons. Also, all his spells reference Dukes of Hell.
- Somewhat subverted, since he uses lost technology, and does not actually need spells to activate the skills.
- Healing Factor: Has been injured by Abel, Tres, Esther and Virgil, always seen fully regenerated with clothes fixed a while later. Unlike Krusniks and Methuselahs, how he does this is never explained.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: His goals seem rather unclear and not entirely compatible with Cain's Omnicidal Maniac tendencies. In fact, he's so mysterious nobody is even sure if he's human or a vampire or... something else.
- I Have Many Names: Is known by many aliases and nicknames, often based on actual historical characters.
- Musical Assassin: Uses Ominous Pipe Organ to operate his Weapon of Mass Destruction.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Whenever he's not wearing his RKO uniform, he's shown in a three-piece suit.
- Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!!: Did this to Abel in RAM II. After being defeated, he told Abel that the only way to stop Silent Noise and save Rome is to kill him, Abel couldn't bring himself to do it. Unfortunately, or fortunately for Rome, other members of the AX destroyed Silent Noise in time.
- Vague Age: He used to study in Londinium alongside Professor Wordsworth, but looks much younger. Not to mention his old university photo looks nothing like him.
- He calls himself an old man in Radio Head, and Dietrich apparently knows he is much older than he looks. Also claims to be several historical figures, the most ancient one being Xu Fu, the 3rd century BC Chinese alchemist. Although this is not entirely confirmed, there are evidence such as his several unexplained powers, extensive knowledge of pre-Armageddon literature, and him calling Londinium by its old name, London.
- Villain Ball: Has to provoke Abel, a Crusnik with lightning power, beside a computer with important data inside, causing the data to be destroyed. But maybe this is the plan all along?
Dietrich von Lohengrin
- Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (Japanese), Justin Cook (English)
- Allergic to Routine: Complains about how boring the world is and keeps seeking entertainment.
- Badass in Distress: Becomes this in Radio Head due to the lack of suitable bodies to control, and again in Public Enemy when Helga found out that he was lying to her.
- The Chessmaster: Easily the best manipulator in the series.
- Evil Genius: Fulfills this role in the Five-Man Band.
- Face–Heel Turn: Starts as Esther's partner but he's working with Cain.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: You would never expect a Pretty Boy like him to be a sociopathic manipulator.
- Freudian Excuse: His family tried to kill him when he was a child, seemingly for no reason.
- Heel–Face Turn: Turns against Cain in the end.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: At the beginning, he appears to just be a Red Shirt, killed off by Gyula's army. However, he's revealed to be much more powerful than initially appears. A LOT more.
- People Puppets: Uses his monofilaments wires to control people via their nerves. He even uses it to literally puppet people's bodies and use corpses as soldiers (in the anime). For this he gained the code name Marionettenspieler (Puppet Master). These wires also have more "interesting" uses, such as causing a person to feel any sensation imaginable, including sexual pleasure.
- Sadistic Choice: He enjoys putting Esther through those.
- Yandere: For Esther.
Radu Barvon
- Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese), Jason Liebrecht (English)
Also known as The Baron of Luxor, a nobleman from the Empire.
- Anti-Villain: A mix of Type II and Type IV — he's convinced his cause is worth fighting for and joined the Order because he thinks another global war is going to better all Methuselah. All the same, he's shown to have a major hang-up about having to kill Ion because of how far back their friendship goes, to the point where he seems to consider not going through with it.
- Brainwashedand Crazy: What Dietrich does to him in the aftermath of Carthage.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Joined the RKO because the idea of humans and Methuselah coexisting peacefully came off as absurd to him.
Albion Kingdom
Probably the only country that managed to survive through the Armageddon, Albion stays outside of Vatican's field of influence. While it appears to be mostly human, it has, in fact, a significant vampire population under the surface of London. It is known for its large amounts of pre-Armageddon technology and a high level of modern technology. Mary Spencer
- Voiced by: Miho Yamada (Japanese), Clarine Harp (English)
Colonel of Albion Navy and swordsmistress, as well as one of the heirs to Albionian throne.
- The Ace: She's a skilled swordswoman, excellent commander inspiring Undying Loyalty in her soldiers, is shown mastering piloting Giant Mecha very quickly and is a suprisingly talented schemer on top of it.
- All for Nothing: She poisoned the Queen and staged a coup d'etat only to be told by Esther their grandmother would make her the next Queen anyway. Has she not done this, the crown would be hers, but she ends up being used as a pawn by the Orden and dies for it while Vatican puts Esther on the throne.
- Badass Boast: She gives one just as she confronts members of the House of Lords during her coup d’état.“Tragic royal granddaughter.” I completely agree with you on that one. But remember this, you maggots. I am now known as Queen of the Dead!
- Bastard Bastard: Zigzagged. She's the illegitimate daughter of the Crown Prince, seemingly making her unable to inherit the throne. She's portrayed as a victim of circumstances who ends up embittered and justifiably vengeful for how she was treated her entire life.
- Broken Ace: In ROM VI.
- Break the Cutie: Slowly but it culminates in ROM VI.
- Demoted to Extra: In the anime. Her backstory and her relationship with the Queen was never shown.
- Dramatic Irony: She forgoes speaking with Bridget on her death bed in order to lead a coup d’état, sending Esther in instead. In mistaking Esther for Mary, Bridget tells the nun that she’s to inherit the throne after her death. She was to be crowned queen all along.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: She effectively says this after delivering a slap that snaps Esther out of her grief over Abel’s death. It works.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She pushes Esther out of the way as Cain attempts to absorb her and get absorbed instead.
- Living Emotional Crutch: She acts as this for Esther after Abel’s death.
- Long-Lost Relative: Is actually Esther’s older half-sister.
- The Men First: Losing the 44th Marine Regiment was a severe blow to her. She cared about her soldiers deeply, and that’s reflected in her resurrecting them as the Phantom Legion. Her motive for killing the nobles is revenge for using her and her men as bait during the Percy Rebellion.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She comes to this realization after Esther reveals to her that Bridget had loved her all along, but could not show it due to threats of assassination and rebellion by the nobles. Of course, this comes after she’s poisoned and killed the late queen. She doesn’t resist her arrest after this.
- Odd Friendship: Mary is serious and reserved while Jane is gregarious and more often than not the center of scandal. Even so, the two became close friends while in school and remain so for most of their adult lives.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Just like her grandmother and Esther, she has red hair and blue eyes.
Bridget II
- Voiced by: Pam Dougherty (English)
Queen of Albion.
- Iron Lady: Apparently ruled Albion very efficiently.
- Posthumous Character: In Anime, the first episode she's mentioned in starts with her funeral.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Her portraits show she looked just like Esther in her youth.
