History Characters / CrossAngeMisurugiEmpire

* FreudianExcuse: He claims to Liza that their parents have always favored Ange over him and he got jealous of it.

* DecoyDamsel: At the end of "Salia's Gloom", Sylvia poses as a DamselInDistress when she communicates with Momoka so she can lure Ange into a trap.

* EvilCripple: When she finally shows her true colors and decides to whip Ange in public personally. Or so she thinks, but Sylvia is really just being manipulated by Julio and Embryo - once those two are gone, she undergoes a HeelFaceTurn. Albeit at gun point by Ange.
* FallenPrincess: Sylvia becomes one after the Mana Network was cut off from her world in the final episodes; in the final episode, heeding her now-estranged sister's words to "kill and survive", she and any surviving members of the royal family were forced to fend for themselves without their magic in the now-destroyed Misurugi Empire.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Believes her brother is innocent despite being one responsible for the murder of their parents and she thinks Embryo actually cares for her when he only cares for himself, these two just use her as a pawn.

* TheOphelia: She can be seen as becoming one after Ange is revealed to be a Norma (the one thing shunned by society), her parents are both killed in their attempt to hide the secret, and while Ange is in exile, her elder brother [[TheEvilPrince Julio]] (the one responsible) turns Sylvia against her and lures her out of exile by having her pull a WoundedGazelleGambit. After capturing their disinherited sister, Sylvia laughs hysterically, calls out Ange for killing her parents and demands she apologize for being a Norma as she whips before an execution. After Ange escapes, things only get worse: after having a nightmare over what just happened, an attempt to seek comfort from Julio goes south when she spots his secretary ([[TheMole and mole from a dimension of dragonic humanoids]]) Liza, who promptly captures her and puts her under her thrall, Sylvia is seen screaming the name of her once beloved sister. Episodes later, with Julio dead and Embryo freeing her from Liza's control, she's even worse, whipping Liza in retaliation and for [[DisproportionateRetribution failing to bring her what she wanted to read]], and [[OhCrap has a moment of slack-jawed horror]] when Ange shows up, asking if she plans to kill her like she the rest of her family as she still blames her for until Liza delivers her WhamLine. From then on, with nobody else in the Imperial Palace, she looks increasingly unkempt and scared for her life as the palace is under siege, and later, [[TheMagicGoesAway the Mana is cut off]] with her left out of the loop. [[CreepyChild She is initially presented in an unsympathetic and cowardly light]], as it turns out she was healed from her injuries long ago, but she ''also'' undergoes a TraumaCongaLine in a station she is in no way fit for.
* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: In "Distorted World", she tries to beg Ange to save her after the Mana network is cut off. Ange understandably isn't inclined to rescue the girl who betrayed her to the Misurugi citizens and incorrectly blamed her for killing her entire family.

* WalkingSpoiler: For about half of the series, she appears to be a good little sister and DamselInDistress. It's not until she tries to stab Ange that she is revealed as an antagonist, and most of the tropes refer to her antagonism.

* AnimalThemeNaming: Her real name is a play on the word 'Lizard'.

* BystanderSyndrome: Watches Ange get tortured and nearly hung from the gallows in "Goodbye From the Gallows". It's left ambiguous if she's simply keeping up her act that prevented her from intervening, or if she willingly went along with the execution as Ange was slaying her kind by the dozens at this point. She does show remorse for her actions later on in spite of this.

* EasilyForgiven: Ange forgives her involvement in the destruction of her family and what she ended up going through as a result without an apology. At the same time, Liza was visibly remorseful over everything and cowered in shame, while Ange offered thanks for alerting Momoka to her location in the Misurugi castle where she had been held by Embryo.

* MadeASlave: Forced to be Sylvia's "pet" after being exposed as a [[spoiler:DRAGON]].

* ShootTheDog: Serves under, and manipulates, Julio, and as such is either partly or entirely responsible for the following: the usurping and death of the Ange's parents, Ange being forcibly removed from society and sent to Arzenal where she is sent off to be CannonFodder and likely to die, triggering a DRAGON invasion on Arzenal which annihilates half the base and results in many Norma casualties, and Julio's subsequent attempts to kill Ange, which culminate in a massacre of the remaining Norma. All of this is as a mole for the [=DRAGONs=] whose leader is being held in Misurugi palace, but still, she does some serious damage, including [[ConflictBall some she could have avoided]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Her above cited efforts are almost all for naught after she is caught by Embryo, and that the person whose life was thrown into constant adversity as a result, Ange, is responsible for turning the tide, serves as extra irony.
* TheStoolPigeon: Tortured by Embryo into revealing the [=DRAGONs=] plan to invade and retake Aura, leading the latter to spring a trap on them.

* DamselInDistress: At the end of "Salia's Gloom" when she communicates with Momoka. [[DecoyDamsel Except that it's a trap for Ange]].

[[folder:Sylvia]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Getting vaporized by a WaveMotionGun is a ''horrible'' way to die, but after everything he's done, it's hard to say he didn't have it coming.]]

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: To [[Anime/CodeGeass Clovis la Britannia]]. Both are older brothers of the protagonist who have very similar appearances, are incredibly racist (towards Norma and Elevens, respectively) and [[spoiler: pathetically beg for their lives before being killed.]] However Clovis, for all his faults,[[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes genuinely cared for his family]] and [[TookALevelInJerkass became the man he was]] from [[FreudianExcuse losing Lelouch and Nunnally (due to believing they had been killed)]]. Julio, by contrast, has always been the way he is and is consistently shown to [[ItsAllAboutMe care for nobody but himself]], to the point of being responsible, whether directly or indirectly, for the deaths of ''both'' his parents, on top of committing multiple unspeakable crimes that even ''Schneizel'' would find disgusting. Essentially, Julio is what Clovis would be if he had absolutely no redeeming qualities.

%%* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Ange's Abel.

* HateSink: Responsible for Ange getting publicly outed as a Norma and exiled, the fall of the former Misurugi Empire, and their mother killed (inadvertently, since his intended target was Ange), manages to pin it on Ange in Sylvia's eyes, and baits Ange into escaping from Arzenal so he can hang her personally. [[spoiler:He seemingly also does this with Embryo by convincing him to lead the charge on resetting the Earth. But gets found out immediately once Embryo realizes that all Julio wants to do is kill everyone out of petty spite against Ange.]]

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: He takes it further by [[spoiler:turning Sylvia against Ange and having the latter lured into a false rescue mission and a subsequent public lashing and execution. Then orders Tusk to be killed when he tries to rescue her so that they won't escape alive. Prepares to kick more injured puppies and the neighboring kingdom meant to oversee them as he invades Arzenal to purge all norma in "Arzenal Burns", which leads to Ange coming for his hide once and for all]].

* PsychopathicManchild: He often throws tantrums and calls for his assistant Liza to comfort him when things go wrong. He thinks little of Normas and often laughs maniacally, orchestrating several {{Batman Gambit}}s to ruin Ange's life just because he was TheUnfavorite, then winds up committing a misguided [[OmnicidalManiac mass genocide]] on all Norma in an attempt to appease Embryo and tie up loose ends with his sister once and for all. Not surprisingly, this ends [[LaserGuidedKarma incredibly poorly for him]].