History Characters / DawnOfTheArcana

* {{Envy}}: [[spoiler:He is jealous of Caesar for the latter's mother being promoted to queen while the former's mother gets dethroned from the position, Caesar being born with black hair, and his arranged fiancee and love interest Louise having feelings for Caesar over him. However, this ends up being his FatalFlaw.]]

* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler: His {{Envy}} towards Caesar and his RevengeBeforeReason in attacking Lemilia ultimately seal his death.]]

* TriangRelations: Type 4 with Loki as (A), herself as (B), and Caesar as (C).

* TriangRelations: Type 4 with Loki as (A), Nakaba as (B), and himself as (C); Type 5 with Cain as (A), Louise as (B), and himself as (C).

* TriangRelations: Type 4 with himself as (A), Nakaba as (B), and Caesar as (C).

%% * TriangRelations: Type 5 with himself as (A), Louise as (B), and Caesar as (C).

* TriangRelations: Type 5 with Cain as (A), herself as (B), and Caesar as (C).

%%* TheChick: Shares this role with Lemilia.

%%* TheChick: Shares this role with Rito.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: She slaps Loki in Chapter 1 for threatening "her husband" Caesar (while simultaneously saving his life as he would be executed for such an assault) and downright ''[[EstablishingCharacterMoment punches]]'' Caesar for being out of line and slaps him in Chapter 4 for yanking on her braid. [[spoiler:She later slaps Caesar for attempting to distance himself from her in an effort to get her to forget about him (as he is returning to Belquat while still being accused of Cain's death, leaving his fate uncertain).]]

* BelligerentSexualTension: With Caesar.

* BraidsOfAction
* BrokenBird: Has elements of this.

* CharacterDevelopment
* ChildhoodFriends: With Loki.
* TheChosenOne
* ChronicHeroSyndrome

* CoolBigSis: To Lala.

* FieryRedhead: Is Redhead and is very plucky and firey.

* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: Her father was an Ajin.]]
* HappilyMarried: To Caesar.
* HeroesWantRedheads
* HeroicBastard
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Lemilia.

* [[spoiler:ImportantHaircut]]

* MoralityPet: To Caesar and Loki.

* PluckyGirl
* {{Protectorate}}: To Caesar and Loki.
* RebelliousPrincess

* StepfordSmiler
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic
* SugarAndIcePersonality

* [[spoiler:TraumaticHaircut: When King Guran orders for her hair to be dyed black. This turns into an ImportantHaircut when she cuts off the hair that had been dyed.]]

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl

* BelligerentSexualTension: With Nakaba.
* BeneathTheMask[=/=]HiddenDepths: Initially introduced as an immature {{jerkass}}, he turns out to be pressured to gain the throne by his mother and a noblewoman who holds affections for him and thus feels empty because he has no desire for anything for himself [[spoiler:and is aware of his half-brother's hatred for him, in spite of his attempts to gain his affection.]]

* {{Bishounen}}

* ButtMonkey
* [[spoiler:CainAndAbel: Naturally between Cain and himself.]]
* CharacterDevelopment

* {{Determinator}}
* [[spoiler:[[FirstGirlWins First Guy Wins]]]]

* HonorBeforeReason
* HotBlooded

* [[spoiler:ImportantHaircut]]

* WarriorPrince
* TheWisePrince

* [[spoiler:AllLoveIsUnrequited: It has been hinted in Chapter 21 and revealed in Chapter 32 that Loki is in love with Nakaba. When he makes her choose between them, she chooses Caesar. ]]
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl

* [[spoiler:AttemptedRape: An interesting variant in Chapter 32. While using Time's Arcana, Nakaba witnesses a flashback where he was tempted to but restrained himself from "violating" her in her sleep. This incident is notable because this is what makes Nakaba realize that he is in love with her.]]
* BattleButler
* BeneathTheMask[=/=]HiddenDepths: Lemilia says that behind his surface, he is muddled with conflicting feelings of "loneliness, pain, love, hatred, and fear." [[spoiler:Later chapters show the extent of his suppressed emotions, from his determination to protect Nakaba resulting in him killing and covering up the death of a noblewoman to how he restrains his suppressed feelings for Nakaba to the point where he has to tell himself not to violate her. The final chapters reveal that Nakaba and he are actually siblings and are half-Ajin; while he loves Nakaba and his life revolves around her, he also envies her at the same time as she physically looks more human than Ajin while he had to secretly burden the fact that he was half-human but would always be treated badly.]]

* [[spoiler:BigBrotherInstinct]]
* {{Bishounen}}
* BlueOni: To Caesar's RedOni.
* [[spoiler:BodyguardCrush]]
* [[spoiler:BrotherSisterIncest: He is in love with Nakaba and knew all along that they were siblings.]]

* TheChampion

* {{Determinator}}
* [[spoiler:DoggedNiceGuy]]
* FacialMarkings: Has a marking on his face. [[spoiler: He inherited that trait from his father who has a marking on his neck]]

** [[spoiler: Loki has black hair but nothing is made of it since he is an Ajin. His hair comes from having royal blood - he's Stesha's son and Nakaba's brother.]]
** [[spoiler: Loki has a great deal of knowledge about the Time Arcana and explains much of it to Nakaba. He knows so much because he also has the power and learned through experience.]]
** [[spoiler: Loki is associated with wolves. He mentions that he is a wolf and Loki the Norse god is the father of Fenrir. Nakaba sees a wolf in the Arcana of Time who is revealed to be Loki.]]
** [[spoiler: Loki always shows up when Nakaba is in trouble and finds her when she needs him. While this is a normal shoujo trope, the implication is that he's using his Arcana powers to search for her and predict when she's in trouble.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Chapter 21 seemingly hints that Loki has feelings for Nakaba and is jealous of Caesar's relationship with her. Chapter 32 confirms it.]]
* HopelessSuitor: [[spoiler: Despite his feelings for her, because he has the same ability as Nakaba, he knew all along that Nakaba would go to Belquat and marry and fall in love with Caesar.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid
* {{Jerkass}}[=/=]JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He certainly has his moments as the former, but he's typically the latter.

* [[spoiler:TheMole: It turns out that, along with Rito, he sent internal affairs to the Senan King at the latter's orders.]]
* PeekABangs

* PoisonousFriend: To Nakaba. He would do anything to protect her including kill her enemies.

* PromotionToParent: [[spoiler: Promised to protect Nakaba after their parents died]]

* TheRival
* StepfordSmiler
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic
* [[spoiler:SubordinateExcuse]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Crosses over with TallDarkAndSnarky as well.

* TranquilFury

* TroubledButCute
* UndyingLoyalty: To Nakaba.
* [[spoiler:UnluckyChildhoodFriend]]

* ForgingTheWill: [[spoiler: A variant. Nakaba threatens to kill Adel until King Morris rewrites his will to make her Queen.]]

* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler: He knew all along that Loki was Nakaba's brother having figured it out from Loki's black hair.]]

* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler: To Nakaba in Chapter 39.]]

* {{Bishounen}}

* IdiotHair

* LongHairedPrettyBoy

** TheBusCameBack: In Chapter 39.

* [[spoiler:UnwantedSpouse: To Nakaba. Subverted as she did form enough of an attachment and/or pity to feel apologetic when she takes Senan from him.]]

* TheChick: Shares this role with Lemilia.
* HalfHumanHybrid
* {{Keet}}

* [[spoiler:StepfordSmiler]]
* TagalongKid

* [[spoiler:[[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Mother]]: The king uses her as leverage to force Rito to spy on Nakaba.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler: Forces an Arcana user to tell the future at sword point and only learns death and tragedy.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Guran makes a habit of this

** [[spoiler: He murdered an Arcana user, his friends and Nakaba's village solely because the user predicted Lady Sarah's death and then the destruction of his kingdom. Note, he threatened the Arcana user into making a prediction.]]

* ParentalNeglect: Is implied to have taken a very hands off approach raising his children after Lady Sarah's death. His neglect caused [[spoiler: Cain, despite being his favorite son and heir, to feel inadequate driving a wedge between Cain and Caesar.]]

The mother of Caesar and King Guran's second wife. She is determined to make sure Caesar surpasses Cain in becoming king and continues to feel jealousy and resentment over King Guren's preference of Lady Sarah over her. [[spoiler:She was originally a concubine and her titles with Lady Sarah were switched in order to secure Caesar's legitimacy to the throne.]]

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler: It's hinted that she might love Guren and want him to love her back. Her resentment is because he never got over Sarah.]]

* TheResenter: Towards Lady Sarah.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Queen Rosenta's open disdain of Cain is what poisons the brother's relationship which helps lead to [[spoiler: Cain's death]]. It's also pointed out that Caesar is accused of [[spoiler: killing Cain]] mostly because she couldn't keep her resentments to herself, making him the prime suspect.

* TheLostLenore: To King Guran.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth

* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Naturally between Caesar and himself.]]

* {{Envy}}: [[spoiler: He is jealous of Caesar for the latter's mother being promoted to queen while the former's mother gets dethroned from the position, Caesar being born with black hair, and his arranged fiancee and love interest Louise having feelings for Caesar over him. However, this ends up being his FatalFlaw.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: To Nakaba. They are both discriminated for their hair colors and inferiority. The only difference is that while Nakaba decided to overcome it, he gave up.]]

* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler: A running theme with Cain. It's not Caesar's fault that Cain is viewed as lesser heir or that Louise loves Caesar more as Caesar is simply a child who wants a brother. Furthermore, Nakaba and Lemilia notice his envy but they don't do anything about it and attempting to kill them for it is DisproportionateRetribution.]]

* TheResenter: [[spoiler: Resented a Caesar for being born with black hair and Nakaba and Lemilia for seeing through his mask]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler: His abrupt decision to attack Lemilia over her fear of him led to him ultimately getting killed.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: He dies partway through the manga which kicks off the story's CerebusSyndrome and establishes the BalancingDeathsBooks aspect of Nakaba's power]]

* ClingyJealousGirl
* TheGeneralsDaughter

* TheResenter
* TheRival: Towards Nakaba.
* SiblingTriangle: With Caesar and Cain.

* [[spoiler:UnwantedSpouse]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Lemilia.

* EyesAlwaysShut
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Caesar.
* TheSmartGuy

* TheChick: Shares this role with Rito.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Nakaba.
* HimeCut
* MoralityPet: To Vernas.

* PairTheSpares: With Adel

* [[spoiler:{{Telepathy}}]]

* {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler: Sacrificed his Ajin slave who he knew was in love with him so he could be king]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: [[spoiler: Willingly accepts Nakaba's decision and goes to his death in place of Ahkil]]

%%* {{Bishounen}}

* DudeLooksLikeALady

* PutOnABus
** TheBusCameBack

* ClingyJealousGirl: [[spoiler: To Baatar. She strangles one of Baatar's concubines out of jealousy.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Dies smiling as she's happy to give her life to the one she loves.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid
* SubordinateExcuse: [[spoiler:To Baatar.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:To Baatar.]]

* HalfHumanHybrid

* PutOnABus

* {{Tsundere}}

* IllGirl: With an IncurableCoughOfDeath. She eventually succumbs to the disease killing her.

* BastardBoyfriend[=/=]DomesticAbuse: He initially acts like this towards Nakaba in Chapter 1, yanking at her braid and pulling {{forced kiss}}es on her, prior to his CharacterDevelopment.

* {{Bishounen}}

* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* MulticoloredHair

* {{Bishounen}}
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles
** BishieSparkle: This pretty much accompanies Azuhal almost all the time.

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* MulticoloredHair
* NiceGuy

* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* LoveAtFirstPunch

* ManChild: This is due to his (initial) immaturity.
* MeaningfulName: His name means "head of hair," which is notable in a world where HairColors are SeriousBusiness. It's also the same name as another [[UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar well-known ruler]].

* RedOni: To Loki's BlueOni.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
* SiblingTriangle: With Cain and Louise.
* SiblingYinYang: With Cain.
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TallDarkAndSnarky

* TroubledButCute
* {{Tsundere}}
* UndyingLoyalty: To Nakaba.

* BeautyMark: By her left eye.

* NotSoDifferent: With Cain.

* NotSoDifferent: With Nakaba. There's even a side chapter dedicated to his thoughts of her from meeting her to [[spoiler:his death]], where he ultimately considers her as his "conscience."

%% * [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile]]

* {{Adorkable}}

* ParentalFavoritism: Favored Nakaba's mother because she was the daughter of his most beloved queen.

* PosthumousCharacter

* [[spoiler:ArrangedMarriage: To Nakaba in Chapter 39.]]

* RoyalBrat

* [[spoiler:TheMole: Was blackmailed by the king of Senan to spy on Nakaba and Belquat's dealings in return for his mother's safety.]]

** [[spoiler: He murdered an Arcana user, his friends and Nakaba's village solely because an Arcana user predicted Lady Sarah's death and then the destruction of his kingdom. Note, he threatened the Arcana user into making a prediction.]]

* ParentalNeglect: Is implied to have taken a very hands off approach raising his children after Lady Sarah's death. His neglect caused [[spoiler: Cain, despite being his favorite son and heir, to feel inadequate driving a wedge between Cain and Caesar. As king and father, had he simply taken a more forceful approach, he could have put a stop to it all]]

* GenkiGirl

%% * [[spoiler:DrivenByEnvy]]

%% * [[spoiler:GreenEyedMonster]]

%% * NotSoDifferent: With Nakaba. There's even a side chapter dedicated to his thoughts of her from meeting her to [[spoiler:his death]], where he ultimately considers her as his "conscience."

%% * SiblingTriangle: With Caesar and Louise.

%% * [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile]]

* * HalfHumanHybrid

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There's a decent amount of foreshadowing towards [[spoiler: Nakaba's MixedAncestry]]
** [[spoiler: Arcana mostly manifests in Ajin and is hinted to be an Ajin trait. Nakaba is the only human in the story with an Arcana - because she's not fully human.]]
** [[spoiler: Ajin are said to heal very quickly and are more durable than humans. Nakaba is injured a fair amount in the story and always recovers. At one point, she had a heavily bleeding wound while Lemilia has a broken ankle and she healed from the wound faster than Lemilia.]]
** [[spoiler: Ajin can defend herself decently despite being minimally trained. This is likely due to her Ajin blood giving her a physical advantage.]]

** [[spoiler: He murdered an Arcana user, his friends and Nakaba's village solely because an Arcana user predicted Lady Sarah's death and then the destruction of his kingdom. Note he threatening the Arcana user into making a prediction.]]

** [[spoiler: He murdered an Arcana user, his friends and Nakaba's village solely because an Arcana user predicted Lady Sarah's death and then the destruction of his kingdom. Note that Arcana user was basically strong armed into making a prediction so it's still entirely his fault.]]

* BlessedWithSuck: Time Arcana powers despite being useful in telling the past, present and future come at a very heavy price. The powers come at the cost of her lifespan (most Time Arcana users die early when the power overwhelms them) and YouCanFightFate but at a very heavy cost.

** Loki has a great deal of knowledge about the Time Arcana and explains much of it to Nakaba. [[spoiler: He knows so much because he also has the power and learned through experience.]]
** Loki is associated with wolves. He mentions that he is a wolf and Loki the Norse god is the father of Fenrir. [[spoiler: Nakaba sees a wolf in the Arcana of Time who is revealed to be Loki.]]
** Loki always shows up when Nakaba is in trouble and finds her when she needs him. [[spoiler: While this is a normal shoujo trope, the implication is that he's using his Arcana powers to search for her and predict when she's in trouble.]]

* NonActionGirl: Compared to Nakaba, Lemilia has no defense training and can't fight and is not quite quick-witted enough to think her way out of trouble leading to her being a DistressedDamsel.

* AllLovingHero

* FieryRedhead

%% * RedEyesTakeWarning: When using Time's Arcana.

* HairColors: Loki has black hair but nothing is made of it since the fact that he is an Ajin trumps that fact. [[spoiler: It turns out that his hair comes from having royal blood - he's Stesha's son and Nakaba's brother]]

** As a nice bit of Foreshadowing, Loki the god is associated with wolves as the father of Fenrir. [[spoiler: The wolf that Nakaba sees in the Arcana of Time is Loki hinting at his Time Arcana ability.]]

** [[spoiler: He murdered an Arcana user, his friends and Nakaba's village solely because an Arcana user predicted Lady Sarah's death and then the destruction of his kingdom. Note that Arcana user was basically strongarmed into making a prediction so it's still entirely his fault.]]

* {{Jerkass}}

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: He dies partway through the manga which kicks off the story's CerebusSyndrome.]]

* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler: A running theme with Cain. It's not Caesar's fault that Cain is viewed as lesser heir due to his hair as Caesar is simply a child who wants a brother. Furthermore, Nakaba and Lemilia simply notice his envy but they don't do anything about it and killing them for it is DisproportionateRetribution.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: When King Guran enters the dining hall and is startled that Nakaba is dressed in Senan attire, Loki takes responsibility for it. King Guran reacts by slashing Loki with his sword and ordering for him to be killed.
* TheMourningAfter

* GreenEyedMonster

* IllGirl

%!Prince Cain

%% * AloofBigBrother[=/=]BigBrotherMentor: Zigzagged between these towards Caesar when they were children.
%% * ArrangedMarriage: With Louise. [[spoiler:Had Cain not have pulled a FaceHeelTurn, it could have very well ended up being a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.]]

%% * [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

%% * [[spoiler:TheResenter]]
%% * [[spoiler:RevengeBeforeReason: His abrupt decision to attack Lemilia over her fear of him led to him ultimately getting killed.]]

* [[spoiler:TheMourningAfter: After Cain dies, she realizes she's in love with him.]]

* TheRival

%% * [[spoiler:HalfHumanHybrid: [[HumanMomNonhumanDad Her father was an Ajin.]]]]

* FacialMarkings

* [[spoiler:HopelessSuitor: Despite his feelings for her, because he has the same ability as Nakaba, he knew all along that Nakaba would go to Belquat and marry and fall in love with Caesar.]]

* PoisonousFriend
* [[spoiler:PromotionToParent]]

* TallDarkAndHandsome

* GenkiGirl
* HeroicSacrifice: She sacrified herself to save Nakaba.

%% * [[spoiler:CainAndAbel: Naturally between Caesar and himself.]]
%% * [[spoiler:DeathEqualsRedemption[=/=]RedemptionEqualsDeath: He stopped himself from attacking Lemilia when Nakaba went in the way, as he recognized her and did not want to harm her. But it is because he threatened Nakaba that Loki killed him.]]

%% * [[spoiler:{{Envy}}: He is jealous of Caesar for the latter's mother being promoted to queen while the former's mother gets dethroned from the position, Caesar being born with black hair, and his arranged fiancee and love interest Louise having feelings for Caesar over him. However, this ends up being his FatalFlaw.]]
%% * [[spoiler:EvilCounterpart: To Nakaba. They are both discriminated for their hair colors and inferiority. The only difference is that while Nakaba decided to overcome it, he gave up.]]
%% * [[spoiler:FatalFlaw: His {{Envy}} towards Caesar and his RevengeBeforeReason in attacking Lemilia ultimately seal his death.]]

* HairDecorations

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: A princess of Senan through birth and Belquat by marriage