History Characters / Kubera

* AccompliceByInaction: Manasvin and Sagara consider him - and, by extention, the whole Gandharva clan - to be this regarding Ananta's death.

** Except that maybe not. [[spoiler:As Brilith points out, his change of heart only came after he lost most of his powers and grew severely weakened. She states that his choice to help humankind is meaningless if it's based simply on his inability to kill them in the same scale as before.]]

* GoodIsNotSoft: You know the device Laila received in season three? He created it. And used it to hand Chandra his ass. The catch? Said device deals damage based on how much the target ''repents'' their sins. Agni even calls it unreasonable. To this day, merely seeing it makes Chandra afraid. Surya may be nice (for a god), but he's not to be trifled it.

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%%* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives an epic one in chapter 2-55 about the hypocrisy evident in the "justice" of the gods and Gandharva and Menaka's "pacifism."

* JerkassGod: Among the gods seen mocking Agni for empathizing with humans in flashbacks.

* Hypocrite: How ''dare'' Laila not swoon over him when all he did was to kill her mentor and not even blink about it. And ''of course'' he has the right to despise Gandharva for killing humans and not giving a shit about it.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: He's rather frustrated that Laila doesn't treat him like a god, whereas even Agni gets respect.

* JerkassGod: Chandra embodies everything that people (those who know, at least) hate about gods: callous, unempathetic, and believes AMillionIsAStatistic.

* MadGod: He's a bit unhinged.

* PunyEarthlings: He considers humans to be lower lifeforms.

* TheSpock: Motivated by cold logic, unlike the more sentimental Agni.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Agni, at times. For the most part, Agni doesn't mind Chandra, but they're on opposite ends of the empathy spectrum and it shows. Also, Chandra kind of ruined his life and is unapologetic about it, so there's that.

* TongueTied: [[spoiler:She can't talk about god Kubera.]]

* DidntSeeThatComing: Asha [[spoiler:casting ''Hoti Visnu'']] put a severe drawback on her plans. Then again, it's not entirely her fault, as it seems Asha did it mainly at the spur of the moment and never planned on doing so.

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[[folder:In General]]

The son of the current king of the Kinnara Clan. He was born shortly after the universe was created, making him the oldest Rakshasa alive. Due to circumstances, he hasn't been able to reach 5th stage.

* SupportPartyMember: While he does have offensive transcententals of his own, it's more effective if he amplifies others'.

* [[spoiler:ImperiledInPregnancy]]: [[spoiler:Flashbacks have her pregnant, crying and surrounded by flames and burned bodies. It seems to be a memory from her first life, although it may be of other reincarnations.]]

* ParentalNeglect: Towards Brilith.

** ActionMom: Considering she's a badass with a sword and she's Elwin's mom, she definitely qualifies. She can even take on human-form rakshasa and hold her ground solely on her skill as a fighter.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: He acts like a goofy layabout, but he actually has a much better idea of what's really going on than almost anyone else, and most of his actions have a deeper purpose behind them. For example, his 'lazing about' in Kalibloom was (according to him) actually because he was frantically trying to get Yuta to stay on humanity's side.

** BrokenAce: What she sees herself as... with more cause. She was broken before she reached Acehood. In fact, it caused her to work hard to gain it.

[[spoiler:She frequently resurrected her victims in order to test out her spells on them. While the spell she used resurrects them with a different soul (usually that of a low level Asura), her victims had no idea they weren't human.]]

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's AMotherToHerMen. Also, she genuinely loved Manasvin and was upset when he told her to leave him and be with Vasuki. She's also hinted to have loved Ananta, regardless of his status as king.

* CryCute: Despite all the terrible things he has done, it hard not to pity him when he cries for his daughter.

* GoingNative: [[spoiler:He's more depressed than anything, but honestly, compared to the rest of the series, the seven years he spent pretending to be a Half are probably the happiest he's been in the series.]]

** Except that maybe not. [[spoiler:As Brilith points out, his change of heart only came after he lost most of his powers and grew severely weakened. She states that his choice to help humankind is meaningless if it based simply on his inability to kill them in the same scale as before.]]

* ImpliedDeathThreat: When he demands to know why [[spoiler:Gandharva's in Kalibloom]].
-->'''Maruna:''' Answer me quickly, Cloche. I'm hungry.

* Played straight with Ian Rajof, who calmed his anger and made him promise not to get into too many fights.

* ManipulativeBastard: He is behind the sura searching for Leez...as well as the one who gave her his name in the first place. Not to mention also saving her hide, just to complicate everything in the process and shorten her life expectancy in the long run. Yay?

* TheChooserOfTheOne: In a play on this, he, unable to decide, puts the choice in the hands of someone else. However, he doesn't explain the full consequences of the choice.

* NiceGuy: Gandharva notes that he's the only decent god. In an universe where pretty much every one is one type of JerkAss or another, Agni truly stands out as someone who's well and truly nice.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: He consistently knows less of what's really going on than the rest of the main cast (except, possibly, Leez), though it's getting a bit better; initially he knew next to nothing about Asha (not even her gender), thought Yuta was human, and thought Leez was an ordinary girl. Even now, while both Leez and Yuta seem to have at least a general understanding that something bigger is going on, he's completely ignorant.

* SquishyWizard: He has a very high magic ranking in addition to being a priest, but is inept at fighting. That said, he's still able to [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments smash a hole in the wall of the temple when frustrated with Claude.]]

* {{KungFu Wizard}}: In addition being the priest of Creation, it is mentioned that he once reached the later stages of a previous fighter's tournament.

%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

%%* SanitySlippage: Towards the end of Season 2, Asha's mental state begins to rapidly deteriorate.

* SanitySlippage:[[spoiler: Starts to become increasingly unstable as the time for her to finish her mission approaches.]]

** NotSoStoic: Whenever certain details about her past come up, she expresses surprising emotion. In the present day, she even appears [[spoiler:distraught after attacking Leez while the latter was trapped in an [[EscapePod escape pod]] that was about to launch.]]
*** It's also PlayedForLaughs during a brief travel montage when Asha witnesses Leez eating with a pair of chopsticks in each hand and is completely shocked.

* OverprotectiveDad: He doesn't like it when someone else calls her 'Princess'.

** NotSoStoic: His emotions are more muted than nonexistent, and he infrequently expresses frustration in his inability to feel without the earrings.
* UncertainDoom: At the end of the second season: [[spoiler:he hasn't returned from the Cresent Gate. Yuta's not sure if the beings that reside within would have seen him as an enemy and killed him, or as an ally.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Inverted. He's trying to make things up to Agwen for his actions during the Cataclysm, if stunted and awkwardly.
* WingedHumanoid: He can manifest wings of black [=fire/smoke=] to fly.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She seems unaware that Shess is a superior sura. When Agni questions her, she refers to him as an old acquaintance of her father's and is confused as to why he would ask.

* ButtMonkey: Not on Leez's level, but very much so. Let's just say that the present story line it's not kind to Gandharva and leave it at that.

* EyepatchOfPower: He wears an eyepatch in his human guise to conceal his blue right eye, which is the one sura trait he can't change when in human form.
* HandicappedBadass: As a nastika in the human realm, he cannot take sura form, something that severely diminishes his power. [[spoiler:Even when he manages to take sura form, it costs him gravely.]]

* HappilyAdopted: She's doesn't like the Sura realm very much, but she happy under his care.

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* ShockAndAwe: Indra-attribute magic is electricity-based.

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%%The God of Light. [[spoiler:During the Cataclysm, he provided Saha On with an oracle. The contents of the oracle are currently unknown.]]
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** Upani are sura with at least one Rakshasa parent. Like the Rakshasa, they grow in a series of five stages, but they do not gain a human form until they reach their fourth stage.
** Mara are sura with Upani parents. They grow in a series of three stages and do not obtain a human form.

* GenderBender:
** The Nastikas can change their gender at will (the male forms are generally stronger than female). And a Rakshasa's gender is determined by the time each parent (if they are both Nastika) has spent as each gender, which means there are more males than females.

%%* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: She rapidly deteriorates after [[spoiler:killing Saha and taking his power]]. Yuta, observes that her mind is falling apart and states that a human wasn't meant to hold such power.

* ComesGreatInsanity: She's a primeval goddess and madder than a hatter.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: [[spoiler:During the later half of season two she becomes a deconstruction of a typical shoujo romance heroine. Her original headstrong Lad-ette personality slowly becomes replaced by a standardized ExtremeDoormat - because a chain of tragedies and escalating emotional abuse from the person she trusted the most robbed her of all self-confidence and left her an emotional wreck. She eventually TakesALevelInBadass and recovers her sense of self again, but it’s clear the old Leez no longer exists.]]

* DudeWhere'sMyRespect [[spoiler: Asha treats Yuta with a fair amount of respect from the start and gradually begins to treat Ran as an equal as time goes on. Unfortunately, her treatment of Leez only gets even worse.]].

* TheAlcoholic: Has some shades of this. Some of Maruna's flashbacks from when he was living with the Gandharva clan show him with a bottle in his hand at several moments; not so much in the present storyline, when he mostly drinks as a way to DrowningMySorrows. While he was depressed at the time, in Maruna's flashbacks he seemed quite joyful, which implies this trope.

* SanitySlippage:[[spoiler: Starts to become increasingly unstable as the time for her to finish the worst part of her mission approaches.]]

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse:[[spoiler: She made a DealWithTheDevil with Vishnu as a child and is in the middle of fulfilling it. She knows she still needs to complete the final "clauses" of her bargain, which at the very least mean killing Sasha Oh and his fiancé, her mentor Lorraine. Who does she take her frustrations out on? Leez, because her psychological state was too fragile to defend herself.

* CharacterDevelopment: From IdiotHero to ShrinkingViolet to a rare heroic version of BecameTheirOwnAntithesis.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchtype: [[spoiler:During the later half of season two she becomes a deconstruction of a typical shoujo romance heroine. Her original headstrong Lad-ette personality slowly becomes replaced by a standardized ExtremeDoormat - because a chain of tragedies and escalating emotional abuse from the person she trusted the most robbed her of all self-confidence and left her an emotional wreck. She eventually TakesALevelInBadass and recovers her sense of self again, but it’s clear the old Leez no longer exists.]]

* Deconstruction: [[spoiler:During the later half of season two she becomes a deconstruction of a typical shoujo romance heroine. Her original headstrong Lad-ette personality slowly becomes replaced by a standardized ExtremeDoormat - because a chain of tragedies and escalating emotional abuse from the person she trusted the most robbed her of all self-confidence and left her an emotional wreck. She eventually TakesALevelInBadass and recovers her sense of self again, but it’s clear the old Leez no longer exists.]]

* Deconstruction: [[spoiler:During the later half of season two she becomes a deconstruction of a typical shoujo romance heroine. Her original headstrong Lad-ette personality slowly becomes replaced by a standardized ExtremeDoormat - because a chain of tragedies and escalating emotional abuse from the person she trusted the most robbed her of all self-confidence and left her an emotional wreck. She eventually TakesALevelInBadass and recovers her sense of self again, but it’s clear the old Leez no longer exists.))

* DullEyesOfUnhappiness:[[spoiler:Gets these more and more often as she graduates from simply hiding the amount of grief she’s carrying to becoming a full on StepfordSmiler.))

* [[spoiler:HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Ultimately averted for the little good it does her. She knows both Asha and "Mister" are behaving suspiciously, and she initially yells at them for it. However, she changes her mind about them after they come to her aid in situations where it would be very easy to simply leave her behind. Near the end of season two, one leaves her practically an EmptyShell of her former self and the other turns out to be the mastermind behind the red sky attacks which destroyed her village.))

* Deconstruction:[[spoiler: During the later half of season two she becomes a deconstruction of a typical shoujo romance heroine. Her original headstrong Lad-ette personality slowly becomes replaced by a standardized ExtremeDoormat - because a chain of tragedies and escalating emotional abuse from the person she trusted the most robbed her of all self-confidence and left her an emotional wreck. She eventually TakesALevelInBadass and recovers her sense of self again, but it’s clear the old Leez no longer exists.))
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Seems to have crossed it as of the "Your Justice and Mine" arc.]]

* [[spoiler:DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Gets these more and more often as she graduates from simply hiding the amount of grief she’s carrying to becoming a full on StepfordSmiler.))

* [[spoiler: HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Ultimately averted for the little good it does her. She knows both Asha and "Mister" are behaving suspiciously, and she initially yells at them for it. However, she changes her mind about them after they come to her aid in situations where it would be very easy to simply leave her behind. Near the end of season two, one leaves her practically an EmptyShell of her former self and the other turns out to be the mastermind behind the red sky attacks which destroyed her village.))

* Deconstruction: * [[spoiler: : During the later half of season two she becomes a deconstruction of a typical shoujo romance heroine. Her original headstrong Lad-ette personality slowly becomes replaced by a standardized ExtremeDoormat - because a chain of tragedies and escalating emotional abuse from the person she trusted the most robbed her of all self-confidence and left her an emotional wreck. She eventually TakesALevelInBadass and recovers her sense of self again, but it’s clear the old Leez no longer exists.))

* [[spoiler: DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Gets these more and more often as she graduates from simply hiding the amount of grief she’s carrying to becoming a full on StepfordSmiler.))

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Ultimately averted for the little good it does her. She knows both Asha and "Mister" are behaving suspiciously, and she initially yells at them for it. However, she changes her mind about them after they come to her aid in situations where it would be very easy to simply leave her behind. One leaves her practically an EmptyShell of her former self and the other turns out to be the mastermind behind the red sky attacks which destroyed her village.

* ((Spoiler: DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Gets these more and more often as she graduates from simply hiding the amount of grief she’s carrying to becoming a full on StepfordSmiler.))

* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuser: While not in a romantic relationship with Leez, many of their later scenes together are eerily similar to a real life example of this. Asha leaves Leez completely isolated from others under pretext of helping her, constantly destroys her confidence by accusing of her being useless and accuses her of PlayingTheVIctimCard when as it becomes more and more apparent how awfully she’s behaving. The situation eventually degenerates to the point Leez throws herself off a cliff multiple times trying to become a better fighter in order to try and get Asha’s respect. Asha’s responds by remarking on how lucky Leez has it because her bracelet allows her to learn a skill so easily. She ends up trying to murder Leez. Twice. ]]

* ((Spoiler: DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Gets these more and more often as she graduates from simply hiding the amount of grief she’s carrying to becoming a full on StepfordSmiler.))

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Ultimately averted for the little good it does her. She knows both Asha and "Mister" are behaving suspiciously, and she initially yells at them for it. However, she changes her mind about them after they come to her aid in situations where it would be very easy to simply leave her behind. One leaves her practically an EmptyShell of her former self and the other turns out to be the mastermind behind the red sky attacks which destroyed her village.

* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuser: While not in a romantic relationship with Leez, many of their later scenes together are eerily similar to a real life example of this. Asha leaves Leez completely isolated from others under pretext of helping her, constantly destroys her confidence by accusing of her being useless and accuses her of PlayingTheVIctimCard when as it becomes more and more apparent how awfully she’s behaving. The situation eventually degenerates to the point Leez throws herself off a cliff multiple times trying to become a better fighter in order to try and get Asha’s respect. Asha’s responds by remarking on how lucky Leez has it because her bracelet allows her to learn a skill so easily. She ends up trying to murder Leez. Twice. ]]