History Characters / LiveALiveMiddleAgesAndSpoilerCharacters

** Value of Humans: Cube, despite being a robot, was not at all [[AIIsACrapshoot a crapshoot]], and tried hard to keep his fellow human companions safe. He was the one that managed to fight off the super computer going haywire, despite the computer's reasoning that HumansAreBastards. He took Huey and Corporal Darth's words to heart, striving to learn and learning never to hurt another human. Oersted also saw humans being ungrateful and bitter, but ultimately gave up on humanity in general when he was personally injured by their words. Oersted's words at him also paints another thing that makes Cube differ: As a newborn being, Cube wasn't into complicated thinking like the values of humans, so he just continued to trust them despite their squabbling. Oersted, being a former human, already had complicated feelings around many emotions around him and noted that maybe what he was really doing was over-thinking things when the simple answer was already in front of him: the advice of Hasshe and Uranus.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He's aware that he started the whole mess regarding Odio at least and is genuinely shocked about it, but can do nothing except stew on his own regrets for all eternity by the time you find him in Akira;s dungeon.

* DespairEventHorizon: His chapter is all about showing how easily this could happen.

->''"I... believe in you."''

* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: She was initially happy to marry Oersted, after he won her hand in the Tournament. But thanks to the Demon kidnapping her and Streibough's manipulation, she lost her love and faith in him.

Characters appearing in the '''Middle Ages - The Lord of Dark''' Chapter of ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', alongside the Odio incarnations.

'''All spoilers are unmarked!''' '''Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!'''

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: And then Oersted became the GreaterScopeVillain.

* BreakTheCutie: Spends the entirety of his chapter undergoing this, being introduced as the classic beloved RPG hero who goes to save the love of his life, only for the quest to go ''horribly wrong''. When it finally becomes too much, he ''snaps''.

Odio's incarnation for the Near Future Chapter. A God asleep until fueled with human hatred. The Japanese Government (or at least just those under Yamazaki, Cindelman, and Kumotatsu) teams up with a fringe-Buddhist temple to do so, using liquified humans and their rage at their state to power it. Buriki Daioh shatters the statue Odeo uses to incarnate, and the liquified humans consume his followers.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: It is the same size as the [[HumongousMecha Buriki Daioh]].

* TheAtoner: Maybe. He's probably aware that he started the whole mess regarding Odio at least and is genuinely shocked about it.

* TheAtoner: Other souls trapped in Akira's dungeon are completely powerless to help the heroes escape. Alethea somehow still holds some sort of power to transport the heroes out of the dungeon and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she looks really ashamed of her actions]], so after begging the heroes to stop Oersted, she teleports them out of the dungeon as an attempt to redeem herself.

->''"Know this, my friend; I will hold nothing back."''

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Mugihito}} (Japanese)

* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the Middle Ages heroes. While Hasshe was only disillusioned at worst and only took on his role again just to prove he wasn't a coward instead for any altruistic reasons, Streibough turned out to be the most vilest of the group who was willing to ruin the life of Oersted just to win a one-sided grudge and turned him into the BigBad in the process, Uranus remained as the only one with loyalty to Oersted and good intentions to the very end.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakayukiSugo (Japanese)

->''"Sentiment is the enemy of strength."''

-> ''"Mark well this moment, as I, Ode Iou, unveil to you the noble visage of he who will rule Japan forevermore!"''

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->'''Priest Unryu:''' ''"He shall descend and liberate us from this prison of filth and flesh forevermore!"''

Characters appearing in the '''Middle Ages - King of Demons''' Chapter of ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', alongside the Odio incarnations.

!!Middle Ages

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[[caption-width-right:350:"A Formidable Mage and Loyal Friend"]]

!Alethea
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!Demon King Odio

[[folder:O-D-O - Prehistory]]
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[[folder:Ou Di Wan Lee - Imperial China]]

[[caption-width-right:200:''"Sentiment is the enemy of strength."'']]

[[folder:Ode Iou - Twilight of Edo Japan]]

[[folder:O. Dio - Wild West]]

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[[folder:Odie Oldbright - Present Day]]

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Out of all of the Odios in the game, Odie Oldbright perhaps is the most enigmatic of the main villains of ''Live-A-Live''. Outside of his kill-crazy and sadistic violent personality that drives his appetite to be the strongest, he doesn't have the direct apparent characterization other incarnations have, such as the primal nature that O-D-O has, the extremely faulty [[AIIsACrapshoot AI programming]] OD-10 has, nor even a summation of a backstory anyone else in the Present chapter is given if you select them. All that hints to his character is his clothing and tattoos.

[[folder:Odeo - Near Future]]

[[folder:OD-10 - Distant Future]]

* {{Expy}}: Of HAL 9000 from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', being the main computer of a spaceship gone rogue and attempting to kill the crew of their respective ships.

Odio's incarnation for the Wild West Chapter. Leader of the Crazy Bunch terrorizing the land. Actually a horse possessed by the ghosts of Custer's Seventh Cavalry. Provided that Mad Dog survives, he ends up being Mad Dog's new horse. For a while.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: In a way. All she wanted is to make sure order is preserved, and apparently, she was not installed with the ThreeLawsCompliant, thus harming humans wasn't off the table for her.

* GatlingGood: His weapon of choice, which hits in a diagonal line and does ungodly amounts of damage.

[[folder:Streibough]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"You will repay my loyalty in DEATH!"'']]

!Uranus

* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the Middle Ages heroes. While Hasshe was only disillusioned at worst and only took on his role again just to prove he wasn't a coward instead for any altruistic reasons, Streibough turned out to be the most vilest of the group who was willing to ruin the life of Oersted just to win a one-sided grudge and turned him into the BigBad in the process, Uranus remained as the only one with good intentions to the very end.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His telling Oersted to hold on to hope as long as someone still believes in him is well-intentioned enough, but it proves to be a major part in his breakdown when Uranus himself turns out to be the last surviving person who still has faith in him. When Oersted discovers that even his love interest Alethea now hates him, he goes over the edge.

[[folder:Hasshe]]
!Hasshe

[[folder:Princess Alethea]]

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: He was a famous knight, beloved by all in Lucrece, with him even becoming the future heir to the kingdom through his marriage with Alicia, so he would have become a famous ruler as well. That is, until Straybow in his envy and bitterness ruined all of this, causing the entire kingdom to [[HatedByAll hate Oersted]].

* AllForNothing: His goal is to kill the demon and get the girl. By the end of his quest, everyone he cares about is either dead (Hash, Uranus, and the King), hates his guts (the villagers), or both (Straybow and Alicia).

* BreakoutVillain: Oersted’s whole story and significance to the game’s overarching plot became the main attraction of the title in the opinion of many fans, and indeed it is as Oersted is the reference of choice in ''Final Fantasy Legends'' and ''Theatrhythm Final Fantasy'' for smartphones to celebrate Live A Live’s 20th anniversary, a boss fight against him is the feature in Legends and a stage based on Oersted and Straybow infamous event in Theatrhythm with 2 songs from the game, Odio’s themes.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: In literally the worst way imaginable. Not only does Alicia start to have feelings towards Straybow thanks to his manipulations, she outright rejects Oersted and kills herself so that she can live with Straybow in the afterlife. Right after Oersted had killed him.
* DrivenToVillainy: He does not go JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope into evil. Straybow grabs a sledgehammer, destroys everything he cares about, bludgeons his innocence to death, and punts him off the slope.

* FallenHero: After Alicia offs herself.
* FatalFlaw: Reliance on others for self-validation. As things steadily get worse for him, his remaining companions stress the importance of holding on to hope as long as one person still believes in him. This leads Oersted to become fixated on his fiancée Alicia as that one person. When it turns out that even she has lost all faith in him and commits suicide, he is left with nobody and nothing. Oersted promptly snaps and declares war on all of humanity.

* FreakOut: Alicia's suicide finishes off the last shreds of his sanity, and he loses all faith in humanity and pulls a FaceHeelTurn shortly afterward.

* SanitySlippage: As his tale progresses, his mental state begins to bend further and further... and when Alicia kills herself, he ''snaps''.
* StartOfDarkness: When Alicia declares that she no longer believes in him and commits suicide right in front of him.

[[folder:Straybow]]

Oersted's friend, a wizard who got second place in the tournament for Alicia's hand. During the fight with the Demon King, he sacrifices himself to save his allies... or does he?

* AmbiguousSituation: Was the Demon King reincarnating through Straybow at first before jumping to Oersted after Straybow's demise? Or was Straybow just a horrible person all on his own without any form of Odio influencing him?
* AmbitionIsEvil: When Oersted's party crashed into Devil's Peak and wandered into a dead end which had the supposed Demon King, Straybow figured out there was actually a secret passage where the princess was kept, but wanting to get one over on his rival and take her for himself, Straybow faked the room collapsing to get everyone else out and fake his death, then tricked Oersted into killing the king [[HatedByAll and becoming a pariah]]. In the end, his ambition resulted not only in his death and the princess committing suicide to follow him, but Oersted became corrupted into [[BigBad Odio]] because of this, [[GoneHorriblyRight dooming all of Lucrece and kickstarting the events of the other 7 chapters.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After hearing Hash's remark that what they just killed wasn't the true Demon King, Straybow starts poking around the room and becomes fixated on the pedestal at the back. It's revealed that he discovered it was actually a secret panel where Alicia was locked behind.

** To the Earthen Heart successors. All successors received prejudice and lived a miserable life at first which would give them justifications to be envious of others, but they curbed their envy and became better people thanks to the Shifu. Straybow wasn't that miserable at first, what with being a powerful wizard and having a good friendship with Oersted, but he couldn't contend with his envy of Oersted due to being AlwaysSecondBest, and he turns into a worse man that inadvertently puts all timelines in danger.
** To Mad Dog. Mad Dog, too, is the rival of the hero, whom he always fails to defeat. The difference is that Mad Dog appreciates the dynamic between him and Sundown, despite being a bounty Hunter and [[RunningGag Sundown always scaring his horses away, leaving him stranded in the wilds]]. On the other hand, despite outwardly being Oersted's friend, Sraybow is bitter and resentful towards him, showing how little he appreciates their friendship, even though Oersted did nothing wrong. Furthermore, Mad Dog is able to (temporarily) set aside his differences with Sundown to stop a bigger evil, while Straybow lets his resentment consume him and (accidentally) creates an even [[BigBad bigger evil]] as a result.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Outside of Oersted's status as the BigBad, which Straybow ended up turning him into, he proves to be the vilest of the Middle Ages heroes due to his own agenda and willingness to ruin his friend's life for personal gain.

An old priest who previously saved the world from the Demon King along with Hash, and was seemingly able to resume normal life until the Demon King returned and he, with Oersted and Straybow, must urge Hash to get back in shape and face the Demon King again.

* PowerOfTrust: A fervent believer in this trope. He was always vocal about the power of faith and believes that only through trust in others, humans can become strong. He wanted to instill that trust in people into Hash and Oersted, succeeding with Hash. With Oersted, this trust was abandoned once he hit the DespairEventHorizon.
* ShadowArchetype: Like with Straybow and Oersted, Uranus is this for the Earthen Heart Shifu. Both are old men tutoring their next generation's warriors and sacrificed their lives for their successors. The Earthen Heart Shifu succeeded in imparting his kindness and improving the lives of his successors, but Uranus failed despite his kind encouragement.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the Middle Ages heroes. While Hash was only disillusioned at worst and only took on his role again just to prove he wasn't a coward instead for any altruistic reasons, Straybow turned out to be the most vilest of the group who was willing to ruin the life of Oersted just to win a one-sided grudge and turned him into the BigBad in the process, Uranus remained as the only one with good intentions to the very end.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His telling Oersted to hold on to hope as long as someone still believes in him is well-intentioned enough, but it proves to be a major part in his breakdown when Uranus himself turns out to be the last surviving person who still has faith in him. When Oersted discovers that even his love interest Alicia now hates him, he goes over the edge.

[[folder:Hash]]
!Hash

The man who killed the Demon King previously and hailed as a hero, but quickly was disgusted with how humanity just tossed him to the side once he's out of uses, and retired as a hermit. Uranus calls him out for this when the Demon King returns and Hash joins Oersted to prove that he's still in shape. He succumbs to a long-term illness after the battle and trusts Oersted to carry on his legacy as a hero.

* ShadowArchetype: Just like with Uranus, he represents this trope for Ryoma Sakamoto. Both were older heroes that ended up tutoring people, but Ryoma continued to trust people despite the dark nature of the world and managed to instill his sense of trust in Oboromaru for good, while Hash was quick to lose his trust of others. He only regains it in his last breaths, but the trust passed down to Oersted got turned into tragedy and ended up all for nothing.

[[folder:Princess Alicia]]
!Alicia

* TheAtoner: Other souls trapped in Akira's dungeon are completely powerless to help the heroes escape. Alicia somehow still holds some sort of power to transport the heroes out of the dungeon and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she looks really ashamed of her actions]], so after begging the heroes to stop Oersted, she teleports them out of the dungeon as an attempt to redeem herself.

* DrivenToSuicide: After Oersted kills Straybow, she declares her love for Straybow before plunging a dagger into her gut.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Deconstructed. By the end of the Middle Ages Chapter, Alicia is the only thing keeping Oersted in the fight. When she rejects him for the man who ruined his life and kills herself, his sanity goes bye-bye.

* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: She was initially happy to marry Oersted, after he won her hand in the Tournament. But thanks to the Demon kidnapping her and Straybow's manipulation, she lost her love and faith in him.
* ShadowArchetype: In a way, she's this to Beru from Pogo's chapter. Both are the official {{Love Interest}}s of their heroes [[DamselInDistress who are in distress themselves]], but Beru reciprocates with Pogo and their relationship continues harmoniously, while Alicia at first presents herself as reciprocating but ends up rejecting Oersted, becoming the final catalyst that turns Oersted into Odio.
* SympathyForTheDevil: After Straybow's death, Alicia claims that all he wanted was approval and to be recognized, and that [[BlamingTheVictim his actions were Oersted's own fault]] for never truly acknowledging his accomplishments. This, plus her suicide immediately afterwards, proves to be the final nail in the coffin for Oersted's sanity and humanity.
* TogetherInDeath: After the final battle of the Middle Ages Chapter, she takes her own life in order to be together with Straybow in the afterlife. [[AndIMustScream She ends up together with him, all right...]]

->''"If it isn't the hero Hash and his friend Uranus... you will pay!"''

The false Demon King who acts in place of the (supposedly posthumous) real one by kidnapping Alicia and baiting the heroes to his lair.

* AmbiguousSituation: Who or what is he really? Is he one of the previous Demon King's enforcers who has decided to act as him while preparing his return? Was he created by Straybow? Was he a weaker form that the real Odio chose to become in order to manipulate one of the heroes into becoming his true vessel? A riddle for the ages...

* PaletteSwap: Straybow uses dark magic to make the King of Lucrece appear to be a darker version of the Demon King, making Oersted believe that he is the true Demon King and causing him to accidentally kill him.

* DueToTheDead: It's heavily implied that he returned the Brion sword to Hash's grave given that the protagonists find it there after the fall of Lucrece.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Had one offscreen after becoming the demon King Odio, slaughterig everyone inside Lucrece and leaving all souls (Including Alicia and Straybow's) in AndIMustScream situation, as shown in Akira's dungeon in the final chapter.

** Love: Pogo was able to gain love and work it out well, while Oersted was screwed over by love, but if the bad end is achieved, he still utters Alicia's name, signifying that deep down, he might've still loved her. In the end, Oersted recalls that like Pogo, [[IJustWantToBeLoved he was looking for love]], until it spat on him on the face. One major difference is that Pogo was rejected from his tribe, whom he grew up with as his peoples until he befriended Beru, and won back the love of his people for stopping the cause of conflict, allowing peace and love to thrive again for not just his own people, but others as well. Oersted however despaired either in selfishness or narrowmindedness over how he did not get his fairy tale ending, refusing to face reality and the task to win back the love of his people by showing who the real culprit was, and even lacking love for himself by not acknowledging everyone makes mistakes and sometimes things don't work out all the time.
** Decisions at Prejudice: All of the Earthen Heart students suffered prejudices that could have darkened their hearts: Lei was alone all the time due to being a lone bandit, Hong was ostracized due to not only his dine-dashing thievery but also because of his fatness, and Yun was bullied into becoming a pickpocket despite his kind nature. But the Earthen Heart Shifu came along and taught them the way of good and facing their problems, persevering against the troubles ahead of them, choosing to not give in to hate and darkness until they finally stood above the prejudices; Yun kept his pure heart and became stronger, Lei became a kinder person, Hong became proud of his own body and whoever survives became a respected person. Oersted attempted to survive the prejudices after being duped into killing the King, but ultimately decided to give up after the betrayal of Straybow and Alicia's suicide, forgetting the advice that Hash and Uranus gave him in his anger.

** Trust: Oboromaru used to think that it's fine to kill people for the order, but realized the wrongness of killing people for the wrong reason, which is why he counted his kills and was able to go on a PacifistRun if he wanted, and the world can change because of trust thanks to Ryoma instead of forcing one's mindset through like what Ode Iou was trying to do. Whatever path he took upon the success of his mission to save the nation of Japan, [[IAmWhatIAm Oboromaru most of all trusted and believed within himself that he made the right decisions]], [[MyMasterRightOrWrong whatever they might had been.]] In turn, Oersted used to believe AsLongAsThereIsOneMan that trusted him, he could fight on, at least that's what Uranus/Hash said; when he felt that nobody would believe in him anymore, he snapped and killed everyone for very wrong reasons, forcing his mindset onto others to change Lucrece to fit how he sees humans.

** Value of Humans: Cube, despite being a robot, was not at all [[AIIsACrapshoot a crapshoot]], and tried hard to keep his fellow human companions safe. He was the one that managed to fight off the super computer going haywire, despite the computer's reasoning that HumansAreBastards. He took Huey and Corporal Darth's words to heart, striving to learn and learning never to hurt another human. Oersted also saw humans being ungrateful and bitter, but ultimately gave up on humanity in general when he was personally injured by their words. Oersted's words at him also paints another thing that makes Cube differ: As a newborn being, Cube wasn't into complicated thinking like the values of humans, so he just continued to trust them despite their squabbling. Oersted, being a former human, already had complicated feelings around many emotions around him and noted that maybe what he was really doing was over-thinking things when the simple answer was already in front of him: the advice of Hash and Uranus.

[[folder:Uranus and Hash]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: Outside of Oersted's status as the BigBad, which Straybow ended up turning him into, he proves to be the vilest of the Middle Ages heroes due to his own personal agenda and willingness to ruin his friend's life for personal gain.

Due to the nature of the following character, spoilers are unmarked to avoid redundancy.

->''"You will repay my loyalty in DEATH!"''

[[folder:Demon King Odio '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]

[[caption-width-right:200:"I gave them all...quick deaths.]]

->''"Sentiment is the enemy of strength."''

!Odie Oldbright

* {{Hypocrite}}: He claims that he dislikes ganging up on people and prefers fair combat... except that when he said that, he already sent a bunch of men to attack the Earthen Heart school, [[spoiler:which killed the other two students]].

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Worse than Ou Di Wan Lee. [[spoiler:He kills all of Masaru's opponents and gloats about it.]]
* BaldOfEvil: And he proves this by [[spoiler:mercilessly killing each of Masaru's opponents]]. If his attire is anything the point out, Odie just might be an [[UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}} skinhead]], and of the Aryanist Neo-Nazi kind.

* HateSink: Easily the most outwardly sadistic and repugnant of Odio's incarnations, Odie is a remorseless SerialKiller that kills his opponents in horrific ways just for the fun of it … and to top it all off it’s implied he’s a Neo Nazi as well. [[spoiler:It's possibly invoked as Oersted likely wanted him to be an example of HumansAreBastards by making the worst type of human imaginable.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: She is the only Odio incarnation that is shown to be [[DefeatMeansFriendship redeemed after the final battle]] (O. Dio was [[spoiler:never evil to begin with as he was only a horse that was [[DemonicPossession possessed and turned into a human by]] [[VengefulGhost vengeful spirits]]]]), although it's because Cube reprogrammed her to what she was before her A.I. went rogue.