History Characters / LordElMelloiIICaseFiles

* PerpetualFrowner: His most noted characteristic.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Most official art depictions indicate that his hair is supposed to be some kind of black, but often with [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack tints of various colors]]. The manga and anime go directly for jet-black hair and contrasting pale skin in conjunction with AdaptationalAttractiveness.
* SelfMadeMan: A major cause of tension between Waver and the rest of TheMagocracy is that he comes from a very undistinguished background in a society that takes class matters to the point of eugenics.

* SternTeacher: Especially toward Flat, his most disruptive student. But when Flat causes trouble, Waver might go so far as to triple ''everyone's'' homework. Nonetheless, he actually cares about his students' education and well-being, unlike his colleagues.

** It's noted that Waver is better suited to being a magecraft teacher then he is a mage, as he has an excellent grasp of theory and book study, but lacking the ablity to pull it off. He's able to bring out the best in his students, to the point that becoming his student is a big deal. This is compared to a sports coach who, while unable to physically pull of the feats they're instructing, is able to bring out the best in a natrually skilled athelete. In this regard he greatly surpasses Kayneth, even if his own feats are lackluster.

* {{Tsundere}}: And how! Somehow he manages to pull this off towards a ''cat''. Though he's naturally surly and acts exasperated by his students, especially Flat, he cares a lot about them and is very proud of their accomplishments, almost crying in happiness when Svin graduates. He also has a habit of berating Iskandar in narration even when he's speaking fondly of him to others.

* UnwantedHarem: Downplayed, because it's not the focus of the series and is mostly implied, but Waver appears to draw quite some attention, both platonic and romantic, from his friends and students regardless of gender, although he's not interested in a relationship (or at least not with them).

* WorkingOffTheDebt: He is forced to aid in working off the debt Kayneth incurred after conning the Clock Tower out of several Mystic Codes, that were destroyed by Kiritsugu.

* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: Waver is a first-rate teacher, magecraft analyst, and tactician -- all traits that modern magi ''despise'' with a burning passion because their magecraft is their personal pride and joy, and that's when they're not riffing on Waver for being a subpar magus that somehow claimed a position of prestige (even if he didn't want to). Waver is just ''so good'' at his job that no one wants to risk invoking the consequences of VetinariJobSecurity by getting rid of him.

* TokenHeroicOrc: On the flipside however, Reines's cruelty isn't motivated by greed, power, or malice; she's just an absolute sucker for schadenfreude, and she knows where the line is between schadenfreude and tragedy. This ironically makes her one of the ''most'' moral Magi seen in the franchise, when "typical" Magi are [[TheUnfettered relentless]] {{Entitled Bastard}}s who would gleefully throw their firstborn child under a bus for a taste of progress.

* TokenEvilTeammate: While most of Waver's students have managed to avoid falling into mage society's worst habits, Reines is happy to be a rat bastard even if she's technically on Waver's side.
* {{Troll}}: Reines's dickery isn't motivated by greed, or power, but rather because she's an absolute sucker for schadenfreude and loves making people angry, uncomfortable, and/or miserable.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: When she was about eight, she was already a bit of a sadist, knew that you could kill someone by dangling them upside down long enough, understood concepts such as virginity, and wanted Waver to be her tutor so people would wonder about the implications of her being so close with her [[NotBloodSiblings not-blood-related brother]]. You can kind of see visually in the anime that she's trying to fill the role of a grown adult at the age of ''eight'' -- she has a special tall chair to put herself on an adult's eye level despite being practically pocket-sized. At fifteen, she occasionally drinks alcohol and can even handle "ten times" (supposedly) as much as it takes to make Waver (twice her age) pretty much horizontal. And her inappropriately sexual remarks have escalated to propositioning Waver to get her pregnant (much to his disgust).

* LostInTranslation: In all honesty her name should probably be spelled "Raineth", since her name in Japanese ('''ラ'''イネス) is almost identical to Kayneth ('''ケ'''イネス). Reines came from an ''Apocrypha'' fan translation originally and grew so prominent among the fanbase that years later it became official when the anime released with official subtitles.

* MeaningfulName: Reines's name is similar to Kayneth's name. Kayneth is ケイネス in Japanese, while Reines's name is ライネス. The difference is only the first letter.

* DropTheHammer: Its default combat mode is turning its hands into hammers.

* CommonalityConnection: He befriends Shirou Emiya over a love of video games. It helps Shirou gave Flat japanese video games he couldn't get in London.

* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:Even Flat, one of mage society's biggest deviants well outside the paradigm of what's considered normal, is shocked that Touko Aozaki would casually burn a sacred relic to render its ashes as usable only once for a spell.]]

* AnimalMotif: Dogs, with his ability to sniff out things like a dog, his Beast magecraft giving him the aura of a dog, and he is frequently compared to one whenever he appears. Flat even gives him the nickname of "le chien" because of this.

* AmbiguousDisorder: No one's quite sure what's wrong with Flat, just that there ''is'' something seriously not right with him. His parents even entertained the idea that [[ChangelingTale he might be a changeling]] [[spoiler:and repeatedly tried to have him assassinated]]. There's also the implication that he doesn't value humans as humans. While he says that human lives are worth more than the Earth itself, he also says that it isn't efficient to sacrifice them for the sake of reaching the Root, rather than considering the moral implications of the deed.

* SinisterScythe: She wields one formed from Add, her Mystic Code. It can absorb spirits and boost her physical abilities.

* UnlimitedWardrobe: Although she always tends to wear concealing grey clothes with a skirt and hood, she has worn numerous unique variations of her outfit, changing outfits for each volume arc. Even the outfit she wears in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is a new one that only appears there.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Ghosts. As said above she's conditioned to a lot of other traditionally scary stuff and doesn't get scared watching horror movies, but due to her sensitivity to them ghosts absolutely terrify her. When attacked by a swarm of them at the end of volume 1 she's so scared that she can't even move her body, and just keeps repeating over and over in the narration how terrified she is.

* TalkingWeapon: He's a unique Mystic Code in that he has a personality and can talk. And unlike Trimmau, Add isn't running on a very basic personality program, he can uniquely react to the situation with his own barbs and jabs. [[spoiler:He only started talking after Gray's transformation, which was a sign that the cult was making good progress in their plan to bring King Arthur back.]]

* NeverGetsDrunk: It's noted in volume 4 that Reines has a downright insane tolerance for alcohol, with Waver noting that she often downs around ten glasses of wine--a potentially lethal amount for a girl her size--''before'' going to parties and Gray recalling an incident where she annihilated half of Waver's department in a drinking game. Apparently, she considers it a power play.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Bore a heavy resemblance to [[Film/HarryPotter Severus Snape]] in his [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/typemoon/images/b/b9/Melloi2.png original appearance]], along with the surly disposition to match. Adaptations maintain this to varying levels, although from ''Case Files'' onward he's migrated away from this due to DependingOnTheArtist and Takeuchi's own ArtEvolution.

* TeensAreShort: When she shows up in an illustration in the second volume of ''Adventures'', she looks exactly the same and barely comes up to Latio's chest, despite now being 18 years old.

* TellMeAboutMyFather: [[spoiler:After learning his identity as Alexander IV, Ergo asks Waver about Iskandar. Waver says it's a long and boring story, which Ergo interprets as Waver calling his father boring.]]

* FirstPersonSmartass: She mostly acts like a ShrinkingViolet out loud, apart from occasionally suggesting Waver might be on drugs and such, but in her narration she's mercilessly critical of most people: mages are just looking for excuses to be shut-ins, Waver is unlikeable, Melvin has an OedipusComplex, etc.