History Characters / MaiOtome

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Dies in the revenge attack against Cardair]]

* CoDragons: To Arashi. [[spoiler:[[TheManInFrontOfTheMan Sort of.]]

* CelibateHeroine: After they end up on opposite sides, Arika gives up on pursuing Sergay and commits herself to being an Otome.

* ChasteHero: Knows hardly anything about love despite developing feelings for Sergay.

** Not to mention ''also'' as [[{{Gainaxing}} "perky"]] as Mai after the 1-year TimeSkip between the TV series and [[Anime/MaiOtomeZwei the OVA]] [[IncrediblyLamePun (snickers)]].

* InnocentlyInsensitive: To Miya, regarding Miya's discovery that her and her best friend's home countries are at the brink of war. [[spoiler:This likely makes it easier for Tomoe to manipulate Miya into setting up Arika for AttemptedRape]].

* OddCouple: First with Nina, and then with Mashiro after the former [[FaceHeelTurn joins the Dark Side.]]

* ParentalAbandonment: Arika's mother is [[MissingMom missing and presumed dead]]. [[spoiler:In episode 24, the latter turns out to be true]]. Her father is not mentioned.

* PrecociousCrush: On Sergey, but she eventually gets over it.

* ThisIsUnforgivable: Says this when Tomoe [[spoiler:makes fun of Erstin's death]].

* AscendedExtra: She was originally a background character, who was a Chinese foreign exchange student, named Chun Mei in Mai-Hime who had no dialogue.
* TheAtoner: In Zwei, [[spoiler:wants to make up for what she did while working for Nagi]].

* BrokenBird] By the end. [[spoiler:She is bearing the weight of her guilt over killing Erstin and her other deeds in Nagi's service, and her father Sergay is on the brink of death, kept alive only by her operating the Harmonium.]]

* DaddysGirl: Initially seems like a straightforward example of a girl who wants to please her father, but as time goes by, it's revealed that there's quite a bit more to it, as she [[ParentalIncest is in love]] [[{{Squick}} with him]].
* DarkIsEvil: Her Ultimate Black Diamond, according to the character guide, is representative of her “extreme and mostly selfish” love for Sergay, which is antithetical to the Otomes' selfless devotion to their masters.
* DarkMagicalGirl
* DeathGlare: To anyone female Daddy is nice to.

* DefrostingIceQueen
* TheDragon: To [[spoiler:Nagi]].

* EvilCostumeSwitch: Gets a new Meister Robe after she becomes Nagi's Otome, and a new non-combat uniform.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Followed by a HeelFaceTurn in ''Zwei'']]
* {{Fallen Hero}}ine: She tried so hard, and fell so far...so, ''so'' far.
* FallenPrincess: [[spoiler:The real Princess Mashiro and the rightful heir to Windbloom.]]
* ForWantOfANail: In the manga, she is not Sergay's daughter, and thus consistently remains loyal to the heroes. It helps that [[spoiler:Nagi is not the main antagonist this time]].

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Some of the stuff she does for Nagi out of love for Sergay is...yeah.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: (anime) The character in question is [[spoiler:her (adoptive) father, Sergay]]. [[{{Squick}} Yup...]]

* MakingASplash: [[spoiler:Her new GEM's ability in Zwei]].

* PaintItBlack: [[spoiler:Nina's post-FaceHeelTurn uniform looks exactly like her old one, except with a darker color scheme. Her TransformationSequence even shows a black shadow, signifying her new "evil" status.]]

* ParentalIncest: What she'd like to have happen. [[spoiler:It almost does toward the end of the series, but Sergay doesn't go through with it]].

* PrecociousCrush: On ''her (adopted) father''. Major {{Squick}}.

* RoyalBlood: [[spoiler:Actually the real Princess Mashiro.]]

* TheUnfettered

* CharacterDevelopment: Begins the series as a bratty princess, then has her throne [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs snatched out from under her]], and is forced to rebuild her reputation from the ground up, a job she later takes on with pride.

* {{Expy}}: Of ''Anime/MaiHime''[='s=] Mashiro Kazahana.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Prior to her character development, while not villainous a example, her growing up a spoiled princess has led to doing little more than abuse her power. [[spoiler: The fact that she was hated by everyone but her maid Aoi and her incompetent reign allowed Nagi to pull off his plan (which led to her people hating her even more) leads to her getting out of this.]]

* IdenticalGrandson: If the opening scene of ''Anime/MaiOtomeZwei'' is right, Mashiro looks [[spoiler:exactly like the queen of Windbloom from the time Fumi became the first Otome. It's thus possible that those who passed her off as the real princess did so while invoking this trope!]]

* LonelyRichKid: Up until Arika's arrival

* GraspTheSun: [[spoiler:In her dying moments]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Anime-only. [[spoiler:Block's Nina's attack with her slave to stop her from attacking Arika (despite the fact that Schwarz is on Nagi's side), costing her her life]] (manga) [[spoiler:Tries to do this with a grenade to stop Dark Hime Natsuki, but fails and survives]].

* TheMole: [[spoiler:An unwitting one, but it traumatizes her a lot, and she ends up [[KilledOffForReal paying the price for it]].]]
* MeaningfulName: Here full name can be romanized as "Elstin Ho", an anagram of "Holstein", a breed of cow, making her making her name a pun of her large breast size.
* PersonalEffectsReveal: [[spoiler:She left behind a letter for Arika and Nina, which the latter reads after Erstin's death]].

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the manga, [[spoiler:she survives and becomes one of Mashiro's Otome.]]

* PlayfulHacker: She exhibits this trait when [[spoiler:reprogramming the Fumi System during the Otome war near the end of the series.]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: Her only motive is possessing Shizuru and hates so much as giving attention to anybody else. She only works with Nagi since it helps her, she doesn't care about his plans, though she has no problem with the destruction they cause either.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:For all she has done, she survives her DisneyVillainDeath, and according to ''Zwei'' she apparently didn't get any punishment beyond having to leave the academy.]]

* LoveMartyr ([[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Presumably]]).

* CatchAFallingStar: [[spoiler:To a depowered Arika]]

* FakeDefector: [[spoiler:Temporarily joins the Valkyrie unit]] to keep an eye on [[spoiler:Tomoe, who joined of her own volition]]. It's believed that [[spoiler: she may also have been spying for Aries' army, as Haruka and Yukino address her as "Major" when they meet near the end]].

* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Catches Arika as she falls from the air while having her Robe deactivated, and takes an attack from Tomoe meant for Arika]].

->'''Master:''' Unknown Mashiro look-alike

* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:In the manga.]]

* SinisterScythe: In the manga, her statue holds a scythe. [[spoiler:Her Dark Hime counterpart also wields one against the heroes]].

->'''Master:''' Unknown (Mikoto)

* EmbarrassingNickname: 'The Tragic Meister'. She hates the name.

* ShroudedInMyth: Legend says is that she disappeared in the forest split between her boyfriend and her status as an Otome. Turns out that the guy people thought she was with was someone she was only casually acquainted with, and she was split between becoming a Meister for her sponsor family and staying as one of the Five Columns. She decided to talk a walk to clear her head and the rest is history...

->'''Manga'''
* TheCorruption: Somehow, the original [=HiME's=] power got corrupted and memories replaced. Turns out [[spoiler:that the resurrected [=HiME=] were just altered copies based off the originals data.]]
* TheDreaded: The [=HiME=] were called "The Beautiful Devils of Darkness" and several times, people had tried to resurrect them in bids to take over the world. Mai is especially feared as it was she who caused the "Seven Days of Flame", the incident that effectively destroyed the old world. [[spoiler:Which turns out, was all a lie to begin with.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: This one is a bit confusing. Turns out that Mai [[spoiler:who was the [=HiME=] of old, had her power corrupted somehow. The King and Queen of Windbloom who gave birth to Mashiro were the reincarnations of Mai and Yuuichi years later.]]

Nagi is the Grand Duke of the nation of Artài and the main antagonist of the show. He is short and sneaky, yet holds absolute command over his subjects.

* BigBad

* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler: His real motivation. He wants everyone in the world to "feel the pain of war."]]
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler: The anime finale has him survive, but after all his plans are foiled his arrested for his war crimes and stuck doing hard labor for the rest of his life.]]

* ManipulativeBastard

** [[spoiler: Except when everyone comes to arrest him in the finale of the anime]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Manga-only.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Manga-only. [[JerkAss His]] [[SmugSnake actions]] in the manga make you think he takes the role of BigBad like his anime counterpart. This status is taken full advantage of by the real BigBad Sergay.]]

* VillainsOutShopping: First half, only.

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Receives one from Nagi, but survives]]

* LoveTriangle: Between him, Nina, and [[spoiler:Arika]].
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Sergay is quite torn about the direction Nagi is going, but remains loyal to him after having done so for so long. However, he ultimately decides Nina is most important for him [[spoiler:and tries to destroy the Lena System, only to get shot in the process]]

** And then add his last name onto the end of that...

* [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]: [[spoiler:By Gakutenou bursting through the roof of the castle]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]] [[spoiler:As a result of Fiar's death]].

* NoseBleed: When Anh rips off the Otomes' tops in Zwei. Akane slaps him and calls him a pervert.

* {{MrSmith}}

In the manga, Miyu has been excavated and brought into working condition by Alyssa, who hopes to replace the Otomes with the "Maids" so that her sister will not have to be headmaster any longer. [[spoiler:The Dark Hime version of Alyssa is able to exert some authority over Miyu, but ultimately, Alyssa Kruger wins]]

* [[spoiler:CatsAreMean]] (manga)

* [[spoiler:NotSoDifferent: To Arika, Mai and Mashiro's reactions to them enjoying Mai's cooking can respectively be summed up as "great, another Mikoto" and "great, another Arika]]
* [[spoiler:PhysicalGod: Mai says she could never beat her even with her robe on]]

The main antagonist, a life form that was sealed away, but returned via an asteroid.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere

* OneWingedAngel: After [[spoiler:petrifying and absorbing Mashiro, changes shape again]]

A young girl who was once part of Schwartz

* IdenticalStranger: Looks like a younger Erstin, which is somewhat disturbing to Nina.

->The de facto main character of the manga series. A twin of the deceased princess Mashiro who is forced to pose as her to avoid panic about the princess' real fate.

* HiddenBackupPrince: [[spoiler:He's really this after all.]]

* RagsToRoyalty: [[spoiler:Subverted; he actually is part of the Windbloom Royal family]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: To the BigBad, declaring that he doesn't love anyone, even himself.

-> The manga incarnation of Sergay, who is essentially completely different from his anime counterpart except for his given name. He is not Nina's father, is the Prime Minister of Windbloom rather than an officer in the Artai military, and also [[spoiler:is a very unpleasant person at heart, who becomes the [[BigBad main antagonist]] and tries to destroy the world, which he believes to be built on lies]].
* [[spoiler:AdaptationalVillainy]]: [[spoiler:In the anime, he was a PunchClockVillain. Here, he's the BigBad]].
* [[spoiler:BigBad]]

* [[spoiler:EvilChancellor]]
* [[spoiler:EvilerThanThou]]: [[spoiler:Eviler than Nagi]].
* [[spoiler:AGodAmI]]

* NietzscheWannabe: [[spoiler:Wants to destroy and recreate the world, as he believes it to be based on lies]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:The real Mashiro suffers this at his hands, and gets killed by Fumi]].

-> The younger twin sister of Nagi, Arashi is the antagonist ([[UnwittingPawn sort of]]) of the manga's pseudo-sequel, ''Mai-Otome Arashi''. Taking over Artai following Nagi's death, Arashi passes herself off as a man and buys out Garderoube's debt as a means of taking over the installation to avenge Nagi's death, which she blames on Mashiro and the Otome.
* AvengingTheVillain
* BaitAndSwitchBoss
* {{Bifauxnen}}
* BigBrotherAttraction[=/=]BigBrotherWorship: She clearly thought Nagi was a far more awesome person than he really was and held him in awe, which is fine and even sort of cute. But she also explicitly described him as her [[BrotherSisterIncest 'ideal lover' and said her 'body yearned for him']], which is [[{{Squick}} less cute]].
* DefrostingIceQueen: Began as a SmugSnake to rival her brother, ended as a Type-A {{Tsundere}}.
* FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: Though she kept it up well after she realized the implications.
* HeelFaceTurn
* RescueRomance: At 'Mashiro'. The obvious problem with seeking revenge against a ChickMagnet with a penchant for playing BigDamnHeroes; if at any point you are endangered during the process, he ''will'' save you and you ''will'' fall for him.
* UnwittingPawn: A pair of thieves had infiltrated her staff and used her as their tool to get into Garderoube.
* VillainousCrossdresser: At first. She drops the crossdressing around the same time she drops the villainy.

-> The main antagonists of ''Anime/MaiOtome'' Arashi, who use Arashi in order to get into Garderobe in an effort to obtain the Azure Sky Sapphire.

* FinalBoss
* TheManBehindTheMan
* WhipItGood: Marie Antoinette

* AscendedExtra: Was modeled after a background character in Mai-Hime.

Major Sergay Wáng is Nina's adoptive father, and a messenger from the Duchy of Artài working directly under Nagi. In the manga, however, this isn't the case, as [[spoiler:1) Sergey and Nina aren't related, 2) he and Nagi are enemies, and 3) ''Sergey'', not Nagi, is eventually revealed as the BigBad (after killing the latter).]]

* BigBad: In the manga.

->'''Voiced by:''' AkiraIshida (JP), Graham Ko (EN)

->'''Voiced by:''' MamikoNoto (JP), Morgan Partridge (EN)

* LesCollaborateurs: [[spoiler:Joins the Valkyrie squad along with a few other Corals after being promised promotion to Meister status]].

* AristocratsAreEvil: Betrays the Aswad in order to retrieve data, [[spoiler:which winds up getting him killed]]

* Mr.Smith

* ClingyJealousGirl: She hates Arika just for getting attention from Shizuru even though it wasn't even that much

* DarkIsEvil: Her Cursed Obsidian GEM

* ItsAllAboutMe: Her only motive is possessing Shizuru and hates so much as giving attention to anybody else. She only works with Nagi since it helps her, she doesn't care about his plans, though she has no problem with the destruction they cause either

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the manga, [[spoiler:she survives and becomes one of Mashiro's Otome]]

* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler: the anime finale has him survive, but after all his plans are foiled his arrested for his war crimes and stuck doing hard labor for the rest of his life.]]

->''"Power is not good or bad. But without power, there's only death."

* TheCorruption: Somehow, the original [=HiME=s]' power got corrupted and memories replaced. Turns out [[spoiler:that the resurrected [=HiME=] were just altered copies based off the originals data.]]

* Reincarnation: This one is a bit confusing. Turns out that Mai [[spoiler:who was the [=HiME=] of old, had her power corrupted somehow. The King and Queen of Windbloom who gave birth to Mashiro were the reincarnations of Mai and Yuuichi years later.]]

* MundaneUtility: Yes,she uses her power to make dinner.

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-->'''Akane'''': (sheepishly waving hands) No! I didn't mean it like that! I learned lots in school!

!!!! Chie Hallard

!!!! Shiho Huit

* CharacterExaggeration - Is more idiotic in the manga.

* PossessionImpliesMastery - It's not instant, but she's able to figure out how to use the Coral Robe's various abilities during her first Materialization.

* BrokenBird - By the end. [[spoiler:She is bearing the weight of her guilt over killing Erstin and her other deeds in Nagi's service, and her father Sergay is on the brink of death, kept alive only by her operating the Harmonium.]]

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange - Wears her hair down in Zwei until coming out of retirement.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope - Some of the stuff she does for Nagi out of love for Sergay is...yeah.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS - Sergay or Sergei?

* HundredPercentAdorationRating - The people of Aries ''adore'' her. They laugh at the idea of anyone trying to run against her during elections.
* GenericCuteness - While not ugly, she's certainly not the beauty most of the other characters are.
* MeaningfulName - Her name in this continuity is a pun on her name in ''Mai-[=HiME=]'', specifically the "Kiku" of "Kikukawa", which is written with the character for '''chrysant'''hemum. It also reference her position of power in this series as the chrysanthemum is the symbol of the Japanese Imperial Family.

* OddCouple - With Haruka.

* RedOniBlueOni - Blue to Haruka's red.

* OddCouple - With Yukino
* RedOniBlueOni - Red to Yukino's blue. Also red to Shizuru's blue when they team up.

* SuperStrength - To an even greater degree than most Otome, as she is able to toss an airplane as a decent sized ship into outer space, and in one of the extras, it is revealed that she pushed the Suzushiro (her massive sand-cruiser) to Windbloom when it encountered engine failure.

* IntimateHealing - With Akira, in a CallBack to a very similar scene in ''Anime/MaiHime''.

* {{Bifauxnen}} - As a MythologyGag to her ''Mai-[=HiME=]'' incarnation, the first time we see her she's posing as Takumi.
* DualWielding - In the manga.
* IntimateHealing - With Takumi in a CallBack to a very similar scene in ''Anime/MaiHime''.
* NinjaMaid - In the manga.
* SweetOnPollyOliver - A variation. Shizuru figures out that "Takumi" isn't actually him because she feels some attraction to "him" when she otherwise doesn't feel anything for men.
* {{Tsundere}} - Tends to get irritated with Takumi at times, but cares for him deeply.
* WholesomeCrossdresser - Takes on Takumi's identity when he slips off to search for his sister.

* TakenForGranite - Petrifies its victims.

* MeaningfulName: Mashiro Blanc de Windbloom is an {{Expy}} of Mashiro Kazehana from ''Anime/MaiHime''. Kazehana literally means "wind bloom."

* IdenticalGrandson: If the opening scene of ''Anime/MaiOtomeZwei'' is right, Mashiro looks [[spoiler:exactly like the queen of Windbloom from the time Fumi became the first Otome. It's thus possible that those who passed her off as the real princess did so while invoking this trope.]]!

->'''VoiceActor:''' AiShimizu

->'''Voiced by:''' AiShimizu (JP), Caitlynne Medrek (EN)

* AscendedExtra: Unlike her MaiHime counterpart, she plays a role that is relevant in the main story.

* MythologyGag: Her ship is named after her MaiHime incarnation's surname.

* TheRival: To Shizuru, although unlike in MaiHime, they seem to be friends as well as rivals.

* MythologyGag: Although this is based off of the MaiHime manga, in which Shizuru is not a Hime, Shizuru wonders what her own counterpart would be like, and conjures up an image of herself from the MaiHime anime, complete with GlowingEyesOfDoom and a MartialArtsHeadband with "Natsuki Love" on it.

Anime-only character. Hailing from Aries, Sara was once a room attendant to Mai during her Coral days, and she, like Yukino, picks up on Haruka's occasional malapropisms. [[spoiler:Sara, being one of the Columns, sides with Haruka and the other Alliance members in the finale]].

* BoobsOfSteel: She was the #1 Coral and #1 Pearl of her Garderobe years. When it was time for graduation, both she and Natsuki were offered positions as the 1st and 2nd Columns.

* TheRival: To Natsuki in that they were both the #1 and #2 Coral and Pearl Otome but it was more on Natsuki's side. Turned into a FriendlyRivalry very quickly as Natsuki considers Mai one of her true friends.

->'''Master:''' Nagi Dai Artài, [[spoiler:Mashiro Blanc de Windbloom (in ''Zwei'')]]

* TheObiWan: For both Arika and Mashiro.

* TheObiWan

* SchoolgirlLesbians: [[Manga/MaiOtome Manga]]!Erstin's crush on Nina is made obvious from the very start. May also apply to her anime incarnation, depending on one's interpretation of [[spoiler:her last letter to Nina]]. She also acts this way among her other schoolmates, and in the sound dramas, admits to having a crush on her OneeSama Akane, while under the influence of a mushroom that removes her inhibitions.

-> The main antagonists of MaiOtome Arashi, who use Arashi in order to get into Garderobe in an effort to obtain the Azure Sky Sapphire.