History Characters / RadiantHistoria

-->''[[CatchPhrase I have to think about this one carefully...]]''

-->'''Garland''': That was a joke. You were supposed to laugh.\\
'''Stocke''': ...Then maybe you should tell better jokes.\\

* TheFace: starts off as TheStoic, but also starts off with a growing circle of friends who he cares about dearly. He helps his party members through a variety of internal and external conflicts, and is always sensitive to their issues. And at one point, he helps his best friend Roche and an NPC with [[MatchmakerQuest relationship advice.]]

** Storge: [[ThickerThanWater Eruca and Heiss.]]

* LoveMakesYouDumb: Running away with Raynie? [[CatchPhrase I'll have to think about this one carefully...]]

* OfficerAndAGentleman: A high-ranking agent for Alistel's Special Intelligence agency and the second command for the Rosch Brigade in the Alternate History. He’s also a NiceGuy who genuinely cares his his TrueCompanions and puts himself through countless amounts of danger for the sake of saving the world.

* LoveConfession: She tells Stocke "IHaveThisFriend"; Stocke quickly asks if she's in love with whoever she's talking about. She immediately has a LoveEpiphany in front of him and confesses to him, and [[ObliviousToLove he's genuinely surprised.]]

* DisabledMeansHelpless: Acts like this once. Stocke has to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan beat that attitude out of him.]]

* LawfulStupid: He gets better. [[FromBadToWorse But not before he gets worse.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: In one bad ending she [[{{Yandere}} kidnaps Stocke, trapping him in a world she creates.]]

* ClingyJealousGirl: Throughout almost the whole game it seems like Aht is one to Stocke, especially where Eruca is concerned. [[SubvertedTrope She's not jealous]] (or rather, not ''just'' jealous) but [[spoiler:deeply afraid for his life because she's aware of what the Ritual is actually about. Therefore Aht not only knows that Eruca will have to kill Stocke ''again'' to complete it, but also that he's almost certain to ''let'' her make him the Sacrifice in order to save the world because that's just the person he is]].

* AffablyEvil: He acts overly friendly and fatherly towards Stocke, which Stocke clearly finds a little creepy. Heiss also takes great joy in screwing with his star pupil for fun, but this trolling of his is intended as {{Stealth Mentor}}ship. [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes The ending makes it clear that he genuinely loves his nephew.]]

* RagsToRoyalty: Deconstructed; she was a commoner who the king married for her beauty. When the king died, she had no idea how to run the country in any sort of responsible manner, so she wound up [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney abusing her position for her own short-term gratification]] and [[PuppetKing being manipulated by her advisers]]. [[spoiler:She also reveals when being shown the Oath Medal how she quickly lost sight of her original intents to be a good ruler because of being blinded by the luxury of royalty, and ends up telling Stocke to keep the medal as she no longer deserves to have it]].

* DealWithTheDevil: In the Standard History, in the Final Chapter, he finds Heiss under the Granorg palace, who promises him, and later Dias, to be part of a great power. [[LiteralGenie It doesn't end well.]]

* TheUnfought: He's never directly fought. [[spoiler:The closest to fighting him is him piloting thaumatechs with Dias in a Possibility History]].

* DealWithTheDevil: In the Standard History, in the Final Chapter, he finds Heiss under the Granorg palace, who has promised Selvan to be part of a great power, and is given the same offer. [[LiteralGenie It doesn't end well.]]

* TheUnfought: Unlike Protea and Selvan, he's supposed to be a master swordsman, and even fights in a cutscene, so this one is a bit harder to explain. [[spoiler:Even the only time he is fought is him piloting a Thaumatech with Selvan in a Possibility History]].

* DrunkWithPower: He starts off as the spokesman for the Prophet Noah. He escalates into the de facto leader of a country bent on purging the continent through a holy war. [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity And that's not even going into Flux...]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In one possible history of the Perfect Chronology edition, [[spoiler:Fennel grafts Noah's corpse into a thaumachine in order to create a "thaumatech god" and when Hugo finds out, he is completely horrified and disgusted to the point of performing a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the machine and allow Noah's soul to rest in peace]], granted this Hugo has already performed something of a HeelFaceTurn [[spoiler:after seeing Noah die indirectly as a result of his actions]].

* KarmaHoudini: Discussed and subverted. The party finds it unsatisfying that he gets to GoOutWithASmile after all the lives he ruined, but they realize that now that he's dead, he'll no longer hold the reigns of history and that [[UnPerson he'll have no legacy]]. By dwelling on his blissful end, they're only letting him win in a way. [[spoiler:This is still subverted in the case Noah is revived and Hugo chooses to go with Noah, as both have chosen to [[FakingTheDead fake]] [[UnPerson their deaths]]]].

* MouthOfSauron: For Noah. Subverted in that this is all an act. Noah [[DeadAllAlong died long ago]], and Hugo himself is [[BigBad really the one in charge.]] [[spoiler:''Perfect Chronology'''s Possibility Timelines also clearly show a lot of the contents of Hugo's speeches would not be anything the real Noah would approve of.]]
* NonActionBigBad: [[ClimaxBoss Until he forces Fennel to power him up with Flux.]]

* MadScientist: Obviously. [[spoiler:A Possibility Timeline has him experiment on Noah's corpse to revive him as a thaumatech machine, which [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifies even Hugo]].]] [[spoiler:Granted, the Flux Core ends up saving the original timeline Noah, but still...]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once he empowers Hugo with the power of Flux, Hugo tosses him aside. It's unknown if he survives the ordeal, since he can be spoken to after fighting Hugo for the first time, but is not seen or heard of again. [[spoiler:Showing Hugo the Flux Core however reveals Fennel [[CrazyPrepared anticipated that Hugo would attack him upon gaining the power of Flux, and prepared countermeasures to avoid this.]]]]

-->''"[[NonstandardGameOver You've returned, Stocke.]]"''

* WhatTheHellHero: They (gently) do this for particularly bad choices, such as [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity accepting Hugo's offer of power]], or [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere eloping with Raynie.]]

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Although if you do her sidequest, she is expected to fully recover in the epilogue [[spoiler:and is healthy by the time of ''Perfect Chronology'''s extended epilogue]].

* {{Irony}}: According to Viola in ''Perfect Chronology'', [[spoiler:Noah wanted the people to decide their futures for themselves, and not have him dictate them.]] Hugo proceeds to use his name to manipulate the people for his own agenda by disguising it as Noah's words, exactly what Noah didn't want happening.
* MoralityPet: Weirdly enough, he is this to Hugo. [[spoiler:In a Possibility Timeline, seeing Noah die from his illness in front of him after pleading for him to surrender has him in shock.]] [[spoiler:It turns out to also apply to the original timeline Hugo, whom upon being shown the Flux Core needed to save Noah, immediately snaps out of his Flux induced madness.]]

* CollectorOfTheStrange: She's hunting for "Artifacts". [[spoiler:So she can repair the Red Chronicle of Possibilities]].

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: [[spoiler:Nemesia ended up 150 years in the future when she and her brother were confronting the Singularity]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her profound knowledge of the ancient empire and ownership of the ''Dunamis'', which is one of the relics from the said empire, hint at her origin as [[spoiler:its last princess]].

* SecretlySelfish: [[spoiler:She believes herself to be this, as her true motivation to recreate the Red Chronicle end the Singularity is to put her lover Rhodan out of his misery]].

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:Their response to Nemesia's falling in love with a lowly thaumatech scholar was to ''experiment on him with the Black Chronicle''.]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: While the Singularity is the main cause of the desertification [[spoiler:it was their cruel experiments on Rhodan using the Black Chronicle that created the Singularity in the first place]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:After subjecting Rhodan to cruel experiments with the Black Chronicle because of Nemesia loving him, they became one of the first victims to the Singularity]].
* ParentalMarriageVeto: [[spoiler: They refused to let Nemesia continue being Rhodan's lover and made him into a test subject. And lead to the destruction of the empire and the desertification to follow.]]

* TooManyBelts: She even uses one as [[HairDecorations a hair decoration]].

* HairDecorations: Hers appear to be ivy of some sort. Whether they're real plants or not is unknown.

* HeroicSacrifice: um His ultimate role in The Ritual.

* HeroicSacrifice: His ultimate role in The Ritual.

%%* OfficerAndAGentleman

%%* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses

* KarmaticDeath: [[spoiler:After subjecting Rhodan to cruel experiments with the Black Chronicle because of Nemesia loving him, they became one of the first victims to the Singularity]].

* KarmaticDeath: [[spoiler:After subjecting Rhodan to cruel experiments with the Black Chronicle because of Nemesia loving him, they are one of the first victims to the Singularity]].
* ParentalMarriageVeto: [[spoiler:Refused to let Nemesia continue being Rhodan's lover and resulted in them making him into a test subject. And lead to the destruction of the empire and the desertification to follow.]]

* WasOnceAMan: It was once a thaumatech scholar named Rhodan.

* HeroicSacrifice: Although he gets better in the true ending.

** JustifiedTrope. Their death was necessary to allow the Alternate Timeline to progress on track and get Rosch have the will to rebel against Alistel in the Standard Timeline. The path to the good future is explicitly razor-thin, after all. The GoldenEnding resolves this dilemma by Stocke saving them as he promised he would, [[TrickedOutTime but ensuring people believed they were dead to keep the timeline on track]].
* TrickedOutTime: How Stocke saves him in the GoldenEnding.

Alistel's prize Field Marshal, known as the Valkyrie for her beauty and strength. When she got too popular, she was reassigned to Alistel's most important stronghold and the most dangerous chokepoint in the war, the Sand Fortress, away from the people of Alistel. However, her valor and judgment have earned her the staunch support of all Alistellians, not just the miltary. She is unwavering in her devotion to Alistel and devoutly reveres the Prophet Noah as well, for she knew him personally before his health began to wane, which is something only a handful of people can say. Many believe that her charisma exceeds Hugo's, and her service record also dwarfs his. Yet despite her accomplishments, she is more often than not out of the country on assignment.

%%* DontYouDarePityMe

* HonorBeforeReason: On a TooDumbToLive scale.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Although if you do her sidequest, she is expected to fully recover in the epilogue.

%%* KnightTemplar

* ThanatosGambit: Tries to pull one off, though she may survive if you finish her sidequest.

%%* FightingForAHomeland

* MyGreatestFailure: Raul admits to Stocke he was the commanding officer of the battle that caused Rosch to acquire his gauntlet, which lead him into taking a backseat in power from guilt and insincerity. Hugo taking over Alistel however makes him decide to stop being a bystander and help Stocke and the others out through his own merits.

%%* OfficerAndAGentleman
* OnlySaneMan: The only man left to lead Alistel in the end.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:After the events of the game, he became the Prime Minister, therefore, the effective ruler of Allistel.]]

%%* SupportingLeader

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He got the throne by defeating the previous king of Cygnus.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:She starts a lifestyle as a farmer raising high quality crops in Cornet Village to help people unlike how she was when she was queen in ''Perfect Chronology'''s extended epilogue.]]

* TheCaligula: She was just a mere commoner before she became royalty by King Viktor, and the riches and treasures corrupted her. Some of her actions were bad for his kingdom, like ordering to burn Granorg in order to reveal the rebel's location.

%%* EvilMatriarch
%%* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:In the epilogue of ''Perfect Chronology'', she turned over a leaf and proceeded to use her skills for farming in Cornet Village to produce good quality crops.]]

* RagsToRoyalty: Deconstructed; she was a commoner who the king married for her beauty. When the king died, she had no idea how to run the country in any sort of responsible manner, so she wound up [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney abusing her position for her own short-term gratification]] and [[PuppetKing being manipulated by her advisers]]. [[spoiler:She also reveals when being shown the Oath Medal how she quickly lost sight of her original intents to be a good ruler because of being blinded by the luxury of royalty, which connects back to how she does not have the abilities to properly rule]].

* PosthumousCharacter: He is dead by the events of the original timelines, but his actions serve as catalysts for the main conflicts within the story. To list... [[spoiler:being one of the reasons Heiss ran away, killing Ernst aka Stocke to get a new Sacrifice, and leading Dias and Selvan to use Queen Protea to take power themselves for being such a terrible king...]]

* HonoraryUncle: His relationship to Aht.
%%* HornedHumanoid
%%* LittleBitBeastly
%%* PointyEars

%%* WalkingShirtlessScene

* ForWantOfANail: If you mess up her sidequest, her lover, a Granorg soldier, dies in Gutral territory trying to find her. The Granorg army finds his body and blames his death on the Gutrals, which kicks off a war between Beastkind and humans.

* ItsNotYouItsMe: She's trying to break off her relationship with an unnamed soldier because she thinks the differences in their cultures are irreconcilable.

* MatchmakerQuest: She's involved in one of these alongside the Granorg soldier.
* MyGreatestFailure: During her sidequest. After her lover dies in Abyssia forest and Stocke shows her the note he was carrying, she says she's made the biggest mistake of her life and walks off into the forest.

%%* PointyEars

%%* {{Stripperiffic}}

* CreepyMonotone: The way he delivers his chilling lines in his bad ending.

* TenMinuteRetirement: After his entire army gets wiped out, he goes into this.
* TwentyFourHourArmor: He must smell really bad. He doesn't even get a new sprite with a desk job. Might have something to do with his Gauntlet.

* TheMedic: Learns some high-level healing spells.
* MomentKiller: She deliberately interrupts whenever it looks like Eruca might tell Stocke who he is.

* AnIcePerson: Apart from her NonElemental attacks, her spells are Ice-based.

* TheUnfought: Justified. She simply cannot fight.
%%* WickedStepmother

* XanatosGambit: As the Alternate History shows, he intends to run his plans like this, switching sides and leaving Protea to take the fall if things go wrong. [[OutGambitted It doesn't work]], mostly because Heiss is an OutsideContextProblem for him in the Alternate timeline, and Stocke is a SpannerInTheWorks for him in the Standard one.

* AGodAmI: "...It does have a nice ring to it."

* ElCidPloy: He's been pulling one in regards to Noah since before the story starts.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In one possible history of the Perfect Chronology edition, [[spoiler: Fennel grafts Noah's corpse into a thaumachine in order to create a "thaumatech god" and when Hugo finds out, he is completely horrified and disgusted to the point of performing a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the machine and allow Noah's soul to rest in peace]], granted this Hugo has already performed something of a HeelFaceTurn [[spoiler: after seeing Noah die indirectly as a result of his actions]].

* ManipulativeBastard: He's been doctoring speeches passed off as Noah's words for a good while after the real prophet died (and the fact which he hid), all for his own personal gain. A Possibility Timeline has him even [[spoiler:brainwash Viola with an illusion created by an Artifact of Noah to get her to turn against Stocke.]]

* TheDreaded: Characters from Alistel tend to panic once they hear he is coming to whatever battle they are in.
* FlatCharacter: Look at how many tropes describe his skills. Now how many describe his personality.
* HeroKiller: In the prologue, he kills Raynie and Marco and grievously wounds Stocke, causing him to awaken as the bearer of the White Chronicle.
* HopelessBossFight: The first fight against him is unwinnable.
* OneHitKill: His Destroy attack can do this to one character.

* MyGirlBackHome: She feels like she's this to Rosch (and Stocke a little) when they're off fighting for their lives while she's safe and sound.

** JustifiedTrope: Their death was necessary to allow the Alternate Timeline to progress on track and get Rosch have the will to rebel against Alistel in the Standard Timeline. The path to the good future is explicitly razor-thin, after all. The GoldenEnding resolves this dilemma by Stocke saving them as he promised he would, but ensuring people believed they were dead to keep the timeline on track.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: After the events of the game, he became the Prime Minister, therefore, the effective ruler of Allistel.]]

* DeadAllAlong: He died at some indeterminate point after he stopped doing public appearances.[[spoiler: Subverted however. It turns out Noah is still alive in the original timeline, but his condition has forced him to be put in suspended animation.]]

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:After being revived in the original timelines thanks to the Flux Core obtained from the Possibility History, Noah requests to remain dead to the public as he wishes for Alistel to move toward the future without him, with Hugo joining him.]]

* AGodAmI: According to Eruca, he fancied himself as such due to being the one to perform the ritual of Flux.
* AbusiveParents: He had no qualm in killing his offspring for disobeying him.
* AssholeVictim: Although [[spoiler:Heiss murdered him and uses his corpse as a PeoplePuppet]], it is hard to feel any sympathy for him after everything he did in life.
* TheCaligula: No one in the present speaks favorably of him.
* KickTheDog: Basically all of his actions as revealed by the late game.
* OffingTheOffspring: He did this to his own son Ernst, [[spoiler:nowadays known as Stocke, due to Heiss erasing his memories]], when Ernst became more popular than him and he feared the people eventually ousting him to make Ernst king.

* VerbalTic: She often uses school-centric metaphors, like saying she gets an F in good manners for not giving Stocke her name. [[spoiler: According to a LivingMemory of a court lady after going back to the 'Eternal Prosperity' node, this tic was because of Rhodan, who often graded Nemesia on the spot when presenting problems and it resulted in her picking up the habit of grading everything.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Was originally a humble thaumatech scholar forcibly turned into the Singularity.

%%* TheChick
%%* TheEngineer

%%* TheMedic

%%* WrenchWench

%%* InnocentProdigy
%%* {{Keet}}
%%* MauveShirt
%%* PluckyMiddie

* StupidSacrifice: Seeing how Stocke could go back in time and warn the Rosch Brigade about the ambush, it's kind of silly that Kiel and the rest have to die, when logically Stocke should've been able to stop it, even if there wasn't a Node right there and then. The GoldenEnding resolves this dilemma.
** JustifiedTrope: Their death was necessary to allow the Alternate timeline to progress on track. The path to the good future is explicitly razor-thin, after all.
%%* SuicideMission
%%* TagalongKid
%%* TooManyBelts

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Granorg Kingdom

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: As he was actually Prince Ernst, he was a selfless person with a good desire to keep things on check and bringing peace to the world. Sadly, King Viktor didn't like this and he used him as the soul for the sacrifice.

* AssholeVictim: Although [[spoiler:Heiss murdered him and uses his corpse as a PeoplePuppet]], it is hard to feel any sympathy for him.

* OffingTheOffspring: He did this to his own son Ernst, [[spoiler:nowadays known as Stocke, due to Heiss erasing his memories]], when Ernst became more popular than him.

--->'''Garland''': That was a joke. You were supposed to laugh.\\

%%* PettingZooPeople

%%* PettingZooPeople

* PettingZooPeople: Though he looks much closer to LittleBitBeastly than any of the other Gutrals. However, this could be attributed to the fact that the areas of his body where most Gutrals are covered in hair are fully clothed, which gives off a more human appearance.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/WataruHatano (JP), Greg Chun (EN)

* LastOfTheirKind: The last of the Imperials. ''Perfect Chronology'' adds [[spoiler:Nemesia and Thordan]] to the mix.

* ParentMarriageVeto: [[spoiler:Refused to let Nemesia continue being Rhodan's lover and resulted in them making him into a test subject. And lead to the destruction of the empire and the desertification to follow.]]

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Let's see... she's busty, clothes that leaves nothing to the imagination, long socks... Yes, she certainly qualifies.

* HateSink: She doesn't have any redeemable qualities.