History Characters / TheCreationAlchemistEnjoysFreedom

The Margrave whose demesne borders General Respalgia's territory and who was sent to negotiate with the general in regards to a silver mine found there. He colludes with Duke Regus to steal silver from the mine and then try to bribe the general with the stolen silver, hoping to create a fracture in Demon King territory's upper echelons. This all completely falls apart both because the general is a man of honor and because the margrave insulted Thor, to whom the general has a major debt of gratitude.

* OverprotectiveDad: When he catches Agnis and Thor about to share a "good-bye" hug, both because it's a genuine sign of affection, and to test the effectiveness of Agnis's new [Health Pendant], he comes at Thor in a rage, rearing to try and punch Thor in the face. Agnis takes strong exception to that, grabs the offending arm in a vice-grip and the general realizes he's on the losing end of a strength contest for once. Deconstructed a bit once he calms down and understands what's going on, as he throws himself to the ground in apology for almost killing Thor for trying to help his daughter.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Literally. To hide her youth and inexperience, she wore a mask that cast an illusion making her appear older and more threatening than she really is. She became psychologically dependent on this to project her authority. Without the mask, she's actually a very sweet and happy girl who treasures her friends and loves tea-parties.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's a throw-away character but is directly responsible for having the machinations of Duke Regus blow up and bringing Prime Minster Zagran in to chew out the evil duke.

* OverprotectiveDad: When he catches Agnis and Thor about to share a "good-bye" hug, both because it's a genuine sign of affection, and to test the effectiveness of Agnis's new [Health Pendant], he comes at Thor in a rage, rearing to try and punch Thor in the face. Agnis takes strong exception to that, grabs the offending arm in a vice-grip and the general realizes he's on the losing end of a strength contest for once.

** He put pressure on the government controlled alchemy lab that was repairing the crown princess's holy sword to keep all of Thor's accomplishments secret, even from himself. As such, he didn't know Thor was working on said sword until ''after'' the boy was banished, and with Thor gone, there's nobody around who can even begin to work on it, due to how severe the wear and tear is and the fact that the sword's core has a major fracture. He never learns of this, due to sending his butler to the Alchemist's guild to demand the sword be fixed, at all costs, when the crown requests an update.

* EvilLuddite: The very concept of Research and Development fills him with disgust. He pointedly says "it's not worth it" when Thor points out that the very holy weapons his country prides itself on are falling apart and somebody needs to maintain them, and if the empire insists on resting on their laurels, with the summoning ritual not working, it's only a matter of time until someone can trump the empire's tech.

* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Thor renouncing his family name, inheritance, and living as a commoner isn't enough to put this guy at ease. He has to make sure Thor is '''dead''' and nobody ever connects Thor's accomplishments in alchemy to his Ducal house. As such, he puts pressure on the alchemy college to refuse admission, and the government office to deny Thor any rewards, accomplishments, or advancement, and to top it all off, has Thor kidnapped and banished the first chance he gets.

* GreaterScopeVillain: He's the one that provided the plan for Duke Regus to try and create friction among the top of the Demon King country by seeing if General Respalgia can be bribed into letting empire soldiers steal silver from a mine. He's not ''too'' upset by the plain itself failing, but he is immensely outraged as to how badly Duke Regus screwed the pooch and why.

* XanatosGambit: All his schemes have this in one form or another. The first on-screen example is tasking Duke Regus with the scheme to try and bribe General Respalgia into letting the empire steal some silver from a mine. If things go as planned, the empire gets funds for its war efforts through the extra silver. If the negotiations go poorly, strife can be started in the Demon King territory by framing the general for demanding bribes. If things go really, really badly, he can dump the blame of Duke Regus and remove a political rival. Of course, the duke screwed the pooch so badly that not only is Demon King territory now on guard against imperial meddling, and their general actively hostile, but the empire had to remit payment equivalent to several years of expected income from the mine to soothe all the ruffled feathers involved.

Character list for LightNovel/TheCreationAlchemistEnjoysFreedom. Warning for manga readers, spoilers from the novel may be unmarked.

** A good example is the [Laser Pointer]. Due to how it is described, Thor concludes that a device meant to show a red light dot where the user wants it (along with a warning not to use it on humans to avoid blinding them) is actually a magical device that causes magical spells to hit the target even if the aim is off and at longer distantes.

** A good example is the [Laser Pointer]. Due to how it is described, Thor concludes that a device meant to show a red light dot where the user wants it (along with a warning not to use it on humans to avoid blinding them) is actually a devastating weapon used for monster subjugation at a great distance.

[[caption-width-right:350:I HATE YOU, DUKE BARGAS REGUS!!!]]TheProtagonist. At the age of 13, he relinquished his family name of Regus, disavowed his inheritance rights, and lived like a commoner under his deceased mother's maiden name to get away from his combat strength obsessed AbusiveDad. But that wasn't anywhere near enough for the petty tyrant Duke Bargas Regus. The duke in question saw Thor as a "useless incompetent" and BlackSheep of the family, who should have ''committed suicide'' the moment he got his job appraised as [Alchemist], rather than some obviously flashy combat-oriented profession. As such, Duke Regus, and the entire household staff, harassed him in every way, subtle and gross, blocking him from learning alchemy in the imperial college, and pressuring his government clerk job to pointedly erase every single one of his merits and accomplishments, as well as bar any form of advancement. Then, when Thor turned 16, sent a company of knights to kidnap him from his home office, drag him back to the family estate, berate him for the umpteenth time on how "despair inducing" it is for a glorious duke house to sire an "useless incompetent" who can't go to the battle-field, but it's been decided that there is something Thor can do to redeem himself, being sent to the Demon country '''to die''' as a HumanSacrifice, to appease those "savage monsters" for a few decades. Thor strongly considers escaping the first chance he gets, until he sees that the imperial propaganda is all wrong, and the Demon Country is actually far, far more civilized place to be than the Dolgarian Empire, especially when he meets Demon Lord Rukia, who provides him a lab, workshop, and artifacts once belonging to the Heroes, collected by one of her ancestors, and giving him carte-blanche to actually design things. He defects.

* TheAce: Even before he was exiled to the Demon King territory, he was the best alchemist the empire had to offer, with skills ''light years'' above the rest. Being sent to there only made his alchemy more impressive, upgrading to [Complete Alchemy] by being exposed to the excessive [Dark] magic in the area.

* EndearinglyDorky: He goes off into his own little world with some frequency whenever the muse strikes to do some alchemy research, or he gets inspiration from his [Mail Order Catalog], but he's got an ever growing harem, not just for TruthInTelevision political reasons, but primarily because he absolutely dotes on any girl who is genuinely kind to him, and he's unbelievably sweet and sensitive.

** When he tries to reason out the culture of the World of Heroes, he acts like an archaeologist who is trying to piece together a long-lost civilization going only by myths, legends, random pieces of history, and some discarded artifacts. There are points where he is scarily close and points where he couldn't be further away if he tried, like for example, thinking that the [U-V Protection Parasol] exists because the Heroes used to throw magic [Light] attacks at each other, as opposed to being protection from sunburn. And when he reads about the [Radio Wave Detector], he concludes that Heroes were out to steal each other's magical and martial techniques without upsetting their guardian spirit "Omawarisan," not realizing how scarily close he is to realizing how cloak and dagger society is between nations.

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: One has to really wonder if he actually is Bragus's son as the two couldn't be more opposite if they tried, and Thor did actively try. Thor is gentle and kind while Bragas is a violent brute. Thor favors intelligence and wisdom while Bragas is all about brute force. Thor is brave and actively supports his allies in a fight, even if he can't personally do damage. Bragas has the stats and the skills to fight directly, but he's a DirtyCoward who loves to throw his weight around but will flee a legitimate threat first chance he gets, regardless of his allies. Thor is humble and will admit to his mistakes, making an effort to fix them. Bragas is far, far too proud and will deny his mistakes to his last breath, doing everything he can to cover them up, even if that only makes things worse.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Much as he loathes the Dolgaria Empire's deification of combat strength, he was still a loyal, hard-working citizen, struggling in the government alchemy office, slaving away for peanuts, because it gave him the chance to use his gods-given [Alchemy] job to improve the lives of the citizens, and was even happily working on fixing the holy sword belonging to the crown princes, which Duke Regus himself had commissioned, but before the work was finished, he was kidnapped by a bunch of knights, berated and abused, and then summarily dumped on Demon King territory to die, by imperial decree, which Duke Regus bragged of pushing for. Regus happily switched sides to serve under Demon Lord Rukia, and pointedly wishes the empire ''ceases to exist.''

** Princess Sophia, first princess of Dolargia Empire: She can't inherit for reasons of poor health, but she can still wed to strengthen alliances. As such, she requests to marry Thor to maintain peaceful relations with Demon King territory, on behalf of her people.

* XanatosGambit: When he's negotiating with Princess Sophia and having her evaluate his products, both the [Foot Bath] and the [Light Element Cloth] undergarments, he puts his life on the line, asking her to blast him with her strongest magic, the U-V light attack. Either she enjoys the goods and is impressed with his bravery, or she blasts him with said magic and he gets to test the effectiveness of his [U-V Protection Parasol] Thor developed precisely to deal with Empire [Light] magic attacks. Either way, he wins something. Rukia and Mabel have an issue with the latter part.

* MegaTwintails: Her twin-tails are so long they reach her thighs.

* IOweYouMyLife: Because Thor gave her the [Health Pendant] that allows her to actually control her powerful fire magic abilities, by turning the flame magic to physical strength, she has sworn a life-debt to him, and the quickest way to resolve that is by marriage. Thor's response? "Cool!"

* ShesTheKing: She's the Demon Lord but the title is unisex.

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* RedEyesTakeWarning: She has red hair and is very dangerous, either with her flames or once Thor equips her with the [Health Pendant], very physically strong when she gets mad.

* ShowerOfAwkward: The first time he tries to take a bath in Demon King territory, he goes to the assigned bath, sees that it's been roped off and clearly labeled for his exclusive use, but when he walks in, finds a very, very naked Agnis playing with the water-heating salamander. Being a gentleman, he turns and bolts, but not before providing her with a [Simple Warehouse] to store her flames before she burns the whole castle down by accident in her flustered state.

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: Justified. Whenever he faces a problem and can't think of a solution right away, he goes running to the [Mail Order Catalog] and finds it after a bit of searching. The book is listed as over 500 pages long and comes with a handy index at the front.

* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: There is one person who he will never, ever forgive or tolerate, and that's his AbusiveDad, Bargas Regus.

** Bragas only cares about how his children can boost his name, and when Thor couldn't brutalized him. The general cares more about his children's welfare, and when Thor fixed Agnis's issues, is ''proud'' to consider Thor his son-in-law.