History Characters / TheHeroicLegendOfArslan

* UnkemptBeauty: A male example. His hair has quite a few unruly strands, especially his bangs, doesn't stop him from being the {{Bishonen}} he is.

* AttractiveBentGender: Hiromu Arakawa drew Arslan (and Andragoras) as girls, Arslan is incredibly [[http://965cchikudasai.tumblr.com/post/130132418563/official-femarslan-femandragoras-by-hiromu beautiful]].
* BadassAdorable: The epitome of such, he's cute and he can kick ass.

** Arslan is normally gentle, soft-spoken, patient and doesn't like violence. However, when Rajendra cynically puts Daryun's life in danger, he snaps, draws his sword and tells Rajendra that if Daryun doesn't survive the fight, he, Arslan, will personally have Rajendra's head. This comes as a surprise not only to Rajendra but also to Arslan's own followers.

* UnkemptBeauty: A male example, his hair has quite a few unruly strands, especially his bangs, doesn't stop him from being the {{Bishonen}} he is.
* UriahGambit: [[spoiler: After having freed himself, Adragoras forces Arslan to leave Pars until he's able to amass an army of another 50,000 men; which Arslan and his allies realize means that Arslan is effectively exiled.]]

* BoobsOfSteel: Well endowed and just a good a fighter as the men in the series.

* ACupAngst: Seems to have this in Arakawa's version, given that she looks at [[BoobsOfSteel Farangis']] chest with irritation in Episode 13.

* {{Bishonen}}: In pretty much every version, he's quite effeminate in appearance. Part of it can be attributed to his youth, but he's also just generally really pretty. [[http://i.imgur.com/cjeKCa2.jpg Look at this image and draw your own conclusions]].

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->'''Voiced by (OVA):''' Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese), Steven Pacey (English, Manga UK), Edward Britton (English, CPM)

* RedBaron: Daryun is called Sher Senani (Great Tiger General) by the awestruck Shindran soldiers at the end of the duel before the gods. Even prior to this, he also enjoyed the title of Mardān fu Mardān even amongst the Marzban of Pars.

* UriahGambit: [[spoiler: After having freed himself, Adragoras forces Arslan to leave Pars until he's able to amass an army of other 500,000 men; which Arslan and his allies realize means that Arslan is effectively exiled.]]

* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: How does he greet Arslan after he breaks himself out sees that Arslan's managed to amass an impressive army and begin a similarly impressive military campaign? Exile him under the extremely flimsy pretenses of "treason",(doing his best to help their Kingdom survive in his absence) so that he can have the glory of taking back Ecbatana himself!]] Oh, and no, he doesn't even give him so much as an empty "well done". Hell, he doesn't even answer Arslan's question about his mother still being alive! Royal prick.

* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: The reason he left the royal court is a combination of his moral opposition to slavery and his absolute refusal to stop criticizing the king about it. To his credit, he freed his family's own slaves as soon as he took over his father's title, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome which taught him an important lesson in ensuring that your moral victories have logistical support in place first.]]

* BadassBaritone: A badass with a relatively deep voice, even though he is voiced by Creator/YuukiKaji, whose voice is known for being rather high in pitch.

* LesserOfTwoEvils: Neither of the Sindhuran princes are a paragon of virtue, but Rajendra is far less of a scumbag than his cruel, poisonous brother.

* WhoNeedsEnemies: Bodin ultimately proves to be too much of a liability, due to his extremism and wanton destruction. When one of his Templars show up [[DeathBySex dead in bed with a Parsian courtesan]] (unbeknownst to him, at the hands of Silvermask's confidant), he leaves Ecbatana in paranoia.

* BareYourMidriff: Part of her {{Stripperific}} outfit.

** In the winter months, she has fabric around her [[BareYourMidriff midriff]], swaps the leather sleeves for navy tights, couples them with navy arm sleeves, wears brown moccasins, and wears her cloak much more often.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: {{Inverted}}. As the future Shah of Pars, Arslan is ''supposed'' to be this, in the same vein as his father [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Andragoras]], and has received instruction in sword-fighting and mounted combat from a young age, but the battle on the plains of Atropatene was his first time in a battlefield, ever, and a combination of his youth and inexperience makes him notably sub-par when compared to any of his retainers. He is capable of defending himself from {{Mooks}} and not getting completely overwhelmed when left alone in a fight, but rarely has any stand-out moment of fighting skill during his campaigns, and actually requires a bodyguard in the form of Jaswant to ensure he's not left vulnerable when Darius and the rest are fighting at the forefront of battle. To his credit, Arslan is very aware of this failing of his and has regularly been training to better himself in combat so as not to be [[TheLoad too much of a burden]] to his valued retainers, enabling him to hold off Shagad in single combat when the latter tries to take him hostage during a pitched brawl, landing a deep cut on his arm, but failing to dismount or outright defeat him.

->'''Voiced by (OVA):''' Creator/AkioOhtsuka (Japanese), Douglas Blackwell (English, Manga UK), Roger Rifkin (English, CPM)

* DropTheHammer: His WeaponOfChoice is a huge mace that may as well not even count as an infantry weapon. He even does this with his introduction, turning a sword stuck in a tree trunk into an improvised hammer.

--> '''Andragoras''': [[spoiler: "Unlike gold, iron rusts".]]

* PuppetKing: For all intents and purposes, his brother and Bodin are more active within Lusitanian ranks than Innocentius is, both figuratively and physically. His job is more or less to just approve of whatever they want to do.

* MasterArcher: Excellent with the bow and arrow
* PerpetualFrowner

* AbsoluteCleavage: Part of her [[{{Stripperific}} outfit]].

* {{Stripperiffic}}: In Arakawa's version, her "clothing" consists of little more than a long strip of white fabric wound around her breasts from over her shoulders to create an AbsoluteCleavage effect, a white knee-length loincloth, and brown leather sleeves on her legs in lieu of pants. She also wears a white hooded cloak most of the time.

* NiceHat: Her trademark blue headband.

* Missing Mom: Hilmes’s mother, has never been seen or mentioned.
* Revenge Before Reason: Hilmes is obsessed with getting revenge on Andragoras, and Arslan by proxy, and reclaiming the throne he believes that rightfully belongs to him that he would ally himself with Lusitanians and lead them to attack his homeland and allow the deaths of thousands of innocent people that he sees as fitting because these people had the nerve to support a usurper.

** Taken UpToEleven in Creator/{{Koei|Tecmo}}'s VideoGame/DynastyWarriors crossover game of the anime, where his Musou attack basically has him [[SkewedPriorities haphazardly paint a picture in the middle of battle]], and the end result ([[TheUnReveal which we're not shown]]) causing enemies around him to be so repulsed by the painting that they're blasted into oblivion.

* Even Evil has Standards: He didn’t try to harm or kill Bahman (his old teacher) and Princess Irina. Which is understandable, as Bahman taught him how to use the sword and bow and Princess Irina, was nothing but kind to him.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Narsus is a formidable strategist and statesman (think [[Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes Oberstein]]) who nevertheless regards himself an artist first and foremost. In the second part of the story he says he's a "Royal Court Artist who happens to be First Minister as well." Daryun's utter and vocal distaste for Narsus's artwork is a running gag throughout the story, but while the first anime adaptation would have the viewers believe that Daryun is too boneheaded to appreciate true art, the novel series and the Arakawa adaptation imply that Narsus's art does actually suck.

-> '''Voiced by (English)''': Brandon [=McInnis=] (TV Anime)