History Characters / TheMorrigan

* CharClone: In a bit of a twist on tradition, Suletta is a rare heroic example of this trope. She pilots the AceCustom Schwarzette that fights mostly in close-quarters, wears a visor that obscures her face, and she has both red and black color motifs. She is TheDragon to Miorine and fights on the opposite side from her sister, who she's technologically inferior than but manages to keep up by sheer ability and skill. After [[spoiler:the Schwarzette is destroyed, she gets another AceCustom replacement with a bright red chassis and pilots it while wearing sunglasses, driving the similarities in even further]].

* MeaningfulName: His Capgras Veil, which changes his face so he can get close to his target, is named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion Capgras Delusion]], a psychiatric disorder where a person holds the delusion that someone close to them has been replaced by an impostor, first described by Joseph Capgras in 1923.

* TheVoiceless: Even after fully awakening in book 3, she can't talk or even write due to something messing with the language centers of her "brain". She understands language fully, though, and can communicate through visuals.

* SpeaksInShoutouts: Presumably because he, like Morrigan, still can't get his speech centers working properly, he communicates by playing bits from various classic music ("classic" in the sense that they're from the real-life mid-to-late 1900s), which Norea knows enough about to instantly recognize. The first time he does this is with ''Hotel California'' by Music/TheEagles.

* DeathSeeker: She hasn't expressed any suicidal intent yet, but Norea thinks her [[spoiler:scream of ascension sounded like her own scream after Sophie died; That of someone who wants to die but only after they've inflicted their own pain on everyone around them]].

* RogueDrone: By technicality. They were originally just extensions of Ericht's will, acting as her AttackDrones. Over time they developed their own independent minds and personalities, but they are still loyal to Eri, they just have more agency. Played more straight with Elvie, who is opposed to Ericht's current course of action but is afraid of voicing her objections

* ConflictingLoyalties: [[spoiler:As Miorine's bodyguard, she has been won over by Suletta's optimistic hope for a better future and belief in her wife, but she's also loyal to her sister who's the head of Dawn of Fold, and is torn between them]].

* AnimalMotifs: Spiders, which very much seems to be intentional on her part. Her bodyguard's mobile suit, the Glaistig, has four legs and can't move far away from the station, like a spider protecting its web; Norea's wheelchair can turn into a SpiderTank for better mobility; and after she upgrades the Beguir-Sidhe, it can spit its legs into four and scuttle around like a spider for better movement in urban areas.

* TheAlcoholic: The entire fic opens on Belmeria getting drunk to deal with how awful her life is. She gets better.

* {{Workaholic}}: By her own admission. Belmeria is such a workaholic that she managed to overcome her alcoholism by being too invested in her work.

* DisabilitySuperPower: Nika's arm [[spoiler:and eye]] is functionally unusable, but [[spoiler:it being made of permet means that she can see and move when submerged in the datastorm, something normally only permet entities like Sophie can]].
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Nika suffers a FictionalDisability that renders her arm partially paralyzed unless she regularily files down the crystalline permet growths on it.
* FictionalDisability: Nika's silvered left arm is a condition known as Spontanteous Permetic Growth, causing permet crystals to grow across a person's body. Nika's condition is unusually benign, causing her partial paralysis but no pain. [[spoiler:This is because Morrigan has been protecting her from it, the same way Ericht can protect her pilots from the pain of permet burn]].

* IPromised: She holds onto [[spoiler:the Goodfellow Haro even when caught up in a fight between the Balor and Nemain]]. When asked why, she just says "I promised Felsi."

* FantasticRacism: Lauda has a very poor opinion on Earthians, seeing any story about their plight as just woe-is-me propaganda and clearly not approving of his fiancee's friendship with the Earthians Chuchu and Lilique.

* AmicableExes: When she and Lilique meet again, there is no bad blood, onky sorrow that things between them ended the way it did. Believing she has worked through the issues that led to their breakup, Renee even asks Lilique to join the Triune. Lilique turns her down, but she takes it with grace, smiles, and wishes her well before leaving, happy about having gained closure.

* AmicableExes: When [[spoiler:she and Lilique meet again, there is no bad blood, onky sorrow that things between them ended the way it did. Believing she has worked through the issues that led to their breakup, Renee even asks Lilique to join the Triune. Lilique turns her down, but she takes it with grace, smiles, and wishes her well before leaving, happy about having gained closure]].

* CombatPragmatist: She claims that she doesn't need a weapon to beat [[spoiler:Felsi, but when Felsi has her in a headlock and is choking her to death, Renee doesn't hesitate to pull out a hidden knife and stab her]].

* JerkassHasAPoint: During her fight with [[spoiler:Felsi, she accuses her of being just a rich girl poverty tourist who just joined Dawn of Fold out of a selfish desire to feel better about herself. This is pretty rich coming from Renee, who is perfectly fine with killing hundreds of Earthians and destroy the Dawn of Fold for her own revenge, but it clearly hits a sore spot for Felsi, who ''did'' benefit from Earthian oppression and was ignorant to their struggle before she met Chuchu, and she notably doesn't say anything to defend herself]].

* Glamour: He has a Capgras Veil, a device similar to Suletta's old veil that creates a holographic projection hiding his heavily scarred face behind one of several randomly generated ones. It's not perfect, [[GlamourFailure especially up close where you can see that the fake face doesn't quite match up with his facial structure]], but it's good enough to blend into a crowd.

* SuperPerception: [[spoiler:"Faceless" wears a holographic veil that hides his features behind a randomly generated face, which is imperfect up close but makes them next to impossible to recognize in a crowd. Despite this, Norea has picked them out every single time he tries to get close]].

* DisabilitySuperPower: Nika's arm is functionally unusable most of the time, but [[spoiler:it being made of permet means that she can see and move when submerged in the datastorm, something normally only permet entities like Sophie can]].

* RedRightHand: Nika's entire left arm is covered in permet growths that react when she uses the Morrigan's permet scores. The exact cause is unclear, but it first happened when it got hurt during the escape from Asticassia, and the numbness and pain decreases when in contact with the Morrigan.

* TeensLoveShopping: She loves buying and trying on clothes with her friends, and even manages to get Chuchu to enjoy it with her.

* AngellicAbomination: If she gets really distressed, her appearance can turn into something like this subconsciously. In Nika's words, she looks like something between an angel, astronaut, and insect, with FlamingHair, features that seem to be melting except for a single large eye reminiscent of the faceplate of an old spacesuit, clothes melting into something like robes, and wings that are both membranes like an insect and feathered like an angel's.

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Ericht is already nigh-godlike, but the endgame of Prospera's plan would expand Quiet Zero's influence across the solar system, allowing her to appear in any place and control any technology she wants. [[AGodIAmNot Ericht herself worries about what this will mean for her humanity]].

* IHateFutureMe: Prospera doesn't like keeping pictures of herself from the past around because she knows her old self would hate who she has become.

* GenreRefugee: The Felsi Rollo in this story is the same one as in ''Put Up Your Dukes'', a much less serious fic. As a result, she's essentially a character from a romantic comedy in a grim and gritty war drama. [[https://twitter.com/jerkus110/status/1701936710064468077 Jerkus has stated]] that they write Felsi to be one degree cartoonier than the rest of the cast, such as appearing out of thin air without rhyme or reason.

* MadeOfIron: During [[spoiler:her fight with Renee]], Felsi is thrown into wooden pews hard enough to crack them, knocked into the floor, and even thrown bodily across the room one time, and gets up immediately after every time.