History Characters / TrailsSeriesReanSchwarzer

* TonightSomeoneKisses: In ''Cold Steel II'', he ends up kissing Alisa in their final bonding event at the dormitory in Trista. Meanwhile in ''Cold Steel IV'', all of the women in his harem who are 18 years old and over gets a kiss with him in the fireworks scene at Mishelam Wonderland.

* SimplifiedSpellcasting: His Divine Song Brave Order from ''Cold Steel III'' and it's upgraded form Dark Moon in ''Cold Steel IV'' allow the party to cast orbal arts without charging for a few turns along with an ATS boost. His Final Bonding Events with Emma and Elliot in ''Cold Steel IV'' have each of them give him a special accessory to half the time of any orbal arts he cast when they're equipped.

* SimplifiedSpellcasting: His Divine Song Brave Order from ''Cold Steel III'' and it's upgraded form Dark Moon in ''Cold Steel IV'' allow the party to cast orbal arts without charging for a few turns along with an ATS boost.

* TaintedVeins: When Ishmelga tries to take him over near the ending of ''Cold Steel IV'', Rean gains several black marks across his face and neck which makes his veins glow a burning red color. His AlternateSelf, [[Characters/TrailsSeriesSeptTerrionsAndHolyBeasts Ishmelga Rean]], retains the same marks as well, along with a few on his left hand.

* LifeSavingEncouragement: Whenever he tries to put himself down too much or becomes too willing to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself]], his loved ones are quick to admonish him for it and tell him how muh he means to them. A key factor in him outgrowing his MartyrWithoutACause tendencies is him realizing that his disregard for his well-being only hurts his loved ones more than helps them.

* NotWithThemForTheirMoney: Several of his love interests are more well off than him, chiefly Alisa (the heiress of the largest company in Erebonia), Musse (the Duchess in charge of the Empire's wealthiest province), and Alfin (an Imperial Princess who has effectively become the heir to the Imperial Throne after the end of ''Cold Steel IV''). At no point does their wealth or status play any role in his attraction to them if they are chosen, nor do any of them try to use their respective wealth or status to try and win his heart.

* NonStandardSkillLearning:
** In ''Cold Steel II'' Rean gets his second S-Craft during the final chapter.
** He gains his final S-Craft, Breaking Dawn, near the end of ''Cold Steel IV'' after beating Cassius in a duel at Mishelam.
** He also first obtains Spirit Unification as a Craft during the Intermission of ''Cold Steel II''. He then gains different variants/upgrades of his Spirit Unification throughout the story in both ''Cold Steel IV'' and ''Reverie''.

* NotWithThemForTheirMoney: Several of his love interests are more well off than him, chiefly Alisa (who is the heiress of the largest company in Erebonia), Musse (who is the Duchess in charge of the Empire's wealthiest province) and Alfin (who is an Imperial Princess who has effectively become the heir to the Imperial Throne after the end of ''Cold Steel IV''). At no point does their wealth or status play any role in his attraction to them if they are chosen, nor do any of them try to use their respective wealth or status to try and win his heart.

* NonStandardSkillLearning: In ''Cold Steel II'' Rean gets his second S-Craft during final chapter.

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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He gets hit with this trope twice in the second game. The first time happens during the Intermission Sequence aboard the Pantagruel where Rean is given a choice to work for the Noble Alliance for a chance reunite with Elise again and help end the Civil War quicker. Fortunately enough for Rean, Crow tries to convince him to do what is right even if they end up on opposing sides. Alfin later snaps him out of his dilemma as well, telling Rean that he shouldn't prioritize Elise but instead to follow what he wants to do. The second time happens when Osborne orders Rean to become a national hero and help in participating in the annexation of Crossbell. This time, Rean accepts due in part to wanting to prevent as much bloodshed as possible.

* ATasteOfPower:
** During the Intermission Sequence in ''Cold Steel II'', Rean gets unlimited access to his SuperMode just in time for two boss fights back to back with his DualBoss in Bleublanc and Duvalie that players only need to do a set amount of damage, and his duel with Crow that players need to win. Unfortunately after that, the unlimited turns go away and the game will restrict it to three turns only.
** In ''Cold Steel IV'', the entire Black Workshop level has him fully buffed in his out of control Demon Unchained and starts the game at level 90 compared to the rest of Class VII who hover between levels 84-87. Unlike ''Cold Steel II'' however, players can run around as Rean in this state which makes enemies almost impossible to kill off Rean even on Nightmare runs.

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* AgeGapRomance: Not all of his love interests are the same age as him. Sara and Towa are respectively seven and one years older than him. Fie is two years younger than him, Juna, Alfin and Elise are all about three years younger than him, while Musse is four years younger, and Altina is physically six years younger than him. He also has a decent amount of ShipTease with Claire and Duvalie, who are respectively six and three years older than him.

* FireWaterJuxtaposition: His secondary element is [[PlayingWithFire fire]], while his best friend and rival Crow, has [[MakingASplash water]] for his secondary element.

* FlamingSword: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Flame Slash]], his first S-Craft, along with its upgraded form Azure Flame Slash, his second S-Craft ''Termination Slash - Dawn and his final regular Craft Flame Impact with its upgrade Flame Dragon. By ''Cold Steel III'', his ''regular attack'' has fire properties whenever he swings his sword.

** To Alisa. Both of them are friendly and compassionate individuals, but whereas Rean is calm and rational, Alisa initially starts out somewhat more hotheaded until she mellows out in later games. Both of them are also commoners, but Rean was adopted into nobility while Alisa was born into a family so wealthy they might as well be nobles. Both also initially came to Thors with the intention of forging their own paths in life separate from their families, but whereas Rean did it to distance himself from the Schwarzers because he felt he was a burden on them (but otherwise loved them dearly), Alisa did it because she was no longer able to stand how her mother tore their family apart and decided to basically run away from the Reinfords altogether, even hiding her surname from her classmates until Sharon showed up. Also, Rean uses a sword while Alisa uses a bow.

* FinalBoss: Together with Altina, he serves as this for the Divertissement Chapter of ''Cold Steel II''.

* AceCustom: Subverted in ''Cold Steel III''. If he's not piloting Valimar, he just uses a regular Drakkhen to teach the class. Played straight in ''Reverie'' where he is the test pilot of a custom ashen-colored [[SuperPrototype high-performance prototype]] named "Tyrfing S".
* AcePilot: In real life, for a pilot to be considered an ace, they need to take down 5 enemy vehicles (8 by the standards of Erebonia's [[UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany historic]] [[UsefulNotes/PrussiansInPickelhauben counterpart]]). By the end of the second game, he and Valimar have defeated a magic knight, over a dozen Panzer Soldats, as well as Crow (who has 3 years more experience) and delivered the finishing blow on Testa-Rossa. During the Divertissement he entered the battlefield by cutting down two of Calvard's airships, which prompted them to retreat. And in Juna's backstory, Rean appears right away and one-shots a Calvard airship like it was nothing. He's a combination of both a Steamroller and a Plugger. By ''Reverie'', he's gotten so good at piloting that a basic Drakkhen can no longer keep up with his reflexes when he has a friendly duel with Kurt and Ash in the "Tyrfing Project" minigame.

* {{Chuunibyou}}: According to the description of his "Unspeakable" DLC costume, Rean used to wear a tattered longcoat, a visor, and a set of headphones to bring out his "inner darkness" during his impressionable younger years. As seen in a few 4-koma gag comics, Rean is very much embarrassed by this phase of his life.

* FailureToSaveMurder: He came to regard Crow's death as [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest regret]], despite how little he could have done to prevent it. He was also greatly ashamed at not being able to prevent as many civilian casualties as he would have liked during the Northern War, which triggered the HeroicRROD that caused him to lose what little control over his powers he had left by the start of ''Cold Steel III''. Millium performing a HeroicSacrifice to save him at the end of ''Cold Steel III'' caused him to utterly [[RageBreakingPoint ''snap'']] and fully lose control of himself.

* FashionableAsymmetry : Only wears one fingerless glove in his right hand in his summer uniform. According to the one-shot manga, "Link of Hearts case:A.R.", [[ShipTease Alisa gave it to him and kept the other]].

* FlamingSword: ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Flame Slash]]'', his first S-Craft, along with its upgraded form ''Azure Flame Slash'', his second S-Craft ''Termination Slash - Dawn'' and his final regular Craft ''Flame Impact'' with its upgrade ''Flame Dragon''. By ''Cold Steel III'', his ''regular attack'' has fire properties whenever he swings his sword.
* FlashStep: He performs this when using ''Gale''. In ''Cold Steel III'', time slows down while he uses Spirit Unification to reach his target in cutscenes showing how fast he really is moving.

* TheFourGods: In ''Cold Steel III'', his final brave order obtained after defeating Aurelia in an optional duel in the final chapter has him invoking "Kōryū's" name. And in ''Cold Steel IV'', his upgraded defense Brave Order has him invoking "Genbu".

* SimplifiedSpellcasting: His ''Divine Song'' Brave Order from ''Cold Steel III'' and it's upgraded form ''Dark Moon'' in ''Cold Steel IV'' allow the party to cast orbal arts without charging for a few turns along with an ATS boost.

* SpeedBlitz: His ''Gale'' Craft and it's upgraded variants consist of him slashing the enemy apart in between numerous {{Flash Step}}s. His third S-Craft has him delivering a CrissCrossAttack while moving fast enough to generate several SpeedEchoes.

** Just like [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Estelle Bright]], he has the Motivate Craft that increases the parties strength and gives a bit of CP. This is replaced by his Brave Order, ''Raging Fire'' in ''Cold Steel III'' onwards which has the same effect.

** His Brave Orders all increase the party's stats. ''Iron Will/ Black Tortoise'' grants 50-60 percent DamageReduction, ''Divine Song/ Dark Moon'' increases ATS while also allowing instant casting, and ''Gold/ Divine Dragon'' increases critcal hit rate by 50-60 percent along with granting the Insight Status (which increases evasion and accuracy). He loses the latter two in ''Reverie''.

* SuperPrototype: He gains the Tyrfing-S in ''Reverie'' which is built by Makarov, partly because Rean broke one of the Drakkhens in the "Project Tyrfing" side story. But mainly because Makarov decided to make one for his graduation project.

* BattleAura: Always puts out a red aura before he starts kicking ass.
* BattleCouple: If he officially romances one of the Old Class VII girls in ''Cold Steel IV'', the two become this.

* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: Subverted in ''Cold Steel IV'' where new Class VII holds him off while he attacks them but he doesn't snap out of his berserk self (in fact, he becomes even more enraged for a while). It takes their ARCUS IIs and Celine in her CatGirl form telling them what to go inside his subconsciousness and snap him out from within.

* FailureHero: All three games end up with Rean failing in some way. In ''Cold Steel I'', he and Class VII fail to prevent the Noble Alliance from invading Trista. In ''Cold Steel II'', he fails to keep his promise to Towa to bring Crow back as the latter ends up dying. In ''III'', Millium ends up dying right in front of him which leads to Rean going berserk and killing the divine beast, accidentally releasing the curse of Erebonia upon continent in the process. Defiantly avoided in ''IV'', where he outright ends up saving the world.

* FailureToSaveMurder: He came to regard Crow's death as [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest regret]], despite how little there was he could have done to prevent it. He was also greatly ashamed at not being able to prevent as many civilian casualties as he would have liked during the Northern War, which triggered the HeroicRROD that caused him to lose what little control over his powers he had left by the start of ''Cold Steel III''. Millium performing a HeroicSacrifice to save him at the end of ''Cold Steel III'' caused him to utterly [[RageBreakingPoint ''snap'']] and fully lose control of himself.

** He and Lloyd raise their fists at each other as a sign of respect, first when the former sees him off at the end of the Crossbell mission in '' Cold Steel III'', and again when the two of them team up to fend off Ourobros assault on the Pantagruel at the end of ACt 2 in ''Cold Steel IV''.

* FailureToSaveMurder: He came to regard Crow's death as [[MyGreatestMistake his greatest regret]], despite how little there was he could have done to prevent it. He was also greatly ashamed at not being able to prevent as many civilian casualties as he would have liked during the Northern War, which triggered the HeroicRROD that caused him to lose what little control over his powers he had left by the start of ''Cold Steel III''. Millium performing a HeroicSacrifice to save him at the end of ''Cold Steel III'' caused him to utterly [[RageBreakingPoint ''snap'']] and fully lose control of himself.

* HandshakeSubstitute: Gives Randy a fist bump in ''Cold Steel III'' after Randy asks Class VII to take care of the Ouroboros problem and help out Lloyd and the others trapped at Mishelam.

* TokenAdult: He is this when leading New Class VII in their field studies as their instructor.

* SharedSignatureMove: His crafts reference the other forms of the 8 Leaves 1 Blade school that had been used by previous characters. Most abundant is his use of the second form [[SpeedBlitz Gale]] which is the favored form of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TrailsSeriesTheBracerGuild Arios Maclaine]]. His [[SwordBeam Arc Slash]] craft (and it's upgraded variant Crimson Slash) are based on [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TrailsSeriesTheBracerGuild Anelace's]] Piercing Wave S-Craft. In ''Daybreak'', [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TrailsSeriesJaegerCorps Shizuna Rem Misurugi]] ends up copying his ''Spirit Unification'' technique.

* GuiltComplex: As a result of his MartyrWithoutACause tendencies, he tends to feel guilty when things go south even if he can't reasonably be blamed such as the annexations of Crossbell and North Ambria, which would have happened with or without him or Ash's assassination attempt of the Emperor thanks to the curse which he had no way to know about. Gets worse upon learning his biological father is [[EvilChancellor Osborne]] and begins to [[SinsOfTheFather feel responsible for the people affected by his actions]]. Comes to a head after he triggers the Great Twilight and has effectively resigned himself to die in order to atone for it despite having been NotHimself when he did it.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: He's definitely much taller than Towa despite being the younger of the two. Also this, though to a lesser extent with Alisa and Fie. Out of all his students in New Class VII, he's closest to Altina who is 30cm shorter than him thanks to them working together for the Intellugence Division.
* HumbleHero: He repeatedly insists that he's not someone who deserves any praise. Deconstructed, as this is an extension of his extremely low self-esteem which quite a few people call him out on.

* GuiltComplex: As a result of his MartyrWithoutACause tendencies, he tends to feel guilty when things go south even if he can't reasonably be blamed such as the annexation of Crossbell and North Ambria, which would have happened with or without him or Ash's assassination attempt of the Emperor thanks to the curse which he had no way to know about. Gets worse upon learning his biological father is [[EvilChancellor Osborne]] and begins to [[SinsOfTheFather feel responsible for the people affected by his actions]]. Comes to a head after he triggers the Great Twilight and has effectively resigned himself to die in order to atone for it despite having been NotHimself when he did it.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: He fights primarily in melee with his [[KatanasAreJustBetter tachi]] while many of his female love interests fight from afar, either exclusively ([[ArcaneArcher Alisa]], [[MagicStaff Emma, Alfin]], [[MageMarksman Towa, and Musse]]), or while mixed with melee ([[SwordAndGun Sara]], [[MixAndMatchWeapons Fie, and Juna]]).

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: He's definitely much taller than Towa despite being the younger of the two. Also this, though to a lesser extent with Alisa and Fie.
* HumbleHero: Repeatedly insists that he's not someone who deserves any praise.

** The end of the first Special Ops mission in ''Cold Steel III'' has Rean calling out his students for going against his orders and stealing military equipment and going AWOL just to follow Rean and his friends in fighting against Ouroboros. While Rean acknowledges his hypocrisy when his friends point out that they've also broken military rules (like at the climax of ''Cold Steel I'' where they engaged against a Panzer Soldat on foot), he's still right in that what new Class VII did is much worse (pointing out that if they were actual soldiers they would have been court-martialled at that point), and that as their instructor, he can't let it slide.

** When hearing how General Craig considered having his children escorted by tanks as a security measure, he can only sweatdrop at how overprotective he is despite his overprotective tendencies towards Elise.

* IaijutsuPractitioner: The fifth form of the Eight Leaves One Blade style, Morning Moon, involves this. Also featured prominently whenever Rean uses Arc Slash and Autumn Leaf Cutter.