History VisualNovel / WalkureRomanze

* SenpaiKohai:
** Even after they begin dating and working together as knight and begleiter, Celia and Takahiro keep up the senpai/kohai thing. However, it starts to bother her over time.
** Takahiro himself graduates from senpai to Takahiro-senpai to just Takahiro in Lisa's route.

* {{Keigo}}
** Takahiro's speech isn't exactly rude, but when he starts talking to Celia for the first time he corrects himself to speak more politely.
** Akane says her grandmother is difficult to please, but Takahiro makes a good impression on her by giving very polite and formal greeting.

* SenpaiKouhai

''Walkure Romanze'' received [[Anime/WalkureRomanze an anime]] in the fall 2013 season with significant changes in the details and resolution. For tropes pertaining to that adaptation, please visit that page. It also has the fandisk ''More&More'' which provides routes for three supporting characters and the fandisk ''Re;tell'' which provides some bonus content for the most popular of the seven heroines.

* TheMaidenNameDebate: While Takahiro manages to form a relationship with Noel or Celia regardless of the difference in class, it's still clear that he'd be marrying into their families rather than the other way around, assuming their families even accept such a marriage [[spoiler:and Noel's doesn't at first.]] At the end of the routes [[spoiler:he marries into the Ascot or Aintree families respectively.]]

* BadDreams: Takahiro has nightmares about his loss and Julianus' disappointment sometimes, especially if he's been thinking about jousting. [[spoiler:The day after a practice match with Celia, he instead dreams about how excited he was as a child to see a jousting match.]]

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Mizuno accepts that Julianus has a point when he says that only the best jousters should be allowed into the tournament. However, there are several issues with only focusing on the elite. First, it gives rookies no chance to show off their ability. Second, it excludes third year students from one last chance at participation, which they have a right to suspect given the emphasis on tradition. Third, it denies that anyone might simply want to joust because they enjoy it, turning it from a sport into a more bitter contest.

* CruelToBeKind: After Lisa is badly shaken following [[spoiler:Reina's injury and Fiona's betrayal]] she begins losing over and over against nobodies. Akane and Takahiro simply sit and watch since she brought this on herself and needs to learn from what's going on now. Afterwards, Takahiro goes and finally reconciles with her.]]

* DeathFromOverwork: He doesn't die, but Noel's father collapses from a heart attack mid argument due to a combination of a weak heart, working too many long hours recently and agitation over his daughter's jousting.

* {{Padding}}: Bertille's route devotes an abnormal amount of time to essentially meaningless training. Later, after the tournament failure, there's a long stretch of largely pointless harem hijinks with Alice and Bertille fighting over Takahiro including teaching Bertille to swim and a rather lengthy tennis match before we're suddenly back to jousting again.

* SarcasticDevotee: Anne and Emma spend most of their time making fun of her as providing real assistance. However, they obviously do care and are usually the ones to get upset when people are unpleasant to Bertille, who normally shrugs off insults without stooping to her opponent's level.

* SarcasticDevotee: Anne and Emma spend most of their time making fun of her as providing real assistance. However, they obviously do care and are usually the ones to get upset when people are unpleasant to Bertille, who normally shrugs off insults with stooping to her opponent's level.

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* SakuraGirl: Mio has long pink hair, a bright disposition and the character for Sakura in her name.

* SatelliteCharacter
** Reina is more defined by her relationships with Celia and Lisa than anything else. Without them, you just have a vaguely nice, fairly attractive third year girl with no particular goals, abilities or outstanding points.
** Fiona is Lisa's obnoxious, bratty friend and little else. If the story isn't focusing on Lisa directly then she simply vanishes from the story without a trace.
** Anne and Emma exist to be Bertille's fangirls. They don't appear separately or have anything to do apart from revolve around her even in the fandisk that gives them a little more personality.

* SecretlyWealthy: Takahiro assumes that Noel must be fairly wealthy if she's in the knight class, but she actually has an even bigger mansion than Celia, whose family is quite prominent. She's almost royalty. That said, this turns out to be status and not actual wealth. Her family is somewhat on the decline, though not to the extent that her family has any notable debts or anything.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Bertille is always beautiful, but when dressed up Takahiro is surprised that actually looks cute, which changes her image quite a bit.

** Reina really supports Lisa and Takahiro, as do Kyle and Akane. Mio and Ayako find the idea of him with Noel fascinating and pester him about it after he goes on a date with her early on. Mireille in particular seems to look forward to having Takahiro for an older brother.

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: In a manner of speaking, given that becoming a begleiter and becoming his knight's boyfriend always seem to be roughly the same thing for Takahiro. Noel requested Takahiro as her begleiter even though those like Kyle have better grades because she sees him take excellent care of his horse every morning and get excellent results out of it in exchange. Given that she lost in the first round of the tournament the year before because her horse wasn't being cared for properly, this quite impressed her. She directly compares the experience to LoveAtFirstSight.
* SkilledButNaive
** Lisa is talented, but her stubbornness and inability to depend on others makes it easy to see through her strategies.
*** [[spoiler:In Celia's route, Celia has some trouble with Noel but walks all over Lisa in the finals because she's always so predictable.]]
*** In her own route [[spoiler:she loses to the greatly inferior Reina because while skilled, she's unused to opponents at her own level and is unused to having to predict their actions, which makes her performance even worse.]]
** Akane's attacks are direct, powerful and accurate, but they're also too easy to read. If Takahiro devotes himself to defense, she's absolutely unable to score any points off of him. [[spoiler:During her rematch with Celia, she and Takahiro agree that she shouldn't even bother with any kind of tricky strategies since she's just so unsuited for them.]]
* SmugSmiler: Noel has multiple smug grinning trollfaces.
* SmugSnake: Fiona is awfully arrogant for someone with no abilities of her own. [[spoiler:She's actually been stealing Lisa's techniques, so she isn't actually that weak, but as everyone important points out that just makes her a bad copy of Lisa.]]

* StaticCharacter: Compared to some of the other characters like Lisa or Takahiro, Celia never really changes much because she already has a stable, positive personality as well as the proper attitude towards jousting and competition.
* TheStoic: Akane is always rather calm and serious, even when joking around. However, she tends to fangirl around Celia and turns into a motormouth when trying to confirm if Takahiro is really dating her. She gets embarrassed if anyone sees her doing anything girly or soft since she wants to be seen as calm and collected, which appears to be an attempt to contrast herself with her sister.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Bertille's armor mostly only covers her upper body, which from the perspective of weight and covering what is likely to actually be hit is rather efficient in a way... but it also leaves her thighs rather exposed for everyone to see, which the announcer comments on. One of her lackeys takes pride in how only Bertille can shamelessly wear such embarrassing armor.
* StudentCouncilPresident: Celia, among other exemplary traits, is the president of the student council and considers it natural to have the entire student body memorized.

* SugarAndIcePersonality
** Lisa isn't very social, so she tends to be quiet and rather aloof sometimes.
** According to his friends, Takahiro's emotions can be tricky to read, so they really want to see him go deredere just once. When he finally goes deredere, it's not for his girlfriend Noel. No, it's for her little sister and her sheer imouto aura.
** Akane isn't unfriendly, but she does tend to be slightly aloof from her friends because she won't ask for help and has oddly formal speech. When she and Takahiro inevitably start dating, she's pretty mushy, which is especially effective on Takahiro given her normal stoicism.

* SupremeChef: Bertille is an amazing cook, so she can't help laughing to herself when she hears that Takahiro's knight will be chosen by a cooking contest. After all, there's not much else she could hope to beat Celia or Noel at.
* SweetTooth: Akane likes cakes and whatnot, which normally wouldn't stand out. However, she freaks out when she realizes Takahiro and Lisa saw her buy one, considering her desire for normal sweet food to be disgraceful.
* TaughtByExperience: Takahiro makes an excellent begleiter because he knows how knights think and behave, having been one himself. If he takes up jousting again, his experience as a begleiter also improves his jousting.
* TheTease
** Noel is quite the tease, enjoying harassing girls and flirting with Takahiro equally. How serious she is is questionable: She does seem to like Takahiro, but assumes he's dating Mio and isn't one to steal other people's boyfriends. Further, she's pretty easy to tease herself, much to her annoyance.
** Alongside her normal trolling, Satsuki offers to 'help' Takahiro sleep with Akane.

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: [[spoiler:At the end of Noel's route, Mireille finally manages to stand up again because of course she does. Even though Noel lost, she was inspired by her courage to keep going even at a disadvantage.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Fiona is less evil in the fandisk, even going so far as to ask Takahiro to be Lisa's begleiter. Which kind of entirely contradicts her established personality but just go with it. The pair actually acts something like actual friends as well, something that wouldn't have been possible in the original.
* TragicDream: Mireille wanted to become a knight, but she lost the use of her legs.

* {{Troll}}: Fiona does her best to piss people off so she can start fights. Surprisingly enough, Bertille manages to absolutely shut down her attempts, frustrating her in return.
* {{Tsundere}}
** Though normally rather cool and polite, Lisa reacts poorly to Takahiro and is more hostile towards him. He's not really sure what the problem is since he didn't know who she was before her match with Akane and after it barely spoke two words to her. She also doesn't want to admit that she was worried about Mio after she was challenged to a duel. Takahiro isn't the greatest at picking up tsundere signals even though it kinda seems like she wants him to notice without her having to say it.
** In the fandisk both Bertille and Fiona move into tsundere territory: Bertille's pride is played up while Fiona is actually made into someone who wouldn't get punched in the face during every conversation she ever has.

* UnskilledButStrong
** Celia is not entirely unskilled, but she's capable of cruising along at the top with sheer speed and strength. People are very surprised to see her using feints and more complex tactics with Takahiro as her begleiter.
** This gets turned around in the tournament finals. [[spoiler:Lisa's brute strength approach and simple tactics leads to her getting flattened when she goes up against someone that's at her own level. This happens even in her own route because even if she has a begleiter, as a jouster she still lacks experience.]]

* TheWorfEffect: Akane is used as a sort of measuring stick. She's in the upper ranks of the A rank jousters and is thus someone that is often used to test the ability of those like Noel or Lisa.
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Akane hides that she has a cold during the tournament preliminaries. She still wins easily, though later she feels bad about not trusting Takahiro enough to tell him.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Mio's hair is bright pink and Lisa's is white. Most of the rest of the cast have various shades of brown or blond hair, though Anne and Emma are red and green.