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| 3 | [[folder:Kazuya Kujo]] |
| 4 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kujo_kazuya.png]] |
| 5 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyuIrino (Drama CD) and Creator/TakuyaEguchi (Anime) (Japanese), Creator/MattShipman (English) |
| 6 | |
| 7 | The main character of the story; a Japanese boy who left to study abroad to escape the shadow of his successful brothers. By some twist of fate, he becomes a messenger and companion to the most eccentric pupil in the school, Victorique. |
| 8 | ---- |
| 9 | %%* AlliterativeName |
| 10 | * AudienceSurrogate: Much like the audience, he doesn't have his own "Wellspring of Wisdom" so Victorique can explain how the fragments of chaos fit together to both parties. |
| 11 | * BadassBookworm: When the bookworm starts beating the shit out of an axe-murderer with a pair of brass knuckles, one might imagine that he's not to be trifled with. |
| 12 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He's kind and really patient with difficult people but, if you attack him, and you're not female, then he will demonstrate the skills he acquired as the third son of a imperial soldier. |
| 13 | %%* ButtMonkey |
| 14 | * ChastityCouple: Even after Victorique and him become a couple, they are never actually shown onscreen doing anything beyond HoldingHands. |
| 15 | * ClearMyName: He begs Victorique to help him when he is accused of murder. |
| 16 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He may look harmless and can seem a bit slow-witted, but just try to harm Victorique and he will kick your ass. |
| 17 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Brown hair and eyes. |
| 18 | * DeclarationOfProtection: He declares he will protect Victorique several times. The first time is during the Queen Berry event when he stands between her and a deranged gunman. It certainly makes an impact on her. |
| 19 | * TheDefroster: Victorique didn't know compassion nor love until she met Kujo whose kindness and warmth gradually melts Victorique's frozen heart and teaches her how to be loved and love in return. |
| 20 | * TheDulcineaEffect: Victorique, Avril, Anastasia, etc. If a girl is in trouble, it is a safe bet that he will help her. |
| 21 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: He is reunited with Victorique after 4 years of fighting in the World War II. They marry and open a detective agency together.]] |
| 22 | * HostageSituation: In Episode 22, [[spoiler:Grevil takes him as hostage to blackmail Victorique into obeying the Ministry of the Occult and sends him back to Japan]]. |
| 23 | * IGotBigger: In the DistantFinale, he has become notably taller [[spoiler: in the past 4 years]]. |
| 24 | * InSeriesNickname: "The Black/Dark Reaper" or "The Reaper Who Comes in Spring." |
| 25 | * InterchangeableAsianCultures: It takes quite a few of the citizens of Sauville more than one go to correctly identify Kazuya's country of origin. Luigi even nicknames him "Chinese". Hardly surprising, given the relative lack of international travel at the time. |
| 26 | * ItWasAGift: [[spoiler:Victorique gives him a ring for Christmas.]] |
| 27 | * LadyAndKnight: He is the Knight and Victorique is the Lady because he promised to protect her. Brian Roscoe even ''calls'' him Victorique's knight because he is so invested in her wellbeing. |
| 28 | * LastNameBasis: Everyone in the series, except his family, calls him by his last name. |
| 29 | * MistakenForMurderer: Kazuya gets arrested when he reports a murder he witnessed to Grevil, who thinks the way it supposedly happened was impossible, and therefore Kazuya is lying to cover it up. |
| 30 | * MistressAndServantBoy: Victorique claims that Kazuya is her servant, and has him deliver her sweets and mysteries, and also carry her luggage whenever she leaves her tower. |
| 31 | * MysteryMagnet: He can't go on as much as a shopping trip without stumbling into some secret crime ring or ghost-story con. Fortunately, his closest friend happens to be very bored and very good at solving mysteries. |
| 32 | %%* NeatFreak |
| 33 | * NewTransferStudent: Kazuya transfers to St. Marguerite Academy before the start of the series. It is during the spring, which leads to him being known as "Black Reaper" according to a local folk tale. |
| 34 | * NiceGuy: He's kind, polite and always ready to help anyone. |
| 35 | * ObliviousToLove: It takes him a while to notice Victorique's feelings for him and he ''never'' catches on to Avril's. |
| 36 | * OfficialCouple: He ultimately hooks up with Victorique [[spoiler: after the sequel series/ in the distant finale of the original series]]. |
| 37 | * OneHeadTaller: He's taller than Victorique by a full head, which contributes to her doll-like appearance when they are together. |
| 38 | * StarCrossedLovers: According to a prophecy, he and Victorique are joined at the heart but a catacylsm will separate them forever. [[spoiler:This is averted at the end.]] |
| 39 | * TaremeEyes: His downward facing eyes underscore his gentle personality, especially in contrast with the sharp eyed Victorique. |
| 40 | * TheWatson: He usually accompanies Victorique so he can ask questions and she can explains things to him. |
| 41 | * WouldntHitAGirl: So far demonstrates an admirable degree of restraint, even in the face of likely death. |
| 42 | [[/folder]] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | [[folder:Victorique de Blois]] |
| 45 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/victorique_de_blois.png]] |
| 46 | |
| 47 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwaSaito (Drama CD) and Creator/AoiYuuki (Anime) (Japanese), Creator/ApphiaYu (English) |
| 48 | |
| 49 | The heroine of the story. A mysterious girl who always stays reading books at the library and occasionally solves crime mysteries, which her older brother always takes the credit for. |
| 50 | ---- |
| 51 | * AfraidOfNeedles: When she caught a cold, the doctor needed to corner ''and'' sneak attack Victorique to give her a shot. |
| 52 | * AmateurSleuth: Victorique is a boarding school student and her family doesn't allow her to leave the campus. She gets bored easily so she engages in some free detective work as a way to kill time. Her brother usually ends up stealing all the credit, but Victorique doesn't care about it. |
| 53 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: Among other things, Victorique is able to use a revolver to hit a target the size of a box of cigarettes at several hundred meters from a speeding train despite never having picked one up in her life - all she needed was for Kujo to help her support it. |
| 54 | * BastardAngst: She is an illegitimate daughter of the de Blois family with a politically-troublesome mother, which is why she's spent most of her life imprisoned and isolated from the rest of society. [[spoiler:The truth behind her birth and living conditions turn out to be far [[ChildByRape darker and]] [[TykeBomb more complicated]] than she thought.]] |
| 55 | * BettyAndVeronica: Victorique is the Veronica to Avril's Betty because she is a mysterious and noble-yet-illegitimate girl who acts high and mighty. |
| 56 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: She's quite eccentric and socially-inept, but there's no one better at solving mysteries than her. |
| 57 | * CatchPhrase: |
| 58 | ** "I'm bored." |
| 59 | ** After figuring out a case, she usually says: "[[InsufferableGenius Allow me to share with you the truth which I've reconstructed using the pieces of chaos I've collected from the Fountain Of Wisdom.]]" |
| 60 | * ChastityCouple: Even after she and Kujo become a couple, they are never actually shown onscreen doing anything beyond HoldingHands. |
| 61 | * ChildByRape: [[spoiler:She's actually a TykeBomb the Marquis raped out of a stray superhuman. Whom he abandoned in a BedlamHouse [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness after she was born]].]] |
| 62 | * ClearTheirName: She goes to the Village of the Gray Wolves to prove her mother's innocence in the crime of killing a priest. |
| 63 | * CuteBookworm: Kujo often remarks that she looks like a doll, and she spends most of her time reading. For this reason, she is known locally as "the Golden Fairy of the Library". |
| 64 | * CuteClumsyGirl: Most of the scenes of her running will have her trip and fall on her face. Justified; high heels, petticoats and frilly dresses don't make running easy. |
| 65 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Lived in a small, dark cell for most of her life, was treated with zero affection, and even after being moved to nicer quarters, had her movements heavily restricted. |
| 66 | * DefrostingIceQueen: She starts quite cold and aloof but eventually warms up because of Kujo. |
| 67 | * DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: She's always holding a ceramic smoking pipe to complement her "smart detective" character. |
| 68 | %%* DitzyGenius |
| 69 | * DreadfulMusician: She absolutely ''cannot'' sing, ''at all.'' For example, when she sang in the bath, Kazuya thought that she was screaming in pain or fear. |
| 70 | * DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Has them in the flashbacks to [[spoiler: her days living with the de Blois family]]. |
| 71 | * DyeOrDie: [[spoiler:Her hair becomes white as a result of LockedIntoStrangeness. However, this comes in handy when the authorities of Sauville look for her through the description of a small blonde girl.]] |
| 72 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:She manages to escape from Sauville and be reunited with Kazuya at Japan after having to flee to the other end of the world alone in the middle of World War II while being a criminal refugee.]] |
| 73 | * ElegantGothicLolita: She dresses in Elegant Gothic Aristocrat style, with long Victorian dresses full of lace and frills, making her look like a life-size doll. |
| 74 | * {{Expy}}: a twofer: |
| 75 | ** First, of ''Manga/RozenMaiden'''s Shinku. The long blond hair, the ElegantGothicLolita dresses, the reserved, yet bossy attitude, the red dress she wears in the OP and the fact she is constantly compared to a doll makes it blatant obvious. Her mother is even voiced by Shinku's [[Creator/MiyukiSawashiro seiyuu]]. |
| 76 | ** Second of Literature/NeroWolfe: A brilliant mystery-solving detective who never leaves home, deducing everything from the evidence others bring to her. |
| 77 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible to Grevil's foolish when it comes to detective work. Grevil can't solve a single crime by himself, for which he always has Victorique do the job for him. |
| 78 | * GeniusSweetTooth: She's the smartest detective in all of Sauville and she happens to love sweets, but the two traits are never connected. |
| 79 | * GirlInTheTower: Back in her days living with the de Blois family, she was kept locked in a tower. She wryly acknowledges that she fits the "princess in a tower" archetype, but states that it doesn't suit her. Even in St. Marguerite Academy, she spends her time at the top of the library. |
| 80 | * GreatDetective: Victorique has all the observation and deductive reasoning skills of Literature/SherlockHolmes, combined with with the homebound-ness of Literature/NeroWolfe. |
| 81 | * GuileHeroine: She doesn't fight, so she relies on intellect and deduction to face any danger. |
| 82 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blonde, a lolita, and called "Golden Fairy of the Library", but the ''heart'' of gold is not initially apparent given her tsundere nature. |
| 83 | * HeroicBastard: She is the illegitimate daughter of the Marquis Albert de Blois and a Grey Wolf woman, who solves mysteries because she's bored. |
| 84 | * HimeCut: She is the (illegitimate) daughter of a noble family, and so she has blunt bangs, cheek-length sidelocks, and ankle-length straight hair to go with her ElegantGothicLolita dress. |
| 85 | * HollywoodToneDeaf: On the [[AudioAdaptation drama CD]], there are two versions of her ImageSong. One where Creator/AoiYuuki sings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcuOIyergeU as herself]], and one done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzEGTtZ1QOs in character]], which sounds ''slightly'' less good. |
| 86 | * IJustWantToBeFree: Everything about Victorique's existence has been according to her father's designs, so living on her own terms is her deepest desire. She's too cynical to believe it could happen at the start of the story, but Kujo's influence gives her hope. |
| 87 | * InSeriesNickname: "The Golden Fairy of the Library". |
| 88 | * InsufferableGenius: Victorique is always, always right, and don't you ever forget it. Her "wellspring of wisdom" will drown you in irrefutable proof. |
| 89 | %%If you insert a new point here, please alter the following line to refer to IG. |
| 90 | * InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:Victorique intends to stab her own throat so her evil father cannot use her as a strategic weapon in World War II. However, Grevil takes Kujo hostage to force Victorique to obey her father.]] |
| 91 | * {{Irony}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHnN0leFFfg There's a folk legend about "Monstre Charmant"]], clearly meant to be applicable to Victorique herself. Despite the name, our girl is a [[SarcasmMode monstrous]] cute little teenage girl in cute dresses, who has an endearing kindness underneath her wall of aloofness. |
| 92 | %%If you insert a new point here, please alter the previous line to refer to JA. |
| 93 | * ItAmusedMe: In Episode 13 when Kazuya says it should be OK for him to use the library lift, Victorique responds: "Seeing you huffing and puffing in agony, your out-of-shape thighs straining as you plod up and down the stairs for me... [[LargeHam Is one of my greatest pleasures!]]" |
| 94 | * ItWasAGift: She has a coin pendant that was given to her by her mother during their one and only meeting. [[spoiler:However, Victorique loses it when saving Kazuya from falling off a cliff. Later, to make up for the lost one, Kazuya gives her an identical pendant as a Christmas and birthday present.]] |
| 95 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's a good person, just extremely rude, bossy and unpleasant to be around. [[JustifiedTrope Justifiable]], given her [[NoSocialSkills lack of social skills]]. |
| 96 | * KidDetective: The best detective in all of Sauville, at the young age of 15. Being a Grey Wolf has a lot to do with it, and its not like she has anything else to do but read and practice deduction. |
| 97 | * LackOfEmpathy: The people who raised her assume Grey Wolves in general could not feel emotions, causing her no end of psychological hang-ups as she grew up. |
| 98 | * LadyAndKnight: She is the Lady, and Kazuya is the Knight because she relies on his protection/leg work while solving mysteries. |
| 99 | %%%* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Avril's light. |
| 100 | * LittleGirlsKickShins: She tends to kick or smack Kazuya in the shin if he defies her. |
| 101 | * LittleMissSnarker: She amuses herself by using her sharp tongue to mock those around her. |
| 102 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: To her mother Cordelia. After all the poor woman has been through, protecting her daughter is the only thing that keeps her going. She even calls Victorique her "soul". |
| 103 | * LockedIntoStrangeness: The light novels explain that [[spoiler:supernatural beings such as Grey Wolves usually die if they leave the old continent. Victorique is a mixed blood, so her blonde hair turned silver when she fled Sauville.]] |
| 104 | * LotsOfLuggage: She packs a lot of suitcases when she goes traveling. Besides changes of clothes, she brings food and even ''chairs'' just in case she could need them. Kujo often unloads some suitcases he deems unnecessary. |
| 105 | * MeaningfulName: Victorique is the french version of Victorica which means Victory. [[spoiler:The Marquis de Blois seems to want her to personify the purpose of leading Sauville to prosperity in every way.]] |
| 106 | * MistressAndServantBoy: She claims that Kazuya is her servant, and right from their first meeting she tells him to "dance" in exchange for information, and for her amusement. He also delivers sweets and mysteries to her. |
| 107 | * NervesOfSteel: You can have her at gunpoint and she won't even flinch. |
| 108 | %%* NonActionSnarker |
| 109 | * NoSmoking: In the anime version, she's just seen holding, and occasionally sucking on an ornate pipe, but never lighting it up, since the Japanese censorship laws forbid showing underaged characters smoking or drinking alcohol in public television series. |
| 110 | * NoSocialSkills: Victorique never really had a chance to develop them thanks to having been hidden away from society due to being a nobleman's illegitimate daughter, resulting in her characteristic bluntness and making such things as [[DullSurprise her attempts at]] [[NoblewomansLaugh polite laughter]] a... memorable experience for all present. |
| 111 | * OfficialCouple: She ultimately hooks up with Kazuya [[spoiler: after the sequel series]]. |
| 112 | * {{Ojou}}: She is the daughter of a noble family, always wears elegant dresses and has a dignified personality. However, her treatment at home wasn't the typical one. |
| 113 | * OlderThanSheLooks: In accordance with being a [[HumanSubspecies Grey Wolf]]. Other characters' recollections peg her age as being about fifteen, but she looks more like ten or twelve. Lampshaded in [[spoiler:the description put out by the authorities after she flees Sauville]], where [[spoiler:concerned citizens]] are asked to look for 'a fifteen-year-old who looks about ten'. |
| 114 | * ParentalAbandonment: For... complicated reasons. [[spoiler:Her father has her locked at the academy because he plans to use her as a weapon for the upcoming "second storm". Her mother was thrown away by her father after having [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness]]. Though she's still alive, and still cares about her daughter.]] |
| 115 | * PhlebotinumGirl: [[spoiler:A more mundane example. Her father intends to use Victorique's Grey Wolf intelligence as a strategic tool in World War II. He raised her imprisoned and isolated from all human contact for this purpose.]] |
| 116 | * PhoneInDetective: Due to the restrictions her family have placed on her movements, she often solves crimes based on descriptions of the circumstances given to her by Grevil and other witnesses. In fact, it's implied to be the exclusive method by which she helped out Grevil before Kazuya came along. |
| 117 | * PhotographicMemory: She can perfectly and easily memorize whatever she reads. |
| 118 | * PimpedOutDress: Her most common outfit is a frilly black dress with lace decorations and white petticoats. |
| 119 | * PingPongNaivete: Victorique is solving a complex crime with second-hand information one moment, and not knowing that one can get a carriage for hire the next. |
| 120 | * PrematurelyGreyHaired: [[spoiler:Victorique's blonde hair turns white near the end of the story as a result of crossing the Atlantic ocean. If she weren't a Greywolf half-breed, she would have had a more severe reaction to leaving the old continent.]] |
| 121 | * PropertyOfLove: Victorique claims Kujo belongs to her several times. He is her "heart", after all, so of course he belongs to her. |
| 122 | * {{Protectorate}}: To Kazuya and her mother, Cordelia, Victorique is someone who must be protected at all costs. |
| 123 | * RoyalBastard: Victorique is the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman and an exiled Grey Wolf woman. |
| 124 | * ShelteredAristocrat: A rather dark version. She was hidden away from society due to being a nobleman's illegitimate daughter and lived in a small, dark cell for most of her life. Even after she was sent off to school, she's under strict orders to never leave the campus and only in exceptional circumstances does she obtain permission from Grevil to leave. It's ''really'' no surprise that she's got NoSocialSkills. |
| 125 | * SherlockHomage: An undersocialized, snarky, InsufferableGenius BadassBookworm and a brilliant detective with a thinking pipe. She even spends time with a NiceGuy AudienceSurrogate who functions as her Watson. Unusually for the trope, she's a cute, petite teenage girl. |
| 126 | * SherlockScan: Victorique is very good at collecting fragments of chaos through quick glances, though her tendency to rely on second-hand information means that she lacks much of the corresponding HyperAwareness when she's on the scene herself. |
| 127 | * ShorterMeansSmarter: It's part of her Grey Wolf blood. Grey Wolves have short stature and are incredibly intelligent. |
| 128 | * SignificantBirthDate: She was born on Christmas Day. |
| 129 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She loves the kind, sincere and protective Kujo. |
| 130 | * SkippingSchool: Victorique never goes to class and chooses to stay at the library all day because being at a place with many people around makes her anxious. Besides, she's already a genius with nearly superhuman intelligence, so it's not like there's much she can learn at school anyway. |
| 131 | * SmokyVoice: In the light novels and manga, Victorique is an underaged smoker, and has a raspy voice as a result. |
| 132 | * SourOutsideSadInside: She took an arrogant and standoffish attitude as a way to cope with a highly isolated, affection-deprived childhood. |
| 133 | * StarCrossedLovers: According to a prophecy, her heart will remain forever connected to Kazuya but she will be permanently separated from him physically. [[spoiler:This is averted at the end.]] |
| 134 | * TheStoic: She's calm and straight-faced most of the time. She does have her NotSoStoic moments, of course. |
| 135 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: She looks identical to her mother, albeit clearly younger than her, with more baby fat in her face. |
| 136 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: She has a very cold and arrogant demeanor and is dismissive towards others due to not being used to social interaction. She only occasionally opens up to Kujo, being able to smile and be sweet to him. |
| 137 | * TinyTyrannicalGirl: She's really short but also incredibly bossy and demanding, always treating Kujo as her servant. |
| 138 | * TokenMiniMoe: She looks like a little girl in a cast of young teenagers and adults. |
| 139 | * TraumaButton: As it turns out, her bouts of extreme boredom are more than just annoying. [[spoiler:Lack of stimuli from the outside world reminds Victorique of her early years spent in a tower, an existence so tedious it shut her down emotionally.]] |
| 140 | * {{Tsundere}}: A more reserved variation. Victorique lacks the usual emotional outbursts and isn't directly as violent as other examples. She's still too abrasive and haughty to openly show affection. It's clear she does care about Kujo a lot, yet she refuses to admit she sees him as anything more than her personal servant. |
| 141 | * TsurimeEyes: Her sharp eyes reflect her arrogant and aloof personality. However, she occasionally slips into TaremeEyes in her most {{Moe}} moments. |
| 142 | * TykeBomb: [[spoiler:Born and raised as a strategic asset in preparation for World War II.]] |
| 143 | * UnlimitedWardrobe: You're unlikely to see Victorique in the same dress twice, save for the black one that she initially appears in. |
| 144 | * VocalDissonance: In the light novels and manga, her voice is likened to that of a husky-voiced older woman, quite unsuited for a doll-like little girl. Both the Drama CD and anime adaptations [[AvertedTrope avert]] this by giving her voices that better match her appearance. |
| 145 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Initially had a few problems with understanding the concept of love, mostly because everyone who raised her assumed Grey Wolves to be incapable of it. She starts to figure it out after meeting Kazuya. |
| 146 | * WiseBeyondHerYears: She's only fifteen, but she's more intelligent and skilled than most adults around her. |
| 147 | * WorthLivingFor: By the end of the series, Victorique finally fears death after being taught about love by Kujo [[spoiler:and Cordelia]]. |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Grevil de Blois]] |
| 151 | [[quoteright:193:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grevil_de_blois.png]] |
| 152 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (Drama CD) and Creator/HidenobuKiuchi (Anime) (Japanese), Adam Rowe (English) |
| 153 | |
| 154 | Grevil is an aristocrat who works for the local police and Victorique's older half-brother. |
| 155 | ---- |
| 156 | * AloofBigBrother: He and his sister Victorique aren't in very good terms, but he does care about her. |
| 157 | * AnimeHair: It's shaped like a drill. It's even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Victorique who says he's "the owner of the oddest hair in all Sauville" when he's first introduced. |
| 158 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: [[spoiler:The end of Episode 22 shows that he can get really nasty to further his daddy's plans.]] |
| 159 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: He is in love with his childhood friend Jacqueline, but the feeling isn't mutual. |
| 160 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure, he's generally an incompetent SmallNameBigEgo, but he's actually pretty good at the 'arresting' part of his job, [[spoiler:even [[ObfuscatingStupidity having to play dumb]] when required of him]]. |
| 161 | * DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: In the light novels and manga, he smokes a pipe identical to Victorique's. |
| 162 | * TheDragon: Though not apparent early on, [[spoiler:he plays along in his father's schemes, using his position within the police to further them. At times, this dances towards MyMasterRightOrWrong, however, and he gets decidedly lax in his duties when his father's not around.]] |
| 163 | * DumbBlond: He isn't exactly the brightest crayon in the box, that's for sure. |
| 164 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:Returns to his old hairstyle after fulfilling his debt to Victorique by helping her escape Sauville.]] |
| 165 | * FakeUltimateHero: The public thinks of him as the greatest detective in the country. That's his younger sister. Grevil is actually terribly incompetent for detective work. He always has to rely on Victorique to do the work for him. |
| 166 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to Victorique's responsible. He has his sister do his job for him and then takes the credit. |
| 167 | * FriendOnTheForce: More like Victorique's Older Half-Brother On The Force. |
| 168 | %%* GloryHound |
| 169 | * GreatDetective: Subverted. He's merely an UpperClassTwit who forced the local police to make him a detective and lacks any skills necessary for the job. His sister is the one who solves mysteries for him. |
| 170 | * HiddenDepths: He comes off as a self-centered idiot who cares for nothing but to improve his public image. Later on, he shows he does have some sense of honor and respect despite what his father forces him to do when it comes to Victorique. |
| 171 | * HopelessSuitor: The woman he loves is already married to someone else and [[ObliviousToLove oblivious to his feelings]]. [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy He doesn't care as long as she's happy, though.]] |
| 172 | * IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:At the end of Episode 22, he takes Kujo as hostage to blackmail Victorique into obeying the Ministry of the Occult]]. |
| 173 | * ImprobableHairstyle: He has gravity-defying drill hair. He mentions to Kazuya that it was Victorique's idea in exchange for her cooperation on a case, and was one of the reasons he doesn't like asking for her help directly. |
| 174 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He loves Jacqueline, but he knows she doesn't feel the same way, so he only wishes her to be happy. In the backstory, he asked Victorique's help to prove Jacqueline's innocence when she was wrongly accused of a crime and nearly ruined her marriage to another man. |
| 175 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He has plenty of flaws, but does care about his younger half-sister Victorique. |
| 176 | * KickTheDog: [[spoiler:The end of Episode 22 is basically one big puppy stomping fest for him. When Kujo comes to him for help after nearly being sent back to Japan, he takes him as hostage to blackmail Victorique into obeying the Ministry of the Occult. This is the first time he does something overtly villainous, showing how misplaced Kujo's trust in him is.]] |
| 177 | * LargeHam: That hair of his overacts enough enough as it is. In his first scene, he makes his presence known by loudly addressing Kujo, referring him to as a "little squirrel" and pretending that he doesn't notice Victorique. |
| 178 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: It usually isn't obvious, but he looks really nice when he lets his long hair down. |
| 179 | * ModernMajorGeneral: He has all the skills to be an excellent street policeman, but is absolutely useless as the chief inspector. Would also qualify for ThePeterPrinciple, except that his aristocratic privilege meant he bypassed going through the lower ranks by a wide margin. |
| 180 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: He's still not all that bright, but can put on a good show of playing dumb when necessary in an investigation. [[spoiler: Or pretending not to recognize his fugitive half-sister while also giving her advice to escape the country.]] |
| 181 | * PrincelyYoungMan: Unrepentantly a SpoiledBrat type, but he does have some good in him. He is also a sharp dresser. |
| 182 | * SherlockScan: Surprisingly, he occasionally has an eye for quite small details, as well as skill to develop plans involving them. Unfortunately, he's hopeless at actually putting together conclusions. |
| 183 | %%* SmallNameBigEgo |
| 184 | * StealingTheCredit: He always has Victorique solve the crime for him and then he makes it look like he solved it to further his own career. |
| 185 | * UpperClassTwit: He's a moron aristocrat who unfortunately has authority and used his power to get a job as a detective. |
| 186 | [[/folder]] |
| 187 | |
| 188 | [[folder:Avril Bradley]] |
| 189 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gosick_avril_890.jpg]] |
| 190 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokoKawakami (Drama CD) and Creator/NorikoShitaya (Anime) (Japanese), Creator/EricaMendez (English) |
| 191 | |
| 192 | A British transferee and classmate of Kazuya who loves the supernatural. |
| 193 | ---- |
| 194 | * AgentMulder: Unlike Victorique, she believes in all the myths. |
| 195 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: She doesn't really any look worse for the wear [[spoiler: after having been tied up and stuffed under some floorboards for a period of ''at least'' several days.]] |
| 196 | * BettyAndVeronica: Avril is the Betty to Victorique's Veronica because she is a friendly girl with an ordinary and peaceful heritage. |
| 197 | * BigEater: She's shown eating quite a bit [[spoiler: while recuperating in the nurse's office after having been tied up and held prisoner for a period of time]]. |
| 198 | * BoyishShortHair: Her haircut is roughly as short as Kazuya's, only messier. Cecile states to love it. She herself is not "boyish" so much as a SpiritedYoungLady. |
| 199 | * ButtMonkey: Between between being a HopelessSuitor to Kazuya and Victorique's tendency to bully her, nothing really tends to go Avril's way. Even in the epilogue [[spoiler: when she tries to send the two a message in a bottle, the ocean waves ends up pushing it back to her.]] |
| 200 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Doesn't take too kindly to the fact that Kazuya frequently hangs out with Victorique. |
| 201 | * TheDitz: She can be somewhat of an airhead. |
| 202 | * EmbarrassingNickname: Victorique refers to her as the "Farting Newt." |
| 203 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, which is set five years later in 1929, she's now shown sporting long hair.]] |
| 204 | * GenkiGirl: She has much more energy than the girl constantly laying around complaining of boredom. |
| 205 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has blond hair and is one of the sweetest characters in the cast, in contrast to Victorique's temper. |
| 206 | * HopelessSuitor: She quickly develops a crush on Kujo, but he's too focused on Victorique to even try to notice it. |
| 207 | * InnocentBigot: When she first meets Victorique, Avril is excited for her to live up to legends of the "demonic" Grey Wolves, and assumes Victorique can't speak French when the girl doesn't respond to her right away. This sparks a petty rivalry between them. |
| 208 | %%%%* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Victorique's dark. |
| 209 | * MessageInABottle: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, she is seen back in England after the war, and sends a letter in a bottle that she hopes will reach Kazuya and Victorique. But a wave sends the bottle right back to her, much to her exasperation.]] |
| 210 | * NewTransferStudent: She transfers to St. Marguerite Academy shortly after the series begns. She was absent for a while of it, though, [[spoiler: as she was tied up and impersonated by the Second Kuiaran]]. |
| 211 | %%* NightmareFetishist |
| 212 | * RescueRomance: Falls for Kazuya [[spoiler: after he rescues her from captivity]]. |
| 213 | * WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Her very existence is one for the fact that the "Avril" introduced earlier in the series is actually an impostor]]. |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Cecile Lafitte]] |
| 217 | [[quoteright:143:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cecile_lafitte.png]] |
| 218 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuiHorie (Drama CD) and Creator/YuiKano (Anime) (Japanese), Creator/KristenMcGuire (English) |
| 219 | |
| 220 | A teacher in St. Marguerite Academy and homeroom teacher for Kazuya and Avril. |
| 221 | ---- |
| 222 | * BadassTeacher: When she sees [[spoiler:Grevil]] after he had taken away Victorque, she holds him down to prevent him taking her away again. |
| 223 | * BespectacledCutie: A cute SenseiChan with large glasses. |
| 224 | * BlindWithoutEm: Can't see without her glasses. |
| 225 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Brown hair along matching brown eyes. |
| 226 | %%* CuteClumsyGirl |
| 227 | * GenkiGirl: She is ''very'' energetic, even more so than Avril. It is odd not to see her excited about something. |
| 228 | %%* OneOfTheKids |
| 229 | * SenseiChan: She's pretty cute, ditzy and can act more childish than her students. She would even probably look physically like another student if dressed in one of their uniforms. |
| 230 | %%* TaremeEyes |
| 231 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's terrified of ghosts and is prone to fainting in certain supernatural situations. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:Sophie]] |
| 235 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sophie_9.jpg]] |
| 236 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiakiTakahashi (Drama CD) and Creator/MichikoNeya (Anime) (Japanese), Creator/MorganGarrett (English) |
| 237 | |
| 238 | The housemistress of Saint Marguerite Academy's male dormitory. |
| 239 | ---- |
| 240 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: She isn't used to driving a motorcycle yet. Both Kujo and Cecile learnt it the hard way. |
| 241 | * {{Fangirl}}: Gushes about Queen Coco Rose, and super pysched to see a theather performance of her life. |
| 242 | %%* OneOfTheKids |
| 243 | %%* SupremeChef |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Brian Roscoe]] |
| 247 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gosick_brianroscoe_5178.jpg]] |
| 248 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToruOkawa (Japanese), Creator/RobertMcCollum (English) |
| 249 | |
| 250 | A famous magician who's had some encounters with Kujo. He has some kind of connection to Victorique's mother. |
| 251 | ---- |
| 252 | * AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In the anime, he is [[spoiler:a mixed blood Grey Wolf]], while in the light novel is a full-fledged one, which is a plot point given that it is the reason of [[spoiler:his death.]] |
| 253 | * BastardBastard: Born from the affair between [[spoiler:a Gray Wolf woman and a foreigner man]]. While not evil, he's still a morally ambiguous person and it's clear he doesn't care about anyone [[spoiler:but Cordelia]]. |
| 254 | * ConMan: His other job when he's not being a stage magician... and sometimes when he is, is running cons. |
| 255 | * CrazyJealousGuy: [[spoiler: They resent Victorique because she was Cordelia's object of devotion and reason for living. One of them even tries to kill her.]] |
| 256 | * DeclarationOfProtection: [[spoiler:They swear to protect Cordelia, but she only cares about Victorique.]] |
| 257 | * DoggedNiceGuy: [[spoiler:Was initially this to Cordelia, frequenting her stage show to see her and admire her. He didn't stop caring about her after the debacle with Alber du Bois, mind, but their relationship got a lot more complicated very quickly.]] |
| 258 | * EvilRedhead: More morally ambiguous than evil, but he isn't exactly a good guy. |
| 259 | * TheExile: [[spoiler:They were expelled from the Grey Wolf village for having non-Grey Wolf heritage.]] |
| 260 | * FalseFriend: [[spoiler: As loyal as they are to Cordelia, they have motives that can cause her harm, or at least, her daughter harm]]. |
| 261 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:One of them stays with Cordelia to help her take down de Blois and release Victorique from his grasp, which is pretty much a death sentence. Unfortunately the other one decides to try and kill Victorique.]] |
| 262 | * HopelessSuitor: [[spoiler:Cordelia is too focused on protecting her daughter to even think about romancing one of the Brians.]] |
| 263 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: [[spoiler:The Huge Guys to Cordelia's Tiny Girl becuse both of them are twice as tall as she is.]] |
| 264 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: He's really good-looking, even better with that red shoulder-length. |
| 265 | * LoveHungry: Brian at one point projects [[spoiler:Cordelia]] onto Victorique and he starts demanding for her love. |
| 266 | * MasterOfIllusion: He can pull off some ''really'' impressive stunts with carefully-applied [=1920s=] stage magic. |
| 267 | * OffscreenTeleportation: An accomplished expert of appearing many different places. [[spoiler:It helps that there's two of him.]] |
| 268 | * ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Their mother abandoned them and let them be exiled from the Grey Wolf village when they were children. They couldn't even conceptualise the notion of a loving mother before they met Cordelia.]] |
| 269 | * RedHeadedStepchild: [[spoiler:Their red hair is proof of their mixed blood. They were driven away from the Grey Wolf village because of it.]] |
| 270 | * TheResenter: [[spoiler:In his final moments, Brian admits to Victorique he resented her because she had the kind of mother he and his twin wished they had.]] |
| 271 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: The only character to have red hair and green eyes [[spoiler:which are proof of his Grey Wolf heritage]], which only makes him stand out all the more. |
| 272 | * SignificantNameOverlap: [[spoiler:Both twins are named Brian.]] |
| 273 | * SingleMindedTwins: [[spoiler:So much that you, the viewer, couldn't tell they are two separate people until both of them appeared side-by-side.]] |
| 274 | * StageMagician: He's a popular performing magician who wanders around Sauville. |
| 275 | * StreetPerformer: [[spoiler:After being abandoned by their mother,]] Brian performed on the streets for a living. |
| 276 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:One of the Roscoes stays behind and dies along side Cordelia shortly after she kills Albert.]] |
| 277 | * TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:In the year after Cordelia's kidnapping, the brothers went from a shy fan to talented magicians able to rescue Cordelia from an aslyum.]] |
| 278 | * TricksterTwins: [[spoiler:Shady, but mostly benign, magicians who are skilled in using their similaity to fool others.]] |
| 279 | * UnbalancedByRivalsKid: A heavily dramatic variation. [[spoiler:Brian despises Victorique because she's the ChildByRape of Cordelia. More than that, he's jealous of the maternal love Cordelia has for Victorique regardless of that for it made Cordelia unable to think about anything but her. Cordelia's relationship with Brian became extremely complicated as a result.]] |
| 280 | * UndyingLoyalty: To [[spoiler:Cordelia. They would have liked for her to forget about her daughter, yet helped her save Victorique to the very end, at the cost of their lives.]] |
| 281 | * UnscrupulousHero: Somewhat morally grey and [[spoiler:way too {{yandere}} for their own good]], but mostly on the side of the angels. |
| 282 | * {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:One of the twins tries to kill Victorique to 'eradicate Cordelia's sin', though he changes his mind after she saves his life.]] |
| 283 | [[/folder]] |
| 284 | |
| 285 | [[folder:Cordelia Gallo]] |
| 286 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gosick_cordelia_4232.jpg]] |
| 287 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (Japanese), Creator/ElizabethMaxwell (English) |
| 288 | |
| 289 | Victorique's mother, a Grey Wolf who was expelled from her [[HiddenElfVillage Hidden]] HumanSubspecies [[HiddenElfVillage Village]] after being falsely accused of murder. |
| 290 | ---- |
| 291 | * ActionMom: She's deeply devoted to her daughter, and near the end of the anime, she shows some potent WaifFu skills in sword fighting. |
| 292 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the anime, she demonstrates some impressive swordfighting skills [[spoiler:and actually kills Albert.]] This doesn't happen in the light novel. |
| 293 | * AlwaysWithYou: Cordelia says Victorique is her soul, for which a part of Cordelia will always remain with her daughter. |
| 294 | * BodyDouble: [[spoiler:Cordelia impersonates Victorique at Albert's ceremony in order to allow her to escape with one of the Roscoes.]] |
| 295 | * BrokenBird: Falsely accused of murder, exiled from her hometown, [[spoiler:kidnapped, raped and forcibly impregnated by Marquis Albert de Blois, separated from her beloved daughter the moment she was born and then thrown in a BedlamHouse.]] By now, the only thing that keeps her going is the desire to protect her daughter. |
| 296 | * DeclarationOfProtection: She declares her sole reason of living is to protect Victorique. |
| 297 | * DevotedToYou: Brian is completely devoted to her. [[spoiler: Both of them are, in fact.]] |
| 298 | * DualWielding: Cordelia fights with two blades. |
| 299 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:In the anime, she has an epic swordfight with de Blois before killing him, but unfortunately is killed soon after by one of de Blois' lackeys.]] |
| 300 | * ElegantGothicLolita: She's always seen in a black Victorian dress, similar to her daughter. |
| 301 | * TheExile: She was expelled from her village after being falsely accused of murder. |
| 302 | * FamilyEyeResemblance: All Grey Wolves have green eyes like her. |
| 303 | * GoodParents: Despite the circumstances behind Victorique's birth, which made it impossible for Cordelia to raise her, Cordelia loves her daughter more than anything and protecting her is her only wish. |
| 304 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She is kind-hearted, loving and loyal, especially towards her beloved daughter. |
| 305 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She loses her life killing Albert de Blois, finally freeing Victorique from the grasp of his evil hands.]] |
| 306 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: [[spoiler:The Tiny Girl to the Brians' Huge Guys; she is about waist-high to them.]] |
| 307 | * HumanSubspecies: A Grey Wolf. |
| 308 | * MamaBear: Her only wish is to protect her precious daughter Victorique, at the point of a sword, if necessary. |
| 309 | * MedicalRapeAndImpregnate: [[spoiler:After Marquis Albert de Blois realized she was a Grey Wolf, he kidnapped, raped and forcibly impregnated her to get a superhuman {{Tykebomb}} he could use as a tool in World War II.]] |
| 310 | * MistakenForMurderer: She was falsely accused of the murder of Elder Theodor. [[spoiler: The real culprit was Harminia.]] |
| 311 | * MumLooksLikeASister: She looks more like Victorique's twin sister than her mother. |
| 312 | * OlderThanSheLooks: She's Victorique's mother, but doesn't look any older than her. |
| 313 | * RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler:She finally gets back at Albert for forcing her to bear his child near the end of the story. She ruins the ceremony at which he was to be named Prime Minister of Sauville, sets the entire place on fire, and then stabs him to death.]] |
| 314 | * RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:She was kidnapped and raped by Marquis Albert de Blois so she could give birth to a {{Tykebomb}}.]] |
| 315 | * ScreamingBirth: A ''very'' justified example. [[spoiler:She was chained to a freezing-cold altar, flat on her back, with no visible assistance whilst a bunch of amateur mystics (including the rapist who'd given her the child in the first place) were performing a sinister ceremony on and around her. Frankly, it's a miracle that she and her child survived.]] |
| 316 | * SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:By the end of the series, Marquis Albert, the local MagnificentBastard, has outgambitted his rivals from the science academy, both the king and the country under firm control and [[PhlebotinumGirl Victorique]], his trump card, in his grasp. Then, Cordelia and Roscoe screw him all over.]] |
| 317 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:One of the Brian Roscoes finds her corpse and sits down next to her before he himself passes.]] |
| 318 | * TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:First she was exiled from her hometown after being falsely accused of murder when she was just 15 years old. She became a dancer in the Rose-Colored Life to earn a living. There Marquis Albert de Blois found her and realized that Cordelia Gallo was a stray superhuman suitable for breeding him a TykeBomb. He kidnapped her that very night, then [[RapeAsBackstory raped her]]. For months on end, as she was his prisoner for a solid year before the ScreamingBirth... which probably had something to do with having to squat out Albert's superbaby while chained to a stone altar and surrounded by scary guys in hooded robes. Afterwards, she sees her baby for ''maybe'' three seconds before passing out and waking up in a BedlamHouse because Albert [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness had no more use for her]]. Worst part? Even though her first love broke her out of the BedlamHouse, she picked up a severe case of BabiesMakeEverythingBetter at some point in the pregnancy and can't bring herself to get the hell out of [[{{Ruritania}} Sauville]] because that would mean leaving Victorique in Albert's sick hands. Her only bright(ish) spot is one of de Blois' men having a microsecond of regret at the whole thing and slipping her Victorique's picture.]] |
| 319 | %%* TsurimeEyes |
| 320 | * WaifFu: In Episode 23 [[spoiler:during her fight with de Blois]], Cordelia shows moves that would make [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] [[{{Pun}} green with envy]]. |
| 321 | * WalkingSpoiler: Basically everything about her is a spoiler for ''something''. |
| 322 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:After he'd had her provide him with a child, the Marquis de Blois dumped Cordelia in an asylum. Not, strictly speaking, a death sentence, but considering that this was the 1910s, close enough.]] |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | [[folder:Sergius]] |
| 326 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sergius.jpg]] |
| 327 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Katsunosuke Hori (Japanese), Creator/RBruceElliott (English) |
| 328 | |
| 329 | The current village elder of the Village of the Gray Wolves. |
| 330 | ---- |
| 331 | %%* BigOlEyebrows |
| 332 | * HumanSubspecies: A Grey Wolf. |
| 333 | %%* {{Seers}} |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder:Ambrose]] |
| 337 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ambrose_6.jpg]] |
| 338 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsushiAbe (Japanese), Creator/LucienDodge (English) |
| 339 | |
| 340 | An inhabitant of the Village of the Gray Wolves. He acts as Elder Sergius's assistant. |
| 341 | ---- |
| 342 | * HotLibrarian: [[spoiler:The Epilogue reveals that he has become one in Saubrème after leaving the Village together with the heroes.]] |
| 343 | * HumanSubspecies: A Grey Wolf. |
| 344 | * FamilyEyeResemblance: Like other Grey Wolves, has green eyes. |
| 345 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has the characteristic long blond hair of the Gray Wolves and a cute face. |
| 346 | [[/folder]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[folder:Harminia]] |
| 349 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harminia.jpg]] |
| 350 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HoukoKuwashima (Japanese), Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard (English) |
| 351 | |
| 352 | A chambermaid that works with the family of the leader of the Village of the Gray Wolves. |
| 353 | ---- |
| 354 | * DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:She falls to her death from the bridge leading to the Village of the Gray Wolves.]] |
| 355 | * EmptyEyes: Her eyes always are shineless, empathising how psychotic she is. |
| 356 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:She went crazy after receiving the prophecy that she would die at the age of 26.]] |
| 357 | * FamilyEyeResemblance: Like other Grey Wolves, has green eyes. |
| 358 | * HumanSubspecies: A Grey Wolf. |
| 359 | * HystericalWoman: She totally freaks out whenever she's reminded of the murder of Elder Theodore and/or Cordelia Gallo herself. |
| 360 | * {{Meido}}: She works as a chambermaid. |
| 361 | [[/folder]] |
| 362 | |
| 363 | [[folder:Luigi]] |
| 364 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luigi_6.jpg]] |
| 365 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Sayori Ishizuka (Japanese), Creator/BrittanyLauda (English) |
| 366 | |
| 367 | An orphan living in the streets of Saubreme who helps Kazuya in the case of the disappearances of young girls throughout the vicinity of Jeantan Department Store. |
| 368 | ---- |
| 369 | %%* AdorablyPrecociousChild |
| 370 | * TheArtfulDodger: He takes care of himself rather well despite being homeless. When [[spoiler:he's adopted]], he finds his new home way too comfortable for him, for which he likes to sneak out and hang around the streets again. |
| 371 | %%* BrattyHalfPint |
| 372 | * HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:After helping to solve the case, he is adopted by a well-off family.]] |
| 373 | %%* HeCleansUpNicely |
| 374 | * HyperAwareness: He once counted the money that fell out of Kazuya's pocket before it hit the floor. |
| 375 | * PhotographicMemory: Luigi has an amazing memory. |
| 376 | %%* ShorterMeansSmarter |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | [[folder:Jacqueline de Signore]] |
| 380 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jacquelinedesignore.jpg]] |
| 381 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatsukiYukino (Japanese), Creator/AnastasiaMunoz (English) |
| 382 | |
| 383 | Grevil's childhood friend who he is in love with and the wife of the current Superintendent-General of the Sauville Police. |
| 384 | ---- |
| 385 | * BeleagueredChildhoodFriend: Before her engagement to Superintendent-General Signore, she was framed for the murder of a veterinarian and this caused Grevil to resort to asking help to his younger sister Victorique, for an [[AnimeHair unusual price]]. |
| 386 | * GenkiGirl: She's very cheerful and in high spirits for someone of her age. |
| 387 | * ObliviousToLove: She has never realized Grevil's love for her, only thinking of him as a good friend. |
| 388 | * WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Calls Grevil out after he sends Kazuya back to Japan.]] |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:Leviathan the Alchemist]] |
| 392 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gosick_leviathan_4692.jpg]] |
| 393 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShowHayami (Japanese), Ray Hurd (English) |
| 394 | |
| 395 | An alchemist who kept the Sauvillean royalty in the palm of his hand when he was alive. |
| 396 | ---- |
| 397 | * BlackCloak: His entire body was always covered by a dark cloak to go with his mysterious wizard character. [[spoiler:He was actually hiding his dark skin because it would give away the fact he was African.]] |
| 398 | * ByronicHero: He was a highly charismatic, mysterious and intelligent man. [[spoiler:He manipulated royalty for the sake of his self-serving, yet noble goals to protect his homeland. As his task became more impossible, he lost himself and caused his own downfall.]] |
| 399 | * BirdsOfAFeather: [[spoiler: At the end of his book, he calls the reader "the twin of my soul", as if knowing that Victorique, or someone like her, would find it and agree with him. Indeed, Victorique refers to him as "my fellow monster".]] |
| 400 | * TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: He built for himself the mystique of an alchemist, and arranged events to make even royalty believe in his powers. Everything he did was a ploy to stop Sauville from exploiting his home country in Africa.]] |
| 401 | * ConMan: [[spoiler:All his 'alchemy' and everything he said about himself was a huge fraud. He was an African slave who used his wit and simple tricks to fool the king of Sauville into following his orders so he could protect his home country from slavery.]] |
| 402 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]], right up to the ambiguous relationship with the Queen ([[spoiler:later confirmed to be an affair]]) and gruesome demise. |
| 403 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:A morally-ambiguous example. Started off as a half-dead slave, ended up as the most powerful man in Sauville.]] |
| 404 | * HistoricalVillainUpgrade: A complicated case InUniverse. He [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope got pretty bad towards the end]], and [[spoiler:was never working in Sauville's best interests]], but was still a far more sympathetic figure than the Sauvillean stories about him imply. |
| 405 | * InLoveWithTheMark: [[spoiler:With 'mark' here used in the 'victim of a con' sense. He ended up falling for Queen Coco Rose, resulting in a particularly unfortunately-timed ChocolateBaby.]] |
| 406 | * InsufferableGenius: A master alchemist who is very sassy in his memoir, boasting to the reader that no matter who they are, they cannot solve his riddle; "Dost that frustrate thee?" |
| 407 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:He killed a rival's innocent son as a last, desperate attempt to keep Sauville believing in the power of alchemy. His memoir acknowledges this as his "greatest sin".]] |
| 408 | * MalevolentMaskedMan: He hid his face with a white theatrical mask. [[spoiler:He wasn't evil, but as he became more desperate, he did some terrible things towards the end of his life.]] |
| 409 | * ModernMajorGeneral: A very unusual mystic example. [[spoiler:He had zero alchemical ability, but may well have been a genuine prophet.]] |
| 410 | * MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Killing Ian in a desperate scheme to keep his con going haunted him until he died. He later regards it as his "greatest sin".]] |
| 411 | * PosthumousCharacter: By the time his mystery takes place, he's long dead. Through a book he left behind, he challenges Victorique to find out who he really was and what were his motives. |
| 412 | * ScaryBlackMan: [[spoiler:He was a black African man who posed as an ominous alchemist and eventually killed an innocent child for the sake of his goals. Though he had sympathetic motives; he was trying to protect his home country from slavery.]] |
| 413 | * TragicHero: [[spoiler:Started off with a noble purpose and relatively benign methods, but went further and further off the deep end as the impossibility of his self-imposed task became apparent.]] |
| 414 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He murdered the innocent Ian in a last desperate attempt to keep his con going. Leviathan did show regret afterwards, though.]] |
| 415 | [[/folder]] |
| 416 | |
| 417 | [[folder:Queen Coco Rose]] |
| 418 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/CocoRose_6112.jpg]] |
| 419 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AyaHisakawa (Japanese), Creator/LydiaMackay (English) |
| 420 | |
| 421 | The former queen of Sauville who was murdered in 1914. She supported Leviathan in his rise to power. |
| 422 | ---- |
| 423 | |
| 424 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She felt drawn to the dark and morally ambiguous Leviathan. [[spoiler:She ended up giving birth to his son.]] |
| 425 | * ArrangedMarriage: With King Rupert. Everyone in Sauville thinks it was a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage. [[spoiler:It wasn't and she had an affair with Leviathan.]] |
| 426 | * BodyDouble: [[spoiler:Coco switched places with her maidservant in a HeroicSacrifice on the latter's part after the birth of a ChocolateBaby. The maidservant was then murdered in her queen's place. Thinking he really killed Coco, King Rupert then hired the actress Nicole Lulu to impersonate the queen until he eventually had to kill her as part of the cover up.]] |
| 427 | * FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:The woman her husband killed was her maidservant, who sacrificed herself so Coco could escape with her baby. While [[GenkiGirl Nicole Lulu]] [[DeadPersonImpersonation took her identity as the Queen]], the real Coco began living a peaceful life as a commoner alongside her illegitimate son.]] |
| 428 | * FlowerMotifs: She is called the ''Blue Rose'', and she really liked Leviathan trick with blue roses. |
| 429 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's described as a beautiful, charming and innocent queen adored by all. [[spoiler: The real Coco Rose was a bit [[FakingTheDead more]] [[BodyDouble complicated]] than her fans believe, although still a good person at heart.]] |
| 430 | %%* HiddenDepths |
| 431 | * InnocentBlueEyes: Her blue eyes go with her innocent and pure image. |
| 432 | * InSeriesNickname: "The Blue Rose". |
| 433 | * NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Her story is vaguely inspired by UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette: a young, beautiful princess who [[ArrangedMarriage marries]] and moves to a faraway country, only to meet with a tragic end through decapitation. |
| 434 | * PosthumousCharacter: She was killed many years before the story takes place. Victorique is challenged by her father to solve Coco's bizarre murder mystery. [[spoiler:The women who played the queen's BodyDouble are indeed dead, but the real Coco turns out to still be alive.]] |
| 435 | * PrincessClassic: Pretty, charming and [[TheIngenue innocent]]...[[HiddenDepths apparently]]. |
| 436 | * SympatheticAdulterer: [[spoiler:She cheated on the king with Leviathan and gave birth to a ChocolateBaby, resulting in her husband murdering her maid and her replacement. However, all indicates Coco truly loved Leviathan while Rupert was just an ArrangedMarriage. After her maid sacrificed herself to save her from the king, Coco spends the rest of her life as a gentle mother to her son, showing she was indeed the kindhearted person the public thinks her to be despite her adultery.]] |
| 437 | [[/folder]] |
| 438 | |
| 439 | [[folder:Rupert de Gilet]] |
| 440 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rupertdegille.jpg]] |
| 441 | ->'''Voiced by''': Tomoyuki Shimura (Japanese), Creator/SonnyStrait (English) |
| 442 | |
| 443 | The reigning king of Sauville. |
| 444 | ---- |
| 445 | * ArrangedMarriage: With Coco Rose. Everyone in Sauville thinks it was a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage. [[spoiler:While he did love her, she had an affair with Leviathan.]] |
| 446 | * EmasculatedCuckold: [[spoiler:His wife Coco's ChocolateBaby exposed her affair with Leviathan to him. Discovering that his wife was unfaithful, with an African ex-slave of all people, caused Rupert to murder her in a jealous rage and covered the crime in order to maintain the public's illusion that Coco was a loyal wife who never loved anyone but him up to her death.]] |
| 447 | * IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:He killed his wife the Queen Coco (actually her maidservant) after he discovered she cheated on him.]] |
| 448 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:He's the murderer of his wife Coco Rose (actually her maid, but he doesn't know that) and Coco's replacement, Nicole Lulu. Victorique figures it out, but chooses to not expose Rupert's crimes because she was well-aware of how dangerous it would be for the entire country to know the king murdered their beloved queen and covered it up with another murder.]] |
| 449 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Was it 'Gilet' or 'Gilles'? |
| 450 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:He regrets (apparently) murdering his wife.]] |
| 451 | * PuppetKing: He's the ruler of Sauville, but has a weak personality and thus is powerless in the face of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. It's also the reason he relies on more cunning people around him like [[MalevolentMaskedMan Leviathan]], [[EvilChancellor Roger]] or the [[ManipulativeBastard Marquis de Blois]]. |
| 452 | * {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:After the birth of the Queen Coco's ChocolateBaby, the King went crazy and killed her. He didn't realize the woman he killed was Coco's maidservant while the real Coco escaped.]] |
| 453 | [[/folder]] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | [[folder:Jupiter Roger]] |
| 456 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jupiterroger.jpg]] |
| 457 | -> '''Voiced by''': Creator/UnshoIshizuka (Japanese), Creator/KentWilliams (English) |
| 458 | |
| 459 | The head of the science academy and the main political opposer of the Marquis the Blois. A very cunning politician who wants to prevent Sauville's involvement in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 460 | ---- |
| 461 | * ActualPacifist: [[spoiler:He tries to keep Sauville out of the war.]] |
| 462 | * TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:His vendetta with the Marquis de Blois results in plenty of hidden underground actions against each other. [[GambitPileup In the end]], Blois outgambits him. Although, after the Marquis' death, he returns to his former post.]] |
| 463 | %%* TheGoodChancellor |
| 464 | * HumanSubspecies: [[spoiler:He's also revealed to be a grey wolf, a fact he has to hide desperately, least the ministry of Occult, his political enemies could make good use of this information.]] |
| 465 | * HypercompetentSidekick: To the King. [[spoiler: The reason why he earned the king's favor in the first place was because he successfully found a way to cover up the murder of his wife.]] |
| 466 | * TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: King Rupert relies on him a great deal, and even after the Ministry of the Occult drives him out with slander, Rubert wants him to return to his post.]] |
| 467 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:He works for Sauville's wellbeing, but sometimes uses morally doubtful methods.]] |
| 468 | [[/folder]] |
| 469 | |
| 470 | [[folder:Albert, Marquis de Blois]] |
| 471 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gosick_marquis_2301.jpg]] |
| 472 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakayukiSugo (adult), Creator/RyoheiKimura (young) (Japanese), Creator/DavidWald (adult), Creator/DavidMatranga (young) (English) |
| 473 | |
| 474 | Grevil's and Victorique's father. A powerful noble in the kingdom, the Head of the Ministry of Occult (which opposes the science academy) and one of King Rupert's closer advisors. Roger's political enemy. |
| 475 | ---- |
| 476 | * AbusiveDad: Grevil is greatly intimidated by him and he has a nasty habit of locking his daughter in towers, away from human contact. He also refers to Victorique as a tool for extra points. |
| 477 | %%* ArchnemesisDad |
| 478 | * BadassBookworm: He is primarly a government official and royal advisor, but he ain't no slouch when it comes to swordfights. |
| 479 | * BigBad: He's the cause of Victorique's horrible childhood and imprisonment. As the story progresses, he starts giving his daughter more difficult challenges to prepare her for the 'second storm'. |
| 480 | * DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:He is jailed by the king in the light novel and killed by Cordelia in the anime.]] |
| 481 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Courtesy of Creator/TakayukiSugo,he has an appropriately sinister voice. |
| 482 | * HighClassGlass: Always seen wearing a monocle in his left eye. He's an intellectual nobleman, after all. |
| 483 | * IWasQuiteTheLooker: He was really handsome when he was a young man. |
| 484 | * ItIsDehumanizing: He refers to Victorique as "it" or "the little grey wolf" to underscore how little he thinks of her. He only refers to her as "my daughter" to stake ownership. |
| 485 | %%* {{Jerkass}} |
| 486 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:In the anime, he gets a well deserved one when Cordelia introduces him to the pointy end of a sword.]] |
| 487 | * KnightOfCerebus: When he appears, the series gets considerably darker. |
| 488 | * LackOfEmpathy: A selfish man indeed. He sees Victorique as a tool, Kazuya as a whetting stone to sharpen said tool, and Grevil as "salt", a means of preserving things, such as his precious tool. |
| 489 | * LightIsNotGood: In spite of wearing white clothes, being blond and having blue eyes, he is easily one of the most monstrous characters of the series. |
| 490 | * ManOfWealthAndTaste: It is hardly surprising, given his place in the Sauvillian aristocracy, that he has the means to keep a private dungeon for his own use, and wastes good wine for occult rituals. |
| 491 | %%* ManipulativeBastard |
| 492 | * ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Judging from the Episode 23 he harbors the same disturbing lust towards Victorique as he did for her mother, though he doesn't get the chance to act on it.]] |
| 493 | %%* WickedCultured |
| 494 | [[/folder]] |
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