| 1 | This page lists characters from the LightNovel series ''Literature/SupposeAKidFromTheLastDungeonBooniesMovedToAStarterTown'' and its adaptations. |
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| 3 | Beware of spoilers below. |
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| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 7 | ! Main Characters |
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| 9 | [[folder:Lloyd Belladonna]] |
| 10 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YumiriHanamori (Japanese), Creator/EricaSchroeder (English) |
| 11 | [[quoteright:294:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lloyd_belladonna_anime.png]] |
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| 13 | The main character, [[NormalFishInATinyPond an unremarkable fifteen-year-old boy from the strongest village in the world]]. |
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| 15 | * AccidentalPervert: |
| 16 | ** Lloyd has consistently walked in on Marie in compromising positions thanks to Alka's curse. Marie herself has never gone into PervertRevengeMode on him considering she knows he's innocent and all her rage is directed at Alka. The anime tones this down considerably, with only one instance when Marie is forcibly turned into a butterfly by Alka and returns to normal in the middle of the night. Before she can get over her rage and get dressed, Lloyd comes in to investigate with a candle in hand, sees Marie on the floor completely exposed, then proceeds to silently turn around like nothing happened. |
| 17 | ** When the girls visit Kunlun with him, Riho was given a dress made of Earth Spider webs that was given to her by the village, and she takes off everything, including ''underwear'' to sell them. He comes in offering late snacks until he sees Riho stark naked, prompting Phyllo to ''round-house kick him out the window'' and into the target mountain (the village's way of ''fast-traveling''). Look closely at his motion line and you see that she hit him hard enough to ''ricochet'' into the distance. This ends up affecting them, because they both barely look at each other in the eye in the next episode. |
| 18 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: Lloyd's character. Because of his lack of a reference point of how normal people do things he doesn't realize how grand his achievements are: Lloyd has prepared a curse removal spell to help in mundane tasks but when it's applied to Selen, her curse is removed, he clears a landslide away and makes it rain ending what was building into a war between nations due to alleged infrastructure sabotage (as shown in the manga/light novel), as well as clearing out the town of giant monsters but only thought he was squashing some bugs. |
| 19 | * AlmightyJanitor: Lloyd oftentimes willingly takes on entry-level, menial blue-collar jobs like being a part-time all-around worker for a luxurious hotel, then proceeds to do any and all of his duties ''superhumanly'' well. He single-handedly cleans a gigantic bathhouse in less than the time it takes for his superior to tell him what he needs to do in the first place, cleans the equally massive glass ceiling in a matter of seconds to the point that sunlight reflecting off the spotless surfaces can temporarily blind someone, and does all the ingredient prep for the dinner rush by himself with just one knife, who-knows-how-many blindingly fast and accurate cuts, and less than 5-minutes. As is often the case in this series, he's unaware of just how impressive any of these feats are. |
| 20 | * AnimalMotifs: Those that can sense Lloyd's power (like Riho and Chrome) see it as a White Tiger radiating from his body, ready to pounce at any moment. In Chinese mythology, they're oftentimes symbols of the "King of Beasts" and of overwhelming strength, which Lloyd has and then some. Ironically, he's almost never aggressive and prefers peaceful negotiations and kowtowing over the possibility of a fight breaking out. |
| 21 | * BadassAdorable: Lloyd is a sweet kid who happens to hail from a town of overpowered badasses. |
| 22 | * BlowYouAway: He is able to use wind magic, although he frequently messes up the incantations. That rarely matters, because he's so unbelievably powerful that they do a lot of damage anyway. |
| 23 | * BlueIsHeroic: His shirt and eyes are a bright blue and he's a a sweet, well-mannered young man who doesn't know his own strength. |
| 24 | * ClarkKentOutfit: His shirt hides the fact that he's actually incredibly muscular for his age, with six-pack abs and prominent biceps and chest muscles. |
| 25 | * ComicallyInvincibleHero: None of the monsters (or pests, as he calls them) or enemies pose real threat to him. The closest person who could even pose a threat to him is Phyllo, who only broke a rib (though it heals in three hours). As these are PlayedForLaughs, he is completely unaware that the enemies his friends face are a threat to them, but not to him. |
| 26 | * CluelessChickMagnet: He quickly draws the affections of numerous women through his cute face, kindness, and the wacky hijinks that come from his absurd strength. But Lloyd is completely oblivious to their feelings for him. |
| 27 | * DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Considers himself weak compared to the rest of the villagers in Kunlun, saying all he can do is cook, clean, and summon rain. But compared to the other characters, he's basically a superhuman, capable of wiping out monsters in one hit and dodging attacks with ease. He also gives off an intense BattleAura, which several of the normal characters can sense, and at first gives them pause when they first encounter him. |
| 28 | * FashionableAsymmetry: His tunic is parted at the bottom to show a blue web-like mesh on one side that otherwise breaks the symmetry of his outfit. |
| 29 | * FatalFlaw: Despite his abilities, he believes he isn't special while living in a village whose abilities exceed his in power, strength, and magic potential. His own abilities actually far surpasses ordinary towns whose populace had to learn their magic when his has destructive potential. The moment he hears the word "monster", he believes he has to try even harder than he has to even if he's strong enough (or stronger) to defeat a threat he can easily plow over. [[spoiler:This is one of the reasons Shoma inspired him to be a knight so that he can have self-confidence in himself]]. |
| 30 | * FingerPokeOfDoom: How Lloyd normally deals with monsters is a simple finger flick. This has been shown to even create shockwaves that kill multiple monsters simultaneously. |
| 31 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He has strawberry blonde hair and is the sweetest, most modest, and mild-mannered character in the story. |
| 32 | * HealingFactor: It takes him a day to recover after breaking every bone in his body, though he laments that most other people from Kunlun could do it in three hours. |
| 33 | * HeroicBuild: When Lloyd strips down to nothing on a visit to a hot spring, he reveals that he is ''jacked''. Despite his slender frame, his body is a perfectly-sculpted mass of muscle complete with a set of washboard abs. |
| 34 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: Constantly from Lloyd. Due to being the "weakest" member of his village he really thinks he is just a weak kid, unaware of the ungodly strength and speed he possesses compared to the people outside of his village; as what people consider monsters he thinks they are just beast or bugs. Anytime someone tries to tell him that he really is amazing and has accomplished great feats, he genuinely believes they are just saying that to cheer him up. |
| 35 | * IdenticalStranger: He's apparently a dead ringer for Alka's long-deceased brother Roy. |
| 36 | * IdiotHero: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Lloyd is by no means stupid but he does have a severe lack of common sense and even that is [[{{Justified|Trope}} justified]] as due to the exact nature of his village and where it's located at, his perceptions have been severely warped. He is, however, staggeringly oblivious to much of what is going on around him/other people's abilities/various things that people have repeatedly implied or outright said to him. You'd ''think'' that by the forth or fifth time someone pointed at a giant locust and screamed "ah! a monster!", he'd twig that ''maybe'' people in the capital had a different definition to him. |
| 37 | * IHaveYourWife: When he returns home from the tournament, sees that the place is a mess, and finds Marie's royal pin on the floor along with a ransom note, he rushes off with Allan to rescue her. However, the truth was that Phyllo (the "kidnapper") had only taken Alka's orb, Marie was in the bathroom due to Alka's curse, and the place was a mess because Marie's home is ''always'' a mess without him. |
| 38 | * IJustWantToBeBadass: Why he wants to become a soldier in the first place, as he sees them as brave and strong. Completely unaware he already has those traits. |
| 39 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: Lloyd has a humble nature, an unassuming personality, a deep sense of responsibility and a desire to help. It helps facilitate much of the humor, given that he is prone to {{understate|ment}} his own abilities or misunderstand the people and events around him. It's also how Alka describes him. |
| 40 | * InformedAttribute: We're told that the villagers at Lloyd's hometown regard him as the weakest of them all but to the outside world, he is a force of nature. Other than Alka, we don't get to compare them very much. |
| 41 | * IWasBeatenByAGirl: When challenged by Phyllo, he is worried about fighting her because one small girl in Kunlun once broke his arm with a single chop. |
| 42 | * LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: DownplayedTrope. After Marie turns back from being a butterfly, she's completely naked. Lloyd walks in on her in that state, takes one look, and then turns and walks away without saying a word. |
| 43 | * LightningBruiser: He's strong and tough enough to treat fire-breathing dragons as mere "lizards" and easily outpaces a locomotive. |
| 44 | * TheLoad: Brief flashes of Lloyd's past demonstrate that as the weakest person in Kunlun, he was unable to accomplish much without relying on other people. This is the reason for his overwhelming inferiority complex, and is why he becomes depressed when people call him useless or say he'll get in the way. |
| 45 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: After having one of his ribs broken, he treats it as if he accidentally bumped into someone. Due to his HealingFactor he notes that it will heal in about three hours. |
| 46 | * MeaningfulName: And yet at the same time an IronicName. His last name Belladona is a deadly poisonous plant from the Nightshade family. He is a very sweet kid whose appearance belies how powerful and/or dangerous he is plus [[SupremeChef as a chef]] he uses ingredients from the same family (tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant), and at the same time he isn't a PoisonousPerson. |
| 47 | * MenCantKeepHouse: Inverted. He's an amazing housekeeper and cook, keeping Marie's office in order for her. |
| 48 | * MistakenForGay: When Marie is confronted by a female friend who says that Lloyd came between her and her true love (i.e. ''Marie''), Marie leaps straight[[note]]past the lesbian in front of her[[/note]] to the conclusion that Lloyd is gay. |
| 49 | * MuggingTheMonster: A frequent occurrence for Lloyd considering how few people can recognize his overwhelming power. The low-level monsters of the capital oftentimes end up being swatted away like insects (which Lloyd thinks they are) while human opponents oftentimes have to be saved from ''very'' messy if impossibly swift deaths by the people in the know. |
| 50 | * NiceGuy: Lloyd is friendly and only wants to help people. He is unable to look away from any type of injustice, and is even willing to help someone by cooking, cleaning or doing other chores if that's what they need. |
| 51 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: Lloyd is just an average kid in a hometown that happens to be home to some of the most powerful warriors in the land. When compared to those outside, he's practically a demigod. |
| 52 | * ObliviousToLove: Despite how blatantly clear Selen makes her obsession with Lloyd known, Lloyd doesn't realize it. |
| 53 | * OffhandBackhand: When a giant monster bug attacks him while he's trying to read a job board, he casually backhands it into the distance while complaining that it's taking up all the sunlight. |
| 54 | * RaisedByTheCommunity: We never are told who his parents are, and he's mentioned that he was raised by the people in the village. |
| 55 | * ShipTease: Marie was shown to be attracted to Lloyd from the beginning, but after going on a short trip with him to help out the Azami kingdom, her feelings start to become more overt. In addition to swooning over his good looks, she is eager about the possibility of Lloyd living with her forever and becomes ''very'' excited when she thinks that Lloyd is trying to ask her out on a date. (He wasn't.) |
| 56 | * SkilledButNaive: He's absurdly strong relative to everyone else not from Kunlun, but is amazingly oblivious to how badly he outclasses everyone. The first thing Marie tells him to do is to learn some common sense. |
| 57 | * SpannerInTheWorks: He nearly single handedly stopped [[spoiler: Merthophan's]] plans to cause aggression and division to start a war simply because he left town to go shopping. When Marie revealed that all of his plans were thwarted by mere coincidence, his mind nearly snapped. |
| 58 | * StrongerThanTheyLook: A good chunk of the comedy comes from how anyone without the ability to sense his strength thinks Lloyd really is just a weak kid, his lack of confidence and unintimidating appearance not helping. The whole reason he failed the test of strength despite destroying the target was that he moved too fast to be seen and the judge didn't believe that Lloyd was the one who did it, thinking it was the much stronger-looking guy before that weakened it. |
| 59 | * SuperStrength: Lloyd is freakishly strong, able to defeat a tough insect monster with ''one'' kick, and then pick it up and toss it over the horizon. He also caught massive stones broken off from a building and shrugged them off into the distance like flicking off lint. |
| 60 | * SuperSpeed: Lloyd ran from his hometown to his new home across the continent in six days, easily outpacing steam locomotives and sending nearby wildlife flying from the wind in his wake. However, he doesn't find it impressive, because even his grandfather could have done it in only two. |
| 61 | * SupremeChef: Everyone comments how good Lloyd's cooking is, even his villagers comment on how they miss his cooking since he left. Along with his impeccable cleaning skills, he turns Chrome Molybdenum's cafeteria from a halfway-decent budget eatery popular with students to constantly having full-tables and ''very'' satisfied customers. |
| 62 | * ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Lloyd mistakenly believes this is the case in the Hotel Arc when Marie tells him that he must destroy [[spoiler:Demon Lord Elking's core]]. He is thrilled that he finally managed to beat his first monster (what the rest of the world calls demon lords), but believes it was only due to ThePowerOfFriendship. In reality, if Lloyd had been there sooner, he could have beaten it all by himself in seconds. |
| 63 | * TongueTied: Every time he tries to use a chant, he messes it up due to being so nervous. However, he is so powerful even his screwed-up spells do a lot of damage. |
| 64 | * TraumaButton: Telling Lloyd he's a burden or that he cannot accomplish something without help will usually make him depressed, because that was the case in Kunlun. His entire reason for joining the Azami military was to become dependable and stand on his own. |
| 65 | * UnwantedHarem: Before long, multiple women are all trying to gain Lloyd's affections, while he remains [[ObliviousToLove completely oblivious]] to their efforts. |
| 66 | * WalkOnWater: He can do both the stand on water and move fast enough that you won't sink variant, and thinks that both are simple tricks that anyone can do. |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | !! Lloyd's Friends |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [[folder:Marie]] |
| 72 | ->'''Voided by:''' Creator/AiKayano (Japanese), Creator/KrystalLaPorte (English) |
| 73 | [[quoteright:317:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marie_witch_of_east_end.png]] |
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| 75 | A young witch that lives by herself, making a living on the east side of the city selling potions and acting as an information broker. Alka sent Lloyd to live with her. [[spoiler: Her real name is Maria Azami, the missing princess of the Kingdom of Azami.]] |
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| 77 | * TheAlcoholic: Except for the anime which tones down a lot of the family-unfriendly content and the blackness of the comedy, Marie is a lush and a day-drinker. It's telling that during Lloyd's first duel with Lidcain, she's worried the latter's ''messy'' death would prevent her from ever enjoying Bloody Marys and Red Snappers, alcoholic drinks with tomato juice as an ingredient. |
| 78 | * BigGood: Sometimes a parody, sometimes played straight. Maria [[spoiler: is the missing princess]] and the most proactive and competent force for good in the setting, assembling allies and guiding the situation in the kingdom from the shadows to save it against Abaddon and his machinations. However she's also extremely neurotic and constantly stressed out, is constantly inconvenienced by babysitting a wild cast of crazy loose cannons, and is a ButtMonkey stuck a crapload of humiliating curses from Alka (who's unwillingness to take an actual BigGood role herself vs causing trouble causes Marie no shortage of grief) - so she barely has any more dignity in her lofty role than anyone else in the story does. |
| 79 | * BullyingADragon: Despite knowing full-well that Alka has the power to destroy the world with barely any effort and frequently having to stop her from doing just that, Marie almost never misses an opportunity to insult or express her exasperation at her former mentor. Granted, a good number of those times, she assumed Alka wouldn't hear her and she has a nasty habit of teleporting into Marie's home unannounced. |
| 80 | * ButtMonkey: A very, very common source of humor is to watch Marie's suffering and discomfort, usually at the hands of Alka. |
| 81 | * CassandraTruth: Lloyd categorically refuses to believe that she's [[spoiler:a princess]] no matter how many times she tells him. |
| 82 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: Alka went to considerable lengths to make sure that Marie never met Lloyd while she was studying ancient runes in Kunlun specifically to prevent this trope from happening. |
| 83 | * CruelToBeKind: She lashes out at Lloyd when he says he wants to help her with the issue she had regarding the king being controlled by someone and threatening to launch a war against a neighboring country. She did this because Alka warned her that if Lloyd was used in anything short of a demon lord appearing, she would immediately take him back to their village. [[spoiler:Fortunately for Marie, a demon lord just happened to be possessing the king, which then gave Alka a reason to fight on her behalf.]] |
| 84 | * ElementalPowers: In addition to the ancient rune she learned from Alka, Marie also has a number of other powerful spells. |
| 85 | ** BlowYouAway: One of her most prominent abilities is her wind magic, letting her create large tornadoes and vortices to move herself and passengers around quickly through the air or attack her opponents. |
| 86 | ** AnIcePerson: She can create large walls of ice to defend herself. |
| 87 | ** PlayingWithFire: She can summon fireballs that are hot enough to instantly melt ice and water into vapor, useful for making an improvised smokescreen. |
| 88 | * GuileHeroine: |
| 89 | ** While her magical power is nothing to sneeze at, Marie thrives when she's using information, her surroundings, and her enemies' weaknesses against them than simply overpowering them. A prime example of this is her spending the last 5 years as an information broker to [[spoiler:investigate her father's being possessed by a Demon King]] and during the fight with him, direct attacks prove ineffective so she makes an improvised smokescreen to open an avenue of attack. |
| 90 | ** Another example is how she "tricks" Lloyd into defeating [[spoiler:Demon Lord Abaddon, claiming that he's a drunken harasser covered in filth, and asking Lloyd to "clean" him up. Naturally, Lloyd uses his cloth empowered by the Disenchant rune, which purifies Abaddon out of the king immediately.]] |
| 91 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: She won't ''surrender'', but while Marie is no coward and is willing fight villains herself she also has absolutely no issues with running away from a fight she might not win to have Lloyd or Alka fight instead the instant it becomes an available option. Which, in comparion, is rather like backing off of a fistfight in order to drop a bomb instead. |
| 92 | * HairTriggerTemper: Marie always enters a fit of rage, mostly whenever Alka's around. |
| 93 | * IChooseToStay: After [[spoiler:the Demon King possessing her father is firmly banished back where he came from, Azami's King is back to being a benevolent monarch, and war is firmly off the table, Marie chooses not to return to her life as a princess]] and continues to be the Witch of the East, dealing in information and potions. It's heavily implied this is to continue watching over Lloyd both for the sake of the world and her growing fondness of him. |
| 94 | * TheLadette: In spite of her long hair, feminine appearance, and slight build, Marie has ''really'' let herself go from her former life as [[spoiler:the Princess of Azami]]. She can't keep her house clean, eats canned foods then begs for extras from the neighborhood wives as she can't cook, and in all but the anime, it's constantly pointed out that she consumes alcohol like water. One has to suppose those three years of learning under Alka had plenty to do with it. |
| 95 | * MenCantKeepHouse: Gender-inverted. Marie has ''absolutely no'' domestic skills whatsoever. Before Lloyd became a boarder at her place, she was content to live in a constant state of trash, eating preserved foods straight from the can, and begging for proper meals from the neighborhood wives when she inevitably gets sick of it. At one point Lloyd states that if he ever moved out, Marie would likely be dead in a week because of her inability to care for herself. Which Marie overhears, and then vows to ''never'' learn to care for herself so that Lloyd has to remain by her side for the rest of her life. |
| 96 | * MissingMom: Her mother has been missing for years and is officially dead. [[spoiler:She's actually an immortal like Alka, who panicked and fled after parenthood caused her to grasp the full implications of a MayflyDecemberRomance.]] |
| 97 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The neighborhood wives get ''very'' concerned when Marie suddenly stops crawling to their front doors in the evening to beg for food that ''wasn't'' from a can. They stop once they realize that Lloyd is now cooking for her, though that causes an [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend entirely different misunderstanding.]] |
| 98 | * OpenSecret: The only people in the main cast who don't know that [[spoiler:she's a princess]] are Lloyd and Micona. |
| 99 | * ReallyRoyaltyReveal: Marie is the [[spoiler: missing princess of the Azami kingdom.]] |
| 100 | * SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: |
| 101 | ** In all her years of learning how to use ancient runes from Alka, she has never once learned how to cook, clean, or do laundry, forcing her to rely on the kindness and goodwill of her neighbors or just learn how to live in a dump. The wives in her district make sure to cook extra in case Marie comes along begging with an empty plate in hand. |
| 102 | ** On a similar note, [[spoiler:as a former princess, she had much more important things to learn like politics, social graces, and how to manage her kingdom, so basic tasks like food, laundry, and cleaning were left to her servants.]] |
| 103 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: She is ''mortified'' when the neighborhood wives assume that Lloyd is her new live-in boyfriend, considering he cleans her house, cooks for her, and is an absolute sweetheart. |
| 104 | * ShelteredAristocrat: [[spoiler:As the former Princess of Azami, she had a servant for every want and need, so now that she's living alone, her house is a dump, she eats canned foods that don't need cooking, and goes around begging the neighborhood wives for food when she gets sick of it.]] |
| 105 | * StraightMan: She is usually the person reacting to the insane antics of Alka and Lloyd. |
| 106 | * WitchClassic: She wears the typical garb of a witch, including the conical hat. |
| 107 | [[/folder]] |
| 108 | |
| 109 | [[folder:Riho Flavin]] |
| 110 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MinamiTsuda (Japanese), Creator/ElizabethMaxwell (English) |
| 111 | [[quoteright:317:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/riho_flavin.png]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | A mercenary with a mechanical arm that seeks to join the Azami military to clear her criminal record and earn cash. |
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| 115 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: Riho sports a Hispanic skintone, with only Shoma being darker, though what ethnicity she is supposed to be is unknown, since she was in an orphange and fellow Orphan Rol doesn't have the same skintone. |
| 116 | * ArtificialLimb: Riho has a metal prosthetic to give her use of one of her disabled arms[[note]]She still has the arm so it is more like a support/brace than a true ArtificialLimb[[/note]] Though it's ''extremely'' powerful and useful as a weapon in its own right compared to the arm it is worn over and allows Riho to cast powerful magic, maintenance is expensive though since it's made of Mythril. |
| 117 | * ArtifactOfDoom: It supposedly drains the user and whoever touches it of their mana. Lloyd however is unaffected by this as he has so much mana he doesn't even notice the drain. |
| 118 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Riho's metal arm is made of Mythril and extremely well made, giving her incredible close-combat capabilities and magic besides, and [[spoiler:it was designed to pull up the Holy Sword]]. However, it's almost prohibitively expensive to maintain [[spoiler:and [[ManaDrain it drains her magic reserves and anyone who's misfortunate enough to touch it as well]]]]. |
| 119 | * BrokenPedestal: Riho really did admire Rol Calcife [[spoiler: before she starts her {{Frame Up}}s.]] |
| 120 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Choline rightfully had concerns about her loyalty to the Azami Army, considering that she's got a well-known record of betraying employers she doesn't like. Merthophan assures her, however, that they're paying her well enough and the promise of wiping her criminal record clean is just too valuable for her to risk losing. [[spoiler: Her criminal record [[FrameUp is fabricated]] by Rol Calcife.]] |
| 121 | * CombatPragmatist: Since she is somewhat more WeakButSkilled compared to her friends, she prefers to rely on these sorts of tactics and guile whether [[spoiler: hiding a magic stone to detonate in her arm]], faking a high level magic chant to psych out an opponent, or making use of Molotov cocktails. |
| 122 | * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: PlayedForLaughs. Riho tries to think up ways to get away from Lloyd who she thinks is wondering why she is taking a fighting stance. If she tells the truth, she gets beaten up. If she lies, she gets beaten up. And if she gets quiet, she gets beaten up. |
| 123 | * FrameUp: [[spoiler:Much of her criminal record is fabricated by her [[BrokenPedestal ex-childhood friend and benefactor Rol Calfife]], which is why Riho is so insistent to get it cleared with the military's help and her trust issues.]] |
| 124 | * HaremNanny: As the StraightMan amongst Lloyd's group of friends, she falls into this role by default, regularly struggling to keep the Lloyd-crazy girls around her in check so that they can finish more important tasks or missions. Although she herself develops a crush on him as well. |
| 125 | * HealingMagicIsTheHardest: Due to her arm and other skills, she's had a desire to learn healing magic, though she is constantly warned that she runs the risk of accidentally [[HarmfulHealing healing]] dirt or other foreign objects into the wound. In her duel with Rol, [[spoiler: she invokes this by healing a magic stone into it for a lightning attack, and had a delayed healing spell ready to heal up the wound quickly.]] |
| 126 | * HiredGuns: She was a mercenary before applying for the military academy. |
| 127 | * ManaDrain: [[spoiler:Her prosthetic arm constantly sucks out her mana and anyone she touches with it or is misfortunate enough to touch it.]] |
| 128 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: The only reason Riho had any interest in joining the army was to clean her criminal record and to make a lot of money in the process. It's also the promise of money that makes her interested in Lloyd and Selen. Becomes more sympathetic in that she wants the money to care for the orphanage she grew up in. |
| 129 | * RedBaron: The One-Armed Mercenary. |
| 130 | * TheRedMage: A powerful physical combatant due to her arm and capable of mid-level attack spells, rounding herself out by adding healing magic learned from Choline to the mix. |
| 131 | * ShipTease: On more than one occasion, she's indicated that while she ''does'' consider Lloyd as attractive as the rest of the female cast, she's not particularly interested in pursuing him. That doesn't stop her from blushing or getting flustered when he [[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn does something unintentionally romantic or sexy]]. She also blushes when one of the villagers ask if she is his girlfriend. |
| 132 | * StraightMan: She is well aware of how strong Lloyd is, and this (combined with her very pragmatic personality) results in comedic reactions when Lloyd, Selen, or another character does something insane. |
| 133 | * {{Stripperific}}: Her default outfit is shorts, a bra and an open jacket. |
| 134 | * ThemeNaming: Riboflavin ("Riho Flavin), more popularly known as vitamin B2. |
| 135 | * TomboyishPonytail: Fitting her rough and tumble mercenary personality. |
| 136 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:With Rol. Both her and Rol used to live in an orphanage together, and Riho lost her left arm. Rol would eventually grow up and use her own connections to help her in the meanwhile. However, she was eventually DrunkWithPower that the artificial arm she made for her that it saps Riho of her mana. Riho would try to get a job as a mercenary, but Rol would try to sabotage her efforts by framing her with crimes she didn’t commit. After Riho defeats her in the inter school tournament, she decides to give her a second chance after being hospitalized]]. |
| 137 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: Despite being a mature mercenary, she is actually only 16. |
| 138 | [[/folder]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | [[folder:Selen Hemein]] |
| 141 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MadokaAsahina (Japanese), Creator/AlexisTipton (English) |
| 142 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/selen_hemein.png]] |
| 143 | |
| 144 | A young rural noblewoman with a mysterious curse that forces her to wear a belt on her head. After Lloyd unwittingly removes the curse, she falls in love with him. [[{{Yandere}} Madly.]] |
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| 146 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Due to the {{curse}} that placed a belt on her face that could not be removed, Selen was treated very much like an outsider by her fellow nobles, including Allan. That begins to change when Lloyd comes into the picture and removes the belt. |
| 147 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Lloyd saving Selen might have sealed it but this is the main reason she fell in love with him, as he was the first person to just treat her as a normal girl. In the novel, he gave her food, cheered her up with stories, tried to help her do new things, and wasn't freaked out by her belt[[note]]Though he was under the impression that was some fashion fad[[/note]]. |
| 148 | * ClingyJealousGirl: She will threaten or outright attack any girl who even ''appears'' to be getting a bit too close to Lloyd. |
| 149 | * ClothingDamage: Invoked but then subverted. She allows [[spoiler:a possessed Merthophan]] to attack her on the basis that "the hero (Lloyd) will always appear to save the heroine (her)" and then tells [[spoiler:Merthophan]] merely to attack her to the point of "tasteful nudity" for the sake of being held in Lloyd's arms while partially nude. It doesn't work, because the belt protects her from any harm, forcing Riho to run off and find Lloyd on her own. |
| 150 | * CloudCuckoolander: Selen's obsession with Lloyd leads her to be ''extremely'' singleminded, and come to really stupid conclusions with [[InsaneTrollLogic no basis in reality]]. For example, when Choline shows everyone Lloyd's written exam with strange markings, Selen assumes that Lloyd is just an artistic genius (prompting Riho to call her an "idiot"). When her belt later saves her from injury, she concludes that Lloyd blessed it somehow. And when Lloyd himself interrupts her duel, she assumes that he has come to fight for her honor and that it must be fate. |
| 151 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: When she learns Riho's backstory of being falsely accused of various crimes, she takes sympathy with her because Selen is "falsely accused of stalking". Riho notes that the two things are not remotely similar. |
| 152 | * {{Curse}}: Selen's entire life was defined by the strange curse that kept an unremovable belt on her face. After it is removed, she's so happy that she bursts into tears. |
| 153 | * CursedWithAwesome: After being freed by the cursed belt, Selen wears it around her waist, as it and protects her from oncoming attacks. |
| 154 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She was a normal girl with a father who loved collecting oddities and curios. As any child would, she snuck into her father's collection and ended up with a cursed belt wrapped around her head which would not come off. At first, people felt pity for her tragic situation until the priests were unable to remove such a powerful cursed item, they started to become disgusted with her appearance and spread terrible stories about her, saddling her with the title "The Cursed Belt Princess." At the start of the story, her fellow nobles from the countryside despise her, as they believe she's why city people think they're a bunch of weirdos. |
| 155 | * DatePeepers: When Lloyd asks Riho on a (platonic) date, Selen becomes immensely jealous and watches them while hidden in a cloak. When Allan recognizes her, she beats him up and ditches him before resuming her peeping. |
| 156 | * DeathGlare: Selen is ''very'' violently protective of Lloyd and won't hesitate to give these out to anyone she feels is a threat. |
| 157 | * DefenceMechanismSuperpower: Her belt acts like this, protecting her from any physical attack. |
| 158 | * DespairEventHorizon: After meeting Lloyd, Selen has pangs of feelings for him but is ashamed of the cursed belt on her face. Later, she laments that she is no closer to removing her curse after years of effort and flashes back to her traumatic childhood. Distraught, she says that she will rip the belt off, even if her face gets torn off with it, only for the belt to come off instantly. She's so relieved that she falls to her knees in tears. |
| 159 | * DevotedToYou: After meeting Lloyd for the second time (after she realizes he cured her curse), Selen introduces herself saying, "Selen Hemein, truly and absolutely yours!". Twice. |
| 160 | * DynamicAkimbo: Selen confidently takes this pose after her belt defends her from Alka's magic, bragging about her belief that it binds her and Lloyd together. For added effect, she's even shot through HitlerCam. |
| 161 | * EmpathicWeapon: After it's freed from her head, her Cursed Belt reacts to both Selen's emotions and that of the people around her. It will automatically defend Selen when it senses ill-intent, although if an opponent is emotionless or indifferent (like Phyllo), it will not move until Selen explicitly orders it to protect her. It oftentimes acts as an extension to her hands and arms, carrying small items like her purse, setting dramatic scenes like holding up a flashlight over Selen to emphasize how despairing she is, or holding Lloyd's arms down so she can forcibly give him a lap pillow. Selen also sometimes treats it as a disobedient or poorly trained pet and doesn't hesitate to scold it or slap one of the ends in frustration; notably, the unaffected side reacts in panic, as if it's trying to get Selen to stop or watching in helpless horror. |
| 162 | ** It later becomes a TalkingWeapon [[spoiler: after Vitra inhabits it.]] |
| 163 | * ExpressiveHair: Her IdiotHair will express how she's feeling, as does her belt. |
| 164 | * HateAtFirstSight: Her typical attitude towards other women who she thinks may be getting too friendly with Lloyd. But she especially feels this way towards Alka, exchanging barbs and insults with each other when she sees the latter clinging onto Lloyd. |
| 165 | * HowDoIShotWeb: Takes her a bit before she understands how to control her belt like an extra set of arms rather than just relying on the belt reflexively defending her. |
| 166 | * ImportantHairCut: After finally getting the cursed belt off of her head, Selen gets a hair cut. |
| 167 | * InsaneTrollLogic: After she falls completely in love with Lloyd, Selen starts to believe that ''anything'' that happens is either a "sign" they're meant to be together, "proof" of his affection/love for her, or a "threat" that jeopardizes their relationship. |
| 168 | * LogicalWeakness: The defense mechanism of Selen's belt only protects her from malicious injury. If a person attacks her with no malice or strong emotion whatsoever, it will do nothing unless directed. She can also be harmed by indirect attacks, such as destroying part of a building so that the debris will crush her on its own. |
| 169 | * MadnessMantra: Selen has a habit of repeating "Lloyd-sama" ("Sir Lloyd" in English translation) when something brings Lloyd to her attention or prevents her from being with him. |
| 170 | * PowersDoTheFighting: If fighting someone with intent to harm her, or whom Selen has deemed an enemy, the belt will do all of the attacking and defending on its own. Selen loves to flaunt this fact, as she regards it as symbolic of her and Lloyd's "love" and thus has complete faith in it (which can often prove costly). |
| 171 | * RescueRomance: Selen is clearly drawn to Lloyd after he manages to save her life from an insect monster. But, after she finds out that he cured her lifelong curse, too, she falls head-over-heels. |
| 172 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: Selen is smitten with Lloyd because she was told years ago that "[[ExactWords strength would lift [her] curse]]". Thus, she spent years becoming stronger in the hopes that she'd someday be able to cure herself, only to be rescued by Lloyd, who proves himself "strong" by easily defeating a giant bug and tossing it like trash. When the curse is later lifted, Selen assumes that the curse was lifted ''because'' Lloyd was strong, unaware that Lloyd had a magic cloth that can dispel curses. Granted, she was already so smitten with Lloyd and happy to be free of the curse that she likely wouldn't have cared ''what'' the true reason was. |
| 173 | * SeriousBusiness: ''Anything'' involving Lloyd. No matter what else is going on, Selen will tunnel vision on Lloyd and anything she feels helps or threatens their "destined love". For instance, when she and Riho go to Marie for help finding the princess, Selen becomes helplessly distracted by the fact that Lloyd and Marie live together, not even bothering to ask about said princess until the exact nature of Marie and Lloyd's relationship is cleared up. She's even willing to outright ''murder'' a prospective fiance arranged by her father, with the full belief that the heavens will forgive her for removing an obstacle between her and marrying Lloyd instead. |
| 174 | * ShelteredAristocrat: She was so sheltered that she didn't know how to use the money to buy food at a stall or know how to cook rice, forced to eat it dry. |
| 175 | * SitcomArchNemesis: She develops a hostile rivalry with Alka, who is equally-obsessed with Lloyd. Upon first meeting, the two women are [[HateAtFirstSight immediately suspicious]] of each other, and Alka repeatedly tries to curse Selen, only to be thwarted by the belt. |
| 176 | * SkewedPriorities: The ''only'' thing Selen cares about is Lloyd. She will often remain completely oblivious or obtuse to other subjects or conclusions, and only understand them in relation to how they affect her relationship with Lloyd. |
| 177 | * StalkingIsLove: She is Lloyd's #1 stalker, and acknowledges that she has been "falsely accused" of stalking multiple times in recent days. |
| 178 | * ThemeNaming: Selenium ("Selen"), a chemical element, and Hemin ("Heimein"), an iron-containing porphyrin that can be found in humans blood. |
| 179 | * TheoryTunnelvision: Selen believes that Lloyd's love for her unlocked the cursed belt that covered her face all her life. From there, she also assumes that love is the man she's destined to spend her life with and, when the belt turns out to also be a magical artifact that protects her from any harm, that it has been blessed and thus represents the strength of their destined love. Whenever evidence or a person contradicts any level of this logic, Selen will either dismiss it, [[MovingTheGoalposts add a new insane theory]], or just flat out [[{{Yandere}} murder/destroy]] whatever's causing the contradiction. |
| 180 | * ThousandYardStare: |
| 181 | ** When Lloyd is nowhere to be seen in the first military academy class, Selen's mind breaks and she merely stares off into the distances chanting [[MadnessMantra "Lloyd-sama"]] ([[MadnessMantra "I need him"]] in the dub) over and over. |
| 182 | ** She sports another when she finds out that Lloyd lives with Marie, assuming that they must be married or at least lovers. |
| 183 | ** She has it yet again during the Hotel Arc, first when she's forced by her father to go to a marriage interview when she wanted to use the consecutive holidays for a hot-spring date alone with Lloyd, and next during the interview itself when she plans to [[{{Yandere}} murder]] Allan for daring to "stain" her history and make it difficult to eventually marry Lloyd. |
| 184 | ** And yet another one during the Hotel Arc when stumbles across Kikyou giving Lloyd a massage (while reaching into his crotch). She attempts to murder Kikyou while spouting a cold, dead expression. |
| 185 | * UnusualEuphemism: After Lloyd accidentally exposes himself in a mixed open-air hot spring, Selen refers to his penis as "Sir Lloyd's Sir Lloyd." |
| 186 | * WallCrawl: While [[DatePeepers peeping on Lloyd and Riho's date]], Selen crawls around, making Allan at first mistake her for a "cockroach" before recognizing who she is. She then beats him up and skitters away by ''crawling along the wall'' and into the restaurant where Lloyd and Riho are. |
| 187 | * {{Yandere}}: |
| 188 | ** When Riho meets Lloyd in the anime, Selen slams her out of the way, which causes a Riho-shaped ImpactSilhouette in a stone statue's base, and then demands to know who she is while giving a DeathGlare. |
| 189 | ** When she finds out Lloyd and Marie live together, and Lloyd introduces her to Marie as a "friend", she sports yet another DeathGlare (complete with SlasherSmile) that scares the crap out of Marie. |
| 190 | ** After her father takes her to a fancy hotel in a luxurious forest area, she plans to outright ''murder'' her potential marriage partner for being a serious threat to her marrying Lloyd. She devises and almost acts on a concrete plan to stab the poor guy in the heart and throat with her utensils, after using her belt to grab onto the chandelier and whirl herself around it to build up momentum then launch herself at him as he steps in through the door. Thankfully, [[spoiler:Lloyd comes in as an emergency substitute and Selen ends up stabbing the table instead.]] |
| 191 | ** When she finds Kikyou giving Lloyd a massage and [[ItMakesSenseInContext reaching into his pants]], she tries to murder Kikyou right then and there without any further words or hesitation. |
| 192 | [[/folder]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | |
| 195 | ! The Officers Academy of the Azami Army |
| 196 | |
| 197 | The students and staff of the military school that Lloyd and much of the cast attend. |
| 198 | |
| 199 | !! Students |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Allan Twein Lidcain]] |
| 202 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SeiichiroYamashita (Japanese), Creator/BillyKametz (English) |
| 203 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/allan_toin_lidocaine.png]] |
| 204 | An Azami nobleman from the countryside. He's famous for his numerous victories in tournaments and joined to become a proud and decorated officer of the military. |
| 205 | ---- |
| 206 | * ButtMonkey: Due to his rigid personality and famed physical toughness, Allan is repeatedly subjected to humiliating beatings either for butting in other peoples' business or because they need a guinea pig to test abilities on. |
| 207 | * DirtyCoward: For all his pride and confidence in the controlled space of a dueling arena, he cowers in the face of actual monsters to the point where he can't move his legs. Fortunately, Lloyd helps him step up to the plate in a crisis and he quickly learns he ''can'' go toe-to-toe with monsters and be the heroic officer he wants to be. |
| 208 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He is ''shocked'' when Merthophan tells him to attack Lloyd (a civilian) for a street duel and even offers to give Lloyd a free first blow. Fortunately for him, the duel is interrupted before Lloyd can punch his head clean off. |
| 209 | * FakeUltimateHero: After defending the capital from monsters and then (appearing) to defeat a giant snake monster, and collapse the dungeon it was using as a lair, Allan is revered by the king and his fellow cadets as the "model soldier" for all to emulate. He continuously tries to explain that he doesn't deserve any credit, but no one listens. |
| 210 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although he frequently bullies Selen for her curse, he does care deeply for all life, as evident when [[spoiler:he becomes Lloyd's first disciple]]. |
| 211 | * LightningBruiser: He was able to close the distance and launch an attack against Selen before she could react, only protected by her belt blocking the attack. |
| 212 | * MadeOfIron: He's an incredibly strong combatant and infamously resilient, overpowering and/or outlasting his enemies in tournaments. The only time people worry he's going to get hurt or killed is when he offers Lloyd a free, full-power punch to his face, not knowing that that will kill him instantly and ''messily.'' |
| 213 | * MuggingTheMonster: As often happens in this series, he does this to Lloyd after he steps in to stop a fight between Allan and Selen, and Merthophan and Choline force him into a duel with him for their ulterior motives. |
| 214 | * ThemeNaming: Two parts: Allantoin ("Allan Twein"), a common ingredient in cosmetic products topical skin anti-irritants for diaper rashes and radiation burns; and Lidocaine ("Lidcain"), a local anesthetic. Both are fitting names for someone who's famously durable and resilient against abuse, though he still feels ''plenty'' of pain. |
| 215 | * TookALevelInBadass: Though he was already a formidable warrior this was exclusively against ''human'' opponents. Monsters terrify him to the point of paralysis until Lloyd helps him snap out of his fear and he proceeds to wipe the floor with them, as well. |
| 216 | * TookALevelInKindness: After Lloyd [[spoiler:inspires him to fight monsters and become the heroic officer he wants to be]], he becomes much less antagonistic of him and even begins to idolize him and become Lloyd's first (self-proclaimed) disciple. |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Micona Zol]] |
| 220 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NatsumiFujiwara (Japanese), Creator/DawnMBennett (English) |
| 221 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/m28329.png]] |
| 222 | A second-year upperclassman at the Academy, with an extreme vendetta against Lloyd. |
| 223 | ---- |
| 224 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: She's a close friend of Marie who has strong feelings for her, and is jealous of the close relationship Marie has with Lloyd. |
| 225 | * ButchLesbian: She has BoyishShortHair, is physically aggressive, and has an intense crush on Marie. |
| 226 | * ClosetGay: She keeps her feelings for Marie a secret, even refusing to tell Marie herself. |
| 227 | * FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Goes after Lloyd after what happened in their duel, taking on the power of both Elking and Abaddon.]] |
| 228 | * GreenEyedMonster: She is extremely jealous of Lloyd, seeking to show him up at every turn in order to win Marie's affections. |
| 229 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: When Marie stumbles across her [[spoiler:within a dungeon, Micona decides to use her as bait to draw out Lloyd. However, it becomes increasingly clear that she doesn't actually care if Lloyd stops her -- she just wanted an excuse to molest Marie.]] |
| 230 | * LovecraftianSuperpower: [[spoiler: Her Demon King powers burst from her body covered in blood.]] |
| 231 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: She [[spoiler:ingests two different types of demon lord seedlings to gain enough power to kill Lloyd]]. |
| 232 | * MistakenForGay: Inverted. Micona is a ClosetGay, and when she rants to Marie that she wants to kill Lloyd for stealing "her love", Marie excitedly envisions [[GuyOnGuyIsHot Lloyd romantically involved with a man]]. |
| 233 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Her over-the-top entrance scene at the stadium in ep.5 gives off this effect. |
| 234 | * TheResenter: She hates Lloyd for stealing Marie's affections, and tries to kill him. |
| 235 | * SingleTargetSexuality: She's obsessed with Marie. Riho takes advantage of this during the fight at the stadium [[spoiler:to get her to escape the golem by showing her the Earth Spider silk underclothes and claiming they are Marie's]]. |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | !! Teachers |
| 239 | [[folder:Colonel Merthophan]] |
| 240 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatoshiHino (Japanese), Creator/DougErholtz (English) |
| 241 | |
| 242 | A high-ranking officer within Azami's military, hoping to recruit skilled soldiers for the war that's threatening to break out with the Ziou Empire. |
| 243 | ---- |
| 244 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:A Demon King ends up taking advantage of his anger at the Ziou Empire to bring the Azami Empire to war, going so far as to commit numerous false-flag operations on his own country.]] |
| 245 | * {{Catchphrase}}: "It's for this country's peace." He uses it to justify his somewhat questionable recruitment choices like Riho (a known criminal and serial backstabber) and [[spoiler:his heinous actions trying to stir up war with the Ziou Empire.]] |
| 246 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Living in Kunlun and dedicating his life to agriculture not only buffed Merthophan considerably, but also gave him a massive boost in fighting ability. However, as noted by Shoma, his abilities are still limited by the fact that he was born an ordinary person, and does not possess the SuperpowerfulGenetics of a native Kunlun resident. |
| 247 | * TheComicallySerious: Much of the humor involving Merthophan has him outwardly behaving or posturing like a professional soldier, while doing or saying completely insane things. For example, ''angrily'' ordering that Allan fight Lloyd despite the former correctly pointing out that a soldier fighting a civilian is against the rules. For bonus points, that particular instance gets Choline to do exactly the same thing ''twice'' a moment later, once by imitating Merthophan and then doing it herself after she's told who Lloyd is. |
| 248 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He wanted to join the army as a soldier after his village was raided by the Ziou Empire during a famine and the people would have starved to death if not for some kind strangers offering them enough wheat to survive till the next harvest. The kingdom's lack of a response due to its lack of military might drive him to strengthen it by whatever means necessary. [[spoiler:He needs a strong army to seek vengeance on the Ziou Empire, after all.]] |
| 249 | * FollowingInTheirRescuersFootsteps: When Merthophan is reassigned to Kunlun following [[spoiler:the attack by Demon Lord Abaddon]], he is at first dispeased by it until he finds out that Kunlun's people were the ones who saved him and his fellow villagers from starvation as a child. After that, he happily helps out there and the next time we see him, he has completely [[GoingNative gone native]]. |
| 250 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: When Choline asks him about why he's so determined to recruit as many strong cadets as possible, he grimly says that war with the Ziou Empire is on the horizon. [[spoiler:He's helping engineer false flag operations to justify it in the eyes of the people as well as the crown, so of ''course'' he'd be certain about that.]] |
| 251 | * FriendOnTheForce: Before she joined the military herself, Merthophan and Riho were acquainted; in fact, it was ''he'' who invited her to try out. |
| 252 | * GoingNative: After being reassigned to Kunlun, he takes to life there very well. The next time we see him, he's packed on a ton of muscle and is working while dressed in nothing but a loincloth. |
| 253 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a faint but noticeable scar under his right eye (left side of the audience). It's presumably from an injury sustained in combat. |
| 254 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
| 255 | ** Merthophan always admonishes soldiers to never raise up their arms against the civilians they protect, but when Lloyd is volunteered to fight Allan on Selen's behalf, Merthophan immediately and ''strongly'' demands that the two fight so that he can see Lloyd's ridiculous strength in action. |
| 256 | ** In a [[FreezeFrameBonus Blink-And-You'll-Miss-It gag]], Choline states that Merthophan always says it's dishonorable to harm someone that you're sworn to protect right before beating up his own students. |
| 257 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: This is Mertrophan's excuse for all his actions, [[spoiler:including being complicit in brainwashing the King and setting up multiple {{False Flag Operation}}s. To be fair, he's being manipulated by a malevolent Demon King who just wants to see the human world burn.]] |
| 258 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Subverted. When Merthophan [[spoiler:becomes transformed into a demon by Abaddon, Lloyd appears to get through to him by reminding him of why he became a soldier. However, the attempt is ruined when Lloyd thinks that Merthophan is merely doing a drunk cosplay, which reverts him back to a demon that Lloyd then defeats (again by accident) with one headbutt]]. |
| 259 | * MoleInCharge: [[spoiler:He explicitly aimed to become a high-ranking official of the Azami Army in order to use it to exact his revenge on the Ziou Empire. He even goes so far as to engineer numerous crises to stoke Anti-Empire sentiments in the people.]] |
| 260 | * ObliviousToLove: He doesn't realize that Choline is in love with him. |
| 261 | * PleasePutSomeClothesOn: After finally returning from Kunlun, he has developed a tendency to fight using his farmer's hoe, dressed only in the loincloth he wears while working the fields. To the general disgust of everyone who saw him strip down. |
| 262 | * ReassignedToAntarctica: When his [[spoiler:treachery against the crown, sabotage on Azami infrastructure, and attempts to start a war with the Ziou Empire are exposed, he's kicked out of the capital to the furthest backwater town possible: Kunlun. While initially unhappy about becoming Lloyd's replacement for cooking and cleaning, he becomes much more at peace when he realizes the villagers are the same people who saved his village from starvation all those years ago.]] |
| 263 | * SuddenlyShouting: When Selen suggests that Lloyd will fight Allan in her stead, Merthophan tries to instigate the fight by asking Allan if he'll do it. When Allan tries to refuse (under rules Merthophan himself instructed), Merthophan ''immediately'' bursts into angry shouting, ordering Allan to fight Lloyd. |
| 264 | * ThoseTwoGuys: He and Choline form one half of a comedic duo, usually with him on the receiving end of her slapstick. |
| 265 | * {{Unishment}}: At first, he is horrified about being [[spoiler:reassigned to Kunlun]], only to realize that [[spoiler:Kunlun was responsible for saving him and his village as a child]] and thus be ''happy'' to help out from then on. |
| 266 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: Feeling personally responsible about [[spoiler:staging a coup at Azami]], he feels this way after, and thinks it's for the best that he stays in Kunlun when he finds out [[spoiler:the villagers there were the ones who saved and provided food for his village as a child]]. |
| 267 | [[/folder]] |
| 268 | |
| 269 | [[folder:Colonel Choline Sterase]] |
| 270 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaoIchimichi (credited as "M.A.O.") (Japanese), Creator/JadSaxton (English) |
| 271 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/colin_16.png]] |
| 272 | An officer of the Azami military, usually partnered with Merthophan. |
| 273 | ---- |
| 274 | * CombatMedic: Just because her specialty is in healing magic doesn't mean she isn't any less capable of a soldier than any of the other Colonels. As much as she can fix you up and get you ''out'' of the infirmary, she's perfectly capable of sending you ''in'' there in the first place. |
| 275 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: When she visits Merthophan in Kunlun, she finds it impossible to look at him while speaking, because of the muscle he's gained, combined with only being dressed in a loincloth. |
| 276 | * HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Chrome refers to Merthophan as her "LoveInterest", which she immediately denies (while sporting a LuminescentBlush). |
| 277 | * ImmediateSelfContradiction: Choline admonishes Merthophan for breaking his own rules for not allowing soldiers to fight civilians, only to be told who Lloyd is and immediately signal the fight to start. |
| 278 | --> '''Choline:''' "What, Merthophan? You're always the one that goes ''[imitates his voice and facial expression]'' 'It's absolutely dishonorable for a soldier to harm those they swore to protect,' before beating up the student!" \ |
| 279 | '''Merthophan:''' "This boy, Lloyd, is the 'ancient runes' kid." \ |
| 280 | '''Choline:''' "Ready, ''fight!''" |
| 281 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: She is one of the few characters who does not recognize Lloyd's true power at first, until Merthophan explains that he's the one that wrote a series of extremely powerful runes on a test form. |
| 282 | * PaperFanOfDoom: Her recurring gag is slapping Merthophan around with a paper fan when he does or say something ridiculous. |
| 283 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some subs show her name as Choline, while others the more realistic Colin. |
| 284 | * ThemeNaming: Cholinesterase. |
| 285 | * {{Tsundere}}: She likes Merthophan, but is an aggressive Type A for him. When she finds out he was GoingNative in Kunlun, she attacks him. However when he explains why he chose to [[YouCantGoHomeAgain not return to Azami]], she is sadden by his choice to stay at Kunlun. |
| 286 | [[/folder]] |
| 287 | |
| 288 | !! Other Staff |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Chrome Molybdenum]] |
| 291 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Taketora (Japanese), Justice Washington (English) |
| 292 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chrome_97.png]] |
| 293 | The owner and sole employee of a mediocre cafeteria near the officers' academy, who hired Lloyd as a part-time hand, and soon become the owner of one of the most popular and highly-rated eateries instead. Though he's been honorably dismissed from service for over 5 years, he's never let his fighting skills dull any. |
| 294 | ---- |
| 295 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: From the moment Lloyd steps into his cafeteria to apply for a job, Chrome consistently misunderstands him and fears for his life. When Lloyd describes his skills at cooking and cleaning in his village, Chrome takes it as Lloyd euphemistically describing being a master assassin who also helped hide the evidence for some crime syndicate. When Lloyd offers to show off his skills, Chrome is prepared for combat while Lloyd makes him a fish risotto. When it's time to taste-test it, Chrome thinks Lloyd is going to ambush him while his guard is down and decides to play along to force Lloyd's hand, but Chrome just ends with a delicious meal and the best employee he's ever hired. Even long after Lloyd has been peacefully working as a chef/custodian for the cafeteria, Chrome can't drop his guard around him and feels like he should be coming for his life at any moment. |
| 296 | * GroinAttack: Suffers one from Choline when he casually mentions Merthophan as her lover. |
| 297 | * MeaningfulName: "Chrome" plating is oftentimes used to make other materials more corrosion-resistant, easier to clean, and looks shiny and aesthetically pleasing, too, and "Molybdenum" as a pure element has one of the highest melting points. Both are apt names for a man that needed to be a perfect and stately gentleman as he accompanied his former ward, the Princess of Azami, while also needing to be tough and resilient to protect her against any threats to her life and the many other important people around her. |
| 298 | * ProperlyParanoid: When Lloyd steps into his cafeteria to apply for a part-time job, Chrome senses his incredible strength, and immediately ambushes him on reflex. When you were the personal bodyguard of one of the most important people in the entire country, it ''pays'' to be that hyperaware of danger. |
| 299 | * RedeemingReplacement: After [[spoiler:Mertophan]] is ReassignedToAntarctica, Chrome takes over his position as an instructor in the academy. |
| 300 | * RetiredBadass: He used to be the Princess of Azami's personal bodyguard until her mysterious disappearance and his subsequent voluntary resignation for failing his duties. Merthophan and other active officers keep offering him a prestigious teaching position at the academy but he's content with running a so-so eatery. [[spoiler:This is because he's secretly still supporting Marie and investigating the mysterious changes in the King, and having a hole-in-the-wall diner is an excellent cover.]] Once that crisis is over, he returns to the academy as a teacher, though dialog from Lloyd says he still kept ownership of the cafeteria. (Though who runs it on a daily basis is something of a mystery.) |
| 301 | |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | ! Rokujou Academy |
| 305 | |
| 306 | A rival military school that has defeated Azami multiple times over the past several years. |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Rokujou in General]] |
| 309 | * {{Foil}}: To the Azami Officer's Academy. Instead of training students as professional soldiers, Rokujou instead trains them to be professional mercenaries and adventurers, not beholden to the state but whoever's paying them at the moment. In line with this looser, informal command structure, Rokujou does not use uniforms in contrast with the Azami Officer's Academy's dress code for students and staff both. |
| 310 | [[/folder]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | !! Rokujou Students |
| 313 | |
| 314 | !!! The Mercenary Sisters |
| 315 | |
| 316 | [[folder:Applies to Both]] |
| 317 | * BigGuyLittleGuy: Gender-inverted. With her petite frame, Mena is the "little guy" to Phyllo's very tall and well-built "big guy." |
| 318 | * BigLittleSister: Mena is the older of the two and is clearly referred to as "Big Sister" by Phyllo. However, Phyllo vastly outclasses her in size, weight, and physical strength. |
| 319 | * BrainsAndBrawn: Mena is the more intelligent and scheming of the two, while Phyllo is more for brute-force and unflagging determination without the smarts. Both are roughly equal in terms of magic though their preferred casting methods are just as contrasting, with chants and circles for Mena and Phyllo using spells to enhance her martial arts. |
| 320 | * HiredGuns: As students of Rokujou, they're taking actual mercenary work, either as part of their education or with permission from the Academy. |
| 321 | * ReallyRoyaltyReveal: The daughters of King Sardin of Rokujou by his bodyguard, a fact they themselves didn't learn until volume 6. |
| 322 | * RedBaron: Mena and Phyllo are referred to as the "Mercenary Sisters" of Rokujou. |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | [[folder:Mena Quinone]] |
| 326 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HarukaTomatsu (Japanese), Felicia Valenti (English) |
| 327 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mena.png]] |
| 328 | One of the two Mercenary Sisters of Rokujou Academy. |
| 329 | ---- |
| 330 | * BigSisterInstinct: She is ''very'' protective of her sister and will not hesitate to even betray her current allies if they insult or mistreat her. |
| 331 | * MakingASplash: Her go-to attack is to cover her opponents with a sphere of water until they pass out from suffocation, and she can also make a wall of water and mist to obscure visibility and movement. |
| 332 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: When she overhears Rol call her sister useless after using her as a tool, she helps the Azami academy defeat her. |
| 333 | * ThemeNaming: Menaquinone, or vitamin K2. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder:Phyllo Quinone]] |
| 337 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikuItou (Japanese), Creator/ElsieLovelock (English) |
| 338 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/philo.png]] |
| 339 | The second of the two Mercenary Sisters of Rokujou Academy. |
| 340 | ---- |
| 341 | * AllAmazonsWantHercules: |
| 342 | ** After Lloyd effortlessly [[NoSell No Sold]] two of her attacks, she immediately asks to become his apprentice, offering to do anything he asked, including bathing him. Her repeated requests catch Selen's ire, who tries to get Phyllo away from Lloyd every time. |
| 343 | ** After he fought her a second time (in an arm-wrestling match) and won, she instantly asked him to marry her. |
| 344 | * BestHerToBedHer: She wants to marry Lloyd because he defeated her in an arm-wrestling match. |
| 345 | * BloodKnight: Despite her usual stoic nature, she sports a very excited grin when given a chance to rematch against Lloyd. |
| 346 | * CovertPervert: Though normally deadpan, indifferent, to outright emotionless, when Lloyd accidentally exposes himself in a mixed open-air hot spring, she is ''very'' clearly interested in what she's seeing. |
| 347 | * DumbMuscle: She's not extremely bright when it comes to following orders, but she is both an extremely strong martial artist ''and'' mage. |
| 348 | * ElementalPowers: |
| 349 | ** MakingASplash: She defeats Micona using a very powerful water spell. |
| 350 | ** ShockAndAwe: She is able to fire bolts of lightning and even summon storm clouds. |
| 351 | ** PlayingWithFire: She is able to shoot fireballs to attack an enemy. |
| 352 | * EmotionlessGirl: She speaks in a monotone and behaves very stoically, not showing much in the way of emotion or expression. |
| 353 | * FastballSpecial: After she senses someone peeking on her and most of the girls in the Reiyokaku Hotel's mixed open-air bath, she hurls ''Alka'' in the direction of the suspect. |
| 354 | * AGoodWayToDie: She challenges Lloyd to a DuelToTheDeath, seeing their battle as the best way for a warrior to die. |
| 355 | * TheGreatestStyle: She is trained in Pyrid Style martial arts originating from Kunlun, which is why she is capable of fighting on par with Lloyd. [[spoiler:Actually subverted, as Pyrid Style is merely an ''aerobic exercise''. When Pyrid later starts training her in his ''actual'' style, she can ''barely'' keep up with the ''basics''.]] |
| 356 | * InnocentFanserviceGirl: When everyone visits hot springs, Phyllo walks around nude without any reservations whatsoever. |
| 357 | * KungFuWizard: She uses physical martial arts to attack, supplemented by extremely powerful magic. |
| 358 | * LetsFightLikeGentlemen: When she learns that Lloyd is from Kunlun, she gladly accepts settling their grudge with an arm-wrestling match, as per Kunlun tradition. |
| 359 | * NotSoStoic: When given a chance to battle a WorthyOpponent like Lloyd, she shows a lot more emotion. |
| 360 | * SingleStrokeBattle: She defeats Micona with a single attack, a water blast that sends her flying out of the arena and into the walls. |
| 361 | * SuperStrength: Her attacks are strong enough that she is able to ''break one of Lloyd's ribs'' with a single kick. She is also able to arm-wrestle him evenly, being the ''only'' non-Kunlun resident that could equal his might. |
| 362 | * ThemeNaming: Phylloquinone, or vitamin K1. |
| 363 | * WorthyOpponent: She views Lloyd as a warrior worthy of battling to the death. |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | !! Rokujou Staff |
| 367 | |
| 368 | [[folder:Rol Calcife]] |
| 369 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/NaomiShindo (Japanese), Creator/MicheleKnotz (English) |
| 370 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rol_calcife.jpg]] |
| 371 | The headmistress of Rokujou Academy and a former friend of Riho. |
| 372 | ---- |
| 373 | * EvilFormerFriend: To Riho. Rol cared for her genuinely along with the rest of the orphanage, but her ambitions to gain a well-paying and prestigious career to support them all soon devolved into an uncontrolled need for power and authority by any means necessary. [[spoiler:It's possible this wasn't entirely her fault, but also the manipulations of a Demon King and their associates like with Mertophan.]] |
| 374 | * FrameUp: She is the person who is constantly framing Riho for crimes which make her a wanted criminal. |
| 375 | * ManipulativeBitch: She befriended a young, orphaned Riho and quickly came to earn the girl's respect -- until Riho realized that the mythril arm she'd given her constantly drained Riho's mana, and that her only reason for giving it was so that Riho would obtain the Holy Sword. |
| 376 | * MuggingTheMonster: She sends Phyllo to kidnap the person Marie lives with, unaware that that person is Lloyd. Instead, Phyllo accidentally steals Alka's crystal ball. When Alka shows up, she is very angry and demands to know where Lloyd is. Rol has no idea what she's talking about and tries to dismiss Alka with her usual flippant attitude. Alka quickly demonstrates why this was ''not'' a wise move. |
| 377 | * TheRival: She is a former classmate of Choline, who isn't all that fond of her, either. |
| 378 | * SelfMadeWoman: She climbed her way up from nothing to become the headmistress of the Rokujou Academy, using any means necessary (both fair and underhanded) to do so. |
| 379 | * TookALevelInJerkass: She was once legitimately friendly and caring towards Riho and the other members of their orphanage, aiming for such a prestigious position in the world to gain the funds necessary to repair and expand the place to take care of the kids better. Then, as often happens when someone climbs the career ladder, she became more and more jaded and immoral in her pursuit for the top, forgetting her original goal in the process. [[spoiler:(Though the manipulations of mysterious, evil individuals certainly didn't help any.)]] |
| 380 | * UnwittingPawn: Her attempts to obtain the holy sword was a result of being manipulated by an unseen Chessmaster. |
| 381 | |
| 382 | [[/folder]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | ! Reiyokaku Hotel |
| 385 | |
| 386 | A luxurious hotel just outside of the royal capital of Azami, especially popular with nobility visiting from outside the city. |
| 387 | |
| 388 | [[folder:Coba Lamin]] |
| 389 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Shouto Kashii (Japanese), Creator/XanderMobus (English) |
| 390 | The owner of the hotel. He is the former head of the Azami Guards and a friend of Chrome Molybdenum. |
| 391 | ---- |
| 392 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Just from his head alone you can clearly see he was no desk-bound officer in his military career. He has a cross-shaped scar on his left cheek and extending under his chin on the same side (right side of the audience) and the back of his bald head has numerous long, claw-like marks extending all the way around to his ears, presumably from when a wild animal or monster tried to attack him from behind. |
| 393 | * RetiredBadass: He's gone from the highest-ranking military officer in the royal capital to the owner of a luxury hotel outside of the city. He seems rather happy with his career at the moment. |
| 394 | * ThemeNaming: In keeping with the series' science-themed names, he's named after Cobalamin, more popularly known as Vitamin B12. |
| 395 | [[/folder]] |
| 396 | |
| 397 | [[folder:Kikyou]] |
| 398 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HarukaYamazaki (Japanese), Creator/AmberLeeConnors (English) |
| 399 | A worker at the Reiyokaku Hotel. |
| 400 | ---- |
| 401 | * ActionGirl: She is a skilled combatant, able to fight on par with Selen (while unarmed), albeit neither could land a blow on the other. |
| 402 | * EntertaininglyWrong: Because of Lloyd's exceptional strength and abilities, she believes that ''he'' must be the person that is possessed by the demon seeds causing the problems at the Hotel, even though the problems started ''before'' Lloyd arrived at the hotel. Multiple comedic hijinks ensue from her incorrect assumptions. |
| 403 | * GotVolunteered: Lord Threonine directs her to continue working at Reiyokaku Hotel as an apology for the trouble he inadvertently caused. She is ''less than thrilled'' about the decision. |
| 404 | * NinjaMaid: She is a servant of Lord Threonine Lidcain working undercover to investigate the coma incidents at the Reiyokaku Hotel. However, she's not actually that good of a maid, since the spy is her main training. |
| 405 | * TheSlacker: Coba mistakenly believes that she spends all of her time goofing off because she does a poor job as a maid and is often doing other things rather than completing her tasks. That's because she's actually a spy ''pretending'' to be a maid, and her time "slacking" is spent doing espionage. She actually ''is'' a poor maid, though. |
| 406 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: She attempts to suplex Selen to defeat her, but the impact is stopped by Selen's belt. |
| 407 | [[/folder]] |
| 408 | |
| 409 | ! Family Members and Associates |
| 410 | |
| 411 | [[folder: King Azami]] |
| 412 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Bon Ishihara (Japanese), Creator/KentWilliams (English) |
| 413 | Marie's father and the king of Azami. |
| 414 | ---- |
| 415 | * CoolOldGuy: He tries to invoke this appearance on his first public appearance after [[spoiler:being freed from DemonicPossession]]. It ''does not'' go over as well as he hoped. |
| 416 | * DemonicPossession: He was possessed by [[spoiler:Demon King Abaddon]], until being freed by Marie and Lloyd at the end of the first arc. |
| 417 | [[/folder]] |
| 418 | |
| 419 | [[folder:Threonine Lidcain]] |
| 420 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiNomura (Japanese), Steven Kelly (English) |
| 421 | Allan's father. He is a serious man who is constantly troubled by his son's antics; he tries his best to make Allan a more worthy successor to the family name. |
| 422 | ---- |
| 423 | * BadBoss: His servant Minoki was so tired of being bossed around and yelled at by him that [[spoiler:he gladly become the Demon Lord Elking]]. And PlayedForLaughs with Kikyou where he has her work for Coba fulltime after the treant threat is resolved as an apology, to Kikyou's chagrin. |
| 424 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: He gets along fabulously with Lloyd after the latter expresses a deep appreciation for the lumber industry, House Lidcain's second claim-to-fame behind their military accomplishments. He never quite understands that Lloyd is talking about monstrous treants and not man-made forests, but it doesn't seem to matter. He even tries to send Lloyd to a marriage interview in Allan's place, after the latter suffers an unfortunate, embarrassing incident in the bath. |
| 425 | * LooksLikeCesare: While everything else about him looks healthy enough, his eyes are perpetually surrounded by dark rings that make him look unsettling, at best. Despite this, he's not that bad a guy and the worst you can assume of him is being a bad father for being too obsessed with the image his son is showing to the world. |
| 426 | * ThemeNaming: Threonine, an essential amino acid. |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder: Minoki]] |
| 430 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YojiUeda (Japanese), Creator/IanSinclair (English) |
| 431 | Lord Threonine's butler. |
| 432 | ---- |
| 433 | * TheButlerDidIt: A ''literal'' example. [[spoiler:He's Lord Threonine's butler and is the person causing the coma epidemic at the hotel.]] |
| 434 | * ChekhovsGunman: He makes brief appearances during Lord Threonine's visit to the hotel, but remains inconspicuous until he reveals himself as [[spoiler:Demon Lord Elking]]. |
| 435 | * WalkingSpoiler: It is impossible to mention him at all without spoiling the plot twist of the Hotel arc. |
| 436 | [[/folder]] |
| 437 | |
| 438 | ! Others |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[folder: Eug]] |
| 441 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukoSanpei (Japanese), Creator/LeahClark (English) |
| 442 | A member of Dwarven royalty, and an acquaintance of Alka's. |
| 443 | ---- |
| 444 | * ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: She immediately pushes everyone through the gate when Alka brings up the fact it was her idea to skin Vritra. |
| 445 | * EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:She is in league with Sou the whole time by removing Vritra’s connection to her and to unlock the doors of the final dungeon]]. |
| 446 | ** In fact, among the trio of the villains [[spoiler: Eug is the evilest of them all. Shoma wants [[GoodIsBoring excitement for his life]] but he also [[FriendlyEnemy wants what is best for Lloyd]] and Sou is a FallenHero who eventually wants Lloyd [[DeathSeeker to slay him]]. Only Eug is the one who wants to unlock the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon to cause chaos to the world.]] |
| 447 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Like Alka, she is at least over 100, but looks no older than her teens. |
| 448 | * OralFixation: Usually has a sucker in her mouth. |
| 449 | * ScaryTeeth: She has noticeable shark-like teeth. |
| 450 | * SweetTooth: Can be seen sucking on a sucker. |
| 451 | [[/folder]] |
| 452 | |
| 453 | ! Residents of Kunlun |
| 454 | |
| 455 | The villagers of a remote town on the edge of the human territories, on the line between it and demon lands. They're all descended from legendary heroes who saved the world the first time around and are all ridiculously powerful. |
| 456 | |
| 457 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 458 | * HadToBeSharp: The village is located on the boundary of the demon territories, where dangerous monsters like ''dragons'' exist as ''common pests''. Demon Lords also regularly attack the village with about the same frequency as monsters attacking other places. |
| 459 | * HiddenElfVillage: An extremely small village and so remote that no modern humans outside of the village believe it actually exists. |
| 460 | * MundaneUtility: They use legendary weapons as gardening tools, the hide of sacred beasts as leather for aprons, use a magically-powered cannon as transportation, and other such ridiculous feats. |
| 461 | * StrongerThanTheyLook: Everyone in the village looks like your average, unremarkable human being, but each one is superhumanly powerful. [[TheHero Lloyd]] is the ''weakest'' among them. |
| 462 | * UndefeatableLittleVillage: The entire ''point'' to the village. They are a village of seemingly-ordinary folk that are situated right at the border of the demon kingdom and act as the vanguard protecting humans from demonic invasion. |
| 463 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Dragons, using a cannon to travel, people jumping up to the second story? Nothing unusual to a citizen of Kunlun. |
| 464 | [[/folder]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[folder:Alka]] |
| 467 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NatsumiHioka (Japanese), Creator/LindsaySheppard (English) |
| 468 | [[quoteright:317:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alka_suppose_boonies.png]] |
| 469 | |
| 470 | The mayor of Kunlun, Alka is one of the most ancient and powerful mages in the world, although [[OlderThanTheyLook she looks like a pre-teen girl]]. She enjoys teasing her former student, Marie, and has a perverse attraction to Lloyd. |
| 471 | ---- |
| 472 | * BerserkButton: |
| 473 | ** Any insult or dishonor to Lloyd will earn her wrath -- she once threatened to destroy Azami for giving Lloyd a failing grade for a military exam. |
| 474 | ** Calling her "Loli Grandma"/"Little Old Hag" or likewise reminding her of her actual age will cause her to inflict curses or other unpleasant fates on any who dare call her that, typically her former student Marie. |
| 475 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: Alka completely forgets the harm she's done to other people, completely confused why some people would even be angry with her. |
| 476 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Alka threatens violence and powerful curses against any girls who get too close to Lloyd, or whom she fears may try to be intimate with him. |
| 477 | * ComedicSociopathy: After Marie shuns Lloyd from assisting with her goal of saving the kingdom, he falls into a deep depression. Alka takes note of how much Lloyd is suffering...and ''takes joy'' that she's been provided with a wonderful opportunity to spend the day "cheering him up" and show off at a festival. |
| 478 | * ComedicShotacon: Alka is [[OlderThanTheyLook centuries old]], but has a depraved obsession with Lloyd, usually scheming or attempting to perform sexual acts with him that are always portrayed comedically. |
| 479 | * DeusExitMachina: When the party is facing a threat like a Demon Lord that Alka could beat without issue, she is often busy or otherwise disposed-of. |
| 480 | * DirtyOldWoman: Alka is one of the original heroes, centuries-old, and lusts uncontrollably over a fifteen-year-old boy. At one point, at a festival, she declares the festival can't end until she eats a chocolate banana, then pulls out a jar of chocolate syrup and dives for Lloyd's banana. She later opens the door to his room, catching him in the middle of changing, and immediately begins recording him. |
| 481 | * DisproportionateRetribution: As an all-powerful wizard, Alka probably has the knowledge, the control, and the mana to do basic spells and light punishments, she just chooses not to. About the most frequent victim of this is Marie, who she has cursed with "medium-level misfortunes" every time Marie calls Alka a "little old hag/''loli baba''" or turning Marie into a butterfly for going on a day-trip with Lloyd without informing Alka first. |
| 482 | * EccentricMentor: Alka's behavior is extremely immature and selfish for someone as apparently old and wise as she is. While she can still become serious and give good advice to Lloyd or her former student Marie if needed, she will do whatever she wants most of the time. |
| 483 | * ForcedTransformation: She turns Marie into a butterfly for daring to go out and have fun with Lloyd. |
| 484 | * HateAtFirstSight: With Selen, who gives her a DeathGlare and exchanges insults when she sees Alka clinging onto Lloyd after he's accepted into the academy. |
| 485 | * HelpingWouldBeKillstealing: Mostly has this mentality regarding Lloyd. She could easily wipe out an entire city if she chose to, but largely hangs back so that Lloyd can fulfill his dreams of becoming a soldier and protecting those weaker than him. |
| 486 | * HeroicNeutral: She initially refuses to help Marie with her problem regarding the king doing saber rattling and threatening to start a war with a neighboring country, not wanting to get her villagers involved in petty human squabbles. Only something beyond what normal humans couldn't handle, such as a demon lord appearing, would she then take action. [[spoiler:And once Alka confirms the recent uptick in giant bugs was the work of demon lord, she immediately squashes all of them in one fell swoop, largely because they interrupted her date with Lloyd.]] |
| 487 | * HypocriticalHumor: She threatens Marie to not do anything impure to Lloyd, while being [[DirtyOldWoman eager to do all sorts of impure things to him herself]]. |
| 488 | * IMeantToDoThat: Defied. When Sou believes that she [[spoiler:intentionally created Selen's belt as backup AmplifierArtifact for her powers]], she rapidly explains that it was all a complete accident. |
| 489 | * ImmortalImmaturity: Alka is an elderly woman in the body of a young girl, and she acts like it. |
| 490 | * ItsPersonal: She instantly rains meteors from the sky to destroy monsters that interrupted her personal time at a festival with Lloyd. |
| 491 | * NeverMyFault: She never owns up to her own mistakes or flaws, and forgets when she's wronged others. Thus, whenever something bad happens, she's always quick to punish other people for it or deny her own part in it. |
| 492 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Alka looks around the same age as Lloyd, but is a lot older to where Marie usually refers to her as a Loli Grandma. |
| 493 | * PrankPunishment: She is really fond of giving these, especially to Marie. She puts curses on her every time Marie calls her "Loli Grandma", and once even turns her into a butterfly for going out with Lloyd. |
| 494 | * PunnyName: '''Alka'''li, after the extremely reactive group of metals on the Periodic Table. It's fitting her emotional volatility and willingness to destroy the world over the slightest annoyances and slights, to herself or to Lloyd. |
| 495 | * SitcomArchNemesis: She develops a hostile rivalry with Selen, who is equally-obsessed with Lloyd. She immediately tries to curse Selen, only for the belt to thwart her attempts. |
| 496 | * TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Routinely pops up in Marie's house uninvited to flirt with Lloyd and curse her hostess for some perceived affront. |
| 497 | * TheUnfettered: Has straight up stated that she is willing to curse or destroy a person, an entire kingdom, or even the whole world if that's what it takes to take Lloyd for herself. |
| 498 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: |
| 499 | ** She tried to cover up a cooking accident by disguising the ruined piece of jerky [[spoiler:made from Vritra]] as a "belt"; somehow, she sold it to a wandering merchant, this item found its way onto Selen's father's collection of curios and became the cursed belt that covered her face for most of her life. |
| 500 | ** She created [[spoiler:Sou, an artificial Hero, to defeat a powerful demon lord]] but then left him without a purpose for centuries, eventually causing him to turn evil. |
| 501 | ** Eug lampshades this by calling her the source of all evil. [[spoiler: Ironically, that action would save Vritra's life when his main body is destroyed by Sou by [[SoulJar possessing the belt]].]] |
| 502 | [[/folder]] |
| 503 | |
| 504 | [[folder:Shoma]] |
| 505 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SomaSaito (Japanese), Creator/NazeehTarsha (English) |
| 506 | Lloyd's friend from the village who he sees as an older brother. |
| 507 | ---- |
| 508 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: Has noticeably darker skin than the rest of the cast or the rest of the villagers of Kunlun. |
| 509 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler: It is heavily implied he isn't as nice as he seems, as Alka was suspicious when she heard from Lloyd that he saw him]]. |
| 510 | * BreakTheCutie: A {{Flashback}} revealed that he more like Lloyd as a child, running away from home as a child to find adventures and excitement away from his boring village. While he suffered from similar misunderstandings as Lloyd at first in regards to his strength compared to others, he realized the truth much more quickly and it started to ''crush'' him emotionally, as it meant that there wouldn't be any great adventures or challenges like he had hoped, not helped by the people around him either fearing him or using his power for their own ends, [[LonelyAtTheTop leaving him feeling isolated]]. One of the reasons he's so supportive of Lloyd [[spoiler:despite his involvement in Eug's evil plans]] is because he feels a vicarious sense of joy seeing Lloyd genuine desire to become a knight like in the storys. |
| 511 | * TheDragon: Posing as a traveling merchant, he is revealed to be the cause of many of the various troubles and problems cropping up around Azami. |
| 512 | * FriendlyEnemy: Despite acting against Lloyd and his friends, Shoma still greatly adores Lloyd and [[spoiler:admits that his actions are all for Lloyd's sake]]. |
| 513 | * GoodIsBoring: The main reason Shoma is a villain. [[spoiler: [[FriendlyEnemy Shoma]] [[StealthMentor really does care for Lloyd]] but he joins Sou and Eug out of excitement for his life.]] |
| 514 | * IntrepidMerchant: He's frequently traveling around the kingdom dealing in rare items, odd requests, and strange magical devices, such as Molotov cocktails and [[spoiler:treant Demon King saplings.]] |
| 515 | * NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: He wanted to become an adventuring hero, but found that he was so strong that the most difficult tasks he could find to do were trivial by Kunlun standards. |
| 516 | * PerpetualSmiler: Always appears happy, even when suggesting someone is going to die. |
| 517 | * SayingTooMuch: When he encounters Lloyd during the festival, he congratulates him [[spoiler:for his defeat of Demon Lord Abaddon, making it clear that he knows much more than he appeared to]]. |
| 518 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: It was the book about knights and soldiers he gave Lloyd that made Lloyd want to become one. |
| 519 | * StealthMentor: While he is a dangerous villain [[spoiler: [[FriendlyEnemy he really does care for Lloyd]] all throughout his journey.]] |
| 520 | * VerbalTic: He likes to call everything "intense". |
| 521 | |
| 522 | [[/folder]] |
| 523 | |
| 524 | [[folder:Vritra]] |
| 525 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi (Japanese), Creator/ChristopherSabat (English) |
| 526 | One of the divine beasts who acts as the protector of Kunlun. |
| 527 | ---- |
| 528 | * ButtMonkey: He's been abused by Alka as much as Marie has. Marie states that she understands his pain. |
| 529 | * BarrierMaiden: [[spoiler: Killing him not only will cause Alka to lose her powers, but will break the seal of the Last Dungeon.]] |
| 530 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After he is [[spoiler:sealed in an egg by Eug]], Selen starts to reeducate him on the "Teachings of Sir Lloyd, Chapters 1 to 73" and Vritra desperately [[spoiler:breaks himself free of the seal]] and begs her to spare him. |
| 531 | * LivingMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Killing him]] is the main objective of [[spoiler:Sou.]] |
| 532 | * NonMaliciousMonster: The kingdom of Azami sent soldiers to slay him after he scared some villagers, but he's actually a nice guy. |
| 533 | * SoulJar: [[spoiler: After Sou kills his main body, his soul went into Selen's Cursed Belt due to it being made from him.]] |
| 534 | [[/folder]] |
| 535 | |
| 536 | [[folder:Pyrid]] |
| 537 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Yutaka Aoyama (Japanese), Michael Sorich (English) |
| 538 | An elderly member of Kunlun known for his hand-to-hand fighting prowess. |
| 539 | ---- |
| 540 | * AffectionateNickname: Though they're not related, Lloyd has taken to calling him "Gramps" or "Grampa". |
| 541 | * BareFistedMonk: Developed a form of hand-to-hand combat which is unrivaled throughout the world. |
| 542 | * TheGreatestStyle: He is known for his "Pyrid Style" combat form, but it turns out [[spoiler:that this is merely his ''aerobic exercise routine''. He later teaches Phyllo his actual combat style, and she is ''stunned'' that all he showed her were the ''basics''.]] |
| 543 | * OldMaster: A martial artist that puts even ''Phyllo'' to shame. |
| 544 | * RedBaron: Known far and wide as "Pyrid the Ogre Lord". |
| 545 | * ShipperOnDeck: Thinks Phyllo is a good candidate for Lloyd's girlfriend as he feels she's very honest and that her martial arts skills are decent. |
| 546 | [[/folder]] |
| 547 | |
| 548 | ! Antagonists (SPOILERS) |
| 549 | |
| 550 | [[folder:Abaddon]] |
| 551 | |
| 552 | A demon lord scheming to take over the Kingdom of Azami. |
| 553 | ---- |
| 554 | * ArcVillain: The primary antagonist of the opening story arc. |
| 555 | * DemonicPossession: Abaddon had been possessing the body of the king for years, using [[spoiler:Colonel Merthophan]]'s hatred of the Jian Empire to stir up a war. |
| 556 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: Abaddon is extremely smug and confident ordinarily, but when Marie claims that he's just some crazy harasser so that [[spoiler: Lloyd]] will help her, he is [[EvenEvilHasStandards confused and horrified]]. He only becomes more terrified as [[spoiler: Lloyd effortlessly dispatches his attacks and then purifies the king with his Disenchant rune.]] |
| 557 | * MaouTheDemonKing: Abaddon is a Demon Lord -- one of the most powerful entities in the entire world. [[spoiler:Revealing himself as one is [[NiceJobFixingItVillain what leads to his demise]], as it allows Marie to ask Lloyd for help]]. |
| 558 | * MeaningfulName: "Abaddon" is the name of both an evil location and that of a demonic entity in Judeo-Christian texts. |
| 559 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Abaddon had no clue [[spoiler: revealing himself as a Demon Lord]] removed the [[SupermanStaysOutOfGotham one hedge that protected him]], and this revelation led to [[spoiler: his demise by Lloyd.]] |
| 560 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: While [[spoiler:possessing the King]], he pretends to be weak and simple-minded while actually being the driving force for [[spoiler:Merthophan's campaign against the Jian Empire]]. |
| 561 | * ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: He briefly takes the appearance of Marie's father to thwart her attempt to use the Disenchant rune on him. |
| 562 | [[/folder]] |
| 563 | |
| 564 | [[folder:Elking]] |
| 565 | |
| 566 | A demon lord that controls plant life. |
| 567 | ---- |
| 568 | * ArcVillain: The primary enemy of the Hotel arc. |
| 569 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: By ripping out and crushing its core, Lloyd manages to destroy Elking. |
| 570 | * DemonicPossession: Noticing that Minoki, the servant of Lord Threonine, held a deep grudge against his boss, Shoma gave him the Demon Lord Seedling and Minoki used it to become the Demon Lord Elking. |
| 571 | * FlunkyBoss: Though it's no slouch in combat by itself, its greatest danger is its ability to make treants, for swarming and overwhelming its opponents. |
| 572 | * GreenThumb: He can control plants and create treants. He's also capable of growing his own plant-like body to building-sizes or weaponize extensions of himself, using them like spears. |
| 573 | * KillItWithFire: The cast use fire spells and Molotov cocktails on it to great effect, weakening it, disabling it, and granting Lloyd the confidence to use his power to rip out his core and finish him off. |
| 574 | * LogicalWeakness: Its body is made of wood, hence it's highly flammable and vulnerable to flame spells and Molotov cocktails, especially if they've been enhanced with magic stones for extra potency. |
| 575 | * ShapeshifterWeapon: It's capable of growing branches and extensions of itself into sharp blades, spears, or whatever else it needs. |
| 576 | [[/folder]] |
| 577 | |
| 578 | [[folder:Sou]] |
| 579 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakayaHashi (Japanese), Creator/RBruceElliott (English) |
| 580 | |
| 581 | A villain posing as a priest that is conspiring against Kunlun. |
| 582 | ---- |
| 583 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: He was created from a MergerOfSouls, including human, [[spoiler:in order to create a powerful Hero to defeat a terrible demon lord that threatened the world.]] |
| 584 | * CatchPhrase: Always asks the person he meets, "How do I look to you?" [[spoiler: There is [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm a great reason]] he asks this. Outside the next hero, Sou looks like an ordinary old man. To [[HeroProtagonist Lloyd]], he saw Sou's MergerOfSouls.]] |
| 585 | * CreateYourOwnHero: An unusual deliberate example. Sou seeks to forge Lloyd into the greatest hero ever, because [[spoiler:[[DeathSeeker he wants to die]], and he isn't capable of doing that until his own legend as the greatest hero ever is supplanted by someone else.]] |
| 586 | * DeathSeeker: His ultimate goal is to disappear, [[spoiler:which he can only do if another Hero takes his place.]] |
| 587 | * DidntSeeThatComing: When he [[spoiler:kills Vritra]], he believes that Alka is now powerless. Then she gives him a flying knee to the face, and he realizes that he miscalculated something. |
| 588 | * FallenHero: Sou [[spoiler:was once a hero [[MergerOfSouls created by]] Alka but after he succeeds in defeating the Demon King of his time, Sou lost all purpose for his life so at the present time he is shaping Lloyd to become his eventual successor and [[DeathSeeker to slay him]].]] |
| 589 | * INeedYouStronger: His plan requires Lloyd to become a stronger and more valiant Hero [[spoiler:in order to replace him.]] |
| 590 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: After Alan cuts off his arm, he barely even reacts. [[spoiler:Justified because he isn't truly human anyway, and it will just reattach.]] |
| 591 | * TheManBehindTheMan: He is the person behind every incident of the first few arcs, being the person that gives out the demon lord seedlings, as well as the one who manipulated Rol to retrieve the Holy Sword. |
| 592 | * NotSoAboveItAll: After Lloyd gains his HeroicResolve, he is shown ''recording and cheering him on'' with Shoma. Eug is bemused by what was happening. |
| 593 | * UnwittingPawn: Most of the characters, both on the heroic and villainous sides, are playing into his hands, whether they realize it or not. |
| 594 | * YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Only someone on the cusp of becoming a Hero can see [[spoiler:that he's actually evil. To anyone else, he only looks like an ordinary old man.]] |
| 595 | [[/folder]] |
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