| 1 | Character list for ''Literature/TheCreationAlchemistEnjoysFreedom''. |
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| 3 | '''Warning for manga readers, spoilers from the novel may be unmarked.''' |
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| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 6 | ! Main Characters: |
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| 8 | [[folder: Thor Regus/Canaan]] |
| 9 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3_o_1.jpg]] |
| 10 | [[caption-width-right:350:I HATE YOU, DUKE BARGAS REGUS!!!]] |
| 11 | TheProtagonist. When he became 13, he chose to get away from his combat strength-obsessed AbusiveDad by relinquishing his family name and inheritance rights and living like a commoner under his deceased mother's maiden name. |
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| 13 | But, for the petty tyrant Duke Bargas Regus, that wasn't enough: he considered Thor the family's BlackSheep and a "useless incompetent" that should have ''committed suicide'' the moment he learned his job was [Alchemist], instead of a flashy combat-oriente profession. So, he led his household staff into harassing him in every possible way, blocked his chances to learn Alchemy in the Imperial College and forced his boss from his government clerk job to erase every single merit and accomplishment, and bar any form of advancement. |
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| 15 | And then, when Thor becomes 16, not even that was enough. He sends a company of knights to kidnap him from his home office and drag him back to the family estate so he cand berate him for the umpteenth time on how "despair-inducing" it is for a glorious Ducal House to sire someone that can't go into the battlefield... but [[CatchPhrase it's been decided]] that there's something Thor can do to redeem himself: being sent to the Demon country '''to die as a HumanSacrifice''', in order to appease them for a few decades. |
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| 17 | Unable to do much, he initially considers escaping the first chance he gets... but then he arrives to the Demon Country and learns that the imperial propaganda was all wrong: the Demon Country is far more civilized than the Dolgarian Empire, and when he meets its leader, Demon Lord Rukia, she provides him with everything he could want to achieve his dream: a laboratory, a workshop, and artifacts Rukia's ancestors collected that once belonged to the Heroes - and giving him carte-blanche to design anything that strikes his fancy. Seeing that he's actually appreciated in here, he defects. |
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| 19 | * AccidentalMarriage: Subverted. Just before Rukia is taking him, and Mabel to a dangerous monster investigation with Princess Sophia, he gifts her a ring with magical enchantments for her protection. When he learns this is an engagement ritual in the Demon King territory, he asks for the ring, so he can ''get her a better one'', more fitting of her station. |
| 20 | * AccidentalPervert: He walks in on Agnis when she is nude and playing with a salamander in the baths. He had known she was in there upon seeing her armor, but didn't realize she was nude under the armor. |
| 21 | * TheAce: Even before he was exiled to the Demon King territory, he was the best alchemist the Empire had to offer, with skills ''light years'' above the rest. Being sent there only made his alchemy more impressive, upgrading to [Complete Alchemy] by being exposed to the excessive [Dark] magic in the area. |
| 22 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: He regularly develops stuff that should be impossible simply because he read the adverts in the [Mail Order Catalogue] and took the hyperbole at face value. |
| 23 | * AlchemyIsMagic: His alchemy is so magical he can shape hardened steel as if he was playing with tofu, and even rework matter at nearly the atomic level, if not simply create it outright, just by concentrating and imagining what he wants to make. |
| 24 | * AllLovingHero: He doesn't discriminate. He makes tools and items to make ''everyone's'' life easier, and to make "strength" irrelevant. |
| 25 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He dotes on Mabel because she treated him with kindness and respect. He swears loyalty to Rukia because she considers him and his alchemy skills valuable, and treats him accordingly. He treasures the rest of his growing UnwantedHarem because they're all good women who genuinely strive to make him happy. |
| 26 | * BeyondTheImpossible: The first thing he creates under the service of Demon Lord Rukia is the [Foot Bath] which fixed Mabel's magic circulation, allowing her to use magic. Rukia's best healers, experts in the field, couldn't do that. He reads the [Mail Order Catalog] and comes across the advertisement for a [Simple Warehouse]. Doing so unlocks space-attribute magic, which nobody even knows exists! |
| 27 | ** In the manga chapter 8, or chapter 15 webnovel, he starts working on Agnis's [Health Pendant]. In doing so, he unlocks Fire, Water, Earth, Wood, and Metal elemental magic. Wood and Metal magic patently '''don't exist''' in the world setting, but he can use them anyway. |
| 28 | * TheCharmer: The primary reason he's saddled with a RoyalHarem is that he knows how to ply a woman with flattery, and it's especially effective because it's both sincere and genuine. |
| 29 | * DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: |
| 30 | ** Because he's unaware that the advertising he's reading in his [Mail Order Catalog] is hyperbole, he thinks he's making an "inferior" version, when in fact, the stuff he creates work far, far better than the original could ever be expected to. |
| 31 | ** When Mabel praises him and states how great an alchemist he is, he deflects the praise by calling himself just an "average" alchemist, and means it, as highlighted by a flash-back where Duke Regus, with his abject contempt for the alchemy profession yells at him "Don't get cocky! You're no better than an alchemist one can find anywhere!" |
| 32 | * EndearinglyDorky: He goes off into his own little world with some frequency whenever the muse strikes to do some alchemy research, or he gets inspiration from his [Mail Order Catalog], but he's got an ever-growing harem, not just for TruthInTelevision political reasons, but primarily because he absolutely dotes on any girl who is genuinely kind to him, and he's unbelievably sweet and sensitive. |
| 33 | * EntertaininglyWrong: He takes the advertising in his [Mail Order Catalog] as fact because the summoned heroes, who came from the same world as the catalog, all displayed feats that would put what the catalog advertises to shame. |
| 34 | ** A good example is the [Laser Pointer]. Due to how it is described, Thor concludes that a device meant to show a red light dot where the user wants it (along with a warning not to use it on humans to avoid blinding them) is actually a magical device that causes magical spells to hit the target even if the aim is off and at longer distances than the effective range (and that it can only be used with monsters). |
| 35 | ** When he tries to reason out the culture of the World of Heroes, he acts like an archaeologist who is trying to piece together a long-lost civilization going only by myths, legends, random pieces of history, and some discarded artifacts. There are points where he is scarily close and points where he couldn't be further away if he tried, like for example, thinking that the [U-V Protection Parasol] exists because the Heroes used to throw magic [Light] attacks at each other, as opposed to being protection from sunburn. And when he reads about the [Radio Wave Detector], he concludes that Heroes were out to steal each other's magical and martial techniques without upsetting their guardian spirit "Omawarisan", not realizing how scarily close he is to realizing how cloak and dagger society is between nations. |
| 36 | * EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: For all of Thor's kindness, there is one person who he will never, ever forgive or tolerate, and that's his AbusiveDad, Bragas Regus. |
| 37 | * GreatBigBookOfEverything: Justified and downplayed. Whenever he faces a problem and can't think of a solution right away, he goes running to the [Mail Order Catalog] and finds it after a bit of searching. The book is listed as over 500 pages long and comes with a handy index at the front. Though there are things even the book won't help with. For example, he gets a request from Princess Sophia to make a [Cell Phone], but even after scouring the book, Thor can't make it, as even the book doesn't offer any explanation. Thor just goes on to presume it's some kind of grand-scale ritual magic needing many, many mages. [[EntertaininglyWrong He's not entirely wrong.]] |
| 38 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Justified. When he first meets Agnis, he notices that the armor she's wearing is about to fall apart, and offers to fix it. This angers her father and has her cower away in embarrassment, to his confusion. He later learns that she was '''completely naked''' under said armor, by necessity of her PlayingWithFire PowerIncontinence. |
| 39 | * KarmicJackpot: Once he makes it to the Demon King territory, people who are kind to him have a tendency to have nice things happen to them. People who have ill intentions towards him tend to gloriously self-destruct. |
| 40 | * LikeFatherUnlikeSon: One has to really wonder if he actually is Bragas' son, as the two couldn't be more opposite if they tried, and Thor did actively try. Thor is gentle and kind while Bragas is a violent brute. Thor favors intelligence and wisdom while Bragas is all about brute force. Thor is brave and actively supports his allies in a fight, even if he can't personally do damage. Bragas has the stats and the skills to fight directly, but he's a DirtyCoward who loves to throw his weight around but will flee a legitimate threat first chance he gets, regardless of his allies. Thor is humble and will admit to his mistakes, making an effort to fix them. Bragas is far, far too proud and will deny his mistakes to his last breath, doing everything he can to cover them up, even if that only makes things worse. |
| 41 | * MissingMom: His mother died when he was very young. |
| 42 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Much as he loathes the Dolgaria Empire's deification of combat strength, he was still a loyal, hard-working citizen, struggling in the government alchemy office, slaving away for peanuts, because it gave him the chance to use his gods-given [Alchemy] job to improve the lives of the citizens, and was even happily working on fixing the holy sword belonging to the crown princess, which Duke Regus himself had commissioned. Then, before the work was finished, he was kidnapped by a bunch of knights, berated and abused, and then summarily dumped on Demon King territory to die, by imperial decree, which Duke Regus bragged of pushing for. Regus happily switched sides to serve under Demon Lord Rukia, and pointedly wishes the Empire would ''cease to exist.'' |
| 43 | * MortonsFork: Before Thor could escape Duke Regus's mansion, after his [Alchemist] skill was known, the Duke loved to torment him by asking "Do you understand how disappointing it is for a duke house to sire a non-combatant?!" If Thor answered "no," he'd be smacked into unconsciousness by being hit on the head with a wooden sword. If he answered "yes," he'd get punched in his stomach until he passed out. If he remained silent, he'd get berated as "too stupid to answer a simple yes/no question" and mocked by the staff, but at least he would escape physical abuse. |
| 44 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: Though he's unaware he's doing it. The [Mail Order Catalog] pointedly ''does not'' feature magic items, and all the advertising he's reading is pure hype. Because he takes said advertising as fact, he makes tools and magic items that far, far outstrip the source, and are very useful both in daily life and in combat. |
| 45 | * NomDeMom: He had already been using his mom's surname Cannan when doing alchemy work, due to his father wanting to dissociate the Regus name with alchemy. He uses the Regus name at first after moving to the Demon Country, but he later agrees to go by Cannan in private with Mabel and Rukia, and then [[ShedTheFamilyName publicly renounces the Regus name]] after his father sends an "apology" letter that's actually a thinly disguised offer to sell out the Demon Country. |
| 46 | * OneManIndustrialRevolution: By perusing his [Mail Order Catalog] and taking the advertising hyperbole at face value, he advances the tech level of Demon King territory at such a pace that it can easily be measured ''in decades.'' |
| 47 | * RoyalHarem: TruthInTelevision. In addition to the fact that the ladies of his UnwantedHarem all asked for his hand in marriage because they genuinely like him, he's pressured to accept because of very real political reasons. |
| 48 | ** Rukia, the Demon Lord: Thor is a very, very valuable part of the Demon King territory infrastructure, as such, having him married to herself guarantees that he won't be seduced away to another faction easily. |
| 49 | ** Mabel, the handmaiden: It is common for royalty to appoint a concubine to guarantee an heir, and Mabel's a woman Rukia has good reason to trust. |
| 50 | ** Agnis, the daughter of general Respalgia: Her father is one of, if not '''the''', top general of Demon King territory, and demands Thor marry his daughter in exchange for UndyingLoyalty to Rukia. |
| 51 | ** Princess Sophia, first princess of Dolgaria Empire: She can't inherit for reasons of poor health, but she can still wed to strengthen alliances. As such, she requests to marry Thor to maintain peaceful relations with Demon King territory, on behalf of her people. |
| 52 | * TheScapegoat: Subverted. At Bargus' direction, Garoa attempts to set up Thor as the scapegoat for the embezzlement scheme when it is inevitably discovered, but Respalgia is so furious at not just the embezzlement attempt itself but also screwing over someone he is grateful to that the plan falls apart. |
| 53 | * ShowerOfAwkward: The first time he tries to take a bath in Demon King territory, he goes to the assigned bath, sees that it's been roped off and clearly labeled for his exclusive use, but when he walks in, finds a very, very naked Agnis playing with the water-heating salamander. Being a gentleman, he turns and bolts, but not before providing her with a [Ultra Simple Warehouse] to store her flames before she burns the whole castle down by accident in her flustered state. In the manga, he asks her to PleasePutSomeClothesOn so something doesn't happen if someone else walks in by mistake, but the rest still applies. |
| 54 | * SquishyWizard: His alchemy abilities are God-like, able to create magical elements that don't exist and reshaping matter to almost the atomic level, but he'd fold like a napkin the moment he gets hit with a simple punch. |
| 55 | * XanatosGambit: When he's negotiating with Princess Sophia and having her evaluate his products, both the [Foot Bath] and the [Light Element Cloth] undergarments, he puts his life on the line, asking her to blast him with her strongest magic, the U-V light attack. Either she enjoys the goods and is impressed with his bravery, or she blasts him with said magic and he gets to test the effectiveness of the [U-V Protection Parasol] Thor developed precisely to deal with Empire [Light] magic attacks. Either way, he wins something. Rukia and Mabel have an issue with the latter part. |
| 56 | [[/folder]] |
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| 58 | [[folder: Mabel Refrain]] |
| 59 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4_o_5.jpg]] |
| 60 | [[caption-width-right:350:Oh my, Thor Regus. You're the first human to ever greet me without fear!]] |
| 61 | Demon Lord Rukia's hand-maiden and childhood friend. |
| 62 | ---- |
| 63 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Downplayed. The novel and manga have her with purple hair, but the manga's tone is more pronounced. |
| 64 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She is loyal to Rukia because the demon lord picked her up and assigned her to be the royal handmaiden, after Mabel was chased out of her hometown for failing to have magic. She ''immediately'' warms up to Thor when he repairs her worn-out TragicKeepsake, good as new, and then makes her a [Foot Bath] that fixes her life-long inability to use magic, something even Rukia's best healers couldn't do. |
| 65 | %%* ChildhoodFriends: With Rukia and Agnis. (Zero-Context: Entry is just names) |
| 66 | * CloudCuckoolandersMinder: Part of her duties involve keeping Thor from going too far down his own rabbit hole into his research. |
| 67 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Her hair and eyes have similar shades of purple. |
| 68 | * {{Foil}}: To Thor. She was also chased out of her home by the townsfolk and taken up by Rukia, but at least her parents loved her. |
| 69 | * MakingASplash: Once she's able to use magic, she can use water-based spells. |
| 70 | * {{Meido}}: She is Rukia's maid and handmaiden. |
| 71 | * SuperPowerRussianRoulette: She was born with ''too much'' magical power, and it stagnates, which not only makes her legs cold, even in the depths of summer, but keeps her from being able to use magic. Thor fixed the issue by making her a [Foot Bath] he learned of in his [Mail Order Catalog], but even this is not a permanent cure, and she requires treatment on a regular basis. |
| 72 | * TragicKeepsake: That necklace she wears? It is a family heirloom that is the last surviving relic from her mother. |
| 73 | * UnevenHybrid: Mabel has a human grandmother and is herself quarter human and three-quarters elf. |
| 74 | * WhenSheSmiles: The manga illustrates her as absolutely adorable when she's happy and Thor is captivated by her smile. |
| 75 | [[/folder]] |
| 76 | |
| 77 | [[folder: Demon Lord Rukia]] |
| 78 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5_o_37.jpg]] |
| 79 | [[caption-width-right:350:I'll be in your care, Thor Canaan.]] |
| 80 | The current Demon Lord. She greets Thor when he first arrives at Demon King territory. |
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| 82 | * BenevolentBoss: She welcomes all input from her palace servants, even the ones she disagrees with, treats Thor well, and gives him the resources he needs to achieve his feats. |
| 83 | * TheCavalry: The plan to subjugate Gargarosa was a joint Empire/Demon operation. The imperials, under Zagran's orders, attacked first, hoping to show imperial strength and then demand concessions because the demon army failed to participate. The empire wound up with egg on their face when Demon Lord Rukia and her mage unit arrived on the scene with [Laser Pointer] assistance utterly curb-stomped the monster and its large brood of hatchlings. |
| 84 | * TheChainsOfCommanding: She'd like nothing more than to move in with Thor and play games such as Hide and Seek with him, just like Mabel and Agnis, but her royal duties won't let her, and it drives her nuts! |
| 85 | --> "What has happened to me?! [[NeverMyFault Thor! You did this! Take responsibility!]]" |
| 86 | * CuteLittleFangs: She has a snaggletooth, which goes well with her youth and friendly personality. |
| 87 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: She was already impressive with her magical "Dark Flames" but getting a [Laser Pointer] from Thor made her even deadlier, soloing the dangerous monster Gargarosa, and leading her army to exterminate its large brood of hatchlings, without a single casualty. |
| 88 | * EntertaininglyWrong: When she first meets Thor, she presumed that the Dolgaria Empire has vastly more powerful and talented alchemists in reserve and was giving Demon King territory a veiled threat by presenting Thor as the "disposable" alchemist they were willing to let go. It takes her the better part of a volume before she realizes Chancellor Kelve's second assessment, where the Empire gave him away not realizing his value, was correct. |
| 89 | * GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Cannot conceive that [[IHaveNoSon Thor's father sees his own son as disposable trash]], and breaks down in tears while trying to tell Thor that [[TheScapegoat Duke Regus ordered that he be used as a scapegoat]] should his embezzlement scheme come to light. |
| 90 | * TheGoodKing: She rules her territory with a firm but gentle hand and is beloved by her subjects. |
| 91 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's blonde, and a good, kind woman who treasures her subordinates and subjects. |
| 92 | * TheHighQueen: Demon King territory is actually an alliance of several smaller countries. She rules them all. |
| 93 | * HornedHumanoid: As a member of the "demon" race, she's got a pair of obsidian horns on her head. |
| 94 | * IControlMyMinionsThrough: Kindness, Loyalty, and Material Benefits. She wins over her most trusted followers by rescuing them from terrible situations and treating them with dignity and respect, not to mention generously rewarding their accomplishments. Naturally, they are very, very loyal as a result. |
| 95 | * RegalRinglets: Her twin-tails end in ringlets, which goes quite well with her status as Demon Lord. |
| 96 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: Invoked and exploited. She once commissions Thor to make her a [Body Pillow] so she can share a bed with Thor without ''actually'' sharing a bed with him. In the process of this vanity project, Thor comes up with several secondary technologies, such as the Element magic cloth, which is very, very useful, and the [Onesies] which allow for infiltration and espionage via VoluntaryShapeshifting, eventually having pixies infiltrate a human town on the border by impersonating owls and cats, one of them even visiting second princess Sophia! |
| 97 | * SheIsTheKing: She's the Demon Lord but the title is unisex. |
| 98 | * ToughLeaderFacade: Literally. To hide her youth and inexperience, she wore a mask that cast an illusion making her appear older and more threatening than she really is. She became psychologically dependent on this to project her authority. Without the mask, she's actually a very sweet and happy girl who treasures her friends and loves tea-parties. |
| 99 | * YoungAndInCharge: She's even younger than Thor, but rules the Demon King territory. |
| 100 | [[/folder]] |
| 101 | |
| 102 | [[folder: Agnis Respalgia]] |
| 103 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4_o_3.jpg]] |
| 104 | [[caption-width-right:350:Thank you, Thor. IOweYouMyLife!]] |
| 105 | The daughter of General Respalgia. She meets Thor when her father responds to Duke Regus's letter, stating that Thor was a warrior and wanted a duel. With her father's blessing, she immediately offers herself in marriage to Thor for giving her the [Health Pendant] that fixes her PowerIncontinence issues, allowing her to move freely in society without being a danger to herself and others, rekindle her friendship with Mabel, and most importantly, get to wear fancy dresses and be the girly girl she likes to be. |
| 106 | ---- |
| 107 | * AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: The fact that her power puts everyone around her in danger terrifies her, which makes things worse as the power is fueled by her emotions. |
| 108 | * BlessedWithSuck: She was born with very strong blood ties to Ifrit, the spirit of flame. As such, when puberty hit, awakening her power, ''she can't control it, at all'' without completely shutting down her emotions, an ImpossibleTask. Fortunately, she met Thor, who provided a permanent solution. |
| 109 | * ChildhoodFriends: With Mabel. Agnis used to visit the castle a lot when she was younger and Mabel already worked there as a maid at the time, so the two ended up becoming friends and often played together. While they grew apart after Agnis accidentally burned Mabel, the latter never really held it against her, and yearned for the two to become friends once more. Thor ends up granting that wish by helping Agnis control her power with the [Health Pendant]. |
| 110 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindows: In the manga, her eyes and hair are the same shade of red. |
| 111 | * EmotionalPowers: Agnis's flames grow stronger when she becomes upset. When first introduced, she is forced to wear fire-resistant armor since normal clothes would burn otherwise, but even her armor is no longer quite strong enough to completely contain her flames. Once Thor creates the [Health Pendant] for Agnis, her excess flames are converted to other magic attributes which [[SuperStrength strengthen her body]], allowing Agnis to manhandle her own father (who's a LightningBruiser and a FourStarBadass to boot). |
| 112 | * TheFashionista: She loves to design girls' clothing, so when Thor needs someone to help design clothes for the fairies using [Elemental Cloth], she jumps at the chance to volunteer. The fairies in question never stop praising her designs, which tickles her pink. |
| 113 | * GoingCommando: Due to her powers, Agnis couldn't wear any clothing under her armor, which is part of the reason Thor walks in on her - he saw her armor lying around but not any clothing and assumed she was dressed. Later she has a more traditional example when she is in a maid outfit to test the amulet and gets embarrassed when she jumps too high. |
| 114 | * IOweYouMyLife: A variant based on quality of life rather than the life itself. Because Thor gave her the [Health Pendant] that allows her to actually control her powerful fire magic abilities, by turning the flame magic into physical strength, she has sworn a life debt to him, and the quickest way to resolve that is by marriage. Thor's response? "Cool!" |
| 115 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When her power awakened, she was at a tea-party with Mabel, and her flames burned the latter's hand. Although Mabel got her hand healed with magic and doesn't hold a grudge, knowing Agnis had no control, Agnis still feels terrible about it. |
| 116 | * NakedFirstImpression: Close enough. When she's first introduced, she was wearing head-to-toe plate-mail and hiding behind her father. Her first proper introduction is in the bath playing with a salamander tasked with warming the bathwater, completely naked. |
| 117 | * NiceGirl: So much so that when Thor walks in on her, naked, playing with the salamander in the bath, she ''apologizes'' for either bypassing the restrictions (novel) or failing to put up the warning sign (manga) and losing control of her flames when she had a proper FreakOut. Then she '''thanks him''' when he provides her the [Ultra Simple Warehouse] to use as a stop-gap measure until the [Health Pendant] is ready for her. |
| 118 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: She has red eyes and is very dangerous, either with her flames or once Thor equips her with the [Health Pendant], very physically strong when she gets mad. |
| 119 | * ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Thor gets an eyeful of her in her birthday suit because he walked in on her when she wasn't supposed to be there, and she is initially too upset about nearly roasting him alive by mistake to realize she's completely naked in front of a guy. Thor, being a gentleman, points it out after gifting her the [Ultra Simple Warehouse] so they can continue their conversation while she's fully clothed, to avoid any... misunderstandings. |
| 120 | * RoseHairedSweetie: She has red hair and is a genuine nice girl who treasures her friends. |
| 121 | * TraumaticSuperPowerAwakening: An unusual take in that [[InvertedTrope the power awakening triggers the trauma, not the other way around]]. |
| 122 | * TwentyFourHourArmor: Justified. Prior to meeting Thor, she needed to wear extremely fire-resistant armor to keep from setting everything, and everyone, around her on fire at the slightest expression of emotion. Once he gave her the [Health Pendant], she can dress in the frilly dresses she loves all she wants. |
| 123 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She is so protective of Thor that even her father speaking ill of him will result in being on the receiving end of a German Suplex, and thanks to the [Health Pendant] turning her flames to physical strength, she can manhandle her father as if he was a helpless child, and '''he''' is one of the top 5 generals in the Demon King Territory, based on strength alone. |
| 124 | [[/folder]] |
| 125 | |
| 126 | ! Regus House |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder: Bargus Regus]] |
| 129 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bargas.jpg]] |
| 130 | [[caption-width-right:350:Not that you were '''ever''' wanted, you "useless incompetent." You should have committed suicide when you turned out to be no warrior!]] |
| 131 | Thor's father and the one who kicked off the plot by banishing Thor to the Demon King territory, intending for Thor to die. |
| 132 | ---- |
| 133 | * AbusiveDad: He never hesitated to physically and verbally abuse Thor every chance he got. |
| 134 | * AccidentalMurder: Implied. His scheme to save face by presenting a holy sword that only looked repaired to avoid having to admit that he foolishly banished the only alchemist who could work on it blows up in its owner's face, and Princess Liana only survived because someone else took the enemy monster's blow in her place. It is never mentioned if the one who took that blow actually managed to survive it. |
| 135 | * AdaptationalSympathy: Downplayed as much as possible. In the original novel, he knew Thor was working on Liana's holy sword, he just didn't care, as he views all alchemists as grossly beneath him and thinks it's something anyone could do. So after he's banished Thor and the princess sends a knight to find out where her holy sword is, he learns this is not so and scrambles to try and find an alternative by sending his butler out with the order "just get it fixed, no matter what!" As such, the butler has to settle for faking the repair with sub-standard materials because that's his only option. In the manga, Duke Regus had no such knowledge, even if it was the result of willful ignorance, and sent his butler to collect the sword. The butler decided on his own volition to fake the repair by using sub-standard materials and never informed Duke Regus about it. |
| 136 | * AssumedWin: He is so delusional that he was expecting victory parades for his scheme to embezzle silver from a mine in Duke Respalgia's territory with the intent of causing a political schism within the Demon King's territory. Even if the scheme had worked as intended, there's no feasible way he could ever publicly be given the credit considering [[GreaterScopeVillain Prime Minister Zagran]]. |
| 137 | * BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: He honestly considers Thor using his gods given [Alchemy] skills to benefit whatever country he's in an utterly shameful act and does his best to suppress it. He considers the fact that he banished Thor to what he believed to be a hostile power to be inherently praiseworthy and is completely flummoxed when people who don't have to bow to his ducal authority '''completely and utterly lambaste him''' instead. |
| 138 | * CircularReasoning: Because he views the non-combat profession [Alchemy] as completely useless to him and his house, he does everything possible to convince himself that his son Thor, an alchemist, is totally useless. In that vein, he has all of Thor's accomplishments and merits squashed and placed into obscurity from everyone, especially himself. This really turns to bite him, so hard it's painful to watch, when Princess Liana comes looking for her sword, that he himself commissioned to be fixed, and he had wound up exiling Thor who was working on it out of willful ignorance, and then deluded himself that as long as the sword looks okay that's good enough. |
| 139 | * DidNotThinkThisThrough: Banishing Thor to die in the Demon King's territory was supposed to erase the "shame" of his household and give him and his all the glory and perks he thinks he deserves. At least that's what went on in his head. The reality is that he [[RemovingTheCrucialTeammate permanently alienated a very, very rare and valuable tool]] his country ''needs'' in its expansionist agenda and cold-war with the Demon King country, and worse, actually gave said tool ''to'' the Demon Lord his empire is trying to keep intimidated, and it just gets worse from there. |
| 140 | * DiggingYourselfDeeper: When it dawns on him that he screwed up by banishing Thor, his knee-jerk responses only serve to make everything worse for him. |
| 141 | ** He put pressure on the government-controlled alchemy lab that was repairing the crown princess's holy sword to keep all of Thor's accomplishments secret, even from himself. As such, he didn't know Thor was working on said sword until ''after'' the boy was banished, and with Thor gone, there's nobody around who can even begin to work on it, due to how severe the wear and tear is and the fact that the sword's core has a major fracture. He never learns of this, due to sending his butler to the Alchemist's guild to demand the sword be fixed, at all costs, when the crown requests an update. |
| 142 | ** The butler, with the Regus crest in hand, goes to the alchemist's guild, as ordered, and is informed by the head alchemist that nobody currently employed is qualified to even look at the sword, due to how bad the damage is, and since the Regus house specifically ordered all Thor's activities erased from the records, even he has no idea who was working on the sword [[DramaticIrony and would very much like to meet this alchemist]]. Not wanting to admit he goofed by insulting Thor, he goes with his orders "to fix the sword no matter what" and uses the Regus seal to order the alchemist to make it ''look'' repaired by filling in the damage with sub-standard materials. |
| 143 | ** The head alchemist doesn't want to take the fall if the sword winds up in combat, so the butler happily signs the contract and then delivers the "repaired" sword to the duke, but Duke Regus presumed it was an ornamental sword and passed it on, genuinely believing it was repaired. |
| 144 | ** The crown princess, not being informed of this, takes the "repaired" sword into battle on her virgin hunt against monsters. Since the sword wasn't repaired properly, '''it shatters''' when she tries to use her [Light] magic through it as she was trained. If a close friend and bodyguard didn't take the monster's counter in her place, ''she could have easily died.'' |
| 145 | ** When the princess gives Duke Regus the cold shoulder at a party, he publicly demands to know why she's spurning him. She then makes his scheme public, even showing one and all the very contract he signed to provide a sword that only looked like it was repaired because he didn't want to admit that he couldn't complete the task he volunteered for. The culmination of the above examples leads the Regus House to plummet in reputation. |
| 146 | ** He tries to recover his reputation by conspiring with a margrave who lives near a silver mine the empire and demon territory were planning to share to once again throw Thor under the bus in a scheme to net more silver for the empire than the contract allows, and bribing General Respalgia, in whose territory the mine lays. He was unaware that the demon general is a man of honor above his warrior ethos, ''and'' has a debt of gratitude towards Thor. This results in Duke Regus's attempt at embezzlement reaching the ears of the emperor and [[DirtyCoward Bragas]] not only being demoted from Duke to Count, but also being sent to the front lines, personally, to "lessen his sins." |
| 147 | ** He is given a chance to get amnesty by being ordered to write Thor an apology letter. His "apology" has absolutely no sincerity, and he tries to throw the blame on Margrave Garoa '''and''' makes it glaringly obvious that the only value he sees in Thor is as an imperial mole. Thor doesn't even open the letter and has Mabel both open it and read it aloud, in front of the Demon King's army. When she's done, Thor tells the imperial messenger, one of the very same knights that banished Thor in the first place "Tell Bragas that Thor Regus is dead ''just like he wanted'', I am Thor '''Canaan''', and I will have nothing to do with the Doragia Empire!" |
| 148 | ** When word of his failure comes back to him through Zagran, he protests "But I wrote the letter!" Zagran points out that the promise of amnesty is only valid if ''the letter worked'', which it [[EpicFail clearly didn't]], and it is only because the Emperor thinks that there might be a means to use Thor's grudge that Bragas hasn't been executed yet. When [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence Bragas Regus]] [[FateWorseThanDeath hears that he has his life only because of]] [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Thor's existence]], he breaks down in despair, howling like a wounded animal, and has to be carried out of Zagran's manor. Zagran himself finds it '''very''' gratifying. |
| 149 | * DirtyCoward: For all his bravado about combat strength being the epitome of virtue, when '''he''' is the one going to the front lines, he panics, begs, and pleads to try and get out of it. |
| 150 | * DramaticIrony: In the princess's tea party, he's smugly sucking up all the condolences and praise for "being compelled to sacrifice his son to the Demon King savages for the sake of the empire" and happily thinking how this is the glory his house deserves after finally purging "that incompetent." His head butler steps in and tries to warn him about the sword, but when the name "Thor" comes up, Duke Bragas shouts down the butler, just before Crown Princess Liana arrives. Duke Bragas then tries to rush off and greet her only to be looked upon with contempt, at which point karma starts to catch up with him. |
| 151 | * DumbMuscle: All he can see as "useful" is someone with a glaringly obvious utility on the battlefield. Everything else is a "useless incompetent." |
| 152 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: When word gets back to him that General Respalgia considers Thor his daughter's fiance, his mind loudly goes "Does Not Compute" as he can't possibly comprehend why a mighty warrior would want his daughter married to a clear and present non-combatant, regardless of the boy's merits off the battle-field. In fact, the only theory that makes any sense is that Thor has somehow sold Empire national secrets to gain political favor, despite the sheer impossibility of it. |
| 153 | * EvilLuddite: The very concept of Research and Development fills him with disgust. He pointedly says "it's not worth it" when Thor points out that the very holy weapons his country prides itself on are falling apart and somebody needs to maintain them, and if the empire insists on resting on its laurels, with the summoning ritual not working, it's only a matter of time until someone can trump the empire's tech. It comes back to bite him horribly. |
| 154 | * EvilMakesYouUgly: When he first appears, he's drawn as ruggedly handsome, as seen in the page image, as he becomes more desperate and despicable, the art style regarding him visibly deteriorates. His eyes and mouth distort to the point of uncanny valley when he's smug. His eyes either bug out or hide in shadow when he's upset. The rest of his face just... distorts in unnatural ways as he's cornered, trying to save himself, or placing the blame on others. And lastly, his hairline visibly recedes... |
| 155 | * FatalFlaw: His completely unjustified pride is what drove him to abuse and harass Thor, and because he's too proud to admit his mistakes, he just kept digging himself deeper trying to cover them up until he got in so deep, he can't climb back out again. Even then, he's still too proud to ask for help from the guy with a rope because he still sees that guy as completely beneath him. |
| 156 | * FateWorseThanDeath: The sin of provoking even one enemy in Demon King territory is so heavy that summary executions aren't rare. By his heavy-handed banishing of Thor and provoking General Respalgia, he provoked ''two'' such enemies. When he's informed of that and the Prime Minister makes it clear that his life was spared only because there's a possibility he can be used as a hostage to curb Thor's enmity, meaning Thor's existence is the only thing keeping him alive, he breaks down wailing in despair and has to be physically carried out of the Prime Minister's estate. It's immensely gratifying on both sides of the fourth wall. |
| 157 | * FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Thor renouncing his family name, inheritance, and living as a commoner isn't enough to put this guy at ease. He has to make sure Thor is '''dead''' and nobody ever connects Thor's accomplishments in alchemy to his Ducal house. As such, he puts pressure on the alchemy college to refuse admission, and the government office to deny Thor any rewards, accomplishments, or advancement, and to top it all off, has Thor kidnapped and banished the first chance he gets. It became a SelfFulfillingProphecy after that point when he is constantly digging himself deeper to the point that [[{{Irony}} Thor's existence]] is the only reason that Bragas [[FateWorseThanDeath isn't executed for his actions]]. |
| 158 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: He reveals his cowardly nature in the manga when he states that he'd rather commit suicide than face Demon King territory in battle. At first, this could be construed that the demi-humans are just that scary, but taken in light of the original source, when he panics, pleads, and begs to not be sent to the front lines, it serves to warn that for all his bravado, he's just a coward at heart. |
| 159 | * HumiliationConga: And it's all entirely self-inflicted. |
| 160 | ** He learns how it feels to be helplessly ridiculed when he's getting dressed down by crown princess Liana for presenting her holy sword as repaired when it wasn't, as everyone in attendance mocks his incompetence and just loud enough for him to hear, points out that it would have been less embarrassing to admit he couldn't complete the commission to have the sword repaired than to try and fake it only to get caught. |
| 161 | ** His attempt to use Thor as a scapegoat for his scheme to embezzle silver from the Respalgia mine results in learning that Thor is engaged to marry Agnis, a demi-human, which makes him a laughing stock among the imperial court, as only the lowest of the low would have familial relations with Demon King territory. |
| 162 | ** To humiliate him further, Minister Zagran dresses him down again by pointing out how it's entirely his fault, in exquisite detail, knocking him down several noble ranks, and then sending him to the front lines, loudly shutting down his protests and pleas. |
| 163 | ** He gets ordered to write a formal apology letter to Thor, who he sees as nothing but an embarrassment. |
| 164 | ** His humiliation is complete when Zagran tells him he completely botched such a simple task, and the fact Thor exists is the only reason he hasn't been summarily executed. At this point, he breaks down in despair, and has to be carried out of Zagran's mansion. |
| 165 | * JerkassHasAPoint: In the manga, he's right to shout down his butler and put the oaf under house arrest for being directly responsible for the incident that smeared the Regus family name with mud by arbitrarily deciding to make purely cosmetic repairs on Liana's sword without clearing it with him first, '''and leaving behind obvious proof.''' Of course, the [[{{Hypocrite}} lion's share of the blame goes on Duke Bragas]] for exiling Thor and willfully keeping himself ignorant of who was working on the sword, but the butler clearly exceeded his mandate and only made things worse. |
| 166 | * LaserGuidedKarma: As punishment for permanently alienating Thor by verbally and physically abusing him for not having combat-oriented classes or stats, he gets sent to the front lines in a border clash between the Empire and some unstated another country. When he tries to beg and plead for an alternative, he gets the phrase [[IronicEcho "It's been decided!"]] yelled back at him, though he does get permission to take 5 of his household knights with him [[{{Irony}} who are all just as cowardly as he is]]. |
| 167 | * MilesGloriosus: He loves to boast about his house's combat prowess, but the moment it looks like he will actually have to fight, he panics and tries to beg his way out of it. |
| 168 | * NeverMyFault: When Crown Princess Liana specifically commissioned her sword to be repaired, she specified that it was to be made fit for battle (at least in the manga), yet Duke Bragas Regus completely forgot the commission entirely until one of her knights came knocking at the door, asking about it [[DramaticIrony after Thor was banished]]. At this point, he blames the alchemist guild for not sending him reminders even though he himself ordered them to never tell him anything his son Thor was working on. |
| 169 | ** When Liana is raking him over the coals for the fact that her poorly repaired sword shattered, nearly getting her killed, he tried to blame the alchemist guild for his shortcoming in presuming the sword was only supposed to be ceremonial, despite Liana specifying she wanted it fit for battle. |
| 170 | ** He tries to backhandedly blame Liana for taking a ceremonial sword into battle by asking if the sword wasn't meant to only be used in non-combat rituals. Liana then makes public that she originally tasked him to make the sword battle-ready in the first place. |
| 171 | ** When he and his butler are summarily frog-marched out of the party, he turns and shouts down the butler for providing a sword with only cosmetic repairs and leaving obvious proof. While this has some merit, it was his own willful ignorance that led to the situation. |
| 172 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: By banishing Thor to the Demon King territory, he not only upgrades Thor's [Alchemy] to [Complete Alchemy], but puts the boy in contact with Demon Lord Rukia, who gives him a much, much more rewarding job as her top alchemist, and gets him his [Mail Order Catalog] that allows him to advance the local tech by decades ''on the conservative side.'' And to kick the dog a bit more, he sends a letter to General Respalgia that Thor is a warrior, not an alchemist, so when General Respalgia brings his daughter to Thor, looking forward to having the two duel, the general is not rewarded with a fight that makes the poor girl accept her powers, but instead has Thor provide a real and permanent fix that allows her to move freely in society without being a danger to herself and others, giving Thor the very first of his fiances. |
| 173 | * OrderedApology: As part of a scheme to plant discord in Demon King territory, the Prime Minister has this guy write Thor a formal apology letter for all the crap he put Thor through. It backfires because the letter clearly has no sincerity and the attempt to make Thor a mole was glaringly obvious. |
| 174 | * PercussiveTherapy: When Thor protests that he is most certainly ''not'' useless, and that the Empire is actually in dire need of Alchemists, Duke Regus shouts "It has been decided, there is no changing it!" and punches a table so hard, it implodes, sending shrapnel everywhere. At that point, Thor realizes further attempts at discourse are pointless and asks ''where'' he's being banished to. |
| 175 | * PunnyName: His name is Bragas, and he's a total braggart. |
| 176 | * PsychologicalProjection: He presumed that since General Reselgia is a warrior who values strength, that he'd also happily look down on non-combatant support fields, like Thor's alchemy, and that's why he went with the scheme to try and bribe Duke Reselgia with a portion of the stolen silver from the mine, and if there's trouble, dump the blame on Thor. The problem is, demi-humans have long, long memories and they remember '''why''' they lost the war 200 years ago. The summoned Hero didn't win with just overwhelming might, he also had powerful logistics and was a TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe. As such, the Demon Lords have had a policy of "don't underestimate humans" and "all professions are valuable." So Reselgia wouldn't have looked down on Thor even if Thor hadn't earned his gratitude and his daughter's hand in marriage. |
| 177 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He not only loved to berate Thor for being an alchemist, and thus "useless," he was fond of having all the household servants openly mock him, including the head-butler coming forward and smugly proclaiming how embarrassing the result of the magic appraisals he went through, where his stats make him completely unable to actively contribute in any straight up battle. |
| 178 | * RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Which Zagran, Minister of Military Affairs, calls him out on, but it never registers thanks to Bragas's own loathing of Research and Development. A talented alchemist like Thor is ''desperately'' needed by the Empire, especially the royal family, but by bending over backward to alienate Thor to the point that [[PointOfNoReturn his grudge is utterly irreconcilable]], Bragas Regus has cost the empire a very, very valuable tool, and what's worse, [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal gave said tool over to the Empire's enemies, the very demon king the empire wants permanently cowed]]. If Zagran had his way, Bragas would be executed on charges of '''treason'''. |
| 179 | * TooDumbToLive: When Princess Liana asked the knights to escort him out of the imperial party, she was being ''extremely'' lenient. She has the authority to have him killed on the spot for putting her in danger with a poorly repaired sword. Then Duke Bragas ignores her leniency, pushes his way past the knights and loudly demands to know why she's spurning a duke house, in public. This is an open invitation to make his sins public, and she takes it. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder: The Regus Head Butler]] |
| 183 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/butler_5.jpg]] |
| 184 | [[caption-width-right:350:Could it be?! We've screwed up! [[OhCrap SHIT!]] It's too late, [[PointOfNoReturn Thor's already been sent as a "sacrifice".]]]] As the head of the Regus family butlers, he's the one who loved to mock Thor the most, second only to Duke Bragas himself. |
| 185 | ---- |
| 186 | * AppealToAuthority: When he was going around desperately trying to find an alchemist to finish Thor's repairs on Princess Liana's holy sword, he'd shut down all the alchemists who wanted to know the name of the guy previously working on it by shouting and calling upon Duke Bragas's authority. |
| 187 | * DidNotThinkThisThrough: He uses the Regus house seal to absolve the alchemy guild of blame when he uses the duke's authority to order them to make it look fixed instead. Naturally, the princess is not an idiot and investigated when the sword shattered, with the head alchemist all too happy to show this contract and absolve himself of blame. |
| 188 | * EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: He's only ever addressed as "Butler-san." His name is never mentioned. |
| 189 | * EvilGloating: He absolutely loved to gloat at Thor's suffering, and would happily ridicule him at every opportunity for daring to not have glaringly obvious direct combat capacity. |
| 190 | * HighClassGlass: He wears a monocle and is the head butler of a duke house. |
| 191 | * OhCrap: He is illustrated in the manga as visibly horrified when every alchemist he goes to informs him that thanks to the empire's KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect policy, alchemy has deteriorated to the point that '''nobody''' can fix a holy sword, and he was there gloating when Duke Bragas Regus banished the one guy who probably could. He even goes on to lampshade it by shouting "SHIT!" |
| 192 | * PoorCommunicationKills: Perhaps literally. His failure to inform Duke Bragas that not even the best alchemists in the empire could work on Liana's sword the way she commissioned, and failing to inform him that Thor was the only alchemist that could even try, led to the princess taking the weapon into battle and nearly getting killed, surviving only because her party-members held off the beast's counter. |
| 193 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He only has one truly relevant scene, going to the government office where Thor works to collect Liana's sword and have it fixed. He botches this so, so badly that he nearly eradicates the Regus house all by himself. To put this simply, the Regus house was doomed to lose its reputation by banishing Thor; all the butler did was hasten its inevitable fall. |
| 194 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: By using the Regus crest to order the top alchemist he could find to fake the repairs to Princess Liana's sword, he set off a chain of events that would ultimately put the Regus house in real danger of eradication. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | ! Dolgaria Empire |
| 198 | |
| 199 | [[folder: Crown Princess Liana]] |
| 200 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/liana.jpg]] |
| 201 | [[caption-width-right:350:After putting me and my companions in danger, you still have the nerve to ask why you're not welcome, Duke Bargas Regus?!]] |
| 202 | First introduced chewing out Duke Bargas Regus for delivering a sword that only looked repaired, endangering her life by neglecting to inform her that he intended said sword to be purely ornamental, and having the unmitigated gall to publicly demand why she spurned him at a tea party in the aftermath. When he tried to shift the blame to the alchemist's guild, she whips out the contract signed with his house's seal proving that he intentionally ordered them to fake the repair using his Ducal authority. |
| 203 | ---- |
| 204 | * FieryRedhead: She's described as having sakura-colored hair and she can be downright terrifying in her TranquilFury. |
| 205 | * GetOut: When Duke Bragas Regus approaches her at the imperial party, she orders her knights to have him removed. He's dumb enough to object, loudly, and make her grievances public. |
| 206 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She completely trusts the words of the Imperial Prime Minister at face value, just because he's nice to her every now and then, when he's a scheming two-faced weasel who only sees her as a tool, on a good day. |
| 207 | * InnocentBigot: When she learns Thor is the "wandering alchemist" that was fixing her holy sword, and he was doing a good enough job that when said sword ''shattered'', the parts he fixed were still enough to bring down the offending monster, she offers genuine gratitude and asks Demon Lord Rukia if Thor can be returned to the empire as her tool, expecting that to come across as the high praise she intended it to sound like. Rukia was '''furious''' and told her "Nope! Not going to happen!" Thor later admits that for the Doralgia empire, this is indeed high praise, and he's genuinely touched by Liana's gratitude, but he's still not going back. |
| 208 | * MagicKnight: She's skilled with the sword and can use powerful [Light] magic attacks. |
| 209 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Duke Regus foolishly demands to know why she spurned him at a public tea party, she tears into him for putting her life in danger by presenting her holy sword as "repaired" when in fact he ordered the alchemist's guild to only make it look like it was fixed when they told him the sword was too far gone, and nobody had the skills to even try, especially since the duke himself ignorantly banished the guy who was actually doing the job. Then she tears into him again when he tries to throw the alchemist's guild under the bus by stating that she indeed went to the guild to investigate and the guildmaster was all too happy to present the contract with his family crest where the guild was ordered to fake the repair using his ducal authority. |
| 210 | * SkilledButNaive: She's indeed a talented MagicKnight, but she puts way, way too much trust in people she shouldn't. |
| 211 | * TranquilFury: When she's chewing out Duke Bragas Regus, she doesn't shout, gesticulate, rant or rave. She just looks in his general direction with unbridled contempt and calmly berates him, projecting her voice so that all the nobles in attendance can hear her. |
| 212 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Following Zagran's plot to show off imperial strength in attacking the Gargarosa before the Demon Lord's army arrived, she misjudged the timing of her ultimate move, losing most of its attack power against the giant spider's easily replaceable hatchlings, nearly getting her entire army unit wiped out. |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder: Margrave Garoa]] |
| 216 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/souzou_renkinjutsushi_11_1_19.jpg]] |
| 217 | [[caption-width-right:350:Duke Regus! This isn't what you promised! Why the heck is Respalgia mad at the idea of the "useless" Thor being a scapegoat?! WHY??!!]]The Margrave whose demesne borders General Respalgia's territory and who was sent to negotiate with the general in regards to a silver mine found there. He colludes with Duke Regus to steal silver from the mine and then try to bribe the general with the stolen silver, hoping to create a fracture in Demon King territory's upper echelons. This all completely falls apart both because the general is a man of honor and because the margrave insulted Thor, to whom the general has a major debt of gratitude. |
| 218 | ---- |
| 219 | * DiggingYourselfDeeper: He first offends General Respalgia by suggesting stealing from the silver mines and deceiving the leader of his people, the Demon King. When Respalgia balks, he offers Thor's head on a platter, as a scapegoat, insulting Respalgia's honor and intelligence. He's shocked that Respalgia completely flips his lid and chases him off. |
| 220 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He can't fathom why General Respalgia would turn away the chance to get rich by letting the empire steal silver from his mine in exchange for hefty bribes, paid from said stolen silver. Like Duke Regus, he also can't understand why the general would want his daughter to marry a non-combatant. |
| 221 | * FatBastard: The manga has him illustrated as so overweight, he could easily be mistaken for a living snow-man, and he's a despicable sot who thinks nothing wrong of embezzlement and framing an innocent party for the fallout when an easily exposable scheme comes to light. |
| 222 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He's a throw-away character but is directly responsible for having the machinations of Duke Regus blow up and bringing Prime Minister Zagran in to chew out the evil duke. |
| 223 | [[/folder]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[folder: Prime Minister Zagran]] |
| 226 | The prime minister of the empire until chapter 76 of the novel. |
| 227 | ---- |
| 228 | * BreakingSpeech: When Bragas and Garoa screwed up the silver mine negotiations, Zagran was content to send [[DirtyCoward Bragas]] to the front lines in some unstated border conflict with another nation, but when [[DiggingHimselfDeeper Bragas]] [[EpicFail failed the simple task of]] ''[[EpicFail writing an apology letter]]'', Zagran has had enough and berates him with a speech so destructive that [[VillainousBreakdown Bragas throws himself to the ground and starts wailing like a wounded animal]], pounding the dirt with a mighty vengeance, and having to be carried away. Considering everything that happened to this point, both sides of the FourthWall [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech found this]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil cathartic]]. |
| 229 | --> '''Zagran''': "[[AbusiveDad You]] have abused Thor and denied him advancement for three years, '''three years''', and that's after he renounced his family name and lived like a commoner. When you summoned him to your estate, you could have made entreaties to his patriotism, or offered to make amends. '''[[TooDumbToLive You did not do that.]]''' ''Instead'', you insulted him, berated him, '''[[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence and ordered him to die]]'''. [[SpannerInTheWorks Thanks to you,]] [[PointOfNoReturn his grudge is irreconcilable, and]] [[RemovingTheCrucialTeammate you have cost the Empire a very, very valuable tool,]] [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal and worse, given that tool to our enemies!]] If it were me, I'd have you executed for '''treason''', but The Emperor has decided to spare you because maybe, just maybe, [[FateWorseThanDeath there's a way we can use his grudge against you to spare the Empire as a whole]]." |
| 230 | --> '''Bragas''': [[SelfFulfillingProphecy "I owe my life to THOR?!"]] (falls to the ground and starts pounding at the tiles) "AAAAAARRRGAAAGGGAAHH!!!!" |
| 231 | --> '''Zagran''': "Guards, carry him out of here and take him away, back to the front lines! He's got a little skill with the sword, but otherwise, [[IronicEcho he's a useless incompetent]]!" |
| 232 | * DevilInPlainSight: He makes little effort to disguise how rotten of a scoundrel he is, yet few manage to realize it. |
| 233 | * EqualOpportunityEvil: Unlike most in the empire top echelons, he ''doesn't'' discriminate against non-combatants, and recognizes talent wherever he sees it, regardless of field. |
| 234 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a two-faced scheming weasel, but even he was beyond outraged when his spies filled him in on exactly how Thor was abused and told to go die as he was thrown out of the empire to the demon king territory, [[BreakingSpeech then goes on to berate Bragas Regus for it]]. |
| 235 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: |
| 236 | ** He can not comprehend why Demon King Rukia and Princess Sophia would actually get along and become allies after fighting a new species of monster together, or why the princess would care about the lives of the demi-humans he planned to have imperial soldiers harass with military exercises to try and cow Demon King territory. |
| 237 | ** When he's in the throne room being reamed by Crown Prince Diaz for his subordinate's completely inexcusable screwup, under his orders no less, he thinks back to how Princess Liana became completely listless after her "useless" older sister Sophia was sent away to the border and can't understand, for the life of him, why Liana sees her sister as a LivingEmotionalCrutch and had her morale completely collapse after Sophia was sent away. |
| 238 | * GreaterScopeVillain: He's the one that provided the plan for Duke Regus to try and create friction among the top of the Demon King country by seeing if General Respalgia can be bribed into letting empire soldiers steal silver from a mine. He's not ''too'' upset by the plan itself failing, but he is immensely outraged as to [[GoneHorriblyWrong how badly Duke Regus screwed the pooch and why]]. |
| 239 | * HalfTruth: When his scheme to show up the demon king army in the subjugation mission against the monster Gargarosa fails, he shifts the blame for provoking the monster to some unnamed imperial convicted conscripts, and strongly "warns" Princess Liana to stay quiet on the subject. This doesn't fool Rukia for a second, but she has no choice but to let the lie pass because the imperial army ''does'' conscript convicts into the armed forces and she had no proof Zagran was less than honest. |
| 240 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: For most of his political career, he was able to get away with nastiness by using PlausibleDeniability. This comes home to roost when he tries a XanatosGambit with the ill Princess Sofia and it blows up in his face. |
| 241 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: The fact that he summarily sent Bragas Regus to the front lines as punishment for abusing Thor, enraging General Respalgia, and costing the empire several years' worth of silver from the mine is a more than fitting punishment for the DirtyCoward. |
| 242 | * PlausibleDeniability: He prefers to have the blame for all his schemes in the hands of disposable pawns. This does eventually fail him when one of his pawns screws up so badly that he can't fully avoid the blame anymore. |
| 243 | * PsychologicalProjection: |
| 244 | ** Because he would point and laugh at the failure of others behind their backs, he presumes Demon King Rukia and her generals would do the same when his scheme to steal a march on the subjugation of the monster Gargarosa failed, and the Demon Lord's army had to bail the empire's army out of trouble. |
| 245 | ** Again, he sends Sophia to the border with a XanatosGambit because he ''personally'' doesn't care if she lives or dies, due to being "useless" thanks to illness. He is utterly flummoxed that her younger sister Liana reveres her and needs her as a LivingEmotionalCrutch. |
| 246 | * RealPolitik: Attempted but averted repeatedly. He tries several despicable schemes to cause friction in Demon King territory to serve imperial interests, and they all blow up. |
| 247 | * TooCleverByHalf: The reason his schemes fail is because said schemes have too many moving parts, and his final XanatosGambit collapsed on itself when Thor managed to fix Princess Sophia's SuperpowerDisability. |
| 248 | * XanatosGambit: All his schemes have this in one form or another. The first on-screen example is tasking Duke Regus with the scheme to try and bribe General Respalgia into letting the empire steal some silver from a mine. If things go as planned, the empire gets funds for its war efforts through the extra silver. If the negotiations go poorly, strife can be started in the Demon King territory by framing the general for demanding bribes. If things go really, really badly, he can dump the blame on Duke Regus and remove a political rival. Of course, [[GoneHorriblyWrong the duke screwed the pooch so badly]] that not only is Demon King territory now on guard against imperial meddling, and their general actively hostile, but the empire had to remit payment equivalent to several years of expected income from the mine to soothe all the ruffled feathers involved. |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder: Princess Sophia]] |
| 252 | The first princess. Born with powerful [Light] magic, it stagnated in her system, making her extremely ill. The only reason she wasn't summarily cast off is that she '''can''' cast magic, but pays a huge price afterwards. She meets Thor when she's sent to the Empire/Demon border as part of the empire's ongoing military exercises and to investigate sightings of a dangerous unknown monster. |
| 253 | ---- |
| 254 | * AltarDiplomacy: And it's her idea. Knowing that she can't inherit the crown due to poor health, and that per imperial custom, she'd be passed off into marriage to strengthen alliances, she chose to request Thor's hand in marriage to maintain the peace with Demon King territory, especially since she's seen that Thor is of exemplary moral fiber and knows he will treat her with respect. That, and being married to Thor will grant her unconditional access to the [Foot Bath] that allows her to live normally. |
| 255 | * ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: The schemes and plots of her empire's top brass don't fool her for a moment, and she read both Rukia and Thor perfectly. |
| 256 | * GoodIsNotDumb: She may be a sheltered princess, but she's neither stupid nor naive. |
| 257 | * HappyEndingMassage: Her magic stagnation was so severe that using Thor's [Foot Bath] and solving the issue left her with post-orgasmic afterglow. |
| 258 | * InadequateInheritor: TruthInTelevision. In real life, poor health is often a very, very good reason to deny people power and authority. Considering her ill health prior to Thor's [Foot Bath] treatment, the empire was more than justified in keeping her from inheriting the crown. |
| 259 | * IOweYouMyLife: She knows that if it wasn't for Thor's inventions, especially the [Alert Whistle], she'd be dead, so she offers her hand in marriage to him as a reward. |
| 260 | * RemovedAchillesHeel: Though it's not permanent, using the [Foot Bath] allows her to cast her powerful magic without drawbacks. |
| 261 | * SuperpowerDisability: Prior to using Thor's [Foot Bath], casting [Light] magic ran the risk of completely wrecking her body, requiring an army of healers working her over for a full month while she was in a coma. |
| 262 | [[/folder]] |
| 263 | |
| 264 | [[folder: Emperor Dolgaria]] |
| 265 | The current emperor of the Dolgaria Empire. |
| 266 | ---- |
| 267 | * HeadInTheSandManagement: He pointedly ignores reports of things he doesn't understand and has a policy of "don't trouble his majesty's mind," to shut down anyone who speaks of difficult topics. |
| 268 | * HeroWorship: Deconstructed. His national policy is nothing more than a terribly skewed attempt to emulate the characteristics of the summoned heroes his people admire, particularly their combat strength. Because he can't think outside the box, he fails to consider all the support the unsung heroes provided to the legends, and dooms his country to a slow death by stagnation and decay, by scorning his R&D specialists, the alchemists. |
| 269 | * ImproperlyParanoid: He's obsessed with making his country the strongest on the planet because he's convinced the rest of the world is out to get him if he shows even the tiniest weakness. |
| 270 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He is obsessed with the empire being the strongest country in the world, out of feelings of inadequacy and fear. |
| 271 | * PuppetKing: His own insecurities, paranoia, and inability to investigate and process new ideas makes him easily manipulated, especially by Crown Prince Diaz. |
| 272 | [[/folder]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | [[folder: Crown Prince Diaz Dolgaria]] |
| 275 | The heir to the crown. |
| 276 | ---- |
| 277 | * DramaticallyMissingThePoint: He quotes one of the ancient Heroes "an ability you consider weak could actually be strong" and despite that indeed being the case with Thor's Alchemy skill, he ignores it and suggests bringing out the Monster Tamer skill to tame the dangerous new species of monsters appearing in or near the empire as the empire's trump card. The emperor, with his inability to understand what's going on, even explained to him in small, simple words, just agrees to keep from having his mind troubled. |
| 278 | * MouthOfSauron: While the emperor does attend important meetings in person, he rarely ever speaks, preferring to have Crown Prince Diaz speak on his behalf from a script written in advance, with Diaz only rarely allowing deviations from the script without the emperor's direct input. |
| 279 | [[/folder]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[folder: Isaac "Omawarisan" Muller]] |
| 282 | Princess Sophia's top bodyguard. |
| 283 | ---- |
| 284 | * JerkassRealization: When Princess Sophia recovered from her poor constitution, and became active in dealing with Demon King territory herself, he was initially annoyed but began to respect her dedication, courage, and valor, realizing he was acting like a boor. |
| 285 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's just as bigoted as the next imperial knight against non-combatants, but he does have Princess Sophia's best interests at heart and wants to keep her safe and happy. |
| 286 | * MeaningfulRename: He adds "Omawarisan" as a middle-name in honor of Thor's [Alert Whistle] which everyone believes summoned Earth's guardian spirit "Omawarisan" to restrict the movement of monsters threatening Sophia's life. |
| 287 | * NobleBigot: He starts out heavily biased against non-combatants but is brave and valorous. He further ''outgrows'' his bigotry when he sees Sophia recover and bravely face the giant centipede head-on, and begins treating Thor with respect after witnessing him use the [Alert Whistle] to save her life at great risk to himself. |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder: Mariella]] |
| 291 | Nominally second-in-command to Isaac Muller, she actually serves directly under Zagran. |
| 292 | ---- |
| 293 | * DiggingYourselfDeeper: After failing to capture a "holy sword" Thor planted nearby, secured with the [Chain Lock], she doubled down on her mistake by trying to comply with Zagran's orders to show up the Demon King army by slaying the beasts the Demon King and Empire armies were investigating. |
| 294 | * FatalFlaw: Overzealousness. Her fanatic reverence of Zagran causes her to both over-literally commit to her instructions, without ever thinking of any alternatives, as well as charge recklessly into an unknown situation. As a result, she nearly dies, screws up Zagran's plans royally, and is ultimately discarded and sent to prison. |
| 295 | * {{Foil}}: To Liana. As lampshaded by Zagran. Mariella was Zagran's prototype attempt to indoctrinate into obsessive empire strength worship. Mariella's indoctrination worked like a charm because Zagran was all she had. When Zagran tried to implement the same plan on Liana, he didn't take into account Sophia, seeing her as "a useless burden that nobody would care if she died." So Liana's devotion petered out when he sent Sophia away. |
| 296 | * MuggingTheMonster: She and a group of imperial soldiers followed the trail to a cave where the monster the border armies were investigating, expecting a bear. She and her group wound up getting stomped by a nest of 10 meter long centipedes. |
| 297 | * MyMasterRightOrWrong: She looks upon Zagran ''with religious fervor'', to a fanatical degree. |
| 298 | * PutOnAPrisonBus: Literally. She is last seen being loaded onto a prison carriage, destination unknown. |
| 299 | * SelectiveObliviousness: Even as she's being loaded onto a prison carriage, she never realizes that Zagran is throwing her away to try and save himself. |
| 300 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In trying to steal a march over the combined forces of Princess Sophia and Demon King Rukia, she provokes a lair of giant centipedes when she expected a bear or two. Her unit got routed, the border town the troops came from came under attack, and Princess Sophia herself nearly lost her life, if not for Thor's [Alert Whistle] restraining the monsters' movements, allowing the combined forces to win the day. |
| 301 | [[/folder]] |
| 302 | |
| 303 | ! Demon King Territory |
| 304 | |
| 305 | [[folder: Chancellor Kelve]] |
| 306 | Demon Lord Rubia's most trusted advisor. |
| 307 | ---- |
| 308 | * AccidentalDiscovery: He frequently finds new and interesting ''unintended'' uses for Thor's items that never crossed the boy's mind. Case in point, the [Radio Wave Detector] was brought into the throne room after heavy "testing" using a nice game of Hide and Seek, but a pebble of silver fell into the device on transit. Respalgia brings in a sample of silver ore from the mine. The detector ''homes in on the ore.'' This makes the chancellor very, very nervous to make the technology public and, once again, goes to HeadDesk the nearest pillar to try and make his headache go away... |
| 309 | * EntertaininglyWrong: At first, he presumed Thor just made one revolutionary tech upgrade after another without considering the long-term ramifications at all. Just for the hell of it. After several volumes, he comes closer to Thor's ultimate motive and concludes that all the upheavals from Thor's tech upgrades are deliberate, as Thor wants to utterly crush the Dolgaria Empire, with damn good reason. The truth of the matter is that while Thor does indeed wish the Dolgaria Empire and its strength worshipping culture gets razed to the ground, what ultimately motivates him is that he just like helping others, and doesn't consider the long-term consequences too often. |
| 310 | * GenreSavvy: After Thor's introduction, he brings up the possibility that Thor was sent because the empire did not realize his actual worth (completely true), but this is initially dismissed by the Demon King [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough who can't fathom how anyone could overlook such talent]]. |
| 311 | * TheGoodChancellor: He is a good man who is entirely faithful to the Demon King Rukia and tries to advise her in the best interests of the Demon King territory and of course, her bests interests. |
| 312 | * HeadDesk: Whenever Thor comes forward with a revolutionary new technology, apparently not caring about the repercussions, Kelve looks for the biggest and hardest object he can find and rams his head into it as hard as he can. |
| 313 | * HornedHumanoid: He's also of the "demon" race and has horns on his head. |
| 314 | * PowerOfTrust: Kelve remarks to Rukia that Respalgia [[SeriousBusiness swore in the name of Ifrit]] because of Thor's influence, which allowed Kelve to immediately believe Respalgia when he [[EveryoneHasStandards came clean regarding Duke Regus and his attempt to rope him into his embezzlement scheme]]. In other words, if it weren't for Thor, the trust between Respalgia, Rukia and Kelve could've been irreparably eroded. Kelve then declares that he owes Thor a debt of gratitude, and that if there is anything he desires, he will do what he can to grant it. |
| 315 | * RunningGag: Whenever he decides to HeadDesk, one or more other characters yells out "Careful, or you'll break X!" not caring that he's slamming ''his head'' into whatever he's bashing. |
| 316 | [[/folder]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder: General Respalgia]] |
| 319 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/general_75.jpg]] |
| 320 | [[caption-width-right:350:How disappointing! The empire's envoy is such a weakling!]]Agnis's father. |
| 321 | ---- |
| 322 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: He is even more hot-blooded in the manga than the original novel. When he's in the meeting with Margrave Garoa, and the lout put forward the plan to steal from the mine and then suggested making Thor a scapegoat, General Respalgia only remained calm long enough to ask if the emperor was involved. When the FatBastard bragged that the emperor was LockedOutOfTheLoop, because such a thing isn't worth his notice, General Respalgia went full-tilt NightmareFace, yelling at the Margrave and chasing him off, then tells Agins "well, looks like I'm still immature." |
| 323 | * BoyfriendBlockingDad: When he catches Agnis and Thor about to share a "good-bye" hug, both because it's a genuine sign of affection, and to test the effectiveness of Agnis's new [Health Pendant], he comes at Thor in a rage, rearing to try and punch Thor in the face. Agnis takes strong exception to that, grabs the offending arm in a vice-grip and the general realizes he's on the losing end of a strength contest for once. Deconstructed a bit once he calms down and understands what's going on, as he throws himself to the ground in apology for almost killing Thor for trying to help his daughter. |
| 324 | * BumblingDad: He really cares for his daughter and wants her happy, but he's ''terrible'' at it. |
| 325 | * BurningWithAnger: As the Mangrave found out the hard way, insulting his honor or trying to convince him go back on a deal sworn on the name of Ifrit is a good way to piss him off, and he ends up torching much of the furniture in their meeting room before causally telling the idiot off. |
| 326 | * FailedASpotCheck: Which Mabel calls him out on. He was so busy getting ready to punch out Thor for trying to hug Agnis that he never realized she was wearing (gasp) a dress, meaning Thor had managed to get her to control her powers. Once it finally dawns on him, he boldly proclaims that Thor has his blessings ''when'' he and Agnis get married. |
| 327 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He's so wrapped up in being worried about people taking advantage of his daughter and harming her further that he can't tell that Thor genuinely only wants to help her until he's literally forced to sit down and listen to the explanation. |
| 328 | * JerkassHasAPoint: He initially dismisses Thor's claims that he could help with Agnis's condition, since he and his daughter had already tried every avenue themselves, leading him to give up on finding a solution and instead trying to find ways to convince Agnis that her condition isn't a bad thing. For all he knew, Thor was just a charlatan trying to sell them a fake solution, or worse an asshole who wanted to humiliate Agnis by giving her something that seemed to work that would fail eventually and burn her clothes in public. When he calms down and realizes that Thor's [Health Pendant] really does work, he apologizes for his behavior. |
| 329 | * MirrorCharacter: To Bragas Regus. Both men initially hold positions of great authority in their respective countries and greatly value physical strength, but other than that, their philosophies are almost total opposites. |
| 330 | ** Both men ask Thor what he can possibly contribute to the country while being a total weakling. For Bragas, this was a rhetorical question. The general, on the other hand, is very interested in the answer. |
| 331 | ** Bragas only cares about his own prestige and will go through any means to improve it. The general cares about his prestige, but is far more invested in his honor. |
| 332 | ** Bragas is a coward who loved to beat up on Thor, knowing the latter couldn't fight back. General Respalgia never showed it, but he was impressed that Thor would have the courage to speak to him face-to-face despite being a weakling. |
| 333 | ** Bragas only cares about how his children can boost his name, and when Thor couldn't, brutalizes him. The general cares more about his children's welfare, and when Thor fixed Agnis's issues, is ''proud'' to consider Thor his son-in-law. |
| 334 | ** Both of them socially isolated their children. The general did it because he had no other option, as Agnis was a threat ''to herself'' and everyone around her, and when Thor claims that he could help her condition he was [[JerkassHasAPoint justifiably skeptical]]. When that was taken care of, he is more than happy to let her out in public. Bragas did it out of nothing but pure, unfounded pride and used social isolation to try and drive his son to suicide, and when that failed, sent him off to what he considered certain death, just to be rid of his self-perceived shame. |
| 335 | ** Bragas bent himself into pretzels to keep himself ignorant of Thor's merits so he could tell himself the boy was useless. General Respalgia swore UndyingLoyalty to Rukia after seeing that Thor's alchemy skill is mission critical to army logistics, and Thor himself swore his servitude to the Demon King herself. |
| 336 | * OverprotectiveDad: To the point that he literally attacks Thor for trying to help her because he thinks it's all a ploy to take advantage of his daughter's desperation and naivete. |
| 337 | * SeriousBusiness: Swearing oaths in the name of Ifrit is a vow that can not be broken, upon pain of death. Kelve is aware of this, and immediately realizes that Respalgia making the oath means he's ''dead'' serious. |
| 338 | * ShipperOnDeck: He wants Thor to marry his daughter after Thor fixes her power issues. Notably, he was so furious before this when he saw them embrace he was ready to punch Thor as hard as he could. |
| 339 | * SpiritedCompetitor: He's always on the prowl for strong opponents to test his strength against. He's palpably disappointed that Thor's a non-combatant. |
| 340 | * TranquilFury: When a certain Margrave came to him with a scheme to betray Rukia by stealing from his own silver mine and throwing the blame onto Thor, he came very, very close to reducing the guy to a pile of ash, but kept his cool and demanded the margrave in question leave Demon King territory, never to return, and when Agnis asked him about it, he pointed out how even with decades of controlling his emotions, even he was starting to emit flames, showcasing how truly enraged he was. Then he reported of it to Rukia, and the incident just went international. |
| 341 | * UndyingLoyalty: After Thor resolved his daughter's PowerIncontinence issue, he swore loyalty to Rukia in the name of Ifrit. |
| 342 | [[/folder]] |
| 343 | !! Pixies |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder: As a whole]] |
| 346 | * HidingInPlainSight: Even after Mabel and Agnis provide them with elemental cloth outfits that match their native elements, they can be right next to you and you'd never know they're there, unless they let you. Even more when Thor provides them [Onesies] that allow them to disguise themselves as owls or cats. Only Princess Sophia noticed there was something odd going on with the large number of cats and owls in the area, but even she lacked the context needed to connect the dots. |
| 347 | * InnocentFanserviceGirl: They are all naturalists and don't care about nudity, at all, but they've learned other races tend to have a dim view on nudity so either hide from sight or wear live leaves to hide their bodies, until they get dresses made out of proper elemental cloth, and then wear those with pride. |
| 348 | * SeriousBusiness: Having a pixie land in your hand is a serious honor. It means the pixie in question has absolute faith in you, or is asking a favor worth risking her life, as they are small and weak enough that even a human child can crush them to death in their hands without trying. |
| 349 | [[/folder]] |
| 350 | |
| 351 | [[folder: Soleil]] |
| 352 | A [Light] attribute pixie that suffers from power stagnation and one of the first pixies Thor meets. He fixes up her stagnation issue with the [Foot Bath] and Agnis makes her several dresses with Light elemental cloth, since she has so much light magic in her body even living leaves, as is the norm with pixies, harms her. She does eventually get a [Onesie] of a white feathered owl that she uses to visit Princess Sophia, as an envoy for the Demon territory. |
| 353 | ---- |
| 354 | * BirdsOfAFeather: Literally. Sporting an owl disguise, she meets Princess Sophia and the two bond over having very similar, personalities, abilities, and drawbacks. |
| 355 | * InnocentFanserviceGirl: Pixies, as a whole, are naturalists, meaning they really don't care if they wear clothing or not, but have learned to wear clothing because of the protection it can bring, thanks to the antics of previously summoned [Heroes]. |
| 356 | * IOweYouMyLife: Similar to Agnis as a quality of life issue, rather than life itself. Thanks to Thor's [Foot Bath], she can now mingle with other pixies and play around freely, rather than have to hide at home in agony, afraid that getting too worked up could bring enormous suffering and possibly grievous harm to herself. |
| 357 | * LightEmUp: Once her power stagnation issues are fixed, she can use powerful light magic attacks. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
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