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Charleton, better known as Charlie or C. Later becomes Invidia Bat and chooses the name Chiroptera, or Chiro
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Adorkable: Even at the start of the story, but turned up to 11 in her Chiro disguise after becoming a Beast."I, umm, I've gotten really into bats lately" - Blow You Away: while Invidia Bat can theoretically copy any power, her magical attacks default to Wind.
- Childhood Friends: with Inessa.
- Cute Monster Girl: Once Invidia takes on a physical form, she's pretty much Inessa with cartoony bat wings.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: with the Saints, playing the Melancholic role.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Expresses intense jealousy of the power and agency of the Angelic Saints in general and Inessa specifically. And then quite literally later on, as Invidia Bat.
- Happily Adopted: After so long, the Brandts finally got her into the family.
- The Heart: To the Saints whether she is one of them or not.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: to be honest, would probably be fine if it was ANY kind of power, rather than metaphorical emotional support.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: C suffers from imposter syndrome to a pathological degree, unable to believe that she deserves happiness or even deserves to want happiness, which in addition to contributing to her depression, stops her from recognizing her deep-seated gender dysphoria even after it starts affecting her magically.
- Important Haircut: An innocuous day at the salon is a turning point in the story, as Chiro's trim to stop looking like a simply copy of Inessa sets off the Seed of Envy something fierce and resolves multiple plot points, and also eventually reveals her identity as Invidia to Inessa, thanks to the bat Beast showing up with the same hairdo in a later scene.
- I Will Find You: With the help of the other Saints, is determined to find Avaritia at the end of the story.
- Meaningful Name: On several levels. C hates her birth/legal name because it sounds like "charlatan", and she suffers from severe impostor syndrome. She much prefers the androgynous nickname Charlie. Her best friend Inessa calls her "C", which not only shares a first letter with the object of her envy, Angelic Saint Castitas, but if this were a real anime with Japanese dialog, would be pronounced homophonously with "she". Finally, when she becomes Invidia Bat and needs a new civilian identity, she gives up on any kind of subtlety and chooses "Chiroptera", which is just the scientific name for the bat order.
- Mental Health Recovery Arc: After accepting herself and becoming Saint Humanitas, Chiro gets a therapist.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Invidia Bat is just really not into hurting people and would rather give them crash therapy by turning them into Resinners and screw Superbia's plans. She fights seriously against Castitas once to try and prove herself and it just makes both of them miserable.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Envy. She's infested with the Seed of Envy early on, and becomes the Abyssal Beast Invidia Bat at the midpoint of the story.
- Seven Heavenly Virtues: Like other magical characters, C has elements of her Sin's opposite, Kindness. Regardless of any qualifications to be a "magical girl" or not, C is one of the kindest and most caring and empathetic people in the story to everyone but herself.
- Trans Tribulations: Hers are basically the entire plot, including an utter inability to actually admit to herself that her desire to be a woman has very little directly to do with her jealousy of Inessa specifically.
- Villain Protagonist: Invidia Bat needs a lot of air quotes around villain, in spite of her desire to prove herself equal to the Heroes, but it is technically her role.
Inessa Brandt/Saint Castitas
C's childhood and best friend, leader of the Saints. C emotionally supports and advises her.
- All-Loving Hero: Will not give up on you. Even if you think you want her to.
- Arrows on Fire: Most of Castitas's magical attacks.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: Thank Heaven for the series Weirdness Censor keeping her secret identity intact, because Inessa cannot keep a secret worth a damn.
- By the end of the story, Chiro notices Inessa is better than her at feeding excuses to their parents, and how used she must be to it.
- Childhood Friends: with C.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: the Sanguine cheery extrovert of the Saints.
- Green-Eyed Monster: At the end of the story, is jealous that Chiro and Lupin are close, but doesn't act on it. She's determined to save Lupin and reuinite em with Chiro and Temperance.
- The Hero: full stop, the protagonist and moral center of the anime this story allegedly takes place within, and leader of the Angelic Saints.
- Idiot Hero: Self-identifies (or, arguably, self-deprecates) as an indecisive ditz. She's hardly stupid, but she's definitely from the Usagi Tsukino tradition of heroines.
- I Will Find You: With the help of the other Saints, is determined to find Avaritia at the end of the story.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Out, proud, utterly useless around pretty women.
- Playing with Fire: As Castitas, her attacks are as fiery as they are passionate, with C even describing phantasmal flickers of flame around her civilian form when she's really "fired up".
- Seven Deadly Sins: Like other magical characters, Inessa has elements of her Virtue's opposite, Lust. In Inessa's case, this manifests more in a general passion for life and a G-rated Love Makes You Dumb reaction to beautiful women.
- Seven Heavenly Virtues: Inessa, and Castitas, are an unusual representation of "chastity" except in the very technical sense that she has no interest in MEN, specifically. Instead, it seems that her main virtue is "purity" in that she can only be "purely Inessa", which causes her problems like an inability to lie and a tendency to come off to C as condescending, but also helps push her forward and inspire others even in her darkest moments.
Temperance Atwater/Saint Temperantia
Keeps trying to put C in a dress. Used to be Gula Shark. It's still unclear if she is human or not.
- Ambiguously Human: People from her world are probably a different species, but it's really unclear.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: The poker-faced, snarky, Phlegmatic Saint.
- Good Is Not Nice: Not afraid to threaten serious harm to anyone who hurts her current friends, even former friends like Invidia.
- Guile Hero: The only Saint with even a little bit of social subtlety, and also the most tactical of their combatants.
- I Will Find You: With the help of the other Saints, is determined to find Avaritia at the end of the story.
- Making a Splash: Temperance Atwater's magical girl form uses water magic, one of the first things that C's self-aware narration lampshades. In fairness, she picked the name after she got the water theming.
- Trans Tribulations: Not fitting a social mold is why she became the Abyssal Beast Gula Shark to begin with, and she's someone well on her way through transitioning into her true self. Hence all the "egg" jokes she lobs at an oblivious C.
Ida/Saint Diligentia
Most recent member. Tends to overwork herself, in spite of her team's advice
- The Ace: Friendly, hard-working, academically successful, Ida constantly pushes herself and is rewarded for it, even if she has to be told to turn it down a notch on occasion.
- The Big Guy: Not notably larger than the other Saints, at least as far as C has commented on it, but she fills the role in combat as the solid center to Castitas's flame-archery and Temperatia's tactical water shields and ambushes.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Diligentia uses Earth magic when she's not just punching monsters.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: The task-oriented, overachieving Choleric of the Saints.
- Seven Heavenly Virtues: Diligence. An athletic and academic overachiever, Ida believes in hard work leading to reward, especially as she considers herself lacking in natural talent compared to others, and thus works even harder.
- Workaholic: Ida's recurring character flaw. While some other characters have to deal with the temptation of a Sin opposite their Virtue, Ida's problem as the Saint of Diligence is being too diligent and hurting herself through overwork.
Michael
The long suffering mascot of the team.
- Big Good: Empowered and guides the Saints.
- Butt-Monkey: Is often shoved by Inessa into her bag, stuck with her books. Gets chewed by a child at one point.
- Master Forger:
According to the author, she made the documents for Temperance. - Hidden Depths: Apparently, is skilled at crime, forging Temperance's documents and getting money to support her, and got her an appartment.
Avaritia Wolf
Also known as Lupin Noir. Ey is a believer in the Beasts' cause. Kinder than Superbia Dragon. Ey eventually adopts spivak pronouns during the story.
- Greed: To justify eir actions to Superbia, and since ey probably needs to do it to maintain eir powers, Avaritia rationalises eir every action and feeling as a form of greed, from letting eir friend make her own mistakes to not using standard pronouns.
- Doublethink: Has gotten extremely good at justifying how putting herself at great personal risk to make other people happy is "greedy".
- Seven Heavenly Virtues: Like other magical characters, Avaritia has elements of eir sin's opposite, Charity. Ey more or less explicitly wants to give other people suffering under social norms the freedom ey has from embracing Sin, and C notes repeatedly that eir "greed" mostly consists in letting people ey cares about have what they want (sometimes whether they like it or not).
- Seven Deadly Sins: Greed, the Abyssal Beast Of. Ey even have something of a catchphrase about being "a greedy, greedy girl", accuracy of the gender in that statement notwithstanding. So far, one of only two Abyssal Beasts to both start on that side at the beginning of the story and stay there, even if as noted above eir sin requires a fair bit of mental justification.
Superbia Dragon
Also known as Mr Noir. The arrogant and cruel Viceroy of Sin. Somewhat clueless and easy to trick. Makes use of mind control incense. He is actually one of the Beasts from the original rebellion, and therefore very old, but was sealed until Avaritia and Gula realeased him.
- Big Bad: Of at least the first part of Shining Virtue Angelic Heart. It's clear even early in the story, however, that he's getting outside help from the Mysterious Robed Figure, who may or may not have its own agenda.
- Break the Haughty: As the Saints wear him down and he starts to struggle to defend himself, his pride finally breaks, making his seed recede. It goes further, as his minion Avaritia rescues him, and then ignores him, as the Saints start convicing em to join their side. He promptly interrupts this to run away in rage and shame.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He refuses to surrender to the Saints, then is deeply offended when Avaritia rescues him.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Believed that C's misery and fixation on the Saints made C a perfect candidate to be the Abyssal Beast of Lust, because he's an ancient transphobe who doesn't understand gender dysphoria, and doesn't understand that he doesn't understand it. Trying to give C the Seed of Lust fails spectacularly, but when Lupin tries again with the Seed of Envy, it eventually creates an extremely powerful Abyssal Beast.
- Final Boss Preview: The Saints fight him inconclusively (off-camera) while rescuing C from the Abyssal Forest.
- Light 'em Up / Light Is Not Good: While Mr. Noir uses black candles in a dim office, Superbia Dragon's true magic power manifests as blindingly bright, attention-grabbing light.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, and full of it. Unlike the younger characters, Superbia shows an absolutely relentless devotion to Pride and an utter lack of Humility.
- Smug Snake: For all his power, and for all his arrogance, Superbia really does not have the authority he thinks he does, with Gula Shark defecting early, Invidia Bat hating him so much she eventually gets over her fear of him through sheer indignance, and Avaritia Wolf only hanging on through a codependent sense of obligation (and ey constantly subvert him for the sake of others anyway). His plans also tend to fail almost immediately, like his original intention to turn C into the Abyssal Beast of Lust through a misunderstanding of C's problems, with his most successful gambit so far relying on outside help and still failing to sabotage from his own underlings.
Gray Robe (Spoilers)
Actually goes by Uriel A mysterious figure in a gray robe. Seemingly defers to Superbia as his advisor, but Chiro realizes they're the one truly running the show. She also notices their voice is not quite human, closer to the angel Michael's. An alien, mysterious, mostly uncaring and somewhat whimsical being.
- The Corrupter: The mastermind behinf the Beasts' plans, and the one who guided them towards a scheme that was much more dangerous to civilians.
- Dissonant Serenity: Shows little interest and emotion, most of the time. Chiro's defection only sparked brief curiosity in them. They were barely interested in conversation, merely examining her while commenting to themself, then dismissing her.
- The Man in Front of the Man: Merely pretends to be in service of Superbia Dragon, who's content to have his ego validated.
- The Reveal: Tells Chiro they are Uriel.
The Brandts
Inessa's kind parents.
- Parents as People: After adopting Chiro, they sometimes struggle with her name and gender, but are trying their best.
