Characters / Alderamin on the Sky

The character page for Alderamin on the Sky.

Beware of spoilers. There are plenty to go around, especially from later light novels. If you've only seen the anime, major plot points will be spoiled if you continue.

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Main Characters

Ikta Solork

Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (Japanese), Joel McDonald, Terri Doty (young) (English)

A lazy genius. While he lacks physical strength and motivation, he makes up for it his high intelligence. He prefers to waste time or take a nap, or hit on girls, especially those older than him.

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• The Alcoholic: The one thing he likes more than women is alcohol.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Ikta is pretty much the living embodiment of this trope and very much proud of it.
• Brutal Honesty: He does not mince words, pussyfoot around an issue, and has serious difficulty restraining himself in pointing out the deficiencies of his incompetent commanders. It has gotten him in trouble and physically assaulted on several occasions.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Even though he has a creepy habit of sexually harrasing women, he shows detest to those who rape. Although it's for pragmatic reasons, he also doesn't try to seduce or exploit female subordinates.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's lazy, boorish, highly abrasive, and does not in any way look like someone who would be a competent soldier. Once the fighting starts, he consistently shows himself to be an exceptionally skilled commander and strategist.
• Deliberate Injury Gambit: He cuts one of his finger to show apology to Dar Nanak.
• Disproportionate Retribution: On the receiving end, so frequently that it might as well be constant. He gets frequent no holds barred beatdowns when he so much as quotes regulation that forbids a superior from flagrant abuse of subordianates, never mind pointing out deficiencies in character, competence, foresight, or strategy and tactics that may get people killed, but the most glaring example is when he's sentenced to a cell, without food or water for five days because he missed a meaningless "training exercise" once, but wound up serving six because the one who chose and delivered said sentence "mistook the number of days" and only gave lip service to an apology. It should be noted that this same superior originally suggested a sentence of 365 days under the same conditions for that offense, but cut it down to five "as a pardon."
• Elites Are More Glamorous: Combined with Ensign Newbie and deconstructed to hell and back. His unwanted title of "Imperial Knight" granted him for rescuing princess Camille from drowining and bringing her back, unharmed, from behind enemy lines has garnered noting but jealousy and cruelty from both his classmates and instructors, and when he's assigned subordinates, they don't show him any respect either, at least not initially.
• Everyone Has Standards: He may be a shameless skirt chaser, but he doesn't intentionally target married women, leaves female subordinates alone, even it is purely for pragmatic reasons, and what bothers him most about Camille is her Precocious Crush because she's underage.
• Fingore: He cut off his left pinky three times while telling a story to show his apologies towards Nanak.
• Happily Adopted: In volume 4, we learn that his adoptive parent is another imperial high ranking general. While this explains how he's such a tactical and strategic genius, we don't know if he's actually happy about being the general's adopted child.
• Heroic BSoD: Ikta was left in a "vacant" state of mind after Yatori's death.
• Ignored Expert: To the point that it's a wonder he's not clinically insane. Even after his competence is well recognized, the few superiors who do actually heed his well-thought out and strategically sound advice tend to get overridden by their superiors who, before any engagement even begins, automatically assume they will be victorious, because that's the party line that the Imperial court hands down the chain of command, ad nauseum. To the surprise of no-one, except those giving the orders, many, many good, competent and loyal soldiers die needlessly as a result, many of whom, he had gotten close to.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: All he wanted was to be a librarian and live a peaceful life away from war before joining the army, Too bad he was granted the title as an "Imperial Knight", forcing him to join the war.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: The anime emphasizes that Ikta strives to protect people rather than his country. The latest one to haunt him is Kanna, who died in a fort before Ikta's troops could relieve it.
• Likes Older Women: Although he will express interest in any attractive woman, his preference is for those old enough to be his mother.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: His horrific childhood due to the arrogance of the capitol, particularly the Emperor who ordered his father to die, and then executed him for disobeying, and most of those who know his past constantly looking down on him for his mixed blood has left him a very, very jaded individual.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Rescuing Princess Camille, trying to warn General Rikan of his impending death for following obviously suicidal orders, etc. always comes back to bite him. Always.
• Orphan's Ordeal: Combined with Parental Abandonment. His father was executed as a "war criminal" for retreating from an unwinnable battle, and his mother died of illness leaving him an orphan.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Yatori. They show no romantic interest with each other, but they consider each other inseparable.
• Pragmatic Hero: As a quick thinker, Ikta will often come up unique and effective strategies to defeat his opponents. The most iconic is he has a troop that distract enemies with light spirits.
• Professional Slacker: To the point of Laborious Laziness. He will do anything he can to slack off, even if that includes hard work.
• Really Gets Around: Ikta has slept with a number of women in his life, including the mother of one of his subordinates which gets him into some trouble.
• Relative Button: Insult him and abuse him all you want, but speak of his mother in any way but with the highest respect and he will respond with deadly force, as Camille can testify.
• Save the Princess: Saved the princess from drowning in the sea. Because of that the underaged princess developed a crush on him.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He is noticeably nicer to Torway and Matthew following the first story arc.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Yatori. Even though they often snark and belittle each other, they're close friends and companions.
• Would Hit a Girl: Combined with Would Hurt a Child. Neither age nor gender matter to him when he's antagonized. He once had to be pulled off Princess Camille when she pushed his Relative Button.

Yatorishino Igsem

Voiced by: Risa Taneda (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)

The eldest daughter of the Igsem family, one of the top three military clans in Japan. She wields a saber and a main gauche when fighting, though she uses the parrying dagger in a much more offensive style.

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• The Ace: She's at the top of her class in terms of combat and sword play.
• The Berserker: The first time she's shown in battle, she cuts down a small squad of highly experienced soldiers in a manner where she's effectively described as a human blender, killing everyone in her field of view, only narrowly avoiding the kidnapped princess, and does not really remember her actions.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: She dies in Ikta's arms.
• Dual Wielding: Yatori fights using the trademarked Igsem style, wielding a saber and main-gauche against multiple opponents.
• Fiery Redhead: Zig-Zagged, as while on the battlefield she fights like a raging fire, outside of it you hardly can find a more calm and collected person.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She dies after taking a sniper's bullet to save Ikta. Notably, she is the first main protagonist to die.
• In-Series Nickname: She's called "Yatori" for short.
• Master Swordswoman: She's untouchable when she uses dual blades.
• The Not-Love Interest: To Ikta. Despite being the girl with the closest relationship to him, their interactions have no romance.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Ikta. They show no romantic interest with each other, but they consider each other inseparable.
• Sacrificial Lion: She is the first member of the core cast to meet her end.
• Taking the Bullet: She manages to push Ikta out of the way before the sniper could fire at then.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: She almost constantly belittles and berates Itka for his glaring character flaws. They're still best friends.

Chamille Kitra Katjvanmaninik

Voiced by: Inori Minase (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English)

The third princess of the Katjvarna Empire. She joins Ikta's group after he rescues her from drowning. She understands how intelligent Ikta is and how he hides it with his laziness. She holds him in high regard, not just for his intelligence but for his outspoken personality as well, something many lack.

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• Dark and Troubled Past: When she was placed in the Kioka Republic, as a hostage, and as a small child, although she was not physically abused, the Republic focused the entirety of their hatred for the Empire on her, and put her through a great deal of subtle humiliation and psychological torture that still gives her horrific nightmares to this day, and completely destroyed her sense of self-worth. This makes her panicked outburst the moment she found herself back in Kioka territory during volume one far more understandable.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Starts ruling with an iron fist when she becomes empress in volume 8.
• Hates Their Parent: She loathes her father. Her sentiments happen to be quite warranted.
• Hime Cut: She's a princess with blunt bangs, bra strap length sidelocks, and waist length straight hair.
• Internalized Categorism: She hates everyone of the Emperor's bloodline with a passion, and that includes her self, to the point of Self-Harm, as she's repeatedly tried to bleed herself out of her "tainted blood."
• Klingon Promotion: She personally kills her father and becomes the next ruler of the Empire.
• Parental Abandonment: She reveals to Ikta that she grew up in Kioka because her father treated her not as a daughter, but as nothing more than a political tool.
• Precocious Crush: She develops one for Ikta after he saves her life. Even after learning about his past and how he has slept with numerous other women, her crush does not waver, but she does show some annoyance at his antics.
• Put on a Bus: Or rather carriage. Once the Shinark Tribe declares war, she is moved to a garrion farther from the front line - she is royalty, after all. Her voice remains the narrator, and she physically returns a few episodes later.
• Self-Harm: She has wounded herself on several occasions because she hates her "tainted" blood.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Despite her crush, she and Ikta do not get along, at all.
• Token Mini-Moe: Chamille is only 12 years old, making her more childlike in appearance than the rest of the main characters.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She is every bit the misanthrope that Ikta is, if not more so.
• We Can Rule Together: She makes the "offer" to Ikta in Volume 1 because she's just as sick of the corruption and incompetence in the capitol as he is.

Torway Remeon

Voiced by: Ryousuke Kanemoto (Japanese), Austin Tindle (English)

An academy graduate who meets Ikta and the others on the ship before the High Officers exam. He is revealed to be extremely proficient with guns, and can easily hit a target from afar. However he cannot hit a close up target as he cannot view them objectively. Ikta suggests that he pick off the enemy from far as possible so that he cannot see them clearly enough to view them as human, which works very well.

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• Big Brother Bully: On the receiving end of this from his older brother Shiuria, who is also a General Failure.
• Friendly Sniper: Especially after he gets his hands on one of the first prototype long-range rifles. He's even the one who officially creates the term sniper, in-universe.
• Nice Guy: Easily the nicest guy in the series.
• The Nicknamer: He tends to call his friends in shortened, cute terms, like Ikta - Ikkun.

Matthew Tetdrich

Voiced by: Junji Majima (Japanese), Shawn Gann (English)

Ikta's and Yatorishino's classmate in the academy. The three meet each other again on the ship heading for the army exam. His family, Tetdrich, is part of a minor noble family that has low recognition. He desires to make his family better known. Since Yatorishino and Torway are part of more recognized noble families he sees them as great rivals and often compares himself to them, hoping to beat them one day.

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• Acrofatic: He's shown to be somewhat overweight. This doesn't reduce his capability as a soldier in the slightest.
• Big Eater: He eats, a lot.
• Smart People Play Chess: He often engages in chess games with all the characters in an attempt to improve his ability to think strategically.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He becomes much nicer following the first story arc.
• The Watson: Serves this role, especially if he's accompanying Ikta.

Haroma Bekker

Voiced by: Haruka Chisuga (Japanese), Leah Clark (English)

A nurse who meets Ikta and the others on the ship before their army exam.

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• Big Sister Instinct: She has five younger brothers whom she wants to take care of.
• The Medic: She aims to become a field medic and, for what we can see, she has the makings of a great one.
• Nice Girl: She's an exceptionally sweet and kind woman.
• Team Mom: She often takes care of her teammates.

Antagonists

Lt. General Tamutsukusuku Safida

Voiced by: Toshiharu Sakurai (Japanese), Tyler Walker (English)

The top commander of the Northern Border Regiment where the main characters were sent to train in mountain warfare and the primary cause of the troubles in Volume 3.

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• Did Not See That Coming: He manages to combine this with Did Not Think This Through. Despite knowing the Nothern Border Regiment was guarding the border with the Holy Alderamin country, he not only gave orders to confiscate and abuse spirits from the Shinark, he looked the other way as soldiers under his command engaged in Rape, Pillage, and Burn on the Shinark central village, including numerous war-crimes upon said spirits. He is then shocked that the Alderamin send an army of 12,000 troops on a jihad against the troops of his regiment which are exhausted from fighting one literal uphill battle after another against the Shinark who rightfully rebelled against his repeated abuses.
• Face Death with Dignity: Averted. The moment he realizes the death penalty is coming for him, he pleads like a cornered animal for his life.
• Fantastic Racism: He views the Shinark tribe as "parasites in the belly of the lion" and actually believed it was his duty to exterminate them all, for no reason whatsoever, despite his orders being to maintain the peace, and nothing else.
• General Failure: There's no mention of how he earned his rank, but the man couldn't put together a shopping list if his life depended on it, let alone run an army. His talented, overworked, and unthanked top subordinate was actually the one most responsible for keeping the regiment together.
• It's All About Me: The conflict of Volume 3 all started because he was desparate for wartime accomplishments, and cared nothing about the lives this would cost.
• Kangaroo Court: He is put through a show trial. The verdict was decided ahead of time. He was not told this until after the testimony condemning him is brought forth, purely so the public at large could see that he really and truly deserved his sentence.
• Lack of Empathy: He cares about nobody but himself.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Let's just say he gets his comeuppance in the prologue of Volume 4.
• Leeroy Jenkins: He runs into battle with little in the way of thought or preperation, yet thinks he's a brilliant strategist.
• Miles Gloriosus: He is quick to brag that he's the best general the Empire's ever seen, believes it, and is quick to take offense whenever someone dares say anything contrary to that, but when he's in actual battle, he's quick to run and hide behind anyone else the moment he's in trouble.
• Never My Fault: He tries to blame the Shinark's very existence for their rebellion when confronted about his oppressive policies. When confronted about his war-crimes towards the Shinark's spirits, he tries to pawn off the blame to his subordinates by claiming they "acted on their own" and he gave no such orders. His contradiction is pointed out immediately.
• Please, I Will Do Anything!: While pleading for his life, he made all sorts of promises. Nobody who heard him was moved in his favor. In fact, his pleas only served to disgust everyone who heard them.
• Sesquipedalian Smith: "Tamutsukusuku Safida" is quite a mouthful, but the surname's much shorter.
• Ungrateful Bastard: In court, he's quick to decry the main characters, despite being well aware that he owes them his life, until he realizes he's in trouble, and their good word is his only hope of escaping the death penalty.
• Villains Want Mercy: When facing certain death, he struggles like a cornered animal and pleads with anyone and everyone for mercy. Nobody obliges.

Nanak Dar

Voiced by: Rie Takahashi (Japanese), Jamie Marchi, Bryn Apprill (younger) (English)

The leader of the Shinark Tribe.

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• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She wears midriff-baring tribal clothes.
• Childhood Friend Romance: She's loved Ikta since they were both children, when Ikta used to live among the Shinark. Sadly, it's one sided.
• Childhood Marriage Promise: She once proposed to Ikta when both were children, though she didn't comprehend what she was doing.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: She's roughly Ikta's age and she leads the Shinark.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She does not like other women getting close to Ikta. It's probably best she doesn't know about his exploits.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: She can fight while handstanding on her dual Kukri at the same time in the anime.
• Forgotten Friend, New Foe: Thanks to the Shniark rebellion instigated by Sifa, she's on opposing sides with her childhood friend Ikta. She doesn't recognize Ikta until he starts telling her stories she used to share with him while he lived with the Shinark.
• Fragile Speedster: Her fighting style emphasizes speed and agility.
• Hopeless Suitor: She loves Ikta, and wants to marry him. He sadly doesn't see her that way.
• Kukris Are Kool: She fights by dual-wielding Kukri.
• Leeroy Jenkins: She rushed ahead into battle against the Alderan Holy army. This served to get many of her people needlessly killed.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: She and her tribe of Shinark were loyal Imperial citizens until Sifa's abuses pushed them to the breaking point, and many of her people died of starvation, needlessly.
• Rape as Drama: She's a victim of Rape, Pillage, and Burn at the hands of men under the control of Sifa.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She does not get along with Yatori, at all. When the two were paired together in a delaying action against the Alderian Holy Army, it went very poorly.
• Worthy Opponent: She sees Yatori as one.

Major Jean "The Insomniac" Arkinex

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Ivan Jasso (English)

The primary strategist of the Kioka Republic, and the one who exploited Lt. General Sifa's ineptitude to maximum gain. If not for Ikta's bold and daring strategies and actions, the entire nothern regiment would have been exterminated, as well as the Shiark tribe which the Alderamin see as "heretics."

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• Berserk Button: He utterly can not tolerate a battle-field that degenerates into chaos. He expects and wants battles to be clean, orderly affairs. Ikta trips him up, and hard, by exploiting this. He develops a second one when Ikta rightly proclaims that "heroes die of overwork" which drives him even more berserk than when Ikta deliberately threw him into a chaotic close combat fight that had little in the way of rules or restrictions, and was a chaotic, bloody mess.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: How the command of the Alderamin army sees him. They don't like his attitude, but find his strategic insight far too valuable to lose.
• The Chessmaster: Literally. He sees war as a massive game of chess. When the rules break down, and the battlefield becomes chaotic, he goes completely postal.
• Foil: To Ikta. The two are mirror opposites in just about every way.
• The Insomniac: The man does not sleep, ever. He spends his nights refining his battle plans, tactics, or simply preparing his weapons.
• The Man Behind the Man: He played Lt. Genral Sifa, the Shinark Tribe and the Alderamin Holy Army like pawns against each other for Kioka's interests.
• Servile Snarker: He has little respect for superiors in any army he finds himself, and does not hesitate to snark at them whenever he thinks he can get away with it.
• You Can't Go Home Again: His home country was wiped out by a nation of relgious extremists, in a brutal, chaotic, completely non-sensical jihad, and he gets taken in by the Kioka Republic. Ironically, he winds up leading the Holy Army of Alderan on a jihad against the Shinark and the Empire.

Viscount Thezeni Hamatoll

The governor in charge of Matthew's home province.

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• Aristocrats Are Evil: Can't get much worse than human trafficking.
• Bring Me My Brown Pants: When an enraged Princess Camille shoots a crossbow in his general direction, after he tried to bribe her, he wets himself in terror when he sees the bolt 2 cm from hitting him and causing a fatal wound.
• Corrupt Politician: Abused his authority to fake a famine so as to levy inhumane tax rates on women.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Combined with Madonna-Whore Complex. The reason he faked a famine and levied onerous taxes on women is that he thinks unwed women of marry-able age is a disgrace to his territory, so the tax law leaves women in his territory only two viable options. Marry as quick as possible, or take up prostitution to make ends meet, barely. Once a woman takes up the latter, in his mind, she's given the okay to be sold off as a Sex Slave...
• Obliviously Evil: He honestly thought forcing women into sex-slavery was doing his territory a favor. Unfortunately for him, the one he's explaining this to, Princess Camille, is also a woman.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: On the receiving end. Once hard evidence of his misdeeds is found, he's offered the "generous" proposal that saves his life, paying the debts, from his own finances, of all the women he's forced to go to loan-sharks with his heavy-handed taxes, return tax rates to "prefamine" rates, and provide aid and comfort to the Shiinark refugees.
• Saying Too Much: Ikuta had him going with the premise that offering up some scapegoats would save his sorry hide. When he asked if it was okay to have said scapegoats arrive in the form of corpses, the intended victims turned "state's evidence" on him, and provided the hard evidence Princess Camille needed to convict him.
• Villains Want Mercy: Combined with Please, I Will Do Anything!. When he realized he could not lie his way out of trouble, he tried to bribe the princess. Was that ever the wrong approach.