Characters / BlazBlue: Continuum Shift

Playable Characters: Calamity Trigger (Part 1 | Part 2) | Continuum Shift | ChronoPhantasma | Central Fiction
Others: Non-Player Characters | Remix Heart | Light Novel Characters | XBlaze (Code: Embryo | Lost: Memories) | Alternative: Dark War
Spin-offs: Cross Tag Battle (BlazBlue | Persona 4: Arena | Under Night In-Birth | RWBY)
Individual Characters: Ragna the Bloodedge | Jin Kisaragi | Noel Vermillion | Hazama | Yuuki Terumi

BlazBlue, much like Guilty Gear, has plenty of Rummage Sale Rejects to go around. This is a list of the playable characters who were introduced in the arcade version of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift. Due to the sheer amount of trope presented, the page had to be split. To see characters introduced in the console release and later iterations, refer to BlazBlue: Continuum Shift - Additional Characters. Voice actors are listed as Japanese/English.

It may also contain unmarked spoilers. You may wish to finish the game's story modes before reading.

Shout Outs, Captain Ersatz, Expy, No Celebrities Were Harmed, Continuity Nods and Mythology Gags regarding to specific characters should go to the game's own Shout Out page. This is also true for memes, which go here.

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Lambda -No.11-

If you know what's good for you, don't hurt Ragna when she's around.

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• Height: 155cm (5'1")
• Weight: 45kg (99.2 lbs)
• Blood type: Unknown
• Date of Birth: September 1
• Birthplace: Ibukido
• Hobbies: Observing Tartar
• Values: None
• Likes: None
• Dislikes: None

"O' silver blade forged in the depths of the beyond, hear my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay waste."

Voiced by: Kanako Kondo (Japanese) / Cristina Valenzuela (Continuum Shift-Chronophantasma) (English)

After Nu's apparent death, Kokonoe has Tager salvage the 11th Prime Field Device from Ikaruga, and then plucks Nu's soul from the Boundary, erases her memories, and implants her within her predecessor's body. She is now completely subservient to Kokonoe and is used as another tool in her plan to get revenge on Terumi. As she inhabits the body of her predecessor, she is not the juggernaut she was before. This is manifested gameplay-wise in the form of loads of balance changes.

Her Arcade mode playthroughs are named, in the second and third games respectively: The Numbers and Departure. Her story mode playthrough in the second game is named lacrima No-11.

In Chronophantasma, Lambda disappears to make way for the return of Nu. However, in CPEX, Lambda is added again to the roster on October 9, 2014. She will be based on Nu's current Luna Form stance. To further differentiate herself from Nu, the swords that Lambda summons are brand-new and she has a green, ethereal aura surrounding her. Her Drive has been renamed Sword Summoner II. The swords that she summons have shorter range but bigger hitbox than Nu's. Her playstyle is also different from Nu's, while still mostly a zoning character, Lambda focuses more on getting up close to her opponent and using her melee attacks. Her Overdrive, Elysium, increases the size and damage of her Drive attacks and grants them new properties.

In the fourth game, her Exceed Accel Duo Cultus has her stun the foe with her swords. Then she proceeds to do multiple somersaults kicks a'la Guile's Flash Explosion. Her Astral is the same as Nu's.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Played for Laughs in CF. Lambda is normally subservient to Kokonoe...except whenever Ragna is involved, something that Kokonoe is extremely annoyed with.
• And I Must Scream: Poor, poor Lambda... The original one, that is. We see what her life was like before she died, and it makes her younger sisters look positively blessed by comparison. It doesn't get much better after Kokonoe revives her. Lambda's worst fear- and primary source of trauma- was being treated like a doll instead of an actual being that could think and feel. This is exactly what Kokonoe does to her, effectively mercy-killing the last remnants of Lambda by erasing her memories, and Lambda was aware but unable to say or do anything to prevent it.
• Artificial Human: She is a Murakumo Unit.
• Back from the Dead: Returns in Chronophantasma Extend. Exactly how she pulled this off is a matter of some speculation.
• Badass Adorable: She's a Murakumo Unit and is about as dangerous as either of her "sisters". And thanks to her expanded characterization from the anime and beyond, when she's not in combat she's usually freaking adorable.
• Battle Aura: In CPEX she's constantly being enveloped in a green aura for some reason.
• Become a Real Girl: Her story arc during the latter half of the series. While she still retains her Machine Monotone, she does manage to become her own person with Noel being unable to absorb her back into the Origin.
• Become Your Weapon: She's normally separated from her weapon. In order to access her battle form, she merges with it, shown as a special sequence in her Battle Intro.
• BFS: Much like her sisters, the Murakumo. Although what she has is an imitation by Kokonoe. Nevertheless, she can still summon one in her Calamity Sword DD and Astral Heat. Her Overdrive can also turn her Drive swords into these.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Just like the other Murakumos, courtesy of being a Saya clone. Curiously, she doesn't interact with Jin much, so they don't have much of a relationship either way (although Hakumen, being a time-displaced Jin, considers her just as much a threat as Nu), and Ragna's not quite sure what to make of her from the time they spent together to date in CS. Her more important relationships are with her genetic sisters - Noel, as of CPEX, genuinely loves Lambda & fully accepts as a sister, sees a lot of her own former situation in Lambda and wants to help Lambda grow into a complete person, while Nu absolutely despises Lambda because Lambda is another threat to Nu's plans for Ragna and intends to stop Nu from hurting him.
• Blank Slate: Kokonoe was going to bring her back with the memories, but when Lambda started to have a complete breakdown upon reliving her past experiences, she was forced to erase them to spare her the pain. She slowly gets better, especially when Nu's memories start to come back.
• Bootstrapped Leitmotif: In that the vocal editions of the first Awakening the Chaos, in particular, seem to fit Lambda much better than they do Nu now. As much as they can get rather nonsensical, the lyrics to the L.A. version, in particular, seem to allude heavily to her Central Fiction plot.
• Break the Cutie: Her opening scene from her Continuum Shift path has her painfully experimented on and begging for the pain to stop. And that's only the start of her problems...
• But Not Too Foreign: Being that she's a clone of Saya/Noel, who was born from the 5th Prime Field Device, implied to be based on Saya Terumi, who is Japanese.
• Call-Back: Lambda's commentary with Makoto in Chronophantasma causes her to glitch out and recall her "gag reel" from Continuum Shift.
  "Squirrel beastkin. Incoming memories from separate phenomena. Ta-ta...?"
• Characterization Marches On: She was originally just a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for Nu and didn't really have any distinct traits of her own. But ever since her appearance in the anime, she's been given more distinct traits, being more like a curious child compared to Nu's more aggressive nature.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Offhandedly mentioned in Calamity Trigger's Story Mode opening.
• Clones Are People, Too: Noel treats her as a sister instead of a copy, and Kokonoe really dislikes forcing her into action. Her personality and individuality are still developing, but they're definitely present.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Gets tangled in some bedsheets during the epilogue.
• Cyber Cyclops: Only when she dons her facial mask though, unlike Nu she has use of both her eyes without it.
• Dash Attack: Her Act Parcer Zwei moves that end with different attacks per version. In the fourth game, her new Act Parser Tri can lead to even more combinations.
• Declaration of Protection: Twice in CF arcade, she has said this. The first in her Act 1 arcade when fighting Hakumen, the second in her Act 2 arcade when fighting Nu. Both of them have her saying that she's gonna protect Ragna.
• Determinator: Her CF arcade shows her to be this - she was beaten quite hard by Hakumen and yet chose to keep going, even ignoring her innate self-preservation programming (and, later, Relius' restraints on her). All because she wants to meet Ragna. Hakumen and Nine naturally lampshade this.
• Divergent Character Evolution: Originally designed as a re-balanced Palette Swap of Nu, her appearance in the Chronophantasma Extend update has seen her fighting style change to be more aggressive and her personality is nothing like Nu's (and in fact she is quite dead-set on stopping her "sister" from killing/merging with Ragna). Ironically this becomes inverted in Alternative: Dark War with Nu having abandoned her former identity and Murakumo Unit, while Lambda still appears the same.
• Downer Ending: Her joke ending, which ends with the pet insect she adopted being thrown in the trash by an unknowing Kokonoe. Possibly the only depressing Gag Reel in the game.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After having suffered through eons of time loops and possibilities, Lambda survives the events of CF and is shown in the epilogue to be living a peaceful life with her sisters as nuns.
• Emotionless Girl: Much more so than Nu or Mu (especially once Noel gains full control of her Mu side). She's beginning to develop emotions in CPEX and beyond, a trait Noel wishes to encourage.
• Empty Shell: What Kokonoe thinks she is, but she does grow a degree of sentience as the series goes on.
• Enemy Within: In Lambda's Story Mode in CS, she's occasionally plagued by Nu's conscience inside her. And due to some magical heebie-jeebies by Hazama and Phantom, she is forced to fight against Nu in the climax.
• Ethereal Choir: The song has an ominous feel, similar to Nu.
• Fetal Position Rebirth: When she was done being rejuvenated by Kokonoe in her People Jars, she was first shown (in CS) floating on this pose.
• Flawed Prototype: Though her decrepit, cobbled-together state probably doesn't help, either.
• Flying Firepower: Downplayed in both accounts: She just floats, and her projectiles don't reach as far as Nu's.
• Flying Weapon/Razor Wings: Same deal as Nu's.
• Fragile Speedster: She has fast dashes, but only has 10,000 health.
• Glass Cannon: She can dish out some good damage without using her Distortion moves, as well as having a solid corner pressure, but only has 10,000 health. Slightly mitigated in Centralfiction, but she is still fragile.
• Glorious Mother Russia: Where she was built, and later rediscovered.
• Gratuitous German: When you combo with her swords, she counts the hits in German for no apparent reason.
  "Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier, Fünf, Sechs, Sieben,..."
• Gravity Master: Her Gravity Seed special puts a gravity circle at a certain point on the floor. She can't spam it as easily as Nu, however, as she needs a gauge to charge first (like Tager's Spark Bolt gauge).
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: After her Character Development, she's as much of an absolute sweetheart as Noel.
• Healing Vat: At the start of her story in CS, she was rejuvenated in a vat of water and being watched by Kokonoe, because she was in pretty bad shape when she was rescued in Ibukido (by Tager). She also regularly goes back into it for maintenance.
• Heroic Sacrifice: At the very end of CS Nu's soul resurfaces, she regains Nu's memories and takes not one, but two killing blows from Terumi's Ouroboros to the back that was meant for Ragna. She then gives Ragna the power from her Idea Engine to unlock his Azure Grimoire allowing him to defeat Terumi and turn Mu back into Noel shortly after. Parts from Lambda's regeneration chamber are later used to make Ragna's new left arm.
• Hit-and-Run Tactics: The official CF site describes her playstyle as "hit and away".
• Homing Projectile: The new version of Calamity Sword in CPEX automatically targets the opponent's position.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: At least, the ones who created Lambda and the other Murakumo units certainly were.
• Human Weapon: Same as her sisters.
• Identity Amnesia: Has no memory of who or what she is in Chronophantasma Extend. Rachel and Noel help her regain her memories so that she can be truly reborn into the world.
• I Will Find You: At the end of her CPEX arcade run, she resolves to find Ragna. In CF, despite being controlled by Kokonoe, she still tries to find Ragna and will try to eliminate any perceived threat towards him. In her Act 3 arcade play, when she finally meets Ragna, she's happy enough (as much as a girl like her can be "happy") that she's okay with Ragna telling her that he's going to erase her memories.
• Leitmotif: Awakening the Chaos, notably she keeps this as her theme when she's brought back in Chronophantasma Extend while Nu has its remix as her theme.
• Lethal Chef: Averted. To establish that she's becoming an independent being, she does not have the same terrible cooking skills as Noel and Izanami. In Alternative Dark War Juusan (i.e. Nu) genuinely enjoys her cooking in contrast to her sheer dislike of Noel's.
• Long-Range Fighter: Downplayed; she has similar long-range capabilities as Nu, but she also has some close-range tactics with her unique specials.
• Loss of Identity: The original Lambda only knew pain and suffering as a test subject under the humans who created her and ended up suffering a Mental Shutdown from all the torturous experiments she constantly underwent, not wanting to experience that pain and burgeoning hate for her creators ever again. This later turned out to be a good thing, as when Kokonoe revived her she made sure to erase those painful memories, freeing the original Lambda from her miserable existence and eventually allowing her to finally move forward as her own person and make a fresh start for herself by the ending of Central Fiction.
• Machine Monotone: As is the standard for the Murakumo Units, although hers is quite a bit more prominent, and from CPEX on, only begins to slip if she thinks Ragna's in danger. She also does it to shoot down Noel's attempts to cook, which makes it even funnier.
• Nothing Is Scarier: No likes, no dislikes, no values... yet. She does list 'Watching Tartars' among her hobbies.
• "No. Just… No" Reaction: At Noel's offers to cook.
• Only Sane Man: In one Chronophantasma gag reel where she, Nu and Noel run a coffee shop, she's the only one of the three sisters who treats Ragna like a sane person, between Nu's obsessive desire to "be one" with him and Noel being an insecure wreck of a girlfriend.
• Palette Swap: Her battle armor, to Nu's.
  • Their non-battle outfits kind of avoid this: she was never actually shown outside of her armor in Continuum Shift or its expansions themselves, but starting in Alter Memory, she was shown as wearing a much different, longer cloak than Nu's in her white-gold-black colors, which has been carried over into Chrono Phantasma Extend and Central Fiction. They do retain matching bodysuits, but that seems to be the undersuit of the Murakumo armor itself.
• Pick Your Human Half: Of the "looks human, acts robotic" type.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Whenever she's without her visor, she's shown to have these. It's subverted though, because her personality is easily the least aggressive of all of the Murakumo Units, though it doesn't stop her from being any less capable in combat.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Not her, but the insectoid pet she gets in her gag reel. Not to say that she isn't cute herself.
• Robo Speak: Even more than Nu; once CPEX rolls around, this is adjusted upwards for her and Nu is actually made a little less robotic, just to make the distinction clearer. As an example, at one point in CPEX, she begins reporting hard disk errors when trying to access her amnesiac memory. Not even Nu in CT got that robotic.
• Robot Girl: The eleventh Prime Field Device. In CPEX and beyond, she becomes a more Data-like or Yuki Nagato-like "Robot Girl Classic" example, to contrast with Mu's "Accepted My Humanity" variant and Nu's "Psychotic Malfunction".
• Signature Move: Much like Nu, her Drive moves and Legacy Edge.
• Soul Fragment: Just like her "sisters", it's implied that she carries a part of Saya's soul and some of her memories. The end of her CPEX Arcade mode shows it; she certainly has no other reason to think of that specific field of grass and flowers in conjunction with a smiling Ragna...
• Space Master: Much like Nu, she can manipulate space to summon swords.
• Supreme Chef: If Noel is to be believed Lambda is a very good cook. It only makes sense in the ending of Centralfiction that she's the one to cook the meals at the new church, seeing as Noel is the only alternative. Seemingly confirmed in Alternative: Dark War where one of Juusan's (a now recovered and sane Nu's new identity) likes is Lambda's cooking while she thinks Noel's is as bad as everyone else does.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Gameplay-wise she was created as a substitute for the then-deceased Nu, to the point that her Unlimited form in Continuum Shift was Nu.
• Storm of Blades: Much like Nu.
• Taking the Veil: Joins Noel in becoming a nun in the epilogue.
• Theme Naming: Same as Nu, i.e. swords and bladed weapons. And brand names of cars.
• Vocal Evolution: After her appearance in the Anime, her voice has changed somewhat to differentiate her from her sisters. Lambda's speech is more soft-spoken and subtle compared to Nu's higher-pitched Yandere voice and Mu's more confident and authoritative tone.
• When She Smiles: Comes with being the resident Emotionless Girl; while she has an identical face to Noel, who smiles quite often, the rarity of Lambda's smiles makes it all the sweeter when she does. It was first showcased in Alter Memory and got more exposure in Chronophantasma Extend as a part of her Character Development.
• White Sheep: Of the Murakumo Units. She is by far the least dangerous of them^note At least until Noel gains control of hers, only attacking on the orders of Kokonoe and even sacrificing herself to protect Ragna. And unlike her younger sister, she's not a Yandere around the guy either.
  • Lampshaded by Ragna in one of the Chronophantasma Extend Gag Reels, where he is dating Noel, and Lambda and Nu are her sisters. Ragna notes that Lambda is the most stable out of all three of them.
• Yank the Dog's Chain:
  • Lambda's "bad" ending after losing a Battle in the Center of the Mind leaves her alone in a hallucinated space. Suddenly, an image of Ragna appears, telling her she did well and Kokonoe is proud of her, and they can both rest now. Lambda is overjoyed to see him and happily lies down to take a nap with her beloved Ragna. When Kokonoe re-establishes contact with her body, Lambda is lying in a garden staring up at the sky, her mind shattered... but a smile on her face.
  • Her joke ending also has her clumsily become friends with Makoto and explore a few minute facets of individuality... it lasts up until Kokonoe drops Lambda's pet insect down the waste disposal by accident.
• You Are Number 6: Is designated Boundary Interface Prime Field Device –No.11-.
• Younger Than They Look: As with the other Murakumos, she's much younger than she looks, with her current body being, at most, seven years old.

Tsubaki Yayoi

Tsubaki Yayoi (ツバキ＝ヤヨイ)

Cue "Ride of the Valkyries".

^{Click to see her outfit in Continuum Shift.}

^{Click to see her outfit in Chrono Phantasma.}

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• Height: 160cm (5'3")
• Weight: 47kg (103.6 lbs)
• Blood type: A
• Date of Birth: March 14
• Birthplace: Naobi
• Hobbies: Painting, singing
• Likes: Historical dramas
• Dislikes: War

"White feathers for innocence, black feathers for darkest sin. We are the messengers and hammers of God, come to deliver righteous justice. Let sinners be punished! Let justice be done!"

Voiced by:
JP: Asami Imai
EN: Julie Ann Taylor

A fellow classmate of Jin, Noel, and Makoto from the Academy. Tsubaki comes from the noble Yayoi family. She's also Jin's childhood friend and has harboured a secret crush on him since they were young. After graduation, she served under the Zero Squadron/Wings of Justice, whose duty is to punish those who rebel against NOL. After the True Ending of the first game she was given orders by Hazama to execute Jin and Noel for knowing about his plans. And so she is sent out to Kagutsuchi to accomplish her mission, armed with an Armagus called Izayoi which steals light and uses it as a weapon. Later story developments will have her learning some awful truths which makes her go down the dark path, and her friends must save her.

Her canon path reveals much of her family's history. The Yayoi family is one of the oldest members of the Duodecim - the twelve noble families who helped form the original NOL. Her house and the Kisaragi house, which Jin belongs to, have very close relations with one another. Both families are quite famous, but also infamous within the NOL. Both families have very strange ethics, which causes them to be seen disdainfully in the eyes of the other families. In the Kisaragis' case, they take in children from all around the world due to their talents and are seen as mercenaries. In the Yayois' case, however, they are the opposite - family is the most important thing. So important, in fact, that when children began exhibiting weaker ars magus aptitude were born, members started resorting to incest and inbreeding in the mad delusion they would get stronger. Tsubaki is not the first-born child of her family - she is the first to survive. The day she met Jin, however, was like meeting a long-lost relative to her, and the two became close friends throughout their childhood.

Her Arcade mode playthroughs are named, in the second and third game respectively: ARCH ENEMY and Never Break Your Heart. Her story mode playthrough in the second game is named regret sin.

Her Drive, Install, fills a meter that increases the power of her attacks. In Chronophantasma, her Overdrive is Second Install, which causes her charge gauge to automatically regenerate.

In the fourth game, her Exceed Accel Shinbatsu: Mei wo Iru Ikazuchi^note (Court Punishment: Thunder Shoots (Through) the Dark) / Macto Lux Kyrie has her stun her opponent with the Izayoi book. Then she turns her blade into a bow of light and then fires a multitude of laser arrows at the opponent. Her Astral, Shinsei: Hito wo Sabaku Kami ^note (Saint's Court: God Judges the People) / Requiem Aeternam, has her using Izayoi's power to turn her into an angel and bind the opponent in place as a statue of a goddess (the same one seen in the background of Jin's stage) finishes the opponent off by impaling them with its massive spear. In Chronophantasma, the statue has been recolored black.

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• A-Cup Angst: While not as obsessed as other characters, she doesn't react well to Taokaka fondling her breasts and deeming them as 'average'.
• Action Girl: A cross between this and Lady of War.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: As shown in her concept art, Tsubaki was going to have black hair, and her personality would definitely make her play this straight.
• Ambiguous Situation: The ending of Central Fiction shows her meeting with Noel, Makoto, and Lambda and enjoying her time with them. Some time later, she is shown brandishing Ookami from behind Rachel but is not shown. Dark War ultimately reveals the person to be an entirely different character: White Justice/Tokiwa Camellia, or rather an alternate version of herself from another timeline who changed her name after tragedy.
• Ancestral Weapon: As seen in the Phase Shift novels, the Izayoi was first wielded by Tsubaki's ancestor.
• Anti-Villain: After she defects to the Imperator's side in Continuum Shift's True ending, and for most of Chronophantasma Tsubaki does truly have a good heart and wants what's best for everyone, but her upbringing and extremely rigid attitude are what drives her to oppose the protagonists.
• Apologetic Attacker: Even though she threatens to kill Noel if she doesn't return to her post at first, Tsubaki surprisingly ends up holding back and even begs for forgiveness whether she wins or loses. She also forgives her for the trouble she got her into since Noel is her friend and therefore she knows that she didn't want to fight against her.
  • Also, surprisingly enough, Tsubaki knew that she could never defeat her even though she didn't hold back. Then again, in fact, she herself didn't even know that Hazama was only using her to hurt her deeply enough to awaken the true successor to the Azure from within her... which, of course, causes Noel to fly into a rage and refuse to forgive him when she realizes it during her encounter with him.
• Ascended Extra: She only appeared in flashbacks of Jin & Noel's stories in Calamity Trigger, Continuum Shift makes her playable, and a part of central conflict, particularly as Hazama's Unwitting Pawn for Noel, and now arguably as prominent as the three main protagonists, being the point of motivation for two of them in Chronophantasma. Lampshaded in her Help Me, Professor Kokonoe segment.
  • Looks to reach Tritagonist status in any potential sequel; she Took a Level in Badass and can fight with the strongest in the story on an equal footing. Furthermore, Jin gets seriously hurt after Ragna's Power Incontinence episode, with Noel getting less severely injured. Tsubaki, by now herself again and having made up with the two of them and Makoto, has put Ragna, who she already hates, at the top of her shit-list, as well as being one of the few who can actually stop him now after unlocking Izayoi's full power. Rachel also asked both her and Jin to kill Ragna before he dies normally; and if that fails, Rachel also asked her to kill her with Immortal Breaker.
• Ascended Fangirl: Being a Six Heroes fan is part of the reason she joined the NOL in the first place; to be like them. It shows when she runs into Hakumen, who was her favourite and main inspiration, and she can't stop herself from babbling on.
• The Atoner: For her actions in Continuum Shift and Chronophantasma, by the time of Central Fiction Tsubaki has become a bodyguard of sorts for Noel, determined to stop anyone who would do her harm, including Jin and Hakumen.
• Badass Bookworm: That huge buckler thing? It's actually a book. She's also into historical dramas.
• Badass Cape: A part of her main outfit.
• Badass Creed: Her Astral quote, depicted above, as well as the same creed the rest of the NOL share. As of Chronophantasma, she, along with Hazama, are the only two who still recite the creed during battle intros with other NOL Personnel, after the others defected during the True Ending of Continuum Shift
  "Dispatched in mankind's darkest hour, we are Knights of the Blue Flame!"
• Beat the Curse Out of Him: Or her in this case. The focus of Jin and Noel in the third game is to try to break the Mind Eater curse on her. After some dedicated work to figure out how they do it, they make a plan along with Makoto, Kagura and Kokonoe; they first trap her along with Jin, Noel and Makoto in a special field made by Kokonoe, then Makoto beats her up, Noel (as Mu) tries to invoke her Izayoi form, and Jin does the rest. Ultimately, what they do is urging her to break it from the inside, which she manages to do... but not before she attacked Jin with her Immortal Breaker. Thankfully, as the user of Power of Order, Jin is immune to it.
• Beneath the Mask: While naturally prim, polite and dutiful, she harbors feelings for Jin that are quite unhealthy.
• Berserk Button: She doesn't like it when people make moves on Jin in front of her. Hazama's spiel drives it up.
• Betty and Veronica: Jin and Hakumen respectively, for her. Jin is her Childhood Friend whom she looks up to a lot, and she desires to be his assistant. Hakumen is one of the Six Heroes of legend whom she idolizes, and he has acknowledged it; he even shows his softer side to her. The irony is that Jin and Hakumen are the same person. Well, okay, Hakumen being an alternate timeline Jin who's more mature and experienced than the current, but still.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: ... Eh, sort of. Her polite, prim and dutiful nature is genuine, but she secretly harbours an unhealthy attraction to Jin and it occasionally leads to some startling behaviour. She's too three-dimensional to openly call her a bitch or a nice gal, but she has qualities of both.
• Black-and-White Insanity: Really kicks in after she's brainwashed where she's willing to kill the aforementioned Jin and Noel, as well as Makoto if they don't return to the NOL. And then she defects too, though by the end she returns to her post (as does Jin) when Homura is made Imperator. And in the end she's the only one still convinced that Ragna is "pure evil" and never knows that he's more than he looks (especially as he becomes more morally upright), Black Beast or no.
• Black-and-White Morality: In her eyes, anyone who opposes the NOL is evil and unforgivable; despite the fact that most of the cast have very justifiable reasons for opposing them, and the fact that the NOL themselves aren't that pure. Notably, at first she hates Ragna for being indirectly responsible for causing Jin and Noel to defect, despite the fact that she's never met the guy and she hasn't learn of the relationship between the three till much later. Although she changes her stance in Chronophantasma's epilogue; she still has a grudge against Ragna, especially for hurting Jin and Noel (he lost control of his body due to the Imperator's influence and forced to attack them), but vows to kill him due to the danger he poses.
• Blessed with Suck: In her story mode, using a Distortion or Astral Heat as the killing move leads to her bad ending because her Armagus "Izayoi" draws the light from her eyes and energy from her life, and the Drives speed up the process. Jin told her to get rid of it already, and Ragna offers the favor of destroying it for her (before Hakumen interferes anyway).
• Blind Justice: Tsubaki plays with this. She has a bit of an overexaggerated sense of justice due to being a fangirl of historical dramas. While she means well, she's also loyal to the NOL, which has tasked her with the execution of Jin (her crush) and Noel (her friend). Additionally, her Ars Armagus Izayoi "steals the light from the user's eyes," which will eventually cause Tsubaki to go blind. As of the end of Continuum Shift, Tsubaki has also made a Face–Heel Turn due to Hazama spoon-feeding her half-truths about Noel stealing Tsubaki's place as Jin's secretary in the current timeline (he intentionally left out that the Jin of that timeline—who went on to become Hakumen—still neglected Tsubaki and Tsubaki ultimately died Taking the Bullet for Jin), which brings out Tsubaki's darker side.
• Blind Mistake: In one of CP's gag reels, she shouts at Kokonoe that the latter was already being suspicious when she entered the place... while Tsubaki is facing at a wall. Ragna says that she should get rid of Izayoi already.
• Blind Obedience: Tsubaki was raised to believe anything the NOL did was righteous and for the benefit of everyone, and to never question their rule.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Tsubaki hesitates to fight Jin and tries to spare her friends even after Terumi tells her about how Noel replaced her. Then Terumi's failsafe kicks in, and Tsubaki switches into a haughty, ultra-lawful persona.
• Break the Cutie:
  • This happens when Hazama comes at her and trolls her about her blindness, as well as saying that how Noel stole her chance of being Jin's secretary. She got broken further when the Imperator's influence starts to get into her.
  • The Anime decided to take it up a notch and throw her completely over the Despair Event Horizon. After fighting both Noel and Jin and failing to defeat either of them, she finds out they don't care for her concept of justice or the NOL she was led to believe were so righteous, with the latter in particular completely breaking it down. She's so broken up by these turn of events, she nearly offs herself before the Imperator intervened. Goddamnit Tsubaki.
  • Even among the fans, her being seemingly rooted in the lower tiers of competitive play has turned her into a Butt-Monkey, with her constantly bemoaning her fate.
• Breakout Character: She was voted the most popular character in an official poll (as shown in Bururaji W's live recording special) ran by Arc System Works themselves, beating out all three of the primary main characters. She's been steadily getting a larger role with every subsequent game after her debut as a result.
• Cannot Spit It Out: It's downplayed in the main series where she's fairly modest with her feelings towards Jin, but Remix Heart takes it up to levels not uncommon in other Anime.
• Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: In her Help Me, Professor Kokonoe segment, she instantly changes her academy uniform into her usual white getup with the hat at a blink of an eye.
  Kokonoe: What, no Transformation Sequence?
  Tsubaki: Due to unforeseen circumstances, it had to be cut.
• Character Development: In CP, to a lesser extent (when compared to the main characters); her experiences on battling her friends and later Hakumen has made her slowly changing and improving her stance regarding justice.
• Charged Attack: She can charge her Sanctus Decus special to increase its damage and give it different properties.
• Chekhov's Gun: An offhand comment by Kokonoe and Tager in CS sets up Tsubaki's transformation in Chronophantasma.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Tsubaki appeared as an NPC in Calamity Trigger flashbacks.
• Childhood Friends: With Jin.
• Childhood Marriage Promise: When she and Jin were children, they said that if they ever broke a promise they'd have to "stick a needle in their eye", though Tsubaki seems take it more seriously than Jin, or so it seemed until he put his own life on the line to keep said promise in Chronophantasma.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Beneath the dutiful heiress to House Yayoi lay feelings of jealousy in regards to Jin. In Continuum Shift proper, Hazama pulls her strings by convincing her Noel "stole" her place with Jin. In Wheel of Fortune, a flash memory of Jin playing with his sister Saya leaves her screaming for the latter to get away from him.
  Tsubaki: I'm the one who should be with Jin. Noel... Noel took that away from me!
• Closet Geek: Her HMPK segment and some gag reels reveal that she's one for historical dramas.
• The Coats Are Off: She sometimes starts off as wearing her Zero Squadron cloak with a Cool Mask, which she then discards in her Battle Intro.
• Containment Field: With Izayoi, she can project one called Zanki Barrier, which, aside from being physically impenetrable, can block attempts of observations and phenomenon interventions.
• Corrupted Character Copy: She is this to Ky Kiske (primarily his earlier characterization from The Missing Link to XX). Both wear light-colored outfits, have connections with light, are after the main character to hunt them down, and have a Black-and-White Morality view. However, Ky's worldview gets humbled thanks to Justice's defeat and meeting Dizzy and evolves to have a more nuanced perspective and sheds away his whole trying to hunt down Sol Badguy, whereas Tsubaki's worldview teetered on Black-and-White Insanity and it gets expoited by the villains into inducing a Face–Heel Turn on her, and even after becoming face again, she never shed away her view that Ragna is evil and irredeemable and needs to be hunted down at all costs (especially as he becomes more morally upright).
• Cultured Badass: A requirement for every member of the 12 Families of the Duodecim. For example, she enjoys singing, reading and painting.
• Curtains Match the Window: Normally not, but when she's being mind-controlled she's given matching red eyes for her red hair.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: The Wheel of Fortune reveals that she was this in the time loop Hakumen is from.
• Dash Attack: Her Sanctus Aequum special has her dashing forward, smashing her foe with her book.
• Death from Above: Her new Distortion Drive as her Unlimited self in CP has her summon many falling spheres of light.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Tsubaki deconstucts The Ojou and Yamato Nadeshiko. She's very beautiful, polite, mature and intelligent, from an extremely traditionalist family, and not to mention extremely loyal to them and the Librarium. She only has eyes for one man, Jin Kisaragi, and is very enamoured with the idea of assisting him in his duties as his secretary. She's also shown to be very intimidating when annoyed or angered, as shown in Remix Heart. And she's a Lady of War, too. The problem is that underneath this 'perfect girl' facade there's a deeply insecure and troubled young woman whose sincere but obsessive love for Jin and extemely muddled origins bring out the absolute worst in her, and her ivory-tower upbringing leave her woefully susceptible to manipulation, which Hazama exploits like it's going out of style, completely screwing her and others over.
• Defector from Decadence: Leaves the NOL after Mind Eater is broken during her fight with Makoto; after Saya is ousted and Homura is given his rightful place as Imperator, she is reinstated as First Lieutenant of Zero Squadron, her old unit and her old rank (she was only major because Terumi needed a figurehead).
• Demonic Possession:In Chronophantasma, during her final battle with Noel, Makoto and Jin, Tsubaki is now fully under the control of Mind Eater and the Imperator uses her voice to speak her own words. She breaks it eventually.
• Despair Event Horizon: After she's rejected by both Jin and Noel in Continuum Shift.
• Double Consciousness: Diligent student. Loyal friend. Composed advisor. Tsubaki was destined to develop a Double Consciousness the moment a certain character ordered her to execute her best friends for the crime of treason. While the series is ongoing, she seems to be slowly Becoming the Mask, burying all the sensitivity she exhibited in the first game under a frantic fighting style at odds with her personality.
• Driven by Envy: In CS Hazama exploits her lingering jealousy for Noel as a way to pit them together as part of his plans, and it drives her to try to kill Noel.
• Driven to Suicide: In the Anime after she realizes she can't beat Jin or Noel, and the former spits on her idea of "justice" and loyalty to NOL. She would have done it had it not been for the Imperator's intervention.
• Enemy Mine: in Central Fiction, she and Ragna share scenes with Jin and Noel and are not trying to kill each other, and capable of putting aside their differences. It helps that they share a goal in protecting Noel. Not that this changes her attitude toward him at all.
• Energy Ball: two of her specials involve her shooting a light ball, with one being the midair version of the other.
• Everyone Can See It: In Remix Heart, she always tries to deny being romantically interested in Jin when someone teases her about it. Her friends all just go "Yeah, sure" behind her back and giggling. Taken up a notch by the end: with a few exceptions, every member of the cast is a Shipper on Deck for them, even Ragna!
• Everyone Has Standards: As morally rigid as she can be, there are few lines even she won't cross.
  • As much as she hates Ragna for being a violent terrorist, when Jin reveals to her the true nature of their relationship and his resolve to kill Ragna, she can't help but think how cruel it is for a pair of siblings to be forced to kill each other.
  • In Act 3 of her CF Arcade mode, she actively opposes her childhood sweetheart Jin, and her idol Hakumen in protecting Noel, finally deciding that she values her companions over her sense of justice.
• Evil Costume Switch: After her Face–Heel Turn she starts wearing a black version of her uniform. It also appears as a special Story-exclusive color palette in Jin's story that cannot be used, and returns in Chronophantasma as her default look. It returns to its Continuum Shift colour scheme by the end after her she's back on the heroes` side, which carries over to her appearance in Central Fiction.
• Evil Counterpart: Chronophantasma makes her this to Noel by giving her a Mu-esque alternate form in Izayoi. Subverted at the end as they finally come together on the same side.
• Evolving Attack: Her Drive allows her to do improved versions of her specials, using the meter that is filled by holding the Drive button.
• Expressive Accessory: While it's only a joke, this trope applies to the hat of the Super-Deformed Tsubaki seen in her "Help Me Professor Kokonoe" segment and the BlazBlue Radio show.
• EX Special Attack: Her Drive lets her fill up a special gauge and spend it to perform enhanced special attacks.
• Eye Color Change: Her eyes turn red after she's been successfully mind-controlled.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: When she equips the Izayoi in Continuum Shift she has an eyball on her hat, and eyeball on her book, and an eyeball on the handle of her sword. Ironically, she goes blind in the second game, but gets better after her Face–Heel Turn in Chronophantasma and Heel–Face Turn in Central Fiction.
• Face–Heel Turn: Becomes more ruthless at the end of Continuum Shift, and opts to kill her friends. Don't worry, it doesn't stick.
• Fangirl: As shown in Remix Heart, she behaves this way towards Jin, as well (if not more) and is heavily implied to be the reason why she's so madly in-love with him. Also of historical adventure pieces, to the point of being extremely Genre Savvy in some of the gag reels. In fact, it was her love of these pieces that inspire her hammy battle cries.
• Fatal Flaw: Jealousy. Her possessiveness towards Jin, and her difficulty in seeing him with any other girl, makes her very easy to manipulate by both friend and foe. And in several timelines, Wheel Of Fortune and Continuum Shift the most notable, it has gotten her killed.
• Feather Motif: Pointed out in her Astral Heat. She herself also has white Perpetual Molt applied to many of her attacks, and it turns black as she turns heel in CP.
• Fiery Redhead: Tsubaki tends to act calm and controlled, but if Jin is involved (especially if you're between him and her), look out. During the Academy days, she ran the Brainy Brunette archetype instead and was likely holding the hellfire in (however well that worked out).
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Of her group of friends, she's The Mage, with her need to use her drive to charge her powers to really bring the pain. Subverted in her Unlimited mode as she is the most resilient of the three.
• Fighting from the Inside: Despite being under the Imperator's curse for most of third game, Tsubaki has shown signs of resistance from time, mostly in Jin's presence. This is what clues Kagura in that the real Tsubaki was still around.
• Flawed Prototype: It's offhandedly mentioned during Tager's story mode in Continuum Shift that Izayoi is actually a prototype for Lux Sanctus Murakumo. It is unclear how a sword, book and hat can be a prototype to a suit of armor, but...
  • Phase Shift novels also reveals that the thing has been made centuries ago and that Nine creates Ars Armagus based on Izayoi, so the weapon is effectively the prototype to all Armagus (and possibly Nox Nyctores) in existence.^note And it's still called an "armagus" in universe, possibly to prevent confusion, just as how Mega Man X was called a "reploid" despite all reploids being based on his schematics.
• Flower Motifs: The camellia, as her name gives it away (it means "camellia"). Particularly red, yellow and white camellias (as they correspond to her main colorization) mean "in love", "longing" and "waiting" respectively, symbolizing what she was especially during CS. Camellias also symbolize "refinement" and "excellence", something that she always strives to show.
• For Great Justice / For Happiness: The former to begin with. She was taught from birth that everything the NOL did was good, just and right, and had a Black-and-White Morality view of the world as a result, which combined with her other issues made her very easy for Hazama to screw with. After her recovery in CP, she realises just how flawed the NOL really is, and prioritises the well being and happiness of her loved ones over the law, thus embodying the latter.
• Friend-or-Idol Decision: Her dilemma in Central Fiction. She finds herself in trouble of choosing whether to go with Jin and Hakumen, her idols, for killing Noel, or to protect Noel, her friend. She chooses Noel in the end.
• Grapple Move: She gains one in CP that also helps her fill her Install gauge.
• Gratuitous Latin: When Tsubaki finally got around to becoming a playable character, her English battle cries were all of this form, owing to her love of historical dramas and rightous self-image. Her moves include "Lux Aeterna" ("Eternal Light") and "Benedictus Rex" ("Blessed King").
• Green-Eyed Monster: Hazama explains that Noel's existence in the canon timeline^note In other timelines - especially Wheel of Fortune - Noel (Mu -No.12-) was supposed to die following Take-Mikazuchi's attack on Ibukido has essentially replaced Tsubaki's "intended" position; Noel became Jin's "secretary" instead of her despite inferior qualifications in every respect, meaning Tsubaki fades into obscurity, is denied the man she loves, and cannot prevent his mad pursuit of Ragna, though Wheel Of Fortune shows she couldn't have stopped him anyway. Naturally this fuels her Face–Heel Turn later.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: She denies having any sort of romantic feelings for Jin whenever the subject surfaces, she's a pretty bad liar though so nobody believes her.
• Hero-Worshipper: CS reveals that she's a huge fangirl of the Six Heroes, owns all the books and movies about. In particular, she seems to idolize Hakumen the most.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In Hakumen's backstory, as expanded in the drama CD Wheel of Fortune, she died taking Nu's stabs meant for Jin.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: with Noel and Makoto since their academy days (though subverted back when she was first conceptualized, as she was originally meant to be a Lipstick Lesbian with a thing for Noel).
• Horrible Judge of Character: Subverted. She knows something is up about Hazama, but doesn't act on her instincts due to her loyalty to the NOL. This proved very bad for her.
• The Idealist: Believes in a peaceful world where everything's pleasant.
• Identical Granddaughter / Generation Xerox: To her ancestor Ayame Yayoi, who fought alongside The Six Heroes. There is a strong physical resemblance, and a similar personality. The main difference being, Ayame was Happily Married with children, while Tsubaki Cannot Spit It Out to her Love Interest Jin.
• Image Song: Her voice actress sings a vocal version of her theme "Condemnation Wings" called "Condemnation Wings ~Cry Camellia~". She also has a collective one with Noel's voice actor, for their vs. theme "Memory of Tears" called "Don't Look Back".
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The end result of Nu's retaliation in Wheel of Fortune because she thinks Ragna is cheating on her - never mind that she was trying to help Jin.
  • And of course, her Astral Heat ends with this.
• Implied Love Interest: For Jin. A large part of his Character Development actually revolves around her and various characters play Shipper on Deck for them. They're as close as you can get to being an Official Couple without actually being one. What makes it even more confusing is how Jin refers to their relationship as Like Brother and Sister during an extremely intense moment in Chronophantasma. Considering how Jin treats his actual siblings...
• Incompatible Orientation: Back when she was first conceptualized, she was originally meant to be a Lipstick Lesbian with a thing for Noel. Presumably, Noel would still be straight.
• Inspector Javert: She actively hates Ragna since she (wrongly) believes that he's the cause of all her friends' suffering. Unlike Noel, Tsubaki refuses to view Ragna as anything more than a criminal.
• Internal Reveal: After four games of being Locked Out of the Loop, Tsubaki finally learns that Ragna and Jin are brothers after the latter reveals their backstory together, and Hakumen's identity in Act 3 of Central Fiction's arcade.
• In the Hood: Her Zero Squadron coat has a big hood, which is used in conjunction of a white mask.
• Invocation: During her Astral Finish: "White feathers for innocence, black feathers for darkest sin. We are the messengers and hammers of God, come to deliver righteous justice! Let sinners be punished! Let justice be done!"
• Irony: Noel's short story from one of the materials collections reveals that she specifically sought to avoid military work, but the intelligence department posted her under Jin against her will, implicitly using the fate of the Vermillions to force her into it. Effectively, when Hazama asks whose fault the screwing over of Tsubaki is, he's refusing to give the answer himself because it's probably his own - and he may well have set it all up to have Tsubaki for use as a pawn against Hakumen.
  • The truth is uglier still. In Wheel of Fortune, she tried stopping Jin from going to the Kagutsuchi cauldron but he dismissed her; then after witnessing him getting beaten by Ragna, she tried to take on the latter by herself to no avail. Then Nu came down, thinking that Tsubaki is messing with "her" Ragna; when an angered Jin screamed at Nu to go away from Ragna, she responded by throwing her sword at him; Tsubaki shielded him from it and later got Legacy Edged. Long story short, she'll die if she stayed being Jin's secretary; Noel (after several time loops later) taking her place has indirectly saved Tsubaki from her original fate.
  • Negated by Central Fiction; it may be an effect of the Embryo, but as Izayoi, she states in her pre-fight intro with Ragna that she's in 4th (Jin's) division, so she got her wish eventually. Furthermore, in the epilogue, she's wearing the standard female NOL uniform (like the one Noel used to wear), not the outfit we've seen her in all series. The implication is that her desire (as shown in her CF arcade) has finally become a possibility that she can reach due to Ragna's machinations.
  • She used to call Jin "Jin-nii-sama". By the time her best friend Noel, who she spent most of CS trying to kill, reabsorbs all of Saya's soul, she starts calling him the exact same thing. Subverted because she actually is his sister, Tsubaki isn't.
  • In Wheel of Fortune, she died Taking the Bullet for Jin from Nu-13. In CF Jin, as Hakumen, pays Nu back by curbstomping her, although he does die... by Terumi instead of Nu.
• Jack of All Stats: Her evaluation in Remix Heart states that she's above average in all categories, but nothing in particular stands out. It also translates to gameplay where her defense, mobility and offense are average, and her attacks are quite intuitive.
• Justice Will Prevail: Pretty much her central theme. This gets discussed a lot, particularly in Chronophantasma.
• Knightly Sword and Shield: Tsubaki puts her own spin on the theme, with her special weapon set called Izayoi in form of a Spell Book used as a buckler and a short sword shaped like a quill. She also works in the NOL's special "Wings of Justice" unit, and she herself has an idealized view of justice and heroes thereof.
• Lady of War: Very dignified with a graceful moveset.
• Lag Cancel: somewhat like Hakumen, she can freely cancel her specials into another. She can also cancel the delay of her normal attacks by using her Drive.
• Lap Pillow: She has an exhausted Jin sleeping on her lap in Remix Heart's Beach Episode. Makoto and Kajun then takes a photo of the two.
• Large Ham: See Invocation above. The fact she Thinks Like a Romance Novel makes this even better.
• Leg Focus: Litchi comments on her legs, saying they're part of her appeal.
• Leitmotif: Condemnation Wings
• Light 'em Up: Izayoi works by manipulating light around her to attack her foes.
• Light Is Not Good: Izayoi, her Armagus, is designed to "steal the light" from people and areas. It has a side effect: it makes the user blind over time.
• Like Brother and Sister: Her relationship with Jin seems to flicker between this and Ship Tease.
• Lipstick Lesbian: The original version of Tsubaki has explicitly stated to have been a lesbian and in love with Noel. This was changed when the writers realized they couldn't make it work, so her affections were switched to Jin, and Makoto was created to fill in the gap in Les Yay.
• Love Makes You Evil: She is tricked by Hazama to believe that her old school friend Noel stole away her chance to be with her Love Interest Jin. She ends up performing a Face–Heel Turn (and More than Mind Control) and attempting to kill Noel.
• Madness Mantra: after she's defeated by Ragna in CP chapter 7, she starts saying "Noel, Makoto, Jin (nii-sama)" over and over as she blamed Ragna because he (indirectly) causes the three to defect from the NOL.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Tsubaki means "Camellia" in Japanese. Hakumen named his special move "Camellia" after her. Moreover, Tsubaki's surname and weapon name refer to the moon.^note Depending on how it is written, Yayoi (actually means "March") can mean "8th Night", while Izayoi can mean "16th Night". This ties to eastern lunar calendar: Each month in said lunar calendar starts with 1st night being the pitch black new moon, gradually waxing until the full moon on 15th night before waning into the pitch black new month on 1st night of the next month. Thus, 8th night is the half-moon, highlighting her initial Black-and-White Insanity, and 16th night is the start of the moon turning darker, tying to her weapon's ability to block out light.
  • Tsubaki was originally going to be called Lenka, which has two meanings. "Lotus flower" in Japanese (Tsubaki means camellia, another flowering plant) and "to illuminate" in Russian, the latter of which is a reference Izayoi’s light stealing power.
• Mercury's Wings: She grows a pair of wings on her head during her Astral.
• Morality Pet: Tsubaki is the Morality Pet of both Jin Kisaragi and Hakumen. The former is an Ax-Crazy Yandere Jerkass with ice powers (though he begins to thaw out from Continuum Shift onward), and the latter is a vaguely Knight Templar-ish Hero Antagonist who exemplifies Good is Not Nice. However, both of them are extremely warm and friendly to her, and woe betide the man who harms her in any way, for they will hunt him down. Hakumen can be seen giving Tsubaki heartfelt advice during a moment of uncertainty in CS, and Jin even puts his incredibly violent Sibling Rivalry with Ragna on hold during the third game so he can aid the heroes' plan to snap Tsubaki out the Mind Control spell she's under. This makes sense, as Jin and Hakumen are the same person. In fact, Hakumen takes this further than the Childhood Marriage Promise between Jin and Tsubaki, as the Tsubaki of his timeline perished in a Heroic Sacrifice and became his Lost Lenore.
• More than Mind Control: Really, Terumi orchestrated the perfect environment to plant the seeds of discord between her, Jin, and Noel; he put Noel under Jin's command knowing full well Tsubaki wanted that position and assigned the latter to one of the NOL's lesser squads. From that point it just took a bit of prodding and Nine's Mind Eater spell to convince her to perform a Face–Heel Turn. Fortunately, her friends manage to bring her back with The Power of Love.
• Ms. Imagination: One of the drama tracks is dedicated to her rather...warped daydreams, which misinterprets the other characters to a glorious extent.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: What Terumi convinces her to do to Noel so she can take her spot alongside Jin. She can't go through with it though, well before Mind Eater kicked in anyway...
• Nice Gal: She's pretty nice and polite, and all-around good citizen. Although her duty as part of the Zero Squadron would make her do some questionable acts, and as she's Brainwashed and Crazy in CP she becomes more hostile.
• Not So Above It All: Despite her calm attitude, Tsubaki has an excitable side. She becomes easily flustered and angry when pressed about her feelings for Jin, and is shown to be passionate about historical dramas and the Six Heroes, particularly Hakumen, to the point she's read all the books and seen all the movies based on them.
• Oblivious to Her Own Description: After listening to Hakumen's story about a woman he cared for long ago that inspired him at the cost of her life, Tsubaki remarks that she'd be happy to become a woman like that someday. She doesn't know that Hakumen is the alternate timeline counterpart of her love interest Jin, and the woman in question is that timeline's version of herself.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: When she was a student council member in the Academy, she often acts as this for her group, Remix Heart. She will try to remind them of the rules and call them out whenever they're acting suspicious, although she can relent at times.
• The Ojou: Sorta gives off this vibe, being from a high ranking family and maintaining a dignified and graceful appearance.
• Only Sane Woman: Relative to her best friends Makoto and Noel, she's the one trying to keep their antics in check.
  • Reversed in Bururaji; it's Noel trying to keep her (and Ragna) in check.
• Overranked Soldier: Promoted to Major for her "exploits" against Ragna the Bloodedge as of Chronophantasma. Terumi needs a new figurehead hero, since Jin chose to defect. She's back at 1st LT by the end.
• Paint It Black: Tsubaki changes into a black costume with red eyes after her Mind Rape-induced Face–Heel Turn during the story of Continuum Shift. To drive this home, in the third game Chrono Phantasma the black costume is her default one, and once she recovers she goes back to her white costume in Central Fiction.
• Perpetual Molt: Her Astral Heat gives her wings, which naturally drop feathers everywhere.
• Phrase Catcher: In CP she's told to "open your eyes" a lot.
• Powerful Pick: She gains a new special in CF, Agnus Dei (replacing Sanctus Decus) where she transforms her blade and book into a big pickaxe and slams the foe with it.
• Power Gives You Wings: She gains angelic wings when activating her Astral, and dons said wings all throughout her Astral.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: The only one of the main cast to wear a long skirt as part of her academy uniform, and on leg shots she's wearing tights.
  • Though if ''Remix Heart'' can be believed, she's actually wearing stockings and suspenders. The long skirt suddenly makes a lot more sense. Though on one of the official Dakimakuras, she is wearing (ripped) tights.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: When she turns heel, she becomes this; red hair & eyes + black clothing. Her wing attacks also gives off a blood-red color.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Makoto's Red. Being calm and reserved while Makoto is eager and energetic.
• Religious Bruiser: A number of her win quotes and her Astral spiel (in the dub at least) allude to sin and forgiveness. She evens outright name-drops God during her Astral. May also tie into her being the Token Wholesome and Reluctant Fanservice Girl.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: She really has it out for Ragna, and at the end of Chronophantasma she decides to go after him to kill him due to the threat he poses, citing him as the "source of all evil in the world". While she's right about the fact that he's a threat to the world and perfectly justified in going after him, she is completely unaware of his Hidden Depths and lacks any understanding of the man himself. By Chronophantasma's end she's about the only main protagonist that doesn't know that Ragna is not the bad person he's been made out to be with her opinions of him mostly based on the fact that he's battled and beaten Jin multiple times. Rachel makes a subtle jab at her for this during true ending of story mode and in her arcade mode she outright calls Tsubaki out on it.
  Rachel: You're looking for him, are you not? I wonder what he looks like through those clouded eyes of yours.
  Tsubaki: *Over images of the Black Beast and Ragna battling Jin* ...Evil. Ragna the Bloodedge stands for all that is evil in this world.
  Rachel: *Over her own memories of Ragna* How arrogant. Is that really something for YOU to decide?
• Rival Turned Evil: Towards Noel. Thanks to a certain Manipulative Bastard, Tsubaki grew to resent Noel for having the position as the secretary of her Love Interest. To twist it even further, she finds out that in another timeline, she would have had said position if Noel never existed. Thankfully, they resolve their issues by the time of the third game and reconcile.
• Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: Three-way example with Noel Vermillion and Makoto Nanaya. They met in the military academy and watched out for each other, becoming fast friends and helping each other with quite severe issues. The all ended up joining different branches of the NOL and don't get the chance to see each other much anymore, but enjoy spending time with each other. Noel and Makoto's main motivation in Chronophantasma is trying to get Tsubaki back after she was manipulated by Terumi. Notably, Noel and Tsubaki were originally planned to be a lesbian couple and Makoto has been confirmed to be bi (and felt up Tsubaki's chest in a gag reel). However, Tsubaki only has eyes for Jin.
• Royal Inbreeding: Members of the Yayoi family breed with strong users of Ars Magus to keep their family strong. When there became a shortage of such people, they resorted to inbreeding which, over time, served to weaken the family. Tsubaki, it turns out, is not the first daughter of her parents; she's the first one to survive.
• Royally Screwed Up: The Yayoi family where she came from, one of the twelve ruling families of the Duodecim. They rarely show up directly, but they are pretty messed up from what we know. Members of the Yayoi family would only have children with those who had strong Ars Magus potential. Eventually they started inbreeding due to considering themselves the only ones strong enough. The current heir, Tsubaki herself, is not the firstborn child; she's the first one that survived. She's strong and nice, but she's not quite right and ends up manipulated.
• Shaping Your Attacks: Her weapon can manipulate light and give it a form to attack her opponents, such as wings, blades, axes...
• Ship Tease: With Jin. A lot of it. They would be an Official Couple if it wasn't for all of the alternate timeline... stuff.
• Shipper on Deck: In Bang's gag ending, Tsubaki sees Bang peeking into Litchi's window in Orient Town, and assumes he is a peeping tom. As she's about to arrest him, Bang avoids being arrested by telling Tsubaki that Litchi is his girlfriend. Tsubaki believes him, and gets the idea that he's going to propose marriage. Upon coming to this conclusion, she gleefully insists that Bang propose to Litchi right that instant. Bang is less than pleased, given Tsubaki's... forcefulness.
• Shoryuken: Her Benedictus Rex special, done with her blade. It's also cancellable to 2 of her midair specials, that ends with her foe being knocked back to the ground.
• Shotoclone: It's not until CP where she gains a ground projectile move, in addition to her uppercut and rushing specials she already has.
• Single-Target Sexuality: She knows full-well that Jin is not the "Jin-niisama" she once knew and adored long ago. But despite this, she still loves him deeply in her heart, and doesn't show particular interest in anyone except him.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: How she views Ragna by CF. She understands they're on the same side and that he's not a bad person, but she's still pretty vocal in how much she dislikes him.
• Situational Damage Attack: Her Confutatis Maledictis DD will deal higher damage the more Install stocks you charged beforehand.
• SNK Boss: All unlimited characters have some level of this, but Tsubaki's appearance in the middle of Jin's CS story deserves special mention for forcing the player to fight with only half a moveset.
• Sole Survivor: She the only surviving member of her family's current generation, due to all the health problems caused by the Yayoi family's inbreeding.
• The Spock: To Noel's Kirk and Makoto's McCoy. Between Jin and Makoto, however, she serves as The Kirk to Jin's Spock and Makoto's McCoy.
• Storm of Blades: Gains one in CP as her new Distortion Drive.
• The Straight Man: In the chibi segments; to Makoto in "Teach Me, Miss Litchi" and to Ragna on Blue Radio. Noel is the tagalong for both.
• Subordinate Excuse: She only has simple desires of being under Jin's orders, assisting him in his duties. Lampshaded mercilessly by Hazama in the Wheel of Fortune.
• Super Mode: Much like Hakumen's Mugen, Tsubaki's Macto Maledictis gives her unlimited use of her Install gauge for the duration, which depends on how much it had been filled beforehand. The duration becomes longer in Overdrive.
• Sweet Tooth: In Wheel of Fortune she likes chocolate a lot.
• Sympathy for the Hero: In CF, Nine sympathizes with how badly the universe has treated her, much like Nine herself.
• Theme Naming: In Japanese version, her special moves, DD's and Astral Heat have epic-sounding names in Japanese, all referencing justice in some way. In the overseas version, they have holy-sounding names in Latin.
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Which makes the circumstances of her More than Mind Control and Mind Rape induced Face–Heel Turn all the more tragic. This is clearest (and funniest) in Bang Shishigami's joke ending, when she ends up "helping" him propose to Litchi... via trying to stage a Shotgun Wedding, which makes Bang himself go all "WTF?!"
• This Is Unforgivable!: She says this to Ragna in her winquote against him because she blames him for what happened to Jin and Noel.
• Three-Strike Combo: She can chain Sanctus Aequum -> Sanctus Veritas -> Sanctus Decus and Benedictus Rex -> Aequum Eleison -> Lux Aeterna specials. Her Confutatis Maledictis DD also becomes like this in Overdrive.
• Throw the Book at Them: Izayoi. Aside from Tsubaki bashing her foe with it, she can also command the light through it to attack for her, and uses it to charge her Install gauge.
• To Be Lawful or Good: A significant point of her character is when her sense of justice conflicts with her personal feelings. In Continuum Shift, she's charged with killing Jin and Noel, something she's clearly uncomfortable with and doesn't want to do, but her sense of loyalty to the NOL causes her to adhere to her orders. She tries to follow her orders, but ultimately can't bring herself to fight either of them so Nine casts Mind Eater on her so that she fully adheres to her sense of justice becoming a Knight Templar in the process. In Chronophantasma thanks to the efforts of her friends, she's freed from the Mind Eater spell and works to use her power for her friends while maintaining her justice. She's firmly on the good end of the scale by Central Fiction she's horrified at Izanami's idea of killing Noel for the sake of her desires, and actively protects her from those who wish to cause her harm, even against Jin and Hakumen, the two people she admires more than anyone.
• Token Wholesome: Wears a full-body uniform that hides most of her figure, while most others are decidedly fanservice-y in different ways.
• Tragic Hero: She lost her siblings, have to kill one of her friends and got brainwashed by Hazama/Yuuki Terumi.
• Transformation Sequence: She has one in the CS story where her outfit becomes dark due to the Imperator's influence.
• Unknown Rival: She has an intense grudge against Ragna for being the cause of Noel and Jin's defection from the NOL. Ragna barely knows who she is, and when they finally do meet face-to-face in Chronophantasma, he hardly cares.
• Unwilling Suspension: If Tsubaki is hit by Relius's Astral Heat, she's shown in this position and with her back turned as well as her butt at the viewer.
• Unwitting Pawn: She's used as a pawn by Hazama many, many times over. As of now, he's used her to obstruct Takagamagara's surveilance by using Izayoi, capture Noel OR die fighting, allowing Hazama to snatch her during the distraction, follow the NOL's orders blindly by feeding her half truths (and inferred Mind Control when that didn't look like it was going to work), all the while using her as a giant "screw you" to Hakumen, who was Jin Kisaragi in a previous timeline and still holds some feelings for her after witnessing his Tsubaki die.
• Valkyries: She has a very Valkyrie-esque design, from the winged helmet, armor, and sword and shield fighting style.
• Whip Sword: One of her normal attacks turns her dagger into one that looks extremely similar to Ivy's.
• White Mask of Doom: Whenever she wears her hood, she also has a one-eyed white mask.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: As seen in her gag ending; she hates pandas with a passion. Litchi lampshades the contrast with Noel, whose spare uniform she'd just been cosplaying in as an apology for stepping on her Peking Duck...
• Winged Humanoid: Temporarily turns into one during one of her specials, as well as her Astral Finish. Many of her moves also has her sprouting wings at different points of her body.
• Woman Scorned: She wasn't happy to say the least when she was told that Noel stole her chance at being Jin's secretary.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Played for Laughs, many a Gag Reel where she shows up has her giving into her fetish for romantic heroic stories. She starts calling out how a character normally would or should act in such a situation, completely unaware that they don't work that way in real life.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: She's very beautiful, polite, mature and intelligent. She comes from an extremely traditionalist family, and extremely loyal to them and the Librarium. She only has eyes for one man and is very submissive to the idea of assisting him in his duties as his secretary (Though she didn't in the current timeline), and determined to the point of even killing her best friend. She was also shown to have an intimidating temper when annoyed or angered as shown in Remix Heart. And she's a Lady of War. She bullseye's every category.
  • Also doubles as a deconstruction. Her origins and limited romantic interests instill rather malignant tendencies (as already mentioned), and her ivory-tower upbringing leave her woefully susceptible to manipulation, which Hazama exploits like it's going out of style. It leads to the trope directly below.
• Yandere: Subverted. While she would do anything to be at Jin's side, she's reluctant to kill her best friend (who has said position) to do so. This vanishes quickly after she's brainwashed however, and she becomes a straight example but for the Imperator instead.

Hazama

See Hazama's page

Introduced in the Console Version(DLC)/Continuum Shift II (PSP version)

Mu -No.12-

See Mu's section on Noel's page

Makoto Nanaya

Makoto Nanaya (マコト＝ナナヤ)

A girl of many assets. ^*Eyes up and front, damnit.

Profile

• Height: 163cm (5'4.2")
• Weight: 49kg (108 lbs)
• Blood type: O
• Date of Birth: April 2
• Birthplace: Shinatsu
• Hobbies: Lacrosse
• Likes: All-you-can-eat, Chestnut Parfait
• Dislikes: Discrimination

"I'm gonna warn you, I don't pull my punches!"

Voiced by: Tomomi Isomura (Japanese) / Cindy Robinson (English)

A fellow classmate of Noel, Jin and Tsubaki from the Academy. She entered the Academy for the financial benefit NOL provided to her family. She's a Squirrel Beastkin, giving her incredible physical strength and reflexes. Unfortunately, because of her squirrel-ness she was the victim of extreme Fantastic Racism from many others, including her classmates. Noel and Tsubaki protected her from them, and became fast friends. Responds with great Squee to anything cute, including Taokaka and Noel in one of the "Teach Me, Miss Litchi!" skits, and Carl in a flashback in Noel's story mode. She ends up in the Intelligence Department of the NOL (the same division as Hazama). She wields a pair of tonfas and wears next-to-nothing.

Her Arcade mode playthroughs are named, in second and third game respectively: friendship and Bonds. Her story mode playthrough in the second game is named Slight hope.

Her Drive, Impact, charges a meter that when released performs an attack of damage equivalent to the meter (think playing those old-school golf games which require proper timing for maximum efficiency). In Chronophantasma, her Overdrive is Galaxia Impact, which automatically makes all of her Drive attacks Level G, augmenting their damage and granting additional properties.

In the fourth game, her Exceed Accel Cygnus Combination has her stun the foe with a punch to the gut. She then proceeds to do several of her specials, ending with her doing a powerful punch (or two) with a fist aura following her. Her Astral, Planet Crusher, propels her forward with a dashing gut punch, followed by some Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs that would make Kenshiro and Jotaro proud, and finally uppercutting her opponent all the way to the Moon causing it to break apart into several pieces.

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• Abnormal Ammo: Her Unlimited self in CP has a move where she throws an acorn upward which will hit the enemy as it falls. It does Scratch Damage, but it is useful for combos.
• Ace Pilot: Assumes the role of one in Tager's Chronophantasma gag reel.
• Action Girl: Par for the course in a Fighting Game series, but Makoto is still a standout even in a a series like BlazBlue;, she is more than willing to throw herself in harm's way to protect those she cares about, and has the skills to get herself out of trouble... most of the time.
• All Women Are Lustful: She's talked the most about picking up guys among the entire cast, is constantly doting on Carl, and it's all but stated that she's slept with Kagura.
• Ambiguously Bi: While her interest in men is repeatedly referenced throughout the series, it's implied she has more than a passing interest in Tsubaki and Noel. This becomes a Subverted Trope in one of the spin off manga, where she enjoys being accidentally kissed by Mai Natsume (who not only became a girl physically but also mentally), thereby ending the "ambiguous" part.
• And I Must Scream: In her bad ending in the second game. Relius Clover gets a hold of her and, in a rather harrowing sequence, tortures her via prolonged Mind Rape. Relius' last comment implies that he intends to transform her into something like his wife-turned-battle-doll Ignis, and Makoto is still conscious and aware as the ending fades to black. Yikes. Fortunately, it's a bad ending so it's not Canon.
• Ascended Extra: Like Tsubaki, she originally only appeared in flashbacks in Noel's story in the first game before becoming playable and a much more prominent figure in the second.
• Ass Kicks You: Her reverse throw knocks her opponents flat on their backs, followed by her jumping on and landing butt-first on them. Also similar looking is her jumping 2C attack (though her tail covers her butt when she does this).
• Awesome, but Impractical: Her Unlimited form in Continuum Shift has an Awesome, but Impractical secret Distortion Drive, as well. It actually does MORE damage than her Astral Heat (6601 damage vs OVER 9000 damage), but still takes 100 heat, rather than the 50 heat most Distortion moves use.
• Awful Truth: Much in the same way as what Noel experienced, but for her, it's a reconstruction. She found out that Noel is a Prime Field Device amidst a graveyard of her 'predecessors'. Makoto learns from Rachel in the very next sentence that beastkin (like Makoto herself) were also made by human hands. Unlike Noel, Makoto does not break, and in fact uses the experience to strengthen her resolve to save her friends.
• Badass Adorable: Awwww, look at those cute little ears and that big bushy tail. Make her angry, and they'll probably be the last thing you'll ever see before you're shot into the next zip code, fist class.
• Badass Creed: The same one as all the other NOL members, save Relius, in CS. Occasionally subverted in that she can't remember the whole thing - it's played straight when she gets it right.
  Hazama: "Don't think this won't show up on your next review!"
  Jin: "*sigh* You just never change, do you?"
  Tsubaki: "You're gonna practice that until you get it right."
  Noel: "I had to work really super hard to memorize that, you know?"
  • There's also this gem, a parody of Bang's intro:
    Makoto: The heavens, the earth, and a million squirrels call to me! ... Huh? What? They don't?
• Badass Normal: She has rather low ars magus ratings, but as a beastkin her physical skills are superior to normal humans and is able to hold her own with that alone. While there was no hope of victory for her against Es due to the Doomsday's fallout, she managed to impress Amane during her resulting last stand by both rejecting the temptation of the Azure and holding out as long as she did solely from strength of body and will.
• Barefoot Poverty: House Nanaya has been strapped for money, and Amanefied!Makoto is barefoot. Coincidence?
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Her outfit exposes her stomach.
• Beat the Curse Out Of Her: To Tsubaki in Chronophantasma. Two different occasions, in fact.
  • Subverted at first. In her arcade path, Makoto tries to beat some sense into her. Two battles later, Tsubaki escapes control, but is quickly overcome again, and only the local Time Crash prevents the confrontation from escalating into a full-blown deathmatch.
  • In the story path, Makoto tries again with Noel and Jin at her side. Makoto doesn't succeed in directly neutralizing the curse, but that wasn't Jin's plan in the first place; with Tsubaki's strength exhausted and Izanami unable to intervene due to the Eclipse Field, Noel could observe the Zero-Type for Tsubaki to grasp and control on her own terms. Jin pushes her to the point where she has to use the Immortal Breaker technique or risk dying, except Jin stops trying to fight so he doesn't kill her. The attack fails because [A] the Immortal Breaker is only meant to destroy entities outside of logic (Jin's power of order is tied to the world's logic, which makes him immune) and [B] Jin was forcing a Sadistic Choice on Tsubaki to see if her love for true justice and Jin is greater than her devotion to then-Imperator Izanami. In the end, it's less "beat the curse out of her" and more "beat the curse so she can break it herself".
• Because You Were Nice to Me: One of the major reasons she views Noel and Tsubaki as her True Companions with such Undying Loyalty to them is because they're the ones who accepted her for who she is, including sticking up for her, even if she rebuffed them at first due to the Fantastic Racism treatment she gets.
• Berserk Button: Mocking her humanity and/or race will get you a sharp vocal retort in seconds (if not a well-placed hit on the jaw), no matter how well she can deflect other insults or taunts. During her arcade ending in Continuum Shift, she lashes out at Hazama for calling beastmen just mere tools created simply to fight the Black Beast, showing her dislike for being discriminated. This is also revealed when Relius, during Makoto’s Bad Ending, messes up with her mind, recalling painful memories of being rejected and ostracized as a beastman.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Makoto is a silly, friendly, generally whimsical and energetic person, and also appears to be somewhat scatter-brained. However, she makes it clear to Tager, "If, for whatever reason. Noel Vermillion is harmed in any way, I will hunt down that person and make them pay... dearly." This is neither hyperbole nor limited to Noel - attack any of her friends and, unless you're one of them (hi, Carl), you are in for a world of pain. Let's not forget that her Astral Heat involves punching the opponent so hard it shatters the moon.
• Big Eater/Hyperactive Metabolism: She did that prior to her appearance in the first "Teach Me Miss Litchi" episode (and climbed a tree just to burn it all out!). Also, one of her victory speeches hints at it:
  Makoto: *yawn* Now I'm hungry!
• Big Sister Instinct: Makoto makes it clear that hurting her friends is a bad idea. In contrast to her hyperactivity in battle, when said button is pressed, she suddenly gets very serious and quiet in contrast to her regularly ditzy and loud self.
• Birds of a Feather: Forms a quick friendship with Celica because of this, as they're both kind but Book Dumb brunettes.
• Blush Sticker: Makoto gets a pair after Amane's Astral is done with her. Gentlemen... BEHOLD!!◊
• Boisterous Bruiser: A rare female example. She's loud, cheerful, excitable and hits like a bullet train.
• Book Dumb: Her evaluation in Remix Heart states that her physical abilities are outstandingly high, but she has no appreciation for studying. Doesn't stop her from leveling in IQ by the time Slight Hope rolls around.
• Boxing Battler: A number of her punches resemble boxing techniques.
• Brain Bleach: On one episode of Help Me! Professor Kokonoe!, Makoto runs right on in with a tone in her voice and a facial expression that suggests she needs the biggest glass of the stuff the titular professor can offer. Considering that the bad ending required to get here is Demon Path lite, can you really blame her?
• Brainy Brunette: Double Subverted. She's a brunette, yes, but she's Book Dumb and can act rather wild... but her collection of street smarts serve her well as an intelligence officer.
• Break the Cutie: Relius' mindrape of Makoto in her notorious Bad Ending - her childhood must be particularly brutal if being forced to relive it in mere minutes shatters an otherwise Plucky Girl.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Squirrel ears in this case. Makoto's a kid in an adult's body and a (restrained) sexual deviant, but she's a talented and competent Intelligence officer and an equally skilled fighter.
• Butt-Monkey: So far, she's been blown up twice (Tager and Rachel's CS gag reels), drowned in another orgy of violence (Ragna's CP gag reel), been cast as a Scooby-Doo analogue (Carl's CS gag reel), sampled Noel's cooking (Noel's CS gag reel and Ragna's CF gag reel), been pummelled by Platinum's Magical Girl squad (Platinum's CS and CF gag reels), and been an unwilling participant in an experiment involving swapping bodies with Ragna and Jin (Relius' CS gag reel). Slapstick really does cross gender boundaries.
• Charged Attack: Her Drive is pretty much this. By extension, many of her specials that use her D button (including Distortion Drives) can also be charged for further effectiveness.
• Close-Range Combatant: Unorthodox projectile aside, Makoto's repertoire of attacks have her in arm's reach of the opponent at all times.
• Comedic Lolicon: Thanks to her... wide range of tastes, Makoto almost confesses she has less-than-wholesome interests in Platinum in Continuum Shift commentary. It's entirely Played for Laughs, it goes nowhere in the moment, Makoto beats the dirty thoughts out of herself, and she never entertains the notion at any other point in the series.
• Comically Missing the Point: During Makoto's Help Me!! segment in 'Continuum Shift EXTEND, Kokonoe demands that Makoto explain her shelf, to which she responds "You want me to explain furniture?" While this would be a typical response from The Ditz and fit this trope under normal circumstances, the look on her face suggested she knew what Kokonoe was talking about, and she missed the point on purpose.
• Confusion Fu: Since she lacks the range of a lot of characters, Makoto's special attacks are meant to be used in mind games, to surprise and confuse foes and to punish careless approach. Asteroid Vision has a large number of ways to follow up on its own, Comet Cannon is laid out as a mine before being (optionally) shot forward, and Corona Upper and Space-Counter come out of nowhere. In story, Makoto appears to be a ditz, but can show surprising bouts of insight even when not triggered, making it harder to tell if and when her act of Obfuscating Stupidity is just an act, to the point where functional omniscience or blind luck are outright required to reliably counter her.
• Corrupted Character Copy: She is a much more flawed take on Squirrel Girl, who she clearly takes cues from. Both are Ambiguously Bi squirrel-themed Little Bit Beastly Fun Personified hyperactive girls who originate in a dark, Dysfunction Junction-filled world and stand as a stark contrast with everything else in their respective worlds. Except, while Squirrel Girl is a borderline Invincible Hero and people easily get along well with her, Makoto is what amounts to a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond, being capable against B-tier fodder like Taokaka, Bullet and Tager when the plot requires it but useless against top billers like Ragna and the villains, and has serious trust issues due to being seriously looked down on by everyone else due to her being a Beastkin, which is best showcased in her Bad Ending in Continuum Shift, where it's shown that, deep down, Makoto doesn't trust her two closest friends Noel and Tsubaki either, and she's just waiting for them to reject her like everyone else.
• Counter-Attack: Her Space Counter special.
• Cross Attack: Her weapon is a pair of cross-shaped tonfas that she uses to enhance her punches.
• Cute Bruiser: Emphasis on the "bruiser" part, her punches can send anyone flying across the screen.
• Cuteness Proximity: Goes both ways. Younger-minded characters and Ragna are drawn to her tail, and she adores the heck out of Carl Clover.
• Dark and Troubled Past: A result of wall-to-wall Fantastic Racism.
• Deadly Lunge: As her Unlimited self, her normal Drive moves can move her across the screen.
• Deadpan Snarker: Far less frequent than Jin and Rachel, but she displays some when she's the sanest person on the block.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Plucky Girl and Badass Normal.
  • She's cheery, energetic, hard to upset and is prone to cracking the occasional joke, on top of having friends she's willing to protect no matter what. Unfortunately for her, she's a minority in a system that heavily discriminates against her kind, and (unexplored) incidents prior to her attendance at the Military Academy made it difficult for her to get along with her human classmates, which included aforementioned friends until they associated with her for who she is rather than what. Her bad ending in Continuum Shift gives strong implications that she's not entirely trusting of them either, and that her attachment of them runs the risk of extremism which was, thankfully, completely unrealized.
  • She's physically strong and strong-willed, not to mention street savvy beneath the bubbly exterior, which is part of what made her a shoo-in for the Military Academy in the first place. While it lacks the raw power Jin's version possesses, said strength of will lets her emulate the power of order enough to defy the Boundary and disrupt Mind Eater. And yet, that's the extent of the power available to her; while this lets her knock her friends back to their senses and subdue B-tier fodder like Taokaka, Bullet and Tager when the plot requires it, against top billers like Ragna and the villains she's in over her head.
• Depending on the Artist: Only her Chronophantasma art has lent credibility to Mori's claim she's around Bullet or Litchi's breast size. Otherwise, characters like Nine and Mai (the latter particularly in Remix Heart and Cross Tag Battle) have artwork or models that rival or exceed Makoto's size.
• Determinator: Don't let the happy-go-lucky demeanor fool you; nothing short of Relius's prescribed overdose of Mind Rape will stop her from saving Noel and Tsubaki. She even survives a trip through the Boundary with her mind intact, the only other person to achieve that feat was Hakumen, one of the Six Heroes. Which makes sense, since they both possess the Power of Order.
• Detonation Moon: Her Astral Finish smashes the moon to bits with a single punch.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Did this to Terumi twice in Slight Hope, turning his wrath on her instead of a more pressing mark. The "moxie" to pull this trope twice over was what caught Rachel's attention the second time around.
• Disaster Dominoes: Being sent to Ikaruga between Calamity Trigger and Continuum Shift enabled her to start knocking these over, and she refused to stop no matter what; by the end of the story, her continued intermeddling in the plot started the final chain of events that led to Terumi's demise at Ragna's hands.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Several characters are clearly distracted by her knockers during their intro with her. Even our edgy main character - while Ragna's focus in Continuum Shift was fixated upon her tail, in Chronophantasma it goes to her rack, and Makoto is quite aware. "Hey! Eyes! Up here!"
• Doppelgänger Spin: One of her attacks (Asteroid Vision) splits her in three, where the position of the real Makoto depends on which button the player used to input the command, with a number of different ways to follow up.
• Double Agent: While working as an Intelligence officer for the NOL, she also doubles as a spy for Sector Seven. Drops out of this in CP.
• Downloadable Content: The first DLC playable character in fighting games, released on August 5, 2010 and costs 560 Microsoft Points (360) or $7.00.
• Dumb and Drummer: One of the Drama CD covers has Makoto depicted as the drummer of a four-man band. Subverted; she's not as dumb as the stereotype suggests. Also being the beastkin on her group, it's clear why she's the drummer.
• Effortless Amazonian Lift: She has the physical strength to easily carry Tsubaki over her shoulder as if she weighs nothing, and sprint while carrying her. To emphasize, Makoto's roughly 49 kilos, Tsubaki is 47 kilos (possibly without Izayoi), and she still dead sprints away from Carl.
• Energy Ball: Her Comet Cannon has her deploy one. It doesn't immediately move forward unless you do a followup attack.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Makoto draws attention from both genders. Litchi is fascinated with her body in Chronophantasma commentary, Noel and Luna want to fondle her tail all day, and even Celica cannot help but notice Makoto's breast size.
• Extremity Extremist: As befits her boxing concept, most of her attacks are strong punches. She only has one or two kicks, and also a few attacks with her tail.
• Fate Worse than Death: In her bad ending, she's turned into an organic doll by Relius, Forced to Watch as he uses her body for his twisted experiments, with no way to express her terror.
• Fetish: Makoto has a lot of turn-ons, ranging from the mundane to the outright bizarre. After fighting Platinum in Continuum Shift II:
  "Are you a boy? A girl? Oh man, I'm starting to get a little... NO! Bad Makoto! Now is not the time to embrace a new dirty little fetish... darn it..."
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Of her group of friends, she's The Fighter, being a noted bruiser and not having particularly high Ars Magus aptitude scores.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: In Slight Hope^note Makoto's Extend Story mode she winds up falling into the Wheel of Fortune timeline (around the time Calamity Trigger occurs in the active timeline) due to a trip into the Cauldron, where she wasn't tangled up in the events of the story otherwise - Hazama refers to her as an "anomaly" as a result, whereas Tager rejects the password she gives him, both demanding to know who she is. Rachel finds her before long and returns her to the active timeline.
• Flat "What": As per her role as one of the Only Sane Men of BlazBlue, Makoto has uttered this trope a few times. The most notorious involved the absurdity of the casting in her gag reel (one of which was silenced by Ragna of all people), but she has done it in canon - namely, after heading off with Noel to get some food after first contact with Kagura.
  Makoto: I can't believe that guy.
  Noel: Makoto... I think Kagura... might be a good person.
  Makoto: *exasperated* What the hell. You are one cheap date.
• Flung Clothing: Like Noel, she throws off her jacket when entering a battle. She wears a NOL Intel coat and beret in CS and an independent (Sector Seven?) coat in CP.
• Freakiness Shame: She has a rather large and bushy squirrel tail and squirrel ears, and due to ingrained Fantastic Racism, she is secretly insecure about her squirrel ears and tail, but her best friend Noel Vermillion finds her tail extremely attractive, and often asks to fondle it.
• Friendly Rivalry: Makoto refers to Mai as her friend and rival from the academy in her victory quote. They both praise how much the other's fighting skill has improved but then add that they've improved themselves in their victory quotes.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Makoto's playstyle is designed to be as honest and straightforward as possible, but packed behind strong impacts from her fists. Pretty much describes her personality to a tee, an energetic Nice Girl but mixed with Beware the Nice Ones.
• Genius Ditz: She's quite air-headed and actively hates studying, but she did make it into the Intelligence Department of the NOL, which would obviously require some degree of knowledge and wit.
• Genki Girl: The best way to describe her would be "hyper", especially when she's in a fight.
• Good Is Not Soft: Despite being an Intelligence Division Lieutenant (under Captain Hazama himself, at that) — it's sundry that her loyalties are more to her friends than any government. When Hazama tries to assassinate Jin in Slight Hope, she is swift to call him on it and, when negotiations fail, parry the knife and attempt to beat the shit out of him. When that doesn't succeed and Jin has to freeze Hazama to get them both to safety, this only changes her priorities somewhat — to save her friends from him. In her bad ending, she has the gall to call Relius out on sending a still-injured Jin to what appears to be certain death against Ragna the Bloodedge and, again, demand he step aside lest she knock him on his ass (for all the good that does her), and even in the good ending she has no hesitation in demanding an explanation from Hazama about all the crap he tried to pull.
• Gotta Get Your Head Together: While not depicted, Makoto usually complains about her head when something tampers with her soul, as shown in Slight Hope and Bonds. Likewise, Relius' mindrape is described as "a hand squeezing Makoto's brain".
• Gut Feeling: One of the sharpest in the entire cast. Makoto almost has a sixth sense about her friends (she can tell if they're in trouble, just not what the trouble consists of) and she can tell if someone is trustworthy - while she is supportive of many of the cast members, she never trusted Hazama for any reason at all, no deception required.
  • Speaking of Hazama, her Arcade commentary with Terumi reveals that she hates him more than Hazama, something she personally never thought possible. Given how Hazama and Terumi are related, she is justified in her opinion of him.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Noel and Tsubaki, ever since their academy days.
• Hope Bringer: Makoto's presence in Kagutsuchi in Continuum Shift reinvigorates those who know her best to varying degrees. To drive the point home, her own Story in Extend is titled Slight Hope. Examples include improving Noel's mood in Desperation and instilling true courage in her in the month between Continuum Shift and Chronophantasma, causing Jin to stop thinking about his brother in proximity to her in Decision (though this wasn't the only force at work), and renewing Tsubaki's spirits in Slight Hope - the choice to interrogate Hazama after this last act caused Rachel to go out of her way to save her when Hazama's patience finally expired.
• Hot-Blooded: Almost as much as Bang. She even lampshades this.
  "Noel, please embrace... my overflowing spirit!"
• Identical Stranger: Naoto claimed that she looks like his aunt Yuki Hayami.
• Idiot Hair Antennae: And she's not an idiot.
• Image Song: Her voice actress sings a vocal version of her theme "Alexandrite" called "Butterfly Sky".
• The Immune: Downplayed. While nobody is outright immune to seithr corruption, Makoto's lack thereof is noted on multiple occasions in Arcade mode. This (together with being a Plucky Girl and The Power of Friendship) can be seen as how she can go to the Ibukido cauldron - which is covered in thick seithr, and then go through the Boundary and back again - and come back virtually unscathed.
  Lambda: ...Detecting a high resistance to the effects of seithr... target's rate of degeneration is 0.2% of normal...
  Mu (CS): Target's resistance to seithr exceeds established parameters. Executing research protocols...
  Hakumen (CP): So there are still souls in this world as pure as yours. I suggest you cherish that rare commodity, for the sake of us all...
  Nu (CP): Target has a strong resistance to seithr... Surrounding seithr eroding at a rate of 0.2%.
• Interspecies Friendship: She's a squirrel girl in a trio with Noel Vermillion, Tsubaki Yayoi, two humans. This has such a great effect that the formerly prejudiced-for-her-race Makoto is incredibly loyal to those two and makes it her mission to ensure no harms come between them, and anyone who does get horribly killed by her hands (Or so she says for the latter), and the mere thought of her friendship to them is the one thing that enables her to survive the Boundary like Hakumen, and be immune to Terumi's infamous Trolling. Unfortunately, while getting mind raped in her bad ending, it's revealed that deep down, Makoto doesn't trust Noel and Tsubaki either, and she's just waiting for them to reject her like everyone else. Thankfully, their friendship prevails.
• Intimidation Demonstration: A rare instance where this is used to end a fight rather than start one. When Carl Clover interrogates Tsubaki a little too roughly, and Makoto, not knowing who the aggressor is but wanting to stop the abuse, jumps out and prepares to punch him. Carl dodges - and good thing, too, as the punch leaves a massive impact crater where he once stood! Unfortunately for Makoto, this causes Carl's attention to shift to her, as she's with Intel and Carl wanted the whereabouts of his father, Relius Clover...
• Last Stand: In Centralfiction, she chose to engage Es (whose job was to remove those whose desires were taken by Ragna) so that Naoto could get to Ragna and the others. She holds out long enough for her data to be archived in the Master Unit before she breaks down, but that was all of which she was capable.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Does this a lot. Example:
  Makoto: Press start to continue.
• Leitmotif: Alexandrite.
• Lightning Bruiser: Okay defense stats, good mobility, and high offensive power, but tempered by short range.
• Little Bit Beastly: She's a Squirrel Beastkin - A half-human hybrid with the ears and tail of a squirrel.
• Loner-Turned-Friend: Makoto's first meeting with Noel and Tsubaki had her greeting the duo with a cold attitude and simply introducing herself as Nanaya and dumping her belongings on the bed. Later, when Makoto is being bullied by other classmates, the duo intervenes and try to know what's happening, Makoto keeps her cold attitude to them and simply asks who puts Tsubaki in charge and she left after Tsubaki silenced the bullies when they started insulting Noel as well. It wasn't until the three fell from a deadly height and Makoto used her tail as a cushion for the impact, and later as a way to keep Noel warm from the cold room they were in. Eventually, Makoto began to argue with the two until Noel innocently asked about what was so different between them. This led to Makoto breaking down into a flood of emotions and the three finally became the True Companions they are when we met them in the games.
• Made of Iron: She's a lot sturdier than her frame implies, and her "defeated" pose in story scenes suggests she still has the strength to go another round. While she only has a visibly bleeding forehead in her bad ending, that's not where Relius is inflicting the worst damage to her...
• Magically Inept Fighter: Her primary means of defeating opponents is punching them, instead of utilizing weapons, magic, or other fancy powers, but she still puts up a solid fight. In story, Jin notes her ars magus aptitude is average^note which reflects in her Comet Cannon special, a rather basic projectile, but her physical tests are off the charts. As for actual fights, she handily defeats a simulacrum of Noel or Tsubaki, a match with Tager was interrupted by Kokonoe before a winner could be decided, and she puts up a lengthy last stand against Es despite the power decay.
• Martial Pacifist: During the Academy days, Makoto was fully aware of the school rules about unsanctioned violence between students and never acted to harm others even when they bullied her. The worst that she dispensed was biting snark, but she never lashed out at them even if she could have destroyed the entire group on her lonesome. The same applies to the present day, and she never tries to start a fight... but if you attack her or her friends, she'll do everthing in her power to end it. Even if you are one of said friends, and even then she'll resort to violence only if she understands that there's no other solution.
• The McCoy: To Tsubaki's Spock and Noel's Kirk.
• Meaningful Name: "Makoto" (誠) can mean "honesty" or "sincerity", two traits that she exhibits a lot.
• Megaton Punch: Her DD, Big Bang Smash, in a nutshell. Also at the end of Particle Flare DD.
• Mind Rape: Suffers from a nasty case of this in her Bad Ending, courtesy of Relius Clover. It's in the Nightmare Fuel page for very good reasons. Her Help Me, Professor Kokonoe segment even starts with Makoto still screaming in agony from that treatment.
• The Mole: She's actually an informant/Double Agent for Sector Seven... or rather, Kagura's middleman with Kokonoe.
• Morality Pet: One of the very few people that Jin isn't completely abrasive towards.
• Ms. Fanservice: While her outfit and bust size are the most obvious reasons why, a few of Makoto's personality traits are somewhat sexual in nature, making her a different flavor compared to her competition.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Downplayed, as she does have a bit of muscle tone to her but she's still capable of greater feats of strength than her figure would imply. Her entire playstyle revolves around powerful body blows that blow the opponent across the screen, and within the story, she's capable of creating craters just from impact and and carry people like there's no problem. Beastkin are naturally stronger than humans, so that might explain it.
• Neck Lift: Makoto's forward throw has her lift her opponent up this way before boffing them with her tail.
• Nerdgasm: Literally does this in Tager's Continuum Shift joke ending, when Tager transforms into a giant gold-plated Humongous Mecha in order to fight a giant robot version of resident Cat Girl Taokaka. Don't ask.
  Makoto: "Oh... My... GOD! Commander Kokonoe, that is so awesome! No, seriously, I'm getting a tingly sensation in my naughty bits... Please, can I have control? Please? Pretty please!?"
• Nice Girl: One of the most notable in the series, with a side order of Fun Personified.
  "In nature, oppressed creatures are known to cozy up to those who are controlling them. You're merely doing as the animals do."
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: She’s a Boxing Spy Squirrel.
• Noodle Incident: Played for Horror in her bad ending; whatever she went through in the past must be pretty damn awful, enough for Relius to Mind Rape her into reliving it all over again on loop. All just to watch her suffer. And we never find out exactly what it was, save for a few hints of Fantastic Racism from Relius himself.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Comes across as this, being a Genius Ditz with the ditz part more evident. To wit, she attended the Academy on scholarship, graduated into the NOL's Intelligence Division and became a Double Agent for Sector Seven and NOL Ikaruga, easily discovered the rejected Saya/Noel cache in Ibukido. Even Hazama admits Makoto is smarter than she looks prior to their fight at the end of her CS Arcade mode.
• Only Sane Woman: She's a Book Dumb Genius Ditz who tends to think with her heart rather than her head, but she falls into this surprisingly often. This is particularly apparent for her joke ending, many parts of the main story, and the first episode of Teach Me, Miss Litchi: Reloaded!. Then again, there are a few occasions that show she's Not So Above It All.
  • During an Academy flashback, she had to remind Tsubaki that seeing a weapon destroying a city would be "a catastrophe of epic proportions". She did hype up the Nox Nyctores moments beforehand, which is a likely nod to how urban legends can become exaggerated over the years.
  • When Shiori first appeared at the Military Academy, the girls spilled the nature of Mai's powers to her; Makoto was the first to recognize their mistake.
• Outdoorsy Gal: It's plenty clear that Makoto would rather be out in the world than stuck in some stuffy office if she can help it.
  • During one episode of Teach Me, Ms. Litchi!, she felt climbing a tree and swinging from its branches would be the best way to work off the food she ate.
  • Her reason for wanting to join the Intelligence Division?
    ''I've always wanted to see the world, and they sound like the guys who'd make it happen for me."
  • The character-themed plates have elements that are attached to the character they're associated with; Makoto's is bordered with tree branches, with a stump in one corner and acorns in two others.
• Playful Cat Smile: Shows from time to time, like in her Astral Heat when she's literally launching her opponent to the moon. Justified, since she's a squirrel beastkin.
• Penny Among Diamonds: Makoto was from a poor family and enrolled in the Military Academy, where the vast majority of the students come from the Duodecim.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: Matches with Kagura are invoked over this. Then again, when you introduce yourself with "Please, just one grope!", you're just asking for it.
  • Chronophantasma Story Mode has Makoto violently stuff Kagura's dragon back into his pants on multiple occasions.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Makoto's presence lightens the mood in many a situation, which is why she makes good Gag Reel fodder. She can and will get serious when the situation demands it, however.
• Plucky Girl: If she can stand to rebuild a positive outlook on life in the wake of a lifetime of wall-to-wall Fantastic Racism, you're going to need some heavy ordinance to break her down - physical injury, financial woes, mind games, a trip through the Boundary, and Yuuki Terumi's mental penis don't work.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: References The Tick, Fist of the North Star and FLCL regularly during matches, with a side order of Pee-wee's Playhouse in Tager's CS gag reel.
• The Power of Friendship: Her primary motivation in Continuum Shift seems to be the safety of Noel and Tsubaki. Especially after she discovers the hidden cache of rejected Saya clones in Ibukido and what she saw in the alternate timeline beforehand (read: Wheel of Fortune).
  • This is actually half the reason she survived a round-trip through the Boundary.
• Precision F-Strike: Take the time when Hazama decided to take the role of Makoto's mother, or whenever she's fighting him or Relius.
  • Curse Cut Short: She narrowly drops the F-bomb in her Gag Reel.
  Makoto (Reaction to Ragna playing the baby): What the fuuuuuuu...
• Prehensile Tail: Her default throw lets her use her tail to slap her opponent silly, so don't be fooled by how big and fluffy it looks. As her Unlimited self in CP, you can hold the D button in midair to have her hover in midair by spinning her tail.
• Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: Three-way example with Noel Vermillion and Tsubaki Yayoi. They met in the military academy and watched out for each other, becoming fast friends and helping each other with quite severe issues. The all ended up joining different branches of the NOL and don't get the chance to see each other much anymore, but enjoy spending time with each other. Noel and Makoto's main motivation in Chronophantasma is trying to get Tsubaki back after she was manipulated by Terumi. Notably, Noel and Tsubaki were originally planned to be a lesbian couple and Makoto has been confirmed to be bi (and felt up Tsubaki's chest in a gag reel). However, Tsubaki only has eyes for Jin.
• Punched Across the Room: Her Drive moves, when fully charged, can end with this.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Much rarer, but also shows. Expect extreme Squee or a nerdgasm if she shows both this and a Playful Cat Smile at the same time.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: During Infinite Rush, Galaxian Particle Flare and Planet Crusher.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: In CS, she was sent to Ibukido by Hazama to investigate an abnormality in its NOL branch, mostly to keep her out of his plans to mindrape both Noel and Tsubaki. Long story short, the whole scheme backfired, Makoto got to know more about the crooked plot and some parallel developments to save Tsubaki, she nearly broke the plot in Arcade mode, and Hazama has been "on sight" with her ever since, even after splitting off from Terumi.
• Reconstruction: She reconstructs the very tropes and archetypes she deconstructs. All the crap she's been through and has adapted around has widened her world view and allowed her to more readily adjust to crumbling circumstances, and also severely blunts Hazama and Terumi's trolling options; while everyone else she knows is ripe for exploitation and psychological abuse and torment, they get no such joy from dealing with her. And while picking a fight with incarnations of divinity is out of her league, it's also enough to draw their eyes away from more pressing targets and objectives, allowing her to Screw Destiny by proxy through the very people she's trying to save. This, put together, reconstructs the Fixer Sue by giving limitations of what she can and cannot accomplish on her own, which is how and why she's able to topple the Disaster Dominoes in the first place. Hope your brain's ready for a workout with this one.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Tsubaki's Blue. Being eager and energetic while Tsubaki is calm and reserved.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: If it gets her friends into a better position, Makoto will conduct illegal operations without a second thought. Case in point:
  (on finding Tsubaki in Slight Hope): "Thank goodness I found you! Uh, I've got something for you!" (Orders for you to return to HQ - forged 'em myself! They can bust me for counterfeiting later, so long as it gets you out of harm's way right now...)
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After losing to Hazama in CP Arcade, Makoto realizes there's nothing to gain in questioning him and makes herself scarce.
• Ship Tease:
  • A small amount with Jin; she seemed to have a bit of a crush on him back in their Academy days, but obviously never acted on it out of respect for Tsubaki's feelings.
  • She also has some with Kagura. Not only is it implied that they had a one night stand, but she considers him a close friend (she calls him a "bestie") and has no issue with him finding her cute. It's pretty clear that if he quit womanizing they would be much closer.
• Shipper on Deck: A Jin X Tsubaki Fangirl, based on one of her lines in Continuum Shift:
  "They would really make such a nice couple."
  • Taken up another notch in Slight Hope - Makoto doesn't try to hide that she ships them.
    Makoto: "Tsubaki, this is ME you're talking to! Drop the good little cadet shtick and just say it! 'I'm gonna spend every day with Jin, and I couldn't be happier about it! Tra, la la, la la!'"
    Tsubaki: "I... what...? Why would I say that?"
    Makoto: "Somebody's blushing! *giggle* Geez, I can read you like a book when it comes to that boy."
• Shoryuken: Her Corona Upper is one, and can be followed up with a powerful downward punch (think Spider-Man's Spider Sting -> Spider Bite in Marvel vs. Capcom series) for further combo.
• Shotoclone: Her uppercut move is standard, but her projectile is unorthodox in that she first deploys it as a stationary projectile and then she can (optionally) punch it forward.
• Signature Move: Her Drive moves, as well as her Asteroid Vision, Corona Upper and Big Bang Smash.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Makoto's combat outfit and her Amane-induced makeover have no sleeves whatsoever, and she's not afraid to mix it up.
• Small Steps Heroine: While Makoto is willing to fight for the world's well-being, she is more primarily concerned with the well-being of her friends, to the point she makes it clear to Tager (and Kokonoe by proxy) that she would turn on them if they brought Noel to harm. Strangely enough, given how said friends are vital lynchpins for Izanami, Terumi and Relius' game of destiny, one can see the small steps as being from a giant's perspective.
• Smarter Than You Look: She gives the appearance of a bubbly and scatterbrained squirrel beastkin with more exposed skin than working intellect... until a flashback in Noel's story mode reveals that she, a mere commoner among individuals of more prestigious families, was attending the NOL Military Academy entirely on scholarship. Were that the extent, she wouldn't qualify, but an ivory tower environment like a classroom is a poor place for her to apply her immense street smarts, yet work in the Intelligence Division under Captain Hazama and as a Double Agent slash The Mole for Sector Seven is.
  • Continuum Shift in general, especially ^{Slight Hope} (Makoto's Story mode), is a demonstration of her prowess as an Intelligence officer - put short, had Makoto known that she had fallen into a timeline where Noel never existed and her activities in Slight Hope were interfering with his plans, Hazama would be treating her as something much worse than a mere Spanner in the Works.
• Snark-to-Snark Combat: A one-off example happens in Continuum Shift between her and Jin.

  Makoto: Wow, look at them go! It's so peaceful here.
  Jin: "Noisy" would be much more accurate.
  Makoto: Do you always have to be so cynical?
  Jin: Hmph. Just stating the simple truth.

• Spanner in the Works: Zig-zagged; Makoto is a recurring nuisance to the villains due to how she's able to undermine the operations of the Cosmic Chess Game through raw grit and deterministic unpredictability, although she is unaware of the finer details until the damage is done, and sometimes not even then.
  • In Continuum Shift Extend, her detour to the Wheel of Fortune iteration of the story had her gum up the flow of events by interacting with people her native self had no business knowing, saving Jin from a messy end courtesy of Hazama, and stalling out for Tsubaki to chase after Jin instead of whatever Hazama/Terumi had in store for her. The flow of causality implies that this disruption enforced the events that led to that Jin being installed into the Susano'o unit courtesy of Rachel Alucard, which caused Terumi no end of grief throughout the story; Centralfiction implies this forced him to hunt down the hihiirokane he would need to free it up for reclamation as a result.
  • In Chronophantasma, she forced Izanami's gaze away from Noel by taking on Tsubaki, and while phenomena intervention required Kagura to bail her out, he crafted a scheme to fully free Tsubaki using Makoto as an asset; the second round ended with her, Noel and Jin breaking Mind Eater together, which left Terumi minus one Hakumen-proof shield when he needed it most.
  • In Centralfiction, she befriended Naoto Kurogane and worked with him to track Ragna down in the depths of the Azure, only to stall Es so he could do the job in her stead. He got Ragna back to his senses, which ultimately led to Terumi's final demise, but she was ejected from the game of destiny before any of this could come to fruition.
• Stripperific: Makoto's outfit shows far more skin than what is realistically acceptable. And it ends up being hilariously lampshaded by Kokonoe in her HMPK segment:
  Kokonoe: "Who goes out dressed like that? How do you live, knowing you're one strong breeze or sudden cough away from a massive wardrobe malfunction?"
• Stepford Smiler: Beneath her lively disposition, she hides her dark past issues within. Being forced to relieve it by Relius in her bad ending pretty much breaks her.
• Street Smart: What Makoto lacks in book smarts she more than compensates for here, with a Gut Feeling instinct that is sharper than anyone else's in the cast. This, plus her deterministic unpredictability, make her a recurring thorn in Terumi's side.
• Tail Slap: She uses her tail in one of her throws.
• Take a Third Option: If there's a chance Makoto can save all of her friends instead of one or the other, expect her to take it.
  • When Relius makes off with Jin in Slight Hope, she asks Bang to help look for Jin while she deals with Tsubaki (Noel does not exist in this timeline); Hazama and Terumi failed to account for that and their plans go tits-up.
  • Whereas most characters in Continuum Shift Arcade fight either Noel or Tsubaki (especially the two in question), Makoto has business with both and knocks them out to end Terumi's intended quarrel before it begins. It only fails on account of Hazama showing up to drag Noel away before she can heal from the psychological torment.
  • Izanami tries to imply in Centralfiction Arcade Act 2 that Makoto's desire to save both her friends is a paradox. When Relius confronts her on the issue through Izayoi in Act 3, Makoto insists on saving them all.
• The Tease: Hinted by one of her taunt lines:
  "You wanna fondle my tail too?"
• Theme Naming: Her attacks names all deal with outer space.
• Three-Strike Combo: Her Particle Flare DD has 3 parts, which you have to command manually by holding the D button.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Hazama implies in Friendship^note Makoto's Arcade mode that "you were created for the purpose of defeating the Black Beast" - "you" referring to beastkin in general in all likelihood. Rachel talked her through the whole "crafted by human hands" business at the end of Slight Hope, so this had less of a sting than what Hazama was expecting.
• Took a Level in Kindness: When she was in Military Academy, she used to be cruel, mean, selfish, and hated humans, but then had a change of heart by Tsubaki’s words when she confronted her fellow female classmates who were picking on her.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Chestnut parfait.
• A Twinkle in the Sky: Her Astral Heat ends with this happening to her opponent... in the night sky.
• Unblockable Attack: Sirius Jolt in Central Fiction cannot be blocked on standing opponents, and is not reliant upon Makoto's Drive to function despite the knockback.
• Underboobs: One of her two defining features. The other being her squirrel tail. Her top is explicitly left loose in front after being Amanefied. Makoto under the influence of the Spectacle of Eros in a Chronophantasma gag reel uses this as a source of pride even. Kokonoe in Makoto's HMPK segment also points this as one of her recognizable features.
• Undying Loyalty: Makoto would go to the ends of the earth for Noel and Tsubaki. She betrays the NOL, an organisation that rules most of the world and sends a thinly veiled threat to Sector Seven, the organisation that runs the rest of it. Her loyalty is so strong, that, in her Story Mode, it's implied that her loyalty to her friends actually stopped her from losing her sanity and semblance of self when she fell into the cauldron, through the Boundary, and into to a different timeline, and then let her go back to her original timeline. To help that sink in, Arakune turned into a... whatever he is now after being exposed to the Boundary for a few moments, and the only other character who has survived the Boundary was Hakumen.
• Vibrant Orange: Makoto primarily wears orange outside her NOL poncho and her Academy uniform, and she's usually the life of the party whenever she shows up.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Makoto considers Kagura one of her "besties" and is more than willing to work with him, but given implications of prior encounters she's bitter with him over his constant philandering, and is one of the first to "correct" the problem whenever it arises.
• Womanchild: While it's not known how old she actually is, she's old enough to partake in high school and then become an army's intel unit member afterward. And she's still pretty ditzy and silly, though she's definitely not naive nor lacking common sense.
• Worst. Whatever. Ever!: The ending to her gag reel in 'Continuum Shift EXTEND is summed up in this trope due to the myriad events that proceeded to, as Makoto herself said, balls it up.
  Makoto: No! That's not what happened at all! This was the worst reenactment ever! Y'all SUCK!
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Chronophantasma Arcade has Makoto causing Tsubaki's Mind Eater to lapse, only for Izanami to forcibly reinstate it and attempt to turn their fight into an outright deathmatch. Amaterasu decides to just eject Makoto and rewind.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: Enduring all that chain yanking in stride ultimately pays off for Makoto in a big way in the ending of Central Fiction!
• You Remind Me of X: Both Es and Naoto remark that Makoto resembled someone they know.
• You're Insane!: During Slight Hope, Makoto questions Hazama's sanity when the former tried to kill Jin in front of her. His answer cements her suspicions that he was never trustworthy on top of cuing an armed response from her.

  Makoto: Have you lost your mind?! Why are you attacking him?
  Hazama: To kill him! Duh! Did you need to ask that, or were you being rhetorical and melodramatic?
  Jin: Get out of here, Makoto! I'm the one he's after!
  Makoto: The hell I will! You know, Hazama, I always figured there was something suspicious about you... I'm dedicating my first punch to women's intuition!

Valkenhayn R. Hellsing

The most awesome butler since Sebastian.

Profile

• Height: 191 cm (6'3.2")
• Weight: 78 kg (172 lbs)
• Blood type: A
• Date of Birth: September 15
• Birthplace: Unknown
• Hobbies: Planting Bonsai-trees
• Likes: Pocket watches
• Dislikes: Objects with no character

"Are you prepared...to confront a beast?!"

Voiced by: Motomu Kiyokawa (Japanese) / Doug Stone (English)

A former member of the Six Heroes, Valkenhayn has been a faithful ally of the Alucard family for hundreds of years, and serves Rachel's every whim as her Battle Butler. Behind his elderly, seemingly withered form lies a secret: he is actually a werewolf. Like Makoto, he is a beastkin, but of the lupine lineage, and in his youth he used to be a vigilante before becoming acquainted with Rachel's father Clavis. When Clavis died, Valkenhayn promised his friend that he would look after Rachel in his stead. Thus, when Rachel turns up missing in Kagutsuchi, he heads out to find her.

He also appears in Bloodedge Experience series of novels, as his younger self; here, he's a member of a vigilante group "Immortal Breakers", together with his then-partner, Relius Clover. He was a more savage person who often starts unnecessary fights and has a really mean streak. He first attacked Naoto, then went to hunt Clavis Alucard together with Relius (Clavis wasn't his master back then), and then appears to abduct Naoto's sister.

His Arcade mode playthroughs are named, in second and third game respectively: loyalty and frustration. His story mode playthrough in the second game is named Hunting Dog.

His Drive, Wehrwolf (that's pronounced "vair-volf", folks), allows him to transform into a wolf for a limited time, which is determined by a gauge. In Chronophantasma, his Overdrive is Endless Wolf, which accelerates the recovery of his Wolf Gauge.

In the fourth game, his Exceed Accel is called Sieg Nagel where, after he stuns his foe with a bodycheck, he then does 2 clawing kicks at his opponent, before lifting them by the neck and then slamming them down to the ground, accompanied by rising shockwaves. His Astral, Blut Vollmond, has him performing a Flash Kick that knocks the opponent high into the air. He then transforms into a full werewolf form while the opponent still floats in the air with the moon in the background and performs several cross-slashes, ending with one final blacked-out slash that tears open the camera and leaves a trail of white on the screen.

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• Antiquated Linguistics: Slightly more than Rachel.
• Apologetic Attacker: When fighting Rachel, he always compliments her when she kicks his ass, and apologizes profusely when he's the one doing the kicking.
• Artificial Human: Implied to have been created by Sorcery. By extension, he is outside of 'the logic', thus Phenomena Intervention is ineffective against him, and he's able to harm the Black Beast (who also is outside the logic) with only his bare hands.
• Ascended Extra: In Calamity Trigger, he was nothing more than an NPC and Rachel's butler. In addition to making him a playable character, Continuum Shift revealed more about his past as one of the Six Heroes and he even got his own story path. Taken even further in his appearance in Bloodedge Experience which sheds some light on his history as a vigilante and partnership with Relius before he went into service as the Alucard's butler.
• Badass Boast: His Continuum Shift quote when he uses his Sturm Wulf Distortion Drive.
  "I am the wolf's fang! All that stands in my way...will be destroyed!"
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Rachel may be absurdly snobbish, but the Alucard family has good taste. Also doubles as a Badass Longcoat.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Notably, he's the only one out of the Six Heroes who have never used a Nox Nyctores.
• Battle Butler: Emphasis on "Battle". It's even the name of one of his achievements.
• Berserk Button: Never insult, threaten, or harm Rachel in front of Valkenhayn.
  • The mere mention of Terumi is another one. He immediately snaps and loses his temper when Rachel brings him up, much to his own dismay.
• Beware the Nice Ones: One of the most cordial and loyal members of the cast, who will not hesitate to shred your flesh and bone should you piss him off.
• Big Bad: In Taokaka's gag reel in Continuum Shift.
• The Big Guy: Of the Six Heroes. He is often noted for his brutal strength and ferocity.
• Blood Knight: Is mentioned to be this in his younger years. Of course it went away after he became a butler.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: His master is a century-old vampire who's proficient with magic and has access to the Tsukuyomi Unit. Of course, he does his job out of loyalty to his previous master that told him to do this to the current one.
• Bouncing Battler: Unlimited Valkenhayn has an extension to his König/Eisen Wolf special where he'll bounce off thin air in a zigzag to strike the foe to the air. Normal Valkenhayn also does a similar thing in his Overdrive version of König Flug DD.
• Butler Space: He can appear besides Rachel whenever she needs him to, even in her Help Me, Professor Kokonoe section, located in the Boundary. Justified due to him apparently being capable of actual teleportation; he's seen walking to a warp portal in some of his win poses. Rachel can also teleport him with her magic.
• Calling Your Attacks: In German no less.
• Close-Range Combatant: He's mainly geared for quick, heavy rushdown tactics.
• Cool Old Guy: He's a centuries-old werewolf who's impeccably friendly to all that are not Rachel's enemies and still tough enough to kick Terumi's ass and beat Relius so hard that the latter can be brought down from his villain status. Hakumen will even comment on this if he wins against a Valkenhayn.
  Hakumen: "You have still not lost your edge."
• Cultured Badass: Well he is Rachel's butler after all. Ironically, he was rather savage and mean as part of Immortal Breakers.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Comes with the whole "being a good werewolf" thing.
• Dastardly Whiplash: In Taokaka's joke ending in CS, he makes a cameo appearance as this. The moment he is revealed, his theme (which is not supposed to be known about yet) starts playing.
• Deadly Lunge: Many of his specials are this, either in human or wolf form.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Due to being outside "the logic," he can harm the Black Beast, a terrifying, destructive Eldritch Abomination of a Kaiju with only his bare hands.
• Difficult, but Awesome: While not to the extent of Rachel or Carl, using Valkenhayn effectively requires you to manage his Drive gauge carefully and utilize his attacks in wolf form properly. Once mastered, a Valkenhayn with a skilled user is considered to be one of the deadliest characters in competitive play.
• Diving Kick: His König Flug (King Flight) DD starts with this.
• Downloadable Content: He is the 2nd DLC character to be announced, and has been released for Japanese Playstation 3 owners as of September 21, 2010, and American Playstation 3 owners as of September 28. He costs the same price as Makoto on PSN. (560 Microsoft points / $7.00)
• Embarrassing Nickname: Butter boy.
• Former Teen Rebel: He was originally a vigilante in his younger years and had a rougher attitude compared to his present, more cultured self. Hilariously, his old personality was very much like Ragna's.
• Fragile Speedster: Has among the higher walking and running speeds in the game, and he can move even faster in wolf form, but has only 10500 health.
• Fur Against Fang: Inverted, he's a faithful werewolf butler to a vampire family.
• Furry Reminder: A pretty hilarious example in one Gag Reel from Chronophantasma has him act like a dog when somebody throws a Frisbee for him to catch.
• Grapple Move: His Himmel Wolf special is this, done in wolf form. It has a side effect of completely replenishing his wolf gauge and un-transforms him. Also one of his new DD as his Unlimited self; its damage is unaffected by damage scaling.
• Gratuitous German: His Drive and move names.
• Harmful Healing: To Jin. More precisely, he doesn't heal Jin but merely removes the pain and joint stiffness temporarily. As a side effect, after a few days, the pain will come back much worse than before. Gii notes that the method is very sadistic.
• Hidden Depths: This unassuming butler who's always hanging around Rachel? He's also one of the Six Heroes, which means he's fought alongside Hakumen, Terumi, and Jubei to defeat the Black Beast. He also has an apparent rivalry with the other half of the Big Bad Duumvirate, Relius.
• Hired Help as Family: Valkenhayn is fervently devoted to his mistress Rachel, as he was a loyal friend and respected rival to her father, the late Clavis Alucard, and she, in turn, treats him with a greater level of respect than anyone else even though he's her butler.
• Humble Hero: Despite his reputation as one of the 6 Heroes, he never sees himself as anything other than Rachel's manservant. Lampshaded in his Help Me, Professor Kokonoe segment:
  Kokonoe: In this room, I'm queen bitch. One of the 6 Heroes or not, you gotta do as I say.
  Valkenhayn: Following orders IS my specialty.
• I Was Quite a Looker: During his prime he had spiked-up brown hair and kicked ass without the jacket portion of his suit, and had far more pronounced sideburns. His younger self can be shown during Amane's Astral Finish and also appears in art from the Phase Shift novels.
• Lag Cancel: Aside from everybody else's cancels, he can cancel all of his specials by turning into his wolf form.
• Large Ham:
  • Especially during Taokaka's joke ending in Continuum Shift.
    Valkenhayn: "It is my dreeeeeaaam! Naaay, my calliiingggg! To acquire every single candy in the woooorrrlllldddd!"
  • His Astral quote.
    Behold the power...of the full moon! Night has now fallen, the moon shines bright. The play is now through!
• Leitmotif: Howling Wolf
• Mister Exposition: In Rachel's Gag Reel in CS and CP he appears for the sole purpose of filling the player in on what the "Spectacles Of Eros" are and promptly teleports always afterwards.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: The R. doesn't really have any meaning
• Nice Guy: Befitting a butler, he's impeccably polite and patient - whether Bang or the Kaka kittens are in question. He's generally a pretty nice guy all around.
• Noble Wolf: Impeccably polite Wolf butler. Indeed, noble.
• Not So Stoic: Aside from his Berserk Button, this gets Played for Laughs in Gag Reels.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: Come on, how often do you see a cultured werewolf?
• Papa Wolf: Partly figuratively, partly literally. He will tear you apart if you even so much as insult Rachel.
• Parental Substitute: For Rachel after Clavis` death. He may be her butler, but he dotes over her like any father would.
• Partial Transformation: Some of his moves have him partially transform his limbs into wolf form when he attacks.
• Precision F-Strike: He speaks with class most of the time. But when the subject is about Terumi, he's not above using the terms "son of a whore" or "shitty little cur" for him. Considering who he is, it's stronger language for him than it sounds.
• Recurring Boss: Is present in all 3 Acts of Hakumen's Arcade mode in CF.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He wears a pink ribbon on his long hair. In his wolf form, the ribbon moves to the tail. It doesn't detract from his badasstitude. Supplemental material reveals its courtesy of Rachel's whims.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: When they were younger and partners, he was the red to Relius's blue.
• Resistance Is Futile: What he says whenever he wins a round by a landslide (as in a near-perfect or at least above 50% life).
• Retired Badass: After the conclusion of the Dark War, he returned to his role as the Alucard's humble butler. That said, the actions of his mistress and the reappearance of Terumi and Relius would force him back into action.
• The Rival: Towards Clavis Alucard in his younger days.
• Satellite Character: Subverted. He seems this way to Rachel at first but has gradually been rising in prominence after the second game. In Extend he's given his own story path in which Rachel barely appears and reveals far more about him, particularly his apparent rivalry with Relius.
• Signature Move: His Koenig Wolf and Eisen Wolf specials.
• Silver Fox: Pretty good looking for someone who´s atleast a century old.
• Spam Attack: His Sturm Wolf DD is one of those "ranbu" kind of super moves.
• Stance System: His Drive turns him into a wolf and gives him different normal attacks and specials.
• Stiff Upper Lip & The Jeeves: A Fake Brit version, but he still counts.
• Super Mode: His Unlimited-only DD is turning him into a stronger version of his wolf form. He can't transform back to human until his gauge depletes, but he now has guardpoints in all his attacks.
• Theme Naming: References to wolves and hunting in his moves.
• This Is a Drill: His König/Eisen Wolf special has him drilling to a direction in his wolf form. One of his new DD as his Unlimited self is this.
• Undying Loyalty: Despite being one of the Six Heroes (and thus a living legend in the world of BlazBlue), he is extremely loyal to Rachel and never sees himself as anything more than her butler. Case in point, the moment he really lost his patience and attacked Terumi (in his ghost form) in Calamity Trigger? When Terumi called Rachel a "damn vampire".
  • In his Help Me, Professor Kokonoe segment, she pointed out that this is what leads to his bad ending - by going after Rachel himself (instead of asking Ragna to do it).
  • In Rachel's Act 2 arcade in CF, this is what drives him to try to stop Rachel from her almost-certainly suicidal act of more interventions.
• Videogame Dashing: His Geschwind/Rasen Wolf moves is an 8-way command dash that moves him fast.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can freely change between his human and wolf forms and a hybrid of the two as part of his gameplay.
• We Used to Be Friends: Him and Relius originally served under the "Immortal Breakers". Needless to say, the two had a falling out and the next time they'd meet, the two found themselves on opposing sides.
• Why Won't You Die?: In Bloodedge Experience he gets increasingly frustrated at the fact that Naoto will not stay dead until Relius gets him to calm down.
• Worthy Opponent: In his CF Arcade Mode even Susanoo, a legitimate god of destruction of Blazblue's universe appears to have respect for Valkenhayn.

Platinum the Trinity

Platinum the Trinity, making Arcana Heart proud.

Profile

• Height: 142 cm (4'7.9")
• Weight: 37 kg (81.6 lbs)
• Blood type: AB
• Date of Birth: December 13
• Birthplace: Akitsu-Kō
• Hobbies: Othello
• Likes: Mr. Jubei
• Dislikes: Snakes, that guy who always hangs around Mr. Jubei

"When Luna and Sena's spirits... unite as one! We'll crush all who dare oppose us! TAKE THIS!!!"

Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (Japanese) / Laura Bailey (Continuum Shift-Chronophantasma), Alexis Tipton (Alter Memory, Cross Tag Battle onward) (English)

A young girl who wields the Nox Nyctores Arma Reboare: Muchourin, which allows her to manifest matter. She has inherited the Nox from Trinity, a member of the Six Heroes, and has 3 different personalities: Luna, a bratty girl, Sena, a kind boy, and Trinity Glassfille, that of the missing sixth hero. She also likes "Mr. Jubei" very much. She later becomes Bang's "third apprentice" and later helps the other Six Heroes stopping Terumi.

Her Arcade mode playthroughs are named, in second and third game respectively: Lies and regret and close friend. Her story mode playthrough in the second game is named Scapegoat.

Her Drive, Magical Symphony, allows her to equip a number of different magical items. In Chronophantasma, her Overdrive is Magical Heart Catch, which allows her to use an unlimited supply of the weapons her Drive grants her.

In the fourth game, her Exceed Accel is called Blast Angel/Angelic Blast where, after stunning her foe, she turns her staff into a Flying Broomstick and then flies back and forth, knocking her foe multiple times. Her Astral, Shining Layered Force, fires a small but fullscreen laser at her opponent. If it connects, she enters a charge-up sequence and FIREZ HER LAZOR at the opponent in a similar manner to Nanoha's Starlight Breaker.

For more information about Trinity, see BlazBlue: Non-Player Characters

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• A-Cup Angst: Luna is jealous of big-breasted women and worries that they want to seduce Jubei. She calls Litchi "Boobzilla" and Mai "Fat Tits". Also drives her entire joke ending in Continuum Shift which Litchi plays the villain called "Boing Queen" and Platinum leads a squad of flat-chested girls and Carl.
• Amnesiac Hero: Her Nox weapon steals her memories when she uses it. If this is the case, then she's this. However, Sena only said that, and never explained if loss was temporary or permanent.
• Ass Kicks You: Her Hip Attack (6B).
• Artifact Title: In CF, as Trinity is now out of the picture, Platinum now comprises only of Luna and Sena, making "The Trinity" obsolete in both meanings. They seem to be able to feel that something's missing. As such, the Six Heroes theme will not play in any of their matches with Hakumen, Terumi, Valkenhayn and Nine.
• Artificial Human: Luna and Sena used to be individuals, but during one of Jubei's cauldron-destroying missions he found them near death with no chance to save them. Unable to just leave them Jubei called on Trinity and the two of them placed Luna and Sena into a Custom-made vessel that was originally meant to be exclusively for Trinity herself.
• Badass Adorable: She's a cutesy Magical Girl who can beat the crap out of more experienced adults.
• Batter Up!: One of her weapons, its powered up version makes it spiky.
• Battle Boomerang: She gains this as one of her Drive forms in the fourth game. It only has one use unlike her other weapons, but she can regain its use if she catches it on the way back. In Overdrive, she can spam it.
• Big Eater: Luna's personality; eats enough food that when she's done eating at a restaurant there are multiple stacks of dirty dishes bigger than she is.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Both of them could qualify, but particularly Luna.
• Bring It: In her Happy Magicka move, her staff does this.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: When her Drive is active, the orb on her staff will change its color depending on what weapon she currently has.
• Combined Energy Attack: Her Astral is implied to be one by a voice sample spoken during its cinematic charge period.
  "When Luna and Sena's spirits unite as one, we will crush anyone who dares oppose us! Taaaake THIS!"
• Cool Board: Her Mami Circular move has her surfing on a heart-shaped board.
• Counter-Attack: Her Happy Magicka move. It combines this with Ninja Log, as Platinum teleports away when hit, leaving behind a random doll which does damage.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Luna specifically.
  • She is this to May. Both are kid fighter characters with a kawaiiko aesthetic and a precocious adoration for a clearly older mentor figure (Jubei for Platinum, Johnny for May) and wield a weapon larger than themselves, but whilst May is a Fun Personified Genki Girl, Platinum is an obnoxious Bratty Half-Pint jerkass who's often talking shit about others (Ragna in particular).
  • With her design, naming style, and use of a magic wand, she bears more than a passing resemblance to many Magical Girl protagonists, but as a character she bears the closest resemblance to Usagi Tsukino, shown by their hairstyle, outfit, and most damningly, having a name associated with the moon (Tsukino has the Kanji for Moon and she's called Sailor Moon whilst one of Platinum's personalities is Luna (who is also the main personality in question for this example and the above example)). However, Usagi is an All-Loving Heroine Nice Girl whilst Platinum is an obnoxious jerkass who also basically flanderizes Usagi's worst attributes, making Platinum resembling a dark parody of the Pretty Guardian.
• Curse Cut Short:
  • During a Teach Me, Miss Litchi segment.
    Luna: "Master Jubei, Ragna the Bloodedge is being a d-!"
    Jubei: "Ragna, stop actin' like a kid."
  • Luna almost drops an F-bomb in her Help Me!! segment.
    Luna: "What the fuuuuu—"
• Downloadable Content: Arrived on Xbox 360 on May 10, 2011, and on PS3 on June 2, 2011, slightly delayed due to the PSN downtime.
• Easter Egg: One of Platinum's attacks has her jab the opponent. If you look closely, you'll notice that she'll make a random Rock–Paper–Scissors gesture whenever she uses the attack. This doesn't have any effect in gameplay... unless you're playing a Mirror Match. If both Platinums hit eachother with this attack at the same time, the Platinum who wins Rock-Paper-Scissors will be granted a few frames of invulnerability, thus prioritizing their attack over the other Platinum's.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: Many of her attacks are accompanied by sparkles.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Platinum has heart-patterned eyes under her hood, but her eyes are hidden when she has her cloak on. If Trinity takes control, the heart pattern disappears.
• Fighting Clown: Her fighting style is more comical than others', with her animations being more cartoony and her Drive turning her staff into cute-looking weapons.
• Floating in a Bubble: Her Dream Sally move does this to her opponent.
• Frying Pan of Doom: Another one of her weapons.
• Gender Bender: Sena used to be male before his soul was transferred into the female Platinum's body.
• Glass Cannon: Platinum has above average damage and is pretty fast, but her health is below average at 10500. No longer the case in Centralfiction, however, as she now has average health.
• Grapple Move: Her Dramatic Sammy special is this. It also has a nice side-effect of replenishing the amount of times you can use your current Drive weapon.
• Guest Fighter: In Lost Saga.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Luna is very abrasive and hot-tempered. Sena always tries to make her tone it down, though it rarely helps.
• Happily Adopted: In the end of Central Fiction, Platinum ends up adopted by... Litchi. The one Luna mostly ridiculed as 'Boobzilla'
• Herald: Functions as one for Bang.
• Human Resources: Her bad ending consists of Hazama using all of Platinum as this - Luna and Sena, as well as Carl, as fuel for Kusanagi and Trinity as the catalyst.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Bit of a weird inversion here, as Trinity went from what was nothing short of smoking hot with an awesome bust to the flat-chested young girl with split personalities we all know today.
• In the Hood: She normally wears a cloak with a hood that covers most of her face. Said cloak disappears before the fight starts in most of her Battle Intro.
• Jerkass: Luna. Although unlike Jin, she's mostly bratty so nobody takes her as seriously.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: Her special move "Falling Melody" has her stomping on the downed opponent with a pogo stick.
• Leet Lingo: During Arakune's gag reel in CS.
  Luna: "What the hell? We got pwn3d by a total n00b!?"
  Sena: "Luna, get a hold of yourself. You're lapsing into l33t... oh my...
• Leitmotif: Active Angel
• Liminal Being: In CF she's in a state between existing and not existing, which, due to getting put in Embryo, makes it all the worse. Thankfully Jin stabilizes her existence with Power of Order in her Act 3 arcade.
• Little Miss Badass: Well, she is being trained by one of the Six Heroes and has another one dwelling inside of her, prior to Centralfiction anyway.
• Loss of Identity: At the early stages of Central Fiction, without Trinity, Platinum starts to fade away with Luna and Sena unable to remember themselves. Thankfully, both Jin and Trinity fixed that quickly.
• Magical Girl: Her design under her cloak is this.
• Magic Staff: Her weapon Arma Reboare: Muchourin (Untolled Bell).
• Morph Weapon/Swiss-Army Weapon: Platinum's staff is one of these due to Muchorin's ability to transfigure matter. In gameplay, it allows her to cycle through a variety of weapons.
• Multi-Gendered Split Personalities: While Luna and Trinity identify as female (matching their host body), Sena identifies as male.
• Never Found the Body: According to Chronophantasma's Library Guide, both her and Hazama's bodies were never recovered. And sure enough, she's back in the next game.
• Nice Guy: Sena, in huge contrast to Luna. Also Trinity herself.
• Paper Fan of Doom: Upgrade of the above mentioned frying pan.
• Random Effect Spell: Her Drive lets her morph her staff into one of 7 kinds of weapons at random. Also in one of her Unlimited-only DD's, after she smashes down with a big hammer and multiple bells rain down from above, one of these may occur: a gigantic cat missile coming from behind her, a giant bell coming from above, or a lot of bombs raining.
• Refuge in Audacity: Her entire design is pretty much exaggerated Magical Girl traits here and there.
• Sailor Senshi Send-Up: She's a very blatant pastiche of Usagi Tsukino, complete with the sailor outfit, odango/twintail haistyle, and a Moon-themed Stellar Name (Luna). Unlike Usagi, Platinum's an obnoxious jerkass and basically flanderizes Usagi's worst aspects.
• Shockwave Stomp: The 16 ton hammer version of her Drive can do this; when used, the entire ground will shake and the opponent standing on any range will be tripped.
• Signature Move: Her Drive moves.
• Skill Gate Characters: She's relatively easy to use, and has good damage output to boot, but struggles against skilled players who know her openings.
• Spin Attack: One of her Distortions, Cure Dot Typhoon, is this.
• Split Personality: She has three: Luna, a mean-spirited young girl; Sena, a kind boy; and Trinity, the sixth hero. However, they're not really split personalities, more like three souls sharing the same body. All three are active at all times, and can even speak with each other. Though it's mainly just Luna and Sena who talk.
  Kokonoe's CP winquote vs. Platinum: Two souls inside one body...? Intriguing. Let me research yo- H-hey, I was just kidding. Stop your crying.
  • Hazama attempted a Taking You with Me on her after Hakumen hit Terumi with his Time Killer technique; Trinity managed to survive however by somehow binding her spirit to Jin. Sena and Luna however have their existences in jeopardy.
  • CF story mode shows how they end up like that: Back then, Jubei was in his journey of destroying cauldrons; however, he stumbled upon 2 almost dying kids, and then he found one empty vessel originally meant for Trinity. He, after a suggestion from Trinity, chose to save the two kids and put them inside said vessel. This is how Platinum is very adoring towards Jubei.
  • Mai Natsume knew Platinum from before she became who she is now through the events of BlazBlue: Variable Heart.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: An ability of Muchorin's. This includes being able to create a perfect replica of Hihiirokane.
• Stuff Blowing Up: The Bomb and Missile variants of her Drive.
• Super Mode: Her Miracle Jeanne DD lets her equip a more powerful version of one of her weapons.
• Theme Naming: Her move names are taken from various Magical Girl anime.
  • Dub Name Change: Her move names ended up changed to reflect Japanese culture rather than American culture. Dream Sally for example was changed to Lunar Lapidation in a nod to Sailor Moon, although this was reverted back in the English version of Continuum Shift II
• Third-Person Person: Luna in some cases.
• Three-Strike Combo: Her Air Persian move can be repeated for two more times.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: One of her specials throws away her currently-equipped Drive weapon to her enemy.
• Token Mini-Moe: Sena/Luna, at least. Trinity herself was quite a babe back in the day.
• Uncertain Doom: Like Hazama, her fate is made ambiguous after he shanks her as he's about to fall onto the lake below. She/They also come(s) back for Central Fiction.
• Ungrateful Bitch: Mainly Luna. Ragna feeds them when they're hungry, but then try to take his bounty.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Her Astral ends with this.
• Weapon Twirling: She twirls her staff in one of her Battle Intro.
• Wheel o' Feet: She runs with these in one of her specials.
• Wingding Eyes: Her eyes sport hearts in her irises by default. Several hilarious expressions she makes can also make them do this as well, such as turning them into hearts when she's falling in love, and turning them into X's when she's lying unconscious on her back any time an attack knocks her down.

Introduced in Continuum Shift Extend (Console/PlayStation Vita Version)

Relius Clover

A real Char.

Profile

• Height: 186cm (6'1.2")
• Weight: 85kg (165.3 lbs)
• Blood type: A
• Date of Birth: June 1
• Birthplace: Iwatsuchi
• Hobbies: Research
• Likes: Opera
• Dislikes: Disorganized bookshelves

"You're an impressive specimen. Now, let the experiments begin!"

Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese) / Travis Willingham (English)

Carl's father. A gifted alchemist known far and wide as "The Puppeteer." He is the one who turned Ada, Carl's older sister, into the Nox Nyctores Nirvana and also the mastermind behind the Murakumo units. After constructing Nirvana, Relius seemingly dropped off the face of the Earth... until the events of Continuum Shift, where it is revealed he's a Colonel in the NOL, and is actively working with Hazama to turn Noel into Mu. Relius has absolutely no regard for morality or life whatsoever, viewing people as nothing more than guinea pigs. So much so that he not only did he harvest his own daughter's body to make Nirvana, but he also turned his own wife, Ignis Clover, into a Nox Nyctores as well. Fluctus Redactum: Ignis, is a combat doll much like Nirvana, but with the ability to completely manipulate all forms of energy. Relius was released for free in arcades on December 17, 2011 in the Version 1.10 patch, and likewise is unlocked from the start in EXTEND.

His younger self appears in the Bloodedge Experience novels, where he's a member of the "Immortal Breakers" vigilante group along with with his then-partner, Valkenhayn. He was a nicer guy who dislikes unnecessary violence and tries to help people whenever he can. He stopped Valkenhayn from assaulting Naoto further, then went to hunt Clavis Alucard together with Valkenhayn (Clavis wasn't his master back then), and then gives Naoto some replacement limbs after he lost his during his climactic fight with Spinner Superior.

His Arcade mode playthroughs are named, in second and third game respectively: Numberless death and Seriousness. His story mode playthrough in the second game is named Darkness Visible.

His gameplay Drive^note Story-wise, his drive allows him to create marionette arms from any surface, Detonator, allows him to summon Ignis similar to how Stands are summoned in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Fighting Game from Capcom. Like Nirvana, Ignis is reliant on a gauge that, when depleted, renders her disabled for a period of time and severely weakening Relius' options. In Chronophantasma, his Overdrive is Maxima Dance, which increases the recovery of the Ignis Gauge.

In the fourth game, his Exceed Accel is named Zera Varius where he pushes his foe forward, then multiple mechanical hands sprout out of the ground carrying the foe towards him before he finishes with a punch of his robot arm. His Astral Finish, The Puppeteer's Altar, involves Ignis grabbing the opponent and teleporting him and the opponent to one of his laboratories. The opponent is seen restrained in a way unique to each character, with Relius sitting in a chair in the other side of the room. Then he gets up and walks over to begin "experimenting" on them in ways so grotesque that the doors to the lab close so it can't be seen... followed by the sound of his opponent's screams.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: In Celica's arcade mode in 2.0/Extend, Kokonoe creates a perfect, but otherwise harmless, copy of Relius for combat testing against Celica and Minerva. Unfortunately, the copy of Relius was so comprehensive and perfect that the real Relius recognized its presence, teleported to its location, and overwrote it, thus replacing the simulacrum with the genuine article. Due to this phenomenon intervention, Kokonoe cannot delete him from the program, mandating that Celica and Minerva forcibly eject him.
• Abusive Parents: Used his daughter in his experiments and turned her into an automaton; he barely acknowledges Carl's existence and even smacks him around in battle a few times, though he starts showing signs of respecting Carl as Carl becomes more like him.
• The Ace: He is good at virtually everything. He's a master of science and alchemy, capable of creating the Boundary Interface Prime Field Device and modifying Saya’s body to be a vessel for Izanami, is skilled enough with Ars Magus to create a Detonator, which is superior to the Nox Nyctores, and is such an insanely skilled mage that he was given the title of The One, leader of the Ten Sages, despite admitting that Nine possesses greater raw power.
• Aerith and Bob: The children of Relius and Ignis are named Carl and Ada.
• Alchemy Is Magic: He's explicitly referred to as an Alchemist but a lot of his abilities are clearly Magic, which he's one of the few people in the cast capable of using because he used to be The One, leader of the Ten Sages. His title likely refers to the fact that BlazBlue alchemy is a "lost art" focused on refining the target, be it living beings or human souls, into a 'more perfect' state, which is extremely relevant to Relius' interests.
• Ambition is Evil: Valkenhayn calls him out on it. Relius simply responds that his ambition will lead to the creation of the first perfect human being.
• Amnesiac Dissonance: He was swallowed by the Cauldron and was sent eighty years into the future, losing his memory, but regained it over the course of a year.
• Antiquated Linguistics: Not quite as much as Rachel, but it's there.
• The Archmage: Relius's ending in Central Fiction reveals that he was the leader of the Ten Sages of Ishana, ranked The One, despite Nine having more raw magical power.
• Arch-Enemy: Relius serves as the secondary nemesis to Valkenhayn, their rivalry dating from before the Dark War; it was halted when Relius fell into the Cauldron the day the Black Beast was born, but started to resurface in CS.
• Archnemesis Dad: To Carl. So much that it's lampshaded in his Help Me, Professor Kokonoe segment, where she tells him to be nicer to his son; he doesn't get what she's saying until she shouts "Your son, CARL! C'mon - what the hell's wrong with you?!" and remarks that she feels sorry for the kid. Relius has to think about it for a second before he even remembers that he has a son.
• Artificial Limbs: According to Material Collection sketches,◊ and later his electrocuted skeleton,◊ one of Relius' arms and one of his legs are mechanical. The bigger question is if he wound up with said limbs as a result of being wounded or if he took them on as part of his quest for perfection. Aside from those he also has the extra arms he sprouts in many of his moves and the spider-like silver arms he has in Bloodedge Experience, which might have been prototypes of the later limbs.
• Ascended Extra: In early versions of Continuum Shift before making his playable debut in CSEX. Not only that, he's also part of the reason this series is as screwed up as it is.
• Assist Character: Ignis serves as one for him.
• Badass Cape: Ties in with his opera motif.
• Badass Fingersnap: How he summons Ignis.
• Batman Gambit: He's apparently fond of these kinds of schemes; he's not called "The Mad Puppeteer" for nothing. With him pulling a rather beautiful one in the Sector Seven side-story in CS Extend: Sector Seven, usually incompetent at retrieval missions, was able to steal Nirvana from the NOL, who would then attack Sector Seven to get her back, only to be attacked by the Black Beast Relius had created in the lowest lab of Sector Seven, and the result of the Beast's attack would fuse the souls needed to complete his latest Detonator - Ignis. All according to Relius's plan.
• Battle Couple: Technically he and his Ignis are this, though all evidence points to Ignis not having much of a choice.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: He's working alongside Hazama/Terumi for the first two games, with the two of them together acting as Co-Dragons to Izanami. Although after Izanami leaves them both to their fates, the partnership splits up.
• Beard of Evil: It's more stubble than a proper beard, but yeah.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Everything wrong with the Clover family can be traced back to this guy.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: A few of his moves has Ignis sprouting blades out of her arms.
• Break the Haughty: First his plan fails because of Bang's perseverance, then Valkenhayn beats him near-death, then he realizes that Izanami has emerged and doesn't need to be told that he's been tossed aside. Adding insult to injury, he's then at the mercy of Carl and Litchi, two 'puppets' he manipulated using their love for others, with Carl giving him a Cruel Mercy until he restores Ada. Relius only looks forward about the part about "Once he's done, he'll pay for what he did." As of Central Fiction, Relius has rebounded and is right back at trying to spin things in his favor.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: In The Wheel of Fortune, he puts off saving Terumi from Hakumen while the former is losing their fight, stating he detests physical labor. He does eventually use Ignis to bail Terumi out, however. Terumi/Hazama is almost always the one to do the hands-on field work while Relius prefers to focus on his research, only intervening if he truly needs to or if it furthers his studies. Also Relius never joins Hazama in his fighting and, if his own battles are any indication, he doesn't even experiment on people unless they fight back. In fact, if you don't do your Astral Finish, a large percentage of his win poses will have Relius nonchalantly walking away.
• Catchphrase: Despite being such a genius, Relius is very fond of muttering "I have much to learn." Fitting, because he's always in pursuit of perfection and considers even his vast knowledge incomplete. There's also "How interesting" and variants.
• Char Clone: Morally ambiguous, charismatic, Manipulative Bastard with blond hair, a Cool Mask, and command of a red-colored version of an existing robot that is 3 times stronger than the original. As a bonus, he actually has a Char^*Technically Full Frontal since Ignis has Sinjanju's color scheme. color palette.
• Chekhov M.I.A.: He gets his first mention in Calamity Trigger when Carl is looking for him but doesn't make a proper debut until the next game, becoming a playable character two years later.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Ignis tends to have this personality in the Gag Reels, where one skit has her beat the shit out for Relius after she thinks he's cheating on her, and another skit where Relius asks Terumi to marry him right in front of her, which she does NOT take well at all.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: He does some of this to Tager in his bad ending to power Ignis, and orders some scientists to torture Lambda with electric shocks in her story mode.
• The Comically Serious: Both of the gag reels he appears in (his own and Platinum's), as well as his own "Help Me Professor Kokonoe" segment.
• Colonel Badass: It was confirmed in Tsubaki's story mode and Relius's arcade mode that he is a Colonel in the NOL.
• Constantly Curious: Being a scientist, he always strives for information and likes to analyze things that catch his interest.
• Cool Mask / Irisless Eye Mask of Mystery: Wears a gold opera mask that obscures his irises. And is a bad guy.
• Creepily Long Arms: Ignis, though she's comparatively less creepy about it than Nirvana.
• Cruel Mercy: He's kept alive by Carl at the end of Chronophantasma, but only so he fulfills the promise to restore Ada, after which Carl promises that he'll pay for what he's done.
• Cultured Badass: For an amoral scientist he's definitely got some refined tastes.
• Death Seeker: Having lost his ambitions, his allies, and those he manipulated at the end of CP, Relius becomes so apathetic that he looks forward to the day Carl makes him pay for his crimes.
• Difficult, but Awesome: Like his son, it can be pretty overwhelming to set up combos with Ignis. If you nail it, however, Relius becomes one of the deadliest characters in the game, to the point where a skilled Relius is considered a top-tier character in Chronophantasma.
• Disappeared Dad: Two years before the events of Calamity Trigger.
• Disc-One Final Boss: In Chronophantasma he and Terumi are ultimately pushed aside as the primary villains by Izanami, who leaves them to their fates at the hands of the heroes while she begins her own plan.
• Disproportionate Retribution: The moment Litchi calls out his parenting skills, or lack thereof, Relius responds by preparing to kill her along with Carl, regardless if she was on his side all along.
• Dissonant Serenity: Always keeps his calm disposition despite all the chaos happening around him.
• Distinction Without a Difference: Although Relius himself insists that he simply wishes to merely be "the Creator" with Ignis serving as the new Master Unit, it's still pretty clear that it's basically the same thing as achieving godhood. Ragna even calls him out on this once he reveals his motives.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: By now it's pretty clear he is the biggest offender of the cast:
  • He uses Ignis to hold Noel down, and planned to "examine" her when he got back to his lab.
  • He does something similar to Makoto in her bad ending. Unfortunately for Makoto and the player, he doesn't stop at pinning her down.
  • His Astral, as the description tells. Each of the poses is personalised, and several of them invoke quite the fetishes in the worst way possible. His quote when doing this to Carl, binding him and Ada/Nirvana like marionettes, makes this even creepier. This man does not know the meaning of the word "subtle."
  "You've been a very naughty boy."
• Domestic Abuse: Turning his wife into a robot who is forced to serve as his attack dog with no will of her own? Yowza, that's abuse any way you slice it.
• The Dragon: To Izanami, with Hazama.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Like Hazama/Terumi, his motives for enacting the whole Evil Plan differs from his boss Izanami. Specifically, he wants to be the creator of the new world inhabited by his "Perfect Dolls", using Ignis as the new Master Unit.
• The Dreaded: To Makoto and Tsubaki, mostly the former. Even more in Central Fiction where Makoto trembles in fear at the sight of him.
• Early-Bird Cameo: The intro of CSII had him battling his son, Carl. Said intro only included every other playable character of the game, including Makoto, Valkenhayn and Platinum. Kokonoe was also in the intro, but she's pretty important to the main story from the beginning.
• Energy Ball: Used in his Vol Tedo DD, as well as his Unlimited-only ones.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Sort of, in conjunction with Good Is Boring. He considers a soul full of hate and maybe some evil much more interesting. When Carl, out of concern for Litchi, accuses him of trying to turn Litchi into a doll, Relius notes with disappointment that Carl's soul has gotten boring, encouraging Carl to hate him more and get more interesting.
• Evil Counterpart: Relius is the twisted, evil mirror image of his son Carl. While he is calculating and courteous like his son, he is cold and utterly devoid of empathy. His only true care in the world is his research. Relius is even willing to go so far as to kill gods for the sake of science –- a curiosity which Terumi just so happened to pique. Carl, his son, hates him for taking Ada and his mother away, and spends a majority of his travels in pursuit of Relius.
• Evil Genius: Along with Terumi, though he's definitely the more traditional of the two, being a scientist with a megalomaniacal streak.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Both he and Terumi learn that attempting to work with/use the Goddess of Death was a costly mistake.
• Evil Plan: As revealed by Chronophantasma, Relius's greatest desire is enacting Armageddon, killing everyone, and repopulate the world with his perfect "dolls". In Central Fiction, part of his plan is to use Lambda as the new god, Arakune as the new Black Beast, and Ignis as the new Master Unit.
• Evil Puppeteer: Wields an automaton puppet named Ignis, named after, and powered by the soul of, his late wife. He also put the soul of their daughter, Ada, into the legendary puppet Nirvana that ends up being used by their son, Carl, who wants revenge on his dad. Relius is even called the "Mad Puppeteer" for this reason.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Both Jun'ichi Suwabe and Travis Willingham give him a suitable baritone to go along with his wicked Mad Scientist affect.
• Evil Sorcerer: CF reveals that he is/was one of the Ten Sages of Ishana.
• Face–Heel Turn: Compare his current personality with the Bloodedge Experience novels, where he was the nice guy to Valkenhayn's Blood Knight, made particularly clear during their interactions with Naoto and Raquel. It would appear that Relius' experiments into the soul robbed him of much of his empathy.
• Facepalm of Doom: How Ignis grabs the opponent for Relius' Astral Heat.
• Faux Affably Evil: Addresses friends and enemies alike in the same polite manner, though he has a habit of getting too involved in his own thoughts. Despite rarely dropping his civil manner, his avid interest in horrific experiments and inability to see others as individuals rather than test subjects separates him from the truly Affably Evil.
• For Science!: His motivation for everything, contrasting with Terumi's For the Evulz mindset. The entire reason he and Terumi partnered up in the first place was that Terumi piqued his scientific curiosity with his plan to destroy Amaterasu, meaning that Relius is willing to kill God in the name of science. Chronophantasma expands on this: He wanted to progress his research and create the "Perfect Doll", what he claims would be the first True Human, as he considers the people inhabiting the time-looping world of BlazBlue to be mere "objects" incapable of evolution. As these loops are controlled by the Master Unit Amaterasu, he wants to kill it and repopulate the emptied, time-locked world with his "Perfect Dolls". This could maybe paint him as a very extreme Well-Intentioned Extremist, especially when compared to the goals of Terumi and Izanami.
  Rachel: Even at a time like this, all you talk is "research".
  Relius: I've always been a diligent person.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: Gangs up with Kokonoe to inflict this on several characters in his gag ending. For Science!! The victims are, in order: Ragna and Jin, Jin (already in Ragna's body) and Makoto, Taokaka and Hazama, and Rachel and Bang. Hilarity Ensues.
• Game-Over Man: In Continuum Shift, unless you're playing Carl, Arakune, Valkenhayn or Platinum ^note in which cases, with the exception of Arakune, Hazama is your Game-Over Man, pray your character gets an immediate evac. If you don't, bad shit goes down even if you fight (sorry, Makoto).
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: In gameplay, Relius' Drive is Detonator, while in story, his Drive is creating marionette arms from any surface.
• Godhood Seeker: Played with. His ultimate goal is to repopulate the world after it's been emptied of life by Izanami, filling it with "Perfect Humans" of his own creation which are free of the time loops established by the Master Unit. When he's accused of wanting to become a God, Relius retorts that he would simply be "The Creator". Relius explains later that he's going to make Ignis the new Master Unit and thus the proper "God," in the sense of "controlling the world".
• Gone to the Future: He was thrown into the Cauldron during the Dark War, which sent him decades into the future. He lost his memories as a result, but regained them over the following year and quickly resumed his scientific ambitions.
• Grapple Move: His Vol Tedo DD and his Astral have Ignis do this.
• Gratuitous Latin: His move names (except for his Drive, Overdrive and Astral) are in Latin. Somewhat broken Latin, at that.
• Guinea Pig Family: He used his daughter and his wife for his twisted experiments.
• The Heavy: Along with Hazama in Continuum Shift, although Relius didn't really take center stage until later revisions. Still, he plays a key role in both the lore of the series and the current plot of the games.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the end of Chronophantasma, he's stripped of his resources by the Imperator and is now at the mercy of his son, who wants him alive solely to cure Ada. Relius was so dispirited that he decided to just go with it, while Izanami has taken over as the true Heel. Subverted in Central Fiction where he immediately returns to his own plans inside the Embryo.
• Humiliation Conga: By the end of Chronophantasma, Relius has been beaten to near death by Valkenhayn, only saved when Carl, his son, pulled him out of the falling debris. Then Relius finds out that the Imperator abandoned him and took Phantom with her, knew that the NOL is now controlled by the good guys, and he's at the mercy of Carl and Litchi, the two people he played like puppets before. Relius tells Carl to finish him off, but Carl had Litchi patch him up and says that he'll not let him die until Ada is cured, which requires Relius and his genius. He's reduced from an Implacable Man with no weaknesses to a near-hapless victim. One almost can't help but feel sorry for him despite his previous record.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: Like his son, he can pull grey and green metallic arms, gears, a gigantic fist and a hook from inside his cloak, with no visible sign of any of them being there in the first place. The arms may be explained in how it's his Drive, story-wise. As of Chronophantasma, a king-sized swiss army knife, a set of sharpened gears for ranged attacks and a large mass of mechanical parts used in his Crush Trigger are added to his arsenal.
• Implacable Man: The man was outright swallowed by the Black Beast in the backstory, but all that does is launch him decades into the future, no worse for wear. In CS, he basically tears down everyone he fights.
• Jack of All Stats: Unlike his son, he moves faster and has better HP count, and Ignis is more flexible than Nirvana, but his damage output is worse and he can't pull the same nigh-inescapable tactics as his son, though he does have his own nifty tricks.
• Karma Houdini: Ultimately subverted; In Central Fiction, Relius quickly regains his composure after being dumped by Izanami, who seems fine with letting him live; though he loses tabs on Arakune, Litchi and Carl, he remains as unflappable as ever. While Relius spends most of the plot watching from the sidelines, he manages to introduce his worldview to Carl, which leads to Carl peering into the boundary and getting his eye shot out. Relius then simply retreats back to the Boundary because he's done/bored with the world and prefers to observe from there. Meanwhile Izanami, Terumi and (maybe) Hazama meet their demise by game's end, and Azrael gets re-imprisoned. The subversion is due to the fact that he can be defeated in battle just like all of the other playable fighters, and Valkenhayn R. Hellsing even defeated him at least once, so he doesn't count as a Karma Houdini.
• Kick the Dog: Much like Terumi, Relius is devoted to doing this. Specific examples include him turning his wife Ignis and daughter Ada into dolls, and what he does to Makoto in her Bad Ending.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Relius doesn't seem to believe in fighting when there's no likelihood of victory, whether that means making a quick exit after a defeat or surrendering to Carl and Litchi in Chronophantasma. Central Fiction is a prime example: Knowing he wasn't going to reshape the world, Relius cuts his losses and leaves for the Boundary.
• Lack of Empathy: One of his defining traits as a character. His personality in the Bloodedge Experience novels seem to indicate this was a result of his experiments into the soul while attempting to create the "Perfect Doll". Expanded on in his story mode, where it's revealed that while working on Nirvana and Ignis he saw the "true form" of every person, their soul, which is simply a ball of bluish light. This is how he came to view people as mere "things" and lost all belief in the inherent value of human life. He claims that the Amaterasu unit continues to stifle his progress as a scientist.
• Lady of War: Unlike Nirvana, Ignis fights with a more graceful yet still brutal manner.
• Large Ham: Mostly in the English version, but then again, this is Travis Willingham.
  "NOW THIS... IS MY GREATEST CREATION! MY ONE AND ONLY DESIRE FULFILLED! WITH THIS, I HAVE ACHIEVED... PER-FEC-TION!!!!"
  • He gets even more lines like this in the Gag Reel...
  "Now, now, this is your only chance in your LIFETIME to be involved in an experiment that could CHANGE the world!"
  "Experimentation, ho!"
  • Evil Is Hammy: Given that he likes opera, it's only natural that he likes being theatrical, even in his poses.
• Leitmotif: Plastic Night.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While both he and Terumi are behind a lot of atrocities in the storyline, if compared to Terumi he comes out as this. First and foremost because most of his atrocities were committed to satiate his own scientific curiosity, secondly because he's pretty pragmatic in his villainy in contrast to Terumi, who revels in Kick the Dog moments just because he likes it. While both want to destroy Amaterasu, Relius plans to better humanity in his own twisted way (i.e stopping Amaterasu's intervention so humanity will no longer be stagnant, creating the "Perfect Dolls" to make a "true" living being) and Terumi just wants To Create a Playground for Evil.
• Mad Scientist: While his mannerisms don't scream "mad", his actions definitely do.
• Malevolent Masked Man: One of the main villains, always wears a mask.
• The Man Behind the Man:
  • The creator of the Murakumo Units, and the one responsible for turning his daughter into Nirvana. He's even using the Imperator herself and is revealed in CF to be personally responsible for turning her into what she is. Being Terumi's partner, he's also responsible for everything bad that's happened in the series' story. He was also the one behind Azrael being released. Althoug this is inverted in Chronophantasma; they mistook Izanami pulling their strings for the reverse.
  • CF also reveals that he founded the NOL Military Academy in hope of observing the students' hidden potentials.
  • Spiral Shift novel implies that he was the one giving Meifang orders in the Ikaruga War.
• Manipulative Bastard: He's also keen for this stuff. He managed to rope Litchi into servitude by first taking Arakune in his custody and have Hazama manipulate him into joining their side with promise of a cure, and then stating that in a new world he's trying to create, there'll be a chance to prevent Lotte's turning into Arakune. He also manages to do the same to Carl, who hated him with all passion, just by saying "I'll restore Ada. Promise!". Karma can be a nasty bitch, as in the end of CP, these two are now pulling his strings.
• Marionette Master: His fighting style. He is known as "The Mad Puppeteer" after all, and it's actually his Drive story-wise.
• Mind Rape: Unlike Hazama, Relius skips the trolling and goes straight to total decimation, using his research of the soul to filter through your memories, dredging out the worst of them to break you in record time. Just ask poor, poor Makoto...
• Monochromatic Eyes: Thanks to his mask, they're blank white.
• Nice Guy: Amazingly enough, he was this in his youth, especially compared to his old friend Valkenhayn. In the Bloodedge Experience novels, he helped Naoto Kurogane up after Naoto was attacked by Valkenhayn, gave advice to both Naoto and Raquel Alucard, and creates artificial limbs for Naoto after the defeat of the novels' Big Bad.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Unlike Hazama, this man doesn't screw around when there's a job to do.
• Not So Stoic: He has hints of this in Carl's story mode when he goes on about Ignis. And more humorously, in the gag reels.
• Nothing Is Scarier: After the doors close on his laboratory, we're left to imagine the kind of horrific tortures he inflicts on his foe during his Astral.
• Offing the Offspring: He tries this on Carl in CS's story mode, for no apparent reason. Thankfully, it doesn't work. Subverted in CS Extend when it's shown that he actually doesn't give a damn about Carl because his soul is "uninteresting." This continues until Central Fiction, where Relius notices Carl's change in personality as he starts piecing together the truth, as Relius has, and muses to himself that Carl might be his greatest creation.
• Ominous Opera Cape: He wears one of these. Just in case you couldn't already tell he was a villain.
• Playing with Syringes: Relius' goal is to create the 'perfect human' by way of rampant experimentation on lab-grown beings, pre-existing subjects, and even himself.
• Pragmatic Villainy: One of the main reasons that makes him very different than Terumi despite being the same level of evil. Everything Relius does is for a specific reason, usually science, and he isn't one to dispense unnecessary chaos in his wake, unlike Terumi who's in it For the Evulz and loves spreading chaos for his own amusement.
• Psychotic Smirk: Scarily often.
• Rapidfire Fisticuffs: His Duo Bios DD has Ignis do this to her opponent.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Terumi's (and Hazama's) red. In their youth, when they were partners, he was also the blue to Valkenhayn's red.
• Rewriting Reality: He finds out in CF that one can interfere with the world inside the Embryo and can alter it in some ways, which brings him back from the Despair Event Horizon.
• Renaissance Man: He sees himself as one, and he does seem to be skilled in a wide array of fields.
• Robot Girl: Not Relius but his wife, Ignis Clover, who he transformed into an extremely powerful automaton.
• Rolling Attack: His Val Lanto and Id Haas specials have Ignis turning into a wheel and ramming herself at the opponent.
• Room 101: His Astral is sending people to this.
• Sadist: While not as visible as Terumi, it's pretty clear that he enjoys performing his horrific experiments.
• Scale of Scientific Sins: Relius manages to check off all but Immortality (as far as we know) and Usurping God, though we witness his attempt at the latter in Centralfiction.
• Satellite Character: Ignis. She doesn't really have a personality or backstory of her own, other than being Relius' wife and Carl's mother. Generally she's just there to be Relius' Assist Character, and her being turned into a doll serves to further fuel Carl's desire for revenge.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Relius walks into the Cauldron towards the end of Central Fiction, taking Ignis with him.
• Self-Made Man: This is a man who went from a mostly-harmless researcher who worked with Terumi in the attempt to create Kusanagi 100 years ago to a guy who can casually wreck Six Heroes-tier opponents and is so skilled at both magic and science that he was given, and still lives up to, the title of The One, leader of the Ten Sages of Ishana.
• Signature Move: His Vol Tedo DD, as well as his Astral.
• The Sociopath: Relius has all the qualifications — limited emotional affect, Lack of Empathy, need for stimulation, manipulation abilities, lack of shame or fear, and lack of conscience; his experiments on his wife and daughter are enough to make that clear. It appears that discovering the "true form" of a person caused him to cast away anything resembling empathy, resulting in Relius blithely crossing the line and going Beyond Redemption a long time ago.
• Stalker without a Crush: While Relius couldn't give less of a damn about what a person looks like, his research on souls leads him to demonstrate this trope in regards to Makoto. Even Hazama thinks his interest in her is "random and untoward" until he fights her in Slight Hope.
• Stealth Insult: When he uses his Astral on Amane, whom he put in a brothel cage, it also insinuates that Relius considers Amane a male prostitute/slut. It could also be a sign of Relius' Wicked Cultured knowledge as some kabuki dancers, especially those who played female roles, did moonlight as prostitutes.
• The Stoic: Normally speaks with a calm, sophisticated tongue and stays collected in most situations. Easily comparable to the more emotive and impulsive Hazama.
• The Starscream: In Chronophantasma, he hinted that he planned to double cross Izanami once the plan was complete. Sadly for him, Izanami sunk the blade between his shoulders first and abandoned both him and Terumi to their fates.
• Strapped to an Operating Table: His Astral invokes him performing dastardly experiments on his defeated opponent, and the table, literal or figurative, vary from opponent to opponent, as seen here ^*Not shown: Susanoo (inside a sealing circle, with several broken chains on his arms), Es (inside her creation tank from XBlaze), Mai (strapped to a cross-shaped, coffin-like box) and Jubei (struggling with a vet's plastic cat collar).
• Straw Nihilist: After seeing the "true form" of a person he holds no belief in the inherent value of human life, viewing people as "things".
• Tailor-Made Prison: In his Astral Heat, some of his bindings for specific characters are designed to suppress their abilities, such as Valkenhayn getting bound and muzzled so he can't transform or Tager being immobilized by magnets.
• This Is a Drill: One of his Drive moves, as well as three of his specials, has Ignis attack the foe with her arms or legs transformed into long drills.
• Three-Strike Combo: His Val Tus special has Ignis do 3 slashes with transformed arm-blades on her opponent.
• Unseen Prototype: He mentions that there were four prototype Detonators before the current one.
• Unwitting Pawn: Just like Terumi, he's one to Izanami.
• Villainous Breakdown: See Break the Haughty and Humiliation Conga.
• Villain Protagonist: He's this during his story mode since you play as him, just like Hazama/Terumi.
• Villain Respect: He won't hesitate to point out everyone's good qualities when he finds them, or at least what he sees as good qualities. They may not be happy to hear it.
• Villains Never Lie: Invokes this when confronting Carl in CP; he says that, despite his many bad qualities, he has always been honest with his son.
• Villain Team-Up: In CF Act 3, Relius form an alliance with Nine to use Take-Mikazuchi, but he has his own plan with Arakune as the Black Beast and Ignis as the new Master Unit.
• We Used to Be Friends: See Valkenhayn.
• Wicked Cultured: He's a fan of opera.
• Wolverine Claws: Ignis mainly uses these.
• Worthy Opponent: Seems to regard Valkenhayn as this. This is notable because Relius typically considers people as nothing more than test subjects, so the fact that he acknowledges someone as his equal says a lot. This has to do with their shared history in the Bloodedge Experience novels.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: All but outright stated in his victory quote against Makoto.
  "I shall be taking that."
• You Shall Not Pass!: In Nu's CF arcade, when Izayoi is pursuing Nu, Relius comes and blocks Izayoi's way, saying that "an amusing situation is about to unfold".

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