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Aileen Lauren D'Autriche
Voiced by: Rie Takahashi (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)
Aileen has always dreamed of another world. When her fiancé publicly dumps and humiliates her the pieces finally come together and she realizes she has reincarnated as the villainess of Regalia of Saints, Demons, and Maidens. She now has a few months before she is stripped of her status and dies horribly.
- Adaptational Personality Change: In-universe. Aileen in the game was a cruel Clingy Jealous Girl who sent Lilia threatening letters and kidnapped her. When Aileen remembers her past life and the game's conclusion, she gives up on chasing Cedric and instead works at seducing Claude so she won't get killed by him.
- Aggressive Submissive: Aileen is normally the type of person to take charge and her initial attempts to marry Claude are very aggressive, even slipping him an aphrodisiac. However, whenever Claude initiates physical intimacy between them, Aileen can do nothing but blush and try to resist the Demon King's devilish charm.
- Anti-Hero: Aileen is a good person at heart, but she does not hesitate to use her 'villainess' cred to grease some wheels and get things done if necessary.
- Blue Is Heroic: While she is ostensibly the villainess, Aileen is self-motivated and kindhearted, and her blue outfit signifies such.
- Broken Ace: Justified. Aileen is both the youngest child and the only girl of four children. She worked hard both to distinguish herself from her brothers and to be worthy of being a future empress. She's also a gifted businesswoman and manager. Unfortunately, this caused her peers to see her as haughty and her fiancé to seek out a cuter, more submissive looking woman so as to not look bad in comparison and steal the business they founded together from her.
- Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Her second attempt at getting Claude to marry involves the use of a love potion, but she is rather shy to even kiss him once she actually falls for him. Though its also a little understandable once Claude's lovey-dovey behavior proves to be a bit suffocating.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Her desire to stop the demon incense plot is partly because she worries it will hurt Claude...but partly because she worries it will make him a Sex God around women, and she is very irritated when Selena tries to get close to him.
- Compressed Hair: When disguised as a boy, Aileen somehow manages to fit all of her long hair under a wig.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Aileen becomes the Unholy Sword Maiden, but her genuinely benevolent nature makes her the direct opposite to Lilia's Light Is Not Good Holy Sword Maiden.
- Dreaming of Times Gone By: Unlike most protagonists in this subgenre, Aileen only gets her Past-Life Memories through her dreams. This makes her particularly prone to Flashback Fail.
- Flashback Fail: Since her memories came to her in dreams, they aren't very clear. She doesn't remember that attending Cedric's engagement soiree in the event that results in her being disowned until she's already agreed to attend.
- Gender-Concealing Voice: When disguised as a boy, Aileen speaks in a lower voice than usual.
- Go-Getter Girl: She strived to be excellent and prove she deserves to be the next empress, which gave her the reputation of an arrogant princess.
- Goofy Suit: In the Mische Academy arc, she wears one when she is forced to meet Claude in her Ailey disguise - since while it works for people she doesn't know he would see through it. Claude is left too confused by the costume to really question the identity behind it.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: As opposed to her destined role of a villainess, the blonde Aileen is noble and benevolent.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Aileen is the strong-willed and guileful Dark Feminine to Lilia's docile and demure Light Feminine. Although, Lilia's true self is even darker than Aileen.
- Love Epiphany: Just as Cedric is trying to rape her, Aileen realizes she absolutely doesn't want to give her body to any man other than Claude because she's in love with him.
- More Insulting than Intended: To provoke Claude into challenging her to a swordfight in the Mische Academy's tournament, Aileen disguises herself in a duck suit and badmouths herself for switching from Cedric to Claude in front of Claude (with him not knowing the duck is Aileen). Aileen didn't expect Claude to get so furious.
- Next Life as a Fictional Character: After dying from a unspecified disease as a teen, she reincarnated as the villainess of the Romance Game she played.
- Oblivious to Love: She's quite slow to notice Claude's obvious romantic affection for her throughout the first arc.
- Person of Holding: After Lilia stabs her with the Holy Sword, Aileen can summon the weapon from her own body.
- Plucky Girl: After she remembers her past life and finds out she's doomed to die in every ending of the game she has been reincarnated in, Aileen decides she's not going to let anything ruin her second chance at life and won't stop fighting until she gets her happy ending.
- Recursive Crossdressing: In the Mische Academy arc, Aileen disguises herself as a male student to infiltrate the academy. At the climax, she puts on Rachel's dress to participate in the White Lily contest, but in the eyes of most of the student council, "Ailey" is a boy dressing like a beautiful woman.
- Resentful Outnumbered Sibling: She has three brothers and is the only daughter in her family. Growing up, Aileen felt inferior to her brothers and put all her effort into being a suitable future empress to not be left behind. Despite these feelings, an extra indicates they have a good relationship with each other since said brothers aren't happy to hear about how Cedric treated her while they were away and were perfectly willing to make him disappear for it.
- Romantic Fake–Real Turn: At first, Aileen only wanted to marry Claude to avoid the Bad Ending where he kills her during his rampage as a dragon. After spending some time with him, she ends up falling in love with him for real.
- Settle for Sibling: After her first fiancé Prince Cedric dumps her for Lilia, Aileen decides to pursue a relationship with Cedric's brother, Claude. Although it was initially for pragmatic reasons, mainly to avoid having Claude kill her in the game's "good ending", Aileen does genuinely fall in love with Claude.
- Shipper on Deck: She supports Rachel's crush on Isaac and would like them to become closer.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She becomes disgusted with Cedric when she sees what a spiteful man he really is and goes on to fall in love with Claude who is kindhearted, caring and treats Aileen with the love and respect she deserves.
- Sobriquet Sex Switch: When disguised as a boy, Aileen becomes "Ailey".
- Spanner in the Works: Invoked. Aileen knows if the game plays out as intended that she'll die in two months. Instead of allowing this to happen, she works to seduce Claude, abandoning any interest in Cedric. This causes the events of the game's plot to unravel entirely.
- Summon Magic: Thanks to Claude, Aileen's shadow is a portal for demons and she can call them at will.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: In the second arc, Aileen disguises herself as a male student to infiltrate Mische Academy.
- Sympathy for the Devil: Despite hating Cedric for his mistreatment of her, Aileen feels a little bad for him because she knows he wasn't always a lowlife and wonders if he wouldn't have turned out the way he did if she had been more emotionally supportive about his inferiority complex towards Claude.
- Taking the Bullet: She gets in-between Lilia and the transformed Claude to protect him from the Holy Sword. Thankfully, she comes out unharmed because the Holy Sword can't hurt humans.
- Talking the Monster to Death:
- In the climax of the first arc, Cedric assaulting Aileen causes Claude to transform into a dragon. Before Lilia can kill him, Aileen protects him and calms him down by asking him to marry her once again, but out of love this time. Aileen's words and feelings allow Claude to turn back into human.
- In the climax of the second arc, Selena's demon incense cause James to turn into demon form and almost start a rampage. To save James, Aileen tells him she'll create a place where he can finally belong without having to hide his true self. It works and James regains control of his demon half.
- Talking with Signs: In the Mische Academy arc, on top of disguising herself as a duck, Aileen has to communicate through a notebook whenever she runs into Claude because he could recognize her voice.
- Targeted to Hurt the Hero: In the climax of the first arc, Cedric and Lilia kidnap Aileen and Cedric almost rapes her as part of a plan to trigger Claude's Despair Event Horizon that will cause his transformation into a dragon.
- The Unchosen One: In the game, Lilia was the Sword Maiden who slayed Claude after his transformation into a dragon. When the same scenario is about to take place in front of Aileen, her desire to protect Claude drives her to shield him from the Holy Sword. Because of Aileen being descended from the original Sword Maiden and the fact that the sword shouldn't work on humans, she takes the sword from Lilia and can claim the Sword Maiden status for herself.
- Weakness Turns Her On: When Claude loses his magic and memories, Aileen finds Claude to be adorable in his weakened and submissive state.
- Wife-Basher Basher: She doesn't hesitate to violently defend the poor Rachel from the men who abuse her.
Claude Jean Ellmeyer
Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara (Japanese), John Burgmeier (English)
The demon king, first prince, and titular final boss, Claude is the catalyst for Aileen's death in the original game. He also served as a hidden romanceable character that was only available after the first completion of the game.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: He has been the target of assassination attempts from a young age and developed an immunity to poisons as a result.
- Aloof Big Brother: There's no sibling affection between him and Cedric since Claude was disowned by the royal family after he was revealed to be the Demon King. Their relationship becomes even more strained and antagonistic because of Cedric having a huge inferiority complex towards Claude and Aileen choosing Claude as her new fiancé.
- Amnesiac Lover: In the third arc, Claude loses his magic powers along with all of his memories. The empress wants to take the chance to cancel Claude's engagement to Aileen and select someone else as empress, but Aileen is determined to make Claude fall in love with her again.
- Amnesiacs are Innocent: In the third arc, his amnesiac self has none of the powers or solemnity of a Demon King. Aileen sees his innocence as cute.
- Babies Ever After: Has a daughter with Aileen named Claire.
- Birthmark of Destiny: Claude's red eyes are considered proof that he's the reincarnation of the demon king of national legend, a.k.a. the destined enemy of the Sword Maiden who wields the Holy Sword and founded the Empire.
- Broken Ace: He's a powerful Black Mage, undisputed leader of the Monsters, Tall, Dark, and Handsome, aced his subjects when he was in school and all in all, a competent ruler. Claude was also forced out of the castle at age 10, has faced numerous assassinations, he lives in an abandoned, decrepit castle, his would-be subjects treat Monsters, the only beings who care about him, horribly and he's prophesied to die at the hands of the Holy Sword Maiden.
- Brought Down to Normal: In the third arc, Claude becomes a normal human as a result of losing his magic powers and memory.
- Cain and Abel: Despite people assuming he'll become a monstrous tyrant due to his magical powers, Claude is solidly the Abel to Cedric's Cain, as seen when Cedric kidnaps and tries to rape Aileen in a scheme to turn Claude into a dragon and have Lilia kill him.
- Comes Great Responsibility: Some of Claude's powers require conscious use, but just as many are involuntary; the only way to avoid the involuntary manifestations of power is to avoid their triggers. Particularly applies to anger, which may result in volcanic eruptions - or, if the anger is against humans or humanity in particular, the prophesied transformation into a dragon. In addition, demons respond to his emotions at the speed of thought; they would attack humans en masse if Claude wished for it even momentarily. Thankfully, Claude likes being human and also values demon life, so he keeps himself under tight emotional control.
- Covert Pervert: He voices out his desire to make a body pillow of Aileen.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He's one of the few humans in the setting with magic and he's a Black Mage at that. His moods affect the weather and he's prophesied to turn into a giant monster and wreak havoc on mankind. He's also pretty knowledgeable about his subjects and territory, tries to keep the weather beneficial to its inhabitants, all of his subjects love him and, despite how they've treated him, very much doesn't want war with the humans.
- Defrosting Ice King: Due to his powers, he tries to remain aloof. Lilia was supposed to help him with this in the game, but Aileen beat her to the punch.
- Desperately Craves Affection: After he and Aileen become officially engaged, Aileen gets embarrassed by Claude wanting to hug her and lay down with her all day long.
- Emotional Powers: His Weather Manipulation powers are directly connected to his emotions.
- There's also the effect his emotions have on plants, which is implied to be specifically romantic feelings. note
- Even the Guys Want Him: Even several men point out he's quite the looker, with Aileen worrying she'll be upstaged by his beauty.
- The Gadfly: Despite coming off as The Stoic, the guy really loves riling up Aileen. He outright stated that he wanted to see her cry when he first started developing an interest in her.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Keith is the only human friend he has had in his entire life and he would like to befriend more humans.
- Impoverished Patrician: Justified, he abdicated his crown so Claude doesn't have much money. One of the ways that Aileen manages to sell him on the idea of marrying her is that she has money and that if he gives her some space to start up a new business, she can use it to better help the Demons.
- King Incognito: At the School Festival of Mische Academy, despite being the Demon King and acting headmaster, Claude tries to disguise himself as a commoner named "Black" to have fun at the festival. However, no one is fooled by his poor disguise as he's wearing his usual clothes with the sole addition of a Domino Mask.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He's a very beautiful man with long and silky black hair.
- Love Redeems: Newly minted Sword Maiden Aileen manages to talk him down out of his monster form.
- Maou the Demon King: He's the lord of the demon kind and if he ever loses himself to hatred for humanity, he'll become a dragon that'll try to destroy the country.
- Mistaken for Cheating: In the Mische Academy arc, Aileen becomes worried about Claude potentially cheating on her with Selena when she sees them hanging out together as Selena has explicit intentions of taking Claude for herself. However, Claude makes clear he only loves Aileen and is indignant at her even bringing up the possibility of him taking in concubines. He was only letting Selena get close to him because he could smell the demon incense in her and was keeping an eye on her.
- Not So Above It All: Seems like The Stoic but is shown to be willing to join in on the sillier sides. Such as his trying to have fun at the School Festival in disguise.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: His idea for a disguise during the Schoool Festival during the events of Volume 2 consists of a single domino mask while still wearing the exact same outfit.
- Partial Transformation: By the second arc of the light novel, Claude has gained enough control of his demon transformation as to transform only his arm into dragon form.
- Prince Charming: In contrast to Cedric's Prince Charmless, Claude has the dignity, class, and handsome looks befitting of a prince.
- Promoted to Love Interest: In-universe. He was meant to only be romanceable by Lilia, and only in the secret New Game Plus route. However, Aileen derailed this by going to him first and demanding his hand in marriage.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His red eyes are proof that he's the Demon King.
- Samaritan Relationship Starter: When Aileen first proposes to him, Claude is suspicious of her and tries to send her away. He starts falling in love with her after Aileen goes out of her way to save a Fenrir cub that was being attacked by her school's students.
- Scaled Up: There is a prophecy that he will become an evil dragon. In the game routes, it happened after being betrayed by his closest human. note In-story, it happens when he rescues Aileen from Cedric's Attempted Rape.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With Cedric. Claude is the mature, coolheaded and considerate older brother, polar opposite to the Royal Brat Cedric.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Aileen is the only woman he loves.
- The Stoic: Usually this, but is a decent guy deep down.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Although he usually doesn't show much emotion with his face, he cares deeply about his vassals and demons. He's especially loving and passionate towards Aileen.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's incredibly gorgeous, has long black hair and is one of the tallest men in the cast.
- Weather Manipulation: He can manipulate the weather according to his emotional state.
- When He Smiles: As he's usually The Stoic, this makes the few times he does smile all the more radiant with Aileen outright comparing them to a deadly weapon.
Vassals of the Demon King
Keith Eigrid
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Kyle Phillips (English)
Claude's assistant and right-hand man.
- Brains and Brawn: The Brains to Beelzebuth's Brawn.
- Chessmaster Sidekick: To Claude. Keith handles more complicated matters of the Demon Lord's estate, like finances and administrative duties.
- Childhood Friends: He has been by Claude's side since they were children.
- I Did What I Had to Do: He started illegal demon trafficking with a landlord to get permission to borrow the latter's lands for demon refugees of Claude's forest. He only picked demons who consented to be smuggled. Of course, it's made evident the guilt for doing this has been weighing on him for years.
- I Owe You My Life: He feels indebted for life to Claude who exposed his Demon King magic to save Keith from drowning when they were children.
- Only Sane Man: Besides Aileen, Keith is the only person with common sense in the Demon King faction.
- Poor Communication Kills: Rather than tell Claude about the noble reneging on their deal to house demon refugees, he set up an illegal demon smuggling arrangement with the noble for continued use of his property. In the game's story, Claude finds out about it without proper context and kills Keith, then goes on a rampage requiring him to be killed by the Holy Sword Maiden. Aileen is able to avert this fate for him through her knowledge of the bad ending route.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In-universe. Aileen knows about the demon smuggling through her knowledge of the game's bad end and is able to avert Keith getting killed by Claude.
- Undying Loyalty: To Claude. Nothing can get him to betray the man. Even his perceived betrayal in-game was shown to be severely lacking in context.
Beelzebuth
Voiced by: Yuki Ono (Japanese), Brandon Johnson (English)
One of Claude's main demon servants.
- Barbarian Long Hair: He's a wild and rowdy demon with long hair.
- Brains and Brawn: The Brawn to Keith's Brains.
- Dumbass No More: He starts off as aggressive and a bit dim, but due to a desire to become better to serve Claude, he takes lessons in courtesy and other topics from Aileen, later being able to tell time perfectly.
- Horned Humanoid: He has a pair of goat-like horns on his head.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He comes off as rude and lacking in manners when compared to Claude and Keith, but his loyalty to Claude and concern for Aileen prove he's one of their greatest allies.
- No Shirt, Long Jacket: He wears a jacket with no shirt underneath to expose his bare torso.
- Winged Humanoid: He can sprout demon wings to fly around.
Almond
Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Anthony Bowling (English)
A crow demon in the service of Claude.
- Big Damn Heroes: After being presumed dead, he shows up just in time to save Elephas from Lilia and destroy the door blocking the way to the grandfather clock needed to undo the spell on Claude.
- Instant Messenger Pigeon: When Aileen forbids Claude of using magic to send her letters, Almond acts as the personal messenger for their letter exchange.
- It Was a Gift: He wears a ribbon around his neck. Aileen is the one who gives it to him as "proof of the Demon King's gatekeeper".
- Stronger Than They Look: Almond breaks Aileen's shackles with nothing but the concentrated force of his beak's repeated pecking as an improvised drill to cut through the metal. note
- Talking Animal: He's a crow, but is also a demon capable of human speech.
- Team Pet: He's the funny talking crow of the Demon King's faction.
Aileen's Gang
In General
A group made up of Aileen's work connections relating to her company with Cedric to improve the living conditions of commoners within the outer districts, all of them being skilled in their field of trades. Even after Aileen loses her position, they choose to follow her with her new business endeavors as the Oberon company.
- Pretty Boy: They're all handsome young men. It's implied this is one of the reasons Cedric fired some of them, worried about competition for Lilia.
- Undying Loyalty: To Aileen. They're some of the few people who stick by her side even after she lost her position as future empress because of Cedric dumping her and are more than happy to help develop new products for her newest business.
Jasper Varie
Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese), Marcus D. Stimac (English)
A good friend of Aileen's and a journalist and president of the Varie newspaper, which is based in the commercial district of the capital and mainly caters to a commoner audience.
- Intrepid Reporter: Aileen and Jasper first met when he was investigating a bribery corruption case; the culprits were using Prince Cedric's name as a shield for themselves. Aileen was still engaged to Cedric at the time, so she struck a deal with Jasper: she would discretely pass him information on the case and in exchange Jasper would keep Cedric's name out of the news coverage of the scandal. Even after the incident was resolved, she has continued to pass Jasper information of interesting topics, while he continues to tip her off if he hears any rumors that affect her, her family, or her father's job as Prime Minister.
- Knowledge Broker: His job means he hears a lot of rumors firsthand, some of which he passes onto Aileen if it's relevant. In exchange, she often points him toward sources or topics worth investigating.
- Perma-Stubble: A visual reminder that he's one of the oldest of Aileen's friends.
Isaac Lombard
Voiced by: Yūma Uchida (Japanese), Alejandro Saab (English)
A good friend and classmate of Aileen. He constantly helps her in her many schemes and plans.
- Better as Friends: Discussed. When he confesses he would have taken Aileen as his wife, she snarks that he would be "wasted as her husband". He laughs and agrees with the assessment.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: When he's planning a scheme, he likes making a wide grin.
- Face of a Thug: Played with. To quote the light novel volume 1, "Isaac, who has sharp features and eyes that default to glaring, definitely belongs in the handsome category. It’s only that he seems like a delinquent, and it makes him hard to approach, so no one makes a fuss about him."
- Hopeless Suitor: He had feelings for Aileen, who's in love with Claude. However, they remain good friends even after his confession, as he already knew he didn't have a chance with her at that point.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He wanted to marry Aileen. However, she made her intentions to marry Claude clear, and he supports her regardless as her business partner and friend.
- Nouveau Riche: His family are "upstart" aristocrats since his father is a former merchant who bought a noble title. This gives him a familiarity with day-to-day money management in business, which is why Aileen initially recruited him as an employee.
- Number Two: Being Aileen's right-hand man in most of her affairs.
- Only Sane Employee: Among the Oberon Company employees. The light novel Volume 1, Third Act, has this exchange where Aileen's team proposes various ideas to get revenge on Cedric for jilting Aileen, stealing her business, and firing all of them while confiscating their work;Luc: And don't worry; if it comes down to it, I'll develop a poison that leaves no traces. Won't I, Master Isaac?
Isaac: Hey, don't arbitrarily set me up as your ringleader, you scheming doctor! I'm not plotting the crown prince's assassination, get me? That stuff's not in!
Quartz: ...If there are good materials in the demon king's forest, sure.
Isaac: Knock. It. Off! Denis, stop those plant freaks!
Denis: Hmm. How about a bridge that breaks when it's subjected to more than a certain load instead...?
Isaac: So you want an assassination too, huh?! - Platonic Life-Partners: With Aileen. Isaac admits he would have married her if Claude haven't taken her, but their primary relationship is that of close friends and business partners.
- Rules Lawyer: When planning with Keith and Aileen how to ambush the demon traffickers, Isaac is the one who suggests how to get around the issue of 'demons attacking humans' without breaking the nonaggression pact. (After all, if the demons have dug some holes or dropped a few potions while just 'playing around', it's not attacking, right?)
- Sarcastic Devotee: He can get snarky around Aileen, but she has no friend more loyal and dependable than him.
- The Smart Guy: If Aileen is the person who sets the objectives, Isaac is the team member who figures out a plan to get there. He's also the one who shuts down plans if they are self-sabotaging; when Aileen's other friends begin proposing various methods to get revenge on Cedric for ending the engagement and stealing her business out from under her, he refuses to help them plan out the details. He also points out that they can't just form a competing pharmaceutical business without being sued for patent theft or having Cedric steal that business as well, which is why Aileen moves to work on beauty products rather than medicine.
- Take This Job and Shove It: When Cedric claims Aileen's business out from under her, he fires pretty much everyone who she had a hand in hiring. Isaac claims that he was one of those fired, probably because "...I must have had the sort of face that Lady Lilia likes, that's all." Then Denis reveals that Isaac blew up at Cedric and left voluntarily. Isaac still insists that Cedric told him he was fired, but which event happened first in unclear.
Denis
Voiced by: Takuto Yoshinaga (Japanese), Ryan Reynolds (English)
An architect, though he designs a lot of other things too. Originally hired by Aileen for a business that would have created hygiene products and medicine for the commoners; now works under her at Oberon Trading Firm. Denis is brought in to repair Claude's castle.
- Idiot Hair: He has an ahoge sticking up at the top of his head, signifying him being the most childlike and energetic of Aileen's gang.
- Keet: He's full of energy and enthusiasm.
- Older Than He Looks: While he is pretty young, he's actually in his mid-to-late teens rather than the five years younger he's frequently mistaken for.
Luc
Voiced by: Shinichirou Kamio (Japanese), Jerry Jewell (English)
A doctor and lab researcher. Originally hired by Aileen for a business that would have created hygiene products and medicine for the commoners; now works under her at Oberon Trading Firm.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Quartz. They run a clinic together in the fifth level of the capital, i.e. the poorest district.
- Inventor of the Mundane: Aileen asks him to create cosmetic products that aren't common in the other world to make up for the businesses that Cedric took from her.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: He's more of a researcher for Aileen's company onscreen, but he does run a clinic.
Quartz
Voiced by: Yuu Miyazaki (Japanese), Jarrod Greene (English)
A botanist. Originally hired by Aileen for a business that would have created hygiene products and medicine for the commoners; now works under her at Oberon Trading Firm.
- Blemished Beauty: Even with the eyepatch, he undeniably looks attractive.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Luc, who generally has the best chance of interpreting for him if Quartz is not in a speaking mood.
- The Quiet One: Quartz generally prefers talking to his plants rather than speaking to other people, though he will speak on occasion.
Ribbon
Voiced by: Nao Ojika (Japanese), Emily Fajardo (English)
A demon wolf cub Aileen saves from a gang of students trying to kill it. It eventually becomes Aileen's pet.
- I Owe You My Life: Ribbon is loyal to Aileen because she saved it from the students that tried to hunt it at the academy.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Ribbon always sticks with Aileen ever since she saved them from being killed and bringing them back to it's pack. It's quite loyal to Claude as well.
- Meaningful Name: Aileen names it "Ribbon" because it was playing with one of her blue hair ribbons. Alieen quickly had it wearing that ribbon as well.
Characters from the first game
Prince Cedric Jean Ellmeyer
Voiced by: Toshiki Masuda (Japanese), Kyle Igneczi (English)
Aileen's former fiancé and Claude's younger brother. He was the default love interest for the heroine. He's also a classist idiot who doesn't care about the people he is supposed to rule.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Outwardly he is a charming prince. In actuality, he's foolish, entitled, and petty.
- Corrupted Character Copy: To Prince Geordo Stuart from My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!. Both being the blonde prince in a "Reborn as Villainess" Story and fiancé to the "villainess" protagonists. Cedric is essentially Geordo but with all his negative traits taken to their worst extremes.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Reacts with fury when Aileen states she has no reason to harm Lilia because she has no interest in winning him back. Then he finds out that she has been romancing his older brother. Deconstructed when this costs him the public's favor when he acts out in the middle of a party.
- Driven by Envy: His rage over Aileen and Claude isn't driven by any affection to Aileen but the sense that she's another thing he's lost to his brother. Jasper also suggests he fired the friends Aileen hired for their business after taking full control over it despite their talents and abilities because most of them happened to be young and good-looking and he didn't want them to steal Lilia's attention.
- Entitled Bastard: As soon as he falls for Lilia, he treats Aileen like yesterday's garbage and intends to publicly humiliate her by annulling their engagement in front of a crowd. Naturally, Aileen couldn't be happier to break up with an asshole like him and gets together with his brother who does treat her nicely. Cedric then swears to get back at Aileen for "betraying" him.
- Entitled to Have You: Even though he dumped Aileen for Lilia first, the second Aileen states she stopped loving him a long time ago, suddenly she's his woman and can only belong to him.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Was completely fine with ditching Aileen for Lilia....right up until he learns she has moved on to his brother whom Cedric despises. It's also implied him choosing Lilia over Aileen was also over the fact Aileen far exceeded him in many aspects.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Subverted. While Cedric might have once been a sweet boy, in the current day he's become a Jerkass Spoiled Brat.
- Harem Seeker: To Aileen's horror, Cedric states his intention to have Lilia be his queen since she's the Holy Sword Maiden and Aileen to be his consort. By raping Aileen. He's thankfully stopped by Claude.
- Hate Sink: He's characterized as a despicable scumbag who dumps Aileen for another woman and continues to treat her terribly just because he doesn't like her assertive personality and she falls in love with his brother.
- Henpecked Husband: He thinks Lilia is the only one who truly loves him, but the truth is she's just acting according to the game's script to win his route and actually finds him a boring man. He doesn't even realize Lilia has turned him into her obedient lackey until Claude warns him that women grow bored of men who do whatever they say.
- Light Is Not Good: A blond who often wears light-colored clothes who is Prince Charmless at his best and an unhinged psycho at worst.
- Love Martyr: Downplayed. While he still loves Lilia and willingly goes to prison with her as punishment for allowing the situation she caused to happen, Cedric at this point is not blind to what kind of person she truly is and tells her he won't just being doing what she says anymore.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The only thing Cedric needed to do keep his countrymen's good graces was attend his engagement party and accept Aileen's concession of defeat and her proof that she wasn't behind Lilia's disappearance.note He instead tries to attack and arrest her rather than accept she's no longer interested in him, which the public is appropriately horrified by. As a result, he looks like an unstable maniac, support for the D'Autriche family and demand for Oberon products increase and his engagement to Lilia is cancelled. Following him trying to rape Aileen, she's able to use that fact on top of his previous outburst at the engagement party to get the king to reinstate Claude's right of the throne in exchange for not publicizing it.
- Pointy-Haired Boss: When Cedric takes over Aileen's business, he fires all the people she hired, claiming they're untrustworthy because of their connection to her. Jasper suggests another reason, at least for her inner circle of friends and employees:Jasper: Well, I think it's probably just jealousy.Aileen: What do you mean?Jasper: You know. For some reason, lots of the supervisors you hired were young, good looking men. I think maybe he didn't want to let them near Lady Lilia. The guy's head over heels for her.Aileen: (thinking) He'd let that kind of talent go for a reason like that?
- Prince Charmless: He has the outward appearance of a Prince Charming, but the second he doesn't get his way he becomes an unhinged Jerkass.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Cedric has just enough awareness to make Lilia leave the room before he intends to rape Aileen. When Claude finds him, his sheer fury at what his brother was about to do causes him to snap and become a dragon. Cedric is also forced to abdicate in exchange for Aileen not revealing he was intending to rape her, given the extreme public backlash this reveal would have caused.
- Royal Brat: His motive for dumping Aileen and further antagonizing her amounts to him throwing a tantrum because she didn't manage to ease his worries about Claude being superior to him. His brattiness actually has consequences as his subjects start doubting him as successor to the throne after he tries to arrest Aileen for Lilia's "kidnapping" without evidence and then objectifies her in public because he can't accept that she's really over him.
- Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: He has such a huge ego that he refuses to accept that Aileen has immediately moved on from him and hates him now for dumping her. He goes as far as accusing Aileen of kidnapping Lilia with no proof just because he deluded himself into thinking Aileen has been driven mad with jealousy over losing him and will do anything to get him back. Aileen herself states she wants nothing to do with him anymore and can't understand why she ever wanted to marry someone like him.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With Claude. Cedric is the Jerkass and Royal Brat younger brother, polar opposite to the mature, coolheaded and considerate Claude.
- Successful Sibling Syndrome: He's actually very insecure about his abilities compared to his brother.
- Unwitting Pawn: He has no idea that Lilia doesn't even love him and is just using him for her "game" against Aileen.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Cedric as a little kid is tooth-rottingly adorable and loved both his big brother and magic. Unfortunately, his inferiority complex towards Claude turned him into the piece of shit he's now.
Lilia Reinoise (Unmarked Spoilers)
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese), Hayden Daviau (English)
The heroine of Regalia of Saints, Demons, and Maidens and Cedric's new fiancée.
- Abhorrent Admirer: To Claude. When she attempts to use her dialogue options from Claude's route to seduce him, he finds her advances repulsive once he breaks free of it.
- Adaptational Dumbass: In the light novel and Anime, Lilia is able to scheme behind everyone's backs, and is successful until she encounters something she did not think could happen in her "game". In the Manga however, she pretty much fails at everything outside of her charming the capture targets.
- Big Bad: She's the main villain of the series and the reason all bad events happen, as she tries to turn the game's "script" in her favor to make Aileen and Claude get a "bad ending" like in the original game.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She pretends to be a slightly clumsy Nice Girl, but her true self is entitled and self-centered.
- Broken Pedestal: Selena looks up to Lilia as her role model and the "true" Maiden of the Holy Sword. Lilia uses Selena's admiration to turn her into her pawn in a scheme to confirm Aileen is another reincarnated Japanese person and then makes Selena take the fall for her.
- The Chosen One: She's the chosen Sword Maiden who wields the legendary Holy Sword. However, she never expected that Aileen could also become a Sword Maiden in the new reality.
- The Corrupter: To Cedric, Marx, and Selena, characters who initially were the "heroes" of the otome game series. Thanks to her influence, they all ended up becoming much worse people than their game counterparts.
- Crocodile Tears: One of her most common manipulative moves is bursting into tears to play the victim and get Cedric's sympathy.
- Didn't See That Coming: Her fall in the first arc is mostly from failing to realize that Aileen is also someone that played the game, and spends the second arc confirming it in order to avoid being blindsided again.
- Didn't Think This Through: She forges a threatening note on her life by Aileen in order to keep the plot on track. However, the paper she used to write the note came from a letter paper pad including a hand-stamped rose pattern that ensured all of the paper from that pad would have exactly the same pattern. When Aileen reveals this, this, along with Cedric's public outburst, contributes to her engagement to Cedric being cancelled.
- Evil Counterpart: She's a reincarnated girl just like Aileen. Unlike Aileen, who is just content to live through her situation and only uses her knowledge to steer herself away from danger, Lilia uses her knowledge to exploit and control others into giving her everything she wants.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She looks like a sweet and innocent lady, but her real personality is a devilish manipulator.
- Frame-Up: She writes threatening letters to herself and signs them with Aileen's name to frame her.
- Harem Seeker: As the protagonist of the game, she can be matched with either of the three male love interests. She's succeeded with Cedric and Marx and now is trying to hook Claude as well.
- Hate Sink: Not as obvious as Cedric, but Lilia is just as much of a petty and detestable character as him. Her true self is a bitchy egomaniac who wants to ruin Aileen's life so she can have her ideal life as an otome game's protagonist.
- Hime Cut: Subverted. Lilia has blunt bangs, bra strap length sidelocks, and long straight hair. She acts like a gentle lady, but that's a facade for her mean-spirited and manipulative nature.
- It's All About Me: She knows she's supposed to be the protagonist of her new reality and believes everyone around her only exists to make her look good.
- Lack of Empathy: She thinks of everyone around her as characters in a game. She doesn't care who gets hurt or potentially killed for her to reach the "Good Ending" she wants.
- Lady Macbeth: She uses her game knowledge to turn Cedric into the worst version of himself and influences him to be as cruel as he can be to Aileen. She goes as far as to create an Evil Plan with Cedric to almost have Aileen raped and Claude killed.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: She's the (outwardly) delicate and innocent Light Feminine to Aileen's strong-willed and guileful Dark Feminine. Then it's subverted with the revelation that Lilia's true nature is much darker than Aileen's.
- Light Is Not Good: She's the Maiden of the Holy Sword and is trying to railroad the story into being what she wants.
- The Man Behind the Man: In the Misha Academy arc, she manipulates Selena, all for the purpose of confirming that Aileen is someone else that reincarnated into the game world.
- Manipulative Bitch: She remembers the game's script better than Aileen, so she knows how the characters will act according to her lines and tries using this to get the outcome she wants.
- Next Life as a Fictional Character: Just like Aileen, Lilia was reincarnated into the role of the Holy Sword Maiden.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
- Had she been a bit more flexible with the game's plot and allowed Aileen to step aside with dignity, she could have easily married Cedric and become the Empress. Instead, by trying to adhere too closely to the game's plot to get a harem, she ends up revealing Cedric's instability, fails to seduce Claude as his Replacement Goldfish, and is deemed an unsuitable suitor for Cedric.
- At the end of the Misha Academy arc, Aileen points out that Lilia playing a "game" to confirm she's another reincarnator only resulted in Claude getting recognized as the hero of the Mirchetta region and gaining more support as royal successor from the public that he was struggling with before, which doesn't benefit Lilia if she wants Cedric to ever regain the right to the throne.
- Oblivious to Their Own Description: When Aileen confronts her for all the damage she's caused, Lilia asks if Aileen was the type who couldn't tell fiction from reality in her previous life, completely ignoring how she seems to be completely convinced everything is still a game which she can railroad into her favour and seeing everyone else as just NPC to manipulate rather than people. Aileen of course points out that fits her far better.
- Pink Is Feminine: She wears pink and in the game, she's the sweet-hearted and traditionally feminine heroine, in contrast to the aggressive Aileen. In the series, however, her real self isn't sweet at all.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: Unlike Aileen who sees her new life as a reality, Lilia has the mentality of an immature, selfish teenager who thinks she has just been transported to a video game and she's deadset on having fun with it, not caring at all if the way she "plays" results in "characters" dying.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Subverted, as while she does have pink hair and acts like a sweetie, she's a selfish Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and sociopath.
- The Sociopath: She believes that she's still in the game and that no one else besides her and Aileen is a real person, and therefore it doesn't matter if anyone else gets hurt or dies.
- Tareme Eyes: Subverted. Her round eyes make her look cute and gentle, but her true personality isn't nice at all.
- Toxic Friend Influence: In the otome game series, Selena was the kind heroine of the second game who tries emulate the heroine of the first game, Lilia. However, since Lilia is secretly the reincarnation of a manipulative sociopath in this story, Selena become a much worse person than her game counterpart thanks to Lilia's influence.
- Unreliable Narrator: By her comments of her life prior to becoming Lilia, she was unloved by everyone. But considering how she acts and thinks, it's rather ambiguous if this was truly the case or how she chooses to remember her past to justify indulging in her role as the heroine.
- Up the Real Rabbit Hole: Because she sees the world she is in as a game, its inhabitants ultimately mean nothing to her.
- The Vamp: The first time she's alone with Claude, she tries to seduce him into going through with the Demon King route.
- Walking Spoiler: Her true nature only comes into play midway through the series, hence why most of her tropes are spoilers.
- We Can Rule Together: Once Lilia finds out that Aileen was also reincarnated into her current life, she offers Aileen the chance for them to both manipulate the world around them together with their joint knowledge. Aileen refuses.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: What derailed her plans with the Demon King. She uses the tools and right words to try to win over Claude's "Route", but by this point Aileen had gotten so close to him that he realized something was not right, and turned hostile on Lilia instead. All she could do in response was panic, and wonder what she did wrong.
Elephas Levi
Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama (Japanese)
The final boss of the original game's fan disc. He's a member of the Levi tribe of mages and comes to seek Claude's help in stopping the persecution of his people.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Hes a beautiful man with long blond hair tied into a side plait.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Like Claude, he has red eyes and was a final boss in the original game.
Characters from the second game
The Boys
In General
- Not So Above It All: When Selena starts gushing over Claude, the boys of the council opt to help Ailey with her security patrol rather than continue to listen.
- Sweet on Polly Oliver: Except for Walt, the boys thought Aileen was a guy until the end of the Mische Academy arc. When Aileen entered the Beauty Contest, they were very confused at finding themselves thinking a "guy" in a dress looked beautiful.
James Charles
Voiced by: Soma Saito (Japanese), Ben Balmaceda (English)
The final boss of the game's sequel.
- Friendless Background: Because of having to live among humans while hiding his demon lineage and being the target of multiple assassination attempts by his uncle, James was never able to make friends while growing up. Thanks to Aileen, the other boys of the student council become James' true friends, even defending him from Selena after she exposes him as a half-demon.
- Human-Demon Hybrid: He has a human mother and a demon father.
- I Am What I Am: Despite having lived his whole life persecuted and in hiding, he's proud of being a Human-Demon Hybrid, as his parents sacrificed their lives to protect him and asked him to live happy with who he is.
- Mixed Ancestry Is Attractive: Thanks to being half-demon, James possesses inhuman beauty comparable to the Demon King Claude.
- Mystical White Hair: He has white hair, making him stand out as a half-demon.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His birth name is Ashtarte, given to him by his demon father, but he had to abandon it and use the alias "James Charles" to blend in with humans.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His demon form has red eyes.
- Royal Bastard: He's the illegitimate son of a demon and the eldest daughter of the duchy of Mirchetta. Because he has a right to be the next heir of Mirchetta from his mother's side, his uncle has been trying to kill him for years to secure his position.
- Student Council President: He's the student council president of the Mische Academy.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In-universe. He is suppose to be the "new" Claude for the second game of the Regalia of Saints, Demons, and Maidens series.
- Two First Names: His surname "Charles" is more commonly used as a male given name.
- White Hair, Black Heart: He has white hair and in the original game, he was the sequel's final boss as he caused the destruction of the entire Mirchetta region.
Auguste Zelm
Voiced by: Tasuku Hatanaka (Japanese), Lee George (English)
The student council vice-president of the Mische Academy and the main hero of the game's sequel, meant to kill James after he becomes a demon.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: In the game, he borrows the Holy Sword from Lilia to kill the demon James. In the light novel, he gets a wield a demon sword he gets from James.
- Nice Guy: He's an honorable and kind individual who shows clear distate for the chauvinism common in Mische Academy, having stepped in to protect female students from their Jerkass fiances on more than one occasion.
- Number Two: As the vice-president, he's James' second-in-command.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Male example. He's a gentle Nice Guy with pink hair.
Walt Lizanis
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Japanese)
The student council treasurer of the Mische Academy and ladykiller, but that's only his cover. His true identity is a Nameless Priest from the church.
- Demon Slaying: The church sent him to Mische Academy to kill James when he becomes a demon, as it happens in the game.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: He wields a revolver into battle.
- Secret-Keeper: He knows "Ailey" is a girl, but promises to keep her secret in exchange for her not revealing his.
Kyle Elford
Voiced by: Chiaki Kobayashi (Japanese), Kieran Flitton (English)
The other student council treasurer of the Mische Academy. Like Walt, he's also a Nameless Priest from the church.
- Demon Slaying: Along with Walt, the church sent him to Mische Academy to kill James when he becomes a demon, as it happens in the game.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Aileen finds out Kyle loves cats when she sees cat food in his pants.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has long black hair worn in a ponytail.
- Two First Names: Elford is an English surname and occasionally a given name.
The Girls
Rachel Danis
Voiced by: Rie Murakawa (Japanese)
A student of Mische Academy. She was the villainess of the game's sequel, but her personality is completely different from the game.
- Alpha Bitch: Apparently, her game counterpart is this and a bully to Selena. However, in the main story their roles are swapped.
- Arranged Marriage: She has an arranged marriage to a Jerkass who abuses her. Aileen suggests she try to break it off as soon as possible and she eventually decides to follow up on that suggestion.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: She develops a crush on Isaac because he was the only one who told her she did the right thing by breaking off her engagement to her Jerkass fiancé.
- Lady-In-Waiting: At the end of the Mische Academy arc, Aileen makes Rachel her lady-in-waiting.
- Point of Divergence: Rachel was the confident villainess of the otome game's sequel, but somehow became a Shrinking Violet in the main story. It's implied with Selena, the heroine of their game, becoming an Alpha Bitch due to Lilia's manipulation who would target Rachel resulted in Rachel herself becoming a much humbler person than her game counterpart.
- Shrinking Violet: To Aileen's surprise, Rachel is a very shy girl who wouldn't hurt a fly, unlike her villainess character from the game.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In-universe. She is suppose to take over Aileen's role as the villainess for the second game of the Regalia of Saints, Demons, and Maidens series. However, Selena's change in personality from the original story thanks to Lilia's manipulations resulted in Rachel becoming a much kinder person in turn.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Isaac puts himself down for not standing up for Aileen when Cedric dumped her in public, but Rachel tells him she knows he's a good man who is always ready to support and help his friends. She succeeds in cheering him up.
Selena Gilbert
Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu (Japanese)
The heroine of the game's sequel.
- Alpha Bitch: She is the most popular girl at Mische Academy who secretly bullies her peers while pretending to be a kind person.
- Arc Villainess: She's the villain of the Mische Academy arc, where she's revealed to be the one behind the demon incense incident in an attempt to expose James as a half-demon and force the other members of the student council into killing him like in the game. After Claude has her arrested, it's revealed Lilia manipulated Selena into causing the whole arc.
- Arranged Marriage: Her uncle plans to marry her off to a Nouveau Riche man 25 years older than her after she graduates.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She appears to be a model student who kindly looks after others. In reality, she's just trying to make herself look good and won't hesitate to hurt or backstab others for her own benefit.
- Corrupt the Cutie: On the receiving end of this. In the original story-line of Regalia of Saints, Demons, and Maidens 2, Selena was your standard kindhearted otome game protagonist who can get most, if not all, of the student council to fall in love with her. Most of all, Selena wanted to follow in the footsteps of the Holy Sword Maiden Lilia. Its just too bad that Lilia in the current reality is a sociopath who manipulates Selena into becoming a vicious Alpha Bitch whose "favorability rating" is very low among her possible love interests.
- Crippling the Competition: She pushes Rachel down the stairs and injures her ankle to stop her from competing against her in the school's Beauty Contest. Pissed at Selena's using such a dirty trick, Aileen takes Rachel's place and wins the contest.
- Death Faked for You: Aileen and Claude make the public announcement that Selena killed herself after being arrested for the demon incense incident. The truth is Selena was spared and turned into a maid working at the royal palace.
- Hate Sink: She's a vile and devious Alpha Bitch who injures her rival to get her out of a Beauty Contest and wants to steal Claude from Aileen.
- Hero-Worshipper: She idolizes Lilia and considers her the one true owner of the Holy Sword, refusing to accept that Aileen took it from Lilia. Lilia exploits this to make Selena an Unwitting Pawn by starting the events of the sequel game to test if Aileen is a fellow reincarnator. Selena is understandably resentful of Lilia afterwards and ends up helping to stop her by showing the Mische academy group where Claude is being held in.
- Hime Cut: Subverted. Selena is a model student with blunt bangs, bra strap length sidelocks, and long straight hair. Despite appearing to be kind, she's really a mean and cheating Alpha Bitch.
- Hopeless Suitor: She's infatuated with Claude, but he only has eyes for Aileen and only humors being around her to investigate the demon incense he smelled on her.
- Hypocrite: Despite her admiration for the Holy Sword Maiden, she fawns over Claude, the Demon Lord that is supposed to be her enemy. Auguste even comments on this when she insists on being his mediator.
- Irony: In the game, she can hook up with any of the four student council members. In their current reality, Selena is a completely Hopeless Suitor for Claude. Aileen also points out that for someone who is suppose to be an otome game protagonist, her "favorability rating" among the student council members/possible love interests is very low.
- Meido: Aileen pulls some strings to get Selena released after the latter's arrest. However, since Selena is still dead to the public, the only way she can live now is working as a maid at the royal palace.
- Red Herring: Selena's actions indicate she has knowledge of the original game's plot, making Aileen suspect she's also been reincarnated. That is until Selena reveals she was just following instructions from someone else; Lilia.
- Sexy Secretary: She's the student council secretary. In the game, she can romance all the members of the council. However, in the current reality, her "favorability rating" among the council is very low due to her overall behavior.
- Spared, but Not Forgiven: Aileen and Claude spare her life and release her from arrest, allowing her to live and work at the royal palace as a maid. However, Aileen, Claude and none of their friends have forgiven her for scheming with Lilia, injuring Rachel and trying to have James killed. They take good satisfaction in rubbing in her face that she's dead to the public and now she's just a nameless maid who is nothing next to their rank and status.
- Spell My Name With An S: Her name can be translated as "Selena" or "Serena".
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In-universe. She is suppose to take over Lilia's role as the heroine in Regalia of Saints, Demons, and Maidens 2. The in-game explanation as to why Selena is so much like Lilia is due Selena trying to model her behavior after her hero. Unfortunately, this does apply to the main story as Selena picked up some of Lilia's nastier traits.
- Two First Names: "Gilbert" is her surname, but it's also a male given name.
- Unwitting Pawn: She has been exchanging letters with Lilia, who gave her instructions on a general outline of the game's plot. However, certain important details were left out, and she was left to dry as Lilia only wanted to confirm that Aileen was a fellow reincarnator.
Royalty and Nobility
Rudolf Lauren d'Autriche
Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese), Sean Hennigan (English)
Aileen's father and the prime minister. Head of the D'Autriche Duchy.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Schadenfreude is basically his preferred sense of humor. Not even family is safe - in fact, Aileen considers it worse when it's a family member's misfortune he's taking delight in, because that means Rudolph doesn't feel the need to hide how much he's enjoying their misery. When Cedric breaks his engagement with Aileen, Rudolph acknowledges the political difficulties it creates, but can't help mourning the fact the fact that his daughter basically shrugged it off and even looks happy.Rudolph: And here I was so looking forward, every single day, to the moment when he would ultimately spurn you.Aileen: ...So there was no doubt in your mind that one day I would be spurned.Rudolph: He turned you down so miserably that it nearly beggared belief… Oh, my poor Aileen… In your tear-soaked grief, you would surely have been the most adorable creature alive, and yet…!Aileen: You were having a grand old time by fantasizing about that, weren’t you?
- Tough Love: He loves his daughter and wants the best for her, but is very strict with her. When Cedric broke off their engagement and took the business she built, Rudolf gave Aileen only two months to create a whole new business from the ground up in order to cover for the income their family lost. If she failed, he would have disowned her.
Lala Jeanne Elmir
Voiced by: Mika Kanai (Japanese)
The empress. She's the grandmother of Claude and Cedric.
- Flowers of Femininity: She wears a red flower ornament in her hair and is an empress with very youthful looks.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Or rather Empress, but she is the villain aligned with Lilia, keeping an entire family hostage for the sake of maintaining her youth and helps mastermind the plot to get Aileen killed.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: She's royalty and wears a purple kimono.
- Immortality Immorality: The Dowager Empress stays youthful by draining the magic from the Levi family with a special magical grandfather clock.
- No Immortal Inertia: Elephas breaking the enchantment that maintained her young appearance forces her to undergo Rapid Aging back into her true age, if not looking even older.
- Older Than She Looks: She's over 60 years old, but looks like a preteen girl thanks to a magical clock.
