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    Thor Klein 

The main character. Thor's parents are murdered in the first episode by Odin, a powerful politician who was thought to be their ally, and Thor and his twin are dropped on the secret prison planet known as Chimaera. After Rai dies, Thor resolves to become the Beast King so he can have a chance to return to the colony and take his revenge against Odin. Throughout the story, Thor struggles to survive the brutal society of Chimaera while maintaining his own humanity.

Voiced by: Minami Takayama and Koichi Domoto (JP), Alison Viktorin and Sean Michael Teague (EN)

  • Angsty Surviving Twin: His motivation for becoming the Beast King is revenge for his twin Rai's death.
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He becomes the leader of the Ochre Ring after defeating the previous Top in battle. Third mentions after the Time Skip that Thor has defeated two challengers since then.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Rai is technically his twin, but Thor takes the "big brother" role. He drags Rai away from the relative safety of Zagi's wildlings when Zagi says that Rai will likely be culled due to his weakness. Not that any of this keeps Rai from getting eaten by a plant in the first episode.
  • Child Prodigy: Before the Time Skip, it's brought up repeatedly that an artificially-cultured child from the colony shouldn't be able to survive on Chimaera.
  • Cursed with Awesome: It's a curse in his opinion, at least, once he finds out what he is.
  • Even the Guys Want Him
  • Going Native: By the end of the series, he's accepted Chimaera as home, and his "chameleon" ability has even changed his appearance so that he looks like a native of the planet.
  • He Is All Grown Up: Several characters comment on how attractive he has become after the Time Skip.
  • Heroic BSoD: After finding out that he's a genetic experiment designed to rebuild the dying human race and that he wasn't actually related to Rai or his parents, he blames himself for their deaths and shuts down for a while.
  • I Choose to Stay: At the end of the series, he has the opportunity to return to Juno, the colony where he was born. He declines and returns to Chimaera.
  • Love at First Sight: He's quite taken with Karim from the moment he meets her.
  • Mystical White Hair: Subverted. Several characters remark on his unusual silver hair, but Thor insists it's just a regular platinum blond. Double Subverted when we find out that genetically, he should have had black hair and darker skin, but his adaptive nature changed his appearance so he would look like his surrogate mother.
  • Red Baron: After the Time Skip, he's known as the "Silver Hawk".
  • Take My Hand!: Heiser falls from a ledge and Thor grabs him. It's subverted when Heiser shoots himself in the head rather than allow Thor to risk his own life in the rescue attempt.
  • Took a Level in Badass: After the Time Skip. Justified, considering he was eleven before it and had only been on Chimaera for a couple of months.
  • Trapped in Another World: On Chimaera. The only way to get off the planet is to become the Beast King... but as Zagi reveals later, there's a twist even to that boon.

    Rai Klein 

Thor's twin, who gets dropped on Chimaera with him and does not survive the first episode. Despite his early death and limited direct impact on the plot, Rai remains very important to Thor as an inspiration to maintain his humanity and pursue his goals.

Voiced by: Minami Takayama (JP), Alison Viktorin (EN)

  • Cynicism Catalyst: Subverted; his death has a profound impact on Thor, but he's more like a posthumous Morality Pet that drives Thor to maintain his humanity.
  • Decoy Protagonist: Judging by the opening credits, you could be forgiven for thinking Rai and Thor would share the protagonist role. Nope, Rai dies in the first episode.
  • Flat Character: He doesn't get much of a personality beyond "weak and scared".
  • Killed Offscreen: In the manga. See Never Found the Body below.
  • Never Found the Body: In the manga, he falls into a crevasse and Zagi reports his death to Thor. In the anime, he gets enveloped and eaten by a plant on-screen.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies in the first episode.

    Tiz 

A native Chimaeran who is loyal to Thor and very attached to him. Tiz is originally the Second to Chen, Top of the female Sun Ring. She rescues Thor early in the story and saves him from punishment for killing Ochre Ring soldiers by choosing him as her husband, and leaves the Sun Ring to be Thor's Second shortly afterward.

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (JP), Trina Nishimura (EN)

  • The Cutie: Tiz is adorable, even after the Time Skip when she's matured.
  • Faux Action Girl: She saves Thor in the first episode, then spends the other ten clinging to him as her hero. Never do we see her actually do something worthy of her status as a Second. There is an explanation in the manga: Tiz has never been and was not meant to be an Action Girl. Chen and her Third hate each other, but both get along fine with Tiz, so she had that high rank to serve as a buffer between Chen and Ilza.
  • Kill the Cutie: After taking a bullet for Zagi, she falls into the Musa Abyss with him and dies shortly afterward from her injuries.
  • Love at First Sight: She sees Thor and immediately decides that he will be her husband and she will have his babies. She is twelve at the time.
  • Senseless Sacrifice: Tiz takes a bullet for Zagi and says it's because he's Thor's friend, but Zagi is already severely injured and the fall into the crevasse opens up his wound again. So he dies along with her anyway, and Thor loses both of them.
  • She Is All Grown Up: She matures significantly between the first and second halves of the story, which makes sense considering she's twelve before the skip.
  • Taking the Bullet: For Zagi, of all people.
  • Unlucky Childhood Friend: Played with. She's known Thor since they were twelve and eleven, respectively, and he does fall for Karim later instead. On the other hand, Thor has never thought of Tiz in a romantic way, but after Karim dies and Thor decides to return to Chimaera, he tells Tiz that he wants to go home and have children.
  • Yandere: She has shades of this, claiming that Thor is hers alone and that she's going to have his babies no matter what. Subverted, since it turns out she's willing to share him with Karim.

    Third and Sigurd Heiser 

A former soldier on the Balkan planet Rhea, Third was exiled to Chimaera several years before the events of the story for his involvement in a plan to overthrow Odin. He has since become the Third of the Ochre Ring and claims to have forgotten his old name. Third is a cunning schemer who works behind the scenes, avoiding leadership because it makes him too visible. Through gambits and manipulation, he makes Thor the Top of the Ochre Ring within months of his arrival on Chimaera, and keeps his role of Third with the new leader.

Officially, "Third" does not exist. Sigurd Heiser was a soldier on Rhea, but none of his given backstory beyond that is true. Sigurd was raised communally, and was never passionate about anything until he started to learn about Earth. His fascination with humanity's birthplace led him to join the military at only eleven years old, where he received a covert mission: go to Chimaera and wait for the Last Child (Thor), and then make that child the Beast King. In return, Sigurd requested that he be allowed to go to Earth upon the completion of his mission and was told he could do so. He was physically altered and given Fake Memories to reinforce his cover; those memories and his new experiences on Chimaera created a Split Personality that became Third.

Voiced by: Shun Oguri (JP), Duncan Brannan (EN)

  • Adaptation Dye-Job: His eyes are brown (naturally blue) in the manga, but green in the anime.
  • Batman Gambit: His entire purpose in life is to make Thor the Beast King and get him to Hecate, at which point Heiser will be promoted and allowed to go to Earth. When Zagi tells Thor what really happens to the Beast Kings on Hecate (they're frozen and used for genetic experiments), it tips Thor toward Zagi's plan of Chimaeran independence, which would mean cutting off contact with Hecate and Juno entirely. Third can't let that happen, so he takes advantage of Thor's impulsive nature. He kills Karim (who has recently fought with Zagi), knowing that Thor will assume Zagi killed her and attack without thinking. As soon as Third sees this, he declares that both Tops have drawn their swords, so this is a battle for the title of Beast King. Thor wins, Zagi is now incapacitated, and off they go to see Odin.
  • Becoming the Mask: In the anime, he just went native after several years on Chimaera, while in the manga his Fake Memories and new experiences developed into a Split Personality (Third).
  • Break the Haughty: Heiser, who has given up his entire life and lived on a hellish death trap of a planet for years in the hope of seeing Earth, learns that Earth no longer exists. He shatters.
  • Bulletproof Vest: He gets shot by one of the Ochre Top's underlings early on, and Thor panics for a minute before Third reveals he was wearing a vest. Unusually for anime, he is injured despite the vest (implied broken or bruised ribs, at least), and needs to lean on Rada to walk back to the airbike.
  • Can't Have Sex, Ever: Third's excuse for not sleeping with Chen is that he's sterile so he wouldn't be able to father a child, which is the point of having sex (at least with women) in Chimaeran society. The real reason is probably that genetically, Third has pale skin, blue eyes, and platinum blond hair. Even a hint of these traits appearing on his child would severely jeopardize his cover.
  • Casual Danger Dialogue: His response to being shot in an early episode is remarkably blasé.
  • The Chessmaster: Third works behind the scenes, declining to take any leadership role because that would put too much focus on him. He easily manipulates the characters around him, and even manages to outmaneuver Zagi.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He is perhaps snarkiest in his interactions with the Ochre Ring's first Top, though it continues with Thor on occasion.
  • Despair Event Horizon: When it's revealed that Earth was destroyed 130 years prior to the events of the story. He does not recover.
  • Driven to Suicide: When he learns that Earth was destroyed over 130 years ago, everything he's been working toward for his entire life is rendered pointless. He shoots himself to make Thor let go of him and escape, but one can certainly argue that Third doesn't want to live anyway.
  • Easily Forgiven: Despite being called out on one of his many schemes, Third is forgiven less than an episode later for setting Thor up in a battle that nearly kills him.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is known only by his job title: he's third in command in the Ochre Ring. He claims to have forgotten his name himself.
  • Face–Heel Turn: Kind of. Really, Third was never on anyone's side but his own.
  • Fake Memories: Only in the manga. Before Heiser was sent to Chimaera, he had an alternate set of memories installed to make his cover easier to maintain and more convincing. Over the ten years he spent on the planet, those memories and his new experiences created Third.
  • Godiva Hair: For one page in the manga, after he has the dye removed from his skin and hair, but before the Important Haircut.
  • Heroic BSoD: Leading into the aforementioned Despair Event Horizon; The Reveal shatters him (Heiser, specifically) so thoroughly that he's unable to move or speak for a few minutes. Third has to take over before they can do anything else.
  • Important Haircut: On Hecate, after having the dye extracted from his skin and hair. The short haircut underscores the difference between snarky, cunning rogue (Third) and consummate soldier (Heiser).
  • The Mole: Heiser is a covert operative working for authorities on Juno, including Odin. Third is more ambiguous in his loyalties.
  • Spell My Name With An S: No one can agree on how to spell his real name. And Tokyopop thought that Heather was appropriate.
  • Split Personality: Only in the manga. Heiser is the original consciousness; "Third" initially existed as a collection of Fake Memories, but developed into an individual personality on Chimaera.
  • Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's very pretty, quite charming when he wants to be, and so, so snarky.
  • Tyke Bomb: He joined the army on Rhea and was trained to be a covert operative on Chimaera when he was a preteen.
  • Younger Than They Look: He's only seventeen before the Time Skip, but many viewers assume he's in his twenties.

    Zagi Fenrir 

An inhabitant of Chimaera, Zagi was born on the Balkan planet Iliad. He was exiled to Chimaera at the age of twelve after an altercation in which he slaughtered multiple members of a rival gang. He is introduced as the leader of a "yado" wildling pack, and briefly shelters Thor and Rai before they run off. During the Time Skip, he leaves the yado and travels to the Blanc Ring, where he organizes a coup d'état and takes over as Top.

Zagi is a cunning and ruthless Combat Pragmatist, willing to use any means to achieve his ends. His ultimate goal is Chimaera's independence from the Balkan Federation. He reveals after meeting Thor that his initial sentence was to serve life in prison on Hecate, but he witnessed the experiments conducted on generations of frozen Beast Kings in the Io II lab. He was then dropped on Chimaera in the expectation that he would not survive.

Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (JP), Eric Vale (EN)

  • All There in the Manual: His last name is never mentioned in the anime, and only twice in passing in the manga.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: He does love Karim. He just really sucks at expressing it, and the moment that makes it obvious doesn't happen until after she is killed.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: He has a hidden, spring-loaded blade strapped to his forearm, and is lethally effective with it.
  • Break the Haughty: All of his manipulation and strategic brilliance aren't enough to outplay Third or to keep the one person he cares about safe. By the time Thor goes to Hecate, Zagi has lost everything and seems to have given up.
  • The Chessmaster: See Manipulative Bastard below. He'd be even more effective if he didn't happen to be on Third's bad side.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Is he ever. His favorite strategy in a one-on-one fight is to deliberately drop his sword, blind the enemy with his cape, and then kill them with the hidden blade on his arm. This is about as honorable as his fighting gets; he also might decide to slaughter an entire Ring of people without warning just because doing so will provoke the authorities on Juno. Other characters try to call him out on this, and he responds with scorn.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He can and does snark with the best of them. Mostly at Thor's expense.
  • Enfante Terrible: He was twelve when he was dropped on Chimaera for slaughtering a rival gang on Iliad. He reveals later that Chimaera wasn't his original sentence. He was supposed to serve life imprisonment on Hecate, but then he found out about the experiments to create a god from the DNA of generations of Beast Kings. Odin expected him to die on Chimaera, and seems to regret not killing him outright.
  • Face Death with Dignity: Holding the dying Tiz in his arms after she took a bullet to save him, he realizes that Chimaera is protecting itself and will not be destroyed by Odin's plans. He presumably bleeds to death from the wound Thor gave him earlier, because he's never seen again.
  • Glass Cannon: Zagi moves fast, hits hard, and can take out most of his opponents before they have a chance to respond. But when he fights someone capable of keeping up with him and evading his dirty tricks, one good hit incapacitates him.
  • He Is All Grown Up: Thor notices that he's matured in the four years since they last met. Overlaps with Progressively Prettier.
  • He Knows Too Much: The real reason for Zagi's exile to Chimaera is that he found out about the experiments on Io II. Based on his warning after fighting Thor, it's also entirely possible that he knew something about Third's connection to Odin, and that this knowledge was another motivation for Third to take Zagi out.
  • Hell-Bent for Leather: After the Time Skip in the anime.
  • I Control My Minions Through...: Fear. Members of the Blanc Ring are so scared of Zagi that they would rather march when it's -40C outside and risk freezing to death than defy him. Some honestly admire him and follow because of his conviction and strength, but even those who don't like him obey his orders at all times because they're afraid.
  • Jerkass: He has some Pet the Dog moments with Thor and (surprisingly) Tiz in the current timeline, and approaches affection with Karim in Death Game. This does not change the fact that he's an arrogant, cruel, not-even-borderline psychopath. He is the epitome of the Chimaeran species: a beast who is also human. It's just that he combines the worst qualities of both.
  • Killed Offscreen: He's last seen in the Musa abyss, bleeding profusely from a reopened wound that nearly killed him a few chapters back. His absence from the epilogue and Word of God confirm that he never makes it out.
  • La Résistance: He turns the Blanc Ring into a resistance force, attempting to destroy the ring system and gain independence for Chimaera. They're surprisingly effective for a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, and would be even more so if Zagi's goals weren't incompatible with Third's.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Of the highest order. He tends to refer to people as cards in his hand (said "cards" include his Love Interest, as well as the main character), and his coup d'état of the Blanc Ring is a flawless piece of chessmaster manipulation.
  • The Masochism Tango: With Karim.
    • Destructive Romance: Much more so for Karim, but his attachment to her isn't good for him either.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: Zagi comments that he and Third are both savage beasts calling themselves human beings. When Third denies it and says he wouldn't have slaughtered the Night Ring the way Zagi did, Zagi calls him out and says Third isn't any better if he wanted that to happen.
  • Progressively Prettier: He starts off more typically masculine than the other male leads, but his features become more refined in later chapters and the Death Game prequel. It's a case of He Is All Grown Up in the anime, where he's immediately pretty post-Time Skip.
  • Red Baron: After he takes over the Blanc Ring, he becomes widely known as "Blanc Ro" (White Wolf), and is referred to as such until he reveals his identity to Thor.
  • Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: His surname, Fenrir, is one of the few mythology references that actually seems to mean something. He's trying to take down Odin.
  • Shadow Archetype: He's essentially what Thor would have been if he'd embraced the bestial nature of Chimaera. Both are strong, intelligent outsiders dropped on the planet at a young age (Zagi at thirteen, Thor at eleven). Both fight for survival and eventually become leaders, earning similarly-themed Red Baron nicknames (White Wolf and Silver Hawk) and recruiting female Seconds whose skin colors do not match their Rings in the process. In contrast, Thor rules with diplomacy and tries to make life as comfortable as possible for the people of the Ochre Ring, while Zagi is vicious and controls the Blanc Ring through fear.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Zagi is extremely dangerous because of his Combat Pragmatism and skill with a blade, but his physical strength can't match Thor or Yuuki.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: He's fighting for independence and the abolition of a cruel and manipulative ruling system, but his methods are ruthless and downright brutal at times.

    Karim 

A native Chimaeran woman who has followed and loved Zagi since he found her in a yado nest. Upon his takeover of the Blanc Ring, Karim becomes his Second and dedicates her life to protecting him. During the events of the manga, Thor becomes infatuated with her and intends to take her in at the Ochre Ring after Zagi casts her out of his service. She is killed by Third during his Batman Gambit to remove Zagi as an obstacle to his plans.

Voiced by: Romi Park (JP), Jamie Marchi (EN)

    Chen 

A native Chimaeran and Top of the female Sun Ring. Chen is in love with Third despite the fact that he rejected her before the events of the story. He promises to accept her choice at the end of the first arc, but after she loses a leg in a Try against Ilza, Chen is too ashamed to face him. She has a child with the Top of the Sun Ring between the two arcs, but she does not return Yuuki's feelings for her and has sunken into a deep depression by the time she appears again.

Voiced by: Rika Fukami (JP), Clarine Harp (EN)

  • Action Girl: In the first half, anyway.
  • Artificial Limbs: She has a prosthetic leg after the Time Skip.
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: As is typical for the leader of a Ring.
  • Broken Bird: In the second half of the story, after she has lost a leg and is too ashamed of her perceived weakness to interact with anyone.
  • Cool Big Sis: She takes this role with Tiz.
  • Dented Iron: Her leg is so severely injured in her battle against Ilza that it has to be amputated during the Time Skip (see Pyrrhic Victory below). Chen is both mentally shut down and physically disabled when she appears after it. Thankfully, the epilogue proves that she adapts.
  • Handicapped Badass: Only briefly shown, but she has adapted to her prosthesis by the time of the epilogue and is quite formidable.
  • Heroic BSoD: She goes into one shortly after the end of the first arc, and doesn't come out of it until the end of the second.
  • Leg Focus: Her legs are a major focus during the first half, between the outfit and the angles from which she is shown. It makes her injury during the Time Skip all the more unpleasant.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: She wins her Try against Ilza (and presumably kills her), but Chen has to relinquish the position of Top anyway when the injury to her leg results in amputation.

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