These are the characters that appear in Life After Magic:
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Main Characters
Akiko / MC
- Emoticon: Since the game takes place from her point of view her dialogue sometimes includes emoticons to better covey her emotions and expressions note .
- Happily Adopted: She was adopted as a baby by a human family and hopes to make them proud.
- Healing Hands: Her main abilities as Sentinel Starlight are her healing powers, which she used on Jackie a lot during their magical girl days, due to her rather reckless behaviour at the time.
- Holy Hand Grenade: Her main attack is called Purifying Heavenly Beam.
- Hopeless with Tech: Downplayed. She doesn’t know how to use a computer and needs KJ's help during their break-in of Anna Lee's office to navigate one, but she seems to have adequate knowledge of most other types of technology.
- Human Aliens: She is an alien which was quite shocking to her when she learned it.
- Muggle Foster Parents: As stated in Happily Adopted she was taken in by her adoptive parents who, most likely, know nothing of her magical origins or escapades.
- Princess Protagonist: She is the last princess of the Serentia royal family who were sworn guardians of truth and justice.
- So What Do We Do Now?: Her reaction to saving the world once and for all, since her constantly saving the world as a magical girl took up so much of her time that it led to her getting terrible grades and having to drop out of high school.
- Talking the Monster to Death: One of the methods to defeat the Midnight Lady is by having Akiko talk to her and then tell her the names of her former comrades.
- White Magician Girl: Her magical girl powers give her the ability to heal herself and others.
ARA
- Curtains Match the Window: Both her hair and eyes are pink.
- Egging: She egged Jackie’s parents’s house more than once but stopped after learning that they made her clean it up.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: The main reason she revealed herself as Sentinel Aurora during her debut as an Idol, was to get the sentinels back together, however it ended up with most of her former teammates resenting her for it.
- Magic Idol Singer: She used her fame as a magical girl to jump-start her idol carrier. As it turns out she also uses her powers to boost the popularity of her songs, at first accidentally but she continued even after realizing it.
- Magic Music: Her powers as Sentinel Aurora allow her to attack with her voice and lower her enemy's stats with songs.
- Meaningful Rename: She used to be known as Boyoung Kim but now prefers to go by her stage name ARA. In her ending she goes back to using Boyoung Kim.
- Number Two: During their magical girl days, she acted as Akiko's second in command.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: The only thing she does to disguise herself when out in public is wearing a blue wig, despite this she is never recognised.
- Pink Means Feminine: Unless she is trying to disguise herself, everything from her hair to her clothing is some shade of pink.
- Ring on a Necklace: She wears her Sentinel of Justice ring on a necklace.
- Sell-Out: She is seen as a sell out by both KJ and Akiko for revealing her past as a magical girl as a marketing strategy, when she became idol and her involvement in Glamor Pop's Sentimentality line doesn’t help.
Jackie
- Badasses Wear Bandanas: She always wears a yellow head scarf and, with her being a boxer and a magical girl, she has the badass part covered.
- Boxing Battler: She used to box both as a magical girl and in the ring but left the competitive scene after her body became too injured from her time as a magical girl.
- Cute Bruiser: She is very cute and has the most hands-on fighting style of the group.
- Motherly Side Plait: She wears her hair this way but is more of a big sister figure, particularly to Leila.
- Nieceism: After she was disowned by her parents, for being trans she was taken in by her uncle.
- Not Brainwashed: Played for Laughs. The other Sentinels reference a few times how she was mind-controlled by the Dark Moon Sirens once, turns out she just has a thing for sexy villainesses.
- Passing the Torch: Jackie makes plans to leave her magic behind and pass her Sentinel Ring to her boxing protegee, Leila. The epilogue reveals that KJ is looking for a protegee to train, as well.
- The Power of the Sun: As her Sentinel name implies, she is able to use sun-based attacks and stat-buffs, especially her attacks can be incredibly destructive.
- Queer Establishing Moment: She has two; the first is when she tells Akiko that she is gay, which she already knew, and the second is telling Leila that she is trans.
Miranda
- Employee of the Month: She is the "Employee of the Month" of most of the months in the wood-shop.
- Having a Blast: Her powers allow her to create explosions out of stardust, which she can manipulate into any kind of shape.
- The Quiet One: Zig Zagged. She is seen as this by the rest of the Sentinels and is the most subdued of the bunch, but she actually talks a lot when given the time to find the right words to express her self.
- Workaholic: She spends most of her free time working on her woodworking projects.
KJ
- Badass Biker: They ride a Hayabusa Suzuki and are by far the most badass of the group.
- Barrier Warrior: Their magical powers allow them to create protective bubbles around themself.
- Dork in a Sweater: They are the most tech-savvy of the group and used to wear sweaters during their high school day’s, which can be seen in a few flashbacks.
- Smoking Is Cool: They are the only character in the game who smokes and as stated both above and below are very badass.
- Storyboard Body: Every tattoo they have symbolizes a year of their life and they plan on adding more with time.
- Throwing Your Shield Always Works: Despite them being the defender of the team they still have the ability to attack by throwing their shields at the enemy, which is called bubble beam.
- Took a Level in Badass: A big part of Akiko's reunion with KJ is how much they've transformed since their teenhood; they went from a soft-spoken, geeky Shrinking Violet to a Badass Biker metalhead tattoo artist - and one much more confident about themself at that.
Leez
- Animal Lover: She love animals and knows a lot about them, especially birds, which makes sense given that she used to live in a national park when she was younger.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She has the tendency to make bird noises and puts on make-up in a very unconventional way.
- Endearingly Dorky: While her more unique traits lead to her being disliked by some people, she has her supporters/fans in Akiko and Miranda.
- Goggles Do Nothing: Since she is always wearing her glasses on her head, they don't really serve a function other than making her look cute.
- Nobody Here but Us Birds: Subverted. Making owl noises is a lot better at getting her attention than actually calling her name. Additionally in the battle against the Midnight Lady, one of her abilities is her making owl noises to distract, the Midnight Lady, from attacking.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She starts acting weird during the halfway point of the game leading ARA to suspect her of being the culprit behind the disappearance of everyone’s magic. As it turns out she was also affected by the make-up, causing her to act strange.
- Sixth Ranger: She can join the Sentinels of Justice halfway through the game.
Anna Lee
- Dark Magical Girl: She was part of the Fruit Fatale, a magical girl group operating in the 70s, but after the death of their leader, Strawberry Saori, she became disillusioned with her role as a magical girl and started to use her powers for more nefarious purposes.
- Energy Absorption: She has the ability to absorb magical energy from her enemies.
- Swiss Bank Account: She has a Swiss bank account ,into which she funneled 99% of the profits from the Sentimentality line, that were supposed to be donated to charity.
Side Characters
Allister
- Cats Are Mean: Downplayed. While he is generally supportive and helpful, he can be a bit catty and also threatens to throw-up a hairball on Akiko's pillow if she doesn’t gather the Sentinels together again.
- Mentor Mascot: He is a cat and a mentor figure to the Sentinels of Justice.
- Non-Human Sidekick: He is Akiko's sidekick and the only remaining friend from her magical girl days, since she lost everyone else’s numbers.
- Sailor Senshi Send-Up: Seeing that he's a Magical Girl's black cat Mentor Mascot, he's basically Luna from Sailor Moon.
- Talking Animal: His ability to talk seems to be magic related, since he loses it over the course of the game.
Solaire
- Casanova Wannabe: Zig-Zagged. Despite being generally seen as a nuisance by the Sentinels he still managed to date Akiko and ARA, not at the same time. Both of them wholeheartedly regret ever having dated him.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: None of the Sentinels are particularly happy when he shows up. However he proofs to be a valuable ally and friend to the Sentinels in the Finale, where he breaks up a fight between the Sentinels and destroys all the remaining make-up.
- Homage: Everything from his looks to his fighting style, is based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise.
- Leitmotif: Blazin it by Chris Scribner who composed the entirety of Life after Magic's soundtrack.
- Shonen Hair: His spiky, multi-coloured hair wouldn’t be out of place in a 90's shonen manga.
- Stuff Blowing Up: He accidentally destroyed the old hideout of the Sentinels of Justice after he used the wrong card from his deck.
Leila
- 11th-Hour Ranger: She can join the Sentinels of Justice as the new Sentinel Sol during the final battle against the Midnight Lady, if Jackie's storyline was completed.
- Curtains Match the Window: Her hair and eyes both are plum purple in colour.
- Deducing the Secret Identity: She recognized Jackie as Sentinel Sol, due to her having been rescued by her before. She is also able to figure out Akiko's secret identity by process of elimination.
- Heal the Cutie: After a near death experience, she became very withdrawn, leading her father to enrol her in Jackie's boxing lessons which helped her get her confidence back.
- Little Miss Badass: She is the youngest of the cast, but is just as capable as the others especially once she becomes a magical girl.
- Little Miss Snarker: She often teases both Akiko and Jackie for being weird and their lack of social lives.
- Plucky Girl: She is a ball of boundless energy and always optimistic no matter the circumstances.
- Red Boxing Gloves: She is always seen with her signature red boxing gloves.
- Sailor Senshi Send-Up:She seems to be a reference to Chibiusa from Sailor Moon given her hair style and personality.
