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Lovebrush Chronicles Character Index
Ayn | Alkaid | Lars | Clarence | Cael

Alkaid McGrath/Lu Chen

Voiced by: Zhao Lu (CN), Shinnosuke Tachibana (JP), Kim Myungjun (KR)

Height: 181cm
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Birthday: March 19th
Flower: Lily
Color: Light green

One of the love interests. While his identity and personality may vary across The Multiverse, Alkaid tends to be kindhearted, gentle and pleasant, yet never lacking in strength to protect those he loves.

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General tropes

• Beware the Nice Ones: While Alkaid may appear angelic on the surface, one key feature that all of his counterparts share is a lack of hesitation to commit immoral actions with the right motivation and discard his own humanity to become what he feels is necessary. In a sense, he has always had a dark side to him and simply switches between different masks according to the situation. He is also willing to lie to or create a beautiful illusion for others if it serves his goal, as seen through Eden and Awakening.
  • Despite his aversion to killing, Godheim’s Alkaid creates the opportunity for the MC to stab Asmoran - the bastard that tried to make Alkaid assault her earlier, and he later defeats Asmoran’s unit of mages by himself.
  Alkaid: The only way to get you off our back is to crush you.
  • Modern World’s Alkaid has a strong desire to protect the MC that borders on obsessiveness, much to his Personal Horror. In Awakening, the Bad Future enables his more negative traits and confirms his fear; while he is a Cool Teacher who nurtures humanity’s future most of the time, he’s also a Secret Police who resorts to interrogation, torture, and human experiments in the name of protecting the place where the MC will return to.
• Cosmic Motifs: Alkaid is all about the stars.
  • In the Modern World, he’s an astronomy student with many Affinity events and tidbits relating the night sky. His Awakening chapter even takes place in space.
  • In Godheim, he specializes in Star Power, and his signature scene is him summoning the astral staircases.
  • The first scene in his Eden route is him stargazing on the roof of his house, which reminds the MC of her world’s Alkaid. His Starry Lantern that hosts his strongest, most positive emotions is also an item of great importance to give Eden a happy ending.
• Green Means Natural: His theme color is green, and he’s most notable for his connection to nature.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He has light blonde hair, which gives him a gentle aura resembling starlight.
• Nature Lover: He loves the flora and fauna, and would love not to damage them if possible. Fittingly, he’s the key character for the second world Eden, where gardens and vegetation are widely featured either literally or as metaphors.
• Nice Guy: Alkaid is characterized for being unfailingly pleasant and gentle. Whether or not his demeanor is genuine depends on what world he’s in, however.
• Stellar Name: Alkaid is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and the third brightest in Ursa Major.

Tropes exclusive to Modern World

Senior transfer student, encountered by chance on a journey

"I want to capture the landscapes around you."

Age: 20

A transfer Astronomy major who just moved to St. Shelter Academia in his third year. A gentle young man with strong interest in photography, astronomy, and nature. He and the MC has met once before on a mountainous trip, where she saved his life.

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• The Ace: Alkaid is a handsome Nice Guy who is at the top of his class, hunted by clubs for his prowess in sports, gifted in acting, and originated from a wealthy background.
• Animal Motif: The MC compares him to a bear that can either protect her or cuddle with her whenever needed. As a result, his White Day gift is also a teddy bear.
• The Bartender: O’Connor makes him play this role in St.Shelter Academia Princess Day.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He remembers and grows fond of the MC after she saved his life when he fell unconscious in the remote and snowy mountains. Hilariously, he doesn’t seem to regard Cael on the same level even though Cael was also present at the time.
• Being Watched: The fourth diary entry in his Chrono Theater, written by Observer W - a colleague of his mother, reveals that whenever they started watching him, he would get uncomfortable and tell his parents that he felt like he was constantly being watched. In addition, he would quickly find ways to escape Observer W’s observation, which they view as both commendable and alarming.
• Big Damn Hero: When he was a child, he noticed a waiter spiking the drink of his mother’s friend in a banquet and alerted her in time, saving her from the worst scenario.
• Camera Fiend: Alkaid is an enthusiastic nature photographer and will traverse through extreme conditions for a perfect picture, though this tendency almost costed him his life once. One of his favorite gift is the Photographic Film for his film camera.
• Clark Kent Outfit: He looks thin in his clothes, but his hiking trips and interest in extreme sports gives him a toned build.
• Feather Motif: In the first Halloween event, he dresses up as an angel.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: He owns a Ragdoll cat named Sparkle, who becomes a friend of the MC’s cat.
• Like Father, Like Son: Liore comments that Alkaid is the spitting image of his mother, and they’re both kind souls. They’re also textbook cases of Beware the Nice Ones.
• Master Actor: He becomes a star actor of the Theatre Club in a short time and can perfectly handle the polar opposite roles of the "Rose Elf" and the "Gentleman Agent" in quick succession. Justified because he has gotten used to concealing his true self.
• New Transfer Student: He just transferred to St. Shelter Academia this year and is as unfamiliar with the school as the MC. Both him and his mother are aware that the invitation was sent with an ulterior motive, likely by Cael who wanted to gather the Paragons in one place, but he still convinced her to let him accept it in order to reunite with the MC.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He gives the impression of being simple and gentle, but in reality, he knows all about the MC’s two sudden disappearances and has been constantly watching her while acting like he doesn’t know anything.
• Secretly Wealthy: Unlike Ayn and Lars, his background has never been central in his characterization, and the MC only finds out how prestigious he really is via someone else. His mother is a socialite, his father is a real estate magnate, and they are both acquainted with Liore - a major member of the fashion conglomerate Moirai Group.
• Through His Stomach: He frequently brings the MC cakes and desserts when she’s painting at home, to the point she calls him her "Sweet Knight". When taking her to a festival, he also prepares lunch for her himself.
• Transfer Student Uniforms: Alkaid doesn’t wear the uniform of the Astronomy major, and his default outfit is either his old school’s uniform or just his casual wears.

Tropes exclusive to Godheim

The starlit magus who will always protect you

"May the stars light your way"

Age: 20
Symbol: Stars

A brilliant magus from the Magi Tower and Clarence’s most valued disciple, assigned to the MC as her bodyguard. A honorable and kindhearted man who is too good for a chaotic world like Godheim, he doesn’t approve of sacrificing the MC and secretly offers her help in any way he can.

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• Above the Influence: Inverted since he’s the one accidentally affected by Asmoran’s lust magic instead of the MC; Alkaid remains resolute in staying away from her and even injures himself to keep his clarity.
• The Ace: Alkaid is a member of the Noventrate - the strongest mages of the Magi Tower, who bested everyone in his class and had no equal whether it be in spellcraft, magical theory, control, or combat. He fights off hordes of Glacial Butterflies with accustomed ease, admits to the MC that no one in the entire palace could put a spell on him except Clarence, and manages to finish the world-level Descendance Ritual on his own when no one else is up to the job, albeit as an Imperfect Ritual. As his backstory reveals, he manifested magic before he drank the potion that would make him a mage. Even when Brought Down to Normal, his knowledge of magic, potions, and medicine far surpasses that of even the most experienced layperson.
• An Ice Person: As Clarence’s student, Alkaid also knows ice and snow magic. He can creates things from ice, and makes an ice dagger for the MC to stab Asmoran with in dire situation.
• Battle Butler: While he’s meant to be her bodyguard, Alkaid has been serving the MC in ways resembling a butler: from serving her meal to accompanying her on trips outside of the palace.
• Big Brother Instinct: He loves his sister Ehlonna dearly and only wants to provide her a happy life. To protect her is his original desire to become a mage, and Clarence commented that he would give his own life if it meant his sister’s salvation.
• Bodyguard Crush: After spending time with the MC as her bodyguard, Alkaid begins to develop affection for her and grows even more determined to protect her than he already is.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: The MC is capable of defending herself with the power of Illustra, but the risk of Cover-Blowing Superpower makes her reliant on Alkaid for protection most of the time.
• Brought Down to Normal: At the end of his route, Alkaid exhausted all of his magic power to summon the astral staircase and turned back into a normal human, which allowed him to survive the Descendance Ritual. In Godheim’s true ending, he and all the mages lose their magic once the Glacial Butterflies, the source of their power, departed from the world along with Clarence.
• Brutal Honesty: In Clarence’s route, Alkaid offhandedly calls the man out for acting callous and heartless, and reaffirms how kind the MC is compared to this cruel world at the same time.
  Alkaid: [MC] has a mixture of compassion and determination that I have never seen even in the strongest individuals in Godheim, including you.
• Chekhov's Skill: Alkaid’s ability to summon the astral staircases is initially to serve a romantic moment, but it becomes crucial for activating the Descendance Zisurru without bloodshed.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He and his sister were orphans who lived in the slums, and soon struck up a companionship with Zack. After Zack told him that he might be gifted to be a mage, the three of them saved their money in hopes of convincing the mages to take Alkaid in as an apprentice and open the chance for a better life for them. However, Alkaid was robbed and ridiculed for his lack of talent by a mage, which caused him to be too ashamed to face Zack and took Ehlonna to ran away from their shared hovel. They were almost frozen to death on the street when they were founded by Clarence, who initially took only Ehlonna with him until he sensed intense desire and potential from Alkaid.
• Defector from Decadence: He has been helping the MC in his capacity behind everyone’s back because he believes she shouldn’t be killed for a world she doesn’t even have any tie with. In his route, he finally betrays the Magi Tower and escapes the palace with the MC after Asmoran forced her into revealing her Illustra power, which would cause her to be imprisoned indefinitely.
• Determinator: As one of the strongest mages in Godheim, Alkaid possesses unmatched desire and willpower that allows him to bounce back from a Near-Death Experience and continue assisting the MC in her goal.
• Due to the Dead: After the events of Godheim, even though they no longer have a physical body to be buried, he builds tombstones for Clarence and Amelia under the maple and tangerine tree respectively. He doesn’t do it for Ehlonna because she told him she didn't need it, for she would be the light.
• Exposed to the Elements: He doesn’t need to cover up even in the freezing cold of Godheim because he can use magic to keep himself warm.
• Forced Sleep: His main means of incapacitating the enemies. He also uses this on Ayn in the latter’s route to bring him out of the Imperial City on Lars’ command.
• Heroic RRoD: He exerts all of his life forces to protect the MC from Asmoran and his fellow mages, which almost turns him into a Glacial Butterfly.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In one ending, Alkaid will shoulder all responsibilities for the MC’s attempted escape from the palace, which causes him to be imprisoned in ice forever.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Despite his prowess, Alkaid has always been down on himself, never taking credit for anything he's accomplished or acknowledging the talent he possesses. He also keeps blaming himself for any plight that befalls the MC or Ehlonna even when none of them are his fault.
  Alkaid: I regret not preventing Ehlonna's death. I regret having you be responsible for saving this world. I regret not working harder to learn magic, and I regret not being able to protect you.
• Heroic Willpower: His noble yet intense desire to protect the MC allows him to resist transforming into a Glacial Butterfly and return to normal.
• Honor Before Reason: Even when his world itself is on the line, he feels that sacrificing the MC for a world she has no relation to is unjustified. His sense of honor makes him the only person in Godheim who wants the MC to live since the beginning, and he treats her with so much respect that he apologized for being upset after his beloved sister was sacrificed to summon her.
• Humble Goal: If he didn’t have to become a mage, his dream were to open a herb shop.
• I Should Write a Book About This: After the events of Godheim, he mentions to the MC that he wants to write a biography on Clarence to make the latter’s silent sacrifices be known and appreciated.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: No matter the amount of sufferings he has undergone in both the past and the present, Alkaid remains kind, honorable and wants to resolve everything the peaceful way. The desire to protect has always been his source of power and stays untainted in spite of frivolous temptations and the corrupted environment of the Magical Society.
• Lady and Knight: He’s the Knight to the MC’s Lady. His kindness, sense of honor, courteous demeanor and devotion to her safety with little regard to his own is identical to a typical Knight in Shining Armor, and his profession is the only thing that prevents him from being qualified for the trope.
• Last of His Kind: In his route’s True Ending, Alkaid becomes the only surviving mage in the new world while every other mages died with Godheim.
• Light 'em Up: With light magic, Alkaid can manipulate the refraction of light and control what others nearby can see, enabling illusions and invisibility.
• Light Is Good: Alkaid mostly dresses in white, has blonde hair, and primarily wields light magic and star magic. It’s expectable that he’s the Token Good Teammate of the rooster.
• Loophole Abuse: The reason why his plan to replace the source of energy for the Descendance Ritual works: the Zisurru needs intense emotions on the level of the desperation thousands of people feel on the verge of death, but it never specified that people must die to achieve that goal. By forming the astral stairways, he evokes the overwhelming surprise and excitement from the rebels - desperate people driven into a corner - when the stars lift them up and offer them an escape, which collectively will be more than enough to open a portal between worlds.
• Master of Illusion: In Seasonal Hunt, Alkaid demonstrates his ability to create animal illusions so realistic that it got the MC fooled, and utilizes them to perform magic tricks in the market.
• Rags to Riches: He went from a Street Urchin to a member of the Noventrate, the most elite mages in Godheim. However, he uses all the wealth he has to help the poor and barely leaves anything for himself.
• Star Power: He can draw power from the stars and give it a concrete form, like how he created the astral staircases.
• Take the Third Option:
  • In his route, as the Daphnephoria is approaching, Alkaid has to decide between sacrificing the MC/100,000 people for his world or letting her go at the cost of his world. He then realizes that the Descendance Ritual doesn’t necessarily require negative emotion to activate, so he abuses the hell out of the loophole by organizing a situation that inspires joy and hope to even the most desperate of people and using those emotions in place of the MC’s. It works, and he manages to save botn the MC and the people of Godheim.
  • When Lars asked him to hunt the ingredients for the banquet so that he will be pressured into taking the competition seriously in Seasonal Hunt, instead of complying (which is against his love for nature) or refusing the emperor (which isn’t a wise thing to do), Alkaid simply decides to purchase the ingredients from a market after the hunt.
• Taking the Bullet: He shields the MC from all of Clarence’s attacks with his own body when the latter found out the pair was trying to run away from the castle.
• Taking Up the Mantle: After Clarence’s Heroic Sacrifice, Alkaid assumes control of the Magi Tower and becomes the leader to the mages who have chosen to remain behind in the Tower to research and pass on the runic knowledge that Clarence left behind in hope that it can be used for the benefit of the people. He even literally changes his mantle to one similar to what Clarence wears.
• Thou Shall Not Kill: Even in extreme situations where his and the MC’s life are on the line, Alkaid always restrains his spells so that they will stop at knocking his enemies unconscious, and the MC can recognize his magic with a single glance because it does not kill no matter what.
  As far as the eye could see, everyone falls asleep and collapses to the ground. Whoever my mysterious savior is, they're at least kind enough not to use lethal force.
  It must be someone fully capable of ending another person's life, yet consciously choosing to hold back in order to spare them...
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In the prologue timeline and its affiliated Illustra "Cage of Thorns", Godheim’s Alkaid takes on a much more intimidating and controlling attitude towards the MC to show the toll of committing a sin against another world for the sake of his own has on him.
• Token Good Teammate: Of the five male leads in Godheim, Alkaid is the kindest, most morally upright, and the only one to stays as the MC’s ally since the very beginning and in all routes. Among the Noventrate, he and his sister stand out as the only members who didn’t gain their power from sins and selfish desires.
  • Compared to his own counterparts, Godheim’s Alkaid’s darker side doesn’t receive too much focus and the player only gets a deep dive into his psyche at that time in the SR Illustra "Cage of Thorns".
• Unconscious Objector: Even when he has passed out after shielding the MC from Clarence, he’s still capable of protecting her from the Inquisitors using Forced Sleep.
• Unwitting Pawn: In Ayn’s route, Ayn fabricated a story about how Alkaid lost control of his power and failed his mission to protect the Goddess to cut off the Magi Tower’s interference and create the opportunity for him and the MC to interact openly.
• Utility Magic: He knows several trivial spells, such as one that keeps the snow from falling onto him and another that makes flower grow in the snow.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In the Illustra "Cage of Thorns" that takes place after the MC’s first voyage, Alkaid displays an attitude that is suspiciously similar to Cael’s in regards to the MC: he just wants to protect her, but makes a choice that goes against what she stands for and ends up hurting her. Although she understands why he did it, the MC is not happy with his decision to let the people of Godheim take over their Modern World counterpart.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the first voyage, when the Descendance Ritual failed, Alkaid managed to achieve an alternative: instead of transporting everyone to a new world devoid of inhabitants as planned, he only transported a select few people into the Real World by letting them take over their Modern World counterpart. He only made that choice because the price was significantly cheaper and there was no other option, but the MC is still angry about what he did to the people of her world, especially those she is personally acquainted with.
• You Remind Me of X: His kindness and pure desire to protect reminds Clarence of himself, before time and sufferings wore his heart down.

Tropes exclusive to Eden

Mysterious youth of the garden

"I’d like to be with you for the time before the countdown ends."

Keyword: White rose

A gentle and mysterious young man who leads an idlic and solitary life in Eden, tending to his beloved Misty Garden. Everything about him is discordant with the conflict-torn Eden. He doesn’t seem to be a NEOS but possesses unimaginable power, and no one feels safe around him.

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• Abduction Is Love: He seems to believe that inviting the MC to his house and brainwashing her is the only way to get her to "love" him.
• Abhorrent Admirer: He appears as a handsome gentleman who wants to become friends with the MC, but his dissonance with Eden as a whole alerts her. His cruelty and persistence in trying to monopolize her only makes their distance grow further until she gets to know his true self.
• Affably Evil: Despite committing heinous acts like turning a supposed oasis for the desperate into a battleground far more brutal than even the desert, sowing fear and distrust among the NEOS to make them turn on each other, letting his monsters slaughter everyone, and destroying other worlds to save his own, Alkaid is always calm, polite, and seems detached from the cruel reality. The MC is taken aback several times when she juxtaposes his innocent face to the all the sufferings that happened in Eden.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Even though she viewed him as an cruel and despicable man, the MC still recognizes the faint traces of humanity and the desperation he displays before his death and expresses pity for it.
• The Aloner: His penalty as a NEOS is to live in isolation and rot alone. Prefect Luminary makes sure it happens by driving everyone against and away from him, and manipulating him into believing that he doesn’t deserve love.
• Arc Villain: He’s the incumbent Master of Eden, and the one responsible for all the conflict and chaos in Eden.
• The Beastmaster: As the Master of Eden, he has full control over the Lost and the Fallen.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He loves the MC because she responded to his plea for help years ago, and falls for her further when she treats him like a human in his route. For the same reason, he also sees Lars as his Family of Choice and gives the latter many privileges in Eden despite their falling-out.
• Beehive Barrier: He can put up a yellow transparent one that blocks bullets and fire from Ayn.
• Better as Friends: In the epilogue "Reunion of Friends", he and the MC becomes friends despite their previous romance because Alkaid has lost his love along with his emotions and the MC doesn’t want to bind herself to Eden.
• Better with Non-Human Company: He unironically sees the Lost as his "friends" and reacts negatively when they’re taken from his control.
• Cannot Kill Their Loved Ones: The voice in Alkaid’s head keeps urging him to kill the MC since she has become a threat to his plan, but he doesn’t go through with it because he genuinely loves her and sees her as his beacon. Even when his evil side takes over and strangles her, Alkaid still tries to wrestle back for control to stop himself and is apologetic about the ordeal afterwards.
• Caring Gardener: Zigzagged; Alkaid serenely tends to his garden everyday while letting his monsters kill everyone outside of it, making him seem like a subversion of the trope. However, knowing him for a longer time reveals that he is a genuinely caring man who happens to love Eden itself more than its inhabitants and can sometimes be generous with the humans he despises by sharing his resources with them.
• Control Freak: Although she’s not affiliated with him by any means, Alkaid is possessive of the MC and isn’t happy when she rejects his advances in favor of someone else.
• The Corruption: Prefect Luminary manipulated the situations to foster hatred for humanity in Alkaid and keeps poisoning his mind that no one will love him and he can only rot away in solitude. When Alkaid uses his love for the MC as his mental anchor, the Prefect tries to warp it into an unhealthy obsession to drive her away from him in hope that it would break Alkaid, resulting in his unsettling Mood Swing.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: His first reaction to the MC refusing to go with him is to consider removing her friends and companions in the route out of the scene, then sending monsters to attack them to pressure her.
• Deal with the Devil: Alkaid’s intense emotions as he prayed for help during the Armageddon Era caught the attention of Prefect Luminary, who approached him and posed as a helpful Spirit Advisor to gradually gain control over him and enacted his plan to destroy the world.
• Demonic Possession: At the cost of gaining control over Eden, Alkaid let a kind of consciousness he simply called "it" enter and be buried deep within his subconscious. It guided Alkaid into completing many impossible things for the survival of Eden, but is also affecting his behavior, warping his true nature into something dark and sinister, and can even take over his body for a short period of time to do things that Alkaid himself doesn’t want to. It then turns out that this consciousness is Prefect Luminary, his counterpart in the Infinite Empire.
• Depower: With Prefect Luminary no longer inhabiting his body and taking his emotions with him, Alkaid goes from the closest to a Physical God of the old Eden to an ordinary man in the new Eden.
• Dissonant Laughter: In Lars’ route, when the MC asks him what will happen once the countdown ends after mortally wounding him, he lets out a chuckle described as a mix of gleeful malice and an indescribable bitterness.
• Dissonant Serenity: His life is this compared to Eden as a whole. He dresses formally, lives in an elegant house surrounded by a lush garden, and spends his time gardening while everyone struggles for their survival and can’t even afford foods.
• Dying Alone: In the true ending of routes other than his own, he will be killed by the combined efforts of the MC and her companion. Seeing them trusted each other with their lives and succeeded with their goal together evidently fills him with bitterness and sorrow as he withers alone with no one mourning him.
• Empty Shell:
  • When Lars tries to read Alkaid’s memory near the end of the former’s route, he finds out he can’t see anything in him. At this point, Alkaid has also lost all semblances of strength and emotion, and can only mutter monotonous apologies before he dies.
  Admiration and envy, regret and remorse, and perhaps even a helpless sadness and love... Various emotions burn bright like fireworks in his eyes, finally fading away completely, like a dead solitary star in the universe.
  • At the end of his route, Alkaid loses all of his emotions to Prefect Luminary as the cost for creating a new world.
• Endearingly Dorky: In Eden Reborn, Alkaid has some moments of awkwardness due to being in solitude for a long time and thus lacking in social skills. For example, he thinks it’s okay to be dragged down the river by the MC because they would fall into the water together, and happily announces out of the blue that he’s the architect of the amusement park to the park’s staff, who clearly doesn’t know what to do with that information. The MC squeals over him all the same.
  Alkaid: I didn't... scare you, did I?
  MC: No... I think you're being very cute.
  Alkaid: Cute? Your definition of "cute" is rather unique...
• Fighting from the Inside: Alkaid has been resisting the voice in his head since it made him destroy Lars’ world, though the struggle becomes more evident recently as Alkaid is nearing his limit and the psychological attacks from Prefect Luminary grow relentless.
• Gilded Cage: He tries to put the MC in this several times by inviting her to his home and wiping her memory. When he succeeds, she leads the same idle life as him and remains ignorant of the reality beyond the barrier of mist that surrounds his garden.
• Heel–Face Turn: After Prefect Luminary is outed and loses his control over Alkaid, Alkaid no longer wants to antagonize the NEOS and is even willing to do a Heroic Sacrifice in atonement, though thankfully he’s stopped in time. He then joins forces with other Paragons and plays a critical role in freeing Eden from its doom and Prefect Luminary’s control.
• Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of his route, he relinquishes his emotions to Prefect Luminary to remove the Prefect’s control over Eden at the cost of becoming an Empty Shell and potentially having a Death of Personality, though not before using everything he has to create a new Eden.
• Humans Are Bastards: He sees humanity as despicable creatures whose a cruel and selfish nature will never change, and doesn’t believe in the ties between humans. He was once betrayed by humans, who took all of his supplies and trapped him in an underground bunker when he tried to gather people for an expedition to reach beyond the desert, causing him to lose faith in humanity.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: His proposal for "Time for Love" despite the disadvantages aimed at him shows his desire to be loved after growing up in loneliness, hatred, and corruption. He reacts with a childlike anticipation when the MC agrees and is grateful that she doesn’t use his love for her against him (it doesn’t end nicely if she does), though the voice in his head keeps capitalizing on this to warp his mind.
• Improbable Age: He created the pulse cannon and built Eden at an evidently young age thanks to being guided by Prefect Luminary.
• Kid Amid the Chaos: In the vision the MC gets while on Earth, Alkaid appears as a desperate child who is crying and shouting for help in the middle of a burning ruins.
• Love Redeems: His pure love for the MC and her love for him in return help him resist Prefect Luminary’s influence and enable his Heel–Face Turn.
• MacGuffin Super-Person: He has extremely powerful emotions that makes him the closest to a Physical God in Eden thanks to Prefect Luminary’s guidance, and the Prefect’s main goal is to get those emotions for himself.
• Memory Wipe Exploitation: After the MC has her memory wiped, he keeps her in his home without any struggle and they spend their life together in the Gilded Cage, unbothered by the outside world.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Despite being a human himself, Alkaid sees no problem with letting the NEOS kill each other and be slaughtered by the Lost.
• Mood Swing: Alkaid constantly swings back and forth between being an ingenuous gentleman and a callous and erratic Control Freak.
• No Body Left Behind: When he dies, his body turns into glowing particles, and the only thing he leaves behind are shards of soul stones.
• Ominous Fog: His arrival is heralded by a strange fog. His home, the Misty Garden, is also hidden away by a barrier of fog.
• The Penance: In his route, after locating the hatred of Lars’ world, Alkaid has to accept, bear, and alleviate it all so that he can pass the test to create a new world.
• Pet the Dog: Although he claims to have lost all hope in humanity, sometimes he still secretly gives away some of the food and machines produced by Central Control to help them survive.
• Psychopathic Manchild: The MC compares him to a child very often. Normally, he seems pure, innocent, and has a childlike aura when he smiles or gets confused, but still it creeps the MC out. As soon as things don’t go his way, his reaction is akin to a child whose toy has been taken away but cranked up to eleven: he loses all signs of reasoning and throws a tantrum by siccing murderous monsters on people or emotionally tormenting them. This is what happens when one has been actively corrupted and forced to do unsavory things since he was a child.
• Redemption Equals Affliction: Although he successfully has a Heel–Face Turn and saves his world, Alkaid has to pay with his emotions, leaving him as an Empty Shell for possibly the rest of his life. Thankfully, the MC’s love and/or living in a kinder world helps him regain the ability to feel, even when it takes time.
• The Reveal: Halfway through his route, it’s revealed that Alkaid’s evil actions aren’t a product of his own will – he has been suffering from The Corruption by a voice in his head that he gained after a Deal with the Devil.
• Revenge by Proxy: He gets back at Ayn for imprisoning his monsters by turning some members of the Order into the Lost. This successfully pushes Ayn near the Despair Event Horizon, if not for the MC dragging him back.
• Romantic Fake–Real Turn: He asks the MC to be girlfriend during the Safe Period for three days in return for revealing everything he knows to her in the last day, and calls it "Time for Love".
• Sanity Slippage: Alkaid wasn’t always a Psychopathic Manchild, but Prefect Luminary’s manipulation evidently gets to him.
• Sinister Suffocation: After mistaking the MC for working with Ayn behind his back and betraying him, he pins her to the ground and strangles her with both hands, showing that his evil side is winning over. However, the MC comments that he is the one who looks like he's about to cry, and before she could pass out, Alkaid manages to regain control and lets her go.
• Slipping a Mickey: The tea he invites the MC will put her in a deep sleep, and when she wakes up, she will lose her memory.
• The Social Darwinist: He provokes the NEOS into fighting each other and sicks the Lost on them as some sort of "selection" so that only the strongest may stay in Eden. This selection is meant to filter out potential successors for the "Master of Eden" position, while the weaker NEOS who got mutated can still serve his goal by expanding his army of Lost Ones.
• Something about a Rose: Instead of lilies, Eden’s Alkaid is more associated with roses. His keyword is "white rose", he brings the MC a basket of rose as a gift when he approaches her the first time, and in endings where she’s trapped in his home, the MC is often pruning the roses, leading to metaphors about her current situation.
• Tea Is Classy: He always invites the MC a cup of floral tea every time she visits his home, which seems in character for a gentleman like him. It is spiked.
• Tragic Villain: At first, Alkaid totally creeps the MC out because of his cruelty and Yandere tendencies, but as the arc goes on it’s gradually revealed how deeply broken and tormented he is. He was once a helpless child stuck in an apocalypse who made a Deal with the Devil to save his world, and was actively manipulated and corrupted into hating humanity, being hated in return, and committing acts of evil for the sake of sustaining Eden. While he clings into his love for the MC to keep his mind afloat, the Sanity Slippage causes him to behave erratically and drive her away, and eventually he’s so mentally broken that he becomes an Empty Shell who dies alone while seeing the MC siding with someone else.
• Tranquil Fury: Alkaid is stationary and barely raises his voice when he gets angry. In fact, he sounds more whispery the more unstable he becomes, until he can only mumble in his throat.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Although he was a child at the time, thanks to the Spirit Advisor in his head, he was capable of building the world-destroying pulse cannon, (unintentionally) destroying Lars’ world, and initiating the mutation of NEOS to turn them into his private army against the Sandswimmers.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: When he first fired the pulse cannon per Prefect Luminary’s instructions, he was unaware of what it was meant to do and was horrified when he found out he destroyed Lars’ world. The guilt caused him to revive Lars in Eden despite the risk Lars could pose to his goal.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: He wants to protect his world and maintains the utopia he dreams of, conventional morality to be damned.
• Villain in a White Suit: His elegant white suit makes him stick out like a sore thumb among the dystopian Desert Punk settings of Eden.
• Villain Takes an Interest: Alkaid appears to have taken a liking to the MC since her first step into Eden, and persistently tries to invite her into his Gilded Cage or even passes down his position to her. His interest in the MC actually starts before his descent into villainy, when she first responded to his call.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He has been destroying worlds to use their energy to keep his own world alive, and gathers the Lost under his control to fight back the Sandswimmers.
• What You Are in the Dark: Near the end of his route, the MC’s existence is deemed dangerous to Eden's fusion and rebirth that Alkaid is supposed to guide because he can't bear to face the future and lose his feelings for her, and she’s even shown a vision that he may give up on everything to create a world for just the two of them and brainwash her with his tea into going along with this situation. However, when they truly meet afterwards, Alkaid is actually accepting of his fate and resists his evil urges which the Spirits of Chaos did absorb from him, and the MC responds to him with absolute trust in return.
• Yandere: Alkaid is controlling towards the MC, has been observing her since she first stepped into Eden, and masks his unsettling behaviors with romantic actions and sweet words. As the Master of Eden, he feels entitled to eliminate others if they get in the way of his "relationship" with her, and not even the MC herself is safe from his scorn when he mistakes her for betraying him. This is a result of his Sanity Slippage caused by Prefect Luminary’s corruption.

Tropes exclusive to Awakening Chapter

Navigator to the future in the sea of stars

"A night with you by my side is bound to be a beautiful dream."

In a Bad Future of the Modern World, the Earth was doomed by the invasion of extraterrestrials and a small group of humans were chosen to board a spaceship and go on an endless interstellar voyage in an attempt to preserve humanity - which was called "Project Exile". As a part of the project, Alkaid becomes a military instructor and trains the next generation to take up their mantle.

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• Coat Cape: As the Supervisor, he wears a longcoat on his shoulders over his usual uniform.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: He punishes students by making them cultivate a seed because those students made mistakes out of carelessness and taking care of a plant teaches them patience.
• Cool Teacher: Cool and Unusual Punishment aside, he’s a beloved teacher who tries to be understanding to his students, created the stargazing room to help them relax, and even uses Motivational Lie so that their mind can mature normally in a restrictive environment like the spaceship.
• I Have Your Wife: When Alkaid and the MC are having a moment together in space after giving the students guidance in the ceremonial activity called Drifting in Zero Gravity, the MC is suddenly kidnapped via Space Rescue System which transports her to a hidden location with a powerful magnetic force, and the kidnapper demands Alkaid to give them the password for the confidential document No. 77815 in exchange for her safety. Alkaid plays along and gives the MC enough time to overpower the kidnapper, knowing she wouldn’t get hurt easily.
• Lying to Protect Your Feelings: He designates document No. 77815, which contains the work assignments of graduates, as highly confidential because he wants to keep the Awful Truth that their entire life will be decided by a single grade from them and give them a false sense of control, a feeling that they had the freedom to choose their own careers.
  These students are still young. Too young to face their own powerlessness in this system. Too young to bear the full burden of humanity's struggle for survival.
• More than Just a Teacher: His day job is being the instructor of a military school on the spaceship. Away from the public’s eyes, he becomes the Supervisor who protects the ship from the shadow.
• Motivational Lie: He puts man-made footages of the starlit sky in the stargazing room’s windows and wrote Clause 47 of Human Space Travel Program law, which requires adults to ensure that children know as little about the realities of space as possible until they reach adulthood and join the workforce, in order to keep them hopeful and curious about a vast and brilliant universe, since Alkaid is all too aware that the endless darkness can easily crush their spirit with hopelessness.
• Mythical Motifs: The Ascension Illustration of his associated Illustra "Edge of the Abyss" features a statue of Justitia, the Goddess of Justice. It symbolizes how he and his fellow Supervisors are the Judge, Jury, and Executioner in regard to anyone and anything they deem a threat to the human fleet.
• Officer and a Gentleman: He’s a military officer assigned with educating the next generations of the spaceship’s personnel, but it doesn’t make him lose his gentleness and courtesy.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: A student of his named Celie kidnaps the MC to force him to change her grade out of desperation to be with her boyfriend after graduation (students are assigned to different ships and positions based on their grade; because she is a honor student and her boyfriend is only average in classes, they may never get to see each other again). While this action would warrant harsh punishment, he and the MC understand her feelings and decide to help her by giving her an Unishment so that the young lovers can be together.
• Secret Police: His second job on the spaceship is being the Supervisor, who works in the dark to ensure that Project Exile can continue by any means necessary. With that goal in mind, he allows imprisonment, torture, and human experiment on "mentally contaminated" individuals to learn how to deal with the looming threat effectively.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: All of his actions are motivated by the desire to make sure the fleet is safe so the MC always has a place to return to after battles.

Tropes exclusive to Infinite Empire (Spoilers unmarked for Eden)

Prefect Luminary

An agent from the Infinite Empire, code name "Prefect Luminary".

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• Affably Evil: He talks in a calm and polite manner expected of an Alkaid’s counterpart, but is a vicious manipulator who makes Cael look like a saint in comparison.
• Art Evolution: When he first appeared in Eden, he was in a slightly different pose and wore an outfit nearly identical to Cael’s Prefect uniform. His official sprite as a love interest when the Infinite Empire comes out makes his outfit much more unique and overall has an improved production quality.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In the true ending of Alkaid’s Eden route, Prefect Luminary still gets what he wants: the original Eden is still destroyed, and he now owns Alkaid’s emotions which gives him great power over other Prefects.
• The Chessmaster: Through Eden’s Alkaid, he sets up Eden’s downfall by turning humans on one another while also utilizing what it can provide when it still stands to create his unique weapon and forcing Eden’s Alkaid to dirty his hand for him.
• Dream Weaver: In Cael’s "Sprout" Illustra, Prefect Luminary takes advantage of the MC’s cluelessness to her Dream Walker ability to lure her into a dream realm of his own making and traps her consciousness in there so that she will be subjugated and become his power.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He appears in Eden long before his own world as a Greater-Scope Villain.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
• Evil Sounds Deep: He has a jarringly deeper voice compared to other Alkaid’s counterparts, highlighting how different he is compared to the Alkaid we know.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": As a counterpart of Alkaid in the Infinite Empire, his real name is likely also "Alkaid McGrath", but everyone prefers to call him by his title and codename "Prefect Luminary" to differentiate him from Eden’s Alkaid.
• Greater-Scope Villain: While Eden’s Alkaid serves as the Arc Villain in Eden, Prefect Luminary is the one actually responsible for Alkaid’s villainy and wishes for the destruction of both Eden and Earth.
• The Man Behind the Man: Under the guise of his Spirit Advisor, he has been using Eden’s Alkaid as his puppet in Eden and manipulating him into doing things as he wills.
• Orcus on His Throne: Because he isn’t a Dimensional Traveler, Eden’s Alkaid was his sole means of interaction with Eden and when the guy rebelled against him, he could only try to gain his control over Alkaid back to make him stop the heroes for him.
• Spirit Advisor: A malicious one, but he does play this role for Eden’s Alkaid for a long time.
• Villain Takes an Interest: He also takes interest in the MC because of how rare a newly born Traveler is nowadays and wants to gain full control of her power, either through servitude or directly.
  Prefect Luminary: Still, for some reason, I'm constantly thinking of her. I want her at my side.
• Walking Spoiler: The Reveal of his existence and relationship with Eden’s Alkaid is one of the pinnacle moments of Eden.
• Would Hurt a Child: He has been manipulating and corrupting Eden’s Alkaid since the latter was a helpless child.
• Yandere: He traps the MC in a dream once in an effort to make her serve him, and when she refuses, he leaves her to rot in the dream realm to take over her power after she dies. Although she manages to escape, he still repeatedly threatens Cael into giving the MC to him and proclaims that he will gain ownership over her as soon as he finds her, prompting Cael to distance himself from the MC in fear that his connection to her will reveal her location to Prefect Luminary.
  Prefect Luminary: This is a warning. The moment I see her... she's mine.

Tropes exclusive to Non-Main Story Events

Books of Tales

The Nightingale

"Madam Witch, please tell me... What is love like?"

A projection of the MC’s subconscious in the dream realm, taking the form of Alkaid combined with the Nightingale in "The Nightingale and the Rosé" by Oscar Wilde. In the epilogue, the consciousness of Modern World’s Alkaid overtakes it.

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• Feather Flechettes: He shoots snow white feathers from his hands to take down the attacking nightingales in one elegant swoop.
• Healing Hands: By emitting a glow from his hands, he can heal both the nightingales knocked unconscious by him in self-defense and the MC’s hands after she’s injured stopping him from getting stabbed.
• Made O' Gold: The yellow roses in his garden are actually made of gold, signifying the unrealistic nature of the dream realm.
• Major Injury Underreaction: He doesn’t react at all when the thorny vines take control over his arm and force him to stab the rose into his chest where his heart is supposed to be. The MC has to forcefully yank the vines out of his arm to stop him, and even then he still doesn’t think it’s too much of a problem if he can give her the red rose she needs.
• The Tragic Rose: In the original tale, the red rose dyed with the Nightingale’s blood embodied a Senseless Sacrifice and a cynical interpretation of love.
• The Unfettered: The Nightingale’s "curse of destiny" when combined with Alkaid’s unconditional devotion to the MC becomes the willingness to stab his own heart without a second thought and dye the rose with his blood just so he can give her the red rose she’s seeking.
  Alkaid: I'm not scared of pain. If a red rose is what you want, then I will do all that I can to give it to you.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: This Alkaid lacks knowledge on love and seems to believe that "love" equals Love Martyr and All Take and No Give due to the original tale’s influence, hence why he will readily injure himself for the MC. The MC then explains to him that’s not how love works and ends the curse on him, turning the rose red at the same time.
• Winged Humanoid: Not normally, but when he concentrates, he can grow functional bird wings on his back and take the MC on a flight.