Tropes pertaining to characters from Mille Plagas Mille Mortes Adducite Vos.
Fadrique di Luna, Count of Luna
A young nobleman and officer, who is the illegitimate son of Martin the Younger of Sicily.- Age-Gap Romance: With Ferrando, who is eleven years older than him.
- Aggressive Submissive: To Leonora. She isn't that into it.
- Animal Motifs: Gets compared to small, scuttling creatures, including by Manrico and Leonora.
- Armchair Military: Where the Navy, in which he is technically an admiral, is concerned.
- Cool Horse: Quicksilver, whose parents he selected himself and whose training he was solely responsible for. He's also very protective of him.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Threatens to kill Leonora and Manrico because Leonora is having an affair. Also threatens to kill Ferrando for not telling him when Ferrando tries to talk him down from it.
- Desperately Craves Affection: Justified considering his past
- Disease by Any Other Name: As ADHD hadn't yet been named.
- Freudian Excuse: Was orphaned as a child and essentially raised prior to that to only be a replacement for V— or to find V—.
- Four-Star Badass: Albeit a rather dangerous example.
- Frontline General: He's actually a Captain (and an Admiral despite never having set foot on a ship, as Frederick, Count of Luna was in history) but medieval military ranks topped out here. He would rather be on the battlefield than behind a desk.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Ferrando is this to him. In return, he is this for Ferrando.
- Lover and Beloved: Inverted. Di Luna is younger but his rank puts him in a position of power over Ferrando.
- Missing Mom: His birth mother doesn't want anything much to do with him, and his father's wife is dead.
- Modern Major General: Something of a highly-specific example, and closer to Sir Joseph Porter than Major-General Stanley. He's an Admiral who has never been to sea but a good army officer.
- Oblivious to Love: Doesn't know Ferrando is in love with him, despite him being as obvious as possible about it.
- Officer and a Gentleman: He's an admiral (never mind that he's never actually been at sea), the illegitimate son of a King, and a Count.
- Old-School Chivalry: Although he manipulates it for his own ends. As in the opera he refuses to summon his guards to arrest Manrico because their fight is person.
- Prematurely Grey-Haired: His hair went grey in his early 20s and is now completely silver, not that he seems to mind this.
- Replacement Goldfish: He was born about ten months after V— disappeared.
- Wicked Cultured: Downplayed. He's well-read and musical and can read and write in several languages (which would have been expected of a nobleman in the 15th century) but still screws over other people to get ahead.
Ferrando
Di Luna's Lieutenant.- Age-Gap Romance: With Di Luna, who is eleven years younger than him. Also had a thing with Di Luna's father, who was notably older than him, before Martin died.
- Badass Bureaucrat: Does most of the administrative duties for Di Luna's army regiment, but he's still efficient with a sword.
- Colonel Badass: Or Lieutenant, rather, but this carried similar weight in medieval military to a modern Colonel.
- Cool Horse: Hazel, who was specifically trained with his disabilities in mind.
- Dark and Troubled Past: In a slightly different way to the source material.
- In the source material it's implied that Ferrando found the half-burned body of (supposedly) the infant Manrico (then García) shortly after he was burned. Here, he finds what he thinks is V—'s body several years after the fact.
- Also has burn scars over a lot of the right side of his upper body, as well as being missing an eye.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: Some productions of
the original opera will give Ferrando some sort of physical disability but it's not canonical. - Eyepatch of Power: Justified. Ferrando has seen several years of military service and lost his eye to a cannon backfiring on him.
- First-Name Basis: The only person, aside from his cousin, to call Di Luna by his first name. In return, Di Luna calls him by his first name, while most other people call him either "Di Luna's officer" or (if he outranks them) "sir".
- Lover and Beloved: Inverted with Di Luna, who is a Count (and his boss) and therefore holds power over him rather than the reverse but seemingly played straight with Di Luna's father.
- Powerful People Are Subs: Interestingly, both he and Di Luna are this way. It seems to work for them, though.
- Prematurely Grey-Haired: Not to the same extent as Di Luna, but his hair is still starting to go grey and he's not quite forty years old yet.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: For the most part. He can still be a little abrasive but he generally views the enlisted men with respect.
- Sleeping with the Boss: No less than twice — first with Martin the Younger of Sicily, then with Di Luna. (He did not, however, have a thing with Di Luna's grandmother, but she did value his presence.)
- Southpaw Advantage: His being left handed gives him an advantage in medieval warfare.
- Up Through the Ranks: Started out as an ordinary enlisted man and managed to become Di Luna's dragon.
Leonora
Di Luna's wife and Manrico's lover.Manrico
Leonora's extramarital lover and the thought-dead V—, as in the opera.Ines
Leonora's companion and confidante.Ruiz
Manrico's close friend and lieutenant.- Foil: To Ferrando. He's optimistic, good-natured, even-tempered, friendly, and not to keen on warfare.
Azucena
Manrico's adoptive mother.Ferdinand I of Aragon
The historical King Ferdinand I of Aragon, and Di Luna's older cousin.- Warrior Prince: As is historically accurate. Ferdinand participates in warfare and is also the King.
Eleanor of Alburquerque
The historical Eleanor of Alburquerque, and Ferdinand's wife.Cristoval
Ferrando's squire.- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Ferrando's. Picks up everything Ferrando needs him to do quickly.
Ferrando's Ensign
The Ensign in the platoon that Ferrando commands.- Ensign Newbie: Downplayed. He's younger than Ferrando or Di Luna but he's competent.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Ferrando's, but deliberately chosen to be this by Ferrando.
- No Name Given: Ferrando can't remember his name but doesn't really care to.
