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Sweet Enchantments
Heroine
Heroine/Protagonist/Main Character ("MC")
Lucien
Lucien Rivercrest
The pastry chef.- Cheaters Never Prosper: What sent him to Sweet Enchantments in the first place, he was caught using his luck magic to cheat at gambling.
- Defrosting Ice King: Lucien is cold at first, but warms up to the heroine over time to show more of his nice side. By his second season, he shows no sign of his earlier dismissiveness toward her.
- Lonely Rich Kid: A large reason for his cold and perfectionist behavior is having grown up as one of these with parents who looked down on his luck magic.
- The Perfectionist: Tries very hard to do everything perfectly, especially baking. A big part of his route is the heroine showing him passion is important and he doesn’t need to be perfect all the time.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He is aloof and snarky, but can also be friendly in a low-key way. As he defrosts in his route, he shows a kind and gentle side.
- Winds of Destiny, Change!: Lucien specializes in luck magic. He gives the heroine a minor demonstration in his first season by casting a luck-boosting enchantment on her and then challenging her to a game of cards: each of them draws one card, high card wins. When she pulls the higher card on their first draw, he adds the further rule that her points will double each time she pulls a card that's in sequence with her last draw. Despite the heroine shuffling the deck twice, every card she draws after that is exactly one higher than her last card.
Runa
Runa Amberthorne
The waitress.- Abusive Parents: They would use charm magic to control Runa, and after she lashed out at 17 they disowned her completely.
- Charm Person: Runa's specialty is charm magic. Charms make an object or person want to please the spell caster; for example, Runa's turnips are compelled to want to help her, and the desire makes them come to life in order to lend their help. The ethical implications of using such a power on other people are touched upon in Runa's route, as her misuse of charm magic in the past creates most of the conflict of her first season.
- Big Sister Instinct: Has this towards the adorable cinnamon roll Emeril.
- Cool Big Sis: In her route she becomes this to Nysa, as they're kindred spirits of a sort and Runa helps Nysa adjust to the cafe.
- Creating Life: The one part of her charm magic she actually likes considering Creating Life Is Awesome, she explains it works best on things that are already technically living like her turnips.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Runa has a tattoo sleeve covering one arm.
- Framing the Guilty Party: The reason she was sent to Sweet Enchantments in the first place, she was accused of charming the kid of someone important, she didn’t but because of all of the other crimes she got away with, especially what she did to Kamila, she’s reluctant to reopen her case, feeling she deserves what she got and the system is rigged anyway.
- Insult of Endearment: Will often affectionately refer to the heroine as a nerd.
- Meaningful Name: Her last name is Amberthorne, and she has a thorny personality.
- Pet the Dog: In her first season, she shows a soft side by doting on her pet dragon Dante.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Runa has no problem changing or lounging in her underwear in front of the heroine not long after meeting her.
- Shipper on Deck: Is the most supportive of the relationship between Liora and the MC and enjoys teasing them.
- Shoulder-Sized Dragon: Her pet dragon Dante is this size.
- Tsundere: Runa is rude, prickly, and dismissive, but has a softer side under it all that is unused to affection or talking about her feelings and can get easily flustered at times.
Zain
Zain Blackwood
The barista.- Beneath the Mask: Zain is almost perpetually easygoing, pleasant, and humorous. Occasionally, though, the mask slips, and when it does it becomes clear that he's using wit and jokes for deflection to cover a heavy load of inner darkness that he's trying not to let show.
- Black Magic: He is a dark magician. Dark magic revolves around curses, harmful enchantments placed upon others.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His reason for being at Sweet Enchantments is probably the saddest, His sister was married to a man who abused her, but because he was a light magician, no one believed her since light magicians have as good a reputation as dark magicians have bad. In a fit of righteous anger, Zain tried to protect his sister by casting a curse on her husband. He deflected it with a shield and it hit Zain’s beloved niece, causing her to be unable to speak and express emotions and barely able to move.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Zain is friendly and easygoing, and uses his talent for dark magic to aid the cafe's customers by counteracting and mitigating curses cast by others.
- Elemental Motifs: Zain is often associated with storm clouds and twilight by the heroine's narration, tying in with his dark magic, his color scheme, and his mystery.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has long black hair and cutting cheekbones.
- Meaningful Name: His last name is Blackwood, and he specializes in dark magic.
- Plagued by Nightmares: Zain suffers from nightmares, as the heroine discovers in his second season.
- Power Limiter: He wears a ring that limits his dark magic.
- Sweet Tooth: Zain loves sweets. During ten fingers, the heroine can guess that he's gotten sick from eating too many sweets, but he says that sweets could never make him sick. One of his heart scenes has him sneaking away with the heroine to steal Lucien's leftover pastries, and another has him share a secret about himself… which turns out to be that he loves sweets.
- The Sacred Darkness: In Zain's second season, the heroine gets an opportunity to experience what his dark magic is like for him. While she finds it unnerving at first, her perspective soon changes and she sees it as Zain himself does - lonely, but also beautiful and strangely comforting.Zain's Inner Voice: A presence in darkness, a voice in silence, like a cave of shadows, an old house comfortable with its ghosts.
Liora
Liora Skyheart
The boss and owner of Sweet Enchantments.- Benevolent Boss: Liora is a compassionate person who is mindful of each of her staff members' needs and wants them to flourish.
- Brats with Slingshots: Reveals that in her rebellious years she was a crack shot with a slingshot and still has it years later.
- The Chains of Commanding: Liora is accustomed to taking responsibility upon herself and not relying upon anyone else. In her second season, when the heroine picks up Liora's mantle, she is surprised by how heavy it is and the realization that Liora carries that weight on her shoulders every day, an obvious metaphor for Liora's responsibilities.
- Elemental Motifs: Liora is associated with the night sky and moonlit seas, reflecting her serenity and to an extent, her overall color scheme.
- Forgets to Eat: She can get caught up in work and put off eating, not realizing how hungry she is.Liora: For better or worse, I'm good at ignoring my body. When my brain is really busy, sometimes I'll sit for hours without even moving.
- Healing Hands: Liora's affinity for light magic allows her to heal others.
- High-Heel Power: She's an authoritative woman who wears high heels.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Liora is elegantly feminine, and in her youth, when she'd imagine herself as the heroine of her favorite fairy tale, she'd always change the prince to a princess.
- Mystical White Hair: Her pale purple-white hair accentuates her magical nature.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Liora is calm, polite, and elegant, handling tense situations with grace and a quiet authority.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's 5'11", and wears heels on top of that.
- Team Mom: Is this to all her employees, being the oldest, the most mature, and the one everyone goes to for advice for their problems.
- Water Is Womanly: Liora is associated with the moonlit sea and her white hair turns to blue in a gradient, and she is a serene, elegant Lipstick Lesbian.
Roman
Roman Tarrenglade
The chef.- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Roman's specialty is memory magic. He can amplify good memories and soften bad ones, but his route confirms that he can also remove memories entirely.
Emeril
Emeril Everbloom
The hostess.- Alliterative Name: Emeril Everbloom.
- Amateur Sleuth: She thinks of herself as one and would genuinely like to be a real detective.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: Emeril is a lightweight when it comes to alcohol. Apparently, she once got drunk off a single drink, spent the next half hour giggling, and was found asleep in the storage room later.
- Emotion Control: Emeril's magic can change the emotions of other people. She describes it as seeing and changing colors.
- The Empath: Due to her mood magic, she’s able to sense the emotions of those around her.
- Everyone's Baby Sister: Being the youngest of the cast, the only employee who’s not a criminal and cute as a button has made her this with the usually hardened Lucien and Runa both having soft spots for her.
- Survival Mantra: Emeril has a mantra which she and her twin brother used to say to each other when they got in trouble or needed to calm down: "It's not the end of the world, it's just the end of the day."
Spinoff Characters
Heroine
Heroine/Protagonist/Main Character ("MC")
Milo Starlash
Milo Starlash
The tea supplier. Nysa Dawnvale
Nysa Dawnvale
The misfit.Other
Other
Cyril Silverspell
- Caustic Critic: Cyril is the food critic Lucien must impress during his first season. He's stated to be extremely influential to the point that his review could make or break the cafe; he's also arrogant, impatient, and unstinting with his criticism. On the other hand, he's depicted as making valid points about the confections Lucien serves, which are extremely visually appealing but nothing special in terms of flavor. The two also have bad blood between them from the past, and when Cyril realizes Lucien is involved with the cafe at the end of Lucien's first season, he crucifies the cafe in his review purely to spite Lucien.
Kamila Rosenchild
- Freudian Excuse: After learning about Kamila's background and how she's treated by the people in it, the heroine thinks it explains some of her behavior and can't help but feel sorry for her. She doesn't think it excuses her, though.
- Kick the Dog: In her first appearance, Kamila kicks one of Runa's turnip helpers as she exits the cafe.
- Mafia Princess: She's the daughter of the boss of the Blooming Cherry, a criminal group.
- Nice to the Waiter: Kamila quickly establishes herself as a Jerkass by barging in to demand service after the cafe has closed, bulldozing over the heroine and refusing to take no for an answer.
Vallia
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She glares at the heroine at the slightest hint of any affection between her and Lucien.
- Loony Fan: Vallia is the foremost of Lucien's fangirls. She's a little too enthusiastic in her admiration from the beginning, and after Cyril's review goes out in season two she goes off the deep end. She starts to think of herself as a member of the cafe's staff, even barging into the storage room and hanging around after hours. She also becomes more and more hostile toward the heroine at any indication of closeness between her and Lucien, repeatedly interrogating her about their relationship and ignoring the heroine's efforts to convince her that they're not in competition.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: She looks like a cross between a cat and a mantis.
Merik Darkwhisper
- Black Magic: He's a dark magician.
- Break the Haughty: In Zain’s route, after suffering terribly under Axia’s curse, he is grateful to Zain and the heroine for freeing him and becomes a nicer and more humble character afterwards.
- Meaningful Name: He's a dark magician with the surname "Darkwhisper".
- Snake Oil Salesman: Merik acts as a magical version in Zain's second season, running a stall at the Goblin Market where he sells dodgy remedies and protections against curses. Customers suckered by his claims that he's Zain's apprentice find that the magic he's selling tends to, if anything, make their problems worse.
Aristeo Dreamweaver
- Animal Motifs: Peacocks. His coat pattern and necklace look like peacock feathers, and he's compared to a peacock a couple of times.
- Break the Haughty: After Liora saves one of his customers (and him from the crowd's anger over the close call), a harrowed Aristeo admits to her that he's in over his head running a restaurant.
- Proud Peacock: He is an arrogant Smug Snake with a peacock motif.
- Smug Snake: He is an smug schemer whose superficial charm underscores his underhanded intentions. The heroine even calls him the trope name at one point.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Liora saving one of his customers leads to him helping Sweet Enchantments in a time of need (albeit to avoid a potential lawsuit from the customer). He comes out of the experience humbled, grateful, and open to working together with Sweet Enchantments again in the future for mutual benefit.
Elyscia Volalin
- Icy Blue Eyes: Her eyes are noted to be icy in both color and expression.
- Wolf Man: She has the appearance of a humanoid wolf.
Berian Sternfin
- Animal Facial Hair: His whiskers resemble a moustache and beard.
- Fish People: He's an anthropomorphic catfish.
Axia Bloodsparrow
- Big Bad: Of Zain’s route. She is the driving malevolent force in his route.
- Flower Motifs: She has roses and other flowers on her clothing, and her hair braid is studded with black thorns.
- Immortality Seeker: In Zain’s route, seeks to gain eternal life.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: She's a menacing villain named Bloodsparrow.
Igwald Mystrum
- Beast Man: He's an anthropomorphic snail-person.
- Conspiracy Theorist: He writes about his conspiracy theories concerning the magical government and the role of humans in magical society.
- Emotion Control: He's a mood magician. Unlike Emeril, who dislikes her power and the thought of using it to manipulate others, Igwald takes pride in his abilities and often uses them to "grease the wheels" of social interaction.
Bejana Westwillow
- Adaptational Heroism: She’s an ally in Zain’s route and a neutral character in Liora’s.
- Adaptational Villainy: Is the main antagonist in Emeril’s route.
- Emotion Control: She's a mood magician, which is why she was assigned to watch Igwald.
- Friendly Address Privileges: She says to call her "Bee", though neither Emeril nor the heroine take her up on the offer.
- Winged Humanoid: She has insect wings.
