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Characters in The Morrigan. Beware some unmarked spoilers for the first and second book

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Dawn of Fold

In the last year, the formerly minor terrorist group Dawn of Fold has grown into a nation in its own right, liberating Earth from the oppression of space.

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Famed In-Story: All of them are of course known as prominent Dawn of Fold members. Felsi and Chuchu in particular have reached minor folkhero status among the Earth-born citizens of the CAUL, both as a sign of unification between Earth and Space, and as simply a dramatic love story.
Family of Choice: The Morrigan considers anyone who makes her loved ones happy to be her family too, so Chuchu and Felsi are as much her family as Sabina and Nika, and so are Chuchu's dads by association. In chapter 51, Felsi also calls them her family, saying that they treat her much better than her biological family ever did.
Happily Married: Nika and Sabina are married and love each other deeply. Chuchu and Felsi haven't tied the knot quite yet, but Felsi has said she wants to at some point.
Lethal Chef: Word of God is that all of them are pretty rubbish chefs, for reasons varying from never having taken an interest in it, to having had all their cooking done for them by servants, to being a giant robot that doesn't eat.
The Most Wanted: Due to being the leadership and inner circle of someone they view as a terrorist organization, the SAL have rather high bounties on the heads of all four of them, with Chuchu and Felsi getting a little extra for being defectors.
Odd Friendship: Between Felsi, the hot-blooded daughter of wealthy spacians, and Sabina, an Ice Queen Earthian freedom fighter. Once Felsi defects, the two of them find themselves becoming best friends very quickly
Psychic Link: While piloting the Morrigan, Sabina and Nika seem to be practically psychich in how well they can understand each other. Morrigan herself also feels it, describing her movements as not being her or Sabina but both at once. It later gets to the point where Nika can always tell where Morrigan is even without seeing her.
Rank Up:
- Nika goes from Captain to General at the end of book 1, as a result of her father dying and she being next in line for leader of the Dawn of Fold. Sabina is promoted as a result, going from Lieutenant to Captain.
- Chuchu and Felsi's ranks are a bit more unclear, but when they first join the Dawn of Fold they have little authority and are kept on a short leash to make sure they're not Fake Defectors. By book three, both are high-ranking members of the Dawn of Fold's leadership.
Secret Handshake: Felsi and Sabina develop one once the former defects to Dawn of Fold. They perform it with their mobile suits, and drag their reluctant partners into it.
Synchronization: When they use the Morrigan's GUND format together, Nika and Sabina are so intermingled that they can barely tell where one ends and the other begins, and feel each others' pain and sensations. This seems to have been strongest the first time in the Lfrith-Ur, and lessened with time and as they perfected the Morrigan's systems.
True Companions: They slowly develop into this over the course of the second book, fighting together to protect Earth while spending their spare time laughing and joking with each other. Not to mention that all of them are helping Chuchu find her father.

Nika Geor Hija Nanaura-Fardin

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Morrigan

Captain of the Dawn of Fold, and secondary pilot of the Gundam Morrigan. In the year that has passed since her and Sabina's escape from Asticassia, Nika has become a skilled battlefield commander and hailed as the woman who turned the Dawn of Fold from a ragtag terrorist group into a nation.

The Ace: Nika is the best mechanic in the world, as well as a skilled technician, battlefield commander, logistician, and master of statecraft, which allowed her to forge scattered rebel cells into a nation.
Adaptational Badass: A minor case. In the show, Nika appears to be entirely a noncombatant, never using any kind of violence and being easily taken down by Sophie before she can even try to fight back. In ths fic, she has training in both hand-to-hand and shooting, she's just not any good at either.
Adaptational Protagonist: Nika, while not a minor character, is part of the supporting cast of the original anime. Whil The Morrigan is an ensemble story, she is by far one of the most important protagonists.
Attack Drones: Using research from Notrette Rembran, Prospera and Belmeria are able to develop a set of miniature Bit-Staves that can be controlled by Nika's permet arm, which is essentially a giant superdense permet circuit board. It requires charging by Morrigan, lasts for 60 seconds, and is extremely painful for her and leaves her arm useless for a long period after, but it's deadly in one-to-one combat.
Battle Couple: The Morrigan has both her and Sabina as pilots, meaning that they go into battle together, Sabina doing the fighting and Nika backing her up by keeping an eye on everything.
Break the Cutie: Nika in the show was an idealist who dreamed of uniting Earth and Space in peaceful cooperation. In the fic, the trauma of being kidnapped by Shaddiq, kept in a room with a woman that wanted to kill her, never being found by her friends at Earth House, the escape from Asticassia, and every event since has broken her to a very angry woman who is fully onboard with using violence and killing to fight for Earth. She still maintains her fundamental idealism, but is now much more willing to accept violent means to reach her goals.
Brutal Honesty: When trying to figure out how to explain to Sabina that she needs to deal with her emotional issues that are jeopardizing her in combat, Nika eventually settles on just telling her to "Get your shit together out there."
Disability Super Power: Nika's arm and eye is functionally unusable, but it being made of permet means that she can see and move when submerged in the datastorm, something normally only permet entities like Sophie can. Belmeria theorizes that the Permet "sensed" her need to see in the datastorm, and responded in kind.
Disabled in the Adaptation: Nika suffers a Fictional Disability that renders her arm partially paralyzed unless she regularily files down the crystalline permet growths on it.
Fantastic Arousal: The permet growths on her arm have to be filed down regularily for her to be able to move it, a process that is pleasant when done by her wife, so there is certainly some overlap with sexual acts there.
Fictional Disability: Nika's silvered left arm is a condition known as Spontanteous Permetic Growth, causing permet crystals to grow across a person's body. Nika's condition is unusually benign, causing her partial paralysis but no pain. Chapter 58 explains that Morrigan has been subconsciously directing the permet growth in neat layers that don't cause her pain, unlike the rootlike growths of regular SPG, a feat that Belmeria hopes to repeat with Elnora's case.
Forgiveness: When she comes face to face with one of the valkyries in the Datastorm, Nika saves their life and shares with them all the love and joyful memories she has from her father, and then forgives them for killing him, leaving them to live with what they've done.
Guy in Back: Effectively her role as the Morrigan's secondary pilot. She keeps track of and directs the flow of permet, analyzes the battlefield and develops strategies while Sabina fights, and keeps an eye on things in case she gets distracted.
Happily Adopted: Naji is not her biological father, but he raised her and adopted her as his official child, and despite knowing that he was a flawed human being, she has mostly fond memories of her childhood.
Heel Realization: After her father's death, Nika very nearly falls into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge until Chuchu begs her to not hurt Felsi or her squadron, causing her to realize that she's grown far more cold and authorative than even she realized or is comfortable with.
Mythical Motifs: Nika is associated with Nuada Airgetlám, the first king of the Tuatha de Dannan. Aside from their similar names, they are both good and beloved leaders, they both have an arm made of silver (Airgetlám means Silver-hand, which is one of Nika's monikers), and they both fight an entity named Balor, though unlike Nuada, Nika survives the battle. Morrigan's sword, Fragarach, is also named after Nuada's sword.
Red Baron: Nika has gained the nicknames "Architect", "Silverhand", and "Bluebird of Victory" for her ability to plan and manage the entirety of Dawn of Fold, and her permet-encrusted hand. She later adds "The Silver Fist," "The Dawnbringer," and "The Butcher of the NEAR Arcology," and "The Silver Witch."
Red Right Hand: Nika's entire left arm is covered in permet growths that react when she uses the Morrigan's permet scores. The exact cause is unclear, but it first happened when it got hurt during the escape from Asticassia, and the numbness and pain decreases when in contact with the Morrigan. By the end of book three, it has spread to cover her shoulder, part of her jaw, and enough of her face to render her blind in one eye.
Robosexual: Once she fully realies and accepts that Morrigan is sapient, Nika comes to consider their relationship romantic, even describing her as her wife at several points.
Took a Level in Badass: In between the show and the fic, Nika has grown to be a much more dangerous and capable combatant (compared to the show where she wasn't a combatant at all), becoming a dangerous battlefield commander.
Wrench Wench: Nika is undoubtedly one of the best mechanics in the world, having among other things turned the broken and damaged Lfrith-Ur into the nigh-unbeatable Gundam Morrigan with nothing but scraps.
You Arein Command Now: Nika becomes the leader of the Dawn of Fold after Naji is killed in battle.

Sabina Fardin-Nanaura

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Morrigan

Lieutenant of the Dawn of Fold, primary pilot of the Gundam Morrigan, and Nika's wife. Sabina has long since left behind her loyalty to Shaddiq, and is dedicated to fighting alongside her wife to liberate Earth from the yoke of space. In the meantime, she's working to overcome the training she received as a child to suppress her emotions.

Affectionate Nickname: Felsi calls her "Bibi." So did Maisie, prior to her death.
All for Nothing: A flashback shows that despite her emotionally closed off state she did want to connect with the other Valkyries and get to know them as family rather than just teammates back at Asticassia. Then she chose to escape with Nika, killing Maisie in the process, and now there is no chance for them to ever be close again.
Always Save the Girl: Sabina killed one of her sisters to protect Nika during their escape from Asticassia, and while she mourns her and blames her own failures for resulting in the death, she also doesn't regret it and would have done it again, and even killed her three surviving sisters too, if it meant protecting Nika and Sophie. She is very much aware that there are dangers in this pattern of thinking, as she fears that her protectiveness will result in her wives being hurt by her mistakes.
Battle Couple: The Morrigan has both her and Nika as pilots, meaning that they go into battle together, Sabina doing the fighting and Nika backing her up by keeping an eye on everything-
Character Development: Over the course of the story, Sabina starts growing out of being The Stoic and becomes much more emotional and, more importantly, willing to show those emotions. Out of combat she starts joking around with her wives and Felsi, as well as express her love and passion more obviously, while in combat she allows her emotions to guide her a lot more, fighting with anger and passion rather than letting cold detached logic guide her.
The Comically Serious: Sabina is a very proper and serious person, which sometimes stands in humerous contrast to the people around her, especially Felsi.
Commonality Connection: Sabina's love for Sophie is born from how similar they are, seeing much of herself (or at least how she wanted to be at one point) in Sophie's wild and feral passion for life and love, even if Sabina has never dared to be as unappologetic as Sophie was.
Defeat Means Friendship: Amusingly averted. She and Norea try to deal with their mutual dislike by having a fistfight. It doesn't work nearly as well for them as it did for Felsi and Chuchu, and they still hate each other by the end of it.
Fall Guy: Because of the circumstances of their escape from Asticassia, and some choice wording on Shaddiq's part, Sabina, and to a lesser extent Nika, ended up taking the public blame for all of Shaddiq's schemes, including the Dawn of Fold attack on Plant Quetta and Asticassia.
Fatal Flaw: Suletta deduces that Sabina's flaw is a kind of indecisiveness. She fundamentally doesn't know who she is, or what purpose she wants to serve beyond a vague "fight for Nika". Is she a knight who is her own person, or just a weapon wielded by her mistress?
Fire-Forged Friends: A bit more than friends, but Sabina thought very little of Sophie when they first met, barely even noticing her enough to think of her as more than an asset. Now that she has been fighting alongside (and within) Morrigan for years and grown to love her as deeply as she loves Nika in that time, she can't help but fall in love whenever she looks back at how wild and passionate Sophie was before her death.
Giver of Lame Names: Played for laughs. While Nika's online handle is @Go-Between-Queen in reference to her old role at Asticassia, Sabina's is... @Birdwatcher2. @Birdwatcher was presumably taken.
Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Nika describes Sabina's confidence while singing as adorably misplaced.
Insult of Endearment: Sabina's nickname for Felsi is "Sissy", partly as a play on her name (Si-si), and part because she finds it delightful that Felsi gets riled up whenever she uses it.
Never My Fault: Sabina accuses Norea of having defected from the Dawn of Fold, conveniently ignoring the part where she and Nika blew up Norea's gundam and left her unconscious in the rubble while making their own escape. Norea and Nika both call her out on it, and Norea figures that she's probably projecting her own guilt over not having helped Nika earlier.
Not So Stoic: Sabina generally keeps a very stoic face through any situation, including Cold-Blooded Torture. She's far from emotionless however, and immediately lets herself go when she's in private with Nika. She's also a rather enthusiastic metal musician.
Number Two: Sabina is Nika's second-in-command, the lieutenant to her captain. Later she becomes the Captain to her General.
Psychological Projection: Sabina openly dislikes Norea, claiming that it's because Norea beat Nika nearly to death back on Asticassia. Norea points out that Sabina was in the room with them and took her sweet time before helping Nika, leading her to realize that Sabina is projecting her own guilt about the incident onto Norea. Sabina is not happy to be psychoanalyzed.
Red Baron: Like her wife, she has a few titles, namely The Witch's Sword, the Raven of the Battlefield, and the Fallen Valkyrie.
Robosexual: Sabina is in a committed romantic relationship with Morrigan, a giant mecha.
Sophisticated as Hell: Sabina, as part of being The Stoic, tends to use a very precise and proper manner of speaking. She does occasionally slip up and swears, much to Nika's delight.
The Stoic: Sabina was raised by Grassley to dissociate and be as cold and emotionless as possible. She is making an effort to unlearning it to be more open and genuine with Nika.
Superstitious Sailors: Gundam Pilots actually. Sabina, despite her serious and stoic demeanor, is actually quite superstitious, using rituals to ward off bad luck and being the first to believe that Morrigan is sapient.
Torture Technician: Sabina was trained in torture as part of becoming a Valkyrie, and retains the skills years after. Notably, unlike many torturers, she avoids doing anything that will cause permanent harm, relying mostly on the psychological aspect - fear of pain rather than pain itself. While Grassley taught her to dissociate while torturing someone to be more efficient, she elects not to, staying stoic in public but letting it affect her when in private.
Undying Loyalty: Sabina trusts Nika fully and entirely, to the point where she tells her that she would line up and shoot defenseless hostages if she asked her to. This is phrased less as an oath of dedication and more as a warning to not abuse that trust.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: Sabina is very protective of Nika, and has it out for Norea for this reason, angry at her for having hurt Nika despite them having long since reconciled. She's equally protective of the Morrigan, only allowing her wife and her best friend to touch her.
We Used to Be Friends: More than just friends, the Valkyries used to be her sisters and though she had a certain emotional distance due to her own mental health issues she wanted to grow closer with them. Then her escape from Asticassia happened, and now those sisters are obsessed with killing her and everyone she loves.

Chuatury Panlunch / "Chuchu"

Mobile Suit(s): Demi-Barding, Demi-Balor

Commander of CAUL's Bilge Rat squadron, and an old friend of Nika. Nika's apparent betrayal hit Chuchu hard and led to a bitter reunion, but they eventually reconciled and Chuchu has taken her squadron to fight for Earth.

Ace Custom: The Demi-Balor is a unique prototype, piloted only by Chuchu and Felsi as the commanding officers of the Bilge Rats.
Ace Pilot: Chuchu is a damn good pilot, one of very few who are actually skilled enough to go toe-to-toe with Gundams using a regular (if advanced) mobile suit, and clever enough to set up the battlefield to her advantage. Even without her girlfriend's backup, she clearly demonstrates superior skill to the Valkyries, and that was while piloting her MS remotely.
Affectionate Nickname: Felsi calls her "pom-pom" in reference to her large hairpuffs. Her dads call her Mocchi.
Animal Motifs: Chuchu tends to be associated with rats; Small, ferocious, and fiercely protective of her young. She has a torso tattoo of a rat and her squadron is called the Bilge Rats. And like a rat, she flees the sinking ship that is CAUL.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Chuchu and Felsi spend a lot of time bickering like an old married couple, with Chuchu expresing exasperation at her girlfriend's antics more often than not. When the chips are down, however, Chuchu loves her deeply and sincerely, and is uncomfortable when they are apart.
Felsi was so close. So close that Chuchu wanted to get out and run (an absurd instinct, but a primeval one). Close enough that their ID tags would be overlapping on a scanner array, and yet impossibly far apart. So far apart that if something happened to that beautiful, stupid, dipshit Pineapple that Chuchu adored like breathing she wouldn’t arrive in time to affect the outcome no matter how hard she burned.
Badass Normal: Chuchu pilots a fairly normal Ace Custom mobile suit and is not an enhanced person or Witch, but she (with Felsi's help) managed to fight the Gundam Morrigan to a standstill.
Battle Couple: Chuchu and Felsi fight together in the Demi-Balor, with Chuchu piloting the main body and Felsi providing backup and support in the Baori pack.
Boxing Battler: Her fighting style draws heavily on boxing, both in her mobile suit which is modified with arms that can deliver devastating punches, and out of it, where she has the skill and training of an actual boxer.
Conflicting Loyalty: Chuchu is torn between her trust and loyalty to Miorine, who she knows is doing her best to improve the CAUL, and her loyalty to her homeworld, which is being oppressed by CAUL. Eventually circumstances forced her hand and she chose her homeworld.
Defector from Decadence: Chuchu defects from the CAUL between books 1 and 2. While she had harbored doubts and resentment towards the CAUL for a long time, it took being invited to join the Dawn of Fold by Nika directly, as well as not being able to return to the CAUL under threat of execution, for her to finally make the decision.
Delayed Reaction: In chapter 53 she's so focused on saving her girlfriend that she fails to notice the massive gundam currently breaking apart a moonbase she flies past.
Disappeared Dad: Chuchu's Papa Nanami was working in space when Quiet Zero's blockade struck, and has been unable or unwilling to get back to Earth. She eventually finds that he's working with a crime syndicate operating out of Fólkvangr that has been supplying Cathedra, but was kidnapped by a mysterious black-clad faction.
Eye Laser: The Demi-Balor has an array of lenses on its head that can fire powerful energy beams. Different lenses has better range, better coverage, and better penetration. It also has a series of lenses it can throw out to serve as reflective surfaces to bounce the beam off of.
A Mother to Her Men: Chuchu refers to the Bilge Rat squadron as her pups, knows their names by heart and personally grieves every death, and cares deeply about their safety. SAL's disregard for their safety is part of the reason she transfers to Miorine's command and later defects.
Good Old Fisticuffs: Chuchu's Demi-Balor has pistons in its arms that enhance its punches, fitting with its very punchy pilots. They call the enhanced arms "The Dukes", while Felsi calls the Baori pack's arms "The Duchesses."
The Most Wanted: Chuchu and Felsi both have high bounties on their heads as a result of being defectors from the CAUL. Chuchu's is actually lower than her girlfriend's, but she's marked for death rather than capture.
Morality Chain: To Nika. After her father's death, Nika was all set to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge until she got to talk to Chuchu in private. Realizing that Chuchu was expecting Nika to execute her, and that she had actually genuinely considered the idea, makes her realize that she's heading down a dark path, and manages to turn back from it.
Odd Friendship: Due to her dating Felsi, she ended up spending a fair amount of time with Petra, Felsi's best friend, and surprisingly found out that she actually enjoyed her company despite their checkered past.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Chuchu does not like Lauda at the best of times, but when she drops any insults to seriously tell Petra that she needs to talk to him, saying it not as a friend but as a commander in the Dawn of Fold, Petra is slightly taken aback.
The Resenter: Chuchu doesn't really like Norea, still angry at her for the whole Rumble Ring incident, not helped by the fact that she actually did like Norea initially and wanted to be her friend, even having fun talking with her right before that happened.
Smarter Than You Look: Chuchu is often assumed to be a punchy brute without much tactical acumen, but she is a very clever and skilled pilot who knows how to play scenarios to her advantage. During the fight with the Valkyries, she spreads out the Balor's reflective lenses around the battlefield under the guise of putting distance between herself and her opponent, using them to nearly score several nearly lethal blows once the Nemain is in a good position, and by the end of the fight, the Triune realize that Chuchu wasn't even in the mobile suit they just killed, having long since detached the Batori pack and piloted the Balor remotely.
Take Me Instead: When Chuchu realizes that Nika might actually kill her, she begs her to only hurt her, and spare Felsi and her pups.
Teens Love Shopping: Chuchu, of all people, found herself enjoying trying on clothes that Petra bought for her birthday in a fashion show with them and Felsi, and has since greatly expanded her warderobe.
Took a Level in Kindness: She's much less aggressive and standoffish than in the show, having grown up a fair bit in the meantime.
Chuchu: Of course we weren’t nice to one another; we were bad at being people. But you and me? We’re adults now. Things have changed. I don’t have the time to get angry at every little thing anymore.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: She acts pretty calm about it, but after Felsi is nearly killed fighting Renee, Chuchu casually mentions that next time she sees her she's going to "Liquify that bitch."
You Can't Go Home Again: After she and Felsi hand over sensitive information to the Dawn of Fold, per Miorine's request, they can't return to the CAUL without being court martialed and likely executed. Nika instead offers them a place among the Dawn of Fold, which they take.

Felsi Rollo

Mobile Suit(s): Dilanza, Demi-Balor (Baori Pack)

Chuchu's girlfriend and second-in-command, piloting the Baori pack of her Demi-Balor. Though raised within the Spacian aristocracy, Felsi has since realized the depth of corruption and exploitation needed to maintain her family's empire, and is if anything even more dedicated to the Earthian cause than her partner.

Affectionate Nickname: Chuchu calls her "Pineapple," a holdover from Put Up Your Dukes in reference to her hairstyle. Sabina calls her "Sissy", partly as a play on her name (Felsi calls her Bibi) and partially as an Insult of Endearment.
All for Nothing: Played for Laughs. Chuchu mentions an incident where Felsi went into a burning building to save a cat, unaware that the cat had already gotten out the back door.
The Atoner: Felsi is very aware that her family have played part in oppressing Earth, and tries to atone for it by learning everything she can about Spacian oppression and later defects to Dawn of Fold.
Bad Liar: She's not a great liar, which is one of the things Petra likes about her. When she's caught in a lie, she nervously swallows and noticeably hesitates.
Bare-Fisted Monk: She's more of a kicker than a puncher, but she is a beast in unharmed combat, at one point taking out three armed opponents in just a few seconds through various applications of pressure points, kicks, and tying them up in their own clothes. Interestingly, she apparently prefers hand-to-hand rather than weapons, as she went on to disarm the unconscious thugs and dismantle their weapons before discarding them.
Barehanded Blade Block: During the fight with the Morrigan, Felsi stopped the Fragarach sword by catching it mid-swing and breaking it between her Baori pack's hands.
Battle Couple: Felsi and Chuchu fight together in the Demi-Balor, with Chuchu piloting the main body and Felsi providing backup and support in the Baori pack.
Because You Were Nice to Me: Put Up Your Dukes reveals that Felsi's loyalty to Guel was based on an event in their childhood, when he listened patiently to her concerns over being forced into an unhappy marriage and then prevented it by loudly chewing out her parents (insulting her in the process, but she was fine with it). The public embarassment resulted in Felsi being sent to Asticassia to get her out of her parents' sight, which she is infinitely grateful for.
Best Friend: Petra's. Later she also becomes Sabina's, the only person she seems to be genuinely comfortable being casual and friendly with aside from Nika.
Beware the Silly Ones: Felsi is generally a comedic character and Genre Refugee from a more comedic work. However, as she demonstrates in chapter 50, she is also a high ranking officer in the Dawn of Fold, experienced mobile suit pilot, and very skilled in hand to hand combat. When faced with three armed assassins, she, with no weapons herself, leaves them all unconscious with several broken bones in the space of three paragraphs.
Category Traitor: A lot of Spacians prejudiced against Earthians see Felsi as a traitor to her kin because she's dating Chuchu and takes her side in arguments about Earthian oppression. Felsi, for her part, fully embraces and revels in it, and makes it official by joining the Dawn of Fold.
Character Tics: She holds her tongue between her teeth when she's concentrating hard on something.
Combat Medic: Or rather Combat Mechanic. Part of her role as the Baori Pack pilot is to perform emergency repairs on the Balor when needed. The Baori pack even has special kits for repairs, which Felsi calls the Ouch Pouch. She can perform first aid on people too, pulling a bullet out of Petra's arm in a bathroom without proper supplies.
Covered with Scars: She has a lot of scars, some from childhood scrapes, a lot more from fighting for CAUL and later Dawn of Fold.
Deadpan Snarker: Felsi is rather irreverent and not afraid of mouthing off to her superiors, as shown when she calls Sabina "Bibi" on a mission. When Sabina objects, Felsi rephrases it in a sarcastically deferential way. While still calling her "Bibi".
Felsi: Oh, sorry! Please, Captain Bibi, Ma’am. Explain it to me again, if it is your prerogative? I humbly do not understand the point your honor was trying to make.
Sabina: Is she messing with me?
Defecting for Love: Defied. Petra believes that Felsi defected and joined the Dawn of Fold because her girlfriend, Chuchu, is Earthian. Felsi is adamant that this is not the case; She fights for Dawn of Fold because she truly believes in the cause and knows it's the right thing to do. In fact, she would have defected earlier if it wasn't for Chuchu taking longer to make up her mind.
I’m fighting for them because it’s the right thing to do, and because I can see that I’m doing good every day
Defector from Decadence: Felsi was ready to defect to the Dawn of Fold long before she actually did so, staying with the CAUL because Chuchu hadn't made up her mind yet. She eventually takes the initiative, surrendering herself and Chuchu to the Dawn of Fold and fully defecting soon after.
The Gadfly: On a mission, Sabina reprimanded her for talking too casually to a commanding officer. Since then Felsi has made sure to address Sabina and Nika in lengthy, Purple Prose-laden manners until they agree to just let her speak casually.
Gallows Humor: Being in mortal danger or imminent death does not stop Felsi's joking attitude. At one point while actively bleeding out she starts joking about having every death flag she can think of, much to Petra's horror.
Genre Refugee: The Felsi Rollo in this story is the same one as in Put Up Your Dukes, a much less serious fic. As a result, she's essentially a character from a romantic comedy in a grim and gritty war drama. Jerkus has stated that they write Felsi to be one degree cartoonier than the rest of the cast, such as appearing out of thin air without rhyme or reason. Slightly lampshaded when Chuchu mentions that one of her pups has taken to calling Felsi's uncanny knack for getting out of absurdly dangerous situations "Comedian's luck."
Klingon Promotion: Non-lethal example. During the fight between the Balor and the Morrigan, Felsi knocks Chuchu out cold in order to take over command of the Bilge Rats and surrender without further bloodshed.
Leg Focus: She has very toned legs, made better by how her fighting style emphasizes kicks. In Put Up Your Dukes, her legs are one of the things Chuchu finds attractive about her.
Let's Get Dangerous!: In chapter 50, the normally silly and comedic Felsi surprises Petra by becoming laser focused and calculating the second she realizes that there's danger afoot, sharply giving out orders and taking down three assassins with cold precision and no difficulty.
Her normally bright, slightly vacant expression went sharp and focused in a way that Petra had never seen before, her eyes alive and calculating, jaw set, posture taut as a tension line.
Made of Iron: During her fight with Renee, Felsi is thrown into wooden pews hard enough to crack them, knocked into the floor, and even thrown bodily across the room one time, and gets up immediately after every time. Chuchu later mentions that Felsi has been shot, dropped off a cliff, been in several explosions, and caught in a burning building, always getting out fine.
Chuchu: Felsi is invincible.
Petra: What? No she isn’t! She got stabbed!
Chuchu: Not the first time that happened.
The Most Wanted: Both her and Chuchu have legally dubious bounties on their heads from the SAL, though Felsi's is much higher and she's wanted alive, while Chuchu is kill on sight. Dawn of Fold intelligence believes that this is Lauda's doing, having used his influence to make the bounty higher and capture only so that Felsi could be captured and brought back for Petra.
Motive Rant: She goes on one in chapter 51, explaining why she joined the Dawn of Fold and why she continues to fight for them, citing that she is happier with them than she ever was with her blood family, and that she can tell she's doing good work because she sees it herself every day.
“Since we defected, I’ve been happier than I ever was up there. I have friends and comrades that respect me. I have a family that treats me way better than my blood ever did. And I know my work helps people, because I can see it helping them right away. There are people who are eating better because of me and the food I help protect. Kids who are healthier because of medicine I helped secure for them. Land that used to be covered in waste and garbage that I cleaned up with my own two hands… or that I used my Mobile Suit to clean up, anyway. I’m fighting for them because it’s the right thing to do, and because I can see that I’m doing good every day.”
Number Two: Felsi is commander Chuchu's lieutenant, and supports her in both combat and as an advisor and supporter.
Retirony: While being treated from a stabwound, she jokes that she was just two weeks from retirement and was going to propose to her girlfriend after this last mission.
Rich Kid Turned Social Activist: Felsi was aware from a young age that the Spacian system she grew up in was bad, but it was only once she grew close with Chuchu that she realized the extent of it. Thanks to some lessons and reading reccomendations from one of Chuchu's more politically inclined fathers, she's now firecely anti-capitalist and pro-Earth, even joining the Dawn of Fold. When asked why she would join the Dawn of Fold, she goes on an impassioned speech about how she's happier with the Dawn of Fold than she ever was with her Spacian family, and that she is making a tangible difference both by fighting and by humanitarian work.
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness:
- Felsi has a tendency to launch into lengthy complicated rants about Spacian oppression thanks to having read a lot of books on the subject of economic inequality.
  Felsi: And what constitutes ‘Earthian’ is an ever-shifting subject position based not on geography but on the-” Gets food shoved in her mouth by Petra.
- In chapter 38, she goes on a ramble that includes the words "Blackguard" and "forthwith." Nika isn't sure if she's doing some kind of bit, or if that's just Felsi being Felsi.
Stealth Hi/Bye: Played for laughs. Due to Chuchu's giant hairpuffs, she has two massive blindspots Felsi can use to sneak up on her and play harmless pranks, or appear out of thin air.
Stress Vomit: She threw up the first time she had a bullet removed from her body.
Superstitious Sailors: Not quite as much as Sabina, but Felsi also expresses some superstition, being uncomfortable when one of her friends sits down on the altar of a church.
Wrench Wench: While not as good as Nika, Felsi took up engineering as an elective at Asticassia after hearing Chuchu complain about the specs of her Demi-Barding. She apparently took to the subject like a fish to water, to the point where she's the only mechanic other than Nika allowed to work on the Morrigan, and Morrigan herself appreciates her thoroughness.
You Can't Go Home Again: After she and Chuchu hand over sensitive information to the Dawn of Fold, per Miorine's request, they can't return to the CAUL without being court martialed and likely executed. Nika instead offers them a place among the Dawn of Fold, which they take.

Gundam Morrigan (Unmarked Spoilers)

The titular Gundam, rebuilt from the broken Lfrith-Ur after it was damaged when Nika and Sabina stole it to escape Asticassia. Unlike most Gundams, the Morrigan requires two pilots, one to do the fighting and one to monitor its systems and control the flow of permet. In the year since escaping Asticassia, the Morrigan has become a symbol of hope and defiance for Earth.

The soul of the Gundam Morrigan is Sophie Pulone, her mind having been preserved in the Lfrith-Ur at the time of her death and awakened when Sabina and Nika used it to escape Asticassia. As time goes on, she becomes more and more self-aware, slowly regaining her memories of who she was in life.

Accidental Pervert: Morrigan tries her best to give Nika and Sabina privacy, but she can feel anything they feel, and they frequently have sex in her cockpit without knowing that she's sapient and can feel them. At least two cases resulted in the Morrigan spasming in pleasure in accordance with Nika. It becomes less accidental later, as Nika and Sabina embrace the idea of the Morrigan joining them.
A Day in the Limelight: Chapters 11 and 35 are told entirely from the perspective of Morrigan herself.
Affectionate Nickname: Ericht calls her "Momo."
Animal Motifs: The Morrigan Rebuild is painted in dark colours, wears a feathered cape (actually flechettes), has a cry reminiscent of a crow or raven, and is created from pieces salvaged from other mobile suits similar to a carrion bird feeding on the dead, all of it giving it a corvid motif. During the costume party, her pilot Sabina dresses as a raven familiar.
Artificial Family Member: Nika and Sabina refer to the Morrigan as part of their family, initially as a kid but as it becomes more apparent that the Morrigan has some kind of self-awareness, they start thinking of it as their lover instead. Morrigan for her part returns the sentiment in full.
Attack Drone: Morrigan Rebuild's flechettes are actually bit-staves, but unlike the Aerial's Escutcheon, they have only enough tech and intelligence to pursue a target and return when called. Some of them secretly have hidden abilities, like the Silver Arrow that can be directed extremely precisely by Nika due to containing a piece of permet from her arm.
Blood Knight: It is a giant weapon, after all. She actually carries this over from Sophie Pulone, who also enjoyed fighting. Not to mention that it is one of the few ways she gets to interract with the world around her.
Boring, but Practical: Compared to other Gundams, the Morrigan is actually fairly basic. It lacks bit staves or special abilities, favouring basic weapons that hit hard. This is because neither of its pilots are enanced to resist datastorms, so anything too fancy would likely kill them. She does get a few nifty tricks as the Morrigan Rebuild, however.
Brain Uploading: Somehow, the mind and personality of Sophie Pulone were preserved within the Lfrith-Ur the same way Eri's were in the Lfrith.
Caped Mecha: The Morrigan has a cape of iron chains. The Morrigan Rebuild gets a Fashionable Asymmetry shoulder cape carrying flechettes.
Card-Carrying Villain: She's not a villain, but she refers to the Dawn of Fold as "the bad guys" and thinks that what they do best isn't winning, but making sure everyone else loses.
Chain Pain: The Morrigan has a cape made from iron chains, each link larger than a human. It's used mostly to store weapons, but can be a weapon in the midst of battle.
Color Motif: In book 3, when fully awakened, she colours her internal monitors orange, blue, and purple to represent herself and her two wives (they are also circular to indicate wedding rings). She also asked them to paint her tathlum bracer in the same colours, as well as green to represent Norea.
Commonality Connection: When rescuing Renee from the datastorm, Sophie realizes that a lot of Renee's lifestory is very similar to her own, abandoned and hungry as a child and desperate for love as a result.
Conflicting Loyalties: A deeply tragic example. As a child, Sophie could have played with Nika and been adopted by Naji, getting the family she always wanted. However, Norea hated the idea of being anything other than a soldier, and especially resented the idea of getting along with Nika. As a result, Sophie had to chose between a family and her best friend. She chose Norea, but when she was alone cried about having lost any chance of ever having the family she desperately wanted.
Diverting Power: The main difference between the Morrigan and other gundams, and why it requires two pilots. When it enters higher permet scores, rather than empowering the entire system, Nika directs permet to the parts that needs it, which reduces the strain on both pilots from deadly to simply painful.
Embarrassing Nickname: Nika initially calls Morrigan "Kiddo." She stops after realizing both that Morrigan doesn't like it, and that it's rather awkward to call the being you've been having regular sex in (and with) "kiddo."
Eye Color Change: Part of the rebuilding, the Lfrith-Ur had green eye-lenses, while the Morrigan has blue. Like Sophie.
Hates Being Alone: The Morrigan hates being "asleep" because it means being apart from Nika and Sabina, and completely alone. It gets a bit better after she meets Ericht and can talk to her (as long as they're near Quiet zero), but she still doesn't like being left alone.
Hell Is That Noise: When the Morrigan uses it's water-based cooling system, it causes a sound that's usually described as banshee-like. The Rebuild upgrades it to a crow-like cry, almost musical but still unsettling. It can even be used in space through radiowaves, and is loaded with so much junk data that it overloads systems and senses alike.
Hidden Depths: In book 3 she uses emojis and drawings to communicate with, and she's apparently quite the talented artist.
I'm Crying, but I Don't Know Why: Downplayed since she can't actually cry, but whenever the Morrigan sees Sophie's grave she feels the need to.
Insistent Terminology: She objects to calling permet ghosts like herself "dead," prefering to think of them as simply no longer having their bodies.
The Lost Lenore: Sophie is this to both Suletta and Norea. Suletta blames herself for her death and thinks of her as her would-be little sister, while Norea couldn't find cause to move on after her death, only saved from suicide by Elan convincing her to seek revenge instead.
Meaningful Name: The Weregild weapons system were taken from the mobile suit used by the woman who killed Nika and Morrigan's father. In old Germanic culture, Weregild (Literally "Man-Price") was a sum of money that could be paid by a murderer to their victim's surviving family, as a way of preventing a single murder from spiraling into a blood feud. Appropriately enough, Nika takes the Weregild but ultimately decides not to pursue revenge for Naji's murder.
Mid-Season Upgrade: Following the second Quinharbour attack, and with input and advice from Prospera, the Morrigan is retrofitted and upgraded from its bulky and mishmash heavy-duty design to the much more sleek and agile Morrigan Rebuild, using Gundvölva parts salvaged from Ochs Earth. It also comes with some nifty new abilities, like using its sword to block beam weapons, a temporary cloak, and bit-staves in the form of guided flechettes.
Mundane Utility: Similarily to Ericht in the show, Morrigan can cause permet burns on anyone piloting the Morrigan. Unlike Ericht, however, Sophie uses it for intimacy with Nika and Sabina, causing a very small and localized permet burn to imply touch across her lovers' skin.
Named Weapons: While all Gundam subsystems tend to have names, the Morrigan's sword in particular is named Fragarach.
Ominous Walk: The Morrigan takes its sweet time approaching a downed Demi-Barding in chapter 9.
The Power of Love: She realizes in book 3 that this is what pulled her out of the datastorm and awakened her as Morrigan; Sabina's love for Nika, causing her to power through the pain of permet score 4, was what awakened her in the first place, while her own love and guilt over having injured Nika previously and desire to make it right grounded her and prevented her from slipping back into unconsciousness.
Raised in a Lab: Sophie and Norea spent their formative years in an Ochs Earth lab being modified into better gundam pilots. The experience left them deeply codependent, and gave Sophie a desperate desire for a family only outweighed by her fear of losing Norea.
Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: In addition to her own name, which comes from the Celtic goddess of fate and war, the Morrigan's weapon subsystems are all named after things from Celtic mythology (with one exception); The sword is Fragarach, the sword of high king Nuada Airgetlám; It's beam vulcan wrist-shooters are Tathlum, after the slingstone of the god Lugh; and the the vampiric blades taken from Beguir-Dearg Du is Weregild, after an old judicial system in Scandinavia where the perpetrator of a murder could pay money equivelant to the dead person's value, to prevent blood feuds.
Revenant Zombie: Not literally, but when Belmeria sees the Gundam Morrigan she thinks that it resembles an undead revenant. Considering that it was built from the wreckage of Sophie Pulone's Lfrith Ur, she's half right.
Schizo Tech: In-Universe, the Morrigan is a super-advanced giant mech built using techniques over 200 years beyond the present, but it uses water as a cooling system. Assuming it wasn't just poetic writing, chapter 35 also describes its "clockwork heart".
Second Love: Nika and Sabina, her wives, are this compared to her first love, Norea, whom she has since moved on from (though they are still close).
Shrinking Violet: Surprisingly, Sophie was this as a child, hiding behind Norea when scared.
Summon to Hand: Fragarach has a piece of Nika's permet installed in the handle, so she can summon it to Morrigan's hand when needed.
Super Smoke: Unlike most mobile suits, that use a permet cooling system, the Morrigan uses water for cooling, allowing it to operate at full efficiency within Quiet Zero's sphere of influence. Whenever it vents, it creates a thick blanket of superhot steam. Rebuild upgrades it to a black fog infused with permet functioning as a cloak.
Synchronization: Morrigan can feel Nika's sensations through her permet-encrusted arm, especially when they're in physical contact. Such as when her and Sabina have sex in the cockpit.
Tragic Dream: A flashback showed that Norea and Sophie both wanted to see fireflies, which are extinct on Earth and only exist in Spacian preserves and obviously out of reach for two Earthian terrorists. When they finally reunite in chapter 38, it's in a garden at LAFF surrounded by fireflies.
Transhuman: The mind of a human being, accidentally uploaded into a gigantic robotic body. She was this prior to death too, a first-generation enhanced human modified from a young age to be more resistant towards datastorms.
Troll: In Their Fond Pageant, Morrigan freezes Nika's arm just as she finishes masturbating, resulting in Nika having her fingers stuck in a rather embarassing and obvious position.
Two Aliases, One Character: Gundam Morrigan, aka. Sophie Pulone. In the third book, Sabina and Nika start using the two names interchangeably.
Vampiric Draining: After salvaging the Beguir-Dearg Du, the Morrigan gets the ability to drain permet from other mobile suits.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: She does not take kindly to anyone or anything threatening her wives, which is unfortunate for whoever did given that she is a giant robot.
Virtual Ghost: Sophie still "lives" as the personality in the Morrigan, though she can't communicate with anyone beyond implications.
The Voiceless: Even after fully awakening in book 3, she can't talk or even write due to something messing with the language centers of her "brain". She understands language fully, though, and can communicate through visuals. In chapter 60, she regains the ability to speak coherently using her gundam body's speakers.
Walking Spoiler: It is next to impossible to discuss her without revealing the fact that she is sapient and contains the mind of Sophie Pulone.
Wistful Amnesia: Morrigan remembers being something before, but she doesn't remember what. She has vague recollections of who and what's important to her, and her impressions of other people (she knows that she always liked Chuchu, and that she expected to dislike Felsi), but she doesn't know why she has those impressions. Seeing Norea is enough to temporarily break her out of it. By book 3 she is fully awake and remembers everything.
Wrecked Weapon: The Morrigan's sword, Fragarach, is broken by Felsi in the battle with the Demi-Balor. The Morrigan Rebuild keeps it like that, but gives it a permet edge that enhances its abilities.
Yandere: Big time before her death. As a child, her feelings towards Nika were deeply conflicting, wanting to both kiss and make her smile, and punch her and pull her hair. She later developed similar feelings for Suletta, wanting to fight and injure her but also be close to her. Played for Drama, as it seems to have been a result of envy for girls who got to have the life that she didn't.

Other

Belmeria Winston

A scientist who worked on the original Gundam project under Ochs Earth, Belmeria was snatched up by the Dawn of Fold and appointed Chief Medical Officer by virtue of being the foremost expert on the GUND-system's effect on the human body.

The Alcoholic: The entire fic opens on Belmeria getting drunk to deal with how awful her life is. She gets better once her life and mental health improves.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: An neurotic and depressed alcoholic, but also the best Permet scientist alive, only surpassed by the late Notrette Rembran.
Cowardly Lion: When she's initially introduced in chapter 1, Belmeria is about as cowardly and spineless as she was in the anime, willing to do horrible things out of fear. By chapter 58, she's had more than enough of being a wretched coward complicit in atrocities, and stands her ground against something much more powerful than her because they're in her lab and she will not run like a coward anymore.
Fascist, but Inefficient: She eventually comes to believe this in regards to scientific pursuits;
Good Feels Good: In chapter 58, she muses that not only does it make her happier to follow ethical rules she ignored while working for Peil, but it helps her focus on her work and how it's actually helping people rather than simply being For Science!, and taking the time to care for and listen to her subjects and patients gives much better results because she's not taking shortcuts or ignoring patient input.
Let's Get Dangerous!: Belmeria is usually neurotic, nervous, apologetic, and doesn't strike a very intimidating figure. When she's in her element as a medical doctor, however, she's calm, professional, and even sarcastic and snarky at times.
Recovered Addict: By chapter 58, she's replaced alcoholism with being a workaholic. She still drinks occasionally, but mostly recreationally when out with friends and coworkers.
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: She slips into it from time to time. When explaining to Nika how they could give her her own bit staves, she had such a hard time phrasing it in simple terms Nika could understand that someone else eventually had to step in and explain it for her.
Ship Tease: Prospera calls her a "good girl" in a tone that makes Nika suspect that there is something more than strictly professionalism between them, and in chapter 58 she mentions that she enjoys going out for drinks with her team especially when a female specialist named Koo is there.
Sole Survivor: She's one of very few survivors of the Vanadis Institute, alongside Prospera Mercury, Ericht Samaya, and a number of unnamed survivors currently working for Cathedra.
Took a Level in Badass: By the time Belmeria returns as a POV character in chapter 58 (the first time since chapter 1), she has gone from a neurotic wreck barely able to function without copious amount of alcohol, to a self-assured, confident woman with a strong sense of morals who's gotten over her alcohol addiction and stands up to a terrifyingly inhuman child-god for the sake of her principles, only relenting slightly when the people under her command are threatened.
Trauma Button: Ericht's takeover of Quiet Zero triggers her trauma from her initial meeting with Gundam Morrigan, though she manages to stay calm through it by reminding herself that she survived that, so she will survive this.
Vetinari Job Security: Nika really doesn't like Belmeria considering her many crimes against humanity, but she is the foremost expert on permet's effects on the human body, and the only available person qualified to deal with Nika's arm.
Workaholic: By her own admission. Belmeria is such a workaholic that she managed to overcome her alcoholism by being too invested in her work. It helps that she genuinely loves her work, greatly enjoying the research she's doing on Nika's spontaneous permetic growth and prefering to stay sober and awake in case she's needed or has a good idea she needs to work on immediately.

Naji Geor Hija

Mobile Suit(s): Desultor

The general and leader of Dawn of Fold, and Nika's father. Naji is a peaceful man at heart, a schoolteacher before he founded Dawn of Fold, but circumstances has forced him to become the leader of an army.

Death by Adaptation: He is killed by Ireesha in chapter 15.
Good Parents: While acknowledging that he was a flawed human being, Nika has very fond memories of him and he's never shown to be anything but well-meaning with the children under his guardianship.
Happily Adopted: Naji adopted Nika as a child and cares about her deeply, and while she acknowledges him as a flawed man, she has mostly fond memories of her upbringing. When Sohie and Norea were delivered to him to be Gundam pilots, he at first wanted to ignore the agreement with Ochs Earth and adopt them as his own.
Minor Major Character: He's the top leader of a rebel group-turned-nation that controls most of the planet Earth, effectively making him the most powerful person on the planet (though Nika is arguably more important), but he only appears in a few chapters even before he's assassinated.
Parents as People: Naji tries his best, but the circumstances often forced his hands in the worst ways possible.
- He did his best to give Nika a happy childhood divorced from the war going on around him, but the fact that he's the head of a militaristic rebel group meant that whether they wanted it or not, Nika would be embroiled in war and conflict from an early age, and became a child soldier as a result.
- When Ochs Earth gave him two child witches and told him to use them as soldiers, he wanted to take them in and adopt them, but as Olcott points out, doing so would ruin their relationship with their most powerful ally, not to mention that Norea wanted to be a child soldier, having been raised in so gruesome enviroments that she couldn't imagine wanting anything else, and Sophie followed her lead. As a result, Naji felt he had little other choice than to use them as soldiers, leading to both of them being deeply traumatized and maladjusted, not to mention Sophie dying.
Rousseau Was Right: A strong believer in this, which he passed on to his daughters.
Skewed Priorities: When he sees Norea again for the first time in several years, in the middle of a battlefield while a city burns around them, Naji's first reaction is to ask if she has eaten well.

Sedo Wanchek

An orphan taken in by Dawn of Fold, who dreams of fighting for the cause and lies about his age to become a soldier.

An Arm and a Leg: He loses a leg while escaping the Fleeting Gravitas, severed by a piece of stray debris. It's only thanks to Morrigan's intervention that he doesn't bleed out.
Child Soldiers: He's first seen fighting for the Dawn of Fold despite being a minor. Nika has a big issue with this and makes a note to court martial whoever let him join.
The Engineer: He takes up a bit of engineering under Nika's tutorship, and takes to the subject like a fish to water.
Transhuman: When his leg is severed and he's in danger of bleeding out, Morrigan saves his life by repeating the feat that resulted in Nika's silvered arm, effectively giving him a tourniquet made of Applied Phlebotinum.

The Colonial Allied Unification League (CAUL)

A joint alliance of the Space Assembly League and Benerit Group in response to Prospera Mercury and Quiet Zero.

Inner Circle

Miorine Mercury

President of the Benerit wing of the CAUL and wife of its top pilot, Suletta Rembran. Miorine is caught to her neck in political games, working for an end to the war favorable to all parties despite factions within both the Benerit Group and the SAL wanting her gone.

Affectionate Nickname: Miorine's mother used to call her "bug" or "ladybug". Suletta calls her "mio-mio" sometimes.
Alliterative Name: Her married name, Miorine Mercury.
Batman Gambit:
- Miorine pulls of a rather impressive nested one to stop the Space Assembly League from using their Wave-Motion Gun on Quiet Zero. Through Chuchu and Felsi, she provides the Dawn of Fold with evidence that the SAL are planning on doing it, treating the potential destruction of Earth as a beneficial consequence. As Miorine expected, Nika releases these documents to the public, and Miorine immediately condemsn them as fraudulent lies and fabrications, declaring that the Space Assembly League would never do something so heinous. Again as she expected, the SAL immediately put their plans on hold, or they'd lose any and all support they may have had.
- In chapter 53, she goes on live television and accuses her political enemies of being in league with Cathedra. Shaddiq is furious at her for this since it'll be a political disaster, until she reveals that Suletta and Norea have found evidence of Cathedra's misdoings, and now they can hunt them down. The public accusation was to have Cathedra's allies panic and mess up and rat themselves out.
The Chessmaster: Miorine is a schemer who has a lot of balls in the air at any point, largely successfully planning and arranging events in ways that ultimately fall in ways that she considers favorable. As a heroic character, she uses this skill to save as many lives as possible.
Declaration of Protection: In chapter 53, Miorine takes Shaddiq aside to tell him that, no matter how she feels about him personally, he has helped her a lot and she will refuse to hand him over to the NEU who want to execute him, no matter what.
Generation Xerox: In a flashback, Miorine realizes that her treatment of Suletta during their breakup was not so different from how Delling treated her; Ignoring her agency, making decisions on her behalf, and refusing to explain or give a reason, all supposedly for her sake. There are several other instances where she acts more like her father's daughter than she'd like to think.
Happily Married: Despite some struggles prior to the marriage, and the wartime they live in, Miorine and Suletta were married soon after the onset of the war, and love each other deeply.
Internal Reformist: Despite knowing how corrupt and rotten the SAL and Benerit Group are, Miorine firmly believes that they can be changed for the better through reforms and replacing the old guard with more qualified new blood. This puts her at odds with the Dawn of Fold leadership, who believe that the whole thing is rotten and needs to be pulled up by the root.
It's All My Fault: After the Glass Moon Incident, she blames herself for how all their plans, which were almost succeeding, have fallen apart. Suletta assures her that it's not, but when that doesn't work, instead asks her what she can learn from this going forward.
Laughing Mad: After she killed her first person, Miorine collapses into maddened giggles due to her shock.
The Maiden Name Debate: Suletta and Miorine resolved this by taking each others' names, making her Miorine Mercury.
Not So Above It All: She's frequently annoyed or at best amused at Yushura's over-the-top antics, but does indulge in being a bit of an overdramatic bitch every so often too.
Not So Stoic: She's good at keeping a straight face in almost all circumstances, but once she's alone with her wife, collapses into tears.
Rage Breaking Point: When Miorine returns to Asticassia to find the Valkyries trying to kill Elan and Norea, she furiously threatens to have them executed if they don't stand down. While the Valkyries would consider this an empty threat from Shaddiq, they know better than to ignore a threat like that from Miorine.
Red Baron: She's called by some "The Witch Queen of Benerit" and "The Blooming Witch," despite not really being a witch herself.
Tranquil Fury: When Miorine doesn't shout in anger, that's when you know she's really angry.
Miorine, meanwhile, hadn't even taken the time to yell at anybody, which was worrying..
Xanatos Gambit: Miorine uses one during her meeting with Nika. While she fails her main goal, to ally with her, she does manage to gain a lot of intel about the Dawn of Fold's alliance with Quiet Zero and start rebuilding their friendship.
Xanatos Speed Chess: Part of her Character Development is to accept that she's not an all-knowing god and thus can't always predict everything. As a result, she begins working on plans that are less intended to foresee every eventuality, and more about creating as many opportunities to reach favorable outcomes as possible.

Suletta Rembran / "Barghest"

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Schwarzette, Gundam Lugh

Wing Commander for the CAUL, Miorine's wife, and Ericht Samaya's sister. Despite fighting on the frontlines as the CAUL's uncontested best pilot, Suletta has maintained her cheerful and kind nature, wanting nothing more than for the war to end so she can be with her friends and family again.

Suletta pilots the Gundam Schwarzette, the CAUL's only gundam, on loan from Jeturk Heavy Machinery. Her callsign is Barghest.

Ace Pilot: Suletta has always been this, but several characters throughout the fic bring up that she's a monster to face in combat. When she claims that she could beat someone, it's less a case of her being arrogant and more a statement of a matter of fact. Even Ericht, who is a Gundam, isn't sure if she could beat Suletta in a fair fight, and has to resort to dirty tricks.
All-Loving Hero: Suletta is a deeply compassionate person who hates the idea of hurting anyone, even people who inarguably deserve it. This puts her at odds with her sister, who thinks the ends justify the means. Suletta does try to see things from Ericht's point of view in book 3, attempting to mete out some vigilante justice, but it only makes her feel worse.
Amazonian Beauty: Over the timeskip at the end of book 2, Suletta bulks up from the muscular-but-gangly she was before to a sheer amazon. Norea, after paying very close attention to the movement of her muscle, remarks that she looks like she could fold a mobile suit up like tissue paper. During the costume party, one guest thought her muscles where part of the costume.
Animal Motifs: Hounds. Suletta is derogatorily thought of as Miorine's attack dog by many within the CAUL, who only does what her mistress tells her. She uses a cane with a handle shaped like a dog's head to navigate despite her blindness, her callsign is from a folkloric black hound of ill omen, and during the costume party in the second book she's dressed as a wolf knight. Suletta embraces the motif, but is frustrated at being dehumanized.
Appropriated Appellation: Suletta's callsign, "Barghest", was meant as an insult from Lauda, effectively calling her a dog. She likes it though, and happily embraces the animal motif.
Badass Boast: "I know who I am. I am miss Miorine's black hound of ill omen."
Beneath Notice: Suletta's veil makes her blind and robs her of individuality by hiding her face. The silver lining of this is that people tend to forget that she's there and that there is nothing wrong with her hearing, resulting in her overhearing a lot of private conversations.
Berserk Button: Referring to her by her maiden name instead of Rembran gets on her nerves, and is one of the few things that actually gets her to directly dislike someone.
Best Friend: Norea realizes that Suletta is effectively her best friend in chapter 47, much to her own surprise, but she doesn't say anything out of fear of embarassment.
Blood Knight: Suletta likes fighting, as long as no one gets actually hurt. She mentions at one point that she's been watching videos of Sabina piloting the Morrigan and is really excited about getting to fight her. When she gets the chance to talk to Sabina at the end of book two, she intentionally provokes her to anger in the hopes of getting a duel.
Cain and Abel: The Abel to Ericht's Cain, though really only in an official capacity. They really just want to hang out and be siblings, even when they have to fight. Chapter 22 turns it into a more serious case of this trope, as their opposing views on the sanctity of human life causes a serious schism between them, which also brings out all of Suletta's repressed anger over being The Unfavorite.
Char Clone: In a bit of a twist on tradition, Suletta is a rare heroic example of this trope. She pilots the Ace Custom Schwarzette that fights mostly in close-quarters, wears a visor that obscures her face, and she has both red and black color motifs. She is The Dragon to Miorine and fights on the opposite side from her sister, who she's technologically inferior than but manages to keep up by sheer ability and skill. After the Schwarzette is destroyed, she gets another Ace Custom replacement with a bright red chassis and pilots it while wearing sunglasses, driving the similarities in even further.
Commonality Connection:
- She and Guel bonded and got closer while working out together, both enjoying the way working out gave them control over their lives.
- She later bonds with Norea, having both been raised as effectively test subjects by scientists who weren't interested in teaching them ethics, and as witches from a very young age.
Cool Shades: She picks up a pair of old-fashioned ones in chapter 40, hoping to impress Norea.
Disabled in the Adaptation: Downplayed. Suletta isn't actually disabled, but she has to wear a black veil that hides her face and makes her effectively blind. She uses a white cane to navigate.
The Dragon: Unusually heroic example, but still. While both Suletta and Miorine are good people, Miorine is in charge of the deeply corrupt and exploitative Benerit Group, and Suletta is the powerful fighter who does her bidding.
The Dreaded: Suletta, despite being a Nice Girl, is also deeply terrifying, often without even realizing it. Her appearance as a black-clad pilot silently standing behind her wife, with a black veil hiding her face is intimidating enough, but there's also the fact that she's the best mobile suit pilot in the world and anyone who fights her faces a very quick defeat. Her enemies know her as the Black Hound of Death.
The Faceless: In-Universe. Suletta has a Veil, a sort of holographic projection that displays a dense mesh of junk data in front of her face at all times which hides her face behind a black veil. Unlike other examples of the trope, she can't see out through it either, rendering her effectively blind. She discards it after her fight with Ericht, having had enough of being kept in the dark.
Freudian Excuse: After witnessing Suletta fight, Norea notices that she is very precise and controlled, exerting just the right amount of violence needed to get results and no more. Norea theorizes that this is a result of the Rumble Ring incident, since Suletta feels that Sophie died because she lost control.
Friendship Trinket: She gets a friendship bracelet from Norea, of all people in chapter 49.
Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: She admits to herself that she will never understand why some people would sacrifice themselves willingly for a cause that doesn't give a shit about them, in reference to Cathedra's fanatics.
Happily Married: Despite some struggles prior to the marriage, and the wartime they live in, Suletta and Miorine were married soon after the onset of the war, and love each other deeply.
Hidden Depths: Despite coming across as a bit of a socially awkward but kindhearted simpleton, Suletta is extremely capable both in and out of a mobile suit, very skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and has deep knowledge of how life support systems work as a result of having been a rescue pilot on Mercury.
The Immune: Downplayed, she's not immune, but she has much higher resistance to the Gund-format than an average person, thanks to being a clone of Ericht.
Innocently Insensitive: When they have a chance to chat, Sabina remarks that it's a shame she and Suletta never had a chance to have a proper duel. Suletta responds that she thought they did, during the serial duel after Plant Quetta, unintentionally implying that Sabina is a poor enough pilot that she could be lumped in with that sorry lot. She later admits that this was actually a Stealth Insult, as she was trying to goad Sabina into a duel.
It's All My Fault: Maybe not all, but Suletta insists on taking at least part of the blame for Sophie's death, even though Ericht freely admits to having killed her.
The Maiden Name Debate: Suletta and Miorine resolved this by taking each others' names, making her Suletta Rembran.
Meaningful Name: Suletta's callsign while piloting the Schwarzette is "Barghest", a black hound of ill omen. She wears a black flgihtsuit and is an ill omen for anyone facing her. "Schwarz" also means black in German.
Mistaken Identity: In chapter 47, some Aeriali children mistake her for Ericht.
Mythical Motifs: Suletta's motif is Cú Chulainn, the hero of the Ulster Cycle. Like Cú Chulainn (who's name means "Hound of Chulainn"), Suletta has an AnimalMotif of a hound, and her second gundam, the Lugh, is named after Cú Chulainn's father/other incarnation, showing that she has graduated from being the Hound to being the Houndmaster.
Nice Girl: Suletta, as always, is endlessly kind and genuine, caring deeply about the happiness of everyone she loves. Sabina thinks this is her most dangerous trait; She is so sincere that everyone she talks to wants to be sincere as well.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Suletta is usually a sweet and forgiving ingénue. As such, her voicing her dislike of Shaddiq is very notable. Her violently beating him close to death after learning that he's been keeping Elan's true nature from her even more so, showing that she is truly done with being kept in the dark.
Propaganda Hero: She features prominently in CAUL propaganda and enlistment posters, as their most skilled and capable pilot. One in particular depicts her inviting the viewer into the cockpit of a mobile suit, with her arm at a slightly awkward angle to show off her biceps.
Rage Breaking Point: Ericht attacking and destroying the Peil HQ with everyone inside causes Suletta to finally snap and release all of her previous grievances like Prospera's Parental Favouritism and Ericht's tendency to treat everything like a game. While Ericht tricks and defeats her in their ensuing duel, the Awful Truth of Elan's true nature causes her to snap again and violently beat up Shaddiq for keeping it secret.
Red Baron: Barghest, though that is her official callsign. she's also known as the black hound of ill omen and the Witch's Knight. Notably, Suletta doesn't call herself a Witch despite being one, prefering to be called a Knight.
Red Is Heroic: Suletta has bright red hair, and her third mobile suit, the Lugh, is coloured a similar colour. It goes with her being one of the most heroic mobile suit pilots in the story.
These Hands Have Killed: Suletta hates killing and hurting people, but is aware that it is an innevitability in war. During her first sortie piloting the Lugh, she considers whether she can get away without killing anyone, concludes that it would be too risky, and makes peace with the nightmares she expects to suffer in the future.
Tranquil Fury: After one too many instances of Shaddiq disrespecting her prefered name, Suletta calmly presses the head of her cane to his chest and implies that bad things will happen to him if he doesn't stop.
The Unfavorite: Like in the show, it's not hard to see which of her two daughters is Prospera's favourite. Suletta tries to be okay with it, but it grates on her and is one of several grievances that leads to her and Ericht's confrontation.
Angry at her Mom for caring so little for her own wellbeing - caring so little for anything or anyone but Eri. For caring so little about her.

Guel Jeturk

Mobile Suit(s): Darilbalde

Vice-president of the Benerit wing of the CAUL and close friend of the Mercury-Rembran couple. Despite being Spacian born and bred, Guel has witnessed the suffering caused by the Benerit Group's oppression of Earth first-hand, and is dedicated above all else to preserve lives.

Adaptational Sexuality: In the show, Guel is only shown as being attracted to women (namely Suletta). Here, he is certainly attracted to Shaddiq, so he's most likely bi, pan, or something adjacent.
Affluent Ascetic: Guel, despite being vice president of a corporate union spanning the entire solar system, lives in a small apartment on the Asticassia campus. He had enough of giant cavernous mansions in his childhood.
The Atoner: After witnessing the exploitation of Earth firsthand, Guel works to preserve Earthian lives more than any other member of the CAUL, and is looking into stopping Jeturk's production of weapons of war.
Brains and Brawn: In the early days after Guel returned, Guel was the brawn who got rid of the corruption in Jeturk once Lauda has sussed it out.
Cain and Abel: While they are technically on the same side, Guel and his brother Lauda have very different beliefs and politics which put them at odds. Guel is the Abel, wanting to cut off their family company's gross exploitation of Earth and turn it towards more idealistic ends, while Lauda is the Cain, wanting to continue as their father did.
Disabled in the Adaptation: Guel suffers debilitating back pains, resulting from a mix of accumulated damage from mobile suit piloting, and guilt and trauma. Notably, his back bothers him less after Lauda cuts him off from the family company.
The Good Chancellor: Plays this role to Shaddiq's Evil Chancellor. While Shaddiq uses underhanded and brutal tactics and often acts without Miorine's consent, Guel believes in preserving all life above all else and is happy to serve as Miorine's second in command without trying to undermine her.
Honest Corporate Executive: Guel is not Jeturk's CEO, but he still has influence over the company and he aims to be this, downscaling weapons manufacture and eventually phase it out entirely, and dedicating the company to worker welfare.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He has long since gotten over his crush on Suletta, and is now good friends with her and Miorine.
Number Two: He is Miorine's vice-president, and supports her in her work to help Earth and Space alike.
Only Friend: Shaddiq remarks that Guel is probably the only person in the solar system who's happy he's not hurt. Guel admits that it's true, though he brought it on himself.
Real Men Cook: Vim Jeturk was of the opinion that men should know their way around the kitchen as well as they do the bedroom, and passed those values on to Guel.
Sophisticated as Hell: In one scene he arrives at Miorine's office doing the typical "You summoned" spiel, and then notices that she has ordered from his favourite restaurant and does a 180.
Guel: President Rembran, we received your summons, is something the m- oh, hell yeah, is that Flathead’s?!
Survival Mantra: Guel has used "One foot, then the other. I can do this." to get himself through hard times ever since his brief stay on Earth.
Tranquil Fury: With Lauda denying any blame for Seethia's death despite her dying in an attack he ordered, arguing that he was just giving orders and avenging his father's death, Guel goes cold from fury and recounts the events that led up to Vim's death at his hands.

Shaddiq Zenelli

The CAUL's secretary of corporate outreach and part of Miorine's inner circle. Despite his history and continued use of deceit and trickery, Shaddiq keeps his position by being too useful to discard, and too dangerous to not keep an eye on.

Adoptive Name Change: His adoptive father forced him to change his name from Jeru Ogul to Shaddiq Zenelli, as a way to further control him and rid him of any Earthian heritage.
And Then What?: Shaddiq confides in Guel that he's worried he's been on his quest to help Earth for so long that he's forgotten the end, only thinking about the means. If he reaches his goal, he doesn't know if he'll know it.
Antagonistic Offspring: He hates his adopted father for both being an abusive and perfectionist parent in general, and more generally for being one of the main exploiters of Shaddiq's homeworld. One of his main fears is that Sarius will come back from exile.
Evil Chancellor: Downplayed. They are working for the same goal, but despite being in Miorine's inner circle, Shaddiq's pride and belief that he's the only one who can fix things often results in him going behind her back and acting without her consent. More than once this has messed up her plans or made her absolutely furious at him.
He Who Fights Monsters: Shaddiq may have wanted to save Earth once, but that goal is long gone, and by now he only plays lipservice to it while ordering attacks that kill thousands of Earthians.
Hypocrite: Shaddiq claims that the reason he didn't ally with Prospera Mercury is that he remembers her attack on Quinharbour, right after he ordered his own attack on Quinharbour for equally petty reasons.
Lethal Chef: When he tried to make dinner for Guel, he managed to burn everything.
Love Redeems: Guel is determined to help Shaddiq out of the pit he's in, insisting that they walk the path to becoming better people together. He's definitely making progress.
Malicious Misnaming: Shaddiq repeatedly calls Suletta "Mercury" instead of her married last name Rembran, as a way to insult her and take petty shots at her marriage, which he claims is just a slip of the tongue. Suletta eventually has had enough and threatens him with violence if he doesn't stop.
The Needs of the Many: When the CAUL are planning on launching an attack on greenhouses on Earth, Guel objects since people (Earthians) will die. Shaddiq, who is Earthian himself, argues that it's better that a few die rather than the millions that would die if the SAL got their way.
Never My Fault: Shaddiq seems chronically incapable of admitting that he fucked up, always acting like everything was part of the plan and he's on top of things even when he clearly isn't. In one scene in chapter 43, he thinks to himself that everything would've been fine if just his plans had worked out.
Past Experience Nightmare: He frequently has bad dreams about his adopted father and his time at the Grassley academy slash eugenics project.
The Perfectionist: At the Grassley orphanage where he grew up, failure of any kind, even failure in the process of learning, was not tolerated. As a result, Shaddiq feels that he has to be the best at everything he does, even if he's doing it for the first time. He's genuinely surprised when Guel's reaction to Shaddiq burning the food is to calmly help him do it better next time.
Pride: His Fatal Flaw. Shaddiq is convinced that only he has the answers to the systemic exploitation of Earth, and that everything would turn out well if only people would listen to him. Any plan that isn't his is doomed to fail.
Real Men Cook: Not initially, as cooking was not part of the curriculum at the Grassley academy he grew up in (which is also the reason Sabina can't cook), but Guel has been teaching him.
Realpolitik: A strong believer in this. As far as Shaddiq is concerned, idealists like Guel never get anything done and the only way to actually make societal change is through underhanded and ruthless methods.
Survival Mantra: For a while, as a kid, he would fall asleep whispering "I am Jeru Ogul" again and again to defy his father, who ordered him to forget his old name. At one point he just forgot to do it anymore.
That Man Is Dead: After the Luna incident, he asks Guel to call him "Jeru Ogul." When he does, Shaddiq says the name doesn't feel like his anymore.

Secelia Dote & Rouji Chante

Representatives for the Burion company, as well as Miorine's Chief of Intelligence and Intelligence Administrator respectively. Secelia and Rouji are trusted members of Miorine's inner circle.

Adaptational Sexuality: The show has no indication of Rouji's sexuality any which way. Here, he is aromantic and asexual.
Arranged Marriage: Secelia was arranged by her family to be married to Elan Ceres (the original) at one point, though it was broken off when Elan was shipped off to Peil.
Connected All Along: Apparently she is not only an old friend and ex-fiance of Elan Ceres, but has been helping him break away from Peil.
For Science!: Rouji and Nolan's relationship apparently consists of them putting each other in steadily more bizarre situations just to document the other's reaction. Secelia likes watching.
Out of Focus: So far they have the least focus of Miorine's inner circle, and the only ones aside from Gundam Lugh to not have any POV chapters.
Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Despite the marriage being arranged by their families, Secelia did apparently feel something for Nolan, though she's now worried that the time has ruined any chance of their relationship being rekindled.
Platonic Life-Partners: There is apparently nothing between Secelia and Rouji beyond close friendship (especially given the indication that Rouji is aromantic), but they are still thick as thieves and as close as ever even two years after the show. According to Shaddiq, they live together but aren't married or romantically involved.
The Reliable One: Miorine notes that she can always trust Secelia to do what's best for Burion, and Rouji to follow Secelia's lead. Compared to Guel, who's prone to make rash decisions, and Shaddiq, who she wouldn't trust to get wet in a rainstorm, they are thus the most reliable of her inner circle, aside from Suletta.
The Spymaster: Their role in Miorine's inner circle is to keep in touch with contacts across the solar system and make sure Miorine is up to date with information she can trust.

Gundam Lugh (Unmarked Spoilers)

Suletta's third gundam, constructed from the remains of Gundams Lfrith Thorn and Pharact after the latter was destroyed fighting the Nemain and the Schwarzette was destroyed in battle with Aerial. Unbeknownst to the public, but known by its pilot, the president, and a few others, the Lugh contains the mind of the fourth Peil enhanced person, Elan, who's consciousness had laid semi-dormant in the Pharact until shortly prior to its destruction, and was intentionally brought along when it was rebuilt.

In circumstances where a massive mobile suit body is unwieldy, Elan's consciousness can be expressed through the hound-shaped Failinis bit-stave, which accompanies Suletta when she's not piloting the main body.

Affectionate Nickname: Norea and Elan (Nemo) calls him "Four", presumably due to One-Steve Limit.
Animal Motifs: Dogs. His drone body is named after a hunting dog and he seems to lean fully into the motif, refering to his sanctum in the datastorm as a doghouse. He inherits this from Suletta, who has herself graduated from hound to houndmaster.
Anti-Magic: Lugh's shield, despite superficially resembling the antidote shields used by Grassley mobile suits, actually has the opposite effect; It can cancel out the antidote system, allowing Suletta to operate on low permet scores at all times.
Armed Legs: Lugh keeps the Pharact's beak foot armaments, which have been modified so that in addition to firing low-energy beam weapons, they can also be used as a bladed weapon in a pinch.
The Assimilator: A rare heroic and non-supernatural example. Lugh, as Suletta's latest gundam, combines elements of the mobile suits she defeated during her time at Asticassia; Physically it is made from the bodies of Gundams Lfrith Thorn and Pharact, it has a similar AI system as the Darilbalde, and its soul is Elan, the second person she ever defeated in a duel.
Beware My Stinger Tail: The Failinis' Prehensile Tail ends in a claw-like digit.
Blood Knight: Elan seems a bit more violent than when he was alive, or at least more willing to indulge in and enjoy it. While occupying the Failinis drone, he is rather enthusiastic about tearing a weaponized Haro to pieces like a real wolf tearing into a kill.
Brain Uploading: Like Ericht before him and Sophie after, Elan's mind was somehow stored in permet particles within the Gundam Pharact at the time of his death.
Classical Hunter: The archetype it's built on, complete with a loyal hunting dog.
Connected All Along: It turns out that after his death, and once Quiet Zero was up and running, Ericht pulled him out of the Pharact and let him stay in her corner of the datastorm for a while. They eventually had a falling out and he returned to the Pharact.
Cyber Cyclops: Failinis has a single red eye.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Lugh has a large cruciform shield named Redback, which can float away and operate independently of the body's movement.
Master of the Levitating Blades: The Lugh has an AI system similar to the Jeturk Darilbalde (in fact, it's the same, with modifications), which lets its shield and spear move around independently of Suletta or even Elan's input, reacting to threats before the pilot even notices they're there.
Memory Palace: He creates a small space in the datastorm which looks like a cozy little reading nook full of books. It's theo nly place he can actually talk, and he uses it to interract with Sophie
No-Sell: Failinis is made from special materials, making it all but invulnerable to beam weapons, which is exploited by having its default form be on Lugh's chest, protecting the cockpit.
Odd Name Out: The Lugh breaks the pattern of original gundams in the fic being named after Celtic war goddesses, being instead named after the male god of light and goodness.
Only the Chosen May Pilot: Downplayed, anyone can pilot the Lugh and even make use of its abilities. However, it is specially designed for Suletta, and as such only she can make full use of it. Part of it is simply because she's the best gundam pilot, but the Lugh's Gund-format is also specially adapted for her neurology, effectively working one or two permet scores higher with no extra strain on her, thanks to her innate resistance.
Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The gundam itself is named after the god Lugh, father of Cú Chulainn (tying into Suletta's Mythical Motifs), god of various heroic things. The Failinis, following that motif, is named after Lugh's hunting dog, said to be invulnerable, and its spear, Gae Assail, is named after Lugh's spear.
Speaks In Shoutouts: Presumably because he, like Morrigan, still can't get his speech centers working properly, he communicates by playing bits from various classic music ("classic" in the sense that they're from the real-life mid-to-late 1900s), which Norea knows enough about to instantly recognize. The first time he does this is with Hotel California by The Eagles. He clarifies later that he can't simply string together any random song to make a sentence, he has to actually have the song clearly in his head, and his taste just happens to be 200 years old.
Transhuman: Before his death he was biologically and cybernetically enhanced to serve as a Gundam pilot and perfect body double. After his death, he became a massive mobile suit. Suletta notices that Elan actually seems much more expressive and emotional now that he isn't tied to his physical body anymore, playing song-recognition games with her and Norea, suggesting customizations to his body, and clearly having a lot of fun while acting as Suletta's hunting dog as the Failinis.
Troll: Flashbacks show that he's a bit of a jokester when he's not fearing for his life. When Elan #5 tells him to stop playing Hotel California, he does so but proceeds to quote the lyrics in their conversation to annoy him.
Virtual Ghost: Elan's mind is active within the Lugh and the Failinis, and can on some level communicate.

Other

The Valkyries / The Triune (Unmarked Spoilers)

Mobile Suit(s): Beguir-Dullahan (Henao), Beguir-Sidhe (Renee), Beguir-Dearg Du (Ireesha), Gundam Nemain

Shaddiq's Knights, a quintet of mobile suit pilots raised alongside him in the Grassley Orphanage and trained to be his agents and confidantes. After Sabina left them and killed Maisie in the process, the three remaining valkyries, Henao Jazz, Renee Costa, and Ireesha Plano have grown coldly dedicated to the cause of revenge, not helped by a transhumanist research project that have made them something more than mere partners.

All three

Ace Custom: Their various Beguirs have unique properties and abilities and don't appear to be mass-produced.
Bigger Stick: The Triune are undeniably good pilots, but in both their fights against the Pharact and the Demi-Balor, it's obvious that they're not exceptionally good, and both the Nemos and Chuchu have the upper edge in terms of skill. What the Triune have over their enemies, however, is the Nemain, one of the most advanced and dangerous gundams in existence
Dragon with an Agenda: Over the course of the second book it becomes steadily more apparent that the Valkyries are not fully under Shaddiq's control, and he's just as scared of them as everyone else. Working for him is really just an easy way to get their revenge.
Evil Laugh: When one of them laughs, the others follow suit, creating an unsettling echoing effect.
Finishing Each Other's Sentences: They do a variant by speaking in each others' voices while using the TAT. By the third book, Shaddiq has a hard time keeping track of who's saying what, even when they're not using the TAT.
Hive Mind: The Triune Associative Technology system developed by Grassley and tested on Henao, Ireesha, and Renee, while intended to grant combat telepathy and enable them to share the burden of piloting a gundam, functionally makes them a hivemind. While they all retain individual identities, their personalities start bleeding into each other, physically as they start talking with each others' mouths, and mentally as their memories and emotions start mixing.
Living Emotional Crutch: Very much so, though in different ways; Ireesha only manages to go on after Maisie's death because of her fellow valkyries' support, Henao consider them the only ones who love and understand her despite her inability to express emotion, and Renee is deathly afraid of being alone and see them as the only ones who won't leave her.
Felsi: Surprised to see your codependent ass here alone.
Renee: I'm never alone.
Motive Rant: They go on one in chapter 43, telling Shaddiq how they want to kill and destroy everything Sabina holds dear, listing Olcott, Felsi, Chuchu, the Dawn of Fold and NEU, and, of course, Nika, before they finally go after Sabina herself.
Henao: Give them to us.
Renee: Unleash us.
The Triune: Feed us, Shaddiq.
Polyamory: They have a very close relationship. Though the messed up Transhuman nature of their relationship makes it impossible to describe properly, they see each other as the most important people in their lives and will go to absurd lengths for each other.
Propaganda Hero: After they attacked Norea and Elan, Shaddiq and Miorine spun a story that they had been heroically trying to stop a pair of Dawn of Fold spies and rescue the real Elan Ceres. The result was that the Valkyries became heroes of the CAUL and are now feature on propaganda posters almost as much as Suletta.
Revenge:
- The Valkyries are almost entirely motivated by a desire for revenge against Sabina, who killed Maisie, and their main goal is to take away everything she holds dear, ranging from her wife and closest friends to people who just happen to work with her. Their desire for revenge almost crosses the line into Horror Hunger, as they call for Shaddiq to feed them.
- They also want revenge against Shaddiq for his part in getting Maisie killed through ineptitude and pride, but they approach it in a more ironic way; They want him to win everything he wants, just so he can feel Lonely at the Top.
Shadow Archetype: To Norea. Like her, they lost their Living Emotional Crutch and were consumed with a thirst for revenge afterward. However, while Norea was able to veer off that path and become a better person, the Valkyries haven't stop spiraling yet. Their attack on Quinharbour evokes Norea's attack on Asticassia during End of Hope, but this time with Norea in the role of defender.
Speak in Unison: While using the TAT, the Valkyries speak not in unison, but through each others' bodies. Generally this takes the form of for instance Henao asking a question through Renee's mouth, and Renee answering through Henao's. By the third book, they have gotten so used to doing this and understand each other so intimately that they don't even need the TAT to do it anymore.
Synchronization: Through the Triune Associative Technology system, or Thou Art That as Henao calls it, the Valkyries can share sensations, thoughts, impressions, and even bodies to a certain degree. The original intent of the system was so a Gundam pilot could "outsource" the painful effects of the GUND system to her co-pilots, but it ends up working more as a Hive Mind.
Transhuman: The TAT system are implants that turn the otherwise human valkyries into a Hive Mind. As Shaddiq puts it, they were broken apart and then glued themselves back together, getting some of the pieces mixed up.
True Companions: The Valkyries certainly have a very close relationship, seeing each other as their only family and willing to give up their individuality to keep each other safe. Since Maisie's death and Sabina's defection, the remaining three have become even closer, to the point of codependency.
The Weird Sisters: They are a sci-fi take on this trope, being a trio of ominous Transhumans. One scene in the first intermission is even framed as them performing a human sacrifice in a setting reminiscent of a witches' sabbath, and one scene in chapter 43 is a direct Shout-Out to the Trope Namer, Macbeth. Felsi even refers to them as the "bitches three", a play on "witches three."

Ireesha Plano

Character Tics: Ireesha has a bad habit of scratching her arms when they're unoccupied, which she used to deal with by carrying a large plushie around. She got back into it after Maisie died, but it was relieved by the TAT. In chapter 60, Henao gives her a makeshift plushie to keep her from doing it again.
Corrupt the Cutie: Ireesha in the show was seen always looking sleepy and holding an oversized plushie. In the time since her partner's death, she has become cold and vengeful, with a lot of murderous anger directed at the people she holds responsible and a desire to make them suffer as she has suffered. Her mental state is also clearly deteriorating. That said, flashbacks show that this was not entirely the fault of Maisie's death. Even before that, she was a deeply disturbed young woman with serious mental health issues and trauma, with various experts disagreeing about what exactly to diagnose her with. Losing Maisie just meant that she didn't quite keep everything as locked up anymore.
Emotion Suppression: As Maisie describes it in a flashback, Ireesha puts all her feelings in a box and locks it tight away, taking the time to "fold them up" so that nothing spills out, usually with Maisie's help. And then Maisie died, and that box isn't quite so locked up anymore.
The Heart: She's referred to as "the Heart of the Triune." While Renee and Henao may get into arguments and disagreements, Ireesha is the peacekeeper and loves them both dearly, and is loved in return.
Heroic Sacrifice: Non-lethal variant. 'While the TAT system is meant to have her partners suffer both the physical effects and the pain of the Datastorm, Ireesha elects to feel the pain herself, sparing the others from it.
The Lost Lenore: Ireesha clearly didn't take the loss of Maisie well, having gone from The Cutie to a sharp and hard woman who's thin to the point of starvation. Over time it becomes steadily more apparent that her mental state is severely unraveling without her.
Near-Death Experience: While piloting the Nemain for the first time, Ireesha is fully submerged in the datastorm. While she's not dying, she sees a vision of what appears to be the afterlife, and even interracts with the souls of Maisie May and Naji Geor Hija.
Sanity Slippage: Not that any of the Triune are doing great mentally speaking, but chapter 54 shows that Ireesha has fallen much harder than the other two, practically delirious from both the pain of piloting the Nemain and from obsession with revenge the moment Felsi or Chuchu are within her grasp. After a battle she seems barely even aware that it happens, and she thinks of the pain as something she needs to suffer to be "pure."
Security Blanket: She used to carry a big stuffed bunny around, though discarded it after Maisie died. In chapter 60, Henao helps her deal with her distress by giving her a makeshift plushie, which she clings to for dear life.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: In a flashback, it's shown that she tried to kill Sabina with a knife because Sabina made a mistake during the Grassley/Earth House team duel that could have gotten Maisie killed. Of course, that's nothing compared to how bad she got after Maisie's death.
Wilfully Weak: Sabina's original impression of Ireesha was that she's middle-of-the-road; A good pilot, but not exceptional. A smart tactician, but not confident enough to be a leader. A skilled fighter, but not murderous enough to be dangerous. After an incident where Ireesha tried to kill her with a knife, however, she reevaluated and realizes that Ireesha is absolutely all of those things but holds herself back, notable in how she never gets a scratch during duels even when all her teammates go down, or how she knew precisely how to wield a knife with deadly precision.

Henao Jazz

All the Other Reindeer: Henao was ostracized as a kid, even by her parents, because she never expressed emotion.
The Leader: Sabina always thought that if she wasn't the leader, it would be Henao. She doesn't really step into the role until chapter 60 though, when Renee is unconscious and Ireesha is in emotional distress, taking charge and looking after her sisters to make sure they're okay.
Not Himself: More so than Renee or Ireesha, Henao is changed by the TAT system, becoming much more emotive and taking on a lot of the traits of her partners. She is deeply scared of this, not wanting to lose herself or become "normal."
Number Two: Henao has taken over as Shaddiq's second in command after Sabina defected. Miorine notes that she takes after Sabina to an almost disturbing degree, emulating her to the point of losing herself in the role.
Shared Dream: The first time we see the TAT system in action, it's Henao experiencing one of Ireesha's dreams.
The Stoic: Henao emotes very little and keeps her emotions close to her chest. It turns out that this is not by choice but because she has an unspecified neurodivergence (possible Dysthymia) that makes it difficult for her to express emotions.
When She Smiles: She smiles very rarely due to her ambiguous disorder, but a flashback does show Sabina managing to get a couple genuine smiles out of her, which are described as "brilliant."
Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Henao, who has an unspecified neurodivergence, was told all her life that she should just be normal, to the point that the word "normal" is a Trauma Button for her, especially when said by someone she cares about like Renee.

Renee Costa

A Day in the Limelight: The Luna Arc of the third book spends a fair bit of time showing Renee's life and sepparately from the rest of the Triune, particularily her relationship with Lilique.
Addled Addict: All of the Valkyries react to the TAT system differently. In Renee's case, it is almost like an addiction, and it's doutful if she'd survive if she was disconnected from it.
Amicable Exes: When she and Lilique meet again, there is no bad blood, only sorrow that things between them ended the way it did. Believing she has worked through the issues that led to their breakup, Renee even asks Lilique to join the Triune. Lilique turns her down, but she takes it with grace, smiles, and wishes her well before leaving, happy about having gained closure.
Bare-Fisted Monk: She's at the very least confident enough in her abilities in unarmed combat to take on the extremely skilled Felsi while unarmed.
The Casanova: Like in the show, Renee is still going through a steady line of boyfriends.
Combat Pragmatist: She claims that she doesn't need a weapon to beat Felsi, but when Felsi has her in a headlock and is choking her to death, Renee doesn't hesitate to pull out a hidden knife and stab her.
Deadly Euphemism: She refers to getting rid of bodies as "We've been growing a garden." She may be talking literally.
Deadpan Snarker: When Shaddiq threatens to pull rank on them, Renee responds sarcastically "Punish us then, daddy."
Freudian Excuse: It's mentioned that Renee was abandoned by her parents as a child, left sick and alone in a ruined building. This informs her later pathological fear of being alone and need to be loved.
Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She was one in Asticassia, throwing "the best parties" as Petra remembers it.
Hates Being Alone: Renee is pathologically afraid of being alone, which plays into why she is The Casanova. She fully embraces the TAT system for this reason, reveling in the feeling of being so closely connected to her loved ones, and seems to develop a kind of addiction to it, being uncomfortable when disconnected from it.
I Just Want to Be Loved: Renee Costa just wants someone who loves her and sees her as the most important person in the unvierse. Lilique did see her that way, but Renee's insecurities and jealousy ruined their relationship.
It's All My Fault: During Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, either Maisie or Renee had to take up leadership of the Valkyries. Renee hesitated, so Maisie took the mantle... and was killed immediately after. Since then, Renee has blamed herself for Maisie's death and is so guilty she would rather die than fail her sisters again.
Jerkass Has a Point: During her fight with Felsi, she accuses her of being just a rich girl poverty tourist who just joined Dawn of Fold out of a selfish desire to feel better about herself. This is pretty rich coming from Renee, who is perfectly fine with killing hundreds of Earthians and destroy the Dawn of Fold for her own revenge, but it clearly hits a sore spot for Felsi, who did benefit from Earthian oppression and was ignorant to their struggle before she met Chuchu, and she notably doesn't say anything to defend herself.
Ladykiller in Love: Renee has gone through a steady line of boyfriends, but it's obvious that she only has eyes for Lilique, and their relationship ended poorly. A flashback shows her admitting to Sabina that she's might have genuine feelings for Lilique, and Sabina notes that it's one of the very rare times she's actually seen the true Renee past her usual persona.
The One That Got Away: Renee Costa and Lilique had a brief relationship, but it ended poorly. Renee still has feelings for her and wants to try again, but doesn't dare to talk to Lilique about it.
Secret Stab Wound: Renee is injured fighting Felsi, but hides the severity of it from her sisters through the subsequent battles with Balor and Morrigan, her guilt refusing to let her be a burden. This nearly gets her killed, and she only survives because Nika goes out of her way to save her.
Terms of Endangerment: In chapter 51, she calls Felsi by the affectionate diminutive "Mousey", which is less than reassuring after she has forced her way into the church where Felsi and Petra are hiding. She later tells her to "be a good girl" and surrender.

Lauda Neill

Acting CEO of the Jeturk group, Guel Jeturk's brother. He does not share his brother's views on perserving lives.

Brains and Brawn: In the early days after Guel returned, Lauda was the brains who found out where corruption was hiding in Jeturk, while Guel was the brawn, taking it out once it was uncovered.
Cain and Abel: While they are technically on the same side, Lauda and his brother Guel have very different beliefs and politics which put them at odds. Guel is the Abel, wanting to cut off their family company's gross exploitation of Earth and turn it towards more idealistic ends, while Lauda is the Cain, wanting to continue as their father did.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Guel's character development sadly didn't pass on to Lauda, who still runs Jeturk the same exploitative, oppressive, militaristic way their father did. It gets even worse after his falling out with Shaddiq, as he starts actively refusing to listen to workers' demands and shuts Guel (who's an Honest Corporate Executive) out of big decisions.
Deal with the Devil: In a sense, he has struck a deal with the SAL to manufacture Darilbalde Lirs for the assault on Quiet Zero, bringing his company back from the brink. However, in doing so he has bound Jeturk to the SAL and Rajan Zahi, which is implied to go much deeper than just business.
Dramatically Missing the Point: In chapter 51, it's revealed that he paid for a bounty to have Felsi captured alive. Petra thinks he probably did it because he knew she missed her friend, and somehow concluded that having her kidnapped and forced to return was a good idea.
Fantastic Racism: Lauda has a very poor opinion on Earthians, seeing any story about their plight as just woe-is-me propaganda and clearly not approving of his fiancee's friendship with the Earthians Chuchu and Lilique. At one point he even refers to Lilique as "Miorine's creature."
I Have No Son!: Sibling example, but still. Guel revealing that he killed Vim, his insistence that Jeturk stop manufacturing weapons used to oppress Earth, and his quiet accusation that Lauda killed children with an attack he ordered causes Lauda to leave, declaring "I don’t know what you are, but you’re not my brother."
Jack of All Trades: When they were kids, Guel, being the more physically inclined of the siblings, was pressured into focusing on piloting and physical endeavors by their father. Lauda, by contrast, studied a wide array of fields ranging from business to the classics to wine tasting.
Jerkass: Lauda has sadly not improved much from the events of the show. He calls Chuchu, one of his fiance's best friends, "the Earthian" with notable venom, derides Suletta for losing her fight with Ericht, dismisses the civilian casualties of attacks he ordered - attacks Guel saw firsthand - completely, and thinks Guel is insane for wanting to cease weapons manufacturing because of his trauma from Earth.
Never My Fault: When Petra goes on a trip to Luna with Lilique after she and Lauda have a bad argument, and subsequently gets caught up in a warzone, Lauda blames it on Lilique "putting ideas in her head" and threatens to scorch the Earth in retaliation if she's hurt, rather than consider that his rude dismissal of her concerns that led to the argument might be in any way at fault.
Real Men Cook: Like Guel, he's an excellent chef, which Petra appreciates the few times he has the free time to cook for her. He presumably learned it from his father, same as Guel.

Petra Itta

Lauda's fiance and Jeturk's liaison to the CAUL. Petra was a close friend of Chuchu and Felsi prior to their defection, having outgrown her prejudices.

Awesomeness by Analysis: She's not a fighter, but she does, in her own words, have a talent for picking up patterns, which leads her to notice that someone has been embezzling arms from Jeturk for decades.
Best Friend: As in the show, Felsi and Petra are close as can be. Unlike in the show, she's this to Chuchu as well, extending her friendship to her best friend's girlfriend. Surprisingly, they get along very well.
Broken Pedestal: Her view on her fiance takes a rather big hit as events go on. While she was certainly aware that he had some issues before and wasn't without blood on his hands, she kept it compartmentalized until the events of book three, where he dismisses her concerns as just being emotional, and she starts to suspect that Lauda might be compliant in far worse things than she initially thought. By the time she's given the chance to call him after ending up at Quiet Zero, she realizes that she doesn't want to talk to him.
Bully Turned Buddy: To Chuchu, whom she used to bully for being poor and Earthian when they attended Asticassia. Since then she's mellowed out and considers Chuchu one of her best friends.
Character Development: She Took a Level in Kindness between the events of the series and fic, but she's still very naïve and ignorant of the realities of war around her. Much of her arc revolves around being faced with this firsthand and realizing how compliant she's been.
Closet Key: It's implied that Lilique is hers, as the author jokingly described Petra's growing crush on her as "Petra's disastrous bi awakening."
Crush Blush: She starts developing it around Lilique in the third book, especially when Lilique is standing close, complimenting her, or playfully calling her "my hero".
Daddy's Girl: The relationship between them isn't brought up much, but Petra takes after her father in both appearance and fashion, and is happy to have that similarity pointed out.
Iconic Item: Her cowboy boots, which she always wears despite it not really fitting with the rest of her style.
I Gave My Word: She holds onto the Goodfellow Haro even when caught up in a fight between the Balor and Nemain. When asked why, she just says "I promised Felsi."
Inferiority Superiority Complex: Part of her being a bully back in Asticassia picking on those ower in social standing than her was because she was from a "middling house" and not particularily high in the spacian social standing either.
Inspirational Martyr: After she disappears in the midst of a fight between Morrigan and Nemain, Shaddiq realizes that Lauda and the SAL will use her as a martyr to justify violent retaliation against the earth, to the point where he can practically hear the battlecrys of "Justice for Petra Itta." Petra, of course, is not dead and would never want to be used in such a way.
Odd Friendship: Despite having previously bullied her, Petra quickly became good friends with Chuchu when the latter started dating Felsi.
Positive Friend Influence: Being friends with Chuchu and Felsi has clearly had a positive influence on Petra's sheltered and prejudiced views on Earthians, as she's a lot more sympathetic to the Earthian plight than her fiancé, especially after she also befriends Lilique.
Sheltered Aristocrat: Petra is deeply naïve about the realities of war and the exploitation of Earth, to the point where she nearly defends the Vanadis incident, an infamous slaughter of civilians. She's getting better, in large parts thanks to Felsi's influence.
Stress Vomit: She very nearly does it several times in chapter 51, first when a bullet is removed from her arm, then when she starts thinking about the Jeturk employees that were killed and stuffed into a closet.
Teens Love Shopping: She loves buying and trying on clothes with her friends, and even manages to get Chuchu to enjoy it with her. She also apparently spent an hour discussing boots with a Quiet Zero member.
Took a Level in Kindness: In the show, she was at best a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. While she is still a bit prejudiced in the fic, having for instance assumed that Lilique is stupid based on nothing but anti-Earthian bias, she's much more aware of her own faults, stops herself before she can blurt out anything offensive, and objects to Lauda's prejudiced views on Earthians.
Trademark Favorite Food: Lauda's cooking in general, more specifically she likes her eggs with very runny yolks.

Lilique Kadoka Lipati

Acting CEO of Gund-Arm Inc. a close friend of Suletta, Miorine, and Chuchu, and Renee Costa's ex-girlfriend. Lilique is a friendly and kind woman happy to sit down and talk with even complete strangers as if they were old friends.

Affectionate Nickname: Renee used to call her "Lili."
Amicable Exes: With Renee. She regrets how their relationship ended, implies that she'd like to try again, and when they meet again on Luna, there is no bad blood between them, only sadness that it ended the way it did. They nearly slip back into their old romantic habits and though Lilique turns down Renee's offer to join the Triune, it is only because she cannot condone the Triune's actions and feels that Triune!Renee is different from the Renee she loved.
Beware the Nice Ones: Played for laughs at a few points. She jokes to Henao that she's actually just using her kindness as a facade to get people to trust her, and when Petra asks why she became a CEO she answers that she wanted power. That said, Lilique is genuinely a kind person, though still very good at her job which can cause trouble for people on her bad side.
Big Beautiful Woman: She's on the portly side, and very easy on the eye, to the point where The Casanova Renee is heads over heels for her.
Big Damn Heroes: While it's a bit unclear how much real danger she was in, Lilique gets Petra out of a meeting with Big Bad Rajan Zahi by claiming that they're close and had a lunch date Petra forgot about.
Disappeared Dad: Her father was supposedly killed in an accident, though she clearly suspects foul play.
Freudian Slip: In a flashback to immediately after the Plant Quetta attack, Lilique is reciting to herself that she won't talk to Dominicus without her lawyer. While doing this she thinks about how her mom taught her to say that and slips up, saying "I won't talk without my mom present."
Nice Girl: She is nothing but kind and courteous to everyone, to the point where the idea that she might actually hate someone is surprising.
The One That Got Away: She is this to Renee, and seems to still carry a torch for her and regrets how their relationship ended.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Petra is utterly stunned when Lilique says outright that she hates Rajan, having a hard time fathoming the idea of Lilique Kadoka Lipati hating someone.
Properly Paranoid: When she and Petra go to Luna to investigate missing shipments, Lilique objects to registering them at the port and splitting up, since now everyone knows where they are and by splitting up they won't be able to rely on each other for protection. Petra thinks she's just being paranoid, but she is later attacked by assassins herself and only saved by running into Felsi.
Sins of Our Fathers: Everyone in Cathedra is chomping at the bit for a chance to interrogate Lilique when she's brought in for questionning, not for anything she's done but because her father wrote the Vanadis Papers, an infamous expose about the truth of the Vanadis incident.

Rajan Zahi

Retired Dominicus commander, the former adjutant of Delling Rembran, and currently the unofficial go-between for the Benerit and SAL wings of the CAUL.

Adaptational Villainy: In the show, Rajan is not a good person by far, but there's no indication that he's anything more or less than Delling's assistant with some genuine loyalty to him and his family. In the fic, Rajan is a borderline fascist believer in the exploitative and cruel power structures that allow people like him and Delling to stay on top, and is far more dedicated to preserving those systems than Delling ever was, even killing him for not being up to his authoritarian standards. He also plans on killing Suletta because he thinks she's a bad influence on Miorine.
Dragon Ascendant: Rajan was deeply loyal to Delling, but when he feels that Delling has become too corrupted by love and sentiment to be an effective ruler, he kills him and lays plans for grooming his successor - and if she can't be convinced to follow in his footsteps, he might have to take up the mantle himself.
Evil Uncle: To Miorine, wanting to groom her into what he considers a worthy successor to her late father. Which in his eyes means a ruthless and fascist Corrupt Corporate Executive.
Evil Reactionary: Rajan is fanatically dedicated to upholding the power structures of the Ad Stella era, and will respond to any attempt at reform or revolution with ruthlessness.
Family Business: Rajan's family have worked as adjutants to powerful people going back a very long time, never as rulers themselves, but as counselors, advisors, and chamberlains. Rajan being Delling's adjutant was simply continuing the family tradition.
Faux Affably Evil: He's very good at putting up a front of a kindly old man, but it's all an act to hide the resentment he truly feels for everyone he considers beneath him.
Honorary Uncle: He's not related to the Rembran family, but he worked very closely with Delling and Miorine calls him "Uncle Rajan."
Hypocrite: Rajan laments how good kings and rulers are always succeeded or usurped by inadequate inheritors. One of the examples he cites is the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius being succeeded by the incompetent tyrant Commodus. Soon after, he kills Delling and lays plans for taking over his empire. For added hypocricy, the manner in which he kills him (choking him to death while he's in bed) is very reminiscent of Commodus killing Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator.
Kick the Dog:
- As Lilique points out, during the Vanadis incident he heard a dying man sing "happy birthday" to his daughter and ordered the signal stopped.
- A relatively minor case of petty cruelty on the truly vile Rajan's part was killing Delling without answering his question if Miorine is alright, meaning that Delling died without ever knowing that his daughter is safe.
Malicious Misnaming: He refuses to call Suletta by her married name Rembran, seeing it as an insult to Delling Rembran that some country lowborn from Mercury has dared to take his name.
Old Money: Guel offhandedly mentions the Zahis as a an example of this trope, alongside the Rembrans and the Zenellis. It's eventually revealed that the Zahi family has been powerful since the time of the Habsburgs of the Holy Roman Empire.
Treacherous Advisor: What he tries to position himself as to Miorine, manipulating her into becoming just as bad as her father and if that doesnt work, eliminate her. Too bad Miorine sees through him.
Walking Spoiler: Due to Rajan having a very small role in the story up until The Reveal that he's the Big Bad, it's hard to discuss him without revealing that.
Virtue Is Weakness: Rajan believes that an ideal leader has to be dedicated to nothing except leading and preserving their empire, utterly cold and devoid of any sentimentality like love or empathy. When Delling's first words upon waking up from a coma is to ask about the safety of his daughter, rather than the state of his empire, Rajan considers him corrupted by sentiment and kills him.
Worthy Opponent: Rajan claims that he admired Lilique's father, a journalist who wrote a major expose about everyone involved in the Vanadis incident.

Quiet Zero

The effort led by Prospera Mercury to ensure the survival of her oldest daughter.

Ericht Samaya / "Aerial"

The Ghost Princess of Earth, and Suletta's older sister. Though her body is long dead, Ericht's consciousness lingers within the Gundam Aerial, and, through Quiet Zero, can manifest within any permet particles within Earth-sphere. Despite fighting on different sides, Ericht would rather just spend time with her sister.

A God Am I: Ericht is generally pretty reluctant to act as a god, and only does so because it's what's expected of her, so it's a sign of how horribly far her Sanity Slippage has gotten when she declares herself a god and, what more, describes godhood as having the power to do whatever she wants with impunity without needing to ask anyone for permission.
Angelic Abomination: If she gets really distressed, her appearance can turn into something like this subconsciously. In Nika's words, she looks like something between an angel, astronaut, and insect, with Flaming Hair, features that seem to be melting except for a single large eye reminiscent of the faceplate of an old spacesuit, clothes melting into something like robes, and wings that are both membranes like an insect and feathered like an angel's.
Badass Boast: Three simple sentences became known as the Glass Moon Proclamation:
I am Ericht Samaya.
I am coming.
Run.
BFS: After the battle with Suletta, Ericht takes the Schwarzette's Guardian weapon platform as her own. She can't use the bit-staves since they're incompatible with her operating system, and has them attached to her back, but it's still a comparatively oversized piece of metal with sharp edges, and she can use the the Azimuth laser.
Body Motifs: Eyes and Hands. For the former, her Angelic Abomination has either a single big eye or a mass of smaller eyes like an insect in place of a face, and her Gundnodes often move in flight formations reminiscent of eyes, with herself as the pupil. For the latter, the symbol she leaves behind on those she kills which is adopted by the Aeriali is a handprint. In terms of symbolism, both are strongly associated with divinity; The All-Seeing Eye of God, and His hands used to shape the universe.
Brain Uploading: For still unknown reasons, the mind of Ericht Samaya was preserved in the Lfrith when she died.
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Acts like one at times, despite being around 30. When her mother tells her not to curse, she even groans the classic "Whatever!" line.
Cain and Abel: The Cain to Suletta's Abel, though really only in an official capacity. They really just want to hang out and be siblings, even when they have to fight. Chapter 22 turns it into a more serious case of this trope, as their clashing ideals leads to a borderline murderous fight.
Combat Pragmatist: Once it becomes obvious that Suletta might be good enough to beat her in a fair fight, Ericht promises not to attack her while revealing the Awful Truth, then uses her bit-staves to sever the Schwarzette's limbs while Suletta is distracted.
Deity of Human Origin: Ericht is already nigh-godlike, but the endgame of Prospera's plan would expand Quiet Zero's influence across the solar system, allowing her to appear in any place and control any technology she wants. Ericht herself worries about what this will mean for her humanity. Her "apotheosis," so to say, happens after Prospera goes back on her promise to undergo life-saving treatment, and is marked by a scream of pain and sorrow and despair so loud that it passes through every permet-based transmission technology in the solar system. After that, "human" is not the word one would use to describe her anymore.
Dumb Jock: Ericht describes herself and Morrigan as big dumb jocks, admitting that she doesn't really understand how Quiet Zero understands and is mostly just there to hit things. That said she isn't really stupid, just not particularily interested in science or tech. Her main mechanic finds herself frustrated at how little Ericht knows about her own mechanical body.
Electronic Speech Impediment: When she's distressed, her voice turns into Machine Monotone. If it gets really bad, it starts skipping, stuttering, and shrieking like a scuffed vinyl.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: More amoral than evil, but Ericht thinks that Suletta's belief in the sanctity of all life, even awful people, is "incomprehensible".
Extra Digits: When she's struggling to keep her appearance consistent and "real," the narration briefly notes that her hand doesn't quite have the right number of fingers. Truth in Television, since hands and the number of fingers is a common sign that an image is generated by an algorithm.
Extra Eyes: After her final push across the edge, her appearance replaces her face with an astronaut's helmet with fractal eyes overlapping, like an insect.
Friendly Enemy: Technically she's Suletta's enemy, but in practice their fights are more like friendly sparring while keeping each other from curb-stomping any of the lesser combatants on each side.
Kneel Before Zod: When Belmeria refuses her order to give Elnora treatment without consent, Ericht makes her kneel and mocks her sudden dedication to ethics despite everything she's done, sparing her only because she's the only one who can perform the treatment.
I Lied: Said three times during and after her destruction of the Peil facility. First, she claims that she's a middle-aged office lady behind her avatar, and cheerfully announces that she lied when she reveals herself. Then, she claims she can't move beyond Quiet Zero, only to reveal where she is and again cheerfully announcing that she lied. Finally, during the ensuing battle with Suletta, she claims that she won't attack while Suletta takes in the devastation around them. When she severs the Schwarzette's limbs and leaves Suletta stranded in space, she somberly admits that she lied about that too.
Lean and Mean: Aerial Unmade is much thinner and emaciated than before, owing to the lack of resources for repairs. Ericht outright uses the words "lean and mean" to describe it.
Like Mother, Like Daughter: She is frustrated with her mother for prioritizing her work over her own health and refusing to undergo any treatment that might delay her work, but Ericht herself tends to throw herself into Dawn of Fold's campaign to avoid dealing with any uncomfortable topics or taking care of herself.
Machine Monotone: Her voice having emotion is a conscious action on her part, and if she stops focusing on emoting she will be completely monotone and stoic. Her showing less emotion is a sign that she's distressed, as she stops paying attention to her tone of voice.
Meaningful Appearance: The form she turns into when she's distressed and not in control of her appearance looks vaguely like a normal suit, like the one she was wearing when she first connected to Lfrith, but melting like a painting that's been out in the rain, and with insectoid features, reflecting both that she is falling apart and becoming something not entirely human. It is also subconsciously based on a half-washed away mural she saw of herself that affected her more than she would like to admit.
Monster Mouth: During her breakdown in chapter 57, she curls in on herself and opens her mouth far too wide to scream, like the jaw has fallen lose from the rest of her head.
Moral Myopia: In chapter 59, she expresses disgust at the Spacians for sacrificing people just to maintain their dying dynasties, while she herself is standing in the desolate wasteland that used to be Luna, burned to glass along with anyone who didn't make it out in time, all to eliminate any threat to her and her loved ones.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the aftermath of her apotheosis, as Sabina puts it, "It’s actually kind of incredible how catastrophically she’s fucked us." With Ericht going all fire and brimstone on everyone she perceives as enemies, the CAUL have no reason to hold back, the NEU's allies are gonna get cold feet, and anything she does win is going to be functionally useless due to her scorched earth approach.
The Nicknamer: Momo (Morrigan), Blue Eyes (Nika). If Eri interracts with anyone for more than five minutes they will get a nickname.
Power Incontinence: She's usually pretty good at controlling her permet-manipulating abilities, but when Prospera accidentally pushes her over the edge, Ericht's scream of pain is sounded through every piece of permet-based tech in Quiet Zero, in Quiet Zero's sphere of influence, and eventually ''the entire solar system.
Psychopathic Woman Child: She was a Womanchild already, but graduates to this after her final "ascension." After the Glass Moon Incident, Alphie finds her making snow angels in the thin layer of fulgurite she created by bombarding Luna's surface into glass.
Red Baron: "The Ghost Princess of Earth", so called because she's a ghostly entity that can manifest and perform miracles across the entire globe. She's also called the Doom of Quinharbor and Protector of Lost Children.
Rule of Symbolism: After being damaged in combat, Aerial is repaired with whatever in hand. It just so happens that all the repairs correspond pretty well to Ericht's mental state; The cockpit is largely stripped to nothing to the point where it's functionally useless, since Ericht sees no reason to have room for a human body since no one would pilot anyway; The safety measures of the Gund-format are reduced, making it more efficiend but also more dangerous, reflecting Eri's disregard for her own safety; The left arm is replaced with a weaponized industrial loader that can't be used for the subtle and gentle touches a hand can; and the Escutcheon can't be used in shield mode anymore, again showing a disregard for personal safety and that Ericht is more interested in fighting than defending people. Even it's name, Aerial Unmade, reflects her deteriorating mental state.
Sanity Slippage: It becomes clear throughout the second book that she is losing her grip on her humanity as the war goes on and she forces herself to act more like something between a living weapon and a god. During a fight at the start of book two, she's borderline delirious, flashing back to an earlier encounter with one of her worshippers, and nearly lets herself be killed because she blames herself for her mothers' failing health. This even affects her physical appearance, as she starts growing more and more eldritch as her grip on her humanity losens. She starts to improve after Elnora agrees to undergo the treatment she needs, only to go fully off the deep end when it has to be postponed, declaring A God Am I, fully dropping anything resembling humanity in her appearance, and forcing Prospera to take the treatment while declaring her intent to burn everything until the heavens are quiet and free of anything that might threaten those she loves.
Secret Secret-Keeper: Ericht knows who Morrigan is, or was, but hasn't told her out of fear that Sophie would not want to be friends with her killer.
Self-Perception Shapeshifting: Her appearance starts shifting as her mental state worsens. At her worst, she turns into something entirely inhuman, and has a hard time turning back. Even when she does, her appearance is blurry and unclear, much to her distress.
Stop Worshipping Me: Some people on Earth has started worshipping Ericht as a deity, which she doesn't really like because she doesn't want to lose her humanity, but answers their prayers when she can. While she doesn't discourage them from growing into a cult, she does nothing to encourage them either.
Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: She hasn't expressed any suicidal intent yet, but Norea thinks her scream of ascension sounded like her own scream after Sophie died; That of someone who wants to die but only after they've inflicted their own pain on everyone around them.
The Unfettered: In chapter 36, Eri declares that she will no longer hold anything back; Before she's tried to avoid hurting innocent people in the way of her targets, but the wealthy ghouls she's trying to kill learned from that and started telling their soldiers she wouldn't hurt her. Now, she will kill anyone in her way, and makes it clear that when the ghouls are ordering people to fight her, they are ordering them to die.
Vague Age: Ericht is chronologically 30, but Quin, one of the Repleris, thinks she's mentally closer to a very maladjusted late teen (17 to 19 range) due to how many years she's spent dormant.
Virtual YouTuber: On Suletta's suggestion, Ericht has taken up streaming as a hobby, using a cartoon bunny as her vtuber avatar. She uses that same streaming platform to livestream her destruction of the Peil facility to the world.
Virtual Ghost: She's the mind of a young girl, preserved in permet particles that allow her to appear around and influence technology that runs on permet.
Voice of the Legion: When she goes off the deep end, her voice stops being a Machine Monotone and turns into what's described as every emotion simultaneously, overlapping and jumbled so it's painful to hear.
Womanchild: Ericht is chronologically closer to her thirties than her preteens like she appears, but she is deeply underdeveloped emotionally as a result of having had barely any meaningful relationships throughout her entire life. The most obvious way is that she treats warfare and destruction as games, though that is more a coping mechanism. More subtly, she has a deeply skewed view on relationship, assuming that anyone who's mad at her actually hates her and never wants to talk with her again.

Children of the Coven / "Repleris" / "Escutcheon"

11 spirits of unclear origin who appear alongside Ericht, acting as both her siblings and her agents. Each are in control of one of the Escutcheon's bit-staves. Initially only extensions of Ericht's will, they have since started to develop their own independent identities, coinciding with mysterious "monuments" being built by Prospera Mercury.

Their names are Alphie, Didi, Sam, Fyra, Quin, Sechs (who was the first to make an identity separate from Ericht), Sabine, Octavia, Nona, Dis, and Elvie. Full profiles can be found here on the creator's twitter.

Adaptational Gender Identity: At least Sechs identifies as a boy. Dis' gender identity is unspecified, but most likely isn't defined by human gender.
Ambiguous Situation: Ericht isn't quite sure what they are or where they come from, and she's scared of asking Prospera since the answer might be Powered by a Forsaken Child. Even Quin's narration of their creation from her own perspective is difficult to parse, coaxed in poetic language that could easily go either way.
Ascended Extra: In the show they don't appear to have any role or personality beyond being Ericht's backup choir. Here they each have different personalities and identities, some of which are wildly different or even in oposition to Ericht.
Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Sam likes to try on different dresses, currently going through a Victorian era period.
Cabin Fever: Sabine is an artist and resents being stuck in Quiet Zero, prefering to be out in the world getting inspiration for her art.
Creating Life Is Unforeseen: Prospera certainly hadn't intended to create them, as they are an accidental byproduct of her failed attempts at making a body for Ericht. That said, she adapted quickly and made use of them as Aerial's bit staves.
Dark Secret: Elvie doesn't agree with what Prospera and Ericht are doing, but keeps it secret and doesn't know what to do.
Dem Bones: Nona's projection appears either as a girl in skull-makeup, or as a skeleton wholesale.
Fiery Redhead: All of them have red hair, but Fyra is noted to be especially energetic and fighty. Sechs also has a short temper.
Girlish Pigtails: The childish prankster Didi has pigtails. Also ties into her numerical motif of Two.
Hero-Worshipper: Octavia looks up to the version of Sabina she imagines in her head, an unflappable military commander. She tries to emulate her in all the ways she can, styling her hair like her, dressing and talking like her, and learning tactics and military stuff like she pictures her hero knows about.
Loving a Shadow: Platonically, Octavia admires specifically the military unflappable image of Sabina she has in her head, whereas the real Sabina is a bit more emotional.
Meaningful Name: In addition to the Numerical Theme Naming, Dis gets their name from Dis Pater, another name for the Roman god of the dead Pluto. Dis is the most Transhuman of the group.
Mythical Motifs: They are compared to Athena, springing fully formed from the mind of their parent without an actual birth.
Number Two: Alphie is described as the one closest to Ericht of the group, seeing herself as an extension of her and wants to help her more than she wants anything else.
Numerical Theme Naming: Alphie is short for Alpha, the first letter in the Greek alphabet; Didi is the same word repeated twice; Sam is Korean for Three; Fyra is from Fire, the Nordic word for Four; Quin is from Quint, latin for fifth; Sechs is German for Six; Sabine is from Sieben, German for Seven; Octavia is from Oct, Latin for Eight; Nona is Latin for Ninth; Dis is Haitian Kreole for Ten; Elvie is from Eleven.
One-Steve Limit: Sabine and Sabina Fardin-Nanaura have nearly the same name. Ironically, Sabine is not the one who's a Hero-Worshipper of Sabina.
Perky Goth: Nona is described as a cheerfully irreverent goth. Ericht had to veto her before she gave her bit-stave a bunch of skeleton decorations, and she has commissioned Sabine for a "kick-ass skeleton" sculpture.
The Prankster: Didi is a bit of a prankster. She's not super reliable, but she has a good heart.
Pro-Human Transhuman: Despite actively dismantling their humanity, Dis is deeply compassionate and always shoots to disable, not kill.
The Resenter: Elvie is angry at Prospera for abandoning Suletta at the onset of the war, and blames her for Ericht's Sanity Slippage. She's scared of voicing this, and not even Ericht knows her true feelings.
Rogue Drone: By technicality. They were originally just extensions of Ericht's will, acting as her Attack Drones. Over time they developed their own independent minds and personalities, but they are still loyal to Eri, they just have more agency. Played more straight with Elvie, who is opposed to Ericht's current course of action but is afraid of voicing her objections. By chapter 59, Elvie, Dis, Nona, Octavia, and later Didi, Sabine, and Sam make it official by parting from Ericht because they refuse to partake in the Orbital Bombardment of Luna.
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Quin, fitting her role as The Smart Guy, tends to slip into overly complicated explanations that none of the others can follow.
Shipper on Deck: Sam apparently spends a good deal of her time observing and shipping random people.
Shout-Out: Nona is named after the titular protagonist of Nona the Ninth and seems to combine traits of all three protagonists of that series; She has Nona's cheerfulness, Gideon's irreverence, and Harrow's love of skeletons and skeletal motifs.
Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Nona wanted to decorate her bit-stave with a skull motif, but was vetoed by Ericht.
Strong Family Resemblance: Quin looks a lot like Suletta, but takes more after Sadim.
The Smart Guy: Quin is constantly doing research on all kinds of scientific and cultural subjects, and is described as the most "adult" of the gang.
Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Sam is a romantic who loves watching and chronicling "the messy thrills of human love", and her solution to Ericht's ongoing breakdown was setting her up with someone. That said she's not interested in romance for herself, only as an outside observer.
Transhuman: All of them are digitized "ghosts" of a human mind (though the exact origin is unclear). Dis is the one who embraces it fully, exploring their inhuman nature.
Undying Loyalty: Alphie thinks that Ericht is always right and follows her in everything, and gawks at the thought of doing anything without Eri's say so.
Verbal Tic: Fyra calls everyone "bro" and generally has the mannerisms of a frat bro.

Prospera Mercury / Elnora Samaya

The Witch of Quiet Zero, and Ericht and Suletta's mother. Dedicated to nothing more than the survival and happiness of her oldest daughter, Prospera will ally with anyone or commit any sin to accomplish that goal.

Affably Evil: Her villainy is debatable, but Prospera is very friendly despite her horrifying reputation. Not only is she happy to engage in friendly conversation, but she casually uses affectionate nicknames and makes puns.
Broken Bird: Ericht's final breakdown leaves Elnora beaten and diminished, so pitiable and compliant to Ericht that even Belmeria, who has all the reason in the world to resent her, feels nothing but pity and concern for her.
Cynicism Catalyst: Losing her entire home colony, friends, mentor, and husband obviously did no favours for her sense of optimism. She does seem to have gained back some happiness and rediscovered her belief in a better future thanks to her relationship with Notrette, but Notrette's death is implied to have made her even more emotionally closed off than before.
Death Seeker: Prospera is pushing herself to the point of multiple strokes and heart attacks, and refusing to take a break or let anyone else do things for her, to the point where Eri wonders if she wants to die.
Fictional Disability: She has Spontaneous Permetic Growth in both her legs, a condition that causes permet to grow throughout the body, causing paralysis and chronic pain.
Future Me Scares Me: Prospera doesn't like keeping pictures of herself from the past around because she knows her old self would hate who she has become.
Parental Favoritism: It's extremely obvious that she cares most about her firstborn, Ericht, and that any of her other children, like Suletta or the Children of the Coven, are at best secondary and at worst tools to be used and discarded.
Parental Neglect: Her neglect of Suletta is obvious, and she barely even acknowledges that the Children of the Coven exist, but she also neglects her supposed favourite daughter in a similar way, being so caught up the grand work to give Ericht freedom that she ironically hardly spends any time with her and brushes her off any time she tries to make a connection.
Parents as People: As seen in a flashback where she confides her failures as a parent in Notrette, Prospera is perfectly aware that she is a poor parent to Suletta and that she really sees the girl as more of a project to work on than an actual child to raise. She tries to do her best to give Suletta a good childhood, but approaches it more like she's manipulating her daughter than actually caring for her. Notrette for her part thinks that if the endpoint is Suletta being happy then it doesn't really matter what Prospera's thought process was.
Red Baron: Prospera is known as The Witch of Quiet Zero, Fleetbreaker, She of the Black Coffin, the Butcher of Quinharbor, etc.
Second Love: Ericht thinks she and Notrette Rembran had a thing going on, having noticed how Prospera talks about Notrette the same way she talks about Nadim.
Sole Survivor: She and her daughter Ericht are the sole survivors of the destruction of Folkvangr. It's later revealed that there are others, though they're not named.
The Stoner: She apparently indulged in drugs at a somewhat regular basis, enough that Notrette knew to send some over whenever she got a new batch.
The Unsmile: Prospera's own internal narration notes that her attempt at a reassuring smile is probably even less convincing than her Transhuman daughter undergoing Sanity Slippage.
Workaholic: Big time. She is so deeply engaged in working on Quiet Zero and accomplishing her goals ostensibly for Ericht's sake that she completely neglects her own health and, ironically, her relationship with Ericht.

Others

Characters without strong loyalty to any faction, or who's loyalties are faked or temporary.

Norea du Noc / "Norea Nemo" / "Jane Doe"

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact, Beguir-Sidhe (Enhanced)

After her Gundam was destroyed in Sabina and Nika's escape from Asticassia, Norea du Noc was captured and given to Peil Technologies as a gesture of good faith. Since then, she has been put to work piloting their Gundam Pharact, while secretly scheming with her partner to tear down Peil from within.

Adaptation Species Change: Downplayed since she's still human, but in canon Norea had no indication of being anything but baseline human. Here, she's an enhanced person like Elan.
Awesomeness by Analysis: Whenever she goes into combat, Norea takes a moment to analyze the opponent, taking note of their potential abilities, how many there are, what they can do, and how best to approach them.
Adaptational Protagonist: She's a relatively minor antagonist and supporting character in the original show, dying halfway through the second season. Here, she is not only a viewpoint character, but one of the main characters overall.
Big Sister Instinct: When she and Suletta go on a mission together to track down some missing prisoners, Norea takes the chance to try to get rid of some ex-Dawn of Fold who have a grudge against Nika, her adopted sister.
Boxed Crook: Downplayed. After destroying Peil, embezzling their fortune, and impersonating Elan Ceres, she and Elan are captured and given a job offer as Miorine's bodyguards and assistants. That said, she's happy in her current position and can leave if she wants.
Brutal Honesty: When a child comes to her with a drawing she did of Norea in her mobile suit, Norea's response boils down to "It's kinda shit, but not as shit as the last one," along with some advice on how to practice shading.
Character Development: Norea has undergone a lot, going from the stoic-but-seethingly furious girl in the show who saw herself as nothing more than a weapon to kill Spacians, to a much livelier and snarky woman who wants to enjoy life and doesn't want to cause any undue suffering. Before the fight with the Nemain, she realizes to her pleasant surprise that she really doesn't want anyone dead anymore.
Conflicting Loyalties: As Miorine's bodyguard, she has been won over by Suletta's optimistic hope for a better future and considers her her best friend, but she's also loyal to her sister who's the head of Dawn of Fold, and is torn between them. Ultimately she wants to fight with Suletta but she also can't fight against her sister.
Death Faked for You: In order to get someone who can bring messages between her and Nika without the SAL knowing, Miorine has Norea (officially a Jane Doe) declared dead in the fight with the Nemain.
Disabled in the Adaptation: Due to permet strain from her fight with the Valkyries, she uses a wheelchair for the second half of book two and the start of book three. It makes her much more appreciative of Yushura's efforts to make her front accessible for disabled people.
The Dividual: Invoked. Since the Peil Grade AI has trouble distinguishing humans that look alike, Norea and Elan make a conscious attempt at looking and acting as close as possible to the original Elan.
Fashionable Asymmetry: Norea wears one of Elan's earrings. It actually contains a data drive they use to smuggle information in and out of the facility.
Foil: To Nika, in particular in their respective Character Development since the events of the show; Norea started out as a cynical and vengeful girl who wanted nothing more than to kill spacians, even if it killed her, but has since mellowed out to a bit of a hedonist with a more positive outlook on life. Nika, while far from as cynical as Norea was, has gone from a hopeful idealist to a seasoned warleader who will kill if there are no other options.
Friendship Trinket: She still has a bracelet Sophie made for her when they were kids. In chapter 49, she also buys another bracelet for Suletta, of all people.
Handicapped Badass: In book three she uses a wheelchair due to damage from fighting the Nemain, but is still tough enough to serve as Suletta's bodyguard and come out on top of fighting numerically superior foes.
Happily Adopted: Downplayed. Naji wanted to adopted Norea and Sophie when they were children, but Norea refused, so angry at the world that she didn't want to be a child, but a soldier. That said, she still thinks of him on some level as her father and Nika as her sister, especially after Naji's death.
Hates Being Alone: Norea has abandonment issues for understandable reasons, breaking down in tears when Suletta leaves her behind at Faraday.
The Hedonist: Norea has spent most of her life being The Stoic, denying herself even the smallest of life's pleasures unless Sophie dragged her into it. After Elan talked her out of suicide, she resolved to start living, enjoying every pleasure and temptation she can in gratitude to Sophie and Elan for giving her something worth living for.
Why had it taken her so long to realize that life was lived in moments like these? That she was here to fuck around first and work second?
Heroic Sacrifice: Defied. Norea always idealized the idea of dying heroically for her ideals, but since Sophie's death she has instead resolved to live and refuses to sacrifice anyone else. Even when she nearly dies for Elan's sake, it's less a sacrifice and more a last stand.
Hyper-Awareness: "Faceless" wears a holographic veil that hides his features behind a randomly generated face, which is imperfect up close but makes them next to impossible to recognize in a crowd. Despite this, Norea has picked them out every single time he tries to get close.
Legacy Character: While she doesn't undergo any mental or physical changes like the others, Norea intentionally dresses and styles herself to look as close to the original Elan as possible, pilots the Pharact, and is an enhanced person, effectively making her the seventh Elan Ceres Enhanced Person.
Like an Old Married Couple: She and Elan can't go five minutes without insulting each other, but it's clear that they care about each other deeply.
The Maiden Name Debate: Slightly complicated. Norea's official last name after being employed by Miorine is Nemo, the same as Elan. While they are in a relationship, they are not married, and the name change was more because the word is significant to both of them and they are officially dead.
Malicious Misnaming: To distinguish him from her Elan, Norea decides to call the original Elan Ceres "Nolan" specifically because he hates it.
The Mole:
- Norea and Elan spend the first book officially working for Peil while secretly scheming to take them down from the inside, even working with Dawn of Fold to do so. They succeed in the second book, assassinating one of its leaders, selling out their headquarter to DOF so they can destroy it, and impersonating Peil's heir to steal the massive fortune, giving half of it to DOF as thanks.
- While working for Miorine, she's secretly supplying Dawn of Fold with intel on the CAUL's activities. Miorine actually knows and counts on this, since it provides her a good way to get messages to Nika without the SAL finding out.
Not So Stoic: Over time she grows out of her stoic personality and grows more willing to express her emotion, to the point of breaking into tears when Suletta leaves her at Faraday.
Obnoxious In-Laws: She's the closest thing Nika has to a sister, and she really doesn't get along with Sabina, Nika's wife, though the dislike is more on Sabina's side than Norea's.
Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Norea's first words to Nika, who's arm was broken by Sophie with Norea present years earlier, are "You broke your arm again?" The mental Elan standing in for her conscience immediately admonishes her for it, and it's not made better when Nika explains that it's the same injury.
Patron Saint: After saving a group of Aeriali kids, they start calling her the Saint of Luck. She doesn't really know how to feel about it, but it's probably gonna catch on in the Aeriali as a whole.
Prongs of Poseidon: The Beguir-Sidhe wields a claw called the Shackle Trident which can either be used as a short blade or as a chain to ensnare other mobile suits, befitting its aquatic motif.
Raised in a Lab: Norea and Sophie spent their formative years in an Ochs Earth lab being modified into better gundam pilots. Norea's memories of it does not paint a pretty picture, and it led to her seeing herself as nothing but an emotionless Super-Soldier.
Red Baron: Following the events of chapter 50, she is called the Savior of Faraday. To the Aeriali, she is the Saint of Luck.
Revenge: Norea is positively ecstatic at the chance to hunt down the Morrigan, since it was built from the wreck of her dead best friend's gundam. Subverted when she actually gets the chance, as she decides to put her ideals before her revenge, and that Sophie would be happy with the Morrigan anyway.
Rousseau Was Right: As her Character Development goes on, she starts believing in this, thinking that people as a whole are generally good, with assholes and jerks being exceptions. She wonders if she's learned this from Naji, who believed it wholeheartedly, and she just buried it deep down for most of her life.
Significant Haircut: Norea has styled her hair to be as similar to the original Elan as possible, to fool Peil Grade. After being entirely free from Peil's control, she cuts it short in a pixie cut.
Spared By Adaptation: Because the Point of Divergence is just before the rampage that killed her in the canon timeline, Norea is still alive over a year after her canonical death in this continuity.
Spider Tank: The wheelchair she uses in book 3 can turn into one of these through permet technology, and she controls it through the GUND format. It allows her to navigate in areas without proper accessibility, and even climb around in zero gravity.
Stress Vomit: In chapter 47, she and Suletta find a child trafficking ring run by ex-Dawn of Fold soldiers, causing Norea to throw up from both disgust and trauma from having been in a similar situation as a child.
Thicker Than Water: Well, they're both adopted so there's no blood involved, but despite being genuinely happy working for Miorine, Norea is still feeding intel to Nika, her sister.
Tragic Dream: A flashback showed that Norea and Sophie both wanted to see fireflies, which are extincto n earth and only exist in Spacian preserves and obviously out of reach for two Earthian terrorists. When they finally reunite in chapter 38, it's in a garden at LAFF surrounded by fireflies.
Transhuman: Norea is a first-generation Enhanced Human, genetically and cybernetically modified from an early age to be more resistant to Datastorms so as to be a better Gundam pilot.
Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Flashbacks shows that as a result of being Raised in a Lab and growing up surrounded by the devastation of Spacian war partitioning, Norea was a deeply troubled child, filled with so much hatred and anger that she wanted to be a Child Soldier, and idealized dying in battle. When she overheard Naji talking about adopting her and Sophie, she outright refused because she would rather see herself as a machine who doesn't need a family.
Tsundere:
- With Elan, she's way too snarky and traumatized to ever admit that she likes him. The two of them instead makes a game out of seeing how sincere they can get while pretending they don't care.
- She would also have you know that she does not see Naji as her father figure, thank you very much, even if she has a hard time not smiling when he expresses concern and care for her and calls him annoying in the same breath as she calls dads annoying. In a flashback she's shown to be just as bad as a child, scoffing at every compliment and praise while blushing.
The Unsmile: Norea's smile causes Elan to ask why she's making "that expression".
Norea: It's called a smile, dumbass.
Elan: Is that what that is? How alarming.
Vague Age: Norea has no idea when she or Sophie were born, but she's probably around 18 to 20 when the fic starts.

Elan Nemo / "Enhanced Person #5" / "John Doe"

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact, Beguir-Dullahan (Enhanced)

Norea's partner in crime, one of the Enhanced Persons used as body-doubles for the real Elan Ceres. Like his partner, Elan is scheming to bring down Peil as revenge for their many many crimes.

Boxed Crook: Downplayed. After destroying Peil, embezzling their fortune, and impersonating Elan Ceres, he and Norea are captured and given a job offer as Miorine's bodyguards and assistants. That said, he's happy in her current position and can leave if he wants.
Death Faked for You: After the fight against the Nemain, Miorine has Elan (officially a John Doe) declared dead so he can work for her in an unofficial capacity.
The Dividual: Invoked. Since the Peil Grade AI has trouble distinguishing humans that look alike, Elan and Norea make a conscious attempt at looking and acting as close as possible to the original Elan.
Fashionable Asymmetry: Elan only wears one of his earrings, having given the other to Norea. It actually contains a data drive they use to smuggle information in and out of the facility, along with a virus that knocks out the surveillance AI for a short while.
Fun T-Shirt: Norea at one point bought him an "absolutely wretched" novelty t-shirt from Luna, almost certainly based on this fanart.
See'a Tranquili-Deez Nuts
Hypocritical Humor: At one point Elan admonishes Norea for misnaming Nugen (as "Nougat"). He then immediately calls her "Nugget."
Like an Old Married Couple: Elan and Norea spend most of their time together bickering or shouting at each other, but in a way that clearly shows they love each other.
Meaningful Name: The name he considered as a kid (and the one he takes after being employed by Miorine) is Nemo, latin for "No-one". While he admits that he didn't consider the meaning when he chose it, it reflects the fact that aside from being Elan Ceres' body double, he is a complete John Doe with no known backstory before joining Peil.
The Mole: Elan and Norea spend the first book officially working for Peil while secretly scheming to take them down from the inside, even working with Dawn of Fold to do so. They succeed in the second book, assassinating one of its leaders, selling out their headquarter to DOF so they can destroy it, and impersonating Peil's heir to steal the massive fortune, giving half of it to DOF as thanks.
Once Done, Never Forgotten: His inability to use a tazer properly, first against Suletta (foiled by Guel during the events of "Precious Things") and then against Secelia, who woke up shortly after and alerted the guards, has led to many a joke at his expense, especially from Norea.
Queer Establishing Moment: In a quiet moment with Norea, Elan tells her that he had a name before becoming Elan but considers it a "dead name" and doesn't want to use it, implicitly coming out as trans.
Second Love: To Norea. After Sophie's death, she struggled with moving on for a long time, but eventually grew close with Elan.
Talking Down the Suicidal: Elan managed to talk Norea down from killing herself during their first few days in Peil custody by telling her that he needed her help to kill every last Peil bastard.
Transhuman: Elan is an Enhanced Human, someone who has been genetically and cybernetically modified to survive data storms.
Tsundere: Because he has closed himself off from showing genuine sincerity for so long that he has a hard time doing it now, Elan prefers to show his concern by snarking and claiming he doesn't care. He and Norea make a game of it, seeing how far they can get without sincerely admitting that they care aobut each other.
Understatement: Elan generally reacts to shockingly horrific things with understated deadpan humor. His reaction to the Glass Moon Incident is "Yeah, it's not great."
Unbroken Vigil: When Norea wakes up after a month-long coma, she finds Elan waiting by her bedside. When he realizes she's awake he scrambles over so fast that he falls out of his chair.

Yushura Mirzakhani

A childhood friend and former partner of Miorine Mercury, now the owner and leader of the neutral Langlands Autonomous Fairgrounds Front. Yushura is an eccentric sort, but dedicated to helping her friends and provide a place for rest, recuperation, and scheming.

Animal Motifs: Spiders, which very much seems to be intentional on her part. Her bodyguard's mobile suit, the Glaistig, has four legs and can't move far away from the station, like a spider protecting its web; Norea's wheelchair can turn into a Spider Tank for better mobility; and after she upgrades the Beguir-Sidhe, it can split its legs into four and scuttle around like a spider for better movement in urban areas.
Yushura: I just think [spiders] are neat.
The Casanova: She's described as Ad Stella's most eligible bachelor, and is apparently somewhat of a serial heartbreaker for her own amusement.
Defector from Decadence: Yushura left the Benerit Group with her company sometime at the onset of the Three Witches War, becoming a neutral party.
Eccentric Millionaire: She's the owner of at least one entire space colony, and her company was wealthy and influential enough to be part of the Benerit Group. She is also extremely eccentric, fond of theatrics and dramatic performances, and often makes absurdly elaborate plans just to have something happen as dramatically as possible.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She's implied to still carry a torch for Miorine, but is nothing but supportive of her and Suletta's relationship.
Oppose What You Suffered: Yushura, being disabled herself, has worked to make her amusement park-turned-sanctuary as accessible as possible. A currently wheelchair-using Norea appreciates it greatly.
Polyamory: Well, not yet, but she apparently has eyes for Norea and Elan, though not sure if she will pursue that yet.
Red Baron: The Fairy Queen of Langlands.
Truce Zone: She owns and operates one, the Langlands Autonomous Fairgrounds Front. An amusement park that doubles as refugee camp and sanctuary where people from all sides of the war are welcome to interact in peace and neutrality. Over time, it has become something of a neutral third faction in its own right, not quite as powerful as NEU or CAUL, but certainly a force to be reckoned with.

Notrette Rembran

Miorine's deceased mother, a brilliant biologist and permet researcher who collaborated with Prospera Mercury on the project that would become Quiet Zero.

Affectionate Nickname: She used to call Miorine "Ladybug", a nickname Prospera considered vile.
Brutal Honesty: One of the things Prospera appreciated about her was her honesty. Once, when Prospera asked if she was a bad mother, Notrette's immediate response was "A little, yes" before later clarifying that Prospera could become a rather awful mother if she wasn't careful.
Deceased Parents Are the Best: Flashbacks to Miorine's childhood shows that she was a deeply caring parent who never missed an opportunity to teach her daughter a lesson while also doing her upmost to give her a happy childhood.
Ditzy Genius: Notrette is without a doubt a genius, having been the brain behind Quiet Zero to the point that even Prospera doesn't understand all of it fully without her notes. A flashback also shows that she was clumsy and distractible, prone to forgetting and losing things ranging from her tools to a whole space shuttle or her daughter.
Even Evil Can Be Loved: She's the one loving them in thie case, as she married Delling out of genuine love. Those feelings grew more fraught over time, especially as she learned the depths of Delling's crimes and came to love a victim of said crimes, but she never divorced him. Part to give Miorine at least one good parent, and part because she couldn't sort out her feeligns for the man.
First-Name Basis: So far she's the only character in the fic who calls Prospera "Elnora".
Has a Type: Given that she was married to Delling and had a relationship with Prospera, it seems that her type are ambitious and powerful people with dubious ethics.
I See Dead People: As a child, she would spend a lot of time in a spot in the woods where she could hear the voices of dead people she cared about, like her nanny, a crush who died in an accident, or the old groundskeeper. This is what led her to develop her theory about the true nature of permet.
Leet Lingo: She made extensive use of it while texting, as seen in a few textlogs between her and Prospera.
The Lost Lenore: Elnora loved her, and it seems that Notrette may have had a positive influence on her after the death of Nadim. Then she died, and it's strongly implied that this is part of the reason Prospera is the cold and distant person she is today.
Obfuscating Stupidity: The shuttle she supposedly lost because she is such a ditz? Turns out she secreted it away somewhere in case she ever needed to get away quickly.
Old Money: Not wealthy by Spacian standards, but her family was comfortably upper-middle class, and had had money for at least a few generations; At least one of her ancestors was rich enough to buy a (failed) goldmine, and her grandfather knew to exploit permet depositions in said mine to make himself comfortably rich.
Posthumous Character: She's long dead by the time the fic gets started.
The Stoner: Tomatoes were not the only plant she worked on. She was working on a "super sativa strain", with sativa being a strain of cannabis.
Sympathetic Adulterer: She is, assuming no major skeletons in her closet, one of the more heroic and kindhearted characters in the series, and she had an affair with Prospera while still married to Delling. She herself was conflicted about it, but to the audience, Delling's wife cheating on him with the Sole Survivor of the massacre he ordered does carry a bit of karma.

"Goodfellow"

A mysterious information broker active throughout the solar system, with connections to numerous major players.

Canon Characterall Along: She's Notrette Rembran.
First-Name Basis: Goodfellow calls Prospera "Elnora," which hints rather strongly at their true identity.
Gold-Colored Superiority: The mysterious and influential Goodfellow communicates via a gold-plated Haro.
Knowledge Broker: Seems to be their primary occupation, having provided information to Elan and Norea, Secelia, and the Dawn of Fold at different points.
Meaningful Name: The mysterious-but-benevolent Goodfellow takes their name from Robin Goodfellow, a benevolent house spirit in British folklore, better known as a Puck.
Mysterious Stranger: Nothing is known about Goodfellow, but they have repeatedly provided advice to characters and seems to oppose an equally mysterious black-clad faction. Their advice often consists only of the word "RUN" repeated over and over.
Robotic Reveal: Goodfellow's true body turns out to be the gold-plated Haro in a church on Luna, though it's all but stated that they were not originally a robot.
Soul Jar: Upon Notrette's death, she somehow stored her permet signature in the Haro of a church on Luna, which Elnora outright calls a Phylactery.

"Faceless" (Unmarked Spoilers)

An assassin sent to kill Suletta Rembran during her trip to the Faraday front.

The Atoner: A rather dark example. He works as an assassin for presumably Cathedra because he believes killing in the name of God is the only way he will be recognized by God after the sin of trading away his face to the "machine-worshiping idolaters" of Peil.
Canon Character All Along: The enigmatic faceless assassin turns out to be the second Peil enhanced human, known at the time as Elan #2.
Character Tics: He has a bad habit of touching and picking at his face (or what remains of it).
Embarrassing Nick Name: Invoked. Norea thinks that giving dark and mysterious codenames to their enemies only serves to make them seem scarier, so she prefers to nickname him "Dickhead" or "Fumbles."
The Faceless: Literally. Suletta calls him that because they have no idea who he is, but it turns out to be more accurate than she knew because he has no face.
Facial Horror: "Faceless" is a rather apt moniker because he quite literally has no face, his original having been replaced with one replicating Elan Ceres, which he then tore off in a bout of mania. The audience is thankfully spared any graphic descriptions, but what little is given does not sound pretty.
The Fundamentalist: It doesn't get much more religiously fundamentalist than an assassin who kills in the name of God to atone for their own sins through the mortification of the flesh.
Glamour: He has a Capgras Veil, a device similar to Suletta's old veil that creates a holographic projection hiding his heavily scarred face behind one of several randomly generated ones. It's not perfect, especially up close where you can see that the fake face doesn't quite match up with his facial structure, but it's good enough to blend into a crowd.
Meaningful Name:
- His Capgras Veil, which changes his face so he can get close to his target, is named after Capgras Delusion, a psychiatric disorder where a person holds the delusion that someone close to them has been replaced by an impostor, first described by Joseph Capgras in 1923.
- His ship, if it can even be called that since it's hardly more than a bubble of air with engines attached, is named the Cilice, after a piece of clothing specifically meant to be uncomfortable and irritate the skin, sometimes used for self-mortification in Catholicism.
No Name Given: So far his only identifying monikers are Elan #2 (which he probably wouldn't want to be called), "Faceless," and a couple more embarassing nicknames Norea uses for him.
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Faceless was originally mentioned way back in book 2, where Elan mentions that he was one of the less mentally stable enhanced humans and ripped his new face off in a bout of religious fanaticism. It was generally assumed that he was dead, either from the face ripping or from being disposed of by Peil. Then, Nugen mentions that "Two" is still alive, and he shows up as a minor POV character in chapter 57, revealing both who he is and what he's up to.
Un-person: Like the other enhanced humans, who he was before becoming Elan and then Faceless is completely unknown, likely wiped from existence by Peil.
Walking Spoiler: Since he doesn't show up until a fair bit into book 3, it's hard to discuss him without spoiling anything.

Characters / The Morrigan

Dawn of Fold

Inner Circle

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Morrigan

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Morrigan

Mobile Suit(s): Demi-Barding, Demi-Balor

Mobile Suit(s): Dilanza, Demi-Balor (Baori Pack)

Other

Mobile Suit(s): Desultor

The Colonial Allied Unification League (CAUL)

Inner Circle

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Schwarzette, Gundam Lugh

Mobile Suit(s): Darilbalde

Other

Mobile Suit(s): Beguir-Dullahan (Henao), Beguir-Sidhe (Renee), Beguir-Dearg Du (Ireesha), Gundam Nemain

All three

Ireesha Plano

Henao Jazz

Renee Costa

Quiet Zero

Others

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact, Beguir-Sidhe (Enhanced)

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Pharact, Beguir-Dullahan (Enhanced)

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Dawn of Fold

Inner Circle

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Morrigan

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Morrigan

Mobile Suit(s): Demi-Barding, Demi-Balor

Mobile Suit(s): Dilanza, Demi-Balor (Baori Pack)

Other

Mobile Suit(s): Desultor

The Colonial Allied Unification League (CAUL)

Inner Circle

Mobile Suit(s): Gundam Schwarzette, Gundam Lugh

Mobile Suit(s): Darilbalde

Other

Mobile Suit(s): Beguir-Dullahan (Henao), Beguir-Sidhe (Renee), Beguir-Dearg Du (Ireesha), Gundam Nemain

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Ireesha Plano

Henao Jazz

Renee Costa

Quiet Zero

Others

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