Wild Arms 5/Characters

Dean Stark
A young boy living in a remote village. Unlike the other youths, he does not have an ARM. He dreams of leaving his hometown and becoming a famous Golem Hunter, like his hero Nightburn. Together with Rebecca, he witnesses an arm of a giant golem fall from the sky, with a young woman protected in its fist, and sets off to realise his dream and solve the mystery of this young woman. His unique ability is Double Critical, which doubles the damage done when he scores a Critical Hit.


 * Badass Longcoat
 * Back-to-Back Badasses: The Trigger Rondo Limit Break with Rebecca.
 * Catch Phrase: "You can do anything as long as you don't give up!"
 * Chick Magnet
 * Hiro Shimono
 * Improbable Weapon User: Sword gunclips, anyone?
 * Kid Hero
 * The Knights Who Say Squee: For Nightburn.
 * Love Triangle: With Rebecca and Avril, although he is unaware of their feelings.
 * Scarf of Asskicking
 * Sword and Gun: Can go Dual-Wielding and Guns Akimbo anytime he wants.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Rebecca Streisand
Dean's childhood friend. She has strong feelings for him, but doesn't have the courage to reveal them. Rebecca dreams of one day taking her acrobatic shooting act on the road and becoming a star. Her unique ability is Continuous Shot, which gives her a chance to repeat an attack as long as she has bullets in her ARM.


 * Back-to-Back Badasses: The Trigger Rondo Limit Break with Dean.
 * Cannot Spit It Out: To Dean.
 * Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune
 * Gainaxing
 * Love Triangle: With Avril and Dean.
 * Nana Mizuki
 * She's Got Legs
 * Shorttank: Right down to the outfit.
 * Stripperific
 * Show Some Leg: Rebecca's very short shorts.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Avril's girly girl.

Avril Vent Fleur
A mysterious girl with no memories of her past beyond her name. She fell from the sky held within the fist of a golem's arm. Dean and Rebecca agree to help her search for her memories. Her unique ability is Double DP, which gives her a small chance to double DP earned when attacking.


 * Apologetic Attacker
 * Defrosting Ice Queen:
 * Mysterious Waif: To a T.
 * Kuudere
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia
 * Love Triangle: With Rebecca and Dean.
 * Sexy Backless Outfit
 * Stripperific: Although not as bad as Rebecca.
 * Shizuka Ito
 * Show Some Leg: Avril's layered (and backless) dress.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly girl to Rebecca's tomboy.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl

Greg Russellberg
A self-proclaimed "Golem Crusher" who goes around destroying golems. He is seeking revenge on a certain Veruni, and he believes that by destroying golems he will eventually lure him out. This brings him into conflict with Dean, who loves golems and is appalled that anyone would destroy them. His unique ability is Shoot And Guard, which gives him a small chance to automatically enter the defensive Guard stance after attacking.


 * The Big Guy
 * Hot Dad
 * Mighty Glacier
 * Nice Hat

Chuck Preston
A Golem Hunter apprentice with self-confidence issues. He is falsely accused of stealing an artifact and nearly executed by the local Veruni, but Dean and party intervene just in time. His unique ability is Damage Up, which increases the amount of damage his attacks do as his HP decreases.


 * Can't Catch Up: Joins the party several levels lower than everyone else and so will always be weaker than the rest of the party. (unless give him a handful of Level apples but why bother?)
 * Can be avoided if you're making use of the Black Market, as you spend character levels there.
 * Hair of Gold
 * Improbable Weapon User: The pilebunker, which appears to be a weaponized jackhammer.
 * Childhood Friend Romance:

Carol Anderson
An orphan who is looked after by a mysterious and half-mad professor. She is extremely intelligent but very shy and clumsy, especially around boys. She was separated from the professor and is currently looking for him. Her unique ability is Shoot Anywhere, which allows her to target any Hex in battle.


 * Backpack Cannon
 * Child Mage: Her growth in MAG status makes her the most efficient magic damage dealer or healer.
 * Cute Clumsy Girl: Rebecca and Avril sees her mostly like this until she shows her vast historical knowledge.
 * Does Not Like Men
 * Dojikko
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Self-Made Orphan: Not in the way you expect:
 * Small Girl, Big Gun: She's a tiny little thing, but her rocket launcher is huge.
 * Squishy Wizard: Dies incredibly fast even with Sword Medium.
 * Token Mini-Moe

Asgard
A Golem that serves as a transportation device and ally in battle. He is not player controlled in battle, but his actions can be programmed from the menu.


 * Humongous Mecha
 * Programming Game: Setting up his battle actions.

Nightburn
Dean's hero, a legendary Golem Hunter with fanboys all over the world.


 * Kenji Nojima
 * Kenji Nojima

Duo
A Veruni television producer who displays a great deal of interest in the party.


 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: To the point that his text-box title initially includes "Woman(?)".
 * Truman Show Plot: He causes one.

Captain Bartholomew
The captain of the moderate vessel Mayflower.


 * Barehanded Blade Block: Of a lazer sword.
 * The Captain:
 * Cool Old Guy: Old enough to be Dean's dad, and who Dean idolizes after Nightburn.
 * Large Ham: The captain. A ham if every there was one. Any time he appears in a cutscene, he will be yelling SOMETHING. Usually while being badass. Often while ignoring gravity. Seriously, the man is awesome.
 * Use Your Head: How he deals with Fereydoon.

Kartikeya
The most violent and unstable of the radicals. Even the other members question whether his usefulness outweighs his violent sociopathic tendencies. His past has ties to Greg's.


 * Ax Crazy
 * Break the Badass:.
 * The Brute
 * Complete Monster
 * Cutscene Power to the Max: Averted, he's just as dangerous in battle as he is in the main plot.
 * : Subverted.
 * Villainous Breakdown:.
 * Psycho for Hire

Elvis
One of the members of the radicals.


 * Absent-Minded Professor
 * Badass Mustache
 * Evil Genius
 * Genius Bruiser: He's as strong as he is smart.
 * Large Ham: Let's just say he's not shy about his love for his adopted daughter.
 * Lightning Bruiser: Looking at Elvis' size, you might think that he's a Mighty Glacier. Then you look at his stats when he's fighting your team in the TF Tower and you realize he's faster than the resident ninja Fereydoon

Fereydoon
One of the members of the radicals. He is Volsung's right-hand man and most reliable soldier, carry orders without fail


 * BFS
 * The Dragon
 * Ludicrous Precision: His introductory scene shows him setting the number of golems destroyed and the number of golems renaming...
 * Extreme Doormat:
 * Extreme Doormat:
 * Extreme Doormat:

Persephone
One of the members of the radicals. She is portrayed as the most sympathetic of the group.


 * Dark Chick
 * Gainaxing
 * Yuko Kaida: Who also voice the other Persephone in Japanese.

Volsung
The leader of the radical movement to preserve the Veruni race at any cost.


 * Boomerang Bigot: Volsung is fanatically dedicated to making sure nobody ever "crosses the wall" between Veruni and human, despite
 * Of course, in his defense, being that made him
 * Big Bad
 * Throwing Your Sword Always Works: One of his attacks. In fact, it counts towards monster encyclopedia completion if you hit it after he throws it into the ground.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to end racism between the humans and Veruni. Violently.
 * Throwing Your Sword Always Works: One of his attacks. In fact, it counts towards monster encyclopedia completion if you hit it after he throws it into the ground.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to end racism between the humans and Veruni. Violently.