Rose of Versailles/Characters

The characters for Rose of Versailles!

Oscar


Oscar Francois de Jarjayes


 * Action Girl
 * Lady of War
 * Badass
 * Heartbroken Badass:
 * Bifauxnen: Likely the Trope Codifier, as well as the page picture!
 * Blasting It Out of Their Hands: A variation. Oscar shoots De Guément in the hand not to disarm him, but specifically to cripple him so he won't be able to ever fire a weapon.
 * Break the Cutie: She's more of a beauty than a cutie. Gets broken nevertheless.
 * Colonel Badass: Oscar, as commander of the Royal Guards, holds rank equivalent to a Colonel's.
 * Cross Dresser
 * Drowning My Sorrows: Now and then.
 * Even the Girls Want Her: She's a stylish Bifauxnen and Action Girl. This was bound to happen.
 * Hair of Gold
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: In some artwork.
 * The Heroine: In her Five-Man Band.
 * Hot-Blooded: She's rather level-headed until someone she cares for is in danger. Then she'll become this, and you'll have a fucking pissed off Oscar after your head.
 * If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him:
 * Let Them Pretend Happy: André starts losing eyesight on his remaining eye, and at some point he stands next to Oscar's new portrait and starts giving a flowery false description of it to not let Oscar know his eyesight problems. Oscar then tearfully says the picture is as gorgeous as he says it is, not having the heart to tell André that she knows he's almost blind.
 * Momma's Tomboy: Never ever threaten her mother. Or anyone she loves, period.
 * Pimped-Out Dress: The one time she wears one, it is pretty grand.
 * Pretty in Mink: At least in the manga, she has a fur-trimmed cape.
 * Raised as the Opposite Gender: She was the youngest daughter of a high-ranked military man, so she was raised as a boy by her dad.
 * Sanae Kobayashi (2008 movie)
 * The Other Darrin
 * Say My Name: "ANDRÉ!"
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: She once puts on a Pimped-Out Dress,  Andre's reaction is different in each media: he gets angry in the manga, but in the anime he laughs about it.
 * Star-Crossed Lovers: She and Andre
 * Sweet Polly Oliver
 * Staring Through the Sword: At least three times.
 * Sugar and Ice Personality: Oscar starts out as being seen as this.
 * Tomboy: Invoked specifically.
 * True-Blue Femininity: Her grand dress is mostly shades of blue.
 * Tsundere: A very tragic version of the Type A variety.
 * Unrequited Love: For Fersen.
 * Violently Protective Girlfriend: While they're not an item, Oscar completely flips her shit out when
 * Tomboy: Invoked specifically.
 * True-Blue Femininity: Her grand dress is mostly shades of blue.
 * Tsundere: A very tragic version of the Type A variety.
 * Unrequited Love: For Fersen.
 * Violently Protective Girlfriend: While they're not an item, Oscar completely flips her shit out when

Andre Grandier



 * Anguished Declaration of Love
 * Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Fersen's Veronica.
 * Big Eater: According to Oscar.
 * Bishonen: Sure, they all are in this series, but still.
 * Break the Cutie: A handsome commoner guy in love with the noblewoman he's known ever since childhood? Right before the French Revolution? It's bound to happen.
 * Character Development: He starts off as Oscar's nice and almost goofy chilhood friend, but as the tragedies pile up he gets more and more serious.
 * Childhood Friends: Him and Oscar.
 * Despair Event Horizon: When
 * Also, in the manga,
 * Determinator: In one scene of the anime, he gets a serious bashing from the other guards under Oscar's command, who sees him as Oscar's lackey. He keeps fighting back until he can't even move anymore.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: But he has his limits.
 * Driven to Suicide: Averted. See Despair Event Horizon above.
 * Drowning My Sorrows: At least once in the anime. Just before the Despair Event Horizon scene.
 * Green Eyes: Well, certainly fits the 'sexy' part of the trope.
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Before he cuts them to impersonate the Black Knight.
 * Nice Guy
 * Peek-a-Bangs
 * Plucky Comic Relief: Starts off as a mild version of it, especially in the manga. But then...
 * Raised by Grandparents: His parents died when he was a little boy, so his grandmother took him in. She also happened to be the housekeeper and nanny of the Jarjayes.
 * Say My Name: "OSCAAAAAAAAAR!"
 * Shadow Archetype: He and Oscar are often refered to as 'the shadow' and 'the light'.
 * Shirtless Scene: In the manga, Oscar walks in on him while he's changing out of his rainsoaked uniform. Her getting all flustered is one of the first signs that.
 * Single-Target Sexuality: Andre is very Oscar-sexual.
 * Star-Crossed Lovers: He's a commoner while Oscar's a noblewoman.
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome
 * The Lancer: To Oscar's The Heroine.
 * Toshiyuki Morikawa (2008 movie)
 * Shirtless Scene: In the manga, Oscar walks in on him while he's changing out of his rainsoaked uniform. Her getting all flustered is one of the first signs that.
 * Single-Target Sexuality: Andre is very Oscar-sexual.
 * Star-Crossed Lovers: He's a commoner while Oscar's a noblewoman.
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome
 * The Lancer: To Oscar's The Heroine.
 * Toshiyuki Morikawa (2008 movie)
 * Toshiyuki Morikawa (2008 movie)

The Jarjayes clan

 * Parents as People: Madame de Jarjayes seems to be a decent and kind Proper Lady, and Oscar loves her very much. General Jarjayes, on the other hand... oh my. The guy has a good heart, but he is a bundle of HUGE issues and many of them pass onto Oscar.
 * Team Mom: Andre's grandmother.

Rosalie


Rosalie Lamorliere.


 * Bi the Way: She fancies Oscar and has lots of Les Yay with her. Even after, there are still lingering feelings for her in Rosalie's heart.
 * Break the Cutie: Yep, nary a single cutie is left unbroken in the series.
 * The Chick: In Oscar's Five-Man Band. Crush on The Heroine included.
 * Demoted to Extra: Rosalie wasn't very well liked by Japanese readers, so she faded away from the spotlight as time passes.
 * Hair of Gold
 * Historical Domain Character: Loosely. There was a Rosalie Lamorliere in real life (Marie Antoinette's caretaker and maid when she was imprisoned), but she obviously wasn't like the girl we meet in this manga.
 * Pimped-Out Dress: Wears quite a few.
 * Pretty in Mink: In the manga, she has a fur-trimmed cape and [[media:rosalie_her_love_00_1104.jpg|a jacket and muff]].
 * Rihoko Yoshida
 * Mamiko Noto (2008 movie)
 * : Oscar actually meets Roslie when she tries to kill her mom, mistaking Madame Jarjays as.
 * Mamiko Noto (2008 movie)
 * : Oscar actually meets Roslie when she tries to kill her mom, mistaking Madame Jarjays as.

Bernard Chatelet

 * Beta Couple:
 * Intrepid Reporter:
 * Hikaru Midorikawa (2008 movie)
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky: Though he does tone down his cynicism a little.
 * The Smart Guy: In Oscar's Five-Man Band.
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky: Though he does tone down his cynicism a little.
 * The Smart Guy: In Oscar's Five-Man Band.

Jeanne de la Motte aka Jeanne Valois



 * Akiko Yajima (2008 movie)
 * Historical Domain Character: Sort-of. She's a very highly fictionalized Jean de Valois Saint Remy, the mastermind behind the infamous Affair of the Diamond Necklace.
 * Lady Drunk
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * Smug Snake
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Unholy Matrimony: With Nicholas
 * Unholy Matrimony: With Nicholas
 * Unholy Matrimony: With Nicholas

Nicholas
Nicholas de la Motte


 * The Alcoholic
 * Con Man
 * Jerkass
 * Kick the Dog: Whipping and torturing.

Nicole Lamorlière

 * : Should we stop spoilering that
 * Parental Substitute: For Jeanne and Rosalie.
 * Parental Substitute: For Jeanne and Rosalie.

Alain de Soissons

 * Badass
 * The Big Guy: To Oscar's Five-Man Band
 * Heroic BSOD: When, Oscar and Andre find him sitting  , his body tense and his eyes full of tears of despair. As   explains what happened, he apologizes and says he cannot go back for a while, so takes a Ten-Minute Retirement.
 * Keaton Yamada
 * Rikiya Koyama (2008 movie)
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * Unrequited Love: In the manga, for Oscar.

Marie Antionette


Marie Antoinette of France


 * Arranged Marriage: To Louis XVI
 * Ayako Kawasumi (2008 movie)
 * The Cutie: Specially when younger.
 * Break the Cutie: Oh, boooooy.
 * Gem-Encrusted: Several of her dresses, headdresses, and a couple of her ermine dresses and capes.
 * Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Has a few dresses in purple. She also wears a royal cape that is purple, but it's worn in a scene that fails to evoke Purple Is Powerful to the people.
 * Hair Decorations
 * Hair of Gold
 * Historical Domain Character
 * Honor Before Reason: Some of her problems are made worse with this.
 * Pimped-Out Cape
 * Pimped-Out Dress: Many of them. many.
 * Pink Means Feminine / Princesses Prefer Pink: Has several pink and rose colored dresses.
 * Pretty in Mink
 * Princess Classic: Horribly and cruelly deconstructed, And boy, does she pay for trying to act like it all the time.
 * Princess Curls: Subtle, but she does have them, even when her hairstyles change.
 * Star-Crossed Lovers: With Fersen.
 * True-Blue Femininity: Wears quite a few blue dresses.
 * Whole Costume Reference: The bejeweled ermine dresses are heavily based on this dress worn by Marie Leszczynska, wife of Lois XV. It's even more clear in some side art for the manga.
 * True-Blue Femininity: Wears quite a few blue dresses.
 * Whole Costume Reference: The bejeweled ermine dresses are heavily based on this dress worn by Marie Leszczynska, wife of Lois XV. It's even more clear in some side art for the manga.

Maria Theresa


Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria


 * The High Queen
 * Historical Domain Character
 * Parents as People: She cares for her children but isn't above using them for her purposes and interferring in their lives. Just like she did in Real Life.
 * Pimped-Out Dress
 * Pink Means Feminine: Her dress in the anime.
 * The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask

Louis XVI


Louis XVI, the Dauphine and later King Louis XVI


 * Adaptational Attractiveness: He's quite the Big Beautiful Man here.
 * Historical Domain Character
 * Shrinking Violet
 * Yoshito Yasuhara
 * Kenji Nojima (2008 movie)

Axel von Fersen


Hans Axel von Fersen, The Younger


 * Chick Magnet: Antoinette and Oscar were very smitten with him. Considering how hot and gentlemanly he is, can you blame them?
 * Historical Domain Character
 * Nachi Nozawa
 * Kazuhiko Inoue (2008 movie)
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome

Louis XV
Louis XV


 * Historical Domain Character

Louis Joseph
Louis Joseph, the Dauphine


 * Ill Boy
 * Wise Beyond Their Years: Was very smart and empathic, and would've been a good Dauphine if shit didn't hit the fan.

Madame Du Barry


Madame Du Barry


 * Blondes Are Evil
 * Gold Digger
 * Historical Domain Character
 * Kujira (2008 movie)
 * Noblewoman's Laugh
 * Pimped-Out Dress
 * Smug Snake

Duchesse de Polignac


Madame Gabrielle de Polastron, aka the Duchesse de Polignac


 * Abusive Parents: She pretty much pawns Charlotte off to a very creepy older man to gain power.
 * Blondes Are Evil
 * Hot Mom
 * Historical Domain Character
 * Masako Katsuki (2008 movie)
 * Poisonous Friend: To poor Marie Antoinette.
 * Smug Snake

Charlotte de Polignac



 * Arranged Marriage / Wife Husbandry
 * Fan Girl: Of Oscar.
 * The Ojou
 * Pimped-Out Dress
 * Pink Means Feminine: Her dress is pink in the anime.
 * Spoiled Brat
 * Pimped-Out Dress
 * Pink Means Feminine: Her dress is pink in the anime.
 * Spoiled Brat
 * Spoiled Brat

Duke of Orleans
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans


 * Ambition Is Evil: He's the cousin of Louis as well as the second in row to the throne. Of course he plays more than one gambit to knock Louis off, even in the first episodes!
 * Historical Domain Character
 * Historical Villain Upgrade: While not the only one, his' is one of the most egregious examples.
 * Smug Snake

The Duke of Guiche

 * Old Man Marrying a Child: He's not an ancient man, but the age difference with Charlotte  is squicky enough.

The Count of Girodelle

 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
 * Romantic False Lead
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome

Henri de Guémént

 * Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Subverted: Oscar shoots him in the hand not to disarm him, but specifically to cripple him so he won't be able to ever fire a weapon. See below for the reason why...
 * Would Hurt a Child: Poor Street Urchin Pierre. Rosalie begged Guémént to spare him, and yet he didn't.

Leon de Saint-Just
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just


 * Historical Domain Character

Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre


 * Historical Domain Character
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Katsuji Mori