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This is the character sheet for Chrono Cross, a game in which there are Loads and Loads of Characters, 45 playable. Have a seat, this could take a while...

PCs

Serge

The main character, and your standard teenaged fantasy protagonist, complete with sheltered upbringing in a fairly isolated hamlet and Disappeared Dad. While collecting scales for his girlfriend's necklace one morning, Serge stumbles into a bizarre portal and winds up in an alternate dimension, where his friends and family no longer recognize him. As an infant, he was brought into contact with the Frozen Flame as the result of his ship being blown off-course. With no other survivors in the lab, Serge was automatically designated the Flame's Abiter, or controller; this effectively locked FATE out from using the Flame. FATE needs Serge's body in order to bypass the failsafe.

• Attending Your Own Funeral: His grave marker on Cape Howl.
• Blade on a Stick / Double Weapon: Swallows.
• Blue Eyes: Yes, they look kind of purple in the character art. In cutscenes, they are a vivid blue.
• The Call Knows Where You Live
• Can't Drop the Hero: ...until New Game+, at least.
• The Chosen One: Lynx addresses him as the "Chrono Trigger," and the Dragons know him as "the Arbiter of Fate."
• Curtains Match the Window
• Disappeared Dad: It's Lynx.
• Dreaming of Things to Come
• Fetal Position Rebirth
• Henpecked Boyfriend
• Heroic Mime
• Holy Hand Grenade
• It's a Wonderful Plot
• Light'Em Up
• Light Is Good: His innate.
• Living MacGuffin
• Naked on Arrival: See "Rapid Aging".
• Nice Bandana
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He seemingly cannot tie his shoelaces without bumping into one of these.
• Nice Shoes: Steel-toed work boots with overhanging socks.
• Rapid Aging: Serge, in the process of getting his body back.
• Silent Protagonist: For most of the game. The only time he isn't is when he gets bodyswapped with Lynx.
• Shonen Hair
• Sobriquet: The Arbiter.
• Trapped in Another World
• Unwitting Pawn: The entire game consists of Serge jumping from being one person's Unwitting Pawn to another. Even in the end, he's still a sucker, just a sucker for a benevolent Gambit Roulette or two. Not for nothing does The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches call this one "Way to Go, Serge".
• Who Dunnit to Me?: Serge is on record as drowning off the coast of Opassa Beach. In truth, he was murdered by his father, who was acting under the control of FATE.
• Why Did It Have to Be Cats?: He was attacked by a panther as a child, and is terrified of cats. Not only is his mortal enemy a hulking cat-man, but El Nido is swarming with cats, and Serge even gets turned into a feline at one point! Oy.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Zig Zagged. When he finally does get spat back out in Home World, he's in Lynx's body. The villagers stop just short of lynching him.

Lynx

A feline demihuman and Kid's Arch Enemy. Currently serving as shady advisor to the Arcadia Dragoons, promising to lead them to the Frozen Flame. For reasons unknown to Serge, Lynx is actively seeking him out. He was originally Serge's father, Wazuki, before becoming FATE's servant. FATE reshaped him to resemble the panther that attacked Serge as a baby. He managed to kill Serge once already, but this was not sufficient; another universe branched off from that event, with a duplicate Serge still running around. FATE's Plan "B" is to possess Serge's body in order to get at the Frozen Flame.

• Badass
• Badass Cape
• Bling of War
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Tossing Serge/Lynx into the Dimensional Rift wins points for pure villainy, but is out of character for such a methodical bastard.
• Casting a Shadow
• Catfolk: Subverted -- contrary to appearance, he's not an ordinary demi-human but a fisherman who was scrambled to look like a panther.
• Cats Are Mean
• Defeat Means Playable: In a twisted way. After defeating him for the second time, he switches bodies with you. A consequence of this is that none of your previous party members will work with you because they believe you are Lynx or just think its too weird to work with the body of their previous enemy.
• Deuteragonist: Inverted - Lynx succeeds in stealing Serge's body and to traps Serge in his own, effectively becoming Serge.
• Disc One Final Boss: One of two. Fittingly, his counterpart in Home World is his old shipmate Miguel.
• Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: Different versions of Lynx curry favor with both the Dragoons and the Porrean Army. In Home World, he served as an agent of Porre and helped overtake El Nido. As such, he is highly unpopular in that dimension.
• Evil Costume Switch: Dark Serge trades in his threads for Lynx's signature outfit, complete with hat and cape.
• Evil Is Hammy: Runs the gamut as Dark Serge, with an Evil Laugh, Psychotic Smirk, and Red Eyes, Take Warning.
• Evil Twin: Dark Serge quickly becomes a scourge, tarnishing Serge's reputation.
• Faux Affably Evil: Unfailingly polite and well-mannered, but once his facade cracks...
• Fighting a Shadow: The first Lynx you fight is merely one of his pets.
• Genius Bruiser: Just look at his six-pack!
• Grand Theft Me: Serge spends the second act of the game as Lynx, having lost his original body.
• Gravity Master: Gains all of the high-tier dark spells over the course of the game, including Blackhole.
• Hidden Agenda Villain
• High Collar of Doom
• I Know What You Fear: When Wazuki fully succumbed to FATE, his appearance changed to suit Serge's greatest fear: a panther.
• I Want Them Alive: To Serge. Naturally, Lynx does not want his prize damaged. He could care less about Kid, though.
• Implacable Man
• Impossibly Cool Clothes
• In the Back: What awaits his boss, Lord Viper, at the top of Fort Dragonia.
• Involuntary Shapeshifter: As an emissary of FATE, Wazuki was transformed into a suitable assassin to kill Serge. Once in close proximity to the FATE supercomputer, Lynx is reshaped again into a feminine personification of FATE.
• Knife Nut: Apart from the scythe, Lynx carries around some throwing knives.
• Large and In Charge: When a 6'4 cat-man in black and a spiky hat gives orders, people tend to obey him.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: It is revealed posthumously that he is Serge's father, Wakuzi, corrupted beyond recognition.
  • Though this is revealed so late in the game that one wonders why they even bothered.
• Meet the New Boss: Like Glenn and Luccia, Lynx is a deliberate throwback to one of Chrono Trigger's characters—in this case, Magus.
• Mobile Menace: He dawdles at times, but he still has a tremendous lead. Especially when he beats the heroes to Chronopolis.
• Mouth of Sauron: As FATE's meat puppet.
• Nice Hat
• Obviously Evil
• One-Winged Angel: As FATE's projected self.
• Recurring Boss: Generally speaking, you face him four times; once as a shadow, the second in Fort Dragonia (as part of a Strike Me Down ploy), the third as Dark Serge, and finally as FATE.
• Sinister Scythe: In a nod to Magus from Chrono Trigger.
• Strike Me Down: The second bout with him in Fort Dragonia is a ruse to weaken his body to such an extent that Serge will be helpless after they've switched places.
• That Man Is Dead: He actually says something of the sort: "On that day, ten years ago, the world was torn asunder. And part of me, in fact, died," but by that point, there had been no hints as to who That Man is. The Reveal doesn't happen until a while after you kill him.
• Tragic Monster: Sadly, Wazuki is completely gone.
• Villain Ball: So, uh...Lynx, is there any reason you brainwashed Kid or waited to undo Robo's lock until after Serge showed up? Or was it just so he could watch you do it?
  • The alternate endings, with one notable exception, portray Lynx as doing nothing important or pointlessly wasting time since Serge is no longer on his quest. So yeah, it seems he really did just want Serge to see him do his evil deeds.
  • Dark Serge wastes a good deal of time tear-assing around El Nido and wreaking havoc.
• Villain Cred: Lynx enjoys a degree of this. The Porrean Army addresses him as "Sir Lynx," despite not holding an actual rank over them.
• Was Once a Man
• Wetware Body: FATE was able to slowly subjugate him over time, finally taking him over after he murdered the original Serge.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Home World's Lynx is not actually seen. Word of God confirms that Lynx did go to the Dead Sea with Harle and died there.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: General Viper was handy to up to a point; in particular, assembling the Dragon Tear for Lynx.

"I appreciate your help, General. However, I no longer have any need for you. This fort shall serve as a fine grave marker for you and your dragoons. May you rest in peace."

Kid

"I'll kick yer sorry arse so hard you'll kiss the moons!"

A hotheaded but good-hearted thief who comes to Serge's rescue after he is attacked on Cape Howl. Though Kid insists that Serge needs a bodyguard, she is merely interested in Serge's connection to her hated foe, Lynx. Kid is the self-made clone of Schala from Chrono Trigger, who was assimilated by he Time Devourer following the fall of Zeal. Kid was conceived in response to Serge's drowning at the hands of Lynx. In traveling back in time to prevent Serge's murder, Kid caused the Home World dimension to splinter off from the 'real' world.

• Action Girl
• All There in the Manual: Even today, much of Kid's backstory remains hazy due to a combination of a rushed development cycle and Timey-Wimey Ball.
• Australian Accent
• Badass Adorable
• Bare Your Midriff
• Blue Eyes
• Braids of Action
• Cloning Blues
• Distress Ball: Catches it a lot, mostly due to her Hot-Blooded nature, resulting in her being seriously injured several times. All total, she's kidnapped, stabbed, poisoned, brainwashed, comatose, and has her mind trapped in the past. Our Heroine, ladies and gentlemen.
• Facial Markings: Her warpaint.
• Hair of Gold
• Hair Decorations
• Hit You So Hard Your X Will Feel It: Her Catch Phrase.
• Hot-Blooded
• I Will Find You: After becoming Schala, she swears to find Serge.
• Knife Nut: Attached to her belt is a violet scabbard for her dagger, printed with the symbol of Venus (♀)
• Loveable Rogue
• Mini-Dress of Power
• My Own Grampa
• The Not Love Interest: Interestingly for a lead female character, it's possible for Serge to never befriend her at all! Aside from some mild teasing ("And don't go tryin' any funny stuff just coz I'm cute 'n all!"), there isn't much suggestion of romance between her and Serge. Until the epilogue, where Kid "merges" with Schala, and we're flat-out told that she and Serge are destined to be married in the future.
• Oddly Small Organization: Word of God states that the Radical Dreamers thieves guild is really just her.
• Orphan's Plot Trinket: The Astral Amulet.
• Playing with Fire
• Plucky Girl
• Rescue Romance
• Replacement Goldfish: Once he assumes Serge's identity, Lynx promptly places Kid under a spell and forces her to follow him, like Harle.
• Revenge Myopia
• She's Got Legs: Her introductory cutscene.
• Shrouded in Myth: Has deliberately cultivated a tough reputation, inspiring the urban legend of the Radical Dreamers, a fierce band of raiders.
• Stripperiffic
• Tyke Bomb
• Vapor Wear
• Video Game Stealing
• You Killed My Sister

Leena

Serge's childhood sweetheart. Until Kid shows up, of course. In order to recruit her, you have to turn Kid down three times after you first meet her, otherwise she is Lost Forever as a recruitable character. When Serge meets the Leena from Another World, she does not believe him to be the dead Serge but a boy with memory disorder; she joins the player's party to help him recover.

• Armor-Piercing Slap
• Disappeared Dad: Her father, Miguel, disappeared while taking Serge to see a doctor in Marbule.
• Fiery Redhead: In both dimensions, her sister Una points out that Leena is prone to temper tantrums.
• Frying Pan of Doom
• Girl Next Door
• Green Eyes
• Hair Decorations
• Healing Hands
• Heroes Want Redheads
• Nature Adores a Virgin: All of her special techs are based around her "maidenhood."
• Red-Headed Heroine
• Tsundere
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: Her Another version goes through this, but it's justified as Serge died in that world. Unfortunately, the Fortune Teller in Termina points out she won't have a sweetheart for a long time. How rude!

Doc

""Humans are, like, totally powerless, dude! With crafty knowledge we may extend our lives a fraction, but we just extend our suffering, too. But in reality, all we can do is leave ourselves in nature's hands and die the way nature intends us to... That is the awesome truth!? Gnarly!"

A hippie-styled physician from Guldove, although he laments not being able to help some of his patients. He'll join you if you opt not to save Kid.

• The Atoner: In his past, a tragedy struck someone close to him and he was unable to save the person; this prompted him to take up the study of medicine and open his own clinic.
• Combat Medic
• Contemplate Our Navels
• Drowning My Sorrows: Tries his best to cure Kid's poison, but cannot complete her recovery as he required Hydra Humour. This causes several regrets to resurface, leading him to hit Orlha's bar.
• Flechette Storm
• Knife Nut: Throwing knives.
• Light'Em Up
• Nice Hat
• Non-Action Guy: Granted, he can join your party and thus actually fight, but he's got the personality down pat.
• Surfer Dude
• Totally Radical

Draggy

A baby dragon, hatched from an Egg MacGuffin.

• Badass Adorable: Just look at him! Plus he's got a double tech with Leah that is pure Cute Overload.
• Breath Weapon
• Cute Little Fangs
• Last of His Kind: Poor guy.
• Our Dragons Are Different
• Parental Abandonment
• Playing with Fire
• Ridiculously Cute Critter

Fargo

A pirate. What more needs to be said? Originally a merc for the Dragoons, Fargo had a major falling out with General Viper, inspiring Fargo to become a marauder full-time. Lynx later fell in with Viper, causing problems for Fargo and his crew. They engendered the legend of the Ghost Ship to avoid detection, and used it to terrorize the high seas.

• Badass Mustache
  • Badass Spaniard
• Character Select Forcing: By the time he joins, he's the only ally that can steal. You'll need him if you want the elemental plate armor, which can only be acquired by stealing from several bosses. Also he's required in the quest to liberate Home World's Marbule.
• Cool Sword
• Crying Wolf
• Defeat Means Friendship
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Hidden Depths: Fargo is known for mingling with the Demi-humans of El Nido; In Home World, his ship provides employment to the refugees of Marbule. He also took a mermaid, Zelbess, as his wife.
• I Hate Alternate Me: Strictly speaking, they're both thieves, but one is more honest about it.
• I Owe You My Life
• Instant Plunder, Just Add Pirates
• Jerkass: His Home self actively conspires to keep the demihumans (and Sneff) in indentured servitude aboard his ship, and Marbule a literal ghost town.
• The Lost Lenore: Type B. Zelbess was Fargo's wife, killed in a dispute with General Viper.
• Oh My Gods: What in the name of Davy Jones is goin' on here!?
• Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught: In Home World, Fargo is the captain of a cruise ship, the S.S. Zelbess, and is a cheater in his own casino.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: (Another). While Badass, there's not a lot of raping and pillaging going on aboard the S.S. Invincible—in fact, the pirate Fargo is less of a crook than the version of him that's supposedly running a legitimate business. This is Lampshaded at the end of his introduction sequence when he waxes philosophical about the damage human beings have wrought on the planet, and your characters comment that they never expected to hear that sort of talk from a pirate.
• Pirate Parrot: "Polly" is several times his size, mind...
• Smoking Is Cool: Fargo enjoys his cigars.
• Video Game Stealing

Funguy

A formerly human mushroom enthusiast hit with a bad case of You Are What You Eat. Since this is obviously your fault, he demands to join your party in the hopes the Frozen Flame will return him to normal.

• An Axe to Grind
• Baleful Polymorph: He winds up getting acclimated to it.
• Green Thumb: Although in-game, he's actually a Yellow Innate, not Green.
• Mushroom Man: Funguy was originally a normal human, but became a humanoid fungus after eating an enchanted mushroom.
• Never My Fault: To be fair, you did play a role in his transformation, but he asked for the mushroom in the first place...
• Was Once a Man

Glenn

A young knight, and Dario's younger brother. He's an excellent swordsman and even has a double-tech with Serge. The path to recruiting him (which requires you to leave Kid to die) has led many a player to exclaim Guide Dang It.

• Ancestral Weapon
• Blue Eyes
• Dual-Wielding
• Expy: To Frog
• Guide Dang It: He's probably one of the best characters in the game and has plot significance if you recruit him. To get him, you have to choose not to save Kid in what looks like a But Thou Must! moment. Even if you leave Kid to die, she gets better.
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Name's the Same: He was named, probably even in-story, after the human name of Frog from Chrono Trigger.
• Razor Wind
• Sword Beam
• Trademark Favorite Food: Viper Churros, at least when he was younger.
• X Marks the Hero

Greco

"Wherever there is light, there is also shadow... So it is the light that gives birth to shadow! Ghetz, I now understand, amigo...! But is it too late...?"

Luchador-turned-priest from the Zenan Mainland who, after a rough time on the continent, moved to El Nido to atone. Greco became a wrestler at one point to, as he quoted, fulfill an "appetite for destruction." This dark period was alleviated through the sacrifice of a man named Ghetz, who gave his life to wake Greco up. He is introduced while on an exorcism assignment in Fossil Valley, presumably to get rid of Skelly, whose possessed skull is lying amidst the bones.

• The Atoner: He took his current job after killing someone.
• Badass Preacher
• Bare-Fisted Monk
• Gentle Giant
• Gratuitous Spanish: This is his Verbal Tic, amigo.
• Masked Luchador
• Parental Substitute
• Power Fist
• Punny Name: His is U.S. name, especially combined with Ghetz's young sister, whom he watches over, Romana, is a pun on Greco-Roman wrestling, while his Japanese name is a reference to wrestler Astrud Gilberto.
• Religion Is Magic: Upon meeting him, Greco is immediately able to discern Serge's unique nature—that he is "dead" in this world.
• Religious Bruiser
• Stone Wall: His attack power and accuracy are lacking, but he can take a hell of a beating.

Grobyc

Cyborg officer of the Porre Military, and a much-touted "secret weapon." His creator, Luccia's brother, was killed in a lab explosion while grafting a relic from Chronopolis onto Grobyc's arm. This resulted in Grobyc's deployment being back a few years. Ironically, his current overseer, Norris, was behind the bombing as he feared the ramifications of Grobyc becoming too powerful. Grobyc, who admires strength, defects to Serge's party after the latter defeats him in a fight.

• Anime Hair
• Arm Cannon: His Level 7 tech move.
• Deceptively-Human Robots
• Defeat Means Friendship
• Determinator
• Frickin' Laser Beams
• I Fight for the Strongest Side
• Power Fist
• Robo Speak: Always-talks-like-this. Probably-meant-to-indicate-stoicism. Or-a-mechanical-electronic-monotone.
• Rocket Punch
• Sdrawkcab Name

Guile

A mysterious masked man in Termina. He's one of the three possible candidates you can recruit to break in to Viper manor. Was supposed to be Magus, but they couldn't fit his story in so his backstory was removed at the last minute. The new ending to Chrono Trigger DS implies he is an amnesic Magus.

• Badass Long Robe
• Boom Stick
• Dark Is Not Evil
• Domino Mask: He wears it for a reason.
• Dub Name Change: His original name is Alf. Janus/Magus' cat was named Alfador.
• Easy Amnesia
• Good Costume Switch
• Please Keep Your Hat On: When you first meet him, Guile has entered into a contest with the local Fortune Teller; if he brings back Viper's treasure, she would give him a present. Otherwise, he will have to remove his mask. The Fortune Teller is so freaked out by his real appearance that it costs her 10 years of life, or so she says.
• Power Floats
• Rapunzel Hair
• Shock and Awe
• Stage Magician
• Tele Frag: Sort of; his level 3 tech, WandaIn, teleports his staff into an enemy and pulls it back out.
• What Could Have Been: See Trivia tab.

Harle

An enigmatic harlequin in Lynx's employ.

• Capulet Counterpart
• Dark Action Girl
• Dark Chick
• Dark Mistress
• Enigmatic Minion
• Everything Sounds Sexier in French
• Evil Twin: To Kid, and it's heavily implied that she is Kid's Home World equivalent. Besides having the same general facial contours, they even have identical fortunes read by the fortune teller in Termina.
• Flechette Storm
• Heel Face Revolving Door: She has no qualms helping either Lynx or Serge-in-Lynx' body. Unlike Kid, she's fully aware of who you really are, but doesn't seem to care.
  • Deadly Change-of-Heart: Unfortunately, she starts developing genuine feelings for Serge right before being called to complete the Dragon God.
• Knife Nut
• Lady of Black Magic
• Lunacy
• The Mole: She spies on both Lynx and Serge as part of her mission to unseal the Dragon Gods
• Perky Female Minion
• Sexy Jester
• Tragic Monster: When she merges with the other dragon gods to form the completed Dragon God.
• The Vamp
• Villainesses Want Heroes: Towards Serge. Even before switching bodies with Lynx, but even moreso after that.
• Villainous Harlequin

Irenes

A mermaid from Marbule.

• Bare Your Midriff
• Dead Little Sister: Zelbess.
• Healing Hands
• Heavy Metal Umlaut: Her Verbal Tic.
• Making a Splash
• Musical Assassin
• Our Mermaids Are Different: She has no trouble whatsoever navigating about on land. By walking. On her tail.

Janice

A bunnygirl demihuman found aboard the S.S. Zellbess, raising monsters to compete in "The Grand Slam." She'll join you if you can beat her.

• Absolute Cleavage
• Crutch Character: Her carrot is better than any of the craftable weapons attainable when you first get her, and she can obtain her level 7 Tech before anyone else in the game. These are both outshined later in the game.
• Cute Monster Girl
• Defeat Means Friendship
• Genki Girl
• Half-Human Hybrid
• Hollywood Pudgy: Her in-game body type is Plump, but really though, she's simply curvaceous.
  • She's listed at 5' 7" and 104 pounds. Normal weight for a woman that height would be around one thirty-five; one hundred four pounds is freakishly thin. (And she's not the only one. Miki is six feet and one hundred fifteen pounds. That's the same height as Christian Bale and six pounds lighter than he was in The Machinist.)
• Improbable Weapon User: She uses ''carrot as her weapon]], among other things.
• Making A Splash: WhatsUpDoc, her level seven technique. Strange, as she is a Red innate.
• Petting Zoo Person

Karsh

One of the three Acacia Dragoons. He's a bit rough around the edges, but he's not a bad guy really.

• Always Second Best: To Dario.
• An Axe to Grind
• Badass Long Hair
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Flashback Nightmare
• Heartbroken Badass
• Heel Face Turn: Not that he was ever really a villain in the first place.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Kick the Dog: Literally - he punts Poshul off a cliff before your first battle with him. (Assuming you recruited Poshul, of course).
  • Technically it's Peppor who does the punting, although Karsh approves it.
• The Lancer
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Subverted: This is what you are initially led to think happened, but the truth is quite different.
• Peek-a-Bangs
• Razor Wind
• Red Herring
• Terrible Trio: Is the Boss figure to Solt and Peppor. Also forms one of these with ZOAH and Marcy.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend

Korcha

A young ferryman from Guldove, who provides transportation to and from Termina. He's a bit hard-headed, and reluctantly ends up having to help out Serge and his friends. Has a crush on Kid, and will join you if you choose to save her.

• All Love Is Unrequited
• Fiery Redhead
• Improbable Weapon User: A fishing lure.
• Redheaded Hero
• The Scrappy: Not very popular in the fandom. Commonly cited reasons include his opinionated personality, lack of clothing, mediocre stats, and exclusive weapon set.
• Tagalong Kid
• Underwear of Power
• Use Your Head

Leah

A cute little girl improbably surviving within the primeval forest. She's stronger than most full-grown men.

• An Axe to Grind
• Blow You Away
• Cute Bruiser
• Dishing Out Dirt
• Draggie Rider: Her Combination Attack with Draggie.
• Expy: Of Ayla.
• Hair of Gold
• Kid From the Future: Inverted. Leah says to Serge after they free Schala that she'll name her first child Ayla.
• Kid Hero
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse
• Raised by Wolves

Luccia

A scientific genius of somewhat dubious ethical practice—but for all that she's a bit on the creepy side, on the balance she's more good than evil. While her name obviously evokes Lucca's, she is not an Expy of her but rather a colleague, who entrusted her with a letter intended for Kid.

• Evilutionary Biologist: Sorta. NeoFio and Pip are her creations.
• Flechette Storm
• Gratuitous German
• Herr Doktor
• Hot Scientist
• Knife Nut: Darts.
• Mad Scientist
• Noblewoman's Laugh

Macha

Korcha and Mel's mother. She'll join you if you take the path not to save Kid.

• Action Mom: Bonus points for having some pretty good stats.
• Apron Matron
• Ass Kicks You
• Big Beautiful Woman
• Frying Pan of Doom

Marcy

Another of the Acacia Dragoons, she describes herself as the Diva of the Four Devas. You first meet her in Viper Manor. If Nikki's your guide, you'll learn that she's the sister he was looking for.

• Bare-Fisted Monk
• Blondes Are Evil
• Blue Eyes
• Bratty Half-Pint / Enfant Terrible: After her Heel Face Turn she apologizes.
• Cute Bruiser
• Dark Chick
• Enfant Terrible: She is far too excited about inflicting violence on enemies.
• Hair Decorations
• Hair of Gold
• Half-Human Hybrid: Not that it shows or matters much.
• Heel Face Turn
• Improbable Age: She's, what, eight? And fully capable of kicking the ass of your three-person team.
• Odango Hair
• Perky Female Minion
• Power Fist
• Razor Floss
• Token Loli
• Valley Girl/Like Is, Like, a Comma: It's, like, totally her Verbal Tic.

Mel

Korcha's little (adopted) sister. She'll join you if you take the path to save Kid, but only if you chase her down after she takes your Elements.

• Bare Your Midriff
• Bratty Half-Pint
• Brother-Sister Incest: She has the hots for her stepbrother, evidently. At least they're Not Blood Siblings.
• Fiery Redhead
• Precision-Guided Boomerang
• Tagalong Kid
• Video Game Stealing

Miki

A dancer extraordinaire, and Niki's performing co-star. She'll join you after the concert in Guldove.

• Absolute Cleavage
• All Love Is Unrequited: Actually, it's not entirely clear to what extent this is the case, although he does seem oblivious to her feelings.
• Bare Your Midriff
• Belly Dancer
• Dance Battler
• Fiery Redhead
• Ms. Fanservice
• Rapunzel Hair
• Razor Wind
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: To Nikki's Blue Oni.
• She Fu
• Stripperiffic
• Zettai Ryouiki

Mojo(y)

A voodoo doll made of straw. He is looking for his long-lost brother.

• Black Magic
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe
• Dub Name Change: In Japan he's known as 'Lucky Dan', which makes slightly more sense, in going with his status as a living good luck charm
• Happy Dance: His casting animation
• Living Statue
• Verbal Tic: What-om you say-om?
• Voodoo Doll

NeoFio

A plant-creature that is a creation of Luccia's. Requires a "Life Sparkle" to activate.

• Combat Tentacles
• Green Thumb
• Ridiculously Cute Critter
• Team Pet... er, Plant

Nikki

A melancholy rock star. He'll join you on one of the three paths to Viper Manor. Later we learn that he is Fargo's son.

• Bare Your Midriff
• Beauty Mark
• Bishonen
• Blue Oni: To Miki's Red Oni.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Remarked in-universe by an old lady who thinks he wears too much make-up.
• Fashionable Asymmetry
• Half-Human Hybrid
• An Ice Person
• Magic Music: He's the only one who can perform his mother's song, needed to save Marbule in Home World.
• Multicolored Hair
• The Power of Rock
• The Rock Star
• Rockers Smash Guitars: His "Grand Finale" tech.
• Shout-Out: So very much. A Shout-Out trifecta, in fact: Visual Kei, Nikki Sixx for the name and hide for his hair and yellow hearts guitar.
  • In Japan, the name is Slash instead (but in the US, that was already used for one of Magus' henchmen).
• Visual Kei
• Weapon of Choice: His guitar.

Norris

An idealistic soldier from Porre. He'll join you in Home Termina.

• Badass Crew: Norris is the leader of the elite Black Wind.
• Blue Eyes
• Defector From Decadence: The final straw being the authorization of Riddel's Cold-Blooded Torture.
• Good Samaritan: As is revealed in one of the Multiple Endings, if you chose to leave Kid to die from the poison, her mysterious benefactor who "came from the mainland" and gave Doc the antidote was him.
• The Gunslinger
• Hair of Gold
• Heel Face Turn
• The Mole: Working under Orcha in the kitchen of Viper Manor.
• Officer and a Gentleman
• The Power of the Sun
• Token Enemy Minority
• Wide-Eyed Idealist
• You Monster!: His opinion on upgrading Grobyc to be Porre's "Secret Weapon".

Orcha

Viper Manor's head cook.

• Badass Beard
• Chef of Iron
• Cold-Blooded Torture: The Porre military unleashes his Super-Powered Evil Side on Riddel.
• Frying Pan of Doom
• Super-Powered Evil Side

Orlha

An all-around Action Girl with Girlish Pigtails, and lightning fists. She is looking for her lost twin Tia.

• Absolute Cleavage
• Bare-Fisted Monk
• Bottle Fairy
• Cute Bruiser
• Dead Little Sister
• Hair of Gold
• Mega Twintails
• Stay in the Kitchen: Best not to suggest this while in range of her extremities.
• Waif Fu

Pierre

A wimpy swordsman looking for an audience at Viper Manor. He'll join you on one of the three paths that lead there.

• Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
• The Dandy
• Gratuitous French: Harle definitely speaks BETTER French.
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Magikarp Power: Well, kinda. Getting all his hero equipment transforms him from laughably useless to fairly competent.
• Miles Gloriosus
• Nice Hat
• Vanity Is Feminine: He's very narcissistic and effeminate.

Pip

One of Luccia's experiments. He'll "evolve" in different ways depending on the kind of elements you use in battle.

• Elite Tweak
• Elmuh Fudd Syndwome
• Magikarp Power
• Ridiculously Cute Critter

Poshul

A talking pink dog. She's the first character you can recruit, and the only character that can join you from either dimension.

• Hair Decorations
• Pink Means Feminine
• Speech Impediment
• Team Pet

Radius

Arni's village leader. He'll give you a tutorial at the beginning of the game, if you so desire.

• Badass Grandpa
• Bald of Awesome
• Big Ol' Eyebrows
• Cane Fu
• Cool Old Guy
• In the Back: How he disposed of Garai.
• Ki Attacks
• My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction to stabbing Garai in the back.
• The Obi-Wan
• Old Master
• Retired Badass
• Rival Turned Evil
• Simple Staff
• Training from Hell: His battle tutorial.

Razzly

A fairy who will join you if you take the path to save Kid. If you don't, she's, well... eaten.

• Boom Stick
• Guide Dang It: Getting her level seven tech. Among other things it requires her sister to die, the dwarves to be killed rather than be given a Heel Realization, and the unborn Hydra baby to not be given a Ceresean and of course that you recruit her to begin with.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: She's fairy fond of doing this.
• Our Fairies Are Different
• The Power of Love: Her Level 5 and 7 Techs.

Riddel

Lord Viper's daughter. Was Dario's fiancee, and Karsh's unrequited crush.

• Damsel in Distress
• Lady of War
• The Ojou
• Proper Lady
• Silk Hiding Steel: A sweet and elegant girl, who's also a very powerful white mage.
• White Magician Girl

Skelly

A skeleton clown whose bones are scattered over the breadth of El Nido. If you collect them all, he can join your party.

• Big Eater: When he was alive.
• Blind and the Beast: The reunion with his mother.
• Dem Bones
• Ghost Amnesia
• Losing Your Head
• Prophetic Name
• Unfortunate Names: His Japanese name was Skull. Who would hire Skull the Clown?

Sneff

A stage magician working on Fargo's cruise ship in Home, in order to pay off his gambling debts. (Fargo, in fact, exploits Sneff's gambling addiction and rigs the tables against him, so as to keep him in debt—and thus servitude—forever.) Is also in need of some serious dental work.

• Baleful Polymorph: He can turn people into cats. He gives up this trick after you take advantage of this form.
• Crack! Oh, My Back!
• The Gambler
• Speech Impediment
• Stage Magician
• Work Off the Debt

Sprigg

A Mystic who can use her dopplegang skill to mimic any monster she's KO'd in battle—or any monster KO'd by someone wearing the forget-me-not pot. One of her dopplegangs has a use in a rare Triple-Tech.

• Cane Fu
• Cool Old Lady
• Mega Manning
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old
• Simple Staff

Starky

Is... an alien. He's looking for lost pieces of his crashed spaceship.

• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
• Badass Adorable
• Defeat Means Friendship
• The Greys
• Ray Gun
• What Is This Thing You Call Love?: A short scene with Harle.

Steena

The Shrine Maiden in Home Guldove. (In Another, she is an apprentice as the head Priestess Direa is still alive.) She'll join you after you collect all of the Dragon Relics.

• Hot Chick with a Sword
• Light'Em Up: Her innate color is White.
• The Ojou: More Action Girl-y than Riddel, bordering on Lady of War.
• Stripperiffic
• Summon Magic: She calls on eidolons for her Tech Attacks.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl

Turnip

A fighting Turnip.

• Expy: Of Frog.
• Green Thumb
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: He talks like this.

Van

In Another, Van is a melancholy and somewhat spoiled son of a wealthy but emotionally distant businessman, but in Home, his father is an artist so ethically devoted to his craft that he can barely keep himself and his son fed, and as a result his son turned out a lot more practical-minded. The frugal, sarcastic Van is the one who joins your party, since you're after the Frozen Flame and he's hoping it'll pay the rent.

• Deadpan Snarker
• Monster Fighting With Cash: His L.7 is an astonishingly literal variant of this.
• The Eeyore
• Kid Hero
• Lonely Rich Kid: Another.
• Mouthy Kid
• Nice Hat
• Precision-Guided Boomerang.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense: In Another. In Home, he's the exact inverse.

Lord Viper

The beloved lord of El Nido, a general of some renown. He is initially allied with Lynx, but is a good man regardless.

• Arch Enemy: Has a long-running vendetta going with Fargo, though the details are kept secret. Viper warmly agrees to duel him to the death once this adventure is concluded.
• Badass Beard
  • Badass Grandpa
  • Four-Star Badass
• Bald of Awesome
• Big Ol' Eyebrows
• BFS: His "Viper's Venom," which more resembles a boat anchor.
• Big Fancy House
• A Father to His Men: To judge by their devotion to him he is definitely this.
• Four-Star Badass
• The Generalissimo: A heroic example. Viper may be authoritarian, but he's the one person standing between the Porran Army and El Nido.
• Heel Face Turn: Again, not really a villain, but was duped by Lynx.
• Our Founder: His statue on the uppermost point of Termia.
• Papa Wolf: Won't take kindly to his "darling" Riddel being threatened.
• Patriotic Fervor
• Razor Wind
• Weapon of Choice: Improbably Cool Sword.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist
• Worthy Opponent
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He finds himself on the receiving end.

Zappa

A blacksmith, and Karsh's father.

• Badass Beard
• Violent Glaswegian: At least when he decides to battle.
• Ultimate Blacksmith
• Weapon of Choice: Hammer or Axes.

ZOAH

The Third Acacia Dragoon. HE TALKS IN ALL CAPS. That's... about it, really.

• Blood Knight: "HMPH! WHAT MEANING IS THERE TO A LIFE OF STRIVING AFTER WEALTH AND POWER...? IT IS NO USE TO YOU ONCE YOU DIE! AS FOR ME, I CHOOSE TO LIVE IN BATTLE AND ONE DAY TO DIE IN BATTLE."
• Chainmail Bikini
• Cool Helmet
• The Faceless
• Mighty Glacier
• Mr. Fanservice
• No Indoor Voice
• Power Fist
• Stripperiffic
• Underwear of Power
• Wrestler in All of Us: His specials are wrestling moves.

NPCs

Marge

Serge's mother, who serves much the same function as Crono's mother in Trigger, although she is given a bit more characterization (and her own name).

• Good Morning, Crono
• Good Parents

The Shaker Brothers (Solt and Peppor)

Two bumbling henchmen that serve as recurring tutorial bosses and attempted comic relief.

• Easy Amnesia
• Fat and Skinny
• Goldfish Poop Gang: And sometimes Ketchop. One battle actually has them as a real threat, though.
• He Knows About Timed Hits
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Peppor is actually fairly competent, at least by Goldfish Poop Gang standards. However, whatever Peppor does, Solt tends to screw up. Particularly memorably, Peppor once turns up with a BlackHole element, which Solt accidentally steals with a trap element.
• The Fool: Solt.
• Those Two Guys
• Verbal Tic: Solt's is to be quite redundantly redundant. Peppor's is to replace verbs with 'shak-'.

Miguel

Leena's Disappeared Dad. You'll find him at the center of the Dead Sea in Home. Defeating him re-opens the dimensions to give Serge a chance to retrieve his human body -- destroying the Time Distortion in the process.

• And I Must Scream: See Tragic Monster
• Apologetic Attacker
• Disappeared Dad
• Fauxlosophic Narration: A lot of it. Word of advice: you can run away at the start of the battle, save and come back, so that you don't have to listen to the whole thing every time you try to fight him.
• Forgotten Friend, New Foe
• Hand Blast
• Fluffy the Terrible
• Jacob Marley Apparel
• Light'Em Up
• Load-Bearing Boss: Big time.
• Megane
• Mouth of Sauron: As FATE's mouthpiece.
• Mr. Exposition
• Nice Hat
• One-Scene Wonder
• People Puppets
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse
• Strike Me Down
• Tragic Monster: Bound to the Dead Sea by Fate, all he can do is wait in the wreckage.

Dario

The 14th Grandmaster of the Acacia Dragoons, Riddel's fiance, and Glenn's elder brother. Died mysteriously when he and longtime friendly rival Karsh went on an expedition to the Isle of the Damned...

While on the Isle, Dario discovered and was possessed by the evil of the Masamune, and with it tried to kill Karsh. Horrified, Karsh could barely bring himself to defend against him until Dario declared his intent to slate the Masamune's blade with Riddel's blood, upon Karsh went berserk and struck him down. While in Another he is presumed dead, in Home he survived, amnesiatic but still in (and under) possession of the evil blade. Your party can jog his memory with the right memento, triggering one of the hardest, (but most rewarding) boss fights in the game -- victory nets you Serge's Infinity+1 Sword, Riddel's L7 tech, a warm fuzzy feeling at the reunion of the star-crossed lovers and, of course, Bragging Rights Reward.

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• Bonus Boss
• Easy Amnesia
• Expy: Of Cyrus—both are named after ancient Persian kings, both are lovingly close to Glenn, both wield the Masamune, and both are optional boss fights.
• Knight in Shining Armor
• Never Found the Body

Garai

Was the 13th Grandmaster of the Acacia Dragoons, wielder of the Einlanzer, and father of Dario and Glenn. Was murdered by Radius when possessed by the evil spirit of the Masamune.

• Badass Long Hair
• The Corruption
• Dual-Wielding
• Evil Is Visceral
• Fallen Hero
• Jacob Marley Apparel
• Our Ghosts Are Different
• The Paladin: His innate is white.
• The Rival
• Scary Impractical Armor
• Unfinished Business
• "Wake-Up Call" Boss

The Dragon Gods

Organic Technology from a universe where the Reptites lived (instead of humans), each representing one of the games six magical elements. Originally one being that was split into six by FATE.

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• Bad Samaritans
• Body Horror: The scene in which the six fuse into a single beast is.... disturbing.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Though only the Black Dragon and Green Dragon are named after their colours, it's obvious which belongs to what Element by their colouration.
• Dismantled MacGuffin / Pieces of God: FATE split them into pieces to prevent them from conquering the world.
• Gaia's Vengeance: The consciousness of the planet pulled them out of an alternate time stream in response to the Time Crash.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: The Dragon God is a bat-like monstrosity.
• Gotta Kill Em All: Inverted—the Dragons duel you individually before deeming you worthy to take on FATE.
• Gunship Rescue: The Sky Dragon swoops down and rescues Lynx's party just as the Dead Sea explodes.
• Fusion Dance: The Dragons chomp down on one anothers' bodies, drawing blood that gradually coalesces into the Dragon God. Eech.
• Our Dragons Are Different
• Sealed Evil in a Can
• Threshold Guardians

FATE

A supercomputer built by Belthazar out of the old Mother Brain unit. Originally installed to monitor Chronopolis, FATE was left to fend for itself after Balthazar's botched experiment stranded the laboratory in the distant past. FATE, recognizing that it couldn't allow the facility—or the Frozen Flame—to come into contact with past civilizations, took measures to hide its existence by terraforming the El Nido archipelago and colonizing it with her human staff. FATE continues to subtly interfere in the settlers' lives, ostensibly to prevent them from interfering with history. FATE's goal is to possess Serge's body in order to get control of the Frozen Flame again.

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot
• Big Bad
• Failsafe Failure: The Promenthius Circuit. Exploited by Belthazar to keep FATE preoccupied.
• FemBot
• Hidden in Plain Sight: As Lynx.
• Hidden Villain: You can't fight FATE.
• Necessary Evil: Without FATE, the Dragonians would have easily taken over the present day.
• Pinocchio Syndrome: Aims to use the Frozen Flame to evolve into a new, living species. The experimentation on El Nido's residents hints that she's been analyzing their behavior.
• The Unseen
• What Did You Expect When You Named It?

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