Final Fantasy Tactics A2/Characters

A list of characters from Final Fantasy Tactics A2.

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Playable Characters

Luso Clemens

Luso is the protagonist of the game, an orphan raised by his aunt and a troublemaker in school. He gets put in detention the day before summer vacation and finds a strange book in the library, which naturally transports him to Ivalice. Unlike Marche, Luso is much more adventurous and not especially eager to get back home, which is handy because he needs to fill his Grimoire end-to-end in order to return.

• BFS: In the artwork. It's basically identical to Marche's, although unlike his Luso never actually gets his hands on it.
• Character Development: If you pay attention to the things he says during sidequests, he gets much more sure of himself as time goes on.
• Class Clown: Implied to be this.
• Genre Savvy: "...I dunno what the world's coming to if chests in underground tunnels can't be relied on to contain treasure!"
• The Hero: He starts off as naive but eager, becomes the clan leader, and helps numerous people in Ivalice: both his good friends and quest-givers.
• In-Series Nickname: Red Cap by Vaan.
• Instant Costume Change: When he swears to Clan Gully. Then he stays in it for the whole game.
• Kid Hero: The youngest of the main cast aside from Hurdy.
• Ordinary High School Student: Although we don't know exactly how old he is.
• Naive Newcomer: He grows out of it though.
• Naughty Is Good: Well, he wouldn't have gotten to Ivalice in the first place if he hadn't been put in detention.
• Nice Hat
• Rummage Sale Reject: Just look at the kid.
• Spell Book: The Grimoire of the Rift.
• Why Did It Have To Be Ghosts: Even in random encounters, his standard dialogue is replaced with "H-hey, that wasn't a ghost, was it?".
• Would Hit a Girl: He smacks Adelle back when she smacks him.
• Year Inside, Hour Outside: Luso literally can spend years—without aging—in Ivalice, but he wakes up in the library as though he'd just nodded off at the desk.

Cid

The leader of Clan Gully. When Luso lands in the middle of their hunt, Cid offers him the clan's protection so the kid won't be killed by a giant chicken-bowling ball hybrid. Cid is competent, world-wise and good-natured, but he hasn't always been an innocuous clan leader.

• Big Brother Mentor: Towards Luso and Clan Gully in general.
• Crutch Character: Appears as such in a few early missions. By the time he joins for real, he's just a Bangaa (job wise) with no unique abilities that can't gain easy JP or EXP via dispatch, and unlike Luso/Adelle, is not forced for any missions.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Used to be a member of Khamja. It comes back to haunt shoot him.
• Death Is Not Permanent: In-story version. He swore himself to a Judge right after getting shot for leaving Khamja.
• Defector From Decadence: Perhaps not that decadent per se, but he decided that the power that came with Khamja wasn't worth their methods.
• Horned Humanoid
• The Lancer: He's much more mature and savvy than Luso.
• Large and In Charge: Initially.
• Mane Of Gold
• The Obi Wrong: Hands over the reins to Luso after getting shot, and is more-or-less an adviser after he recovers.
• The Worf Effect: Combined with the aforementioned Obi-Wrong, to show how dangerous Khamja is.

Adelle the Cat a.k.a. Adelaide

A notorious hunter with a reputation as a loner. She poaches a kill from Clan Gully, falls into a trap set by Cid and Luso later, and soon after that forces her way into the clan in the hope of more profitable ventures. Needless to say, it's a rocky relationship.

• All Take and No Give: Her dealings with Clan Gully at first.
• Blessed with Suck: How she views being a Gifted. As time goes on, she confronts this issue.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: During one battle, thanks to Illua.
• Catgirl: Downplayed: she has a feline theme to her outfit, but no physical traits. Note the ribbon cat-ear-like ribbon, the tail and the paw-print symbol on her knees. Her nickname is also "Adelle the Cat".
• Character Development: At the end of the game, she makes a remark about what "the old her" would have thought of the situation.
• Child Prodigy: Used to be this.
• Cry Cute: Near the ending.
• Doomed Hometown: They all died of a plague. Adelle, as a Gifted, survived.
• The Fashionista: If she doesn't spend her takings on dessert, it's on fancy clothes.
• The Gift: She has special powers, though it's never stated what the source is.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Initially, she rejects her Gifted potential.
• Ineffectual Loner: She tries to avoid forming ties with others to avoid the pain of outliving friends.
• The Smart Guy
• Sticky Fingers: Starts with the Thief class and nabs some loot from Clan Gully.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: One of the reasons she's not happy about being a Gifted.

Hurdy

Montblanc's younger brother and a Moogle bard who enlists Clan Gully's help in procuring materials for a splendid new musical instrument. He repays them by giving his services to Clan Gully and composes a song about Luso.

• Ascended Extra: Hurdy was just an unimportant Moogle Sibling in Final Fantasy XII. Here, he becomes an important playable character complete with a sweet-looking appearance makeover.
• The Chick
• Hair of Gold: Although it looks more like a toupee of gold....
• Magic Music: Mostly healing and status buffs.
• Odd Friendship: Apparently with Adelle.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: He's a moogle.
• Spoony Bard: His unique class. Final Fantasy Tactics A2 being job-based, it is possible to make him more badass, though Song abilities are actually fairly useful. It's the job's stat growths that aren't very impressive.
• Tagalong Kid: Doesn't have much to do with the main plot or Khamja.
• Turn Undead: His Requiem song.
• Verbal Tic: He has one kupo.

Frimelda Lotice

A former Blademaster who roamed Jylland with her partner Luc Sardac. She was renowned for her swordfighting skills. Unfortunately, she seems to be in less than stellar condition these days. Namely, she's a zombie.

• Back from the Dead: She kind of died, but she just turned into a zombie.
• Badass: It is well worth it to get her on your team.
  • Saying it's worth it is an understatement. She comes in the Paladin class (which has good all around stats, except for speed, and great defenses), she has an increased attack stat which other than her only Luso has, she comes with the Dual Wield ability pre-learned and comes with two decent weapons of her own. If you want to fix the speed problem, you can always turn her into a thief or, later, a ninja, she will still be a badass.
• The Big Guy: A very powerful physical attacker and defender.
• Determinator: Subconsciously. She refused to die and remained in the world as a zombie.
• Driven by Envy: It turns out Luc Sardac poisoned her because he could not surpass her skill with the blade.
• Dual-Wielding: With swords. Yes, she does in fact start out with this skill, hence the Badass classification.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Even as a zombie.
• Knight Errant: This used to be her job.
• Lady of War
• Optional Party Member: Her quest line isn't part of the main story.
• The Paladin: Her default job, and a very powerful one right off the bat.
• Unexplained Recovery: Averted. She does recover, but it takes a whole quest line for it to happen.
• What Have I Become?: Initially, this is a literal question: she really doesn't know that she's a zombie.

Vaan

The same fellow from Final Fantasy XII and its sequel. Vaan and Penelo return here as a sky pirate pair and have several encounters with Clan Gully before joining it.

• Bag of Spilling: In story, Vaan and Penelo are implied to be far more powerful than the other characters from their previous adventures.
• Battle Couple: With Penelo.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Despite his sticky fingers, Vaan is still going out of his way to help those in need. Namely the Baron of Jylland who was being targeted by Khamja.
• Cool Airship: Though we don't get to see the Galbana in action this time around, Vaan has a model of it on his belt.
• Dark-Skinned Blond
• The Dreaded: To the point people disguise as him to take advantage of his notoriety.
• Kleptomaniac Hero: His moveset is centered around his status as one.
• Lethal Joke Character: His trap-disabling ability can come in handy on specific missions, and if you've successfully stolen a lot of items, his Life of Crime ability can be devastating.
• Lightning Bruiser
• Loveable Rogue
• The Rival: To Luso, until he joins the clan.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He's wearing a shirt this time. Many players consider this an improvement from his Final Fantasy XII attire.
• Sinister Scimitar: His starting weapon and in the artwork to the right.
• Sky Pirate: His exclusive job class.
• Sticky Fingers
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Actually, in a subversion of his usual attire, he now has a simple white shirt under his armored vest.

Penelo

Vaan's partner as a sky pirate, who as usual has to keep him grounded (so to speak) in the land of common sense and rationality. She eventually joins the clan along with Vaan.

• Bag of Spilling: In story, Vaan and Penelo are implied to be far more powerful then the other characters from their previous adventures.
• Bare Your Midriff: Along with some oddly open looking baggy shorts.
• Battle Couple: With Vaan.
• Combat Medic: Starts out with White Magic alongside her abilities as a...
• Dance Battler: Has the exclusive job class "Dancer".
  • Magic Dance
• Girlish Pigtails: They've grown out quite a bit.
  • Braids of Action
  • Rapunzel Hair: By extension.
• Lethal Joke Character: She can easily become this if you teach her Assassin skills, crippling units left and right with her dances before finishing them off with Last Breath. To say nothing of the sheer damage she can do by using Sword Dance with a Katana.
• Stripperiffic: Though not as much as in Revenant Wings.
• Women Are Wiser: As she was to Vaan in previous games.

Al-Cid Margrace

The man from Rozarria. His behavior towards the player characters is markedly different in this game than in Final Fantasy XII. He uses Luso and Clan Gully mainly as couriers. Everything is on a need-to-know basis, and Luso isn't on that list.

• The Casanova: His entire skillset is based around this.
• The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: When you fight him in one mission, he has the computer-only "Impervious" Support ability that makes him immune to all status. When he joins you, he doesn't have this ability any more. Indeed, he can't learn any Support abilities, thanks to his inability to class change.
• Cool Shades
• The Gunslinger
• Optional Party Member
• Overrated and Underleveled: You can't get him until after you beat the game, and even when you do, most of his abilities are useless or not very useful unless you have a lot of female units on the field. He can't even change jobs. As the only unit with this restriction, this shoots his usefulness in the clan straight to the bottom. A pity: a Hume who wields guns could've been so useful.
• Sharp-Dressed Man
• Taking the Bullet: Has a skill that does this. But only for women.
• Tuxedo and Martini: His Agent job is based on the gentleman spy archtype.
• Useless Useful Skill: His custom Agent job.

Montblanc

A good-natured moogle traveller. He left Clan Centurio in order to search for the Gigas Pendant.

• Adventurer Archaeologist: Subverted when Montblanc says "Please, kupo, let's be realistic here. My life is more than bauble-hunting!".
• Berserk Button: Invoking Always Someone Better on him gets Montblanc pretty riled up.
• Black Mage
• Early-Bird Cameo: It's hard to spot, but Montblanc shows up in the background in the scene where you name your clan, and a few other times at the pub, which makes this an Easter Egg.
• Good Samaritan: He prevents Luso from accidentally making a racist remark towards a Bangaa, similar to his meeting with Marche.
• Mythology Gag: He asks Luso to help him find the Gigas Pendant, the Earrings of the Dead and the Pin of Order. All items worn by the main trio of the previous game.
• Previous Player Character Cameo: Though it's possible to recruit him.
• Show the Forehead
• Verbal Tic: He has one kupo.

Non-Playable Characters

Lezaford

A very ancient old Rev who lives in a cottage up in the mountains and knows a lot about most everything. He introduced the system of judges to Jylland long ago.

• Ancient Keeper/Mr. Exposition: Lezaford explains most of Ivalice's lore during the missions and also tells Luso how to go back to his world.
• The Archmage
• Figure It Out Yourself: He tells Adelle she has to deal with her Gifted abilities on her own.
• The Professor: Lives in a library, pretty much.

Ezel Berbier

An eccentric Nu Mou inventor and scientist who charges ridiculous prices for his merchandise.

• Funetik Aksent: Unlike the original game.
• Honest John's Dealership: Subverted. He charges outrageous prices, and the stuff may appear to be junk at first blush, but the card he sells Luso keeps Illua from disabling the clan's Judge.
• Irony: Spent the first game inventing cards to undermine Judges and the Law. Here, he sells Luso the aforementioned Judge-saving card.
• Mad Scientist

Mr. Randell

The school's librarian. Yes, his first name is Mewt.

• Continuity Nod: His presence.
• Hot Librarian: Getting a haircut between age 12 and 22 helped a lot.

Villains

Illua

The Big Bad of the game and the leader of the crime syndicate Khamja. Like Luso, she possesses a Grimoire. She has a grudge against Cid, but her motivations and goals are unclear.

• Artifact of Doom: Her Grimoire.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: She is the leader of Khamja, after all.
• The Baroness: Very much so.
• Big Bad
• Black Magic: She wields various forms of dark magic in her battles against Clan Gully.
• Dark Action Girl
• Dimension Lord: This is her goal.
• Evil Counterpart: To Luso. Likewise, her Grimoire can be considered the Evil Counterpart to Luso's.
• Faux Affably Evil: She even invites Clan Gully to witness her final attempt to open the Rift and summon a horrible demon out of it.
• Femme Fatalons: Has long blue fingernails.
• Iron Lady: She never suffers a Villainous Breakdown even once.
• Magic Knight: Has the exclusive job "Nightshade" combines fast and powerful attacks, akin to a Parivir, with devastating black and time magics.
• The Syndicate: Khamja.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: She has a Grimoire and thinks she's the hero of the story. And calls Clan Gully the chorus, except one usually doesn't try to kill the chorus even in Greek Tragedy....
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Ewen

Illua's right-hand man. He's sent out to do her dirty work and occasionally observes during certain quests, alerting you to the fact that Khamja has a hand in this.

• The Dragon: Falls between this and Elite Mook.
• Killed Off for Real: If he's killed in any of your battles with him, he'll never appear again; presumably, he wasn't under a Judge's protection.
• Ninja: His class is officially "Nightfall", but it's basically the same.
• Slouch of Villainy: Right in the artwork.
• We Have Reserves: If you kill him in battle, Illua is slightly miffed over losing a "pawn".

Neukhia

Some kind of semi-solid purple... entity... from another dimension. Nobody who knows about it wants it in Ivalice for very, very good reason.

• Eldritch Abomination: Oh yeah.
• Eldritch Location: Where it normally lives.
• Final Boss Preview: You face one of its hands alone early in the story.
• Oh Crap: A resounding this from Clan Gully when they meet it.
• Puzzle Boss: The first battle allows you to activate switches on the map to damage it, but this is pointless, as any party that can clear the previous fight is more than able to just kick its ass the old fashioned way, and it's even quicker that way too.