Kaze to Ki no Uta/Characters

The character sheet for the classic Boys Love / Shojo manga Kaze to Ki no Uta.

Please be aware that will obviously be SPOILERS for the entire series. And be warned that since readers/watchers have little familiarity with the series and scanlations are only in the first half of the manga, and readers who haven't read the manga in its entirety, it's best not to look at the spoilers in this character sheet.

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Serge Battour

Voiced by Noriko Ohara

• The Ace
• Adorably Precocious Child: When he's younger.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Bi the Way: Assuming his feelings for Gilbert aren't a case of If It's You It's Okay, anyway.
• Blue Blood: On his father's side.
• Chick Magnet
• Dark-Skinned Redhead: In some of the artwork from the later volumes (he's actually a brunet).
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Most notably following Gilbert's death, but he has them on couple of occasions before then as well.
• Hair-Trigger Temper
• Heartwarming Orphan
• Informed Attribute: Descriptions of his colouring are often at odds with his colour pictures and anime appearance. Early in the manga he is described as having black hair, 'the same grey eyes as his father' and dark skin (which is actually noted numerous times in the story), yet most of the artwork makes him brown-haired, brown-eyed and lightly tanned at most (see the picture on the main page for example). The anime and later artwork get the dark skin, but keep the brown hair and eyes.
• Lonely Rich Kid
• Naive Newcomer
• New Transfer Student
• Nice Guy: Most of the time.
• Roma: On his mother's side, as he has dark skin.
• Slap Slap Kiss: With Gilbert.
• Son of a Whore
• Spell My Name with an "S": His surname has been given a ton of different transliterations. Battour, Battouille, Bateaure... the list goes on.
• Stepford Smiler: Has shades of this. He's every bit as sweet and friendly as he appears to be, but there is more to him than he lets on.

Gilbert Cocteau

Voiced by Yuko Sasaki

• All Gays Are Promiscuous: This one is, at least.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Pretty much everyone in the school hates him.
• Bishonen: So very much.
• Closet Key: For Serge.
• Corrupt the Cutie: His childhood.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Not that his present is much better.
• Driven to Suicide: Makes a few attempts at this, though none are successful. It speaks volumes that he first tried to drown himself when he was nine.
• Drugs Are Bad
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Has these a few times, particularly in volume 15.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: A few. The first was when his previously straight-cut bangs grew into the more familiar asymmetrical style (which, inexplicably, happened halfway through a party), the second was when Auguste cut it short before sending him Off to Boarding School (but notably leaving the bangs intact), and the third was when he grew it out around volume 15.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Frequently lampshaded..
• Friend to All Living Things: He was definitely one of these as a young child.
• Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: His eyes remain large and wide throughout his life, although during his childhood they became rather harsher, more angular and, bizarrely, square with his increasing jadedness and Jerkass tendencies.
• Green Eyes: Rather striking ones.
• Lonely Rich Kid
• Gilbert, Auguste is your father.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Named After Somebody Famous: Jean Cocteau.
• Peek-a-Bangs
• Rape as Backstory: Oh, dear... long story short, poor Gilbert originally got raped when he was just nine years old - first by the paedophile Bonnard, and then by Auguste (who had some twisted motivations, to say the least) not long after that. It's a very big part of what left the kid so messed up.
• Really Gets Around
• Sex for Services: One of the reasons he hasn't flunked out of school is because he sleeps with classmates in exchange for papers... or just goes straight to the teachers.
• Sex for Solace
• Slap Slap Kiss: With Serge.
• Too Kinky to Torture: For the most part.
• Trauma Conga Line: Gilbert's life really, really sucks.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Arguably still is, on some level.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy: In some of the artwork. Canonically, he's blond.
• Yandere: He's pretty possessive of Auguste.

Auguste Beau

Voiced by Kaneto Shiozawa

• Abusive Parents: Is one to Gilbert. And while his own adoptive parents were not quite actively abusive, they do appear to have wilfully overlooked the abuse he suffered at the hands of his brother.
• The Chessmaster
• Dark and Troubled Past / Freudian Excuse
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Arguably a large part of his motivation.
• Evil Uncle: Well...
• Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: His eyes are very narrow and evil-looking.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: The burn on his torso, which was the other result of his affair with Anne-Marie.
• The Hedonist: Doesn’t live by this philosophy himself, but strives to instill it in Gilbert.
• In-Series Nickname: Gilbert calls him "Augu", and the man himself later encourages Serge to use the nickname as well (which, needless to say, doesn't sit well with Gilbert).
• Kick the Dog: Just about everything he does, and then some.
• Manipulative Bastard: And how.
• Parental Incest: Is Gilbert's father.
• Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny
• Villainous Incest
• Yandere: Even more so than Gilbert.

Arion "The White Prince" Rosemariné

Voiced by Yoshiko Sakakibara

• A Taste of the Lash: He's rather fond of those canes and riding crops.
• Aristocrats Are Evil / Ambition Is Evil / Blond Guys Are Evil: You get the point. Subverted later on.
• Broken Ace
• Defrosting Ice Queen / Heel Face Turn: Becomes a lot more sympathetic as we start seeing his more vulnerable side, and he befriends Serge after a certain point. He eventually proves to be one of Serge and Gilbert's greatest allies, aiding their escape from Lacombrade when virtually the entire school turns against the pair.
• The Dragon: Serves as Auguste's eyes and ears in the school, partly out of fear and partly out of self-interest.
• Gentleman Snarker
• Hates Being Touched: The only person he doesn't mind being touched by is Jules and Serge, later on.
• Jerkass: Especially towards Gilbert.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Manipulative Bastard
• Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality
  • Asexuality: An alternative interpretation.
• Princess Curls: Yes, even though he's male.
• Purple Eyes: Super-sparkly and completely purple in the OVA (seriously, the guy has no sclerae). Despite dialogue in the epilogue confirming that they're purple in the manga as well, he appears on a single manga cover with eyes that appear to be green.
• Rape as Backstory: Specifically, he was raped by Auguste a few years before the story begins.
• Single-Issue Psychology: Just about all his issues can be traced back to a single event in his past. (See above.)
• Spell My Name with an "S": Is his first name Arion or Aryon, and should his surname be Rosemariné (accent or no), Rosmariné (ditto), Rosemarinay...?
• Student Council President: His actual title is Student Superintendent, but either way, he's pretty much an entire Absurdly Powerful Student Council in and of himself.
• Workaholic

Pascal Biquet

• Brilliant but Lazy
• Dead Little Brother: His half-brother Michel ends up being one of these.
• Meganekko: Male version.
• Nerd Glasses
• Perma-Stubble: Possibly to emphasize that he is somewhat older than his classmates.
• Odd Friendship: With Karl.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red.
• Shipper on Deck: He seems quite fond of the idea of Serge/Patricia, thus inverting My Sister Is Off-Limits.
• Spell My Name with an "S": His first name has been spelt as Pascale (which is actually a girls' name, funnily enough) while his surname has been romanised as Biket.
• Teen Genius: Borders between this and Mad Scientist.

Patricia "Pat" Biquet

• Beautiful All Along, although not only was she not really that bad-looking to begin with, but Pascal insists that she was plenty beautiful enough already.
• Bob Haircut: Somewhat anachronistically, she has one of these in her first appearance (although it grows out later).
• Meganekko: In her first appearance.
  • The Glasses Gotta Go / Purely Aesthetic Glasses
• Princess Curls: Sometimes has these when she dresses up.
• Romantic Runner-Up
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Seems to be viewed by her family (particularly Pascal) as the tomboy to older sister May.

Karl Meiser

Voiced by Tsutomu Kashiwakura

• Class Representative: Well, Student Director, but it amounts to the same thing.
• Gayngst: He struggles with his attraction to Gilbert in the early volumes.
• Odd Friendship: With Pascal.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Is it Karl or Carl? Meanwhile, his surname has been spelt as Meiser, Mise, and Misset.

Sebastien Meiser

• Cute Shotaro Boy
• Demoted to Extra: He only showed up twice in the OVA and didn't get to do much.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Unlike his big brother, he's very bold and outgoing. Karl himself notes that the two were raised very differently.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Sebastien or Sebastian? He also has the same surname trouble as Karl.
• Tagalong Kid

Jules de Ferrier

• Bi the Way
• Disappeared Dad: His father died from illness when he was quite young, which led to his family becoming much poorer.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: A chunk of his hair is shorter on one side. It's never explained why.
• Gang of Bullies: The leader of one several years back, or so rumors say. In reality, things were more complicated than that.
• Gold Digger: "What I don't have is money, what she doesn't have is pedigree... It's a good connection."
• Impoverished Patrician
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Momma's Boy: Portrayed more or less in a positive light.
• Only in It For the Money - Claims to dislike Rosemariné and only be his friend for this reason, but it's rather obvious that they are Heterosexual Life Partners (at the very least).
• Parent with New Paramour: According to a flashback in the epilogue. Specifically, he found out that his mother and Rosemariné's father had a love affair going on. Awkward, to say the least...
• Spell My Name with an "S": Is it de Ferrier, of Pheli, or du Faye?
• Spot of Tea: He's always drinking the stuff, and he admits that it's very important to him.
• Teen Genius (and Brilliant but Lazy, to a degree)

Angeline Carlisle-Madison

• Blue Blood
• Girliness Upgrade
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has some noticeable scars on her face; she gained them following an unfortunate accident in which her hair caught fire when she was trying to save Serge from a punishment she thought he didn't deserve.
• Kissing Cousins: With Serge.
• The Ojou
• Princess Curls
• Temporary Blindness: Had this immediately following the incident where she got burned.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: She's been in love with Serge for a while; sadly for her, though, not only does he think of her as more like a little sister, but he also still feels guilty about her burn-scarring.

Aslan Battour

• A Day in the Limelight: About 2 volumes worth of the manga are devoted to his life.
• Blue Blood
• Deceased Parents Are the Best
• Expository Hairstyle Change: A couple or times. When he was young his hair was shoulder-length, as he got older he started wearing it shorter and following a time skip (during which Serge was born) he has grown it out and wears it in a ponytail.
• Generation Xerox: He's essentially Serge with fairer skin and blond hair.
• Hot Dad
• Ill Boy
  • Incurable Cough of Death/ Victorian Novel Disease
• Love At First Sight: Towards Paiva.
• Posthumous Character
• The White Prince