Luminous Arc 2/Characters

Rune Fangs

Roland

• Bishonen
• Chaste Hero: Somewhat. He doesn't completely shut down any advances, but he does fluster easily.
• Chick Magnet: World-saving partnerships aside, all the Witches end up quite fond of him.
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Jack of All Stats: But can engage with a Witch to receive a large stat boost and new abilities.
  • With a dash of Master of None. Unlike most SRPG protagonists, without Engaging he's outdone in every way by specialists. This makes his Duel Boss fights (where he can't engage) surprisingly tricky if you're not adequately leveled.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: With Mattias.
• Magic Knight: Called this word-for-word by Sophia.
• Powers in the First Episode: By accident, actually.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy: When becoming a Master

Rasche

• Blade on a Stick
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Deadpan Snarker
• Fantastic Racism: He has a dim view of Witches and expresses this to their face on occasion.
• Fiery Redhead
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• The Lancer: Literally.
• Mighty Glacier
• Redheaded Hero
• Spam Attack: His flash drive
• You Killed My Father: To Mattias

Rina

• The Archer
• Bare Your Midriff
• Friendly Sniper
• Genki Girl
• Lethal Chef
• Nice Hat
• Tomboy
• Why Did It Have to Be Fire: Her parents died in a fire, and see seems to see every open flame as black.
• You Killed My Father: To Bharva
• Zettai Ryouiki

Kaph

• Broken Pedestal: Played for Laughs. Most of the Witches are fans of his work, but are significantly creeped out in person.
• Butt Monkey: Though some of what he says and does suggests he invites the abuse he gets so the others can let off steam and think properly.
• Cuteness Proximity: He's a normal, if pretentious and slightly over-the-top artist most of the time, but becomes a fawning sycophant when he detects a Witch.
• Instrument of Murder: His guitar gun.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Or more accurately, dumbass with a brain. Despite his fawning over Witches, he's legitimately skilled in (at least) sculpture, photography and dressmaking.
• Large Ham
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Used for a Mythology Gag when he says he seems drawn to minor character Cecillia. veterans of the first game will recognize her as a blatant Expy of Cecille, the Twilight Witch in hr sealed form.
• Otaku
• Scary Shiny Glasses
• Too Kinky to Torture
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Witches

Althea

• B Cup Angst
• Clingy Jealous Girl
• Cute Monster Girl: She is a beast fiend.
• The Determinator: I will be the Mage Queen!
• Driven to Suicide: She attempts to kill herself rather than endanger everyone in her route.
• Expy: Look similar to Adele Nevanlinna from Arc Rise Fantasia up to Yandere point in Fatima route. She come back fine though.
• Fiery Redhead
• Good Bad Translation: Her title in English is suppose to be Ember, yet it is White Flame, her Japanese title.
  • The White Flame part is her being opposite of Fatima, though the Kanji "Homura" is associated with flame and ember both.
• Ill Girl: She gets knocked out by a Heroic RROD twice.
• Playing with Fire
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red oni to Fatima's blue oni.
• Rose-Haired Girl
• Sphere of Destruction: Ignis Blaze
• Super-Powered Evil Side: In Fatima's path
• Yandere: In Fatima's path
• Zettai Ryouiki

Fatima, the Shadow Frost Witch

• An Ice Person: Literally. Her personality combined with this fits her quiet well - also making her similar to Jin Kisaragi of BlazBlue fame.
• Bare Your Midriff
• Boobs of Steel: Apart from having high magic stat, she has good attack too.
• Casting a Shadow
• Dark and Troubled Past: She is a socially rejected person in the past, and states that she has always been alone.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Disc One Final Boss
• Dual Boss: Usually with Josie, and later with Mattias
• Ice Queen: This should have been very obvious.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen
• I Owe You My Life: To Master Mattias, for definitely being the first person to reach out to her despite her status as a social reject.
• Kill It with Ice
• Lady of Black Magic
• Morality Pet: The fact Master Mattias still genuinely cares for her is the biggest sign he's not totally Axe Crazy.
• Not Good with People: She is this in the past.
• Nice Hat
• Peek-a-Bangs
• Pointy Ears: Has them, though no one seems to notice them or find them strange.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue oni to Althea's red oni.
• The Stoic: For most of the time.
• Stripperiffic: Well, let's see here.. The upper part of her outfit barely conceals her body, her skirt doesn't even cover her bare thighs, and if it wasn't for that cape, we would definitely see her shapely butt.
• Sugar and Ice Personality
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
• Tall, Dark and Snarky
• Tsundere
• Whip It Good: And her whip is made of ice to boot.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Dia, the Brilliant Witch

• Adult Child: Sometimes.
• Beam Spam: Her flash drive, and some abilities.
• Even the Girls Want Her: One magic academy student mentions sneaking into her lecture, despite not being a student of Light magic.
• Hair of Gold
• Hot Teacher
• Light'Em Up
• Meganekko
• No Sense of Direction
• Obfuscating Stupidity: While she never comes off as completely stupid, Dia is much better at pushing buttons than her demeanor would suggest. She even manipulates Sadie by making appeals that a mild sociopath like her would respond to.
• Sweet Tooth: Most apparent in her intermissions, when she rewards correct pop quiz answers with candy, and it absolutely thrilled when Roland offers her a limited-edition chocolate bar.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Luna, the Tide Witch

• Companion Cube: She seems quite attached to the Enigmatron.
• Genius Ditz: Slightly silly airhead that one could mistake for being high. Also a master of ancient languages and cryptography.
• Hot Teacher
• Improbable Weapon User: A pair of fans
• Making a Splash
• The Medic: Though can still be used offensively
• Nice Hat
• Rapunzel Hair
• Scarf of Asskicking: What credentials she lacks in asskicking are made up by her 'scarf' being a ribbon of water she levitates around with her.
• Shrinking Violet
• Squishy Wizard
• Wet Sari Scene: Her final intermission.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair
• Zettai Ryouiki

Potpourri "Pop", the Verdure Witch

• Actual Pacifist: Tries to be this, following in the footsteps of the predecessor she idolizes. She later drops this after realizing her interpretation of the teachings was painfully one-dimensional and had her almost Completely Missing the Point.
• Bratty Half-Pint
• Cute Bruiser: Physically the strongest Witch, though she uses magic to pull it off.
• Dishing Out Dirt
• Girlish Pigtails
• Green Thumb
• Hair Decorations
• Improbable Weapon User: A giant lotus pod, used like a Telephone Polearm
• Trademark Favorite Food: Crabs, in any form. She'll even eat crab gelato.
• Turn in Your Badge: Dia strips her of her Nature Crest and title at one point. Or tries to, anyway; Pop simply runs off. Dia doesn't press the issue, since it was nothing more than a last resort to strong-arm her cooperation.

Phillip "Pip"

• Bishonen
• Blush Sticker
• Cute Shotaro Boy
• Improbable Weapon User: A giant whisk
• The Medic: Sturdier and faster than Luna, but his healing is less potent.
• Nice Hat
• Supreme Chef
• Sweet Tooth: To the point that he'll try 128 flavors of ice-cream in a sitting.
• Unexplained Accent: Pip has a British accent for some reason.
• Wingding Eyes: Sometimes

Sadie, the Breeze Witch

• Blow You Away
• Broken Bird
• But Your Wings Are Beautiful: She was at first worried that people may shun her because of her wings, but as she is the last of her kind, people find her wings cute or otherwise think that they are fake.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Roland has to beat her in a fight before she'll cooperate with him. Even then, she;s the only one she'll listen to.
• Emotionless Girl
• Fragile Speedster
• Glass Cannon
• Magic Skirt
• Musical Assassin
• Older Than They Look: Possibly Really Seven Hundred Years Old; she's never given an actual age, but she;s almost certainly the third-oldest party member.
• Skirt Over Slacks: A wonder why she needs a Magic Skirt.
  • Lampshaded when she says at one point that looking up her skirt won't achieve much.
• The Sociopath: Sadie shows distinct sociopathic tendencies (selfishness, lack of empathy, telling the blunt truth). Interestingly, a big deal isn't made out of this, the others simply accept it's how she is and Dia even show she knows quite well how to get through to one (appealing directly to Sadie's self-interest by talking up how powerful Roland is and challenging her to a fight to alleviate her boredom, staking her cooperation on the outcome. It works.)
• The Tease: She makes Uniting sound like it involves nothing less than a Deus Sex Machina. Roland only realizes it's not when she stops at a kiss.
• Winged Humanoid

Josie

• Cats Are Mean
• Improbable Weapon User: A fishbone.
• Insistent Terminology: Feline Familiar. Despite even the manual calling him an "undead cat thing".
• Logic Bomb: Happens when he's sent to assassinate an incapacitated Althea and discovers Roland, who very much does not want her dead, has become a Master. Faced with two masters with contradictory wishes, he freaks out and leaves without even putting up a fight.
• Non-Human Sidekick
• Ocular Gushers
• Older Than They Look: He's been serving Masters for thousands of years. Sadie explains he still seems a bit dim because despite millenia of experience, he was never very intelligent.
• Slasher Smile
• Standard Status Effects: His specialty.
• Verbal Tic: Meow. Lampshaded when he announces himself from hiding, and in response to the immediate cry of "Who's that?" asks if they know anyone else who says "meow".

Ayano

• Anti-Magic: Specializes in it.
• Chewing the Scenery: Does this intentionally while posing as a fortune teller.
• Cool Big Sis
• Evil Twin: Her shadows
• Fragile Speedster
• Iaijutsu Practitioner: Even has an attack called "Iai slash". Turn-based format aside, she's fast enough to give Mitsunari Ishida a run for his money - some of her attacks are so quick they don't even leave Sword Lines. Justified in that she's not human and has had a lot of time to practice. "Four thousand years of power..."
• Ninja
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Uses one to direct Roland towards Mt. Wynzard. It's painfully obvious who she is, but it's also implied she uses magic to make it stick.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old
• Stripperiffic
• White-Haired Pretty Girl
• Who Wants to Live Forever?

Royal Carnava

Sophia

• Big Good: Most of the time.
• The High Queen
• I Did What I Had to Do: She makes some decisions that put her at odds with the protagonists, or even outright makes the situation worse, but believes she's doing the right thing. Additionally, the only reason she makes these decisions is due to being fed bad information. Once The Mole is excised, she immediately start correcting her mistakes.
• Unwitting Pawn: To Bharva
• The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask: Though her authority is never actually questioned (except for the main party, but they do have a really good reason).

Gaston

• An Axe to Grind
• Cool Old Guy
• A Father to His Men
• Iron Wall
• Mighty Glacier
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Hesitantly questions some of Sophia's decisions, but firmly believes it's his place to carry out her orders, whatever they are.

Richter

• Bishonen
• Blade on a Stick
• Blood Knight: In fact, his main concern if Roland is gone is that he never had a chance to fight him in single combat.
• Chick Magnet
• Mighty Glacier

Steiner

• Aloof Big Brother
• Ambition Is Evil
• Cavalry Betrayal: When he and his squad appeared and sent Bharva running, they then proceed to arrest Roland and others.
• Dual-Wielding
• Green-Eyed Monster
• Mad Scientist
• Magic Knight
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Interesting example, as he uses this to claim moral superiority while flagrantly acting like a total dick.
• Redemption Equals Death
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After seeing Bharva
• Senseless Sacrifice: Trying to nuke Bharva, and killing himself in the process from Heroic RROD. Bharva gets back up soon afterwards.
  • Well, he didn't know it was senseless at the time, and he came closer to killing Bharva than anyone else had up to that point. That he came back from that was a shock to everyone.

Steven

• Berserk Button: Saying anything bad about Mattias in front of him.
• Cool Old Guy
• Drill Sergeant Nasty
• Father to His Men
• Senseless Sacrifice
• Take Care of the Kids

Mattias

• Bait and Switch Boss: Near the Conclusion Gate
• Becoming the Mask: Well Intentioned Extremism aside, he takes sadistic delight in filling the Demon Blade, even forcing his old friends to watch as he slaughters their men. It may be a result of the cursed weapon affecting his mind.
• Disc One Final Boss
• Dual Boss: Usually with Fatima and Josie
• Duel Boss: Roland have to fight him in single combat to obtain the True Demon Blade
• Heroic Sacrifice: He killed people to fill the Demon Blade with souls so that no one else would suffer the guilt for it. Later, it becomes a true Heroic Sacrifice when he throws himself between Bharva and Roland.
• Large Ham
• Luke, I Am Your Father
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Filling the Demon Blade with souls, saving a lot of work for Bharva.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Rosetta Rosso

Karen

• Broken Bird
• Fantastic Racism: She has no qualms about stealing a Witch's lapistier. Note this this is fatal and apparently very painful.
• The Gunslinger
• Princess Curls
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge
• Tsundere
• You Killed My Father: Bharva in the guise of Wendell killed her parents, and took the credit for her father's research.

Ace

• Bishonen
• Casanova Wannabe
• Chivalrous Pervert
• Non-Action Guy: Justified, he's too useful as a runner and scout and implied to be subpar in combat.

Moose

• The Engineer
• Genius Ditz
• Mad Scientist
• Non-Action Guy: Again justified, he can build useful machines but can't fight himself.
• Unexplained Accent: Averted, his German accent is explained as him having studied engineering overseas.

Beast Fiends

Bharva

• Bait and Switch Boss: His first appearance
• Breath Weapon: And the AI knows very well how to use it's conical target area to great effect.
• Canis Major
• The Dragon
• Large Ham
• Manipulative Bastard
• Smug Snake

Mage Queen Elicia

• Big Bad
• Distaff Counterpart: To Master Matthias.
• Foreshadowing: She was mentioned quite a few times near the beginning of the game along with Mattias
• God Save Us From the Queen
• Humanoid Abomination: After One-Winged Angel transformation
• Kamehame Hadoken
• Luke, I Am Your Father: To Althea
• One-Winged Angel
• Shock and Awe
• Well-Intentioned Extremist
• The Woman Behind The Man