Star Ocean: The Last Hope/Characters

Party Members

Edge Maverick

• Accidental Pervert: A Running Gag in this game.
• Awesome McCoolname: Edge Maverick? Really!?
• Combat Medic: He's mostly a combat specialist, but he can learn a few healing abilities.
• Fashionable Asymmetry
• The Hero
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Justified by his backstory.
• Hot-Blooded
• Large Ham: Oh good lord, yes.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist

Reimi Saionji

• Action Girl: Oh good lord, yes.
• The Archer
• Ms. Fanservice: Not as bad as Myuria, but still counts.
• The Lancer
• Love Interest: To Edge.
• Tsundere: Again, to Edge.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Faize Sheifa Beleth

• Beware the Nice Ones
• Face Heel Turn
• Magic Knight
• Nice Guy: Horribly subverted later.
• Royal Rapier
• Scarf of Asskicking
• The Smart Guy: Oh good lord, yes.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: After he becomes the Apostle of Creation.

Lymle Lemuri Phi

• Ambiguous Disorder: She acts a lot like most autistic people. She isn't though: the reason she acts like she does is because she once sent herself to Hell with her symbology.
• Black Mage
• Creepy Child: Oh good lord, yes.
• Fluffy Tamer
• Older Than They Look: She's actually 15 years old, although she looks 6.
• The Stoic
• Squishy Wizard
• Tsundere: To Faize.
• Verbal Tic: Kay?
• Vitriolic Best Buds: To Faize, eventually.

Bacchus D-79

• Arm Cannon
• Awesomeness By Analysis
• Badass
• The Big Guy
• Cyborg
  • Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: He is cold and logical as a result of his implants.
• Genius Bruiser
• Macross Missile Massacre
• Mighty Glacier
• The Spock: Oh good lord, yes.

Meracle Chamlotte

• Action Girl
• Catgirl
• The Chick
• Cute Bruiser: Oh good lord, yes.
• Cute Little Fangs
• Fragile Speedster
• Nice Gal

Myuria Tionysus

• Action Girl
• Cool Big Sis: Towards the other women in the group.
• Glass Cannon
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Ms. Fanservice: Oh good lord, yes.
• Red Mage
• Stripperiffic
• You Killed My Husband

Arumat P. Thanatos

• Awesome McCoolname: "Thanatos" is the Greek personification of death. Also, Arumat is an anagram of "trauma".
• Anti-Hero: Type 3.
• Badass: Oh good lord, yes.
  • Badass Abnormal
  • Badass Long Hair
• Big Damn Heroes: Twice.
• Dark Is Not Evil
• Death Seeker
• Good Is Not Nice
• Peek-a-Bangs
• Sinister Scythe
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Sarah Jerand

• Blade on a Stick
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Damsel in Distress: In her introduction, she is almost kidnapped. The kidnappers come back though...
• The Ditz: Oh good lord, yes.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Subtly implied, though it's really hard to see.
• Idiot Hair
• Light Is Good
• Meganekko
• Nice Gal
• White Mage
• Winged Humanoid: She's a Featherfolk.
• Wings Do Nothing: She can't fly. However, she learns how to, in the end.

Antagonists

Apostle of Creation

• Anti-Villain: It's Faize possessed by the Grigori.
• BFS
• Good Hurts Evil: He has a resistance to Dark element attacks, and a weakness to Light attacks.
• Omnicidal Maniac
• One-Winged Angel
• Well-Intentioned Extremist

Non Player Characters

Shimada

• Fat Bastard
• Jerkass
• Karmic Death