The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky/Characters
This page lists the various characters who populate Trails in the Sky. As with the main page, there are a fair number of spoilers, so highlight them at your own risk!
Estelle Bright
The cheerful heroine of Trails in the Sky. A newbie Bracer, and the daughter of the legendary adventurer Cassius Bright. Uses a quarterstaff in combat, but she's about as far from being a White Magician Girl as you can be while still being female.
- Action Girl: Almost the quintessential Action Girl. Estelle doesn't think twice about throwing herself into danger, especially if it's to help another. She ultimately manages to be far more of a badass than any of the male cast members. She's capable of fighting everything from wolves to giant lizards to army officers to robots the size of buildings. None of this holds her back.
- Deadpan Snarker: especially regarding Olivier's antics.
- Genki Girl: Mother of God. Her Genki Power could light entire cities. It seems like nothing can put a dent in her can-do, optimistic attitude. Even the revelation that Joshua is an agent of Ouroboros only tempers her resolve to help him.
- The Kirk: Oh yeah.
- Lethal Chef: To the surprise of few, the dismay of Joshua and Cassius, and the peril of the Bright family curtains.
- Otaku: Of sneakers, of all things.
- Straight Man: Often ends up playing the straight man to the relative zaniness of the rest of the cast. Her "'what' face" is a rather common sight in dialogue boxes.
Estelle: Is that... a penguin? (An evil penguin?)
- Tomboy: Pursues a tomboy appearance almost aggressively. She doesn't have a lot of time for or truck with feminine frippery. Kloe and Schera occasionally call her out on trying a little too hard on this.
Joshua Bright/Astray
Estelle's adopted brother and partner in adventure. Uses twin blades.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Weissman reveals he was the one who did this to Joshua causing him to attack his family.
- Chick Magnet: To Estelle's never-ending despair.
- Dual-Wielding: He does this despite not really knowing why he's so good at it.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Poor Joshua often gets accused of this by fans (and occasionally in-character). At the very least, he's a very effete dude. That his Japanese VA is a woman doesn't help matters much. This visually fades a fair bit in SC and beyond, when he embraces his past and his abilities to various degrees.
- This is so bad that he gets crossdressed twice in FC, and both times, he makes the girls in attendance jealous with "his" looks.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Joshua's eyes look rather like this when using his S-Crafts in FC, oddly enough. It's your first flagrant hint that something is wrong with the boy. This disappears in SC and beyond. Due, naturally, to being somewhat more comfortable with the origins of his abilities.
- Eyes of Gold: Draws quite a bit of attention for this; he's not sure why he has them. They're apparently hereditary, but given what we learn of the origins of Renne's eyes in Zero, they still cause a ton of speculation.
- Flash Step: A whole bunch of his Crafts and S-Crafts hinge on his ability to do this; it gives him some of the most devastating abilities in the game(s).
- The Heart: At the start of the story, he's very much this, a gentle young man who wants to see and encourage the best in people. This makes the reveal about his past all the more crushing, especially to him.
- The Killer in Me: Ultimately, the person he's been looking for who is responsible for the deaths of his family and especially his biological sister is himself... or at least, that's the way he sees it.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: He's pretty fuzzy on the details of his life before he came to live with the Brights... and he's not too fond of talking about the details he DOES remember. This turns out to be a combination of More Than Mind Control and Trauma-Induced Amnesia, as he desperately wanted to forget that he feels responsible for the brutal murder of his family, particularly his sister... which was ruthlessly exploited by Weissman.
- Teach Him Anger: Weissmann effectively did this when Joshua was still a child, turning him into a cold-blooded killing machine and the perfect spy.
- What Have I Become?: A bit more like "What Have I Always Been", but the trope certainly applies at the end of FC. SC is, basically, about dealing with this.
Scherazard Harvey
An experienced Bracer and an older sister figure to Estelle and Joshua.
- Bottle Fairy: She really likes her booze. And not just because she likes drinking either.
- Death Dealer: one of her S-Craft, Judgement Card.
- Whip It Good: Schera can sometimes be very enthusiastic about that whip...
Agate Crosner
A grumpy Bracer with a very big sword.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He keeps telling rookies like Joshua and Estelle to sit back and let him handle things, but only because he's worried for them.
- Knight in Sour Armor: Less so to Tita, but to everyone else, he starts out pretty grouchy. His reasons for this aren't so far out there either.
- Lolicon: To Tita. The rest of party agrees.
- Tsundere: Fits Agate to a T.
Olivier Lenheim/Olivert Reise Arnor
A wandering bard from the Empire. Uses a gun, but his deadliest weapon is probably his mouth, which gets him into more trouble than anyone else in the party.
- Bishounen: And he goddamn knows it too.
- Guns Akimbo: How he typically fights. Notably one of only three gun users in the entire cast despite the technology level of the setting.
- Handsome Lech: Acts this way to nearly every woman (and some men) he meets. It's partly just an act and a coping mechanism... but only partly.
- I Just Don't Want To Be An Imperial Prince: It's not so much that he minds being royalty (it can get him a lot of girls, after all), but he absolutely despises the excesses of his family and really wants to leave it all behind.
- Large Ham: It's one of his defining traits.
Kloe Rinz/Klaudia von Auslese
A student at a private school. Is quite skilled with a rapier.
- Actual Pacifist: She abhors violence, especially against other human beings. She even first joins the party as a noncombatant who you can't control; she'll heal you fairly regularly, but that's it.
- Reluctant Warrior: Unfortunately for her, the darkening tone of the story in the last act of FC and throughout SC doesn't allow for much in the way of dedicated pacifism, and she's forced to take up arms.
- The Chick: The nearest thing the party has to one.
- Everything's Better with Princesses: She actually tries to subvert this, as she doesn't want anyone to know that she's the heir to the entire Kingdom of Liberl, and doesn't even want the responsibility anyway. She much prefers hanging out with Estelle and co. and doing what she considers real, demonstrable good.
- Ship Tease: quite a few with Joshua thorough FC and SC. The 3rd, however, drops a massive one with Lechter. How big? One of them even eats half of screentime in a door dedicated for OLIVIER AND MUELLER. And there's more in Ao no Kiseki!
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Plays the extreme girly-girl to Estelle's equally-extreme tomboy.
- White Magician Girl: The extreme slant toward water in her orbment means she will inevitably have extremely powerful healing spells, and she has one of the deepest EP pools of the entire cast, her first S-Craft is a healing/revive thing instead of a damage ability, natch, she is a real pacifist at first before fate forces her to fight, and she crushes on Joshua like, well, a schoolgirl.
Zane Vathek
A calm and reliable Bracer from the Republic of Calvard. An expert in martial arts.
- The Big Guy: Shares this role with Agate.
- Gentle Giant: While he still loves things like martial arts tournaments, he's disarmingly friendly and sincere to everyone else. It isn't even an act either: he's just a nice guy!
- Mighty Glacier: It's right there in his nickname. Averted in the original trilogy, where every playable character except Joshua, Richard, Renne and Mueller has the same SPD growth. Though with Distend and Clock Up EX, he can temporarily become a physical Lightning Bruiser.
Tita Russell
A cheerful and optimistic mechanic from the town of Zeiss. Uses a variety of guns. Her grandfather is a famous scientist.
- Gadgeteer Genius: She eventually builds a Kill Sat that she can use to help the party. That should tell you everything you need to know.
- Humongous Mecha: one of her Crafts in The 3rd.
- More Dakka: Her preferred method of fighting. Her weapons start at the "shoulder-braced portable mortar" level and only get bigger from there courtesy of her S-Crafts.
- Techno Babble: Oh god, give her an inch...
Kevin Graham
A wandering priest of the Septian Church. First appears in the Second Chapter, and plays a leading role in The 3rd. He wields a crossbow.
- Ascended Extra: From an NPC to the main character.
- Breakout Character: Goes from a supporting party member in the second game to the protagonist of the third game.
Renne
A young girl that Estelle and company encounter during the Second Chapter. She seems sweet enough, but there's something... off about her at times. She turns out to have quite a few secrets... like turning out to be the murderous tool of a secret society. Spoilers abound when talking about her, be warned!
- Ax Crazy:Her real default state of mind: she's the most emotionally disturbed member of the cast by a mile and a half. Even in The 3rd, she's a bit quick to suggest scything things as a perfectly acceptable solution to problems.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Ultimately how she's brought around: her defeat and subsequent epic breakdown force her to think about what Estelle and company have been telling and showing her all throughout SC.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: That is one frilly dress she wears, and she even carries a little stuffed black rabbit around with her. In the latter parts of SC, this serves to drive up the creepy factor around her character a good deal.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Her ultimate reason for turning away from Ouroboros, as Estelle and crew help her realize that being a regular kid actually feels pretty good, and her life doesn't just have to be dominated by constant battle and murder. She still struggles somewhat with just how much she enjoys a bit 'o the ol' ultraviolence though.
- Teen Genius: Well, "pre-teen genius", but yeah. It's obvious very early on, even to the other characters, that Renne is far more intelligent than her tender age would suggest. She uses this to help Estelle and crew early on in SC. Too bad the price of her intellect was horrific abuse at the hands of Ouroboros and others, robbing her of her childhood and turning her into a psychotic killing machine.
- Teens Are Monsters: She's technically a preteen (11-to-12-ish), but close enough, and the fundamentals of the trope apply.
Lorence/a.k.a. Leonhardt/Lowe
A mysterious young man clad in mask who was a member of special corps of the military. Joshua seems to know him. He's actually Legion No. II, Leonhardt the Sword Emperor of the Ouroboros.