History Characters / TheRoseOfVersailles

* AmbiguouslyBi: Despite her [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer numerous female admirers]], she still falls into this. She's definitely attracted to men, since she falls in love with Fersen and later Andre, and she angrily denies being a lesbian when Jeanne claims that Marie Antoinette has a sexual relationship with her. That said, there are hints that she ''does'' like women as well, but won't act on those feelings due to French society not looking very fondly on homosexuality at the time; she tells both Rosalie and Fersen's sister Sophie that she would gladly return their feelings if she were male, but otherwise keeps gently turning down Rosalie's romantic affections for her. She also openly flirts with most of the women who attend the ball her father holds so he can set up an ArrangedMarriage for her, but this is largely to get back at her father for trying to marry her off in the first place.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to Oscar's Masculine Girl. It's {{downplayed|trope}} since André is trained in fencing like Oscar, but he's generally more sensitive and passive than her.

* TakingTheBullet: In the manga, [[spoiler:he dies from taking a bullet for Oscar.]]

** Once her eldest son dies, she’s horrified that to discover that there’s hardly any funds left for a funeral and have to resort to selling candlesticks. It finally hits her what her shopaholic demeanor have costed her.
** When she tries to pleads with the guardsmen from taking away her surviving son, they point out that they were ForcedToWatch their sons die of malnutrition due to their poverty, while she was living a luxurious lifestyle at Versailles whilst never giving a shred of concern for the commoners’ poverty. This forced her into realizing how uncaring she was and unfit to rule as a queen.

* ArmorPiercingResponse: She pleads with the guards not to take away her only remaining son why imploring if they have sons as well. One of the guards tells her she’s right, they all had sons. But they’re ForcedToWatch their sons die of malnutrition due to being too poor to buy food, let alone milk, and the guard points out this was going on while she was living the high life in Versailles without a care in the world for her subjects suffering through poverty and starvation. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone The look of her face spelled out how much the realization shook her to the core.]]

* FatalFlaw: She's benevolent and caring to those she's personally fond of, but her treatment of everyone else borders on LackOfEmpathy; a flaw that is worsened by the fact that being the queen makes her expect everyone will still worship her regardless of her apathetic treatment of them. Her behavior only gets her alienated by the French nobles and the commoners come to see her as the prime symbol of the corrupted royalty, which eventually culminates in the French Revolution and her death by guillotine.

* DespairEventHorizon: The failure of the escape to Austria and the subsequent abolition of monarchy causes Antoinette to give up all hope of Louis XVI retaking power. She and her husband resign themselves to wait for their death sentence.

* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Oscar's MirrorSelf in Episode 7 appears and disappears throughout her lifetime, causing Oscar some distress on her other self's identity. This all culminates to the final part, where Oscar's dopplegänger reveals who she is; that she is Oscar if [[ForWantOfANail she were raised as a woman]].

->'''Voiced by:''' Mikio Terashima

* CanonImmigrant: He was originally created for the anime as Oscar's designated rival for entrance in the Royal Guard and, after they both joined, her second in command. Later Ikeda introduced him in the manga, first as Oscar's second in command and then as the RomanticFalseLead.

* AscendedExtra: His role in the manga is relatively little (apart historically documented appearances at important events, he only shows up four times, only two of which are actually important to the plot and one being at Marie Antoinette's trial, where he was historically present but in which he had no role). In the anime, he shows up much more often, and both Bernard and Saint-Just work for him (with the latter causing him a lot of trouble due his attempts at murdering nobles and starting armed revolts).

* OreOnna: She uses the overly masculine "ore" as a first-person pronoun in her casual speech.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyukiUeda (TV series) [[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]] Laura Ayala (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub), Amélie Morin (TV series, French dub) [[/labelnote]{

Empress of Austria and mother of Marie Antoinette.

* ModestRoyalty: While her clothes are more pimped out than they were in RealLife, they're still quite modest compared to other characters'. She even states that a queen ''should'' dress modestly, with only a crown to evidence her position and her own dignity as decorations, since this will bring out her natural beauty. This is why she disapproves of Marie Antoinette's love for [[PimpedOutDress extravagant gowns]].

* DidntThinkThisTrough: Tragically {{Averted}}: she makes a point of carefully considering her decisions and manages to pull off a lot of crap because of it (such as ''holding Louis XV's RoyalFavorite at swordpoint in her own apartments''), but when she correctly anticipated the French Revolution was coming and advised Marie Antoinette on how to prevent it the Queen didn't listen, eventually driving them apart as Oscar drifted closer to the people's positions.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: She is much more of a SpoiledBrat in the anime and never makes amend with Rosalie, but in the manga, their shared [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited feelings]] for Oscar helps them make up to each other, with Charlotte even tearfully exclaims that Rosalie is just like a sister to her. And while she turns mad before her suicide in the anime, in the manga, she is in a completely normal state of mind and commits her suicide tearfully instead.

* TheLancer: He's the main companion of [[TheHeroine Oscar]] throughout the story, serving as her closest friend and {{Foil}}.

* OldManMarryingAChild: He's not an ancient man, but the fact that he's a grown man wanting to marry the 11-year-old Charlotte is creepy enough.

* ForcefulKiss: He steals a kiss from Oscar. André almost punches him for it, but decides to let it slide.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to Oscar's Masculine Girl. It's {{downplayed|trope}} since André is trained in fencing like Oscar, but he's more sensitive and passive than her, at least until he becomes more assertive.
* NearRapeExperience: As his frustrations with his own unrequited love for Oscar ''and'' Oscar's unrequited love for Fersen reach a breaking point, he confronts Oscar in a ''very'' polemic scene that can be easily seen as a sexual assault, though to his credit he ''does'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realize he's wrong and apologizes profusely]]. The incident is also seen (in the anime) as a proof of how immature he is.

* BrainlessBeauty: She's beautiful and charming, but also BookDumb, sheltered and very simple-minded.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: From what is known of the real Jeanne Bécu (Madame du Barry), she was a good-natured simpleton who was largely a pawn of her brother-in-law, was generous and kind to her friends and elderly mother, a patron of the arts, and never thought about anything else except pretty dresses and sparkly jewelry. A far cry from the vicious and cunning (if myopic) villainess that the manga and anime portray her as.

* ContraltoOfDanger: She's a tomboyish and headstrong ActionGirl with a husky voice.

* TomboyishVoice: She has a husky voice that befits her {{Bifauxnen}} character.

* {{Bishonen}}: Sure, they all are in this series, but still.

* PeekABangs: After his left eye is injured, he hides it with his hair.

* DiseaseBleach: The stress of the Flight to Varenne, the failure and the hostility of the people during the return to Paris permanently dyed her hair white. This [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_syndrome condition]] is even named after her!

* HonorBeforeReason: Some of her problems are made worse with this.

* LoveEpiphany: She realizes she's in love with Fersen when she's heartbroken at hearing the possibility of him being set up in an ArrangedMarriage with someone else.

* PimpedOutCape: Wears quite a few ermine-trimmed capes.

* CombatPragmatist: Outside of duels he fights ''very'' dirty. ''Eroica'' drives home the point in his first meeting with Napoleon, when Alain was trying a BavarianFireDrill to sedate the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Vend%C3%A9miaire 12 Vendémiaire Insurrection]] by ''using cannons in the streets of Paris, '''the same tactic Napoleon had decided to implement''''' (hence Napoleon taking him under his protection).

* GenreSavvy: Why he was hailed as the savior of France: he knew ''exactly'' what he was doing. {{Justified}} by him having been a successful banker before getting into politics.

** Her [[http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/554258_567924976561585_601142670_n.jpg dress uniform]] as commander in the Garde du Corps is rather decorather, but has ''nothing'' on her [[http://web.tiscalinet.it/prisca/images/Sfondi-oscar/Sfondo%20oscar%20en%20pied.jpg French Guard uniform]].

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: All of her choices are motivated by making the Holy Roman Empire prosper. She's saddened by sending her youngest daughter away to rule France, but keeps her vulnerable feelings inside.

* AdaptationalBadass: He never does anything noteworthy in the manga but his portrayal in the anime shows him as growing into a hardened veteran after the American Revolution who's skilled enough with a rifle to shoot a thrown apple a distance away with ease.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: fits the girly girl role of the TomboyAndGirlyGirl aspect due to being an elegant PrincessClassic when compared with {{Bifauxnen}} Oscar, but she also feels confined by her royal status and wants to do things on her own like riding a horse. While she's occasionally referred to as "tomboyish" by other characters, this is [[DeliberateValuesDissonance largely by 18th century standards]]; her girly side is far more prominent, especially as she gets older.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: fits the girly girl role of the TomboyAndGirlyGirl aspect due to being an elegant PrincessClassic when compared with {{Bifauxnen}} Oscar, but she also feels confined by her royal status and wants to do things on her own like riding a horse. While she's occasionally referred to as "tomboyish" by other characters, this is [[DeliberateValuesDissonance largely by 17th century standards]]; her girly side is far more prominent, especially as she gets older.