Yvienne Magnolia
"I don't have anything that I want or like. I don't wanna be anything or protect anything. If I say this to anyone, everyone gets mad, so I don't tell anyone."
Yvienne is a beautiful girl from the poorest family in the kingdom's smallest village. She was forced to escape to the magic academy, Lowood, after the local count tried to marry her. There, her exceptional powers quickly gain the attention of her teacher and the kingdom at large. Despite her successes, though, she feels empty and doesn't understand why she has to live. Her field's element is the sky; time travel.
- The Ace: Smart, beautiful, powerfully magical, able to navigate complicated social situations with grace and aplomb. Pretty much everything comes easily to Yvienne.
- Broken Ace: She tends to be very apathetic and cynical due to being able to do things easily. Lari's death breaks her even more
- Belated Love Epiphany: Only realizes the full extent of her feelings for Lariatte after her death.
- Break the Cutie: After Lariatte's death and her possession by Infinity (you know, the very thing that caused said death), her mental state goes downhill fast.
- Casual Danger Dialogue: Yvienne will take time in the middle of fights to flirt with enemies or whoever's nearby. (like the battle with Countess Lightsphere)
- Country Mouse: A downplayed example. It's pretty clear that Yvienne is not an ordinary country girl and she takes to city life like a fish to water.
- Despair Event Horizon: Lariatte's death
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Ever since she was a child, she didn't understand what it meant to want anything, or why she was even alive. As she grew up, she started hoping to find something she could dedicate her life to in order to settle those questions.
- Death Seeker: After merging with Infinity, she focuses on trying to find a way to die, since that will kill Infinity as well and allow her to get revenge for Lariatte.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Yvienne doesn't call herself one of the most beautiful women alive for nothing; even other girls can't ignore the impact of her looks and wind up blushing around her or commenting on them.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: The most popular girl in Lowood and it's a running joke that everyone she meets loves her (or hates her guts).
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The Apathetic to Lariatte's Realist, Daughter's Cynic and January's Optimist.
- Generation Xerox: Yvienne is nearly identical in terms of power, temperament and looks to her father Yuse Ine
- Heroic BSoD: After Lariatte's death. The fact that she could have avoid it had she been by her side didn't help.
- Light 'em Up: While Yvienne's powers are air and weather based, she manifests it as flashy light attacks (as befitting her showmanship nature). In particular, Morning Goldenring and Daylight Delight.
- Master of the Mixed Message: With Lari, to whom she combines effusive praise and declarations of being the most important person in her life with discussion of her romantic affection for Krohiten.
- Naïve Newcomer: Downplayed. Yvienne is looked down upon for being a country rube and she often needs basic concepts like witches and Lowood explained to her. That being said, she's also incredibly observant and socially adept so she can read a room and play to a crowd near effortlessly allowing her to fit into high society. She learns to navigate the Lightsphere family in about a day in order to help January.
- Person of Mass Destruction: After merging with Infinity, she's powerful enough that Yuhee, who is roughly equally powerful, warns that a fight between the two of them could endanger the planet's star and result in the loss of about 3% of reality.
- Power Floats: And as of her merging with Infinity, it's permanent.
- Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Once she's merged with Infinity, this happens whenever she really draws on his power. The oddity of it is lampshaded by a supporting character.
- Purple Is Powerful: Her purple eyes tend to be commented on in a way that links them to her mysterious and powerful nature.
- Revenge Before Reason: Merging with Infinity gives her nearly-infinite power... which she seeks to use to kill it / herself in order to get revenge for Lariatte.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: A mild example.
- While Yvienne says that she can get anything she wants by being beautiful, she actually uses her looks sparingly. Most of the time she's forced into random social situations (for example, she's a model student trotted out for events) and she uses her charisma and social grace as much as her beauty. Most of her accolades, she earns (like her entrance into Lowood or the Taskforce). The manga also refuses to downplay and excuse her faults.
- Seers: Hinted at. Yvienne's power is based on air which is connected to time travel and precognition.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Played with- she only ever jokingly complains about her beauty, and has no qualms about using it to her advantage whenever she has to, but others notice that because she's been able to get so much so easily with it, she doesn't know how to value anything.
- Stepford Smiler: She always smiling and blase about everything which is mainly due to her deeply pessimistic and cynical nature.
- With Great Power Comes Great Perks:
- She doesn't care much about fighting monsters, but being a witch has done wonders for her social status.
- Averted after she merges with Infinity; she refuses to use the power for anything because it was used to kill Lariatte, which forces her to eke out a living via various terrible jobs despite being perhaps the most powerful person in the setting.
Lariatte Kingdiamond
"I want to protect everyone. As much as my power can cover, including you."
Lariatte is the youngest child and only daughter of a well-regarded family famous for their martial art abilities. She becomes Yvienne's familiar after she saves her from life-threatening situation. Her own magic powers are equally strong, and it's her commitment to helping others that inspires Yvienne to do the same. Her element of field is the water; dimension travel.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Comes across as this, though subverted. She's seems stoic and aloof but that's more due to her having zero social skills. Once Lari opens up, she's very vulnerable and honest.
- Ambiguously Gay: Her devotion to Yvienne is noted for its intensity - in contrast, she shows no interest in men at all, and says 'how awful' at the idea of even possibly liking one eventually. Not to mention how, when Krohiten briefly takes on the form of a beautiful woman, she asks him to stay like from now on that while lilies bloom in the background behind her.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: To contrast Yvienne's more apathetic and selfish nature.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Teleportation magic has a 10% success rate and failure will result in death. Lariatte is forbidden from using the magic except in very desperate cases. The last time she uses it kills her.
- Declaration of Protection: Despite the fact that Yvienne's powers are just as great (if not greater than) her own, she still takes this stance time and time again.
- Endearingly Dorky: After struggling to make friends when she first arrived at Lowood, once Lariatte opens up and reveals her more awkward and passionate sides, her classmates start warming up to her much faster. Yvienne even brags at one point about Lariatte's habit of making up weird songs when she's happy as an adorable trait.
- The Fettered: Lariatte was raised to act honorably and considers her vast strength a responsibility to live up to. Once she becomes a witch, she feels it even more important to use it to protect as many people as possible, no matter what the cost to herself.
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The Realist to Yvienne's Apathetic, Daughter's Cynic and January's Optimist.
- Greater Need Than Mine: Refuses to let Yvienne save her because her death is necessary for Yvienne to obtain power to protect the world
- Heroic Sacrifice: In volume 16, when she goes up against Infinity without Yvienne to get her out of her field. Revisited in volume 23 when she prevents Yvienne from saving her to protect the world
- Honor Before Reason: Her commitment to her ideals and sense of duty repeatedly leads her to face extraordinarily powerful threats, no matter how slim the odds of her own survival are. Even when Yvienne finds a way to save her from the battle against Infinity, she chooses to die to ensure Yvienne can save the world instead.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: She came to Lowood to separate herself from her all male family and make female friends.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Lariatte gets compared to knights and samurai a lot. At one point, Yvienne pictures her in knight's armor
- Living Emotional Crutch: To Yvienne. Lari gives Yvienne purpose and a reason to live. There's a reason that Yvienne declares Lari to be her life.
- Making a Splash: Lari's field allows her to summon and control water. Mirror of the First Water allows her to dimension travel in a pool of water.
- Morality Pet: Lari acts as a Morality Pet to Yvienne as her values and behavior influences Yvienne for the better and Yvienne often strives to act more heroic and selfless for her. It's the memory of her sacrifice that inspires Yvienne to protect the world.
- No Social Skills: Lari comes across as stoic because she's shy and has no experience interacting with other girls her age and defaults to silence and stoicism.
- The Not-Love Interest: In Yvienne's own words: "Master is the man I fell in love with. But you, Lari, are my life!"
- The Ojou: As one of the very few highborn students at Lowood, she's very aware of her status, and strives to act properly as befits her station.
- Shipper on Deck: Actively tries to get Yvienne and Krohiten together. It's strongly implied this is because of her previous jealousy over January and Yvienne's 'relationship', and is trying to do better.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Defrosted after she got to know Yvienne more
- Super-Strength: It runs in the family.
- Thinking Up Portals: Mirror of the First Water is essentially Lariatte creating a portal.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Hands down the most heroic and unselfish character in the story. So of course she dies
- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Lari lives and breathes this trope.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Gives this to Yvienne when they become familiars. It actually works in breaking her out of her apathy.
January Mycroft Lightsphere
"I must be able to stand alone. I must do everything by myself, no matter what it takes. If I can't do that... I'll die."
January is a young duke and head of the Lightsphere family; a line of aristocrats with a dark history and even darker secrets. He meets Yvienne in the train to Newton, and is quickly established as the deuteragonist of the series. His magic is initially unknown, but is eventually revealed to be the power to kill anyone without exception just by speaking their name while inside his field.
- Actual Pacifist: It's partially his upbringing and partially he's frightened of his own power
- Bad Powers, Good People: A complete pacifist who never tries to fight but can kill people instantly
- Beware the Nice Ones: He invokes this at one point, but it's just a bluff and it exhausts him just to pretend to be threatening.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: The rest of his family plots and schemes and many go insane. It says a lot the aunt that turned into a vampire witch is one of the nicer of his family.
- Driven to Suicide: A few times, but he's always stopped before he can go through with it.
- Even the Guys Want Him: It's actually more common for male characters to express some measure of attraction to him than the female characters - the list includes Daughter, Tenial, the bandit who almost kills him, and one of the villainous counts.
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The Optimist to Yvienne's Apathetic, Lariatte's Realist and Daughter's Cynic.
- Guilt Complex: Ever since his aunt Lillith died saving him from a house fire, he's developed a habit of blaming himself unfairly for 'causing trouble' to those around him, or when something goes wrong within his family.
- Heroic BSoD: He has one after he's told the nature of his magic power. Fortunately, Daughter and Krohiten manage to snap him out of it.
- I Know Your True Name: The way his power works, he can kill anyone simply by knowing and calling their real name within his field.
- Insecure Love Interest: To Daughter - the closer they become, the more he fears that he's just taking advantage of Daughter's kindness and being a burden to him, and worries that their relationship will endanger Daughter and ruin his life.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His long hair is often used to emphasize his gentle and kind nature, as well as being considered very attractive by several characters.
- Martyr Without a Cause: In his own words- "Rather than waiting to by killed, I want to give my life when it's needed. Can I not do that? Even if it's for something small?"
- Noble Fugitive: As of volume 14, he's on the run with Daughter and wanted for treason.
- Romantic Runner-Up: He ends up being this to Yvienne, but it's just as well since they decide they're Better as Friends anyway.
- The Stoic: When he first arrives at Lowood, he's consistently calm and poised even when his life is threatened, and has muted emotional reactions to most situations. While he eventually softens and opens up as me makes new friends, during his time at home and when he goes on the run with Daughter, he winds up falling back on this attitude.
- Survivor Guilt: He blames himself for the death of his aunt Lillith, since she risked her life to save him from a fire, and it's one of the main reasons he's so quick to risk his own life for others.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: He lives in constant fear that this will eventually happen to him, as it did pretty much everyone else in his bloodline.
- The Wise Prince: Technically he's a duke, but other than that...
- Your Days Are Numbered: As a child, he chose to take a kind of poison that would grant him immunity to most others in order to protect himself from his family's attempts on his life, but at the cost of greatly reducing his lifespan. The fact that he knows he won't live a long life feeds into his desire to die meaningfully.
Daughter
"Well~ As long as you're my roommate, I won't allow you to see anything harsh."
Daughter is (technically) a student who at whose lived at Lowood since he was a child, despite never attending classes. Instead, he works as Krohiten's aide for everything from errands to investigating magic-based crimes. He was born a girl named Nicki Orenturn/Maggotte, and after the murder of his older sister/mother figure, he took part in an experiment to change his sex in exchange for a lifetime of care at the school.
- Boring, but Practical: His ability 'Close', which lets him close doors from great distances away and seal off areas from magic, is certainly one of the least flashy spells, but it's a lifesaver.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Daughter's backstory is among the most brutal of the cast, to the point that it even shakes up January.
- Deadpan Snarker: He always has a sarcastic comment ready, especially when it comes to Krohiten's laziness.
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The Cynic to Yvienne's Apathetic, Lariatte's Realist and January's Optimist.
- Gender-Blender Name: Several characters note the oddness of a boy being called 'Daughter'. It's on purpose.
- Half-Human Hybrid: He's actually Krohiten and Carola's child, who managed to survive thanks to time travel shenanigans.
- Hates Being Touched: Downplayed, but he freezes up and flails around when January surprises him with hugs, and is extremely uncomfortable and unusually meek when two of January's maids flirt with him by invading his personal space, including touching his hair and face.
- Meaningful Rename: "Daughter" is one, as a way to constantly remind himself of his mission in life. And then after achieving it, he eventually starts going by December instead.
- My Greatest Failure: He's never been able to forgive himself for putting into motion the events that led to the death of the only mother figure he's ever had.
- Only One Name: Notably, he's the only human main character without a last name. The reason why becomes apparent in his backstory.
- Sarcastic Devotee: As much as he may complain and snark at Krohiten, he's fiercely loyal to him and they have a very close relationship.
- Secret Legacy: Revealed in volume 19, he's actually the son of Kroniten and Carola. Apparently, he teleported himself as a fetus out of her womb and survived thanks to Lucy finding him and taking him in.
- Son of a Whore: By adoption, but he still considers the prostitute who took him in as a child as his mother.
- Time Master: His real power.
- Tsundere: Particularly at the start of his and January's relationship, where he swings wildly between being protective and concerned over his roommate, and trying to keep his distance so he won't get involved in the Lightspheres' problems.
Krohiten
"The more magic changes things, the greater the side effects become. Can you make that decision?"
A professor at Lowood. He suffers from 'laziness disease' and can be calculating at times, but he cares very deeply for his students and humanity as a whole. His late wife is Carola Everett, the daughter of Marion Everett, who died hundreds of years prior to the start of the series. He is the Arc Dragon of the Heavens, and as such has the ability to see the future.
- Big Bad: A future version of him is the source of all the demons
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He's one of the strongest magic users in the kingdom, as well as an immortal dragon who controls time, but at any given point he's more likely to be sleeping than doing something useful.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: A trait of all Arc Dragons, trying to lie will either kill him or warp him into something unrecognizable.
- Death Seeker: Carola's death turned him into a part time Death Seeker, seeking and raising powerful mages to kill him. It's implied that his apathetic nature comes from him having given up on life.
- Elemental Embodiment: Of the Sky/Heavens
- Friend to All Children: In his youth, he had a habit of mentoring and raising children, and even in the present a part of him considers all of humanity as his beloved children.
- Interspecies Romance / Mayfly–December Romance: With his wife Carola hundreds of years ago, and then eventually Yvienne
- Oblivious to Love: Not only is he pretty much the last person to realize the blooming relationship between him and Yvienne, but he's completely unaware of Octavia's long-held feelings for him.
- Omniscient Morality License: His ability to see the future let him see the Bad Future of the world's death. It also lets him see a potential means of averting it, which he pursues even if the cost to those around him can be frightfully high.
- Our Dragons Are Different: He is an Arc Dragons, meaning a shapeshifting God-like elemental embodiment.
- Really 700 Years Old
- Seers: As the Sky Dragon
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Though he always had at least some problems with handling others (e.g. Octavia), after contributing to Lariatte's death and the consequences thereof and then later becoming the Devil Dragon he becomes a lot more selfish emotionally.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Outliving Carola and watching generations of humans he helped raise die has broken him pretty badly.
Yujiya Octavia Etnas
"HA! What jealousy? I'm also a teacher here! I have my virtues and pride!"
Another professor at the academy. She has unrequited feelings for Krohiten, despite already being engaged to another man. Secretly, she is the First Princess of the Kingdom and the only direct descendent of Marion Everett. As such, she doesn't need a familiar to use magic, and will one day marry the king for the purpose of bearing a daughter and continuing the bloodline.
- Arranged Marriage: Her primary duty as the First Princess is to choose the next king and bear a child with him to continue the Everett bloodline. While she was allowed to pick the boy who would be her husband, she was made to do so as a young child and was not allowed to change her mind. As an adult, she dreads her upcoming marriage and tries to prolong her freedom as much as possible.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She tends to get jealous towards girls who get close to Krohiten very easily, with Yvienne being the most notable example. To be fair, though, she's aware it's a bad habit of hers and tries to keep it in check.
- Informed Ability: She's stated to be one of the most powerful witches in the kingdom, but she never actually fights anyone.
- Jerkass Has a Point: As little as she likes Yvienne and as petty as she can be towards her, Octavia does accurately pick up on Yvienne's most significant character flaws (namely her apathy and self-centeredness) all the way back in volume 3, and warns Krohiten about the damage they can do to not just herself but the girl who will become Yvienne's familiar.
- Queen Incognito: She keeps her true title a secret while working quietly as an ordinary teacher in a magic school for commoners.
- Royal Blood: As a direct descendent of Marion and Skaa Everett, Octavia's magic power is among the greatest in the kingdom, to the extent that she's able to use magic entirely independently without need of a familiar. Passing on this blood to her daughter is considered her most important duty.
- Secret-Keeper: She is one of the very few who knows that Krohiten is the Arc Dragon of the Heavens, and has been keeping the secret for most of her life.
- Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: She's loved Krohiten ever since she was a child, and his utter disinterest in her has done nothing to stop her pining.
Tenial II
"Ah ah... boring things are happening."
The presiding king. It's a figurehead position, but he's unsatisfied with his lack of power and wants to regain authority in the Kingdom. He's cold, sinister, and has a very bitter and spiteful relationship with Octavia. Later on, he develops a peculiar interest in January.
- Evil Counterpart: He's basically what January could have become if he let his awful childhood twist him.
- Evil Redhead: He and January having the same hair color both indicates their distant relation, and serves to underline his role as a foil to January's noble nature.
- Freudian Excuse: Because he was chosen to inherit the throne back when he was a child, he spent his entire life after that point being surrounded by enemies and watching anyone who tried to help him die.
- Kick the Dog: There were plenty of hints that the guy was no good, but raping Octavia was how we know he's evil. For some, this counts as his
Moral Event Horizon.- Another example occurs in volume 14, where he almost makes January kill someone in exchange for pardoning Daughter. January nearly has a mental breakdown, and Tenial just laughs at him.
- The very first time we see him, he says that he replaced a bird's egg with a serpent's, just to see it hatch and immediately kill its 'mother'. He then laughs it off as a joke... but if you watch closely later on, you see it happening in the background.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Before he was chosen to become king, he was a shy and easily-awed young boy who fell in love with a princess at first sight.
The Earth Dragon/ Moriarty
- "We shouldn't have given humanity magic power. We shouldn't have taught them language. No, we should have just destroyed the humans when they first appeared on this planet, dammit."
The only Arc Dragon whose name is unknown, the Earth Dragon is one of the most enigmatic figures in the story. He frequently appears before Yvienne and follows her in her rise to fame, keeping his identity secret.
- Ambiguously Evil: While he's generally contemptuous of humanity and has done many things to harm them, he cares for a few individuals and his fellow Arc Dragons, and just what he hopes to gain from his schemes is an on-going question.
- Art Evolution: It's more obvious with him than it is any other character, as the changing art style matches his increased importance in the story.
- Elemental Embodiment: Of the earth
- I Know Your True Name: Is done to him on the very pannel we learn said name, Moriarty.
- The Matchmaker: Attempts to be one for Yvienne and Krohiten
- No Name Given: And he intends to keep it that way. Which he succeeds, at least up to volume 20
- Not So Stoic: Although he doesn't care about humanity as a whole and puts up an uncaring facade in general, he goes into a rage when Lariatte dies and he realizes that Krohiten knew it was going to happen, revealing that he did care about Yvienne and Lariatte to an extent.
- Obfuscating Stupidity
- Our Dragons Are Different: He is an Arc Dragons, meaning a shapeshifting God-like elemental embodiment.
- Really 700 Years Old
SPOILER CHARACTER
Infinity
A demon of infinite power sealed near the capital. Manifests as a large black figure-eight symbol floating in the sky, or as a black serpent.
- Blank Slate: Knows almost nothing at the start, although he learns more every time Yvienne draws on his power, and will eventually turn her into an empty shell if he becomes too independent.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Whenever he actually speaks, he comes across as innocent and playful, but he's powerful enough to destroy the world without intending to.
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: As are all demons in this story.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Sealed long ago. Possibly not evil, but since he has the potential to destroy the world, it's the same thing. Lariatte gives her life to seal him again. And it doesn't even stick.
- Super-Deformed: Usually appears as a cute little black snake when he talks to Yvienne and her companions while possessing her.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Becomes this for Yvienne after he possesses her, although strictly speaking he's not 'evil' so much as alien.
- Symbiotic Possession: With Yvienne, although it is implied it could become Demonic Possession if he learns too much.
- Walking Spoiler: Completely changes the direction of the plot when he appears.
