Crystal Story has quite a lot of characters for only two games.
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Mercenary Inc.:
First game party:
Tristam
- Heroes Prefer Swords: He's the main character for the first game, and uses a sword.
- Idiot Hero: He's really naive in the first game, letting Koohii fool him and escape twice. Then, he accepts a legendary crystal from Rita... only to discover it's powerless.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: He somehow keeps forgetting the innkeeper is Kaeli's sister, despite her telling him every day.
- Playing with Fire: His main magic abilities are fire elemental.
- Red Is Heroic: He's amused with this color. He also wears red and is one of the protagonists.
Kaeli
A talented archer, and also the most stoic person of the party.
- Aloof Archer: She's quiet, talented with her bow, and quite emotionless.
- Blow You Away: Her main magic abilities, combined with lightning.
- Can't Catch Up: Due to having to carry Hiro while the team chases Rita, she was often ignored without any help while carrying him.
- Multishot: One of her advanced skills shoots several arrows at once, hitting all enemies.
- Only Sane Man:Seems to be this among Tristam, Reuben and Phoebe.
- Out of Focus: Compared to Tristam, who plays as the head of Mercenary Inc and Phoebe and Reuben, who joins the player's party in certain parts of Crystal Story II, Kaeli got the least focus of her cameos with her appearing late right before the fight with the Water Guardian.
- Perpetual Frowner: She was usually displayed like this in cutscenes
- The Quiet One: At least that's what she says.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She hates spiders.
Phoebe
- Badass Adorable: Depicted as a cheerful and energetic character who bashes her foes with her hammer.
- Blood Knight: Nearly everything she says involves smashing something or someone. And she's okay with smashing her comrades...
- Cute Bruiser: She uses hammers and can be the hardest-hitting party member in terms of physical skills, particularly with Bash and later, Barrage.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Her main magic skills are earth-based, like "Quake".
- Foo Fu: It's said she was taught "hammer-fu" by orcs as a kid.
- Genki Girl: Especially given that she's enthusiastic on bashing everything with her hammer, and she often speaks as if she had her Caps Lock on.
- Guest-Star Party Member: In the second game. She first shows up to find the Oracle, then to fight Rock when the party briefly splits at Crystalia.
- No Indoor Voice: Usually, her text speech are in all upper case letters, and the original version of the first game lampshades it in the character introduction, though this characteristic of her is even more prominent in the second game.
- Wingding Eyes: Her eyes become X's when she dies.
Reuben
- An Ice Person: His magic skills are ice and water-based.
- Butt-Monkey: Gets punched by Koohii or Kaeli in one scene in some of the sidequests. Even got scratched by Mr. Kitty in the last mission featuring him. Kaeli has to revive him several times.
- Casanova Wannabe: He will hit on pretty much any girl he meets.
- Gratuitous French: Constantly speaks in French in cutscenes, especially if intereact with woman.
- Guest-Star Party Member: Like Phoebe. He fills Lina's empty spot in the party during the time she's held in hostage by Rita.
- Large Ham: Especially when boasting with women.Reuben (when meeting D): I am the slithering cold that seeps into the hearts of women, the first snowflake that falls in winter, the cold waters of the deep sea... I am Reuben, the white knight!
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Like Tristam, he can't remember the first game's innkeeper is Kaeli's sister.
- Prongs of Poseidon: Shows a large trident in Triton's Wrath, his final skill learned in the Fighter tree
- Surrounded by Idiots: In the original Crystal Story, he is shown to regret joining the team and even claim he hates his allies. Averted in the remake, when all the dialogue about it is removed.
Second game party:
D
- Asleep for Days: He falls asleep for three days after the team return to Port Breeze.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: Amongst the first three party members, he's the Fighter, as he starts with the Slayer I skill branch. An attack-boosting sword can be obtained pretty early to equip to him, as well.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: The main character of the second game and uses a sword.
- Little Bit Beastly: D's human form retains his dragon scales and tail.
- No Sense of Direction: Whenever he's alone he starts getting lost in cutscenes.
- Our Dragons Are Different: D's a dragon who currently on a human form
- One-Letter Name: Though you can rename him as you like. As of this writing, his real name is still unknown.
- Playing with Fire: His primary element is fire. His Dragon's Breath Skill shows him breathing fire.
- Super Scream: His Dragon's Roar skill, the first Limit Break he gets when equipped with a Tier II or higher weapon.
- You Can't Go Home Again: He mentions that the portal he took was a one-way trip; once he went through it, he could never return to his world.
Lina
A rogue who find D and introduces him to Mercenary Inc.
- Badass Boast: Two of her victory quotes, "I'll be the best thief in the world!" and "This game needs a harder difficulty!".
- Blow You Away: Her primary element is wind/lightning.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: Amongst the first three party members, she clearly fills the Thief role with the eponymous class unlocked first, and she starts with a weapon that boosts her speed.
- The Gadfly: She often teases others, her party members and others likewise. Particularly early on she surprises D in a cutscene.
- Gamer Chick: Downplayed, the hackpick she owns resembles a videogame controller with a video game built inside it, but there's still no implication of this trait.
- Meaningful Name: One of the meanings of "Lina" in Persian is "light" with one of the meaning being "of little weight." Refering to her agile and fast nature.
- Rebellious Princess: It's implied that she's the King of Crystalia's missing daughter.
Mari
- Apologetic Attacker: She does say "sorry" both when casting one of her skills, and it's also potentially one of her victory quotes that she says.
- Badass Adorable: The cutest-looking of the four party members, and is definitely more than capable of pulling her own weight in battle.
- Boom, Headshot!: One of her dialogue lines reserved for using her Limit Break.
- Cute Bruiser:Don't be fooled by her kindhearted cute look, she can have high magic attack stat since she starts off with Elementalist Skill and can annihilate tons of enemies with the spells from that tree.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Her primary element is earth.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: Amongst the first three party members in Chapter 1, she's the Mage and starts with the Elementalist class, and can dish massive damage with magic skills.
- Guns Akimbo: Her animations shows that she actually dual wields her pistols, and one of her attack animations shoots both of them at once.
- The Gunslinger: She uses guns as her weapon of choice, which fits with her background as the sheriff's daughter.
- Girlish Pigtails: While these pigtails are tied down below her ears, they're there, and indicating her girlish personality.
- Mage Marksman: She uses guns and is normally, by the virtue of her starting weapon and class, the magic user of the team. Also, one of her Limit Breaks is Magic Bullet, which shoots a large magic blast doing random elemental damage to all targets.
- Missing Mom: The Sheriff in Dustop is her father, but there is no mention of her mother in the game.
- Prone to Tears: When she cries, she does cries hard. She is also depicted crying this hard in her scene where she first appears.
- Weapon Twirling:Her victory and magic casting animations has her twirl her two pistols.
- Wingding Eyes: Her eyes become swirly in situations where she becomes unfazed, shocked or stunned like when she mistakes D's name for "Mr. Meteor."
Kaz
- An Ice Person: Water is his primary element, though in this case, Ice Magic Is Water applies.
- Defeat Means Friendship: After you defeat him, he eventually joins the party.
- Expy: He is loosely based on Magus from Chrono Trigger, since both are initially fought first before joining the group, both are demons and uses scythes.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He can be particularly easy to be pissed off, as shown when Lina pokes him and he retaliates by attacking the group.
- Heel–Face Turn: After you defeat him, he joins the party. In-story, he defected from Rita some time ago to seek the four Guardians.
- Perpetual Frowner: Most of his usual expressions shows as this, fitting his aloof and ill-tempered nature.
- Redemption Demotion: When you fight him at the Desert, he has over 1000 HP and can unleash all sorts of skills like poisoning you. When he joins your party later on, he has much less HP, and might not have all his skills he had as a boss, since you can choose which classes he takes. (On the plus side, that means he can and will also gain new ones.)
- Shock and Awe: His Hurricane Limit Break calls down a barrage of thunderbolts.
- Sinister Scythe: He uses scythes as his primary weapon of choice, fitting with his demonic appearance.
- When He Smiles: He does have one expression where he smiles, such as when he agrees with his teammates.
Introduced in Crystal Story:
Rita
- Big Bad: The main villain of the first two games, more obvious in the first game (and it's remake), while in the second game, She only appears directly much later.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: Escapes custody in the first game after her defeat. This won't last long for the sequel, however...
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The remake make her pupils red, indicating the fact that she's the Big Bad.
- The Unfought: In the first game, despite being the Big Bad. Subverted in the remake, where she is the post-game final boss with 3 lives.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: A common recurring thing in the first and second game. In the first game, she will escape after the party gets distracted due to their antics, and tells either Rock or Bop to deal with the mercenaries. In the sequel, she also retreats after being defeated for the first time. Her reappearance in Chapter 6 implies that she has successfully escapes again after being defeated again in Chapter 5.
Rock
- Cartoon Creature: Called a "9-foot tall cow monster thing" by D.
- Dumb Muscle: Very big and strong but not very bright.
Bop
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He's capable of summoning monsters to assist him and cast spells, but he is shown to be laid back in cutscenes
- Cat Folk: Resembles a Feline. Even called "cat-thing" by D
Hiro
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Designated Hero: Despite his name being one vowel away from "Hero", he barely contribute anything to the story and fell into a single slap from Rita. - Small Name, Big Ego: Given that his name sounds like "Hero", and is only there as a plot character posing to be a Fake Ultimate Hero, he is actually less capable than what he claims to be.
- The Worf Effect: He gets knocked down by a single slap from Rita in the first boss cutscene in the first game.
- Fake Ultimate Hero: Despite his name, he doesn't do much, with the four mercenaries doing most of the job. That being said, he takes the credit for defeating Rita in Crystal Story I.
Koohii
- Bunnies for Cuteness: Has a little bunny attached to her zipper in Crystal Story II.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Lina, prior to the events of Crystal Story II.
- Make My Monster Grow: As the (one of, in the Steam version, or only, in the original Flash version) Optional Boss in Crystal Story II, she actually has two lives instead of one. For the second phase? She suddenly becomes massive, to the point her head is out of the game screen in-battle!
Mr. Kitty
- Cats Are Mean: This kitty not only tries to get away from his pet owner, but also summon various bosses to stop the party from getting to him.
- Suddenly Voiced: In the Final mission, she announced in mean words that he is tired of Tristam and his team meddling with his plans.
Ms. Bubbles
- Adults Are Useless: She is rather irresponsible in keeping Mr. Kitty and the team has to rescue him four times.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Was originally a blonde woman in the first game.
Dargon
- Adaptational Badass: The remake of the first game adds another extra health bar to deplete, and adds Judgement (yes, that Judgement also used by the Final Boss of Crystal Story II after it Turns Red).
- Disc-One Final Boss: In the second game, another Dargon shows up and at first appears in similar way to the first one, but the story is clearly far from over after it is defeated.
- Dracolich: A skeletal dragon.
- Expy: It resembles Flamerus Rex from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. The main difference is that it is white like Flamerus Rex's reincarnation, Skullrus Rex.
- Final Boss: The last big enemy that the Mercenary Inc has to face in the first game, resurrected by the Big Bad.
- Significant Anagram: The misspelling on the corruption of "Dragon" is intentional, since it is revealed in the second game that its species serves as the Evil Counterpart to actual Dragons.
Introduced in Crystal Story II:
Orcracle
- The Bus Came Back: Briefly return in Chapter 6 to tell the team of Z's whereabouts.
Carl
- The Bus Came Back: He appears along with Orcracle, in Chapter 6.
Guide
- Ascended Extra: Set to be a party member in a currently (sadly) canceled project.
- Robot Buddy: One that tells jokes, and also serves as a function to rename playable characters.
Malloc
- Playing with Fire: The Guardian of the Fire Crystal
- The One Guy: The only male Crystal Guardian
Sylandra
- Snake People: She's a gorgon. Also, she's essentially a larger, recolored version of the gorgons (regular enemies) faced earlier.
- The Starscream: The traitor that betrayed Kaz, before his Heel–Face Turn, who he was pursuing to get revenge on her.
Orrora
- Dishing Out Dirt: The Guardian of the Earth Crystal
- The Unfought: Lampshaded in the game where Kaz pointed out that she gives the Earth Crystal without a fight. She explains Malloc did that because he just wants to play with the team.
Namina
- The Unfought: Similar to the case with Orrora where she gives the Wind Crystal, without any conflict.
Koras
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Rita brainwashed her to fight the party, to serve as a method of getting rid of them at best and as a distraction for her plans at worst.
Dargon King
- Dracolich: A skeletal dragon, like all of the Dargons, only just bigger and even more threatening.
- Disc-One Final Boss: As revealed in Chapter 6, the Dargon King only serves as a distraction for D's team so Rita can collect Dargon Bones to create an army of hybrids.
- Make My Monster Grow: While already big enough in the first form, the second and third phases become so huge that only the head is shown out of the Dargon King.
Z
- Dem Bones: Part of his appearance has skeletal parts. This is because he absorbed parts of the Dargon from the remake of the first game.
- Foil: To D. Both dragons were sent to protect the world, but while Z grew disillusioned with his duty, D affirms his desire to keep fighting to save the world.
- The Man Behind the Man: Turns out that he's the Greater-Scope Villain that Rita was working for, secretly.
- Were Dragon: In the second and last encounter, he transforms into a Dragon (with some Dargon parts, particularly
