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Justin
Justin
Voiced by: Fujiko Takimoto (Japanese), Snazin Smith (English)
- "What a cinch."
The main protagonist of Grandia and a third-generation adventurer. Before his death, Justin's father left his son a treasured stone. Justin becomes convinced that the stone is a shard from the legendary Spirit Stone, which the Garlyle Forces is seeking. While meddling in a high-security excavation, Justin stumbles onto a hologram of a woman beckoning him to Alent, a mythical city of the long-dead Angelou civilization. He uses swords, maces and axes in battle.
- Accidental Pervert: Feena stops short in a crawlspace on the Ghost Ship, resulting in Justin pawing at her butt. Oops. Later, when he and Sue come to see Feena at her house, Sue spots the latter's panties, and takes them to have a better look. Justin removes them from her hands, arguing she shouldn't take other people's stuff without their permission... and realizes too late he's actually holding one of Feena's underpants. Of course, Feena enters the house at that exact moment. Oops.
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: He starts getting a big head about reaching undiscovered lands and becoming both a great adventurer and hero near the end of disc 1, allowing the sirens to easily play to his ego to get him to help them and fall into their trap. Having to fight to escape and getting chewed out by Feena knock this out of him.
- Carry a Big Stick: His third specialization. Helps him a lot, since maces increase his defensive capabilities.
- Chaste Hero: He's pretty slow on the uptake when Feena hits on him. Ironically, the only time Justin gets hot and bothered is when he sees Nana, Saki and Mio in their underwear.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Justin has this habit, of which Feena disapproves a couple times.
- Determinator: In the tradition of old-school JRPG protagonists. Game Arts intentionally went off in a different direction with II's Ryudo.
- Disappeared Dad: When Justin was still little, his dad met an untimely end during one of his adventures. The particulars of his death aren't revealed, since his body was never found.
- Elemental Weapon: Justin has the largest array of Elemental Weapon special techniques in the game, being able to learn the Fire-imbued Lotus Cut, the Ice-imbued Ice Slash, the Lightning-imbued Thor Cut, and the Magma-imbued Dragon Cut.
- Glacier Waif: He is the strongest and tankiest party member in the final party. Does not look like a tank.
- Goggles Do Nothing: He has a pair of goggles on top of his hat, which have no function in the entire game.
- Heroic BSoD: When Feena goes along with Mullen's plan to sacrifice herself to stop Gaia, Justin enters a brief period of self-doubt that's end up broken by his other allies.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: While he can use maces and axes, Justin's best weapon that only he can use is a sword.
- Improbable Age: He's a savior of the world by the end of the game, and he's just 14.
- Incendiary Exponent: His Lotus Cut attack, which is a simple flaming slash.
- Infinity +1 Sword: Justin's final weapon, the Spirit Sword, is also the most powerful weapon in the game.
- Jumped at the Call: Didn't so much jump at it as somersault over it and land on the other side.
- Magic Knight: Justin can learn all of the four types of magic, and specializes in the more offensive spells, giving him a nasty array of magical attacks.
- Mighty Glacier: Starts as one. He is not as slow as Gadwin though, and eventually progresses into a Lightning Bruiser, being faster than Feena, but slower than Rapp.
- Oblivious to Love: He gets it in the end, but it takes him a ridiculous amount of time to realize Feena's confessing to him and he's stupidly adorable about it.
- Official Couple: With Feena, as shown in the Distant Finale. They've been busy.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Him and Sue represent these colors.
- Power Glows: Many of his special moves ham him glwoing before being unleashed
- Red Is Heroic: Red hair, and the hero of the story.
- Ship Tease: With Leen, in the Twin Towers.
- Spectacular Spinning: Justin's Shockwave, Midair Cut, Lotus Cut, Ice Slash and Thor Cut. Spinning makes up half of Justin's special moveset.
- Stab the Sky: His victory pose. Some spells and special moves use it as well.
- Sword Plant: Done during Dragon Cut and Heaven and Earth Cut special moves.
- The Pollyanna: Most of the time until his Heroic BSoD in Disc 2.
- The Unchosen One: He wasn't destined to solve the Icarian legacy, he simply stumbled upon it.
Sue and Puffy
Voiced by: Kumiko Nishihara (Japanese), Blaney R. Aikman (English)
- "Pretty easy, right, Puffy?"
Sue is Justin's best friend from Old Parm. Orphaned as a baby, she lives with her aunt and uncle. She is always accompanied by Puffy, a gift from Justin's father who brought it from one of his adventures. Sue views herself as Justin's guardian, and resents being treated as a kid. Her weapons of choice are long-distance weapons (such as bows and boomerangs) and maces.
- Can't Catch Up: Sue isn't a bad character, but being an eight year-old isn't something glossed over by the game. As a result, Sue is much more fragile than the other characters that will join your party (except maybe Liete), her special moves are quickly overshadowed by Justin and Feena's, and she has an unique weakness: each time she is hit by an attack, Sue will be stunned for several seconds, unable to act, effectively reducing her next action turn and her overall battle performance.
- Child Prodigy: Is unusually smart for an eight year-old. She occasionally provides good insight and actually uses words like "Tyrannical" in a sentence.
- Fastball Special: The Puffy Kick special move, which has her throwing her Non-Human Sidekick Puffy at her enemies.
- From the Mouths of Babes: She's a lot more sensible than Justin
- Head Pet: Puffy spends so much time up there that most people assume that he's a fancy ribbon.
- Improbable Age: Something of a subversion. While Sue demonstrates unusual intellect and combat skill for an eight year-old, her experience curve is much steeper than the other characters leading to their outstripping her as the story gets into full swing. Additionally, the sheer stress and fatigue of the journey make Sue so ill that Justin and Feena force her to sit the rest of the adventure out not halfway through the story.
- Pink Means Feminine: She wears a pink dress, and despite acting mature, she is still a girly girl.
- Pom-Pom Girl: Her status buff move involves her and Puffy grabbing pom poms and cheering the team.
- Precocious Crush: Seems to have one on Justin, which makes her clear support of him and Feena strange.
- Rule of Funny: Why her healing special move is cheerleading
◊. - She Is All Grown Up: In the Distant Finale.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: She is forced to go back to her hometown because of exhaustion. Coincidentally, after she leaves and you reach the new continent, the game's story takes a much serious and darker turn.
- Status Buff: Sue's Fight Cheer, which is a cheerleading dance that has the same effect as the WOW!-spell (attack buff).
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: You might think that an 8 year-old would be too young to stand the hardships of a world-spanning adventure. You'd be 100% correct.
- Tagalong Kid: This trope is deconstructed when Sue's health starts to falter. Dight's doctor insists that she return home at once, or else die of exhaustion.
- Tearful Smile: Wears this when she
leaves. - Trying Not to Cry: Wants her last moments with Justin and Feena to be happy ones, so she plans to hold it in and cry by herself once she gets home. Feena sees right through it.
- Youthful Freckles: She has a few around her nose.
Feena
Voiced by: Noriko Hidaka (Japanese), Angela Anderson (English)
- "Ha, ha ha, pretty easy!"
An adventurer whom Justin and Sue meet during their trip to New Parm. Unlike Justin, she is very accomplished and something of a local celebrity. Feena wields knives and whips.
- Action Girl: Feena is one when you meet her on your trip to New Parm. She's also on equal ground with Justin as a melee fighter and has fire magic to boot! She undergoes some Chickification by mid CD 2, but recovers towards the End Game, although she is surpassed as a melee fighter and her attributes grow towards magic, making her the second-best mage in the game, maybe the best if you count her plot related spells.
- Chainmail Bikini: Perhaps justified due to hailing from New Parm, an equatorial retreat.
- Foreshadowing: In the Nintendo Switch Remake, at least. Checking Feena's "Moves" screen after purchasing multiple magical elements will reveal a number of spells with no magic level requirements, only a ???. These spells are unlocked once Feena's Icarian heritage is awakened and she sprouts her wings, hinting that she has greater magical prowess.
- Elemental Weapon: She has two special attacks she can learn which both involve charging her whip with elemental energy; Flame Whip and Zap Whip. The former requires levels in Whip and Fire, the latter requires levels in Whip, Fire and Wind.
- Improbable Age: At 15, only a year older than Justin.
- Incendiary Exponent: The Flame Whip move is one of Feena's two Elemental Weapon techniques; an area-affecting ranged technique that requires high levels in Whip and Fire. When she uses it, she ignites her whip and then spins it around, creating a wave of flames that washes over targets.Now I'm really mad!
- Last Disc Magic: The unsealing of her Icarian wings grants her additional magic, but only in the latter part of Disc 2. One of these spells, Time Gate, is such a Game-Breaker that Feena needs to be at Lv. 99 magic to use it. (This is actually a programming error and is fixed in the Nintendo Switch version of the game.)
- Last of His Kind: She's the last Icarian togethr with her sister Leen.
- Official Couple: With Justin, as shown in the Distant Finale. They've been busy.
- Power Gives You Wings: Her Icarian wings manifest themselves whenever she uses her high level special moves.
- Ship Tease: With Mullen in the Twin Towers, and with Justin throughout the game.
- Stripperific: Feena's Battle Bikini. One piece of official art even gives us booty cleavage.
- Take This Job and Shove It: After Pakon gives her the choice between marrying him and keeping her adventuring licence, after already attempting to force her into a relationship, Feena willingly turns in her card and runs off with Justin.
- Weapon Specialization: Feena's weapons of choice are knives and whips. She is notably the only character in the game who uses whips. She has three special techniques she can use when armed with a Whip; Paralyze Whip, which has a chance to paralyze a single target, and two Elemental Weapon techniques — the multi-target-hitting Flame Whip, and the single target Zap Whip.
- White Magician Girl: Downplayed. Feena can learn all of the Magic elements, and she does gain multiple offensive spells by doing so. However, her spell list is more focused towards the defensive and curative than Justin. In particular, whilst they can both learn the Water spell "Alhealer +", the most powerful healing spell in the game, for Justin it's a Level 3 spell, meaning he can't cast it very often, whilst Feena learns it as a Level 2 spell, allowing her to use it much more frequently.
Gadwin
Voiced by: Rokurō Naya (Japanese)
- "You're no match for me."
The "Knight of Dight", Gadwin is a master swordsman who runs into our Heroes on the other side of "The End of the World". Gallant and courageous to a fault, he takes it upon himself to educate Justin in the ways of a knight.
- BFS: His sword "Himmler".
- Crutch Character: When you first reach the Lands Beyond the Wall, you'll probably be somewhere around level 10-15, depending on how you've been grinding. Gadwin starts at level 30, bitches. Combined with his powerful spellls and techniques, and he will probably become the centerpiece of your party whilst he's in it.
- Duel Boss: Justin has to duel with him twice, first as a Hopeless Boss Fight and later as proper boss fight.
- Elemental Powers: Gadwin is restricted to using fire, earth and explosion type skills.
- Flanderization: While he's in your party, he is a mature mentor figure. When he returns for the finale, he is obsessed with strength and challenging opponents.
- Mighty Glacier: Powerful, but slow.
- Mistaken for Murderer: Justin's first duel against him stems from the fact his friends are missing and that he mistakes Gadwin for a cannibal who is going to eat them.
- Sword Plant: The crux of unleashing the power of his Dragon King Slice move, which is later adopted by Justin.
Rapp
Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese), John W. (English)
- "Come back with reinforcements!"
A humanoid whom Justin and Feena meet once crossing the ocean. He is at first suspicious of them, but they quickly gain his trust. Rapp is extremely arrogant, but this attitude masks his troubled life as an orphan.
- Catchphrase: He says "Take that!" in many of his attacks.
- Conveniently an Orphan: His parents were petrified by Gaia. He still has his grandpa alive, though.
- Flash Step
- Fragile Speedster: He is very fast.
- Glass Cannon: Hits every bit as hard as Justin does, but lacks a bit in the defensive areas, especially since he starts with much lower levels than your other characters.
- Infinity +1 Sword: Evil Shuriken.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. He is quite pissed at heroes for trespassing at his area, however this is a minor case of Poor Communication Kills and is quickly resolved. Past his arrogance is a pretty nice person. Also justified because of his status as an orphan.
- Never Say "Die": Averted. He has no problem threatening someone's life."Take that, I'll kill ya!"
- Odd Friendship: Forms one with Milda, whom his people hate.
- One-Hit Kill: Can learn Death Sword and that makes him a borderline Game-Breaker since this skill kills any regular Mook without fail.
- Playing with Fire: Starts with fire magic, plus has at least one special move that uses fire, as well.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Deconstructed. His desire to defy old and obstructive laws of his village by granting his friends access to the village and leaving the Gaia Sprout with the elder created a path for Garlyle Forces to bruteforce their way in (since the security was more lax than usual) and retrieve the Sprout. After that, Justin, Feena and Milda are promptly given the boot and the village completely closes its doors. Way to go, Rapp.
- Small Town Boredom: His reason to continue travelling after the Tower of Doom incident.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: His 2 universal specials: Demon Ball and Neo Demon Ball.
Milda
Voiced by: Chika Sakamoto (Japanese), Sharon Coleman (English)
- "No problem. Whoo!"
A Lainian whom the heroes meet while attempting to destroy the Tower of Doom. They start out on bad terms, but that changes quickly.
- Amazonian Beauty: At only 19 years old, she towers over the rest of the cast, is strong enough to smash tanks and cause earthquakes with her bare hands, and is still a gorgeous woman despite being visibly quite muscular. Don't be fooled by her tough exterior though; she's actually a pretty sweet woman.
- Badass Normal: She's one of two characters that can't learn magic. She doesn't need it.
- Crutch Character: Not as much as Gadwin, but she's still a good ten to fifteen levels higher than the rest of your party.
- Establishing Character Moment: When you first meet her, she's torn the setting apart, and she immediately beats the crap out of Rapp, then turns to advance on Justin and Feena like an animal. Character established. However, this is subverted in that, after you get over your initial differences, she turns out to be a sweet woman.
- Happily Married: With Darlin.
- Odd Friendship: Forms one with Rapp, even though his race mostly hates hers.
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: As a Lainian, Milda is actually what the Grandia world would consider a minotaur. It's just that as a female Lainian, Milda doesn't really look cow-like at all outside of her ears.
- Sexy Dimorphism: In her species, males look like anthropomorphic bulls and females look like humans with Pointy Ears — you know, elves.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: With her "sweetheart, honeybunch" man, who is at least partially cow. If it weren't so hilarious, it'd be disturbing.
- Younger Than They Look: Admonishes Nicky for calling her "Auntie Milda", telling him she's only 19.
Guido
Voiced by: Yoshiko Kamei (Japanese), Scott Beers (English)
- "Piece-a-cake!"
Guido is one of the Mogay, a bunny-like merchant race from Zil Padon. He is met a few times throughout the game and later he joins the party temporarily.
- Actually, I Am Him: He's the Elder of Zil Padon. Yes. It makes his spiel about making Justin prove his worth to meet the Elder a lot more entertaining.
- Funetik Aksent: Guy could give Mario a run for his money in the gratuitous italian accent department.
- Recurring Traveller: You meet him two times on your travels before he temporarily joins you.
Liete
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Sharon Coleman (English)
"That was an easy victory."
The very person who sent Justin to his quest in the first place. Originally just a spectator with a streak for fatality, our heroes convince her to join them and change her own fate.
- Cloudcuckoolander: As expected of someone who had lived alone for all her life, Liete acts somewhat... airheaded from time to time.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: Joins the party just before the final dungeon, taking Guido's place.
- Legacy Character: Turns out that Liete is the name given to the one in charge of Alent, acting as The Watcher for the world. There's been dozens of Lietes before her, who each recorded their memories onto sacred tablets before passing down the title to their successor.
- Me's a Crowd: The shrine of Alent is shown to be full of magical clones of her, running the facility in lieu of actual people. Though they're not "true" copies, operating more like machines and barely even pretending to be human.
- Mysterious Waif: Meeting her is what send Justin and Sue on their quest into the uncharted territories.
Garlyle Forces
General Baal
Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (Japanese), Scott Beers (English)
Leader of the Garlyle Forces, who wants the Spirit Stone for unknown reasons.
- Badass Cape: Which covers the tendrils given to him by Gaia's influence, that are somehow taller than even him when revealed.
- Body Horror: At some point in the past, Baal came into contact with Gaia, which corrupted his body. When you face him for the final time, he's completely degenerated into a monster.
- The Coats Are Off: Baal unveils his mutated arm during your second fight.
- Demonic Possession: At first he's just Drunk on the Dark Side, but once he starts referring to Gaia in first person, things quickly get a lot worse for our heroes.
- Duel Boss: Justin has to duel him on top of his exploding aircraft.
- Evil Laugh: Unleashed after he reveals his plans.
- Evil Makes You Ugly: Liete claims that Baal's greed made him susceptible to Gaia's corruption.
- Eyepatch of Power: A futuristic cyber-patch.
- The Heavy: See Insane Admiral below.
- Insane Admiral: He devotes his entire forces to finding the Spirit Stone. None of his subordinates really fathom what they're doing (he apparently promised them world peace was their main goal), plundering ruins and covering it up for the sake of doing it.
- Large Ham
- Even more so by Norio Wakamoto.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Baal" is a name of deitific origin.
- No-One Could Have Survived That: Justin thinks he perished in the explosion of his airship. Baal later turns up again in Gaia's cradle, looking no worse for wear.
- Please Keep Your Hat On: The cloak isn't a fashion statement; Baal's been mutating for quite some time, and is concealing writhing tentacles beneath it.
- Power Corrupts
- Recurring Boss: He is fought three times over the course of the game.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: After Gaia completely overwhelms him and he mutates into a monster, he discards his shirt.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Justin decides to surrender the Spirit Stone to him, he immediately opens a pit underneath him to drop him off the Grandeur.
Colonel Mullen
Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (Japanese), Tim Bosley (English)
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Like father, like son.
- Benevolent Boss: Unlike Nana, Saki, and Mio, he is considerate to those under his command. He is very popular among the ranks of Garlyle, which comes in handy later.
- Colonel Badass: He lives for the Army, most soldiers will tell you in awe how he rose through the ranks quickly despite his young age and mention their loyalty towards him AND he is strong enough to defeat Gadwin - an established, powerfull warrior - in a single attack.
- Duel Boss: Justin has to fight him by himself.
- Half-Human Hybrid: His mother was a demi-human the army refers to as "humanoids".
- Heel–Face Turn: After finding out Baal was in search of the Spirit Stones to awaken Gaia and obtain personal power rather than attain world peace, he immediately rallies nearly all of Garlyle into a mutiny. It's alas a bit late by that point, but his forces do help save a number of people.
- Idiot Ball: He is willing to let his love, Leen, sacrifice herself to stop the end of the world. When Leen sees that her sister, Feena, has a power to stop it without anyone dying, Mullen says they are to go through with the original plan anyway.
- Worthy Opponent: He develops respect for Justin and Sue when they successfully manage to defeat the Rock Bird.
Lieutenant Leen
Voiced by: Hikari Tachibana (Japanese), Nicole Weiss (English)
- Anguished Declaration of Love: Gives one to Mullen before she sacrifices herself to stop Gaia.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She sacrifices herself to stop Gaia. After Gaia is defeated proper by Justin an company, she somehow returns back to life.
- Improbable Age: According to official texts, she's, unbelievably, 15.
- Last of His Kind: She is on of the last two Icarians together with her sister Feena.
- Rei Ayanami Expy: Might be the first one.
Nana, Saki and Mio
Nana voiced by: Yumi Touma(Japanese), Maria H. Hernandez (English)
Saki voiced by: Junko Hagimori (Japanese), Blaney R. Aikman (English)
Mio voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Christal Garcia (English)
Nana: I'll show no mercy!
Saki: Watch this!
Mio: Well now, die from this nerve gas!
Recurring Bosses at the Garlyle Forces' service. They all have a crush on Col. Mullen.
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Nana's the beauty, Saki's the brawn, and Mio's the brains.
- Combination Attack: When paired up together, they have access to a devastating collaboration technique.
- Corrupted Character Copy: They are villainous versions of Magic Knight Rayearth's main characters: Hikaru, Umi and Fuu.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: In their introductory scene, the girls compete to determine which one of them is the biggest sadist toward their troops.
- Establishing Character Moment: As soon as Justin and Sue show them the curator's letter to prove that they're not simply parading around the Sult Ruins uninvited, they immediately rip it to pieces and toss it down a pit.
- Improbable Weapon: Each has at least one special attack involving this. Saki uses a slapstick fan, Nana a yo-yo with a inbuilt chainsaw, and Mio uses balloons (albeit ones filled with nerve gas).
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: Those three are basically what would have happened if Hikaru, Umi and Fuu had joined Team Rocket.
- Terrible Trio: The three are rarely seen apart.
- Undying Loyalty: To Herr Mullen!
Others
Lily
Justin's mother, who runs the Seagull Restaurant in Parm.
- Abusive Parents: Zig-zagged. She hits Justin over the head with a tray quite often, but is otherwise pretty normal and what you'd think a cool single mom would be like.
- I Was Quite the Looker: Was named 'Lily the Skull' in her hey-day and was considered a beauty.
Java
A retired explorer who gives Justin his steamer pass to the new world.
- Meaningful Name: His name is Java and he frequents a coffee bar.
- Would Hurt a Child: Thinks nothing of sending two children into an unstable mine infested with monsters to prove their mettle. To his credit, he does go after and rescue them from an earthquake, but then scolds Justin and Sue for not having an escape plan.
Pakon
- Abhorrent Admirer: He's obsessed with Feena, who can't stand him (for obvious reasons).
- And Now You Must Marry Me: Tries to wed a kidnapped, bound and gagged Feena, though Justin and Sue arrive in time to stop it.
- The Dreaded: When he kidnaps Feena to wed her, the citizens of New Parm either are willing to ignore the legality for the sake of a good party, or would rather fake an injury to avoid having his Society cut their funding.
- Entitled to Have You: Threatens to take away Feena's Adventuring licence if she doesn't marry him, and then kidnaps her when she claims she's already Justin's girlfriend.
- Jerkass: Just a complete and utter prat. If he wasn't such an obvious loser, he'd probably qualify as a Hate Sink.
- Nose Nuggets: Even when he's not crying, his conversation portrait always has a trail of snot long enough to reach his mouth.
- Ocular Gushers: Tears and snot shoot out of his face when he doesn't get his way.
- Pointy-Haired Boss: He's turned the guild into a Feena fanclub in all but name, and uses his position of power to get his way.
- Propaganda Piece: The New Parm theater, funded by the Society, is always putting on a play of "Feena" pining after the heroic "Pakon".
- Sketchy Successor: He's nothing like his father, who was an old friend of Justin's parents, and was strong enough to fight his own battles.
- The Unfought: Instead of fighting you directly, he calls on his bodyguard, Mr. Chang.
- Villainous Harlequin: His outfit of choice is evocative of this, with a large frilled collar and puffy pants.
Gaia
The ultimate villain of the story. Born from a corrupted Spirit Stone that humans attempted to use without the power of the Icarians, Gaia was the one responsible for wiping out the Angelou civilization. After being awakened by General Baal, it threatens to do so for the rest of the world.
- Big Bad: It destroyed the Angelou civilization, now it's coming for the rest.
- Eldritch Abomination: Especially its final form you fight.
- Flunky Boss: First form of the final boss fight against it has it being accompanied ten or so mooks.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: What it ultimately believes. Humans were greedy enough to cause its creation, thus they were clearly asking for total annihilation.
- When Trees Attack: Gaia is some sort bug-tree hybrid.
