Here are the characters in Hero & Daughter.
Ralph
A great hero who has saved the world a number of times before. When the world is again threatened by the Dark Lord, his arrogance causes a king to permanently reduce him to Level 1.
- Butt-Monkey: Even the bosses mock him for being Level 1.
- Celibate Hero: Before the events of the game, he was just too busy squashing Dark Lords to care for romance. In the game itself, he almost plunges into Clueless Chick-Magnet as he's completely unaware of some girls' affection for him until the exact dialogue point.
- Determinator: Ralph refuses to give up, even if he can't level up. This is also demonstrated with his Hero's Resolve Self-Skill.
- Idiot Hero: Downplayed objectively, but seen as this by some of the girls; he's a little slow in catching on to some girls' affection, and he's a little slow on understanding modern technology.
- Ralph adapts rather quickly with technology as affection dialogues progress with the likes of Iris (computers), Lara (modern schooling), and Selphie (livestreaming and videos). Then again, it's not too clear how much of it is future-tech.
- Sakia teases Ralph for having "level 1 intelligence". Ouch. Ralph even admits, mentally, that his scores were never that high either.
- The Hero: He's the main protagonist, and required for every adventure.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Being reduced to Level 1.
- Overrated and Underleveled: Invoked by the king in the prologue.
- Super Mode: Unlocks one during the final battle of Chapter 3.
The Girls in General:
- Punny Name: Tons. A swimmer named Aquata, a mosquito-girl named Moski, a cyclops named Iris...
- World of Action Girls: Every one of them, from the common villager to the high schooler, are capable of defeating evil just as well as Ralph.
Lara
A high school student. Her specialty is "Attacking". Always the first girl summoned, whereas the rest are randomized.
- Book Dumb: She's failing all of her academic classes, getting F-s in everything but PE, where she gets A+.
- Glass Cannon: Has decent physical offense and speed, but low defense against physical and magic attacks.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Her specialty.
Akari
A blonde-haired phantom. Her specialty is "Ghosting".
- Cute Ghost Girl: She's a spirit that can utilize her supernatural powers as battle skills.
- Guest Fighter: She's originally from the video game Hello? Hell...o?.
Apil
A sweetheart that understands love.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Some of her affection lines reveal she is this.
- Guest Fighter: She's originally from a platform game called Full Swing.
Aquata
An energetic, bikini-clad beauty.
- Making a Splash: Her abilities are all water based or based on swimming.
Ayame
A trained assassin.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Haremancer toucher her rear, she wishes to assassinate him. (Ralph is impressed she didn't kill him then and there.)
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Ayame has been born into a world of assassination, but she really wants to be just like the other girls. Well, relatively normal.
Cammy
A fleet-footed catgirl.
- Cute Monster Girl: A "beastperson" apparently. She ends her sentences in meow sounds.
- Little Bit Beastly: She looks like a human girl with cat eats and a tail.
Candy Lix
A candy-lover that can only be summoned after defeating her, on Floor Type 01 of the Forest Dungeon.
- Girls Love Chocolate: Well she likes all kinds of sweets and candy, but she actually gives Ralph chocolate (which is an actual item in the inventory) in one of her affection lines.
- Guest Fighter: She's originally from a cancelled video game titled Death Village.
- Sweet Tooth: She is all about candy. Ralph can even buy some from her if he interacts with her in the village.
Cherie
She lives for cheerleading!
- Genki Girl: Unsurprisingly, the cheerleader is cheerful. Punctuated in her dialogue with Ralph, as she discards his poor cheerleading ideas for more energetic ones.
- Mechanically Unusual Class: Her skillset is one-dimensional but awesome: she buffs or restores stats to every party member but herself, and is locked into her choice of buff for several turns.
- Support Party Member: To an extreme, both story-wise (she's just a cheerleader!) and in gameplay terms. She's practically a living battery party member slot for everyone else as she spends her turns giving everyone else powerful buffs.
Dieh
She curses monsters to death.
- Chuunibyou: If her curses weren't real, she would very much be this.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Wears all black, but is on the good side.
Erina
A girl with the eyes of death. Her specialty is "Reaping".
- Guest Fighter: She's originally from a Japanese-exclusive game titled Headless.
- One-Hit Kill: One of her skills has the potential to do so.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her red "eyes of death" come up in conversation, and help indicate her deadliness.
Felice
A completely ordinary girl. Her specialty is "Healing Support".
- Beneath Notice: She is overlooked by Haeti for being a plain, unassuming villager, and is never converted into a Dark Lord.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Felice is "just" an average villager who gets summoned, whilst amongst her are ghosts, mages, robots, and Cute Monster Girls. As she puts it, she "want[s] to be special... Like everyone else, like [Ralph]." This carries over to her own opinion of her character popularity, as she is squarely average.
- Support Party Member: All of her Self-Skills work to heal and buff party members, including a skill to let her be self-sufficient with TP.
Harmony
A girl with a strong spirit.- Dissonant Serenity: Calm in all circumstances, even as she is breaking bones.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Very good at punching.
Hauyne
A softhearted princess.
- Princess Classic: Hauyne fits essentially every facet of the trope to a T. Even uses traditional diction like "gallant" to describe Ralph and is a pure support character.
- Support Party Member: Her Self-Skills are all buffs to the party, with her final unlocked skill a classic heal.
Holly
A sadistic angel.
- Angelic Beauty: Obviously, given that she is an angel and a member of Ralph's potential harem of cute girls.
- Informed Attribute: Her sadism is this, she is actually more of The Gadfly.
- Stripperiffic: She only wears what is basically a pair of bra and panties.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Once your affection is high enough, she becomes almost sickeningly sweet to Ralph.
- Tsundere: A classic case. She starts with insults, then teasing, then affection.
Iris
She's a cyclops!
- Charm Person: The first skill she unlocks is her strongest one: Stare, a simple, 1-turn Charm spell. She also apparently uses it on Ralph (who may or may not have even been affected, since his heart still beats quickly when he sees her).
- Cute Monster Girl: Though she objects to being compared with regular monsters.
- Cyclops: Her defining trait. Amusingly, her species of cyclops averts the lack of depth perception (she can emit electromagnetic waves to gauge distance?!) and has X-Ray Vision, Eye Beams, the ability to numb or confuse with her eye...
- Eye Beams: "Cyclopses have a special technique that lets them fire eye lasers!" Also usable in-game.
- X-Ray Vision: Her species has this ability. It leads to a lot of them becoming doctors.
Leffy
A protector who appears in the village if the player is KO'd during a dungeon. Can be permanently recruited if challenged and defeated.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: She intentionally developed her immune system to such a degree, that she is immune to the effects of Haeti's Hate Plague.
- Chainmail Bikini: When Ralph asks her if she should be less exposed, she comments that her mask covers her face just fine.
- Comically Missing the Point: See her response to Ralph inquiring on her Chainmail Bikini.
- Crutch Character: Until she joins permanently. She has a unchangeable set of equipment (of very poor quality) and relies on her powerful elemental skills, some healing spells, and advanced level to help you. She is also AI-controlled. Worse, any EXP she gets is lost — she joins your party as a permanent character at level five like the rest, not even wearing her former equipment.
- Duality Motif: Her heterochromia is apparently a result of inheriting her parents' respective abilities of fencing and magic.
- Guest-Star Party Member: If you get defeated in enough dungeons, or simply leave them part-way. She joins you for a nominal sum (500 gold) and is over level 60 with a strong variety of elemental skills and even some healing spells. She can even permanently join the party if you defeat her with less than a full party.
- Magic Knight: Her skills combine elemental magic with sword strikes.
Lenna
A gang leader that loves to fight.
- Blood Knight: Lenna tries picking fights with anyone, anywhere.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: How she prefers to fight, though she also makes use of brass knuckles.
Lilia
A subservient maid.
- Meido: You just have to look at her to see that.
- Ninja Maid: She may not hit hard, but one of her skills reduces the enemies stats, drastically.
Liv
A girl from the slums.
- Fragile Speedster: As per the course with video game thieves.
- Impossible Thief: Liv's final two Self-Skills are, without flavor text, a defense-piercing Stun and a buff that recovers TP. However, going along with her theme, they're described as stealing time and stealing herself, somehow.
- Status Infliction Attack: One of her final Self-Skills is a defense-piercing Stun, but the Flavor Text follows her thief theme, it's described as stealing time.
- Sticky Fingers: Her generic introduction dialogue to giving her gifts or EXP is claiming she didn't steal your wallet.
- Video Game Stealing: Her primary role in a party, as she collects items.
Moski
A mosquito girl that loves to drink blood. Her specialty is "Blood-Sucking".
- Cute Monster Girl: Despite being based on a blood-sucking insect, she primarily looks like a dark-skinned cute girl.
- Stripperiffic: Her outfit consists of a set of pauldrons, a bra, and a Thong of Shielding.
- Thong of Shielding: She has a purple thong-like covering.
Priscilla
An introverted masochistic prisoner girl.
- Kick Chick: One of her skills is a powerful kick.
- Really Royalty Reveal: She is actually a princess from another land and discovered her masochistic side when she was kidnapped for ransom.
- Too Kinky to Torture: Her single most defining characteristic. She enjoys abuse more than anything else.
Ralphina
Ralph's daughter, summoned from the future. Her specialty is Heroism.
- Kid from the Future: She's Ralph's future daughter, but doesn't reveal who her mother is.
- Strong Family Resemblance: It is so strong that people keep mistaking her for Ralph. Even their sprites look the same.
Red Witch
A red-eyed girl that can burn anything.
- Burning with Anger: Literally. She outright threatens Ralph and the Haremancer, stating if that that if they try anything funny "I'll fry you like bacon."
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Is only referred to as Red Witch.
- Fiery Redhead: Literally.
- Guest Fighter: She's originally from Moonlight Ghost.
- Kill It with Fire: Literally. Her offensive abilities are fire based, and have the potential to kill the target instantly
- One-Hit Kill: Two abilities that can inflict this, more than any other character.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When her eyes turn red, you better get her to calm down immediately or she will cremate you.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Her eyes are normally green, it is only when in battle or when angry do her eyes turn red.
- Wicked Witch: Played with, she has some tendencies associated with the trope like the "Hee hee hee" Evil Laugh and has done horrible things in the past, but she is now on the side of good and has guilt about the horrible things mentioned.
Robotta
An android that was originally human?
- More Dakka: Two attacks that have more potential hits than any other character.
- Mighty Glacier: The worst speed of the girls, made up for with insane health, defense and physical offense.
Rogue
A real macho girl. Her specialty is "Brawling".
- Amazonian Beauty: Fitting for a professional brawler, she's tall and muscular.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: As per the tradition of all true brawlers.
Sakia
Intelligent and nerdy.
- Opaque Nerd Glasses: Descends into this trope frequently — apparently her glasses fog up easily.
Schildt
A fencer for the kingdom.
- Amazonian Beauty: To the extent that men think of her as a brute, unfortunately.
- Chainmail Bikini: Lampshaded and Discussed. One of her affection dialogues has Ralph ask her why she dress so skimpily. She just thinks it isn't a problem because her stats are high anyway.
- Mighty Glacier: Innately high attack and defense stats coupled with a suite of skills to further increase them.
- Weak to Magic: On the other hand, she has no skills to increase her already abysmal defense against magic.
Selphie
A modern master of technology. Her specialty is "Faking Calls".
- Gamer Girl: She certainly likes LPs.
- Valley Girl: Her speech sinks into saying "omg" in the text. She uses "like" everywhere.
Sion
A girl that gets stronger when enemies do. Her specialty is "Prodigious Fencing".
- Magic Knight: A variety of elemental attacks that are affected by situation.
- Powered Armor: Her outfit is surprisingly this, regardless of how impractical it looks.
Spirit Queen
The ever-intoxicated Queen of the fairies. Can only be summoned after the 2nd Demon Lord is defeated.
- The Alcoholic: Never seen sober. At all.
- Big Eater: Several of her return scenes has her with a feast covering the whole table. She refers to it as a snack.
- Guest Fighter: Like Red Witch, she's originally from Moonlight Ghost.
- Willfully Weak: Apparently has "enough power to destroy the cosmos". Ralph even at full power apparently doesn't match her in the slightest. Shows up with an absolute fraction of her power.
Strega
A magical girl (mage) with a short fuse. Her specialty is "Magic".
- The Archmage: The best spellcaster of the lot, and plenty of skills to boost her ability to cast and recover from low MP.
- Catchphrase: "Apologize!".
- Tsundere: Towards Ralph of course. Not as much as Holly, but she still demands apologies.
Yomi
A girl with a gun arm.
- Arm Cannon: Weighing in at one ton, and hits like it too.
- Guest Fighter: Like Apil, she's originally from Full Swing.
- Heavy Sleeper: She can sleep while standing up.
Yumel
A psychic that can read the hearts of others.
- Blessed with Suck: How she finds her powers. Not all hearts are as pure and warm as Ralph.
- Dirty Mind-Reading: Her first reaction to the Haremancer’s thoughts? "Lewd"
- Living Lie Detector: Tying in to reading the hearts of others. Can even tell that Ralph ate the Haremancer's meat buns.
Anth
A mysterious girl waiting in an old tomb. Joins after the game's 6th chapter.
- Mighty Glacier: Doesn’t have great mobility, but is insanely high in every other stat.
Carrot
A young elf. Can only be summoned after the game's 4th chapter.
- Weight Woe: Some of her affection conversations have her worrying about gaining even a few pounds.
Dark Lord Arue
A part-time Dark Lord. Can only be summoned after defeating her.
- Cute Monster Girl: She's actually a Harpy. Which Ralph immediately and bluntly calls "just a monster".
- Lightning Bruiser: Her stats and skills are above average in all categories, especially in health, attack and speed.
Haeti
Joins after the game's 4th chapter, in which she transforms almost all the girls in Ralph's party into Dark Lords for him to fight.
- The Power of Hate: Literally, her hatred is the source of her powers.
Haremancer
A summoner, and the owner of the local pub in the Village. Helps Ralph on his quest by summoning heroines to fight alongside him. He also runs the Casino in Castle Town.
Zack
Owner of the restaurant in the Village, and a juice bar in Castle Town. Traveled with Ralph in the past.
Bennett
The leader of the guild, where Ralph can turn in bounties and sell things. Another old comrade of Ralph's.
Goral
A mage that can manipulate the world's dungeons with his magic. Also a former member of Ralph's party
Seil
Yet another friend of Ralph's that has opened up his own business, this time selling magic.
Kokone
A fifth character that used to help Ralph save the world. Runs an item shop in the Village, and a Furniture shop in Castle Town.
Julie
The last character in the village that already knew Ralph. Sells Piffany jewelry, which can raise a girl's Affection value.
Monster Gramps
An old man that takes care of monsters Ralph has tamed.
Corpse
The guy that runs the Otherworld Shop in the Village, and can Awaken equipment in Castle Town.
House
A real estate salesman that gives Ralph his first Home Sweet Home.
Walkmaster
An NPC that randomly appears in the Village. He will give Ralph one piece of gold for every step the hero has walked since their last encounter.
King
The king of the land, who lowers Ralph's level due to the hero's cockiness.
- Enemy Mine: Joins Ralph in the battle against Haiti.
- Evil All Along: His full title is actually the King of Evil, and he's the ruler of all Dark Lords.
I'm a Guard!
The king's lackey.
- The Starscream: Becomes "I'm a Darklord Guard!" after Ralph defeats his boss.
Dark Lord Dahklorde
The Dark Lord threatening the world at the beginning of the game.
Dark Lord Dehmon
Another Dark Lord, who attempts to learn Ralph's techniques by hiring Arue as a fake Dark Lord for him to fight.
I'm a Dark Lord
The daughter of the King, who dates I'm a Guard! in the game's fifth chapter.
- Secret Character: Can be recruited after defeating Dark Lord Dehmon with a code.
Mash Gramps
The Village Elder, who can be found in the dungeons. Giving him a massage rewards Ralph with furniture and Village EXP.
Oc-Ock
An ork that wants to be a legendary monster. Challenging him to a fight in dungeons can earn Ralph new furniture.
Roshamboy
A boy that challenges Ralph to Rock-Paper-Scissors in the dungeons.
Deste
A warrior that waits atop the tomb that can be entered after completing Chapter 6.
- Post-Final Boss: Can only be fought after clearing Chapter 6 and only be beaten once. She is also the most powerful boss in the game, bar none.
- Secret Character: Can be recruited after defeating Dark Lord Dehmon with a code.
