Characters / Love Esquire

Main Characters

Squire

Voiced by: Alejandro Saab

• Chivalrous Pervert: The squire is not exactly subtle about his desire to no longer be a virgin, but he's also serious about helping people out as a squire, and as the story goes on he becomes a source of support to Hugh and to the woman he seeks a relationship with.
• Dark and Troubled Past: The squire himself wasn't able to do anything when bandits raided his village and killed his biological parents, which is how he got adopted by Amelia and her father. Part of why he wants to become a knight someday is so he'll never be that helpless again, and he can protect people in the future.
• Draw Aggro: When you use the "Taunt" command, enemies will spend a turn attacking the squire instead of Hugh.
• Fragile Speedster: The squire is this in comparison to Hugh. He can't directly attack enemies and he doesn't have as much HP, but he's also much faster than Hugh or the enemies are; if you choose any action except Cheer, the squire will always go first.
• Hello, [Insert Name Here]: You input a name for the squire at the beginning of a new game, but while the text will read the name, the character voices will address the protagonist as "Squire".
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: At first, the story pokes fun at the squire for just being "the support" to Hugh's heroism. But as the story goes on, it becomes clear that the squire's support actually helps Hugh a lot, and in a lot of the romance arcs, the woman goes through a really tough time, and the squire's support allows him to become a source of strength for her.
• Iron Butt Monkey: The squire goes through a lot of abuse, both in expeditions and in story, just to fulfill his duties.
• I Shall Taunt You: If the squire wants enemies to attack him instead of Hugh during a turn, he can use the "Taunt" command to first stick out his tongue and then slap his rear as he moons the enemies.
• Inherently Attractive Profession: If you pursue Giselle, a number of characters will wonder whether the squire has a thing for nurses. And in one scene, when her uniform allows him a pretty impressive look down her cleavage, the squire himself thinks to himself that they might just be right.
• Supporting Protagonist: The viewpoint character, who serves as, well a squire, supporting his knight, and his goal is to become a worthy knight (and to seek a romantic relationship).
• Took a Level in Badass: The protagonist's goal is to do this, and he can succeed if you train his stats high enough.
• Troll: Sometimes if the squire uses the "Taunt" command, Hugh will tell the squire to "stop trolling!"

Hugh Lafast

Voiced by: Steven Kelly

The knight you serve.

• Chivalrous Pervert: He is close friends to Pops, the Squire's adopted father, and while he has a bad rep of being a womanizer, he is still a high ranking logistics officer and pushes the squire to take his duties seriously.
• Mighty Glacier: Hugh is very strong. However, he's also slow; he always goes last in battles, after both the squire and the enemies have taken their turns. This is partially why the squire's support is so important, as without the squire, Hugh would eventually become overwhelmed by enemies.

Amelie 'Amy' Boden

Voiced by: Megan Shipman

• Cloudcuckoolander: She talks to vegetables to make them grow, and has many conspiracy theories. For example, she believes the gem on Kamala's foreheads fires lasers. Amy is definitely the squire's sister.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Amy is normally a bright and cheery girl, but in part she's putting on a brave face and smiling all the time since she thinks it'll make her more like her deceased mother, who died of an illness. Then to make matters even worse, if you play Amelia's route, Kamala eventually reveals that the "medicine" Amelia's mother thought she was taking was actually poison, so her mother didn't actually die of an illness after all; she was murdered.
• Farmer's Daughter
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: Whenever Amy insists that she or someone else has a specific skill set, she ends on "born and raised".
• Not Blood Siblings

Giselle Renouve

Voiced by: Natalie Hoover

• The Atoner: She feels responsible for everyone impacted by Drowser, and her guilt drives her to push herself to her limits to find a cure.
• Closet Geek: Though she's reluctant to admit it (at least to the squire) at first, she loves magic and is a big fan of stories about witches, including a very obvious Sailor Moon Shout-Out. She also loves board games, the more complicated and heavy the better.
• Creepy Good: She has a fascination with magic, including all of the spooky and unsettling parts. And as a nurse, she has a strong stomach for gross and gorey things - much more so than the squire.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was captured by bandits as a child along with the former Knight Surgeon Donis. The bandits tortured Donis into creating the Drowser drug and then made him teach Giselle how to make the drug as well, torturing her into going along with it, so in the present day, the reason Giselle is on a quest to create a cure for the drug is out of guilt at having made the drug in the first place.
• The Determinator: She will find a cure for Drowser addiction, no matter how hard she has to push herself.
• The Gadfly: She has a tendency to screw with the squire sometimes. Due to her quiet, stoic nature, it takes him quite a while to catch on.
• Hospital Hottie: She's a nurse, and multiple characters will wonder whether the squire has a thing for nurses in general if you pursue her.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: She's extremely altruistic and has the shy and sensitive personality to fit this trope, though she's much more blunt than the typical example.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She is very introverted and starts off quite cold to the squire due to his loud, obnoxious behaviour, but when she warms up she proves herself to be very kind.
• The Teetotaler: Giselle doesn't drink anything alcoholic, and thus will never visit the tavern (though in one scene you still get an affection boost if you offer her a drink, even though she refuses). In a later scene, when Donis is offering to take the squire and Giselle out for drinks in the future, Giselle says "Apple cider for me!"
• Terse Talker: She tends to omit any unnecessary words in her speech, dropping pronouns and giving only direct responses to the squire's questions.

Vel Scharfe

Voiced by: Kira Buckland

• Berserk Button: Bordemer, or more specifically dismissing it. Though she dislikes the idea of blaming Alkos for it, Alkosi making light of it will very quickly make her lose her temper.
• Cute Bruiser: Could quite possibly be the strongest character in the game (and explicitly is when armored up) and, after you get past her persona, is sensitive, soft hearted and cute as a button.
• Emotional Bruiser: Vel tries her best, but she cries at the drop of a hat, has a red hot temper, is easily embarrassed, is affectionate to her friends and wears her emotional conflict on her sleeve.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was a resident of a small village named Bordemer, and one day she helped out some shipwrecked merchants by pointing them to her village. They turned out to be pirates that then proceeded to repay her kindness by wiping out Bordemer, and Vel has blamed herself ever since, so she's working towards Matilda the spirit's desire for revenge and imitating Matilda's idea of strength as a way of coping with her guilt.
• Demonic Possession: Matilda normally simply possesses Vel's armor, but increasingly starts to possess her too as the game goes on. This leads to uncharacteristic explosions of anger and violence, and Vel is warned that spirits like Matilda can easily go bad. Though Vel wrestles with whether or not to forcefully exorcise her, Matilda eventually decides on her own to pass on peacefully.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Vel Scharfe, one of your possible love interests, likes to hang out in the tavern, drink ale, and pick fights. Then this is subverted when it turns out Vel secretly has a sensitive personality and actually hates drinking; she only acts like this trope because she thinks it will make her more like Matilda, the spirit who trained Vel in combat.
• It Was with You All Along: Vel is reluctant to take credit for Sir Grand's achievements, and at her most self doubting ascribes all her alter ego's strength to Matilda. Matilda's last words are to dismiss this, stating that she only got Vel started and it was her strength, kindness and good heart that made Sir Grand the hero she was.
• Letting Her Hair Down: Vel gets this in her ending.
• Martial Pacifist: Surprisingly. Vel notes on several occasions that though she enjoys having the strength to protect others, she doesn't enjoy hurting people.
• The Rival: Briefly with the Squire, though it's rather one sided and Vel clearly isn't that into it.

Beatrice Du Cae

Voiced by: Amanda Lee

• Defrosting Ice Queen: Her relationship events are largely this(At least on the route to good ending). Starting off haughty, bossy, and annoyed by squire's presence, but slowly warming up to him, eventually coming to really appreciate his company, as well as listening to his honest opinions.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She comes across as mean and critical, but her heart is always in the right place.
• Insufferable Genius: Tends to think very highly of herself.
• Ojou Ringlets: Beatrice has these. Calling them fake is a bit of a Berserk Button.
• Princess Classic: In-universe she hates this trope. She believes that a proper princess should aspire to be a queen to lead the people, and that singing and talking to animals is not helpful at all.
• Tsundere

Kamala Copperheart

Voiced by: Melody Muze

• Ambiguously Bi: Thoroughly subverted in a possible conversation with Beatrice. She asks the squire whether he heard rumors about Kamala "playing for both teams" and using other euphemisms... with squire loudly blurting out if she wonders about Kamala liking both men and women, only for Kamala to suddenly appear and openly ask "Oh, someone here also likes girls?". Furthermore if Squire gets a good ending following either of the princesses' storylines, but fails to romance the one ending focused on, Kamala will successfully seduce Beatrice and they will end up together.
• A Threesome Is Hot: Kamala has a unique jealousy scene if Squire tries to pursue simultaneously her, and Princess Beatrice. Rather than getting jealous, as the name of the scene implies(And as all other love interests do in those scenes), she commends Squire's taste in women and gifts him a rather smutty looking book about a three-way relationship involving one man, and two women. Afterwards she informs him that she gifted a copy of it to Princess Beatrice as well... unfortunately we can't see the reaction nor discuss the gift with the other princess.
• Dark and Troubled Past: The Princess grew up in a family with sexist views that expects little of women. Her younger brother is a spoiled Royal Brat but will still inherit the throne since he's male, and her father thinks her plans for diplomacy are foolish. This has caused Kamala to develop a hidden temper that isn't displayed if you're not playing her route.
• Rebellious Princess: She's the Princess who grew up in a royal family with sexist views that expects little of women. Her younger brother is a useless brat but he will still inherit the throne since he's male, and her father thinks her plans for diplomacy are foolish. Kamala developed a hidden temper that isn't displayed if you're not playing her route.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: Kamala is a princess who is a legitimately nice person, though she often rubs people the wrong way given how obviously privileged she is because of her royal descent.
• Skinship Grope: Subjects Princess Beatrice to this in one scene the squire might accidentally stumble upon. Kamala has big pervy grin on her face while doing so, and doesn't mind squire looking. Beatrice however doesn't like it in the slightest, and gets rather mad, especially after noticing squire's presence.
• Stupid Good: Though her heart's in the right place Kamala has a very poor sense of self preservation at times, and will often run into danger and attempt to talk down armed and vengeful individuals despite having next to no martial training to defend herself.

Supporting Cast

Boss

Voiced by: Jesse Cox

• Ink-Suit Actor: Jesse Cox provides the voice and appearance for "Boss".
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Played with for Boss, which is really a nickname. His real name is Barry Octavius Salem Sharpe, and he took the first letter of each word to form the cool sounding Boss.

Pamu

Voiced by: Kayla Ross

• The Cameo: She's originally from Crush Crush.
• Scary Librarian
• Yaoi Fangirl: Pamu is one of these as you find out when you meet her. She seems to ship the Squire with Sir Hugh.

Arnold "Pops" Boden

Voiced by: Jason Marnocha

• Dark and Troubled Past: While he appears most of the time as a rather jovial farmer, with slight obsession regarding his muscles, Arnold is actually a spy for the Gegner barbarians. He tried to get out of that life after meeting and starting a family with Amelie's mother, however it ended up with the Gegners sending their sleeper agent to murder his wife by poisoning. He hides the truth from Amelie and Squire by lying that her mother died of an illness, in order to protect them.
• Family Man: He really cares for his daughter Amelie, and his adopted son, Squire. He was also willing to betray the Gegners, barbarians tribes he originates from, for his wife, Amelie's mother. Unfortunately he underestimated the reach, and ruthlessness of their spy network, who killed his wife as an example, forcing him to stay in their service if he wanted to protect his biological daughter, and newly adopted son.