Characters / Starshine Legacy

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Soul Riders

In general

A group of four girls who are fated to guard the Universe from the world destroyer Garnok. They consist of; The Star, The Moon, The Sun, and the Lightning.

• Adaptation Dye-Job: Sans Linda, the girls have recently been given new hair and eye colors in Star Stable Online. Lisa now has auburn hair and brown eyes; Anne has light green eyes and a lighter shade of blonde hair; Alex now has dark gray eyes and brown hair.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each Rider is tied to their hair color. Their symbols also have their distinct colors.
• Duality Motif: The Sun and Lightning Circles seem to have these.
• Magical Girls: Sort of.
• Mysterious Past: Exactly where did this cycle start? Are they descended from the original guardians of Pandoria? Are they the original guardians in human form?
• Only One Name: They are never given full names in the first games. Averted when they are revealed in the Star Stable online game.
• Reincarnation: It is implied that in their first life they were member of an alien race at war with Garnok. They defeated and sealed him but when they transported him something went wrong and they crashed on earth. With no way back they intigrated into this new world and lived out their natural lives, becoming reborn as humans each time.
• Undying Loyalty: To Earth, so much that it remains each time they're reborn.

Lisa Peterson

A young girl who moves to Jorvik after her father gets a new job. After meeting the horse Starshine, she soon learns that she is more than just a teenage girl, she's an incarnation of one of the soul riders. Namely, The Star.

• Damsel in Distress: She's missing at the beginning of SSO and has to be rescued by the player later on.
  • She gets stuck in Pinehill Mansion in episode 2 and begs Linda in a text message to come save her, only for it to turn out she just needed help getting a ladder as she got stuck on a platform.
• Expy: Don't tell me, It really doesn't ring a bell!
• Improbable Hairstyle: While it is relatively easy to style hair to look like Lisa's, when Anne asks her what look she is going for in episode 1, Lisa reveals that she isn't doing anything to it, her hair is just naturally like that.
• The Leader: Unofficially.
• Missing Mom: It's unknown in the games what's happened to her mother. The comic seems to imply that she's dead, and SSO outright confirms that she died in a horse riding accident.
• Past-Life Memories: In the comic she flashes back for a moment to a previous life of hers and Starshine.
• Shrinking Violet: She has her moments. Word of God is that she suffers from social anxiety.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: The very first girl to come in contact with her powers.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She looks like a younger version of her mother.

Linda Chanda

A woman who finds a friend in Lisa and soon bonds with Anne and Alex over time. After realizing she has prophetic daydreams, she is approached by Fripp while searching for answers and finds out she is the current era's incarnation of The Moon.

• Ambiguously Brown: She has brown skin and the only Soul Rider whose background is unknown in the games. The novels and the MMO revealed that she is Punjabi.
• Badass Bookworm: It takes some guts to sneak up to the top of the dam and disarming a bomb - in a kids game at least. Her parents are teachers at the one and only Oxford University, so it's clearly a family trait.
• Deadpan Snarker: Mostly towards Meteor.
• Meaningful Name: "Chanda" is Hindu for "moon". She is the Moon of Pandoria.
• Nice Girl: She is very polite and friendly, even towards new students.
• The Smart Guy

Anne von Blyssen

A snobby girl raised in a rich household who aspires to be a model. After her horse falls ill, she sets out to find supernatural help and comes across Fripp, and finds out her horse's soul has been stolen. But it is possible to retrieve it, as she is the third Soul Rider, The Sun, and can cross through time and a space.

• All Love Is Unrequited: She is crushing on Josh, but he is more interested in Lisa.
• Beware the Silly Ones: She might come across as ditzy and snobby through out the majority of the games, but she is still the only Soul Rider who tries to defeat the villians by actually killing them. She didn't succeed however.
• Birds of a Feather: She can get along with Concorde so well since they have the same personality.
• Chaotic Good: This is the girl who, in a horse game geared to pre-teens, tried to murder people for stealing her horse. And in SSO, once the player and the other Riders rescue her from Pandoria, she is hellbent on avenging Concorde's death.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: While she considers herself (and her horse) better than the others, she can be very nice and would go any far just to keep them safe.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Becomes this in the comic.
• Skewed Priorities: Happens with her in "Sacred Groove" Level. When Alex informs her that Derek got attacked by Mr. Sands's Goons she worries about her "award-winning pictures".
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Alex's Tomboy.

Alex Cloudmill

A tomboy who grew up in a large but poor family. After her beloved younger brother falls under a spell by a soul stealing witch, she ventures out to find the creature Fripp who taught her friends of their powers, and finds she is a soul rider as well, The Lightning.

• Action Girl: The closest thing you'll ever get in a horse game.
• Berserk Button: Whatever you do, you must never harm James. Even before, she got her Soul Strike powers, which is pretty much instant kill attack with no return, she is a tough girl who managed to beat up Buck who - putting his cowardness aside - is a pretty scary and strong boy.
• The Big Gal: She is the only one with the power to take life.
• Disappeared Dad: Word of God is that her dad ran out on the family.
• Informed Poverty: Despite coming from poor family, she still could afford Tin-Can.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When we meet her in the first game, she started to accuse Lisa of being a "feel sorry for me because I'm such a cute girl". But when we manage to catch her, she turns out to be a nice character and helps Lisa break Linda's locker up.
• The Lancer: To Lisa. While they both somewhat tomboyish, Lisa is a bit timid and insecure while Alex is confident and sharp-tongued. Their powers are also opposite. Lisa has the ability to heal. Alex is able to take away the life. It's also lampshaded by Fripp.
  Fripp:...One has the power to give life... and the last one has the power to take It.
• Meaningful Name: Alex means the "defender of mankind" and she can use her Soul Strike to protect the heroes along with... well... the humans....
• Not So Above It All: She thinks most girls are softies obsessed with silly stuff, but it turns out she has a crush on Justin Moorland, just like most girls in Jorvik.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Anne's Girly Girl.
• Red Is Heroic: Her normal clothes have some red colour, but it is more appearant with her riding outfit which has red helmet and vest.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Alex is a tomboyish Action Girl with life-stealing powers, while James is weaker and timid ordinary boy.
• Shock and Awe: Subverted. When she attacks a Lightning appears over her head, but instead of numbing her opponent with thunder she takes the target's life, instead.

Soul Steeds

In general

The stallions that the Riders own. They have been by their masters' sides in every incarnation cycle.

• Flight: If the pictures of the Soul Riders are anything to go by, all the steeds can fly even though only one of them have wings.
• Undying Loyalty: To their Riders, to the point of sacrificing themselfs.

Starshine

• Amazing Technicolor Population: While his coat is white in the official artwork, it's more grayish in the games.
• Distressed Dude: Must be saved from Mr. Sands in the first game.
• You Don't Look Like You: Starshine in offical art and in Star Stable Online has long blue mane and blue eyes. In the Starshine Legacy game however he has short mane and bright green eyes.

Meteor

• Adapted Out: He was supposed to appear in the first game like he appeared in the comic story and also got into accident. His datafiles exist in the game and Lisa would have healed him as well.
• Big Eater: All he can talk about is eating.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments.
• Expy: He may remind some Zelda fans of Epona from the 64 era with his brown coat and spiky, white mane.

Concorde

• Distressed Dude: He gets captured by Jessica and is taken to Pandoria.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Concorde appears at the second level of the first game. Anne just briefly mentions that Concorde is her horse and best stallion around.
• Informed Species: He is the only Soul Steed who is a real-life horse breed, being Swedish Warmblood. But he doesn't resemble one; his overall body structure is more closer to an Arabian horse.
• Killed Off for Real: It's all but implied in SSO that the Dark Riders managed to kill him, allowing them to kidnap Anne and trap her in Pandoria. Thankfully he's reincarnated as a filly, but his death has a significant impact on Anne.

Tin-Can

• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Tin-Can is the smallest Soul Steed, but he is as fast and strong like the others.
• Unicorns Are Sacred: Subverted: He's loyal to Alex and his true form may be that of a unicorn, but he is still the steed of the warrior.

Allies

Herman

• Cool Old Guy: He remains calm even when Lisa and Linda are gallop through the gates explaining that the Dam is going to explode.
• Nice Guy
• Horrible Judge of Character: He fails to notice that all of the three Alpha Bitches are evil, despite the way they speak, look and act.

Fripp

• Badass Adorable: He is a cute little squirrel looking alien and the leader of an anthropomorph horse clan.
• Cute Critters Act Childlike: Inverted and Justified. Being the leader of the anthropomorph horse clan, It's natural that he is more mature, than he looks.
• Good Is Not Nice: He'll fight against evil with all his might, but SSO reveals him to be stern, stubborn, and strict.
• Insistent Terminology: He keeps telling that he isn't a squirrel, but the friend of the Soul Riders.
• Mentor Mascot: He explains the Soul Riders their destiny, and helps them understand their powers.
• Team Pet

Josh

Josh

• All Love Is Unrequited: Anne is in love with him while he is trying to get Lisa's attention.

Derek

• Ambiguously Brown
• Occult Detective
• Second Love: Becomes this to Anne after she comes to terms with the fact that Josh is into Lisa and not her. Subverted as of SSO; they aren't in a relationship, but they are close friends.

James

• Distressed Dude: He gets captured by Katja and Buck as a ransom for Tin-Can.
• Improbable Age: This kid has somehow managed to become Fort Pinta's Minister of Tourism by the time the player meets him SSO.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Alex is a tomboyish Action Girl with life-stealing powers, while James is weaker and timid ordinary boy.

Antagonists

Garnok

• Big Bad: Of the game. Unfortunately, you won't battle against him!
• Eldritch Abomination: From the stones in Pandoria (and of course from Fripp) we learn that he tried to destroy the world but he was stopped but where is he come from and why is he trying to destroy the world is unknown.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: In a spaceship to be more precise.
• The Unfought: Justified. You play as four girls, only one of the capable of damaging moves and one healing. It wouldn't be as challenging as destroying the Seals. Same would've gone if Alex OHKOs him.

Mr. Sands

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• Back from the Dead: After being kicked to the Swirling Portal along with Jessica, he manages to come back.
• Bald of Evil: In the official artwork he was shown to have some hair, but in the game he looks bald.
• The Dragon: To Garnok
• Really 700 Years Old: According to an old picture what Linda found, Mr. Sands is more than 100 years old.
• Obviously Evil: He is a creepy old man without a single positive and trustworthy trait.
• Lean and Mean: He is a quite skinny man and he is evil.

Goons

• Angrish: Whenever they start to chase you, they let out an angry growl.
• The Brutes: Out of all the villains, they are seem to do all the dirty work.
• Evil Laugh: They do that when they catch you in the first game.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy: It's best seen in the "Strange Camera" level. If you walk with Concorde behind the Goon on the car road he fails to notice that there is a big animal walks behind him, but as soon as he turns around you better gallop away as soon as possible.
• Would Hit a Girl: They did attack on Linda in the fourth game, offscreen but still.

Buck

• Black Eyes of Evil
• The Bully: His hobby is walking around the school, looking for younger and weaker kids to beat up.
• Jerk Jock
• Dirty Coward: He would gladly hit the weaker James. Alex? She is a different question.
• The Brute: Shares this role with the Goons.
• Fat Bastard: He is fat and mean.

The Dark Riders

In general

The antithesis to the Soul Riders that serve Garnok.

• Evil Counter Part: To the Soul Riders.
• Horsemen of the Apocalypse: They got this theme going on, Malumi being the red, Jessica being the black, and Katja being either white or pale. A man named Justin tried to become the fourth, but failed.

Sabine The Cloak Rider

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• Alpha Bitch: At least Anne has some redeeming traits.
• Karma Houdini: She is the only character in the game who doesn’t gets any kind of punishment, just disappears after the second game.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: While It's never proved in canon, you don't really need to take a tour to the Data Folder to find out who chases you throughout the forest.
• Perpetual Frowner: Like her horse Khaan. She always looks angry, compared to Jessica and Katja.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her riding and her Cloak Rider outfit are red and black.
• The Rival: To both Lisa and Linda.
• Too Dumb to Live: As the Cloak Rider, there is a glitch. In the edge of the bridge before the Sacred Groove, if you wait a long enough she stops walking around. When this happens, she not just doesn't move an inch, but she doesn't uses her "death rings" not even if you're very close to her, meaning if you charge at her you can pretty much knock her down from the bridge.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She completely disappears after the end of the second game, and it's unknown what happened with her afterwards.
  • Subverted in Star Stable Online, she came back.

Jessica

• Alpha Bitch: Mocks Anne's looks and is clinging on Derek.
• Dark Is Evil: She has black hair, wears black clothes and she is evil.
• Informed Attractiveness: Is said to be even more beautiful than Anne.
• The Rival: To Anne.

Katja

• Alpha Bitch: Even more than Jessica and Sabine; she openly mocks and belittles Alex and is constantly bragging how great rider she is despite not even playing fairly.
• Ax-Crazy: In Linda’s vision she doesn’t looks very sane.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: Double-subverted. Despite she cheated on her first Cross Country against Alex she still got what she wanted, but after Alex won the second race, she disappears and never to be seen again.
• Creepy Blue Eyes: Icy ones.
• Expy: She looks a little bit like the younger version of Icy from Winx Club.
• Evil Genius: Unlike Sabine and Jessica who prefers act instead of thinking, she came up with a well-thought plan on how to get Tin-Can and she managed to hold a child in hostage much longer than they did.
• Loophole Abuse: In the Devil’s Gap level when Alex asks for James and she mentions the rules of Pandoria, Katja promises to give him back if he beats Buck. However after Alex wins, she mentions that she only asked James. She still owned his soul.
• Near-Villain Victory: If Alex wouldn’t get the Pandorian Code she would’ve won.
• The Rival: To Alex.
• Villain Ball: Despite being very smart, after being beaten by Alex she throughly explains their plan before disappearing. Great job Katja!
• White Hair, Black Heart: Full white hair and outfit, but inside she is dark and evil.

Khaan/Stalker

• Dark Is Evil: They both have black coat and mane.
• Perpetual Frowner: Sharing the same model, they both are frowning constantly.
  • Averted in Star Stable Online.