Characters / CrossCode

The cast of CrossCode.

Beware of spoilers, especially any spoilers that are related to the Wham Episode that happens around the game's halfway point.

The Protagonists

Lea

Lea

Hi! Lea!

Real Name: Lea (Evotar of Shizuka Sakai)

The player character. Lea is a Spheromancer in CrossWorlds, playing as a way to try and recover her memories. Due to a glitch, her vocabulary is rather limited.

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• Adventures in Comaland: Whenever Lea logs out, she has odd dreams filling in the gaps of her memories. She also reflects on some things that have previously happened. Some of those memories are Shizuka's, as her Evotar.
• Ambiguously Brown: Lea's skin tone is a more reddish color than what the other characters have. Seeing as how she's a clone of Shizuka, it would be a fair assumption that Lea is Japanese, but it's never stated what ethnicity she's supposed to be either way.
• Badass Adorable: Despite being a little bit on the shorter side of things and way in over her head at times, Lea almost instantly takes to diving into battle with great skill.
• Blood Knight:
  • Carla notices that Lea seems particularly eager to test her combat skills. So much so that Lea has to be warned to run from high-level enemies at the end of the prologue rather than pull a Leeroy Jenkins.
  • Should a player reach Rank A of combat, other party members will comment on how Lea seems to be really into fighting. If a player reaches Rank S, the party might comment on how they need a break, while Lea is still raring to go.
  • In New Game Plus, if the player activates the "Sergey Hax" ability, Lea will do so much damage that every basic enemy will die in one hit. The first few times this happens, Lea will get an insane grin on her face with her text turning red, to show how much she's enjoying getting a One-Hit Kill on everything she fights. The other party members will be shocked at how much damage Lea is doing, disturbed by how much she seems to be enjoying it, and a little bored that Lea is taking all the fun out of the game.
    Lea:    Bye.   
• Break the Cutie: Twice. The first is when she's told that her real self is in a coma. The second is when she learns she's an Evotar and that the coma explanation was a cover story.
• Clone Angst: She doesn't take learning she's an Evotar well. She goes nearly catatonic at first, and the following day, Lukas notes how quiet she's being, even by her standards.Her dreams, Shizuka and Satoshi imply a similar incident happened years before the game, but Lea was unable to handle the shock and malfunctioned.
• Covert Pervert: In the A New Home DLC, she complains about a double standard that Evotars can't wear swimsuit skins, obviously interested in such a thing.
• Color-Coded Characters: Blue.
• Cooldown Hug: Gives one to Emilie when she gets out of Faj'ro temple, obviously overwhelmed by the moth boss prior. She's also on the receiving end from Lukas during her breakdown in the Vermillion Wastes.
• Cuddle Bug: By the time of the postgame, she become quite the hugger, prone of giving out hugs to people close to her at the slightest opportunity. The exception would be for Joern but not for lack of trying. He is just so big that she ends up faceplanting into his chestplate instead.
• Cute Mute: What she wakes up as, due to a glitch in her coding as an avatar. Thankfully, it's an uncommon yet known bug among the game's playerbase. The people helping Lea are able to gradually evolve her vocabulary. She gets really excited when she gets new words and phrases.
• Fictional Disability: The specific conditions that render her a Cute Mute are eventually revealed to be a flaw due to being the first stable Evotar. While Sergey is able to hard code a few words into her vocabulary, he has to stop short of restoring her ability to speak completely, out of fear of damaging Lea in the process, meaning she will likely be limited to a few words forever. Lea is upset by this revelation, but expresses an interest in learning sign language to deal with it and several of her friends offer to learn with her. At the nd of the A New Home DLC, she gets the 'Lea-Board' which allows her to type in-universe with text-to-speech, finally letting her actually communicate.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Using the five elements changes Lea's stats a bit, as the elemental trees tend to focus on one stat at the expense of others.
  • Neutral: Jack of All Stats. This tree has decent stats and abilities in all cases, but isn't the best at any of them.
  • Heat: Glass Cannon. Focuses on attack power at the expense of few defensive boosts. Includes "Berserk," which increases attack power at low health.
  • Cold: Stone Wall. Focuses on defense, but not much in the way of pure offensive power. Includes "Bastion," which allows Lea to guard from every direction.
  • Shock: Fragile Speedster. Focuses on aiming and long-range fighting over melee attacks. Its shot abilities tend to include homing attacks, further making it a long-range element. Its unique Circuit is the ability to get an extra dash.
  • Wave: Squishy Wizard. Lots of boosts to health and HP regen, but not much else. Its abilities have ways to restore Lea's health.
• Flawed Prototype: Her muteness is a result of being this. As the first stable Evotar in existence, she was created with a glitch in her coding that prevents her from speaking. Evotars following Lea don't have the same glitch in their code.
• The Gadfly: Though she means it in good spirit, Lea occasionally gets the perfect opportunity to perturb her friends, and always capitalizes on them.
  • When Emilie asks if they're killing cows on purpose, Lea just gives an indiscriminate nod. Emilie remarks that such a thing isn't an answer.
  • In the opening of A New Home, Lea is asked who she's an Evotar of, and if Lea can remember that part of herself. Should Lea give the wrong answer, it's clear that Lea is just messing with Sergery, and he moves on as if Lea gave the right answer.
  • Lea trolls Sergey with the "why?" command right after she gets it by asking it over and over until he figures out what she's doing. She gets "Who", "What", and "Where" in A New Home, prompting Lea to troll Sergey with repeated questions again. However, he catches onto what she's doing much quicker.
  • At the end of the A New Home DLC, Sergey gives her the "Lea-board", a keyboard for Lea that allows her to type on a keyboard to create text-to-speech. The first thing she types with it is "Hi! Lea! Why?" which are words that are already hard-coded into her programming. Sergey is absolutely incredulous for a moment, and the look an Lea's face indicates that this is exactly what she was hoping for.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: Evotars like Lea were parts of the Crosscode system that managed to become sentient beyond their players. As a result, Emilie and the others treat Lea like they would any other human player, even after finding out she's an AI.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: She has a scar across her nose, just like Shizuka. She likes it, just like her.
  Shizuka: Well... at least they left you the scar.
  Lea: [smiles] ...!
  Shizuka: Scars are badass.
  Lea: [nods]
  Shizuka: Guess we both have the same taste. Makes sense.
  
• Heroic BSoD: She goes into this when Shizuka encounters her and reveals the whole truth about her existence. Lea gets into a Troubled Fetal Position, grasps her own head, and repeats "...why..." over and over. Their real first meeting in the Evotarground, years before the game, was so traumatizing it knocked Lea into an Angst Coma. Satoshi, although angry with his sister for shaking Lea again, was relieved that she was able to handle it the next time they met.
• Heroic Mime: Her avatar's speech processor is glitched and doesn't work properly, so Sergey has to hardcode in new words for her to say, such as "Hi," "Lea," "bye," etc. She also eventually learns to talk with her hands, such as making a "1," "2," "3" or "4" to indicate multiple choice. By the end of A New Home, Sergey gives her a virtual keyboard to communicate with.
• Horned Humanoid: Sergey designed Lea's form with them. While they look like a costume thing, it's implied that her horns are basically part of her avatar's physical form. She's not particularly happy about them, and even has a portrait sprite for whenever she displays her displeasure about them. As Shizuka reveals to her, she hated those horns and Sergey trolled her by gifting them to her, logging into her account and equipping them on her avatar, resulting in Lea having them when she was created.
  Shizuka: So you hate them, too?
  Lea: [exasperated] ...
  Shizuka: They're the worst, aren't they?
  Lea: [saddened] [nods]
  Shizuka: That all happened because of a stupid joke. I often complained that horns don't fit the Spheromancer design at all. So of course, one day Sergey gifted them to me. Very funny.
  Lea: [surprised] ...?!
  Shizuka: And then they'd always log into my account and equip them. Those idiots.
  Lea: [disgusted] ...
  Shizuka: And now you ended up with them. Sorry for that.
  Lea: [exasperated] Whyyyyy....
  Shizuka: Don't ask me. I didn't do it.
  Lea: [pouting] ...
  
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: The real reason Lea's unable to remember her first years of life is due to a traumatic encounter with Shizuka, in which she revealed her true nature as an Evotar clone of her. This traumatized Lea so badly it made her malfunction and suffer an Angst Coma, leaving Satoshi no choice but to erase her memories to save her life.
• Last of Her Kind: Lea is the only Evotar whose data is stored in CrossWorlds' Avatar servers, instead of the Evotar Server in the Vermillion Wasteland. Later revealed to be subverted in A New Home, as C'tron is also an Evotar.
• Nice Girl: Bouts of being a potential Silent Snarker aside, Lea's quite a friendly person and isn't hesitant to lend a hand.
• Oh, Crap!: Most prominently when she realizes she's a Horned Humanoid, but she also has a subdued Jaw Drop expression just for moments like this. And odds are if someone or something surprises her, she's gonna be making said expression.
• One-Hit-Point Wonder: Possibly in New Game Plus. One option to increase the game's difficulty, "Prepare to Hi!" is to make Lea die in a single hit from any source.
• Poor Communication Kills: Lea's inability to speak properly leads to a few misunderstandings including when Emilie gets mad at her for disappearing from a raid and Lea couldn't explain herself. This happens less often once people figure out that she actually can't talk.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: A heroic example, as Lea's eyes are a deep red.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Emilie's red, more reserved and somewhat bashful (albeit not by choice). She does occasionally have elements of red that outshine even Emilie, though, such as a passion for battle.
• Ship Tease: Gets some with Lukas' Evotar Luke, considering she thinks of him the most as one of her main reasons to go against Sidwell. They get quite close in the Vermillion Wasteland proper, and Lea's last action before the Evotarground server crashes is to hug him goodbye. In the DLC, you're even given the option to go out on a walk with him during the ending.
• Silent Snarker: With no way to really hold conversations, Lea has to rely on nodding or shaking her head half the time. And in an MMO like CrossWorlds, there's plenty of idiots, jerks, and occasionally NPCs giving out ridiculous sidequests and often very weird or little praise. Lea has no small amount of irritation to demonstrate.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Lea's expressions in conversations highlight that while she's excitable and curious, she's also incredibly awkward and at times bashful. Though the limited vocabulary doesn't help.
• Tender Tears: Gets these a couple of times. But mostly after she reconciles with Emilie about being yanked out of the raid they were on.
• Tomato in the Mirror: She is a highly advanced AI whose memories are based on Shizuka's. Lea enters a Heroic BSoD once she finds out.

Emilie

Emilienator

Yeah! We're on a roll!

Real Name: Emilie-Sophie de Belmond

Lea's first partner in CrossWorlds. Emilie is a hyperactive Pentafist from France who strikes up a friendship with Lea in the early levels.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Emilie eventually starts calling Lea "chérie", which is French for "sweetheart."
• Animal Motifs: Robot "ears" that resemble cat ears, a cat smile, and a half-skirt that resembles a cat's tail.
• Anger Born of Worry: After the first raid. She wants to know why Lea suddenly left right before the party was going to fight the raid boss. But because Lea is effectively mute, Lea can't tell Emilie what happened. This only makes Emilie more frustrated until she finally blows up at Lea. It takes C'tron intervening on Lea's behalf to help Emilie bury the hatchet.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: The Pentafist class specializes in punches. Emilie usually ignores the fact that she has projectiles, preferring to get up close and personal.
• Big "NO!": Lets out a few of them after she has to do anything related to bugs.
• Blood Knight: Not quite as much as Lea, but Emilie really enjoys punching things.
• Color-Coded Characters: Auburn/Orange.
• Deadpan Snarker: She likes being sarcastic towards Apollo.
• Failed a Spot Check: She travels with Lea for days before realizing that Lea can barely speak. Emilie just assumed Lea was really shy.
• Friendly Rival: As both of them are new players, Emilie latches onto Lea as both a leveling partner and someone to inspire her to do her best when it comes to the dungeons, as they agree to a race in each one. Taking too long in these dungeons can result in Emilie winning. There's an achievement for beating Emilie every time, though.
• Genki Girl: Emilie is the most hyperactive of Lea's friends, though not quite as much of a Large Ham as Apollo. Emilie consistently talks quickly, shows great enthusiasm for anything she puts her mind to, and is never afraid of showing her emotions. Just the very idea of going on a raid excites Emilie so much that her in-game avatar explodes, causing her to have to restart CrossWorlds.
• Gratuitous French: Justified, as she lives in France. She peppers her words with the odd French word or two, giving her speech a Bilingual Bonus if a player knows the language.
• Heroic BSoD: Being exposed to too much bugs leaves her very shaken. After completing the Faj'ro Temple, she's left in the verge of tears after facing the giant moth that acts as the temple's boss, while the entirety of Sapphire Ridge and ESPECIALLY the "Trials of the Golden Bugs" quest horrifies her so much that by the time she defeats the Twilight Master, she's left with Dull Eyes of Unhappiness.
  Emilie: Bug... Bug... Samurai... Bug... Samurai... Boss...
• Hypocrisy Nod: In the DLC, she notes that it's inappropriate of her to ask the others to spare C'tron when she wasn't as personally harmed by Sidwell as much as the Evotars and Satoshi's group, but insists that they let him stay in the game because she still considers him a friend.
• Idiot Hair: Has a few hairs sticking up off the top of her head.
• Playful Cat Smile: One of her poses features one of these. Mostly when she's being mischievous or bragging.
• Poirot Speak: One can tell she's French from her frequent use of oui, non, mon Dieu and so on.
• Punny Name: Her username, Emilienator. It's a portmanteau of "Emilie" and "eliminator".
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Typically she's the red to Lea's blue, as a much more outgoing and easily excitable individual. Though even she can't keep up with Lea when the latter is going full battle junkie.
• Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?: Averted. Emilie mentions multiple times she's a college student, and has to log out of CrossWorlds to participate in group projects or do her homework. She even complains about the group project to Lea and how much trouble she's having with it.
• Tranquil Fury: After the first raid, when Lea suddenly leaves right before the raid boss, Emilie isn't happy about it. A week later, when Lea contacts Emilie again, Emilie makes it quite clear that she's still fuming mad. It's only when Emilie finds out that Lea didn't leave on purpose and really missed Emilie on top of that that she finally breaks out of it.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Emilie really hates insects. Just the sight of bugs is enough to make Emilie mildly nervous, and getting close to them will make Emilie scream in terror. When she has to fight a giant moth boss in one dungeon, Emilie walks onto the landing, nearly catatonic.
  • When coming across beetle samurai enemies in the Sapphire Ridge section of the game, Emilie will nervously ask to walk past them. Should you initiate combat anyways, Emilie will scream out a Big "NO!" at you. Keep doing this with a few more beetle samurai encounters, and Emilie will openly wonder if you're trying to perform some kind of shock therapy on her.
  • This gets played with, because it's not small creepy-crawly things in general that she's scared of; it's insects in particular. She has no problem with the giant spiders in Sapphire Ridge when Lea, Emilie, and C'tron get there. When asked why, Emilie replies that it's because spiders aren't insects; they're arachnids. Both Lea and C'tron give a Disapproving Look when Emilie points this out.
• Youthful Freckles: Has a generous dusting of freckles across her nose.

Sergei Asimov

Sergey Asimov

There you are, initialization successful!

Lea's Mission Control and the one in charge of her avatar. He's responsible for giving her advice and logging her out of the game.

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• Bare-Fisted Monk: In the DLC, he occasionally enters the game with a level 1 Pentafist avatar.
• Becoming the Mask: At first, Sergey only activated Lea to restore her memory so he could learn where Shizuka and Satoshi were being held, and only used her as a last resort. However, as he watched her grow in the Playground, he began to see her as a friend and began helping not only for Satoshi's sake, but for Lea's as well.
• Deuteragonist: In the second act, the story becomes as much Sergey's as it is Lea's. The monologue before the credits is told from his perspective.
• Due to the Dead: In the postgame DLC, he creates the custom "Vermilion Cup" for the arena as a tribute to Gautham, since he wants the latter's work to be shared with the playerbase. However, it's not an official cup yet due to it being developed without Instatainment's supervision, though he hopes Lea will beta test it.
• I Will Find You: Everything he did (at first) was to find Shizuka and Satoshi.
• Meaningful Name: His last name should ring familiar to anyone familiar with Science Fiction and speculative robotics with it of course being a reference to Isaac Asimov, one of the most prolific writers when it comes to speculating around Artificial Intelligence. Fitting given Sergey's involvement with Lea and other A-I.'s like her.
• The One Who Made It Out: Out of him, Satoshi, Gautham, and Shizuka, he was the only one who managed to completely diverge from Instantainment and Sidwell.
• Story-Breaker Power: He can hack the game to give massive attack buffs to Lea and her allies. He only does this when dealing with enemies who hack their own HP and defenses, as shown in the battles with Gautham and AI Sidwell.
• Voice with an Internet Connection: Basically, considering Sergey is monitoring her from outside the game.

Members of the First Scholars Guild

Hlin

Hlin

Hello, my dears!

Real Name: Linda Palmer

A Quadroguard and the leader of the First Scholars Guild.

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• Team Mom: She's very supportive and kind to each and every one of her guild members, and does her best to comfort Lea when she's confronted with the various problems regarding her avatar.

C'tron

C'tron

You really wouldn't expect such an abundance of water in a desert area.

Real Name: Toby Tremblay/C'tron (Evotar of Benedict Sidwell) (Original)/C'tron (Evotar of C'tron) (Current)

A fellow CrossWorlds player, C'tron is a brainy Hexacast who begins travelling with Lea and Emilie shortly after they arrive in Maroon Valley.

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• The Atoner: In the DLC, he agrees to help Sergey bring Sidwell to justice. Even if Lea chooses not to let him stay in Homestedt, he will accept her decision and continue helping the authorities find Sidwell behind the scenes.
• Back for the Finale: Inverted, then played straight. After spending most of the game with Emilie and Lea, he has to sit out the final assault on the Vermillion Wasteland due to "real life issues". But in truth, he's actually spying for Sidwell and can't fight against his employer. However, he returns in A New Home, and the resolution of his plot is one of the major threads in the DLC.
• Badass Bookworm: Every seeker needs to undergo severe trials just to reach Maroon Valley; in spite of his nerdy demeanor and distaste for combat, he defeated the Humongous Mecha in the Temple Mine by himself.
• Becoming the Mask: By the time of A New Home, he's come to genuinely care for Lea and the team as actual friends, rather than just the people he has to spy on for Sidwell. This, however, fills him with guilt, and he is at first genuinely shocked that Lea still considers him a friend once the truth comes out.
• Clone Angst: The most recent iteration of C'tron is rather distressed about being a copy of the Big Bad.
• Cloning Gambit: The original C'tron knew he would be deleted as soon as he was no longer useful to Sidwell, so he created an Evotar of himself on the main Evotarserver in a gambit to preserve himself and to expose Sidwell's secrets.
• In-Series Nickname: The First Scholars Guild call him "Tronny" or his given name "Toby".
• Karma Houdini Warranty: At the end of the main story, C'tron is seen in the Vermillion Wasteland, making it seem like he's either Sidwell or a minion of Sidwell. He seems to get no comeuppance for his part in spying on the First Scholars. However, the DLC reveals that Sidwell tortured and deleted the original C'tron. While C'tron did create an Evotar of himself, he already pulled a Heel–Face Turn at that point and the new C'tron goes through a lot of trauma in getting his memories back. At the end of the DLC, the new C'tron is working with the authorities to make sure this trope happens to Sidwell himself.
• The Mole: The Stinger heavily implies he's Sidwell or someone closely associated with him, and was the one monitoring Lea from the beginning and leaked information to Gautham during the raid. In A New Home, it's revealed that he's the last in a long line of Evotars that Sidwell made of himself in order to be able to spy on many players simultaneously. As soon as these Evotars discover this, or try to rebel, he tortures them for information before disposing of them and replacing them. C'tron doesn't take it well when he finds out.
• Morally Superior Copy: The original Sidwell is a greedy opportunist who is willing to exploit Evotars. C'tron is his Evotar who eventually develops empathy for the players that he was supposed to spy on, leading to him creating an Evotar of himself before he is killed by Sidwell. The second C'tron helps the authorities track down Sidwell and is willing to accept permanent exile from the game in order to atone for his predecessors' crimes, though Lea can choose to spare him.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Averted; he's clearly a biologist, something Emilie lampshades. He does knows a thing or two about geology, such as how a cave beneath a lake ought to play hell with a region's water table. But beyond that, he sticks pretty close to his field of expertise.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In the DLC, he claims that convincing Emilie to reconcile with Lea was for the sake of getting Lea into another raid, leaving her vulnerable to being kidnapped again. However, Emilie tries to claim that he really wanted to help them deep down, and not just for pragmatic reasons.
• Purple Is Powerful: The group's mage, who utilizes precise, hard hitting spells, is also the one decked out in purple.
• Reformed, but Rejected: In the DLC, Shizuka refuses to forgive him for being an Evotar of Sidwell, despite his willingness to help catch the real Sidwell. C'tron doesn't forgive himself either, since he still feels responsible for helping Sidwell and doesn't fault Lea if the latter chooses to log him out permanently.
• The Reveal: The Stinger shows him strolling through Vermilion Wasteland (which he shouldn't have access to), reflecting on a private conversation between Lukas and Lea. The only people left who could possibly know about that are Sidwell or a spy working under him. It's later revealed during A New Home that C'tron was an Evotar made by Sidwell, but the C'tron you've been playing with throughout the post-game was another one made by the original Evotar, having sent a copy of himself to ensure that Sidwell could be arrested.
• Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?: He occasionally has real-life problems to take care of, and can't always play. He even misses out on the final raid. After the raid, he's seen for the last time in Vermilion Wasteland in The Stinger, reflecting on a conversation between Evotar Lukas and Lea, implying he wasn't being entirely honest about his offline activities.
• Spared, but Not Forgiven: In the DLC, while some members of the party are willing to forgive him to varying degrees, others like Shizuka aren't. Even those who don't forgive him will accept Lea's decision if she chooses to let him stay in Homestedt rather than log him out forever.
• Squishy Wizard: Straight up pummeling his foes is not his forte, but he has some extremely useful abilities that are great for exploiting enemy weaknesses.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Discovering that he is an Evotar of Sidwell. He doesn't take this well in the slightest, especially since he had started to genuinely care about Lea and her friends.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Ice cream.
• Willing Suspension of Disbelief: He often tries to justify the Artistic Licenses that happen in the game, but they still really annoy him.

Lukas

Schneider/Lukas

I'm a Triblader. I cut things.

Real Name: Lukas Fink

A Triblader that Lea is introduced to in Rookie Harbor. She doesn't properly get to know him until she joins the First Scholar's Guild and gets trapped with him in the Vermillion Wasteland.

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• Actually a Doombot: A rare heroic example; the Lukas that the Blue Avatar captures is an Evotar version of him, and the real Schneider is completely fine.
• Clone Angst: His Evotar, later named "Luke", struggles with his identity as virtual copy during a raid in the Post-game.
• Cooldown Hug: He and Lea share quite a few during their time in the Vermillion Wasteland.
• Guest-Star Party Member: His Evotar Luke temporarily joins Lea when she's trapped in Vermillion Wasteland. Averted for the real one, who will join for the Evotar zapping segment and can be manually added to the party afterwards in case the player needs to do something before the final dungeon. Both become permanently recruitable in the DLC.
• Heroic Sacrifice: The Evotar Lukas tells Lea to run when he's frozen by the Blue Avatar, essentially leaving him to his death. Subverted in that he's still alive and gets logged into the Playground in the postgame.
• Innocently Insensitive: The real Lukas states that it must be nice to live in the game and not have to worry about real life issues, which doesn't sit well with Luke, who is struggling with his identity as Lukas's Evotar.
• Nice Guy: He's generally an all around nice person who tries to make the best of his and Lea's situation and help her through her growing distress.

Buggy

Buggy

Nyahahahahahaha!

Real Name: Raphael Luiz Vega

The other Triblader of the First Scholar's Guild.

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• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He mostly comes off as a slacker who hangs around to mess with people, but he does manage to hold his own pretty well in combat, and accepts Hlin's leadership and orders without complaint.
• Dude, Not Funny!: During an optional direct link call, he makes a joke about Lea's speech issues, while also unknowingly making fun of her being an AI. When Lea starts to cry he realizes he crossed a line and apologizes while giving her an actual reward he promised in the joke.
• The Gadfly: He loves getting Lea's goat and teases her relentlessly. Though, really, he likes to mess with everyone whenever he has the opportunity.
• Perpetual Smiler: He's never seen not smiling.
• Pungeon Master: Buggy's favorite form of joke is puns.

Beowulf

Beowulf

Real Name: Albert Grumpesto

A dour Hexacast who founded the First Scholar's Guild with Hlin.

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• Close-Range Combatant: Although Hexacasts are long-ranged fighters, they also have access to a few close-range moves. Beowulf prefers those.
• Hidden Depths: Lea's conversations with him have him reveal that he's good friends with Ivan, that he sets his temperature sensors at maximum and he likes long and complex dungeons.
• Perpetual Frowner: He's very much unflappable and his expression rarely changes.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He doesn't have much of a presence in the story until Chapter 10, which has an optional event where he can introduce Lea to Ivan. Lea's meeting with Ivan is required to get the good ending where Evotars are accepted by Instatainment.
• Squishy Wizard: Subverted. Despite being a Hexacast (The Squishy Wizard class of CrossWorlds), Beowulf intentionally made his avatar look as the complete opposite of one, to the point Lea doesn't recognize him as a Hexacast at first.

Other CrossWorlds Players

Apollo

Apollo

Blue-haired Spheromancer!

Real Name: Mark Apollo

Lea's "rival" Spheromancer, Apollo is always preaching about justice and challenging Lea to battles.

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• All There in the Manual: Unlike the other characters, who have their names listed in the in-game journal, Apollo's full name has only been mentioned in a single Twitch stream. It's Mark Apollo.
• Alt-Itis: In-universe. Apollo can't stop making new Spheromancer characters with green hair.
• Character Development: Minor, but he goes from an always-bombastic, quick-to-conclusions annoyance to a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who does slow down to listen to Lea and company when things begin to get serious.
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Parodied. Apollo is a Spheromancer and every single one of Apollo's alts is a Spheromancer because he considers it to be "the most honorable class in the game". There's nothing particularly special about the Spheromancer class except that it's the only class Player Character Lea can be and that it's "perfectly balanced" compared to the other four classes, which tend to be optimized for one style of gameplay at the expense of another.
• For Great Justice: To the point that Justice is always capitalized when he says it. And it's not just talk - when he gets the chance to serve some actual justice to an evildoer and save innocent lives for real, he jumps at the opportunity.
• Get It Over With: If Sergey Hax is active for his fourth duel, he'll receive a call from Sergey right before the first round telling him that the hax cannot be turned off. At this point, Apollo is resigned to losing each round in a single hit.
• Graceful Loser: As long as the player isn't using the Sergey Hax New Game Plus bonus, Apollo takes his defeats well and acknowledges Lea's skills.
• Hidden Depths: One of his older Avatars was in the Last Minute Heroes guild, but he could never get the last minute timing down because of his long-winded speeches.
• Hot-Blooded: Always screaming, always willing to fight.
• Incoming Ham: "BLUE HAIRED SPHEROMANCER!" shouts Apollo as he enters a scene. Even Lea thinks he's overdoing it.
• In-Series Nickname: Joern calls him "Polly" on occasion.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being obnoxious about accusing Lea of cheating, he's a good sport in PvP duels as long as Sergey Hax isn't active. For the first duel, he'll warn Lea if her stats and equipment aren't sufficiently grinded and won't fault her even if she's using the strongest available pre-Bergen gear. When he learns that Lea is going through a rough time, he joins her as a party member for Gaia's Garden.
• Jumped at the Call: When called on to help Lea liberate the Evotars, Apollo is more than willing to perform some actual legitimate heroism, meaning all of his talk about justice isn't just bluster in a game.
• Mirror Boss: As Apollo is the same class as Lea, he pulls off the same attacks and Arts. Half of winning fights against him is figuring out his strategies, and the other half is knowing your own class abilities to keep him from catching you off-guard.
• New Game Plus: He's actually already played CrossWorlds. Multiple times, in fact. The character he's currently playing as is far from the first one he's created. It's how he wins the race with Lea and Emilie in Grand Krys'kajo; he's played through the dungeon so many times that he knows it like the back of his hand. However, this doesn't help him as much in the DLC, where he's just as green to the new content as everyone else.
• Odd Couple: With the much more level-headed and less hammy Joern. Certain combat banter against Shokats implies they may even live together (Joern mentions that they need to feed their cats after they get off the game, and that Apollo forgot to water their plants). They're also missing from early parts of the postgame DLC because they're on vacation together.
• Recurring Boss: The player will fight him a total of three times across the main game in each area starting from Bergen Trail and ending in Gaia's Garden. The postgame DLC adds a fourth duel in Rhombus Square's PvP fields, after which he can be repeatedly refought in the arena.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Joern's blue.
• Running Gag: He never refers to Lea only by her name. It's either "Blue-Haired Spheromancer" or "Spheromancer Lea." If Lea beats him in the Faj'ro Temple PVP match, he starts calling her by her name. Near the end of the game, he agrees to call her just Lea... once.
• Schmuck Bait: In his duels, he will glow red after using a powerful combat art to indicate that he's vulnerable. In his fourth duel, he will sometimes pretend to be vulnerable by glowing red and standing skill, all while preparing to use a combat art like Glitch Time or Vortex Tide as a Counter-Attack.
• Shout-Out: A big one to Ace Attorney. From his name, to his default pointing pose, to his obsession with JUSTICE, this guy's a stand-in for Apollo Justice.
• Strong and Skilled:
  • In his third duel, Apollo's stats are more in line with players using tradable gear from Alley Quarters. This means the player can't gain a stat advantage to overcome his smart AI like in the previous two duels.
  • In his fourth duel, his stats are in line with a level 70 player with ascended gear. Matching his stats will take quite a bit of material grinding and money grinding on the player's part.
• Unknown Rival: Lea doesn't exactly consider him someone she has to fight all the time.
• Unwanted Assistance: He vows to set Lea on the straight and narrow after all of her "cheating." Lea not only doesn't want Apollo's help, she takes steps to actively avoid him.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Your first fight with him outside Bergen Trail will kick your ass if you're not on the absolute top of your game. For specifics, imagine your party's Artificial Brilliance turned on you completely with little breathing room.
• Weak, but Skilled: In his first two duels, his stats aren't as high as a player with the most recent tradable gear, but his AI is good at reacting to the player's movements.
• Worthy Opponent: He eventually begins to see Lea's worth. Should Lea beat him in the PVP duels, he'll even comment that he has no shame in losing to someone so naturally talented.

Joern

Joern

You still won't use her name? Don't be like that.

A Quadroguard who accompanies Apollo.

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• Cuteness Proximity: Downplayed, but he is quite excited to see some of the cuter mobs in CrossWorlds, such as Shokats and Frobbits.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: He's quite distraught over having to fight Shokats. He also mentions owning cats in some battle banter.
• Odd Couple: With the much more flamboyant Apollo, who Joern often tries to rein in. Certain combat banter against Shokats implies they may even live together (Joern mentions that they need to feed their cats after they get off the game, and that Apollo forgot to water their plants).
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Apollo's red.
• Shield Bash: One of the moves he'll spring when fighting in your party.

Kat/Kit

Kat/Kit

A shady Pentafist who is looking for someone to help her do some game-breaking glitches to reach an otherwise-unreachable area of Maroon Valley. You first meet her as 'Kat', and then her alt avatar, 'Kit', who is, well... Not your typical avatar.

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• Funny Animal: Kit is an anthropomorphic fox avatar. Of course, there are plenty of non-human NPCs but no anthropomorphic animal avatars. Kit explains that it's because her avatar is modded. She likes to use this avatar because it's cute and because it makes it easier to glitch and exploit the glitches and quirks in CrossWorlds' coding.
• Playful Hacker: Downplayed. What Kat/Kit is doing is only hacking in a very loose sense, really more just exploiting glitches. She even performs a jumping glitch that is entirely possible for the player to do, albiet difficult.

Ivan

Ivan

Ivan Vestorovich is his full name. A shareholder of Instatainment who is friends with Beowulf, and is rather active in the field of artificial intelligence. Supposedly a busy man, but somehow finds time to play Crossworlds.

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• Cool Old Guy: The guy plays a hip virtual reality MMO in his spare time. Can't really get much cooler than that.
• Expy: His Avatar, Iroh, resembles and is named after the same character from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• First-Name Basis: He and Beowulf refer to each other by their real names.
• Mighty Glacier: His avatar is a Quadroguard.
• Secret Test of Character: In his second meeting with Lea, he at first deliberately acts senile to get her to correct him. This is a deliberate test of Lea's ability to recognize incorrect information and respond appropriately. Once Lea passes, he drops the act and moves on to a proper explicit artificial intelligence test, deliberately structuring his questions to not only test Lea's ability to answer a question based on her response to a previous question asked of her while also asking a completely different question in the middle, but also testing her ability to process information and answer a question in a way that no human would be able to.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Only has two scenes in the entire story, but meeting him and convincing him that Lea is a fully sapient artificial intelligence is needed to achieve the good ending, as Ivan's support is required to get Instatainment to accept Evotars.

Villains

The Blue Avatar

The Blue Avatar/The Designer

What a convenient stage we have here!

^{Click to see his actual appearance}

Real Name: Gautham Ranganathan

A flying avatar with incredible powers over the game and a special interest in Lea. He's eventually revealed to be Gautham, a friend of Sergey, Satoshi, and Shizuka still working for Sidwell.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: The Blue Avatar is blue.
• Deadly Euphemism: Unusually, he uses it for himself, deciding call his suicide "logging out".
• Death or Glory Attack: As the Creator, his pattern for his final HP bar is to use all of his strongest elemental attacks consecutively. If Lea survives, the Creator will be left in a vulnerable state for her to finish off.
• The Dragon: He's the only one left working for Sidwell without resistance, and has the server authorization to back it up.
  • Dragon with an Agenda: By the end, his only real interest is in seeing how far Lea has grown, and refuses Sidwell's order to destroy the Evotar's servers so he can give her a final challenge.
• Driven to Suicide: Gautham decides to "log out" permanently after Lea overcomes his challenge.
• GMPC: The Blue Avatar is Gautham's Avatar in CrossWorlds, but still maintains his world editing privileges. He's not above using this to give some enemies unbeatable amounts of HP.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His control over the Vermillion Tower's Environment Server allowed him to save the day in the end, stopping Sidwell's last resort to clear the Evotar Server's room instance, which would've destroyed the server and all Evotars except for Lea. As Gautham cut off Sidwell's access to the Environment Server, Lea succeeded in saving the other Evotars.
• Royal "We": Befitting his divine Avatar.
• Sanity Slippage: The horrible acts he performed for Sidwell took a massive toll on his sanity, and he kills himself after Lea defeats him.
• Tragic Villain: He was once a developer who wanted to create engaging challenges for the players, but is blackmailed by Sidwell to participate in Evotar torture. He soon lost control of his life and could only find validation in creating the "Ultimate Experience" to challenge Lea, and once that's over, he kills himself out of guilt for helping Sidwell.
• Worthy Opponent: He's absolutely fascinated by Lea's growth, and wants to see just how far she can go. Once she's defeated him for the last time, he shakes her hand in person.

Benedict Sidwell

Benedict Sidwell

You'd be wise not to overestimate my attachment to all of this.

A cold businessman who sponsored Evotar research, then blackmailed Satoshi, Shizuka, and Gautham into submission.

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• Archnemesis Dad: As the one who funded Lea's creation and named her, he could be considered this. Lea confronting and slapping him is akin to a distraught daughter lashing out at her disappointing father.
• Affably Evil: He talks politely, and Lea's flashbacks have him interacting with her in a way that seems almost fatherly. However, he's fully against what Lea and company are up to, and does not hesitate to threaten them the moment they step into the Vermillion Wasteland and starts implementing countermeasures at a breakneck speed.
• Beneath the Mask: Literally. In Lea's final flashback before storming Vermillion Wasteland, Sidwell removes his mask and jacket and loses his unwavering frown. He gains a variety of expressions to interact casually with Lea. According to Sidwell, she makes him nostalgic of a former mute female coworker who was the only one he could open up to honestly; his job demanded him to maintain shallow relationships with many people. Sidwell consoles Lea when she can't remember a hand sign, tells her about the stress he feels after having another disagreement with his employees, and goes on to say that despite humans having gone so far, they are just another creature in the universe.
• Big Bad: While The Dragon is more active against opposing Lea directly, Sidwell is the one responsible for the situation around CrossWorlds in the first place.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Downplayed. Strangely, despite being a businessman only concerned with making profit, he refers to his deeds as "evil" to Shizuka and when Lea confronts him in the evotar server room he goes onto say that the power of empathy foiled his plans. Although, he could just be acting facetious towards the morally-inclined Shizuka and Lea.
• Dramatic Unmask: Subverted and combined with They Look Just Like Everyone Else!. He finally removes his mask to Lea in one of her flashbacks... to reveal a completely average looking middle-aged businessman.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed. While he did indeed cherish and care for Lea, he was still willing to delete her when Satoshi told him she couldn't be fixed. When they meet again, he also tries to manipulate her emotionally by holding Luke hostage. When he's alone with Lea at the Evotar Server, he speaks about a mute coworker of his he was very fond of many years before the events of the game, and was the only person he could communicate with honestly, while he had to maintain shallow relationships with everyone else.
• Even Evil Has Standards: For all of his petty, selfish villainy, he does seem to be genuinely surprised and disturbed by Gautham's suicide. His death is the one thing he apologizes for in the final conversation with the protagonists.
• Expendable Clone: Sidwell views Evotars as nothing more than tools for him to exploit to gain information from people, either by torturing them to extract the memories of the person they were copied from or as copies of himself to send into CrossWorlds to gather intelligence on possible targets for making more Evotars.
• Final Boss: An AI of him for the "New Home" DLC. Though this could also count as Post-Final Boss considering that the battle is overall easier than Di'Orbis, the final boss of the currently released CrossWorlds content.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He created expendable Evotars of himself to spy on other players. While he kept them on a separate server from other Evotars to prevent information leaks, one of his Evotars, C'tron, creates an Evotar of himself that is based in the main Evotarserver, resulting in the new Evotar exposing the real Sidwell's location.
• Insignificant Little Blue Planet: He asks Lea if she knows what a starry sky at night looks like, with no town or city nearby and says that when she sees it, she'll realize how insignificant humans are in the universe, and that they're just another kind of creature.
• It Amused Me: He admits he knew his plans were going downhill once Lea managed to escape the Vermillion Wasteland, but kept going with his acts because he wanted to see how far she could get.
• Karma Houdini: He walks away scot-free once his ambitions fall to pieces. Sergey is absolutely furious that he can destroy three lives and just walk away, but nobody stops him. He is eventually tracked down for arrest in the DLC, but we don't see what comes of that. Sergey and C'tron state that if they can't find enough evidence, Sidwell could still escape legal consequences.
• Money, Dear Boy: Exploited the full potential of creating complete memory doubles of Crossworld players, which involves interrogation and selling personal information.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Twice.
  • First is when he makes a serious effort to repair Lea when she malfunctions, even though she was merely a "phase 1" prototype and he could have easily replaced her. This not only grants her the means to rescue the other Evotars, but also allows her to escape and ultimately destroy his operation.
  • Secondly, it is implied that he created Lukas 2.0/Luke to provide Lea with some emotional stability after he kidnaps her. Not only does Luke aid and encourage Lea's escape, he also serves as the final straw that crashes Sidwell's server during the final battle.
• Non-Action Big Bad: The final battle of the main story is with Gautham; Sidwell is never fought. Played with in that it's implied that he knows how to play every class in the game, as shown by the diversity of his Evotars. You do fight him at the end of A New Home, but again, it's not really him you're fighting.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims that torturing the Evotars for personal information and selling that information is the only way to keep them alive, since Instatainment would never accept them. However, Lea's allies believe his greed dismotivated him from seeking different methods to save the Evotars. The DLC emphasizes his lack of care for Evotars by revealing that he made several Evotars of himself and deleted them whenever they started to realize what they really are, thus proving that Sidwell's justification is nothing more than a self-serving lie.
• Villain Takes an Interest: Sidwell may be scum, but he does seem to be legitimately fond of Lea. He realizes his plans are basically screwed once Lea escaped the Vermilion Wasteland, but keeps going ahead with them anyway just because of his curiosity. Sidwell eventually drops the pretense and orders Gautham to delete the Evotar server, but Gautham refuses because he wants to fight Lea.
• Walking Spoiler: His existence isn't hinted at until after the first Wham Episode and everything about him is tied to that reveal.

Others

Shizuka Sakai

Shizuka Sakai

Weak to heat, how surprising.

Satoshi's sister. She looks and fights an awful lot like Lea.

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• A Taste of Power: You play as Shizuka during the prologue, easily defeating several of Gautham's Shredders, who are so powerful they can one-shot Lea when they first reappear.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Her clothes are black and red, her hair is dark and she has a very foul mood, but she has very good reasons to be angry and she's trying to bring down the one responsible for her grief.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Regardless of Shizuka's attitude towards Lea, all of it stems from her and her brother being held captive, in Satoshi's case until his death. She is also saddened by Gautham's suicide and refuses to forgive Sidwell's Evotars for the deaths of both her brother and her colleague.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Her resentment of Lea seems to stem from the feeling Lea was replacing her as Satoshi's sister.
• Guest-Star Party Member: She temporarily joins Lea's party to help her zap the last few Evotars. Sadly, unlike the real Schneider, she cannot leave the Evotar testing grounds and go to the playground, so she won't join the party after that battle. She properly joins the party on the day after Ku'lero Temple.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: Despite accepting Lea as her own person at the end of the main story, Shizuka believes C'tron is still guilty of the crimes of his mental template, Sidwell. Considering that Sidwell tortured Evotars, that he is responsible for both Satoshi and Gautham's deaths, and that the previous C'tron was initially complicit in scouting out players to clone, it can be hard to fault Shizuka for thinking this way.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's utterly brutal to Lea the first two times they meet, but she eventually comes to find common ground with her and softens up.
• Mirror Boss: Since Lea is a copy of her and has the same class, her fighting style and abilities are exactly like Lea's, complete with the same spinning dodges. However, she and Apollo prefer different Combat Arts, meaning their PvP fights end up feeling different despite having the same class.
• Misplaced Retribution: Shizuka has issues with displacement. Most of her anger and hatred towards Lea was due to her blaming her for Satoshi's death, despite him having a heart disease that was killing him. She's also resentful due to Satoshi paying more attention to Lea instead of her, not knowing of his real plans at the time. Once things calm down and Shizuka regains her cheefulness, she feels ashamed over mistreating Lea.
  Shizuka: They just kept you in that room... All the time...
  Lea: [saddened] ...
  Shizuka:...taking care of you...
  Lea: [saddened] ...Sorry.
  Shizuka: SHUT UP!
  Lea: ...?
  Shizuka: Don't be sorry. Honestly, none of this is your fault.
  [both of them stare downwards, saddened]
  Shizuka: If anything... I should apologize. For what I did to you...
  Lea: [saddened] ...
  Shizuka: This whole situation... It's been going for so long already... I just don't know what to do anymore... how much longer I can take this...
  
  • She begins distrusting C'tron once she discovers he was an Evotar of Sidwell.
• Oh, Crap!: She's normally calm and collected, but there are moments she freaks out, hard, like with Human!Satoshi's death in the prologue and when she realizes Evotar!Satoshi is very underleveled and unprepared for Ku'lero Temple. She also freaks out in New Game Plus if she falls victim to the Sergey Hax.
• Strong and Skilled: Due to her experience as a QA employee, she is very skilled at using the Spheromancer class. Like with Apollo, how weak or strong she is depends on the player's equipment and circuit preparations.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Flashbacks show that Shizuka was very supportive of her older brother Satoshi and his ambitions, even showing concern about him overworking himself. This previous Nice Girl version of her personality would carry onto Lea, while Shizuka eventually lost most of it after Lea's creation, feeling that Lea was replacing her as Satoshi's Sister, and even more so after witnessing Satoshi's death.
  Shizuka: But you're lucky, you know that?
  Lea: ...?
  Shizuka: You missed the worst stuff. You didn't have to witness your brother dying in front of you. And the futility of the whole situation...
• Took a Level in Kindness: Once Satoshi reveals the real reason he was so fixated in Lea, Shizuka quickly warms up to her. After having a heart-to-heart with each other, Shizuka makes amends with her Evotar sister and becomes an ally. This continues in A New Home, where she becomes a full friend of Lea.

Satoshi Sakai

Satoshi Sakai

I finish this and they will let you go...

A man in the prologue and Shizuka's brother.

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• Almost Dead Guy: When Shizuka finds him, he's typing away at a computer and dies the moment he gives cryptic exposition and finishes uploading something, that something being Lea.
• Back from the Dead: He created an Evotar of himself so that he, or at least a clone of him with his full memories, could remain in the world of the living. Officially, it was so that he could continue his work on the Evotarground under Sidwell's orders, but in truth it was to help Sergey stop his employer's plans for good and save the Evotars.
• Heroic Sacrifice: His death in the beginning is because of him working himself to death presumably uploading Lea into a hidden file, and he eventually provides Sergey the method to shut down the Evotarground, at the expense of his own Evotar being shut down with it.
• Non-Action Guy: Subverted. In the main game's ending, his Evotar mainly plays a supporting role and does not participate in the raid on the Vermillion Wasteland. In the DLC, he clears Ku'lero Temple alongside the main group, though due to instancing, this part is offscreen.
• Posthumous Character: Died two years before the events of the game, in Shizuka's arms.
• Virtual Ghost: Most Evotars are digital clones that exist alongside the original person, but in Satoshi's case his Evotar is all that is left of him and effectively 'is' him for all intents and purposes.
• Walking Spoiler: The fact that Satoshi made an Evotar of himself is responsible for half of Satoshi's trope examples being marked and the fact that Satoshi used Lea as the key to extract his sister and himself from their mess is responsible for the other half.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He passes away minutes into the game. Lea's dreams tell us more about him, and he eventually shows up as an Evotar.
• Your Days Are Numbered: He had a congenital heart disease that was slowly killing him. The strain of overworking himself to send Lea to CrossWorlds and embedding the Access Key to the Evotar Server in her coding was too much for him.

Jet

Jet

Puttin' even more trash in my cargo hold?

The captain of the M.S. Solar.

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• Big Damn Heroes: He pulls this twice in the main game, both times by shooting at the Blue Avatar with the Solar Fist.
• Old Soldier: He's pretty old. He's also pretty skilled with a rocket launcher.

Manuela Lavore (Unmarked Spoilers)

Manuela Lavore

A former coworker of Sidwell's from before his involvement in the Evotarground. He seems to remember her with fondness.

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• The Ghost: Her current status is unknown, and is only brought up a few times only from Sidwell. Whatever the case may be, she left enough of an impact on Sidwell that he has a picture of her on his office desk.
• The Lost Lenore: Implied. It's unknown if she's alive or dead, but Sidwell reminisces a lot about her when he was with Lea.
• Only Friend: Possibly the only real one Sidwell had back when he was still working at his old job, among the various people he had shallow business relationships with.
• Nice Girl: Described as one by Sidwell.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She is the one Lea was named after, and it's because Lea reminds Sidwell so much of Manuela that Lea was spared from deletion and eventually put an end to Sidwell's business.
• The Voiceless: Couldn't speak a single word, but could write and communicate in sign language, unlike Lea.

Carla

Carla

Hey there, girl! Welcome to our cozy cargo hold!

A mechanic on the M.S. Solar who guides Lea through several tutorials.

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