Gino Knab

Voiced by: Yuko Sanpei (Japanese), Tyler Shamy (English)

Appears in: Totori, Meruru (playable)

^{Click to see Gino in Meruru}

Totori's Childhood Friend who wishes to become the world's greatest adventurer and starts on his journey with her. After meeting Sterk, Gino starts pestering him to make him his student so he can train and get stronger. Sterk eventually relents, quickly leading to Gino learning the hard way that the road to becoming stronger isn't as easy as it sounds.

Gino returns in Meruru as an adventurer still trying to polish his skills, now hoping to beat Sterk and surpass him.

• Break the Haughty: He starts off obsessed with being "the greatest" to the point Totori is concerned about potentially getting him upset if she surpasses him in anything, but he gets his first major check when Sterk subjects him to a Curb-Stomp Battle and later again when Totori defeats him in combat. He manages to bounce back in both cases, but by the time of Meruru he seems to have a healthier relationship with his own ambitions.
• Cherry Tapping: His fledgling attempt at Death of a Thousand Cuts in Totori still only does Scratch Damage for most of its hits and would likely take ages for it to start doing anything significant... until he trips over and falls, with the final strike of his sword accidentally doing ludicrous amounts of damage that can go into the four-digit count.
• Childhood Friends: With Totori, to the point that he's the main reason Totori's able to start on getting her adventurer's license since he's able to do it with her at the same time. His preoccupation with protecting her also comes from the fact he knows full well how timid she can be (or, more accurately, used to be).
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He gets a slice of humble pie fed to him when Sterk delivers this to him on one of his training sessions, making him desperate to come up with a "super move" he can use to defeat Sterk.
• Death of a Thousand Cuts: According to Sterk, Gino's biggest mistake is that he's trying to defeat everything with brute strength when he doesn't have the physique for it, so Sterk suggests he try and go for "smaller, faster slashes" using his own natural agility. Totori passes this information on to Gino, who uses it to create his Limit Break.
• Innocently Insensitive: Much like Totori, he has a tendency to be blunt and rude with people without really meaning badly. In Gino's case, it's less because of Brutal Honesty and more that he's a bit too enthusiastic to call people somewhat rude things without thinking too hard about the consequences.
• Lady and Knight: He starts developing the same complex Sterk has over "being weaker than the person you're supposed to protect" when Totori beats him in one-on-one combat, which isn't helped by the fact Gino also has a strong belief in the idea that "men are supposed to protect women". His complex is only rectified after Gino does some more training and Sterk and Rorona engineer a situation that lets him still feel a little useful when he protects Totori from a monster (in actuality, Totori probably would have been able to defeat it herself if she hadn't been caught off guard, but she lets him keep thinking he was her savior).
• Non-Standard Skill Learning: In Totori, unlike the other characters who get them up via leveling, Gino obtains his through his character events.
• Older and Wiser: As an adult in Meruru, he's much more level-headed and less impulsive, something that's especially noticeable compared to Sterk's Flanderization making Gino come off the Only Sane Man in comparison.
• Platonic Life-Partners: In Meruru, he becomes Mimi's adventuring partner. The two have a good professional relationship in a way that could be called Vitriolic Best Buds, but they don't seem to have anything beyond that.
• Put on a Bus: Not only does he not appear in Lulua, he's also not even mentioned; even Jeltje (a character there specifically to update the player about characters who were Put on a Bus) doesn't say anything about him or what he's up to. Presumably, he's still training somewhere out there, but one would wonder why he's not challenging Sterk for the Knight Supreme title like Aurel is.
• Ship Tease: He has a little with Totori in Totori, with his endgame motivation being to protect her with a Lady and Knight dynamic. It fades out in the following games as Totori becomes more associated with Mimi instead.
• Surpassed the Teacher: He doesn't quite surpass Sterk, but he at least manages to match him in Meruru to the point Sterk acknowledges him as an equal. Whether he would still be able to match up to him in Lulua is unclear.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Despite being "thrown" as a result of tripping and dropping it during his final super move, it works quite well and can easily dish out 4-digit damage.

Melvia Siebel (Mel)

Voiced by: Ryōko Shintani (Japanese), Carrie Keranen (English)

Appears in: Totori (playable)

A childhood friend of Totori's sister Ceci and a seasoned adventurer who helps show Totori the ropes. Having known Totori's family for a long time, she has a very close relationship with them.

• Action Girl: She's an adventurer, and fighting has been her life for so long that she doesn't really have a grasp of what it's like to be weak anymore.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: As the physically strongest party member, Mel wields a gigantic battle axe about as big as she is.
• Childhood Friends: With Ceci and Peter.
• Cool Big Sis: To Totori and Gino, to the point they even call her "big sister" in Japanese. Since she's been an adventurer for a while, she serves as an early-game mentor for them so they can understand how the job works.
• Crutch Character: At the beginning of the game, she has the most HP of the available party members and takes very little damage from the enemies surrounding Alanya, allowing Totori and Gino to get by with her help. While she never becomes a particularly bad party member, she ends up being easily surpassed by Mimi and Sterk later in the game.
• The Ghost: In Meruru, she's mentioned as having formed a duo with Gisela (and being a bit overwhelmed by how destructive Gisela can be), and while it's not clear whether this is still the case in Lulua, Jeltje at least seems to have gotten her autograph at some point.
• Ms. Fanservice: Along with Pamela, she's the only one gleefully showing herself off during the swimsuit contest.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: She doesn't look all that muscular, but she can life a dinosaur with ease.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Her Limit Break has her throw aside her axe in favor of beating up the target with her bare hands.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She has this dynamic with Ceci, to the point where her character event chain involves her having a Lady and Knight dynamic with her.

Marc McBrine

Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (Japanese), Christopher Corey Smith (English)

Appears in: Totori (playable)

A friendly but eccentric inventor and scientist whom Totori encounters on her travels. Calling himself "The Exceedingly Exceptional Genius Super Scientist Professor McBrine", Marc likes tinkering with Lost Technology and coming up with things For Science!

• Alchemy Is Magic: From his "scientific" perspective, alchemy is like magic to him, getting him to initially declare Totori as his rival and "sworn enemy". Totori has to clarify that alchemy is just as much of a disciplined study with particular rules (or at least, it is in this world), getting him to see her as a kindred spirit instead.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He really is good at engineering, he's great in combat, and he's friendly and easy to get along with. It's just that constantly bringing up giant robots, dramatically acting like a Mad Scientist, and raiding dumpsters to find parts to tinker with makes him come off as rather eccentric.
• The Engineer: For all he calls himself a "scientist", he's really more like this in practice. If you take him to see Peter's carriage, he'll inspect it and perform some modifications to make it go faster, and he'll later do the same with Guid's boat. It is a very good idea to have him do so, because it'll make some of the most time-consuming trip distances in the game much less painful.
• For Science!: His main motivation for just about everything.
• Friend to All Children: He likes children and wants to entertain them with his robots. Unfortunately, a lot of them consider him to be a weirdo, something he's quite dismayed by.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He's able to inspect vehicles and make modifications to optimize them, and his modifications to Peter's carriage and Guid's ship become very helpful in making them faster and more efficient. The latter case is notable because it's made clear that interfering with Guid's shipbuilding can be a very bad idea, but Marc's modifications seem to be nothing but a flat upgrade.
• The Ghost: He's never seen again after Totori, but a conversation in Meruru states that he's since become a science advisor for Arland, and Jeltje mentions having gotten his autograph in Lulua.
• Humongous Mecha: His dream is to make one, which he finally achieves in his ending.
• Mad Scientist: His inventions aren't actually dangerous, but his Cloudcuckoolander demeanor makes him come off this way.
• Mystery Meat: At one point, he makes a solar-powered cat and pranks Totori by suggesting he'd skinned an actual cat to make one. He's joking, but he takes the opportunity to wonder why it's socially acceptable to skin and eat other animals, but not cats.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Being a scientist who lives by theory and logic, he likes to phrase things in complicated or obtuse ways, or just use fancy words in general.

Cecilia Helmold (Ceci)

Voiced by: Asami Imai (Japanese), Cristina Valenzuela (English)

Appears in: Totori (DLC)

• Combination Attack: If Totori uses an attack item, Ceci can join in to double its effectiveness.
• Childhood Friends: With Melvia and Peter
• Crutch Character: Averted. Since she can't actually be recruited until near the end of the game, she starts of at Level 50 when first unlocked. Once she is, she can be recruited at any time on any other file, where she starts back at Level 1.
• Cuteness Proximity: She becomes this when she sees Chim and Piana to the point Totori starts getting jealous.
• Head-Turning Beauty: One of the reasons Gerhard hires her is because guys come to the store just to be around her.
• Improbable Weapon User: In her DLC, she uses a feather duster as her weapon.
• Never Gets Drunk: She singlehandedly drinks almost all the beer Gerhard had in his tavern, and, other than having a flushed face, still acts the same and still wants more. Gerhard is not amused, since it was supposed to be his treat.
• Promotion to Parent: Even though their father is still alive, Ceci is pretty much like a mother to Totori, not helped by the fact that their father is unmotivated to do pretty much anything.
• Promoted to Playable: She's playable as DLC, but can't actually be recruited until Melvia's ending flag is triggered on any file.

Guid Helmold

Voiced by: Kenji Hamada (Japanese), Kyle Hebert (English)

Appears in: Totori

• Good Parents: At worst, he's a little out of it and lacking in presence because he's still coping with the loss of his wife, but he otherwise takes care to pay attention to his daughters and try to do what's best for them.
• He's Back!: After Totori declares that his ship will never sink, which sparks his memories of Gisela's firm declaration of the same thing, his gaze becomes sharper and he becomes much more expressive. When he gets to actually pilot the ship in Mel's ending, he's like a little kid.
• Older Than He Looks: Looks quite young for a father of two teenage girls.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Somehow disappears right after talking to Totori at the end of the first day.

Gisela Helmold

Voiced by: Yukari Hishizu (Japanese), Michelle Ruff (English)

Appears in: Totori

• Action Mom: She fought back a devil that an entire nation worked to get sealed. Twice.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: She managed to fight both the Flauschtraut and Evil Face to "a draw", the former leaving her boatless and stranded, the second on her deathbed. In the first case, she was only defeated in the first place because her ship sank; if not for that, she very likely would have won.
• Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie: She requested that she be buried at sea, so nobody at Frontier Village ever learned that she actually managed to survive because they had no idea Astrid actually found her and saved her.
• Comically Missing the Point: When she returns in the True Ending, she figures that there's no need for her to knock on the door because it's her own house, so she shouldn't need to knock... which means that the members of her family in "her own house" are abruptly greeted with a supposedly dead family member just walking right in without warning.
• Destructive Savior: This is the reason she's a Hero with Bad Publicity, as well as the reason the adventurer system even exists because it's the only way they can keep tabs on her and clean up her messes more efficiently. In Lulua, she's the one responsible for destroying Niko's ship.
• Determinator: She certainly can be called one when she singlehandedly took on two of the game's major bosses, was still on her feet after starving and drifting for two weeks, and recovered from near-death in eight years when she was told it would take fifty.
• Disney Death: Totori finds her grave at Frontier Village and learns that she'd apparently died from her injuries after fighting Evil Face, but the true ending reveals that she survived thanks to Astrid's help.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: No one has any doubt that she's one of the best adventurers of her time, but she's also rather brash, insults others, and causes problems everywhere she goes.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Half the reason she's such a Destructive Savior is that she just goes right into doing whatever she feels up to doing, regardless of the consequences.
• Lost at Sea: This is the main reason everyone assumes she's dead; she never made it back, and pieces of her ship washed ashore at Alanya.
• Missing Mom: While she was still a relatively busy mom as an adventurer, she still at least came home to visit often and would be a Doting Parent to her daughters. Her vanishing completely without a trace thus means something must have happened to her.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She was completely right about the idea that any ship her husband makes will never sink. The problem was that she'd tried to help out with one part, and while Guid had managed to get her to stop before she did too much, the part she'd "helped" with ended up becoming an Achilles' Heel that sunk the ship.
• Single-Target Sexuality: "My eyes see no man but my husband."

Filly Dee

Voiced by: Rika Ogaki (Japanese), Michelle Ruff (English)

Appears in: Totori, Meruru

^{Click to see Filly in Meruru}

The younger sister of Esty. She was forced to take a job of a receptionist at the Adventurer's Guild after Esty quit, so she's the one in charge of giving out quests to Totori whenever Totori is in Arland. She's incredibly shy and is constantly intimidated by everyone around her, but she also loves... fantasizing.

She returns in Meruru as a receptionist in Arls.

• Ambiguously Bi: If she wins the swimsuit contest, she starts yelling about wanting to Totori "take responsibility", but in Meruru, she mentions that she hopes to be swept off her feet by a handsome prince someday.
• Dub Name Change: Her name was originally "Filly Erhard", but with Esty's surname changed to "Dee", Filly's followed as well.
• Hikikomori: Rorona Plus reveals that she'd been a shut-in during the time of the first game.
• The Matchmaker: She's a Yaoi Fangirl and a Yuri Fan, and by that we mean she likes fantasizing about people right in front of her. In Meruru, she learns about Meruru, Keina, and Lias being Childhood Friends and goes right to imagining a Love Triangle between all of them.
• Quest Giver: She replaces Esty in this role in Totori and Meruru.
• Shrinking Violet: She's very easily flustered, which proves a problem given her job as a receptionist. She improves a little in Meruru, but she still struggles with particularly imposing people around her.

Peter Rietz

Voiced by: Hidehiro Kikuchi (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)

Appears in: Totori, Meruru

The carriage driver in Alanya, Peter really hates his job... and loves ogling women. As such, he's very enthusiastic about doing things that can get the ladies to show more skin.

In Meruru, Peter appears with his carriage, bringing characters between Arland and Arls offscreen. Every time he shows up, he seems to be investigating the area in order to make some kind of plan...

• Business Trip Adultery: In Meruru, he uses his trips to Arls to try and arrange for a hot springs to be created so he can ogle naked girls... but at the end of the game, he reveals that he's married with a wife, meaning the reason he was trying to do it in Arls specifically was to hide his lechery from her. Meruru is a little disturbed.
• Cannot Spit It Out: He has a one-sided crush on Ceci in Totori but doesn't manage to get around to confessing. By the time of Meruru, he's married to someone else, and since the director confirmed that it wasn't to Ceci, it seems he's moved on (or at least as much as one could say about someone who's engaging in Business Trip Adultery).
• Childhood Friends: With Ceci and Melvia.
• Covert Pervert: "Covert" only in the sense that he takes care not to openly talk about wanting to ogle or touch girls, and he doesn't make a move on Ceci despite having feelings for her. It's just that he's also clearly very enthusiastic to engineer situations where he can be as much of a lech as he wants, such as getting Totori to gather "eight beautiful women" so he can have them in a swimsuit contest and spending the entirety of Meruru getting worked up over his secret plan to make a hot spring in the hopes of getting to be with naked girls.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Gino calls him a pansy, since his mom does it. Even Totori starts calling him this when his Lazy Bum tendencies go overboard.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In Meruru, all of his pushing for the development of a hot springs facility results in him being made to do all of the hard grunt work of washing and tending to all of the men in the bath while the girls are in another room. Considering that (Japanese-style) hot springs are typically gender-separated, he really should have seen this coming.

Gerhard

Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki (Japanese), Kirk Thornton (English)

Appears in: Totori

• Actor Allusion: A pair of side events revolves around Totori telling Hagel that he’s very similar to Gerhard. Hagel insists on meeting him. The two finally do meet and are struck by how similar they sound... which is only natural because they both have the same voice actor (in both Japanese and English).
• Quest Giver: He's the equivalent of Esty/Filly for Alanya, giving Totori requests so she can make money.
• Mythology Gag: His name is a reference to a character from Lilie, who was implied to be a younger version of the weapon shop owner who corresponds to Hagel... which is significant here mainly because Gerhard shares his voice actor.
• Regional Speciality: This is his idea to revitalize business in his tavern. He gets Totori to hunt down "the Guardian" and make liquor out of it, and although it does indeed become a smash hit, he runs out quickly enough for the tavern to be deserted again, and Totori refuses to make more after the hell she was subjected to in order to do all that.

Voiced by: Miho Shiokawa (Japanese)

Appears in: Totori

The elder of Frontier Village and Piana's grandmother, Pilca is the one who tells Totori about everything that happened with Gisela leading up to her apparent death.

• Face Death with Dignity: She's already resigned to the idea of becoming an Evil Face sacrifice, so she just wants the kids to live long lives. Fortunately, Gisela and Totori's interference gives her a much better outlook.
• Wasteland Elder: She's the leader of a village all the way out in a remote Eastern Continent village that mainly houses people waiting to become human sacrifices for Evil Face. Since the village is made up of women who were abandoned as infants at the base of the tower, even she doesn't have any blood family to speak of either.