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Team ACE-2049-11

MC: Tristan Spade

The protagonist. An exchange student from the United States who applies to ACE Academy after the death of his parents. An aspiring Mech Airplane pilot, he discovers a mysterious upgrade inside his mech that could be the undercover to what happened to his parents.

The Ace: Was considered 1 of the top pilots dorsum at his quondam school, NYCU, and can rising through the ranks forth with his squad as the best team ACE University has to offer.
Adaptational Dye-Job: In the original game, "Kendo Beat out!", Tristan really had black hair. However, since his younger sister remained blonde, it'south possible that he dyed it blackness in that game.
Adaptational Prissy Guy: In Kendo Beat!, Tristan soon earns the status of the school delinquent after picking a fight with the school's biggest corking. In ACE Academy, he's presented as more than outgoing and easygoing.
Appreciating Nickname:
- "Broseph" by Shou.
- "Senpai" albeit briefly by Ken.
- "Meatball" by his father.
Amazon Attorney: He lists Kaori'due south ability to kick his donkey every bit one of her attractive qualities in her sequel. Presumably averted if he dates one of the other girls.
Annoying Younger Sibling: Inverted. He tin can really be more than annoying than Nikki, often playfully teasing her and being slightly more kittenish.
Badass Normal: Not merely does he kick ass with his GEAR, but he tin can kick ass exterior information technology besides, beingness able to hold his own against students taller than him.
BFS: Eagle's main melee weapon is a mechanized buster sword. Cloud Strife would approve.
Large Brother Instinct: Tristan is extremely protective and caring towards his piffling sister, Nikki. Justified seeing she's all he has left afterward both of their parents were killed in a car crash.
Bilingual Bonus: It's more apparent in Yuuna'south route that, but Tristan is fluent in both Japanese and English language.
Blue Is Heroic: Eagle'southward color scheme is white with bluish accents.
Just Not Too Foreign: He and his sister, are both half-Japanese and half-American
Canon Name: Tristan Spade, deciding non to name him will event every bit this becoming your proper name.
Clueless Chick Magnet: Can be played this mode, with the player choosing dislocated responses to even very obvious come-ons.
Cool Big Bro: To Nikki.
Cool Bicycle: If anyone had to guess what his well-nigh prized possession is also his GEAR, it's his bike. It gets Parodied when Nikki pranks him by giving information technology an girlish makeover.
I reluctantly ease onto my bicycle. Information technology roars to life, and glitter flutters behind me in a rainbow trail of happiness.
Chick Magnet: All of the female lead cast (Yuuna, Kaori, Valerie and Mayu) can be romanced. Even some of Nikki's friends from school have crushes on him.
Chivalrous Pervert: While it's mostly upwards to the player's choice, Tristan isn't above admiring the female torso, only does so in an appropriate manner.
Dark and Troubled Past: Information technology becomes no surprise that something bad happened to both of his parents prior to the events of the game, which is why he and Nikki moved to Japan. It's subsequently revealed that before the events of the game, his male parent was working on a new kind of CORE that could exist utilized in many means, even in nuclear warfare. His partner grew jealous of his success and killed both him and his wife in a drunk driving blow.
Deus ex Machina: During team tryouts, Tristan is well-nigh overwhelmed by practise mechs, only for his GEAR'southward core to all of a sudden gain a surge of emergency power that helps him overpower the mechs with ease. This ends up becoming a pivotal office of the last act.
Don't Separate Us Up: Transferred to ACE Academy so Nikki wouldn't have be solitary when she moved to Japan.
The Gadfly: Depending on the choices made, he can get this.
Envy Monster: Gets a bit like this on Kaori'south route over Etio making a mild laissez passer at her. Thankfully resolved without much problem as Kaori understands his feelings and Etio backs off upon realising Tristan and Kaori are an detail.
Hello, [Insert Proper noun Here]: Since he's supposed to exist you, might as well name him something, right?
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Shou.
If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: He makes this threat to Ken upon their showtime coming together.
Incest Subtext: Played for Laughs with Nikki.
Knight Templar Big Brother: He has one moment when Nikki is at home studying with Ken. He leaves him with a unmarried alarm before watching carefully from his room. This tin can exist subverted afterwards Ken saves Nikki from a group of freaks.
Lethal Chef: It's been stated by Nikki that Tristan cannot melt for his life.
- This can exist Subverted should he join Yuuna for a cooking club activeness and blast the assignment.
Like Male parent, Like Son: He has been told he is like his male parent in means beyond his looks.
The Matchmaker: Tristan can at diverse points effort to prepare Shou and Mayu or Hitomi, Kaori and her co-worker Etio, Uncle Kaito and Aunt Yuki and even come to support his sister's relationship with Ken.
The Musketeer: While most pilots seem to specialize in melee or ranged Tristan has Hawkeye set up to alternating betwixt the above mentioned BFS and a rapid burn rifle.
My Sister Is Off-Limits!: He makes this very articulate with Shou and Ken. It can be subverted subsequently with Ken.
Parental Substitute: To Nikki. His protective and caring nature towards her feels very paternal at times.

Yuuna Misaki

Voiced past: Samantha Chan

A 2d year student at ACE Academy who becomes the team'southward manager.

Bilingual Dialogue: She has scenes like this with Tristan, as he helps her become a better understanding of English language should he pursue her route.
Birds of a Plumage: With Tristan, if y'all pursue her route. Yuuna'south brother died during a ACE Arena Fight due to cardiac arrest. Tristan'due south parents were killed in a car accident. Both of them empathise the feeling of losing someone shut to them that helped them realize what they wanted to practise with their lives.
- At the same time, it's too an inversion seeing how Yunna lost her blood brother simply nonetheless has her parents, while Tristan lost both of his parents and is left with his sister.
The Metropolis vs. the Country: Yuuna grew upwardly more in the countrysides instead of Isokaze and enjoys nature. Nevertheless, she says she's well adjusted to both lifestyles.
Cute Sports Club Manager: She becomes the manager to Tristan's squad, a young man pupil and very cute.
Cute Witch: Her Halloween costume.
Crusading Lawyer: Not exactly a lawyer, merely she's very passionate and sympathetic as a team manager. She cares about equal treatment for GEAR pilots and is not motivated by coin or popularity.
D-Cup Distress: Is probably the most well-endowed among Tristan's female friends and doesn't similar it when people depict attention to them.
Dark and Troubled Past: Her brother, Yuudai, had the makings of being one of the best pilots ACE University had to offer. However, he besides suffered from a heart status that required prescribed medication that were a violation of Pilot Health and Physio Therapy rules. Desperate to fulfill his dream, Yuudai neglected his medication, only to die from a centre set on in the middle of a match. It'due south her blood brother's death that gave her the motivation to written report Pilot Health and Physio Therapy.
Kickoff Girl Wins: If you lot take the motorbus to school on the first twenty-four hour period and take Yuuna's route.
Foreign Culture Fetish: Loves all things American, simply particularly hamburgers.
Hidden Buxom: Everyone, even Kaori, is left speechless at the sight of her during their trip to the embankment.
Subconscious Depths: As it turns out, Yuuna used to study piloting alongside her blood brother, Yuudai. She switched to studying Pilot Wellness and Physio Therapy after her brother died from neglecting his medication to pass a Pilot Drug test. Seeing how strict some rules were the restricted pilots from pursuing their dreams, Yuuna chose to study PHPT in hopes of making a difference.
Hot-Blooded: She may not look it, simply Yuuna is very passionate near a lot of things, mainly sports and PHPT.
I Gave My Give-and-take: If Yuuna says she'due south going to do something, she's going to do it. This is nigh clearly shown in the length she goes to in club to get the squad a sponsor.
Nature Lover: Justified, seeing how Yuuna grew up in the countryside before moving to Isokaze. In her route, Yuuna takes Tristan out on a camping ground trip.
Nice Girl: Almost exaggerated. She'south outwardly kind, soft-spoken and cares about equal treatment between Mech Teams and their sponsors. She also has never broken the rules before.
Passionate Sports Girl: She enjoys sports like tennis and swimming and tin can become pretty competitive.
Reluctant Fanservice Girl: During a camping ground trip with Tristan, the two of them finish up getting soaking wet during a rainstorm and are forced to strip down to their underwear.
Trademark Favorite Nutrient: Yuuna loves American food. Especially burgers.
You Gotta Take Blue Hair: Her hair is a shade of deep purple.

Kaori Itami

Voiced past: Sydney "sydsnap" Poniewaz

A member of Tristan's team and acts every bit the captain. Hot-headed and passionate, she takes piloting the most seriously among her team.

Absurd Phobia: Bunnies. She can barely even expect at them.
Activity Girl: Not to be messed with, both in and out of a GEAR.
Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Gets a flake...odd when drunk, including developing a very physical fondness for Tristan's pilus.
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: As seen in the Kaori focused sequel her mother is very enthusiastic about Kaori and Tristan'southward relationship. She even breaks out the infant pictures.
Ambiguously Bi: She's romanceable, but besides gets defenseless staring Yuuna in a swimsuit and blushes watching Valerie'due south photoshoot.
Berserk Button: To the point information technology could be considered her Catchphrase.
Kaori: "Finish being a pervert!"
Argumentative Sexual Tension: With Tristan during her route.
Break Out Character: She did get her own Subsequently-Story, after all...
Only Not Too Foreign: Her uncle is Spanish.
Cannot Spit It Out: Should you pursue her, Kaori volition have difficulty sharing her existent feelings directly when their relationship reaches it'due south tipping point.
Crash-Into Hello: If Tristan decides to take his bike over on the beginning day of school and run a red low-cal, this is how he meets Kaori.
Cry Cute: Afterward being shamed past her friends, she runs away in tears and tin be comforted past Tristan should he choose to follow her.
Defrosting Ice Queen: She becomes noticeably more than patient and friendly with Tristan over the course of the game. More so if you romance her.
- The sequel game set a few months after her catastrophe increases this as she has become much more comfy in her relationship with Tristan, particularly with receiving displays of affection.
Expy: To Asuka Langley Soryu from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Both are Peppery Redheads, Ace Pilots, accept a difficult time dealing with their feelings, and even vesture similar red jumpsuits.
Peppery Redhead: Brusque-tempered, competitive and kind of intimidating; she's probably the most hot-headed graphic symbol in the game.
First Daughter Wins: If choose the wheel on your commencement 24-hour interval, run the carmine light and and so accept Kaori's route.
Flirtatious Smack on the Ass: One frat boy gives her this at a party. She responds by knocking the daylights out of him.
Friend to All Children: She works at the local daycare with her Uncle, Miguel Vasquez, and is very close with many of the children. Turns out it's as well non just because she enjoys it, only also considering she feels like she needs to to give the children the kind of guidance and attending they need.
Subconscious Depths: She may seem competitive and bit snappy, but she has a love of anime and a fondness for children.
Subconscious Heart of Gilded: Equally much as she pretends not to care, Kaori is actually a very caring person. She only doesn't like to admit it.
Hot-Blooded: She takes GEAR piloting very seriously and is the well-nigh competitive of the team.
It's Personal: At least from her perspective with her old friend, Mei. Back in middle schoolhouse, she and Mei were friends with a geek named Saota, who eventually grew up to be quite the stud. When Mei realized that Kaori secretly liked him, she tried to exist the wing-man in telling him and then. Instead, Saota turned down Kaori, and drove a rift between her and Mei. Since so, Kaori has held a bit of a grudge confronting Mei, but with a niggling help from Tristan, can eventually bury the hatchet.
Like an Old Married Couple: With Tristan during her route. A random computer store employee and her uncle Miguel error them for a couple.
No Pronunciation Guide: Her proper name is easily the least consistently pronounced in the game. Fifty-fifty her own family has a few versions. The most common variations are "Kay-Or-EE," "Kao-Ree," or i of the previous two with the r rolled.
Otaku: She's a large fan of anime and isn't ashamed to acknowledge it. She even named her Mech after one of her favorite anime.
Platonic Life-Partners: Despite her frequent irritation with him she seems to have this human relationship with Shou.
Shamed by a Mob: After her team's match against Onna Bugeisha, anybody confronts her for recklessly jeopardizing the plan just so she could settle a one-sided rivalry with Mei. Feeling betrayed and overwhelmed, Kaori can but run away in tears. The team doesn't experience good virtually themselves at all.
Tsundere: Oh, absolutely. Kaori is a clear cutting Type A with a forceful, peppery personality topped with a brusk-atmosphere. However, she is as well easily embarrassed and has a soft spot for children and her teammates, even Shou. It fifty-fifty gets Lampshaded in her route.
Kaori: "I'm Not a tsundere!"

Tristan: "That's a very tsundere thing to say..."

Shou Shinjirou

Voiced past: Kim Morton

A second year educatee at ACE University, Shou becomes quick friends with Tristan and is the commencement to offer him a identify amid the Team.

Affectionate Nickname: He tends to refer to Tristan as "Broseph". So much so that he almost forgets his real name.
Blessed with Suck: Played for Laughs. During Office three, after ending upward in a relationship, Shou starts to present himself with more than conviction, making him more desirable to girls. Alas, due to being in a relationship, Shou tin can't utilize his new power and is now "forbidden fruit", much to his anguish.
Butt-Monkey: Nigh every scene he shares with Kaori features her hitting or berating him. Even when Kaori isn't present, Shou commonly gets the curt cease of the stick.
The Cameo: Alternate universe versions of him appear in pocket-size roles in PixelFade'south other visual novels Crystalline and Ethereal Enigma.
Casanova Wannabe: He tends to be quite flirtatious with the girls, just nearly of the time it backfires on him.
Childhood Friend Romance: Shou and Mayu have been friends for years, and if you lot don't pursue her, Shou eventually ends up dating her.
Chivalrous Pervert: While there'due south no incertitude that Shou's eyes tin can wander a fleck as well much, he has the utmost respect for all the girls on his team and doesn't flirt with anyone else once he's officially taken.
Clueless Chick Magnet: While Shou admires a lot of girls, he has a difficult time figuring out when a girl admires him. This is the almost obvious with Mayu and with some other friend of his, Hitomi.
- Subverted during the terminal third. If he and Mayu officially leave, he reveales that he was enlightened the whole time, just didn't know if he was the right guy for her.
Crouching Moron, Subconscious Badass: While he may appear perverted and a piffling idiotic, he's nevertheless a very skilled airplane pilot and office of one of the best teams at ACE Academy.
Curtains Lucifer the Windows: Shou'southward eyes and pilus are the aforementioned shade of brown.
Dark and Troubled By: Double-Subverted. During 1 of his scenes, Shou claims that he was bullied a lot as a kid, and had a favorite GEAR action figure growing up. One twenty-four hour period, a couple of bullies took it from him and smashed it on the sidewalk. After that, Shou only wanted to become a pilot. Information technology turns out it was another one of Shou'south jokes. Merely as Tristan gets closer to him, he learns that Shou's by isn't as calorie-free-hearted as it sounds...
Deadpan Snarker: He always tries to make some kind of joke or pun.
Shou: "Alright, allow'south 'Shou' em what we got!"

Kaori: "... you said 'Shou' instead of 'show', didn't you?"

Shou: "Maybe..."
Dual Wielding: His GEAR wields two twin pistols.
Expy: Of Yosuke Hanamura from Persona iv. Lampshaded in-game.
Tristan: 'I never noticed until now, but the "real" Shou looks and acts very similarly to Yozuke Hamanura.'
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Tristan.
Hormone-Addled Teenager: Is without a dubiety the most perverted member of his team.
Nice Guy: Fifty-fifty though he can be a perverted idiot, Shou is upbeat, friendly and energetic. He's a very likable guy and like shooting fish in a barrel to get along with.
Open Oral fissure, Insert Pes: He has a tendency to run his mouth off at times, which commonly gets him into trouble more often than not.
Plucky Comic Relief: He fits this role out better than anyone.
The Pollyanna: No matter what, you can always find Shou trying to look on the bright side of things and always moving forward with a smile.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Kaori. Even though she can be beyond frustrated by Shou'southward antics at times, the two of them are notwithstanding shut friends.
Will They or Won't They?: With Mayu. Both have known each other for a long time and accept shown to have clear signs of Unresolved Sexual Tension.
Troll: He makes upward a completely simulated tragic backstory of getting bullied as a kid just to mess with Tristan.

Mayu Akemi

Voiced by: Alexandra Boodram

A member of Tristan's team. She'southward a rather shy girl.

Beware the Quiet Ones: Has a very serious moment after her team's fight with Onna-Bugeisha. Fifty-fifty Kaori seems caught off guard by it.
Cannot Spit Information technology Out: Subverted. At get-go, she seems incapable of telling Shou how she feels. However, during time gap between part ii and 3, Mayu finally confesses to Shou how she feels.
Kid Hood Friend Romance: She and Shou have known each other for years and she will enter a relationship with him if Tristan doesn't pursue her.
Cute Bookworm: Mayu is an avid reader of fantasy novels and manga and is adorable when she starts talking about them.
Daddy's Girl: She almost never mentions her mother.
Everyone Can See It: Practically everyone can run across Mayu's unspoken feelings for Shou, except Shou himself. As it turns out he tin see it just doesn't think he's worthy of her.
Fangirl: Of several things. Manga, fantasy and Reboot Van Beethoven.
Friendly Sniper: Her main weapon for her GEAR is a sniper rifle.
Hidden Depths: She is talented with the violin. If Tristan follows her route, they form a band with him playing the piano. She besides prefers using notebooks rather than data-pads, loves fantasy, and is a huge fan of manga.
Nice Girl: General shyness aside, Mayu is a existent sweetheart.
Nightmare Face up: If romanced by the thespian so (in something of a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment) Mayu pulls out a very creepy look to scare off some other daughter making a pass at Tristan.
Shrinking Violet: She's easily the shyest and virtually easily embarrassed of the team.
The Serenity One: Due to her shy nature, she is ordinarily very subdued and introverted.
Will They or Won't They?: With Shou. Information technology becomes obvious that Mayu has feelings for Shou, but his obliviousness seems to make it the way. Should you pursue Mayu, they don't become a affair.
You Gotta Have Blue Hair: He hair is either blue or blackness and oddly reflective.

Valerie Belle

Voiced by: Angela Lorenzana

A flirtatious exchange educatee from France who becomes the team's Engineer.

True cat Girl: Her option of Halloween costume.
Dark and Troubled Past: Downplayed. Given Valerie's distant relationship with her mother, it's fair to assume that her home life wasn't that smashing.
Disappeared Dad: Valerie'south begetter is never fifty-fifty mentioned.
Distracted by the Sexy: Not her, but during the Halloween party she wears a Cat Daughter costume. During the scene where she bends over flirtatiously to Tristan, the game mentions that two males bash heads offscreen due non watching where they were going, having been distracted by Valerie.
Dude Magnet: Valerie gets a lot of attention from a lot of boys and she takes it in pace.
Dumb Blonde: Completely averted. Despite beingness one of the but 3 blonde characters in the game, Valerie has proven to be much smarter than anyone could guess. Bated from being a talented engineer, she too gets Straight A's.
Establishing Character Moment: Valerie is kickoff introduced leaving the unabridged course in a stupor before approaching Tristan with confidence and upping her charms with him.
Everything Sounds Sexier in French: As she is French, Valerie has her moments of speaking her offset language. And information technology sounds adorable .
Europeans Are Kinky:
- Subverted. She's very flirtatious and puts on a show of having more experience than the other girls. But when they press her for details she gives a ridiculously faux description of what sexual activity is similar, casing them to realize that she's but putting on an act.
- Zigzagged in her ending, where she and Tristian imply that possibly they actually did have sex (different the other endings, which have no such implications) but not proverb difinitevely either mode.
Skillful Bad Girl: Valerie uses false IDs to get into clubs, is very flirtatious, simply is a nice girl and fun to be around.
Gorgeous Gaijin: Blonde, cute, and fluent in French, Valerie is quite the grab.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She can be a bit of a insubordinate at times and peradventure a little promiscuous, but she always has her teammates best interests at middle and is very sweet when yous get to know her.
Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She enjoys drinking and always enjoys a skillful party.
Subconscious Depths: Bated from being a talented engineer, Valerie is likewise a good artist.
- Also, despite her mostly coincidental attitude, she studies difficult enough to get direct As.
Terminal Girl Wins: Regardless of early on decisions she is ever the last potential Beloved Involvement to be introduced. Romance her and it's this trope.
Male person Gaze: Constantly draws it. Especially with the way she sways her hips when she walks.
Parental Neglect: Valerie's mother almost never seems to make time for her and seems to enjoy spending more fourth dimension with whoever she happens to be seeing at the time, much to Valerie's frustration.
Secret Test of Graphic symbol: At a party she acts drunker than she is and offers to meet Tristan upstairs for sex. If he accepts he finds himself disrobing in forepart of the last guy Valerie sent up in that location. This is intended to test if guys are the blazon to have advantage of a drunkard daughter.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: If you select her to model in the photoshoot. Turns out she showed upwards to it wearing her swimsuit under her clothes and is all too eager to pose for the camera. She fifty-fifty takes things a little likewise far.
The Tease: Valerie is easily the almost openly flirtatious of all the lead female person cast. Particularly towards Tristan. When working on an consignment together, she calls it "a appointment" no matter how much Tristan protests.
Unexpected Virgin: Hinted at, during the Hot Springs scene in Part 3.
Wrench Wench: She may not await it, just Valerie is a very talented engineer. This stems from the fact that her mother was very frugal with her money, so whenever something broke downwardly, she took it upon herself to fix information technology.

Tristan's Family

Nikki Spade

Voiced by: Tina Kim

The protagonist'due south younger sister. Nikki is a High-school Senior who moves to Nihon with him to alive with their uncle, Kaito.

A-Loving cup Malaise: Downplayed, but she's definitely jealous of Yuuna.
Annoying Younger Sibling: She occasionally teases and makes playful jabs at Tristan.
Big Brother Worship: Despite everything she and Tristan go through, it's very clear that Nikki loves her older brother and gets along corking with him. Most likewise well... It gets to the bespeak where her friends charge her of outright Big Brother Allure.
Broken Bird: Underneath her cheery attitude, Nikki is still very much heartbroken by the loss of her parents and struggles to keep it subconscious from everyone else. The only person who can really see how vulnerable she is, is Tristan.
But Not Too Foreign: She, and her blood brother, are both half-Japanese and half-American.
Clingy Jealous Girl: This is mostly seen when she and Valerie compete for Tristan's affection past offering two identical boxes of bento. Should Tristan choose Valerie over her, she is visibly hurt.
Disproportionate Retribution: Tristan fails to answer to Nikki'south texts. Nikki paints his bike and covers it in glitter right before a day out.
Fangirl: Is pretty enthusiastic regarding the Celebrity Vocaliser Ex Zee.
Genki Girl: She is energetic, bubbly, cheerful, and admittedly adorable.
Girlish Pigtails: While only about ii years younger than the protagonist and his friends, they do brand her await younger than she really is.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Nikki has brilliant yellow pilus and is very sweet.
Hate at First Sight: Watching Valerie immediately jump on Tristan didn't endear her to Nikki. This continues into Valerie's route, though the two eventually coffin the hatchet.
Howdy, [Insert Name Here]: Not for her first name but her last name. Should you requite Tristan a custom last name, she will have said last name as well. If y'all don't give him one, Nikki's terminal name will be her canon one, "Spade".
Incest Subtext: Played for Laughs with Tristan.
It's All My Fault: She blames herself for her parent's decease. She was the one who asked them to option her upwards the same night they were killed in a car accident.
Little Sis Instinct: Even though Tristan has proven to be more protective over Nikki, she likewise has moments of getting protective over Tristan.
My Brother Is Off-Limits!: She's appalled at her friends flirting with Tristan.
The Not-Love Interest: To Tristan. The two of them share some of the virtually heartwarming moments in the game, simply there is no route for Nikki.
Supreme Chef: She cooks nearly every household repast for the family and starts her own Cooking Club at her own school.
Stepford Smiler: Tristan has noticed that Nikki tries to hide her sadness regarding her parents' deaths with a sunny outside.
Tragic Emblem: A heart-shaped locket containing a moving-picture show of her parents.
Vitriolic All-time Buds: With Tristan. Fifty-fifty though the two of them tin get on each other's nerves, at that place'southward no hiding how much they love each other. Especially seeing how they're all they have left.

Kaito Hikari

The maternal uncle and legal guardian to both Nikki and Tristan. He is the manager of a chain of restaurants.

Amicable Exes: He and Aunt Yuki have a complicated relationship at the start. However, things eventually polish out for them in the stop. By the terminate of the game, they've officially gotten back together.
Brief Accent Imitation: Kaito speaks perfect English language but puts on a comedy Engrish accent to welcome the kids off the railroad train.
Absurd Uncle: Gets forth very well with Tristan and Nikki and does a skillful chore as their new guardian.
Married to the Job: Kaito was too focused on his career to have children, which nearly ruined his marriage with Yuki.
OOC Is Serious Business: When Tristan discovers an email regarding the investigation for his parent's expiry, the unremarkably lighthearted, smiling and agreement uncle becomes uncomfortably serious.
Hikari Kaito: "At that place are some matter's your meliorate off not knowing..."
Parental Substitute: While Kaito claims that Tristan and Nikki are old enough to look out for themselves (which is true), there'southward no doubt that he makes a great parental effigy to the two of them. Even his ex-wife notices what an infrequent father figure he is, which ultimately saves their marriage.
Take Care of the Kids: Not long earlier the accident, Kaito got a strange telephone call from his sister, asking him to await later on Tristan and Nikki, should anything happen to her.
Workaholic: Despite how easygoing he can exist, Kaito is a very difficult-working man who takes his career seriously. This is later Deconstructed, as he later reveals that his demand to focus on his career is what nearly ended his matrimony with Aunt Yuki.

Yuki Hikari

Kaito'southward ex-wife and Tristan and Nikki's aunt.

Amicable Exes: Her relationship with Kaito is strained in the kickoff, simply improves in due time. Somewhen, they decide to requite their relationship a second chance.
Divorce Is Temporary: Initially in the procedure of filing for divorce, she and Kaito somewhen come back together.
Mistaken for Gay: Kaito mentions offhand that she planned a retreat with her "girlfriend." Tristan can take this to think she'due south a lesbian, and that'south why their union failed. Kaito is a trivial...besides eager to right him on that point.
My Biological Clock Is Ticking: One of the biggest factors in her and Kaito's separatation. Yuki wanted to have kids, Kaito wanted to focus more on his career, which acquired them to become their dissever ways.
Parental Substitute: She's more than than happy to human activity similar a mother figure for Nikki and Tristan. Especially Nikki.
The Prankster: She has a fondness for pulling pranks. Especially on Kaito.
Sexy Coat Flashing: All but outright addressed during her first on-screen appearance. Why did she arrive at Kaito's house wearing a trench coat? And why was she so insistent in keeping it on when Nikki offered to take it? And why was she expecting Kaito to be solitary...?
Kaito: Oh. [Sudden Realization] OH!

Other Characters

Other ACE University Students

Akira Masato

I of the top pilots at ACE University.

The Ace: He's one of the star pilots at ACE University, the only rival being Tristan and his team.
Large Damn Heroes: One possible mode to meet Akira is when having to deal with a group of bullies. Afterward beingness overwhelmed, Akira rushes over to help.
Chekhov's Gun: Turns out, his GEAR has a Core overdrive the same as Tristan's.
Covert Pervert: While obviously non as noticeable as Shou or Tristan, he has his moments. He even knows a secret spot at a local hot springs to overhear on the girl'due south room, much to Tristan's surprise.
Dark Is Not Evil: He's alpine, has stark white hair, and his GEAR'due south design is pretty intimidating, but he's one of the nicest students at ACE Academy.
Friendly Rivalry: With Tristan's team, but mostly with Tristan.
Svelte Loser: If ACE-2049-eleven ends up chirapsia him in the finals, Akira shows absolutely no ill-volition towards Tristan and congratulates him on a friction match well-won.
Humble Hero: He never brags about his victories and always congratulates the winning team with a warm smile.
Prissy Guy: Akira is one of the friendliest students at ACE Academy and is very pop for it.
Sinister Scythe: His GEAR's chief weapon is a kick-ass energy scythe.
Alpine, Night, and Handsome: He's one of the tallest students in the game, and his reputation as one of the top pilots at ACE has earned him plenty of admirers.
Worthy Opponent: He comes to view Tristan's team equally this and shows a great deal of respect towards them.

Mei Satomi

A member of Team Onna-Bugeisha and Kaori'south childhood friend.

Boobs of Steel: She is noticeably well-endowed. Even Akira seems to notice information technology.
Break-Up/Make-Upward Scenario: It's not entirely her error. After hearing how Kaori had a beat out on their mutual friend, Ryuota, Mei took information technology upon herself to tell him and requite them a little nudge. Unfortunately, Ryuota responded past telling Kaori he wasn't interested and Mei has been on Kaori's bad side e'er since. Proficient news is, they soon reconcile.
- In Kaori'southward defense. She had told Mei not to tell anyone and to keep information technology a secret, yet Mei still went and told Ryota despite that.
Childhood Friends: She'due south been friends with Kaori since centre school.
Katanas Are Only Better: Like Kaori, her GEAR wields a mechanized katana.
Male Gaze: She ofttimes visits the manga shop, but usually to talk to the attractive employees.
Nice Girl: She'southward outwardly kind and enthusiastic. Even though Kaori holds a massive grudge confronting her for their incident with Ryouta, Mei doesn't return whatever of the sick-will and continues to treat her like a friend.
We Used to Be Friends: Defied. No matter how mad Kaori gets at her, Mei has and always will see Kaori as her friend.

Tatsuo Kimura

Team leader of Claw of the Wild whom Kaori claims is more than annoying than Shou.

Boisterous Bruiser: Tatsuo is full of free energy and wields a pair of claws as his GEAR weapons.
Caps Lock: HE ALWAYS TALKS Similar THIS! FOR! EVERY! SINGLE! WORD!
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Just listen to the things he says. Clearly he'south got a few screws loose.
Tatsuo: "RAYS OF JUSTICE ILLUMINATE THE BATTLEFIELD. TWO WORTHY PREDATORS ENTER, Simply A SINGLE PHOENIX SHALL Rising FROM THE ASHES."
Graceful Loser: He accepts his Team'due south defeat with dignity and assures ACE-2049-eleven that they'll exist back for more than over again.
The Ghost: Never seen outside his GEAR.
Large Ham: That's putting it mildly. Tatsuo practically bellows his lines and speaks in metaphors.
No Indoor Vocalization: Everything he says is always in Capital font. That should be enough proof.
Worthy Opponent: He comes to run across ACE-2049-11 as this later chirapsia him in their match.

Other Characters

Ken

Nikki's classmate and potential Dear Interest.

Adaptational Nice Guy: In "Kendo Beat", Ken was the biggest keen in the school. Here, he'southward apprehensive, slightly awkward, Nice Guy.
Big Damn Heroes: He manages to salvage Nikki from a group of creeps while she's waiting for the charabanc.
Demoted to Extra: In the original release "Kendo Beat out", Ken was the closest thing to an Arch-Enemy for Tristan as the school'due south biggest dandy. Here, his involvement is reduced to ii scenes and being mentioned by Nikki.
Underestimating Badassery: He may not look it, but Ken is actually very skilled with Martial Arts, able to have on multiple assailants at in one case.
Will They or Won't They?: With Nikki, much to Tristan'due south displeasure. Depending on the player's choice, Tristan can either approve of their human relationship, or continue to deed confronting it.

Ivan Podubbny

A professional war gamer who is a three-time earth champion and won the MVP laurels ii consecutive years. He grants Squad ACE-2049-xi a special coaching session.

Badass Biker: This is the image he gives off in public. He seldom removes his trademark helmet, and he regularly wears a black leather jacket. This has led to a rumor that he suffered burns on his face after falling off a bicycle during a race.
Bruiser with a Soft Heart: He's huge and generally physically imposing, simply within he'southward but a big softie.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's nothing like anyone on the team idea he'd exist, and he's very out there, only his knowledge of GEARs and combat is second to none. Not only is he able to suggest the pilots, he's too able to help Valerie improve the GEARs. There'south a reason why he's won the MVP Award two years running.
Expy: of Alex Louis Armstrong. He's tall, muscular, and imposing, extremely badass, just also highly sentimental and cares about his charges. They even have the same confront and mustache, and fifty-fifty their voices audio similar.
Offset-Proper name Basis: He absolutely insists that his charges address him past his start name.
Genius Bruiser: You wouldn't wait a guy like him to be a tactical mastermind or take knowledge of the mechanical side of GEARs, only he has both traits.
Hammerspace: The narration states that Ivan's helmet "magically appears" in his hand at the end of their coaching session.
Big Ham: Dear God, is he ever. All of his dialogue is written in all-caps, and he speaks in grandiose way. He spends the first function of his lesson describing improvement in piloting using plant biology.
One-Scene Wonder: He just appears for the coaching session, and it's belatedly into the story, but he's one of the most memorable parts of it, as well.
The Repose One: His public persona. In private, he'south anything but.
Crimson Baron: The Strong-Arm GEAR.
Strong Family unit Resemblance: At least in terms of behavior. Call back Tatsuo, the similarly hammy captain of Claw of the Wild? Turns out he'southward Ivan'south nephew.