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9S
9S (YoRHa No.9 Type S) is a scanner-type android protagonist of NieR: Automata, specializing in hacking and intelligence gathering; paired with executioner 2B, he becomes a figure of grief and revenge in Routes C–E.
Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail)
Acheron is a playable 5-star Lightning-Type damage dealer on the Path of Nihility in Honkai: Star Rail, introduced in the Penacony story arc and released in March 2024.
Aloy
Aloy is the fictional protagonist of Guerrilla Games' Horizon series (Horizon Zero Dawn 2017, Horizon Forbidden West 2022), a red-haired machine hunter and outcast voiced by Ashly Burch, with a third single-player game reportedly years away.
Alucard (Castlevania)
Alucard (Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes) is the dhampir son of Dracula in Konami's Castlevania series, debuting in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and starring in Symphony of the Night (1997), with bat, wolf, and mist transformations and a Netflix anime counterpart.
Ann Takamaki (高巻杏)
Ann Takamaki (高巻杏), codename Panther, is a Phantom Thief in Persona 5 and spin-offs, a fire-attribute whip user whose Persona is Carmen; voiced by Nana Mizuki and Erika Harlacher.
Blade (Honkai: Star Rail)
Blade (刃) is a limited 5★ Honkai: Star Rail character, first Wind Destruction, HP-scaling; kit spends own HP for Hellscape, Talent follow-ups, and an HP-loss Ultimate; reworked in 3.4, Mortenax Blade (Nihility: Fire) in 4.3.
Castorice (遐蝶)
Castorice (遐蝶) is a five-star Quantum Remembrance damage dealer in Honkai: Star Rail, released in Version 3.2 (April 2025). Her kit drains ally HP to build Newbud and summon the memosprite dragon Netherwing, and she carries the game's first global passive.
Characters of Final Fantasy V
Characters of Final Fantasy V: the five playable heroes Bartz Klauser, Lenna, Faris, Galuf, Krile, villain Exdeath and Gilgamesh, from Square's 1992 job-system JRPG, with reception and translation history.
Cid Highwind
Cid Highwind (シド・ハイウインド), Final Fantasy VII's foul-mouthed pilot and first permanent-party Cid: Shinra Space Program dreamer, airship captain, spear user whose Highwind Limit deals 18 hits, later softened in Rebirth.
Dark Urge
The Dark Urge ("Durge") is Baldur's Gate 3's fully customizable Origin character: an amnesiac Bhaalspawn child of Bhaal, guided by Sceleritas Fel, who can embrace or resist murderous urges and gain the Slayer form.
Geno (Super Mario RPG)
Geno (ジーノ), star spirit possessing a doll in Super Mario RPG (1996, 2023 remake), true name ♡♪!?, designed by Kazuyuki Kurashima, Square Enix-owned; famous for Geno Whirl's 9999 timed damage and Smash Mii costume campaign.
Herta (Honkai: Star Rail)
Herta (黑塔) is a free 4-star Ice Erudition character in Honkai: Star Rail, Genius Society #83 and master of Herta Space Station, appearing as a puppet. Her Talent triggers AoE follow-up attacks when enemies fall below 50% HP, making her a Pure Fiction staple; a 5-star version, The Herta, arrived in version 3.0.
Hoshimi Miyabi
Hoshimi Miyabi (星見雅) is a Zenless Zone Zero S-Rank Ice Frost Anomaly Agent, chief of Section 6 and youngest Void Hunter, released in Version 1.4 with a CRIT-scaling Frostburn kit and Hailstorm Shrine signature W-Engine.
Hu Tao (胡桃)
Hu Tao (胡桃) is a Genshin Impact playable character: the 77th Director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, a Pyro polearm user whose skill Guide to Afterlife trades 30% HP for an ATK boost and Pyro infusion.
JC Denton
JC Denton is the nano-augmented UNATCO agent and player protagonist of Deus Ex (2000) and a major character in Invisible War; named for author Bradley Denton, voiced monotone by Jay Anthony Franke, he chooses among three endings at Area 51, canonically merging with the Helios AI.
Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail)
Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) is a 5-star Lightning Nihility character, Stellaron Hunter, and DoT specialist who detonates damage-over-time effects; reworked in version 3.4 with a 100% ATK buff for high Effect Hit Rate allies.
Kasumi Yoshizawa
Kasumi Yoshizawa, also known as Sumire Yoshizawa, is a fictional character in Persona 5 Royal: an award-winning gymnast at Shujin Academy who joins the Phantom Thieves as Violet.
KOS-MOS
KOS-MOS (コスモス) is the female battle android mascot of Monolith Soft's Xenosaga RPG series, built by Vector Industries to fight the Gnosis; Episode III reveals her as a vessel of Mary Magdalene's soul.
Kris (Deltarune)
Kris Dreemurr (クリス・ドリーマー) is the non-binary human protagonist of Toby Fox's RPG Deltarune, controlled by the player through the SOUL, which Kris removes at chapter endings to act independently.
List of characters in Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Characters of Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019): professor Byleth and the Officer's Academy students of Fódlan, led by house leaders Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude, plus DLC characters from Cindered Shadows and Expansion Pass Wave 4.
List of Zenless Zone Zero characters
Agents are the playable characters of Zenless Zone Zero (ゼンレスゾーンゼロ), HoYoverse's urban fantasy action RPG. Three-Agent teams are defined by rank (A/S), attribute, Specialty, and faction; the roster has grown since 2024 with new factions, the Lumiflux attribute, and the Armorer Specialty.
Lucas (Mother 3)
Lucas (リュカ) is the protagonist of Mother 3 (2006, GBA), a boy from Tazmily Village, twin brother of Claus, son of Flint and Hinawa, who uses sticks, a yo-yo, and PSI attacks like PK Love; also a Smash Bros. fighter.
Makoto Niijima
Makoto Niijima (新島真), code name Queen, is the Shujin Academy student council president in Persona 5; sister of Sae Niijima, she joins the Phantom Thieves after the Kaneshiro incident with the motorcycle Persona Johanna, uses Nuclear skills, and is voiced by Rina Satoh and Cherami Leigh.
Nahida (Genshin Impact)
Nahida (Lesser Lord Kusanali, Buer) is the Dendro Archon and a playable five-star Dendro catalyst in Genshin Impact, released in version 3.2. Her skill marks up to 8 enemies, triggering Tri-Karma Purification reaction damage scaling off ATK and Elemental Mastery.
Neuvillette (Genshin Impact)
Neuvillette is a 5-star Hydro catalyst character in Genshin Impact, released September 27, 2023; the Iudex of Fontaine and reborn Hydro Dragon, he is an HP-scaling on-field DPS built around Charged Attack: Equitable Judgment and Sourcewater Droplets.
Protagonist of Persona 3
The Persona 3 protagonist, officially Makoto Yuki (Minato Arisato in the manga), is the silent transfer-student leader of S.E.E.S. in Atlus's 2006 JRPG; Persona 3 Portable added the female protagonist Kotone Shiomi, excluded from the 2024 remake Persona 3 Reload.
Pyra and Mythra
Pyra and Mythra are the two forms of the Aegis, deuteragonists of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017); fiery power versus speed, designed by Masatsugu Saito, and a two-in-one Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC fighter added March 4, 2021.
Robin (Honkai: Star Rail)
Robin (Honkai: Star Rail) is a 5-star Physical Harmony support character, a Halovian singer from Penacony, debuting in Version 2.2 (May 2024). Her 160-energy Ultimate grants a teamwide 100% action advance and Concerto state, excelling in follow-up attack teams.
Ryuji Sakamoto
Ryuji Sakamoto (坂本竜司), codename Skull, is the protagonist's first friend in Persona 5, a 16-year-old Shujin Academy student whose Persona Captain Kidd uses Electric and Physical skills; Chariot Confidant rank 7 grants Insta-kill.
Tartaglia (Genshin Impact)
Tartaglia, codename Childe, is a 5-star Hydro Bow character in Genshin Impact from Snezhnaya, released in Version 1.1. He switches between Ranged and Melee Stances via Foul Legacy: Raging Tide and applies Riptide, excelling in AoE teams like the International comp.