[meme] the majority of characters I've played are neither main antagonists nor main protagonists so I'm using this meme to just go back and label narrative roles
Cangrande - some of my ocs are in storylines that do have narrative roles like protag/antag/etc but Cangrande is not. that being said if there were a storyline I can literally only imagine he would at least be An Antagonist, even if not the primary
Reim - supporting cast. I'd probably put him and Uriel (Angel Sanctuary) in the same bucket wherein both actually do act against the interests of the lead characters at first but then adopt a staunch helper role for the vast majority of their contribution to the story
but Reim has a fun meta level of camouflage around his own story that makes him come off as more minor than he actually is at first bc coming off as insignificant/unremarkable is part of his in-universe skillset
so the fact that he was technically in an antagonistic position in relationship to Oz as a Barma plant is left deliberately unclear at the time/completely glossed over
Ibara - Tristan referred to enstars characters as not really falling into antag/protag roles, which is largely true, but I think Eden/Ibara do actually count as antagonists for the end of the first game
it is blurrier in the sequel tho, you could argue Ibara is still one of the antags of sequel main story part 1 but even then I wouldn't call him a primary antagonist
the reapshep storyline has basically three 'main antagonists' - Solomon, the ringleader of the opposing force that is positioned as the story's initial 'villain' - the Harel Institute, which Reaper and Shepherd both start off aligned with, but which is the oppressive power structure that generated the whole story conflict and ultimately must be dismantled
i think for enstars it depends on a lot on which event because each event is in the POV of a different set of characters so i would say the protag/antag roles are actually contextually dependent
but also a lot of events have the antag be someone external to the main cast, it seems relatively rare that it's characters going up against each other
- Reaper, who on a larger scale only functions as a lackey of first the institute, then Solomon as a defector, but is the primary emotional conflict at the core of the story
Katsue - this is slightly complicated by the fact that I technically did not app her from the full storyline I am referring to when I say this, but Katsue is an otome heroine
I guess actually I COULD have said Harpy did experience the encounter with [the fakeout heroine] and her canonpoint was just the end of the common route, but in my head I didn't play her like that, probably because she already had enough shit in her memories she didn't actually ever talk to anyone about
Yeah it's largely but not completely true for enstars. Shu sidestepped being in main story completely, but Ibara was def introduced as hi this is main story pt 2 antag.
- Solomon, the ringleader of the opposing force that is positioned as the story's initial 'villain'
- the Harel Institute, which Reaper and Shepherd both start off aligned with, but which is the oppressive power structure that generated the whole story conflict and ultimately must be dismantled