Crono (Chrono Trigger)

Crono is the silent protagonist in Chrono Trigger games.

Crono lives with his mother in Truce in the Present.

Appearance
Crono has spiky red hair. He has blue eyes and wears a short-sleeved green shirt underneath a light blue tunic. He also wears a black belt, along with yellow pants, a pair of dark brown boots and bracers, a white headband around his forehead and an orange ascot around his neck. He always keeps a katana close at hand. He wields his katana with his right hand, but in the FMV and official artwork, he is seen using his left.

Personality
Crono's personality matches that of the conventional hero archetype and he is willing to place his life on the line for the sake of others.

Abilities
Crono wields katanas as his main weapon of choice. Typical among much other silent role-playing game main protagonists, Crono is a well-balanced character with no major weakness and is very useful in battle. His physical damage is respectable, along with his speed, health, and defense. Because he can equip some very strong weapons (including the Dreamseeker, the strongest weapon in the game overall), he is one of the main damage dealers. Crono possesses a variety of techs, which include offensive and support techs. He can cast Raise on allies to revive them, and for offensive techs, he can inflict both physical damage and magical damage, and his higher level magic techs hit all enemies.

In the original Japanese version of the game, Crono's element was Ten (天?), which means "heaven". In the Nintendo DS version of Chrono Trigger, Crono's element is translated to Light, which is more in line with the original Japanese translation.

As Crono's Magic element is Lightning/Heaven/Light, he takes high damage from Shadow element attacks.

His base critical hit rate for most of his weapons is 10%, with the exceptions of Swallow increasing it further to 30% and Rainbow increasing it to 70%.

Trivia

 * Crono is the only character confirmed to be left-handed.


 * Crono has no dialogue in the game (although in one end he has a few lines of dialogue).


 * Crono is a condensed form of Chrono, a Greek prefix for time. Since Chrono Trigger has time travel as a prominent theme, this name is very appropriate.