Crono

Crono (クロノ, Kurono^?) is the silent protagonist in Chrono Trigger. He lives with his mother (whose name is given as Gina in the Japanese version) in the town of Truce, under the rule of the Guardia Kingdom. A chance encounter with Marle at the fair begins the quest to save the world. In 12000 B.C. when the party is confronted with Lavos in the Ocean Palace of the Kingdom of Zeal, he sacrifices himself to save his friends, though he can be revived. While the other six playable characters have many lines of dialogue, Crono's responses to events are usually implied only through reaction and gesture, often for comedic effect. Crono speaks once in one of the endings to Chrono Trigger, saying just a few lines of dialogue. He uses a katana as a weapon and once he obtains magical ability, his Techs become lightning-oriented. In the original Japanese version of the game, Crono's element was Ten (天, Ten^?), which means "heaven". In the new re-translation in Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DS, Crono's element is translated to Light, which is more in line with the original Japanese translation.

Although Chrono is silent protagonist, there are some points where he's shown to have romantic feelings for Marle. At one point where he's knocked out, he has a dream where Marle is his wife. In the PlayStation version of Chrono Trigger includes an FMV scene at the end that shows Crono and Marle getting married. While a second FMV depicts the fall of Guardia Kingdom in the year 1005 A.D., it is unknown what happened to Crono during this event. In the sequel, Chrono Cross, Crono makes an appearance alongside Marle and Lucca as apparitions of themselves as children.

Abilities

Typical among RPG protagonists, Chrono is a well balanced character with no major weakness. His physical damage is respectable, along with his speed, health, and defense. Because he can equip some very strong weapons (including the Rainbow, the strongest weapon in the game overall, Luca's Wondershot can do more damage but the damage it inflicts varying makes it less reliable), he's one of the main damage dealers. Chrono possesses a variety of techs, which include offensive and support techs. Though he isn't as effective as healer as Marle is (she has a greater variety of healing techs), he can still heal for good amount of health, and he can cast Life on allies to revive them. For offensive techs, he can inflict both physical damage and magical damage, and his higher level magic techs hit all enemies. He highest level spell, Luminere, is along with Magus's Dark Matter, the strongest spell in the game.

As Chrono's element is Lighting/Heaven/Light, he takes extra damage from Shadow element attacks

Single Techs

• Cyclone "Damage enemies within an area"- Deals damage to multiple enemies in an area
• Wind Slash
• Lighting "Damage an enemy with Lighting"- Deals lightning damage to an enemy.
• Cleave "Damages an enemy greaty"
• Lighting 2 "Damage enemies with Lighting"- Deals lightning damage to all enemies.
• Raise "Awakes a KO'd party member"- Brings an ally

Triva

• Crono's Luminaire spell is very reminiscent of the Ultima spell from the Final Fantasy series. In the FF games Ultima is one of the most powerful moves. Luminaire is arguably the most powerful spell in Crono Trigger as well.
• In the FMVs for the Chrono Trigger remake on the Playstation, Crono is noted by fans to resemble Son Goku from Dragon Ball Z. This is because Crono is designed by Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragonball Z.
• Contrary to popular rumors and speculation, the creators had no intention to name Crono "Chrono". There is a popular rumor that, since the naming function in the game only allows for 5 characters, Crono's real name could not make the cut. The creators felt it would be strange to name Crono after the device that revives him, and never opted for this.