Character Database

## The Butterfly Mansion

### Mallory Kiana

* **Brutal Honesty**: Mallory lacks a bit of tact, as she often is far too direct, which irritates people.
* **Conditioned to Accept Horror**: Due to her upbringing in the red-light district, Mallory is well-informed on the cruelties of the world, whether it be rape or murder.
* **Dragons Up the Yin Yang**: An *onmyōji* who has a dragon behind her that protects her and sometimes casts multi-target attacks.
* **Street Smart**: As she was brought up in the red-light district, Mallory knows how to blend in and avoid trouble.
* **Semi-Divine**: All but confirmed to be part-*yokai*. She is Abe no Seimei's descendant, and is thus also a descendant of his mother, who was the *kitsune* Kuzunoha.
* **Tranquil Fury**: Whenever Mallory gets angry, it's not hot-headed ranting or throwing of chairs. Rather, it's a chilly glare and eerie calm.

### Maboroshi Gitsune

* **Fashionable Asymmetry**: Maboroshi wears the sleeve of his outfit only on the right hand.

### Yao Bikuni

* **Barred from the Afterlife**: She can't enter the Afterworld because of her immortality, even though her living friends can with a temporary death spell.
* **Because Destiny Says So**: The reason she gives Mallory on why she should slay her.
* **Big Bad Friend**: She has been a good friend to the rest of the main quartet, so naturally they do not react well to the news that she's evil, especially Mallory.
* **Bitch in Sheep's Clothing**: She's done a *fantastic* job of hiding her evil nature under a Yamato Nadeshiko persona.
* **Complete Immortality**: You just *can't* kill this woman even if you want to. She even emerges unscathed from a ritual that's supposedly fatal to the performer.
* **Deal with the Devil**: She makes one with Orochi, who promises to grant her wishes, most likely her wish to die. He ultimately betrays her.
* **Death Seeker**: The first thing she says to Mallory is that she's been waiting for god knows how long for her, her "fated one", to come and end her life.
* **Dissonant Serenity**: She is even calmer than Mallory, at times to disturbing levels. She reacts exactly the same to disgusting insects gnawing at her feet or a guy about to commit unspeakable acts against a little girl or even as *she* is committing such acts herself. However, as the story progresses, she seems to be losing it bit by bit, showing signs of *going insane*.
* **The Dragon**: To Yamata-no-orochi.
* **Even Evil Has Loved Ones**: After revealing herself as Evil All Along, she states that she is genuinely happy that Mallory cares for her.
* **Evil All Along**: Until she pulls a Heel–Face Turn.
* **Farmer's Daughter**: She was originally from a poor village.
* **Four-Temperament Ensemble**: Phlegmatic. Before she leaves the ensemble.
* **Hime Cut**: Possesses both the hairstyle and the personality.
* **Iconic Item**: Her Magic Staff, which even emits a trail of light behind it as she walks. Pretty!
* **Lady of War**: Uses visually appealing skills in combat and shows elegance in stance and voice.
* **Lady and a Scholar**: Possesses great knowledge and is a nice and gentle woman.
* **Nigh-Invulnerability**: Her response to being in a seemingly fatal situation? "Don't worry guys, I can't die!"
* **Psychic Powers**: Can enter dreams using a technique called "peeking" (覗く *nozoku*) and locate another person from a great distance.
* **Soft-Spoken Sadist**: She retains her polite speech and gentle voice even after revealing her true colors. However, she is visibly losing her composure as the story progresses.
* **Sole Survivor**: As a teenager, she was the only member of her village to survive a mudslide due to her immortality.
* **Speak of the Devil**: Those with grudges against her are reluctant to say her name, because there is a rumor she may have placed a spell upon it. With her age and her skill in onmyōji spells, the rumor is considered entirely plausible.
* **Supernatural Repellent**: Of Hōōka. The latter cannot approach her because her flames of life are already gone despite her being still alive. Hōōka later informs her that her flames of life are starting to burn again.
* **Who Wants to Live Forever?**: She tells Mallory that she wants her to end her immortal life. She was at first overjoyed to become immortal, but she continued to live while everyone she knew died, and many people came to fear her for being different. According to Hōōka, her soul has almost completely frozen over, though her experiences with the main cast is starting to make a small amount of fire in her heart begin to stir.
* **Yamato Nadeshiko**: Gentle, kind, and compassionate, often plays a supportive role in the team, and is very much a capable woman before she turns to evil.
* **You Have Outlived Your Usefulness**: Orochi turns on her and strikes her down after his head is revived, pretty much quoting the trope verbatim.

## The Underworld

### Kuro Mujou

> *”You are already dead.”*
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An Afterworld official whose job is to lead souls of the dead to their rightful place. He dotes on his brother Shiro Mujou despite him not exactly appreciating the attention.

* **Animal Motifs**: Crows.
* **Annoying Older Sibling**: To Shiro Mujou.
* **Big Brother Instinct**: He *really* loves Shiro Mujou, but the latter doesn't like it.
* **Dark Is Not Evil**: He's dressed in black from head to toe and a god of the dead, but is still a good guy.
* **Exotic Eye Designs**: He and his brother have red sclerae.
* **Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling**: The reason why he and Shiro Mujou work together as a pair in the first place. He is supposed to have taken over his brother's responsibilities and freed him after enlisting his help, but Shiro Mujou decided to stay and work with him out of concern.
* **Four-Temperament Ensemble**: The **Melancholic** in the group consisting of himself, his brother and their two apprentices.
* **Incest Subtext**: He dotes on his brother a *little* too much, and even Shiro Mujou himself displays subtle Tsundere tendencies towards him.
* **Night and Day Duo**: Wears a moon on his hat to represent Night as opposed to Shiro Mujou’s Day.
* **Roaring Rampage of Revenge**: See Self-Made Orphan below.
* **Red Eyes, Take Warning**: Like his brother, he looks completely human except for his blood-red sclera.
* **Red Oni, Blue Oni**: Red to Shiro Mujou’s Blue.
* **Related in the Adaptation**: In actual Taoist mythos, the *Wúcháng* are not related. In this story, they're actual siblings.
* **Sadly Mythcharacterized**: He and his brother can be safely assumed to be In Name Only versions of the mythical *Hēibái Wúcháng*.
	+ First and foremost, the real deities are not related.
	+ Their manner of death: the most known version of the myth posits that the black one drowned and the white one hanged himself from grief. In this story, they were killed by their Abusive Parents and ended up killing them in revenge.
* **Self-Made Orphan**: He and his brother were abused by their parents when they were alive. The younger died first and exacted revenge on the father with the help of a Shinigami, thus ending up taking up his job. The older once died counted on the help of his now amnesiac brother to kill the mother as well.
* **Sibling Yin-Yang**: With Shiro Mujou, obviously. They're even Color-Coded for Your Convenience.
* **Sinister Scythe**: His weapon.
* **Tsundere**: Is eventually revealed to be when the arrival of two young apprentices helps him display his gentle side, especially toward his brother.
* **Tall, Dark, and Handsome**: A good-looking man with dark hair and eyes.
* **Wistful Amnesia**: Averted; Shiro Mujou notes in his autobiography that giving up one's memory is a requirement to getting a position in the Afterworld, but for some reason Kuro Mujou has his completely intact and can still recall the past he and Shiro Mujou shared together.

### Shiro Mujou

A proper and gentlemanly Afterworld official who, along with his brother Kuro Mujou, is in charge of taking the souls of the dead to their rightful place.

* **Exotic Eye Designs**: Like his brother, he has red sclerae.
* **Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling**: Responsible to Kuro Mujou's Foolish, which is why he stays a Shinigami alongside him in the first place out of concern even though Kuro Mujou was supposed to have freed him from his responsibilities.
* **Four-Temperament Ensemble**: The **Phlegmatic** in the group consisting of himself, his brother and their two apprentices.
* **Hair-Contrast Duo**: With Kurō Mujou.
* **Incest Subtext**: The brothers display a lot of this, with their interactions amounting to low-key Tsundere for each other.
* **Night and Day Duo**: He wears a sun symbol on his hat representing Day as opposed to Kuro Mujou’s Night. He also decorates himself with ears of rice, a mirror on his belt and shide on its either sides to complete the Amaterasu imagery.
* **Red Eyes, Take Warning**: Like his brother, he looks completely human except for his blood-red sclera.
* **Red Oni, Blue Oni**: Blue to Kuro Mujou’s Red.
* **Related in the Adaptation**: The *Hēibái Wúcháng* in real-life Taoist mythos are not related, but he and Kuro Mujou are actual siblings.
* **Roaring Rampage of Revenge**: Twice. The Mujou brothers were abused by their parents when they were alive. The younger sibling died first and enlisted the help of a hell demon to take revenge on the father, thus becoming a Shinigami in the old one's stead. The amnesiac Shiro Mujou then lent *his* help to his dead brother to kill off the mother as well.
* **Sadly Mythcharacterized**: It is safe to assume he and his brother are In Name Only versions of the mythological *Wúcháng*, though their personalities fit the characterization of the white one being nicer.
* **Self-Made Orphan**: He and his brother killed both of their parents after their death.
* **Sibling Yin-Yang**: With Kuro Mujou, obviously. Comes with color-coding.
* **Shinigami**: Based on the White half of the *Hēibái Wúcháng*, a pair of Chinese shinigami.
* **Sugar-and-Ice Personality**: He usually doesn't display much emotion, but once in a while his soft side resurfaces. This is shown well in his recollections regarding his feelings about his brother.
* **Summon Magic**: He can summon tiny explosive demons.
* **Those Two Guys**: Rarely seen without his brother in-story.
* **White Shirt of Death**: He is a death god who wears white.
* **Wistful Amnesia**: He was required to give up his memory in order to become an Afterworld official, but he constantly gets déjà-vu around Kuro Mujou.
* **Zigzag Paper Tassel**: Has two of these hanging from his *shimenawa* belt.