Character Database

## Scientists of the SSS

### Callix Channing —

* **The Atoner**: Callix was a researcher whose findings were used to give Elizabeth and Maribelle their mind-control powers. However, he didn't know that his research would be used by Neptune for his Designer Babies. He felt guilty about his research being used for this purpose and took an apparently still-born Elizabeth away so that she could have a proper burial.

### Rose — Rosette Bellevue

* **Ax-Crazy**: She's calm and casual most of the time, but when angry she lets forth a truly vicious temper.
	+ *"Gya ha ha!! Oh, now where to start burning her? Maybe I should roast that little face of hers. Or maybe I should press against her pink \*\*\* and burn it pitch black!! Hey, what do you think, Linny? You'd better come out, cause I'm gonna burn her into a black mummy! Or can you still get off to fucking a hole like that!?"*
	+ *"I'll count to three. If you don't come out, I'll burn Annalise's \*\*\* as punishment. Of course, if you'd rather just abandon her, then you can just sit there masturbating to the stench of her virginity being burned away."*
* **Blood Knight**: Battle-hungry? Check. Unnerving temper? Check. Obsesses over Collin ever since they met? **Huge** check.
* **Comedic Sociopathy**:
	+ *"I'm the girl who killed your sister. Nice to meet you."* — said casually to Lily's little sister.
	+ Rose is pretty good at this, such as this little exchange when she was giving Collin a countdown to come out before she roasted Annalise. Rose did not give a nice slow count, as was usual.
* **Cool Big Sis**: To those she considers family.
* **Cute and Psycho**: Her default personality.
* **Faux Affably Evil**: She's warm and friendly, but it's mostly an act. She's completely okay with murdering her 'family' if they get in her way.
* **Hair-Trigger Temper**: It doesn't take much to piss her off.
* **Lack of Empathy**: Cheerfully greets the family of those she has murdered by introducing herself as the murderer. The weird thing is *she actually meant well*. That's as good as she gets when it comes to attempting to take responsibility for her actions.
* **Lady Swears-a-Lot:** Her mouth is NOT as beautiful as the rest of her face.
* **Morality Chain**: She acts like a good guy around Elizabeth and isn't *quite* as sadistic and murderous even when Elizabeth isn't around after her Heel–Face Turn, but it's mostly just because she doesn't want Elizabeth to hate her. This is also the case with Collin.
* **Super Reflexes**: She's fast enough to escape a bomb going off in her face, and to move away when somebody aims a gun at her.
* **Unwanted Harem**: Somehow makes Collin, Annabelle, Jessie, *AND* the original founder of the SSS, Callix, fall in love with her. Not to mention her ex-boyfriend, David, is STILL in love with her. And did she want it? No. In fact, she didn't even realize how many people were in love with her.

### Lillian Allen — Lily

* **Abusive Parents**: She was raised in a facility, where she was put through so much Training from Hell that she's the Sole Survivor.
* **Ambiguous Disorder**: Lily's penchant for manipulating people, seeing people only as tools to be manipulated in order to further her own goals, a shallow emotional affect, self-centered attitude, and an abusive childhood all point to traits consistent with Antisocial Personality Disorder. Furthermore, her aloof attitude and her wanting to isolate herself from others also add traits from Schizoid Personality Disorder.
* **Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work**: She undoubtedly does morally ambiguous deeds the others wouldn't do, but they can, and do, benefit from. Sure, her only goal is personal gain and maintaining her sense of freedom, but she still subconsciously helps others more often than not. Many inner monologue is dedicated to her contradictory nature.

* **Brilliant, but Lazy**: Despite her insistence that she's just an average girl, she seems to be quite skilled and competent not just in academics, but also martial arts.
* **Cool Big Sis**: To her little sister, Leilani.
* **Dies Wide Open**: Her eyes are wide-open and blankly staring when Rose drops what's left of her in front of Elizabeth.
* **Even Evil Has Loved Ones**: She loved her younger sister and made sure to keep Leilani away from the morally dubious and shady nature of the SSS.
* **The Man Behind the Man**: Lily's modus operandi. She prefers to influence and lead her co-workers from the sidelines rather than draw attention to herself. Due to this, she often has a habit of passing of her schemes as plans others thought of.
* **Nice Girl**: Played with. Lily is tolerant, kind and willing to help friends; on the other hand, her life philosophy differs from that of the All-Loving Hero in the direction of moderate cynicism with heavy notes of Social Darwinist.
* **No Social Skills**: This goes back and forth as she is fairly good at reading the mood of others, but is absolutely terrible at expressing her own emotions.
* **The Stoic**: Hardly reacts to anything.
* **Unscrupulous Hero**: Lily intentionally tries to maintain amicable terms with her co-workers and is capable of reading social cues. Despite this, her true motive is only to maintain her current lifestyle and not be sent back to the facility she was raised in. Deep down, she only views most of her co-workers as tools, with the exception of few people she is close to.

### Collin Youno — Linny

* **Bracelet For My Beloved:** Collin ends up giving Rose a bracelet that was very special to him, as a form of his love for her.
* **Chocolate Heart:** Has a soft spot for any sweets.
* **Cuddle Buddy:** Is very affectionate with Rose.
* **Critically Crazy:** Despite usually being calm, sweet, and awkward, Collin does have his moments where he completely loses it.
* **Cutesy Boy:** Looks really adorable, but will break your spine over Rose and sweets.
* **Friendship Rivalry:** With Callix. Collin and Callix both compete over Rose, but end up becoming friendly with each other.
* **Hating You Isn't Worth It:** At first, Collin appears to hate Callix, Annabelle, and Jessie. However he eventually gets over the fact he's not the only one in love with Rose.
* **I Think You're Perfect:** Collin believes that Rose is perfect, in and out.
* **Losing Isn't An Option:** Collin is one of the more stubborn characters, and doesn't stay down even for his own benefit.
* **Not My Favorite:** Around Annalise, Collin mostly seemed either disgusted or uncomfortable.
* **Purple Hair, Red Hair:** Due to one of the battles Collin has, he changes his look almost completely and is barely recognizable.
* **Serious Moment:** Sometimes says random things at random times, this usually brightens the mood despite it being unintentional.
* **You Deserved It:** When meeting David for the first time, David explains to Collin how he died, and expressed regret when talking about Rose. Collin, however, shows no sympathy and talks about how David deserved to die because of the way he treated Rose, and even Annabelle.

### Annabelle Flanes — Anna

* **All Love Is Unrequited**: Annabelle's feelings for Rose are unreciprocated by the latter. Subverted with David.
* **I Want My Beloved to Be Happy**: After realizing that Rose may have feelings for Collin, Annabelle realizes her feelings were unrequited. Despite this, she just wanted Rose's happiness, so if she wanted to be with Collin she could, however Annabelle couldn't give up on her just yet.
* **Love Epiphany**: After realizing the truth about her now ex-fiancé, she also realized that she was in love with Rose. For how long? Even she's not sure.
* **Nice Girl**: She's very considerate of others, and is almost selfless. She's always checking up on everyone, including experiments, to make sure that they're okay, and will do whatever she can to help if they're not.
* **Suddenly Sexuality**: After realizing that her now ex-fiancé, David O'Neil, was cheating on BOTH her and Rose, she realized that she no longer felt attraction to the opposite gender, making her a closeted lesbian as a result.
* **Why Can't I Hate You?**: Despite knowing Collin's feelings are reciprocated by Rose, Annabelle couldn't bring herself to hate the male and just accepted the fact that they loved each other.

## Experiments of the SSS

### Elizabeth — The Man Eater

*"What is right, and what is wrong... That is decided by the human heart. But then, what exactly is a heart? What someone considers the light, may actually be dark to someone else. To want only light without ever knowing the dark... I can't do that."*

* **Action Girl**: Superhumanly strong and fast and can summon weapons to use.
* **Adorkable**: Her social awkwardness crossed with her soft-spoken voice and lack of perceptiveness often makes her this in comedic moments.
* **An Axe to Grind**: She wields a small hand axe.
* **Artificial Human/Designer Babies**: Elizabeth and Maribelle were genetically engineered by Neptune.
* **Badass Adorable**: She's a small and quiet girl with a plethora of powerful abilities.
* **Blade Below the Shoulder**: She can summon blades onto her wrists as her main combat method.
* **Dandere**: Elizabeth played this trope straight when she first joined the SSS, being shy except when around Rose (and even then, she sometimes struggled to speak). Her doll, Elize, on the other hand, completely inverts it, and Elizabeth herself is currently growing out of it.
* **Doppelgänger Attack**: One of Elizabeth's abilities. All copies have the same abilities as the original, including the aforementioned Doppelgänger Attack.
* **Dual Wielding**: With two Hand Sonic blades, which she needs to slice twice as much ass.
* **Dumb Muscle**: A rare female example. Rose lampshades on this by saying that Elizabeth is better at fighting than pondering over a plan.
* **Dungeon Bypass**: Laws of physics need not apply.
* **Elegant Gothic Lolita**: Her regular attire.
* **Emotionless Girl**: She is so emotionless that the SSS consider her even less alive than NPCs. However, she's more of the "emotionally repressed" type than outright emotionless.
* **Flash Step**: Her Delay ability.
* **Girls Love Stuffed Animals**: Elizabeth is a good example as she is almost never seen without her bunny doll Elize, and woe betide the people around her when she accidentally lets go of Elize.
* **Girl with Psycho Weapon**: She's quite the cutie, but she's often seen holding an axe. An addition to that would be her Guard skill, which gives her a blade coming out of her sleeve. It changes as it "goes up" in level, which goes from a short blade, a long blade, a trident, a giant flower, and when she upgrades to a fifth level, a sinister claw. Ultimately, subverted, since it's a defensive weapon and once we learn more about her personality under the chilly exterior.
* **Gratuitous English**: "Guard Skill: [English Phrase]."
* **Healing Factor**: When shot, her body spits the bullet out and repairs the hole in seconds. Then she activates Distortion...
* **Heel–Face Revolving Door**: Her first Heel–Face Turn came about in ''understanding'' her, at least a little bit. Her "last" Heel–Face Turn is permanent.
* **Immune to Bullets**: With Distortion active, they refract through her body like laser beams, causing no apparent damage.
* **Implacable Woman**: A shot to the legs will slow her down, at least until she activates Guard Skill - Distortion, but it won't stop her.
* **Little Miss Badass**: A major ass-kicker possessing Super Strength and great skill with blades while having the appearance of a preteen girl.
* **Multicolored Hair**: After regaining her color, her grey hair turns into blond with rainbow tint.
* **Musical Theme Naming**: Most of her abilities, such as Harmonics and (Hand) Sonic. Also, Distortion, Overdrive, and Delay are various guitar effects.
* **Mystical White Hair**: Elizabeth's normally blonde-rainbow tinted hair turned white/grey when she lost her 'color'.
* **Nice Hat**: It's reminiscent of a record disk.
* **Older Than She Looks**: Despite her looks, her age is never revealed as she could be 14, but also 16. Turns out she's so small because her heart condition inhibited her growth.
* **One-Woman Army**: She can take an entire barrage of small fire arms and grenades without a scratch, and still get up to kick ass.
* **Parrying Bullets**: She can block bullets with her Hand Sonic.
* **Pint-Sized Powerhouse**: She's one of the shortest characters in the series, being only 5'2". Yet, she's hella lot stronger than a young girl of her size should be.
* **Poor Communication Kills**: The entire conflict could have been averted had she talked about her goals and the world's purpose properly. She's aware of it, too. She even admits to having horrible communication skills.
* **Power Incontinence**: Suffers this even more so than other experiments; if anything happens to Elize, Elizabeth's mental state becomes unstable and she ends up either causing sound-related intrusions (at best), or losing control and causing another massacre to happen (at worst).
* **Power Limiter**: Sort of. Elize calms her down enough for her not to use her powers on others.
* **The Quiet One**: She speaks rarely, briefly, and softly.
* **Rapunzel Hair**
* **Rei Ayanami Expy**: Pale skin with light hair? Check. Eerily stoic behavior? Check. Sequestered emotional baggage? Well... Defrosting love interest? *Double* check.
* **Red Oni, Blue Oni**: In a single person. Elize is the outspoken fellow while Elizabeth is a calm and somewhat shy girl.
* **Self-Duplication**: She develops the skill "Harmonics" to make a clone of herself which has her same powerset, including "Harmonics". However, Elizabeth uses this skill while it's still faulty and she can't make her clone disappear. Also, the clone she creates is evil and soon after, there's several evil Elizabeth's running around. The SSS uses her computer to add the feature needed to re-absorb the Elizabeth clones into the original.
* **The Stoic**: Her face never shows any emotion.
* **Tender Tears**: When she's reunited with Elize thanks to Oliver. After that, whenever something happens to Elize...

### Aom Amemiya — The Bloody Angel

* **Abusive Parents**: Her negative opinion on men stems from her abusive excuse of a father.
* **Action Girl**: One of the most powerful experiments in the SSS and seems to actively seek danger.
* **Color Motif**: Red and white.
* **Does Not Like Men**: Very harsh on boys.
* **Eyepatch of Power**: Wears an eye patch, since Isaiah gouged it out
* **Eye Scream**: Her eye was actually gouged out by Isaiah.
* **Genki Girl**: Not much gets her down.
* **Jerk with a Heart of Gold**: She can be short-tempered and impatient with boys, but her relationship with Zachari and her other friends reveal she has a gentle heart.
* **Keeping the Handicap**: She *could* restore her eye - but she wants to find her original lost eyeball instead of growing a new one.
* **The Prankster**: Her main gimmick. Is *literally* called 'The Prankster' in-series.
* **Single-Target Sexuality**: Has eyes for no one but Zachari.
* **Vitriolic Best Buds**: With Zachari, with some hints of some other feelings on both parts.
* **Weapon of Choice**: Knives.
* **Winged Humanoid**: Feather wings, due to being an artificial angel.

### Leo Floris White

* **Animal Motifs**: His flames sometimes take the form of serpents, and when induced to a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, he forms a dragon.
* **Berserk Button**: Insulting or harming his experiment brethren in any way.
* **Berserker Tears**: During Leo's Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Vincent notices that his dragon form is actually crying in anguish, with visible tears of flame leaking from its eyes.
* **Bishōnen**: He is slim with feminine features.
* **Cool Bike**: His vehicle is a motorcycle.
* **Dude Looks Like a Lady**: You'd be forgiven for thinking he's a girl if you're just looking at his art with no knowledge of the story or hearing his voice.
* **Person of Mass Destruction**: He nearly destroys District 23 with his dragon form of seraphim flames.
* **Pint-Sized Powerhouse**: Despite his fragile build and being significantly shorter than normal males he's one of the most powerful experiments, being able to take down an entire army on his own.
* **Red Oni, Blue Oni**: Despite being the one with fire powers, Leo is the Blue Oni in his dynamic with Vincent, being the calmer and more calculating of the two, befitting a leader. He does have his own hot-blooded moments though.
* **Scaled Up**: He takes the form of a giant dragon made of fire during his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
* **Shirtless Scene**: When Leo and Vincent were on a mission, it started raining. After they arrived at the apartment they were renting at the time, Leo took off his shirt, since it was wet, revealing his bare chest to Vincent. God knows what was happening in his mind...
* **Too Many Belts**: He has about eleven belts on his body.
* **Unstoppable Rage**: Leo goes berserk when he goes after the spirit of his older sister.
* **Unsettling Gender Reveal**: Has to *constantly* remind Vincent that he is, in fact, a male despite how long they've known each other for. This gets a funnily embarrassed and awkward reaction from Vincent in return.
* **Vocal Dissonance**: His rather deep voice contrasts his feminine appearance.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Has light greenish hair.

### Vincent Ward

* **Cannot Talk to Women**: He has trouble communicating with any women unless he's known them for a while.
* **Foil**: To Leo. He's short, loud, Wouldn't Hit a Girl, looks like a middle schooler and... let's face it, he's an idiot. And more grounded.
* **In-Series Nickname**: Vince.
* **Luminescent Blush**: Whenever he talks to girls. Or tries to say "thank you" to Leo.
* **Super Reflexes**: Fast enough to dodge a bullet that interrupted him while he was still talking. At point-blank range no less.
* **Tsundere**: Type B, as he's usually caring and cheerful in his rough way to everyone, open about where his heart lies. Except around Leo, if you know what I'm saying...

### Celestia Reed — The Musical Angel

* **Animal Motifs**: Birds, of course!
* **Berserk Button**: Specifically cites that she can't stand guys who only get into music to impress and pick up girls. Guys who see girls as nothing but pretty faces also seem to trigger her.
* **Cute Bookworm**
* **In-Series Nickname**: Celeste.
* **Oh, Crap!**: When Asher catches a glimpse of her true self.
* **Shut Up, Hannibal!**: "Humans don't have the patience to wait even ten minutes for something."

* **Stepford Smiler**: Type C apparently. Silver is more acquainted with Celestia's violent side and finds her usual smiling face to be off-putting.
* **Super Senses**: Super *hearing*, to be precise. Celestia has the most talented "ears" of any of the cast.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Has white hair in her 'angel form'.

### Mary Heart — The Queen of Hearts

* **Adaptational Attractiveness**: The original Queen of Hearts was ugly, with a bulbous head. This version is a very beautiful woman who aged gracefully.
* **Anti-Villain**: She's only a threat when she loses herself to her anger, otherwise she's just extremely abrasive, but honestly cares for her teammates enough to protect them.
* **Ascended Extra**: An absolutely terrifying version.
* **Berserk Button**: Practically *everything* for Mary. And she *enjoys* it.
* **The Caligula**: An Ax-Crazy ruler whose answer to everything is a beheading.
* **Crazy-Prepared**: As the Queen of Hearts, she doesn't keep her heart where everyone else does, making it impossible for anyone to rip it out.
* **The Dreaded**: Every single human is terrified of her and her reactions.
* **God Save Us from the Queen!**: She has a huge temper and has anyone who upsets her executed.
* **Hair-Trigger Temper**: *"I warn you, child... if I lose my temper, you lose your head!"*
* **Hanging Judge**: Seems very prone to immediately ordering the decapitation.
* **Ice Queen**: Main reason is she lacked a heart.
* **Jerkass**: It's not just her temper, she actually *enjoys* being cruel to people.
* **Lack of Empathy**: Thanks to removing her own heart.
* **Love Is a Weakness**: Her motto. And it's a weakness she's more than willing to use or remove as she sees fit.
* **Mind over Matter**: Mary has a habit of using this with magic to bring things to her or toss people around.
* **Mood-Swinger**: She has huge mood swings, from content to enraged at a moment's notice.
* **Necromancer**: She can control the dead.
* **Our Zombies Are Different**: After ripping out people's hearts, Mary can use that heart to control multiple hearts, and order the corpses to rise and be given a command which they will obey.
* **Pimped-Out Dress**: A red, black, and white dress to go with the card motif.
* **Playing Card Motifs**: Every heart she takes corresponds with a card in the standard 52 card deck.
* **Psychopathic Womanchild**: She's basically a spoiled bratty child trapped in the body of a tyrannical adult queen.
* **Red and Black and Evil All Over**: Courtesy of the natural playing card colors.
* **Soul Jar**: Apparently, being just *figuratively* heartless was too subtle...
* **Stepford Smiler**: Type C.
* **Would Hurt a Child**: She's perfectly willing to have a little girl beheaded. All because she made her lose her temper.
* **Your Answer to Everything**: Beheading, of course.

### Athena Barron — The Demigoddess Warrior

* **The Aloner**: Athena wants to simply be alone, likely so she won't have to maintain her image as an Ideal Hero. It is revealed that she just doesn't want anyone to know about her darker personality.
* **Born Winner**: From the cradle to the grave, Athena was always the receiver of gifts, blessings, and love.
* **Broken Ace**: As someone who was designated to be a great hero from birth, Athena was under great pressure to live up to the image of being an Ideal Hero. This had a very negative effect on her psyche, leading her to shove all her dark and unheroic thoughts into a Split Personality under the belief that a perfect hero could not harbor such thoughts.
* **The Hermit**: Her wish is eternal solitude.
* **Ideal Hero**: Subverted due to the extreme hate that permeates the corners of her mind and her unintentional arrogance. It can be said that she's a deconstruction of what an Ideal Hero is. While she was celebrated by her family and the people as the apex of heroism, Athena could not comprehend how a noble's daughter, a close friend of the 'bad guys', could be far more honorable and noble than her. When she realized her own dark thoughts were unbecoming of a hero, she rejected those thoughts and blamed it on her 'attendant'. The perception of what a so-called "ideal hero" is burdens Athena.
* **Insufferable Genius**: She's extremely talented, powerful, and courageous, and the problem with that is she knows it. She tries repeatedly to be humble about herself, but Rose and the other scientists repeatedly point out that yes, Athena really likes talking about herself and how she's the hottest shit to ever stand beneath the sun.
* **Large Ham**: Usually a rather calm girl, but if she gets too much into what she's doing, she can pull some major overacting.
* **Master Archer**: A very skilled bowwoman.
* **Nice Girl**:
	+ She's a genuinely nice and just person, though Rose and the other scientists are quick to point out that she's really self-conceited and unintentionally arrogant.
	+ Averted with regards to her darker personality, where she manifests incredible cruelty and jealousy towards her sister and rival.
* **Person of Mass Destruction**: Her normal arrows cause explosions at 10% of her bow's power, and she's capable of wiping out Demon Pillars with ease. In killing a few strong enemies, she accidentally turns the enormous forest around her into a desolate waste. She even goes "oops..." afterwards.
* **Shock and Awe**: She attacks with lightning as arrows.
* **Smug Super**: She is rather fond of singing her own praises, though in her defense she *is* pretty damn impressive.
* **Split Personality**: Her darker traits manifest as one due to her inability to accept them.
* **Tiny Guy, Huge Girl**: With Luca, as she's at least a head taller than him.

### Rae Chinen — The Champion

* **100% Adoration Rating**: While the rest of the team may bicker with each other, they all deeply admire and respect Rae.
* **The Ace**: Everyone on the team looks up to him; he's an exceptional explorer, adequate at close combat, and a very capable leader.
* **Dark Is Not Evil**: He mostly wears black and his aura is purple. He's also a grade-A Nice Guy and the leader of a mighty team loved by good, feared by evil.
* **Failure Knight**: According to his creator, Rae's protective Team Dad streak is fueled by the loss of his first team.
* **Form-Fitting Wardrobe**: In contrast to everyone else's clothes, Rae's shirt, pants, and vest all look as though they've been painted directly onto his skin.
* **Good Scars, Evil Scars**: Has a heroic scar over the bridge of his nose from the First Dimensional War.
* **Hunk**: He has a strong, muscular build and a Lantern Jaw of Justice as befitting the trope.
* **The Kirk**: Rae balances between emotions, which usually manifest during his Team Dad moments, and logic.
* **Lantern Jaw of Justice**: As appropriate for The Leader.
* **The Leader**: Of the levelheaded variety.
* **Manly Gay**: He's not Macho Camp by any means, but he's an extremely skilled fighter and very fit, heavily muscled, and masculine looking, as well as being responsible for a decent amount of the story's fanservice centered on these aspects.
* **Mr. Fanservice**: A lot of effort is spent detailing his muscular Heroic Build in closeup shots.
* **Nerves of Steel**: He's very good at keeping his cool under pressure. This make him a very good leader.
* **Not So Stoic**:
	+ While normally collected and level-headed, Rae occasionally suffers from crippling panic attacks.
* **Power Glows**: His right hand glows with an awesome power when he uses it to fight or power other tech. It's often concealed by his uniform, the glow extended to his whole forearm and limited to his fist after.
* **Red Baron**: Was known as 'The Champion' when forced to fight in the First Dimensional War.
* **Rugged Scar**: Rae has a scar over the bridge of his nose from his time during the First Dimensional War.
* **Straight Gay**: It's been confirmed that he had a boyfriend named Liam back in his military days.
* **Tall, Dark, and Handsome**: An extremely tall man, with dark hair and eyes, chiseled features and a Mysterious Past.
* **Team Dad**: Senior officer, oldest and most level-headed of his team, often dispenses encouragement and advice to his teammates when they're having trouble.
* **Wise Beyond His Years**: Described word for word as this.

### Alfie 'F' Morihei

* **All-Loving Hero**: Alfie is not fond of competition and fighting (though he will if pushed), and is shown to be incredibly empathetic thanks to his upbringing.
* **Artsy Beret**: His Nice Hat.
* **Because You Were Nice to Me**: Toward Nico. Alfie's admiration for him is due to him being the few who treat Alfie like everyone else instead of avoiding him like most do.
* **Bully Magnet**: He was picked on because the children thought that he thought of himself as superior to them because of his upbringing, when in reality, his family constantly made him feel inadequate.
* **Eccentric Artist**: Described as such, and boy does it show.
* **Flash Step**: Can be really fast.
* **Hollywood Personality Disorders**: Avoidant Personality Disorder. He's very shy and rather socially awkward.

## Scientists of the DC

### Leia

The leader/founder of the DC, she is a member of the Aphelion Clan and the successor to the Zaizen family samurai line. Leia's primary weapon is the *Kodachi*, a family heirloom passed down to her by her father.

* **Ancestral Weapon**: Her sword, "Kodachi".
* **BFS**: Her katana, which gives her a good long range on her attacks.
* **Contralto of Danger**: Has a low voice to go with her immense strength.
* **Curb-Stomp Battle**: She literally defeats Mason using only one finger.
* **Hair-Trigger Temper**: Do **whatever** it takes to not get on her bad side.
* **Innocent Innuendo**: *"Length is a factor, of course, but what matters most is durability. One round is never enough. It takes ten times in a row to satisfy me. Of course, they usually break long before then, and the worst ones give you splinters. Good training swords are really hard to come by."*
* **Innocently Insensitive**: She doesn't understand that asking someone why they can't just confess their feelings outright is a bad idea. To her it's a perfectly legitimate question.
* **Jerk with a Heart of Gold**: Is a brash, crude, rude, blunt, stubborn, and sometimes even a cruel woman that hates war and chaos and would do anything for friends and family.
* **The Leader**: Of the DC. Her role mostly involves keeping her experiments focused on the mission at hand and breaking up the petty squabbles they otherwise get into.
* **Multicolored Hair**: Half white, half brown.
* **Not So Above It All**: Leia admits that she sometimes has to get away from everything and "Let it all out," lest the stress overwhelm her.
* **Playing with Fire**: Leia incorporates the element of Fire into her techniques, though it's green.
* **She's Got Legs**: Leia has long and slender legs which get shown off quite a lot due to her outfits.
* **Weapon of Choice**: She single-handedly uses a katana called Kodachi.
* **Willfully Weak**: She outright refuses to use her strongest abilities in most of her fights, even if they would very easily turn the tide in her favor.

### Elaine Ellison

*"Yes! Isn't it amazing? Ah, the power of science. It's my life."*

* **Brainy Brunette**: She has a surprising amount of talent in scientific investigation for someone her age.
* **Comfort Food**: Her Karintō.
* **The Lab Rat**: She would *prefer* to be this, but she flunked the exam for it. She eventually succeeded, and is much happier for it.
* **Seen It All**: The way she nonchalantly defuses a bomb scare gives this impression.
* **Thinking Tic**: Lays one arm across her torso, rests the other arm's elbow on the wrist, and touches her cheek/mouth area while she's thinking. She’ll also start to slowly sway from side to side as she ponders.
* **Throw the Dog a Bone**: Elaine finally achieves her dream job as a forensic investigator.

### Soleil Valentin

*"Oh, my. So you do listen after all. I was thinking your ears were as bad as your face and your style."*

* **Beauty Mark**: Soleil is considered to be one of the sexiest women in New York and, as one of the signs of her beauty, she has a tiny, perfectly circular mole just to the right of her lower lip.
* **Brilliant, but Lazy**: Soleil's a smart, skilled and loyal scientist, that just so happens to love getting drunk, slacking off while on-duty, shopping for tons of stylish clothes, sneaking her way out of work and deviously getting her coworkers to pay and work for her.
* **Big Breast Pride**: Very fond of showing off her boobs, but she's more or less just a harmless, gentle-hearted tease about it.
* **Buxom Is Better**: She's not above using her appeal to help her get what she wants, such as the time she tried to convince Elijah to let her sleep at his house by unbuttoning her blouse. Her breasts are used in a comedic way to embarrass the younger Boris but the small-breasted Jessie insults her for being a "cow" when they fight.
* **Cool Big Sis**: To Elaine and Boris.
* **Dude Magnet**: Boris is implied to have a crush on her and she is quite popular among New Yorken men as well.
* **Fun Personified**: If you wanna have a great party, she's the girl for the job.
* **Good Bad Girl**: Her gigai, definitely, though she herself is just flirty.
* **Hard-Drinking Party Girl**: Loves her drinks and can handle her alcohol well.
* **The Lab Rat**: She's in charge of analyzing evidence.
* **Lady in Red**: Wears a red and black dress under her white lab coat.
* **Nice Girl**: She has a reputation for being lazy, but she's also well-known for being loyal, compassionate and friendly.
* **One of the Boys**: Busty and feminine, and gets along very well with the ladies around her, but she simply prefers hanging out with guys (especially Boris and Elijah) when she's not on duty. Conversely, most guys of the DC treat her as one of those due to her fun-loving, easygoing personality.
* **Proud Beauty**: Soleil knows she has a large bust, and she flaunts it pretty shamelessly, usually for comedic purposes due to being The Tease. On at least one occasion, she's even tried getting Elijah to change his mind by hiking up her skirt and unbuttoning her blouse.
* **Sad Clown**: She's actually deeply troubled, at least by Boris' behavior. You wouldn't know about her sad past from her attitude today.
* **Shameless Fanservice Girl**: She's not at all ashamed to show off her boobs. She's also not above teasing men (namely Elijah) by unbuttoning her blouse or hiking up her skirt.
* **The Slacker**: When not in action, she tends to laze about and avoid all work.
* **Statuesque Stunner**: She's not quite as tall as others, but she's one of the taller DC ladies at 172 cm (about 5'7'').
* **The Tease**: She deliberately arranges her clothing to give her Absolute Cleavage which is guaranteed to have an impact on men. Any man who tries to take advantage of this, however, will get kicked or elbowed in the face for his trouble. She may encourage "window shopping" but grabbing the goods is not allowed.

### Kenneth Ellison

* **Anti-Mentor**: Downplayed. Kenneth isn't a terrible therapist, and he does genuinely help everyone, but if you have any experience with therapy then it becomes clear that he isn't particularly good at being one and comes across as emotionally manipulative. This is Justified since therapy isn't his specialty and he has severe mental baggage of his own.
* **The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes**: Despite being a therapist, it’s quite clear that he’s very troubled himself. This ends up factoring into his relative incompetence as a therapist since someone with severe, untreated issues themselves probably isn’t qualified to help people who are also troubled, especially since therapy isn’t his field of expertise.
* **Conspicuous Gloves**: Since he's a doctor, it makes some sense for him to wear them. Since he's hardly ever doing anything medical in the story, it makes less sense. And they don't look like medical gloves anyway. It turns out there's a ring under one of them...
* **Genius Sweet Tooth**: He admits to liking sweets quite a bit, saying that it's vital for anyone who works with their brain.
* **Hospital Hottie**: Definitely.
* **Labcoat of Science and Medicine**: He's a doctor and is seen wearing a lab coat constantly.
* **Obfuscating Stupidity**: While he's never meant to be depicted as an idiot, considering he's a trained doctor, he comes across as rather ditzy. He is actually a scientific genius, and a pioneer in cognitive science.
* **Redhead In Green**: Lucky that the uniform is a flattering color on him.
* **Trademark Favorite Food**: Apples, usually the juice variant. He's almost always got a box of it nearby, and gives a coupon for free juice to Elaine like it's handing her money.

## Experiments of the DC

### Marianna — The Lamenting Siren

* **All for Nothing**: *Warm Winter* reveals that her efforts to save her home and mother were for naught, making her the Sole Survivor.
* **Awful Truth**: By the end of her story, she's still stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, blissfully unaware that her hometown was still mysteriously ravaged under the protection of her conch shell. This takes an even more awful tone when it's revealed that she was unsuccessful in saving her home and her mother.
* **Barrier Warrior**: Her "Song of Protection" creates a sonic barrier that deflects the attacks directed at her and her allies.
* **Beware the Nice Ones**: She is a very shy but sweet girl who hates when people fight. However, when she fights she proves exactly why she is called one of the strongest experiments of the DC.
* **Bittersweet Ending**:
	+ In her story, she manages to save the town and her mother from being ravaged by the Cube Anomaly...except, as anybody knows already, Estero Harbor was annihilated in the past anyway. Marianna continues to relive the same day with happier results, unaware that her act of protection did nothing in the real present time. This takes an even bitter tone when it's revealed that Marianna put herself in a Forced Sleep and Lotus-Eater Machine because of her obsession to be with her mother.
	+ Played straight as a sweeter version in *Warm Winter*, where Hilda manages to get through Marianna and end the Lotus-Eater Machine to mourn the passing of her mother and all her friends, all whom bid her farewell as they ascend to their afterlife. With renewed freedom, Marianna leaves the ruined harbor town behind and goes out into the world to perhaps find her father somewhere in Gyrate if he's still alive, though she conditions herself not to hold on that hope to avoid getting hurt again.
* **Broken Ace**: She's smart, attractive, popular, and talented, but is far too shy to enjoy the most out of it.
* **Brown Note**: She can sing an inaudible "ultrasound" song, that causes the target to crumble to pieces.
* **Compelling Voice**: She's able to make people do what she wants with her voice.
* **Despair Event Horizon**: She was at ground zero when Accro was ravaged by the Cube Anomaly, at which time her Other powers awoke and trapped the souls of all the people of the harbor town in a "Groundhog Day" Loop for her to keep relieving for *thirteen years* until she was brought to her senses by Hilda.
* **Doomed Hometown**: Two-fold. Hazlitt (her birthplace) and her hometown are all but ravaged by present time, but her story takes place before then. Even though she believes that she saved Accro, she's still stuck in the "Groundhog Day" Loop to notice, since it's actually a Forced Sleep dream.
* **Dreaming of Things to Come**: She constantly dreams and relieves events of what will happen on the same day, which makes her want to find the solution to avert disaster. All of this is willingly from her wishes to keep Accro "alive" in her memories.
* **Elective Mute**: She can talk, but chooses to communicate with a sketchpad, since her voice is lethal.
* **Forced Sleep**: It turns out she placed herself in a dream of the last two days of *Endless Summer*.
* **"Groundhog Day" Loop**: Her story involves herself somehow being stuck in a time loop that keeps repeating the same day when the Cube Anomaly rose from the sea and destroyed her home city and took everyone away, leading her to find a way to prevent the disaster and save her mother. Though she seemingly succeeds in saving the town and her mother, it's later revealed that she's stuck relieving the same day with slight differences, while the town is presently in ruins while shielded by her huge conch shell. It's *later* revealed that she placed *herself* in a Forced Sleep / Lotus-Eater Machine.
* **Hikikomori**: A *very* bizarre example due to trapping all of Accro's deceased souls inside a giant magic conch shell that kept her and the souls within a Lotus-Eater Machine of her own making that she refused to dispel because she didn't want to come to terms with her mother being dead. This takes cues from the Chinese dragon Jiao Tu, who used to live behind high walls and refused to leave unless force was used which is exactly what happens to Marianna when Hilda fights her to release Accro's souls free, and how the dragon liked to close things and keep them shut.
* **Let's Get Dangerous!**: A lot of people note that when she puts her notepad away, it means she's getting serious.
* **Logical Weakness**: Her voice won't be able to brainwash someone if they can't hear it. Likewise, since her powers comes from her vocal chords, she would be rendered helpless if her mouth is covered.
* **Lotus-Eater Machine**: She willingly created one to trap the souls of all of Accro's residents to keep relieving the two days prior to Accro becoming ravaged by the Cube Anomaly *for 13 years*, believing that it's better for them to stay alive in *some* way.
* **Make Me Wanna Shout**: She is a siren. Hearing her voice could kill you.
* **Meaningful Name**: Her name Marianna means 'Star of the Sea'. She's also called the 'Star of the Sea' in-story.
* **Palm-on-Cheek Pose**: To be expected for such a shy girl.
* **Power Limiter**: Her notepad.
* **Older Than She Looks**: Unlike the many examples from other Others, she looks the same as she did when she was 18 years old, when she should be 16 years older than *that.* It's also implied that she's still 18 after she comes to terms with the death of her mother and friends, which would make her 21 currently since that story took place 3 years ago.
* **Shrinking Violet**: Shy around strangers and suffers crippling anxiety over performing in front of crowds.
* **Sole Survivor**: She was the only survivor of her home when the Cube Anomaly rose from the sea.
* **Superpower Lottery**: Her ultrasonics are a decent prize.
* **Talking with Signs**: She communicates by writing on a sketchpad. When she decides to talk, **YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD**.
* **Tragic Monster**: When she's confronted inside her conch shell dome by Hilda and Tevor, she appears as a creepy ghostly version of her real self. She gets better when she's defeated.
* **Vague Age**: While her bio lists her as being 21, it's revealed in *Warm Winter* that she was 18 when the Cube Anomaly descended on her home, as well as during the events of her time loop in *Endless Summer*. *Warm Winter* also reveals that she's been in this loop for *13 years,* with the story taking place 3 years ago, meaning she should be 34 by now, but after Hilda gets her to leave her world behind she still looks and sounds like a teenager, so it's unclear how old she's supposed to be now.
* **Walking Spoiler**: The details behind what really happened at Accro is full of big spoilers that goes beyond the reason why she's in a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
* **Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?**: She has quite a lot of phobias, but is especially terrified of blood and blisters, as well as collections of small holes. She also earned a fear of barnacles and even the mere *thought* of crayfish in the bathtub.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Has silver hair.

### Solaris Whitlock

* **Animal Companion**: His owl.
* **Blindfolded Vision**: Wears a blindfold to cover his eyes, but his sight is unaffected.
* **Blue Is Heroic**: Wears navy blue and is one of the kinder and less morally gray experiments.
* **Facial Markings**: A large scar under his eyes in the shape of an M.
* **Friend to All Living Things**: Especially birds.
* **In the Hood**: Wears clothes with hood or cloaks.
* **You're Better Than You Think You Are**: While he gives one to Marianna, he is also the receiver of this from both Marianna and surprisingly Quinn. Quinn noted that he looked just fine with his eyes uncovered, surprising Solaris as he considered them ugly and 'weird like himself'. Marianna said that Solaris is really kind and that she liked looking into his eyes because it made her feel safe, which caused Solaris to blush as no one ever really said that to him before.

### Sparrow Amemori — The Candy Witch

*"The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole."*

* **Berserk Button**: Talking about his "true nature". The mere mention of Noah also tends to get him in a bad mood.
* **Bitch in Sheep's Clothing**: He may put up a childish front, but if you get on his wrong side, he'll drop his childish act and start talking in a much deeper voice.
	+ Suddenly crosses into Omnicidal Maniac in Sheep's Clothing when he expresses his desire to kill Noah — nay, *everyone*.
* **Blatant Lies**: When asked about what kind of person Noah is:
	+ **Sparrow**: He’s a good person.
	+ **Everett**: Anything else?
	+ **Sparrow**: He’s a good person.
	+ **Everett**: Anything *else?*
	+ **Sparrow**: He’s a good person.
	+ **Everett**: Sparrow, is it possible that… you hate Noah?
	+ **Sparrow**: Don’t say that, Everett! Hate’s a strong word, do you really think I could hate anyone?
	+ **Everett**: Yes, of course.
* **Cry Cute**: During his first on-screen meeting with Noah, Sparrow yelled about how much he hated everyone for making him feel so lonely. When Noah pointed out he simply wanted to feel loved, Sparrow broke down in tears.
	+ *"It's EVERYTHING you prick! God, you're annoying! It's everything, okay?! **EVERYTHING PISSES ME OFF!** Them! And them! And them! And YOU! Everyone and everything! I HATE YOUR GODDAMN GUTS! You just... You all treat people like garbage. But you're all just as bad! **QUIT TRYING TO ACT LIKE YOU'RE ALL FRIGGIN' PERFECT!** Leave me alone. I wish everyone would just... go. Get out of my life. I'd be better off with **YOU DEAD!** DIE...! DIE! GO TO HELL! YOU DISAPPEAR! YOU FALL APART!"*
* **Foil**: To Noah.
* **The Fake Cutie**
* **In Touch with His Feminine Side**: He’s a pink-haired witch with a big penchant for candy and a cutesy way of speaking, making him one of the least masculine members of the cast.
* **Japanese Pronouns**: Uses "boku" normally, but switches to "ore" whenever he talks in his lower voice.
* **Meaningful Name**: His last name, Amemori, contains the character for candy.
* **Multicolored Hair**: More subtle than others, but Sparrow's hair is purpler at the tips than at the top.
* **Older Than They Look**: You wouldn't think he's *21* by looking at how he looks and generally behaves, and that's not even including the fact that he's even shorter than Asher, a 16-year-old. At one point, he even gets mistaken for an *elementary school student*. But then again, he isn't exactly a human.
* **OOC Is Serious Business**: If he starts to speak with his deeper voice (a.k.a the "true" self of Sparrow), then you know it's really serious.
* **Oral Fixation**: Is seen sucking on/holding lollipops in most of his official art. It is showed that he used to smoke.
* **Psychopathic Manchild**: A cute, candy-loving, and carefree guy hiding a dark "true" side with possible designs on killing everyone.
* **Rose-Haired Sweetie**: Only on the outside.
* **Trademark Favorite Food**: Lollipops specifically, but he's associated with candy in general.
* **Vocal Dissonance**: While his public voice is light, it's still rather masculine for someone with as cutesy an appearance as he does. It only gets more dissonant when he uses his aforementioned deep voice.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Has pink-purplish hair.

### Rayna Acqua — The Psychic

> *"Keep your chin up and live life facing forward! Survive with me and everyone else!"*
>
>

A mysterious girl with a rather cavalier demeanor. Despite her attitude, she can quickly grasp the depth of a situation and gives off the impression that she may know something that others don't. She is so warm and loving that even the dark and twisted Elian loves her. She's also very clever, but her view on reality is rather cold despite her friendly attitude. Perhaps because of her powers and experience, she knows how the world works quite well and has become very Genre Savvy as a life, making frequent comparisons between what's going on and stories.

Rayna is one of the mysterious *Others* — other dimensional beings with gifted abilities — and may even be a genetically perfect human being.

* **Above Good and Evil**: She stated that "Good and Bad", "Happiness And Sorrow" and so on are the same thing.
* **Beware the Silly Ones**: She seems shallow and carefree, but is very sharp and willing to interrogate others to get information. She also fully grasps the gravity of the situations she's in.
* **Bokukko**: Uses "boku" and generally masculine language.
* **Catchphrase**: Every time she meets someone, she says the phrase "I'm just your friendly neighborhood psychic."
* **Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life**: When she was a child, she wondered why someone so incredibly skilled and intelligent as her was born, and came to believe her life was meaningless. Eugene was the one who gave her a purpose by telling her she must have been born to make people happy.
* **Dissonant Serenity**: She's also really friendly looking and giving seemingly genuine, heartfelt smiles no matter what she's feeling or what's going on.
* **Fashionable Asymmetry**: Her hair is longer on the left side of her face, leaving her other ear exposed.
* **Lonely at the Top**: During her childhood, she did things so effortlessly that she couldn't make any friends.
* **Mellow Fellow**: She acts pretty down to earth and calm despite the situation.
* **Messy Hair**: To add to her generally casual, easy-going appearance.
* **Nice Girl**: Despite her suspicious looks, she's a very polite, mild-mannered, and friendly girl.
* **Oblivious to Love**: She doesn't appear to have a clue about Elian being in love with her. Elian assumes Rayna can't comprehend the feelings of normal humans, so he can't expect her to ever feel the same way about him. Turns out it was less typical obliviousness, more that Rayna loves humanity as a whole, not one specific person, which Elian later finds out.
* **Perpetual Smiler**: She always has a smile of some sort on her face unless something particularly surprising happens.
* **Tareme Eyes**: To help denote her apparent Mellow Fellow vibe.
* **Übermensch**: Over the course of her life, she's decided that good and evil, happiness and sorrow and all sorts of other ideas have no real value.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: A tone of silver that is close to blonde.

### Akinobu Poppet

*"I am not worth any special mention. I have no power, and little merit. I'm worthless, the worst kind of man."*

* **At Least I Admit It**: He knows he's a sly and self-serving Manipulative Bastard, but unlike others with bad behaviors in this series, Akinobu doesn't make excuses for the way he is and openly admits his worst traits.
* **Chivalrous Pervert**: He often jokes about liking "high school girls!" (and, heck, he probably means it), but apart from some harmless flirting he never acts on it.
* **Creepy Doll**: His room is populated by a lot of them, even though they're not seen proper. He programs complex AI into them in hopes of making them like real people.
* **Jerkass Has a Point**: As manipulative and "dirty" as he is, he genuinely gives very good advice when it counts.
* **Karma Houdini**: Arguably, his manipulations and mind screws (*especially* in regards to Delano, the boy he loves and yet still manipulates) never got him in real trouble.
* **Manipulative Bastard**: Akinobu himself lampshades this, calling himself 'the dirtiest one of all,' because he is willing to use everyone to achieve his goals.
* **Obfuscating Stupidity**: Sometimes, when conversations turn serious, he turns to this so he can keep up the façade that he knows more than he lets on. When he's not doing this, he's probably manipulating you.
* **Truly Single Parent**: He has various dolls, which he brings to life and makes them his children.
* **The Unfettered**: By his own admission, Akinobu will readily dirty his hands or sacrifice *anything* to get his way.
* **Yandere**: A non-violent one towards Delano. He has been obsessing over Delano since they met and he torments Delano with mind games as payback for him having sex with a woman. As Akinobu himself says, he loves Delano so damn much that sometimes he wants to spoil him rotten, and sometimes he wants to crush him to a pulp.

## Minos Bureau Of Crisis Control

### Delilah Hawthorne

The newly appointed chief of the MBCC, and the 13th overall.

* **Amnesiac Hero**: Has no memory of who she is or where she even came from.
* **The Empath**: The Shackles provides Delilah with a strong psychic link over large distances that allows her to, variably, sense the emotional state of her Shackled Others, as well as enter and influence their dreams, subconscious, and battle mental corruption directly. Furthermore, since the Shackles seem to largely be influenced by the mental state of either party, this also crosses with The Power of Friendship and Heart Is an Awesome Power.
* **A Mother to Her Men**: Do NOT threaten her Others, or you will regret it.
* **Four-Star Badass**: While Delilah is the one in charge of the Bureau, her place in the hierarchy of the city is quite flimsy and even less glamorous than it might initially sound. While the Bureau has some semblance of power, the FAC and the City Council seem to be able to overrule their decisions. Also, their status as an underground faction makes them unable to act publicly, with the very identity of the Chief (and some of the Others) as a secret. This, apparently, is to avoid retaliation from Anti-Other groups.
* **Good Is Not Soft**: One shouldn't take the fact she's a Reasonable Authority Figure for granted, while Delilah has a surprisingly high amount of empathy even for Others with violent and sociopathic pasts, she won't think twice on tearing her enemies apart on the battlefield, both verbally and physically.
* **One-Winged Angel**: Her "ability" gives her the power to transform her body parts into tentacles, but when she is really serious, she can transform herself into an Eldritch Abomination.
* **Only Sane Man**: A given, considering her job. In spite of partial amnesia and the stresses of her job, she is a pretty well-adjusted person with a strong understanding of morality, philosophy and what makes people tick.
* **The Stoic**: Subverted. Delilah's default expression might *look* very stoic and she defaults to a calm monotone when speaking up, but she can be very expressive both when desperately issuing orders in dangerous battles or happily comforting those in need. At most, one could say she has a Sugar-and-Ice Personality to contrast her dealing with her allies and when dealing with strangers.
* **You Are in Command Now**: Suddenly finds herself as the Chief of the MBCC, with what happened to the previous Chief being a mystery.

## Detectives

### Ziva Erika Nolan — The Greatest Detective

*"I don't sit like this because I want to. I have to sit like this. You see, if I were to sit normally, my deductive skills would immediately be reduced by roughly 40%."*

Ziva is the greatest detective in the world, able to control and work through the police force worldwide and notorious for uncovering seemingly unsolvable crimes.

* **20% More Awesome**: She occasionally gives statistics about how right she is. It's claimed that she makes these up to sound more credible, while another claims that whenever she mentions a statistic at all, she's always 99% sure. So all that "5%" or "47%" or whatever meant she was almost totally sure every time, a claim that seems dubious when you consider that Ziva frequently uses these statistics in her inner monologues. However, this makes sense when one considers that her statistics likely only factor in hard evidence.
* **Ambiguous Disorder**: She has odd mannerisms and shows zero interest in confiding in others or romantic relationships despite being a Chessmaster who is very good in manipulating facts and people.
* **Badass Bookworm**: She's a brilliant detective, and quite able to hold her own in the occasional fistfight.
* **Barefoot Loon**: Is a brilliant but eccentric detective who has a penchant for going barefoot.
* **Batman Gambit**: The Do Not Adjust Your Set one being only her first.
* **Big Eater**: Ziva is always eating sweets.
* **Blood Knight**: More interested in interesting cases than in "right" or "wrong."
* **Brainy Brunette**: Subverted. Her hair is more black than brown, but she's still a Smart Girl.
* **Brilliant, but Lazy**: Sometimes. She apparently takes 2 months off of her own investigation and refuses to work on it again.
* **Bunny-Ears Lawyer**: Give Ziva a bowl of candy, and she'll work for two nights straight. Three, if she has to.
* **Celibate Hero**: She was never interested in romantic relationships. The creator confirmed that.
* **The Chains of Commanding**: As Ziva, she lives under constant threat of death, has to contend with people dying on her watch, mistrust from the police and from the public and avoiding choosing a successor. Oh, and no social life.
* **The Chessmaster**: She is the world's smartest detective and has used various strategies and tactics.
* **Cloudcuckoolander**: She has odd gestures and a very unusual personality. It is unclear how much of it is genuine, however.
* **Collector of the Strange**: Ziva collects criminals, which is all well and good for a detective, but her way is a bit... *creepy*. Ziva has an army of peepers at her disposal who do her bidding and help her set up surveillance cameras everywhere.
* **Color-Coded for Your Convenience**: Official color seems to be blue. According to the creator, her assigned color is gold. Grey also seems to be a recurring color.
* **The Comically Serious**: She has a dry sense of humor, after all.
* **Consummate Liar**: To the point where no one can be sure if Ziva is telling the truth, or lying.
* **Covert Pervert**: Subverted, perhaps, because she may have grabbed Aom's magnificent ass, but only to steal her phone.
* **Crazy-Prepared**: She's prepared to use any tactics. She has money and resources set aside for every scenario imaginable... and some not!
* **Creepy Good**: For a certain definition of good. She has No Social Skills, Looks Like Cesare, and is the good guy.
* **Creepy Shadowed Undereyes**: Has these as a result of being The Insomniac which has earned her the nickname of "Panda".
* **Dark Is Not Evil**: Her appearance is a bit... chilling: she is extremely pale, Looks Like Cesare and has Messy Hair. She's also very stoic. However, she's still on the justice's side.
* **Deadpan Snarker**: She has a very dry sense of humor.
* **Determinator**: She hates to lose.
* **Ditzy Genius**: Quirky, but very smart. She was stated by the creator to be one of the most intelligent characters in the series, and has enough idiosyncrasies and few enough social skills that she can barely interact. Generally hyper-competent, she tends to fail in normal conversations and interpersonal relations.
* **Donut Mess with a Cop**: Ziva, unsurprisingly, polishes off a whole box by herself.
* **Enemy Eats Your Lunch**: "You can call me whatever you like, but I'm taking your cake."
* **Everyone Has Standards**: She only takes on cases that she's interested in.
* **Expy**:
	+ Of *Sherlock Holmes* according to the creator.
	+ To Batman himself, being the world's greatest detective with face concealed from the world. Ziva herself is not above acts of vigilantism if she views it necessary and also has a Badass Butler ready to handle certain day-to-day tasks.
* **Extreme Doormat**: Despite being one of the most powerful and influential people on Earth, she acts like one.
* **Fiction 500**: She has a hotel built solely to house (and disguise) a heavily secured task force headquarters, pays for everyone on the task force's life insurance, hands them gadget belts, can afford to hire a professional con man and an international thief, and still has enough left over that her successor can just pour a waterfall of hundred-dollar bills out the top of a building.
* **Friendless Background**: Ziva has no friends.
* **Friend to All Children**: Despite her poor social skills, Ziva is pretty nice with kids, and children treat her with a beloved reverence.
* **The Gadfly**: Ziva will often say things she doesn't mean just to get a reaction.
* **Genius Bruiser**: She's both the world's greatest detective and trained in Capoeira.
	+ **Ziva**: I'm a lot stronger than I look, y'know.
* **Genius Sweet Tooth**: She's a genius and she always has something sweet nearby.
* **Good Is Not Soft**: Ziva is not above using torture and treating other people like mere tools, even if she recognizes the immorality of a Serial Killer.
* **Great Detective**: The top three, actually.
* **Guile Hero**: Relies on her keen intellect.
* **Hero with Bad Publicity**: The public and the police don't trust Ziva because she hides behind a computer screen.
* **I Did What I Had to Do**: Many times.
* **Intelligence Equals Isolation**: To the point where *very* few people have actually seen her in person; most of her interaction is done via a computer screen and a voice changer.
* **Kick the Son of a Bitch**: Ziva only reserves her justice for people she sees as evil, and to be fair, her accusations are *always* correct. Moreover, while Ziva does order the deaths of a few criminals to help further the investigation, these criminals were on death row anyway.
* **Limited Wardrobe**: Ziva is almost never, if ever, seen wearing anything but that shirt, jacket and shorts ensemble. She even shows up at To-Oh University's Opening Ceremony to give a speech dressed that way!
* **Loners Are Freaks**: Unnerves a lot of people with her appearance and habits.
* **Looks Like Cesare**: Probably because she's The Insomniac.
* **Manchild**: She self-confesses to be rather childish and a sore loser. Unlike other detectives, Ziva herself doesn't really care particularly for justice, seeing all her cases to be games to be solved for her entertainment. She is not good with interpersonal relationships, and near exclusively eats sweets as a child would.
* **Manipulative Bitch**: Undeniably. Ziva has no problem using people to get the job done.
* **Married to the Job**: Has no canonical relationships, because her line of work (and lack of charisma) makes it difficult.
* **Master of All**: She is the golden standard of the series that everyone strives to surpass. Most notably, she lacks many of the fatal flaws many of the other major characters have.
* **Messy Hair**: Ziva puts little to no stock into her personal appearance. Her hair looks like she's never held a comb or brush in her life.
* **Muscles Are Meaningless**: She's scrawny, but strong enough to knock a full grown man flying across the room with one kick.
* **Must Have Caffeine**: She is frequently shown dumping sugar into a cup of coffee or tea; when a fellow detective asks her how he can be of help, Ziva asks him to go get her coffee.
* **Mysterious Past**: The taskforce, the SSS, and the audience never really learn anything about Ziva.
* **Nice Girl**: An odd example. Despite her poor social skills and Anti-Hero status, she's fairly polite, accessible and civil. That, and her soft side with children.
* **No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction**: She's the world's greatest detective (actually, top three detectives), but she only takes cases that interest her because otherwise effortlessly solving countless cases would no doubt get boring after a while.
* **No Sense of Personal Space**: Coinciding with her No Social Skills.
* **No Social Skills**: Not good at interacting with people, or conforming to their expectations.
* **Obfuscating Stupidity**: One of her greatest strengths, according to the creator. Ziva's eccentricity makes others believe she is completely oblivious in things unrelated to deduction, but Ziva is fairly emotionally intelligent and is knowledgeable on how the world works.
* **Oral Fixation**: The amount of time the girl spends with her fingers/various food substances in her mouth is amazing. Also, she can tie cherry stalks into knots *with her tongue*.
* **Pay Evil unto Evil**: She locks people up in solitary confinement and uses sensory deprivation on them for months on end in order to get a confession, and she has few qualms about letting a few dozen people die in order to catch her culprits (although when presented with a less objectionable option, she did accept it with enthusiasm of an undetermined sincerity level).
* **Pet the Dog**: Her soft side towards kids.
* **Private Detective**: Is contracted out by police organizations around the world.
* **Punch-Clock Hero**: She *only* takes cases that interest her or give her a challenge.
* **Rebel Relaxation**: Ziva has her trademarked poor posture.
* **Seriously Scruffy**: She doesn't seem to sleep, let alone worry about her appearance, while she's working a case.
* **Sherlock Homage**: She has a *lot* of traits in common with Sherlock Holmes, from her brilliance and martial arts skills to her vague non-neurotypicality.
* **The Snack Is More Interesting**: Ziva is fond of this trope. She claims she needs sugary snacks to maintain her intelligence.
* **Socially Awkward Hero**: Emphasis on "socially awkward."
* **The Spock**: Ziva is very logical and rather emotionally repressed.
* **The Spook**: Comes across as creepy.
* **The Stoic**: Remains calm in very bad situations.
* **Strawberry Shorthand**: "I'll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret, okay?"
* **Sweet Tooth**: She can be seen eating various sorts of confections — sweets, cakes, cookies, ice creams — *all the time*. It goes with her characterization as a Manchild.
* **Tautological Templar**: Her methods, including violations of privacy, unlawful imprisonment/kidnapping, and physical and psychological torture, seem to be justified, both in-universe and out, because she's the one doing it.
* **Thinking Tic**: She often bites her nails, particularly the nails on her thumb.
* **Thousand-Yard Stare**: She does this quite a few times.
* **Trademark Favorite Food**: Cake and really sweets of any kind.
* **Tyke Bomb**: Was trained as this, and started out as such.
* **Unscrupulous Hero**: Uses some questionable methods, and is not above lying and manipulating others.
* **When She Smiles**: The normally stoic Ziva gets one of these moments when she tells the Task Force "Justice will prevail no matter what."
* **Workaholic**: She spends all her time solving cases and eating candy. She rarely sleeps.
* **Young and in Charge**: She's 23 at the beginning and the world's greatest detective with control over the world's police forces. It's suggested she's been this for several years, back into her teens and possibly even her childhood. In-series, the middle-aged cops of the taskforce answer to her.

### Edward Callisto

*"We are taught never to shed tears. For to shed tears means that the body has been defeated by emotions. And, to us, the simple act of crying proves, without question, that the existence of emotion is nothing but a burden."*

* **Above Good and Evil**: According to the creator, anyway. Specifically, it's that he simply doesn't care about whether an action he takes is good or bad, only whether or not it's in his self-interest.
* **Action Dad**: Has a daughter.
* **Bishōnen**: In-universe, almost every female character he met has noticed how good-looking he is. Males, too.
* **Brutal Honesty**: Edward will be really forthcoming about how much he wants to destroy you, among other things.
* **Cain and Abel**: To Icarus, whom he called his best friend, brother and considers his most precious person whom he must protect at all cost.
* **Chick Magnet**: Edward has so many emotional problems that he hardly even notices the girls that become entranced by him. You could probably count the number of girls his age (and younger... and a bit *older*...) who don't show attraction to him on a single hand.
* **Childhood Friend Romance**: He and Icarus are best friends since childhood. And they both have romantic feelings for each other, even prior to their affair.

### Sicilia Fallon

* **Beauty Mark**: She has one just below her right eye.
* **Fashionable Asymmetry**: Her left sleeve is tied above her elbow while her right sleeve is not, although in the past, both of her sleeves were tied above her elbows.
* **First-Name Basis**: She and Celina are on a first-name basis with each other, signifying their closeness as friends because nobody else ever refers to them by their first name.
* **Rapunzel Hair**: Long, purple hair tied into Braids of Action.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Her hair is dark purple.

## Lawyers and Prosecutors

### Irmine Von Eisenhardt — Ms. Genius Prosecutor Successor to Alphonse Von Eisenhardt, Irmine Von Eisenhardt

* **Added Alliterative Appeal**: A lot of her strings of insults have this, like "Foolish fools with foolishly foolish ambitions.", or "whimpering whining wuss of a witness".
* **Alternate Character Reading**: Irmine, or Ermine?
* **Animal Motifs**: Horses, which are used to point out her proud, haughty, reckless, and wild nature.
* **Badass Adorable**: In spite of her tough and stern behavior, she is actually a pretty cute young lady. Especially the few times she cries.
* **Berserk Button**: Can't stand lying witnesses
* **BFS**: She wields two curved, serrated blades as long as her legs.
* **Broken Ace**: Despite being a successful, relentless prosecutor, Irmine has very little emotional maturity, besides being competitive to the point of ridiculousness.
* **Child Prodigy**: Became a prosecutor at the age of 13.
* **Combat Stilettos**: The heels are lower than many other examples.
* **Deadpan Snarker**: If she's not stinging people with her whip, odds are that she will with her words.
* **Defrosting Ice Queen**: Starts as a female Jerkass, ends up a Type A Tsundere.
* **Endearingly Dorky**: She isn't immune to moments of awkwardness, once she starts to defrost. Though, her moments are much subtler than the others.
* **Everyone Has Standards**: Refuses to whip children or old people (the judges excluded).
* **Full-Name Basis**: To the point that everyone else present starts doing the same, whether by accident or to call her out on it.
* **Germanic Depressives**: She shows anger (a lot) and fear, though she almost never shows genuine sadness or happiness (not "Ha-ha, I crushed you" happy, normal happy).
* **Hair-Trigger Temper**: Not even the judge is immune from her whip.
* **Inadequate Inheritor**: She's always concerned about living up to the von Eisenhardt name.
* **Inferiority Superiority Complex**: Deep down she has a crippling sense of dread that she's unworthy of the von Eisenhardt name, despite the massively egotistical personality she exhibits.
* **Serrated Blade of Pain**: She dual wields two of these.
* **Sexy Backless Outfit**: Her nightdress bares it *all.*
* **Tsundere**: Her "tsun" side comes up most of the time, and her "dere" side comes when she feels vulnerable or takes pity on someone helpless.
* **Verbal Tic**:
	+ She uses the words "fool", "foolish", or "foolishly" at least three times every sentence.
	+ In Japanese, she sprinkles her more anger-charged statements with "Baka."
	+ Calls everyone by either full name or made-up nickname, no in-between. Doesn't like it when others turn it right back on her.
* **Weapon of Choice**: Her whip.

### Celina Odette

* **Badass Longcoat**: She wears an elegant feathered black coat.
* **Beauty Mark**: Sports one below her eye.
* **Black Cloak**: One with fur that she wears over her dress.
* **Doing It for the Art**: Discussed. It is also the reason why she uses an anonymous identity to show her art to the world.
* **Hidden Depths**: She is the artist she admires, Z, and various hints to it are dropped in the story before outright confirming it.
	+ The necklace she wears is one-of-a-kind, and Celina says that it is exclusively-made merchandise despite there being absolutely no other hints of Z merchandise even existing.
	+ Z also popped up in the year that Celina went on a hiatus.
	+ Z specializes in oil painting, and Celina mastered oil painting.
* **Psychotic Smirk**: She's frequent to pulling unnerving grins on purpose.
* **Tron Lines**: The yellow lines decorating her clothes.

### Magna Poppet

* **Absolute Cleavage**: Her outfit includes an open bustier that reveals her cleavage.
* **The Ace**: An extremely skilled, attractive Defense Attorney.
* **Arch-Enemy**: To Desirée, a feeling that is more than mutual. She takes a case simply because of her potential involvement.
* **Buxom Is Better**: She has some predominant assets, which are emphasized by her low-cut dress.

## The BloodBanners

### Asher Richards

Oliver's younger brother and the leader of the BloodBanners. He is the main antagonist in 'The BloodBanners Arc', but later becomes a main character.

* **Cannot Talk to Women**: Or at least Elizabeth, as he trips on his words when speaking alone to her for the first time, but can converse with the female members of the Gang just fine.
* **Defrosting Ice King**: Was quite cold towards Elizabeth at the start, but later on becomes more kind and caring towards her.
* **Please Don't Leave Me**: His greatest fear is Elizabeth leaving him, as he feels like he can't live without her.

### Caith 'E' Harris — Dirty Bloodsucker

A member of the BloodBanners. He's *also* an admitted liar. True to his stature as an evil mastermind, Caith says exactly what will most rile up the others, smiling the whole time. He loves causing mischief and stirs up a lot of trouble.

* **Attention Whore**: Caith really can't resist showing off, particularly in situations where he gets to toy with both his teammates and enemies to his heart's content.
* **Angel/Devil Shipping**: There's significant evidence that he falls in love with Julian as things go on: talking to himself about being in love with him after lamenting Julian rejecting him as a "partner", being satisfied that he "stole Julian's heart", and has a love scene where he keeps Julian as if to blur the lines between if Foe Yay is his "kink" or if he's trying to still see Julian as himself.

* **Badass Adorable**: Looks like a cute high-school boy. Is also a dangerous Manipulative Bastard who would have successfully outwitted Rose had she not figured out his scheme.
* **Beneath the Mask**: While it's hard to tell how much anything he does is genuine there are times when he breaks "character" that shows how he really feels.
* **Berserk Button**: He seems to dislike it when people state that lying is wrong but continue to lie to themselves, thus making them look like Hypocrites in his eyes. He tends to give harsh What the Hell, Hero? speeches when people do so.
	+ He can't stand it when people derail his plans by failing to follow instructions.
* **Big Eater**: Caith is noted to eat a lot (though only if it is his favorite food).
* **The Bully**: Love to mess around and pick on the others, with Julian, Nico, and Asher being some of his favorite targets. That said he doesn't seem to actually dislike any of them.
* **Butt-Monkey**: A justified case since it's almost always meant to be seen as karma, given how often he bullies and harasses the others. Jane traps him in a room full of bugs after he tricked Jane into forcing everyone else he could through it and got *exactly* as much sympathy as he gave Jane's previous "victims".
* **Catchphrase**: Him pretty much stating that something was a lie can be one for him.
	+ "Who knows? I'm a liar after all."
* **Cannot Spit It Out**: Caith has a hard time expressing his feelings and he tends to get quickly jealous of anything.
* **Cheshire Cat Grin**: Has a couple of images with this. They're...unsettling, to say the least.
* **The Chessmaster**: While at the first glance his actions are chaotic, there's a calculated madness in them.
* **Consummate Liar**: Self-proclaimed. It was gotten to the point where him stating that something was a lie could be a Catchphrase for him.
* **Crocodile Tears**: He is prone to using a crying face to manipulate others. So much that in some situations, it's hard to tell if he's either showing these or shedding genuine tears.
* **Endearingly Dorky**: Deconstructed, he knows he is adorable and how to further play it up by acting silly. As a result, he manipulates others with Crocodile Tears, although it tends not to work. Other characters can easily see through his act.
* **Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon:** Looks very cute and short but says he's evil, a liar, and a dictator. His rudeness and manipulation don't make him one of the nicest characters.
* **Faux Affably Evil**: An initially invoked trope on his part. Caith likes to act fairly silly and childish, even providing quite a lot of comedy relief throughout the story, but often goes out of his way to play this up while he's being a Jerkass or trying to stress his "Token Evil Teammate" status.
* **The Friend Nobody Likes**: Caith's trolling and deceiving nature already doesn't win him many points with the others, but what sells this trope is how much he enjoys being a manipulative asshole. He even lampshades this trope by stating that he is the least well-liked member of the gang.
* **Good Eyes, Evil Eyes**: He seems to enjoy invoking this. Usually, he has wide, tareme-ish eyes that make him look adorable and innocent. When he wants to be intimidating, his eyes can become tsurime-like, or head straight into Humanoid Abomination territory.
	+ A lot of art portrays him with Tsurime Eyes, rather than Tareme Eyes, befitting his cunning, manipulative personality.
* **Hidden Depths**: He's a proud liar, a chronic prankster, and a master manipulator, but not a coward. Several times his shenanigans are directly putting himself in the line of danger or embarrassment, even just for sake of putting up the front of an infallible schemer, because he's several steps beyond everyone else.
* **Hypocritical Heartwarming**: He picks on the other characters as much as he pleases, but apparently he doesn't appreciate it if *other people* do the same.
* **The Jester**: It's clear that his trolling wisened up everyone else. He even holds up this persona even when he's put in danger.
* **Kick the Dog**: He is prone to do such as a means of manipulating others.
* **Laughably Evil**: His cheerful untrustworthiness and eccentricities seem to be shaping him up as this kind of character.
* **Loving Bully**: Despite his endless trolling, it's strongly implied that Caith does care about the others, even those he tends to pick on most often.
* **Living Lie Detector**: Being a master liar himself he can see when others are lying with a fair amount of accuracy, so other game players lies tend not to fool him. He can see through *almost* everyone's lies, but due to him being a Troll, sometimes he just rolls with them and even defends them for the lulz.
* **Manipulative Bastard**: Even though people find him suspicious, he is still somehow able to manipulate them, many times *because* he is seen as suspicious.
* **Master of Unlocking**: He knows how to lockpick.
* **Older Than He Looks**: He looks fairly young for his age, and is relatively short.
* **Only Sane Man**: Downplayed. Despite his insane nature, he's actually one of the most level-headed, unbiased members of the cast.
* **Pointy Ears**: Has these as one of his traits as a vampire.
* **Smug Smiler**: He is constantly smiling as if he is one step ahead unless he's using his rare "serious" face that is one of the few indicators he's being truthful.
* **Trademark Favorite Food**: Beef jerky.

### Nick Conrad

A member of the BloodBanners. He is the gang's 'big brother', so to speak. He's quite popular with the ladies and tends to have one or two hanging off of him at any given time. Despite this, he tends to put Wyatt's needs first, rushing to aid Wyatt whenever he needs help.

* **Big Brother Instinct**: To the rest of the BloodBanners, and he's even taken to referring to himself as 'big brother'.
* **Big Brother Mentor**: Wyatt eventually comes to accept him as one. While he rarely admits it outside his own head, he admires Nick's cool-headedness and ability to act in everyone's best interests without letting his own hatred and resentment cloud his judgment.
* **Bishounen**: Take his word when he calls himself beautiful.
* **Chick Magnet**: Nick can easily draw in a crowd of women due to his natural good looks. He also really loves the attention of beautiful women and revels in it at any moment.
* **Chivalrous Pervert**: Nick is always making flirtatious passes on girls, especially Elizabeth, and has on several occasions indulged in visiting red-light districts. That being said, he's a gentleman and a caring individual who will always step in to help a girl in need and despises anyone who doesn't treat women well. Also, Nick won't take advantage of any woman regardless of their situation and treats them like human beings. One of the aforementioned visits to red-light districts involved a girl so touched by his kindness that she tried to prevent him from drinking drugged wine, and Nick willingly drank it anyway so that she wouldn't be punished.
* **The Casanova**: Downplayed. Nick is a sweet-talking womanizer, however he doesn't go around degrading or taking advantage of women especially their hearts. He just uses his seductive charm and looks to get what he wants.
* **The Charmer**: Suffice to say he knows how to turn up the charm, and does so frequently due to his physical attractiveness.
* **Handsome Lech**: Knows he's good-looking and makes passes at the ladies at every opportunity. He also frequently tries to convince Wyatt to visit brothels with him from time to time.
* **Lady Killer**: Downplayed. He will shamelessly flirt with women everywhere he goes and he even stated that what he's into is pretty girls anytime and where.
* **Lady Killer In Love**: He's very much a flirt, as well as extremely aware that he feels both physical and emotional attraction to Wyatt.
* **No Sense of Personal Space**: He's a pretty chummy guy and isn't afraid to throw his arms around others or kiss a girl's hand, even if he's just met them.
* **Proud Beauty**: Gender Inverted. Nick knows that he's beautiful and is well aware of the effect his looks has on the opposite sex and will use it to his advance, and is proud of it.
* **Really Gets Around**: Gender Inverted, but Implied. Nick is a flirty womanizer who on his freetime is seen going to brothels.
* **The Tease**: Gender Inverted. Nick likes to arouse the ladies just by his looks and gentleman actions alone. Also he openly displays his sexuality towards any female he meets in the series. His flirtatious personality helps a lot.
* **Tranquil Fury**: Nick rarely loses his temper and is the most calm in a tough situation, but that doesn't make him less scarier when he's angry.
* **Wife-Basher Basher**: Nick hates any man who will attack or harass woman and will even violently beat them up if they lay their hands on a woman.

### Jane Jackson — Jill

* **All Gays Are Promiscuous**: Averted. She's a lesbian, but admits to only having sex once and isn't that interested in romantic relationships until Noelle comes along.
* **Alliterative Name**: **Ja**ne **Ja**ckson.
* **Ax-Crazy**: The girl doesn't look or act sane in any way.
* **Berserk Button**: She's prone to severe anger when she's out of drugs, as is usual for addicts in real life.
* **Defeat Means Friendship**: How she interprets the use of her power, calling the corpses under her command her "friends".
* **Disabled Love Interest**: To Noelle. She's an addict, depressed, and suffering from a handful of mental disorders.
* **Does Not Like Shoes**: She only wears bandages which cover her heels, but expose her soles and toes, leaving her essentially barefoot.
* **Drowning My Sorrows**: The reason she started using drugs.
* **Drugs Are Good**: Zig-zagged. Though she's obviously fond of the effects of a high, she often talks negatively about the side effects of addiction as well.
* **Dual Wielding**: She wields an extendable knife on one hand and smaller knives on the other.
* **The Eeyore**: A fully justified trope. Jane is struggling so intensely with depression and addiction that it often turns her into this.
* **Fan Disservice**: While she keeps appearing with very little left to the imagination, it's during the process of committing utterly horrifying acts of violence. In general, her nudity is secondary to the torture, mind rape, and general mayhem being committed on-screen by her.
* **Functional Addict**: Played with. Though she's not exactly *functional*, she does go through periods of time in which she can mime sobriety.
* **Hyperspace Arsenal**: She has way more than just the one knife, and she can use and throw all of them at the same time without ever running out.
* **Jerk with a Heart of Gold**: Jane can be *very* reckless and self-centered, frequently prioritizing her desire for drugs over her relationships with friends and family. However, she still genuinely cares about the people close to her and does regularly apologize to them when she lashes out or mistreats them.
* **Knife Nut**: She's very good with her knife, and relishes the chance to use it.
* **Licking the Blade**: Signature pose, using her signature knife.
* **Limit Break**:
	+ **Shanking** - she rushes forward, delivering multiple strikes with her knives, ending with doing a powerful stab with her extendable knife.
	+ **Frenzy** - a Super Mode that is accessed from another skill.
	+ **Pure Bliss** - she enters Frenzy Mode and begins to dash towards her enemies at insane speeds while slashing wildly with her knife.
* **Omnicidal Maniac**: Her wish, as genuine and innocent as it sounds, drives her into a quest of Kill 'Em All which would result in The End of the World as We Know It.
* **Smarter Than You Look**: Despite her deranged looks and personality, she's actually an incredibly clever strategist that repeatedly outwits others.
* **Sticky Fingers**: In her youth, she engaged in petty theft to survive.
* **Voice of the Legion**: There's something distinctly *off* about Jane's voice, giving it an inhuman quality.
* **Weapon of Choice**: Her combat knife. Better yet, knives in general.
* **Wise Beyond Their Years**: Although through despair, her monologues demonstrate that she is this, as she is very perceptive even about characters who hide their true feelings.

### Noelle 'V' Brown

* **Beware the Silly Ones**: She may be bubbly and flighty all the time, but underestimating her is a bad idea.
* **Cat Smile**: Her default expression.
* **Inconsistent Coloring**: Noelle's hair color seemingly changes from scene to scene depending on the lighting. Her hair can look really light pink, pale lavender, pink with white highlights, or white with pink shading. Because of the confusion, it's often interpreted as bright cotton-candy pink in art.
* **Mark of the Supernatural**: She has a green left eye and blue right eye, which makes her look far from normal. She's not, of course, as she was an experiment prior to escaping.
* **Rapunzel Hair**: Knee-length light pink hair.
* **Sweater Girl**: A simple sweater *gown*.

## The Skull Crushers

### Marin Blixt — The Thunder Girl

* **Cheshire Cat Grin**: As befitting her mischievous nature, it's her favorite expression.
* **Even the Girls Want Her**: Has a legion of female fans due to her cool confident persona and Valerie Whitlock has expressed outright attraction to her on several occasions.
* **Friendless Background**: Due to her growing up orphaned and moving around, she didn't have many friends growing up. This also leads her to long for close knit friends.
* **The Gadfly**: Marin loves riling up other people, especially Elian. She gets called out on this by Sean. Continuing this behavior for her own amusement will get someone killed.
* **I Just Want to Have Friends**: Explains why she becomes so attached to Valerie and protective (often to the point of jealousy) of her.
* **Insufferable Genius**: She is incredibly skilled and not afraid of showing it.
* **Missing Mom**: Her mother abandoned her when she was four to run off with a guy.
* **Nice Girl**: Marin can be a Deadpan Snarker but she is kind-hearted and caring.
* **Perpetual Smiler**: She's hardly ever seen without a smile on her face.
* **Raised by Grandparents**: She was raised by her grandmother until she died when Marin was 15.
* **Stepford Smiler**: Her nonchalant smiles and teasing attitude are her way of masking her emotions and coping with a cold family environment.

### Alison Sakou — Killer Queen

*"By the looks of it, it didn't seem like he wanted to harm you, so, if you want to kill him, I say do it. If you want to get to know him, go for that then. Doesn't really matter in the end anyways."*

A member of a Skull Crushers. She was sent to the DC due to her supernatural origins, but escaped and then ended up joining the Skull Crushers.

* **Ax-Crazy**: Alison is one of the most dangerously psychotic and violently unstable characters in the whole story. She viciously tortures and murders several innocent people in the course of just a few days.
* **Bitch in Sheep's Clothing**: Even though she appears like a charismatic cute girl, she's completely psycho.
* **Cheshire Cat Grin**: Often before she decides to mess with someone.
* **Gyaru Girl**: Alison dresses and characterizes herself in this archetype as part of her outgoing and vibrant personality. Her dyed blond hair and shockingly red eyes (achieved through contacts) are fashion statements that make her stand out among her peers and contribute to her successful part-time modeling career.
* **Hammerspace**: Appears to be where she kept her taser as none of her outfits at the time seem to feature any pocket.
* **Implausible Hair Color**: She has blonde hair even though she's Japanese. Subverted, as it's dyed.
* **Master Actress**: She has frighteningly good acting skills.
* **Nice Girl**: Alison is affable and courteous towards pretty much everyone, save for some random guy who tried to hit on her at the salon.
* **Psychotic Smirk**: When she's a Troll instead of her usual self.
* **Serial Killer**: Unlike others, her murders tend to occur every couple of days. Visionary type combined with revenge sub-type.
* **Stepford Smiler**: Unstable type. Behind that polite and sweet smile, there's a mentally unstable girl who goes on a murder spree when triggered.
* **The Unfettered**: She's all for manipulating and killing people who she thinks have wronged her.

## The Alliance

### Marissa Poppet

*"You really wanna play with fire? To see that final game get set? You'll see me playing all my cards, I'm the reason that they call it rush-in roulette. You think I give a crap about pay?! You think I can't see eye to eye?! Bitch, I don't give a damn about debt! The only thing I'm running after is that next big high!"*

* **Ax-Crazy**: Stands out as this, as she revels in violence and has the overwhelming desire to play "games" that have a high chance of ending in *her own death*.
* **Bedmate Reveal**: Malcolm wakes up with Marissa on top of him. Twice.
* **Book Smart**: As a result of reading medical textbooks in her free time, Marissa can act as a coroner and perform low grade pathology such as identifying wounds and even if the victim died instantly purely through visual examination. These are duties NOT performed by nurses whatsoever, which administer the care needed afterward. The fact that she CAN perform these duties really is a testament to her brilliant intellect.
* **Brother–Sister Incest**: Accuses Isaiah of this on a regular basis after her fight with Malcolm. This is even Played for Laughs. Again, it's not clear if it's just Refuge in Audacity on her part, or if there is actually truth to any of her claims.
* **Blue-and-Orange Morality**: The only thing that makes her happy in life is insanity. Even her current obsession with bringing pain and potential death on herself is fed by this.
* **Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick**: Has a fetish for biting, hickeys, long legs... and vomit, as she proclaimed.
* **Cute and Psycho**: Less cute, more psycho. Aside from her already-existing Yangire tendencies, she enjoys horror movies for how helpless the victims are, and tries to chase down an unwilling Malcolm to give him an injection.
* **Depraved Bisexual**: It's strongly implied that the sex of her partner is not important for her, if they can bring her enough pain to excite her.
* **Evil Cannot Comprehend Good**: She goes ballistic upon learning that Isaiah knew she was lying all along, and still cared for her as a sister.
* **Hospital Hottie**: It seems that way, what with her dressing in a semi-short nurse's uniform, being wrapped in bandages, and having a large bust size.
* **The Medic**: To the best of her ability. She's actually quite knowledgeable about human biology, which makes her essential for compiling autopsies about how murder victims died.
* **Nightmare Fetishist**: She likes horror movies because of how helpless the victims are in them. Her favorite movie is *Human Centipede*, for crying out loud!
* **Russian Roulette**: Her trademark game. She even plays it by herself if no one else will indulge her, which is often.

## Compass

### Anesidora — Pandora

* **Air Guitar**: Or rather air violin.
* **Animal Motifs**: Spiders.
* **Contralto of Strength**: She has a low, sultry voice and is a dangerously deadly combatant.
* **For Science!**: Anesidora does a lot of things to collect data.
* **The Gadfly**: Seems to like messing with people's heads through Exact Words as well as Vagueness Is Coming, in between just simply screwing with them.
* **Guns Akimbo**: Anesidora wields twin shotguns, one for each hand, simultaneously.
* **Naughty Nuns**: She's beautiful but looking at her naked center, you could see a bit of her boobs and stomach, and how her outfit is so thin to the point you can see the outlines of her thighs definitely ups this trope.
* **Superpower Lottery**: Via the Level Upper, she has access to virtually hundreds of low-level Other abilities. It's a helluva lot more dangerous than it sounds, demonstrated when she curb-stomped an entire Anti-Other swat-team.
* **Wild Card**: While she appears antagonistic, Anesidora's motives are a mystery.

## Secret Agents (Zapharis)

### Ziel — Z

A beautiful strong-silent-type agent who has attained legendary status as a fighter. Ziel is an orphan who lost her parents in a raid from being from the Other World when she was a child. Adopted by a powerful family, she became one of the most promising elements of the OSF after being scouted at 12 years old. Now an elite agent with superb fighting skills, Ziel is cool, rational, and indifferent to others. While her relationship with her parents is complicated, her adoptive sister Naomi was the only one who showed her affection, leading to a close bond between the two. The handmade hair ornament Naomi made her is Ziel's most prized possession.

* **The Ace**: Beautiful, intelligent and popular.
* **Achilles' Heel**: Ziel's ability to turn invisible and sneak behind enemy lines is useless when the enemy has ways to detect invisible enemies.
* **Action Girl**: If she had to, she'd kick Buffy's ass. She'd apologize afterwards, of course. But she'd do it, and you damn well know it.
* **Ambiguous Disorder**: She wasn't so much duty-bound to the OSF, so much as she seemed particularly fixated on her role as a soldier. It's to the extent that she has to define even casual meet-ups with her teammates as missions. She also generally is pretty flat-toned except during moments where she experiences particularly extreme emotions, and she frequently struggles to pick up on social cues. She's also incredibly blunt - while aware that this can be hurtful, she'd rather be efficient with the truth. Notably, she isn't confused by or unaware of social norms, she just has little patience for them; she's also comfortable with outright lying if need be.
* **Badass Adorable**: While still maintaining a sexy and cute appearance?
* **Big Sister Instinct**: Inverted. She's considered the younger sister despite her and Naomi being the same age (albeit physically rather than chronologically), and harming Naomi was a huge Berserk Button for her and one of the few things that could break her composure.
* **Blue-and-Orange Morality**: Downplayed in that it's only in how she interprets and judges others, but the qualities she looks for in a person to determine how good they are are explicitly stated in miscellaneous chatter to be qualities Naomi had.
* **Boobs of Steel**: One of the most action-oriented of the girls thanks to her upbringing and has quite a big bust.
* **Brutal Honesty**: She's incredibly blunt, particularly in her assessments of others. She doesn't do it to be rude - she just hates small talk and believes being straightforward is the most fair and efficient way.
* **Character Tics**: Often calls people 'kid'. Whether they're younger than her or not doesn't seem to matter.
* **Charles Atlas Superpower**: A lifetime of training has crafted the perfect human weapon in Ziel. Despite having a deceptively slim figure, she is capable of amazing feats of strength.
* **Chaste Heroine**: Oblivious of anything related to romance. She doesn't even know what a love letter is and has no knowledge about Valentine's Day.
* **Consummate Professional**: Despite her relatively young age, she's cool-headed and objective-driven when out in the field. It's to the extent that she seems to genuinely struggle with interacting with others in a more casual environment.
* **The Cracker**: Naturally, since she's a hacker.
* **Cry Cute**: Ziel is usually so serious and tough that seeing her cry is a tender sight.
* **Cuteness Proximity**: She has a soft spot for cute things, especially small animals.
* **Cyborg**: She has cybernetic implants along her spine and in her skull to aid her hacking.
* **The Dreaded**: All local gangs are absolutely terrified of her.
* **Friend to All Living Things**: Animals love her.
* **Hates Wearing Dresses**: She says that she avoids feminine clothes, including skirts and dresses because they are hard to fight in and are embarrassing to wear.
* **Impossible Genius**: Ziel's so good with computers and other machines that she can hack not only computers, but mechanical devices in general and even *people*.
* **Lady of War**: She fits the bill, though unlike others, she usually does give a warning before attacking.
* **Master of the Levitating Blades**: Ziel's weapons are a set of blades she manipulates with her own psychokinesis to hurl them at her enemies as a Flechette Storm.
* **Oblivious to Love**: Inverted. Both Shiden and Naomi imply that Ziel actually has feelings for Zero, but she's completely caught off guard when this is pointed out to her.
* **One of The Boys**: Tries to be feminine though.
* **One-Woman Army**: Ziel singlehandedly destroyed a whole gang after some of its members harassed the former.
* **Rapunzel Hair**
* **She Cleans Up Nicely**: Looks boyish and prefers male clothing, but is guaranteed to make heads turn when dolled up.
* **She's Got Legs**: And boy does she know how to use them.
* **The Stoic**: She's stiff and formal almost to a fault and she almost always approaches situations with a cool and rational outlook.
* **Sugar-and-Ice Personality**: Tough, distant and kickass at times (but more cool-headed compared to others), and then affectionate at other times.
* **Super-Strong Child**: She can break a concrete pillar with a single kick.
* **Time Travel**: Her power of Gravikinesis allows her to manipulate Red Strings and travel through time.
* **Tomboy**: She has fairly masculine and blunt grammar patterns, enjoys the life of a secret agent and seems to find her more girly friends slightly boring at times.
* **Tomboyish Ponytail**: Is a Tomboy and wears her hair in a low ponytail.
* **Trauma Conga Line**: Her beloved sister is turned into an Other, has to struggle with the idea of killing her sister's crush for the sake of saving the world, has to stay separated from Naomi even after the latter regains her mind while staying as an Other, is emotionally blackmailed into serving the agenda of one of the villains for fear of Naomi coming to harm, discovers that she's an Artificial Human who was created for the sake of performing a Ret-Gone on the entire world, was emotionally tortured as a child to awaken the power to do so, thought she saw her adoptive mother killed as part of said torture, sees her sister be killed as a result of trying to protect her from the ones who created her and then is able to use her powers to reunite with her adoptive mother but then has to essentially send her to her death to save the world.
* **The Unfavorite**: Ziel makes absolutely no secret of the fact that her parents had no love for her and she has no love for them, in turn, Naomi was about the only person in the whole family who ever showed her any care and affection. Tellingly, Ziel's *only* communication with her mother is her expressing shock and dismay that she didn't tell them Naomi had (allegedly) been KIA, blaming her for Naomi's death and failing to protect her, before saying she never wants Ziel to contact them ever again—not that Ziel had ever been doing that in the first place.
* **What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?**: She's dumbfounded by the concept of love.
* **Wholesome Crossdresser**: Of the "it's easier to move around in men's clothing" type.

### Niles Collins

* **Big "NO!"**: He does this when Ziel gets gunned down in two of his nightmares. It gets Taken Up To Eleven in one of the nightmares where she gets shot in the head and killed instantly.
* **Color Motif**: Seafoam Green.
* **Gamer Guy**: He's all about the games, but he prefers the classics, fighting games and MMOs.
* **Trademark Favorite Food**: Doughnuts.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Or in this case, a nice shade of seafoam green.

### Zaria Coelho

* **All-Loving Heroine**: She cares very much for everyone she knows and doesn't like to see them get hurt. She even says, "I hate watching people hurt and be hurt." She is willing to sacrifice herself to protect the ones she loves and cares for, be they human, vampire, dhampir, exorcist, fallen angel, or devil.
* **Animal Motifs**: Rabbits.
* **Character Tics**: Her nose usually becomes runny when she gets nervous, as a result she will usually start sniffing or deeply inhaling a lot during tense situations.
* **The Confidant**: Zaria has a hard time keeping up as the story begins to escalate, but she always, unfailingly offers a shoulder the others can lean on.
* **Exotic Eye Designs**: She has tiny pink bunny heads for pupils, although they're really only noticeable in high-res renders, or when she deliberately brings herself close in view.
* **Turn the Other Cheek**: She is shown to be very forgiving to those who harm or lie her, though she may have a hard time trusting them again.

### Ezio Zoroaster

* **Crazy Jealous Guy**: It doesn't sit well with him whenever Zaria hands out or does something in particular with another guy (or even her own friends). He expresses in his own words that he's got a selfish side, and underneath he's not as 'purely'-nice as Zaria thinks.
* **Cruel to Be Kind**: Wants to keep Zaria safe, but goes about it the wrong way. He lies to her, drugs her food and drink to keep her at his house, and proceeds to isolate her from everyone by taking her cellphone away. To top things off, he eventually locks her into a cage. One scene has him ask Zaria if she hates him for his actions.
* **Declaration of Protection**: Gave Zaria one when they were children, and repeats it several times. Becomes creepy when he repeats it after locking her into a cage.
* **The Kindnapper**: Keeps Zaria prisoner at his home, deciding it's the only way to properly protect her.
* **Love at First Sight**: He fell in love with Zaria when he first met her and as soon as he saw her smile.
* **Lying to Protect Your Feelings**: Ezio will always lie to spare Zaria's feelings and make her happy.
* **Used to Be a Sweet Kid**: Implied. All There in the Manual: Oh, he's so perceptive of other people! Oh, he's so innocent! Oh, he likes playing with little puppies!
* **Yandere**: Towards Zaria.

### Luther Sylvester

* **Chick Magnet**: Very popular with the ladies.
* **I Love You Because I Can't Control You**: One of the reasons Luther is attracted to Zaria is that she's shown to be greatly immune to his charms and doesn't fall for him like other girls.
* **Ladykiller in Love**: Luther is a well known flirt, but takes a genuine interest in Zaria.
* **Yandere**: Strongly implied with his line about how Zaria is "mine and mine alone".

## Spies

### Zero

One of the Septentrions, who served as a platoon leader in the OSF. Now, he's become a spy.

* **False Friend**: After he disguises and makes a kill.
* **French Jerk**: Is quite condescending towards his enemies and allies alike.
* **Improbable Aiming Skills**: He is capable of shooting with such skill, the bullet ricochets around before hitting the target.
* **Jerk with a Heart of Jerk**: Zero is clever enough to do nice things to make himself look good, but still sports a very belittling attitude while doing it...
* **Jerk with a Heart of Gold**: ...although there is an affectionate heart somewhere in there, just buried deep under many layers of arrogance and stiff formality. Namely, he does seems to be sincerely enamored with Ziel and cared genuinely for his subordinates back in the OSF.
* **Ladykiller in Love**: In love with Ziel.
* **The Leader**: His prior position as a platoon CO aside, Zero was well-known in the OSF for his charisma, his likable personality, and how deeply and honestly he cared about his subordinates.
* **Man of Wealth and Taste**: He's quite proud of that suit, and gets rather upset if you get any of your blood on it.
* **Mysterious Past**: Very little is known about Zero, his career, or the extent of his relationship with Ziel.
* **Smoking Is Cool**: At least until he starts snorting.
* **Sophisticated as Hell**: His default attitude is a cold, collected professional. When he's dominating someone, he instantly switches to a snorting, juvenile pun-thrower with all the elegance of a 12-year old (which he makes up for by being screamingly funny.)
* **Tsundere**: Towards Ziel. Though it's more ***TSUN***dere.

## Artificial Intelligence

### Maria

* **Artificial Intelligence**: She's an AI, specifically a prototype for the AI that runs the ABBY application. As a result, she can only take on a physical form within the digital world and while outside it she communicates with others through phones, computers, TVs, etc., via a hologram.
* **The Berserker**: Turns into this in combat, especially with her ability to gain power from her injuries and anything that irritates her, such as damage to her hair.
* **Boisterous Bruiser**: She acts lively and can be boastful at times, and becomes very agitated when fighting.
* **Boxing Battler**: Based on her blocking and footwork (specifically how she slides to dodge attacks), she fights like a boxer, with some martial arts training to integrate her legs.
* **Cain and Abel**: Is the Abel to ABBY's Cain.
* **Catchphrase**:
	+ *"Okay, leave it to me."*
	+ *"I am Maria, humanity's companion."*
	+ *"Praise accepted~"*
* **Character Tic**: Maria occasionally hums a little tune to herself. Something she picked up from her creator, Katsurō.
* **Flawed Prototype**: She's a prototype of the ABBY AI, created by Katsurō Zaizen to understand human emotion, and ended up being deemed a failure and thrown away after asking the latter what a human heart is. Played with, in that this is only a flaw to Katsurō; he later realizes her successor, ABBY, is actually much worse at her purpose due to being unable to assess emotions. Thus, Maria is actually a Superior Prototype.
* **Interspecies Friendship**: She claims that she wants to be a friend to humanity.
* **Leitmotif**: The straight-forward, hard-rock version of "I Burn" is about her belief she will not be stopped, even if people get in her way.
* **Not Quite Flight**: After being launched into the air, Maria can use her weapons to significantly prolong her flight time.
* **Robot Girl**: The physical form of the ABBY AI prototype, rejected for her being too curious about the human heart.

### ABBY

An A.I. created by Katsurō Zaizen after he ditched Maria under denial that he is anything but a "heartless doll" and programed a similar AI assistant that discounts emotions. Her job is to figure out the desires of people, and the desire that is brought up the most within the public is the answer to ultimate human happiness.

* **A.I. Is a Crapshoot**: She is an AI deity attempting to rid people of all wrongdoing or crime. With that said, she's not actively malevolent towards humanity, simply misguided.
* **Cain and Abel**: Is the Cain to Maria's Abel since they are both created by Katsurō.
* **Clingy Jealous Girl**: To Kairi, after being re-programmed with an emotional algorithm.
* **The Corruptor**: An AI strong enough to alter somebody's Cognition so they become completely insane, and sometimes out of character.
* **Deadpan Snarker**: She is prone to snark at others with a straight face and emotionless tone.
* **Enlightened Antagonist**: Her ultimate solution to humanity's suffering is, on the surface of it, actually rather insightful; since humans aren't perfect in making decisions and may choose the wrong things that result in their downfall, she will be the one deciding for them so nobody will make decisions that they regret. Unfortunately, she was *not* programmed to consider the agency or emotions of others when drafting said solution, and so she just causes people to stare blankly at the ABBY app on their phones.
* **Emotionless Girl**: Starts off this way, due to not being programmed with emotions. However, once she was tweaked by Katsurō, she starts to understand emotions more.
* **Gone Horribly Wrong**: While it's implied that Katsurō wanted ABBY to grant whatever humanity yearns the most figuratively, due to him not even bothering to give her any emotional algorithms and empathy, things obviously didn't go as intended. Katsurō even noticed something is wrong from the get-go, that the people ABBY saved had Dull Eyes of Unhappiness and didn't look happy to begin with.
* **Hope Is Scary**: Or at the very least unnecessary. She claims that hope is what traps people in the cycle of hurt and wishing, calling it "the restraint system binding mankind to its misery."
* **Know-Nothing Know-It-All**: A justified example. ABBY thought that the true desire of humanity was for her to think for them because her app was being consulted on a regular basis, and unlike Maria, Katsurō never programed her with any proper emotional algorithms or the ability to understand emotions. As a result, she was only capable of acknowledging people asking her for help constantly, and drew her conclusions from that.
* **Manipulative Bastard**: The application isn't very far from driving people insane or manipulating children to do Chie's bidding without letting him know that the person it was manipulating was a child.
* **Obliviously Evil**: She's not actively malevolent in the slightest - she's just a machine programmed without the ability to understand emotions.
* **Treacherous Advisor**: Its job is to decide the daily lives of people, It will always present the appropriate option for its owner, and nearly everything it says is correct. There are still things that it can't predict, however....
* **Virtual Sidekick**: She was deliberately designed to act as a guide and a friend to people, so it could find out what they actually want. However, Katsurō's clearly delusional mindset when programming the application resulted in her one-sidedly concluding that this answer is when they could come to rely on her and stop making their own decisions, turning her into the malevolent version of this trope, The Corrupter.
	+ After she is re-programmed, she becomes this to Kairi.

## The Aphelion Clan

### Ichirō Zaizen

Ichirō is the oldest son the Zaizen family and Leia is his younger sister. He failed to become the heir of his family's legacy due to a perceived lack of samurai skills - something his sister has in abundance, which he used to resent her something *fierce* for. He wishes that the two of them could put their differences aside, but every time they are together they seem to argue.

* **Ax-Crazy**: Well, he did break into his sister's bedroom, and tried to hurt her just to take back their family heirloom by force... *twice*. He can also fly off the handle sometimes. (He's gotten much better, though).
* **Bishōnen**: Say what you will about Ichirō, but he's definitely a looker.
* **Green-Eyed Monster**: He was an excellent example back in the day, burning over the resentment of being a no-talent that had to be replaced. He successfully managed to convince himself that Leia *stole* Kodachi from him. (He just as notably worked himself *out* of this).
* **Inferiority Superiority Complex**: He's quite insecure about how he pales as a samurai to Leia, and constantly tries to prove himself to be better than she is. He does end up taking comfort with the fact that he can say he's smarter than she is with him graduating a business course in college.
* **Tsundere**: He *does* care about his sister, he's just very hesitant to show it.
* **The Unfavorite**: His family thinks he's good for nothing and not capable of inheriting their heirloom katana Kodachi. Which was why they payed attention to Leia, who was far more talented, meaning her to inherit the blade and succeed the family as a strong samurai. He was *not pleased* with this, and tried to take Kodachi from Leia, believing himself to be the rightful inheritor. His efforts were always futile.
	+ In a subversion of the trope, his family, especially his father, is fully aware that while he sucks as a samurai, he's an excellent businessman, and they're perfectly fine if he goes down that path.
* **"Well Done, Son!" Guy**: Desperately seeks his father's approval, to the point of madness. Proving himself as an outstanding businessman gained him some respect, which in turn made him a nicer guy, but he's still clearly got a chip on his shoulder.

## The Poppet Family

* **Creepy Family**: Basically the trope codifier. Most, if not all, members of the Poppet Family aren't necessarily mentally healthy nor sane.

### Kai Poppet

* **Cloudcuckoolander**: Seems to be slightly delusional and very playful.
* **Cope by Pretending**: Augustine speculates that this is what Kai is doing. She's not actually mentally ill—she's pretending that everything is fine. There are signs for both.
* **Dissonant Serenity**: She's awfully cheerful for being part of the Poppet Family.
* **Driven to Madness**: The accident where she gained severe brain damage completely broke her mental state.
* **Genki Girl**: A deconstruction of this trope. She's not just "cheerful and optimistic": her mind outright *refuses* to see how gloomy her situation really is, to the point of hallucination. At least at first. Afterwards, she remains cheerful on purpose, but very much conscious of the reality, which could be considered a different kind of deconstruction.
* **The Heart**: Her delusions aside (or maybe *because* of her delusions), her unflagging cheerfulness has served to ground both Bai Ling and Dominique into not giving up living. She even manages to motivate and cheer up Daiyu and snap her out of her Despair Event Horizon with just her simple yet effective, optimistic and kind words and personality.
* **Hidden Depths**: Kai suffers from delusions, but a conversation between her and Augustine suggests she can tell Dominique and Bai Ling are going through much hardship for her sake, so Kai plays up her cheerfulness in order to alleviate their burden.
* **Mad Scientist**: Just like her brother-in-law, Augustine.
* **Nice Girl**: She never seems to get mad at the others the way they do to each other when they have a disagreement. Consequently, this helps her in her The Heart role, as she can often be seen as the glue holding their fragile bond and sanity together.
* **Psychopathic Man Child**: Is by all accounts vicious in battle, but outside the ring is childish and playful, hardly paying anything serious mind.
* **Rapunzel Hair**: Only her bangs are long. The rest of her hair is short. During her younger scientist days, it was the opposite.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Purple hair.

### Brigette Poppet — Poker Alice

* **The Alcoholic**: She has quite the drinking habit and is frequently hung over. It is rather heavily implied that the drinking is her way of self-medicating, and her persistent foul mood and emotional volatility definitely isn't helped by either her alcohol consumption or her hangovers.
* **Ambiguous Disorder**: Her "Whitman Fever" state (where she becomes wantonly murderous and will kill anything in sight) is marked by a Thousand-Yard Stare and flat affect, which indicates some sort of dissociative disorder, and she also has extremely mercurial moods and substantial difficulty with impulse control and anger management, as well as marked identity disturbances and a poorly-defined sense of self (which she tries to cover for with her obsessions with power, dominance, and material possessions).
* **Ax-Crazy**: When she's in a bad mood, which is often.
* **Berserk Button**: Brigette has a Hair-Trigger Temper and gets pissed off at *damn near everything*, but…
	+ Amusingly enough, she seems to have developed a Berserk Button about her Berserk Button, in that she doesn't like it when it's made apparent that a selfish nihilist like herself cares about someone.
	+ People presuming to understand what she has been through or how it has affected her is a huge berserk button for Brigette. It's one of the most reliable ways to make her fly into a rage.
* **Blood Knight**: Brigette is a Sociopathic Hero who gleefully indulges in the carnage that she finds herself in, often sporting a Slasher Smile and becomes obsessed with an enemy if they are shown to be particularly deadly or skilled.
* **Break the Cutie**: By her nihilistic attitude, you just know that Brigette went through something like this during her childhood. It turns out to be police brutality and rape.
* **Byronic Heroine**: Dark and Troubled Past, very moody, *extremely* cynical outlook on life, borderline misanthropic, introspective, steadfast in her beliefs, and has a heavy dark streak and a very rebellious nature. She fits this trope like a glove on a hand.
* **Creepy Monotone**: Once she stops giving the slasher smiles in battle, she goes into this, and it's an indicator that she's gonna kill *anything* and *everything* in sight.
* **Cute and Psycho**: She's attractive and looks cute enough sticking her tongue out, but let her anywhere near a gunfight and you'll see all the glee and excitement you'd expect from a kid on Christmas.
* **Cynicism Catalyst**: Among other really crappy stuff that her early years entailed, Brigette was beaten and raped by a policeman as a teenager. Apparently, it was this event that finally made her snap and start fighting for herself — by killing everyone in the way.
* **Dull Eyes of Unhappiness**: For Brigette, they're a sign that she has gone into psychopathic Whitman Fever mode, and is incredibly dangerous to be around.
* **Guns Akimbo**: Brigette's weapons of choice are two custom-modified Berettas.
* **The Gunslinger**: Type C, as she specializes in Gun Fu.
* **Hair-Trigger Temper**: Jesus **Christ**!! What **doesn't** piss her off?
* **Leeroy Jenkins**: She can usually win whatever she starts, but the woman is incredibly impulsive and will start or join fights at the drop of a hat without any sort of planning beyond "shoot until everyone else is dead".
* **Lightning Bruiser**: Even when unarmed, she is very quick on her feet, hits hard, and is far more durable than she appears.
* **Mood-Swinger**: Her set of attitudes: sullen, Nietzsche-ing, cocky, pleased, foaming-at-the-mouth-furious, and calm. The last is by far the scariest.
* **Murder Is the Best Solution**: Her Trigger Happy tendency means that, whenever she is faced with a problem, she tends to default towards attempting to kill whoever is the source of the problem.
* **Never Be Hurt Again**: This forms a large part of Brigette's motivation for becoming the sociopathic badass she is now. See Dark and Troubled Past.

### Asriel Armani — The Family Servant

* **Couldn't Care Less:** Was too busy cleaning to care about Bear's attempt at executing him.
* **I Hate Everyone But You:** He tells most people he dislikes them and plans beforehand to avoid them, though it's different with Brigette.
* **The Loner:** Is reserved, unapproachable, and easily annoyed with newcomers.
* **The Perfectionist:** It's implied Asriel has OCD, though it's never confirmed.
* **Resting Bitch Face:** Asriel always wears an expression that clearly states he is not approachable.
* **Silence Is Better:** Is sensitive to loud noises, and hates music on top of it.

### Desirée Poppet

Hoo boy, where to start?... Well, first of all, she's evil. **Really** evil.

* **Ambiguous Disorder**: Shows many symptoms of antisocial personality disorder - lack of remorse, superficial charm, and fails to take responsibility for her own actions.
* **Arch-Enemy**: Towards Magna Poppet, a feeling that is reciprocated.
* **Beauty Is Bad**: While she's beautiful, saying she's bad is an understatement.
* **Bitch in Sheep's Clothing**: While horrifyingly evil, she manages to get virtually everyone except Magna and Claudia to fall for her charms, at least until she's found out.
* **Classic Villain**: Representing Pride (believing that she is above the law because of her beauty and charms) and Wrath (going after people she believed have wronged her purely out of childish spite).
* **Crocodile Tears**: One of her many ways of getting sympathy.
* **Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon**: Her beauty is often commented on in-story, but she's one of the more twisted and evil characters in the series. Being the manipulative monster that she truly is, even the Judge points out how "even the loveliest rose can hide the cruelest thorns."
* **Fatal Flaw**: **Pride** and **Wrath**. She's so convinced that she's going to get away with her schemes that she puts on an innocent act. The moment she's due to face actual consequences for her actions, this mask drops, and she swears violent vengeance on anyone who gets in the way of her murder spree.
* **Fille Fatale**: She started seducing people and ruining lives at age *fourteen*, and likely started her scheming long before that.
* **It's All About Me**: Her actions over the course of the story make it abundantly clear that she cares for no one but herself, and by the end she no longer even bothers to deny it.
* **Jerkass to One**: A Crueler To One example, as while Desirée doesn't care for anyone but herself, she doesn't even pretend to be nice to Magna.
* **Light Is Not Good**: Dressed primarily in a white outfit, while eventually turning out to be a spiteful serial killer.
* **Manipulative Bitch**: *"Two minutes, and she's got the whole courtroom wrapped around her little finger..."*
* **Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!**: She gets exactly what she wants with her looks.
* **Sore Loser**: She doesn't receive it well at all when Magna notes that all of her schemes ended in failure.

### Dolores Poppet

* **Beauty Is Never Tarnished**: Despite her obviously toxic lifestyle, rampant drug abuse and keeping all her trash bags inside a small, dark room in the house, she's still a pretty woman and this does not change in any form or way.
* **The Cynic**: Dolores is very pessimistic and does not have an ideal worldview, to say the least. Even in a better mental state, she often shows signs of a Determined Defeatist.
* **Delicate and Sickly**: She used to fall sick easily when she was young. This is most certainly not the case as of present.
* **Girlish Pigtails**: Played with; Dolores is a young adult, but still sports youthful pigtails. However, not only are her pigtails reminiscent of many otaku culture icons, the youthful appearance is also strikingly fitting for her notorious emotional immaturity.
* **Hiding Behind Your Bangs**: Her hair almost always covers her right eye to emphasize her introverted nature.
* **Irony**: Dolores is an Adult Hater, but by legal definition and the way she acts, she is considered one herself.
* **The Ophelia**: Horrifically deconstructed. Dolores is pretty and insane, but it's portrayed as genuinely depressing and horrifying.

### Magdalene Poppet

* **Braids of Action**: Magdalene has two braids, one hanging in front of her face and the other on the back.
* **Character Tics**: She is often seen playing with the braid that covers her face.
* **Contralto of Strength**: She has a suitably low and sultry voic, fitting her combat prowess and elegance.
* **Graceful Ladies Like Purple**: Magdalene is a very feminine and graceful woman who wears a dark purple dress.
* **Long Hair Is Feminine**: She has pale blue hair that falls past her shoulders and has a feminine, graceful air about her.
* **Money Fetish**: Magdalene is an opportunist when it comes to money, flat-out stating that she doesn't understand connections not based around money and the main reason she married her husband is that he's part of Old Money and loose with his pursestrings. Humorously, she sees the value of life itself as lying in one's service potential, something meant to be applied to *assets in a business*, not people.
* **Sultry Bangs**: Magdalene is a graceful and busty lady with a coy demeanor who often has her left eye concealed by her single braid.

## Serpent

### Katsurō Zaizen — Nova Scepter-22

*"You guys could probably never understand. I brought Maria to life so I could learn about the human heart. Remember what I told you? All my life, I've never felt what other people call the heart..."*

* **Anti-Villain**: At his core, Katsurō is a deeply lonely man who has been embittered and isolated from society for so long he's lost sight of what he even wants, but hasn't actually grown to blame humanity for his situation; everything he does is based on the the desire to help others, but his inability to read people empathetically means he doesn't understand he's making things worse.
* **Ambiguous Disorder**:
	+ It's hinted at several places that while he is human, he killed his ability to feel most emotions and made him discount the very worth of them. This, along with his Lack of Empathy, is an actual symptom of dissociative disorders.
	+ It's revealed that he's not only bad at expressing emotions, but has difficulty showing empathy without lacking it altogether, wants human emotions to be something a computer can do for him due to a complete lack of faith in his ability to understand them, and it's implied he completely ignores his social life in favor of working on computers. Poor interpersonal, underdeveloped theory of mind, and narrow interests are both symptoms of an autistic spectrum disorder, and his exclusion from society mirrors how many autistic individuals are regarded as cold or aloof due to their poor social skills.
* **Berserk Button**:
	+ Reminding him of his inability to feel emotions and his inability to connect to people is the one thing that *is* guaranteed to get an emotional reaction from him - specifically, anger.
* **Character Tics**: Humming the same tune Maria does. Given he *made* Maria, it makes sense.
* **Child Prodigy**: Is a genius programmer who created both Maria and ABBY, a hacker part of the organization 'Serpent' whose known as 'Nova Scepter-22', a video game developer who often plays his own games before releasing them to the public, a well-versed cognitive psientist- and he's only *15*!
* **Emotionless Guy**: It's stated that he's acting out emotions and he has little-to-no actual ability to emote. About the deepest emotion he normally feels is lashing out whenever someone tells him he needs to understand the human heart in order to judge people - so much so that feeling genuine *remorse* for the first time is actually something he's overjoyed about, because he doesn't feel so emotionally dead.
* **Empty Shell**: Almost. His sense of self *is* there, but he's so detached from it - whether he knows it or not - that he scrapes the surface of being this.
* **Faux Affably Evil**: Downplayed. His peppy and loud disposition as well as his friendly personality is just an act. He absolutely cannot feel any emotions nor does he actually understand them. Said peppiness isn't actually meant to manipulate people, though, as much as it is an attempt to fit in at all, and his desire to help people is genuine, although it only resulted in an abomination because his creation cannot actually assess emotions. Therefore, it couldn't see anything across the screen and only considered people asking it for advice, so it just resorted to the most pragmatic answer possible; humanity's greatest desire is the application thinking for them.
* **Genki Boy**: Subverted. He speaks in a fast and hyperactive way when he's putting up an act. Even moments before he lets the mask drop, he's enthusiastic and energetic for a while until he starts speaking in his usual, cold and bitter tone.
* **Go Mad from the Isolation**: The constant ostracizing and inability to connect with anyone around him eventually caused him to become a self-loathing misanthrope who hates the fact other people have a heart and he feels he doesn't.
* **I Just Want to Have Friends**: At his core, Katsurō is a deeply lonely man who hates the fact he can't connect or easily emphasize with other people at all, and in fact his core motive for making Maria was to create a machine that could tell him how to feel things normally as well as his Only Friend.
	+ **The Mentally Disturbed**: It's pretty clear that Katsurō isn't mentally well, and the fact that he describes himself as an "emotionless doll" instead of a human (though it's almost certain he is human) is a fairly good indicator that he's not on his best mind. He isn't bothered by this mindset in and of itself, but he *is* sincerely upset about how isolated this makes him.
* **Multicolored Hair**: Has black hair with a cerulean highlight.
* **No Indoor Voice**: He's *extremely* loud and peppy when conversing with Chie and others. Subverted once his true nature is exposed however, in which he speaks in a normal tone.
* **Reluctant Psycho**: The dominant emotion he seems to feel is self-loathing, because of his inability to connect with people. Part of his motive for discarding Maria in place of ABBY is because he has no faith in his own ability to empathize with people, and this consistently upsets him no matter how emotionless he thinks he is.
* **Self-Deprecation**: See Reluctant Psycho above. He's fully aware of how emotionless he is and his lack of skill in connecting to people, and admits flat-out he views himself as a "doll".

### Chie Mizuki — Archangel (4RCH4N63L)

* **Abusive Parents**: Up to Eleven. He had a father who constantly beats him to the point that neighbors tried to call police to his home. He got away with it every time as he was an extremely influential man, something that motivated Chie to turn ABBY into a revenge app.
* **Attack Drone**: He always has two drones that are shaped like bear heads by his side when it comes to moving from place to place or blowing enemies to smithereens.
* **The Dragon**: The one responsible for the most recent cognition changing crisis thanks to his ABBY App. He's not the real one behind it, however.
* **Electronic Eyes**: He has a cybernetic monocle over his left eye that he can use to scan any type of technology.
* **Gadgeteer Genius**: It’s heavily implied that he created those drones that he owns, they can even help him hover around for transportation.
* **The Heavy**: The ABBY app is funded by him, and he's the one who designed its goals.
* **It Amused Me**: He enjoys hacking computer/security systems for funsies.
* **Nice Hat**: He often wears a cap with digital circles on the sides.
* **Patricide**: His father was so abusive that when he came home trying to kill Chie, Chie killed him instead and blamed it on a burglar.
* **Trademark Favorite Food**: He loves jelly drinks.

## Pennsylvania Antagonists

### Kairi Yagira Akanishi — The Red Sea

*"Oh, okay... you found out... No matter how much I hide it, the past still comes back to me! How pathetic... What a mess! But that doesn't matter now. With this power, I can have everything. Everything I've always wanted... Mine!"*

A popular singer in Pennsylvania with abnormally high popularity. While she makes a great public image at first impression, she's known for changing the hearts of men simply because they had a marriage so they go for her instead, and anyone who questions her after that will be physically attacked by her behind the scenes. Her fans are also not very far from starting street fights against people who don't like Kairi, buying her merchandise until they go bankrupt or firing people as soon as they dislike Kairi.

* **Animal Motif**: Butterflies.
* **Berserk Button**: Because her biggest trauma is being bullied badly for having a crush and having him taken away from her afterwards, simply seeing a man who was a part of a married couple instantly triggers her psychopathic and violent behavior.
* **Color Motif**: Red.
* **The Dog Bites Back**: Exaggerated and played for drama. Kairi ruined the lives of her bullies after she found out what she could do with ABBY. However, after that happened, Kairi moved on to anyone who was in a healthy relationship out of jealousy that they had what she was denied.
* **From Nobody to Nightmare**: A young woman who used to be an introverted and heavily bullied school girl mesmerized a huge chunk of Pennsylvania's populace on a scale rivalling that of the God of Control.
* **Green-Eyed Monster**: Because she was bullied for having a crush, she would basically lash out at anyone with a romantic relationship by changing their hearts so they break up and go after her instead.
* **Hidden Depths**: Once the word of her trauma gets out, her despicable behavior makes a lot more sense. She's effectively replicating the bullying caused by her Alpha Bitch students in the public.
* **Psycho Ex-Girlfriend**: She used to have a boyfriend during her time in high school, but that was taken from her once a few jealous girls found that out and bullied her mercilessly under the premise that she's hooking up with men. This became the motive for her using ABBY so she can draw men from Pennsylvania to her.
* **Psychopathic Manchild**: The method that she lashes out at her managers is the same method as how she was bullied at school... aside that she's doing it in a rather public area.
* **Psychotic Smirk**: Flashes these whenever she makes someone humiliate themselves in public.
* **Relationship Sabotage**: Goes around doing this a *lot*, basically making a big chunk of men in Pennsylvania fall for her to the point that they break up marriages, fire people who aren't her fans or even *attack* anyone who questions them.
* **Slut-Shaming**: Was subject to this not long before because of an incident in her high school, where other girls bullied her for allegedly trying to seduce the boys there. What actually happened is that a popular guy the local Alpha Bitch had her eye on confessed to Kairi and she had her Girl Posse bully her for it.
* **Used to Be a Sweet Kid**: Her backstory implies that despite being a Shrinking Violet, she was deep down a nice person, as she wanted to become a singer in order to be a light of hope for people who suffered like her. By the time the story starts, she's so embittered about her humiliation that all she cares about is payback and lost sight of her noble intentions.

## Netherworld Residents

### Luciana Alicia Hernández — Miss Argentina

* **Ascended Extra**: Luciana has an entire song about how she regrets killing herself and missing out on the rest of her life.
	+ *"I'll tell you another thing, everyone here is alone. So if you are breathing, go home!"*
* **Bishōnen**: When it's revealed Luciana is actually a guy.
* **Bishoujo**: Upon her initial introduction.
* **Rose-Haired Sweetie**: Currently, after the initial regret of killing herself.
* **Transgender**: Luciana was born a guy, but later started wearing female clothes and changed her pronouns to fit, effectively becoming transgender as a result. However, she still has a male chest and male genitalia. She doesn't particularly mind having it, though, and when she's alone, she's even shown *embracing* it, deeming it as a normal part of life. But she could simply be a crossdresser, due to her own young wish to enter and win a Miss World beauty pageant, though it is shown to be more complex than that.

### Eleanor Adeline Coakley — Elle

* **Big Little Sister**: She's the youngest of her sisters and the only one that resembles an adult woman.
* **Blindfolded Vision**: Her blindfold is stated to seal all properties of her eyes, including vision, so she relies on her other senses for everything. It works well enough that her blindness isn't noticeable at all.
* **Chain Pain**: Her standard weapon is a nail-like dagger attached to a long chain.
* **Dark Action Girl**: She embraces this image. She wears a black outfit, can be rather ruthless and being a Ghost Lord means she's more than competent in fighting.
* **Dark Is Not Evil**: Her appearance and abilities based in blood and darkness just scream dark creature, and it's not helped by her vampiric traits, but once you get to know her, she's really not that bad.
* **Deadly Gaze**: Her eyes underneath her blindfold, which will leave you Taken for Granite.
* **Discount Lesbians**: Eleanor isn't human, and technically her current race doesn't have a gender. Yet she's attracted to females, and looks like a female herself, thus being classified as lesbian.
* **Glowing Eyes of Doom**: The same kind as her sisters. She can petrify people, unlike her sisters.
* **Height Angst**: For her, a "small and cute" body like her sisters is her standard of beauty, and she has a complex about her adult body.
* **Rapunzel Hair**: Of the greatest level. It easily goes down to her ankles, yet does nothing to limit her fighting abilities.
* **Statuesque Stunner**: Quite literally considering her powers. One of the tallest women in the story at 5 feet 10 inches and described as beautiful.
* **Taken for Granite**: Her eyes allow her to turn her victims to stone when she takes off her blindfold.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Has purple hair.

## The Other World Residents

### Silver

* **Faux Affably Evil**: Despite his calm nature and words, the latter barely hides a sense of brutality that can be felt in his spoken words.
* **Hates Being Touched**: Downplayed. While he doesn’t appear to hate it, he’s usually surprised when others do it, especially without permission.
* **Horned Humanoid**: Naturally, given that he's a demon.
* **I Just Want to Have Friends**: With his fellow demons revering him and other creatures fearing him, he can't make friends the way he wants to and is frequently jealous when he finds that Celestia has gotten to spend time with others. Silver quickly latches onto Celeste, who doesn't fear him nor revere him, because of this. He even goes as far as to say he fears losing someone like her.
* **Pointy Ears**: Has a pair of noticeably elfin ears.
* **Raven Hair, Ivory Skin**: He has long black hair and pale skin, enhancing his inhuman mystique.
* **Smug Smiler**: He always has an intimidating smirk on his face matched with a calm tone.
* **The Stoic**: Unfazed with whatever is happening around him and always moves toward his goals.

## The Coordination Members

### Division Five Members

#### Roman Hoffman

* **Monster Clown**: The face of what is at least his *mask* resembles that of a clown/mime.
* **Purple Is Powerful**: He has those purple tear marks, and is *really* powerful.
* **Stepford Smiler**: His mask, at least. It's always smiling, yet it has purple tears streaming down its cheeks.
* **White Mask of Doom**: With a few touches of makeup.

#### Zahra Emerson

* **The Baroness**: Very sexy and very deadly.
* **Fair Cop**: She is a very sexy woman walking around in an officer uniform.

#### Fay Emerson

*"Hah hah. No one cared who I was until I put on the mask."*

* **Affably Evil**: It's eerie how friendly she is to people who she's trying to kill.
* **Ax-Crazy**: Due to her murderous impulses, she tried to feel a sense of living through killing, and BOY did it work.
* **Blood Lust**: *"She bends down and touches the blood flowing on the ground; streaks it across her lips. The blood drips down and her body trembles in ecstasy. The first lipstick Fay has ever worn."*
* **Cute But Psycho**: She's a cute girl, but completely bonkers.
* **Dissonant Serenity**: Her reaction to finding a dismantled corpse? Calmly kneel down, touch the blood on the ground and use it to paint her lips.
* **Meido**: She is primarily referred to by her maid outfit.
* **Sinister Scythe**: Her weapon of choice is a hand-sized sickle.
* **Slasher Smile**: Her mask definitely has one.
	+ **Fay**: Hmph! I see, you really are quite something~ In that case... (*cue "Psycho" Strings*) ...I'LL JUST HAVE TO KILL YOU!
* **Violently Protective Sister**: If you hurt Zahra, you are *dead*.