Shota Nijimura/Tropes

Tropes and references regarding the character Shota Nijimura from Highschool xDxDx. For more tropes, follow the link to TV tropes.

* **Accidental pervert:** Most often played for laughs. the sad part is, while he's not usually a pervert, he doesn't seem to mind those encounters, as he likes to stare at girls' panties and fall on them. He has spoofed, defied and lampshaded this trope countless times overs.
* **Adorkable:**
* **Achilles' Heel**:
* **Affectionate nickname**: Nicknamed 'Sho' by several characters.
* **Affectionate gesture to the Head:** And Lilian and Koko loves~ it. Both giving and *receiving~*. Upstairs and *downstairs~*.
* **Almighty Janitor**:
* **Ambiguously Bi:** He's attracted to women, yet oogles all over his senpai and strong, muscular men. He even has nosebleeds near fit and big men.
* **Ambiguous Disorder**: It is anything but stated that Shota suffered some kind of PTSD when he and Elizabeth were abandoned by Mikhail. His extreme cynophobia and lack of bonds can both be traced back to this event.
* **Animal Motif:** Birb. Just birb. Pigeon to be more exact.
* **Atomic F-Bomb:**
* **Awesome by Analysis**: Shota's shown to be very good at analyzing people and situations.
* **The baby of the bunch:** The youngest of Aningan's peerage.
* **Berserk Button**: Insulting or badmouthing his mother, Lilian, Aningan or he loves anyone can make the usually shy and timid Shota pull an Volume 12 Gasper Vladi.
* **Boring Yet practical**: Unlike most OCs who has a shiton of abilities, Shota can only rely on his basic swordsmanship, basic martial arts and his own special holy-demonic light.
* **Born of Heaven and Hell:**
* **Book Dumb:** Quite a fast learner and good in adapting away from dangerous situations, but claims that he has very low grades in school. As for chapter 59, he claims that a 86 is the best score he ever got.
* **Break the cutie**: A sweet, kind, extremely gullible young boy broken by betrayal and abandonment until it became a untrusting, dark and distant young man/trap. He pulls a Tsukino and gets better.
* **Character Development**:
* **Character Tic**: Has the habit of scratching his neck when nervous or placed in the spotlight.
* **Chessmaster:**
* **Chick Magnet**: Seven girls interested in him and counting, plus some guys.
	+ **Clueless chick magnet:** Averted. He has some idea about the affection of the girls for him, and that's why he avoids any offensive from them.
* **Childhood friends:** With two friends named Mikhail Young and Elizabeth White. Instead of sweet, the history between them is probably the saddest points in the series, which turned Shota into who he is.
	+ **Evil Former Friend:** Somewhat subverted. With Mikhail Young.
* **Closet Pervert:** See '**Not so-above it all**' and '**Hidden depths**' bellow.
* **Combination attack**:
* **Cool and unusual punishment:** If you can call them a punishment at all. Fighting inside school grounds? Lilian blows him and later Naamah makes him suck on her breasts.
* **Cool Sword**: Black Phantom Arrival.
* **Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:**
* **Cynicism Catalyst**:
* **Dark and Troubled Past:**

* **Declaration of protection:** Shares a mutual one with Lilian. Later, with Alice and Koko.
* **Defrosting Ice King**: See (nonexistent) **Character Development** above.
* **Despair Event Horizon:**
* **Determinator**: No fatal injuries, blown-up magic circuits, mental control or relationship issues will stop him from get what he wants!
* **Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?**: Friendly reminder that good chunk of the girls that are interested in him are not even human to begin with. Played quite literally with Iris, an Eldricth Abomination spawned from the literal Cthulhu that at best taking humanoid form.
* **Disappeared Mom:**
* **Embarrassing Nickname:** "Little Shota Angel" or "Little Shota Devil".
* **Expy:** Appareance-wise and personality, he shares several shades with **Crimvael** from **Ishuzoku Reviewers**.
* **Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon**: Mostly reversed.
* **The First Cut Is the Deepest**: Non-romantic example. He avoids friendship in order to avoid the pain of separation and abandonment.
* **First Kiss**:
* **First Name Basis:**
* **Foil**:
* **Friendship moment:**
* **Good is not nice:**
* **Guile Hero**: See '**Weak but skilled**' below.
* **Has a type:** Innocent, childish girls with black hair.
* **He who fights monsters**: See **Foil** and **No so different**. Several times Shota has showed tendencies to be **drunk with power**, a **bully** and even a **abusive manipulative bastard**.
* **Heroes Prefers swords**:
* **Heroic Willpower**:
* **Hidden Depths:** He is an excellent cook, can sew and has a rather poetic side, he's even taking poetry classes and improving in it! He also not as pure as he though he was, being sometimes a battle maniac himself and having pervert urges as well as being an talent for tactics and exploiting enemy weaknesses. he's also has a **fetish** for maids.
* **The "I love you" stigma:** Turns out, Shota can't properly say "I love you" because of his crippling fear of rejection and abandonement, so much he refuses to say so. He doesn't like to get attached to anything because he thinks they'll either eventually abandon him or downright hate him for it.
* **Incest is Relative**:
* **It runs in the Family**:
* **Japanese pronouns:** Shota actually uses the polite "Boku"(僕) to refer to himself.
* **Jerk with a heart of Gold:** Slightly downplayed.
* **Kissing Cousins:** His relationship with Alice Kol, his maternal half-sister.
* **Magnetic Hero:** A mild example compared to Aningan or Issei, but he can be friends with practically everybody and the only people he truly hates is his paternal grandfather Hajime and Azrael.
* **A Man Is Not a Virgin:** A trap, but a man... wait, what the fuck did i say?
* **Master Swordsman:**
* **Nervous Wreck:** It's subtle, but he stumbles, sweats a lot and almost faints during some moments of high tension. If what his sisters are saying is truth and shown by his actions after discovering his mother's supposed death, Shota is really, really bad at handling shocks.
* **Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot:** A high school student that dresses like a girl and that is both a angel and a devil.
* **Nosebleed**: A token in a harem series, even for traps apparently.
* **Not so above it all: He's** a bit of a pervert himself, can relax and have a nice talk once in a while. This becomes more and more apparent as the fanfic goes on.;
* **Oblivious to Love:** Averted, see **Clueless Chick magnet** above.
* **One-Man Army:** examplified during his battle with Giuseppe, where he easily beats the hell out of an army of 1000 marionettes in the arena.
* **O3P**: The main pairings around him are usually in three:
	+ Him, Lilian and Elizabeth(Alternatively him, Lilian and Iris)
	+ Him, Alice and Koko;
	+ Him, Faucheuse and Naamah;
* **Oxymoron Being:**

* **Pals with Jesus:** Friends with at least half of the current Longinus-hosts, including the wielders of the **Heavenly Dragon**.
* **Platonic Life partners:** All the other girls that are not in his harem are this to him. Mainly Serena and Nene.
* **Real Men wear Pink:** He can cook, give beauty cosmetic advices and regularly takes Poetry classes. Not to mention, he used to cross-dress(forced by his sisters, but still).
* **Rage Breaking Point**: Twice, one against Inguma and other against Azrael.
* **The Rival:** Towards Mikhail.
* **Rule of Symbolism**:
* **Running gag:** Poetry classes and is a horrifyngly amazing tactician.
* **Sibling Rivalry:** Against his older sister.
* **Sir Swears-a-Lot:**
* **Standardized Leader:**
* **Tender tears:**
* **There Is No Kill Like Overkill:**
* **Training from Hell:** both ways. Literally and figuretively.
* **When he smiles**:
* **Wholesome-Crossdresser:**
* **Would Hit a Girl:**
* **X marks the Hero:**
* **Yank the Dog's chain**;
* **You cheating heart:** What he feels it'll happen if he develops a harem.
* **Youngest child wins:**
* **You're not alone:**