History Characters / BlattodeaMainCharacters

* UsedToBeASweetKid: A messed up and bloodthirsty but rather innocent kid who wishes to have friends? Dinoponera really is [[SubvertedTrope the same as she's always been like.]]

** Right afterwards, some infected guy with a long incubation period goes undead and starts attacking those around him. Alice and Hanakamakiri start panicking, but Chiyuri happily tells them not to worry as Himekuwagata shows up and stabs the guy through the mouth. A ZombieApocalypse is happening, Setsuna went M.I.A. ''after almost getting raped by a hundred people and almost getting sliced in half'', the zombies are able to break in unnoticed, all the inmates and prison staffers are rapist scumbags and ''Chiyuri. Does. Not. Care.''

** Chiyuri [[SwiperNoSwipping talks]] a rapist thug out of sexually harassing Alice and Hanakamakiri, and tells them that he is a good person deep down. The scene conveys that while it might be too psycho of Alice to want to demolish the entire prison because of a rapist or two, Chiyuri might be acting too forgiving to everyone for her own good.

* AudienceSurrogate: Chiyuri is a mostly normal girl who's suddenly thrust into the apocalyptic scenario caused by the Organization. She is retconned into Dinoponera's backstory to look after her after all the... unpleasant things that happened, making the roach-girl the perfect and official FixFic character for any reader who cares for the ant-girl.

** Chiyuri feels a little too happy about being destitute. Her introductory scene has her nearly gangraped in her sleep, but she just jumps away and ignores her attackers like she's too carefree to be upset. Averted when she nearly gets zombified later that night and is absolutely terrified.

* StepfordSmiler: Chiyuri appears to be doing just fine in the post-apocalypse, but then she's shown crying in her sleep over her master's death like Alice in the prologue and feeling useless about not being able to find the spider-girl for a whole year.

* PervertRevengeMode: After Setsuna has been so throughly raped, the one character who should be doing lewd things to the girl when she gets clingy [[ComedicSociopathy subjects her to comical Domestic Violence]] instead. She even blasts Setsuna with the Wave Cannon at one point.

** Dinoponera being able to recover from the Queen's Rule to save Chiyuri is compared to how ''Megaponera analis'' are known to [[https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/4/e1602187 retrieve injured comrades]] from raids on termite nests. One aspect of this unmentioned in the manga is that only injured ants still able to stand will release the pheromone that calls for help. Also, from 1994 to 2014 ''Megaponera'' was synonymised with the ''Pachycondyla'' genus.

* PervertRevengeMode: After Setsuna has been so throughly raped, the one character who should be doing lewd things to the girl when she gets clingy subjects her to comical Domestic Violence instead. She even blasts Setsuna with the Wave Cannon at one point.

** She then keeps attempting to molest and even rape Chiyuri because of her zombiefication and lack of social skills, even when Chiyuri is sleeping or in front of other people. This is played for laughs every time, and Chiyuri isn't above hitting Setsuna and knocking her out to get her to stop.

* PutOnABusToHell: After her deafeat to Sasori, by way of imminent rape from the student mob while she's paralysed. Six real life years later, ''Blattodea'' finally shows her as a pitiful zombie... and recovering from that to save Chiyuri's life.

* RapidFireFisticuffs: Chiyuri can punch so fast she trumps Dinoponera's [[TimeStandsStill Concentration Driving Force]].

A [[CuteAndPsycho cheerfully deadly]] girl who, as a ChildSoldier raised by mercenary Paraponera in Thailand, awakened an odd ability named Concentration Driving Force that enables her to freely enhance her reflexes. One of the Organization's strongest members, Setsuna takes part in the Arachnid Hunt to [[IJustWantToHaveFriends make friends]]... ''[[InsaneTrollLogic on her terms]]''. She wields a pair of gauntlets with hidden blades coated with ''Dinoponera'' ant venom, which she's always happy to be punchy and pricky with.\\\

* DeerInTheHeadlights: A flashback of her childhood shows her frozen in fear as a handful of mercenaries prepared to kill her. Then "[[SuperReflexes Concentration]] [[HyperAwareness Driving Force]]" kicked in, and in the next instant she's surrounded by corpses while crying in relief.

** ''Blattodea'' reveals she did make friends with Chiyuri before fighting in the Arachnid Hunt. Chiyuri can trump Concentration Driving Force and is a ''Sailor-Force'' fan on top of that, so Dinopo is genuinely smitten with her.

* DieOrFly: Concentration Driving Force first manifested when she had to defend herself from a half-dozen mercenaries at once. [[CallBack The scene plays much like how Alice tried to attack Kumo in the beginning.]]

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: She doesn't have any mutant powers, and only learned "[[SuperReflexes Concentration]] [[HyperAwareness Driving Force]]" when she was around 9 years old.

* ExoticEyeDesigns: Waving irises evocative of a [[CrosshairAware crosshair]] or a clock indicate her use of Concentration Driving Force [[{{Foreshadowing}} even before she explains it.]]

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: In ''Blattodea'', Dinoponera was bathing nude on a fountain when Chiyuri first met her. She wasn't bothered to get caught in the act but also wasn't flaunting her body in any way. The ironic thing is that she was barely sexualized in ''Arachnid'' outside of a couple pieces of bonus artwork, on top of being last seen about to be raped by a bunch of zombies. Despite being able to recover, she still ends up overwhelmed by lust from time to time while crying that she's not actually lewd.

** In ''Blattodea'', she was completely willing to kill Chiyuri for [[EvilIsPetty interrupting her bath and boring her]], but changes her tune when the roach knocks her out of Concentration Driving Force mode.

* LegFocus: Setsuna's shapely legs with ZettaiRyouiki are her mandibles as an ant-person, so she's always [[[[MurderousThighs pinning people]] to the floor with them before going nuts with her punches.

* NearDeathExperience: As a child, she awakened her "Concentration Driving Force" ability to kill some mercenaries much like how Alice tried to kill Kumo on the beginning of the story.

* {{Sabotutor}}: It is implied that Dinoponera would be long dead if she hadn't stumbled into her Concentration Driving Force power. For all we know, her jackass father pretty much just handed her a gun, expected her to fight as well as him and then abandoned her when she didn't.

* EvilIsPetty: She's comically selfish, is a casual killer and mocks Alice's sob story of how her mother supposedly commited suicide.

** In both ''Arachnid'' and the reprise of her debut shown in ''Caterpillar'', Dinoponera is often drawn with HellishPupils to look creepy. So far ''Blattodea'' only rarely portrays her with those, and only when she's surprised or scared. No BlushStickers on her anymore, too. The ExoticEyeDesigns she's supposed to have while C.D.F. is active are also ignored in the sequel until vomule 5.

* ExposedToTheElements: Despite wearing a jacket and a scarf during daytime, Chiyuri often sleeps while only wearing underwear and without a roof over her head. Even discounting the amount of rapist thugs in the setting, it shouldn't be healthy for a homeless girl to sleep so confortably inside a box next to some bridge like that.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Chiyuri doesn't mind sleeping or walking around in her underwear, and doesn't bat an eye at having to fight a nude Dinoponera.

* DefiledForever: ''Oh boy''... At first, Setsuna is an innocent girl who wears "pure white" panties. The series very specifically only shows said panties in ''Caterpillar'', [[ForegoneConclusion when you already know]] she gets badly raped by zombies later on. Then ''Blattodea'' introduces her ''stark-naked'' slightly further back in the timeline in a scene also dripping with irony. The [[BlackComedy "punchline"]] is a trio of thugs pointing out how Setsuna's panties have been ripped out of her before ''she'' ends up raping them as a wacky STD-riddled zombie. Afterwards, she [[PromiscuityAfterRape keeps forcing herself]] on an annoyed Chiyuri or suffering from shameful strips until her usual schoolgirl costume is slashed to pieces.

** In both ''Arachnid'' and the reprise of her debut shown in ''Caterpillar'', Dinoponera is often drawn with HellishPupils to look creepy. So far ''Blattodea'' only rarely portrays her with those, and only when she's surprised or scared. The ExoticEyeDesigns she's supposed to have while C.D.F. is active are also ignored in the sequel until vomule 5.

* LegFocus: Setsuna's shapely legs with ZettaiRyouiki are her mandibles as an ant-person, so she's always pinning people to the floor with them before going nuts with her punches.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: If Dinoponera does accept somebody as a friend, not even being turned into a rape-zombie will keep her from protecting them. She becomes very close to Chiyuri while dealing with the zombie outbreak and becomes a better person from it, unlike how Alice only ended up suffering after ditching her problematic friend Goki.

* WorldsBestWarrior: Subverted harshly with one Worf Effect moment after another. Although Dinopo is hyped as if she's much stronger and vicious than her father and with the added bonus of an HyperAwareness ability, in the end she's just a little girl with too many emotional vulnerabilities and flaws in her fighting style to be the fearless monster Paraponera was.

** She feels too happy about being destitute and her introductory scene has her nearly gangraped in her sleep, but she just jumps away and ignores her attackers like she's too carefree to be upset. Averted when she nearly gets zombified later that night and is absolutely terrified.

* DissonantSerenity: She feels happy being destitute and her introductory scene has her nearly gangraped in her sleep, but she just jumps away and ignores her attackers like she's too carefree to be upset. Averted when she nearly gets zombified later that night and is absolutely terrified.
-->"''I'll use my privilege to sleep anywhere I want, whenever I want. That's kind of hard to beat. Hmmm... In the end... Not having a home... is the best!''"

* TheFool: Chiyuri is a naive, innocent and often barely-dressed vagrant girl in a planet of rapists who hasn't the vaguest idea what's going around her but keeps on surviving anyway.

** ''Dinoponera'' ants have stings powerful enough to prey on small reptiles and threaten allergic people but they don't quite hurt as much and for as long as a ''Paraponera'''s sting, giving them the moniker of "false-tocandira" in Brazil. In the story, Dinopo is ultimately viewed as far weaker than her father Paraponera.

* DubNameChange: The 2022 English translation of ''Arachnid'' at Manga UP! calls Setsuna by the common name for bullet ants in Brazil, "Tocandira".

** Setsuna gets gang raped offscreen by zombies in ''Arachnid'' and disappears from the rest of that story. ''Caterpillar'' repeatedly makes indirect allusions to her and reprises her fight against Imomushi while still not mentioning her fate. It's only in ''Blattodea'' that her status is cleared up, with her barely recovering from being zombiefied and saving Chiyuri.
** Setsuna is beaten and captured by Rin and Sasori, the latter of which needs her alive for the ant-antibodies thing. After several chapters, there is a sudden flashfoward to three months later just to show an unconcerned Chiyuri and Alice meeting for the first time with no mention of what happened to Setsuna. It is then finally shown that she spent that period of time locked in a basement and training under Sasori's care...

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Despite all the hype, it turns out Dinoponera's combat training against hapless mercs in the battlefield, as harsh as it was, couldn't prepare her for the gimmicky bug assassin scene. She can stomp on foes who emphasize raw power like Kabutomushi and Hibiki, but chokes just as easily against trickier enemies who are as nimble as her.

-->'''Chiyuri''': Setsuna-chan has become a really good girl. After losing to Alice-san, she had a ''terrible experience'' and learned what pain is. She was reborn as a kind girl with a caring heart.

* RapePortrayedAsRedemption: After being so bitchy to everyone, Dinoponera gets horribly gangraped for hours while paralysed and is turned into a sex-crazed zombie. After she manages to recover her senses, ''Blattodea'' spins her rape into a coming-of-age experience that helps her mature from being a haughty brat ''and'' ties the ''fate of the world'' around it.

* MeaningfulName: The "這" kanji in "Haijima" means "(to) crawl" and she's a roach-girl. Tentomushi mockingly points this out and calls Chiyuri somebody who only survives by using sneak attacks and hiding in the shadow of the strong.

** Dinoponera was the only named character who got helplessly raped by the zombies at the Arachnid Hunt, all while Sasori mocked her for "making a lot of friends". Once she leaves the school, she gets raped again but become a nymphomaniac in that state, pinning down and having a rough DestructoNookie with her assailants until they turn undead as well. Her going lucid for real and saving Chiyuri from also getting raped is a major MoodWhiplash from how graphic Chiyuri's molestation was, and even as Dinopo is trying to be dramatic and heroic, the story overfocuses on the loss of her panties as if it's a BrickJoke to how she was intentionally portrayed without panty shots in ''Arachnid''.

* UnwittingPawn: Unknowingly to Chiyuri, Yamato was training her under the Organization's orders after she thought she had escaped from Pomario.