History Characters / CrossChannel

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Dad died before he was born, mom died when he was a baby, repeatedly physically and sexually abused as a child, committed mass murder afterward at the behest of his co-conspirator, who reacted in ''sheer horror'' of what he did. The last is what finally broke him.]]

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Taichi is overtly a dark and off-kilter riff on the "Wacky Playboy" character, which was a common go-to characterization for {{Player Character}}s in {{Dating Sim}}s throughout the 1990s. Taichi constantly keeps everyone around him on their toes with mad-cap antics and pranks, doesn't hold much, if any respect for personal boundaries (especially not those of of any girls who happen to come into his vicinity), is always angling to get into the pants of members of the opposite sex, loves to tell dirty jokes, and generally acts in pretty socially unacceptable ways. Yet everyone else are strangely forgiving of and even willing to go along with his strange behavior and shenanigans. But where the Dating Sim genre by and large tends to these traits as charming quirks that is overtly meant to endear the Player Character to the player by allowing them to be somewhat of a WishFulfillment character, Taichi's antics are played for discomfort instead, and are meant signs that he suffers from some kind of personality disorder and is really a SadClown at heart. Something that is increasingly hammered home when the story begins to delve into his DarkAndTroubledPast and show how he became this way.

* ForgetsToEat: Touko is generally pretty bad at taking care of herself, and a line written from her perspective implies that she places no real importance on the act of eating and would forgo it entirely, if it weren't for her body occasionally crying out for nourishment compelling her to do it. [[spoiler:Play more darkly in most of the loops, where she tends to end up dying because isolates herself from the rest of the group and since there is no one who regularly checks up on her and pushes her to eat something, she ends starving herself to death.]]

* IJustWantToBeLoved: She suffers from severe emotional dependency issues, and is desperate for anyone to like and care for her. It is the primary reason why she is quick to latch onto Taichi again the moment she believes that is any kind of possibly that he might be going to take her back. Unfortunately, her volatile temper, rude personality, and extremely possessive behavior tends to push people away from her.

* AttentionWhore: She suffers from severe emotional dependency issues. Appears aloof in order to get attention, and once she has it, she'll do anything to keep it.

* ClingyJealousGirl: [[spoiler:Which is why Taichi broke up with her.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: Touko is a the quickest of the group to crack upon humanity disappearing, and many of the interactions between her and Taichi depict her openly noting her belief that everyone is going to die in an empty world. [[spoiler:This contributes to her death in many loops, as her lack of survival instinct means she makes even less of an effort to sustain herself, leading to her starving.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: There's genuinely not much to like about Touko. She's unpleasant, aggressive, rude and generally shows herself as generally nasty, unlikable person in many ways.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Ima Kotetsu. Notably, it's never shown on her character sprite or many CG's, but dialogue suggests she's always carrying it.

* SelfHarm: Starving herself might have been at least partially this.

* AttentionWhore: Appears aloof in order to get attention, and once she has it, she'll do anything to keep it.

* DefrostingIceQueen: [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Taichi's [[CorruptTheCutie method of doing so]] led to [[ClingyJealousGirl freezer burn.]]]]

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: [[spoiler:Touko ends up dying no less than ''five'' times over the course of the game, either by starving to death, or being accidently shot by Kiri on the rooftop.]]

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:The reason Taichi broke up with her is that as time went on her dependence on him grew and she started edging into this. He swiftly, brutally and mercilessly halted the relationship. Her response? ''Threaten to murder literally everyone he knew''.]]

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Viewing the line between "good" and "evil" as a very sharp one is treated as her one major hurdle towards integrating in normal society. She is almost completely incapable of accepting the ideas that "good" people can be capable of cruel acts and that "evil" people can themselves have been the victims of crimes. [[spoiler:Most crucially, her affection for blinds her to the idea that Yutaka could have been capable of evil and that Taichi might have had very legitimate grievances towards him. The way she sees it, Yutaka is "good" because he was kind to her and she liked him, and Taichi is "evil" because he had a hand in causing Yutaka's suicide. Even more alarming, once it is proven that Taichi was actually abused at the hands of Yutaka, it turns that her world-view is at least somewhat pathological. When confronted with this new, undeniable information, that it is possible that someone she saw as "good" was capable of evil acts and that someone she views as "bad" is the victim of it, it doesn't initially cause her to question her stance of extreme moral absolutism, she instead completely flips in the other direction, and immediately assumes that it must mean that her and Yutaka have been evil along, and Taichi must have been nothing but a blameless victim. Over the course of her route, she eventually comes around to accept that human morality might be somewhat more complex that just clear-cut "good" and "evil", and this is treated as a major bit of CharacterDevelopment for her.]]

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Viewing the line between "good" and "evil" as a very sharp one is treated as her one major hurdle towards integrating in normal society. [[spoiler:Her affection for Yutaka blinds her to the ideas that Yutaka could have been capable of evil acts and cruelty and that Taichi might have had very legitimate grievances towards him. The way she sees it, Yutaka is "good" because he was kind to her and she liked him, and Taichi is "evil" because he had a hand in causing Yutaka's suicide. She struggles to accept the truth of Yutaka abusing Taichi, and her eventual acceptance of it is treated as a major part of her CharacterDevelopment that allows her to move on with her life.]]

* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler:Before Taichi massacred the Shinkawa's Yutaka was a violent bully and rapist. Yutaka ultimately survived the incident, but lost his memories. Without the influence of his rather monstrous family, the amnesiac Yutaka turned into [[NiceGuy a kind and decent young man]] and upstanding big brother to Kiri. But eventually he regained his memory and releasing what an awful person he was before his memory loss ''broke'' him, causing him to fall into despair and eventually resulted in his suicide.]]

* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler:Before Taichi massacred the Shinkawa's Yutaka was a violent bully and rapist. Afterwards, he ended up a generally decent guy and upstanding big brother to Kiri. Learning this ''broke'' him.]]

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:When he remembers Taichi, he begs for a way to atone. Taichi sarcastically tells him to kill himself... which he does. Taichi regrets it.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:What he did after Taichi told him to commit suicide.]]

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:He raped Taichi when he was younger, but Taichi actually feels a certain amount of pity for him: With his father and the people he knew, Yutaka didn't have much of a chance to actually be a normal kid... but managed to grow up into an okay guy anyway once he repressed those memories.]]

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: [[spoiler:Her affection for Yutaka blinds her to the ideas that Yutaka could have been capable of evil acts and cruelty and that Taichi might have had very legitimate grievances towards him. The way she sees it, Yutaka is "good" because he was kind to her and she liked him, and Taichi is "evil" because he had a hand in causing Yutaka's suicide. She struggles to accept the truth of Yutaka abusing Taichi, and her eventual acceptance of it is treated as a major part of her CharacterDevelopment that allows her to move on with her life.]]

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Taichi is overtly a dark and off-kilter riff on the "Wacky Playboy" character, which was a common go-to characterization for {{Player Character}}s in {{Dating Sim}}s throughout the 1990s. Taichi constantly keeps everyone around him on their toes with mad-cap antics and pranks, doesn't hold much, if any respect for personal boundaries (especially not those of of any girls who happen to come into his vicinity), loves to tell dirty jokes, and generally acts in pretty socially unacceptable ways. Yet everyone else are strangely forgiving of and even willing to go along with his strange behavior and shenanigans. But where the Dating Sim genre by and large tends to these traits as charming quirks that is overtly meant to endear the Player Character to the player by allowing them to be somewhat of a WishFulfillment character, Taichi's antics are played for discomfort instead, and are meant signs that he suffers from some kind of personality disorder and is really a SadClown at heart. Something that is increasingly hammered home when the story begins to delve into his DarkAndTroubledPast and show how he became this way.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Taichi is overtly a dark and off-kilter riff on the "Wacky Playboy" character, who was a common go-to characterization for {{Player Character}}s in {{Dating Sim}}s throughout the 1990s. Taichi constantly keeps everyone around him on their toes with mad-cap antics and pranks, doesn't hold much, if any respect for personal boundaries (especially not those of of any girls who happen to come into his vicinity), loves to tell dirty jokes, and generally acts in pretty socially unacceptable ways. Yet everyone else are strangely forgiving of and even willing to go along with his strange behavior and shenanigans. But where the Dating Sim genre by and large tends to these traits as charming quirks that is overtly meant to endear the Player Character to the player by allowing them to be somewhat of a WishFulfillment character, Taichi's antics are played for discomfort instead, and are meant signs that he suffers from some kind of personality disorder and is really a SadClown at heart. Something that is increasingly hammered home when the story begins to delve into his DarkAndTroubledPast and show how he became this way.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Taichi is overtly a riff on the "Wacky Playboy" character, who was a common go-to characterization for {{Player Character}}s in {{Dating Sim}}s throughout the 1990s. Taichi constantly keeps everyone around him on their toes with mad-cap antics and pranks, doesn't hold much, if any respect for personal boundaries (especially not those of of any girls who happen to come into his vicinity), loves to tell dirty jokes, and generally acts in pretty socially unacceptable ways. Yet everyone else are strangely forgiving of and even willing to go along with his strange behavior and shenanigans. But where the Dating Sim genre by and large tends to these traits as charming quirks that is overtly meant to endear the Player Character to the player by allowing them to be somewhat of a WishFulfillment character, Taichi's antics are played for discomfort instead, and are meant signs that he suffers from some kind of personality disorder and is really a SadClown at heart. Something that is increasingly hammered home when the story begins to delve into his DarkAndTroubledPast and show how he became this way.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Taichi is overtly a riff on the "Wacky Playboy" character, who was a common go-to characterization for {{Player Character}}s in {{Dating Sim}}s throughout the 1990s. Taichi constantly keeps everyone around him on their toes with mad-cap antics and pranks, doesn't hold much, if any respect for personal boundaries (especially not those of of any girls who happen to come into his vicinity), loves to tell dirty jokes, and generally acts in pretty socially unacceptable ways. Yet everyone else are strangely forgiving of and even willing to go along with his strange behavior and shenanigans. But where the Dating Sim genre by and large tends to these traits as charming quirks that is overtly meant to endear the Player Character to the player by allowing them to be somewhat of a WishFulfillment character, in this story, however, these are treated as signs that Taichi suffers from some kind of personality disorder and is a SadClown at heart. Something that is increasingly hammered home when the story begins to delve into his DarkAndTroubledPast and show how he became this way.

* {{Bishonen}}: He's aware of it, but also thinks he's incredibly ugly for reasons that are never explained fully.

* GagBoobs: More than a few jokes are made about her sizable chest.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: He is noticeably tanner than the rest of the cast.

* KnifeNut: Chris Reeve knives are his WeaponOfChoice, it seems.

* IllGirl: [[spoiler:In life. Nanaka states that Taichi's father knew his life was short, and that she wasn't long for this world either, indicating some health issues on her part.]]

* {{Meganekko}}

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Miki.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Kiri. [[spoiler:Only it's a good deal more complicated on Miki's side.]]

* SecretlySelfish: [[spoiler:Taichi and Tomoki accuse her attempts to get more people into the broadcast club as a ploy to either force for rules on others, or just run away from her severe self-lothing by surrounding herself with people. Misato, tragically, can't really do much to refute such accusations.

* ZettaiRyouiki

* CharacterDevelopment: The game is in large part Taichi's journey from a highly damaged, unstable ByronicHero to TheAntiNhilist.