History Characters / DanceInTheVampireBund

* BoobsOfSteel: One of the strongest and most capable women in the manga. And she is ''racked.''

* {{Bishonen}}: They are the most attractive members of their team, but the way Hyunte's face is drawn is remarkably feminine.

* {{Bishonen}}: He has a woman's face and a slender body that makes look him very androgynous.

* {{Bishonen}}: In ''A.S.O.'', Yuuhi has grown into a teenage boy with a very girly and cute face.

* PeekABangs: Her true form's hair often covers half of her face, emphasizing her sexiness.

* PeekABangs: Her hair covers her left eye.

* PeekABangs: Half of his face is covered by his bangs.

* PeekABangs: Both have one of their eyes covered by their hair.

* OfficialCouple: He and Ruli are stated to be a couple in ''Scarlet Order''.

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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: She and Reiko are identical twins. The only thing that's different is the place of their beauty marks (Nicole's is on her chin while Reiko's is on the corner of her left eye).

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: He appears as a man with jet-black hair like the night and skin white like a ghost. His true identity is a god of darkness that wants to destroy the world.

* OfficialCouple: She and Akira are stated to be dating in ''Scarlet Order'', although they still can't see each other much because of her tight schedule.
* OnlyOneName: She's only ever known as "Ruli" and any surname has never been mentioned.

* FireForgedFriends: She and Akira Fujisaki get on good terms after she helps him get out of some dangerous situations during some of her missions. At the end of ''Dive'', Nina admits that now she's helping Akira not because of her job as an intelligence agent, but because he's her friend.

* {{Expy}}: The all-powerful father of vampires who sired the entire race, he is one to [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Caine]]; unlike Caine, who is at his current canon characterization is GoodIsNotNice at worst, the father is pretty much an OmnicidalManiac. There are even speculations that he is the series version of Cain, but none has been revealed about his further identity so far.

* BladeOnAStick: Hyunte uses a spear when he isn't using a sniper rifle.

* BladeOnAStick: His weapon of choice is a spear.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Invoked. Her GothicLolita outfit and her wig make her look oddly like Mina. She later reveals that this is pretty intentional, given Alphonse is quite the fan of the look.

* DeadGuyJunior: She was named after her mother's dead sister, Nicole.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Mina is the sort of person whose first instinct even in the middle of a un-life-or-final-death fight is to protect a human child. Between that and the fact that she looks 12, it is hard to imagine how she can hope to maintain herself as Queen of the Vampires without the whole Stone Bitch pose and a good bit of doing what goes against her better nature.

* BareYourMidriff: She's sometimes seen wearing an open jacket with only a bra underneath, revealing her belly.

* GirlInABox: Akira first finds her inside a large briefcase.

* FantasticRacism: His main drive to kill all the vampires in Japan as he wished to save the 'purity' of his nation by using a program called Pied Piper to have all vampires in hiding come out during the day and burn themselves alive.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: He condescendingly calls Josephine, his own granddaughter, a mixed blood half-breed due to her American father.

* StockholmSyndrome: At the end of ''Scarlet Order'', Yuki is forced to join Katie Maurice's side as payment for Katie's help at finding the Akamitama. By the time of ''A.S.O.'' several months later, Yuki has grown to care about Katie, even defending her when Akira tries to attack Katie's unconscious body. Later at the Li's army's base, Katie gives Yuki the chance to return to Mina's side, but Yuki still chooses to follow Katie yet again.

* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Katie is seriously pissed when she realizes Yuki tricked her and modified the nanomachines in her body to stop her from starting WWIII.]]

* LimaSyndrome: She blackmails Yuki into coming with her in exchange for giving Mina a lead to the Akamitama, otherwise Mina could die from exposure to the incomplete Akamitama. The months Katie spent with Yuki between ''Scarlet Order'' and ''A.S.O.'' made her grow an attachment for the human girl.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: With a bit of AsskickingEqualsAuthority mixed into it. As the Beowulf is an organized military group, leadership is based more on the ability to lead than the ability to kick ass, but the Beowulfs would never let a pushover give them orders.

* MamaBear: Mina has nothing short of protectiveness for those who have entered her care. Woe to anyone who challenges her on this.

* OneWingedAngel: Her true form greatly increases her already substantial strength and speed and provides her with morphable organic armor.

* IWasQuiteALooker: She was attractive in the past, but the centuries turned her into a wrinkled and crippled old woman. Although, the old woman turns out to be just one of her avatars.

[[folder:Angel Arvento]]

Angie is an old friend of Akira's who comes to work for Mina.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:He teams up with Mina when Akira's life is on the line.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Besides Akira, Angie is genuinely loyal to his chosen princess, and even though they've taken different sides, he deeply loves and respects his grandfather Lord Scott.]]
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: One needs a score-card to keep track of which side he's on. He's so {{yandere}} that one day he sees helping Akira fight Telomere as loving him, and the next day, trying to hurt Akira as an ally of Telomere is equally "loving."
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The most charitable interpretation of what he wants with Akira to be his best guy friend and equal to Mina in his eyes. [[spoiler:However, he screws it up for himself by working for Telomere.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His obsession with Akira turns around to bite him when Akira uses his own paralytic agent against him, paralyzing him for hours, [[spoiler: so he sees how it feels to be completely helpless when his princess is under attack.]]

* ItsPersonal: He has a personal grudge against Tatianna [[spoiler:because she was the one who ordered Sanin to kill Akira, something the triggered the events of the Tragedy of Siberia.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Angie is secretly working for Telomere while he's acting as one of Mina's guards.]]

* TheSpeechless: [[spoiler:Yuuhi rips his throat up, rendering him mute. He gets better when he gets a device implanted in his throat to simulate speech.]]

* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:When he learned that Sanin was ordered by Tatianna to kill Akira, Angie offered himself to Sanin if he left Akira alone. Sanin refused because he couldn't bring himself to do anything to Angie.]]

* {{Yandere}}: Angie is so obsessed with Akira that he wants to threaten and kill anyone who he sees as an obstacle to have Akira to himself. He antagonizes both Mina and Yuki, even causing a near fatal head injury for the latter, because both have feelings for Akira and are currently closer to Akira than him. As if this wasn't bad enough, in ''Scarlet Order'', he paralyzes Akira temporarily while Katie is hunting down Mina, trying to kill her [[spoiler:after the latter lost her vampire powers]]. Angie even displayed these traits when he was younger as [[spoiler:he tried to kill Sanin after he discovered the latter planned to kill Akira and tried to persuade Graham into helping him.]]

* StupidSexyFlanders: Phoebe makes a joke that Yuuhi is so girly that his naked body could make Aaron and Cal get an erection when they're dropped in the snow naked at the start of the ritual.

* HybridMonster: After being bitten by Mina, Akira is the first werewolf to become a half-vampire known in centuries.

* DefiantCaptive: [[spoiler:Imprisoned by the [[VampireMonarch Vampire Queen's]] EvilTwin after a successful switch? Mute, largely paralyzed, and a {{Muggle}} to begin with? Risk killing yourself to [[BatmanGambit pass a hidden message]] and start researching your captor's true goal.]]

* ForcedIntoEvil: Under Ivanovic's control, she [[spoiler:violated the coming of age ritual for Akira and his three buddies, causing chaos by making Sanin try to kill Akira. When Graham tried to stop him, Akira mistakenly believed Graham was the assassin,]] and then everything ''really'' went to hell. However, Mina's information about Tatianna's terrorist activities ''before'' this suggest Tatianna may have not been so forced into it after all.
* FreudianExcuse: She says that she [[spoiler:manipulated her own brother into trying to kill Akira]] because she was kidnapped and abused by Ivanovic due to her ability to shape-shift into a rare female werewolf. However, this becomes questionable after Mina reveals [[spoiler:Tatianna wasn't Ivanovic's prisoner anymore by the time she met Sanin at Siberia]].
* KnowsTheRopes: In ''A.S.O.'', she fights using strings equipped with explosives.

* PsychoSupporter: Akira means the world to Angie, so he'll hurt and try to kill anyone who is a threat to Akira. [[spoiler:During the Tragedy of Siberia, Angie discovered Sanin was ordered by Tatianna to kill Akira and Angie tried to kill him, causing Sanin's head injury.]]

* {{Yandere}}: Angie is obsessed with Akira enough to try to kill Yuki [[spoiler:and selling Mina's secret to Rozenmann.]] As if this wasn't bad enough, in ''Scarlet Order'', he paralyzes Akira [[spoiler: while Katie is hunting down Mina, trying to kill her after the latter lost her vampire powers, temporarily, due to exposure to a fragment of her crystallized older sister.]] He then [[LapPillow puts Akira's head in his lap]] while going "now I'll free you of that curse that's holding you down."

* AnAxeToGrind: Goto's weapon of choice is an axe.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Her mother's younger self look like a more mature and taller Minmei.

* BrokenPedestal: Minmei respects Mina as her queen and benefactor who gave her a home. In the Li clan arc, however, [[spoiler:Mina has Minister Ryu act as a spy and kidnap Minmei to get the chance to infiltrate the Li clan and put Minmei in power. When Mina wants to kill Emperor Li, Minmei defends him and she confronts Mina about using her as a tool for revenge against the Three Clans. Even though Mina thought Emperor Li was a cruel monster, he protected Minmei from the corrupt court and has sworn to help her lead the clan in the way she deems right, so Minmei no longer knows how much to believe Mina.]]

* RebuiltPedestal: Early on, Akira goes through a period where he seriously questions Mina's choices and moral standing because she had a boy kidnapped and bitten by one of her bodyguards in order to threaten a minister into letting vampires go to school. When there's some vampire rebels trying to take over Akira's school, he almost believes Mina will support them, but that isn't the case because no matter how ruthless she can be, Mina won't support actions that will only make vampires enemies to humanity. After confirming the good in Mina, Akira is sure she's the queen he wants to protect and swears to never doubt her again.

* RoyalBastard: Mina is stated to be the illegitimate daughter that Queen Lucretia had with an unknown peasant, something that provoked the rebellion of the leaders of the Three Clans. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Mina's father is the darkness that originally created vampires and the previous Tepes women all were also daughters of the darkness and the first vampire queen.]]

* PoisonousFriend: Akira means the world to Angie, so he'll hurt and try to kill anyone who is a threat to Akira. [[spoiler:During the Tragedy of Siberia, Angie discovered Sanin was ordered by Tatianna to kill Akira and Angie tried to kill him, causing Sanin's head injury.]]

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Shinva has dark skin and light-colored hair.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: He has dark skin and white hair.

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: She used to be a prostitute before she become a vampire, but is a decent person otherwise.

* DumbBlond: Jessica's not the smartest person around.

* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler: Jessica blames herself for Rozenmann recapturing Mina, though Akira assures her it wasn't her fault.]]

* CryCute: [[spoiler:After Akira kills Alphonse, Nina is seen shedding tears over her master.]]

* DoubleAgent: He’s secretly working for Mina in order to get her help in changing the Li clan.
* PeoplePuppets: He has the unique ability to use psychic tentacles that can control people’s bodies and make them do his bidding.

* DeepSleep: Turns out Bing Bing's ''real'' body went into a deep slumber after she put all of her life force into giving birth to Li and Minmei. However, she kept control of the clan by using several avatars as her eyes and years for centuries.
* EnergyAbsorption: After researching the successful experiments of Ryu’s psychic tentacles, Bing Bing figured how to absorb energy through life force instead of blood. For 400 years, she has been absorbing bit by bit the life force of all humans and vampires in China, giving her endless power reserves when she releases her dragon form.
* EvilMatriarch: She’s the mother of Emperor Li and way more evil than he could ever be.
* HateSink: There’s no words to describe how hateable she is for raising her son as an emotionless puppet and trying to force him and Minmei into BrotherSisterIncest.
* HiveMind: She developed a method to control other vampires in the Li clan, seeing and hearing through their eyes and hears, while her real body was recovering from childbirth and went into sleep.

The last three pure blood vampires aside from Mina. [[spoiler:Since they killed the other vampire clans and Mina's mother,]] Mina has to marry and bear the child of one of them to preserve the lineage of pure blood.

!!Refugees of the Clans

[[folder:Tatianna Humoresque (SPOILERS)]]
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The older sister of Sanin Humoresque. Shortly after her brother is killed by Akira, Tatianna arrives to Japan with a large number of Chinese vampire refugees who fled from the Li clan after being infected with nanomachines. Secretly, she's working with Mina's impostor from Telomere in a plan to cause a vampire pandemic in Tokyo, using the nanomachine-controlled vampires from the Li clan. She's eventually revealed to be a highly rare female werewolf.

* ConsummateLiar: Almost everything she says should be put into question because there's no way to know when she's lying or manipulating the truth.
* CoolBigSis: She has a sisterly relationship with Minmei. She also plays the part of a kindhearted older sister figure when interacting with Phoebe, but her intentions aren't completely clean here.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Under Ivanovic's control, she [[spoiler:violated the coming of age ritual for Akira and his three buddies, causing chaos by making Sanin try to kill Akira. When Graham tried to stop him, Akira mistakenly believed Graham was the assassin,]] and then everything ''really'' went to hell. However, Mina's information about Tatianna's terrorist activities ''before'' this suggest Tatianna may have not been so forced into it after all.
* FreudianExcuse: She says that she [[spoiler:manipulated her own brother into trying to kill Akira]] because she was kidnapped and abused by Ivanovic due to her ability to shape-shift into a rare female werewolf. However, this becomes questionable after Mina reveals [[spoiler:Tatianna wasn't Ivanovic's prisoner anymore by the time she met Sanin at Siberia]].
* KnowsTheRopes: In ''A.S.O.'', she fights using strings equipped with explosives.
* ManipulativeBitch: She earns people's trust through convincing lies and emotional manipulation.
* MysteriousProtector: In ''A.S.O.'', she repeatedly shows up in the werewolf rookies' rite of passage ritual to protect Phoebe whenever the kid is in serious danger. She's doing it deliberately to get Phoebe's trust and convince him to leave with her.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: She's Sanin's older sister, who the boy believed dead, but was kidnapped and abused by Ivanovic.
* PromotionToParent: Her mother was driven insane by the stress of giving birth to a werewolf. Tatianna then took up the responsability of raising her younger brother Sanin in their mother's place.
* RedHerring: The audience and characters are lead to believe Tatianna was the attacker who put Yuki in a coma. The true attacker is revealed to be Angie.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only known female werewolf alive[[note]]Phoebe is yet another physically female werewolf, but identifies as male[[/note]].
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:She ends up getting sucked into a black hole to take two of the True Ancestor's minions down with her.]]
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[[folder:Minmei (SPOILERS)]]
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A vampire refugee who arrives with Tatianna to the Bund.

* BigBrotherWorship: She develops a mild case. After she finally meets Emperor Li in person, Minmei discovers he isn't the monster Mina told her he is and grows to have a lot of respect and admiration for him because he treats her as an equal and protects her from his corrupted court. While she can't defend him being one of those who made Mina's life so harsh, she still can't let Mina harm him.
* CommonalityConnection: Unexpectedly, she bonds with her twin brother, the Emperor Li, through their shared love for poetry.
* DamselInDistress: In ''A.S.O.'', Minmei is captured by the Li clan because she's Emperor Li's long-lost twin sister and the court is planning to force the siblings to conceive a child together, although luckily for Minmei, her brother doesn't intend to go through with it.
* GoGoEnslavement: When held captive by the Li clan, Minmei is forced to go to the emperor's chamber wearing nothing but lingerie to "awaken his interest", to poor Minmei's horror. Thankfully, her brother doesn't even touch her when they're alone together.
* MandatoryMotherhood: Turns out that the only reason why her mother didn't have her killed right after birth was because she realized she could use Minmei to give birth to vampires with power on par with the Tepes bloodline. For this twisted reason, the Li clan is expecting Minmei to bear the children of her own twin brother. Needless to say, Minmei is horrified to learn this.
* {{Meido}}: In ''Scarlet Order'', Mina has taken her in and given her a job as one of her personal maids.
* MoralityPet: Her bond with Emperor Li greatly humanizes him by showing he's capable of genuinely caring about someone, unlike the other heads of the Three Clans. He goes as far as to officially give Minmei authority equal to him over the Li clan.
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: ''A.S.O.'' reveals Minmei is Archduke Li's twin sister, making her a legitimate successor to the Li clan. Mina hopes that Minmei can replace Li as the clan head.
* RipVanWinkle: 600 years ago, the Li clan put Minmei in a deep slumber right after her birth. However, she somehow ended up waking up and being raised in a rural town.
* SeparatedAtBirth: She's Emperor Li's twin sister who was sealed away right after birth by their mother 600 years ago. She finally meets her brother in the ''A.S.O.'' sequel.
* ShamefulStrip: She's forced to strip naked in front of the Li court's attendants and guards, all while they laugh at her tears of shame.
* WhatTheHellHero: During the climax of the Li clan arc, Minmei is very angry at Mina for sending Minister Ryu to kidnap her and leave her in the clutches of a corrupt court that wanted to turn her into a BreedingSlave.

!Other Vampires
[[folder:Nicole Edelman]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Ayaka Kodama (JP), Creator/ClarineHarp (EN), Carola Vázquez (LA)

A CNN Newscaster and Counselor Josephine Reiko Gotoh's twin sister. She turned into a vampire to attempt a suicide bomb on Mina during a press conference. She's stopped by Akira and killed by Vera.

* AdaptationDyeJob: She's blonde like her twin sister, but the anime made her a strawberry blonde.
* ButNotTooForeign: She's half-American on her father's side.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: She and Reiko are identical twins. The only thing that's different is the place of their beauty marks (Nicole's is on her chin while Reiko's is on the corner of her left eye).
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: [[spoiler:Hama started to figure out Nicole wasn't Gotoh when he mentioned the handkerchief Gotoh gave him and she didn't know about it.]]
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: [[spoiler:She started longing for Hama after Gotoh kept sending her mails where she described the heroic soldier who rescued her in Afghanistan. This drove her to date Hama while pretending to be Gotoh.]]
* NotSoSmallRole: In the first series, Nicole's only role was being killed to save Mina and prove the existence of vampires to the press conference. ''Memories of Sledgehammer'' gives her more importance by revealing she and her father were working on a document that exposed the secret influence of vampires across human history and a cult of VampireHunter fanatics are searching for it since the document was lost with Nicole's death. Moreover, [[spoiler:Nicole sent a mail to her sister to warn her about Hama being in danger during his attack on Mina's mansion, which ultimately saved Hama.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: She was killed in Volume 1. We learn more about her and her motivation for trying to suicide bomb Mina in the side-story ''Memories of Sledgehammer'', which takes place a few years after her death.
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Her suicide bomb attempt was actually Nicole trying avenge Hama. She didn't know Hama had survived the attack on Mina's mansion and was picked up by Gotoh.]]
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:She assumed her twin sister Gotoh's identity to date Hama for some time. Hama broke up with her when he realized the charade.]]

[[folder:Mamekichi / Okiyo]]
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A former geisha who became a vampire 170 years ago to wait for her lover John Arthur Young.

* TheBait: Kajikawa kidnaps her in order to lure Arthur to him and get the piece of the Akamitama that Arthur carries.
* GenderBlenderName: Back in the Edo period, geisha of Fukagawa were given male work names to hide the existence of the RedLightDistrict from the Bakufu. This is why Mina and Akira are surprised that Mamekichi is in fact a woman.
* IWillWaitForYou: She has stayed in Fukagawa for 170 years awating for her lover Arthur to come back for her, like he promised.
* KimonoIsTraditional: She's a beautiful YamatoNadeshiko who almost always dresses in a kimono.
* MyGrandsonMyself: She has lived at Fukagawa for almost two centuries, repeatedly pretending to be replaced by her "granddaughter" when enough years pass. Although, not everyone in the town was fooled by her cover story.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Graceful, well-mannered, devoted to her beloved, and admirably strong-willed.

[[folder:John Arthur Young]]
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Okiyo's lover who turned her into a vampire. 170 years ago, Alphonse sent him to Japan on a mission to find the Akamitama. Although he did find it, Yajirou Kajikawa stole the case from him and trapped him inside a coffin. Arthur managed to survive because of the small fragment of the Akamitama that he ate. At the start of ''Scarlet Order'', he's freed from the coffin and goes to search for Okiyo.

* AndIMustScream: He spent 170 years trapped inside a coffin, at the bottom of the sea. He only survived because of the piece of the Akamitama that he ate. After being freed and reuniting with his lover Okiyo, Arthur is still afraid that he could "wake up" and find himself trapped at that dark coffin again.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He fell in love with Okiyo when he saw her bravely standing up to a samurai who tried to force himself on her friend.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Okiyo said his blue eyes are beautiful.
* WifeBasherBasher: He always steps in to beat up some bastards that try abusing women.

!The Telomere Clan
A mysterious organization which influence can be tracked in many of the events of the manga. '''SPOILER ALERT'''.

[[folder:Katie Maurice (SPOILERS)]]
!!Katie Maurice
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A vampire who looks identical to Mina and poses as her after Ivanovic's invasion.

* NiceHat: He wears one in volume 13.

* InconvenientAttraction: Nanami had felt attracted to Yuzuru for a long time, but pretended to not notice because he's still a preteen. After transforming into a vampire, Nanami can't hold back her lustful impulses anymore and becomes terrified that she will "make him dirty" and cause him to hate her. Luckily, Yuzuru reciprocates her feelings and becomes a vampire to be with her.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Although Mina never wanted to make Yuzuru and Nanami suffer, desperate circumstances caused by the pied piper infecting Nanami forces Mina to order Yuzuru to push Nanami to her death. Yuzuru's despair over this causes him to betray Mina and join Rozennman's side to aid in her capture. That is until Nanami turns out to still be alive, causing Yuzuru to switch sides right away.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He eventually decides to go against his mother's orders and asks Minmei to rule the clan at his side to guide into the right path.]]

* MonsterBrotherCutieSister: Subverted. [[spoiler:Li and Minmei ''look'' like this at first glance because Li is seen as a ruthless emperor and his teeth look very monstrous for a vampire. Once Minmei gets to know him, however, Li is nowhere near as bad as others think he is.]]

* NearRapeExperience: [[spoiler:After being pressured into it by his evil mother, Li is forced to do what she wants and tries to rape his sister Minmei. After Minmei yells that she'll hate him if he rapes her, Li stops as he realizes he really cares about their sibling relationship.]]

* {{Animorphism}}: She can change into her true form that is a mouse.

* AffablyEvil: He's very courteous and well-mannered in his interactions with Minmei, which leads to think there's good in him. However, she's warned that villains can show their good side to their close ones while still being capable of evil and cruelty.

* BystanderSyndrome: He views himself as a mere observer of history. To him, the Three Clans usurpring power of the Tepes family, Lucretia's death and Mina's many humiliations were [[BecauseDestinySaysSo events destined to happen]] regardless of him and he never felt the compulsion to intervene in the flow of history.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He eventually decides to go against his mother's orders and lead the Li clan in a better way with his sister ruling at his side.]]

* PrehensileHair: He can freely manipulate the growth and movement of his hair, along with using it to attack and cut people as if it was a blade.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Compared to the other leaders of the Three Clans, Li isn't anywhere near as bad as Rozenmann and Ivanovic. Instead of purely evil, he's more of a PuppetKing who was raised by an EvilMatriarch. [[spoiler:Eventually, Li becomes a more benevolent emperor after deciding to rule the clan with his sister Minmei.]]

* ForTheEvulz: Her occasional motivation.

* ManipulativeBitch: And she ''revels'' in it.

* TwinSwitch: She's introduced impersonating Mina [[spoiler:who is later revealed to be her identical half-sister]].