History Characters / DeliciousInDungeonToudenParty

* CatGirl: Izutsumi is a beastkin (a human/animal chimera) of the cat variety. She has kitty ears and a tail, pointed teeth, and her body is covered in fur. She also tends to have rather catlike mannerisms. The trope is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in her case, as she's only a cat girl at all due to experimentation, and years of being exhibited at freak shows and treated like an animal made her mindset and behavior far more "cat" than "girl" until she was taught how to behave more like a human. A supplementary comic also clarifies that she's ''literally'' more cat than human; unlike Lycion, who is an elf with a beast soul inserted, Izutsumi is a cat monster with a tallman soul inserted (this means, unlike Lycion, Izutsumi cannot "suppress" her beast side, as the beast is the default; attempting to "suppress" her beast half would result in the human half being suppressed instead, turning her full cat).

* MadeOfIron: The ''Adventurers' Bible'' give his constitution as a 5/5 and he's survived things like being noshed on by a dragon or absorbing large amounts of tentacle venom without being paralyzed. [[spoiler: This comes into play in the battle against Thistle's summoned dragons, with him being able to survive inhaling the Wyrm's toxic gas.]]

* {{Samurai}}: He certainly looks the part, as he wields a katana, wears Japanese-style clothing and armor, and has his long hair in a SamuraiPonytail. Later chapters confirm he hails from the East (specifically the Isle of Wa, which seems to be this world's equivalent of Japan).

* TheLadette: Somewhat downplayed, but she's a capable fighter and likes drinking ale, implying she's not exactly all that feminine.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Not that you'd know from seeing the main manga or anime, but in his diary Senshi is quite upset with Laios and Marcille for allowing Chilchuck, who he assumes is a child, to disarm traps for the party. He initially assumes Chilchuck is a tallman child, and only with the party because he's Laios's brother-- but later he records a suspicion in his journal that Chilchuck is an orphan being forced to take dangerous adventuring jobs due to poverty, and that he plans to confront the rest about this (which never comes to fruition before the misunderstanding is cleared). He also stereotypes Marcille, derisively interpreting her attitudes and actions as "typical elf". This mellows out over time as he comes to understand that Chilchuck really is a grown adult and that he's been influenced by prejudice against elves, though he still finds Marcille's interest in ancient magic deeply troubling. Senshi does look forward to being on his own again but he's quite fond of the party by the end.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Not that you'd know from seeing the main manga or anime, but in his diary Senshi starts out ''furious'' with Laios and Marcille for taking Chilchuck, who he assumes is a child, into the dungeon, and also has a particular contempt for Marcille, interpreting her attitudes and actions in the worst lights. This mellows out over time as he comes to understand that Chilchuck really is a grown adult and that he's been influenced by prejudice against elves, though he still finds Marcille's interest in ancient magic deeply troubling. Senshi does look forward to being on his own again but he's quite fond of the party by the end.

* AnimalMotif: He has a dog motif. Besides his friendly, straightforward and trustworthy personality, he knows their behaviors and can mimic their calls perfectly since he grew up with several of them. [[spoiler:When in Marcille's nightmare, he turns into a dog to do some digging. When Marcille remembers the dream after waking up, she remembers being with a dog (Laios had already already returned to his normal form by the time he met her in the nightmare.) Notably, the dog resembles a dog Laios' family owned in during his childhood named Rag.]]

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Towards the end of the manga, Laois makes a deal with the demon to trade his body for that of a monster. The demon possesses his body in Laois' place.]]

* {{Foil}}: to Kabru. Kabru is obsessed with studying humanity, Laois is obsessed with studying monsters. Kabru struggles to make progress in the dungeon, Laois is extremely skilled at navigating the dungeon. Kabru is a gifted and very perceptive speaker, Laois struggles to communicate his thoughts and misses social cues.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: Kabru and the Canaries share the common opinion that if Laois were to take over the dungeon, his love of monsters coupled with the corrupting influence of the demon may lead to destruction. Thus, they do their best to kill him before that happens.]]

* OfferedTheCrown: [[spoiler: The reward for defeating the mad mage and clearing the dungeon. Laois isn't sure whether he wants to accept, but the former inhabitants of the Golden Kingdom insist.]]

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He's the party's expert on all things pertaining traps and the like.

* ADogNamedDog: Close enough, anyway. "Ken" means "Sword" in Japanese, and "-suke" is a common generic masculine name-ender. A direct translation would probably be something like "Swordbert."

* ADogNamedDog: Close enough, anyway. "Ken" means "Sword" in Japanese, and "-suke" is a common generic masculine name-ender. A direct translation would probably be something like "Swordey".

* BadassNormal: Despite being a [[HumansAreAverage normal Tallman, with Tallman made armour and weapons]], Laios is able to more than hold his own against mages, monsters and dragons. [[spoiler: And, eventually an extradimensional eldritch horror.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: He disagrees with Senshi about bonding with a monster because people cannot know exactly what's inside a monster's mind, all while keeping a living sword and hiding it from the rest of the party. Although his living sword is too weak to physically harm him and seems incapable of independent thought, he still doesn't practice what he preaches. [[spoiler: This bites him hard when his living sword runs away during the fight with the Red Dragon.]]

* MagicKnight: He has tried to learn magic in the past several times, however his sister ended up being a very lousy teacher, going mostly by "instinct" that he couldn't understand at all. Marcille is more by the book, which proves to be far more successful since he learns to conjure basic healing and maybe even petrification curse removal in under a week of training. The ''Adventurers' Bible'' gives him a Magic score of 3/5.

* CarryABigStick: Her magic is evocative of a fantasty cleric and she needs to defend herself physically in the dungeon, so her "MagicStaff" is actually a metal mace.

** [[spoiler:After peeling through his initial refusal to remain with Laios' party in the self-admitted suicidal plan to rescue Falin no matter what, Shuro grows to become resentful and disappointed in himself for choosing to be logical and thinking of securing more people and resources to go after Falin later, reasoning that his love and loyalty to Falin wasn't as strong as Laios and Marcille's. At the end of the series end with Falin truly saved, Shuro isn't in the room with the current party at all; only when Falin comes out of the lodge, ecstatic to greet all the people Laios' made acquaintanceship with that Shuro can't help but be approached and greeted by her]].

** [[spoiler:After peeling through his initial refusal to remain with Laios' party in the self-admitted suicidal plan to rescue Falin no matter what, Shuro grows to become resentful and disappointed in himself for choosing to be logical and thinking of securing more people and resources to go after Falin later, reasoning that his love and loyalty to Falin wasn't as strong as Laios and Marcille's. At the end of the series end with Falin truly saved, Shuro isn't in the room with the current party at all]].

** Chilchuck suspects her to be this, he doesn't like the forbidden magic Marcille used to resurrect her. Also the fact that the living sword hides itself and jumps out of Falin's hands might be a hint. This is confirmed later, with the Red Dragon's soul being mixed up with hers.
** When she is later resurrected again in the final chapter, she comes back with most of her body still covered in feathers, as well as pointed cainines and draconic eyes. More feathers have grown in in an epilogue chapter and supplementary art. However, since she's otherwise completely human, she's fine with it, and in fact thinks it's pretty cool.

* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: At the end of the series, [[spoiler:the fact Marcille used Black Magic and temporarily became Lord of the Dungeon does hang over her head, it was not forgotten by The Canaries who were still intent on apprehending Marcille to face trial even though the world had just been saved by defeating the Winged Lion. Marcille was resigned to turn herself in after successfully seeing with her own yes Falin was brought back to life for good this time; Laios, however, quickly used a power move as the newly appointed King of the Lost Continent to appoint Marcille as one of his royal advisors, shielding her with political immunity in his kingdom to prevent her from leaving its premises and face trial; The Canaries find his move stupid at first but Mithrun and the Elven Queen don't protest, as by that point they really didn't want to be concerned with such matters anymore]].

* ChickMagnet: Despite his personality and quirks generally turning people away, Laios had an above-average rate of having women attracted to him. A former party member looking for marriage was interested in Laios, in an omake, it's suggested that Shuro and Kabru would be into Laios if they were female.

* BeardOfSorrow: Grows one while he's searching for Falin.
* ButtMonkey: Most supplemental material that includes him has him ''miserable'' in Laios's presence, getting dragged along by Laios's overwhelming enthusiasm and his own inability to say no.

** [[spoiler:After peeling through his initial refusal to remain with Laios' party in the self-admitted suicidal plan to rescue Falin no matter what, Shuro grows to become resentful and disappointed in himself for choosing to be logical and thinking of securing more people and resources to go after Falin later, reasoning that his love and loyalty to Falin wasn't as strong as Laios and Marcille's. At the end of the series end with Falin truly saved, Shuro doesn't have the courage to ever try courting Falin, coming to believe he simply isn't worthy of her. She does send him things she thinks are interesting, so some contact remains, but they're no longer in the same space]].
** [[spoiler:An epilogue omake finally has him confess to her and asks if she wants to come with him to his homeland. Falin says that she'd love to see it but has too much wanderlust to stay, but she promises that whenever she does visit the eastern islands, she'll come and see him.]]
* ExhaustedEyebags: He gets these when he returns later, due to how much he's been pushing himself.

* HiddenDisdainReveal: When he and Laios gets into a fistfight, Shuro reveals just how irritating he finds Laios, showing his side of the story during moments Laios used before to describe their friendship. Although after the fight, it's clear that while Shuro hates how dense Laios is, he still considers Laios a friend, and in fact envies how honest and forthright Laios's density lets him be.
* HintDropping: Shuro's fantasy-JapanesePoliteness meant that when he was in the same party as Laios he was constantly trying to suggest a little distance and time to himself or with Falin, and the cheerfully oblivious Laios didn't catch any of them.

* {{Irony}}: Shuro secretly resents Laios for his lack of social skills, but falls in love with Falin, who shares many of Laios' traits and even interests. Interestingly, an omake shows that a gender-flipped Shuro would fall for Laios. It's justified by Shuro disliking how Laios is unable to take a hint, while Falin's own lack of social skills manifest as a detached aloofness, which Shuro finds alluring.

* LiterallyShatteredLives: His first death, which occured prior to the begininning of the story, was the result of being petrified by a cockatrice and broken. Thankfully he was apparently able to be put back together and revived.

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Played with. Chilchuck is treated this way by the rest of the party because of how young he appears, much to his annoyance. In reality, he's actually older than Laios, though Senshi and Marcille still consider him a baby because of the long lifespans of their respective species.

* FictionalDisability: [[spoiler: Relatively minor, but after the Winged Lion eats her desire to take care of her hair she [[StoppedCaring stops caring]] about it and it soon gets messy, sometimes trailing into her mouth as she eats. Marcille isn't upset by this, but Laios and Chilchuck are horrified, knowing how important her hair had been both magically and personally - taking it down had been a feature of her large-scale spellcasting, and she'd cut locks to use in the less-messy precursors to BloodMagic. Chilchuck combs her hair out and puts it into two braids, and she doesn't even realize that that's a childish style and resolves to just chop it all off so she doesn't have to think about managing it. In material set post-series, she always seems to have long braided hair, if often messier than her old styles, because someone's doing it for her.]]

[[folder:Falin ('''Major Unmarked Spoilers''')]]

* BackFromTheDead: She's resurrected by Marcille using forbidden magic combined with dragon meat in order to reform her completely, as only her bones were left after the Red Dragon digested her. [[spoiler:In the finale, after most of the dragon's spirit has been neutralized, Marcille resurrects her again with help from the gnomes and elves.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is normally very kind and even tempered. [[spoiler:But during an epilogue chapter, when she, Laios, and Marcille get surprised by a cockatrice, she, without any prompting, proceeds to bludgeon the cockatrice to death as Laios and Marcille just watch. She reverts back to her normal demeanor immediately after. However, that fierce behavior, opting for a relentless physical attack is implied to be part of Falin's new and intrinsic remaining Red Dragon nature within her.]]

** [[spoiler:The "Kensuke" epilogue story has Falin beat a cockatrice into submission with her mace, implying that her second resurrection has made her more aggressive and physically stronger.]]

** When she is later resurrected again [[spoiler:in the final chapter, she comes back with most of her body still covered in feathers, as well as pointed cainines and draconic eyes. More feathers have grown in in an epilogue chapter and supplementary art. However, since she's otherwise completely human, she's fine with it, and in fact thinks it's pretty cool.]]

* CuteLittleFangs: [[spoiler:At the end of the story, she still has a small portion of the Red Dragon's soul and flesh, which, among other features, gives her small pointy fangs.]]

* {{Irony}}: Falin's latent magical ability made her a pariah of her village. By the end of the story, [[spoiler:despite becoming monstrous as a result of the Red Dragon's soul still lingering within hers, she's never been ''more'' accepted by others, with everyone the Touden Party has met in their journey eagerly awaiting when she comes back to life.]]

* LittleBitBeastly: [[spoiler:At the end of the manga, her final resurrection has her human again, albeit with slit pupils, small fangs, and her midsection still covered in feathers. Supplementary material has the feathers spread up her chest to her neck as well.]]

* MergerOfSouls: She's resurrected using enough red dragon flesh that the dragon's soul is also joined to hers, allowing Thistle to control her as if she were the dragon. However, the souls aren't completely, evenly mixed together, [[spoiler:so by eating the dragon flesh before resurrecting her again, she's almost entirely Falin with only a light tinge of dragon.]]

* NotQuiteBackToNormal: [[spoiler:It's necessary to leave a portion of dragon on Falin's lower body so the resurrectionists have some meat to reconstruct her with. This results in both some draconic physical features (which she loves) and a bit of her soul still consisting of red dragon (which she also seems cool with)]].

** She's on the receiving end in [[spoiler:the finale, where Laios gets everyone in the dungeon to cut up and feed on her chimera half in order to properly revive her.]]

* SlashedThroat: Receives one from Kabru. It's not lethal to her, but where before she spoke a little and with difficulty as her chimera vocal chords were compressed, afterwards even when there's no mark of injury she doesn't say anything until [[spoiler: she's revived a second time and her throat is restructured.]]

* TouchedByVorlons: The Final Chapter shows that [[spoiler:while the Red Dragon's essence is much much smaller after the feast, it is still a part of Falin and will be for the rest of her life. The Kensuke extra chapter also shows that Falin has become a lot stronger physically.]]

* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: At the end of the series, [[spoiler:the fact Marcille used Black Magic and temporarily became Lord of the Dungeon does hang over her head, it was not forgotten by The Canaries who were still intent on apprehending Marcille to face trial even though the world had just been saved by defeating the Winged Lion. Marcille was resigned to turn herself in after successfully seeing with her own yes Fallin was brought back to life for good this time; Laios, however, quickly used a power move as the newly appointed King of the Lost Continent to appoint Marcille as one of his royal advisors, shielding her with political immunity in his kingdom to prevent her from leaving its premises and face trial; The Canaries find his move stupid at first but Mithrun and the Elven Queen don't protest, as by that point they really didn't want to be concerned with such matters anymore]].

* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is normally very kind and even tempered. [[spoiler:But during an epilogue chapter, when she, Laios, and Marcille get surprised by a cockatrice, she, without any prompting, proceeds to bludgeon the cockatrice to death as Laios and Marcille just watch. She reverts back to her normal demeanor immediately after.]]