History Characters / KaraNoKyoukai

* FirstNameBasis: She calls Kurogiri by his given name with the "-san" honorific. She also calls Kaori Tachibana by her first name, whom she was very close to.

* {{Ojou}}

Appearing as an antagonist in the sixth movie, he is a Magus known as ''God's Word''. He has the ability to manipulate others through words alone.

[[folder:Gakuto]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Kenji Takahashi

Mikiya's high school friend whom he has contact to even to this day.

* HiddenDepths: Given that he associates himself with Keita and one of the drug dealers knows Gakuto personally, it's heavily implied that Gakuto is a drug addict.
* LastNameBasis: He and Mikiya call each other by their last names.
* NiceGuy: He's nice person and he's willing to lend Mikiya money in exchange for helping him finding his kohai Keita.

[[folder:Mana Ryougi '''*Spoilers*''']]
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Introduced in the epilogue to Future Gospel: recalled out summer, she is Shiki and Mikiya's daughter.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HisakoKanemoto

* CheerfulChild: She's a cute and lively young girl.
* DaddysGirl: She adores her "papa" so much that she doesn't want to share him with her mother. Though if official artworks are anything, she and Shiki seem to have a close mother and daughter relationship with each other despite this.
* ElectraComplex: Her wish is to defeat her mother so she can have her "papa".
* InnocentBlueEyes: She got the blue eyes of her father and also seems to have inherited his kind-hearted and friendly nature.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: She likes to hang around Mitsuru, who is 15 years older than her.
* MafiaPrincess: As Shiki once were, Mana is one as Shiki herself accepted her family business and became the next head.
* MuggleBornOfMages: She did not inherit her mother's abilities, nor any abilities of the Ryougi family.
* NomDeMom: She uses her mother's surname. Considering her father is just an average person compared to her mother's heritage and current position, [[TheMaidenNameDebate Mikiya probably married into the Ryougi, not the other way around]].
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Mitsuru.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Mana looks like her mother Shiki, with the eye and hair color of her father. She also closely resembles her aunt, Azaka, too.
* TsurimeEyes
* WalkingSpoiler: Since she's Shiki and Mikiya's daughter introduced in the epilogue, it's difficult to talk about her without giving away the ending of the series.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears black thigh-high stockings.

[[folder:Mother Mifune]]
A famous and accurate FortuneTeller of Future Gospel who gave predictions to Shiki and SHIKI in the past.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Kujira}}

* BlindSeer: In ''Mobius Link'', which is set ten years after the events of the entire series. It should be noted that along with her now blind eyes, her precognition powers have also significantly waned over the years.
* CoolOldLady
* FortuneTeller: What she does for a living with her power.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: She is named after a RealLife clairvoyant, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chizuko_Mifune Chizuko Mifune]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's only known as Mother Mifune. Her real name is never revealed.
* {{Seers}}: One of three in ''Future Gospel''.

[[folder:Ririsu Miyazuki]]
A character introduced in Future Gospel Extra Chorus. A student from Azaka's school whose friend was one of the suicide victims in Overlooking View.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RisaTaneda

* AllThereInTheManual: Her first name was only mentioned in the ''Garden of Oblivion'' novel.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Toward her friend Yuuko Andou.
* BullyingADragon: Acted like a complete [[{{Jerkass}} jackass]] to Fujino after their introductions to each other, and [[CallBack even brings up the murder cases Fujino was the culprit of during the events of movie 3]]. Of course, she completely regretted it once Fujino confesses about the latter and decides to teach her a harsh [[SinkOrSwimMentor lesson]] about valuing her life...
* GirlishPigtails
* InterruptedSuicide: She was about to kill herself when Fujino arrived to stop her and give her the will to live on.
* ItsAllMyFault: She believes Yuko killed herself because of something she said to her.
* {{Meganekko}}
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She realizes that her action, after a chain of unfortunate events that came to Andou, was the last straw that pushed her friend to suicide.

** And also in the seventh movie against [[spoiler:Lio, when she actually wanted to kill him. And she didn't just kill him, she [[UpToEleven destroyed his entire existence.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: She comes close to crossing it in the seventh chapter, where, [[spoiler:thinking she had lost Mikiya forever, she gives up on living after killing Lio. A NotQuiteDead Mikiya finds and embraces her very shortly after.]]

* TheDreaded: Has this reputation towards the characters in both her series and [[VideoGame/FateExtra out]] [[VideoGame/MeltyBlood of it]]. Of note, Kirie and Fujino were afraid of her during their respective fights against her (and if ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' and ''Garden of Oblivion'' are anything, Fujino is ''still'' scared of her even after [[spoiler:Shiki saved her life in the third movie]]), and even ''Araya'' felt a sense of dread when Shiki made her killing intent clear during their second bout together. Even Mikiya and Tomoe, both of whom are explicitly in love with her, fear her to some extent (but not enough to dissuade them from loving her anyways). In the ''Garden of Oblivion'' light novel, Shizune's entire group, including Azaka, the aforementioned Fujino, and Ouji, do a collective OhCrap when they see [[spoiler:a zombified Shiki, still retaining her skills and abilities, spotting them and realizing they have to go through ''her'' in order to survive.]]
* DudeMagnet: Mikiya, Tomoe, and [[spoiler:Lio]] are head over heels in love with her, and even those who aren't particularly romantically interested in her note that she's very beautiful.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The characteristic iridescent-blue glow is used in the movies as a shorthand to inform the viewers whenever Shiki activates her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. While this is a much rarer occurrence in the novels, several characters (including Tomoe, Alaya, Lio, and Meruka Kuramitsu in ''Mirai Fukuin'') describe Shiki's eyes as glowing blue whenever she makes them see the lines of death.
* GoodIsOldFashioned: Shiki makes almost no use of modern conveniences except for refrigeration and electric light, almost never even answers her telephone (and she hasn't changed the answering machine's message from its default), wears traditional clothing whenever possible, seems most comfortable in Touko's ancient, run-down office, and is utterly disgusted by drugs and casual sex. Although gender is more or less a non-issue for her for personal reasons; she questions Tomoe's sexuality in a completely neutral manner and [[CannotTellAJoke tries to]] make a vulgar joke when the Kokutou siblings bring up the possibility of her dating Azaka's female classmates.

* HiddenHeartOfGold: Most notably [[spoiler:sparing Fujino's life]] and giving Tomoe shelter.

* InnocentCohabitation: With Tomoe when she lets him stay at her apartment.
* ItGetsEasier: The reason [[spoiler:Mikiya kept telling her not to kill Lio]], and the probable source of her BlueAndOrangeMorality above.

* SupportingProtagonist: In the fifth and sixth movies, where she takes a backseat to Tomoe and Azaka, respectively.

* AllLovingHero: He's a compassionate and morally upstanding individual able to bring out the best of people, including those like [[SociopathicHero Shiki]]. He can easily listen to what other people say with an open mind while also letting others view him as very non threatening so they're more likely to open up. As a result he's able to easily make friends with pretty much anyone he wants. It's to the point that even when [[spoiler:Lio]] has reached his breaking point of sanity, he notices that he hasn't fully lost it yet likely just due to Mikiya being present as he still recognizes him as a person who legitimately was always trying to help.

* {{Determinator}}: In the seventh movie, [[spoiler:Lio crushes his leg and then, just to be a complete dick, stabs it as well. And then, after refusing to take a drug that will prevent him from dying due to the effects of another drug, Lio stabs Mikiya ''in the face''.]] This doesn't stop Mikiya from limping on said leg and then clawing his way to Shiki.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Or at least [[spoiler:Lio]] does, according to WordOfGod.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Loses an eye in the last chapter/movie courtesy of Lio.]]
* TheFettered: For God's sake, in ''Remaining Sense of Pain'' he [[spoiler:shelters a [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]] from street justice so he can turn him over to the police instead, even though he's viscerally disgusted (see the ScaryShinyGlasses example below).]] Later, he opposes killing [[spoiler:Lio]], who is already a SerialKiller more similar to a savage animal than a human being, despite the fact that [[spoiler:Lio]] had ''told Mikiya himself'' that the next time they meet he wouldn't be able to restrain his urges to murder him.

** To Shiki. Having Mikiya by her side is what maintains her mostly stable while dealing with her loss of sense of self and the death of her split personality. [[spoiler:When she thinks Lio killed Mikiya, Shiki decides she doesn't care about anything anymore, murders Lio and falls over to the ground with no intention to get up again. Mikiya then claws his way back to her and promises to not leave her alone ever again.]]
** While it's less obvious, he is also this to [[spoiler:Lio. Mikiya was his OnlyFriend and the only person who truly cared about him, but Lio didn't realize how much Mikiya meant to him until it was too late. After he believes he killed Mikiya, Lio snaps completely and goes more AxCrazy than he already was.]]

* MoralityChain: The only reason Shiki doesn't go around killing people is because she understands that she would break Mikiya's heart if she betrayed his trust. [[spoiler:Lio knows this and tries to break the chain by threatening her about killing him. And it works; once he (incorrectly) tells Shiki he killed Mikiya, Lio is diced into half a dozen pieces before he even ''hits the ground''. ]]

** Also, Lio is usually mild around Mikiya, acting like his old self only towards him.

* OnlyFriend: To Shiki [[spoiler:and Lio]].

* GirlyBruiser

* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:He's actually a puppet created to repeat the real Tomoe's death.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Upon meeting Mikiya, Tomoe immediately realizes what is going on between him and Shiki. He takes it surprisingly well, believing that even though he loves her, Mikiya is the one she needs. He still considers them to be an odd pairing, though.]]

* LoveAtFirstSight: He says he fell in love with Shiki the moment he first saw her. [[spoiler:Araya says he simply imprinted such feelings in Tomoe's mind, but Tomoe says it makes them no less real in his own perception.]]
* {{Matricide}}: He claims he killed his own mother when she tried to kill him. It's a bit more complicated than that, naturally. [[spoiler:To sum it up, what Tomoe killed was a puppet of his mother created to repeat their deaths. Tomoe's real mother [[MurderSuicide killed herself after she killed her husband and the real Tomoe.]]]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Araya only lost because of Tomoe's love for his family.]]

* BadassLongcoat

* TheStoic

* LongHairedPrettyBoy

Appearing in the sixth movie, she is senior at Reien Girl's Academy and known to be strict but fair. Has the power to control "fairies" thanks to Satsuki.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:She accidentally killed Hideo Hayama during a struggle when she confronted him about what happened to Kaori. The movie, however, says that Hideo died from a heart attack in the middle of their argument and Misaya was just made to think that she killed him.]]

* MemoryWipingCrew: [[spoiler:Wants to do this by stealing everyone's memories of what happened to Kaori so as to cleanse them of the "sin" of the event.]]

* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:Attempts to do this to all the girls of Class D in order to punish them for their treatment of Kaori, believing as a devout Catholic that they will go to Hell for committing suicide.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After finding out what happened to [[spoiler:Kaori]] the resulting vengeance is ''not pretty'' at all.

* StudentCouncilPresident

* AmbiguouslyBi: WordOfGod claims that Lio has an affinity/obsession for the Anima: literally a preference for the feminine qualities of a male personality. In this regard, Lio fell for Shiki's male personality SHIKI but based on the personality's feminine traits. It's also possible that he has a gender identity disorder. WordOfGod also claims that although Lio and Mikiya had a simple senior/junior relationship, Lio once viewed it as an obsessive friendship bordering on unrequited love. Also, though he is described as normally hating men and women alike, Lio considers Shiki an exception having viewed her as neither one or the other. Despite all this, both Shiki and Mikiya note that his outward behavior and attempts to appease both of them seem to be a front to convince either of the two to become 'special' with him.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Has a strong attachment to Mikiya because he was his OnlyFriend and the only one who encouraged him when Lio abandoned school. The film makes Lio more focused on Shiki, so unlike the novel, this is not developed.

* ChekhovsGunman: In the second movie, he got a brief mention and a small meeting between him and Mikiya, and Lio is seen briefly talking to Shiki, who doesn't even bother to remember/use his name. He doesn't get a major role until the seventh movie.
* CorruptTheCutie: Rather than to kill him immediately, Lio tries to bring Mikiya to his side as well. He plays up the idea that he and Mikiya are responsible for pushing Shiki into such a desperate state, as a means of corrupting him and even poisons Mikiya with drugs to give him no choice but to become "special" like him in order to survive. Mikiya, [[TheFettered being who he is,]] doesn't give in.

* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler:believing he killed Mikiya]], he snaps completely. [[spoiler:Mikiya was his LivingEmotionalCrutch, but Lio did not realize it until Mikiya "died".]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady: InUniverse. A key plot element of the seventh movie is [[spoiler:Lio being able to pass for Shiki]], albeit at night and from a distance. Even Mikiya admits that he has ambiguous features. Combined with a GenderBlenderName.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Lio is first mentioned in the second/first chapter (''Murder Speculation Pt.1'') when Mikiya tells Shiki that one of their upperclassmen is dropping out of school because "he found something he wanted to do".[[note]]This dialogue takes place after Lio's fourth murder and just before the "Singing in the Rain" scene.[[/note]] The movie adaptation does one better and actually shows Lio interacting with Shiki and Mikiya, although he is always partially obscured.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was just a socially withdrawn guy until he committed murder for the first time and Araya awakened his Origin. Lio then became a mass-murdering, cannibal SerialKiller that is more like a group of beasts than a human being.

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: The beginning motivation of Lio's StartOfDarkness. While Lio never blamed Shiki for rejecting him, he still internalized Shiki's words in which she described him as a weak person. Where Shiki wishes to have a normal life to be with Mikiya (whom outright has a normal life, no matter what he does), Lio seeks to be special in a way that makes him stand out and makes his existence matter. By the time we see him... and as the rest of the tropes illustrate... he's ''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor special]]''.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Ultimately, this is why he wants to find someone like him; he wants to have companions in his madness. He's after Shiki because he believes she is the only one who is "naturally" like him, with Mikiya simply holding her back. Lio went as far as to use special drugs to make people like him, but all attempts failed.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Dear god, ''yes!'' While Lio certainly starts out fairly normal, his obsession for Shiki causes him to become more and more ''insane''.

* MurderMakesYouCrazy: [[LoveMakesYouCrazy Love]] drove him to his most horrifying extremes, but it was his first kill (when he met Araya) that truly saw Lio ''snap''.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After Mikiya (seemingly) dies, Lio realizes that he killed his OnlyFriend and the only person who truly cared about him.]]

* SplitPersonality: To a degree. The novel describes Lio's mentality as two separate personae: the ''old'' Lio Shirazumi who held an attachment towards [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Mikiya]], and the ''murderous monster/bloodthirsty killer'' that was born out of his initial love for Shiki (see {{Yandere}}). He even lampshades it in his diary and realizes that the cause of this is Mikiya. The film makes Lio more focused on Shiki, so this isn't developed.

* TheyWereHoldingYouBack: Lio plays up the idea of killing Mikiya as a means of removing Shiki's MoralityChain. This is more than likely a bluff to goad Shiki into becoming a murderer, as Lio never truly intended to harm Mikiya. [[spoiler:Lio still ends up "killing" him when Mikiya rejects him and gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. And unsurprisingly, it works as Lio expected and Shiki kills him.]]

* WeCanRuleTogether: Lio talked up both Shiki and Mikiya to convince at least one to join him. Unfortunately for him, he was rejected by both.

* {{Yandere}}: It looks that way on the surface, but surprisingly averted. While part of Lio wanted to kill Shiki, it wasn't out of love - it's due to the violent impulses caused by his Origin of Consumption.

[[folder:Mana Ryougi '''*Spoilers*''']]
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Introduced in the epilogue to Future Gospel: recalled out summer, she is Shiki and Mikiya's daughter.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HisakoKanemoto

* HeartbreakAndIcecream: After failing the first attempt to rescue Mikiya from Kirie Fujou and losing one arm in the process, she eats the a whole Haagen-Dazs box, which earlier she refused to touch when Mikiya brought to her.

* EmptyShell: She states she's essentially this; a hollow body without a soul or will of its own. The only reason why she can even speak is because of the Shiki personality giving her information of the outside world.

* SplitPersonality: To a much more complicated degree than usual. It's not that they're a single personality that was split - they were always separate entities that happened to occur in the same body. The Ryougi Family has the supernatural ability of dual personalities, which resulted in Shiki having both a (dominant) female side and a male side. Shiki ends up losing her other personality after the car accident.

* DivineDate: In a strange way; She shares Shiki and SHIKI's love with Mikiya Kokutou. It's why she even bothers to show herself to him.

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Fixes Mikiya's leg without any comment or mention of it at the end of the epilogue OVA.]]

* EmbarrassingNickname: "Dirty Red", which is a way of mocking her and saying she plays second fiddle to her little sister. God help you if you dare to call her that, though. In "Paradox Spiral" she kills a long time colleague simply for the crime of calling her her hated college nickname, and even let's slip since college she kills ''every magus'' who calls her that.

* {{Tsundere}}: Type B. She's usually pretty nice and friendly to everyone and very affectionate to her brother. She only becomes harsh and hostile around Shiki. She's still able to admit that she actually likes her well enough, it's just that since she views Shiki as her rival she can't be too friendly towards her.

* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:After the the Broad Bridge incident, Fujino loses her eyesight and has to walk with a cane if not using the limited omniscience her psychic abilities can grant her.]]

* HimeCut: Conveying her status as a member of a powerful family.

* MeaningfulName: In Buddhism, the collective unconscious of humanity, it's will to survive, and therefore the "collective pool of humankind's selfishness", is called ''Arayashiki''. Touko points out [[spoiler:the [[{{Irony}} irony]] of ''Araya having the very same name as that which he detests.'']]

* BerserkButton: Shiki's berserk button? [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Hurting Mikiya Kokutou.]]

* GrayEyes: Shiki has the cold/dangerous variety. Interestingly, in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'', she is one of the few characters whose eyes ''don't'' glow red (Demon) or blue (not demon) in the opening "Versus" screen of each battle.

* BadassBookworm: Knowledgeable in ''loads'' of fields.

* RenaissanceMan: She is, in name or in fact, an architectural draftsman, toy designer, bunraku puppet theatre techie, magus, detective, and speech therapist.

** [[Literature/FateStrangeFake Francesca]] made it a point to push the button with all deliberation just to see what she'd do. Answer: Murder her brutally, then proceed to kill another dozen copies and torch half as many safehouses.

* ExistentialHorror: [[spoiler:Her BodyBackupDrive brings up existential questions of what it even means to be "real" if you can be perfectly replaced. And while she doesn't really give a damn, ''VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru'' reveals it's to the point the original Touko ''willingly'' let her first duplicate kill her ''years'' ago, just to get around a {{Geass}} that kept her from trying to kill her sister again a few years early.]]

** And also in the seventh movie against [[spoiler:Lio, when she actually wanted to kill him. And she didn't just kill him, she [[UpToEleven destroyed his]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome entire existence.]]]]

* DespairEventHorizon: She comes close to crossing it in the seventh chapter, where, [[spoiler:thinking she had lost Mikiya forever, she gives up on living after killing Lio. Thank goodness a NotQuiteDead Mikiya [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming finds and embraces her very shortly after.]]]]

* {{Determinator}}: In the seventh movie, [[spoiler:Lio crushes his leg and then, just to be a complete dick, stabs it as well. And then, after refusing to take a drug that will prevent him from dying due to the effects of another drug, Lio stabs Mikiya ''in the face''.]] Does any of this stop Mikiya from limping on said leg and then clawing his way to Shiki? ''[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Hell no.]]''

* AllThereInTheManual: While Shiki's relationship with her parents in the present is said to be a bit distant, in the past, Shiki's relationship with her older brother and grandfather are heavily implied to be close (the former being confirmed in one of the pamphlets). While her relationship with her brother is a little fuzzier in the present, they're still somewhat implied to be close since he had a chat with her in the hospital post-coma, [[WordOfGod though according to Nasu]], [[CrowningMomentOfFunny she calls him a NEET nowadays]].

* EmbarrassingNickname: "Dirty Red", which is a way of mocking her and saying she plays second fiddle to her little sister. God help you if you dare to call her that, though. In "Paradox Spiral" she kills a long time colleague simply for the crime of calling her hated college nickname, and even let's slip since college she kills ''every magus'' who calls her that.

* CloningBlues: Inverted. [[spoiler:Cornelius is utterly horrified to find out she has multiple copies of herself, as he realizes he's been utterly unable to tell when he's been dealing with a copy or the "real" her. Touko herself sees no distinction, as the copies are all perfect ones physically and mentally (thanks to a magic HiveMind), so as far as any given Touko is concerned, all her copies ''are'' her. By the time of ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'', her copies have progressed in complexity to the point of being able to pass DNA testing.]]

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokoKawakami (drama CD), Creator/MaayaSakamoto (all subsequent appearances)

* BoobsOfSteel: Subverted. She is a skilled fighter with years of training and a variety of skills due to her dual-personalities, fights either with a knife or, on rare occasions, a sword, can see and cause the death of pretty much everything [[spoiler: and contains hidden in her subconscious one of the most powerful beings in the Nasuverse]]. She is also one of the least "endowed" women in the series, with her being labelled in the official bust comparison chart as "minuscule". Even the minor bust upgrades she's gotten over the years (due to her illustrator improving in drawing) still don't make her anything more than average at best.

--> '''Shiki:''' [[spoiler:''Sorry, but you're gonna have to die. It seems that if I kill a hundred of you guys, I get to return to my home world.'']]

* TheDreaded: Has this reputation towards the characters in both her series and [[VideoGame/FateExtra out]] [[VideoGame/MeltyBlood of it]]. Of note, Kirie and Fujino were afraid of her during their respective fights against her (and if ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' and ''Garden of Oblivion'' are anything, Fujino is ''still'' scared of her even after [[spoiler: Shiki saved her life in the third movie]]), and even ''Araya'' felt a sense of dread when Shiki made her killing intent clear during their second bout together. Even Mikiya and Tomoe, both of whom are explicitly in love with her, fear her to some extent (but not enough to dissuade them from loving her anyways). In the ''Garden of Oblivion'' light novel, Shizune's entire group, including Azaka, the aforementioned Fujino, and Ouji, do a collective OhCrap when they see [[spoiler: a zombified Shiki, still retaining her skills and abilities, spotting them and realizing they have to go through ''her'' in order to survive.]]

* HeirToTheDojo: She was chosen as the next head of the Ryougi family because of her older brother's inability to manifest his second persona, but apparently lost the position after losing her own. [[spoiler: However, in the end she gained that position once more and ultimately succeeded as the new head.]]

* MafiaPrincess: The Ryougi family are prominent {{Yakuza}}, although she is very indifferent to her family’s business and doesn't particularly like or dislike it. What she didn't like was being groomed to be their future head.

* PetTheDog: Typically involving Mikiya or Enjou Tomoe, and very strange but still sweet viewed in the light of it being Shiki. [[spoiler: Her sparing of Fujino and relieving her of her agonizing appendicitis is a big example as well.]]

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: For such a {{tomboy}}, Shiki likes to wear fancy kimono. Also, she at first says she doesn't like ice cream since [[RealMenHateSugar her male personality loathes it]], but it eventually becomes her favourite snack.

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaroIto (drama CD), Creator/KenichiSuzumura (anime), Creator/EriKitamura (Child in the sixth movie)

* TheFettered: For God's sake, in ''Remaining Sense of Pain'' he [[spoiler:shelters a [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]] from street justice so he can turn him over to the police instead, even though he's viscerally disgusted (see the ScaryShinyGlasses example below).]] Later, he opposes killing [[spoiler: Lio]], who is already a SerialKiller more similar to a savage animal than a human being, despite the fact that [[spoiler: Lio]] had ''told Mikiya himself'' that the next time they meet he wouldn't be able to restrain his urges to murder him.

--> '''Mikiya:''' ''You. Shut up.''

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KikukoInoue (drama CD), Creator/TakakoHonda (anime)

* AdaptationDyeJob: Short, blue hair in the novels and long red hair in the movies to make her look more like her [[{{Characters/Tsukihime}} sister]].

* TheCameo: She has been seen in ''VideoGame/FateExtra''. Along with her [[SarcasmMode beloved little sister]] [[{{Characters/Tsukihime}} Aoko]] -- '''in the very same room, no less.'''

* CloningBlues: Inverted. [[spoiler:Cornelius is utterly horrified to find out she has multiple copies of herself, as he realizes he's been utterly unable to tell when he's been dealing with a copy or the "real" her. Touko herself sees no distinction, as the copies are all perfect ones physically and mentally (thanks to a magic HiveMind), so as far as any given Touko is concerned, all her copies ''are'' her. By the time of ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'', her copies have progressed in complexity to the point of being able to pass DNA testing.]]

* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:In the fifth chapter, Araya decapitates her and [[AndIMustScream keeps her head alive so that her next body doesn't activate]].]]

* SiblingRivalry: With Aoko. Unlike other examples of this trope, this is taken in an uglier direction, lasting for years and splitting the two apart, the crux of it being [[spoiler: Touko wanted the "Blue" title and the magic skill that Aoko had]].

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukariTamura (drama CD), Creator/AyumiFujimura (anime)

[[folder: Daisuke Akimi]]

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HirokiTochi

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/TetsuyaKakihara

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: Upon meeting Mikiya, Tomoe immediately realizes what is going on between him and Shiki. He takes it surprisingly well, believing that even though he loves her, Mikiya is the one she needs. He still considers them to be an odd pairing, though.]]
* InnocentCohabitation: With Shiki when she lets him stay at her apartment.

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaIguchi

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/JojiNakata

* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: He tells Touko that he forgot his reasons for pursuing the Origin a long time ago. [[spoiler:Subverted when he tells Touko his motives as he dies.]]
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler:Collect and record the deaths of people, and reach the Origin so he can end the world to prevent more meaningless deaths.]]
* GeniusLoci: His experimental apartment complex.

--> [[spoiler:'''Araya''': ''I see... truly my Origin is stillness.'' ]]

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikiIto (drama CD), Creator/RieTanaka (anime)

* LovingAShadow: After having seen Mikiya's devotion towards Shiki from his everyday hospital visits during the two year period she was in a coma, Kirie fell in love with the ''idea'' of the devoted Mikiya rather than Mikiya himself, having lost everything but her life at this point while being left with the desire for someone who would always be by her side like Mikiya for Shiki.

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamikoNoto

* GlassCannon: She might be the strongest psychic in the ''Nasuverse'' but her body is fragile and couldn't keep up with Shiki. [[spoiler: Furthermore, with her appendicitis in its chronic state, Fujino is practically a time bomb waiting to explode]].

* TragicVillain: Considering the circumstances around her such as her inability to feel pain and being gang raped, her descent into mass murder wasn't even her own fault. [[spoiler: Even ''Shiki'' expresses pity for Fujino and pulls a PetTheDog moment by saving her life by ending the appendicitis.]]

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KojiYusa

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/NanaMizuki

--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/RyotaroOkiayu

--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/SoichiroHoshi

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: How his death is treated after Mikiya finds his corpse in the novel.]]

* AnimalMotifs: Large Predatory Cats. Araya mentions it's a shame that his name is one character off from being Lion. When Aozaki is discussing him, documentaries about lions are airing on her TV, and she specifically compares his origin of consumption to ravenous carnivorous animals tearing prey apart.

* NeverMyFault: Part of his moral dilemma was his inability to accept his actions after he first killed someone. Also, after believing he [[spoiler: killed Mikiya]], even though he is upset about it, he insists that it wasn't his fault.

* SlasherSmile: And a damn terrifying one at that, complete with pointed carnivore's teeth.

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkiraIshida

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Meruka Kuramitsu" is a nickname based on a comic character he liked. His real name is Mitsuru Kamekura.

* StoppedCaring: Thanks to his ability to predict the future with 100% accuracy, he submits to the idea that his life is absolutely worthless, hopeless, and pointless since he knows what's going to happen to the future without fail. [[spoiler: Ironically, when Shiki gets rid of his precognitive abilities, the loss of his ability to predict the future actually gave him renewed hope to live, even though he's struggling with living in the present compared to how he lived in the past where he considered himself dead inside even though his life was relatively better materially.]]

* SuperpowerLottery: Played with. He's definitely a winner with his ability to predict the future with 100% accuracy. Unfortunately, not only is Shiki an even bigger winner, [[spoiler: the fact that his predictions are 100% accurate means that the future has a definite existence, and Shiki can kill anything that exists. Shiki even comments that if his power was the "weaker" Precognition displayed by Seo, he probably would have actually stood a better chance of killing her since the future would still be uncertain enough that Shiki couldn't kill it.]]

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HisakoKanemoto

* NomDeMom: She uses her mother's surname. Considering her father is just an average person compared to her mother’s heritage and current position, [[TheMaidenNameDebate Mikiya probably married into the Ryougi, not the other way around]].

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Kujira}}

[[folder: Ririsu Miyazuki]]

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/RisaTaneda

* AnArmAndALeg: Shiki cuts off his left arm.

* CompellingVoice: Has the ability to [[MindControl control people's minds]], as well [[spoiler:restore people's memories by retrieving them directly from the Akashic Records via his mastery of the Universal Language. This is, in fact, the reason why he can even "restore" memories that are permanently gone from a person's mind, like Shiki's memories SHIKI took away as he died, or Azaka's memory of the exact moment she fell in love with Mikiya]].

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception glow visibly blue in the movies. Shiki's eyes glow blue only twice in the novels: when she's considering killing Enjou Tomoe because she's restless (she decides against it) and when she confronts Alaya for the second time. And another time in the bonus chapter, when she confronts Meruka Kuramitsu -- though this may have been a case of RecursiveAdaptation, since the bonus chapter was written after the first movie hit the screens.

* CompellingVoice: Has the ability to [[MindControl control people's minds]], as well [[spoiler:restore people's memories by recalling them from their souls]].

* EvilFeelsGood: He does everything in the 6th chapter because he enjoys "killing time" that way.

* PsychopathicManchild: As a result of the below curse, he perceives human morality and behavior in the manner that a 10-year old would.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception glow visibly blue in the movies. Shiki's eyes glow blue ''once'' in the novels, when she's considering killing Enjou Tomoe because she's restless (she decides against it), as well as once in the bonus chapter, when she confronts Meruka Kuramitsu -- though this may have been a case of RecursiveAdaptation, since the bonus chapter was written after the first movie hit the screens.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception glow visibly blue in the movies. Shiki's eyes glow blue ''once'' in the novels, when she's considering killing Enjou Tomoe because she's restless. She decides against it.

* DoingItForTheArt: InUniverse example. By the time of ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'', the agents of the American association behing the Snowfield Holy Grail War offered her gobs of cash for her support. She turned them down, though Francesca notes she would have been more receptive had the request been worded to appeal to her interests, mentioning, that, for example, she would be thrilled with the challenge of creating a doll capable of housing a Heroic Spirit.

* ExistentialHorror: [[spoiler:Her BodyBackupDrive brings up existential questions of what it even means to be "real" if you can be perfectly replaced. And while she doesn't really give a damn, ''VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru'' reveals it's to the point the original Touko ''willingly'' let her first duplicate kill her ''years'' ago, just to get around a {{Geass}} that kept them from trying to kill her sister again a few years early.]]

* ExistentialHorror: [[spoiler:Her BodyBackupDrive brings up existential questions of what it even means to be "real" if you can be perfectly replaced. And while she doesn't really give a damn, ''VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru'' reveals it's to the point original Touko ''willingly'' let her first duplicate kill her ''years'' ago, just to get around a {{Geass}} that kept her from trying to kill her sister again a few years early.]]