History Characters / SacrificialPrincessAndTheKingOfBeasts

* FaceOfAThug: Leonhart's appearance and behavior certainly gives the initial impression of a ruthless king when he first appears, but his introductory chapter/episode reveals that that he's actually much gentler than he makes himself out to be. Despite threatening Sariphi, he never tries to harm her at all and allows her to see the flowers. After saving her from an assailant from his human form, it's revealed that he never devoured any of the women sent to him as sacrifices, having [[SelfHarm deliberately spilled his own blood to give the illusion that he did]] and allowed them to escape. It's also revealed that he's been trying to unite beastkind under his leadership instead of keeping them separate. Sariphi's kindness towards him is what leads him to take her in as his bride.

* FreakinessShame: Leonhart hides his human from his subjects because he considers it a "curse" and a major source of his insecurities regarding his rulership. Reassurance from Sariphi that he is a good king despite his flaws is what inspired him to make her his queen.

* StoicWoobie: He must hide his true heritage from his people and has to deal with the weight of running an entire kingdom, and has to fight to be with the woman he loves.

* TheVictimMustBeConfused: He initially infiltrates the Kingdom of the Beasts to avenge Sariphi upon learning she's been sent there as a sacrifice, but after finding out she's still alive and has been taken in as the king's bride, he refuses to listen to Sariphi's argument that the king has treated her well and kidnaps her. When Sariphi tries to reason with him and point out that not all Beasts are evil, he's so infuriated that he tries to prove her wrong by provoking King Leonhart into fighting him. Much for his surprise and anger, Leo holds back during the fight, but it's only when Ilya hurts him and sees Sariphi cry that he realizes he was just trying to make up to his dead little sister, and that wasn't fair to Sariphi. He begrudgingly accepts Sariphi's decision to stay with Leonhart, [[fYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer but threatens to kill him if he ever does anything to make her cry]].

* BeastMan: Another canid beastman, like Anubis.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: She frequently puts herself in danger to help others, even those who try to harm her. Probably related to her childhood trauma (see FreudianExcuse); she confesses to Leo that she feels her life has no purpose if she is not useful.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: When Sariphi was small, she read in an old book her name meant “sacrifice”. Justifiably upset, she tried to wake up her big sister, who told her to see their parents. She did so… [[ExactEavesdropping and heard them talking at that exact moment that they weren’t her real parents]] [[TheUnfavorite and they had only adopted her to keep their biological daughter from being sacrificed]]. [[BreakTheCutie To add insult to injury, their looks when they realized Sariphi was hearing were very, very cold]].

* FriendToAllChildren: If you're a child, she's going to help you out, whether you're a stranger separated from your parent or the antagonistic princess of a vassal state like Tetra.

* InnocentBlueEyes: Her eyes are blue and she is as kind-hearted as can be.

* RoyalBlood: The kingdom puts a nearly extreme emphasis on this, and even he states that he lacked a name because his blood should speak for itself. [[spoiler:It nearly upends the entire Beast Realm to learn that he was never the son of the previous king but was instead the son of his estranged brother and a human]].

* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:He's a spitting image of his human mother in his human form.]]

* TheDividual: One's a walking eyeball, and the other's a walking mouth. They were expelled by the Eye Clan because they can't function without each other. However, their ability turn out to be very useful, because Clops can tell others whatever Cy is seeing and hearing. That helps them to gather evidence of a slave trade and to locate Sariphi when she is kidnapped by Fenrir.

A princess from the reptile clan. Was originally sent to the palace to try and become the king's consort, but ends up as staying as Sariphi's friend and confidant. Has had a crush on the Captain since she was young.

* FeminineWomenCanCook: Having no magic powers, Amit mastered culinary, so she could make other people happy. She's especially good with candies.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Loves Captain Jormungand, but feels pursuing him would be selfish as he's dedicated to his job and her kingdom is low in status.

* PrecociousCrush: Developed one of these on Jormungand back when she was a child and he was only a guard. It affected her so much that she agreed to go to the castle and apply as a potential consort for the king, even if he scares her, just so she could see Jor again.

* MarriedToTheJob: Has stated that he is not interested in marriage, and has devoted himself entirely to his role as the king's protector.

[[folder: Justice Set]]
The enigmatic judge of Ozmargo.

* BeastMan: Another canid beastman, like Anubis.
* BlankWhiteEyes: Befitting his rather creepy nature.
* FantasticRacism: Probably the most extreme perpetrator of it in the series: [[spoiler:when he usurps control of the kingdom, he swiftly implements a rigid caste system that places all non-mammalian beastkind at the bottom]].
* RoyalBlood: His mother was one of the previous king's concubines [[spoiler:which led to the erroneous belief that he is actually the legitimate heir, neither aware that the king was actually sterile]].

[[folder: Lord Bennu]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroyukiYoshino
One of the Holy Beasts, the Phoenix. Was summoned by Sariphi as part of her first test.

* DeadpanSnarker: Is rather sassy for a tiny beast.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: His unassuming form is both a result of overuse of his powers and people losing faith in him; Sariphi's unconditional belief in him reawakens his full power, if only for brief periods.
* HealingHands: He possesses the power to heal wounds.
* SleepModeSize: As he's exhausted much of his energy, he usually appears as a small fat chick.

[[folder: Lante]]
A hyena clan member and Sariphi's personal guard.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He's fiercely loyal to Sariphi after she proves his innocence of an assassination attempt.
* FantasticRacism: As a hyena, Lante was constantly subjected to mistreatment and distrust due to stereotypes against hyena clan members, which resulted in his current attitude.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's abrasive and never minces his words, but he takes his duty to protect Sari seriously and cares about her due to her kindness toward him.
* UndyingLoyalty: Lante flat out tells ''the King'' his loyalties are to the Queen, and no one but her can order him to do anything.

!Antagonists

[[folder: Vivian]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShizukaIto
A princess from a feline clan. Like Amit, she was sent to the palace to become the King's consort. Unlike Amit, Vivian's attempts to seduce Leo don't go in her favor.

* FauxAffablyEvil: She initially presents herself politely to Sari, but she eventually drops the act when she's about to kill Sari to take her spot as Leonhart's consort.
* TheVamp: She proudly states that she used her beauty to seduce many men. Naturally, her ego is bruised when Leo refused her advances in favor of staying faithful to Sari. This leads to her attempts to intimidate Sari into leaving, but when Sari refuses, Vivian moves on to attempted murder, if not for Amit and the King's intervention.

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[[folder: Fenrir]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese)
The leader of a terrorist group, he has been obsessed with defeating Leonhart since they were children. He kidnaps Sariphi because she is Leo's bride, but soon gets intrigued about her.
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The leader of a terrorist group, he is obsessed with defeating Leonhart since they were children. He kidnaps Sariphi because she is Leo's bride, but soon gets intrigued about her.

** The second time Sariphi tries to run away, [[ScarpiaUltimatum Fenrir says that either she'll agree into marrying him or he'll slay Lante, Cy and Bennu]]. [[spoiler: It backfires spectacularly, because Sariphi pretends to make Fenrir come close and be slashed by Lante.]]

* MismatchedEyes: His left eye has a black sclera, [[spoiler:which ends up making him an easy suspect in the assassination case during the Maasya arc]].

[[folder: Judge Set]]

* BarefootCaptives: As a sacrifice, Sariphi isn't allowed to wear shoes. The captive part is subverted as she becomes Leo's consort. Even when she becomes a queen and wears elaborate clothes, she is still barefoot due to Beastmen typically not having footwear of any kind.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: She frequently puts herself in the way of danger to help others, even those who try to harm her. Probably related to her childhood trauma (see FreudianExcuse); she confesses to Leo that she feels her life has no purpose if she is not useful.

* FriendToAllChildren: If you're a child, she's going to help you out, whether you're a stranger separated from your parent, or the antagonistic princess of a vassal state like Tetra.

* InterspeciesRomance: Is both a product of this and is engaged in one himself.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Accepts Sariphi's position as future queen in accordance with the king' wishes.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Sariphi. His attempts at wooing with good food and expensive gifts don't impress her, since she sees through his attempt to win her over to screw with Leonhart.

* TheExile: Was pretty much told not to come back to her kingdom unless she became the king's consort. Sariphi convinces Leon to let her stick around the palace as her companion instead.

[[folder: Lord Bennu]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroyukiYoshino
One of the Holy Beasts, the Phoenix. Was summoned by Sariphi as part of her first test.

* DeadpanSnarker: Is rather sassy for a tiny beast.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: His unassuming form is both a result of overuse of his powers and people losing faith in him; Sariphi's unconditional belief in him reawakens his full power, if only for brief periods.
* SleepModeSize: As he's exhausted much of his energy, he usually appears as a small fat chick.

[[folder: Lante]]
A hyena clan member and Sariphi's personal guard.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He's fiercely loyal to Sariphi after she proves his innocence of an assassination attempt.
* FantasticRacism: As a hyena, Lante was constantly subjected to mistreatment and distrust due to stereotypes against hyena clan members, which resulted in his current attitude.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's abrasive and never minces his words, but he takes his duty to protect Sari seriously and cares about her due to her kindness toward him.

!Antagonists

[[folder: Vivian]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShizukaIto
A princess from a feline clan. Like Amit, she was sent to the palace to become the King's consort. Unlike Amit, Vivian's attempts to seduce Leo don't go in her favor.

* FauxAffablyEvil: She initially presents herself politely to Sari, but she eventually drops the act when she's about to kill Sari to take her spot as Leonhart's consort.
* TheVamp: She proudly states that she used her beauty to seduce many men. Naturally, her ego is bruised when Leo refused her advances in favor of staying faithful to Sari. This leads to her attempts to intimidate Sari into leaving, but when Sari refuses, Vivian moves on to attempted murder, if not for Amit and the King's intervention.

[[folder: Fenrir]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese)
The leader of a terrorist group, he is obsessed with defeating Leonhart since they were children. He kidnaps Sariphi because she is Leo's bride, but soon gets intrigued about her.

* FreudianExcuse: When Sariphi was small, she read in an old book her name meant “sacrifice”. Justifiably upset, she tried to wake up her big sister, who told her to see their parents. She did so… [[ExactEavesdropping and heard them talking at that exact moment that they weren’t her real parents]] [[TheUnfavorite but they had adopted her to keep their biological daughter from being sacrificed]]. [[BreakTheCutie To add insult to injury, their looks when they realized Sariphi was hearing were very, very cold]].

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Even when she becomes a queen and does wear elaborate clothes, she is always barefoot.

* BarefootCaptives: As a sacrifice, Sariphi isn't allowed to wear shoes. The captive part is subverted as she becomes Leo's consort. She's still bereft of footwear due to Beastmen typically not having footwear.

* BarefootCaptives: As a sacrificial, Sariphi isn't allowed to wear shoes. The captive part is subverted as she becomes Leo's consort. She's still bereft of footwear due to Beastmen typically not having footwear.

* InnocentBlueEyes: Her eyes are blue and she is as kind-hearted as can be.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Sariphi doesn't believe she is worthy to stay by Leo's side as queen due to her background as a human sacrifice. Once given the chance to prove her worth, she takes it.

* FreakinessShame: Leohart hides his human from his subjects because he considers it a "curse" and a major source of his insecurities regarding his rulership. Reassurance from Sariphi that he is a good king despite his flaws is what inspired him to make her his queen.

* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler: When Leo, Sariphi and their frienfs decide to take Ozmargo back, he cuts his long hair with his sword, before sneaking into the castle.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: To the king, which is the major reason why he's antagonistic toward Sariphi since her being a human and the King's consort would easily not go over well with the subjects.
* {{Tsundere}}: Platonically to Sariphi. He's usually irritated with her and initially doesn't approve of her becoming Queen, hence his various schemes to undermine her. He even told Sari to her face that he'd never accept her. Over time, he adjusts to Sari's presence and isn't nearly as antagonistic to her.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Cy and Clops are extremely loyal to Sariphi, because of her kindness and also because Leonheart told them to take care of her. He gave them shelter when they had nowhere to go.
* TheDividual: One's a walking eyeball, and the other's a walking mouth. They were expelled by the Eye Clan because they can't function without each other. However, their ability turn out to be very useful, because Clops can tell others whatever Cy is seeing and hearing. That helps them to gather evidence against some enslaving nobles and to locate Sariphi when she is kidnapped by Fenrir.

* AbhorrantAdmirer: To Sariphi. His attempts at wooing with good food and expensive gifts don't impress her, since she sees through his attempt to win her over to screw with Leonhart.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When Fenrir was a kid, he saved Nir's life under the excuse of needing to have a servant. They were always more like friends or brothers than a master and servant.

* AdhorrantAdmirer: To Sariphi. His attempts at wooing with good food and expensive gifts don't impress her, since she sees through his attempt to win her over to screw with Leonhart.

* BarefootCaptive: As a sacrificial, Sariphi isn't allowed to wear shoes. This is subverted as she becomes Leo's consort. She's still bereft of footwear due to Beastmen typically not having footwear.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: She frequently puts herself in the way of danger to help others, even those who tried to harm her. Probably related to her childhood trauma (see FreudianExcuse); she confesses to Leo that she feels her life has no purpose if she is not useful.

* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Leonhart is huge even by the standards of his race. Whenever he becomes a regular, thin human, he keeps his horns (although they get smaller), his clothes become baggy, but he keeps them tied to his body, although his chest gets very exposed.

* EvilChancellor: Subverted; he seems like this because for a while he's the main antagonist in opposing Sariphi and Leon's relationship, but he's utterly loyal to the king and his objections stand from mostly worry that their people will not accept his choice of queen. He slowly warms up to Sariphi over the course of the series.

* UndyingLoyalty: To the king, which is the major reason why he's antagonistic toward Sariphi since her being a human and the King's consort would easily not got over well with the subjects.

[[folder: Vivian]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShizukaIto
A princess from a feline clan. Like Amit, she was sent to the palace to become the King's consort. Unlike Amit, Vivian's attempts to seduce Leo don't go in her favor.

* FauxAffablyEvil: She initially presents herself politely to Sari, but she eventually drops the act when she's about to kill Sari to take her spot as Leonhart's consort.
* TheVamp: She proudly states that she used her beauty to seduce many men. Naturally, her ego is bruised when Leo refused her advances in favor of staying faithful to Sari. This leads to her attempts to intimidate Sari into leaving, but when Sari refuses, Vivian moves on to attempted murder, if not for Amit and the King's intervention.

[[folder: Lord Bennu]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroyukiYoshino
One of the Holy Beasts, the Phoenix. Was summoned by Sariphi as part of her first test.

* DeadpanSnarker: Is rather sassy for a tiny beast.
* SleepModeSize: As he's exhausted much of his energy, he usually appears as a small fat chick.

[[folder: Lante]]
A hyena clan member and Sariphi's personal guard.

* FantasticRacism: As a hyena, Lante was constantly subjected to mistreatment and distrust due to stereotypes against hyena clan members, which resulted in his current attitude.

The leader of a terrorist group, he is obsessed into defeating Leonhart since they were children. He kidnaps Sariphi because she is Leo's bride, but soon gets intrigued about her.

* FreudianExcuse: He was the 9th son of the king of the Phantom Wolves, who treated him as a "failure". When the king of Ozmargo scheduled a magic duel among the princes of the two reigns, Fenrir was chosen by his father, who told him it was "his last chance". Fenrir trained really hard for the duel, but had no chance against the Ozmargo prince (future Leonhart). To add insult to injury, kid Leo told him he didn't want to fight anymore and asked to be friends with him. As a result, the Phantom Wolf king disowned Fenrir and banished him out of his reign.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Downplayed. The only reason Fenrir kidnapped Sariphi was because she was the only noble of Ozmargo in the ship he attacked; and still, it cost a little for him to believe the king was going to marry a human. As days pass, however, he gets more and more interested on her because Sariphi despises him and keeps herself loyal to Leo. Also, when he tries to burn her in a rage after Sariphi's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, the girl appears unscathed and Fenrir realizes she is protected by the king's magic. So much love from both parts just increases Fenrir's determination into defeating Leo - and marrying Sariphi, as a proof of his victory.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Fenrir is obsessed into fighting to death with Leonhart since the latter humiliated him when they were kids.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Even when she becomes a queen and does wear elaborate clothes, she is always barefoot.

Sariphi's personal guard.

* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Leonhart is huge even by the standards of his race. Whenever he becomes a regular, thin human (he keeps his horns, although they get smaller), his clothes become baggy, but he keeps them tied to his body, although his chest gets very exposed.

* UndyingLoyalty: To the king.

Creatures from the One-Eye clan. They were rejected by their clan, but the King saved them by giving them a job running errands in the palace. Befriend Sariphi because she's an outcast like them, and one of the very few people to treat them well, along with Amit.

* TheVamp: She proudly states that she used her beauty to seduce many men. Naturally, her ego is bruised when Leo refused her advances in favor of staying faithful to Sari. This leads to her attempts to intimidate Sari into leaving, but when Sair refuses, Vivian moves on to attempted murder, if not for Amit and the King's intervention.

[[folder: Fenrir]]
The leader of a terrorist group, he is obsessed into defeating Leonhart since they were children. He kidnaps Sariphi because she is Leo's bride, but soon gets intrigued about her.