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* NotSoDifferent: From Alvarez, his nemesis. Both lost their hometown, wants to avenge their loss, equally ruthless, and are unwitting pawns of the Emperor. The only thing that separates them is that Alvarez came to realize that he is nothing but a pawn, dropped his bloodshed and came to atone for his mistakes, while Gefenbauer never cared a bit of his being used as a pawn and follows his quest for revenge through and through, culminating in his death. Basically, Gefenbauer is Alvarez sans HeelRealization.

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* NotSoDifferent: MirrorCharacter: From Alvarez, his nemesis. Both lost their hometown, wants want to avenge their loss, equally ruthless, and are unwitting pawns of the Emperor. The only thing that separates them is that Alvarez came to realize that he is nothing but a pawn, dropped his bloodshed and came to atone for his mistakes, while Gefenbauer never cared a bit of his being used as a pawn and follows his quest for revenge through and through, culminating in his death. Basically, Gefenbauer is Alvarez sans HeelRealization.

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* DeathOfAChild: The poor child had died since they were an infant, but their mother vehemently refuses to swallow the bitter pill.



* InfantImmortality: ''Obviously'' [[AvertedTrope averted]]. The poor child had died since they were an infant, but their mother vehemently refuses to swallow the bitter pill.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Just look above! She's practically ''begging'' to be squeezed!
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* ZettaiRyouiki: Lucia's blue skirt/shorts fall under type A.

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* StrawNihilist: "Everything you have in this world is meaningless because Death will come for everyone. No exceptions." [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop That, folks, is the message]] behind each of the stories in the album.

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* StrawNihilist: "Everything you have in this world is meaningless because Death will come for everyone. No exceptions." [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop That, folks, is the message]] message behind each of the stories in the album.
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%%* ManInWhite: In the live performance.
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* PurpleEyes: Fitting, since purple is the color of death in Japanese culture.

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* PurpleEyes: TechnicolorEyes: Fitting, since purple is the color of death in Japanese culture.
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This is a sub-page for the characters of Music/SoundHorizon's so-called "First Era" albums, when the band was but a budding doujin circle. Before Aramary came along and dominated the vocals from ''Thanatos'' onwards, the band debuted with ''Chronicle'', [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a fully instrumental album]] [[AllThereInTheManual featuring an entire plot written inside the booklet]]. Placing a greater emphasis on storytelling and world building, a ''[[InfoDump very]]'' prominent presence of spoken dialogue and narration is one of this era's most prominent characteristics.

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This is a sub-page for the characters of Music/SoundHorizon's so-called "First Era" albums, when the era where the band was but a budding doujin circle.circle with 1-4 vocalists [ActingForTwo playing multiple roles]. Before Aramary came along and dominated the vocals from ''Thanatos'' onwards, the band debuted with ''Chronicle'', [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a fully instrumental album]] [[AllThereInTheManual featuring an entire plot written inside the booklet]]. Placing a greater emphasis on storytelling and world building, a ''[[InfoDump very]]'' prominent presence of spoken dialogue and narration is one of this era's most prominent characteristics.
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This is a list of characters from Music/SoundHorizon's so-called "First Era" albums, where the band was but a budding doujin circle. Before Aramary dominated the vocals from ''Thanatos'' onwards, Sound Horizon's first album ''Chronicle'' is [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a fully instrumental album]] [[AllThereInTheManual with the entirety of each track's summary written inside the booklet]]. Placing a greater emphasis on storytelling, this era is characterized by a ''[[InfoDump very]]'' prominent presence of spoken narrations.

Following the release of ''Elysion ~Rakuen Gensou Monogatari Kumikyoku~'' and ''Leviathan'', Revo announced that Aramary has left the band due to undisclosed personal reasons, triggering the start of the band's '''Second Era''' and the formation of the Sound Horizon Kingdom. Despite [[WildMassGuessing endless speculation among fans]], Revo has made it clear that Aramary's resignation was a peaceful one.

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This is a list of sub-page for the characters from of Music/SoundHorizon's so-called "First Era" albums, where when the band was but a budding doujin circle. Before Aramary came along and dominated the vocals from ''Thanatos'' onwards, Sound Horizon's first album ''Chronicle'' is the band debuted with ''Chronicle'', [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a fully instrumental album]] [[AllThereInTheManual with the entirety of each track's summary featuring an entire plot written inside the booklet]]. Placing a greater emphasis on storytelling, this era is characterized by storytelling and world building, a ''[[InfoDump very]]'' prominent presence of spoken narrations.

dialogue and narration is one of this era's most prominent characteristics.

Following the release of ''Elysion ~Rakuen Gensou Monogatari Kumikyoku~'' and ''Leviathan'', Revo announced that ''Leviathan: Shuumatsu wo Tsugeshi Kemono'', however, Aramary has left the band due to undisclosed personal reasons, triggering reasons. Her resignation, though upsetting for many fans who had come to fondly remember her as [[FaceOfTheBand the start band's biggest charm]], more or less heralded both the end of the band's days as a niche doujin circle as well as the dawn of its '''Second Era''' Era''', from which the band began to experience its ''true'' rise to fame and the formation of re-branded itself as the Sound Horizon Kingdom. Despite [[WildMassGuessing endless speculation among fans]], Revo has made it clear that Aramary's resignation was a peaceful one.
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Not the trope. A Girl And Her X is when they form a bond with the "X" that "changes them forever, usually starting them down the path to adulthood."


* ABoyAndHisX: A Girl And Her Dog, just like her successor in ''Roman'', Etoile.

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* {{Expy}}: InUniverse. She looks a lot like [[http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/ar0/2d7b2900b4cd4bacba4d709191083dcb this]] pink-haired girl from Chronicle.

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* {{Expy}}: InUniverse. CharacterOverlap: If [[spoiler: ''Nein'']] is any indication. She looks a lot like [[http://img2-ak.is the [[spoiler:[[http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/ar0/2d7b2900b4cd4bacba4d709191083dcb this]] pink-haired girl pink haired doll girl]] from Chronicle. Chronicle.]]


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* ImmortalsFearDeath: If she is indeed the doll in Chornicles, she can't die of old age, and doesn't have to fear the passage of time like humans.
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* MoralityPet: In the Old Testament Marchen manga, she winds up having this effect on [[spoiler:Alte Rose]].
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%%* OffWithHisHead: Her modus operandi.
* ParentalIncest: One of the most common interpretations of her story is that she is in love with her own father and became pregnant with her own half-brother.
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half-brother. [[spoiler: This is the case presented in the novel and manga.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Murders her own parents becuase of her fruitless lovelife. It was most likely because of her incestious infatuation with her dad.




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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: As her sister remarks; [[spoiler:not even being raped and later dying a painful death alogn with her unborn child could make her hold a grudge.]]
* TheIngenue: A little child who is loved by everyone and holds no ill will against anyone. Not even [[spoiler:Her rapist and her murderes.]]

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* DisproportionateRetribution: All he did was reject his younger sister's sexual advances. No matter how miserable it made her, he did not deserve to get stabbed to death.



* Fingore: Lost his ringfinger due to unknown reasons.



* ChosenConceptionPartner: If you go with the interpretation that Abyss is "Orpheus". Abyss states that he will never love Lafrenze in the beginning of the album, he just wants her to have his baby, and he specifically wants an albino girl.



* CharacterOverlap: He and Abyss are implied to be one and the same. In the manga he only gets together with Lafrenze because he wants to have an albino daughter named Elys.

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* CharacterOverlap: He and Abyss are implied to be one and the same. In the manga and novel he only gets together with Lafrenze because he wants to have an albino daughter named Elys.



* NoNameGiven: His identification as "Orpheus" is mostly metaporical. In the song, the narration stops right before saying his name.

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* ToHellAndBack: He ran into Hades to rescue his "Eurydice". However his method of doing so comes back to bite him in the ass, ''hard''.

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* MysteriousWatcher: Well... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's in his name]]. He's only mentioned briefly in the end of the song, watching over the suffering Soror and sees Abyss appear behind her.



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* NoNameGiven: His identification as "Orpheus" is mostly metaporical. In the song, the narration stops right before saying his name.
-->"That beautiful young man's name was..."



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* ToHellAndBack: He ran into Hades to rescue his "Eurydice". However his method of doing so comes back to bite him in the ass, ''hard''.
* TheVoiceless: He has no speaking role, unless you count erotic moaning.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: In the very beginning of the album he admits that he will never love his girlfriend, but he considers her important because she's pregnant with his daughter, and he has picked out the daughter's name a long time ago.



* {{Characteroverlap}}: He and Abyss are implied to be one and the same. In the manga he only gets together with Lafrenze because he wants to have an albino daughter named Elys.

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* MeaningfulName: She shares a surname with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malebranche_%28Divine_Comedy%29 malicious guardian demons]] from Dante Alighieri's ''[[Literature/DivineComedy Inferno]]'', and a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Malebranche French priest]] who is known for his dissertations concerning the active role of God in the world and dualism--all prominent themes in Revo's works. [[WildMassGuessing Hmmm...]]

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* MeaningfulName: She shares a surname with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malebranche_%28Divine_Comedy%29 malicious guardian demons]] from Dante Alighieri's ''[[Literature/DivineComedy ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]'', and a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Malebranche French priest]] who is known for his dissertations concerning the active role of God in the world and dualism--all prominent themes in Revo's works. [[WildMassGuessing Hmmm...]]
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* {{Shotacon}}: Erotic imageries about young boys and young men pop out constantly in "Ori no Naka no Hana". [[spoiler: At the song's end, it is revealed that she died horribly atop stacks of dried bodies of young boys, [[DarkMagic ostensibly after some sort of a sick ritual]].]]
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* WomanInBlack: How REMI portrayed her in the live, with [[PrettyInMink an elegant white fur]].

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* WomanInBlack: Black hair, black OperaGloves, and a long, elegant LittleBlackDress. Being AmbiguouslyEvil also helps her image.

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* {{Characteroverlap}}: He and AByss are implied to be one and the same.

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Following the release of ''Elysion ~Rakuen Gensou Monogatari no Kumikyoku~'' and ''Leviathan'', Revo announced that Aramary has left the band due to undisclosed personal reasons, though he made it clear that her resignation was a peaceful one.

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Following the release of ''Elysion ~Rakuen Gensou Monogatari no Kumikyoku~'' and ''Leviathan'', Revo announced that Aramary has left the band due to undisclosed personal reasons, though he triggering the start of the band's '''Second Era''' and the formation of the Sound Horizon Kingdom. Despite [[WildMassGuessing endless speculation among fans]], Revo has made it clear that her Aramary's resignation was a peaceful one.



* GenerationXerox: Revo singing "Kuro no Yogensho" as Lucius, Lucia's dad, in the 3rd Territorial Expansion live concert is an indication that Lucia's struggle in this album is the very same one her parents had went through.

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* RavenHairIvorySkin: Just like the book of which she is its AnthropomorphicPersonification--jet-black cover, pure white pages.

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* RavenHairIvorySkin: Just like the book of which she is its an AnthropomorphicPersonification--jet-black cover, pure white pages.



* RedEyesTakeWarning: As if having a [[RavenHairIvorySkin long, completely black hair and paper-white skin]] isn't enough, Yokoyan decided to give her blood-red eyes. This made a lot of fans speculate that she might really be [[EldritchAbomination The Beast that Devours History]].

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* RedEyesTakeWarning: As if having a [[RavenHairIvorySkin long, completely black hair and paper-white skin]] isn't enough, Yokoyan decided to give her she also has blood-red eyes. This made a lot of fans speculate that she might really be [[EldritchAbomination The Beast that Devours History]].History]] or [[spoiler: an aspect of Michele Malebranche, since popular artistic interpretations often portray her as a red-eyed brunette]].



The protagonist of the song "Baroque". Her fear of rejection by others drove her to exile herself completely from human communication. This didn't last long, however, when a certain beautiful girl approached her and became her only friend, its horrific aftermath yet known to both of them. She is the second girl abducted by the Masked Man in order to reunite with Elys.

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The protagonist of the song "Baroque". Her According to her confession at the church on a certain rainy day, she used to have a fear of rejection by others that drove her to exile herself completely from human communication. This didn't last long, however, when a certain beautiful girl approached her and became offered to become her only friend, unaware of its horrific aftermath yet known to both of them.aftermath. She is the second girl abducted by the Masked Man in order to reunite with Elys.



* BoyishShortHair: Has a girlish bowl cut that resembles a 20sBobHaircut.



* PsychoLesbian: Pushed a poor girl down the stairs for rejecting her love. She claims not knowing how this event exactly played out.
* ShrinkingViolet: She doesn't want to mingle with others in fear of being rejected for the slightest difference.
* TrueBlueFemininity: In the album illustrations, her habit is blue. Averted in the concerts, where she wears a standard black habit.

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* PsychoLesbian: Pushed a poor girl down the stairs for rejecting her love. She claims to not knowing know how this event exactly played out.
* ShrinkingViolet: She doesn't want to mingle with others in for fear of being rejected for the slightest difference.difference she might have.
* TrueBlueFemininity: In the album illustrations, official illustrations her habit is blue. Averted in the concerts, where she wears a standard black habit.
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This is a list of characters from Music/SoundHorizon's so-called "First Era" albums, where the band was but a budding doujin circle. Before Aramary dominated the vocals from ''Thanatos'' onwards, Sound Horizon's first album ''Chronicle'' is [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a fully instrumental album]] [[AllThereInTheManual with the entirety of each track's plotline written inside the booklet]]. Placing a greater emphasis on storytelling, this era is characterized by a ''[[InfoDump very]]'' prominent presence of spoken narrations.

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This is a list of characters from Music/SoundHorizon's so-called "First Era" albums, where the band was but a budding doujin circle. Before Aramary dominated the vocals from ''Thanatos'' onwards, Sound Horizon's first album ''Chronicle'' is [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a fully instrumental album]] [[AllThereInTheManual with the entirety of each track's plotline written inside the booklet]]. Thus this era in particular places a greater emphasis on storytelling, hence the ''[[InfoDump extremely]]'' prominent presence of spoken narrations.

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Following the release of ''Elysion ~Rakuen Gensou Monogatari no Kumikyoku~'' and ''Leviathan'', Revo announced that Aramary has left the band due to undisclosed personal reasons, though he made it clear that her resignation was a peaceful one.

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!Lucia
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary
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-->''"No matter the period, we will not give up. Beyond history, beyond the sky that is far yet close.''
-->''The promise I made with you, the thoughts I received from you, is our endless Chronicle..."''

The main protagonist of the whole album, Lucia is a girl who wholeheartedly believes that the world can actually be saved from the [[EldritchAbomination Beast That Devours History]] by forgoing the Chronicle and guiding it to the right path.

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* AnimalMotifs: The white crow mentioned on every instance of the tracks of Chronicle 2nd is possibly a representation of her.
* {{Bokukko}}: Refers to herself with this masculine pronoun. [[spoiler: This is an important point, as the Winged Boy also uses the same pronoun. You are meant to distinguish between Lucia and the boy's subtle presence in the album.]]
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: The reason why she was taken into the Black Order.
* {{Foil}}: To Chronica. Whereas the latter is a fatalist who chooses to just go with whatever outcome the Chronicle (read: [[AnthropomorphicPersonification she]]) had predicted, Lucia wants to go exactly against it. Oh, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and her hair is white, whereas Chronica's is black.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: She disagrees with the Black Order's complete submission under the reins of history.
* GenerationXerox: Revo singing "Kuro no Yogensho" as Lucius, Lucia's dad, in the 3rd Territorial Expansion live concert is an indication that Lucia's struggle in this album is the very same one her parents had went through.
* InnocentBlueEyes: The counterpart to Chronica's [[RedEyesTakeWarning striking red ones]].
* InTheBlood: Her parents are also defectors from the Black Order. Noah lampshades this trope to her in name.
* KnightTemplar: This little excerpt from "Kuro no Yogensho" somewhat paints her in this light.
-->'''Lucia:'''
--> ''Our enemies have been wholly defeated. And so, sworn comrades, we have achieved a momentary relief.''
--> ''Yet even allies can turn into foes. So take the first move and kill them.''
--> ''But there is no end to our enemies, thus we live fearing them.''
--> ''Though it will repeat all over again, that is our path to attaining happiness.''
* {{Portmanteau}}: '''Luc'''ius and Il'''ia''' makes Lucia!
* SailorFuku: Some drew her wearing either a pair of [[WhoWearsShortShorts shorts]] with this, or a DangerouslyShortSkirt. It's hard to determine what she's actually wearing, as there is no full-body official art of her wearing the clothes she had in the album cover.
* ScrewDestiny: The bulk of her arc in the album is about breaking free from the Black Chronicle's shackles upon history and humanity.
* ShaggyDogStory: In the end all of her effort [[spoiler: came to nothing, since the Great Flood destroyed them. ''However'', TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ''does not'' mean the end of the universe; [[EternalRecurrence it will be born anew soon]]. It is still possible for Lucia to continue her struggle, [[BittersweetEnding as she can pass her message to the next residence of the new world to continue fighting the way she did.]]]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Sometimes her name is also transliterated as "Rukia".
* WideEyedIdealist: Chronica has stated that history does not allow altercations—indeed, as any altercations imposed upon the Chronicle’s predestined path is, ''[[ShapedLikeItself in itself, destiny,]]'' and thus, it could be said that Lucia’s whole effort has already been predicted by the Chronicle, as well. Nonetheless, Lucia still wants to guide history to the ‘right’ course, whatever it is, so long as it's not as hopeless as was predicted.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Lucia's blue skirt/shorts fall under type A.

!!Chronica
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro ''(Nein)''
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--> ''"All's well that ends well."''

The personification of the Black Chronicle, or, rather, its whole “essence”. As she is the one who dictated the course of history, the Black Order venerated her as a God. In contrast to Lucia, Chronica, true to her nature, believes that there is no changing history and [[TheFatalist prefers to wait for the end of the world]].

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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Heavily implied to be the Beast that Devours History, but...what she is doing amounts to nothing but say that opposing Fate is hopeless.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She is the "Aggregate Sentience" of the Black Chronicle, taking the form of a young woman.
* TheCameo: Appears in Shounen wa Tsurugi wo...'s back cover [[spoiler: and the very last part of Nein's second track]].
* TheFatalist: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since she is essentially a book. To her, to struggle against anything is futile since everything has been set in stone by the last chapter.
-->'''Chronica:''' In the end for him[[spoiler:/her]], there is no escaping the clutches of fate. Though there will be no need for the slightest bit of pity, for not one soul--neither I nor you--can. [[CatchPhrase All's well that ends well]].
* {{Foil}}: To Lucia. To her, the Chronicle, and thus, destiny, is inescapable, as no matter what you do, the path has ''always'' been predestined. Whatever seemingly defiant path you take has always been a predetermined possibility. Thus, opposing anything is but a hopeless act of desperation. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking That, and her hair is black, in contrast to Lucia's pure white]].
* OperaGloves: To complement the LittleBlackDress.
* PhysicalGod: She is, after all, an omniscient book. And she isn't a minor one, either--"Seisen to Shinigami -Senjou wo Kakerumono" reveals that she isn't some obscure deity worshiped by a shadowy cult, as even the Emperor of the Holy Flandre Empire himself worships her.
* RapunzelHair: Often depicted as having floor-length hair.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Just like the book of which she is its AnthropomorphicPersonification--jet-black cover, pure white pages.
* RealityWritingBook: A type 1--in addition to being a, well, [[AlbumTitleDrop Chronicle]] of human history, the Black Chronicle also predicts every single aspects of the world's future, culminating in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Great Flood]] on its 24th and final chapter.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: As if having a [[RavenHairIvorySkin long, completely black hair and paper-white skin]] isn't enough, Yokoyan decided to give her blood-red eyes. This made a lot of fans speculate that she might really be [[EldritchAbomination The Beast that Devours History]].
* TomesOfProphecyAndFate: ''She'' herself is this.
* WomanInBlack: Black hair, black OperaGloves, and a long, elegant LittleBlackDress. Being AmbiguouslyEvil also helps her image.

!!Luna Ballad / "The Earthly Moonlight"
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary, Karen ''(Nein)''
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[[caption-width-right:234:''Because there is no meaning to a life without song.''[[note]]A still of Karen as Luna performing the encore of "Tadoritsuku Uta" in the ''Nein'' live concert.[[/note]]]]

-->''"Destiny ... even if you take the light from my eyes, you'll never be able to take the song from my lips ..."''

Protagonist of the song "A Song Struggled Towards" (''"Tadoritsuku Uta"''), from the 9th chapter and page 883 of the Black Chronicle. She is the lover of Endymio Ballad, who perished right in the previous track after his poem enraged the ruling Queen of Britannia.

''Nein'' reveals that the two used to be together until a certain battle [[DoomedHometown separated them from their homeland]]. Earnestly believing that Endymio is still alive somewhere, [[IWillFindYou she sets out to search for him.]] Blinded on the way, she [[{{Determinator}} nonetheless]] managed to find Endymio's... remains, in the form of [[TragicKeepsake a song he dedicated to her moments before his execution.]]

In ''Nein'', she reappears in track 2, “Na mo Naki Onna no Uta”.

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* BittersweetEnding:
** Her whole search for her lover ended up with the discovery that :he was already dead since a long time ago, but she does manage to find his last song, dedicated to her. With this comes her recognition as a hero and a symbol of both struggle and peace by the people of Britannia due to her determination, and their everlasting respect.
* BlindMusician: Literally becomes this, after she collapsed from exhaustion.
* {{Determinator}}: Not much people would continue a journey alone while blind.
* DoomedHometown: Her hometown and Endymio’s was most likely destroyed in a war, which would explain their separation.
* HeroicSpirit: Even after becoming blind and [[spoiler: losing her lover]], she does not succumb to despair, but remains as determined as before. This is why the people of Britannia came to hail her as their heroine.
* IWillFindYou: The song "Tadoritsuku Uta" is about her determined quest to find her lover.
* LastKiss: With Endymio under the stars. She remembers it very dearly.
* LivingLegend: Elevated as this following the events of "Tadoritsuku Uta".
* MotherlySidePlait: In ''Nein'' her long hair is tied in this, though in name only since she's not a mother. [[spoiler: Initially.]]
* OneSteveLimit: Averted as of ''Nein''. There is another woman with the same name in track 5.
* RedBaron: "The Earthly Moonlight", a nickname she earned after her elevation as a heroine.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: She is named after the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Roman personification of the Moon]][[note]] not to be confused with the Goddess of the Moon ''and'' the Hunt, who is called Diana [[/note]], just as her lover/husband is named after the mortal shepherd/prince the goddess fell in love with.
* TheStoryteller: Tadoritsuku Uta is one of the only two tracks in Chronicle 2nd (the other being Raijin no Sawan) that is not narrated by the album’s main narrator, but by its respective protagonists instead.
* WanderingMinstrel: Just like her lover. She wanders because she is searching for him.

!!Endymio Ballad
-->'''Played by:''' Shin-Imayama ''(Nein)''
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[[caption-width-right:185:Shin-Imayama as Endymio in the ''Nein'' live concert.]]

-->''"A blooming rose cannot compare itself to a withered one, swaying in reminiscence."''

A minor, yet important character featured in chapters 7-9 of the Black Chronicle, first appearing in "Tragedy of Ballad the Poet" (''"Shijin Ballad no Higeki"''). Luna Ballad’s lover, he thought she was dead after they were separated in a certain battle, or so it was detailed in ''Nein''. Some time after the separation he was called forth by the previously ruling Queen of Britannia to recite a poem that praises her beauty and power.

Instead of doing exactly that, though, he mocked her with a certain passage: a supreme, blooming rose (the Queen) cannot match the beauty of the withered one in his memory (Luna). Insulted, [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Queen]] immediately orders his execution. The night before his death, he composed [[TragicKeepsake a final poem for Luna]], which was heard by his jailor. The jailor was so fascinated by the song and sung it to his lover, who passed it on to everyone, and the song became popular throughout the country. Contrary to his belief, Luna is not dead yet, and is in fact still searching for him. It was that final song that guided her to his fate.


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* TheBard: And his lover is a WanderingMinstrel, searching for him.
* DoomedHometown: His hometown and Luna’s was most likely destroyed in a war, which would explain their separation.
* NiceHat: Depicted as having a wide-brimmed hat with fancy feathers on ''Nein''’s regular cover art.
* PermaStubble: As with his hat, he is also depicted as having this in ''Nein''.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Named after the mortal shepherd/prince from Classical Mythology whom the anthropomorphic goddess of the Moon fell in love with, just as his lover is named after said goddess.
* ShaggyDogStory: What his whole story is at its core, both in the original album ''and'' ''Nein''. The latter example is rather jarring (and grating) because R.E.V.O. is supposedly trying to find a “happy” outcome to the tragic fates of previous horizons’ protagonists.
* SuddenlyVoiced: The only track of which he is a protagonist in Chronicle is only an instrumental. Come Nein and he’s been voiced by a baritone.

!!General Albers Alvarez ("Arbelge")/"The Silver Reaper"
-->'''Played by:''' Jimang

-->''"Lotte...ah, Charlotte,'' what ''must I exactly fight for?"''

The protagonist of songs “Alberge’s Battle” (''“Alberge no Tatakai”''), “The Promised Hill” (''“Yakusoku no Oka”''), and “Holy War and the Reaper” (''“Seisen to Shinigami”''), which spans two whole chapters in the album. Albers is a man from the country of Belga, who, after its occupation by the Flandre Empire, became a ruthless war general nicknamed “The Silver Reaper”, serving its leader, Emperor Childebert VI...[[{{Irony}} under the purpose of freeing Belga from the latter’s grasp.]]

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* AntiHero: He may be wholly dedicated to protecting his country, but he is obliged to become a mass-murderer in order to continue doing so. And this he complied without remorse, at first.
* TheAtoner: After realizing just how many massacres he had led, he decides to defect to Britannia in "Seisen to Shinigami -Eiyuu no Fuzai-". Witnessing his comrade about to strike an unarmed village girl is pretty much his last straw.
* BlingOfWar: From where else could his famous nickname come from but his lustrous silver armor? [[spoiler: Even Michèle Malebranche approves of its badassery and makes it a featured collection of her antique shop.]]
* DeathSeeker: After withdrawing from Whitehaven following his HeelFaceTurn, Albers just wants someone to kill him to atone for his foolish mistakes. [[spoiler: Queen Rose]] quickly snaps him out of it. [[spoiler: He got exactly what he wished just after he stopped being this trope and during a ceasefire agreement that was meant to stop the whole schtick he made worse.]]
* DoomedHometown: Belga was attacked and then occupied by the Holy Flandre Empire. Then he swore an allegiance to its very Emperor under the faint hope that the latter would grant the country its freedom if he fights hard enough.
* DefectorFromDecadence: A defector from Holy Flandre Empire's warmongering ambitions.
* TheDragon: Initially, of Emperor Childebert VI. [[spoiler: After his HeelFaceTurn, he becomes TheLancer of Queen Rose.]]
* DyingDream: Before he dies, he saw a vision of the sunset-colored hill where he made his promise with Charlotte. That’s exactly where they're buried at.
* EmpathicWeather: A soft rain can be heard during his funeral sequence.
* FinalLoveDuet: He sang "Yakusoku no Oka" with Charlotte at the end of the first act of his story, promising to come back to her no matter what happens. This is indeed the ''final'' duet for them as Charlotte soon died while Alvarez was on duty, leaving him with no other reason to free his country except for its own sake.
* FightingForAHomeland: ...under the very man who conquered it.
* HeelFaceTurn: He massacres other countries in hopes that if he conquers more territories for the Emperor, then the latter would grant his occupied hometown freedom. It’s not granted, resulting in him defecting to Britannia, the country he at first was ordered to attack.
* HeelRealization: The dude realized kind of too late that no matter how many countries he conquered for the Emperor, the latter just isn’t going to give Belga the freedom he requested.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Has a major moment of this when he called one of his comrade out for daring to shoot an unarmed girl [[spoiler: (who, unbeknownst to both of them, is the Queen of Britannia)]] and nearly striking her to death, when in the previous track he had just massacred ''an entire capital '''and smiled''' after the entire deed.'' Gefenbauer, naturally, chews him out on this.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The riff of “Alberge no Tatakai” and his battle chant.
* TheLostLenore: Charlotte, his lover, was a casualty in the war, and he’s very remorseful about it.
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: InUniverse. After he died, the world hailed him far and wide as a hero, a symbol of struggle against tyranny, forgetting altogether his ruthlesness. Not only that, he had himself confessed to Queen Rose that he used to massacre thousands of innocents to satisfy his own belligerent impulses.
* OminousLatinChanting: Or something like it. An epic chorus that translates to “The time has come! Here he is—The Reaper! The time has come! Look! The Reaper!” Accompanies his appearance in the battlefield and his death.
* PlayingTheHeartStrings: A very soothing, yet somber violin solo serves as the ending to his saga.
* RedBaron: “The Silver Reaper”, named after his shining armor and his countless victims. Certainly doubles as A NameToRunAwayFromReallyFast.

!!Gefenbauer/"The Reaper of the Reaper"
-->'''Played by:''' Yasro

-->''"Don't you ever forget the name of the man who will destroy you--[[MyNameIsInigoMontoya his name is Gefenbauer!]]"''

One of the main antagonists of "The Holy War and The Reaper" arc. A former war prisoner from Preuzehn, its capital Offenburg specifically, he is drafted by the Emperor Childebert VI himself into his imperial army of Flanders. The Emperor knows all too well of Gefenbauer's thirst for avenging his hometown, and uses it to his advantage in order to get rid of a certain "Reaper"...

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* BadassBaritone: Downplayed. Well, he ''is'' clearly a tough warrior...but his "baritone" is [[SpecialEffectFailure clearly]] the result of a synthetizer. [[spoiler: This is actually Revo's technique of disguising himself during his [[ReclusiveArtist early years]].]]
* DoomedHometown: Offenburg.
* NotSoDifferent: From Alvarez, his nemesis. Both lost their hometown, wants to avenge their loss, equally ruthless, and are unwitting pawns of the Emperor. The only thing that separates them is that Alvarez came to realize that he is nothing but a pawn, dropped his bloodshed and came to atone for his mistakes, while Gefenbauer never cared a bit of his being used as a pawn and follows his quest for revenge through and through, culminating in his death. Basically, Gefenbauer is Alvarez sans HeelRealization.
* PyrrhicVictory: He managed to avenge his hometown by shooting Alvarez...in a heavily-guarded ceasefire meeting. Well, Gefenbauer succeeds, but he was naturally caught and murdered on the spot by security--in this case, Sir Parsifal, Queen Rose's bodyguard.
* UnwittingPawn: He was so caught up in avenging Preuzehn that he is remiss of the implication that the Emperor is essentially using him as a tool to conquer more territories.
* WhatTheHellHero: He has a good reason to cringe when Alvarez, [[BloodKnight a war general]] nicknamed [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Silver Reaper]], told him to "stay on the right path".
-->'''Alvarez''': ''What did you intend to do to an unarmed civilian?!''
-->'''Gefenbauer''': ''A mere girl she might be, but still a heretic. There is no need for pity.''
-->'''Alvarez''': ''[[{{Hypocrite}} Do not stray off the right path! Open your eyes!]]''
-->'''Gefenbauer''': ''I will take no orders from you, Arbelge! [[ShutUpKirk Hypocrite, hero-maniac, murderer!]]''
-->''My father died at Offenburg...my older brothers, my younger brothers, my comrades--'' all of them!

* YouKilledMyFather: ...and mother, and brothers, and friends, and...'''''JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY IN MY FRICKING HOMETOWN, ALVAREZ!'''''

!!Rose Guine Avalon / "The Supreme Rose"
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary

-->''"A fool ... isn't someone who makes mistakes ... it's someone who knows their mistakes, but does not correct them ..."''

The [[AChildShallLeadThem very young]] Queen of Britannia, having known to hold the throne since track 5, "Knights of the Rose" (''"Bara no Kishidan"''). She is the niece of the previous Queen, who was so infamous for her cruelty, Rose herself gave her the nickname [[TheDreaded "The Winter Rose"]]. An optimist charismatic, she earnestly believes that she can become a beacon of hope for her people under the guidance of her Goddess, Brigid.

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* AnnoyingArrows: [[spoiler: Shot by Gefenbauer in "Eiyuu no Fuzai" and almost struck dead by his sword hadn't Alvarez saved her.]] Her energetic singing on the following track indicates she has completely recovered, without any medical complications implied. Perhaps [[spoiler: Alvarez]] is that good of a medic?
* AChildShallLeadThem: She is still a little girl when her aunt died and she was appointed as successor to the Britannian throne.
* {{Expy}}: TheHighQueen of a land called [[FantasyCounterpartCulture "Britannia"]]. Inherited the throne at a tender age after her less competent, female, predecessor died. Restored her country to a period of normalcy after years of unrest instigated by said predecessor. Bravely guided her people in a great war against a powerful empire. Hailed as a symbol of faith and nationalism. Royal insignia is a rose. Anybody else reminded of [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI the first Queen Elizabeth]]?
** Also, note her last name--''Avalon''. She is surrounded by knights with names such as "Parsifal"/Percival and "Tristram"/Tristan. Rose is clearly a subtle homage to [[Myth/KingArthur the famed King of Britain]].
* TheHighQueen: Very wise, very charismatic, and loved by her people for her optimism and benevolence. No wonder she is nicknamed "The Supreme Rose".
* KingIncognito: By necessity, as she did this to escape an oncoming siege to her castle by the Flandre Empire. She disguises herself as the village girl [[spoiler: who Gefenbauer shot at the battle in Whitehaven.]]
* ModestRoyalty: She prefers people call her by her first name, not "Her Majesty"[[spoiler:, courtesy of her conversation with Alvarez]].
* PluckyGirl: Yes! For starters, she confidently vows in front of her people, who have for long been suffering under her predecessor's rule--who is her own aunt, no less--that she ''will'' lead her kingdom out of darkness. She also does not cower in the presence of [[spoiler: Alvarez]] despite his reputation, instead commanding him (who is having a major MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment) to bravely face his mistakes, as redemption ''does not'' equal death. [[spoiler: Also, not many royalties could maintain their charisma after being shot by an arrow until unconscious like she did.]]
* RedBaron: "The Supreme Rose".
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Still a young girl, yet manages to relieve her people from the fear caused by her [[TheCaligula aunt]]'s reign of terror.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Nothing is told of her anymore after that [[spoiler: botched ceasefire agreement which took Alvarez' life.]]

!!Roberia Maria Della Firenza
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary

-->''"A singing voice burning scarlet with passion, accompanied by a gorgeous figure--'' I ''am the greatest songstress!"''

One of the main characters of "Shizunda Utahime", the 741st page of the eighth chapter of the Black Chronicle. Along with Giulietta Simone del Viscontie, Roberia is one of the contestants of King Alessandro I's singing contest, [[EngagementChallenge the winner of which shall become his bride]]. Roberia is the more ambitious of the two and desires to win by any means necessary.

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* AmbitionIsEvil: Roberia ''wants'' the throne of Itania, and will use every means available to get it, including [[spoiler: falsely accusing ''a whole family'' of attempting to poison the King '''just to get rid of her competitor in a singing contest''']].
* ArchEnemy: She regards Giulietta as her main obstacle, even though the latter most likely [[UnknownRival doesn't]].
* EvilLaugh: She does this after [[spoiler: Giulietta is disposed of, which automatically makes her the winner of the singing contest and King Alessandro's bride]].
* {{Foil}}: To Giulietta. [[RedOniBlueOni Roberia's color scheme is red, while Giulietta's is blue.]] Roberia is heavily implied to be a commoner, while Giulietta comes from a very old noble house. Giulietta is naive and childish, while Roberia is passionate, vicious and more mature. Giulietta participates in the singing contest only to sing, while Roberia participates to win the position of Queen-Consort of Itania.
* LadyInRed: She has no official artwork, but with her nickname being "The Red Songstress", it's a clear indication that she would be this. In fact, many, many fan works depict her dressed head-to-toe in red.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Just after three years of reign as Queen-Consort, King Alessandro's mistress Beatrice and his Prime Minister Galeazzo disposed of Roberia through the same means she used to get rid of Giulietta and her family.]]
* NouveauRiche: Heavily implied. Unlike Giulietta, whose surname is a clear indication that she came from the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Sound Horizon universe's counterpart]] of the Milanese branch of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Visconti House of Visconti]], Roberia's only entailed her hometown, Firenza--this indicates that she is not of noble birth, as commoners either use their moniker or their birthplace as surnames in Renaissance Italy. Yet it seems that her family's got just the right amount of money to [[spoiler: bribe people to believe that Giulietta's more powerful family schemed to poison the King]], which would mean that they must be ''insanely'' rich to do so despite their implied status.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Giulietta's Blue. She is scheming and aggressive, while Giulietta is naive and passive.
* TheRival: To Giulietta in the singing contest. Their rivalry is, in fact, the whole plot of "Shizunda Utahime".
* VillainProtagonist: "Shizunda Utahime" is told mainly from Roberia's perspective.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Roberia's brief conversation with her father during the narration sequence indicates that part of her motivation in winning the singing contest was to please him.

!!Giulietta Simone Del Viscontie
-->'''Played by:''' Haruka Shimotsuki

-->''"A singing voice brimming in azure with purity, accompanied by a serene smile--'' I ''am the greatest songstress!"''

Roberia's aforementioned rival in King Alessandro I's singing contest. In contrast to Roberia, Giulietta participates in the contest for its own sake.

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* AmbitionIsEvil: Noticeably downplayed, or even downright averted, especially if you compare her to Roberia. Giulietta ''does'' want to win, but she doesn't seem to use any other means to do so besides her voice.
* BalefulPolymorph: After she [[spoiler: threw herself off a cliff]] as an act of desperation to escape the angry swarm of mobs, she turns into [[spoiler: The Sea Witch]].
* BlueBlood: Giulietta's surname indicates that she came from the Sound Horizon universe's [[FantasyCounterpartCulture counterpart]] of the Milanese branch of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Visconti House of Visconti]].
* BrownNote: [[spoiler: The songs she sing as the Sea Witch]] summon up deadly, ship-wrecking storms in the sea, of which Agnes is a victim.
* BlessedWithSuck: By "Umi no Majo", Giulietta [[spoiler: had transformed into the Sea Witch]], meaning she can sing forever, which is what she has always wanted. [[spoiler: Forever sing songs that can boil up fearful storms, destroy ships and generally lead people to their deaths, specifically.]]
* HeroAntagonist: "Shizunda Utahime" is told mainly from Roberia's perspective, with Giulietta regarded as Roberia's main obstacle towards reaching her goal.
* {{Foil}}: To Roberia. [[RedOniBlueOni Giulietta's color scheme is blue, while Roberia's is red.]] Giulietta comes from a very old noble house, while Roberia is implied to be a commoner. Giulietta is naive and childish, while Roberia is passionate, vicious and more mature. Giulietta participates in the singing contest only to sing, while Roberia participates to win the position of Queen-Consort of Itania.
* OneWomanWail: The final narration sequence of "Umi no Majo" is accompanied by her lonely humming.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Roberia's Red. Roberia is scheming and aggressive, while Giulietta is naive and passive.
* TheRival: To Roberia in the singing contest. Their rivalry is, in fact, the whole plot of "Shizunda Utahime".
* SirensAreMermaids: The Sea Witch has all the attributes of a siren in common fantasy stories. Even though in the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology original myths]] they are stated to be women with the body of birds, many fanworks depict [[spoiler: Giulietta]] as a mermaid.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Giulietta has no official artwork, but her moniker ''is'' "The Blue Songstress", plus [[spoiler: she becomes the Sea Witch in "Umi no Majo"]], further strengthening her connection with the color blue and the sea. Naturally, many fans would depict her being dressed head-to-toe in blue in art.

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[[folder:''Thanatos'']]
!!The protagonist

-->'''Played by:''' Aramary

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[[caption-width-right:187:''I do not have the strength to live in an instant, but I am not so unfeeling as to be able to live through eternity, either.'']]

-->''"I feel as if Thanatos is watching me from somewhere..."''

A mysterious girl who resides in an old, dusty attic. Suffering from insomnia late at night, she fantasizes about the various ways in which her death may arrive by way of the toys strewn about her room, which became the basis of the album's branching storylines. She also appears in the bonus track of ''Pico Magic''.

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* CreepyDoll: What she appears as in [[spoiler: ''Nein'']].
* DeathSeeker: Played with. She has always felt like her life is meaningless and wants it to be ended quickly, yet is ''also'' reluctant to meet the eternal darkness. In the end, this trope ultimately gets subverted as she decides to go on with her life. Her somber fantasies still go on, though.
* FreakOut: In "Thanatos no Gensou wa Owaranai". [[ProperlyParanoid Thanatos is indeed looking at her.]][[note]]but then again, us, too. ''[[FridgeBrilliance Death has always been watching over us since time immemorial.]]''[[/note]]
--> '''The girl:''' He's watching. He's watching. ''He's watching''. ''He is '''watching'''.''
--> Me--me--he is watching '''''me.'''''
--> ''[[MadnessMantra He is watching. He is watching. He is watching.]]'' '''''[[MadnessMantra He is watching!]]'''''
--> ''Ahh,'' even now somewhere Thanatos is watching me...''watching me!--'' [[[CliffHanger door abruptly closes]]]
* {{Expy}}: InUniverse. She looks a lot like [[http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/ar0/2d7b2900b4cd4bacba4d709191083dcb this]] pink-haired girl from Chronicle.
* HearingVoices: She often states that she can hear Thanatos whispering to her.
* KnightOfCerebus: Downplayed. Though most of the stories it contained are nowhere near light-hearted, ''Pico Magic'''s songs are indeed very catchy and upbeat-sounding. Then you stumble upon the bonus track--"Thanatos no Gensou wa Owaranai". Lonely music, depressing lyrics, scary ending...
* NoNameGiven: Which is why fans [[FanNickname named her]] "Thanako".
* TheOphelia: She's a creepy, kind of unhinged girl who often hears weird voices and spends her whole screentime in the album rambling about death and lament. Due to the plot's coincidental setting, she doubles as a MadwomanInTheAttic.
* ThinkingOutLoud: She is the only principal protagonist of Sound Horizon's post-instrumental era who never sings, only monologuing and narrating.
* RoseHairedGirl: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. The girl's hair is pink, alright, but her personality is ''very bleak'', nowhere near as cheerful as many of the trope's examples.
* StrawNihilist: "Everything you have in this world is meaningless because Death will come for everyone. No exceptions." [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop That, folks, is the message]] behind each of the stories in the album.
-->'''The Protagonist''': Even though history will be born anew in a brilliant summer, fantasies of being embraced by Thanatos (death) will never come to cease.
* PurpleEyes: Fitting, since purple is the color of death in Japanese culture.

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[[folder:''Lost'']]

!!The woman who shot down her lover
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary

-->''"In a world where I have lost my lover, flowers of what colour will bloom?"''

The protagonist of the song "Koibito wo Uchiotoshita Hi". Her lover was wounded at one point by an ancient monster while trying to save her, and by the time the song is sung, he is already at the brink of [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie transforming into one of its kind]]. The song details her struggle in killing the creature who was once the man she loved so much.

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* ArcherArchetype: Implied to be one, as she attacks her lover using an arrow. She manages to kill him, whom by this point must have become a very powerful beast, so that must mean ''something''.
* BrokenRecord: The poor girl ''snapped.''

--> In a world where I have lost my lover, flowers of what colour will bloom? ''[[HeroicBSOD In a world where I have lost my lover, flowers of what colour will bloom?]]'' '''''[[ILetGwenStacyDie In a world where I have lost my lover, flowers of what colour will bloom?]]''''' '''''[[MadnessMantra IN A WORLD WHERE I HAVE LOST MY LOVER, FLOWERS OF WHAT COLOUR WILL BLOOM?]]'''''

--> [Repeat ''ad nauseam''.]
* DrivenToSuicide: At the song's end, she is heavily implied to shoot, or stab, herself using the last arrow she had with her.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: So I asked my girlfriend to kill me, courtesy of the protagonist's boyfriend.
* LyricalDissonance: Wait, so ''that's'' the plot of "Koibito wo Uchiotoshita Hi"?! That super upbeat pop song?!
* RescueRomance: A very, ''very'' tragic example. Their romance is kindled at the same time the guy gradually transforms into the same monster he killed. Even the narrator lampshades it:
--> '''Narrator''': Their encounter is a promise heading towards misery.
* StakingTheLovedOne: This is the whole plot of her song.
* TogetherInDeath: She is heavily implied to commit suicide in the end, and if we take into account that her quote above are her last words, it would mean that she does so out of her refusal to be left alone.
* NoNameGiven: Just like every other characters of the album, sans the magician Sarabando from track 3.


!!Michèle Malebranche
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary, [[Creator/RikaFukami Rika Fukami]] ''(Roman)''
[[quoteright:127:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/michele_copy_8.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:127:''Who is the one within that cage?''[[note]]Michèle's depiction in the manga by Katsura Yukimaru.[[/note]]]]

-->''"Before I bloom madly then wither away inside this cage, allow me to bid goodbye to this world that has lost its love."''

The protagonist of the songs "Yaneura no Shōjo", "Ori no Naka no Hana" and possibly "Ori no Naka no Yūgi". After these she somehow disappeared from the continuity with little further explanation.

...'''[[TheStinger or did she?]]'''

A [[FemmeFatale batshit crazy murderer in the form of a renowned beauty]], her horrible deeds are [[RiddleForTheAges one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries]]. Michèle Malebranche is Sound Horizon's most enigmatic character--her only concrete appearances are in songs that are seemingly only connected to each other and don't have any direct ties to the any other plotlines present, yet astute fans can discern her presence in ''almost all albums''--as the distinct symbolisms used in her songs came to be recurring themes throughout Revo's work, especially in ''Roman''. Indeed, in the album's fourth track she is revealed to have reincarnated as a [[ArtifactOfDoom piece of cursed red diamond]], and is ''the'' source for all the MindScrew occuring within ''Roman'''s world.

In short, Michèle is Sound Horizon's number one source of debate, with fans driving themselves nuts trying to find out what the ''hell'' her role really is in the Sound Horizon universe. Regardless of whether she is ''the'' [[{{God}} God]] of the whole Sound Horizon universe, the Black Chronicle itself, or is actually [[RageAgainstTheAuthor manipulating Revo's own story]], [[MindScrew making your head ache]] from creating [[WildMassGuessing such theories as these]] is [[FridgeBrilliance exactly]] what she does to most characters [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou she interacted with inside the story world proper--]]trapping their minds inside a loop, making them sink deeper into a spiral of madness just to find out more about her. '''[[OhCrap Congrats]].'''

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* AbusiveParents: Her StartOfDarkness began with her [[AxCrazy insane]] father locking her up in the attic.
* ArtifactOfDeath: The ''Reine Michèle'' is the world's biggest 30-carat red diamond. Everybody who gets the chance to lay a hand upon it is guaranteed to die horribly. The manga adaptation takes it UpToEleven, where it dooms just about ''everyone who's unfortunate enough to happen to be close to it''.
* AxCrazy: Considering what [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds she had to go through in her life]], you can't help but feel sorry for her being this. In addition, it seems that she has the power [[TheVamp to drive everyone who loves her insane until they die horribly in one way or another]].
* BasedOnATrueStory: A certain "Noël Malebranche" adapted her life into a mystery novel. A bulk of its contents serves as the lyrics of "Ori no Naka no Hana".
* BloodSucking: Sucks a young boy's blood in "Ori no Naka no Hana" under the guise of a kiss. In her word, it tastes faintly sweet, drawing an intoxication much like drinking wine.
* BuriedAlive: She came close to being locked up in a coffin then buried alive by her stepfather.
* CharacterOverlap: She appears in the bonus track of ''Roman''. This was at first meant to be a spoiler but now [[ItWasHisSled this has become more or less common knowledge]]. [[spoiler: But lo, witness her ''once again'' making every fan lose their beans in ''Nein''.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Well, Sound Horizon's stories do occassionally feature dark themes, but none get as horrible as the "Cage" trilogy, which deal with sexuality, incest and murder described in an almost explicit detail.
* EnfantTerrible: Despite being a little girl at the time, Michèle somehow managed to murder her biological father in cold blood before [[MadArtist using his blood as red paint]]. Even the authorities examining her can't understand why such an adorable little girl could perform such a grisly act.
* EternalRecurrence: The first person she trapped in this is her stepfather. Then it's [[spoiler: Hiver]].
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Aramary sang "Ori no Naka no Yuugi" and "Ori no Naka no Yuugi"--both of which are strewn with [[GratuitousFrench random French words and phrases]] amidst its mostly Japanese lyrics--in a breathy, sensual voice.
* FemmeFatale: One of the finest examples of this trope.
* FilleFatale: Her twisted rampage had begun since she was still a small girl.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Being locked up in a dark attic during most of your childhood brings predictably unflattering results to your sanity.
* GratuitousFrench: All of her songs sans "Yaneura no Shoujo" [[note]] which is only an instrumental [[/note]]--"Ori no Naka no Hana", "Ori no Naka no Yuugi", "Norowareshi Houseki, [[spoiler: and "Seiyou Kottou Yaneuradou"]]--are all positively ''contaminated'' with this, complete with unintelligible pronunciations. Considering her background, this is to be expected.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: In her [[spoiler: official artwork in ''Nein'']], she wears a purple dress.
* HiddenDepths: Her actions in [[spoiler: ''Nein'']]; at first there's something ominous looming about her when she [[spoiler: manipulates Noël into "buying" R.E.V.O.]]. Turns out the circumstances that followed led him [[spoiler: into coming to terms with his own life, [[CharacterDevelopment turning him from a cynical, jaded young man into a spirited one ready to live life to its fullest]]]]. Michèle is, you know, ''[[MagnificentBastard Michèle]]''; it's unlikely she had ''never'' predicted that outcome before.
* HumanoidAbomination: What a considerable amount of fans view her as.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Said this trope word for word in "Yaneura no Shoujo".
* LaBelleEpoque: Lived in 1890s France. Her life doesn't quite match up to the era's nickname, unfortunately.
* LadyInRed: How she was depicted in the manga version.
* LyricalDissonance: "Ori no Naka no Yuugi" and "Ori no Naka no Hana" are sexy jazz songs sung with an intoxicatingly seductive voice. Their stories are about [[ParentalIncest having sex with your stepfather]] who wants to bury you alive and [[HumanSacrifice murdering young boys]] for some sort of a dark ritual, respectively.
* MadArtist: She was chained up in the attic as a child. Her only companions were canvases and paint tubes in three colors. You can see how these two would mix up.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: A variation in that she is not locked up because she is insane, but insane ''[[GoMadFromTheIsolation because]]'' she is locked up.
* MeaningfulName: She shares a surname with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malebranche_%28Divine_Comedy%29 malicious guardian demons]] from Dante Alighieri's ''[[Literature/DivineComedy Inferno]]'', and a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Malebranche French priest]] who is known for his dissertations concerning the active role of God in the world and dualism--all prominent themes in Revo's works. [[WildMassGuessing Hmmm...]]
* MediumAwareness: A non-comedic example: she is presumably aware that she is only a character in a story--which is probably why she likened her life to "being trapped in a cage"--and all of the crazy, scary schticks she committed in her songs may very well be her attempts to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou escape into our world]].
* MindScrew: '''She is a walking example of this trope'''. Her whole existence in Revo's works--her enigmatic theme songs, the "cage" she constantly mentioned, her involvement in ''Roman''--is only the tip of a gigantic iceberg that is the discourse regarding Michèle Malebranche's true role in the Sound Horizon universe. [[spoiler: It's made worse by the time ''Nein'' came out.]]
* TheOphelia: Everything she said "breaches the boundary between reality and fantasy", courtesy of the narration of "Ori no Naka no Hana".
* ParentalIncest: "Ori no Naka no Yuugi" heavily suggests that she used to have a sexual relationship with her stepfather, Armand Ollivier, [[LoveMakesYouCrazy until he went absolutely nuts and tried to bury her alive]].
* PeekABangs: Her hair [[spoiler: in the ''Nein'' official art]].
* SealedEvilInACan: In ''Roman'', her spirit is sealed inside a 30-carat red diamond, the biggest in the world.
* {{Shotacon}}: Erotic imageries about young boys and young men pop out constantly in "Ori no Naka no Hana". [[spoiler: At the song's end, it is revealed that she died horribly atop stacks of dried bodies of young boys, [[DarkMagic ostensibly after some sort of a sick ritual]].]]
* {{Troll}}: To '''just about everybody'''. Perhaps ''even'' [[RageAgainstTheAuthor Revo]] himself.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Presumably so until her father decided that locking her up in an attic is a good idea.
* WalkingSpoiler: Bet nobody expected her when ''Roman'' [[spoiler: and ''Nein'']] first came out.
* WomanInBlack: How REMI portrayed her in the live, with [[PrettyInMink an elegant white fur]].

!!The delusional mother
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary ''(Lost)'', Mari Yura ''(Nein)''
[[quoteright:203:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yurikagoko_ori.png]]
[[caption-width-right:203:''A sleep of oblivion, much like within a cradle.''[[note]]Mari Yura performing as the protagonist of "Yurikago" in ''Nein'''s live concert.[[/note]]]]

-->''They noticed how mad she was, though none had the desire to tell her''
-->''[[WhamLine That her child had become a skeleton]].''

The protagonist of "Yurikago", she is a miserable mother whose self-denial about her child's death had become so severe to the point of madness. [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable She wanders serenely about town carrying its sack of bones]] as if it was still alive, sleeping soundly in her cradle.

She retells her story from her own perspective as she reappears in ''Nein'''s fourth track, "Ienakatta Kotonoha".

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* AdaptationExpansion: "Ienakatta Kotonoha" expands greatly upon her minimal background, revealing that [[spoiler: her child is the result of SexForSolace with a stranger she barely knew, who left her the morning after]].
* DissonantSerenity: ''Everything'' about her song is this trope. From the way she converses with people as if nothing happened, the casual response she received from them, ''the very compliment they gave to the child's corpse'', to how the song remains chillingly cheerful and soothing to the end..."Yurikago" is one of Sound Horizon's [[NightmareFuel scariest]] songs, really, in a brilliantly subversive way, especially if you're not well-versed in Japanese.
* TheGayNineties: Her dress from ''Nein'''s box art possesses aesthetics from this era.
* InfantImmortality: ''Obviously'' [[AvertedTrope averted]]. The poor child had died since they were an infant, but their mother vehemently refuses to swallow the bitter pill.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: She treats her stone-cold skeleton of a child the same way a saner mother with a living child does. Given the situation, it's ''more'' than possible she still feeds, bathes and dresses it at home.
* SurpriseCreepy: 'Ooh, this one's a calming song! "Yurikago", isn't it? I feel like relaxing in a beach just listening to this! Wonder what the lyric's about...[[OhCrap oh.]] Oh God, no. ''[[NoJustNoReaction No.]]'''
* TheOphelia: She's frigging ''carrying her child's bones around the neighborhood'' '''''and showing it off to everyone!'''''
* TrueBlueFemininity: She is depicted in ''Nein'' being dressed head-to-toe in blue.


[[/folder]]

[[folder:''Pico Magic'' and ''Pico Magic Reloaded'']]

!!Picomary
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/picomagicover.jpg]]

-->"[[GratuitousItalian BUONGIORNO~!]] ''I'm Picomary, the very same one from [[BreakingTheFourthWall Lost's bonus track!]]"''

The album's protagonist. She energetically introduces the album's contents in the fashion of radio [=DJs=], which she self-proclaims herself to be.

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* {{Adorkable}}: Just look above! She's practically ''begging'' to be squeezed!
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Some fans think she might be an alien, probably because of that weird puffy thing on her headdress.
* AuthorAvatar: Or Singer Avatar. She's obviously meant to be Aramary's stand-in.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: She's addressing you directly in her narrations, and at the end of "Onegai! Picomajin☆" even tells us a little story about [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Revo]] taking Aramary to an Indian restaurant despite her saying she can't take spicy food.

--> '''Picomary:''' [[SelfDeprecation Even though he might look like he’s listening intently, he’s the type that doesn’t completely take in what others say, huh?]]
* BreatherEpisode: More like Breather Protagonist. Seeing as she's only a DJ without a plot of her own, she is Sound Horizon's sunniest, least conflicted, and least {{Angst}}y, protagonist, natch. Good for you, Picomary. The rest of the album is still as depressing as you'd expect it to be, [[LyricalDissonance cheerful tunes notwithstanding]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: As she herself had said, she first appeared in ''Lost'''s secret 12th track.
* GenkiGirl: She must be the jumpiest of all Sound Horizon characters. ''Nothing'' in the album she says without overflowing glee.
* GratuitousItalian: Greets you with "Buongiorno!", the Italian phrase for "Good day!".
* MagicalIncantation: She gives you her ''"Yahha shanten i-pe-ja non non"''[[note]]which is made up of mahjong terms[[/note]], ostensibly to summon a "legendary genie" that can get you through hard times.
* MoodWhiplash: Her upbeat techno songs are rather jarring in comparison to Sound Horizon's usual RockOpera fare. But then again Revo composes his songs [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly according to whatever he wants at the moment]].
* ThePollyanna: She's a sunny, jumping ball of cheerfulness. It must be hard for anything to get her down.
--> '''Picomary:''' ''No matter when, don't abandon hope 'till the last drop!''

!!Rein
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary

-->''"The moment the girl's closed eyes open,''
-->''The world will come to witness the worst vision of madness it has ever dreamt of--a cruel God of Death."''

The protagonist of the song "Rein no Sekai". She is a blind girl who relies on her dog as assistance.

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* ABoyAndHisX: A Girl And Her Dog, just like her successor in ''Roman'', Etoile.
* ApocalypseMaiden: The song foretold that the world will come to witness the birth of a "cruel God of Death" if she somehow came to regain her sight. Even the narrator warns us not to get caught in the same world as hers.
* IcyBlueEyes: The singer described her eyes as shining in this hue.
* TheOphelia: The lyrics of her song, implied to be sung from her perspective, is...''very'' rife with metaphors. It [[MindScrew requires a very thorough thinking]] to be understood.

[[/folder]]



[[folder:''Elysion'']]
!!Elys/El
--> '''Played by:''' Aramary

[[quoteright:264:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/el_0.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:264:''There is no such thing as crying in paradise.'']]

-->''"Hey ... papa, what kinds of flowers bloom in that paradise?"''

The album's deuteragonist, the Masked Man's only, [[IllGirl sickly]], daughter. She is just about to reach the age of 8 when the album starts, yet is already on the verge of dying from a painful, incurable disease; [[ForWantOfANail her wishing for a picture book]] to her father would serve as the catalyst of the album's catastrophic plot.

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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Her appearance aside, she is actually no different from other little girls about her age, being very naive, ConstantlyCurious and all, showing absolutely no hint of malice whatsoever throughout her songs. In an ironic twist, the girls her father abducted all harbor incurable contempt for the world and have each committed unforgivable sins in the name of love.
* ConstantlyCurious: She comes across as this in "El no Rakuen [->side: E->]".
* CreepyChild: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. With her completely white hair, skin, clothes and blood-red eyes, it's only natural that one would be creeped out upon seeing her appearance on the cover at first, but once you listen to the music, you'll quickly discover that she's the [[TokenGoodTeammate the nicest character]] of the whole album.
* DaddysGirl: El is the Masked Man's only daughter and remaining family, so of course he would consider her this, and vice versa. In fact, [[spoiler: the Masked Man loves El so much that he would drag living girls into Hell just to reunite with her in death.]]
* DeathSeeker: El wasn't born into a family wealthy enough to be able to afford a medication for her chronic illness; she had no other choice but to wait for death as her only cure. That's why she is as excited to go to paradise as a child on their trip to Disneyland would, as she is sure there would neither be pain nor sorrow in that place. [[spoiler: [[ShaggyDogStory In the end, she never really did get her chance to get in there]].]]
* DyingAlone: In "El no Rakuen [->side:E->]", she ultimately dies this way. Slowly, painfully, ''[[NightmareFuel her father's bleeding corpse lying beneath her bed]]''.
* ForWantOfANail: For want of a picture book, her father [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor gets killed]] by a very, ''[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very]]'' angry woman.
* IllGirl: Spends most of her life on bed suffering a wasting illness. The singer of "El no Rakuen [->side:E->] implies that El is suffering from [[TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed consumption]], since she mentions that the latter is often struck with bouts of painful coughs and subsequent chest pains.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: "El no Rakuen [->side:A->]".]] El's finally dead! Yay! It looks like she's finally in the paradise she's been dreaming of! Looks like the girl will get a happy ending with her dad[[spoiler:--huh? Wait--she heard somebody crying? Nobody cries in--huh? What's happening? Why are all the trees dying? Why is the sky suddenly turning dark? ''Isn't this what Hell is supposed to look like?'']]
* MeaningfulName: Both El and Elys play on ''[[AlbumTitleDrop Elysion]]''. Also, "El" is a Hebrew name which bears the meaning, "God".
* MirthlessLaughter: [[spoiler: In the bonus track,]] she greets her dying father with a pained, weak laugh.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: "El no Rakuen [-> side:E ->]" suggests that El has convinced herself that her father is still alive and carries on conversations with his dead body. Though, like so much about Sound Horizon, it's open to interpretation.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: Due to her father's damnation, El can never get into paradise like she wanted.]]
* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler: She ends up being cast down into Hell because her father, being a murderer and a kidnapper, has been damned from the start for his crimes.]]
* SpoilerOpening: El is already dead by the end of the very first track.
* TogetherInDeath: With her father. [[spoiler: In ''[[DownerEnding hell]]''.]]
* NightmareFace: For some incomprehensible reason, the Elysion PV had cute little El played by a ''[[CreepyDoll horrifying]]'' plastic doll with Aramary's mouth pasted into it. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/el_pv.jpg Not]] a very pleasant sight. [[note]]''Don't'' open the link if you're not comfortable with dolls, or UncannyValley, for that matter.[[/note]]

!!The Masked Man / Abyss
--> '''Played by:''' Jimang

[[quoteright:234:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/abyss_3.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:234: ''The name of this girl, who is about to be born, has been decided since long ago.'']]

-->''"Is that girl my Elys?"''

The protagonist of the whole album. The Masked Man is a professional criminal with a past marred by violence and murder, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes all for the sake of her daughter's well-being]]. A messy aftermath of a certain murder contract, however, brought an unexpected end to his tale.

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* BadassCape: Which doubles as an OminousOperaCape. Given his profession, he wears this presumably to easily slink away into the darkness.
* CatchPhrase: Besides the above quote, he's very commonly identified with the line "Zannen datta ne," which probably translates best to "Now that's a shame." That line's appearance in the lyrics of [[spoiler:"The Grapevines of Joy and Sadness" leads to the common speculation that Loraine de Saint-Laurent is actually the bride who killed Abyss]].
* CoolMask: His mask undoubtedly adds several points of coolness to his appearance. [[spoiler: It's so cool and badass, Michèle Malebranche makes it a collection of her antique shop in ''Nein''.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Despite his body profusely bleeding from the back, in the middle of winter, no less, he ''somehow'' managed to reach his house by ''crawling''. [[SubvertedTrope Too bad he died shortly after]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He is ''very'', ''very'' devoted to El, caring for her and doting on her just like a parent ideally should.
* FromBadToWorse: Upon his death, he becomes a vengeful ghost abducting young girls to hell, all because he ''thinks'' they bear a resemblance to his real daughter. [[spoiler: It does nothing but make her cast into hell with him.]]
* KickTheDog: In the live performance of "El no Tenbin", at the beginning of the song, he's after money, and he sees two injured people on the street. So does he simply mug them quickly and demand the money? No... he sneaks up behind them and freaking '''takes one of the injured people's crutches and beats him half to death with it''' before taking their money. Really, there had to be a slightly less... destructive way of achieving the same ends.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He ends up getting stabbed to death by a woman after daring to murder her lover.
* MagicalFlutist: In "The Piper and the Parade"--implied to be an alternate version of ''Elysion''--he is a flutist leading young girls in a march towards an unknown horizon.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: His ghost is a type 2--he wanders the world because he hasn't yet fulfilled his promise to El to celebrate her birthday, restlessly searching for her remains. He's also got the ability to drag living people into hell.
* PermaStubble: Has a thin white beard covering his chin.
* ProfessionalKiller: What he does for a living, in addition to thieving, kidnapping and smuggling.
* SpoilerOpening: He's already dead from his wounds several minutes into the very first track.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The illustration on the back cover of ''Elysion ~Rakuen Gensō Monogatari Kumikyoku~'' depicts him with glowing red eyes.
* TogetherInDeath: With El, [[spoiler: in hell.]]

!!Soror / "Subject 1096"
--> '''Played by:''' Aramary
[[quoteright:156:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soror.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:156:''Did you think you have become a proud, incompetent Creator [God]?'']]

-->''"Come ... let us return to Paradise, brother ..."''

The protagonist of the song "Ark". She is a young girl used as a test subject along with her brother, Frater, by a certain MadScientist simply called "The Watcher". He projected the siblings' minds inside his [[LotusEaterMachine artificial simulator world]], in the midst of which she came to harbor [[BrotherSisterIncest a twisted infatuation]] for Frater she herself cannot control. She is the first girl abducted by the Masked Man in order to reunite with Elys.

The novel names her and the rest of the three girls "Elys".

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* ApocalypseCult: Frustrated by Frater's increasingly constant avoidance of her, she joins one of these inside the Watcher's world. The cult bestows upon her a [[{{MacGuffin}} silver knife]] called "Ark" upon her induction, which purportedly bestows salvation upon those who believed in it as Noah's ark does. She eventually becomes such a staunch believer in the cult's teachings and ultimately ends up using it to murder Frater, which is her definition of "inducting" a person into paradise and thus, salvation.
* BoyishShortHair: Her hair only reaches as far as her lower ear.
* BrotherSisterIncest: She falls in love with her older brother. Sadly, Frater does not return her feelings.
* CreepyChild: She looks very young compared to the other four girls, yet is already harboring [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior inappropriate sexual thoughts]] about Frater. The latter has a ''very'' good reason to be grossed out.
* DissonantSerenity: After stabbing Frater to death, she calmly asks him to accompany her into paradise before bursting into laughter.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: She's only known by the name "Soror", which is a basic Latin word for "Sister", or "Subject 1096".
* FilleFatale: She's still a girl, and she already knows how to kill a person. Specifically, her own brother.
* IfICantHaveYou: If she can't get Frater into paradise with her by himself, she's going to do it herself.
* LaughingMad: After murdering Frater.
* TheLostLenore: In the manga, she is this for [[spoiler: Frater]], who is actually [[spoiler: the Watcher himself]].
* LotusEaterMachine: The world which serves as the initial setting of "Ark" is actually an artificial construction programmed by "The Watcher", the scientist who's been experimenting on her and Frater. Only after Frater's death does Soror get pulled back into his [[MadScientistLaboratory inhumane]] laboratory in order to be punished for her crime.
* ATasteOfTheLash: After Frater is murdered, the music is interrupted by a brief narration, telling us of what had actually happened inside the Watcher's laboratory before it returns to Soror's perspective, the background sounds of which are the cruel crackings of a whip.
* {{Yandere}}: Just like the other "Abyss" girls, each of whom harbors a twisted love towards someone. The one she is mad about is her brother.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is light purple.

!!Frater / "Subject 1073"

Soror's older brother. He actively avoids the latter's advances, leading to his demise.

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* AloofBigBrother: Implied in the song "Ark", definitely the case in the song's manga adaptation.
* TheVoiceless: In the song, but not in the manga.

!!The Watcher

The person who conducts and/or observes the experiments on Frater and Soror.
%%* MadScientist
%%* MysteriousWatcher

!!Lafrenze
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary

The protagonist of the song "El no Ehon - Majo to Lafrenze". She guards the gates of the underworld, but can only do so as long as she remains a virgin.
%%* BarrierMaiden
* VirginPower: Her abilities as the gatekeeper.
* WomanScorned: When she finds out Orpheus was just using her ("Hell hath no fury..." is a strangely appropriate expression, there).

!!Crimson Old Rose
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary

A witch who was banished from her country. She was the one who raised Lafrenze.
* CharacterOverlap: She and Alte Rose (German for "old rose") in ''Märchen'' are implied to be the same person.

!!Orpheus

* {{Bishonen}}: Even plays a HarpOfFemininity
%%* ManInWhite: In the live performance.
%%* OrpheanRescue: Well, yeah.
%%* ToHellAndBack
%%* TheVoiceless

!!The nun / "Maiden of the Twisted Pearl" / "Baroque"
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary

[[quoteright:181:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/baroque_2.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:181:''This twisted heart, this twisted body--is my red pearl so distorted?'']]

-->''"O, Lord, I have killed a person. I, with these hands, have killed a person dear to me."''

The protagonist of the song "Baroque". Her fear of rejection by others drove her to exile herself completely from human communication. This didn't last long, however, when a certain beautiful girl approached her and became her only friend, its horrific aftermath yet known to both of them. She is the second girl abducted by the Masked Man in order to reunite with Elys.

The novel names her and the rest of the three girls "Elys".

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* DecapitationPresentation: In the live performance.
* NotGoodWithRejection: She is absolutely terrified of being rejected, so when the girl she's fallen in love with rejects her love, she snaps.
* NunsAreSpooky: There's the obvious DeathByWomanScorned, of course, but the fact that she's a lesbian to begin with, as a member of the (presumably) Catholic Church, and confessed (presumably hoping to commence a relationship) goes pretty well against Catholic dogma, even if she hadn't been rejected and gone PsychoLesbian.
* PsychoLesbian: Pushed a poor girl down the stairs for rejecting her love. She claims not knowing how this event exactly played out.
* ShrinkingViolet: She doesn't want to mingle with others in fear of being rejected for the slightest difference.
* TrueBlueFemininity: In the album illustrations, her habit is blue. Averted in the concerts, where she wears a standard black habit.
* {{Yandere}}: Like the rest of the Abyss girls. She has a mad infatuation for her best friend.

!!The farm girl / "Yield"
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary

The protagonist of the song "Yield".
%%* OffWithHisHead: Her modus operandi.
%%* {{Yandere}}

!!The bride
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary

The protagonist of the song "El no Tenbin".
* CharacterOverlap: She and Loraine de Saint-Laurent in ''Roman'' are implied to be the same person.
%%* NoNameGiven
%%* RunawayFiancee

!!The older sister / "Sacrifice"
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary

The protagonist of the song "Sacrifice". She used to envy her younger sister greatly, but a plague that almost killed her and actually claimed their mother's life made her overcome that feeling as she struggles to feed both of their mouths.

The novel names her and the rest of the three girls "Elys".

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* TheCaretaker: To her sister.
* IWishedYouWereDead: At one point, she is so envious of her younger sister that she prays for her death, after which her sister becomes infected with the plague. Feeling guilty, the older sister takes her wish back and her sister recovers ... and then their mother dies.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Female version. It's implied that she ends up [[spoiler:burning the entire village down as retribution for her sister's death]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After her sister becomes ill, she blames herself for it due to having previously wished for her death.
* PromotionToParent: After her mother's death, she plays the role of a mother to her younger sister.
* TheUnfavourite: She certainly feels like it, but it may not actually be the case.
* WhereIWasBornAndRazed: [[spoiler:The end of the song implies this]].
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: After the injustice she faced, it's hard not to feel sorry for her.

!!The younger sister

The naïve and adorable sister of "Sacrifice"'s protagonist. Initially envied by the latter to the point of [[IWishedYouWereDead wishing her death]], her [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor subsequent illness and their mother's death that followed ]] harshly reminded the protagonist of her fatal error, making her intent on protecting her younger sister at all costs.

The novel names her "Lily".

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%%* IncorruptiblePurePureness
%%* TheIngenue
%%* TheVoiceless

!!The woman in red / "Stella"
-->'''Played by:''' Aramary, Fuki ''(Nein)''

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[[caption-width-right:164:''Women are not mute, big dolls that can only look pretty. Do you understand, my dear love?'']]

-->''"We'' are ''a match, aren't we? We match up each other very perfectly, ah...I'm so happy..."''

The protagonist of the song "Stardust". She is a woman so fascinated with true love, [[IfICantHaveYou she cannot perfectly comprehend how fleeting and fickle it could be]]. She is the last girl abducted by the Masked Man in order to reunite with Elys.

In ''Nein'', she reappears in the song "Nikushimi wo Hanataba ni Kaete" ("Turn Your Hatred into A Bouquet"), and is called "Stella" by the fashion show announcer.

The novel names her and the rest of the three girls "Elys".

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* AbusiveParents: ''Nein'' reveals that her father is this.
-->'''Stella:''' That's right...It's my fault here...I'm sorry...I'm sorry...I'll become a good girl, so please, don't hit me, Papa!
* AmicableExes: She rejected Gino's marriage proposal after some time of dating, but 4 minutes after the heart-breaking sequence they meet up with each other and act like they're best friends already.
* BelligerentSexualTension: In ''Nein'', she develops this with Luna, a fellow model who she initially hates for having stolen a certain "lover" of hers.[[note]]It is unknown whether it's Gino or one of Stella's previous lovers.[[/note]] After teasing each other for a long time, Stella finally decides to ask Luna out...[[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove and was promptly rejected]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She is this in both albums, but more on the [[AxCrazy creepy side]] in ''Elysion''. In ''Nein'', though, she plays the trope straight in a lighter tone.[[spoiler: If giving your date a flower bouquet with a gun in the middle of it still won't convince you just how much of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} she is, we don't know what else will.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Listen to the first half part of "Stardust" before the refrain and feel the contrast of the trigger-happy, murderous lyrics against the cheerful instrumental and vocal. That should give you a full explanation on her craziness. It's worse in the ''Elysion'' live, as Aramary sings ''even more'' cheerfully and bounces up and around the stage to boot.
* FashionShow: In ''Nein'', she is scouted by the famed designer Giorgio "Gino" del Cielo as a model for his "Verseine Collection" brand and naturally participates in this.
* FreudianExcuse: As was stated above, it's heavily implied that the reason she became such a glutton for love and affection--and snaps when she is betrayed--is because her father never gave any.
* LadyInRed: She loves the color red very much. [[{{Yandere}} This extends to the redness of blood.]]
* LighterAndSofter: Goodness ''no'', '''''not''''' her original song, but her song in ''Nein''. [[spoiler: "Nikushimi wo Hanataba ni Kaete" is filled with many light-hearted jokes and comedic effects (a ''true'' rarity in the Sound Horizon universe), has a rejection of marriage proposal as its saddest moment instead of a child's death like ''many'' other albums, ends with the protagonist being ''truly'' happy and satisfied without having to experience any other losses or deaths, and [[EverybodyLives nobody remarkably dies]]. Also, the song arguably presents less horrible after-effects compared to other tracks from the album, as having to deal with prejudice as a lesbian woman is obviously a normal thing compared to [[AndIMustScream getting dragged into Hell alive by a ghost who thinks you resemble his dead daughter.]]]]
* LoveFreak: It would seem that "true love" is the only thing that's available on her mind.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Only visible if you watch the live, ''Elysion'' and ''Nein'' both.
* TheTragicRose: Played with. Rose is a recurrent motif in both versions of her song, but each song presents it differently. "Stardust" presents the rose as a symbol for Stella's mad passion and its fatal consequences--thus playing the trope straight--while "Nikushimi wo Hanataba ni Kaete" represents it as a symbol for her renewed affection and vivacity, subverting the trope instead.
* WomanScorned: "Stardust" follows her descent into madness as she is slowly eaten up by her hatred as this.
* {{Yandere}}: Very clingy and ''oh so very'' jealous. She wouldn't hesitate to blow your brains out with her trusty gun if she caught you cheating on her.

!!The woman in red's lover
->'''Played by:''' Shin-Imayama (''Nein'' encore)
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[[caption-width-right:235:Shin-Imayama portraying the man in ''Nein'''s encore of Stardust.]]

The man who was once the lover of The Woman in Red. It seems that they used to have a happy relationship until the man presumably grew bored of her and decided to start a new one behind her back. Needless to say, [[WomanScorned the results ain't pretty]].

The novel portrays him as an artist named Pavro/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Pablo]].

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* CasanovaWannabe: Shin-Imayama's portrayal of him in ''Nein'' brings this plus HandsomeLech into mind.
* DeathByWomanScorned: Poor guy should have known his girlfriend better.
* FlatCharacter: His characterization amounts to nothing but being a cheating bastard.
* OhCrap: In all incarnations of him from the live concert, he ''always'' had this expression on when Stella caught him cheating on her red-handed.
* RustproofBlood: Very noticeably averted - the song notes that the blood turns black as it's exposed to air, for symbolic purposes.
* TheVoiceless: Averted in the ''Nein'' encore, but briefly. Shin-Imayama only uttered one line in the whole song, and even that was originally spoken by the narrator.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Then his own blood turns it red.

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