History Characters / Tasakeru

* [[Characters/TasakeruSentientSpecies Sentient Species]]

List of the main characters in ''Literature/{{Tasakeru}}'' and their associated tropes. '''Contains spoilers.''' For tropes that apply to the sentient species collectively, see the [[Characters/TasakeruSentientSpecies Sentient Species page]], or go back to the [[Characters/{{Tasakeru}} Tasakeru Characters Index]].

'''''Tasakeru'' is currently undergoing a relaunch and major revisions. This page is under construction.'''

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[[folder:The Outcasts]]

!!Hanami

->''"Hanami. That's my name, [[OnlyOneName my only name..."]]''

An 18-year-old female squirrel with [[OnlyOneName no last name]]. As the story begins, she's the newest Outcast. She wears an unusual flower in her hair. [[spoiler:This flower has the magical ability to [[GreenThumb grow almost any plant instantly]], in any shape she wants. Hanami was exiled because magic is forbidden by her species' religious views.]]
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Tropes associated with Hanami include:
* ApologizesALot: As befits her ShrinkingViolet nature.
* FlowerInHerHair: She wears a strange flower behind her left ear.
* FragileFlower: Oh, lordy.
* GreenThumb: [[spoiler:Hanami's signature ability.]]
* TheHeart: She's this to a fault.
* TheIngenue: Though she sometimes shows hints of being less naive than she lets on...
* InnocentBlueEyes: Combined with HairOfGoldHeartOfGold.
* InnocentFlowerGirl: [[spoiler: A {{Deconstruction}} of this trope.]]
* MeaningfulName: Named after the Japanese flower-viewing festival.
* OnlyOneName
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: [[spoiler:Totally averted. She's a critical source of food for the Outcasts.]]
* RomanceGenreHeroines: The Nurturer/The Waif
* ShrinkingViolet

!!Reimaru "Zero" Takaishi

->''"[[{{Kiai}} TENRAI...!]]"''

A male squirrel, 22 years old, Zero is a {{Ronin}} who ran away to Tasakeru after a traumatic incident nine years ago, earning the moniker "The Samurai Afraid of Death". He always wears black and carries a battered old family sword. Zero is the only Outcast with family back in the city, a younger sister [[IllGirl with some health issues]].
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Tropes associated with Zero include:
* BigBrotherInstinct: He's been arrested multiple times because he absolutely refuses to stop supporting his little sister, exile or not.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The incident that caused him to run away.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments, especially in front of the Magistrate.
* TheHero: Overlaps with BigBrotherInstinct.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Zero does carry a katana, but it's an old and weatherbeaten AncestralWeapon. When he's arrested by Nadeshiko, he notes that it will be useless against her armor and [[{{BFS}} broadsword]].
* {{Kiai}}: ''"Tenrai"'', roughly meaning "divine judgment".
* MartialArtsHeadband
* MeaningfulName: "Reimaru" means [[MyHeroZero "zero zero"]].
* {{Ronin}}: His current status.

!!Faun Muranaka

->''"It’s always nice when somebody recognizes what a beautiful, talented, humble genius I am."''

[[FemmeFatale A vixen in both senses of the word]],[[note]] Fox characters are often over-sexed in furry works[[/note]] nineteen years old. She's clever, she's beautiful, and she knows it. Faun is an expert thief, [[StickyFingers she doesn't steal so much for survival as for pleasure]] [[spoiler: [[DarkAndTroubledPast ... anymore, at least]]]]. One of her hobbies is making her own [[TrickBomb trick grenades.]] [[hardline]]
Tropes associated with Faun include:
* ActionGirl: She's perfectly willing to stuff a grenade in your face if you get on her bad side.
* BadassBandolier: The "boom belt".
* [[UsefulNotes/{{Bisexual}} Bisexual]]: She implies as much offhand in the last chapter of Book I, and it's confirmed by WordOfGod on the series' Tumblr account.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Don't call her "Faunelle".
* FieryRedhead
* TheGadfly: She has a tendency to {{troll}} Hanami.
* GargleBlaster: Faun's favorite drink, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dead God Firewater]], is blood-red and causes fainting in lightweights from the fumes alone.
* HairDecorations: the red bow in her hair.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl
* TheLancer
* KleptomaniacHero
* [[SirSwearsALot Lady Swears-A-Lot]]: Almost all of the profanity seen in the series thus far comes from Faun.
* MsFanservice: The boom belt is the only thing she wears over her chest.
* NotAMorningPerson: Which she expresses by cursing the morning's existence.
* TheNicknamer: She uses nicknames for ''everyone'', including herself. Rowan thinks it's because she hates her full name and is trying to cope.
* RomanceGenreHeroines: A combination of the Crusader, the Seductress, and the Free Spirit.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl
* StuffBlowingUp: [[CaptainObvious She makes grenades.]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Again, the boom belt is ''the only thing she wears over her chest.''
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Her primary method of attack.
* TrickBomb: She has an entire arsenal of them.
* UseYourHead: She gives a GlasgowKiss to an amorous male in Book 1.

!!Rowan Longstripe

->[to Faun] ''"The pursuit of knowledge is'' never ''a joke... except, perhaps, in your case."''

A badger, twenty-eight years old. The oldest of the group, having been in exile for twelve years. Rowan is a GentleGiant, an avid reader whose den houses a small library on all kinds of subjects. [[MartialPacifist He doesn't much like to fight]], but when it's necessary he has a ''[[EpicFlail very large]]'' [[EpicFlail morning star]] to do the job.
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Tropes associated with Rowan include:
* BadassBookworm: Straddles the line between this and GentleGiant. His den houses an overstuffed library on subjects from everything from fairy tales to architecture... and also a massive forge where he makes his own weapons.
* TheBigGuy: ''Huge'' compared to the other Outcasts, he's well over six feet tall.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EpicFlail
* GentleGiant
* MartialPacifist: Noticeably unwilling to start a fight unless he absolutely has to, as his behavior in his favorite library proves.
* TheObiWan
* ProudScholarRaceGuy: Type 1.
* TheSmartGuy

!!Drake

->[on [[InnocentFlowerGirl Hanami]]] ''"Could be an act. People lie."''

A really, ''really'' old white wolf who has lived in Tasakeru for longer than anyone can remember. He helps out the Outcasts from time to time, when he feels like it.
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Tropes associated with Drake include:
* GrumpyBear
* LoneWolf
* StealthHiBye: He does this to the group when they find the dead spiders in Book I.

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[[folder:Supporting Cast]]

!!Naole Takaishi

Zero's little sister who still lives in Unify. Sixteen years old. She has a job as an apprentice healer with the Silver Order, and helps the Outcasts by gathering food supplies in secret.
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Tropes associated with Naole include:
* IllGirl: An unspecified chronic illness is one of the reasons Zero is so protective of her, the others being his BigBrotherInstinct and ChronicHeroSyndrome.
* {{Tomboy}}: Of sorts.

!!Nadeshiko Argenteus

A 14-year-old female skunk who is next in line for the leadership of the Silver Order. She is the field commander of the Order's knights, and possesses [[TeenGenius a brilliant mind]], but [[GoodIsNotNice an ice-cold personality]].
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Tropes associated with Nadeshiko include:
* GoodIsNotNice: She has very little sympathy for the Outcasts, starving or not.
* LadyOfWar
* {{Keigo}}: Her speech is very formal, due to the Order's protocol.

!!Benson and Virgil

ThoseTwoGuys who are frequently seen at Faun's favorite tavern, [[IncrediblyLamePun the Fool's Rush Inn]]. Benson is a raccoon, and Virgil is a fox. Both are drunkards and perverts, but Faun always gets the better of them.
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!!N'Ktane

The BigBad of Book I, N'Ktane is a sentient [[SpiderPeople female spider]]. She lives in an ancient cavern in Tasakeru and rules over a HiveMind of animalistic drone spiders, her children. The Outcasts battled her when investigating her children's attacks on both the forest and Unify, and the battle with her forces Hanami to reveal [[GreenThumb her powers]] to save herself and the other Outcasts.
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Tropes associated with N'Ktane include:
* BerserkButton: Touch her children and ''die''.
* GiantSpider: With a more humanoid body than those of her children, see SpiderPeople below.
* HiveQueen
* HypnoticEyes: These go in line with her being a [[PsychicPowers reader]].
* LackOfEmpathy: She knows full well that she and her children cause unbearable agony to the sentients trapped in her lair, being able to read their thoughts... and not only does she not care, she prolongs their suffering as long as possible.
* MamaBear: Gets ''very'' angry at any thought of harming her children.
* MindRape: Inflicts mental torture on Hanami.
* PsychicPowers: N'Ktane is a "reader", the in-universe term for a sentient with psychic abilities. She uses them primarily to direct her children, but during the last chapter she uses them to communicate directly with the Outcasts in New Standard, and demonstrates HypnoticEyes, the ability to read Zero and Hanami's thoughts, and a talent for MindRape.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* [[SpiderPeople Spider Person]]

!!Seker, the Last

An immortal mage from an ancient race that the other species called Titans, Seker is a jackal whom Faun found deep inside an obelisk buried in Kamen Desert. Three thousand years ago, Seker worked in the court of the Titans' ruler, the Faraou, and was assigned to create an immortality potion. After slaving away for three years, he completed the potion and took it for himself, seizing control of all of the world. His rule was short-lived, as a resistance movement collapsed his throne room around him and buried him in an obelisk, with only an enchanted mirror as a window to the outside world. Seker was trapped there for the next three thousand years, while his entire race died out under mysterious circumstances.
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Tropes associated with Renubis include:
* TheBigGuy: At over two and a half meters tall, he towers over even Rowan.
* LastOfHisKind: The rest of the Titans have long since disappeared.
* LivingRelic: See above.
* MaskOfPower: He wears a golden mask that covers his entire head, with black crystal eyepieces. This mask was made by pouring liquid gold directly over his face, and formed into his likeness as a mark of shame for what he had done.
* TheNeedless: Seker doesn't need to eat, drink, or breathe, has no pulse, heat, or cold to his body, and is unable to sleep.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Seker describes his body as "frozen in time"... not only can he not be harmed by weapons or magic, but he apparently can't ''sleep'', remaining awake for all three thousand-plus years of his imprisonment.

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List of the main characters in ''Literature/{{Tasakeru}}'' and their associated tropes. '''Contains spoilers.''' For tropes that apply to the sentient species collectively, see the [[Characters/TasakeruSentientSpecies Sentient Species page]], or go back to the [[Characters/Tasakeru Tasakeru Characters Index]].

List of the characters in ''Literature/{{Tasakeru}}'' and their associated tropes. '''Contains spoilers.'''

->[on [[InnocentFlowerGirl Hanami]] ''"Could be an act. People lie."''

An immortal mage from an ancient race that the other species called Titans, Seker is a jackal whom Faun found deep inside an obelisk buried in Kamen Desert. Three thousand years ago, Seker worked in the court of the Titans' ruler, the Faraou, and was assigned to create an immortality potion. After slaving away for three years, he completed the potion and took it for himself, seizing control of all of the world. His rule was short-lived, as a resistance movement collapsed his throne room around him and buried him in an obelisk, with only an enchanted mirror as a window to the outside world. was trapped there for the next three thousand years, while his entire race died out under mysterious circumstances.

* MsFanservice: The boom belt is the only thing she wears over her chest. She used to also wear a loincloth before the reboot, but goes ''au naturelle'' after.

* MsFanservice: The boom belt is the only thing she wears over her chest.

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->'''Drake:''' ''"[on [[InnocentFlowerGirl Hanami]] Could be an act. People lie."''

* [[UsefulNotes/Bisexual Bisexual]]: She implies as much offhand in the last chapter of Book I, and it's confirmed by WordOfGod on the series' Tumblr account.

->''[["{{Kiai}} TENRAI...!"]]''

->''"[[{{Kiai}} TENRAI...!"''

'''''Tasakeru'' is currently undergoing a relaunch and major revisions. As such, the information on this page may be outdated or inaccurate. Until the revised chapters are posted, please excuse any discrepancies or contradictions.'''

->''"My name is Hanami, and I'm not who you think I am."''

An 18-year-old female squirrel with no last name. As the story begins, she's the newest Outcast. She wears an unusual flower in her hair. This flower has the magical ability to [[GreenThumb grow almost any plant instantly]], in any shape she wants. Hanami was exiled because magic is forbidden by her species' religious views. [[spoiler:In Book VI, she received her powers as the ''[[GodJob keshin]]'' of the Goddess of Life when she prevented a mind-controlled Zero from killing himself.]]

* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream: Hanami was aware of everything N'Ktane was doing with her body while she was [[DemonicPossession possessed.]]]]

* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Any mention of her true name.]]
* [[spoiler: BewareTheNiceOnes: She slammed Stalker through the wall of her house using vines, throwing him a half-mile. And later she pinned a Shroud to a tree with enormous thorns.]]
* CountryMouse: Of sorts.
* '''DarkAndTroubledPast''': [[spoiler: Hanami was disowned by her parents upon finding and using her Mage Flower for the first time, losing her first ''and'' last name. Following this, she was homeless for about three years. She started to put her life back together by growing crops for money, but panicked when she was investigated by the Militia and fled into exile.]]
* [[spoiler:FertileFeet: In her Goddess form.]]
* FlowerInHerHair: She wears the Mage Flower behind her left ear, or sometimes on her wrist.

* FriendlessBackground: [[spoiler:She grew up alone on a farm, which explains why she's more comfortable around plants than people.]]
* [[spoiler:GodJob: Like Zero, she is now a ''keshin''.]]
* GreenThumb: Hanami's signature ability. Interestingly, she likes conventional, non-magical gardening too.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: A classical version, complete with InnocentBlueEyes.

* MeaningfulName: Named after the Japanese flower-viewing festival. [[spoiler: If this seems like a rather obvious choice, it's because "Hanami" is not her real name at all...]]
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Totally averted. She's a critical source of food for the Outcasts.

* RunningGag: Never letting Faun forget the Big Lie.
* SacredFirstKiss: Hers with Zero was stolen in probably the worst and most traumatic way possible... [[spoiler: by N'Ktane.]]
* [[spoiler:WhiteMagicianGirl: In her Goddess form.]]

->''"TENRAI...!"''

A male squirrel, 22 years old. He was once a {{samurai}} and is now a {{ronin}}, due to abandoning his service at age thirteen. He always wears black and carries a battered old family sword. He's the only Outcast with family back in the city, a younger sister [[IllGirl with some health issues]]. [[spoiler: He later becomes the ''[[GodJob keshin]]'' of the God of Time in order to save Hanami's life, with all the duties that that entails...]]

* AttackAttackAttack: Zero's usual battle plan. It tends to be rather ineffective.
* BigBrotherInstinct: To the point of obsession
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the end of Book VI.]]
* [[ChildSoldiers Child Samurai]]: Trained by his father to wield a sword ever since he could walk.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The Week of Blood incident.
* [[spoiler: DeadlyUpgrade: if he draws to heavily on the time-god's power, he could very well kill himself. He's ended up unconscious every time he's used it so far.]]
* [[spoiler: EyesOfGold: In his [[SuperMode God Form.]]]]
* [[spoiler: GodJob: He chose to become the ''keshin'' of the God of Time in order to save Hanami's life]]

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Averted. Zero does carry a katana, but it's old and weatherbeaten [[spoiler: until it gets [[ReforgedBlade rebuilt.]]]]

* NoodleIncident: The fact that Hanami knows about his fills him with panic.
* [[spoiler:PsychicAssistedSuicide [=/=] {{Seppuku}}: Barely averted in Book VI, thanks to Hanami.]]
* RomanceGenreHeroes: A combination of the Lost Soul, the Swashbuckler, and the Warrior.

* {{Samurai}}: Was in training as one, until SurvivorsGuilt drove him to run away.
* TranquilFury: When AttackAttackAttack fails, he'll sometimes switch into this state.
* TroubledButCute: At least, Hanami thinks so. [[spoiler:So does Faun.]]
* SurvivorsGuilt: The Week of Blood incident. Seventeen people died and many more were injured, including every one of Zero's brothers-in-arms. He was the only one to be completely unharmed.
* WorstAid: He believes it a good idea to take a pulse by way of pressing his thumb against the jugular. One's thumb has a pulse, therefore he'd be feeling his own, and taking the pulse by the jugular has a chance of triggering a Vasovagal Episode.

->''"I don't like to think of it as 'stealing'... more like 'borrowing by surprise.'"''

[[FemmeFatale A vixen in both senses of the word]],[[note]] Fox characters are often over-sexed in furry works[[/note]] nineteen years old. She's clever, she's beautiful, and she knows it. Faun is an expert thief, [[StickyFingers she doesn't steal so much for survival as for pleasure]] [[spoiler: [[DarkAndTroubledPast ... anymore, at least]]]]. One of her hobbies is making her own [[TrickBomb trick grenades.]] [[spoiler: In Book V she met her [[LongLostSibling lost half-sister]], Aria, and learned the true story of her family, which upset her a great deal.]]
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* ArmedLegs: She has switchblades in her boots.

* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: In Book VI, she falls victim to one of the mind-control bracelets.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[RunningGag Sensing a pattern here?]]

* FantasticRacism: Faun is rather prone to racial stereotyping and slurs. [[spoiler: Faun is also ''not'' happy when she learns that Aria is her half-sister.]]

* [[spoiler: GroinAttack: Delivered to Renubis.]]

* ImpossibleThief: The Tumblr page mentions that she once stole a forge.

* NoodleIncident: subtle references to being "used" in some fashion pepper her scenes.
* NotAMorningPerson
* TheNicknamer: She has nicknames for ''everyone''.

* UseYourHead: She gives a Glasgow Kiss to an amorous male in Book 1.

* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: In Book VI.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[OverlyLongGag Again,]] though his was less traumatic than most.

* MartialPacifist
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: [[spoiler:The reason for his exile.]]

!!Drake Who Walks Alone[[spoiler: / Drake of the [=NightwalkerPack=]]]

->'''Ares:''' ''"What'' are ''you?!"''
->'''Drake:''' ''"Damned."''

A really, ''really'' old white wolf who has lived in Tasakeru for longer than anyone can remember. He helps out the Outcasts from time to time, when he feels like it. Drake was formerly part of the Silver Order, but the circumstances surrounding his exile are extremely murky. [[spoiler:He is actually a 136-year-old [[OurVampiresAreDifferent sanguivore]], who served in the Order's Squad 13, a small team formed under the rule of Lily's great-grandmother to bend the law and get things done where the Order at large can't.]]

* [[spoiler: BadassGrandpa: In the first chapter of Book III, he delivers a savage beating to Ares.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[OverlyLongGag Like you couldn't guess.]]
* FlatEarthAtheist: He believes the Gods have abandoned him, so he has abandoned the Gods [[spoiler: despite seeing evidence of their existence firsthand.]]
* GrumpyBear: To the point that Faun's nickname for him is "Grumpy".
* [[spoiler:NeckSnap: He was on the receiving end of one thanks to a Shadowhand assassin from the new Squad 13. It left him paralyzed, but somehow it didn't kill him... [[TheUndead because he was already technically dead.]]]]
* NoodleIncident: His backstory is by far the longest to be revealed.
* [[spoiler: OurVampiresAreDifferent: he's got lamprey mouths on his fingers instead of using his fangs.]]
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Squad 13, his old unit, was disbanded after something called the ''chimatsuri''. No-one but the Grand Mistress knows the details.
* [[spoiler: TooManyMouths]]
* [[spoiler: TheUndead: He's a sanguivore, the world's equivalent of a vampire.]]
* UnPerson: Despite being the first wolf in the history of the Silver Order, there is no official record of his existence or his squad's.

->'''Naole:''' ''"You don't have to look after me all the time..."''
->'''Zero:''' ''"I know. That doesn't mean I'll stop."''

Zero's little sister who still lives in Unify. Sixteen years old. She has mild anemia, but refuses to be treated differently because of it, and often gets seriously annoyed with Zero's overprotectiveness. She works as an apprentice healer for the Silver Order. [[spoiler: Recently she was revealed as a mage.]]

* [[spoiler: BarrierMaiden: Discovered this ability by accident.]]
* DontYouDarePityMe: A mild case of this.
* IllGirl: Her anemia occasionally causes dizzy spells.
* PluckyGirl: She hates having attention called to her anemia, and tries to downplay it at every opportunity.

!!Legion
A hybrid of all eight sentient species, created by Stalker using BloodMagic. Legion was intended to be the first of a breed of {{SuperSoldier}}s, but he emerged mute, hunchbacked, and covered in open sores. Stalker promptly [[KickTheDog rejected him]], and intended to have him kill Naole... but Legion also lacked any sort of predatory instinct. Naole befriended him almost immediately, and the two escaped the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Black Rose Tower]] together.

Tropes associated with Legion include:
* CuteLittleFangs: inverted, he's got a ''huge'' set of chompers, but he's still more endearing than threatening.
* CuteMute: Legion can't speak, but Naole is teaching him a combination of sign language and lip-reading so he can communicate.
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Freakshow", courtesy of Faun.
* FoeTossingCharge
* HeinzHybrid: Blood from each of the eight sentient species was used in his creation. He has a ferret's eyes, the musculature of a badger, the body shape of a wolf, an enormous tail from skunks and squirrels combined, the ears of a rabbit and a fox mixed, and a raccoon's markings.
* IsItSomethingYouEat: [What 'lost?' Food?]
* TheSpeechless

!!Aria [[spoiler: Muranaka [=TrailPack=]]]

->''"What I see are the pathways, the many outcomes that are possible at any given moment. I see them stretching out before me in infinite lines like the roots of trees, ever-growing, ever-shifting as time decides its course..."''

A half-wolf, half-fox seer whom Naole and Legion met in Tasakeru. [[FantasticRacism Wolfoxes are treated as second-class citizens at ''best'']], due to social taboos against crossbreeding, so Aria is used to being shunned by most people. Aria has a strange precognitive ability that allows her to see possibilities the future may hold; the key word there is ''may''. Her visions are [[CursedWithAwesome both a blessing]] [[BlessedWithSuck and a curse]], as she seldom is able to predict which of those possibilities will come to pass. [[spoiler: She is revealed as Faun's half-sister in Book V, the result of a tragic, doomed love affair between Morgan Muranaka and a wolf named Ara of the Trailpack. Morgan was completely blacklisted by fox society once this was revealed. Needless to say, Faun didn't take this revelation well.]]

Tropes associated with Aria include:
* BlessedWithSuck or CursedWithAwesome: Her precognitive visions can be either of these.
* [[spoiler: DisappearedDad: Ara apparently died some time ago.]]
* ForWantOfANail: This is essentially her power.
* GrayEyes
* [[spoiler: LongLostSibling: Of Faun.]]
* TheQuietOne
* [[spoiler: RedOniBlueOni: She and Faun are more-or-less total opposites.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation And Fur]]: She and all other wolfoxes have steel-blue fur and hair, as a result of a genetic fluke.

!!Lily

->''"Oh Hollis, I grow tired... When you return, may I find comfort in your arms..."''

The current leader of the Silver Order, a religious sect and peacekeeping force that is the largest organized group in the world. Her family has run the Order since its inception, with the position being passed down from mother to daughter. [[spoiler: Currently going insane from losing her favorite mate, and very nearly losing her daughter. Throughout Book VI, she was possessed by N'Ktane, who used her power and influence to pursue her vendetta against the Outcasts on a grand scale. N'Ktane's spirit was driven out of her by Hanami in her Goddess form.]]

Tropes associated with Lily include:
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking.
* BigBad: Of Book VI [[spoiler:... or so we think.]]
* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession: Her actions in Book VI are partly due to N'Ktane's influence. She takes complete control as the book goes on.]]
* [[spoiler: DeadPersonConversation: She's been having them with Hollis, her favorite mate. At least one of those times, she was actually talking to a [[{{Psychopomp}} Shroud]].]]
* GoodIsNotNice: She ''tries'' to be nice, but she has no qualms about murdering the outcasts if they get out of hand. [[spoiler:May be as a result of the SanitySlippage, see below.]]
* MamaBear
* [[spoiler: SanitySlippage: Throughout the series, culminating in her curling up in a ball and crying her eyes out.]]

!!Nadeshiko

->''"Don't call me 'Little One!'"''

A 14-year-old skunk female who is next in line for the leadership of the Silver Order. She is the tough-as-nails field commander of the Order's knights, and possesses [[TeenGenius a brilliant mind]]. Nadeshiko can come off as cold and aloof, but she is slowly opening up due to her friendship with Persephone. Her preferred weapon is a massive broadsword.
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Tropes associated with Nadeshiko include:
* [[spoiler: AcheyScars: Stalker left one on her shoulder.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: Book 6, chapter 3.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Due to her friendship with Persephone. She shares a joke with her (or at least tries to), and they call each other by nicknames.
* EmbarrassingNickname: She ''hates'' being called "Little One" by Lily.
* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Probably the best with a {{BFS}} you're likely to see outside of Anime.
* GoodIsNotNice: At least her mum [[strike: makes]] made an effort. Nade's a bit of a dick.
* HeadDesk: When her research into Drake goes nowhere.
* LadyOfWar
* {{Keigo}}: Her speech is usually very formal, due to the Order's protocol.
* TeenGenius: She's considered very smart by Badger standards, which is apparently really saying something.
* [[spoiler: ShapeShifterGuiltTrip]]
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Suggested by Persephone in response to her depression over the MeaningfulFuneral.

!!Persephone

->''"Please, if you ever need to talk about anything..."''

A female rabbit, the first victim of Stalker. After Stalker's death she joined the Silver Order as a Healer, and is now Nadeshiko's closest friend.
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Tropes associated with Persephone include:
* [[spoiler:AndIMustScream: She was trapped in a constant state of incoherent wakefulness when Stalker took her soul.]]
* AscendedExtra: [[WordOfGod Persephone was originally only supposed to appear in Book III,]] with another rabbit filling her role in the story afterward.
* LiteralMinded
* NoSenseOfHumor[=/=]LateToThePunchline: She's very logical and analytical, as with all rabbits, so she has trouble understanding when someone is making a joke.

!!Benson and Virgil

ThoseTwoGuys who are frequently seen at Faun's favorite tavern, [[IncrediblyLamePun the Fool's Rush Inn]]. Benson is a raccoon, and Virgil is a fox. Both are drunkards and perverts, but Faun always gets the better of them.
* ShoutOut: To {{Hamlet}}, their last names are [[Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead Krantz and Denstern.]]

!! Buttercup

A muscular Florin (male skunk) who hangs out at the Fool's Rush Inn tavern. He has anger issues, and usually ends up having his boozing cut short by Faun's customary BarBrawl with Benson and Virgil.

* BerserkButton: Don't laugh at his name, especially if you've spilled his beer.
* FluffyTheTerrible
* OhNoNotAgain: Almost word-for-word when Benson knocks over his table a second time.
* RunningGag: Benson always gets knocked into his table and spills his beer.
* TheReveal: His name.

!!Yuudai Yamano
TheCaptain of the Samurai Militia's Squad 042. He has a [[GoodScarsEvilScars distinctive scar]] from one cheek to another across the bridge of his nose, and wears armor with a [[AnimalMotif dragon motif]] as a mark of his rank. [[spoiler:Yuudai is an old friend of the Takaishi family, and a fellow survivor of the Week of Blood, who credits Zero with saving his life.]]
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Tropes associated with Yuudai include:
* TheAce
* AnimalMotifs: His armor and helmet have a dragon design.
* TheCaptain
* GoodScarsEvilScars
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:"Yamano Yuudai" translates to "great hero of the mountain" in Japanese.]]
* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler:Of Zero... or more specifically, what Zero might have been if he hadn't run away.]]

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!!N'Ktane

->''"Now then, I’ve broken your mate, I’ve broken your heart, and I’ve broken your sword. What else shall I break…?"''

The BigBad of Book I [[spoiler: IV, and VI]], N'Ktane was a sentient GiantSpider, implied to be the last one. She lived in an ancient cavern in Tasakeru and ruled over a HiveMind of animalistic drone spiders, her children. The Outcasts first battled her when investigating her children's attacks on both the forest and Unify, and she and her children[[note]]save one, which was badly wounded[[/note]] were killed when the cavern collapsed. [[spoiler: In the end of Book III, Stalker's "soul beacon" pulled her spirit out of [[TheUnderworld the Beneath]], but could only take on solid form inside the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Black Rose Tower]]; everywhere else she was merely a ghost. She went on to manipulate Hanami and possess her body, eventually leading to Zero's first transformation as the ''keshin''. Upon returning to the Beneath, she was given an assignment by the Death God itself: "make the sentients suffer". To do this, she was allowed to return to the surface and possess Lady Lily, using her power and influence to hunt the Outcasts on a grand scale. Her plan almost succeeded, but Hanami's transformation into Lady Terra proved her downfall. As punishment for her failure, the Death God permanently locked her into her ghostly state, and made her unable to interact with anyone or anything, living or dead.]]
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Tropes associated with N'Ktane include:
* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream]]
* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: As of the end of Book III.]]
* [[spoiler:BarredFromTheAfterlife]]
* [[spoiler: DealWithTheDevil: Of the "Posthumously escape Hell in exchange for causing misery to the living" variety.]]
* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: She does this to Hanami, and later to Lady Lily.]]
* GiantSpider: With a more humanoid body than those of her children, see SpiderPeople below.
* HiveQueen
* MamaBear: Gets VERY angry when her children are harmed.
* MindRape: She has inflicted mental torture on Zero, Hanami, and Faun.
* PsychicPowers: Used primarily to control her hive, but she can also read the thoughts of others, inflict MindRape, cast convincing illusions, use telekenisis, and perform limited hypnosis.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* [[SpiderPeople Spider Person]]

!!Renubis

->''"I do not feel! I do not eat, or drink, or bleed! I never sleep, never tire, never'' breathe! ''What hope do any of you have against me? What hope does this'' world ''have?!"''

An immortal jackal sorceror, LastOfHisKind. Three thousand years ago, he worked in the court of the jackal's ruler, the Farao, and was assigned to create an immortality potion. After slaving away for a year, he completed the potion and took it for himself, seizing control of all of the country. His rule was short-lived, as a team of mages collapsed his throne room around him and buried him in a crypt, with only an enchanted mirror as a window to the outside world. Renubis was trapped there for the next three thousand years, while his entire race died out and was forgotten. It was Faun who broke into the crypt and broke the seal keeping him imprisoned, after which he tried to resume power again, with Faun as his mate. [[spoiler: It didn't go so well, and he ended up making peace with the Outcasts and leaving for parts unknown. He has returned as of the end of Book VI.]]
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Tropes associated with Renubis include:
* [[spoiler: CrazySane: According to himself, he's stark, raving mad, but he's managed to budget his time between lucid and insane periods.]]
* [[spoiler: DeathSeeker: He embarked on a quest to revoke his immortality after making peace with the Outcasts.]]
* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn: After being on the receiving end of a GroinAttack from Faun, he realized how pointless trying to conquer the country again would be.]]
* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Jackal]]: For all intents and purposes, he's completely invincible.
* LastOfHisKind
* LivingRelic
* MaskOfPower: He wears one [[WordOfGod based on an Egyptian headress]], which conceals his eyes behind black, opaque slits.
* OurLichesAreDifferent
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: See the quote above. His immortality has essentially frozen his body in time as it was when he took the potion. He has no pulse or sense of touch, doesn't breathe, and can't eat or sleep.

!!Stalker

->'''Stalker''': ''"A week ago... Something strange happened."''
->'''Persephone''': ''"What was that?"''
->'''Stalker''': ''"I died."''

Once a wolf named Ares of the Bladetail Pack. Exiled and stripped of his markings as a punishment for raping the females of his pack, he was sent to Tasakeru, where he set his sights on Hanami... Ares was savagely beaten and killed by Drake, but was brought BackFromTheDead by the last of N'Ktane's children, which fused to him as a [[TheSymbiote symbiote]] and revived them both. As something not quite alive and not quite dead, he renamed himself Stalker and began a plan to bring N'Ktane, his "mother", back to life.
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Tropes associated with Stalker include:
* [[spoiler: AttemptedRape]]
* CompositeCharacter: He has elements of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] (zombie mama's boy), [[Franchise/ANightmareonElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] ([[WolverineClaws huge claws on his fingertips]]), [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]] (off his rocker), and Comicbook/{{Venom}} (malevolent symbiote grants him spider-based superpowers).
* [[spoiler: EyeScream: Zero takes out his eye with a ''kunai''[[note]]those throwing knives with the diamond-shaped blades and a ring on the hilt[[/note]] when he poisons Naole.]]
* KnightOfCerebus
* MookHorrorShow
* OurZombiesAreDifferent
* PsychicPowers: Stalker inherited hypnotic vision and limited mind-reading from his fusion with the spider, but he has less control over his abilities than N'Ktane did.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The sclera of his eyes turned red after his transformation.
* SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration: level 2
* TheSymbiote
* SymbioticPossession
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
* VillainSong: He never does a song-and-dance number, but a [[MadArtist Mad]] [[SpoonyBard bard]] writes one for him.
* WolverineClaws
* YourSoulIsMine: His signature ability, which earns him the nickname [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Soulsnatcher"]]

!!Gen Tsurugi

->''"I apologize, but the two of you know nothing. Therefore, you are of no use to me."''

A Mysterious, vicious sword-squirrel out of legend. He seeks to duel Zero.
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tropes associated with Gen Tsurugi include:
* BadAss: [[spoiler: enough to fight his people's GodOfEvil and come out alive, simply because it was too impressed to kill him. In fact, it gave him a gift for managing to fight it to a standstill.]]
* BlackKnight: Actually, his armor's grey but he fits.
* DuelToTheDeath: ''"The warrior... swore to defeat Hayayoh by his very name: Gen Tsurugi"''.
* EvilWeapon: [[spoiler: The hilt of his sword is forged from a fang of the Hell Serpent, which he chopped out while fighting it.]]
* ScaryImpracticalArmor: Invoked. His tail is armored (going for the tail is [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty a big no-no in the first place]], so only the most distrustful warriors bother), which is what tips off a pair of samurai that something's amiss. The next chapter mentions SpikesOfVillainy.
* SerratedBladeOfPain
* SingleStrokeBattle
* [[spoiler: ToHellAndBack]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: he straight-up murders two Samurai who can't tell him where Zero is.

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TheCaptain of the Samurai Militia's Squad 042. He has a [[GoodScarsEvilScars distinctive scar]] from one cheek to another across the bridge of his nose, and wears armor with a [[AnimalMotif dragon motif]] as a mark of his rank. [[spoiler:Yuudai is an old friend of the Takaichi family, and a fellow survivor of the Week of Blood, who credits Zero with saving his life.]]

* MrExposition: In both the dialogue and the entries from his book, ''The Past, the Present, and What Lies Beyond''.

->''"BANZAI!"''

* JapaneseHonorifics: She calls Zero ''onii-chan'', and he calls her ''imoto-chan''.