History Characters / Trustfell2TrustHarder

* NiceHat: Speedwagon gets his back before he remembers replacing his old one with it.

* SupernaturalIsPurple: She normally has grey eyes, but when she's revealed as [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent a mermaid]], they go purple and her hair gets brighter.

* PrincessCurls: Her hair is composed of huge, [[RapunzelHair very long]] curls.

* MoralDissonance: Comes off a little like this once he gets the memory of what he almost did to the suspected killer. Coming to terms with this is covered in his expanded social link in ''Persona 4: The Golden'', so it doesn't bother him much in the Vault.

* BeautyMark: Right under her eye. Her twin, Noel, has one under the other eye.

* MulticolouredHair: Most of it is blond, but Colress dyes one part blue.

* MulticoloredHair: ''Nobody'' knows how it works.

* CreepyCoolCrosses: Her aesthetic, to the point of it being her symbol at the ghost gatherings.

!![[Manga/DetectiveConan Kogoro Mouri]]

* BadassBisexual: Yosuke is one of the most combat-ready in the Vault and helps solve a number of cases. He's also very attracted to multiple fellow captives of multiple genders.

* BiTheWay: Though still very closeted, his reactions to Mettaton and Cherryblod (while he's wearing the maid dress) say a lot, and he hits on almost every female character at least once.

* WomanInWhite: Spends the final trial in a very nice white dress instead of her underarmour or jumpsuit, making something of a statement.

* BadassGrandpa: The dead state early on that they'll be surprised if anyone manages to actually off Stan. No one does.

* PurpleEyes: She normally has grey eyes, but when she's revealed as [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent a mermaid]], they go purple and her hair gets brighter.

* BadassNormal: [[spoiler:His reliance on guns and hacking instead of magic might have put him at a disadvantage when deprived of them, but while everyone else is still dealing with their powers being dampened, he manages to get his guns and phone back and is able to fight with them, even posing a threat to the Kingmaker during his execution.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: His younger sister's been [[RevengeByProxy hurt because of him]] before, and [[spoiler:he's determined to save her when he remembers an enemy had her and during the "there's a second Vault" motive, which pushes him to kill.]]
* TheCracker: His occupation as a vigilante is based in this.

* ForgetsToEat: Work is important, okay?
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:Spends his entire trial impassive until Bruce suggests that he might be working with the Kingmaker; Aiden is offended.]]

* VigilanteMan: His listed occupation.

[[spoiler:The victim of Week 6 (Case 6).]]

* TeamMom: Even if she's one of the youngest.

[[spoiler:The intended culprit of Week 8 (Case 8). Made it to the survivor pool.]]

* BrokenAce: Black is one of the strongest Casters out there in his world, but feels forced into the position his parents died in. [[spoiler:At home, he's lost the only person he cares about as the end result of something he did to try to ''save'' her. No wonder that, in his time in the Vault, he becomes TheMole and tries to betray everyone when he runs out of hope.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: He's told a couple of people he made a deal similar to this with an entity that "isn't a ghost, but isn't strong enough to be God"... and that that he'd do it again if it meant keeping his sister safe. [[spoiler:This is his main motivation for becoming [[TheMole one of the Kingmaker's moles]], since he wanted to find a way to save her from the destruction of their world.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Everyone knows him as "Black," but he's mentioned a few times that that (and his sister's name, White) are just nicknames. He's only specifically told Sigrun and Yosuke their real names, [[spoiler:William and Mary]].

[[spoiler:Made it to the survivor pool.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Hence the title.

* MagicPants: One of his regains.

* RebelLeader: He wouldn't call himself one, preferring Sigrun in the role, but he's the one who organizes meetings and tries to keep things hopeful. [[spoiler:In the end, he starts up a team to prevent more murdergames.]]
* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:Offers this to the Kingmaker during the SadisticChoice motive. It isn't taken.]]

[[spoiler:The culprit of Week 2 (Case 2).]]

* AloofAlly: Her initial canon point is when she's this, and she acts like it towards the other Survivors, too.

* BigEater: Even though she looks like a noodle.
* DressesTheSame: Caren's not exactly happy that [[spoiler:Ryuunosuke shares her taste for animal prints and purple, though it's more of YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame for her fashion sense instead of her actions. Especially when he raids her closet.]]

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Since [[IDoNotDrinkWine she's biologically wired to treat carbonation as alcohol]], she does this with pop, even bringing a bottle of Ramune down into the courtroom to keep down her nerves [[spoiler:in the trial she was guilty in.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:Caren's memory regains and her experiences in deadland lead her to emerge in the end as more understanding and a lot more fun to be around.]]

[[spoiler:Made it to the survivor pool.]]

* TheConfidant: To Sigrun as her second-in-command.
* DadTheVeteran: He'll occasionally share stories of his role in the old war. This serves to let the other Survivors know [[spoiler:just how bad it must be in his world when it turns out that his old enemies are back and spread across his home.]]
* DotingParent: To everyone he takes in.

* LightHairedSwimmer: Okay, so they never get a pool, but he ''really'' wants the Kingmaker to add one.
* LikeASonToMe: To Mettaton and Yosuke, in particular.
* ReformedButNotTamed: Cherryblod may be a lot better than he used to be, but [[spoiler:he acknowledges that he found it fun to terrorize and kill people back when he was in the mob, and he admits that he could have killed to try and save his children, too. It's how he finds it in himself to forgive the Kingmakers: he may be good now, but he's still got that side that knows how they feel.]]
* ReformedButRejected: [[spoiler:Mouri and Misa judge him on his past crimes as a danger to everyone who can never atone, but he really is reformed (aside from his belief in [[PayEvilUntoEvil paying evil onto evil]]) and makes the survivor pool. Mouri, at least, changes his mind.]]

* TeamDad: Cherryblod seems to have decided to adopt half the cast. [[spoiler:To the point where he takes in both of the Kingmakers after the game ends.]]

[[spoiler:Made it to the survivor pool.]]

* CelibateEccentricGenius: Colress starts out detached and shunning close relationships, even intentionally so for the sake of science. [[spoiler:He takes a long time to warm up to the idea that he's falling for Tarrlok anyway.]]

* CoolPet: Most of the others see his team as these.

* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't understand why [[spoiler:Bruce would offer for the Kingmaker to kill him]].

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Always rejected personal attachment in the name of [[ForScience studying how one could grow without it]], [[spoiler:but is baffled to discover that he's come to feel it anyway when Tarrlok dies.]]

[[spoiler:The intended victim of Week 8 (Case 8). Made it to the survivor pool.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Most of his jokes.
* EightiesHair: That mullet...
* IconicItem: The protective talisman [[spoiler:that's used to nearly kill him.]]

* YouAreWhatYouHate: Subverted, as a number of characters suspect that Gabriel is secretly a werewolf; he's no such thing. [[spoiler:He actually was a werewolf temporarily, but at first he doesn't remember it and he's been cured by the time he enters the Vault.]]

[[spoiler:The victim of Week 7 (Case 7).]]

* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:Or so it appears from his copy at his execution.]]

[[spoiler:The culprit of Week 1 (Case 1).]]

* HealingFactor: [[spoiler:Keeps his, which proves his guilt in the first trial.]]

[[spoiler:Willingly killed by the Kingmaker during Week 5.]]

* BodyHorror: Grows an extra head when he's depressed. [[spoiler:Apparently, that isn't the worst of it.]]

* FunSize: [[spoiler:He changes into a smaller form after he dies and wakes up in deadland.]]

[[spoiler:Made it to the survivor pool.]]

[[spoiler:One of the victims of Week 5 (Case 5).]]

[[spoiler:The victim of Week 4 (Case 4).]]

* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: The teddy bear, Guma-chan, [[spoiler:is her dead renewable regain and her symbol on the haunting letters]].
* RoseHairedSweetie: On everyone's good side all the time. [[spoiler:She was actually killed for showing kindness to Norman, since it set off his "Mother" side.]]

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: According to most everyone.

!!!Bombastic[[spoiler:/Vainglorious]]

[[spoiler:The culprit of Week 6 (Case 6)... and one of the Kingmakers.]]

* AgentPeacock: He's flamboyant and vain, loves attention, glitter, and sparkles, and spends the masquerade in a dress that compliments his legs and hot pink boots. He's also fully equipped with combat abilities. [[spoiler:And uses those boots' built-in CombatStilettos to kick someone's head in.]]
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: [[spoiler:When he's been accused one too many times, he derails a trial for hours to reiterate that he didn't do it and couldn't possibly have done it, shutting everyone down rather than cooperate. However, this lets the others know that, unlike with the other times, this time he actually ''is'' guilty.]]
* BecomingTheMask: He always backs away from attachment, warning people not to get close, and is frank about how he can and will cut people off for his own gain, [[spoiler:but by the time that he reveals just how far that goes, he has to admit that he's started to really like the people back whom he was "only acting" around]].

* CombatStilettos: Mettaton's boots. [[spoiler:They're both his murder weapon and his dead renewable regain.]]
* HammyHerald: [[spoiler:When he's announcing himself and Ryuunosuke as they enter the final trial.]]
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Despite shoving his ego in everyone's faces, when Mettaton says things like "I hate (the Kingmaker) enough to make sure he dies," he's talking more about himself than about the Kingmaker. [[spoiler:Especially since he's sharing mastermind duty, so really, he was talking about himself either way.]]
* ISeeDeadPeople: Can see the souls of everyone in the Vault, including those of the dead. [[spoiler:Seeing that Alphys's soul had disappeared prompted him to make his murder plan with Ryuunosuke, win Archer's game, and then delete their fellow captives and start a new game for revenge on the world.]]

[[spoiler:The victim of Week 3 (Case 3).]]

[[spoiler:The culprit of Week 5 (Case 5).]]

* CreepyCoolCrosses: Her aesthetic, [[spoiler:to the point of it being her symbol at the ghost gatherings]].

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Reluctantly crosses her own line, killing innocents, to try to escape, and realizes that she's become the type of criminal she used to kill.]]
* NotProven: A major part of Misa's backstory is that this happened to her family's killers. [[spoiler:She almost gets away with it herself -- that is, if trials in a murdercan worked that way.]]

[[spoiler:The culprit of Week 4 (Case 4).]]

* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:Norman starts doing this later on to try to deal with his SplitPersonality without anyone dying. Sigrun says she's proud of him.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Though it could just be him becoming more self-aware and then seeing it in others, he calls Cherryblod "insane" for wanting to defend and reason with his "fake family" [[spoiler:when Mettaton turns out to be a danger to the group.]]

* PhraseCatcher: [[spoiler:"Fuck Norma Bates."]]
* SlutShaming: His profile lists "Dislikes: Whores." [[spoiler:When he's "Norma" in the end of the fourth trial, he does this to a number of characters, particularly Sigrun (for calling for a strip search) and Mettaton (for being Mettaton).]]
* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:He was a victim of this, as revealed by his alternate personality, the mother in question.]]

[[spoiler:The victim of Week 2 (Case 2).]]

* BizarreAlienBiology: Technically a projection from a pearl, which is her SoulJar. [[spoiler:Caren only knew how to kill her because her own pearl is ''her'' SoulJar.]]

[[spoiler:Made it to the survivor pool.]]

* ThirdPersonPerson: Very occasionally, anyway.

[[spoiler:Made it to the survivor pool.]]

* BloodKnight: From the way she's reacted pretty much every time it's come to hurting someone, it's clear she's this.

* CoolBigSis: Acts this way towards some of the younger captives.

* FriendlyEnemy: Tries to get along with the Kingmaker, teasing him like anybody else. [[spoiler:This changes when, among other things, she sees how he played them with the moles.]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: Suggests mass bloodletting in the very first trial to see if anyone has healing abilities. It works. ''Twice.'' In the third trial, while no blood is ''actually'' let, [[spoiler:the opportunity allows her to see the stitching in Yato's sleeve and reveal him as the culprit.]]
* TheLeader: The captives deem her to be theirs. [[spoiler:She lasts longer than Logan did in the position, but blames herself for the steady rate of death.]]

* StealthInsult: One of her favourite things to do.
* TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater: During the second trial, suggests [[spoiler:just smashing Caren's tail]] to extract a confession.

* WomanInWhite: [[spoiler:Spends the final trial in a very nice white dress instead of her underarmour or jumpsuit, making something of a statement.]]

[[spoiler:Made it to the survivor pool.]]

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Wheedles some whiskey out of the Kingmaker in return for no longer sending him disturbing love letters. [[spoiler:Or so he claimed.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After getting his last memory regain, Stan considers himself to have essentially died back home.]]
* BadassGrandpa: The dead state early on that they'll be surprised if anyone manages to actually off Stan. [[spoiler:No one does.]]

* TheCaretaker: [[spoiler:Takes on a similar role towards Norman after the dead are revived, though he makes sure he gets appropriate psychiatric care rather than taking him in personally.]]
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Nearly everyone Stan describes Gravity Falls to thinks of it as this.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: After [[spoiler:he remembers sacrificing himself in canon]], he becomes far more accepting of the possibility of death in the Vault, concluding that he's accomplished everything he wanted and no longer needs to return home.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: [[spoiler:Agrees to spare the Kingmakers for Sigrun and Cherryblod's sake, not theirs. He also refuses to associate with them again or allow them into his world.]]

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:One of three moles, he stopped doing his job partway through the game after growing attached to the other survivors.]]
* SeniorCreep: Acts like this to disturb the Kingmaker [[spoiler:and to give himself an alibi as to why he's getting mole rewards]], but he's really a perfectly normal old guy.
* YouAreNotAlone: Has a surprisingly frank conversation with Bruce to this effect after the reveal that [[spoiler:he once worked as a mole]], including sharing his own experiences with depression and suicidal thoughts.

[[spoiler:Punished by the Kingmaker during Week 4.]]

* IconicItem: His goggles, of course. [[spoiler:They're the only thing left of him when he's dissolved into blood and exploded, just to prove it was him.]]

[[spoiler:One of the victims of Week 5 (Case 5).]]

* KindheartedCatLover: Tarrlok is ashamed to admit this because he doesn't want to look too soft.

* SnarkKnight: Especially after he starts remembering how poorly his life went.
* TeamChef: For lack of anything else to do with his time.

[[spoiler:The culprit of Week 3 (Case 3).]]

* YouCantFightFate: [[spoiler:Ended up killing Mion because he believed that he couldn't do anything but follow the wish he was born for after all and kill the few for the sake of the many.]]

[[spoiler:Made it to the survivor pool.]]

* HeroicSafeMode: [[spoiler:Once he's blocked from killing his traitorous boyfriend painfully and deliberately like he'd wanted, he ends up falling into detached disinterest. Yosuke isn't able to react further to what happened until over a half hour later in Cherryblod's room, when he breaks down, wondering if he's really changed at all since Namatame. The effect lingers for the rest of the night.]]
* HormoneAddledTeenager: To his own flustered frustration.
* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:He cuts his own hair after Black's trial.]]
* MoralDissonance: [[spoiler:Comes off a little like this once he gets the memory of what he almost did to the suspected killer.]] Coming to terms with this is covered in his expanded social link in ''Persona 4: The Golden'', so it doesn't bother him much in the Vault.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Remembers being tempted and falling into this frame of mind, but developed through it. [[spoiler:He relapses hard after Black's betrayal, then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shuts down]] when it hits him.]]
* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler:His reaction after Black is outed as the mole. He absolutely snaps at the betrayal, even knowing that Black couldn't bring himself to kill because of his bonds, and attempts to flat-out disembowel Black.]]
* TransparentCloset: Cherryblod says he's had him figured out since the first few weeks. [[spoiler:No longer so closeted after Week 8 and his kiss with Black.]]

[[spoiler:The victim of Week 1 (Case 1).]]

!![[spoiler:[[Literature/FateZero Ryuunosuke Uryuu]]]]
!!!Kingmaker[[spoiler:/Pretentious]]

* MoralityChain: [[spoiler:Silver. Murdergames are what happen when you ''break'' that chain.]]

* ThatLiarLies: Gets this a lot.

* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Glory's actually an AI, not a ghost, and made of the memories of the gamerunners... and others, too, as evidenced by Ryuunosuke's confusion at the orange cat she remembers.]]

* EmbarrassingNickname: Really hated their game title and won't say what it was. [[spoiler:This appears to be the "Ryuunosuke" part of her talking, since he hated being called "Pretentious."]]
* GenderNeutralWriting: Always referred to either with "they" pronouns or no pronouns at all. [[spoiler:Eventually, Glory decides that she is a "she" and starts using a female avatar.]]

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Even different from the ghosts of the current dead; instead of inhabiting the dead reflection of the Vault, Glory is completely unseen but can reach both the living and dead sides. [[spoiler:As it turns out, that's because she's not ''really'' a ghost -- but she ''is'' made of memories of a variety of people, some of whom are indeed dead.]]

* TricksterMentor: [[spoiler:Glory is forbidden to help the Survivors win the game. Even so, she seems to have an interest in them, and so gives cryptic answers, usually with double meanings, that say more than they seem. For example, "(the Kingmaker's) title is really pretentious" sounds like just complaining and holding back information, but if she didn't write in all caps, they'd see that she meant "his title is really ('actually,' not 'very') Pretentious."]]

* VirtualGhost: [[spoiler:She's a LivingMemory amalgamation of multiple people.]]

!![[spoiler:[[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist Frank Archer]]]]

* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Losing the only person he cared about in a murdergame.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:After passing his, he [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery decided to share the suffering around.]]]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: In his second appearance, [[spoiler:he says that running a murdergame is ridiculous and asks who would ever want to do it]]. ''Much'' later, we learn that he did the exact same thing.

!!![[spoiler:The Mastermind... two games ago, that is]]

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:She was part of a group that started murdergames to punish criminals, but went overboard and started bringing in innocent people for fun and audience appeal.]]

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* BadassNormal: His reliance on guns and hacking instead of magic might have put him at a disadvantage when deprived of them, but while everyone else is still dealing with their powers being dampened, he manages to get his guns and phone back and is able to fight with them, even posing a threat to the Kingmaker during his execution.
* BigBrotherInstinct: His younger sister's been [[RevengeByProxy hurt because of him]] before, and he's determined to save her when he remembers an enemy had her and during the "there's a second Vault" motive, which pushes him to kill.
%%* TheCracker: His occupation as a vigilante is based in this.

%%* ForgetsToEat: Work is important, okay?
* NotSoStoic: Spends his entire trial impassive until Bruce suggests that he might be working with the Kingmaker; Aiden is offended.

%%* VigilanteMan: His listed occupation.

The victim of Week 6 (Case 6).

%%* TeamMom: Even if she's one of the youngest.

The intended culprit of Week 8 (Case 8). Made it to the survivor pool.

* BrokenAce: Black is one of the strongest Casters out there in his world, but feels forced into the position his parents died in. At home, he's lost the only person he cares about as the end result of something he did to try to ''save'' her. No wonder that, in his time in the Vault, he becomes TheMole and tries to betray everyone when he runs out of hope.

* DealWithTheDevil: He's told a couple of people he made a deal similar to this with an entity that "isn't a ghost, but isn't strong enough to be God"... and that that he'd do it again if it meant keeping his sister safe. This is his main motivation for becoming [[TheMole one of the Kingmaker's moles]], since he wanted to find a way to save her from the destruction of their world.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Everyone knows him as "Black," but he's mentioned a few times that that (and his sister's name, White) are just nicknames. He's only specifically told Sigrun and Yosuke their real names, William and Mary.

Made it to the survivor pool.

%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: Hence the title.

%%* MagicPants: One of his regains.

* RebelLeader: He wouldn't call himself one, preferring Sigrun in the role, but he's the one who organizes meetings and tries to keep things hopeful. In the end, he starts up a team to prevent more murdergames.
* TakeMeInstead: Offers this to the Kingmaker during the SadisticChoice motive. It isn't taken.

The culprit of Week 2 (Case 2).

%%* AloofAlly: Her initial canon point is when she's this, and she acts like it towards the other Survivors, too.

%%* BigEater: Even though she looks like a noodle.
* DressesTheSame: Caren's not exactly happy that Ryuunosuke shares her taste for animal prints and purple, though it's more of YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame for her fashion sense instead of her actions. Especially when he raids her closet.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Since [[IDoNotDrinkWine she's biologically wired to treat carbonation as alcohol]], she does this with pop, even bringing a bottle of Ramune down into the courtroom to keep down her nerves in the trial she was guilty in.

* TookALevelInKindness: Caren's memory regains and her experiences in deadland lead her to emerge in the end as more understanding and a lot more fun to be around.

Made it to the survivor pool.

%%* TheConfidant: To Sigrun as her second-in-command.
* DadTheVeteran: He'll occasionally share stories of his role in the old war. This serves to let the other Survivors know just how bad it must be in his world when it turns out that his old enemies are back and spread across his home.
%%* DotingParent: To everyone he takes in.

%%* LightHairedSwimmer: Okay, so they never get a pool, but he ''really'' wants the Kingmaker to add one.
%%* LikeASonToMe: To Mettaton and Yosuke, in particular.
* ReformedButNotTamed: Cherryblod may be a lot better than he used to be, but he acknowledges that he found it fun to terrorize and kill people back when he was in the mob, and he admits that he could have killed to try and save his children, too. It's how he finds it in himself to forgive the Kingmakers: he may be good now, but he's still got that side that knows how they feel.
* ReformedButRejected: Mouri and Misa judge him on his past crimes as a danger to everyone who can never atone, but he really is reformed (aside from his belief in [[PayEvilUntoEvil paying evil onto evil]]) and makes the survivor pool. Mouri, at least, changes his mind.

* TeamDad: Cherryblod seems to have decided to adopt half the cast. To the point where he takes in both of the Kingmakers after the game ends.

Made it to the survivor pool.

* CelibateEccentricGenius: Colress starts out detached and shunning close relationships, even intentionally so for the sake of science. He takes a long time to warm up to the idea that he's falling for Tarrlok anyway.

%%* CoolPet: Most of the others see his team as these.

* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't understand why Bruce would offer for the Kingmaker to kill him.

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Always rejected personal attachment in the name of [[ForScience studying how one could grow without it]], but is baffled to discover that he's come to feel it anyway when Tarrlok dies.

The intended victim of Week 8 (Case 8). Made it to the survivor pool.

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Most of his jokes.
%%* EightiesHair: That mullet...
* IconicItem: The protective talisman that's used to nearly kill him.

* YouAreWhatYouHate: Subverted, as a number of characters suspect that Gabriel is secretly a werewolf; he's no such thing. He actually was a werewolf temporarily, but at first he doesn't remember it and he's been cured by the time he enters the Vault.

The victim of Week 7 (Case 7).

%%* YouAreWhatYouHate: Or so it appears from his copy at his execution.

The culprit of Week 1 (Case 1).

%%* HealingFactor: Keeps his, which proves his guilt in the first trial.

Willingly killed by the Kingmaker during Week 5.

* BodyHorror: Grows an extra head when he's depressed. Apparently, that isn't the worst of it.

* FunSize: He changes into a smaller form after he dies and wakes up in deadland.

Made it to the survivor pool.

One of the victims of Week 5 (Case 5).

The victim of Week 4 (Case 4).

* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: The teddy bear, Guma-chan, is her dead renewable regain and her symbol on the haunting letters.
* RoseHairedSweetie: On everyone's good side all the time. She was actually killed for showing kindness to Norman, since it set off his "Mother" side.

%%* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: According to most everyone.

!!!Bombastic/Vainglorious

The culprit of Week 6 (Case 6)... and one of the Kingmakers.

* AgentPeacock: He's flamboyant and vain, loves attention, glitter, and sparkles, and spends the masquerade in a dress that compliments his legs and hot pink boots. He's also fully equipped with combat abilities. And uses those boots' built-in CombatStilettos to kick someone's head in.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: When he's been accused one too many times, he derails a trial for hours to reiterate that he didn't do it and couldn't possibly have done it, shutting everyone down rather than cooperate. However, this lets the others know that, unlike with the other times, this time he actually ''is'' guilty.
* BecomingTheMask: He always backs away from attachment, warning people not to get close, and is frank about how he can and will cut people off for his own gain, but by the time that he reveals just how far that goes, he has to admit that he's started to really like the people back whom he was "only acting" around.

* CombatStilettos: Mettaton's boots. They're both his murder weapon and his dead renewable regain.
* HammyHerald: When he's announcing himself and Ryuunosuke as they enter the final trial.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Despite shoving his ego in everyone's faces, when Mettaton says things like "I hate (the Kingmaker) enough to make sure he dies," he's talking more about himself than about the Kingmaker. Especially since he's sharing mastermind duty, so really, he was talking about himself either way.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Can see the souls of everyone in the Vault, including those of the dead. Seeing that Alphys's soul had disappeared prompted him to make his murder plan with Ryuunosuke, win Archer's game, and then delete their fellow captives and start a new game for revenge on the world.

The victim of Week 3 (Case 3).

The culprit of Week 5 (Case 5).

* CreepyCoolCrosses: Her aesthetic, to the point of it being her symbol at the ghost gatherings.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Reluctantly crosses her own line, killing innocents, to try to escape, and realizes that she's become the type of criminal she used to kill.
* NotProven: A major part of Misa's backstory is that this happened to her family's killers. She almost gets away with it herself -- that is, if trials in a murdercan worked that way.
%%* PerkyGoth: With her fashion sense, anyway.

The culprit of Week 4 (Case 4).

* FightingFromTheInside: Norman starts doing this later on to try to deal with his SplitPersonality without anyone dying. Sigrun says she's proud of him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Though it could just be him becoming more self-aware and then seeing it in others, he calls Cherryblod "insane" for wanting to defend and reason with his "fake family" when Mettaton turns out to be a danger to the group.

* PhraseCatcher: "Fuck Norma Bates."
* SlutShaming: His profile lists "Dislikes: Whores." When he's "Norma" in the end of the fourth trial, he does this to a number of characters, particularly Sigrun (for calling for a strip search) and Mettaton (for being Mettaton).
* VillainousIncest: He was a victim of this, as revealed by his alternate personality, the mother in question.

The victim of Week 2 (Case 2).

* BizarreAlienBiology: Technically a projection from a pearl, which is her SoulJar. Caren only knew how to kill her because her own pearl is ''her'' SoulJar.

Made it to the survivor pool.

%%* ThirdPersonPerson: Very occasionally, anyway.

Made it to the survivor pool.

%%* BloodKnight: From the way she's reacted pretty much every time it's come to hurting someone, it's clear she's this.

%%* CoolBigSis: Acts this way towards some of the younger captives.

* FriendlyEnemy: Tries to get along with the Kingmaker, teasing him like anybody else. This changes when, among other things, she sees how he played them with the moles.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Suggests mass bloodletting in the very first trial to see if anyone has healing abilities. It works. ''Twice.'' In the third trial, while no blood is ''actually'' let, the opportunity allows her to see the stitching in Yato's sleeve and reveal him as the culprit.
* TheLeader: The captives deem her to be theirs. She lasts longer than Logan did in the position, but blames herself for the steady rate of death.

%%* StealthInsult: One of her favourite things to do.
* TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater: During the second trial, suggests just smashing Caren's tail to extract a confession.

* WomanInWhite: Spends the final trial in a very nice white dress instead of her underarmour or jumpsuit, making something of a statement.

Made it to the survivor pool.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Wheedles some whiskey out of the Kingmaker in return for no longer sending him disturbing love letters. Or so he claimed.
* BackFromTheDead: After getting his last memory regain, Stan considers himself to have essentially died back home.
* BadassGrandpa: The dead state early on that they'll be surprised if anyone manages to actually off Stan. No one does.

* TheCaretaker: Takes on a similar role towards Norman after the dead are revived, though he makes sure he gets appropriate psychiatric care rather than taking him in personally.
%%* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Nearly everyone Stan describes Gravity Falls to thinks of it as this.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: After he remembers sacrificing himself in canon, he becomes far more accepting of the possibility of death in the Vault, concluding that he's accomplished everything he wanted and no longer needs to return home.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Agrees to spare the Kingmakers for Sigrun and Cherryblod's sake, not theirs. He also refuses to associate with them again or allow them into his world.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: One of three moles, he stopped doing his job partway through the game after growing attached to the other survivors.
* SeniorCreep: Acts like this to disturb the Kingmaker and to give himself an alibi as to why he's getting mole rewards, but he's really a perfectly normal old guy.
* YouAreNotAlone: Has a surprisingly frank conversation with Bruce to this effect after the reveal that he once worked as a mole, including sharing his own experiences with depression and suicidal thoughts.

Punished by the Kingmaker during Week 4.

* IconicItem: His goggles, of course. They're the only thing left of him when he's dissolved into blood and exploded, just to prove it was him.

One of the victims of Week 5 (Case 5).

%%* KindheartedCatLover: Tarrlok is ashamed to admit this because he doesn't want to look too soft.

%%* SnarkKnight: Especially after he starts remembering how poorly his life went.
%%* TeamChef: For lack of anything else to do with his time.

The culprit of Week 3 (Case 3).

* YouCantFightFate: Ended up killing Mion because he believed that he couldn't do anything but follow the wish he was born for after all and kill the few for the sake of the many.

Made it to the survivor pool.

* HeroicSafeMode: Once he's blocked from killing his traitorous boyfriend painfully and deliberately like he'd wanted, he ends up falling into detached disinterest. Yosuke isn't able to react further to what happened until over a half hour later in Cherryblod's room, when he breaks down, wondering if he's really changed at all since Namatame. The effect lingers for the rest of the night.
%%* HormoneAddledTeenager: To his own flustered frustration.
* ImportantHaircut: He cuts his own hair after Black's trial.
* MoralDissonance: Comes off a little like this once he gets the memory of what he almost did to the suspected killer. Coming to terms with this is covered in his expanded social link in ''Persona 4: The Golden'', so it doesn't bother him much in the Vault.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Remembers being tempted and falling into this frame of mind, but developed through it. He relapses hard after Black's betrayal, then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shuts down]] when it hits him.
* RageBreakingPoint: His reaction after Black is outed as the mole. He absolutely snaps at the betrayal, even knowing that Black couldn't bring himself to kill because of his bonds, and attempts to flat-out disembowel Black.
* TransparentCloset: Cherryblod says he's had him figured out since the first few weeks. No longer so closeted after Week 8 and his kiss with Black.

The victim of Week 1 (Case 1).

!![[Literature/FateZero Ryuunosuke Uryuu]]
!!!Kingmaker/Pretentious

%%* MoralityChain: Silver. Murdergames are what happen when you ''break'' that chain.

%%* ThatLiarLies: Gets this a lot.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Glory's actually an AI, not a ghost, and made of the memories of the gamerunners... and others, too, as evidenced by Ryuunosuke's confusion at the orange cat she remembers.

* EmbarrassingNickname: Really hated their game title and won't say what it was. This appears to be the "Ryuunosuke" part of her talking, since he hated being called "Pretentious."
* GenderNeutralWriting: Always referred to either with "they" pronouns or no pronouns at all. Eventually, Glory decides that she is a "she" and starts using a female avatar.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Even different from the ghosts of the current dead; instead of inhabiting the dead reflection of the Vault, Glory is completely unseen but can reach both the living and dead sides. As it turns out, that's because she's not ''really'' a ghost -- but she ''is'' made of memories of a variety of people, some of whom are indeed dead.

* TricksterMentor: Glory is forbidden to help the Survivors win the game. Even so, she seems to have an interest in them, and so gives cryptic answers, usually with double meanings, that say more than they seem. For example, "(the Kingmaker's) title is really pretentious" sounds like just complaining and holding back information, but if she didn't write in all caps, they'd see that she meant "his title is really ('actually,' not 'very') Pretentious."

* VirtualGhost: She's a LivingMemory amalgamation of multiple people.

!![[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist Frank Archer]]

* CynicismCatalyst: Losing the only person he cared about in a murdergame.

* DespairEventHorizon: After passing his, he [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery decided to share the suffering around.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: In his second appearance, he says that running a murdergame is ridiculous and asks who would ever want to do it. ''Much'' later, we learn that he did the exact same thing.

!!!The Mastermind... two games ago, that is

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: She was part of a group that started murdergames to punish criminals, but went overboard and started bringing in innocent people for fun.

-->"This is all one big game, isn't it?"

[[spoiler: The culprit of Week 7 (Case 7).]]

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* BadassNormal: [[spoiler:His reliance on guns and hacking instead of magic might have put him at a disadvantage when deprived of them, but while everyone else is still dealing with their powers being dampened, he manages to get his guns and phone back and is able to fight with them, even posing a threat to the Kingmaker during his execution.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: His younger sister's been [[RevengeByProxy hurt because of him]] before, and he's determined to save her when he remembers an enemy had her [[spoiler:and during the "there's a second Vault" motive, which pushes him to kill]].
* TheCracker: His occupation as a vigilante is based in this.

* ForgetsToEat: Work is important, okay?
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:Spends his entire trial impassive until Bruce suggests that he might be working with the Kingmaker; Aiden is offended.]]

* VigilanteMan: His listed occupation.

-->"We were happy. Very, very happy. It feels like so long ago."

[[spoiler: The victim of Week 6 (Case 6).]]

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* TeamMom: Even if she's one of the youngest.

-->"Humanity doesn't have the best track record when it comes to what it finds entertaining."

[[spoiler: The intended culprit of Week 8 (Case 8). Made it to the survivor pool.]]

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* BrokenAce: Black is one of the strongest Casters out there in his world, but feels forced into the position his parents died in. At home, [[spoiler:he's lost the only person he cares about as the end result of something he did to try to ''save'' her]]. No wonder that, in his time in the Vault, he [[spoiler:becomes TheMole and tries to betray everyone when he runs out of hope]].
* CovertPervert: There's some SuspiciouslySpecificDenial in the narration when he's totally not looking for a pair of Mion's panties in her room. Although it's used as a joke at ''Yousuke's'' expense, it makes you wonder.

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:He's told a couple of people he made a deal similar to this with an entity that "isn't a ghost, but isn't strong enough to be God"... and that that he'd do it again if it meant keeping his sister safe. This is his main motivation for becoming [[TheMole one of the Kingmaker's moles]], since he wanted to find a way to save her from the destruction of their world.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Everyone knows him as "Black," but he's mentioned a few times that that (and his sister's name, White) are just nicknames. He's only specifically told Sigrun and Yosuke their real names, [[spoiler:William and Mary]].

-->"We all have things we regret or mistakes we don't like to talk about."

[[spoiler: Made it to the survivor pool.]]

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Hence the title.

* MagicPants: One of his regains.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Draws a vulgar meme for the Kingmaker-Making Contest. Everyone blames Yousuke and is shocked to find out that it's Bruce.

* RebelLeader: He wouldn't call himself one, preferring Sigrun in the role, but he's the one who organizes meetings and tries to keep things hopeful. [[spoiler:In the end, he starts up a team to prevent more murdergames.]]
* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:Offers this to the Kingmaker during the SadisticChoice motive. It isn't taken.]]

-->"What kind of justice means directing people's lives the way you want it?"

[[spoiler: The culprit of Week 2 (Case 2).]]

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* AloofAlly: Her initial canon point is when she's this, and she acts like it towards the other Survivors, too.

* BigEater: Even though she looks like a noodle.
* DressesTheSame: [[spoiler:Caren's not exactly happy that Ryuunosuke shares her taste for animal prints and purple, though it's more of YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame for her fashion sense instead of her actions. Especially when he raids her closet.]]

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Since [[IDoNotDrinkWine she's biologically wired to treat carbonation as alcohol]], she does this with pop, even bringing a bottle of Ramune down into the courtroom [[spoiler:to keep down her nerves in the trial she was guilty in]].

* PoliticallyActivePrincess: Caren worries about her people and [[spoiler:regrets having failed to save them]]. Zagi judges her for asking why he doesn't care about the politics of his own world and what's going to happen to the people there, telling her to mind her own business.

* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:Caren's memory regains and her experiences in deadland lead her to emerge in the end as more understanding and a lot more fun to be around.]]

-->"Any time you want, I'm here for you."

[[spoiler: Made it to the survivor pool.]]

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* TheConfidant: To Sigrun as her second-in-command.
* DadTheVeteran: He'll occasionally share stories of his role in the old war. [[spoiler:This serves to let the other Survivors know just how bad it must be in his world when it turns out that his old enemies are back and spread across his home.]]
* DotingParent: To everyone he takes in.

* LightHairedSwimmer: Okay, so they never get a pool, but he ''really'' wants the Kingmaker to add one.
* LikeASonToMe: To Mettaton and Yosuke, in particular.
* ReformedButNotTamed: Cherryblod may be a lot better than he used to be, but he acknowledges that he found it fun to terrorize and kill people back when he was in the mob, [[spoiler:and he admits that he could have killed to try and save his children, too. It's how he finds it in himself to forgive the Kingmakers: he may be good now, but he's still got that side that knows how they feel]].
* ReformedButRejected: Mouri and Misa judge him on his past crimes as a danger to everyone who can never atone, but he really is reformed [[spoiler:(aside from his belief in [[PayEvilUntoEvil paying evil onto evil]]) and makes the survivor pool. Mouri, at least, changes his mind.]]

* TeamDad: Cherryblod seems to have decided to adopt half the cast. [[spoiler:To the point where he takes in both of the Kingmakers after the game ends.]]

-->"It takes a certain sort of person to disregard whether their actions are right or wrong in order to fulfill their goal."

[[spoiler: Made it to the survivor pool.]]

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* CoolPet: Most of the others see his team as these.

* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't understand why [[spoiler:Bruce would offer for the Kingmaker to kill him.]]

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Always rejected personal attachment in the name of [[ForScience studying how one could grow without it]], but is baffled to discover that he's come to feel it anyway [[spoiler:when Tarrlok dies]].

-->"I'm not a hateful person. I can't be."

[[spoiler: The intended victim of Week 8 (Case 8). Made it to the survivor pool.]]

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* DeadpanSnarker: Most of his jokes.
* EightiesHair: That mullet...
* IconicItem: The protective talisman [[spoiler:that's used to nearly kill him]].

* YouAreWhatYouHate: Subverted, as a number of characters suspect that Gabriel is secretly a werewolf; he's no such thing.
** He actually was a werewolf temporarily, but at first he doesn't remember it and he's been cured by the time he enters the Vault.

-->"I'm pretty good at fighting. Thinking and stuff isn't really my thing."

[[spoiler: The victim of Week 7 (Case 7).]]

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* YouAreWhatYouHate: Or so it appears [[spoiler:from his copy at his execution]].

-->"Sometimes the most you can do is care about one important thing to you."

[[spoiler: The culprit of Week 1 (Case 1).]]

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* HealingFactor: Keeps his, [[spoiler:which proves his guilt in the first trial]].

-->"The King wonders, what is with the attachment to living?"

[[spoiler: Willingly killed by the Kingmaker during Week 5.]]

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* FunSize: He changes into a smaller form after [[spoiler:he dies and wakes up in deadland]].

-->"Hey, not everything is lost."

[[spoiler: Made it to the survivor pool.]]

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* TheObiWannabe: Once he starts getting over his dislike of {{Kid Detective}}s (and very-recently-legal detectives), he starts to see Yousuke as his "apprentice." Never mind that Yousuke's solving the mysteries as well as he is or better.

-->"It'd be pretty impressive if you really had nothing to hide!"

[[spoiler: One of the victims of Week 5 (Case 5).]]

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-->"I'm willing to listen, if you think talking about it will make you feel better."

[[spoiler: The victim of Week 4 (Case 4).]]

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* CherryBlossomGirl: "Sakura" is her surname, her hair is pink, and [[spoiler:she's the [[FourIsDeath week four victim]].]]
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: The teddy bear, Guma-chan, [[spoiler:is her dead renewable regain and her symbol on the haunting letters.]]
* RoseHairedSweetie: On everyone's good side all the time. [[spoiler:She was actually killed for showing kindness to Norman, since it set off his "Mother" side.]]

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: According to most everyone.

!!!Bombastic/[[spoiler:Vainglorious]]
-->"You won't get what you want without sacrificing important things, that's just how the world works."

[[spoiler: The culprit of Week 6 (Case 6)... and one of the Kingmakers.]]

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* AgentPeacock: He's flamboyant and vain, loves attention, glitter, and sparkles, and spends the masquerade in a dress that compliments his legs and hot pink boots. He's also fully equipped with combat abilities. [[spoiler:And uses those boots' built-in CombatStilettos to kick someone's head in.]]
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: When he's been accused one too many times, he derails a trial for hours to reiterate that he didn't do it and couldn't possibly have done it, shutting everyone down rather than cooperate. [[spoiler:However, this lets the others know that, unlike with the other times, this time he actually ''is'' guilty.]]
* BecomingTheMask: He always backs away from attachment, warning people not to get close, and is frank about how he can and will cut people off for his own gain, but [[spoiler:by the time that he reveals just how far that goes, he has to admit that he's started to really like the people back whom he was "only acting" around.]]

* CombatStilettos: Mettaton's boots. [[spoiler:They're both his murder weapon and his dead renewable regain.]]
* HammyHerald: When he's announcing [[spoiler:himself and Ryuunosuke as they enter the final trial]].
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Despite shoving his ego in everyone's faces, when Mettaton says things like "I hate (the Kingmaker) enough to make sure he dies," he's talking more about himself than about the Kingmaker. [[spoiler:Especially since he's sharing mastermind duty, so really, he was talking about himself either way.]]
* ISeeDeadPeople: Can see the souls of everyone in the Vault, including those of the dead. [[spoiler:Seeing that Alphys's soul had disappeared prompted him to make his murder plan with Ryuunosuke, win Archer's game, and then delete their fellow captives and start a new game for revenge on the world.]]

-->"I have a great poker face, just so you know."

[[spoiler: The victim of Week 3 (Case 3).]]

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-->"Even a murder you can justify is still a murder."

[[spoiler: The culprit of Week 5 (Case 5).]]

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* CreepyCoolCrosses: Her aesthetic, [[spoiler:to the point of it being her symbol at the ghost gatherings]].

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Reluctantly crosses her own line, killing innocents, to try to escape, and realizes that she's become the type of criminal she used to kill.]]
* NotProven: A major part of Misa's backstory is that this happened to her family's killers. [[spoiler:She almost gets away with it herself -- that is, if trials in a murdercan worked that way.]]
* PerkyGoth: With her fashion sense, anyway.

-->"I'm just, well, I'm just letting things g-get to me. I shouldn't be so weak..."

[[spoiler: The culprit of Week 4 (Case 4).]]

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* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:Norman starts doing this later on to try to deal with his SplitPersonality without anyone dying. Sigrun says she's proud of him.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Though it could just be him becoming more self-aware and then seeing it in others, [[spoiler:he calls Cherryblod "insane" for wanting to defend and reason with his "fake family" when Mettaton turns out to be a danger to the group.]]

* PhraseCatcher: [[spoiler:"Fuck Norma Bates."]]
* SlutShaming: His profile lists "Dislikes: Whores." [[spoiler:When he's "Norma" in the end of the fourth trial, he does this to a number of characters, particularly Sigrun (for calling for a strip search) and Mettaton (for being Mettaton).]]
* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:He was a victim of this, as revealed by his alternate personality, the mother in question.]]

-->"Everything just seems like nonsense."

[[spoiler: The victim of Week 2 (Case 2).]]

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* BizarreAlienBiology: Technically a projection from a pearl, which is her SoulJar. [[spoiler:Caren only knew how to kill her because her own pearl is ''her'' SoulJar.]]

-->"Some things just feel too ridiculous to be real, don't they?"

[[spoiler: Made it to the survivor pool.]]

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* ThirdPersonPerson: Very occasionally, anyway.

-->"Leaders aren't allowed to make mistakes."

[[spoiler: Made it to the survivor pool.]]

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* BloodKnight: From the way she's reacted pretty much every time it's come to hurting someone, it's clear she's this.

* CoolBigSis: Acts this way towards some of the younger captives.
* TheFightingNarcissist: She backs it up, too, to the point of being an AwesomeEgo depending on who you ask.
* FriendlyEnemy: Tries to get along with the Kingmaker, teasing him like anybody else. [[spoiler:This changes when, among other things, she sees how he played them with the moles.]]
* HaremSeeker: Cherryblod jokes that she's this when she mentions [[spoiler:hoping that Glory isn't a woman because she was getting used to being the last one standing.]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: Suggests mass bloodletting in the very first trial to see if anyone has healing abilities. [[spoiler:It works. ''Twice.'' In the third trial, while no blood is ''actually'' let, the opportunity allows her to see the stitching in Yato's sleeve and reveal him as the culprit.]]
* TheLeader: The captives deem her to be theirs. [[spoiler:She lasts longer than Logan did in the position, but blames herself for the steady rate of death.]]

* StealthInsult: One of her favourite things to do.
* TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater: During the second trial, [[spoiler:suggests just smashing Caren's tail to extract a confession.]]

-->"Geez, it's like some people don't know how to prepare for the end of the world."

[[spoiler: Made it to the survivor pool.]]

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Wheedles some whiskey out of the Kingmaker in return for no longer sending him disturbing love letters. [[spoiler:Or so he claimed.]]

* BadassGrandpa: The dead state early on that they'll be surprised if anyone manages to actually off Stan. [[spoiler:No one does.]]
* BeginnersLuck: [[spoiler:Despite cobbling together a seance circle based on a vaguely-remembered Journal entry and what he thought looked cool, he is the first to successfully make contact with the dead from this round.]]
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Nearly everyone Stan describes Gravity Falls to thinks of it as this.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: [[spoiler:Agrees to spare the Kingmakers for Sigrun and Cherryblod's sake, not theirs. He also refuses to associate with them again or allow them into his world.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Criticizes the weekly Survivor meetings for being too observable by the Kingmaker, and goes to great lengths to hide his own activities, particularly [[spoiler:his seance.]]

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:One of three moles, he stopped doing his job partway through the game after growing attached to the other survivors.]]
* SeniorCreep: Acts like this to disturb the Kingmaker and to [[spoiler:give himself an alibi as to why he's getting mole rewards]], but he's really a perfectly normal old guy.
* TheCaretaker: Takes on a similar role towards [[spoiler:Norman after the dead are revived, though he makes sure he gets appropriate psychiatric care rather than taking him in personally.]]
* YouAreNotAlone: Has a surprisingly frank conversation with Bruce to this effect after the reveal that [[spoiler:he once worked as a mole]], including sharing his own experiences with depression and suicidal thoughts.

-->"Do you really think it's smart to be doing anything to make enemies at this point?"

[[spoiler: Punished by the Kingmaker during Week 4.]]

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* HormoneAddledTeenager: Really seems to have a one-sided thing for Misa and bugged Yousuke about which of their fellow captives was the best-looking.
* IconicItem: His goggles, of course. [[spoiler:They're the only thing left of him when he's dissolved into blood and exploded, just to prove it was him.]]

-->"When the people in power aren't willing to take action, someone has to."

[[spoiler: One of the victims of Week 5 (Case 5).]]

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* KindheartedCatLover: Tarrlok is ashamed to admit this because he doesn't want to look too soft.

* TeamChef: For lack of anything else to do with his time.

* SnarkKnight: Especially after he starts remembering how poorly his life went.

-->"I almost forgot to show the rest of you my relationship chart!"

[[spoiler: The culprit of Week 3 (Case 3).]]

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* LaughingMad: [[spoiler:When he's cornered in the third trial]].

* YouCantFightFate: [[spoiler:Ended up killing Mion because he believed that he couldn't do anything but follow the wish he was born for after all and kill the few for the sake of the many.]]

-->"Everyone wants to see people, and everyone wants to be seen."

[[spoiler: Made it to the survivor pool.]]

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* BadassBisexual: Yousuke is one of the most combat-ready in the Vault and helps solve a number of cases. He's also very attracted to multiple fellow captives of multiple genders.

* HeroicSafeMode: [[spoiler:Once he's blocked from killing his traitorous boyfriend painfully and deliberately like he'd wanted, he ends up falling into detached disinterest. Yosuke isn't able to react further to what happened until over a half hour later in Cherryblod's room, when he breaks down, wondering if he's really changed at all since Namatame. The effect lingers for the rest of the night.]]
* HormoneAddledTeenager: To his own flustered frustration.
* ImportantHaircut: He cuts his own hair after [[spoiler:Black's trial.]]

* NeverBareheaded: Complains about going weeks without his headphones, since he always had them on at home. No longer the case after Week 5, as Cherryblod gifts him [[{{VideoGame/Undertale}} Napstablook's]] headphones. He wears them even without any kind of music player attached.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Remembers being tempted and falling into this frame of mind, but developed through it. [[spoiler:He relapses hard after Black's betrayal, then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shuts down]] when it hits him.]]
* RageBreakingPoint: His reaction after [[spoiler: Black is outed as the mole. He absolutely snaps at the betrayal, even knowing that Black couldn't bring himself to kill because of his bonds, and attempts to flat-out disembowel Black.]]
* TransparentCloset: Cherryblod says he's had him figured out since the first few weeks. [[spoiler:No longer so closeted after Week 8 and his kiss with Black.]]
* ValuesDissonance: Experiences a lot of this in comparison to some of the other survivors, mostly due to Persona 4's very hopeful story and belief in 'bonds' overcoming anything and sticking to your morals above your own safety. To the point that it almost kills his budding friendship with Black before it even started; thankfully, they patched things up the next week.
* WhatWouldXDo: He's given to wondering what his canon's protagonist would do in his situation and often thinks that Yuu would have freed them before anyone died.

-->"I didn't know you were awesome! ''Fight me!''"

[[spoiler: The victim of Week 1 (Case 1).]]

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!![[spoiler: [[Literature/FateZero Ryuunosuke Uryuu]]]]

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-->"I am the Kingmaker. Welcome to the Vault."

* MoralityChain: [[spoiler:Silver. Murdergames are what happen when you ''break'' that chain.]]
* RobbingTheDead: [[spoiler:Raided Caren's closet and wore her stuff to the final trial. She wasn't impressed.]]

* ThatLiarLies: Gets this a lot.

-->"I CAN'T ASSIST YOU IN WINNING THE GAME."

* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Glory's actually an AI, not a ghost, and made of the memories of the gamerunners... and others, too, as evidenced by Ryuunosuke's confusion at the orange cat she remembers.]]

->"Dead?" "I'm certainly not alive."
* EmbarrassingNickname: Really hated their game title and won't say what it was. [[spoiler:This appears to be the "Ryuunosuke" part of her talking, since he hated being called "Pretentious."]]
* GenderNeutralWriting: Always referred to either with "they" pronouns or no pronouns at all. [[spoiler:Eventually, Glory decides that she is a "she" and starts using a female avatar.]]

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Even different from the ghosts of the current dead; instead of inhabiting the dead reflection of the Vault, Glory is completely unseen but can reach both the living and dead sides.]] As it turns out, [[spoiler:that's because she's not ''really'' a ghost -- but she ''is'' made of memories of a variety of people, some of whom are indeed dead.]]

* TricksterMentor: [[spoiler:Glory is forbidden to help the Survivors win the game. Even so, she seems to have an interest in them, and so gives cryptic answers, usually with double meanings, that say more than they seem. For example, "(the Kingmaker's) title is really pretentious" sounds like just complaining and holding back information, but if she didn't write in all caps, they'd see that she meant "his title is really ('actually,' not 'very') Pretentious."]]

* VirtualGhost: [[spoiler:She's a LivingMemory amalgamation of multiple people.]]

!![[spoiler:[[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist Frank Archer]]]]

-->"I shouldn't be here. I'm not ''dead.''"

* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Losing the only person he cared about in a murdergame.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: After passing his, [[spoiler:he [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery decided to share the suffering around.]]]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: In his second appearance, he says that [[spoiler:running a murdergame]] is ridiculous and asks who would ever want to do it. ''Much'' later, we learn that he did the exact same thing.

!!![[spoiler:The Mastermind... two games ago, that is]]

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:She was part of a group that started murdergames to punish criminals, but went overboard and started bringing in innocent people for fun.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: She's already dead and anything learned about her is from evidence and Ambitious, who knew her beforehand.

* CoordinatedClothes: Unintentional, but [[spoiler:Caren's not exactly happy that Ryuunosuke shares her taste for animal prints and purple. Especially when he raids her closet.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: While they all drink blood, he doesn't follow the same rules as either Dio or Ferid.

-->The King wonders, what is with the attachment to living?"

!![[{{VideoGame/Wadanohara}} Cherryblod]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: Suggests mass bloodletting in the very first trial to see if anyone has healing abilities. [[spoiler:It works. ''Twice.'']] In the third trial, while no blood is ''actually'' let, the opportunity allows her to see [[spoiler:the stitching in Yato's sleeve and reveal him as the culprit.]]

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Despite shoving his ego in everyone's faces, when Mettaton says things like "I hate (the Kingmaker) enough to make sure he dies," he's talking more about himself than about the Kingmaker. [[spoiler:Especially since he's sharing mastermind duty.]]

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Since [[DrunkOnMilk she's biologically wired to treat carbonation as alcohol]], she does this with pop, even bringing a bottle of Ramune down into the courtroom [[spoiler:to keep down her nerves in the trial she was guilty in]].