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* WeakButSkilled: Is stated to have utterly no talent in magic whatsoever. However, through absurd amounts of hard work he managed to become a master summoner. The tips discribe him as a magican who can't even cast a spell to heat water, yet can summon a demon that can boil away an ocean.
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* WeakButSkilled: Is stated to have utterly no talent in magic whatsoever. However, through absurd amounts of hard work he managed to become a master summoner. The tips discribe him as a magican who can't even cast a spell to heat water, yet can summon a demon that can boil away an ocean. [[spoiler:This could be foreshadowing for how his wild gamble to "summon Beatrice" (that is, to get in contact with his lost child, Yasu, who he made to dress up as Beatrice for him) succeeded.]]
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** Which leads to a FunnyAneurysmMoment in Episode 3, when she gently mocks Battler's phrase "I'll come back on a white horse, [[GratuitousEnglish see you again!]]" [[spoiler:In Episode 7 it turns out she ''didn't'' find that sentence funny. At all.]]
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** Which leads to a FunnyAneurysmMoment in Episode 3, when she gently mocks Battler's phrase "I'll come back on a white horse, [[GratuitousEnglish see you again!]]" [[spoiler:In Episode 7 it turns out she ''didn't'' find that sentence line funny. At all.]]
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There is a bit of a transliteration issue with [[spoiler:the name Ikuko gave him. Toya? Tooya? Tohya?]] You take your pick.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There is a bit More of a transliteration issue with [[spoiler:the name Ikuko gave him.him, 十八 (とおや). Toya? Tooya? Tohya?]] You take your pick.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Beatrice in Episode 3. It's quite effective. [[spoiler:[[DidYouActuallyBelieve Or not...]]]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Beatrice in Episode 3. It's quite effective. [[spoiler:[[DidYouActuallyBelieve Or not...]]]]not…]]]]
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* DisappearedDad: And he fled ''[[KickTheDog while her mother was pregnant]]'', no less. To the point Rosa ended up telling her she doesn't have a father. As a result, Maria thinks she has a MeaningfulName and is special.
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* DisappearedDad: And he fled ''[[KickTheDog while her mother was pregnant]]'', no less. To the point that Rosa ended up telling her she doesn't have a father. As a result, Maria thinks she has a MeaningfulName and is special.special, trying to justify the lack of a father figure in her life by believing that she's a child of God.
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* ShipperOnDeck: For George and Shannon.
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* BadassGrandpa: If the fourth arc is to be taken at face value, he managed to summon two of Beatrice's more powerful furniture as well as her mentor. At once.
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* BadassGrandpa: If In the fourth arc is to be taken at face value, arc, he managed to summon two of Beatrice's more powerful furniture as well as her mentor. At once.mentor all at once. [[spoiler:Subverted. He wouldn't have been able to do this, since he was DeadAllAlong.]]
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* InTheBlood: Given his similarities to pre-WWII Kinzo, there seems to be a heavy implication that Battler's just one poorly-ended romance away from going completely nutters like his grandfather.
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* InTheBlood: Given his similarities to pre-WWII Kinzo, there seems to be a heavy implication that Battler's just one poorly-ended romance away from going completely nutters like his grandfather. [[spoiler:In the end he doesn't go insane, but he loses Beatrice and gains TraumaInducedAmnesia as a result.]]
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* [[spoiler:TraumaInducedAmnesia]]: Only explained at the end. [[spoiler:Battler actually survived the Rokkenjima murders along with Eva. However, he nearly drowned after trying to save Yasu, and lost all of his memories]]. Most of the plot is [[spoiler:him trying to put his memories back together. Yes, a good part of the instances and scenarios beforehand was just Battler brainstorming for the truth.]].
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* [[spoiler:TraumaInducedAmnesia]]: Only explained at the end. [[spoiler:Battler actually survived the Rokkenjima murders along with Eva. However, he nearly drowned after trying to save Yasu, Beatrice, and lost all of his memories]]. Most of the plot is [[spoiler:him trying to put his memories back together. Yes, a good part of the instances and scenarios beforehand was just Battler brainstorming for the truth.]].
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* [[spoiler:StepfordSmiler:]] Assuming that [[spoiler:she's the culprit in the gameboard]], she's quite a unique type, but closer to type C.
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* ChickMagnet: Largely an InformedAttribute. It is implied that Battler is quite popular with girls, though it seems he's not entirely aware of it himself. However, most of the female cast is already either married or paired off with someone else.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: The [=EP8=] manga reveals that yes, [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbaofcO5tz1qk5qkyo1_1280.jpg he really was]].
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** Which leads to a rather FunnyAneurysmMoment in Episode 3, when she gently mocks Battler's phrase "I'll come back on a white horse, [[GratuitousEnglish see you again!]]" [[spoiler:In Episode 7 it turns out she ''didn't'' find that sentence funny. At all.]]
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** Which leads to a rather FunnyAneurismMoment in Episode 3, when she gently mocks Battler's phrase "I'll come back on a white horse, [[GratuitousEnglish see you again!]]" [[spoiler:In Episode 7 it turns out she ''doesn't'' find that sentence funny. At all.]]
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** Which leads to a rather FunnyAneurismMoment in Episode 3, when she gently mocks Battler's phrase "I'll come back on a white horse, [[GratuitousEnglish see you again!]]" [[spoiler:In Episode 7 it turns out she ''doesn't'' find that sentence funny. At all.]]
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* [[spoiler:TraumaInducedAmnesia]]: Only explained at the end. [[spoiler:Battler actually survived the Rokkenjima murders along with Eva. However, he nearly drowned after trying to save Yasu, and lost all of his memories]]. The entirety of the plot is [[spoiler:him trying to put his memories back together. Yes, a good part of the instances and scenarios beforehand was just Battler brainstorming for the truth.]].
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Just about the last thing he wants, considering his feud with Rudolf, but all his relatives remark on how alike they are. He turns out to be even more similar to Kinzo--in looks, temperament, and circumstances; once he realizes the truth, this is retroactively implied to be one of the reasons Battler's so upset by the reset Beatrice calling him "Father" in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler:Lo and behold, some forty years after surviving the Rokkenjima incident, his hair is bleached white and shortened to the point where he looks ''exactly like Kinzo when he was his age'']].
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Just about the last thing he wants, considering his feud with Rudolf, but all his relatives remark on how alike they are. He turns out to be even more similar to Kinzo--in looks, temperament, and circumstances; once he realizes the truth, this is retroactively implied to be one of the reasons Battler's so upset by the reset Beatrice calling him "Father" in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler:Lo and behold, some forty years after surviving the Rokkenjima incident, his hair is bleached white and shortened to the point where he looks ''exactly like Kinzo when he was his age'']].
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* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Just about the last thing he wants, considering his feud with Rudolf, but all his relatives remark on how alike they are. He turns out to be even more similar to Kinzo--in looks, temperament, and circumstances; once he realizes the truth, this is retroactively implied to be one of the reasons Battler's so upset by the reset Beatrice calling him "Father" in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler:Lo and behold, some forty years after surviving the Rokkenjima incident, his hairis bleached white has whitened and shortened to the point where he looks ''exactly like Kinzo when he was his age'']].
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Just about the last thing he wants, considering his feud with Rudolf, but all his relatives remark on how alike they are. He turns out to be even more similar to Kinzo--in looks, temperament, and circumstances; once he realizes the truth, this is retroactively implied to be one of the reasons Battler's so upset by the reset Beatrice calling him "Father" in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler:Lo and behold, some forty years after surviving the Rokkenjima incident, his hair
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* CuteClumsyGirl: When upset and flustered, she will instantly take several levels in clumsiness, which tend to get progressively more severe until she's rendered completely ineffectual. Of course, this tends to get her in a lot of trouble with Natsuhi, poor girl.
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* ThePowerOfLove: George invokes this trope in the fourth arc when he and Gaap fight. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he doesn't win.]]
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* ThePowerOfLove: George invokes this trope in the fourth arc when he and Gaap fight.
* ScaryShinyGlasses Shows this whenever he gets serious.
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* [[spoiler:DecoyProtagonist]]: Subverted because he actively fights to remain as the [[spoiler:protagonist]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And in the end, he has earned it.]]
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* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGiSIYRxic8 worldend dominator]] is heavily associated with Rosa, having played on her [[Awesome/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi best moments]].
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In the meta-world, [[Characters/UminekoNoNakuKoroNiWitches Eva-Beatrice]] is the manifestation of all the theories which place her as the culprit of the Rokkenjima incident. In Arc 3, it is revealed that [[spoiler:she survives the Rokkenjima incident and becomes Ange's caretaker while becoming the head of the Ushiromiya corporate]]. In Arcs 7 and 8, it turns out that [[spoiler:she intentionally painted herself as the culprit while hiding the Book of the Single Truth -- her diary which contains the truth of what happened in Rokkenjima]].
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This page lists the human characters of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' in the island of Rokkenjima from the year 1986, which includes the Ushiromiya family, servants, and guests. Be warned that from here on, there are unavoidable '''spoilers''' from Arc 2 onward.
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!!Battler Ushiromiya (戦人)[[spoiler:/Toya Hachijō]]
!!![[spoiler:The Endless Sorcerer]]
!!!Voiced by: DaisukeOno
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-> ''[[CatchPhrase "Ahh, it's useless! It's all useless!"]]''
The protagonist and 18 year-old son of Rudolf and Asumu ([[spoiler:but don't make him say it in red text]]) and 7th in the line of succession. After Asumu died six years ago, Battler became angry with his father for remarrying Kyrie so fast and went to live with his maternal grandparents. Because of this, he's been fairly out of the loop as to the affairs of the Ushiromiya family. Often, he is teased about being similar to his father for his tendency to try to grope girls. He now has a half-sister named Ange who does not come to Rokkenjima.
After the first arc, he is trapped by Beatrice in time loops where the murders occur over and over again. In order to win, he must explain those murders rejecting the use of magic in them. At the end of Arc 5, [[spoiler:he has figured out the truth behind Beato's game, allowing him to receive the title of Game Master and Endless Sorcerer]]. In Arc 8, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Battler survived the Rokkenjima incident, but had lost his memory and was found on the road by Ikuko Hachijo. After regaining his memory years later, he writes [=EP3=] through [=EP6=] with Ikuko as the mystery novelist, Toya Hachijo.]]
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* AgentScully: [[spoiler:Initially, at least.]]
* [[spoiler:AndThenJohnWasAZombie]]: Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the new [[spoiler:Endless Sorcerer]].
* AnimalMotifs: The witches compare him a few different times to ThePhoenix. Maybe makes sense, given the nature of his FateWorseThanDeath combined with his {{Determinator}} personality.
* AnimeHair: Lampshaded.
-->'''Ange:''' Save the jokes for your hairstyle.
* AntiMagic: His ability to resist magic of up to godlike scale is classified as [[OverNineThousand Endless Nine]].
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: With all of the plausible, if not necessarily likely, names of the rest of the Ushiromiya family, one must wonder what possessed Ryukishi to name his main character "Battler."
** Unless Ryukishi saw our TarotMotifs page (specifically the section on [[spoiler:The Magician]]) and said "Ooooh! There's a name to hide a plot twist behind!"
** Battler is only one letter away from [[Creator/AgathaChristie Battle]].
* BadassBookworm: Battler "it would be arrogant for somebody who only reads about a hundred books a year to call himself well-read" Ushiromiya.
* [[spoiler:BadassCape]]: He wears one as [[spoiler:the Endless Sorcerer]]. At first just a {{Fanon}} idea, but became canon in [=EP6=].
** And its an [[spoiler:OminousOperaCape]].
** [[spoiler:In [=EP8=], he becomes even ''more'' badass by [[TheCoatsAreOff taking it off]].]]
* BatDeduction: "And then...I...knew."
** [[IncrediblyLamePun More like]] Bat''tler'' Deduction.
*** *ba-dum tshh*
* BattleCouple: With [[spoiler:Beatrice]].
* BigBrotherInstinct: To the extent that there are quite a few corners of the internet that take his relationship with Ange to creepy, creepy places.
** An alternate interpretation subverts this ''hard'', [[spoiler: he can be seen as rather neglectful of Ange, since it took him ''3 games'' to remember he had a little sister that would need him, and the fact that he only visited her on her birthdays leaves much to think this.]]
* {{Bishonen}}
* {{Bookworm}}: Becomes quite apparent by the time the core arcs begin.
* BringMyRedJacket: Flip this one and WhiteShirtOfDeath around, and you've got Battler's outfit: white jacket, red shirt. And yes, his luck [[AFateWorseThanDeath sucks]].
* BuxomIsBetter: Beatrice calls him a "breast sommelier" for a reason.
* CatchPhrase: "Ah, it's useless. It's all useless!"
* [[spoiler:ChangelingFantasy]]: It's confirmed in [=EP8=] that [[spoiler:Kyrie is his real mother, and he was swapped at birth with Asumu's child]].
* TheChessmaster: In training.
* ChewbaccaDefense: Hey, [[InsaneTrollLogic anything]] to fight off [[{{Troll}} Beatrice and Bernkastel]].
* ChickMagnet: Largely an InformedAttribute. It is implied that Battler is quite popular with girls, though it seems he's not entirely aware of it himself. However, most of the female cast is already either married or paired off with someone else.
** However, if [[http://umineko.wikia.com/wiki/Butterfly_Kiss_Episode1.5%E9%85%8D%E5%B8%83%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC this]] is to be taken seriously...
* ChivalrousPervert: It seems like he'll try to grope anyone ([[KissingCousins Even his cousin!]]), and at one point even tells little Maria [[AllThereInTheManual to let him grope her when she gets older]], but the one time a girl actually tries to let him, he freaks out and scolds her ([[MegatonPunch after being punched by aforementioned cousin]]). Note: He thanked the cousin for punching him. He even tells Maria to promise she'll let him [[ItMakesSenseInContext "eat her"]] once she's legal, in the [=EP2=] Tea Party.
** Hell, he even has a whole ImageSong devoted to his love of large-breasted girls. It is called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yM3mrh_t2M ''OPPA in Love!'']], and it is essentially Battler's playing up his own lecherousness [[UpToEleven to hilarious extents]].
** One of his special moves in the fighting game, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=862GKbHFCuI "Sommelier Finger"]], is a groping attack[[hottip:*: You can see him in the video grope-attacking ''both Ange and Kanon'']].
** He even says it's okay [[spoiler:being killed]] over and over again by [[spoiler:the Seven Stakes]] because they have nice breasts and from then on normally refers to them as 'the ass nee chans.'
* CreepyCoolCrosses: Battler wears one as a fastener for his jacket.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:''Receives'' one during [=EP8=] at the hands of Bernkastel. Thanks to [[IRejectYourReality Ange]] however, he bounces back from it in short order.]]
* CuteLittleFangs: In the original sound novel.
* [[spoiler:DecoyProtagonist]]: Subverted because he actively fights to remain as the [[spoiler:protagonist]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And in the end, he has earned it.]]
* {{Determinator}}: See the first tea party for just one example. Averted in the second arc, however, when he does give up and is explicitly shown why that isn't an acceptable option.
* DevotedToYou: After his promise with [[spoiler:Yasu/Shannon]], 6 years later as [[spoiler:Yasu/Beatrice]] she still can't forget about him. It turned out ''horribly, horribly bad.''
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: If slamming Beatrice's head on a table in [=EP2=] or slapping her in [=EP3=] don't count, then [[spoiler:actually managing to punch ''Bernkastel'' in the face]] might.
** [[spoiler:And if you think those mentioned were just damn luck, then he also manages to ''kick'' Bernkastel in the same scene '''while she's [[TeleportSpam Teleport Spamming]]'''! Battler ''earned'' the VillainousBreakdown that he got out of her.]]
* [[spoiler:DiedHappilyEverAfter:]] That's more or less the idea of the Magic Ending. [[spoiler:Battler joined his family in death, while Tooya continued to live, his mind finally at peace.]]
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: During his HeroicBSOD in the anime, and [[spoiler:while trapped in a logic error during [=EP6=]]].
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Black Battler]] from ''Ogon Musokyoku Cross''.
* [[spoiler: ExpositoryHairstyleChange]]: [[spoiler: In one of the endings for [=EP8=] which takes place in the 2020's, Battler's hair as Tooya has turned white due to aging and has been cut shorter.]]
* {{Expy}}: The guy is half-[[{{Disgaea2}} Adell]], half-[[AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]], with a dash of [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Keiichi]]. And that's an awesome combination.
* AFateWorseThanDeath: Battler gets a few of these, one of them actually tying in with AFateWorseThanDeath.
** TraumaCongaLine: Just the first arc would probably be enough to qualify him for this, and it just gets worse from there.
* FieryRedhead
* FlatEarthAtheist: [[spoiler:To the point that his fixation with proving that magic doesn't exist is one of the things that drive Beatrice to her death on EP5.]]
* FlungClothing[=/=]TheCoatsAreOff: In [=EP8=], [[spoiler:he throws his Endless Sorcerer coat and faces Erika in a closed room duel.]]
* [[spoiler:GameMaster: Of [=EP6=], though Erika makes sure he doesn't get much use out of it. He has more success in [=EP8=] even if Bernkastel is also a GameMaster at the same time, albeit a much more [[KillerGameMaster malicious]] one.]]
* GenerationXerox: His [[spoiler:relationship with Beatrice]] plays this theme hard with regard to Kinzo.
** [[spoiler:His appearance as Tohya Hachijo is ''identical'' to young Kinzo.]]
*** [[spoiler:Heck, Battler/Tohya and young Kinzo even ''have the same voice actor''.]]
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: His way of ThrowingDownTheGauntlet at Beatrice.
* GratuitousEnglish: Battler ''loved'' this trope back in 1980. In 1986 he's just embarrassed about it and doesn't want to remember. [[spoiler:It's a major plot point.]]
* GuileHero: [[spoiler:He fooled us (the readers) of his defeat in [=EP6=] all to make a devastating comeback and, along with Beatrice, defeats Bernkastel in [=EP8=]. In fact, when he regained his memories after escaping Rokkenjima, Battler ''created'' [=EP3-6=], [[ThePlan in a gambit]] to defeat Bernkastel in [=EP8=]. He planned both Beatrice's HeelFaceTurn ''and'' his own self-destruction all for this moment; if he is not a GuileHero then he is a GOOD MagnificentBastard.]]
* [[spoiler:HappilyMarried: With Beatrice after [=EP6=].]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicBastard]]
* TheHeart: At least in the early arcs, he wound up frequently jumping in between two people who were at each other's throats to point out why person X wasn't necessarily the culprit.
* HeavySleeper: Comments by Ange in Twilight allude to Battler being this.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:"Just who am I?"]] Freaks him out so badly that not only does his brain shut down, but he physically disappears.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep
* IdenticalGrandson: He looks identical to Kinzo as he appeared in his youth, save for the hair. [[spoiler:[[ExpositoryHairstyleChange At least at first]]]].
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHbGYf3-N_I OPPA in LOVE!!]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apN1-Mz4w1A Battlerfield ~ The Four Forms of Battler]].
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Whenever Piece Battler is in a situation where he might possibly have to fight, he always seems to go for a hat rack or candlestick as opposed to something a bit more practical.
* InTheBlood: Given his similarities to pre-WWII Kinzo, there seems to be a heavy implication that Battler's just one poorly-ended romance away from going completely nutters like his grandfather.
* JerkassFacade: Towards [[spoiler:[[CloningBlues the "incomplete" Beato]]]] in [=EP6=] to an extent, although it may have to do with the fact that [[spoiler:the woman he loves refuses to call him anything but Father[[hottip:*: which [=EP7=] makes squickier in hindsight]] for a long time. This mirrors Kinzo and Beatrice II's relationships, to the point of ''incest.'']] He even [[ThroughHisStomach threw away her cookies.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: Several, most famously ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICKoZ18zHk&fmt=18 Dread]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOmgr3q4sA&fmt=18 of]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy7QcdNuQrI&fmt=18 the]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y03OC80eDXc&feature=related Grave]]''.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: It's a joke among the family members how Battler's way of handling women is very similar to Rudolf's.
* LogicalFallacies: Small bombs and cardboard boxes. The thing is, Battler is fully aware all his theories are beyond ridiculous. He was just that desperate to deny witches.
* ManlyTears: Who ''wouldn't'' be crying after [[TraumaCongaLine all the crap he goes through]]?
* MeaningfulName: ''Bateleur'' is French for a stage magician, someone who uses mundane means to create the illusion of magic (and it also serves as a [[TarotMotifs Tarot Motif]], since the Magician card is known as ''Le Bateleur'' in French) while ''Battler'' is not too far from what he actually does: battle (with witches and demons).
* MegatonPunch: [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Punches]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu out Bernkastel.]] Bernkastel who, just scenes ago, had been tanking big bangs and big crunches. Battler's fist is more powerful than the universe. And inflicts the concept of pain.]]
* MissingMom
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Ange's HeroicSacrifice in [=EP4=] and [[YouAreTooLate solving the game too late]] and allowing Beatrice to die in [=EP5=]]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMOSs]] arguably ensue both times.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Makes some remarks to this effect in ''Twilight''.
* NayTheist: Gets into very involved logic arguments with beings he says do not exist.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: His reason for refusing to play against [[spoiler:Lambdadelta]] in [=EP5=] is that this is between him and Beatrice and no one else.
* OnlySaneMan: At least during the first tea party. "Why have you guys stopped thinking?" Doesn't ever seem to have gotten out of the "trying to explain" phase, though.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Beatrice in Episode 3. It's quite effective. [[spoiler:[[DidYouActuallyBelieve Or not...]]]]
* RedHeadedHero
* [[spoiler:RedHeadedStepchild]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Depending on who he's in a dichotomy with, he can be Maria's red or Beatrice's blue.
* SelectiveObliviousness
* SignatureLaugh: Ihihihihi!
* [[spoiler:StealthMentor: By [=EP8=], he is this to Ange.]]
* SuddenHumility: In Episode 6, he realizes that the position of [[spoiler:Game Master]] is ''much'' less comfortable than he imagined when he fought against Beatrice.
* [[spoiler:SwitchedAtBirth: He thinks he's Asumu's son, but he's really Kyrie's.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: Tons, particularly in [=EP3=] and [=EP5=].
* TalkingToTheDead: At least once, Battler addresses his father after Rudolf's corpse has been discovered.
* [[spoiler:ThatManIsDead:]] A subversion. [[spoiler:It's not that Tooya deliberately threw away his old identity, it's just that he is ''unable'' to accept it. Not only because trying to remember this identity initially caused him unbearable headaches due to brain damage (leading to a seizure), but also because the feeling of having memories that are not his own is too terrifying.]]
* TheOneGuy: He is the only [[spoiler:male witch]] in the cast.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler:In [=EP3=], when Beatrice laughs about Eva-Beatrice killing Rosa and Maria over and over again, he doesn't take that too well. Bonus points for giving her an ArmorPiercingSlap. And later, when Virgilia tries to encourage him to accept her as his opponent, he still refuses to forgive her. At least, until she tells Beato to be more encouraging and apologize to him.]]
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath]] / [[spoiler:YouAreWorthHell]]: The mystery ending takes the first tone, the fantasy ending the second.
* TookALevelInBadass: Though this is subverted ''hard'' in [=EP4=]'s Tea Party, since [[spoiler:he never understands Beatrice's heart, he didn't solve a single murder and the whole scene is just Beatrice giving up and making it look like he won]], he still manages to improve in every arc. In Episode 5, [[UpToEleven he took all his levels in badass and squared them]] during the hidden tea party. [[SubvertedTrope His badass levels]] [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion seemingly]]]] [[SubvertedTrope take a dip]] in [=EP6=] in that [[MyGreatestFailure he falls into a deep depression]] and [[spoiler:ends up being nearly reduced to a DistressedDude]], with a few {{Badass}} moments sprinkled here and there. [[spoiler:"Seemingly" being a key word; [=EP8=] ''spectacularly'' [[DoubleSubversion subverts]] all that by revealing [[BatmanGambit his dip in badassery was completely intentional]].]]
* [[spoiler:TraumaInducedAmnesia]]: Only explained at the end. [[spoiler:Battler actually survived the Rokkenjima murders along with Eva. However, he nearly drowned after trying to save Yasu, and lost all of his memories]]. The entirety of the plot is [[spoiler:him trying to put his memories back together. Yes, a good part of the instances and scenarios beforehand was just Battler brainstorming for the truth.]].
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Just about the last thing he wants, considering his feud with Rudolf, but all his relatives remark on how alike they are. He turns out to be even more similar to Kinzo--in looks, temperament, and circumstances; once he realizes the truth, this is retroactively implied to be one of the reasons Battler's so upset by the reset Beatrice calling him "Father" in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler:Lo and behold, some forty years after surviving the Rokkenjima incident, his hair is bleached white and shortened to the point where he looks ''exactly like Kinzo when he was his age'']].
* UnexpectedSuccessor: [[spoiler:Fifth arc]].
* {{Unperson}}: In the sound novels, after his defeat at the end of Episode 2 and his HeroicBSOD in Episode 4, he literally ''disappears from the character list''. Who said only the narrated story could be terrifying?
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:His failure to keep his (not entirely serious) promise to Shannon that he would take her away from Rokkenjima and start a life together is what drives Yasu to orchestrate the murders]].
* UpperClassTwit
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler:Subverted. After apparently dying over and over again, he's revealed to be one of only two characters to actually make it back from Rokkenjima]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Kumasawa calls him out on some of his less than admirable behavior towards the resurrected Beatrice in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler:Ange also accuses him of hiding what really happened on Rokkenjima from her in [=EP8=], as she is far more interested in learning the truth than remembering the happy times she had with her family, but she takes it back when she realizes that he wasn't as completely in the wrong, and she in the right, as she first thought.]]
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Battler's not a fan of his name.
--> '''Battler:''' Battler Ushiromiya. [[SarcasmMode Incredible]]. Also incredible are the parents who stuck that name one me, and the public official who accepted it. They're all on the top of my must-kill list.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to Be]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Shakes?]]: Battler's terrified of any vehicle that shakes when it moves.
* WideEyedIdealist: Battler's tendency to quickly trust and give people the benefit of the doubt tends to bite him in the ass more often than not. In Episodes 6 and 8, [[spoiler:[[GuileHero he uses this to his advantage to]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity fool his enemies]].]]
** Played with, while Battler is rather innocent and oblivious about the true nature of his family, [[spoiler:he gets so absorbed into proving Beato wrong that he doesn't even consider ''why'' is she doing all this in the first place, ignoring all the clues she gives him in form of "magic" throughout the games, and is the very thing that keeps him from finding the truth until Episode 5.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Especially if the girl's name is Beatrice, Erika Furudo, and [[spoiler:Bernkastel]]. He also hits Maria on the head quite a lot in the first two Episodes.
* WorthyOpponent: To Beatrice.
!!Maria Ushiromiya (真里亞)
!!!The Witch of Origins
!!!Voiced by: Creator/YuiHorie
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-->"''Uuuuuu~! Beatrice exists!''"
9 year-old daughter of Rosa and eighth in the line of inheritance. Maria is nine in 1986. She has a troubled relationship with her mother and thus became absorbed in the occult as a way to cope. Notable for her repeated catch phrase, a sort of whining ("''u~~''") as well as her very creepy laugh.
Her witch alter-ego is "Maria", the Witch of Origins.
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* AgentMulder
* AmbiguousDisorder
* BlackMagic: After Sakutaro died, her magic changed from making it rain candy to wishing for the death of her enemies.
* BookDumb: She's explicitly stated to have done poorly in school. As she puts it, she's good at doing things she likes, but not "boring" things. Seeing what she knows about magic, she actually shows a very strong intelligence.
* BrokenRecord: She has a tendency to repeat one word over and over again: any word, not just her "uu" noise.
* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: In the fourth arc. It's not pretty.
* CheerfulChild: When she's not being creepy.
* ChildMage
* CreepyChild: To the point of {{Flanderization}}[=/=]{{Narm}} in the anime.
** CreepyCute
* CuteAndPsycho: At times, the cutest and sweetest little girl ever. At others, the most terrifying kid you'll meet.
* CuteWitch: Subverted mercilessly. Maria may be cute-looking, but she is mad, bad, and dangerous when she finally snaps.
* CuteLittleFangs
* DisappearedDad: And he fled ''[[KickTheDog while her mother was pregnant]]'', no less. To the point Rosa ended up telling her she doesn't have a father. As a result, Maria thinks she has a MeaningfulName and is special.
* ElegantGothicLolita: The outfit she wears in the flashbacks in the fourth anime arc. Sweet Lolita, to be exact.
* EnfanteTerrible: When she finally snaps, she makes decent competition for Evatrice for the title of this series' queen of the trope. [[spoiler:Though the only time she's actually shown killing anyone is implied to be AllJustADream.]]
* EvilLaugh: Kihihihihihihihi… (also her SignatureLaugh)
** Made even more creepier by the fact that she appears to be counting the hi's, apparently imagining something happening for each one.
* {{Expy}}: Generally considered one of [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Rena Ryuugu]], due to their hair and eyes, their mother's job, their bipolar personality and their way of persuading themselves they are happy. They actually have an indirect link: a TIP reveals that the man Rosa was seeing at the time of the flashback was a guy in the fashion business called "Akihito-san". That's the guy Rena's mother divorced her father for, triggering [[spoiler:her Hinamizawa Syndrome.]] UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom, much?
* FreudianExcuse: Was shown during [=EP4=].
* TheGift: Maria's described as having this for magic in the fourth arc. And while she's not evil, she can certainly be [[CreepyChild creepy]].
* GigglingVillain: The "villain" part is debatable, but she is disturbingly prone to laughing at horrible situations.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals
* HairDecorations: Her small crown.
* HeroicBastard
* HeyItsThatVoice!: Her similarities to [[{{Kanon}} Ayu]] are made quite pronounced by Creator/YuiHorie's performance: just substitute the [[VerbalTic 'uguu's for 'uuuu~'s]].
** And from the same creator, [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi substitute the 'hauu-auu's for 'uuu~'s]]
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAEsEDwrkOI Happy Halloween MARIA]].
* ImaginaryFriend: Beatrice is actually treated this way to a certain extent in the first arc. Sakutaro later on in, although he's actually a stuffed animal.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Brutally deconstructed. Maria is "pure and childlike"--which, aside from implying geniality and a loving nature (and letting her retain the imaginative power necessary for being a Creator), means that she acts a few years younger than she is, doesn't understand the concept of doubt, and has next to NoSocialSkills. As a result, she's bullied and rejected by her mother and her peers.
** PureIsNotGood: It's more like ChaoticNeutral, as her reactions to the murders and [=EP4=] demonstrate.
** AmbiguousInnocence
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Almost immediately after [[AbusiveParent Rosa]] destroys Sakutaro, Maria asks Beatrice to teach her magic to [[spoiler:[[SelfMadeOrphan kill her own mother]]]]. Welcome to TheDarkSide, Maria.
* LonelyDollGirl: Maria's favorite tactic to combat loneliness was to make her stuffed animals and other dolls into {{Imaginary Friend}}s. Sakutaro was the most important one.
* LoveMartyr: Maria's relationship with her mother is portrayed this way when Ange talks with her.
* MadDreamer
* MeaningfulName: Maria's name is one that is a common translation of Mary - a reference to the woman from the New Testament who gave birth to Jesus Christ. In the fourth arc, one of the TIPS speculates that [[spoiler: Maria is one of the Creator witches, who can create something where there was previously nothing.]]
** The significance of Maria's name is further explored in EP7, and Maria even says that if she had been born a boy, she would have been named Emmanuel, one of the names for Jesus, meaning "God is with us" in Hebrew.
* NightmareFetishist: Oh yes. Who else would start cracking up at magic circles apparently written in blood?
* NoblewomansLaugh: Maria's giggling sometimes morphs into it.
* NoSocialSkills: As strange and borderline [[CreepyChild creepy]] as she can be, she's not evil--just very socially maladjusted.
* OracularUrchin
* PimpedOutDress: Witch dress only.
* ThePollyanna: As long as she has [[MoralityChain Sakutaro]] to cheer her up, at least.
* PsychoPartyMember: Treated this way in the first arc and shown to be this way in the fourth.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Battler's red.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Does her best not to notice that her mother isn't quite qualified for the job. [[spoiler:In the fourth arc we see what happens when she doesn't.]]
* [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan]]: During the fourth arc, though it's implied to be AllJustADream.
* StrangeGirl: Relates to her CreepyChild tendencies, but also how young she acts in comparison to how young she is.
* SpiritAdvisor: She is either this or an ImaginaryFriend to Ange, depending on [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane how you interpret it]].
* ThirdPersonPerson
* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler:Shouts this repeatedly at her [[AbusiveParent Abusive Mother]] Rosa in [=EP4=] out of anger for killing Sakutaro in front of her before going all AxCrazy on her and getting revenge for him. Luckily, she's even calmer and happier when Sakutaro gets better, compliments of Ange.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Maria is a walking encyclopedia of Western occult lore. Where did a 9-year-old Japanese girl learn all this?
* UnstoppableRage: Episode 4, chapter 12. That's all.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the anime, nobody seems to pay much attention to her ludicrously over-the-top CreepyChild moments. In the games, though, they react much more appropriately.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Because of her belief that all of the murders will eventually lead to everyone being resurrected in the Golden Land, Maria doesn't even really seem to care much when her own mother dies in the first arc.
* VerbalTic: "''Uu~''". This is later revealed to be what she believes is a spell for happiness.
** Possibly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]; Maria's verbal tic frequently irritates her mother, who will even [[AbusiveParents hit her for saying it too much]], and it's said to be one of the reasons why she's bullied at school.
* WhiteMagic: Most of her spells were harmless at first.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Rosa's attitude towards Maria.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: She is something of a subversion. Her way of thinking can seem absurdly innocent and naive, yet she has a deeper insight on life than any 7 to 9 year old girl should have.
!!Jessica Ushiromiya (朱志香)
!!!Voiced by: MarinaInoue
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-->"''People are capable of creating another part of themselves inside themselves at any time. A part that they can truly like.''"
18 year-old daughter of Krauss and Natsuhi and fifth in the line of succession. Jessica has a lot of pressure put on her by Natsuhi, being the first heir after Kinzo's sons and daughters (although technically whoever she takes as her future husband will become the head and not her). She falls in love with Kanon. In the alternate world shown in [=EP7=] she is no longer the first heir of the cousins, with her older sibling Lion being the first in line of succession instead.
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* CerebusRetcon: During the SchoolFestival in the second arc, Jessica gets pissed off at a classmate and {{Megaton Punch}}es her with a ''brass knuckle''. That was just a gag, right? She pulls them out again during the fourth arc and they quickly become conduits for SupernaturalMartialArts.
* CosplayOtakuGirl: Not ordinarily so, but considering that her episode 2 school festival performance consisted of singing the VideoGame/{{Touhou}} song ''Tsurupettan'' while dressed up as Marisa...
** UpToEleven in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1E2DsxvyCQ&feature=related fighting game]]... [[KamehameHadouken MASTER SPARK!]]
* CuteBruiser
* CuteLittleFangs: In the original sound novel.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: In ''Ougon Musou Kyouku X'' and ''Cross''.
** MagicSkirt
* DeadPersonConversation: With Kanon in the third arc.
* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession]]
** [[spoiler:HellishPupils]]: In the sixth arc, when [[spoiler:she kills Kyrie]].
* {{Expy}}: {{Tsundere}} heiress to a BigScrewedUpFamily that acts like a tomboy but wants to be girly? Sounds like [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Mion]] to me.
* IllGirl - Jessica has asthma which often acts up and incapacitates when she's under stress.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in Episode 7, when (that game's) Jessica reveals to Will that she's been deliberately invoking this trope. Her asthma is a put-on meant to lend her an image as a frail, sheltered lady, as well as giving her a handy way out of unpleasant situations by faking her attacks.]]
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYkGjqDI60g Dokkyun Heart]].
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite Lion existing and thus becoming the second child, her personality never changed. If at all, this fueled her rebellious spirit.
* HeroicSacrifice: In order to save Kanon, she took Asmodeus InTheBack. ...Too bad it didn't really, well, [[SenselessSacrifice work]].
* MegatonPunch
** PowerFist
* PluckyGirl: At a bare minimum in the fourth arc.
** {{Determinator}}: She says it herself; "'Give up' isn't written anywhere in my dictionary!"
* ShipperOnDeck: For George and Shannon.
* ShoutOut: Jessica's [[SuperMovePortraitAttack Meta-Super]] in the fighting game is the [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Master Spark]], complete with [[CosplayOtakuGirl Marisa costume]].
** Her PaletteSwap for the Marisa costume is red and white, referring to Reimu (her brown hair also fits in too, since Reimu's hair tends to shift between brown and black depending on the art).
* StudentCouncilPresident: She has no interest in being one but her parents forced her.
* [[spoiler: SweetOnPollyOliver]]: A rather strange version, since [[spoiler: Kanon is one of Yasu's alter-egos, but it's unknown what Yasu's gender really is.]]
* {{Tomboy}}: She definitely has the personality fitting of one, and her manner of speech is very masculine (though not to the point of [[{{Bokukko}} using "boku" as a personal pronoun]]), much to the dismay of her mother.
** TomboyishPonytail
* TookALevelInBadass: Between being Kanon's DamselInDistress in the second arc and putting up a strong fight against Ronove in the fourth arc. [[spoiler: And then burning Kyrie alive in the sixth arc.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Though like [[HigurashinoNakuKoroNi Mion]], it's played somewhat unusually in that she's neither overly tsun nor overly dere.
* UpgradeArtifact: Having a little trouble dealing with your target? No problem! Just make a little contract with [[spoiler:Zepar and Furfur]], call up Bronove to stick some barriers around, and MinMax your way through that yandere-off.
!!George Ushiromiya (譲治)
!!!Voiced by: KenichiSuzumura
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-->"''Marriage means becoming your wife's ally for your entire life. From the moment I did that, I was prepared to have the whole world as my enemy.''"
23 year-old son of Eva and Hideyoshi, George is sixth in the line of succession. He has been working as a junior worker at his father's company, but hopes to eventually be able to own his own business. He falls in love with Shannon against his mother's wishes. Being in his twenties, he is by far the oldest of the four cousins, and tends to serve as an older-brother figure to the others. He's very good with young children.
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* ArrangedMarriage: Eva was trying to arrange an omiai for George. He wasn't particularly interested and got incredibly sheepish as soon as she brought it up.
* BarrierWarrior: Using softer light than [[HardLight Shannon]]. His adds the force of any attacks aimed at him to his own attacks, rather than just plain repelling the enemy.
* BigBrotherMentor
* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: In Episode 6, [[spoiler:he finally tells his mother he's proposed to Shannon, and is willing to leave the family rather than lose her. Eva doesn't take it well.]]
* TheConscience: Usually winds up playing a supporting role to Battler here.
* GentlemanAndAScholar
* {{Ephebophile}}: A mild example, but Shannon was supposedly 14 [[spoiler:(actually 17, due to Yasu's age being lowered by three years when first put to work)]] when he started dating her (he was 21). And he was interested in her way before that.
* [[spoiler: GreenEyedMonster: He admits to Shannon in [=EP7=] that he was jealous of Battler when they were kids because he was so close to Shannon. This gives a common theory that Battler did write Shannon a letter but George hid it from her when he gave her the empty bag because he was still jealous of their relationship. When he finally proposes to her though, he realizes how childish his envy is toward Battler.]]
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcallwX_nDI Love Declaration]], and the lyrics are a little… disturbing. They don't say "I love you" so much as [[CrazyJealousGuy "You are mine"]].
* KilledMidSentence: Second arc.
* KungFuWizard
* NiceGuy: He used to be one in the most unflattering sense possible (which Shannon {{troll}}s him about even now), but now he's much closer to the genuine article. Of course, some fans think he's still [[EntitledToHaveYou that kind]] of "Nice Guy".
* ThePowerOfLove: George invokes this trope in the fourth arc when he and Gaap fight.
* ScaryShinyGlasses Shows this whenever he gets serious.
* [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan]]: Sixth arc, sorta. [[spoiler:It was only one. He only killed his mother, not his father.]]
* ShoutOut: His PaletteSwap in ''Ougon Musou Kyouku'' looks like [[VideoGame/HeartNoKuniNoAlice Peter White without rabbit ears]] [[spoiler:just solidifying the possibility of him being a {{Yandere}}.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Similar to Jessica.
* TheWisePrince: Amply demonstrated in his lectures on leadership in Ep 4 and 6, complete with shiny rapefaces and levels in badassery.
** BadassCreed: See the above quote.
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat
* [[spoiler: {{Yandere}}: EP 4 and 6 raise some major red flags that he may be one.]]
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!!Krauss Ushiromiya (蔵臼)
!!!Voiced by: JurotaKosugi
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->''[[StayInTheKitchen "Don't you think education for women is like sugar in black tea? When there is none it's just tasteless, but too much of it ruins the tea."]]''
First successor to Kinzo's fortune, father of Jessica, and husband of Natsuhi. He has poor intuition for investment, and so has squandered a lot of the Ushiromiya family's wealth on failed projects. He is largely [[CainAndAbel resented by his siblings]] for being very manipulative.
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* [[spoiler: ArrangedMarriage: Him and Natsuhi]]
* BoundAndGagged: Apparently done to him in the fifth arc (well, bound, anyway), as part of a ploy to [[spoiler:frame Natsuhi]] for the murders that occur.
* TheDutifulSon
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Even after he gets swindled, he's still singing the praises of a few of the swindlers.
* [[IKnowKarate I Know Boxing]]: And I can down a goat-monster twice my size if he raises enough loser flags.
* InadequateInheritor
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Introduced as not much more than a manipulative jerk to his siblings, but in arcs three and four, he shows a much softer side with a PetTheDog moment or two. For all the sexist attitude he can show when he's upset, he really does care about his family.
* ManipulativeBastard: He shows this ''very'' effectively in the first arc, where he successfully turns the tables around in his negotiation with the other parents.
* PetTheDog: In episode 17 of the anime he laments that due to being Kinzo's successor he was never as nice to his siblings (especially Eva) as he should have been. Cue Eva-Beatrice strangling him and Natsuhi.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: In the fourth arc Krauss literally punches a goat man so hard it ends up falling right on top of Virgilia.
* SexlessMarriage: Apparently the case with him and Natsuhi, since they're shown to have separate rooms.
* StayInTheKitchen: Alienated Eva and Rosa with sexism when they were younger and he was competing with Eva over the headship qualifications. Much later, he refuses to let Natsuhi have anything to do with the family funds until it's too late to get out of the hole he dug himself into--very unfortunately for him, as [[SanityBall she's got all the common sense]].
** StrawMisogynist
* UpperClassTwit: He seems like a good guy, but lacks any business sense whatsoever.
** A big hint towards his complete lack of business foresight appears early in [=EP1=] when Krauss remarks that [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Japan will become the economic center of the world]]. Unfortunately for him, the collapse of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble Japanese asset price bubble]] would have likely completely wiped him out only four or five years later.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Gotta feel sorry for the poor idiot to some extent. Although he was the heir apparent, Kinzo never really had any faith in him ([[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter for good reason]]) to begin with, and so he was struggling for Kinzo's approval just like Eva. The only difference is that Eva actually deserved it.
!!Eva Ushiromiya (絵羽)
!!!Voiced by: MikiIto
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Second in the line of inheritance and George's mother. She has a lot of resentment against her older brother, Krauss, and has a rivalry with his wife, Natsuhi. She is also the wife of Hideyoshi. In order to keep her placement in the line of successors, she married Hideyoshi and had him adopt the name of "Ushiromiya".
In the meta-world, [[Characters/UminekoNoNakuKoroNiWitches Eva-Beatrice]] is the manifestation of all the theories which place her as the culprit of the Rokkenjima incident. In Arc 3, it is revealed that [[spoiler:she survives the Rokkenjima incident and becomes Ange's caretaker while becoming the head of the Ushiromiya corporate]]. In Arcs 7 and 8, it turns out that [[spoiler:she intentionally painted herself as the culprit while hiding the Book of the Single Truth -- her diary which contains the truth of what happened in Rokkenjima]].
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* ActionMom
* AudioErotica: Many fans consider Eva's voice to be this, thanks to Miki Ito's performance.
* [[spoiler: AntiHero: Turns out she was a type 3 the whole time.]]
* [[spoiler:AxeCrazy]]: Episode 3. It may not be true, though.
* AmbitionIsEvil
* BreakTheHaughty: Expected when George or Hideyoshi are found dead and she is still alive.
** Leads to UnstoppableRage in [=EP5=] [[spoiler:when Natsuhi is declared the culprit]]; after the trial, Eva loses it in the real world and begins to beat her up in a fit of rage. Not that anyone tries to stop her, besides Battler.
** SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Third]] arc only, where you can really start to see her lose it after Hideyoshi is killed, until the end, where she ultimately goes...
*** [[spoiler:AxCrazy]]: Or so it seemed.
* CainAndAbel [[spoiler:She engages in the actions of Cain, but is morally speaking Abel.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Her martial arts prowess is discussed at the beginning of the first novel. A slightly different example in that the callback turns out to be the fact that she taught those skills to George, allowing him to be a BadassNormal in the fourth novel. Aside from that, it also explains the reason Eva-Beatrice is a melee fighter in ''Ougon Musou Kyoku''.
* EducationMama: Tuesday: piano lessons; Wednesday: cram-school; Thursday: supplementary class; Friday: special school for parents and children; Saturday: special tutor. All alongside regular school. It's surprising George [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere didn't imitate Battler.]]
* EyeScream: Once in the fourth arc, she ([[spoiler:or better said, Ange's ''perception'' of Eva]]) holds [[spoiler: Ange]] at gunpoint. Then, the rifle '''blows up on her face''', and said injuries are so horrible that [[spoiler: Ange has to MercyKill her]].
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]: [[spoiler:And then it turns out it was a JerkassFacade]].
* FemaleMisogynist: Becomes this, to some extent, in her attempts to wrest the succession from Krauss, as she sees the genders of their children as an advantage to her. She feels plenty guilty about it, though.
* GoGetterGirl: Young Eva started out like this in high school. Then her father told her she could never become family head because she was a woman. Things got worse from there...
* [[spoiler:GoodIsNotNice]]
* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: While most of the adult women in ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' are quite attractive, Eva probably takes the cake. She's got to be at least 50 and she doesn't look a day over 30. Probably doesn't hurt that she's mastered numerous martial arts and kept her figure extremely fit.
* HappilyMarried: She genuinely loves her husband and arguably has the most stable relationship with her spouse among her siblings.
* HotMom
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler:In the BadFuture resulting from the third arc. Oddly, you see the scene in which she's implied to have died, but the actual cause of death stated in the TIPS is heart failure]]. Huh. That must have been some cough.
** TruthInTelevision: Heart failure patients tend to develop chronic coughs from fluid in the lungs.
* MyBelovedSmother: To George.
* NotQuiteDead: After [[spoiler:Kyrie shoots her in ''Requiem'''s Tea Party.]] Certainly a miracle, although we won't go as far as to say she was "lucky"…
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Eva disapproves of George falling in love with Shannon and makes that very clear.
** In Episode 6, George calls her on it. The resulting argument has her causing a major case of MyBelovedSmother before finally [[spoiler:transforming into Eva-Beatrice and trying to beat him into submission with magic. Cue KungFuWizard smackdown.]]
* PetTheDog: She genuinely seems to love her husband Hideyoshi, and gets a touching scene with him in episode 3 of the anime. [[spoiler:They find her and Hideyoshi's bodies approximately 90 seconds later]]. Also, despite (''and'' because of) what you'll hear about [[LiteralSplitPersonality Eva-Beatrice]], the third arc serves as a giant PetTheDog moment for Eva. [[spoiler:At least until she turns out to be the culprit]], [[MindScrew or something]].
* ResentfulGuardian: To [[spoiler:Ange. She didn't have to be, and initially tried to be a good guardian to her. However, things broke down, with Ange acting essentially as a little girl in her situation would. This hit Eva's BerserkButton, and things went downhill from there]].
** [[spoiler:SinsOfOurFathers]]: A lot of the reason that she becomes so miserable toward Ange is because [[spoiler:Rudolf and Kyrie--Ange's parents--were the ones responsible for killing the entire rest of the family, or so we're led to believe]].
* RichBitch: She acts equivalent to the trope, but usually over position in the hierarchy, rather than actual money, since everyone's filthy rich.
* [[spoiler:SilentScapegoat]]: [[spoiler:Chose to have Ange hate her forever rather than tell her the truth about what really happened on the island, which she feared would be too much for her.]]
* SkirtOverSlacks
* [[spoiler:SoleSurvivor]]: [[spoiler:She is believed to be the only survivor of the Rokkenjima Incident. This is not a good thing, for her, or for Ange, the only other living Ushiromiya.]]
* SplitPersonality
* StayInTheKitchen: How she was treated by her brothers in her childhood.
* SupremeChef: It's only very breifly mentionned in the story, but according to a TIP she is very skilled and creative when it comes to cooking, to the point Hideyoshi calls her a "Witch of the kitchen".
* UnexpectedSuccessor: [[spoiler:Third arc]]. Although she's not actually that far down the chain, there was no reason to expect Krauss to pass away, and after he does, the hope would be that Jessica's husband could succeed after him. In addition, Eva has the HeirClubForMen baggage to deal with.
* [[spoiler:TragicHero]]
* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done, Daughter" Girl]]
* WickedStepmother: Ange sees Eva this way, [[spoiler:but it's subverted to hell and back particularly in the final two arcs]].
!!Rudolf Ushiromiya (留弗夫)
!!!Voiced by: RikiyaKoyama
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Husband of Kyrie and father of Battler and Ange, Rudolf is third in the line of succession. He's an admitted philanderer. His relationship with Battler has been strained since his first wife, Asumu's, death, due to his quick remarriage to Kyrie.
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* [[spoiler: AxCrazy]]: [=EP7=], at least, where he declares that [[spoiler:killing people is surprisingly easy and very fun.]]
* BadassNormal
* [[spoiler:BigBad: It's hinted that the [=EP7=] solution is the true one, because Ange would never want her parents to be the culprits.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [=EP6=]. [[spoiler: It's one thing to find your wife's body burned alive but it's another thing to lose your son as well.]]
* CannotSpitItOut: After [=EP4=]'s revelation that [[spoiler:Asumu is not Battler's birth mother]] it was believed that Rudolf was aware of this. And in [=EP5=] it is highly implied during the 19th person talk that Rudolf was going to tell Battler in [=EP1=] after the letter reading, thus his 'I'm going to die' stint. However, he is never actually seen telling Battler nor is he seen telling anybody.
** He finally does tell Kyrie in [=EP8=] that [[spoiler:Battler is her biological son, and he was responsible for switching him with Asumu's child, who was miscarried, because he didn't want anyone to know he had an affair with Kyrie. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Kyrie takes the news better than what would be expected of her at this point]]]].
* [[spoiler:CorruptCorporateExecutive: According to Kyrie's diary entries that Ange reads after the Rokkenjima incident, Rudolf's business practices were rarely ever ''not'' skirting the law in some way. It's only recently that it's come to bite him in the ass and get him slapped with a lawsuit, which is why he wants the gold.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:A rare successful one]].
* [[spoiler: TheDragon]]: In Episode 7.
* [[spoiler: FacingTheBulletsOneLiner]]: To Eva in [=EP7=] [[spoiler:after killing George.]]
-->'''Rudolf''': [[spoiler:Go ahead and shoot... I doubt that'll bring you much peace, though.]]
* HaremSeeker: In his youth. He later got over it... [[YourCheatingHeart for the most part...]]
* HandsomeLech
* HeyItsThatVoice: His [[RikiyaKoyama voice actor for the anime]] is the same as the dub voice for [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]]. This is [[ShoutOut played with]] in the sound novel's fifth episode, where he sings the first line of Bauer's song.
** Also played with in the preview for the 16th anime episode, when Rudolf is making calls, has a 24 ringtone, slips up and refers to himself as Jack.
* HotDad: Hey, you can't say that Rudolf hasn't aged well.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: In Episode 8 [[spoiler:he and Kyrie manage to each fire a bullet simultaneously ''and make the bullets clash''. 10 cm from Erika's head.]]
* KonamiCode: The very first scene he appears has him pulling Battler's ear while saying "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right". That's gotta hurt.
* [[spoiler: {{Leitmotif}}]]: With Episode 7, [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AHOh9tTNfo Yomitsu Hirasaka Corruption]] is now heavily associated with him.]]
* ManlyTears: Sheds them when [[spoiler: Battler and Kyrie are killed in the sixth arc.]]
* MillionairePlayboy
* OverprotectiveDad: To Battler in [=EP7=]. {{Fanon}} turns it UpToEleven in doujinshi.
* PapaWolf: Toward Battler despite constantly mocking him. [[spoiler:Evident in Arc 7 when he constantly tells Kyrie not to go after him when they're massacring everyone else on the island. It's even hinted that he wouldn't have listened to Kyrie to shoot his own son if Battler didn't believe his lies.]]
** In [=EP6=] [[spoiler:he literally breaks down when he finds Battler's body and refuses to believe it was suicide, and is the first person to take the gun.]]
* ParentWithNewParamour
* SmokingIsCool
* TaughtByTelevision: ''"Don't underestimate the western-loving generation!"''
** This actually plays a big role in [=EP7=]. [[spoiler: He understands how to use the guns that are on the island more easily than anyone else because he's watched so many Western movies.]]
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: [=EP1=] he tells Battler and Kyrie that he's going to get killed. Battler doesn't believe him. [[spoiler: Next morning, he's in the shed.]]
** [[spoiler:Turns out he was planning to tell Kyrie that Battler is her real son and was afraid of how she'd react. Oh, the irony.]]
* YourCheatingHeart
!!Rosa Ushiromiya (楼座)
!!!Voiced by: AmiKoshimizu
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-->"''I'm sorry for having been such a bad Mama...''"
Mother of Maria and fourth in the line of succession. Although Battler describes her as a calming figure, her relationship with Maria is very troubled.
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* AbusiveParents: The weird case when it overlaps with... MamaBear.
* BadassNormal [[spoiler: At the end of the second arc, she takes on an army of goats with a rifle, a pen, and a gold ingot. And it is ''awesome''.]]
** [[spoiler: Continues badassing it up in Episode 8 as well.]]
* BerserkButton: "Uu-uu-uu-!!" Maria, you're very cute, but it seems [[spoiler:your "happiness charm"]] has the opposite effect, sorry.
* BlackBlood: Used to chilling effect when [[spoiler:Maria]] kills her.
* TheChewToy: [[spoiler:Being among the first to die in the first arc]] is getting off easy compared to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the hell she goes through in later arcs]]. Rosa has only survived past the second twilight ''once'', and that's just things involved with the murders. Outside of that, Rosa's life is practically a personalized hell for her.
** Where do we begin? Being the youngest, she got picked on by her older siblings, according to Rudolf. In addition to that, if [=EP3=] is to be believed, then she watched Beatrice [[spoiler:II]] ''die'' and blamed herself for the incident, which both ends up being what drives Kinzo off the edge of insanity and is something she has to be reminded of every time Maria references Beatrice. And ''then'' on top of all that, the man she had Maria with runs off to have a family of his own while burdening her with a debt that gives her the futile hope that he'll come back to her if she pays it off, leaving Rosa to raise Maria by herself while taking up a management job she never wanted. Rosa's life is probably the most screwed up among the main siblings bar none, and second only to poor Natsuhi.
*** Though she has her [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments Of Awesome]]. At the very least, it shows that the only way to really stop Rosa once she's pissed is to practically ''gib'' her.
* ChristmasCake: In some of the [=EP4=] flashbacks, this seemed to be a large concern of Rosa's, especially because any potential husbands would need to be okay with a daughter [[HeroicBastard who isn't theirs]].
* ClassyCravat
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Oh, boy, she ''does'' deserve a special entry for this. Due to quantity, at least.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* CuteAndPsycho: [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like mother, like daughter]]. Rosa can switch from the sweetest mother to the most abusive one with such ''ease''...
* [[FantasyForbiddingFather Fantasy-Forbidding Mother]]
* FreudianExcuse: Rosa often uses this to rationalize her harsh treatment towards Maria. Her own parents and siblings showed little mercy towards her when she was growing up, so she believes holding back on Maria would be "spoiling" her.
* GenerationXerox: In the [=EP8=] manga, it's revealed that [[spoiler:as a little girl she had a stuffed rabbit that she loved very much, rather like Maria with Sakutaro. Unfortunately, similarly to Sakutaro, Rosa's rabbit was torn apart by her older siblings]].
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: ...Or something. As the series goes on, it becomes more apparent that Maria's birth was, at best, an accident, and an unwelcome one at that. Justified in that the series takes place in 1986, when abortion would have been illegal in Japan except under special circumstances.
* GunsAkimbo: In ''Ougon Musoukyoku X'' and ''Cross'', Rosa's Meta-super move involves Maria giving Rosa and extra gun so that Rosa can launch a mega-combo against her opponent like this.
* HimeCut
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Fourth arc, when she's [[spoiler: torn apart by her own hands]].
* HotMom
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Although in the second arc, she has a [[HandCannon rifle]], some of her other defensive moves when she wasn't armed included a pen and a chair, to varying degrees of effectiveness.
** ThePenIsMightier
* KickTheDog: When she [[spoiler:tears up Sakutaro]]. Does not end well.
* KnightTemplarParent: To some extent, although there are a few questionable things she does that just [[AbusiveParents don't seem to fall into that category]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: The main reason she's TheChewToy, at least as far as her deaths in the main story goes. It's most direct in the fourth arc, though...
* LaughingMad: While [[spoiler:Maria kills her over and over again]]. At some point they actually laugh mad ''together''. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint What a happy family!]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGiSIYRxic8 worldend dominator]] is heavily associated with Rosa, having played on her [[Awesome/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi best moments]].
* LoveMartyr: The reason that Rosa's in debt is that [[spoiler:she cosigned a loan with Maria's father. She is hoping that if and when she pays off the debt, the man will finally agree to marry her and become a proper father to poor Maria, even though he's already said he won't]].
* MagicalGirl: She, as Magical Rosa, and Eva-Beatrice, as Magical Eva, form the Magical Girl duo "Magical Beatrice" at the end of their scenario in ''Ougon Musou Kyoku''.
* MamaBear: Her last act in the second arc is to mow down [[{{Mook}} goat-headed butlers]] with a rifle and Maria at her side.
-->'''Rosa:''' Just try laying a finger on my daughter. I'll show you how lukewarm the hell you came from is!!
** [[spoiler:Then comes [=EP8=], where Erika has the guts to tell Maria her mom doesn't love her. Guess who shoves a rifle barrel down her throat?]]
* {{Manchild}}: She's nowhere near being the most blatant example of this trope, but she does have some moments where she acts quite a bit like a child. At one point in [=EP1=], she even laments that she still doesn't feel as though she's really grown up.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Her general reaction after beating or neglecting Maria ([[AbusiveParents not that it stops her]]).
** TruthInTelevision: It's rather common to have abusers of all kinds regret their actions upon seeing the consequences they bring to their victims, and try to compensate the abuse by acting nicer. Sadly, it's also very usual to restart the abuse cycle with one little mistake...
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: [[spoiler:Second tea party]]. [[GratuitousEnglish ETT'S]] [[MemeticMutation PAAFEKUTO!]]
** [[spoiler:ImAHumanitarian]]: The banquet.
*** AGlassOfChianti: Beato has Rosa drink this. Too bad the above trope also comes into play here.
** ImNotHungry: Poor Rosa.
*** [[spoiler:ForceFeeding]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Despite being frequently called the dumbest of the siblings, she had [[spoiler:ended up solving the riddle of the Witch's Epitaph before Eva]], but didn't pursue her suspicion until later.
* ParentalNeglect: When she's not abusing Maria, she leaves her on her own to visit her boyfriend. [[spoiler:Although this may not be true at all, and it's because Rosa really is working hard so she can pay off the debt Maria's father left her in and he can come back to both of them.]]
* PistolWhipping: Rosa does this a lot on ''Ougon Musoukyoku'', but it is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to the game mechanics; before Rosa can fire her rifle, she has to charge it first.
* ResentfulGuardian: Maria definitely imagines that this is the case. While it may be true in some part of Rosa's psyche, it's still pretty apparent that she genuinely loves her daughter.
* SplitPersonality: The way Maria interprets Rosa's behaviour towards her (white witch, black witch).
* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler:Sixth arc]].
* TroubledAbuser: Rosa was abused by Kinzo, tormented by her brothers and sister (which Rudolf acknowledges as some point), and is a single mother where the father of her daughter Maria [[spoiler: left her without marrying her and while she was pregnant]]. All in all, her life's a train wreck. Is it any wonder that she winds up taking so much of it out on Maria, as much as poor Maria doesn't deserve it?
* {{Tsundere}}: Towards Maria. [[PlayedForDrama It's not funny.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Battler says that Rudolf said this about Rosa a lot, but because of the age difference between her and the rest of her siblings, she got treated pretty nastily by them a lot of the time. Now, of course, she treats Maria quite harshly.
* VillainProtagonist: The Rosa/Battler scenario on ''Ougon Musoukyouku'' ends with [[spoiler: Rosa shooting and killing Battler, eerily mimicking the scene where Eva does the same to Battler in [=EP3=]]].
* UseYourHead: One of Rosa's many attacks in ''Ougon Musoukyouku''.
* YouAreTooLate: Rosa's practically made of this one. In Episode 2, she and Maria reconcile...just in time for them to die. In Episode 3, [[spoiler:she solves the epitaph first, but presumably doesn't act fast enough and Eva arrives before her]]. In Episode 4, she almost takes out [[spoiler:Goldsmith]] but hesitates a little too long.
!!Natsuhi Ushiromiya (夏妃)
!!!Voiced by: EmiShinohara
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-->"''Without fail, I will protect all of the Ushiromiya family's honor and glory!''"
Mother of Jessica and wife of Krauss, she is ninth in the line of succession. Natsuhi is under a lot of pressure, since it is her and Krauss's responsibility to take care of both Kinzo and the house, and yet she married into the Ushiromiya family, putting her at a fairly low rank on the hierarchy. She gave birth to Jessica after twelve years of being unable to have a child, a fact that Eva attempted to take advantage of.
In Arc 5, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Kinzo gave her a child to adopt when she couldn't give birth to a heir. Out of anger and resentment, she pushes a servant holding the child off a cliff]]. In an alternate world shown in Arc 7 [[spoiler:where she accepts the child]], she becomes the mother of two children, Lion and Jessica.
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* AnimeHair: Her lower/head hair and her upper/ponytail hair are noticeably different shades of brown. In the novels, the ponytail actually seems to fade to ''red.''
* BerserkButton: Don't insult the Ushiromiya family name, head, her husband, or her own standing in the family honorably given to her by Kinzo, [[spoiler:even if the last one isn't true]].
* BreakTheHaughty: Natsuhi is oftentimes far too proud for her own good. Pretty much the whole fifth arc is one long TraumaCongaLine for her.
* TheChewToy: In addition to BreakTheHaughty and TraumaCongaLine above, she gets verbally abused by Eva in [=EP1=] to the point Natsuhi ends up running away in tears. [[spoiler:She is also one of the first to go in the second, fourth, sixth and seventh games.]] Suffice to say, Natsuhi is the series punching bag alongside Rosa. To add to the insult, [[spoiler: It's hinted that she was actually the first person to die when the massacre started.]]
* ClassyCravat
* DeadPersonConversation: A few with [[spoiler:Kinzo]], although it's implied that it's because [[spoiler:she [[{{Hallucinations}} snapped]] to a certain extent after Kinzo's death]], rather than it being a genuine conversation with a ghost.
* DuelToTheDeath: In [=EP1=].
* EyesAlwaysShut: Most of the time in the first novel, due to her chronic headaches.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Her dress is primarily purple and she's quite feminine, mature, and lady-like. Well...[[HairTriggerTemper usually.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: And with all the stress Natsuhi has to deal with, you'd be a little high-strung too.
* HonorBeforeReason
* HonorRelatedAbuse: [[spoiler:Because the child Kinzo gave her to raise served as a constant reminder of her failure to produce an heir herself, she pushed a servant holding the child off a cliff]].
* HotMom: She's 47, but she seems to be aging pretty well despite how stressed out she is a lot of the time.
* IWishedYouWereDead: Her exposition about [[spoiler:the child from 19 years ago]] indicates this trope in action.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Natsuhi's birth family.
** [[spoiler:ArrangedMarriage: To Krauss]]
*** [[spoiler:ScarpiaUltimatum: Kinzo forced Natsuhi into the marriage as a reconciliation of her family's debts to him.]]
* {{Keigo}}: She speaks very formally almost all of the time. More so than pretty much all of the other adults. But given that she's a YamatoNadeshiko [[SubvertedTrope (or at least she's trying to be one]] [[HairTriggerTemper even though she falls short at times, that is)]], this is only to be expected.
* LawOfInverseFertility: Feeds into succession tensions, as she and Krauss can't conceive a kid and heir for ''many'' years.
* MamaBear: Kumasawa refers to Natsuhi as this trope by name in the first arc. [[spoiler: She tries to invoke it against Beato to protect Jessica, but it horribly fails.]]
* MeaningfulName: Her name can be translated as "summer princess".
* MotherlySidePlait: An odd variation, since hers is held in a high ponytail. This somewhat expresses her sternness despite genuinely loving her family.
* [[spoiler:OffingTheOffspring]]: Whether or not it actually happened is a subject of controversy, but Erika suggests this in the fifth arc. Later proven false, though. [[spoiler:Of course, that doesn't mean she wouldn't try to off her adoptive offspring in a fit of anger...]]
* PerpetualFrowner: A rare female example. She is very often seen with a prominent frown on her face to underscore her serious and responsible personality.
* {{Pride}}: Her FatalFlaw is that she can let her desire to uphold the honor of her husband and the Ushiromiya family as a whole get the best of her.
* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage]]: Poor woman seems to have somewhat [[spoiler:lost track of reality after Kinzo's death]].
* SexlessMarriage: For all her dedication to Krauss, she still seems to have this relationship with him since they sleep in separate rooms.
* StayInTheKitchen: Krauss repeatedly shuts Natsuhi up. Unfortunately this isn't to his benefit, since she basically runs the house and has much more common sense than he does while he squanders their money on poorly thought-out business ventures.
* StepfordSmiler: Natsuhi's goal is similar, although she seems to have some [[PerpetualFrowner trouble with the "smiler" part]].
* TallDarkAndBishoujo
* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Natsuhi has this to Kinzo, her father-in-law, as she loves him very much and desperately wants his approval.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Tries her hardest to be this, and has quite a few characteristics that match, but she ultimately subverts the trope since she has too much of a HairTriggerTemper to fully play it straight. She'd probably fit the archetype better if she hadn't married into a BigScrewedUpFamily that constantly stresses her out.
!!Hideyoshi Ushiromiya (秀吉)
!!!Voiced by: MasashiHirose
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--> ''"Would ya give it a rest, Eva?"''
Father of George and husband of Eva, he is tenth in the line of succession. He owns a successful restaurant chain and is a fairly cheerful and sociable man. He was married into Eva's family and took on her family name on a technicality.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Or more accurately, in anime episode 16: Did you just [[CrowningMomentOfFunny give the witch a noogie]]? It was [[TearJerker remarkably more serious]] in the original game, and was more like [[spoiler: did you just bitchslap a witch and insist she was your wife?]]
* HappilyMarried: Seeing as how he's one of the genuinely kindest members of the family, he has no regrets for marrying Eva or changing his name to Ushiromiya.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: But it's actually fake, (apparently he thinks it helps him with business) and he drops it around real people from Kansai.
* MoralityPet: He's arguably this to Eva.
** MoralityChain: Don't let him die, or Eva will go apeshit on you.
* NiceGuy
* SatelliteCharacter: Usually, he dies too early to do much not related to Eva.
* SmokingIsCool: Although maybe he should think when he smokes.
!!Kyrie Ushiromiya (霧江), née Sumadera
!!! Voiced by: AtsukoTanaka
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-->"''Flip the chessboard around.''"
The business partner and second wife of Rudolf. Kyrie is Ange's mother and Battler's stepmother ([[spoiler:or so she thinks]]). She is dead last on the chain of succession as far as is known (there is confusion over Maria's father). She is known to have a very strong "flip-the-chessboard" mentality about how to tackle problems, and indeed, seems to have inspired Battler's own.
She was actually in a relationship with Rudolf before Asumu was and is intensely jealous of her, not just for having married Rudolf first, but also for having had a child early: although Kyrie was also pregnant at the time ([[spoiler:as the result of an affair with Rudolf]]), the pregnancy resulted in a miscarriage. She overall has a good relationship with Battler, although she privately resents him as well, since had her own child lived, they may have had Battler's position.
In Arc 8, it is confirmed that [[spoiler:Battler is her biological son, who was SwitchedAtBirth with Asumu's child by Rudolf at birth to keep his affair with Kyrie a secret]].
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* ActionMom
* [[spoiler:AxeCrazy]]
* BadassLongcoat
* BadassNormal ''and'' BadassBookworm
* [[spoiler:BigBad]]: [[spoiler:She and Rudolf are the murderers; [[UnreliableNarrator according to Bernkastel, at least]]. In Ep8, Eva never wanted Ange to know the truth, suggesting Kyrie and Rudolf really were the culprits.]]
* BoyishShortHair
* ConvenientMiscarriage: [[spoiler: Even more so after the big reveal about Battler in [=EP4=], who turns out not to be Asumu's son; it isn't revealed until [=EP8=] that Kyrie is the real mother through a [[SwitchedAtBirth baby switch]].]]
* CoolBigSis: Her relationship with Battler is like this.
* TheChessmaster: While being good at actual chess, [[spoiler: her plans for gaining the inheritance always backfire in the worst possible ways]].
* CreepyCoolCrosses
* DissonantSerenity: [[spoiler:Murdering your entire family in cold-blood]]? Just another day for Kyrie.
* [[spoiler:EvilerThanThou]]: [[spoiler:A [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome badass]] variation; in the third arc, Leviathan explains that it took a couple days after she was born to develop powers, making her extremely envious of her older sisters. Kyrie ''laughs'' at her and magnificently counters with what amounts to "What? You think that's envy? ''I had to watch some bitch steal my man from me '''for eighteen years!!'''''", then shoots her to death.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Leviathan gives chocolate to Kyrie for Valentines Day, in the Extra Tips "Stakes Valentine Day".
** [=EP6=]: [[spoiler: Leviathan saves Kyrie from being killed by Jessica.]]
* FiringOneHanded: She's the only one to wield the rifles this way.
* FormulaicMagic
* HotChickInABadassSuit
* HotMom
* [[spoiler:InsaneTrollLogic]]: [[spoiler:Her motive for instigating the Rokkenjima massacre is... Having all the gold to herself. The benefits just don't match up with the risks, especially since she knows that the gold is actually unusable.]]
* [[spoiler:LadyMacbeth]]: [[spoiler:In episode 7, she's revealed to be this to Rudolf]]
* [[spoiler: {{Leitmotif}}]]: As of Episode 7, [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi3eAjB_LcA Ridicule]] is universally considered to be hers.]]
* LoveHurts: Of course, it also gives you enough envy to overpower envy-incarnate, so it all evens out.
* MadnessMantra: PlayedForLaughs in "The Stakes' Valentine" and "Beatrice's White Day", when Leviathan kindly informs her that Rudolf gets along ''[[YourCheatingHeart very well]]'' with Belphegor.
-->'''Kyrie:''' Oh my. I hope the hospital has a free room with two beds. 24×365×1895179579245988…
* MafiaPrincess: The Sumadera clan can be more-or-less summed up as [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of the [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Sonozaki family]], and Kyrie herself has plenty of scary moments, particularly in later arcs.
* MeaningfulName: Possibly, as "Kyrie" means "Lord" in Greek, in addition to being a Japanese name.
** Or it could just be part of the Christianity-based ThemeNaming of the series, as the Kyrie is a Christian prayer.
* [[spoiler: MurderTheHypotenuse:]] She didn't, but that's only because Asumu died before that.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Kyrie says that Asumu probably drew Rudolf in due to the fact that she was very good at [[YamatoNadeshiko acting the traditional female role]]. Kyrie tended to serve as a business partner for Rudolf, which she feels probably [[MotherNatureFatherScience overwhelmed him]] to a certain extent.
* PowerLevels
** Leads to GreenEyedMonster in Episode 3, where she basically [[spoiler:defeats Leviathan by out-{{Envy}}ing her]].
* RunawayFiance
* [[spoiler:SmugSnake]]: [[spoiler: In [=EP7=], for all her wit and cunning, she comes across as a nasty murderous thug who seems to be a KarmaHoudini... and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome then Eva shows up with a rifle]].]]
* TheSmartGuy: Gender flip'd
* UnreliableNarrator: People tend to forget it, but all the horrible things she says about Asumu are mostly ''her'' version of the story. Considering how the two of them got along, it wouldn't be strange for her to distort the truth a tiny bit…
* [[spoiler:UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom]]: [[spoiler:The plan was initially simply for Yasukashnontrice to find a way to settle her "in-love-with-three-different-people" dilemma in the same way that Kinzo had gambitted to apologize to her, until Kyrie and Rudolf go on a murder spree to claim the inheritance money all for themselves]].
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl
* {{Yandere}}: Considering the entire Asumu talk, Kyrie's not too far from this for Rudolf.
** Confirmed in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler: Kyrie straight up tells Jessica that if Asumu didn't die on her own then she would have just killed her, all to be with Rudolf.]]
** ChekhovsGun: Whether or not [[spoiler:she's actually the murderer as Bernkastel suggests, [=EP3=] and onward show that she is ''capable'' of extraordinary coldness and violence if it's for Rudolf's sake]], which is why it is possible for her piece to act as it does in [=EP7=] (pieces cannot be out-of-character).
*** In addition to this, it's hinted that [[spoiler:Kyrie is connected with Lambda in some way, as she mentions "gratitude" towards her "master" when talking about her certain conviction granting her a miracle]].
* [[spoiler:YourSonAllAlong]]
!!Kinzō Ushiromiya (金蔵)
!!!Goldsmith
!!!Voiced by: {{Mugihito}} (elderly), DaisukeOno (younger)
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-->"''BEATORIICHEEEEEEE!!!!!!''"
The head of the family, Kinzo is expected to die soon, given his fairly poor health. He is suggested from the beginnning of the series to be mentally unstable, having devoted all of his time to black magic in his study. He is obsessed with reviving the Golden Witch, who claims that she gave him his entire fortune. Adopts the name Goldsmith in the fourth arc, when he shows his powers as a magician.
Arc 4 reveals that [[spoiler:he has been dead more than a year before the start time of all games, except for Arcs 7 and 8.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Despite his children being adults already, he still has enough power to pull it. And just in case the emotional (and literal) beatdowns weren't enough for you, he also [[spoiler: imprisoned his illegitimate daughter in isolation and repeatedly raped her.]]
* [[spoiler:TheAtoner]]: Turns out the whole deal with the epitaph was actually his wild gamble to [[spoiler:establish contact with Yasu, grant him/her the headship, and try to somehow make up for for what he did to his daughter Beatrice]].
** XanatosRoulette: Kinzo is well aware that this is a huge gamble, even {{Lampshading}} it with the quote at the top of the chapel.
* BadassGrandpa: If the fourth arc is to be taken at face value, he managed to summon two of Beatrice's more powerful furniture as well as her mentor. At once.
* BirthmarkOfDestiny: His polydactyly was seen as this, which is why he was made head of the Ushiromiya family legacy despite being from a branch family.
* ByronicHero
* {{Callback}}: The name "Goldsmith" was from a gag in the first EP, where Battler jokes that Kinzo should join in the Western ThemeNaming.
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]] [[color:white:But not in [=EP7=].]]
* DealWithTheDevil
* DeathSeeker: During World War II, he joined the army hoping to be killed in battle, only to be assigned to an engineering job far from the front lines. He got over it when he met Beatrice.
* DespairEventHorizon: He was implied to have crossed it [[spoiler:when Beatrice Castiglioni died, fueling the eventual parental incest with his daughter.]]
* DistinguishingMark: Kinzo was born with six toes on each foot. This fact is almost always used to identify [[spoiler:his charred corpse]].
* DrowningMySorrows
* EvilIsNotAToy: Reviving a witch who requires your entire family to be sacrificed doesn't seem like a good idea to begin with, and sure enough, he's found as one of the sacrifices in most of the early arcs. [[spoiler:Subverted]].
* EvilSorceror: Particularly in the fourth arc. [[spoiler:Subverted. He's not evil, nor is he a sorceror.]] Completely out of his mind, yes, but then, who in this family isn't?
* EvilOldFolks: Well, according to the fourth arc, he sics Beatrice's demons on his entire family. [[spoiler:Subverted. See above]].
* {{Flanderization}}: In parody works involving him, his eccentricity, drunkenness, frivolous spending, and [[CrazyAwesome Crazy Awesomeness]] are cranked UpToEleven.
* FormulaicMagic: His magic is said to be based heavily in probability.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first four Episodes, while the other "sacrifices" die in various ways, Kinzō alone consistently ends up burned to a crisp. [[spoiler:[[DeadAllAlong That's because he's a charred corpse from the beginning.]]]]
* GenerationXerox: His young sprite has Battler's face.
* GrumpyOldMan
* HotBlooded
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKKAoC9mLBM A Song of Scattered Love ~ My Beloved Golden Witch]], which is shared with Genji.
* IncomingHam: His "Happy Halloween" entrance in Episode 8.
* {{Jerkass}}: Full stop. Even in Eva's flashbacks in Arc 3. The candidacy of most of his descendants for at least JerkassWoobie can largely be laid at Kinzo's feet.
* KickTheDog: Nearly every scene we see him interact with ''anyone'' that's not Beatrice is a Kick the Dog moment for him. Even taking into account that [[spoiler:he was not actually alive for most of the series.]]
* LargeHam: Most of the scenes he appears in, he is screaming at the sky like the insane man he is.
** [[SayMyName "BEATORIICHEEEEEEE!!!!!!"]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "la divina tragedia", as far as fans are concerned.
** [[MemeticMutation Yami wo kirisaku OH DESIRE! / Sacrifice sheep TO GOD!]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENL0nPskSao Fishy Aroma]] serves as Kinzo's theme considering that it's set as the default music to Kinzo's study in the fighting game.
** In the VN, it's the slow, solemn and slightly sad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIxN7byEEw&feature=related Rose]]. It's also the very first music you hear in the series.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy[=/=]LoveMakesYouEvil[=/=]LoveHurts
* MadLove: Given how crazy he is over Beatrice, it's telling that he just about never comes up in any of her speech, except how he relates to the murders. Heck, she actually has her {{Mooks}} eat him alive in one ending. [[spoiler:This behaviour is very much justified once the true relationship between her and Kinzo is revealed.]]
* [[MadwomanInTheAttic Madman In The Attic]]: He may have locked himself in there, but he still fits pretty darn well. [[spoiler:Except for the fact that he's dead, of course]].
* MurderByCremation: [[spoiler:Subverted - he was dead for about two years prior]].
* {{Necromantic}}: Kinzo had a mistress a long time before named Beatrice, and he seems to be engaging in the ceremony in order to bring her back to life after she died years earlier. [[spoiler:This is later proven false, since Kinzo wasn't alive in order to orchestrate the ceremony. And while he did have a mistress whom he desperately wanted to come back to life, the "ceremony" was not a magical ritual to summon her]].
* NotSoAboveItAll: The stern and scary Kinzo of arcs 1-7 gives way to a Kinzo genuinely delighted to see his children and grandchildren to the extent that Genji winds up refraining whenever he says hello to anyone to remember his dignity.
* OminousOperaCape
* [[spoiler:OneOfTheKids]]: In [[spoiler:Battler's game for Ange, Kinzo is shown horsing around with Maria and Ange]].
* [[spoiler:ParentalIncest: With his daughter, Beatrice Ushiromiya. He saw it as a ReincarnationRomance, since she looked so much like her mother as she grew older, but as you can imagine, she didn't see it that way...]]
* PaterFamilicide: Through the summoning of Beatrice. [[spoiler:Subverted]].
* ThePatriarch
* PetTheDog: The scene in the first arc where he tells Natsuhi that even though she isn't qualified to wear the family crest on her clothes, that it's in her heart and to not listen to the family members who would mock her. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he was actually dead and Natsuhi was just being delusional.]]
** His behaviour towards Lion in [=EP7=] could also count towards this. [[spoiler: [[HeroicBastard Of course, he has]] [[ParentalIncest a reason for doing so...]]]]
* PhraseCatcher: "I wouldn't put it past father/grandfather." Whenever they talk about him doing something CrazyAwesome.
* PuppetKing: Before [[spoiler:going to Rokkenjima]], he was the head of the family in name only. Everything in his life, [[ArrangedMarriage including his wife]], was decided by the elders. For 20 years.
* SelfMadeMan: He was tasked with reviving the Ushiromiya prestige which was toppled in the great Kanto quake. He did it, to the surprise of everybody.
* SharpDressedMan: Kinzo is revealed to be particularly fussy about his clothes in Twilight.
* SpringtimeForHitler: He enlisted in the army because he wanted to be killed on the front. But because he had some experience with construction, the higher-ups sent him to a secret base on an isolated island where no deadly battle was ever likely to occur. [[spoiler:It ends pretty well for him though… well, apart from the whole "massacre over 10 tons of gold" thing.]]
* StrawMisogynist: In particular, his behaviour towards Eva in [=EP3=]. Dude has some ''serious'' issues with women.
** Depends on whether or not you believe his ramblings in [=EP1=], he views all members of his family equally as failures regardless of their genders.
* SummonMagic: The TIPS say that this is his specialty.
* [[spoiler:SpiritAdvisor]]: He served as this for Natsuhi within [[spoiler:her delusions]]. So did Beatrice.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Absinthe, a drink (erroneously) attributed to cause delusions.
* TroubledAbuser: Kinzo was manipulated as the heir to the Ushiromiya family, sent off to WorldWarII, wishes to take his own life [[spoiler: and finally meets his love, Beatrice Castiglioni, only to have her and later their daughter both die]]. He winds up half-insane, is abusive to most of his children (specially to Eva, by denying her the right to be the heir purely for her gender despite being more talented in business than her eldest brother Krauss) [[spoiler: and has a child with his illegitimate daughter, Beatrice Ushiromiya, through implied rape]].
* UnexpectedSuccessor: He was actually from a branch family of the main Ushiromiya line that had the least influence but after an earthquake that killed most of the family members, the title of family head fell onto him.
* [[spoiler:UnreliableNarrator]]: A late scene in [=EP7=] [[spoiler:implies that Kinzo was the one to suggest that the Japanese steal the Italian gold, a CallBack to scenes in EP 4 where Gaap says he chose to let everyone other than himself and his loved one die]]. Nowhere does this show up in [[spoiler:Kinzo's self-narrated flashbacks]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Not as a kid, but [=EP7=] shows that he was nothing less than a nice guy in his youth, and TheWoobie to boot. It got worse, horribly, when [[spoiler:Beatrice died]].
* WeakButSkilled: Is stated to have utterly no talent in magic whatsoever. However, through absurd amounts of hard work he managed to become a master summoner. The tips discribe him as a magican who can't even cast a spell to heat water, yet can summon a demon that can boil away an ocean.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Apparently, in his youth. If there's another season of the anime, lord only knows how they'll handle that, since [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole they already drew him with dark hair]].
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[[folder:Servants and guests]]
!!Shannon (紗音)/Sayo/[[spoiler:Yasu]]
!!!Voiced by: RieKugimiya
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-->"''George-san and I swore our love to each other. As proof, I accepted the ring... With that, our eternal vows were completed! No matter how you torture us with your wicked magic and your malice, you cannot disgrace that for all eternity!''"
One of the servants in the Ushiromiya mansion. She is a very sweet and shy girl who shares Kanon's belief in their furniture status within the Ushiromiya household. Despite that, though, she actively cultivates a relationship with George.
[[spoiler:She is heavily implied to be Kanon, Beatrice and Yasu.]]
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* [[spoiler:AmbiguouslyEvil]]: ''Very'' ambiguously.
* ArtificialHuman: According to an anti-mystery perspective.
** SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids
* AsideGlance: If she wins on ''Ougon Musoukyouku'' against anybody but Kanon, Shannon will do this, after setting a [[{{Hammerspace}} small mat on the floor, and setting a small picnic with cake and tea]], as if acknowledging how ridiculous it is for [[FightingClown her]] to be winning against anybody.
* BarrierWarrior
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Shannon in general is underestimated by the Meta-Character due to her status of being a simple maid whose only powers are [[BarrierWarrior defensive in nature]], yet in all the times she actually is able to fight back she has been able to hold back her attackers reasonably well, culminating in [=EP6=] where she kills [[spoiler: Witch!Maria and Sakutarou]] without breaking a sweat.
* BigSisterInstinct: Just as Kanon is protective of her, Shannon is very protective of him and encourages him to get into a relationship with Jessica and break out of his shell. That's why she's disgusted with Beatrice in the second arc for using his body when he's already dead to kill more people. Also she prefers to die with Kanon than have him suffer a gruesome death in [=EP3=].
** However, subverted in [=EP6=] where she outright tells Kanon that as long as he doesn't get in the way of her love for George, he'll be fine. [[spoiler: Cue to the end of the arc where they have a DuelToTheDeath and she kills Kanon because his love for Jessica wasn't strong enough.]]
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Assuming that she is Kanon, she's sweet on both George and Jessica.]]
* {{Bookworm}}
** CuteBookworm
* BreakTheCutie: [=EP7=] is dedicated to breaking her as [[spoiler: it explains what happened before the murders in terms of a person called Yasu and the hell Yasu goes through.]]
* [[spoiler: BrokenBird: As arc 7 reveals.]]
* [[spoiler:CantHaveSexEver]]: [[WordOfGod Ryukishi]] revealed in an interview that this is the case with Shannon, though if it's due [[spoiler: to the wounds she received after falling from the cliff as a baby]] is unknown. Not suprising she got nervous when George begun talking about them[[spoiler: having children after getting married]].
* ChewingTheScenery: Has her moments in the upcoming fighting game, mainly due to the fact that half of everyone's moves are weird references to the novels. For example, in context, you probably thought the line was fine, but '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-twPWf9hSrQ#t=01m53s "I KEPT MY PROMISE, LADY BEATRICE!!!"]]'''''
* TheChick
* DealWithTheDevil: The second arc opens by stating that she made a deal with Beatrice that she would break a mirror at the shrine that disappeared if Beatrice would make George fall in love with her.
** ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: The main obstacle to George and Shannon's romance was the fact that she is a servant to the Ushiromiya family, while he is a member of that very wealthy family.
* {{Dojikko}}: When upset and flustered, she will instantly take several levels in clumsiness, which tend to get progressively more severe until she's rendered completely ineffectual. Of course, this tends to get her in a lot of trouble with Natsuhi, poor girl.
* [[spoiler:DuelToTheDeath]]: In [=EP6=].
* [[spoiler:FakeBoobs]]: By WordOfGod.
* FightingClown: On ''Ougon Musoukyouku'' Shannon is pretty much a big joke. On most of her stage intro she [[{{Dojikko}} trips face-in]], her normal attack involves attacking with girly slaps and things like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_beater carpet beaters]] yet Shannon is still about as effective as anybody else, using her [[BarrierWarrior shields]] and her normals long range to keep the enemy away from her, playing more defensively that most characters.
* FragileFlower
* GagBoobs: In the anime and manga, at least.
** Shannon is the only character on ''Ougon Musoukyoku'' with an animated Meta-Declaration, guess what [[{{Gainaxing}} it's used for]].
** [[spoiler:Subverted, since WordofGod has stated that her breasts are actually fake.]]
* [[spoiler: TheGunslinger: Kanon outright states in [=EP6=] that Shannon was always the better of two when it came to handling guns.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSafeMode]]: In [=EP7=], she [[spoiler:basically short-circuits briefly]] when Will asks her to get Kanon, complete with [[spoiler:robotic voice, AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle, and DullEyesOfUnhappiness]].
* HiddenDepths: We start getting hints that she's more than she seems way at the beginning of [=EP2=], with such gems as the fact that her idea of "cute" runs towards ''hammerhead sharks''.
* HyperspaceArsenal: On ''Ougon Musoukyouku'' Shannon can pull-out carpet-beaters, pulling carts, mats, serving trays, [[TheBeastmaster Seagull Feed]], [[ParasolOfPain umbrellas]] and endless supply of [[{{Dojikko}} tea-sets to drop]] out of nowhere, unlike [[WitchSpecies Virgilia]], who clearly uses magic to make her weapons appear.
* IJustWantToBeLoved
* [[spoiler:ImaginaryFriend]]: [[spoiler:Kanon is heavily implied to be a mixture of one of these and a SplitPersonality. Shannon herself was the original one to Yasu, and took over as the dominant personality of their body when Yasu retreated into her MentalWorld.]]
* [[spoiler:IWillWaitForYou]]: She resolved to do this for [[spoiler:Battler, who had promised to take her away from Rokkenjima on a white horse. Unfortunately he forgot about this promise, not only because of the whole situation with Rudolf remarrying too soon and Battler deciding to leave the family because of it, but also because he didn't even take it as seriously as she did. This is what ultimately drives Yasu into madness]].
* LastKiss: [[spoiler:Not quite a kiss, but to similar effect, in the second arc when Beatrice has broken through Shannon's shield, Shannon turns to George and asks him to tell her one last time how much he loves her. He starts, but is cut off.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: The very cute and peaceful [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4grmCRRRw Praise.]]
* LethalHarmlessPowers: She manages to [[spoiler:kill Maria]] precisely because rather than attacking her, she's "defending herself"... it's only incidental that [[spoiler:Maria]] winds up smashed against the wall in the process.
* [[spoiler:LoveHurts]]
* LuminescentBlush
* [[spoiler:MadDreamer]]
* {{Meido}}: Her outfit is actually pretty tame (her skirt is to her knees, even!), but the fetishization aspect smacks you in the face once you realize there's a slit in that skirt that totally bares her thigh, showing off her one-winged bird tat.
* MeaningfulName: Shannon's (real) name can be read as 3, 4. [[spoiler: This could hint towards her being one of Yasu's several personalities. Also, didn't [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Higurashi]]'s BigBad ''also'' have a name involving those numbers?]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Shannon's real name is Sayo, but the only one who ever calls her that is George. When she became a servant for the Ushiromiya family, she changed her name to end in the Japanese character for sound, read as "on."
* [[spoiler:TheOphelia]]
* PlayingAgainstType: One of RieKugimiya's non-{{Tsundere}} roles.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Kanon's blue.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Jessica and Kanon. [[spoiler:Even though she and Kanon are the same person.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Played straight at the beginning but by EP 6 it's an obvious subversion.
* [[spoiler:SplitPersonality]]
** [[spoiler:ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: She's one of quite a few people inside Yasu. If you just count the ones that are given control of Yasu's body, the number is likely three (with Clair being an embodiment of all three at once), but if you count all of his/her imaginary friends as well, the number quickly shoots into the double-digits. [[http://shroedinger.deviantart.com/art/Shkanoyasutrice-177520590 Spoofed here]].]]
* [[spoiler:StarCrossedLovers: As revealed by [=EP7=], with Battler. Waiting for him eventually became too much for her to bear, so she gave her love for Battler to Beatrice and afterwards pursued a relationship with George instead.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: In [=EP1=], she's fairly close to the stereotypical maid archetype; timid, kind, polite... cue [=EP2=] when she's utterly determined to be with George at all costs and stands up to Beatrice, being one of the only people to successfully press the witch's BerserkButton to date. She does it again in the third arc.
** And another one or two in [=EP6=], where she [[spoiler: kills Witch!Maria with [[CurbStompBattle a minimum of fuss]] using LethalHarmlessPowers, and later shoots Kanon dead in a duel.]]
* TranquilFury: Her character sprite doesn't allow her to show anything but an expression that shows disgust but never outright anger like Kanon's sprite.
* {{Troll}}: Much, much more subtle about it than Beato and the metaverse crew because of her FragileFlower nature, but she mercilessly picks on George and Battler about their embarrassing pasts.
* [[spoiler:WildCard]]
* [[spoiler:WholesomeCrossdresser or VillainousCrossdresser]]: [=EP6=] [[spoiler: heavily enforces the EpilepticTrees theory that Shannon and Kanon are the same person, and it's more or less confirmed in [=EP7=] and 8]]. What's more, [[spoiler:"she" is strongly hinted to be the "Beatrice" who appeared in [=EP2=] and [=EP4=].]]
* [[spoiler:{{Yandere}}]]
!!Kanon (嘉音)/Yoshiya/[[spoiler:Yasu]]
!!!Voiced by: YuuKobayashi
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-->"''Because... we are furniture...''"
One of the servants in the Ushiromiya mansion. He maintains the belief that servants are to be nothing but furniture in the Ushiromiya mansion, which initially hinders him from having a relationship with Jessica. He and Shannon act like brother and sister, although they are not related by blood.
[[spoiler:He is heavily implied to be Shannon, Beatrice and Yasu]]. Arc 8 confirms in red text that [[spoiler:if Shannon dies, Kanon disappears for all eternity, heavily reinforcing this fact]].
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* [[AloofBigBrother Aloof Little Brother]]
* ArtificialHuman: Same as Shannon.
** PinocchioSyndrome
* BadassBoast: [[DyingMomentOfAwesome "I'm not furniture anymore… I'm the zero on your roulette!"]]
* BattleButler
* {{Bishounen}}
** [[spoiler: Bifauxnen]]: [[spoiler: Possibly.]]
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: As with Shannon above, though it's difficult to tell whether Yasu's pulling the strings with all her various personalities, or if she has simply lost her mind,]] so this may not be a [[IncrediblyLamePun straight]] example.
* BreakTheCutie: The second arc has Beatrice doing whatever it takes to have him submit to her. Naturally, it does work (in the manga and the visual novel since how bad he broke was [[AdaptationDecay absent in the anime.]])
* [[spoiler: BrilliantButLazy: Not so much lazy but he reveals to be REALLY half ass of everything he does. Kanon even admits it to Chick Beatrice after he is killed by Shannon. Because he didn't go all out, he ended up giving Shannon the upper hand.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: Whether it's subverted or played straight is still up for debate even after the series has ended, but in one form or another, this trope was applied particularly strongly in the second arc. [[spoiler:And the sixth.]]
* TheChewToy: He's probably the servant that is worse off and is probably the third character that has bad luck in the series. Aside from failing to realize his feelings for Jessica until it's too late in all the arcs except [=EP6=], he never survives past the third Twilight contrast to Shannon who easily makes it past the fourth Twilight more often than not. To add to the insult, his body always goes missing in half of the arcs and he's usually accused of being the culprit. [[spoiler: Finally, the chances of him never existing in the first place are very high.]] To be fair though, his death is nothing (AKA getting stabbed or shot in the chest) compared to what the other members of the family have to go through.
* CryCute
* DeadpanSnarker: More so in the actual novel where he won't hesitate to take a crack at Shannon or the other servants every now and then.
-->'''Shannon:''' Don't worry, [[spoiler:Ange]], it won't be a very difficult riddle.\\
'''Kanon:''' Of course it won't. Since you'll just have to think on Shannon's level.
* DraggedIntoDrag: [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/337/kanonjessicatsurupettan.png/ By Jessica during their ending in Ougon Musou Kyoku.]]
* [[spoiler:DuelToTheDeath]]: In [=EP1=] and [=EP6=].
* ExtremeDoormat: Kanon verges on this with his whole "furniture" ideology, but it's subverted-ish in the end of "Turn of the Golden Witch," [[spoiler: when he admits he's in love with Jessica.]]
** It's actually subverted before that - despite calling himself furniture, he is never the last to badmouth Natsuhi behind her back, and is far more HotBlooded than his sister when facing Beatrice.
* [[spoiler: GoOutWithASmile: Episode 6.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: In EP 6 when he takes Battler's place in the Logic Error.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nudlcn5RmQE&feature=relmfu In The Peace of Forgetting the Way]].
* [[spoiler:[[ImaginaryFriend Imaginary Brother]]]]: [[spoiler: To Shannon, who in turn was an ImaginaryFriend to Yasu before she took over as the dominant personality and Yasu became Beatrice.]]
* {{Kuudere}}
* LaserBlade: An [[CoolSword elaborate]] variation.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQK2QbMW-Qk White Shadow]]
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Little Brother Instinct]]: He's very protective of Shannon and always trying to guide her in the right direction as well as warn her the dangers of throwing away her status as Furniture. [[spoiler: EP 7 reveals though that Yasu created Kanon to be the little brother that would love and protect his big sister.]]
* [[spoiler: LoveEpiphany]]: In [=EP6=]
* NeverFoundTheBody: Episodes 2, 4, [[spoiler: and 6.]]
** Episode 1 and 3 count too, considering that [[spoiler:Battler doesn't see his dead body directly.]]
* NiceHat
* NotSoStoic
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: See Shannon for elaboration. Kanon's real name is "Yoshiya," which some people romanize as "Joshua."
* PerpetualFrowner
* PretendBoyfriend: [[spoiler:However much Jessica may wish it were real.]]
* PrettySpryForADeadGuy: In the second Episode.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In [=EP2=], the fake Kanon.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Shannon's red.
* [[spoiler:SplitPersonality]]
* StealthHiBye: Since he's very good at hiding his footsteps, he often appears by Shannon without her noticing and disapears just as suddenly. [[spoiler:After Episode 7, that ability suddenly makes a lot of sense.]]
* TroubledButCute
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove
* WhenHeSmiles: It's a very good one but the visual novel makes it come off as a CatSmile.
** He manages to pull a real smile when talking to Chick Beatrice [[spoiler: after being killed by Shannon and admitting his faults. This is also the point where you notice that his laugh is very similar to the original Beatrice hence hitting at his origins.]]
* [[spoiler:WholesomeCrossdresser or VillainousCrossdresser]]: [=EP6=] [[spoiler: heavily enforces the EpilepticTrees theory that Shannon and Kanon are the same person, and it's more or less confirmed in [=EP7=] and 8]]. What's more, [[spoiler:"she" is strongly hinted to be the "Beatrice" who appeared in [=EP2=] and [=EP4=].]]
* TheWorfEffect: He tends to get defeated very easily despite being one of the few characters that can actually use magic. EP 6 reveals though that he is a deconstruction of this trope and [[spoiler: that he never goes all out because he does everything halfheartedly. He tells {{Manchild}} Beatrice this after he realizes this after Shannon kills him and he's nothing but a shadow that can only watch over Jessica.]]
!!Genji Ronoue
!!!Voiced by: Masato Funaki
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The oldest servant and Kinzo's most trusted confidante. The only one besides Dr. Nanjo usually let into Kinzo's study. Most of the family doesn't trust him, considering him to be a spy for Kinzo.
His meta-world manifestation is [[Characters/UminekoNoNakuKoroNiDemonsAndFurniture Ronove]].
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* ArtificialHuman: Same as Shannon and Kanon. [[spoiler:From a mundane perspective, he and Kinzo actually met in Taiwan (it's revealed in [=EP8=] that Genji is in fact Taiwanese) and became close friends; see IOweYouMyLife below.]]
* TheAtoner: In Episode 7, we learn that [[spoiler: he was responsible for the maintenance of Beatrice II's gilded cage, and, unable to forgive himself for allowing her to be abused by her father, and terrified that Kinzo would inflict the same suffering on Yasu, he faked Yasu's death and passed the child off as an orphan.]]
* TheConfidant: To Kinzō.
* ExtremeDoormat
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKKAoC9mLBM A Song of Scattered Love ~ My Beloved Golden Witch]], which is shared with Kinzo.
* IOweYouMyLife: Episode 8 reveals this is why he's loyal to Kinzo. [[spoiler: He and Kinzo were childhood friends. Kinzo foresaw the political climate in Taiwan getting bad, so he warned his family. Genji was the only one to listen.]]
* IWasQuiteALooker: The [=EP8=] manga reveals that yes, [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbaofcO5tz1qk5qkyo1_1280.jpg he really was]].
* TheJeeves
* KnifeNut: Most instances of him defending himself involve throwing knives. Not completely clear whether he carries these around or if he's an ImprovisedWeaponUser, but to manage some of the things he does, it makes sense that he has some experience with them.
* OldRetainer
* OneSteveLimit: "Ronoue" and "Ronove" are more-or-less the same word (ロノウエ versus ロノウェ). [[spoiler:This is most likely because Yasu based Ronove off of Genji.]]
* SatelliteCharacter: To Kinzo, and later [[spoiler:Yasu]].
* TheStoic: To near robotic levels. Even having ''half of his head smashed'' doesn't change his (non-)expression.
!!Chiyo Kumasawa
!!!Voiced by: Yasuko Hatori
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A really old servant at the Ushiromiya house. She loves to make jokes about mackerel. [[spoiler:She also served as guardian to Kuwadorian Beatrice, and a mother-figure to Yasu, introducing him/her to mystery novels.]]
Her meta-world manifestation is [[Characters/UminekoNoNakuKoroNiWitches Virgilia]].
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* CoolOldLady
* CordonBleughChef: She often talks about making various weird dishes with mackerel. Whether she ''really'' tries to make them is unknown though.
* DirtyOldWoman
* IWasQuiteALooker: Ronove looks like a young Genji. So if we assume Virgilia looks like a young Kumasawa…
* LovableCoward: Moreso in the sound novels.
* [[spoiler:{{Mentor|s}}: To Yasu, involving mystery novels.]]
* NeverMessWithGranny: When Kumasawa is attacked by the Stakes on the first twilight in the third arc, she turns into Virgilia. Doesn't stop her from dying, though.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Quite an odd one. Rather than a "oooooh-ho-ho-ho-ho!", Yasuko Hatori does it as a rapid-fire "hohohohoho!"
* ParentalSubstitute: To Shannon, Kanon, [[spoiler:and Yasu, which is kind of jarring considering they're all the same person]].
* TheSlacker
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mackerel
!!Toshirō Gōda
!!!Voiced by: Hitori Bifu
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The head chef at the Ushiromiya mansion. Unlike the other servants, he was hired by Krauss, and so most of the servants distrust him. He is also one of the only servants not to wear the one-winged eagle on his clothes, due to Kinzo's lack of trust of him.
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* AttentionWhore: Much to the annoyance of Kanon and Shannon.
* BreakTheHaughty
* GentleGiant: Although he's a very large man, he is very graceful and polite, if a bit lazy.
* TheJeeves: A special point is made of this in respect to Gohda.
* {{Jerkass}}: Towards Kannon and Shannon.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: In [=EP5=], we find out he's the only person living on the island who doesn't know [[spoiler:that Kinzo is dead]].
* {{Muggle}}: His case is pretty unique among the people on the island, when you think about it. He doesn't know about [[spoiler:Kinzō's death]], nor about [[spoiler:Yasu/Beatrice]], has no ImaginaryFriend or SplitPersonality, never teams up with magical beings and has no connection to magic whatsoever. He is just a cook who does his job. See above.
* SupremeChef
!!Dr. Terumasa Nanjō
!!!Voiced by: Akihiko Ishizumi
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Kinzo's personal physician. He is one of the few people that Kinzo trusts in the present[[spoiler:, or at least when Kinzo was still alive.]] After Kinzo and Beatrice's run-in with the Italians, it was Nanjo who treated their wounds and helped Kinzo hide Beatrice's existence from the military.
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* IHaveAFamily: Nanjo's plea to Eva-Beatrice before she kills him.
* SatelliteCharacter: Nanjo's role in some of the early arcs seemed to comprised completely of having {{Cryptic Conversation}}s with Kinzo and letting everyone know that the corpses they had found were, indeed, dead.
* SecretKeeper: Initially, he is the one who kept the secret of Beatrice Castiglioni's existence from the military. And later, of [[spoiler:Kinzō's death.]]
* [[spoiler:DeadlyDoctor: The no-magic no-witch theory. Doesn't necessarily kill anyone, but certainly helps to cover up the majority of the murders; or in the Boiler Room case of Kanon, the lack there-of.]]
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!!Battler Ushiromiya (戦人)[[spoiler:/Toya Hachijō]]
!!![[spoiler:The Endless Sorcerer]]
!!!Voiced by: DaisukeOno
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-> ''[[CatchPhrase "Ahh, it's useless! It's all useless!"]]''
The protagonist and 18 year-old son of Rudolf and Asumu ([[spoiler:but don't make him say it in red text]]) and 7th in the line of succession. After Asumu died six years ago, Battler became angry with his father for remarrying Kyrie so fast and went to live with his maternal grandparents. Because of this, he's been fairly out of the loop as to the affairs of the Ushiromiya family. Often, he is teased about being similar to his father for his tendency to try to grope girls. He now has a half-sister named Ange who does not come to Rokkenjima.
After the first arc, he is trapped by Beatrice in time loops where the murders occur over and over again. In order to win, he must explain those murders rejecting the use of magic in them. At the end of Arc 5, [[spoiler:he has figured out the truth behind Beato's game, allowing him to receive the title of Game Master and Endless Sorcerer]]. In Arc 8, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Battler survived the Rokkenjima incident, but had lost his memory and was found on the road by Ikuko Hachijo. After regaining his memory years later, he writes [=EP3=] through [=EP6=] with Ikuko as the mystery novelist, Toya Hachijo.]]
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* AgentScully: [[spoiler:Initially, at least.]]
* [[spoiler:AndThenJohnWasAZombie]]: Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the new [[spoiler:Endless Sorcerer]].
* AnimalMotifs: The witches compare him a few different times to ThePhoenix. Maybe makes sense, given the nature of his FateWorseThanDeath combined with his {{Determinator}} personality.
* AnimeHair: Lampshaded.
-->'''Ange:''' Save the jokes for your hairstyle.
* AntiMagic: His ability to resist magic of up to godlike scale is classified as [[OverNineThousand Endless Nine]].
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: With all of the plausible, if not necessarily likely, names of the rest of the Ushiromiya family, one must wonder what possessed Ryukishi to name his main character "Battler."
** Unless Ryukishi saw our TarotMotifs page (specifically the section on [[spoiler:The Magician]]) and said "Ooooh! There's a name to hide a plot twist behind!"
** Battler is only one letter away from [[Creator/AgathaChristie Battle]].
* BadassBookworm: Battler "it would be arrogant for somebody who only reads about a hundred books a year to call himself well-read" Ushiromiya.
* [[spoiler:BadassCape]]: He wears one as [[spoiler:the Endless Sorcerer]]. At first just a {{Fanon}} idea, but became canon in [=EP6=].
** And its an [[spoiler:OminousOperaCape]].
** [[spoiler:In [=EP8=], he becomes even ''more'' badass by [[TheCoatsAreOff taking it off]].]]
* BatDeduction: "And then...I...knew."
** [[IncrediblyLamePun More like]] Bat''tler'' Deduction.
*** *ba-dum tshh*
* BattleCouple: With [[spoiler:Beatrice]].
* BigBrotherInstinct: To the extent that there are quite a few corners of the internet that take his relationship with Ange to creepy, creepy places.
** An alternate interpretation subverts this ''hard'', [[spoiler: he can be seen as rather neglectful of Ange, since it took him ''3 games'' to remember he had a little sister that would need him, and the fact that he only visited her on her birthdays leaves much to think this.]]
* {{Bishonen}}
* {{Bookworm}}: Becomes quite apparent by the time the core arcs begin.
* BringMyRedJacket: Flip this one and WhiteShirtOfDeath around, and you've got Battler's outfit: white jacket, red shirt. And yes, his luck [[AFateWorseThanDeath sucks]].
* BuxomIsBetter: Beatrice calls him a "breast sommelier" for a reason.
* CatchPhrase: "Ah, it's useless. It's all useless!"
* [[spoiler:ChangelingFantasy]]: It's confirmed in [=EP8=] that [[spoiler:Kyrie is his real mother, and he was swapped at birth with Asumu's child]].
* TheChessmaster: In training.
* ChewbaccaDefense: Hey, [[InsaneTrollLogic anything]] to fight off [[{{Troll}} Beatrice and Bernkastel]].
* ChickMagnet: Largely an InformedAttribute. It is implied that Battler is quite popular with girls, though it seems he's not entirely aware of it himself. However, most of the female cast is already either married or paired off with someone else.
** However, if [[http://umineko.wikia.com/wiki/Butterfly_Kiss_Episode1.5%E9%85%8D%E5%B8%83%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC this]] is to be taken seriously...
* ChivalrousPervert: It seems like he'll try to grope anyone ([[KissingCousins Even his cousin!]]), and at one point even tells little Maria [[AllThereInTheManual to let him grope her when she gets older]], but the one time a girl actually tries to let him, he freaks out and scolds her ([[MegatonPunch after being punched by aforementioned cousin]]). Note: He thanked the cousin for punching him. He even tells Maria to promise she'll let him [[ItMakesSenseInContext "eat her"]] once she's legal, in the [=EP2=] Tea Party.
** Hell, he even has a whole ImageSong devoted to his love of large-breasted girls. It is called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yM3mrh_t2M ''OPPA in Love!'']], and it is essentially Battler's playing up his own lecherousness [[UpToEleven to hilarious extents]].
** One of his special moves in the fighting game, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=862GKbHFCuI "Sommelier Finger"]], is a groping attack[[hottip:*: You can see him in the video grope-attacking ''both Ange and Kanon'']].
** He even says it's okay [[spoiler:being killed]] over and over again by [[spoiler:the Seven Stakes]] because they have nice breasts and from then on normally refers to them as 'the ass nee chans.'
* CreepyCoolCrosses: Battler wears one as a fastener for his jacket.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:''Receives'' one during [=EP8=] at the hands of Bernkastel. Thanks to [[IRejectYourReality Ange]] however, he bounces back from it in short order.]]
* CuteLittleFangs: In the original sound novel.
* [[spoiler:DecoyProtagonist]]: Subverted because he actively fights to remain as the [[spoiler:protagonist]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And in the end, he has earned it.]]
* {{Determinator}}: See the first tea party for just one example. Averted in the second arc, however, when he does give up and is explicitly shown why that isn't an acceptable option.
* DevotedToYou: After his promise with [[spoiler:Yasu/Shannon]], 6 years later as [[spoiler:Yasu/Beatrice]] she still can't forget about him. It turned out ''horribly, horribly bad.''
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: If slamming Beatrice's head on a table in [=EP2=] or slapping her in [=EP3=] don't count, then [[spoiler:actually managing to punch ''Bernkastel'' in the face]] might.
** [[spoiler:And if you think those mentioned were just damn luck, then he also manages to ''kick'' Bernkastel in the same scene '''while she's [[TeleportSpam Teleport Spamming]]'''! Battler ''earned'' the VillainousBreakdown that he got out of her.]]
* [[spoiler:DiedHappilyEverAfter:]] That's more or less the idea of the Magic Ending. [[spoiler:Battler joined his family in death, while Tooya continued to live, his mind finally at peace.]]
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: During his HeroicBSOD in the anime, and [[spoiler:while trapped in a logic error during [=EP6=]]].
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Black Battler]] from ''Ogon Musokyoku Cross''.
* [[spoiler: ExpositoryHairstyleChange]]: [[spoiler: In one of the endings for [=EP8=] which takes place in the 2020's, Battler's hair as Tooya has turned white due to aging and has been cut shorter.]]
* {{Expy}}: The guy is half-[[{{Disgaea2}} Adell]], half-[[AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]], with a dash of [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Keiichi]]. And that's an awesome combination.
* AFateWorseThanDeath: Battler gets a few of these, one of them actually tying in with AFateWorseThanDeath.
** TraumaCongaLine: Just the first arc would probably be enough to qualify him for this, and it just gets worse from there.
* FieryRedhead
* FlatEarthAtheist: [[spoiler:To the point that his fixation with proving that magic doesn't exist is one of the things that drive Beatrice to her death on EP5.]]
* FlungClothing[=/=]TheCoatsAreOff: In [=EP8=], [[spoiler:he throws his Endless Sorcerer coat and faces Erika in a closed room duel.]]
* [[spoiler:GameMaster: Of [=EP6=], though Erika makes sure he doesn't get much use out of it. He has more success in [=EP8=] even if Bernkastel is also a GameMaster at the same time, albeit a much more [[KillerGameMaster malicious]] one.]]
* GenerationXerox: His [[spoiler:relationship with Beatrice]] plays this theme hard with regard to Kinzo.
** [[spoiler:His appearance as Tohya Hachijo is ''identical'' to young Kinzo.]]
*** [[spoiler:Heck, Battler/Tohya and young Kinzo even ''have the same voice actor''.]]
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: His way of ThrowingDownTheGauntlet at Beatrice.
* GratuitousEnglish: Battler ''loved'' this trope back in 1980. In 1986 he's just embarrassed about it and doesn't want to remember. [[spoiler:It's a major plot point.]]
* GuileHero: [[spoiler:He fooled us (the readers) of his defeat in [=EP6=] all to make a devastating comeback and, along with Beatrice, defeats Bernkastel in [=EP8=]. In fact, when he regained his memories after escaping Rokkenjima, Battler ''created'' [=EP3-6=], [[ThePlan in a gambit]] to defeat Bernkastel in [=EP8=]. He planned both Beatrice's HeelFaceTurn ''and'' his own self-destruction all for this moment; if he is not a GuileHero then he is a GOOD MagnificentBastard.]]
* [[spoiler:HappilyMarried: With Beatrice after [=EP6=].]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicBastard]]
* TheHeart: At least in the early arcs, he wound up frequently jumping in between two people who were at each other's throats to point out why person X wasn't necessarily the culprit.
* HeavySleeper: Comments by Ange in Twilight allude to Battler being this.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:"Just who am I?"]] Freaks him out so badly that not only does his brain shut down, but he physically disappears.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep
* IdenticalGrandson: He looks identical to Kinzo as he appeared in his youth, save for the hair. [[spoiler:[[ExpositoryHairstyleChange At least at first]]]].
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHbGYf3-N_I OPPA in LOVE!!]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apN1-Mz4w1A Battlerfield ~ The Four Forms of Battler]].
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Whenever Piece Battler is in a situation where he might possibly have to fight, he always seems to go for a hat rack or candlestick as opposed to something a bit more practical.
* InTheBlood: Given his similarities to pre-WWII Kinzo, there seems to be a heavy implication that Battler's just one poorly-ended romance away from going completely nutters like his grandfather.
* JerkassFacade: Towards [[spoiler:[[CloningBlues the "incomplete" Beato]]]] in [=EP6=] to an extent, although it may have to do with the fact that [[spoiler:the woman he loves refuses to call him anything but Father[[hottip:*: which [=EP7=] makes squickier in hindsight]] for a long time. This mirrors Kinzo and Beatrice II's relationships, to the point of ''incest.'']] He even [[ThroughHisStomach threw away her cookies.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: Several, most famously ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICKoZ18zHk&fmt=18 Dread]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOmgr3q4sA&fmt=18 of]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy7QcdNuQrI&fmt=18 the]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y03OC80eDXc&feature=related Grave]]''.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: It's a joke among the family members how Battler's way of handling women is very similar to Rudolf's.
* LogicalFallacies: Small bombs and cardboard boxes. The thing is, Battler is fully aware all his theories are beyond ridiculous. He was just that desperate to deny witches.
* ManlyTears: Who ''wouldn't'' be crying after [[TraumaCongaLine all the crap he goes through]]?
* MeaningfulName: ''Bateleur'' is French for a stage magician, someone who uses mundane means to create the illusion of magic (and it also serves as a [[TarotMotifs Tarot Motif]], since the Magician card is known as ''Le Bateleur'' in French) while ''Battler'' is not too far from what he actually does: battle (with witches and demons).
* MegatonPunch: [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Punches]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu out Bernkastel.]] Bernkastel who, just scenes ago, had been tanking big bangs and big crunches. Battler's fist is more powerful than the universe. And inflicts the concept of pain.]]
* MissingMom
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Ange's HeroicSacrifice in [=EP4=] and [[YouAreTooLate solving the game too late]] and allowing Beatrice to die in [=EP5=]]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMOSs]] arguably ensue both times.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Makes some remarks to this effect in ''Twilight''.
* NayTheist: Gets into very involved logic arguments with beings he says do not exist.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: His reason for refusing to play against [[spoiler:Lambdadelta]] in [=EP5=] is that this is between him and Beatrice and no one else.
* OnlySaneMan: At least during the first tea party. "Why have you guys stopped thinking?" Doesn't ever seem to have gotten out of the "trying to explain" phase, though.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Beatrice in Episode 3. It's quite effective. [[spoiler:[[DidYouActuallyBelieve Or not...]]]]
* RedHeadedHero
* [[spoiler:RedHeadedStepchild]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Depending on who he's in a dichotomy with, he can be Maria's red or Beatrice's blue.
* SelectiveObliviousness
* SignatureLaugh: Ihihihihi!
* [[spoiler:StealthMentor: By [=EP8=], he is this to Ange.]]
* SuddenHumility: In Episode 6, he realizes that the position of [[spoiler:Game Master]] is ''much'' less comfortable than he imagined when he fought against Beatrice.
* [[spoiler:SwitchedAtBirth: He thinks he's Asumu's son, but he's really Kyrie's.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: Tons, particularly in [=EP3=] and [=EP5=].
* TalkingToTheDead: At least once, Battler addresses his father after Rudolf's corpse has been discovered.
* [[spoiler:ThatManIsDead:]] A subversion. [[spoiler:It's not that Tooya deliberately threw away his old identity, it's just that he is ''unable'' to accept it. Not only because trying to remember this identity initially caused him unbearable headaches due to brain damage (leading to a seizure), but also because the feeling of having memories that are not his own is too terrifying.]]
* TheOneGuy: He is the only [[spoiler:male witch]] in the cast.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler:In [=EP3=], when Beatrice laughs about Eva-Beatrice killing Rosa and Maria over and over again, he doesn't take that too well. Bonus points for giving her an ArmorPiercingSlap. And later, when Virgilia tries to encourage him to accept her as his opponent, he still refuses to forgive her. At least, until she tells Beato to be more encouraging and apologize to him.]]
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath]] / [[spoiler:YouAreWorthHell]]: The mystery ending takes the first tone, the fantasy ending the second.
* TookALevelInBadass: Though this is subverted ''hard'' in [=EP4=]'s Tea Party, since [[spoiler:he never understands Beatrice's heart, he didn't solve a single murder and the whole scene is just Beatrice giving up and making it look like he won]], he still manages to improve in every arc. In Episode 5, [[UpToEleven he took all his levels in badass and squared them]] during the hidden tea party. [[SubvertedTrope His badass levels]] [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion seemingly]]]] [[SubvertedTrope take a dip]] in [=EP6=] in that [[MyGreatestFailure he falls into a deep depression]] and [[spoiler:ends up being nearly reduced to a DistressedDude]], with a few {{Badass}} moments sprinkled here and there. [[spoiler:"Seemingly" being a key word; [=EP8=] ''spectacularly'' [[DoubleSubversion subverts]] all that by revealing [[BatmanGambit his dip in badassery was completely intentional]].]]
* [[spoiler:TraumaInducedAmnesia]]: Only explained at the end. [[spoiler:Battler actually survived the Rokkenjima murders along with Eva. However, he nearly drowned after trying to save Yasu, and lost all of his memories]]. The entirety of the plot is [[spoiler:him trying to put his memories back together. Yes, a good part of the instances and scenarios beforehand was just Battler brainstorming for the truth.]].
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Just about the last thing he wants, considering his feud with Rudolf, but all his relatives remark on how alike they are. He turns out to be even more similar to Kinzo--in looks, temperament, and circumstances; once he realizes the truth, this is retroactively implied to be one of the reasons Battler's so upset by the reset Beatrice calling him "Father" in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler:Lo and behold, some forty years after surviving the Rokkenjima incident, his hair is bleached white and shortened to the point where he looks ''exactly like Kinzo when he was his age'']].
* UnexpectedSuccessor: [[spoiler:Fifth arc]].
* {{Unperson}}: In the sound novels, after his defeat at the end of Episode 2 and his HeroicBSOD in Episode 4, he literally ''disappears from the character list''. Who said only the narrated story could be terrifying?
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:His failure to keep his (not entirely serious) promise to Shannon that he would take her away from Rokkenjima and start a life together is what drives Yasu to orchestrate the murders]].
* UpperClassTwit
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler:Subverted. After apparently dying over and over again, he's revealed to be one of only two characters to actually make it back from Rokkenjima]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Kumasawa calls him out on some of his less than admirable behavior towards the resurrected Beatrice in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler:Ange also accuses him of hiding what really happened on Rokkenjima from her in [=EP8=], as she is far more interested in learning the truth than remembering the happy times she had with her family, but she takes it back when she realizes that he wasn't as completely in the wrong, and she in the right, as she first thought.]]
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Battler's not a fan of his name.
--> '''Battler:''' Battler Ushiromiya. [[SarcasmMode Incredible]]. Also incredible are the parents who stuck that name one me, and the public official who accepted it. They're all on the top of my must-kill list.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to Be]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Shakes?]]: Battler's terrified of any vehicle that shakes when it moves.
* WideEyedIdealist: Battler's tendency to quickly trust and give people the benefit of the doubt tends to bite him in the ass more often than not. In Episodes 6 and 8, [[spoiler:[[GuileHero he uses this to his advantage to]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity fool his enemies]].]]
** Played with, while Battler is rather innocent and oblivious about the true nature of his family, [[spoiler:he gets so absorbed into proving Beato wrong that he doesn't even consider ''why'' is she doing all this in the first place, ignoring all the clues she gives him in form of "magic" throughout the games, and is the very thing that keeps him from finding the truth until Episode 5.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Especially if the girl's name is Beatrice, Erika Furudo, and [[spoiler:Bernkastel]]. He also hits Maria on the head quite a lot in the first two Episodes.
* WorthyOpponent: To Beatrice.
!!Maria Ushiromiya (真里亞)
!!!The Witch of Origins
!!!Voiced by: Creator/YuiHorie
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-->"''Uuuuuu~! Beatrice exists!''"
9 year-old daughter of Rosa and eighth in the line of inheritance. Maria is nine in 1986. She has a troubled relationship with her mother and thus became absorbed in the occult as a way to cope. Notable for her repeated catch phrase, a sort of whining ("''u~~''") as well as her very creepy laugh.
Her witch alter-ego is "Maria", the Witch of Origins.
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* AgentMulder
* AmbiguousDisorder
* BlackMagic: After Sakutaro died, her magic changed from making it rain candy to wishing for the death of her enemies.
* BookDumb: She's explicitly stated to have done poorly in school. As she puts it, she's good at doing things she likes, but not "boring" things. Seeing what she knows about magic, she actually shows a very strong intelligence.
* BrokenRecord: She has a tendency to repeat one word over and over again: any word, not just her "uu" noise.
* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: In the fourth arc. It's not pretty.
* CheerfulChild: When she's not being creepy.
* ChildMage
* CreepyChild: To the point of {{Flanderization}}[=/=]{{Narm}} in the anime.
** CreepyCute
* CuteAndPsycho: At times, the cutest and sweetest little girl ever. At others, the most terrifying kid you'll meet.
* CuteWitch: Subverted mercilessly. Maria may be cute-looking, but she is mad, bad, and dangerous when she finally snaps.
* CuteLittleFangs
* DisappearedDad: And he fled ''[[KickTheDog while her mother was pregnant]]'', no less. To the point Rosa ended up telling her she doesn't have a father. As a result, Maria thinks she has a MeaningfulName and is special.
* ElegantGothicLolita: The outfit she wears in the flashbacks in the fourth anime arc. Sweet Lolita, to be exact.
* EnfanteTerrible: When she finally snaps, she makes decent competition for Evatrice for the title of this series' queen of the trope. [[spoiler:Though the only time she's actually shown killing anyone is implied to be AllJustADream.]]
* EvilLaugh: Kihihihihihihihi… (also her SignatureLaugh)
** Made even more creepier by the fact that she appears to be counting the hi's, apparently imagining something happening for each one.
* {{Expy}}: Generally considered one of [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Rena Ryuugu]], due to their hair and eyes, their mother's job, their bipolar personality and their way of persuading themselves they are happy. They actually have an indirect link: a TIP reveals that the man Rosa was seeing at the time of the flashback was a guy in the fashion business called "Akihito-san". That's the guy Rena's mother divorced her father for, triggering [[spoiler:her Hinamizawa Syndrome.]] UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom, much?
* FreudianExcuse: Was shown during [=EP4=].
* TheGift: Maria's described as having this for magic in the fourth arc. And while she's not evil, she can certainly be [[CreepyChild creepy]].
* GigglingVillain: The "villain" part is debatable, but she is disturbingly prone to laughing at horrible situations.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals
* HairDecorations: Her small crown.
* HeroicBastard
* HeyItsThatVoice!: Her similarities to [[{{Kanon}} Ayu]] are made quite pronounced by Creator/YuiHorie's performance: just substitute the [[VerbalTic 'uguu's for 'uuuu~'s]].
** And from the same creator, [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi substitute the 'hauu-auu's for 'uuu~'s]]
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAEsEDwrkOI Happy Halloween MARIA]].
* ImaginaryFriend: Beatrice is actually treated this way to a certain extent in the first arc. Sakutaro later on in, although he's actually a stuffed animal.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Brutally deconstructed. Maria is "pure and childlike"--which, aside from implying geniality and a loving nature (and letting her retain the imaginative power necessary for being a Creator), means that she acts a few years younger than she is, doesn't understand the concept of doubt, and has next to NoSocialSkills. As a result, she's bullied and rejected by her mother and her peers.
** PureIsNotGood: It's more like ChaoticNeutral, as her reactions to the murders and [=EP4=] demonstrate.
** AmbiguousInnocence
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Almost immediately after [[AbusiveParent Rosa]] destroys Sakutaro, Maria asks Beatrice to teach her magic to [[spoiler:[[SelfMadeOrphan kill her own mother]]]]. Welcome to TheDarkSide, Maria.
* LonelyDollGirl: Maria's favorite tactic to combat loneliness was to make her stuffed animals and other dolls into {{Imaginary Friend}}s. Sakutaro was the most important one.
* LoveMartyr: Maria's relationship with her mother is portrayed this way when Ange talks with her.
* MadDreamer
* MeaningfulName: Maria's name is one that is a common translation of Mary - a reference to the woman from the New Testament who gave birth to Jesus Christ. In the fourth arc, one of the TIPS speculates that [[spoiler: Maria is one of the Creator witches, who can create something where there was previously nothing.]]
** The significance of Maria's name is further explored in EP7, and Maria even says that if she had been born a boy, she would have been named Emmanuel, one of the names for Jesus, meaning "God is with us" in Hebrew.
* NightmareFetishist: Oh yes. Who else would start cracking up at magic circles apparently written in blood?
* NoblewomansLaugh: Maria's giggling sometimes morphs into it.
* NoSocialSkills: As strange and borderline [[CreepyChild creepy]] as she can be, she's not evil--just very socially maladjusted.
* OracularUrchin
* PimpedOutDress: Witch dress only.
* ThePollyanna: As long as she has [[MoralityChain Sakutaro]] to cheer her up, at least.
* PsychoPartyMember: Treated this way in the first arc and shown to be this way in the fourth.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Battler's red.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Does her best not to notice that her mother isn't quite qualified for the job. [[spoiler:In the fourth arc we see what happens when she doesn't.]]
* [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan]]: During the fourth arc, though it's implied to be AllJustADream.
* StrangeGirl: Relates to her CreepyChild tendencies, but also how young she acts in comparison to how young she is.
* SpiritAdvisor: She is either this or an ImaginaryFriend to Ange, depending on [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane how you interpret it]].
* ThirdPersonPerson
* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler:Shouts this repeatedly at her [[AbusiveParent Abusive Mother]] Rosa in [=EP4=] out of anger for killing Sakutaro in front of her before going all AxCrazy on her and getting revenge for him. Luckily, she's even calmer and happier when Sakutaro gets better, compliments of Ange.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Maria is a walking encyclopedia of Western occult lore. Where did a 9-year-old Japanese girl learn all this?
* UnstoppableRage: Episode 4, chapter 12. That's all.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the anime, nobody seems to pay much attention to her ludicrously over-the-top CreepyChild moments. In the games, though, they react much more appropriately.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Because of her belief that all of the murders will eventually lead to everyone being resurrected in the Golden Land, Maria doesn't even really seem to care much when her own mother dies in the first arc.
* VerbalTic: "''Uu~''". This is later revealed to be what she believes is a spell for happiness.
** Possibly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]; Maria's verbal tic frequently irritates her mother, who will even [[AbusiveParents hit her for saying it too much]], and it's said to be one of the reasons why she's bullied at school.
* WhiteMagic: Most of her spells were harmless at first.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Rosa's attitude towards Maria.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: She is something of a subversion. Her way of thinking can seem absurdly innocent and naive, yet she has a deeper insight on life than any 7 to 9 year old girl should have.
!!Jessica Ushiromiya (朱志香)
!!!Voiced by: MarinaInoue
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-->"''People are capable of creating another part of themselves inside themselves at any time. A part that they can truly like.''"
18 year-old daughter of Krauss and Natsuhi and fifth in the line of succession. Jessica has a lot of pressure put on her by Natsuhi, being the first heir after Kinzo's sons and daughters (although technically whoever she takes as her future husband will become the head and not her). She falls in love with Kanon. In the alternate world shown in [=EP7=] she is no longer the first heir of the cousins, with her older sibling Lion being the first in line of succession instead.
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* CerebusRetcon: During the SchoolFestival in the second arc, Jessica gets pissed off at a classmate and {{Megaton Punch}}es her with a ''brass knuckle''. That was just a gag, right? She pulls them out again during the fourth arc and they quickly become conduits for SupernaturalMartialArts.
* CosplayOtakuGirl: Not ordinarily so, but considering that her episode 2 school festival performance consisted of singing the VideoGame/{{Touhou}} song ''Tsurupettan'' while dressed up as Marisa...
** UpToEleven in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1E2DsxvyCQ&feature=related fighting game]]... [[KamehameHadouken MASTER SPARK!]]
* CuteBruiser
* CuteLittleFangs: In the original sound novel.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: In ''Ougon Musou Kyouku X'' and ''Cross''.
** MagicSkirt
* DeadPersonConversation: With Kanon in the third arc.
* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession]]
** [[spoiler:HellishPupils]]: In the sixth arc, when [[spoiler:she kills Kyrie]].
* {{Expy}}: {{Tsundere}} heiress to a BigScrewedUpFamily that acts like a tomboy but wants to be girly? Sounds like [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Mion]] to me.
* IllGirl - Jessica has asthma which often acts up and incapacitates when she's under stress.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in Episode 7, when (that game's) Jessica reveals to Will that she's been deliberately invoking this trope. Her asthma is a put-on meant to lend her an image as a frail, sheltered lady, as well as giving her a handy way out of unpleasant situations by faking her attacks.]]
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYkGjqDI60g Dokkyun Heart]].
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite Lion existing and thus becoming the second child, her personality never changed. If at all, this fueled her rebellious spirit.
* HeroicSacrifice: In order to save Kanon, she took Asmodeus InTheBack. ...Too bad it didn't really, well, [[SenselessSacrifice work]].
* MegatonPunch
** PowerFist
* PluckyGirl: At a bare minimum in the fourth arc.
** {{Determinator}}: She says it herself; "'Give up' isn't written anywhere in my dictionary!"
* ShipperOnDeck: For George and Shannon.
* ShoutOut: Jessica's [[SuperMovePortraitAttack Meta-Super]] in the fighting game is the [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Master Spark]], complete with [[CosplayOtakuGirl Marisa costume]].
** Her PaletteSwap for the Marisa costume is red and white, referring to Reimu (her brown hair also fits in too, since Reimu's hair tends to shift between brown and black depending on the art).
* StudentCouncilPresident: She has no interest in being one but her parents forced her.
* [[spoiler: SweetOnPollyOliver]]: A rather strange version, since [[spoiler: Kanon is one of Yasu's alter-egos, but it's unknown what Yasu's gender really is.]]
* {{Tomboy}}: She definitely has the personality fitting of one, and her manner of speech is very masculine (though not to the point of [[{{Bokukko}} using "boku" as a personal pronoun]]), much to the dismay of her mother.
** TomboyishPonytail
* TookALevelInBadass: Between being Kanon's DamselInDistress in the second arc and putting up a strong fight against Ronove in the fourth arc. [[spoiler: And then burning Kyrie alive in the sixth arc.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Though like [[HigurashinoNakuKoroNi Mion]], it's played somewhat unusually in that she's neither overly tsun nor overly dere.
* UpgradeArtifact: Having a little trouble dealing with your target? No problem! Just make a little contract with [[spoiler:Zepar and Furfur]], call up Bronove to stick some barriers around, and MinMax your way through that yandere-off.
!!George Ushiromiya (譲治)
!!!Voiced by: KenichiSuzumura
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-->"''Marriage means becoming your wife's ally for your entire life. From the moment I did that, I was prepared to have the whole world as my enemy.''"
23 year-old son of Eva and Hideyoshi, George is sixth in the line of succession. He has been working as a junior worker at his father's company, but hopes to eventually be able to own his own business. He falls in love with Shannon against his mother's wishes. Being in his twenties, he is by far the oldest of the four cousins, and tends to serve as an older-brother figure to the others. He's very good with young children.
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* ArrangedMarriage: Eva was trying to arrange an omiai for George. He wasn't particularly interested and got incredibly sheepish as soon as she brought it up.
* BarrierWarrior: Using softer light than [[HardLight Shannon]]. His adds the force of any attacks aimed at him to his own attacks, rather than just plain repelling the enemy.
* BigBrotherMentor
* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: In Episode 6, [[spoiler:he finally tells his mother he's proposed to Shannon, and is willing to leave the family rather than lose her. Eva doesn't take it well.]]
* TheConscience: Usually winds up playing a supporting role to Battler here.
* GentlemanAndAScholar
* {{Ephebophile}}: A mild example, but Shannon was supposedly 14 [[spoiler:(actually 17, due to Yasu's age being lowered by three years when first put to work)]] when he started dating her (he was 21). And he was interested in her way before that.
* [[spoiler: GreenEyedMonster: He admits to Shannon in [=EP7=] that he was jealous of Battler when they were kids because he was so close to Shannon. This gives a common theory that Battler did write Shannon a letter but George hid it from her when he gave her the empty bag because he was still jealous of their relationship. When he finally proposes to her though, he realizes how childish his envy is toward Battler.]]
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcallwX_nDI Love Declaration]], and the lyrics are a little… disturbing. They don't say "I love you" so much as [[CrazyJealousGuy "You are mine"]].
* KilledMidSentence: Second arc.
* KungFuWizard
* NiceGuy: He used to be one in the most unflattering sense possible (which Shannon {{troll}}s him about even now), but now he's much closer to the genuine article. Of course, some fans think he's still [[EntitledToHaveYou that kind]] of "Nice Guy".
* ThePowerOfLove: George invokes this trope in the fourth arc when he and Gaap fight.
* ScaryShinyGlasses Shows this whenever he gets serious.
* [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan]]: Sixth arc, sorta. [[spoiler:It was only one. He only killed his mother, not his father.]]
* ShoutOut: His PaletteSwap in ''Ougon Musou Kyouku'' looks like [[VideoGame/HeartNoKuniNoAlice Peter White without rabbit ears]] [[spoiler:just solidifying the possibility of him being a {{Yandere}}.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Similar to Jessica.
* TheWisePrince: Amply demonstrated in his lectures on leadership in Ep 4 and 6, complete with shiny rapefaces and levels in badassery.
** BadassCreed: See the above quote.
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat
* [[spoiler: {{Yandere}}: EP 4 and 6 raise some major red flags that he may be one.]]
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!!Krauss Ushiromiya (蔵臼)
!!!Voiced by: JurotaKosugi
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->''[[StayInTheKitchen "Don't you think education for women is like sugar in black tea? When there is none it's just tasteless, but too much of it ruins the tea."]]''
First successor to Kinzo's fortune, father of Jessica, and husband of Natsuhi. He has poor intuition for investment, and so has squandered a lot of the Ushiromiya family's wealth on failed projects. He is largely [[CainAndAbel resented by his siblings]] for being very manipulative.
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* [[spoiler: ArrangedMarriage: Him and Natsuhi]]
* BoundAndGagged: Apparently done to him in the fifth arc (well, bound, anyway), as part of a ploy to [[spoiler:frame Natsuhi]] for the murders that occur.
* TheDutifulSon
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Even after he gets swindled, he's still singing the praises of a few of the swindlers.
* [[IKnowKarate I Know Boxing]]: And I can down a goat-monster twice my size if he raises enough loser flags.
* InadequateInheritor
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Introduced as not much more than a manipulative jerk to his siblings, but in arcs three and four, he shows a much softer side with a PetTheDog moment or two. For all the sexist attitude he can show when he's upset, he really does care about his family.
* ManipulativeBastard: He shows this ''very'' effectively in the first arc, where he successfully turns the tables around in his negotiation with the other parents.
* PetTheDog: In episode 17 of the anime he laments that due to being Kinzo's successor he was never as nice to his siblings (especially Eva) as he should have been. Cue Eva-Beatrice strangling him and Natsuhi.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: In the fourth arc Krauss literally punches a goat man so hard it ends up falling right on top of Virgilia.
* SexlessMarriage: Apparently the case with him and Natsuhi, since they're shown to have separate rooms.
* StayInTheKitchen: Alienated Eva and Rosa with sexism when they were younger and he was competing with Eva over the headship qualifications. Much later, he refuses to let Natsuhi have anything to do with the family funds until it's too late to get out of the hole he dug himself into--very unfortunately for him, as [[SanityBall she's got all the common sense]].
** StrawMisogynist
* UpperClassTwit: He seems like a good guy, but lacks any business sense whatsoever.
** A big hint towards his complete lack of business foresight appears early in [=EP1=] when Krauss remarks that [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Japan will become the economic center of the world]]. Unfortunately for him, the collapse of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble Japanese asset price bubble]] would have likely completely wiped him out only four or five years later.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Gotta feel sorry for the poor idiot to some extent. Although he was the heir apparent, Kinzo never really had any faith in him ([[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter for good reason]]) to begin with, and so he was struggling for Kinzo's approval just like Eva. The only difference is that Eva actually deserved it.
!!Eva Ushiromiya (絵羽)
!!!Voiced by: MikiIto
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Second in the line of inheritance and George's mother. She has a lot of resentment against her older brother, Krauss, and has a rivalry with his wife, Natsuhi. She is also the wife of Hideyoshi. In order to keep her placement in the line of successors, she married Hideyoshi and had him adopt the name of "Ushiromiya".
In the meta-world, [[Characters/UminekoNoNakuKoroNiWitches Eva-Beatrice]] is the manifestation of all the theories which place her as the culprit of the Rokkenjima incident. In Arc 3, it is revealed that [[spoiler:she survives the Rokkenjima incident and becomes Ange's caretaker while becoming the head of the Ushiromiya corporate]]. In Arcs 7 and 8, it turns out that [[spoiler:she intentionally painted herself as the culprit while hiding the Book of the Single Truth -- her diary which contains the truth of what happened in Rokkenjima]].
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* ActionMom
* AudioErotica: Many fans consider Eva's voice to be this, thanks to Miki Ito's performance.
* [[spoiler: AntiHero: Turns out she was a type 3 the whole time.]]
* [[spoiler:AxeCrazy]]: Episode 3. It may not be true, though.
* AmbitionIsEvil
* BreakTheHaughty: Expected when George or Hideyoshi are found dead and she is still alive.
** Leads to UnstoppableRage in [=EP5=] [[spoiler:when Natsuhi is declared the culprit]]; after the trial, Eva loses it in the real world and begins to beat her up in a fit of rage. Not that anyone tries to stop her, besides Battler.
** SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Third]] arc only, where you can really start to see her lose it after Hideyoshi is killed, until the end, where she ultimately goes...
*** [[spoiler:AxCrazy]]: Or so it seemed.
* CainAndAbel [[spoiler:She engages in the actions of Cain, but is morally speaking Abel.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Her martial arts prowess is discussed at the beginning of the first novel. A slightly different example in that the callback turns out to be the fact that she taught those skills to George, allowing him to be a BadassNormal in the fourth novel. Aside from that, it also explains the reason Eva-Beatrice is a melee fighter in ''Ougon Musou Kyoku''.
* EducationMama: Tuesday: piano lessons; Wednesday: cram-school; Thursday: supplementary class; Friday: special school for parents and children; Saturday: special tutor. All alongside regular school. It's surprising George [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere didn't imitate Battler.]]
* EyeScream: Once in the fourth arc, she ([[spoiler:or better said, Ange's ''perception'' of Eva]]) holds [[spoiler: Ange]] at gunpoint. Then, the rifle '''blows up on her face''', and said injuries are so horrible that [[spoiler: Ange has to MercyKill her]].
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]: [[spoiler:And then it turns out it was a JerkassFacade]].
* FemaleMisogynist: Becomes this, to some extent, in her attempts to wrest the succession from Krauss, as she sees the genders of their children as an advantage to her. She feels plenty guilty about it, though.
* GoGetterGirl: Young Eva started out like this in high school. Then her father told her she could never become family head because she was a woman. Things got worse from there...
* [[spoiler:GoodIsNotNice]]
* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: While most of the adult women in ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' are quite attractive, Eva probably takes the cake. She's got to be at least 50 and she doesn't look a day over 30. Probably doesn't hurt that she's mastered numerous martial arts and kept her figure extremely fit.
* HappilyMarried: She genuinely loves her husband and arguably has the most stable relationship with her spouse among her siblings.
* HotMom
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler:In the BadFuture resulting from the third arc. Oddly, you see the scene in which she's implied to have died, but the actual cause of death stated in the TIPS is heart failure]]. Huh. That must have been some cough.
** TruthInTelevision: Heart failure patients tend to develop chronic coughs from fluid in the lungs.
* MyBelovedSmother: To George.
* NotQuiteDead: After [[spoiler:Kyrie shoots her in ''Requiem'''s Tea Party.]] Certainly a miracle, although we won't go as far as to say she was "lucky"…
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Eva disapproves of George falling in love with Shannon and makes that very clear.
** In Episode 6, George calls her on it. The resulting argument has her causing a major case of MyBelovedSmother before finally [[spoiler:transforming into Eva-Beatrice and trying to beat him into submission with magic. Cue KungFuWizard smackdown.]]
* PetTheDog: She genuinely seems to love her husband Hideyoshi, and gets a touching scene with him in episode 3 of the anime. [[spoiler:They find her and Hideyoshi's bodies approximately 90 seconds later]]. Also, despite (''and'' because of) what you'll hear about [[LiteralSplitPersonality Eva-Beatrice]], the third arc serves as a giant PetTheDog moment for Eva. [[spoiler:At least until she turns out to be the culprit]], [[MindScrew or something]].
* ResentfulGuardian: To [[spoiler:Ange. She didn't have to be, and initially tried to be a good guardian to her. However, things broke down, with Ange acting essentially as a little girl in her situation would. This hit Eva's BerserkButton, and things went downhill from there]].
** [[spoiler:SinsOfOurFathers]]: A lot of the reason that she becomes so miserable toward Ange is because [[spoiler:Rudolf and Kyrie--Ange's parents--were the ones responsible for killing the entire rest of the family, or so we're led to believe]].
* RichBitch: She acts equivalent to the trope, but usually over position in the hierarchy, rather than actual money, since everyone's filthy rich.
* [[spoiler:SilentScapegoat]]: [[spoiler:Chose to have Ange hate her forever rather than tell her the truth about what really happened on the island, which she feared would be too much for her.]]
* SkirtOverSlacks
* [[spoiler:SoleSurvivor]]: [[spoiler:She is believed to be the only survivor of the Rokkenjima Incident. This is not a good thing, for her, or for Ange, the only other living Ushiromiya.]]
* SplitPersonality
* StayInTheKitchen: How she was treated by her brothers in her childhood.
* SupremeChef: It's only very breifly mentionned in the story, but according to a TIP she is very skilled and creative when it comes to cooking, to the point Hideyoshi calls her a "Witch of the kitchen".
* UnexpectedSuccessor: [[spoiler:Third arc]]. Although she's not actually that far down the chain, there was no reason to expect Krauss to pass away, and after he does, the hope would be that Jessica's husband could succeed after him. In addition, Eva has the HeirClubForMen baggage to deal with.
* [[spoiler:TragicHero]]
* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done, Daughter" Girl]]
* WickedStepmother: Ange sees Eva this way, [[spoiler:but it's subverted to hell and back particularly in the final two arcs]].
!!Rudolf Ushiromiya (留弗夫)
!!!Voiced by: RikiyaKoyama
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Husband of Kyrie and father of Battler and Ange, Rudolf is third in the line of succession. He's an admitted philanderer. His relationship with Battler has been strained since his first wife, Asumu's, death, due to his quick remarriage to Kyrie.
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* [[spoiler: AxCrazy]]: [=EP7=], at least, where he declares that [[spoiler:killing people is surprisingly easy and very fun.]]
* BadassNormal
* [[spoiler:BigBad: It's hinted that the [=EP7=] solution is the true one, because Ange would never want her parents to be the culprits.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [=EP6=]. [[spoiler: It's one thing to find your wife's body burned alive but it's another thing to lose your son as well.]]
* CannotSpitItOut: After [=EP4=]'s revelation that [[spoiler:Asumu is not Battler's birth mother]] it was believed that Rudolf was aware of this. And in [=EP5=] it is highly implied during the 19th person talk that Rudolf was going to tell Battler in [=EP1=] after the letter reading, thus his 'I'm going to die' stint. However, he is never actually seen telling Battler nor is he seen telling anybody.
** He finally does tell Kyrie in [=EP8=] that [[spoiler:Battler is her biological son, and he was responsible for switching him with Asumu's child, who was miscarried, because he didn't want anyone to know he had an affair with Kyrie. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Kyrie takes the news better than what would be expected of her at this point]]]].
* [[spoiler:CorruptCorporateExecutive: According to Kyrie's diary entries that Ange reads after the Rokkenjima incident, Rudolf's business practices were rarely ever ''not'' skirting the law in some way. It's only recently that it's come to bite him in the ass and get him slapped with a lawsuit, which is why he wants the gold.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:A rare successful one]].
* [[spoiler: TheDragon]]: In Episode 7.
* [[spoiler: FacingTheBulletsOneLiner]]: To Eva in [=EP7=] [[spoiler:after killing George.]]
-->'''Rudolf''': [[spoiler:Go ahead and shoot... I doubt that'll bring you much peace, though.]]
* HaremSeeker: In his youth. He later got over it... [[YourCheatingHeart for the most part...]]
* HandsomeLech
* HeyItsThatVoice: His [[RikiyaKoyama voice actor for the anime]] is the same as the dub voice for [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]]. This is [[ShoutOut played with]] in the sound novel's fifth episode, where he sings the first line of Bauer's song.
** Also played with in the preview for the 16th anime episode, when Rudolf is making calls, has a 24 ringtone, slips up and refers to himself as Jack.
* HotDad: Hey, you can't say that Rudolf hasn't aged well.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: In Episode 8 [[spoiler:he and Kyrie manage to each fire a bullet simultaneously ''and make the bullets clash''. 10 cm from Erika's head.]]
* KonamiCode: The very first scene he appears has him pulling Battler's ear while saying "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right". That's gotta hurt.
* [[spoiler: {{Leitmotif}}]]: With Episode 7, [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AHOh9tTNfo Yomitsu Hirasaka Corruption]] is now heavily associated with him.]]
* ManlyTears: Sheds them when [[spoiler: Battler and Kyrie are killed in the sixth arc.]]
* MillionairePlayboy
* OverprotectiveDad: To Battler in [=EP7=]. {{Fanon}} turns it UpToEleven in doujinshi.
* PapaWolf: Toward Battler despite constantly mocking him. [[spoiler:Evident in Arc 7 when he constantly tells Kyrie not to go after him when they're massacring everyone else on the island. It's even hinted that he wouldn't have listened to Kyrie to shoot his own son if Battler didn't believe his lies.]]
** In [=EP6=] [[spoiler:he literally breaks down when he finds Battler's body and refuses to believe it was suicide, and is the first person to take the gun.]]
* ParentWithNewParamour
* SmokingIsCool
* TaughtByTelevision: ''"Don't underestimate the western-loving generation!"''
** This actually plays a big role in [=EP7=]. [[spoiler: He understands how to use the guns that are on the island more easily than anyone else because he's watched so many Western movies.]]
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: [=EP1=] he tells Battler and Kyrie that he's going to get killed. Battler doesn't believe him. [[spoiler: Next morning, he's in the shed.]]
** [[spoiler:Turns out he was planning to tell Kyrie that Battler is her real son and was afraid of how she'd react. Oh, the irony.]]
* YourCheatingHeart
!!Rosa Ushiromiya (楼座)
!!!Voiced by: AmiKoshimizu
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-->"''I'm sorry for having been such a bad Mama...''"
Mother of Maria and fourth in the line of succession. Although Battler describes her as a calming figure, her relationship with Maria is very troubled.
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* AbusiveParents: The weird case when it overlaps with... MamaBear.
* BadassNormal [[spoiler: At the end of the second arc, she takes on an army of goats with a rifle, a pen, and a gold ingot. And it is ''awesome''.]]
** [[spoiler: Continues badassing it up in Episode 8 as well.]]
* BerserkButton: "Uu-uu-uu-!!" Maria, you're very cute, but it seems [[spoiler:your "happiness charm"]] has the opposite effect, sorry.
* BlackBlood: Used to chilling effect when [[spoiler:Maria]] kills her.
* TheChewToy: [[spoiler:Being among the first to die in the first arc]] is getting off easy compared to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the hell she goes through in later arcs]]. Rosa has only survived past the second twilight ''once'', and that's just things involved with the murders. Outside of that, Rosa's life is practically a personalized hell for her.
** Where do we begin? Being the youngest, she got picked on by her older siblings, according to Rudolf. In addition to that, if [=EP3=] is to be believed, then she watched Beatrice [[spoiler:II]] ''die'' and blamed herself for the incident, which both ends up being what drives Kinzo off the edge of insanity and is something she has to be reminded of every time Maria references Beatrice. And ''then'' on top of all that, the man she had Maria with runs off to have a family of his own while burdening her with a debt that gives her the futile hope that he'll come back to her if she pays it off, leaving Rosa to raise Maria by herself while taking up a management job she never wanted. Rosa's life is probably the most screwed up among the main siblings bar none, and second only to poor Natsuhi.
*** Though she has her [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments Of Awesome]]. At the very least, it shows that the only way to really stop Rosa once she's pissed is to practically ''gib'' her.
* ChristmasCake: In some of the [=EP4=] flashbacks, this seemed to be a large concern of Rosa's, especially because any potential husbands would need to be okay with a daughter [[HeroicBastard who isn't theirs]].
* ClassyCravat
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Oh, boy, she ''does'' deserve a special entry for this. Due to quantity, at least.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* CuteAndPsycho: [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like mother, like daughter]]. Rosa can switch from the sweetest mother to the most abusive one with such ''ease''...
* [[FantasyForbiddingFather Fantasy-Forbidding Mother]]
* FreudianExcuse: Rosa often uses this to rationalize her harsh treatment towards Maria. Her own parents and siblings showed little mercy towards her when she was growing up, so she believes holding back on Maria would be "spoiling" her.
* GenerationXerox: In the [=EP8=] manga, it's revealed that [[spoiler:as a little girl she had a stuffed rabbit that she loved very much, rather like Maria with Sakutaro. Unfortunately, similarly to Sakutaro, Rosa's rabbit was torn apart by her older siblings]].
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: ...Or something. As the series goes on, it becomes more apparent that Maria's birth was, at best, an accident, and an unwelcome one at that. Justified in that the series takes place in 1986, when abortion would have been illegal in Japan except under special circumstances.
* GunsAkimbo: In ''Ougon Musoukyoku X'' and ''Cross'', Rosa's Meta-super move involves Maria giving Rosa and extra gun so that Rosa can launch a mega-combo against her opponent like this.
* HimeCut
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Fourth arc, when she's [[spoiler: torn apart by her own hands]].
* HotMom
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Although in the second arc, she has a [[HandCannon rifle]], some of her other defensive moves when she wasn't armed included a pen and a chair, to varying degrees of effectiveness.
** ThePenIsMightier
* KickTheDog: When she [[spoiler:tears up Sakutaro]]. Does not end well.
* KnightTemplarParent: To some extent, although there are a few questionable things she does that just [[AbusiveParents don't seem to fall into that category]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: The main reason she's TheChewToy, at least as far as her deaths in the main story goes. It's most direct in the fourth arc, though...
* LaughingMad: While [[spoiler:Maria kills her over and over again]]. At some point they actually laugh mad ''together''. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint What a happy family!]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGiSIYRxic8 worldend dominator]] is heavily associated with Rosa, having played on her [[Awesome/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi best moments]].
* LoveMartyr: The reason that Rosa's in debt is that [[spoiler:she cosigned a loan with Maria's father. She is hoping that if and when she pays off the debt, the man will finally agree to marry her and become a proper father to poor Maria, even though he's already said he won't]].
* MagicalGirl: She, as Magical Rosa, and Eva-Beatrice, as Magical Eva, form the Magical Girl duo "Magical Beatrice" at the end of their scenario in ''Ougon Musou Kyoku''.
* MamaBear: Her last act in the second arc is to mow down [[{{Mook}} goat-headed butlers]] with a rifle and Maria at her side.
-->'''Rosa:''' Just try laying a finger on my daughter. I'll show you how lukewarm the hell you came from is!!
** [[spoiler:Then comes [=EP8=], where Erika has the guts to tell Maria her mom doesn't love her. Guess who shoves a rifle barrel down her throat?]]
* {{Manchild}}: She's nowhere near being the most blatant example of this trope, but she does have some moments where she acts quite a bit like a child. At one point in [=EP1=], she even laments that she still doesn't feel as though she's really grown up.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Her general reaction after beating or neglecting Maria ([[AbusiveParents not that it stops her]]).
** TruthInTelevision: It's rather common to have abusers of all kinds regret their actions upon seeing the consequences they bring to their victims, and try to compensate the abuse by acting nicer. Sadly, it's also very usual to restart the abuse cycle with one little mistake...
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: [[spoiler:Second tea party]]. [[GratuitousEnglish ETT'S]] [[MemeticMutation PAAFEKUTO!]]
** [[spoiler:ImAHumanitarian]]: The banquet.
*** AGlassOfChianti: Beato has Rosa drink this. Too bad the above trope also comes into play here.
** ImNotHungry: Poor Rosa.
*** [[spoiler:ForceFeeding]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Despite being frequently called the dumbest of the siblings, she had [[spoiler:ended up solving the riddle of the Witch's Epitaph before Eva]], but didn't pursue her suspicion until later.
* ParentalNeglect: When she's not abusing Maria, she leaves her on her own to visit her boyfriend. [[spoiler:Although this may not be true at all, and it's because Rosa really is working hard so she can pay off the debt Maria's father left her in and he can come back to both of them.]]
* PistolWhipping: Rosa does this a lot on ''Ougon Musoukyoku'', but it is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to the game mechanics; before Rosa can fire her rifle, she has to charge it first.
* ResentfulGuardian: Maria definitely imagines that this is the case. While it may be true in some part of Rosa's psyche, it's still pretty apparent that she genuinely loves her daughter.
* SplitPersonality: The way Maria interprets Rosa's behaviour towards her (white witch, black witch).
* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler:Sixth arc]].
* TroubledAbuser: Rosa was abused by Kinzo, tormented by her brothers and sister (which Rudolf acknowledges as some point), and is a single mother where the father of her daughter Maria [[spoiler: left her without marrying her and while she was pregnant]]. All in all, her life's a train wreck. Is it any wonder that she winds up taking so much of it out on Maria, as much as poor Maria doesn't deserve it?
* {{Tsundere}}: Towards Maria. [[PlayedForDrama It's not funny.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Battler says that Rudolf said this about Rosa a lot, but because of the age difference between her and the rest of her siblings, she got treated pretty nastily by them a lot of the time. Now, of course, she treats Maria quite harshly.
* VillainProtagonist: The Rosa/Battler scenario on ''Ougon Musoukyouku'' ends with [[spoiler: Rosa shooting and killing Battler, eerily mimicking the scene where Eva does the same to Battler in [=EP3=]]].
* UseYourHead: One of Rosa's many attacks in ''Ougon Musoukyouku''.
* YouAreTooLate: Rosa's practically made of this one. In Episode 2, she and Maria reconcile...just in time for them to die. In Episode 3, [[spoiler:she solves the epitaph first, but presumably doesn't act fast enough and Eva arrives before her]]. In Episode 4, she almost takes out [[spoiler:Goldsmith]] but hesitates a little too long.
!!Natsuhi Ushiromiya (夏妃)
!!!Voiced by: EmiShinohara
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-->"''Without fail, I will protect all of the Ushiromiya family's honor and glory!''"
Mother of Jessica and wife of Krauss, she is ninth in the line of succession. Natsuhi is under a lot of pressure, since it is her and Krauss's responsibility to take care of both Kinzo and the house, and yet she married into the Ushiromiya family, putting her at a fairly low rank on the hierarchy. She gave birth to Jessica after twelve years of being unable to have a child, a fact that Eva attempted to take advantage of.
In Arc 5, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Kinzo gave her a child to adopt when she couldn't give birth to a heir. Out of anger and resentment, she pushes a servant holding the child off a cliff]]. In an alternate world shown in Arc 7 [[spoiler:where she accepts the child]], she becomes the mother of two children, Lion and Jessica.
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* AnimeHair: Her lower/head hair and her upper/ponytail hair are noticeably different shades of brown. In the novels, the ponytail actually seems to fade to ''red.''
* BerserkButton: Don't insult the Ushiromiya family name, head, her husband, or her own standing in the family honorably given to her by Kinzo, [[spoiler:even if the last one isn't true]].
* BreakTheHaughty: Natsuhi is oftentimes far too proud for her own good. Pretty much the whole fifth arc is one long TraumaCongaLine for her.
* TheChewToy: In addition to BreakTheHaughty and TraumaCongaLine above, she gets verbally abused by Eva in [=EP1=] to the point Natsuhi ends up running away in tears. [[spoiler:She is also one of the first to go in the second, fourth, sixth and seventh games.]] Suffice to say, Natsuhi is the series punching bag alongside Rosa. To add to the insult, [[spoiler: It's hinted that she was actually the first person to die when the massacre started.]]
* ClassyCravat
* DeadPersonConversation: A few with [[spoiler:Kinzo]], although it's implied that it's because [[spoiler:she [[{{Hallucinations}} snapped]] to a certain extent after Kinzo's death]], rather than it being a genuine conversation with a ghost.
* DuelToTheDeath: In [=EP1=].
* EyesAlwaysShut: Most of the time in the first novel, due to her chronic headaches.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Her dress is primarily purple and she's quite feminine, mature, and lady-like. Well...[[HairTriggerTemper usually.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: And with all the stress Natsuhi has to deal with, you'd be a little high-strung too.
* HonorBeforeReason
* HonorRelatedAbuse: [[spoiler:Because the child Kinzo gave her to raise served as a constant reminder of her failure to produce an heir herself, she pushed a servant holding the child off a cliff]].
* HotMom: She's 47, but she seems to be aging pretty well despite how stressed out she is a lot of the time.
* IWishedYouWereDead: Her exposition about [[spoiler:the child from 19 years ago]] indicates this trope in action.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Natsuhi's birth family.
** [[spoiler:ArrangedMarriage: To Krauss]]
*** [[spoiler:ScarpiaUltimatum: Kinzo forced Natsuhi into the marriage as a reconciliation of her family's debts to him.]]
* {{Keigo}}: She speaks very formally almost all of the time. More so than pretty much all of the other adults. But given that she's a YamatoNadeshiko [[SubvertedTrope (or at least she's trying to be one]] [[HairTriggerTemper even though she falls short at times, that is)]], this is only to be expected.
* LawOfInverseFertility: Feeds into succession tensions, as she and Krauss can't conceive a kid and heir for ''many'' years.
* MamaBear: Kumasawa refers to Natsuhi as this trope by name in the first arc. [[spoiler: She tries to invoke it against Beato to protect Jessica, but it horribly fails.]]
* MeaningfulName: Her name can be translated as "summer princess".
* MotherlySidePlait: An odd variation, since hers is held in a high ponytail. This somewhat expresses her sternness despite genuinely loving her family.
* [[spoiler:OffingTheOffspring]]: Whether or not it actually happened is a subject of controversy, but Erika suggests this in the fifth arc. Later proven false, though. [[spoiler:Of course, that doesn't mean she wouldn't try to off her adoptive offspring in a fit of anger...]]
* PerpetualFrowner: A rare female example. She is very often seen with a prominent frown on her face to underscore her serious and responsible personality.
* {{Pride}}: Her FatalFlaw is that she can let her desire to uphold the honor of her husband and the Ushiromiya family as a whole get the best of her.
* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage]]: Poor woman seems to have somewhat [[spoiler:lost track of reality after Kinzo's death]].
* SexlessMarriage: For all her dedication to Krauss, she still seems to have this relationship with him since they sleep in separate rooms.
* StayInTheKitchen: Krauss repeatedly shuts Natsuhi up. Unfortunately this isn't to his benefit, since she basically runs the house and has much more common sense than he does while he squanders their money on poorly thought-out business ventures.
* StepfordSmiler: Natsuhi's goal is similar, although she seems to have some [[PerpetualFrowner trouble with the "smiler" part]].
* TallDarkAndBishoujo
* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Natsuhi has this to Kinzo, her father-in-law, as she loves him very much and desperately wants his approval.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Tries her hardest to be this, and has quite a few characteristics that match, but she ultimately subverts the trope since she has too much of a HairTriggerTemper to fully play it straight. She'd probably fit the archetype better if she hadn't married into a BigScrewedUpFamily that constantly stresses her out.
!!Hideyoshi Ushiromiya (秀吉)
!!!Voiced by: MasashiHirose
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--> ''"Would ya give it a rest, Eva?"''
Father of George and husband of Eva, he is tenth in the line of succession. He owns a successful restaurant chain and is a fairly cheerful and sociable man. He was married into Eva's family and took on her family name on a technicality.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Or more accurately, in anime episode 16: Did you just [[CrowningMomentOfFunny give the witch a noogie]]? It was [[TearJerker remarkably more serious]] in the original game, and was more like [[spoiler: did you just bitchslap a witch and insist she was your wife?]]
* HappilyMarried: Seeing as how he's one of the genuinely kindest members of the family, he has no regrets for marrying Eva or changing his name to Ushiromiya.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: But it's actually fake, (apparently he thinks it helps him with business) and he drops it around real people from Kansai.
* MoralityPet: He's arguably this to Eva.
** MoralityChain: Don't let him die, or Eva will go apeshit on you.
* NiceGuy
* SatelliteCharacter: Usually, he dies too early to do much not related to Eva.
* SmokingIsCool: Although maybe he should think when he smokes.
!!Kyrie Ushiromiya (霧江), née Sumadera
!!! Voiced by: AtsukoTanaka
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-->"''Flip the chessboard around.''"
The business partner and second wife of Rudolf. Kyrie is Ange's mother and Battler's stepmother ([[spoiler:or so she thinks]]). She is dead last on the chain of succession as far as is known (there is confusion over Maria's father). She is known to have a very strong "flip-the-chessboard" mentality about how to tackle problems, and indeed, seems to have inspired Battler's own.
She was actually in a relationship with Rudolf before Asumu was and is intensely jealous of her, not just for having married Rudolf first, but also for having had a child early: although Kyrie was also pregnant at the time ([[spoiler:as the result of an affair with Rudolf]]), the pregnancy resulted in a miscarriage. She overall has a good relationship with Battler, although she privately resents him as well, since had her own child lived, they may have had Battler's position.
In Arc 8, it is confirmed that [[spoiler:Battler is her biological son, who was SwitchedAtBirth with Asumu's child by Rudolf at birth to keep his affair with Kyrie a secret]].
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* ActionMom
* [[spoiler:AxeCrazy]]
* BadassLongcoat
* BadassNormal ''and'' BadassBookworm
* [[spoiler:BigBad]]: [[spoiler:She and Rudolf are the murderers; [[UnreliableNarrator according to Bernkastel, at least]]. In Ep8, Eva never wanted Ange to know the truth, suggesting Kyrie and Rudolf really were the culprits.]]
* BoyishShortHair
* ConvenientMiscarriage: [[spoiler: Even more so after the big reveal about Battler in [=EP4=], who turns out not to be Asumu's son; it isn't revealed until [=EP8=] that Kyrie is the real mother through a [[SwitchedAtBirth baby switch]].]]
* CoolBigSis: Her relationship with Battler is like this.
* TheChessmaster: While being good at actual chess, [[spoiler: her plans for gaining the inheritance always backfire in the worst possible ways]].
* CreepyCoolCrosses
* DissonantSerenity: [[spoiler:Murdering your entire family in cold-blood]]? Just another day for Kyrie.
* [[spoiler:EvilerThanThou]]: [[spoiler:A [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome badass]] variation; in the third arc, Leviathan explains that it took a couple days after she was born to develop powers, making her extremely envious of her older sisters. Kyrie ''laughs'' at her and magnificently counters with what amounts to "What? You think that's envy? ''I had to watch some bitch steal my man from me '''for eighteen years!!'''''", then shoots her to death.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Leviathan gives chocolate to Kyrie for Valentines Day, in the Extra Tips "Stakes Valentine Day".
** [=EP6=]: [[spoiler: Leviathan saves Kyrie from being killed by Jessica.]]
* FiringOneHanded: She's the only one to wield the rifles this way.
* FormulaicMagic
* HotChickInABadassSuit
* HotMom
* [[spoiler:InsaneTrollLogic]]: [[spoiler:Her motive for instigating the Rokkenjima massacre is... Having all the gold to herself. The benefits just don't match up with the risks, especially since she knows that the gold is actually unusable.]]
* [[spoiler:LadyMacbeth]]: [[spoiler:In episode 7, she's revealed to be this to Rudolf]]
* [[spoiler: {{Leitmotif}}]]: As of Episode 7, [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi3eAjB_LcA Ridicule]] is universally considered to be hers.]]
* LoveHurts: Of course, it also gives you enough envy to overpower envy-incarnate, so it all evens out.
* MadnessMantra: PlayedForLaughs in "The Stakes' Valentine" and "Beatrice's White Day", when Leviathan kindly informs her that Rudolf gets along ''[[YourCheatingHeart very well]]'' with Belphegor.
-->'''Kyrie:''' Oh my. I hope the hospital has a free room with two beds. 24×365×1895179579245988…
* MafiaPrincess: The Sumadera clan can be more-or-less summed up as [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of the [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Sonozaki family]], and Kyrie herself has plenty of scary moments, particularly in later arcs.
* MeaningfulName: Possibly, as "Kyrie" means "Lord" in Greek, in addition to being a Japanese name.
** Or it could just be part of the Christianity-based ThemeNaming of the series, as the Kyrie is a Christian prayer.
* [[spoiler: MurderTheHypotenuse:]] She didn't, but that's only because Asumu died before that.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Kyrie says that Asumu probably drew Rudolf in due to the fact that she was very good at [[YamatoNadeshiko acting the traditional female role]]. Kyrie tended to serve as a business partner for Rudolf, which she feels probably [[MotherNatureFatherScience overwhelmed him]] to a certain extent.
* PowerLevels
** Leads to GreenEyedMonster in Episode 3, where she basically [[spoiler:defeats Leviathan by out-{{Envy}}ing her]].
* RunawayFiance
* [[spoiler:SmugSnake]]: [[spoiler: In [=EP7=], for all her wit and cunning, she comes across as a nasty murderous thug who seems to be a KarmaHoudini... and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome then Eva shows up with a rifle]].]]
* TheSmartGuy: Gender flip'd
* UnreliableNarrator: People tend to forget it, but all the horrible things she says about Asumu are mostly ''her'' version of the story. Considering how the two of them got along, it wouldn't be strange for her to distort the truth a tiny bit…
* [[spoiler:UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom]]: [[spoiler:The plan was initially simply for Yasukashnontrice to find a way to settle her "in-love-with-three-different-people" dilemma in the same way that Kinzo had gambitted to apologize to her, until Kyrie and Rudolf go on a murder spree to claim the inheritance money all for themselves]].
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl
* {{Yandere}}: Considering the entire Asumu talk, Kyrie's not too far from this for Rudolf.
** Confirmed in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler: Kyrie straight up tells Jessica that if Asumu didn't die on her own then she would have just killed her, all to be with Rudolf.]]
** ChekhovsGun: Whether or not [[spoiler:she's actually the murderer as Bernkastel suggests, [=EP3=] and onward show that she is ''capable'' of extraordinary coldness and violence if it's for Rudolf's sake]], which is why it is possible for her piece to act as it does in [=EP7=] (pieces cannot be out-of-character).
*** In addition to this, it's hinted that [[spoiler:Kyrie is connected with Lambda in some way, as she mentions "gratitude" towards her "master" when talking about her certain conviction granting her a miracle]].
* [[spoiler:YourSonAllAlong]]
!!Kinzō Ushiromiya (金蔵)
!!!Goldsmith
!!!Voiced by: {{Mugihito}} (elderly), DaisukeOno (younger)
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-->"''BEATORIICHEEEEEEE!!!!!!''"
The head of the family, Kinzo is expected to die soon, given his fairly poor health. He is suggested from the beginnning of the series to be mentally unstable, having devoted all of his time to black magic in his study. He is obsessed with reviving the Golden Witch, who claims that she gave him his entire fortune. Adopts the name Goldsmith in the fourth arc, when he shows his powers as a magician.
Arc 4 reveals that [[spoiler:he has been dead more than a year before the start time of all games, except for Arcs 7 and 8.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Despite his children being adults already, he still has enough power to pull it. And just in case the emotional (and literal) beatdowns weren't enough for you, he also [[spoiler: imprisoned his illegitimate daughter in isolation and repeatedly raped her.]]
* [[spoiler:TheAtoner]]: Turns out the whole deal with the epitaph was actually his wild gamble to [[spoiler:establish contact with Yasu, grant him/her the headship, and try to somehow make up for for what he did to his daughter Beatrice]].
** XanatosRoulette: Kinzo is well aware that this is a huge gamble, even {{Lampshading}} it with the quote at the top of the chapel.
* BadassGrandpa: If the fourth arc is to be taken at face value, he managed to summon two of Beatrice's more powerful furniture as well as her mentor. At once.
* BirthmarkOfDestiny: His polydactyly was seen as this, which is why he was made head of the Ushiromiya family legacy despite being from a branch family.
* ByronicHero
* {{Callback}}: The name "Goldsmith" was from a gag in the first EP, where Battler jokes that Kinzo should join in the Western ThemeNaming.
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]] [[color:white:But not in [=EP7=].]]
* DealWithTheDevil
* DeathSeeker: During World War II, he joined the army hoping to be killed in battle, only to be assigned to an engineering job far from the front lines. He got over it when he met Beatrice.
* DespairEventHorizon: He was implied to have crossed it [[spoiler:when Beatrice Castiglioni died, fueling the eventual parental incest with his daughter.]]
* DistinguishingMark: Kinzo was born with six toes on each foot. This fact is almost always used to identify [[spoiler:his charred corpse]].
* DrowningMySorrows
* EvilIsNotAToy: Reviving a witch who requires your entire family to be sacrificed doesn't seem like a good idea to begin with, and sure enough, he's found as one of the sacrifices in most of the early arcs. [[spoiler:Subverted]].
* EvilSorceror: Particularly in the fourth arc. [[spoiler:Subverted. He's not evil, nor is he a sorceror.]] Completely out of his mind, yes, but then, who in this family isn't?
* EvilOldFolks: Well, according to the fourth arc, he sics Beatrice's demons on his entire family. [[spoiler:Subverted. See above]].
* {{Flanderization}}: In parody works involving him, his eccentricity, drunkenness, frivolous spending, and [[CrazyAwesome Crazy Awesomeness]] are cranked UpToEleven.
* FormulaicMagic: His magic is said to be based heavily in probability.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first four Episodes, while the other "sacrifices" die in various ways, Kinzō alone consistently ends up burned to a crisp. [[spoiler:[[DeadAllAlong That's because he's a charred corpse from the beginning.]]]]
* GenerationXerox: His young sprite has Battler's face.
* GrumpyOldMan
* HotBlooded
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKKAoC9mLBM A Song of Scattered Love ~ My Beloved Golden Witch]], which is shared with Genji.
* IncomingHam: His "Happy Halloween" entrance in Episode 8.
* {{Jerkass}}: Full stop. Even in Eva's flashbacks in Arc 3. The candidacy of most of his descendants for at least JerkassWoobie can largely be laid at Kinzo's feet.
* KickTheDog: Nearly every scene we see him interact with ''anyone'' that's not Beatrice is a Kick the Dog moment for him. Even taking into account that [[spoiler:he was not actually alive for most of the series.]]
* LargeHam: Most of the scenes he appears in, he is screaming at the sky like the insane man he is.
** [[SayMyName "BEATORIICHEEEEEEE!!!!!!"]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "la divina tragedia", as far as fans are concerned.
** [[MemeticMutation Yami wo kirisaku OH DESIRE! / Sacrifice sheep TO GOD!]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENL0nPskSao Fishy Aroma]] serves as Kinzo's theme considering that it's set as the default music to Kinzo's study in the fighting game.
** In the VN, it's the slow, solemn and slightly sad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIxN7byEEw&feature=related Rose]]. It's also the very first music you hear in the series.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy[=/=]LoveMakesYouEvil[=/=]LoveHurts
* MadLove: Given how crazy he is over Beatrice, it's telling that he just about never comes up in any of her speech, except how he relates to the murders. Heck, she actually has her {{Mooks}} eat him alive in one ending. [[spoiler:This behaviour is very much justified once the true relationship between her and Kinzo is revealed.]]
* [[MadwomanInTheAttic Madman In The Attic]]: He may have locked himself in there, but he still fits pretty darn well. [[spoiler:Except for the fact that he's dead, of course]].
* MurderByCremation: [[spoiler:Subverted - he was dead for about two years prior]].
* {{Necromantic}}: Kinzo had a mistress a long time before named Beatrice, and he seems to be engaging in the ceremony in order to bring her back to life after she died years earlier. [[spoiler:This is later proven false, since Kinzo wasn't alive in order to orchestrate the ceremony. And while he did have a mistress whom he desperately wanted to come back to life, the "ceremony" was not a magical ritual to summon her]].
* NotSoAboveItAll: The stern and scary Kinzo of arcs 1-7 gives way to a Kinzo genuinely delighted to see his children and grandchildren to the extent that Genji winds up refraining whenever he says hello to anyone to remember his dignity.
* OminousOperaCape
* [[spoiler:OneOfTheKids]]: In [[spoiler:Battler's game for Ange, Kinzo is shown horsing around with Maria and Ange]].
* [[spoiler:ParentalIncest: With his daughter, Beatrice Ushiromiya. He saw it as a ReincarnationRomance, since she looked so much like her mother as she grew older, but as you can imagine, she didn't see it that way...]]
* PaterFamilicide: Through the summoning of Beatrice. [[spoiler:Subverted]].
* ThePatriarch
* PetTheDog: The scene in the first arc where he tells Natsuhi that even though she isn't qualified to wear the family crest on her clothes, that it's in her heart and to not listen to the family members who would mock her. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he was actually dead and Natsuhi was just being delusional.]]
** His behaviour towards Lion in [=EP7=] could also count towards this. [[spoiler: [[HeroicBastard Of course, he has]] [[ParentalIncest a reason for doing so...]]]]
* PhraseCatcher: "I wouldn't put it past father/grandfather." Whenever they talk about him doing something CrazyAwesome.
* PuppetKing: Before [[spoiler:going to Rokkenjima]], he was the head of the family in name only. Everything in his life, [[ArrangedMarriage including his wife]], was decided by the elders. For 20 years.
* SelfMadeMan: He was tasked with reviving the Ushiromiya prestige which was toppled in the great Kanto quake. He did it, to the surprise of everybody.
* SharpDressedMan: Kinzo is revealed to be particularly fussy about his clothes in Twilight.
* SpringtimeForHitler: He enlisted in the army because he wanted to be killed on the front. But because he had some experience with construction, the higher-ups sent him to a secret base on an isolated island where no deadly battle was ever likely to occur. [[spoiler:It ends pretty well for him though… well, apart from the whole "massacre over 10 tons of gold" thing.]]
* StrawMisogynist: In particular, his behaviour towards Eva in [=EP3=]. Dude has some ''serious'' issues with women.
** Depends on whether or not you believe his ramblings in [=EP1=], he views all members of his family equally as failures regardless of their genders.
* SummonMagic: The TIPS say that this is his specialty.
* [[spoiler:SpiritAdvisor]]: He served as this for Natsuhi within [[spoiler:her delusions]]. So did Beatrice.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Absinthe, a drink (erroneously) attributed to cause delusions.
* TroubledAbuser: Kinzo was manipulated as the heir to the Ushiromiya family, sent off to WorldWarII, wishes to take his own life [[spoiler: and finally meets his love, Beatrice Castiglioni, only to have her and later their daughter both die]]. He winds up half-insane, is abusive to most of his children (specially to Eva, by denying her the right to be the heir purely for her gender despite being more talented in business than her eldest brother Krauss) [[spoiler: and has a child with his illegitimate daughter, Beatrice Ushiromiya, through implied rape]].
* UnexpectedSuccessor: He was actually from a branch family of the main Ushiromiya line that had the least influence but after an earthquake that killed most of the family members, the title of family head fell onto him.
* [[spoiler:UnreliableNarrator]]: A late scene in [=EP7=] [[spoiler:implies that Kinzo was the one to suggest that the Japanese steal the Italian gold, a CallBack to scenes in EP 4 where Gaap says he chose to let everyone other than himself and his loved one die]]. Nowhere does this show up in [[spoiler:Kinzo's self-narrated flashbacks]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Not as a kid, but [=EP7=] shows that he was nothing less than a nice guy in his youth, and TheWoobie to boot. It got worse, horribly, when [[spoiler:Beatrice died]].
* WeakButSkilled: Is stated to have utterly no talent in magic whatsoever. However, through absurd amounts of hard work he managed to become a master summoner. The tips discribe him as a magican who can't even cast a spell to heat water, yet can summon a demon that can boil away an ocean.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Apparently, in his youth. If there's another season of the anime, lord only knows how they'll handle that, since [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole they already drew him with dark hair]].
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[[folder:Servants and guests]]
!!Shannon (紗音)/Sayo/[[spoiler:Yasu]]
!!!Voiced by: RieKugimiya
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-->"''George-san and I swore our love to each other. As proof, I accepted the ring... With that, our eternal vows were completed! No matter how you torture us with your wicked magic and your malice, you cannot disgrace that for all eternity!''"
One of the servants in the Ushiromiya mansion. She is a very sweet and shy girl who shares Kanon's belief in their furniture status within the Ushiromiya household. Despite that, though, she actively cultivates a relationship with George.
[[spoiler:She is heavily implied to be Kanon, Beatrice and Yasu.]]
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* [[spoiler:AmbiguouslyEvil]]: ''Very'' ambiguously.
* ArtificialHuman: According to an anti-mystery perspective.
** SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids
* AsideGlance: If she wins on ''Ougon Musoukyouku'' against anybody but Kanon, Shannon will do this, after setting a [[{{Hammerspace}} small mat on the floor, and setting a small picnic with cake and tea]], as if acknowledging how ridiculous it is for [[FightingClown her]] to be winning against anybody.
* BarrierWarrior
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Shannon in general is underestimated by the Meta-Character due to her status of being a simple maid whose only powers are [[BarrierWarrior defensive in nature]], yet in all the times she actually is able to fight back she has been able to hold back her attackers reasonably well, culminating in [=EP6=] where she kills [[spoiler: Witch!Maria and Sakutarou]] without breaking a sweat.
* BigSisterInstinct: Just as Kanon is protective of her, Shannon is very protective of him and encourages him to get into a relationship with Jessica and break out of his shell. That's why she's disgusted with Beatrice in the second arc for using his body when he's already dead to kill more people. Also she prefers to die with Kanon than have him suffer a gruesome death in [=EP3=].
** However, subverted in [=EP6=] where she outright tells Kanon that as long as he doesn't get in the way of her love for George, he'll be fine. [[spoiler: Cue to the end of the arc where they have a DuelToTheDeath and she kills Kanon because his love for Jessica wasn't strong enough.]]
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Assuming that she is Kanon, she's sweet on both George and Jessica.]]
* {{Bookworm}}
** CuteBookworm
* BreakTheCutie: [=EP7=] is dedicated to breaking her as [[spoiler: it explains what happened before the murders in terms of a person called Yasu and the hell Yasu goes through.]]
* [[spoiler: BrokenBird: As arc 7 reveals.]]
* [[spoiler:CantHaveSexEver]]: [[WordOfGod Ryukishi]] revealed in an interview that this is the case with Shannon, though if it's due [[spoiler: to the wounds she received after falling from the cliff as a baby]] is unknown. Not suprising she got nervous when George begun talking about them[[spoiler: having children after getting married]].
* ChewingTheScenery: Has her moments in the upcoming fighting game, mainly due to the fact that half of everyone's moves are weird references to the novels. For example, in context, you probably thought the line was fine, but '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-twPWf9hSrQ#t=01m53s "I KEPT MY PROMISE, LADY BEATRICE!!!"]]'''''
* TheChick
* DealWithTheDevil: The second arc opens by stating that she made a deal with Beatrice that she would break a mirror at the shrine that disappeared if Beatrice would make George fall in love with her.
** ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: The main obstacle to George and Shannon's romance was the fact that she is a servant to the Ushiromiya family, while he is a member of that very wealthy family.
* {{Dojikko}}: When upset and flustered, she will instantly take several levels in clumsiness, which tend to get progressively more severe until she's rendered completely ineffectual. Of course, this tends to get her in a lot of trouble with Natsuhi, poor girl.
* [[spoiler:DuelToTheDeath]]: In [=EP6=].
* [[spoiler:FakeBoobs]]: By WordOfGod.
* FightingClown: On ''Ougon Musoukyouku'' Shannon is pretty much a big joke. On most of her stage intro she [[{{Dojikko}} trips face-in]], her normal attack involves attacking with girly slaps and things like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_beater carpet beaters]] yet Shannon is still about as effective as anybody else, using her [[BarrierWarrior shields]] and her normals long range to keep the enemy away from her, playing more defensively that most characters.
* FragileFlower
* GagBoobs: In the anime and manga, at least.
** Shannon is the only character on ''Ougon Musoukyoku'' with an animated Meta-Declaration, guess what [[{{Gainaxing}} it's used for]].
** [[spoiler:Subverted, since WordofGod has stated that her breasts are actually fake.]]
* [[spoiler: TheGunslinger: Kanon outright states in [=EP6=] that Shannon was always the better of two when it came to handling guns.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSafeMode]]: In [=EP7=], she [[spoiler:basically short-circuits briefly]] when Will asks her to get Kanon, complete with [[spoiler:robotic voice, AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle, and DullEyesOfUnhappiness]].
* HiddenDepths: We start getting hints that she's more than she seems way at the beginning of [=EP2=], with such gems as the fact that her idea of "cute" runs towards ''hammerhead sharks''.
* HyperspaceArsenal: On ''Ougon Musoukyouku'' Shannon can pull-out carpet-beaters, pulling carts, mats, serving trays, [[TheBeastmaster Seagull Feed]], [[ParasolOfPain umbrellas]] and endless supply of [[{{Dojikko}} tea-sets to drop]] out of nowhere, unlike [[WitchSpecies Virgilia]], who clearly uses magic to make her weapons appear.
* IJustWantToBeLoved
* [[spoiler:ImaginaryFriend]]: [[spoiler:Kanon is heavily implied to be a mixture of one of these and a SplitPersonality. Shannon herself was the original one to Yasu, and took over as the dominant personality of their body when Yasu retreated into her MentalWorld.]]
* [[spoiler:IWillWaitForYou]]: She resolved to do this for [[spoiler:Battler, who had promised to take her away from Rokkenjima on a white horse. Unfortunately he forgot about this promise, not only because of the whole situation with Rudolf remarrying too soon and Battler deciding to leave the family because of it, but also because he didn't even take it as seriously as she did. This is what ultimately drives Yasu into madness]].
* LastKiss: [[spoiler:Not quite a kiss, but to similar effect, in the second arc when Beatrice has broken through Shannon's shield, Shannon turns to George and asks him to tell her one last time how much he loves her. He starts, but is cut off.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: The very cute and peaceful [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4grmCRRRw Praise.]]
* LethalHarmlessPowers: She manages to [[spoiler:kill Maria]] precisely because rather than attacking her, she's "defending herself"... it's only incidental that [[spoiler:Maria]] winds up smashed against the wall in the process.
* [[spoiler:LoveHurts]]
* LuminescentBlush
* [[spoiler:MadDreamer]]
* {{Meido}}: Her outfit is actually pretty tame (her skirt is to her knees, even!), but the fetishization aspect smacks you in the face once you realize there's a slit in that skirt that totally bares her thigh, showing off her one-winged bird tat.
* MeaningfulName: Shannon's (real) name can be read as 3, 4. [[spoiler: This could hint towards her being one of Yasu's several personalities. Also, didn't [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Higurashi]]'s BigBad ''also'' have a name involving those numbers?]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Shannon's real name is Sayo, but the only one who ever calls her that is George. When she became a servant for the Ushiromiya family, she changed her name to end in the Japanese character for sound, read as "on."
* [[spoiler:TheOphelia]]
* PlayingAgainstType: One of RieKugimiya's non-{{Tsundere}} roles.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Kanon's blue.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Jessica and Kanon. [[spoiler:Even though she and Kanon are the same person.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Played straight at the beginning but by EP 6 it's an obvious subversion.
* [[spoiler:SplitPersonality]]
** [[spoiler:ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: She's one of quite a few people inside Yasu. If you just count the ones that are given control of Yasu's body, the number is likely three (with Clair being an embodiment of all three at once), but if you count all of his/her imaginary friends as well, the number quickly shoots into the double-digits. [[http://shroedinger.deviantart.com/art/Shkanoyasutrice-177520590 Spoofed here]].]]
* [[spoiler:StarCrossedLovers: As revealed by [=EP7=], with Battler. Waiting for him eventually became too much for her to bear, so she gave her love for Battler to Beatrice and afterwards pursued a relationship with George instead.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: In [=EP1=], she's fairly close to the stereotypical maid archetype; timid, kind, polite... cue [=EP2=] when she's utterly determined to be with George at all costs and stands up to Beatrice, being one of the only people to successfully press the witch's BerserkButton to date. She does it again in the third arc.
** And another one or two in [=EP6=], where she [[spoiler: kills Witch!Maria with [[CurbStompBattle a minimum of fuss]] using LethalHarmlessPowers, and later shoots Kanon dead in a duel.]]
* TranquilFury: Her character sprite doesn't allow her to show anything but an expression that shows disgust but never outright anger like Kanon's sprite.
* {{Troll}}: Much, much more subtle about it than Beato and the metaverse crew because of her FragileFlower nature, but she mercilessly picks on George and Battler about their embarrassing pasts.
* [[spoiler:WildCard]]
* [[spoiler:WholesomeCrossdresser or VillainousCrossdresser]]: [=EP6=] [[spoiler: heavily enforces the EpilepticTrees theory that Shannon and Kanon are the same person, and it's more or less confirmed in [=EP7=] and 8]]. What's more, [[spoiler:"she" is strongly hinted to be the "Beatrice" who appeared in [=EP2=] and [=EP4=].]]
* [[spoiler:{{Yandere}}]]
!!Kanon (嘉音)/Yoshiya/[[spoiler:Yasu]]
!!!Voiced by: YuuKobayashi
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-->"''Because... we are furniture...''"
One of the servants in the Ushiromiya mansion. He maintains the belief that servants are to be nothing but furniture in the Ushiromiya mansion, which initially hinders him from having a relationship with Jessica. He and Shannon act like brother and sister, although they are not related by blood.
[[spoiler:He is heavily implied to be Shannon, Beatrice and Yasu]]. Arc 8 confirms in red text that [[spoiler:if Shannon dies, Kanon disappears for all eternity, heavily reinforcing this fact]].
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* [[AloofBigBrother Aloof Little Brother]]
* ArtificialHuman: Same as Shannon.
** PinocchioSyndrome
* BadassBoast: [[DyingMomentOfAwesome "I'm not furniture anymore… I'm the zero on your roulette!"]]
* BattleButler
* {{Bishounen}}
** [[spoiler: Bifauxnen]]: [[spoiler: Possibly.]]
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: As with Shannon above, though it's difficult to tell whether Yasu's pulling the strings with all her various personalities, or if she has simply lost her mind,]] so this may not be a [[IncrediblyLamePun straight]] example.
* BreakTheCutie: The second arc has Beatrice doing whatever it takes to have him submit to her. Naturally, it does work (in the manga and the visual novel since how bad he broke was [[AdaptationDecay absent in the anime.]])
* [[spoiler: BrilliantButLazy: Not so much lazy but he reveals to be REALLY half ass of everything he does. Kanon even admits it to Chick Beatrice after he is killed by Shannon. Because he didn't go all out, he ended up giving Shannon the upper hand.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: Whether it's subverted or played straight is still up for debate even after the series has ended, but in one form or another, this trope was applied particularly strongly in the second arc. [[spoiler:And the sixth.]]
* TheChewToy: He's probably the servant that is worse off and is probably the third character that has bad luck in the series. Aside from failing to realize his feelings for Jessica until it's too late in all the arcs except [=EP6=], he never survives past the third Twilight contrast to Shannon who easily makes it past the fourth Twilight more often than not. To add to the insult, his body always goes missing in half of the arcs and he's usually accused of being the culprit. [[spoiler: Finally, the chances of him never existing in the first place are very high.]] To be fair though, his death is nothing (AKA getting stabbed or shot in the chest) compared to what the other members of the family have to go through.
* CryCute
* DeadpanSnarker: More so in the actual novel where he won't hesitate to take a crack at Shannon or the other servants every now and then.
-->'''Shannon:''' Don't worry, [[spoiler:Ange]], it won't be a very difficult riddle.\\
'''Kanon:''' Of course it won't. Since you'll just have to think on Shannon's level.
* DraggedIntoDrag: [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/337/kanonjessicatsurupettan.png/ By Jessica during their ending in Ougon Musou Kyoku.]]
* [[spoiler:DuelToTheDeath]]: In [=EP1=] and [=EP6=].
* ExtremeDoormat: Kanon verges on this with his whole "furniture" ideology, but it's subverted-ish in the end of "Turn of the Golden Witch," [[spoiler: when he admits he's in love with Jessica.]]
** It's actually subverted before that - despite calling himself furniture, he is never the last to badmouth Natsuhi behind her back, and is far more HotBlooded than his sister when facing Beatrice.
* [[spoiler: GoOutWithASmile: Episode 6.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: In EP 6 when he takes Battler's place in the Logic Error.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nudlcn5RmQE&feature=relmfu In The Peace of Forgetting the Way]].
* [[spoiler:[[ImaginaryFriend Imaginary Brother]]]]: [[spoiler: To Shannon, who in turn was an ImaginaryFriend to Yasu before she took over as the dominant personality and Yasu became Beatrice.]]
* {{Kuudere}}
* LaserBlade: An [[CoolSword elaborate]] variation.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQK2QbMW-Qk White Shadow]]
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Little Brother Instinct]]: He's very protective of Shannon and always trying to guide her in the right direction as well as warn her the dangers of throwing away her status as Furniture. [[spoiler: EP 7 reveals though that Yasu created Kanon to be the little brother that would love and protect his big sister.]]
* [[spoiler: LoveEpiphany]]: In [=EP6=]
* NeverFoundTheBody: Episodes 2, 4, [[spoiler: and 6.]]
** Episode 1 and 3 count too, considering that [[spoiler:Battler doesn't see his dead body directly.]]
* NiceHat
* NotSoStoic
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: See Shannon for elaboration. Kanon's real name is "Yoshiya," which some people romanize as "Joshua."
* PerpetualFrowner
* PretendBoyfriend: [[spoiler:However much Jessica may wish it were real.]]
* PrettySpryForADeadGuy: In the second Episode.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In [=EP2=], the fake Kanon.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Shannon's red.
* [[spoiler:SplitPersonality]]
* StealthHiBye: Since he's very good at hiding his footsteps, he often appears by Shannon without her noticing and disapears just as suddenly. [[spoiler:After Episode 7, that ability suddenly makes a lot of sense.]]
* TroubledButCute
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove
* WhenHeSmiles: It's a very good one but the visual novel makes it come off as a CatSmile.
** He manages to pull a real smile when talking to Chick Beatrice [[spoiler: after being killed by Shannon and admitting his faults. This is also the point where you notice that his laugh is very similar to the original Beatrice hence hitting at his origins.]]
* [[spoiler:WholesomeCrossdresser or VillainousCrossdresser]]: [=EP6=] [[spoiler: heavily enforces the EpilepticTrees theory that Shannon and Kanon are the same person, and it's more or less confirmed in [=EP7=] and 8]]. What's more, [[spoiler:"she" is strongly hinted to be the "Beatrice" who appeared in [=EP2=] and [=EP4=].]]
* TheWorfEffect: He tends to get defeated very easily despite being one of the few characters that can actually use magic. EP 6 reveals though that he is a deconstruction of this trope and [[spoiler: that he never goes all out because he does everything halfheartedly. He tells {{Manchild}} Beatrice this after he realizes this after Shannon kills him and he's nothing but a shadow that can only watch over Jessica.]]
!!Genji Ronoue
!!!Voiced by: Masato Funaki
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The oldest servant and Kinzo's most trusted confidante. The only one besides Dr. Nanjo usually let into Kinzo's study. Most of the family doesn't trust him, considering him to be a spy for Kinzo.
His meta-world manifestation is [[Characters/UminekoNoNakuKoroNiDemonsAndFurniture Ronove]].
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* ArtificialHuman: Same as Shannon and Kanon. [[spoiler:From a mundane perspective, he and Kinzo actually met in Taiwan (it's revealed in [=EP8=] that Genji is in fact Taiwanese) and became close friends; see IOweYouMyLife below.]]
* TheAtoner: In Episode 7, we learn that [[spoiler: he was responsible for the maintenance of Beatrice II's gilded cage, and, unable to forgive himself for allowing her to be abused by her father, and terrified that Kinzo would inflict the same suffering on Yasu, he faked Yasu's death and passed the child off as an orphan.]]
* TheConfidant: To Kinzō.
* ExtremeDoormat
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKKAoC9mLBM A Song of Scattered Love ~ My Beloved Golden Witch]], which is shared with Kinzo.
* IOweYouMyLife: Episode 8 reveals this is why he's loyal to Kinzo. [[spoiler: He and Kinzo were childhood friends. Kinzo foresaw the political climate in Taiwan getting bad, so he warned his family. Genji was the only one to listen.]]
* IWasQuiteALooker: The [=EP8=] manga reveals that yes, [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbaofcO5tz1qk5qkyo1_1280.jpg he really was]].
* TheJeeves
* KnifeNut: Most instances of him defending himself involve throwing knives. Not completely clear whether he carries these around or if he's an ImprovisedWeaponUser, but to manage some of the things he does, it makes sense that he has some experience with them.
* OldRetainer
* OneSteveLimit: "Ronoue" and "Ronove" are more-or-less the same word (ロノウエ versus ロノウェ). [[spoiler:This is most likely because Yasu based Ronove off of Genji.]]
* SatelliteCharacter: To Kinzo, and later [[spoiler:Yasu]].
* TheStoic: To near robotic levels. Even having ''half of his head smashed'' doesn't change his (non-)expression.
!!Chiyo Kumasawa
!!!Voiced by: Yasuko Hatori
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A really old servant at the Ushiromiya house. She loves to make jokes about mackerel. [[spoiler:She also served as guardian to Kuwadorian Beatrice, and a mother-figure to Yasu, introducing him/her to mystery novels.]]
Her meta-world manifestation is [[Characters/UminekoNoNakuKoroNiWitches Virgilia]].
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* CoolOldLady
* CordonBleughChef: She often talks about making various weird dishes with mackerel. Whether she ''really'' tries to make them is unknown though.
* DirtyOldWoman
* IWasQuiteALooker: Ronove looks like a young Genji. So if we assume Virgilia looks like a young Kumasawa…
* LovableCoward: Moreso in the sound novels.
* [[spoiler:{{Mentor|s}}: To Yasu, involving mystery novels.]]
* NeverMessWithGranny: When Kumasawa is attacked by the Stakes on the first twilight in the third arc, she turns into Virgilia. Doesn't stop her from dying, though.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Quite an odd one. Rather than a "oooooh-ho-ho-ho-ho!", Yasuko Hatori does it as a rapid-fire "hohohohoho!"
* ParentalSubstitute: To Shannon, Kanon, [[spoiler:and Yasu, which is kind of jarring considering they're all the same person]].
* TheSlacker
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mackerel
!!Toshirō Gōda
!!!Voiced by: Hitori Bifu
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The head chef at the Ushiromiya mansion. Unlike the other servants, he was hired by Krauss, and so most of the servants distrust him. He is also one of the only servants not to wear the one-winged eagle on his clothes, due to Kinzo's lack of trust of him.
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* AttentionWhore: Much to the annoyance of Kanon and Shannon.
* BreakTheHaughty
* GentleGiant: Although he's a very large man, he is very graceful and polite, if a bit lazy.
* TheJeeves: A special point is made of this in respect to Gohda.
* {{Jerkass}}: Towards Kannon and Shannon.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: In [=EP5=], we find out he's the only person living on the island who doesn't know [[spoiler:that Kinzo is dead]].
* {{Muggle}}: His case is pretty unique among the people on the island, when you think about it. He doesn't know about [[spoiler:Kinzō's death]], nor about [[spoiler:Yasu/Beatrice]], has no ImaginaryFriend or SplitPersonality, never teams up with magical beings and has no connection to magic whatsoever. He is just a cook who does his job. See above.
* SupremeChef
!!Dr. Terumasa Nanjō
!!!Voiced by: Akihiko Ishizumi
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Kinzo's personal physician. He is one of the few people that Kinzo trusts in the present[[spoiler:, or at least when Kinzo was still alive.]] After Kinzo and Beatrice's run-in with the Italians, it was Nanjo who treated their wounds and helped Kinzo hide Beatrice's existence from the military.
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* IHaveAFamily: Nanjo's plea to Eva-Beatrice before she kills him.
* SatelliteCharacter: Nanjo's role in some of the early arcs seemed to comprised completely of having {{Cryptic Conversation}}s with Kinzo and letting everyone know that the corpses they had found were, indeed, dead.
* SecretKeeper: Initially, he is the one who kept the secret of Beatrice Castiglioni's existence from the military. And later, of [[spoiler:Kinzō's death.]]
* [[spoiler:DeadlyDoctor: The no-magic no-witch theory. Doesn't necessarily kill anyone, but certainly helps to cover up the majority of the murders; or in the Boiler Room case of Kanon, the lack there-of.]]
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