History Characters / WorldOfHorror

* MakeMeWannaShout: [[spoiler:How it kills you if you stick around without giving it an offering.]]

* {{Intangibility}}: She the game's only Ghost-type boss, which means she can't be harmed with physical attacks and can only be defeated with spiritual actions or special abilities like Yashiro's Bronze Crucifix which lets him harm ghosts with physical attacks.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[spoiler: Trying to placate her by giving her her stuffed toy just causes her to curse the toy and attack you anyway. This gets you Ending B to the mystery, which seems to imply she lingers on inside the toy instead of being set free to move on to the afterlife as in Ending A.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Her physical form resembles a building-sized penis with eyes and a VaginaDentata mouth.

* ProtectionRacket: Two of his perks are based around shaking down shopkeepers, one decreases the price of items, the other increases the amount of items available for sale.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: While the other starting characters are teenagers/students/people in their 20s trying to solve a mystery, Haru's involved because his fellow wakashu were killed in a burglary that drew the attention of the supernatural. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he's also 24 years old.]]

* AllInTheManual: [[invoked]] Has the affliction “Mimi’s Obsession”, which is never specified, and is [[ButForMeItWasTuesday seemingly so easily adjusted to the idea of an impending apocalypse]], that she’ll become engrossed in activities such as surfing. Additionally, Fast Learner shows she gets just a bit of mental stimulation from pain. Not only that, but the Anatomy Book allows her to slice herself open to study her own body.

* BodyHorror: Self-inflicted in Mimi's Little Project, with such alterations as bear claws on the feet, a second joint on one arm, sliced off kneecaps, and saline solution replacing the liquid in her eyeball.

* DitzyGenius: Her personal events show she's pretty scatterbrained. Especially around diseased human anatomy, the more abnormal the better.

* JapaneseDelinquents: Sukeban ''par excellence''.

* AmbiguousSituation: Her events hint that she was involved in the death of a popular girl, and it apparently forced Yumiko to cut her hair in order to fool somebody. However, there are also hints that the real Yumiko ''is'' the popular girl who was [[SiblingMurder killed by her own brother]] (who did, after all, disappear out of the blue), then [[KillAndReplace impersonated]]. No confirmation is given on which one is the case.

* BatterUp: She begins with Lucky Bat which helps shore up her poor stats and gives a good boost to luck when equipped.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: The guests are claimed to be related to the protagonist, but the narration says they don't recognize any of them.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: You normally are limited to recruiting a maximum of 3 allies from the School, but additional allies can join either as part of a main quest (Kana), summoned with a spell, as part of a random event (i.e. the dog you can save in the forest or the 2 cult members that can join you as part of a random encounter), or a successful Intimidate check against students.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Moreso than Haru. In fact, [[spoiler:she can be fought as an enemy]], which is a requirement to unlock her. Her description says that [[spoiler:she fights the Old Gods "for her own selfish reasons."]]

* EldritchAbomination: Moreso than any other boss. It towers above the player, emerges from [[spoiler:the ocean]], has a [[StarfishAliens bizarre, confusing appearance]], and is impossible to defeat — the only way to drive it off is by [[spoiler:sacrificing an ally to it]].

[[caption-width-right:937:The five starting characters.[[note]]From left to right: [[IntrepidReporter Kouji]], [[IdolSinger Mizuki]], [[ActionGirl Aiko]], [[BlackMagicianGirl Kirie and [[AntiHero Haru]]. Not pictured: the many, many characters you can unlock through various means.[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:937:The five starting characters.[[note]]From left to right: [[RovingReporter Kouji]], [[IdolSinger Mizuki]], [[ActionGirl Aiko]], [[BlackMagicianGirl Kirie and [[AntiHero Haru]]. Not pictured: the many, many characters you can unlock through various means.[[/note]]]]

* ExhaustedEyeBags: Kouji always had these really bad whenever his Reason dropped below 10, and were very prominent before his low reason sprite was changed in the Dreadful Dreams update.

* {{Expy}}: He is basically [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] in all but name.

* WrongGenreSavvy: According to [[WordOfSaintPaul Jeane]], she is written like a shoujo protagonist who ended up on the wrong set.

* ItsPersonal: After Aiko survived her near drowning from the hands of a ghost, she decided to look into the incident, and the supernatural.
** If she completes "Macabre Memoir of Morbid Mermaids" through violence, you get an achievement called "This is for my friends!"

* SchoolSportUniform: Not in any of her main outfits but shows off her stomach in a sports bra and athletic bloomers in the good ending picture. In addition, the picture for her unique "Discipline" perk focuses on her (very toned) midsection.

A rising teen idol at the age of 18, she serves as the default protagonist for the episode "Far Out Fable of a Fear Festival", where she's invited to spend some time in a local village when she notices that something unnatural is happening to the village. Has higher Charisma, but lower Strength, and starts with a random Ally.

* BoringButPractical: Sure, a camera and a bonus to Perception may not be as flashy as other characters' innate Perks, but it also ensures he has a solid starting advantage. Cameras are hard to find and cost a solid price in stores, simply not having to worry about buying one can come in handy, as well as being able to sell it if needed. Perception is also a very frequently checked skill.

* CuteAndPsycho: A cute, genki medical student with an ''alarming'' fascination with human viscera.

* AndroclesLion: [[spoiler:To unlock her, you need to buy and return her expensive medicine[[note]]4 funds, which is what the player usually ''starts'' with[[/note]], despite the fact that she previously tried to kill you.]] The resulting achievement acknowledges this through its name "Soft Side."
* ApatheticClerk: One of her personal events reveals that Miku is a waitress to pay the bills [[spoiler:and her grandma's bills]]. She ''hates'' it, but the cash register is easily pilfered for change.

* SinisterSwitchblade: She's the only character that can obtain the switchblade, a Perception weapon that has high hit chance and is one of the fastest weapons in the game (second only to the chainsaw), as it only drops by defeating the alternate Rioter, who only Miku can fight (everyone else just fights Miku).

* TurnTheOtherCheek: [[spoiler:Unlocking her requires the player to spend a large amount of funds entirely for the benefit for someone who attempted to murder them.]] See AndroclesLion.

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: By means of the UsefulNotes/RandomNumberGenerator; as of 0.9.14 (prior version had Kana explicitly be a girl), Kana's gender is now randomized in each run. Upon taking the Eels mystery, the game will choose to refer to Kana as either she, he, or they. [[spoiler:In character selection, meanwhile, their gender is just listed as ???.]]

A curator for Shiokawa's art gallery encountered in "Perilous Parable of the Peculiar Painting", who came to Ichiro-san's estate to study the ritualistic rock markings there. As an Ally, restores +1 Reason for every Mystery you complete.

* NeverFoundTheBody: If you have her during the Forest Watcher event, then you can unlock the option to send her to confront whoever is watching you. When you go and check, both of them has disappeared, although Ryoko left her rifle behind.

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler:Well, he ''is'' just trying to make friends of the girls he's kidnapped. With fish as ingredients, as well]].

* SurvivorsGuilt: Even leaving aside the debuff any character can get, Haru's personal events show he has this bad, castigating himself as a coward for running away while his brother wakashu were being slaughtered by a vampire.

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* LimitedWardrobe: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that while they do wear a different shirt in one of the endings of their mystery, the rest of the time is spent wearing a black shirt with triangles on it. [[spoiler:Even if you're playing as them, they only have their "Happiest Lemon" shirt, unlike every other character.]]

* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Her personal item obtained via the Prepare action is a Check Book, which lets you gain 3 Funds every time it's used. Although this is at the expense of 3% Doom for each check cashed.

* GatheringSteam: It's Rule means it practically has no impact during your first mystery, but the faster accumulation of town effects means he can have the hardest late game of all Old Gods.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: To compensate for the potentially steep Doom penalties you'll incur after each mistery, it's the oy Old God without unique events.