| 1 | [[WMG:[[center: [-''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' '''[[Characters/MissKobayashisDragonMaid Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | [[Characters/MissKobayashisDragonMaidKobayashiHousehold Kobayashi Household]] ([[Characters/MissKobayashisDragonMaidTohru Tohru]]) | '''Dragons''' | [[Characters/MissKobayashisDragonMaidHumans Humans]]-]]]]] |
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| 5 | !Earth |
| 6 | [[folder:Fafnir]] |
| 7 | !!Fafnir (Takeshi Ooyama / Jeeves A. Brutus) |
| 8 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeOno (Japanese), Creator/GarretStorms (English), Creator/AbrahamVega (Latin American Spanish) |
| 9 | [[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fafnir_visual.png]] |
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| 11 | A cursed, reclusive dragon [[Myth/NorseMythology once known to the Norse]], aligned with the Chaos faction, who is currently living with Takiya. Has a very dark and moody demeanor, but hides a softer spot for his fellow dragons and new human friends. |
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| 13 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: Fafnir was originally a strong dwarf. His human form in the series is tall, slender, and very attractive -- though Tohru implies that this is because it's based on a picture of a [[Manga/BlackButler certain demonic butler]]. |
| 14 | * AffectionateNickname: Takiya calls him "Faf-kun." He doesn't mind. |
| 15 | * AlienArtsAreAppreciated: He ends up becoming addicted to [=MMORPGs=] since they appeal to his love of killing and hoarding, and eventually starts drawing his own {{Doujinshi}} to sell at Comiket (though he fails to sell any copies due to the morbid themes and stories he chooses). |
| 16 | * AlmightyJanitor: Fafnir is powerful enough that Tohru herself, the daughter of the Emperor of Demise, has never managed to pull more than a draw against him (and a couple instances of the dodgeball episode imply he might be actually ''stronger'' than her), but he seems to be completely uninterested in the Chaos Faction, the war against the gods, or anything other than guarding his treasure. His new life in the human world hasn't changed this attitude. |
| 17 | * AloofAlly: He's a friend to Tohru, but is generally detached from the gang's workings unless he's brought along, and even so is cold and aloof. With Ilulu's arrival, it's even stated that he would not even help Tohru in a fight against a real enemy (although it's specifically because he believes a dragon should stand by himself, not out of any personal reason). |
| 18 | * ArtisticLicenseReligion: He's based on the Myth/NorseMythology character, except he's an attractive human instead of a dwarf and he's not too worried about a particular treasure. Justified for the former, as he was given a picture of an anime character as a base for his humanoid form. |
| 19 | * AxCrazy: His very first line in the series (on the subject of being a guard) is "Kill them. Kill all who try to steal your treasure. Kill all who are suspect. Curse them with death. Curse their generations to come--"[[note]]True to the Norse Myth, where Fafnir became a dragon due to extreme insanity and greed.[[/note]] This is just apparently [[EstablishingCharacterMoment just how he answers the phone]] even when he doesn’t recognize the number. |
| 20 | * BrutalHonesty: Quick to dismiss Tohru, Elma, and Riko's performances as the match seller. |
| 21 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: His first appearance comes when Tohru asks him for advice on how to live in the human world, and although his chosen answer is not exactly useful to her at the time, he seems to be really the right dragon to ask given that he later adapts to his own human life with less trouble than the female dragons. However, he doesn't pay much attention to the most delicate aspects of human society, and often needs Takiya to hold the leash. |
| 22 | * CaptainErsatz: In-universe. Fafnir's human form is based on Sebastian Michaelis from ''Manga/BlackButler'' -- Tohru sent him a manga about a "handsome, but devilish butler" with instructions to base his human form off the character. The comparison is taken even further in the anime, where he ends up having the same seiyu as Sebastian. |
| 23 | * CharacterDevelopment: He slowly becomes more tolerant of humanity, mostly as a result of becoming addicted to video-games. This is such that when acting as an auditioner for the Christmas pageant, he denies Tohru the part when she launches into a furious tirade that previously would have made him proud. |
| 24 | * ChekhovsGag: While cordial with Kobayashi most of the time, he will spout out his hatred for her most of all. It seems like his refusal to budge on hating humans, but in chapter 141, [[spoiler:he reveals he knows it was Loki who pierced Tohru and his power is inside of Kobayashi and she is an unknowing transmitter to the god he hates above all]]. |
| 25 | * TheComicallySerious: A lot of humor in the series comes from how formal he is and how seriously he takes everything. Even when Tohru and Elma find him training for a dance number in the street, he is shown doing the moves with perfect energy yet keeping his deadpan face all the time. |
| 26 | * CreepyMonotone: Unlike Kanna's, his ''is'' legitimately creepy. |
| 27 | * DeathGlare: His most-common expression is a stern KubrickStare that intimidates or frightens several people meeting him for the first time. |
| 28 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: How him and Tohru became friends. Although it's never explicitly stated who exactly won, and instead implied they had something akin to a draw. |
| 29 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: He doesn't like spicy food. |
| 30 | * DragonsAreDemonic: In contrast to [[DragonsAreDivine Lucoa]], Fafnir is a cursed dragon whose true form is nightmarish, with multiple solid-red eyes, a vertical mouth lined with fangs, a jet-black serpentine body, and what appear to be tentacles. Ironically, however, Fafnir is more asocial than truly evil. |
| 31 | * DubNameChange: Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment changes his human name to Jeeves A. Brutus, probably because "Takeshi Ooyama" still needs a bit of explanation. |
| 32 | * ExtraEyes: He has four eyes in his dragon form. |
| 33 | * FantasticRacism: Among the other dragons, he's pretty open about how he thinks humanity is inferior. However, over time and his friendship with Takiya, he's come around to thinking that humans aren't all bad, even if he's still of the opinion that it's simpler to assume humanity in general is troublesome and that it's simpler to flex his muscles than to try to open a dialogue. Throughout his time on Earth, however, [[{{Tsundere}} his actions don't match his opinions]]. |
| 34 | * {{Greed}}: Exaggerated. He'll go to any lengths to get his hands on any "treasure" that catches his eye, whether it's high level loot in an MMO, or the reward for filling a radio exercise stamp sheet. |
| 35 | * GenderBender: |
| 36 | ** Following him losing a wager to Lucoa in ''Lucoa is My XX'' Chapter 14, one of the losing conditions being him "wearing a cute outfit", she uses magic to transform him into a young girl with twintails wearing an ElegantGothicLolita outfit and exhibiting shoeless ZettaiRyouiki. Fafnir himself is completely unconcerned about this change, and in fact finds how light on its feet the form is to have potential for improving his gaming prowess. This forms returns in a chapter of ''Kanna's Daily Life'' in which he takes part in an arcade tournament in hopes of getting his hands on an old cocktail arcade cabinet. |
| 37 | ** He also does this voluntarily in Chapter 97 of the main series whenever Takiya's parents come to visit, though that form is much closer in appearance to his usual one. |
| 38 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Takiya, since he lives with the guy, and Takiya's one of the few that achieved his approval. |
| 39 | * HiddenDepths: He's much more perceptive towards everybody than he lets them know. Proof of it is his doujinshi, which is evidently a dark but accurate parody of Lucoa's and Shouta's relationship. This also implies he has his own sense of humor. |
| 40 | * HidingBehindYourBangs: Keeps his right eye (and right glasses lens) covered by his hair, representing his reclusive and highly antisocial attitude. |
| 41 | * {{Hikikomori}}: A modern interpretation of being a hoarder who spends all of his time protecting his possessions in his lair. His namesake (and, in 'verse, [[BeenThereShapedHistory he himself]]) inspired the concept of [[DragonHoard the dragon and his hoard]]. |
| 42 | * HornedHumanoid: The first, monstrous humanoid form he chose did have horns, but his usual human form is an inversion, as it's the only among the dragons of the main cast that doesn't have. |
| 43 | * HumanityIsInfectious: The modern day humans of Japan have rubbed off on him in a way that humans from back home never could have. For starters, humans here have no idea that dragons ''could'' exist, so they've been friendly to reasonably nonhostile; and he struck up [[OddFriendship an unexpected friendship]] with Takiya after {{Otaku}} culture proved to be rather attractive to him. |
| 44 | * HypocriticalHumor: After going to an in-person guild meetup for an MMO he plays, he complains to Takiya that humans can't be trusted because they lie about their true selves. Takiya is quick to remind him that he's hiding [[DragonsAreDemonic his true self]] as well. |
| 45 | * ImmortalityInducer: He can grant people immortality by bathing them in his blood. |
| 46 | * TheJeeves: He looks the part after Tohru sent him a picture of an anime butler to base his human form on. (Inspired by a [[Manga/BlackButler specific butler]] no less.) Beyond aesthetics, he fully [[AvertedTrope averts this trope]] between his borderline-hostile personality and the fact that he spends his time playing video games instead of domestic work. |
| 47 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He starts out as a violently murderous {{Jerkass}}, even to the people he has close relations with, but as he spends time in the human world, he mellows out tremendously. He's still a gruff, rude jerk, but his murderous hateful mentality gradually fades away and he develops a genuine liking for other people, including some humans like Takiya. |
| 48 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 49 | ** His Japanese human name means "Fierce Big-Mountain", which Tohru chose based on the appearance of his dragon form. |
| 50 | ** Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment changes his human name to Jeeves A. Brutus, or "TheJeeves is Brutal." |
| 51 | * MistakenForPedophile: His preference for rehearsing a dance routine in the street gets him mistaken for some kind of pervert by the local neighborhood watch, as his chosen place happens to be a school crossroad. Fortunately for the human watchers, it's Tohru and Elma who find him, so the thing can be peacefully sorted out. |
| 52 | * MistakenIdentity: There's [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBkt8j_UIAEWcEs.jpg a yonkoma]] on Creator/CoolKyouShinsha's twitter account where he got Takiya mixed up with [[Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying Hajime]] while buying curry. |
| 53 | * MonsterRoommate: He lives with Takiya. |
| 54 | * MonstrousHumanoid: His original humanoid form was a bulky purple-skinned monster, though Tohru got him to change it to a more dignified appearance. |
| 55 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: In his first humanoid form, a purple-skinned monster. In his true dragon form he has a vertical mouth lined with large fangs. |
| 56 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: His answer to any of Tohru’s questions is always to kill everyone. |
| 57 | * NotDistractedByTheSexy: He's seemingly the only dragon in the main cast that is not attracted to somebody, or at least receptive to sex. His requests for Lucoa to be his drawing model are met with flirtation and deliberate poses, yet he shows the same reaction as if he were drawing an apple. |
| 58 | * OddFriendship: With Takiya. They seem to get along well, bonding over their shared interest in video games. |
| 59 | * TheOneGuy: The only male dragon in the main cast. |
| 60 | * {{Otaku}}: He apparently wanted to stay Earthside because of games, then developed an interest in anime, then started producing his own doujinshi. At one point in the anime, he claims that he spends an average of 21 hours ''per day'' playing [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMORPGs]] (dragons don't need to sleep). |
| 61 | * PerpetualFrowner: The guy is quite gloomy, seemingly always in a bad mood. |
| 62 | * PersonalArcade: ''Kanna's Daily Life'' reveals that he has been collecting arcade cabinets and storing them in an old warehouse, keeping them powered with magic. In a rare PetTheDog moment, he lets all the neighborhood kids play them for free at the end of the chapter. |
| 63 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: While rarely showing it, he is extremely proud of his status as a dragon. Due to this pride, he is initially skeptical of Tohru's decision to live in the human world. Before Tohru meets Kobayashi, Fafnir flat out tells her to disobey her parents and live her own life, believing that Tohru cannot truly be a dragon if someone else is controlling her. |
| 64 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: A sign of his AxCrazy tendencies. |
| 65 | * SequentialArtist: He draws doujinshi, though no one ever buys it due to his poor writing and drawing skills. |
| 66 | * TheSocialDarwinist: He believes that a dragon should be able to do anything they want to so long as they can kill anyone who gets in their way, and has no tolerance for [[PunyEarthlings Puny Humans]] who can't back up their words with actions. |
| 67 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: He off-handedly mentions how Sigurd was bathed in his blood and got granted immortality like in the myth, but unlike there, where Fafnir was killed before that happened, he's very much still alive. |
| 68 | * TheStoic: Only very occasionally shows emotion. |
| 69 | * StoicSpectacles: Of the "[[AxCrazy acts reserved, but would probably kill you and your entire family if you so much as annoy him]]" variety. |
| 70 | * TerribleArtist: His drawing skills leave much to be desired, as shown when he asks Lucoa to model for his doujinshi in chapter 61. |
| 71 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Fafnir is the most brutal of all the dragons of the main cast, and unlike them, whose quirks are usually just funny or eccentric, he keeps a number of attitudes that by human standards make him very unsympathetic (greed, social darwinism, asociality...). His violent attitude is highlighted when he gets a temporary ban from an online [=RPG=], as when Takiya, his best friend and possibly only human he respects, sees the ban notification, he unironically screams that mankind is in jeopardy. However, Fafnir explicitly doesn't go out of his way to harm other beings, and his relationship with Takiya and the rest eventually brings out the best of him. |
| 72 | * TookALevelInKindness: He starts the series as a complete AxCrazy {{Jerkass}} who honestly has the viewpoint that MurderIsTheBestSolution, but as he spends more time in the human world, and around Takiya specifically, he gradually softens up more and more, and the more time goes by, the more frequently and more noticeably he performs acts of kindness towards the people who treated him well in turn. |
| 73 | * {{Tsundere}}: Takiya calls him this at the hot springs chapter in the manga. |
| 74 | * VagueAge: His human form resembles believably a man in his mid-to-late twenties, like the rest of the grown-up cast, although his deep voice and sinister demeanor break the illusion a bit. |
| 75 | * VisualPun: He has four eyes in his dragon form and [[StoicSpectacles his human form]]. |
| 76 | * WasOnceAMan: Chapter 81 implies that he is a transformed human, much like his mythological counterpart. |
| 77 | * WriteWhatYouKnow: InUniverse example. His doujinshi are full of instructions for actual curses that he has learned over the course of his life. |
| 78 | * WriteWhoYouKnow: Another InUniverse example. When the reader is shown the script for one of his doujinshi, the characters in it are clearly based on Lucoa and Shouta. |
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| 81 | [[folder:Lucoa]] |
| 82 | !!Quetzalcoatl (Lucoa) |
| 83 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MinamiTakahashi (Japanese), Creator/JamieMarchi (English), Adriana Olmedo (Latin American Spanish) |
| 84 | [[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lecore_visual.png]] |
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| 86 | A former goddess [[Myth/AztecMythology once worshiped by the Aztecs]], Quetzalcoatl is an ancient dragon who got demoted after [[BrotherSisterIncest a certain incident.]] She is a wise, kindhearted dragon who often has advice for her younger kin, and is consciously unaligned from the Dragon factions, choosing to be an arbiter/observer. She is currently living with Shouta. |
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| 88 | * ActualPacifist: Lucoa is ([[NoodleIncident or was]]) a creator deity, not a destroyer, and has always hated fighting, despite having the power to [[CurbStompBattle flatten anyone]] who dared trifle with her. In the past [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere she always fled]] at the first sign of trouble without protecting her followers. However, [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant she can be provoked]]. Having feelings for Shouta, Tohru tried to get a raise out of her by threatening to kiss the boy, which prompted Quetzalcoatl to fight for him. |
| 89 | * AdaptationalModesty: Barely. Her first outfit in the manga shows her midsection by default, though she later switches to a longer shirt. In the anime, she's wearing the longer shirt from the beginning. |
| 90 | * AllPowerfulBystander: As befitting her role as a former goddess, Lucoa is implied to be the single strongest named character in the series. Due to her neutral nature, however, she doesn't get involved in the overarching OrderVersusChaos conflict among dragons. It's also mentioned that - had she been present - she wouldn't have helped Tohru fight against Ilulu for this very reason. [[spoiler: Subverted during the fight with Azad and Kanna's father, where she intervenes to buy Kobayashi time.]] It's later mentioned that this is a requirement for being a member of the spectator faction, as they need to be strong enough to strike out on their own but can ''never'' interfere even if they have a personal stake in the fight (as doing so would mean that they've metaphorically never left in the first place). In chapter 95 Tohru is able to actually get Lucoa to fight her and she wipes the floor with Tohru, ''easily''. |
| 91 | * ApologeticAttacker: Does this during the [[MundaneMadeAwesome dodge ball game]]. While the manga just had it in a small panel, the anime cranked it up to the point of hilarity. |
| 92 | * ArtisticLicenseReligion: She's based on the Myth/AztecMythology character, but gender-flipped and with some alterations to her backstory. |
| 93 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Most of the dragons in their true forms appear close in size to each other, but Lucoa's true form when shown in a flashback is revealed to be much larger. Simply put, she's huge, impossibly huge. Her eyes alone are bigger than Tohru's entire body ''individually''. |
| 94 | * BarelyThereSwimwear: She wears two of these in episode seven. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome She gets dragged away for overexposure both times]]. |
| 95 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: She admits that she's been around for so long, she's been directly responsible for the course of human development in civilization at least once in history. |
| 96 | * BerserkButton: She's normally a very staunch follower of her AllPowerfulBystander status, and even disregarding that is such a MellowFellow NiceGirl that actually angering her is extremely difficult, which annoyed Tohru when she was trying to goad Lucoa into fighting her. But Tohru eventually figured out the one thing that will near-instantly turn the sagely former-god into a vengeful and angry one: come onto Shouta and succeed at drawing his attention away from her. Once Tohru did so, Lucoa wasted no time delivering a brutal [[CurbStompBattle curbstomp]] to her and "reclaiming" Shouta. |
| 97 | * BigGood: Lucoa is very kind and genial towards human beings, when most dragons in their GreatOffscreenWar are either apathetic or ''outright malicious''. Justified, as she [[spoiler:is one the [[GodIsGood creators of the world]] that birthed humanity]]. |
| 98 | * BoobBasedGag: While mainly used for MaleGaze, her massive breasts are also used for a plethora of jokes, such as turning Shouta into a blushing mess when she shoves them in his face, causing weird dreams in the boy relating to large and heavy objects, and being the most frequent trigger for Kobayashi's ACupAngst. |
| 99 | * BrotherSisterIncest: The reason for her demotion from goddess to dragon. In the series, it's due to a cursed bottle of alcohol. In the original myth, however, Quetzalcoatl is just convinced to imbibe. Regardless, while drunk either character version sleeps with their sister. Also, in the series proper, while she poses as Shouta's CoolBigSis, for lack of a better way to repay him for letting her stay, she tries to offer him her body as payment. |
| 100 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: She's an ex-goddess of wisdom and agriculture who helped in the development of humankind, as well as wiser and more mature in her relationships with humans than she looks. She also happens to be a ShamelessFanserviceGirl who acts like a ComedicShotacon. |
| 101 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: All of the men at the sports festival and everyone in the old folks home ([[EvenTheGirlsWantHer including the women]]) enjoyed the sight of her "World Class" assets. |
| 102 | * CaringGardener: She is a former agricultural goddess who does volunteer farmwork in her spare time (and she does it all by hand rather than using her magic). It draws a sharp contrast with her normal role as a ComedicShotacon. |
| 103 | * CassandraTruth: She keeps trying to tell Shouta that she's not a demon, but he never listens to her (probably because she keeps trying to seduce him). |
| 104 | * CharacterShilling: Invoked in ''Kanna's Daily Life''. On more than one occasion, Kanna has gotten favors out of her by promising to tell Shouta how wonderful she is. |
| 105 | * ClingyJealousGirl: She's a genuine NiceGirl who normally is quite fine with Shouta interacting with other girls, but any time something has the slightest hints of Shouta being potentially attracted to another girl, even a fake case from a game, will cause her to become violently possessive, such as him getting a "You have a girlfriend!" card in TabletopGame/GameOfLife resulting in her tearing it up, or Tohru making Shouta blush resulting in Lucoa giving her the fight she wanted in a CurbStompBattle. |
| 106 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: |
| 107 | ** She seems completely oblivious as to why Shouta is bothered by her behavior, [[NotHelpingYourCase continuously doing the exact same things that he finds off putting.]] Even Tohru manages to realize that. |
| 108 | ** When Tohru asks everyone to come up with a maid outfit for Kobayashi, Lucoa thinks up a very revealing one (basing it off of what servants wore back when she was a goddess). |
| 109 | * ComedicShotacon: Constantly tries to seduce the prepubescent boy that summoned her (bonus points for said boy's name being homophonous with the TropeNamer), and it's always PlayedForLaughs. The reveal that she's genuinely sexually attracted to him does nothing to diminish the humor of it all. |
| 110 | * CoolBigSis: Acts as one for most of the other dragons, especially Tohru. Also, this is her cover as to why she's staying with Shouta. She makes a point of facilitating friendship between Saikawa and Ilulu, commenting that kids should be able to play without worrying about having to be TheAtoner as Ilulu was. She also helps Kanna with advice when the younger dragon begins to think about what faction, Chaos, Harmony, or Neutral, she should join. |
| 111 | * DelightfulDragon: Lucoa, as a former goddess of agriculture and wisdom, tends to treat almost everyone as if she was their laid-back CoolBigSis. Her complete lack of racism towards humans makes quite a bit of sense given the reveal in ''Manga/MononokeSharing'' that [[spoiler:she helped [[TheMaker create humanity]] in the first place.]] |
| 112 | * DivineDate: She was previously an Aztec god before her demotion, and her idea on how to pay for her room and board is becoming Shouta's concubine. Living among mortals, Quetzalcoatl hopes Shouta will start reciprocating to her constant advances once he's older, and that the two have BabiesEverAfter. |
| 113 | * DragonsAreDivine: Somewhat. Apparently dragons are one step below divinity in the series; after she fell from being a goddess, she became just a dragon (albeit among the most powerful of all dragons). In Aztec mythology, Quetzalcoatl is still a god who is frequently depicted as a FeatheredSerpent or dragon. |
| 114 | * DubNameChange: A ''really bizarre'' example happens between the Latin American Spanish and French dubs: one would imagine that being Quetzacoatl a god from Mexico, the Latin American dub (which was done in that country) would change the name of Lucoa to either "Quetzacoatl" or a diminutive (such as "Quetza" or "Coatl" which are diminutives used to refer to that god in Mexico). Turns out that's ''[[AvertedTrope not the case]]'' here. The Latin American Spanish dub keeps her Japanese name instead, while the ''French'' dub changes her name to "Coatl", despite that name being as alien for the French audiences as "Lucoa" is for Mexicans and "Coatl" for the original Japanese ones. |
| 115 | * EveryoneHasStandards: She's genuinely sexually attracted to the near-pubescent Shouta, but she refuses to force herself on him like how Fafnir wrote her to act in his doujin, only going as far as teasing and skinship, as she also genuinely loves him, so she'll only do so if he is willing and would enjoy it. |
| 116 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: It's rarely seen due to her regular EyesAlwaysShut status, but the anime has her right eye with a blue iris and large yellow pupil, and her left eye with a black-bordered, dark-green iris with markings resembling an Aztec calendar, and a small black pupil. [[https://i.imgur.com/lklIwZt.png See for yourself.]] |
| 117 | * EyesAlwaysShut: She almost always has both eyes closed, and when she does open her eyes it's usually only the left one. Even her dragon form seems to have perpetually closed eyes. It's a bit more downplayed in ''Dragon Maid S'', as she opens them much more frequently, even in scenes directly adapted from manga pages where they were closed, but still not as common as them being shut. |
| 118 | * {{Familiar}}: For Shouta... kind of. It's clear that she's the dominant one in the relationship. He doesn't seem to get anything out of it beyond proving to his father that he is a strong wizard as he rejects her various methods of payment, such as monetary rewards, charisma, and enhanced magical power. He fully outright rejects her attempts to pay with her body. |
| 119 | * FantasticRacism: Averted. She's the only dragon who never hates, belittles, or distrusts humans. Rather appropriate since, in Aztec lore, Quetzalcoatl was the creator of the current race of humanity. |
| 120 | * FeatheredSerpent: Her true form is a giant serpentine dragon with broad feathered wings. It's to be expected, seeing as she's the story's depiction of the TropeNamer. |
| 121 | * {{Foil}}: To Fafnir, being the blonde, [[MellowFellow laid-back]], [[DragonsAreDivine godly]] dragon to his black haired, [[AxCrazy short-tempered]], [[DragonsAreDemonic monstrous]] dragon. Even their relationships with their roommates are opposites, with Fafnir's being [[HeterosexualLifePartners platonic]] while Lucoa's is [[ComedicShotacon lustful]]. |
| 122 | * FoodGod: Much like her mythological counterpart, she's a former agricultural goddess. Her subconscious desire to aid farmers still remains despite having been stripped of her divinity, leading to her doing volunteer farmwork in her spare time. |
| 123 | * GenderBender: Much like Ilulu, she has the ability to swap other's genders at will. In her case, though, she takes it even further by being able to CosmicRetcon reality to make it as if they were always the other gender. |
| 124 | * GiantFlyer: When her dragon form is revealed, it stretches far off into the distance, wrapping behind a mountain on the horizon (and that's less than half of what's visible). Her eyes alone are larger than Tohru's entire dragon body. She so big she gets hay-fever from entire ''trees''. |
| 125 | * GodWasMyCopilot: Downplayed. While it was already known that she was a former goddess, [[spoiler:''Manga/MononokeSharing'' revealed just ''how'' high up the celestial hierarchy she was as one of the beings responsible for creating the Earth.]] |
| 126 | * HiddenDepths: While her character is usually depicted as a ComedicShotacon, Lucoa ''is'' a former goddess of wisdom, so she will occasionally give profound insight on subjects such as the [[ChildrenAreInnocent innocence of children]] or why GoodFeelsGood. |
| 127 | * HistoricalGenderFlip: Quetzalcoatl in Myth/AztecMythology was male, here she's a very well-endowed woman. |
| 128 | * HomeNudist: PlayedWith. One time, when no one was home, she stripped herself and relaxed nude on the couch while complaining how she hated clothes and being naked was the most comfortable. Shouta, however, had set up spy cameras to try and find her weakness, and it is heavily implied that she was aware and she stripped in another attempt to seduce him. |
| 129 | * HospitalHottie: She gets a job as Oborozuka Elementary's new school nurse in chapter 2 of ''Lucoa is my xx'' so she can spend more time with Shouta. |
| 130 | * HotGoddess: Well, ''ex''-goddess anyways. Men of all ages ranging from elementary school students to geriatrics [[BuxomBeautyStandard have been captivated by her beauty (more specifically her breasts]]), and she has a habit of wearing very revealing clothing. |
| 131 | * IJustWantToBeLoved: Shouta means ''a lot'' to Quetzalcoatl, as she was lonely for so long, that the moment she heard his summons the former-goddess was overjoyed at being wanted by someone, and now [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave freeloads at the boy's home]]. |
| 132 | * ImageSong: "Little Rider". |
| 133 | * TheImmune: She's demonstrated an immunity to zombie bites, though to be fair she was the one who made the zombies in the first place. |
| 134 | * InsultBackfire: The official English translation of Chapter 65 has a wizard named William call her too sensuous. She responds with the line "There's nothing wrong with being sensuous." Her response causes Shouta to hide his face with his hands in shame. |
| 135 | * {{Kaiju}}: Sitting on the boundaries between gods and dragons, Lucoa's true form is an ''absolutely garguantun'' dragon that would give [[Myth/NorseMythology the World Serpent]] a run for its money. Her body seemingly goes on forever, trailing off into the horizon. Even Tohru, a giant Chaos dragon, appears as nothing to her. |
| 136 | * LegFocus: As a StatuesqueStunner with a strong inclination to being a ShamelessFanserviceGirl, alongside her ample chest she frequently wears clothing and performs poses that put her legs on display, especially her thighs. |
| 137 | * LoserDeity: Downplayed; she was once the Aztec Dragon God, Quetzalcoatl, and even now she's considered the most powerful of the series' dragons despite being a BunnyEarsLawyer. However, one incident of her consuming cursed liquor led to a scandal and caused her to be exiled from godhood, and even among the main cast she sometimes gets chastised for her ShamelessFanserviceGirl tendencies. |
| 138 | * TheMaker: [[spoiler:''Manga/MononokeSharing'' reveals that she was one of the people who helped create the Earth (and, by extension, humanity).]] |
| 139 | * MellowFellow: Her carefree demeanor hardly ever strays. Unless you bring up her incident involving her sister and alcohol, in whose case she freaks out. |
| 140 | * MemoryWipingCrew: She's usually the one responsible for wiping the memories of any muggles that happen to see the other dragons acting out. |
| 141 | * MesACrowd: As revealed in Chapter 9 of ''Lucoa is my XX'', she's capable of creating duplicates of herself out of her hair. The one she creates in that chapter is physically around Shouta's age, in order to help him make a friend in a way that would be comfortable for him. |
| 142 | * MonsterRoommate: She's currently living with Shouta. |
| 143 | * MrsRobinson: She's god knows how many ''eons'' old, yet she persistently tries to seduce Shouta who is a young prepubescent boy. |
| 144 | * MsFanservice: She has the largest bust among the cast, and her first outfit in the manga exposed [[LegFocus a lot]] of skin. She even went to Comiket wearing a bikini. |
| 145 | * MsViceGirl: ''Lucoa is my XX'' reveals that her constant attempts to seduce Shouta are because she's truly sexually and romantically interested in him, even though he's barely entering puberty. Despite this, she's overall a very sweet woman who refuses to indulge in this interest without Shouta's permission, as she's completely sincere about her liking him and wants him to both be willing and enjoy it if they ever have sex. |
| 146 | * NakedFirstImpression: She was naked when Shouta summoned her, despite the fact that she was wearing clothes beforehand. |
| 147 | * NeutralNoLonger: During chapters 76 and 77 of the Azad arc, [[spoiler:she barely intercedes in the conflict by deflecting one blast aimed at Kobayashi, Tohru, and Kanna, and later stalls Azad as he tries to escape by standing in front of him and talking]]. |
| 148 | * NiceGirl: Lucoa is a mountain of sage wisdom and kindness, being a reliable being to anyone she comes across. To top it all off, she's beautiful in all attributes, not only the physical ones. |
| 149 | * NonMammalianHair: She has a mane in her dragon form, as expected from a FeatheredSerpent. |
| 150 | * NotHelpingYourCase: She'd have better luck convincing Shouta that she's not a succubus if she wouldn't keep doing sexy things around him. When she offered her body to him when all others fail, the boy fearfully establishes this. |
| 151 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Doesn't think twice about climbing into bed with Shouta or trying to bathe with him. |
| 152 | * NotSoStoic: Most of the time, her only expression is a contented smile. However, this is only in appearance, as she can get easily flustered with the right topics. |
| 153 | * OldShame: That one time that she slept with her sister is an InUniverse example. She gets ''very'' embarrassed when it's brought up. |
| 154 | * OnlyOneName: Unlike most other dragons, she doesn't appear to have a last name as part of her human identity. She can be presumed to be using Magatsuchi as a last name while masquerading as Shouta's older sister, but if this is the case, it is never shown onscreen. |
| 155 | * PerpetualMotionMonster: Much like Tohru, she's capable of generating her own mana. |
| 156 | * PerpetualSmiler: Barring being caught completely off-guard, her default smile never fades. |
| 157 | * PhysicalGod: Formerly. Even without her divinity, she's still incredibly powerful, even by dragon standards. Her former divine status is the most likely explanation for her true dragon body being the size of a large country. |
| 158 | * PlayingSick: She once pretended to have hayfever from accidentally inhaling huge monstrous trees from the otherworld as a means to have Shouta enter her maw. Fafnir soon saw through the rouse, knowing Lucoa could've purged the annoyance herself with no fuss. Quetzalcoatl admitted to just wanting her boy explore her cavernous mouth, as the dragon [[{{Fetish}} thought that was arousing]]. |
| 159 | * PleasePutSomeClothesOn: More than once she has been scolded by an authority figure and told to cover up when her clothes are too skimpy. |
| 160 | * PottyEmergency: She has a spell that lets her invoke sudden bathroom urges on people (and she actually finds a practical application for it). |
| 161 | * PrettyFreeloaders: Subverted. To her credit, she did offer Shouta several magical gifts (and her body), it's just that Shouta had no use for of any of them. |
| 162 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Her magic circles are purple and she's an [[PhysicalGod ex-goddess]]. |
| 163 | * RealityWarper: Being a former goddess, her magic can alter the world around her to a far greater degree than the other dragons, up to {{cosmic retcon}}ning someone's gender or causing a spontaneous ZombieApocalypse. She can also just as easily reverse those changes. |
| 164 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: In the original myth, Quetzalcoatl sacrificed himself for getting drunk and sleeping with his elder sister Quetzalpetlatl. Here, Lucoa was the elder sister and "Petla" was younger. |
| 165 | * RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: She somehow convinced Shouta's school that she is his older sister. |
| 166 | * TheReliableOne: On the side of the dragons, Lucoa is a source of experience and security for her friends. Being a former goddess, she has wisdom aplenty to give. |
| 167 | * SeriesContinuityError: The anime opening sequence, during Season 1, attempted to tease Lucoa's dragon form, which ended up being quite the departure from what she actually looks like in the manga, where her real form would be shown after a while. Season 2, however, corrects that discrepancy, matching the source material before Lucoa shows her real self in an actual episode (although it does get the ''size'' still wrong). |
| 168 | * SexForServices: She tries offering herself to Shouta in exchange for room and board, though he understandably doesn't take her up on her offer (he's under the impression that she's actually a succubus). In her defence, this is after she already offers him endless riches, supernatural charisma, and boundless magical powers, all of which he turns down for various reasons. |
| 169 | * SexShifter: She can become male and perform the swap freely enough to restore her original gender exactly when she wants. |
| 170 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Her choice of swimsuits [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome gets her dragged off for overexposure twice]] in episode 7. That's not even getting into her [[BodyPaint cow cosplay]] and NakedApron during the DVD specials. |
| 171 | * ShooOutTheClowns: She always has a tendency to disappear when something big is about to happen in the main manga. Like for instance when Ilulu shows up in Chapter 30, Lucoa has gone off to another country on a trip, and doesn't return until Chapter 33. It is revealed this is self-imposed. As a Neutral faction she cannot get involved in big events and will actively avoid them for fear of temptation to help one side out. |
| 172 | * SignatureHeadgear: A pink baseball cap with a white brim. It even comes with holes for her horns. |
| 173 | * SleepsInTheNude: She has a habit of sleeping in the nude, usually when sneaking into the same bed as Shouta. However, there have been occasions, such as in Season 2, Episode 8 of the anime, where she has slept nude without the presence of Shouta, suggesting that it may not entirely be done just to seduce him and she may have an actual prefence for it. |
| 174 | * SnakesAreSexy: A variation. Her true form is a FeatheredSerpent, who also takes the form of a very well-endowed human woman. |
| 175 | * SomeCallMeTim: While her name is 'Quetzalcoatl', she has most people call her 'Lucoa', her InSeriesNickname. |
| 176 | * SoProudOfYou: She starts referring to Shouta as "Master" when he [[spoiler:defends her honor after a bully disrespects her in front of him, denoting that she accepts him and considers him completely worthy of her being his "familiar"]]. |
| 177 | * StatuesqueStunner: She's the tallest and shapeliest of the female dragons in human form. |
| 178 | * StealthHiBye: Her first appearance in the manga is Kobayashi asking Tohru when the next friend will arrive and Lucoa announces herself right behind Kobayashi saying she's already here. |
| 179 | * SubmissiveBadass: She is a god but despite that will still allow people to drag her off when her outfits are too revealing and obey comply with the demand to put on something less skimpy. |
| 180 | * SuccubiAndIncubi: While Lucoa's not literally a succubus, Shouta is convinced that she's one due to the fact that she showed up when he was performing a demon summoning ritual and she keeps trying to seduce him. |
| 181 | * TheTeetotaler: After the incident with her sister, she swore off alcohol for hundreds of years, though she does occasionally drink in the present. |
| 182 | * TimeAbyss: She is ''significantly'' older than the rest of the cast, old enough to have shaped the course of human history at least once. [[spoiler:''Manga/MononokeSharing'' reveals that she's not only older than humanity as a whole, but helped create the planet they live on.]] |
| 183 | * TimeMaster: Chapter 45 reveals that she has the ability to rewind time and offers to do so for Ilulu (who declines the offer). |
| 184 | * VagueAge: The official guide book lists her human age as "unknown". She apparently looks young enough to pose as Shouta's big sister, but at the same time, she also has a kind of worldly aunt aura that makes her look and sound older than Kobayashi herself at times. |
| 185 | * WhatTheHellHero: She gets called out by Shouta in Chapter 2 of ''Lucoa is my xx'' for manipulating the Oborodzuka elementary principal's memories to [[HospitalHottie be put in charge of the infirmary]]. |
| 186 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: Chapter 16 of ''Lucoa is My Xx'' reveals she's quite good at lucha libre wrestling from her home country of Mexico, just like [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder another fictional version of Quetzalcoatl]]. |
| 187 | * YourSizeMayVary: When Lucoa's dragon form is shown on Episode 11 of Season 2, there is some noticeable perspective and size issues when compared to Tohru; in one frame, Tohru's dragon form is about the same size of Lucoa's head, while the same scene in the manga, and a few others that followed, showed that Tohru's dragon form is about the size of Lucoa's ''eye'', not head. The anime opening sequence for Season 2 is accurate about Lucoa's dragon size, however. |
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| 190 | [[folder:Elma]] |
| 191 | !!Elma (Elma Joui) |
| 192 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuukiTakada (Japanese), Creator/RachelGlass (English), Andrea Orozco (Latin American Spanish) |
| 193 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elma_visual.png]] |
| 194 | |
| 195 | Elma, [=AKA=] Elma Joui or Elma of the Holy Seas is a Harmony-aligned dragon of the Divine subgroup who is Tohru's archrival. She first appears by [[ThereWasADoor smashing a wall into Kobayashi's apartment]], and begins picking fights with Tohru over the latter going against the AlienNonInterferenceClause by living in this world and interacting with humans. She later gets a job working at Kobayashi's company.\ |
| 196 | She is also the main character of the SpinOff ''Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary''. |
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| 198 | * AdaptationalNiceGirl: In the manga, she refused to do anything to aid Tohru in the fight against Ilulu until Kobayashi bribed her to put up a barrier so Tohru could fight at full power without fear of collateral damage. While she still doesn't put up the barrier without being bribed in the anime, she does cast a spell to remove all human bystanders from the area without prompting. |
| 199 | * AesopAmnesia: After joining the cast of the main manga in Chapter 24, she soon forgets [[AnAesop the aesop]] that [[AesopEnforcer Tohru]] was sent to teach her, in the {{Flashback}} in Chapter 44, as she allows herself to be used by humans again. |
| 200 | * AlienNonInterferenceClause: Except maybe Lucoa, she's the strictest about following it. How strict she is, though, is highly variable. Ranging from refusing a piece of cream bread in her first appearance, to creating a shield over a city to protect it when Tohru and Ilulu were fighting (though she had to be bribed for that one). |
| 201 | * AliensLoveHumanFood: While most dragons are {{Big Eater}}s who enjoy any food both dragon or human-made, Elma holds the latter in particular high regard and can be [[FoodAsBribe easily bribed]] with it. When she has time off from her office job, she goes exploring the city and trying new kinds of food, particularly sweets. |
| 202 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: Even with Tohru's advantage of being able to create her own mana, Elma still manages to edge out ahead when they finally fight for real, perhaps for being the most emotionally motivated of the two at that moment. As a sea-serpent type dragon, she's also an almost literal bigger fish. |
| 203 | * AmbiguouslyGay: What exactly Elma's feelings for Tohru are is a bit ambiguous and later becomes the center of an entire arc. It's strongly hinted that she may be in love with Tohru, and there is even a running joke during the aformentioned arc about polygamy, but when full on asked Elma states she wants to be as close to her as Kobayashi but also to be different and not interfere with Tohru and Kobayashi's relationship. At the same time, however, Elma also seems to have something for Kobayashi herself, even looking like she's playing DoggedNiceGuy at some points towards her. |
| 204 | * AndYourRewardIsEdible: Elma's preferred reward for anything (victory, helping out, etc.) is food, though this is hardly a surprise considering she's a sugar-powered sea dragon. A solid example of this attitude comes in chapter 64 of the main manga, where, after she and Tohru have a practice fight (and rekindle their friendship), she declares victory and demands Tohru buy her food. |
| 205 | * AngerBornOfWorry: The reason she quarrels with Tohru for most of the manga is because [[spoiler:they were close friends before Tohru disappeared without even giving her a peep. Since the last thing Elma heard of was that she attacked and lost to the gods, she was left begrieved only to find her happily spending time with a human, which understandably enraging her. The two are thankfully able to reconcile once Elma is able to communicate her hurt feelings and Tohru subsequently apologises for her insensitivity.]] |
| 206 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: For all of their bickering and fighting, Elma and Tohru do show signs of genuine affection for each other. |
| 207 | ** Their flashback to their days traveling together shows several caring gestures between the two like bringing each other food and resting together at a bonfire. |
| 208 | ** The biggest example comes from when Elma challenges Tohru to a fight. The two spend most of it barely holding back and shattering the landscape around them, all while also having an intense verbal argument. At the end, Elma breaks down and admits that she's missed being friends with Tohru, and that she was scared thinking Tohru had been killed prior to becoming a maid. Tohru is completely taken aback by this, and quickly apologises for her insensitivity. After continuing the fight on more friendly terms the two properly become friends again. |
| 209 | * BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Granted, it's more self-inflicted than anything. Elma chaperones Kanna, Saikawa, and Shouta as the three go exploring in the wilderness. Elma briefly loses her attention on them as she soaks her feet in the river, and the moment she sees they're missing, goes stampeding through the woods trying to find them, only to get herself battered by the trees and wildlife. Unbeknownst to her, the kids [[AllForNothing walked back to their campsite safe and sound]]. |
| 210 | * BarrierWarrior: Elma can create powerful barriers. She creates one strong enough [[spoiler:to block any collateral damage from Tohru's powerful attack when the latter is fighting Ilulu]]. |
| 211 | * BewareMyStingerTail: Her full dragon form has a three pronged tail, which she was shown using during her falling out with Tohru. When she shifts into a human or semi-human form, it's transformed into a trident. |
| 212 | * BigEater: She's noted to be a glutton in her first appearance, and she's often seen eating or thinking about eating. She even gets banned from an all-you-can-eat buffet in her spin-off manga after eating over 100 servings ''in a single sitting''. This also makes it hard for to do her own cooking, as she keeps eating the ingredients as well as the mixture for sweets. In chapter 29 of ''Kanna's Daily Life'', when eating a watermelon slice she went as to eat not just the seeds but the ''rind'' as well. |
| 213 | * BlackAndWhiteInsanity: As a member of the Harmony faction of dragons, Elma is a staunch believer in justice and making things right for everyone, but the lengths she can take this are a bit extreme even if often [[PlayedForLaughs comedic]]. She'll loudly reprimand little children for not obeying crosswalk rules, pick fights with Chaos dragons even if they're not posing a threat (her rivalry with Tohru is built on this), and once spent weeks trying to singlehandedly improve her workplace's conditions past any rational degree. |
| 214 | * BreakoutCharacter: She was popular enough to get her own manga spin-off, and has gained a significant boost in screen time and plot relevance in the second anime season. |
| 215 | * BullyingADragon: While she's lost in the woods, a bear tries to attack her, but she nonchalantly holds its jaw in place with one hand and scares it off with a DeathGlare. |
| 216 | * ButtMonkey: Among the main cast, she's the most susceptible to any kind of slapstick or humiliating situations. |
| 217 | ** In Elma's debut, Tohru fools her into stepping through a portal to another continent under the false promise of a duel. Tohru then closes the portal off and leaves Elma stranded and without food for a whole day. The next time they meet, Tohru uses her BreathWeapon to blast Elma across the city and into a playground. |
| 218 | ** She has to chaperone the kids for a day and loses them briefly in the woods. She then scrambles to find them while being battered by trees and almost being attacked by a bear. |
| 219 | * CharacterTics: She always leaves the outermost layer of her clothing open at the front (presumably due to the size of her breasts). |
| 220 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Because she's so ObsessedWithFood, she can barely go a single chapter without derailing a conversation into something food related. A stand out example is [[ItMakesSenseInContext when the dragons try to imagine what Kobayashi would look like as a dragon]], and Elma imagines an ice cream cone with Kobayashi's head. Her BlackAndWhiteInsanity also adds to this. |
| 221 | * CompetitionFreak: Even beyond her rivalry with Tohru, she is shown to take all challenges very seriously, like when she was playing ''[[TabletopGame/GameOfLife Life]]'' against the younger members of the cast in ''Kanna's Daily Life''. |
| 222 | * ContrivedCoincidence: She chooses to break the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Dragon Non-Interference Clause]], and gets a normal "human" job in order to blend in with the rest of the humans... at the exact same company that Kobayashi happens to works at. |
| 223 | * CorporateDragon: She's a high ranking Harmony Dragon who is capable of facing [[PersonOfMassDestruction Tohru]] on even footing, and works at an IT company... as a low level software engineer. |
| 224 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Elma is a harmony dragon who is often clueless, easily tricked, bribe-able with snack food, and stranded on Earth. However, she's also noted to be Tohru's equal. The relevant power level of this aspect isn't shown until Ilulu and Clemene appear and show how Tohru (and by extension, Elma) eclipse other dragons in might. Hell, even arrogant {{Jerkass}} Clemene refers to her as "Elma-sama", showing her status among harmony dragons. Indeed, when the two later get into a proper fight Elma’s raw brute strength is able to completely pin Tohru. |
| 225 | * CuteLittleFangs: Occasionally seen with one. |
| 226 | * DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Ends up being subjected to this when she goes outside after having spent several days nonstop at the office to get a project out on time. [[BrickJoke At least she finally found out why Kobayashi told her to get a pair of sunglasses]]. |
| 227 | * DeathGlare: She and Tohru will frequently locks eyes like they're about to kill each other whenever they meet, even under the most mundane circumstances. |
| 228 | * DeliciousDistraction: Accidental in the manga, but when she's about to go off to deliver a memo, a co-worker presents her with some food and she forgets what she was going to do. |
| 229 | * DelightfulDragon: Elma is a TokenHeroicOrc among the harmony faction who refuses to accept {{Human Sacrifice}}s. While she does have the rare moment of looking down on humans, she views it has her duty to lead them to peace and prosperity. |
| 230 | * TheDitherer: This is played as a gag in the anime. She is shown to have problem deciding which flavour she wants when ordering food, and ends up buying all of the available options. She is even frustrated about choosing what toothpaste to use when all three options are fruit flavoured. |
| 231 | * DitzyGenius: While she is incredibly smart and capable of memorizing books and putting the knowledge gained to use with ease, she doesn't really understand humanity and constantly makes minor faux pas when around people. Also, she didn't think much of the fact that she once broke the lock to her apartment until it was pointed out that she could be robbed (though she thought it would be by goblins, orcs and the like, not humans). |
| 232 | * DoggedNiceGirl: Downplayed example towards [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Kobayashi.]] It never really gets brought up ([[ClingyJealousGirl aside from Tohru getting very chagrined by it]]), but Elma has [[ShipTease several moments where it's hinted she likes Kobayashi]]: |
| 233 | ** When Tohru is fighting Ilulu, Elma states she [[OrderVersusChaos won't help Tohru because of their alignments]], but if she falls, then she will act, [[DeclarationOfProtection specifically mentioning she will protect Kobayashi.]] |
| 234 | ** When Elma [[DeliberateValuesDissonance misunderstands]] Takiya calling Kobayashi "[[TheReliableOne the pillar of the office]]" to mean what it [[HumanSacrifice would be perceived as in her world,]] she challenges Kobayashi for the "position" in a misguided attempt to "save" her, claiming she will fulfill all of Kobayashi's duties for her sake. She also [[YouAreACreditToYourRace dismisses Kobayashi's claim that Elma sees her as a "mere human".]] |
| 235 | ** In the same scenario as above, when Kobayashi makes to flick Elma's forehead as admonishment, tellingly, Elma assumes Kobayashi is going to kiss her, and ''flat out states she's OK with it if Kobayashi wants her'' "despite also having Tohru". This is the same Elma who was picking a fight with Tohru [[AlienNonInterferenceClause over interacting with humans]] and who can't stand putting up with her either. |
| 236 | ** The trope is also subverted entirely when it comes to [[spoiler:Tohru herself, who Elma is implied more strongly to be in love with. Due in part to their past, she's dispensed with most niceties, and their relationship is often quite vitriolic.]] |
| 237 | * EdibleThemeNaming: It's probably a coincidence, but her name is Turkic for apple, which fits with her status as a BigEater. |
| 238 | * ElementalEyeColors: While she's never actually seen using water magic, she is an aquatic dragon with deep-blue eyes. |
| 239 | * EmbarrassingNickname: Her coworkers start calling her "Expensma-chan" after she racks up a massive food budget on moving day. |
| 240 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: In her SpinOff, Elma's friend/co-worker Wakita develops a small crush on her. While normally straight when thinking of the kind of guy she likes, Wakita ends up thinking about Elma much to her embarrassment. |
| 241 | * ExactWords: A pickup artist tries flirting with her in chapter 25 of her spin-off, and she innocently gives him her phone number when he asks for it. But when he tries calling it later, he discovers that she gave him her ''work'' number (and she isn't even the one who answers the call). |
| 242 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Flashbacks show that her hair used to be a lot longer. While it's never specified why she changed it, it's worth pointing out that she was last seen with long hair [[WeUsedToBeFriends during her falling out with Tohru]]. |
| 243 | * FantasticAnthropologist: Subverted. She claimed that the reason she got a job at Kobayashi's office was part of a study to see if beings from the other world could assimilate to Earth culture. Kobayashi quickly realized that this was a lie and she was just too embarrassed to admit that she had no way to get back to the other world on her own. |
| 244 | * FatalFlaw: [[ObsessedWithFood Gluttony]]. It ended up destroying her friendship with Tohru and all of her efforts to bring peace to humans in the other world, and in the present it makes her very open to [[FoodAsBribe bribes]]. |
| 245 | * FireWaterJuxtaposition: The water dragon to Tohru's fire dragon. |
| 246 | * {{Foil}}: To Tohru -- Tohru is from the Chaos Faction of dragons and is ''very'' open about her love for Kobayashi, whom she fell in love prior to the series. Elma is from the Harmony faction of dragons and while it's known that she romantically likes Kobayashi, she keeps her feelings hidden, and she fell in love with her during the series. |
| 247 | * FoodAsBribe: Elma's weakness is food, so both Kobayashi and Tohru have used this against her. Of course this weakness once got Elma into trouble and led to her and Tohru [[WeUsedToBeFriends having a falling out]]. |
| 248 | * GlamourFailure: Chapter 34 of her spin-off series reveals that when she is hungry, or thinking of animals as food, animals on Earth will sense her being a superior predator and be frightened of her. Only by placating her stomach does this aura dissipate. This issue causes a lot of trouble as Elma is taking Kanna and Saikawa to the local zoo and Elma is constantly hungry while there. |
| 249 | * GodGuise: She once tried to bring about peace among humans in the other world going by the title "The Saint of the Sea" (or Elma of the Holy Seas), and was famous enough that Shouta's father recognized her on sight during an office meeting between the two. |
| 250 | * GrowlingGut: |
| 251 | ** Twice during her introduction since she was refusing to eat any food on Earth due to adhering to the AlienNonInterferenceClause. |
| 252 | ** Constantly during the first chapter of "Office Drinking Party" in her spinoff series, as she came hungry, with plenty of food, and chose to wait until her coworkers showed up before starting the cooking and eating. Her hunger (and the constant reminder of food from Lucoa) nearly drives her to try to kill the former goddess as well. |
| 253 | ** The eighth ''Minidora'' short revealed that her coworkers use the growling sound as an incredibly accurate alarm clock. |
| 254 | * HairContrastDuo: With Tohru, having semi-short black hair in contrast to Tohru's long blonde hair. |
| 255 | * HonorBeforeReason: According to Tohru, when Elma was arm wrestling she wasn't using any magic to enhance her strength, barely costing her a victory against Tohru. |
| 256 | * HopelessSuitor: [[spoiler:Elma is in love with Tohru, who is [[SingleTargetSexuality Kobayashi-sexual]].]] She's also expressed interest in Kobayashi, who hasn't reciprocated anyone's feelings at this point. |
| 257 | * HumanSacrifice: Almost everybody who has interacted with most Harmony dragons gets quite surprised when they learn she ''[[SubvertedTrope doesn't]]'' ask for sacrifices in return for her services, and in fact ''[[DefiedTrope utterly refuses]]'' any attempted offer. [[ObsessedWithFood She greatly prefers offerings of delicious regular food instead]]. |
| 258 | * IJustWantToBeFree: [[spoiler:Much like with Tohru, she doesn't actually want anything to do with the harmony/chaos war and would much rather "be like water". Unlike with Tohru, she keeps these feelings bottled up and [[StepfordSmiler hides it behind a smile]], only making her true desires known to her family when she's seconds away from being forced into an ArrangedMarriage.]] |
| 259 | * ImageSong: "Believe in Myself" and "Shiro Kuro Tsukema Show?!". She shares the latter with Tohru. |
| 260 | * InformedAbility: Early in the manga/anime its said the Tohru and Elma are equal in strength. Tohru also claims that Elma is actually physically stronger than her, and that when the two arm wrestled, Tohru only won because Elma's sense of honor kept her from using magic to enhance her strength like Tohru was. It's not until much later in the manga that we get to see the two spar and see for ourselves that while she doesn't show it as much as Tohru, Elma is a ridiculously powerful dragon in her own right, able to NoSell an attack from Tohru point blank though the overall match ends in a draw. |
| 261 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: She unwittingly offends some of her female coworkers -- [[WeightWoe who have to watch their weights]] -- with her BigEater habits. |
| 262 | * InstantExpert: Downplayed. Elma is completely unable to figure out how to work a computer at first, [[MedievalStasis due to the technological level of her world,]] but thanks to Kobayashi's guidance, she manages to become a fairly competent coder not long after. Kobayashi lampshades this by calling dragons "high spec". This is justified later on when it's revealed that the programming language that the company uses is based on the series magic system, which she would already have a strong familiarity with. |
| 263 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 264 | ** She's a harmony dragon who's supposed to keep order, yet her introduction featured her causing chaos by smashing through the wall of Kobayashi's apartment. |
| 265 | ** She hounded Tohru for violating [[AlienNonInterferenceClause the law of the world]] in her introduction, yet settles in easily as Kobayashi's colleague, gets "tamed" by her via sweets, and all-but-admits to liking Kobayashi in the same way Tohru does. |
| 266 | ** In ''Elma's Office Lady Diary'', she, the Harmony Dragon, has to be reined in multiple times by Tohru, the Chaos Dragon, despite Elma originally wanting it to be the other way around. |
| 267 | * KnightTemplar: PlayedForLaughs when she helps out with the neighborhood watch and threatens to punish children for jaywalking. |
| 268 | * LegFocus: Whether it's her iconic battle outfit or her myriad of human-style outfits, both formal and casual, one consistent aspect of her design is that she always shows off her curvy and well-built legs, particularly her decently thick thighs, to the point that whenever she's the recipient of MaleGaze, those thighs get much more frequent focus than her also sizable chest. |
| 269 | * LeotardOfPower: Her default outfit, which she only wears during battle, with one exception[[note]]she wore it to a mixer in chapter 5 of ''Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary''[[/note]], is an one-piece black leotard, with a blue sash around her waist and a brown scarf draped around her neck. |
| 270 | * LostFoodGrievance: She went full dragon form when a burglar accidentally stepped on a bag of chestnuts she had bought, and would have murdered him if Kobayashi hadn't come by with some Taiyaki. |
| 271 | * LoveAcrossBattlelines: [[spoiler:She's a Harmony-aligned dragon (one who happens to be a direct descendant of the faction's second in command at that) who is in love with an equally high ranking Chaos dragon.]] |
| 272 | * MakingASplash: While she is never shown using any water spells in the present day (unless you count her flash freezing a volcanic eruption during her fight with Tohru in the anime), they played a large role in her backstory where she used them to bring peace among humans by ensuringing a bountiful harvest. |
| 273 | * ManBitesMan: In chapter 24 of ''Elma's Office Lady Diary'', Takiya offers Elma, who is half mad with hunger, a rice ball to tide her over until their other coworkers can get to the drinking party. She profusely thanks him... and bites his arm before actually chowing down on the rice ball. |
| 274 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: She takes a DynamicEntry (manga)/sucker punch (anime) from Tohru to the face in stride by chastising her in annoyance. Given how they're both dragons who had been in tons of life-threatening battles (including against each other), it's justified. |
| 275 | * {{Miko}}: Among dragons, she's considered a holy priestess and one of the most important figures of the Harmony faction. |
| 276 | * MonsterRoommate: Averted. She's the only dragon with her own apartment. |
| 277 | * MuggingTheMonster: A burglar tried to rob her apartment in a chapter of ''Elma's Office Lady Diary''. She wasn't threatened by him in the slightest, and nearly killed him after [[LostFoodGrievance he accidentally stepped on some of her food]]. |
| 278 | * MultipleTailedBeast: Her real tail, which is only seen when she's in dragon form, is a tail with [[BewareMyStingerTail three prongs]] on the end. While she's in human form, she grows a fish tail instead, with her natural tail turning into a trident that she can summon at will to use as a weapon. |
| 279 | * MundaneUtility: While trying to come up with a proposal to improve labor conditions at work, she used clairvoyance to memorize all her coworkers' schedules and keep everything within the established budget. |
| 280 | * NavelDeepNeckline: On the [[FanserviceCover cover]] of chapter 100, Elma wears a one-piece swimsuit whose cleavage extends all the way down to her navel. |
| 281 | * NeverGetsFat: Has stated that she can eat as much as she wants and not gain a single pound. This is likely because her true form is a thirty meter long sea serpent, and her magic apparently also runs on sugar. Regardless, it's not a bad trait for a BigEater like her to have. |
| 282 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: When she and Tohru first met, she was attempting to bring about peace among the humans in the other world. It resulted in a cult that was prepared to go to war with anyone who wouldn't worship her -- [[FoodAsBribe getting Elma to look the other way by bribing her with food]]. Tohru's outrage at Elma's hypocrisy led to them having a falling out and becoming rivals. |
| 283 | * NoodleIncident: She got fished once. As in, with a fishing rod. She seems pretty scarred by the event. |
| 284 | * ObsessedWithFood: |
| 285 | ** Deconstructed. She loves to eat and has very poor impulse control when it comes to buying snacks. It ended up destroying both her friendship with Tohru and her attempts to bring peace to humans in the other world, as she became susceptible to the humans' worship of her as a goddess, which meant she got lots of food offerings. |
| 286 | ** Used for a brief gag in the anime, where on Christmas, a holiday for couples in Japan, we see shots of Tohru with Kobayashi, Fafnir with Takiya, Lucoa with Shota, and Elma with food. |
| 287 | * OfficeLady: Prior to learning how to code, her job at work primarily consisted of making everyone tea. |
| 288 | -->'''Kobayashi:''' You're the mascot of the office. |
| 289 | * OhCrap: She accidentally goes into her dragon form at one point without applying perception blocking, giving Saikawa a glimpse of her true form. Thankfully Kanna was there to cover for Elma so the latter could escape notice. |
| 290 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When she talked with Fafnir to get help with [[spoiler:repairing her friendship with Tohru]] in the anime, you can tell that she's taking it seriously by the fact that they've both order parfaits and she hasn't even ''touched'' hers despite him having finished his. |
| 291 | * {{Polyamory}}: [[spoiler:After confessing her love to Tohru during her arranged wedding crash, Elma seriously proposes for Tohru to just take her as an additional lover instead, since Elma knows Tohru will never let go of her love for Kobayashi. While Tohru doesn't exactly agree to this, she does say Elma is free to do as she wishes as long as she doesn't interfere with Tohru's relationship with Kobayashi]]. |
| 292 | * PurelyAestheticGlasses: She wears computer glasses while at work despite having supernaturally acute vision. Interestingly, they're essentially the exact same glasses that Kobayashi wears. |
| 293 | * RageBreakingPoint: Noted in her spin-off series chapter 23 when she is waiting for her company co-wokers to join her at a party she set up for them, but they are delayed. This leaves her alone with the delicious food that is to be grilled and eaten by everyone. She is fighting her gluttonous urges and fear that she is being abandoned, when Lucoa arrives, and starts talking about how savvory fresh grilled meats are and the wonderful crunch of grilled vegetables. Lucoa doesn't realize the effect her words have on Elma until the latter snaps just a little. |
| 294 | --> '''Elma:''' ''I've never wanted to kill you so badly before...''\ |
| 295 | '''Lucoa:''' Huh?! What did I do?!!\ |
| 296 | '''Narration:''' T-minus five seconds until Elma explodes. |
| 297 | * RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Tohru's red. While she can get worked up and excited like Tohru it generally takes a lot more (or the right trigger) to get her to that point, and she's usually calmer and more easygoing than Tohru, except when food's involved. She's also much slower to pick a fight than Tohru, as shown by the fact that Tohru tries to kill Elma a number of times in Elma's spinoff manga, while Elma is rarely shown fighting back, instead usually trying to convince Tohru to stop (though, since she has SuperToughness, she probably doesn't need to fight back) and much more likely to hide her feelings than her fellow dragon. Adding to the contrast, Elma's part of the harmony faction (harmony being associated with blue onis), while Tohru's part of the chaos faction (red onis generally being chaotic), and her eyes are blue while Tohru's are red. All this can go out the window when competition and/or food enter the picture, though. |
| 298 | * RuleOfThree: In her debut episode, she gets kicked out of Kobayashi's apartment by Tohru three different times. First, by being tricked to go through a portal, which Tohru closes behind her. Second, by being bribed into leaving with some cream puffs. Finally, on the third time, Tohru attacks Elma with her Fire Breath, sending her flying out the door. |
| 299 | * {{Salaryman}}: Once she learns how to code. |
| 300 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Zig-zagged in her spin-off. At first, she refuses to use her dragon powers to swim to Shikoku to get a specific brand of ice cream, instead prefering to just order it so as to properly follow the rules of human society... until she sees that there's a shipping fee and that she'd have to wait a full business week for it to arrive. However, she does take a train ride there afterwards and pays the full fare to make up for it. |
| 301 | * SeaSerpents: Her dragon form resembles a one-horned sea serpent with a trident-shaped tail. |
| 302 | * SecretlySelfish: She spends all of chapter 55 trying to improve labor conditions at work, only for it to turn out at the end of the chapter that she only did it because she wants to be able to get out earlier to buy limited edition sweets near the station. |
| 303 | * {{Seers}}: She's proficient in clairvoyance magic, and can gather information on the most minute of activities others perform. Kobayashi and Takiya are disturbed to learn that Elma compiled data on all of their co-workers, from their work schedules to the number of minutes they spend sitting in a chair. |
| 304 | * SnakesAreSexy: Her dragon form is very snake-like, and her human form has a well-developed body. |
| 305 | * SuperToughness: Tohru has tried multiple times to kill her, before they reconciled (and once after, which Elma admitted she deserved), and she always got away with some scorch marks on her face and body, despite Tohru's status as one of the most powerful dragons out there. |
| 306 | * SweetTooth: Elma loves sweets and can easily be bribed with them, though she is capable (through a ''lot'' of visible effort) of [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness rejecting sweets if she thinks it's important enough.]] It's only happened twice, however, and in the first case Kobayashi only needed to apply more sweets to turn her around. |
| 307 | * ThroughHerStomach: While Elma loves food in general [[spoiler:it's Tohru's cooking that she loves most of all. In fact, remembering the scent of a bento that Tohru had made for her is what finally gets her to speak out against her ArrangedMarriage.]] |
| 308 | * TokenHeroicOrc: It's frequently shown whenever the Harmony faction of dragons gets more involved in the story that Elma is among a rare few, if not the only true practitioner of the ideals espoused by said faction, as most Harmony dragons either only pay lip-service to the faction's belief or have a KnightTemplar approach to maintaining "peace and order". It especially shows through how she utterly refuses to accept any {{Human Sacrifice}}s, not understanding what's so tasty or empowering about eating humans, instead preferring to enjoy foods only said humans understand how to cook. |
| 309 | * TrappedInAnotherWorld: {{Inverted|Trope}}: ''She's'' trapped on ''Earth'', simply because she doesn't know the spell to create a portal home, unlike Tohru and most of the other dragons. Of course, once she and Tohru get back on (unfriendly) speaking terms, she knows she could always ask Tohru for help getting back, and Tohru would probably gladly oblige if only to get rid of her. However, Elma doesn't want to go back without Tohru, who doesn't want to go back period. |
| 310 | * {{Tsundere}}: [[spoiler:In spite of belonging to the opposite faction, Tohru is dear to her, this being one of the reasons she came to the human world... not that either of them would admit it openly.]] |
| 311 | * UptightLovesWild: [[spoiler:She's an Order dragon who's in love with a Chaos dragon.]] |
| 312 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: Where she kept a protection charm she made the night prior to her first death march. When she fishes it out, Kobayashi wonders why she's keeping it there. |
| 313 | * VitriolicBestBuds: How Kobayashi interprets Elma's relationship with Tohru, deducing that the two have such a deep familiarity and trust in each other that their squabbling is simply another means of expressing their bond. Then again, both Elma and Tohru are too stubborn to admit this for a fact. It takes a while but the two do eventually end up in a more friendly relationship, and after the Arranged Marriage Arc, Elma is seen hanging out more with Tohru just for the pleasure of her company. |
| 314 | * WardrobeFlawOfCharacterization: In her office attire, she wears her jacket completely open at the front to keep her bust quirkily out. Her goddess attire also reflects it, as she wears her kimono open and hanging off elbow-level. |
| 315 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: The first chapter of her spinoff reveals that she and Tohru were once friends prior to them having a falling out over Elma being easily manipulated through food. Elma laments the loss of her friendship with Tohru and wishes they could go back to being friends again (Kobayashi, meanwhile, sees them more as VitriolicBestBuds). They manage to patch things up in chapter 64. |
| 316 | * WhyDontYouMarryIt: When the topic of marriage comes up while at work in chapter 97, she states that she'd be perfectly fine with the idea of marrying food and giving birth to more meals to eat. |
| 317 | -->'''Kobayashi:''' You want to eat your husband and children? That's insanity, you know? |
| 318 | * YouKnowImBlackRight: She gets offended by Fafnir declaring that he'll kill everyone in the Order Faction when they team up to fight a brainwashed dragon army. This leads him to amend his statement to only ''half''-killing them. |
| 319 | [[/folder]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[folder:Shanableh ('''Unmarked Arranged Marriage Arc Spoilers''')]] |
| 322 | !!Shanableh (Tatsuzawa) |
| 323 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tatsuzawa_78.png]] |
| 324 | A programmer going by the name of Tatsuzawa at Jigokumeguri who was hired shortly after Elma. She's eventually revealed to be a Harmony aligned dragon who was sent to take Elma's place in the company once Elma returns to the other world for her ArrangedMarriage. |
| 325 | ---- |
| 326 | * AllThereInTheManual: Her real name is revealed in Volume 12's afterword manga, so readers that only follow the serialized release may not find out about it until chapter 133, when Telne calls her by it. |
| 327 | * ChekhovsGunman: She's initially introduced in Chapter 83 as nothing more than an ordinary programmer who helps Kobayashi, Takiya, and Elma get the latter's financial reform done on time. Turns out there's much more to her than first assumed. |
| 328 | * DefectorFromDecadence: She is fine if it gets out she [[spoiler:betrayed the Harmony Faction by leaking Kobayashi and Azad intel]], and it results in her being banished. After all, she likes living in the human world and working at Kobayashi's company. |
| 329 | * FairyDragons: Quite literally. She's a dragon that was born from a dragon/fairy relationship. |
| 330 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: During a fantasy shot depicting Tohru and Elma in their dragon forms in Chapter 124, her "placeholder" form shows her as an orb with a dragon horn and fairy wings, hinting about her being the child of a dragon and a fairy. Tohru also mentioned in Chapter 81 that fairies and dragons were capable of cross breeding. |
| 331 | * TheGenericGuy: Kobayashi notes how she's incredibly bland, which no doubt helped in her ability to blend in. |
| 332 | * GoodFeelsGood: Her fairy ancestry leaves her with an innate desire to help people, with that instinct becoming stronger the more work she has to do. She describes the life of being a modern day {{Salaryman}} as perfect for someone like her. |
| 333 | * HybridPower: Inverted. Her fairy ancestry means that she's actually far weaker than a normal dragon (Tohru senses that her power is comparable to that of a human wizard). |
| 334 | * LikeADuckTakesToWater: Out of all the dragons introduced up to Chapter 106, she has absolutely no visible trouble adapting to human society, to the point that Kobayashi had no idea she wasn't from Earth. |
| 335 | * MeaningfulName: The first kanji for her human name, Tatsuzawa, means "dragon", hinting that she's actually a dragon in disguise. |
| 336 | * WalkingSpoiler: One can say Kobayashi has a coworker named Tatsuzawa, and one can say there's a dragon named Shanableh in the story, but saying that they're one and the same or anything else about her spoils some major plot points regarding Elma. |
| 337 | [[/folder]] |
| 338 | |
| 339 | !Other World |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:Damocles]] |
| 342 | !!Damocles (The Emperor of Demise) |
| 343 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakayukiSugo (Japanese), John [=McCalmont=] (English), Eduardo Fonseca (Latin American Spanish) |
| 344 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_ony75g0o0k1tr6wqbo1_1280.png]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | One of the strongest Chaos Dragons of the other world, and Tohru's father. Upon learning that his daughter has moved to Earth and is living with a human, he arrives on Kobayashi's doorstep in order to bring Tohru home, by force if necessary. |
| 347 | ---- |
| 348 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, Tohru intimidating him is enough to get him to leave her and Kobayashi alone. [[spoiler: In the anime, it doesn't even faze him and he even uses force to try to get her to come home. Their fight is on equal terms until Kobayashi interrupts it.]] |
| 349 | * AdaptationalJerkass: While his [[JerkassHasAPoint admittedly valid]] reasons for not wanting Tohru to remain on Earth are the same, in the anime he's considerably more forceful and violent about it. [[spoiler:Most notably, unlike in the manga he is ''not'' intimidated by Tohru's threats, forcing her to fight him until Kobayashi intervenes.]] |
| 350 | * AdaptationExpansion: His role in the anime is [[GeckoEnding somewhat different]] from his role in the manga. In the manga he shows up on Kobayashi's doorstep and politely -- for a Chaos Dragon -- tells his daughter to come home before she causes trouble, only attacking Kobayashi when antagonized and being scared off by Tohru. [[spoiler:In the anime he confronts her over the city and drags her back to their original world, and comes to blows with her when she chooses to stay with Kobayashi.]] |
| 351 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler:In the anime, Kobayashi defuses his drive to force Tohru back into their world by asking him whether he thinks so little of Tohru's judgement that he cannot trust his daughter to do the right thing. In response, he voices his protest but allows Tohru to remain with Kobayashi]]. |
| 352 | * BadassCape: When Tohru thinks about her father in the anime, he's shown in human form wearing a ragged reddish-black cloak. |
| 353 | * BreathWeapon: In the anime, his flame-breath and magic are colored [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]]. |
| 354 | * TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:He shows up in chapter 57 to talk to Kobayashi.]] |
| 355 | * CapeWings: His reddish-black cloak can transform into wings. |
| 356 | * DeathGlare: He usually sports an unpleasant scowl that horrendously distorts his face. When he's surprised or intimidated, his face appears normal. |
| 357 | * EvilSoundsDeep: His voice is deep and gravely, which makes him stand out from others as a dangerous individual. |
| 358 | * FantasticRacism: Zig-zagged. Like most Chaos Dragons he has a low opinion of humanity, and is genuinely surprised that Kobayashi likes Tohru enough to risk the war between the Chaos and Harmony Dragons spreading to Earth. In the anime, he outright refuses to let his daughter choose a human as her mate. However, he is acquainted with Mr. Magatsuchi and has been for a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld very, very long time]]. |
| 359 | * FantasyForbiddingFather: He harshly chastises Tohru for coming to the human world and causing chaos over a whim, telling her that she needs to return to their home world and warning her that the peaceful human life she claims to want is unobtainable. |
| 360 | * {{Flight}}: Unlike the other dragons, he doesn't need to form wings to fly when in human form. |
| 361 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: His comment that Tohru's presence on Earth risks bringing the war to Kobayashi's doorstep is proven right a couple of chapters later in the manga, when Elma crashes through Kobayashi's wall in order to bring Tohru home. |
| 362 | * GivenNameReveal: His name was revealed in chapter 84. |
| 363 | * GoodParents: By dragon standards, at any rate. Despite his stern and aloof attitude, he "somewhat" cares about his daughter's wellbeing and is concerned for her, and despite being an evil chaos-loving dragon he is (relatively) respectful of the rules forbidding interference on Earth and claims to want to prevent the war on his world from spreading to Earth. Tohru also mentions at one point that she was spoiled by her parents when she was a child (though she's saying this in comparison to [[ParentalNeglect Kanna]] and [[OrphansOrdeal Ilulu]]). |
| 364 | * HandBlast: In the anime, [[spoiler:when Kobayashi attempts to speak up, he shoots a beam of fire from his fingertips at her as a warning shot, breaking her glasses]]. |
| 365 | * HiddenDepths: He's apparently a pretty good cook. |
| 366 | * {{Irony}}: Despite being a Chaos Dragon, he is insistent on following the rules and laws dictating non-interference. |
| 367 | * JerkassHasAPoint: He may be arrogant and overbearing, but he had a point in warning Tohru and Kobayashi that the former's presence risks causing Harmony Dragons and other Chaos Dragons bringing the war ravaging the Other World to Earth -- as happens when Elma,[[note]]Chapter 23[[/note]] Ilulu,[[note]]Chapter 30[[/note]] and Clemene[[note]]Chapter 38[[/note]] cross over looking to pick fights. In the anime, this warning comes a bit too late due to Elma having already arrived [[spoiler:and watching the confrontation from a distance, ready to fight him if things go wrong]]. |
| 368 | * KnightTemplarParent: He hates humans and sees them as evil, and is annoyed that his daughter would want to live with one. However, despite being a member of the Chaos faction he scolds Tohru for causing trouble and throwing a "non-interference" world into chaos over a whim, urging her to return home. |
| 369 | * LoopholeAbuse: Invoked when Kobayashi points out that he can't kill her due to the non-interference laws. He retorts that while that's true, he ''can'' leave her on the brink of death. |
| 370 | * ManlyFacialHair: His human form is a balding man with a long white beard, but he carries an intimidating presence and with good reason, being a powerful Chaos Dragon. |
| 371 | * MeaningfulName: Damocles derives his name from the cautionary anecdote of the Sword of Damocles. A courtesan of King Dionisyus of Syracuse, Damocles exalts the privilege and delights of the kingly throne, so the king lets him sit on it. However, he hangs a sword above Damocles' head, hanging by a single hair of a horse's mane, symbolizing the danger regents and figures of authority face while in power. Getting the point, Damocles promptly removes himself from the throne. |
| 372 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A flashback in Chapter 57 has him mentioning that his way of raising Tohru has gone terribly wrong, as she ends up (in his words) running wild (showing a love of destruction, [[KillTheGod attacking a god]] and falling in love with a human, Kobayashi). |
| 373 | * MyGreatestFailure: His raising of Tohru enabled her to attempt a one-dragon crusade against the gods, nearly costing her life. He's yet to show any reconciliation with the fact. |
| 374 | * NonMammalianHair: His dragon form has a mane of hair going all the way down to the tip of his tail. |
| 375 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Compared to other Chaos Dragons like Ilulu, and even some Harmony Dragons like Clemene, he comes across as LawfulEvil due to his staunch adherence to the non-interference laws and ultimately respecting his daughter's choice, though he doesn't approve of it. |
| 376 | * RedBaron: "The Emperor of Demise". |
| 377 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Signifying his antagonistic role, his dragon form has red eyes. |
| 378 | * RedGreenContrast: He has red scales to Tohru's green scales. |
| 379 | * SharpDressedMan: [[spoiler:He drops his old menancing garbs in his returning appearances, dressing quite sharply as a senior human man]]. |
| 380 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: {{Averted}} in their human forms, but as dragons he looks quite similar to his daughter; they both have similar builds, head shapes, and glowing red eyes. He however has red scales, a beard and whiskers, and a mane of white hair across his back. |
| 381 | * ThinkingUpPortals: Like his daughter, he can create portals to different locations. |
| 382 | * WeatherManipulation: The sky turns grey whenever he makes his appearance in the anime. |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | [[folder:Clemene ('''Unmarked Ilulu-Related Spoilers''')]] |
| 386 | !!Clemene |
| 387 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokazuSugita (Japanese), Creator/ChristopherWehkamp (English), Creator/GerardoReyero (Latin American Spanish) |
| 388 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cremene.jpg]] |
| 389 | |
| 390 | A mysterious Harmony dragon who, as part of the Dragon Slayer subgroup, is obsessed with fighting Chaos dragons. While most dragons who come to Earth obey the laws stating that they cannot fight among themselves or harm humans while on Earth, Clemene's devotion to his "crusade" against the chaos dragons means he is unwilling to follow them. |
| 391 | ---- |
| 392 | * AdaptationalLateAppearance: As his introductory appearance is integral to Ilulu joining the main cast, Ilulu first showing up in the second season, when her equivalent manga introduction was somehwere in the middle of Season 1, means he takes until Season 2 Episode 2 to appear. |
| 393 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: He manages to beat Ilulu (who was still weak from her fight with Tohru) to a pulp, but completely buckles in fear once Tohru arrives. Tohru proceeds to curbstomp him after he hurts Kobayashi. |
| 394 | * BrokenAngel: His left dragon horn was broken off during his confrontation with Tohru, with the damage being visible when he returns to Earth as a representative of the Dragon Slayer subgroup when Telne arrives to inform Kobayashi about [[spoiler:Elma's ArrangedMarriage to a member of the Dragon Slayer subgroup]]. The Kobayashi household take advantage of it to [[spoiler:plant a bug on him disguised as a demon horn in order to discover the true motives of Elma's husband-to-be.]] |
| 395 | * EvilWearsBlack: You can tell he's a villain by the fact that he wears a black shirt. |
| 396 | * FantasticRacism: He apparently hates humans as well, and intended to kill Kobayashi slowly so she would've "learned the greatness of dragons". |
| 397 | * FatalFlaw: His inability to perceive hostile humans from helpful ones, viewing them as those brainwashed by Chaos dragons. |
| 398 | * GondorCallsForAid: When Tohru attacks him for trying to kill Kobayashi, Clemene tries to call Elma to help him, but [[CavalryRefusal she doesn't show up]]. Knowing her, [[BigEater Elma]] was probably [[ObsessedWithFood getting something to eat]] and didn't hear his call, and even if she had shown up is friends with Kobayashi and would've been very displeased with his attempt to kill her. |
| 399 | * {{Gonk}}: It's downplayed, but he's not exactly pleasing to the eyes and his constant sneer doesn't help. His side profile in particular makes it look like his face was smushed flat. |
| 400 | * InconsistentSpelling: The fan translation of the manga spells his name as either "Cremene" or "Kuremene". The official subs for the anime also use "Cremene", but the Seven Seas translation of the manga uses "Clemene". |
| 401 | * KnightOfCerebus: Nothing about his beatdown of Ilulu or willingness to kill her and Kobayashi is played for humor, which makes his defeat at Tohru's hands all the more gratifying. |
| 402 | * KnightTemplar: So much so that he physically swats Kobayashi away when she tries to protect Ilulu, despite harming Earth humans being strictly forbidden, and would have killed her for her audacity in defying him had Tohru not arrived. |
| 403 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Tohru wipes all his memories of his time on Earth before sending him back to the other world so he wouldn't come back to cause any more trouble, which leaves him very confused when he shows up with Telne much later and is attacked by Ilulu and Kanna on sight. [[spoiler:His memories later come back when Tohru shows up to rescue Elma from her ArrangedMarriage, at which points he promptly decided ScrewThisImOuttaHere.]] |
| 404 | * TheMagnificent: He refers to himself as "Clemene of the Dragon Slayers". He lives up to this reputation by easily defeating Ilulu, but panics when Tohru shows up. |
| 405 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: He's rendered with a much higher level of detail than most other characters. It lends to a very creepy appearance as a result. |
| 406 | * OhCrap: When Tohru appears behind him, he panics and tries to summon Elma for backup. |
| 407 | * ThinChinOfSin: His head is a lot more angled than the rest of the cast. |
| 408 | * VillainRespect: Seems to genuinely respect Elma as his superior in the Harmony Dragon faction, and tries to call her for help when an angry Tohru confronts him. |
| 409 | * WalkingSpoiler: It's rather difficult to mention him without revealing both what he does to Ilulu and how that contributes to her HeelFaceTurn. |
| 410 | * WouldHurtAChild: A somewhat borderline example: He was perfectly OK with executing Ilulu for belonging to the Chaos faction despite her being in the dragon equivalent of her midteens. |
| 411 | [[/folder]] |
| 412 | |
| 413 | [[folder:Kimun Kamui]] |
| 414 | !!Kimun Kamui |
| 415 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kimun_kamui.png]] |
| 416 | |
| 417 | Kanna's father, and a member of the Chaos Faction. He comes to Earth to retrieve his daughter in order to gain the energy from the dragon ball she broke in the war against the harmony dragons. |
| 418 | ---- |
| 419 | * AffablyEvil: He seems like a relatively amiable person who invites Kobayashi to drink with him, and even offers to reward her as thanks for looking after Kanna. It's only after Kobayashi [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu curses him out]] that he starts to get belligerent. This doesn't change the fact that he's a violent chaos dragon and a horrible father to Kanna. [[spoiler:That said, his parenting does improve after Kobayashi beats him, [[DotingParent if a bit too far in the opposite direction]].]] |
| 420 | * AlliterativeName: '''K'''imun '''K'''amui. |
| 421 | * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Kanna considers her father an unapproachable drunkard, and is personally offended and embarrassed of his treatment of her loved ones, especially Kobayashi. |
| 422 | * AnimalMotif: Bears. He's named after a bear deity, his dragon form resembles a large bear, he's absolutely massive in his human form, and he's about as successful as a parent as your average male bear. |
| 423 | * BadassesWearBandanas: Wears one around his head as part of his Ainu-inspired attire. |
| 424 | * BareHandedBladeBlock: He pulls off one at the end of Chapter 75 in the main manga, to protect Kanna from being killed by Azad. However Kimun's action causes him to be [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] by Azad, through the use of a dragonball. |
| 425 | * DotingParent: [[spoiler:After Kobayashi beats him, he seems to be making up for all of his neglect of Kanna by spoiling her.]] |
| 426 | * EarlyBirdCameo: He in his dragon form through a flashback in chapter 58, leaving a younger Kanna alone and uncared for. For some reason, the anime version has him referred to as "the previous Kanna Kamui" rather than calling him by name. |
| 427 | * EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Even with his abandonment and stubborn nature, it's shown that Kanna cares deeply about him and wants to have a more healthy relationship with him. Just anything else but the status-quo might do, but the guy is immovable. |
| 428 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He sees nothing wrong with his treatment of Kanna, and for the life of him, he cannot grasp even the basest concept of what she wants from him. To him, she's there to perform a ''function'' and nothing else. |
| 429 | * FantasticRacism: Averted. As a warrior, he only cares if someone can fight, with things like race being irrelevant. He even suggests the possibility of humans being allies, and gets angry when he's told that the Order Faction is planning on enslaving the nearby villages. |
| 430 | * FamilyThemeNaming: Both he and his daughter are named after Ainu deities. |
| 431 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: His human form is positively massive, and his daughter is the smallest character in the series. |
| 432 | * MeaningfulName: He's named after the Ainu god of mountains and bears, which fits both his massive build and his complete failure at being a parent (male bears are notoriously bad fathers). There was also an Ainu ritual relating to him where humans would raise a bear cub for a year, bringing to mind how his daughter was taken in by Kobayashi. |
| 433 | * MistakenForPedophile: [[spoiler:In chapter 102, both Saikawa and Sakisabe mistake him playing tag with Kanna in the park for him attempting to molest her due to the fact that they look nothing alike.]] |
| 434 | * PapaWolf: As [[ParentalNeglect bad of a parent he is]], he still comes to Kanna's rescue when [[spoiler: Azad tried to strike her down after [[EngineeredPublicConfession she exposed his plans of getting dragons from the Harmony and Chaos factions to kill each other]].]] |
| 435 | * ParentalNeglect: He and his unnamed mate left Kanna to her own devices, leaving her starved for attention. Even the way he handled Kanna breaking the dragon ball is basically poor parenting, as he was more focused on faction wars to even scold her and him [[TheExile banishing Kanna]] was more due to his fellow Chaos dragons pressuring him to take responsibility for disciplining his daughter. [[spoiler:He gets better.]] |
| 436 | * RedOniBlueOni: Red oni Kimun gets aggressive towards Kobayashi and Tohru over their objections of using Kanna for military purposes, while blue oni Azad is calm about this and realizes that the human values that Kanna learned in the human world is the reasons for Kobayashi and Tohru being so protective of her. |
| 437 | * ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: He's named after an Ainu deity. |
| 438 | * TemptingFate: At the end of Chapter 69, Kimun tells Kobayashi that she is not strong enough to beat him in battle, fast forward 8 chapters later (Chapter 77) and she [[CurbStompBattle defeats him with one single attack]], keep in mind that Tohru, who is above Kimun in the Chaos faction, was having trouble fighting against him in the previous chapter. |
| 439 | [[/folder]] |
| 440 | |
| 441 | [[folder:Telne]] |
| 442 | !!Telne |
| 443 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/telne_0.png]] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | Elma's (great-great etc.) grandmother and second in command of the Harmony faction. She likes cute things. |
| 446 | ---- |
| 447 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: She's a kooky old grandmother that looks around Elma's age, with her being as obsessed with modern fashion trends as Elma is with food. That said, she's still a major member of the Harmony faction, and is fully up for threatening to harm Kobayashi if it might further her goals, with the only reason she backed down being that when Tohru showed up she didn't want to risk getting into a full-on brawl that would destroy the city. |
| 448 | * BrokenAngel: [[spoiler:Her dragon form reveals that the reason for the asymmetrical horn in her human form is due to her left horn being broken off. It's eventually revealed that it was cut off with a Holy Sword when she forced a group of heroes from Earth to battle her to prove their worth.]] |
| 449 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: With Kimun Kamuy: Kimun was a BloodKnight who had trouble thinking of other dragons as anything but "comrades-in-arms" or "enemies", meanwhile neglecting his own offspring because she wasn't of immediate use to him in a fight. Meanwhile, Telne, after watching many of her offspring die in battle, instilled strong family values into her clan, and in the process became something of a ControlFreak who felt [[MyBelovedSmother she knew what was best for everyone]]. |
| 450 | * FailedASpotCheck: In chapter 133, Telne comes to Earth as she suspects Elma's actions at the arranged marriage was because she was in love with someone else, but hilariously she cannot figure out who, and comes to suspect pretty much everyone, except [[spoiler:Tohru]], who she says is completely incompatible. |
| 451 | * FashionableAsymmetry: Her single horn is over her right eye rather than in the center of her forehead like her granddaughter. [[spoiler:In reality, [[BrokenAngel her left horn is broken off]], with her hiding that aspect when in her human form]]. |
| 452 | * TheFashionista: She's big on following fashion trends. In fact, the very first thing she says in the series is a comment about how boring Kobayashi's outfit is. |
| 453 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 454 | ** A page before she first appears, a mention about her being Elma's grandmother can be seen in the notes that Shouta's father gives to Kobayashi. |
| 455 | ** The first image of chapter 108 consists of a zoom-in of her head in dragon form, which reveals that [[spoiler:she once had two horns]]. |
| 456 | * GiantFlyer: When she reveals her dragon form, Kobayashi is a small ant to her massive body. |
| 457 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:She tells Kobayashi how she personally selected Elma's groom to be. Cut to said groom talking about his plans to usurp her position in the upper echelons of the Harmony faction, murder her, and make Elma's life a living hell. In her defense, the groom's dragon form sports three heads, and as such has three different personalities. However, the more dominant persona is one that can side with either the more calm female persona or the chaotic persona that the Kobayashi household overhears, with him siding with the chaotic side in terms of using the arranged marriage to overthrow Telne.]] |
| 458 | * InsultBackfire: In Chapter 113 Damocles says she is still a child, to which she takes it as a compliment. |
| 459 | * LivingDistantAncestor: She's one of the oldest dragons alive and has spent plenty of that time siring children, who would then go on to have their own children and grandchildren, with her relation to Elma in truth being that of distant ancestry. She [[MaamShock really doesn't like people bringing up this fact]], though, as she greatly prefers projecting the image of youth, often by insisting that her descendants call her "sister" in front of others. |
| 460 | * MaamShock: A volume extra details her exact relation to Elma: Telne is in fact Elma's ancestor, and is called grandmother out of convenience. When Elma tells Kobayashi this, Telne's exasperated face shows that she isn't very fond of being reminded of how truy old she is, to the point of being called just grandmother still sounds young to her. |
| 461 | * MediumAwareness: While acting as a chaprone Tigris' application to live on Earth, she pushes her way to the front and writes her name on the bottom latter's introductary text box with a marker. |
| 462 | * MiniatureSeniorCitizens: While she doesn't really look old, she is the shortest adult character among the cast and presumably among the oldest, barring Lucoa. |
| 463 | * MumLooksLikeASister: Grandmother in this case. She actually claims to be Elma's older sister when she's first introduced and even demands that Elma refer to her as such. [[spoiler:The Volume 15 bonus chapter reveals that she used to look a lot more mature before the being introduced to the concept of cute clothing.]] |
| 464 | * NeverMessWithGranny: As one of the top ranking members of the Harmony Faction, she is not to be taken lightly. In chapter 104, she effortlessly [[spoiler:defeats Tohru with barely any effort after she is called old by both Elma and Tohru]]. |
| 465 | * NumberTwo: She's second in command of the entire Harmony faction. |
| 466 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: A flashback at the beginning of chapter 108 shows that she lost multiple descendants in the past (it's not actually stated if they were her children or somwhere further down the family line). This is especially tragic because she is unusually maternal for a species that tends to struggle with the concept of a parent/child bond. |
| 467 | * PerspectiveMagic: She holds the power to touch anything in her vision, ignoring perspective. |
| 468 | ** At one point she makes a motion like she's going to crush Kobayashi, and then causes the clouds in front of her to part simply by swinging a finger upwards. |
| 469 | ** In chapter 112 she claps her hands around [[spoiler:Tohru and Elma]] and a pair of giants hands appear around the victims nearly crushing them. |
| 470 | ** Chapter 114 reveals that she personally developed the spell herself and is incredibly secretive with it. When Kanna bribes her with some instant ramen to learn her secret, she only did so because Kanna lacks both the nescessary magical power and divine protection to cast it (and just to be on the safe side, she made Kanna TongueTied just to keep anyone else from learning it). |
| 471 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Asymmetrical horn and sense of fashion aside, she looks like a shorter Elma. |
| 472 | * {{Teleportation}}: She is capable of vanishing from one place and appearing miles away without any effort. |
| 473 | * ThrowingTheFight: She considers doing this when [[spoiler:Tohru rampages through the citadel Elma's wedding is happening in, but even working with Elma against Telne, the ancient dragon is too strong and cannot find a way to make it look like a real lose without it being an obvious throwing. Kobayashi having Tohru borrow the Holy Sword reduced the strength gap to where she could believably admit defeat]]. |
| 474 | * TouchedByVorlons: She has powerful divine protections that allow her to either reflect attacks or negate them. This includes attacks from most other divine weapons. [[spoiler:Because of the unique circumstances of Kobayashi attaining the holy sword that pierced Tohru, emptying her magical reserves in the Kamui incident, and now crafting the sword and letting Tohru hold it, Tohru's next attack could actually hit her. She only manages to withstand it by blocking the ''very concept'' of "cutting", at the cost of a great deal of magic power]]. |
| 475 | * YeOldeButcheredEnglish: She speaks this way in the official English translations, presumably to show she's significantly older than she looks in comparison to other dragons. |
| 476 | [[/folder]] |
| 477 | |
| 478 | [[folder:Jida ('''Unmarked Arranged Marriage Arc Spoilers''')]] |
| 479 | !!Jida/Jii |
| 480 | [[quoteright:271:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jida.png]] |
| 481 | [[caption-width-right:271:[[labelnote:Click here to see Jii]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jii.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 482 | [[caption-width-right:271:[[labelnote:Click here to see the female personality]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jida_female.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 483 | A Harmony dragon who leads the Dragon Slayer subgroup. They have three heads, each with a unique personality. |
| 484 | ---- |
| 485 | * ArcVillain: They are the main antagonist of Vol. 12. |
| 486 | * ArrangedMarriage: They're betrothed to Elma [[AltarDiplomacy as part of an alliance between the Dragon Slayer and Divine subgroups]]. |
| 487 | * TheAtoner: The third female personality apologizes to Tohru and Elma for her other minds' actions. She makes amends by going along with the fiction that Tohru beat her in order to further break apart the Dragon Slayer faction. She later even goes with Telne to personally apologize to Kobayashi, Tohru, and Elma for the trouble her sons caused. |
| 488 | * BigBadDuumvirate: The two male personalities are the {{Arc Villain}}s of Elma's ArrangedMarriage arc. |
| 489 | * BigOlEyebrows: The female personality probably has largest eyebrows of the entire cast, especially in comparison to her two male personalities' pencil-thin ones. |
| 490 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: DoubleSubverted. After a recording device hidden in Clemene's replaced horn reveals their plans to overthrow Telne, the main personality reveals that it was actually his most violent personality (Jii) who they recorded... and then two chapters later it turns out that main personality is actually on board with Jii's plans. |
| 491 | * BloodKnight: Jii revels in violence and fighting, especially other dragons, a trait that carried over to the Dragon Slayers. He seems to have carried this trait from his "mother" who was all too happy to give Tohru a rematch after they forgave each other. |
| 492 | * CavalryBetrayal: The two male personas like being in charge and their plan to take over the Harmony Faction. They wouldn't let the third persona a say. So when Jida calls on the female persona to save them from Tohru, said persona agrees with Tohru and finds the plot of the others stupid. She admits defeat to Tohru. |
| 493 | * CharacterDeath: This is discussed briefly by the third personality. She is far stronger than the other two and could have rested control from them to stop their "stupid group," however doing it by force would have resulted in the two disappearing, so she holds back and allows them to cause trouble. It is [[JustifiedTrope more justified]] when Telne reveals that said female personality is the original and that the two male ones are essentially her children. |
| 494 | * ExtremeDoormat: The primary personality is revealed to be this in comparison to his two other personalities. Letting Jii make most of the decisions during the Marriage arc and quickly letting his mother take back control after Jii is defeated. When the personalities are talking with each other he is shown being much more timid and worried. |
| 495 | * IneffectualLoner: The female personality is revealed to be this a bit, being the original and most powerful of the three but became more and more secluded from the other dragons until she essentially retreated into her subconscious, creating her two "children" to act in her stead. |
| 496 | * MultipleHeadCase: They have three heads, each with their own personality and name. |
| 497 | * MultiGenderedSplitPersonalities: In a manner of speaking, given that one head is female while the other two are male. |
| 498 | * NervousTics: The female personality has one where she starts cracking her knuckles when things get complicated. |
| 499 | * SexShifter: As a consequence of their human form's SplitPersonalityMakeover, their body turns into a woman whenever the female personality is in control. |
| 500 | * SplitPersonalityMakeover: Exaggerated. Their human form completely changes appearance (and in the case of the final personality, gender) depending on which one is in control at the time. |
| 501 | * WalkingSpoiler: Much like Tatsuzawa, just mentioning some stuff about them spoils major plot points for Elma's ArrangedMarriage arc. |
| 502 | * WomenAreWiser: The female persona is both stronger than the two males and wiser. She sees the whole Dragon Slayers group as stupid and wants nothing to do with it. So, she willfully withdraws from fighting Tohru and confirm the false claim Tohru bested her strength as well. Chapter 122 reveals that this personality is essentially the original "mother" personality while the other two are "children" she created later. |
| 503 | [[/folder]] |
| 504 | |
| 505 | [[folder:Ori]] |
| 506 | !!Ori |
| 507 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oli.png]] |
| 508 | A powerful dragon who is a friend of Lucoa. |
| 509 | ---- |
| 510 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: There are several hints in her first appearance that she might be [[spoiler:Tohru's mother. The two of them have near identical angry poses, her side tail looks just like Tohru's pigtails, and Tohru's horns are a near perfect blend of her's and Damocles'. Also, she apparently knew Tohru as a child.]] |
| 511 | * LateToTheTragedy: She only shows up to [[spoiler:Elma's]] wedding after Tohru crashed it and got the whole thing called off because [[NoSenseOfDirection she got lost inside the temple]]. |
| 512 | [[/folder]] |
| 513 | |
| 514 | [[folder:Petla]] |
| 515 | !!Quetzalpetlatl (Petla) |
| 516 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/petla.png]] |
| 517 | Lucoa's younger sister and a former goddess of the Aztecs. |
| 518 | ---- |
| 519 | * BigSisterAttraction: Chapter 137 reveals that she's fallen in love with Lucoa in spite (or rather, because of) [[RapeAsBackstory their little incident]]. |
| 520 | * ComedicShotacon: She's even worse than Lucoa in that regard. Lucoa, [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace for all her faults]], whould never go all the way with Shouta without his explicit consent, while Petla is shown attempting to force herself on him out of jealousy during her first proper appearance. |
| 521 | * EarlyBirdCameo: She makes a single panel appearance in Chapter 128 as one of the dragons applying to live on Earth before being properly introduced 9 chapters later. |
| 522 | * GreenEyedMonster: She tries to have sex with Shouta during her first appearance, because she's mistakenly believed that he and Lucoa are sleeping together and wants to have sex with her sister by proxy. |
| 523 | * RapeAsBackstory: As per Aztec mythology, she was raped by Lucoa while the latter was under the effects of cursed alcohol. Rather bizarrely, while Lucoa rightfully [[OldShame looks back on the incident with shame]], Petla has actually fallen in love with her as a result. |
| 524 | * SharedFamilyQuirks: She shares Lucoa's preference for baseball caps in her human form, though she prefers to wear hers backwards. |
| 525 | * SomeCallMeTim: Much like her older sister, she goes by Petla instead of Quetzalpetlatl. |
| 526 | * UnseenNoMore: She's first mentioned all the way back in Chapter 27 during Shouta's introduction, and gets brought up every once and a while, but she isn't actually seen until Chapter 128. |
| 527 | [[/folder]] |
| 528 |
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