| 1 | This page lists the main characters from the ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'' series, first introduced in the ''[[Videogame/CorpsePartyPC98 PC-98]]'' game. Return to the main character page for ''Corpse Party'' [[Characters/CorpseParty here]]. |
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| 3 | '''Warning!! Due to the nature of this series, there will be a lot of DeathTropes and [[SpoileredRotten spoiler tropes]]. Spoilers will be ''unmarked'' and detailed gruesome notes can be found within this page. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.''' |
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| 7 | !The Five Students |
| 8 | [[folder:General]] |
| 9 | [[quoteright:480:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rebuilt_cast.jpg]] |
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| 11 | * ActionSurvivor: All of them have to think quick, or improvise on defending themselves in order to live and escape Heavenly Host. In fact, they're the only ones that made it out alive until ''Blood Drive''. |
| 12 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: With the exception of Yoshiki, the rest of them had pretty normal lives prior to the series' start. By the time ''Blood Drive'' occurs, everything they've faced up to that point has become this for them. With how things turned out, this might be more notably aimed towards [[AngstComa Ayu]][[HeroicSacrifice mi]] [[FromBadToWorse and]] [[IChooseToStay Yosh]][[FateWorseThanDeath iki]]; they both practically get the [[DownerEnding worst kind of ending out of everyone]]. |
| 13 | * DeathByAdaptation: It can range from Satoshi, Yuka, and Yoshiki in the ''Tortured Souls'' OVA, Satoshi, Yuka, and Naomi, with the hinted possibly of Yoshiki and Ayumi not too far behind in the ''Corpse Party: Musume'' manga, to various characters in the light novels. |
| 14 | * DemonicPossession: Depends on the installment, but the only one so far who hasn't succumbed to this is Satoshi Mochida. |
| 15 | * DespairEventHorizon: All of them can fall into this if on the way to a bad ending. Sometimes in the main storyline it can be inevitable for one of them to cross this. Should any of them do so while trapped inside Heavenly Host, the darkening can cause them to be BrainwashedAndCrazy. It usually never ends well. |
| 16 | * DrivenToSuicide: It varies from adaption to situation, but most of them will cross this if they've had [[DespairEventHorizon enough]]. You can avoid these, but others will still at least attempt it. Sometimes, they'll succeed. |
| 17 | * KidHero: None of them are even in their final year of high school, let alone Yuka who is fourteen years old. The oldest out of them are Satoshi, Yoshiki, and Ayumi, who are all seventeen. |
| 18 | * SanitySlippage: Any of them can fall into this if not careful, thus getting locked into a bad ending. This can sometimes even be inevitable, and you can only do your best not to let it end horrifyingly. |
| 19 | * TraumaCongaLine: As you keep going farther into the main storyline, the horrors they all witness only continue to go FromBadToWorse. Poor kids have no choice but to keep moving forward, even when they're being [[BreakTheCutie continuously broken]] and are ''this'' close to crossing the DespairEventHorizon. |
| 20 | [[/folder]] |
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| 22 | [[folder:Satoshi Mochida]] |
| 23 | !Satoshi Mochida |
| 24 | !! '''Tropes for Satoshi in the original PC-98 game:''' |
| 25 | [[quoteright:100:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3_satoshi98.png]] |
| 26 | A second year student in Kisaragi Academy Senior High. Satoshi is a bit timid and some would say a coward, but he would do anything for his younger sister. He's reliable in a pinch. In fact, he's the protagonist of this game. He and Naomi have a bit of a power struggle. |
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| 28 | * DeathByAdaptation: In ''Corpse Party: Musume''. Also applies to -Rebirth- where it's possible for him to die, unlike in the original game. |
| 29 | * MaybeEverAfter: He and Naomi in Ending A, after everybody escapes from Heavenly Host alive. |
| 30 | * MightyGlacier: For the last battle against Shinozaki. He has no magic skills, but he has the highest attack power. |
| 31 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He punches Shinozaki in the face in order to save Yuka from drowning in the stall. |
| 32 | * DrivenToSuicide: In ''Corpse Party: Musume'', he survives his ordeal in Heavenly Host and even enters into a relationship with Naomi. However the guilt of Yuka's death is too much for him and when her spirit comes to drag him to Heavenly Host with her, he doesn't resist. |
| 33 | * ObliviousToLove: Averted. While he seems dense and oblivious to the girls's crushes on him, it's revealed in Ending C that he ''does'' reciprocate Naomi's feelings, he just isn't so sure about her because all she does is berate him. |
| 34 | -->''No matter what I do, all she does is yell at me...But now... I don't care if she punches me in the face. I don't care if she tells me, "I'm SO sick of you!"...I don't even care if she rejects me. Heh, she can be annoying, but...Now that she's gone, I feel like curling up and dying.'' |
| 35 | * UnstoppableRage: In the ending in which Naomi dies, he completely loses it after a possessed Ayumi starts taunting him about it and doesn't hesitate to punch her in the face. Even Yuka is unnerved. |
| 36 | * WouldHitAGirl: Has no problems punching Shinozaki or a possessed Ayumi when they start taunting him about killing his loved ones. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | !! '''Tropes for Satoshi in the remake:''' |
| 39 | [[quoteright:239:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tropes_cp_satoshi_102.jpeg]] |
| 40 | -->Voiced by: Creator/HiroShimono |
| 41 | An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent at Kisaragi Academy, Satoshi serves as the main protagonist (though [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent the others get their time in the spotlight]], especially from ''Blood Covered'' on). Generally a NiceGuy, he tends to get picked on a bit by his classmates due to his fear of ghost stories. |
| 42 | ----- |
| 43 | * AnArmAndALeg: In ''Tortured Souls'', he gives his own paper scrap to Naomi and uses Kizami's for himself. After he, Naomi, and Ayumi perform the ritual, the scene cuts to Naomi and Ayumi sitting back in the classroom, each holding one of Satoshi's severed arms. |
| 44 | * BadassAdorable: He's a sweet, lovable, somewhat dorky coward who's pretty good friends with most everyone in his class...and he resolves to put his own outright terror aside just so he can ensure the survival of his friends. |
| 45 | * BadassBoast: His first appearance in the game has him, without a trace of fear, say he will rescue everyone. Which is pretty badass for a guy who was shaking from scary stories earlier and is stuck in [[EldritchLocation Heavenly Host]]. |
| 46 | * BigBrotherInstinct: A very strong case towards his sister Yuka. |
| 47 | * BreakTheCutie: Chapter 4 is NOT nice to him, putting his struggling optimism through the wringer for sure. No matter what, Satoshi finds that he's crossed closed spaces and can't return to the opposing wing of the school where he last left Yuka, and he'll have to save Naomi from hanging herself, which he can fail at if you make the wrong choices. Ultimately, whether he's broken or not is up to the player, and [[KillTheCutie it's not pretty if he fails...]] |
| 48 | * CluelessChickMagnet: He attracts the attention of Naomi, Ayumi, his sister Yuka, Yui, Tohko, Kuon, and Satsuki. But he is, of course, ObliviousToLove as per the trope. |
| 49 | * CowardlyLion: Yes, he's terrified. That doesn't stop him from doing everything in his power to find a way out for his sister, his friends, and himself. |
| 50 | * DecoyProtagonist: In Chapter 3 he is the initial player character but he disappears halfway through the chapter and until the end the rest of the chapter focuses on Yuka. |
| 51 | ** The same happens in Chapter 4 you start off playing as him but Yoshiki is the player character for most of the chapter. |
| 52 | * DeadpanSnarker: In ''Book of Shadows'' he and Yui have a lot of snark to snark battles. He wasn't one in ''Blood Covered'', but that's justified given the horrifying situation he was in. |
| 53 | * DeathByAdaptation: In the ''Tortured Souls'' OVA. |
| 54 | * DemotedToExtra: He was clearly the center in the original ''PC-98'' game, unquestionably TheProtagonist; come the ''Blood Covered'' continuity and Satoshi’s importance becomes smaller in the face of the expanded background on the occult and witchcraft, Ayumi’s area of focus, directing the spotlight towards her. |
| 55 | * DeclarationOfProtection: Towards Yuka, naturally. Failing this can push him over the DespairEventHorizon. |
| 56 | * EmptyShell: What he ends up as in the Victim's Memoirs Wrong End, after a disorienting sequence where he's thoroughly {{lobotom|y}}ised. |
| 57 | * FateWorseThanDeath: In the OVA. The fate of all Heavenly Host victims results in them suffering the pain they endured at the time of death for all eternity. Satoshi willingly gives Naomi his Sachiko scrap to provide her a way out, deciding to use Kizami's scrap for himself. His body's straight-up ''gone'', with the only remnants being his arms. Taken to its worst conclusion, Satoshi's soul is gonna have to live with the pain of his body being eradicated for all of eternity. |
| 58 | * ForgottenFirstMeeting: Being from a timeline in which Yui Shishido was his teacher, Satoshi has no memories of Kuon Niwa, even though she's been in love with him since the day they met. |
| 59 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: At the end of the OVA, and not even half. |
| 60 | * TheHeart: More or less, as it's Satoshi managing to muster his courage to keep his friends' hopes up that ultimately saves them. Given that the Darkening corrupts and destroys people whose fear overwhelms their hope, his fight to stay positive is the best chance they have. Needless to say, him dying effectively means everyone else is screwed. |
| 61 | * HeroicBSOD: If Yuka or Naomi die. |
| 62 | * HeroicSacrifice: He willingly gave Naomi his scrap in the OVA, not knowing what would happen to him if he used a scrap from another group. It ends with him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe literally torn to pieces]]. |
| 63 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Yoshiki are this. ''Blood Drive'' reveals that Yoshiki only started regularly attending school because Satoshi walked him there every day. |
| 64 | * HyperAwareness: |
| 65 | ** Displays quite a bit of this in ''Blood Drive'' when he sees Yoshiki geared up to go to Heavenly Host under the guise of going hiking. By gauging his reactions when he mentions Heavenly Host, Ayumi, and the paper charm in his backpack, he figures out Yoshiki's true intentions. Yoshiki even refers to it as Satoshi's primal instincts. |
| 66 | ** In ''Blood Covered'', when he finds a toilet for Yuka, he asks which one she's going for, so he can measure the amount of time she takes before he figures out something is wrong. |
| 67 | * IdiotBall: In the ''Tortured Souls'' OVA, he leaves Yuka to do her business, and lets Sachiko, a ghost girl among ghost children who are known to slaughter everyone, go along with her. If this isn't bad enough, he goes inside and tells her to "scream if she needs anything". Guess three times if this happens. |
| 68 | * TheLeader: Although in ''Blood Covered'' his chapter is in the middle of the game; every chapter before his has the characters fall deeper and deeper in trouble. When he first appears, he acts like a badass and his appearance is when the characters start to find a way to get out of there. The other characters also treat him as the leader. |
| 69 | * NiceGuy: One of the nicest characters in the whole game. [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan No wonder the ladies love him.]] |
| 70 | * NoHeroToHisValet: He is thought of as the leader of the group; the only one to challenge this is Naomi, who he's probably known the longest besides his sister. |
| 71 | * ObliviousToLove: And, well, you can't really blame the guy: Naomi is such an extreme {{Tsundere}} that she practically comes off as emotionally abusive towards him, so it'd make sense that he wouldn't be able to see that she's in love with him. He ''does'' have a LoveEpiphany with regards to Naomi in one ending. It's not in the True End, though. |
| 72 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: In the ending that sends him back to the morning of the culture festival (and leads into ''Book of Shadows''), he's the only one that remembers the events at Heavenly Host. Unfortunately, he's unable to stop Ayumi from getting everyone to participate in the charm due to them thinking he's just being his usual scaredy-cat self when it comes to ghost stories and takes no kind of action [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness that would clue them in]]. |
| 73 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: The reason for his harem. |
| 74 | * StandardizedLeader: He can come across as a very bland everyman in contrast to the rest of the cast since he's so stable and normal. |
| 75 | * UnwantedHarem: He doesn't notice it exists most of the time, but when he does he seems confused and uncomfortable. |
| 76 | * TheBusCameBack: He reappears in Dead Patient, where he ends up getting involved in the incident because he was visiting his ill mother in the hospital. |
| 77 | * WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: While the five canon survivors all have a case of this to some extent, there is no ending that will have any of them survive if Satoshi dies, so if Satoshi bites it, everyone's screwed. Makes sense given he's {{The Hero}}, {{The Heart}}, and effectively {{The Leader}}. |
| 78 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He isn't a fan of horror stories, so ''of course'' he ended up with a ClassRep who ''adores'' telling them, exposing his phobias for all to see and mock. Then they end up being ''dragged into'' one... |
| 79 | * YouAreWorthHell: Towards Naomi. If she loses her piece of the charm, he says he'll stay with her. As well as in ''Book of Shadows'', when he is put in a time loop. Instead of leaving when the others refuse to listen to him, he decides to do the charm again, as he is the only one who can save everyone. |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Naomi Nakashima]] |
| 83 | !Naomi Nakashima |
| 84 | !! '''Tropes for Naomi in the original PC-98 game:''' |
| 85 | [[quoteright:100:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5_naomi98.png]] |
| 86 | Ever since junior high, she and Satoshi have had a tense relationship. She's always greeted him with, "I'm SO sick of you!" |
| 87 | ----- |
| 88 | * BlackMagicianGirl: For the last battle against Shinozaki, Naomi gains the power to use offensive spells and has higher MP than the others. |
| 89 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "I'm SO sick of you!", always directed to Satoshi. In Ending C, where she and Yuka die, this is the last thing he hears before they drag him to Heavenly Host forever. |
| 90 | * HeroicSacrifice: She has the option to do this to save Yuka from drowning in the stall. Sadly, this locks you into an ending that makes this a SenselessSacrifice. |
| 91 | * HiddenDepths: Despite her tomboyish looks, she is very good at playing the piano. |
| 92 | * MaybeEverAfter: She and Satoshi in Ending A, after everybody escapes from Heavenly Host alive. |
| 93 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Naomi is a rough and tumble girl who likes competition and rough play, but she's also a skilled piano player and wants Satoshi to see her as a woman. |
| 94 | * TooHappyToLive: In ''Corpse Party: Musume'' while she dies early on, she's revived by a purified Sachiko without memories of her death. She even gets into a relationship with Satoshi. However, due to Naho's interference, she ends up remembering how she died and is dragged to Heavenly Host in order to become the new host for the curse. And Satoshi kills himself to be with Yuka. |
| 95 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: While she initially sees Satoshi as unreliable, she's charmed at his brotherly instinct towards Yuka and how courageous he can be in order to protect their friends. |
| 96 | |
| 97 | !! '''Tropes for Naomi in the remake:''' |
| 98 | [[quoteright:239:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tropes_cp_naomi_2865.jpeg]] |
| 99 | -->Voiced by: Creator/RinaSato |
| 100 | Naomi's known Satoshi ever since they were kids, and loves exploiting the fact that she knows all his weaknesses. However, she does this to try and hide [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend her feelings for him]], in typical {{Tsundere}} fashion. |
| 101 | ----- |
| 102 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: She tends to drive Satoshi away with her extreme {{Tsundere}} attitude. |
| 103 | * AlliterativeName: ''Na''omi ''Na''kashima. |
| 104 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: She gets possessed by the darkness in Heavenly Host Elementary and ends up killing Seiko while under its influence. This can trigger a DespairEventHorizon in one of the Wrong Ends. |
| 105 | * CannotSpitItOut: Not only her feelings for Satoshi, but also the guilt she feels immediately after lashing out at Seiko. If she tries to apologize, she's hardly even able to get the words out, and neither she nor Seiko feel any better. In ''Book of Shadows'', she actually has a coughing fit. |
| 106 | * CassandraTruth: In ''Book of Shadows'', her mother doesn't believe anything she says about Seiko, since her existence was erased upon her death in Heavenly Host. |
| 107 | * DependingOnTheArtist: Naomi is apparently a curvalicious girl, with big breasts and a big butt, although this only really comes up to view depending on who’s drawing her; this is mostly evident in her design for ''Musume'' and the promotional art made by a guest artist, not those in-game, for ''Blood Drive''. Other times this is only brought up during conversations, not quite matching with her in-game design whose bosom only seems slightly bigger than Seiko. |
| 108 | * DespairEventHorizon: In Chapter 5. Your choices determine what happens to her: either a message from Seiko will eventually convince her that Seiko doesn't hate her and she rejoins the group, or she goes crazy and charges at the group while dragging Seiko's body behind her. |
| 109 | * DisappearedDad: Only her mom is made clear to be in her life. |
| 110 | * DrivenToSuicide: Eventually, the horrors of the school push her past the breaking point and she tries to hang herself. Talking her down is necessary for that chapter's True End. |
| 111 | * EyeScream: |
| 112 | ** One of her eyes is cursed in ''Blood Drive'', giving her excruciating pain but also granting her the ability to [[ISeeDeadPeople see spirits]]. |
| 113 | ** She later ''stabs'' the cursed eye with an arrowhead to prevent Sachi from choking Satoshi to death. |
| 114 | * FatalFlaw: Not only is she [[CannotSpitItOut unable to bring herself to confess her feelings]], she tends to take out her frustrations verbally on everyone around her. Even when she knows it won't help anything, she can't stop herself. |
| 115 | ** Naomi is also extremely emotional when her tension is at breaking point, effectively leading to Seiko's death since it opens her up to easy possession. She basically suffers a mental and emotional collapse after Seiko's death, shown in-game by no longer being controllable outside of a single segment and that's more cause she's in immediate danger. Whether this ultimately gets her killed or not is up to the player's choices. |
| 116 | * HartmanHips: And Seiko will constantly remind Naomi of them. |
| 117 | * HonorBeforeReason: Why she tried to revive everyone in ''Book of Shadows''. |
| 118 | * InformedAttribute: ''Blood Covered's'' character guide gives Naomi the characteristic of being Satoshi's [[TheLancer Lancer]], but she spends too much time crying over Seiko to fill out this role. The role of the Lancer goes to Ayumi instead, who doubles as TheSmartGirl. |
| 119 | * MyGreatestFailure: She feels that if she hadn't taken out all her frustrations on Seiko, they wouldn't have separated and Seiko wouldn't have died. She tries to rectify this after being given the chance to do so in ''Book of Shadows''. She succeeds, but Seiko freaks out (as it turns out, Naomi was BrainwashedAndCrazy and tried to kill her) and runs away from her, headlong into a DeathTrap. [[YouCantFightFate At this point, Naomi is forced to accept that saving Seiko at all is impossible]]. |
| 120 | * PartingWordsRegret: Naomi splits up with Seiko shortly after the two get into an argument. The next time she sees Seiko, she's hanging by the neck in a bathroom stall. Considering it was Naomi's fault they split up in the first place, she [[ItsAllMyFault feels pretty bad]] about it. She later finds out that she was the one who did that to her, albeit whilst possessed. |
| 121 | * PatientChildhoodLoveInterest: Sorta. She's known Satoshi since seventh grade. |
| 122 | * ScrewDestiny: Her attitude in ''Book of Shadows'', both in the "World Loop" chapters and the chapter following ''Blood Covered's'' True Ending. By the end of "Engraved Seal", this becomes YouCantFightFate. |
| 123 | * ThousandYardStare: In the beginning of ''Book of Shadows'', and at the end of the ''Tortured Souls'' OVA. |
| 124 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Ayumi's Girly Girl. |
| 125 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Behind her tomboyish demeanor is a more girlish side that likes shopping and grooming as much as other average girls. |
| 126 | * TraumaCongaLine: Good GOD Naomi’s life sucks, all the games love to make Naomi suffer with her arguably suffering the most out of the surviving cast. |
| 127 | * {{Tsundere}}: A typical ''tsun-tsun''; this is {{Deconstructed}}, as it feeds into her FatalFlaw. |
| 128 | * TwistedAnkle: Suffers from one after a bad landing, making it hard for her to get around at first. |
| 129 | * UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Her FatalFlaw is a heavy driving force here towards Satoshi. |
| 130 | * YouCantThwartStageOne: ''Book of Shadows'' has her learn this the hard way that Seiko is going to die no matter what she does. All saving Seiko would do is just leave her to an even more violent death each time. |
| 131 | [[/folder]] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:Ayumi Shinozaki]] |
| 134 | !Ayumi Shinozaki |
| 135 | |
| 136 | !! '''Tropes for Ayumi in the original PC-98 game:''' |
| 137 | [[quoteright:100:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/11_ayumi98.png]] |
| 138 | The class representative who loves to scare people. She loves to tell ghost stories and it's rumored that's why she carries around a bunch of candles. In actuality, she tells those stories to hide her own fear. |
| 139 | ----- |
| 140 | * AxCrazy: In the endings where Yoshiki dies and the ''Corpse Party: Musume'' manga, [[SanitySlippage she really loses it]]. She first brings up the subject of murder and black magic to Yoshiki as they're walking home. When Yoshiki tells her that killing anyone for any reason is wrong, she snaps at him and starts calling him out. Once he brings her home to calm down, it only gets worse. He leaves her alone for one minute to come back to find her using a pen to injure herself, and then stabs herself in front of Yoshiki repeatedly with an insane look; tearing up her arm with a pair of scissors. |
| 141 | * ClingyJealousGirl: She's not happy about Naomi going with Satoshi after the group is forced to split and spends most of the time complaining about being stuck with Yoshiki. In fact, her jealousy is what allows her to be possessed by Shinozaki, in which she tries to kill everyone so that only her and Satoshi could live. Fortunately she's snapped out of it before anything happens. |
| 142 | * DefrostingIceQueen: While she's dismissive towards Yoshiki and treats him as a good for nothing delinquent, her opinion of him improves after he saves her from the anatomical model. By the end of the game, she's grown fond of him, to the point she ''breaks'' in the endings in which he dies. |
| 143 | * DemonicPossession: In the route Naomi dies and the ''Corpse Party: Musume'' manga, Ayumi stabs Naomi's dead body again and again, then cuts it into pieces, pushes Yoshiki off a cliff, then attempts to kill Yuka. Though she was possessed by Sachiko the whole time. |
| 144 | ** Averted in ''Corpse Party: Musume''. While she's possessed, being happy at Naomi's death and desecrating her corpse weren't Sachiko's doing, it was all Ayumi's. |
| 145 | * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: While she feels sorry for how crappy Shinozaki's life was, she's less sympathetic in the endings Yoshiki dies. |
| 146 | -->'' Why? THANKS TO YOU, ONE OF MY FRIENDS IS DEAD! I'm sorry you suffered, but you're a terrible monster! YOU MURDERER!'' |
| 147 | * TheMedic: For the last battle against Shinozaki, Ayumi gains the power to revive anyone who gets reduced to 0 HP. |
| 148 | * SanitySlippage: In the endings when Yoshiki dies. In Ending B-2, she starts hallucinating his hand strangling her while in Ending D-2, she's making plans to revive Yoshiki and Yuka with black magic. |
| 149 | * SelfHarm: If Yoshiki dies and she survives her ordeal at Heavenly Host, when she returns to her house she hallucinates his hand strangling her and she ends up scratching her throat until she dies of bloodloss. |
| 150 | ** Also does this in ''Corpse Party: Musume'' where she uses a pen and scissors to tear up her body due to her surviving Heavenly Host while the others have either died or been put in danger. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | !! '''Tropes for Ayumi in the remake:''' |
| 153 | [[quoteright:239:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tropes_cp_ayumi_7800.jpeg]] |
| 154 | ->Voiced by: Creator/AsamiImai |
| 155 | |
| 156 | The ClassRep for 2-9, Ayumi is bright, cheerful, and absolutely ''loves'' scary stuff. Creepy stories, strange rituals... she loves them all, and can't resist taking advantage of her position to draw her classmates into her games. Especially Satoshi, since he's ''hilarious'' when he's scared. |
| 157 | ----- |
| 158 | * AxCrazy: In the Wrong Ends where she is possessed and you don't snap her out of it. She might shove Yoshiki down the stairs so hard his skull cracks, stab Satoshi with a pair of scissors, beat Naomi to death with her bare hands... |
| 159 | * BigNo: At the end of ''Book of Shadows'', her sister gets her head chopped off right in front of her. Ayumi lets out a scream leading up to the ending credits of the game. |
| 160 | * BigSisterInstinct: To Yuki Kanno, and to a certain extent the other children who were victims of the 1973 Heavenly Host Elementary kidnapping and murder case. |
| 161 | * BloodSplatteredInnocents: ''Book of Shadows'' ends with her drenched in the blood of her sister after [[YourHeadAsplode her head explodes]] whilst hugging Ayumi in the [[HopeSpot aftermath]] of a BigDamnHeroes moment. |
| 162 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: She gets possessed fairly often, and if you make the wrong choices, you end up with Wrong Ends where she kills one of the others. |
| 163 | * BreakTheCutie: Her sister's death and the events of the Heavenly Host saga do this to Ayumi. |
| 164 | * BreakoutCharacter: The ''Blood Covered'' continuity gives Ayumi greater focus and importance to the plot than she originally did in the ''PC-98 original''. It gets to the point where the events leading up to ''Blood Drive'' and the game itself has her at the center of everything, pretty much becoming the {{Deuteragonist}}. It's gotten so strong that Ayumi has basically replaced Satoshi as the main character. |
| 165 | * ChildHater: Inverted; she doesn't seem to trust adults too much, besides Yui. |
| 166 | * ClassRepresentative: She is one for her class, and is frequently referred to as class president ("iincho") in ''Blood Covered''. |
| 167 | * CoolBigSis: Has two (Hinoe and Ms. Yui) and is one to Yuka and Yuki Kanno. |
| 168 | * CuteWitch: In ''Book of Shadows'', we learn she is descended from a family that really had magic powers. Her older sister is a HotWitch instead. |
| 169 | * DamselInDistress: So much, but she gets better by the prologue of ''Blood Drive''. |
| 170 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: It looks she still hasn't gotten over it by ''Dead Patient'', to the point where she has been shown to be in an AngstComa. |
| 171 | * DeathByAdaptation: In the novels, she becomes the new Sachiko of Heavenly Host. |
| 172 | * DemonicPossession[=/=]GrandTheftMe: Her latent psychic powers attract spirits to her, but because she hasn't learned to control them yet, she is easily subject to possession. In the prologue of ''Blood Drive'', she gets a lot better with resisting it. |
| 173 | * DidNotThinkThisThrough: She tends to take action, especially when dabbling in the occult, without considering the consequences of those actions in regards to herself or those around her. All three main games happen as a result of her doing this. |
| 174 | * DoesNotLikeMen: Except Satoshi, because she feels that she can trust him. |
| 175 | * DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Whenever she goes through DemonicPossession. She also has this at the end of ''Blood Drive'' and in ''Dead Patient'' to signify how much the series' events have traumatized her. |
| 176 | * EvilLaugh[=/=]LaughingMad: If she's [[DemonicPossession possessed]] or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy taken over by the darkening]]. |
| 177 | * FatalFlaw: From ''Book of Shadows'' onwards, she tends to [[ItsAllAboutMe think solely about what she wants to do]] at the time, but she fails to plan ahead for the possible risks. In ''Book of Shadows'', her attempt at reviving Mayu (without proper research on how the Book of Shadows works) not only gives Mayu a severe case of CameBackWrong, but also nearly gets her and Naomi killed, if not for Hinoe's interference... which causes ''her'' to be beheaded in front of Ayumi instead. Following that, in ''Blood Drive'' she is set on going back to Heavenly Host with the same goals as before, as well as intending to retrieve the Book of Shadows from there. Only she, again, doesn't have any sort of plan at all, which Yoshiki points out. She ends up disregarding Yoshiki's concerns and goes to Heavenly Host with someone whose attitude is like a huge ObviouslyEvil neon sign flashing over his head. Her tendency to do this even gets her trapped in Heavenly Host with no hope of ever escaping in a wrong end. |
| 178 | ** She may very well be interested in the occult and supernatural, but that doesn't mean she's any less terrified of it, especially when she's given a fully supernatural experience of her own. Unfortunately, she often comes across as being a lot braver than she actually truly is, which also increases her risk of Darkening. [[spoiler:In Ending 4 of the final chapter, this attitude, which sees her return to Heavenly Host alone to save her friends despite being petrified the whole time, gets the whole group killed and leaves her stranded forever]]. |
| 179 | * FightingFromTheInside: Whenever she has to overcome DemonicPossession or being {{Brainwashed}} by the darkening. |
| 180 | * GirlishPigtails: In the manga, she's shown to have had this hairstyle since she was a little kid. |
| 181 | * GreenEyedMonster: She's ''not'' happy that Satoshi likes Naomi instead of her, and can act aggressively towards Naomi over it. She even ''kills'' Naomi in one Wrong End because of it (although Naomi [[LaserGuidedKarma gets the last laugh)]]. |
| 182 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Gets killed this way in Wrong End 2 in Chapter 2 of "Blood Covered." |
| 183 | * HeroicSacrifice: Sacrifices herself to the Book of Shadows, which restores everyone's knowledge of her deceased friends' existence in exchange for wiping out her own from her friends' memories. |
| 184 | * HonorBeforeReason: Why she decides to go back to Heavenly Host Elementary in ''Blood Covered'' and why she tried to revive her friends in ''Book of Shadows''. The former worked out well for the surviving characters. The latter... [[FromBadToWorse not so much]]. |
| 185 | * IgnoredEpiphany: Over and over and ''over''. Despite the fact that she [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom kicked off]] the horrific events of the first game, she refuses to consider how dangerous dark magic is, which gets a ''lot'' of people killed. |
| 186 | * ItsAllAboutMe: As demonstrated under FatalFlaw, she has a tendency to care more about her own goals than anything else, which repeatedly gets other people hurt or killed. During a Wrong End in ''Corpse Party'', she destroys Naomi's paper scrap out of petty jealousy due to the latter being closer to Satoshi than she is, then has the gall to demand the one Naomi was given to replace it. She gets it after gleefully murdering Naomi, but she winds up [[HoistByHerOwnPetard being trapped herself... for good.]] |
| 187 | * TheLancer: Naomi's supposed to be TheLancer to Satoshi, but she's too broken for it to work, so Ayumi takes the role as well as doubling as TheSmartGirl. |
| 188 | * TheLoad: She gets possessed quite a bit, though she is better able to resist it in ''Blood Drive''. |
| 189 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: In one of the bad endings Ayumi's love for Satoshi is twisted by the Darkness and she becomes a full on {{Yandere}}. She burns Naomi's paper scrap, then beats her to death. While covered in blood, she laughs and praises herself. Though Naomi does get to have the last laugh since her death means Ayumi is permanently trapped in Heavenly Host. |
| 190 | * ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: In ''Book of Shadows'', she is literally fought over by other vengeful spirits because they see her as their only hope. |
| 191 | * MoralityChain: Yoshiki is hers; he keeps her mental state in check, and helps to keep her from having anymore {{Freak Out}}s. If he's away from her for too long, it never ends well. |
| 192 | * MysticalPregnancy: In ''Blood Drive'', it's revealed that the Book of Shadows remanifested itself and laid dormant within her all along, without her being aware of it. Its power [[BigDamnHeroes saved her on a few occasions]], and eventually when Magari makes its presence inside of her stomach (presumably within her womb) known [[WombHorror it moves and growls angrily from inside]]. It took Ayumi committing ''{{seppuku}}'' in order to draw it out of her and complete its remanifestation. |
| 193 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: A great deal of the tragedies that occur in ''Blood Drive'' and ''Book of Shadows'' are her fault (especially in the latter installment), and her utter refusal to give up on what [[ItsAllAboutMe she wants]] and neglecting to think it through get a lot of people hurt or killed. |
| 194 | * NightmareFetishist: {{Subverted}}. As much as she loves horror stories, getting flung headfirst into one understandably freaks her right out. |
| 195 | * ObliviousToLove: At least in regards to Yoshiki's crush on her, she's [[Literature/InfiniteStratos Ichika-levels of dense]]. Most likely because of her crush on Satoshi. |
| 196 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted: She's not the only Shinozaki in the game. They're distantly related through being descended from a lineage with strong psychic abilities. |
| 197 | * {{Protectorate}}: For Yoshiki, as her dying often nets you a bad end. |
| 198 | * RescueRomance: With Yoshiki, all the time. |
| 199 | * RetGone: At the end of ''Blood Drive'', she sacrifices herself to the Book of Shadows and is erased from her friends' memories, in return for restoring their memories of Seiko, Mayu, Morishige, and Yui to the world. |
| 200 | * SavedByCanon: She makes an appearance in the prologue of ''[[VideoGame/CorpseParty2DeadPatient Dead Patient]]'', which is set after ''Blood Drive''. |
| 201 | * SelfHarm: She does while having a FreakOut in ''Blood Drive''. |
| 202 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She likes Satoshi, as she feels that she can trust him. |
| 203 | * SlasherSmile: Shows these when possessed. |
| 204 | * TheSmartGirl: She has the most knowledge of the occult so she fills out this role in the game. |
| 205 | * ThousandYardStare: Sports one in her cameo appearance in ''Dead Patient''. |
| 206 | * TookALevelInBadass: In ''Book of Shadows''. Especially in the prologue to ''Blood Drive'', where she manages to force away possessions by herself and even prepares and chants up a spell to revive the dead. In ''Blood Drive'', she takes another level in badass once the Book of Shadows accepts her as its master. |
| 207 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Naomi's Tomboy. |
| 208 | * {{Tsundere}}: She seems to be one for Satoshi and Yoshiki. She is known to have a crush on Satoshi and generally she enjoys scaring him. While she's with Yoshiki she's very rude to him, but it's hinted that she has some degree of affection for him at the end of ''Blood Drive''. Whether it's romantic or friendship on her part is left ambiguous. |
| 209 | * UngratefulBitch: Towards Yoshiki. He spends most of his time saving her life and stopping her from going insane while she insults him any time they disagree on something. She ''finally'' averts this in ''Blood Drive''. |
| 210 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: |
| 211 | ** Performing the Sachiko Ever After charm that sent everyone to Heavenly Host was her idea. |
| 212 | ** Does it ''again'' in ''Blood Drive'', as getting the pillars of the six demons merges the Nirvana with the real world, sending ''all'' the horrors of the dimension onto countless innocent civilians. |
| 213 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: If she starts acting like one towards Satoshi, then you are probably on your way to a Wrong End. |
| 214 | * WhatTheHellHero: Played with. At the start of Chapter 7 in ''Blood Drive'', Morishige, Mayu, Seiko, and Yui appear before Ayumi to thank her for "reviving them", while also mentioning many people died for it, and then rub salt into the wound more by stating they haven't really been revived. Then Ayumi wakes up, inferring that it was a nightmare. |
| 215 | * {{Yandere}}: At the very least, she starts showing signs of SanitySlippage in one bad ending. She actually ''burns Naomi's Sachiko charm'' (which she needs to get home), then ''kills'' her in a particularly horrific Wrong End. Naomi has the last laugh, though. |
| 216 | [[/folder]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | [[folder:Yoshiki Kishinuma]] |
| 219 | !Yoshiki Kishinuma |
| 220 | !! '''Tropes for Yoshiki in the original PC-98 game:''' |
| 221 | [[quoteright:100:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/9_yoshiki98.png]] |
| 222 | Although he seems a bit cynical and rebellious, in actuality, he's just frank and honest. Which is why he didn't fight it too much when he was put onto the class committee via ballot. And also why he showed up to prepare for the coming school cultural festival. |
| 223 | ----- |
| 224 | * AdaptationalJerkass: In ''Corpse Party: Musume'' he's a violent jerk who gives a shit about nobody else but himself and Ayumi and sexually harrasses her all the time. |
| 225 | * [[StatusBuff The Buffer]]: For the last battle against Shinozaki, Yoshiki gains the power to raise the attributes of his friends. |
| 226 | * ChangedMyMindKid: At one point, Ayumi and Yoshiki are returned to their classroom by good Shinozaki. Ayumi wants to return to save Satoshi and the others, but Yoshiki is too afraid to go back to Heavenly Host. However he changes his mind at the last moment in order to save his friends and protect Ayumi. Even in the routes when Ayumi dies, he'll still go back anyway. |
| 227 | * CrazyJealousGuy: He's very vocal about how Ayumi prefers Satoshi over him. However he doesn't blame Satoshi for this, instead blaming Ayumi for being so stubborn. |
| 228 | -->''Are you so unhappy...So unhappy to be trapped with ME instead of your "precious Satoshi"!?'' |
| 229 | * DisneyDeath: A possessed Ayumi throws him in a pit to exchange him for Satoshi, but he climbs his way out. |
| 230 | * DrivenToSuicide: He becomes suicidal in the endings when Ayumi dies. In Ending D-1, he drunkenly tries to attack Satoshi before breaking down in tears and dropping the knife; in Ending B-1 he simply disappears, and Satoshi wonders if the guilt of leaving Ayumi behind was too much for him. |
| 231 | * DrowningMySorrows: In Ending D-1 he starts drinking to cope with Ayumi's death. |
| 232 | * {{Gonk}}: Has a rough delinquent face and is very unattractive compared to Satoshi. |
| 233 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's jealous of all the attention Satoshi receives from Ayumi, he also acknowledges it's not Satoshi's fault and the two are best friends despite everything. If Ayumi died and he's brought back to the real world, Yoshiki will still go back to save him. And in Ending D-1 he seemingly tries to stab Satoshi because he blames him for Ayumi's death, only to break down crying revealing that he intended to kill himself not Satoshi. |
| 234 | ** Averted in ''Corpse Party: Musume'', when he hates Satoshi and would gladly leave him to die if this means getting to score with Ayumi. |
| 235 | * ImAManICantHelpIt: His justification for harrassing Ayumi in ''Corpse Party: Musume''. |
| 236 | * NotInThisForYourRevolution: In ''Corpse Party: Musume'', after Ayumi and Yoshiki are sent back to the real world, Ayumi returns to save everyone else and Yoshiki follows her. However he makes clear he couldn't care less about Satoshi, Naomi and Yuka and just does it to impress Ayumi |
| 237 | * PartingWordsRegret: In the endings Ayumi dies, he regrets not confessing his feelings earlier. |
| 238 | * ShipperOnDeck: He ships Satoshi/Naomi and frequently tries to meddle in their relationship to advance it. He admits it's so he could have Ayumi for himself though. |
| 239 | |
| 240 | !! '''Tropes for Yoshiki in the remake:''' |
| 241 | [[quoteright:239:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tropes_cp_yoshiki_2546.jpeg]] |
| 242 | ->Voiced by: Creator/YuuichiNakamura |
| 243 | Despite having the FaceOfAThug, Yoshiki is actually a pretty nice guy. Likes teasing Satoshi, but that's the norm among his classmates anyway. After they're pulled into Heavenly Host, he vows to protect Ayumi at any cost. |
| 244 | ----- |
| 245 | * ActionSurvivor: He's one of the most capable people trapped in Heavenly Host, and survives despite receiving the most injuries. |
| 246 | * AdaptationDyeJob: A literal example. In the original ''PC-98'' game he was a brunette, but the ''Blood Covered'' continuity, and any media related to it, instead has him with dyed blond hair. |
| 247 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: Though he cares for Ayumi, he realises that she's more interested in Satoshi. She may return his affection to some degree at the end of ''Blood Drive'', though whether platonic or not is unknown. |
| 248 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Before he started his second year, he admits he was a friendless loner. |
| 249 | * AlwaysSaveTheGirl: If he fails to protect Ayumi and she dies... it never ends well. He'll either get killed off later, or be DrivenToSuicide because he can't live without her. |
| 250 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Finally admits his feelings towards Ayumi in the fifth chapter of ''Blood Covered''. Unfortunately for him, it's only in a non-canon Wrong End. |
| 251 | --> '''Yoshiki:''' I'm telling you I LOVE YOU, GODDAMMIT!! |
| 252 | * BadassNormal: The biggest badass out of the main five and one of the biggest in general, but doesn't even have the spiritual "perks" that others like Ayumi have. |
| 253 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why he fell in love with Ayumi. She showed him kindness when a teacher had nearly bullied him into dropping out of school. She doesn't think much of the encounter, but it's clearly important to him. |
| 254 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Shown more in ''Book of Shadows'' where he loses Ayumi again, and on his way to find her stumbles across Mayu and Nana. For a little while he has to save and protect them until he finds Ayumi. It's hinted that he would probably be this way towards his own little sister, Miki. |
| 255 | * BigDamnHeroes: Saves Yuka from Kizami in ''Tortured Souls'', but unfortunately she was already fatally injured. |
| 256 | * TheBigGuy: He's the toughest out of all of the kids and he takes the most risks as well. He can also be considered Ayumi's personal [[TheLancer Lancer]]. |
| 257 | * BrutalHonesty: Doesn't really have a filter between his head and his mouth. He's nice enough that it's not a problem most of the time, but sometimes he embarrasses Ayumi by tactlessly pointing out that she's stained with blood in embarrassing places. |
| 258 | * BuriedAlive: How he dies in Wrong End 1 in Chapter 2 of "Blood Covered." |
| 259 | * ChangedMyMindKid: |
| 260 | ** At one point, Ayumi and Yoshiki are returned to their classroom by Yuki. Ayumi wants to return to save Satoshi and the others. If Yuka was caught by Kizami (or if you just choose not to), Yoshiki refuses to go back. Naturally, he ends up going back anyway. It still leads to a Wrong End, though. |
| 261 | ** Same case in ''Tortured Souls''. He comes back in time to save Yuka, and is then killed trying to hold off Yoshikazu so that Ayumi can get Yuka to safety. |
| 262 | * TheChewToy: As revealed in ''2U'', he's a favored victim of Sachiko's because of this. |
| 263 | * ChickMagnet: PlayedForLaughs in one of the drama [=CD=]s, where Yoshiki gets love confessions from Naomi, Yui, and Yuka. Later on, even [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Satoshi, Yuuya, and Morishige]] confess their love to him. This ends up being a hallucination Yoshiki is having while being buried alive. |
| 264 | * CooldownHug: Gives one to Ayumi when she is possessed in ''Blood Covered'', and then again in ''Book of Shadows'' even while she's attacking him. |
| 265 | * CrazyJealousGuy: Towards Ayumi. He's really good at hiding it, and doesn't act on it until he finally snaps at Ayumi about her feelings to Satoshi later. |
| 266 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: The only one of the main five to have one prior to the game's events. He's forced to live by himself and take up a part-time job because of a bad relationship with his parents, he used to have no friends, and was considering dropping out of school because a teacher bullied him about both of these things. All it takes is for Ayumi and Satoshi to [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe just be nice to him]] for him to develop into a better person. |
| 267 | * DeadpanSnarker: Has his moments. |
| 268 | * DeathByAdaptation: In ''Tortured Souls''. |
| 269 | * {{Delinquent}}: He used to be one, including skipping school a lot and smoking in the bathroom cubicles. He's since reformed, though he still has the appearance of one. |
| 270 | * DevotedToYou: He would do anything for Ayumi, even [[RetGone erasing himself from reality]], and she doesn't even realize it. Though she does seem grateful for his kindness by the end of ''Blood Drive''. |
| 271 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: In ''2U'' he frequently calls out [[BigBad Sachiko]] for her ridiculous demands, even after the rest of the cast warn him about how dangerous it is. It might be part of the reason why she picks on him so much. |
| 272 | * DraggedIntoDrag: Along with Morishige in ''2U'' as part of Sachiko's game. Whether you have him wear the wedding dress or the maid outfit actually determines whether you're on route to a Wrong End. |
| 273 | * EvenTheGuysWantHim: One of the drama [=CD's=] has Satoshi, Morishige, and even Kizami, a character he hadn't met at that point, confess their love to him. It was just a hallucination while Yoshiki was being buried alive, though. |
| 274 | * FaceOfAThug: He may look like your typical {{Delinquent}}, which he used to be to an extent, but he's a NiceGuy and will look out for his friends. |
| 275 | * ForYourOwnGood: His reasoning for why he destroys the only means to get into Heavenly Host in ''Blood Drive''. Ayumi would be putting herself in great danger by going there, and her reason for doing so (so that she can use dangerous black magic to resurrect her dead friends) isn't exactly the sanest. |
| 276 | * ForgottenFallenFriend: He teams up with Ohkawa during an Extra Chapter of ''Corpse Party 3DS'' that takes place between chapters in ''Blood Covered''. When they split up again he's knocked out and loses his memory, making this a literal example of him forgetting the now deceased Ohkawa. |
| 277 | * FriendlessBackground: Prior to the events of the game, and one of the reasons why he's so attached to Ayumi and Satoshi. It's also what prompts him to return to Heavenly Host in the ending where he initially refused; he couldn't give up on his friends after having had none for so long. |
| 278 | * GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Downplayed. Yoshiki frequently has to do a verbal version to help snap Ayumi out of her possessed stated. He also does the same for Ohkawa when he risks having a FreakOut. |
| 279 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Dies this way along with Shinozaki in Wrong End 2 in Chapter 2 of "Blood Covered." |
| 280 | * HeartbrokenBadass: Anytime if Ayumi dies. |
| 281 | * HeroicSacrifice: In the OVA, he blocks a door with his body so that Yoshikazu can't get to Ayumi and a wounded Yuka. Yoshikazu just plows through, slaughtering Yoshiki in the process. |
| 282 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Satoshi are this. Yoshiki cares about Satoshi almost as much as he does Ayumi, and it's said that he usually only participates in school events because one of them persuades him into it. |
| 283 | * {{Hypocrite}}: In ''Blood Drive'' he criticises Ayumi for going to Heavenly Host without telling the rest of the group about it... even though that's exactly what ''he'' did in order to find her. He seems to realise his hypocrisy when Satoshi calls him out on the same thing. |
| 284 | * IChooseToStay: At the end of ''Blood Drive'' he chooses to stay with Ayumi when she absorbs the power of the Book of Shadows, and is erased from the others' memories as a result of it. |
| 285 | * ImAHumanitarian: In one of ''Blood Covered's'' Wrong Ends, he's possessed by a spirit and ends up chowing down on Ayumi. He snaps out of it but, to his dismay, can't stop eating her. |
| 286 | * InformedFlaw: |
| 287 | ** In his character description it states that he is prone to outbursts when frightened or upset, and is essentially a JerkWithAHeartOfGold character. In the actual game he rivals Satoshi for being the kindest, most level-headed character. It [[BrickJoke finally]] shows up at the end of ''Blood Drive'' as his reaction to Ayumi's fate. |
| 288 | ** His lack of spiritual prowess is presented as a flaw, especially in comparison to Ayumi's affinity with the spirits. In practise this actually ends up with him being ''better'' equipped to deal with ghosts in ''Blood Covered'', since he's less at risk of being possessed than Ayumi. |
| 289 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's this in the intro, but for the rest of the game he slides into being a NiceGuy. |
| 290 | * KnightInShiningArmor: He wants to be seen as one in Ayumi's eyes, not realising that he already is one. Even Azusa calls/thinks of him as one; she points out that the kanji is (sort of) in his name. |
| 291 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Being knocked out by Yoshikazu in ''Corpse Party 3DS'' causes him to conveniently forget everything related to Ohkawa and nothing more. |
| 292 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: Ayumi is this for him. He loses the will to live if she dies. |
| 293 | * LoveMartyr: This guy is willing to put himself through hell ''and'' back for Ayumi. He does reach his limit at one point when he's had enough of Ayumi's constant concern for Satoshi in ''Blood Covered''. |
| 294 | * MistakenForGay: Prior to the game there was an incident where he broke Morishige's glasses and had to guide him home. Mayu sees them huddled up together and gets the wrong impression, either blushing and leaving them be (in ''Blood Covered'') or murdering Yoshiki in a fit of jealousy (in ''2U's'' depiction of the event). |
| 295 | * NervesOfSteel: Intimidates spirits that are possessing Ayumi out of her body while they're trying to hurt him. |
| 296 | * NiceGuy: In the ''Blood Covered'' continuity. |
| 297 | * NoOneGetsLeftBehind: In ''Book of Shadows'', during the Wrong End where Nana gets her legs chopped off, Yoshiki refuses to leave her behind and instead carries her around, even though Mayu realizes that she's almost certainly doomed anyway. |
| 298 | --> '''Yoshiki:''' Don't think about that right now, goddammit! If she needs legs, we'll lend her ours! |
| 299 | * OnlySaneMan: Of ''Hysterical Birthday 2U''. He'll be the first, and sometimes the only person to call out the various weird happenings, and will often try and refuse to have any part of it (though he'll [[NotSoAboveItAll change his tone]] if Ayumi is involved). |
| 300 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: He starts to feel this way about himself when he's beaten down by both Misuto and Magari. Bear in mind that he's an average high-schooler up against super-powered beings. |
| 301 | * ParentalAbandonment: He lives away from his parents and is reported to have a bad relationship with them. |
| 302 | * PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: Implied to be the man with Ayumi in ''Dead Patient'', although his hair is no longer bleached. |
| 303 | * RescueRomance: All girls that he's had ShipTease with -- Ayumi, Nana, and Azusa -- have been rescued by him at some point or another. |
| 304 | * RetGone: In ''Blood Drive'' he decides to stay with Ayumi during her HeroicSacrifice, and ends up being wiped from his friends' memories along with her. |
| 305 | * SenselessSacrifice: In the ''PC-98'' game, he can sacrifice himself to save Ayumi's life. Ayumi escapes the school, but ends up dying the next day anyway. |
| 306 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Inverted; he gained his feelings for Ayumi when she got him out of trouble and encouraged him to graduate high school. |
| 307 | * StaircaseTumble: He can die like this in Wrong End 3 in Chapter 2 of "Blood Covered" by a possessed Shinozaki if he goes to the stairway instead of the bathroom. |
| 308 | * TookALevelInKindness: Became a much better person in the ''Blood Covered'' remake and its sequels, which add a lot of moments of self-sacrifice, courage and devotion. In comparison, his original ''PC-98'' self was more of a loner who seemingly didn’t care for anyone but himself and Ayumi, lacking all the ''Blood Covered'' continuity moments that made him a more beloved character. |
| 309 | * TsurimeEyes: Used to symbolise Yoshiki's [[NervesOfSteel strong will]] and [[DeadpanSnarker sharp tongue]]. |
| 310 | * TwoGirlsAndAGuy: With Mayu and Nana in ''Book of Shadows'' for a little bit. |
| 311 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Ayumi, and only if she'd be able to see it. |
| 312 | [[/folder]] |
| 313 | |
| 314 | [[folder:Yuka Mochida]] |
| 315 | !Yuka Mochida |
| 316 | !! '''Tropes for Yuka in the original PC-98 game:''' |
| 317 | [[quoteright:100:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7_yuka98.png]] |
| 318 | Satoshi's younger sister. Currently a second year student at Kisaragi Academy Junior High School. She got mixed up in all this while delivering an umbrella to her brother. Spoiled by her family, she acts much younger than she really is. |
| 319 | ----- |
| 320 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Gives this to Satoshi in the endings in which she dies and ''Corpse Party: Musume''. |
| 321 | * ClingyJealousGirl: She does NOT like seeing Satoshi interact with Naomi, as she's aware of her feelings for him. They're still on friendly terms though, as she thinks Satoshi is the one to blame for being too dense. |
| 322 | * DamselInDistress: She's very prone to get into troublesome situations in the school. Ensuring her safety, however, makes the gameplay easier especially in the final phase. |
| 323 | * DeathByAdaptation: In ''Corpse Party: Musume''. |
| 324 | * HiddenDepths: Despite being the most childish of the group, she's the first to notice that Satoshi reciprocates Naomi's feelings. |
| 325 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Possibly in Ending A. When Satoshi returns to the school to check on Naomi, Yuka doesn't object, implying she'll let them be together. |
| 326 | * PottyEmergency: At one point she ends up desperately in need of a toilet. If wrong choices are made, she ends up drowning after Shinozaki fills the bathroom stall with blood. |
| 327 | * WhiteMage: For the last battle against Shinozaki, Yuka gets healing spells, but has lower MP than the others. |
| 328 | * {{Yandere}}: In the endings in which she dies. She loves Satoshi so much she'll drag him with her to Heavenly Host forever. |
| 329 | |
| 330 | !! '''Tropes for Yuka in the remake:''' |
| 331 | [[quoteright:239:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tropes_cp_yuka_9098.jpeg]] |
| 332 | -->Voiced by: Creator/EriKitamura |
| 333 | Satoshi's sweet and polite little sister, who's currently in middle school. Came to pick up her brother and wound up getting sucked into Heavenly Host along with the older cast. |
| 334 | ----- |
| 335 | * BigBrotherWorship: She adores Satoshi. And not just as a sibling. |
| 336 | * BrotherSisterIncest: Her love for her brother goes beyond sibling affection, though she only admits it in Chapter 5's Extra Ending. |
| 337 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: |
| 338 | ** In the ''Tortured Souls'' OVA, she's killed off by Kizami after he tortures her mercilessly. |
| 339 | ** Her chapter in ''Book of Shadows'', which shows what happens if Kizami catches Yuka in the original game: no matter what choices you make, Yuka end up getting killed by either Sachiko or Yoshikazu. |
| 340 | * DamselInDistress: In ''Blood Drive'', she is kidnapped by Misuto and needs rescuing by the other cast members. |
| 341 | * DeathByAdaptation: In the ''Tortured Souls'' OVA. |
| 342 | %%* DeliberatelyCuteChild |
| 343 | * DemonicPossession: Possessed by Sachi in ''Blood Drive''. |
| 344 | * FightingFromTheInside: During her possession by Sachi in ''Blood Drive''. It still takes outside influence for her to fully fend Sachi off though. |
| 345 | * HeroicSacrifice: In Chapter 5's Extra Ending, where she [[TakingTheBullet Takes The Scissors]] for Satoshi. |
| 346 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Has this dynamic with Kizami, who is a good 46 cm taller than her. |
| 347 | * TheLoad: Forces Satoshi (and by extension, the player) into an epic quest for a usable bathroom when they could have focused on trying to find his classmates and teacher. Also the most useless of the nine characters. |
| 348 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Though she's only a few years younger than the rest of the cast, the age difference seems particularly pronounced thanks to her uniform and immaturity. She also ''acts'' much younger than she is, thanks to being spoiled rotten by her parents. |
| 349 | * OutOfFocus: Enforced by Satoshi in the first half of ''Blood Drive'' since he's trying to keep her out of danger. Misuto ends up luring her to Heavenly Host and kidnapping her for use in his plans. |
| 350 | * PottyEmergency: Just like in the PC-98, this happens to her in ''Blood Covered'' too, though played differently. Unfortunately, the lack of working bathrooms doesn't do her any good. Eventually leads to a PottyFailure, courtesy of Kizami. |
| 351 | * {{Protectorate}}: To her brother and to Yuuya Kizami. Too bad Kizami's a murderous nutcase. |
| 352 | * SpoiledBrat: She was thoroughly spoiled by her parents to the point where she often acts like a ''toddler'', instead of her age. She even keeps this attitude while trapped in the school. However, she's not all bad as she cares a lot about her brother when she gives him (or tries to, depending on Satoshi's choice) her caramel beads as a good luck charm. |
| 353 | [[/folder]] |
| 354 | |
| 355 | !School Inhabitants |
| 356 | |
| 357 | [[folder:Sachiko Shinozaki]] |
| 358 | !Sachiko Shinozaki (The Girl in Red) |
| 359 | !! '''Tropes for Sachiko in the original PC-98 game:''' |
| 360 | [[quoteright:214:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rebuilt_sachiko.jpg]] |
| 361 | Shinozaki (no name given) is a vengeful ghost who traps the protagonists in Heavenly Host. One day, she was attacked by her teacher who intended to rape her. She ended up falling out the window to her death. The principal decides to help cover up the incident to spare the school’s reputation. |
| 362 | ----- |
| 363 | * FinalBoss: Her evil half. The game actually [[UnexpectedGenreChange becomes an RPG]] when you fight her. |
| 364 | * FreudianExcuse: The teacher who killed her got away with it, the principal covered it up to protect the school's reputation and when she died no-one remembered her. |
| 365 | * FriendlessBackground: While she ''did'' have friends, she wasn’t particularly close to anyone, and didn't mind being alone. This was then used against her by her {{Jerkass}} teacher, who declared nobody'd believe her about the [[AttemptedRape assault.]] |
| 366 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: In ''Corpse Party: Musume'', after she's purified and merges with her good self, she uses her powers to bring Naomi back to life. However Naho makes Naomi remember her death and drags her back to Heavenly Host. |
| 367 | * LoadBearingBoss: After the evil Sachiko is defeated, the survivors have to flee... because the other evil spirits want to ensure that the closed space doesn’t collapse by [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing them.]] |
| 368 | * NoNameGiven: She was simply named Shinozaki and didn't have a name. |
| 369 | * RapeAsBackstory: Was almost sexually assaulted by a teacher who pretended to act friendly with her, only to mock how nobody will believe what happened because she didn't have any friends. |
| 370 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: In ''Corpse Party: Musume'' she's a little girl but she's very precocious. Justified, as she was sexually assaulted by her teacher and the principal raped her corpse. |
| 371 | * WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: Likes to taunt the characters by detailing how they friends died and how much in pain they were. |
| 372 | -->'''Shinozaki''':...Hyeheheheh...I stuffed your sister...full of blood...like a turkey... |
| 373 | -->'''Satoshi''': YOU LITTLE! |
| 374 | -->'''Shinozaki''': ...Kyahahahahahaha! Aww, you mad? |
| 375 | * YourHeadASplode: When the group is about to find her corpse, she threatens Yuka (or Naomi) with a literally splitting headache. |
| 376 | |
| 377 | !! '''Tropes for Sachiko in the remake:''' |
| 378 | [[quoteright:239:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prof1.png]] |
| 379 | -->Voiced by: Creator/IkueOtani |
| 380 | |
| 381 | She is the SoleSurvivor of the 1973 Heavenly Host Elementary kidnapping and murder case. She provided the testimony that got the killer arrested. After the incident, her family apparently moved away, and her whereabouts are currently unknown. [[EvilAllAlong In actuality she is a malevolent spirit]], [[ManBehindTheMan and the one behind the 1973 incident]]. After possessing the supposed killer and making him kidnap the other children, she killed them herself and laid the blame on him. She herself was the victim of an incident in 1953, where she was killed after witnessing the headmaster of the school kill her mother, who then went on to hide her remains in the basement. |
| 382 | |
| 383 | Little did the killers know that Sachiko [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan had an ancient evil sitting inside of her]]- an entire alternate dimension known as the Nirvana/Nehan. In both cases, the killing [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom unleashed the Nirvana]]. |
| 384 | |
| 385 | Sachiko’s hatred towards her victimizers and envy towards those still alive ended up [[LiteralSplitPersonality splitting her in two]]. The good half, White Sachiko, aims to help the characters escape. Meanhile, Sachiko’s hatred [[DemonicPossession fuses with the Nirvana dimension]] and its core (the Witch Queen) to becomes a vessel of thier will; the resulting entity, Red Sachiko, is the BigBad of the series. |
| 386 | ----- |
| 387 | * AffablyEvil: In ''2U''. Her [[DemonicPossession resentment and hatred]] are lifted for 24 hours when its her birthday. She goes from [[TheSociopath the game's greatest horror]] to a surprisingly friendly ghost who likes to torment her victims in non-fatal ways just for shits and giggles. But she goes back to her usual AxCrazy self when the 24 hours is over, and forgets everything she experienced in her birthday. |
| 388 | ** Her memory loss is reversed as of ''Blood Drive'', as she brings up the necklace that was given to her in ''2U'' before she sends Ayumi back in time. |
| 389 | * AgeLift: Subverted. She was a teenager in the ''PC-98'' game, but she's a child in the remake. |
| 390 | * AxCrazy: Though Red’s much more on the ManipulativeBitch and {{Sadist}} side of things, almost always forcing Yoshikazu and the other children into doing the brute-force violence and torture while she watches and taunts her dying victims. |
| 391 | * BigBad: Red Sachiko for ''PC-98'', ''Blood Covered'', and ''Book of Shadows''. She takes a back seat in ''2U'', and in ''Blood Drive'' Sachiko’s been released and helps Ayumi (though the Nirvana still serves as the antagonist). |
| 392 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She likes to play the ally, or act like a helpless child, before turning around and killing people. In one bad end, she pretended to be Mitsuki by wearing her face as a mask, and briefly flirted with Morishige before revealing herself. [[{{Troll}} Just to mix things up.]] |
| 393 | * CreepyChild: She died when she was very young, so her evil spirit has the appearance of a pale, blood-covered child. |
| 394 | * CuteAndPsycho: ''2U'' puts emphasis on the "cute" aspect. She's surprisingly adorable on her birthday, if only being AffablyEvil at best. |
| 395 | * CuteGhostGirl: White Sachiko plays it straight. Red Sachiko is a rare [[CuteAndPsycho malevolent]] variant. |
| 396 | * CuteIsEvil: The cutest character in the cast turns out to be the most evil. |
| 397 | * DeaderThanDead: She was already a ghost, but using up all her energy wipes her out for good. |
| 398 | * DemotedToExtra: Serves as a key character for most of the series, but then only appears in a chapter or two of ''Blood Drive'' before getting permamently KilledOffForReal. |
| 399 | * EnemyWithout: Her tormented, angry spirit has actually split off from her original self and is the true power behind the closed spaces. |
| 400 | * EnfantTerrible: She died as a child, but half of her became a malevolent spirit. |
| 401 | * EvilAllAlong: She pretends to be an innocent victim and helper but is actually the one killing everyone. |
| 402 | * EvilCounterpart: Obviously, Red Sachiko is this to White Sachiko. |
| 403 | %%* EvilIsHammy: Exaggerated in ''Book of Shadows''. |
| 404 | * GeniusLoci: The Nirvana is pretty much a living dimension, and Red Sachiko is it’s vessel. |
| 405 | * TheHeavy: Her spirit is the hardest to appease out of all the children. |
| 406 | * HeelFaceTurn: In ''Blood Drive'', since she has been appeased and [[SplitPersonalityMerge made whole]]. She becomes a close ally to Ayumi. |
| 407 | * HereditaryCurse: The women in her bloodline are cursed with powerful black magic. |
| 408 | * HeroicSacrifice[=/=]RedemptionEqualsDeath: Uses up all her energy to turn back time so that Ayumi can have another chance to save her friends. |
| 409 | * IShallTauntYou: Throughout the game, you'll encounter notes written in red from the evil Sachiko, bragging about how they’ll kill the characters and goading them into giving in to their darker selves. |
| 410 | * ItAmusedMe: Red Sachiko initially killed children to give her mother company, but when Yoshie dissaproved she continued her evil actions anyway simply because she enjoyed it. |
| 411 | * LightIsGood[=/=]DarkIsEvil: [[HelplessGoodSide White Sachiko]] has white skin and wears a white dress, [[EnemyWithout Red Sachiko]] has grey skin and wears a red dress. Though averted with the [[FinalBoss Witch]] [[LightIsNotGood Queen]]. |
| 412 | * MadeOfEvil: Red Sachiko is the embodiment of Sachiko’s hatred, so yeah. Also applies to the Nirvana, which is made of the hatred, evil, and despair of humanity. |
| 413 | * ManipulativeBitch: Oh boy, Red Sachiko just ''loves'' psychologically torturing her victims and turning them against each other! |
| 414 | * MascotVillain: She is prominently featured on posters, promotional material, etc. and is the BigBad. |
| 415 | * MoralityPet: [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Subverted.]] Both ''Blood Covered'' and ''Book of Shadows'' imply that on some level Red Sachiko genuinely ''likes'' Yuka, and she actually saves Yuka from Kizami in ''Blood Covered'''s True Ending path. But she’s too AxCrazy for this to actually protect Yuka -- in the "Mire" chapter from ''Book of Shadows'', it's revealed that it was actually she who killed Yuka after Kizami catches her in that Wrong End of ''Blood Covered''. |
| 416 | * {{Sadist}}[=/=]{{Troll}}: Hoo boy, she could give ''[[VideoGame/{{Blazblue}} Terumi]]'' a run for his money! Though it’s somewhat justified as the Nirvana feeds on the despair of it’s victims. |
| 417 | * SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: In ''Blood Drive'' we find out that the Heavenly Host dimension is something called a Nirvana/Nehan, where the dead can wander and interact with the living freely. Sachiko's mother created it using the Book of Shadows in order to be reunited with her deceased husband, but the spell failed and it rebounded on Sachiko, who wound up absorbing the entire Nehan into her body. When she was murdered, the seal was broken and the Nehan was unleashed, creating the alternate Heavenly Host and [[LiteralSplitPersonality splitting Sachiko in two]]- the evil half became the Nehan’s avatar. |
| 418 | * SlasherSmile: Her evil spirit often bears one when it isn't frowning or is just staring blankly. |
| 419 | * TheSociopath: Considering she’s MadeOfEvil, it makes sense that she’s gonna have no compassion or empathy for anyone or anything. |
| 420 | * StringyHairedGhostGirl: Played with. In the Heavenly Host saga she was the SoleSurvivor of a multiple-murder incident in the titular school. In-game she’s a helpful, if distant, CuteGhostGirl. Then [[TheReveal it turns out]] ''she'' was [[EvilAllAlong the true murderer]]. And ''then'' it turns out she and her mother were killed long before by the principal, corrupting her with hatred. And ''then'' it turns out she [[LiteralSplitPersonality split up into two halves]], the ''good half'' wears the white dress, and the evil half is the vessel of the [[GeniusLoci school]]’s will... [[KudzuPlot It only gets more complicated from there.]] |
| 421 | * TongueTrauma: Has been on the giving and receiving end of this. |
| 422 | * ToThePain: She is fond of these sorts of rants. |
| 423 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The spirits of children generally do not seek to murder the innocent. |
| 424 | * UndeadChild: Her appearance is rather zombie-like. However, White Sachiko looks positively [[LightIsGood angelic]]. |
| 425 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Before her murder blinded her with bloodlust and anger, she was a genuinely sweet child. ''Blood Drive'' reveals that it was not being murdered alone that distorted her character, but a curse that had been laying dormant within her since her mother's clandestine attempt at bringing back her dead father- in fact, what happened to her really amounts to DemonicPossession by the [[GeniusLoci Nirvana.]] |
| 426 | * VillainousBreakdown: On the few occasions that she’s defeated, she does not take it well. |
| 427 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: The general public thinks of her as an innocent victim of Yoshikazu. The truth is [[ManBehindTheMan quite different]]. |
| 428 | * WalkingSpoiler: Even the fact that she’s the BigBad is one of the big [[TheReveal reveals]] of the series, specifically ''Blood Covered''. |
| 429 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: She posed as a victim of Yoshikazu and got him accused of the murders. In game, she appears to be an ally of the characters who must be protected from Yoshikazu, but is the one killing them all. She also pulls this in ''Book Of Shadows'', in one of the Wrong Ends and in Chapter 6. |
| 430 | * {{Yandere}}: Initially, she started off killing so that her mother would have company, but after a while she began to enjoy it too much. After a while, she was just too far gone to stop. Yoshie's diary notes that Sachiko probably doesn't even remember her own mother. |
| 431 | [[/folder]] |
| 432 | |
| 433 | [[folder:'''Spoiler Character''']] |
| 434 | !White Sachiko |
| 435 | [[quoteright:278:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0ded5b7f_b58a_4728_b96e_7464e1880a86.jpeg]] |
| 436 | |
| 437 | The good half of Sachiko Shinozaki. She informs the characters of her predicament and the truth of the school, and helps them escape. |
| 438 | ---- |
| 439 | * TheAtoner: In ''Blood Drive'' when she’s [[SplitPersonalityMerge whole again]], culminating in her [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing herself]] to help Ayumi out. |
| 440 | * BigGood: She watches over the characters, and in the original game actively helps them escape. Even when imprisoned, she still tries to regain control of her body and interferes with the BigBad’s control. |
| 441 | * CuteGhostGirl: And genuinely benevolent, unlike her other self. |
| 442 | * DeaderThanDead: She was already a ghost, but using up all her energy wipes her out for good. |
| 443 | * DemotedToExtra: Serves as a key character for most of the series, but then only appears in a chapter or two of ''Blood Drive'' before getting permanently KilledOffForReal. |
| 444 | * HeelFaceTurn: Sort of; she’s able to merge with her evil half and regain her original self. |
| 445 | * HelplessGoodSide: {{Downplayed}} in the PC-98 game with the true Sachiko, who does have a certain measure of power. Unfortunately, they're not NEARLY as strong as the embodiment of all her rage and envy of the living, which has taken on a life of its own. Played straight in the Heavenly Host saga where White Sachiko is trapped in the basement and not even encountered until the finale of ''Blood Covered''. |
| 446 | * LightIsGood: Wears white in contrast to her evil half’s red and grey combination. |
| 447 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: She’s Sachiko’s. |
| 448 | * NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Sachiko and her mother in the PC-98 game. She stayed late at school because it was raining, hoping the weather would clear up before heading out. |
| 449 | * SuperEmpowering: In the PC-98 game, the true Sachiko gives the party the rest of her powers just before the FinalBoss. |
| 450 | * WalkingSpoiler: Her existence spoils the [[SplitPersonality true nature]] of Sachiko. |
| 451 | [[/folder]] |
| 452 | |
| 453 | !School Staff |
| 454 | [[folder:The Teacher]] |
| 455 | !! '''Tropes for the Teacher in the original PC-98 game:''' |
| 456 | Sachiko's teacher back when she was alive. He attempted to rape her, causing her to flee out the window and fall to her death. |
| 457 | |
| 458 | ---- |
| 459 | * AttemptedRape: He tried to assault Sachiko, his own student, after school. |
| 460 | * TheGhost: He is never seen, as the flashback is text-only with the screen being black. |
| 461 | * GreaterScopeVillain: His AttemptedRape of Sachiko led to her death and her despair splitting off to become the BigBad. |
| 462 | * HateSink: Unlike Sachiko, who has a sympathetic backstory, he is a scumbag who [[AttemptedRape tried to rape her]] and ended up causing her death, and he [[KarmaHoudini got away with it]]. |
| 463 | * KarmaHoudini: It is never indicated that he is caught, especially since the principal helped cover it up. |
| 464 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He only shows up in one flashback, and is not even seen as the flashback is all text, but he is the reason that Sachiko split off with half of her becoming the BigBad. |
| 465 | |
| 466 | !! '''Tropes for the Teacher (Yoshikazu Yanagihori) in the remake:''' |
| 467 | !Yoshikazu Yanagihori |
| 468 | -->Voiced by: Daisuke Matsuo |
| 469 | [[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/32abda51_b9b3_414b_be7c_8033fcfd14c5.png]] |
| 470 | [[caption-width-right:208:[[labelnote:Click here]]to see him when he was alive https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yoshikazu_still_alive.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 471 | |
| 472 | A teacher at Heavenly Host Elementary, and the son of the headmaster. He was arrested for the kidnapping and murder of the three victims in 1973, and was supposedly the master of the haunted school, but was actually being manipulated by Sachiko. |
| 473 | ----- |
| 474 | |
| 475 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the PC-98 original, he was essentially the GreaterScopeVillain of the entire game, with his AttemptedRape of Sachiko (which accidentally causes her death) kickstarting the entire plot. At no point does he ever show any remorse for his actions and is implied to be a KarmaHoudini who got off scot-free. In ''Blood Covered'', he's basically just collateral damage in Sachiko's schemes and did nothing to deserve his fate. |
| 476 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: He's found crucified and impaled in Chapter 2 of ''Blood Drive'', which pretty much establishes that there is a ''much'' bigger threat this time. Or just that the [[GeniusLoci Nirvana]] is through playing around. |
| 477 | * ATeamFiring: He can be a real terrible aim with his sledgehammer, which is how Yoshiki managed to survive getting hit twice on the head with it. |
| 478 | * BigBad: Initially portrayed as this before TheReveal. |
| 479 | * TheBrute: An unwilling example. |
| 480 | * CoolTeacher: Used to be one until his mental illness struck. An entry in Yoshie Shinozaki's diary suggests that she ''might'' have had something to do with the mental illness. |
| 481 | * DespairEventHorizon: Being controlled by Sachiko into kidnapping the three children and then witnessing her kill them in cold blood completely breaks him and leads to him being forced to work for Sachiko. |
| 482 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: He was built up as the murderer until the truth was revealed. |
| 483 | * TheDragon: An unwilling one to Sachiko, as she used his body to kill children. |
| 484 | * DrivenToSuicide: He killed himself by hanging himself. |
| 485 | * FriendToAllChildren: What he was prior to kidnappings. In Chapter 6 of ''Book Of Shadows'', he shows a lot of reluctance to kill [[OlderThanTheyLook Yuka]] despite Sachiko's orders. Teenagers are fair game, though. |
| 486 | * InsanityDefense: How he avoided going to jail. He actually ''was'' pretty insane at that point, so a mental hospital was probably the best place for him. However, he ended up escaping, broke into the school, and hung himself in the basement. |
| 487 | * ManChild: At the time of the incident, a disease had apparently caused him to regress to a childlike mental state, to the point where he couldn't even convey his thoughts. People noted that he was still a rather kind person even when he reached that point, so it was almost hard to believe that he'd commit such horrific murders. Which makes sense, seeing as he ''[[RedHerring didn't]]'' commit the murders. |
| 488 | * SinsOfOurFathers: Yoshikazu's mental illness and regression are heavily implied to be caused by being cursed by Yoshie, Sachiko's mother. When you find her diary in-game, Yoshie mentions her hatred for Principal Yanagihori is so great, she cursed him and everyone in his bloodline. This basically means he's the very first innocent victim of Yoshie's and Sachiko's rage: even before the murder of the three children, Yoshikazu was already a powerless puppet under Sachiko's thrall. |
| 489 | * TookALevelInKindness: In the ''Blood Covered'' manga he carries Yoshiki back to Ayumi, seemingly out of regret for kidnapping him in the first place. In the original game Yoshiki only escapes because Ohkawa rescues him. |
| 490 | [[/folder]] |
| 491 | |
| 492 | [[folder:The Principal]] |
| 493 | !! '''Tropes for the Principal in the original PC-98 game:''' |
| 494 | The principal of Tenjin High. He helped cover up the incident with Sachiko and her teacher to preserve the reputation of the school. For his ''Blood Covered'' counterpart, see below. |
| 495 | ---- |
| 496 | * EvilPrincipal: He helped cover up the death of Sachiko Shinozaki, which was caused when she attempted to escape her teacher's rape attempt, because he valued the school's reputation over delivering justice to the teacher. The evil half of Sachiko is shown torturing the principal's soul over this, and yet he still insists he has done nothing wrong. |
| 497 | * TheGhost: Downplayed. We do see his spirit as a [[HitodamaLight flame]], but his human form is never shown. |
| 498 | * GreaterScopeVillain: While not as directly as the teacher, he did help the teacher get away with his crime, further enraging Sachiko. |
| 499 | * HateSink: He helped the teacher cover up his AttemptedRape and manslaughter of Sachiko just to preserve the school's reputation, and his spirit does not recognize that what he did was wrong. |
| 500 | * HitodamaLight: His only physical appearance is in this form. |
| 501 | * NeverMyFault: When he is being tortured by Sachiko's evil half, he protests as though he is an innocent victim, ignoring the role he played in concealing the truth of her death. |
| 502 | * SlaveToPR: He decides he would rather avoid a scandal involving his school than bring one of this teachers to justice for AttemptedRape of a student. |
| 503 | |
| 504 | !! '''Tropes for the Principal (Takamine Yanagihori) in the remake:''' |
| 505 | !Takamine Yanagihori |
| 506 | -->Voiced by: Taira Kikumoto |
| 507 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takamine.png]] |
| 508 | |
| 509 | The headmaster of Heavenly Host Elementary, he was [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-loved by the townspeople]] for his dedication to the school's success. Nevertheless, he was responsible for the 1953 incident when he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil attempted rape]] on Yoshie Shinozaki, his colleague and close friend, killing her by accident when she fell down the stairway making her escape. He killed [[HeKnowsTooMuch the only witness]], her daughter, by strangling her to death and was subsequently condemned to repeat his death again and again by the curse as retribution for his crimes. |
| 510 | ----- |
| 511 | * AbortedArc: Minor case, but Yoshie's post-mortem diary in ''Blood Covered'' implied he may have been possessed during his AttemptedRape. This was never followed up upon and an early conversation in ''Blood Drive'' that serves as a recap of the previous games makes no mention of it. |
| 512 | * AdaptationalVillainy: He was no saint in the PC-98 original, having covered up the AttemptedRape and accidental death of his own student in order to protect the school's reputation. But ''Blood Covered'' makes him even more monstrous by turning ''him'' into the attempted rapist who's responsible for all the suffering that ensues in the story. |
| 513 | * AssholeVictim: Even given how [[DrivenToMadness horrific]] his [[DrivenToSuicide final fate]] ends [[FateWorseThanDeath up being]], it's pretty much impossible to feel anything resembling pity for the man, given his actions [[GreaterScopeVillain form a major crux for just about everything bad that happened]] in the series, on ''top'' of being an [[AttemptedRape attempted rapist]] and [[WouldHurtAChild child-murderer]]. |
| 514 | * CompositeCharacter: Aside from using his power to coverup the truth in the game's backstory, ''he's'' the one guilty of AttemptedRape and causing the initial deaths in ''Blood Covered'', rather than the unnamed teacher in the PC-98 original. |
| 515 | * DisneyVillainDeath: He killed himself by jumping off a balcony. In the afterlife, he's made to do it again and again and again and again, and will more than likely keep doing it until the end of time. |
| 516 | * DrivenToMadness: After the incident, Sachiko's ghost began [[MindRape getting into his head]], causing him to believe that [[InsaneTrollLogic her hidden corpse could still tell someone about the murders]]. To prevent this, he [[TongueTrauma cut out her tongue]]. This didn't change anything, and Sachiko continued to deteriorate his mental stability until he committed suicide. |
| 517 | * DrivenToSuicide: In a desperate attempt to escape Sachiko ruining his mind, he jumped off his balcony to his death. It certainly killed him, but it didn't free him from her. For an added kick, he's forced to repeat this act, likely for all eternity. |
| 518 | * EvilPrincipal: He is here an attempted rapist who targeted school nurse Yoshie Shinozaki, accidentally killed her, then strangled Sachiko for witnessing it, condemning his soul to be tormented for eternity. |
| 519 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Bad enough he's dead in Heavenly Host, but he has to relive his death by jumping off the balcony of his office for the rest of eternity. |
| 520 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Almost everything wrong with the series all started with this bastard who tried to rape, then ended up killing Yoshie Shinozaki and then said it was an "accident." When her daughter Sachiko was the witness, he strangled her to death and hid her body in the basement. |
| 521 | * NeverMyFault: Even in death, he still blames his actions on a "temporary lapse in judgment," blaming it on Yoshie. |
| 522 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He's a small fry in the grand scheme of things and the Nirvana existed before him, but his murder of Sachiko is what allowed her to become a host for the Nirvana. |
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