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1Character sheet for the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/{{Rewrite}}''. Spoilers ahoy!
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6!!The Occult Club
7[[folder:Kotarou Tennouji]]
8!!Kotarou Tennouji
9[[quoteright:236:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chara_kotaro.png]]
10-> Voiced by: Creator/MasakazuMorita
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12Our protagonist. He's lighthearted, casual and prone to joking around, but he isn't close to anyone apart from Kotori and Yoshino. Beneath the jocular exterior lies a depressed person trying to rework his personality into someone who can form deeper relationships. Fortunately, he's mostly succeeded in this by the start of the series, though he doesn't take people seriously enough.
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14He conceals the power to "[[TitleDrop rewrite]]" himself, strengthening his abilities.
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16* AlienBlood: In Moon, his blood is greenish red [[spoiler:presumably because in Moon he starts out as basically a familiar thanks to the merging of all his possible selves.]]
17* TheAllConcealingI: When [[spoiler:memories of his past come up]] a lot of details about him are left pretty vague [[spoiler:which is elaborated on in Terra. Namely, he's about six years older than he seems.]]
18* AmbiguousDisorder: The game implies he might have mild Tourette's Syndrome or high-level Aspergers through his inability to process emotional feedback and continually say the worst possible things at the worst possible times.
19* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler:After his memory was scrambled following his run-in with the Key, Kotarou went from a gloomy and rude loner to a hyper social butterfly, albeit with [[StepfordSmiler private insecruities]]. It makes Kotori fear he may have ComeBackWrong.]]
20* BadassInANiceSuit: In the Akane Route he becomes her primary assistant and gets to wear a rather nice suit while doing so.
21* BlaseBoast: At the end of the Terra route [[spoiler:his familiar self calls traveling to the moon a simple hop.]]
22* BloodyMurder: Aurora smells faintly of blood and works better if his wrist has been injured. [[spoiler:Terra reveals that originally his power was to manipulate bodily fluids, including blood. In the character routes, the ability has been upgraded.]]
23* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: In Terra route [[spoiler:he guns down Kotori's familiarized parents in front of her after she admits tearfully that she's stayed with him and the Key this whole time because she just wants to enjoy the festival with him like he promised.]] He even gloats. If he hadn't, not only would [[spoiler:she have followed him into what he viewed as a suicide mission, but she also would have kept those same fake parents around. With them around, she would both fail to move on and drastically cut into her own life span.]]
24* BrilliantButLazy: In Terra route [[spoiler:when he was in Guardian he refrained from using his power]] and as such had the lowest test scores of his entire group, though his experience and level headed behavior tended to make up for it. [[spoiler:As anyone who has read up to this point knows, if he actually goes full throttle he is far beyond any other superhuman.]]
25* BroughtDownToNormal
26** [[spoiler:In Kotori's ending he loses his powers apparently as a consequence of Kagari using her dying moments to take them away.]]
27** [[spoiler:In Akane's endings his powers fade away after he first overuses them and then enters a sealed space without the life energy used to power them.]]
28* CallForward: [[spoiler:In Terra, we can see the proto gadfly Kotarou when he tricks a young Yoshino, though he doesn't recognize this part of his personality amongst all his angst.]]
29* CannotSpitItOut: In Lucia's route if Kotarou had just bothered to explain [[spoiler:why her poison didn't work on him]] a lot of misunderstandings could have been cleared up. On the other point of [[spoiler:Lucia wanting him to say he wanted to be with her out of love and not pity]] he can't be blamed, however. He ''did'' say it, but it apparently didn't count the first time.
30* CastFromHitPoints: Kotarou worries that using Rewrite may work like this. [[spoiler:The answer is yes and no and the severity varies by route. Normally, it ''would'' tap heavily into his life force, though ''really'' overdoing it would turn him into an immortal familiar like being.]] Normally this isn't a problem thanks to Kotori adding a piece of the Key's ribbon to him and setting up a contract that connects him to a wellspring of life energy. However, in Terra route, [[spoiler:he avoids the incident that nearly killed him and has to rely solely on his own life force. Despite rewriting himself little more than in the other routes, he is on the verge of death via lifeforce expenditure by the end.]]
31* CasualDangerDialogue: When nearing the end of the Asahi Haruka curse investigation, he reacts to the glass covering a photo of her breaking with a response boiling down to "Well, everyone gets embarrassed when someone sees an old picture of them." He even means it. [[spoiler:Why not? He knows Lucia wouldn't really hurt him.]]
32* CatchPhrase: Whenever Kotarou makes a friend, he shouts "Amigo!"
33* TheCharmer: Kotarou is capable of talking people into doing rather silly things. Yoshino calls it his skilled conversationalism with a great deal of irritation while Kotori is extremely impressed when he gets Chihaya to believe complete, utter nonsense about the spicy parfait challenge.
34* ChivalrousPervert: The best way to sum this up is that he makes a bet with Akane that if he can prove the supernatural, he gets to touch her breasts. However, to him, this is basically equivalent to 'And thus you will go out with me' rather than just being a chance to grope her. Fittingly, to be able to prove the supernatural you have to aim for Akane's route.
35* TheChosenOne: Unlike most superhuman "Eyes," Kotarou's ability to perceive the Key is solely due to [[spoiler:his presence at its "birth." His meeting with the Key]] kicks off the events of Rewrite and places him at the center of the story [[spoiler:though this usually means he screwed up.]]
36* CombatPragmatist: [[spoiler:Kotarou is efficient and brutal in Akane’s route to make up for his lack of pure ability.]]
37* DeceptiveDisciple: A positive version of the trope. [[spoiler:Esaka is his supporter and mentor and Kotarou truly respects him, but he betrays him and uses his position in Guardian to steal information. In the end, he kills Esaka in a duel.]]
38* DependingOnTheArtist: His [[spoiler:familiar]] form at the end of the Terra route looks different between the anime and visual novel. The anime version looks like [[spoiler:an older Kotarou in a suit with longer hair]] while the visual novel version has him [[spoiler:look a lot like Sakuya]].
39* {{Determinator}}: In the Chihaya route Kotarou is a pretty straight shonen hero, determinator status included. In other routes this also holds up.
40* {{Dismotivation}}: Kotarou’s attempts to improve his life are so half-hearted that they disgust Yoshino. He apparently doesn't even know the names of most of the classmates he acts all friendly towards because he doesn't consider them worth his time, putting in doubt how much he really wants to get along with everyone.
41* TheDitherer: In the Terra route, [[spoiler:his fear of having to betray his comrades causes him to slow down his progress through Guardian and Gaia even as he insists he's working hard.]]
42* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: After rewriting himself before the story begins, he began breaking stuff on accident if he doesn't watch his own strength. Before going into Akane's room for the first time he breaks the lock and Kotori mentions a faucet he broke before. It's one of the early hints that there's more to him than there seems.
43* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Akane in her route, after the one year timeskip.]]
44* EnergyWeapon: [[spoiler:He learns how to create "aurora," which he usually fashions into claws or a sword, at the end of most versions of the Common route. He only manages this at the very end of the Lucia and Terra routes.]]
45* EverybodyKnewAlready: Kotarou tries to hide his Rewrite ability, but certain people figure it out immediately.
46** Sakuya knows at a glance that Kotarou can rewrite himself [[spoiler:because he used to have the same power.]]
47** Akane's route and Moon indicate that [[spoiler:Akane knows Kotarou's true age and who he used to be. Why not? He saved her as a little girl. She apparently used her abilities to wake him from his coma and alter his memories, leading to the present.]]
48** Terra retroactively shows that Kotarou's attempts to hide his powers [[spoiler:from Esaka, Nishikujou and Imamiya]] were a waste of time. [[spoiler:He knew them six to ten years ago when he was in Guardian.]]
49** Also in Terra, Kashima Sakura figures out he's a superhuman... but she doesn't care, because he's not associated with Guardian.
50* EveryoneHasStandards: Kotarou may be a massive troll, but he makes a point of keeping people's financial troubles off limits.
51* ExplainingYourPowersToTheEnemy: Generally averted. Kotarou hates telling anyone what his ability is, especially in Terra. At one point he tells Esaka that he has the ability to stop himself from bleeding. While true, this is obviously not his power. And Esaka is a ''friend'', meaning everyone else gets even less information than that.
52* {{Familiar}}: [[spoiler:His near-death at the hands of Kagami left him revived as Kotori's pseudo-familiar.]] How that plays out depends on the route:
53** In Sizuru's route, [[spoiler:he becomes 100% familiar, and Kotori transfers his ownership to Sizuru, though Kotarou breaks the contract to avoid draining Sizuru's life.]]
54** In the Terra route, [[spoiler:he becomes a familiar after over using Rewrite and is eventually contracted to the five heroines in the epilogue.]]
55* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are a lot of hints that [[spoiler:Kotaro is older than he seems]] in the character routes as well as [[spoiler:a former Guardian agent.]]
56** His older neighbors are puzzled with him [[spoiler:since they remember him being five to ten years older]] while newer neighbors treat him like normal.
57** When Kotarou talks in passing about [[spoiler:a popular tune from his childhood]] his peers don't recognize it at all [[spoiler:but Nishikujou does.]]
58** Characters like [[spoiler:Imamiya and Esaka]] look at Kotarou oddly and have some curiously about him even though he doesn't know them at all.
59* TheGadfly: Kotarou likes to pick on people, especially the likes of Yoshino or Chihaya, though nobody is safe.
60--> Shizuru: “What was the point of that?”
61--> Kotarou: “I just wanted to make you meow.”
62* GenerationXerox: He has a lot in common with Sakuya.
63** They share [[spoiler:the Rewrite ability,]] and both of them [[spoiler:gave everything they could to protect a single person.]] In Shizuru's route, like Sakuya, [[spoiler:he fails to stop Salvation and becomes a tree, but his girlfriend made it through.]]
64** In the Terra Route Kotarou does the exact same thing Sakuya did, and [[spoiler:rewrites himself into a tree after he fails to protect his love.]] There's even a short scene right before, where he [[spoiler:talks to Sakuya's spirit, and Sakuya mentions that Kotarou has now "taken his place completely". Sakuya ceases to exist completely.]]
65* HealingFactor:
66** Kotarou heals quite quickly after he rewrites himself enough to use Aurora.
67** In Chihaya's route, he increases his regeneration [[spoiler:in order to beat Midou the summoner.]] Sakuya dryly notes afterward when [[spoiler:Nishikujou attacks him]] that she'd have to cut him to ribbons if she wanted to kill him.
68* HeroicRROD:
69** In Shizuru’s route Kotarou does even more rewriting on himself and the downsides finally begin to appear [[spoiler:as his body begins minor mutations. It’s subverted near the end, however: Overuse causes immortality, not death.]]
70** In the Terra route, Kotarou [[spoiler:uses his entire lifespan as fuel for Rewrite. To stop himself from dropping dead right there so that he can get to Kagari, he rewrites his body one last time knowing it will make him a quasi immortal existence like Sakuya.]]
71* IdentityAmnesia:
72** Kotarou has some slight memory difficulties at the beginning of the story apparently as a result of a long illness. He's pretty fuzzy on the details of his illness, but he remembers enough of when he was young to know that he doesn't want to be the depressed loner that he was at his core. [[spoiler:He was a member of Guardian, but was almost killed when he tried to attack Kagari. Kotori used her powers to save him and he went into a coma. After being injected with Guardian's memory erasing drug, he forgot most of his past. Freed from that baggage, his personality changed like he had always wanted it to and he goes from the gloomy loner to the cheerful Kotarou that appears in the main story.]]
73** [[spoiler:Again in Terra Route's ending. The heroines decide to name him Pochi. {{Averted|Trope}} in Rewrite+ , where it's explicitly stated that he remembers every single route in the game.]]
74* ImNotAHeroIm: He's praised as the hero who saved evacuating refugees from certain doom on Akane's route, but he refuses to think of himself as anything but a villain [[spoiler:due to unknowingly helping Akane destroy the world in the first place]].
75* TheImmune: He rewrites himself to gain immunity to [[spoiler:Lucia's]] otherwise UniversalPoison on Lucia's route.
76* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: In Moon he attempts to rewrite his mind rather than his body [[spoiler:in order to understand the theory of life that Kagari is working on.]] Since he seems to have a better idea of what to do than when he tried it before the story started, it works... but it leaves him feeling cold, unhappy and isolated. [[spoiler:He reaches a point where he understands that love is a lie, which Sakura Kashima reached and despaired over, but then continues from there and finds it again on another level, at which point he returns more or less to normal.]]
77* IWillFindYou: While the promise to reunite with Kagari he embeded into her Theory of Life was just meant as a momento, [[spoiler:she used this promise to create finish her theory and bind him into finding his way back to her, with the torches on each option in the Terra route representing his subconscious pursuit of her. The VN implies (and the anime confirms) that he finally does find her again on the moon.]]
78* JerkassToOne: Kotarou's TheGadfly in general, but he has a special fondness for teasing Chihaya that doesn't go unnoticed.
79* KindHeartedCatLover: Kotarou enjoys feeding the local cats, especially the one that always hisses at him before taking the food he offers.
80* LiminalBeing: In a couple ways. [[spoiler:He's already half-familiar by the time the story starts]]; he can start transitioning fully into a familiar on Chihaya's route, making him immune to drugs that only work on humans or familiars; and he's both a superhuman and a summoner, which require completely contradicting mindsets.
81* LivingEmotionalCrutch: During Moon route, Kagari becomes a crutch for him because there is no one else around and he can't take solitude. He convinces himself that their relationship[[note]]Kagari eventually deciding to stop killing him on sight[[/note]] is sacred and precious. When he finds more people to talk to, suddenly he's not spending much time with her.
82* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:Kotori, Akane, Esaka, Nishikujou, and Imamiya all know the truth to his forgotten past, and all of them make sure he doesn't figure it out.]]
83* MaliciousMisnaming: Sakuya constantly insults Kotarou by getting his name wrong. Fatarou (Yotarou) is his favorite.
84* MoralityChain: He's one to [[spoiler:Lucia]] on her route. She has to deliberately cut contact with him to agree to Brenda's insane plan, and even then he still manages to pull her back from the brink.
85* MundaneUtility: Kotarou decides that the blades he can manifest from his wrist are not suited for cooking. He did try though!
86* NeverGetsDrunk: Kotarou notes early in Terra that he can't get drunk and thus drinking holds little appeal. Most superhumans also break down alcohol too quickly to feel any effects from it.
87* NiceJobBreakingItHero
88** In Shizuru's route, Kotarou's carelessness [[spoiler:gets Shizuru disabled for the majority of the fight with Gaia. Since she's one of their best fighters, Guardian is too late in getting to the Key and only barely manages to evacuate anyone into their shelter. The world is reduced to a known population of fifty people by the time they exit as well as Kotarou in tree form, who can probably turn himself into a human form again.]]
89** Kotarou sides with Akane without really questioning what she’s doing. It's made clear that this is very stupid before any consequences show up. [[spoiler:She sets off the apocalypse. The story really seems to enjoy pointing out just how badly Kotarou screwed up, especially when it was obvious that he could have stopped it.]]
90* NotNowKiddo: Nobody takes his claims of being haunted seriously. [[spoiler:If they had, they'd have found the Key in ten minutes. Kotori knew what was going on but didn't want to think about it. Akane may have figured it out, but did nothing.]]
91* ObliviousToLove: Shizuru is apparently not even a blip on the radar throughout the common route unless you're pursuing her ending, at which point he's not sure a relationship would be a good idea. Nor is Lucia despite her extremely tsundere attitude. [[spoiler:He has his suspicions about Kotori, though, despite her doing everything she can short of saying 'I don't like you.']]
92* OlderThanHeLooks: [[spoiler:He's in his mid-twenties, having not physically aged much since becoming a half-familiar.]]
93* PlantPerson: [[spoiler: His fate in Shizuru's route, in which, like in Sakuya's backstory, he becomes a plant as a result of using the Rewrite power to survive the end of the world.]]
94** In Moon, there's an odd sequence where a temporally displaced Kotarou sits still for a few months and slowly begins forming roots into the ground. Leaves grow out of his fingernails.
95** [[spoiler:Overuse of Rewrite will eventually turn him into a familiar in the shape of a tree, though he can assume a human form again.]]
96* PowerAtAPrice: Continued use of his power [[spoiler:[[CastFromLifespan uses up his lifespan]] and slowly transforms him into a familiar]].
97* PowerCopying: Kotarou can rewrite himself to gain someone else's superpower, though he only does it once [[spoiler:for Luis' spear throwing]].
98* PowerGlows: Apparently, Kotarou glows sometimes when he rewrites himself. It's not a consistent effect, however, depending on the writer. For example, when rewriting himself in Lucia's route no one comments, but in Chihaya's route or Terra they do.
99* PowerIncontinence: Kotarou's Rewrite ability only has an on switch. There is no off, so thanks to some rewriting he already applied to himself he can no longer do anything like participate in sports without drawing major attention.
100* ThePrankster: Though many of his pranks tend to backfire, especially against Lucia.
101* RealityWarper:
102** In the Moon Route, he obtained a weak version of this from [[spoiler:reading the theory of life.]] He used it to do some experimenting [[spoiler:and summon all the friends he made throughout the story.]]
103** In the joke ending, he rewrites the world so that humanity worships boobs.
104* ShapeshifterWeapon: Aurora. Kotarou spends a lot of time investigating its limits in Kotori's route. Other routes he just makes it up as he goes along.
105* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler:He's forced to kill Kagari at the end of Terra route in order to stop Salvation. It was no longer necessary but could not be stopped. In a way, the only reason for keeping Kagari alive was to figure out if they were on the right track for preventing humanity from destroying itself, which is what would happen if she were killed earlier.]]
106* StalkerWithACrush: Kotarou toes the line sometimes when it comes to Kotori. He follows her around as much as he can, right up to but not past the point where she'll start avoiding him.
107* TheStarscream:
108** [[spoiler:After he finds out the true nature of salvation, he betrays Akane in order to save her and the last vestiges of humanity in Kazamatsuri.]]
109** [[spoiler:He's also a Starscream to both Gaia and Guardian in the Terra Route where he works to bring down both organizations from the inside in order to help Kagari.]]
110* StepfordSmiler: Kotarou acts all friendly and happy, but he's actually pretty frustrated with his life and looks down on his peers.
111* StupidSacrifice: [[spoiler:After rewriting himself to not be a drain on Shizuru, Kotarou decides to stay for the end of the world for some reason. However, it turns out he did survive and while it seems he’s still a tree, Chihaya’s route shows that this is actually not permanent.]]
112* SurpassedTheTeacher: In the Terra route, [[spoiler:he finally manages to beat his teacher Esaka in their final fight to the death.]]
113* {{Synchronization}}: [[spoiler:After Shizuru barely manages to save Kotarou,]] the two become linked.
114* TomatoInTheMirror: Kotarou asks Kotori if [[spoiler:he’s a familiar.]] She doesn’t know, but suspects the answer is yes. The correct answer iiiis: [[spoiler:Not quite. He really didn’t die and thus isn’t a familiar, but his body is sustained like one. Also, the reason he's like that doesn't have much to do with Kotori, but she wouldn't know that.]]
115* TookALevelInBadass: His Rewrite ability's whole schtick is pretty much this. By concentrating, he can increase the effectiveness of his body's abilities, though he can't tone his strength, speed or other abilities back down afterward. In Chihaya and Akane's route as well as Moon and Terra we see just how many levels of badass he can push himself through.
116* VagueAge: It's not really clear how old he actually is, which only comes up in Terra. Everyone else's age is also pretty vague. The Friends section says that Kotori [[spoiler:is ten years younger]] but this doesn't actually match up with the facts. [[spoiler:This isn't helped by how much time passes, either. He graduates middle school at the beginning of Terra but then there's apparently a five year timeskip]] that goes unmentioned. Any guess [[spoiler:about his age]] could range from [[spoiler:five to ten years older than Kotori and the others.]]
117* VitriolicBestBuds: Kotarou pretends that he and Yoshino are best buddies, but Yoshino really is pretty pissed off with how Kotarou behaves. They are friends to an extent, though.
118* WeaksauceWeakness: His aurora blades cannot cut through konjac. No, this doesn't come up again.
119* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's extremely uncomfortable about the idea of supernatural phenomenon, which isn't helped by the fact that he knows at least some are real. Naturally, he ends up joining the occult club.
120* WillfullyWeak: Kotarou's power allows him to be physically stronger than most of his classmates. He chooses to not draw attention by rarely strengthening himself.
121* WistfulAmnesia: In Terra Kotarou has a very, very vague idea of [[spoiler:the path the world will take due to Moon Kagari planting inside him a tiny piece of information.]] It's so minor he isn't even aware of it. It allows him to [[spoiler:make the perfect decision in every meaningful junction of his life]] and leaves him with odd feelings. For example, he halfheartedly tries to [[spoiler:stop Kotori's parents from leaving on the trip that will kill them and has an unnatural attachment to Akane. It's also responsible for his attachment to Kagari.]]
122* WorldsStrongestMan: Potentially. Should he rewrite himself enough, his potential has no real limit. Doing so would probably not be a very good idea, however.
123* WouldntHurtAChild: He absolutely refuses to hurt children regardless of who asks. On the Terra route, [[spoiler:his squad commander]], [[spoiler:Suzaki]], and [[spoiler:Kagari]] all order him to kill a child, and he refuses everytime regardless of consequences.
124* WrongGenreSavvy: He frequently thinks of the world in terms of RPGElements, including CharacterLevel, "______ [[JoinedYourParty joins the party]]" when he is recruiting members for the club and how Lucia's punches deal [[{{Cap}} 9999]] [[OneHitKill damage]].
125[[/folder]]
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127[[folder:Kotori Kanbe]]
128!!Kotori Kanbe
129[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chara_kotori.png]]
130-> Voiced by: Creator/ChiwaSaito
131
132Kotarou's childhood friend, and an expert gardener. She's able to play along with Kotarou's attitude and jokes rather effectively, but is oddly resistant to any insinuations that she and Kotarou are an item and if he jokes too much about it he risks her withdrawing.
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134* AsleepInClass: Kotori spends most of her time in class sleeping.
135* BadLiar: When Kotarou tries to utilize her in his tricks her lies tend to be really transparent. [[spoiler:In truth, she's actually rather good at lying and hiding things.]]
136* BlankWhiteEyes: Kotori is frequently seen surprised with blank eyes.
137* BookDumb: She spends most of her time in class sleeping unless she's hanging out with Kotarou. However, she's actually very intelligent and perceptive and just likes goofing around in her spare time. For her, that means during class and eventually during the occult club.
138* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: [[spoiler:She rejected Kotarou's love confession before the story began and does so once again in her own route.]] Even in her own route, Kotori [[spoiler:transfers out of school without telling Kotarou because she is hiding Kagari from both Gaia and Guardian.]] She knows that it is a hopeless struggle and she would [[spoiler:most likely die when found, so she keeps herself distant from Kotarou to protect him.]] [[{{Determinator}} Doesn't stop him, anyway.]]
139* BullyMagnet: She was bullied in her childhood.
140* CaringGardener: Her main hobby is gardening and she's a kind-hearted, bubbly girl.
141* CassandraTruth: Kotarou writes off her claims of being an idol with tons of fans as just another one of her weird jokes. Turns out, she really is an idol in the gardening community with a ''very'' aggressive fanbase.
142* CelibateHeroine: She rejected Kotarou once before, but she didn't want to part from him. In her route, he tries confessing again and she explains that she has no intention of falling in love with anyone else or anything, so she'll just stay alone. [[spoiler:She likes Kotarou, but think he might be her slave. Furthermore, she's probably going to die young.]]
143* ChildhoodFriendRomance:
144** Kotori is one of the available heroines. Interestingly enough, she shows little interest in the idea leaving Kotarou to be the one enthusiastic about the idea. He actually confessed to her before, but got turned down [[spoiler:for several reasons, none of which is not liking him. First, she thinks he might just like her because he's possibly her familiar. Second, she worries that she might have 'killed' the original Kotarou and created this happy go lucky version. Third, her survival is highly unlikely and she doesn't want him to feel that loss.]]
145** In the route that unlocks after Kotori’s [[spoiler:she seems a little left out and sad, possibly because the events of the route show her that Kotarou didn’t confess to her because of the devotion a familiar feels.]]
146* DecoyProtagonist: She is the face character of the game, but her role is pretty small in the big picture. She's having more to do with the past than present. Of course, she still has her own route but pretty much disappears in every other routes but Moon and Terra. And everyone knows Kagari is the true heroine.
147* TheDitherer: Her biggest problem. [[spoiler:She '''knows''' that she needs to cut ties and fully dedicate herself to her Druid duties, but she can't resist spending time with Kotarou and her friends.]]
148* {{Druid}}: [[spoiler:Kotori, despite clearly despising Gaia's agenda, is a descendant of sorts of a group that would choose to protect the Key. In fact, the druids were once closely allied with them, but they seem to have died out.]]
149* EpicFail: [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall How she describes a]] BadEnd.
150-->You understand, right? If we get a Game Over here, we won't just go back to the title screen. [[IncendiaryExponent The disk explodes in a little fireball]].
151* EveryoneCanSeeIt: It's a minor RunningGag at the beginning of the game that everyone thinks that she and Kotarou are already a couple.
152* FlowersOfNature: She's a CaringGardener [[spoiler:and a Druid]] who wears large flower hair ornaments on both sides of her head.
153* GoldDigger: She claims that she wants Kotarou to make more money before their relationship can go anywhere.
154* GoodIsNotSoft: She's a kindhearted girl that hates violence, but [[spoiler:she won't hesistate to sic her familiars on anyone who threatens Kotarou or the Key.]]
155* GratuitousEnglish: Shake it now baby now!
156* GreenThumb: She's popular in town because pretty much any plant she touches springs to life. The Gardening club even worship her for her incredible ability.
157* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: Her ending in Harvest Festa. She and Kotarou got married after their graduation from high school]].
158* HealingShiv: She ''is'' one. Her punches actually heal Kotarou.
159* IdiotHair: She has one hair perpetually standing up and constantly acts like a complete dork. [[spoiler:She is secretly a genius, though.]]
160* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Kotori rejected Kotarou’s rejection before because she knew she probably couldn't have a normal life. And also because she’s not sure if he loves her because he genuinely cares about her or if he might be a familiar programmed into loving her. Either way, she feels it can’t work. In the route that follows this, she realizes it wasn't because he was a familiar, but now it's too late. It's implied that helps tie Kotarou to Shizuru instead of her herself after this.]]
161* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: On her route, she rejects Kotarou for the second time when he asks her to be his girlfriend, but she also agrees to go on a date with him and only turns away from his attempts to kiss her at the last moment.
162* MoneyFetish: Early on, Kotarou gets her to sleepwalk forward by jangling spare change in front of her. She also laments that girls can't get married when seeing how wealthy Chihaya is.
163* {{Necromancer}}: [[spoiler:While all summoners are necromancers, Kotori takes it a step farther by being the only summoner able to turn human corpses into familiars.]]
164* NiceGirl: A sweet, kind, and caring young girl.
165* OnlyFriend: She's mutually Kotarou's until they join the Occult Research Club.
166* RomanticRunnerUp: In any route but her own. It's not that Kotarou has stopped loving her, it's that he's found someone he loves more. This is especially true in Sizuru's route, where they have what's practically a break-up discussion even though they've never dated.
167* SecretSecretKeeper: She's one of the few characters aware that [[spoiler:Kotarou is actually OlderThanHeLooks]].
168* {{Sleepyhead}}: She has a habit of taking naps during class and out in the forest.
169* StepfordSmiler: Partially [[spoiler: Overall, at school and whenever she's with Kotarou and Occult Club's members, she is super energetic and cheerful. She seems to enjoy herself so much not only because school and friends are wonderful breaks from the tediousness and loneliness of her Druid job but also because she doesn't want anyone to notice and worry, especially Kotarou]].
170* TookALevelInKindness: When Kotori was a kid, she was kind of a jerk due to having been bullied, but mellowed out as she got older and gained more responsibilities.
171* TragicDream: [[spoiler:Kotori initially got her powers in an attempt to revive her dead parents. She tried her best in upholding the contract to protect Kagari, but she later realized that her "parents" were no different from zombies that moved to her commands.]]
172* TripleShifter: [[spoiler:She's working herself to death trying to protect the Key from either Gaia or Guardian getting her and has been doing it by herself for ten years.]] Small wonder she spends a lot of time sleeping.
173* UnresolvedSexualTension: While she keeps a clear space between Kotarou and herself and has rejected him once in the past, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone can tell their feelings for each other go beyond friendship.]]
174[[/folder]]
175
176[[folder:Shizuru Nakatsu]]
177!!Shizuru Nakatsu
178[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chara_sizuru.png]]
179-> Voiced by: Creator/KeikoSuzuki
180
181A first-year student and acquaintance of Kotarou. As a self-proclaimed "moral guard", she carries around a whistle to call out students on rules violations. While she is very serious and normally quiet, she also enjoys playing along with Kotarou's pranks. In fact, due to a rather obvious crush, she generally supports Kotarou in whatever he does. She wears an eyepatch, but at the start of the story Kotarou doesn't know why.
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183* ACupAngst: Shizuru has a mild dissatisfaction about being so short and flat. Kotarou thinks she could pass for a sixth grader. Not that he'd say that.
184* ActionGirl: Shizuru is a front line fighter.
185* BadassAdorable: Shizuru is probably the strongest character in the main cast at the start of the story. Kotarou can make himself tougher than her, though he normally doesn't, and under certain conditions Lucia can beat her.
186* BlemishedBeauty: Both of her eyes originally were blue until an incident where debris fell on her right eye. She used [[spoiler:her powers]] to heal her eye and it turned gold as a side effect. She prefers to keep her golden eye covered with an eyepatch, but she's still cute and Kotarou says her eye looks pretty when she takes off the eyepatch.
187* BullyMagnet: When she was a lot younger, she left her golden eye uncovered and got bullied for it. She now keeps her eye covered to avoid drawing attention.
188* CatSmile: Frequently, usually whenever enjoying her [[TrademarkFavoriteFood saury]].
189* CombatMedic: [[spoiler:Her main ability can create different kinds of medicine; she is also one of the strongest fighters of the group.]]
190* ComicallySerious: She plays along with Kotarou's jokes as much as Kotori, but unlike her she always looks completely serious.
191* CuteMute: She's generally very quiet, leaving Kotarou to interpret the facial expressions she makes for a large amount of their conversations. [[spoiler:She later loses her voice when she formed a contract with Kotarou. Everyone believed [[TheQuietOne she was just acting normally]] and thought it was adorable.]]
192* DodgeTheBullet: [[spoiler:She can drug herself into moving and reacting so quickly that a hallway filled with bullets is a cakewalk to move through unscathed.]]
193* ExtremeOmnivore: One of the lighter examples. She'll eat plants she finds in the forest or insects that she runs across. Well, only probably for the latter because Kotarou dares not turn around to confirm it. [[spoiler:The things she was eating were perfectly safe to eat, but even if they weren't Shizuru is immune to poison and disease.]]
194* GamerChick: Downplayed. She doesn't play often anymore, but due to playing a lot as a child, she is easily able to defeat Kotarou in fighting games.
195* GirlishPigtails: Kotarou seems to identify her by her hair a lot of the time. He considers the twintails to be a rare spawn monster at one point.
196* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has blonde hair, and is one of the nicest characters in the series.
197* HealingFactor: [[spoiler:Shizuru produces medicines and drugs in her body and can heal herself quite quickly. She can also heal others.]]
198* HealingHands: [[spoiler:She can heal people directly as well as produce medicine inside her body.]]
199* HumbleHero: Despite earning a lot of money working as a Guardian, she refuses to spend the money on luxuries and instead live in a simplistic tiny house. [[spoiler: Apparently, she's saving up money to buy her parents a dream home once they finally remember her.]]
200* InhumanEyeConcealers: Shizuru wears an eyepatch not because her right eye is damaged, but because she has heterochromia and being bullied for her golden eye made her self-conscious about it.
201* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Threatens Brenda with this.
202* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Shizuru has the power to control memories to an extent.]]
203* LiteralMinded: Shizuru gets some rather odd imagine spots at times due to not getting a lot of metaphorical speech.
204* NiceGirl: She has a kind, polite, and has an adorable personality, as evident with her interactions with Kotarou.
205* NonverbalMiscommunication: Played with. Kotarou likes attaching random meanings to Shizuru's expressions when she's being quiet and in truth even he thinks they’re complete nonsense, but it turns out he's actually frequently right.
206* OlderThanSheLooks: She's a first-year high school student, but Kotarou thinks she could pass for a sixth grader with the right clothes.
207* PowerIncontinence: When she was little, her control over her ability was not as refined and she accidentally [[spoiler:wiped herself from the memory of her parents.]]
208* PuppyDogEyes: Shizuru is quite the master of beseeching looks.
209* TheQuietOne: Shizuru isn't silent, but a large amount of her communication is just Kotarou reading her expressions.
210* ReadingLips: She knows how to read lips [[spoiler:which helped when she lost her hearing.]]
211* SecretlyWealthy: Shizuru would be a millionaire if you converted yen to dollars, but lives in a tiny, empty building and eats extremely cheap food. [[spoiler: Apparently, she is saving up money to buy her parents their dream home after accidentally wiping out their memories, showing that she still cares about her parents.]]
212* {{Sleepyhead}}: She tends to sleep in very late if she can and can often be found dozing in the courtyard at school when she has the time. It's indicated that this may be partially a result of her abilities.
213* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Her right eye is golden [[spoiler:because she regrew it improperly after it was destroyed by debris. This was one of the first really noticeable uses of her superhuman power to heal.]]
214* TokenMiniMoe: She's very short and young-looking and is mildly irritated over it.
215* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Saury. It reminds her of her family, though she always liked it.
216* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: [[spoiler:When she was younger, she and her parents were attacked by a Familiar and debris fell on them. Shizuru's healing powers awakened to heal her parents and her eye.]]
217[[/folder]]
218
219[[folder:Lucia Konohana]]
220!!Lucia Konohana
221[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chara_lucia.png]]
222-> Voiced by: Risa Asaki
223
224The ClassRepresentative of Kotarou's class. Kotarou seems to think of her as the stock uptight ClassRepresentative character. She's one of the more stereotypically violent tsunderes. In combination with her perceived neat freak attitude such as always wearing gloves she doesn't really have any friends apart from Shizuru. She has a reputation for a high tolerance to spicy foods.
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226* ActionGirl: She has rather high physical strength and doesn't hesitate to use it.
227* BadPowersGoodPeople: [[spoiler:Lucia’s abilities are making concentrated death and destroying things. She’s a little heavy on the tsuntsun but otherwise a perfectly kind person.]]
228* BigBadFriend: Lucia keeps trying to get Kotarou to drop the Asahi Haruka investigation because [[spoiler:she is Asahi Haruka. She hasn't done anything wrong, though.]]
229* BlankWhiteEyes: Lucia gains blank white eyes on occasion whenever Kotarou does something particularly surprising.
230* CerebusRetcon: Lucia's tolerance for spicy food is played for laughs. [[spoiler:In her route, you learn that she's actually incapable of tasting spicy food ''because of the drugs she is taking to suppress the deadly poison in her body.'']]
231* ClassRepresentative: Kotarou thinks of her as the classic uptight class rep that's obsessed with order and is convinced every school probably has their own Lucia in charge of a class.
232* CollateralAngst: Rather than dwell on [[spoiler:the people accidentally killed]] Lucia gets the lions share of the sympathy points in that story [[spoiler:while Kishida Ryuugo and the nurse]] are largely forgotten. Later, [[spoiler:Lucia intentionally kills two hundred thousand people]] and again the story focuses on her depression.
233* ComicallySerious: She takes Kotarou's comments about Chihya's robot powers completely seriously.
234* CordonBleughChef: She ''can'' cook, but when Kotori offers to swap items from their lunches Lucia declines because her meal was made more to look good than to taste good. Coupled with her extreme tolerance for spice it's questionable whether it was truly edible for anyone but her. [[spoiler:She has no sense of taste. She just has excellent control over how she perceives the world and if food looks good she can stimulate her brain into remembering how things tasted back when she did have a sense of taste. Thus, what she considers good food and what others consider good might very well not overlap in the slightest.]]
235* CovertPervert: As straight-laced as she is, she knowingly buys an eroge to try and please Kotarou and plans to make-out with him at nearly every free moment she has during her route. On the Terra route she shocks her friends by confusing their comments about a tree's size as a dirty joke.
236* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Subverted. Lucia pretends that Haruka is speaking through her mouth, but it’s pretty obvious that the two are the same person. It’s confirmed not much later.]]
237* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Having lived her life doomed to never touch another person, she seeks constant attention and affection once she and Kotarou start dating.
238* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: She can tolerate her [[spoiler:TouchOfDeath]] because she thinks her suffering can one day help people in the future. Once that feeling wanes she'll do ''anything'' to reclaim her purpose, even [[spoiler:committing mass murder.]]
239* DontYouDarePityMe: She doesn't want Kotarou to stay with her just because he pities [[spoiler:her cursed touch. She wants Kotarou to actually love her.]]
240* FriendlessBackground: When she was young she never had any friends. She still only has one friend at the start of the story, Shizuru.
241* FullNameUltimatum: Whenever she puts distance between herself and someone else she ends up referring to them by their full name, especially '''TENNOUJI KOTAROU!!'''
242* HairIntakes: Her hairdo has two of what look like cat ears.
243* HairTriggerTemper: A lot of her tsuntsun behavior is actually more a result of her being really easily angered rather than her necessarily covering up embarrassment or affection.
244* HealingFactor: Not most of the time, but [[spoiler:in an area filled with the poison she makes she possesses a healing factor even stronger than Shizuru's.]]
245* InsecureLoveInterest: Once she and Kotarou start dating she needs a lot of affection just to assure her he actually loves her. [[spoiler:And even that barely works, as she still thinks he's just pitying her.]]
246* KatanasAreJustBetter: Despite the fact that a sword really isn't the most efficient of weapons, it's the weapon she favors. [[spoiler:She can't use guns, after all. Also, with her vibration powers her attacks are much more effective.]]
247* MegatonPunch: Lucia is fond of decking Kotarou when he does something that at least looks perverted. She eventually promises to stop mid route.
248* MySisterIsOffLimits: She's not Shizuru's sister, but because of her overprotectiveness the rest of the club starts thinking of her as Shizuru's sister in law when Shizuru and Kotarou start getting closer.
249* NeatFreak: She has a reputation as a neat freak thanks to the white gloves she always wears. It causes her some social problems because when she has to touch living things she begins calling everything filthy and absolutely refuses to do so. [[spoiler:She actually considers ''herself'' filthy: Touching a cat even through the gloves could be putting it in danger if it touches her wrist or anything.]]
250* OnlyFriend: Shizuru is Lucia’s only close friend. [[spoiler:Only she can resist the toxins that Lucia continuously creates.]]
251* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:When her powers are cranked up on her route she easily massacres hundreds of thousands in Kazamatsuri.]]
252* PoisonIsCorrosive: Anything receiving a sufficiently high level of poison will blacken and crumble within seconds.
253* PoisonousPerson: Lucia has nightmares where her touch is so filthy and impure that it causes anything she touches to wither, rot and die. [[spoiler:Thanks to experiments designed to allow Lucia to survive in toxic environments, she herself releases a poison that kills all living beings that touch her. She can control it somewhat, but not turn it off entirely. And that’s with suppressants.]]
254* PowerIncontinence: She tends to break complex things around her thanks to her [[spoiler:vibration ability. She also breaks people, animals, plants and bacteria since she's a poison factory.]]
255* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler:Apart from her poisonous touch,]] Lucia has mild telekinetic abilities, though they're not very useful.
256* SensoryOverload: An inadvertent example. [[spoiler:After she stops taking the suppressants that dull all her senses]] she perceives the world much more strongly than usual, causing her to feel overloaded, drained and slightly feverish. It cuts into her date with Kotarou [[spoiler:but not as much as when she poisons the town moments later, killing every leaving organism inside that lacks protection. It's implied that her holding in her poison may have been what was really responsible, making it a possible invocation and subversion.]]
257* SuperHeroOrigin: Lucia doesn't seem to be a normal super power user like Shizuru or Kotarou. Rather, [[spoiler:her poisonous person abilities and vibration power are the result of an experiment performed on a large amount of orphans. She was the only survivor.]]
258* SuperpowerMeltdown: [[spoiler:Lucia’s suppressants stop working in every route, after which she has to live inside bunkers until a new one can be developed. In her own route, her body is fiddled with so that she makes even more poison after this. This already makes her unsafe to be around for anyone but Kotarou or a few special individuals, but then she’s manipulated into setting them off. The entire town of Kazamatsuri is killed. Plants, animals and people. In theory, even the bacteria are dead.]]
259* TouchOfDeath: In a nightmare that she has, things Lucia touches with her hands die. She’s worried that it happens for real, but it’s noted that it was just a string of bad luck that gave her classmates that impression. [[spoiler:Turns out she really does have it and can only really minimize the effects.]]
260* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Lucia has a reputation for loving spicy food and seems confused when people react with shock to her enjoyment of it. [[spoiler:She has no sense of taste.]]
261* {{Tsundere}}: Kotori catches on pretty quickly to Lucia's attitude. It's partially intentional since she’s interested in Kotarou but [[spoiler:has only partial control over her abilities]], so she tries to keep him distant from her. Not that it’s entirely a pose, as she quickly makes clear.
262* WalkingTechBane: [[spoiler:Lucia destroys anything like complex machinery quickly when she touches it, so for the most part she can’t normally use stuff like that without taking some form of suppressant. She can’t even reliably use a gun.]]
263* WalkingWasteland: [[spoiler:As a result of Guardian's experiments, and the reason she wears gloves.]]
264[[/folder]]
265
266[[folder:Akane Senri]]
267!!Akane Senri
268[[quoteright:296:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chara_akane.png]]
269-> Voiced by: Creator/EriKitamura
270
271[[ClubPresident President]] of the Occult Research Club, and the "mysterious witch" of the school. She's very aloof from the group and only interacts frequently with Kotarou himself and to a lesser extent Chihaya and Sakuya. She's quite fond of teasing Kotarou. Like Chihaya, she doesn't seem to have had any friends prior to the story beginning. Unlike Chihaya, she's still not very good at it during the story.
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273* AgentScully: Appears as one, [[spoiler: but is actually maintaining the {{Masquerade}} by erasing any evidence that Kotarou finds.]]
274* TheAtoner: On her route, Kotarou forces her to atone for [[spoiler:destroying the world]], but it takes her a while to build enough courage to face the world. [[spoiler:She does come to accept living in exile with Kotarou]].
275* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:She's one of the leaders of Gaia and the direct subordinate of the real boss. Gaia has at least two major factions and Akane's is the one that wants to end the world, though she doesn't seem thrilled about it. However, despite this, she persists. In Chihaya's route she apparently prevents the Song of Salvation, but then goes nuts when she sees all the bad memories of mankind and nearly ends the world herself. In both her own and Shizuru's route she succeeds.]]
276* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: It's magic, honest!
277* BlatantLies: Whenever Kotarou manages to show her an ''actual'' supernatural event she can only awkwardly give blanantly fake technobabble to try and baffle him with bullshit.
278* BrilliantButLazy: She's quite clever and witty, but she hates exerting herself. She doesn't even seem to go to class for exams, making it unclear why she goes to school at all.
279* ClubPresident: She's officially the leader of the Occult Club, though it was actually already disbanded. Plus, Kotarou tends to be the one who actually tries investigating occult stuff.
280* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She has yellowish-white eyes and hair.
281* FriendlessBackground: The idea of friends is something that's rather foreign to Akane. She seems slightly bemused that she actually cares about people like Kotarou.
282* GamerChick: Almost never seen in the club room without her laptop and playing games.
283* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:In Chihaya's route, Akane manages to capture Kotori and the Key. Right when she's deciding that she doesn't need to cause the end of the world anymore, the Key shows her the worst memories of mankind and she goes absolutely insane. She’s furious that the Key saw enough good that it decided not to wipe out humanity and decides to do it herself.]]
284* {{Hikikomori}}: She hates going outside or interacting with new people.
285* LazyBum: She hates having to go out and meet people.
286* NotSoAboveItAll: Akane likes to act as the OnlySaneMan, but even apart from her obvious eccentricities she’s really determined to disprove anything occult based due to the groping bet made at the beginning. The lengths she goes to for this are quite impressive. She also joins in on the antics occasionally despite her protests.
287* {{Ojou}}: She was adopted by an old, influential woman with ties to the Martel Corporation. Whenever Kotarou catches her by surprise, though, she's usually ruining whatever dignity and elegance she has. She's also fairly vulgar.
288* OnlySaneWoman: Akane, despite calling herself a witch, is the only one with a firm grasp on reality. She's also the only one who seems to really notice what a bunch of weirdos have gathered in the club room. [[spoiler:It later turns out that her 'firm grasp on reality' thing was her covering up incidents that she actually knew to be true while exposing those that were genuinely fake.]]
289* ReluctantPsycho: [[spoiler:She does not really seem to enjoy her job and faces it with sheer resignation. When she wins in Shizuru's route, she's depressed. She does not really want to become the Holy Woman either and when she inherits the job in her route she starts slipping quickly under the weight of the inherited grudge despite knowing and hating what she's doing.]]
290* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: She abuses her wealth and influence to get credits even when not attending classes. She also gave her secretary a teaching position in school.
291* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Is on the receiving end of a harsh one from [[spoiler: Koutarou]].
292-> '''[[spoiler: Koutarou]]''': You've always been relying on someone or something else. Have you ever wanted to get strong yourself?
293* TheTell: She lets out a "gngh" whenever Kotarou shows her a something actually supernatural. Choose your events right and Kotarou can pick up on it.
294* TransferableMemory: [[spoiler:Her ability to "heal" people with broken minds is really just turning a part of their brain into a familiar. She then transcribes some of her memories to "fix" them.]]
295[[/folder]]
296
297[[folder:Chihaya Ohtori]]
298!!Chihaya Ohtori
299[[quoteright:326:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chara_chihaya.png]]
300-> Voiced by: Saya Shinomiya
301
302A new student who [[NewTransferStudent transfers]] to Kotarou's school and class early in the story. Prior to transferring she had never really had any friends and can be a little awkward around others. This is not helped by her both being an obvious tsundere and not being terribly intelligent. She also appears to be quite wealthy and has a seemingly perfect personal butler named Sakuya to attend to her.
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304* ActionGirl: She has immense strength, but doesn't directly most of the time.
305* BigEater: Chihaya eats constantly. Kotarou figures that the constant eating is how she manages to keep her strength up since she’s not particularly muscular. He's wrong.
306* BlankWhiteEyes: Frequently; possibly more often than the rest of the cast combined.
307* BlindObedience: She follows [[spoiler:Gaia]] without ever really thinking about why. When she actually does stop to think about it on her and Sizuru's route, she decides [[spoiler:to quit]].
308* ButtMonkey: Chihaya is the butt of numerous jokes.
309* CuteClumsyGirl: Presumably because she’s so strong and durable that she doesn’t need to worry about being careful.
310* DelayedReaction: Chihaya has a tendency to not react to things properly until a bit of time has already passed.
311* TheDitz: Kotarou loves teasing her because she's not very smart. In spite of this, she is much wiser than she appears.
312* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: If she stops paying attention she throws too much strength into her activities and risks breaking things. However, this rarely happens.
313* DoomedHometown: [[spoiler:She is from a village of summoners, which was razed by Guardian when she was a child.]]
314* FriendlessBackground: Kotarou is her first real friend.
315* FriendToAllLivingThings: Chihaya can get along well with the legendary Hissy Cat. She indicates that she's used to this sort of thing.
316* GirlishPigtails: She keeps part of her hair tied up into twintails.
317* IdiotHair: She has one hair perpetually standing up.
318* ImprobableWeaponUser: At one point, she uses a telephone pole to fight off several familiars.
319* NewTransferStudent: She transfers in at the beginning of October and gets lost in town before making it to school successfully. She never acquires the right school uniform either.
320* NoSenseOfDirection: If you don't watch her like a hawk she'll wander off the moment you take your eyes off of her and get completely lost.
321* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:Sakuya views Chihaya as one to extent. Though he scorns himself for it, it’s actually a positive example of the trope.]]
322* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:In her own route and Shizuru's route, she chooses to leave Gaia rather than keep fighting. In Akane's route, she presumably quits as well and Kotarou never sees her again.]]
323* SignatureHeadgear: She always wears two wing-like hair clips to decorate her GirlishPigtails.
324* SuperStrength: She's even stronger than Kotarou [[spoiler:as a result of her contract with Sakuya.]]
325* TooMuchAlike: She suspects this is why she and Lucia fight so much: they're both so convinced they're the most miserable girl in the world that seeing someone else vie for that title just highlights their problems.
326* TransferStudentUniforms: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] - her new uniform turned up in the wrong size. In fact, it's Sakuya's size, because she thought he needed a uniform too.
327* {{Tsundere}}: Chihaya is a fairly obvious tsundere, though this is mostly because Kotarou is pretty fond of teasing her and she's still not as blatant as Lucia. He catches on quickly in her route.
328* VerbalTic: Chihaya overuses desu and also pronounces it fully instead of the normal 'des' sound.
329[[/folder]]
330
331[[folder:Sakuya Ohtori]]
332!!Sakuya Ohtori
333[[quoteright:144:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sakuya_ohtori_profile.png]]
334->Voiced by: Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi
335
336Sakuya is Chihaya's bodyguard and butler. He is amazingly strong, fast, {{Bishonen}} and durable. On top of this, he is excellent at essentially everything. Unfortunately for Kotarou, he seems to have gotten on Sakuya's bad side almost immediately and thus has to endure a constant rain of insulting nicknames.
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339* TheAce: Sakuya is amazing at essentially everything.
340* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: [[spoiler:In Chihaya's route and the Moon route, he takes on an alternate form larger than any other familiar in the story.]]
341* BattleButler: He's officially Chihaya's butler, though he tries to claim at first that he's her brother. Personally, he refers to himself as her knight, which shows his sheer resolve to protect her no matter what.
342* BishieSparkle: When asked to go outside the clubroom, he wanders the hallways being gorgeous and charming, making many girls quickly fall for his bishie sparkles.
343* BlankWhiteEyes: Complete with black screen and cold wind whenever Chihaya makes a comment that hurts him.
344* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:In Moon Route Sakuya shows up after Lucia, Kotori, Sakuya HB, Akane and all the normal people Kotarou called for have fallen. His presence alone is enough to help turn the tide of battle for the moment.]]
345* CherryBlossomGirl: Gender-inverted. His name even sounds like Sakura, and [[spoiler: as a man who transformed into a cherry tree, and then reborn as a familiar, the affiliation is fairly explicit]].
346-> Sakuya: [[spoiler: "Chihaya-san... all cherry blossoms fall apart eventually. It's in their nature.]]
347* ChickMagnet: Whenever he walks the halls, crowds of fangirls gather to gush over him.
348* ClothFu: His secondary ability [[spoiler:and the one that differentiates him from Kotarou, who instead has body fluid control/Aurora]] is the ability to manipulate cloth.
349* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:He merges all of his potential selves together to arrive in the Moon route, meaning his death there eliminates him from any possible future.]]
350* FailureKnight: Sakuya protects Chihaya because he failed to protect [[spoiler:the woman he loved from Salvation.]]
351* TheGadfly: He claims to hate Kotarou and constantly screws with him, but mostly just seems to enjoy teasing him.
352* GenerationXerox: Kotarou is this to him in the Chihaya Route.
353** [[spoiler: It is even more true in the Shizuru route, in which Kotarou also fails to stop Salvation, and becomes a tree]].
354** At the end of the Terra route, Kotarou has [[spoiler:become a tree familiar contracted to Chihaya (among the others) after failing to save the girl he loves. His familiar form even looks a lot like Sakuya.]]
355* HeroicSacrifice:
356** [[spoiler:In Chihaya’s route, Sakuya sacrifices himself to save Chihaya, Kotarou and Akane. However, Akane takes his body and turns it into a giant monster. He’s returned to normal, but this doesn’t save him.]]
357** [[spoiler:In Moon Route, he comes to the aid of the group by fusing all of his potential existences together. It does get him to the battle, but at the cost of sacrificing himself from ever existing in any recreated world.]]
358* HypocriticalHumor: Sakuya criticizes Kotarou for openly thinking the miso soup Chihaya made was terrible, but similarly collapses himself moments later.
359* IHatePastMe: In a manner of speaking. Sakuya refers to and thinks of Kotarou as his past self, though they're entirely different individuals. Because of this, he is somewhat ashamed to see Kotarou and treats him quite hostilely.
360* JerkassToOne: Sakuya is a perfectly polite butler to everyone but Kotarou, whom he treats with open contempt.
361* MyGreatestFailure: Sakuya was unable to protect [[spoiler:his love Minata]].
362* ParentalSubstitute: Sakuya largely serves as Chihaya’s father figure, though he’d prefer to be thought of as her big brother.
363* PlantPerson: [[spoiler:Since becoming a familiar.]]
364* PowerLimiter: [[spoiler:Sakuya has voluntarily sealed a portion of his power into Chihaya herself in order to limit the amount of lifeforce he drains from her, which is what gives her her SuperStrength. When facing an opponent that may require the full scope of his abilities, Chihaya can return the power he granted her, reducing her to a normal human while elevating his powers beyond his initial limits.]]
365* PrettyBoy: Kotarou irritably notes that with Sakuya's looks and personality he would be very popular.
366* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Sakuya is from a previously wiped out civilization of an unknown age. Shizuru's route mentions seventy thousand year old civilizations and Moon route implies that there are many much older than that ''that.'' That said, he spent most of that time as a tree. When the tree starts dying, Sakuya goes with it.]]
367* RedEyesTakeWarning: Sakuya’s eyes are a pretty good hint that there’s more to the guy than just some goofy guy that makes fun of Kotarou.
368* RetGone: [[spoiler:His death in Moon Route wiped his existence from all future possible worlds. He somehow managed to appear one last time in Terra route.]] [[spoiler:{{Averted|Trope}} in the UpdatedRerelease. He never shows up in Terra. He's really gone.]]
369* SpotlightStealingSquad: Chihaya's route is actually at least as much about Sakuya as Chihaya herself, if not more. Lampshaded in ''Anime/{{Kaginado}}''.
370--> '''Chihaya:''' It was my route... Why do people call it the "Sakuya route"?!
371%%* TallDarkAndHandsome
372* ThouShaltNotKill: While he still fights against [[spoiler:Guardian]], he makes sure to never kill because he knows Chihaya wouldn't approve.
373* {{Tsundere}}: A rare, non-romantic example. In her route, Chihaya mentions that Sakuya doesn't actually hate Kotarou nearly as much as he pretends to.
374* UndyingLoyalty: He doesn't just follow Chihaya because [[spoiler:he's her familiar]], he honestly places her desires above all else. He'll easily [[spoiler:betray Gaia]] if that's what she wants, and on the Moon route he [[spoiler:sacrifices his entire existence just to fight with her even as she notes there's no actual contract in place.]]
375* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:He used to be a human before rewriting himself so many times he became a familiar.]]
376* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Sakuya is so afraid of cats that he completely freezes up.
377* WorldsStrongestMan: His title as "the strongest [[spoiler:familiar]] in [[spoiler:Gaia]]" isn't just for show; Sakuya is essentially a OneManArmy.
378[[/folder]]
379
380[[folder:Kagari]]
381!!Kagari
382[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chara_kagari.png]]
383-> Voiced by: Creator/KanaHanazawa
384
385She is the Key that Gaia and Guardian are seeking - a kind of familiar produced by the Earth.
386-----
387
388* ACupAngst: [[OutOfCharacterMoment In the Oppai Ending]], she reveals that she has chest size issues.
389* TheAloner: Moon Kagari is trapped alone on the desolate moon with only her memories of Kotarou to comfort her. [[spoiler:The VN's ending implies and the anime's ending confirms that she finally reunites with Kotarou after he becomes a familiar.]]
390* AntiGravityClothing: Her magical floating ribbons.
391* ApocalypseMaiden: The Key is here to observe mankind and see if they the world should be [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt saved.]]
392* BreakingTheFourthWall: In the Oppai Ending, she laments how few lines she has compared to the other heroines.
393* ClothingAppendage: Her clothes and ribbons are actually a part of her body and can be changed or removed at will.
394* ClothingCombat: She uses her ribbons to fight.
395* CuteMute: In several routes, she's barely capable of speech. She's capable of learning to speak any human language very quickly, but is frequently kept from learning anything since being in the outside world puts her in danger of being discovered.
396* DefrostingIceQueen: She starts showing more emotions when she interacts more with Kotarou.
397* DitzyGenius: She's so intelligent the human brain isn't even capable of comprehending what she knows, but human society is outside her expertise, leading to brilliant suggestions like "use a single tank to take over the world."
398* ElegantGothicLolita: She wears a black gothic lolita style dress.
399* EmotionlessGirl: During most routes she is very inexpressive and inhuman, so she kind of creeps Kotarou out on the few occasions he sees her.
400* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:She doesn't want to cause Salvation, but it's not something she can control. She's trying to find a perfect solution that allows humanity to survive but can't find one.]]
401* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler:Despite trying to save humanity, Kagari is kind of an impatient jerk. She can also be pretty callous.]]
402* ImprobableWeaponUser: She has long red ribbons attached to her wrists that act upon her will.
403* InvisibleToNormals: The Key cannot be seen by most people. It’s not that she’s invisible, but people just sort of overlook her. She places a lot of faith in this ability [[spoiler:which is generally how she gets found: She doesn't take proper precautions to hide normally and just assumes that if no one can see her it's okay to leave plenty of evidence about where she is.]]
404* KilledOffscreen: It's confirmed she dies to [[spoiler:Lucia's]] poison on Lucia's route, but we never actually see her.
405* LackOfEmpathy: She's born as a basically BlankSlate that is here to judge humanity and see if they can coexist properly with the Earth and at the beginning has no real intellect or emotion. After developing intellect, she still has nothing like human emotion or empathy. In some routes, she has no real humanity or emotion. In Terra [[spoiler:he learns that she really does want to save humanity, but she's brutally pragmatic and wishes to kill Akane even though she's not even capable of speech or telling anyone that she saw Kagari.]] Kotarou is appalled [[spoiler:though he agrees that she might be right.]]
406* LittleMissAlmighty: Moon!Kagari managed to create a massive number of alternate realities entirely on her own, then essentially set fate for the Terra route.
407* MacGuffinSuperPerson: She is the Key that two secret societies, Guardian and Gaia, are fighting to secure.
408* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Her idea of problem solving in Moon seems to always involve 'kill the annoyance' and in Terra [[spoiler:she always urges Kotarou to hurry up and massacre Gaia and Guardian or to take over the world.]]
409* MysticalWaif: She looks like a little girl and wanders around investigating the planet and humanity, but is in fact the Key that can trigger the apocalypse.
410* MysticalWhiteHair: Her white hair isn't commented upon, but she's a clearly inhuman entity with great power and ability.
411* OnlyOneName: She's only known as the Key or Kagari and the latter isn't quite her name either. She gets a last name in Harvest Festa, though.
412* PerceptionFilter: Only a few humans can actually see her. Familiars are better at it, though. Everyone else just sort of tunes her out.
413* RedStringOfFate: She's the main heroine who's red ribbon is conspicuously embedded in Kotarou's right arm. Even when he rewrites himself to another dimension in the Moon route, her ribbon can still pull him back to her.
414* ReiAyanamiExpy: Silver hair? Check. Pale skin? Check. Mysterious and unsettling emotionless demeanor? Check. Inhuman entity with great power? Check. Shows more emotions thanks to the main character? Check.
415* StarfishLanguage: In Moon route, she speaks in a highly advanced way that it appear as "■ ■ ■ ■ ■". Kotarou's head hurts just from hearing it. Kagari is also not really her name but implied to be a description of what she is, but she cannot state that any more clearly than the word 'Kagari.'
416* TechnicolorEyes: She has deep lavender-coloured eyes, another sign of her inhuman nature.
417* ThirdPersonPerson: She uses the third person in Terra, the first route where she really begins to speak. It's not quite cute so much as viewing herself as something that fulfills a role rather than an individual.
418* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The first way Kotarou manages to get through to her in Moon is by sharing coffee with her. After her initial disinterest, she seems to grow pretty fond of it.
419* UncannyValleyGirl: The Key in Kotori and Shizuru’s route is highly alien and doesn’t really feel like a human. [[spoiler:In Kotori’s route it can barely speak or do anything that Kotarou is capable of interpreting easily. In Shizuru’s it’s more talkative, but still incapable of interacting with him in a way he can appreciate.]] She's closer to this in her own route (in the anime and the upcoming Plus expansion) and in ''Harvest festa!'', where she joins the school as a regular student and tries to be popular, but is ''just'' a little weird. All right, a lot.
420* TheUnfettered: Her goal is to save humanity and she'll do ''anything'' to accomplish it. Only [[spoiler:dooming her beloved Kotarou to the [[TraumaCongaLine horrors of the Terra route]]]] is enough to bother her, and even that doesn't stop her.
421* WalkingSpoiler: Considering she has basically no character traits for most of the story, it's hard to talk about her without revealing that she's not only GoodAllAlong, but the main heroine to boot.
422* {{Workaholic}}: Moon route Kagari spends centuries at ''minimum'' doing nothing but working on her Theory of Life.
423[[/folder]]
424
425!!Guardian
426[[folder:Touka Nishikujou]]
427!!Touka Nishikujou
428[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/touka_nishikujou_profile.png]]
429->Voiced by: Creator/RyoukoTanaka
430
431Nishikujou is a rather ditzy looking teacher that commands a lot of respect at Kotarou's school, though she's new to the job. She has close ties to Shizuru and Lucia due to her work with the group Guardian.
432-----
433* BewareTheNiceOnes: As sweet and bubbly as she is, she's absolutely terrifying when performing her Guardian duties.
434* ConflictBall: In Chihaya's route she expresses a severe hatred for familiars [[spoiler:so the story can have her pick a fight with Sakuya despite both he and Chihaya retiring from Gaia]]. There is no real reason given and it contrasts her normal rather easy going or at worst strictly professional attitude.
435* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She has purple eyes and hair, though you rarely see her eyes.
436* CutenessProximity: She can't resist trying to hug Shizuru.
437* DrivesLikeCrazy: Invoked and averted. Kotarou expected her to drive like a maniac, but the worst she does is sing along badly to music from the 80s.
438* ExplosiveOverclocking: [[spoiler:When Nishikujou starts going all out with her ability, it begins tearing up her body.]]
439* EyesAlwaysShut: She tends to keep her eyes shut because they're rather sharp and scary looking. Since being a teacher is her dream job, she finds this pretty disheartening.
440--> '''Kotarou:''' Sensei, you're scary with your eyes open...
441* FlechetteStorm: [[spoiler:She can fire off a large number of knives at once (particularly evident in Shizuru's route), resulting in this.]]
442* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:She was Kotarou's comrade and friend during his first training period in Guardian.]]
443* HotForStudent: She makes some flirty remarks towards Kotarou from time to time, but she's probably just being silly.
444* HotTeacher: Her looks appear to be one of the reasons she's so popular, but she dances around the question of her age.
445* OneOfTheKids: She acts goofy and laid back when she's not required to be serious and ends up feeling less mature than Shizuru.
446* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:Lucia was assigned to her command because psychologists felt she needed to be around someone motherly.]]
447* SenseiChan: She's a really ditzy, happy go lucky teacher and gets along really well with Shizuru in particular. [[spoiler:She isn't really a teacher, though, but she wants to be one.]]
448* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:In Shizuru's route, she throws everything she has at Kagari, up to and including turning herself into a projectile. Kagari survives and still ends the world.]]
449* ShipperOnDeck: She ships Kotarou and Sizuru, much to her ward's embarrassment.
450[[/folder]]
451
452[[folder:Arata Imamiya]]
453!!Arata Imamiya
454[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cgm_im10_1_1.png]]
455->Voiced by: Adrena Line
456
457A playboy who dresses young for his age. He is a member of Guardian.
458
459----
460* FightingYourFriend: He's noticably sad on routes he's forced to fight Kotarou [[spoiler:(barring Terra, where he's livid thinking Kotarou's a traitor)]], which leads Kotarou to question if they know each other.
461* HandsomeLech: He seems to like the image of a flirty young guy, though he hints that he tries not to form close relationships.
462* JerkJock: When he was younger, he was kind of an arrogant jerk. For the most part, he grows out of it by the time Rewrite begins.
463* TrapMaster: His hunter powers make him an expert at setting traps.
464* TheSpeedster: The one area where he has confidence in is in his ability to run away. He can even set up traps while on the run, proving to be a rather annoying obstacle for Kotarou who at that point was far superior to him in combat.
465* WalkingSpoiler: Kotarou meets him early on in the common route and immediately suspects he and Arata have some kind of connection, but you won't find out why until the final route.
466[[/folder]]
467
468[[folder:Sougen Esaka]]
469!!Sougen Esaka
470[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sougen_esaka_profile.png]]
471->Voiced by: Creator/HirokiTochi
472
473The middle-aged owner of an antiques shop; he frequents Gen-san's ramen stand. He is a retired Guardian operative.
474-----
475* BadLiar: When providing a cover story for why he was in the forest chopping up monsters, he says he's a scientist investigating [=UMAs=]. He also claims to be a birdwatcher and Kotarou asks him if he's seem any dodo or moa lately. He says yes and that he owned a cute little moa himself. Granted, Esaka was not really concerned about actually convincing Kotarou and was possibly trying to make him more interested.
476* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: He's always very serious, but he seems to be very fond of playing both the boke and tsukkomi. Unfortunately, nobody has any idea what he's doing. In Terra, someone in Guardian even thinks they're under attack when he's trying to be humorous and thanks Kotarou for 'saving' him when he performs the tsukkomi Esaka requested beforehand.
477* CannotTellAJoke: He thinks he's good at comedy, but he actually just terrifies everyone when he tries doing a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine.
478* CatchPhrase: "WHYYYYYYYYYYY!!"
479* CoolOldGuy: He's a nice, professional old guy and one of the most powerful characters in the story. [[spoiler:He also served as Kotarou's mentor and recruited him into Guardian once.]]
480* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: He holds a pipe in his hand, wears a suit and a HighClassGlass. A perfect combination to make one classy gentleman.
481* FaceDeathWithDignity:
482** On Sizuru's route he [[spoiler:saves as many as he can from Salvation before going for one last walk with Hissy the cat into oblivion]].
483** In the Terra route he [[spoiler:has one final chat with his killer, Kotarou, even praising how strong he's become. He [[GoOutWithASmile dies with a smile on his face]].]]
484* FightsLikeANormal: He's a powerful superhuman, but of the three general categories of ability, his is the least flashy. Thus, he just fights with a sword.
485* ForgottenFirstMeeting: In the past, he was the person who [[spoiler:first introduced Kotarou to Guardian.]]
486* HumbleHero: Esaka's a LivingLegend in Guardian, but he considers himself nothing more than a humble soldier. It's especially notable considering superhuman abilites are usually tied to your sense of self worth.
487* IntergenerationalFriendship: He gets along great with Kotarou and Sizuru despite being decades older than them. [[spoiler:He used to be pre-amnesiac Kotarou's OnlyFriend despite the age gap.]]
488* KatanasAreJustBetter: Thanks to his ability and sheer skill, he can use a simple sword to become an amazing physical combatant. Of course, he's kind of cheating when it comes to cutting through just about anything rather than his sword being that great.
489* LargeHam: Even his [[ItMakesSenseInContext character portrait leaps out at you]] whenever he's being hammy.
490* MentorArchetype: [[spoiler:He is the person who brought Kotarou into Guardian.]]
491* RetiredBadass: He's in a state of semi retirement now, though he's considered perhaps the most powerful superhuman at Guardian's disposal.
492* WasItAllALie: After being [[spoiler:fatally wounded]] by Kotarou on the Terra route he demands to know if Kotarou was a Gaian spy the whole time.
493* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Esaka confirms that he has an ability, but that it’s pretty useless. He doesn’t want to talk about it. It turns out to be the ability to see the unseen. [[spoiler:He lied. He possesses immense power to cut through things and lacks the ability he claimed to have.]]
494* WorfHadTheFlu: In Shizuru's route [[spoiler:Sakuya quickly beats him before Kotarou and Shizuru can arrive as backup,]] but this is because he was caught off guard. We don't see him fight until Terra.
495[[/folder]]
496
497[[folder:Gen-san]]
498!!Gen-san
499[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Gennadii_1250.jpg]]
500->Voiced by: Manabu Sakamaki
501
502The owner of a ramen shop just off the main park in Kazamatsuri. He is a retired Guardian operative.
503-----
504* TheAtoner: He was forced to kill a child Gaian summoner decades ago and has been haunted by it ever since. [[spoiler:He dies after protecting a child on Sizuru's route, hoping that the life he saved would balance the scales.]]
505* CoolOldGuy: He quickly welcomes Kotarou into the fold of his band.
506[[/folder]]
507
508[[folder:Brenda [=McFarden=]]]
509!!Brenda [=McFarden=]
510->Voiced by: Noriko Ueda
511
512A mad scientist who, attempting to create someone who could survive the apocalypse, [[spoiler:created Asahi Haruka]].
513-----
514* EvilutionaryBiologist: She's trying to create a new form of humanity. The fact that said new human was a PersonOfMassDestruction was perfectly acceptable.
515* KarmaHoudini: After experimenting on murdering children, then using [[spoiler:Lucia to murder hundreds of thousands]], Brenda manages to escape capture.
516* MadScientist: Mass murder? Experimenting on children? All fine if they get her results.
517[[/folder]]
518
519[[folder:Luis]]
520!!Luis
521->Voiced by: Akira Morishouji (VN), Gou Fujii (Anime)
522
523A Brazilian Guardian on Kotarou's para-military squad.
524-----
525* AccidentalMurder: In his past, he punched his friend in a fit of pique without taking his SuperStrength into account. What should have been a black eye became a corpse instead.
526* CommonalityConnection: He and Kotarou's shoddy English skills got them ostracized from the rest of their squad, but it helped draw them together too.
527* HeroicSacrifice: He stayed behind to shoot down the bombs that would have killed Kotarou and the summoner kids all while clearly aware he couldn't spare himself from the fires.
528* JavelinThrower: The core of his superpower is to throw spears with incredible distance, power, and accuracy.
529* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He doesn't check his targets before opening fire onto a group of Gaian summoners. Said summoners happened to be [[ChildSoldiers the same village children he had befriended]], to his horror.
530* NiceGuy: He's a big hearted guy who helps Kotarou and the local village children.
531[[/folder]]
532
533!!Gaia
534[[folder:Sakura Kashima]]
535!!Sakura Kashima
536[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sakura_Kashima_3480.jpg]]
537->Voiced by: Creator/NaomiWakabayashi
538
539The current leader of the Martel Group. Also the Holy Woman of Gaia, the most powerful member of the organization. She hates humanity with a passion, and is an extremely skilled summoner. She is Akane's adoptive mother.
540-----
541* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the anime adaptation of Terra route, she looks like a particularly attractive forty-year-old despite being over seventy. Not so in the Moon and anime-original Kagari arcs, where she just looks old.
542* BigBad: She's the leader of Gaia, the darker of the two warring groups.
543* CherryBlossomGirl: Named Sakura, has HealingHands with the side effect of transcribing part of her own mind onto the people she's healed, ensuring their loyalty to her, and her objective is to cause human extinction (death) so that the Earth can try again with a new dominant life form (rebirth), though Sakura herself just wants to end all possibility of life. Fate and her relationship to it are also central to her motivation.
544* EvilOldFolks: Sakura is over seventy in Terra and over eighty in the other routes, and she's the game's BigBad.
545* FullNameBasis: Most of the characters will only refer to her as "Kashima Sakura."
546* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:She's intelligent enough to be levels above all of humanity in how much she knows, thus realizing that life is empty and love is a lie, but she doesn't know that even higher above that is the fact that love is really responsible for everything. Thus, she's determined to end all possibility of life. In the process of discovering this, her ability as the Holy Woman partially broke.]]
547* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Despite being the most powerful summoner, she is physically old and frail. [[spoiler:In Terra route, she dies before Kotarou could confront her.]]
548* OmnicidalManiac: She wants to end all life permanently and stop Kagari from saving humanity.
549* TransferableMemory: The Holy Woman transfers her memory to a successor when she dies. She might be the last proper Holy Woman because her revelation into the true nature of the world is hinted to have damaged this ability in some manner.
550[[/folder]]
551
552[[folder:Shūichirō Suzaki]]
553!!Shūichirō Suzaki
554[[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/suzaki_anime.jpg]]
555->Voiced by: Hikaru Yukari (VN), Hitoshi Bifu (anime)
556
557
558A member of the Martel group. He is also a member of Gaia, and plays an important part in Akane's route, where it is revealed that he used to serve Sakura Kashima in the same capacity that Kotarou now serves Akane.
559-----
560* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. When Kotarou says that he thought Suzaki was just power hungry, Suzaki says that he needed more power in order to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save the world.]] ]]
561* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:To Kotarou's (admittedly, unwitting) VillainProtagonist in the Akane route.]]
562* JerkassHasAPoint: He's hostile and antagonistic on Akane's route, but he does raise some good points:
563** When he leaks to the press that the Disciple program is just one big indoctrination scheme, Akane flat-out admits that's basically true [[spoiler:even before taking the memory transfers into account]].
564** He's appropriately horrified at the Holy Woman's plan to [[spoiler:eradicate humanity]] to protect nature, providing a far more reasonable alternative to [[spoiler:commercialize familiars in order to both cull the population and raise the quality of life]]. Kotarou has to admit it's pretty brilliant [[spoiler:and basically uses it himself on the Terra route]].
565* TheStarscream: He's been attempting to sideline Sakura Kashima and the religious cult side of Gaia for years in favor of a political extortion scheme. He doesn't care much about the Key's role in Salvation. [[spoiler:They're too destructive and crazy for him. If Suzaki is taken out, the Holy Woman will attempt to end the world immediately.]]
566* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:His plan to commercialize familiars in order to save humanity as a whole is actually a ''lot'' more reasonable than Kashima and Akane's plans to bring about salvation and destroy humanity. Furthermore, in Terra Route, this is basically half of the plan used to save the world.]]
567[[/folder]]
568
569[[folder:Takasago]]
570!!Takasago
571[[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takasago_anime.jpg]]
572->Voiced by: Gou Fujii (anime)
573
574A member of the Martel Group. He's a member of Gaia and works with Suzaki's faction and appears in the Akane route.
575-----
576* AxCrazy: Has gone completely insane by the time he reappears after [[spoiler:the one year timeskip in Akane's route.]]
577* BerserkButton: His ears apparently resemble Gyoza. He does not like it when people point this out.
578* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:After Kotarou slashes him to ribbons in the forest, he turns his decomposing body parts into familiars as he dies, by using the energy from the toxins that seeped into his body from his environment. By the time he reappears after the timeskip, he's constantly shooting himself up with drugs in order to continue providing himself with energy to maintain his familiars. It's mentioned that his human body parts are ''still being slowly poisoned while he's doing this''.]]
579* CatchPhrase: "HAAAAAPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYY!"
580* FromNobodyToNightmare: Initially, he is a mostly ordinary human with only a small degree of talent in controlling Familiars. Kotarou mostly brushes him off as a joke and defeats both him and his familiar with ease. [[spoiler:However, after an encounter with Kotarou in the forest leaves him slowly bleeding out to death, Takasago manages to survive long enough to consume poisonous herbs that necrotize parts of his body so he can turn them into Familiars, allowing him to return later on as a superhuman monster who can do battle on equal footing with a much stronger Kotarou near the end of the route.]]
581* GreenEyedMonster: To Kotarou.
582* MuggingTheMonster: On Kotarou, pre-timeskip. It doesn't end well for him.
583* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He poisons Sakura Kashima, causing Akane to become the new Holy Woman and gain the obsession with ending the world. Akane ends up destroying the world with a replicated Song of Salvation.]]
584[[/folder]]
585
586[[folder:The Earth Dragon]]
587!!The Earth Dragon
588[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fgmo04a.jpg]]
589
590One of Gaia's oldest and most powerful familiars, the Earth Dragon was created from the corpse of an ancient Tyrannosaurus Rex. Due to its extremely long existence, it has developed sentience and a soul of its own. It views the Summoners of Gaia as its children.
591
592-----
593* AwesomeButImpractical: Despite its great power, the Earth Dragon is also very inefficient in battle, and as such, even empowering it for a short period for time requires the lives of dozens of summoners. Akane also notes that because it is so large, it is impractical for use in urban areas, and as such, can only be brought out on a few occasions.
594* CurbStompBattle: Everytime it fights someone other than [[spoiler:Kotarou]].
595* DinosaursAreDragons: He's called "the Earth Dragon" despite clearly being a dinosaur.
596* TheDreaded: Kotarou's reaction when he first runs into it during the Terra route. His hiding is completely understandable due to the dragon's immense size, and that it kills Mikuni and his team, who were the top ranking students in their class, while Kotarou finished near the bottom.
597* FairPlayVillain: He notices Kotarou's powering up and polietly lets him finish before kicking off the fight.
598* FriendlyEnemy: The Earth Dragon is actually a pretty cool guy once you get to know him.
599* HeroKiller: Towards Guardian members at least, due to the dragon being affiliated with Gaia. This is certainly how Kotarou first viewed it when he was starting out in Guardian.
600* LightningBruiser: It's actually very fast and very agile despite its massive size.
601* PunchClockVillain: He shows great respect towards people that it views as [[WorthyOpponent Worthy Opponents]], and [[spoiler:actually takes some time to speak with Kotarou and allows him to prepare before its fight with him in the Terra Route]]. Earlier in the route [[spoiler:it spared Imamiya because it was just taking a walk at the time and wasn't interested in fighting.]] It merely fights because it is expected to do so and feels it should honor the efforts of the summoners who awaken it.
602[[/folder]]
603
604[[folder:Tsukuno]]
605!!Tsukuno
606[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsukuno_rewrite_anime.png]]
607->Voiced by: Noriko Ueda
608
609She works for Akane as her secretary, and is also a summoner of Gaia.
610
611-----
612* DiscardAndDraw: [[spoiler:She lost her abilities as a superhuman, and instead gained the ability to control familiars.]]
613* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:She and Kotarou used to be squadmates when she used her original name of Nagai. She quit and he was injured so badly that he was retired. Neither remembers the other.]]
614* SexySecretary: Apparently she's quite pretty, though we have to take Kotarou's word for it.
615[[/folder]]
616
617[[folder:Midou, Tenma and Tenjin]]
618!!Midou, Tenma, and Tenjin
619[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/midou_tenma_and_tenjin.jpg]]
620->Midou is voiced by: Creator/SoichiroHoshi, Asuka Nishi (child, anime)
621->Tenma is voiced by: Tsuguo Mogami (VN), Hiromitsu Miyashita (Anime), Yoshimi Watanabe (child, anime)
622->Tenjin is voiced by: Katsutoshi Kasukabe (VN), Creator/SatoshiTsuruoka (Anime), Creator/KeikoSuzuki (child, anime)
623
624Rogue summoners of Gaia who each control a powerful familiar.
625
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627* DarkAndTroubledPast: Each has a horrifically violent past.
628* DeathSeeker: All of them, although given a choice they would like to take down everyone else with them.
629* GiantFlyer: Tenjin's familiar, Kilimanjaro
630* HiddenDepths: The anime reveals Tenjin is actually a skilled pianist.
631* HotBlooded: [[PersonalityPowers Midou]]
632* LargeHam: Tenma talks with all the ham of a Saturday morning cartoon villain.
633* OccidentalOtaku: Jasmine suspects they adopted Japanese names despite not being Japanese themselves out of a love of Japanese media.
634* OmnicidalManiac: Their goal is to destroy the world.
635* PlayingWithFire: Midou and his lava familiar, Fuego.
636* SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler: Tenma is killed after his own familiar, Krivoy Rog, drains too much of his own life-span in an attempt to regenerate the wounds inflicted by Sakuya.]]
637[[/folder]]
638
639[[folder:Shimako]]
640!!Shimako
641[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shimako_vn.png]]
642->Voiced by: Yoshimi Watanabe
643
644A seven-year old disciple of Gaia who appears in the Akane route.
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646* ChildProdigy: Has incredible talent as a summoner.
647* CreepyChild: As a very young girl, she almost never moved, using her powers to control objects around her instead, which freaked out her parents.
648[[/folder]]
649
650!!Supporting Characters
651[[folder:Haruhiko Yoshino]]
652!!Haruhiko Yoshino
653[[quoteright:154:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haruhiko_yoshino_profile.png]]
654->Voiced by: Junichi Yanagida
655
656Kotarou's classmate, a rough-talking self-styled delinquent.
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658* AnimalMotifs: Wolves. He fashions himself as a lone wolf and his Mappie icon is a unique black wolf.
659* ButtMonkey: Kotarou really has to work at it to make him into the butt of jokes though. And unlike his earlier Key predecessors it sometimes backfires on him.
660* {{Chuunibyou}}: He fashions himself an outlaw, uses ridiculously bombastic language, and fashions Kotarou as his eternal rival.
661* {{Foil}}: To Kotarou, leading to a lot of scuffles. While they're both the class loners, Yoshino is fine with the distance between them and deeply cares for his classmates, while Kotarou is privately desperate for friends despite unintentionally looking down on the rest of the class. Similarly, Yoshino is unabashedly himself, [[{{Chuunibyou}} for better or worse]], and gives his all into what he does. In contrast, Kotarou [[StepfordSmiler puts on a cheerful mask to get people to like him]] while struggling to really care about what he does.
662* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:Terra reveals that he met Kotarou when he was an elementary student after Kotarou saved him from some bullies, though he goes unnamed apart from script files. Yoshino began hero worshiping him, so Kotarou randomly chose to give him advice like being a momma's boy and a diligent student. Though he seems disappointed, you can see that in the present he follows the advice quite thoroughly.]]
663* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:At the end of Kotori's route, Kotarou finally fights him seriously and utterly flattens him. After his honorable defeat, Yoshino gives his blessing to the two.]]
664* HopelessSuitor: It's implied throughout the story that he likes Kotori, but the two barely even talk. He knows he doesn't have a chance as well.
665* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's much nicer than he initially lets on, as evidenced by how easily he's roped into the Occult Club's latest [[ZanyScheme zany schemes]]. He seems to suffer if anyone notices this though.
666* LargeHam: PlayedForLaughs. He talks like a shonen manga protagonist. [[ButtMonkey Kotarou constantly mocks him for this tendency]].
667* LastNameBasis: He's one of the only characters Kotarou calls by their last name. [[spoiler:He finally calls him Haruhiko during a heart-to-heart before Yoshino [[DoNotGoGentle dies fighting a horde of familiars]]]].
668* MaliciousMisnaming: When Kotarou introduces Shizuru to him, he has three different options of weird ways to do so. Shizuru sticks to calling him things like Giraffe every time they meet after that.
669* MommasBoy: When in his own home he drops his normal demeanor entirely and acts like a complete dork, much to Kotarou and Kotori's amusement.
670* TheRival: Yoshino keeps wanting to fight Kotarou seriously. At first it seems that Kotarou runs away from the fights to avoid getting beaten up, but it’s actually the opposite. In Moon, [[spoiler:Kotarou says he is grateful than Yoshino was his rival and not his friend because that meant he could never really relax. His final conversation with Kotarou in the story is the two finally calling each other by their first names.]]
671* VitriolicBestBuds: Kotarou pretends that he and Yoshino are best buddies, but Yoshino really is pretty pissed off with how Kotarou behaves and with how he secretly doesn't care about the people he acts friendly towards. They are friends to an extent, though.
672* WhatTheHellHero: Practically once per route. Yoshino doesn't hesitate to call Kotarou out whenever he goes astray.
673[[/folder]]
674
675[[folder:Inoue]]
676!!Inoue
677[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cgm_iu10.png]]
678->Voiced by: Yoshimi Watanabe
679
680The resident SchoolNewspaperNewsHound, who takes an interest in the club's investigations into the occult.
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682* AscendedExtra: She didn't even have a sprite until Harvest Festa.
683* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Inoue is suspicious of people like Akane and Kotarou [[spoiler:and her suspicions are right on target. Akane is the adopted daughter of a cult leader and Kotarou shouldn't be in school at all anymore at his actual age.]]
684* EatTheEvidence: [[spoiler:Kotori's route reveals she swallowed her own memory stick to hide her exploration log of the Gray City.]]
685* IntrepidReporter: She snoops around school at night and even in the forest to look for news.
686* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Her memories were erased when she got caught in the Gray City.]]
687* TheRival: She sees herself as a rival to Kotarou. It's implied that this developed into a low grade infatuation.
688[[/folder]]
689
690[[folder:Pani and Gil]]
691!!Pani and Gil
692[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pani_and_gil.png]]
693->Voiced by: Noriko Ueda (Pani), Creator/NaomiWakabayashi (Gil)
694
695Pani and Gil are two strange creatures that Kotarou finds in the strange alternate Kazamatsuri. He's not sure what they are, but since they seem harmless he lets them stay at his place.
696
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698!!Both
699* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Familiars exist soley to serve their summoners, but Panni and Gil don't have a summoner to serve. That's why they'll do anything for Kotarou, and will gladly die for him if that's what's required.
700* {{Familiar}}: They consider themselves Kotarou's familiars, though there's no formal contract in place.
701* GeneticMemory: They remember things from before they were born [[spoiler:such as the experiment Gaia performed that brought their predecessor into being years before they were born. They appear to be a fusion of that creature's remains and scientists that it killed and thus has their memories.]]
702* LiteralSplitPersonality: Their whole "other half" talk isn't just a figure of speech, they were originally one being.
703* NoBiologicalSex: According to Pani, she and Gil have no sexual organs and can't reproduce.
704* ShooOutTheClowns: Pani and Gil are not invited into Moon route and Kotarou says he would feel ridiculous if he asked them for help. They probably don't exist yet in Terra either. A reader who knows much about who wrote each scenario might notice that they only appear in routes written by one of the three authors.
705* SuperDeformed: They're very chibified in appearance. They have tiny bodies and massive heads with gigantic eyes.
706* SuperToughness: As weak as they may be, they're nearly impossible to kill through physical damage. Gil managed to take two hits from the massive Krivoy Rog with now real damage.
707* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Although Kotarou finds them on the path to Kotori's route, they completely vanish from the story once the route properly splits.
708
709!!Pani
710* HopelessSuitor: Pani seems to have a crush on Kotarou but he mentally classifies her as 'Weird Thing' rather than 'girl.' Not that it's important.
711* MegatonPunch: Pani punches Gil as hard as she can pretty frequently.
712* RoseHairedSweetie: Pani has pink hair and her personality is very cheerful.
713
714!!Gil
715* BigEater: The amount Gil eats isn’t that large until you consider his body size. That much food shouldn’t fit inside him. Even he doesn’t understand it.
716* BoisterousWeakling: He talks a big game for such a wimp.
717* ButtMonkey: Gil tends to take a lot of abuse because of his arrogance.
718* CowardlyLion: He's absolutely ''terrified'' during Kotarou's fight with Krivoy Rog and constantly tells him to run, but Gil still helps in the fight despite his fear.
719* HiddenHeartOfGold: He tries to keep up his "outlaw" act no matter how forced it might get.
720* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Gil is loud and obnoxious, but also very sincere and caring.
721[[/folder]]
722
723[[folder:Haruka Asahi]]
724!!Haruka Asahi
725
726A young girl who appears during Lucia's route. She's slightly insane and believes that the world has never liked her. Around seven years ago, a transfer student who came from the same orphanage as her caused an uproar when he suddenly died the next day, which was attributed to him having met Asahi Haruka. Initially, the investigation into her was to dispel rumors, but eventually it shifts into Kotarou trying to clear her name when he realizes that if the story ''were'' true, then Haruka never actually did anything wrong.
727
728----
729* TheDreaded: Everyone who knows of her story is terrified of her curse. Glass will break around them, they'll see a mysterious girl and potentially fatal accidents will occur around them until they stop. One particularly persistent investigator ran into her and got a purple bruise mark that won't heal for his troubles.
730* {{Foil}}: The intention of her character is to be like Lucia so that she can set up her route. [[spoiler:The twist is that she is actually Lucia.]]
731* IncomingHam: Her introductions are always over-the-top, and they are always introduced with her iconic lights breaking.
732* PsychicPowers: From making glasses scratch and break, to tilting a ''restaurant sign''.
733* TouchOfDeath: When she came in contact with several people, they all died under mysterious circumstances. Four years ago, an investigator was threatened when a restaurant sign fell close enough to kill him. It was also rumored that she killed off everyone in the orphanage.
734* {{Troll}}: During the investigation, it seems like Haruka is taunting people to make them suffer and therefore go away and leave her alone.
735[[/folder]]
736
737[[folder:Chibimoth]]
738!!Chibimoth
739[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chibimoth.png]]
740[[caption-width-right:200:[[labelnote: Click here to see his true form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chibimoth_mamut.png[[/labelnote]]]]
741->Voiced by: Shizuka Naruse (VN), Asuka Nishi (Anime)
742
743Kotori's pet.
744
745-----
746* CallASmeerpARabbit: Kotori claims Chibimoth is a dog, but Kotarou and many other characters frequently comment that he looks nothing like a normal dog.
747* {{Familiar}}: [[spoiler:He's actually a pygmy mammoth familiar.]]
748* {{Glamour}}: He's charmed to look more like a dog. It's definitely not perfect, but it's better than nothing.
749* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: As much as Kotori insists he has no will of his own, she also admits she never ordered him to grab the Key while protecting Kotarou.
750* KillerRabbit: He's adorable. And can absolutely wreck house.
751* PokemonSpeak: Moth!

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