* JerkassWoobie: Luka. He's an abusive husband and overly enthusiastic about killing the tiger but he's also a closeted homosexual overshadowed by five older brothers (all of whom either died or were imprisoned) and an abusive father that even threatens to rape his fourteen year old deaf-mute daughter in law if Luka [[MaritalRapeLicense doesn't commit to the deed]]. All of the beautiful music he composed was plagiarized by his so called "friends" and he was unable to form a marriage pact with his only friend so that they would both be able to live their dreams thanks to not only Amana's scheming father but [[spoiler:a certain nephew of Death]]. While his actions to the Tiger's Wife are cruel and unforgivable, he certainly wasn't born that way: [[ThenLetMeBeEvil it was the world being utterly cruel that did the deed]].
* TheWoobie:
** The Tiger's Wife. Not only is she mute and abused because of her disability, but she is forcibly married to Luka, a situation neither of them is happy with. Luka beats her so badly that she nearly dies at least once, and when [[spoiler: Luka is killed]] she is ostracized by the village even more than before. Regardless of how she got pregnant, the options are all pretty horrifying, and finally [[spoiler: she is poisoned by Natalia's grandfather, the only friend she had.]]
** Natalia's grandfather counts as well. As a child, he's orphaned before he could even remember his parents, all of his peers die of illness to leave him more or less the only young child in the village, and [[spoiler:he was forced to poison the Tiger's Wife who was more or less his only friend close to his age]]...all within the first decade of his life.