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Shin Naerim
- "Even if tearing the talisman curses me... my life couldn't get any worse.."
The daughter of a shaman who's a social outcast and the victim of bullying in her school. Her luck changes when she comes across Fetechou and accidentally contracts with him; as their relationship develops, Naerim learns to be more open and gains the strength to change her situation. Unbeknownst to her, she's also fated to bear the burden of being a shaman herself and must learn to be a strong spiritual leader like her mother.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Because of the spirit she's about to receive as a shaman, if she mentally curses someone to suffer it actually happens to them, with the side affect that the curse will come back to her or someone close to her in kind. In a moment of rage she wishes one of her bullies would break her leg and it actually happens; not only is she upset that she actually injured someone, but then Moojin gets his arm broken too as a result of the curse.
- Character Development: In the first season she starts out depressed, hating herself, and unable to communicate with other people. The events of season one gradually bring her out of her shell and lead her to have more confidence in herself and her relationships. Season two discusses this, though, as while many people comment on how much she's changed outwardly Naerim wonders if she's still the same on the inside because she hasn't yet overcome her trauma.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: She starts the series with her bangs over her eyes and her hair long in a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl look, but takes her hair out of her eyes at points where she's gaining more confidence in herself and her outward appearance. By season two, where socially she's doing better, she keeps her bangs short and her hair better styled.
- I Am Not Pretty: In season one, she hates her appearance as she believes it contributes to her bullying. Exemplified when Fetechou compliments her hair, eyes, and slender figure and she rejects it all outright as those things making her look scary and uptight.
- Self-Harm: There are scars on her wrists, implying she used to cut herself.
- Shrinking Violet: As a result of her ostracization she's painfully shy, even before the worse bullying started.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: She isn't really one, but in the first season characters frequently say she looks like a ghost because she's so skinny, pale, and always has her hair in her eyes.
Vlad Fetechou
- "You.. smell real delicious. Can I.. have a bite of you?"
- Brought Down to Normal: As he becomes more human over the course of the comic, he also loses a lot of his strength and vampire powers. After a while of taking Naerim's blood, he can't even fly anymore.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Fetechou grew up hated because of his red eyes and mixed heritage, which culminated in his father being killed in an accident and his mother being burned at the stake as a scapegoat; he's almost killed as well until Laszlo buys him and keeps him as a pet. When Laszlo turns him into a vampire, he murders everyone in his village, young and old, and then spends years loathing himself for it. This isn't even going into his twisted relationship with Roxanna.
- Death Seeker: While he was enslaved to Laszlo as a human he repeatedly tried to die and refused to eat, until Laszlo ended up turning him into a vampire. This is also the real reason he wants to turn human, wanting to escape from his painful past and misdeeds. Allegedly, once he fully turns back all the years he's lived will catch up to him and he will die.
- Mark of the Supernatural: At the start of the comic one eye is yellow, and one eye is red. This indicates that he's half human, as red was his natural eye color and his eyes turned yellow upon becoming a vampire. As he takes more of Naerim's blood, his yellow eye becomes half red.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Upon becoming a vampire his rage and thirst took over and he slaughtered everyone in the village where he grew up, which he was horrified by once he was done.
- Really 700 Years Old: He's 538 years old, despite looking like a young man, since he's an immortal vampire.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: It's eventually revealed he performed one on his birth village, slaughtering every man, woman, and child there shortly after becoming a vampire as revenge for their persecuting him and his mother.
Sam-Mi
- "Hello, my name is Sam-Mi! I exorcise ghosts!"
An orphaned young monk who took it upon himself to help Fetechou turn human, who is responsible for locking him up in the church in the first place and who explains the details of their contract to Naerim. By coincidence he ends up staying with Naerim and her mother later on, where he lends them his aid as a monk despite his young age.
- Kid with the Leash: He becomes this to Laszlo by virtue of accidentally enslaving him with his blood. Six years later, he's using Laszlo's fortune to help himself and his friends (with Fetechou putting his company to humanitarian efforts) and forces him to behave with an end goal in making him human again.
- Malicious Misnaming: He repeatedly calls Fetechou "Patrasche" and Fetechou calls him "Shorty". The two don't get along so well.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: He's very calm and collected (when not freaking out over Fetechou's antics) and later gives Naerim solid advice about her life when he's only ten years old. She admits he acts a lot more mature than she does, and she's already an adult at that point.
Supporting Characters
Park Mina
A new student in Shin Naerim's class. As she is new, she isn't complacent with Naerim's bullying like the other girls and desperately wants to help, but her timidity makes it hard for her to stand up to the bullies herself. She and Naerim are close friends by the second season.
- Heroic Bystander: Sadly subverted; in contrast to a lot of the other girls in school who either contribute to or are blissfully unaware of Naerim's plight, Mina both sees what's happening and wants to stop it, and almost seems about to intervene when Jina's friends start outright beating Naerim... but isn't quite brave enough to follow through.
- If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: She makes this kind of speech to Fetechou when she gets drunk, remembering how Naerim had said he was interested in her "body" (really, her blood) and berating him to also like Naerim for herself too.
- Nice Girl: The first season sets her out as one of the only girls in the whole school who cares Naerim is being bullied, and she tries helping her in little ways like sliding her a box of tissues when she starts crying. She has one moment of being irritated with Naerim in the second season, but otherwise continues to be a kind and caring friend years later.
Lee Hyo-Yeol
The son of a pastor who knew Naerim from when she used to go to his father's church. He's a sweet kid with a big crush on Naerim, who hopes to impress her by how much he's changed from the short, pudgy nerd she knew in the past.
- Hopeless Suitor: He's clearly in love with Naerim, but for the most part she still sees him as the little kid she went to church with and never entertains any serious romance with him.
- Tranquil Fury: Once he finds out about the bullying happening to Naerim, he becomes full-on enraged but keeps it under a calm, stony exterior.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: He explicitly states he allowed Song Jina to get beat up by her girl posse because he can't hit a girl himself, even though he's furious at what she did to Naerim.
- Younger Than He Looks: He's in middle-school, but he and his friends are so tall they almost successfully pass as college students.
Naerim's Mother
Naerim's mother, a Korean shaman who raised her alone after her husband was killed in an accident. Although the two used to be close, her desire to let her daughter lead a normal life and her own duties to the community has caused her to be distant from her daughter, and she's unaware of how much Naerim is suffering at school.
- Give Her a Normal Life: She starts pulling out of Naerim's life because she doesn't want her to get caught up in the life of a shaman, and thinks she's better off living like a normal schoolgirl (not realizing that Naerim has no friends at school and desperately needs her.)
- Mama Bear: It takes a while, but after it becomes clear to her what Naerim's life at school was really like she unleashes a "Reason You Suck" Speech on the mothers of the girls that bullied her daughter. There's also how she used her gifts as a shaman to try and protect Naerim from the spirit that was fated to possess her, and how she attacks Fetechou with rosary beads when it looks like he's draining Naerim of her blood.
Antagonists
Song Jina
A popular rich girl from the United States. Although she was friends with Naerim in middle school, now she counts among one of Naerim's bullies and is in fact the ringleader, being the one spreading the rumors responsible for the other girls picking on her so much in the first place.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts kind and occasionally innocently insensitive, but in reality she's cold, cruel, and calculating.
- Childhood Friend: Naerim sees her as one as they were close in middle school, but it turns the friendship was entirely one-sided on Naerim's part.
- False Friend: As it turns out, she was never friends with Naerim. She was nice to her initially to look good, and gave her a hairclip because she thought she looked ugly with her bangs in her face. When Naerim interprets her actions to mean they really are friends and tries to spend more time with her, Jina is enraged to find that Naerim thinks they're both equals. She's also a false friend to the girls in her posse as well, throwing them under the bus to avoid the consequences of her bullying when it's discovered.
- Manipulative Bitch: She's adept at reading people for her age and uses various means to sway them, from her money and good looks to intimidation and lies. For example her social isolation of Naerim was achieved by humiliating her in (not so) Innocently Insensitive ways to drive her from church, then by talking badly of her to her friends and other girls so they'd pick on her, and then in scaring anyone she caught talking to Naerim normally or trying to come to her defense. She does all this from the sidelines, making sure it's her friends, and not her, who will be blamed for the bullying if it ever gets out, and presents herself as an innocent bystander.
- Ungrateful Bitch: When Naerim stands up for her in middle school when another loner called her scary, Jina's only reaction is disgust that Naerim, a social outcast, would be worried about her.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: After her posse gets found out for bullying Naerim, the girls confront her for informing Moojin on them and she tries to play up her victimhood to get Hyeul to intervene (which fails because he overheard her talking about her role in the bullying.) She regularly accuses Naerim of doing this when Naerim is being genuinely hurt by what's happening to her.
Kang Mijin
One of the bullies that picks on Naerim in her school. While Jina instigates the bullying by spreading rumors about Naerim, Mijin tends to take the most physical action against her with the other girls. She's later injured in a motorcycle accident as a result of Naerim accidentally using her shaman powers to curse her.
- The Atoner: After she realizes Jina had been manipulating her into hurting Naerim For the Evulz she becomes regretful and tearfully apologizes to her, though she has to be pressured into it by her sister. She admits that Naerim is not a bad person like she'd thought all this time.
- The Dragon: She's this to Song Jina, being the one who tends to carry out most of the physical bullying while Jina orchestrates it with gossip.
- Heel Realization: Mijin genuinely believed that Jina was her best friend and bought all the nasty things she said about Naerim. As Jina reveals her true colors and gloats about what saps all three of the girls were, Mijin can be seen flinching and looking increasingly guilty in the background, as opposed to Jungmoon and Hari who are just angry at Jina. This contributes to her apology to Naerim later.
- "Just Joking" Justification: She repeatedly insists that it was just a "joke" when she dumps a whole bag's worth of salt all over Naerim's desk.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After a particularly nasty fight, Naerim accidentally invokes this by wishing Mijin would get her leg broken for hurting her—Mijin is then cursed and gets into a motorcycle accident, indeed breaking her leg.
- Malicious Misnaming: She and her friends constantly call Naerim "Wig," a term meaning "witch girl." When she goes to apologize she accidentally calls her that again before correcting herself and saying her real name.
Laszlo
- "It's not that you wish you die. It's that you want to kill them, isn't it? Need my help with that?"
The vampire that turned Fetechou, a European noble who bought and enslaved him after Fetechou's parents died. Initially relegated to backstory, he shows up in the second season with Roxanna, hoping to reclaim Fetechou again.
- Abusive Parents: In the sense that he considers himself like a "father" to Fetechou for having been the one that turned him, he's a pretty awful one who continues to treat him like a slave without a will of his own.
- Foil: To Naerim herself in their relationships with Fetechou. He was Fetechou's first "master" by virtue of buying him and later turning him into a vampire. Like Naerim he also cares about Fetechou and wants him to always be around. Unlike Naerim, he fails to understand that he can't treat a so-called family member like a thing, and it's clear he doesn't care if his "dog" is utterly miserable as long as he's still alive.
- Immortals Fear Death: He doesn't want to turn human because he's afraid of dying. This means he won't attack Naerim because he's terrified of tasting her witch blood, becoming addicted, and turning human.
- Made a Slave: At the very end of the second season, he accidentally cuts Sam-Mi's finger with his teeth when trying to get away from him and tastes his blood. Sam-Mi, being a young monk, apparently counts as a witch enough that this enslaves him to the boy.
- Outliving One's Offspring: It's implied he had a child that died before or after he became immortal, as there's a torn tapestry in his castle of himself with a young boy who resembles him. It's shown again when he's discussing how death is the end of things.
Roxanna
A sweet little girl from Fetechou's past, the first witch he made a contract with and became half-human from. He claims that she died, but the reality is that she was turned into a vampire like himself, and is no longer so sweet or little. She also sees Fetechou as her own and comes back in the second season to reclaim him.
- Driven to Suicide: Once she accidentally tastes Naerim's blood she tries to burn herself and all the other vampires present by letting in the sunlight, unable to bear the thought of becoming human again. She's the only one who ends up burned to ashes.
- Rape as Backstory: One of the first humans she kills as a vampire is a man in her village who, along with several others, forced himself on her while she was growing up.
- Taking You with Me: She opens the windows of Laszlo's penthouse in a bid to try and kill herself and the other two other vampires present, although she's the only one who ends up dying from it.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: When she first shows up as a child, she's very kind and cute. Fetechou admits he was so blinded by this that he didn't realize she had a much darker side to her as a result of her abuse.
- Yandere: She's one for Fetechou, killing multiple people to get his attention and planning to kill Naerim as well when she understands show important she is to him.
