Attempted Rape: Frequently a victim of this as rape is supposed to neutralize her priestess powers.
Badass Damsel: Played with. She's a Nice Girl who won't hesitate to headbutt or pile drive thugs, but apparently she can't hit them hard enough to make them stay down. This means she still needs rescuing.
Big Eater: One of the most emblematic female examples. It should be noted that, by Word Of God, she's supposed to be pudgy.
Book Dumb: Subverted: she's shown as more or less average in grades and works hard to get good ones. And manages to get in a quite prestigious high school.
The Plan: In the 3rd OVA, it turns out she gave her unborn child to a girl who would use her strong feelings for Tamahome to save the Universe of the Four Gods, which was falling apart as the book became old and worn. Nothing is what it seems, and it was something Miaka did subconsciously. It Makes Sense in Context.
Rape as Drama: Yui is immediately attacked by two men as soon as she enters the book, which sets the stage for much of the ensuing drama.Though, it was found out Nakago saved her before any real damage could occur.
Dangerously Genre Savvy: She's the only priestess to enter the book intentionally, with the idea to call Taka back into the book. She also burns her clothing, so that it cannot serve as a link back to her own dimension.
Driven to Suicide: After she realizes what she's done. Tamahome rescues her, though, even though most audiences wish he hadn't.
Hot for Teacher: The guy she loves is her P.E. teacher and coach... Taka Sukunami a.k.a Tamahome.
Moral Myopia: She tells everyone that Miaka is a selfish bitch who only thinks of her own happiness. Well, this is the girl who is willing to fuck up a whole universe just so she can steal Miaka's husband Taka and their unborn child.
Nun Too Holy: As the Miko, she's supposed to be using her wishes for the benefit of Konan (not herself), and she's supposed to treat her warriors and her attendant with respect. Does she? No. She also spreads vicious rumors about Miaka.
Joshikousei: As a youngster, she was shown wearing a blue sailor uniform.
Plucky Girl: This girl survived her Miko trials without suffering the downside of being devoured by the God from the inside. Also, as an old woman, Suzuno pretty much kept herself alive out of pure sheer willpower while attended by Tetsuya, Keisuke and her family, refusing to die until she and Tatara could be reunited.
Country Mouse: Lives in a poor village, works many jobs to provide for his family. As Taka, he's a youth from the Japanese countryside who studies and works in Tokyo.
Even the Guys Want Him: Loved by Miaka. Desired by Yui and Mayo. Object of Nakago's obsession. Vitriolic Best Friend with Ho Yay hints to Tasuki. Nuriko loved to tease him and once kissed him.
Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest: He looks just like his unbeknownst-to-him half-brother Tendou, who once shared a relationship with Hotohori's later wife, Houki.
Love Dodecahedron: Hotohori is in love with Miaka, who is in love with Tamahome. Meanwhile, Nuriko is in love with him.
Loving a Shadow: Was in love with Miaka's image as the Suzaku no Miko, rather than as the person she truly was.
Relationship Voice Actor: Even though they're allies in this one, Midorikawa and Koyasu STILL manage to be rivals although it's more of Rivals In Love with Miaka.
Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Is the Rich Suitor twice. Miaka picks Tamahome over him first, then Houki picks him over his half-brother.
Unsettling Gender Reveal: Hotohori pulls this on one of the Mount Reikaku bandits. The bandit is so smitten he doesn't really care. That, and in his first appearance he dropped a Bridget on Miaka herself...
Attractive Bent Gender: He's a guy and yet he was selected to be in the emperor's harem. Though it seems that almost no one knows that he's a boy at first.
Characterization Marches On: Nuriko is mostly established as a fun, sensible ally... so it's pretty strange to look back at the early incident where he almost let Miaka drown in a pond out of psychotic jealousy over Hotohori.
Combat Pragmatist: His first line of attack is a fan that shoots fire, and he's not above combining it with a Dynamic Entry. Nor is he above taking hostages, or attacking while his opponent is talking or otherwise distracted. On the rare occasion he's put Honor Before Reason, he explicitly regrets it.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Very little actual banditry is seen from the Mount Reikaku thieves. Despite being their leader, Tasuki himself is rarely, if ever, shown actually committing theft.
The Dog Bites Back: Although perhaps not in the way you'd think. After serving the Emperor of Kutou for most of the series—the same Emperor who had incidentally wiped out his tribe and sexually abused him as a child—Nakago finally rises up, stages a coup, and murders him.
Love Epiphany: For Soi when she died protecting him. If him carrying around her corpse from the battlefield in Kounan back to the palace in Kutou is any indication.
Rape as Backstory: Said backstory was shoehorned in at the last minute during the Final Battle, just before Tamahome puts him out of his misery.
Self-Made Orphan: Accidentally kills his mom when he tries to save her from her rapists. As an adult, he kills the Shogun of Kutou... and later finds out he's his Disappeared Dad.
Morality Chain: With him around, Suboshi was kind of a Jerk Ass. When Suboshi thought he was dead... all he needed was a push from Nakago to fly off the deep end and kill Tamahome's family in revenge.
DespairandMoral Event Horizon: Crosses the first when he loses Amiboshi and believes he's dead, which sends him into a mental breakdown. Plows through the second when he kills Tamahome's family as revenge, believing him to be Amiboshi's killer.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Tomo makes the very, very, very stupid mistake of trying to kill Amiboshi. Suboshi proceeds to put the "killer" in Killer Yoyo.
Freudian Excuse: His parents's deaths, Amiboshi's loss, being repeteadly rejected by Yui, etc.
Karmic Death: Died when hit by his own Killer Yoyo. Even more so if you believe that he truly was held in place by the souls of Tamahome's siblings, whom he killed in his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
Anti-Villain: One of the most sympathetic Seiryuu Seishi, she specifically says she doesn't have anything against Miaka and Co. but must fight them anyway for Nakago.
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I Was Quite a Looker: Subverted. She was a very cute-looking old lady. And since her power revolves about time, she can temporarily revert to the White-Haired Pretty Girl she was when young!
What Does She See in Him?: She and Tokaki. It's stated that he actually met little Tamahome when Subaru kicked him out of home and he had to become a traveller by force.
Yamato Nadeshiko: A sweet and loving wife, she can still keep her lecherous husband in line and won't hesitate to tell him when he's wrong. That, and she's very devoted to both her family and her beliefs.
Dirty Old Man: Played for Laughs mostly, except in the backstory. The exact reason why he was kicked out of home for a while is that Subaru got fed up with is lechery.
Shipper on Deck: Subverted, as he did not support Tamahome and Miaka's love and made it clear. It was a Jerk Ass Facade though, as he and Subaru knew well what happened to Suzuno and Tatara and tried to prevent it from happening again.
Older Than They Look: It looks like he's in his late 20's although he's around the same age as Tokaki and Subaru. This is mostly due to the fact that Subaru put a spell on him so he'd be able to protect the Shinzaho.
Would Hita Girl: More exactly, she's among those who send the Nyan-Nyans flying when they screw up, and has hit Miaka upside the head at least once. Not like she's less harsh to guys, though.
Ill Boy: Tamahome's kind-hearted widowed father is severely ill, which is why Tamahome works so hard to mantain them. He's even seen apologizing to Tamahome for this unofficial Promotion to Parent.
Country MouseandRagsto Riches: She actually was from a very poor family, but was taken into the court due to her extreme beauty. She wasn't too keen on it, but accepted to help her family out.
Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest: Looks suspiciously like Nuriko and later marries Hotohori. (YMMV on that one, seeing as Hotohori and Nuriko were never an Official Couple, but does raise a few eyebrows in the fandom.)
Also, she marries Hotohori, who looks just like her former boyfriend, Tendou. Who also happens to be Hotohori's lost half-brother.
Yamato Nadeshiko: She looks the part of a Japanese lady; beautiful, soft-spoken, traditional clothing etc. She's not lacking for inner iron either, specially as the Empress Dowager.
Tragic Keepsake: A jewel ball belonging to Nuriko. He refuses to give it away to Miaka and Co. in the OAV since it's the only real memento he has of Nuriko, but with some help of Chiriko's and Nuriko's spirits they manage to convince him.
Foil: To Hotohori; where Hotohori is handsome, young, chaste, and rules with kindness and fairness, the Emperor of Kutou is Hollywood Homely, old (relatively), lecherous, and rules with an iron fist.
