Character list for Let's Start An Inn On The Dungeon Island. Warning. Spoilers may be unmarked.
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Main Character:
Sanada Shirou
Would you like bed, breakfast, or me?! (Cecily's nose erupts and she faints)
Introduced as a 24-year-old salaryman, forced onto his bosses' fishing trip on his holiday, and forced to buy his own equipment without being reimbursed. He starts the plot by catching a magic flounder, which refuses his first two wishes "make me handsome" and "remake the world so women find me handsome" but grants his wish for creation magic, and then yanks him to another world where he's a Lust Object.- Alliterative Name: Sanada Shirou.
- Blessed with Suck: Creation magic sounds great at first glance, but the drawbacks make it initially quite useless. It takes him 30 minutes to create a liter of water, and the water doesn't come with a container, a file takes 36 hours, 28 if he provides a prison bar as material. He can only create one item at a time, and if he cancels production, no refunds. His production menu is also quite limited at the start, having to grind like crazy to unlock the higher tiers.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: He's a total lightweight with booze of any kind. A couple of mugs of wine, and diluted at that, turns him into a weepy drunk that passes out, right in Lotte's lap, and after she and her crew carry him to bed, he grabs her, kisses her on the lips, and passes out again, weeping with the name "Chris" on his lips. Lotte rightly forbids anyone from feeding him booze again.
- Cartwright Curse: Downplayed. His romantic ventures never last. While the women in question don't actually die, when they're forced to leave him, he never sees them again and has no way to communicate with them. This isn't much of an improvement.
- The Cassandra: When he tells people he was dragged in from another world, and goes into specifics when asked, nobody ever believes him. Nobody believes him when he says he can use magic, but this one he can provide proof of and they quickly take it into account.
- Covert Pervert: If there's anything he actively likes about this new world, it's that women have no problem giving him an eyeful of their birthday suits, and he quietly likes to fantasize about them. Some women pick up on the fact that he likes to see them naked, but never connect the dots, due to their native culture.
- Enlightened Self-Interest: While he's in the imperial mainland on a mission to return a "borrowed" artifact to the emperor, he and his bodyguards get stuck in a town quarantined by the outbreak of an epidemic. Sure, he could have used Cecily's skills as a pirate to circumvent the blockade, but he has a better idea. Cure the disease, since he recognized the symptoms. He gets the gratitude of the townspeople, the imperial guards let him pass, and everybody walks away happy.
- Ethical Slut: He is clearly not monogamous. He doesn't even try. He doesn't even care if the girl he wants to hook up with already has her own guy. All he wants in a relationship is mutual affection and sex acts that are Safe, Sane, and Consensual.
- Excellent Judge of Character: His time at the Black Company he worked for has taught him how to be very good at reading people. When he met Christia, he could immediately tell that she's trustworthy. He knew Cecily was surprisingly innocent when she came to him seriously wounded in the middle of the night, and he was able to read the character of the incoming imperial scouts and investigating knights at a glance.
- Gone Horribly Right: Some adventurers bring out of the dungeon a powerful artifact and sell it directly to the emperor for a literal ton of money, paid in advance by the adventurer's guild. A viscount comes to the island to pick it up, but she's not satisfied with the collection of local prostitutes so she abuses her noble authority to demand an audience with Shirou. Naturally she drugs his wine and tries to rape him. The scheme is thwarted because he clued in to the drugging attempt via his [Repair] ability, and she responded to his refusal to partake of the wine by pinning him down, ripping his clothes to shreds, pouring said wine on him, and licking the wine off lecherously, knocking herself out. Enraged, Shirou uses his [Repair] ability to swipe the artifact and get away with it by running out of the place naked and crying, wearing only the curtains the butler herself provided. Shirou had planned to make this viscount sweat a few days while the artifact was missing and then return it anonymously. She returned to the empire mainland the next day anyway without it. Shirou winds up having to try to deliver it to the emperor himself.
- Got Over Rape Instantly: Downplayed. He suffers a Prison Rape experience almost immediately after being thrust into the new world, but after Princess Christia dotes on him for a while and makes it clear that she will never, ever take him by force, he lets her have sex with him, and actively enjoys it, looking forward to more of it.
- Has a Type: While the women he hooks up with are all very, very different, they all have some key points in common. They tend to be at least a head taller than he is, and twice as heavy. They all have rather generous busts. Each and every one of them is a Bruiser with a Soft Center.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Shortly after Cecily leaves the island, Shirou's creation magic levels to the point that he can either unlock [Armament] which would allow him to create Earth modern weapons or [Repair]. He chooses the latter, since he's a coward and wants nothing to do with the battle-field. He made the right choice as [Repair] is far more versatile than advertised. It allows him to analyze anything he sees, including revealing the hidden function and a detailed instruction manual, spot drugs or poisons in food, and can even allow him to swipe weapons right out of their wielder's hands, and if he's really being mischievous, be an Impossible Thief. He can even revive the dead, under certain very strict conditions.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: He's always been desperate for affection, and he's not particularly choosy about where he gets it. Princess or pirate, it's all the same. The biggest reason why he treats Leanne as a disappointment is that he sees her more as a sexually curious teen than a legit love interest. Sure, she flirts and peeks on him in the bath, but she ignored the opportunity to engage in a bit of night-crawling, which Shirou was really looking forward to.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: Which Shirou lampshades in chapter 17 of the manga. As he's soaking in the bath, he realizes that after coming to this new world, he's been acting very effeminate. He's not sure if he's simply adapting to the local culture or the transmigration itself messed with his head, but he actively enjoys it, so who cares.
- I Will Only Slow You Down: It was his idea that Christia leave him behind as he knows he's a liability on the battlefield and that's where she's headed. She reluctantly agrees and boinks him silly before giving him a tearful farewell.
- Kissing Under the Influence: In chapter 20, manga, Shirou is served some wine with his meal by the imperial crew's chef. After a couple of mugs, he becomes a weepy drunk, bemoaning Chris's absence. He passes out and is carried to bed by Lotte, Diane, and a few others. The instant his body hits his bed, he hallucinates that Chris is with him and kisses the nearest woman, Lotte herself, on the lips before passing out again. Lotte bans alcohol around him from that moment on.
- Lovable Coward: He avoids the battlefield whenever possible and lets everyone know it. Fortunately, this is a world where Stay in the Kitchen very much applies, so nobody ever tries and force him. The only time he actively goes into battle willingly, he's rescuing Cecily from an Ogre Swarm and goes in with a "borrowed" magical artifact, armed out the wazoo, and is immediately sighing with relief when it's all over.
- Magikarp Power: His creation magic is initially so prohibitive that it's all but useless, but after grinding it for a few months, there's precious little it can't do, but the drawbacks of huge production times and limited MP still remain.
- Necessary Drawback: Exaggerated. He can only create one item at a time. (Though he later can also use Repair in parallel). The MP cost is extremely prohibitive. He gets no refunds if he cancels production. And he doesn't recover MP while he's got something in the production que.
- Romantic Spoonfeeding: By accident. When he arrives at the work site with Lotte in chapter 18, manga, he distributes some home-made salt candies to the imperial workers, but because their hands are dirty, puts the candy directly in their mouths. It's only after Diane has informed him that doing it this way is something that only happens in fictional romance novels that he gets the implications, prompting a legit Freak Out.
- Shower of Awkward: Freshly after coming out of the bath in chapter 17 of the manga, expecting the entire imperial regiment has already gone off to investigate the dungeon, he winds up bumping into Lotte, who ran back because she forgot something. She's Eating the Eye Candy while he's embarrassed for a change.
- Supreme Chef: One of the many things that makes him insanely desirable to the opposite sex in the new world is that he's an exceptional chef and makes restaurant quality meals on a frequent basis, for fun. This makes his eventual inn insanely popular.
- The Tease: When he meets a woman he likes, he gets very flirty. In fact, the page quote is how he greets Cecily when the two are stuck together, alone, on the island while she's recuperating.
- Thou Shall Not Kill: Deconstructed. He uses the [Repair] function of his creation magic to swipe Janice's knife out of her hands, after she raped him and threatened to cut off his penis, and then when the repair was complete, he had the option of magically "returning" the knife in her heart. Choosing instead to stab her in the leg as he attempts to flee, she recovers and comes at him with a scimitar, which he also takes the same way, after which she just decided to strangle him with her bare hands. Fortunately, a passing female vampire mage came to his rescue.
- Trauma Button: It doesn't come up very often, but seeing a large group of imperial soldiers in armor does indeed reignite his Prison Rape experience, making him scared and visibly nauseous.
Love Interests:
Princess Christia Regalta
Ahaha! So you were acting like the fool to cheer me up! You are so kind, Shirou!
The first of Shirou's love interests.- Affectionate Nickname: She's fond of having Shirou call her "Chris."
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Downplayed. She uses body-reinforcing magic but otherwise fights with bare hands.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: One of the things Shirou recalls fondly about her and a point of comparison to any other future love interest he has.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: She's a force of nature on the battlefield, but off it, she's very tender and loving, and Shirou finds her very huggable.
- Cuteness Proximity: Whenever Shirou gets flirty towards her, she gasps, cries out "CUTE!" and then snuggles him like he's her favorite teddy-bear.
- The First Cut Is the Deepest: Out of all the love interests who had to leave Shirou, her departure hurts him the most and he's so mournful, many think he's a widower.
- Hidden Depths: She's a legendary architect and engineer. Without any tools whatsoever, she carves out a cave in a cliffside with perfectly level stone table, stone chairs and benches, and even a very, very comfortable stone bed, all without having to stop and measure, and it's monolithic. Even with the most precise equipment known to man, modern architects and engineers can't do that.
- Insane Troll Logic: She's had sex with Shirou repeatedly but when he creates a file to use on her magic handcuffs, she cries out "you're actually a woman!?" since men can't use magic.
- Princess in Rags: With her top general betraying her into the hands of imperial soldiers, she is slated for execution. As soon as she and Shirou escape and he can provide her a raft to an allied battle-field, she takes off to try and resume the war and reclaim her homeland.
- Razor-Sharp Hand: Justified with magic.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She's a princess, yet she allows Shirou to address her without honorifics when they meet and treats him like an equal.
- Sex for Solace: On the giving and receiving end. She first cuddles, comforts and sexes up Shirou to help him get over his near-rape experience, and the fact that she's facing death and he's facing sexual slavery. Then he offers her sex to distract her from the suicidal desire to cut of her hand(s) to escape her magic blocking handcuffs until his File is ready so he can use that to break the cuffs instead.
- Strong Girl, Smart Guy: When they were together, Shirou was the smart guy to her strong girl.
Pirate Captain Cecily
Ah! You're removing unwanted hair! I-I'm sorry. I didn't intend to see...
Formerly the captain of the royal navy of a country conquered by the empire, she turned to privateering and then piracy as the war dragged on and her country lost. She greets Shirou and treats him kindly while the rest of her boarding party openly proclaimed their intent to rape him. Being denied, their second in command sparks a mutiny leaving her for dead. Shirou tends to her wounds, and as soon as she's recovered and they managed to build a ship that's seaworthy, she retaliates, seeking revenge.- Accidental Discovery: As she's teaching Shirou how to pilot a ship, they spot the island's dungeon, which was hidden from Christia's initial survey.
- Ambiguously Brown: Her ethnicity is unknown and she's very tan.
- Back from the Dead: When the island's dungeon monsters go on a stampede, thanks to an insane Serial Rapist and Serial Killer opening the ogre-boss room, she's torn to pieces by a swarm of ogres. Shirou picks up her remains and uses [Repair] on her, bringing her back to life after a week of stasis.
- Beneath the Mask: She's a real hard-ass towards her pirate crew because they're pirates and as Buten graphically demonstrates, pirates have a nasty tendency to, at best, walk all over you if you show any leniency. With everyone else, Cecily is actually a total sweetheart.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Shirou is quite excited to discover Cecily is even more endowed than Christia.
- Chivalrous Pervert: She has obvious perverted feelings towards Shirou, but she is very uncomfortable acting on them, even when he gives her an engraved invitation. It takes a long, long time before Shirou is able to give her that "pin me down and take me" sex that she's craving.
- Cycle of Revenge: She goes after the crew that mutinied and left her for dead. She catches up to them and gets her vengeance. Her former first mate then goes after her for vengeance, starting with poor Shirou...
- Dramatic Irony: She has a fetish where she likes the guy dominating her. Shirou wants her to pin him down. It takes over a 100 chapters in the web novel before they discuss it. Then his Cartwright Curse kicks in...
- Endearingly Dorky: Shirou adores her because she's quite goofy, especially when she's flustered just from the sight of him shaving, so he gets a real kick out of teasing her sexually too.
- The Farmer and the Viper: When her crew reports of sickness, she gives the ill crewmember a piggy-back ride to carry her to Shirou for treatment. Said crew uses the opportunity to literally stab her in the back.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: As can be seen in the page image, one of her pant legs is much longer than the other, as a result of Shirou having to cut one of her pant legs to treat her wounded thigh.
- Innocent Fanservicegirl: She has no issue letting Shirou see her in her birthday suit, because the social norms expect men to be modest while women can bare all.
- Magic Knight: She can both fight with a scimitar and use fire-based magic.
- Mean Boss: When she was a pirate captain, she kept the crew in line with shouting and threats of force.
- Mentor Archetype: While she's recuperating, Shirou asks her to teach him how to handle a ship. She happily agrees.
- Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: While her crew openly engages in many crimes and questionable acts after she's been Left for Dead, she doesn't have any on-screen piracy on her record.
- Playing with Fire: She specializes in fire-based magic.
- Pragmatic Villainy: During her stint as a pirate captain, she had rules to keep from being too despicable. Top among them is not stealing from the poor, and don't bully the weak. There's too much to lose and too little to gain by doing either.
- Red Baron: She's known as Bursting Flame Cecily.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has dark-red hair and is surprisingly gentle and kind for a pirate, doting on Shirou like crazy when the two of them are alone.
- Sacred Hospitality: A firm believer of it, which gets her shanked.
Lotte Gram
H-hello. Nice to meet you...
The leader of the imperial army division that is sent to investigate the dungeon found on Monte Chris Island. Shirou meets her and the rest of the team as they are investigating his island and the dungeon. Her favorite hobby is building model boats and ships.- Big Beautiful Woman: Downplayed. She's not fat but pleasantly chubby.
- Commonality Connection: She bonds with Shirou when he expresses interest in her ship-model building hobby.
- In the manga's chapter 17, she's visibly beaming with joy all the way back to the dungeon investigation, sharing a horse ride with Shirou on one of his horse-golems, because he gifted her some clay figurines, especially one of herself, to go with her ship models.
- Covert Pervert: When Shirou accidentally shows her his leg as he's cleaning the bath while she's in attendance, she is deeply affected and keeps fantasizing about it, despite showing him no obvious reaction.
- Chapter 17 of the manga reveals that she also carries around "deviant" erotic literature where the guy is dominant, and is a big fan of the genre.
- Does Not Like Men: She's rather skittish around men because she simply doesn't know how to relate to them.
- Excalibur in the Rust: She gives Shirou clearance to rummage through the broken and rusted weapons her teams bring back from the dungeon exploration. Among them, Shirou finds a long lost and forgotten imperial holy weapon. Shirou uses his [Repair] magic on it and then presents it to her when he's done, letting her take the credit for the find. The emperor rewards him generously anyway...
- Expecting Someone Taller: Since all the nobles prior to her were at least a head taller than him, Shirou thought she was an attendant while Diane was her. Fortunately, he doesn't say anything until after formal introductions, so he's able to brush it off.
- Food as Bribe: Shirou notices that the first time she speaks to him in complete sentences is when he feeds her tasty food. The rest of the time, she just hesitates a bit and goes "yes.." with a near catatonic tone.
- Mistaken for Servant: Because she's shy and subdued while her attendant is very dignified and outgoing, Shirou initially gets them confused. Fortunately, he didn't mention it aloud, so he's able to recover when the formal introductions occur.
- Not So Stoic: While she doesn't emote very much, she is actually very emotional, especially where Shirou is concerned.
- Shrinking Violet: Around men, she is almost painfully skittish and shy, to the point that she almost completely freezes up.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Stoic and professional on one side. Adorably shy on the other.
- When She Smiles: According to Diane, her smiles are rare, so when she returns to the investigation site with Shirou in tow, and she's clearly beaming with joy, unaware she's doing it, Diane comments on how lovely her smile is. Lotte then cuts it short by pulling her cheeks down with her hands and going into "work" mode.
Sierra
A female vampire mage who rescues Shirou from Janice. She moves in and resides at his inn for a while.
- Big Damn Heroes: When Shirou was being strangled by Janice, she shows up and uses ice-based magic to skewer and kill off the evil pirate.
- Did Not Get the Girl: While she and Shirou are very much attracted to each other, her vampire clan's laws are extremely strict. In order to shag him silly, she'd have to convert him to a thrall, biologically compelled to obey her every whim. Realizing that true love is not possible in those circumstances, she up and leaves the island in the middle of the night, never consummating her affections.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: When she was in a party with Cecily and a couple of others, she was one of the two mages to the rest.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: She's a vampire and is nothing but supportive to Shirou and his friends.
- An Ice Person: She uses ice-based magic.
- Like Brother and Sister: For a while, she treats Shirou as an adorable adopted younger brother.
Rouroga Empire:
Captain Alyssa Milano
Do you have somewhere we can rest?
Leader of the imperial scouting team who finds Shirou's island and the dungeon.- Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: She's got the unpleasant task of keeping Leanne on a leash.
- Happily Married: She's got a husband and at least a son waiting for her back home.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: She may be named Alyssa Milano, but she is not a famous actress from our world.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: When she finds Shirou at the island, she doesn't charge him taxes for living on Imperial territory, and gives him proper market price for the meals she and her two companions eat.
Leanne
Shirou! Why am I the only one you're cold to?!
The second oldest member of the three man squad first scouting the island Monte Chris.- The Gadfly: She sexually teases Shirou just to get a reaction. He ignores her.
- The Peeping Tom: She peeks on Shirou while he was in the bath. He notices, but doesn't mind.
- Wacky Marriage Proposal: After tasting Shirou's cooking, she seriously asks for his hand in marriage. He declines.
- You Were Trying Too Hard: The reason Shirou ignores her is that she's simply trying too hard to romance him, and it turns him off.
Louise
The Youngest of the empire's first scouts to the island.
- Achievement In Ignorance: The fact that she paid for her night's stay in Shirou's inn with magic stones unlocks his ability to craft medical supplies. She never realizes it, even after Shirou thanks her with gusto.
- Allergic to Love: Praise of her beauty from Shirou, or even so much as happily holding her hand makes her very flustered, causing her to blush like a beet and have steam erupt from her head like a sauna.
- Beautiful Dreamer: Shirou finds her sleeping face adorable.
- High-Pressure Emotion: When Shirou says he prefers her over the rambunctious Leanne, she blushes like a beat and has a pile of steam rise from the top of her head.
- Naïve Newcomer: She's the youngest and least experienced member of the squad.
Diane Lane
He's lived on an isolated island alone since childhood. Perhaps it can't be helped. There's no way he's doing that intentionally.
Lotte's adjutant.- Enlightened Self-Interest: She forbids anybody in her camp from laying hands on Shirou without an engraved invitation because he's an important collaborator who is making their job of surveying the island Monte Chris and its dungeon amazingly quick and easy. If he's too traumatized to assist, things will go bad for them, fast.
- Hyper Competent Side Kick: She's such a competent aide that Shirou initially confuses her with Lotte. Fortunately, Lotte is also quite competent once she gets to work on her imperial duties.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: She sports the name Diane Lane, but she's not a modern Earth celebrity.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She takes Shirou's flirting as Innocent Innuendo, since the guy has a legit cover story of being shipwrecked on an island since child-hood, keeping him from being aware of the customs of genteel society.
Emperor Melissa Rouroga II
I wonder what she's like.
The current emperor.- The Emperor: The undisputed ruler of the Rouroga empire.
- The Ghost: She has yet to make an appearance in the story, but she's often mentioned.
- The Good King: She rules with a fair and even hand. In return for his aid with the imperial investigation of the Monte Chris island dungeon, she rewards Shirou handsomely, making him the island's baron in all but name.
- Noodle Incident: It is yet to be mentioned why she's at war with the Regalta kingdom and the country from which Cecily hails.
Pirates:
Vice-captain Janice
I understand where you're coming from. That pretentious bitch Cecily is not fit to be captain!
Second in command on the pirate ship.- Bad Boss: As much as Cecily's crew hated her for bossing them around, Janice is infinitely worse. She uses violence and threats of violence to enforce discipline and for kicks, beats up the local prostitutes, and is just generally nasty to everyone who can't or won't fight back.
- Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: She sees Cecily as "despicable" and "perverted" because she doesn't like rape and wants to avoid harming innocents as much as possible, and thinks her crew going around and engaging in Rape, Pillage, and Burn as the height of righteousness.
- Cycle of Revenge: After Cecily comes at her for vengeance, she goes after Cecily to avenge herself.
- Dramatic Irony: Borders on A Tragedy of Impulsiveness. After turning on Cecily, taking control of the crew, including murdering two of Cecily's most loyal subordinates and leaving the island, Cecily and Shirou find the local dungeon. She never realizes that had she been a bit more loyal to Cecily, she and the crew could have walked away from the island much, much richer, and being able to dictate terms to the empire.
- Klingon Promotion: She takes control of the crew after orchestrating a mutiny.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When Cecily escapes into the jungle by using an explosive fire spell, she calls off pursuit, thinking that chasing a Cornered Rattlesnake into unfamiliar territory in the middle of the night is too risky.
- Nobody Could Have Survived That: Cecily never closes in to finish the kill because she figured Janice having a building fall on her after a high-yield explosion would be good enough. She gets called out on it by Shirou's rescuer.
- Rage Breaking Point: She and the crew all loathed Cecily for "being Holier Than Thou" and keeping them from engaging in too much nastiness, even though they were all paid very well and she kept them out of the imperial navy's crosshairs. The tipping point was when Cecily stopped the crew from trying to rape Shirou. That's when she instigated a mutiny.
- Revenge by Proxy: Combined with Revenge Myopia. She goes after Shirou, rapes him, and then tries to cut off his penis with a rusty dagger to stick it to Cecily for daring to go after her and her accomplices when they backstabbed her first.
- Stupid Evil: As cunning and dangerous as she is, she can only see immediate gain or losses, she can never anticipate long-term consequences. As such, she turns the hideout Cecily gave the crew completely against them by many petty acts of cruelty. So it's disturbingly easy for Cecily to track her and her accomplices down and then bomb them in their den as they're passed out drunk.
- Unexplained Recovery: In the novel, she goes from being buried under a mountain of rubble and bleeding out to making it to Shirou's island and, although heavily scarred, being hale enough to destroy one of his stone mermaid golems with disgusting ease, pin him down, and rape him, at knife point, and then attempt to cut off his penis with said rusty knife. There is no explanation how this happened, since the guy she sent to fetch a doctor took off with the money for the doctor's services.
- Virtue Is Weakness: What she hated most about Cecily's reign over the pirate crew is that Cecily kept the nastiness to a minimum.
Buten
No! I'm tellin' ya! He woulda liked it!
The largest and heaviest of Cecily's crew.- Does Not Like Men: Exaggerated. She's a complete and total misandrist, for no explained reason.
- For the Evulz: She rapes just for the fun of it, and was quite cross with Cecily for stopping her from trying to barge past Shirou's golems to rape him.
- Gonk: She's not just big and bulky, she's hideous.
- Hate Crimes Are a Special Kind of Evil: More than vengeance for stabbing her in the back, Cecily comes after her, personally, after hearing how Buten made a sport of singling out teenage boys to rape, rob, and otherwise brutalize, just for laughs. Her death is listed as especially graphic.
- "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: She's the type of rapist who says her victims weren't raped because they "enjoyed it." There's even a flashback where she has the boy Louis tied to a bed, clearly horrified, and says that the boy enjoyed getting sexually assaulted by her.
- Playing Sick: She and three others pretended to be ill to lure Cecily into an ambush. When Cecily tries to carry her to the ship, Buten stabs Cecily in the back with a knife.
