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Kobayashi Household (Tohru) | Dragons | Humans

Earth

Fafnir

Fafnir (Takeshi Ooyama / Jeeves A. Brutus)

Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese), Garret Storms (English), Abraham Vega (Latin American Spanish)

A cursed, reclusive dragon once known to the Norse, aligned with the Chaos faction, who is currently living with Takiya. Has a very dark and moody demeanor, but hides a softer spot for his fellow dragons and new human friends.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Fafnir was originally a strong dwarf. His human form in the series is tall, slender, and very attractive — though Tohru implies that this is because it's based on a picture of a certain demonic butler.
• Affectionate Nickname: Takiya calls him "Faf-kun." He doesn't mind.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: He ends up becoming addicted to MMORPGs since they appeal to his love of killing and hoarding, and eventually starts drawing his own Doujinshi to sell at Comiket (though he fails to sell any copies due to the morbid themes and stories he chooses).
• Almighty Janitor: Fafnir is powerful enough that Tohru herself, the daughter of the Emperor of Demise, has never managed to pull more than a draw against him (and a couple instances of the dodgeball episode imply he might be actually stronger than her), but he seems to be completely uninterested in the Chaos Faction, the war against the gods, or anything other than guarding his treasure. His new life in the human world hasn't changed this attitude.
• Aloof Ally: He's a friend to Tohru, but is generally detached from the gang's workings unless he's brought along, and even so is cold and aloof. With Ilulu's arrival, it's even stated that he would not even help Tohru in a fight against a real enemy (although it's specifically because he believes a dragon should stand by himself, not out of any personal reason).
• Artistic License – Religion: He's based on the Norse Mythology character, except he's an attractive human instead of a dwarf and he's not too worried about a particular treasure. Justified for the former, as he was given a picture of an anime character as a base for his humanoid form.
• Ax-Crazy: His very first line in the series (on the subject of being a guard) is "Kill them. Kill all who try to steal your treasure. Kill all who are suspect. Curse them with death. Curse their generations to come—"^note True to the Norse Myth, where Fafnir became a dragon due to extreme insanity and greed. This is just apparently just how he answers the phone even when he doesn’t recognize the number.
• Brutal Honesty: Quick to dismiss Tohru, Elma, and Riko's performances as the match seller.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: His first appearance comes when Tohru asks him for advice on how to live in the human world, and although his chosen answer is not exactly useful to her at the time, he seems to be really the right dragon to ask given that he later adapts to his own human life with less trouble than the female dragons. However, he doesn't pay much attention to the most delicate aspects of human society, and often needs Takiya to hold the leash.
• Captain Ersatz: In-universe. Fafnir's human form is based on Sebastian Michaelis from Black Butler — Tohru sent him a manga about a "handsome, but devilish butler" with instructions to base his human form off the character. The comparison is taken even further in the anime, where he ends up having the same seiyu as Sebastian.
• Character Development: He slowly becomes more tolerant of humanity, mostly as a result of becoming addicted to video-games. This is such that when acting as an auditioner for the Christmas pageant, he denies Tohru the part when she launches into a furious tirade that previously would have made him proud.
• Chekhov's Gag: While cordial with Kobayashi most of the time, he will spout out his hatred for her most of all. It seems like his refusal to budge on hating humans, but in chapter 141, he reveals he knows it was Loki who pierced Tohru and his power is inside of Kobayashi and she is an unknowing transmitter to the god he hates above all.
• The Comically Serious: A lot of humor in the series comes from how formal he is and how seriously he takes everything. Even when Tohru and Elma find him training for a dance number in the street, he is shown doing the moves with perfect energy yet keeping his deadpan face all the time.
• Creepy Monotone: Unlike Kanna's, his is legitimately creepy.
• Death Glare: His most-common expression is a stern Kubrick Stare that intimidates or frightens several people meeting him for the first time.
• Defeat Means Friendship: How him and Tohru became friends. Although it's never explicitly stated who exactly won, and instead implied they had something akin to a draw.
• Does Not Like Spam: He doesn't like spicy food.
• Dragons Are Demonic: In contrast to Lucoa, Fafnir is a cursed dragon whose true form is nightmarish, with multiple solid-red eyes, a vertical mouth lined with fangs, a jet-black serpentine body, and what appear to be tentacles. Ironically, however, Fafnir is more asocial than truly evil.
• Dub Name Change: Seven Seas Entertainment changes his human name to Jeeves A. Brutus, probably because "Takeshi Ooyama" still needs a bit of explanation.
• Extra Eyes: He has four eyes in his dragon form.
• Fantastic Racism: Among the other dragons, he's pretty open about how he thinks humanity is inferior. However, over time and his friendship with Takiya, he's come around to thinking that humans aren't all bad, even if he's still of the opinion that it's simpler to assume humanity in general is troublesome and that it's simpler to flex his muscles than to try to open a dialogue. Throughout his time on Earth, however, his actions don't match his opinions.
• Greed: Exaggerated. He'll go to any lengths to get his hands on any "treasure" that catches his eye, whether it's high level loot in an MMO, or the reward for filling a radio exercise stamp sheet.
• Gender Bender:
  • Following him losing a wager to Lucoa in Lucoa is My XX Chapter 14, one of the losing conditions being him "wearing a cute outfit", she uses magic to transform him into a young girl with twintails wearing an Elegant Gothic Lolita outfit and exhibiting shoeless Zettai Ryouiki. Fafnir himself is completely unconcerned about this change, and in fact finds how light on its feet the form is to have potential for improving his gaming prowess. This forms returns in a chapter of Kanna's Daily Life in which he takes part in an arcade tournament in hopes of getting his hands on an old cocktail arcade cabinet.
  • He also does this voluntarily in Chapter 97 of the main series whenever Takiya's parents come to visit, though that form is much closer in appearance to his usual one.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Takiya, since he lives with the guy, and Takiya's one of the few that achieved his approval.
• Hidden Depths: He's much more perceptive towards everybody than he lets them know. Proof of it is his doujinshi, which is evidently a dark but accurate parody of Lucoa's and Shouta's relationship. This also implies he has his own sense of humor.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Keeps his right eye (and right glasses lens) covered by his hair, representing his reclusive and highly antisocial attitude.
• Hikikomori: A modern interpretation of being a hoarder who spends all of his time protecting his possessions in his lair. His namesake (and, in 'verse, he himself) inspired the concept of the dragon and his hoard.
• Horned Humanoid: The first, monstrous humanoid form he chose did have horns, but his usual human form is an inversion, as it's the only among the dragons of the main cast that doesn't have.
• Humanity Is Infectious: The modern day humans of Japan have rubbed off on him in a way that humans from back home never could have. For starters, humans here have no idea that dragons could exist, so they've been friendly to reasonably nonhostile; and he struck up an unexpected friendship with Takiya after Otaku culture proved to be rather attractive to him.
• Hypocritical Humor: After going to an in-person guild meetup for an MMO he plays, he complains to Takiya that humans can't be trusted because they lie about their true selves. Takiya is quick to remind him that he's hiding his true self as well.
• Immortality Inducer: He can grant people immortality by bathing them in his blood.
• The Jeeves: He looks the part after Tohru sent him a picture of an anime butler to base his human form on. (Inspired by a specific butler no less.) Beyond aesthetics, he fully averts this trope between his borderline-hostile personality and the fact that he spends his time playing video games instead of domestic work.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He starts out as a violently murderous Jerkass, even to the people he has close relations with, but as he spends time in the human world, he mellows out tremendously. He's still a gruff, rude jerk, but his murderous hateful mentality gradually fades away and he develops a genuine liking for other people, including some humans like Takiya.
• Meaningful Name:
  • His Japanese human name means "Fierce Big-Mountain", which Tohru chose based on the appearance of his dragon form.
  • Seven Seas Entertainment changes his human name to Jeeves A. Brutus, or "The Jeeves is Brutal."
• Mistaken for Pedophile: His preference for rehearsing a dance routine in the street gets him mistaken for some kind of pervert by the local neighborhood watch, as his chosen place happens to be a school crossroad. Fortunately for the human watchers, it's Tohru and Elma who find him, so the thing can be peacefully sorted out.
• Mistaken Identity: There's a yonkoma◊ on Cool-Kyou Shinsha's twitter account where he got Takiya mixed up with Hajime while buying curry.
• Monster Roommate: He lives with Takiya.
• Monstrous Humanoid: His original humanoid form was a bulky purple-skinned monster, though Tohru got him to change it to a more dignified appearance.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: In his first humanoid form, a purple-skinned monster. In his true dragon form he has a vertical mouth lined with large fangs.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: His answer to any of Tohru’s questions is always to kill everyone.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: He's seemingly the only dragon in the main cast that is not attracted to somebody, or at least receptive to sex. His requests for Lucoa to be his drawing model are met with flirtation and deliberate poses, yet he shows the same reaction as if he were drawing an apple.
• Odd Friendship: With Takiya. They seem to get along well, bonding over their shared interest in video games.
• The One Guy: The only male dragon in the main cast.
• Otaku: He apparently wanted to stay Earthside because of games, then developed an interest in anime, then started producing his own doujinshi. At one point in the anime, he claims that he spends an average of 21 hours per day playing MMORPGs (dragons don't need to sleep).
• Perpetual Frowner: The guy is quite gloomy, seemingly always in a bad mood.
• Personal Arcade: Kanna's Daily Life reveals that he has been collecting arcade cabinets and storing them in an old warehouse, keeping them powered with magic. In a rare Pet the Dog moment, he lets all the neighborhood kids play them for free at the end of the chapter.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: While rarely showing it, he is extremely proud of his status as a dragon. Due to this pride, he is initially skeptical of Tohru's decision to live in the human world. Before Tohru meets Kobayashi, Fafnir flat out tells her to disobey her parents and live her own life, believing that Tohru cannot truly be a dragon if someone else is controlling her.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: A sign of his Ax-Crazy tendencies.
• Sequential Artist: He draws doujinshi, though no one ever buys it due to his poor writing and drawing skills.
• The Social Darwinist: He believes that a dragon should be able to do anything they want to so long as they can kill anyone who gets in their way, and has no tolerance for Puny Humans who can't back up their words with actions.
• Spared by the Adaptation: He off-handedly mentions how Sigurd was bathed in his blood and got granted immortality like in the myth, but unlike there, where Fafnir was killed before that happened, he's very much still alive.
• The Stoic: Only very occasionally shows emotion.
• Stoic Spectacles: Of the "acts reserved, but would probably kill you and your entire family if you so much as annoy him" variety.
• Terrible Artist: His drawing skills leave much to be desired, as shown when he asks Lucoa to model for his doujinshi in chapter 61.
• Token Evil Teammate: Fafnir is the most brutal of all the dragons of the main cast, and unlike them, whose quirks are usually just funny or eccentric, he keeps a number of attitudes that by human standards make him very unsympathetic (greed, social darwinism, asociality...). His violent attitude is highlighted when he gets a temporary ban from an online RPG, as when Takiya, his best friend and possibly only human he respects, sees the ban notification, he unironically screams that mankind is in jeopardy. However, Fafnir explicitly doesn't go out of his way to harm other beings, and his relationship with Takiya and the rest eventually brings out the best of him.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He starts the series as a complete Ax-Crazy Jerkass who honestly has the viewpoint that Murder Is the Best Solution, but as he spends more time in the human world, and around Takiya specifically, he gradually softens up more and more, and the more time goes by, the more frequently and more noticeably he performs acts of kindness towards the people who treated him well in turn.
• Tsundere: Takiya calls him this at the hot springs chapter in the manga.
• Vague Age: His human form resembles believably a man in his mid-to-late twenties, like the rest of the grown-up cast, although his deep voice and sinister demeanor break the illusion a bit.
• Visual Pun: He has four eyes in his dragon form and his human form.
• Was Once a Man: Chapter 81 implies that he is a transformed human, much like his mythological counterpart.
• Write What You Know: In-Universe example. His doujinshi are full of instructions for actual curses that he has learned over the course of his life.
• Write Who You Know: Another In-Universe example. When the reader is shown the script for one of his doujinshi, the characters in it are clearly based on Lucoa and Shouta.

Lucoa

Quetzalcoatl (Lucoa)

Voiced by: Minami Takahashi (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English), Adriana Olmedo (Latin American Spanish)

A former goddess once worshiped by the Aztecs, Quetzalcoatl is an ancient dragon who got demoted after a certain incident. She is a wise, kindhearted dragon who often has advice for her younger kin, and is consciously unaligned from the Dragon factions, choosing to be an arbiter/observer. She is currently living with Shouta.

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• Actual Pacifist: Lucoa is (or was) a creator deity, not a destroyer, and has always hated fighting, despite having the power to flatten anyone who dared trifle with her. In the past she always fled at the first sign of trouble without protecting her followers. However, she can be provoked. Having feelings for Shouta, Tohru tried to get a raise out of her by threatening to kiss the boy, which prompted Quetzalcoatl to fight for him.
• Adaptational Modesty: Barely. Her first outfit in the manga shows her midsection by default, though she later switches to a longer shirt. In the anime, she's wearing the longer shirt from the beginning.
• All-Powerful Bystander: As befitting her role as a former goddess, Lucoa is implied to be the single strongest named character in the series. Due to her neutral nature, however, she doesn't get involved in the overarching Order Versus Chaos conflict among dragons. It's also mentioned that - had she been present - she wouldn't have helped Tohru fight against Ilulu for this very reason. Subverted during the fight with Azad and Kanna's father, where she intervenes to buy Kobayashi time. It's later mentioned that this is a requirement for being a member of the spectator faction, as they need to be strong enough to strike out on their own but can never interfere even if they have a personal stake in the fight (as doing so would mean that they've metaphorically never left in the first place). In chapter 95 Tohru is able to actually get Lucoa to fight her and she wipes the floor with Tohru, easily.
• Apologetic Attacker: Does this during the dodge ball game. While the manga just had it in a small panel, the anime cranked it up to the point of hilarity.
• Artistic License – Religion: She's based on the Aztec Mythology character, but gender-flipped and with some alterations to her backstory.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Most of the dragons in their true forms appear close in size to each other, but Lucoa's true form when shown in a flashback is revealed to be much larger. Simply put, she's huge, impossibly huge. Her eyes alone are bigger than Tohru's entire body individually.
• Barely-There Swimwear: She wears two of these in episode seven. She gets dragged away for overexposure both times.
• Been There, Shaped History: She admits that she's been around for so long, she's been directly responsible for the course of human development in civilization at least once in history.
• Berserk Button: She's normally a very staunch follower of her All-Powerful Bystander status, and even disregarding that is such a Mellow Fellow Nice Girl that actually angering her is extremely difficult, which annoyed Tohru when she was trying to goad Lucoa into fighting her. But Tohru eventually figured out the one thing that will near-instantly turn the sagely former-god into a vengeful and angry one: come onto Shouta and succeed at drawing his attention away from her. Once Tohru did so, Lucoa wasted no time delivering a brutal curbstomp to her and "reclaiming" Shouta.
• Big Good: Lucoa is very kind and genial towards human beings, when most dragons in their Great Offscreen War are either apathetic or outright malicious. Justified, as she is one the creators of the world that birthed humanity.
• Boob-Based Gag: While mainly used for Male Gaze, her massive breasts are also used for a plethora of jokes, such as turning Shouta into a blushing mess when she shoves them in his face, causing weird dreams in the boy relating to large and heavy objects, and being the most frequent trigger for Kobayashi's A-Cup Angst.
• Brother–Sister Incest: The reason for her demotion from goddess to dragon. In the series, it's due to a cursed bottle of alcohol. In the original myth, however, Quetzalcoatl is just convinced to imbibe. Regardless, while drunk either character version sleeps with their sister. Also, in the series proper, while she poses as Shouta's Cool Big Sis, for lack of a better way to repay him for letting her stay, she tries to offer him her body as payment.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She's an ex-goddess of wisdom and agriculture who helped in the development of humankind, as well as wiser and more mature in her relationships with humans than she looks. She also happens to be a Shameless Fanservice Girl who acts like a Comedic Shotacon.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: All of the men at the sports festival and everyone in the old folks home (including the women) enjoyed the sight of her "World Class" assets.
• Caring Gardener: She is a former agricultural goddess who does volunteer farmwork in her spare time (and she does it all by hand rather than using her magic). It draws a sharp contrast with her normal role as a Comedic Shotacon.
• Cassandra Truth: She keeps trying to tell Shouta that she's not a demon, but he never listens to her (probably because she keeps trying to seduce him).
• Character Shilling: Invoked in Kanna's Daily Life. On more than one occasion, Kanna has gotten favors out of her by promising to tell Shouta how wonderful she is.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She's a genuine Nice Girl who normally is quite fine with Shouta interacting with other girls, but any time something has the slightest hints of Shouta being potentially attracted to another girl, even a fake case from a game, will cause her to become violently possessive, such as him getting a "You have a girlfriend!" card in Game of Life resulting in her tearing it up, or Tohru making Shouta blush resulting in Lucoa giving her the fight she wanted in a Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Cloudcuckoolander:
  • She seems completely oblivious as to why Shouta is bothered by her behavior, continuously doing the exact same things that he finds off putting. Even Tohru manages to realize that.
  • When Tohru asks everyone to come up with a maid outfit for Kobayashi, Lucoa thinks up a very revealing one (basing it off of what servants wore back when she was a goddess).
• Comedic Shotacon: Constantly tries to seduce the prepubescent boy that summoned her (bonus points for said boy's name being homophonous with the Trope Namer), and it's always Played for Laughs. The reveal that she's genuinely sexually attracted to him does nothing to diminish the humor of it all.
• Cool Big Sis: Acts as one for most of the other dragons, especially Tohru. Also, this is her cover as to why she's staying with Shouta. She makes a point of facilitating friendship between Saikawa and Ilulu, commenting that kids should be able to play without worrying about having to be The Atoner as Ilulu was. She also helps Kanna with advice when the younger dragon begins to think about what faction, Chaos, Harmony, or Neutral, she should join.
• Delightful Dragon: Lucoa, as a former goddess of agriculture and wisdom, tends to treat almost everyone as if she was their laid-back Cool Big Sis. Her complete lack of racism towards humans makes quite a bit of sense given the reveal in Mononoke Sharing that she helped create humanity in the first place.
• Divine Date: She was previously an Aztec god before her demotion, and her idea on how to pay for her room and board is becoming Shouta's concubine. Living among mortals, Quetzalcoatl hopes Shouta will start reciprocating to her constant advances once he's older, and that the two have Babies Ever After.
• Dragons Are Divine: Somewhat. Apparently dragons are one step below divinity in the series; after she fell from being a goddess, she became just a dragon (albeit among the most powerful of all dragons). In Aztec mythology, Quetzalcoatl is still a god who is frequently depicted as a Feathered Serpent or dragon.
• Dub Name Change: A really bizarre example happens between the Latin American Spanish and French dubs: one would imagine that being Quetzacoatl a god from Mexico, the Latin American dub (which was done in that country) would change the name of Lucoa to either "Quetzacoatl" or a diminutive (such as "Quetza" or "Coatl" which are diminutives used to refer to that god in Mexico). Turns out that's not the case here. The Latin American Spanish dub keeps her Japanese name instead, while the French dub changes her name to "Coatl", despite that name being as alien for the French audiences as "Lucoa" is for Mexicans and "Coatl" for the original Japanese ones.
• Everyone Has Standards: She's genuinely sexually attracted to the near-pubescent Shouta, but she refuses to force herself on him like how Fafnir wrote her to act in his doujin, only going as far as teasing and skinship, as she also genuinely loves him, so she'll only do so if he is willing and would enjoy it.
• Exotic Eye Designs: It's rarely seen due to her regular Eyes Always Shut status, but the anime has her right eye with a blue iris and large yellow pupil, and her left eye with a black-bordered, dark-green iris with markings resembling an Aztec calendar, and a small black pupil. See for yourself.◊
• Eyes Always Shut: She almost always has both eyes closed, and when she does open her eyes it's usually only the left one. Even her dragon form seems to have perpetually closed eyes. It's a bit more downplayed in Dragon Maid S, as she opens them much more frequently, even in scenes directly adapted from manga pages where they were closed, but still not as common as them being shut.
• Familiar: For Shouta... kind of. It's clear that she's the dominant one in the relationship. He doesn't seem to get anything out of it beyond proving to his father that he is a strong wizard as he rejects her various methods of payment, such as monetary rewards, charisma, and enhanced magical power. He fully outright rejects her attempts to pay with her body.
• Fantastic Racism: Averted. She's the only dragon who never hates, belittles, or distrusts humans. Rather appropriate since, in Aztec lore, Quetzalcoatl was the creator of the current race of humanity.
• Feathered Serpent: Her true form is a giant serpentine dragon with broad feathered wings. It's to be expected, seeing as she's the story's depiction of the Trope Namer.
• Foil: To Fafnir, being the blonde, laid-back, godly dragon to his black haired, short-tempered, monstrous dragon. Even their relationships with their roommates are opposites, with Fafnir's being platonic while Lucoa's is lustful.
• Food God: Much like her mythological counterpart, she's a former agricultural goddess. Her subconscious desire to aid farmers still remains despite having been stripped of her divinity, leading to her doing volunteer farmwork in her spare time.
• Gender Bender: Much like Ilulu, she has the ability to swap other's genders at will. In her case, though, she takes it even further by being able to Cosmic Retcon reality to make it as if they were always the other gender.
• Giant Flyer: When her dragon form is revealed, it stretches far off into the distance, wrapping behind a mountain on the horizon (and that's less than half of what's visible). Her eyes alone are larger than Tohru's entire dragon body. She so big she gets hay-fever from entire trees.
• God Was My Copilot: Downplayed. While it was already known that she was a former goddess, Mononoke Sharing revealed just how high up the celestial hierarchy she was as one of the beings responsible for creating the Earth.
• Hidden Depths: While her character is usually depicted as a Comedic Shotacon, Lucoa is a former goddess of wisdom, so she will occasionally give profound insight on subjects such as the innocence of children or why Good Feels Good.
• Historical Gender Flip: Quetzalcoatl in Aztec Mythology was male, here she's a very well-endowed woman.
• Home Nudist: Played With. One time, when no one was home, she stripped herself and relaxed nude on the couch while complaining how she hated clothes and being naked was the most comfortable. Shouta, however, had set up spy cameras to try and find her weakness, and it is heavily implied that she was aware and she stripped in another attempt to seduce him.
• Hospital Hottie: She gets a job as Oborozuka Elementary's new school nurse in chapter 2 of Lucoa is my xx so she can spend more time with Shouta.
• Hot Goddess: Well, ex-goddess anyways. Men of all ages ranging from elementary school students to geriatrics have been captivated by her beauty (more specifically her breasts), and she has a habit of wearing very revealing clothing.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Shouta means a lot to Quetzalcoatl, as she was lonely for so long, that the moment she heard his summons the former-goddess was overjoyed at being wanted by someone, and now freeloads at the boy's home.
• Image Song: "Little Rider".
• The Immune: She's demonstrated an immunity to zombie bites, though to be fair she was the one who made the zombies in the first place.
• Insult Backfire: The official English translation of Chapter 65 has a wizard named William call her too sensuous. She responds with the line "There's nothing wrong with being sensuous." Her response causes Shouta to hide his face with his hands in shame.
• Kaiju: Sitting on the boundaries between gods and dragons, Lucoa's true form is an absolutely garguantun dragon that would give the World Serpent a run for its money. Her body seemingly goes on forever, trailing off into the horizon. Even Tohru, a giant Chaos dragon, appears as nothing to her.
• Leg Focus: As a Statuesque Stunner with a strong inclination to being a Shameless Fanservice Girl, alongside her ample chest she frequently wears clothing and performs poses that put her legs on display, especially her thighs.
• Loser Deity: Downplayed; she was once the Aztec Dragon God, Quetzalcoatl, and even now she's considered the most powerful of the series' dragons despite being a Bunny-Ears Lawyer. However, one incident of her consuming cursed liquor led to a scandal and caused her to be exiled from godhood, and even among the main cast she sometimes gets chastised for her Shameless Fanservice Girl tendencies.
• The Maker: Mononoke Sharing reveals that she was one of the people who helped create the Earth (and, by extension, humanity).
• Mellow Fellow: Her carefree demeanor hardly ever strays. Unless you bring up her incident involving her sister and alcohol, in whose case she freaks out.
• Memory-Wiping Crew: She's usually the one responsible for wiping the memories of any muggles that happen to see the other dragons acting out.
• Me's a Crowd: As revealed in Chapter 9 of Lucoa is my XX, she's capable of creating duplicates of herself out of her hair. The one she creates in that chapter is physically around Shouta's age, in order to help him make a friend in a way that would be comfortable for him.
• Monster Roommate: She's currently living with Shouta.
• Mrs. Robinson: She's god knows how many eons old, yet she persistently tries to seduce Shouta who is a young prepubescent boy.
• Ms. Fanservice: She has the largest bust among the cast, and her first outfit in the manga exposed a lot of skin. She even went to Comiket wearing a bikini.
• Ms. Vice Girl: Lucoa is my XX reveals that her constant attempts to seduce Shouta are because she's truly sexually and romantically interested in him, even though he's barely entering puberty. Despite this, she's overall a very sweet woman who refuses to indulge in this interest without Shouta's permission, as she's completely sincere about her liking him and wants him to both be willing and enjoy it if they ever have sex.
• Naked First Impression: She was naked when Shouta summoned her, despite the fact that she was wearing clothes beforehand.
• Neutral No Longer: During chapters 76 and 77 of the Azad arc, she barely intercedes in the conflict by deflecting one blast aimed at Kobayashi, Tohru, and Kanna, and later stalls Azad as he tries to escape by standing in front of him and talking.
• Nice Girl: Lucoa is a mountain of sage wisdom and kindness, being a reliable being to anyone she comes across. To top it all off, she's beautiful in all attributes, not only the physical ones.
• Non-Mammalian Hair: She has a mane in her dragon form, as expected from a Feathered Serpent.
• Not Helping Your Case: She'd have better luck convincing Shouta that she's not a succubus if she wouldn't keep doing sexy things around him. When she offered her body to him when all others fail, the boy fearfully establishes this.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Doesn't think twice about climbing into bed with Shouta or trying to bathe with him.
• Not So Stoic: Most of the time, her only expression is a contented smile. However, this is only in appearance, as she can get easily flustered with the right topics.
• Old Shame: That one time that she slept with her sister is an In-Universe example. She gets very embarrassed when it's brought up.
• Only One Name: Unlike most other dragons, she doesn't appear to have a last name as part of her human identity. She can be presumed to be using Magatsuchi as a last name while masquerading as Shouta's older sister, but if this is the case, it is never shown onscreen.
• Perpetual-Motion Monster: Much like Tohru, she's capable of generating her own mana.
• Perpetual Smiler: Barring being caught completely off-guard, her default smile never fades.
• Physical God: Formerly. Even without her divinity, she's still incredibly powerful, even by dragon standards. Her former divine status is the most likely explanation for her true dragon body being the size of a large country.
• Playing Sick: She once pretended to have hayfever from accidentally inhaling huge monstrous trees from the otherworld as a means to have Shouta enter her maw. Fafnir soon saw through the rouse, knowing Lucoa could've purged the annoyance herself with no fuss. Quetzalcoatl admitted to just wanting her boy explore her cavernous mouth, as the dragon thought that was arousing.
• Please Put Some Clothes On: More than once she has been scolded by an authority figure and told to cover up when her clothes are too skimpy.
• Potty Emergency: She has a spell that lets her invoke sudden bathroom urges on people (and she actually finds a practical application for it).
• Pretty Freeloaders: Subverted. To her credit, she did offer Shouta several magical gifts (and her body), it's just that Shouta had no use for of any of them.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her magic circles are purple and she's an ex-goddess.
• Reality Warper: Being a former goddess, her magic can alter the world around her to a far greater degree than the other dragons, up to cosmic retconning someone's gender or causing a spontaneous Zombie Apocalypse. She can also just as easily reverse those changes.
• Related Differently in the Adaptation: In the original myth, Quetzalcoatl sacrificed himself for getting drunk and sleeping with his elder sister Quetzalpetlatl. Here, Lucoa was the elder sister and "Petla" was younger.
• Relatively Flimsy Excuse: She somehow convinced Shouta's school that she is his older sister.
• The Reliable One: On the side of the dragons, Lucoa is a source of experience and security for her friends. Being a former goddess, she has wisdom aplenty to give.
• Series Continuity Error: The anime opening sequence, during Season 1, attempted to tease Lucoa's dragon form, which ended up being quite the departure from what she actually looks like in the manga, where her real form would be shown after a while. Season 2, however, corrects that discrepancy, matching the source material before Lucoa shows her real self in an actual episode (although it does get the size still wrong).
• Sex for Services: She tries offering herself to Shouta in exchange for room and board, though he understandably doesn't take her up on her offer (he's under the impression that she's actually a succubus). In her defence, this is after she already offers him endless riches, supernatural charisma, and boundless magical powers, all of which he turns down for various reasons.
• Sex Shifter: She can become male and perform the swap freely enough to restore her original gender exactly when she wants.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Her choice of swimsuits gets her dragged off for overexposure twice in episode 7. That's not even getting into her cow cosplay and Naked Apron during the DVD specials.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: She always has a tendency to disappear when something big is about to happen in the main manga. Like for instance when Ilulu shows up in Chapter 30, Lucoa has gone off to another country on a trip, and doesn't return until Chapter 33. It is revealed this is self-imposed. As a Neutral faction she cannot get involved in big events and will actively avoid them for fear of temptation to help one side out.
• Signature Headgear: A pink baseball cap with a white brim. It even comes with holes for her horns.
• Sleeps in the Nude: She has a habit of sleeping in the nude, usually when sneaking into the same bed as Shouta. However, there have been occasions, such as in Season 2, Episode 8 of the anime, where she has slept nude without the presence of Shouta, suggesting that it may not entirely be done just to seduce him and she may have an actual prefence for it.
• Snakes Are Sexy: A variation. Her true form is a Feathered Serpent, who also takes the form of a very well-endowed human woman.
• Some Call Me "Tim": While her name is 'Quetzalcoatl', she has most people call her 'Lucoa', her In-Series Nickname.
• So Proud of You: She starts referring to Shouta as "Master" when he defends her honor after a bully disrespects her in front of him, denoting that she accepts him and considers him completely worthy of her being his "familiar".
• Statuesque Stunner: She's the tallest and shapeliest of the female dragons in human form.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Her first appearance in the manga is Kobayashi asking Tohru when the next friend will arrive and Lucoa announces herself right behind Kobayashi saying she's already here.
• Submissive Badass: She is a god but despite that will still allow people to drag her off when her outfits are too revealing and obey comply with the demand to put on something less skimpy.
• Succubi and Incubi: While Lucoa's not literally a succubus, Shouta is convinced that she's one due to the fact that she showed up when he was performing a demon summoning ritual and she keeps trying to seduce him.
• The Teetotaler: After the incident with her sister, she swore off alcohol for hundreds of years, though she does occasionally drink in the present.
• Time Abyss: She is significantly older than the rest of the cast, old enough to have shaped the course of human history at least once. Mononoke Sharing reveals that she's not only older than humanity as a whole, but helped create the planet they live on.
• Time Master: Chapter 45 reveals that she has the ability to rewind time and offers to do so for Ilulu (who declines the offer).
• Vague Age: The official guide book lists her human age as "unknown". She apparently looks young enough to pose as Shouta's big sister, but at the same time, she also has a kind of worldly aunt aura that makes her look and sound older than Kobayashi herself at times.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She gets called out by Shouta in Chapter 2 of Lucoa is my xx for manipulating the Oborodzuka elementary principal's memories to be put in charge of the infirmary.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Chapter 16 of Lucoa is My Xx reveals she's quite good at lucha libre wrestling from her home country of Mexico, just like another fictional version of Quetzalcoatl.
• Your Size May Vary: When Lucoa's dragon form is shown on Episode 11 of Season 2, there is some noticeable perspective and size issues when compared to Tohru; in one frame, Tohru's dragon form is about the same size of Lucoa's head, while the same scene in the manga, and a few others that followed, showed that Tohru's dragon form is about the size of Lucoa's eye, not head. The anime opening sequence for Season 2 is accurate about Lucoa's dragon size, however.

Elma

Elma (Elma Joui)

Voiced by: Yūki Takada (Japanese), Rachel Glass (English), Andrea Orozco (Latin American Spanish)

Elma, AKA Elma Joui or Elma of the Holy Seas is a Harmony-aligned dragon of the Divine subgroup who is Tohru's archrival. She first appears by smashing a wall into Kobayashi's apartment, and begins picking fights with Tohru over the latter going against the Alien Non-Interference Clause by living in this world and interacting with humans. She later gets a job working at Kobayashi's company.

She is also the main character of the Spin-Off Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary.

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• Adaptational Nice Girl: In the manga, she refused to do anything to aid Tohru in the fight against Ilulu until Kobayashi bribed her to put up a barrier so Tohru could fight at full power without fear of collateral damage. While she still doesn't put up the barrier without being bribed in the anime, she does cast a spell to remove all human bystanders from the area without prompting.
• Aesop Amnesia: After joining the cast of the main manga in Chapter 24, she soon forgets the aesop that Tohru was sent to teach her, in the Flashback in Chapter 44, as she allows herself to be used by humans again.
• Alien Non-Interference Clause: Except maybe Lucoa, she's the strictest about following it. How strict she is, though, is highly variable. Ranging from refusing a piece of cream bread in her first appearance, to creating a shield over a city to protect it when Tohru and Ilulu were fighting (though she had to be bribed for that one).
• Aliens Love Human Food: While most dragons are Big Eaters who enjoy any food both dragon or human-made, Elma holds the latter in particular high regard and can be easily bribed with it. When she has time off from her office job, she goes exploring the city and trying new kinds of food, particularly sweets.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Even with Tohru's advantage of being able to create her own mana, Elma still manages to edge out ahead when they finally fight for real, perhaps for being the most emotionally motivated of the two at that moment. As a sea-serpent type dragon, she's also an almost literal bigger fish.
• Ambiguously Gay: What exactly Elma's feelings for Tohru are is a bit ambiguous and later becomes the center of an entire arc. It's strongly hinted that she may be in love with Tohru, and there is even a running joke during the aformentioned arc about polygamy, but when full on asked Elma states she wants to be as close to her as Kobayashi but also to be different and not interfere with Tohru and Kobayashi's relationship. At the same time, however, Elma also seems to have something for Kobayashi herself, even looking like she's playing Dogged Nice Guy at some points towards her.
• And Your Reward Is Edible: Elma's preferred reward for anything (victory, helping out, etc.) is food, though this is hardly a surprise considering she's a sugar-powered sea dragon. A solid example of this attitude comes in chapter 64 of the main manga, where, after she and Tohru have a practice fight (and rekindle their friendship), she declares victory and demands Tohru buy her food.
• Anger Born of Worry: The reason she quarrels with Tohru for most of the manga is because they were close friends before Tohru disappeared without even giving her a peep. Since the last thing Elma heard of was that she attacked and lost to the gods, she was left begrieved only to find her happily spending time with a human, which understandably enraging her. The two are thankfully able to reconcile once Elma is able to communicate her hurt feelings and Tohru subsequently apologises for her insensitivity.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: For all of their bickering and fighting, Elma and Tohru do show signs of genuine affection for each other.
  • Their flashback to their days traveling together shows several caring gestures between the two like bringing each other food and resting together at a bonfire.
  • The biggest example comes from when Elma challenges Tohru to a fight. The two spend most of it barely holding back and shattering the landscape around them, all while also having an intense verbal argument. At the end, Elma breaks down and admits that she's missed being friends with Tohru, and that she was scared thinking Tohru had been killed prior to becoming a maid. Tohru is completely taken aback by this, and quickly apologises for her insensitivity. After continuing the fight on more friendly terms the two properly become friends again.
• Badly Battered Babysitter: Granted, it's more self-inflicted than anything. Elma chaperones Kanna, Saikawa, and Shouta as the three go exploring in the wilderness. Elma briefly loses her attention on them as she soaks her feet in the river, and the moment she sees they're missing, goes stampeding through the woods trying to find them, only to get herself battered by the trees and wildlife. Unbeknownst to her, the kids walked back to their campsite safe and sound.
• Barrier Warrior: Elma can create powerful barriers. She creates one strong enough to block any collateral damage from Tohru's powerful attack when the latter is fighting Ilulu.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: Her full dragon form has a three pronged tail, which she was shown using during her falling out with Tohru. When she shifts into a human or semi-human form, it's transformed into a trident.
• Big Eater: She's noted to be a glutton in her first appearance, and she's often seen eating or thinking about eating. She even gets banned from an all-you-can-eat buffet in her spin-off manga after eating over 100 servings in a single sitting. This also makes it hard for to do her own cooking, as she keeps eating the ingredients as well as the mixture for sweets. In chapter 29 of Kanna's Daily Life, when eating a watermelon slice she went as to eat not just the seeds but the rind as well.
• Black-and-White Insanity: As a member of the Harmony faction of dragons, Elma is a staunch believer in justice and making things right for everyone, but the lengths she can take this are a bit extreme even if often comedic. She'll loudly reprimand little children for not obeying crosswalk rules, pick fights with Chaos dragons even if they're not posing a threat (her rivalry with Tohru is built on this), and once spent weeks trying to singlehandedly improve her workplace's conditions past any rational degree.
• Breakout Character: She was popular enough to get her own manga spin-off, and has gained a significant boost in screen time and plot relevance in the second anime season.
• Bullying a Dragon: While she's lost in the woods, a bear tries to attack her, but she nonchalantly holds its jaw in place with one hand and scares it off with a Death Glare.
• Butt-Monkey: Among the main cast, she's the most susceptible to any kind of slapstick or humiliating situations.
  • In Elma's debut, Tohru fools her into stepping through a portal to another continent under the false promise of a duel. Tohru then closes the portal off and leaves Elma stranded and without food for a whole day. The next time they meet, Tohru uses her Breath Weapon to blast Elma across the city and into a playground.
  • She has to chaperone the kids for a day and loses them briefly in the woods. She then scrambles to find them while being battered by trees and almost being attacked by a bear.
• Character Tics: She always leaves the outermost layer of her clothing open at the front (presumably due to the size of her breasts).
• Cloudcuckoolander: Because she's so Obsessed with Food, she can barely go a single chapter without derailing a conversation into something food related. A stand out example is when the dragons try to imagine what Kobayashi would look like as a dragon, and Elma imagines an ice cream cone with Kobayashi's head. Her Black-and-White Insanity also adds to this.
• Competition Freak: Even beyond her rivalry with Tohru, she is shown to take all challenges very seriously, like when she was playing Life against the younger members of the cast in Kanna's Daily Life.
• Contrived Coincidence: She chooses to break the Dragon Non-Interference Clause, and gets a normal "human" job in order to blend in with the rest of the humans... at the exact same company that Kobayashi happens to works at.
• Corporate Dragon: She's a high ranking Harmony Dragon who is capable of facing Tohru on even footing, and works at an IT company... as a low level software engineer.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Elma is a harmony dragon who is often clueless, easily tricked, bribe-able with snack food, and stranded on Earth. However, she's also noted to be Tohru's equal. The relevant power level of this aspect isn't shown until Ilulu and Clemene appear and show how Tohru (and by extension, Elma) eclipse other dragons in might. Hell, even arrogant Jerkass Clemene refers to her as "Elma-sama", showing her status among harmony dragons. Indeed, when the two later get into a proper fight Elma’s raw brute strength is able to completely pin Tohru.
• Cute Little Fangs: Occasionally seen with one.
• Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: Ends up being subjected to this when she goes outside after having spent several days nonstop at the office to get a project out on time. At least she finally found out why Kobayashi told her to get a pair of sunglasses.
• Death Glare: She and Tohru will frequently locks eyes like they're about to kill each other whenever they meet, even under the most mundane circumstances.
• Delicious Distraction: Accidental in the manga, but when she's about to go off to deliver a memo, a co-worker presents her with some food and she forgets what she was going to do.
• Delightful Dragon: Elma is a Token Heroic Orc among the harmony faction who refuses to accept Human Sacrifices. While she does have the rare moment of looking down on humans, she views it has her duty to lead them to peace and prosperity.
• The Ditherer: This is played as a gag in the anime. She is shown to have problem deciding which flavour she wants when ordering food, and ends up buying all of the available options. She is even frustrated about choosing what toothpaste to use when all three options are fruit flavoured.
• Ditzy Genius: While she is incredibly smart and capable of memorizing books and putting the knowledge gained to use with ease, she doesn't really understand humanity and constantly makes minor faux pas when around people. Also, she didn't think much of the fact that she once broke the lock to her apartment until it was pointed out that she could be robbed (though she thought it would be by goblins, orcs and the like, not humans).
• Dogged Nice Girl: Downplayed example towards Kobayashi. It never really gets brought up (aside from Tohru getting very chagrined by it), but Elma has several moments where it's hinted she likes Kobayashi:
  • When Tohru is fighting Ilulu, Elma states she won't help Tohru because of their alignments, but if she falls, then she will act, specifically mentioning she will protect Kobayashi.
  • When Elma misunderstands Takiya calling Kobayashi "the pillar of the office" to mean what it would be perceived as in her world, she challenges Kobayashi for the "position" in a misguided attempt to "save" her, claiming she will fulfill all of Kobayashi's duties for her sake. She also dismisses Kobayashi's claim that Elma sees her as a "mere human".
  • In the same scenario as above, when Kobayashi makes to flick Elma's forehead as admonishment, tellingly, Elma assumes Kobayashi is going to kiss her, and flat out states she's OK with it if Kobayashi wants her "despite also having Tohru". This is the same Elma who was picking a fight with Tohru over interacting with humans and who can't stand putting up with her either.
  • The trope is also subverted entirely when it comes to Tohru herself, who Elma is implied more strongly to be in love with. Due in part to their past, she's dispensed with most niceties, and their relationship is often quite vitriolic.
• Edible Theme Naming: It's probably a coincidence, but her name is Turkic for apple, which fits with her status as a Big Eater.
• Elemental Eye Colors: While she's never actually seen using water magic, she is an aquatic dragon with deep-blue eyes.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Her coworkers start calling her "Expensma-chan" after she racks up a massive food budget on moving day.
• Even the Girls Want Her: In her Spin-Off, Elma's friend/co-worker Wakita develops a small crush on her. While normally straight when thinking of the kind of guy she likes, Wakita ends up thinking about Elma much to her embarrassment.
• Exact Words: A pickup artist tries flirting with her in chapter 25 of her spin-off, and she innocently gives him her phone number when he asks for it. But when he tries calling it later, he discovers that she gave him her work number (and she isn't even the one who answers the call).
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Flashbacks show that her hair used to be a lot longer. While it's never specified why she changed it, it's worth pointing out that she was last seen with long hair during her falling out with Tohru.
• Fantastic Anthropologist: Subverted. She claimed that the reason she got a job at Kobayashi's office was part of a study to see if beings from the other world could assimilate to Earth culture. Kobayashi quickly realized that this was a lie and she was just too embarrassed to admit that she had no way to get back to the other world on her own.
• Fatal Flaw: Gluttony. It ended up destroying her friendship with Tohru and all of her efforts to bring peace to humans in the other world, and in the present it makes her very open to bribes.
• Fire/Water Juxtaposition: The water dragon to Tohru's fire dragon.
• Foil: To Tohru — Tohru is from the Chaos Faction of dragons and is very open about her love for Kobayashi, whom she fell in love prior to the series. Elma is from the Harmony faction of dragons and while it's known that she romantically likes Kobayashi, she keeps her feelings hidden, and she fell in love with her during the series.
• Food as Bribe: Elma's weakness is food, so both Kobayashi and Tohru have used this against her. Of course this weakness once got Elma into trouble and led to her and Tohru having a falling out.
• Glamour Failure: Chapter 34 of her spin-off series reveals that when she is hungry, or thinking of animals as food, animals on Earth will sense her being a superior predator and be frightened of her. Only by placating her stomach does this aura dissipate. This issue causes a lot of trouble as Elma is taking Kanna and Saikawa to the local zoo and Elma is constantly hungry while there.
• God Guise: She once tried to bring about peace among humans in the other world going by the title "The Saint of the Sea" (or Elma of the Holy Seas), and was famous enough that Shouta's father recognized her on sight during an office meeting between the two.
• Growling Gut:
  • Twice during her introduction since she was refusing to eat any food on Earth due to adhering to the Alien Non-Interference Clause.
  • Constantly during the first chapter of "Office Drinking Party" in her spinoff series, as she came hungry, with plenty of food, and chose to wait until her coworkers showed up before starting the cooking and eating. Her hunger (and the constant reminder of food from Lucoa) nearly drives her to try to kill the former goddess as well.
  • The eighth Minidora short revealed that her coworkers use the growling sound as an incredibly accurate alarm clock.
• Hair-Contrast Duo: With Tohru, having semi-short black hair in contrast to Tohru's long blonde hair.
• Honor Before Reason: According to Tohru, when Elma was arm wrestling she wasn't using any magic to enhance her strength, barely costing her a victory against Tohru.
• Hopeless Suitor: Elma is in love with Tohru, who is Kobayashi-sexual. She's also expressed interest in Kobayashi, who hasn't reciprocated anyone's feelings at this point.
• Human Sacrifice: Almost everybody who has interacted with most Harmony dragons gets quite surprised when they learn she doesn't ask for sacrifices in return for her services, and in fact utterly refuses any attempted offer. She greatly prefers offerings of delicious regular food instead.
• I Just Want to Be Free: Much like with Tohru, she doesn't actually want anything to do with the harmony/chaos war and would much rather "be like water". Unlike with Tohru, she keeps these feelings bottled up and hides it behind a smile, only making her true desires known to her family when she's seconds away from being forced into an Arranged Marriage.
• Image Song: "Believe in Myself" and "Shiro Kuro Tsukema Show?!". She shares the latter with Tohru.
• Informed Ability: Early in the manga/anime its said the Tohru and Elma are equal in strength. Tohru also claims that Elma is actually physically stronger than her, and that when the two arm wrestled, Tohru only won because Elma's sense of honor kept her from using magic to enhance her strength like Tohru was. It's not until much later in the manga that we get to see the two spar and see for ourselves that while she doesn't show it as much as Tohru, Elma is a ridiculously powerful dragon in her own right, able to No-Sell an attack from Tohru point blank though the overall match ends in a draw.
• Innocently Insensitive: She unwittingly offends some of her female coworkers — who have to watch their weights — with her Big Eater habits.
• Instant Expert: Downplayed. Elma is completely unable to figure out how to work a computer at first, due to the technological level of her world, but thanks to Kobayashi's guidance, she manages to become a fairly competent coder not long after. Kobayashi lampshades this by calling dragons "high spec". This is justified later on when it's revealed that the programming language that the company uses is based on the series magic system, which she would already have a strong familiarity with.
• Irony:
  • She's a harmony dragon who's supposed to keep order, yet her introduction featured her causing chaos by smashing through the wall of Kobayashi's apartment.
  • She hounded Tohru for violating the law of the world in her introduction, yet settles in easily as Kobayashi's colleague, gets "tamed" by her via sweets, and all-but-admits to liking Kobayashi in the same way Tohru does.
  • In Elma's Office Lady Diary, she, the Harmony Dragon, has to be reined in multiple times by Tohru, the Chaos Dragon, despite Elma originally wanting it to be the other way around.
• Knight Templar: Played for Laughs when she helps out with the neighborhood watch and threatens to punish children for jaywalking.
• Leg Focus: Whether it's her iconic battle outfit or her myriad of human-style outfits, both formal and casual, one consistent aspect of her design is that she always shows off her curvy and well-built legs, particularly her decently thick thighs, to the point that whenever she's the recipient of Male Gaze, those thighs get much more frequent focus than her also sizable chest.
• Leotard of Power: Her default outfit, which she only wears during battle, with one exception^note she wore it to a mixer in chapter 5 of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary, is an one-piece black leotard, with a blue sash around her waist and a brown scarf draped around her neck.
• Lost Food Grievance: She went full dragon form when a burglar accidentally stepped on a bag of chestnuts she had bought, and would have murdered him if Kobayashi hadn't come by with some Taiyaki.
• Love Across Battlelines: She's a Harmony-aligned dragon (one who happens to be a direct descendant of the faction's second in command at that) who is in love with an equally high ranking Chaos dragon.
• Making a Splash: While she is never shown using any water spells in the present day (unless you count her flash freezing a volcanic eruption during her fight with Tohru in the anime), they played a large role in her backstory where she used them to bring peace among humans by ensuringing a bountiful harvest.
• Man Bites Man: In chapter 24 of Elma's Office Lady Diary, Takiya offers Elma, who is half mad with hunger, a rice ball to tide her over until their other coworkers can get to the drinking party. She profusely thanks him... and bites his arm before actually chowing down on the rice ball.
• Major Injury Underreaction: She takes a Dynamic Entry (manga)/sucker punch (anime) from Tohru to the face in stride by chastising her in annoyance. Given how they're both dragons who had been in tons of life-threatening battles (including against each other), it's justified.
• Miko: Among dragons, she's considered a holy priestess and one of the most important figures of the Harmony faction.
• Monster Roommate: Averted. She's the only dragon with her own apartment.
• Mugging the Monster: A burglar tried to rob her apartment in a chapter of Elma's Office Lady Diary. She wasn't threatened by him in the slightest, and nearly killed him after he accidentally stepped on some of her food.
• Multiple-Tailed Beast: Her real tail, which is only seen when she's in dragon form, is a tail with three prongs on the end. While she's in human form, she grows a fish tail instead, with her natural tail turning into a trident that she can summon at will to use as a weapon.
• Mundane Utility: While trying to come up with a proposal to improve labor conditions at work, she used clairvoyance to memorize all her coworkers' schedules and keep everything within the established budget.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: On the cover of chapter 100, Elma wears a one-piece swimsuit whose cleavage extends all the way down to her navel.
• Never Gets Fat: Has stated that she can eat as much as she wants and not gain a single pound. This is likely because her true form is a thirty meter long sea serpent, and her magic apparently also runs on sugar. Regardless, it's not a bad trait for a Big Eater like her to have.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When she and Tohru first met, she was attempting to bring about peace among the humans in the other world. It resulted in a cult that was prepared to go to war with anyone who wouldn't worship her — getting Elma to look the other way by bribing her with food. Tohru's outrage at Elma's hypocrisy led to them having a falling out and becoming rivals.
• Noodle Incident: She got fished once. As in, with a fishing rod. She seems pretty scarred by the event.
• Obsessed with Food:
  • Deconstructed. She loves to eat and has very poor impulse control when it comes to buying snacks. It ended up destroying both her friendship with Tohru and her attempts to bring peace to humans in the other world, as she became susceptible to the humans' worship of her as a goddess, which meant she got lots of food offerings.
  • Used for a brief gag in the anime, where on Christmas, a holiday for couples in Japan, we see shots of Tohru with Kobayashi, Fafnir with Takiya, Lucoa with Shota, and Elma with food.
• Office Lady: Prior to learning how to code, her job at work primarily consisted of making everyone tea.
  Kobayashi: You're the mascot of the office.
• Oh, Crap!: She accidentally goes into her dragon form at one point without applying perception blocking, giving Saikawa a glimpse of her true form. Thankfully Kanna was there to cover for Elma so the latter could escape notice.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When she talked with Fafnir to get help with repairing her friendship with Tohru in the anime, you can tell that she's taking it seriously by the fact that they've both order parfaits and she hasn't even touched hers despite him having finished his.
• Polyamory: After confessing her love to Tohru during her arranged wedding crash, Elma seriously proposes for Tohru to just take her as an additional lover instead, since Elma knows Tohru will never let go of her love for Kobayashi. While Tohru doesn't exactly agree to this, she does say Elma is free to do as she wishes as long as she doesn't interfere with Tohru's relationship with Kobayashi.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: She wears computer glasses while at work despite having supernaturally acute vision. Interestingly, they're essentially the exact same glasses that Kobayashi wears.
• Rage Breaking Point: Noted in her spin-off series chapter 23 when she is waiting for her company co-wokers to join her at a party she set up for them, but they are delayed. This leaves her alone with the delicious food that is to be grilled and eaten by everyone. She is fighting her gluttonous urges and fear that she is being abandoned, when Lucoa arrives, and starts talking about how savvory fresh grilled meats are and the wonderful crunch of grilled vegetables. Lucoa doesn't realize the effect her words have on Elma until the latter snaps just a little.
  Elma: I've never wanted to kill you so badly before...
  Lucoa: Huh?! What did I do?!!
  Narration: T-minus five seconds until Elma explodes.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Tohru's red. While she can get worked up and excited like Tohru it generally takes a lot more (or the right trigger) to get her to that point, and she's usually calmer and more easygoing than Tohru, except when food's involved. She's also much slower to pick a fight than Tohru, as shown by the fact that Tohru tries to kill Elma a number of times in Elma's spinoff manga, while Elma is rarely shown fighting back, instead usually trying to convince Tohru to stop (though, since she has Super-Toughness, she probably doesn't need to fight back) and much more likely to hide her feelings than her fellow dragon. Adding to the contrast, Elma's part of the harmony faction (harmony being associated with blue onis), while Tohru's part of the chaos faction (red onis generally being chaotic), and her eyes are blue while Tohru's are red. All this can go out the window when competition and/or food enter the picture, though.
• Rule of Three: In her debut episode, she gets kicked out of Kobayashi's apartment by Tohru three different times. First, by being tricked to go through a portal, which Tohru closes behind her. Second, by being bribed into leaving with some cream puffs. Finally, on the third time, Tohru attacks Elma with her Fire Breath, sending her flying out the door.
• Salaryman: Once she learns how to code.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Zig-zagged in her spin-off. At first, she refuses to use her dragon powers to swim to Shikoku to get a specific brand of ice cream, instead prefering to just order it so as to properly follow the rules of human society... until she sees that there's a shipping fee and that she'd have to wait a full business week for it to arrive. However, she does take a train ride there afterwards and pays the full fare to make up for it.
• Sea Serpents: Her dragon form resembles a one-horned sea serpent with a trident-shaped tail.
• Secretly Selfish: She spends all of chapter 55 trying to improve labor conditions at work, only for it to turn out at the end of the chapter that she only did it because she wants to be able to get out earlier to buy limited edition sweets near the station.
• Seers: She's proficient in clairvoyance magic, and can gather information on the most minute of activities others perform. Kobayashi and Takiya are disturbed to learn that Elma compiled data on all of their co-workers, from their work schedules to the number of minutes they spend sitting in a chair.
• Snakes Are Sexy: Her dragon form is very snake-like, and her human form has a well-developed body.
• Super-Toughness: Tohru has tried multiple times to kill her, before they reconciled (and once after, which Elma admitted she deserved), and she always got away with some scorch marks on her face and body, despite Tohru's status as one of the most powerful dragons out there.
• Sweet Tooth: Elma loves sweets and can easily be bribed with them, though she is capable (through a lot of visible effort) of rejecting sweets if she thinks it's important enough. It's only happened twice, however, and in the first case Kobayashi only needed to apply more sweets to turn her around.
• Through Her Stomach: While Elma loves food in general it's Tohru's cooking that she loves most of all. In fact, remembering the scent of a bento that Tohru had made for her is what finally gets her to speak out against her Arranged Marriage.
• Token Heroic Orc: It's frequently shown whenever the Harmony faction of dragons gets more involved in the story that Elma is among a rare few, if not the only true practitioner of the ideals espoused by said faction, as most Harmony dragons either only pay lip-service to the faction's belief or have a Knight Templar approach to maintaining "peace and order". It especially shows through how she utterly refuses to accept any Human Sacrifices, not understanding what's so tasty or empowering about eating humans, instead preferring to enjoy foods only said humans understand how to cook.
• Trapped in Another World: Inverted: She's trapped on Earth, simply because she doesn't know the spell to create a portal home, unlike Tohru and most of the other dragons. Of course, once she and Tohru get back on (unfriendly) speaking terms, she knows she could always ask Tohru for help getting back, and Tohru would probably gladly oblige if only to get rid of her. However, Elma doesn't want to go back without Tohru, who doesn't want to go back period.
• Tsundere: In spite of belonging to the opposite faction, Tohru is dear to her, this being one of the reasons she came to the human world... not that either of them would admit it openly.
• Uptight Loves Wild: She's an Order dragon who's in love with a Chaos dragon.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: Where she kept a protection charm she made the night prior to her first death march. When she fishes it out, Kobayashi wonders why she's keeping it there.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: How Kobayashi interprets Elma's relationship with Tohru, deducing that the two have such a deep familiarity and trust in each other that their squabbling is simply another means of expressing their bond. Then again, both Elma and Tohru are too stubborn to admit this for a fact. It takes a while but the two do eventually end up in a more friendly relationship, and after the Arranged Marriage Arc, Elma is seen hanging out more with Tohru just for the pleasure of her company.
• Wardrobe Flaw of Characterization: In her office attire, she wears her jacket completely open at the front to keep her bust quirkily out. Her goddess attire also reflects it, as she wears her kimono open and hanging off elbow-level.
• We Used to Be Friends: The first chapter of her spinoff reveals that she and Tohru were once friends prior to them having a falling out over Elma being easily manipulated through food. Elma laments the loss of her friendship with Tohru and wishes they could go back to being friends again (Kobayashi, meanwhile, sees them more as Vitriolic Best Buds). They manage to patch things up in chapter 64.
• Why Don't You Marry It?: When the topic of marriage comes up while at work in chapter 97, she states that she'd be perfectly fine with the idea of marrying food and giving birth to more meals to eat.
  Kobayashi: You want to eat your husband and children? That's insanity, you know?
• You Know I'm Black, Right?: She gets offended by Fafnir declaring that he'll kill everyone in the Order Faction when they team up to fight a brainwashed dragon army. This leads him to amend his statement to only half-killing them.

Shanableh (Unmarked Arranged Marriage Arc Spoilers)

Shanableh (Tatsuzawa)

A programmer going by the name of Tatsuzawa at Jigokumeguri who was hired shortly after Elma. She's eventually revealed to be a Harmony aligned dragon who was sent to take Elma's place in the company once Elma returns to the other world for her Arranged Marriage.

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• All There in the Manual: Her real name is revealed in Volume 12's afterword manga, so readers that only follow the serialized release may not find out about it until chapter 133, when Telne calls her by it.
• Chekhov's Gunman: She's initially introduced in Chapter 83 as nothing more than an ordinary programmer who helps Kobayashi, Takiya, and Elma get the latter's financial reform done on time. Turns out there's much more to her than first assumed.
• Defector from Decadence: She is fine if it gets out she betrayed the Harmony Faction by leaking Kobayashi and Azad intel, and it results in her being banished. After all, she likes living in the human world and working at Kobayashi's company.
• Fairy Dragons: Quite literally. She's a dragon that was born from a dragon/fairy relationship.
• Foreshadowing: During a fantasy shot depicting Tohru and Elma in their dragon forms in Chapter 124, her "placeholder" form shows her as an orb with a dragon horn and fairy wings, hinting about her being the child of a dragon and a fairy. Tohru also mentioned in Chapter 81 that fairies and dragons were capable of cross breeding.
• The Generic Guy: Kobayashi notes how she's incredibly bland, which no doubt helped in her ability to blend in.
• Good Feels Good: Her fairy ancestry leaves her with an innate desire to help people, with that instinct becoming stronger the more work she has to do. She describes the life of being a modern day Salaryman as perfect for someone like her.
• Hybrid Power: Inverted. Her fairy ancestry means that she's actually far weaker than a normal dragon (Tohru senses that her power is comparable to that of a human wizard).
• Like a Duck Takes to Water: Out of all the dragons introduced up to Chapter 106, she has absolutely no visible trouble adapting to human society, to the point that Kobayashi had no idea she wasn't from Earth.
• Meaningful Name: The first kanji for her human name, Tatsuzawa, means "dragon", hinting that she's actually a dragon in disguise.
• Walking Spoiler: One can say Kobayashi has a coworker named Tatsuzawa, and one can say there's a dragon named Shanableh in the story, but saying that they're one and the same or anything else about her spoils some major plot points regarding Elma.

Other World

Damocles

Damocles (The Emperor of Demise)

Voiced by: Takayuki Sugo (Japanese), John McCalmont (English), Eduardo Fonseca (Latin American Spanish)

One of the strongest Chaos Dragons of the other world, and Tohru's father. Upon learning that his daughter has moved to Earth and is living with a human, he arrives on Kobayashi's doorstep in order to bring Tohru home, by force if necessary.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the manga, Tohru intimidating him is enough to get him to leave her and Kobayashi alone. In the anime, it doesn't even faze him and he even uses force to try to get her to come home. Their fight is on equal terms until Kobayashi interrupts it.
• Adaptational Jerkass: While his admittedly valid reasons for not wanting Tohru to remain on Earth are the same, in the anime he's considerably more forceful and violent about it. Most notably, unlike in the manga he is not intimidated by Tohru's threats, forcing her to fight him until Kobayashi intervenes.
• Adaptation Expansion: His role in the anime is somewhat different from his role in the manga. In the manga he shows up on Kobayashi's doorstep and politely — for a Chaos Dragon — tells his daughter to come home before she causes trouble, only attacking Kobayashi when antagonized and being scared off by Tohru. In the anime he confronts her over the city and drags her back to their original world, and comes to blows with her when she chooses to stay with Kobayashi.
• Armor-Piercing Question: In the anime, Kobayashi defuses his drive to force Tohru back into their world by asking him whether he thinks so little of Tohru's judgement that he cannot trust his daughter to do the right thing. In response, he voices his protest but allows Tohru to remain with Kobayashi.
• Badass Cape: When Tohru thinks about her father in the anime, he's shown in human form wearing a ragged reddish-black cloak.
• Breath Weapon: In the anime, his flame-breath and magic are colored purple.
• The Bus Came Back: He shows up in chapter 57 to talk to Kobayashi.
• Cape Wings: His reddish-black cloak can transform into wings.
• Death Glare: He usually sports an unpleasant scowl that horrendously distorts his face. When he's surprised or intimidated, his face appears normal.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His voice is deep and gravely, which makes him stand out from others as a dangerous individual.
• Fantastic Racism: Zig-zagged. Like most Chaos Dragons he has a low opinion of humanity, and is genuinely surprised that Kobayashi likes Tohru enough to risk the war between the Chaos and Harmony Dragons spreading to Earth. In the anime, he outright refuses to let his daughter choose a human as her mate. However, he is acquainted with Mr. Magatsuchi and has been for a very, very long time.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: He harshly chastises Tohru for coming to the human world and causing chaos over a whim, telling her that she needs to return to their home world and warning her that the peaceful human life she claims to want is unobtainable.
• Flight: Unlike the other dragons, he doesn't need to form wings to fly when in human form.
• Foreshadowing: His comment that Tohru's presence on Earth risks bringing the war to Kobayashi's doorstep is proven right a couple of chapters later in the manga, when Elma crashes through Kobayashi's wall in order to bring Tohru home.
• Given Name Reveal: His name was revealed in chapter 84.
• Good Parents: By dragon standards, at any rate. Despite his stern and aloof attitude, he "somewhat" cares about his daughter's wellbeing and is concerned for her, and despite being an evil chaos-loving dragon he is (relatively) respectful of the rules forbidding interference on Earth and claims to want to prevent the war on his world from spreading to Earth. Tohru also mentions at one point that she was spoiled by her parents when she was a child (though she's saying this in comparison to Kanna and Ilulu).
• Hand Blast: In the anime, when Kobayashi attempts to speak up, he shoots a beam of fire from his fingertips at her as a warning shot, breaking her glasses.
• Hidden Depths: He's apparently a pretty good cook.
• Irony: Despite being a Chaos Dragon, he is insistent on following the rules and laws dictating non-interference.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He may be arrogant and overbearing, but he had a point in warning Tohru and Kobayashi that the former's presence risks causing Harmony Dragons and other Chaos Dragons bringing the war ravaging the Other World to Earth — as happens when Elma,^note Chapter 23 Ilulu,^note Chapter 30 and Clemene^note Chapter 38 cross over looking to pick fights. In the anime, this warning comes a bit too late due to Elma having already arrived and watching the confrontation from a distance, ready to fight him if things go wrong.
• Knight Templar Parent: He hates humans and sees them as evil, and is annoyed that his daughter would want to live with one. However, despite being a member of the Chaos faction he scolds Tohru for causing trouble and throwing a "non-interference" world into chaos over a whim, urging her to return home.
• Loophole Abuse: Invoked when Kobayashi points out that he can't kill her due to the non-interference laws. He retorts that while that's true, he can leave her on the brink of death.
• Manly Facial Hair: His human form is a balding man with a long white beard, but he carries an intimidating presence and with good reason, being a powerful Chaos Dragon.
• Meaningful Name: Damocles derives his name from the cautionary anecdote of the Sword of Damocles. A courtesan of King Dionisyus of Syracuse, Damocles exalts the privilege and delights of the kingly throne, so the king lets him sit on it. However, he hangs a sword above Damocles' head, hanging by a single hair of a horse's mane, symbolizing the danger regents and figures of authority face while in power. Getting the point, Damocles promptly removes himself from the throne.
• My God, What Have I Done?: A flashback in Chapter 57 has him mentioning that his way of raising Tohru has gone terribly wrong, as she ends up (in his words) running wild (showing a love of destruction, attacking a god and falling in love with a human, Kobayashi).
• My Greatest Failure: His raising of Tohru enabled her to attempt a one-dragon crusade against the gods, nearly costing her life. He's yet to show any reconciliation with the fact.
• Non-Mammalian Hair: His dragon form has a mane of hair going all the way down to the tip of his tail.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Compared to other Chaos Dragons like Ilulu, and even some Harmony Dragons like Clemene, he comes across as Lawful Evil due to his staunch adherence to the non-interference laws and ultimately respecting his daughter's choice, though he doesn't approve of it.
• Red Baron: "The Emperor of Demise".
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Signifying his antagonistic role, his dragon form has red eyes.
• Red/Green Contrast: He has red scales to Tohru's green scales.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He drops his old menancing garbs in his returning appearances, dressing quite sharply as a senior human man.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Averted in their human forms, but as dragons he looks quite similar to his daughter; they both have similar builds, head shapes, and glowing red eyes. He however has red scales, a beard and whiskers, and a mane of white hair across his back.
• Thinking Up Portals: Like his daughter, he can create portals to different locations.
• Weather Manipulation: The sky turns grey whenever he makes his appearance in the anime.

Clemene (Unmarked Ilulu-Related Spoilers)

Clemene

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Christopher Wehkamp (English), Gerardo Reyero (Latin American Spanish)

A mysterious Harmony dragon who, as part of the Dragon Slayer subgroup, is obsessed with fighting Chaos dragons. While most dragons who come to Earth obey the laws stating that they cannot fight among themselves or harm humans while on Earth, Clemene's devotion to his "crusade" against the chaos dragons means he is unwilling to follow them.

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• Adaptational Late Appearance: As his introductory appearance is integral to Ilulu joining the main cast, Ilulu first showing up in the second season, when her equivalent manga introduction was somehwere in the middle of Season 1, means he takes until Season 2 Episode 2 to appear.
• Always a Bigger Fish: He manages to beat Ilulu (who was still weak from her fight with Tohru) to a pulp, but completely buckles in fear once Tohru arrives. Tohru proceeds to curbstomp him after he hurts Kobayashi.
• Broken Angel: His left dragon horn was broken off during his confrontation with Tohru, with the damage being visible when he returns to Earth as a representative of the Dragon Slayer subgroup when Telne arrives to inform Kobayashi about Elma's Arranged Marriage to a member of the Dragon Slayer subgroup. The Kobayashi household take advantage of it to plant a bug on him disguised as a demon horn in order to discover the true motives of Elma's husband-to-be.
• Evil Wears Black: You can tell he's a villain by the fact that he wears a black shirt.
• Fantastic Racism: He apparently hates humans as well, and intended to kill Kobayashi slowly so she would've "learned the greatness of dragons".
• Fatal Flaw: His inability to perceive hostile humans from helpful ones, viewing them as those brainwashed by Chaos dragons.
• Gondor Calls for Aid: When Tohru attacks him for trying to kill Kobayashi, Clemene tries to call Elma to help him, but she doesn't show up. Knowing her, Elma was probably getting something to eat and didn't hear his call, and even if she had shown up is friends with Kobayashi and would've been very displeased with his attempt to kill her.
• Gonk: It's downplayed, but he's not exactly pleasing to the eyes and his constant sneer doesn't help. His side profile in particular makes it look like his face was smushed flat.
• Inconsistent Spelling: The fan translation of the manga spells his name as either "Cremene" or "Kuremene". The official subs for the anime also use "Cremene", but the Seven Seas translation of the manga uses "Clemene".
• Knight of Cerebus: Nothing about his beatdown of Ilulu or willingness to kill her and Kobayashi is played for humor, which makes his defeat at Tohru's hands all the more gratifying.
• Knight Templar: So much so that he physically swats Kobayashi away when she tries to protect Ilulu, despite harming Earth humans being strictly forbidden, and would have killed her for her audacity in defying him had Tohru not arrived.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Tohru wipes all his memories of his time on Earth before sending him back to the other world so he wouldn't come back to cause any more trouble, which leaves him very confused when he shows up with Telne much later and is attacked by Ilulu and Kanna on sight. His memories later come back when Tohru shows up to rescue Elma from her Arranged Marriage, at which points he promptly decided Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
• The Magnificent: He refers to himself as "Clemene of the Dragon Slayers". He lives up to this reputation by easily defeating Ilulu, but panics when Tohru shows up.
• Non-Standard Character Design: He's rendered with a much higher level of detail than most other characters. It lends to a very creepy appearance as a result.
• Oh, Crap!: When Tohru appears behind him, he panics and tries to summon Elma for backup.
• Thin Chin of Sin: His head is a lot more angled than the rest of the cast.
• Villain Respect: Seems to genuinely respect Elma as his superior in the Harmony Dragon faction, and tries to call her for help when an angry Tohru confronts him.
• Walking Spoiler: It's rather difficult to mention him without revealing both what he does to Ilulu and how that contributes to her Heel–Face Turn.
• Would Hurt a Child: A somewhat borderline example: He was perfectly OK with executing Ilulu for belonging to the Chaos faction despite her being in the dragon equivalent of her midteens.

Kimun Kamui

Kimun Kamui

Kanna's father, and a member of the Chaos Faction. He comes to Earth to retrieve his daughter in order to gain the energy from the dragon ball she broke in the war against the harmony dragons.

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• Affably Evil: He seems like a relatively amiable person who invites Kobayashi to drink with him, and even offers to reward her as thanks for looking after Kanna. It's only after Kobayashi curses him out that he starts to get belligerent. This doesn't change the fact that he's a violent chaos dragon and a horrible father to Kanna. That said, his parenting does improve after Kobayashi beats him, if a bit too far in the opposite direction.
• Alliterative Name: Kimun Kamui.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Kanna considers her father an unapproachable drunkard, and is personally offended and embarrassed of his treatment of her loved ones, especially Kobayashi.
• Animal Motif: Bears. He's named after a bear deity, his dragon form resembles a large bear, he's absolutely massive in his human form, and he's about as successful as a parent as your average male bear.
• Badasses Wear Bandanas: Wears one around his head as part of his Ainu-inspired attire.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block: He pulls off one at the end of Chapter 75 in the main manga, to protect Kanna from being killed by Azad. However Kimun's action causes him to be brainwashed by Azad, through the use of a dragonball.
• Doting Parent: After Kobayashi beats him, he seems to be making up for all of his neglect of Kanna by spoiling her.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He in his dragon form through a flashback in chapter 58, leaving a younger Kanna alone and uncared for. For some reason, the anime version has him referred to as "the previous Kanna Kamui" rather than calling him by name.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: Even with his abandonment and stubborn nature, it's shown that Kanna cares deeply about him and wants to have a more healthy relationship with him. Just anything else but the status-quo might do, but the guy is immovable.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He sees nothing wrong with his treatment of Kanna, and for the life of him, he cannot grasp even the basest concept of what she wants from him. To him, she's there to perform a function and nothing else.
• Fantastic Racism: Averted. As a warrior, he only cares if someone can fight, with things like race being irrelevant. He even suggests the possibility of humans being allies, and gets angry when he's told that the Order Faction is planning on enslaving the nearby villages.
• Family Theme Naming: Both he and his daughter are named after Ainu deities.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: His human form is positively massive, and his daughter is the smallest character in the series.
• Meaningful Name: He's named after the Ainu god of mountains and bears, which fits both his massive build and his complete failure at being a parent (male bears are notoriously bad fathers). There was also an Ainu ritual relating to him where humans would raise a bear cub for a year, bringing to mind how his daughter was taken in by Kobayashi.
• Mistaken for Pedophile: In chapter 102, both Saikawa and Sakisabe mistake him playing tag with Kanna in the park for him attempting to molest her due to the fact that they look nothing alike.
• Papa Wolf: As bad of a parent he is, he still comes to Kanna's rescue when Azad tried to strike her down after she exposed his plans of getting dragons from the Harmony and Chaos factions to kill each other.
• Parental Neglect: He and his unnamed mate left Kanna to her own devices, leaving her starved for attention. Even the way he handled Kanna breaking the dragon ball is basically poor parenting, as he was more focused on faction wars to even scold her and him banishing Kanna was more due to his fellow Chaos dragons pressuring him to take responsibility for disciplining his daughter. He gets better.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red oni Kimun gets aggressive towards Kobayashi and Tohru over their objections of using Kanna for military purposes, while blue oni Azad is calm about this and realizes that the human values that Kanna learned in the human world is the reasons for Kobayashi and Tohru being so protective of her.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: He's named after an Ainu deity.
• Tempting Fate: At the end of Chapter 69, Kimun tells Kobayashi that she is not strong enough to beat him in battle, fast forward 8 chapters later (Chapter 77) and she defeats him with one single attack, keep in mind that Tohru, who is above Kimun in the Chaos faction, was having trouble fighting against him in the previous chapter.

Telne

Telne

Elma's (great-great etc.) grandmother and second in command of the Harmony faction. She likes cute things.

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• Beware the Silly Ones: She's a kooky old grandmother that looks around Elma's age, with her being as obsessed with modern fashion trends as Elma is with food. That said, she's still a major member of the Harmony faction, and is fully up for threatening to harm Kobayashi if it might further her goals, with the only reason she backed down being that when Tohru showed up she didn't want to risk getting into a full-on brawl that would destroy the city.
• Broken Angel: Her dragon form reveals that the reason for the asymmetrical horn in her human form is due to her left horn being broken off.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: With Kimun Kamuy: Kimun was a Blood Knight who had trouble thinking of other dragons as anything but "comrades-in-arms" or "enemies", meanwhile neglecting his own offspring because she wasn't of immediate use to him in a fight. Meanwhile, Telne, after watching many of her offspring die in battle, instilled strong family values into her clan, and in the process became something of a Control Freak who felt she knew what was best for everyone.
• Failed a Spot Check: In chapter 133, Telne comes to Earth as she suspects Elma's actions at the arranged marriage was because she was in love with someone else, but hilariously she cannot figure out who, and comes to suspect pretty much everyone, except Tohru, who she says is completely incompatible.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Her single horn is over her right eye rather than in the center of her forehead like her granddaughter. In reality, her left horn is broken off, with her hiding that aspect when in her human form.
• The Fashionista: She's big on following fashion trends. In fact, the very first thing she says in the series is a comment about how boring Kobayashi's outfit is.
• Foreshadowing:
  • A page before she first appears, a mention about her being Elma's grandmother can be seen in the notes that Shouta's father gives to Kobayashi.
  • The first image of chapter 108 consists of a zoom-in of her head in dragon form, which reveals that she once had two horns.
• Giant Flyer: When she reveals her dragon form, Kobayashi is a small ant to her massive body.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She tells Kobayashi how she personally selected Elma's groom to be. Cut to said groom talking about his plans to usurp her position in the upper echelons of the Harmony faction, murder her, and make Elma's life a living hell. In her defense, the groom's dragon form sports three heads, and as such has three different personalities. However, the more dominant persona is one that can side with either the more calm female persona or the chaotic persona that the Kobayashi household overhears, with him siding with the chaotic side in terms of using the arranged marriage to overthrow Telne.
• Insult Backfire: In Chapter 113 Damocles says she is still a child, to which she takes it as a compliment.
• Living Distant Ancestor: She's one of the oldest dragons alive and has spent plenty of that time siring children, who would then go on to have their own children and grandchildren, with her relation to Elma in truth being that of distant ancestry. She really doesn't like people bringing up this fact, though, as she greatly prefers projecting the image of youth, often by insisting that her descendants call her "sister" in front of others.
• Ma'am Shock: A volume extra details her exact relation to Elma: Telne is in fact Elma's ancestor, and is called grandmother out of convenience. When Elma tells Kobayashi this, Telne's exasperated face shows that she isn't very fond of being reminded of how truy old she is, to the point of being called just grandmother still sounds young to her.
• Medium Awareness: While acting as a chaprone Tigris' application to live on Earth, she pushes her way to the front and writes her name on the bottom latter's introductary text box with a marker.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: While she doesn't really look old, she is the shortest adult character among the cast and presumably among the oldest, barring Lucoa.
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: Grandmother in this case. She actually claims to be Elma's older sister when she's first introduced and even demands that Elma refer to her as such.
• Never Mess with Granny: As one of the top ranking members of the Harmony Faction, she is not to be taken lightly. In chapter 104, she effortlessly defeats Tohru with barely any effort after she is called old by both Elma and Tohru.
• Number Two: She's second in command of the entire Harmony faction.
• Outliving One's Offspring: A flashback at the beginning of chapter 108 shows that she lost multiple descendants in the past (it's not actually stated if they were her children or somwhere further down the family line). This is especially tragic because she is unusually maternal for a species that tends to struggle with the concept of a parent/child bond.
• Perspective Magic: She holds the power to touch anything in her vision, ignoring perspective.
  • At one point she makes a motion like she's going to crush Kobayashi, and then causes the clouds in front of her to part simply by swinging a finger upwards.
  • In chapter 112 she claps her hands around Tohru and Elma and a pair of giants hands appear around the victims nearly crushing them.
  • Chapter 114 reveals that she personally developed the spell herself and is incredibly secretive with it. When Kanna bribes her with some instant ramen to learn her secret, she only did so because Kanna lacks both the nescessary magical power and divine protection to cast it (and just to be on the safe side, she made Kanna Tongue-Tied just to keep anyone else from learning it).
• Strong Family Resemblance: Asymmetrical horn and sense of fashion aside, she looks like a shorter Elma.
• Teleportation: She is capable of vanishing from one place and appearing miles away without any effort.
• Throwing the Fight: She considers doing this when Tohru rampages through the citadel Elma's wedding is happening in, but even working with Elma against Telne, the ancient dragon is too strong and cannot find a way to make it look like a real lose without it being an obvious throwing. Kobayashi having Tohru borrow the Holy Sword reduced the strength gap to where she could believably admit defeat.
• Touched by Vorlons: She has powerful divine protections that allow her to either reflect attacks or negate them. This includes attacks from most other divine weapons. Because of the unique circumstances of Kobayashi attaining the holy sword that pierced Tohru, emptying her magical reserves in the Kamui incident, and now crafting the sword and letting Tohru hold it, Tohru's next attack could actually hit her. She only manages to withstand it by blocking the very concept of "cutting", at the cost of a great deal of magic power.
• Ye Olde Butchered English: She speaks this way in the official English translations, presumably to show she's significantly older than she looks in comparison to other dragons.

Jida (Unmarked Arranged Marriage Arc Spoilers)

Jida/Jii

^{Click here to see Jii}

^{Click here to see the female personality}

A Harmony dragon who leads the Dragon Slayer subgroup. They have three heads, each with a unique personality.

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• Arc Villain: They are the main antagonist of Vol. 12.
• Arranged Marriage: They're betrothed to Elma as part of an alliance between the Dragon Slayer and Divine subgroups.
• The Atoner: The third female personality apologizes to Tohru and Elma for her other minds' actions. She makes amends by going along with the fiction that Tohru beat her in order to further break apart the Dragon Slayer faction. She later even goes with Telne to personally apologize to Kobayashi, Tohru, and Elma for the trouble her sons caused.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: The two male personalities are the Arc Villains of Elma's Arranged Marriage arc.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: The female personality probably has largest eyebrows of the entire cast, especially in comparison to her two male personalities' pencil-thin ones.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Double Subverted. After a recording device hidden in Clemene's replaced horn reveals their plans to overthrow Telne, the main personality reveals that it was actually his most violent personality (Jii) who they recorded... and then two chapters later it turns out that main personality is actually on board with Jii's plans.
• Blood Knight: Jii revels in violence and fighting, especially other dragons, a trait that carried over to the Dragon Slayers. He seems to have carried this trait from his "mother" who was all too happy to give Tohru a rematch after they forgave each other.
• Cavalry Betrayal: The two male personas like being in charge and their plan to take over the Harmony Faction. They wouldn't let the third persona a say. So when Jida calls on the female persona to save them from Tohru, said persona agrees with Tohru and finds the plot of the others stupid. She admits defeat to Tohru.
• Character Death: This is discussed briefly by the third personality. She is far stronger than the other two and could have rested control from them to stop their "stupid group," however doing it by force would have resulted in the two disappearing, so she holds back and allows them to cause trouble. It is more justified when Telne reveals that said female personality is the original and that the two male ones are essentially her children.
• Extreme Doormat: The primary personality is revealed to be this in comparison to his two other personalities. Letting Jii make most of the decisions during the Marriage arc and quickly letting his mother take back control after Jii is defeated. When the personalities are talking with each other he is shown being much more timid and worried.
• Ineffectual Loner: The female personality is revealed to be this a bit, being the original and most powerful of the three but became more and more secluded from the other dragons until she essentially retreated into her subconscious, creating her two "children" to act in her stead.
• Multiple Head Case: They have three heads, each with their own personality and name.
• Multi-Gendered Split Personalities: In a manner of speaking, given that one head is female while the other two are male.
• Nervous Tics: The female personality has one where she starts cracking her knuckles when things get complicated.
• Sex Shifter: As a consequence of their human form's Split-Personality Makeover, their body turns into a woman whenever the female personality is in control.
• Split-Personality Makeover: Exaggerated. Their human form completely changes appearance (and in the case of the final personality, gender) depending on which one is in control at the time.
• Walking Spoiler: Much like Tatsuzawa, just mentioning some stuff about them spoils major plot points for Elma's Arranged Marriage arc.
• Women Are Wiser: The female persona is both stronger than the two males and wiser. She sees the whole Dragon Slayers group as stupid and wants nothing to do with it. So, she willfully withdraws from fighting Tohru and confirm the false claim Tohru bested her strength as well. Chapter 122 reveals that this personality is essentially the original "mother" personality while the other two are "children" she created later.

Ori

Ori

A powerful dragon who is a friend of Lucoa.

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• Ambiguously Related: There are several hints in her first appearance that she might be Tohru's mother. The two of them have near identical angry poses, her side tail looks just like Tohru's pigtails, and Tohru's horns are a near perfect blend of her's and Damocles'. Also, she apparently knew Tohru as a child.
• Late to the Tragedy: She only shows up to Elma's wedding after Tohru crashed it and got the whole thing called off because she got lost inside the temple.

Petla

Quetzalpetlatl (Petla)

Lucoa's younger sister and a former goddess of the Aztecs.

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• Big Sister Attraction: Chapter 137 reveals that she's fallen in love with Lucoa in spite (or rather, because of) their little incident.
• Comedic Shotacon: She's even worse than Lucoa in that regard. Lucoa, for all her faults, whould never go all the way with Shouta without his explicit consent, while Petla is shown attempting to force herself on him out of jealousy during her first proper appearance.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She makes a single panel appearance in Chapter 128 as one of the dragons applying to live on Earth before being properly introduced 9 chapters later.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She tries to have sex with Shouta during her first appearance, because she's mistakenly believed that he and Lucoa are sleeping together and wants to have sex with her sister by proxy.
• Rape as Backstory: As per Aztec mythology, she was raped by Lucoa while the latter was under the effects of cursed alcohol. Rather bizarrely, while Lucoa rightfully looks back on the incident with shame, Petla has actually fallen in love with her as a result.
• Shared Family Quirks: She shares Lucoa's preference for baseball caps in her human form, though she prefers to wear hers backwards.
• Some Call Me "Tim": Much like her older sister, she goes by Petla instead of Quetzalpetlatl.
• Unseen No More: She's first mentioned all the way back in Chapter 27 during Shouta's introduction, and gets brought up every once and a while, but she isn't actually seen until Chapter 128.

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