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Netherworld Chronicles plays host to numerous characters, both canon and original. For the sake of brevity and bandwidth, most of the characters mentioned here are Original Characters unless brought up for plot relevance.


Original Characters

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    Akimoto 

Akimoto Infernus

Former leader of the Rebels and self-proclaimed Demon Lord. He begins the series as an antagonist until his humiliating accidental defeat at the hands of Almaz (and a conveniently-place wine glass). Forced to give up his cushy, hedonistic lifestyle, he's forced into the main party and travels alongside them on their journey. Self-centered and cocky, his apparent prowess in battle does little to compensate for his less-than-agreeable behavior.

Tropes:

  • Author Avatar: Word of God even states that Aki is intended to reflect some of the author's major traits.
  • Bad Boss: Treats his men pretty poorly - enough to have them desert him after only a few months of being hired.
  • Entitled to Have You}: In regards to pretty much every woman he interacts with. His attempted rescue of Miyu is a particularly strong example.
  • Fantastic Racism: Or a Fantastic Racist in this case. Hates all humans, claiming that they're all terrible and irredeemable... Despite being an ally of humans Almaz and Ariadne.
  • General Failure: Tauntus is more successful in rallying Aki's troops than Aki himself.
  • Hypocrite: Again, seems to reflect back on his complete inability to acknowledge his own faults. Of particular note is him calling out Victoire's cousin for being arrogant, selfish, and entitled - all traits that Aki himself has demonstrated with aplomb.
  • I Am X, Son of Y: Makes frequent mention of his father Ensis and his overall lineage as a warrior.
  • Incompatible Orientation: Has a fairly obvious crush on fellow commander Victoire.
  • Katanas Are Just Better: Despite being referred to as a 'Centurion's' blade, Aki's sword is still somehow a katana.
  • Mangst: Subverted. Aki's lamenting about his dead dad is played as this, but falls flat due to repetition.
  • Never My Fault: Seems to be completely unable to own up to his own behavior.
  • We Have Reserves: His style of commanding relies heavily on this. Of course, he only has said reserves thanks to borrowing from Victoire's own troops.

     Vent 

Vent, Overlord of the Abyss

Tropes

  • Abusive Parents: His father, the original Overlord of the Abyss, was a psychopathic despot who murdered his wife and drove his own son temporarily insane.
  • Casanova Wannabe: The only way he seems to be able to get any girl is by forcibly stealing them away
  • Villainous Fashion Sense: While not as flagrant as some other trope examples, his almost exclusively black, excessively-zippered, ominously torn wardrobe in contrast to Foil Akimoto's brighter primary colors mark him as deliberately sinister.

     Fiona 

Fiona

  • Sealed Evil in a Can: This applies more to Arcana, the spirit of the vengeful overlord sealed inside her.
  • Tyke-Bomb: Albeit an unwilling one, considering she's a highly dangerous and unstable vessel for a malevolent entity.

     Tauntus 

Tartarus Krichevskoy (Tauntus)

A character borrowed from a sister fanwork, Disgaea Corruption of Innocence. Because the two stories run on different timelines, the explanation given for his presence is that he and his brother Veneficus used Tick-Tock to travel back in time and stop Atropos, the denizen of time, from reforming the timelines.

Tropes

  • All Love Is Unrequited: Though he's got the hots for two girls, Helena and Alessa, neither of them like him and find him impossibly irritating.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite his moronic appearances, Tauntus is entirely capable of destruction whenever angry.
    • Demonstrated in one of his special moves, Typheus Overdrive, in which he literally destroys an entire volcano.
    • At one point he angrily destroys the boundary around Akimoto's Tower, although the shield was rumored to be utterly impenetrable.
    • Occasionally leans more toward the Let's Get Dangerous! trope, remaining completely giddy while beating down enemies.
    • In the future, his presence alone is enough to intimidate the rebellious Scarlet into submission. She seems to only be afraid of his threat to "drop a mountain on her" if she continued to argue with Alessa.
    • He's the only one who has ever run headlong into the fray with a denizen without a second thought.
  • Fluffy Tamer: Tartarus can calm almost any screaming beast.
    • He calmed a manticore that was waiting in Asbael's den.
    • Whenever squirrels were released onto the field in a battle as a distraction, Tart adopted all of them and now utilizes them as an extensive spy network that lets him know all of Aki's secrets.
    • Actually does tame a mutant he names Fluffy.
  • Hair Antennae: Fittingly given a haircut by his brother Adon, demoting him to simply Idiot Hair.
  • Kidanova : Subverted. He thinks he's a real lady-killer, but girls around his own age find him irritating and women find him more cute and endearing than anything.
    • Instead he tends to refer to attractive older women as "mom"
  • Kill It with Water: Tauntus is a helpless hydrophobe, ridiculous enough that his antics can immediately be put to an end with a handy-dandy spray bottle.
    • He is even more afraid of snow and ice.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Although he's regarded as a none-too bright scamp by most of the cast, Tartarus is no stranger to behavior typically seen in Etna, who he learned it from.
    • This front allows him to get away with nearly anything just because he's seen as childish and endearing. Suckers.
  • Our Dragons Are Different: Tauntus has no fewer than two pet dragons that the audience and cast are aware of. Considering his tendency to 'adopt' them, he may have more hidden somewhere.
    • He used Aki's fridge as a water dragon hatchery, of course, without permission to do so.
  • Playing with Fire
  • Professional Butt-Kisser: To Laharl, mainly because Laharl grows up to be his father.
    • More than incidentally to Etna for similar reasons.
    • Interestingly enough, Akimoto becomes one of these to Tauntus in the future, referring to the child as "My Lord."
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Tauntus plays the role of Red Oni.
  • Red Is Heroic
  • Team Pet

     Adon 

Veneficus Krichevskoy (Adon)

A character borrowed from a sister fanwork, Disgaea Corruption Of Innocence. Because the two stories run on different timelines, the explanation given for his presence is that he and his brother Tartarus used Tick-Tock to travel back in time and stop Atropos, the denizen of time, from reforming the timelines.

Tropes

  • Cats Are Mean: His pet housecat, Minerva, appears to be borderline homicidal.
  • Deal with the Devil: Made a deal with Vindaego unknowingly as a child which allowed the universe's fabric to start to come apart.
  • Hair Antennae: Keeps them hidden, somehow, in his hair. Resemble bunny ears.
  • Pardon My Klingon: Shown to be able to communicate with Denizens by making strange guttural throat noises. Corruption's long-standing presence and presence in his mind probably allows him to do this.
  • The Shadow Knows: Except in this case, the shadow itself is a shapeshifting monster that knows all of his hidden secrets.

     Archimedes 

Archimedes Ydriss

  • Carpet of Virility Of the Type One variety. Under those clothes, he's absolutely COVERED in hair.
  • Fanboy: Obsessed with Axel to the point of hero worship (and a borderline Celeb Crush)
  • Freudian Excuse: The memories of childhood abuse could have been dealt with if they'd been kept safely repressed. However, Mao reopening them — and the Mind Rape that followed — left Archi traumatized and lacking the emotional capability to deal with them. Or much else, for that matter.
  • Knight in Sour Armor: As evidenced by his desire to continue his job because while he doesn't like the people he works with, he believes they still deserve help.
  • TV Genius: Subverted. While he's highly intelligent and one of the most analytically-talented people in his field of work, he's also foul-mouthed, prone to lapsing into Buffyspeak , and has a sense of humor on par with a twelve-year-old boy. And his lack of common sense tends to drown out his high IQ on most occasions.
  • Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Less than impressed with how his shy, emotional son turned out.

     Raz 

Raziel

  • And I Must Scream: Arguably his fate post-series; while it's not as severe as some of the other examples, being trapped in a rotting, undead body and being forbidden to die so you can look after your high school buddy's kids is still pretty awful.

     Vayle 

Vayle

  • Green-Eyed Monster: Becomes instantly and disproportionately jealous of any girl Aki shows interest in.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: She'll firmly and repeatedly insist that the ghosts who make her dresses for her do it of their own free will, and aren't enslaved.
  • Tome of Eldritch Lore: Inherited from her mother; it apparently contains every spell known to demon, angel, and humankind. Or so we're told.

     Asbael 

Asbael

  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Asbael doesn't perpetrate most of his acts because he's evil so much as he does because he operates on an insane sort of alien logic.
  • Reality Warper: To a degree, though this is mostly based in illusion.
  • Squick: His penchant for disemboweling hapless servants and guests and using their entrails for interior decoration aside, there was also the whole matter of him falling head-over-heels in love with Nybras. And conceiving a child with it. And he's dropped hints that he wants to have more. Urgh.

     Corruption 

Corruption (Darkie)

A character borrowed from a sister fanwork, Disgaea Corruption Of Innocence. Because the two stories run on different timelines, the explanation given for his presence is that Atropos, Denizen of time, traveled to a time before Adon's birth to release denizens from their artifacts. Corruption was released by Atropos.

  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity}: Despite his power, he's shown to be extremely capricious in behavior. This can take him anywhere from Cloudcuckoolander to Ax-Crazy, often in a matter of seconds.
  • Guy on Guy Is Hot: Seems....fascinated by homoeroticism. Morphs into Vyers at several points to attempt to woo in Archi. He succeeds.
  • Oddball Doppelgänger
  • Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Corruption is under employ, possibly a slave of Eldritch Abomination Vindaego, and is supposed to collect Adon's soul for the Denizens. However, Corruption appears determined to slack off on this goal because he considers Vindaego a horrible boss.
    • He actually doesn't want to do his duty at all, as he is afraid of Vindaego and would rather join the cast than prey on them.
  • Good All Along: Whenever Ainoire collects enough Denizen artifacts to strengthen their power and becomes a servant of Vindaego, Ainoire nearly succeeds in sacrificing Adon, but Corruption leaves Adon's body and kills Ainoire first. Although he basically saved the universe, none of the party seem to appreciate his efforts. See Not Evil, Just Misunderstood. He joins the party later on.
  • Morphic Resonance: No matter what shape or identity he assumes, he always remains the same dusky colors, has the same eyes, razor teeth, creepily long arms, large ears, and ultra-emaciated figure.
  • Pardon My Klingon: Commonly interjects tidbits of R'lyehian into conversation.

     Nybras 

Nybras

  • Face Stealer: Obtains the appearance and abilities of anyone it consumes, and can briefly borrow a person's form even without eating them.

     Newyn 

Newyn

  • Malaproper: Has a tenuous grasp on the English language at best, and often affectionately refers to living things as a "Meet".
  • The Family That Slays Together: Although it's hard to tell at this point, all signs indicate that little Newyn is already in the process of inheriting dear old Dad's complete lack of morals as well as 'Mom's' excessive and... Unusual appetite. Both Mom and Dad couldn't be more delighted, and this has only brought them closer as a family.

     Miyu 

Marumine Miyu

  • Berserk Button: Detests otaku and harbors a seething dislike towards most of her fanbase.
  • Brainless Beauty: Averted. In spite of her public persona playing her up as this, she's actually pretty intelligent.
  • Broken Bird: To a small degree — she's exceptionally bitter about the way her life and career turned out, though she's more angry than broken over it.
  • Moe: Applies strictly to her stage persona. Nybras used this to its advantage when stealing her identity, pulling off a Wounded Gazelle Gambit in order to deceive Akimoto and company.
  • Nice Girl: Mostly applies to her public persona.
  • Older Than They Look: Appears to be in her mid-teens, mostly due to every aspect of her appearance being micromanaged by her producers.
  • Pet the Dog: She's actually quite fond of kids, and has a soft spot for her younger female fans.
  • Purity Personified: A major part of her public image.
  • Waif-Fu: Began taking self-defense classes after the whole Nybras debacle. As it turns out, she's something of a natural, thanks in no small part to her species.

     Mary 

Marietta "Bloody Mary" Mjollnir

     Jezebel 

Jezebel Athame

  • Cool Big Sis: Makes mention of having a little sister that looks up to her.
  • Femme Fatale: More in her head than elsewhere.
  • Gaydar: She prides herself on having an exceptionally accurate one.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Her 'naive country rube' act is all intended to trick others into underestimating her — she's actually very clever.

     Victoire 

Victoire Chastain

  • Combat Pragmatist: She's not above attacking someone when they're already down.
  • Disappeared Dad: Her father is never mentioned, and it's often assumed that he's dead or abandoned her mother before Victoire was born. It probably has more to do with that fact that she's Vyers' bastard daughter, the product of a one-night stand that he's all but forgotten about.
  • Foil: Her status as the young army commander from a well-to-do house makes her something of a Distaff Counterpart to Akimoto. However, every other aspect is turned on his head, and her femininity, level-headedness, and far more delicate and refined style of combat make her a polar opposite to him.
  • Hypocrite: Claims to value the notions of honor and chivalry above everything else, but is clearly shown fighting dirty in one-on-one combat at least once.
  • Ladykiller in Love: A rare female variant. Her flirtatious behavior departs once she begins to crush on Jezebel, reducing her to a blushing, stammery mess.
  • Like Father, Like Son: A foppish, flamboyant aristocrat with a penchant for French and hidden talent as a leader? Sounds pretty familiar.
  • Meaningful Name: Victoire stems from Victoria, the Latin word for "victory". It becomes fitting when she beats Aki in one-on-one combat.
  • Upper-Class Twit: Has shades of this due to her extreme naivete and unintentional arrogance towards the lower class.

     Celeste 

Celeste Ydriss

  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Mostly subverted. Celeste actually is a genuinely nice and sweet woman... She just can't stand seeing her 'babies' suffer. Played absolutely straight with her treatment of her husband.
  • Yandere: A non-romantic variant — she's extremely possessive of her children (and any child she regards as 'hers') and won't hesitate to go after anyone who's creating a threat towards her 'babies', imagined or otherwise, and getting them out of the way.

     Jasper 

Jasper Ydriss.

Tropes:

  • Abusive Parents: In spite of Jasper's attempts to placate him, Archi treats him like absolute crap, insulting and belittling him when he's not ignoring him.
    • Resulted in an unintentional case of The Dog Bites Back when Jasper accidentally shot Archi in the leg during a prank.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Timid and stammery or not, he turns into a Papa Wolf the instant his pets or family — usually pets —- are threatened.
  • Cute Kitten: Ends up with a small army of them after his pet catsaber Wiggly Pudding gives birth to a litter of wall-eyed, fluffy grey babies.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Repeatedly mistaken for a girl by both Aki and Vent.
  • My Beloved Smother: Has one in Celeste, who regards him as her "miracle baby"; it was so severe that she seldom let him play outside when he was little, and kept a months-long vigil over his cradle when he was a baby.
  • Parental Neglect: Jasper's dad seems to show far more interest in training Adon than he does in spending time with his own son.

     Alessa 

Alessa Ydriss

Tropes:

  • Attention Whore: Revels in attention and acknowledgement, whether it's positive or negative.
  • Freudian Excuse: Bullied and alienated by her peers in Celestia thanks to Fantastic Racism — being the child of demons — and her inability to adapt and fit in like her brothers. Her dad neglecting her and initially refusing to accept her as his own also messed her up pretty badly. While it doesn't excuse her behavior, it at least explains her callous attitude and desire for attention.
  • Fille Fatale: Fancies herself as one.
  • Like Father, Like Son: In this case, for both parents. She borrows her manipulative Stepford Smiler behavior and hideous temper from her mother, and her snarky sense of humor — and unfortunately, eventual drinking problems — from her father.
  • Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Or more specifically, Slightly-Unhinged Psychologist's Beautiful Daughter. Either way, she heavily subverts this; the Ingenue act is all pretense, and she detests her father to the point of wanting to murder him in order to attain fallen angel status.
  • Smitten Teenage Girl: Harbors a massive crush on Vyers. Understandably, he's quite disturbed by this, and doesn't reciprocate.
  • Sociopath: Even if she doesn't fit the textbook definition, she certainly has the makings of one; she's manipulative, deceptive, and has little respect for the well-being and lives of others, going as far as blatantly lying about being kidnapped and abused by Akimoto and Vent in order to provoke Celeste into beating them. However, she does seem to genuinely care about a few people - namely her mother and Helena - so her moral compass isn't totally absent.
  • Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Subverted — Her tragic death as an infant seemed to mark her as this, but she turned out to be something completely different upon her return.

     Raiden 

Raiden Krichevskoy

Tropes:

  • Berserk Button: Long-haired attractive men, particularly incubi. And Adon, for reasons that Raiden himself doesn't seem to understand. It most likely has something to do with both things reminding him of his estranged father.
  • Love Freak: Of a more platonic variety. He loves friendship and revels in people becoming buddies.
  • Squick: His own parentage is potentially this; he's the result of a short-lived relationship between Flonne and Vyers in an alternate timeline, and the age difference alone might cause some people to cringe.
  • Otaku: A huge fan of giant robot/mecha series — as well as magical girls and horror.

     Bellator 

Bellator Infernus

Tropes:

  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Shared an amiable, if violence-filled, acquaintance with Archi's father for a brief time after Adon and Jasper summoned him back to the world of the living.

     Adorea 

Adorea Melusine

Tropes:

  • A Mother to Her Men: She works her girls hard, but she also treats them pretty kindly by her standards.
  • Eye Scream: Courtesy of an Overlord shoving his thumb into her left eye.
  • Healing Factor: Recovers from most wounds at an abnormal pace due to her succubus blood. However, her left eye is still only half-formed, and will probably never regrow completely.
  • Older Than They Look: She's 68 years old and looks to be in her late twenties/early thirties.
  • Retired Badass: While she's still a merc, her days of campaigning to become Overlord are far behind her.
  • Succubi and Incubi: Subverted. While she is half-succubus, she's not terribly seductive-acting and doesn't seem to care much about sex.

    Cauchemaro 

Cauchemaro

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Sexy is dumb.

Cauchemaro is an incubus, which one would presume to be the male equivalent of a succubus. However, Cauchemaro is not romance-loving, not a powerful hunter of the night, and certainly not a seducer. However, he's still virtually naked and very touchy-feely.

Cauchemaro is the youngest incubus in his specific group and though an adult only recently reached maturity (control over emotions) that enables him to leave the incubus horde. He works as a butler in Vyers's castle, seeing Vyers like an incubus alpha and looking up to him with utmost respect. Cauchemaro is very domestic, enjoying cooking, cleaning, socializing, playing games, and doting on his adoptive family. Delmonico is his actual older brother.

Tropes:

  • Battle Butler: Though usually submissive and passive, Cauchemaro is unbelievably strong and will tear through just about anything for his loved ones.
  • Camp Straight: He has shown no interest in men and would like to have a girlfriend or even wife someday, as soon as he knows he can control himself.
  • Cannot Talk to Women: Borderline gynophobic. Understandable, since he was raised in an all-male society, and is afraid of messing up and hurting anyone.
  • Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: The typical self-imposed incubus method of emotion control - for the greater good. Cauchemaro just tends to be more intense with this than anyone else.
  • Godiva Hair: A mess of wavy hair falling all the way down his back.
  • Meaningful Name: It means 'incubus' in French, but not as much as it means "nightmare". Needless to say, Cauchemaro is the farthest thing from a nightmare
  • Reluctant Monster: His social class of incubus is at a level where he has a half-and-half possibility of going 'rogue,' or being puppeteered by instinct, and he's scared to death of the idea.
    • He was attacked by a rogue when he was younger, the memory of which cemented itself into his brain.

     Delmonico 

Delmonico

Del is one of the eldest members of the incubi clan working for Vyers. Older and fairly wiser than his inexperienced young relatives, he falls slightly more into the Succubi and Incubi category than the rest, in that he's a cunning and persuasive seducer capable of charming men and women alike.

However, beyond that, he's kind and highly protective of his underlings, acting as sort of an older brother figure to them. He's also deeply respectful towards Vyers, frequently consulting him for advice. His level-headed and patient nature has lead him to become something of a second-in-command for Vyers, a role that he holds in high esteem. He is Cauchemaro's actual older brother.

Tropes:

  • Battle Butler: Much like his 'brothers', Del is extremely loyal to his employer, and will stop at nothing to defend him.
  • The Big Guy: Easily the tallest and most well-built of the incubi.

     Ariadne 

Ariadne

Tropes:

  • Antiquated Linguistics: Her speech pattern is very polite and old-fashioned, speaking like a cross between a Medieval knight and a character out of an old samurai movie.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: When taken over completely by Enoch.
  • Body and Host: Possessed by the denizen Enoch.
  • Cannot Talk to Women: Gender-flipped. She considers any attractive man she stumbles across a threat to her vows of chastity and is terrified of them as a result, as witnessed in her interactions with Vyers and the incubi.
  • Cute Little Fangs: Growing them as her transformation into a demon continues.
  • Hell-Bent for Leather: Sports a very nice leather catsuit under her robes. It's standard-issue for both genders in the Holy Order.
  • Knight Templar: Started out as one. Her possession by Enoch and time spent with demons has mellowed her out a little.
  • Meaningful Name: Translates roughly to "holy woman" — fitting, considering her profession.
  • Ninja Maid: Becomes one of sorts to Adon, though she's not actually a 'maid'.
  • No Social Skills: Due to spending most of her life in a monastery, she's pretty socially awkward.

     Ainoire 

Ainoire

Tropes:

  • Apologetic Attacker: Takes this to the next level by apologizing while he's about to sacrifice Adon and his friends.
  • Came Back Wrong: Arguably. There's debate to whether his choice to serve Vindaego was purely born of misguided free will, or if he went partially crazy upon returning to life.
  • Glasgow Grin: Has one leftover from his assault and murder by thieves.
  • Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Horribly subverted. While he initially comes off as this, it turns out that he's already been corrupted for a while — his resurrection and assumed debt at the hands of an unknown god drove him to attempt to sacrifice a child, along with the child's companions and brother.
  • The Starscream: To Adon and company, but Ariadne in particular, after he reveals his loyalties to a god that turns out to be Vindaego.

     Scarlet 

Scarlet Infernus

Tropes:

  • Bad Boss: Beats up and threatens her father's own men for fun.
  • Battle Ballgown: Her normal clothing consists of a Pimped-Out Dress with a breast plate and a few pieces of leg armor, despite repeated assertions that she's a Tomboy.
  • Boisterous Weakling: Claims to love a good fight, rebels to an excessive and seemingly pointless degree, terrorizes her father's much weaker men...And gets her ass kicked by every other challenger, including seemingly frail Alessa.
  • Informed Ability: Her skills as a warrior. Outside of her pummeling a couple of her father's paid Mooks, her actual battle abilities are pretty lackluster.
  • Royal Brat: Well, not royal, but technically still counts; she uses her father's name to justify her actions and bolster her ego.

     Taven 

Taven Infernus

Tropes:

  • Extreme Doormat: Frequently enables his domineering and bratty sister, as his advice is shot down or ignored nine times out of ten.

Canon Characters

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     Mao 

Overlord Mao, Dean of Maritsu Evil Academy

Tropes:

  • Flanderization: His mad scientist tendencies are primarily focused upon, and he seems to have lost most of his character development from Disgaea 3.

     Laharl 

Overlord Laharl

Tropes:

  • Brilliant, but Lazy: Or immensely powerful but lazy in his case. He'll leap into a fight when he needs to, but he prefers to let Etna and Flonne do the more mundane dirty work.
  • Parental Substitute: An unwilling one to Tauntus. Most likely because he really is Tartie's father, just in a future timeline.

     Mid-Boss 

Vyers, AKA the Dark Adonis, AKA Mid-Boss

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