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Vessalius Household

In General

• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Oh, where to begin...
• Feuding Families: With the Nightrays. However, it's doubted they'll stay this way, as the remaining heirs at the end of the manga are Oz Vessalius and Gilbert Nightray, who adore each other.

Jack Vessalius

Jack Vessalius

Voiced by: Daisuke Ono

"I deceived not only the people around me, but my very own emotions...so much so that I couldn't perceive my true self anymore."

The "hero" of the Tragedy of Sablier who resides within Oz's body, having used his own in a gruesome sacrifice to seal Glen Baskerville's soul. As it turns out, he is certainly no hero—he is revealed to be extremely broken and violently insane in his obsession with Lacie. Eventually he resolves to drop the entire world into the Abyss for her sake because she loved it so much. Like Oz, he shares many traits with the White Rabbit.

• Above Good and Evil: If he thinks it will make Lacie happy, Jack will do anything. That 'anything' includes throwing the entire world into the Abyss under the misconception that Lacie still lives in the Abyss and must be sad that she can't return to the world she loves.
• All-Loving Hero: Subverted. He at first seems like the ideal hero who wants to save everyone and make everyone happy. Then he reveals his true colors...
• Badass Longcoat: He's always seen wearing a green longcoat that sure looks good and imposing on him.
• Bastard Angst: Jack was born as a result of a nobleman's affair. His mother was driven insane by being abandoned by his father and abused Jack until he ran away.
• Bastard Bastard: Jack is the son of a nobleman from the Vessalius household and his mistress. Despite being made look like a good guy at first, Jack is the real Big Bad of the series and the mastermind behind the Tragedy of Sablier.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Lacie was the first person to show him kindness in his entire life. This made him want to see her again no matter what and seek her for eight years. Deconstructed as Jack came to hate Lacie's acts of kindness over the years it took him to find her, as they gave him a purpose to live on when he didn't want to and tied him down with the desire to meet Lacie again.
• Beneath the Mask: On the outside, he looks like the most heroic and noble man in the series. On the inside, he's completely devoid of empathy and lacks a true sense of identity, and he copes with it by trying to destroy the world.
• Big Bad: He's either directly or indirectly the cause for almost everything bad that's happened to the main cast due to his quest to send the world into the Abyss.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Jack seems like a saint. It's not until much later that he reveals himself as a twisted, manipulative sociopath who intents to bring the world down to the Abyss.
• Blood-Splattered Innocents: Gets one courtesy of Lacie and some thugs.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Maybe? While it's hard to tell anything about Jack, one of his last conversations with Glen suggest he really doesn't see destroying the world as something wrong. After all, it's for Lacie's wish.
  Jack: I just wanted to make Lacie's wish come true, and yet you...
  Glen: In order to do something as trivial as that, you wouldn't mind destroying the whole world, you bastard?!
  Jack: Not at all.
• Break Them by Talking: He completely breaks Oz's spirit by telling him that he's just a Chain created from a stuffed rabbit and his entire life up to this point has been an elaborated lie fabricated by Jack himself.
• Broken Pedestal: He betrays everyone who believed in him, including those who trusted and idolized him such as Vincent.
• Cartwright Curse: In the Pandora Hearts Volume 22 Drama CD, he tries to help Levi and his writing block by describing his past experiences with dating and how all the women he's dated has had tragic ends, his previous girlfriends having died, succumbed to illness, or have committed suicide. Or he might have killed them (as the character based on him in Levi's novel did).
• The Charmer: He has an amazing charisma that allows him to captivate almost anyone and makes it super easy for him to manipulate others.
• The Chessmaster: He has been manipulating the events of the series for the past century in order to try and finish what he started at the Tragedy of Sablier and bring the world down to the Abyss.
• Damaged Soul: His soul was broken to pieces in the clash between B-Rabbit and the Intention of the Abyss. Some of the fragments were swept into Alice's memories, creating the "Jack Vessalius" of modern times. The rest faded away.
• Demonic Possession: Inverted. Oz is a Chain inhabiting his body and slowly making it less human the more power he gets back, but Jack is the malicious one of this duo and able to usurp Oz from control, at least until he starts fighting back.
• Despair Event Horizon: Once he lost Lacie forever, Jack felt he had no reason to live anymore. There's only one thing that keeps him going: fulfill Lacie's "wish" to send the world down into the Abyss.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Deconstructed. Originally, Jack didn't care whether he lived or died. Then, he met Lacie and for the following eight years, finding her was the only thing motivating him to survive. When he lost that with Lacie's death, the only thing Jack has left is trying to throw the world into the Abyss because he wrongly thinks that would make Lacie happy. At the end, Jack admits that he doesn't know himself nor what he wants, so he had been using Lacie as a way to give himself a goal to aim towards.
• Determinator: He succumbed to murder, theft, and prostitution in order to rise the ranks of the Vessalius family and reunite with Lacie, and he will do whatever it takes to bring Lacie back from the dead when he learns Glen/Oswald killed her. When that doesn't work? He will do whatever it takes to fulfill what he's convinced himself into believing is Lacie's "wish"—bringing the world to Lacie in the Abyss because she loves the world so much.
• Devoted to You: He's utterly devoted to Lacie in such a twisted and disturbing way that he's willing to destroy the world because he believes that's what she wanted. It gets darker when it's revealed his devotion to Lacie doesn't come from love, but from obsessive hatred combined with extreme dependency.
• Dissonant Serenity: He does some very messed up and cruel things, like killing his own best friend, with a nonchalant smile on his face.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Subverted. Jack appeared to have feelings for Lacie and did everything he could to get close to her, but never pushed her into becoming anything more than friends with him since that would only motivate her to push him away. It began to be hinted that wasn't really the case when Lacie did give Jack the chance to become intimate with her, yet he never crossed the line in his relationship with her—a line, that Lacie suspects, he had drawn himself. It's eventually made clear that Jack wanted to be near Lacie because that was his only way of coping with his existential crisis; he never wanted romance from Lacie.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: He is convinced that Lacie's unfulfilled wish is to be reunited with the world in the Abyss because 1) he is unable to bring her back from the dead, and 2) she is separated from the world she loves so much. In reality, Lacie ultimately accepts her death and is merely thankful that she was able to live in the world that she loved so much.
• The Dulcinea Effect: Towards Lacie. He only briefly meets her before his obsession kicks in, all because she was nice to him.
• Empty Shell: In both life and as a fragment of his soul. So much as trying to figure out his true character is a trigger for him.
  Oswald: "To me... Jack Vessalius... feels like water. [...] Yes. Like a stretch of water so silent and still, even fish avoid it. When you look into it, the only thing you see is your own reflection. You can't see his true nature. Even though he's right in front of me... I can't shake the uncomfortable feeling that no one's actually there."
  Oscar: "Someone once compared you to water. It was probably an accurate description. Even though this is the man behind the Tragedy, I can feel neither malice nor benevolence from him. Whenever you try to grasp him... He slips away... like water through a sieve. Then... who is this person? He... is... Nothing."
• Enemy Within: After he reveeals himself as a villain, Jack torments Oz inside his mind as he tries and almost succeeds to break Oz's will in order to reclaim control of the body that was originally his.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He might be crazy and willing to make the entire world fall into the Abyss, but even he's disgusted by Isla Yura for wanting to do it just for fun.
• Evil All Along: It turns out that, despite all the stories and memoirs that stated otherwise (of which were lies he had others tell or fabricated himself), Jack was the true instigator of the Tragedy of Sablier.
• Evil Counterpart: To Oz. Both are lonely and cunning individuals who cope with their feelings of inadequacy by putting on a cheerful and charismatic mask. The main difference between them is that Oz is capable of human empathy and compassion, while Jack isn't. Ultimately, Oz finds peace of mind by opening up to his friends and becomes a true hero, and in contrast, Jack obsesses over a single person who dies and this results in him almost destroying the world twice. Also, since both reside in the same body, Oz's physical appearance is literally a younger Jack.
• The Faceless: His face is hidden from the audience until he formally introduces himself to Pandora and Oz's gang.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Jack is quite attractive in a deceptively innocent, beautiful way. He knows, and uses it like hell in order to deceive other people.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Jack is adored by everyone as the hero of the Tragedy of Sablier, until it's revealed he was the mastermind behind the Tragedy all along.
• False Friend: To Glen/Oswald, White Alice, and Arthur Barma. He acts as Oswald's friend in order to be near Lacie and only sticks around the Baskervilles post-Lacie's death to learn more about the Abyss in hopes of bringing Lacie back from the dead. He befriends White Alice and preys on her loneliness in order to use her to help him create B-Rabbit and bring the world into the Abyss. He purposely befriends Arthur in order to meet Arthur's sister Miranda, who is inevitably the person who enables him to reunite with Lacie.
• Faux Affably Evil: Jack is suave, gracious, polite, and usually gentle in speech—even when threatening to kill someone, or asking them to help him destroy the world. A true sociopath, he's learned that it's important to pretend he feels the appropriate emotions necessary to connect with others, and so it's a rare moment that he breaks out of his gentle, manipulative smile.
• Foil: To Oz. Their Keet ways, which were both used as identical masks to hide their interior thoughts and feelings, become contrasting opposites; Oz used this act to hide his pain and try to prevent those he loved from worrying about him; Jack used it to hide the fact that he perceived himself as absolutely empty inside, and realized this was abnormal. Even their endings invert their characters: Jack began as the only normal human main character of the Sablier cast and ended a shattered, sociopathic shade, while Oz began as only a bit of energy recording memories inside a doll and developed into one of the most psychologically human characters.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He started his life as an illegitimate child living on the streets. Then he became obsessed with Lacie and eventually became the mastermind behind the Tragedy of Sablier, who even after death tries to fulfill his goal to destroy the world.
• Go Out with a Smile: He smiles one last time before the last remnant of his soul leaves his body.
• Grand Theft Me: He can hijack Oz's body if the situation calls for it. Subverted in that Oz's "body" turned out to be Jack's all along.
• Green-Eyed Monster: There is the unsaid but ever-present implication towards the end of the manga that Jack is so abusive towards Oz and so persistent in reminding Oz that he is, from Jack's perspective, not "real" and thus unable to achieve anything real or meaningful... because Jack's greatest insecurity is that he himself doesn't know what parts of him, if any, are real anymore, and is deeply envious that a formerly inanimate creature like Oz could ever become more real than Jack himself.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Subverted. Jack presents himself as this blonde heroic figure with a pure and noble heart. Then he reveals his true colors, making clear his heart is pitch black.
• Heel–Face Turn: At the end of the series, Oz finally gets Jack to realize Lacie's true wishes and he stops the Intention of the Abyss' rampage by confessing his true intentions. He also tells the Core to use his body once his soul disappears so it can communicate with the Baskervilles and form a more friendly relationship with them.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: Up until he reveals himself after the Cheshire arc.
• Hidden Depths: Turns out he isn't the princely hero everyone makes him out to be, or, indeed, a hero at all.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: Turns out he doesn't love Lacie. He actually grew to hate Lacie during his eight years of doing whatever it took to find her.
• Hypocrite: He's shown to resent and be disgusted with his mother for becoming so blindly obsessed with his father after the latter abandons her. He ends up being even more obsessed with the first girl who is nice to him after she leaves him.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: In spite of finding out that Lacie initially doesn't remember him, he doesn't particularly mind because he admires Lacie all the more for how free-spirited she is and how she can't be tied down by anything. Subverted since he actually doesn't love her.
• I'm Crying, but I Don't Know Why: When Oswald's soul vanishes, Oz asks Jack if he's sad about what's happened to Oswald. Jack says he's unsure how he feels, but he realizes that his eyes won't stop welling up with tears anyway.
• I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: He's very insistent that he's not a hero. At first, this appears to be him being humble. Then it turns out he wasn't lying...
• I Owe You My Life: Feels this way about Lacie to the point where Lacie's mere existence is the only thing that ties him to the world. Horribly deconstructed when it turns out he began resenting the girl who saved him a long time and her existence is the only way he can remember who he truly is and continue to go on living.
• It Meant Something to Me: For Jack, the day he met Lacie changed his life forever and gave him the will to live on in order to see her again. Meanwhile, Lacie just saw it as a way to kill time and didn't even remember him by the time he found her. Levi even said Lacie would usually run away from home and typically dotes on "pets" only to promptly forget about them, and Jack was no different. Interestingly, Jack knows Lacie is the kind of girl who would do that and is fine with it since he likes how free-spirited she is.
• I Will Find You: He spent eight years restlessly searching for Lacie after their short meeting. He eventually did find her... and then she was thrown into the Abyss a few months later.
• Kill the Ones You Love: Played with. It's believed Jack had to kill his best friend, Glen/Oswald Baskerville, when the latter went crazy and tried to send the world into the Abyss, something Jack never forgave himself for. However, it's later revealed the friendship between Jack and Oswald had became strained since Oswald refused to help Jack revive Lacie. And it was Jack who tried to destroy the world and he killed Oswald when he got in the way. Despite all this, Jack truly seemed to be fond of Oswald and considered him his best friend, even though his major sense of identity issues kept him from being sure how much of that feeling was real.
• Living Lie Detector: He confesses to Levi that he learned how to tell when people were lying in order to survive. He knew that Lacie was lying when she told him to not visit the Baskerville mansion due to preparations for a ceremony in a week in Retrace LXVIII, but he didn't realize that it was because of her impending death until later. Levi mentally notes that this is just a little messed up.
  Levi: "He embraced the lies because they were Lacie's words. He's frighteningly pure...and equally twisted."
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He's a very pretty-looking man with a long braid.
• Loss of Identity: He states that after years of wearing many faces and manipulating people in order to see Lacie again, he couldn't tell who he really was anymore. The only thing he can be sure about himself is that he hates Lacie, which is why he's so obsessed with being by her side.
• Lost in Character: After years of assuming personas to find Lacie, Jack can't tell which is his real personality anymore. Jack says that he honestly thought Oswald, Gilbert and Vincent were his dear friends, yet he manipulated and betrayed them all without hesitation nor remorse. This makes him scared that all of his feelings might be an act he's subconsciously playing. Despite this, Jack has no doubt that his hatred for Lacie is real and it is only when she is gone that he cannot remember who he is anymore.
• Love Makes You Evil: Subverted. His motivation to try and bring the world down to the Abyss is to fulfill his dear Lacie's "wish". But according to Lacie and him in the Pandora Hearts Volume 22 Drama CD, his feelings for her aren't love; Lacie tells Oswald that he can't love anyone while he finds his feelings are hard to describe when explaining himself to Levi. Furthermore, the volume 18.5 evidence guidebook claims he's "obsessed" with Lacie, not in love with her. The final chapters ultimately reveal that Jack actually hates Lacie once he realizes how far he has sunk. That being said, it doesn't make his feelings any less evil.
• Loving a Shadow: A particularly twisted example. Jack became enchanted with Lacie after a brief meeting and he immediately made seeing her again his entire purpose to live, which gradually made him grow to resent Lacie for the things he did in order to find her. However, those feelings are the one thing that make him feel any attachment to life. Basically, Jack idolizes the idea he has of Lacie in his mind and what it represents to him, but for that same reason, he kept a firm distance from Lacie the person for the sake of never coming to see her as anything but a reminder of his own existence.
• Mad Love: Subverted. Since the beginning of the Flashback Arc his feelings towards Lacie have been ambiguous. The readers are lead to believe he truly loves her and idolizes her to extreme limits. Later chapters reveal that he actually doesn't love her at all—he hates her and is obsessed with being by her side because this incredible resentment is the only thing that reminds him of who he really is.
• Madness Mantra: After Glen says that Lacie can't be brought back.
  Jack: I refuse to accept it! I refuse to accept it! I refuse to accept it! I refuse to accept it! I refuse to accept it! I refuse to accept it! I refuse to accept it! I refuse to accept it!
• Manipulative Bastard: He emotionally and mentally manipulates others to get them to do what he wants.
• Mask of Sanity: He is good at faking the wise hero, or the happy-go-lucky friend, but in the end he's so messed up he can't even tell who he is anymore.
• Master of the Mixed Message: He may be obsessed with Lacie, but it's ambiguous whether or not his feelings are romantic. While he's explaining himself to Levi in the Volume 22 Drama CD, he can't quite express what exactly he may feel for Lacie or if it's love; he simply wants to be by her side. Later, it's confirmed he doesn't love her at all, in fact, his adoration has changed to detestation after realizing how far he has fallen in his desire to meet her again.
• Merlin Sickness: Jack is afflicted with this as a result of the Abyss rejecting his corrupted soul and excluding him from the hundred-year cycle of rebirth. His body is cursed to perpetually age up to twenty-four years, his age at the Tragedy of Sablier, when his soul was rejected, and then regress back to infancy. Additionally, each time he completes this cycle, a piece of what's left of his soul is destroyed.
• Motive Rant: He eventually reveals that he doesn't love Lacie, he hates her for tying him down with the desire to meet her again. However, that same hatred makes him feel alive and lets him know who he really is. So despite whatever "noble" intentions he might have led himself to believe with bringing Lacie back to life or bringing the world Lacie loves back to her, his reasons for reuniting with Lacie are purely his own: he needs Lacie to live.
• Mysterious Backer: Throughout the first half of the series, Jack acts as this mysterious spirit who instructs Oz to recover all of Alice's memories and gives vague clues about the truth behind the Tragey of Sablier. Turns out Jack was the last person Oz, Gilbert and Alice should have listened to because Jack was only manipulating them until Oz's recovered his power as the B-Rabbit and Jack could use him to try and send the world into the Abyss like he already did at the Tragedy of Sablier.
• Mysterious Protector: At first, Jack takes the role of a mysterious yet helpful ally, particularly towards Oz and Alice, by giving them clues to find the truth of Alice's past. This is subverted when it's revealed he hasn't been helping anyone but himself and he betrays everyone he pretended to protect.
• Never My Fault: He blames and resents Lacie since in order to meet her again, he needed to act so many roles that it made him lose sight of his identity, which terrifies him. However, Jack's identity issues really stem from his own unwillingness to face his true self because he knows he's just an Empty Shell. It's not until the end of the series that Jack can recognize everything he did was never because of Lacie, but because of his desperation to run away from his existential crisis.
• No Love for the Wicked: Lacie was the only woman who ever had all of Jack's attention, but he never pursued nor wished for a romantic or sexual relationship with her even though he wants to drop the world into the Abyss in her name. Out of curiosity, Lacie once tested how Jack reacted to physical intimacy with her and she got nothing. Furthermore, Jack confessed that his feelings for Lacie aren't based on love, but on addictive obsession and resentment. Jack's inability to feel any kind of genuine love for anyone serves to show how disturbing and twisted he is.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Not that obvious and not Played for Laughs. For some reason Jack really likes caressing various parts of Oz's body. The way this is portrayed, even the Yaoi Fangirls of the fandom have no other reaction besides being incredibly disturbed.
• Not Afraid to Die: When Levi basically threatens to order the Baskervilles to kill Jack, all Jack does is serenely ask to be allowed to see Lacie one last time before dying.
• Not So Similar: Much of the first half of the manga works to develop how superficially similar Oz and Jack are, both being Gadfly Keets initially presented as Messianic Archetypes. Many scenes are specifically constructed to parallel events, moments, conflicts, and dialogue choices in their lives. However, the second half works to show how different they truly are in their motivations and emotional capacity by taking these previous parallels and inverting the choices made afterwards to highlight Oz's emotional sensitivity in contrast with Jack's sociopathy, showing that their similar actions had opposite motivations.
• Oblivious to Love: Played for Drama. When Jack saw Lacie's memories, he assumed her feelings of loneliness resulted from her leaving the world she loved behind. Actually, Lacie felt lonely about being separated from Jack and never being able to see him again because her feelings for him had become stronger than she ever wanted them to be.
• Only Friend:
  • Jack was the only one besides Oswald who regularly visited Alice's tower and gave her a comforting company. Although, only White Alice was fond of Jack; she regularly possessed Black Alice's body to interact with Jack because she can't leave the Abyss. However, White Alice didn't realize that Jack was only pretending to care about her so she would give him a Chain with enough power to throw the world into the Abyss.
  • Jack was also the only person Oswald regarded as his friend and equal. Lottie was very surprised to see Oswald enjoying someone's company when he was hanging out with Jack, since she thought Oswald preferred to be left alone. However, Oswald noticed there was something seriously wrong with Jack, but he didn't want to break off their friendship. Oswald ended up regretting his choice to keep Jack as a friend when Jack betrayed and killed him.
• Posthumous Character: Yes, really. He didn't reincarnate, nor has he been revived. The real Jack Vessalius died during the Tragedy of Sablier and the remnants of his soul faded over the following century. All that remains are fractured part of his soul that continue to try to accomplish his goal.
• The Power of Hate: The real source of his obsession with Lacie. He hates her so much that being with her is the only way he feels alive.
• Powers via Possession: He takes over Oz when the situation calls for him to step in and/or speak.
• Prince Charmless: He at first seems like a princely hero from a fairy tale. His true self is far from that, as he's a psychotic Yandere and the real mastermind behind the Tragedy of Sablier.
• Put Them All Out of My Misery: If he can't bring Lacie back into the world, then he'll just bring the world to Lacie. In the Abyss.
• Redemption Equals Death: At the end of the series, Jack gives up his goal to throw the entire world into the Abyss after he finally understands Lacie's true feelings. As possibly the only truly noble he ever did, Jack allows the Core of the Abyss to take control of his immortal body after his soul finally disappears to improve the relationship between the Core and the Baskervilles.
• The Resenter: It's eventually revealed that Jack actually resents Lacie, blaming her for forcing him to live on when he wanted to die and tying him down with the desire to see her again.
• The Reveal: He was the one who caused the Tragedy of Sablier and had an obsession with Lacie, not Glen.
• Royal Bastard: Jack is the illegitimate son of a nobleman from the Vessalius household. His father abandoned his mother and Jack grew up in the streets, but his efforts to see Lacie again made it possible for him to get accepted into the Vessalius household.
• The Runaway: Jack ran away from home after he got fed up with his mother abusing him because his father abandoned them.
• Satellite Character: Deconstructed. Jack has literally no personality nor purpose to live without his obsession with Lacie. All his actions center entirely around doing things for Lacie, either finding her or fulfilling what he thinks is her dying wish. This is acknowledged as extremely disturbing and abnormal. Even Jack himself knows his whole existence has become dependent on Lacie and he resents her for it.
• Shipper on Deck: For someone who's so obsessed with Lacie, he harbors no jealousy or ill-will when he learns Levi's in love with her in the Volume 22 Drama CD. He actually thinks that the pair might suit each other well since they've known each other for so long and understand each other. Makes sense since he isn't in love with her, so he's okay with her falling in love with anyone else as long as he can still be by her side.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Subverted. While he's hopelessly devoted to Lacie, he does not cross the line in their relationship when given a chance, a line that Lacie believes he put there himself. In the Pandora Hearts Volume 22 Drama CD, Lacie admits to Oswald that Jack doesn't love her and can't love anyone, something Jack himself eventually admits near the end of the manga.
• Social Climber: Type Backstabber with shades of Butt-Kisser. Jack grew up on the streets and was completely apathetic about everything until he met Lacie Baskerville. He became obsessed with her, and because she was from a noble family, he knew he would need to climb the social ladder in order to see her again. Through murder, theft, prostitution, and ruthless manipulation, he gradually came to be accepted as a nobleman.
• The Sociopath: Jack has always felt like he was empty inside as if he was nothing, which he hated. He found a way to fill that void within himself in Lacie, the only person who he felt any sort of attachment to, good or bad. For Lacie's sake, Jack lies and manipulates people for his own benefit while pretending to be their friend. He doesn't care in the least how many people he hurts and kills to get what he wants because he lacks the ability to feel compassion and remorse in any form. It's pointed out that despite the sheer horror of his crimes, Jack doesn't give off the feeling of malice since his only motive is seeking to feel alive.
• Soul Fragment: Every one of his appearances outside of flashbacks are merely the remnants of his soul, which shattered during the Tragedy.
• Spirit Advisor: Acts as one to Oz in the first half. He appears as the spirit residing in Oz's body who is there to guide him and help him stop the Baskervilles. That is until it's revealed he had been deceiving Oz's group the entire time.
• Stalker without a Crush: After his reunion with Lacie, Jack habitually sneaked into the Baskerville territory to spend time with her. The "crush" part was debatable for a long time, but it's later confirmed that his feelings towards Lacie aren't romantic or sexual. He resents Lacie, but can only be his true self around her and ultimately views her existence as what allows him to be who he truly is. He sought to be near her solely to obtain some peace of mind.
• Stalking is Love: Levi deduces that Lacie is growing attached to Jack due to his unrelenting search for her. He's not exactly far from the truth.
• Start of Darkness: Though he wasn't completely "good" to begin with, losing Lacie and seeing her remaining feelings through Oz are what puts him on the deep end and convinces him that if Lacie can't be brought back to the world that she loves, then he'll just have to bring the world to her in the Abyss.
• Stepford Smiler: He puts up the friendly, smiling act and asks little questions so the Baskervilles won't keep him away from Lacie, and following Lacie's death, he continues this routine with Glen/Oswald so he can lower the latter's guard and learn more about the Abyss in order to bring Lacie back, and eventually, fulfill what he perceives to be her wish.
  His sudden smile concealed a violent passion.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers one to Oz in Retrace LXX.
  Jack: "This body does not belong... to Oz Vessalius. Nothing can belong to someone like you. You can't achieve anything. You can't become anything. You can't! You just can't! Because you are nothing... You are nothingness... Because you destroy everything!"
• Tragic Hero: Subverted. During the first part of the story, Jack is presented as the hero who saved the world, but remained tormented by not having been able to save Sablier and having been forced to kill his crazed best friend. Turns out the truth is quite a bit different.
• Tragic Keepsake: He keeps wearing the earring that he received from Lacie after she left him to return to the Baskervilles. Jack later receives Lacie's other earring from Glen/Oswald after her death.
• Treacherous Advisor: He acts as Oz's spiritual advisor and guide in the first part of the story, appearing to give hints of what happened in Sablier and help stop the Baskervilles. Then it's revealed he had been manipulating everyone the entire time, taking advantage that Oz, Alice and Gilbert couldn't remember Jack was the real villain behind everything.
• The Unapologetic: He never displays any remorse for manipulating and abusing the other characters to get what he wants. Near the end of the manga he has a moment of hesitation when Oz asks him if he could have taken a different path...but he calmly smiles and confesses to Oz that he knows he would do it all again if given a second chance.
• Undying Loyalty: To Lacie. Or perhaps more accurately, what Lacie represents to him.
• The Unfettered: Pre-Lacie's death, everything he does is to reunite with her. Post-Lacie's death, everything he does is to bring the world into the Abyss out of Lacie's love for the world. And he has no problems with doing anything and everything it takes to make this goal into a reality.
• Unreliable Expositor: Pretty much everything he tells Oz and the reader about the Tragedy of Sablier throughout the first part of the story turns out to be a straight-up lie.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: His plans change from being by Lacie's side to bringing her back from the dead to bringing the world to her in the Abyss.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Jack is renowned as the great hero who killed the mastermind behind the Tragedy of Sablier, Glen Baskerville. The real mastermind wasn't Glen, but Jack. After Sablier sank into the Abyss, Jack covered up his crimes by framing the Baskervilles for the tragedy when the truth is that Glen Baskerville's actions had prevented the entire world from being destroyed by Jack.
• Walking Spoiler: His existence is not, nor is the fact that he was involved in the Tragedy of Sablier. Everything that actually has to do with him personally, however... well, he's one of the reasons this page needed unmarked spoilers.
• Yandere: Subverted. Jack went mad over Lacie soon after he met her and he wants to bring the world into the Abyss because he wrongly believes that was Lacie's wish. However, while there's surely some twisted idolization involved, it's eventually made clear Jack is obsessed with Lacie not because he loves her, but because he hates her so much that his spite for her is the only thing that can successfully make him feel alive and give him any semblance of identity.

Xai Vessalius

Xai Vessalius

Voiced by: Tōru Ōkawa

"A child like that should never have been born."

Oz's emotionally abusive father and the one who sent him to the Abyss at beginning of the series.

• Abusive Dad: He treats Oz like dirt, but he's a terrible family member in general, really. Turns out Oz is adopted, but that doesn't change this trope.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Despite the extremely cruel man he was to his own family, he dies after taking a mortal wound while protecting his daughter. Oz cries and mourns the fact that he never really got to know Xai.
• Anti-Villain: He wants revenge on the man who he thinks murdered his son and wife, and to stop the Tragedy of Sablier from repeating itself. However he long ago mixed his initially noble motivations in with prideful grudges and crossed the Moral Event Horizon with his treatment of Oz and Oscar.
• Appeal to Flattery: How Jack initially manipulates him: by convincing him that taking in Oz is his heroic, honorable, and noble duty to help protect against the Baskervilles. Later Jack uses this again without even being present because Xai becomes convinced that doing everything possible to spite Jack would actually be heroic... Except that Xai's self-righteous justification for taking out his desire for petty revenge on Oz leads him to do exactly what Jack wants, and as Xai realizes this, he descends into Conspiracy Theorist territory and believes Jack has been controlling him and everyone at every point in their lives, and so every mistake and bad action Xai has made is Jack's (and Oz's) fault. In reality Xai's self-righteous egocentrism just makes him really susceptible to narratives that allow him to flatter himself and, through this, really predictable.
• Blaming the Victim: He has too much pride and is unable to accept his mistakes, and so pushes the blame for them on Oz, the only one who is more a victim of Jack's manipulations than he is.
• The Chessmaster: He tries to be this, but Jack uses his pride and hatred against him, turning him into an Unwitting Pawn.
  • Specifically, Xai realized too late that Jack placed Oz in his family so that Oz might further Jack's goals somehow, and attempted to rectify this by following the only information he had—that is, that if the Black Rabbit is thrown into the Abyss, he will die. Unfortunately this information was planted by Jack—he wanted Oz tossed into the Abyss, because it would likely result in Oz getting his powers back. And so due to Xai's actions, Jack had all he needed for Tragedy Part 2. If Xai had let go of his irrational grudge against Oz and hadn't been so eager to bite the bait, it's possible none of the deaths in the present would have happened, and the truth of the Tragedy of Sablier may have remained buried for years or decades longer than it was, if it ever came out at all.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Jack basically manipulated him into becoming this by playing first on his biases, underlying lack of empathy, and sense of pride. Jack deliberately exposing his true nature to Zai motivates Xai to see Jack's mechanizations in everything, to the point where even others who don't like Jack find Xai's assertions questionable.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: He spends his final moments proclaiming to Oz that he will continue to loathe him and Jack until he gives out his last breath.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's very evil and willing to kill anyone who gets in the way of his revenge against Jack, including his own blood relatives. However, he does genuinely cares about his daughter Ada, as proven when he protects her from Noise shortly before his death.
• Eyes Out of Sight: For most of the manga, his eyes are never drawn with the rest of his face. In Retrace XCII, his eyes are finally revealed. This is justified in that, until that moment, Oz was afraid to look at him.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. He's unable to let go of Jack's slights against him and unable to self-reflect or move forwards, which only makes him more predictable for Jack to use and manipulate. See Unwitting Pawn for how this flaw effected the plot. In essence, though, if Xai had been less prideful and tried to move forward like the rest of the cast, most of the tragedy that occurs during the manga wouldn't have happened.
• Freudian Excuse: Xai blames Oz for the death of his biological son, which was either foreseen by Jack and taken advantage of or arranged by him. Oz was essentially guilty by association in his eyes. After the death of his sister-in-law, Sarah, in childbirth, and his wife, Rachel, in an unrelated coach crash shortly after Ada's birth, Xai came to hate Oz and Jack even more, thinking that Jack had planned all of it. That this is an excuse for his actions is subverted, though, in that the manga makes very clear that none of this actually justifies his decisions; other characters also call into question the validity of Xai's paranoid assumption that Jack could have controlled so much of everyone's lives.
• Hates Their Parent: Inverted and subverted. Xai openly said he wished his son Oz had never been born, treats him like dirt and was disgusted by Oz simply touching him. However, it's eventually revealed Oz is not really his son, but a Chain in Jack's body who he adopted at Jack's request. Xai hates Oz because he blames both him and Jack for his biological child being a stillborn, but he refuses to see that Oz is as much of a victim of Jack's manipulations as he is.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: Oz can neither remember his face nor stand to look at him, due to his abuse at Xai's hands as a child. Eventually Oz gains the self-worth enough to realize that no matter how he came to be he still deserves to exist, and this new realization allows him to look at Xai directly for the first time in years.
• Hidden Depths: His abusive actions towards Oz have a lot more reason behind them than you'd think, though they're still misguided and terrible. Also, while he may have been a horrid family member to Oz and Oscar, he truly loved his wife and daughter.
• I Did What I Had to Do: From his perspective, he sacrificed a great deal to prevent the Baskervilles from rising again, only to be manipulated by Jack. His attempts to stop Jack only made things worse.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: He refers to Oz as a thing, which serves to highlight his Abusive Parent status. It's played with later, as Oz indeed isn't human and Xai was the only character to be aware of it, but since one of the main arcs of the manga is exploring the depths of Oz's psychological and emotional humanity which Xai went out of his way not to recognize, this in no way justifies his actions.
• Jerkass: He's very callous, cold-hearted and uncaring even towards his own family members.
• Never My Fault: Xai blames and resents Oz for about everything that has gone wrong in his life, even though Oz had absolutely no fault in Jack's Switched at Birth ploy and Xai is the one who blindly trusted Jack until he learned the latter had planned Xai's real son to be stillborn to replace him with Oz. Even upon his death, Xai still blames Oz for all of his own regrets and mistakes.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A subtle deconstruction. Xai realizes the mistake he made in helping Jack, but the same flaws that led to the initial mistake prevent him from fixing it and only make things worse, because his harping over his past mistakes makes him unable to cut his losses and grow as a person. This makes him an antagonist to everyone who is actually trying to move on.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Part of his motivation for agreeing to take in Oz, aside from believing it to be his honorable duty, is implied to have been sparing his wife from the loss of their child. Once Xai discovered Jack's villainy, any altruistic intentions he might have had largely went out the window in favor of nursing his wounded pride.
• Pet the Dog: Overall, Xai is very horrible to his family. He emotionally abused his adopted son Oz to the point of traumatizing him, murders his brother Oscar and holds his own daughter Ada as a hostage to incentive Oscar to kill Oz with the implication being that something bad will befall her should Oscar not cooperate. Despite of how awful he is, he receives a mortal wound while protecting Ada from Noise.
• Shadow Archetype: To his brother Oscar. Both men lost their firstborn and wife under tragic circumstances. Whereas Oscar remained kind-hearted and filled the void of his loss by being a loving uncle and father figure to Oz, Ada and Gilbert, Xai lost himself to his grief and hatred towards Jack, cut himself off completely from his family and only gave them feelings of spitefulness.
• Sibling Murder: He shoots his brother Oscar dead after the latter helps Oz, Gilbert and Alice escape from the Baskervilles.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only has a few scenes in the manga, but the psychological damage he inflicted on Oz subtly dominates the emotional arc of the series. Not to mention that his inability to let go of his grudge against Jack (and thus Oz) set off the series' plot.
• Tragic Stillbirth: His first child was a stillborn that got Switched at Birth with Jack's body which got rejuvenated into an infant, but the one controlling the body by then was Jack's Chain, Oz. At some point, Xai found out the doctor in charge of the childbirth was Jack's pawn. Since then, Xai let himself be consumed by his hatred of Jack, blaming both him and Oz for the deaths of his child, wife and about everything else wrong with his life.
• Tragic Villain: The guy just really misses his wife and he let that consume him. There's no doubt that he's a prick, but it's easy to see how he got there, and even feel sorry for him.
• Ungrateful Bastard: While Jack truly is every bit the cruel, callous, malevolent, manipulative threat that Xai perceives, Xai would be dead twice over if Oz was. Oz's better nature is literally the only thing that stays Gilbert's hands when Gilbert points his gun at Xai, and Gilbert tells Xai this. It doesn't stop Xai from cursing Oz's existence even on his deathbed.
• Unwitting Pawn: Jack manipulated him first by making Xai helping him sound like a noble and heroic duty. Then when Xai inevitably found out about Jack's true nature, Jack deliberately left a trail leading to a relatively easy, false solution knowing that Xai wouldn't be able resist 'fixing' the problem and simultaneously getting revenge. Xai spent years setting up this solution and abusing Oz as a proxy for his revenge on Jack, only to use the solution and find out that all he'd done was reunite B-Rabbit with "its" powers and return a fragment of Jack's soul back to his body, thereby setting up the world for more Tragedy. Then, as a cherry on the top, Oz's lack of self-worth, which stemmed directly from the years of abuse suffered at Xai's hands, made it difficult for Oz to fight back against Jack's control.

Ada Vessalius

Ada Vessalius

Voiced by: Kaori Fukuhara

"What is really cruel is judging someone without even trying to understand them!"

Oz's little sister. As a child she usually tagged along with whatever mischief Oz is up to with Gilbert. Has a cat named Dinah and later Snowdrop.

• Anguished Declaration of Love: In Retrace XCVII, she tearfully proclaims her wish to help Vincent live out of love for him.
  Ada: If you want to disappear that badly, give your life to me! I'll show you all kinds of delight that you have yet to experience! I'll make you feel glad you were born! Forgive me, Vincent-sama. No matter how much you wish to eliminate yourself... I still want to see you!
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's not all that badass, but she is in no way a push over and is willing to stand up to anybody.
• Big Brother Worship: She adores her older brother Oz.
• Big Little Sister: Her older brother was thrown into the Abyss and escaped from it ten years into the future. This trope is slightly Played for Drama, because Oz only remembered her as an 8-year-old and Ada was nervous of meeting her big brother, now that she's technically older than him.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Gentle girl to Vincent's brooding boy. Retrace XCI revealed that she can see the sadness behind his smile and wants to make him smile for real.
• Calling the Old Man Out: She tried to give to her father an Indignant Slap for daring to call her uncle "an idiot" for protecting his family. When Xai tells her that Jack and Oz are dangerous and Oscar still protected the boy, Ada then told him that she was sure Oscar was smiling at his final moment. That argument did get Xai pissed.
• Childhood Friends: With Gilbert. The two of them stayed close even after Gilbert became a Nightray. They also got some Ship Tease but the ship was sunk when it turned out Ada was actually dating Vincent all along.
• Close-Call Haircut: She gets a great portion of her hair cut off when she's nearly decapitated by Demios.
• Cowardly Lion: She's very scared of Noise, but that won't stop her from speaking her mind at her.
• Damsel in Distress: In later chapters, Ada has been used as a hostage of sorts by her father against her uncle, so that he would kill Oz. And then she is kidnapped by Noise, who has grown insanely jealous over Vincent's relationship with her.
• Father, I Want to Marry My Brother: States in a drama CD that she wants to marry Oz and Gil at different points without knowing what it means.
• Forgiveness: Ada declares that no matter what Vincent did before, she forgives him. Vincent realizes he only wanted forgiveness for everything he has done or others have done.
• Hair Intakes: The two "cat ears" in her hair.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Aside from her obsession with the occult, the blonde Ada is a really sweet, cheerful and innocent young girl.
• Important Haircut: Not really a haircut, but a close one after Vincent tried to cut her head off and stopping himself after hearing her say she'll forgive him, cutting half her hair off.
• Innocently Insensitive: She excitedly talks about the occult with Vincent, wrongly assuming he has similar interests to her own because she heard from Gilbert that Vincent likes cutting dolls, which Ada associates with voodoo. Vincent snaps at Ada, yelling about how he has always hated anything related to the occult because of all the discrimination that caused for a Child of Ill Omen like him. Realizing she made Vincent upset, Ada nearly cries, but Vincent pulls himself together and hears Ada talk about her torture devices for hours.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: She's very fond of her pet cats and they're usually seen following her around Lutwidge Academy.
• Lonely Rich Kid: It's implied Ada has been quite lonely for the past ten years. Her father is cold and neglectful, her brother was thrown into the Abyss and her friend Gilbert was adopted by the Nightrays, sworn enemies of her family.
• Love Martyr: She slowly realizes Vincent is not the nice and charming guy he pretends to be and finds out about his past crimes such as his role in the Tragedy of Sablier, but she says no matter what happens, she wants to get to know his real self and will forgive everything he did. Her feelings manage to reach him, but they don't end up together because of his longer lifespan as a Baskerville.
• Mayfly–December Romance: She loves Vincent who is a Baskerville and has a longer lifespan than normal humans. This is why they don't end up together; Vincent really does come to love her back, but chooses to leave her life forever because he wants her to marry someone who can grow old with her.
• Nice Girl: Extremely kind, sweet and forgiving.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Her hobby is practicing the occult. She has torture devices and voodoo books that she messes around with in her basement.
• Ojou: She's the daughter of an elite family and acts like a well-mannered lady.
• Plucky Girl: She bravely faces a Chain, despite knowing she's helpless against it, for Vincent's sake. Her determination to reach out to him is what makes Vincent fall in love with her.
• Satellite Love Interest: Despite having implied deep relationships with other members of the cast, from the moment she's introduced as an adult she's never really given any purpose in the story other than to help give depth and character development to Vincent. While her reaction to something going on with people who are not Vincent will occasionally be shown, her other relationships aren't given much attention and always take a back seat to her drama with him.
• Second Love: Despite their love for each other, Vincent chooses to get out of Ada's life so she can find someone else. The epilogue shows Ada did eventually marry another man and had a good life with him, although she never forgot about Vincent.
• Secret Relationship: She's dating Vincent, but their relationship being made public would cause an scandal due to the bad blood between the Vessalius and Nightray families.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: She's very pure and naive because of her sheltered upbringing as a noble lady.
• Sole Survivor: She's the only Vessalius to survive after the events of the series.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: The Vessalius and Nightray are Feuding Families, yet she's dating Vincent Nightray. They don't get a happy ending together, but because Vincent knows his body won't age and leaves Ada so she can become happy with someone else.
• Uptown Girl: Played With. Ada was born in a noble family and she's in love with Vincent who was originally a Street Urchin who escaped from a freakshow before getting adopted by the noble houses of the Baskervilles and later, the Nightrays.
• White Sheep: She's the only Vessalius that doesn't have anything to do with Pandora and doesn't have any psychological issues whatsoever.

Oscar Vessalius

Oscar Vessalius

Voiced by: Hideyuki Umezu

"I really am always being protected by these children."

Oz and Ada's uncle. Like Oz, his name references The Wizard of Oz.

• Anger Born of Worry: The one time he got really angry with Oz, to the point of slapping him, was when Oz put himself in danger for the sake of Oscar's camera.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Oscar is large, well-built, barrel-chested, and likes to arm-wrestle while slumming it on the streets. He also is highly energetic, loud, and prone to ridiculous stunts for the sake of his loved ones' entertainment.
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Ada is his niece, but still thinks of her as one of his surrogate children. He trespassed in Lutwidge because he freaked out at Ada's letter saying she's in love with somebody. Subverted as it turns out to just be an excuse to have fun with Oz and friends.
• Cool Uncle: Oscar is an ultra-affectionate Boisterous Bruiser who loves Ada, Oz, and Gilbert like his own children and prioritizes their happiness above all else. He's not above acting ridiculous to achieve this, so most of his attempts to cheer the cast up involve hilarious and crazy antics.
• The Dandy: He amusingly attempts to invoke this at his visit to Lutwidge while trying to pull off a student uniform.
• A Death in the Limelight: The chapters leading up to his death elaborate on his relationship with Oz and how he deals with his emotional conflict.
• Determinator: He's stabbed in the shoulder by Jack, he's stabbed in the gut by Noise, but he still has enough in him to push Oz, Gil, and Alice through a secret passageway and block it behind them.
• Died Happily Ever After: His late wife greets him, holding their child that died along with her. He happily offers to finally take a picture of them as a family.
• Go Out with a Smile: He smiles as his own brother shoots him dead because he's happy that he died saving Oz, his surrogate son.
• Heroic Sacrifice: After being wounded by Noise, Oscar tosses the others (Oz, Gilbert, and Alice) into the secret passage and blocks it behind him. He's then finished off by Xai.
• I Regret Nothing: He affirms to Xai that he doesn't regret giving up his life to save Oz, Gilbert and Alice.
• Like a Son to Me: He openly calls Oz, Gilbert and Ada his beloved children. Turns out a part of him feels guilty about it when it comes to Oz, fearing that he's merely using Oz as a Replacement Goldfish for his stillborn child. In the end, though, his fatherly love for Oz proves to be genuine.
• The Mourning After: He lost his wife in childbirth and never remarried.
• Nice Guy: He's one of the kindest and well-adjusted characters in the setting, not that there's much competition.
• Parental Substitute: Since his brother Xai is an emotionally abusive Jerkass who won't give even a minute of his time to his children, Oscar took the role of a father for Oz and Ada in their childhoods. He also treated the orphaned Gilbert like his son until Gilbert got himself adopted by the Nightray household. It also gets deconstructed because Oscar is aware that he tries to be a father to Oz and others to fill in the void left by his own biological child being a stillborn. However, at the very end, Oscar realizes he does love Oz like a son for being Oz instead of a mere Replacement Goldfish.
• The Resenter: He both hated and loved Oz for surviving when his child had died. However, he never took it out on Oz and treated him with kindness and compassion to the moment he died.
• Together in Death: He reunites with his late wife and their child in the afterlife.
• Tragic Stillbirth: He bought a camera to take a picture of the birth of his child, but that never came to pass because his child was a stillborn and his wife died in childbirth. Afterwards, Oscar became Oz's Parental Substitute because he felt he would have broken down if he didn't look after his little nephew like his own child.
• Uptown Guy: He was this to his wife, Sara. She was from a commoner family and their marriage was frowned upon by the Vessalius family, but Oscar and Sara loved each other and were happy together.

Nightray Household

In General

• Big, Screwed-Up Family: By the present time, there are exactly zero mentally stable members of the Nightray family.
• Cassandra Truth: Raymond Nightray from 100 years ago had a feeling something bad would happen if they didn't keep the Barmas and Vessalius away from the Baskervilles. He was right.
• Feuding Families: With the Vessalius household thanks to what happened 100 years ago. They probably won't stay this way, though (see this trope in the Vessalius folder).
• Off with His Head!: The only Nightray by blood who doesn't leave this way is Elliot Nightray, who unknowingly contributed to the headcount.

Vincent Nightray

Vincent Nightray / Vincent Baskerville

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama, Fuyuka Ōura (as a child)

"I have always lived so that nothing of me would remain."

The younger brother of Gilbert Nightray. Debatably the most screwed up character in the series. His Chains are Dormouse, which induces sleep, and Demios, aka the original Headhunter.

• Adopted into Royalty: Vincent lived a good part of his childhood on the streets after he and Gilbert were abandoned by their mother. One day, they were found by Jack Vessalius and the Baskervilles adopted them because Gilbert was chosen as Glen Baskerville's successor.
• All of the Other Reindeer: He was made fun of by everyone due to his red eye.
• Ambiguously Bi: He is undoubtedly attracted to women, and though he has malicious intent when he starts dating Ada, he later falls in love with her for real. However, his behavior around Gilbert and Jack occasionally suggests attraction to the same sex. It should also be noted that in a drama CD, Break implies that he dates (and/or sleeps with) men, though this may just be to get a rise out of Gilbert.
• Anti-Villain: He's sided with the Baskervilles (who are actually on the side of good), to prevent the Tragedy from happening, to erase himself from existence and to make Gil happier.
• The Atoner: In a way, for causing the Tragedy of Sabliér.
• Bad Boss: He treats his servant Echo very poorly. For example, he poisoned her just to give Break a demonstration that the poison he gave to Sharon and the antidote are real.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: He gouged poor Cheshire's eyes out, which killed him, with scissors just to spite the Intention of the Abyss.
• Battle Butler: After Leo becomes the new head of the Baskervilles, Vincent appoints himself as his manservant and supports him in battle.
• Big Brother Worship: There is no person in the world that Vincent adores more than his older brother Gilbert.
• Break Her Heart to Save Her: Before following Oz to the depths of the Abyss, Vincent decides it's too dangerous for Ada to come with them and asks Lottie to send her back to the present through Equus. When Ada tries to protest that she'd be fine, Vincent embraces her and tells Ada that he doesn't like her and that she's always been an eyesore that he wanted to disappear. Vincent's cold statement stuns Ada long enough to allow him to push her back into Equus' portal. In the epilogue, he has Gil tell her he died so she can move on and find someone else.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Brooding boy to Ada's gentle girl. She's the only "normal" girl in his life and the only one that has ever shown him true kindness. He eventually winds up falling for her for real.
• The Chessmaster: In the first half of the series, Vincent orchestrates schemes and secretly cooperates with the Baskervilles to prevent Oz and his friends get closer to the truth of the Tragedy of Sablier.
• Chick Magnet: At the beginning of the Second Coming of Age Ceremony, women fawn over him and Gil. Apparently, he's slept with many noblewomen as well...
• Child Prodigy: He's more skilled with his gun than his brother at the age of thirteen. Gilbert once mentioned this in an omake, unable to choose between ardent admiration for or jealousy over this.
• Corrupt the Cutie: He becomes Ada's boyfriend in order to "taint her" as well as make her a pawn. He fails because Ada is nothing like he had expected a noble lady to be and he ends up falling for her instead.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: When he was a kid, one of the reasons why he hated Alice so much was because she and Jack appeared to be so close.
• Creepy Child: Even before the Tragedy of Sablier, he gouged out a cat's eyes in revenge and was fond of cutting up dolls.
• Cursed with Awesome: Vincent always hated his red right eye because red-eyed Children of Ill Omen are said to attract misfortune and this caused Vincent and his brother Gilbert to be abandoned and treated cruelly in the past. Near the end of the manga, it's revealed that the real reason why the Jury calls Children of Ill Omen a threat to the world is because they're the only ones with the power to Screw Destiny thanks to their direct link to the Core of the Abyss. In the final chapter, Leo decides Vincent should use the power of his red eye to act as a mediator between the Baskervilles and the Core.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Because Vincent was a Child of Ill Omen, Vincent's mother sold both him and Gilbert to a freak show where they were beaten often by their masters and forced to live out their lives in a cage. Vincent developed an unyielding sense of guilt as he felt that Gilbert didn't deserve such hardships, always questioning why their mother would sell Gilbert to the freak show too. After escaping from there, Gilbert and Vincent lived on the streets where people would attack them whenever Vincent's eye was revealed. This continued until they were found by Jack Vessalius and selected as Baskervilles.
• Death Seeker: His motive for everything he does is to get the Intention of the Abyss to make it so he never existed. In the final chapters, Gilbert and Ada manage to persuade Vincent to live because despite everything he has done, his existence is precious to them.
• Declaration of Protection: He swears to protect Leo as his master in exchange of Leo helping him erase his existence.
• Despair Event Horizon: Had one as a child that he recovered (somewhat) from, but fell back into it again in Retrace LXXXVII.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: In the final chapter, he dies in Gilbert's arms.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He murders and tortures people for his own goals, but even Vincent thought Elliot's father deserved to die for using children for experiments with Chains and taking advantage of Elliot becoming an illegal contractor against his will, all in the name of restoring the pride of the Nightray household.
• Faking Amnesia: To keep Gil from remembering anything through asking him, he pretends he has amnesia like his brother.
• Faux Affably Evil: Notable examples include that time he blackmailed Break by poisoning Sharon, and later on when he tortured one of Yura's cultists for information, all with a gentle smile on his face.
• Freakiness Shame: He hates his red eye because of all the pain it has caused for him and his brother. He only became comfortable about it after Jack Vessalius claimed to love it.
• Freudian Excuse: He spent his childhood being abused and ridiculed because of his red eye. It might not justify it, but it gives an explanation for the cruel, sadistic and manipulative Yandere he is now.
• Go Out with a Smile: He dies with a smile on his face, happy that he was born and by his brother's side.
• He-Man Woman Hater: He views noblewomen as foolish and shallow Gold Diggers who will easily give in to his seduction just to get closer to the Nightray Household. His past experiences with his mother, who sold him to a freak show, and Miranda Barma, who tricked him into helping cause the Tragedy of Sablier, probably have something to do with his disdain towards women.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Vincent condemns his own existence because he's convinced that without him, Gilbert's life would have been happier and the Tragedy of Sablier would have never happened. For the past years since the tragedy, Vincent has done everything he can to ruin himself and committed unforgivable crimes so that the only option he had left was to erase himself all together. At the end of the series, thanks to Gilbert and Ada forgiving him, Vincent finally accepts that it's alright for him to live.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: The Dormouse is not his only Chain.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: He hates being a Child of Ill Omen because of all the troubles it caused for him and Gilbert.
• I Lied: He blackmails Break into destroying Cheshire's bell in exchange of an antidote for a poisoned Sharon. When Break destroys the bell, Vincent throws the antidote off a balcony. Luckily, Echo catches the antidote and gives it to Break.
• I Owe You My Life: He idolized Jack Vessalius as his and Gilbert's savior ever since Jack took him and Gilbert out of the streets and arranged them to be adopted by the Baskervilles. Even after he discovers the Manipulative Bastard Jack really is, Vincent still is grateful to him because he and Gilbert probably wouldn't have survived without him.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In the epilogue, it's revealed Vincent asked Gil to tell Ada he died because his unaging body will eventually leave her behind. He wants her to move on, find someone else and be happy. Ada does exactly that and Vincent really seems glad for her.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Although he's actually the little brother, Vincent tries to get rid of anybody who poses even a minor threat to his big brother Gilbert. Murder and torture are two methods that are not below him.
• Ladykiller in Love: It's implied Vincent slept around with noblewomen to turn them into tools of manipulation. He starts dating Ada completely expecting her to be as vain and easy to fool as all the women he seduced before, but is caught off guard by her truly innocent and gentle personality. Towards the end of the manga, Ada's kindness and devotion to him cause Vincent to fall in love with her, but he has to let her go because she will grow old while he won't.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He's very attractive and has long hair that goes past his shoulders.
• Manipulative Bastard: In general. He selfishly uses other people and exploits their weaknesses in order to easily get what he wants. An uncommon example that isn't mentioned very much in-series is how he says he's perfectly willing to sleep with noblewomen to convince them to tell him information about their families.
• Mark of the Supernatural: One of his mismatched eyes is red as the other one is gold. Red eyed people have an unusually strong connection with the Core of the Abyss.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Despite developing genuine feelings for Ada, they don't end up together since he can't grow old with her due to being a Baskerville and chooses to get out of her life so she can marry someone else.
• More Experienced Chases the Innocent: Vincent states he has bedded the noblewomen who approached him for his status as an adoptive son of the Nightray household. When he meets the pure and naive Ada Vessalius, he feels an intense desire to defile her and starts dating her, seeking to use her to get closer to the Vessalius household and potentially threaten Oz and Gilbert. What Vincent didn't expect was that Ada's kind heart and genuine love for him would cause him to really fall in love with her.
• Never My Fault: He refuses to accept what happened in the Tradegy of Sablier after he opened the Door to the Abyss is his fault, because he did it all for Gil and Miranda Barma manipulated him into it. Subverted eventually, when he breaks down in the face of his guilt over all he's done and he reveals that he did a lot of it because his ultimate goal has always been to erase himself and his deeds from existence, not only so Gil could be happy but also so the Tragedy of Sablier would never have had cause to happen. The time spent in between he was probably more of The Unfettered because he thought all his actions would eventually be undone.
• An Odd Place to Sleep: Because of Dormouse's power affecting him, Vincent is often found sleeping on the floor and other inappropriate places.
• Only Friend: To Noise. He was the only one to not be scared of her because of her Split Personality and he became her friend because that way they could be normal in each other's eyes.
• Parental Abandonment: His mother sold him and Gilbert to a freak show.
• Peaceful in Death: At the moment of his death in the final chapter, Vincent rests on his brother's arms and says he's "glad to have been here" with his brother as he finally made peace with himself and accepted that he had the right to live after he spent almost the entire series wanting to delete his own existence.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Vincent acts as a major antagonist for almost the entire series and he's an embittered misogynist who wants to assert control over "stupid" women by seducing them and turning them into his "toys".
• Psychopathic Manchild: Falls asleep in random inappropriate places, his room is a pigsty, and he makes a habit of cutting up dolls, curtains, cats and people. He is also prone to taking his anger out on innocent bystanders and claim it's not his fault.
• Really Gets Around: He says he has "shared the beds" of several high-class women.
• Red Right Hand: His red eye is proof that he's a Child of Ill Omen and he's certainly dangerous.
• Reduced to Dust: In the final chapter, his body reaches its limit and gets reduced to ashes in his brother's arms.
• Revenge by Proxy: He got back at the Intention of the Abyss for mocking his red eye by killing her pet cat Cheshire. Also counts as Disproportionate Retribution.
• Romantic Fake–Real Turn: His fake-love towards Ada becomes real as the series goes on.
• Sadist: The guy sure enjoys inflicting psychological and physical torture on others, friend or foe.
• Secret-Keeper: He's the only one that Ada have told she's a Nightmare Fetishist as a sign of trust. Vincent finds this side of her really creepy.
• Secret Relationship: Since the Vessalius and Nightray houses are Feuding Families, he must be discreet about his relationship with Ada or it would be dishonorable to their family names.
• Shear Menace: He has a peculiar affinity for using scissors to cut up plushies, animals and people.
• Sleepyhead: Dormouse makes him sleepy, leading him to fall asleep in inappropriate places.
• Smart People Play Chess: Besides being shown to be good at chess, Vincent is one of the most calculating and manipulative characters in the cast.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Jun Fukuyama gave Vincent a soothing and boyish voice. Vincent also takes any chance he gets to act needlessly sadistic.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Vincent was adopted by the Nightray house and is dating Ada, the daughter of the Vessalius house that are sworn enemies of the Nightray. They don't get a happy end together, but for entirely different reasons.
• Stepford Smiler: He's a mentally unstable type. His gentle smiles conceal an unhinged and merciless nature. He also fits the other two types once his motivation is revealed. Ada is probably the only one who can see through his fake smiles and realize the deeply tortured man he is within.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He looks nearly identical to his older brother Gilbert, but with blond, longer hair.
• Suicide for Others' Happiness: This is his goal for most of the series. Vincent wants to use the power of the Intention of the Abyss to change the past and make it so he was never born. That way, he believes Gilbert can have a happier life and the Tragedy of Sablier will be erased from history. However, Gilbert calls Vincent out on this, pointing out that he's trying to kill himself so someone who just looks like his brother can be happy.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Children of Ill Omen born as siblings of a future Glen seem to be especially powerful.
• Torture Technician: If the man he tortured for information in Yura's mansion is any indication.
• Trash of the Titans: His room is a disaster and according to Echo, the maids say Vincent's room is "prohibited land".
• Trauma Button: Seeing a reenactment of the Tragedy of Sablier at Isla Yura's ball causes Vincent to go through a momentary nervous breakdown as he's reminded of all the death that happened because he opened the Door to the Abyss. When Ada tries to comfort him, Vincent sees her as Miranda Barma, the woman who manipulated him into opening the Doors to the Abyss, and pushes her away.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: His habit of cutting up dolls with a pair of scissors, which still happens in his adulthood.
• Tsundere: Ada's sweet personality and devoted love for him throw Vincent for a loop because his deep-rooted misogyny makes it very hard for him to believe a woman can truly be such a good person. He thinks of Ada as an "annoying woman" and is enraged when Echo implies that he cares about Ada's safety.
• Undying Loyalty: For all his faults, Vincent genuinely values and practices unquestionable loyalty. He would bend over backwards for the sake of his brother Gilbert and later, his master Leo. In Gilbert's case, it's mostly toxic because Vincent always does what he thinks is good for Gilbert without asking his brother first. His loyalty to Leo is healthier.
• The Unfettered: Hovers between Type I and Type V. Since his goal is to be erased from existence, he tortures and hurts whoever he pleases since once he's erased from time none of it will have happened. Of course, this still begs the question how many of his actions were genuine and how many of them were committed because he thought they wouldn't count for anything.
• Unwitting Pawn: Jack used the Intention of the Abyss to trick Vincent by having her tell him that Glen Baskerville was going to kill Gilbert and possess his body. While it's true that Gilbert was meant to become the next Glen, hosting the previous Glens wouldn't overwrite his personality. However, Vincent didn't know that and Miranda Barma, who was Jack's accomplice, instructed Vincent to use the power of his red eye and open the Door to the Abyss in order to save Gilbert from Glen. The true purpose of this was so that Oz the B-Rabbit could get out of the Abyss and form a contract with Jack, who proceeded to use Oz's power to sink Sablier into the Abyss.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Flashbacks reveal that while he and Gilbert were homeless, Vincent was a nervous, innocent young boy who was endlessly grateful to his older brother for defending him from the abuse they received while living on the streets. Nobody knows quite when things went bad, but it seems that after being taken in by the Baskervilles and Jack, Vincent gained two extreme triggers: threatening Gilbert and making fun of his red eye. The first sign Vincent showed that something was incredibly wrong with him was when the Intention of the Abyss triggered both of these, and in response, he stabbed out her cat's eyes. Keep in mind he was likely around eight years old at that point. Things...proceed to go downhill from there. By the time he's an adult, he's willing to murder his family if they so much as say something to Gilbert he doesn't like.
• Yandere: For his older brother, Gilbert. He has killed people simply because they might prove to be a threat to Gilbert in the future.

Echo

Echo Baskerville

Voiced by: Ryō Hirohashi

"No matter what kind of treatment, even if Echo is to be tortured, to be mistreated, to be humiliated, Echo doesn't have the right to fight against it."

The servant of Vincent. Echo is usually stoic, silent and completely obedient towards her Master despite not being really fond of him. She becomes friends with Oz. Later on, she's revealed to be a split personality created by Noise's Chain Duldee in order to prevent the strain the chain put on the latter's mind from making her go insane (By dividing it between the two personalities). Her actual name is Duldum, derived from Alice in Wonderland's Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

• Battle Butler: Although she doesn't do chores for him, she's Vincent's personal attendant and bodyguard of sorts.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: She has one against Duldee near the end of the series in order to protect Noise's consciousness from being completely controlled by Duldee before Noise's body perishes.
• Beleaguered Assistant: To Vincent. She admits to Oz it's pretty damn annoying to always have to put up with her master's antics and clean up his mess.
• Broken Bird: Having someone like Vincent as a master and someone like Noise to share a body with would definitely cause some damage to the emotional well-being of anyone.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She immediately takes a strong dislike to Alice because of how close she's to Oz.
• The Comically Serious: She keeps the same deadpan look on her face during comedic situations.
• Declaration of Protection: When Duldee is about to fully take control over Noise body to kill Vincent, Echo proclaims she won't let Duldee make Noise suffer anymore and from now on, she will protect Noise in the way she deems right instead of how Duldee tells her to.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She eventually warms up and becomes more emotional and caring as Oz gets her to open up.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Echo's body disintegrates in Oz's arms.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: She whacks Oz repeatedly with her stuffed bear doll in the dream world sequence. It's an ambiguous example because it takes place in a realm of unclear reality, in which the scene is either a different world or simply Oz's dream, and unlike nearly all of the other female leads, it is the only time in the series that Echo acts like this to someone she cares for.
• Emotionless Girl: Although she took on some of Noise's original personality, she is still a very different person, and remains, for the most part, emotionless until she begins to see herself as a person.
• Empty Eyes: Her eyes lack shine, appearing empty and almost soulless.
• Expendable Clone: Echo's true nature is the latest Duldum, an artificial personality based on Noise's original self that Duldee created in order to protect Noise's deteriorating sanity. Echo doesn't know how many Duldums occupied Noise's body before her, but none of them appeared to have lasted long and were replaced each time.
• Extreme Doormat: She's completely obedient towards her Master, and even regards herself as nothing but a tool for Vincent.
  Echo: "Echo is nothing else except Echo. No matter what kind of treatment, even if Echo is to be tortured, to be mistreated, to be humiliated, Echo doesn't have the right to fight against it."
• Go Out with a Smile: She dies smiling at Oz.
• Grew a Spine: Over the course of the series, Echo slowly grows out of her Extreme Doormat mindset and starts making her own choices, reaching the point where she actively defies the orders from Vincent and Duldee.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: Echo's original purpose as Duldum is to act as a standby consciousness while Noise's mind rests in order to slow down the process of Noise losing her sanity because of Duldee as much as possible. Echo was only supposed to follow the orders of Vincent and Duldee, but her interactions with Oz caused her to develop her own will. Towards the end of the series, Echo finally stands up to Duldee because she finds it wrong to let Duldee take full control over Noise's body. Duldee even points out Echo now acts like a human would.
• Guardian Entity: Although she forgot her mission after she began to develop a personality of her own, Echo eventually remembers that it's her duty to protect Noise's heart from the influence of Duldee. Once she remembers she helps Noise restore her true memories and feelings.
• Hates Being Nicknamed: Whenever Oz calls her "Echo-chan," she immediately tells him to only call her Echo. She's happy when Oz finally says her name properly as Echo is vanishing in his arms.
• Helpless Good Side: Echo is the other personality of the Ax-Crazy Noise. Whenever Noise takes control over the body, Echo can do nothing but suffer because of Noise hurting people and then taunting Echo about it. Echo is particularly tormented by this when Noise stabs Oz's uncle and sister. It's until near the end of the manga that Echo decides she had enough of letting Noise hurt people and fights against Duldee to free Noise from her influence before Noise kills Vincent.
• Implied Love Interest: She and Oz have some well-timed moments throughout the story. Echo's crush is made pretty obvious in the bonus materials, but Oz's feelings for her (as always) are more ambiguous. However, it's worth noting that Oz had stopped flirting with every girl but her by the end of the series. According to Word of God, out of Oz's potential love interests, Echo was the one with the most chances of dating with him if they hadn't died.
• Intimate Healing: He gives Echo the antidote of a poison he tested on her through his mouth via a kiss.
• Meaningful Name: Echo is, well, an echo. You know, she doesn't have a high regard of herself.
• Modesty Shorts: She wears a pair of shorts under her mini-dress.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Echo will obey her master Vincent, no matter how badly he treats her or how much she hates to do his dirty work for him. She will still do what she can to stop unnecessary cruelty from her master, such as the time she caught the antidote for Sharon while Vincent didn't intend to keep his word to Break.
• Mystical White Hair: Her short white hair indicates there's something unusual about her. Turns out she's an artificial personality inhabiting the body of a Baskerville.
• Nothing Up My Sleeve: Echo fights with blades that come out of her long sleeves.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: "Echo" is how Noise decided to call her, as Noise viewed her split personality as a reverberation of her original self. Echo's real name is Duldum.
• People Puppets: Duldum's specialty. When the victim doesn't struggle against Duldum's strings, she can't control the mind.
• The Quiet One: She doesn't talk much.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Echo is the Blue Oni to Noise's Red Oni. Echo is quiet, submissive and stoic, while Noise is loud, outspoken and bloodthirsty. This is reflected by their clothes; Echo wears a blue dress and Noise wears a blood-red cape.
• Reduced to Dust: In Retrace XCVIII, her body begins to shatter and finally gets reduced to ashes in Oz's arms.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: Echo is a young pale-skinned girl with short silver hair. Her behavior is generally emotionless, quiet and mysterious. She serves as the obedient servant of the Yandere family member of one of the main characters. She's also revealed to be an artificial personality created by a Chain that considers her disposable at any time. She initially lacks free will and self-regard due to considering herself less than human until she bonds with the protagonist and her feelings for him cause her to develop emotions and motivate her to make her own decisions.
• Split Personality: Echo is a split personality artificially created by the Chain Duldee to protect the deteriorating sanity of her contractor Noise.
• The Stoic: The expression on her face rarely changes.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She may appear incapable of feeling any emotions with her cold and silent exterior, but she does show a sense of care time and time again for those who are close to her and develops a notable soft spot for Oz.
• Third-Person Person: She always refers to herself in third person.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: She started out as Vincent's impassive Extreme Doormat servant. Then, meeting Oz gave her the courage to defy her master and vent about how annoying he is at different intervals, and as more time passed, she eventually developed a Sugar-and-Ice Personality and generally started emoting more often.
• Tsundere: Her strong feelings for Oz cause her to turn a bit irritable around him, mostly to hide her embarrassment.
• Your Days Are Numbered: All the Duldum personalities inside Noise's body faded away within short time. Echo is apparently the one that lasted the longest, but she still knows her time is running out.

Elliot Nightray

Elliot Nightray

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima

"Someone who cares so little for their own life has no right to protect anyone!"

The youngest child of the Nightray household. Thanks to the influence of his family, he hates the Vessalius household with a passion for painting them as responsible for the Tragedy of Sabliér. However, he and Oz have overcome this boundary and are aiming to repair the broken relationship between the households. He was later revealed to be the unknowing core Contractor of Humpty Dumpty.

• Adaptation Dye-Job: The manga colorings are not very consistent about his hair color, but he's always depicted with a shade of blond. The anime, on the other hand, makes his hair beige-colored.
• Affectionate Nickname: His siblings call him "Elly."
• Anime Hair: Not to the silly extent of the usual, but it's still there. A few manga recaps lampshade this.
• Badass Bookworm: Elliot's introduction has him complaining at length about the actions of one of Oz's favorite characters in a book. He also runs toward a Chain with just a sword to save his friend without a moment's hesitation.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He chose Leo as his valet because he was the first one to treat Elliot as a regular person instead of the heir of the Nightray household.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Elliot gets stuck in the no-win situation of either rejecting Humpt Dumpty himself and dying or waiting until Oz finishes killing Humpty Dumpty and dying. Elliot chooses the former for two reasons: 1). He didn't want to burden Oz with the knowledge that he'd killed Elliot when he eventually found out who Humpty Dumpty's contractor was, and more importantly, 2). Even if it meant dying, he wanted to go out with his real memories, as himself and on his own terms.
• Black Swords Are Better: His Royal Rapier has a black handle and black blade.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: He has killed more than half his family under the influence of Humpty Dumpty, who, by instinct, protects the current vessel of Glen Baskerville's soul, Leo.
• Break the Cutie: The Yura arc wasn't very kind to him.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: In the Caucus Race side novels, Elliot is completely oblivious towards the massive amount of female attention he receives until he finds out about his fan club, which is essentially an Unwanted Harem.
• Cute Little Fangs: When he shows off his teeth, his fangs stand out as quite sharp. This is to emphasize his hot temper.
• A Death in the Limelight: He dies in the same arc that explores his backstory with Leo and has his family at the center of the conflict.
• Defeat Means Respect: Break beat Elliot to a pulp once, resulting in Elliot developing a Hero Worship-level respect for the guy.
• The Defroster: Leo isolated himself from everyone at the orphanage and spent all his time reading alone at the library. That was until Elliot got curious about Leo because the latter's rude behavior made Elliot feel both annoyed and pleased that there was someone who could treat him as an equal instead of a noble. The two guys slowly became good friends and Elliot asked Leo to become his valet, which he accepted with a smile.
• Dying as Yourself: Instead of letting Humpty Dumpty continue brainwashing him, Elliot chooses to reject his own Chain, fully knowing doing so means the death of both the Chain and the contractor, because he wants to die with the memories of his crimes.
• Dying Smirk: Just as he remembers how much he hates those who sacrifice themselves, Elliot grins at the irony that he ended up choosing to die in a Heroic Sacrifice to save everyone from his own Chain. As he says the words that seal his fate, Elliot rejects Humpty Dumpty with a smile on his face and dies.
• Elegant Classical Musician: A very handsome nobleman and a skilled pianist and composer.
• Even the Guys Want Him: According to the guidebook 18.5: Evidence, a lot of boys outside his class admired him, but it's not very obvious.
• First Friend: He was the first person to approach Leo, getting him out of his isolated state by starting constant arguments with him.
• Friend to All Children: The orphans of the House of Fianna adore him, even though Elliot doesn't know why himself.
• Friendship Denial: He absolutely refuses to admit that he and Oz are already friends because he thinks that a Vessalius and a Nightray have to hate each other.
• Gaslighting: He unintentionally does this to Leo. The way Elliot and Leo remember certain events and details doesn't match. Not knowing he's an illegal contractor, Elliot is convinced there is something wrong with Leo and not him. Since Leo was treated as a weirdo his whole life, he accepted he was going crazy. That is until it's revealed Humpty Dumpty was altering Elliot's memories for quite some time to make him forget he killed his own siblings.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Nobody's sure whether his hair is supposed to be blond or a really light brown.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He's a blond and while he doesn't know how to be polite, Elliot is a recognized as a noble-minded young man.
• Help Mistaken for Attack: Humpty Dumpty stabbed Elliot through the chest when it saw Elliot approaching Leo while carrying a sword. Elliot was actually trying to protect Leo from Humpty Dumpty, not knowing that the Chain would never hurt the current incarnation of Glen Baskerville.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Twice. The first was to save Leo from Humpty Dumpty, not knowing it was actually there to protect him in the first place, and Elliot gets stabbed in the chest for his efforts, and would have died if not for the illegal contract established. The second time, he rejected Humpty Dumpty despite his incuse having reached the point where that would fatal for him. The latter kills him off for real.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Elliot never goes anywhere without Leo. While Leo is nominally his servant, they regard each other as friends and equals.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: A platonic example. Leo was the first commoner to talk back to him and even insult him. This annoyed Elliot, but made him become curious about Leo. The more he interacted with Leo, Elliot realized that he enjoyed being with someone who treats him as an equal, leading to Elliot choosing Leo as his valet.
• Impaled Palm: Stabs his hand with his sword to keep himself from giving into Humpty Dumpty's influence.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Humpty Dumpty's tongue pierced Elliot right through the chest due to the Chain mistaking Elliot for a threat to Leo, the current Glen Baskerville.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Elliot's colored illustrations notably differ when it comes to his hair color. Sometimes it's a regular blond, others dirty blond, and others silver.
• Interclass Friendship: Elliot became best friends with Leo, a commoner he met at an orphanage, because he always wanted a friend who doesn't give a damn about his noble status. The Nightray family highly disapproved of Elliot choosing a commoner as his valet.
• Ironic Echo: Lampshaded in Retrace LIX. In Retrace XXV, he'd scoffed at the concept of a Heroic Sacrifice and ended up committing one himself.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Elliot is one big grumpy pants and needs Leo to remember how to treat people decently, but Elliot is a great guy who can be a very good friend and Oz knows it.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Much to his chagrin, the rest of the Nightray household prefers dogs to cats. When he thinks no one is looking, he pets Ada's cats.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Due to his contract with Humpty Dumpty. The memories Humpty Dumpty removes or changes around are usually those more painful for him.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Elliot's friendship allowed Leo to open up and feel more at ease with himself despite his "weirdness". When Elliot dies, Leo is absolutely devastated, suffering a breakdown and making a Face–Heel Turn.
• Living on Borrowed Time: Humpty Dumpty stabbed Elliot through chest way before he first met Oz. Not wanting Elliot to die, Leo forced him to become Humpty Dumpty's illegal contractor to seal Elliot's mortal wounds. When Elliot's true memories return, his injuries open up again.
• Matricide: Under Humpty Dumpty's influence, Elliot kills his own mother to stop her from making Leo into a Human Sacrifice to the Abyss.
• Morality Pet: Vincent admits that Elliot is the only Nightray he likes because Elliot treated him and Gilbert nicely. This is the first time Vincent openly expresses fondness for someone who isn't Gilbert.
• My Name Is Inigo Montoya: When throwing off the influence of Humpty Dumpty.
  Elliot: My memories. My mistakes. All my suffering. The past. The future. I have no intention of giving any of them up to you! I am Elliot Nightray! And I will not let you take that away from me!"
• No Hero to His Valet: Elliot is the successor of an influential noble family. When his family wanted him to pick a valet, Elliot hated the idea of having a bootlicker for a servant. Then he met Leo who doesn't give a damn about nobility and openly makes fun of Elliot. It didn't take Elliot long to choose Leo as his valet.
• Plagued by Nightmares: He suffers from recurring nightmares of him standing in a burning building surrounded by corpses of people he murdered.
• Protectorate: Leo has a strong desire to protect him, no matter the cost. Leo casually says he would kill anyone, including Oz and himself to protect Elliot. Elliot's death causes a massive emotional breakdown for Leo.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Oz about his Martyr Without a Cause complex.
  Elliot: "All your 'self sacrifice' only pleases yourself! Have you ever saved anyone that way? All you want is protect yourself!"
• Red Herring: We're initially lead to believe Elliot is Glen Baskerville's vessel. The truth is that Leo is the real vessel.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Leo's Blue Oni. Elliot is very easily annoyed and rough, which allows Leo to be calm around him and keep Elliot's attitude in check.
• Royal Rapier: He has a black-bladed rapier which is a symbol of his status as the heir of the Nightray family. It's also the Nightray's key to open their Door to the Abyss.
• Sacrificial Lion: He's the first prominent character to die, which is what really establishes the Anyone Can Die norm of the series from that point on.
• Self-Harm: He uses his sword to stab his own hand, letting the pain prevent Humpty Dumpty from erasing his memories again.
• Sibling Murder: Unknowingly to even himself, Elliot is the murderer of all his siblings except for the one Vincent killed. Turns out Elliot's Chain Humpty Dumpty has the uncontrollable impulse to kill the enemies of the possessor of Glen Baskerville's soul. When Elliot overheard his siblings threatening to kill Leo, Humpty Dumpty made Elliot kill them.
• Sorry That I'm Dying: His final words that he leaves behind with Vincent are "I'm sorry, Leo."
• Stealing the Credit: Because of Humpty Dumpty messing with his memories, Elliot claims to be the composer of the song "Lacie" when Leo was the one who wrote it for him. This is probably so people won't realize that Leo is the reincarnation of Glen Baskerville, the original writer of the song.
• Take a Third Option: When he discovers he's the core of Humpty Dumpty, Elliot is presented with two options: let Vincent kill him or wait until Oz inadvertently kills him through the Humpty Dumpty copies. Elliot turns down both options and chooses to reject Humpty Dumpty, resulting in both him and the Chain dying.
• Taking You with Me: He destroys Humpty Dumpty by rejecting his contract with it, which results in his own death.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Turns out to be the culprit for the deaths of more than half his family, though he doesn't know this thanks to the influence of Humpty Dumpty, with whom he has an illegal contract. Still not the Head Hunter, though. That's Vincent.
• Tsundere: A male Harsh type towards Oz. As obvious as it is that Elliot likes Oz as a person, he won't ever accept being friends with a Vessalius (as they are the sworn enemies of his family), and Oz's Martyr Without a Cause tendencies seriously piss him off.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Leo both have very strong opinions, and often these opinions conflict with each other—so it's no surprise they argue frequently. However, in the end they admire and respect each other, and there's no doubt they are Best Friends.
• White Sheep: Elliot is the only noble-minded and good-hearted member of the Nightray household. His father conducts experiments with Chains on innocent orphans, his mother is a member of an evil cult, and his brothers plotted to have Gilbert, Vincent and Leo killed.
• Will Not Tell a Lie: People trust Elliot because he is generally a very honest and straightforward person. Of course, nobody accounted for a situation where Elliot thinks he's telling the truth, but actually isn't.

Leo

Leo Baskerville

Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe

"I'm not trying to hide anything. It's just that I don't want to see."

Elliot's valet. He may not take his master's side all the time, but the two are still good friends. He is later revealed to be the current vessel for the soul of Glen Baskerville, and has recently made a contract with Jabberwock.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: It has been noted that all the children in his village avoided him when he was young and when his mother died, nobody said a thing about him being taken away by authorities.
• An Arm and a Leg: Break cuts off Leo's left forearm when Oswald is in control of the body. Leo complains about this to Oz because it'll be hard for him to play the piano with only one arm.
• Badass Bookworm: Though, the Badass part seems to be limited to his Accidental Aiming Skills. He also survives having a bookshelf (a mini one, but still) thrown at him once. Then, there's the realization of being the current Glen Baskerville and his recent contract with Jabberwock...
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Helps that it's his default outfit. Especially so after he becomes a Baskerville.
• Best Friend: While Leo is Elliot's servant in name, Elliot's true intention to hire him was to have Leo be his closest friend because Leo is the only one who treats him as only Elliot instead of Elliot Nightray. Leo returns the sentiment.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: His nerdy appearance and tranquil demeanor give the impression that Leo is meek. That is until Leo lashes out on Elliot in Retrace L, surprising even Oz and Gilbert. It was mentioned in the same chapter that he is actually a hot-head himself; it's just that Elliot tends to lose his temper before Leo even gets the chance to. Even Vincent, of all people, lampshades this in Retrace 63.
  Vincent: "Despite his mild-mannered appearance, he can be pretty brutal..."
• Bookworm: He's noteworthy for explicitly stating his fondness for books.
• Broken Bird: He saw himself as a freak because of the effects of having Glen Baskerville's soul, resulting in Leo staying isolated and bitter until Elliot decided to befriend him. Then Elliot dies and Leo believes it's his fault, leaving him more emotionally broken than before.
• Commonality Connection: He and Vincent reach an understanding because both believe their loved ones would have gotten happier lives if neither of them existed.
• Covert Pervert: His interest in books reaches rather devious territories, if one of the recaps and the Retrace 42.5 Drama CD omake are to be believed.
• Creepy Child: Doesn't seem to have any qualms against causing another tragedy if it meant killing the Intention of the Abyss, for one. There are also his statements about "a game of tag" with Oz.
• Curtains Match the Window: Black eyes to match black hair. Specks of golden light in his eyes aside.
• Death Seeker: After Elliot dies, Leo pretends to accept his role as Glen Baskerville only to goad Oz into killing him. Thankfully, Oz refuses to do so.
• Defrosting Ice King: It was through Elliot that Leo learned how to handle children, thus appreciating the orphans as his siblings. He was also able to learn to open up to anyone in the first place through Elliot.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Tried to kill someone for trying to cut his hair, and had to be restrained by Elliot. It's implied this isn't the first time something like this happened.
• Dissonant Serenity: He mentions, with a calm smile, that he would kill anybody that could prove harmful to Elliot, including Oz or himself.
• Doom Magnet: Due to possessing Glen Baskerville's soul, Leo naturally attracts Chains to himself. This caused the death of his parents and later, his best friend Elliot. Poor Leo feels his existence only makes those he gets close to suffer.
• Elegant Classical Musician: He has a great love for music and taught himself to play the piano. This is one of the things that allowed him to bond with Elliot.
• Exotic Eye Designs: His eyes are drawn with three circles parallel to the iris.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: After he becomes the new Glen Baskerville, Leo changes his Messy Hair for a tidier hairstyle and cuts his bangs to expose his eyes, as a symbol that he isn't running away from who he is anymore.
• Face–Heel Turn: As of siding with the Baskervilles. Except the Baskervilles were never really evil in the first place.
• Failure-to-Save Murder: Even Oswald blamed him for having let Humpty Dumpty stab and make an illegal contract with Elliot, which was something poor Leo wouldn't have expected, anyway.
• Freak Out: His reaction to Elliot's death had a lot of sobbing and screaming. He went on with this as Pandora was interrogating him until Vincent came along.
• Freakiness Shame: Insists on hiding his eyes, which baffles Elliot because he thinks they're beautiful.
• Friend to All Children: He gets along very well with the orphans at the House of Fianna, thinking of all of them as his younger siblings. However, he only became good with children because of Elliot; before that, Leo disliked being around children and they avoided him.
• Friendless Background: The people of his village ostracized him for being "weird" and after he was taken into the House of Fianna, he avoided the other children because he had lost interest in people. Through persistence, Elliot became his first and most precious friend.
• Grand Theft Me: After all the seals containing Oswald's dead body are destroyed, Oswald takes control over Leo's body. Leo regains control of his body after Oswald's consciousness fades away.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: Just by taking off his Opaque Nerd Glasses and fixing his hair a little, he becomes one of the most beautiful men in the manga.
• Healing Factor: A given for Baskervilles, especially Glen Baskerville. Especially notable when getting impaled by a Chain merely knocked him out for a little while.
• Hearing Voices: Hearing the voices of the previous Glens comes with being Glen's reincarnation. Understandably, he doesn't appreciate it.
• He-Man Woman Hater: In an omake, Vincent mentions hearing that Leo seems to view "women and the like to be absolute pigs".
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: The author describes Leo and Elliot as "two parts to a whole". Needless to say, Elliot's tragic death takes a toll on Leo's mental and emotional health.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: His eyes make him see "weird" things and people treated him as an outcast because of it. In the past, Leo used his hair to hide his eyes and avoided interacting with anyone until he met Elliot, who became his Only Friend. After Elliot dies, Leo asks Vincent to cut his bangs as a symbol of his decision to stop running away from his destiny to become the new Glen Baskerville.
• Hired Help as Family: He and Elliot are Vitriolic Best Buds despite being master and servant. And that's the way Elliot wants it to be. The moment Elliot hired Leo, he only thought he was finding himself a good friend, not a servant.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Levi points out that it was Leo's self-loathing and guilt over Elliot's death what caused him to engage in self-destructive behavior instead of trying to actually lead the Baskervilles and this gave Oswald the perfect opportunity to take over Leo's body.
• I Am Who?: Never found out that the reason he could see and hear things was because of his status as the current vessel of Glen Baskerville until Vincent told him about this in Retrace LXI.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Grew his bangs just so he wouldn't have to see and hear things, thus not having to be "the weird one" anymore.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Elliot was fatally injured by Humpty Dumpty because the Chain mistook Elliot's attempt to protect Leo as Elliot trying to kill Leo. To save Elliot's life, Leo forced him to become an illegal contractor, which ultimately leads to Elliot denying his own Chain to kill Humpty Dumpty along with himself. In the aftermath, Leo blames himself entirely for Elliot's death and becomes convinced that Elliot's life would have been better without him in it.
• Immortality: Being the current incarnation of Glen Baskerville, Leo is basically immortal. He won't age nor die unless directly killed at least until he transfers his soul to the next Glen.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Retrace LXV, courtesy of Jack. Being a Baskerville, he lives, but he was still knocked out for a moment.
• Important Haircut: Gets one in Retrace LXI. Notable because of the above example for Disproportionate Retribution, since this haircut means that Leo saw no need to hide from the Abyss lights and Glen voices anymore, which growing his hair helped him with.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Not even the author is consistent in coloring his eyes. Notable eye colors Leo gets in official art include purple and blue.
• Inhuman Eye Concealers: He used his hair and later his Opaque Nerd Glasses to conceal his eyes because they reflect the lights of the Abyss and Leo considers this proof that he's a freak. After resigning himself to accept his role as Glen Baskerville, he asks Vincent to cut his hair to stop hiding his true nature.
• Interclass Friendship: Despite Elliot being a nobleman, Leo never treated him any different from a regular person. They soon became Vitriolic Best Buds. However, the Nightray family didn't want Leo to be Elliot's valet because Leo is a commoner from an orphanage.
• It's All My Fault: He really blames himself for Elliot's misfortune and eventual death. And it's certainly not getting any better for him.
• It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: On top of having to suffer the same effect of distortion as the other Glens, he ended up living with having to see Abyss lights and hear the voices of the previous Glens without anyone to understand his predicament, making him consider himself "the weird one".
• Likes Older Women: According to an omake that came with the Retrace 42.5 Drama CD, although it may be a joke.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: After his Important Haircut, he still keeps his hair shoulder-length, but without his bangs and glasses, we can finally appreciate the beauty of his face.
• Messy Hair: Elliot commented that Leo's hair looks like a rat's nest the first time they met.
• Mistaken for Insane: From a young age, Leo could see and hear things no one else could. This made the people of his village think he was insane and they made him an outcast. What even Leo didn't understand was that seeing and hearing those things was a side effect of being the host of Glen Baskerville's soul. Later on, Elliot also thought Leo might be going crazy because Leo's memories didn't match with his. Due to Humpty Dumpty's influence, Elliot had no idea that it was his memories that were wrong, not Leo's.
• Morality Pet: To Vincent. After Leo is revealed to be the new Glen Baskerville, Vincent becomes absolutely loyal to Leo and is almost as fiercely protective of him as he's to Gilbert. Vincent even proclaims that his loyalty is to Leo, not Oswald who is possessing his master's body.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: His last conversation with Elliot is a heated argument that ensued because Elliot wrongly suspected that Leo was in cahoots with Isla Yura. Once they calm down, Leo and Elliot want to apologize to each other, but then all hell breaks loose in Oz's Coming of Age Ceremony when the illegal contractors of Humpty Dumpty start killing everyone to reenact the Tragedy of Sablier. Since the core contractor of Humpty Dumpty turns out to be Elliot, he sacrifices himself by rejecting his own Chain, which kills him instantly. With his last breath, Elliot asks Vincent to apologize to Leo on his behalf. This leaves Leo even more grief-stricken.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Elliot had to keep him from touching the corpse of a human mutated by the Abyss once. There was also an omake picture for Volume 11 wherein Leo expresses interest in seeing the insides of the author's Author Avatar, which is a black cat with a pink mustache.
• Nobody Touches the Hair: He has knocked away a little girl for trying to touch his bangs. Turns out said hair helped him hide the Abyss lights from his vision.
• Not-So-Small Role: Throughout the first half of the series, Leo's role seems limited to being Elliot's snarky valet. After Elliot dies, the true relevance of Leo's character is brought to light with the revelation that he's the current incarnation of Glen Baskerville.
• Opaque Nerd Glasses: Not like he needs them, he's only trying to hide his eyes. He stops wearing them later.
• Properly Paranoid: Leo had noticed there was something suspicious going on at the House of Fianna. Also, he became worried about Elliot because their memories didn't match. However, Elliot acted like Leo was going crazy and Leo himself began believing that, feeling trapped in a world with things only he could see once again. Turns out all of Leo's suspicions were right on point because the House of Fianna is really a place to conduct experiments with Chains using the orphans and the one who had the memories messed up wasn't him, but Elliot who was being brainwashed by his Chain Humpty Dumpty.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: He wears those Opaque Nerd Glasses not because he needs them, but because they help hide his eyes.
• Rage Breaking Point: He actually has a temper as bad as Elliot's, if not worse. Him usually acting as The Straight Man and The Tease for Elliot didn't make this obvious, though, until he snapped and threw chairs and a table at Elliot. This doesn't seem to be the first time it happened.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: After getting a haircut and ditching the glasses, he becomes incredibly beautiful, with his black hair and pale skin emphasizing his beauty even more.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the Blue Oni to Elliot's Red Oni. Leo has a short temper of his own, but being near someone even more volatile than him like Elliot helps him stay calm and throw some snark at his master's bad manners.
• Reflective Eyes: A variation in that it happens all the time with the gold specks of light he sees, very well becoming a main part of his eyes.
• Refusal of the Call: Not that he even knew that the voices in his head are actually real and important, but he still refused to acknowledge them, going as far as to grow his hair just to block them out, along with the Abyss lights he sees. After Elliot's death, Leo realizes there's no point in running away from his destiny anymore and accepts to become the new leader of the Baskervilles.
• Reincarnation: He's the reincarnation of Glen Baskerville's soul born 100 years after the Tragedy of Sablier. Therefore, he has a connection to all the previous hosts of Glen.
• Sarcastic Devotee: For all his sassiness towards Elliot, there's no person in the world Leo wants to protect more than Elliot.
• Servile Snarker: He never hesitates to snark at his master Elliot's bad temper and lack of good manners.
• Slasher Smile: Tends to flash these as of late, though he's already done one earlier.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Before he became friends with Elliot, Leo was always in a bad mood and only tried to get people to leave him alone because he felt so alienated by the things only he could see and hear. Elliot's friendship helped him grow out of it.
• Stepford Smiler: After accepting his role as Glen Baskerville, Leo smiles cheerfully when talking to Oz even though he's still deeply depressed and emotionally unstable because of Elliot's recent death.
• Straight Man: Leo keeps Elliot's bad temper and rudeness in check.
• Strike Me Down: He tells Oz with a smile on his face to kill him if he ever causes Elliot serious harm.
• Super-Speed Reading: He prides himself in his speed-reading, which allows him to read five to eight books a day.
• Super-Toughness: He recovers pretty quickly from falling down a set of stairs. This is because he's really a Baskerville. He is also only knocked out momentarily from being impaled by a chain.
• Technicolor Eyes: He has pitch black eyes that reflect the Abyss lights he sees.
• They Died Because of You: According to the previous Glen (Or Oswald), Leo may have stopped Elliot from dying then and there, but that doesn't mean he has saved him. He internalizes this after Elliot's Heroic Sacrifice.
• Took a Level in Badass: Granted, his recent contract with Jabberwock still puts a strain on his body. But compare being able to control Jabberwock with having to rely on the guns or swords he's not even good with.
• Tragic Bromance: Leo by far takes Elliot's death the hardest and he's left in a state of depression over losing his best friend forever until near the end of the series.
• Tragic Keepsake: He keeps Elliot's Royal Rapier after his death.
• Undying Loyalty: All things considered, Leo is extremely devoted to Elliot.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: From the moment they first met, Leo and Elliot were constantly arguing and sassing each other. Before they knew it, they were already inseparable friends.
• Walking Spoiler: As Leo Baskerville, especially since him being Glen Baskerville can be a dead give-away for Glen's true nature.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: As Elliot and Vincent can attest to. Even the author seems to enjoy drawing his eyes whenever she can, and has even stated her desire to draw a big picture with them!
• Young and in Charge: Ends up becoming Duke Baskerville at age 16.

Rainsworth Household

Sharon Rainsworth

Sharon Rainsworth

Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa

"Please do not forget those who have always stood by your side and supported you. If you do not fail to keep them in mind, you shall never lose yourself."

Grand-daughter of Duchess Rainsworth. She often appears when other characters (more than often her Battle Butler, Break) need someone to talk to when things get rough. She is dignified and lady-like, notable for her number of Gorgeous Period Dress changes to date. Her Chain is Eques, a black unicorn, based on the Unicorn from Through the Looking-Glass.

• A-Cup Angst: In a drama CD, she misunderstands Break and thinks he's saying a flat chest disqualifies one as a woman. She reacts by hitting him with her paper fan.
• Anger Born of Worry: A lot of the moments in which she gets mad at Break is because he did something risky on his own.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's a sweet and gentle lady, but secretly a very scary person.
• Childhood Friends: She has been good friends with Reim since childhood. According to the epilogue, their relationship eventually evolved into Childhood Friend Romance and they got married.
• Cool Big Sis: Considers herself this to Alice. Alice sometimes agrees if she's in a good mood.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Her targets include, but are not limited to, Break, Oz, and possibly Gilbert.
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: She's a noblewoman who always speaks very politely.
• Genki Girl: She's energetic and enthusiastic, especially in her Girly Mode.
• Gorgeous Period Dress: Her entire wardrobe consists of beautiful and elaborate Victorian era dresses.
• The Heart: She's the peacekeeper and emotional support of the main group.
• Heroic BSoD: Having your elder brother figure die in your arms does no good for anyone.
• Heroic Vow: Hers bookends the series, in a way. Sharon tells Oz at his first Coming of Age Ceremony that even if he is "a fallen angel that will bring about destruction," she will stand by him. She reminds him of this promise at the end of the series through Eques, who'd hidden in Lottie's shadow after the group got separated in Sablier; it's her last conversation with Oz, as he goes to enact his plan to stop the world from collapsing soon after and dies while doing so.
• Lady of War: Dignified, princess-like and utilizes her chain with grace.
• Like Brother and Sister: She thinks of Break as if he was her older brother who she both loves and is annoyed by. The feeling is mutual.
• Love Freak: She loves romance, though sadly she is forever going to look like a fourteen year-old. She reads volume upon volume of romance books to ease the agony, although ends up causing pain for everyone else whenever she lapses into her 'girl mode'. Break tries to help in the short story 'White Kitty', but gets it completely wrong and sets her up with Alice. He then gets into a lot of trouble.
• Ma'am Shock: Break often jokes that, despite looking younger, she's actually a middle-aged auntie that loves to mess with the youngsters. He more often than not gets a smack on the head capable of make him bleed in return.
• Morality Chain: She holds Break's, and whacks him with her Paper Fan of Doom whenever he yanks it too hard.
• Ojou: Break addresses her as Ojou-sama. Lampshaded during the drunken party, where it's shown that she develops a queen complex when drunk.
• Older Than She Looks: Trapped in the body of a 14-year-old girl, as a result of her contract. She's actually 23. According to the epilogue, her body began aging again after the events of the series.
• Onee-sama: Likes to act like this towards Alice. In fact, she pressures Alice into calling her "sister".
• Out of Focus: She's technically part of the main group, but her relevance gets critically reduced as time goes on.
• Paper Fan of Doom: One of her favorite ways of scolding Break.
• Plucky Girl: She's more strong-willed than most people think. Break initially fears telling Sharon he's going blind because he thinks she wouldn't handle it. When he does tell her, Sharon gently smiles at him and offers him to let her teach him how to dance, making Break admire her mental strength.
• Precocious Crush: There's heavy implications that Sharon has something of a crush on Break, who is twice her age at the very least.
• Proper Lady: She's a refined, polite, and graceful high-class lady.
• Shipper on Deck: She loves romance and appeared to ship Alice with Oz in some early parts of the series, but clearly thinks they should take it slow and traditional (as we see in the moments leading up to the notorious drunken party). Also loves teasing Gilbert about his suspicious feelings for Oz.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She looks a lot like her mother Shelly.
• Sweet Tooth: She loves sweets even more than Break; she's just better at hiding it.
• Tea Is Classy: She's easily the most graceful and refined of the otherwise noble cast, and is usually seen drinking tea during her free time.
• Team Mom: She behaves like a kind and wise mother figure whenever the main cast need a hug.

Sheryl Rainsworth

Sheryl Rainsworth

Sharon's crippled grandmother and the mother of Shelly Rainsworth. Her chain is the Owl. Is the childhood friend of Rufus Barma.

• Bait-and-Switch Sentiment: In the final chapter, Sheryl tells Rufus she likes him (as a close friend). Rufus takes this as Sheryl finally reciprocating his romantic feelings for her and immediately gives orders to prepare their wedding ceremony, only for Sheryl to go back to ignoring him as usual.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Outwardly, she may appear warm, feeble and matronly, but he tongue is as sharp as any blade and her Chain is badass.
• Brutal Honesty: While she is a rare example in that she's still as polite as she can be with this trope, she's not afraid to tell people what she thinks of them, or, in Sharon's case, what she thinks they should do/how they should behave. She's also ready to cut people (Rufus more often than not) down to size. Her "red roses are vulgar - I don't like them" line may be the most memorable.
• Childhood Friends: She has been friends with Rufus Barma since they were children. He wants a Childhood Friend Romance, but she has made clear it won't happen.
• Classy Cravat: She always wears a cravat, showing her position as a noblewoman.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She's become far warmer than she was in her youth if Rufus' flashback is anything to go by, although she still doesn't mince her words.
• Eyes Always Shut: She keeps her eyes closed at all times.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Her daughter Shelly had a poor health and passed away when Sheryl's granddaughter was still very young. Even though Sheryl thought she was prepared for it, she still took Shelly's death hard.
• Paper Fan of Doom: Sharon seems to have inherited this from her.
• Perpetual Smiler: She's always in a good mood and it's quite scary especially when she's angry.
• Talking to the Dead: The epilogue shows Sheryl regularly visits Rufus' grave to talk to it and have picnics.

Shelly Rainsworth

Shelly Rainsworth

"As long as you continue to struggle and fight, you will be able to keep living."

Sharon's mother, a woman legendary for her beauty and gentle personality.

• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: She was the Gentle Girl to Break's Brooding Boy. It was thanks to her kindness that he became able to smile again.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Admired by Break for being very well-endowed.
• The Defroster: Break went from an angry and violent man to his affable current self thanks to his interactions with Shelly.
• Eyes Out of Sight: Almost every time she's been shown, her eyes are concealed behind her bangs.
• Florence Nightingale Effect: Nursed a post-Abyss Kevin back to health, and is credited with helping shape him into the present-day Xerxes Break.
• The Lost Lenore: It's been officially confirmed that Break was in love with Shelly and she was the one who shaped him into who he is today.
• Missing Mom: She's Sharon's mother who died long before Oz returned from the Abyss.
• Posthumous Character: While she was alive at the very beginning of the series, she died long before Oz returned from the Abyss.
• Uptown Girl: Word of God confirmed that Break was in love with Shelly. Her feelings on the matter are unknown, but she clearly cared a lot about him. Unfortunately, for Break (and perhaps Shelly as well), Shelly was a noblewoman in line to be the next Duchess Rainsworth, while Break was essentially an unknown man who literally appeared out of nowhere as far as everyone else knows. A romantic relationship between the two would have been impossible.

Barma Household

Rufus Barma

Rufus Barma

Voiced by: Yūya Uchida

"This thing I believe in...it is called love!"

The longest-living out of all four dukes. Claims to be the most knowledgeable man alive, thanks to his endless craving for information. The master of facade and illusion with the help of his Chain Dodo.

• Agent Peacock: Just because he's well-groomed and wears high-heels, doesn't mean he can't kick your ass.
• Antiquated Linguistics: He speaks in an older form of the Japanese language, making his speech more complex compared to all the other characters. Even in the localizations, where it is translated to Flowery Elizabethan English.
• Attempted Homewrecker: He's spent the last fifty years trying to get a married woman to marry him, to no avail.
• Butt-Monkey: When the guy isn't busy being a Magnificent Bastard, he gets abused by everybody. The series in general enjoys mocking his love for Sheryl.
• Chekhov's Gunman: First introduced as the Bishōnen servant who pushes Duchess Rainsworth's wheelchair.
• Childhood Friend Romance: He has loved his childhood friend Sheryl Rainsworth his entire life. Unfortunately for him, she doesn't feel the same way.
• Childhood Friends: With Duchess Rainsworth. They've known each other for the vast majority of their lives, and not even his well-known unrequited love has gotten in the way of their friendship.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He has no tolerance to other men getting intimate with Sheryl.
• The Dandy: He's a classy nobleman with long hair and a flamboyant fashion, including high-heels.
• Death Glare: Can give a pretty good one. It makes Isla Yura shut up and get to the point.
• Dogged Nice Guy: While it would be a bit of a stretch to call him a "nice guy," he is this to Sheryl as he never gave up on trying to get her to marry him, even after fifty years of failure, and he's always nice to her.
• Evil Redhead: Downplayed. He's more of an Anti-Hero redhead.
• Flowery Elizabethan English: He speaks in Antiquated Linguistics of Japanese in the original work, and in Early Modern English in the localized translations.
• Green-Eyed Epiphany: He only realized he had feelings for Sheryl after she announced that she was getting married to another man. Ever since, he has been trying to convince her to leave her husband for him, with no success.
• High-Class Fan: He's a nobleman and almost always carries a hand fan with him.
• Hopeless Suitor: He's sent more than 100 love letters to Sheryl, only to have them burned in the fire. According to the epilogue, she never reciprocated his feelings, but Gilbert thinks Rufus actually enjoyed their relationship the way it was until the end.
• Idiot Hair: He has a prominent ahoge sticking out atop his head. Break and Alice even lampshade it.
• It's All About Me: The only reason why he sided with Pandora over the Baskervilles is because if Glen managed to hit the Reset Button, he would never have met Sheryl, and it's been his lifelong dream to marry her.
• Jerkass: He's arrogant and unpleasant in every sense of the word. Luckily, Sheryl holds his Morality Chain, but that doesn't stop him from trying to smite her granddaughter for mouthing off to her 'elders'.
• Knowledge Broker: He's spent his long life accumulating information on everything, so whenever the protagonists need intel, they go to him. And they don't enjoy it one bit.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He's a beautiful young-looking man with long red hair falling down his back.
• Manchild: He (or at least, his 'meatball' form) throws a tantrum whenever events don't go along with what he has predicted. And he's well aware of this.
• Manipulative Bastard: His thirst for knowledge extends to the very nature of individuals of importance, so he knows, or at least can very accurately guess, what to say to any of the major characters to get them to do what he wants.
• Master of Illusion: His Chain, Dodo, is capable of projecting numerous illusions of absolutely anything which Rufus desires
• The Mole: He pretends to betray Pandora and side with the Baskervilles so he can expose Jack's crimes and give the captured Pandora members a chance to escape from the Baskervilles.
• Mr. Exposition: Is leaning towards this. Whenever the cast meets him, cue chapter-long talking and trading information.
• Nominal Hero: He aids the heroes in stopping Oswald from changing the past only because if the Four Great Dukedoms never come to exist, he and Sheryl will never meet and he will lose his chances to marry her (even though those chances are nonexistent regardless).
• Not Quite Dead: He throws himself off a cliff to escape from Oswald once the latter exposes him as a mole. Rufus' status is left unknown until the final chapter, where he shows up alive in front of Sheryl, to everyone's surprise.
• Older Than He Looks: Supposedly 67 years old, but from contracting so early, he doesn't look it.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He has never wanted any woman other than Sheryl, even though she has refused to marry him for decades.
• Snark-to-Snark Combat: He and Oz often do a very subtle kind of this, not during their first meeting but generally when interacting thereafter; they both respect each other's intelligence and cleverness but their dispositions conflict.
• Stalker with a Crush: Played for Laughs in a chapter summary that shows all the stalker photos Rufus has taken of Sheryl, majorly creeping out Oz and Gilbert.
• Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: He refuses to give up on Sheryl even though she has never reciprocated his feelings and is already a married woman with a granddaughter. The epilogue confirms his love for Sheryl remained one-sided, even long after his death.
• Wild Card: Nobody except for Sheryl could ever predict what he was planning. Mostly because nobody could expect that all of his plans still revolve around hooking up with Sheryl despite decades of rejection. He's one of the few characters to almost Out Gambit Glen.

Reim Lunettes

Reim Lunettes

Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe

"I do not intend to fight you! In fact, I have absolutely no combat skills whatsoever!"

A servant of the Barma dukedom. He doesn't stand out in crowds, but both Break and Sharon consider him to be their best friend. His Chain is March Hare.

• The Beautiful Elite: Subverted; An omake reveals his father is an Earl, but Reim himself is easily overlooked.
• Befriending the Enemy: Near the end of the series, Reim finally ends the conflict between Pandora and the Baskervilles by making the latter group see that they have no reasons to be enemies anymore now that everyone knows the Tragedy of Sablier was Jack's doing and both groups ultimately wish to keep order in the world and the Abyss. Reim offers the Baskervilles to ally themselves with Pandora and he personally accepts to become Lily's friend.
• Butt-Monkey: He tends to get the short end of the stick in the jokes.
• Childhood Friends: With Sharon. He lived at the Rainsworth state for almost two years when he was a child, as he was tasked to give the love letters Rufus wrote for Sheryl and to wait for her to reply them. There he became good friends with Sharon. According to the epilogue, their relationship eventually evolved into Childhood Friend Romance and they got married.
• Distressed Dude: He gets captured by Lily Baskerville during Oz's second Coming of Age ceremony. When Break comes to his rescue, Reim has apparently already been killed by Lily's Chain. Soon, however, Reim reveals himself to be alive and explains that his Chain's ability is sending him into a deathlike state.
• Faux Death: The ability of his Chain is to send him into a deathlike state to throw off his enemies.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: He tells this to Oz after Oscar sacrifices himself to save him and his friends from the Baskervilles, telling him he shouldn't try anything too rash after what Oscar did to protect him.
• Guile Hero: He tries to get the upper hand over Lily by distracting her with his Chain and shooting her in the head. It would have worked if the Baskervilles weren't practically immortal.
• Meaningful Name: His family name is Lunettes, which is 'eye-glasses' in French. Wonder if the Lunettes household is comprised entirely of bespectacled Butt Monkeys...
• Mirror Character: An extra chapter has Oz pointing out the numerous similarities between Reim and Gilbert; both are tall, honest and pessimistic guys who are exasperated by Break's eccentricities.
• Never Gets Drunk: A Type 1. The serious Reim can hold his alcohol well and is apparently able to drink more than anyone else in Pandora. As a result, Reim is often left to clean up after everyone else when they get drunk. Also, he uses this to gather information from drunk people.
• Nice Guy: He's one of the most mature, kindhearted and helpful people in the entire series.
• Non-Action Guy: Even though he's a Contractor, his Chain has no combat applications.
• Only Friend: He's Break's only friend among the men of Pandora, not counting the main characters.
• Only Sane Man: Compared to everyone else around him, Reim sure looks like one of the most normal and levelheaded guys around. He's also one of the very few to not have some form of trauma that affects his behavior.
• Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: He basically offers Lily to kill him with the same gun he used to shoot her in the head. Reim does this to apologize to Lily for trying to kill her and also, to alleviate her desire for revenge against the recently deceased Break. Fortunately, Lily chooses to not shoot him and asks him to be friends with her instead.
• Pragmatic Hero: He makes Lily let her guard down by showing her his harmless Chain and uses the opportunity to shoot her in the head. While he doesn't like to resort to such a dirty tactic and shooting a little girl, as a member of Pandora, he must show no mercy to a Baskerville.
• The Reliable One: An extra chapter shows that he is trusted by nearly everyone on Pandora due to his good work habits and harmlessness, which Vincent lampshades that it's easy to collect information because of it.
• Reused Character Design: His design is very similar to Harris Watson, a character from the Special One-Shot chapter, who Reim is obviously based on. The only difference between them is that Harris wears a monocle while Reim wears glasses.
• Secret-Keeper: He's the first to realize Break is slowly going blind, but respects Break's request to not tell anyone about it.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: He's one of the most tactical members of Pandora and wears glasses.
• Stoic Spectacles: Subverted. Despite looking like the typical serious glasses guy, he's not as composed as he looks.
• Sweet Tooth: In an omake, it's said that Reim really loves sweets.
• Vitriolic Best Friends: While Break's attitude constantly irritates Reim, there's no doubt the two are longtime friends who care about each other.
• Wise Beyond His Years: Reim is only a couple of years older than Gilbert, but he already thinks and acts like a middle-aged man. Break blames himself for this because Reim ended up like that after primarily interacting with Break for years.
• Workaholic: His favorite thing is his job.
• Would Hurt a Child: He feels bad about shooting the little Lily in the head, but an enemy is an enemy. To his shock, Lily survives thanks to being a Baskerville.

Miranda Barma

Miranda Barma

"Only when I have his head will he truly be mine!"

A noblewoman who lived in Sablier a hundred years ago. She played a key role in the Tragedy of Sablier, by telling Vincent Nightray of how to open the Door to the Abyss. Based on the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland.

• Abhorrent Admirer: Oswald hated Miranda and her obsession with his head so much that he deliberately didn't kill her so she would transform into a Chain when she fell into the Abyss.
• Ax-Crazy: Obviously, someone with a fetish for collecting people's heads shouldn't be considered a sane human being.
• Collector of the Strange: Collected the heads/skulls of people.
• Evil Redhead: She's obsessed with decapitating people and collecting their heads. And that's without getting into her Yandere tendencies...
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She has the appearance of a sweet-natured high-class lady. Just don't have a nice head, lest she behead you...
• Fate Worse than Death: When she unsuccessfully tried to murder Oswald, he chose not to simply to kill her there and then. Instead, Oswald allowed for her to fall into the Abyss alive; thus purposefully excluding her from the hundred-year cycle of rebirth, and then causing her to mutate into a monstrous Chain, which later became known as Demios the Head-Hunter.
• Hate Sink: A crazy woman with a fetish for beautiful heads, Jack's main accomplice in the Tragedy of Sablier, and her manipulative ways are the main reason Vincent is such a woman hater. She's so despicable that Oswald doomed her to a Fate Worse than Death by letting her mutate into the Chain Demios.
• Love at First Sight: Ever since she first laid her eyes on Oswald's beautiful head, she has wanted to make it hers.
• A Love to Dismember: She had it bad for Oswald and wanted to have him by her side forever. More specifically, she only wanted to own his beautiful severed head.
• Manipulative Bitch: Was the one who manipulated Vincent into opening the Door to the Abyss a hundred years ago.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She had an obsession with the occult and the Abyss, and most notably about collecting people's heads.
• Posthumous Character: She plays a very important role in the flashbacks as Jack's accomplice. During the Tragedy of Sablier, she was the only non-Baskerville who fell into the Abyss alive. Her soul was excluded from the reincarnation cycle and her body mutated into what is now known as Demios the Head-Hunter.
• Villainous Friendship: She was arguably as crazy as Jack himself (although it's impossible to say this for sure because we only saw her in action a couple of times), so it's probably no wonder that they quickly became such close allies and friends.
• Walking Spoiler: Her involvement in the Tragedy of Sablier and her being the human form of the Chain Demios are significant spoilers.
• Yandere: She couldn't stop thinking about Oswald ever since she first saw him. She agreed to help Jack in exchange of him giving her Oswald so she could behead him and keep his head.

Arthur Barma

Arthur Barma

"I was always plain and ill-spoken."

Rufus' ancestor, a foreign nobleman who came to Sablier a hundred years ago. He is also Miranda's brother and was manipulated by Jack Vessalius into writing records of the Tragedy of Sablier and portraying the Baskervilles as the main instigators.

• Ambiguously Gay: Possibly. He has very few appearances in-story, but Rufus Barma described him as having grown increasingly infatuated with Jack Vessalius.
• Meal Ticket: To Jack Vessalius, who only got close to him in order to get closer to the Baskervilles.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: The Barma family lost a political struggle in their homeland and were exiled into the country where the story takes place. This made it hard for Arthur to socialize with other nobles, with Jack becoming his Only Friend. However, Jack was only using Arthur like he did with everyone else.
• Famous Ancestor: He was the ancestor of the Barma Dukedom and became well-known for having been one of Jack Vessalius's closest friends. He helped with much of the Tragedy of Sablier's aftermath, assisting in writing Jack's memoirs and sealing away the soul of Glen Baskerville.
• Nice Guy: From what little is seen from him, he was a polite and well-mannered guy.
• Posthumous Character: He has been dead for decades when the story begins.
• Redheads Are Uncool: He was a redhead and didn't have any friends except Jack.
• Unwitting Pawn: To Jack Vessalius, who pretended to be his friend only to use him to get to Miranda Barma.