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In General

  • A God Am I: Their Demon classes, based off the demons summoned in the Colosseum, have their powers fused with said demons which causes them to go Drunk with Power, bring destruction to the land and have the people see them as gods.
  • A Lighter Shade of Black: While some of them are still quite nasty, most of the alternative versions of the characters from the Act of Reality are less villainous and more sympathetic than the standard Library versions. They tend to have more tragic backstories, less Kick the Dog moments, and more reasonable objectives - most of them are simply fighting the Nightmares to survive rather than slaughtering them for personal gain.
  • Alternate Self: The Library is large enough of a multiverse that multiple versions of the same character can be found. For example, the Alice we follow in the main story is not the same Alice in Alice, Another and the same event has numerous versions of her. Additionally, these alternate versions do count in the Characters' mission to gather enough lifeforce to revive their authors, so they're highly encouraged to fight even themselves to the death if and when they're encountered.
  • Anti-Hero Team: In events and especially the last two main story arcs the Characters have become this, going from killing each other on a near-regular basis to teaming up to take down a common enemy.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: Downplayed. The Library versions of the characters in particular are supernatural beings who are closely associated with particular concepts, although they're not completely and universally defined by them. While Red Riding Hood (Brutality) is indeed an Ax-Crazy Combat Sadomasochist, and Dorothy (Curiosity) is a monomaniacal Mad Scientist, Rapunzel (Chastity) is a gigantic Covert Pervert, and Cinderella (Depravity) can be downright wholesome under certain circumstances.
  • Anyone Can Die: Three words - Act of Elimination. This is where every character the player knows has a chance of being Killed Off for Real.
  • Back from the Dead: All of the Reality Characters reappear in the real world after ending up in Library, and have gotten new powers as a result in the Fusion Arc.
    • Back for the Dead: ... but then all of them wind up dead in Act of Elimination part 1.
    • The Act of Elimination Part 2 ping-pongs between Back from the Dead and Back for the Dead as a number of them (bar Aladdin, Kaguya and Little Mermaid) made a contract with Parrah and Noya to be resurrected. After dealing with the Alice fragments, they go right back to killing each other, cumulating in The Three Little Pigs' victory.
  • Badass Adorable: Call them cute, beautiful, handsome... but they're also murderous and insane fairytale characters who slaughter Nightmares (and each other) on a regular basis.
  • Badass in Distress: The Characters end up as this in the Act of Desire as they're captured and about to be assimilated into the flesh Library. It's up to the player and Nutcracker, who managed to avoid getting caught, to rescue them.
  • Big Damn Heroes: During the Transcendent Tranjectory 6th Anniversary event, just as there's no way out for Alice, Parrah and Noya from the time travels, the other Characters show up to save the day. Even Nutcracker, who instigated the events of the story in the first place, pulled a Heel–Face Turn to help.
  • The Bus Came Back: A couple of events brought back the Reality Characters from their ends in the Act of Elimination 2-parter:
    • The Reality versions of the Three Little Pigs appear in the side story to Service Never Ends in which they're reading a script to a maid cafe-themed program they'll be filming soon.
    • It All Starts with the Stars has the Reality versions of Alice, Aladdin and Little Match Girl star alongside their Library counterparts (and Nutcracker). In the side story, the other Reality Characters make an appearance in which they're seen reading the Library-abridged version of Night on the Galactic Railroad and it's revealed that the actions of the Alices, Aladdins, Little Match Girls, Nutcracker and possibly the Dorothys changed their fates so that they would not have to die according to the events of the Act of Reality.
  • Cast Full of Crazy: Considering that they have to murder everyone in the Library in order to fulfill their wish, it's a requirement. They're all deranged in their own ways. Special mention goes to Red Riding Hood and Little Match Girl for being associated with "Brutality" and "Hellfire" respectively.
  • Classified Information: Most if not all of the characters' concept art that's shared on the internet has some blacked out text.
  • Color Character: Snow White, symbolizing her purity with the connotation of emptiness, and Red Riding Hood, symbolizing her spirited and violent nature.
  • Color-Coded Characters: Each Character has a color associated with them, most notably the color of their Lifeforce seen in their Job art and their corresponding weapons:
    • Alice - Blue
    • Snow White - Red (White in merchandise)
    • Cinderella - Pink
    • Gretel - Magenta and Turquoise; magenta represents Gretel while turquoise represents Hansel.
    • Sleeping Beauty - Purple
    • Red Riding Hood - Orange (Red in merchandise)
    • Kaguya - Sky Blue
    • Pinocchio - Sulu Green
    • Little Mermaid - Aqua Blue
    • Dorothy - Golden Yellow
    • Three Little Pigs - Light Pink
    • Aladdin - Cyan
    • Rapunzel - Yellow
    • Hameln - Violet
    • Little Match Girl - Emerald Green
    • Nutcracker - Brown/Amber in his true form
  • Curtains Match the Window: Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Red Riding Hood, Little Mermaid and Dorothy.
  • Cute and Psycho: They're all illustrated to be cute thanks to the character designer Jino, and madness breaks loose in any story authored by Yoko Taro.
  • Cuteness Proximity: The predicted response of Alice, Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Hamelin when they encounter the Sanrio characters in A Fluffy Encounter.
  • Dark Action Girl: Some of them have a dark color scheme in accordance with their darker nature.
  • Darker and Edgier: No one kills anyone in their original stories. Though it can be a bit zigzagged depending on whether you're considering the modern version or the historical versions of some of the fairy tales, since the historical versions can be quite dark as well.
  • Deadpan Snarker: The characters often have something snarky to say about their current situations during events, especially if Parrah and Noya put it up to them. This is more prominent in English, where they're noticeably sassier in the main story as well.
  • Demonic Possession: Their Sin Half-Nightmare classes has them possessed by the Sin Spirits as seen in the Anniversary events and Giant Raids. Downplayed with their usual Spirit classes with the aura of the Sin Spirits fusing with them instead of a complete takeover.
  • Despair Event Horizon: All of them at the end of the Act of Authors; they're absolutely not happy with how their encounters with their Authors turned out, and by the time they meet again in Chapter 5 no one utters a word as they engage in silent murder of each other.
  • Dream Apocalypse: Their collective fate in the Taiwanese and Global server finale, as Library is destroyed, and the Characters with it, once the Alice of the real world finds hope in her life and wakes up.
  • Driven to Suicide: In the Act of Reality, this is the fate that majority of the Characters end up in, with a whopping 7 Characters (namely Alice, Little Mermaid, Gretel, Pinocchio, Three Little Pigs, Hamelin and Little Match Girl) having committed suicide at the end of their stories. The others were either murdered, succumbed to injuries or illness, suffered overdose of certain substances or were caught in fatal accidents.
  • Dysfunction Junction: All of them are somewhere between 'mildly insane' and 'extravagantly insane'. Healthy, stable individuals need not apply.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Library world's lore labeled these characters "Characters".
  • Everyone Has Standards: The Characters may be a Cast Full of Crazy, but even they have some lines they're not willing to cross:
    • Almost the entire cast in the main story thinks Gretel is too insane even for them, and even her Reality self when they meet in the Act of Elimination thinks she's too much to handle. Likewise, no one's willing to go near Red Riding Hood either out of fear that she'll do the same to them as she would potential playmates. That however doesn't stop anyone from getting along with them during events.
    • From the PVs to the "Dorothy's Workshop" banners, everyone's reactions to Dorothy's madcap inventions is either delight (for those who requested it) or some form of fear or embarrassment. Mostly embarrassment.
    • The Dream Festival of Nightmares event has Little Match Girl, Little Mermaid, Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel bailing before the story ended... because LiLLion!'s ideas were all too weird even for them.
    • Despite the Characters' drive to kill in order to revive their authors, if they encounter someone not related to their mission they'll "try" to ensure that they don't get involved in their mess. For example, the Act of SINoALICE has the Characters opt to save people instead of just killing Nightmares since they found out that humans who played their game end up turned into Nightmares due to the game feeding on their desires, and then infecting the rest via Despair Event Horizon regardless of whether they've played the game or not and felt utterly sorry for them while certain events reveal that all of them can be wholesome to some degree if it weren't for their daily dose of murder.
  • Face Death with Dignity: The Act of Desire ends with the implied death of all the Characters due to the source of Desire being destroyed to which their lifeforces were connected to. Rather than despair, everyone gracefully accepts their fates and uses their final moments to bid the player farewell before fading into the light.
  • Fireball Eyeballs: Variation. Each of the characters' Half-Nightmare classes have one eye covered or obscured in some way with the Sin Half-Nightmare classes as the exception.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Jesus Christ on a stick, where do we begin? For starters, these Characters are willing to do anything to achieve their goals, mostly through murder and slaughter of varying degrees. This even becomes literal for their Half-Nightmare classes. And during both Act of Elimination chapters, some of them start to become their Nightmare selves while others become less human via their Ext. classes. Notably, Alice and The Three Little Pigs, after each Act of Elimination, gain the Over. Ext. class and become the Queen Nightmare respectively, kickstarting The End of the World as We Know It.
  • The Ghost: In the Act of Authors, the authors of Jack and the Beanstalk and Water Margin appear in Red Riding Hood's chapter as some of her hapless victims. However, Jack and Song Jiang themselves don't appear in the game and nothing is known about them.
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: The Half-Nightmare classes give them these accordingly to each of their respective eye colors.
  • Go Out with a Smile: The Characters' overall fate in the Japanese server ending where due to the player's guild destroying the source of all Desire, they start fading away. They only have time for one last goodbye with the player before they eventually disappear in a flash of white light, all of them fulfilled and happy that they got to meet you.
  • Gotta Kill Them All: Each character is going to have to kill all the others eventually, in order to collect enough Lifeforce to fulfill their wishes.
  • Guest Fighter:
    • Alice, Snow White, Cinderella and Red Riding Hood appeared in Grimms Notes for a collaboration event in 2017.
    • In 2019, Alice, Snow White and Gretel appeared in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius for a mutual collaboration event between both games, with Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel joining them in the rerun in 2021.
    • 2022 has Alice, Pinocchio, Dorothy, Nutcracker and Red Riding Hood join the cast of Tanken Driland, while Gretel and Sleeping Beauty make cameos as chat stamps.
    • Alice and Snow White are set to travel into the world of Towa Tsugai, a mobile game that shares the same composer as SINoALICE in Fall 2023. The March 2024 rerun will see Red Riding Hood and Dorothy joining them too.
  • Holiday Mode: Some of the Characters have Classes for holiday-related events, mostly named after the holiday in question:
    • The Kimono class for New Year's Day - As of writing, all of the characters have one, released in batches of three per year. The 2023 New Year's event later gives Bunny Furisode classes for Alice, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Three Little Pigs both to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit and to play on the Playboy Bunny trope commonly seen in casino-related media.
    • Valentine for Valentine's Day, exclusive to Alice and Nutcracker in 2019 until the 2020 event added Snow White, Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel to the roster. The 2021 event later adds Sleeping Beauty, Kaguya and Hamelin to the Valentine roster.
    • Halloween, which began with Cinderella and Little Mermaid in 2018, followed by Aladdin, Gretel, Pinocchio, and Nutcracker in 2019. The 2021 event came with Mystery classes for Little Mermaid, Gretel, Rapunzel and Nutcracker while the 2022 event had Halloween VR costumes for Alice, Snow White, Dorothy, Aladdin and Hamelin.
    • Christmas saw 3 different classes for the season; Christmas Feast had X-mas classes for Snow White, Red Riding Hood, Nutcracker and Pinocchio, Funeral of the Holy Night had the Travelers classes for Alice, Kaguya, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White (again), and Rebellious Feast of the Holy Night had the Christmas Party classes for Alice (again), Aladdin, Rapunzel and Gretel.
  • Horned Humanoid: Characters with Ext. classes are this, though it's not very obvious with Alice.
  • Hyperspace Arsenal: They can freely switch any weapons mid-battle.
  • Hypocrite: Many of them fail to consistently live up to the concepts they choose to embody. Notably, this applies to both pleasant and unpleasant concepts, resulting in characters like Cinderella, the embodiment of Depravity, having a few Pet the Dog moments.
  • Idol Singer:
    • Alice, Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel get the Songstress class during the Songstress's Torment event based on outfits worn by various members of Gems Company, a virtual idol group.
    • The White Day event Men's Banquet of Idols has Snow White, Cinderella, Gretel and Dorothy become males and form an idol group, 'Phantom Tale', as part of Parrah and Noya's scheme to get rich quick.
  • Improbable Weapon User: The premise of the Mage class, which has them wield Artifacts in every shape and size ranging from typical magical objects such as crystal balls and jewels to banners, toys, and even a telephone.
    • Certain weapons they wield in other classes are also a bit questionable in design.
  • In the Hood: Red Riding Hood aside, some of the class designs involve hoods; the Sorcerer class in particular.
  • It's Personal: Their motivations in reviving their authors all stem from their personal desires.
    • It's All About Me: Most, if not all, of the characters' wishes are considerably selfish and only serve their own personal goals, despite what could've been if their story didn't follow what their Authors have written.
  • Job System: All Characters follow this, with each class having a unique outfit and lore behind them.
  • Kimono Fanservice: The New Year-exclusive 'Kimono' Classes features the Characters in kimonos.
  • Killed Offscreen: The eventual fate of Snow White and Dorothy in Chapter 5 of the Act of SINoALICE, leaving Alice as the Sole Survivor. Hard Mode reveals that the two of them eventually succumbed to the Nightmare transformation, with Dorothy having done so due to hitting the Despair Event Horizon and going insane over not knowing what to do about her situation.
  • Lack of Empathy: Many of the Characters demonstrate an inability to understand the emotions of others outside of the context of their own emotions and intentions. This is particularly prominent in crossover chapters, as characters will blatantly disregard the responses and desires of others in order to further pursue whatever personal goal. Maybe it's that they just don't care.
  • Let's You and Him Fight: The Library and Reality versions of the Characters, following their encounters in the Fusion Arc, end up fighting each other to the death in the Elimination Arc. While certain pairs, such as the two Red Riding Hoods, do end up being friendly to each other, ultimately only one can survive to the next round.
  • Little Miss Badass: Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Little Mermaid, Gretel, Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Little Match Girl.
  • Multi-Melee Master: Breaker, Crusher, Paladin and Gunner classes allow the Characters to wield swords, greatswords, katanas, hammers, axes, spears, scythes, guns and bows all at the same time.
  • Musical Assassin: The Minstrel class has each character use a musical instrument for a weapon.
  • No Name Given: They're unnamed in the Act of Reality, being referred to as 'that boy', 'that girl', 'that woman', etc. Even in the manga, their names are censored with their Library names written on top.
  • Not So Above It All: Even Cinderella, Alice and Hamelin can't resist the cuteness of Sanrio in A Fluffy Encounter, with Alice cuddling Cinnamoroll a lot, Cinderella having a soft spot for Kuromi and Hamelin in a Goofy Suit that he doesn't mind wearing, because Pochacco fits his beauty standards just by being adorable. And at the end of the event, all of them develop cuteness withdrawal symptoms when the Sanrio Characters go home.
  • Obliviously Evil: Almost everyone believes that what they're doing is right/necessary to revive their authors and fulfill their desires. Even when they're questioned or called out on their actions, they don't reflect on it.
  • One-Man Army: Both in the game and the story, every single one of them will chew through hundreds if not thousands of monsters (in the Three Little Pigs' case, literally) on the path to achieve their desires. Even the weediest and least impressive of them is treated as a near-unstoppable force.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The Child versions of Alice, Little Mermaid, Dorothy and Aladdin aside, there's Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio, Three Little Pigs and Little Match Girl.
  • Power-Upgrading Deformation: As everyone become increasingly powerful they also start to look less and less human with each iteration.
  • Purple Is Powerful: Sleeping Beauty and Hamelin are powerful Characters with purple Lifeforce.
  • Squishy Wizard: Cleric, Sorcerer, Minstrel and Mage classes allow the Characters to wield tomes, staves, instruments and artifacts. Except for Mages, they're the Support Party Member who assist the vanguards in battle.
  • Starter Mon: Alice, Snow White, Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio are available for the player to choose when they first start the game. However, this gets turned on its head when Parrah and Noya says that the player doesn't need to spend so much time deciding because the Characters who don't get picked will be obtained eventually anyway.
  • Superpowered Evil Side: The Half-Nightmare classes (most commonly available as rewards for the monthly multiplayer Gran Colosseum tournaments) are basically these, to make things even worse as if being more violent than the original fairy tales wasn't enough. The lore of this class depicts the character giving in to their desires/concept, which will eventually turn them into a Nightmare. Gameplay-wise, the class boosts their specialty weapon, is neutral to another, and gives a massive debuff to 2 other weapon types, making them most useful for advanced players who've managed to collect lots of powerful weapons of a single type rather than cobbling together their grids out of whatever's available.
    • Characters who get the Alt. Half class become Half-Nightmare lite - the same transformation into their Nightmare counterparts, but without the setbacks of using one in battle. Instead, equipping one of them in the support class grid gives boosts such as higher stats and increase in power in certain situations.
  • Stripperiffic: Every character (except Red Riding Hood, Nutcracker and Hamelin) have at least one class (bar those involving swimsuits) which exposes more skin than the rest of their classes.
  • Theme Naming: Each character has one weapon per class titled with the name of their respective concepts; Alice's Bondage, Snow White's Justice, Sleeping Beauty's Languor, Cinderella's Depravity, etc.
    • Their Reality version weapons are all named as "Meaning of" (JP)/"Intent (of)" (EN) followed by their concepts (example: Brutal Intent, Intent of Curiosity).
    • In the Global server, some of the class weapons don't use the words of the concepts entirely, instead opting for synonyms or other words that have similar meanings to said concepts.
    • Averted with Alice, Cinderella and Red Riding Hood's Kimono class weapons (in a case of Early-Installment Weirdness), as well as Gretel's Breaker Ext. class weapon, which is also the only Act of Elimination class that doesn't have the Character's concept word in its name.
  • Together in Death: Unlike the international servers where only Alice gets to say goodbye, the Japanese server ends with all the Characters heading off into the afterlife together.
  • True Blue Femininity: Alice, Kaguya, and Little Mermaid have Lifeforce in shades of blue and wear blue clothing.
  • True Companions: By the time the Act of SINoALICE rolls around, the Characters have gotten along better with each other; those who previously butted heads with others now consider them as allies. Even Characters who previously killed each other in previous arcs such as Dorothy and the Three Little Pigs; Dorothy was Eaten Alive when she last met the Pigs eventually developed a friendly relationship with one another. In Chapter 5 of the same arc, Alice went on a worldwide journey not just to eliminate all the Nightmares but to collect everyone else's weapons as well, calling them her comrades and friends when she uses them in the battle against the arc's Final Boss.
  • Victory Pose: Each Character has a unique one after clearing a stage. This even applies to the Collab-exclusive Characters.
  • Villain Protagonist: It's made clear early on in every character's story that slaughtering hundreds (or even thousands) of sapient beings to bring back one person isn't particularly morally defensible even if you have a somewhat noble reason for wanting them back, and most of our protagonists don't. The only question is whether any particular character is Obliviously Evil, a Card-Carrying Villain, or simply on course for a Heel Realisation.
  • Volcanic Veins: Everyone's Ext. Class have prominent glowing veins making it looks like their skin is almost cracking, as if their bodies are just barely containing their power.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?:
    • The Reality versions of the Three Little Pigs, Aladdin, Rapunzel, Hamelin and Little Match Girl don't appear in the Act of Fusion, and since it's all but guaranteed that everyone not named Nutcracker dies in the Act of Reality, it's unknown where they fit in the main story's timeline if any. However, the Act of Elimination Part 2's Hard Mode reveals that some time after the Library version of the Pigs ran away from Nutcracker, they met up with their Reality counterparts while Aladdin and Rapunzel's Reality stories are implied to take place during the events of the Act of Fusion, though with their Library versions meeting up it's unknown if they were resurrected as well or if they simply passed on.
    • Aladdin, Kaguya and Little Mermaid were no-shows in Part 2 of the Act of Elimination despite being in Part 1, leading players to wonder if they didn't accept Parrah and Noya's offer of revival or if they did but were somewhere else. Gretel is eventually revealed to be the Masked Man, who's somewhat regained their sanity and is now working against Parrah and Noya.
    • While the Library was restructured by Alice and everyone got to meet up with their authors again, every character that debuted from the Act of Hatred onwards did not appear in the Act of Authors so no one knows what happened to authors such as Hans Christen Andersen and L.Frank Baum.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: In the Act of Elimination, the more powerful the Character becomes, the worse their mental state. Notable examples include the Reality versions of Red Riding Hood and Dorothy, along with the Library versions of Alice and the Three Little Pigs. However, there are Characters such as Reality!Snow White who managed to keep their relative sanity by conserving their power.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Parrah and Noya say this word for word in the Act of Desire as they boot up the Eldritch Abomination that is the Library once the Desire of every world encountered has been gathered in one place by the Characters.
  • Initial Roster (Act of Impulse)note 
  • Later Roster (Act of Hatred/Reality) note 

Other Characters

    Parrah and Noya (Gishin and Anki) 

Parrah and Noya / Gishin and Anki (ギシンとアンキ Gishin and Anki)

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Parrah on the right, Noya on the left

Parrah voiced by: Miho Amane (The Last Story)
Noya voiced by: Kent Itou (briefly in Summer Reverb, Busted Puppet); Ui Hinagata (The Last Story)

Two puppets who serve as the game's navigator characters. They mostly appear in front of the Characters to give them instructions and to goad them into killing for the sake of their desires. Despite looking like children, both are incredibly foul-mouthed. Parrah is the female-presenting puppet wearing a white gothic lolita outfit while Noya is the male-presenting puppet wearing a grey lolita outfit.

In NieR Re[in]carnation, they serve as the recurring bosses in "Variation: Puppets Parrah-Noya" as well as equippable Companions that use the same upgrade materials as Spirit-type Companions.


  • Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: On occasion, with Parrah as the tsukkomi and Noya as the boke. This is more evident when pulling the Grimoire.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: As administrators of the Library, they're often the ones speaking to the player, ranging from exposition to being the Greek Chorus prior to events and raids with stories attached to them.
  • Butt-Monkey: Noya, ranging from losing body parts when pulling the gacha to being experimented on by Dorothy. And he isn't even safe in NieR: Re[in]carnation either as the description for his Companion self makes fun of him.
  • The Cameo: Disembodied giant versions of Parrah and Noya show up in chapter 3 of NieR Re[in]carnation when 063y and Yurie enter the section of the Library via the Cage. There's also a record of the two of them attempting to restart their game after something showed up and they tried to stop it.
  • Co-Dragons: While it's unknown whether they serve a higher being in the game itself, Parrah and Noya are seen addressing someone in the manga who's only known as The Game Master, the closest thing SINoALICE has to a Big Bad in any media.
    • Later heavily implied that they are serving a bigger threat via their reports during the Act of Elimination if the player does not use a character with area bonus on stages 1 and 10 of each chapter.
  • Color-Coded Characters: On merchandise, Parrah is associated with gold and Noya with silver.
  • Connected All Along: According to a Global server Q&A, Parrah and Noya may be this to Accord.
  • The Corruptor: They are constantly trying to goad the cast into giving in to their vices and to keep on mindlessly killing nightmares. Some of the events also imply that they are the same with some of the sentient nightmares as well.
  • Creepy Doll: Their overall appearance, resembling children but with foul language.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Towards the Characters on occasion. Parrah is also this towards Noya.
  • Dub Name Change: From Gishin and Anki in Japanese to Parrah and Noya in Global to preserve the 'paranoia' pun in their names.
  • Dual Boss: In worlds that don't have a Final Boss to resolve whatever issue that caused it to be attracted to Library in the first place, Parrah and Noya serve as bosses themselves, most notably during the Phantasmic Rift event. The duo also serve as this in NieR Re[in]carnation's collaboration event with SINoALICE, "Variation: Puppets Parrah-Noya", in which both of them have to be taken out before the surviving puppet revives the other.
  • Even Evil Has Standards:
    • Jerkasses they may be, but even they know not to incur Sleeping Beauty's wrath when she wants to sleep.
    • When Little Match Girl's other personality is revealed after Hameln unknowingly activates it via attempting to take her eyes, they're terrified enough to want to stop her before she causes anymore dangerous destruction.
    • In Fairytale Gamblers, for a couple of puppets who thrive on desires, even they feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of the stuff in the Kakegurui universe, and Kirari terrifies them to the point where they're protective of Little Match Girl for what happened to her.
  • Final Boss: In the Act of Desire, Noya fuses with the Library's physical form and becomes Desire-Noya, who then serves as this for the act and the overall main story. Unlike most final bosses in the game and especially when compared to the Taiwanese and Global server finale, the player must be part of a guild in order to access the boss fight and finish the game.
  • The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In the Act of Desire, with the Characters captured by the Library, their bullying and taunts move to their next target: You, the player.
  • "Freaky Friday" Flip: Noya switching bodies with Laplace's Demon is what triggers the start of the Mirrored Rozen Maidens event, and if the both of them are unable to return to their original bodies, the worlds of SINoALICE and Rozen Maiden will not be able to seperate. Much of the event consists of them trying and failing to get anyone from either universe to care about this, before Laplace's Demon gives up and fixes the problem himself.
  • Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Recent events have the puppets drag the characters into these to make lots of money to maintain the servers, ranging from forming a male idol group with female characters to using That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime as an inspiration to make a best-selling Light Novel.
  • Greek Chorus: When the player starts an event with a story for the first time, they would usually appear to introduce the player to the setting. They then show up again at the end of the event's story when cleared for the first time.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Averted to hell and back with Parrah, who has gold hair but none of the morality associated with the trope.
  • Hidden Depths: If this is any indication, Noya is a enthusiast for Death Metal.
  • Humans Are Bastards: Their modus operandi in the Act of Desire. By tasking the Characters to gather Desire, Parrah and Noya hope to destroy humanity's Desire because it's this Desire that brings out the worst in them, especially when they prey on the player's potential negative thoughts about reality and the tendency for humans to retreat into worlds of fiction offered by media such as games, anime and manga to escape from their responsibilities in real life.
  • I Shall Taunt You: The duo are prone to a mixture of this and Break Them by Talking towards the Characters and the Nightmares. In the Act of Desire, they even do this to you!
  • Laser-Guided Karma:
    • The Lullaby of Reincarnation event starts with Parrah and Noya sending Alice and Snow White into a world similar to that of That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime and have them act out an isekai novel in order to replicate said novel's success. With said plot beginning with the duo being run over by a truck and reincarnating as monsters. When they get fed up with Alice and Snow White's supposed 'failure', the puppets decide to act out the plot themselves. Chapter 12 of the event's normal mode reveals that they end up reincarnating as regular balls of slime, unlike the unique slimes that Snow White and Rimuru became, which meant that in the end they weren't able to produce a best-selling 'isekai' novel like they wanted to.
    • In the Sanctuary of Nursery Rhymes -Elementary Student Arc- event, Parrah and Noya are the ones hit by a truck this time. To be fair, they were trying continuously to erase every world featuring Cinderella and her kids since the characters who turned into kids refused to kill each other.
    • During the Divas in Distress event with Gems Company, let's say their attempts to punish Hinaka Hoshina for placing last in the popularity poll went a little too well, with them being forced to watch the JAM! GEM! JUMP! music video on loop by a now-crazed Hinaka.
    • Usually, they appear at the start an event to let the player know what they're getting themselves into. However, they only show up at the end of the Endless desire...~A Butler Crosses the Threshold~ event, and looking very charred... because Sebastian blew them up for scheming with the Earl that invited him, Ciel and Elizabeth to his manor.
  • Light Is Not Good: Parrah wears gold and white but is villainous.
  • Losing Your Head:
    • When pulling the Grimoire, Noya would lose his head if the rope breaks. This usually means that the player just got a guaranteed SS/SR-rarity weapon/Nightmare in their pull. Sometimes he loses his head after certain dialogue which is followed by Parrah beating him up in one way or another, which gives the player an extra S/SS-rarity weapon in place of an A-rarity weapon. In the Recycle gacha, if Noya's head is dropped into the machine instead of the SS weapon the player wants to get rid of, one of their new SS-rarity weapon is of cost 19 and above.
    • Parrah loses hers for the first time during the SINoALICE concert after she lets her own desires take over her.
    • Both puppets end up reduced to just their heads during the Taiwanese and Global servers finale when they ask the player if they want to save Alice at the cost of the world of Library's destruction.
  • Obviously Evil: Red eyes? Check. Talks like they're chattering? Check. Resembles wooden puppets? Check. Yep, totally trustworthy.
  • Ms. Exposition: As navigator characters, they're the ones explaining the mechanics of the Library.
  • Pass the Popcorn: According to Parrah's description as a Companion in NieR Re[in]carnation, she likes snacking on popcorn while watching people engage in catfights; the pettier the better.
  • Punny Name: In every language, their names read as 'Paranoia' when put together. In particular, their names in Japanese (GishinJP  and AnkiJP ) put together forms 疑心暗鬼, "gishinanki", meaning "paranoia".
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Both have red eyes and have malicious intents for the Characters and various worlds.
  • The Reveal: Chapter 5 of the Act of Fusion reveals that the duo are administrators of the Library who tie worlds together. The moment there's a distortion with a world's logic, Parrah and Noya would attach it to the Library and said fusion is irreversible until a period of time has passed; anyone caught within the Library's powers would then be compelled to continue the Forever War within it.
  • Series Mascot: Of sorts, for the game. Despite Alice being the character on most of the game's icons, Parrah and Noya have more constant appearances within the game and in merchandise.
  • Shoo Out the Clowns:
    • Typically, their role if not to goad the Characters into committing murder is that of the comic relief, especially during events. With how intense the Act of Elimination gets, Parrah and Noya are noticeably absent from its main story, only appearing in its Dissonant Poems providing reports on the battles that ensue.
    • Considering how dark the Act of Authors gets, Parrah and Noya are virtually absent from the story, only making a short cameo in Snow White's story where she saves them from being nearly eaten by Henrietta Wild. Afterwards they make sure to stay away from the Characters, especially when their Authors are close to regressing as Nightmares.
  • Suddenly Voiced: Played With - both puppets have unknown voice actors whose voices are filtered through a voice processor. However, during the Reverberations of Summer, The Broken Puppeteer event for Summer 2019, Noya's voice suddenly changed to that of a Bishōnen courtesy of voice actor Kento Ito. Turns out, the voice change was caused by Dorothy.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: When Noya takes defeating the player to the extremes by deleting game functions and eventually attempting to shut down the game early, Parrah realizes that what he did is beyond their capacity as administrators and so jumps ship to team up with the player and Nutcracker. However, Parrah makes it clear when Nutcracker yells at her to explain what the hell is going on with Noya that her siding with him doesn't automatically make them allies.
  • Theseus' Ship Paradox: Since Noya's body at the end of the Mirrored Rozen Maidens event was made by Laplace's Demon in order to separate the SINoALICE and Rozen Maiden universes, the dialogue between the two puppets in Chapter 11 of the event's Normal Mode has Parrah wondering if this Noya is even 'Noya' at all.
  • Together in Death: The final fate of Parrah and Noya, with Noya dying after the defeat of his Desire-Noya form by the Characters and the player's guild and Parrah jumping down Dorothy's time machine to be with him because she couldn't leave her twin brother alone. One of the final scenes of the game has the duo sleeping together in an abandoned Library.
  • Villain's Dying Grace: The Taiwanese and Global server finale has them offer the key of hope that will save Alice and allow her to wake up — knowing full well that they will cease to exist alongside Library. Meanwhile the Japanese server shows them sleeping together in an abandoned library after Noya's death at the hands of the player's guild and Parrah falling through the atmosphere to join him.
  • We Have Reserves: According to Parrah in the SINoALICE concert, whenever either one or both of them break, another would simply take their place.
  • We Want Our Jerk Back!: Completely averted. Whenever something untoward happens to one or both of them in an event, the first obstacle they inevitably run into is that nobody else cares.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: Noya; white-haired and one of 2 corrupters.
  • Winged Humanoid: Two puppets with butterfly wings.
    The Black Cat 
A mysterious black cat that appears during the Anniversary events to lend the power of the Proud Lion spirit to the Characters. However, not much is known about it or where it came from, except that from the 2nd Anniversary onwards it always returns to 'a certain girl' after the focal characters end up overwhelmed by said power.
  • Ambiguous Situation: After the story of the 2nd Anniversary event Snow, Two Justices, Parrah and Noya wonder in the epilogue over whether the cat that approached Snow is the same cat that accompanied Alice in Alice, Another. There are also implications (but not confirmed) that the cat is related to the Proud Lion spirit, but if there were, the cat isn't giving the slip anytime soon.
  • No Name Given
  • Riddle for the Ages: Not much is known about the cat, especially whether the cat throughout the Anniversary events is one and the same.
  • Talking Animal
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: In the end, due to the 6th and final Anniversary event not being a Proud Lion Spirit-focused event, the whereabouts of the cat during then are unknown.
  • You Have Failed Me: Snow White, The Three Little Pigs and Cinderella all failed to master the power it gave them, having gone mad afterwards. The sole character to keep their sanity after being granted said power is Alice, and it's heavily implied that the cat always returns to her after the other Anniversary events.
    • Pinocchio, Five Minutes Ago has the cat being surprised that Pinocchio not only survived being consumed by the Proud Lion spirit, he also managed to keep his sanity.
    ??? (The Masked Man) 
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A mysterious character who first shows up in Part 2 of the Act of Elimination who is one of the Characters out to kill the Alice fragments. Not much is known about him except that he's more aware of the whole situation at large than Snow White.

For more information about his true identity, see Gretel's tab.
  • The Atoner: The main reason for participating in Parrah and Noya's game is cited as being for 'his other half', in order to atone for his sins.
  • The Faceless: His face is covered in bandages, so we don't get to see what he's like underneath. Only when Parrah and Noya out him as Hansel that the Masked Man gets a skin with the bandages removed and Gretel/Breaker Ext. is introduced.
  • Full-Name Basis: He refers to Snow as 'Snow White', something that most fellow Characters don't do.
  • In the Hood
  • My Name Is ???: Officially in the Index he's listed as this. In the story proper he's only known as "The Masked Man", and he still retains his own section in the Index even after the player has cleared his debut Act.
  • No Name Given: Is labelled as '???' in the encyclopedia, and the one time he mentions his name in his Class story, it's censored. Eventually, his fight with Red Riding Hood has the puppets realize that the Masked Man is actually a sane Hansel.
  • Walking Spoiler: Due to his true identity and the nature of said identity, good luck trying to discuss the Act of Elimination (Part 2) without drawing attention to him.
     The Authors (SPOILERS FOR BOOK 7) 
The Characters' creators, who have all died prior to the events of the game. Resurrecting them is the ultimate goal of the cast, who murder Nightmares by the hundreds to obtain their lifeforce in order to revive them and have their wishes granted.

They're all resurrected in the Act of Authors thanks to Alice piercing the cocoon that used to be The Three Little Pigs and restructuring the Library. However, their return to life isn't perfect, as the characters found out the hard way...
  • All for Nothing: Towards the end of Gretel's Act of Authors story, Wilheim Grimm drops a scroll that reveals that because resurrecting Authors, who are hailed as deities, requires an ungodly amount of lifeforce to the point of it being unrealistic, the Characters' quest to revive them is pretty much guaranteed to fail.
  • Back from the Dead: The ultimate goal of the Characters is to resurrect them, either to give them a second chance in life or for them to fulfill the desires that are otherwise impossible.
  • Came Back Wrong: Heavily implied to be the case for all of them for the Act of Authors. Case in point, Lewis Carroll has a massive memory gap between Alice at 7 years old and Alice in the present, while the person Snow White resurrected was unrecognizable until her name was revealed to be Henrietta Dorothea "Dortchen" Wild, Wilheim's wife. Cinderella and Gretel's stories eventually reveal that neither of the Authors' resurrections have been complete due to the unrealistic amount of lifeforce needed, so the current results are close to Nightmarification because of this.
  • The Cameo: The authors for Jack and the Beanstalk and Water Margin appear in Red Riding Hood's chapter as some of her hapless victims. One wonders what would happen if Jack and Song Jiang themselves became playable and found out about it.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: Henrietta isn't happy that Snow White doesn't recognize her as a creator, instead only referring to the Grimm Brothers as such. According to her, she told her husband, Wilhelm Grimm, the story of Snow White and the brothers wrote it. But while the brothers got all the credit, she was left in obscurity.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: As Alice and Snow found out the hard way, the authors were resurrected as Nightmares instead of their proper human selves. As such, they end up having cannibalistic natures, as seen when Lewis Carroll eats the Henrietta clones and starts regressing.
  • Me's a Crowd: Henrietta in Snow White's story splits herself into multiple copies after barely hanging on to her sanity by a thread, while Charles Perrault ends up splitting into 8 when Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood feed a powerful Nightmare to him. Since the two little girls share the same author, Sleeping Beauty takes a copy of her author while Red Riding Hood leaves with the remaining 7.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: In Chapter 4 of Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood's stories, Charles Perrault is horrified that his cute creations ended up so murderous and reveals that the consequences of changing their stories is not what they want it to be.
  • Reality Warper: As the creators of the Characters, the Authors have the ability to change aspects of their respective stories as they please, as shown with Charles Perrault when his declaration of being Sleeping Beauty's prince causes her thorns who would otherwise attack him to let him in to her bed, even after he got lopped in half by an unassuming Red Riding Hood. This is the main reason some Characters such as Cinderella, Kaguya and Pinocchio want to revive their authors; so that they can change their stories or outright rewrite them to what they want it to be.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Charles Perrault really gives Red Riding Hood an earful over how her violent tendencies are a minor inconvenience at best, and downright horrific at worst. Red Riding Hood does not take it very well, and ends up killing him after he refuses to grant her wish because of it.
  • Together in Death: Alice and Lewis Carroll attempt this, but Lewis changes his dagger into a bouquet of Alice's favourite flowers at the last minute, leaving her with one last lie before his 2nd death. This breaks Alice hard.
  • Walking Spoiler: Beware, all ye who have not finished up to the current story arc.
  • Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood believed that their stories were written by The Brothers Grimm, but it turns out that it wasn't the Grimms who were behind their creations, but someone else entirely: Henrietta Wild for Snow, Charles Perrault for both Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood.

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