Characters / SINoALICE - Initial Roster

SINoALICE Main Characters Index
Initial Roster | Later Roster

Characters that debuted in the first Book of SINoALICE, the Act of Impulse.

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Alice

^Reality

^Nightmare

^{Act of Elimination Part 1}

^{Act of Elimination Part 2 (Spoilers)}

^{Act of Authors (Massive Spoilers)}

"Even if you break my right arm... or sever my left arm... even then, I won’t give up."

Origin: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

Voiced by: Mao Ichimichi

The titular girl from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Alice seems to feel immense grief and denial over her Author's death and wishes to resurrect him, even if it means they'll never meet or that he'll hate her.

Her Concept is "Bondage"^JP束縛/sokubaku.

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• Above Good and Evil: It's implied that her motives are based more in intuition than morality, and that she believes that her actions aren't good or evil.
• Alice Allusion: A more literal example. She is the character of Alice.
• All Just a Dream: The ending exclusive to the Taiwanese and Global servers has the Library being a dream that Alice was having while asleep during class. She wakes up, is greeted by a friend, and they leave together with the implication that Alice will have the hope to carry on in her life.
• All Your Powers Combined: Alice defeats the Final Boss of the Act of SINoALICE with the signature weapons of the other Characters who died in the same arc; she uses Snow's broadsword and Red Riding Hood's bludgeon when her own sword broke, Aladdin's scroll to pin it down and when she lost one of her legs, Pinocchio's staff made her a new one.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: A short-haired, dark blue-haired girl who refuses to be distracted from her goal.
• Ambiguously Human: A meta variant. Although Alice is a character in Lewis Carroll's story, her Inner Monologue and lore feature more of her relationship with her Author than the Wonderland itself. This indicates that she may or may not be the actual Alice Liddell, a young girl whom Lewis befriended during his life.
• Apologetic Attacker: Alice expresses much remorse in her chapters for her onslaught against the nightmares in her hopes to revive her author, she doesn't desire forgiveness, knows that she and her wish is twisted and even briefly considers accepting not meeting her author. Despite it all she carries on with her wish.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: After returning to the Library during Lullaby of Reincarnation, the sole reason why Alice and Snow White decided to go back to the world Parrah and Noya had them reincarnate as monsters in despite hating their reincarnated bodies was simply because Shizu was very kind to them despite their faults.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Her Reality Arc persona is hinted to have such a relationship with her sensei.
• BFG: She carries one of these in her Gunner form.
• BFS / Katanas Are Better: Her Breaker job main hand is designed based on katana.
• Chain Pain: In the manga, Reality!Alice's "Power of Bondage" has her summon a multitude of pocket watch chains to restrict her opponent's movement.
• Creepy Child: Her Paladin class story stated that she rambles incoherently in the middle of the night and she frightened the nurses.
• Creepy Monotone: As part of her Emotionless Girl schtick, she usually keeps the same flat, glum tone even when she's doing (or about to do) something extremely disturbing.
• Deadpan Snarker: As an Emotionless Girl, she's near-permanently deadpan, but that doesn't prevent her from reacting to the world around her with blunt, acid wit every so often.
• Despair Event Horizon: Her Half-Nightmare class story tells of Alice's anxiety over her wish not coming true, and her despair twisting her determination to fight into mindlessly killing everyone, including her Author and herself in the end. Unfortunately, this turns out to be not far off from what actually happens to her in the Act of Elimination, completing her Protagonist Journey to Villain.
  • And it's even worse during the Act of Authors - not only does the Lewis Carroll she meets have a massive memory gap (as in, he only remembers Alice as a 7-year-old), he reveals at the end of Chapter 1 of her story that he isn't the Lewis Carroll she knows and loves. And after her attempts to save him were All for Nothing, she crosses this and despairs so hard when she mourns, her hair turns white.
• Determinator: A very dark example. No matter how many things she has to kill, how much it hurts, even if she'll never meet her Author again in the end, she won't give up. It doesn't take too long before it becomes clear that this is not a good thing, and her single-minded obsession with her mission is taking her to some very unpleasant places. Not only that, but the story shows what happens when the ultimate determinator finds out that their quest was All for Nothing, and it's not pretty at all.
• Dissonant Serenity: Subverted since despite keeping a stoic demeanor, she shown to regret her murders of the nightmares various times.
• Driven to Suicide: The reason why she wants to jump in the Reality Arc is because her sensei left her shortly after getting her pregnant.
• Emotion Suppression: Her Minstrel weapon story states that Alice resolved to discard her emotion in order to fight for the sake of her Author's resurrection.
• Emotionless Girl: A sacrifice made to elevate her determination.
• Eye Colour Change: In her jobs, Alice's eyes changes from red to a pale yellow.
• Feel No Pain: Alice stated that she feels no pain, because she knows that her wish to meet with her Author is cursed. This however gets averted as she become adept in combat and pain proves that she's both alive and sane.
• The Fettered: As befitting her Concept of Bondage. Alice is bound to her author and her wish to resurrect him, regardless of how much she suffers or what the outcome of bringing him back will be. In the Reality Arc, Alice is bound by her relationship with her teacher and her pregnancy as a result of it, resulting in her committing suicide after he leaves her because she couldn't live without him.
  • This also applies to Reality!Alice in the manga, where she chooses to remain bound by her promise of being together with her close friend even after she sleeps with the teacher she is in a relationship with. So much so that when her friend is about to jump off the school rooftop after murdering the teacher for leaving her, Alice tackles her off the roof and joins her in suicide, just to fulfill her promise.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: The fate of Reality!Alice at the hands of Library!Alice in the Act of Elimination, being sliced in two by the latter during their fight.
• The Hero Dies: The Character who's the face of the game ends up dead in Part 2 of the Act of Elimination via getting killed by the other Characters after she loses control of herself. However...
  • Not Quite Dead: The clip shown at the end of that same chapter has a stinger where during The Three Little Pigs/Queen Nightmare's soon-to-be destruction of the world, there's a shot of her arm... with the Lifeforce on it crackling like electricity. Nothing is known about what that means, though...
• Heroes Prefer Swords: She's the protagonist and main postergirl of the game, and is mainly associated with the Breaker (swordswoman) class. She favours katanas, signifying her samurai-like devotion to her mission.
• Headphones Equal Isolation: Her Reality version uses one. In the live-action CM, Reality version Alice is walking to the edge of a building, ignoring her surroundings, very likely planning to jump.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Alice's attachment and relationship with her Author is hinted to be motivated by this according to her Sorcerer weapon lore.
• I Owe You My Life: This is Alice's reason to keep on fighting for her Author. She'll do anything for his sake since she's alive because of him.
• I Work Alone: When Pinocchio asks Alice if he can tag along with her, she harshly rebukes him and even says this trope word for word. Pinocchio sadly complies.
• Joshikousei: What she was in the Act of Reality. Her Alternative class's outfit, which is her in her school uniform, comes with glowing wings and a glowing BFS.
• Locked into Strangeness: Having hit the Despair Event Horizon so hard in the Act of Authors from being unable to save her author, her hair goes from bluish-black to a stark white, making her resemble 2B.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Alice's feelings toward her Author are hinted to be this in her Sorcerer class story.
  • Her Half-Nightmare spear lore has a metaphorical story of a man and a woman in an affair, where the woman knew of the man's dishonesty yet she chose to deceive herself to please both of them. Left with nothing of what made her special, she clung to the man for dear life.
  • Her Act of Reality story basically confirms this, as both stories allude to her relation with her sensei.
• Me's a Crowd: When cut down, her pieces reform as copies of her and go on a rampage. It's the job of the other characters to take them out before they get killed again.
• Meido: Jino commented that Alice's main class, Breaker, is designed with the idea of a maid-samurai combination.
• Never Grew Up: Alice's Sorcerer main hand story states the reason why her Author put restraints on her is because he feared the thought of seeing her grow into an adult.
• Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Alice refuses to disrespect the nightmares who die in the Library and Kaguya's muttering how resilent she thought the nightmare that they killed would be causes Alice to harshly admonish her.... to Kaguya's enjoyment of course.
• No Name Given: Alice's Reality persona is never named, and in the manga whenever other characters call her by name it is blanked out with Alice simply written on top.
• Not So Stoic: Reality!Alice loses it in the Act of Elimination following the events of the Act of Fusion when she arrives at her sensei's apartment... only for him to be killed beforehand by Library!Alice. Library!Alice on the other hand doesn't care.
  • On the other hand Library!Alice gets thoroughly pissed when her Author Came Back Wrong, later declaring her intentions to kill everything on sight because she believed that Parrah and Noya lied to her about his revival.
  • Played for Laughs during A Fluffy Encounter event where she's her usual stoic self... while cuddling Cinnamoroll a bit too tightly. During her 'cuteness withdrawal' at the end of the event, she's lost quite a lot of sleep due to the lack of 'cuteness' the Sanrio Characters evoke.
• Power at a Price: Chapter 4 of the Act of Elimination reveals that Alice's price she had to pay for her new powers was the inability to control them.
• Power Gives You Wings: Her Reality version gives her these.
• Power Incontinence: The twist to Alice's new powers gained during the Act of Elimination was that she can't control them.
• The Promise:
  • The Tome of Bondage's weapon story states that she made numerous promises with her Author even though she's aware that he broke them. Yet she still keeps making more promises, otherwise she won't have a place in his heart.
  • In the Japanese server's ending, Alice makes one last promise with the player: to never forget about the Characters, just as much as they will never forget about you.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: As the title of the game suggests, she's the lead character of the story, and starts out as a stoic warrior who's very mission-focused but not especially cruel or malicious, and is capable of the odd Pet the Dog moment. The problem is that her quest requires more and more extreme brutality and treachery, and she just doesn't stop, gradually grinding away all her humanity to become a simple, remorseless killing machine. Then she wins, gets given a grotesque parody of what she thought she was fighting for, and snaps completely, becoming an Ax-Crazy Omnicidal Maniac and the new Big Bad.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Alice hunts the nightmares down not because of any malice as shown by her regretting her actions and her never approving of Parrah and Noah's actions but because she has to revive her author.
• Rage Against the Heavens: Goes on a killing spree after cutting down her author who Came Back Wrong. The other Characters, having been brought back by Parrah and Noya, have to put her down before she causes another apocalypse.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning / Supernatural Gold Eyes: Either, depending on her character portrait and maybe the lighting. Played straight with her Half-Nightmare class.
• Sealed Good in a Can: Or evil, considering the morality of the whole cast. Alice ends the Act of SINoALICE sealed away in a book ala Grimoires Weiss, Noir and Rubrum as she breathes a sigh of relief over the fact that her fight to kill Nightmares and revive her author is over. Except that Parrah and Noya have other ideas with that book...
• Security Blanket: Carries one in her Child class arts and refuses to put it down. In battle stages, she wears it like a cape.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Alice has eyes for Lewis Carroll, and only him. Her Reality counterpart on the other hand is obsessedly devoted to her teacher to the point of committing suicide after being dumped by him and when revived in the Act of Fusion specifically hunts him down. Dorothy possibly had this in mind when inventing what would become her Author Support Kit class in Dorothy's Workshop 2.
• Signature Headgear: She wears a blue hairband, with two long ribbons of flames. It borders on Animal-Eared Headband, being a reference to the White Rabbit's ears.
• Sole Survivor:
  • Alice is the only character left alive at the end of the Act of Elimination (Part 1). A bit downplayed if the end of Chapter 5 is any indication where Snow White can be heard...
  • The Act of Authors leaves her as the last one left which turns her into the catalyst for the Act of SINoALICE to take place.
  • While it's unknown if Snow White survived the Bolivian Army Ending at the end of their Act of SINoALICE chapter, Alice is one of two confirmed survivors of that arc, the other being Dorothy whom fate has more in store for. Chapter 5 and Alice and Snow's Hard Mode eventually reveals that Snow didn't make it out.
• Starter Mon: Her Breaker class is one of 4 starting classes at the start of the game. However, even if she isn't picked, she can still be obtained by playing Part 1 of her Act of Impulse Chapter 1 anyway.
• The Stoic: Described as "a silent blade", signifying her concept.
• Teen Pregnancy: Due to her relationship with her sensei, which causes him to leave her.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She and Snow White despise the other for their incompatible ideologies as Alice considers Snow both a slave to selfish sense to justice and also a Hypocrite, while Snow hates the selfishness of Alice, despite that, they still work together to fight the nightmares.
  Snow White: "I'll never agree that someone as selfish as you has more right to exist than me. But right now there are greater wrongs in the world we need to make right."
  Alice: "Don't think I enjoy the company of a hypocrite, either, But right now we don't have the luxury of picking how we accomplish our goals."
• Troubled Teen: Reality!Alice has barely any friends at school, struggles with suicidal ideation, and is fanatically devoted to her teacher even after he statutory raped, impregnated and abandoned her. And the Taiwanese and Global server endings reveal that she dreamed up the entire Library as a way of escaping from the sorry state of her real life...
• Underboobs: Her Sorcerer class has them peeking out of her top.
• Undying Loyalty: Her ultimate reason to keep butchering Nightmares.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: 'Used to be' isn't quite the right way to put it, given that it's the result of a Baby Morph Episode, but when she's turned into an infant in the Sanctuary of Children's Song event, she grows into a shy but gentle and affectionate child with a close bond with her adoptive mother Cinderella. It's quite a change from the icy, ruthless Determinator she usually is.
• Virtuous Character Copy: The Taiwanese and Global server endings makes her Reality and Library selves extremely downplayed versions of this for Sunny and Omori, respectively; the former being another dark-haired and suicidally depressed Troubled Teen who created a morbid fantasy world to cope with their trauma relating to someone that they looked up to, and the latter being another steadfast blade-wielding alter ego with a morose personality and disturbingly violent tendencies dreamed up by the former to live vicariously in the aforementioned fantasy world, and who eventually turns upon their original self. However, Reality!Alice is the victimized party in the exploitative Teacher/Student Romance leading to her current fractured mental state, whereas Sunny is the victimizer, having to own up, both to his friends and himself, to the accidental murder of his sister Mari, and while Library!Alice shows some awareness that her ultimate objective is unhealthy and, in the very end, accepts the player's help to save Reality!Alice from her own nightmare, Omori displays no indication of abandoning his cause of blinding Sunny to the truth, and is completely self-righteous to the point that his ultimate idea of "helping" Sunny is to completely subsume his mind.
• Walking the Earth: Alice does this in Chapter 5 of the Act of SINoALICE to exterminate all of the Nightmare-corrupted humans of the real world and to pick up everyone else's weapons from their death locations.
• Widow's Weeds: Wears a pretty black mourning dress in her Funeral class, though that's Played for Laughs as part of a in-game joke during the 4th Anniversary. She wears another one with a more serious mood in the Act of Authors to mark her mourning of Lewis Carroll when she fails to save him from Nightmarification.
• When She Smiles: Her Reality self gives a rather heartfelt smile to her friend at the end of the Taiwanese and Global server ending — symbolizing how, with her having conquered her inner demons, she is free to live her life with a renewed sense of hope.
• You Are Not Alone: The Taiwanese and Global servers revolve around this theme with Alice realizing that the player has been at her side throughout the entire game which gives her the strength to overcome her despair and destroy The Library for good. This is followed by her waking up to a girl happily greeting her, and as they run off together it's implied that Alice will have at least one person in her life for support.

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Snow White

^Reality

^Nightmare

^{Act of Elimination}

^{Act of Authors}

"I will live my life with a conscience as clean as the pure driven snow that falls from the sky."

Origin: Snow White

Author: The Brothers Grimm (actually Henrietta Dorothea "Dortchen" Wild)

Voiced by: Reina Ueda

On the day of the wedding between the Prince and Snow White her mother, the Evil Queen, was invited. Despite all that the Queen had done, Snow White still forgave her mother. But the Evil Queen repaid this forgiveness by murdering the Prince, driving Snow White to kill her. Since then, Snow White has become a firm believer in punishing evil. She wants to revive her authors due to a personal debt, in that she owes her existence to the Grimm Brothers' lives.

Her Concept is "Justice"^JP正義/seigi.

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• Abusive Parents: Her mother is the Evil Queen but she wasn't always bad. Her obsession with beauty eventually drove Snow White into running away from home. Snow White even knowingly eats the poisoned apple in hopes that doing so might return the Queen to her kind self. Subverted by the reveal in her Paladin class story. See So Beautiful, It's a Curse.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: She has white hair, whereas in the fairy tale Snow White has ebony hair. Averted with her Reality Arc counterpart who has the same ebony hair as the fairy tale Snow White.
• All for Nothing: The manga reveals in a side story that Reality!Snow White and Reality!Red Riding Hood grew up in the same orphanage, and Snow was the only person who didn't give up on Red Riding Hood's development, therefore making her Red's Only Friend there. Unfortunately, Snow's efforts into Red's education and tempering her violent tendencies went down the drain when not only did it return a few months after Snow aged out of the system and moved away to pursue nursing, the next time both met they're on opposite sides of a Deadly Game.
• Anti-Villain: As mentioned above, the nature of their quest and their willingness to engage in it makes any playable character a Villain Protagonist, but Snow has the most doubts about her mission, feels the most guilt about it, and is the most willing to do good and show kindness where she can. During the Re:Zero crossover event, Parrah and Noya specifically complain that she's not very good at being bad. Her Library version's lack of conviction eventually gets her killed.
• Armour-Piercing Question: A spectacular one delivered by Reality Snow White towards her Library counterpart in the Act of Elimination:
  Library Snow: My justice is for my masters.
  Reality Snow: Then what if your masters are evil?
  • Library Snow's failure to answer that question plays a key part in her demise against Reality Snow.
• Battle Butler: Gets a Butler class for the Endless desire...~A Butler Crosses the Threshold~ event alongside Aladdin who reuses his Halloween class.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: After returning to the Library during Lullaby of Reincarnation, the sole reason why Alice and Snow White decided to go back to the world Parrah and Noya had them reincarnate as monsters in despite hating their reincarnated bodies was simply because Shizu was very kind to them despite their faults.
• Bedlah Babe: Her Gunner class looks as if it takes heavy inspiration from a belly dancer aesthetic.
• Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: Most of her outfits reflect this. On her wedding day, she was splattered in the blood of the Prince and the Evil Queen.
• Concepts Are Cheap: An in-universe example. Library Snow White's use of the word 'justice' soon slips into this as she finds herself defending the indefensible more and more often, going from a developed ideology to a security blanket to keep her going. This proves her undoing when she goes up against her Reality version, who has much more self-awareness, conviction, and tolerance for necessary evil.
• Contralto of Strength: As the resident Lady of War, she's got the deep, authoritative voice of a warrior-aristocrat, although her Sanity Slippage and frequent Not So Stoic moments give her a more variable register than, say, Cinderella.
• Deadly Doctor: In her Act of Reality, she is a nurse, Yukishita Miki, who secretly poisons several patients whom she viewed as criminals and bad people. She ends up killed by Akiyoshi Yura, a possible ancestor of Masayoshi Yura, out of revenge for one of her victims.
• Despair Event Horizon: Goes through this after a MASSIVE Armor-Piercing Question from the author she revived in the Act of Authors and starts questioning herself over whether it was the right thing to do.
• Deuteragonist: She's the main postergirl of the game alongside Alice, gets almost as much screentime in events, and ends up as the leader of La Résistance after Alice completes her Protagonist Journey to Villain.
• Eaten Alive: She was supposed to kill Nutcracker and inherit his powers and memories, therefore using the information gathered from there to formulate a plan to stop Parrah and Noya. Thanks to them hijacking Nutcracker's body and regressing his sentience, she suffers this fate and has her powers absorbed by him instead.
• Even the Girls Want Her: According to the Paladin job story, even a maid had impure thoughts about Snow White.
• Expy: She shares a similar moral pride and white color palette with One.
• Fallen Hero: Before she came to the Library, Snow White was a ruthless but fair, effective, and principled enforcer of justice, and a genuine force for good. Reconciling that with her profoundly unjust quest to resurrect her authors through the mass sacrifice of sapient beings was... difficult.
• For Great Justice: She used to vanquish evil and deliver justice for the simple satisfaction of vanquishing evil and delivering justice, and that was also why she accepted the mission to revive her authors (seeing it as a fair reward for their efforts). Learning exactly how unjust this procedure would end up being was a key contributor to her Sanity Slippage.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Snow in Snow, Justice of Two after defeating the corrupting force in her world starts off as a benevolent ruler, but in her Proud Lion spirit-possessed mind, she starts executing civilians for even the most minor of mistakes, including being bystanders as the horrors of the previous ruler were conducted.
• The Hedge of Thorns: Her Half-Nightmare class has this underneath her skirt.
• Healing Hands: Her power in the manga manifests as this.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: She's the deuteragonist and enough of an Anti-Villain that she's as close as the story comes to having a hero. She's most closely associated with the Breaker (swordswoman) class, and favours European straightswords that match her noble, knightly demeanour.
• Hidden Depths: Her Taisho Roman class story reveals that she enjoys cooking as a hobby. During Creation of Sweets, if the player chooses not to play as Hamelin, Kaguya or Sleeping Beauty, the side story featuring her and Little Match Girl shows that she's also one of many fans of the 'Hameln chocolates'.
• Horned Humanoid: In her Alternative Ext. class, she gets a singular horn in the center of her forehead.
• I Am the Noun: She stands in her belief that she herself is justice, thus having the authority to bring it.
  • Her Half-Nightmare class takes her belief and everything that she vowed and declared regarding justice to a whole new level.
• In-Series Nickname: Gets called 'Snow' by almost everyone.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: As stated by her quote above, she vowed to live up to her name by enforcing justice and rejecting anything that might corrupt her. She found it far more of a challenge than she hoped.
• Killed Offscreen: What eventually happens to her as revealed in the Act of SINoALICE's Chapter 5; Hard Mode reveals that she eventually turned into a Nightmare.
• Knight Templar: Played with. She tends to talk about how she's the embodiment of justice, and her enemies are by definition evil, but it soon becomes clear that it's more of a coping mechanism than something she seriously believes, and she's desperate for any opportunity to show kindness or mercy. That said, her doubts and guilt are never quite enough to make her stop her mission... until the Act of Elimination.
• Lady of War: Many of the playable characters fall into this territory to a greater or lesser extent, but she's the purest example. Most of her designs present her as a dignified and elegant warrior, and Jino commented on designing her to look like a monarch.
• The Leader: After being revived in Part 2 of the Act of Elimination, Snow White leads the other characters into taking out an out-of-control Alice before the latter causes The End of the World as We Know It.
• Meaningful Name: Reality!Snow White's first name uses the kanji for "beautiful princess" while her last name means "falling snow" or "under (the) snow", which means that if one puts it together her name means "beautiful princess under the snow", referring to her Fairytale Motif.
• Ms. Exposition: Appears in Little Match Girl's chapter in Act of Elimination Part 2 to give her the rundown on what's going on.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Snow tries to justify eating the corrupted dwarves (and by extension gaining author powers) by believing that she's saving them from an even more corrupted Dortchen, who had taken on the appearance of the Evil Queen from Snow, Justice of Two. But when Dortchen unveils her Armor-Piercing Question at Snow with her dying breath, Snow starts questioning herself over whether it was just and right saving the dwarves that had cared for her in her youth in that way and crosses the Despair Event Horizon, taking on her Act of Authors class appearance in the process.
• My Real Daddy: In-Universe, Snow acknowledges the Grimm Brothers as her masters, therefore her authors. So when she ends up resurrecting Henrietta Dorothea 'Dortchen' Wild, Wilheim's wife and supposedly Snow's original creator in the Act of Authors, Snow is shocked that Henrietta is pissed that Snow didn't acknowledge her as such.
• Never My Fault: Snow White insists on her justice even after killing the bird Nightmare and her children, claiming self-defense and to achieve her goal. It's clear that she doesn't really believe it, and the next chapter of her story consists of her fruitlessly searching for non-sapient nightmares to kill.
  • Her Minstrel job lore even gives the idea that Snow White herself rarely reflects on her justice and believes that she's just as justice itself.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She declared that she forgave her mother, who brandished a knife at her at that very moment, only to be protected by the prince, who died in her place. This results in Snow White killing her own mother and her resolve to correct the world.
• Not Quite Dead: At the end of Chapter 5, after the Due to the Dead montage plays, Snow White's voice can be heard calling out to Alice, which means that it's either another version of Snow, or she somehow survived her Act of Elimination battle as well.
  • Part 2 reveals that she and the other Characters made a contract with Parrah and Noya to bring themselves back to life, and are now out to get rid of the Alice fragments that are rampaging in Reality.
• Not So Stoic: She puts a lot of work into being a calm, dignified paragon of justice, which means that most of her screentime involves her being bludgeoned by the weirdness and/or horror of the setting until her composure cracks and she loses her cool spectacularly.
  • On a lighter note, after encountering the ghost of a developer during Ultramarine Summer's Lament, Alice saw that Snow had fainted, with Gretel poking her with a stick.
• One Degree of Separation:
  • In the game, it's implied that Reality!Snow White is working at the same hospital that Reality!Sleeping Beauty is hospitalized in, which is later confirmed in It All Starts With the Stars's side story in which Snow hears Sleeping Beauty's mother reading the Library-abridged version of Night on the Galactic Railroad to her while she sleeps.
  • In the manga, Reality!Snow White grew up in the same orphanage as Reality!Red Riding Hood before she aged out of the system and moved to the city to pursue a career in nursing.
• Power at a Price: Like Little Mermaid before her, Reality!Snow White gains an Ext. class, but sacrifices something in the process. In this case, it's her hearing.
• Power Gives You Wings: Her Alternative Ext. class gives her a pair of red wings to go with the power boost.
• Prim and Proper Bun: In all of her classes except for her Half-Nightmare, Alternative and Alternative Ext. classes where she lets her hair down.
• Pure Is Not Good: Her pure justice ideal leads to her zealotry.
• Red Is Heroic: Subverted. Her Lifeforce is red and her concept is befitting of a hero... except she's a tormented Anti-Villain who uses the rhetoric of a Knight Templar as a comfort blanket.
• Sanity Slippage: She's a Fallen Hero trying to justify her Deal with the Devil against her own conscience and sense of righteousness, and it's taking a tremendous toll on her mental state. Most of the time, she's barely holding it together, but it's becoming more and more difficult and she's having more and more moments of weakness.
• Shout-Out: Her '& Seven Dwarves' class from the Dorothy's Workshop series puts her in a dress not unlike her Disney counterpart.
• Sinister Scythe: Her Paladin job main hand.
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Played for laughs in her Cleric weapon story where Snow White is introduced to an erotic book about herself. Played straight in her Paladin's class story. Snow White's beauty mesmerized everyone in her country and beyond it. Faced with the threat of a giant blood bath caused by her daughter, the Queen decided to go through with her plan to get rid of Snow White.
• Something about a Rose: All of her class designs have a rose present in one way or another.
• Starter Mon: Her Breaker class is one of 4 starting classes at the start of the game. However, even if she isn't picked, she can still be obtained by playing Part 1 of her Act of Impulse Chapter 1 anyway.
• The Stoic: Like Alice, but in a more dignified way... most of the time. As the most moral and self-doubting of the protagonists, she's quite prone to Not So Stoic moments.
• Supreme Chef: A number of events reveal Snow's cooking skills and she even mentions it as a hobby occasionally, which was originally picked up while staying with the dwarves. If the player picks her to be the focal character of Chapter 6 of the Act of Desire, she will offer to cook your favourite food once Desire-Noya is defeated.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
  • She and Alice despies the other for their incompatible ideologies as Alice considers Snow both a slave to selfish sense to justice and also a Hyprocrite, while Snow hates the selfishness of Alice, despite that, they still work together to fight the nightmares.
  Snow White: "I'll never agree that someone as selfish as you has more right to exist than me. But right now there are greater wrongs in the world we need to make right."
  Alice: "Don't think I enjoy the company of a hypocrite, either, But right now we don't have the luxury of picking how we accomplish our goals."
  • It's certainly much worse when she's with Cinderella as they start wishing multiple times to kill the other and their animosity towards each other causes the nightmares to suffer multiple times when they take out their frustrations.
• Team Mom: Whenever she's with younger Characters such as Pinocchio in the Tsuri Star collaboration event and the first 2 Christmas events.
• Technicolor Eyes: Her gray eyes signify her purity and cold demeanor while the black colouring in them reflects the black flames of vengeance flickering within her. Her Half-Nightmare job has her eyes combine the colors of blue and purple.
• This Is Unforgivable!: With the death of the prince at the hands of her mother, whom she forgave just before the murder, Snow White swore to never again show forgiveness and to correct the world with her justice.
• Undying Loyalty: She regards her Author(s) as her Master(s) and it's for their sake that she swore her loyalty and to bring justice to them.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Reality!Snow White believed that if no one would do anything about the bad people in the hospital, she would have to do it herself. Unfortunately for her, once news of the poisoning incidents were released to the public, everyone viewed her as a murderer. The good news, however, is that her own acceptance of herself as one of these makes her much more driven and emotionally stable than her Library self, which is why she prevails in their Act of Elimination duel.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: In her story, everyone wants her out of love and hate.
• Would Hurt a Child: When confronted by the children of a Nightmare bird she recently killed, Snow White snapped and proceeded to kill them in the name of her justice.

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Cinderella

^Reality

^Nightmare

^{Act of Elimination}

^{Act of Authors}

"Rubbing salt in people’s wounds is such fun."

Origin: Cinderella

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura

Cinderella isn't content with how her story went. There's more that she could've done. She wishes to revive her author so that he'll rewrite her story and crown her king.

Her Concept is "Depravity"^JP卑劣/hiretsu.

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• Abusive Parents: She's Cinderella. Her abuse at the hands of her Wicked Stepmother is a large part of what defines her. Notably, while it made her extremely cynical, cruel, and sadistic, she nevertheless turns out to be an excellent adoptive parent to any children she's required to take care of. It's never outright said that it's a reaction to her own childhood, but it's strongly implied.
• Adaptational Heroism: In the manga, while Reality!Cinderella's just as cruel to her subordinates, she's nicer outside of her yakuza work by saving Reality!Red Riding Hood from being gang raped by thugs and later giving her food, money and shelter. In fact, Reality!Red Riding Hood is the only person she's ever nice to so far.
• Ambiguously Bi: Her manga counterpart seems to be interested in women and even fingers Reality!Kaguya in the back of a car. However, a short story included in volume 2 mentions her flirting and sleeping with men for money. It's unknown how much of this is from genuine desire or for the sake of having power over others.
• Ambiguously Brown: While the story of Cinderella is known to be set in France, Cinderella's skin color here is to signify her name's meaning, ashen.
• At Least I Admit It: While most of the cast remain oblivious to their vices, be it deliberately ignoring them or otherwise, Cinderella downright indulges in hers and makes no excuses for herself.
• Ax-Crazy: She's not as irrational as Gretel or as bloodthirsty as Red Riding Hood, but her sadism and aggression are firmly outside the conventional boundaries of sanity.
• The Baroness: An archetypal Sexpot - she's a Card-Carrying Villain who's domineering, seductive, and an absolutely ferocious fighter.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Deconstructed. She comes from a story where this is literally and explicitly the case, and the shallow, arbitrary nature of it has made her extremely cynical about the concept of morality in general.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: To put it simply, this is the story where Cinderella decided to get revenge for all of her life's miseries rather than just enduring until she got her happy ending.
• The Bully: Tormenting helpless victims is one of her favourite hobbies, as the ultimate marriage of her sadism and lust for power. It's the ultimate proof that she's won and risen above someone despite her lowly origins, and she revels in it for all she's worth.
• The Caligula: What she wants her author to rewrite her as.
• The Cameo: Cinderella appears twice in the MV for Manic depression of the twin puppets - the first has her tell Noya to tone down his metal music, while the second has her clock him in the face with a Purification Nightmare in order to get him to shut up.
• Card-Carrying Villain: She's the embodiment of Depravity, and she's completely open about it and comfortable with it. With this story being the Dysfunction Junction that it is, this actually makes her one of the more level-headed and perceptive cast members.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Her Reality version has a particularly extreme case. She managed to claw her way from being a streetwalker to being the head of a yakuza clan through making and breaking alliances with bewildering speed (and then promptly got assassinated because nobody trusted her and everyone feared her). Her Library version doesn't really qualify - she's not terribly trustworthy, but is more of a hedonistic, antisocial loner who generally doesn't bother pretending to make nice in the first place (and therefore acts as more of a team player because if she has to do so, then the situation's already too dire to be worth playing silly buggers). She'll still backstab you, of course, but it'll usually be in a literal, Combat Pragmatist sense.
• Combat Pragmatist: This is actually a major point of pride for her - intelligence, creativity, and determination are the only values she holds in any esteem, and honour and morality are simply signs that you're not interested enough in winning to deserve to win. When the two versions of her meet in the Act of Elimination, it soon becomes a contest to see which one can fight dirtier, sneakier, and more viciously than the other. Library Cinderella wins.
• Combat Sadomasochist: Surprisingly averted. She's an enthusiastic sadist and a determined and ferocious fighter, but the two don't actually overlap all that much. Combat is business, and tormenting helpless victims is pleasure.
• Contralto of Strength: As one might expect of The Baroness, her voice is a low, throaty growl that's both seductive and threatening.
• Control Freak: She may be an enthusiastically nasty piece of work, but this is one of her most tragic and sympathetic personality traits - she desperately craves power and agency after a lifetime of being wholly at the mercy of the cruelties and kindnesses of others.
• A Day in the Limelight: Sanctuary of Children's Song is this for her. While it also features Alice, Aladdin, Dorothy, and the Little Mermaid, it's mostly about her getting to be something other than a cackling Card-Carrying Villain... and doing a surprisingly good job at it.
• Dual Wielding: Her Breaker class mainhand.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • She is one depraved woman, but even she gets unnerved by Gretel's unhinged behavior.
    Cinderella: [to Gretel] Word of advice, sister. Seek help. Professional help.
  • She's also greatly unnerved by Reality Red Riding Hood's Sanity Slippage as her battle with her is more akin to survival.
    Cinderella: I prefer to play with someone less insane.
  • When she's put in charge of children, she takes the responsibility extremely seriously. She's seen enough Abusive Parents for one lifetime.
• Evil Is Cool: An in-universe example. The embodiment of Depravity is one of the few playable characters with actual charisma, and when an event story requires them to interact with other people, she usually has no problem establishing herself as 'the cool one' (most others are treated as cute at best, and disgusting/terrifying at worst). As her Reality version finds out, though, there's a hard upper limit on how much evil people will forgive from even the most magnetic personalities.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: You wouldn't expect a ruthless Card-Carrying Villain to be a 'World's Best Mom' candidate, but Sanctuary of Children's Song shows that that's exactly what she is, and her adoptive children turn out remarkably healthy and well-adjusted as a result (to the point where they're willing and able to bring her Back from the Dead after she pulls off a Heroic Sacrifice to defend them). It's implied, though not stated, that it's a reaction to her own experience with Abusive Parents.
• Evil Sounds Deep: The embodiment of Depravity has got the deepest voice of the female cast.
• Expy: Of Yoko Taro's other brash, violent and foul-mouthed heroines, Kainé and Zero. The key difference is that rather than being a Jerk with a Heart of Gold like the characters she's inspired by, she's a gleefully sadistic Villain Protagonist for the most part.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Some of her job designs give this.
• Foil:
  • To Snow White. Concept-wise, she is the depraved one against Snow White's righteous justice. The contrast extends to their respective color themes, with Cinderella being the ashen lady whereas Snow White is referred to as the white lady.
  • To Hansel pretending to be Gretel. They have both murdered their abusive relatives as a response to the mistreatment placed on them, Cinderalla intentionally does it for sadistic gratification and to take control of her life, Hansel accidentally murders his sister out of an instinctive desire to protect him and was guiltridden so much, he decides to pretend to be the real Gretel. Cinderella while embodying the concept of "Depravity" is one of the more sane and less dangerous of the cast, Hansel, as his concept would suggest, is completely divorced from reality and would make an mental asylum look like Disneyland. Cinderella tries to be a better parents then her stepmother and is quite successful despite her sadism. Hansel completely takes after the role of "Gretel" including her obsession, yandere tendencies and desire to eat him. Their concept are all about rejecting something with Cinderella's rejecting morals and ethics and "Gretel's" rejecting reality.
  • To Aladdin. They're both members of the underclass who were elevated by random chance, are keenly aware of how lucky they got, and want to use their good fortune to seize control of their lives for once. The difference is that Aladdin is a hopeless romantic who wants to play Uncle Pennybags, while Cinderella is a selfish cynic who wants to become The Caligula.
• Good Parents: Sanctuary of Children's Song puts a murderous Card-Carrying Villain in charge of four toddlers in an abandoned, Nightmare-infested city. Amazingly, she manages to rise to the challenge superbly, and even comes to enjoy it after a few years. It ends in a Karmic Jackpot when she and her kids are able to fend off Parrah and Noya's attempt to delete their world through Heroic Willpower and the Power of Love.
• Guns Akimbo: Her Gunner class mainhand, and what most of her weapons look like.
• Hand Cannon: Most of her Gunner class weapons are enormous pistols. Ironically, her Half-Nightmare gun is the furthest away from this trope due to being a literal example - it's an actual, handheld cannon straight off an Age of Sail galleon.
• The Hedonist: Living only for her own enjoyment is one of her staunchest principles - she's spent far too long living for the enjoyment of other people. In some ways, this makes her a bit less dangerous than similarly evil playable characters like Dorothy, Little Red Riding Hood, and the Little Mermaid - she may be a sadist who likes hurting people, but it's only one hobby she enjoys, and she has no great mission driving her to constantly make the world worse.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: It may take an excavation effort on the scale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole to find it, but it does exist. As the Sanctuary of Children's Song event demonstrates, you can put her in charge of a bunch of kids and just watch the magic happen.
  • Cinderella develops a soft spot for Kuromi in A Fluffy Encounter, even willing to help her and her friends get back home despite questioning her younger compatriots when they fall for their cuteness.
• Horned Humanoid: Grows a pair of horns as part of her Gunner Ext appearance in the Elimination Arc.
• Hospital Hottie: Her motif in all non-event Cleric classes, although her Lustful Scorpion Cleric class appearance is more akin to a Deadly Doctor.
• Improbable Weapon User: Her Minstrel mainhand is a... tuba minigun.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: After the abuse she went through in her story and how "pitiful" she is, Cinderella feels that she is beyond saving and that her heart will never heal. But she'll make everyone else hurt so much worse, since why should she be the only one to endure the pain?
  • She also likes to gloat about how a lowly, dirty servant girl like her managed to woo the Prince and become the envy of everyone. The game even implies that she left behind her glass slipper on purpose just to have the Prince chase after her.
• In-Series Nickname: Parrah and Noya call her 'Cinders' in their introduction to the Incarnation of Envy event and certain chapters of her main story.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's a sadistic bully who takes pride and pleasure in breaking down other people's self-worth. Insults and mockery are her default form of social interaction. Also, eventually during Sanctuary of Children's Song she's gotten attached to the kiddy versions of Alice, Little Mermaid, Dorothy and Aladdin, to the point where she gets a hefty dose of parental worries whenever they're in danger from Nightmares.
• Kick the Dog: Finds great joy and amusement in inflicting pain to others. Taken literally in one of her weapon stories where she shot a hound that was following her around since she killed its parents.
• Mama Bear: During the Sanctuary of Children's Song event towards a Nightmare harming her 'kids' as she gets more attached to them:
  Cinderella: What the hell are you doing to my chibi?!
• Meaningful Name: The ashes that gave Cinderella her name can be found in her Reality counterpart's last name.
• More Dakka: Oh yes, to a ridiculous level. As a Minstrel, she has a minigun and she has gun hammers as a Crusher.
• Ms. Fanservice: The cast is full of attractive and scantily-clad people, but Cinderella is especially noted for her beauty and especially willing to show it off, and her character art tends to be particularly provocative.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: In her Gunner Ext job; her extra arms are made of her Lifeforce.
• The Nicknamer: Usually refers to her fellow characters by anything but their actual names.
• Never a Self-Made Woman: She's got a real complex about this - she's intensely aware that she spent most of her life as abused, disposable gutter trash, and owes her elevation to the random, arbitrary patronage of the powerful. It's why she's obsessed with grabbing every advantage she can and exploiting it for all it's worth - it's her way of gaining some control over her own life.
• Only Sane by Comparison: It says a lot about the playable cast that the flamboyant and gleefully sadistic Card-Carrying Villain with the gigantic Inferiority Superiority Complex is usually the most perceptive, the most level-headed, and the closest thing they have to an adult in the room. In a depraved world, the embodiment of Depravity almost seems normal.
• Pretty in Mink: Her Reality job has her decked in a rather luxurious fur coat.
• Proud Beauty: She's intensely aware that her looks are the only thing that made her special and valuable in her original story, and enjoys and appreciates them as the one strength she has that's entirely her own.
• Psycho Pink: She is represented by the color pink and has long pink hair to match, and she's the embodiment of Depravity with one hell of a sadistic streak for good measure.
• Puppet Permutation: Her Half-Nightmare job has her transformed into some sort of puppet that is chained up and missing its midsection.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: A proud and sadistic Card-Carrying Villain who, with a couple exceptions, has a noticeable red and black color scheme.
• Revenge: She killed her stepmother and stepsisters for what they did to her, in a way that was "much too terrifying to speak of."
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Inverted; she's very much not this, instead being a sadistic vengeance seeker. The only time this kind of applied was when she became a temporary mother figure to Alice, Dorothy, Little Mermaid, and Aladdin when they got kid-ified.
• Sadist: Justified. She relishes in the pain of others as a way of relieving her own pain, which stems from the abuse she suffered from her step-family.
• Sanity Has Advantages: She may be Only Sane by Comparison, but that's enough to give her a major battlefield advantage when she faces off against just about anyone else including her Drunk with Power Reality version. Being a clever Combat Pragmatist with enough Villainous Valour to keep a cool head in the most insane and horrific situations helps her survive and thrive where few others would, and ends up being the key to overcoming her transformation into a Nightmare and becoming the first of the Extended.
• Slasher Smile: She has a smile in every job illustration that sits somewhere along the spectrum between this and a Grin of Audacity, save for Minstrel where her mouth is covered. Unless she does so underneath.
• Struggling Single Mother: During the Sanctuary of Children's Song event, Parrah and Noya assign her to care for the kidified Alice, Little Mermaid, Dorothy and Aladdin until their memories are restored. She reluctantly does so because there's no one else to do so and intends to use the memories of it to embarrass them after it's over and done but she slowly gets attached to the kids and as a result, Parrah and Noya deemed the world they gave her to raise the kids in a failure.
• Sultry Bangs: Her bangs cover the right side of her face in most of her artwork, making her look as seductive and untrustworthy as The Vamp should be.
• Swiss-Army Weapon: Her Crusher mainhand is a gatling-hammer-gun.
• Team Mom: Literally in the Sanctuary of Nursery Rhymes event for Alice, Little Mermaid, Dorothy and Aladdin when a Nightmare turns them into babies.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Snow White as they start wishing multiple times to kill the other and their animosity towards each other causes the nightmares to suffer multiple times when they take out their frustrations.
• Unkempt Beauty: She is, after all, Cinderella. She's always a Proud Beauty who dresses to show off her famous looks, but while some of her jobs show that She Cleans Up Nicely, most of her portraits have her with wild, messy hair and ragged and singed (but obviously expensive) clothing.
• The Vamp: She's a Card-Carrying Villain whose beauty is her most treasured weapon, and one she'll happily use to attain her goals (along with other, more traditionally lethal weaponry, of course).
• Villainous Valour: One of her defining traits. She's always a bully but never a coward, and is happy to pit herself against impossible odds for the right to do as she pleases. In the extremely rare circumstance where she's given a reason to fight for a good cause, this becomes straightforward Heroic Willpower. This ends up being the key to victory in her Act of Elimination duel against Red Riding Hood, where being tortured and Eaten Alive by an Ax-Crazy and seemingly-almighty Humanoid Abomination just pushes her to dig deep into her reserves of bloody-minded determination, push past the 'insanity' part of With Great Power Comes Great Insanity, and become the first character to control their Half-Nightmare transformation and unlock their Extended form.
• Wicked Witch: She's always got one foot in this trope (Gunner is the single-target magic damage class, and she's enthusiastically wicked), and will happily become a true example whenever one is called for. Her various Sorcerer and Minstrel classes are steeped in this trope, and she's the first in line to play the 'sinister mystic' role whenever an event story involves one.
• Yakuza: In the Act of Reality, she's the mistress of a yakuza officer who decides to make her own play for the leadership of the gang, and ends up being killed by her own men after they become terrified of her brutal methods.

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Gretel

^Reality

^Nightmare

^{Act of Elimination Part 1}

^{Act of Authors (MASSIVE SPOILERS)}

"Look, Hansel... look at me... look only at me..."

Origin: Hansel and Gretel

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Voiced by: Maaya Uchida

Hansel and Gretel have met with a terrible fate. Now Gretel is off to revive her author, with only her brother's head in a cage to accompany her. She doesn't really care about the author and is only going on her quest because Hansel told her to.

Her Concept is "Delusion"^JP虚妄/kyomou.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Gretel in the game itself is pretty much off their rocker like everyone else though they end up going against the puppets in the Act of Elimination (Part 2), while their Reality counterpart is more grounded. In the manga however, Reality!Gretel is in cahoots with Parrah and Noya as the 'Game Master', who's helping them 'balance' the game Alice and the others are involved in. What kind of powers the 'Power of Delusion' gives however is a mystery so far, and he isn't divulging the puppets on what role Reality!Sleeping Beauty is in with her own powers either.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Gretel's relationship with this trope is as uniquely strange as everything else about her. Is Hansel a cis boy who's only adopting a female identity out of a profoundly warped sense of familial obligation, or does the 'Gretel' identity have deeper significance? It's anyone's guess, and Gretel certainly isn't going to be offering any intelligible answers any time soon. And it gets more complicated in the Act of Authors where the male Hansel is eaten by Wilheim Grimm and from his stomach, out pops the female Gretel.
• Angsty Surviving Twin: Oh, you have no idea. The person known as 'Gretel' is a boy playing the role of a twin sister driven mad by the loss of the brother she had an incestuous crush on, because he himself was driven mad out of guilt and grief when he killed his insane sister who wanted to eat/have sex with him. Got all that?
• Becoming the Mask: In order to cope up with the death of his sister, Hansel took upon her identity, and ended up losing most of his own.
• Believing Their Own Lies: Gretel insists that her brother is alive, even though the head she's carrying is a big giveaway for everyone who sees it. She is, however, aware that he doesn't talk.
• Berserk Button: While Gretel mainly keeps what's on her mind to herself, poking around her brother is a sure way to trigger her violent urges caused by her traumatic memories.
• Broken Bird: Traumatized by the disappearance of Hansel, Gretel has turned into an Empty Shell obsessed about her brother.
• Chuunibyou: Reality!Gretel seems to be this as he sees his new powers gained in the Act of Fusion as a hidden potential which unlocked after his suffering in the Act of Reality.
• Creepy Crossdresser: Gretel's Cleric class lore notes that she is identified as the incorrect sex.
• Cross Player: In the Act of Reality, Gretel is his streaming persona, depicting a younger sister heavily attached to her brother. The moment people found out he was faking his split personality, however, things get ugly very quickly as he's subjected to cyberbullying.
• Death of Personality: Currently attempting to invoke this. Hansel is of the opinion that he doesn't deserve to live, but his sister does. 'Logically', therefore, he needs to take on her personality and let her severed head actually be that of Hansel. He ends up getting his wish in the Act of Authors, but the circumstances are a bit cloudy as to how it's possible.
• Driven to Suicide: How he died in the Act of Reality - streaming himself tying a noose and using it to hang himself in front of a large online audience.
• Eaten Alive: In their Act of Authors story, Hansel realizes that a Character's Lifeforce is one of the vital components in reviving an author, and offers himself to Wilheim Grimm. While he ends up as this, Wilheim's stomach suddenly explodes, and out emerges the real Gretel.
• Empty Eyes: Cinderella, while thinking about bullying Gretel for fun, realizes just how broken Gretel is by looking at her eyes.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Once Gretel's true identity is revealed, this trope is in play for Hamelin during the The Butlers' Feast and Ode to Sakura events, as well as Oda Nobunaga of all people during the Wars of Fantasia event.
• Everyone Has Standards: She's the standard everyone else has. The entire cast, including the Ax-Crazy Red Riding Hood, the Card-Carrying Villain Cinderella, and the gleefully sadistic Parrah and Noya, consider her extremely disturbing.
  • When they meet in the Act of Elimination, even Reality!Gretel is disturbed by his Library counterpart.
• Foil: To Cinderella. They have both murdered their abusive relatives as a response to the mistreatment placed on them, Cinderalla intentionally does it for sadistic gratification and to take control of her life, Hansel accidentally murders his sister out of an instinctive desire to protect him and was guiltridden so much, he decides to pretend to be the real Gretel. Cinderella while embodying the concept of "Depravity" is one of the more sane and less dangerous of the cast, Hansel, as his concept would suggest, is completely divorced from reality and would make an mental asylum look like Disneyland. Cinderella tries to be a better parents then her stepmother and is quite successful despite her sadism. Hansel completely takes after the role of "Gretel" including her obsession, yandere tendencies and desire to eat him. Their concept are all about rejecting something with Cinderella's rejecting morals and ethics and "Gretel's" rejecting reality.
• Foreshadowing: Gretel's voice, while creepy, actually sounds closer to a male than a female. Chapter 3 of Gretel's Act of Hatred reveals that the Gretel the player knew is actually Hansel and the disembodied severed head is Gretel's.
• Freak Out: Like her Berserk Button, Gretel doesn't take things well when her brother's safety is compromised, often blaming herself for everything bad that's happened to him, including killing him.
• Hikikomori: Their Reality persona.
• Hypocrite: Reality!Gretel is understandably disturbed by Library!Gretel and refers to her as a 'chuunibyou'. Despite behaving like one himself in the Act of Fusion.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Gretel will quite often muse on the concept of eating her brother, calling him "very sweet". She even offers to let him do the same to her. Hansel killed her because he thought she would make good on her threat - or possibly just rape him. It wasn't very clear, and he wasn't keen on either.
• Imaginary Friend: Her Cleric class story has medical notes on her having a fictitious sibling, a product of her mind.
• Insane Troll Logic: Her mind is utterly shattered, and her actions follow little, if any, coherent logic. Given that she's a severely mentally ill person trying to imitate the personality of someone who was severely mentally ill in a completely different way, trying to anticipate or understand her behaviour is generally an exercise in futility when you could simply be somewhere else instead.
• Insane Equals Violent: To be more precise, insane equals dangerously unpredictable. She's completely unmoored from reality, which means that there's no way to guess when or why she'll lash out in self-defence, enter a murderous rage, or otherwise choose violence - what she sees and how she responds has little-to-no bearing on what is actually there.
• Institutional Apparel: For her Half-Nightmare class she is bound in a heavily stylized straitjacket. Fitting given the Superpowered Evil Side nature of Half-Nightmares.
• It's All My Fault / Guilt Complex: Gretel blames herself for what happened to her beloved brother, something that was foreshadowed in her Crusher class story where Hansel blamed himself and promised to save his sister after hearing their parents' plan to abandon them, and often wonders if her brother won't ever forgive her.
• Kill and Replace: A strange and largely unplanned example. After Hansel killed his sister out of fear, he became so overwhelmed with guilt that he chose to take on her identity as atonement.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Certain events such as the Men's Banquet of Idols White Day 2021 event have started to hint at Gretel's true nature - something that isn't revealed until Chapter 3 of her Act of Hatred.
• Loss of Identity: Gretel's traumatic past left her psyche damaged enough to actually deny her own true identity in order to escape her past.
• Madness Mantra: Her Gunner class story is basically spelling out her obsession with her brother, her feelings for him and everything that has brought misery for the both of them. The actual text is... madly long. And if one looks at the text closely one can notice that Gretel slips at one point, mentioning "sister" and "kill" instead of "brother" and "love".
• Mirthless Laughter: Gretel laughs when she eventually becomes aware that she's already broken because she's not Gretel but Hansel himself in the 3rd chapter of the Act of Hatred.
• My Sibling Will Live Through Me: In order to cope with the death of Gretel, and perhaps the fact that he may have been responsible, Hansel impersonates his sister.
• Narcissist: A bizarre and horrifying zig-zag. Hansel killed his sister, assumed her identity, and made 'Gretel' passionately in love with her brother... and then it turns out that he killed her because he was frightened of her incestuous passion for him, and was just trying to take her identity and replicate her personality as a strange form of atonement.
• Revenge: Reality!Gretel aims to get his vengeance over all of his haters and those who disrespected him for being a shut-in with the powers he gains in the Act of Fusion.
• Self-Made Orphan: As far as she can recall, Gretel killed her parents for the sake of her brother.
• Self-Serving Memory: Upon awakening in the Library, Gretel initially can't really recall what happened to her and isn't aware of who she is. As she proceeds, she only remembers that she has her brother with her and they've been having a lot of fun together. This turns out to be her own version of how things happened, produced from her denial, her feelings for her brother and her hatred for their parents.
• Sibling Incest: Gretel is reeeaaally attentive to Hansel. While most of her monologues are quite mild about her feelings, her Sorcerer class lore just all but outright says it. It's why Hansel killed her, since he was frightened of her Yandere attitude, although he was so overcome with guilt afterwards that he chose to replicate this part of his sister's personality as well.
• Split Personality: 'Gretel' is actually a personality created by Hansel in order to escape his traumatic memories and atone for killing his sister. In the Act of Reality, the 'Gretel' personality is used for Hansel's Let's Plays, depicting a younger sister heavily attached to her older brother. Unfortunately once the online community catches wind that he faked having a split personality for attention, they cruelly subject Hansel to cyberbullying and doxxing.
• Sweet Tooth: Gretel enjoys sweets with her brother, including her brother himself as she describes it.
• Talkative Loon: She talks only to her brother's head, if Parrah and Noya aren't around giving information, and will not talk to anyone until they start to take her brother into the topic for any purpose.
• Tomato in the Mirror: The person is Hansel. Gretel's head is in the cage. And Hansel might've been the one who killed Gretel, along with their parents.
• Walking Spoiler: As the embodiment of Delusion, it should come as no surprise that what you see at first is not what you get with Gretel. There's a lot of white in her entry for a reason.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Many players assume that the mysterious new character in Act of Elimination Part 2 is Gretel, but both characters are listed separately, leading to questions on whether Gretel was one of the few characters who wasn't revived or if they will appear later.
  • Chapter 5 of the Act of Elimination (Part 2) reveals that they are the Masked Man who assisted Snow White and the others in killing the Alice fragments, and is also one of few characters openly opposing Parrah and Noya.
• Yandere: Gretel has a single-minded incestuous crush on Hansel, and will happily murder anything in sight to make him happy. Astonishingly, the fact that he's the severed head of her deceased brother isn't the most disturbing thing about this. Hansel is actually the surviving twin, and is only acting out his sister's Yandere personality as atonement for murdering her out of fear.

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Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose)

Sleeping Beauty / Briar Rose (いばら姫 Ibara-hime)

^Reality

^Nightmare

^{Act of Elimination Part 1}

^{Act of Elimination Part 2}

^{Act of Authors}

"Haah... I’ll revive my Author after I... take a nap..."

Origin: Sleeping Beauty

Author: The Brothers Grimm (actually Charles Perrault)

Voiced by: Kaede Hondo

The Sleeping Beauty who isn't happy that the Prince woke her up. So much so that she only wants to resurrect her author to have him build a world where she can be asleep forever.

Her Concept is "Languor"^JP睡眠/suimin.

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• And I Must Scream: Reality!Sleeping Beauty in the Act of Fusion is awake... but only in her mind. Her body is still asleep, meaning she's unable to control her new powers which causes instant death to anyone who approaches her, and is constantly frightened because she's unsure of whether she's asleep, awake, alive or dead.
• Berserk Button: She really hates being woken up and is more than happy to give a death penalty to anyone who does so.
  • Reality!Sleeping Beauty, upon the death of her Library counterpart, changes it to "anyone who sleeps when she can't will die".
• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being one of the most peaceful members of the cast, she will not hold back if you dare get in the way of her nap. The prince learned it the hard way, and even Parrah and Noya are frightened.
• Bludgeoned to Death: After her efforts to get a good night's sleep were All for Nothing, seeing Library!Sleeping Beauty manage to sleep soundly causes Reality!Sleeping Beauty to snap and crush her skull.
• Children Are a Waste: Relating to her unwanted marriage in her Paladin job lore, Sleeping Beauty gave birth to two children and considered giving them to either a white wolf, a witch or a monster. They eventually got devoured by her husband's mother.
• Children Are Innocent: In An End to Summer Dreams, Sleeping Beauty borders on Innocently Insensitive when she asks Little Mermaid about her age after the latter talks about how clams pair well with alcohol. Little Mermaid is left stammering:

  Little Mermaid: "Well... this the Library...."

  • Happens again in Revellion Feast for the Lost where Kaguya tries to butter up to Alice to let her tag along, and asks her if "she's into a certain kind of play":
    Sleeping Beauty: "What kind of play?"
• Cool Crown: Wears one as part of her Half-Nightmare and Alt. Half class appearances. The crown is actually part of her Nightmare self's head. She gets a fancier one for her Grand Prix (R03) class as part of her victory in the 2021 Popularity Poll.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: In A Fluffy Encounter, while she questions if the Sanrio Characters are a new breed of Nightmare, she's the first to stop Alice, Red Riding Hood and Cinderella from harming them because "they're way too cute to be Nightmares". Everyone agrees and start fawning over their cuteness instead, making a Declaration of Protection of the Sanrio Characters/Fluffies until they get home safely.
• Death of Personality: The unfortunate consequence of Charles Perrault rewriting her story to her specifications. Since the direction changed drastically, Sleeping Beauty's memories changed as well, changing her from the sweet little girl Perrault knew to a murderous Sleepyhead. Poor Perrault gets Impaled with Extreme Prejudice as a result, but leaves behind a flute that causes Sleeping Beauty to remember what happened.
• Death Seeker: Poor Reality!Sleeping Beauty is this in the Act of Fusion due to being brought back to life but unable to control her sleeping body, killing everyone while asleep and unable to find her parents. No wonder she kept asking Reality!Alice to put her out of her misery.
  • She gets her wish in a very depressing matter courtesy of Library!Alice in Part 1 of the Act of Elimination.
• Delicate and Sickly: In the Act of Reality, Sleeping Beauty is a innocent child who's severely ill and requires staying in the hospital.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Get in the way of her beauty sleep and she will have you killed without a single thought. Hell, she might go on a rampage and kill who's nearby.
  "WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT WAKING ME UP?!"
• Disease by Any Other Name: From the description of what she's going through, Reality!Sleeping Beauty is all but stated to be suffering from Kleine-Levin Syndrome, also known as Sleeping Beauty Syndrome.
• Dub Name Change: From Briar Rose ^JPいばら姫/Ibara-hime; Thorn Princess in the Japanese server to Sleeping Beauty in both the Taiwanese^CN睡美人/shuìměirén and Global servers.
• Expy: She shares common points with Bedman. Both are young children related to the theme of sleep and fight with the help of a Mini-Mecha.
• Flower Motifs: Her Japanese name and several class designs put emphasis on roses.
• Foil: To Red Riding Hood: Both of the young girls are working towards goals of their opposing attitudes of leisure and activities that ultimately has negative connations for them and are willing to do anything for it. Sleeping Beauty is driven by her desire to seek the ultimate and eternal form of repose while Red Riding Hood seeks unstoppable entertainment and chaos. Sleeping Beatuy is constantly lazy to the point of getting in the way of her own goal why Red Riding Hood can't stand still and is very active towards killing others. Sleeping Beauty appears as a stoic spoiled jerk who has a more compassionate and supportive side, Red Riding Hood appears sweet and innocent but has a VERY bloodthirsty and violent nature. Sleeping Beauty is innocent to things carnal while RRH's bloodthirst has a very discomforting interplay of sex and violence.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She gives these vibes as she carries a plush doll in all of her Classes except for her Half-Nightmare and Reality Jobs. Said plushie is also dressed according to the Class in question and it even becomes a Guardian Entity for her Crusher Ext. class, even if it wasn't able to protect her in the end.
• The Hedge of Thorns: The prominent element of her designs as a part of her name and a reference to the forest of thorns that surrounded Sleeping Beauty's castle to prevent the princes from reaching her. It's also the thing that keeps her standing while sleeping. In the manga, her "Power of Langour" is to manifest this either as a shield or to restrain someone's movements.
• Lazy Bum: Her quotes say it all; she has her own motivations yet is also too sleepy to take any action. It takes Red Riding Hood to keep her awake out of fear of being killed while she's asleep.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: Basically what she wants her Author to convert her story into. Her dreams are so much more fun and free from the troubles that come from being awake, her bed so soft and comfortable, that she doesn't want to return to reality ever again. Unfortunately for Charles Perrault, by rewriting her story with this in mind, it changed the setting so heavily she ended up losing most of her memories, including her time travelling with him. This results in a cold stab via briar thorns.
• Lyrical Dissonance: Her Breaker main hand lore has her lullaby for her children containing her thoughts to whom she'll give them up.
• Meaningful Name: The kanji for "thread" can be found in Reality!Sleeping Beauty's first name, referring to the thread on the spindle that caused her sleeping curse to activate.
• Mini-Mecha: Her briars usually take the form of a hulking battlesuit which cradles her sleeping body while striking down anything in its way.
• Motivated by Fear: During her cross story with Red Riding Hood, it's the first time Sleeping Beauty keeps awake because Red Riding Hood outright tells her that she'll give Sleeping Beauty an eternal slumber if she falls asleep again.
• Mundane Utility: The Autumn Feast of Abundance event shows her use her briars to help with the farm work, so that she can continue sleeping. She's incredibly proud of it too, since it speeds up the process much faster than planting the rice by hand like how Alice and Pinocchio are doing.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After an unintended Laser-Guided Amnesia by Perrault rewriting her story to include a Lotus-Eater Machine, he gets stabbed coldly by Sleeping Beauty but leaves behind a flute. Touching the flute is implied to make her remember her travels with him and the grass flute she played when he was half a boy, and ends up swallowed by lighting as she realizes this and cries.
• Noodle Incident: Sleeping Beauty reveals during the Creation of Sweets event that Aladdin, aside from telling her about Hamelin, taught her the business jargon she uses during the event when dealing with the companies she and Kaguya worked with to manufacture the Hamelin chocolates. However, when and how they met is not known to the player.
• Odd Friendship: Assuming that Red Riding Hood can keep her impulses in check, the two girls actually get along pretty well. Compare and contrast their Act of Impulse crossover tale where poor Sleeping Beauty tries to stay awake lest she risks getting killed by Red Riding Hood with later stories such as Moonlight Terminus and their Act of Authors crossover tale where the two team up to care for the young and split-in-half Charles Perrault and hunt strong Nightmares to make him whole again after Red's Accidental Murder of him.
• Only Sane Woman: During the Moonlight Terminus event, where she begrudgingly goes along with Kaguya and Red Riding Hood's shenanigans in preventing the moon's collapse on Earth.
• Passed in Their Sleep: Reality!Sleeping Beauty's fate in the Act of Reality. In the most depressing manner possible: her coma caused her to lose so much weight and her muscles weakened so badly, her doctors and parents had no choice but to let her sleep... forever.
• Pet the Dog:
  • She may be a Spoiled Brat and Lazy Bum most of the time, but she's surprisingly kind, supportive, and understanding when she discovers that Snow White's trauma-induced nightmares make her incapable of enjoying sleep like she does. Neither of them are able to fix the problem, but they part on fond terms at the end of their crossover chapter.
  • Moonlight Terminus ends with Sleeping Beauty carrying the leader of the rabbit Nightmares on board Sinoshuttle 2 on the way back to Earth, letting it see the beauty of outer space before it Passed in Their Sleep.
• Powers Do the Fighting: The shadowy briars she's always lying in are what do the fighting for her, so she can continue sleeping.
• Power Floats: Her Sorcerer class artwork invokes this.
• Really Fond of Sleeping: Oh, so very much. Her ultimate goal is to sleep forever and prefers the dream world compared to the real world. And woe betides anyone who dares to give her a Rude Awakening (except for Red Riding Hood).
  • This extends to her Reality self as well, but unlike her Library counterpart, Reality!Sleeping Beauty feels slightly guilty about it due to her sleeping illness making her parents worried.
• Shout-Out: Her Paladin job story references Sun, Moon, and Talia, which is considered another version of Sleeping Beauty, in mentioning her having two children while still under the curse.
• Sleepy Head: Exaggerated. The only thing she wants to do is sleep so much that she's unhappy with the prince and her children, wanting to have nothing to do with them as her sole motivation and final goal in killing Nightmares.
• Spoiled Brat: She's a child raised in the lap of luxury, and has little patience for the wants or desires of 'commoners' - particularly if they might interrupt her sleep.
• This Is a Drill: Her Paladin job design has her thorns wield a pair drill-like thorn lances.
• Unwanted Spouse: According to her Paladin job lore, she's married to the prince and it's questionable on how they met or if she's truly happy with him waking her up in the first place.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: During the Act of SINoALICE, conversation turns to the difference between her life as royalty and Little Match Girl's life in poverty when they attempt to find and protect the most popular student in the school since if he turns into a Nightmare or is killed, due to how many people love him this will have a massive domino effect. Having concluded that Sleeping Beauty took the luxuries of life for granted, Dark!Match Girl snaps and ends up turning into a Nightmare, in turn killing Sleeping Beauty despite the pleas of Light!Match Girl.
• Wake Up Fighting: If you dare to wake Sleeping Beauty, her first instinct will be to murder you, or everyone in the vicinity for that matter.

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Red Riding Hood

^Reality

^Nightmare

^{Act of Elimination Part 1}

^{Act of Elimination Part 2}

^{Act of Authors}

"One, two, three, four... and I can still kill many more...!"

Origin: Little Red Riding Hood

Author: The Brothers Grimm (actually Charles Perrault)

Voiced by: Ayaka Imamura (2017-2018), Rika Tachibana (2018-present)

When Little Red Riding Hood was eaten by the Wolf and saved by the Woodsman, she was disappointed. She had wanted to play with the Wolf some more. She wants to play with her Grandma and the Woodsman too, but if she killed everyone then the story will end and she'd have nothing else to do. So she wants to resurrect her author, to have him continue writing the story so she can keep playing forever. She might even want to kill her author too.

Her Concept is "Brutality"^JP暴力/bouryoku.

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• Accidental Murder: Sometime before the start of her Act of Authors story, Red came across a young boy and chops him in half, then killed him again when approached by one of his halves. This young boy turned out to be one of the authors that made her tale famous, Charles Perrault, and this action would later come back to haunt her when she remembers her original task.
• All-Loving Hero: Red Riding Hood just wants to play with anyone and everyone, and of course, what better way to play then brutally killing, torturing and slaughtering to her heart's content?
• Ambiguous Innocence: She's usually one of the most childlike of the playable characters, and her love of violence usually comes across as the whims of a child who likes breaking their toys, but she's also got a bit of Interplay of Sex and Violence going on, and has the occasional flash of malevolent intelligence that makes the player wonder how childish she really is.
• And Call Him "George": Exaggerated. All she wants to do is play with her friends, and she's extremely disappointed when they stop screaming and struggling.
• Animal Motif: Wolves, as a design element featured in her Reality, Half-Nightmare and Act of Authors classes.
• Attempted Rape: On the receiving end of this in the manga when she's beaten up by thugs. Thankfully for her Cinderella happened to be in the area.
• Ax-Crazy: Takes this trope to its absolute extreme. The only way she ever really wants to interact with another living being is by inflicting horrific, nauseating violence upon it until it stops twitching.
• Battle Ballgown: Her 2nd Dorothy's Workshop class for the NieR triple revival event is her cosplaying as Simone, fully metallic dress and all and with a giant hammer to boot, with the andriod dolls replaced with plushies of other Characters.
• Big Damn Heroes: Of all people to come to the rescue during the Fragment of a Nightmare event, Parrah and Noya summon her to save the story after Aladdin dies and Pinocchio succumbs to Hinamizawa Syndrome. She then proceeds to chase after Hanyu, who presented herself as Oyashiro-sama.
• Blood Knight: Absolutely loves killing and fighting, even when (especially when) her opponent is a shadowy copy of herself.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: What everyone else views as violent acts translates to playtime for Red Riding Hood. How aware of her acts towards her surroundings depends on the medium.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Her choice of weapons is suitably on-brand for her concept. Her default class is Crusher, which focuses on dealing AOE physical damage by smashing enemies with giant, heavy objects, and "... of Brutality" weapons of every class tend to be particularly vicious-looking masses of dark metal with hooks, blades, spikes, and serrations all over the place. Even her tome for her default Sorcerer class looks like it could serve as a fairly effective bludgeon.
• Carry a Big Stick: Her base weapon is a huge mace-like weapon.
• Cat Girl: Becomes a glowing one in her Reality version.
• Cheerful Child: She's the most lively character of the cast while also relishing in violence. Her Reality version, however, doesn't smile.
• Combat Sadomasochist: To horrifying degrees in her Half-Nightmare class story. Her Half-Nightmare story has Red Riding Hood herself disembowel and hurt herself but she enjoys it all the same.
• Creepy Child: An angelic young girl with Ambiguous Innocence whose favourite hobbies are murder and torture. This one really goes without saying.
• Creepy High-Pitched Voice: She's a cute young girl with an appropriately squeaky voice. She's also a strong candidate for the most evil and monstrous of the playable characters, and whenever she has something to say, it will usually be horrifying.
• Dark and Troubled Past: The side story in Volume 4 of the manga reveals that her violent worldview stemmed from Abusive Parents and a very sheltered life. Reality!Snow attempted to reverse her habits by taking care of her when the orphanage staff couldn't, which worked... until Snow aged out of the system and moved to the city to pursue nursing, in which Red's habits came back in full force.
• The Dreaded: A lot of the playable characters have dark reputations in-story, but hers is by far the darkest. Unsurprisingly, nobody wants to spend a moment more in the presence of the embodiment of Brutality than is strictly necessary.
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Red Riding Hood's idea of play means certain death to everyone else, so her main request for her Author(s) when they're revived is to give her a playmate who "won't break". Because she herself doesn't think that her way of "playing" is too rough, everyone around her either outright avoids her or yells at her to watch where she's swinging her weapon.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Some of her class costumes veer into this.
• Expy: Her love of violence and killing just about makes her one for Caim.
• Foil: To Sleeping Beauty. Both of the young girls are working towards goals of their opposing attitudes of leisure and activities that ultimately has negative connations for them and are willing to do anything for it. Sleeping Beauty is driven by her desire to seek the ultimate and eternal form of repose while Red Riding Hood seeks unstoppable entertainment and chaos. Sleeping Beatuy is constantly lazy to the point of getting in the way of her own goal why Red Riding Hood can't stand still and is very active towards killing others. Sleeping Beauty appears as a stoic spoiled jerk who has a more compassionate and supportive side, Red Riding Hood appears sweet and innocent but has a VERY bloodthirsty and violent nature. Sleeping Beauty is innocent to things carnal while RRH's bloodthirst has a very discomforting interplay of sex and violence.
• Forgetful Jones: A bit Downplayed, but she gets so caught up with playing with other beings she forgets that she was tasked to revive her author. Some stories come up with ways to prod her about it until she remembers.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: See I Just Want to Have Friends. To her, 'friend' and 'torture victim' are the same concept, and it should go without saying that nobody she meets is remotely interested in being her friend.
• Girl with Psycho Weapon: To say the least, any of her job weapons are these in association to her concept. Even the seemingly harmless tome that she wields as a Sorcerer is titled "Tome of Brutality", which is a strong indicator for what's written inside.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: She's often on the lookout for new friends to play with during her travels, be they Nightmares or fellow Characters. Unfortunately for them, her idea of playing involves their violent demises, hence her wish for her Author to write her more durable playmates.
  • Later on in the Act of Authors, it's revealed by Charles Perrault that her love of playing is a coping mechanism of a fear of being left alone. In summary, if Red just simply played and not continued on to her grandma's house, she wouldn't have been eaten by the wolf as well. Her being saved was a rewrite by the Grimm Brothers; Perrault's version ends at her death.
• I'm a Humanitarian: She doesn't have the Horror Hunger of the Three Little Pigs, but she's willing to eat both people and nightmares, and doesn't particularly mind if they're alive or dead at the time.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: Despite her childish innocence, her 'play' often has a creepy sexual tinge. The scene where she meets and butchers her Nightmare self early in the story, for instance, is written like she's discovering masturbation.
• In the Hood: According to one of her job stories, the people of her town wore red to protect them from the shadows of the forest and the Beast of Night, explaining her red hood.
• Improbable Weapon User / Shovel Strike: Her Alternative class has a shovel as her weapon. Ridiculous? Well according to history, shovels were often used as a weapon in WW1 and WW2. It's both effective and handy.
• Laughably Evil: This is, after all, a Yoko Taro story, and her incessant, single-minded bloodlust is played for humor almost as often as horror.
• Little Bit Beastly: While she sometimes have accessories or other things that play up a wolf theme, as part of her Act of Authors class she seems to undergo straight up lycanthropy with her now gaining proper wolf ears and tail alongside her limbs turning furry and more bestial.
• Little Dead Riding Hood: Inverted. She's the one who'll do the killing.
• Little Red Fighting Hood: And does she love it.
• Living Clothes: Her Sorcerer job outfit shows signs of it with two giant arms coming from her own cloak.
• Loves the Sound of Screaming: One of her battle quotes is "Scream some more!".
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Suffice to say, she simply doesn't seem to understand just how horrific her actions are to those that see her. Best exemplified in the Manga where she talks about how nice it is to meet Snow White again and how nostalgic it is, all while caving in her face and breaking her limbs one by one.
• Nuns Are Spooky: Her purchase-only Cleric job reflects on this.
• Odd Friendship: Assuming that she can keep her violent impulses in check, she and Sleeping Beauty actually get along pretty well. Compare and contrast their Act of Impulse crossover tale where poor Sleeping Beauty tries to stay awake lest she risks getting killed by Red Riding Hood with later stories such as Moonlight Terminus and their Act of Authors crossover tale where the two team up to care for the young Charles Perrault and hunt strong Nightmares to make him whole again after Red's Accidental Murder of him.
• One-Man Army: Notable for being the only character who's also this in their Reality persona before coming into contact with the Library. When a yakuza clan attempts to avenge their boss after she kills him, it takes several squads of goons to mortally wound her (not kill her, it should be stressed - she dies of blood loss several hours after fighting her way out).
• Professional Killer: In the Act of Reality, she's a street kid who became a notorious assassin.
• Psycho for Hire: Her Reality version is a textbook example - she became an assassin both to earn a living and to slake her endless thirst for blood. Her Library version doesn't have a job, per se, seeing as she's a supernatural being on a mystical quest, but she's got the basic mindset - it's incredibly easy to recruit her for just about any task so long as she gets to hurt people.
• Red Is Violent: Exaggerated. She's the embodiment of Brutality, and her hood is stained red from the blood of her victims.
  • Subverted in her Wrath Wolf Half-Nightmare class where the red is replaced with blue, but she's still just as, if not even more violent once the spirit in question has full influence on her.
• Sadist: Again, she's the embodiment of Brutality. Violence is her greatest pleasure, and her Ambiguous Innocence often makes it unclear whether it's a childish hobby, a sexual fetish, or some unholy midway point between the two. As she puts it, "Fun is pain! Pain is fun! Isn't it wonderful?"
• Sanity Slippage: Following the death of Library!Red Riding Hood, whom she considered a friend, the hitherto slightly saner Reality!Red Riding Hood starts going over the edge, causing her to transform into her Alt. Half form.
  • It gets worse in Part 2 where not only is she even more unhinged than before, she's also talking to an Imaginary Friend or a voice in her head which may or may not be the cause of her evolution into her Alternative Ext. form.
• Starter Mon: Her Crusher class is one of 4 starting classes at the start of the game. However, even if she isn't picked, she can still be obtained by playing Part 1 of her Act of Impulse Chapter 1 anyway.
• Token Wholesome: While it's rare for 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'wholesome' to go together in the same sentence, she's generally one of the most modestly-dressed of the playable characters. It's mostly to emphasise her childish appearance and personality, but several of her outfits have her go a step further and demonstrate her Blood Knight cred by wearing actual armour.
• Too Many Belts / Chained by Fashion: A lot of her outfits have a lot of belts and/or chains. Special mention goes to all those straps on her red hood.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: She's one of the most childlike playable characters in both appearance and personality. She's also an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer whose horrific acts often have a disturbing Interplay of Sex and Violence. 'Troubling' doesn't even begin to cover it.

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Kaguya

^Reality

^Nightmare

^{Act of Elimination Part 1}

^{Act of Authors}

"To suffer at the hands of a strong person is my ideal."

Origin: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

Author: unknown

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō

The Bamboo Princess from the Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Kaguya dislikes being pampered like the princess everyone sees her as. It's her belief that a princess should serve the people, not the other way around. She wants to be tormented by someone stronger than she is, and who else is stronger but her author?

Her Concept is "Masochism"^JP被虐/higyaku.

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• All for Nothing: While the Characters' quest in reviving their authors ends up as this as a whole following Awful Truth after Awful Truth in the Act of Authors, Kaguya's mission is even more so this trope because there are no credible sources for her tale, so even Parrah and Noya don't know who her creator is. As a result, her Act of Authors class comes about when she decides to rewrite her story herself following encounters with Momotaro and another version of herself who still cannot satisfy her desires to be dominated despite being the perfect candidates to do so.
• All Men Are Perverts: Many of the men who came to court her would look at her lustfully, something Kaguya enjoyed since she yearns to be dominated by a man stronger than she is.
• Apologetic Attacker: She feels bad for killing the Nightmares and even sheds a few tears, but it's only because they don't put up a good enough fight to actually hurt her.
• Ax-Crazy: An unusual example. She's abnormally and irrationally violent, but it's not because she wants to hurt anyone (which is why she's also an Apologetic Attacker). She's just so desperate for anyone to hurt her that she'll go to any lengths to pick a fight against someone who looks like they might be able to satisfy her desires.
• Battle in the Centre of the Mind: In the Act of Authors, having learnt from Momotaro that every masochist has their hidden sadist, Kaguya decides to go into her mental landscape to see for herself. She meets another version of herself who represents her inner desire to dominate others, and while she initially is in denial, she eventually accepts that she also represents the concept of Sadism, and so inverts her own body to show her new personality.
• Beat Still, My Heart: Kaguya enters her inner realm by stabbing herself right in the heart.
• Bedlah Babe: As part of the World/International class series, she's dressed as one.
• Berserk Button: In the Act of Authors, not knowing who her author is ends up a sore spot for Kaguya. With The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter being the oldest monogatari in Japan, there are no credible sources on who created her in the first place, so bringing it up will cause Kaguya to destroy you as Parrah and Noya find out the hard way, and this also causes the conflict with Pinocchio in Chapter 2 of their Act of Authors stories as him showing up with Carlo Collodi causes her to feel envious towards him.
• Blindfolded Vision: For her Minstrel job she dons a blindfold.
• Body Horror: How does she embrace her other self as a sadist? She inverts her own skin, and her innards form the new body.
• Covert Pervert: Both versions of herself have their moments.
  • Kaguya developed a masochistic streak as a result of her being raised by an old couple and detachment of any kind of relationships outside her family. At its peak, Kaguya only came to realize this tendency when she became aware of the lords' lustful gazes upon her.
  • In the manga, Reality!Kaguya looks a tad too happy when she sees Dorothy attempting to help Pinocchio put on his clothes. Noya, who's spying on them on behalf of the Game Master, wonders if this kind of scene was something Reality!Gretel was hyped for.
• Combat Sadomasochist: Well, combat masochist. She doesn't like hurting people, but she does like being hurt, and recognises that starting fights is one of the best ways to make people want to hurt her.
• Cursed with Awesome: Her Paladin class story tells us that her existence is a blessing to her parents yet she terrifies other people. Also, her divine, incorruptible might is the one thing she really doesn't want to have.
• Death Seeker: Sort of. It's not so much that she explicitly wants to die - it's just that the extreme levels of pain /pleasure she seeks are pretty much guaranteed to kill her, and she doesn't mind. Every time any version of Kaguya ends up having her desires satisfied, it ends up proving lethal.
• Despair Event Horizon: Upset that Library!Kaguya died with satisfaction first and about her newfound Super-Toughness, she crosses this and starts turning into a Nightmare when even Reality!Dorothy's science equipment fails to cut her.
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: She never realized how strong she actually is, as she had never wielded a weapon before she goes to resurrect her Author. Due to that, she usually ends up killing Nightmares that she thought would be able to hurt her, much to her chagrin.
• Doomed Protagonist: As her Sorcerer class lore states, for her to be born into the unclean earth, Kaguya is doomed to come in contact with worldly desires. Of course, from her perspective, her problem is that she isn't doomed enough.
• Everyone Has Standards: Has one of the dirtiest minds in the cast but also knows not to do anything immodest in front of children, most notably in Moonlight Terminus when she's the sole adult with Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood being minors.
• Extreme Libido: Of the masochistic variant. Pain is pleasure, pleasure is pain, and she wants all that the world can give her.
• Green Thumb: Like Pinocchio, she has this power in the manga, though unlike him she has the ability to manifest a bamboo grove that enhances her allies and the stronger her targets are compared to her the more effective it is.
• The Hedonist: She's no Visionary Villain - all she wants is pain/pleasure extreme enough to finally, completely satisfy her. Unfortunately, being a Physical God with Incorruptible Pure Pureness makes this very difficult indeed.
• Heel Realization: During the first arc, she realizes the Nightmares are too weak to fulfill her wish, leading to her realizing that her Author is the only one who can. With this comes the realization that she's not as innocent as she initially thought and that she's going to have to kill everyone to fulfill her wish.
• Hot Teacher: Her Reality self's day job is a teacher.
• I Should Have Been Better: She regretted not choosing any of the lords who proposed to her and imagined how wonderful it would have been to suffer at their hands, as she never wishes to return to the moon.
• The Immodest Orgasm: Tends to express herself with moans when she gets particularly aroused over something, with the most notable example being her Library self getting the satisfaction she desires at the end of the fight against her Reality self. It's even lampshaded on the story itself, where it explicitly uses the term "orgasm".
• Impossibly-Low Neckline: Her top shows off quite a bit of her cleavage and her shoulders.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Deconstructed. Her divine incorruptibility made earthly corruption the only thing she was interested in and the only thing she couldn't obtain, eventually resulting in her going on a murderous rampage to find someone, anyone, capable of hurting and defiling her.
• In Love with Love: Kaguya later resolved to endure all forms of pain to learn about love, for the world is filled with pain that is "love". She likes the idea of being in a relationship more for the sake of fulfilling her masochistic tendencies rather than actually wanting to be with someone, possibly because she thinks that being hurt means being loved.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: See every other trope in her entry. She's the embodiment of capital-M Masochism, and sees no separation whatsoever between the two concepts. The fight between her Library and Reality selves basically embodies this trope, as they get increasingly aroused as the fight goes on.
• Kimono Is Traditional / Pimped-Out Dress: Her Paladin design reflects on her being the only character from a Japanese 'fairytale'.
• Knight Templar: Along with Little Mermaid in the Act of SINoALICE. After they beat up a customer at the cabaret club they worked in who took advantage of one of their colleagues, the two of them gained a reputation as the "Hostesses of Justice" once they started targeting customers who abused the hostesses. The two even lampshade the fact that "Justice" is supposed to be Snow White's thing. Eventually because Kaguya and Little Mermaid were exposed to dirty human desires on a daily basis, they slipped into the same mindset as Snow and what triggered their Nightmarification was when they started targeting normal people as well.
• Little Black Dress: Wears a pretty revealing one in the Act of Reality.
• Ms. Fanservice: Her character concept is 'supernaturally beautiful masochistic nymphomaniac', and it shows, as the art team tend to put her in suitably outrageous outfits and her lines often lend to being suggestive, if not outright sexual. Her Reality is also one of those that have explicitly sexual theme in the form of BDSM prostitution.
• Naginata Are Feminine: As a warped take on the Yamato Nadeshiko trope, her default Library class is the Paladin, she's demure and graceful, and her unique spears are all naginatas.
• Necromancer: Her Sorcerer class's lore and design reflect on this.
  • Her Cleric weapon story has her dabbling in necromancy, in hopes of finding someone who was able to hurt her. She didn’t succeed.
• Orgasmic Combat: Or, at least, she would very much like her combat to be orgasmic. As a permanently unfulfilled masochist, her battlefield chatter is extremely suggestive and sometimes downright has her getting aroused. This is exemplified when the Library and Reality selves face off against each other.
• Pretty in Mink: Kaguya's dress in her Paladin and Cleric classes sport a lion head decoration at the back, the mane becoming the fur design around her neckline.
• Really Gets Around: A natural result of her Reality counterpart working as an escort/prostitute. The manga version even makes her an official escort for the Yakuza and she seems to have a sexual relationship with Cinderella.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Under the influence of the Gluttonous Tiger spirit after accepting its power.
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Many of her class portraits incorporate bones and/or skulls into her clothes and weapons.
• Stripperiffic: Fitting for a Ms. Fanservice character, some of her job outfits have her dressed in the bare minimum, such as her Proud Lion Breaker. Perhaps one of the most iconic example for this is her Travelers job, where she's only haphazardly wrapped in ribbons and is wearing nothing underneath.
• Stronger Than They Look: Kaguya wishes and expects to be defeated and violated by the Nightmares but as she begins to adapt in battle, she finds out that her body is strong and her mind is unshaken.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: She refuses to be called a pervert/nymphomaniac, despite her masochistic tendencies.
• Super-Toughness: Reality!Kaguya's new ability in the Act of Elimination, where her skin is so durable it breaks the tools Reality!Dorothy was using to get a blood sample. Since she's a masochist, she hates it, and it leads to her crossing the Despair Event Horizon and undergoing Nightmarification.
• Too Kinky to Torture: Taken to a pretty far extreme. She enjoys pain too much, to the point that it defines her desire to resurrect the Author. She even actively tries to find someone who will torment her during her quest, whatever that is.
  • Her desire branches from physical pain to mental pain, and later comes to associates love with pain itself.
• Too Much Alike: With Pinocchio. They both want someone else to control them and are indecisive, so much of their crossover story is them asking "I don't know, what do you want to do?" back and forth.
• True Blue Femininity: Jino commented that Kaguya is designed as an Oiran, a Japanese courtesan, which reflects her Reality self's 'other' job.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Submissive, demure and certainly not a pushover, but that last bit is what Kaguya's upset about. She wants to be an Extreme Doormat.

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Pinocchio

^Reality

^Nightmare

^{Act of Elimination Part 1}

^{Act of Elimination Part 2}

^{Act of Authors}

"I’m not too good at deciding things on my own."

Origin: The Adventures of Pinocchio

Author: Carlo Collodi

Voiced by: Yuko Sanpei

The puppet that came to life from The Adventures of Pinocchio, he's been having a tough time suddenly having free will. He wants to resurrect Carlo Collodi, since the Author is the one who dictates everything that happens in the story, so he'd be the best one to tell Pinocchio what to do.

His Concept is "Dependence"^JP依存/izon.

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• Ambiguously Human: Pinocchio is a doll turned human who struggles to make a decision on his own, relying instead on others to give him orders. In Chapter 4 of his Act of Impulse, Pinocchio realizes that he doesn't remember becoming a real little boy while his staff exhibits all traits associated to his doll self (foul mouthed, mean, nose growing when lying). Pinocchio's concept art hints at the fact that the staff might be the real Pinocchio, which is confirmed in the Act of Elimination Part 2 when his staff first latches on to a passing Nightmare and then forces a fusion with Cinderella.
• Butt-Monkey: Due to his Extreme Doormat personality, he is often toyed with by people like Cinderella or his own staff. This extends to the Tsuri Star collaboration event where he becomes the Damsel in Distress at some point, needing Snow White to save him.
• Desperately Needs Orders: To the absolute extreme due to his concept of "Dependence". Pinocchio absolutely cannot function without someone telling him what to do, and his motivation in reviving Carlo Collodi is to get him to tell him what to do even after becoming a real boy with an independent mind. His Reality self fares better but the main conflict in the Act of Elimination (Part 1) stems from Reality!Pinocchio being jealous of Library!Pinocchio for having a talking staff that orders him around. In the Act of SINoALICE, this leads to Blind Obedience to a radicalized general in the Japanese Armed Forces much to the ire of everyone else in the platoon and once the general decides to start a coup and eventually militarize Japan, Nutcracker and his staff start getting worried about him.
• Dirty Coward: He may come across as endearingly pathetic much of the time, but make no mistake - he's a Villain Protagonist like everyone else. In his case, it's because he's such an Extreme Doormat that he'll cooperate in the most gruesome evil and depravity purely so that he doesn't have to deal with the pressure of making his own decisions. Given the hints that his staff is actually his Split Personality, this goes one layer deeper - he basically gave himself dissociative identity disorder in order to abdicate responsibility for following his own dark impulses.
• Disappeared Dad: Geppetto has gone missing, as well as other characters from the story. The Cricket refuses to talk about the puppet to avoid going missing too.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Some of his designs enforce this, particularly his Paladin job. In the Act of Reality, he's dressed as a girl but that's because his mother forced him to do so.
• Extreme Doormat: He has trouble making decisions on his own, so he wants someone else to decide for him.
  "It is a puppet's fate to bend to the will of others. I may be a real boy now, but I still need someone to pull strings."
• Fusion Dance: Pinocchio's staff does this to Cinderella, taking over her body with his Lifeforce. At the end of his fight with the Nutcracker, it gathers the remains of the two and fuses them into 1 body.
• Green Thumb: His power in the manga, which he uses to grow a tree from a single branch in order to save Alice. Unlike typical examples of the trope, he can only use this on existing plants such as the aforementioned branch and Reality!Sleeping Beauty's thorns.
• Living Weapon: His staff, which has a face and its own will, drags Pinocchio around to get him to kill the nightmares. However, it stops talking when there are other people around.
• Monster Clown: Becomes this after Harley Quinn and Catwoman doll him up and turn him into a second Joker in Villainy, Justice and Forgery. The Joker himself isn't fond of it, since Joker!Pinocchio's brand of evil is merely a bad mimicry of his own chaos.
• Morph Weapon: Pinocchio's staff takes on the form of the weapon that's the specialty of whichever class Pinocchio himself is. In Pinocchio's Spirit and Divine Spirit classes however, it gets shoved to the side due to the presence of the spirit being more dominant.
• My Beloved Smother: His mother in the Act of Reality is downright abusive. Unfortunately, their dependence on each other is mutual.
• Never My Fault: Pinocchio blames the deaths he's caused on his staff since it's the one pulling him along. He never wanted to kill anything and he can't do anything by himself. This becomes less and less convincing as the story progresses, until it becomes clear that he's semi-knowingly abdicating responsibility for his own misdeeds.
• Not Used to Freedom: Pinocchio after becoming human still has no idea what to do especially after Carlo Collodi's death, so he aims to revive him specifically to get him to tell him what to do again.
• Raised as the Opposite Gender: His Reality persona was raised as a girl by a rather abusive mother who had wanted a daughter.
• Slasher Smile: Carries one in his Half-Nightmare class and later his Alt.Pre.Half class.
• Starter Mon: His Crusher class is one of 4 starting classes at the start of the game. However, even if he isn't picked, he can still be obtained by playing Part 1 of his Act of Impulse Chapter 1 anyway.
• Thank the Maker: English-only; he's sometimes heard praying to the Blue Fairy who gave him life.
• The One Guy: Until the release of Aladdin he was the sole male member of the cast. A bit downplayed if we count the reveal about Gretel.
• Too Much Alike: With Kaguya. They both acknowledge that their goals are too similar for them to suit each other's needs but still wish each other luck when they go separate ways.
• Wanted a Son Instead: Gender Inverted; Pinocchio's mother always wanted a daughter but the child who ended up becoming his Reality version isn't.
• Why Couldn't You Be Different?: The mother of his reality version wanted a girl instead of a boy and thus raised him as such.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: His Reality appearance has him dressed up as quite the convincing girl. Some of his class outfits, like the Mage, also have him dressing in very feminine clothes.
• Yandere: Following the demise of Library!Pinocchio, Reality!Pinocchio acts like this to the former's staff, going from wanting someone to give him orders to acting on his own for its sake. While he ends up very powerful as a result of his resolve to be independent, this doesn't stop his own end at the hands of Reality!Snow White.

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