Initial Roster | Later Roster
Characters that debuted after the initial launch of SINoALICE. Most of them debut in the Act of Hatred, while Nutcracker debuts in the Act of Reality.
open/close all folders
Little Mermaid
Reality
Nightmare
Extended
- "I will teach you the value of tears."Origin: The Little MermaidAuthor: Hans Christian AndersenVoiced by: Mamiko Noto
The heroine of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, a tragic story about star-crossed love. Little Mermaid believes that the greater the sorrow, the greater the story will shine. So to make her story even more beautiful, she wants to resurrect her author so that he'll rewrite the story to be even sadder.
Her Concept is "Misery"JP.
- Affably Evil: Unlike the sadistic bully Cinderella, the Ax-Crazy lunatic Red Riding Hood, and other similarly malevolent protagonists, the Little Mermaid is just a nice, polite young lady who thinks that the world would be greatly improved if everyone in it was far more miserable.
- All Love Is Unrequited: She loved the prince so much that she even dared to make a Deal with the Devil so she could be with him. Too bad the prince didn't even remember who saved him and got married to another woman. This extends to her Reality Arc self who is in an adulterous relationship with a coworker. The man won her over by pitying her but was in fact only interested in having a younger mistress more than anything.
- Attention Whore: Her Reality self is just as obsessed with misery as does her Library counterpart, but if certain class and weapon stories are any indication, she wants to be miserable so that people will pity her.
- Berserk Button: Never wallow in your own self-pity in front of her or fail to understand her misery when doing so. She WILL end you, as her Reality self and Rapunzel found out.
- Body to Jewel: She cries pearls.
- Card-Carrying Villain: As she'd happily admit, her purpose in life is to spread misery and tragedy in order to shape the world to her warped aesthetic values.
- Doomed Protagonist: Little Mermaid exchanged her voice in order to become human and win the prince's heart, knowing that her life is at stake if the prince doesn't love her back. Unfortunately for her, the prince didn't even remember her, dooming her to fail. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, she found this tragedy delightful and decided to let everyone else experience one of their own.
- Driven to Suicide: Her Reality self jumps in front of a train, but not out of despair, but rather to live out her fantasies of her living in an ultimate tragedy. And of course, one of the biggest clichés in tragedy is for the heroine to commit suicide.
- Dystopia Justifies the Means: Again, she is explicitly out to make the world a worse place because she views misery and tragedy as the most beautiful things in existence. While she's most interested in increasing her own suffering, she is more than happy to make everyone else just as unhappy.
- The Eeyore: Almost always crying and finds her situations (in-story and in the Library) to be incredibly sad. But it's still not depressing enough for her.
- Extreme Doormat: Her office lady persona in the Act of Reality. Many men come after her due to her meek personality, not that she minds since for her it is simply a means for her to survive and fuel her sorrow addiction.
- For the Evulz: Again, her primary motive is to spread misery because she considers it to be the most beautiful form of existence. Ironically, this makes her more active and calculated in her evil than more overtly unpleasant characters like Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Hamelin.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Little Mermaid didn't take it well when she found out that the prince had forgotten her, the one who saved his life. Or, from another perspective, she took it far too well.
- Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Happens to her during the 'Travelling Feast of Hot Spring Steam' event where she soaks in a hot spring pool that makes one whimsical, causing her to be happier despite claiming to still be miserable. Fortunately it's not that serious.
- Goodbye, Cruel World!: Reality!Mermaid's last spoken dialogue before being hit by a subway train:
- "So I left my feet behind and dove into a sea of grief."
- Has a Type: Prefers older men since they are easier to seduce into oppressing her whereas younger men make her resent her age.
- Horned Humanoid: Sprouts a pair in her Breaker Ext. class which aptly resemble coral.
- In Love with Love: Her heart has become so broken that she associates her feelings of love with how much it hurts to be in love. So her pining for the prince is less actually wanting to be with him and more wanting to suffer, since being hurt makes her love shine brighter.
- It's All About Me: During her crossover with Red Riding Hood in the Reality Arc, she left the heavily wounded girl to her own fate because the Little Mermaid felt she was much more pitiful than the young assassin.
- Knight Templar: Along with Kaguya 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.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Her Paladin job lore features a series of investigation records detailing how the current queen married to her once-prince now-king ruined the kingdom and his people lamented if only the current queen had NOT been the one saving the king back then.
- Making a Splash: Many of her weapons use water in some way, or she manipulates water to use the weapons. It's implied she may be using tears.
- Ms. Fanservice: Another of the more fanservicey playable characters. In her case, it's because she's usually a scantily-clad Walking Swimsuit Scene - mermaids don't wear much in the way of clothes, after all.
- Never My Fault: Blames the death of her superior in the Act of Reality on the old man rather than on herself for indulging the man in his asphyxiation fetish during a sex act.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She saved the prince and exchanged her voice to become human, only to be forgotten and turned into sea foam.
- Office Lady: In the Act of Reality.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: Her hair has her fins instead of her lower half, reflecting her transformation into a human in her story. However, some of her classes (Half-Nightmare, Out of the Water and Breaker Ext.) trades back the legs for her fish tail.
- Power at a Price: She undergoes her transformation into her Breaker Ext. class appearance in the Act of Elimination and kills Rapunzel, but loses her voice in the process.
- Sailor Fuku: Most of her outfits feature a sailor-like design element, or at least something related to marine travel. The sole exception is her Alternative class.
- Sensual Spandex: Her Sorcerer class ditches her Sailor Fuku inspired clothes in favor of an incredibly form-fitting bodysuit with a longcoat on top. Her Gluttonous Tiger Sorcerer class follows suit but without the longcoat and tinted red.
- Stepford Smiler: Her Act of Reality persona is an office lady who works at a desk (possibly a secretary); part of her job consists of greeting everyone with a smile, regardless of how she actually feels. This is on top of having an adulterous relationship with one of her married coworkers, who is still wearing his wedding ring, yet she loves him nonetheless and is pressuring him into marrying her. As a result, being able to feel and display sadness is seen as a way for her to express her true self.
- Team Mom: For Sleeping Beauty during the Late Summer's RecollectionsEN event, as the clam that they rescued (and later nicknamed 'Sary'/'Lammy' by Sleeping Beauty) called Sleeping Beauty its sister and Little Mermaid its mother.
- They Would Cut You Up: Dorothy's interested in her physiology, so naturally the former wants to dissect the latter. Little Mermaid is, unusually, not happy with this - there are some forms of tragic end that are too unpleasant and demeaning even for her.
- True Blue Femininity: Being a mermaid, most of her job outfits have her in ocean blue.
- Walking Swimsuit Scene: Many of her outfits include, resemble, or entirely consist of swimwear, as a way to demonstrate her aquatic heritage.
- When She Smiles: Little Mermaid can actually be cute when she's smiling, though it might really be a Psychotic Smirk.
Dorothy
Reality
Nightmare
Extended
- "Try a sample!"Origin: The Wonderful Wizard of OzAuthor: L. Frank BaumVoiced by: Rie Takahashi
From L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is an inquisitive girl with an insatiable curiosity. So much so that she only wants to experiment with what the Land of Oz has to offer her. She wants to revive her author so that she can preserve his brain in formaldehyde.
Her Concept is "Curiosity"JP.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: When she's revived in the Act of Elimination Part 2, she's become a Nightmare. Snow White is utterly horrified when she sees her. She gets better, but doesn't live long.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Reality!Dorothy gets this power among other things during the Act of Elimination when fighting against Reality!Kaguya who's on the way to Nightmarification after despairing over her strength. She uses this ability to find Kaguya/Alt. Half's weakness.
- Batter Up!: Dorothy's Crusher job has her wield a baseball bat. Meanwhile, her Wrath Wolf Crusher job changes the bat for... a tennis racket.
- Beware the Silly Ones: She's both a scatter-brained goofball and one of the coldest and most ruthless members of the main cast, alternating between being the Plucky Comic Relief and a terrifying Mad Scientist with a complete Lack of Empathy.
- Big Damn Heroes: The Nutcracker ended up absorbed by the Desire-Noya fusion albeit not without a fight, leaving the player all alone without a Character as a vessel. In the nick of time, Dorothy shows up with her fully-functioning time machine and helps the player use their memories of the Characters to pull them out of the creature.
- Big Sister Instinct: Develops one over the course of the Act of SINoALICE towards the Three Little Pigs, who have started to view her as their big sister. This hurts her deeply when they commit a Heroic Sacrifice to save her from the Nightmarefied Pokelabo staff via suicide bombing.
- Blind Without 'Em: As revealed in the Act of Elimination, both Library and Reality versions of Dorothy share a common weakness - being shortsighted. However, Reality!Dorothy displayed higher levels of cunning, allowing her to win against Library!Dorothy.
- Braids of Action: Has one short braid and one long one, the longer one being around hip-length.
- Call-Back: Her "Out of Ideas" class features parts and blueprints from previous Workshop classes, showcasing her slump after churning out 27 different inventions.
- The Cameo: She first appears in a single frame in Chapter 7 of the manga working in the office that Cinderella visits to get information on Little Mermaid.
- Carry a Big Stick: Her Alternative class weapon is a club made of golden-yellow Lifeforce.
- Constantly Curious: She's just that excited for her passion. See For Science! for details.
- A Day in the Limelight: A Class Series in the Limelight, to be precise. Dorothy has her own class series known as 'Dorothy's Workshop', where she creates various gear for other Characters. In gameplay, they provide a large boost to their primary weapon type and a small boost to a secondary weapon typenote. The class stories of this series are additionally taken from her diary.
- Events-wise, she gets the spotlight in Space-Time Inquisitor, where she befriends a Nightmare named Shelia while exploring a mansion.
- Divide and Conquer: She does this to the Three Little Pigs in their section of the Act of Elimination (Part 2)'s Chapter 4, believing a 3-against-1 match isn't fair. Her victory is short-lived as the Pigs end up eating her from the inside.
- Eaten Alive: Her fate in Chapter 3 of the Act of Elimination (Part 2) when she's eaten from the inside by The Three Little Pigs.
- Fate Worse than Death: As a Mad Scientist with an unending appetite for vivisection, she's notorious in-universe for her tendency to deliver these. If she gets you Strapped to an Operating Table, you'll soon be begging for death from someone with no interest in delivering it. It says a lot that even the tragedy-obsessed Little Mermaid makes a swift exit when she sees Dorothy sharpening her scalpels.
- She herself ends up with one of these as she's Eaten Alive by The Three Little Pigs after eating them up herself.
- Faux Affably Evil: She's a friendly, bubbly girl who only takes interest in someone if she thinks they'd be a useful source of research materials, and it soon becomes apparent that her Motor Mouth patter is mainly something to keep herself occupied while she sets up her vivisection table rather than being born of any serious interest in conversation.
- For Science!: She wants to dissect, cut up, and do various experiments on anything that gets her interest, just for the sake of knowing how it works and why. The only thing that matters to her is her research and anything else that moves is just material.
- Genius Ditz: Looks to be one.
- Genki Girl: Dorothy is always enthusiastic when it comes to looking for her experimental subjects. Her Reality version, however, ditched her cheerful demeanor.
- Humongous Mecha: Her 'Super Cool Robo' class as part of the Dorothy's Workshop series is this, inspired by a picture book about a girl who wanted to fly. And it's so huge, it takes up the entire homescreen. It's also as ridiculous as it looks; while specializing in Artifacts, once it hits Class Level 14 it provides boosts to the other rearguard weapons - 10% to staves and 5% each to instruments and tomes.
- Improbable Weapon User: Uses a giant syringe as her Gunner class main hand. Meanwhile, her Wrath Wolf Crusher class has her use a tennis racket.
- In-Series Nickname: The My Fair Beau event in Global refers to her as "Dot".
- Insufferable Genius: In the Act of Reality, she views her intellect highly and calls others stupid for not believing her theories. The Act of Fusion has her recruit members for her scientific association, citing 'not stupid' as one of her criteria.
- Her Child class story also has this view, but it only serves to get her into trouble.
- Large Ham: Especially when presenting the results of her research to her audience.
- Lack of Empathy: One of the more extreme cases amongst the playable cast. To her, people are either research samples to be killed and studied, obstacles to said research, or completely irrelevant. Relating to people as people is something she simply does not do.
- Lethal Chef: Apparently unlike Snow White, Cinderella and Rapunzel who have been established as good cooks, Dorothy's cooking fares a lot worse. Just ask Kaguya in her Moon Travel class's story.
- Literal-Minded: Sometimes, during PVs for the Dorothy's Workshop classes. Gretel constantly tearing bread to make a Trail Of Breadcrumbs? Create an auto-bread tearing machine! Kaguya is an alien? Create a spacesuit to send her home! Cinderella ate the Pigs' sweets? Make her happy by recreating her ballgown (though Cinderella isn't happy about being mugged and dressed up herself)! Alice being called dull? Make her light up by first dumping her in florescent paint, and if that doesn't work, string Christmas lights on her!
- Mad Scientist: Her introduction PV has her voice excitement over the thought of collecting new samples in Library. Her weapon story has her test a drug of her own creation on living beings with the expected effect. Her Gunner class story implies she used the cast of The Wizard of Oz as her first test subjects.
- Additionally, her weapon stories often involve her inventing something, ranging from weapons to concoctions. She eventually gets her own job series, the 'Dorothy's Workshop', where she invents all sorts of things for her fellow Characters.
- This is also her persona in the Act of Reality: a college researcher who was expelled from the scientific association for her madcap experiments.
- Man on Fire: Her ultimate fate in the Act of Reality: her time machine exploded, burning her to death and setting the apartment she lived in on fire. Her last thought before the flames consumed her was that she could always conduct experiments another day.
- Messy Hair: Has a lot of hair sticking out despite being braided, including an Idiot Hair.
- Motor Mouth: One of the most talkative playable characters. She's got a habit of thinking out loud, and she's a very quick thinker. Don't mistake it for an interest in what anyone else has to say, though.
- Mission Control: During the End of the Moonlight event where she gives instructions to Kaguya, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood when they go to space.
- Only One Name: Nowhere in the game mentions her last name of 'Gale'. Everyone simply calls her Dorothy.
- Open Mouth, Insert Foot: When it comes to saying things in the name of research, Dorothy really cannot keep her mouth shut. This bites her in the ass during the Sacred Treasures of Dusk event when inquiring the Metaverse visitors about their real life causes them to be pissed at her and her friends, which soon devolves into a Zombie Apocalypse. Parrah and Noya, after congratulating them for escaping the Halloween Metaverse, smacks them for Dorothy's insensitivity as a result.
- Pet the Dog: After the events of Wars of Fantasia tire her, The Three Little Pigs, Kaguya and Gretel out, she decides to take a rest day from the Colosseum and asks the others to join her.
- Poisonous Person: Her new powers allow her to create a nerve-dulling poisonous gas to defeat Kaguya in the Act of Elimination.
- Power at a Price: Turns out, Reality!Dorothy too had to sacrifice something to get her Super-Intelligence. In this case, it's her morals and ethics. This was why Reality!Snow chose to give her remaining strength to Alice.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: The end of the manga reveals that the Death Game doesn't end with Alice's victory, and Reality!Dorothy this time has decided to wholly take part; this is what her Power of Curiosity entitles her to. She can remember every past timeline of the 1st Death Game and can even jump into one of them to gather information, but doesn't have control over which one she travels to.
- Sole Survivor: One of two confirmed left alive after the events of the Act of SINoALICE, the other being Alice.
- Super-Intelligence: Her new power, which provides her with Awesomeness by Analysis to defeat her enemies along with a solution. However, all of her ethics (or lack thereof) went down the drain as a result.
- Token Wholesome: Sort of Reverse Enforced. While she is normally among the most conservatively dressed of the cast, Taro was told that "mobile gacha games don’t sell unless it shows plenty of skin". Though Taro being Taro decided that for her Cleric job, she is decked out in what basically amounts to some sort of Power Armor, Diving Suit, Steampunk hybrid, showing next to no skin whatsoever with only part of her face visible through the suit's visor.
- Wild Card: Her role in the manga. She initially joins Team Cinderella but after the latter goes to confront Snow White with Alice and Sleeping Beauty as hostages and the former is left with Pinocchio, she decides to turncoat to join Team Snow simply because she's researching the powers that the participants of the killing game received from the Library and since she's already finished gathering info from Cinderella's side, it's time for her to experience things from the other end. What's more, not only is she The Team Normal as she doesn't have any powers in the manga, she also refers to herself as a "rubbernecker", much to Pinocchio's confusion and Noya's shock. However, at the end of the manga, a Round 2 has begun and she eventually decides to participate for real complete with her own powers.
- Womanchild: Both her Library and Reality versions behave like this regarding their interests.
- Writer's Block: Actually Inventor's Block but same principle. This forms the basis of her 2nd Workshop class "Out of Ideas" which features her feeling especially exhausted from bringing her inventions to life. After giving everyone 2 Workshop classes each (except for Red Riding Hood who has 3), her creative spark's dropped so low she even forgets today's date.
Nutcracker
Spoilers
- Author: E. T. A. HoffmannVoiced by: Hiroshi Shirokuma
The titular character from E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King who has been turned into a toy for a very long time. While he has yet to prove himself in battle, he's more than willing to pass on advice to anyone of the younger generation. That is, if they're willing to listen in the first place...
His concept is "Senilty" JP.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: Like Dorothy, he Came Back Wrong in Part 2 of the Act of Elimination as a Nightmare, being a husk of his former self. He gets better, but gets yanked horribly by Parrah and Noya who hijack him before he can complete his Heroic Sacrifice.
- Big Bad:
- The A Fluffy Encounter event has him serve as this, where he plans to turn the Sanrio Characters into Nightmares and tame them so that he can become the most popular SINoALICE character. Not only does it fail, he gets mocked for constantly being in last place and ends up getting defeated in the most hilarious way possible - The Power of Friendship and cuteness from the 'Fancy Barrier'.
- He's also this for the 6th Anniversary event Transcendent Trajectory where he attempts to change the SINoALICE timeline to make him the central character of the game. Towards the end however he makes a Heel–Face Turn to help out Alice.
- Butt-Monkey: If he does interact with other Characters, he'll usually end up on the short end of things. His defeat in the A Fluffy Encounter event is also the most humiliating - by being overwhelmed with cuteness galore.
- Die Laughing: Goes out both with a laugh and a load of ham when taking on Desire-Noya:Hmm... HahaHAHAHA! Seems like this is as far as I can go! Youngins! The rest IS UP TO YOU!!!
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Everyone tends to ignore him when he shows up. Subverted during the Act of Elimination Part 2 when Pinocchio saw him come back to life as a Nightmare who lost his mind and felt sorry for him. During the The Blazing Summer, the Trendy Tan event, Aladdin even gives him a tan despite him showing up close to closing time.
- Grumpy Old Man: It's even his concept, "Gerontocracynote "/"Senilty".
- Heroic Sacrifice: Attempts to do this by using whatever little time he has left as a Nightmare who has regained its sentience to inform Snow White of everything he knows before asking her to deliver a Mercy Kill and inherit his powers. Before they can go through with it however, Parrah and Noya hack into his body and regresses him back into a Nightmare, leading to Snow's demise as she's Eaten Alive by him. He does get to have more success during the ending of the story where he manages to occupy Desire-Noya long enough for everyone else to escape and create an opening for the other Characters and the player's guild to put Noya to rest.
- To hammer this fact home, when choosing who to rescue first after Chapter 5 (and therefore be the focal character of Chapter 6), Nutcracker is the only Character who cannot be chosen due to the aforementioned Heroic Sacrifice.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
- Even though he's angry at the Three Little Pigs for ignoring his lectures when they meet in the Act of Elimination (Part 1), he finds himself suddenly caring about their health after their happy talk of food.
- His reason for entrusting Snow with his knowledge in Part 2 of the same act? He genuinely wanted her to put an end to the Forever War the puppets were planning.
- He spends most of the Act of SINoALICE fretting over Pinocchio when he's drafted into the Japanese military, being a voice of reason especially when the squad he's a part of ends up radicalized by its sadistic commander. However, it turns out that Nutcracker was actually absent from the events of the story and Pinocchio had been imagining his staff as Nutcracker serving as his conscience all along.
- Joke Character: No one takes him seriously.
- Lethal Joke Character: Chapter 2 of his Act of Elimination has him revealing his true form, and he ends up victorious against Reality!Gretel. Gameplay-wise, while he doesn't provide any more stats, increasing his Breaker Ext. class level up to 10 has him give a 1% boost to all weapon types as support skills.
- Lighter and Softer: While he's by no means a comic relief character (for lack of a better word), his story in the Act of Reality is a reprieve from the horror and tragedy happening to everyone else.
- Living Toys: Technically, a wooden toy puppet brought to life.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: The Act of Fusion reveals that Nutcracker is actually another observer in a similar vein to Accord, Parrah and Noya. Being older than Parrah and Noya, he's witnessed more events than they have and reveals that Library has fused with Reality 44 times prior to the events of the Fusion Arc, the current events being the 45th time. To prevent Parrah and Noya suspecting anything about him continuing to record every event that happened within Library and eventually finding a way to stop them, he pretended to be a senile old man.
- Old Windbag: Often gives lectures and rambles on and on, much to the annoyance of smaller Nightmares, Parrah and Noya. He also gets angry when his lectures gets ignored.
- One-Winged Angel: Nutcracker unleashes his true form after Reality!Gretel's demise, becoming taller, his face being revealed to be a mask and his Lifeforce can be seen forming the joints.
- Only Sane Man: In the Act of SINoALICE where he's partnered with Pinocchio who was drafted into the military, especially when his squad ends up radicalized. Eventually this gets subverted; the Nutcracker who had been serving as his conscience was actually Pinocchio's staff, and Nutcracker wasn't transported to the real world in the first place.
- Rambling Old Man Monologue: Likes to give these to anyone he meets. This is even more apparent considering he doesn't have any Cross Stories in the Acts of Reality and Fusion, where he's alone in Library after everyone else ended up in Reality.
- Super Prototype: The Act of Desire reveals that he's this to Parrah and Noya, designed to reign them in if they ever went too far in their role as administrators. He puts these powers to good use by creating an opening for the Characters and the player to escape and then defeat Desire-Noya at the cost of his life.
- Taking You with Me: After regaining his sentience a second time thanks to Snow White's power, he pulls this on the Pinocchio's staff-Cinderella fusion both to atone for his sins and to finish what he started. It works, but Pinocchio's staff still lives and uses the remains of the two to form a new body.
- Verbal Tic: Nutcracker ends his lines with a "-beki".
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Because the ending of Chapter 3 of his and Pinocchio's Act of SINoALICE story reveals that Pinocchio's conscience was actually his staff pretending to be Nutcracker all along and Pinocchio actually wound up in the real world alone, whatever became of the real Nutcracker is unknown.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Oh look, Nutcracker managed to redeem himself by dropping his 'Old Windbag' act and entrust the future willingly to Snow White, and for once in his life gets the praise and respect for the elderly like he always wanted! Unfortunately for him, before they can go through with it, Parrah and Noya throw a huge wrench in his plans by being the jackasses they are and regress his sentience to force him into eating Snow White and forcing his evolution into a worse Nightmare than he already is. Goddamnit.
- He manages to get better though, see Taking You with Me.
Three Little Pigs
Reality
Nightmare
Extended
- "We are the Three Little Pigs. We are good friends and sisters. We love to eat, but what we love the most are sweets!"Origin: The Three Little PigsAuthor: unknownVoiced by: Aoi Yūki
The Three Little Pigs are sisters who love eating more than anything else, viewing it as something particularly special to them. So much so, they're willing to eat as much as they can, throw up, and eat again. Apparently, the Big Bad Wolf wasn't filling enough for them, so they're off to revive their author in the hopes of getting to eat more.
In battle, while all three appear together, one pig will be seen doing the actual fighting while the other two are in the background either eating and drinking, supporting their sister or copying her movements. This leads to unique battle animations that no other character has, not even the other duo units, Devola and Popola, King of Facade and Fyra and Fina and Dark Fina.
Their concept is "Gluttony"JP.
- A House Divided: The 3rd Anniversary event has one of them contracting with the Proud Lion Spirit with the wish of not being hungry again while the other wields the power the black cat (possibly the same cat from the previous 2 anniversary events) gave her to stop her sister with the middle pig caught in between.
- Dorothy attempts to do this in the Act of Elimination in order to win, but this bites her HARD when the trio eat her from the inside and become a proper Hive Mind.
- Abusive Parents: Like Pinocchio before them, their mother in the Act of Reality couldn't care less about their wellbeing and is obsessed with her image, even if she's appearance-conscious because she's a famous actress. And even though the three of them know full well that she views them as accessories so that she can be in the spotlight always with the ideal family, they still try to gain her love even through dubious means.
- And according to their Crusher class story, Mama Pig isn't any better, forcing the three of them out into the world knowing that they might be eaten by the Big Bad Wolf because the family isn't financially well off.
- Big Eater: Loves to eat, and their concept is "Gluttony". The three of them are willing to eat as much as they can until they vomit, and then eat again.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The leftmost girl is the big one, being fairly plump. The rightmost one is the thin one, being somewhat skinny. And the middle one is the balanced one. It's soon revealed that which one is which isn't fixed - they're just at different stages in the same binge-purge-binge process.
- Body Horror: While everyone's Half-Nightmare classes have them to some degree, theirs completely lack a stomach, with a empty void being where it used to be.
- In their Breaker Ext. class, their mouths are nearly sewn shut and their stomachs are replaced with an extra mouth on each of them, with its own set of teeth and colour-coded tongues.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience:
- The thin girl wears blue/purple, the plump girl wears green, and the middle girl wears red. This is actually less helpful than you might think, because all three sisters are actually cycling through the same three phases of large, medium and small (and presumably change outfits with each other whenever they do).
- Their overall Lifeforce is light pink, as seen in their Half-Nightmare and Reality Class weapons.
- Creepy High-Pitched Voice: Like Red Riding Hood, they have very high-pitched voices, and while they aren't actively malevolent like her, their obsessive, near-mindless Horror Hunger is very unsettling.
- Disappeared Dad: In Reality Arc, they mention that they do not know who their father is. However, their Alternative class story implies that they were followed by someone claiming to be their father.
- The Dividual: While the Three Little Pigs are 3 characters counted as 1 and are pulled from the Grimoire as such, only one of them (chosen at random) can be seen doing the actual fighting while the other 2 can be seen doing other things such as eating and drinking or mimicking the active sister's actions. The only classes where this doesn't happen are their Sin Half-Nightmare classes where the spirits of the other pigs are seen circling around the central pig instead and their Half-Nightmare class where only the middle daughter is fixed while the other 2 switch positions at random.
- Does Not Like Spam: As the trio learn the hard way, Shades are not the best thing to put on the menu.
- Everybody Has Standards: After the youngest pig gains her power from the Proud Lion spirit in Wishes of Three Piggies, she forgoes food preparation altogether and eats the Nightmares raw, freaking out her sisters. Usually, the trio would cook their victims before eating them.
- Extreme Omnivore: While they have a strong dietary preference (sweets, and lots of them), the Pigs are extremely open-minded when seeking new delicacies. It's how they ended up getting into the habit of chowing down on Nightmares.
- Fan Disservice: The game's primary providers. They're a trio of cute little girls who tend to wear flattering outfits (if not usually as fanservicey as some). They're also bottomless pits of Horror Hunger who spend their entire time eating and/or throwing up, and are only ever a short distance away from devolving into a single Body Horror-tastic Humanoid Abomination.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: From three adorable pig-humans to constantly-hungry Humanoid Abominations to eventually The Queen Nightmare who ends the arc attempting to destroy the world to resurrect her (their?) author.
- Gender Flip: The original Three Little Pigs are boys.
- Gluttonous Pig: Downplayed; the Pigs are Little Bit Beastly girls but since their concept is Gluttony it still applies.
- Hive Mind: After assuming their Breaker Ext. class, they've truly become this, no longer being able to identify which pig is which.
- Horror Hunger: They're the embodiments of Gluttony in a horror-themed video game. This trope goes with the territory. They're killing their way across the Library in the hope of sating their insatiable hunger, and they'll happily help themselves to anything (or anyone) who looks tasty along the way.
- Humanoid Abomination: They're the closest of the playable characters to the edge of this trope by default, thanks to having the strangest and most alien psychology - even Gretel is at least mad in recognisably human ways. As a result, they tend to be the fastest to abandon their humanity whenever it's put to the test, and their loss of said humanity tends to be particularly dramatic and filled with Body Horror.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Because you can't have Horror Hunger without a little cannibalism. Unusually, they don't much like eating people (their favourite foods are sweets, and human flesh isn't especially sweet), but their bottomless appetites mean that if long pig is the most readily available meal on the menu, they'll happily partake.
- If their Crusher class is any indication, after eating the Big Bad Wolf, they also ate their own mother.
- Improbable Weapon User: Some of their weapons resemble utensils used for cooking and/or eating than anything. In particular, their Cleric weapon is a spaghetti server while their Minstrel weapon resembles a fork.
- Is It Something You Eat?: When they encounter something new like Nightmares or Invaders, they usually ask this question. Shades, or Gestalts on the other hand...
- Little Bit Beastly: Pig ears and a tail on each of them. Averted with their Alternative class, which is 100% human.
- Matricide: Their Crusher class story heavily implies that the next time the Pigs visited their mother, it didn't end well for her. And since Library!Piggies' father isn't mentioned whatsoever, assuming that he's also dead this doubles as Self Made Orphans.
- My Beloved Smother: Their mother in the Act of Reality, who is a famous actress herself, is very image-focused. She'd often push her daughters to do things that boost their, and by extension her, image. This caused a lot of stress on all three of them, and it didn't help that she favoured the 'middle daughter' (actually the midpoint in all three's cycle of overeating and starving) for having a balanced weight compared to the other two.Youngest Little Pig: Can you dote on someone apart from your 2nd daughter?
- The fact that all three refer to themselves as 'her accessories' doesn't help one bit.
- Noodle Incident: Some time between their running away from Nutcracker and Alice resurrecting her author, the Pigs encountered their Reality counterparts. We don't get to see how their battle went, and the only thing known about it in the Act of Elimination (Part 2) Hard Mode was that the Library versions won and had their Reality versions' Lifeforce fused with theirs, and that the Reality!Pigs were rooting for the Library!Pigs to win so that they can make their mother proud.
- Obsessed with Food: Their heads are filled with nothing but the thought of food and eating.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: During the Wishes of Three Piggies, when the other 2 pigs find the youngest stuffing her face full without retching, both find it odd. As it turns out, she obtained power from the Proud Lion Spirit which made her insatiable. Understandably, things go to hell very fast afterwards.
- Same-Sex Triplets: All three are completely identical. One is always fat, one is always skinny, and one is in between, but that's only because all three of them are going on a steady cycle of gorging and purging food, gaining weight and losing weight one after the other. There's no lasting way to tell them apart, and all three usually consider themselves part of the same entity.
- Showgirl Skirt: In their Sorcerer class art.
- Single-Minded Twins: A variant. All three of them occupy three separate roles with three separate personalities, but change between them on a regular cycle. They usually behave more like a three-part Hive Mind than three separate people.
- Skewed Priorities: In their Act of Elimination battle against Nutcracker, they're more interested in deciding what to eat and are very unaware that they're now in a death match despite Nutcracker yelling his head off. Surprisingly, them running away from Nutcracker allows them to live another day, although it's heavily implied that they died along the way since they were part of the Due to the Dead montage and later came back in Part 2 of the story.
- The Slacker: During the Giant Raid that focuses on them, the more time they spend with the Sloth Bear spirit, the more they become this until they completely lack the motivation to do anything at all, fitting the spirit's sin.
- Sole Survivor: They end up as the winners of the Act of Elimination (Part 2), but by this time they've lost their collective humanity, have become the Queen Nightmare, and are now out to end the world to bring back their author. However, The Stinger reveals that someone, namely Alice, isn't quite dead as we thought yet...
- Stage Mom: Their mother in the Act of Reality is this; being a successful actress with triplet child actress children. She would beat them regardless of who flubbed their lines, and was very conscious about her image to the point where it affected theirs too, and even abandoned them when they weren't living up to her expectations. While she was reported as being remorseful for their deaths at the end of their story, the main story implies that she actually couldn't care less about them at all and only said it to make herself more presentable.
- Sweet Tooth: According to their introductory PV, the Three Little Pigs love eating almost anything, but they love sweets the most. Most of the time when they're talking about food, it's always a dessert, never something savory. Justified as they're young little girls.
- Teen Idol: In the Act of Reality, The Three Little Pigs were child actresses whose mother is a famous actress herself.
- Token Mini-Moe: Possibly the youngest members of the cast - their Alternative class design implies that they were only elementary school kids when their story happened.
- Trophy Child: The three of them in the Act of Reality are this to their mother - she's obsessed with image, so they're treated as accessories for her to present herself and them as the perfect family.
- Verbal Tic: During the Wars of Fantasia event, they start using '-gozaru' when they, Dorothy, Kaguya and Gretel are transported to Sengoku-era Japan. After returning to the Library, it stops.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: In Reality Arc, the Three Little Pigs were triplet child actresses who wanted to please their mother who only cared for appearances. To get her to love them equally, they often swapped identities and engaged in extreme weight control to the point where they consumed weight loss pills from overseas. Unfortunately, not only did they lose their sense of self-identity in the process, all three of them ultimately died from a nasty combination of eating disorders and overdose on the weight loss pills.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Their overall fate in the Act of Elimination is more ambiguous compared to the others, since they ran off from their battle with Nutcracker and Chapter 4 ends with Alice about to get her wish granted. However, with the existence of the Reality counterparts, it's currently unknown whether the Pigs will get an actual Act of Elimination chapter or died offscreen.
- They eventually come back in Part 2 of the Act of Elimination, teaming up with the other characters to defeat the Alice fragments after they went berserk. Hard mode of the same chapter reveals that both Reality and Library selves met, and that the Library selves won but died before the events of Chapter 5 of Part 1.
Aladdin
Reality
Nightmare
- "I'm the man who can obtain all of the world's infinite riches!"Origin: AladdinAuthor: unknownVoiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara, Natsumi Fujiwara (Aladdin/-Child-)
Once a poor boy, Aladdin suddenly found himself surrounded by infinite riches thanks to a magic lamp. However, despite his obsession with fortune, his heart still had 1 more regret. He aims to revive his author to gain more money, believing it to be the solution to everything, including resolving his lost love.
His concept is "Nouveau Riche"JP.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: During Advent of Revolution, Aladdin is skeptical that Noya's plan to hypnotize the town into hating the Christmas season so that they can secure a venue for a Christmas Party will work since hypnosis doesn't exist. Big talk from a fairytale character where hypnosis can simply be called another form of magic.
- "Arabian Nights" Days: Given who he is, it should come as no surprise that he favours lavish Middle Eastern/Indian clothing and weaponry.
- The Aloner: Reality!Him having his emotions swing differently than others and his Lack of Empathy caused him not to fit in anywhere, not that he has a problem with it, when he entered the workplace he was excluded from society
- Armor-Piercing Question: The Three Little Pigs in their cross story with Aladdin ask him whether his money can truly buy everything when Aladdin spends a lot on a buffet just for them so that they don't have to hunt for Nightmares to eat. Since Aladdin couldn't respond to that, they go back to hunting.
- Battle Butler: During the Halloween 2019 event to compliment Hamelin's design.
- Butt-Monkey: On the receiving end of some unfortunate events in certain class stories such as the 2nd Anniversary's Luxury class stories where he's denied the chance to host the event by Parrah and Noya and is Red Riding Hood's designated victim/playmate for whenever she receives new inventions from Dorothy.
- Companion Cube: His lamp appears with him in all of his class designs.
- Early-Bird Cameo: In a similar situation to Rapunzel during the Lullaby of Reincarnation event, Aladdin shows up as a silhouette in the side story of the Campfire Cuisine event with Little Mermaid. He eventually made his proper Global server debut on 23 April 2021.
- For Want Of A Nail: His character description states that this is an Aladdin who is more interested in the riches than finding love in the princess in his tale.
- Gratuitous English: Often sprinkles his speech with English words. Parrah and Noya would then comment that they have no idea what he's talking about. Averted in the Global server where his English remains intact in the translations.
- Even as a child, according to Cinderella, he would often use 'difficult words'.
- This ends up his undoing in the Act of Elimination since when he says that he and Rapunzel came to a consensus, due to him using the word in English Rapunzel mishears it as 'kouin' (marriage). After he gives the lamp to Rapunzel, the genie kills him out of jealousy because they went with Rapunzel's interpretation.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Hamelin in the Act of SINoALICE, much to the fandom's amusement.
- Hikikomori: The Act of Reality notes that Reality Aladdin hasn't left his abode in weeks before Chapter 1-1 and he's quick to hurry home.
- Lack of Empathy: When he sees that the city has gone haywire, with robberies and people being injured, Reality!Aladdin couldn't give less of a shit and goes on his merry way.
- The Lost Lenore: It's heavily implied that while he loves money, he loved the princess just as much. So much so, when she fell ill and he discovered that the lamp was stolen, Aladdin went out of his way to get it back, only for the princess to have passed away when he returned. It's implied that he didn't take her death too well and believed that if he were richer, he could have saved her.
- His longing to fill the gap in his heart left by the death of his princess leads him to fall in love with Rapunzel in the Act of Elimination (Part 1), and his attempts to make her happy, culminating in him giving her his lamp out of love, which gets him killed by the genie.
- Love at First Sight: Towards Rapunzel in the Act of Elimination, to the point where they refuse to fight one another. This gets deconstructed as the both of them are only in love with the ideal version of each other, and Aladdin giving Rapunzel his lamp as an act of love ends up killing him.
- Money Fetish: Aladdin is absolutely obsessed with money, believing that everything in the world can be obtained with enough money and desires to gain more wealth.
- His Reality version is also just as obsessed with money declaring that "money does surpass the cost of one's life.", and that "money can take care of all your needs." He even says that familal love can be brought with money while envisioning his father.
- Mr. Fanservice: As a handsome, muscular man who tends to wear skimpy, flattering Middle Eastern clothing, he's the game's main provider of male fanservice.
- Nice Guy: He has no qualms helping others by using his wealth and has good intentions for doing so, even if he believes that money is the end all be all.
- Nouveau Riche: Literally the name of his concept.
- Perma-Stubble: Has one in his Alternative class appearance.
- Ship Tease:
- With Hamelin as part of the The Butlers' Feast event. However, the same event reveals that Aladdin isn't very trusting of Hamelin to begin with due to their conflicting views about money. Despite their rocky start with each other in The Butlers' Feast, the two would grow close over the years through events, and make various cameos in each others' weapon and class stories. In the Act of SINoALICE, the pair live together for two years, have full trust in each other, and are constantly telling the player what they like about each other and how they operate their duties, referring to each other as partners. Hamelin even tells the player Aladdin is a beautiful person, and Aladdin tells Hamelin money can't buy the relationship they've built. Them dying on Christmas Eve got a few sniggers from the Japanese fandom on Twitter, as that is to them what Valentine's Day is to others.
- This could also apply to Rapunzel. Rapunzel and Aladdin fell in love with each other on sight during act of Elimination. Aladdin also comes to her rescue in Act of Reality, and Rapunzel swoons at the sight of him. However, it's eventually revealed that both of them only fell in love with the idea of each other: Rapunzel only saw a prince in Aladdin while Aladdin only wanted someone to fill in the gap the death of his princess left behind This eventually spelt Aladdin's downfall at the hands of his own genie.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Rapunzel in the Act of Elimination.
- Token Good Teammate: Of all the Library characters, he's the closest to a decent person doing decent things for decent reasons. Even his exit from the Act of Elimination was functionally a Heroic Sacrifice, despite him not expecting things to go that way).
- Uncle Pennybags: Aladdin won't hesitate to spend money on others' happiness as well, ranging from funding Dorothy's experiments (leading to his Servant of Tin Job as part of the Dorothy's Workshop series) to providing an endless buffet for the Three Little Pigs in their crossover story. However, in the case of the latter, they go right back to hunting Nightmares to cook and eat when Aladdin is unable to answer their question of whether money can be eaten.
- This bites him in the ass extremely hard in the Act of Elimination against Rapunzel where he outright admits that money is the only way he makes people happy, and his attempts to buy whatever Rapunzel wants backfires as her sheltered life leaves her with no clue about money. Ultimately, he gives her his lamp as an act of love, but the genie kills him for it out of jealousy.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Befitting his "Arabian Nights" Days aesthetic, it's very rare for any of his outfits to fail to show off a great deal of his sculpted torso.
Rapunzel
Reality
Nightmare
Spoilers
- "Every man is my prince."Origin: RapunzelAuthor: The Brothers GrimmVoiced by: Akane Fujita
The Girl in the Tower herself, Rapunzel lived a life of innocence and chasity until a prince showed up in her tower. After teaching her his ways, she attempted to do the same to her mother, a witch who took her as a baby, who then cast her out due to her purity now being tainted. However, this does not stop Rapunzel from searching for her prince again, and she is dedicated to getting along with everyone she deems her prince, up to and including The Grimm Brothers when she revives them.
Her concept is "Chastity"JP.
- Ambiguously Bi: While Rapunzel claims to "love men" and "fear women", she has harboured crushes on Snow White during An Elegy for Love So Sweet, Dark!Match Girl in Night of the Lawless, Red Riding Hood in SINoZombie ~Feast of the Deceased~ and Cinderella in the Act of SINoALICE. It's hard to tell which way she swings.
- Angelic Beauty: She's a chaste, pure, and innocent maiden (well, sort of) who's constantly suffused in golden light and has a bird motif. There's next to no meaningful difference between her appearance and personality and that of your standard 'sexy angel'.
- Animal Motifs: Birds. Her hair decorations resemble bird wings, her debut banner containing her Cleric class is called 'Chaste Hatchling' and her Minstrel class story alludes to birds.
- Charm Person: Her power is to charm others into fighting for her as she claims to be unable to fight herself, mostly of the opposite gender.
- Covert Pervert: She's innocent and unworldly about the ways of men, but she's also an extremely keen pupil. Realising that the authors she's meant to revive are a pair of brothers sends her straight into a Twin Threesome Fantasy, for instance.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Reality!Rapunzel is very fond of her now-deceased parents, and still follows their advice to this day... even if it led to her eventual downfall.
- Early-Bird Cameo: During Lullaby of Reincarnation, if Alice, Snow White or any of the TenSura characters aren't used by the player, she shows up in the side story along with the Three Little Pigs. But because said event is a simultaneous release between the JP and Global servers, this marks her debut before her actual Global release. As a result she's represented with a silhouette in Global due to not being released there yet.
- Rapunzel is also mentioned in Suiseiseki's Class story when talking about the latter's compatibility with the former.
- She eventually makes her Global debut on 19 August 2021.
- Flower Motifs: Yellow flowers are prominent in her designs, especially yellow roses. Bear in mind that in hanakotoba, yellow roses symbolize 'jealousy'. Her Half-Nightmare Job takes it up to eleven with her stomach being covered full of yellow flowers.
- Flowers of Femininity: A pure-hearted and innocent girl decked in yellow flowers.
- Fusion Dance: Fuses with Aladdin's Lifeforce in the Act of Elimination following his death, resulting in her Pre. Half class.
- Girl in the Tower: What she was before entering the Library.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A beautiful, innocent, pure maiden with golden hair.
- Averted with her Reality self, who's a brunette.
- Important Haircut: In the Act of Elimination (Part 1), she cuts her hair out of love for Aladdin.
- Improbable Weapon User: Her Gunner weapon is a watering can. Which is of the Fire element. How on earth it works, no one knows.
- In-Series Nickname: The men she charms (either unknowingly or on purpose) call her 'Princess Rapu-nyan'.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Rapunzel's concept is "Chastity"; her reveal trailer has her say she protects innocence. However, her 'purity' actually refers to her being incredibly naïve - taking her prince's 'teachings'note to heart and attempting it on both men and women, including her own mother, and possibly the Grimm Brothers as well when she revives them.
- The Ingenue: Is she ever! Due to her living a sheltered life in her tower, she hardly knows anything about the outside world - she 'gets along' with men and women the same way unaware of the implications that come with it because 'that's what the prince taught her', and as Aladdin found out, she doesn't know what money is.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: To emphasize her purity.
- Japanese Christian: In the Act of Reality - her parents were Christian missionaries, after all.
- Love at First Sight: Towards Aladdin in the Act of Elimination, to the point where they refuse to fight one another. This gets deconstructed as the both of them are only in love with the ideal version of each other, and Aladdin giving Rapunzel his lamp as an act of love ends up killing him.
- Minor Living Alone: With her parents deceased, Reality!Rapunzel lives on her own.
- Naïve Newcomer: What she's presented as in the beginning of her Hatred Arc.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Towards poor Gretel during the Summer 2019 event as she asks her about her brother.
- Otaku: Her reality persona is this, being part of several anime circles and making her own doujinshi.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Aladdin in the Act of Elimination.
- Socially Awkward Hero: Heavily inverted: due to her sheltered life she has no clue about what's appropriate and what's not (the prince was useless in that department), but she's also part of the Dysfunction Junction as everyone else.
Hamelin (Hameln)
Hamelin / Hameln (ハーメルン Hāmerun)
Reality
Nightmare
Extended
- "Goodbye, hideous Nightmare. And to my beautiful flower, hello."Origin: The Pied Piper of HamelinAuthor: unknownVoiced by: Tomoaki Maeno
The Pied Piper of Hamelin himself, who is fixated on the beautiful and shows disdain towards the ugly. Wherever he goes, beauty is sure to follow and whatever he sees that is beautiful, he will take for himself. He will go to all lengths to acquire the highest form of beauty for himself, even if he has to make himself ugly in the process.
His concept is "Aesthetics"JP.
- Affectionate Nickname: Hana from the Ode to Sakura event calls him 'Mel'JP.
- Agent Peacock: A narcissistic dandy who's also the most obviously physically threatening male character (unless one counts the Nutcracker's true form), and as much of an unstoppable killing machine as the rest of the main cast.
- Animal Motifs: Spiders, according to his Half-Nightmare class design.
- Baritone of Strength: Hamelin regularly engages in the murder and slaughter of Nightmares like the other characters and has the deepest voice in the cast courtesy of Tomoaki Maeno.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: He would never stoop to being anything less than the embodiment of sartorial and martial perfection, and his suits are just as sharp as his blades.
- Badass Teacher: In the Act of Reality he's a piano teacher at a music school. However unlike Kaguya he's also a Stern Teacher who, though having good intentions, has teaching methods that some parents disagree with.
- Barely-Changed Dub Name: His name changed from the German spelling of the town his story takes place in to its Anglicized spelling.
- Based on a True Story: Hamelin's reveal trailer explains that his story isn't just a 'tale of terror', but rather fact based on an incident that took place on June 26, 1284.
- Beauty to Beast: What happens to him in the Dark Fables light novel.
- Big Damn Heroes: Despite not doing much during Part 2 of the Act of Elimination, he of all people was the one who fired the finishing blow in Chapter 3, using the power he had been saving to destroy the Colosseum and deliver a Mercy Kill to Pinocchio who was being corrupted by Alice's power.
- Clothing Damage: Played for Fan Disservice. His job outfits will usually include at least one garment that's ragged and torn, with nothing visible through the holes except smoky indigo Lifeforce. It's as if he's a hollow shell around an empty void.
- Covert Pervert: He looks dignified, but then his lines are sometimes... questionable. Especially during The Butler's Feast where he asks Gretel to step on him simply because of her nice legs.Gretel: Why don't we go, Hansel? There's a weird pervert, instead of a witch.
- This gets a Continuity Nod in Ode to Sakura and Summer Banquet of Light and Darkness where he's still after her legs when they meet again.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Very few people can put up with him, but in the Act of Elimination, he was the one to blow up the colosseum, and without causing further damage to the surroundings to boot.
- The Dandy: He's right on the edge of being the literal Anthropomorphic Personification of the concept. Art and fashion are his life, and he's willing to go to any lengths to ensure that he's the most beautiful, beautifully-dressed person in existence.
- Death by Despair: Boy howdy. In pursuit of true beauty in music, one of Reality!Hamelin's students died in a fire both of them did not notice and Hamelin blamed himself for it. He decides to attend the student's funeral after concluding that God was jealous of his cultivation of the student's talent, but the last straw came when the pianist at the funeral did not meet his standards of perfection. In one of the most gruesome and depressing ends in the Act of Reality, Reality!Hamelin gouged out his eyes and cut off his ears before slitting his own throat in front of the funeral attendees.
- Dragged into Drag: Hamelin's Women's Clothes
class from Dorothy's Workshop has him in quite the sultry dress that most players compared to Bayonetta courtesy of Dorothy dolling him up once she sees him admiring himself in the mirror one too many times. Much to his embarrassment, Kaguya, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty (of all people!) compliment him on the makeover. - Eaten Alive: No thanks to the Three Little Pigs in Chapter 5 of the Act of Elimination (Part 2).
- Early-Bird Cameo: In the Global version, if the player does not play as one of the Rozen Maidens in Mirrored Rozen Maidens, Hamelin appears as a silhouette alongside Dorothy, similar to Rapunzel and Aladdin before him. He is also mentioned in Souseiseki's Class story which compares the latter's compatibility with him. He eventually makes his proper Global server debut on July 13 2021.
- Entitled Bastard: Again, hedonistic narcissist. If it matches his standards of beauty, it belongs to him. If it doesn't, it will be destroyed. No exceptions.
- Establishing Character Moment:
- The first chapter in his Act of Hatred has him kill a Nightmare because he thought it was ugly to save a beautiful flower. After the Nightmare has been slain, he proceeds to eat the flower because he wants beautiful things in him.
- His second chapter is basically a list of his beauty routines.
- Even the Guys Want Him: His Paladin class story has a male psychiatrist observing him and becoming attracted to him. Said psychiatrist then commits murder to be with him, implying he did it for Hamelin because "he" told him to do it.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He's one of the most overtly sinister characters in the cast, and has a deep, booming voice to match.
- Expy: Of Sebastian in appearance. In fact, the producers have joked about wanting to release him on the same date as the launch of Twisted Wonderland, a Disney mobile game whose character designer is Black Butler's mangaka, Yana Toboso, but they got a bit impatient.
- Hilariously, during the Endless desire...~A Butler Crosses the Threshold~ event, it's revealed in the event's Dissonant Poems that Sebastian scares him.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Due to his narcissism and sometimes creepy behaviour, very few characters are willing to put up with him for long. In particular, Creation of Sweets starts with Parrah and Noya sympathizing with him not getting any Valentine chocolates and asks the Characters to make some for him, only for most of them to run away from the request.
- Gentleman Thief: He's more direct and brutal about it than most, but this is basically his main occupation - he looks for anything beautiful enough to suit his rarefied tastes and takes it, with little-to-no concern for petty matters of ownership (or, indeed, bodily integrity).
- Goofy Suit: Wears one of Pochacco in A Fluffy Encounter, and he doesn't mind it because Pochacco is so gosh-darned cute.
- The Hedonist: He's the epitome of narcissistic, solipsistic hedonism. His sole desire is to experience the endless pleasure of being a perfectly beautiful person surrounded by perfect beauty, and he is willing to go to any length to accomplish it.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Aladdin in the Act of SINoALICE. How these two were portrayed did not go unnoticed by the fandom.
- I Just Want to Be Beautiful: Taken to the extreme. Hamelin will do whatever it takes to maintain himself and achieve ultimate beauty. Even if it means dismemberment.
- Improbable Weapon User: His Instrument of Murder arsenal outside of his actual Minstrel classes is utterly bizarre. Guitar-crossbows? Trombone-swords? Double bass hammers? It says a lot about him that the saxophone-glaive his Paladin class uses is one of his more practical-looking weapons.
- His Proud Lion Breaker weapon is a xylophone sword. Complete with mallets to play it. Please don't ask how he manages to play that xylophone when fighting.
- Instrument of Murder: His default weapon type. While his pipe resembles more of a Sinister Scythe and his Half-Nightmare class weapon is a cello made of Lifeforce, most of his other class weapons resemble musical instruments more than the weapon they're supposed to be. For example, his Gunner class has him wield a crossbow in the shape of a violin, his Paladin class gives him an elongated saxophone with a bayonet that lets it serve as a glaive, and the weapon attached to his Consolation Prize (R02) class in commemoration of the 3rd Popularity Poll is a spear in the shape of an electric guitar.
- It's All My Fault: In the Act of Reality, after one of his students died in a fire he initially believes that it was his fault for telling him to practice way into the night. However, he also concluded that God was jealous of the student's musical talent and took it (and Hamelin's efforts in nurturing that talent) away from him.
- Jerkass: While he's not intentionally cruel like Cinderella, he's one of the bluntest and most abrasive playable characters. He's interested in beautiful objects, not people, and if he pays attention to anyone else, he'll soon make it clear that it's literally only because of their body (or parts thereof).
- Lack of Empathy: Another of the main offenders in the playable cast. He's only interested in beauty on a material level (for example, he'll value the vocal cords of a talented singer and pay no regard to the person they're attached to), and sees it as his mission to collect things he finds beautiful without any concern to their present ownership.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: As a completely materialistic narcissist, he only wears the absolute finest clothing and beauty products. Best not to ask how he gets his hands on them, though.
- Mad Artist: He is to art as Dorothy is to science - utterly ruthless and remorseless in his pursuit of material beauty at the expense of everything else.
- Musical Assassin: Even more so than other Minstrel classes from other Characters as the majority of his weapons resemble musical instruments more than the weapon they're supposed to be saved for those, which are actual instruments.
- Named by the Adaptation: The original Pied Piper was nameless. Here, he's given the name 'Hamelin', after the town where his story happens.
- The Narcissist: Only desires beautiful things surrounding him and is fixated on being beautiful. Par the course of his concept of "Aesthetics".
- Cinderella even calls him as such in Ode to Sakura.
- The Perfectionist: Always in pursuit of things that meet his very high standards of beauty. If he thinks they're ugly, out they go.
- His Reality counterpart is also this when it comes to music, although in the eyes of his students' parents his teaching is borderline abusive even though there may be hints that he does care for them. This comes to bite him way too hard.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes are a deep-red, and he makes his living murdering Nightmares like everyone else.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Currently always wearing a snazzy suit to match his Butler aesthetic, sans his Kafun class, where he is wearing a pollen suit with swimwear clothing underneath, and even then it fits.
- Ship Tease: With Aladdin in initial marketing for The Butlers' Feast event, being the only other adult male character apart from himself. A couple of stamps given during the event made it seem like Boys' Love, while unlocking the entirety of Hinaka Hoshina's weapon from the Songstress' Torment collaboration event with Gems Company has a comment that they look good with each other. However, Aladdin states that he doesn't trust Hamelin due to the latter not being as interested in money as he is.
- Over time however, the duo eventually got to know each other better to the point where by the time the Act of SINoALICE rolls around they've become Heterosexual Life-Partners. Compare and contrast The Butlers' Feast to Sacred Treasures of Dusk where the two eventually found many things they had in common, Summer Banquet of Light and Darkness where the Dissonant Poems revealed that Aladdin has taken to funding Hamelin's DJ group (to Dorothy's amusement and Pinocchio's worry) and the Act of SINoALICE where the two lived in modern-day Japan together for 2 years, constantly complimenting each other and eventually died together, on Christmas Eve no less.
- Spell My Name With An S: There was initial confusion over his spelling when he was first released in the Japanese version, but it's revealed later that his name was taken from the German spelling of 'Hamelin'. The Global server uses the English variation instead.
- Sticky Fingers: Played for horror. He's basically a hedonistic kleptomaniac, obsessively collecting anything he finds beautiful, from art and music to body parts. It's probably best not to think about what happened to all those children in his original legend.
- Stoic Spectacles: Outside of expressing his love of beauty and hate for ugliness, he is completely indifferent to the world around him, and this often causes trouble for other people who seek his help. In the Kafun event, he only cared about the girl because she was beautiful until he realized she sang poorly and smelled bad. In the Butler event, he only helped because the girl had pretty vocal cords. He even calls Pinocchio ugly for being dependent on others.
- Token Wholesome: Follows the letter of this trope, though not the spirit. He tends to show off less skin than the other male characters (Aladdin and Pinocchio), but only because he's The Dandy, and prefers to use his pitch-perfect fashion sense to accentuate his handsome looks. His artwork makes it clear that he's (almost) always designed with sex appeal in mind.
- Wicked Cultured: An extreme example. He's an artist and connoisseur of the arts. Nothing else has value, and nothing will get between him and the pinnacle of aesthetic perfection.
Little Match Girl
Reality
Nightmare
Extended
- "Would anyone like to buy a match?"Origin: The Little Match GirlAuthor: Hans Christian AndersenVoiced by: Mayu Sagara
The Little Match Girl who still attempts to sell her matches. However hard she tries, no one seems to want to buy her matches, so she turns to more extreme methods to make a sale. Having had to do it for so long without success, she redirects her flames of wrath towards her author, Hans Christen Andersen, and aims to kill him herself after reviving him for making her story a tragedy.
Her concept is "Hellfire"JP.
- Abnormal Ammo: Her Matches Machine job gives her some kind of pitching machine that fires matchsticks. Belt feed at that.
- Abusive Parents: Like in the fairytale she comes from, her father would beat her if she failed to sell any matches.
- Ax-Crazy: Not at first, but by the end of her Hatred Arc, she's taking sadistic pleasure in burning down anything that moves. It's bad enough that even the puppets are trying to stop her.
- A Day in the Limelight: Autumn Excursion, Fairytale Gamblers and the JP November 2020 Colosseum SP is focused on her.
- Death Glare: Sports one in her Gunner Ext. class, which is Justified, since the dominant personality for this class is the darker one.
- Evil Laughter: At the end of her reveal trailer. Possibly making her crazier than Red Riding Hood.
- The Gambling Addict: Becomes one in the Fairytale Gamblers event. Thanks a lot, Kirari.
- Gemini Destruction Law: As Reality!Red Riding Hood exploits in the Act of Elimination (Part 2) and seen in the Act of SINoALICE, killing both Match Girls is the most sure way of permanently getting rid of her.
- Girlish Pigtails: Her Reality self wears her hair like this, showing how young she was when she joined the local fire brigade.
- Hellfire: Her concept.
- Hidden Depths: Who knew that as shown in the Fairytale Gamblers event, Little Match Girl was actually good at gambling? However, after losing to what is presumed to be a rigged match against Sayaka, she's back to square one.
- Horned Humanoid: Downplayed; she has a hairpin resembling a single horn jutting out from the left side of her forehead. Said hairpin, according to jino, is made of phosphorus.
- Her Gunner Ext. class has these proper.
- Irony: Library!Match Girl has fire powers while Reality!Match Girl is a firefighter.
- Lady Swears-a-Lot: Her other personality is more profane, putting Cinderella's crass language to shame.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: As of writing, her other personality is this for newer players who have yet to clear her chapter. Starting from the Night of the Lawless New Year's 2022 event in JP and Fairytale Gamblers in Global, players can get an alternative Little Match Girl skin featuring that side of her (if she has a prominent role in the story, that is) as long as the base class has been obtained from its featured Grimoire banner.
- Literal Split Personality: It happens sometimes, allowing both sides to work together to accomplish their goals.
- Lost in Translation: Her concept keyword is so far the hardest to translate - the kanji put together means 'hellfire' but when separated, the first kanji can mean 'business', referring to her selling matches for a living or 'karmic act', so her concept might also mean 'karmic fire'. The Global version simply uses Hellfire for her.
- Man on Fire: Reality!Match Girl's increasing paranoia about having an arsonist personality after having repeated dreams of her striking a match and setting fire to a location that she's later deployed to caused her to set herself on fire at another fire breakout, fully convinced that she's truly an arsonist, without a single bone left when the fire was eventually put out.
- My Greatest Failure: Her being unable to save a student from the music school Reality!Hamelin taught at was the major tipping point in both Characters' demises. In particular, his death caused her paranoia about being an arsonist even worse.
- Naïve Newcomer: When first introduced, she's absolutely terrified of the Library, the Nightmares, and even Parrah and Noya, demanding explanations of what's going on.
- Nervous Wreck: Understandably panics over the current situation in Act of Elimination Part 2. Fortunately, Snow White explains everything to her and she keeps her cool despite having to meet up with Red Riding Hood later.
- Perpetual Poverty: Is constantly trying to sell her matches to earn money, and doesn't want to go home until she sells some.
- Playing with Fire: Seems to be the case, as seen in her name and her weapon. Her concept is 'Hellfire' after all.
- Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Her other self has longer hair in her Gunner Ext. class.
- Pyromaniac: The end of her Act of Hatred reveals that after all that she's been through in her own story and in the Library, she's ( or rather her Split Personality) very much willing to burn everything to the ground with her matches/Molotov cocktails, up to and including her author for making her story a tragedy. And she enjoys it.
- Rage Against the Author: Outright hates her author for all the shit he put her through. The only reason she's bothering to revive him is so that she can kill him herself.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has red eyes and wields one of the most dangerous weapons seen in the game so far. This does not go unnoticed by Hameln in their crossover story; when she suddenly disappears, he becomes upset that he cannot have her eyes which he considers beautiful.
- Red Herring: Reality!Match Girl's repeated dreams of setting buildings on fire ended up as this in her story's Hard Mode where it's revealed that she was innocent all along and that the actual arsonist was different people. In particular, the culprit behind the fire that killed Reality!Hamelin's prized student was a girl who had an unrequited crush on Hamelin and did the deed because he was too focused on the class prodigy.
- Self-Immolation: At the end of her Act of Reality story, this becomes the fate of Reality!Match Girl. Unlike Reality!Dorothy in which it was an accident, she did it to herself after being fully convinced that she is the arsonist that set fire to a number of places she was deployed to.
- Split Personality: The Little Match Girl we see in the beginning is a meek girl who's scared of almost everything in the library, but come Chapter 4 of her Act of Hatred, it's revealed that she has another personality that serves as a self-defense mechanism that takes sadistic pleasure in burning everything to the ground. However, her non-sadistic personality does not have any memory of the other.
- She's eventually made aware of this in part 2 of the Act of Elimination where playing as her in Verse 10 of her chapter has both personalities communicate with each other. They then team up to fight Red Riding Hood in Verse 10 of Chapter 4, but sadly lose to her as she manages to kill both of them simultaneously.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: She wields Molotov cocktails in her Gunner job.
- Token Evil Teammate: Every Character in the Library is Ax-Crazy in one way or another, but she is the sole Character with downright malicious intents for her author when she revives him.
- Tsundere: Her darker personality is this to herself whenever circumstances causes them to split.
