Characters that appear in the web-novel Sailor Nothing. Beware of spoilers!
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Main Characters
Himei Shoutan
Himei Shoutan (Sailor Salvation/Sailor Nothing)
Art by Esa
The main heroine of the story. Desperately wishing to get away after having spent five years fighting the Yamiko as Sailor Salvation, she believes she's free to return to a normal life after being fired by Magnificent Kamen... only to discover that she still gets the splitting headaches signalling the birth of new Yamiko, and still has her Sailor powers. Thus, she returns to the fight as Sailor Nothing, now seeking another way out...- Allergic to Evil: Himei detects the birth of a Yamiko via nearly debilitating headaches.
- All of the Other Reindeer: She's a pariah at school due to her gloomy personality, and is called "Henmei" by the other students.
- Anti-Hero: While Himei does still want to help people, she tends to get rather... extreme when fighting the Yamiko as Sailor Salvation.
- Attempted Suicide: After Seiki's Yamiko rapes her and pushes her past the Despair Event Horizon. Thankfully, she survives.
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The brawn to Aki's beauty and Shin's brains.
- Broken Bird: Alternating between school and constantly saving people left a scar in her psyche, with frequent bouts of Unstoppable Rage.
- Catchphrase: "This should not be happening" precedes her Unstoppable Rage; Himei also grimly quips that "I'm very tired" wouldn't sell any action figures. However, she gains a new one later: "I want to live."
- Child Soldiers: Himei began being Sailor Salvation as an elementary student, and by the start of the story she's only in high school. She regularly gets into life-and-death situations fighting the Yamiko.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: She wants desperately to stop being Sailor Salvation/Nothing, but she can't resist the urge to help others.
- Cut Himself Shaving: She often ends up injured by the Yamiko, but passes them off with mundane excuses.
- Dark Is Not Evil: As Sailor Nothing, she has darker clothes than Sailor Salvation and her attack is literally called "Nothingness", but she remains thoroughly heroic.
- Death Seeker: In some ways. Given that she has no way to attack the Yamiko at their source for the majority of her time as a Sailor, she sees death as the only way out.
- Determined Defeatist: As pessimistic and suicidal as she is, she ultimately wishes for happiness and won't stop trying to reach it.
- Elemental Motifs: While her powers themselves are more "nothing"-themed, the narration of other characters consistently describes her as "cold" and "icy," and Himei herself has a fever dream where she sees "Himei" as a normal girl unburdened by pain and "Sailor Nothing" as an empty creature of glass. All of this paints her as withdrawn, stoic, and fragile.
- Emotionless Girl: As Sailor Nothing, she remains calm for the most time, with even her bouts of Unstoppable Rage being announced by the simple sentence "This shouldn't be happening".
- Expy: Of Sailor Moon, as they're both similarly dressed Magical Girls.
- Finishing Move: Purifying Shining Light as Sailor Salvation, Nothingness as Sailor Nothing. These powers are used to finish off Yamikos.
- Flashback Nightmare: Suffers these as a result of her time as a Sailor.
- Good Is Not Nice: She has a nasty tendency to go into fits of Unstoppable Rage when she thinks something's bad.
- Heroic Fatigue: Himei has spent years fighting battle after battle against the Yamiko, with no real indication that she's anywhere close to winning. She is very tired.
- He Who Fights Monsters: The whole reason the story isn't over in Chapter One is that Himei decides to continue fighting the Yamiko despite Kamen cutting her off.
- Hope Spot: When Kamen fires Himei, she's quite happy about it, as she thinks it means she can finally go back to a normal life... and then the next day at school, she gets another splitting headache...
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Himei desperately wishes she never agreed to become a magical girl, because she's spent years fighting a war she can't win.
- Jumped at the Call: As an elementary student, Himei naively thought that being a real Magical Girl would be fun and exciting. It didn't take long for her to quickly realize otherwise, but she was too far gone by then.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: When she says, "This shouldn't be happening," Unstoppable Rage isn't far behind.
- Magical Girl Warrior: As Sailor Salvation/Sailor Nothing.
- Meaningful Name: Shoutan means "crying in pain". Himei is "scream" or "shriek".
- Power Trio: Himei is the story's main character but Aki and Shin become part of the main cast as Sailors later on.
- Rape as Drama: She's raped by Seiki's Yamiko, which finally breaks her and makes her attempt suicide.
- Samaritan Syndrome: She's becoming quite tired of being a Sailor.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Five years of being Sailor Salvation hasn't done Himei's psyche any good.
- This Loser Is You: Himei is always angstily complaining about being forced to live up to her responsibilities, even if she doesn't want to. Because of her attitude, countless others, including those who care about her, come to harm.
- Transformation Trinket: A literal trinket in her case, originally just a cheap, purple, heart-shaped plastic trinket she got from a vending machine, before it was enchanted by Dusty. It's initially white during her time as Sailor Salvation, but it turns black when she becomes Sailor Nothing for the first time, and stays that way for the rest of her time as a Sailor.
- Triple Shifter: This is one of the reasons that Himei is always so tired. She can't sleep much between fighting Yamiko and being a teenager who goes to school.
Dusty
Dusty
Art by Myth
Himei's pet cat who was uplifted by Magnificent Kamen. He enchanted Himei's Transformation Trinket, and assists her in her duties as a Sailor.- Expy: Of Luna from Sailor Moon. He's Sailor Salvation's magical talking cat, just like Luna's is Sailor Moon's.
- Gratuitous English: He has an English name in a Japanese setting.
- Mentor Mascot: Dusty helps Himei, though there's only so much he can do as a cat.
- Spanner in the Works: Magnificent Kamen uplifted Dusty while apparently never anticipating that he could create more Sailors, something he ends up doing in a desperate emergency.
- Super-Empowering: Dusty can turn people into Sailors, and empowers both Aki and Shin to help Himei.
- Team Pet: He's a cat and the sole animal who's part of the main cast.
- Uplifted Animal: He's a normal cat gifted magical powers, the ability to talk, and abnormal intelligence. Incidentally, Magnificent Kamen only uplifted Dusty because Himei wanted him to.
Magnificent Kamen
Magnificent Kamen/Dark General Radon
Art by Myth
A mysterious masked man in white who saved Himei from a Yamiko when she was eleven, and convinced her to become Sailor Salvation. Though as it turns out, he isn't quite as kind as Himei initially thought...- Blood Knight: Himei implies that he enjoys killing Yamiko.
- Evil All Along: Turns out he was a Yamiko all along.
- Expy: Of Sailor Moon's love interest Tuxedo Mask, AKA Mamoru, from Sailor Moon. They dress similarly and have relatively similar roles, but Magnificent Kamen is much darker and less trust-worthy.
- Finishing Move: Cleansing Holy Beam.
- In-Series Nickname: Himei calls him "Magnificent Bastard" due to his less-than-helpful attitude.
- Jerkass: He starts as this, gets worse as the story goes on, and then it turns out that more than just a jerk, he's pure evil.
- Kick the Dog: He kicks it harder and harder as the story goes on, from firing Himei to attempting to trick her into committing suicide. And let's not talk about him taunting Himei's boyfriend Seiki how he plans to take Himei for himself once he killed him.
- Knight Templar: Or so we were led to believe. Turns out he was Evil All Along.
- Light Is Not Good: Downplayed: He's described with white clothes but is a Jerkass who only worsens as the story goes. Played Straight once his true goals are revealed.
- Mysterious Protector: For Himei in the backstory, though she notes that he always looks annoyed whenever he has to step in.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Magnificent Kamen sure shot himself in the foot by trying to let Himei kill herself, even if you don't count creating her in the first place due to being too indirect.
- The Not-Love Interest: He's a mysterious, older male figure that fits the characteristics of a Love Interest, except for Himei hating his guts.
Aki Komachi
Aki Komachi (Sailor Beauty)
Art by Esa
The president of class 2F and leader of the Fashion Club at Himei's school, and one of her only friends.- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The beauty to Shin's brains and Himei's brawn.
- Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Aki is one of the most popular kids at her school, while her friend Himei is a social pariah. As a result, Aki hides their relationship.
- Everyone Has Standards: She's legitimately glad that her Yamiko destroyed her popularity and freed her from the Fashion Club, but Aki's still disgusted on how it went about doing it.
- Fallen Princess: Her Yamiko destroys Aki's popularity by announcing to the school how Aki really feels, revealing Himei as her only true friend and calling out the Fashion Club for being selfish, manipulative assholes. And tops it off by flashing her breasts to everyone. This leads to Aki being kicked out of the Fashion Club. It's honestly the best thing to happen to her.
- The Fashionista: She starts out leader of the Fashion Club at her school.
- Finishing Move: Amazing Grace.
- Gayngst: Turns out she has this without her knowing; while she has feelings for Himei, she spends most of the story not realizing that they're romantic ones and isn't really sure what to make of them.
- Huge Schoolgirl: Described as quite tall for a sixteen-year-old.
- Incompatible Orientation: Aki is a lesbian and in love with Himei, who is straight and in love with Seiki.
- Meaningful Name: Komachi can mean "belle" or "town beauty". Aki in turn can mean "emptiness".
- Odd Name Out: Of the Fashion Club, with the others being Ami, Emi, and Umi.
- Power Trio: Himei is the story's main character but Aki and Shin become part of the main cast as Sailors later on.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gives this to Ami when she is dropped from the Fashion Club, calling her out on how shallow and ungrateful she is.Ami: Don't be seen near us again, Aki, or you'll regret it. In the spirit of Unity and Friendship, we have unanimously voted for your ejection from—
Aki (calmly): Friendship? You're talking friendship with a capital F, yes? That's what last night was, right? Friendship and Unity. Unity when you criticized my musical tastes, Friendship when you complained because the smores weren't squishy enough, and then you... you TORE into my wardrobe and insulted everything I had spent hours and hours trying to decide on buying, buying it just to make you guys admire me? That's your idea of friendship with a capital F!?
Ami: Aki—
Aki: No, it's my turn to talk now, I've been a member of the Fashion Club for a year and months now, and I've done everything you wanted of me. I dressed like you wanted me to, I did my hair the way you wanted to, I did everything for my friends because I wanted you to like me... everything! I sat through the meetings and I applied the power I had on others and I supported everything, and... and this is how I'm thanked! For something I didn't even do... although I'm beginning to wish I DID... you screw me over and kick me out? If that's the case, then you were never my friend, Ami!
Ami: AK—
Aki: I only have one friend now, and it's not you. I'm glad you're out of my life, and I wish you well, Goodbye. - Stepford Smiler: She starts out as Depressed, being a popular girl but secretly unhappy with how shallow she is.
Shin Kongou
Shin Kongou (Sailor Truth)
Art by Karjalainen Esa Tapani
- Attempted Rape: The victim of this at the hands of Kotashi's Yamiko.
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The brains to Aki's beauty and Himei's brawn.
- Determinator: As a journalist, reaching the truth is what utterly drives her.
- Finishing Move: Rude Awakening.
- Intrepid Reporter: She idolises Hunter S. Thompson and is obsessed with bringing out the Truth, even becoming a Sailor to learn more.
- I Wished You Were Dead: Shin eventually says that to Ami after the latter keeps bullying her. After Argon gets to Ami, however, she came to regret it.
- Meaningful Name: Kongou can mean the vajra, which involves symbolism for the Five Buddhist Wisdoms; one dictionary lists the word as "Buddhist symbol of the indestructible truth". Shin can (more plainly) mean truth, as well.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After seeing the horrific torture Argon puts Ami through, Shin immediately regrets wishing something awful would happen to Ami.
- Power Trio: Himei is the story's main character but Aki and Shin become part of the main cast as Sailors later on.
- Rape as Drama: It's revealed her uncle raped her when she was a child and got away with it.
- Save the Villain: Shin stops her Yamiko from killing her rapist uncle.
- School Newspaper Newshound: Explicitly, she wants to unearth the truth wherever she can.
Seiki
Seiki
Art by Karjalainen Esa Tapani
- Beware the Nice Ones: Kamen/Radon taunted him and claimed he'd take Himei and make her his "lover". The normally kind Seiki utterly snapped, and killed Radon, the latter realizing in disbelief that Seiki can be just as wrathful as his girlfriend when pushed.
- Forced to Watch: He's made to watch his Yamiko rape Himei.
- Meaningful Name: Seiki can mean "spirit of justice".
Yamiko
In General
Monsters spawned from the evil in humans, personifying their every dark impulse.
- Always Chaotic Evil: As personified violent impulses, Yamiko are universally cruel and nearly incapable of doing anything but satisfying their base urges. The Dark Queen has realized that the Yamiko cannot survive as a race like this, since they'd turn on each other if they had no humans to torment, and leaves Cobalt to plot their destruction.
- Evil Doppelgänger: Yamiko are pulled from a human as an exact copy of them, but have no goals other than the impulsive, malicious thoughts that generated them.
- The Heartless: They're intrusive and harmful thoughts given form, that see themselves as the person they were formed from.
- Stupid Evil: Yamiko are, with the exception of Cobalt, extremely impulsive and only care about satisfying their immediate desire for cruelty, regardless of whether they're needed for something else or if it would keep them alive if they held back.
Dark General Cobalt
The clever and dutiful Dark General set on civilizing the world of the Yamiko.
- All for Nothing: In Chapter Seven, the Dark Queen reveals that she never intended for Cobalt to succeed, because civilizing the Yamiko is an impossible task. However, she also meant this as a lesson, because only Cobalt would have the foresight and presence of mind to make a call about what to do with that knowledge.
- The Evil Genius: Cobalt's a workaholic primarily focused on restoring the technological infrastructure of Yami-Gaia, but he also develops new weapons to use against the Sailors, and countermeasures to keep them from backfiring.
- The Heavy: While all of the Dark Generals create Yamiko, Cobalt is the single Yamiko character with the most focus, and the one most personally invested in dealing the Sailors.
- Odd Name Out: Of all the Dark Generals, he's the only one not named after a noble gas.
- Only Sane Man: While most Yamiko, including the other Dark Generals, are content with debasing themselves and tormenting humans, Cobalt takes his duty from the Queen very seriously. Him being this trope was fully intentional, as the Queen knew that the Yamiko couldn't survive, and needed a servant with the sanity and intellect to make reasonable decisions.
- Villain Protagonist: He's the only Yamiko to be a POV character, giving readers an insight into the dark world he inhabits.
