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The Chakho

A group of seven Beom hunters who found each other by circumstance... Or was it fate?

(members listed by order of appearance)

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    Tropes for the CHAKHO as a whole 
  • The Chosen One: It seems that, as they share a past life in a key player in the ancient Beom war, they are the ones destined to save humanity, with a beam of energy and a memory of an Ancient Beom hunter appearing when they all team up. Also, they are powered by a mysterious energy that gives them all superhuman physique and power.
  • The Hero: Of course.
  • A House Divided: Defied, thanks to Hwan. When the truth of Zeha's lineage and role in the arrival of the Beom comes out, Hosu lashes out at Zeha, who immediately falls into a pit of self-blame. However, Hwan is quick to intervene and establish that it's not Zeha's fault but the Beom's, and that since they have all suffered and lost loved ones to the Beom, they shouldn't be hurting each other. This quickly diffuses a lot of the tension, as even Hosu agrees that fighting amongst themselves would be pointless.
  • Humble Hero: None of them are in it for fame or glory, but to stop the Beom threat, save people, settle some grudges, and pay the bills.
  • It's Personal with the Dragon: For four of the members (Hwan, Dogeon, Jooan, and Hosu), they have personal stakes not with Hupo, but with his sadistic underling Bulti, who personally kidnapped, killed and tortured a bunch of people and whose misdeeds are involved in the following:
    • Bulti and Maro were in charge of the Beom group that murdered Dogeon's friends/protegees, and intervened during his rampage of revenge, with Bulti leaving Dogeon for dead.
    • Jooan's girlfriend was murdered by Bulti. She died protecting Jooan from him, as she herself was a Beom. She and Jooan were looking forward to finally being together after the seal broke.
    • Hwan's family was killed by the Beom, and his sister was kidnapped by Bulti... then later revealed to have been killed as well in Bulti's secret prison.
    • Hosu was kidnapped by the Beom, imprisoned, and personally tortured, starved, and forced to watch other people die by Bulti.
  • Meaningful Name: "Chakho" comes from "chakhogapsa", a real group of professional tiger hunters formed by King Sejong in 1421 after the large population of tigers in the Joseon Kingdom had become a real danger to the people.
  • Power Glows: They all have glowing eyes and/or weapons when they power up.
  • Reincarnation: A case in which seven people the same past life in the original wielder of the Sword of Death, according to Cein's Beom Brow.
  • Purple Is Powerful: While each member has his own Color Motif, all of the Chakho have purple details in their design. Along with this trope, purple has the added layer of being a meaningful color for BTS and their fandom. Haru, who convinces Zeha to hunt Beom in the first place, is entirely dressed in purple; Zeha has the strap for his sword (which sometimes is shown to be purple itself); there's purple in the details of Dogeon's coat and guns and Hwan's uniform; Jooan has it in his belts.
    • Cein and Hosu are notable in that they initially don't have any purple in their design, but incorporate it after they officially join the team. In Episode 25, Cein adds a purple tied belt to his new Beom hunter outfit, while Hosu starts wearing a coat that's purple on the inside.
  • Weapon Specialization: Each member has a specific weapon: a sword (Zeha), ropes (Haru), guns and grenades (Dogeon), bow and arrows (Hwan), a spear (Jooan), daggers (Cein) and a chain connected to a scythe (Hosu).

    Zeha 
Member he's based on: Jung Kook

The son of a Beom and a human shaman, Zeha lost his parents at an early age. As an adult, he was tricked by Hupo, the Beom who killed his parents, into breaking the seal between the World of Shadows and the human world. Left for dead, Zeha teamed up with Haru to fix things by becoming a Beom hunter.

While burdened by tragedy, Zeha is a spirited young man with an instinct for helping people in need. He wields the Sword of Death, an ancient magic blade that belonged to a mysterious mixed-race warrior. His Beom blood gives him faster healing and, in crucial moments, faster movements and reflexes.

  • Broken Hero: He lost his parents at an early age, grew up in an orphanage, and got tricked by the person who killed his parents into unleashing a murderous race into the world. Nonetheless, he remains mostly cheerful, spirited and nice to people... except when Hupo's involved.
  • Conveniently an Orphan: Possibly invoked/exploited. Growing up as an orphan means he doesn't really have any other loved ones to particularly worry about or answer to at home. But also, his heritage makes him key for being able to open the gate for the Beom to be free, which Hupo takes full advantage of by killing Zeha's parents and manipulating him years later by tempting him with answers about their deaths.
  • Cover-Blowing Superpower: Jooan notices Zeha has the power of the Beom due to how well Zeha could fight Beom in spite of his lack of experience. Zeha's later forced to tell everyone the truth about his heritage when his gunshot wound heals completely in two days (and Jooan reveals what he knows).
  • Death Glare: Delivers a nasty one (complete with Glowing Eyes) in episode 30 to Hupo when they finally meet again.
  • Fake Memories: Part of how Hupo tricks him into breaking the seal is by creating memories of Hupo being a nice close friend of Zeha's parents, instead of the one who killed them.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: He gets some really nasty injuries (especially in the stomach) that heal somewhat quicker due to his Beom blood.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Zeha is one of the nicer members of the team (to the point where he's practically The Heart) and has the hair color to match.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: His mother was a human shaman, his father was a Beom.
  • Healing Factor: Being a half-Beom makes fatal wounds somewhat less of a concern, though he can still pass out from exhaustion and blood loss. This is how he gets caught by the others, as his gunshot wound heals completely in just two days.
  • The Heart: Fits this role during the battle against Bulti in the prison raid arc, spending most of the time taking care of Haru and providing a key moment of emotional support that gets Hwan and the rest back on their feet.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: The closest to being the protagonist (as he’s the one we follow from the beginning), and his main weapon is a sword.
  • Hiding Your Heritage: He and Haru choose not to mention his Beom ancestry to the others. Until he's forced to, which also forces him to reveal his role in unleashing the Beom.
  • Humble Hero: His primary focus is on getting stronger and stopping the Beom threat while never really thinking of getting praise or notoriety. Notably, when people thank him profusely for saving a preschool, he gets flustered while awkwardly saying Think Nothing of It.
  • Hunter of His Own Kind: Uses the powers given by his Beom blood to hunt Beom and save humanity.
  • Hybrid Power: Downplayed. He gets the ability to open and close the gate sealing the Beom from his mother and gets enhanced healing and fighting skills from his father. However, he's mind-controlled into using his mother's ability to open the gate at the start of the story (and by the time he comes back to Inwang Mountain, the Beom have long since left, so the gate is kinda useless now). As for his powers, he still starts out rather weak and has to train hard to be able to face Beom in battle, much to his initial frustration.
  • Identical Grandson: Unlike the rest of the Chakho, he has a remarkable physical similarity to Tabae. Hwanwoong exploits this.
  • It's All My Fault: While aware of the fact that he broke the seal, he (and the story) was more focused on fixing things through hunting. However, when Hosu starts berating him for breaking the seal and causing the suffering and deaths that ensued, Zeha quickly spirals into self-blame and tearfully apologizes to everyone, not even attempting to defend himself. Hwan, who was helped by Zeha out of his own spiral back in the battle against Bulti, is the one to reassure him that the Beom are to blame, not him. Even so, it's implied that Zeha's feelings of guilt about releasing the Beom are just being redirected towards his goal of killing Hupo to set things right, making it border on an obsession.
  • It's Personal: Hupo killed his parents and manipulated him into setting the Beom free. When he meets him again, he's instantly consumed by rage.
  • Mind-Control Eyes: When Hupo starts manipulating his memories to trick him into breaking the seal, his irises change to red.
  • Must Make Amends: Tries to fix his mistake of unwittingly helping Hupo unleash the Beom, by becoming a Beom hunter.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Initially downplayed, as his and the story's focus is more on Hupo's role in his parents' death and Zeha's own drive to become stronger and help others. But when Hosu directly calls him out for breaking the seal and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering inflicted by the Beom, this trope comes out in full force.
  • Nice Guy: He’s quick to help others if needed even if he’s not asked (such as giving Hwan food when the latter leaves his apartment, and not hesitating to go with him when Hwan asks him to help rescue his sister), and is motivated by stopping the Beom threat from causing suffering to people. He's nice almost to a fault, however: when Dogeon announces he’s going his way after helping him in the museum, he never pushes him to join him, only saying thanks even while passing out on the spot.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He’s tricked into causing the Beom invasion.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When he again encounters Hupo, he turns cold and is consumed by rage, contrasting his generally nice attitude.
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: When his powers activate, his eyes shine golden.
  • Took a Level in Badass: After ditching his gun and spending a couple of months of offscreen training under Haru, Zeha is shown to become very profficient with a sword in Episode 6.
  • Tranquil Fury: While obviously consumed by rage when he encounters Hupo, he maintains a calm expression for much of the scene. When a human kid defends Hupo (since Hupo technically saved the kid and his family from Hwanwoong's children), Zeha has a completely blank expression while his hands are shaking before he coldly tells him Hupo's a Beom.
  • Unknown Rival: Seongjin despises him and wants nothing more than to get rid of him somehow, while Zeha barely sees him as an unpleasant (if dangerous) hunter to avoid. When Zeha finds out he got shot by Seongjin and reads the news about it, he mostly just looks confused.
  • Warring Natures: The son of a Beom and a human shaman. Hupo killed both (in part due to considering Zeha's father a traitor) and took advantage of Zeha's heritage to unleash the Beom back into Sin-Si.
  • You Killed My Father: Learning Hupo killed his parents is one of the catalysts for Zeha becoming a hunter.

    Haru 
Member he's based on: Jimin

A thousands-years-old deity (quite literally the Beom Rock of Inwang Mountain), preventing the Beom from escaping. He's the one who informs Zeha of the latter's role in breaking the seal and unleashing the Beom, unlocks his memories about his past, and is the one who convinces him and trains him to become a Beom hunter.

Haru is cheerful and prone to teasing with a distinctive antiquated speech pattern, belying his power and pragmatic attitude. He uses magic ropes as a weapon; these trap and seal enemies, and can form a giant living puppet with powerful attacks. He’s also able to sense nearby Beom and their power.

In-story, he's the one to come up with the name "Chakho".

  • Exposition of Immortality: His very first appearance has him gush about how much Zeha's grown compared to how he was when he was little, despite Haru looking around the same age as him. He reacts with mild fascination to seeing a gun for the first time, commenting on it being a strange weapon. He's also prone to casually mention the many years he's lived; strangely, no one other than Zeha has ever seemed to comment on this.
  • Foil: While Zeha is the kind and straightforward but inexperienced hero, Haru is the pragmatic and very experienced mentor with a penchant for good-natured teasing.
    • Also to Dogeon, who's also experienced, but aloof and serious, with a dark past that burdens him. Haru, who is kind but quite shameless (and whose past is still a mystery), is quick to ruin some of Dogeon's threatening moments and provides a nice contrast.
  • The Gadfly: He’s prone to teasing other people, including Zeha and Dogeon.
  • Knows the Ropes: He can take out Beom using his magic ropes.
  • The Mentor: He trains Zeha in Beom hunting, both with sword combat and with knowledge about the Beom and their powers.
  • Pragmatic Hero: Downplayed. While not really hurting anyone, he cheerfully lets Zeha get heavily wounded by a Beom to assess his skills, and pushes Zeha to steal the Sword of Death from a museum attacked by Beom. There’s also when Dogeon is grimly discussing how Beom are attacking districts in order, like a game:
    Haru: In other words, we are safe here in District 10 at the moment.
    Zeha: Haru!
    Haru: I'm just expressing my thoughts.
    Dogeon: (mouth full with food) Yuor prity dun-to-earth en colhearded fo sohmwon wid suh kin apphearance.("You're pretty down-to-earth and cold-hearted for someone with such a kind appearance.")
  • Purple Is Powerful: A guard deity in human form that can wield magic ropes and take out 5 low-grade Beom at once, and is dressed in a purple hanbok.
  • Really 700 Years Old: While his youthful appearance has him perfectly blend in with the others, he’s a deity who’s been guarding the Inwang Mountain entrance for millennia.
  • The Smart Guy: Fits this role in the Beom prison raid arc, providing some exposition about the Beom even while relegated to the sidelines.
  • Spock Speak: The English translation gives him a variation of this, with a rigid adherence to grammar and a lack of use of contractions or slang. While far from stoic, this gives him an excessive formality that comes from his nature as a highly knowledgeable ancient deity with limited experience in the modern world.
  • Stronger Than They Look: Downplayed, as he’s just about the same complexion as the others. However, he’s also the shortest, and yet he can easily pick up Dogeon (the tallest) from his sides like he were a kid.
  • Super-Senses: Can sense Beom nearby, as well as their strength. He's also able to sense the deaths of the Duduri tribe, sending him to tears.
  • The Worf Effect: Do you need an effective way to show just how powerful Bulti is? Have him take out the magic, thousands-of-years-old mentor with his first attack.

    Dogeon 
Member he's based on: RM

A feared criminal who engaged in heists and thievery to provide for his friends/found family, to which he was like an older brother. Despite his wishes for them to have a normal life, his friends went against his back to do one last heist (to pay him back for taking care of them), unfortunately encountering the Beom and getting slaughtered. Dogeon has since sworn to kill every last Beom, especially the one in charge of the Beom group that killed his friends: Bulti.

Dogeon is serious and aloof, but quietly caring, even if he doesn’t admit it. He uses his knowledge of weaponry and the weapon arms trade business by using guns and grenades with clockwork precision.

  • Aloof Ally: Dogeon is serious, distrustful, and claims he's only tagging along with Zeha and Haru to cooperate until he finds the Beom he's after. Zeha thinks he might just be lonely, though.
  • Badass Longcoat: Wears a trenchcoat at all times, fitting with his criminal background and role as the Gunslinger. Doubles as a Tragic Keepsake, since his friends bought it for him with their first paycheck.
  • The Comically Serious: He maintains a no-nonsense attitude even while getting picked up by Haru or awkwardly dodging subjects in conversation.
  • Criminal Found Family: He and his protegees had a life of crime to get by. Tragically, all but Dogeon died in what was intended as a last heist before living a normal life.
  • The Dreaded: His past as a lawbreaker and as someone who would not hesitate to pull the trigger is well-known enough to Seongjin to back down from killing Zeha when Dogeon gets involved.
  • Family of Choice: He lived with a group of younger friends he worked to provide for.
  • Foil: To Zeha. Both are young men burdened by fatal mistakes and a past of no blood families, having both losed loved ones to the Beom. However, Dogeon contrasts Zeha's kind and straightforward nature by being very serious and aloof. Dogeon's experience as both a Beom hunter and a former criminal complements Zeha's inexperience as well.
    • To the also experienced but cheerful, mysterious and quite shameless Haru, who (despite being quite pragmatic himself) in a few occasions has knocked the wind out of Dogeon's sails when the latter was being particularly aloof or threatening.
    • To Hwan. Both fight with ranged weapons and lost their families (particularly younger sibling figures) to the Beom and hold a vendetta with Bulti, who was responsible. But Dogeon has a past as a criminal, uses guns and grenades, tags along with Zeha and Haru, and has trouble expressing himself. Hwan, meanwhile, comes from an affluent family and is searching for the one relative who might still be alive; he uses arrows due to his background in archery competitions; and despite initially spending a lot of time away on his own searching for his sister, Hwan's able to diffuse conflicts, as seen with Hosu and Zeha with the latter's reveal of his role in the Beom invasion. This last part is more noticeable when you watch Dogeon in this scene: he doesn't intervene, but is visibly relieved at the end.
  • The Gunslinger: He puts his knowledge of weaponry from his criminal days to very good use.
  • I Let Gwen Stacy Die: In his introductory chapter, Dogeon muses that had he lived a "clean life" and not introduced his friends to a life of crime, his friends would not have encountered the Beom during an attempted heist and wouldn't have died.
  • Improbable Aiming Skills: He’s able to shoot Seongjin’s gun in a way that it shatters, and land a shot straight in someone's forehead even while hiding behind a curtain of smoke.
  • It's Personal: The Beom killed his friends, so he's determined to slay every last Beom. Bulti, who (while not present when his friends died) was the one in charge of that group of Beom, is very, very high on his list.
  • Miles to Go Before I Sleep: Subverted. His internal dialogue during the Beom prison raid says he’ll "join" his fallen friends after all the Beom are slain. His conversation with Jooan some time afterwards, however, reveals he plans to live a full life for the sake of his fallen friends, since it's what he thinks they would have wanted.
  • The Nose Knows: Able to identify the smell of Beom. He points his gun at Zeha and Jooan when he first meets them because of this.
  • Oh, Crap!: After killing off a bunch of Beom in a rampage of revenge, he's confronted for the first time with two high-grade Beom, Maro and Bulti. When Bulti, who just mockingly stopped a bullet with his teeth, starts walking towards him while preparing an attack, Dogeon flinches and shudders in fear.
    • Several times in the Yisal aparment store: when he recognizes Bulti's explosive attack, when Bulti detects him among the smoke, and when Bulti appears behind him.
    • When his bullets don't work against Heoseo.
  • Properly Paranoid: He correctly identifies Zeha as a Beom from his smell and holds him at gunpoint in their first meeting, which gets diffused quickly by Haru as the smell a hunter would logically have on him. Thing is, Zeha is not a threat. And neither is Jooan.
  • Retired Outlaw: A former criminal who now uses his skills to slay Beom.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Immediately after realizing who killed his friends, he proceeds to absolutely massacre every Beom in the vicinity. Until Bulti and Maro appear, that is.
  • Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Dark hair, dressed in a black longcoat, good-looking, and the tallest of the group, with an appropriately aloof yet caring personality.
  • Tragic Keepsake: The Badass Longcoat he wears is revealed to be a gift his friends got for him with their first paycheck, and Dogeon refuses to take it off. Cue Jooan asking if he keeps it on when he showers.
  • Tsundere: A downplayed platonic variation. He generally shows himself as aloof, but he’s secretly caring in his own way, which Zeha and Haru easily lampshade.

    Hwan 
Member he’s based on: Jin

A young man from an affluent family who practiced archery, too busy practicing for competitions to attend to his little sister Juhee. One day, his family was attacked by Beom, his parents killed and Juhee kidnapped by Bulti. He has been desperately searching for clues to find her ever since.

Hwan has weaponized his archery skills against the Beom, being able to hit several targets with his arrows at once.

  • Aloof Big Brother: Downplayed. He loves Juhee dearly, but was too busy with archery practice to spend time with his sister before she got kidnapped.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Hwan's entire motivation for most of the story was to find his little sister Juhee. When he discovered that she was eaten by the time he finally found where she was kept prisoner, he was pissed.
  • Blame Game: Defied. When Zeha blames himself for breaking the seal after Hosu called him out, Hwan is the first to step in and reassure him that the deaths caused by the Beom is the Beom's fault, not his, and points out that going around pointing fingers and fighting would be pointless and counterproductive. Especially given how much Zeha has helped him out up to this poinnt. Surprisingly, Hosu agrees and backs down.
    "There's no end to that kind of blame game. The same goes for blaming yourself. [...] All of us here lost people we love to the Beom. So... I don't want us of all people to hurt each other.
  • Character Witness: Serves as this to Zeha when Hosu berates Zeha for breaking the seal and Zeha starts blaming himself for everything the Beom did. He points out that Zeha saved him, agreed with no hesitation to help him find Juhee in the Beom prison, and brought him out of his spiral when Hwan started to blame himself for sending the others to their apparent demise.
  • Foil: To Dogeon, as a ranged-weapon combatant who also lost his loved ones (younger sibling figures among them) to the Beom and is in search for the one responsible, Bulti. However, he comes from an affluent family (one of which might still be alive and he's searching for), uses arrows with a background in archery competitions, initially spends a lot of time alone on his own mission, and shows people skills through diffusing the situation between Hosu and Zeha and preventing potential unnecessary conflicts arising over Zeha's role in the Beom invasion. This contrasts with Dogeon, who uses guns and grenades due to his past as a former criminal, lost his entire Criminal Family of Choice at once, tags along with Zeha and Haru, and has trouble expressing his feelings. This last part is more noticeable when you watch Dogeon in the scene where Hwan diffuses the conflict between Hosu and Zeha with the latter's reveal of his role in the Beom invasion, Dogeon doesn't intervene, but is visibly relieved at the end.
  • Giver of Lame Names: Enthusiastically proposes names for the team that Dogeon absolutely hates, such as "The Sin-Si Tiger Hunters".
    Dogeon: I really doubt your naming skills.
  • Improbable Aiming Skills: Can shoot a Beom hidden behind a hostage on the forehead while moving. At full power, he can shoot several arrows at once and hit every target.
  • It's All My Fault: When the battle against Bulti starts going really badly, with every other combatant being unconscious, wounded or tending to the others' wounds, he blames himself for bringing them there in the first place, until Zeha brings him out of his spiral. Later, when Zeha starts blaming himself for the deaths and suffering brought by the Beom, Hwan returns the favor.
  • It's Personal: Loses everything to the Beom, and the only thing that drives him is finding his sister, who was kidnapped by Bulti. When it turns out Juhee is already dead, his ensuing rampage is to be feared.
  • Master Archer: Used to be a champion in archery competitions before the Beom invasion, and it shows.
  • Nice Guy: Second to Zeha,
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After finding out about Juhee's death and having a moment of mourning, he proceeds to take out several Beom at once. His glare there and when he has his face-off with Bulti as his powers only contribute to his expression of sheer fury has to be seen to be believed.
  • The Straight and Arrow Path: In a setting where guns and grenades exist, Hwan uses arrows. Justifed by his background and the... variable usefulness of guns in this setting.
  • The Team Benefactor: After the Chakho are fully formed, Hwan provides them with an expensive apartment to use as HQ, having been a national athlete in archery from a rich family.
  • You Are Too Late: Manages to track down the prison Juhee was taken to, only to find she has already been eaten by the Beom.

    Jooan 
Member he’s based on: V

A mysterious young man trying to avenge his girlfriend, who was killed by Bulti. She, as it turns out, was the Beom Narae, who died defending him from Bulti and gave Jooan the power to fight against the Beom.

A calm, somewhat quiet guy. Jooan’s weapon is a spear, with a above-normal ability to counter Beom. His Beom powers also give him enhanced healing and fighting skills.

  • Animal Motifs: Some of his stronger attacks are themed after tigers. This foreshadows his Beom abilities.
  • Armor-Piercing Response: When Cein discovers Zeha's gunshot wound has already healed after two days, they all start wondering how is that possible. Jooan unexpectedly comes forward and answers in a way that forces Zeha to reveal his nature.
    It's the power of the Beom. The ability to heal quickly is one of their powers. So for him to heal quickly... He either has to be a Beom or must've experienced something that left him with their powers.
  • Bearer of Bad News: He's the one who has to break the news to Heoseo that Narae is dead, and that Bulti killed her.
  • The Big Guy: Fits this role in the Beom prison raid arc, as one of the members who manages to deal the most damage to Bulti while using a melee weapon and his Beom powers and durability.
  • Bullying a Dragon: In his introductory scene, after Jooan had already taken out several mooks, a Beom mockingly says he'll call himself a kitten if Jooan survives. Smash Cut to that Beom's corpse lying fresh on the floor.
  • Color Motifs: Green.
  • The Comically Serious: Jooan keeps a straight face on even when he's in comedic situations. In his Establishing Character Moment, the dude barely reacted when his spear broke.
  • Dissonant Serenity: Has a pretty calm demeanor, even while slaughtering a bunch of Beom.
  • Healing Factor: Gets stabbed through the chest, yet minutes later gets up and resumes fighting. This is because Narae gifted him the power of the Beom.
  • Interspecies Romance: Had a relationship with a Beom, who later got murdered by Bulti.
  • It's Personal: Wants to avenge his girlfriend by killing Bulti.
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His hair is noticeably a bit longer than the others and he's a total Bishōnen like V, the member he's based on.
  • The Lost Lenore: His girfriend, the Beom Narae, was murdered by Bulti at some point before his first appearance. While he only mentions her offhandedly once to the others, in Episode 26 it's made clear that he still quietly grieves her and has some level of guilt for living his life without her.
  • Nice Guy: His first appearance has him calmly reassure a girl that she’ll be okay while he's fighting off Beom attacking a pre-school, and he only ever loses his cool if other people are hurt (or if Bulti is involved).
  • One-Man Army: His first scene shows him taking out multiple Beom while looking no worse for wear.
  • The Quiet One: Downplayed. He does speak a fair amount, but more sparingly and with a generally more subdued disposition than the rest of the team.
  • Star-Crossed Lovers: For a while, he and Narae could only see each other once a year. Then the seal broke, and they could see each other more often... only for Bulti to kill her.
  • The Stoic: Jooan isn't very emotionally expressive. He used to be more expressive around Narae.
  • Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Dark hair and eyes, dark clothes, tall and very handsome, with a quiet yet kind personality.
  • Weapon Twirling: Somehow able to casually do this with a spear.

    Cein 
Member he’s based on: SUGA

A self-described ordinary man living an ordinary life, he was somewhat indifferent to the Beom situation due to how unreal it sounded... until he was swallowed whole by a giant Beom. He spent days waiting for the end until a magic power materialized into him, killing the Beom and giving him a Beom brow, which lets him see people’s past lives and led him to Zeha and company.

A down-to-earth, observant guy. What he lacks in combat experience is quickly compensated by his newfound powers, which give him enhanced fighting skills. He uses two daggers as weapons.

  • All There in the Manual: According to the official Instagram, Cein is (was?) a med school student.
  • Born Lucky: Got saved from being digested by a Beom by magic, happened to have daggers for self-defense for the Beom prison raid, survives by having dormant magic powers that give him fighting skills… To his credit, he fully takes advantage of this for the better and makes up for it with his observational skills and street smarts.
  • Die or Fly: His powers awaken first when a Beom is about to kill a freed hostage, and later when a wounded, desperate Bulti is running towards him to eat him.
  • Dual Wielding: He uses two daggers.
  • Eaten Alive: Was eaten whole by a giant Beom and stayed there for days, getting out only due to extremely fortunate circumstances.
  • Getting Eaten Is Harmless: He spends days inside the stomach of a Beom. While there are mentions of it being "humid" and "stinky" and of him being in pain (which, given the way it's described, might as well have been emotional, aka. being in terror while waiting to die with no way out), he looks physically no worse for wear when he gets out, with even his clothes intact.
  • Mistaken for Badass: After helping the others get a new spear at a good price, Zeha asks him if he’s a hunter; Cein, wanting to observe them, accidentally says yes, and never finds the right moment to correct that. He's thus dragged along for the ride when seconds later Hwan appears to bring them to the Beom prison. Good thing he had dormant powers.
  • Mr. Exposition: Due to his ability to see his past life, he becomes this when it comes to the war between Gom and Beom from the point of view of Tabae.
  • "No More Holding Back" Speech: When a wounded and desperate Bulti is running towards him to kill and eat him in episode 20, Cein has a short internal narration that represents his full transition from "civilian" to "Beom hunter", leading to him launching a spin attack with his daggers that leaves Bulti crawling away from the scene.
    I never want to go through that torture again. Being trapped in fear... ends today.
  • The Sixth Ranger: Fits this role during the Beom prison raid, which he gets dragged into merely minutes after introducing himself to the others. He assists with escorting the people to the exit and delivering the final blow that leaves Bulti crawling into the cell where he encounters Hosu.
  • Spin Attack: His attack against Bulti has him do this with his daggers, dealing multiple wounds.
  • Swallowed Whole: The only reason he's alive by the time we meet him, spending days inside the Beom who ate him instead.
  • Visions of Another Self: Is able to see his and other people's past lives through the Beom's Brow.

    Hosu 
Member he’s based on: j-hope

One of the humans abducted into a prison to be held as cattle by Beom, with Bulti taking a special interest in torturing and starving him, after which he was locked in with Zahu to force the latter to eat him. Zahu, who refuses to eat humans, tried to help with Hosu’s thirst by feeding him his blood, which awakened Hosu’s powers… and hunger.

He wields a chain with a bladed weight in one extreme and a scythe on the other.

  • Berserk Button: Downplayed example. He immediately becomes hostile to the sheer idea of a peaceful solution with the Beom or that there could be Beom who don't want to kill humans. Seems like the trauma made him block out the incident with Zahu...
  • Blade on a Rope: He uses the small blade on one of the extremes of his chain as a weight to quickly tie down and trap his opponent, and then uses the scythe on the other extreme to kill them.
  • Blank White Eyes: While shuffling towards Bulti after eating Zahu, his eyes are terrifyingly blank.
  • Chain Pain: Part of his main weapon is a very long chain he uses to quickly trap Beom in place.
  • Denied Food as Punishment: Part of his torture by Bulti was being starved for extensive amounts of time.
  • Difficult, but Awesome: In-universe, his weapon is noted to be tricky, and yet he's extremely profficient with it.
  • The Dog Bites Back: When he encounters Bulti while he's on an accidentally-induced hunger rampage in the prison, he remembers everything Bulti did to him and proceeds to kick his ass.
  • Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: An inversion in that, in his words, he does not forgive Zeha for helping unleash the Beom, still holding him responsible for breaking the seal, but is willing to put that aside because there's no point in them fighting each other.
  • Horror Hunger: Inverted. Drinking Zahu’s blood drives him mad in a frenzy of hunger for Beom, leading to him killing and eating Zahu.
  • It's Personal: Very personal, as for whatever reason Bulti decided to specifically torture him until Hosu was barely alive. He transforms for the first time when he recognizes Bulti in the midst of his hunger rampage.
  • Locked in the Dungeon: While one of the many humans locked in a hidden prison, he’s the only one especially bound and chained for Bulti to torture.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes shine red when activating his powers.
  • Red Is Violent: His Color Motif is red, which fits both his harsher personality and how he's been involved in several of the most violent moments of the webtoon, with even his introductory chapters being strikingly bloody.
  • Sinister Scythe: His chain is tied to the poles of two scythes on the extremes that he uses to slash at Beom after they've been trapped. Appropriate by the character with possibly the darkest backstory among the Chakho.
  • Sleep Deprivation Punishment: Another of the ways he was tortured by Bulti.
  • Super Mode: After encountering and stabbing Bulti during his rampage, his body transforms, gaining more muscle and a Beom-like mane, ears and hair (but a human face). In this state, he’s more on less on the same level as Bulti’s ultimate form.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Really does not take well the news of who let the Beom into the human world.

The Beom

A species of humanoid human-eating beasts who, after a war with humans, were sealed in the World of Shadows for millennia. Since their leader tricked Zeha into breaking the seal, they've been unleashed into the human world and are determined to kill every last human as revenge.

    Tropes that apply to the Beom as a whole 
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: Low and mid-grade Beom have yellow eyes with black sclerae at all times. High-grade Beom also have them when in their less human forms.
  • Cat Folk: They're supposed to be humanoid tigers.
  • Flash Step: Some of them are so fast they can practically teleport from meters away to right behind you. Zeha has trouble in his first confrontation with a low-grade Beom partly because the Beom starts running and jumping around so fast that Zeha can't even aim at him with his gun.
  • Healing Factor: Beom can heal much faster than a human.
  • Hellish Pupils: Most of the Beom have slit pupils like a cat's.
  • Immortality Field: It's heavily implied they've been able to live in the World of Shadows for thousands of years because that world allows them to. When Zahu refuses to eat humans, he's warned that, unlike in the World of Shadows, he'll die if he starves in the human world.
  • Meaningful Name: "Beom" is the Korean word for "tiger".
  • Not Always Evil: Initially, they're simply introduced as an evil monster race that wants to kill and eat humans after being sealed for millennia. As it turns out, most are simply told by their leaders that they should kill humans (actually the Gom) because they deserve the blame for the war, a blame that doesn't seem that unfounded as the story develops. We also meet Beom that are nicer to humans or even defy their own, such as Zahu, who refuses to eat humans outright, and Narae, who died defending the human she fell in love with.
  • Power Levels: They explicitly are either low, mid, or high-grade.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: They were locked in the World of Shadows for millennia after an ancient war, with Haru preventing them from escaping into the human world. Until Zeha broke the seal, that is. Episode 25 implies this might not have been done by Tabae, but by the Beom themselves as a survival measure.
  • Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism: Most low to high-grade Beom go from Borderline Beast Man to Little Bit Beastly, while a few giant-sized ones (as well as high-grade Beom's strongest forms) are more on the Partially Civilized Animal side. Most of them have an animalistic appearance to some extent, with high-grade Beom being very humanlike with only a few noticable traits, low and mid-grade Beom being visibly tiger-like beasts with very human mannerisms like walking on their hind legs, and giant-sized Beom appearing basically like colorful tigers. All (as far as we know) have the same capacity of speech and thought as humans and are capable of organizing in complex ways, although they also retain animal strengths and super senses and an instinct to eat humans.
  • Sins of Our Fathers: Their aim is to exterminate all descendants of the Gom clan for what Tabae and his people did thousands of years ago. They refer to humans as "traitors".
  • Supernatural Sealing: They were sealed into the World of Shadows, with the deity Haru guarding it.
  • To Serve Man: They kill and eat humans, which also helps with their regeneration skills.

    Hupo 
The leader of the Beom, and the murderer of Zeha’s parents. He manipulated and mind-controlled Zeha into unleashing the Beom into the human world. A war from 4,000 years ago has left deep wounds and grudges he intends to appease by erradicating humanity.

  • An Arm and a Leg: In episode 29, Hwanwoong's children rip one of his arms off. He gets better.
  • Benevolent Boss: Unlike Bulti and Maro, he cares about his people. When Beom are killed in fromt of him, he steps into battle himself to avenge them, and is willing to take a hit with his own body to protect one of his underlings.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Introduced himself to Zeha as an old friend of his late parents, even commenting on how much Zeha has grown. Of course, he did this by manipulating Zeha's memories, and all to trick him into breaking the seal keeping the Beom imprisoned. Once that was done, Hupo wounded Zeha and left him for dead.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: When the Inwang Mountain gate is opened and Hupo's powers come back, his sclerae turn black.
  • Blood from the Mouth: While previous episodes implied he was running himself ragged, in episode 29 we learn he's coughing blood.
  • The Chains of Commanding: A (sympathetic) villainous example. After the Beom prison raid arc, the story goes deeper into Hupo's motivations to appease the Beom's and the other clan's grudges, and on how physical strain and the death toll at his hands are taking their toll on him.
  • Flash Step: Moves from meters away to right behind one of Hwanwoong's children in less than a second. She's only just realizing he's gone when he takes a chunk of flesh off her face.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: He wants the total annihilation of the descendants of the Gom clan, but as someone who was present in the war from 4000 years ago and saw the violence inflicted on Beom by the Gom people, he dislikes causing needless suffering and prefers to kill painlessly, as he doesn’t want to repeat history. This puts him at odds with Bulti.
  • Evil Former Friend: He was Tabae's most trusted friend before the war. His brooding and nightmares in the present show he still resents and hurts from what he sees as a betrayal from Tabae. Tragically, Tabae is revealed in Episode 35 to have been murdered and impersonated without Hupo's knowledge, with the betrayal coming from an impostor.
  • Fake Memories: Creates false memories in Zeha of Hupo being the nice old friend of his parents (instead of the one who killed them).
  • A Father to His Men: Played with. While he still sends the Beom into a war that will have Beom casualties, he genuinely wants to avenge what was done to his people, is tormented by the grudges and suffering caused by the other side in the war, and refuses to stoop down to causing unnecessary pain like what the Gom did to the Beom. In episode 30, he protects Ogyeop from an attack by a child of Hwanwoong by using his own body as a shield, getting wounded in the process.
  • Healing Factor: Able to regenerate an entire arm in seconds, though he also has his limits.
  • Large and in Charge: He’s the tallest of the Beom with a human form, towering over Zeha.
  • Manipulative Bastard: He tricks Zeha into unleashing the Beom by dangling the possibility of learning how Zeha’s parents died (the deaths Hupo caused), and presenting himself as an old friend of Zeha’s family, modifying his memories to boot.
  • Orcus on His Throne: Justified. Once the seal is broken and Zeha is presumed dead, he spends most of the time overseeing the conquest of Sin-Si and directing the various teams of Beom invading the city, which he increasingly does from a literal throne in an abandoned building. While Episode 29 shows him in action, it also reveals his health is declining.
  • Really 700 Years Old: While it's not clear if other Beom were present in the ancient war between Beom and Gom from 4,000 years ago, Hupo was a key player in it. He looks like he's in his 40s or 50s at most.
  • Sins of Our Fathers: Wants to exterminate all descendants of the Gom clan for what Tabae and his people did thousands of years ago.
  • Slasher Smile: His mocking sharp-toothed grin, combined with his golden eyes and black sclerae, is pretty much engraved in Zeha's mind, as it might be in yours.
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: Our first hint that he's not human.
  • Utopia Justifies the Means: He believes that appeasing the Beom's and the other clans' 4000-year-old grudges by exterminating the Gom will bring back peace to Sin-Si. He considers murdering fellow Beom who go against him (such as Pungrae, Zeha's father) a small sacrifice for a great cause.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After the seal is broken, he not only has no more need of Zeha; the boy also poses a danger as the one who can close the gate again. Therefore, he immediately drops the "old family friend" persona, slashes Zeha's torso with his claws, and leaves him for dead. Unfortunately for him, Zeha survives.

    Bulti 
A sadistic high-grade Beom who works with Maro as a team leader, overseeing a unit of Beom forces. He was in charge of the group that killed Dogeon’s friends, and kidnapped Hwan’s sister and murdered Jooan’s girlfriend, earning him several personal vendettas.

He and Maro made a deal with a mysterious figure (revealed to be the Yisal Group chairman) to run a prison where Beom keep humans as cattle. There, he gleefully tortures Hosu.

  • An Arm and a Leg: Hwan manages to sever one of his hands by shooting an arrow into his wrist. Once Bulti gains the upper hand in the battle again, however, he heals it.
  • Absurdly Sharp Claws: His ridiculous nails (which look longer and sharper than those of other Beom) can even slash through rocks.
  • Armor-Piercing Question: When Zahu points out that the descendants of the Gom are not responsible for what their ancestors did, Bulti goes into a rant about how the descendants of the Gom enjoyed themselves while the Beom lived in darkness and how Bulti's hatred will never cease until he kills every last human. Zahu's response makes him flinch:
    Zahu: ... Is that why you killed Narae?
  • Bad Boss: Expresses zero concern for his subordinates, berates and mocks them if they get wounded by humans, and launches a lethal attack only survivable by high-grade Beom fully knowing there's a mid-grade Beom in the vicinity.
  • Blood Knight: Has traits of this, as his reaction to Dogeon and Hwan putting up a bigger fight than expected excites him and makes him pretty much salivate in hunger.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture: He tortures Hosu (wounding him and depriving him from food and sleep) into an inch of his life just for the hell if it.
    • He also keeps Zahu in a cell with humans to force him to eat them, and has Hosu (who’s wounded) thrown in there when Zahu still refuses.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Near the end of the Beom prison arc, his abuse of Hosu comes back to bite him when hen he encounters him while the latter is on a supernaturally-induced hunger rampage. Hosu remembers everything Bulti did to him and proceeds to kick his ass.
  • Dragon with an Agenda: While suspicious of the man in the hood, Bulti is completely willing to go behind Hupo to torture humans and keep them as cattle in a secret prison. He not only wants to kill humans, he enjoys making them suffer and is willing to go against other Beom who are sympathetic to the Gom.
  • The Dreaded: Aside from the various personal experiences of the main characters with him, even the Tiger Butterfly warns its members to run the moment they see Bulti.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: You can see him among the Beom passing through the gate in Episode 2.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Despite being a Beom with healing powers, he has a scar over his right eye, from above the eyebrow through his cheek (though the eye itself is intact).
  • Hypocrite: Justifies his actions as a form of Pay Evil unto Evil ("pain makes revenge whole"), saying it's only a fraction of the suffering the Gom brought on the Beom. However, it's clear he just wants to "blow off steam" (his words) by causing pain for the sake of pain. He's pretty callous about the lives of his fellow Beom (including his underlings) and is willing to kill or torture Beom who turn against him, as well as disregard Hupo's instructions to not repeat history. When he finds all the dead Beom from the prison raid started by the Chakho, he only complains about the latter ruining his playground.
  • It's Personal with the Dragon: Bulti's sadistic personality and high body count mean that four of the Chakho members (Hwan, Dogeon, Jooan, and Hosu) have personal stakes not with Hupo, but with him:
    • He and Maro were in charge of the Beom group that murdered Dogeon's friends/protegees, and intervened during his rampage of revenge. After mocking Dogeon and launching an explosive attack, Bulti left Dogeon for dead.
    • He murdered Jooan's girlfriend. She died protecting Jooan from him, as she herself was a Beom.
    • He kidnapped Hwan's sister after their parents were killed by the Beom. As revealed later, she was taken to the human prison he oversaw, where she became one of its many victims.
    • He personally tortured Hosu, starved him, and forced him to watch other people die.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: After he manages to knock out Hosu in the Yisal apartment store battle, he realizes how heavy his wounds are and decides to go back into hiding.
  • More Despicable Minion: The sadistic underling to Hupo, who's still homicidal but prefers to kill swiftly and painlessly. Bulti is also callous towards the Beom under his command and willing to kill or torture Beom who are sympathetic to humans (such as Narae or Zahu), to the shock of other Beom like Heoseo and even some of his underlings. It's revealed that he was known among the Beom as the one who hated humans the most. This means that he's left a hell of a bad impression on the Chakho (and the audience) about the Beom, and has made it much harder for Hwan and Hosu to believe that there could even be peaceful Beom.
  • Oh, Crap!: When he's just about to try eating Hosu, there's a moment in which Hosu breaks from his chains while still staring blankly. Bulti widens his eyes and shudders. Cue Hosu's Death Glare and transformation.
  • One-Winged Angel: When faced with a transformed Hosu, he takes on a giant, far more beast-like form as a last resort that he had intended to use for the destruction of Sin-Si.
  • Playing with Fire: He has fiery explosion attacks that further contrast him with his teammate, Maro.
  • Red Is Violent: Villainous example. His mane and hoodie are red (and has fire powers), and he's the most sadistic member of the Beom, going beyond quick extermination into kidnapping and torture.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Maro’s Blue, being the more expressive and outwardly sadistic one with fire-themed powers, while Maro is the stoic one with ice-themed powers. Bulti also helpfully wears red clothes and has a red mane and fur in his more powerful form.
  • Sadist: He enjoys causing pain, trying to slowly burn a Beom hunter alive for the funsies. While he justifies it as payback for what the humans did, he takes utter joy in torturing humans and making them scream before they die. This puts him at odds with Hupo, and he ignores the latter’s instructions to kill painlessly by running an entire hidden prison for humans to be kept as cattle and tortured.
  • Slasher Smile: Prone to this, especially during the battle at the Beom prison where he's just salivating at the chance to take down stronger humans who just messed up his playground.
  • Turns Red: Can change from a human form to a still humanoid, but more beast-like one. He has another one he's been saving for the destruction of Sin-Si but is forced to use againt Hosu, which makes him look fully like a beast.

    Maro 
A serious high-grade Beom oversees a Beom unit with Bulti. Was in charge along with Bulti of the group that killed Dogeon's friends and kidnapped Hwan's sister, and both of them oversaw the secret prison that kept humans as cattle.

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  • An Ice Person: Shown to be able to form ice out of his body, contrasting him further from Bulti.
  • Bad Boss: While not as outwardly sadistic as Bulti, he displays an absolute lack of concern over his and Bulti's underlings. When Bulti launches an attack that will kill any human and lower-grade Beom in the vicinity, Maro just tells him to get on with it already while annoyed.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Can be seen among the Beom passing through the gate in Episode 2.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Bulti's Red, being much less expressive than his sadistic partner, possessing ice-themed powers, and dressing in dark blue.
  • The Stoic: Barely shows any expression beyond vague annoyance, only showing anger when bested by the mysterious hooded figure.

    Zahu 
A Beom who knew Narae. He believes humans and Beom can coexist peacefully, and refuses to eat them.

He unwittingly awakens Hosu’s powers by feeding him blood to quench his thirst. This unfortunately results in his death when this induces a rampage in Hosu where he kills and eats him.

  • Armor-Piercing Question: Manages to make Bulti flinch with one. After Bulti goes into a rant about how the descendants of the Gom enjoyed themselves while the Beom lived in darkness and how Bulti's hatred will never cease until he kills every last human (to justify why the descendants of the Gom are being targeted despite not being the ones who imprisoned them), Zahu says:
    Zahu: ... Is that why you killed Narae?
  • Dies Wide Open: When Bulti finds his body, there's a fly on one of Zahu's open eyes, implying that his death at the hands of Hosu was sudden and horrifying.
  • Horror Hunger: He adamantly refuses to eat humans, so the other Beom lock him in a cell with human prisoners. He manages to never even hurt them by sheer force of will, even as he starves.
  • My Species Doth Protest Too Much: The first live, non-mixed, Beom we see who actively does not want to eat humans. He's also the first Beom we see who openly questions his people's crusade of killing an entire species who don't even remember the events of the original war.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Using his blood to quench Hosu’s thirst in an act of kindness results in Hosu going on a rampage in which he kills and eats Zahu. Judging by Hosu's inputs in the discussion in episode 33, Hosu might not even remember the incident (at least not consciously) at that point.
  • Superhuman Transfusion: His blood activates Hosu’s powers.
  • Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere: Other Beom respond to his refusal to eat humans by locking him in a cell with human prisoners, to make him "returns to his senses". When they throw Hosu (who's just been through various forms of torture and has fresh wounds all over) at him, Zahu has to resort to bashing his own head against the floor to resist his hunger.

    Narae 

A Beom who was killed by Bulti after she turned on him to protect humans. Zahu knew her. She was Jooan’s girlfriend, and gave him the power to fight against the Beom.

  • Cat Girl: While she marvels at a boy not being scared by seeing her in her "Beom state" (implying she might have had a more beastly form), her usual appearance is human with cat ears and some face markings. Since the most powerful Beom look almost if not entirely human in regular circumstances, this might indicate she was very powerful, but not as powerful as Beom like Hara or Bulti.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: She’s first mentioned in passing simply as Jooan’s girlfriend who was killed by Bulti. She turns out not just to be a Beom, but a Beom who gave Jooan powers and turned against Bulti to save him. Jooan revealing this is also used to reveal Zeha’s Beom powers to the others.
  • Defends Against Their Own Kind: Turned against Bulti to protect a human.
  • Interspecies Romance: With Jooan.
  • The Lost Lenore: She's this to Jooan. While Jooan doesn't express it outwardly to the others much, it's clear he's still grieving her and has some guilt for living his own life without her.
  • Posthumous Character: She's already dead when she's first mentioned, and we only see her in flashbacks.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: She's only seen in posthumous flashbacks, but she was the one to give Jooan her powers, and is the one to plant the possibility in Jooan's mind of Beom and Gom finding peace through forgiveness. She may also have had to do with Zahu's refusal to eat humans, and finding out about her murder is what tips Heoseo off about Bulti and Maro working behind the Beom's backs.
  • Star-Crossed Lovers: For a while, she and Jooan could only see each other once a year. Then the seal broke, and they could see each other more often... only for Bulti to kill her.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: She died protecting Jooan.

    Heoseo 

An eccentric high-grade Beom who works alongside the Beom Hara. He was close to Narae.

  • All There in the Manual: The official Instagram account describes him as "top tier among high-class Beom", and states he learned about human culture and speaking manners from TV shows (which really explains a lot).
  • Badass Boast: He introduces himself to Jooan and Dogeon in a very dramatic fashion.
    Heoseo: Turn away... and leave as if nothing had happened. For you can never overcome me, Hoseo, the embodiment of affliction.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He quickly weirds out Jooan and Dogeon, and Hara can only sigh at his dramatics, but he's very competent in combat and has good knowledge of human society.
  • Cool Mask: Has one propped to the side of his head.
  • Intrigued by Humanity: A Beom states that Heoseo "keeps his ears to the ground when it comes to the Gomb tribe", meaning he's particularly acquainted with events within human society. According to the series' Instagram, he has an interest in human TV shows and culture and has a "human friendly" personality, which implies his attention to human society comes from more than a strategic interest.
  • Large Ham: Very prone to dramatics, and very unashamed of it.
  • Noble Demon: While he had him in a chokehold, he does not kill the human he had in his clutches to lure hunters in, quickly letting him go. He was also willing to spare Jooan for giving him a good fight. Along with his friendship with Narae, there are hints (such as his questioning of Hupo in his introductory scene, his interest in TV shows, and the fact that he spared Zeha despite the latter attempting a direct attack on Hupo) that he's not as willing to kill humans as he lets on.
  • No-Sell: Dogeon's bullets (the ones that got to Bultinote ) don't affect him. He also blocks Zeha's sword with his arm.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He quickly establishes himself to be very hammy and verbose. When he learns that Narae was killed by Bulti, his reaction is much more subdued, and he's shocked into near speechlessness. After trying to make sense of it and asking where Bulti is, he leaves with a simple "I'm sorry."
  • Purple Prose: Somewhat downplayed, but Heoseo loves using unnecessarily flowery language when he talks.
  • Wham Line: "What a surprise to see one as strong as Narae."

    Hara 

A high-grade Beom who works with Heoseo. She enjoys a good fight.

  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Dark hair, dark clothes, and very composed (at least compared to Heoseo).
  • Badass Boast: One that doubles as an Establishing Character Moment for her sympathetic traits.
    Dogeon: Fighting in busy downtown would've worked in your favor. So why'd you do this?
    Hara: Only the weak would pull tricks like that. I'm strong enough to win fair and square.
  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Works together with Heoseo and has to put up with his dramatics.
  • Noble Demon: While she's on the side of the Beom, it's shown it's out of genuine belief in the Beom cause, and she also has a clear code of honour. She and Heoseo do not kill the civilian they had in their clutches when Jooan and Dogeon arrive; she refuses to use underhanded methods and takes Dogeon to an empty area so Dogeon can go all out in their fight; she also mentions she gets soft when she learns her opponent's name.
    • She later spares Dogeon's life; while she "despise[s] traitors", she doesn't despise "people who gracefully accept their death."
  • Super-Senses: Even for a Beom, she has incredible skill with detecting people's whereabouts, to the point that Dogeon's smoke bombs (which worked on Bulti) do not work on her.
  • Taking the Fight Outside: She notices Dogeon is holding back because a civilian is on the line of fire, so she proposes taking the fight to an empty building. Dogeon agrees.

    Ogyeop 

A high grade Beom, often seen with Hupo. Tends to work with fellow high-grade Beom Jichu.

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  • Early-Bird Cameo: He and Jichu (or their human forms, at least) appear as early as episode 10, only speaking one line. It's not until episode 29 that he's given a larger role.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: Downplayed. His hair is white, and is a high ranking position among the Beom, firmly believing on the side of the Beom cause. However, he has genuine belief in the latter (which is more complex and nuanced than what we are initially told) because of Tabae's betrayal, and is incredibly loyal to Hupo.

The Tiger Butterfly

A Beom-hunting organization that quickly gained came on top after the Beom invasion, big enough to have several teams with their own team leaders. Known for being powerful, yet violent to hunters outside of it.

    Seongjin 

A team leader under the Tiger Butterfly. Very preoccupied with his reputation and willing to do anything for his high ambitions.

  • Establishing Character Moment: His first scene is this for him and for the Tiger Butterfly as a whole. After Zeha manages with great difficulty to heavily wound a Beom, Seongjin's team swoops in and kills the Beom, taking the head for themselves. When Zeha demands they give him the head and calls them thieves, Seongjin, slighted, sticks his fingers into Zeha's wound and has the others beat him up while another member prevents Haru from helping by holding him at knifepoint and threatening Zeha's life.
  • Glory Hound: Rather than helping people, he's solely focused on advancing his career and bettering his reputation, and is willing to harm or even kill other Beom hunters for it.
  • Irony: Everything he did, he did it for his reputation. He ends up getting involved in a highly publicized incident that harms the prestige of the Tiger Butterfly (and possibly of hunters as a whole), and gets promptly kicked out and arrested while his face is all over the news. And for harming Zeha right after Zeha saved people from Beom, much like in Seongjin's introductory scene.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: His attempts to harm Zeha to gain glory for himself lead to Zeha becoming stronger and joining Dogeon (who destroys Seongjin's weapon), and to Seongjin's boss taking an interest in the group while losing respect for Seongjin himself.
    • This culminates in his team arriving too late to the Yisal apartment store battle, while Zeha and company (who had done the work to find and raid the place out of an interest to save Hwan's sister and find Bulti) exit the building in front of a crowd as the ones who clearly saved the day. Seongjin shooting Zeha out of rage is the final clincher, as doing so in front of everyone makes the incident go viral, harms the Tiger Butterfly's reputation and gets him kicked out and arrested while Zeha easily recovers from his wounds.
  • Opportunistic Bastard: Appears in two occasions with his squad to try to take and reap the rewards for the Beom killed or wounded by Zeha and company. When he finds out about humans being kidnapped and kept in a secret cell in the Yisal apartment store, his immediate reaction is glee at a chance to "score big".
  • The Resenter: He loathes Zeha, as Seongjin's attempts to destroy him and his reputation only make Zeha stronger and get the attention of the Tiger Butterfly's boss, while Seongjin's reputation suffers.
  • Unknown Rival: He despises Zeha and wants nothing more than to get rid of him somehow, while Zeha barely sees him as unpleasant (if dangerous) hunter to avoid. When Zeha finds out he got shot by Seongjin, he mostly just looks confused.

Yisal Group

A MegaCorp with immense power over the city of Sin-Si. Provides incentive for Beom hunting through rewards.

Warning: Spoilers below.

    Hwanwoong (MAJOR SPOILERS) 

The chairman of Yisal Group. Aside from rewarding hunters for every Beom head, he hosts meetings with high-ranking officers and authorities in his building.

Oh, and he's not a human nor a Beom, having his own secret agenda.

  • The Beautiful Elite: A young, beautiful man, and the chairman of a megacorporation with massive influence over the city.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Presents himself as someone concerned with helping people defend against the Beom; he places rewards, develops apps to make hunting easier and holds meetings with high-ranking officials. In reality, not only is he a non-human with his own agenda, but happily has his "child" devour humans (including one of those high-ranking officials) in his office to maintain the farce.
  • Cold Ham: Especially during his speech to a commissioner in Episode 22. You can almost hear him speaking like that.
  • Dark Is Evil: His speech bubbles are black in his true form.
  • Divide and Conquer: His preferred strategy. He launches the Hunter app, which effectively reduces human casualties to the Beom, but sows discord between hunters and civilians when people from both sides start to become entitled, with some hunters charging civilians more and some civilians resorting to trolling and misuse of the service through prank calls. This is not the first time he's done this. The fact that the reward in money he's in charge of has made hunters like Seongjin competitive and unscrupulous in their jobs might as well have been intentional.
    Humans... They never learn, and they never change. Do you not think it's funny how just a little push is enough to make them bite each other?
    • Takes it one step further in episode 33. He drastically reduces the bounty reward for hunters (citing inflation and Yisal Group's finances), except for the top 10 teams in the ranking recorded by the Hunter app, effectively turning hunters against each other.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He's polite, well-mannered and expresses concern for Sin-si and its people. It's all an act. He cultivates a reliable "benevolent wealthy man" persona that allows him to encourage conflict and have many humans and Beom alike killed while pretending to help both sides. When a high-ranking official discovers the façade, Hwanwoong pleasantly gives him a speech about humans being arrogant and insolent before letting one of his children eat the man on the spot.
  • Hidden Agenda Villain: Among other things, he gives Bulti and Maro a place to use for a prison (an agreement he forces them into), secretly has who-knows-how-many humans killed and fed to his children, finances the hunting of Beom while creating discord among humans (including among hunters), and has his children search for Hupo and try to kill him, placing him on a side against both humans and Beom. However, his exact motivations and nature are not clear, and he's content keeping humans and Beom in the dark with his "benevolent billionaire" persona.
  • High-Class Cannibal: A variation. We haven't seen him eat anyone yet, but he feeds his children with humans in his luxurious office.
    • It's shown in Episode 35 that he comes from an species of monster that feeds on human blood.
  • In the Hood: When making a deal with Bulti and Hupo, hiding his true identity.
  • Light Is Not Good: He's an extremely wealthy man who dresses in light colors and has light-grey hair; he also has many people killed and eaten on his orders and seems to have the full intention to screw over both humans and Beom. His "children" (who are said to be the same species as him) are white monsters who eat humans.
  • Meaningful Name: Seems to be a reference to Hwanung, the Heaven King who founded the city of Sinsi in the Dangun myth of the origins of Korea. This king gave a tiger and a bear the opportunity to grant their wish become human - while the tiger gave up, the bear perservered and became a woman, who would go on to become his wife and the mother of his child, Dangun.
  • Nominal Hero: He does encourage humans to defend against the Beom, but that's only for the sake of encouraging the conflict.
  • Non-Action Big Bad: While he's shown to be strong enough to subdue Bulti and Maro, he opts for causing discord from afar, at least for the time being. He seems to have set up the Beom hunting system not because he wants to protect humanity, but because he wants to encourage more conflict between the humans and Beom, and between the hunters themselves. He explicitly launches the Hunter app to encourage conflict between hunters and civilians.
  • Playing Both Sides: It's not quite clear what he wants exactly, but is happily encouraging conflict not just between Gom and Beom, but among humans themselves.
  • Purple Is Powerful: Wears purple clothes in Episode 22, where he reveals his real nature. In his true form, he has purple text for his speech bubbles.
  • Slasher Smile: Normally smiles quite pleasantly. In episode 32, however, he apparently can't resist smiling like a maniac in plain view of government officials.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: He's known as a significant contributor to humanity's efforts against the Beom. He finances the bounties for Beom heads and develops an app that lets civilians contact hunters, drastically reducing casualties. High-ranking officials defer to him and have meetings in his office to deal with the Beom threat. He's also secretly a non-human who has humans killed and fed to his children, and uses his unique position to encourage the deaths of Beom while creating conflict among humans, with a likely larger role in the conflict.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifter: He can change shape at will, even to the point of impersonating someone else, such as Zeha... and possibly Tabae himself.
  • Walking Spoiler: Since his early appearances were little more than cameos, it's hard to talk about him at length without mentioning his true nature.
  • Wealthy Philanthropist: Uses his and Yisal Group's fortune to finance the rewards for every Beom hunted, and even to develop an app to help civilians contact hunters nearby. This puts him in an unique position to sow discord among hunters and between hunters and the public.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: Has silver hair and is possibly the Big Bad of the series, being a non-human who manipulates and murders Gom, Beom and Duduri alike.

    Hwanwoong's children (MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS) 

Young non-human beings with the appearance of young teenagers and childlike yet cruel personalities, who follow orders from their beloved father, Hwanwoong. They hatched from human blood (facilitated by Bulti and Maro) and feed on human flesh (and Beom flesh, as well), growing from beastly to humanoid forms in less than a year.

As the first child with an on-screen name (and seemingly the first one to learn to speak), Jigwi holds a leader position among them.

  • Ambiguous Innocence: They look like teenagers and are genuinely childlike and adoring of their father, but they acquired those forms by eating human flesh since birth (provided by Hwanwoong himself) in the isolation of Hwanwoong's chambers. In battle, one of them excitedly kills two Beom with her deadly threads and comments with wonder about the steps a Beom can take after being beheaded. When she's wounded, she's shocked by the possibility that her father might have lied to her about the Beom's supposed weakness, and cries about not wanting to die.
  • Animal Motifs: Played with. Contrasting with the Beom and other species (which resemble tigers, bears or trees), Hwanwoong's children have more otherwordly appearances, including dragons and giant spiders.
  • Bloody Murder: Jigwi has the power to control blood. She first uses it on-screen manipulate the bodies of living hunters like puppets, make them explode, and then use those gallons of blood to stab the Beom nearby.
  • Creepy Child: Oooh, boy. After first being introduced as human-eating beasts, they grow into humanoid forms, looking like innocent 10-to-14 year olds... who still happily chomp on human bodies.
  • Dissonant Serenity: They retain a childlike personality throughout, cheerfully slaughtering and eating people as if playing a game, and reacting to some of the violence with wonder. One of them only loses her composure when Hupo takes a chunk off her face.
  • Eyeless Face: Some of them (both in beast and humanoid form) completely lack eyes, which doesn't seem to be a problem to them in combat.
  • High-Class Cannibal: They're the children of the chairman of a megacorporation, and they're born out of human blood and feed on human flesh.
  • Light Is Not Good: Entirely white in skin, hair and clothes, and possibly the most disturbing group in the series so far.
  • Meat Moss: Their hatching sites look like this, as seen in walls of the Beom hideout in the Yisal apartment store.
  • Monstrosity Equals Weakness: Of the "power control/containment" variety. Hwanwoong's children have monstruous forms, but after developing enough (and eating enough flesh) several get humanoid appearances - and they can transform back into their monstruous forms in certain desperate circumstances. The fact that Jigwi is a leader while looking the most human of the siblings indicates that closeness to humanity does indicate power.
  • Spikes of Villainy: The less humanoid ones have spikes protruding from their heads and back, emphasizing their less earthly traits.
  • Walking Spoiler: Their mere existence spoils Hwanwoong's true nature, the existence of other species, and key twists about the main conflict.
  • White and Red and Eerie All Over: Mostly white with red eyes, and extremely eerie.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: The humanoid ones all have white hair, and kill Gom and Beom.
  • White Shirt of Death: Played with. They are dressed in white clothes, which are near constantly stained by other people's blood.

Other Characters

    Juhee (spoilers) 
Hwan's little sister. They loved each other dearly, but Hwan didn't have time to spend with her due to being busy with archery practice. Then the seal in Inwang mountain was broken, and Bulti's unit killed their parents and kidnapped Juhee, sending Hwan to a desperate search for her.

  • Censored Child Death: We never see her die, but Hwan finds her blue dress (that Hwan gave to her) and shoes lying on top of a pile of discarded human clothing. That he finds the bloodstained dress in a prison cell with no other sign of her around (since the few people who are present are panicked adults who leave without a second thought) is confirmation enough.
  • Cheerful Child: While she gets mildly upset at Hwan being unable to play with her, she's very cheerful, and she reacts to Hwan's promise of going somewhere nice with her with pure excitement.
  • Dead All Along: By the time Hwan manages to locate where Bulti took her, all that's left is her dress.
  • Dead Hat Shot: All Hwan finds of her is the dress he gave her as a present on a pile of discarded human clothing, and her shoes.
  • Death of a Child: Her death drives home the atrocities caused by Bulti and the Beom under his command, and pushes her brother Hwan, who can only think of how terrifying it must have been to her and how he failed her, to the brink of despair.
  • Girlish Pigtails: To drive home her youthfulness, she wears two cute braids.
  • Kill the Cutie: She's one of Bulti's many victims, establishing that children are very much not safe in this series.
  • Pinky Swear: How Hwan promises her to go somewhere nice with her where she can wear her new dress. Unfortunately, we see it in a posthumous flashback.

     Tabae (spoilers) 

A hero of ancient times, back when Gom, Beom and other clans lived in harmony. Being half-Gom and half-Beom, he was the guardian that protected the world along with his most trusted friend, Hupo. When the Beom started murdering people and waged war against other clans, Tabae fought the Beom as the representative of all clans, kicking them (and Hupo) out after their defeat. Turns out, the events were a lot more complicated.

He's the original wielder of the Sword of Death, and the past life of all the Chakho.

  • Child of Two Worlds: His heritage from both the Gom and the Beom clans made him the representative and guardian of all clans.
  • Dead Person Impersonation: The Tabae we saw using the Sword of Death to slay the Beom was actually a monster taking his form. Tabae died with no one else in the know while the monster who murdered him took on his identity.
  • The Farmer and the Viper: Revealed to be his undoing in Episode 35. He took care of a small, white, red-eyed monster as a pet, dealing with its need to feed on human blood by giving him his own. Eventually, this creature (heavily implied to be Hwanwoong or an ancestor) repaid his kindness by tying him to the Shindansu Tree, making him invisible to everyone else, and adopting his form to impersonate him, forcing him to watch as it goaded his people into war before murdering him. The Tabae we saw swearing to slay the Beom with the Sword of Death? It was the fake one.
  • Forced to Watch: "Snowflake" tied him up to the Sindansu Tree and made him invisible to everyone else, leaving him to watch helplessly as it took on his identity to wage war and have many Gom and Beom killed at each other's hands before murdering him.
  • Generation Xerox: Reincarnation variation. Zeha has a very similar face to him. And like him, he was screwed over by trusting the wrong person, resulting in the deaths and ruin of many people.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: The original hero, and the one who first wielded Zeha's sword. Or was he?
  • Identical Grandson: Reincarnation variation: Zeha looks remarkably like him.
  • Kill and Replace: The monster he took care of took his form and used it to wage war among Gom and Beom, forcing him to watch helplessly as it took on his identity and killing him, going on to banish all other clans from Sin-Si.
  • Naïve Animal Lover: He took care of a creature who feeds on human blood by giving it his own, believing it to be harmless. Boy did that go wrong.
  • Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Half-Gom and half-Beom, the two clans that held power in a world that was very different to ours.
  • Posthumous Character: Comes with being a past life.
  • Tempting Fate: He explains he can't possibly be the "mixed one" prophecied to bring destruction, while revealing "Snowflake", the monster that would later take advantage of Tabae's kindness to impersonate him and wage a war.
  • Unreliable Narrator: The true reasons behind the war are a mystery, because we only have vague flashbacks through Cein's Beom Brow (and therefore Tabae's point of view) to go by, and as we learn more about the conflict from other sources, his supposed heroism is put in question. We learn in Episode 35 that he was killed and impersonated by a creature he was kind to, with the entire war (and the Sword of Death flashback) involving an impostor.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: He dismissed a Duduri prophecy that "the mixed one shall bring upon destruction" because his soul was blessed by the Duduri to protect Sin-Si. In the end, his compassion towards a monster resulted in war.

     Pyori (spoilers) 

A strange man known in criminal world (even before the Beom invasion) for selling weapons he carries in a giant backpack. Said to have made most of the weapons available in the market. A member of the Duduri, one of the other clans that were eventually banished by Tabae.

He's revealed to be the reason there are weapons able to combat the Beom at all. The Duduri made the weapons that allowed the Gom to defeat the Beom in the original war, a conflict that Pyori was alive and present for.

  • In the Hood: Constantly wears one, covering up his non-human nature.
  • Non-Action Guy: He knows all about weapons and can carry ridiculous amounts of weight on his shoulders, but he's in no condition for combat and survives dangerous situations out of sheer luck.
  • Plant Person: As a member of the Duduri tribe, he looks like a human with tree bark instead of skin, with parts even covered by moss. He hides this by wearing a hood at all times.
  • Really 700 Years Old: He's rather fast and lively for a guy who was apparently there when Tabae banished his people.
  • Stronger Than They Look: He looks rather spindly, but constantly carries a gigantic bag full of weapons. He even runs with it without that much effort. That said, his body can't handle using strong weapons.
  • Ultimate Blacksmith: He and his people were responsible for turning the tide of the original war in favor of the Gom through forging their weapons. Even now, Pyori and his people are the reason hunters are able to fight the Beom at all.

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