History Characters / ShadowHearts

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tatsuya Gashoin (JP, games), Creator/RyuseiNakao (''Koudelka'' Drama CD), Creator/JimmyZoppi (EN, ''Shadow Hearts''), Amos Nandy (EN, ''Covenant'')

The once renowned alchemist during the Middle Ages, Roger Bacon was tasked by the Vatican to translate the Émigré Manuscript, a tome with the power to bring back the dead. After he did what he was told, the Vatican attempted to kill him in order to keep the secrets of the Manuscript safe. Bacon escaped, but not before using the manuscript to grant himself immortality. For centuries he has lived near the Nemeton Monastery in Wales, there he has helped those who seek to combat the dark and otherworldly powers that thrive in the world. Roger is the only character to appear in every game in the series, including ''Koudelka''.

* CrazySane: Roger is one of only three people to ever comprehend true nature of reality from the Emigre' Manuscript and the ''only'' one not to go insane from it. As nutty as he acts, he is stable because he has made peace with his place in the cosmos.

* EvilIsNotAToy: He points this out whenever anyone asks why he doesn't just use the magics he knows to fix things. In the ''Koudelka'' manga, he neatly illustrates this by asking Lord Leslie a simple question that no one who seeks the Emigre' Manuscript ever asks; Namely, If the Emigre' Document could truly undo death, then how did he think the Fomor Druids that wrote it, managed to die off?

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: After he read the Manuscript of the Exiles and rewrote it as the Émigré Manuscript he appears to have gone boarder-line insane.

* HeroicNeutral: Having translated the Emigre’ Document from the Manuscript Of Exiles, he comprehends God’s plan - and as such... he views planet earth as the tiny dust mote it is on a cosmic level; As such he can not justify breaking his pacifist nature to save it with his reality warping insights. He will do everything short of fighting though.

* OhCrap: Even mention the word “Emigre’” and Roger will promptly freak the hell out. And since he is immortal anyway, well...

* TheHeretic: Roger was branded a heretic by the Church and sentenced to be executed as such to [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow prevent him from sharing what he found out from the Émigré Manuscript]], though since he had already made himself immortal the latter half of that plan did not work.

* TouchedByVorlons: And was compelled to record his findings as the Émigré Manuscript. Naturally aside from granting power such insights tend to leave readers quite mad... That includes Roger himself!

** ''Characters/ShadowHeartsYuriHyuga''

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!Protagonists
[[folder:Yuri Volte Hyuga]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HirokiTakahashi (JP), Creator/TedLewis (EN, ''Shadow Hearts''), Joe Cappelletti (EN, ''Covenant'', credited as Joey Capps)
!!!'''Appearances''': ''Shadow Hearts'' | ''Covenant''
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The protagonist of both ''Shadow Hearts'' and its first sequel, ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'', Yuri is a half-Japanese, half-Russian[[note]]or rather, half-German[[/note]] Harmonixer, with the power to take on the form of demons he has slain and use their powers in battle. He follows the orders of a voice he can only hear in his mind, which often instructs him to 'go to that town' and 'go save that person'. This voice is the one that tells him to board the train where he meets and ends up saving Alice Elliot. Despite initially regretting saving the girl, and believing her to be somewhat of a pain, Yuri rapidly warms to her, and vows to protect her no matter what.

In ''Covenant'', he now lives in a small village of Domremy, dedicating himself to protect it amidst UsefulNotes/TheGreatWar. However, he's disturbed by a secret society called ''Sapienes Gladio'', that sees him as an obstacle for their sinister schemes. Using an artifact called the Holy Mistletoe, they put a curse on Yuri, dooming him to die, unless he manages to find a cure. Accompanied by a German officer called Karin Koenig, Yuri sets out to stop the nebulous organisation.

In gameplay, Yuri is a terrifically powerful melee fighter. He's usually the strongest physical attacker in the party, and in ''Covenant'' he's one of three characters able to equip five hit areas on the Judgement Ring. His special command in both games is "Fusion", which allows him to turn into a monster, thus changing his elemental affinity and augmenting his stats, but consuming a lot of Sanity Points. In fused state he gains an additional special command - "Special Skills", which allows him to use several spells of the same element as the fusion. In exchange, in ''Covenant'' he's unable to use Magic Crests to use specific spells, and is forced to rely entirely on his own powers

%%* ActionHero
* AllMenArePerverts: Yuri is pretty keen on getting a look up Alice's skirt, even if she is unconscious. He only backs down when she comes to.
* AnimalMotifs: In his official [=SH1=] art he's surrounded bya flock of crows. Crows can be associated with [[CreepyCrows threat and danger]].
* AntiHero: Yuri's a cocky, sarcastic, and rash-acting youth that's initially forced into the heroic role. He's even called "Rude Hero" before you get to name him in the first game!
* ArchEnemy:
** To Nicolai, whose loathing he earned after [[spoiler:defeating Albert]].
** Yuri himself actually subverts this with almost every antagonist; he treats even [[spoiler:Albert and final boss Kato]] as simply men holding honest differences of opinion to him, and by the end of ''Covenant'' he has kept up a fairly cordial friendship with both.
* BadassArmfold: In the second game's Dark Seraphim form, this is Yuri's default pose.
* BadassLongcoat: In the first game he wears long, dark-brown longcoat. It looks more than a bit similar to his father's military coat. [[spoiler:He wraps Alice's body in it when he buries her.]]
* BadassUnintentional: In the first game all he wants is to contunue living without a care in the world. However, TheVoice in his head forces him to go and protect Alice. Yuri grows out of it by the end of the game.
* BarbieDollAnatomy:
** In his final fusion in both games he's completely naked, but nothing naughty can be seen.
** ''Covenant'' additionally has his doppelganger, fused into a tree in the Graveyard. He's shirtless, but has no nipples.
* {{BFS}}: His higher-level Fire fusions in Covenant get a pretty big sword to work with. His max-level Fire fusion, when using the Inferno attack, throws his sword away and conjures up an ''[[UpToEleven even bigger]]'' sword from a ring of flames.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** In the first game's intro he barges in the train, where the BigBad attempts to capture Alice. While said BigBad gives Yuri a HopelessBossFight, it gives Alice enough time to manifest her powers and distract the baddie long enough for Yuri to punch him in the face.
** In a sidequest, required for the good ending, Yuri interrupts [[spoiler:a BattleInTheCenterOfMind between Atman and Alice]]. His intervention allows [[spoiler:Alice to win this otherwise-HopelessBossFight, and leads to her surviving the events of the game]].
* BirdsOfAFeather: For all their differences, the first time Yuri and Alice bond is over their status as a pair of "psychos" whom weird things are endlessly happening to.
* BishonenLine:
** In the first game, his normal fusions turn him into terrifying monsters. His final [[spoiler:Seraphic Radiance]] fusion, however? Just him, but naked, glowing, covered in tattoos, and with large back wings.
** Played with in ''Covenant''. His first-tier fusions retain his general shape and fighting style, with Fire, Dark, and Light fusions looking outright humanlike, but with torn clothes. later Light fusions turn him into strange androgynous figures, that don't resemble him at all. His final fusion, however, is recycled from the previous game.
* BloodKnight: He spent over a decade WalkingTheEarth, searching out and killing monsters. {{Deconstructed}}, however, because it was more of an indirect revenge for killing his mother. He also came to fear that one day, souls of monsters he killed over the years would come for payback. It also led to him fearing his own powers, which, combined with already-TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening, didn't reflect nicely on his mental condition.
* BodyguardCrush: On Alice, whom he chooses to protect as per [[spoiler:Koudelka]]'s "encouragement".
%% * BoisterousBruiser: More so in the first game.
%% * BornUnlucky: He seems to think so.
* BrainsEvilBrawnGood: He's a terrifically powerful melee fighter, while most of the [[BigBad Big Bads]] (with the notable exception of [[spoiler:Kato; and even then... ''kind of'' Kato]]) are magic-inclined TheChessmaster types.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the first game, [[spoiler:at a certain point it is revealed that Yuri has absorbed too much Malice and it consequently consumes him. The rest of the team have to fight him to snap him out of it]].
* BreakTheHaughty: Between the first and second game. He didn't take [[spoiler:Alice's death]] well at all, and seriously cuts down on his snarkiness and rudeness.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: In the first game he [[spoiler:attempts to fuse with the Seraphic Radiance, which ends with hif being overwhelmed by Malice, and on the verge of being possessed. Alice has to basically sign off on her death to save him]].
* BrokenAce: Arguably within the first ''Shadow Hearts'' due to the loss of his parents. But certainly by ''Covenant'' after [[spoiler:Alice's death]]. In both cases, Yuri is outwardly a badass without a care in the world; go into his soul at any point and it is reinforced how torn-up he is inside though.
* BroughtDownToBadass: He has his fusions sealed at the start of ''Covenant'', and he re-unlocks one of them only after going through the first dungeon. During this time, he's still capable of kicking asses even without fusions.
* ButNotTooForeign: He's half-Japanese and half-Russian. In the first game, his heritage is name-dropped purely for RuleOfCool purposes, but it's actually worked into the plot of the sequel. Also, in ''Covenant'' it's revealed that [[spoiler:he's very likely half-''German'', and not Russian, because, as it turns out, his mother is time-displaced Karin. He, however, does tells Anastasia that he's raised at least in part as a Russian]].
* CannotSpitItOut: It takes him a while to admit his feelings for Alice.
* CanonName: In the original game, no matter how you [[HelloInsertNameHere name him]], he will still be called "Yuri" in voice-acted cutscenes.
* CatchPhrase: "Bite me!" in ''Covenant''. It was "UsefulNotes/{{Baka}}" in the original script.
* CharacterDevelopment: He starts as a standoffish IneffectualLoner who more or less wants to be left alone, but TheVoice forces him to go do things. Over the course of the game he becomes more willing to do heroic deeds, and eventually conquers his fear of his own powers. By the end of the game, he's a genuinely heroic individual, who has no beef towards even the BigBad. In the sequel, when he's cursed with the Holy Mistletoe, he goes to dismantle the evil conspiracy not for vengeance, but because he considers their goals to be dangerous for the world. Eventually he [[spoiler:comes to terms with Alice's death]], and learns that [[spoiler:to break the curse he needs to find true happiness]]. Eventually, he succeeds by following his own philosophy - to live the life his own way. He [[spoiler:allows himself to be killed to preserve his memories from the curse, and gets his desire to be happy by being sent to the past, now able to save Alice]].
* CrazySane: Yuri mentally absorbs strife from those he defeats, as a result he is constantly just a handful of fights away from going permanently insane/possessed; However, because of this, Yuri/The Player must make a habit of consistently dealing with his figurative/literal inner-demons. There is a reason his Sanity Points dwarf nearly everyone else’s.
* CreepyCrosses: Yuri's jacket in the second game has a large, vertically bisected cross on its back. One late-game sidequest gives him an armor with the very same appearance, and its description clarifies that it's actually a bike jacket, and said cross is "a sign of youthful rebellion".
* CreepyGood: Most of his fusions are genuinely horrifying, boasting claws, spikes, fangs, and so on. Yuri himself is a good, if somewhat rude guy.
* CursedWithAwesome: He seems to think about his Harmonixer powers as a curse. Now, how exactly turning into super-powered monsters sounds like a curse? {{Justified|Trope}}, however, because he's afraid of his powers as a result of his TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax:
** In his introduction he shrugs off getting his arm sliced off by a Wind Shear, catches it, and crushes its head, before reattaching said arm back. An impressive feat, given that said monster is fast enough to [[ParryingBullets parry bullets]], as shown in the same cutscene.
** In ''Covenant'', when he [[spoiler:regains Amon's soul, he utterly destroy Rasputin's friggin' airship all by himself!]]
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Alice's death]] made quite the impact on his haughty attitude.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Yuri's backstory. His mother died protecting him from monsters that were sent to kill them under Dehuai's orders, and his resulting rage forced him to transform for the first time. He then came to some time later, naked, covered in blood, and surrounded by the torn-apart corpses of the creatures that he had killed. After spending the night crying and clinging to his mother's dead body, he then ran off into the night, never to return. This happened when he was ten. He then wandered the land, killing monsters he came across, all while secretly fearing that souls of these monsters will eventually come back for vengeance.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He is a rude, cynical guy, who fuses with demonic souls into inhuman monstrosities, belongs to the Dark element, and wears clothes that wouldn't be out of place on a NinetiesAntiHero. Still, he is fights to save the world, and leaves no doubt that he's a hero.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DePower: Before he becomes playable in ''Covenant'', Nicholi stabs him with an artifact called the "Holy Mistletoe", robbing him of the fusions he unlocked in the last game, plus doing a real number on his overall physical condition.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Yuri literally punches out [[GodOfEvil Demon Gods]] and other monstrosities on a regular basis, thus earning the tittle of '''Godslayer'''. It's really all in a day's work for our Harmonixer hero. By the end of ''Covenant'' he has defeated [[spoiler:a god summoned from the soul of the planet itself, an alien EldritchAbomination, three Demon Gods, and one of most powerful gods of Japan]]. And that's not going into {{Superboss}}es, which include more demons, gods, magicians, etc.
* DisappearedDad: His father, Jinpachiro Hyuga, disappeared in 1900, but Yuri still holds onto the hope that he's still alive somewhere, which gives Fox Face a good method with which to psychologically torture him. As it's later revealed, [[spoiler:Jinpachiro is indeed dead, being possesed after a failed fusion with a god, summoned by the Demon's Gate Invocation. Zhuzhen was forced to give him a MercyKill]].
* TheDreaded: By the time ''Covenant'' rolls around, Yuri is known and feared by various secres societies. ''Sapientes Gladio'' specifically goes out of its way to track him down and curse him with the Holy Mistletoe - which is, frankly, a bit overkill, given that it was initially meant to kill [[spoiler:Albert, the BigBad of the previous game]].
* DubNameChange: In the Japanese versions, he goes by the fairly gibberish name of Urmnaf "Uru" Bort Hyuga (ウルムナフ・ボルテ・ヒューガ). He's called "Uru" in the dub of ''VideoGame/ChaosWars'', too.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Canonically, Yuri goes out quite spectacularly. After beating [[FinalBoss Susano-O]], he chooses to stay behind and allows himself to be impaled by a stone spike, to preserve his memories from the Mistletoe Curse.]]
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:The good (canon) ending of ''Covenant''. Rather than let the Mistletoe Curse wipe his metaphorical slate clean, Yuri opts to die and preserve his memories.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Yuri went though hell, and then some, but in the end, [[spoiler:he finally has a chance to save Alice and get his happy ending, even though he had to ''die'' to make it happen]].
* ElementalPowers: His innate element is [[CastingAShadow Darkness]], but his Fusion ability allows him to take on any other element, even NonElemental. Curiously enough, all of his final fusions are NonElemental, and not Dark.
* EmptyShell: In ''Covenant'', [[spoiler:this is, technically, his fate if the player gets the bad ending. Yuri loses all of his memories, and Roger takes it on himself to take care of him. Downplayed a bit, because he's definitely not catatonic or whatever, and retains some of his usual demeanor. Yuri that we knew is still dead, though]].
* EnemyWithin: Frequent victim of this. The vengeful monsters he had slain, the masks, the (granted, stored) Seraphic Radiance, the Malice creatures, the shadowy forms he has to defeat to gain new fusions...
* EnemyWithout: It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Fox Face]] is a manifestation of his fear to lose himself to the monster he's fusing with.
* EvilKnockoff: He gets one in the mirror world, though Yuri always wins in a one-on-one with it.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: By the start of the first game he has been hunting monsters for about fifteen years already.
* EyeBeams: His "Demon Rays" attack in Amon form has him fire out a massive beam from both of his eyes. The beam sweeps upwards in the first game, but fired straight in the sequel.
* FailureKnight:
** From his very introduction, he has been trying to protect Alice - albeit not entirely on his own will at first. [[spoiler:Alice then sacrifices herself to save Yuri from the Malice that has been consuming him.]] Yuri never quite gets over it.
** To a slightly lesser extent, in the second game he has been trying to protect the village of Domremy - only to be stabbed with the Holy Mistletoe, cursed, and almost die. While living in Domremy, Yuri befriended a little girl called Jeanne, who was taken hostage by villains, and accidentally killed. [[spoiler:Yuri doesn't dwell on it that much only because Jeanne's soul ends up in his MentalWorld, and specifically tells that she wants to help him]].
* FateWorseThanDeath: In ''Covenant'' he considers [[spoiler:losing his soul to the Mistletoe Curse]] to be this. [[spoiler:That's why in the good ending he chooses to die to preserve his memories, instead of becoming an EmtyShell.]]
* FlatWhat: His reaction to Joachim's absurd IncomingHam is just flat "Wha?.. Huh?"
* {{Foil}}: Towards the BigBad of the second game. Both have [[spoiler:lost the woman they love, and both have tried and failed to ressurect her]]. However, where [[spoiler:Masaji Kato]] gave into nihilism and tries to remake the world, Yuri accepted it, and fights to protect the world instead.
* TheFourGods: Some of his weapons in the second game are based on them. There are Tigerclaw, Tortoise Claw, Phoenix Fang, and Dragonfangs.
* GenderBender: In the first game his Wind fusions appear to be female.
* GenerationXerox: He looks extremely similar to his father, Jinpachiro Hyuga. In the first game he also follows his father's footsteps in fighting Dehuai, albeit with a large difference in [[spoiler:actually ''surviving'' the attempt to fuse with the god summoned by the warlock]].
* GiantFlyer: His second- and third-tier Wind fusions in the second game are giant bird-like monsters.
* GrinOfAudacity: He is so snarky and indignant that it's part of his default portrait in ''Shadow Hearts''. In ''Covenant'' he continues to invoke it frequently in nearly every scene, but it's no longer part of his default character photo... For obvious reasons when you think about it.
* GoodIsNotNice: He is a hero, but he's also pretty rude, particularly in the first game.
* GoodIsNotSoft: It's not stressed upon, but he doesn't go out of his way to spare human enemies. Only a couple of bosses manage to survive a fight with him. These soldiers he just beat up? Most likely dead.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: He fights in a flashy and brutal, but obviously self-taught style. Thankfully, his improved strength and durability as a Harmonixer make up for what he lacks in technique.
* HeadCrushing: In the first game's intro he kills a Wind Shear by catching it and effortlessly crushing its head with one hand.
* HearingVoices: In the first game, a mysterious voice tells him to do things, and punishes him with a severe headache, if he disobeys. This is exactly why Yuri was on the same train as Alice - the voice told him to save her. Yuri initially thinks that he's going insane, but eventually it's revealed to be [[spoiler:Koudelka from the [[VideoGame/{{Koudelka}} eponymous game]], guiding him in order to stop the BigBad]]. It's implied that Yuri is susceptible to hearing it thanks to his powers.
* HeartbrokenBadass: In ''Covenant'', due to [[spoiler:Alice sacrificing her life to save his]].
* HellBentForLeather: It may not be readily apparent, but his jacket is, indeed, made from black leather.
* HenshinHero: His Harmonixer powers enable him to fuse with souls of monsters into several distinct forms, each with its own ElementalPowers. In his Amon fusion he even strikes some {{Tokusatsu}}-escue poses.
* HeroicLineage: His father also have been a hero, who also had the power of fusion. In ''Covenant'' it's revealed that [[spoiler:his family, the Hyuga clan, have been protectors of the Inugami village for generations]].
* HeroicWillpower: It's unspecified how long Mistletoe Curse would take to kill someone else, but the fact that Yuri resisted it with sheer willpower for six months and survived several attempts to speed it up is noted to be exceptional.
* IdiotHero: That's why he can't use Magic Crests in the second game. In a variation of the common EasternRPG trope, he may be stupid, but he's definitely not naive. Normally, at least.
-->'''Yuri:''' ''I save that girl and don't get so much as a SMILE. C'mon, aren't they supposed to get all dewy-eyed. "Ohh, Mr. Yuri, thank you so much! SMOOCH!" ...Ain't that how it's s'posed to go? ({{beat}}) ...Oh man, now I'm all depressed.''
* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:Yuri blames himself for Alice's death. Sometime before the events of ''Covenant'', he wrapped her corpse in his BadassLongcoat and buried her as a sign of respect, and left his mother's cross on her grave.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: In his Amon form rifle bullets are shown to bounce off him. Not surprising, given that even TheGoomba from the first game can parry bullets.
* InjuredPlayerCharacterStage: Parodied in the first game on the Smuggler's Boat. Yuri's movement is slowed to a crawl... because he's incredibly seasick.
* InSeriesNickname:
** He is almost always "sonny boy" to Margaret.
** In the Japanese version, he's almost never reffered to with his full first name - "Urmnaf". It's just "Uru" most of the time.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: He strikes a friendship with much older Roger, Gepetto and Zhuzhen. On the other side of the trope, he befriends eight-years-old Jeanne.
* InTheBlood: His power of Fusion comes from his father. Yuri even inherits his final Dark fusion, Czernobog. In ''Covenant'' it's revealed that [[spoiler:Harmonixers' powers are indeed inherited. Yuri even encounters his cousin, who is also a Harmonixers]].
* JackOfAllStats: His various Fusion forms allow him to take on any role, compensating for his inability to use Crest Magic. His only AchillesHeel is when the enemy is strong against the element that the player needs right now. Say, you desperately need healing against Fire-element enemy, and has Yuri morph into Water fusion, and then recieves far more damage, than he could otherwise.
* KamehameHadoken: The ultimate attack of his ultimate fusion in ''Covenant'' is to fly high into space, create two orbs of magic in his hands, and then fire a massive blast at his target. For some reason, it's not a single-hit attack, but rather a multi-hit one, making it useful for building up {{Combo}}s. It's also one of the few attacks that will always hit (it can't whiff), and will always leave the enemy in the same position as before the attack.
* KickTheDog: While beating the crap out of [[spoiler:Minister Ishimura]], Yuri [[spoiler:callously tosses the man's grandson aside when the boy begs him to stop]].
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Yuri quite brutally [[spoiler:beats the terminally ill Minister Ishimura, the mastermind behind quite a few of Japan's more radical wrongdoings]].
* KnightInSourArmor: Yuri is a cynical BrokenAce, who, nonetheless, fights to save the world.
* LickedByTheDog: Blanca immediately starts trusting him, and even takes food from him.
-->'''Jeanne''': ''Wow. Up until now, he's never taken food from anyone but me!''
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Especially prevalent in the first game, in which he shows up to save Zhuzhen from Wugui and his thugs in the exact same manner as his father years before. Some people who knew Jinpachiro even remark how alike they are.
* LimitedLoadout: In the first game he can equip only three fusion souls at most.
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler:Alice's sacrifice in the first game]] hurts him. A lot. [[spoiler:In the sequel]], most of his actions are driven by guilt over this event.
* MagicPants: In most of his fusions he loses all of his clothes, which then reappear after cancelling the transformation. His first-tier Light, Dark, and Fire fusions in ''Covenant'' also retain some of his clothes, but in torn state, which is then magically fixed after defusing.
* MagneticHero: Played with. Yuri is curt even with the ones he gets along with, and people party members have to force themselves into the group.
* ManlyTears: Sheds some in the ending of the first game, when he realises that [[spoiler:Alice is dead]].
* MentalWorld: The Graveyard is a place within Yuri's mind, where he can unlock new fusions and, in the first game, purify his Malice. It also serves as [[spoiler:a residence for Jeanne's and Albert's souls, who were accidentally pulled into his mind. In ''Covenant'' Yuri is periodically summoned here by Jeanne to discuss his curse, while Albert makes peace with Yuri after he unlocks his Amon fusion]].
* MindHive: As it turns out, [[spoiler: he accidentally pulls certain souls (usually of those who died near him) into the Graveyard. While he just dominates monster souls to fuse with them, human souls retain their consciousness, and can sometimes communicate with Yuri. Known residents of the Graveyard include Ben Hyuga, Jeanne, and Albert]].
* MommasBoy: At-heart, though he doesn’t like to acknowledge it considering his macho exterior and the pain of associated with his mother’s death.
* MoralityPet: For all of his rudeness, he's consistently nice to Alice. Later, he strikes a friendship with Jeanne, and is also nice to her.
* MorphicResonance: In ''Covenant'', his level one fusions all retain his basic shape, build, and even fighting style. Light, Dark, and Fire fusions also retain parts of his clothes.
* TheMourningAfter: He's still not over [[spoiler: Alice's sacrifice]] as of the second game.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: All of his Fire fusions in the original game are four-armed demons. They also provide largest physical attack bonuses on their tier, losing only to the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Fusion]] [[spoiler:Seraphic Radiance]].
* MultiformBalance: Each of his fusions provides different bonuses to his stats, and allows him to play different roles - physical or magical attacker, healer, or support. Expanded in the second game, where he can fuse more freely (thanks to his fusions now consuming only a little bit of Sanity Points, but on every turn), and can contribute to different stages of {{Combination Attack}}s. High-angle, low-angle, multi-hit, single-hit - each of his forms puts something unique on the table.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: Hoo boy. [[spoiler:At the end of the second game, he's given the chance to go back and set right the wrongs that cost Alice her life.]]
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling:
** He can tell that there's something familiar about the Golden Bat when he meets him in the second game, but he can't quite put his finger on it. It's probably a nod to the fact that meeting him through his brother, Keith the Silver Bat, was only a sidequest in the first game.
** Then again, he feels the same way about Ouka in ''Covenant'', [[spoiler:though this is more justified since she's Yoshiko Kawashima, who's [[BackFromTheDead supposed to be dead]]]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His first fusion in the first game is '''Death Emperor'''. Ironically, it's one of his weakest fusions.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He decides to stay in and protect the village of Domremy, and befriends a local girl called Jeanne. However, his protection of the village from Germans ends up attracting attention from ''Sapientes Gladio'', who attack the village and take Jeanne as a hostage. Yuri obediently defuses, gets the Holy Mistletoe to the chest for his troubles, and [[spoiler:Jeanne still ends up dying]]. The fact that you can later visit Domremy once again, and find the locals living here semi-peacefully, makes Yuri's protection all the more redundant.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: He's completely oblivious to the outgoing Karin's feelings for him and doesn't reciprocate in the slightest. On the other hand, he's head over heels for WhiteMagicianGirl Alice.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Frequently takes shattering blows to his person, such as getting his left arm sliced off in the first game's intro, but his Harmonixer power allows him to regenerate. Downplayed in the second game, where his physical condition is worsened by the Holy Mistletoe.
* NothingPersonal: He doesn't hold any personal grudge towards either of {{Big Bad}}s of both games. He knows that they are {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s, who want to radically change the world. But even if these changes would have been for the better, he chooses to protect the world he knows and loves.
-->'''Yuri''': ''Let's promise then. No matter who wins, no hard feelings, eh?''
* NoPlaceForMeThere: [[spoiler:In the good ending of ''Covenant'', he knows that the world has nothing left for him as the EmptyShell he'll become if he succumbs to the Mistletoe's Curse, and willingly accepts death to escape this fate.]]
* NotHimself:
** In the first game, after [[spoiler:failing to fuse with the Seraphic Radiance]], he's overwhelmed by Malice, and the party has to beat some sense in him. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it also takes Alice to offer her life to the Four Masks be taken in place of his. In the canon ending, she dies because of this.]]
** In the second game's bad ending he [[spoiler:gets his soul killed, which means that he loses all of his memories, and can't remember even his own name. It's implied that Yuri we knew is dead, and the one we see in this ending is essentially a new person in the same body]].
* OddFriendship: With each and every one of the party members. Also Kato, considering they're never (technically) on the same side.
* OfficialCouple: He's confirmed to get together with Alice. She's even called "the woman of [Yuri's] destiny" in [[spoiler:the ending of ''Covenant'']].
* OnlySaneMan: Comes off as this compared to most of the other party members. He frequently {{lampshade}}s some weirder moments the party comes across.
* OppositesAttract: He is a rude and cynical drifter, who comes close and personal with his enemies, while Alice is a sweet and gentle WhiteMagicianGirl from a well-off family. They even have opposite elements - Dark and Light. And yet, they love each other.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent:
** In the first game his third-tier Light fusion is Sandalphon - a specific archangel in Judaism and Christianity. Here, however, it is a weird, legless, leviating being, adorned with inexplicably ancient-Egypt-like decorations.
** His strongest Wind fusion, meanwhile, is "Seravi" - a misspelling of "seraph". It is said to be "formed from the soul of roc", as in RocBirds, who don't have anything to do with Abrahamic religions at all. The fusion itself looks more like a harpy.
** ''Covenant'''s second- and third-tier Light fusions are described as "greater angel" and "archangel" respectively. They appear as strange, androgynous, {{Stripperiffic}} figures with weird skin colors.
** His final fusions in both games, [[spoiler:Seraphic Radiance and Dark Seraphim]] are angelic figures, that cross the BishonenLine and appear as just naked Yuri with black wings. They are actually [[spoiler:a soul of a god, incarnated from the very soul of the planet]].
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: His second- and third-tier Water fusions in ''Covenant'' are Eastern-style dragons, who are said to be a "spirit of the ocean" and a "god of water" respectively. These forms has no usable limbs, and their physical attacks are carried out with a pair of floating fists of some kind.
* PainfulTransformation: Over two games, he experiences both flavors.
** In the first game he clutches his head when fusing. It's later revealed that it causes him mental pain because he's afraid of losing himself to the monster he's fusing with. Yuri later grows out of it, after [[spoiler:he defeats the manifestation of his fears, Fox Face]].
** In ''Covenant'' he clutches his chest instead. It's implied to be the result of the Mistletoe Curse, as it takes a toll on his physical condition. Yuri stops doing it after [[spoiler:he finds out what makes him happy, and decides to die, instead of living on as an EmptyShell]].
* PeggySue: ''Covenant'' reveals that [[spoiler:the good ending of the original game can be possible only if Yuri goes through the good ending of the second game and goes back in time, with knowledge how to save Alice. It, obviously, messes with the timeline, and prevents events of ''Covenant'' from happening as they did]].
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: The rude hero to Albert's polite villain. Hell, he's even identified as ''"Rude Hero"'' when the game begins.
* PowerFist: In the first game his weapons are different varieties of knuckles.
* PowerFloats:
** Most of his Light fusions (aside from the first-tier one in ''Covenant) permanently float, albeit in the first game mainly due to the lack of legs.
** In the sequel, his final [[spoiler:Dark Seraphim]] fusion is a movement-only version.
* PowerUpLetdown: In both games, his first-tier Water and Light fusions actually ''lower'' some of his stats. In the second game it can be fixed by putting some Soul Energy into them; in the first - not so much.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: In the opening sequence of the first game he reattaches his arm, that was sliced off by a Wind Shear. He never uses this ability again, and [[GameplayAndStorySegregation doesn't even have any kind of regeneration in gameplay]].
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Inverted. His failed fusion with the Seraphic Radiance, while a failed endeavor in the short-term, opened up this ridiculously powerful form later on (in both games, at that) by essentially "storing" it in his soul.]]
* RedBaron: As of ''Covenant'', he's known as the '''Godslayer''', which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. To a lesser extent, he's also called the Demon of Domremy.
* RedOniBlueOni: He is a rude and violent red oni to Alice's gentle and caring blue.
* RunningGag:
** In both the first game and ''Covenant'', Yuri gets seasick whenever boats are involved.
** He also has an aversion to flying, though this may be due to Margarete's piloting.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Implied. [[spoiler:In the good ending of ''Covenant'', Yuri is sent back in time to where he first met Alice, and it's implied that he now knows how to save her life.]]
* ShutUpHannibal: Yuri's standard approach to villainous banter. He has slightly more patience for the WellIntentionedExtremist type, but he'll still kick their ass.
-->'''[[spoiler:Astaroth]]''': ''I will usher in a glorious new future!''\\
'''Yuri''': ''Before you do, can I ask a favor?''\\
'''[[spoiler:Astaroth]]''': ''What do you wish, human?''\\
'''Yuri''': ''I wish you'd shove it. You know where.''
* SpannerInTheWorks: Things would have worked out far better for Simon if he had counted on Yuri getting involved.
* SoulJar: He carries not only the various Fusion Souls within his mind/body, but also finds out that [[spoiler: the spiritual essences of Jeanne, Albert and his father Ben exist inside him as well.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is he a Harmonixer or a Harmonizer? The former spelling was used in the first game, and the latter - everywhere else.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:This is especially the case during his BrainwashedAndCrazy stint]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: In the first game, after learning the {{Big Bad}}'s circumstances, namely [[spoiler:how Albert tried to defy society, where a person's place in life was determined by his birth, and was branded as a heretic for his troubles]], notes that now he understands, why said BigBad lost his faith in humanity.
* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler:During his attack of Rasputin, while attempting to break his shield, we can see Yuri cry some.]]
* TemporalParadox:
** In the good ending of ''Covenant'' we learn that [[spoiler:his existence is an ontological paradox. Specifically, it's all but stated, that Karin, who ends up in 1887, will end up becoming his mother. However, for her to be time displaced requires her to travel with Yuri... Which would be impossible, if not for a time loop]].
** [[spoiler:Yuri's PeggySue status in the same good ending may bring forth another one. Since it's implied that he now knows how to save Alice, he will likely prevent events of ''Covenant'' from happening, thus preventing Karin from going to the past and becoming his mother]].
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Not that he wasn't one already, but after meeting Alice he somehow unlocks the power to fuse with more than one monster. While other Harmonixers also demonstrate this ability, Yuri's is the most versatile out of them.
** Around midpoint of the first game, he comes to terms with his powers and conquers his fears. After that, he becomes much more effective and badass. Not screaming in terror each time he fuses definitely helps.
* TooManyBelts: In both of his main costumes.
** In the first game he wears one belt normally, and three more around the waist, over his longcoat.
** In the second game he wears two belts around his waist. His jacket is fastened with two belts in front, and has a belt on each cuff. His pouch also has two belts hanging from it (subject to JigglePhysics, no less). Oh, and concept art reveals that his boots are also fastened with two straps each.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: His first transformation happened when he saw monster killing his mother. He slaughtered them all in a blind rage, and then found himself naked and covered in blood. He then clung to his mother's corpse for a full night. All that happened when he was about ten years old. No wonder fusion mentally hurts him.
* UniqueProtagonistAsset: Exposure to Alice's powers somehow enabled him to access more than one fusion form, something that's noted to be extremely rare even among Harmonixers. It gives Yuri an advantage in versatility and power that no one else can really match.
* UnknownRival: Nicolai hated Yuri's guts ever since [[spoiler:Yuri has dealt with the BigBad of the first game]]. Naturally, Yuri has no clue that someone wants to kill him that much.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Karin, [[spoiler:though after the epilogue, ''it's probably for the best'']].
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: His demon fusion is the only individual skill he gets, but the number of them is what gives him variety.
* WalkingTheEarth: Before he started hearing TheVoice that eventually led him to meet Alice, he wandered throughout easter Eurasia, killing whatever monsters he came across.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** Yuri has high sanity, he fights demons and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s on a near daily basis, he transforms into untold horrors himself, and even [[spoiler:killed a god]]. Yet for some odd reason, he has an unexplained fear of ghosts.
** On a smaller note, boats. They tend to make him ''very'' seasick.
* WolverineClaws: Most of his weapons in the second game are various claws.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[GoodOldFisticuffs Gameplay aside]], he knocked Karin out cold in ''Covenant's'' opening.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** He absentmindedly backhands Halley across the street for crying about his mother. He still helps, but the crying apparently bugs him. Very likely due to his own memories of [[FreudianExcuse his last moments with his mother]].
** In ''Covenant'', as Yuri is coming in to give [[spoiler:Minister Ishimura]] what [[KickTheSonOfABitch he has coming]], the man's 6-year-old grandkid Kosuke barges in and shields him from Yuri, saying he can't hit his grandpa. After an initial shock at realizing that EvenEvilHasLovedOnes, he shoves the little guy away (which knocks him out cold) before beating the ever-loving shit out of his grandpa.
* WorthyOpponent:
** The BigBad of the first game apparently feels this way about him. He warns [[KnightTemplar Viscount Rausan]] not to underestimate Yuri and stresses to Olga that anyone who can survive ''and'' remain possession-free after an encounter with the Seraphic Radiance is truly a foe to be admired.
** Yuri also gets this from Nicolai, oddly enough. SmugSnake though Nicolai may be, he is first made wary of Yuri as an opponent when he finds that Yuri managed to kill [[spoiler:Albert]], and later confirms it once he sees Yuri's willpower can actually overcome Amon.
* XenomorphXerox: His Water fusions in the original game bear resemblance to the xenomorph. Highlights include a hunched-over stance, EyelessFace, long tail, and dark coloration.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The Mistletoe's curse that he was hit with at the beginning of ''Covenant'' is eventually going to kill him. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that it's a physical death, though. It's going to rob him of his soul and memories, leaving him an EmptyShell]]. Yuri's strong willpower allows him to endure the curse for over six months, but it finally catches up to him at the end of the story.
[[/folder]]

!Party members

!!(''Shadow Hearts 1'')
[[folder:Alice Elliot]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChieSawaguchi (JP), Creator/VeronicaTaylor (EN, ''Shadow Hearts''), Michelle Ruff (EN, ''Covenant'', credited as Georgette Rose)
!!!'''Appearances''': ''Shadow Hearts'' | ''Covenant''

[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AliceAruu_6908.png]]
Alice is a practitioner of WhiteMagic. She worked with her father as an exorcist, traveling throughout Europe banishing demons. She was actually born with a rare and hidden power, something highly desirable to the villains. Her father dies protecting her from Bacon during an incident in Rouen. She is saved by Yuri when she is nearly abducted by Bacon a second time at the very beginning of the game, and from there Yuri promises (because of the voice in Yuri's head) to protect her in their travels.
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* AliceAllusion: An example of the loli interpretation. Despite not being a goth herself, the dark atmosphere of the game makes up for it. [[spoiler:Alice also dies in the canon ending.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Subverted. Roger decides to bring her back for Yuri, and the two NEARLY succeed in doing so, but the ritual fails at the last second. She was alive long enough to exchange "I love you"s with Yuri, though. Word of God confirms that Yuri manages to go back and save her to achieve the Good ending from the original SH.]]
%%* TheChick
* DamselInDistress: Justified, as the villains need her powers for their plans to work. Also, she lacks combat experience and is quite delicate. That said, she TookALevelInBadass after the timeskip and even menages to defeat Arcane Olga by herself.
* DealWithTheDevil: One of the very rare examples in this series that doesn't amount to a deal for power.
* EnlightenmentSuperPowers: According to Zhuzhen Alice has some form of ESP, but the reason it manifests as holy powers certainly comes from her devotion to Biblical study.
* EyeBeams: "Advent", one of the two attack spells she learns does this.
* FeatherMotif: Alice's light powers manifest in battle as white feathers flying upwards.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The small grave that appears in Yuri's graveyard after Alice's DealWithTheDevil, whose name is clouded until very late in the game.
* {{Foil}}: To Arcane Olga. Where Olga is the constant female companion of our BigBad with unholy powers and a flare for sadism, Alice is the constant female companion of our hero with holy powers and an empathetic nature.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Many, many, MANY characters comment on Alice's beauty throughout the game.
* TheIngenue: Alice starts out as quite innocent.
* LightEmUp: Alice uses light magic for healing, protection and the odd offensive attack.
* MysticalWhiteHair: She's a girl with mysterious power, not to mention a WhiteMagicianGirl, so the white hair is pretty appropriate.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Alice sacrifices her soul in place of Yuri's.]]
* MagikarpPower: Alice starts off with only one healing spell, and has weak physical power (to say nothing of her Sanity Points, which are the lowest of the main party). However, as the game goes on, her healing spells get stronger and she gains an attack spell that hits like a TANK.
* OfficialCouple: With Yuri.
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:After taking on Yuri's curse from the vengeful masks.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: She starts off very shy and timid.
* RescueIntroduction: Yuri rescues her from Roger Bacon in the beginning of Shadow Hearts.
* SquishyWitch: Is great with magic, but her HP, offense and SP values are rather slow.
* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:When the Four Masks come to claim Yuri's soul, Alice offers her own to them in order to spare him, essentially transferring Yuri's Curse to herself. She succumbs to the Curse during a train ride with Yuri, dying in his arms.]] In ''Covenant'', [[spoiler:the last remnants of her spiritual essence took up residence in Yuri's Graveyard, watching over him from afar. The Curse of the Holy Mistletoe is no match for her love for Yuri. It is implied that the TimeyWimeyBall at the end of ''Covenant'' makes it possible for Yuri to save her.]]
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: While Alice is mainly a magic user, she can also bash enemies with a book.
* WhiteMage: She is the main healer of the party.
* WhiteMagicianGirl: She's the party's healer and status buffer.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Li Zhuzhen]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kenichiro Sanada (JP), Creator/MaddieBlaustein (EN)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Shadow Hearts''
[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zuzuzu_2078.jpg]]
A Taoist sage, initially met while investigating a town of monsters that Yuri and Alice have stumbled into. He rejoins them when Alice is attacked by Li Li, and on hearing about their encounters with "Roger Bacon" and Dehuai, attaches himself to the group.

Following the post-Shanghai TimeSkip, Zhuzhen and Alice work as exorcists, and are called to the small town of Bistritz...
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* AsianRuneChant: Used to cast his magic.
* CoolOldGuy: No arguing with it when he's a Taoist master sage.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The Abel to his half brother, Dehuai, Cain]]
* GoodCounterpart: He is this to [[spoiler:Dehuai, who is his brother]].
* {{Foil}}: To Dehuai. They are both Taoist oracles with a connection to nature who trained together and under the same master, it’s just Zhuzhen maintained a reverence for nature rather than try to control it and uses his powers for good, where Dehuai frequently corrupts nature and uses his powers for evil.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: His reason for [[spoiler:killing Yuri's father: Ben Hyuga was taken over by the demon he'd absorbed]].
* MagicStaff: His scepter.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Ten years before the game, Zhuzhen assisted Ben Hyuga, Yuri's father, in battling Dehuai. Ben attempted to absorb the demon Dehuai had summoned, and when he failed to properly control it, Zhuzhen had no choice but to kill him.]]
* PutOnABus: Is not mentioned after the first game, nor does he receive cameos like Margarete and Keith.
* TheSmartGuy: For the first half of the game, he's the MrExposition.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Yuri. Alice and Keith even discuss it near the beginning of Act 2.
-->'''Keith''': My goodness, it's hard to know whether these two are bosom buddies or sworn enemies... Which is it?
-->'''Alice''': Oh, I guess you could say both.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Margarete Gertrude Zelle]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MieSonozaki (JP), Creator/VeronicaTaylor (EN)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Shadow Hearts''
[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MargareteAruu_9028.jpg]]
Margarete, code name "Malkovich", is a female spy who is under orders to set a bomb at the train station in Fengtian. She also sets a small bomb outside as a distraction, claiming that it means there will be fewer casualties as everyone will come rushing out to see what the noise was, sparing them from the larger bomb that will go off a few minutes later. However her plan is compromised when Yuri and Alice inadvertently end up caught in the smaller explosion, and she drops out of hiding to check that they're unharmed. She then tries to make her escape via the sewer system, but finds herself overwhelmed by the monsters lurking down there.

Fortunately, Yuri and Alice had no choice but to follow her given that the authorities were hot on their trail, and Margarete ends up joining them. While she initially stays to find out more about their mysterious powers, believing it to be valuable information that she can use for her own personal gain, Margarete finds herself becoming close to the pair, and even envies the bond that they share. She then becomes a loyal ally, and remains with the team no matter what.
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* AcePilot: She manages to pilot a plane that was halfway falling apart some distance.
* AdaptationalModesty: Historically Margarete “Mata-Hari” Zelle was usually publicly wearing a chorus-girl outfit, if that; In Shadow Hearts, she goes around in short-shorts, a corset and a BadAssLongCoat.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: We meet Margarete's father, who is a lottery member. He wears a fake nose and embarrasses Margarete, but not before wishing her luck and giving her her ultimate weapon.
* AnachronismStew: She has a cell phone and what appears to be a microcomputer pre-WWI.
* BadassLongcoat: Sports quite a stylish one.
* BadassNormal: Margarete is the only playable character in the entire series to have no magical abilities whatsoever, all she has is conventional weapons.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:States in a confession scene that she was actually sent by the "Powers" (presumably, the Triple Entente pre-WWI) to keep an eye on the situation in Asia, and fully intended to use Yuri for her nation's betterment. But as she traveled with him, she became attracted to his way of life and abandoned that goal.]]
* BoobsOfSteel: The strongest fighter in the first half of the game next to Yuri, and even at the end, she and Keith are the strongest. And of course, she's far more buxom than Alice.
* BoomHeadshot: Her "Snipe" special skill.
* ContinuityNod: She makes a cameo in ''Covenant'' if you make the right choices in the ChainOfDeals sidequest.
* FamilyFriendlyStripper: Though displaying a firm comfort of her own sexuality, we never see the famous prostitute-spy, stripping.
* {{Foil}}: To Kawashima. Both spies for major powers, both trying to recruit supernatural resources for their countries, both based on real people, [[spoiler: who get disavowed by their countries executed as spies. ]] Margarete just happens to be working the party from the status of “friend” where Kawashima is only pretending to be friends right up until she can get them shipped off to Japan. Ultimately both also have a change of heart for having known Yuri & co. Had Kawashima joined the party they would be near identical, role-wise.
* TheGunslinger: Her WeaponOfChoice is a pistol.
* GunFu: When she gets all 3 attacks in her Judgement Ring, she ends her combo by shooting the enemy while backflipping.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: While real-life Mata Hari wasn't ugly by any means, she wasn't a blue-eyed blonde with BoobsOfSteel like in this game. She was instead a dark-eyed brunette, and [[ACupAngst very modest]] in the chest department.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: She is based on the real life ''UsefulNotes/MataHari'', although with the "spy" elements played up instead of the "stripper" elements.
* TheLancer: To Yuri. She takes charge following [[spoiler: Yuri's disappearance after his failed fusion with the Seraphic Radiance.]]
* MsFanservice: The original one in the series. She makes her introduction to the party by letting Yuri look up her skirt and flashes her panties every time she attacks.
* NiceHat: In her cameo in ''Covenant'', she sports a dashing purple one.
* SecretKeeper: In the [[spoiler:canonical]] bad ending, Margarete is [[spoiler:the only person Alice tells of her impending death.]] She doesn't tell anyone else.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Keith Valentine]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiNojima (JP), Scott Rayow (EN)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Shadow Hearts'' | ''Covenant'' | ''From the New World''
[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/KeithAruu_4206.jpg]]
A vampire, one of the Valentine vampire clan (a running gag in the series). He lives in a castle near the small town of Bistritz, Germany. Despite being a vampire, he's a very cultured man, and has befriended a fatherless girl who lives in the village.

He offers to assist Alice and Zhuzhen in their investigation and, after it's settled, asks their help to defeat a monster that showed up in his castle's tower...
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* AFatherToHisMen: While he may only be an antiquated lord, he will react violently if his subjects are in danger.
* {{Animorphism}}: Can turn into a silver bat.
* BadassInANiceSuit: It's a bit dated, but it's still quite fancy.
* BerserkButton: Though cool-headed and mellow through-out the rest of the game, even in the face of potential death, the notion of someone stealing his family's blood rites and using them to harm/kill the very people of his land is enough to make Keith out for blood.
%% TheBigGuy
%%* {{Bishounen}}
* BloodMagic: All his special abilities are thanks to his family's ceremonial blood rites. Apparently it's not a vampire thing, it is specifically his family's in particular.
* BrokenAesop: May overlap with OurVampiresAreDifferent -- Keith claims vampires do not drink blood and that is a myth, even though he and his family very clearly do have a life-drink ability. It may be that this is a trait of his family's BloodMagic and not intrinsically tied to vampirism in the ''Shadow Hearts'' universe.
* CampStraight: As ''fabulous'' as he acts, we only ever see him make a brief chivalrous advance on Margarete. (As well as apparently going back to sleep with a gaggle of vampire women.)
* ContinuityNod: [[spoiler:With the defeat of Albert Simon and Meta-God, Keith goes back to sleep in his coffin. He's awake in ''Covenant'', now working as a lottery member, and not entirely pleased about Joachim's new choice of business...]] He also appears in ''From the New World'', being one of the few characters to appear in all three games.
* FlashStep: How he moves during battle; while the others are seen moving, he just teleports towards the enemy.
* {{Foil}}: To Kevin. Kevin is the modern owner of Bistritz whose using the Valentine blood rites; Keith is the antiquated lord of Bistritz and using the same blood rites but focused on protecting the people rather than sacrificing them.
* FriendToAllChildren: He gets along marvelously with Nina; he sings and dances with her. John and Yuma also seem to take a liking to him when he shows up looking for Joachim.
* {{Invisibility}}: One of his vampire powers. Only used during cut-scenes.
* ItAmusedMe: He joins the party after Yuri is out of his tower solely because he was otherwise bored.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Completely reversed. Despite having a much stronger elder brother and magical adept younger sister - both are major bimbos so his parents proclaimed him the family heir. (both other siblings seem happy to have avoided the position).
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The most normal of the Valentine family. Relatively speaking of course. The vampires themselves are rather different, he's not bothered by daylight, garlic, or crosses.
* RecurringCharacter: Appears in the three games.
* RoyalRapier: His WeaponOfChoice.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Him and his entire family. He point blank states that even if he is now an antiquated lord, if he were actually callous enough to let the people of his lands be preyed upon (by his family’s stolen Blood Rites, no less) his predecessors would fly out of their graves and drag him to hell - at which point he grabs his rapier then heads down from The Blue Castle to save Bistritz.
* SummonMagic: Most of his skills involve him summoning something via a ritual.
* VampireVords: In his one voiced scene in the game, he talks with these. The rest of the game, he doesn't.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Halley Brancket]]
!!Halley Brancket (Harry Plunkett)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatoshiHino (JP), Vinnie Penna (EN)
[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HalleyAruu_5592.jpg]]
An adolescent boy running around the streets of London, protector of a group of orphans. When some of them are abducted by Jack, a psychopath running an OrphanageOfFear, he turns to Yuri (who came to him to get his wallet back after one of the orphans swiped it) to assist him in saving them. After Jack's defeat, he discovers where his kidnapped mother was taken and, as that's where Yuri's party is going, joins up.
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* BlowYouAway: He's Wind affinity.
* BratsWithSlingshots: He fights with slingshots.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:After taking out Albert Simon and Meta-God, Halley and his mother travel to America to meet up with his father.]]
* ConnectedAllAlong: [[spoiler:His mother and the voice in Yuri's head are revealed to be the same woman: Koudelka; his father is implied to be Edward Plunkett, given his surname.]]
* DubNameChange: An unintentional example. "Halley Brancket" is a typo of "Harry Plunkett".
* TheFagin: He's only 12 (according to the official Japanese ''Shadow Hearts'' website) but already functions as a big brother figure to the other orphans, teaching them how to steal things and giving them a place to hide afterwards. The crime aspect is less an end than a means, since an orphan's gotta eat.
* {{Foil}}: To Jack. Where Jack is a momma’s boy who never grew up and is hurting people to get his mother back, Halley is a momma’s boy who has had to grow up before his time and trying to help people so they don’t end up as helpless as he did when he lost his mother.
* HeroicBastard: Implied to be the illegitimate son of [[spoiler:Edward Plunkett]].
* MommasBoy: His character development sees him going from hiding this to fully embracing it once he finds out what happened to his mom.
%%* JapaneseRanguage
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: His first name references [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley Edmond Halley]] (assuming it isn't meant to be the more English-sounding "Harry").
* NiceHat: Wears a cap.
* ParentalAbandonment: His father is [[spoiler:in America]], and his mother is [[spoiler:locked in an insane asylum and being tortured by Albert Simon]].
* PowerIncontinence: He has a very poor handle on his powers, and they flare up when he's upset.
* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler:He gets them from his mother.]]
* SatisfiedStreetRat: Firmly claims to be this when first met. [[spoiler:Ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when we find out about Koudelka; he was just putting on a brave face, and he genuinely misses his mother.]]
* ScarfOfAsskicking
* SecretOtherFamily: Halley would have been born just as his father was [[spoiler:getting married to Beatrice Child Villiers. Though there is no indication Koudelka told Edward about him, by the end they are sailing off to find him]].
* SixthRanger: Adds far less social dynamic to the team than even the "bored vampire", but his introduction chapter is at least thorough if a bit late to gel with the others.
* SpinOffspring: [[spoiler:He is the son of Koudelka Iasant (the protagonist of ''Koudelka''), and Edward Plunkett (one of her two allies in that game) is heavily implied to be his father.]]
* StreetUrchin
* TagalongKid: He really doesn't have much more motivation for staying after he [[spoiler:gets his mother back]] than anyone else would; God is about to carpet bomb the world, and Halley would prefer otherwise since he is living there. But the extra psychic hand is appreciated, so the rest of the team is happy to have the help.
* UnskilledButStrong: He has very poor control of his powers and needs to go into rage-fits to activate them, but the room literally shakes when he does.
[[/folder]]

!!(''Shadow Hearts: Covenant'')

[[folder:Karin Koenig]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikiNagasawa (JP), Creator/KariWahlgren (EN)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Shadow Hearts'' | ''Covenant''
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Karin_Koenig_8350.jpg]]
Karin is a Lieutenant of the German Imperial Army, and apparently comes from a long line of Bavarian nobility. She first meets Yuri while under orders to capture the village of Domremy, and intrigued by the demon that saved her life, later returns to the village while escourting Cardinal Nicolai. However after the Holy Mistletoe is used to place Yuri under a terrible curse, Karin switches sides, and ends up travelling with Yuri and company to find a cure. While Karin falls in love with Yuri, she's aware of his feelings for Alice, and supports him in any way that she can.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Especially in her bonus costume.
* ActionMom: [[spoiler: Karin is actually Yuri's mother, Anne. Come the end of ''Covenant'', Karin wishes to go back in time so that she could be with Yuri. However she's sent back before Yuri is even born, and instead meets his father, Ben Hyuga. Karin loses her memory due to travelling through time, but still has the Anne's Cross and photograph that Yuri gave to her, which is why she goes by the name of Anne. Given she was carrying papers as a German Officer that would identify her as Russian, Anne also believes herself to be a Russian envoy. She then marries Ben, and ends up giving birth to Yuri.]]
* AlliterativeName: '''K'''arin '''K'''oenig.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: She falls hard for Yuri, who doesn’t notice and isn’t over Alice. This causes her a good deal of grief.
* BadassNormal: She's by far the most conventional fighter of the cast.
** FourStarBadass: Initially, but her ties to the military are downplayed as the plot goes on.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:[[DidNotGetTheGirl She does not get the guy]]. In fact, it turns out that through a StableTimeLoop, Yuri is her ''son''. She does manage to find a second love with Ben Hyuga, but she is also inevitably doomed to a violent death at the hands of Dehuai's monsters.]]
* BoobsOfSteel: Karin is the strongest physical fighter among the three playable female characters (the other two are casters), and the bustiest. Though honestly it's easier to list female characters in Covenant who aren't rocking large breasts.
* CustomUniform: She inherits one of Cornelia's old outfits, and her ultimate armour is one of Margarete's costumes.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DidNotGetTheGuy: [[spoiler:She doesn't ever get to really be with Yuri. Then again given that she's actually his time travelling mother, then that's probably a ''good'' thing.]]
%%* {{Deuteragonist}}
* FieryRedhead: It's even her [[ElementalRockPaperScissors element]].
* FlamingSword: One of her special abilities gives her one.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfWoman: Yuri needs to [[ArmorPiercingSlap slap]] her in order to get her back to her senses when she began to act irrationally after hearing her grand-mother's voice while the party is looking for the Émigré Manuscript in Wales.
* HopelessSuitor: She falls for Yuri, who only has eyes for Alice.
* IKnowMortalKombat: Learns new sword techniques by reading pages of [[Music/RichardWagner Wagner's]] ''Theatre/DerRingDesNibelungen.''
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit
* JackOfAllStats: She has strong magic skills, but excels just a bit more in the physical category.
* LadyOfWar: Karin's weapon of choice is the rapier, she learns new battle techniques by collecting Wagnerian manuscripts and genuinely fights in a graceful manner.
%%* TheLancer
* LoveFatherLoveSon: [[spoiler:''Inverted!''. Karin falls in love with Yuri, who happens to be her own son, but instead ends up with his father Ben. ]]
* LoveHurts: Her realization that she can never replace Alice in Yuri’s heart causes her a great deal of heartache.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Due to time travel complications, [[spoiler:Karin is Yuri's mother.]]
* LustObject: The bestiary mentions that Nicolai fell for her at some point, though given they barely get any screentime together before ''she betrays him'', it's probably safe to say it was more rooted in lust than love.
* MaleGaze: InUniverse. Yuri, Roger, and Gepetto (on one occasion, all at once!) frequently size her up.
** Her figure is given quite a bit of emphasis out-of-verse too, especially in promotional art.
* MsFanservice: Her ultimate armour, which gives her a new costume, has about enough material to fill an average sock, and her art tends to draw focus to the almost laughable tightness of her skirt (often framed [[MaleGaze from behind]]) and her chest. That she's literally wearing a hand-me-down outfit meant for a ''doll'' makes it worse.
* ObliviousToLove: She seems ignorant of Nicolai's romantic interest in her. On the other hand, Yuri seems ignorant of Karin's interest in ''him''.
* OnlySaneMan: At least, compared to the rest of the party. She's the most level-headed member of the team, lacks any oddball quirks, and had no contact with magic/monsters/occult before the events of the game.
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: She travels with Yuri, talked with him about his mother, gets Anne's Cross and the family photo, then was sent back in time to meet Ben, who she then marries, and then gives birth to Yuri...]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Karin being Yuri's mother.]]
* RoyalRapier: Karin's main weapon.
%%* StatuesqueStunner
%%* {{Tsundere}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Blanca]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShuichiIkeda (JP), Creator/RichardCansino (EN)
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blanca_52.JPG]]
Blanca is a wolf who lived in a forest near the village of Domremy, and was the pet of a little girl named Jeanne. When Jeanne is killed during Sapientes Gladio's raid of Domremy, Blanca ends up following along with Yuri and Gepetto merely out of association and having nothing else to do.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Every time Blanca defeats another wolf, one more "soul" is added to his Soul Comet attack.
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Far smarter than any real-world wolves - however only slightly brighter than other wolves in the ''Shadow Hearts'' universe, as they can all articulate in their own language and possess sentience.
* AngryGuardDog: Toward invaders of Domremy, but he is actually very friendly to non-invaders.
* BlowYouAway: Wind is his elemental affinity.
* BigFriendlyDog: For a wolf he is very social toward humans, likely a result of Jean's influence.
* ColourfulThemeNaming: Blancameans ''white'' in Spanish.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Twice. First during the St. Marguerite island arc, when the party gets captured and Blanca has to rescue them. Then, on the beginning of Disc 2, he helps Kurando against Ishimura's assassins.
* EvilDetectingDog: He notices something strange when Garan sets a trap for the party at the Forest of Wind.
* HeroicDog: Blanca is a wolf and one of the heroes.
* IntellectualAnimal: He only speaks when fighting other wolves, but he's surprisingly erudite.
* MagicKnight: Blanca's got both decent physical and magic damage, but leans a bit more to magic. He's also the fastest character. Though this all means that you've better physical and magical fighters that can specialize. With enough Judgement Ring customization, your mages can becomes just as strong.
* StalkerWithACrush: A pink wolf Blanca faces in Japan had apparently been secretly following him throughout his travels, collecting fur and things that he had left behind. [[{{Yandere}} She decides to beat the crap out of him for rejecting her love]].
* TeamPet: Make no mistake, he's a wolf smarter than the hero (he can use crests) and even if he didn't he could mess anyone who crossed him with ease.
* TheSneakyGuy: The mutt could put a ninja to shame. Detects a tranqulizer mist before it can go off, stays out of range, and then sneaks in solo to rescue the rest of the party who it went off on, complete with standing on his hind-legs and leaning against the walls to avoid line-of-sight from patrols.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Geppeto]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroshiIto (JP), Amos Nandy (EN)
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Geppeto_SH2_5836.JPG]]
A puppeter and Alice Elliot's great-uncle, he's taken care of Yuri for the months between the first and second games. He tags along with Yuri and company mostly because he can't think of a reason not to. His weapon is his puppet, Cornelia, which he treats like a real person.
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* ABNegative: [[spoiler:His blood type is literally AB. It's a puzzle solution.]]
* BadassAdorable: His attack doll, Cornelia.
* BlackMage: His unique skills are all focused on dealing offensive magical damage.
* CompanionCube: "Cornelia, look how strong you are!" [[spoiler:The Doll House sidequest indicates that his daughter's soul is in his puppet, subverting the trope.]]
* CoolOldGuy: He's not ''that'' old, but still.
* DirtyOldMan: Alone among the characters, he's excited by the prospect of Veronica torturing him. He also joins Yuri in 'admiring' Karin's new outfit.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He attacks with his puppet, and his weapon on the equipment screen is puppet strings.
* MarionetteMaster: Fights using his doll and his buyable weapons are wires.
* NiceHat: A green topple.
* NonElemental: His element is decided by which dress Cornelia is wearing.
* RedStringOfFate: [[spoiler: Revealed to be his ultimate weapon after completing his sidequest.]]
* TheSmartGuy
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Named after the woodcarver Geppetto from ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio''.
* SquishyWizard: He has the highest magic and MP values out of the playable characters, but his HP, defense and physical attacks are low.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joachim Valentine]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PaulStPeter (EN)
!!!'''Appearances''': ''Shadow Hearts'' | ''Covenant'' | ''From the New World''
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/300px-Joachim_Valentine_8689.jpg]]
One of the Valentine vampire family. He initially appears protecting a small seaside village in the guise of the Grand Papillion, but isn't quite strong enough to stop Veronica on his own. Once Yuri's party assists him, he repays them by joining up. His weapons are whatever he can pick up and hit people with, as per his pro-wrestling training under the Great Gama.
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* AbdicateTheThrone: It is implied he would have been the heir to the family patriarchy if he had applied himself. But he couldn’t handle the demands of aristocracy so he was more than happy to see his younger brother get the position instead.
* {{Animorphism}}: Being a vampire, he can transform into a bat.
* AscendedExtra: His golden bat form appears briefly in the first ''Shadow Hearts'', during a optional DuelBoss to obtain Keith's InfinityPlusOneSword.
* TheBigGuy: Joachim is the physically strongest party member.
* BreakOutCharacter: Joachim tends to be one of ''Covenant'' ‘s most well liked characters, whether due to being a powerhouse, openly gay at a time when that was still uncommon, very kooky or a combination there-of, most players enjoyed him especially among the new cast.
* ButtMonkey: Often gets this treatment from Anastasia.
* TheCameo: In the first game and ''From the New World'', being one of the few characters to appear in all three.
* TheCape: He is as devoted to bombastic super-hero-style heroics as his brother is to aristocratic integrity.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Though most of the Valentines are blond he stands out by having both dark skin and dreadlocks.
* DishingOutDirt: His elemental affinity is Earth.
* FriendToAllChildren: Beloved by John and Yuma, Yuma even being the one he entrusts with his mask. He treats Anastasia as his trusty side-kick, and she treats him as a play-mate. And like Keith, he seems to get along well with Nina in his brief his appearance in the first game.
* GlassCannon: Joachim's Goden Bat form. Despite the high strength, his low HP means that he can killed easily.
* HellBentForLeather
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Not him; his teacher, the Great Gama, was in real life one of the greatest Greco-Roman wrestlers of the day.
* HomeRunHitter: His Grand Slam technique.
* IdiotHero: When Joachim says that every super-hero needs to have a weak-point, Yuri tells him that his brain bad enough.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Joachim is the incarnation of this trope. His official weapon category is 'Bludgeon', but instead of the expected clubs and hammers, in Joachim's case it's literally "Whatever item strikes his fancy to pick up and carry." He starts with a piece of lumber; throughout the game he'll randomly grab up lockers, mailboxes, desks, a clay idol, a ''GIANT FROZEN TUNA''...His [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity +1 Sword?]] ''A tiny submarine'', with tiny, miniature ''people manning the cannons''.
** His penultimate weapon is the ''Aruze company building''. Also with miniature people inside it.
* {{Invisibility}}: One of his forms. In this state, Joachim cannot be targeted by enemy attacks.
* InvincibleHero: Lampshades his [[DefiedTrope defiance]] of this trope early on.
-->"A hero has to have one or two weak points, you know. Nobody loves a perfect superhero."
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: His Joachythms can make him change form at specific intervals, but since one usually doesn't keep track of that particular statistic, the transformations seem to come out of nowhere.
* LargeHam: It comes with being a professional wrestler before the advent of microphones.
* MachoCamp: Both he and his mentor, the Great Gama.
* MaskPower: First the butterfly mask as The Grand Papillon, and later on, [[BraggingRightsReward The Great Question]] mask.
%%* MightyGlacier
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A wrestler vampire, who is also a super-hero.
* OddCouple: He and Anastasia are practically each-other’s {{Foil}}, both Royals Who Actually Do Something, except where he is a full grown man who can’t handle royal responsibility but still tries to put others before himself, she is a tween trying to take on adult responsibility despite being The Unfavorite and is noticeably Spoiled Sweet. Despite their almost polar opposite roles they get along fantastically in both cut scenes and battle Affinity.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: He is Keith's big brother. And... well... ''everything'' about him. When was the last time a vampire was a professional wrestler?
* SuperMode: His super-hero forms. While it is played for laughs, it does makes him stronger, gameplay-wise.
** Grand Papillon: Joachim's superhero form, which turns him into a LightningBruiser. Although it's affected by his Joachythms, it's not so much a transformation, as it is just [[PaperThinDisguise him just putting on a]] [[CoolMask fancy butterfly mask]].
** Great Question: An optional replacement for the Grand Papillon transformation. It's a sidequest reward, but takes Joachim beyond LightningBruiser status straight into {{Gamebreaker}}. Similar to Grand Papillon in that [[PaperThinDisguise the "transformation" is him putting on a]] [[CoolMask mask his teacher gave him]].
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: It’s easy to forget, but the ultra-strong, campy action hero, wrestler party member is actually royalty.
* TelephonePolearm: That's just the tip of the iceberg.
* VisibleInvisibility: The player can see his Invisible form as a vague distortion of the background.
* WouldHitAGirl: Has no problem whatsoever with harming Veronica when he duels her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lucia]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yuka Koyama (JP), Creator/MichelleRuff (EN)
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Lucia_SH2_6868.JPG]]

Raised by the legendary dancer Carla, Lucia is a beautiful, talented dancer and fortuneteller, but is also a little dim. Decides to journey with the party after they proved to not be allied with Sapientes Gladio.
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%%* BigEater
%%* TheChick
* DanceBattler: In addition to dancing to cast her spells, every one of her physical hits looks like the steps in a fan-dance as she lays into the enemy.
* TheDitz: "Remember, you're slow. Be careful out there." -- Her caretaker's last words to her before she leaves
* DarkIsNotEvil: Her position on the ElementalRockPaperScissors is "Dark" and she's probably the nicest character in the party.
** Least malicious at least. She has a knack for [[NoSocialSkills saying cruel things without meaning to.]]
* EyeOfNewt: All of Lucia's Aromatherapy skills require the mixture of two oils to use.
* FlatCharacter: Has absolutely no character development, and largely exists to give players the option of having another magic user to play with. Averted in the Director's Cut edition, which she gains a little character development and backstory, mostly dealing with her relationship with Veronica Vera, but it's still not much.
* FortuneTeller: Which she does through a combination of intricate dancing and Tarot-reading.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Not her, but her boyfriend -- Lawrence of Arabia.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: At first. Lucia nearly got herself killed when she tried to feed the party to her monster cat.
* MsFanservice: She is even doing a sexy dance when first introduced.
* OutOfFocus: Despite her tragic backstory and connection with Sapientes Gladio, Lucia gets very little interaction with them.
* PaperFanOfDoom: Which are usually named after Greek gods/celestial bodies.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Not only is her way of reading fortunes rather unorthodox in a flirtatious kind of way, but both her default and alternate outfits do well to accentuate certain... aspects of her form.
* TarotMotifs: Throughout the game, you find Tarot cards that she can use as attacks in-battle. Unfortunately, you can only draw one per fight and it's based on luck if you get the positive or negative effects for your party.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Anastasia Romanov]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaImai (JP), Creator/StephanieSheh (EN)
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/300px-Anastasia_8237.jpg]]
Yes, ''[[DidAnastasiaSurvive that]]'' Anastasia -- [[UsefulNotes/AnastasiaNikolaevnaRomanova Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov]]. Alone of the Czar's family, she's distrustful of Rasputin, a distrust proven to be well-founded when he tries to take over with the power of Asmodeus. After Yuri and friends crush his attempt, she joins them in order to keep Russia (and the rest of the world) safe. She fights using Faberge eggs, as befits a Grand Duchess.
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* ActingYourIntellectualAge: Zigzagged -- Her default mode is this, she acts very adult for her age and tries to concern herself with the plight of her countrymen and she is only thirteen. However, she knows how to turn on the charm and act like a stereotypical tyke when it comes to manipulating adults like her father, Rasputin, or even the rest of the party.
* BadassAdorable: Who'd have thought that sheltered little Anastasia Romanov could keep up with vampires and Harmonixers in a fight?
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Rasputin and Veronica mind control her to attempt and kill Alexei.]]
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:What Rasputin attempts by kidnapping her brother, then nearly forcing her to kill him, and earning her her mother's hatred.]]
* TheCutie: The party even react to this when Anastasia introduces herself as the princess.
* EnemyScan: Anastasia can view the enemy HP, elemental affinity and status effect by taking pictures of them. However, she needs to be in the party for it to work.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: As mentioned, it's ''that'' Anastasia.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Does it help that the Faberge eggs are mechanical?
* LoveAtFirstSight: Anastasia upon meeting Kurando. He doesn't reciprocate, but is far too polite to let her down gently. However, he seems to have warmed up to her by the ending. [[spoiler:If you finish his sidequest, she gets engaged to him, with his mother's blessings.]]
* MakingASplash: her element is water and the first SummonMagic she learns is water-based.
* NiceHat: A Russian tall fur hat.
%%* NoblewomansLaugh: Naturally.
* OddCouple: She and Joachim are practically each other’s {{Foil}}. Both Royals Who Actually Do Something, and where Joachim is an overgrown man-child who abdicated his role as family heir because he couldn’t take the responsibility, Anastasia is a tween who tries to take adult responsibility despite being The Unfavorite, but the two get along marvelously, both in cut-scenes and as illustrated in their high Affinity for each-other in combat.
* PrettyInMink: Her fur-trimmed coat and hat. It was winter in Russia when she signed on.
* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: A grand duchess of the Russian imperial family, and she will wallop some monsters.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The only member of the Romanovs who gets up close and personal in defending Russia and the world from the forces of evil.
* ShipperOnDeck: In a scene where she and Joachim are spying on Yuri and Karin, Anastasia is actively cheering for Yuri to make his move and kiss her.
* SpoiledSweet: Not parentally, but societally she has been very pampered - leading her to become keenly aware of how hard those who live outside the palace have it by comparison.
* SummonMagic[=/=]MegaManning: Aside from taking pictures of enemies to check their stats, she can also utilize some enemy-only spells by summoning them through the photos she's taken.
* TheUnFavorite: Her mom clearly doesn't think too highly of her.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled / WhatHaveIDone: Just narrowly averted against her brother while being mentally dominated by Rasputin. Even though she is snapped out of it in time she is in tears as she stares at the dagger in her hand over Alexei and realizes what she was about to made to do.
* YaoiFangirl: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DO5vJXZ3NM Just see here!]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kurando Inugami]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroShimono (JP), Creator/RichardCansino (EN)
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/300px-Kurando_Inugami_4996.jpg]]
A quiet swordsman who is Yuri's cousin, and also has the ability to use Fusion. However, the number of forms Kurando can embody is limited to two.
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%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The influence of the Otherworld causes him to go mad and attack the party as Tsukiyomi. Post-battle he manages to regain his senses and also unlock his fusion form.
* {{BFS}}: Wields one, when transformed into Jutendouji.
%%* {{Bishounen}}
* ChainedByFashion: Jutendouji.
* CompensatingForSomething: His second fusion. Hoo boy. It's even quite creepily lampshaded by his mother of all people.
* DeadlyDisc: Tsukiyomi uses her HolyHalo as one!
* GenderBender: Kurando's main transformation is of a moon goddess... which is strange, considering that the Tsukiyomi is actually a MALE deity.
* TheGenericGuy: Kurando joins late and has no motivation other than Anastasia having a crush on him.
* HandBlast: "Ascetic's Fire".
* LightningBruiser: He's very gifted in his physical stats, but the tradeoff is very mediocre magic ability.
* LightEmUp: His innate element. His first fusion, Tsukiyomi, also uses light-based spells.
** NonElemental: When he morphs to Jutendouji.
%%* TheQuietOne
%%* {{Samurai}}
* SixthRanger: Kurando is the last character to join the party, and is only met on Disc 2.
* VoluntaryShapeshifter: Similar to his cousin Yuri, but gets much less variety out of the deal since he only gains two forms, one being a reward from a sidequest. It is later revealed that Harmonixers are normally only able to use one form; Yuri is the exception because of Alice's influence. Like Yuri, he cannot use Crest Magic.
[[/folder]]

!Villains

!!(''Shadow Hearts'' 1)
[[folder:Albert Simon -- '''WALKING SPOILER''']]
!!Albert Simon
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeGori (JP), Scott Rayow (EN, ''Shadow Hearts''), Creator/PaulStPeter (EN, ''Covenant'', credited as George C. Cole)
[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AlbieAruu_7588.jpg]]
Albert Simon is a British warlock who once studied underneath the infamous alchemist Roger Bacon, and was considered his most talented pupil. Unfortunately Albert's strong beliefs that all people are born equal under the eyes of God, and should be treated as such, caused him to clash with the Vatican. He was imprisoned and tortured for several years, and on seeing how cruel and wicked the world was, decided that the only way to save it was to destroy it. For this he needs Alice Elliot; by using her power, he can summon the Seraphic Radiance to bring the world to an end.

Albert Simon spends the majority of the game going by his former master's name, Roger Bacon.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: Learning that [[spoiler: God]] is an Eldritch Abomination doesn’t shake his faith for even a moment. But then again, humanity already screwed up his standards.
* AffablyEvil: Albert is pretty well mannered and polite, despite trying to destroy the world. He even comes across as being more pleasant than Yuri, the actual hero.
-->'''Albert:''' I will create a new world, perfected to God's will. A pure world, without deceit or defilement. I really wanted to show it to all of you.
-->'''Yuri:''' ... I see. In that case, fine. Let's promise then. No matter who wins, no hard feelings, eh?
-->'''Albert:''' Leave the surviving world to the mercy of fate? Fine, I promise you. There need only be one fight that determines the course of the planet.
-->'''Yuri:''' Now there's my Albert.
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence:[[spoiler:After his death, his soul bonded with Yuri's, placing him in a pleasant and idyllic Japanese forest inside Yuri's memories, where he calmly and happily spends the rest of existence.]]
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: He has a genuinely noble end-goal but fully admits to Alice he believes he is going to Hell for things like murdering her father to achieve it.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He fights wearing an elegant tuxedo and has a NiceHat.
* BarrierWarrior: He uses scythe-wielding monsters to float around his person and deflect bullets.
* BigBad: The main antagonist of the first ''Shadow Hearts''.
* TheChessmaster: So he gets the god-like power of the three books and what is the first thing he does with them? Starts testing them out of course. He had been setting up test runs of the powers he planned to unleash ever since the events of ''Koudelka'' and he seems to have no end to back-up plans and decoy plays.
* CriminalMindGames: He operated under the name of his old mentor Roger Bacon for a long time.
* CynicismCatalyst: While witnessing the Vatican's FantasticRacism didn't destroy his faith in humanity, it gave him an utterly cynical view of his previous Christian values.
** In ''Covenant'' we meet his traitor pupil turned evil, which appears to have been the breaking-point of Albert's faith in basic humanity.
* DarkIsEvil: Like Yuri, his element is Darkness.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Albert became so appalled by the decadence and corruption of The Vatican, and later his own counter-cultural organization, Sapientes Gladio, that he took a hard-left turn in the opposite direction and decided to embrace heresy as a path to salvation instead of religion.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: He has no inherent desire to kill Yuri and his friends and even offers to let them sit back safely with him while he is remaking the world, as he considers them some of the good-parts not in need of correction. Alas Yuri feels that just wouldn't be any fun.
* EnlightenedAntagonist: One of only three people to read the Émigré Manuscript without getting distracted by all the ultra powerful spells and thus decipher the will of God. Considering what [[EldritchAbomination God is]]... a ''whole'' bunch of Albert's [[GoMadFromTheRevelation rationals start making sense']].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: At the start of the first game, [[AffablyEvil he pauses on a train to let an elderly woman pass him by]]. He then brutally massacres the train's guardsmen with his [[EvilSorcerer ungodly powerful magic]].
* EvilBrit: Albert is as British and as evil as they come. [[spoiler:Somewhat subverted when we find out that he was trying to save the world from the hellish future his treacherous disciple Rasputin would create.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Has the same powers, mindset and training as [[spoiler:the real Roger Bacon.]]
* EvilFormerFriend: To both Roger and Jovis. Dislikes Roger for trying to defend The Church and moderate his progressive views, Jovis on the other-hand simply refused to help him so he seems less upset about that one.
* EvilSorcerer: To the point that he invokes Lovecraft's ''Necronomicon'' during his spellcasting attacks; his Japanese actor is saying, "al-Azif", the original Arabic name of the book, followed by its author's last name, Alhazred.
* FinalBossPreview: He is the main villain of the first game and easily defeats Yuri in the prologue.
* {{Foil}}: To Yuri. A noble sophisticated anti-villain to counter Yuri’s petty, brash anti-hero.
* GentlemanWizard: Albert is a moderately wealthy (RagsToRiches), highly educated, polite warlock, who always dresses in a dark suit, white gloves and top-hat, while summoning the forces of darkness. He could only embody the trope more if he has a monocle and wand.
* GracefulLoser: At the end of the first game, [[spoiler:he takes his defeat quite well, holds nothing against Yuri and company for it, and even wishes them all luck against the FinalBoss]].
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Like Roger. In Albert's case it seems to have come full circle into a TranquilFury.
* HealingFactor: He can reform destroyed parts of his body. Yuri literally smashes his face into bloody pieces in the opening, but a curse and a little HealingHands later, he's back to normal.
* HeelFaceTurn: In Covenant, [[spoiler:he offers support for Yuri as a spirit.]]
* HeelRealization: He admits that humanity may yet have a chance to prosper after he's defeated, and passes the torch to Yuri and the party, offering his blessing.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: It turns out [[spoiler:his true enemy in the first game was Raspuntin and Sapientes Gladio all along, whose destruction went hand-in-hand with what he had planned for the world. We don't learn of this until the second game, though somewhat justified given Albert's HeelFaceTurn in-between.]]
* KickTheDog: Having Koudelka tortured until she couldn't speak to get her to access the magic he needed for his plans was pretty horrible, but he also tortured her son Halley to near death when he tried to rescue her just for kicks. Admitting he killed Alice's father to her for his goals only adds to it.
* LargeHam: He has his moments.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: It wasn't the power of the Émigré Manuscript or Amon that sent him over the edge. It was the worst of humanity that did it. He eventually decided humanity was so far gone, the only way things could improve was to wipe the slate clean and start over.
* ManipulativeBastard The entire game ''Koudelka'' and the first half of ''Shadow Hearts'' were all part of Albert's machinations.
* MaskOfSanity: At first glance he is a kindly upper-class gentlemen with a pleasant if vacant gaze. However once he starts slaughtering a train-full of people that warm pasted-on smile takes on a frightening new meaning, instead reavealing a merely controlled violent insanity. And those same mannerisms stick with him even as he is bringing about the Apocalypse. The mask slips off when he finally summons his "God", angrily ranting about finally having his revenge for his past mistreatment by society.
* NiceHat: A topper.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Whether he is telling a bereaved widower about a TomeOfEldritchLore, a mad Toaist with an axe to grind about a holy virgin who would just make the perfect sacrifice, or speaking with his ghost minion over tea, Albert is remarkably casual about some very demented things.
* NothingPersonal: He invokes this at the end of the first game. The apocalypse is just a logical conclusion for him.
* OddFriendship: [[spoiler:He and Yuri develop one in the second game.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Thanks to his Soul-Pact with Amon.]]
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: The polite villain to Yuri's rude hero.
* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression, both in most of his screen-plays and as part of his default portrait.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Albert has everything other than the monocle and over the top British phrases.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Albert is just over 700 years old, but looks to be in his early fifties.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Made apparent in ''Covenant''.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His entire scheme is a TranquilFury version of this, wishing to wipe out humanity because all the evils and corruption of human society [[EvilStoleMyFaith destroyed his ideals for peace and equality and put him through humiliating suffering for years.]] He tells as much to Alice as a BluntYes when she asks about his motives.
-->'''Alice:''' Why is it that you want to destroy the world?
-->'''Albert:''' I am motivated by .... revenge.
* SharpDressedMan: Albert's always seen in a suit and top hat.
* SophisticatedAsHell: He is as deadly as as he is polite, and he is ''very'' polite.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Koudelka, Edward and Roger never seemed to find the Émigré Manuscript after Patrick's mad experiments and just assumed it went up in flames with the rest of his home... apparently someone should have checked...
** This goes a step further in the ''Koudelka'' manga -- The Royal Medical Society was sponsoring Patrick Heyworth's experiments to get their hands on the Émigré Manuscript when he was done; Lord Lesley was using the ambition of the Society as an excuse to resurrect his daughter; and De Gaulle was just giving Lesley false hope so he could get his hands on the Émigré Manuscript to become an Eldritch God. Despite this massive web of conspiracies behind conspiracies behind tragedy, ''no one'' factored in the guy who actually ''stole'' the Émigré Manuscript for Patrick in the first place, coming back and swiping it before anyone could get their payoff.
** Even with Dehuai [[WithMyDyingBreathISummonYou sacrificing himself]] to complete his ritual, it was still too far beyond his pay-grade to do anything. But after that initial sigh of relief that it was an AntiClimax instead of AttackOfThe50FootWhatever, you may wonder: how did Dehuai come across that spell in first place if it was so far beyond him? At which point "Bacon" shows up... OhCrap!
* SpiritAdvisor: In ''Covenant'', [[spoiler:Yuri's memory of Simon appears in the Graveyard to help him unlock the Amon and Neo Amon fusions]].
* TeleportSpam: So much of the above Spanner example comes from the fact he can just pop in, grab/drop off/activate something, and then just pop out.
* TheHeretic: He was branded a heretic by the Church for speaking up for civil-rights. After that, he figured he might as well become a true heretic and took up black magic.
* TheStarscream: Dehuai thought of Bacon as this. As it turns out...
** [[spoiler:TheManInFrontOfTheMan: Albert may appear to be one of Dehuai’s helpers, albeit one with an agenda of some kind, but in fact he is genuinely trying to help Dehuai out; it just turns out Dehuai had been Albert’s UnwittingPawn the entire time, so of course he'd be there to help move things along.]]
* TouchedByVorlons: The main source of his powers. Comprehending God/Meta-God gave Albert a revelation. His best spell is even called "[[ThatOneAttack Revelation]]", and he is more than happy to [[OneHitKill share his Revelation into the true nature of God and reality with you]]!
* UnfinishedBusiness: Except not really. [[spoiler:He's bound to Yuri's soul after his death, but doesn't have any particular goal now that he can't directly fight Rasputin. He instead gives Yuri help and advice (as well as unlock Neo Amon).]]
* VillainHasAPoint: The party feels this way about him in the first game, but still fights him. His mentor Roger Bacon even believed Albert's views were completely correct, but fell under TheWorldIsNotReady for his egalitarian beliefs in such intolerant times. [[spoiler:Of course, the second game reveals that he was actually trying to stop Rasputin the whole time.]]
-->'''Albert Simon:''' Only an illusion of peace exists in the superficial calm of our lives. In fact, the blood and tears of the poor are sacrificed daily by a handful of elite power-mongers. No matter how far science and technology advance, repression will never cease. We’re only human. Whenever the calls for revolution turn into concrete action, instigators are met by the full resistance of the elite, who stop at nothing to keep their power.
* VillainsDyingGrace: Justified. Before their climax battle, he and Yuri agreed to not hold a grudge if they lose. [[spoiler:After his defeat, Albert heals the party and warps them to the stratosphere so they can confront the Meta-God.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Olga is ultimately a minion to him, but she is the only one he openly discusses plans with, which they apparently do over tea while waiting for the heroes to break in. This is a notable detail since he just manipulates everyone else without them even knowing it.
** Another case of this is also shown in the opening screenplay between Albert and a nameless Wind-Scythe. Apparently it wasn't just a mindless kill-beast; after Yuri crushes its skull in his hand, Albert disappointingly exclaims, "I was fond of him."
* WalkingSpoiler: It is impossible to even reference his real name without giving away the first three-fourths of ''Shadow Hearts''.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In ''Covenant'', it turns out that [[spoiler:Albert was actually trying to save the world from Rasputin. They were both part of a group known as Sapientes Gladio, but Rasputin rapidly became consumed with power, and wanted to take over the entire world. Albert's attempts to destroy the world were actually a misguided attempt to ''save'' it]].
* WorthyOpponent: To Yuri, who even mocks [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss Raspuntin in the second game]] for being that much weaker than Albert.
** For good measure, even Nicolai, who considers Albert a worthy opponent, transfers much of his concerns to Yuri at first based on the fact that someone actually managed to take down "the great traitor, Albert Simon".
* WouldHurtAChild: He has no compunctions of hurting children or torturing women if it helps him reach his goal. He had Koudelka tortured until she couldn't speak to get her to access the magic he needed for his plans and tortured her son Halley to near death when he tried to rescue her.
* XanatosGambit: So what if Patrick died? Albert still considered the events of ''Koudelka'' a worthy test run.
** Dehuai summons a god? If it succeeds, Albert can kick-start that apocalypse he was planning; if it fails, it wipes out a mouthy pawn and he gets a smaller preview of what is to come. Worst-case scenario, he gets other people to die trying what might have claimed him.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Averted entirely: he takes even failures of his pawns as worthy lessons to learn from for next time. However, he is not above...
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: First Patrick, then Wugui, then Dehuai, then Jack, then Olga.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Arcane Olga]]
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Arcane is a powerful sorceress who works under Roger Bacon as a henchman, and often acts as his bodyguard. Incredibly loyal to him, she follows Yuri and the team across the world to stop them from interfering in her master's plans. She uses her magic to manipulate and frighten people, and will not hesitate to kill anyone who happens to be in the way.
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Her attitude toward the self-righteousness of Viscount Rausan and his inquisitors.
* ColdBloodedTorture: How the insane asylum was run under her direction. Her torturous mind games also qualify.
* DarkIsEvil: Like her master, her element is Dark and she is a evil witch.
* TheDragon: To [[spoiler:Albert]]. She's his last and most powerful underling, gladly acting as his go-to ghost.
* DemonicPossession: Appears to have this power as demonstrated when Alice first fights her in Prague.
%%* EvilOldFolks
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She hates the Inquisitors, oh not for the torture - she's fine with the torture, for using Christanity to justify it. The only reason she doesn't kill them is they are essential pawns.
* {{Foil}}: To Alice, she is the constant female companion of our BigBad, the two of which share and OddFriendship, but Olga is an unholy sadist where Alice is a spiritual nigh-pacifist.
* GigglingVillain: Lets out a hearty cackle whenever she attacks or teleport away.
* IronicName: Olga means "holy", which is in stark contrast to her personality and appearance.
%%* KillItWithIce
* MirrorMonster: Takes the place of Alice's reflection then reverses it to look like Alice and make Alice look like her.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Not just a ghost but a ghost witch.
* PerkyFemaleMinion: To her urbane master if not to the party. He seems to find her unchecked sadism as charmingly quirky.
* PoisonousFriend: To her master. He is cordial and only as violent as he needs to be for any given situation and while Olga reins in her sadistic tendencies while her master is around, if left to her own devices she will go for abject cruelty.
* PsychoSupporter: Olga loyally servers her master, but has no investment in his plans, she just A. admires him, and B. loves kill’n.
%%* SlasherSmile
%%* RedEyesTakeWarning
* SubordinateExcuse: By all accounts the only reason Olga is working with our BigBad is she likes the way he works.
* TeleportSpam: Done less than her boss all-in-all but a ''lot'' more frequently.
* UndyingLoyalty: Unlike [[spoiler: Albert]]'s other pawns Olga is following him entirely out of loyalty to him.
** Even throws her life away to give him time to get away.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Despite the initial beat down she should offer the player as Alice, she gets progressively easier in her following appearances. Her stats do raise, but only slightly.
* VillainousFriendship: Olga is the only one of her master's minions that he treats more like a friend than a pawn. They drink tea together over mission reports and engage in friendly banter while discussing what to do next.
* WakeUpCallBoss: Considering Alice is the WhiteMage, you may have assumed she would never need to kill anyone herself, and certainly never by herself... You would be VERY wrong about that and Olga arrives to deliver that message right before ''Shadow Hearts'' [[DifficultySpike takes off the kid's gloves]].
* WickedWitch: Stereotypically so and proud of it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dehuai]]
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Dehuai is a mystic who once studied under Master Xifa, along with Zhuzhen, and while he was renowned for his skill, he always had a darker side to him. When his home country of China was in danger of being taken over by the Japanese, Dehuai attempted to summon a God using the Demon Gate’s Invocation, so that he could wipe out Japan. However using such power was risky; one wrong move could destroy the entire world. Dehuai also planned to rule over Asia once China had been purged from the Japanese, but was stopped by a Japanese soldier by the name of Ben Hyuga, Yuri's father.

Dehuai escaped the battle with major injuries, losing his arm and leg. Vowing revenge on Ben, he sent minions to kill his wife and son. He was then contacted by Albert Simon, some years later, who explained his plan to summon the Seraphic Radiance. Dehuai agreed, believing he could use the power to destroy Japan, and joined Albert in his quest to kidnap Alice Elliot.
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* AbsoluteXenophobe: As far as Dehuai is concerned if you are not Chinese, you are the enemy.
* AnArmAndALeg: Literally, after his fight with Yuri's dad left him severely injured.
* ArtificialLimbs: A prosthetic metallic arm and a peg leg, respectively.
* ArcVillain: Of the China arc.
* BerserkButton: Dehuai always loses his temper when the heroes start making fun of him, most notably when he was possessing the body of a small puppy.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:It's almost adorable the way he thinks Albert is just some charlatan magician. It never occurred to him the man who gave him his ArtifactOfDoom like it was nothing might be a few leagues above him.]]
* ButtMonkey: The heroes REALLY like making fun of him.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The Cain to Zuzhen's Abel]]
* DemonicPossession / TheBeastmaster: Sort of straddles the line since he not only controls animals but actually possesses them. Poor Master Xiofang...
* DeceptiveDisciple: To Master Xifa, whom he and Zhuzhen studied under together.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He may ultimately be played for a chump but the build up for him is palpable, if you missed the one or two foreshadowing signs for "Bacon" you could be forgiven for thinking Dehuai was the end.
* DirtyOldMan: After noticing his obsession with Alice, Margarete wonders if Dehuai is just a perverted old man with a [[LoliconAndShotacon lolita complex]]. After beating Wugui, Yuri orders him to tell Dehuai that he should stick to his girlie magazines and fittingly enough, we do find the "Shanghai Angels" erotic book in his tower. [[spoiler:After Yuri hands over the magazine to Roger, they notice that one of the pages is "sealed".]]
* ElementalPowers: He may be classified as being of the Fire Element but he has access to water, earth and wind spells as well.
* ElementalShapeshifter: His Yamaraja forms.
* FantasticRacism: He refers to the Japanese, or even half-Japanese as dogs. He seems to have light disdain for Caucasians as well.
* {{Foil}}:To Zhuzhen - both learned Taoist oracles attuned to the natural world and a sense of awe for their homeland, but Dehuai is using said patriotic awe as an excuse to hurt people and bend the natural world to his whims. They are also both siblings and trained under the same master - one just went evil where the other went good.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Dehuai left his master's tutelage and took up arms against the Japanese, as the Japanese Foreign Minister was a Fantastic Racist and filled with Patriotic Fervor. Sure enough Dehuai himself picked up the same traits, just focused on the Japanese.
* TheHeavy: Certainly not the biggest threat but he is the center of both Yuri and Zhuzhen's personal angst, regardless of how much they want to admit it.
* PatrioticFervor: Has a MASSIVE dislike of the Japanese that are occupying China. Though whether this is a legitimate gripe due to historical brutality towards the Chinese by Japan or just an excuse to give him a target is anyone's guess.
* SinisterMinister: Of the Taoist variety as opposed to the more common Christian version.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Albert plays him like a violin.]]
* WithMyDyingBreathISummonYou: Subverted in an initially hilariously but ultimately terrifying manner. Even with all his life-force put into his ritual to summon the Seraphic Radiance, the miserable old bastard simply was out of his arcane weight class... [[SpannerInTheWorks But then Bacon teleports in over Dehuai's corpse and gives it one last push]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He apparently thinks nothing of possessing animals then letting them die once he is done.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wugui]]
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Wugui is a servant who works for Dehuai, and also appears to help him with more political matters. He supported Dehuai's attempt to destroy Japan, and even attempted to kill Zhuzhen, who was adamantly opposed to such an idea. However Wugui was defeated by Ben Hyuga before he could. Several years later and he is still loyal to Dehuai, and runs a bar in Shanghai where his master can perform his experiments.
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* TheDragon: To Dehuai.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Wugui ends up dying, but is bought back as a mindless puppet by Albert Simon.]]
* OneHitKill: His ''Game of Death'' spell can instantly kills the party.
* TattooedCrook: In his official artwork.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Originally, he was a crime boss hailing form the Kowloon Walled City.
* RecurringBoss: Wugui is fought four times during the game (the first time in a flashback, and the last, as an optional boss).
* ShoutOut: His SignatureMove, "Game of Death" is a reference to [[Film/GameOfDeath the film of the same name]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Li Li]]
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A ghost haunting the village of Dalian.
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* ArcVillain: Subverted. While she appears to be a independent villain, [[spoiler:it is revealed that she is a UnwittingPawn to Dehuai.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Her spirit was summoned by Dehuai to capture Alice.]]
* DarkIsEvil: Li Li is a vengeful ghost and her element is Darkness. [[spoiler: However, it's is revealed later on that Li Li was forcibly summoned by Dehuai, and was under his control the entire time]].
* DyingAsYourself: Freed from [[spoiler: Dehuai's controll]], she thanks Yuri and his friends before passing on.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Li Li is a creepy ghost girl with pale skin and black hair.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: She prays and begs the Blue Dragon God to save the life of her father during a terrible sea storm, which was repaid with her own voice being switched with her father's.
* OneWingedAngel: Li Li transforms into a octopus-like creature during the second boss battle against her.
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: Her boss form is a purple monster that use Darkness-based spells.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Subverted in her backstory. It was said that Li Li's voice can be returned if she kills her father, but she couldn't do it.
* ShockAndAwe: During cut-scenes, Li Li attacks her foes with a stroke of lightning.
* SlasherSmile: A very creepy one, as seen in her CharacterPortrait.
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: Li Li dresses in white and her dark hair cover one of her eyes.
* TragicVillain: The circumstances behind her death is rather tragic, since she was driven to suicide over the humiliation of having her father's gruff voice due to a curse from the Blue Dragon God, and thus being unable to proclaim her love to one of the actors of a travelling theatre troupe who was visiting Dalian. She had even agonized over her choice of killing her father to regain her lost voice, with even her father consenting if it had meant that he could return her voice, but ultimately she could not do it. [[spoiler: Then her spirit was summoned by a warlock, and was forced against her will to torment the village of Dehuai as a vengeful spirit, and to capture Alice]].
* VocalDissonance: Justified and PlayedForDrama. Li Li has her father's gruff voice due to a curse, and it had caused her endless anguish due her inability to confess her love to someone due to her fear of being rejected out of humiliation. It would then lead to her to commit suicide by carrying the reanimated corpse of her father, and submerging themselves into the sea together.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jack]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TetsuInada (JP)
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Jack is a doctor who also runs an orphanage in London, out of the house that used to be Albert Simon's home. After the horrific death of his beloved mother, Jack took an interest in the dark arts, and believed that she had been cursed. Roger Bacon gave him the Émigré Manuscript, a book that explains how to bring people back from the dead, and Jack became obsessed with bringing his mother back to life. As the ritual required the use of several bodies, Jack opened the orphanage to collect children from the street for that purpose.
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* AlchemyIsMagic: It's hard to tell where the line is between science and Necromancy with Jack.
* ArcVillain: Of the London[=/=]Halley story arc.
* {{Expy}}: His backstory is similar to Patrick Heyworth (from ''Koudelka''), only without the guilt.
* {{Foil}}: To Halley, a melancholy son who lost his mother and will do anything to get her back, he’s just the grownup and crazy version. Additionally, while Haley has to grow up before his time, Jack has reverted to his inner-child.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The Émigré Manuscript had its standard reaction. Though Jack may have been circling the sanity drain even before that.
* KillItWithWater: Water-elemental.
* KnifeNut: His weapon of choice.
* MadScientist: In essence.
* MakingASplash: His element, according to the NPC library.
* MommasBoy: Psychotically so. he suffer from OedipusComplex.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Jack use his and his mother's birthdays as passwords for the orphanage rooms.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Tries to pull this off on Haley's friend, Chris.
* SanitySlippage: His diaries you can find throughout the Orphanage make it clear he used to have ''some'' level of composition. Then his mother died and ''everything'' fell apart.
* SplitPersonality: His journals and the journals of one of the children in his orphanage are starkly contrasted. In front of the kids his inner child takes over and in the lab, his standard mad scientist personality runs the show. However both are raving psychopaths. He starts with a monolog of evil but his final words are that of a scared child apologizing to his mommy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fox Face and the Four Masks]]
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Fox Face and the Four Masks are dark entities belonging to the spirit world. They're usually encountered inside the graveyard within Yuri's mind, though thanks to his continued fusions with (and killings of) monsters, Yuri's malice had come to a point where the former could seemingly enter the material world.

Fox Face claims to be Ben Hyuga, Yuri's deceased father.
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* TheDreaded: Yuri fears Fox Face more than anything else.
* EnemyWithout: Fox Face is NighInvulnerable assassin the Four Masks summon if you don't check your Malice buildup.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: When Alice offers her life to spare Yuri's soul the Masks are utterly perplexed as to why she would do this. The Sword Mask in particular is down-right intrigued by the absurdity of love.
-->'''Sword Mask''':"[[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove I will watch with interest. Is there really such a thing as this "love"...?]]"
* EvilLaugh: The masks are constantly giggling.
* HopelessBossFight: Fox Face is impossible to defeat in his first encounter. It is possible to defeat him with some effort later on in the game, but he brushes it off and keeps coming at you until your malice is depleted.
** The masks send Alice to face Atman late rin the game, which is unwinnable for her alone. Canonically, she loses the battle, and her soul in the process, but in the good ending (which, if you look at it with Covenant's good ending in mind, can have a place in canon) Yuri pulls himself together in time to show up and defeat him, saving them both.
* {{Jerkass}}: All of them.
* KarmaHoudini: Canonically, the Four Masks are not confronted, and for all intents and purposes get away with using Atman to kill Alice. They are never seen again after the first game.
* OptionalBoss: You don't have to fight the masks themselves; and as far as the plot's concerned, you didn't.
** [[spoiler:At least, until the time loop from the second game kicks in and Yuri does fix his mistakes.]]
* {{Revenge}}: The masks desire vengeance for the monsters Yuri's slain, and intend to take his soul in retribution.
* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler:Fox Face is a part of Yuri himself, one which is unafraid of turning into a monster and welcomes the chance.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Fox Face smacks Alice to the floor when she confronts him.
* YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler:Alice gives them hers in Yuri's place, leading to her death.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yoshiko Kawashima]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Sara Nakayama (JP, ''Shadow Hearts''), Kozue Shimizu (JP, ''Covenant'')
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A Lieutenant Colonel in the Japanese army, Kawashima was the one who was arranging Alice's transfer to Japan via train at the start of the game. She investigates the ordeal after the soldiers delivering her were butchered by Albert Simon, which leads her to encounter Yuri, Alice, and the party.

After journeying with the party for some time, she reconsiders her position and abandons her pursuit of Alice. However, her lack of contact with the military led to an investigation into her activities, and she's shot and killed by a firing squad under the pretext of summons to the capital. She was the romantic interest of her assistant, Masaji Kato, in whose arms she died.
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%%* AffablyEvil
* BadassDecay: InUniverse, and she's well aware of it.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:She was resurrected by Kato using the Émigré Manuscript, which didn't work ''perfectly'' (she's clearly not the same as she was before, and even thinks of Kawashima as an entirely different entity), but did give her physical body life again. She became known as Ouka.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:She is more wounded by her father washing his hands of her than the bullet through her back.]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Subverted. In the second game, her father adopted a girl and gave her the name "Yoshiko Kawashima", which confuses Yuri, though it was more to honor her memory than to impersonate her.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Ends up dying in Kato's arms.]]
* FamilyHonor: She is being the best soldier she can be in order to win glory for her father.
* {{Foil}}: To Margarete. Both spies/star agents for their governments, both femme fatales, both based on real people [[spoiler: executed as spies]]. Where Margarete eventually becomes the sort of altruist she was pretending to be, Lt. Col. Kawashima never loses sight of her goal, though she does develop a conscience along the way. And where Margarete is working with the heroes, Kawashima is trying to catch them.
* FourStarBadass: A high ranking soldier with several honors to her name and an utterly ruthless attitude.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: She's killed shortly after turning over a new leaf.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The one who appeared in the first game shared the same characteristics as the real figure (wore men's clothes), although this would mean she was born earlier than her real counterpart. The Yoshiko in the second game is supposed to be said counterpart.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: [[spoiler:In a cruel irony, all the work she was doing to earn her father glory made him a target for political rivals and she is killed for it. It gets worse still: her father needs to wash his hands of her in order to be allowed to slink away, thus the reward for all her tireless work is dying as a disenfranchised traitor.]]
* InterimVillain: She is the first threat not in any way an appendage of the Big Bad's carefully outlined plans. Her appearances balance out the sections of the game when Yuri and friends are waiting for the next ArcVillain pawn of a pawn of the {{Big Bad}}. For bonus points, she is easily the most competent threat other than the Big Bad himself.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:How she dies, courtesy of her escort sent by Minister Ishimura.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: At first. She gets better.
* LovableAlphaBitch: As much of a capital-B Bitch she tries to be (and succeeds at, to be fair), it turns out deep down her family pride is no match for her conscience and she is willing to openly defy the chain of command to do what is right.
* MilitaryMaverick: She frequently pushes the limits of her rank to complete her assignments, going as far as: convincing her handlers not to report her to high command, bribing civilians as spies, killing said spies, raiding public buildings, and attempting kidnappings of travelers who exhibit supernatural abilities.
* TheMole: She and Kato integrate themselves into the party early on in the game, though what they see compels them to renege a bit on their motives. Kawashima eventually abandons her pursuit of the party, and decides she wants to live freely like Yuri.
* ParentalAbandonment: Kind of. A lot of her authority came from her father, and she surmises that him "abandoning" her is what resulted in her execution. He's encountered in the second game, clearly remorseful.
* PromotedToPlayable: [[spoiler:Downplayed. You play as Ouka (her clone) during parts of the second game.]]
* ThatWomanIsDead: [[spoiler:When she's resurrected as Ouka, she considers Yoshiko Kawashima to be a completely different person.]]
* TragicVillain: Of the classic HeelFaceDoorSlam variety.
* UndyingLoyalty: To her father. She is willing to do just about anything to do him proud. [[spoiler:Even as she lays dying with a hole in her chest, she accepts that her father needed to sacrifice her in order to be spared by Minister Ishimura; as revealed in ''Covenant'', he feels awful about it.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She was the one who arranged Alice to be secured and put on the train to Japan, to keep her out of Dehuai's hands. "Bacon" killed all of her men and kidnapped Alice anyway.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Says Major Tsuji and his men "don't deserve to live" for failing to secure Alice if they weren't already dead when she finds their corpses. Note that this was before her LovableAlphaBitch development happened, as shown by the example below.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Cowardly Chen reports to Kawashima about Yuri, Alice, and Margarete being in the town of Dalian, she initially dismisses him and reminds him to get his money before leaving. However, she then calls up two soldiers to dispose of Chen and "make it look like a traffic accident", which surprises her new subordinate Sergeant Kato.
[[/folder]]

!!(''Shadow Hearts: Covenant'')
!!!Sapientes Gladio
[[folder:Grigori Rasputin]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo (JP), Creator/BobPapenbrook (EN)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sh-c_-_rasputin_4577.jpg]]
The head of Sapientes Gladio, a secret society striving to remake the world under a new order. To this end, he's integrated himself into the Russian royal family, earning their trust and patronage by miraculously curing their youngest child of a fatal disease.

He's heavily distrusted by the royal family's elder daughter, Anastasia, who sets out to uncover his true nature.
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* ArcVillain: Of the Russia story arc.
* AxCrazy: After Asmodeus takes him over. He loses his cold and calculating personality in favour of an upfront KillEmAll approach.
* BigBad: For a dark take on Rasputin, this is surprisingly averted. He's part of a larger BigBadEnsemble and the first to die.
** He ''is'' the GreaterScopeVillain for the first Shadow Hearts, and during the first part of the second is legitimately the big bad. Unfortunately for him he's suffered a bit of CantCatchUp in comparison to others, and all his lieutenants end up DragonTheirFeet.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: His original goal was to take over the country, but under Asmodeus' influence he devolves into a crazed OmnicidalManiac.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: He's aware that Nicolai plans to overthrow him, but doesn't move against him for this reason.
%%* TheChessmaster
* BarrierWarrior: In cutscenes at least. [[spoiler:He's possessed by Asmodeus before we ever fight him normally.]]
* DarkIsEvil: Rasputin has a purplish skin tone, long black hair and beard, made a pact with a demon, uses sorcery and his elemental affinity is darkness.
* DeceptiveDisciple: To Bishop Jovis Abraham and Cardinal Albert Simon. Rasputin was once a member of the original Sapientes Gladio but, after acquiring enough power and knowledge, made a Soul Pact with Asmodeus, defeated and banished his mentors, taking over their secret society and using it to archive his own goals.
* DealWithTheDevil: With Asmodeus, who ends up possessing him.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: Subverted. As he lays dying, he sells out Nicolai's plot and sets our heroes on the road to confront him, not for any moral concern, but because he doesn't want to see his treacherous underling succeed in his place.
%%* DemonicPossession
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Downplayed. Rasputin is the ClimaxBoss of the first story arc and the second-to-last boss of Disc 1, as a fight against Astaroth in Apoina Tower occurs shortly afterwards.
* EvilChancellor: To the Czar Nicholas II and his wife. Rasputin plans to kill them and take over Russia.
* EvilerThanThou: He's this to Albert Simon.[[spoiler:It was Rasputin's plans and malicious betrayal that led to Albert kickstarting the events of ''Shadow Hearts'' because he thought it was better to have humanity wiped out and started over than have Rasputin continue his evil plans.]]
* EvilFormerFriend: To Jovis.
%%* EvilLaugh
* EvilMakeover: After his possession, he looks even more unhinged and dark.
* EvilMentor: [[spoiler:He adopted the Tsar's bastard child, Nicolai, to use against him at a later date.]]
%%* FauxAffablyEvil
* FrameUp: Part of his plan is to have princess Anastasia murder her brother and frames her and the party for it.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: He is UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Oh, Rasputin. You really can't catch a break, can you...
* ImpliedDeathThreat: He tells Anastasia that the brave often die young.
%%* LaughingMad
* MotiveDecay: His backstory and rise to power suggests fairly intricate motives, with the end goal being the conquest of Europe. This seems to fly out the window when Asmodeus eventually turns him into an omnicidal puppet.
* NighInvulnerability: The Soul pact he made with Asmodeus allows him to NoSell anything the party throws at him. It takes Yuri to release Amon powers to bypass his barrier.
* ObviouslyEvil: A lot less subtle than most of the other villains.
* OmnicidalManiac: After being taken over by Asmodeus. With all of his humanity extinguished, he now kills merely for the pleasure of it.
* OneWingedAngel: In his final battle, thanks to the Soul pact with Asmodeus.
* PowerFloats: Asmodeus Soul Pact allows him to float and fly.
* PragmaticVillainy: He saved and took care of a young Nicolai Conrad, to use as a tool against royal family [[spoiler:(of which Nicolai is a bastard) at a later date.]]
* TheStarscream: To the Tsar.
* TreacherousAdvisor: To the Tsar Nicholas II and his wife.
* VillainousFriendship: He and Veronica are sleeping together, and she's pretty much the only person he shows a shred of genuine affection to.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Subverted. Rasputin has a good relationship with the Royal Family, but some [=NPCs=] question the Czar decision to made him into his adviser.
* WorthyOpponent: Subverted. Yuri stands over his defeated body and accuses him of being far weaker than Albert.
* WouldHurtAChild: He brainwashes Princess Anastasia and hands her a knife to stab her brother.
* YouMonster:
-->'''Karin:''' You're a monster!
-->'''Rasputin:''' That's right. I do have the power of a monster. [[IllTakeThatAsACompliment I choose to accept your words as a compliment, my dear.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nicolai Conrad]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (JP), Ardwight Chamberlain (EN)
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sh_-_nicolai_2914.jpg]]
A representative from the Vatican, he asks for Karin's help in obtaining the Holy Mistletoe to get rid of the "Demon of Domremy", temporarily becoming a playable character at the beginning of the game. After he uses it on Yuri, he reveals his true nature as scheming and relentless.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: When Yuri goes to the dungeon in Cannes, the Director's Cut transitions, without explanation, to Nicolai, Lenny, and Veronica in a dungeon all of their own.
* BastardBastard: [[spoiler:Turns out he's the bastard son of the actual Russian tsar, Nicolas II, and that he plans to take the throne for himself, disposing of Rasputin in the process.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:He becomes more pitiful the more you learn about him.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:With Astaroth.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: Though it's kind of obvious if you've played the first game.
** He was actually slated to be the ''real'' protagonist of ''Covenant'' in early stages of the game's development, but the sheer outrage over Yuri being replacement compelled them to rethink.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Astaroth eventually takes him over.]]
%%* DragonTheirFeet
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He wants to take over [[spoiler:Russia.]]
* FacepalmOfDoom: [[spoiler:Kato kills him by crushing his face with his hand.]]
* {{Foil}}: He's the exact opposite of Yuri in every way possible, right down to his clothes, element, and history.
* GuestStarPartyMember: During the first hour of the game, and once again in a small dungeon of the ''Director's cut'' version. [[spoiler:He makes his Soul Pact with Astaroth there.]]
* LightIsNotGood: Light is his element, but don't be fooled. Even his in-game description says that he can't be trusted, said description can be read as soon as the game become playable, while Nicolai is still in your party.
* LightningBruiser: All his stats go up by one point each time he levels up, which isn't the case of the others characters, which means that he will always have better stats than his allies when he is playable.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:He's the victim of one, thanks to Dr. Hojo.]]
* TheRival: Sees himself as one to Yuri.
* SmugSnake: Nicolai trough that his Soul-Pact with Astaroth would be enough to best both Rasputin and Yuri. [[spoiler:In his overconfidence, he abandoned his master and challenged Yuri's party on his own, being unceremoniously defeated. Afterwards, he is captured by Kato and spends the rest of the game as a distressed dude, until his death.]]
* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: Do ''not'' equip Nicolai with accessories or, worse, Attack Boost, or else these items will be [[PermanentlyMissableContent lost]].
* StalkerWithACrush: His implied interest in Karin gives off this vibe.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Attempts to do it to Yuri and then Kato, but Ouka takes the shot.]]
* VillainDecay: Justified, [[spoiler:as he spends the second half of the game as a DistressedDude, being either tortured by Hojo or possessed by Astaroth.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Type 1 with Lenny, although downplayed. The two of them have no problem drinking together.
* VillainsOutShopping: An early cutscene has him talking with Lenny in a bar.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lenny Curtis]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaikiNakamura (JP), Creator/RichardCansino (EN, ''Covenant''), Scott Rayow (EN, ''From the New World'')
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Covenant'' | ''From the New World''
[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sh-c_-_lenny1_8497.jpg]]
TheBrute for Sapientes Gladio, he serves as a soldier commander and an early antagonist. He's not particularly villainous despite his disposition (he even tutored some clawed soldiers in how to read and write), and is frequently outsmarted by Yuri and the party.

He underwent a DealWithTheDevil with Godhand, whose power he invokes during the final battle with him.
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:In ''From The New World'', perhaps best shown by his solemn look as Shania describes how Nicolai unleashed the world's Malice from Apoina Tower.]]
%%* BaldOfEvil
* BattleButler: [[spoiler:Played with as he doesn't fight directly anymore as of the timeline of ''From The New World''. But whenever Johnny calls for his assistance via his mobile phone, Lenny sends an energy bomb from his fist. Sometimes halfway around the world.]]
* BeingEvilSucks: He finds life works a lot better for him [[spoiler:after his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* TheBrute: Towers over everyone, and relies on physical attacks.
* ContinuityNod: Lenny returns in the third game, as Johnny Garland's BattleButler.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted. [[spoiler:He survives the fall, and through a string of side quests, Yuri discovers that Lenny reformed after his defeat and has been doing good deeds in the hope of redemption. Yuri eventually catches up to him, and the two make peace.]]
* DumbMuscle: Initially. Lenny is easily fooled by Yuri into telling the whereabouts of his boss.
* GoodFeelsGood: Once he is saved by Johnny's father, he does have a good time using his strength to protect his benevolent master.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Players can venture through a side dungeon controlling Nicolai, Veronica and Lenny.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the third Shadow Hearts, after being [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe saved by Johnny's father]].
* HiddenDepths: Oh yes. He has a not inconsiderable amount of noble deeds under his belt, and in [[spoiler:SH3 is apparently very popular with the local housewives.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Not to begin with, but it's hard not to feel for the guy after his string of defeats.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: He's the source of one of the best armour items in the game, [[spoiler:though you get it through his breadcrumb side quest rather than a battle.]]
* MinionWithAnFInEvil
* OddFriendship: [[spoiler:He and Yuri eventually bury the hatchet and make peace with one another.]]
* OneWingedAngel: Made a Soul-Pact with Godhand and uses it against Yuri at St. Marguerite Island.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:An entire sidequest is devoted to tracking him down by following the trail of good deeds he performed across Europe.]]
* PowerOfTheGodHand: [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Lenny]] makes a pact with a demon and becomes "Godhand."
* SpikesOfVillainy: Has spiked ShouldersOfDoom. [[spoiler:Subverted after his heel–face turn.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: He's dense and not afraid to follow orders, but it's clear he lacks the KillEmAll aspects of Rasputin, the Machiavellian scheming of Nicolai, or the pleasure from pain Veronica has.
* VillainousValour: He knows a fight will be tough, but he'll do it anyway.
* WouldHurtAChild: In his very first cutscene apperance in covenant, he's holding a small girl from Domremy hostage, with a weapon to her throat, fully intending to use it. Yuri tryin to rescue her is how Nicolai is able to stab him with the Holy Mistletoe.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Veronica Vera]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MieSonozaki (JP), Ellyn Stern (EN)
[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sh-c_-_veronica_vera1_312.jpg]]
A high ranking assassin of Sapientes Gladio and the personal aide (and lover) of Rasputin. She hounds the party early in the game before retreating back to Russia.

Like her boss, Lenny, and Nicolai, she's undergone a DealWithTheDevil in the form of the Night Queen.
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* AlliterativeName: '''V'''eronica '''V'''era.
* ArchEnemy: To Lucia.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Veronica Vera is an admittedly awesome name.
* BondVillainStupidity: After paralyzing the party and stealing the Émigré Manuscript, instead of killing them, Veronica decides to put them in cells to torture them for fun, even if one of them managed to escape.
* BondageIsBad: She is a sadistic {{Dominatrix}} who loves to torture others for her own amusement and turning her victims into monsters.
* ComeBackToBedHoney: Rasputin is introduced with her naked in his bed, exchanging sexual quips.
* DarkActionGirl
* TheDarkChick: Veronica is the only female member of the organization and is in love with Rasputin. Overlaps with the TheEvilGenius, as she is the mage of the team and relies on using traps or monsters to fight in her place.
* DarkMistress: She and Raspuntin are sleeping together.
* DealWithTheDevil: With the Night Queen.
* TheDragon: To Rasputin.
* EvilCounterpart: Between a henchman and a non-core party member for a change. Veronica is this to Lucia.
* FemmeFatale
* MakingASplash: Her elemental affinity is water.
* ManipulativeBitch
* MsFanservice: Only the Dating Outfit covers less skin.
* OneHitKill: As the Night Queen, Veronica attacks cause the Instant Death status.
* OneWingedAngel: With the Night Queen's power, which is said to grant a night of power to women of proud bearing who call upon her.
* SquishyWizard: Easily the weakest, but most magical, of Nicolai's party.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female member of Sapientes Gladio.
* {{Stripperific}}
* SurroundedByIdiots: She maintains that Blanca is smarter than Lenny.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: After [[spoiler:you kill her, her corpse falls to the floor between Yuri and Rasputin in a cutscene as the two face off. This is seen in the trailer and opening cinematics where, while not showing her face, you can easily make out her distinct collar and hairstyle.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: She's by far Rasputin's most loyal underling.
* TheVamp: She [[WhipItGood wielded a mean whip]] and [[{{Stripperiffic}} dressed in impossibly skimpy]] and [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes outlandish dresses]].
* TortureCellar: She has one, though it's PlayedForLaughs.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and Lucia, though the circumstances behind their fallout (aside from Veronica turning to TheDarkSide) are a bit of a NoodleIncident.
* WhipItGood: And she uses it to great extent.
[[/folder]]

!!!Others
[[folder:Masaji Kato]]
!!Masaji Kato
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nobuaki Kawamitsu (JP), Creator/JamiesonPrice (EN)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sh_-_kato_6096.jpg]]
A relatively minor character in the first game (he was Kawashima's smitten assistant, if you recall), Kato redefines himself as a savvy, sharp, and formidable individual in ''Covenant'', culminating with him becoming the game's final boss. Though initially in service of one of the main villains, Kato remains on respectful and friendly terms with Yuri, assisting him on occasion and even saving his life.
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* AffablyEvil: Though there's never a point where Kato is on the protagonists' side, he comes off as a genuinely okay guy who keeps up a good, lingering friendship with Yuri from start to finish. Keeps this up even when trying to destroy the world as we know it.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: To Kawashima in the first game. She dies shortly after hearing it.
* AntiVillain: In spades, contrasting Yuri's AntiHero act.
* AscendedExtra: Went from henchman in the first game to major antagonist in the second.
* BadassCape: In ''Covenant''.
* BenevolentBoss: He genuinely cares for the well-being of his Mutant Apes, and he and Ouka even planned to have a child together. Squick. He does expect absolute obedience, though.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Who'd have thought Kawashima's friendly, bumbling assistant would go so far?
* BigBad: The final one.
* BirdsOfAFeather: He and Yuri briefly bond over their deceased loved ones in ''Covenant''.
* CynicismCatalyst: Kawshima's death kills his previous idealism, leaving patriotism to be all that holds him together... and even that eventually breaks-down.
* DealWithTheDevil: Interesting case; Kato makes it clear that he, unlike Rasputin and Nicolai, will bring about his new world through his own power, with his own hands. Despite that, he ends up taking on the form and power of "Susano-o," which he summons with the Émigré Manuscript.
* DespairEventHorizon: Kato goes off the deep end after losing Ouka, his replacement goldfish for the deceased Kawashima (whom he cloned in order to recreate her physically), and attempts to take the world back in time a hundred years -- long before those who had ruined it had been born, and aims to lead humanity into prosperity himself.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Hinted at (mostly by Garan), and Kato promptly sells Ishimura out to Yuri later.
* EnemyMine: He, his Mutant Apes and Yuri's gang team up against Hojo's failed experiment. Later, against Nicolai.
* FriendlyEnemy: In both games, right to the end and beyond.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From a diffident supporting character in the first game to the main antagonist and FinalBoss of the second.
* IceKing: In the second game.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Culminates with him trying to take the world back a hundred years.
* KickTheDog: Slaps Ouka after the Mutant Ape disobeys his commands.
%%* LoveMakesYouEvil
* MoralityPet: Ouka.
* NietzscheWannabe: Special Agent Kato, after the death of his "girlfriend", Ouka. Hell, Susano-o, the FinalBoss of Covenant, is listed in the Library as "summoned by Kato's nihilistic spirit".
* OddFriendship: With Yuri, given their constantly conflicting loyalties. They also bond over the loss of the women in their lives.
* OneWingedAngel: Susano-o.
* PetTheDog: Gets quite a few of these. In particular, saving Yuri from Nicolai stands out.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Kato saves Yuri from Nicolai, and is poised to take the killer blow for him again when Ouka intervenes. Played straight at the end, when a repentant Kato urges Yuri and the party to escape, and pray for the world they most desire. This leads directly to a good ending for the party, and Yuri's own canonically good ending.
* RobotMaster: Three of them, at least.
* SergeantRock: He genuinely cares for the Mutant Apes, but he will physically reprimand them if they go against orders, even if it is to save him... considering what we know about what happened to Kawashima, this is based on fears for their safety if his superiors see them as loose cannons.
* SquishyWizard: Subverted. Though his magic is his primary weapon, he is physically imposing and well built, and demonstrates this soundly when he ''crushes Nicolai's face'' with one hand. Ouch.
* TookALevelInBadass: From Kawashima's quiet, smitten right-hand-man, to the second game's final boss and one of the most formidable people encountered in the series.
* VillainRespect: Kato remains an affable individual despite his downtrodden luck and rather drastic change of heart, and continues to view Yuri as a great friend until the end.
* VillainTeleportation: Grows fond of this in ''Covenant''.
* WellIntentionedExtremist
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: After having his love die in his arms for the second time, he decides to destroy the present world by erasing the last hundred years and changing history to a better course.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Mutant Apes]]
!!!'''Raiden voiced by:''' Yuu Shimaka (JP), Michael J. Sorich (EN)\\
'''Hien voiced by:''' Kunihiro Kawamoto (JP), Bo Williams (EN)\\
'''Ouka voiced by:''' Sara Nakayama (JP), Creator/MichelleRuff (EN)
[[caption-width-right:239:[[labelnote:Click here to see Ouka.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sh-c_-_ouka_7878.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Hein.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sh-c_-_hein_1103.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:214:[[labelnote:Click here to see Raiden.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sh-c_-_raiden1_654.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]

Raiden, Hien, and Ouka comprise the elite Mutant Apes, deceased soldiers who were reanimated by Masaji Kato to compose his elite guard. They receive their own playable segment, in which the player controls Ouka.
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* AnimalMotif: Apes. They also have the MonkeyMoralityPose motif: See No Evil (Ouka), Hear No Evil (Raiden), Speak No Evil (Hien), despise none of them being disabled.
* AntiVillain: They simply follows their Master orders.
* ArtificialHuman: They all have shades of this, particular the former two, though subverted by them having been human beings.
* BackFromTheDead: All of them, though we only know of [[spoiler:Ouka]] from before.
* {{BFG}}: Raiden has a large hand-mounted cannon.
* BlowYouAway: Hien's elemental affinity. He is also very fast and [[spoiler:can transform into the Japanese wind god, Fujin.]]
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Hien wields a considerable blade attached to his arm.
* BigDamnHeroes: They save the party in Japan. They also pull a VillainousRescue later on.
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Ouka is a clone of Kawashima, brought back with the Émigré Manuscript, which explains her lack of modifications compared to the other two.]]
* CoDragons: All of them share the role of The Dragon to Kato.
* {{Doppelganger}}: Ouka is the spitting image of [[spoiler:Kawashima]] from the first game. [[spoiler:They're the same person.]]
* EliteMooks: They're Kato's elite guard and personal aides.
* FailureKnight: Raiden. He sees his reanimation as a second chance to make things right.
* FriendlyEnemy: None of them have any personal beef with the party, though Yuri figures that they won't just let him pass to Kato.
* GunFu: Ouka is more of a BareFistedMonk who mixes in a bit of pistol gunplay.
* LadyOfWar: Ouka.
* LeanAndMean: Hien.
* LightEmUp: Ouka's innate element.
* MonstrousHumanoid: Raiden, and Hien to a ''somewhat'' lesser extent.
* OneWingedAngel: Raiden and Hien become Raijin and Fujin in the penultimate boss battle.
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:Ouka for Kawashima, despite being the same person. The Émigré Manuscript isn't a flawless resurrection tool.]]
* ShockAndAwe: Raiden can unleash electrical discharges. [[spoiler:He also transforms into Raijin, the Japanese god of thunder.]]
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Ouka takes a knifing attempt meant for Kato, which kills her.]]
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Their personal skill "Anti-armor Bomb", where they throw grenades to damage enemies.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:Ouka is killed by Nicolai.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: Each of them feel this towards Kato, especially Raiden.
* WalkingSpoiler: Yuri recognizes Ouka, but can't quite put his finger on it for a while. [[spoiler:Turns out she's Lt. Col. Kawashima, Kato's deceased boss and object of affection from the first game.]]
* YouShallNotPass: Hien and Raiden blocks the party pass on the final dungeon.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Minister Kantaro Ishimura]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelMcConnohie (EN)
[[quoteright:177:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ishimura_headshot.jpg]]
The shadow-ruler of Japan, ruling from the benign position of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Minister Ishimura is the one pulling [[spoiler: Kato's]] strings for most of the game and by extension Nicolai's.
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* AbsoluteXenophobe: Takes the prize for it. Not only doesn't he trust Westerners, he also believes that Japan has the divine right to rule China, Russia and indeed all of Asia.
* BigBadWannabe: He comes very close but due to [[spoiler: Kato's]] last minute betrayal he gets demoted to ArcVillain, though to his credit that arc is around 90% of the game once you switch from Europe to Japan.
* CorruptPolitician: To the core.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His grandson Kosuke.
* FantasticRacism: Does not trust anyone not of Japanese nationality. Assumes all other nations are conspiring to seize Japan.
* FatBastard: Not comically so but he is clearly overweight. Not even debatable how much of a bastard he is though.
* HeelRealization: He seems to get one at the very end when Yuri delivers him his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. Ishimura is prepared to die as long as Yuri doesn't hurt his grandson, Yuri makes him realize that his enforcers never even considered, let along exercised, such a code.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: He is stated to be of failing health. We never find out what is wrong other than he coughs a lot and can't walk under his own power easily.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: When Yuri kicks down his door to make him pay for all he has done he seems unfazed and even proud of what he has done, as being for the good of Japan. Until his grandson looks to get in the middle of it, at which point Ishimura shows he will lower himself to any level to save his grandson.
* JuniorCounterpart: To Jinpachiro "Ben" Hyuga apparently.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Old man in failing health is on the ground begging for his grandson to be spared, Yuri does ''Not'' let that stop him.
* ManBehindTheMan: To [[spoiler: Kato]] and thus to Nicolai as well.
* NonActionBigBad: He doesn't actually do anything himself due to failing health but he sure sets-up a lot of crap
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He gets what's coming to him.
* PatrioticFervor
* TakeMeInstead: When his grandson walks in on his grandpa's imminent and well deserved beat-down and Ishimura believes he is danger for it, he offers himself freely if Yuri will just spare his grandson.
* TheHeavy: For Kato considering what happened to Kawashima in ''Shadow Hearts'' and for Yuri once it is revealed this is the son of a bitch his father was actually working for.
* TheUnapologetic: Played straight at first but ultimately averted.
* SameStoryDifferentNames: Very much the same as Dehuai motivation-wise, just from the opposite side of the fence, as he is the head of Japan that was trying to take over China, the sort of flag-waving Fantastic Racist Dehuai became a flag-waving Fantastic Racist in response to.
* YouMonster: Yuri does not give two craps about his supposed noble intentions.
* YouRemindMeOfX: Ishimura doesn't need a birth certificate to be able to tell whose kid Yuri is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Garan the Oracle]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Hideyuki Umezu (JP), Terrence Stone (EN)
[[quoteright:249:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shc_garan_babyface.jpg]]
A powerful sorcerer working for Kantaro Ishimura.
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* DarkIsEvil: He is a sorcerer that has Darkness affinity and uses black magic and curses.
* DudeWhereIsMyRespect: Despite his attempts to scare the party and appears menacing, no one can takes him seriously.
* {{Gonk}}: Very ugly. Yuri and Karin even calls him "gross".
* InSeriesNickname: The party knows him as "baby-face".
* ManaDrain: He can suck a whole MP pool from a character in one attack.
* PowerFloats: The party suspects that he owns a magic pillow.
* RecurringBoss: Is fought three times in the game (the third being optional).
* SpaceMaster: Garan uses his black magic to warp the party into a hellish dungeon.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Ishimura.
* VillainousCrossdresser: His make-up makes him looks like an elderly woman.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Considering all the makeup on his face, you would never think that the shriveled up looking sorcerer is 37.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dr. Hojo]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tadashi Miyazawa (JP), Terrance Stone (EN)
A mad scientist working for the Japanese Imperial Army.
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* DishingOutDirt: His elemental affinity is Earth.
* MadScientist: Hojo don't care about Ishimura's ambitions and just want to do his dangerous experiments.
* MiniMecha: Uses one against the party during his boss fight.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He, a villain, is addressed to as "Doctor Hojo".
* NeverMyFault: Hojo blames the party for ruining his experiment, even trough it was he who screwed up by [[spoiler:disobeying Kato and letting Nicolai/Astaroth escape.]]
* ShoutOut: His name is implied to be one to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'''s Professor Hojo.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Hojo don't understand that EvilIsNotAToy and keep pushing Nicolai to his limits. The result is both Astaroth and monstrous dog being set loose.]]
[[/folder]]

! Other allies
[[folder:Strange Creature (Spoilers)]]
!! Roger Bacon
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tatsuya Gashoin (JP, games), Creator/RyuseiNakao (''Koudelka'' Drama CD), Creator/JimmyZoppi (EN, ''Shadow Hearts''), Amos Nandy (EN, ''Covenant'')
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/RogAruu_3320.jpg]]
The once renowned alchemist during the Middle Ages, Roger Bacon was tasked by the Vatican to translate the Émigré Manuscript, a tome with the power to bring back the dead. After he did what he was told, the Vatican attempted to kill him in order to keep the secrets of the Manuscript safe. Bacon escaped, but not before using the manuscript to grant himself immortality. For centuries he has lived near the Nemeton Monastery in Wales, there he has helped those who seek to combat the dark and otherworldly powers that thrive in the world. Roger is the only character to appear in every game in the series, including ''Koudelka''.
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** In the first game he wears one belt normally, and tree more around the waist, over his longcoat.

** In ''Covenant'', as Yuri is coming in to give [[spoiler:Minister Ishimura]] what [[KickTheSonOfABitchhe has coming]], the man's 6-year-old grandkid Kosuke barges in and shields him from Yuri, saying he can't hit his grandpa. After an initial shock at realizing that EvenEvilHasLovedOnes, he shoves the little guy away (which knocks him out cold) before beating the ever-loving shit out of his grandpa.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: In his final fusion in both games he's completely naked, but nothing naughty can be seen.

* AnimalMotifs: In his official [=SH1=] art he's surrounded by crows. Crows can be associated with [[CreepyCrows threat and danger]].

* ButNotTooForeign: In the first game, his heritage is name-dropped purely for RuleOfCool purposes. It is actually worked into the plot of ''Covenant''.

* ExperiencedProtagonist: By the start of the first game he has been hunting monsters for about thirteen years already.

* HenshinHero: His Harmonixer power enables him to fuse with souls of monsters into several distinct forms, each with its own ElementalPowers. In his Amon fusion he even strikes some {{Tokusatsu}}-escue poses.

* JackOfAllStats: His various Fusion forms allow him to take on any role, compensating for his inability to use Crest Magic.

* MindHive: As it turns out, [[spoiler: he accidentally pulls certain souls (usually of those who died near him) into the Graveyard. While he just dominates monster souls to fuse with them, human souls retain their consciousness, and can sometimes communicate with Yuri. Known residents of the Graveyard include Ben Huyga, Jeanne, and Albert]].

* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Alice's blue.

* BreakTheCutie: Yuri's backstory. His mother died protecting him from monsters that were sent to kill them under Dehuai's orders, and his resulting rage forced him to transform for the first time. He then came to some time later, naked, covered in blood, and surrounded by the torn-apart corpses of the creatures that he had killed. After spending the night crying and clinging to his mother's dead body, he then ran off into the night, never to return. This happened when he was still a young child.
** We get a bit of BreakTheHaughty between the first and second game, what with [[spoiler:Yuri coming to terms with Alice's death]].

%%* DarkAndTroubledPast

* InTheBlood: His power of Fusion comes from his father. Yuri even inherits his final Dark fusion, Czernobog.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Yuri's ultimate fate could be construed as this. Though he had to ''die'' to make it happen, he finally poised himself to save Alice and earn his happy ending.]]

* ElementalPowers: His innate element is [[CastingAShadow Darkness]], but his Fusion ability allows him to take on any other element, even NonElemental.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is he a Harmonixer or a Harmonizer?

* SympathyForTheDevil: To Albert.

* TemporalParadox: [[spoiler:His ''EXISTENCE'' is one!]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Not that he wasn't already, but after he came to terms with his powers and overcame his fears, he becomes much more effective and badass. Not screaming in terror each time he fuses definitely helps.

* UniqueProtagonistAsset: Yuri's fusion abilities give him an advantage in versatility and power that the others really can not match. Other characters learn fusion after the first game but none are close to his range.
* UnknownRival: Yuri was this to Nicolai after the end of the first game.

* WalkingTheEarth: Before meeting Alice, he simply went around the world doing what the voice in his head (it MakesSenseInContext) told him to do.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Yuri has high sanity, he fights demons and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s on a near daily basis, he transforms into untold horrors himself, and even [[spoiler:killed a god]]. Yet for some odd reason, he has an unexplained fear of ghosts.

The BigBad of the first game apparently feels this way about him. He warns [[KnightTemplar Viscount Rausan]] not to underestimate Yuri and stresses to Olga that anyone who can survive ''and'' remain possession-free after an encounter with the Seraphic Radiance is truly a foe to be admired.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:The Mistletoe's curse that he was hit with at the beginning of ''Covenant'' is eventually going to rob him of his soul and memories, leaving him an EmptyShell. Yuri's strong willpower allows him to endure the curse for over six months, but it finally catches up to him at the end of the story.]]

* LoveHurts: [[spoiler:Alice dies in the first game for him. This does carry over into the second game and his characterization there.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Strangely for an RPG, inverted. Yuri begins the game (in story terms, at least) as an already-powerful Harmonixer.

%%* TragicHero

%%* TroubledButCute

* MorphicResonance: In ''Covenant'', his level one fusions all retain his basic shape, build, and even fighting style.

* NoPlaceForMeThere: [[spoiler:In the good ending of ''Covenant'', he knows that the world has nothing left for him as the EmptyShell he'll become if he succumbs to the mistletoe's curse, and willingly accepts death to escape this fate.]]

* SoulJar: He carries not only the various Fusion Souls within his mind/body, but also finds out that [[spoiler: the spiritual essences of Jeanne, Albert, his father Ben, and Alice exist inside him as well.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: He absentmindedly backhands Halley across the street for crying about his mother. He still helps, but the crying apparently bugs him. Very likely due to his own memories of [[FreudianExcuse his last moments with his mother]].
** In ''Covenant'', as Yuri is coming in to give Minister Ishimura what he has coming, Ishimura's 6-year-old grandkid Kosuke barges in and shields him from Yuri, saying he can't hit his grandpa. After an initial shock at realizing that EvenEvilHasLovedOnes, he shoves the little guy away (which knocks him out cold) before beating the ever-loving shinola out of his grandpa.
* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler:Albert]] apparently feels this way about him. He warns [[KnightTemplar Viscount Rausan]] not to underestimate Yuri and stresses to Olga that anyone who can survive ''and'' remain possession-free after an encounter with the Seraphic Radiance is truly a foe to be admired.

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:His attempt to fuse with the Seraphic Radiance ended in this outcome.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Undergoes quite a lot in both of his games.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Yuri goes out quite spectacularly.]]

* {{Foil}}: To our BigBad. Where he is a sophisticated friendly gentleman villain, Yuri is a crude, belligerent, drifter hero.

* GoodIsNotSoft: With a mild sprinkling of GoodIsNotNice, particularly in the first game.

* PowerFist: His weapons are different varieties of knuckles.

* WolverineClaws: Most of his weapons are variant of these.

* BigDamnHeroes: Yuri several times saves Alice in this manner.
**


Yuri pulls this on [[spoiler:Atman]] in the first game if you're poised to have the good ending. If not, then [[spoiler:Alice is forced to fight an impossible battle against Atman alone, and loses her soul to him to save Yuri's]].

%%* CursedWithAwesome

* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:Yuri blames himself for Alice's death. Sometime before the events of ''Covenant'', he wrapped her corpse in his BadassLongcoat and buried her as a sign of respect, and left his mother's cross on her grave.]]

* InTheBlood: His power of Fusion comes from his father.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Especially prevalent in the first game, in which he shows up to save Zhuzhen from Wugui and his thugs in the exact same manner as his father years before.

** In the second game he wears two belts around his waist. His jacket is fastened with two belts in front, and has a belt on each cuff. His pouch also has two belts hanging from it (subject to JigglePhysics, no less). Oh, and consept art reveals that his boots are also fastened with two straps each.

* AndIMustScream: If you get the bad ending in the second game, [[spoiler:he becomes an EmptyShell with his memories wiped clean]].

* BarbieDollAnatomy: In his final fusions in both games.

* BigDamnHeroes: Yuri pulls this on [[spoiler:Atman]] in the first game if you're poised to have the good ending. If not, then [[spoiler:Alice is forced to fight an impossible battle against Atman alone, and loses her soul to him to save Yuri's]].

* CutscenePowerToTheMax: [[spoiler:Once he regains Amon's soul in Covenant, he utterly destroy Rasputin's friggin' airship all by himself!]]

* DisappearedDad: And he holds onto the hope that he's still alive somewhere, which gives Fox Face a good method with which to psychologically torture him.

* DubNameChange: In the Japanese versions, he goes by the fairly gibberish name of Urmnaf "Uru" Bort Hyuga (ウルムナフ・ボルテ・ヒューガ).

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: In the second game, his first tier fusions are only minor upgrades to his regular self, with small physical changes.
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:After failing to fuse with the Seraphic Radiance. Also, this is his fate in ''Covenant'''s bad ending.]]

* KickTheDog: While beating the crap out of [[spoiler:Minister Ishimura]], Yuri [[spoiler:callously tosses the man's grandson aside when the boy begs him to stop.]]

** TheMourningAfter: He's still not over [[spoiler: Alice's sacrifice]] as of the second game.

* MindHive: As it turns out, [[spoiler: he accidentally pulls some souls into Graveyard. While he just dominates monster souls, and fuses with them, human souls retain their consciousness, and can sometimes communicate with Yuri. Known residents of the Graveyard include Ben Huyga, Jeanne, and Albert]].

* NotHimself: After failing to fuse with the Seraphic Radiance. [[spoiler:This is also his fate in the bad ending of ''Covenant''.]]

* OppositesAttract: He is a rude and cynical drifter, who comes close and personal with hi enemies, while Alice is a sweet and gentle WhiteMagicianGirl from a well-off family. They even have opposite elements - Dark and Light. And yet, they love each other.

* RedBaron: He's known as the '''Godslayer''', which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. To a lesser extent, he's also called the Demon of Domremy.

* RunningGag: In both the first game and ''Covenant'', Yuri gets seasick whenever boats are involved.