Characters / Synépeies - A Collection Of NTR Consequences

The cast of characters in the series.

Doujin Characters

The characters from the original doujins.

Archetypes

The Main Character

The protagonist of the original doujin. Always an ordinary guy, whether a high-school boy or a married man, who is a victim of infidelity, or who has the girl he likes sleeping with someone else. Having realized this, he either breaks down in despair, or decides to strike back.

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• Adaptational Badass: Downplayed in that the main character is not turned into some kind of action hero, but he is typically much more assertive and willing to do something about his loved one having an affair than he is in the original doujin.
• Babies Ever After:
  • Virtuous Hope has the protagonist conceive Hikari with his new wife Aiko.
  • Hitorijime Undone similarly has Kouta and Hiyori with Mai.
• Extreme Doormat: They typically start out as this as in the original doujins; spineless characters who remain loyal to the initial love interest who shamelessly cheated on them and do nothing to stop it. Then either someone shows up to help them out or something happens to cause them to grow a spine.
• The First Cut Is the Deepest: In Hitorijime Undone, while we never see it, Kouta's new wife Hiyori briefly says to Akina, his childhood friend and first crush, that this was the result of her rejecting him and that it took a while for her to help him get over her.
  After you chose to be with that sorry excuse for an anthropomorphic trash can, do you know how long it took for Kouta to even look at another woman? Two years. Two years where, no matter how hard I tried to be there for him, he could not get you out of his heart. You were his world, Akina, and you shattered it almost beyond repair. I’ll never forgive that.
• Grew a Spine: In the chapters where the doujin MC is the protagonist, he will inevitably have changed from the weak-willed doormat he was in the original doujin, who just let himself be cheated on, to a firm man who openly calls out his supposed beloved for her betrayal and dumps her at minimum.
• Happily Married: While nearly every chapter ends with them finding a Second Love, a few of them show them outright married, and the resulting relationship, while only shown briefly, is always much happier than their initial one as they have a wife who is loving and loyal.
• Maybe Ever After: Unlike just about every other chapter where the relationship between the guy and cheating girl is permanently over, two of them leave the possibility of them staying together open:
  • The Irishman ends before we can see if Daisuke and Yuna break up over the latter's infidelity or stay together, with Rory exiting by saying he doesn't care either way- just so long as she doesn't make his associate too busy crying to work.
  • Suffering ends with Touwa and Asuna apologizing to each other for the whole mess and the heavy suggestion that, since Mitsumi is out of the picture, they may reconcile and rekindle their relationship.
• Thriving Ex-Crush: A few times, the cheating woman who left the male lead for the antagonist will try to win the lead back after her old relationship went sour, only to discover the lead has already found a Second Love who is much more loyal:
  • In Fallen Leaves, Amamiya Kaede, who sided with her rapist Coach Marada and dumped Sugimura Yuuichi for him, tries to get back together with him after Marada's activities were exposed and her reputation went downhill for helping cover it up. Marada even went so far as to tell her that Yuuichi was a struggling loser, only for her to discover that was a lie and Yuuichi is actually a successful worker with a nice house and a fiancée. She begs him to take her in anyway, only for him to tell her off and kick her out of the house.
  • In Hitorijime Undone, Akina decides to seek help from Kouta, her childhood friend who she rejected in favor of buff, macho Tatsuya, when their Awful Wedded Life in a dingy apartment, constantly changing jobs, and incoming eviction becomes too much for her to bear. She then discovers that Kouta has since become a wealthy banker with a loving wife and beautiful daughter. Hiyori, his wife, is willing to let Akina become their nanny, but does so specifically to torment Akina with the happy, wholesome family she could have gotten but turned down by breaking Kouta's heart, and Akina indeed spends the rest of the story stewing in jealousy and regret.

The Cheating Woman

The “heroine” of the original doujin. She is either the main character's crush or his girlfriend/wife, and while starting out a good, pure woman, she either cheats on him of her own will or is coerced into doing so. Either way, she comes to enjoy it and treat the main character like trash. The story inevitably has consequences crash down on her, ruining her life.

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• Accomplice by Inaction: Fallen Leaves involves Kaede dealing with this reputation, and being accused of it directly by her ex. Despite claiming to have been blackmailed and assaulted, she turned a blind eye and chose to keep Coach Marada's sexual assault mum, choosing to dump Yuuichi for him and remain silent as he went after other girls.
• Adaptational Karma: The main premise of the series is taking several Netorare doujins where the antagonist gets away with "stealing" the girlfriend/crush of the protagonist and delivering the titular consequences upon them and the cheating woman. Usually, this entails exposing their tryst, causing them to become social pariahs who's lives are ruined from all the bad publicity. A few go so far as to have the antagonist brutalized by a Villain Protagonist.
• Asshole Victim: In some stories, the antagonist and cheating woman are outright brutalized and victimized in some way, but their previous infidelity and disregard for the feelings of the male lead keep the readers from feeling too sorry for them.
  • In A Dish Best Served Cold, Ji-A, who previously took pleasure in psychologically breaking her boyfriend Mi-Noo by having sex with another man right in front of him, is manipulated into destroying her life by a man who intends on turning her into a porn star.
  • A Lesson In Power has a mysterious crime boss waiting for Su-Min at the dojo where she cheated on Ji-Ho with Min-Jung in front of him, after beating Min-Jung and his goons to a pulp for kicks. When she arrives, he figuratively (and literally) beats the crap out of her for her trouble.
  • In Withered Hydrangea, while Natsuha heard the torture Masaru was put through on the phone, one of the torturers who picked up her call tells her to get checked since Masaru "wasn't being careful" in his playboy ways, so it's implied that Natsuha contracted an STD on top of being Hated by All.
  • In Broken Friendships, Broken Dreams, Azusa is trapped in a loveless marriage with Naoyuki and forced to bear him a daughter named Mia. She once hoped Mia would hate him too, but Naoyuki wisened up to that and made sure she'd be like him to crush that hope.
  • In Noblesse Oblige, Makiko's father is fired from his job, and her secret romp with Baba Tetsuo is exposed to Ayaka at the Roppongi Hills party, effectively destroying their friendship. As for Ayaka herself, she is forced along with Makiko to become Kouta's Sex Slaves under threat of bankruptcy.
  • In Retaliation, Kosuke kicks Yui out of his house for her cheating and she's forced to attend a seminar on proper morals on top of having to pay alimony and losing custody of Aya. To top it off, she's reduced to working part-time jobs and some of her father-in-law's estate was spent on debts and the rest went to Kosuke and Aya, leaving Yui penniless.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: The usual final punishment for cheating on her loving boyfriend/husband is to watch as he finds a new love, who genuinely treasures him, while she can do nothing but watch as her former lover is in the arms of someone else - the exact same position she put him in beforehand. Made explicit in Hitorijime Undone, where Akina is chosen by Hiyori and Kouta to be their daughter's nanny specifically to make her see what she gave up by running off with Tatsuya.
• Awful Wedded Life: In Hitorijime Undone, Akina's married life with Tatsuya is absolutely miserable, with nearly everyone having cut her out of their lives for hooking up with such a pathetic loser, both of them having to live off various part-time gigs in a tiny, dingy apartment, and their sex life being mostly dead save for some instances which are more out of a desire to 'scratch a proverbial itch' than the true passion they used to have.
• Belated Love Epiphany: In Hitorijime Undone, Akina only realizes she returns Kouta's feelings years later, when looking at his former home before he moved, and noticing that she has no way of contacting him, after already having chose Tatsuya instead.
  She missed him.
  The realization hit her like a sack of bricks. Even as she stood there, in front of her own childhood home – ready to beg her parents for money – the simple absence of Kouta from her life hurt her more than any other aspect of her shitty circumstances. Perhaps if he hadn’t disappeared from her life, things might’ve been different. Maybe he could’ve helped her or Tatsuya get their lives in order. Maybe he could’ve helped intercede with her family or his own.
  Maybe he would’ve tried again…
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The cheating women are typically portrayed in this manner- sweet and loving to the male lead, while cheating on him and caring only to satisfy her libido.
• Bring My Brown Pants: In A Lesson In Power, Su-Min lays in a pool of her own blood, urine, and excrement after the crime boss was done beating her to a pulp.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Deconstructed Trope. Suffering has Touwa being coerced into one with her stepbrother, Mitsumi, who blackmailed Touwa to have sex with him lest he expose her sex life with Asuna to her mother. But after the relationship is exposed and the two siblings face heavy shunning and stigma for it, Touwa finally realizes that what Mitsumi had done to her is sexual assault, rather than the genuine love and care that she once had with Asuna. It ultimately ends with Mitsumi being killed by delinquents who had a bone to pick with him, and Touwa shortly suffers the stigma of "following after her incestuous stepbrother in death" after she attempted another suicide by neighbors and onlookers shortly after Mitsumi's death, not even allowed to die in peace.
• Cheater Gets Cheated On:
  • Some chapters deconstruct the relationship between the cheating women and the antagonist of a netorare story by having the cheating women learn the hard way that a guy who would steal another man's girlfriend/wife from him would likely have no qualms about cheating on his own girlfriend/wife as well.
    • Withered Hydrangea has Natsuha, who cheated on her boyfriend Yuuta with a bad boy named Masaru, finding a group of delinquents beating Masaru. The reason why is because he slept with their girlfriends too.
    • Noblesse Oblige has the cheating woman, Ayaka, discovering that Baba, the guy she cheated with, is two timing her with her best friend Makiko.
  • A Lesson in Power has a variation where the cheater is rejected; Su-Min cheated on and left her "beta male" boyfriend Ji-Ho for his "alpha male" bully, Min-Jung. Min-Jung gets beaten by a stranger he tried to pick a fight with, and said stranger decides to beat her as well. In order to save her own skin, Su-Min offers to become the stranger's woman. The stranger rejects her and gives her a beatdown.
• Disowned Parent: In Retaliation, due to being raised by her brother Kosuke, Aya does not consider Yui as her mother because she was conceived from her mother's affair with Kosuke's own father.
  Kosuke: Your mother asked to see you.
  Aya: Ugh, pass.
• Driven to Suicide: Suffering has Touwa descend into suicidal depression as she comes to terms with what happened to her, the fact that she broke and betrayed Asuna's trust in her and that what Mitsumi had done to her is sexual abuse, not what she once had with Asuna. Touwa's suicide attempts were interrupted; unfortunately, when they became known, it only further ruined her image in the eyes of outsiders who claim that Touwa is "trying to join after her incestuous stepbrother in death".
• Fair-Weather Ex: The stories often end with cheating women try to get back together with the main character, not because they feel remorse or because they love them, but because they have no one else to turn to and because they can't stand the idea of their "loser" exes moving on from them.
• Flower Motifs: Natsuha from Withered Hydrangea is associated with the titular flower. In this context, hydrangeas symbolize frigidness and cheating, contrasting with their positive meaning of unity, family, and heartfelt emotions. These flowers also symbolize remorse and apology, which makes the title even more meaningful as Yuuta's mother coldly rejects Natsuha's apology for cheating on him.
• Hated by All: The cheating woman's reputation will take a massive hit after being exposed, resulting in her becoming an utter pariah for hurting the male lead's feelings in search of momentous pleasure.
• Heel Realization: The more sympathetic cheaters will typically have one moment where they realize just what an awful thing they did and how it damaged their relationship with the male lead- usually when it's too late to fix it.
• Hikikomori: Suffering has Touwa end up as one due to the scorn she received for cheating on Asuna with her stepbrother.
• Humiliation Conga:
  • The entire point of the series, and the usual form of the Adaptational Karma for the antagonist and cheating woman, is for their infidelity to be publicly exposed, ruining their reputation and getting them scorn from their peers and families. Their academic and/or financial standing tends to take a big hit as well. In the case of the woman, she tends to suffer a final humiliation by seeing the man she betrayed get together with another, better woman while she is stuck with the total loser the antagonist has become.
  • Hitorijime Undone is of particular note, as it has all of the above and ends with Akina having to become a nanny for Kouta and Hiyori's daughter Mai, and being forced every day to see Kouta have the happy married life she wanted with him but threw away in favor of Tatsuya's large dick.
  • Nobless Oblige instead ends with Ayaka, Makiko, and Baba being publicly humiliated at a party for the rich and powerful, their businesses destroyed, and the former two forced into becoming Sex Slaves for Kouta, the boy they betrayed.
• Hypocrite: In Withered Hydrangea, Natsuha has the reputation as the cheater-hater in her school after her father cheated on her mother. However, she has been cheating on her boyfriend Yuuta with the school playboy, Masaru. Her hypocrisy ends up being revealed to the school by an unknown person, which causes her to get a 1-year suspension and her perfect academic record destroyed.
• I Have No Daughter!: Some stories have the cheating woman's parents cut ties with her for her trouble.
• Ironic Hell: In some stories, the cheating woman's eventual fate is reflective of her shameless cheating.
  • In A Dish Best Served Cold, Ji-A was disowned by her parents and ultimately taken away by Dr. Stark, who plans to make her into a porn star. Thus the proud and dignified Ji-A, who took pleasure in forcing a helpless Mi-Noo to watch her cheat on him, will soon be subjected to years of humiliating sex for the pleasure of male watchers.
  • In A Lesson in Power, after being disowned by her parents for her cheating, Su-Min is ambushed and taken away by the boss's guards while she stalked Ji-Ho and his new girlfriend. Since she liked to be dominated by Min-Jung, it's implied the boss will make her his sex slave and do the same to her, turning her kinky experience into pure agony.
  • In Withered Hydrangea, it's implied that Masaru will succumb to his injuries after having his groin repeatedly crushed in revenge for stealing some delinquents' girlfriends, while Natsuha, disowned and Hated by All for cheating on Yuuta, is implied to not only have caught an STD from Masaru, but that she may follow him soon given her current predicament.
  • In Noblesse Oblige, both Ayaka and Makiko lose their meal ticket, Baba Tetsuo, after Yamagata had his buddies review-bomb and plant sanitary hazards in the bastard's hotel. As a result, both girls are reduced to becoming Kouta's sex slaves under threats of bankruptcy from Maria. This in turn is a reflection of their secret romps with Tetsuo under threats of blackmail.
• Karmic STD: Implied in Withered Hydrangea, when Natsuha's call to Masaru is picked up by another delinquent of a group that had a bone to pick with him, he eventually tells her to get herself checked as Masaru had trysts with other girls in the past and "wasn't being careful".
• Lust Makes You Dumb: Both the cheating woman and antagonist are often portrayed as moronic hedonists who end up ruining their own lives as a result of thinking with their libidos.
  • The cheating women in general are shown to be foolish for dumping their kind-hearted husbands/boyfriends for scumbags whose only positive quality is a bigger manhood. The stories typically end with the women realizing what they lost after the relationship with the antagonist goes south and the guy they cheated on ends up in a happy relationship with a more faithful woman. In addition, their social lives are also ruined, ending up disowned by their parents, children, and friends for what they did.
    • Touwa from Suffering ends up being a deconstructed example of this trope as her story reveals that she was coerced into a sexual relation with her stepbrother under threat of exposing her and Asuna's sex life to her mother. It took a year of being isolated after her expulsion from school with her relationship with Mitsumi exposed and after Mitsumi's death for her to realize that Mitsumi had been sexually abusing her under the guise of love.
• Maybe Ever After: Unlike just about every other chapter where the relationship between the guy and cheating girl is permanently over, two of them leave the possibility of them staying together open:
  • The Irishman ends before we can see if Daisuke and Yuna break up over the latter's infidelity or stay together, with Rory exiting by saying he doesn't care either way- just so long as she doesn't make his associate too busy crying to work.
  • Suffering ends with Touwa and Asuna apologizing to each other for the whole mess and the heavy suggestion that, since Mitsumi is out of the picture, they may reconcile and rekindle their relationship.
• Offended by an Enemy's Indifference: The cheating women usually don't take it well when the protagonists move on from them; in their eyes the protagonists are losers who should feel miserable that their beautiful girlfriend/crush/wife was stolen away, so the protagonists' ability to move on from being betrayed makes the cheating women realize that they were the real losers for throwing away a good man for a sleazebag.
• Persona Non Grata:
  • In Fallen Leaves, Kaede gets herself banned from her old neighborhood for being an associate of Coach Marada, who was arrested for sleeping with several young women.
  • Suffering has Touwa suffer this from her friends and even her neighbors and family with her parents only doing the bare minimum to keep Touwa alive when she starts to become a Hikikomori from the shunning. Though Touwa tried to kill herself from the shunning, Touwa realizes that all it serves to do is to prove the disgust the neighbors and former friends had on her for committing incest with her stepbrother after her suicide attempt failed.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: In many chapters, the cheating woman will beg the male lead to forgive her and not break off the relationship, insisting that she still loves him. It never works and only goes to show how screwed the woman is.
• Poor Communication Kills: In Suffering, Touwa admits that she should have communicated better with Asuna, and had she not been worried about how her mother would react to Touwa having sex with Asuna, Mitsumi wouldn't have blackmailed her about exposing her sex life and coerced her into an incestous relationship with her stepbrother.
• Sex Slave:
  • In A Lesson In Power, this is implied to be Su-Min's eventual fate when she gets ambushed and taken away by the bodyguards of the crime boss that beat Min-Jung, his goons, and then herself to a pulp, all while seething at Ji-Ho having a new, more loyal girlfriend and speaking casually with said crime boss.
  • In Noblesse Oblige, Ayaka and Makiko are forced into sexual slavery towards Kouta, the boy they both betrayed after Maria and Nobu have Makiko's father fired from his job and exposed her secret romp with Baba Tetsuo to Ayaka, effectively destroying their friendship. Moreover, Maria threatened both girls with having Nobu and his friends drive their families into ruin if they refused.
• Sexual Extortion: In Noblesse Oblige, Maria Arias and Nobu Yamagata expose Makiko's secret romp with Baba Tetsuo at the Roppongi Hills party and Ayaka chews her out for it. While Makiko claimed it was because he threatened to have her father fired, her justification couldn't do anything to save her friendship with Ayaka. Even if Makiko's claims were true, it would be all for naught because her Nobu had her father fired anyway.
• Token Good Teammate: Touwa from Suffering is this in contrast to the other cheating women of the anthology. Unlike the others who willingly cheated on their initially loving boyfriends, Touwa's cheating was a consequence of being raped and then coerced into an incestuous relationship with her stepbrother. As such, unlike the other cheating women in this anthology, she's the only one to have a chance to make amends with her ex and actually properly reflects on her own mistakes.

The Antagonist

The antagonist of the original doujins. He is always a tough, brutish “alpha male” who seduces and “steals” the woman with his superior physique. But his luck usually runs out in the story and he is brought down and humiliated.

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• Adaptational Karma: The main premise of the series is taking several Netorare doujins where the antagonist gets away with "stealing" the girlfriend/crush of the protagonist and delivering the titular consequences upon them and the cheating woman. Usually, this entails exposing their tryst, causing them to become social pariahs whose lives are ruined by all the bad publicity. A few go so far as to have the antagonist brutalized by a Villain Protagonist.
• And I Must Scream: Downplayed in Retaliation since Kosuke's father is completely paralyzed from locked-in syndrome^note Unlike a vegetative state, people with LiS can still think, reason, and even communicate if provided the adequate tools. Kosuke takes advantage of this to make him suffer for taking his wife before punishing her later.
• Asshole Victim: In some stories, the antagonist and cheating woman are outright brutalized and victimized in some way, but their previous infidelity and disregard for the feelings of the male lead keep the readers from feeling too sorry for them.
  • In A Dish Best Served Cold, Dr. Stark forces Shi-Hoon and his two lovers to apologize to Mi-Noo publicly for the damage they did to him under threat of exposing their affair. However, he exposed them anyway, resulting in Shi-Hoon being forced out of the college for "undisclosed reasons".
  • A Lesson In Power has Min-Jung and his gang of delinquents, who "stole" Su-Min from Ji-Ho, beaten bloody by a mysterious crime boss for kicks. When the boss spread the news of the cheating, Min-Jung was disowned and left with huge trauma, in which the very sight of Su-Min sent him into fits of screaming and panicking.
  • In The Irishman, Yuuya, who Yuna was cheating on Daisuke with, is beaten up and killed via-throat slitting by the titular Rory for causing his client's work performance to suffer.
  • In Suffering, Mitsumi, who raped his own sister, is killed in a scuffle with some delinquents who "had a bone to pick with him" by being pushed into the street and run over by a truck.
  • In Withered Hydrangea, Masaru, who Natsuha cheated on Yuuta with, becomes the victim of Cold-Blooded Torture by some delinquents taking turns to hit him in the groin with a baseball bat who want revenge on him for his playboy ways.
  • In Broken Friendships, Broken Dreams, Tomoki and Azusa wind up victims of Naoyuki's revenge plot, with Tomoki framed for battery and sent to jail while Azusa is trapped in a loveless marriage with Naoyuki- neither of which would have happened if Azusa didn't cheat on Nao with Tomoki.
  • In Noblesse Oblige, Baba Tetsuo, who manipulated and blackmailed Ayaka and Makiko, respectively, into sleeping with him, is publicly humiliated at a Roppongi party by Maria, Nobu, and their friends, who also destroy his father's hotel business; and for going along with him and hurting Kouta's feelings even when they should have known better, Ayaka and Makiko are forced into becoming Kouta's sex slaves. In fact, Maria, an outright Sadist, explicitly claims to have chosen to ruin the lives of scumbags like them because it satisfies that drive to make people suffer without the potential negative press that could result from harming a well-liked individual.
  • In Retaliation, Kosuke's father is hospitalized and left with locked-in syndrome by Kosuke as revenge for him screwing his own son's wife behind his back. The old coot eventually dies of a heart attack after Kosuke told him what he did to Yui in regard to Aya's custody.
• Awful Wedded Life: In Hitorijime Undone, Akina's married life with Tatsuya is absolutely miserable, with nearly everyone having cut her out of their lives for hooking up with such a pathetic loser, both of them having to live off various part-time gigs in a tiny, dingy apartment, and their sex life being mostly dead save for some instances which are more out of a desire to 'scratch a proverbial itch' than the true passion they used to have.
• Big Bad: The plot of each chapter is set off by their seduction of the female lead and getting her to cheat on the male lead with them, with the plot focusing on the consequences of their decision and/or the male lead trying to move on from it.
• Cold-Blooded Torture:
  • The stylist Yuuya from The Irishman ends up brutally tortured by the titular Rory for hampering Daisuke's work performance with his affair with Yuna. By the time Rory finished him off with a pair of scissors to the throat, Yuuya's body became an unrecognizable mess, with his face left mostly intact.
  • Masaru from Withered Hydrangea becomes a victim of this at the hands of other delinquents for stealing their girlfriends; they all torture him by taking turns to hit him in the crotch with a baseball bat.
  • Retaliation features a non-violent example in Kosuke feeding puréed apple compote to his completely paralyzed yet still conscious father in further response to the latter screwing his son's wife because the old coot hated apples.
• Creepy Gym Coach: Marada, the antagonist of "Fallen Leaves" (and it's source doujin Ochiba Tori), is a coach who regularly molests his students, with Amamiya Kaede being one such victim he managed to charm into being his accomplice. The fic mainly concerns him getting exposed when he goes after a woman with powerful parents.
• Dirty Old Man: In Fallen Leaves, Marada is a coach who often sleeps with several young women, including Kaede, who abandoned her boyfriend Yuuichi. However, his luck runs out when he gets fired and arrested for laying his hands on the wrong woman.
• Does Not Like Spam: In Retalitation, Kosuke feeds his vegetative father some puréed apple compote despite knowing that he hated apples and he is only doing this out of spite because he knew that his father had an affair with his own wife.
• Hate Sink: The alpha male antagonist characters who steal the girl from the protagonist are, without exception, characterized as unlikable Jerkasses who take pleasure in emasculating the male lead and have no interesting qualities. This is so that their inevitable humiliation and punishment feels all the more satisfying. And unlike the cheating women, who are typically depicted with at least some sympathy and who come to regret their infidelity, the antagonists show no remorse for what they do.
• Humiliation Conga:
  • The entire point of the series, and the usual form of the Adaptational Karma for the antagonist and cheating woman, is for their infidelity to be publicly exposed, ruining their reputation and getting them scorn from their peers and families. Their academic and/or financial standing tends to take a big hit as well. In the case of the woman, she tends to suffer a final humiliation by seeing the man she betrayed get together with another, better woman while she is stuck with the total loser the antagonist has become.
  • Noblesse Oblige instead ends with Ayaka, Makiko, and Baba being publicly humiliated at a party for the rich and powerful, their businesses destroyed, and the former two forced into becoming Sex Slaves for Kouta, the boy they betrayed.
• Karmic Death:
  • In The Irishman, the titular Rory subjects Yuna's affair partner Yuuya to Cold-Blooded Torture before finishing by slashing his throat in response to their affair hampering his client Daisuke's work performance to the point his bosses wanted the three of them dead.
  • Mitsumi, the guy who raped his sister from Suffering ends up falling into the street and run over by a truck in a scuffle with other delinquents who had a bone to pick with him.
  • At the end of Withered Hydrangea, this is implied to be Masaru's eventual fate after a bunch of delinquents seize him and then take turns to crush his groin with a baseball bat as punishment for stealing their girlfriends.
  • In Retaliation, Kosuke's father, who was bedridden from locked-in syndrome from the car accident Kosuke engineered to murder him for screwing his son's wife, dies of a heart attack after hearing what Kosuke did to Yui after taking custody of their daughter Aya.
• Lust Makes You Dumb: Both the cheating woman and antagonist are often portrayed as moronic hedonists who end up ruining their own lives as a result of thinking with their libidos. The antagonist's punishments tend to be physical as well as social.
  • Fallen Leaves has Marada, a Creepy Gym Coach who raped his students, ending up eventually getting arrested when he laid his hands on a woman with powerful and well-connected parents.
  • Withered Hydrangea has Masaru, a playboy, being tortured via several Groin Attacks for sleeping with the girlfriends of some delinquents. In addition, it is also implied that he caught an STD as a result of him not using protection.
• Mugging the Monster: Coach Marada in "Fallen Leaves" meets his end when, after raping students and escaping consequences by switching schools for a while, he decided to make his next victim a woman who turned out to be the heir to an unnamed but very powerful family.
  This time, unlike before, Coach Marada had laid his hands on the wrong young woman and her parents had effectively dropped the hammer of God on him. With such a powerful and connected family spearheading his prosecution, Marada’s many sins came to light, and once Kaede’s existence became public knowledge, everything good and stable about her life vanished practically overnight.
• Nouveau Riche: Baba Tetsuo, the heir to a hotel chain who uses his money to bully students at his school and get away with it, is outright called “new rich” by Maria Arias, who detests people like him.
  His kind, the new rich, are a particular headache to us in that sense. No sense of restraint or responsibility. Just pilfering and spending and thinking with their tiny little dicks. No class, not tact.
• Serial Homewrecker: In Withered Hydrangea, Oga Masaru, who seduced Yamano Yuuta's cheater-hating girlfriend Shinomiya Natsuha into breaking her own moral code, turns out to have a history of sleeping with other boys' girlfriends when some delinquent boys get payback by hitting his groin with a baseball bat.
• Serial Rapist: Coach Marada is established as this in "Fallen Leaves"; Kaede was not the only woman he assaulted, and he had an M.O. of switching schools before anyone realized what he was doing.
• Slipping a Mickey: To Love is to Love references the original doujin in which Kasumi's ex-boyfriend ordered her to drug Naoto before going to town with her. In this fic, Naoto sues him for damages after divorcing Kasumi for her cheating; the amount was enough to render the bastard in crippling poverty for the rest of his life on top of going to prison for such an offense.
• Trauma Button: In A Lesson In Power, after getting savagely beaten to a pulp by a crime boss for "stealing" Su-Min from Ji-Ho, on top of the cheating girl trying and failing to offer herself to said boss in exchange for sparing her, Min-Jung enters into uncontrollable screaming fits whenever he sees Su-Min.
• Two-Timing with the Bestie: In Noblesse Oblige, Maria Arias reveals to Ayaka that Baba Tetsuo and her best friend Makiko were doing it behind her back. This ends up breaking Ayaka and Makiko's friendship and plunges the latter into despair because Nobu Yamagata had her father fired.

The New Woman

A new character typically introduced around the end of each story. This character serves as a new love interest for the main character after his relationship with his first love has failed because of her lack of loyalty.

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• Babies Ever After:
  • Virtuous Hope has the protagonist conceive Hikari with his new wife Aiko.
  • Hitorijime Undone similarly has Kouta and Hiyori with Mai.
• Dissonant Serenity: Hiyori in Hitorijime Undone gives Akina her Hidden Disdain Reveal in a cheerful voice and a gentle smile.
• Happily Married: While nearly every chapter ends with the male lead finding a Second Love, a few of them show them outright married, and the resulting relationship, while only shown briefly, is always much happier than their initial one as they have a wife who is loving and loyal.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: Hiyori in Hitorijime Undone has Akina as her nanny and welcomes her to the family for quite a while before revealing that she's forcing her to watch her and Kouta have a happy life together specifically to punish her for breaking Kouta's heart back then.
• Satellite Love Interest: Due to being introduced at the end of the story, they typically are only characterized as the Second Love of the male lead who refuses to betray him like his first love did. The only real exception is Hiyori from Hitorijime Undone, who is as much characterized by her hatred of Akina (for breaking Kouta's heart) and desire to rub her successes in Akina's face.
• Second Love: She usually becomes the new girlfriend/wife of the male lead after his first love has dumped him or hooked up with another man.

Specific Characters

Mr. Souma

The protagonist of Virtuous Hope, the patriarch of the Souma family. He knew about his wife Mitsuko's affair with several men during his business trips, which causes him to divorce her.

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• Business Trip Adultery: Inverted, Mitsuko cheated on him with several men while he was on business trips.
• Daddy DNA Test: Kurumi is revealed to be his first biological daughter when Mitsuko gave him the result of the DNA test she secretly did on both of them.
• Not Actually His Child: He no longer views Shouko, Sayaka, and Kurumi as his daughters because they were conceived from Mitsuko's affair with several men, until it's revealed that one of the daughters, Kurumi, turns out to be his first biological daughter.
• Second Love: He marries his second wife Aiko and has a daughter named Hikari together.
• Your Son All Along: Kurumi is revealed to be his biological daughter.

Hori

The protagonist of Alternate Paths. He decides to quit the Art Club after Mika wanted him to try group sex with the rest of members of the club, including his childhood friend, Chitose.

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• Only Sane Man: He was the only member of the Art Club who criticized their sexual activities.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He quits the Art Club because he doesn't want to be part of their sexual activities.
• Second Love: He later dates Mari, who is sort of the opposite of his ex-childhood friend, Chitose.

Kosuke (Unmarked Spoilers)

The protagonist of Retaliation. After his visions revealed his wife Yui's infidelity, he decides to take it upon himself to punish Yui and his father for their betrayal.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the original doujin, he was the typical meek NTR main character who, upon discovering his wife cheating on him, chose to dismiss it as just his imagination and do nothing about it. Here, he gets furious and carries out a carefully planned revenge, ultimately succeeding with flying colors.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: The first part of his plan is to calculate the specific spot in a construction site that he can crash his car into so that he can make it out of the crash in one piece while his father takes the brunt of it and dies. It doesn't quite kill him, but he does become permanently paralyzed and mute.
• Not Actually His Child: He knew that Yui's daughter was not his, due to her affair with his own father, though he still decides to raise her anyway.
• Parental Substitute: He adopts Aya after winning custody of her, and despite considering himself her big brother, raises her like a father.
• Psychometry: Has the ability to see history in objects and it's what allows him to eventually find out his wife's infidelity.
• Self-Made Orphan: He tries to kill his father through a deliberate car crash as revenge for him banging his wife behind his back. He does only manage to hospitalize him, but he eventually dies from his injuries.

Original Characters (Unmarked Spoilers)

Specific characters introduced in the fanfic.

Dr. Stark

A mysterious man and the protagonist of A Dish Best Served Cold who was on a tour in Seoul and helped protagonist Mi-Noo about the trauma left on him by his ex-girlfriend Ji-A and resident playboy Shi-Hoon out of boredom. In the end, he turns out to be the owner of a porn firm and plans to make Ji-A a porn star.

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• The Bad Guy Wins: He successfully ruins Ji-A's life and forces her to be one of his porn stars.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He seems, for the most part, to be a good man for most of the fic who is helping Mi-Noo deal with his issues with his childhood friend intentionally emotionally hurting him. Then it turns out he took his own perverse interest in Ji-A and manipulated the situation to forcibly make her a porn star in his films.
• Lack of Empathy: He admits to being detached and helping Mi-Noo out of boredom, but he condemned Ji-A and her lover's shameless cheating and forcing Mi-Noo to watch the act.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: When Ji-A and Sae-Hyun changed into transparent minidresses with deep cleavage, he remarks:
  "Respectable, to be sure, but hilariously transparent. They had likely decided to appeal to my lust to drop the whole matter."
• Sex Is Good: He seems to hold this worldview, but also knows it has limits.
• Villain Protagonist: He is revealed in the end to be an amoral pornographer who was ruining Ji-A's life so he could force her to be one of his new stars.

The Crime Boss

A mysterious man who believes true power is the ability to ruin people's lives without any sort of consequence. He entered the dojo Min-Jung and his goons used as a hangout to give them all a savage beating, laying them down in a pool of their own blood before doing the same to Su-Min. Eventually, he has Su-Min brought to him one last time to make sure she suffers for her cheating.

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• The Bad Guy Wins: He effortlessly beats down Min-Jung and his gang, then turns Su-Min into his slave. As he himself says, he can do whatever he wants to them and receive no consequences whatsoever.
• Breaking Speech: He delivers one to Su-Min while he prepared to beat her up.
  “And beauty fades with age. True power never fades[…] Power is me being able to stroll in here, Miss Su-Min, tell all of your little classmates and lover that if they move I will disappear all their loved ones, and practically kill every single person in here and do you know what consequences await me?[…] None.”
• The Dreaded: Becomes this for Su-Min and Min-Jung, with the former screaming at the sight of him after he beat her bloody like the latter and his goons.
• For the Evulz: He never gives a real reason for him brutally beating up Min-Jung, his gang, and Su-Min, then making the latter his slave, other than he felt like humiliating a bunch of arrogant wannabe-alpha punks.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He beat Min-Jung and his goons to a pulp before doing the same to Su-Min.
• No Name Given: He is never identified by any name at all.
• Pretender Diss: He considers Min-Jung and his gang to be pathetic losers who falsely believe physical strength is power, and informs them of his belief of what true power is — being able to destroy their lives and walk away scot-free.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He delivers this speech to Su-Min as he starts to beat her up.
  “People like you, who bray about power and rights and alphas, are unworthy of attention, of love, of care, of compassion, or consideration[…] You are parasites and monsters who feed upon the goodwill of others. You abandon your reason and logic in favour of mere carnal pleasures[…] You are less than human, a mere insect to be trod upon by your betters.”
• The Social Darwinist: A variation. He believes that physical strength is not true power, but the weakest form of it. In his worldview, true power means being able to ruin people's lives without any sort of consequence. As such, he considers people like Min-Jung and his gang, who falsely believe that physical strength is power, as “less than human, a mere insect to be trod upon by your betters”.
• Tranquil Fury: He chewed out Su-Min and her decisions without showing an ounce of rage or hatred before beating her up.

Rory

The titular protagonist of The Irishman and an overseas client of Daisuke. Upon learning that his girlfriend Yuna's affair is causing his mental state, and therefore his work, to suffer, he decides to take matters into his own hands.

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• The Bad Guy Wins: He comes in, kills Yuuya, threatens Yuna into not messing with her boyfriend Daisuke again, and gets away with it.
• Fiery Redhead: A violent, hot-blooded redhead Irishman.
• Fighting Irish: Rory is a violent criminal who tortures and kills Yuuya because he was getting in the way of one of his clients doing his job by screwing his girlfriend.
• The Irish Mob: Irish and an unapologetic criminal and killer. Although this is Played With as he seems to be associated with the Yakuza instead.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He convinces his bosses, who wanted Daisuke, Yuna, and Yuuya all dead for interfering with their business, to spare the latter two and then kills the jerk who Yuna has been having an affair with behind Daisuke's back. Not because he likes Daisuke personally, but because he is Daisuke's client who noticed the affair was causing him to be unable to work properly.
• Villain Protagonist: He is a criminal who murders Yuuya for screwing Yuna and making her boyfriend Daisuke's work suffer, then basically threatens Daisuke and Yuna be quiet about it.

Naotsugu "Nao" Maeda

The tall, burly countryside-born tenant with a heart of gold in Affirmation. He helped the protagonist Yuuto Kido through his feelings over his brothers snatching two girls he was interested in from under him.

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• Baritone of Strength: He is a tall “giant” of a man who is briefly stated to speak with a baritone voice.
• But Now I Must Go: At the end, Nao tells Yuuto that he's going to move out of the country and explore the world, not without leaving him a note with his email and a written promise they will meet again sometime.
• Establishing Character Moment: Two of them. He is introduced yelling at the neighbor and her boyfriend for having loud, disruptive sex and intimidating them into complying, showing that he does not take any crap from anyone. He is next seen tending to the flowerbed and speaking with a crying Yuuto in a compassionate manner, establishing his Gentle Giant side.
• Gentle Giant: He is a tall, muscular man who towers over Yuto, but he's kindhearted to him and the other tenants. The only time he gets mad and yells at someone is when the neighbors are having loud sex Right Through the Wall.
  He was, by Yuuto’s reckoning, easily 2 meters tall, and the shirt he had on seemed to be having a hard time stretching over his bulky, muscular frame. Even his legs seemed to be pure muscle, being about as thick as Yuuto’s head!
  
  And yet, looking upon his face, Yuuto saw no danger. The giant had an easygoing smile and a complete lack of tension that made him feel somewhat safe around him. Obviously, the man could clearly crush him with barely a thought, but the generally disposition of him made him feel somewhat at ease.
• Younger Than They Look: He is 35, but looks so tall and old that Yuuto guessed he was, at minimum, in his early 40s and is surprised to hear otherwise.

Maria Arias (Maria Isabella Fernanda Arias de la Cruz)

A new transfer student in Kouta's class in Nobless Oblige. She is a Latin American beauty who catches Kouta's eye and decides to involve herself in his love issues. She also seems to know him and everyone around him.
At the Roppongi party, she reveals herself to be a wealthy heiress of one of the most powerful families in the world. She is a sadist who enjoys using her power to torment people and ruin their lives, but to preserve her good reputation, she only goes after those who deserve it - like the bully Baba Tetsuo and his “girlfriends”, Ayaka and Makiko.

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• The Ace: She isn’t just a beautiful Dude Magnet - she also answers every question the teacher gives her correctly despite it being only her first day, beats most of her classmates in running and swimming during PE class, and happens to be the obscenely wealthy heiress of one of the most powerful families in the world.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Baba Tetsuo is the heir to a hotel company, and is able to use his wealth to get away with being The Bully in the school, with poor Kouta his favorite victim. Maria and Nobu laugh at that and boast how they, as the heirs to some of the most powerful families in the world, could easily destroy the Tetsuo business with paid negative review bombing and government health and safety inspections with planted evidence, and invites him and his girlfriends to an elite party specifically to publicly humiliate them and establish just how little Baba really is compared to them. In the process, they save Kouta from having to suffer under Tetsuo and give him lots of pretty ladies to fawn over him.
  Maria: ”Where I come from, I’d be called part of one of the great families,” Maria added sweetly. “It means that while this potato here acts all big and tough because his daddy owns a few hotels, my family has been powerful since the Americas were first colonized.”
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She portrays herself as a cute, innocent New Transfer Student, but is actually a Sadist and Rich Bitch who enjoys using her wealth to ruin and humiliate scumbags.
• Dude Magnet: On only her first day of class, she already has all the boys asking if she is single, wanting to be her guide around the school, and swarming her when she sits down.
• Horrifying the Horror: An early hint we get that Maria is much more than just a New Transfer Student is that she has managed to terrify Baba Tetsuo, The Bully who normally towers over Kouta.
• Insult Backfire: Ayaka pulls a You Monster! on her upon learning that she ruined her, Makiko, and Tetsuo’s lives for sadistic amusement. She is unfazed:
  Ayaka stared at her with horror. “You…monster!”
  Maria smiled sweetly at her. “I’ve been called worse, and it’s not entirely wrong to begin with, so you might find I’m less than insulted by that.”
• New Transfer Student: She is a Latin American girl who transferred over to a Japanese high school in order to get information on, humiliate, and destroy Baba Tetsuo, a somewhat-wealthy heir to a hotel chain who has been causing trouble for her even-more-wealthy friends.
• Old Money: She takes pride in being the heiress of a great family that has existed since before the colonization of the Americas, and looks down on Nouveau Riche Baba Tetsuo.
• Pet the Dog: The reason she decided to save Kouta from suffering under Tetsuo’s bullying and stealing of his childhood friend is that he brought out her and Nobu’s protective instincts, like a little abused puppy. That and it lets her exercise her sadism with Tetsuo.
• Pragmatic Villainy: She is a wealthy Sadist who likes to make people suffer with that vast wealth, but only targets Asshole Victims. Not of out any moral code, but just to avoid the bad publicity that might come from harming a well-liked person.
• Rich Bitch: She is a wealthy heiress to a very powerful family who loves to use her wealth to screw people over for her own sadistic amusement, and only limits herself to bad people to leave her good reputation intact.
• Rich Boredom: As she says, she became such a sadist because being so rich has left her with little else to do but to use that wealth to crush those less powerful than her.
• Secretly Wealthy: She poses as a normal New Transfer Student from Latin America, but is secretly the heir to one of the wealthiest families in the world and a guest at the elite Roppongi parties.
• Sociopathic Hero: She is a sadistic Rich Bitch who happens to use her wealth to help Kouta get back at his bully and the two girls who betrayed him by shacking with the bully, and generally only targets Asshole Victims to satisfy her sadism, because doing so helps her keep her good reputation.
  You see, when you get to be as powerful as we are, normal diversions don’t quite cut it anymore. So, some of us go down Nobu’s route – extravagant, but exclusive parties, others take up golf, some keep their heads down, but then there are those like me, who enjoy hurting people.
  Of course, I can’t just hurt anyone. Being part of who we are means, like I said, keeping the status quo. And that means being careful – especially with our targets – the poorer they are, the more sympathetic they can be to the press, so they’re a no-go. So, instead of just hurting anyone, I hurt those whose pain improves my profile – scumbags, bottom feeders, frausters, cheaters, and the like.
• Spicy Latina: A Latin American beauty who is drooled over by Kouta and the class in her introduction, and while polite and refined with strangers and friends, she lets out her feisty, downright vicious nature with her enemies.
  Goddess.
  That’s what came to Kouta’s mind as he looked upon the girl at the front. She was, as her name suggested, most definitely foreign, and yet despite not conforming to most Japanese standards of beauty, she was nonetheless a stunner! Between the light, tanned skin that looked natural and well-cared for (compared to some gyaru fashionistas, for example), the clear, light-green eyes; naturally blonde hair, and curvy figure, she was about as far away from the typical yamato nadeshiko as one could get, and yet Kouta was certain not a single male eye wasn’t fixated upon her.

Nobu Yamagata

A wealthy man in Nobless Oblige who hosts and invites Tetsuo and his girlfriends to the Roppongi Club party. He is Maria Arias' equally sadistic childhood friend who wants to punish Tetsuo for causing trouble to them and their friends.

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• Always a Bigger Fish: Baba Tetsuo is the heir to a hotel company, and is able to use his wealth to get away with being The Bully in the school, with poor Kouta his favorite victim. Maria and Nobu laugh at that and boast how they, as the heirs to some of the most powerful families in the world, could easily destroy the Tetsuo business with paid negative review bombing and government health and safety inspections with planted evidence, and invites him and his girlfriends to an elite party specifically to publicly humiliate them and establish just how little Baba really is compared to them. In the process, they save Kouta from having to suffer under Tetsuo and give him lots of pretty ladies to fawn over him.
  Maria: ”Where I come from, I’d be called part of one of the great families,” Maria added sweetly. “It means that while this potato here acts all big and tough because his daddy owns a few hotels, my family has been powerful since the Americas were first colonized.”
• Childhood Friends: Maria briefly mentions them being this, presumably having been raised together with the upper echelons of global society.
• Faux Affably Evil: For a certain level of “evil”, he speaks in a jolly and faux-polite manner while flinging insult after insult at Tetsuo and his girlfriends, and eagerly describing how he and Maria will ruin their lives.