Character sheet for The Advent of Death's Daughter. Currently under construction.

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Main Character:

Madea Naoko

Accidental Marriage: When she can no longer hide from the dragon that's attracted to her "Object of Desire" title, which makes her a Lust Object, he goes full-tilt And Now You Must Marry Me. She tries to, politely, get him to back the hell off by pointing out how she's 1.) Human, 2.) Already engaged, even if it is against her will. 3.) Magically bound to the land she's on and absolutely not interested. He comes back with a bunch of Blue-and-Orange Morality Insane Troll Logic arguments that are entirely contradictory to each other to justify why she has no right to say "no." Having had enough, she comes at him with a weapon in a rage, he retaliates by coming at her with claws. End result: Their respective manas temporarily fuse and she's granted [The Dragon's Bride] title, to her shock and disgust.
The Ageless: One of her transmigration granted quirks means she will never age, thus she'll have a 17-year-old body until she gets killed.
Alternate Identity Amnesia: She has absolutely no recollection of what happens when "Drunk Nao" is in charge. On several occasions, she's been horrified when she learns of the aftermath.
Animal Motif: She's been referred to as a tiger at several points and she also has a powerful dragon motif going.
Berserk Button: Do not steal from her. Seriously, don't. Vitou tried to "help" her by attacking the guy she was fighting in chapter 184, and she responded by hurling lethal magic in his direction "as a warning" since all Vitou really accomplished was destroying the loot she was trying to earn and grabbing her exp away from her.
Best Served Cold: She knows she doesn't stand a chance against "Mystery Man" in a straight-up fight, or even when everything is stacked in her favor, so she's going to make herself strong enough to face him and then bring him to task for betraying her, treating her like a bargaining chip, selling her into a wedding against her will, and to kick her while she's down, "pranks" her by slapping her with a title that makes her a Lust Object, and destroying her prospects at a peaceful and successful life just for a laugh. Then "compensates" her by giving her a dungeon core and telling her to grow her own dungeon...
Beware the Nice Ones: She is very friendly, polite, and kind, and will always return the courtesy she's given, but even back in chapter 1, when she gets to the world of Dorne, the A-ranked adventurer party who picks her up immediately realizes she's very, very dangerous when provoked and pities the poor sod who really makes her angry.
Break the Cutie: She started the story with some serious emotional scars, as "Mystery Man" compels her with magic to confess to him. He then goes and builds her up, just to go and tear her down in the most traumatic way possible. In Chapter 157, he gets the adventurer's guildmaster of Orzak involved in outright forcing her to rank-up via the use of an ancient artifact to paralyze and disable her as he confiscates all her monster kills, many of which she was planning to serve as food in her local inn, treating them as voluntary proof of subjugation to raise her rank against her will as high as it can go, knowing full well about the Arranged Marriage, just for his own advancement, on the condition that "Mystery Man" would make it so Naoko can't raise a finger against him in retaliation.
The Call Knows Where You Live: Being the champion of Thanatos has put a bulls-eye on her, and Thanatos is a raging pervert!
Can't Hold His Liquor: Do not, under any circumstances, give her any alcohol. One sip and "Drunk Nao" comes out to play. Chaos always ensues.
The Cassandra: People almost never believe her when she mentions her accomplishments. Someone else they trust, or hard evidence, has to convince them. In their defense, her accomplishments are so far outside the norm that it would be weirder if people did believe her.
Combat Pragmatist: She doesn't mind fighting fairly in an honest spar where there's nothing to lose. In a real battle, or where there's something big at stake, she doesn't hesitate to bend the rules until they break or otherwise fight dirty, and seriously chafes against idiots who go full-tilt Honor Before Reason trying to call her out on it.
Cosmic Plaything: All the gods of Dorne see her as a Chew Toy, even her patron Thanatos.
Crime of Self-Defense: In the story proper, Duke Lorne tries to kill her for daring to defend herself after both of his grand-daughters come at her with lethal force. Anika, adventurer guild's receptionist, puts out a hit on her for daring to insult her back and Irina, a member of a criminal organization so vile royal decree has given orders to kill on sight, not only tries to repeatedly murder her over at least a week, but challenges her to a duel to the death and loses. The worst part is that Irina didn't even die to her hand, but by the act of one of her fellow criminals.
- In her backstory, she's treated as a monster because at least 12 men broke into her home, and she was found crying and scarred over her dead mother's and eldest sister's corpses with the 12 men in question dead, ruled by law to have died in clear-cut self-defense.
Crying Wolf: Weaponized. Anika Von Lorne, arrogant jerkass that she is, went out of her way to harass, insult, and antagonize Naoko every chance she got. When Naoko wisely ignored her, she would grab and yell at Naoko who would then act surprised and greet the guildmaster. Anika would briefly pause and turn around, at which point Naoko would escape. One day, the guildmaster does indeed show up, but Anika doesn't believe it, and continues to one-sidedly torment Naoko, until the guildmaster responds to Naoko's greeting, thus catching Anika in the act.
Difficult, but Awesome: The elementals love her and are happy to help, but they have wills of their own and don't always do as she asks.
Dismotivation: After a certain point in the story, she's compelled by forces beyond her control into an Arranged Marriage with the crown prince, against her will, the moment she becomes a rank-A adventurer, so she then has damn good reason to not want to advance anymore. Unfortunately for her, she gets slapped with a title that makes her a Lust Object, not just for humans, but powerful monsters too, so she's forced to advance, by the "achievement" of taking the monsters down, whether she wants it or not.
Does Not Like Men: Invoked. While on Earth, she had no issues with men, as a whole. Ever since she's been dragged to the world of Dorne, men have been throwing themselves at her and being incredibly resistant to the term "no." Even her patron, Thanatos, gave her a Forceful Kiss through fraud. Even so, she was content to admire handsome men from a distance, until she was dragged into an Arranged Marriage with Prince Votun against her will. Now she sees all men, save Hiiro, as filthy pigs.
Dude Magnet: To her extreme distress, guys just won't leave her alone, even before her [Object of Desire] title.
The Farmer and the Viper: She calls off her final attack on King Erik and Prince Vitou, after the two fired on her and her familiar, when everyone was far out at sea. As thanks, less than a week later, they summon her to the royal capital and force her into Altar Diplomacy, painfully bound and gagged by curse magic and treated like she isn't a person, or even in the room, her complaints ignored.
Fluffy Tamer: She repeatedly gets powerful and dangerous monsters to submit to her and become her pets.
Gotta Catch Them All: When she gets a legendary sword as loot from the corpse of a goblin king and realizes it's part of a set, she makes it her life's goal to collect the entire set. Unfortunately for her, at least two parts of that set are in the hands of sovereign kings.
G-Rated Sex: While she doesn't do hugging and kissing with Fulgur, she does share mana with him when she feels he's earned it. She later reveals that she's very judicious in doing this because Dragons are beings made of mana and getting too frisky could easily lead to a Surprise Pregnancy, which she's not ready for, yet.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: She starts the story with abysmal stats and just [Dark] and [Spirit] attribute magic, but in less than 20 chapters becomes a force to be reckoned with as she makes contracts with elementals, allowing her to bypass her lack of affinity with all the other aspects of magic.
Hero Ball: At multiple times, she trusts people when she really shouldn't. It bites her, hard, every single time.
Heroic BSoD: As a result of the guild master's little "prank" in chapter 157, Naoko fell into a depression and locked herself away in her inn, hiding from the world for a full week before she recovered her desire to show Prince Vitou, King Eric, and the Archduke why taking away her freedom is a really, really bad idea.
Honor Before Reason: There are so, so many ways she can scupper the Shotgun Wedding she's facing with Prince Vitou, not the least of which involves killing him in his sleep with her elemental spirit friends. Instead, she always gives him fair warning of her intentions to bite back at some point and the fact that she's going to subvert his intentions every chance she's got. Some of this is justified by the fact that Prince Vitou suddenly turning up dead will seriously harm a great many innocents in the process, or she would have killed Mr. Prince Charmless long ago.
Ideal Hero: Though her "honor has expenses", she's heroic because it's the right thing to do, not because of the reward. She protects innocents and helps the weak when she can, and she smites evil-doers when she must.
Just a Kid: To her annoyance, many people see her and presume she's, at most, 12-years-old, and push her around.
Lust Object: Invoked. She gets slapped with the title "Object of Desire" which compels living beings to seek her out and see her as the most desirable thing on the planet, to her chagrin as there's no way to shut it off, and as annoying as being swarmed by people is, this title also draws the attention of powerful monsters.
Magic Feather: Implied. At one point, Archduke "Mystery Man" feeds Naoko a cup of tea, and she consumes it without ill effects. Then he states that the tea had rum in it. She barely has time to say the words "You son-of-a-bitch!" before she passes out and "Drunk Nao" comes out to play.
Magic Knight: Her official class is technically magical swordsman once she reaches level 10, but it does fit the spirit of the trope.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Her [clan] defeats the [clan] "Blood Knight" when the latter attacks them, and Naoko herself beats down their boss, a famous S-rank adventurer, so hard the rest of his clan begs for mercy, with their most devout members defecting both in respect for Naoko's strength and to spare his life because he just refused to stop antagonizing her.
The Perils of Being the Best: As a direct result of being able to outfight just about everyone, she's near constantly antagonized by petty blowhards who think way too much of themselves, King Erik and Prince Vitou are desperate to put a leash on her and chain her down, the adventurer's guildmaster of Orzak only sees her as a strategic weapon, not a person, and last but not least, all the gods of the Fantasy Pantheon want her disposed of, both for outshining all their chosen "heroes" and for the fact that she wouldn't quietly let herself be shipped off to oblivion in the first place because she didn't meet their vain sense of aesthetics!
Poke the Poodle: Since she's under a curse where she can't retaliate against the Orzark guildmaster's heinous acts directly or indirectly, by physical or reputational harm, she goes for psychological torture. Not only does she reveal that she knows all of his embarrassing secrets, but spreads the word around the town of Orzark that they should all refer to him by one of his most embarrassing nicknames, without explaining the cause, and gifts him a little statue enchanted to make him remember every single humiliation his foolish acts brought him during his checkered adventuring past. Maybe getting blasted by Naoko's magic would have been more merciful.
Rage Breaking Point: Discussed. After Filgur blasts Vitou with a lightning bolt, which Vitou manages to avoid by a hair's breadth, Naoko states that she didn't attack him, as he hasn't yet crossed that line, but the instant that he does, she's going to come at him with lethal force, to the point that only his bones will remain, and for the record, he's really, really close to reaching that point.
Really 17 Years Old: Literally. She starts the story as a 17-year-old teen, and only recently turned 18, but she looks like she's maybe 12.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: When she can finally get to Kapitalia again after the little Arranged Marriage scheme Vitou, Erik and "Mystery Man" hatched, Vitou greets her at the gate, expecting hugs and kisses. He instead gets the cold shoulder. When he asks if she's angry, she really tears into him.
Vitou: “Are you mad Naoko-chan? Tell me what I did?”
Seriously? He is really asking this?
Naoko:“I don’t know Vitou, am I mad? It’s not like that thanks to you, your father and that other bastard that I am stuck with having to deal with an engagement and marriage with none other than royalty which I totally don’t want to have anything to do with.”
“Or maybe it is the fact that thanks to that pact you all made I am now stuck with a lifelong curse which I can never get rid of and it has already caused so much trouble for me and it will only continue to do so in the future.”
“How about the fact you are spying on me by having poor Luca, Ina and Simeon send reports regularly. I hate seeing those kids being torn every time they send reports. They are still kids for heaven’s sake, how can you make them do such a psychologically tiring job. It’s cruel to them. I also know that Ishikawa and Nakamura will send you reports about everything I did when I met them.”
“What about the two of them being told about the deal that went on, I don’t know Vitou, am I mad?”
I was preaching him and venting at the same time, and man it felt good.
Rebellious Spirit: She greatly values her freedom and trying to boss her around is a fundamentally bad idea. King Erik, who fears her power and tries to control her, in addition to trying to force her to marry his son to produce an heir simply refuses to acknowledge this.
Red Baron: "Queen", "Calamity of Crown Coliseum", "Elemental Empress".
Refused by the Call: At the start of the story, she is accidentally summoned to Dorn by goddess Rosa, who was targeting her friend Hiiro, but because she didn't meet the vain goddess's aesthetics, was dumped on the other 11 gods of the world who were equally vain and just threw her into the "underworld" to face Cessation of Existence. She would have none of it, and caused a bottle-neck, refusing to budge. Thanatos, the god of death, had to personally intervene and make her his champion to resolve the issue.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: In the aftermath of her soloing the Ogre Village, and the Boss monster, she notes the 12 heroes, bar Hiiro are terrified of her. She reasons that it's because she soloed the powerful boss, killing it with two precision decapitations in a matter of seconds. This is partially correct. What's really terrifying is that her rampage leading to that moment was spurred by said heroes, save Hiiro, pushing her too far into a rage causing her to snap, and they now know there's no way to stop her if her rage is directed at them.
- When she ditches Vitou and party, so she can have a little time alone in a dungeon, she not only gets the free agency to learn about Black Hand's plot to kidnap her, but manages to plant listening devices among the mooks. Something she never would have succeed in if she had continued to pall around with Vitou, since the Black Hand operatives didn't know her face, but did know his.
Science Hero: The world of Dorne may be a fantasy RPG Mechanicsverse, but real-world physics still apply.
- When facing massive swarms of living monsters, she destroys them from the inside with hard vacuum, and single nigh-impenetrable monsters get cooked alive from the inside with super-heated gas.
- When she finds herself facing a 6000 man undead army and seven skeletal dragons at the end of chapter 184, she traps the undead in a magic barrier and cooks them to final death with a gamma ray burst.
Seven Heavenly Virtues:
- Charity: She helps the downtrodden whenever she can. She buys strawberries and other "forest fruit" from a pack of orphans, not because she's particularly fond of strawberries (although she is) but because nobody else will buy them, and her purchases give the orphans the money they desperately need to live.
- Chastity: She may like to admire handsome men, from a distance, but her virtue doesn't come cheap.
- Honesty: Though there are times she keeps sensitive information to herself, she is very open and forthcoming. Trustworthy because she's as truthful as possible.
- Kindness: Provided you don't go out of your way to provoke and harass her, she's always friendly, polite, and willing to lend a helping hand.
- Diligence: She never gives up on an assigned task until it's carried out, even if she gives it to herself, like raising a couple of dozen teen-age adventurers into an elite force.
- Temperance: She likes luxury, of course, but she's content to simply have enough food, shelter, and clothing to live, and is perfectly willing to share when she's got more than enough for herself.
- Patience: She's long-suffering and is willing to take the long road to her goals if short-cuts would hurt innocents along the way.
Shipper on Deck: She ships Hiiro with Mai, and Millie with Nino.
Shotgun Wedding: Twice.
- Completely deconstructed with her engagement to Prince Vitou. The arrangement in question highlights that the only kind of guy who would look forward to being married to a woman who is being forced into it is an abusive narcissist who can only see her as an accessory to boost his own prestige, not as a person.
- Reconstructed in regards to her marriage with Fulgur, the dragon. Aside from pursuing her and insisting on her hand in marriage, and refusing to heed the word "no", due to cultural differences between his race and Naoko's, he can honestly say that she undertook the marriage ritual of her own volition, even if it was an accident, treasures her as the rarest and most unique existence in the world, and goes out of her way to make her happy, perfectly content to respect her boundaries and accept whatever affection she sends his way.
Spirited Competitor: She loves to fight for the thrill of the challenge, but does not like killing.
Summon Magic: She eventually figures out how to summon powerful beasts to help her in battle.
Superpowered Evil Side: While "Drunk Nao" is far more mischievous than outright evil, this still applies as "Drunk Nao" is crude, shameless, brazen, and completely unfettered, giving not a flip to social etiquette, rank, station, or consequences and is far more powerful.
Supreme Chef: She is a master chef, and makes all sorts of delicacies once she gets the chance, trapped in a cave trying to ride out her "Object of Desire" title that she never asked for.
Too Desperate to Be Picky: She so loathes the idea of being forced into Altar Diplomacy that she'd rather risk certain death. She nearly kills herself, literally, trying to break free of "Mystery Man's" bonds as he's carrying her, helpless, into her hotel room, captive, and then when she sees the "gift" he leaves behind, takes his note almost at its word and after examining the trinket, trusts the description stating it will grant her one wish, without naming the price. Using this trinket slaps her with the "Object of Desire" title rather than granting her wish to be free of the situation, to her horror. If what "Mystery Man" says is true, the worst part is that this "gift" is also irreversible and has fused itself to her soul!
The Unchosen One: Being summoned to Dorne was an accident, and the 12 gods of the Fantasy Pantheon tried to just chuck her into the Underworld to make her Deader than Dead, except she would have none of it.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: Truth be told, she's actually very, very fond of Fulgur, and it can easily be argued that he's earned it. In chapter 184, Prince Vitou's knights see Fulgur approaching, at Naoko's beck and call, to an emergency Prince Vitou himself asked Naoko to help deal with. The army responds by setting up a ballistae and ordering the dragon be shot down. Enraged, Naoko screams at them that any harm to the dragon and she will retaliate in kind.
What You Are in the Dark: Literally. In the middle of the night, she's riding her sea-serpent familiar to an island where she has an official adventurer's guild request. The ship captained by King Erik and Crown Prince Vitou fire on her, despite seeing that the SS+ ranked monster was [Tamed], and without warning. She immediately retaliates, but just before she sinks the offending ship, she sees the Crown Prince and calls off her attack. She could, and considering what she's later subjected to thanks to them probably should, have continued her attack, letting the ship be lost with all hands, with none the wiser.
The Worf Effect: With rare exception, she's been shown ROFL-Stomping whatever she came across, overcoming ridiculous odds, but when Archduke "Mystery Man" turns on her, she's as helpless before him as a newborn babe.

Heroes

Hiiro Nakanishi

Childhood Friend: He's known Naoko since they were both in kindergarten.
Dramatic Irony: When he's being questioned about Naoko's past by Prince Vitou and Hiiro goes into detail regarding Naoko being scorned in Japan for the Crime of Self-Defense, he bemoans "at least here, she's not seen as 'evil' for wanting to survive." If he knew she was being forced into a Shotgun Wedding because King Erik and Prince Vitou see her as "evil" for being too strong, he likely wouldn't have said a word to the prince, except maybe a nice expletive or two.
Entertainingly Wrong: Since he's stuck in the world of Dorne for over a month before Thanatos sends Naoko there, and the rumors concerning her don't match what he knows of her, he presumes that she's dead and lost forever and the rumors are about some other Naoko... until he sees her in person under the sway of "Drunk Nao."
Only Friend: He stuck by Naoko, through thick and thin, no matter what people said about her.
Sickening Sweethearts: With fellow hero Mai Inoue. Naoko approves.

Nakamura Daisuke

The magical expert of Hiiro's party.

The Archmage: In training. He's got mastery of four elements, earth, fire, wind, and water.
Aura Vision: He can see a person's mana field.
Awesome by Analysis: He's able to reverse engineer, but not duplicate, Naoko's Vacuum feat by simply having the aftermath explained to him, by someone who doesn't even comprehend what he saw.
Demonic Possession: The patron goddess that brought him to the world takes over his body in the middle of the night, shambles it over to Prince Vitou and tells him that he's on the brink of destroying his nation, using the exact same terms Naoko did when she warned him he was going too far in trying to force her into marriage with himself. Rather than take this as a warning to leave Naoko alone, and let her cool off, hopefully forgetting about all his transgressions, this only makes him more paranoid and desperate to tie her down by marrage to himself.
Magic Eye: He tries to use his special eye-related skill to peek into "Drunk Nao's" stats without her noticing. Unfortunately for him, she did notice, and dragged him into a drinking contest at a 10 gold coin buy in. He did not last long.
They Just Dont Get It: Naoko punishes him for using his Magic Eye to spy on her stat sheet and then turn around and give that information to Vitou. Rather than learn his lesson, he goes and spies on her again, sharing even more private information against her will.

Inuoe Mai

Hiiro's sweetheart and a powerful fire mage.

Hot Witch: She's a mage and gorgeous.
Playing with Fire: She's blessed to have a strong affinity with fire magic.
Shrinking Violet: She's painfully shy.
Sickening Sweethearts: With Hiiro. Naoko thinks they make a cute couple, and "Drunk Nao" gives them her blessings.
Squishy Wizard: Powerful mage, but weak to non-magical attacks.

Ishiwaka Taichi

A fellow player of Naoko's favorite "training regiment" ie, VRMMO, "Free World".

Awesome by Analysis: Watching and studying Naoko's sword-style, he managed to cobble together a functional facsimile, all on his own. Naoko is duly impressed, even if it is an inferior copy.
Fanboy: While he was on Earth and played "Free World," he adored The Calamity of Crown Coliseum and strived to emulate her and her sword-style. When he meets Naoko, who is the titular Calamity, he repeatedly tries to get her to make him her apprentice in sword-play.
Magic Knight: Can wield a sword and use magic.
Master Swordsman: He manages to copy Naoko's sword-style making him almost unrivaled.
Please, I Will Do Anything!: He does not give up trying to get Naoko to make him an apprentice and just keeps on begging, even after Naoko tells him to his face that she has no interest in tutoring him and plans to take her sword style with her to the grave.

Izumi

One of the latest introduced heroes.

Amputation Stops Spread: Fortunately for him, chopping off his hand managed to stop the spread of Naoko's necrotizing curse, or he would have been lost beyond hope of recovery.
The Bet: He bets Naoko that she can't beat most of the ogres in an Ogre Village "trial" set up by the gods, whoever loses the bet gives up an Epic or better rated piece of equipment. He welches on the bet when Naoko succeeds with a bit of Combat Pragmatism.
Dumb Muscle: The only "strategy" he can understand in combat is going up to things and smacking them with his weapon until they die.
Honor Before Reason: He's insulted that Naoko led a swarm of ogres to a pit-trap filled with water and drowned them, rather than take them down in straight-up combat. Naoko calls him out on it.
Lethally Stupid: He tries to drag the rest of the hero party he's with into Naoko's "Instant Death" Radius, convinced that Naoko's warning is just a bluff because "Dark and Spirit magics are the weakest in the world" and "Naoko can only win a fight with cheap tricks." He winds up getting his arm amputated to save his life.
Life-or-Limb Decision: As a result of his own stupidity, ignoring the warnings of the rest of the heroes with him, he runs into Naoko's killing field and gets exposed to her necrotizing curse. Even with all the light magic of the rest of the party, this curse could not be broken or cured, and it was spreading up his arm, decaying his flesh to the bone. The only hope to stop it was to chop the affected area off.
Underestimating Badassery: Combined with Suicidal Overconfidence. He thinks himself vastly superior to Naoko, even after hearing of her exploits, so he foolishly rushes in after she's flooded the entire "Ogre Village" with a cloud of Dark Magic so dense, Nakamura, with his Magic Eye, can't penetrate. The party was fortunately able to drag him back out when he started screaming, but had to chop off one of his limbs to save his life.
Wound That Will Not Heal: Even though this new world has magic that can regrow limbs, it won't work on the lost hand caused by coming into contact with Naoko's curse mist.

Gods

Rosa

The goddess that brings Hiiro and Naoko to Dorne.

Jerkass God: She abjectly refuses to send either Hiiro or Naoko back to Earth, sending him to Dorne against his will, and dumping Naoko on the other 11 gods who are equally vain and dismissive, ultimately abandoning her to The Underworld, hoping to be rid of her forever.
Light Is Not Good: She's the goddess of light and she's a murderer who lured Naoko and Hiiro to their deaths by assuming the form of a small child and luring them into the path of a truck, and then forces Hiiro into the world of Dorne and casting off Naoko like trash.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: She takes the form of a small child and sets herself up to look like she's about to be run over by a truck to lure Hiiro to his death so she can snatch up his soul to send him to Dorne as her champion. Hiiro never spots said child, but Naoko does, causing her to try a rescue, getting her run over, which in turn causes Hiiro to get run over trying to rescue her, which is what causes her to wind up in this mess.

Nobility

Earl Toriwa Orzak

The lord of the village of Orzak.

Cuteness Proximity: When he lays eyes on Naoko's pet Wind Bear cubs, he goes gaga and confiscates them to pet and play with every chance he gets.
Entertainingly Wrong: When he sees Naoko double over and lose her lunch as a swarm of over 2000 monsters is suffering a Cruel and Unusual Death, he presumes that she's overcome by unjustified feelings of guilt, since Naoko is a good and upstanding citizen. What's really bugging Naoko though is a migraine inducing cacophony messages regarding the deaths resounding in her head.
Red Baron: "Disappearing Demon"
Sacred Hospitality: When Naoko and Kasim Loren are in his home, at Kasim's orders, he protects her as his guest, to Kasim's disgust and rage.

Duke Kasim Von Loren

The grandfather of both Irina and Anika.

Aristocrats Are Evil: Since he's a duke, he sees himself above the law. This quickly turns around to bite him.
Blinded by Rage: He tries to hurl a fireball at Naoko in Earl Ozark's house despite being in the presence of Earl Ozark who can rival Prince Vintou in battle, because he's enraged that Naoko refuses to be cowed by his irrational tantrums demanding she be punished for the Crime of Self-Defense.
Compelling Voice: His skill [Ruler] allows him to issue irresistible commands by speech. He uses this to try and make both Earl Ozark and Naoko defenseless so he can kill them to soothe his ego and in revenge for his criminal granddaughters, respectively. Earl Ozark retaliates by slicing out his tongue.
He Knows Too Much: En route to Kapitalia to stand trial, his criminal organization buddies try to break him out, or kill him if that proves untenable.
In the Blood: Naoko suspects his arrogance is genetic as he and both his granddaughters are arrogant to the extreme.
Les Collaborateurs: During his trial, he's forced to admit he's been a collaborator with Black Hand for his own personal profit, not that his granddaughter Irina was a member outside his knowledge.
Revenge Before Reason: He tries to kill Naoko in Earl Orzak's house, despite the law not being on his side, and all that's listed in the Revenge Myopia entry below.
Revenge Myopia: He demands Naoko give him restitution for Irina's death despite four compelling facts in Naoko's favor. 1.) Irina was exposed as a member of Black Hand, which means royal decree demands she be killed on sight. 2.) Irina publicly confessed to trying to murder Naoko repeatedly at the request of her younger sister, Anika. 3.) Irina challenged Naoko and demanded a duel to the death, which she lost. 4.) Naoko did not kill Irina, one of her fellow Black Hand members killed her to prevent her from revealing organization secrets.
Tongue Trauma: On the witness stand, he's only asked yes/no questions because he can't talk with a missing tongue.

King Erik

The king of the country where Naoko and the 12 heroes find themselves.

And Then What?: Presuming his "master plan" of forcing Naoko into a marriage all comes to pass without a hitch, there are still glaring consequences he hasn't even begun to consider.
- It's only a matter of time before his wife finds out that there was no Love Confession or romantic marriage proposal, and that Naoko was literally dragged in off the streets, bound with magic, and forced into marriage with Vitou against her will.
- Naoko has repeatedly and loudly objected to the idea of marriage itself, even drawing a sword on King Erik when he tried to dismiss her as some "stupid woman who shouldn't involve herself in politics."
- Even without the marriage fiasco, King Erik has repeatedly antagonized Naoko through various means, not the least of which is firing on her while she was crossing the ocean on her pet Leviathan. Marrying her off to Vitou is only going to make it worse.
- Prince Vitou is a borderline Domestic Abuser before he's married to Naoko, and makes little effort to hide it.
- Naoko, when compelled to answer honestly, has pointed out that if she's sufficiently antagonized, declared an enemy of the country, and the entire army, including the 12 summoned heroes were sent after her, there would be no survivors whatsoever, and she's only gotten considerably stronger since then. Yet he still thinks that somehow, marriage alone will negate the fact that he just keeps on antagonizing and provoking her, and once she's married, she will happily agree to produce an heir for Vitou, even when Vitou himself says that's extremely unlikely.
Appeal to Tradition: Since his own Altar Diplomacy marriage turned out okay, even if his Top Wife deeply resents it, he presumes that forcing Naoko into one with his own son will turn out okay too. He abjectly refuses to believe that Naoko's circumstances is an entirely different brand of beast than the circumstances that led his own wife to be married to him, and unless there's some kind of "loyalty" magic that's enacted as part of the marriage ritual, bossing Naoko is not going to go well, which is something else he just blithely ignores.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When first introduced, he seemed like a jolly king acting only in the best interests of his nation, doing what he has to do due to the trappings of the bureaucracy he's saddled with, and his antagonistic actions against Naoko were simple blunders because he doesn't know any better. As of the most recent chapters, it's crystal clear that even his immediate family doesn't know the full depth of his active, intentional, and thinly veiled malice. He's despicable, knows he's despicable, but hides it beneath a "benevolent" exterior so he can pursue the trappings being king grants him.
Bullying a Dragon: He knows that if he pisses off Naoko, and declares her an enemy of the state, even if he marshals all of his knights, plus the 12 heroes, and has them go at her all together, absolutely none of them would survive the ensuing battle, and chances are good she would still escape with her life, because he asked her straight up and compelled her to answer honestly. Afraid of her power, he continuously tries to tie her down to his country by whatever means he can, especially by forcing her to marry the crown prince, frequently getting into fights with said prince when he realizes it's a bad idea to force her to do anything, and refuses to see how this is antagonizing her.
Condescending Compassion: When he's got Naoko in his office, outlining the pre-marriage festivities, he proclaims "this schedule is being set up for your convenience." Naoko internally retorts that if he actually cared about her convenience in the slightest, he wouldn't be forcing her into a marriage in the first place.
Dark Secret: There's a great deal that King Erik is hiding from everyone else, even his close family. For example, there's a magical dungeon with a dragon in it under his castle, which Naoko stumbled upon in chapters 170 and 171.
Did Not Think This Through: He sees an SS+ rank monster in the distance as he's far at sea, is informed that it's thousands of years old, and is [Tamed]. Despite knowing nothing about the monster itself or the person who tamed it, he orders the ship's crew to open fire, trying to get himself and his son some quick EXP. If Naoko wasn't the tamer, and she didn't just happen to realize the ship was under the command of the royalty, he'd be regretting his idiocy in Davy Jones's locker.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: When Naoko testifies about her experience at Earl Orzak's mansion, he states that she needs three witnesses, who are all nobles, to vouch for her testimony. Since Earl Orzak, who is one of them, implies this is clearly not normal trial etiquette, it's hard to avoid the unfortunate implication that this is a Strawman Political reference to Saudi Arabia's policy where a woman's testimony is meaningless in court, especially in a rape case, unless she brings forward three male witnesses to vouch for her.
Domestic Abuse: Though he keeps it very, very well hidden. His wife wasn't a political marriage, but a captive. By use of a magic title, he captured her and forced her to marry him, making it magically impossible for her to hate him for it, and yes, she's cursed to suffer for it for the rest of her life.
Evil All Along: For most of the story, he looked like a bumbling oaf that simply didn't know better. Chapter 174 reveals that he is indeed an evil sot who enslaved a dragon and a greater spirit, shoved them into a dungeon, and has been tormenting them. When Naoko comes along and wrecks the dungeon, freeing the dragon and spirit in the process, he swears to make her suffer in self-gratifying vengeance. Then we find out the truth of his marriage in chapter 178.
The Good King: Despite his many, many flaws, he is a good ruler, and his nation prospers under his reign.
Henpecked Husband: Believe it or not, this misogynist is terrified of his wife, the queen. She was married to him against her will for political reasons and hates it just as much as Naoko hates her impending marriage to Vitou. Both Prince Vitou and King Erik are desperate to keep her from finding out that Naoko is not entering a marriage willingly, as her retribution will be legendary in its fierceness and fury. In fact, he resents not being able to sell off his own daughters (sired through other wives and concubines) into political marriages because his wife would turn on him in the blink of an eye and really let him have it.
Obstructive Bureaucrat: Duke Kassim Von Loren's trial wasn't a trial, it was a four day filibuster. Day one involved nothing but introducing each and every noble present with long, drawn out titles. Day two involved parading all of Duke Loren's supporters and letting them almost literally kiss the duke's ass! Day three involved Duke Loren's political rivals being given leave to go kiss Earl Orzak's ass with the poor Earl denied the chance to withdraw himself from the situation. It's only on day four that testimony can finally be heard, and the day ends with King Erik revealing that the whole thing could have been wrapped up in minutes when he whips out his sword and uses its lie-detector function to force Duke Loren to confess.
Revenge Myopia: Over the course of the story, he's put Naoko through a great deal of grief for his own selfishness and paranoia. When she unwittingly retaliates by destroying The Dungeon Of Light under his castle, he swears vengeance and seeks to make sure she suffers.
King Erik: "I had considered sparing you, Naoko, but now I will make certain that you suffer."
Smug Snake: To the ire of the audience, he carries himself as if he's always the smartest man in the room, and women are hardly worth considering.
Stay in the Kitchen: When he's in negotiations with Archduke "Mystery Man", over Naoko's fate, he shouts down Naoko when she objects, loudly saying "Women should stay out of politics!" and draws his sword on her when she objects to that, seeing as said "politics" involve her very life. He then has the gall to be shocked and terrified that she draws her sword in response to him drawing his.
Straw Misogynist: Prior to the Altar Diplomacy negotiations, there was room for doubt, as his dismissiveness of Naoko had other explained and plausible reasons, but the moment he shouted "Women have no business in politics!", it became obvious that his dismissive tendency revolves around Naoko's gender, not anything else.
Too Dumb to Live: He issues a royal edict commanding Naoko to attend a tea-party with him in attendance and then commands her to drink wine, ignoring her trepidation and the warnings of his son, who knows what she's like as "Drunk Nao", presuming that there's no way anyone would get drunk on wine that weak... On the one hand, Archduke "Mystery Man" physically removing the wine from Naoko's hands may have saved his life. On the other, the Archduke then reveals his true colors and puts Naoko in a situation she's consistently demonstrated she'd happily risk death to avoid, and then goes on to treat her as a non-person.

Prince Vitou

Abhorrent Admirer: Prince Vitou's appearance may be handsome, and he may be well connected, being a prince and all, but his personality is the absolute worst match possible for Naoko. He's controlling, overprotective, smothering, nosy, intrusive, dismissive, possesive, and completely wrapped up in himself. Yet, he honestly has the gall to be shocked and enraged that Naoko does not want to marry him, blatantly tells him so, very bluntly, which he absolutely refuses to acknowledge, and he has the cheek to say she's the one who doesn't listen to others.
Aesop Amnesia: Downplayed. After the tournament, he realizes Naoko would rather risk death than actually marry him, and trying to force her is a bad idea, frequently getting into fights with his father who thinks she's too powerful to leave alone, and chaining her down with marriage, and forcing her to bear the prince's heirs, is the perfect way to chain her down. When Naoko is forced into Altar Diplomacy, against her will, by agreement between King Eric and Archduke "Mystery Man", he starts looking forward to the wedding, even though he still has reservation about the Archduke's motives. In his defense, he was also bound by magic to keep from objecting at the time, but Naoko rightly suspects that his only reason for respecting her wishes was fear of the Archduke, not concern for her well being.
Attempted Rape: In chapter 215, he deliberately gets himself drunk and physically overpowers Naoko, trying to drag her into his bed. Naoko, thankfully, manages to protect herself by throwing a succubus at him. The next morning he has the gall to wonder why Naoko is pissed off.
Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Which he's constantly warned against by many, including his own mother, Tenryu, and even the patron goddess who brought Nakajima to the world. Of course, he's got his head shoved so far up his backside, that every time he hears the warning, he becomes more determined to the path he's warned not to go down, full-tilt Self-Fulfilling Prophecy style.
Bad People Abuse Animals: If his treatment of animals is any indication of what kind of a husband and father he'll be, Naoko is right to not want to give him an heir, ever. His pet wyvern, Sharp Beak, is a prime example. The poor animal was sold to him, to Naoko's regret, when he abused royal authority to make her sell it to him, as an egg, and Naoko's sworn to never sell him any others. Not only has Vitou used an unseen magic ritual to artificially age it to maturity, thus all but guaranteeing that it will never mature mentally, but he's fond of locking it in cages of earth, fire, or even lightning when it's hurt and scared to keep it from running away... and he can't bring himself to understand why Naoko wants nothing to do with him.
Byronic Hero: He is indeed a heroic individual who wants to be a good king and is deeply concerned about the welfare of his country, as a whole, but when it comes to individuals, he sees nothing wrong with shackling them down and stripping away their freedom "for the greater good" and is also very quick to sing his own praises until it's abjectly pointed out to him by a greater power that his heroic contribution wasn't the best or the most noteworthy.
Dirty Coward: While he may appear to be a brave champion of the people, the truth of the matter is that he only appears brave because he's actually too cowardly to admit the truth to anyone, even himself. He resisted his father's insistence on forcing a marriage with Naoko only because he was scared of the Archduke's condemnation, and when the Archduke forces Naoko into a marriage, with Naoko clearly distressed, he'd rather risk Naoko's wrath than rebuke the Archduke. To top it all off, he hides behind the Archduke's name as he tries to force Naoko to look like she and he are Sickening Sweethearts so his mother doesn't get angry and ream him out for forcing a girl into marriage for political reasons.
Entitled to Have You: He absolutely refuses to let Naoko have her own agency and insists that she marry him, her consent or well-being be damned.
The Fighting Narcissist: While he is indeed powerful enough to give Naoko a serious challenge, to the point where her chances against him are minute, on her best day, he doesn't respond well to actually taking damage, and breaks the tournament rules, turning the arena into a field of magma when Naoko manages to scratch his cheek. Fortunately for Naoko, she expected this and might still have won, if not for outside interference.
Half-Human Hybrid: Though he's not aware of it. He's half-dragon, on his mother's side.
Hate Sink: While he started the story a fairly heroic character, wiling to risk his life for the sake of his people, even having a backstory where he risked certain death facing a stampede of thousands of monsters to protect the capital, rescued by the Archduke, the fact that he has absolutely no respect for Naoko's free agency, seeing Naoko only as an accessory to boost his own sense of self-worth, constantly spies on her and refuses to let her have any privacy, and as of chapter 162, starts making open threats against her well-being by promising to bring the Archduke to mess with her if she doesn't comply with his demands to let herself be shown around like a trophy, has completely alienated the entire fanbase, even his most die-hard supporters turning on him. As of chapter 162, everyone's wondering why Naoko doesn't kill him and his misogynistic father.
Hypocrite:
- He's fond of constantly shoving himself into Naoko's business, spying on her, refuses to see her as a person, and threatens her with the Archduke if she doesn't do things his way, but when she gives him the silent treatment the moment she gets fed up with it, that is "rude and immature."
- "There's no need to attack me, Nao-chan! I just want to talk!" Says the man who used attack magic on Naoko after loudly proclaiming how he's going to show her how to treat him with respect.
I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Instead of all the women in the kingdom who would happily say "I do", he prefers Naoko, who would rather die than marry him.
Like Father, Like Son: He looks at marriage the same way that his father does, ie, if she's not being forced to marry him, he's not interested, and woe if she objects. The only thing keeping him from being even more despicable is the threat of retaliation.
Moral Myopia:
- After conspiring with his father and Archduke "Mystery Man" to force Naoko into marriage with himself against her will, pinning her down with dark magic, slapping her with a life-long curse that can not be broken or removed, in addition to constantly spying on her, giving her no privacy whatsoever, and genuinely doing everything in his power to delude himself into thinking that she'd somehow like it, he has the gall to be enraged and accuse her of betraying him when he has his "hero" spies bring over her stat sheet that they somehow managed to scry without her knowledge, and he reads that she has the [Dragon's Bride] title.
- He's got a peculiar sense of chivalry. Leaving Naoko unescorted in the city of Kapitalia is against his moral principles, but having her married to himself against her will is not...
Narcissist: The only person he truly loves is himself. He sees himself as a great catch and thus his "affection" to Naoko is merely a self-delusion that she will eventually swoon all over him. He can't handle criticism, seeing Naoko as "childish" because she doesn't like being caged. He thinks that because he's a prince, he deserves to be worshipped. He can't fathom why his actions are at fault for the fact that Naoko hates him. Lastly, since Naoko refuses to "show him respect" and ultimately loses patience with his one-sided "affection," retaliating with trickery and violence, since words are clearly not working, he wants her dead!
Psychological Projection: Since he sees himself as a great catch that any woman would want to marry at the first opportunity, he thinks Naoko also sees him as a great catch and can't comprehend for the life of him why she'd rather die than marry him, deluding himself that she just doesn't know him well enough and will fall for him eventually.
Revenge Myopia: He's hunted down Naoko, used attack magic against her, insists on forcing her to marry him against her will, "for her own good and the good of the country," puts her under house arrest for the "crime" of trying to get out of a marriage she does not want, and tries to micromanage, dominate, and control every aspect of her life. When she retaliates, as she repeatedly states she intends to do, he has the unmitigated gall to get murderously enraged and demand vengeance.
Selective Obliviousness: To Naoko's unending dismay, he abjectly refuses to acknowledge that she is clearly not looking forward to being his bride.
Naoko: "You need to understand that I have my own will!"
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The primary reason he's desperately trying to dominate Naoko and drag her to the altar, kicking and screaming, is that he sees her as far too strong, and wants to make sure she doesn't turn on the kingdom. This is precisely what makes her rebel, making her seek even more power so she can break free of the chains he and his buddy Tenryu are holding her down with, which in turn makes him even more desperate to chain her down. His mother has already warned him that if this vicious cycle continues, Vitou shouldn't be surprised if Naoko bolts and flees the country entirely. Vitou responds by lying to her and himself by stating that Naoko doesn't hate him, he thinks...
Stay in the Kitchen: He knows Naoko's a powerful warrior, likes being an adventurer, because he first met her in the adventurer's guild, and yet, he gets "chivalrous" and refuses to let her handle her own affairs, keeping her under house arrest in the castle as he's scheming to force her into a wedding with himself, and absoltely refuses to let her go on adventures, unless he's there hovering over her like a helicopter parent. He abjectly refuses to belive that she absolutely hates this!
Stealing the Credit: When Naoko comes up with the idea to tame wyverns to create an air-force, he learns of it when the spies he's got in Naoko's [clan] inform him, so he copies her idea and passes it off as his own.
Sympathy for the Hero: When Vitou learns that the reason his father pushed him into a Shotgun Wedding with Naoko is nothing more than a Pretext for War with the country of Vilikis, completely ignoring the fate of the citizens, he has a complete and total meltdown, causing Naoko to let him cry his eyes out and lets him sleep beside her until he regains his composure the next morning, but makes it clear that she'd like their relationship to be Just Friends, and does not want to marry him, ever.
Terms of Endangerment: He's insistent on calling Naoko "Nao-chan" no matter how much she rebuffs him, and he's an abusive narcissist who is forcing her to marry him against her will and threatens her with the Archduke when she refuses to go through his grand-parade where he's just showing her off as a trophy.
They Just Dont Get It: It doesn't matter how blunt Naoko is or who advises him, not even his own mother. He is so, so fixated on dominating and possessing Naoko "for the good of the kingdom" that he calls it "illogical" that forcing her to marry him to guarantee her loyalty is having the exact opposite effect. By the time chapter 186 rolls around the situation has devolved to the point Naoko and Vitou can only interact by having heated shouting matches at each other, and he still refuses to get it.
Too Dumb to Live: In chapters 185 and 186, he learns that the second prince of Vilikis, a known womanizer, has lured Naoko into his own bedroom and is trying to ply her with wine, and he knows what happens when "Drunk-Nao" comes out to play. So he gathers a couple of "heroes" and rather than intervene immediately, just stands outside the door snickering because he's been wanting to prank Prince Marcell for a while. Wars have started for less!
Took a Level in Jerkass: The more he comes on screen, the more despicable he gets, both in Naoko's point of view chapters and his own. By the time chapter 162 rolls around, he stops respecting Naoko's free agency altogether and acts like a common domestic abuser, even siccing monsters on Naoko to block her way and threatening her with the Archduke if she objects to anything at all.
Uptight Loves Wild: Like his father, he is very rigid with the protocol of ruling the kingdom. While he finds regular Naoko charming, he'd much, much rather be married to "Drunk Nao," but he'll never publicly admit it.
Would Hurt a Child: He exploited three children in horrible financial straits to spy on Naoko, and rat her out. Naoko calls him out on this because said children were horribly torn by having to report on someone who was treating them kindly and doting on them.

Archduke "Mystery Man" Tenryu

A man who claims to be Naoko's adoptive older brother.

Always Someone Better: Naoko, on her best day, can't even scratch him on his worst, and she's tried.
Ambiguously Related: He constantly claims to be Naoko's adoptive elder brother but never provides proof to this claim.
Big, Screwed-Up Family: He finally reveals proof that he and Naoko are step-children of Thanatos, with Black King and two Black Duke as other step-siblings.
Cavalry Betrayal: When King Erik ordered Naoko to drink wine, he shows up, physically stops her from complying, but just as Naoko thinks she's been rescued from a Morton's Fork, he starts using her as a bargaining chip to get what he wants from the king, in the form of a certain territory the kingdom didn't want anyway. The worst part is that there's no way Naoko could have seen that coming since the Archduke had spent months proving himself trustworthy, even saving her life on a couple of occasions.
Cruel Mercy: He "reluctantly" lets Naoko flourish and prosper for a while, just so he can traumatize her by smacking her down again.
Et Tu, Brute?: When he turns on Naoko and offers up her hand in marriage to Prince Votou, against her will and chaining her down with dark magic when she objects, she responds with unbridled rage, and if she could have attacked him, she would have happily done so.
Evil Versus Evil: He and the head of Black Hand are completely antagonistic to each other, and the last time they clashed, Tenryu was the clear victor.
False Friend: From his introduction, sneaking up on, or teleporting near, Naoko, he's spent months wooing her, giving her gifts, watching over and protecting her, and being there when she needed him most... just to summarily treat her hand in marriage as a bargaining chip to get a territory where he can create his own dungeons, then as a final twist of the knife, he leaves some Schmuck Bait with a note as she's magically chained to her hotel room, promising to grant her a single wish. Too Desperate to Be Picky, she takes it and gets slapped with a title that makes her a Lust Object, even drawing powerful monsters to her location, then laughs at her when she berates him for it.
For the Evulz: He had no reason to slap Naoko with the "Object of Desire" title, he just enjoyed doing it and abjectly refuses to remove it, claiming that even if he wanted to, it's impossible, and laughs at her.
Hidden Agenda Villain: Forcing Naoko to marry Vitou is not his end-game, if he even has an end-game, despite how much Vitou deludes himself otherwise. When Vitou uses a magic signal flare to summon him, hoping that Tenryu would force Naoko out of the Dragon Eye lake, where she's collecting discarded dragon scales and visiting her in-laws, on Fulgur's side, he brushes off Vitou and helps Naoko instead.
No Name Given: For some strange reason, he refuses to reveal his name. Prince Vitou finally exposes it during the engagement ceremony to Naoko in chapter 177.
Resurrective Immortality: Nino says that this "man" once went to the island of Boru on the warpath for a certain mineral, killing where he went, but when the elves there fought back, although they could kill him, he wouldn't stay dead.
Vague Age: According to Nino, he is the same man who visited the island of Boru, killing as he pleased, trying to get at a mineral called "Silver Dust," six hundred years ago!

Baron Georgov

A small town noble's son who decides to try and obstruct Naoko and steal the credit after she clears the Temple of Rain quest. He quickly learns why this is a bad idea, twice, once from her and once again from his own father, who he runs to and whines for help after she scares him off.

Aesop Amnesia: Or Ignored Epiphany depending on who you ask. Naoko terrifies him and his little party of sycophants not to go around browbeating and mugging people they don't know because there's no way to know when they'll find themselves facing way more than they can handle. He runs to his father, hears Naoko was not born a noble and starts to puff himself back up again, preparing to hunt Naoko down until his father realizes who she is and spells out that she was given a higher rank than his by the king, and even if he wanted to rescue his son from her wrath would be completely unable since she's capable of fighting the crown prince to a draw.
Like Father, Unlike Son: His father pointedly does not approve of this teenage brat being an arrogant prick who goes around puffing himself up and browbeating everyone he comes across. He's tried everything, including pairing him up with an adventuring party, to try and rein him in, but he's turned said party into his lackeys. When his father hears him brag about messing with "Elemental Empress" Naoko, that's when he gives up and tells the boy that he won't be able to save his sorry hide this time, even if he wants to.
Mugging the Monster: Literally. He and his party blockade the exit of the Temple of Rain after she completed the quest, demand her valuables, and boast using his noble title that the adventurer's guild won't have her back because he sees her as some no-name commoner he can smack around. After being given three chances to back off, willingly, and refusing to do so, Naoko drops the bomb that she's a higher-ranked adventurer than his entire party put together, a higher ranked noble than he is, and drowns the entire party with dark magic just to show them the difference in power between them, with her being in the dominant position. The party wisely lets her pass.
Oh, Crap!: When he's informed by his father who Viscount "Elemental Empress" Naoko is and what she's capable of, he stops bragging, smirking, and laughing, turns pale, and makes an internal note to never cross her path again, and should he accidentally find himself doing so, turning immediately around and running away as far and fast as his little legs let him.
Small Name, Big Ego: He's the son of a baron from a back-water town, not even the inheritor of the title, yet uses his title to go around browbeating anyone and everyone he comes across, running back to his father to whine that the family was insulted when someone takes him to task on it.
Stealing the Credit: That was certainly his intention when he blockades the exit to the Temple of Rain and mugged Naoko. He doesn't even try to hide it. Naoko might have well been within her rights to kill him and his party of sycophants where they stood, but chose not to.

Queen Luana. Warning spoilers.

King Erik's wife and the high Queen.

And Now You Must Marry Me: King Erik somehow managed to capture her and force her to marry him against her will, bound by a magic title and unable to hate him, no matter what he does to her.
Bullying a Dragon: She is the dragon, literally. The only reason she hasn't torn King Erik to shreds is that she's compelled to love him by a magic title.
Glamor Failure: Her human disguise cracks and frays when she's angry, and the reveal that Naoko's being forced to marry Vitou by the machinations of her husband, her son, and Archduke Tenryu pisses her off.
The Jinx: Weaponized. When she's enraged, the target of her ire has everything related to luck go badly for him. When she learns from Naoko how Prince Vitou and King Erik are scheming to put her into an Awful Wedded Life, both men have their fortunes sour in a hurry. The only ways to get out of this are to flee the area of effect and stay out of it, or to have her completely forgive you, and the latter is stated by Vitou to be very, very difficult.
Obfuscating Stupidity: King Erik deludes himself into thinking she's a Brainless Beauty, but she was in fact aware of his lies from the beginning, she just couldn't act on it, so she waited until the engagement party to speak with Naoko, alone, to confirm her suspicions.
The Reveal: She lays out quite a few nasty things that King Erik's done to her in chapter 178.
This Is Unforgivable!: She loves her son, Vitou, and would like him to marry a nice girl like Naoko, but having her forced into a marriage and made to suffer the same way she was is something she will not tolerate.

Orzak Village

Mylene

The innkeeper where Naoko sleeps, at least until she buys a plot of land near Orzak village and builds her own house.

Apron Matron: She not only runs the inn, but the inn's kitchen.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Naoko's earned quite a bit of goodwill, so why not let her try out the kitchen for a bit and see what kind of treats she's going to make. What's more, she agrees to try the "forest fruit" that Naoko baked into said treats, despite foods from the forest having a bad reputation, when Naoko tries said fruit right in front of her, and then bakes strawberry shortcake! Her faith is rewarded with a sweet sensation she can rarely indulge in.
Sweet Tooth: She adores sweets, but since sugar is expensive in the region, rarely gets a chance to indulge.

Royal Capital Kapitalia

Blood Knight Group

A [clan] of adventurers that declared war on Naoko's Dragon's Descent [clan] because one of their members antagonized Naoko, tried to steal the credit for her subjugating a wyvern, and got himself electrocuted when he grabbed her arm and refused to let go.

Breaking the Fellowship: The [clan] was disbanded when Naoko offered those who fought bravely to the end a place in hers while the rest of their team-mates ran away like the cowards they are.
Curbstomp Battle: On the wrong end when they went after Naoko's group, to the point their most dedicated fighters begged for mercy from Naoko when their S-class leader refused to stop antagonizing her.
Dirty Coward: Most of the members love to talk a big game and bully others, but when they are in peril, they run and hide.
Miles Gloriosus: They love to boast that they're better combatants than they actually are.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Because they attacked Naoko's [clan] and lost, their territory was added to hers, and gave them all a nice place to house their new wyvern mounts, and the fields needed to train them.
Smug Snake: They actually believe their boasts.
Sore Loser: The guy who antagonized Naoko had the gall to demand a share of her rewards when she defeated the wyvern they couldn't even reach.
Suicidal Overconfidence: They launch their first attack on Dragon's Descent without even their core members present and lost handily.

Mia

The adventurer hired through the guild by prince Vitou for the express purpose of keeping Naoko captive in the royal castle prior to the Shotgun Wedding.

The Ace: She's one of the top S-ranked adventurers in the kingdom.
Bullying a Dragon: She fails to realize that every time she "captures" Naoko and lectures her, the only reason she succeeds is that Naoko let her do so. It's only after Naoko has roped her into exploring the dungeon under King Erik's castle and they're both face to face with the captive dragon that she has any inkling of just how outmatched she really is.
Moral Myopia: She willingly took on a request to hold a woman she knows is innocent captive, but the woman, Naoko, trying to escape is "giving her trouble."
Nothing Personal: She sees holding Naoko captive as only a job and bears no grudge, aside from the fact that Naoko keeps trying to escape, which she has the gall to treat as a personal affront.
Power Gives You Wings: She has a spell that allows her to summon wings and fly.
Punchclock Villain: If it wasn't for prince Vitou's official guild request to keep Naoko captive, the two of them wouldn't be at odds, at all. Naoko has the decency to recognize that. Doesn't stop Naoko from trying to escape her unjust imprisonment every chance she gets though.
Weapon Specialization: Specializes in fighting with a whip.

Adventurer's Guild

Cerberus

The A-ranked party that finds Naoko abandoned in the forest.

Nord:

Sore Loser: He lost his "King" title to "Drunk Nao" in a drinking contest and keeps challenging her, trying to get it back, without success.

Colt:

Defensive Feint Trap: When the party is initially set upon by a bandit group early in the story, he pretends to be terrified and helpless so the bandit leader doesn't realize Blink is going around killing his henchmen until it's too late.
An Ice Person: Fights predominantly with ice-based magic.

Blink:

Freakiness Shame: His parents spurned him due to his speech impediment. He's touched by the rest of his party, and especially Naoko, because they speak to him normally, without judgement.
Heroic Bastard: He's an illegitimate son of King Erik, and he's a member of the A-ranked party Cerberus, helping the helpless and saving innocents.
Hulk Speak: He has some kind of speech impediment that keeps him from speaking normally.

Nino

Aura Vision: When Naoko brings forth forensic evidence with the aura of the one trying to kill her to the guild-master, the guild-master calls on him to help verify it and find the culprit.
Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Whenever the guildmaster runs off with a pet project, Nino's the one who gets the unpleasant task of keeping the guild running smoothly and the adventurers happy.
Everyone Can See It: The fact that he's attracted to Millie is glaringly obvious.
Just Following Orders: How he rationalizes to himself luring Naoko into a trap sprung by the guildmaster to force Naoko to rank-up against her will.
Locked Out of the Loop: He knows there's something wrong with Naoko, seeing as she loved to earn her rank for the adventurer's guild to one day suddenly get vehemently opposed to ranking, and then takes a rank-A quest that would all but guarantee a rank-up, despite her violent opposition. If he was aware of the whole Arranged Marriage thing, how she's being forced to marry Vitou, and how she'd rather die than go through with it... It doesn't help that his concerns are shrugged off by pretty much everyone.
My God, What Have I Done?: The moment the engagement announcement comes into the guild, one day after Naoko's forceful rank up, he is able to finally piece together why Naoko was so adamant at staying B-rank, and how Naoko must absolutely loathe him for his part. He tries to find her and apologize but is rebuffed.
One Degree of Separation: The guildmaster is his uncle.
Rejected Apology: Subverted, it initially appears Naoko doesn't even trust him enough to meet with him and let him apologize after his involvement in setting her up for the guildmaster's trap then she reads the note he left with her staff saying "I'm sorry." Since he was duped and showed genuine remorse, she was planning on dropping by the guild HQ to accept his apology until Prince Vitou showed up, in person, to command she follow him to Kapitalia and let herself be used like a trophy or he'd call in a favor from the Archduke...
Right for the Wrong Reasons: He's dismayed at his part in his uncle's conspiracy to forcefully rank up Naoko, not because it's inherently wrong, though he doesn't like that part either, but because he's got serious trepidation as to how Naoko is going to retaliate, and isn't soothed in the slightest when his uncle just shrugs and says he's "taken precautions."

Millie

Everyone Can See It: The fact that she has a crush on Nino is obvious to everyone.
Locked Out of the Loop: She's completely unaware of the conspiracy the guild-master hatched to paralyze Naoko and force her to rank up by temporarily confiscating her monster corpses from her inventory.
Really Royalty Reveal: She's actually a high priestess of the elves from the island of Boru.
Shrinking Violet: She tends to be introverted and shy. This is an act.

Anika Von Loren

A guild receptionist infamous for sucking up to the guild-master and rich, powerful adventurers but treating the rest of the guild like crap.

Aristocrats Are Evil: The granddaughter of Duke Loren and an arrogant, loathsome individual who happily insults her fellow staff and adventurers, unless it's the guildmaster or someone powerful and influential.
Disproportionate Retribution: Because Naoko wouldn't be cowed, she went to her older sister Irina and put out a hit on her.
Moral Myopia: Upon seeing Naoko, she immediately calls the latter a child prostitute and tries to brow-beat her out of the guild, ignoring Naoko's guild plate when Naoko is trying to turn in a successful request and offer proof of subjugation. When Naoko retaliates, and calls her out on it, suddenly that behavior is unacceptable, and Naoko deserves to have her life made into hell.
Price on Their Head: When her conspiracy to commit murder and criminal association with Irina in Black Hand is exposed, the guild master of the adventurer's guild in Ozark publicly announces a rank-C quest with a reward for her capture, dead or alive.
Professional Butt-Kisser: Sucks up to the guild master and powerful, influential adventurers, treats everyone else like crap.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: She uses the fact that she's the granddaughter of Duke Loren to cow everyone who dares complain about being insulted by her, except the guild-master and rich, powerful, and influential adventurers.
That Came Out Wrong: Invoked. Every time she angrily decries Naoko as a whore, Naoko refuses to be offended and instead rolls with the accusation, boasting of having the honor of seeing Anika's own father as her exclusive "client" with subtle goading that Anika and her father might have a "special" relationship. The way Anika angrily tries to rebuke Naoko always comes across as if Anika and her father indeed have "that kind" of relationship.

Banbo

Orzak's A-class adventurer.

Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: When Naoko agrees to help him in a single subjugation mission, not an agreement to permanently join his harem party, he refuses to state what this mission is, even if there is one, and has his fangirls drag her off to a public bath, scrub her down and doll her up into eye-candy, clearly enraging her, but he just deludes himself into thinking that's what she signed up for, ignoring her many, many protests.
The Casanova: He's a shameless skirt chaser.
Charm Person: When Earl Orzak pulls Naoko away from his clutches to escort her to King Erik's tea party, he reveals that Banbo's Fangirls follow him around only because he's got a skill that charmed them to follow him and obey his orders without question.
Death Glare: Not him, but his fangirls give Naoko icy glares for the "crime" of refusing to join his harem, thereby "disrespecting" him.
Harem Seeker: He's got 12 fangirls following him around, singing his praises, and being all starry-eyed at the tiniest of his suggestions or commands, but this isn't enough, as he tries to literally drag Naoko into his service and keep getting more women to follow him around.
I Love You Because I Can't Control You: He becomes obsessed with Naoko when he learns she's immune to his Charm Person powers and he can't browbeat her either because she's nobility.
Mugging the Monster: He and his swarm of fangirls physically block the exit to the adventurer's guild to stop Naoko from leaving until she's been magically compelled to swoon over him and follow him around. Of course, if they had pushed her to the point of violence, she could, and would have easily beat them all down, and she also happens to be nobility, granted the Viscount title by King Erik.
Selective Obliviousness: He pointedly ignores everything Naoko says if what she's saying doesn't include "yes, I will follow you forever, Banbo-sama!" He even takes her obvious outrage as consent to do whatever the hell he wants to her.
Stay in the Kitchen: Part of his sales-pitch to join up in his harem is proclaiming that his women get to stand around and be pampered all day, being nothing more than eye-candy. Rather than charm Naoko, it pisses her off because that's not the way she rolls.

Orzak's adventurer's guildmaster

Ambiguous Situation: The way he talks and acts around Naoko, it's unclear if he knows about the fact that ranking her up will result in her being forcefully married to Prince Vitou. The only things that are clear is that he knows she doesn't like being advanced from rank B to A, and that he doesn't care. If she's got the ability to rank up, he's going to make her!
Deal with the Devil: He forges a pact with "Mystery Man" to force Naoko to rank up against her will, through confiscating her monster kills while she's paralyzed and having the archduke keep Naoko from rightfully retaliating to this act of grand larceny.
Dramatically Missing the Point: He thinks the bulk of Naoko's rage is due to the fact that he cleaned out her extra-dimensional inventory, acting like a common brigand as he ranked her up against her will while she was magically paralyzed. So he left all her monster materials behind, and completely side-steps the issue of paralyzing Naoko to rank her up in the first place, and completely overlooks the meals Naoko was carrying in her inventory that he threw to the ground and ruined. After the Archduke assures him that Naoko can't harm him, and then he sets her loose, he then chooses to man the counters because Naoko showed him that she can still make his life uncomfortable by tainting his office with the scent of rotting meat, at which point he tells Nino that he doesn't understand why she's angry as he hasn't stolen anything...
Entertainingly Wrong: When he sees "Drunk Nao" rip off Irina's dress, he think's Irina's being subjected to a Shameful Strip... until he sees the mark of Black Hand on Irina's back.
Everybody Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone just calls him the guildmaster, Nino calls him "uncle". His name is rarely, if ever, mentioned.
Evil All Along: For most of the story, he seemed like a reasonable old man who ran his guild with a firm, but gentle, hand and was loved by the Orzak adventurers, but when Naoko stopped wanting to rank up, thanks to her impending and unwanted marriage to prince Vitou, he conspires behind her back to rank her up, by force, her well-being be damned, just so he can use her as his guild branch's trump card.
It's All About Me: The truth of the matter is that he sees the adventurer's guild purely as an extension of his agency, and cares not a whit about the adventurers themselves. As long as he personally profits, then whatever he's doing must be the right thing. The only time he thinks his actions would be wrong is if he'll have to face punishment.
Psychopathic Manchild: As he's preparing to forcefully rank up Naoko, he ignores Nino's trepidation and starts giggling like a child who is anticipating opening gifts on Christmas morning as he intends to see what king of monsters she's got in her inventory.
Stupid Evil: Rather than bother to investigate why Naoko had a sudden change of heart and stopped wanting to advance and rank up in the guild, he becomes obsessed with having her ranked up against her wishes, come hell or high water, eventually culminating in ordering Nino to lure her into a trap where she's paralyzed and he can simply take her monster kills from her inventory against her will and declare them "voluntary proof of subjugation," giving little, if any, thought to the consequences aside from making certain Naoko can't take direct action against him. How he expects her to serve the guild faithfully after a betrayal of that magnitude is anyone's guess.

Black Hand

Arc Words: "Long Rule the Black King!" Usually shouted out as they're about to die.

Sancus

Faux Affably Evil: He identifies himself and bows, but his tone positively drips with sarcasm.
Mugging the Monster: He attacks a small party of what he thinks are amateurs, but they turn out to be the A-ranked party, Cerberus.
Starter Villain: The first of the antagonists Naoko has to face. She didn't get to do anything though, to her chagrin, because the A-rank party Cerberus took him, and his men, down before she had the chance.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Introduced and summarily killed off.

Irina Von Loren

Anika's elder sister.

Assumed Win: She demanded a duel to the death with "Drunk Nao" because she presumed herself vastly superior to Naoko, thanks to being a three-attribute mage. When "Drunk Nao" whipped out elementals for all elements, Irina wound up on the wrong side of a Curbstomp Battle.
Engineered Public Confession: After being beaten in a duel to the death by Naoko, Naoko destroys the curse brand on her back and then puts her into an illusion where she thinks she's facing Anika in her bedroom. At this point, Irina angrily berates "Anika" for giving her inaccurate information and sending her off to murder an opponent far stronger than advertised.
Faking the Dead: She's been operating in [Black Hand] by letting the public believe she's dead for years. She gets exposed when she attacks "Drunk Nao" in the adventurer's guild tavern.
Make It Look Like an Accident: She used magic to lace the Orzak village with booby-traps that would have looked like lethal but mundane accidents had they actually worked.
Mugging the Monster: She demands a duel to the death with Naoko, thinking she's dealing with a weak D-rank adventurer. Naoko turns out to be so, so much stronger that she can beat her down with ease, and win a duel to the death without killing her.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Using her aura to tag objects that she wanted to home in on Naoko and kill her taught Naoko how to do the same, which would later help save the city of Kapitalia.
Red Baron: "Soaring Flame Princess."

Dwalf: Argus

The first of the Black Hand mercenaries that attack Duke Loren's prison carriage.

Achilles' Heel: Exploited. His attack reflector has a serious flaw. Even though it reflects all magical damage he takes back to his attacker, he still takes damage. Naoko exploits this to kill him, very, very slowly.
Attack Reflector: He launches an attack on Naoko after cloaking himself with a skill that reflects magic attacks.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Self-inflicted. Since he cloaked himself with an Attack Reflector for magic and Intangibility against physical attacks, then made credible death threats against Naoko and the rest of her party, Naoko had no choice but do burn him to death, slowly, so her water and light elementals could keep up by soothing and healing her burns.
Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: Deconstructed. Bragging of his Attack Reflector power and intangibility does not drive Naoko to despair, but instead teaches her how to make counter-measures. In fact, Naoko lampshades the deconstruction, but he refuses to believe it, until he's being burned alive, very, very slowly.
No Body Left Behind: Subverted. He does leave behind a corpse, but he's burned beyond recognition before he dies.
Suicidal Overconfidence: He believed his intangibility and attack reflector was a "perfect" defense, making him completely invulnerable. Naoko proved him wrong by burning him alive while simultaneously healing and soothing her self with light and water magics.

Sotou

One of the Black Hand mercenaries that tried to intercept Duke Loren's prison carriage en route to Kapitalia.

Card-Carrying Villain: He has a long, long criminal record and is proud of it.
Evil Gloating: Just before an army of 2578 monsters swarmed upon Earl Ozark's party, he bragged that it was too late to make amends with Black Hand, and that everyone's doomed.
Price on Their Head: Truth in Television. His long criminal career resulted in a huge bounty on his head, which Naoko's party got to collect.
Smug Snake: Being a member of Black Hand made him think he was untouchable.
Trauma Button: He loses all his smugness and is terrified beyond all reason after seeing Naoko single-handed take down an army of over 2500 monsters, needing only the help of the rest of her party to deal with the flyers and other stragglers, but what really terrifies him is that she did it by subjecting them to hard vacuum, and the resulting Cruel and Unusual Death.

The "Creation Magic" mage.

A man whose daughter died adventuring and whose wife committed suicide on learning of it.

Irrational Hatred: Blames the crown price Vitou for the death of his wife and daughter when the prince had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Mook Maker: He created magic crystals which he scattered about to summon golems, en masse.
Motive Rant: As he's creating countless golems, he rants and raves about how crown prince Vitou took everything away from him, despite the fact that the two of them never even met.
Revenge Before Reason: Even though the crown prince had nothing to do with the deaths of his wife and daughter, he swore bloody vengeance on the prince and tried to carry it out by attacking Kapitalia.
Revenge by Proxy: His attack with an army of golems wasn't sent at the prince directly, but was concentrated in a less-affluent area, where the resistance would be minimal, resulting in 27 deaths before he's stopped, just to try and make the prince look bad.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: Maybe Prince Vitou truly had nothing to do with the death of his wife and daughter, (then again maybe Vitou did and simply forgot about it), but this man crazed with grief was right to call the prince a despicable individual that deserves to be hated.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: He unleashed an army of golems in the city of Kapitalia for self-righteous revenge on crown prince Vitou.

Vilikis Aristocracy

Second Prince Marcell

Introduced in chapter 185, greeting Naoko after her latest shouting match with Vitou.

But Liquor Is Quicker: In chapters 185 and 186, he tries to ply Naoko with wine, unaware of "Drunk-Nao." Subverted in between chapters 186 and 187 as this is later revealed to be a ruse to trick Prince Vitou into treating Naoko like a person, not a trophy. Prince Vitou quietly swears to deliver vengeance for it later.
The Casanova: He's well-known as a man who will chase down and woo any two-legged female.
Chivalrous Pervert: When Prince Vitou asks to use a recording crystal when making a verbal contract with Naoko, Marc points out the Power Perversion Potential of a magical recording device. Naoko finds this charming because unlike Vitou, this prince knows how to respect a girl's boundaries.
In-Universe Nickname: He prefers to be called "Marc."
Red Baron: "The golden demon" for his womanizing ways.

Others

Fulgur

A dragon that homes in on Naoko the moment she's slapped with the [Object of Desire] title.

Affectionate Nickname: Naoko is fond of calling him "Fulgy."
And Now You Must Marry Me: When Naoko gets tired of him roaring outside her hotel room and lures him to the hill overlooking her dungeon, to challenge him to a fight, the first thing he says is "come with mean and be my bride!"
Blue-and-Orange Morality: He sees Naoko coming at him with a sword as accepting his marriage proposal!
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: How he's seen as the head chef in Naoko's inn.
The Champion: He could have his way with Naoko with ease if he really wanted to, as he's much, much stronger than her, but he's content to follow her lead for the low, low price of sleeping beside her.
Dogged Nice Guy: Yes, he wants some hugs, kisses, and some baby dragons at some point, but when Naoko comes home, completely devastated, he leans up against her, back to back, saying nothing, letting her bawl her eyes out, just ... letting her know he's there if she needs him. The manner he and Naoko were married may have been less than ideal, but he's a good husband who respects her boundaries, and this is a VAST improvement over Vitou's idea of the concept.
Do You Want to Copulate?: He is desperate to impregnate Naoko, and will twist logic into pretzels to see anything she says as consent!
Endearingly Dorky: He's a huge goof-ball, on a good day. His idea of courting Naoko involved circling her hotel room, day and night, roaring until she got tired of it and challenged him to a fight. He argues insistently that she's his destined bride and wouldn't take "no" for an answer, even surprising himself when the marriage ritual even he admits she shouldn't have possibly known about goes off without a hitch, he insists on calling Naoko "my bride" every chance he gets, and he even tried to hug and kiss her by ambush once, winding up face-planting a wall when she dodged him, but everyone who takes the time to get to know him ultimately finds him charming because he's a great chef, actually respects Naoko's boundaries, understands that "no means no," and quietly lets Naoko come to him when she needs his help instead of trying to treat her like a trophy and forcing his "help" on her whether she wants it or not.
Entitled to Have You: He pointedly refuses to acknowledge Naoko's refusal to marry him.
Foil: To Vitou. They both are in a Shotgun Wedding situation with Naoko, have dragon heritage, they are both protective and want her affection, both also love showing her off, but while Vitou only sees Naoko as a trophy and can only "love" her by completely dominating her, Fulgur instead treasures her happiness and rebellious spirit, content to follow her lead and accept whatever affection she sends his way on her schedule, not his.
Gentle Giant: His true form is the size of a mountain, but he's a total sweetheart once you get to know him.
Happily Married: Amazingly enough. He's content to work at Naoko's dungeon entrance inn, as the head cook, simple so he can get to sleep beside her.
Insane Troll Logic: His counters to Naoko's explanations as to why she can not marry him make sense to him alone.
Made of Temptation: Even the Chaste Hero Naoko, who clearly isn't interested in marriage, sex, or children, had to really struggle against her own instincts to boink him like a rabbit in heat when she first met him and saw his human form, and she even says so aloud.
Naked First Impression: He first appears in the story completely nude.
Nigh-Invulnerable: Naoko's mightiest attacks with sword or spell just barely managed to scratch his scales.
Supreme Chef: He's an even better cook than Naoko, and even the pickiest eater at Naoko's inn has no complaints regarding the dishes he sells.
This Is Unforgivable!: He is so enraged at Naoko's suffering that every time someone tries to put up the notice of Naoko's engagement to Prince Vitou, he sends a thunderstorm upon the town and destroys the notice by blasting the post where it's placed with lightning. After meeting Vitou in person, he quickly develops a murderous grudge towards the latter, and it's mutual.

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