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Len

Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (JP)

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Len is a dream familiar cared for by Arcueid. Her role in the original Tsukihime is to give Shiki an erotic dream as a reward for him destroying Nrvnqsr, though she goes unseen and unnamed. She never speaks and in general is quite similar to a cat; She is fickle, shy around strangers and affectionate in her own aloof way. She's the star of Kagetsu Tohya where she appears either as a small girl with elf ears or a black kitten. She's far more powerful than her appearance would suggest, though not in a manner suited for combat.

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• Adapted Out: Due to the lack of any sex scenes in the remake, Len is completely absent from -A piece of blue glass moon- and Type Lumina with the exception of a surprise cameo at the end of Boss Rush 4. Arcueid in Fate/Grand Order does imply that she did defeat Einnashe with a help of a magus like she originally did, so it is still possible that Len is around in the remake canon.
• Animal Motifs: A cat. More specifically, a black cat.
• The Bus Came Back: She appears as a silhouette at the end of Season 2's Boss Rush in Type Lumina.

• Cat Girl: Normally either a little girl or a black kitten, but when surprised at one time the two seem to slightly blend, which gives her cat ears instead of the normal pointy ones. This may imply that her shapeshifting ability is not limited to just those two forms and she merely prefers them.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: At some point while maintaining the dream she seems to fall for Shiki. After he saves her from Nanaya, she tries to interrupt him by shoving away Akira when they're chatting, but since she's so small she lacks the strength and she won't speak, so eventually she just has to give up. Akira and Shiki are just left feeling confused.

• Cute Mute: By choice. She only seems to have two lines: One during a sex scene in Kagetsu Tohya where she says Shiki's name and one during Melty Blood where she rejects White Len.
• Dark Magical Girl: Oddly enough, Len doesn't really realize that she's incredibly lonely and wants to be able to interact with others.
• Dream Weaver: She has the ability to manipulate the dreams of others. She can also feed in this manner, but hasn't done so.
• Dramatic Ellipsis: She uses...a lot of...ellipsis.
• Emotionless Girl: She's unable to outwardly portray her emotions.
• Familiar: Works for Arcueid at first thanks to a deal between her and Len's old master, but is technically not her familiar because it's impossible to make a connection as they are too similar. Becomes Shiki's at the end of Kagetsu Tohya via a contract made either with sex or by feeding her his blood.
• Glacier Waif: Despite appearances, in Melty Blood her energy ball based combat racks up damage in few hits while being quite fast and long-reaching. On the other hand, Len has low health and defense.
• Hates Baths: As common with cats, Len dislikes taking baths.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: Despite never saying anything, Hisui and Shiki seem to be capable of understanding what she wants to say. Shiki has always had a sort of empathetic connection with her that seems to have strengthened after forming a contract with her. Hisui, on the other hand, seems to be able to understand her simply due to the two of them being "similar characters".
• Intimate Healing: At the end of Kagetsu Tohya, Shiki and Len forge a contract in order to give Len the magical energy she needs to live. They can do this either by her drinking some of his blood, or by having sex. The choice is ultimately left up to the player, but the game drops several hints as to which is the 'correct' option.
• Little Miss Badass: Playable in Melty Blood.
• Pointy Ears: Her ears are pointy in her human form.
• Really 700 Years Old: Her exact age is not really clear, but she's likely lived for several centuries.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes are a clear indication that she isn't human.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue oni to White Len's red.
• Reflectionless Useless Eyes: It seems that they're meant to symbolize her emotionless nature. In contrast, White Len, who was created from the unused parts of Len's personality, has normal, albeit demonic, eyes.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: A young-looking girl with light blue hair, red eyes and pale skin who always remains quiet and emotionless and despite her looks, is not a normal human.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: A quiet girl with light blue hair.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Not really siblings, but Len is literally the yin to White Len's yang.
• Spin Attack: For some of her attacks.
• Succubi and Incubi: Her first mention is as a succubus that Arcueid sent to give Shiki erotic dreams. She's capable of feeding in this manner, but hasn't done so.
• Sweet Tooth: She loves anything sweet. Especially cakes.
• Tsundere: Well, she's a cat, so she usually won't let you know when she likes you. She'll pretend otherwise or act all aloof, but it's clear that in her own way she cares a lot.

Akira Seo

Seo is an underclassman of Tohno Akiha's at her school. Her first appearance was in the Tsukihime Plus-Disc, but she appears in Kagetsu Tohya as well. She has the power to see the future of others, but she can neither control it or nor are her predictions set in stone. She also has the tendency to speak too quickly and say things she didn't mean to say, especially about Akiha, who she both fears and admires to some extent. She nurses a massive crush on Shiki that he doesn't seem to notice.

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• Aroused by Their Voice: She notes in her narration that she has a thing for guys with nice voices. Naturally, hearing Shiki's voice over the phone makes her heart skip a few beats. This actually becomes an important clue in her Plus-Disc story since the man she'd been meeting up with thinking he was Shiki didn't produce a similar reaction.
• Expy: Of Shizune Seo from The Garden of Sinners, one of Nasu's earlier works. They both share the same surname and have similar powers too. Her more recent artworks also heavily resemble Shizune a lot. They even share the same..."interesting" hobby.
• Hopeless Suitor: Shiki hasn't even friendzoned her. She's a friend of Akiha, meaning her position is twice as distant.
• Little Sister Heroine: She's considered a real little sister type and much more suited for the role than Akiha, though no one dares say it. This part of her personality tends to make people want to fuss over her or, in Akiha's case, to engage in some friendly bullying.
• Screw Destiny: She can and has changed the futures she's seen to achieve a more favorable outcome. On the other hand, she's also accidentally caused the future she's seen to occur. Her power is hard to manipulate.
• Seers: Possesses precognition.

Shiki Nanaya

Voiced by: Kenji Nojima (JP), Ryousuke Kanemoto (JP - Melty Blood Type Lumina)

"You know where you're going? If it's hell, give the devil my regards."

Nanaya is a representation of Shiki's fear of his inner demon hunter side. As an idealized form of Shiki's possible physical ability, he is far more agile and skilled. On the other hand, he does not possess Shiki's Mystic Eyes and thus does not wear the Eye Killer glasses. As both he and Shiki know perfectly well, this was never what Shiki was like as a child nor even what his inner demon hunter is truly like, but merely an expression of Shiki's fears. During Kagetsu Tohya, he can be found downtown as the rumored killer, but oddly enough does not seem to have killed anyone.

There are, technically, four different versions of him. The first is the original Shiki, who underwent Death of Personality at Makihisa Tohno's hands, the second is a manifestation of what Shiki Tohno erroneously believes the original Shiki Nanaya would have been like, born from Tohno's identity issues and need to deal with his murderous instincts, the third is more or less the same as the second, but existing only as a living nightmare representing the destruction of Len's dream world, and the fourth was created by White Len from all of Shiki Tohno's repressed and denied traits.
Another version of him appears in Type Lumina, added as part of the 2nd seasonal update and taking the role of Shiki Tohno's Boss version.

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• Ambiguously Related: While there are multiple hints that "Master Panda" is Nanaya in disguise in the old canon, Type Lumina continues the trend in Miyako's Last Arc where Master Panda sounds like him and performs many of his moves like Flash Sheath - Eightfold Thrust. The problem being that at this point of the remake continuity, Nanaya doesn't exist in his own physical form for him to be Master Panda so what his deal is is left ambiguous.
• Badass Normal: In Kagetsu Tohya, Shiki even at his best cannot match up to Nanaya, who lacks the ability to use Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and has merely mastered the Nanaya Assassination Arts. Although Tohno wasn't able to use his eyes, which probably would have leveled the playing field. And those fights were him fighting against his nightmare inside a dream.
• The Bus Came Back: After years of being absent from the franchise, he finally makes a reappearance in Melty Blood Type Lumina as the Boss Rush version of Shiki Tohno, added to the game in the Season 2 update.
• Character Development: When he starts talking about his 'Pride as a Nanaya' in MBAA, you know he's changed a lot.
• Differently Dressed Duplicates: He doesn't wear glasses as he doesn't have Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, making it easier to differentiate Nanaya from Tohno. This is an important detail in Noel's Boss Rush in Type Lumina, as the "Boy in School Uniform" is Shiki who never puts his glasses back on.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Kagetsu Tohya builds up to him as the big baddie Shiki needs to beat but right when he levels the playing field, Nanaya is decapitated by Kishima Kouma.
• Enemy Without: He's pretty pissed about it too since his existence is based on him being a murderer, only he's not actually able to kill people due to Shiki's idea of murder.
• Fragile Speedster: Quite fast, but his defense leaves much to be desired.
• Lampshaded Double Entendre: Nanaya is afraid he 'spanked' White Len too much when he wins a battle against her. And muses whom is the 'master' in their relationship.
• Not So Stoic: His otherwise cool behavior cracks when Kishima Kouma appears. You can hear the emotion start cutting through his facade.
• Psycho Knife Nut: Nanaya is mainly meant to be Shiki as a fully realized killer, using his knife with highly refined skill than what Shiki can normally do.
• Shadow Archetype: Is, of course, this to Shiki Tohno. The incarnation created by White Len takes this the farthest, though, being literally Tohno's Jungian Shadow given form.
• Stealth Mentor: It is implied that Master Panda, Miyako's fighting instructor, is actually Nanaya in disguise (speaking with the same voice in Carnival Phantasm, the symbol for "Nanatsu-yoru" on his back, their tagteam name in Act Cadenza is "The Long Road of the Panda," etc.)
• The Stoic: Nanaya never gets angry at anyone, kills calmly and cooly, and enjoys it with the satisfaction of a spider eating a fly.

Kouma Kishima

Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (JP), Daiki Hamano (JP - Remake)

"...Do as you wish. That is, if your tiny arms could pull it off."

Kouma is a 'perfect' half-demon hybrid from the Kishima clan, a sub-family of the Tohno family. He is very powerful, even relative to demon-hybrid standards with super strength, skin like iron and blazing fast speed. He only has one eye as he lost the other one to Shiki's father. He is the one who Makihisa brought in to help destroy the Nanaya clan, though Shiki can only just barely remember having seen him. He represents death in the Kagetsu Tohya dream world.

In Melty Blood, he is revealed to be living as a hermit in the mountains, having decided to isolate himself from human society after Akiha decided to repent for her father's mistakes in time for Shiki's arrival on her mansion. She cut ties with the Kishima's, forcing Kouma out.

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• Abusive Parents: The first family he ever had kept him locked up alone in a dark room for years, never letting him out, and ultimately tried to kill him by shooting him in the head. The second family he ever had chained him up like a wild animal, and he only ever got loose when Shiki's father cut him down while merrily murdering them all.
• All There in the Manual: Most of Kouma's background and character, given he plays a very minor role in current events of the series.
• Alliterative Name: Kouma Kishima.
• Ambidextrous Sprite: Usually averted, but every once in a while the wrong eye'll be uncovered by his hair.
• Badass Longcoat: When Kouma actually wears his coat normally.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: His early portrayal, Kouma was just an extremely strong half-demon hybrid who attacked with his fierce strength alone. Even though Melty Blood gave him flame powers, he still fits as this to a certain degree. In fact, he functionally lives as a monk now.
• Calling Your Attacks: Kouma shouts out almost all of his attacks in Melty Blood, but special mention goes to:
  Dokuhaku, Enbu ENNNNNNJOOOOOOUUU!!!
  Koushuu Enbu DAIIII EEENNNJOOOOOOOUUUU!!!
• Coat Cape: Kouma is regularly seen wearing his coat like this, rarely will he actually wear it normally.
• Close-Range Combatant: In Melty Blood, He can bulldoze through moves after some of his attacks, and his goal is to grapple the enemy into oblivion.
• The Coats Are Off: Kouma drops off his white coat before he fights, also seen in one of his intros in Melty Blood.
• Death Glare: His default expression. Hisui comments that the times Kouma lived in the Tohno mansion, he scared people away by just looking at them, with no clear intention. This is because his demon blood is so strong that it arouses an instinctive "prey animal" response in the people around him.
• Dramatic Wind: His idle animation in Melty Blood; it's not clear if it's his powers or the ambience, but there are wind currents available for his clothes and hair to be flapping in the breeze.
• The Dreaded: It was set in stone by the time he anihilated the Nanaya family single handedly. He also personifies death itself for Shiki and easily rips off Nanaya's head.
• Evil Laugh: Kouma drops one when he is being beaten in Melty Blood, he really likes the action.
• Expy: Kouma borrows some aspects of Araya Souren's design: hair style, chiseled body and stoic expression.
• Eye Scream: Had an eye put out by Kiri Nanaya when he was a child.
• The Grappler: He is the designated grappler of Melty Blood. However, he isn't a traditional Mighty Glacier grappler with one super-powerful command grab and is more centered around getting in combos and throwing people around with the grabs he does have.
• Half-Human Hybrid: The only one that Kiri Nanaya couldn't kill.
• Heroic Willpower: Most mixed-bloods snap under the pressure of their (comparatively weaker) murderous instincts. Kouma didn't. Part of it was because he was too broken to crack, and the rest was this.
• Implacable Man: His incarnation as Shiki's fear; Kouma doesn't utter a word, he keeps pushing forward as Shiki struggles to defeat him, plowing through trees like they were nothing. It's actually nearly a replay of how Shiki's father died. The only difference is that Shiki has better offensive abilities, though his physique isn't up to par. This is emulated in Type Lumina by having many of his moves have super armor tied to them with EX Godly Armor even giving him super armor for extended period, meaning that he can iron through most attacks thrown at him.
• Insane Equals Violent: Played straight with the mental construct in Kagetsu Tohya. Generally averted with the real Kishima, who only becomes violent in situations where anyone would be. (Watching assassins kill your family, being shot in the head, etc.) He's still... decidedly non-neurotypical.
• Large and in Charge: The strongest half-demon hybrid in the series, and the last leader of the Kishima family by virtue of the rest of them being dead.
• Last of His Kind: The last Kishima, by his own doing no less. He held in his demon-blooded impulses for his entire life, instinctively trying to protect his family despite their wretched treatment of him, until someone shot him in the head to try to put him down like an animal. It didn't work, and it was the last bit of abuse they ever had the chance to heap on him.

• Minor Injury Overreaction: During his fight with Kiri, he is silent and mostly unresponsive as the assassin continually attacks him, his weapons bouncing off with no effect. However, when Kiri's final strike to his neck manages to actually hurt him (and would have killed him if it had gone just a little deeper), he goes on a batshit rampage and kills a good majority of the Nanaya clan by himself.
• No Social Skills: He prefers the company of animals to people. See The Quiet One below.
• Odd Friendship: With Kohaku.
• Playing with Fire: Added in Melty Blood to tie his powers to Akiha's and to make his attacks look more impressive.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Extreme usage of his powers makes his hair go crimson red, the same as Akiha.
• Red Baron: Kouma has been dubbed as Crimson Red Vermillion and Fierce Red God.
• The Quiet One: Kouma is not fond of lengthy conversations and only talks when extremely necessary for him. Kouma's stay at the Tohno's Mansion had him at his most silent times, Hisui comments that he talked with no one except Makihisa, and even then as little as possible.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Reverting to his demon heritage grants Kouma striking red eyes.
• Retool: His initial appearance in Kagetsu Tohya made no mention that Kouma could ignite flames, only that he was ungodly tough, fast, and strong. Come Melty Blood and Kouma's powers apparently share similar origins to Akiha's, as they actually are distant relatives.
• Rule of Cool: Apparently the reason Melty Blood introduced his flames as the standard power set for being a half-demon hybrid; it looks damn cool with his attacks.
• Self-Made Orphan: Killed his entire family in a fit of rage, most likely by reverting to his demon heritage after one of them shot him in the head.

• Small Role, Big Impact: The real flesh-and-blood Kouma never appeared in the games or visual novels, so he has zero impact during the present story. However, he plays a very important part in the past — right before meeting Kouma, Kiri Nanaya had been doing pretty well in dispatching Tohno attackers on his clan, and was about to head and kill the leaders behind the raid, i.e Makihisa, and seemed to have a real shot at succeeding too. Even if he failed, other Nanaya's could reasonably launch a better resistance and even repel the raid. Had Kouma not been there on that night to kill Kiri and slaughter the Nanayas, then Shiki would have never been taken into the Tohno family — the turning point that led to the series of events that defined the current situation, the cast's personalities and their relations between each other, would have never happened.
• The Speechless: Kouma said only a few words through all of Kagetsu Tohya; his first appearance was that of a child that didn't know how to talk, because his parents kept him locked in a cage without any proper affection and education. His appearance as an adult was Shiki's fear taken form; while adult Kouma could talk normally, this illusion could not, or chose not to.
• The Stoic: Not big on showing off his feelings. How much of that is due to his canonical mental disorder is anyone's guess.
  • In Type Lumina, when a character activates Moon Drive, the opponent always wears an expression of surprise or worry, except Kouma, who has the same stoic death glare whether he's on the giving or receiving end.
• Super Breeding Program: His family ran one for generations, trying to bring the demonic streak in their blood to the forefront. Of course, once they had what they thought they wanted...
• Super-Toughness: His skin is like steel, though he is not impervious to attack. All the same, well,... 'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain.
• Unskilled, but Strong: The reason why Kiri Nanaya was able to last so long against him. He had nothing but brute strength and incredibly tough endurance when they fought, though he's apparently been learning martial arts since.
• Warrior Poet: Some of his winning quotes in Melty Blood are of poetic nature, which makes sense given his monk-like lifestyle and love of nature.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Strange mixture of played straight and subverted; he is the most powerful demon hybrid in existence, which he controls effortlessly by the virtue of being born insane. Despite that, he is an introvert who lives quietly in the mountains among the animals, and only ever seems to have done violence to other humans when goaded by someone else.
• World's Strongest Man: Kouma is the strongest half-demon hybrid in the world, and one of the heavy contenders in the Nasuverse.
• You Will Be Spared: Decided to spare a young Shiki during the massacre against the Nanaya's because he believed fate would pit them against each other in the future. This echoes why Nanaya Kiri chose to spare the young Kouma, instead putting out his eye so that he would have a fighting chance when the latter was fully grown.

Nanako/Seven

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (JP)

Nanako is the spirit that lives inside of Ciel's ultimate weapon, the Seventh Holy Scripture and the focus of the sidestory told from Arihiko's perspective. She can manifest herself as a weapon or as a cute horse-girl with blonde hair. She runs away from Ciel to Arihiko's house in Kagetsu Tohya, where he gives her the name "Nanako" because previously she had only been referred to by Ciel as "Seven." She is afraid of Ciel's angry side, but is also attached to her. She was human once, but was willingly sacrificed and combined with the horn of a unicorn in order to make a powerful weapon.

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• Attending Your Own Funeral: Unlike most examples, she really was dead at the time. She rather enjoyed her send-off.
• Butt-Monkey: She runs away from home to take refuge in Arihiko's house and escape Ciel's abuse. Considering how badly Arihiko treats her, she still doesn't want to go back home.

  Nanako: Wow, another insult. That makes it the two hundred and eighty-second time Arihiko-san has hurt my feelings.

• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She volunteered to be sacrificed due to her affinity with the dead unicorn. She held no grudge and was saddened when her guilty mother failed to understand that she was okay with dying for what she considered a noble cause.
• Idiot Hair: She has a strand of hair sticking up on the top of her head.
• Little Bit Beastly: Nanako has hooves, a tail, and long ears. Otherwise, she looks human.
• Pointy Ears: Her ears are slightly long and pointy. Presumably she didn't have them as a mortal girl but rather acquired them during the sacrifice.
• Seven Is Nana: Arihiko is annoyed at how she doesn't have a proper name and calls her Nanako instead.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Carrots, raw from the 'fridge.

Tonami Kugamine

Tonami is the head of the Kugamine family, which is another branch family of the Tohnos like the Arimas. Their family, like the Arimas, has very little demonic powers. However, the Kugamine family is incredibly rich. Tonami was a person living at the Tohno mansion as a freeloader before the events of Tsukihime and was engaged to Akiha. Once Makihisa died and Akiha became head of the family, she dissolved their engagement and kicked him out with all of the other relatives staying at the mansion before Shiki returned. He is fat, perverted, a Jerkass, and downright creepy. He's basically put in the story as a joke whenever a character needs to deal with or beat up someone especially slimy.

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• Arranged Marriage: Apparently, he liked the idea. Akiha did not.
• The Chew Toy: Many of his appearances involving him being abused.
• Dirty Old Man: He has a pronounced tendency towards leering.
• Fat Bastard: Akiha was quite happy to have him out of the house.
• Upper-Class Twit: One of the wealthier associates of the Tohno family, but he tends to annoy the main cast.

Maiko Yamase

The protagonist and viewpoint character of the Dawn sidestory in Kagetsu Tohya. Maiko Yamase was more or less ordinary in every way. She lived with her sister and mother, went to school, learned martial arts, and led a simple life. And then she was eaten. Having stayed out late to get a gift for her sister, she had been on her way home when she heard the sounds of a fight from the local park, and went to investigate, feeling confident that she could drive off the aggressor with her karate. She didn't even have the time to realize how far out of her league she was — as soon as she was near, Nrvnqsr Chaos consumed her, and she died.

And then something rather unexpected happened. She woke up. it transpired that, after Nrvnqsr Chaos' apparent death at Shiki's hands, the remnants had pulled themselves together and been reborn from the small amounts of Chaos that Arcueid had used to heal Shiki's wounds. Without the consciousness of Fabro Rowan, the identity and personality that acted as the 'face' of the gestalt being was now Maiko Yamase. Maiko, only barely in control of the Chaos and with no idea what was going on, was left to wander the streets, and eventually came to understand what she now was enough to know that she was a monster and a danger to others, and allowed herself to be killed by Shiki.

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• Adapted Out: With no Nrvnqsr Chaos in the remake, she and her death scene are absent in it as well.
• Aloof Big Sister: To her little sister, Akemi.
• Ascended Fanfic: Dawn was written by a fan (Kugane Maruyama, later known for Overlord), but since it was mentioned as a source of information in Plus Period, its considered canon.
• Big Sister Instinct: Again, to her little sister Akemi. Maiko is dedicated to protecting her little sister, to the point that Akemi being in danger is what pushes her to achieve enogh control over the 666 Beasts that Shiki can kill her, eliminating the danger to Akemi.
• Came Back Wrong: Of the Inhuman Human sort. Sure, she came back from the dead, and she's still more or less herself, mentally, but physically she's Nrvnqsr Chaos.
• The Faceless: Since she's the viewpoint character throughout Dawn, her face is never shown.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: Maiko has Shiki kill her to prevent the Chaos going out of control. Shiki has to be the one to do it because his Mystic Eyes are the only thing that can reliably put Nrvnqsr Chaos down — even Arcueid couldn't manage it.
• I Know Karate: She boasts about her having a blackbelt in karate, believing that she can help Shiki besides his protests. And then she gets slashes apart by a tiger.
• Identity Amnesia: At first, after her resurrection, she can't remember who she is and at first thinks she's Shiki Tohno, even taking his appearance. After it's made thoroughly clear to her that she isn't him, she wanders around lost and identity-less for a while, eventually finding herself drawn to the house where her family lives and recovering her memories.
• Legacy Character: The second (and so far last) Nrvnqsr Chaos.
• Monstrous Humanoid: She looks human enough from the neck up, but her skin feels like rubber, and most of it is coloured pitch black.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Just like the original Nrvnqsr.
• Tragic Monster: An ordinary person who became an unstable conglomerate of 666 monsters just because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Noel

Voiced by: Ai Kayano

^{Click here for spoilers for Ciel's route} 

An English and PE teacher who suddenly arrived at Metropolitan Souya High School after the sudden death of Shiki's previous homeroom teacher. In reality, she is another member of the Holy Church, serving as an Executor.

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• Actually Not a Vampire: After surviving being bitten by Vlov, Noel starts losing her mind over the fact that she might have been turned into a vampire, becoming more and more unhinged. Except not only didn't Vlov bite her in a way that would turn her into a vampire, she isn't even talented enough on her own to become a Dead Apostle in the first place. Unfortunately, this comes to light when she had already accepted Arach's offer to make her stronger, and got turned into a proper Dead Apostle.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Several times in the story, and at least once before the story begins. Noel doesn't always face perceived danger with dignity.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Despite what she did, her defeat is somber to say the least, and Ciel can't help but weep at how everything turned out for her.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: A member of the Church dedicated to fighting vampires, she believes she's turned into a vampire by Vlov, only for Dr. Arach to disprove that and then turn her into a Dead Apostle for real anyway, in Ciel's route.
• Animal Motif: Butterflies in Ciel's route. In addition to her dress being patterned off butterfly wings, Word of God also compares her motif to Dr. Arach's own spider motif, likening Noel to a butterfly trapped in a spider's web.
• Badass Normal: With an emphasis on normal. Make no mistake, Noel is an accomplished Executor, capable of mowing down lesser-ranked vampires like the Dead or recently turned with ease. The problem is that she's no genius like Kirei Kotomine, or freak of nature like Ciel herself, so she has a tendency to fold in the face of the stronger types of vampires, such as Dead Apostle Ancestors.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Her birthday is on December 25, aka, Christmas itself. It was on her 14th birthday on the night of Christmas eve that a Roa-possessed Elesia brutally slaughtered her entire hometown and turned her life upside down forever.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: As she said, she is only "overwhelmingly strong against the weak". Behind her congenial facade lies a woman who finds the greatest pleasure in inflicting pain on anyone, human or vampire, who she feels is weaker than her. This behavior likely stems from her Dark and Troubled Past.
• The Bully: Noel preys on anyone weaker than herself as a vent for the fear and stress she feels when dealing with her superiors, such as Ciel and Mario. She murders young vampires and even a human associated with them by gruesomely torturing them to death, which repulses Mario when he finds out. Once transformed into a Dead Apostle, she immediately goes on a rampage, no longer fearing punishment or retribution as she torments others for her own sick amusement.
• Butt-Monkey: Her poor fortune is played for laugh often in Melty Blood. In her own story, both mandatory fights do not go swimmingly for her, the one with Akiha resulting in Noel ending up way over her head and having to retreat, and the climax ending with her needing to be rescued when Vlov gets serious. Mario also puppets her body in his Arc Drive, ending with a tired Noel being propelled nearly butt first into the enemy against her will as she lets loose a very characteristically shrill shriek.
• Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Her dress as a Dead Apostle is patterned off butterfly wings, symbolizing her transformation into a vampiric monster and return to a youthful body.
• Call-Back: Dead Apostle Noel's Last Arc is similar to Len's Last Arc in previous Melty Blood games, except that Noel stuffs her opponent into a present instead of a cake before skewering them.
• Canon Immigrant: She is an example of how the remake differs from the original visual novel, with Nasu creating her due to the absence of any teachers in Shiki's school.
• Chaotic Neutral: Her in-universe alignment. It becomes Chaotic Evil as a Dead Apostle.
• Clone by Conversion: Downplayed, but it's implied that Dr. Arach's procedure somehow made Noel into a sort of clone of Rita Rozay-en or at least a vampire from the Rozay-en lineage as Noel not only gains Rita's mystic eyes but also the power to sprout thorny vines from her person.
• Connected All Along: She and Ciel are established coworkers, but Ciel's route reveals that the two's backstories are actually intertwined as Noel was one of the people victimized by Roa during the time he possessed Ciel, which forms the foundation for their complex feelings toward each other.
• Cute and Psycho: As a Dead Apostle, she looks like her 14-year-old self wearing a frilly pink butterfly outfit and speaking in cutesy voice as though she's an idol singer, which sharply contrasts with her unrestrained sadism.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was a victim and the only survivor of her town when Roa manifested with Ciel as the host.
• Deuteragonist: Neko-Arc calls Noel a "sub-heroine" as while she is obviously not the main focus of Ciel's route, she still gets a lot of development throughout the story, including stand-alone scenes, even though, in the end, she fulfills the role of the tragic heroine.
• Dirty Coward: She's quick to run away from strong opponents and makes up for it by brutalizing weaklings. Even as a powerful Dead Apostle she's still quick to get back when Shiki nearly kills her. Shiki considers it a positive survival trait, while Mario contemplates reliving her of duty for being too unreliable.
• Et Tu, Brute?: It is obvious that the boy she liked all those years ago betraying her to save himself left a deep scar in her heart. Shiki reminding her of the boy and being to Ciel what she wanted that boy to be to herself fuels her hatred for the both of them later in the route.
• Face–Heel Turn: In Ciel's route. Despite being an ally at first, she starts to slowly lose it when she suspects she might have been infected by Vlov, and later becomes a full on villain after Dr Arach turns her into an actual Dead Apostle.

• Fountain of Youth: Becoming a Dead Apostle reverts her body to how it was when she was 14 because that was when she was happiest and at her strongest. The illustrator notes in her profile clarify that she doesn't simply turn into her younger self, because the transformation changes her face as well.
• Freudian Excuse: Much of her sadism and cowardice stems from all the horrors caused by the Dead Apostle Ancestors leaving her the lone survivor with a deep hatred and fear of the undead. Couple that with being betrayed by a boy she loved just so he could save himself, and she's pretty much fearful and hateful towards everyone stronger than her.
• Green-Eyed Monster: In Ciel's route, her murderous rage toward Ciel and Shiki stems partly from the latter reminding Noel of the boy who betrayed her all those years ago to save himself. When Shiki chooses to instead put himself at risk to save a complete stranger and later gives Ciel his love and returns her humanity, Noel could not see it as anything but Ciel being given everything she wanted while she was left behind.
• Hypocrite: She thinks the only good vampire is a dead vampire even when she thinks she's already turning, to say nothing of her attitude when she finally transforms.
• In Love with Your Carnage: During Ciel's route, Noel mocks and taunts Shiki as she tortures helpless vampires while offering a chance to get his revenge on them too (by torturing them). If he takes her up on the offer, he kills them with such ease and efficiency that she begins acting like an excitable fangirl around him. Doing this incidentally locks you into the Bad End.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Noel is self-aware of the fact that she is rather mediocre as a fighter of the church, and since her partner is Ciel, her mediocrity stands out even more. She responds by being merciless toward those who are weaker and is scared out of her mind when faced with people who are more powerful than her.
• Irrational Hatred: She holds both Ciel and Roa accountable for the destruction of her hometown thirteen years ago, despite Ciel being as much of a victim of Roa as she was.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When it comes to light that Roa has possessed Shiki's body and is in a fight for dominance over it, while it may not be an ideal solution, she advocates for killing Shiki if it means killing Roa as well given it's their duty as Executors of the Church and hunting down Roa no matter where he appears. Ciel objects to this, mortally wounding Noel in the process. It becomes Villain Has a Point when she brings this up again as a Dead Apostle.
• Leitmotif: "Noel", a Lonely Piano Piece to indicate her tragic character.
• Meaningful Name: Noel is French for Christmas. She's named that because she was born on Christmas Day (a common naming convention in real life) but the holiday has much more significance for her, as her entire life was turned upside down on Christmas Eve when Roa took over the town and slaughtered everyone she knew.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: In her own words, she is "weak against the strong, but overwhelmingly strong against the weak". Against corpses, ghouls and recently-transformed vampires, she can massacre them with cold professionalism. But most people in the story look down on her as she is now dealing with targets much higher on the Dead Apostle rankings than she is comfortable with. Once transformed into a Dead Apostle, she rampages around like a true terror despite still being weaker than Ciel or Roa.
• Only One Name: Like with Ciel, you never find out her last name or if she even has a last name to begin with.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Her hair turns pink after becoming a Dead Apostle, which contrasts her previously normal brown hair.
• Psychic Link: Dead Apostle Noel's Mystic Eyes of Roses allows her to create a telepathic connection with anyone who looks into her eyes, allowing her to subject the target into Mind Rape by playing out her traumatic backstory to them or outright sealing their mind within her own.
• Put on a Bus: In Arcueid's route, she quits working at the school due to Vlov being taken care of and no longer needing to monitor for potential Roa hosts.
• Real Name as an Alias: When posing as a teacher, she goes by Noel Aizome. Aizome is clearly chosen to pretend she's half-Japanese to make her presence more believable to the students, but Noel is later shown to be her actual name.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Ciel, growing concerned over Noel's deteriorating mental state, arranges for Noel to be taken off duty and to live out the rest of her life in seclusion at a nunnery. Noel, considering this to be a personal hell for herself, pushing her further down the path of self-destruction.
• Sadist: Partly due to her past, her general frustration at her own relative powerlessness, and her fears that she's succumbing to vampirism, Noel displays some frightening sadistic tendencies directed towards vampires, ranging from providing them with hope for a cure for their vampirism before slaughtering them in droves, to simple Cold-Blooded Torture. When she herself becomes a Dead Apostle, these tendencies become directed towards Ciel and Shiki, and she proceeds to attempt to Mind Rape the both of them.
• Sanity Slippage: Noel is clearly already not in her right mind once we learn of her sadistic nature, but being bitten by Vlov, shown up by Ciel, terrified of the Church's higher-ups, and transformed into a Dead Apostle did not help.
• The Slacker: In Melty Blood, Ciel laments the fact that not only does Noel show up one month late, she then spends all her free time shopping rather than investigating. Many of Noel's own victory quotes also indicate that this is how she spends her time when not on the job.
• Smug Snake: As an Executor, Noel generally takes this attitude towards vampires, to often nightmarish extremes. While quite capable of dispatching the lower ranks of vampires, when Vlov gets involved, she quickly falls apart.
  • While normally quite well aware of her lack of power in the grand scheme of things, becoming a vampire causes Noel to drastically overestimate her newfound power, not only disregarding Roa as a target for her revenge because she assumes she's now more powerful than him, but causing her to treat Shiki and Ciel as targets to torture, meaning she doesn't immediately try to kill them.
• Suicide Attack: Having been mortally wounded by Ciel, Noel injects herself with the shot that Arach warned would kill her, causing her body to erupt into a storm of thorny vines that Noel tries to lunge into Ciel. Ciel catches Noel with the Seventh Holy Scripture and uses it to kill her for good.
• The Tease: When Shiki runs into her at school, she begins flirting with him. She starts by letting him admire her nape and then getting right up to him so he could feel her body heat, telling him that she wants him to eat her up. All this as she's wrapping her arms around him, and trying to remove his glasses. Once he backed off for... obvious reasons, she dismissed it as a joke, but things are a bit vague on how true that is... until she later continues flirting with him and teasing him, especially in Ciel's route.
• Tempting Fate: The ending to her Type Lumina character story as a Dead Apostle has her claiming she doesn't need to fear the Executors. The very next textbox accompanies a CG of her defeated, and she soon laments how this wouldn't have happened if she chose to kill Ciel first.
• Tragic Villain: In Ciel's Route, where she becomes a major enemy. It is clear she never truly recovered from the tragedy caused by Roa with Ciel as his host, and in her last moments she begs Ciel to give back all the things that were taken from her.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: She secretly tortures vampires both physically and mentally whether they've attacked people or not.
• Villain Has a Point: Like the above Jerkass Has a Point, Noel points out even as a Dead Apostle that she and Ciel have a duty to see Roa killed no matter what form he takes. Though given Roa has possessed Shiki, whom Ciel likes, Noel calls her out for backing out on killing him and getting it over with.
• Womanchild: She is childish, irresponsibe and flighty, possibly more so than any human character in the story while being the oldest among them. Having a terrible tragedy inflicted upon her at a young age is probably responsible.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Her ending in Type: Lumina has her planning on enjoying the high life while continuing to act as a teacher now that the vampire threat is over, but she notices Satsuki Yumizuka wandering around the back alleys and decides to be a responsible adult and have a talk with her... As a Dead Apostle, her ending has her celebrating how there's nobody left who can threaten her, only for her body to suddenly start disintegrating for unknown reasons, causing her to panic and despair. Ciel then appears and declares that she will purify Noel's soul before she dies so she may be granted salvation in the end. Noel accepts that her fate is sealed and laments not killing Ciel first. Her Boss Rush ending double subverts this trope. When it looks like she had finally won and achieved a happy ending, it turns out she was sick and sleeping all this time, yanking away her happy ending. Then it turns out it wasn't all fake and Shiki had begun helping her out after she nearly got ran over by a truck, looking like she might finally have someone who cares for her going forward. THEN three angry heroines show up demanding an explanation, with the narration asking what will happen to her now. Noel just can't catch a break.
• You Remind Me of X: It's heavily implied that Shiki reminds Noel of an exchange student she had a crush on when she was 14. The same exchange student who tried to use Noel as a decoy when they were surrounded by the Dead, when everything went to hell in Noel's town.

Mario Gallo Bestino

Voiced by: Ayane Sakura

A member of the Holy Church who recently moved to Japan to act as a bishop, he serves as the superior to all Church agents in Souya.

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• Amazon Brigade: While the gender of the Executors who assist Mario directly were never stated in the visual novel, Melty Blood shows that he is assisted by an entire squad of nuns, all equipped with variety of weapons.
• Assist Character: Much of his gameplan in Type Lumina involves him calling upon various nuns to attack the opponent on his behalf. He even shares his Arc Drive with Noel... mainly by calling Noel herself to do her Arc Drive for him.
• Ambiguously Evil: For the most part, Mario is simply a "mean, but well-meaning" Church operative who will get to the point to help those in need. But in his story mode in Type Lumina, Aoko had gone after Roa under the request of Zelretch himself because something bad will happen if Mario and Roa come into an agreement between the two. While Mario calls Aoko out for thinking that twelve-year old kid like him would be evil, it is left ambiguous just what Zelretch meant by his comment, was it something like Laurentis might not being as good as he seems to be or if Mario would do something foolish to complete his goal. He is even happy to watch Shiki become possessed by Roa so he can have another chance at meeting him.
• An Arm and a Leg: He loses multiple limbs in Ciel’s route courtesy of Arcueid. In the Normal Ending, it is shown that he not only survived the encounter, but he doesn't even seem too bothered about losing his limbs and his thirty Executors.
• Canon Welding: He is the son (legally on paper, a grandson) of Cardinal Laurentis, a Church member previously only seen in the alternate timeline of Fate/EXTRA.
• Continuity Nod: His presence and backstory exposition in part explains why Laurentis believed himself to be unfit to be Pope in EXTRA: Laurentis, despite being an ordained Cardinal, has an insatiable sex drive for women and has hundreds of illegitimate children. This is, however, seemingly just a cover for the actual reason to possibly prevent the Church from scrutinizing the fact that Mario, who might actually be Laurentis himself, had used a Dead Apostle's research on obtaining immortality (regardless of whether it was deliberately intended or not).
• Everyone Has Standards: Sure, the Holy Church hunts vampires and the Burial Agency sees both Apostles and Ancestors as prey. Mario is also no saint, as he enjoys flexing his authority and causing trouble, only relenting when he knows he’s bitten off more than he can chew. However, he is disgusted when Noel brutally tortures young and starving vampires and even a human who was associating with them, not even for her job but solely to vent her stress.
• Excellent Judge of Character: He is able to correctly deduce that Shiki is not Roa after speaking to him for a few minutes, despite all evidence to the contrary otherwise.
• Immortality Seeker: Dialogue between him and Roa suggests that he is after Roa's immortality research for Laurentis' sake, with Roa mocking Laurentis as a man like him cannot attain immortality. Seeing how Mario might actually be Laurentis himself having regressed to a young kid after using an incomplete version of Roa's research, it's likely Roa knows and is laughing in Laurentis's face deliberately for his desperation.
• Improbable Age: He is younger than most of the known members of the Holy Church as a teenager, but his official role in the Church is working as a newly assigned bishop of all things. Though, given Mario might in fact be Laurentis himself — who's well over a hundred years old at the time — it would justify the improbability of his achievements and status despite his seeming youth.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He's incredibly rude and foul-mouthed, but Shiki has to admit he's pretty much always on point no matter how rudely the point may have been made.
• Lawful Good: His in-universe alignment.
• Merlin Sickness: Some dialogue from the game implies that he IS Laurentis, who started aging backwards after using Roa's incomplete immortality magecraft. If that is true, then all of Laurentis' children were actually just him taking on different names at different points in his life.
• Razor Floss: In Melty Blood, he uses the wires of his Piano Machine as both weapons to slice and ensnare opponents and as mobility tools to swing himself around and launch himself into the air.
• Phenotype Stereotype: The Italian Mario has pale blonde hair and green eyes. He is the only character in A piece of blue glass moon besides Arcueid to have blonde hair, both of which emphasize their foreignness in the Japanese city setting.
• Punny Name: He can turn people into People Puppets by using gauntlets that produce string that he can then use to control other people. This means that he is a Marionette Master.
• Puppet Fighter: Rather apt considering his main ability that he plays like this in Type Lumina.
• Unexplained Recovery: In Ciel's route, he is torn limb to limb by Arcueid. Come the Normal Ending, he is in good health again and makes no mention of it. The story does not explain this whatsoever.
• Vague Age: His official profile estimates him to be in the range of 12 to 14 years old but doesn't commit to a number. He talks about Arcueid like he knows her personally, and has fought against a Demon Lord, a fallen True Ancestor, before, so he had definitely worked around the block for some time. If the implication that he is in fact Laurentis aging backwards proves true due to using Roa's immortality magecraft, then he's well over a hundred years old.
• You Are Fat: He makes a few rather unflattering comments about Noel's weight during his interactions with her in Melty Blood.
• Young and in Charge: He's 14 at oldest and all of the Church members he's overseeing are all adults, with 25 year old Ciel being the second youngest out of the group. There seems to be a reason for that apparently.

Vlov Arkhangel

Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda

The current holder of the 19th seat of the Dead Apostle Ancestors, inheriting the position from Zaria Offenbaum. He was formerly a knight who was exiled from his kingdom due to false charges. He wandered the world until he reaches the frozen ocean where he found Zaria and was adopted by her. He served Zaria like she was his liege and was gifted with warmth in return. But the cold pain in his soul couldn't heal, leading to him abandoning his creed as a knight and rebelling against Zaria, leaving his home as the next Dead Apostle Ancestor. He has now arrived in Souya in order to warm his heart by consuming other's blood.

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• Abstract Eater: He is so starved for warmth that he drinks people's blood not just because he's a Dead Apostle, but so that he can drain their heat.
• Actor Allusion: Vlov's appearance in Type Lumina's Boss Rush has him gifting Miyako an expansion pack for "that popular card game". Now what is one of Kenjiro Tsuda's most notable roles? For some irony, him living in the Grim Up North means that he is a few generations behind in terms of the newest expansions.
• Berserk Button: The otherwise cool-headed Vlov suddenly flies into fits of rage if someone were to try to dig into his past.
• Chaotic Good: His in-universe alignment.
• Coat Cape: Carries around a fuzzy winter coat over his shoulders with golden decorations keeping it from just falling off.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
  • Vlov is intentionally designed to contrast the original's villains by being a classical Gothic vampire with simple powers to both Nrvnqsr and Roa's simple, not particularly fancy designs and very unorthodox powers.
  • In addition, Nrvnqsr and Vlov have contrasting relationships with Roa. The former is a friend of Roa but was not actively involved in the plot because of that and Vlov holds an active grudge against Roa, large enough to move to Souya to accomplish revenge.
  • Vlov's and Nrvnqsr's fight also differ in one crucial way. Nrvnqsr looks down upon humans and considers Shiki to be not worth his attention, allowing himself to be completely surprised by being killed by what he thought was a nobody. On the other hand, though he feels similarly at first, when Shiki gets serious, Vlov, due to retaining his instincts as a human knight, immediately recognize Shiki to be a threat and goes on the defense, to the point that at times the vampire prioritizes Shiki over Arcueid and Ciel from sheer intuition alone, despite the fact that any rational mind would see the latter two as the much greater threat. As a result, especially in Arcueid's route, he puts up a much more gruelling fight, as Shiki loses the element of surprise and requires outside aid to win.
• Empty Shell: A downplayed example. Vlov is far too young to bear the burden of his Principle, which constantly threatens to overwhelm and crush him. Since he spends most of his mental energy suppressing it, his higher reasoning functions are greatly reduced, resulting in him wandering around in a dream-like state and acting mostly on instinct. His true personality only really comes out when he's low on blood or driven into a corner in the heat of battle.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His ten wives are listed among his likes. It is implied that they, or at least some part of them, still reside inside him, and he can consume them at any time to gain more power, but refuses to as he still retains some standards.
• An Ice Person: His actual Principle as an Ancestor is that of Freezing, not flames. He creates spears of ice to use in his fight with Shiki and Arcueid, and emanates such an arctic-like atmosphere with his aura that it would almost instantly murder a human like Shiki from the sheer cold of being in his presence.
• Ironic Name: His surname is one letter different from archangel, yet he is as opposed to being part of the Church as you can get without being a literal demon.
• Jousting Lance: His weapon when channeling the cold is a lance he can encase in ice, making the already long lance even longer.
• Leitmotif: An ominous symphonic rock track simply titled "Vlov", which slowly transforms into several different variants over the narrative, culminating in its final form for when his true Principle is revealed, the "Icefield Waltz (Vlov IV)". This version of his theme discards the rock elements, which symbolizes his flame in favor of a piano waltz.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: His overall appearance gives off the "vampire nobleman" look with purple coat and gold trimming, a stark contrast to the simple-dressed antagonists of the original Tsukihime.
• Matricide: Zaria had been acting as Vlov's "vampire parent" for the last hundred years, so him killing her is this.
• Monster Knight: Vlov was formerly a knight and while he has abandoned his creed of duty in the past, this trait of him is still relevant. He was taught swordplay by Be'ze which he uses with a cleaver-like sword and switches it out to using an actual lance when using his Principle properly.
• Playing with Fire: He primarily attacks people with fire and unleashes scorching infernos that instantly burn everything to a crisp. Arcueid points out that Shiki's assumption in Vlov being the serial killer is wrong because of this, since there would be no body left behind if they were killed by him.
• Power Incontinence: The reason for his fire powers is because he does not have full control over his Principle. Because Principle of Freezing is "depriving things of heat", inefficient usage of it causes the heat to leak out of him as vaporizing flames, which he has some but not complete control over.
• It's Personal: Type Lumina reveals he has a grudge against Roa for seemingly stealing away the past 200 years away from him, with him wanting to get to Arcueid partly as a way to get revenge to Roa.
• Red Herring: He has black dog familiars that attack Shiki before he appears in person, tricking the reader into thinking that the attacker is still Nrvnqsr like in the original Tsukihime.
• Revenge: He wants revenge for unknown reasons, which is one reason for his travel to Tokyo.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He replaces Nrvnqsr as the Dead Apostle Ancestor whose role is to be defeated and assumed to be the main problem dealt with, only for Roa to reveal himself as the true threat.
• Turns Red: In Type Lumina, if Vlov is in a losing round he will switch into using his Principle properly, making his elemental attacks more potent.
• Underestimating Badassery: Subverted. Many opponents have the fatal habit of underestimating Shiki. Vlov does at first, but after Shiki really goes after him, Vlov gets dead serious, keeps a safe distance and fights defensively against someone any other vampire would write off as a nobody, despite the fact that his own rational mind has no clue why Shiki triggers such fighting instincts.
• Vampire's Harem: The guy has ten wives provided to him by Zaria, whom he seems to care a lot of. He tries to get Akiha to be his eleventh wife, but she refuses by the polygamous relationship alone.

Dr. Arach

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto

Makihisa's old acquaintance in university, due to her closeness with the Tohno family through him, she has been working for Akiha as a consultant in both architectural and medical matters.

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• Affably Evil: Is definitely not a good person, but her friendliness is entirely genuine, as seen when she turns Noel into a Dead Apostle.
• Ambiguously Related: Arach has not-so subtle spider motifs and some kind of fascination with Dead Apostles, which include turning people into one through experiments. The remake also introduces spider-headed ghouls and a seemingly new spider Dead Apostle Ancestor, and namedrops "Modding Maniac" in Vlov's material profile. -A piece of blue glass moon- doesn't connect any of these together, possibly leaving them open to be explored in -The other side of red garden- or a proper sequel.
• Animal Motif: Spiders. It's literally in her name. She also compares herself to one as a "spider without a web going wherever the wind would take her" before she met Makihisa.
• Chaotic Good: Her in-universe alignment. She swears.
• Expy: There’s a lot about her that’s reminiscent of Fujimura Taiga, particularly in her hyperactive expressiveness.
• Foil: Every morning after Shiki is injured, he gets a choice to be examed by Arach or Kohaku. The former is an unlicensed surgeon and the latter is an unlicensed pharmacist and seitai practitioner. Arach's exams have her comment on the amount of pain in Shiki's injuries and drop hints to Shiki's and Akiha's true natures. Kohaku's exams have her cluelessly forget the topic of pain due to her Feels No Pain situation and encourage Shiki to be considerate to Akiha's feelings and avoid pursuing her secrets.
• Genki Girl: Arach is one of the most energetic and expressive people in the remake, constantly excited about everything she sees or does. Including transforming Noel into a Dead Apostle.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: Ciel’s route marks her as an outright antagonist, and she has an unclear but definitely extant connection to the Dead Apostle Ancestors, but her goals, motives, and pretty much any other information are as yet unknown.
  • It is heavily implied that she is the spider-shaped Dead Apostle Ancestor present during the French Incident, since spider-like Ghouls were among the undead that devoured Ciel’s village like they were in Souya. Roa's dialogue and a special move used by Dead Apostle Noel in Type Lumina implied that she may be the ancestor Paranodahlia.
• Hospital Hottie: A (unqualified) medical practitioner and just look at her.
• Karma Houdini: Even though she is responsible for turning Noel into a Dead Apostle in Ciel's route, Dr. Arach never pays for it. In Ciel's Normal End, she is even shown to be alive and well at the Tohno mansion at the end, seemingly with nobody the wiser about her involvement in the plot.
• Leitmotif: "Arach's Theme", an energetic yet eccentric march to complement her quirky persona. It has a Dark Reprise version for when she turns Noel into a Dead Apostle.
• Mad Doctor: She rivals Kohaku in ominous use of medicine and has very visible glee or disappointment when interacting with Shiki on medical business, whether it be treating wounds or administering vaccines. She also mysteriously has in-depth knowledge on Dead Apostles, as she knows precisely what to use for turning someone like Noel into a Dead Apostle. This includes Dead Apostle Ancestors as Noel gains Rozay-en's Mystic Eyes of Roses from Arach's experiments.
• Punny Name: Her name is taken from arachnid.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: The top of her blouse is opened up to the point where it exposes her bra.
• Super Doc: She is mainly a scientist, but she's also a qualified architect and can work as a surgeon on a professional level despite not having a license.
• Unreliable Expositor: Her Material profile is written from her perspective where most of her answers are either non-answers ("Age: Who cares?") or her outright lying like with her alignment.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • Akiha's borderline abusive upbringing was caused by her suggesting to Makihisa that strict education was a good stopgap measure to contain Akiha's miraculously powerful oni blood.
  • One of Ciel route's bad ends happen if you choose to let her inject Shiki with a Schmuck Bait vaccine that she claims will hurt a lot and not help him at all. While Arach seemed to have hoped to see some results regardless of which vaccine you take, taking that specific one causes Roa to take Shiki's body few days later, something that most likely wasn't in her plans.

Gouto Saiki

Voiced by: Chikahiro Kobayashi

A mysterious individual Shiki meets hanging around the Tohno mansion.

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• Ascended Extra: In the original canon, he was just part of the family who Kiri Nanaya was sent to take out in the Red Demon God story from Kagetsu Tohya. He now has a much more substantial role in the remake simply by virtue of being involved in the main story's plot.
• Bandaged Face: His entire face is wrapped in black bandages, which just adds more to the oddness surrounding him to both Shiki and the player.
• Chaotic Neutral: His in-universe alignment for the remake.
• He Knows Too Much: In one Bad End, he kills Shiki for snooping around in Makihisa's office.
• In the Back: How he kills Shiki in one Bad End.
• Last-Name Basis: He tells Shiki to refer to him by his surname, thinking that his first name doesn't deserve any recognition.
• Shout-Out: Nasu confirmed in the design notes that his Bandaged Face design is a homage to the rubber mask worn by Kiyo Inugami in Seishi Yokomizo's The Inugami Clan.

Mio Saiki

Voiced by: Rina Hidaka

A homeless middle schooler girl living on the rooftops of Tokyo for her own mysterious reasons.

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• Chaotic Neutral: Her in-universe alignment.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Her illustrator notes state that her presence in -A piece of blue glass moon- is really just to establish this character exists and that she will be more relevant in future stories.
• Given Name Reveal: She introduces herself only as Mio and the player has to unlock an optional scene where she reveals her last name is Saiki, which hints at a connection to Gouto.
• Identical Stranger: Downplayed, but Mio looks remarkably similar to Tohsaka Rin.
• NEET: She ran away from home and does not intend to find a job or go to school, instead just camping out on a Tokyo rooftop for the time being.

Yuugo Ando

Voiced by: Shuta Morishima

One of Mario's two direct subordinates who normally works as a Japanese police officer.

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• Chaotic Good: His in-universe alignment.

Karius Berlusconi

Voiced by: Shuta Morishima

One of Mario's two direct subordinates who is otherwise an Italian judge.

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• Lawful Good: His in-universe alignment.
• Occidental Otaku: All of his listed likes are for things from Japanese culture like Japanese fans and shogi, while his dislike is being mad that his Japanese coworker doesn't respect it.

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