Characters / Unprecedented Catastrophe

New characters:

Introduced in Part 1 (before Chapter 6):

Musou

WARNING: The name Musou is narration-only! Canon-wise, he has No Name Given.

The main character. A human who was out to Japan for a "Shrine Tour", he ends up finding the Outside World's Hakurei Shrine. Following a perturbation in the Great Barrier, he is haplessly taken in the barrier, and nearly dies, but Yukari takes the remains of his existence when the barrier has to be fixed. A Time Skip later, he is found at the Moriya Shrine, but wanders away until Reimu and Marisa take upon themselves to train him at surviving, while Sanae investigates him under the guise of being Reimu's aide. After two weeks, he sets out for the Scarlet Devil Mansion to discover how he ended up in Gensokyo and... a lot of things happen.

Tropes associated with Musou:

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• Failure Hero: He hasn't won a single fight, while he lost a handful.
• Fate Worse than Death: He wonders if he's trapped forever in nothingness in Chapter 1, and maintains his existence only by the hate this fate generates in him.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Spouts some on a regular basis.
• Leeroy Jenkins: He thinks very little in fear of holding back his powers since he'd be in denial of those. In narration, he even namedrops Leeroy Jenkins when referring to his lack of thought in Chapter 8.
• Meaningful Name: Musou stands for unique, tying in with the French title. It's also part of the Japanese title Musouhen, meaning unique event.
• No Name Given: Post-spiriting away. Hiding his real name under the alias Musou is the first thing he even does of the work. Post-spiriting away, he doesn't remember this alias and is referred to by this name only in narration.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: In chapter 1 and 8, the main character pulls this on himself, putting himself through a Spell Card from Flandre in order to learn how to dodge bullets. He sinks, and dies.
• Trapped in Another World: And there's neither any possibility to escape, nor any desire to do so.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: In chapter 1, he goes with Fanon Flandre, thinking she'll snap into Omnicidal Maniac-ness at the slightest notice. It has nasty consequences, even though she doesn't do more than play one of her Spell Cards with him. Since he's then unable to fly or fire danmaku, she doesn't even take a hit and Meiling has to stop the "game" because the main character has already got hit far too much, leading to his death..

Luke Hakurei

Reimu's husband, he comes back at the beginning of the fiction after a nine-months travel to find his identity. He couldn't do this in time to come back to Gensokyo.

Tropes associated with Luke:

• Friend to All Living Things: To most at least. He rescues Shumi after knocking her into the Misty Lake and hearing her cry.
• Only Sane Man: To Reimu's Good Is Not Nice tendencies.

Nouwa Burensu

A particular spirit of unknown type that appeared in the Netherworld, confronting Musou and attacking everyone on sight. Her goal seems to be exterminationg everything, but she's far too weak for that.

Tropes associated with Nouwa:

• Alto Villainess
• Attention Whore: Referred to as such in the bonus chapter, even by her own partner-in-intruding (known as "The Traveller") or by Reimu.
  "The Traveller": "If you want to stare at someone, look Miss, she is the one wanting it after all."
  Reimu: "Listen, you've wasted enough of Gensokyo's time with him or yourself! So you'll get down that table and play your damn card game with me."
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Sealed by Shingyoku in Chapter 4. She one-shots its three forms when she comes back in Chapter 6.
• Graceful Loser: Bonus-only. She reacts to her loss by laughing, and her first laugh that isn't an Evil Laugh. Out of the bonus, she's only lost by knock-away (Sanae) straight knockout (Remilia) or sealing (Shingyoku).
• Gratuitous Japanese: See Musou.
• Meaningful Name: The Nou (usually written "noh") (能) is a form of tragic theatre, and wa (環) means wheel. The logic here being, her name is a metaphor for the breaking wheel. Despite there being a nou kanji meaning "angered" (惱), this isn't the transcription used, so the trope is thought to be subverted until the hidden torture meaning is discovered.
• Motive Decay: In her first appearances, she solely existed to kill the main character and had no real trait aside her hatred of him, and everyone else. In her last appearance so far, she feels what she calls "a heart" growing in her, but tries to make this a Defied Trope.
• Motor Mouth: In the card game bonus, she gives long talks about her cards and effects and stuff, complete with Game-Breaker effects for added ego. Lampshaded mercilessly twice by Reimu.
  "You sure like to listen to yourself talk, huh?"
  "Please, end it soon..."
• Shout-Out: "ZA WARUDO!" is the line on which she enters the bonus's card game tournament.
• Super Smoke: Her first apparition had her "materialize" from white smoke in front of the main character.
  • Smoke Out: Inverted. She "smokes in" during the bonus.

Genma Uemashi

A demon from Makai, seen visiting Alice.

Tropes associated with Genma:

• All There in the Manual: She isn't namedropped in the fic. You can only know her name by reading side-material such as this page.
• The Dreaded: She knows Marisa for what she did in Makai.
• Sunglasses at Night: And indoors.

Maki Aoyou

A wandering four-winged bird youkai. Also, a Mubana Academy escapee, she used to be a teacher there, but refers to it as a giant Gilded Cage.

Tropes associated with Maki:

• The Artifact: From her short-lived guard career for the tengu, she keeps.
• Badass Teacher: Former teacher at Mubana Academy.
• The Power of the Sun: Her sole Spell Card so far is called "Light ~ Solar Ray".
• Statuesque Stunner: Her height is listed by side materials as around 6'3" / 190 cm.

Dondeo Izayoi

A restaurant owner in the human village, he is married to Sakuya Izayoi. His own painful story in Gensokyo is long over.

Tropes associated with Dondeo:

• Straight Man: To Remilia's whims.
• Weirdness Magnet: To the Human Village. Being married to Sakuya, he attracts Remilia's visits in the Human Village.

Shumi Kasei

A fiery fairy, also escaped from Mubana.

Tropes associated with Shumi:

• Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Doesn't tolerate water, as Luke inadvertently sending her in the Misty Lake proved. She was a crying mess for the following eight hours.
• Fiery Redhead
• Playing with Fire

Introduced in Part 2 ~ Musou Mugen Densetsu (after Chapter 6):

Makuu Sanjuya

A new shikigami who manifests in the form of a humanized crow. She's polite, but mysterious. While Ran thinks she's a shikigami of Yukari, she pledged allegiance to Ran herself, and is a rival of Chen's.

Tropes associated with Makuu:

• Affably Evil: Under her polite servant façade, she reminds Chen of Nouwa.

Maou Brimstone

A mysterious masked agent of Yumemi's, he doesn't have full control over the way he thinks or acts. Otherwise, he seems to be quite insane.

Tropes associated with Maou:

• Mind Control: A victim of this.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Maou" stands for "demon king" as Chiyuri attests in her way.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: On behalf of Yumemi, he was supposed to take out a kappa outpost. He scorched the entire area, and signed the act with a kanji for "evil spirit" (the "ma" in Maou).

Hiirome

A mysterious human with fire powers. Little is known about him.

Tropes associated with Hiirome:

• Call-Back: He notices Maou's "signature" as one to something related to another demon. This is a Shout-Out to Luke, who has the same kanji carved on his back.
• Playing with Fire: He destroyed a drone by causing a fire in it, by a mere bat of an eyebrow.