Characters / Until Death Do Us Part

The Elements Network

General

• Never Be Hurt Again: Many of the network's members are victims of violent crime and seek justice that they believe the world doesn't have enough of.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: Most of its members were once victims themselves and don't want others to experience what they did.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: The network's creed. Mamoru's habit of toeing the line makes him rather unpopular with the network at large, though his reputation later gets better.
• Terror Hero: Mamoru in particular, but this is also a general strategy of the network. They intentionally spread rumors and give evildoers a taste of their own medicine to deter criminal activity.
• Vigilante Man: The combatants in the network serve as this.
• Vigilante Militia: Several such groups exist within the network. The Wall is designed to take down international terrorists. In the Chechnya flashback arc, Mamoru accompanies a network-organized militia to track down the TPC.

Team Blade

Mamoru Hijikata

Codename: Blade

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: His main weapon is a shikomizue disguised as a blind cane, with a monomolecular blade.
• Anti-Hero: The guy is brutal in combat and frequently leaves criminals with a Fate Worse than Death, and he's pretty rude and blunt outside of that. At the end of the day, however, he's still firmly on the side of good, and the people he fights all have it coming.
• Badass and Child Duo: With Haruka.
• Berserk Button: Criminals in general, but he gets especially pissed off by those who pursue Haruka and/or those who place no value in life.
• Blind Weaponmaster: He's basically the classic blind swordsman plopped into modern day.
• Blood Knight: He's constantly smiling when confronted with a challenge.
• Conveniently an Orphan: His parents were killed by a drunk driver in front of his eyes, and he went on to live with his grandparents and after he, too, dies, with his kendo master.
• Fate Worse than Death: Since he can't kill the criminals he stops, he often gets...creative...when it comes to punishing them for their crimes (this can entail such humiliations as losing an arm and a leg in Edge Turus's case). A lot of them end up wishing Mamoru had killed them. Fang kills himself rather than live with Mamoru's "punishment."
• Immune to Fate: Overcomes Haruka's predictions whenever she thinks he's going to fail.
• Meaningful Name: "Mamoru" means "protect" in Japanese, which sums up his role in the story as Haruka's bodyguard.
• One Head Taller: When they reunite after Haruka reaches adulthood and decide to fulfill Haruka's vision of them getting married, the top of her head just barely reaches his shoulders.
• "Reason Why You Suck" Speech: Gives them quite a lot when his opponents underestimate him, but especially gives these to Edge Turus.
  Mamoru: Did you think that just because you're the son of a tyrant that ruining the lives of others would never come back to affect you? Fuck me? Fuck you!
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's calm and collected in most situations.
• Would Hurt a Child: If they've willingly gotten involved in criminal activities, Mamoru won't hold back. A bunch of Haruka's classmates learn this the hard way when they get caught between him and Fang, and Mamoru deliberately got them involved to teach them what it's like to be on the receiving end.

Ryoutarou Igawa

• Car Fu: He's shown to be competent when driving the truck the team uses.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Igawa's very good with machines.
• Playful Hacker: He hacks Fang's drones during the battle with him.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Feels this way after he chooses not to have Shinji Ebata, his sister's murderer, killed at Mamoru's hand. He doesn't know whether letting the guy live, albeit in prison with a possible death sentence, does her justice.

Haruka Tooyama

• A Child Shall Lead Them: Downplayed as she's the leader of Team UDDUP and not a country, but she takes charge of the team's operations in Galboa and Duhana. Justified by her precognition, and her team was specifically organized with older, more experienced members that can help her make decisions she can't make.
• Baby Factory: How the final Big Bad sees her. His initial plan was to make his fifth wife, a doctor, feed her fertility drugs and having the rest of his harem be surrogate mothers for the ova he's extracting. However, he decides to hold off on her advice.
• Badass and Child Duo: With Mamoru.
• Blessed with Suck: Yes, she can see and manipulate the future, but it's difficult, strenuous, and when certain groups found out about this ability, they killed her parents, drove off her maternal grandmother, kidnapped her, repeatedly, isolated her by threatening the lives of her friends and classmates, and sold information about her to a Social Darwinist that wants to use her as a Baby Factory as a direct result.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Her mother and father were exceptionally good people, and they were killed by the Yakuza when they kidnapped her For the Evulz. Mamoru made them pay for it, repeatedly. Narrowly avoided in relation to her maternal grandmother, who was pursuing her missing person case, but Mamoru had to get that woman to act like Haruka was dead so the Yakuza would stop targeting her.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: She's only 12-13 during the series and hasn't started puberty, so most men in the series tower over her.
• Living MacGuffin: Even before the Big Bad knew about her, various unpleasant people were making her life a living hell by trying to own, control, or outright kill her.
• Magnetic Hero: A lot of people, even those of questionable morality, are willing to fight for her sake.
• Stepford Smiler: A depressed variant. She's constantly seeing possible futures, including those that end with her, Mamoru, her friends and allies, and/or innocent bystanders dead. At 12 years old, she's watched her parents get murdered, was kidnapped, and sought out Mamoru as her likeliest chance of staying alive. Her life is in constant peril, and she can't really make friends at school because she has to leave the moment her location is compromised.
• Waif Prophet: A limited version: she only sees the most probable outcomes and the futures she sees have to revolve around herself; she can't see the futures of those she's completely uninvolved with.

Serena (Sierra, Elan)

See The Wall.

Juliet

See The Wall.

Dai Ibuki

Mamoru's replacement after he and Haruka disappear into the mountains to train. While he's technically the leader (and sole member of) Team Bucephalus, he is ordered by Daiba to assist Team Blade after that. In the final arc, he works as part of Team UDDUP.

• Badass Biker: The only person who can bring out the potential of the Bucephalus.
• Cool Bike: Bucephalus a custom bike which was named after Alexander the Great's Hose.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite getting full of himself a lot, he's not all talk; he received special training from Daiba, a rare privilege, and is the only one acknowledged to ride Bucephalus. Because his suit needs to be bulletproof, shock absorbent, and also contains electronic components to sync up to Bucephalus, it weighs over 125 pounds on its own. Pulling off the acrobatic stunts he does requires a ton of strength and stamina most people can only dream of.
• Everybody Hates Mathematics: While training before the final arc, he complains that SPARC can't help him use Bucephalus on rough terrain because it's an AI, not a human. Pyro believes SPARC could help if Dai gave it specific numbers; but he can't, because he rides Bucephalus on feel and instinct.
• Genius Slob: Not exactly unhygenic (see Shower Scene below), but his sweaty clothes are strewn all over the hallway and he leaves the bathroom door wide open with only underwear on for modesty.
• It's All About Me: He appears to be in the network for the thrill, scouted by Daiba to drive Bucephalus. Because of it, he butts heads with Mamoru about who gets to take down the bad guys.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: He has an adorable cat.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Compared to Mamoru, Dai is more hot tempered.
• Shower Scene: Gets one in Chapter 174. Notably, his underwear is still on, probably because he left the bathroom door wide open when a 13-year-old girl is living with him. It raises eyebrows with his new teammate, Shot.

The Wall

A branch of the Elements Network specializing in international terrorism. Its members are named after the military alphabet.

Alfa

The leader of the Wall, with tons of experience to assist. His real name is Jack Garvey.

• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Had a very decorated military background before he disappeared off the grid and became leader of The Wall.
• Four-Star Badass:
• Frontline General: While he usually hangs back and watches the scene from afar, he takes the helm as the situation demands. His ability to grasp individual members' situations and issue orders while fighting impresses Mamoru.
• The Leader: Seems to be Type II as he is fairly practical.
• Sergeant Rock
• Spell My Name With An S: Alpha vs. Alfa. Officially, it's Alfa, after the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Juliet

Sierra's replacement after the Fang arc.

• Action Girl: A requirement for the job.
• Big Damn Heroes: Saves Igawa after he falls for an enemy trap.
• Broken Bird: She was raped and stabbed, as a result she can no longer have kids.
• The Gadfly: Deliberately gets on the nerves of the people she works with in order to get a better read on them.
• Rape as Backstory: Her reason for joining The Wall. Her strong reaction to Shinji Ebata, the same man who killed Igawa's sister, suggests he sexually assaulted at least a few of his past victims.

Kilo

• Amicable Exes: With Sierra.
• Debt Detester: Runs off to save Haruka because he hates owing Mamoru for saving him.

Foxtrot

• Determinator
• Implacable Man

India

An ex-Marine who lost his child to a terrorist attack.

• Language Fluency Denial: Attempts this when Genda comes to question him about the terrorists he fought. Genda simply switches to English instead. Later, India reveals he's perfectly fluent in Japanese.

Papa

A giant with a grip strength of "only" 375 pounds.

• The Big Guy: He towers over the rest of his team, and they aren't exactly small guys (or gals).

Serena (Sierra, Elan)

Initially Sierra of the Wall. She prefers to be called by her actual name when part of team Blade. After leaving the Wall, her new code name is Elan.

• Action Girl: A requirement for the job.
• Amicable Exes: With Kilo.
• Badass in Distress: Is taken hostage by Fang after being defeated by his drones.
• Mama Bear: To Haruka, especially because she lost her own daughter.

Other Members

Needle

An infiltration expert. The only time she appears, she uses the alias "Mio Hasekura."

Pyro

A demolition expert working for the Element Network.

• Because You Were Nice to Me: He's not actually part of the network; he's helping because Daiba saved his life after a mission gone awry and was badly injured for it. (That injury is why Team Blade was initially formed; Daiba had to cease his vigilante work as Alcbane and needed someone to temporarily take his place.)
• Conveniently Empty Building: Justified; Pyro scouted out a largely-empty building that was already under consideration for demolition while framing Shinji Ebata with acts of terrorism and attempted murder.
• Fedora of Asskicking
• Reformed Criminal: Did some dirty work before being saved by Daiba. It's not sure how deep he was into the criminal world, but he seems pretty happy to work with the Element Network and do some good.

Shot

Real name: Boldora. He's a former member of the Black Unit who left when Duhana was split from Galboa.

• 11th-Hour Ranger: Added to Team UDDUP for the final arc because he's native to Duhana, which is their destination.
• The Big Guy: Easily the biggest guy in Team UDDUP.

Team Alcbane

Tatsumi Daiba

One of the founders of the Element Network. A genius who invented the search engine "METHOD" and built SPARC.

• Acting Your Intellectual Age: Inverted. Daiba is mentally 11 but has the body of a 24-year-old. Luckily, he was already Wise Beyond His Years as a child and can adjust his language to sound his age, but gets easily frazzled by ideas he can't fully comprehend such as being informed that Haruka and Mamoru will get married in the future.

SPARC

The quantum computer which serves as the main computer for the Element Network. SPARC is the acronym of its actual name: Super Parallel Algorithm Resonance Computer.

• Artificial Brilliance

Galboa/Duhana

Zashid Turus

The warlord of a small, apartheid-stricken nation. Those who have encountered him see him as the pinnacle of humanity: a genius strategist and unbeatable warrior. He's so good at what he does, in fact, that he's dissatisfied leaving his country to anyone other than himself; to that end, he's supporting work into Dante 313 (cloning) and seeks to use Haruka to produce an even stronger heir.

• Big Bad: All the hell Haruka's been through can easily be laid at his feet, and he likes it that way.
• Charles Atlas Super Power: He's on record lifting cars barehanded, and can move so fast, it takes turning an 80 meter radius around him into a killing field to wound him. Mamoru once tried a suicidal Taking You with Me attack, but was off by a mere one thousandth of a second and lost. Mamoru lived, however, because Haruka timed her intervention in a way that he would avoid a fatal blow.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He may be absolutely ruthless and despicable, but even he isn't as low as Edge. He holds off on his plan to extract Haruka's ova when his fifth wife and doctor voices her concern over its permanent effect on Haruka's health. After he loses to Mamoru, he willingly cedes control over to Genie and Haruka, and moves to shield her with his body when Edge tries to assassinate her.
• Genius Bruiser: He's the end product of generations of selective breeding for physical strength and intellect. He considers himself the pinnacle of human evolution, meaning his children will, at best, only be able to match him. He wants Haruka's ability so that future generations can someday surpass him.
• Large and in Charge: He towers over everybody in the cast, runs a country, and is easily the most powerful and antagonistic character revealed to date.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: He's not just a ruthless political mastermind, he's a brutal fighter.
• Royal Harem: Has a harem of at least a dozen wives, and since they're all caged in an underground facility, it's safe to say they're not there willingly. Haruka is his latest acquisition.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: He practices slavery in his country, and it is repeatedly shown just how bad that is.
• Stout Strength: He's got a lot of girth, but don't mistake that for fat. He's over 300 pounds of pure muscle.
• Super-Senses: This can can instinctively tell when his life's in danger, he can even sense someone with a sniper rifle coming miles away. Haruka's the one who's come closest to actually harming him because she explicitly has no killing intent.
  Turus:"I see. If you had a knife, you could have pierced my heart. Specifically because you have no killing intent. Terrifying."
• Villain with Good Publicity: For the "white" people of his country. The dark skinned live in constant fear of what he'll do. Part of Mamoru's plan to go after him is to make Edge Turus destroy that public image. It doesn't work, however, thanks to Haruka's intervention.
• Virtue Is Weakness: He couldn't care less about the well being of his wives, mates, offspring, or citizens if it doesn't directly affect him. He also looks down on anyone, or any nation who does.
• War for Fun and Profit: He's constantly provoking other nations, up to going and committing terrorist acts and war atrocities, so he can enjoy beating down and brutalizing the soldiers of that other country and seize plunder.
• With My Hands Tied: He can and has beat the stuffing out of several powerful characters while holding his arms behind his back. The only times he's had to get serious and actually pull out a weapon are against Jesus and Mamoru.

Galboa

Edge Turus

The main antagonist who sends assassins after Mamoru and Haruka.

• Artificial Limbs: Gains them after getting hacked up by Mamoru.
• Berserk Button: Mamoru Hijikata. The single person he hates more than anyone else, and will do anything to get rid of.
• Butt-Monkey: Happens to him after Mamoru dismembering him.
• Diplomatic Impunity: Brags about it... Only to find out that the Element Network doesn't care when he gets cut up by Mamoru.
• Evil Cripple: Again a result of the aforementioned cutting.
• Hoist by Their Own Petard: This is what ultimately does him in during the fight with Aegis and Genda. He sets a couch on fire to trigger the phantom pain of Aegis losing his arm and even wields an upgraded version of Aegis' own prosthetic against him. However, Aegis and Genda turn the automatic function of Turus' new arm against him and Aegis verbally exploits that absolute hatred that Turus has for Mamoru, invoking Turus' own phantom pain to get him to lose control in their confrontation and giving Aegis and Genda the edge.
  • Happens again in the final chapter. Desperate to make up for his repeated failures and avoid punishment from Zashid, he took up his half-brother Gido's offer to serve as a test subject for Dante 313's cloned limb research. To speed up its growth process, they used a special rapid-aging serum. When he attempts to assassinate Haruka and take control of Galboa after Zashid cedes to her and Genie, the rapid-aging serum kicks in, rendering his cloned arms and legs unusable yet again.
• Humiliation Conga: After Mamoru dismembered him, he's been the subject of this.
• It's All About Me: His view on life. It makes him a lot of enemies, and almost everyone that has the (dis)pleasure of working with him abandons or betrays him first chance they get.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Mamoru does not allow Edge to go unpunished for his actions, the price for sending off Haruka's information? An arm and a leg. The price for sending assassins after Haruka? Another arm gone. The price for sending more assassins after Haruka and claiming Haruka is his property? Genda and Aegis take or destroy every one of his prosthetic limbs. Oh and they're not done. The price for making Haruka's life hell by sending Yakuza to kidnap her and selling her information to his Social Darwinist father? Break Edge Turus out of jail, and have him be a Category Traitor by framing him for treason for trying to overthrow Warlord Turus.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: In the final arc, serves as this for Mamoru and Wiseman's group, who's keeping him around to frame him as a traitor. Zelm and Naomi Ragi casually talk about killing him to spare them the trouble of guard duty to his face.
  • Nobody in his family likes him either. Zashid sees all his sons as failures, but Edge in particular for his repeated failures. His half-brother Gido comes to rescue him and give him a way to redeem himself by using himself as a research subject for the experimental Dante 313 project. However, Gido did it fully expecting for it to backfire on Edge sooner or later.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has one as a result of Genda and Tate provoking him. According to them, it's part of the trauma Mamoru inflicted when he... well, y'know.

Fang

The first assassin sent after Mamoru.

• Attack Drone: Uses these to fight.
• Driven to Suicide: Mamoru beats him, destroys all his drones, and leaves him completely helpless. Terrified of being tortured at the hands of his own coworkers for his secrets, Fang sells the information he gained from his fight in exchange for a quick and relatively painless bullet to the head.
• Gadgeteer Genius
• Professional Killer

Duhana

Genie Turus

One of Zashid's many children. While Zashid actually has a relatively high opinion of him (he thinks all his sons are miserable failures, but some have more potential than others), Genie isn't in the running to be his successor because he's more concerned about Duhana's future.

• A Father to His Men: Or brother, as it were. It's also why Mamoru respects Genie enough to at least work with him to take down Zashid, compared to his absolute hatred of Edge.
• Acrofatic: He's surprisingly fast, enough to outpace Mamoru, though Mamoru was already worn down by that point.
• The Starscream: Wants to overthrow his father so Duhana won't live under his oppressive regime.

The Black Unit/ The Trumps

The elite soldiers of Duhana, that is the black ones. They're also called the warriors of Duhana.

Zelm

• Fedora of Asskicking

Invisible (Tebor (female) and Teboul (male))

• Stealth Hi/Bye

Others

The Underworld

Wiseman

• Awesome by Analysis: He's able to figure out tactics on how to fight Mamoru by watching data from Fang's attack.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Clearly finds Zashid's interest in Haruka highly immoral, and expresses disdain towards Edge's sadistic nature.

  Wiseman: (About Mamoru's plans for Edge) This happened to him because he dabbled in sadistic cruelty for fun. I certainly didn't teach him that quality.

• Evil Genius: Plays this role for the bad guys.
• Heel–Face Turn: Eventually decides to aid Mamoru in his quest to take down Zashid, if only for love of the challenge.
• It Amused Me: By and large seems to be the reason for his criminal activities. He carries them out to keep himself entertained.
• The Chessmaster: His reason for becoming involved in criminal activities was so he could sate his itch for strategy.
• The Mentor: To Edge Turus and Komura.
• Villain Takes an Interest: In Mamoru, to the point where he later agrees to work with Mamoru solely to see how far they can go in the quest to free Haruka.

Komura

A lieutenant of the Yakuza

• The Dragon
  • Dragonwith An Agenda

Ashford

Generally known as Ashe, she is a sniper raised and trained by the famous "Tiger."

Jesus

The world's deadliest assassin, who just so happens to also be a school teacher.

• Answers to the Name of God: Often used as a kind of Badass Boast.
  Mook: Aw, Jesus!
  Jesus: That's my name!
• Badass Boast: Throws out a ton of these, especially when TPC is on the other end.
• Becoming the Mask: In his origin story, he took up teaching so he could keep an eye on his drug stash, hidden behind an impossible-to-remove blackboard. By the time UDDUP rolls around, he's a Papa Wolf for his students and quickly switches into his teaching mode.
• Irony: Situational kind. Why did Jesus go after the TPC? Because they were harvesting organs from children and kidnapped his students, starting his Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Thanks to his and the Element Network's interference, the TPC found kidnapping too dangerous... so they switched to Dante 313, which aims to MAKE the children whose organs they're selling. This project was why Edge came to Japan, thus finding out about Haruka and putting her on Galboa's target list. Because of this, she is later sheltered in Aitou Academy as Jesus' student... So when he finds out Zashid, who's sheltering the TPC and funding research for Dante 313, is after her, Jesus decides to hop on over to Galboa and raise some hell.

Tate Kirito

A renowned protector known as "The Aegis." The main character of Yami no Aegis, which takes place several years before UDDUP.

• Hero of Another Story: The hero of Yami no Aegis and its sequel Akatsuki no Aegis.
• Put on a Bus: Stays in Japan while most of the main cast heads to Galboa and Duhana for the final arc, and reappears for the epilogue.

Anna Riddle

A girl around Haruka's age who serves as Tate's agent and resides at the Tea House Siren. Born with ESP and immense intelligence, she has been targeted since the age of six. Like Tate, she originated from Yami no Aegis.

• But Not Too Foreign: Anna is half-Japanese, half-Sicilian.
• Put on a Bus: Stays in Japan while most of the main cast heads to Galboa and Duhana for the final arc, and reappears for the epilogue.

Senji

Civilians

Teppei Genda

• Cowboy Cop: Has a reputation within the police department for this.
• Inspector Javert: Played With. While he bears a large grudge against Mamoru for murdering their kendo teacher and attacks him whenever the chance arises, he quickly deduced Mamoru is protecting the missing Haruka and only interferes with Mamoru's affairs after both have already beaten down the surrounding criminals.
• Ironic Echo: Genda's words about Mamoru being happy to pursue his passion, even if he'll "die in a ditch" for it, are turned on him at the end of the same chapter.
• Not So Above It All: A stickler for the law and thus sees the Element Network's vigilante work as dangerous to society. But when it comes to Ebata Shinji, who not only murdered Igawa's little sister but has many similar crimes on record, and was still a free man for it, not only does he keep quiet about Mamoru planting bombs on him to set him up, he gets a good, long laugh at the man's expense.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Dies in the line of duty, doing what he entered the police force to do.

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