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* DestructiveRomance: [[spoiler: Kutsuuko and post-revelation Nana never quite reach this level, but they approach it and often dance just around its borders with the way that they keep [[SarcasmMode completely randomly and inadvertently]] running into each other. Kutsuuko knows Nana broke him, and Nana knows he broke Kutsuuko. Most likely because of how long they were together and because of Kutsuuko's left-over StockholmSyndrome paired with Nana's sense of [[MustMakeAmends guilt and obligation]], there's this underlying feeling that they are fated to be together, one way or another.]]
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* DestructiveRomance: [[spoiler: Kutsuuko and post-revelation Nana never quite reach this level, but they approach it and often dance just around its borders with the way that they keep [[SarcasmMode completely randomly and inadvertently]] running into each other. Kutsuuko knows Nana broke him, and Nana knows he broke Kutsuuko. Most likely because of how long they were together and because of Kutsuuko's left-over StockholmSyndrome UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome paired with Nana's sense of [[MustMakeAmends guilt and obligation]], there's this underlying feeling that they are fated to be together, one way or another.]]
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annabelle is unambiguously black.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annie is unambiguously black.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Ose Shalom is a Sephardic Jew.
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* [[spoiler: ArousedByTheirVoice: Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Undiagnosed autism and ADHD.
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* AbominationAccusationAttack: [[spoiler: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's]] [[{{Gaslighting}} Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
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* AbominationAccusationAttack: [[spoiler: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's]] [[{{Gaslighting}} It's Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
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* TroubledAbuser: [[spoiler: Nana himself being a victim of [[ParentalNeglect primarily emotional,]] [[ParentsAsPeople but sometimes physical neglect]] as a child does inform a lot of his more toxic neuroses, such as his entitlement to being unconditionally loved and accepted. However, [[Supernatural cool motive, still pedophilic abuse.]]]]
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* TroubledAbuser: [[spoiler: Nana [[spoiler:Nana himself being a victim of [[ParentalNeglect primarily emotional,]] emotional]], but sometimes [[ParentsAsPeople but sometimes physical neglect]] as a child does inform a lot of his more toxic neuroses, such as his entitlement to being unconditionally loved and accepted. However, [[Supernatural cool motive, still pedophilic abuse.]]]]]]]]
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: The people of that country know that he is charismatic, intelligent, attractive, and that he is taking care of their basic needs just about as much as they would expect any king to. [[spoiler:This translates to blind approval, which gets incredibly unfortunate for those who ''do'' know what he's really like.]]
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: The people of that country know that he is charismatic, intelligent, attractive, and that he is taking care of their basic needs just about as much as they would expect any king to. [[spoiler:This translates to blind approval, which gets incredibly unfortunate for those who ''do'' know what he's really like.]]
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* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The people of that country know that he is charismatic, intelligent, attractive, and that he is taking care of their basic needs just about as much as they would expect any king to. [[spoiler: This translates to blind approval, which gets incredibly unfortunate for those who ''do'' know what he's really like.]]
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* [[spoiler: DestructiveRomance: Kutsuuko and post-revelation Nana never quite reach this level, but they approach it and often dance just around its borders with the way that they keep [[SarcasmMode completely randomly and inadvertently]] running into each other. Kutsuuko knows Nana broke him, and Nana knows he broke Kutsuuko. Most likely because of how long they were together and because of Kutsuuko's left-over StockholmSyndrome paired with Nana's sense of [[MustMakeAmends guilt and obligation]], there's this underlying feeling that they are fated to be together, one way or another.]]
* DivineDate: Nageki and Kyuun.
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* [[spoiler: DestructiveRomance: [[spoiler: Kutsuuko and post-revelation Nana never quite reach this level, but they approach it and often dance just around its borders with the way that they keep [[SarcasmMode completely randomly and inadvertently]] running into each other. Kutsuuko knows Nana broke him, and Nana knows he broke Kutsuuko. Most likely because of how long they were together and because of Kutsuuko's left-over StockholmSyndrome paired with Nana's sense of [[MustMakeAmends guilt and obligation]], there's this underlying feeling that they are fated to be together, one way or another.]]
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* [[spoiler: AllTakeAndNoGive: That was the nature of his relationship with Arya, and part of what made it so hard for the boy to pinpoint was the fact that Nana wasn't like this with his friends and acquaintances. It seemed to be reserved for those he knew intimately, which was a list that consisted of Arya and Arya alone.]]
* [[spoiler: AbominationAccusationAttack: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's]] [[{{Gaslighting}} Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
* [[spoiler: BelievingTheirOwnLies: This is one of the ways Nana grew into such a horrible person, no one was keeping him in check and he, who absolutely had the intelligence to know what he was doing if he simply sat down with himself and was honest for once, simply put all his power into believing his own lies rather than changing for the better before it was too late.]]
* [[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: Far, far too late to actually make a difference in Arya's wellbeing, but there is a point at which Nana realizes he deserves every bit of Arya's ire towards him, and he dug the grave he is currently lying in. It leads to him becoming a much more humble, selfless person, stepping down from his position of power and becoming a wandering knight, since he can't exactly do the noble thing and die, being immortal. His motivation in this is not to be forgiven or for his sins to be wiped away, but rather, to become a tool to people who could use him for good. It's not exactly the healthiest way of developing as a person, to give up your own autonomy and personhood in the attempt to become better, but it's a massive improvement over ''tyrannical abuser''.]]
* [[spoiler: AbominationAccusationAttack: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's]] [[{{Gaslighting}} Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
* [[spoiler: BelievingTheirOwnLies: This is one of the ways Nana grew into such a horrible person, no one was keeping him in check and he, who absolutely had the intelligence to know what he was doing if he simply sat down with himself and was honest for once, simply put all his power into believing his own lies rather than changing for the better before it was too late.]]
* [[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: Far, far too late to actually make a difference in Arya's wellbeing, but there is a point at which Nana realizes he deserves every bit of Arya's ire towards him, and he dug the grave he is currently lying in. It leads to him becoming a much more humble, selfless person, stepping down from his position of power and becoming a wandering knight, since he can't exactly do the noble thing and die, being immortal. His motivation in this is not to be forgiven or for his sins to be wiped away, but rather, to become a tool to people who could use him for good. It's not exactly the healthiest way of developing as a person, to give up your own autonomy and personhood in the attempt to become better, but it's a massive improvement over ''tyrannical abuser''.]]
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* [[spoiler: AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler: That was the nature of his relationship with Arya, and part of what made it so hard for the boy to pinpoint was the fact that Nana wasn't like this with his friends and acquaintances. It seemed to be reserved for those he knew intimately, which was a list that consisted of Arya and Arya alone.]]
*[[spoiler: AbominationAccusationAttack: [[spoiler: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's]] [[{{Gaslighting}} Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
*[[spoiler: BelievingTheirOwnLies: [[spoiler: This is one of the ways Nana grew into such a horrible person, no one was keeping him in check and he, who absolutely had the intelligence to know what he was doing if he simply sat down with himself and was honest for once, simply put all his power into believing his own lies rather than changing for the better before it was too late.]]
*[[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler: Far, far too late to actually make a difference in Arya's wellbeing, but there is a point at which Nana realizes he deserves every bit of Arya's ire towards him, and he dug the grave he is currently lying in. It leads to him becoming a much more humble, selfless person, stepping down from his position of power and becoming a wandering knight, since he can't exactly do the noble thing and die, being immortal. His motivation in this is not to be forgiven or for his sins to be wiped away, but rather, to become a tool to people who could use him for good. It's not exactly the healthiest way of developing as a person, to give up your own autonomy and personhood in the attempt to become better, but it's a massive improvement over ''tyrannical abuser''.]]
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* [[spoiler: ExpositoryHairstyleChange: He lops most of his hair off, leaving it about shoulder-length after his big revelation. And holy fuck, is it excruciatingly painful, as the stars in his hair can ''feel''.]]
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* {{Gaslighting}}: This is just something he likes doing to people.
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* [[spoiler: WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: This is the attitude Nana took with much of his abuse towards Arya, genuinely believing that he was reacting as every rational, normal person would in his circumstances.]]
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!Characters
Characters will primarily be separated by location. This page is in the process of being cleaned up.
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[[folder:The Main Heroes]]
!! Nageki Shikimori
* BiTheWay
* CelibateHero: She at first seems this way, not showing any romantic or sexual interest in anyone. And then she meets Kyuun.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Hot pink.
* FramesOfReference: Hers are circular, and she's one of the most friendly and easygoing characters of the cast.
* HairDecorations: A purple hairclip with a cartoonish pink kitty head on it.
* MaleGaze: [[RareMaleExample Rare Female Example]], in the fact that what Nageki ahem, [[EatingTheEyeCandy appreciates]], about Kyuun's appearance is in his slender waist, hips and legs. On top of his personality, that is, which she finds incredibly amusing and endearing, even after he returns to his normal self.
* {{Meganekko}}
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Mizune.
* RoseHairedSweetie
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
!! Mizune Tamazuna
* BiTheWay: But she heavily prefers other women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Baby blue.
* FashionHurts: She endures the pain, though. [[spoiler: It's a source of where some of her dysphoria comes from, the idea that fashion hurts for her at all. What worries her is the idea that fashion hurts for every girl, but they don't complain about it because they've had to hurt their whole lives, while Mizune has 'only' had to hurt from the time she started presenting as a woman.]]
* GirlyBruiser
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Nageki.
* ThePollyanna: Though she's an awfully quiet lady, she tries her best to be the optimist to Nageki's realist.
* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler: Her human world equivalent, unfortunately, cannot safely live and present as a girl. She's closeted, and presents entirely as a boy.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: She starts out this way.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
* TrueBlueFemininity
!! Annabelle
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annabelle is unambiguously black.
* [[spoiler: ArousedByTheirVoice: Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
* BiTheWay: For men and nonbinary people, he isn't usually attracted to women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Teal.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]
* GrumpyOldMan: Often behaves as such, because he sees himself as one due to the way he's aged.
* InconvenientAttraction: [[LoveHurts Any attraction Annabelle experiences feels particularly inconvenient]], he's terribly insecure when it comes to intimacy of any kind and feels like being attracted to anyone younger than him makes him a horrible monster because of how old he technically is. For Desiderius, it's especially inconvenient because he knows Desiderius wouldn't love him back [[spoiler: he would, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queerplatonic just not exactly romantically]]]], and for Amaya it's especially inconvenient because he feels like he's taking advantage of what he sees as a precocious, innocent crush.
* OnlySaneMan
* OlderThanTheyLook: Annabelle's maturity flip-flops between that of an elderly man and a young adult depending on the situation, which makes it hard for him to figure out how old he "truly" is. He errs on the side of more elderly, being afraid of assuming he's young enough to date someone around him when he is not. [[spoiler: His true self is absolutely a young adult, but seeing himself from time to time as an old man helps him cope with this dilemma. He doesn't realize this yet and won't for a long time.]]
!! Mikami Bimromav
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Forrest.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* TheDeterminator
* [[spoiler: GroundhogPeggySue]]
* PreacherMan: He ends up being this, and he is [[Film/PulpFiction the son of one.]]
* [[spoiler: RippleEffectProofMemory]]
* [[spoiler: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* StraightMan: To Forrest's [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]].
* [[spoiler: TimeTravelRomance: Saving his friends and the rest of the world takes second-place priority to making sure Forrest is alright. Of course, it isn't so bad that he would stay in a timeline in which everyone died ''but'' Forrest, but... It would be very, very tempting.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, towards Forrest.
!! Forrest Nagakawa
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Mikami, though he loves every second of it, being the instigator.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark green.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: He has the most fun delivering these.
* TheGadfly
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Forrest lives with a psychotic disorder (unsure exactly which kind) that comes with visual and, very rarely, auditory hallucinations. His hallucinations tend to put maggots and insects in places they don't belong. [[spoiler: Combine that with the Black Plague-like diseased he witnessed spreading (and was lucky to never contract) in his hometown as a child, and you get a real fucking nightmare of a brain time. This event that wiped out most of his hometown traumatized him, and he is left with mild symptoms of PTSD today.]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]]: To Mikami's StraightMan.
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[[folder:Pamater]]
!! Kaur
* AllWitchesHaveCats
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow.
* [[spoiler: [[{{Ephebophile}} Hebephile]]: One who is extremely self-loathing, one who has never harmed a child, and one who has never engaged with child pornography of any kind or any medium. He is desperately trying to find some kind of 'cure' for his problem, and is starting to, without hesitation, consider straight-up castration if it means it'll fix who he is.]]
* IntrepidMerchant
* MagicLibrarian
* PowerCrystal: Sells these.
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: There in fact are, and one plays a crucial role in him figuring out the root of his desires and eliminating them altogether.]]
* TheRedMage
!! Himeko Shikimori
!! Gendo Shikimori
!! Carroll
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[[folder:Mellifluora]]
!! Rabbi Bimromav
!! Vehal Bimromav
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[[folder:Somnepoch]]
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[[folder:Illicichor]]
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[[folder:The Tradegium]]
!! Ischel Calgaround
* ShoutOut: His last name is one to {{Franchise/EvilliousChronicles}}.
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[[folder:The Golden Principality]]
!! The Golden One
* ShoutOut: To a certain far-right Youtuber. And not necessarily a flattering one.
!! Sir Swain Gozelinus Weekender
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[[folder:The Diamondpoint Kings]]
General tropes for the Diamondpoint Kings include:
* TheBeautifulElite
* CoolCrown: All of them except Desiderius sport one of these.
* DudeLooksLikeALady
* ErmineCapeEffect
* FormFittingWardrobe: All of them [[spoiler: except Yukai-toki, who wears a long poncho-like cloak.]]
* HotGod
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: All of them, but Nana is the least awful offender.
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Except Kyuun, who just goes with what Nana, Hachi and Desiderius decide. [[spoiler: Even then, Desiderius just goes with what Nana and Hachi decide, he's just better at presenting the illusion of free will by trying to somehow, anyhow, get another voice into the discussion, but usually fails.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Though not all of them are good people, their wardrobe has nothing to do with their personality.
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[[folder:The Country in Midnight]]
!! Nana of the Stars
* [[spoiler: AllTakeAndNoGive: That was the nature of his relationship with Arya, and part of what made it so hard for the boy to pinpoint was the fact that Nana wasn't like this with his friends and acquaintances. It seemed to be reserved for those he knew intimately, which was a list that consisted of Arya and Arya alone.]]
* [[spoiler: AbominationAccusationAttack: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's]] [[{{Gaslighting}} Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
* [[spoiler: BelievingTheirOwnLies: This is one of the ways Nana grew into such a horrible person, no one was keeping him in check and he, who absolutely had the intelligence to know what he was doing if he simply sat down with himself and was honest for once, simply put all his power into believing his own lies rather than changing for the better before it was too late.]]
* [[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: Far, far too late to actually make a difference in Arya's wellbeing, but there is a point at which Nana realizes he deserves every bit of Arya's ire towards him, and he dug the grave he is currently lying in. It leads to him becoming a much more humble, selfless person, stepping down from his position of power and becoming a wandering knight, since he can't exactly do the noble thing and die, being immortal. His motivation in this is not to be forgiven or for his sins to be wiped away, but rather, to become a tool to people who could use him for good. It's not exactly the healthiest way of developing as a person, to give up your own autonomy and personhood in the attempt to become better, but it's a massive improvement over ''tyrannical abuser''.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Purple.
* TheEmpath: Nana's near-psychic ability to be able to tell what people think of themselves and others, and what they plan to do next all boils down to supernatural levels of intuition and empathy. However, he seems to have only one blind spot: himself. In fact, his magic mirror doesn't even seem to work on his own self; all he sees is his normal reflection staring back at him. This is something he admits to feeling quite anxious about.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: He, to this day, would not admit it, but he was and still is. Nana justified his attraction to Arya with the fact that they technically did fall in love when they were both young, and it couldn't possibly be his fault that Arya stopped aging, so how can he just stop being in love? That logic, faulty, as it is, implies he has never had romantic or sexual interest in any minor after Arya, which is not true.]]
* [[spoiler: ExpositoryHairstyleChange: He lops most of his hair off, leaving it about shoulder-length after his big revelation. And holy fuck, is it excruciatingly painful, as the stars in his hair can ''feel''.]]
* [[spoiler: FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: This is just something he likes doing to people.
* [[spoiler: IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: By the end of things, anyway, far past the point of "too late" for either he or Arya to end up incredibly fucked up.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: It's hard to deny that the genius King of the Country in Midnight is anything but a master manipulator, but it's clear that he only uses his talents for the good of his people. [[spoiler: Well, probably.]]
* [[spoiler: MaritalRapeLicense: With Arya, he subconsciously believed he had this, particularly when Arya started drifting away from him.]]
* NeverMyFault: By use of InsaneTrollLogic that's sane enough that he consistently fools ''himself'' into believing he's done nothing wrong.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Nana's apparent sympathy for the underdogs in society make him seem very, as the kids say, ''woke'', but this is only true until you realize why he sympathizes with them, and how.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
* RoyalBrat: He may have played this trope straighter as a young child with all the embarrassingly spoiled behavior and pouting that comes with it, but now that he is a man, he retains most of the sinister implications of this trope with just about none of its associated childish behavior.
* [[spoiler: SexualExtortion: There were several times when he withheld affection, conversation, reassurance and validation from Arya until he got what he wanted.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: See CharacterDevelopment.
* [[spoiler: TragicDream: His involved living happily ever after with Arya. Then he violently murdered the dream. The only person he has to blame is himself.]]
* [[spoiler: TroubledAbuser: Nana himself being a victim of [[ParentalNeglect primarily emotional,]] [[ParentsAsPeople but sometimes physical neglect]] as a child does inform a lot of his more toxic neuroses, such as his entitlement to being unconditionally loved and accepted. However, [[Supernatural cool motive, still pedophilic abuse.]]]]
* [[spoiler: WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: This is the attitude Nana took with much of his abuse towards Arya, genuinely believing that he was reacting as every rational, normal person would in his circumstances.]]
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The people of that country know that he is charismatic, intelligent, attractive, and that he is taking care of their basic needs just about as much as they would expect any king to. [[spoiler: This translates to blind approval, which gets incredibly unfortunate for those who ''do'' know what he's really like.]]
!! [[spoiler:Gossick]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Periwinkle purple.
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[[folder:The State in Thunderclouds]]
!! Hachi of the Storm
* BadassInCharge
* BlingOfWar
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Averted painfully towards Annie, who Hachi supposedly loves.
* ChestOfMedals
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Navy blue.
* CondescendingCompassion: A hallmark of Hachi's [[SarcasmMode lovely personality]] is making you feel like an idiot commoner whenever you make a mistake or speak in [[spoiler: perceived]] ignorance.
* {{Ephebophile}}: And unnervingly comfortable with himself about it.
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi is the reason Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard: He's not quite as good at it as Nana is, but he wishes he was.]]
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: One of Hachi's biggest claims to his ego is the fact that technically, he isn't anywhere near as awful as Nana is - so that means you might as well not complain about him, and in fact, [[UnfortunateImplications ought to feel grateful that he's not as bad as he could be]], right? Annie's heard this song and dance too many times to count.
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Hachi uses this one on Annie frequently, hoping it'll result in SlapSlapKiss. [[CommentBackfire It doesn't.]]
!! Annie
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annie is unambiguously black.
* BerserkButton: His is feeling like people aren't respecting his personal boundaries, and with most people, he lets his discomfort be known. Loudly. [[spoiler: Not with Hachi, the person who has given him this trigger.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HatesBeingTouched: It's easy to assume this is just another part of his angry, standoffish personality. [[spoiler: It comes from somewhere.]]
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi did this to him years ago, which is why Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook
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[[folder:The Kingdom in Clearing]]
!! Kyuun of the Woods
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Persian blue.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Kyuun is the most [[AccidentalPun diamond-studded]] of the four kings with jewelry in his hair and on his robe.
* HairDecorations: His CoolCrown doubles as this.
* LackOfEmpathy: Cognitive empathy is what he's lacking in, largely due to his depression - he can barely see an inch ahead of his nose. Given the fact that his behavior seems to fit the description for Asperger's on that trope's page to a T, he could have a condition I haven't paid close attention to.
* MadGod: Becomes much more mentally unstable than he already is under the weight of his new power, when he rebels against the other four diamondpoint kings.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He is severely depressive with occasional manic upswings (currently unsure if this fits the criteria of bipolar disorder since said upswings are relatively mild for most stories I've heard, and they are rare) over the course of his story, and he only begins to learn how to live with it when he is far away from the toxic, oppressive colleagues who have controlled him into silence in the face of injustice.
* ObliviousToLove
* PungeonMaster: As a MadGod, he's a huge fan of time puns. Nageki even joins in with him eventually.
* TheQuietOne: He tends to let his louder counterparts do the talking. [[spoiler: And he hates it.]]
* [[spoiler: SacredFirstKiss: [[SpitTrailKiss Hachi took his]]. It didn't affect him ''quite'' the same as most recipients of this trope, and he doesn't want to call it ''traumatic'', but... There's a reason he's so afraid of Hachi, and that reason is most likely mild trauma - more from the fact that Hachi (and people like Hachi, like Nana) [[ParanoiaFuel could have done worse]].]]
* [[spoiler: UnfitForGreatness: Which is why his advisor, Yonbanme and he step down from the throne in the end.]]
!! Yonbanme
* AdjustingYourGlasses
* [[spoiler: AxCrazy: He is positively determined not to let this side of his personality hurt innocent people. Not-so-innocent people like Nana and Hachi, on the other hand...]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BitchInSheepsClothing: By the standards of the Diamondpoint Kings and their collective agenda, oh yes.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black.
* FormFittingWardrobe
* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: To Kyuun. Kyuun is a bit ObliviousToLove due to his severe depression, and to be fair, Yonbanme has never exactly ''said'' it... But that doesn't mean everyone around him can't tell right away.
* IKissYourHand: He does this with Kyuun every so often, prompting a little dazed, flustered stammering from his king.
* OlderThanTheyLook: The one witch who subverts this trope by actually looking much closer to his true age than a very young adult.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* [[spoiler: {{Yandere}}: Though he possesses a level of self-awareness most {{Yandere}} characters don't. He would never hurt Kyuun, even if Kyuun falls in love with someone else. But if anyone, ANYONE, makes any unwanted advance of any kind on his king? That's the point at which he has to start fighting the murderous intrusive thoughts... Or don't.]]
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[[folder:The Palace in Anemone]]
!! Desiderius of the Sea
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:For as awful as they were to his brother, Pastor, Desiderius' parents were even crueler to him. Desiderius' father, in particular, felt that he was preparing Desiderius for the burden and agony of being king by subjecting him (often by proxy through his guards) to horrific psychological, emotional, physical and sexual abuse/torture. Desiderius' mother did nothing to stop her husband, and it's unclear if she refused to act out of fear or out of sheer apathy.]]
* BiTheWay
* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for just about everything that goes wrong, whether it actually is his fault or something he was complacent in, or not.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Just one of the many ways his senile father thought he was preparing Desiderius for the pain of the position of king is, he would order his guards to beat and rape Desiderius quite often. It didn't help things that the guards, even ones who seemed kind and well-intentioned, started doing their jobs a little too well, with a little too much enthusiasm.]]
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Between the trauma of his abusive childhood and the knowledge that he cowardly stood by as just about the same kind of abuse was being inflicted upon one of his colleagues' advisors.]]
* [UnfitForGreatness: [[spoiler:Which is why his advisor, Annabelle and he switch roles in the end.]]
!! Pendragon
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mahogany.
!! Orelo
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Currant red.
!! Espino
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark purple.
* WalkingSpoiler
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[[folder:[[spoiler: The Spire in Wonder]]]]
!! [[spoiler:Yukai-toki of the Forgotten Lullaby]]
* {{Asexuality}}
** IfItsYouItsOkay: ... Though he doesn't mind sleeping with Luz from time to time. He doesn't mind that at all.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Prussian blue.
* CombatStilettos
* DarkIsNotEvil
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Subverted in the sense that he's got the dark eyeshadow and lipstick one might expect of a villain, but he is actually the most morally upright of the Diamondpoint Kings.
* [[spoiler: {{Fetish}}: One for being worshipped. He doesn't tend to think much of it and doesn't really think of it as such, especially after spending so long in the Forgotten Lullaby. And then comes Luz.]]
* PapaWolf: These were his feelings for Arya, which Nana [[AbominationAccusationAttack tried to portray as something else]] in order to get him to doubt himself.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! [[spoiler:Mezzo-Forte]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mint green.
* WalkingSpoiler
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[[folder:The Pearl Sovereignty]]
!! Pastor
* AbusiveParents: His parents were the first to instill him with the idea that he, due to his disorders, is completely inept and helpless, and thus might as well not even be alive.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Undiagnosed autism and ADHD.
* BuryYourDisabled[[spoiler: Well, maybe.]]
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Coral pink.
* ColorCodedEyes: Pastor's eyes used to be dark green, and he falls in line with the idea of green eyes signifying sexy free spirits.
* DisabledMeansHelpless: Averted. This isn't true of Pastor at all. His developmental disabilities most certainly affect his life and make it difficult for him to function "normally" in society, but because everyone he knows has treated him as if his disabilities make him helpless and inept (even Arcane, who is supposedly on his side!) from birth until now, he has more problems with resentment of the people around him and learned helplessness than anything else.
* EthicalSlut
* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: To escape the bondage of royalty and pursue the life he has always wanted, and not the one that has been thrust upon him.]]
* HollywoodAutism: Averted, he doesn't have any special skillsets tied to his autism.
* [[spoiler: ReluctantRuler]]
* RapunzelHair
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Despite being very charming, he has issues reading unspoken social cues sometimes.
* TheStoic: But certainly not the joyless.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating
!! Arcane Ariatongue
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Orchid purple.
* RoyalWe
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[[folder:The World Beyond the Mirror]]
!! [[spoiler:North of the Mirror]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark red.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon
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!! Kutsuuko[[spoiler:/Arya Kurosawa]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* BrokenBird: It's clear right away that someone has hurt this sweet young boy. [[spoiler: Holy shit.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Bright red.
* [[spoiler: DarkMagicalBoy]]
* [[spoiler: DeadpanSnarker]]
* [[spoiler: DefiledForever: Certainly sees himself this way.]]
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time - but holy shit, he knows now.]]
* [[spoiler: DontYouDarePityMe]]
* [[spoiler: FreudianExcuse: If you'd been through what he had for as long as he had, you might be a little pissed off at the world, too, and you might be a little drunk off of power, too.]]
* [[spoiler: GrewASpine]]
* HatesBeingTouched
* [[spoiler: HeroicRROD: (dubiously canon) He ends up growing so powerful that his body can't hold the magical strength inside him, and it literally falls to pieces from this.]]
* [[spoiler: JerkassWoobie]]
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Irreversibly so[[spoiler:, one would think.]]
* [[spoiler: MouthyKid: If anything from Nana has rubbed off onto Kutsuuko, it is that talent at dealing out tongue-lashings to those who you think deserve it - only from Kutsuuko, he's not stretching the truth.]]
* [[spoiler: OlderThanTheyLook]]
* ProneToTears: [[spoiler: It's an act.]]
* [[spoiler: RapeLeadsToInsanity: A case of TruthInTelevision, the sexual abuse and grooming he went through makes him psychologically and emotionally unstable, paranoid and misanthropic - but this is obviously not the way ''all'' survivors respond to trauma.]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* [[spoiler: SourOutsideSadInside]]
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: None that he knows of or has the strength to seek out!]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He shows clear signs of PTSD with the way he frightens and starts crying so easily when people press him too hard about the man who hurt him, the poor thing... [[spoiler: Yep, and the symptoms are much less soft and palatable than they at first appear - they're what real PTSD often looks like in young survivors.]]
* [[spoiler: TragicVillain]]
* WalkingSpoiler
* [[spoiler: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Quite literally, as he tries to destroy the world.]]
!! [[spoiler:Arya Kurosawa/Kutsuuko]]
* AbusiveParents: He had emotionally abusive parents who never accepted his best efforts, no matter how hard he worked to please them. This set him up to believe for much of his life that he had to work ''hard'' and ''suffer'' to make people approve of him and love him.
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Not that he has much of a safe place to explore that.]]
* [[LadyOfBlackMagic Boy of Black Magic]]: Not only on account of being a witch, his personality was certainly like this - cold, elegant, graceful - to people other than Nana.
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Light pink.
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time.]]
* ExtremeDoormat
* GiantPoofySleeves
* MindRape: It seems like Pendragon did this to him, entirely on accident, by stabbing him through the heart when they fought. When she saw him screaming and curling up on the floor, she started to put the pieces together, and to this day she feels absolutely terrible for doing that to him. [[spoiler: What she doesn't know is, that's not what happened at all. Her attack only jolted his conscience enough for him to fully realize how miserable he was, and what Nana was [[DomesticAbuse really doing]] to him. The recognition of severe trauma hit him all at once.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook:
* [[spoiler: QuestionableConsent]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: Not when no one wants you to know they do!]]
* [[spoiler: UnequalPairing: Nana and Arya were this, not only as king and advisor but fully-grown adult and teenager.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Diamond Court]]
!! Amaya Lasker
* AmbiguousGender: Amaya is nonbinary.
* {{Asexuality}}: Demisexuality, to be precise.
* DumbBlonde: Averted, Amaya is one of the smartest characters in the cast.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Xe's aware one is going on, but xe has no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Though [[SecretIdentity xe isn't exactly a delicate, fragile little flower]].
* MeaningfulName: Amaya's PenName, Nirami, comes from the verb "Niramu", meaning "to glare at".
* {{Megane}}
* PenName: Xeyr's in xeyr politically inflammatory pamphlets is [[MeaningfulName Nirami]].
!! Lucerne "Luz" Fortunato
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Luz is a black Arab.
* AmbiguousGender: Luz is agender, or they prefer for their gender to be thought of as "none".
* [[DarkSkinnedBlonde Dark Skinned With White Hair]]
* TheDeterminator: Luz stops at nothing to reach the Forgotten Lullaby, [[spoiler: even if it means inadvertently killing a palace guard in a fight over demands for information.]]
* ForGreatJustice
* GovernmentConspiracy: Once they become aware one's going on, and has been going on for years, they become utterly obsessed with it and only grow more and more entrenched in it, losing more and more to it until they finally solve it, [[spoiler: essentially showing up on Yukai-toki's doorstep in the Forgotten Lullaby, covered in blood (belonging to them and possibly others too they don't remember?), missing one of their memories in the ritual to get them there, disheveled and unkempt, not having slept in days, and at first completely incomprehensible in their speech.]]
* SanitySlippage: The deeper and deeper they go down the rabbit hole, trying to figure out what happened to Yukai-toki and where he went, this happens.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Rebellion]]
!! Pidgeon
* BigHam
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Garnet red.
* FramesOfReference: His are circular, with swirls in the lenses, he's a silly sort of character who wants to be received as a mad scientist.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses
* VillainBall: He loves holding it. It is his favorite of all the balls. It's great. He loves it!
!! Vehal Bimromav
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale purple.
!! Contralto
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: White.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Averted, his eyesight is just fine and he's certainly considered the smartest of the rebels.
* {{Yandere}}: Though he's a little embarrassed of himself about it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Extra Sidecharacters]]
!! Ose Shalom
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Ose Shalom is a Sephardic Jew.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Suvi and Yisra.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pecan brown.
* DissonantSerenity: It seems that nothing can shake his calm demeanor.
* TheHecateSisters: Ose Shalom is the Mother, and Suvi and Yisra are his Crone and Maiden, respectively.
* PerpetualSmiler
!! Suvi and Yisra
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Ose Shalom.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black and white.
* TheHecateSisters: Suvi is the Crone and Yisra is the Maiden, with Ose Shalom as their Mother.
* PerpetualFrowner: Suvi.
* PerpetualSmiler: Yisra.
!! Sir Knight[[spoiler:/Nana and the Stars that Ceased to Shine]]
* [[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: Nana's attitude and very way of thinking and feeling has changed ''drastically'' since Arya took revenge on him. He's practically a different person.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale dark blue.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes
* TheDeterminator: No matter how obviously depressed and exhausted he is, there is nothing he can't do.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: That's something about himself that hasn't seemed to disappear. He still loves Arya, against his better judgment, the only difference now is he hates himself for it and he refuses to make that Arya's problem by being upfront about it.]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He's got some pretty heavy depression, depersonalization disorder, and he has apparently developed a psychotic disorder of some kind: he experiences delusions that tell him that his bare skin is venomous, and he must cover it all, at all times, or else he will hurt people. [[spoiler: Delusions they may be, but when the truth about who he is comes out, said delusions don't seem quite so random anymore.]]
* MustMakeAmends: One thing Nageki and her party know about their knightly friend is that he feels the need to repent for something he did in his past, but no one figures it's that bad since he's such a great dude! [[spoiler: Hahaha, oh.]]
* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: He's definitely got it. [[spoiler: It turns out he's got very good reason to distrust his own mind and body when thrown into a sexual situation.]]
!!Terran "Terrandus" Denzo
* BigBrotherInstinct: Bordering on KnightTemplarBigBrother for his three-year-old little sister, Curie.
* BiTheWay
* GreenThumb: Terrandus' magic centers on the manipulation of plantlife.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* HairAntennae
* InSeriesNickname: People call him Terrandus more often than they call him Terran. Kutsuuko [[FullNameBasis calls him by his full name]] nearly all the time.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's pretty short, even for a 15 year old, but that doesn't get in his way, much.
* TechnicalPacifist: He certainly prefers to be one! But if someone forces him to take care of business, then there's nothing he can do about that.
* TheQuietOne
* {{Yandere}}: Look, he's not responsible for what happens to you if you hurt someone he cares about. Even if you don't hurt them badly, or just say something mean to them, he still can't help but feel that immediate rush of borderline-homicidal anger that comes over him when he argues with himself in his head, graciously deciding not to make you regret it. Bear in mind, not actually-homicidal. He's a pacifist! He doesn't kill anyone. He just knows people can take a lot of pain before they keel over.
[[/folder]]
!Characters
Characters will primarily be separated by location. This page is in the process of being cleaned up.
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:The Main Heroes]]
!! Nageki Shikimori
* BiTheWay
* CelibateHero: She at first seems this way, not showing any romantic or sexual interest in anyone. And then she meets Kyuun.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Hot pink.
* FramesOfReference: Hers are circular, and she's one of the most friendly and easygoing characters of the cast.
* HairDecorations: A purple hairclip with a cartoonish pink kitty head on it.
* MaleGaze: [[RareMaleExample Rare Female Example]], in the fact that what Nageki ahem, [[EatingTheEyeCandy appreciates]], about Kyuun's appearance is in his slender waist, hips and legs. On top of his personality, that is, which she finds incredibly amusing and endearing, even after he returns to his normal self.
* {{Meganekko}}
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Mizune.
* RoseHairedSweetie
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
!! Mizune Tamazuna
* BiTheWay: But she heavily prefers other women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Baby blue.
* FashionHurts: She endures the pain, though. [[spoiler: It's a source of where some of her dysphoria comes from, the idea that fashion hurts for her at all. What worries her is the idea that fashion hurts for every girl, but they don't complain about it because they've had to hurt their whole lives, while Mizune has 'only' had to hurt from the time she started presenting as a woman.]]
* GirlyBruiser
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Nageki.
* ThePollyanna: Though she's an awfully quiet lady, she tries her best to be the optimist to Nageki's realist.
* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler: Her human world equivalent, unfortunately, cannot safely live and present as a girl. She's closeted, and presents entirely as a boy.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: She starts out this way.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
* TrueBlueFemininity
!! Annabelle
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annabelle is unambiguously black.
* [[spoiler: ArousedByTheirVoice: Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
* BiTheWay: For men and nonbinary people, he isn't usually attracted to women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Teal.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]
* GrumpyOldMan: Often behaves as such, because he sees himself as one due to the way he's aged.
* InconvenientAttraction: [[LoveHurts Any attraction Annabelle experiences feels particularly inconvenient]], he's terribly insecure when it comes to intimacy of any kind and feels like being attracted to anyone younger than him makes him a horrible monster because of how old he technically is. For Desiderius, it's especially inconvenient because he knows Desiderius wouldn't love him back [[spoiler: he would, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queerplatonic just not exactly romantically]]]], and for Amaya it's especially inconvenient because he feels like he's taking advantage of what he sees as a precocious, innocent crush.
* OnlySaneMan
* OlderThanTheyLook: Annabelle's maturity flip-flops between that of an elderly man and a young adult depending on the situation, which makes it hard for him to figure out how old he "truly" is. He errs on the side of more elderly, being afraid of assuming he's young enough to date someone around him when he is not. [[spoiler: His true self is absolutely a young adult, but seeing himself from time to time as an old man helps him cope with this dilemma. He doesn't realize this yet and won't for a long time.]]
!! Mikami Bimromav
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Forrest.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* TheDeterminator
* [[spoiler: GroundhogPeggySue]]
* PreacherMan: He ends up being this, and he is [[Film/PulpFiction the son of one.]]
* [[spoiler: RippleEffectProofMemory]]
* [[spoiler: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* StraightMan: To Forrest's [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]].
* [[spoiler: TimeTravelRomance: Saving his friends and the rest of the world takes second-place priority to making sure Forrest is alright. Of course, it isn't so bad that he would stay in a timeline in which everyone died ''but'' Forrest, but... It would be very, very tempting.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, towards Forrest.
!! Forrest Nagakawa
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Mikami, though he loves every second of it, being the instigator.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark green.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: He has the most fun delivering these.
* TheGadfly
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Forrest lives with a psychotic disorder (unsure exactly which kind) that comes with visual and, very rarely, auditory hallucinations. His hallucinations tend to put maggots and insects in places they don't belong. [[spoiler: Combine that with the Black Plague-like diseased he witnessed spreading (and was lucky to never contract) in his hometown as a child, and you get a real fucking nightmare of a brain time. This event that wiped out most of his hometown traumatized him, and he is left with mild symptoms of PTSD today.]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]]: To Mikami's StraightMan.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Pamater]]
!! Kaur
* AllWitchesHaveCats
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow.
* [[spoiler: [[{{Ephebophile}} Hebephile]]: One who is extremely self-loathing, one who has never harmed a child, and one who has never engaged with child pornography of any kind or any medium. He is desperately trying to find some kind of 'cure' for his problem, and is starting to, without hesitation, consider straight-up castration if it means it'll fix who he is.]]
* IntrepidMerchant
* MagicLibrarian
* PowerCrystal: Sells these.
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: There in fact are, and one plays a crucial role in him figuring out the root of his desires and eliminating them altogether.]]
* TheRedMage
!! Himeko Shikimori
!! Gendo Shikimori
!! Carroll
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mellifluora]]
!! Rabbi Bimromav
!! Vehal Bimromav
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Somnepoch]]
!! [wip]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Illicichor]]
!! [wip]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Tradegium]]
!! Ischel Calgaround
* ShoutOut: His last name is one to {{Franchise/EvilliousChronicles}}.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Golden Principality]]
!! The Golden One
* ShoutOut: To a certain far-right Youtuber. And not necessarily a flattering one.
!! Sir Swain Gozelinus Weekender
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Diamondpoint Kings]]
General tropes for the Diamondpoint Kings include:
* TheBeautifulElite
* CoolCrown: All of them except Desiderius sport one of these.
* DudeLooksLikeALady
* ErmineCapeEffect
* FormFittingWardrobe: All of them [[spoiler: except Yukai-toki, who wears a long poncho-like cloak.]]
* HotGod
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: All of them, but Nana is the least awful offender.
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Except Kyuun, who just goes with what Nana, Hachi and Desiderius decide. [[spoiler: Even then, Desiderius just goes with what Nana and Hachi decide, he's just better at presenting the illusion of free will by trying to somehow, anyhow, get another voice into the discussion, but usually fails.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Though not all of them are good people, their wardrobe has nothing to do with their personality.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Country in Midnight]]
!! Nana of the Stars
* [[spoiler: AllTakeAndNoGive: That was the nature of his relationship with Arya, and part of what made it so hard for the boy to pinpoint was the fact that Nana wasn't like this with his friends and acquaintances. It seemed to be reserved for those he knew intimately, which was a list that consisted of Arya and Arya alone.]]
* [[spoiler: AbominationAccusationAttack: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's]] [[{{Gaslighting}} Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
* [[spoiler: BelievingTheirOwnLies: This is one of the ways Nana grew into such a horrible person, no one was keeping him in check and he, who absolutely had the intelligence to know what he was doing if he simply sat down with himself and was honest for once, simply put all his power into believing his own lies rather than changing for the better before it was too late.]]
* [[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: Far, far too late to actually make a difference in Arya's wellbeing, but there is a point at which Nana realizes he deserves every bit of Arya's ire towards him, and he dug the grave he is currently lying in. It leads to him becoming a much more humble, selfless person, stepping down from his position of power and becoming a wandering knight, since he can't exactly do the noble thing and die, being immortal. His motivation in this is not to be forgiven or for his sins to be wiped away, but rather, to become a tool to people who could use him for good. It's not exactly the healthiest way of developing as a person, to give up your own autonomy and personhood in the attempt to become better, but it's a massive improvement over ''tyrannical abuser''.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Purple.
* TheEmpath: Nana's near-psychic ability to be able to tell what people think of themselves and others, and what they plan to do next all boils down to supernatural levels of intuition and empathy. However, he seems to have only one blind spot: himself. In fact, his magic mirror doesn't even seem to work on his own self; all he sees is his normal reflection staring back at him. This is something he admits to feeling quite anxious about.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: He, to this day, would not admit it, but he was and still is. Nana justified his attraction to Arya with the fact that they technically did fall in love when they were both young, and it couldn't possibly be his fault that Arya stopped aging, so how can he just stop being in love? That logic, faulty, as it is, implies he has never had romantic or sexual interest in any minor after Arya, which is not true.]]
* [[spoiler: ExpositoryHairstyleChange: He lops most of his hair off, leaving it about shoulder-length after his big revelation. And holy fuck, is it excruciatingly painful, as the stars in his hair can ''feel''.]]
* [[spoiler: FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: This is just something he likes doing to people.
* [[spoiler: IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: By the end of things, anyway, far past the point of "too late" for either he or Arya to end up incredibly fucked up.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: It's hard to deny that the genius King of the Country in Midnight is anything but a master manipulator, but it's clear that he only uses his talents for the good of his people. [[spoiler: Well, probably.]]
* [[spoiler: MaritalRapeLicense: With Arya, he subconsciously believed he had this, particularly when Arya started drifting away from him.]]
* NeverMyFault: By use of InsaneTrollLogic that's sane enough that he consistently fools ''himself'' into believing he's done nothing wrong.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Nana's apparent sympathy for the underdogs in society make him seem very, as the kids say, ''woke'', but this is only true until you realize why he sympathizes with them, and how.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
* RoyalBrat: He may have played this trope straighter as a young child with all the embarrassingly spoiled behavior and pouting that comes with it, but now that he is a man, he retains most of the sinister implications of this trope with just about none of its associated childish behavior.
* [[spoiler: SexualExtortion: There were several times when he withheld affection, conversation, reassurance and validation from Arya until he got what he wanted.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: See CharacterDevelopment.
* [[spoiler: TragicDream: His involved living happily ever after with Arya. Then he violently murdered the dream. The only person he has to blame is himself.]]
* [[spoiler: TroubledAbuser: Nana himself being a victim of [[ParentalNeglect primarily emotional,]] [[ParentsAsPeople but sometimes physical neglect]] as a child does inform a lot of his more toxic neuroses, such as his entitlement to being unconditionally loved and accepted. However, [[Supernatural cool motive, still pedophilic abuse.]]]]
* [[spoiler: WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: This is the attitude Nana took with much of his abuse towards Arya, genuinely believing that he was reacting as every rational, normal person would in his circumstances.]]
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The people of that country know that he is charismatic, intelligent, attractive, and that he is taking care of their basic needs just about as much as they would expect any king to. [[spoiler: This translates to blind approval, which gets incredibly unfortunate for those who ''do'' know what he's really like.]]
!! [[spoiler:Gossick]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Periwinkle purple.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The State in Thunderclouds]]
!! Hachi of the Storm
* BadassInCharge
* BlingOfWar
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Averted painfully towards Annie, who Hachi supposedly loves.
* ChestOfMedals
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Navy blue.
* CondescendingCompassion: A hallmark of Hachi's [[SarcasmMode lovely personality]] is making you feel like an idiot commoner whenever you make a mistake or speak in [[spoiler: perceived]] ignorance.
* {{Ephebophile}}: And unnervingly comfortable with himself about it.
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi is the reason Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard: He's not quite as good at it as Nana is, but he wishes he was.]]
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: One of Hachi's biggest claims to his ego is the fact that technically, he isn't anywhere near as awful as Nana is - so that means you might as well not complain about him, and in fact, [[UnfortunateImplications ought to feel grateful that he's not as bad as he could be]], right? Annie's heard this song and dance too many times to count.
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Hachi uses this one on Annie frequently, hoping it'll result in SlapSlapKiss. [[CommentBackfire It doesn't.]]
!! Annie
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annie is unambiguously black.
* BerserkButton: His is feeling like people aren't respecting his personal boundaries, and with most people, he lets his discomfort be known. Loudly. [[spoiler: Not with Hachi, the person who has given him this trigger.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HatesBeingTouched: It's easy to assume this is just another part of his angry, standoffish personality. [[spoiler: It comes from somewhere.]]
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi did this to him years ago, which is why Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Kingdom in Clearing]]
!! Kyuun of the Woods
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Persian blue.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Kyuun is the most [[AccidentalPun diamond-studded]] of the four kings with jewelry in his hair and on his robe.
* HairDecorations: His CoolCrown doubles as this.
* LackOfEmpathy: Cognitive empathy is what he's lacking in, largely due to his depression - he can barely see an inch ahead of his nose. Given the fact that his behavior seems to fit the description for Asperger's on that trope's page to a T, he could have a condition I haven't paid close attention to.
* MadGod: Becomes much more mentally unstable than he already is under the weight of his new power, when he rebels against the other four diamondpoint kings.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He is severely depressive with occasional manic upswings (currently unsure if this fits the criteria of bipolar disorder since said upswings are relatively mild for most stories I've heard, and they are rare) over the course of his story, and he only begins to learn how to live with it when he is far away from the toxic, oppressive colleagues who have controlled him into silence in the face of injustice.
* ObliviousToLove
* PungeonMaster: As a MadGod, he's a huge fan of time puns. Nageki even joins in with him eventually.
* TheQuietOne: He tends to let his louder counterparts do the talking. [[spoiler: And he hates it.]]
* [[spoiler: SacredFirstKiss: [[SpitTrailKiss Hachi took his]]. It didn't affect him ''quite'' the same as most recipients of this trope, and he doesn't want to call it ''traumatic'', but... There's a reason he's so afraid of Hachi, and that reason is most likely mild trauma - more from the fact that Hachi (and people like Hachi, like Nana) [[ParanoiaFuel could have done worse]].]]
* [[spoiler: UnfitForGreatness: Which is why his advisor, Yonbanme and he step down from the throne in the end.]]
!! Yonbanme
* AdjustingYourGlasses
* [[spoiler: AxCrazy: He is positively determined not to let this side of his personality hurt innocent people. Not-so-innocent people like Nana and Hachi, on the other hand...]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BitchInSheepsClothing: By the standards of the Diamondpoint Kings and their collective agenda, oh yes.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black.
* FormFittingWardrobe
* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: To Kyuun. Kyuun is a bit ObliviousToLove due to his severe depression, and to be fair, Yonbanme has never exactly ''said'' it... But that doesn't mean everyone around him can't tell right away.
* IKissYourHand: He does this with Kyuun every so often, prompting a little dazed, flustered stammering from his king.
* OlderThanTheyLook: The one witch who subverts this trope by actually looking much closer to his true age than a very young adult.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* [[spoiler: {{Yandere}}: Though he possesses a level of self-awareness most {{Yandere}} characters don't. He would never hurt Kyuun, even if Kyuun falls in love with someone else. But if anyone, ANYONE, makes any unwanted advance of any kind on his king? That's the point at which he has to start fighting the murderous intrusive thoughts... Or don't.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Palace in Anemone]]
!! Desiderius of the Sea
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:For as awful as they were to his brother, Pastor, Desiderius' parents were even crueler to him. Desiderius' father, in particular, felt that he was preparing Desiderius for the burden and agony of being king by subjecting him (often by proxy through his guards) to horrific psychological, emotional, physical and sexual abuse/torture. Desiderius' mother did nothing to stop her husband, and it's unclear if she refused to act out of fear or out of sheer apathy.]]
* BiTheWay
* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for just about everything that goes wrong, whether it actually is his fault or something he was complacent in, or not.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Just one of the many ways his senile father thought he was preparing Desiderius for the pain of the position of king is, he would order his guards to beat and rape Desiderius quite often. It didn't help things that the guards, even ones who seemed kind and well-intentioned, started doing their jobs a little too well, with a little too much enthusiasm.]]
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Between the trauma of his abusive childhood and the knowledge that he cowardly stood by as just about the same kind of abuse was being inflicted upon one of his colleagues' advisors.]]
* [UnfitForGreatness: [[spoiler:Which is why his advisor, Annabelle and he switch roles in the end.]]
!! Pendragon
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mahogany.
!! Orelo
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Currant red.
!! Espino
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark purple.
* WalkingSpoiler
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[[folder:[[spoiler: The Spire in Wonder]]]]
!! [[spoiler:Yukai-toki of the Forgotten Lullaby]]
* {{Asexuality}}
** IfItsYouItsOkay: ... Though he doesn't mind sleeping with Luz from time to time. He doesn't mind that at all.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Prussian blue.
* CombatStilettos
* DarkIsNotEvil
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Subverted in the sense that he's got the dark eyeshadow and lipstick one might expect of a villain, but he is actually the most morally upright of the Diamondpoint Kings.
* [[spoiler: {{Fetish}}: One for being worshipped. He doesn't tend to think much of it and doesn't really think of it as such, especially after spending so long in the Forgotten Lullaby. And then comes Luz.]]
* PapaWolf: These were his feelings for Arya, which Nana [[AbominationAccusationAttack tried to portray as something else]] in order to get him to doubt himself.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! [[spoiler:Mezzo-Forte]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mint green.
* WalkingSpoiler
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[[folder:The Pearl Sovereignty]]
!! Pastor
* AbusiveParents: His parents were the first to instill him with the idea that he, due to his disorders, is completely inept and helpless, and thus might as well not even be alive.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Undiagnosed autism and ADHD.
* BuryYourDisabled[[spoiler: Well, maybe.]]
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Coral pink.
* ColorCodedEyes: Pastor's eyes used to be dark green, and he falls in line with the idea of green eyes signifying sexy free spirits.
* DisabledMeansHelpless: Averted. This isn't true of Pastor at all. His developmental disabilities most certainly affect his life and make it difficult for him to function "normally" in society, but because everyone he knows has treated him as if his disabilities make him helpless and inept (even Arcane, who is supposedly on his side!) from birth until now, he has more problems with resentment of the people around him and learned helplessness than anything else.
* EthicalSlut
* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: To escape the bondage of royalty and pursue the life he has always wanted, and not the one that has been thrust upon him.]]
* HollywoodAutism: Averted, he doesn't have any special skillsets tied to his autism.
* [[spoiler: ReluctantRuler]]
* RapunzelHair
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Despite being very charming, he has issues reading unspoken social cues sometimes.
* TheStoic: But certainly not the joyless.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating
!! Arcane Ariatongue
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Orchid purple.
* RoyalWe
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[[folder:The World Beyond the Mirror]]
!! [[spoiler:North of the Mirror]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark red.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon
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!! Kutsuuko[[spoiler:/Arya Kurosawa]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* BrokenBird: It's clear right away that someone has hurt this sweet young boy. [[spoiler: Holy shit.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Bright red.
* [[spoiler: DarkMagicalBoy]]
* [[spoiler: DeadpanSnarker]]
* [[spoiler: DefiledForever: Certainly sees himself this way.]]
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time - but holy shit, he knows now.]]
* [[spoiler: DontYouDarePityMe]]
* [[spoiler: FreudianExcuse: If you'd been through what he had for as long as he had, you might be a little pissed off at the world, too, and you might be a little drunk off of power, too.]]
* [[spoiler: GrewASpine]]
* HatesBeingTouched
* [[spoiler: HeroicRROD: (dubiously canon) He ends up growing so powerful that his body can't hold the magical strength inside him, and it literally falls to pieces from this.]]
* [[spoiler: JerkassWoobie]]
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Irreversibly so[[spoiler:, one would think.]]
* [[spoiler: MouthyKid: If anything from Nana has rubbed off onto Kutsuuko, it is that talent at dealing out tongue-lashings to those who you think deserve it - only from Kutsuuko, he's not stretching the truth.]]
* [[spoiler: OlderThanTheyLook]]
* ProneToTears: [[spoiler: It's an act.]]
* [[spoiler: RapeLeadsToInsanity: A case of TruthInTelevision, the sexual abuse and grooming he went through makes him psychologically and emotionally unstable, paranoid and misanthropic - but this is obviously not the way ''all'' survivors respond to trauma.]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* [[spoiler: SourOutsideSadInside]]
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: None that he knows of or has the strength to seek out!]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He shows clear signs of PTSD with the way he frightens and starts crying so easily when people press him too hard about the man who hurt him, the poor thing... [[spoiler: Yep, and the symptoms are much less soft and palatable than they at first appear - they're what real PTSD often looks like in young survivors.]]
* [[spoiler: TragicVillain]]
* WalkingSpoiler
* [[spoiler: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Quite literally, as he tries to destroy the world.]]
!! [[spoiler:Arya Kurosawa/Kutsuuko]]
* AbusiveParents: He had emotionally abusive parents who never accepted his best efforts, no matter how hard he worked to please them. This set him up to believe for much of his life that he had to work ''hard'' and ''suffer'' to make people approve of him and love him.
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Not that he has much of a safe place to explore that.]]
* [[LadyOfBlackMagic Boy of Black Magic]]: Not only on account of being a witch, his personality was certainly like this - cold, elegant, graceful - to people other than Nana.
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Light pink.
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time.]]
* ExtremeDoormat
* GiantPoofySleeves
* MindRape: It seems like Pendragon did this to him, entirely on accident, by stabbing him through the heart when they fought. When she saw him screaming and curling up on the floor, she started to put the pieces together, and to this day she feels absolutely terrible for doing that to him. [[spoiler: What she doesn't know is, that's not what happened at all. Her attack only jolted his conscience enough for him to fully realize how miserable he was, and what Nana was [[DomesticAbuse really doing]] to him. The recognition of severe trauma hit him all at once.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook:
* [[spoiler: QuestionableConsent]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: Not when no one wants you to know they do!]]
* [[spoiler: UnequalPairing: Nana and Arya were this, not only as king and advisor but fully-grown adult and teenager.]]
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[[folder:The Diamond Court]]
!! Amaya Lasker
* AmbiguousGender: Amaya is nonbinary.
* {{Asexuality}}: Demisexuality, to be precise.
* DumbBlonde: Averted, Amaya is one of the smartest characters in the cast.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Xe's aware one is going on, but xe has no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Though [[SecretIdentity xe isn't exactly a delicate, fragile little flower]].
* MeaningfulName: Amaya's PenName, Nirami, comes from the verb "Niramu", meaning "to glare at".
* {{Megane}}
* PenName: Xeyr's in xeyr politically inflammatory pamphlets is [[MeaningfulName Nirami]].
!! Lucerne "Luz" Fortunato
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Luz is a black Arab.
* AmbiguousGender: Luz is agender, or they prefer for their gender to be thought of as "none".
* [[DarkSkinnedBlonde Dark Skinned With White Hair]]
* TheDeterminator: Luz stops at nothing to reach the Forgotten Lullaby, [[spoiler: even if it means inadvertently killing a palace guard in a fight over demands for information.]]
* ForGreatJustice
* GovernmentConspiracy: Once they become aware one's going on, and has been going on for years, they become utterly obsessed with it and only grow more and more entrenched in it, losing more and more to it until they finally solve it, [[spoiler: essentially showing up on Yukai-toki's doorstep in the Forgotten Lullaby, covered in blood (belonging to them and possibly others too they don't remember?), missing one of their memories in the ritual to get them there, disheveled and unkempt, not having slept in days, and at first completely incomprehensible in their speech.]]
* SanitySlippage: The deeper and deeper they go down the rabbit hole, trying to figure out what happened to Yukai-toki and where he went, this happens.
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[[folder:The Rebellion]]
!! Pidgeon
* BigHam
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Garnet red.
* FramesOfReference: His are circular, with swirls in the lenses, he's a silly sort of character who wants to be received as a mad scientist.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses
* VillainBall: He loves holding it. It is his favorite of all the balls. It's great. He loves it!
!! Vehal Bimromav
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale purple.
!! Contralto
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: White.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Averted, his eyesight is just fine and he's certainly considered the smartest of the rebels.
* {{Yandere}}: Though he's a little embarrassed of himself about it.
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[[folder:Extra Sidecharacters]]
!! Ose Shalom
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Ose Shalom is a Sephardic Jew.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Suvi and Yisra.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pecan brown.
* DissonantSerenity: It seems that nothing can shake his calm demeanor.
* TheHecateSisters: Ose Shalom is the Mother, and Suvi and Yisra are his Crone and Maiden, respectively.
* PerpetualSmiler
!! Suvi and Yisra
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Ose Shalom.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black and white.
* TheHecateSisters: Suvi is the Crone and Yisra is the Maiden, with Ose Shalom as their Mother.
* PerpetualFrowner: Suvi.
* PerpetualSmiler: Yisra.
!! Sir Knight[[spoiler:/Nana and the Stars that Ceased to Shine]]
* [[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: Nana's attitude and very way of thinking and feeling has changed ''drastically'' since Arya took revenge on him. He's practically a different person.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale dark blue.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes
* TheDeterminator: No matter how obviously depressed and exhausted he is, there is nothing he can't do.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: That's something about himself that hasn't seemed to disappear. He still loves Arya, against his better judgment, the only difference now is he hates himself for it and he refuses to make that Arya's problem by being upfront about it.]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He's got some pretty heavy depression, depersonalization disorder, and he has apparently developed a psychotic disorder of some kind: he experiences delusions that tell him that his bare skin is venomous, and he must cover it all, at all times, or else he will hurt people. [[spoiler: Delusions they may be, but when the truth about who he is comes out, said delusions don't seem quite so random anymore.]]
* MustMakeAmends: One thing Nageki and her party know about their knightly friend is that he feels the need to repent for something he did in his past, but no one figures it's that bad since he's such a great dude! [[spoiler: Hahaha, oh.]]
* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: He's definitely got it. [[spoiler: It turns out he's got very good reason to distrust his own mind and body when thrown into a sexual situation.]]
!!Terran "Terrandus" Denzo
* BigBrotherInstinct: Bordering on KnightTemplarBigBrother for his three-year-old little sister, Curie.
* BiTheWay
* GreenThumb: Terrandus' magic centers on the manipulation of plantlife.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* HairAntennae
* InSeriesNickname: People call him Terrandus more often than they call him Terran. Kutsuuko [[FullNameBasis calls him by his full name]] nearly all the time.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's pretty short, even for a 15 year old, but that doesn't get in his way, much.
* TechnicalPacifist: He certainly prefers to be one! But if someone forces him to take care of business, then there's nothing he can do about that.
* TheQuietOne
* {{Yandere}}: Look, he's not responsible for what happens to you if you hurt someone he cares about. Even if you don't hurt them badly, or just say something mean to them, he still can't help but feel that immediate rush of borderline-homicidal anger that comes over him when he argues with himself in his head, graciously deciding not to make you regret it. Bear in mind, not actually-homicidal. He's a pacifist! He doesn't kill anyone. He just knows people can take a lot of pain before they keel over.
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[[folder:The Main Heroes]]
!! Nageki Shikimori
* BiTheWay
* CelibateHero: She at first seems this way, not showing any romantic or sexual interest in anyone. And then she meets Kyuun.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Hot pink.
* FramesOfReference: Hers are circular, and she's one of the most friendly and easygoing characters of the cast.
* HairDecorations: A purple hairclip with a cartoonish pink kitty head on it.
* {{Joshikousei}}: One that's been held back a couple grades in junior high, though, so she's a couple years older than the average high school senior, she's 18 going on 19.
* MaleGaze: [[RareMaleExample Rare Female Example]], in the fact that what Nageki ahem, [[EatingTheEyeCandy appreciates]], about Kyuun's appearance is in his slender waist, hips and legs. On top of his personality, that is, which she finds incredibly amusing and endearing, even after he returns to his normal self.
* {{Meganekko}}
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Mizune.
* RoseHairedSweetie
* SailorFuku
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
!! Mizune Tamazuna
* BiTheWay: But she heavily prefers other women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Baby blue.
* FashionHurts: She endures the pain, though. [[spoiler: It's a source of where some of her dysphoria comes from, the idea that fashion hurts for her at all. What worries her is the idea that fashion hurts for every girl, but they don't complain about it because they've had to hurt their whole lives, while Mizune has 'only' had to hurt from the time she started presenting as a woman.]]
* GirlyBruiser
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Nageki.
* ThePollyanna: Though she's an awfully quiet lady, she tries her best to be the optimist to Nageki's realist.
* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler: Her human world equivalent, unfortunately, cannot safely live and present as a girl. She's closeted, and presents entirely male.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: She starts out this way.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
* TrueBlueFemininity
!! Annabelle
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annabelle is unambiguously black.
* [[spoiler: ArousedByTheirVoice: Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
* BiTheWay: For men and nonbinary people, he isn't usually attracted to women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Goldenrod.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]
* GrumpyOldMan: Often behaves as such, because he sees himself as one due to the way he's aged.
* InconvenientAttraction: [[LoveHurts Any attraction Annabelle experiences feels particularly inconvenient]], he's terribly insecure when it comes to intimacy of any kind and feels like being attracted to anyone younger than him makes him a horrible monster because of how old he technically is. For Desiderius, it's especially inconvenient because he knows Desiderius wouldn't love him back [[spoiler: he would, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queerplatonic just not exactly romantically]]]], and for Amaya it's especially inconvenient because he feels like he's taking advantage of what he sees as a precocious, innocent crush.
* OnlySaneMan
* OlderThanTheyLook: Annabelle's maturity flip-flops between that of an elderly man and a young adult depending on the situation, which makes it hard for him to figure out how old he "truly" is. He errs on the side of more elderly, being afraid of assuming he's young enough to date someone around him when he is not. [[spoiler: His true self is absolutely a young adult, but seeing himself from time to time as an old man helps him cope with this dilemma. He doesn't realize this yet and won't for a long time.]]
!! Mikami Bimromav
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Forrest.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* TheDeterminator
* [[spoiler: GroundhogPeggySue]]
* PreacherMan: He ends up being this, and he is [[Film/PulpFiction the son of one.]]
* [[spoiler: RippleEffectProofMemory]]
* [[spoiler: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* StraightMan: To Forrest's [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]].
* [[spoiler: TimeTravelRomance: Saving his friends and the rest of the world takes second-place priority to making sure Forrest is alright. Of course, it isn't so bad that he would stay in a timeline in which everyone died ''but'' Forrest, but... It would be very, very tempting.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, towards Forrest.
!! Forrest Nagakawa
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Mikami, though he loves every second of it, being the instigator.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark green.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: He has the most fun delivering these.
* TheGadfly
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Forrest lives with a psychotic disorder (unsure exactly which kind) that comes with visual and, very rarely, auditory hallucinations. His hallucinations tend to put maggots and insects in places they don't belong. [[spoiler: Combine that with the Black Plague-like diseased he witnessed spreading (and was lucky to never contract) in his hometown as a child, and you get a real fucking nightmare of a brain time. This event that wiped out most of his hometown traumatized him, and he is left with mild symptoms of PTSD today.]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]]: To Mikami's StraightMan.
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[[folder:The Diamondpoint Kings And Other Kings]]
General tropes for the Diamondpoint Kings include:
* TheBeautifulElite
* CoolCrown: All of them except Desiderius sport one of these.
* DudeLooksLikeALady
* ErmineCapeEffect
* FormFittingWardrobe: All of them [[spoiler: except Yukai-toki, who wears a long poncho-like cloak.]]
* HotGod
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: All of them, but Nana is the least awful offender.
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Except Kyuun, who just goes with what Nana, Hachi and Desiderius decide. [[spoiler: Even then, Desiderius just goes with what Nana and Hachi decide, he's just better at presenting the illusion of free will by trying to somehow, anyhow, get another voice into the discussion, but usually fails.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Though not all of them are good people, their wardrobe has nothing to do with their personality.
!! Nana of the Stars
* [[spoiler: AllTakeAndNoGive: That was the nature of his relationship with Arya, and part of what made it so hard for the boy to pinpoint was the fact that Nana wasn't like this with his friends and acquaintances. It seemed to be reserved for those he knew intimately, which was a list that consisted of Arya and Arya alone.]]
* [[spoiler: AbominationAccusationAttack: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's]] [[{{Gaslighting}} Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
* [[spoiler: BelievingTheirOwnLies: This is one of the ways Nana grew into such a horrible person, no one was keeping him in check and he, who absolutely had the intelligence to know what he was doing if he simply sat down with himself and was honest for once, simply put all his power into believing his own lies rather than changing for the better before it was too late.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Denim blue.
* TheEmpath: Nana's near-psychic ability to be able to tell what people think of themselves and others, and what they plan to do next all boils down to supernatural levels of intuition and empathy. However, he seems to have only one blind spot: himself. In fact, his magic mirror doesn't even seem to work on his own self; all he sees is his normal reflection staring back at him. This is something he admits to feeling quite anxious about.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: He, to this day, would not admit it, but he was and still is. Nana justified his attraction to Arya with the fact that they technically did fall in love when they were both young, and it couldn't possibly be his fault that Arya stopped aging, so how can he just stop being in love? That logic, faulty, as it is, implies he has never had romantic or sexual interest in any minor after Arya, which is not true.]]
* [[spoiler: ExpositoryHairstyleChange: He lops most of his hair off, leaving it about shoulder-length after his big revelation. And holy fuck, is it excruciatingly painful, as the stars in his hair can ''feel''.]]
* [[spoiler: FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: This is just something he likes doing to people.
* [[spoiler: IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: By the end of things, anyway, far past the point of "too late" for either he or Arya to end up incredibly fucked up.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: It's hard to deny that the genius King of the Country in Midnight is anything but a master manipulator, but it's clear that he only uses his talents for the good of his people. [[spoiler: Well, probably.]]
* [[spoiler: MaritalRapeLicense: With Arya, he subconsciously believed he had this, particularly when Arya started drifting away from him.]]
* NeverMyFault: By use of InsaneTrollLogic that's sane enough that he consistently fools ''himself'' into believing he's done nothing wrong.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Generally speaking, he is not.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
* RoyalBrat: He may have played this trope straighter as a young child with all the embarrassingly spoiled behavior and pouting that comes with it, but now that he is a man, he retains most of the sinister implications of this trope with just about none of its associated childish behavior.
* [[spoiler: SexualExtortion: There were several times when he withheld affection, conversation, reassurance and validation from Arya until he got what he wanted.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: See CharacterDevelopment.
* [[spoiler: TragicDream: His involved living happily ever after with Arya. Then he violently murdered the dream. The only person he has to blame is himself.]]
* [[spoiler: TroubledAbuser: Nana himself being a victim of [[ParentalNeglect primarily emotional,]] [[ParentsAsPeople but sometimes physical neglect]] as a child is technically true. But at the end of the day, Nageki wonders if that even matters.]]
* [[spoiler: WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: This is the attitude Nana took with much of his abuse towards Arya, genuinely believing that he was reacting as every rational, normal person would in his circumstances.
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The people of that country know that he is charismatic, intelligent, attractive, and that he is taking care of their basic needs just about as much as they would expect any king to. [[spoiler: This translates to blind approval, which gets incredibly unfortunate for those who ''do'' know what he's really like.]]
!! Hachi of the Thunderclouds
* BadassInCharge
* BlingOfWar
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Averted painfully towards Annie, who Hachi supposedly loves.
* ChestOfMedals
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Navy blue.
* CondescendingCompassion: A hallmark of Hachi's [[SarcasmMode lovely personality]] is making you feel like an idiot commoner whenever you make a mistake or speak in [[spoiler: perceived]] ignorance.
* {{Ephebophile}}: And unnervingly comfortable with himself about it.
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi is the reason Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard: He's not quite as good at it as Nana is, but he wishes he was.]]
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: One of Hachi's biggest claims to his ego is the fact that technically, he isn't anywhere near as awful as Nana is - so that means you might as well not complain about him, and in fact, [[UnfortunateImplications ought to feel grateful that he's not as bad as he could be]], right? Annie's heard this song and dance too many times to count.
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Hachi uses this one on Annie frequently, hoping it'll result in SlapSlapKiss. [[CommentBackfire It doesn't.]]
!! Kyuun of the Woods
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Persian blue.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Kyuun is the most [[AccidentalPun diamond-studded]] of the four kings with jewelry in his hair and on his robe.
* HairDecorations: His CoolCrown doubles as this.
* LackOfEmpathy: Cognitive empathy is what he's lacking in, largely due to his depression - he can barely see an inch ahead of his nose. Given the fact that his behavior seems to fit the description for Asperger's on that trope's page to a T, he could have a condition I haven't paid close attention to.
* MadGod: Becomes much more mentally unstable than he already is under the weight of his new power, when he rebels against the other four kings.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He is severely depressive with occasional manic upswings (currently unsure if this fits the criteria of bipolar disorder since said upswings are relatively mild for most stories I've heard, and they are rare) over the course of his story, and he only begins to learn how to live with it when he is far away from the toxic, oppressive colleagues who have controlled him into silence in the face of injustice.
* ObliviousToLove
* PungeonMaster: As a MadGod, he's a huge fan of time puns. Nageki even joins in with him eventually.
* TheQuietOne: He tends to let his louder counterparts do the talking. [[spoiler: And he hates it.]]
* [[spoiler: SacredFirstKiss: [[SpitTrailKiss Hachi took his]]. It didn't affect him ''quite'' the same as most recipients of this trope, and he doesn't want to call it ''traumatic'', but... There's a reason he's so afraid of Hachi, and that reason is most likely mild trauma - more from the fact that Hachi (and people like Hachi, like Nana) [[ParanoiaFuel could have done worse]].]]
* SpoiledSweet
* [[spoiler: UnfitForGreatness: Which is why his advisor, Yonbanme and he step down from the throne in the end.]]
!! Desiderius of the Sea
* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents: For as awful as they were to his brother, Pastor, Desiderius' parents were even crueler to him. Desiderius' father, in particular, felt that he was preparing Desiderius for the burden and agony of being king by subjecting him (often by proxy through his guards) to horrific psychological, emotional, physical and sexual abuse/torture. Desiderius' mother did nothing to stop her husband, and it's unclear if she refused to act out of fear or out of sheer apathy.]]
* BiTheWay
* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for just about everything that goes wrong, whether it actually is his fault or something he was complacent in, or not.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* SpoiledSweet
* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackstory: Just one of the many ways his senile father thought he was preparing Desiderius for the pain of the position of king is, he would order his guards to beat and rape Desiderius quite often. It didn't help things that the guards, even ones who seemed kind and well-intentioned, started doing their jobs a little too well, with a little too much enthusiasm.]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler: Between the trauma of his abusive childhood and the knowledge that he cowardly stood by as just about the same kind of abuse was being inflicted upon one of his colleagues' advisors.]]
* [[spoiler: UnfitForGreatness: Which is why his advisor, Annabelle and he switch roles in the end.]]
!! [[spoiler:Yukai-toki of the Forgotten Lullaby]]
* {{Asexuality}}
** IfItsYouItsOkay: ... Though he doesn't mind sleeping with Luz from time to time. He doesn't mind that at all.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Prussian blue.
* CombatStilettos
* DarkIsNotEvil
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Subverted in the sense that he's got the dark eyeshadow and lipstick one might expect of a villain, but he is actually the most morally upright of the Diamondpoint Kings.
* [[spoiler: {{Fetish}}: One for being worshipped. He doesn't tend to think much of it and doesn't really think of it as such, especially after spending so long in the Forgotten Lullaby. And then comes Luz.]]
* PapaWolf: These were his feelings for Arya, which Nana [[AbominationAccusationAttack tried to portray as something else]] in order to get him to doubt himself.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! Pastor of the Sunset
* AbusiveParents: His parents were the first to instill him with the idea that he, due to his disorders, is completely inept and helpless, and thus might as well not even be alive.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Undiagnosed autism and ADHD.
* BuryYourDisabled[[spoiler:: Well, maybe.]]
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Baby pink.
* DisabledMeansHelpless: Averted. This isn't true of Pastor at all. His developmental disabilities most certainly affect his life and make it difficult for him to function "normally" in society, but because everyone he knows has treated him as if his disabilities make him helpless and inept (even Arcane, who is supposedly on his side!) from birth until now, he has more problems with resentment of the people around him and learned helplessness than anything else.
* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: To escape the bondage of royalty and pursue the life he has always wanted, and not the one that has been thrust upon him.]]
* [[spoiler: ReluctantRuler]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating
!! [[spoiler:North of the Mirror]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark red.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Witches]]
!! Kutsuuko[[spoiler:/Arya Kurosawa]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* [[BlackMageGirl Black Mage Boy]]
* BrokenBird: It's clear right away that someone has hurt this sweet young boy. [[spoiler: Holy shit.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Bright red.
* [spoiler: DarkMagicalBoy]]
* [[spoiler: DeadpanSnarker]]
* [[spoiler: DefiledForever: Certainly sees himself this way.]]
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time - but holy shit, he knows now.]]
* [[spoiler: DontYouDarePityMe]]
* [[spoiler: EroticDream: Had one about Yonbanme once. It was confusingly nice, and Yonbanme was so kind and gentle to him, and upon waking up it kind of made him want to die, thank you.]]
* FragileFlower:[[spoiler: It's an act.]]
* [[spoiler: FreudianExcuse: If you'd been through what he had for as long as he had, you might be a little pissed off at the world, too, and you might be a little drunk off of power, too.]]
* [[spoiler: GrewASpine]]
* HatesBeingTouched
* [[spoiler: HeroicRROD: (dubiously canon) He ends up growing so powerful that his body can't hold the magical strength inside him, and it literally falls to pieces from this.]]
* [[spoiler: JerkassWoobie]]
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Irreversibly so[[spoiler:, one would think.]]
* [[spoiler: MouthyKid: If anything from Nana has rubbed off onto Kutsuuko, it is that talent at dealing out tongue-lashings to those who you think deserve it - only from Kutsuuko, he's not stretching the truth.]]
* [[spoiler: OlderThanTheyLook]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* SourOutsideSadInside
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: None that he knows of or has the strength to seek out!]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He shows clear signs of PTSD with the way he frightens and starts crying so easily when people press him too hard about the man who hurt him, the poor thing... [[spoiler: Yep, and the symptoms are much less soft and palatable than they at first appear - they're what real PTSD often looks like in young survivors.]]
* [[spoiler: TragicVillain]]
* WalkingSpoiler
* [[spoiler: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Quite literally, as he tries to destroy the world.]]
!! [[spoiler:Arya Kurosawa/Kutsuuko]]
* AbusiveParents: He had emotionally abusive parents who never accepted his best efforts, no matter how hard he worked to please them. This set him up to believe for much of his life that he had to work ''hard'' and ''suffer'' to make people approve of him and love him.
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Not that he has much of a safe place to explore that.]]
* [[LadyOfBlackMagic Boy of Black Magic]]: Not only on account of being a witch, his personality was certainly like this - cold, elegant, graceful - to people other than Nana.
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Light pink.
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time.]]
* ExtremeDoormat
* GiantPoofySleeves
* MindRape: It seems like Pendragon did this to him, entirely on accident, by stabbing him through the heart when they fought. When she saw him screaming and curling up on the floor, she started to put the pieces together, and to this day she feels absolutely terrible for doing that to him. [[spoiler: What she doesn't know is, that's not what happened at all. Her attack only jolted his conscience enough for him to fully realize how miserable he was, and what Nana was [[DomesticAbuse really doing]] to him. The recognition of severe trauma hit him all at once.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook:
* [[spoiler: QuestionableConsent]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: Not when no one wants you to know they do!]]
* [[spoiler: UnequalPairing: Nana and Arya were this, not only as king and advisor but fully-grown adult and teenager.]]
!! Annie
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annie is unambiguously black.
* BerserkButton: His is feeling like people aren't respecting his personal boundaries, and with most people, he lets his discomfort be known. Loudly. [[spoiler: Not with Hachi, the person who has given him this trigger.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Scarlet.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HatesBeingTouched: It's easy to assume this is just another part of his angry, standoffish personality. [[spoiler: It comes from somewhere.]]
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi did this to him years ago, which is why Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook
!! Yonbanme
* AdjustingYourGlasses
* [[spoiler: AxCrazy: He is positively determined not to let this side of his personality hurt innocent people. Not-so-innocent people like Nana and Hachi, on the other hand...]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BitchInSheepsClothing: By the standards of the Diamondpoint Kings and their collective agenda, oh yes.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black.
* FormFittingWardrobe
* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: To Kyuun. Kyuun is a bit ObliviousToLove due to his severe depression, and to be fair, Yonbanme has never exactly ''said'' it... But that doesn't mean everyone around him can't tell right away.
* IKissYourHand: He does this with Kyuun every so often, prompting a little dazed, flustered stammering from his king.
* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted.
* OlderThanTheyLook: The one witch who subverts this trope by actually looking much closer to his true age than a very young adult.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* [[spoiler: {{Yandere}}: Though he possesses a level of self-awareness most {{Yandere}} characters don't. He would never hurt Kyuun, even if Kyuun falls in love with someone else. But if anyone, ANYONE, makes any unwanted advance of any kind on his king? That's the point at which he has to start fighting the murderous intrusive thoughts... Or don't.]]
!! Annabelle
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annabelle is unambiguously black.
* [[spoiler: ArousedByTheirVoice: Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
* BiTheWay: For men and nonbinary people, he isn't usually attracted to women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Goldenrod.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]
* GrumpyOldMan: Often behaves as such, because he sees himself as one due to the way he's aged.
* InconvenientAttraction: [[LoveHurts Any attraction Annabelle experiences feels particularly inconvenient]], he's terribly insecure when it comes to intimacy of any kind and feels like being attracted to anyone younger than him makes him a horrible monster because of how old he technically is. For Desiderius, it's especially inconvenient because he knows Desiderius wouldn't love him back [[spoiler: he would, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queerplatonic just not exactly romantically]]]], and for Amaya it's especially inconvenient because he feels like he's taking advantage of what he sees as a precocious, innocent crush.
* OnlySaneMan
* OlderThanTheyLook: Annabelle's maturity flip-flops between that of an elderly man and a young adult depending on the situation, which makes it hard for him to figure out how old he "truly" is. He errs on the side of more elderly, being afraid of assuming he's young enough to date someone around him when he is not. [[spoiler: His true self is absolutely a young adult, but seeing himself from time to time as an old man helps him cope with this dilemma. He doesn't realize this yet and won't for a long time.]]
!! Pendragon
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mahogany.
!! Orelo
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Currant red.
!! [[spoiler:Mezzo-Forte]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mint green.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! Arcane Ariatongue
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Orchid purple.
* RoyalWe
!! [[spoiler:Espino]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark purple.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! [[spoiler:Gossick]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Periwinkle purple.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Diamond Court]]
!! Amaya Lasker
* AmbiguousGender: Amaya is nonbinary.
* {{Asexuality}}: Demisexuality, to be precise.
* DumbBlonde: Averted, Amaya is one of the smartest characters in the cast.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Xe's aware one is going on, but xe has no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Though [[SecretIdentity xe isn't exactly a delicate, fragile little flower]].
* MeaningfulName: Amaya's PenName, Nirami, comes from the verb "Niramu", meaning "to glare at".
* {{Megane}}
* PenName: Xeyr's in xeyr politically inflammatory pamphlets is [[MeaningfulName Nirami]].
!! Lucerne "Luz" Fortunato
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Luz is a black Arab.
* AmbiguousGender: Luz is agender, or they prefer for their gender to be thought of as "none".
* [[DarkSkinnedBlonde Dark Skinned With White Hair]]
* TheDeterminator: Luz stops at nothing to reach the Forgotten Lullaby, [[spoiler: even if it means inadvertently killing a palace guard in a fight over demands for information.]]
* ForGreatJustice
* GovernmentConspiracy: Once they become aware one's going on, and has been going on for years, they become utterly obsessed with it and only grow more and more entrenched in it, losing more and more to it until they finally solve it, [[spoiler: essentially showing up on Yukai-toki's doorstep in the Forgotten Lullaby, covered in blood (belonging to them and possibly others too they don't remember?), missing one of their memories in the ritual to get them there, disheveled and unkempt, not having slept in days, and at first completely incomprehensible in their speech.]]
* SanitySlippage: The deeper and deeper they go down the rabbit hole, trying to figure out what happened to Yukai-toki and where he went, this happens.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Rebellion]]
!! Pidgeon
* BigHam
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Garnet red.
* FramesOfReference: His are circular, with swirls in the lenses, he's a silly sort of character who wants to be received as a mad scientist.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses
* VillainBall: He loves holding it. It is his favorite of all the balls. It's great. He loves it!
!! Vehal Bimromav
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale purple.
!! Contralto
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: White.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Averted, his eyesight is just fine and he's certainly considered the smartest of the rebels.
* {{Yandere}}: Though he's a little embarrassed of himself about it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Extra Sidecharacters]]
!! Ose Shalom
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Ose Shalom is a Sephardic Jew.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Suvi and Yisra.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pecan brown.
* DissonantSerenity: It seems that nothing can shake his calm demeanor.
* TheHecateSisters: Ose Shalom is the Mother, and Suvi and Yisra are his Crone and Maiden, respectively.
* PerpetualSmiler
!! Suvi and Yisra
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Ose Shalom.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black and white.
* TheHecateSisters: Suvi is the Crone and Yisra is the Maiden, with Ose Shalom as their Mother.
* PerpetualFrowner: Suvi.
* PerpetualSmiler: Yisra.
!! Sir Knight[[spoiler:/Nana and the Stars that Ceased to Shine]]
* [[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: Nana's attitude and very way of thinking and feeling has changed ''drastically'' since Arya took revenge on him. He's practically a different person.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale dark blue.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes
* TheDeterminator: No matter how obviously depressed and exhausted he is, there is nothing he can't do.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: That's something about himself that hasn't seemed to disappear. He still loves Arya, against his better judgment, the only difference now is he hates himself for it and he refuses to make that Arya's problem by being upfront about it.]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He's got some pretty heavy depression, depersonalization disorder, and he has apparently developed a psychotic disorder of some kind: he experiences delusions that tell him that his bare skin is venomous, and he must cover it all, at all times, or else he will hurt people. [[spoiler: Delusions they may be, but when the truth about who he is comes out, said delusions don't seem quite so random anymore.]]
* MustMakeAmends: One thing Nageki and her party know about their knightly friend is that he feels the need to repent for something he did in his past, but no one figures it's that bad since he's such a great dude! [[spoiler: Hahaha, oh.]]
* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: He's definitely got it. [[spoiler: It turns out he's got very good reason to distrust his own mind and body when thrown into a sexual situation.]]
!!Terran "Terrandus" Denzo
* BigBrotherInstinct: Bordering on KnightTemplarBigBrother for his three-year-old little sister, Curie.
* BiTheWay
* GreenThumb: Terrandus' magic centers on the manipulation of plantlife.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* HairAntennae
* InSeriesNickname: People call him Terrandus more often than they call him Terran. Kutsuuko [[FullNameBasis calls him by his full name]] nearly all the time.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's pretty short, even for a 15 year old, but that doesn't get in his way, much.
* TechnicalPacifist: He certainly prefers to be one! But if someone forces him to take care of business, then there's nothing he can do about that.
* TheQuietOne
* {{Yandere}}: Look, he's not responsible for what happens to you if you hurt someone he cares about. Even if you don't hurt them badly, or just say something mean to them, he still can't help but feel that immediate rush of borderline-homicidal anger that comes over him when he argues with himself in his head, graciously deciding not to make you regret it. Bear in mind, not actually-homicidal. He's a pacifist! He doesn't kill anyone. He just knows people can take a lot of pain before they keel over.
!! Kaur
* AllWitchesHaveCats
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow.
* [[spoiler: [[{{Ephebophile}} Hebephile]]: One who is extremely self-loathing, one who has never harmed a child, and one who has never engaged with child pornography of any kind or any medium. He is desperately trying to find some kind of 'cure' for his problem, and is starting to, without hesitation, consider straight-up castration if it means it'll fix who he is.]]
* IntrepidMerchant
* MagicLibrarian
* PowerCrystal: Sells these.
* TheRedMage
[[/folder]]
Characters in the folders may repeat since they belong to multiple categories. Will probably clean that up at some point!
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:The Main Heroes]]
!! Nageki Shikimori
* BiTheWay
* CelibateHero: She at first seems this way, not showing any romantic or sexual interest in anyone. And then she meets Kyuun.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Hot pink.
* FramesOfReference: Hers are circular, and she's one of the most friendly and easygoing characters of the cast.
* HairDecorations: A purple hairclip with a cartoonish pink kitty head on it.
* {{Joshikousei}}: One that's been held back a couple grades in junior high, though, so she's a couple years older than the average high school senior, she's 18 going on 19.
* MaleGaze: [[RareMaleExample Rare Female Example]], in the fact that what Nageki ahem, [[EatingTheEyeCandy appreciates]], about Kyuun's appearance is in his slender waist, hips and legs. On top of his personality, that is, which she finds incredibly amusing and endearing, even after he returns to his normal self.
* {{Meganekko}}
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Mizune.
* RoseHairedSweetie
* SailorFuku
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
!! Mizune Tamazuna
* BiTheWay: But she heavily prefers other women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Baby blue.
* FashionHurts: She endures the pain, though. [[spoiler: It's a source of where some of her dysphoria comes from, the idea that fashion hurts for her at all. What worries her is the idea that fashion hurts for every girl, but they don't complain about it because they've had to hurt their whole lives, while Mizune has 'only' had to hurt from the time she started presenting as a woman.]]
* GirlyBruiser
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Nageki.
* ThePollyanna: Though she's an awfully quiet lady, she tries her best to be the optimist to Nageki's realist.
* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler: Her human world equivalent, unfortunately, cannot safely live and present as a girl. She's closeted, and presents entirely male.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: She starts out this way.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
* TrueBlueFemininity
!! Annabelle
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annabelle is unambiguously black.
* [[spoiler: ArousedByTheirVoice: Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
* BiTheWay: For men and nonbinary people, he isn't usually attracted to women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Goldenrod.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]
* GrumpyOldMan: Often behaves as such, because he sees himself as one due to the way he's aged.
* InconvenientAttraction: [[LoveHurts Any attraction Annabelle experiences feels particularly inconvenient]], he's terribly insecure when it comes to intimacy of any kind and feels like being attracted to anyone younger than him makes him a horrible monster because of how old he technically is. For Desiderius, it's especially inconvenient because he knows Desiderius wouldn't love him back [[spoiler: he would, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queerplatonic just not exactly romantically]]]], and for Amaya it's especially inconvenient because he feels like he's taking advantage of what he sees as a precocious, innocent crush.
* OnlySaneMan
* OlderThanTheyLook: Annabelle's maturity flip-flops between that of an elderly man and a young adult depending on the situation, which makes it hard for him to figure out how old he "truly" is. He errs on the side of more elderly, being afraid of assuming he's young enough to date someone around him when he is not. [[spoiler: His true self is absolutely a young adult, but seeing himself from time to time as an old man helps him cope with this dilemma. He doesn't realize this yet and won't for a long time.]]
!! Mikami Bimromav
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Forrest.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* TheDeterminator
* [[spoiler: GroundhogPeggySue]]
* PreacherMan: He ends up being this, and he is [[Film/PulpFiction the son of one.]]
* [[spoiler: RippleEffectProofMemory]]
* [[spoiler: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* StraightMan: To Forrest's [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]].
* [[spoiler: TimeTravelRomance: Saving his friends and the rest of the world takes second-place priority to making sure Forrest is alright. Of course, it isn't so bad that he would stay in a timeline in which everyone died ''but'' Forrest, but... It would be very, very tempting.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, towards Forrest.
!! Forrest Nagakawa
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Mikami, though he loves every second of it, being the instigator.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark green.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: He has the most fun delivering these.
* TheGadfly
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Forrest lives with a psychotic disorder (unsure exactly which kind) that comes with visual and, very rarely, auditory hallucinations. His hallucinations tend to put maggots and insects in places they don't belong. [[spoiler: Combine that with the Black Plague-like diseased he witnessed spreading (and was lucky to never contract) in his hometown as a child, and you get a real fucking nightmare of a brain time. This event that wiped out most of his hometown traumatized him, and he is left with mild symptoms of PTSD today.]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]]: To Mikami's StraightMan.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Diamondpoint Kings And Other Kings]]
General tropes for the Diamondpoint Kings include:
* TheBeautifulElite
* CoolCrown: All of them except Desiderius sport one of these.
* DudeLooksLikeALady
* ErmineCapeEffect
* FormFittingWardrobe: All of them [[spoiler: except Yukai-toki, who wears a long poncho-like cloak.]]
* HotGod
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: All of them, but Nana is the least awful offender.
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Except Kyuun, who just goes with what Nana, Hachi and Desiderius decide. [[spoiler: Even then, Desiderius just goes with what Nana and Hachi decide, he's just better at presenting the illusion of free will by trying to somehow, anyhow, get another voice into the discussion, but usually fails.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Though not all of them are good people, their wardrobe has nothing to do with their personality.
!! Nana of the Stars
* [[spoiler: AllTakeAndNoGive: That was the nature of his relationship with Arya, and part of what made it so hard for the boy to pinpoint was the fact that Nana wasn't like this with his friends and acquaintances. It seemed to be reserved for those he knew intimately, which was a list that consisted of Arya and Arya alone.]]
* [[spoiler: AbominationAccusationAttack: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's]] [[{{Gaslighting}} Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
* [[spoiler: BelievingTheirOwnLies: This is one of the ways Nana grew into such a horrible person, no one was keeping him in check and he, who absolutely had the intelligence to know what he was doing if he simply sat down with himself and was honest for once, simply put all his power into believing his own lies rather than changing for the better before it was too late.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Denim blue.
* TheEmpath: Nana's near-psychic ability to be able to tell what people think of themselves and others, and what they plan to do next all boils down to supernatural levels of intuition and empathy. However, he seems to have only one blind spot: himself. In fact, his magic mirror doesn't even seem to work on his own self; all he sees is his normal reflection staring back at him. This is something he admits to feeling quite anxious about.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: He, to this day, would not admit it, but he was and still is. Nana justified his attraction to Arya with the fact that they technically did fall in love when they were both young, and it couldn't possibly be his fault that Arya stopped aging, so how can he just stop being in love? That logic, faulty, as it is, implies he has never had romantic or sexual interest in any minor after Arya, which is not true.]]
* [[spoiler: ExpositoryHairstyleChange: He lops most of his hair off, leaving it about shoulder-length after his big revelation. And holy fuck, is it excruciatingly painful, as the stars in his hair can ''feel''.]]
* [[spoiler: FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: This is just something he likes doing to people.
* [[spoiler: IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: By the end of things, anyway, far past the point of "too late" for either he or Arya to end up incredibly fucked up.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: It's hard to deny that the genius King of the Country in Midnight is anything but a master manipulator, but it's clear that he only uses his talents for the good of his people. [[spoiler: Well, probably.]]
* [[spoiler: MaritalRapeLicense: With Arya, he subconsciously believed he had this, particularly when Arya started drifting away from him.]]
* NeverMyFault: By use of InsaneTrollLogic that's sane enough that he consistently fools ''himself'' into believing he's done nothing wrong.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Generally speaking, he is not.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
* RoyalBrat: He may have played this trope straighter as a young child with all the embarrassingly spoiled behavior and pouting that comes with it, but now that he is a man, he retains most of the sinister implications of this trope with just about none of its associated childish behavior.
* [[spoiler: SexualExtortion: There were several times when he withheld affection, conversation, reassurance and validation from Arya until he got what he wanted.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: See CharacterDevelopment.
* [[spoiler: TragicDream: His involved living happily ever after with Arya. Then he violently murdered the dream. The only person he has to blame is himself.]]
* [[spoiler: TroubledAbuser: Nana himself being a victim of [[ParentalNeglect primarily emotional,]] [[ParentsAsPeople but sometimes physical neglect]] as a child is technically true. But at the end of the day, Nageki wonders if that even matters.]]
* [[spoiler: WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: This is the attitude Nana took with much of his abuse towards Arya, genuinely believing that he was reacting as every rational, normal person would in his circumstances.
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The people of that country know that he is charismatic, intelligent, attractive, and that he is taking care of their basic needs just about as much as they would expect any king to. [[spoiler: This translates to blind approval, which gets incredibly unfortunate for those who ''do'' know what he's really like.]]
!! Hachi of the Thunderclouds
* BadassInCharge
* BlingOfWar
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Averted painfully towards Annie, who Hachi supposedly loves.
* ChestOfMedals
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Navy blue.
* CondescendingCompassion: A hallmark of Hachi's [[SarcasmMode lovely personality]] is making you feel like an idiot commoner whenever you make a mistake or speak in [[spoiler: perceived]] ignorance.
* {{Ephebophile}}: And unnervingly comfortable with himself about it.
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi is the reason Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard: He's not quite as good at it as Nana is, but he wishes he was.]]
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: One of Hachi's biggest claims to his ego is the fact that technically, he isn't anywhere near as awful as Nana is - so that means you might as well not complain about him, and in fact, [[UnfortunateImplications ought to feel grateful that he's not as bad as he could be]], right? Annie's heard this song and dance too many times to count.
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Hachi uses this one on Annie frequently, hoping it'll result in SlapSlapKiss. [[CommentBackfire It doesn't.]]
!! Kyuun of the Woods
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Persian blue.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Kyuun is the most [[AccidentalPun diamond-studded]] of the four kings with jewelry in his hair and on his robe.
* HairDecorations: His CoolCrown doubles as this.
* LackOfEmpathy: Cognitive empathy is what he's lacking in, largely due to his depression - he can barely see an inch ahead of his nose. Given the fact that his behavior seems to fit the description for Asperger's on that trope's page to a T, he could have a condition I haven't paid close attention to.
* MadGod: Becomes much more mentally unstable than he already is under the weight of his new power, when he rebels against the other four kings.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He is severely depressive with occasional manic upswings (currently unsure if this fits the criteria of bipolar disorder since said upswings are relatively mild for most stories I've heard, and they are rare) over the course of his story, and he only begins to learn how to live with it when he is far away from the toxic, oppressive colleagues who have controlled him into silence in the face of injustice.
* ObliviousToLove
* PungeonMaster: As a MadGod, he's a huge fan of time puns. Nageki even joins in with him eventually.
* TheQuietOne: He tends to let his louder counterparts do the talking. [[spoiler: And he hates it.]]
* [[spoiler: SacredFirstKiss: [[SpitTrailKiss Hachi took his]]. It didn't affect him ''quite'' the same as most recipients of this trope, and he doesn't want to call it ''traumatic'', but... There's a reason he's so afraid of Hachi, and that reason is most likely mild trauma - more from the fact that Hachi (and people like Hachi, like Nana) [[ParanoiaFuel could have done worse]].]]
* SpoiledSweet
* [[spoiler: UnfitForGreatness: Which is why his advisor, Yonbanme and he step down from the throne in the end.]]
!! Desiderius of the Sea
* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents: For as awful as they were to his brother, Pastor, Desiderius' parents were even crueler to him. Desiderius' father, in particular, felt that he was preparing Desiderius for the burden and agony of being king by subjecting him (often by proxy through his guards) to horrific psychological, emotional, physical and sexual abuse/torture. Desiderius' mother did nothing to stop her husband, and it's unclear if she refused to act out of fear or out of sheer apathy.]]
* BiTheWay
* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for just about everything that goes wrong, whether it actually is his fault or something he was complacent in, or not.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* SpoiledSweet
* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackstory: Just one of the many ways his senile father thought he was preparing Desiderius for the pain of the position of king is, he would order his guards to beat and rape Desiderius quite often. It didn't help things that the guards, even ones who seemed kind and well-intentioned, started doing their jobs a little too well, with a little too much enthusiasm.]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler: Between the trauma of his abusive childhood and the knowledge that he cowardly stood by as just about the same kind of abuse was being inflicted upon one of his colleagues' advisors.]]
* [[spoiler: UnfitForGreatness: Which is why his advisor, Annabelle and he switch roles in the end.]]
!! [[spoiler:Yukai-toki of the Forgotten Lullaby]]
* {{Asexuality}}
** IfItsYouItsOkay: ... Though he doesn't mind sleeping with Luz from time to time. He doesn't mind that at all.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Prussian blue.
* CombatStilettos
* DarkIsNotEvil
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Subverted in the sense that he's got the dark eyeshadow and lipstick one might expect of a villain, but he is actually the most morally upright of the Diamondpoint Kings.
* [[spoiler: {{Fetish}}: One for being worshipped. He doesn't tend to think much of it and doesn't really think of it as such, especially after spending so long in the Forgotten Lullaby. And then comes Luz.]]
* PapaWolf: These were his feelings for Arya, which Nana [[AbominationAccusationAttack tried to portray as something else]] in order to get him to doubt himself.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! Pastor of the Sunset
* AbusiveParents: His parents were the first to instill him with the idea that he, due to his disorders, is completely inept and helpless, and thus might as well not even be alive.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Undiagnosed autism and ADHD.
* BuryYourDisabled[[spoiler:: Well, maybe.]]
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Baby pink.
* DisabledMeansHelpless: Averted. This isn't true of Pastor at all. His developmental disabilities most certainly affect his life and make it difficult for him to function "normally" in society, but because everyone he knows has treated him as if his disabilities make him helpless and inept (even Arcane, who is supposedly on his side!) from birth until now, he has more problems with resentment of the people around him and learned helplessness than anything else.
* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: To escape the bondage of royalty and pursue the life he has always wanted, and not the one that has been thrust upon him.]]
* [[spoiler: ReluctantRuler]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating
!! [[spoiler:North of the Mirror]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark red.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Witches]]
!! Kutsuuko[[spoiler:/Arya Kurosawa]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* [[BlackMageGirl Black Mage Boy]]
* BrokenBird: It's clear right away that someone has hurt this sweet young boy. [[spoiler: Holy shit.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Bright red.
* [spoiler: DarkMagicalBoy]]
* [[spoiler: DeadpanSnarker]]
* [[spoiler: DefiledForever: Certainly sees himself this way.]]
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time - but holy shit, he knows now.]]
* [[spoiler: DontYouDarePityMe]]
* [[spoiler: EroticDream: Had one about Yonbanme once. It was confusingly nice, and Yonbanme was so kind and gentle to him, and upon waking up it kind of made him want to die, thank you.]]
* FragileFlower:[[spoiler: It's an act.]]
* [[spoiler: FreudianExcuse: If you'd been through what he had for as long as he had, you might be a little pissed off at the world, too, and you might be a little drunk off of power, too.]]
* [[spoiler: GrewASpine]]
* HatesBeingTouched
* [[spoiler: HeroicRROD: (dubiously canon) He ends up growing so powerful that his body can't hold the magical strength inside him, and it literally falls to pieces from this.]]
* [[spoiler: JerkassWoobie]]
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Irreversibly so[[spoiler:, one would think.]]
* [[spoiler: MouthyKid: If anything from Nana has rubbed off onto Kutsuuko, it is that talent at dealing out tongue-lashings to those who you think deserve it - only from Kutsuuko, he's not stretching the truth.]]
* [[spoiler: OlderThanTheyLook]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* SourOutsideSadInside
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: None that he knows of or has the strength to seek out!]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He shows clear signs of PTSD with the way he frightens and starts crying so easily when people press him too hard about the man who hurt him, the poor thing... [[spoiler: Yep, and the symptoms are much less soft and palatable than they at first appear - they're what real PTSD often looks like in young survivors.]]
* [[spoiler: TragicVillain]]
* WalkingSpoiler
* [[spoiler: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Quite literally, as he tries to destroy the world.]]
!! [[spoiler:Arya Kurosawa/Kutsuuko]]
* AbusiveParents: He had emotionally abusive parents who never accepted his best efforts, no matter how hard he worked to please them. This set him up to believe for much of his life that he had to work ''hard'' and ''suffer'' to make people approve of him and love him.
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Not that he has much of a safe place to explore that.]]
* [[LadyOfBlackMagic Boy of Black Magic]]: Not only on account of being a witch, his personality was certainly like this - cold, elegant, graceful - to people other than Nana.
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Light pink.
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time.]]
* ExtremeDoormat
* GiantPoofySleeves
* MindRape: It seems like Pendragon did this to him, entirely on accident, by stabbing him through the heart when they fought. When she saw him screaming and curling up on the floor, she started to put the pieces together, and to this day she feels absolutely terrible for doing that to him. [[spoiler: What she doesn't know is, that's not what happened at all. Her attack only jolted his conscience enough for him to fully realize how miserable he was, and what Nana was [[DomesticAbuse really doing]] to him. The recognition of severe trauma hit him all at once.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook:
* [[spoiler: QuestionableConsent]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: Not when no one wants you to know they do!]]
* [[spoiler: UnequalPairing: Nana and Arya were this, not only as king and advisor but fully-grown adult and teenager.]]
!! Annie
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annie is unambiguously black.
* BerserkButton: His is feeling like people aren't respecting his personal boundaries, and with most people, he lets his discomfort be known. Loudly. [[spoiler: Not with Hachi, the person who has given him this trigger.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Scarlet.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HatesBeingTouched: It's easy to assume this is just another part of his angry, standoffish personality. [[spoiler: It comes from somewhere.]]
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi did this to him years ago, which is why Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook
!! Yonbanme
* AdjustingYourGlasses
* [[spoiler: AxCrazy: He is positively determined not to let this side of his personality hurt innocent people. Not-so-innocent people like Nana and Hachi, on the other hand...]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BitchInSheepsClothing: By the standards of the Diamondpoint Kings and their collective agenda, oh yes.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black.
* FormFittingWardrobe
* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: To Kyuun. Kyuun is a bit ObliviousToLove due to his severe depression, and to be fair, Yonbanme has never exactly ''said'' it... But that doesn't mean everyone around him can't tell right away.
* IKissYourHand: He does this with Kyuun every so often, prompting a little dazed, flustered stammering from his king.
* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted.
* OlderThanTheyLook: The one witch who subverts this trope by actually looking much closer to his true age than a very young adult.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* [[spoiler: {{Yandere}}: Though he possesses a level of self-awareness most {{Yandere}} characters don't. He would never hurt Kyuun, even if Kyuun falls in love with someone else. But if anyone, ANYONE, makes any unwanted advance of any kind on his king? That's the point at which he has to start fighting the murderous intrusive thoughts... Or don't.]]
!! Annabelle
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annabelle is unambiguously black.
* [[spoiler: ArousedByTheirVoice: Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
* BiTheWay: For men and nonbinary people, he isn't usually attracted to women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Goldenrod.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]
* GrumpyOldMan: Often behaves as such, because he sees himself as one due to the way he's aged.
* InconvenientAttraction: [[LoveHurts Any attraction Annabelle experiences feels particularly inconvenient]], he's terribly insecure when it comes to intimacy of any kind and feels like being attracted to anyone younger than him makes him a horrible monster because of how old he technically is. For Desiderius, it's especially inconvenient because he knows Desiderius wouldn't love him back [[spoiler: he would, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queerplatonic just not exactly romantically]]]], and for Amaya it's especially inconvenient because he feels like he's taking advantage of what he sees as a precocious, innocent crush.
* OnlySaneMan
* OlderThanTheyLook: Annabelle's maturity flip-flops between that of an elderly man and a young adult depending on the situation, which makes it hard for him to figure out how old he "truly" is. He errs on the side of more elderly, being afraid of assuming he's young enough to date someone around him when he is not. [[spoiler: His true self is absolutely a young adult, but seeing himself from time to time as an old man helps him cope with this dilemma. He doesn't realize this yet and won't for a long time.]]
!! Pendragon
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mahogany.
!! Orelo
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Currant red.
!! [[spoiler:Mezzo-Forte]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mint green.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! Arcane Ariatongue
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Orchid purple.
* RoyalWe
!! [[spoiler:Espino]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark purple.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! [[spoiler:Gossick]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Periwinkle purple.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Diamond Court]]
!! Amaya Lasker
* AmbiguousGender: Amaya is nonbinary.
* {{Asexuality}}: Demisexuality, to be precise.
* DumbBlonde: Averted, Amaya is one of the smartest characters in the cast.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Xe's aware one is going on, but xe has no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Though [[SecretIdentity xe isn't exactly a delicate, fragile little flower]].
* MeaningfulName: Amaya's PenName, Nirami, comes from the verb "Niramu", meaning "to glare at".
* {{Megane}}
* PenName: Xeyr's in xeyr politically inflammatory pamphlets is [[MeaningfulName Nirami]].
!! Lucerne "Luz" Fortunato
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Luz is a black Arab.
* AmbiguousGender: Luz is agender, or they prefer for their gender to be thought of as "none".
* [[DarkSkinnedBlonde Dark Skinned With White Hair]]
* TheDeterminator: Luz stops at nothing to reach the Forgotten Lullaby, [[spoiler: even if it means inadvertently killing a palace guard in a fight over demands for information.]]
* ForGreatJustice
* GovernmentConspiracy: Once they become aware one's going on, and has been going on for years, they become utterly obsessed with it and only grow more and more entrenched in it, losing more and more to it until they finally solve it, [[spoiler: essentially showing up on Yukai-toki's doorstep in the Forgotten Lullaby, covered in blood (belonging to them and possibly others too they don't remember?), missing one of their memories in the ritual to get them there, disheveled and unkempt, not having slept in days, and at first completely incomprehensible in their speech.]]
* SanitySlippage: The deeper and deeper they go down the rabbit hole, trying to figure out what happened to Yukai-toki and where he went, this happens.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Rebellion]]
!! Pidgeon
* BigHam
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Garnet red.
* FramesOfReference: His are circular, with swirls in the lenses, he's a silly sort of character who wants to be received as a mad scientist.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses
* VillainBall: He loves holding it. It is his favorite of all the balls. It's great. He loves it!
!! Vehal Bimromav
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale purple.
!! Contralto
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: White.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Averted, his eyesight is just fine and he's certainly considered the smartest of the rebels.
* {{Yandere}}: Though he's a little embarrassed of himself about it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Extra Sidecharacters]]
!! Ose Shalom
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Ose Shalom is a Sephardic Jew.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Suvi and Yisra.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pecan brown.
* DissonantSerenity: It seems that nothing can shake his calm demeanor.
* TheHecateSisters: Ose Shalom is the Mother, and Suvi and Yisra are his Crone and Maiden, respectively.
* PerpetualSmiler
!! Suvi and Yisra
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Ose Shalom.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black and white.
* TheHecateSisters: Suvi is the Crone and Yisra is the Maiden, with Ose Shalom as their Mother.
* PerpetualFrowner: Suvi.
* PerpetualSmiler: Yisra.
!! Sir Knight[[spoiler:/Nana and the Stars that Ceased to Shine]]
* [[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: Nana's attitude and very way of thinking and feeling has changed ''drastically'' since Arya took revenge on him. He's practically a different person.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale dark blue.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes
* TheDeterminator: No matter how obviously depressed and exhausted he is, there is nothing he can't do.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: That's something about himself that hasn't seemed to disappear. He still loves Arya, against his better judgment, the only difference now is he hates himself for it and he refuses to make that Arya's problem by being upfront about it.]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He's got some pretty heavy depression, depersonalization disorder, and he has apparently developed a psychotic disorder of some kind: he experiences delusions that tell him that his bare skin is venomous, and he must cover it all, at all times, or else he will hurt people. [[spoiler: Delusions they may be, but when the truth about who he is comes out, said delusions don't seem quite so random anymore.]]
* MustMakeAmends: One thing Nageki and her party know about their knightly friend is that he feels the need to repent for something he did in his past, but no one figures it's that bad since he's such a great dude! [[spoiler: Hahaha, oh.]]
* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: He's definitely got it. [[spoiler: It turns out he's got very good reason to distrust his own mind and body when thrown into a sexual situation.]]
!!Terran "Terrandus" Denzo
* BigBrotherInstinct: Bordering on KnightTemplarBigBrother for his three-year-old little sister, Curie.
* BiTheWay
* GreenThumb: Terrandus' magic centers on the manipulation of plantlife.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* HairAntennae
* InSeriesNickname: People call him Terrandus more often than they call him Terran. Kutsuuko [[FullNameBasis calls him by his full name]] nearly all the time.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's pretty short, even for a 15 year old, but that doesn't get in his way, much.
* TechnicalPacifist: He certainly prefers to be one! But if someone forces him to take care of business, then there's nothing he can do about that.
* TheQuietOne
* {{Yandere}}: Look, he's not responsible for what happens to you if you hurt someone he cares about. Even if you don't hurt them badly, or just say something mean to them, he still can't help but feel that immediate rush of borderline-homicidal anger that comes over him when he argues with himself in his head, graciously deciding not to make you regret it. Bear in mind, not actually-homicidal. He's a pacifist! He doesn't kill anyone. He just knows people can take a lot of pain before they keel over.
!! Kaur
* AllWitchesHaveCats
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow.
* [[spoiler: [[{{Ephebophile}} Hebephile]]: One who is extremely self-loathing, one who has never harmed a child, and one who has never engaged with child pornography of any kind or any medium. He is desperately trying to find some kind of 'cure' for his problem, and is starting to, without hesitation, consider straight-up castration if it means it'll fix who he is.]]
* IntrepidMerchant
* MagicLibrarian
* PowerCrystal: Sells these.
* TheRedMage
[[/folder]]
to:
W@tchtower Grotto is a work in progress story of currently unclear medium, that Tropers/TeamKarasu has been messing with and tweaking for about eight years.
Characters in the folders may repeat since they belong to multiple categories. Will probably clean that up at some point!
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[[folder:The Main Heroes]]
!! Nageki Shikimori
* BiTheWay
* CelibateHero: She at first seems this way, not showing any romantic or sexual interest in anyone. And then she meets Kyuun.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Hot pink.
* FramesOfReference: Hers are circular, and she's one of the most friendly and easygoing characters of the cast.
* HairDecorations: A purple hairclip with a cartoonish pink kitty head on it.
* {{Joshikousei}}: One that's been held back a couple grades in junior high, though, so she's a couple years older than the average high school senior, she's 18 going on 19.
* MaleGaze: [[RareMaleExample Rare Female Example]], in the fact that what Nageki ahem, [[EatingTheEyeCandy appreciates]], about Kyuun's appearance is in his slender waist, hips and legs. On top of his personality, that is, which she finds incredibly amusing and endearing, even after he returns to his normal self.
* {{Meganekko}}
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Mizune.
* RoseHairedSweetie
* SailorFuku
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
!! Mizune Tamazuna
* BiTheWay: But she heavily prefers other women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Baby blue.
* FashionHurts: She endures the pain, though. [[spoiler: It's a source of where some of her dysphoria comes from, the idea that fashion hurts for her at all. What worries her is the idea that fashion hurts for every girl, but they don't complain about it because they've had to hurt their whole lives, while Mizune has 'only' had to hurt from the time she started presenting as a woman.]]
* GirlyBruiser
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Nageki.
* ThePollyanna: Though she's an awfully quiet lady, she tries her best to be the optimist to Nageki's realist.
* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler: Her human world equivalent, unfortunately, cannot safely live and present as a girl. She's closeted, and presents entirely male.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: She starts out this way.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
* TrueBlueFemininity
!! Annabelle
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annabelle is unambiguously black.
* [[spoiler: ArousedByTheirVoice: Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
* BiTheWay: For men and nonbinary people, he isn't usually attracted to women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Goldenrod.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]
* GrumpyOldMan: Often behaves as such, because he sees himself as one due to the way he's aged.
* InconvenientAttraction: [[LoveHurts Any attraction Annabelle experiences feels particularly inconvenient]], he's terribly insecure when it comes to intimacy of any kind and feels like being attracted to anyone younger than him makes him a horrible monster because of how old he technically is. For Desiderius, it's especially inconvenient because he knows Desiderius wouldn't love him back [[spoiler: he would, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queerplatonic just not exactly romantically]]]], and for Amaya it's especially inconvenient because he feels like he's taking advantage of what he sees as a precocious, innocent crush.
* OnlySaneMan
* OlderThanTheyLook: Annabelle's maturity flip-flops between that of an elderly man and a young adult depending on the situation, which makes it hard for him to figure out how old he "truly" is. He errs on the side of more elderly, being afraid of assuming he's young enough to date someone around him when he is not. [[spoiler: His true self is absolutely a young adult, but seeing himself from time to time as an old man helps him cope with this dilemma. He doesn't realize this yet and won't for a long time.]]
!! Mikami Bimromav
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Forrest.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* TheDeterminator
* [[spoiler: GroundhogPeggySue]]
* PreacherMan: He ends up being this, and he is [[Film/PulpFiction the son of one.]]
* [[spoiler: RippleEffectProofMemory]]
* [[spoiler: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* StraightMan: To Forrest's [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]].
* [[spoiler: TimeTravelRomance: Saving his friends and the rest of the world takes second-place priority to making sure Forrest is alright. Of course, it isn't so bad that he would stay in a timeline in which everyone died ''but'' Forrest, but... It would be very, very tempting.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, towards Forrest.
!! Forrest Nagakawa
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Mikami, though he loves every second of it, being the instigator.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark green.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: He has the most fun delivering these.
* TheGadfly
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Forrest lives with a psychotic disorder (unsure exactly which kind) that comes with visual and, very rarely, auditory hallucinations. His hallucinations tend to put maggots and insects in places they don't belong. [[spoiler: Combine that with the Black Plague-like diseased he witnessed spreading (and was lucky to never contract) in his hometown as a child, and you get a real fucking nightmare of a brain time. This event that wiped out most of his hometown traumatized him, and he is left with mild symptoms of PTSD today.]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]]: To Mikami's StraightMan.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Diamondpoint Kings And Other Kings]]
General tropes for the Diamondpoint Kings include:
* TheBeautifulElite
* CoolCrown: All of them except Desiderius sport one of these.
* DudeLooksLikeALady
* ErmineCapeEffect
* FormFittingWardrobe: All of them [[spoiler: except Yukai-toki, who wears a long poncho-like cloak.]]
* HotGod
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: All of them, but Nana is the least awful offender.
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Except Kyuun, who just goes with what Nana, Hachi and Desiderius decide. [[spoiler: Even then, Desiderius just goes with what Nana and Hachi decide, he's just better at presenting the illusion of free will by trying to somehow, anyhow, get another voice into the discussion, but usually fails.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Though not all of them are good people, their wardrobe has nothing to do with their personality.
!! Nana of the Stars
* [[spoiler: AllTakeAndNoGive: That was the nature of his relationship with Arya, and part of what made it so hard for the boy to pinpoint was the fact that Nana wasn't like this with his friends and acquaintances. It seemed to be reserved for those he knew intimately, which was a list that consisted of Arya and Arya alone.]]
* [[spoiler: AbominationAccusationAttack: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's]] [[{{Gaslighting}} Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
* [[spoiler: BelievingTheirOwnLies: This is one of the ways Nana grew into such a horrible person, no one was keeping him in check and he, who absolutely had the intelligence to know what he was doing if he simply sat down with himself and was honest for once, simply put all his power into believing his own lies rather than changing for the better before it was too late.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Denim blue.
* TheEmpath: Nana's near-psychic ability to be able to tell what people think of themselves and others, and what they plan to do next all boils down to supernatural levels of intuition and empathy. However, he seems to have only one blind spot: himself. In fact, his magic mirror doesn't even seem to work on his own self; all he sees is his normal reflection staring back at him. This is something he admits to feeling quite anxious about.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: He, to this day, would not admit it, but he was and still is. Nana justified his attraction to Arya with the fact that they technically did fall in love when they were both young, and it couldn't possibly be his fault that Arya stopped aging, so how can he just stop being in love? That logic, faulty, as it is, implies he has never had romantic or sexual interest in any minor after Arya, which is not true.]]
* [[spoiler: ExpositoryHairstyleChange: He lops most of his hair off, leaving it about shoulder-length after his big revelation. And holy fuck, is it excruciatingly painful, as the stars in his hair can ''feel''.]]
* [[spoiler: FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: This is just something he likes doing to people.
* [[spoiler: IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: By the end of things, anyway, far past the point of "too late" for either he or Arya to end up incredibly fucked up.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: It's hard to deny that the genius King of the Country in Midnight is anything but a master manipulator, but it's clear that he only uses his talents for the good of his people. [[spoiler: Well, probably.]]
* [[spoiler: MaritalRapeLicense: With Arya, he subconsciously believed he had this, particularly when Arya started drifting away from him.]]
* NeverMyFault: By use of InsaneTrollLogic that's sane enough that he consistently fools ''himself'' into believing he's done nothing wrong.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Generally speaking, he is not.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
* RoyalBrat: He may have played this trope straighter as a young child with all the embarrassingly spoiled behavior and pouting that comes with it, but now that he is a man, he retains most of the sinister implications of this trope with just about none of its associated childish behavior.
* [[spoiler: SexualExtortion: There were several times when he withheld affection, conversation, reassurance and validation from Arya until he got what he wanted.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: See CharacterDevelopment.
* [[spoiler: TragicDream: His involved living happily ever after with Arya. Then he violently murdered the dream. The only person he has to blame is himself.]]
* [[spoiler: TroubledAbuser: Nana himself being a victim of [[ParentalNeglect primarily emotional,]] [[ParentsAsPeople but sometimes physical neglect]] as a child is technically true. But at the end of the day, Nageki wonders if that even matters.]]
* [[spoiler: WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: This is the attitude Nana took with much of his abuse towards Arya, genuinely believing that he was reacting as every rational, normal person would in his circumstances.
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The people of that country know that he is charismatic, intelligent, attractive, and that he is taking care of their basic needs just about as much as they would expect any king to. [[spoiler: This translates to blind approval, which gets incredibly unfortunate for those who ''do'' know what he's really like.]]
!! Hachi of the Thunderclouds
* BadassInCharge
* BlingOfWar
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Averted painfully towards Annie, who Hachi supposedly loves.
* ChestOfMedals
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Navy blue.
* CondescendingCompassion: A hallmark of Hachi's [[SarcasmMode lovely personality]] is making you feel like an idiot commoner whenever you make a mistake or speak in [[spoiler: perceived]] ignorance.
* {{Ephebophile}}: And unnervingly comfortable with himself about it.
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi is the reason Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard: He's not quite as good at it as Nana is, but he wishes he was.]]
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: One of Hachi's biggest claims to his ego is the fact that technically, he isn't anywhere near as awful as Nana is - so that means you might as well not complain about him, and in fact, [[UnfortunateImplications ought to feel grateful that he's not as bad as he could be]], right? Annie's heard this song and dance too many times to count.
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Hachi uses this one on Annie frequently, hoping it'll result in SlapSlapKiss. [[CommentBackfire It doesn't.]]
!! Kyuun of the Woods
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Persian blue.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Kyuun is the most [[AccidentalPun diamond-studded]] of the four kings with jewelry in his hair and on his robe.
* HairDecorations: His CoolCrown doubles as this.
* LackOfEmpathy: Cognitive empathy is what he's lacking in, largely due to his depression - he can barely see an inch ahead of his nose. Given the fact that his behavior seems to fit the description for Asperger's on that trope's page to a T, he could have a condition I haven't paid close attention to.
* MadGod: Becomes much more mentally unstable than he already is under the weight of his new power, when he rebels against the other four kings.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He is severely depressive with occasional manic upswings (currently unsure if this fits the criteria of bipolar disorder since said upswings are relatively mild for most stories I've heard, and they are rare) over the course of his story, and he only begins to learn how to live with it when he is far away from the toxic, oppressive colleagues who have controlled him into silence in the face of injustice.
* ObliviousToLove
* PungeonMaster: As a MadGod, he's a huge fan of time puns. Nageki even joins in with him eventually.
* TheQuietOne: He tends to let his louder counterparts do the talking. [[spoiler: And he hates it.]]
* [[spoiler: SacredFirstKiss: [[SpitTrailKiss Hachi took his]]. It didn't affect him ''quite'' the same as most recipients of this trope, and he doesn't want to call it ''traumatic'', but... There's a reason he's so afraid of Hachi, and that reason is most likely mild trauma - more from the fact that Hachi (and people like Hachi, like Nana) [[ParanoiaFuel could have done worse]].]]
* SpoiledSweet
* [[spoiler: UnfitForGreatness: Which is why his advisor, Yonbanme and he step down from the throne in the end.]]
!! Desiderius of the Sea
* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents: For as awful as they were to his brother, Pastor, Desiderius' parents were even crueler to him. Desiderius' father, in particular, felt that he was preparing Desiderius for the burden and agony of being king by subjecting him (often by proxy through his guards) to horrific psychological, emotional, physical and sexual abuse/torture. Desiderius' mother did nothing to stop her husband, and it's unclear if she refused to act out of fear or out of sheer apathy.]]
* BiTheWay
* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for just about everything that goes wrong, whether it actually is his fault or something he was complacent in, or not.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* SpoiledSweet
* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackstory: Just one of the many ways his senile father thought he was preparing Desiderius for the pain of the position of king is, he would order his guards to beat and rape Desiderius quite often. It didn't help things that the guards, even ones who seemed kind and well-intentioned, started doing their jobs a little too well, with a little too much enthusiasm.]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler: Between the trauma of his abusive childhood and the knowledge that he cowardly stood by as just about the same kind of abuse was being inflicted upon one of his colleagues' advisors.]]
* [[spoiler: UnfitForGreatness: Which is why his advisor, Annabelle and he switch roles in the end.]]
!! [[spoiler:Yukai-toki of the Forgotten Lullaby]]
* {{Asexuality}}
** IfItsYouItsOkay: ... Though he doesn't mind sleeping with Luz from time to time. He doesn't mind that at all.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Prussian blue.
* CombatStilettos
* DarkIsNotEvil
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Subverted in the sense that he's got the dark eyeshadow and lipstick one might expect of a villain, but he is actually the most morally upright of the Diamondpoint Kings.
* [[spoiler: {{Fetish}}: One for being worshipped. He doesn't tend to think much of it and doesn't really think of it as such, especially after spending so long in the Forgotten Lullaby. And then comes Luz.]]
* PapaWolf: These were his feelings for Arya, which Nana [[AbominationAccusationAttack tried to portray as something else]] in order to get him to doubt himself.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! Pastor of the Sunset
* AbusiveParents: His parents were the first to instill him with the idea that he, due to his disorders, is completely inept and helpless, and thus might as well not even be alive.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Undiagnosed autism and ADHD.
* BuryYourDisabled[[spoiler:: Well, maybe.]]
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Baby pink.
* DisabledMeansHelpless: Averted. This isn't true of Pastor at all. His developmental disabilities most certainly affect his life and make it difficult for him to function "normally" in society, but because everyone he knows has treated him as if his disabilities make him helpless and inept (even Arcane, who is supposedly on his side!) from birth until now, he has more problems with resentment of the people around him and learned helplessness than anything else.
* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: To escape the bondage of royalty and pursue the life he has always wanted, and not the one that has been thrust upon him.]]
* [[spoiler: ReluctantRuler]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating
!! [[spoiler:North of the Mirror]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark red.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Witches]]
!! Kutsuuko[[spoiler:/Arya Kurosawa]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* [[BlackMageGirl Black Mage Boy]]
* BrokenBird: It's clear right away that someone has hurt this sweet young boy. [[spoiler: Holy shit.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Bright red.
* [spoiler: DarkMagicalBoy]]
* [[spoiler: DeadpanSnarker]]
* [[spoiler: DefiledForever: Certainly sees himself this way.]]
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time - but holy shit, he knows now.]]
* [[spoiler: DontYouDarePityMe]]
* [[spoiler: EroticDream: Had one about Yonbanme once. It was confusingly nice, and Yonbanme was so kind and gentle to him, and upon waking up it kind of made him want to die, thank you.]]
* FragileFlower:[[spoiler: It's an act.]]
* [[spoiler: FreudianExcuse: If you'd been through what he had for as long as he had, you might be a little pissed off at the world, too, and you might be a little drunk off of power, too.]]
* [[spoiler: GrewASpine]]
* HatesBeingTouched
* [[spoiler: HeroicRROD: (dubiously canon) He ends up growing so powerful that his body can't hold the magical strength inside him, and it literally falls to pieces from this.]]
* [[spoiler: JerkassWoobie]]
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Irreversibly so[[spoiler:, one would think.]]
* [[spoiler: MouthyKid: If anything from Nana has rubbed off onto Kutsuuko, it is that talent at dealing out tongue-lashings to those who you think deserve it - only from Kutsuuko, he's not stretching the truth.]]
* [[spoiler: OlderThanTheyLook]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* SourOutsideSadInside
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: None that he knows of or has the strength to seek out!]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He shows clear signs of PTSD with the way he frightens and starts crying so easily when people press him too hard about the man who hurt him, the poor thing... [[spoiler: Yep, and the symptoms are much less soft and palatable than they at first appear - they're what real PTSD often looks like in young survivors.]]
* [[spoiler: TragicVillain]]
* WalkingSpoiler
* [[spoiler: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Quite literally, as he tries to destroy the world.]]
!! [[spoiler:Arya Kurosawa/Kutsuuko]]
* AbusiveParents: He had emotionally abusive parents who never accepted his best efforts, no matter how hard he worked to please them. This set him up to believe for much of his life that he had to work ''hard'' and ''suffer'' to make people approve of him and love him.
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Not that he has much of a safe place to explore that.]]
* [[LadyOfBlackMagic Boy of Black Magic]]: Not only on account of being a witch, his personality was certainly like this - cold, elegant, graceful - to people other than Nana.
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Light pink.
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time.]]
* ExtremeDoormat
* GiantPoofySleeves
* MindRape: It seems like Pendragon did this to him, entirely on accident, by stabbing him through the heart when they fought. When she saw him screaming and curling up on the floor, she started to put the pieces together, and to this day she feels absolutely terrible for doing that to him. [[spoiler: What she doesn't know is, that's not what happened at all. Her attack only jolted his conscience enough for him to fully realize how miserable he was, and what Nana was [[DomesticAbuse really doing]] to him. The recognition of severe trauma hit him all at once.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook:
* [[spoiler: QuestionableConsent]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: Not when no one wants you to know they do!]]
* [[spoiler: UnequalPairing: Nana and Arya were this, not only as king and advisor but fully-grown adult and teenager.]]
!! Annie
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annie is unambiguously black.
* BerserkButton: His is feeling like people aren't respecting his personal boundaries, and with most people, he lets his discomfort be known. Loudly. [[spoiler: Not with Hachi, the person who has given him this trigger.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Scarlet.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HatesBeingTouched: It's easy to assume this is just another part of his angry, standoffish personality. [[spoiler: It comes from somewhere.]]
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi did this to him years ago, which is why Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook
!! Yonbanme
* AdjustingYourGlasses
* [[spoiler: AxCrazy: He is positively determined not to let this side of his personality hurt innocent people. Not-so-innocent people like Nana and Hachi, on the other hand...]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BitchInSheepsClothing: By the standards of the Diamondpoint Kings and their collective agenda, oh yes.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black.
* FormFittingWardrobe
* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: To Kyuun. Kyuun is a bit ObliviousToLove due to his severe depression, and to be fair, Yonbanme has never exactly ''said'' it... But that doesn't mean everyone around him can't tell right away.
* IKissYourHand: He does this with Kyuun every so often, prompting a little dazed, flustered stammering from his king.
* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted.
* OlderThanTheyLook: The one witch who subverts this trope by actually looking much closer to his true age than a very young adult.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* [[spoiler: {{Yandere}}: Though he possesses a level of self-awareness most {{Yandere}} characters don't. He would never hurt Kyuun, even if Kyuun falls in love with someone else. But if anyone, ANYONE, makes any unwanted advance of any kind on his king? That's the point at which he has to start fighting the murderous intrusive thoughts... Or don't.]]
!! Annabelle
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annabelle is unambiguously black.
* [[spoiler: ArousedByTheirVoice: Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
* BiTheWay: For men and nonbinary people, he isn't usually attracted to women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Goldenrod.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]
* GrumpyOldMan: Often behaves as such, because he sees himself as one due to the way he's aged.
* InconvenientAttraction: [[LoveHurts Any attraction Annabelle experiences feels particularly inconvenient]], he's terribly insecure when it comes to intimacy of any kind and feels like being attracted to anyone younger than him makes him a horrible monster because of how old he technically is. For Desiderius, it's especially inconvenient because he knows Desiderius wouldn't love him back [[spoiler: he would, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queerplatonic just not exactly romantically]]]], and for Amaya it's especially inconvenient because he feels like he's taking advantage of what he sees as a precocious, innocent crush.
* OnlySaneMan
* OlderThanTheyLook: Annabelle's maturity flip-flops between that of an elderly man and a young adult depending on the situation, which makes it hard for him to figure out how old he "truly" is. He errs on the side of more elderly, being afraid of assuming he's young enough to date someone around him when he is not. [[spoiler: His true self is absolutely a young adult, but seeing himself from time to time as an old man helps him cope with this dilemma. He doesn't realize this yet and won't for a long time.]]
!! Pendragon
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mahogany.
!! Orelo
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Currant red.
!! [[spoiler:Mezzo-Forte]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mint green.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! Arcane Ariatongue
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Orchid purple.
* RoyalWe
!! [[spoiler:Espino]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark purple.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! [[spoiler:Gossick]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Periwinkle purple.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Diamond Court]]
!! Amaya Lasker
* AmbiguousGender: Amaya is nonbinary.
* {{Asexuality}}: Demisexuality, to be precise.
* DumbBlonde: Averted, Amaya is one of the smartest characters in the cast.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Xe's aware one is going on, but xe has no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Though [[SecretIdentity xe isn't exactly a delicate, fragile little flower]].
* MeaningfulName: Amaya's PenName, Nirami, comes from the verb "Niramu", meaning "to glare at".
* {{Megane}}
* PenName: Xeyr's in xeyr politically inflammatory pamphlets is [[MeaningfulName Nirami]].
!! Lucerne "Luz" Fortunato
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Luz is a black Arab.
* AmbiguousGender: Luz is agender, or they prefer for their gender to be thought of as "none".
* [[DarkSkinnedBlonde Dark Skinned With White Hair]]
* TheDeterminator: Luz stops at nothing to reach the Forgotten Lullaby, [[spoiler: even if it means inadvertently killing a palace guard in a fight over demands for information.]]
* ForGreatJustice
* GovernmentConspiracy: Once they become aware one's going on, and has been going on for years, they become utterly obsessed with it and only grow more and more entrenched in it, losing more and more to it until they finally solve it, [[spoiler: essentially showing up on Yukai-toki's doorstep in the Forgotten Lullaby, covered in blood (belonging to them and possibly others too they don't remember?), missing one of their memories in the ritual to get them there, disheveled and unkempt, not having slept in days, and at first completely incomprehensible in their speech.]]
* SanitySlippage: The deeper and deeper they go down the rabbit hole, trying to figure out what happened to Yukai-toki and where he went, this happens.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Rebellion]]
!! Pidgeon
* BigHam
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Garnet red.
* FramesOfReference: His are circular, with swirls in the lenses, he's a silly sort of character who wants to be received as a mad scientist.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses
* VillainBall: He loves holding it. It is his favorite of all the balls. It's great. He loves it!
!! Vehal Bimromav
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale purple.
!! Contralto
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: White.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Averted, his eyesight is just fine and he's certainly considered the smartest of the rebels.
* {{Yandere}}: Though he's a little embarrassed of himself about it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Extra Sidecharacters]]
!! Ose Shalom
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Ose Shalom is a Sephardic Jew.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Suvi and Yisra.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pecan brown.
* DissonantSerenity: It seems that nothing can shake his calm demeanor.
* TheHecateSisters: Ose Shalom is the Mother, and Suvi and Yisra are his Crone and Maiden, respectively.
* PerpetualSmiler
!! Suvi and Yisra
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Ose Shalom.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black and white.
* TheHecateSisters: Suvi is the Crone and Yisra is the Maiden, with Ose Shalom as their Mother.
* PerpetualFrowner: Suvi.
* PerpetualSmiler: Yisra.
!! Sir Knight[[spoiler:/Nana and the Stars that Ceased to Shine]]
* [[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: Nana's attitude and very way of thinking and feeling has changed ''drastically'' since Arya took revenge on him. He's practically a different person.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale dark blue.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes
* TheDeterminator: No matter how obviously depressed and exhausted he is, there is nothing he can't do.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: That's something about himself that hasn't seemed to disappear. He still loves Arya, against his better judgment, the only difference now is he hates himself for it and he refuses to make that Arya's problem by being upfront about it.]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He's got some pretty heavy depression, depersonalization disorder, and he has apparently developed a psychotic disorder of some kind: he experiences delusions that tell him that his bare skin is venomous, and he must cover it all, at all times, or else he will hurt people. [[spoiler: Delusions they may be, but when the truth about who he is comes out, said delusions don't seem quite so random anymore.]]
* MustMakeAmends: One thing Nageki and her party know about their knightly friend is that he feels the need to repent for something he did in his past, but no one figures it's that bad since he's such a great dude! [[spoiler: Hahaha, oh.]]
* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: He's definitely got it. [[spoiler: It turns out he's got very good reason to distrust his own mind and body when thrown into a sexual situation.]]
!!Terran "Terrandus" Denzo
* BigBrotherInstinct: Bordering on KnightTemplarBigBrother for his three-year-old little sister, Curie.
* BiTheWay
* GreenThumb: Terrandus' magic centers on the manipulation of plantlife.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* HairAntennae
* InSeriesNickname: People call him Terrandus more often than they call him Terran. Kutsuuko [[FullNameBasis calls him by his full name]] nearly all the time.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's pretty short, even for a 15 year old, but that doesn't get in his way, much.
* TechnicalPacifist: He certainly prefers to be one! But if someone forces him to take care of business, then there's nothing he can do about that.
* TheQuietOne
* {{Yandere}}: Look, he's not responsible for what happens to you if you hurt someone he cares about. Even if you don't hurt them badly, or just say something mean to them, he still can't help but feel that immediate rush of borderline-homicidal anger that comes over him when he argues with himself in his head, graciously deciding not to make you regret it. Bear in mind, not actually-homicidal. He's a pacifist! He doesn't kill anyone. He just knows people can take a lot of pain before they keel over.
!! Kaur
* AllWitchesHaveCats
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow.
* [[spoiler: [[{{Ephebophile}} Hebephile]]: One who is extremely self-loathing, one who has never harmed a child, and one who has never engaged with child pornography of any kind or any medium. He is desperately trying to find some kind of 'cure' for his problem, and is starting to, without hesitation, consider straight-up castration if it means it'll fix who he is.]]
* IntrepidMerchant
* MagicLibrarian
* PowerCrystal: Sells these.
* TheRedMage
[[/folder]]11 years.
Characters in the folders may repeat since they belong to multiple categories. Will probably clean that up at some point!
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:The Main Heroes]]
!! Nageki Shikimori
* BiTheWay
* CelibateHero: She at first seems this way, not showing any romantic or sexual interest in anyone. And then she meets Kyuun.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Hot pink.
* FramesOfReference: Hers are circular, and she's one of the most friendly and easygoing characters of the cast.
* HairDecorations: A purple hairclip with a cartoonish pink kitty head on it.
* {{Joshikousei}}: One that's been held back a couple grades in junior high, though, so she's a couple years older than the average high school senior, she's 18 going on 19.
* MaleGaze: [[RareMaleExample Rare Female Example]], in the fact that what Nageki ahem, [[EatingTheEyeCandy appreciates]], about Kyuun's appearance is in his slender waist, hips and legs. On top of his personality, that is, which she finds incredibly amusing and endearing, even after he returns to his normal self.
* {{Meganekko}}
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Mizune.
* RoseHairedSweetie
* SailorFuku
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
!! Mizune Tamazuna
* BiTheWay: But she heavily prefers other women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Baby blue.
* FashionHurts: She endures the pain, though. [[spoiler: It's a source of where some of her dysphoria comes from, the idea that fashion hurts for her at all. What worries her is the idea that fashion hurts for every girl, but they don't complain about it because they've had to hurt their whole lives, while Mizune has 'only' had to hurt from the time she started presenting as a woman.]]
* GirlyBruiser
* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Nageki.
* ThePollyanna: Though she's an awfully quiet lady, she tries her best to be the optimist to Nageki's realist.
* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler: Her human world equivalent, unfortunately, cannot safely live and present as a girl. She's closeted, and presents entirely male.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: She starts out this way.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
* TrueBlueFemininity
!! Annabelle
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annabelle is unambiguously black.
* [[spoiler: ArousedByTheirVoice: Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
* BiTheWay: For men and nonbinary people, he isn't usually attracted to women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Goldenrod.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]
* GrumpyOldMan: Often behaves as such, because he sees himself as one due to the way he's aged.
* InconvenientAttraction: [[LoveHurts Any attraction Annabelle experiences feels particularly inconvenient]], he's terribly insecure when it comes to intimacy of any kind and feels like being attracted to anyone younger than him makes him a horrible monster because of how old he technically is. For Desiderius, it's especially inconvenient because he knows Desiderius wouldn't love him back [[spoiler: he would, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queerplatonic just not exactly romantically]]]], and for Amaya it's especially inconvenient because he feels like he's taking advantage of what he sees as a precocious, innocent crush.
* OnlySaneMan
* OlderThanTheyLook: Annabelle's maturity flip-flops between that of an elderly man and a young adult depending on the situation, which makes it hard for him to figure out how old he "truly" is. He errs on the side of more elderly, being afraid of assuming he's young enough to date someone around him when he is not. [[spoiler: His true self is absolutely a young adult, but seeing himself from time to time as an old man helps him cope with this dilemma. He doesn't realize this yet and won't for a long time.]]
!! Mikami Bimromav
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Forrest.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* TheDeterminator
* [[spoiler: GroundhogPeggySue]]
* PreacherMan: He ends up being this, and he is [[Film/PulpFiction the son of one.]]
* [[spoiler: RippleEffectProofMemory]]
* [[spoiler: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* StraightMan: To Forrest's [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]].
* [[spoiler: TimeTravelRomance: Saving his friends and the rest of the world takes second-place priority to making sure Forrest is alright. Of course, it isn't so bad that he would stay in a timeline in which everyone died ''but'' Forrest, but... It would be very, very tempting.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, towards Forrest.
!! Forrest Nagakawa
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Mikami, though he loves every second of it, being the instigator.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark green.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: He has the most fun delivering these.
* TheGadfly
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Forrest lives with a psychotic disorder (unsure exactly which kind) that comes with visual and, very rarely, auditory hallucinations. His hallucinations tend to put maggots and insects in places they don't belong. [[spoiler: Combine that with the Black Plague-like diseased he witnessed spreading (and was lucky to never contract) in his hometown as a child, and you get a real fucking nightmare of a brain time. This event that wiped out most of his hometown traumatized him, and he is left with mild symptoms of PTSD today.]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
* [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]]: To Mikami's StraightMan.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Diamondpoint Kings And Other Kings]]
General tropes for the Diamondpoint Kings include:
* TheBeautifulElite
* CoolCrown: All of them except Desiderius sport one of these.
* DudeLooksLikeALady
* ErmineCapeEffect
* FormFittingWardrobe: All of them [[spoiler: except Yukai-toki, who wears a long poncho-like cloak.]]
* HotGod
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: All of them, but Nana is the least awful offender.
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Except Kyuun, who just goes with what Nana, Hachi and Desiderius decide. [[spoiler: Even then, Desiderius just goes with what Nana and Hachi decide, he's just better at presenting the illusion of free will by trying to somehow, anyhow, get another voice into the discussion, but usually fails.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Though not all of them are good people, their wardrobe has nothing to do with their personality.
!! Nana of the Stars
* [[spoiler: AllTakeAndNoGive: That was the nature of his relationship with Arya, and part of what made it so hard for the boy to pinpoint was the fact that Nana wasn't like this with his friends and acquaintances. It seemed to be reserved for those he knew intimately, which was a list that consisted of Arya and Arya alone.]]
* [[spoiler: AbominationAccusationAttack: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's]] [[{{Gaslighting}} Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
* [[spoiler: BelievingTheirOwnLies: This is one of the ways Nana grew into such a horrible person, no one was keeping him in check and he, who absolutely had the intelligence to know what he was doing if he simply sat down with himself and was honest for once, simply put all his power into believing his own lies rather than changing for the better before it was too late.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Denim blue.
* TheEmpath: Nana's near-psychic ability to be able to tell what people think of themselves and others, and what they plan to do next all boils down to supernatural levels of intuition and empathy. However, he seems to have only one blind spot: himself. In fact, his magic mirror doesn't even seem to work on his own self; all he sees is his normal reflection staring back at him. This is something he admits to feeling quite anxious about.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: He, to this day, would not admit it, but he was and still is. Nana justified his attraction to Arya with the fact that they technically did fall in love when they were both young, and it couldn't possibly be his fault that Arya stopped aging, so how can he just stop being in love? That logic, faulty, as it is, implies he has never had romantic or sexual interest in any minor after Arya, which is not true.]]
* [[spoiler: ExpositoryHairstyleChange: He lops most of his hair off, leaving it about shoulder-length after his big revelation. And holy fuck, is it excruciatingly painful, as the stars in his hair can ''feel''.]]
* [[spoiler: FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: This is just something he likes doing to people.
* [[spoiler: IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: By the end of things, anyway, far past the point of "too late" for either he or Arya to end up incredibly fucked up.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: It's hard to deny that the genius King of the Country in Midnight is anything but a master manipulator, but it's clear that he only uses his talents for the good of his people. [[spoiler: Well, probably.]]
* [[spoiler: MaritalRapeLicense: With Arya, he subconsciously believed he had this, particularly when Arya started drifting away from him.]]
* NeverMyFault: By use of InsaneTrollLogic that's sane enough that he consistently fools ''himself'' into believing he's done nothing wrong.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Generally speaking, he is not.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
* RoyalBrat: He may have played this trope straighter as a young child with all the embarrassingly spoiled behavior and pouting that comes with it, but now that he is a man, he retains most of the sinister implications of this trope with just about none of its associated childish behavior.
* [[spoiler: SexualExtortion: There were several times when he withheld affection, conversation, reassurance and validation from Arya until he got what he wanted.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: See CharacterDevelopment.
* [[spoiler: TragicDream: His involved living happily ever after with Arya. Then he violently murdered the dream. The only person he has to blame is himself.]]
* [[spoiler: TroubledAbuser: Nana himself being a victim of [[ParentalNeglect primarily emotional,]] [[ParentsAsPeople but sometimes physical neglect]] as a child is technically true. But at the end of the day, Nageki wonders if that even matters.]]
* [[spoiler: WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: This is the attitude Nana took with much of his abuse towards Arya, genuinely believing that he was reacting as every rational, normal person would in his circumstances.
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The people of that country know that he is charismatic, intelligent, attractive, and that he is taking care of their basic needs just about as much as they would expect any king to. [[spoiler: This translates to blind approval, which gets incredibly unfortunate for those who ''do'' know what he's really like.]]
!! Hachi of the Thunderclouds
* BadassInCharge
* BlingOfWar
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Averted painfully towards Annie, who Hachi supposedly loves.
* ChestOfMedals
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Navy blue.
* CondescendingCompassion: A hallmark of Hachi's [[SarcasmMode lovely personality]] is making you feel like an idiot commoner whenever you make a mistake or speak in [[spoiler: perceived]] ignorance.
* {{Ephebophile}}: And unnervingly comfortable with himself about it.
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi is the reason Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard: He's not quite as good at it as Nana is, but he wishes he was.]]
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: One of Hachi's biggest claims to his ego is the fact that technically, he isn't anywhere near as awful as Nana is - so that means you might as well not complain about him, and in fact, [[UnfortunateImplications ought to feel grateful that he's not as bad as he could be]], right? Annie's heard this song and dance too many times to count.
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Hachi uses this one on Annie frequently, hoping it'll result in SlapSlapKiss. [[CommentBackfire It doesn't.]]
!! Kyuun of the Woods
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Persian blue.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Kyuun is the most [[AccidentalPun diamond-studded]] of the four kings with jewelry in his hair and on his robe.
* HairDecorations: His CoolCrown doubles as this.
* LackOfEmpathy: Cognitive empathy is what he's lacking in, largely due to his depression - he can barely see an inch ahead of his nose. Given the fact that his behavior seems to fit the description for Asperger's on that trope's page to a T, he could have a condition I haven't paid close attention to.
* MadGod: Becomes much more mentally unstable than he already is under the weight of his new power, when he rebels against the other four kings.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He is severely depressive with occasional manic upswings (currently unsure if this fits the criteria of bipolar disorder since said upswings are relatively mild for most stories I've heard, and they are rare) over the course of his story, and he only begins to learn how to live with it when he is far away from the toxic, oppressive colleagues who have controlled him into silence in the face of injustice.
* ObliviousToLove
* PungeonMaster: As a MadGod, he's a huge fan of time puns. Nageki even joins in with him eventually.
* TheQuietOne: He tends to let his louder counterparts do the talking. [[spoiler: And he hates it.]]
* [[spoiler: SacredFirstKiss: [[SpitTrailKiss Hachi took his]]. It didn't affect him ''quite'' the same as most recipients of this trope, and he doesn't want to call it ''traumatic'', but... There's a reason he's so afraid of Hachi, and that reason is most likely mild trauma - more from the fact that Hachi (and people like Hachi, like Nana) [[ParanoiaFuel could have done worse]].]]
* SpoiledSweet
* [[spoiler: UnfitForGreatness: Which is why his advisor, Yonbanme and he step down from the throne in the end.]]
!! Desiderius of the Sea
* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents: For as awful as they were to his brother, Pastor, Desiderius' parents were even crueler to him. Desiderius' father, in particular, felt that he was preparing Desiderius for the burden and agony of being king by subjecting him (often by proxy through his guards) to horrific psychological, emotional, physical and sexual abuse/torture. Desiderius' mother did nothing to stop her husband, and it's unclear if she refused to act out of fear or out of sheer apathy.]]
* BiTheWay
* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for just about everything that goes wrong, whether it actually is his fault or something he was complacent in, or not.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
* SpoiledSweet
* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackstory: Just one of the many ways his senile father thought he was preparing Desiderius for the pain of the position of king is, he would order his guards to beat and rape Desiderius quite often. It didn't help things that the guards, even ones who seemed kind and well-intentioned, started doing their jobs a little too well, with a little too much enthusiasm.]]
* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler: Between the trauma of his abusive childhood and the knowledge that he cowardly stood by as just about the same kind of abuse was being inflicted upon one of his colleagues' advisors.]]
* [[spoiler: UnfitForGreatness: Which is why his advisor, Annabelle and he switch roles in the end.]]
!! [[spoiler:Yukai-toki of the Forgotten Lullaby]]
* {{Asexuality}}
** IfItsYouItsOkay: ... Though he doesn't mind sleeping with Luz from time to time. He doesn't mind that at all.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Prussian blue.
* CombatStilettos
* DarkIsNotEvil
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Subverted in the sense that he's got the dark eyeshadow and lipstick one might expect of a villain, but he is actually the most morally upright of the Diamondpoint Kings.
* [[spoiler: {{Fetish}}: One for being worshipped. He doesn't tend to think much of it and doesn't really think of it as such, especially after spending so long in the Forgotten Lullaby. And then comes Luz.]]
* PapaWolf: These were his feelings for Arya, which Nana [[AbominationAccusationAttack tried to portray as something else]] in order to get him to doubt himself.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! Pastor of the Sunset
* AbusiveParents: His parents were the first to instill him with the idea that he, due to his disorders, is completely inept and helpless, and thus might as well not even be alive.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Undiagnosed autism and ADHD.
* BuryYourDisabled[[spoiler:: Well, maybe.]]
* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Baby pink.
* DisabledMeansHelpless: Averted. This isn't true of Pastor at all. His developmental disabilities most certainly affect his life and make it difficult for him to function "normally" in society, but because everyone he knows has treated him as if his disabilities make him helpless and inept (even Arcane, who is supposedly on his side!) from birth until now, he has more problems with resentment of the people around him and learned helplessness than anything else.
* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: To escape the bondage of royalty and pursue the life he has always wanted, and not the one that has been thrust upon him.]]
* [[spoiler: ReluctantRuler]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating
!! [[spoiler:North of the Mirror]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark red.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Witches]]
!! Kutsuuko[[spoiler:/Arya Kurosawa]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* [[BlackMageGirl Black Mage Boy]]
* BrokenBird: It's clear right away that someone has hurt this sweet young boy. [[spoiler: Holy shit.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Bright red.
* [spoiler: DarkMagicalBoy]]
* [[spoiler: DeadpanSnarker]]
* [[spoiler: DefiledForever: Certainly sees himself this way.]]
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time - but holy shit, he knows now.]]
* [[spoiler: DontYouDarePityMe]]
* [[spoiler: EroticDream: Had one about Yonbanme once. It was confusingly nice, and Yonbanme was so kind and gentle to him, and upon waking up it kind of made him want to die, thank you.]]
* FragileFlower:[[spoiler: It's an act.]]
* [[spoiler: FreudianExcuse: If you'd been through what he had for as long as he had, you might be a little pissed off at the world, too, and you might be a little drunk off of power, too.]]
* [[spoiler: GrewASpine]]
* HatesBeingTouched
* [[spoiler: HeroicRROD: (dubiously canon) He ends up growing so powerful that his body can't hold the magical strength inside him, and it literally falls to pieces from this.]]
* [[spoiler: JerkassWoobie]]
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Irreversibly so[[spoiler:, one would think.]]
* [[spoiler: MouthyKid: If anything from Nana has rubbed off onto Kutsuuko, it is that talent at dealing out tongue-lashings to those who you think deserve it - only from Kutsuuko, he's not stretching the truth.]]
* [[spoiler: OlderThanTheyLook]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* SourOutsideSadInside
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: None that he knows of or has the strength to seek out!]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He shows clear signs of PTSD with the way he frightens and starts crying so easily when people press him too hard about the man who hurt him, the poor thing... [[spoiler: Yep, and the symptoms are much less soft and palatable than they at first appear - they're what real PTSD often looks like in young survivors.]]
* [[spoiler: TragicVillain]]
* WalkingSpoiler
* [[spoiler: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Quite literally, as he tries to destroy the world.]]
!! [[spoiler:Arya Kurosawa/Kutsuuko]]
* AbusiveParents: He had emotionally abusive parents who never accepted his best efforts, no matter how hard he worked to please them. This set him up to believe for much of his life that he had to work ''hard'' and ''suffer'' to make people approve of him and love him.
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Not that he has much of a safe place to explore that.]]
* [[LadyOfBlackMagic Boy of Black Magic]]: Not only on account of being a witch, his personality was certainly like this - cold, elegant, graceful - to people other than Nana.
* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Light pink.
* [[spoiler: DomesticAbuse: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time.]]
* ExtremeDoormat
* GiantPoofySleeves
* MindRape: It seems like Pendragon did this to him, entirely on accident, by stabbing him through the heart when they fought. When she saw him screaming and curling up on the floor, she started to put the pieces together, and to this day she feels absolutely terrible for doing that to him. [[spoiler: What she doesn't know is, that's not what happened at all. Her attack only jolted his conscience enough for him to fully realize how miserable he was, and what Nana was [[DomesticAbuse really doing]] to him. The recognition of severe trauma hit him all at once.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook:
* [[spoiler: QuestionableConsent]]
* ShrinkingViolet
* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: Not when no one wants you to know they do!]]
* [[spoiler: UnequalPairing: Nana and Arya were this, not only as king and advisor but fully-grown adult and teenager.]]
!! Annie
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annie is unambiguously black.
* BerserkButton: His is feeling like people aren't respecting his personal boundaries, and with most people, he lets his discomfort be known. Loudly. [[spoiler: Not with Hachi, the person who has given him this trigger.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Scarlet.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HatesBeingTouched: It's easy to assume this is just another part of his angry, standoffish personality. [[spoiler: It comes from somewhere.]]
* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi did this to him years ago, which is why Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook
!! Yonbanme
* AdjustingYourGlasses
* [[spoiler: AxCrazy: He is positively determined not to let this side of his personality hurt innocent people. Not-so-innocent people like Nana and Hachi, on the other hand...]]
* BiTheWay
* [[spoiler: BitchInSheepsClothing: By the standards of the Diamondpoint Kings and their collective agenda, oh yes.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black.
* FormFittingWardrobe
* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: To Kyuun. Kyuun is a bit ObliviousToLove due to his severe depression, and to be fair, Yonbanme has never exactly ''said'' it... But that doesn't mean everyone around him can't tell right away.
* IKissYourHand: He does this with Kyuun every so often, prompting a little dazed, flustered stammering from his king.
* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted.
* OlderThanTheyLook: The one witch who subverts this trope by actually looking much closer to his true age than a very young adult.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
* [[spoiler: {{Yandere}}: Though he possesses a level of self-awareness most {{Yandere}} characters don't. He would never hurt Kyuun, even if Kyuun falls in love with someone else. But if anyone, ANYONE, makes any unwanted advance of any kind on his king? That's the point at which he has to start fighting the murderous intrusive thoughts... Or don't.]]
!! Annabelle
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Annabelle is unambiguously black.
* [[spoiler: ArousedByTheirVoice: Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
* BiTheWay: For men and nonbinary people, he isn't usually attracted to women.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Goldenrod.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]
* GrumpyOldMan: Often behaves as such, because he sees himself as one due to the way he's aged.
* InconvenientAttraction: [[LoveHurts Any attraction Annabelle experiences feels particularly inconvenient]], he's terribly insecure when it comes to intimacy of any kind and feels like being attracted to anyone younger than him makes him a horrible monster because of how old he technically is. For Desiderius, it's especially inconvenient because he knows Desiderius wouldn't love him back [[spoiler: he would, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queerplatonic just not exactly romantically]]]], and for Amaya it's especially inconvenient because he feels like he's taking advantage of what he sees as a precocious, innocent crush.
* OnlySaneMan
* OlderThanTheyLook: Annabelle's maturity flip-flops between that of an elderly man and a young adult depending on the situation, which makes it hard for him to figure out how old he "truly" is. He errs on the side of more elderly, being afraid of assuming he's young enough to date someone around him when he is not. [[spoiler: His true self is absolutely a young adult, but seeing himself from time to time as an old man helps him cope with this dilemma. He doesn't realize this yet and won't for a long time.]]
!! Pendragon
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mahogany.
!! Orelo
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Currant red.
!! [[spoiler:Mezzo-Forte]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mint green.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! Arcane Ariatongue
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Orchid purple.
* RoyalWe
!! [[spoiler:Espino]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark purple.
* WalkingSpoiler
!! [[spoiler:Gossick]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Periwinkle purple.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Diamond Court]]
!! Amaya Lasker
* AmbiguousGender: Amaya is nonbinary.
* {{Asexuality}}: Demisexuality, to be precise.
* DumbBlonde: Averted, Amaya is one of the smartest characters in the cast.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Xe's aware one is going on, but xe has no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Though [[SecretIdentity xe isn't exactly a delicate, fragile little flower]].
* MeaningfulName: Amaya's PenName, Nirami, comes from the verb "Niramu", meaning "to glare at".
* {{Megane}}
* PenName: Xeyr's in xeyr politically inflammatory pamphlets is [[MeaningfulName Nirami]].
!! Lucerne "Luz" Fortunato
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Luz is a black Arab.
* AmbiguousGender: Luz is agender, or they prefer for their gender to be thought of as "none".
* [[DarkSkinnedBlonde Dark Skinned With White Hair]]
* TheDeterminator: Luz stops at nothing to reach the Forgotten Lullaby, [[spoiler: even if it means inadvertently killing a palace guard in a fight over demands for information.]]
* ForGreatJustice
* GovernmentConspiracy: Once they become aware one's going on, and has been going on for years, they become utterly obsessed with it and only grow more and more entrenched in it, losing more and more to it until they finally solve it, [[spoiler: essentially showing up on Yukai-toki's doorstep in the Forgotten Lullaby, covered in blood (belonging to them and possibly others too they don't remember?), missing one of their memories in the ritual to get them there, disheveled and unkempt, not having slept in days, and at first completely incomprehensible in their speech.]]
* SanitySlippage: The deeper and deeper they go down the rabbit hole, trying to figure out what happened to Yukai-toki and where he went, this happens.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Rebellion]]
!! Pidgeon
* BigHam
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Garnet red.
* FramesOfReference: His are circular, with swirls in the lenses, he's a silly sort of character who wants to be received as a mad scientist.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses
* VillainBall: He loves holding it. It is his favorite of all the balls. It's great. He loves it!
!! Vehal Bimromav
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale purple.
!! Contralto
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: White.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Averted, his eyesight is just fine and he's certainly considered the smartest of the rebels.
* {{Yandere}}: Though he's a little embarrassed of himself about it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Extra Sidecharacters]]
!! Ose Shalom
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted, Ose Shalom is a Sephardic Jew.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Suvi and Yisra.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pecan brown.
* DissonantSerenity: It seems that nothing can shake his calm demeanor.
* TheHecateSisters: Ose Shalom is the Mother, and Suvi and Yisra are his Crone and Maiden, respectively.
* PerpetualSmiler
!! Suvi and Yisra
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Ose Shalom.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black and white.
* TheHecateSisters: Suvi is the Crone and Yisra is the Maiden, with Ose Shalom as their Mother.
* PerpetualFrowner: Suvi.
* PerpetualSmiler: Yisra.
!! Sir Knight[[spoiler:/Nana and the Stars that Ceased to Shine]]
* [[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: Nana's attitude and very way of thinking and feeling has changed ''drastically'' since Arya took revenge on him. He's practically a different person.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale dark blue.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes
* TheDeterminator: No matter how obviously depressed and exhausted he is, there is nothing he can't do.
* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: That's something about himself that hasn't seemed to disappear. He still loves Arya, against his better judgment, the only difference now is he hates himself for it and he refuses to make that Arya's problem by being upfront about it.]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He's got some pretty heavy depression, depersonalization disorder, and he has apparently developed a psychotic disorder of some kind: he experiences delusions that tell him that his bare skin is venomous, and he must cover it all, at all times, or else he will hurt people. [[spoiler: Delusions they may be, but when the truth about who he is comes out, said delusions don't seem quite so random anymore.]]
* MustMakeAmends: One thing Nageki and her party know about their knightly friend is that he feels the need to repent for something he did in his past, but no one figures it's that bad since he's such a great dude! [[spoiler: Hahaha, oh.]]
* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: He's definitely got it. [[spoiler: It turns out he's got very good reason to distrust his own mind and body when thrown into a sexual situation.]]
!!Terran "Terrandus" Denzo
* BigBrotherInstinct: Bordering on KnightTemplarBigBrother for his three-year-old little sister, Curie.
* BiTheWay
* GreenThumb: Terrandus' magic centers on the manipulation of plantlife.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* HairAntennae
* InSeriesNickname: People call him Terrandus more often than they call him Terran. Kutsuuko [[FullNameBasis calls him by his full name]] nearly all the time.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's pretty short, even for a 15 year old, but that doesn't get in his way, much.
* TechnicalPacifist: He certainly prefers to be one! But if someone forces him to take care of business, then there's nothing he can do about that.
* TheQuietOne
* {{Yandere}}: Look, he's not responsible for what happens to you if you hurt someone he cares about. Even if you don't hurt them badly, or just say something mean to them, he still can't help but feel that immediate rush of borderline-homicidal anger that comes over him when he argues with himself in his head, graciously deciding not to make you regret it. Bear in mind, not actually-homicidal. He's a pacifist! He doesn't kill anyone. He just knows people can take a lot of pain before they keel over.
!! Kaur
* AllWitchesHaveCats
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow.
* [[spoiler: [[{{Ephebophile}} Hebephile]]: One who is extremely self-loathing, one who has never harmed a child, and one who has never engaged with child pornography of any kind or any medium. He is desperately trying to find some kind of 'cure' for his problem, and is starting to, without hesitation, consider straight-up castration if it means it'll fix who he is.]]
* IntrepidMerchant
* MagicLibrarian
* PowerCrystal: Sells these.
* TheRedMage
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* [[spoiler: VictimBlaming: Part of how he justified the way he abused Arya, is the fact that he had an idea in his head that if only Arya weren't so cold all of a sudden, if only he weren't so distant, if only he would stop breaking Nana's heart, then Nana wouldn't get so angry.]]
