History Characters / BeastarsOutsideCherryton

** RebuiltPedestal: Has been building up ever since he reconciled with Gosha, but towards the end of the Burning of the Black Market Alley, he repositions himself as a worthy Sublime Beastar along with Gosha who fully trusts him, and calls all animals to put their faith with each other. [[spoiler:He retires afterwards.]]

* BerserkButton: Never insult or make light of interracial relationships that reminds him of his own relationship with Toki. [[spoiler:Melon's father pressing his button very hard is learning that the hard way.]]

* BashBrothers: [[spoiler:In his younger years, he was this with Gosha, fighting crime and having each other's backs to the point where they promised to become Beastars together. This ended up being PlayedForDrama when Gosha stopped fighting to look after his family, making Yafya feel both incomplete and rage towards Gosha to this day.]]

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Due to his perceived abandonment by Legoshi's grandfather, Gosha, Yafya has vented all of his frustrations and resentments he has towards Gosha onto criminals, especially carnivores. When he invites Legoshi over for dinner, he tells Legoshi that the carrots he fed him where made with the corpses of the Blood Bone drug dealers as fertilizer. Horrifying Legoshi as he realizes what the graffiti messages meant.]]

* EvilCounterpart: To Louis. Both are famed, beloved, intelligent, handsome herbivore animals who many think would make great Beastars (Yafya already is one while Louis is only highly thought of to be the next). Both also have a certain disdain for carnivores and often do morally ambiguous things to make themselves feared by said carnivores. However, even before his own growth, Louis didn't do anything unfair to his fellow carnivore students and gradually came to let go of most of his biases while Yafya embraces his hatred to a horrific level out of losing his trusted friend.
* FantasticRacism: Expect to be bullied, insulted, or otherwise rejected by Yafya if you're a carnivore, mostly as him venting his frustrations on Gosha leaving him.

* HeteronormativeCrusader: Before a mission, right after sleeping with a female horse, Yafya describes such a relationship as the standard norm. When he leaves, he thinks on the issue and states that a normal, heterosexual relationship should be a symbol of peace. Overlaps with FantasticRacism.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: [[spoiler:There is the hint that his abandonment issues might be something more than what the reader is led to believe. When Yafya beat down Legoshi and demanded he apologize for being a carnivore, he was ecstatic when Legoshi "apologized" and saw it as a win against Gosha. Suggesting that he feels like Gosha is the better person of the two of them, possibly due to Gosha finding more to life than just the title of Beastar.]]
** He basically spells this out in chapter 176, in which he believes that maybe by helping Legoshi in a time of need, he can show off Gosha. Unfortunately for him, Gosha overhears everything and has no idea what he's talking about. Part of it seems to be the jealousy of how strong Gosha has gotten thanks to having a family he cares for, while Yafya has had no one ever since Gosha left him.
-->'''Yafya:''' "I may have been losing for a while now, but now I'm finally winning" ... just like that.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Yafya looks like he's in his twenties. He's actually in his early fifties.

* ThePoorlyChosenOne: [[spoiler:Some of the higher members of society view Yafya as an unsuitable Beastar and with regards to the many other tropes listed, it's not hard to imagine why. Yafya himself is even aware of this, which is probably the reason why he offered Gosha to work with him.]]

* TheResenter: [[spoiler:It is clear as day that Yafya resents Gosha for leaving him for a female wolf, which extends towards Gosha's grandson, Legoshi.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: Unlike previous Beastars, Yafya does not make public appearances or engage publicly in politics. This has led most of society to consider him an urban myth made by the police to scare criminals. Even after retiring he still continues being a vigilante.

* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:When he was a teenager, he had this goal with Legoshi's grandfather Gosha, as opposed to one of them being selected over the other. This didn't stick once Gosha quit to take care of his child with Legoshi's grandmother. This has had such an impact on Yafya that he now firmly believes that interspecies relationships lead to disaster many years Gosha left him.]] He makes this offer again when [[spoiler:he meets Gosha after 36 years.]]

A 400-year-old ancient whale that stopped the war between herbivores and carnivores 100 years prior merely by speaking to them. Their existence is a secret, only taught to those who learn the ''true'' history of the world. They seem to want the land animals to become more peaceful before they'll help again. Yafya is the only character shown so far with access to them.

* GreaterScopeParagon: The Whale was the one to end the war 100 years in the past, and intends to help again once the time comes. That said, they have very little to do with the ongoing plot, not even being aware of the existence of most central characters outside of Yafya and maybe Melon. [[spoiler:Once the Black Market is destroyed, they finally step in again, and intends to supply the land with fish protein.]]

* DissonantSerenity: The nonchalant attitude he displays about the abandonment of his family is rather disturbing, to where even ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards Yafya]]'' finds it appalling.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He tries to justify his actions with this trope. Even ''[[{{Jerkass}} Yafya]]'' is disgusted.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: He had Legoshi's mother when he was a teenager, and is 54 in the current day. This was unintentional, as the odds of conception between interspecies romance were 1 out of 500. He had to abandon his goal of becoming the Sublime Beastar with his friend Yafya to take care of his child, which affected Yafya's views on interspecies romance to this day.

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:What he turned into in Yafya's eyes following his abandonment of their shared goal of becoming Beastars and protecting society together, in order to take responsibility for his new family. Yafya is bitter about this perceived betrayal even 36 years later and it significantly affected his stance on interspecies relationships, and even just long-term relationships in general.]]
** [[spoiler:Although later chapters have revealed that Yafya is not so above it all either, considering how he's all too glad to be savagely beating other carnivores and worse.]]

* CoolOldGuy: Now we know where Legoshi got his badassery from. Even in his older age, he can kick the asses of multiple avian thugs. [[spoiler:When he was younger, he and his friend Yafya would go out on patrol and prevent crimes from occurring. Both were so good at it that they were both considered for the role of Sublime Beastar.]]

* MysteriousPast: While he is shown to be a star police officer and possible candidate for Beastar at the age of 17, his past before that is somewhat nebulous. Legosi wonders if he was some kind of criminal in his youth and Yafya notices Gosha was prone to working very late and wonders to himself if something in his past makes it hard for him to sleep.

* TheDitz: Well, at least Yafya definitely considered her to be this. Yafya (in his mind) stated that she's slow to take in information.

[[folder:Yafya]]

A horse who is the Sublime Beastar. He has the role of monitoring criminal activity and authorizing media reporting of criminal activity. He was also best friends with Legoshi's grandfather Gosha many years ago, with the dream of both of them becoming the Sublime Beastar.

* BenevolentBoss: Comes with the territory of being the Sublime Beastar. [[spoiler:But ''only'' to the herbivores who do not display sympathy to carnivores.]]
* BerserkButton:
** [[spoiler:When he meets up with Gosha for the first time in 36 years, he flies into a rage when Gosha calls him the Beastar, attacking him and trashing his house for abandoning him all those years ago.]]
** [[spoiler:It happens again when Legoshi comments that he likes the imperfections in society, indirectly insulting Yafya's goal. Which angers him greatly enough to attack Legoshi unprovoked, after telling him what he ate.]]

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Due to his perceived abandonment by Legoshi's grandfather, Gosha, Yafya has vented all of his frustrations and resentments he has towards Gosha onto all carnivores; regardless of whether they're criminals or not. When he invites Legoshi over for dinner, he tells Legoshi that the carrots he fed him where made with the corpses of the Blood Bone drug dealers as fertilizer. Horrifying Legoshi as he realizes what the graffiti messages meant.]]
** [[spoiler:What's worse is that he may not be limiting his source of fertilizer to just the criminals, as hints in the Ghetto's graffiti messages suggest that he's become infamous for murdering carnivores. This is even indirectly confirmed when he said, ''"When you're the Beastar, you can be granted any wish of your choosing"'', giving a valid reason why he was called the Black Devil by carnivores.]]

* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler:As a Beastar, he's allowed anything his heart desires. As such, he's allowed to get away with the literal murder of carnivores; who he then uses as fertilizer for his carrot farm.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When [[spoiler:Melon's father tries to justify his abandonment of his wife and son as somehting anyone would have done]] Yafya is openly appalled and believes him to be more evil than his son.
* EvilCounterpart: To Louis. Both are famed, beloved, intelligent, handsome herbivore animals who many think would make great Beastars (Yafya already is one while Louis is only highly thought of to be the next). Both also have a certain disdain for carnivores and often do morally ambiguous things to make themselves feared by said carnivores. However, even before his own growth, Louis didn't do anything unfair to his fellow carnivore students and gradually came to let go of most of his biases while Yafya embraces his hatred to a horrific level and loves torturing innocent carnivore animals.
* FantasticRacism: Expect to be bullied, insulted, or otherwise rejected by Yafya if you're a carnivore (the only exceptions to the rule are Gosha, who is a former BFF, and Legoshi, who is Gosha's grandson). If you piss him off, he WILL brutally murder you and use your remains as fertilizer for his carrots.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He has nothing but disdain for carnivores and hybrids, criticizes them at every waking moment, and disapproves of cannibalism. No one comments, however, on how contradictory it is that he technically consumes flesh too: using carnivore bodies as fertilizer should be considered a distant form of cannibalism. It's a case of LoopholeAbuse that has yet to be addressed (though considering his position, it's probably difficult for anyone to bring up).

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:As stated above, he's infamous to predators for murdering them, but his title of Beastar makes him practically untouchable. And given the extent of diplomatic immunity his title grants him, it's no wonder how he's been able to avoid scrutiny under the law when he's got direct hands in legal proceedings.]]

* NiceGuy: Subverted. If (and only if) you're an herbivore. If you're a carnivore (or worse, a hybrid), welp. You're on your own.
* NominalHero: The only thing that makes Yafya remotely heroic is his actions of punishing genuinely corrupt carnivores who abused innocent herbivores, as well as his past friendship with Gosha and his mentorship to Legoshi. Other than that, he'll gladly support herbivore supremacy and would even kill innocent carnivores for the heck of it.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** He despises any carnivore or hybrid he comes across, with the most basic reason being that they were born that way (and thinks that alone deserves an apology).
** He has contempt for any sexuality outside of heterosexuality, as his commentary at the end of chapter 127 has him make insulting statements towards some members at a party being romantic and lustful towards members of their similar sex.

* ShroudedInMyth: Unlike previous Beastars, Yafya does not make public appearances or engage publicly in politics. This has led most of society to consider him an urban myth made by the police to scare criminals. [[spoiler:In reality, this may have been done intentionally to hide Yafya's illicit activity of murdering carnivores.]]

* NeatFreak: Obsessively disenfects anything he comes into contact with, even touching a seemingly clean towel he used will lead him to douse your entire body with antiseptic. While people find this behaviour unusual and accuse him of being overly paranoid, it's heavily implied that he really can seriously injure people with trace amounts of venom if he doesn't take such precautions.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In her ''Beastars'' appearance she makes a remark to Raika that she holds the right to kick him out of her appartment if she has a man over. The main motivator for the plot of ''Beast Complex'' is her permanently kicking Raika out as she is getting married.

* TaxidermyIsCreepy: Especially since this is a WorldOfFunnyAnimals, so his taxidermy subjects are basically just all deceased people. A police officer even explains the practce is a bit of a grey area since it's not strictly illegal but also considered by many to be in poor taste.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He finds his line of work embarrassing and demeaning, but he puts up with it for the most part since it apparently pays well enough that he can live off of an average of one day a work per year.

* TheHero: In the grand scheme of things, they are the ones who are trying to bring peace to the herbivore/carnivore conflicts, and succeeded in the past while also intervening again at the end of the series.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even he was appalled to hear that [[spoiler:Melon's father abandoned Melon that led to the latter becoming who he is because "that's what anyone would have done". This lead to him believing that he not Melon is the ''real evil one''!]]

* AmbiguousSituation: The unexplained absence of 's mother in her life makes it unclear if Gosha broke up with her, or if he accidentally killed her with his poison, which is a well-known risk for the kind of relationship he had. [[spoiler:Sadly; Toki kissed him knowing full well that she would die afterword, so long as she could fully express her love for him in the most known way there was to love.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: He specifically notes the immunity to his poison his child and grandchild have inherited from him and even gives Legoshi a taste of his venom as an affectionate gesture. [[spoiler:He likely cherishes this interaction because Toki killed herself on his poison asserting that taking his poison was an act of true love.]]

* RescueRomance: [[spoiler:He rescued a female grey wolf from a fur poacher, ended up in a relationship with her and parenting Legoshi's mother.]]

* AnywhereButTheirLips: Despite the love, they shared the most Gosha was ever willing to do was give her a quick peck on the cheek immediately followed by cleaning the kiss with antisceptic as even a peck on the cheek carried the risk of injuring her with his venom.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Well before her fate is even revealed it is shown that in the present day inter-species couples have been legalized with the exception of venomous and non-venomous pairings due to the many ways one could accidentally kill the other. [[spoiler:Ultimately that's exactly what happened to her; she died from Gosha's poison.]]
* LastKiss: [[spoiler:It's also her first real kiss on the mouth with Gosha. Wanting to kiss him for real at least once in her life she tricked him into it knowing full well she'd die as a result.]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: As her komodo dragon heritage took effect, her skin eventually became covered in furs ''and'' spotted with patches of scales. One of her eyes became reptilian. It was not a pretty sight.]]

* TheHermit: Became this as [[spoiler: her komodo dragon genes caused her appearance to... [[BodyHorror deteriorate]].]]

* MixAndMatchCritters: [[spoiler:She was a grey wolf-komodo dragon hybrid. In her case, she looked a pure grey wolf when she was younger save her immunity to her father's poison and only started to grow scales when she turned 19. By the time she killed herself, a good majority of her body was covered in scales and one eye had become reptilian.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: When she discovered she's starting to grow scales at age 19.]]

* TooDesperateToBePicky: [[spoiler: When she started growing scales, she knew she would soon become (in society's eyes) [[BodyHorror monstrous and completely undesirable]]. Then she semi-randomly picked a decent-looking male grey wolf (Miyagi) to mate with, hoping to have a near-pure grey wolf child in time. She didn't even remember Miyagi's name.]]

* DisappearedDad: A completely {{justified|Trope}} example. Leano only had a one-night stand with him in order to be pregnant. Afterward, the two of them never saw each other again (with Leano even forgetting his name), meaning it's likely that Miyagi doesn't know of Legoshi's existence.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: How he got the position of Sublime Beastar. [[spoiler:He and Gosha would go out as teenagers and hunt down criminals, both of them were so effective that they were both in the running for Sublime Beastar]]. He still goes out to deal with criminals and prevent the abuse of herbivores by carnivores.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Chapter 189 more or less confirms Gosha has severe emotional imbalances as a result of repressed grief and severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of [[spoiler:Toki’s death]]. The PTSD variety he exhibits is the trigger type: family and spousal abuse/neglect is such a violent trigger for him that, if provoked enough, he lashes out at '''anything''' in front of him. Worst case scenario, he flies into a [[TranquilFury very serene]], [[YouBastard murderous rage]]. It begs the question: '''how much misery and trauma is this man carrying'''? This mirrors how most traumatic deaths, left untreated, can leave individuals with really, really unstable minds.

* AmbiguousDisorder: She seems to have been mildly autistic - and Legoshi inherited it. [[spoiler:Being the daughter of a komodo dragon, some of her symptoms were closely related.]]

* TheStoic: He rarely raises his voice, and is always seen talking with a calm voice.

* TsurimeEyes: His eyes are very squinty, showing his serious and emotionally distant behavior.

Melon’s father. Abandoned his baby son Melon and his leopard partner due to fear of commitment to a carnivore-herbivore relationship.

* DirtyCoward: He abandoned his son and wife because he is afraid they eat him and doesn’t regret his selfish actions. His submissive behavior and tendency to pause several times before speaking prove this.

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* AbusiveParents: Of sexual abuse variety.[[spoiler: She made overt sexual advances towards Melon when he was younger, like suggestively stroking his horn while she's in nothing but her undergarments, asking him to unhook her bra and orgasmically shuddering when he does so.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: As he stated Louis if the public were to find out about the Shishigumi, a Yakuza group made of lions, then the (already) delicate peace between carnivore and herbivore will be broken entirely.

* FreudianExcuse: A lot of his resentment for carnivores and inter species relationships seems to stem from feeling abandoned by Gosha and the bitterness that ensued as a result of Gosha's inter species relationship.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He has nothing but disdain for carnivores and hybrids, criticizes them at every waking moment and disapproves of cannibalism. No one comments, however, on how contradictory it is that he technically consumes flesh too: using carnivore bodies as fertilizer should be considered a distant form of cannibalism. It's a case of LoopholeAbuse that has yet to be addressed (though considering his position, it's probably difficult for anyone to bring up).

** He basically spells this out in chapter 176, in which he believes that maybe by helping Legoshi in a time of need, he can show off Gosha. Unfortunately for him, Gosha overhears everything, and has no idea what he's talking about. Part of it seems to be jealousy of how strong Gosha has gotten thanks to having a family he cares for, while Yafya has no one ever since Gosha left him.

* TheLeader: He is this for all of society. He keeps the police in check by being the one who decides what predation crimes can be reported to the public. [[spoiler:This is how he stumbles across Legoshi's case, recognizes that he is related to Gosha and decides to monitor him in the future.]]

* ThePoorlyChosenOne: [[spoiler:Some of the higher members of society view Yafya as a unsuitable Beastar and with regards to the many other tropes listed, it's not hard to imagine why. Yafya himself is even aware of this, which is probably the reason why he offered Gosha to work with him.]]

** It's ultimately zigzagged. Miyagi is a modestly successful actor. So he might be why his son has an interest in stage art.