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* SayMyName: [[spoiler:Utters Saya's name when she goes into her BerserkerMode. It calms her down.]]
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Briefly revived, but is killed not long after.]]
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* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: [[spoiler:His first meeting with Diva after Riku's death has him call her this.]]
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* TheAtoner: Desires to clean up the mess she's made over the years.
* BigSisterInstinct: If Riku's in trouble, she wastes no time going after those who are causing him trouble. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it doesn't save him from getting raped by Diva.]]
* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:Riku's death breaks her and it's clear she hates herself for not doing more to save him.]]
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* BoyishShortHair: From at least the Russian Revolution onward. According to the ''Adagio'' manga, after having a nightmare of Diva's rampage at the Zoo and mistaking her reflection for Diva, she freaked out, messily chopped off her hair, and then had Haji fix it, resulting in its current style. [[spoiler:It grows during the TimeSkip, but is cut down at the end of the story.]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Kai calling out for Saya as she goes into his BerserkerMode helps calm her down and prevents her from losing against Karl.]]
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* EmergencyTransformation: Made into [[spoiler: Saya's chevalier when she feeds him her blood to save his life after Diva drains his blood at the Zoo.]]
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* EmergencyTransformation: Made into [[spoiler: Saya's chevalier when she feeds him her blood to save his life after Diva drains his blood at the Zoo. It ultimately doesn't amount to much as he's killed a little later.]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Kai calling out for Saya as she goes into his BerserkerMode helps calm her down and prevents her from losing against Karl.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Years of experiments and blatant disregard has understandably made him go mad. [[spoiler:His death seems more like a MercyKill at any rate.]]
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* SocialCircleFiller: Exists to show that Saya has a friend in the first few episodes. She then vanishes from the story once the plot kicks off. However she at least gets some closeure closure in episode 14, when Saya briefly returns to Okinawa.
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* UndyingLoyalty: To Saya. He never once disobeys her, [[spoiler:until the end.]]
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* TokenGoodTeammate: The only one of the Chevaliers with a moral sense, given he became one to end war for good. He also has genuine fondness for Saya. [[spoiler:He is the only one who defects and is the gutted about Karl's death.]]
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He comes to take a protective liking to Saya's adoptive younger brother Riku for offering him food.
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: The TimeSkip has her hair with bangs, signifying her loss of innocence.
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* IdiotBall: [[spoiler:Tells [[spoiler:Doesn't tell Riku to stay still as follow him, even though he tries to find another exit, never mind Riku needs to be protected as knows Diva's after ''him''.him.]]
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* BadBoss: It's not too apparent on the surface, but later episodes show how awful his treatment is towards Diva and Karl, being responsible for why they're as insane as they are.
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* BadBoss: It's not too apparent on the surface, but later episodes show how awful his treatment is towards Diva and Karl, being responsible for why they're as insane as they are.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He portrays himself as a polite man. It's far and away from the truth as he does horrible things for the sake of it.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: At the end of the day, Amshel is an entitled, selfish monster who merely uses people as he sees fit, be it allies or enemies.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:After callously manipulating and hurting innocent lives, Haji takes him out and no one is crying.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:After callously manipulating and hurting innocent lives, Haji takes him out and no one is crying.]]
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the anime, Solomon is AffablyEvil and falls in love with Saya, [[spoiler:pulling a HeelFaceTurn to aid her against Diva and his brothers]]. In the manga adaptation, his niceness is only a pretty mask for his ugly true personality, being similar to Amshel as a cold-blooded, selfish villain who cares more about research on chiropterans than either of the queens. Instead of Diva choosing to [[spoiler:hunt down and rape Riku to impregnate herself]] of her own volition as she did in the anime, she gets a [[AdaptationalHeroism more sympathetic depiction]] and that despicable choice is shifted to Solomon who tries to [[spoiler:force a resisting Riku and disinterested Diva to mate]], and when that "experiment" is stopped by Diva's temper tantrum (much to Solomon's anger), he pretends to join Saya's side in hopes of [[spoiler:mating with her]] to just complete his "experiment."
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the anime, Solomon is AffablyEvil and falls in love with Saya, [[spoiler:pulling a HeelFaceTurn to aid her against Diva and his brothers]]. In the manga adaptation, his niceness is only a pretty mask for his ugly true personality, being similar to Amshel as a cold-blooded, selfish villain who cares more about research on chiropterans than either of the queens. Instead of Diva choosing to [[spoiler:hunt down and rape Riku to impregnate herself]] of her own volition as she did in the anime, she gets a [[AdaptationalHeroism more sympathetic depiction]] and that despicable choice is shifted to Solomon who tries to [[spoiler:force a resisting Riku and disinterested Diva to mate]], and when that "experiment" is stopped by Diva's temper tantrum Diva (much to Solomon's anger), he pretends to join Saya's side in hopes of [[spoiler:mating with her]] to just complete his "experiment."
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* EvilCounterpart: Diva is what Saya could've been like if [[ForWantOfANail she had been the one locked in the tower instead of raised like a human]], driven home by how she acts and dresses similarly to how Saya did at the Zoo. [[spoiler:When Saya holds Diva's hand in the anime after Diva's death, the original Japanese dialogue even has Saya call her "my other half."]]
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* EvilCounterpart: Diva is what Saya could've been like if [[ForWantOfANail she had been the one locked in the tower instead of raised like a human]], human, driven home by how she acts and dresses similarly to how Saya did at the Zoo. [[spoiler:When Saya holds Diva's hand in the anime after Diva's death, the original Japanese dialogue even has Saya call her "my other half."]]
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* ShadowArchetype: She essentially represents what Saya could have become had [[ForWantOfANail Saya been the one confined to a tower]]. Saya is fully aware that she and Diva's positions could been reversed, and in the Japanese dialogue for the anime, acknowledges Diva as her other half.
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* LukeIMightBeYourFather: He may or may not be the Chevalier who impregnated Saya and Diva’s mother, in which case he’s their father. But it’s also possible that he was their mother’s Chevalier, in which case he could not be their father because a Chiropteran Queen cannot breed with one of her own Chevaliers. Whatever the case, he has been around for a long time and his motives are never fully understood by characters in the story or the audience.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his appearance and comic relief status, he is capable of fight a Chiropteran as good as David is.
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* FormerlyFit: He’s definitely on the heavy side these days, but as a younger man he was a skilled CIA operative and in great shape as evidenced by a photo he shows Okamura (sadly, we the audience don’t get to actually see it).
* TheMenInBlack: He may not fit the traditional archetype in quite the same way that David does, but he still qualifies given that he’s a member of a top secret organization tasked with neutralizing supernatural threats and covering up their existence. It helps that he’s actually a former CIA officer.
* TheMenInBlack: He may not fit the traditional archetype in quite the same way that David does, but he still qualifies given that he’s a member of a top secret organization tasked with neutralizing supernatural threats and covering up their existence. It helps that he’s actually a former CIA officer.
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* HiddenBadass: Insinuates that he's not only stronger than James and Amshel but [[spoiler: that he's the single most powerful being to appear in the show, period. If he truly was the Chevalier of Saya and Diva’s mother, then given how old he is, it would make sense that he’s the strongest character in the story.]]
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* OneWingedAngel: Curiously, he doesn’t seem to have a full-body Chiropteran form as other Chevaliers do. His hand is permanently stuck as a Chiropteran claw (because Saya cut it off when she was in a blind rage from being woken from her hibernation too early) and he does have wings as well, but he never makes a full transformation. It’s never addressed if he’s simply unable to or if he can but chooses not to. Granted, he’s one of the strongest characters in the series even without this ability, but it seems strange that he never exhibits an ability that every other Chevalier in the series does.
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* OneWingedAngel: Curiously, he doesn’t seem to have a full-body Chiropteran form as other Chevaliers do. His hand is permanently stuck as a Chiropteran claw (because Saya cut it off when she was in a blind rage from being woken from her hibernation too early) and he does have has wings as well, but he never makes a full transformation. It’s never addressed if he’s simply unable to or if he can but chooses not to. Granted, he’s one of the strongest characters in the series even without this ability, power, but it seems strange that he never exhibits an ability that every other Chevalier in the series does.
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* OneWingedAngel: Curiously, he doesn’t seem to have a full-body Chiropteran form as other Chevaliers do. His hand is permanently stuck as a Chiropteran claw (because Saya cut it off when she was in a blind rage from being woken from her hibernation too early) and he does have wings as well, but he never makes a full transformation. It’s never addressed if he’s simply unable to or if he can but chooses not to. Granted, he’s one of the strongest characters in the series even without this ability, but it seems strange that he never exhibits an ability that every other Chevalier in the series does.
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