History Characters / ImStandingOnAMillionLives

* TheStrategist: Glenda shows signs of being this. She was able to devise a plan to fool a cartel leader to letting her into letting her guard his daughter. Later, she was able to defend a location from - and eventually defeat - the cartel army when she and the troops she was leading were outnumbered and outgunned.

* {{Meganekko}}: She wears glasses.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is illustrated as a shade of purple in the anime.

->'''Voiced by:''' Makoto Koichi (Japanese), Creator/TaraSands (English)

* {{Expy}}: Shares almost all of the same traits as Spear Hero Motoyasu in ''The Rising of the Shield Hero''.

* ChickMagnet: It's noted that in the other world, Yotsuya becomes a lot more focused and driven, and likewise will do anything necessary to protect someone he deems "important". For instance, he instantly dove into murky waters to save Kahvel from drowning, and not only protected Aoiu, but single-mindedly did whatever was necessary to save their island, resulting in both those girls falling in love with him. Kusue and Yuka note that his determination to protect them means he treats those women specially, and more like "people" -- traits which make him ''very'' attractive to them.

* ChickMagnet: It's noted that in the other world, Yotsuya becomes a lot more focused and driven, and likewise will do whatever he deems necessary to protect someone he deems "important". For instance, he instantly dove into murky waters to save Kahvel from drowning, and not only protected Aoiu, but single-mindedly did whatever was necessary to save their island, resulting in both those girls falling in love with him. Kusue and Yuka note that his determination to protect them means he treats those women specially, and more like "people" -- traits which make him ''very'' attractive to them.

* {{Expy}}: Could be seen as one for Kazuma from LightNovel/KonoSuba. He's the NoRespectGuy who, on paper, appears to be TheLoad to his party of powerful warriors, when in reality it's his party who's useless due to either their personality quirks or their abilities, while he's TheSmartGuy who comes up with the strategies that help them complete quests.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[LightNovel/KonoSuba Darkness]]. Both are blond (though Kahvel's hair is darker) Noblewomen who became [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights In Shining Armor]] wielding {{BFS}}s, but also go against their Knightly visage by veering in a certain direction in the CombatSadomasochist scale, with Kahvel being a BloodKnight obsessed with cutting while Darkness is TooKinkyToTorture and intentionally chose to be a Tank since it give her more opportunities to experience pain. For added bonus, she's voiced by Creator/CristinaVee, who voices Darkness.

* RescueRomance: Hinted to have grown feelings for Kazuya after she fishes her out of a lake and heals her stab wound, passing out in the process. She actually comes close to kissing him in his unconscious state before the other girls walk in and see.

->'''Voiced by:''' Yūto Uemura (Japanese), Creator/ZenoRobinson (English)

->'''Voiced by:''' Azumi Waki (Japanese), Valeria Rodriguez (English)

* TokenGoodTeammate: While Yuka and Shindo are very, very quick to whine and bellyache regarding Yotsuya, she's always willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. For example, in episode 4, Yuka and Shindo were calling him "scum" because he didn't ''immediately'' try to rush a camp full of bandits to rescue them (which is abjectly suicidal even if he could fight back and kill them) while Kusue quietly prayed for his safety.
** Later on, after Kahvel is stabbed and falls into a lake, Tatsuya, as a sign of CharacterDevelopment, jumps in to save her. Hakozaki is the only one to recognize this, whereas Shindo and Tokitate are quick to assume he's only doing it because he's more attracted to Kahvel than them, seemingly ignoring the fact that unlike them, Kahvel ''can'' die, permanently.

--> Voiced by: Creator/ChiwaSaito (Japanese), Creator/CristinaValenzuela (English)

* CuteButPsycho: She has an unhealthy obsession with cutting flesh.

A blonde drop-out in his late-teens with a penchant for street fights. Keita is introduced being set up to take the the fall for killing a guy for the yakuza. Under the guidance of the GM, Yotsuya thwarts the murder attempt and saves Keita and his family from the clutches of the yakuza.

* DrivenToSuicide: His dead-end corporate job drove him to attempt suicide just to try some sort of inconvenience for his employers. Fortunately, Yotsuya prevented this from taking.
* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Worked for as a programmer for a black company.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When he arrives in the game for the first time, Futashige thought he was going to be in a harem isekai with a cheat skill. He found out REAL quick how wrong he was.

* TheStrategist: Glenda shows signs of being this. She was able to devise a plan to fool a cartel leader to letting her into letting her guard his daughter. Later, she was able to defend a location - and eventual defeat the cartel army - when she and the troops she was leading were severely outnumbered.

* TheOneGuy: For unexplained reasons, he's the only guy who was chosen by the GM to be whisked away to the alternate game-like world. All the rest are girls.

An English-speaking young woman who travels and creates short films. Glenda is introduced by being prompted by the GM to meet Yotsuya and to "judge" him - as she filmed him. It is revealed that Glenda is an open lesbian, which has[[DarkAndTroubledPast caused issues with her family]].

! Supporting Characters:

[[folder: The GM]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gm.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Hello, [Player Name] (hand on shoulder from behind). I will now explain the rules to.]] The entity that summons the cast to an alternate game-like world, gives out jobs by roulette, and quests.

* ExactWords: He considers the quests he gives to Yotsuya's party complete if whatever they do just happens to meet the criteria, as Yotsuya realizes when he wakes up out of his coma near the end of episode 7.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He apparently made it so that attacking other humans, [[CrimeOfSelfDefense even when they're the instigators]], would reduce experience gained to discourage such behavior, but he apparently has no issue with forcing the Heroes to help transport "heretic" prisoners to be executed, one of which is a child.
* LiteralGenie: He will answer the quest reward question exactly as it's asked. He does not grasp sarcasm or subtlety.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Since he only explains the ground rules, gives jobs via roulette, and assigns quests, and then just leaves, the quest party members tend to die, a lot, which might have been avoided if he actually answered questions, aside from the one question he answers when a quest reward.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In episode 6, Yotsuya comes to the conclusion that the GM had them encounter the Deokk group just to see how the party would act.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: At the end of episode two, Yotsuya asks the logical question AndThenWhat, once all the quests are completed. The GM provides a holographic video showing Tokyo being attacked by monsters with Yotsuya leading the defense.
* VerbalTic: The GM has an annoying habit of finishing a sentence missing the final syllable.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The reason he's kidnapping these kids and putting them through a NintendoHard alternate game-like world is to train them up to deal with an oncoming monster invasion into Tokyo, where millions of lives are at stake.

[[folder: Kahvel]]
--> Voiced by: Creator/ChiwaSaito (Japanese), Creator/CristinaValenzuela (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:There's nothing I like more than cutting living flesh!]]A knight Yotsuya meets at a martial arts tournament he participates in so as to acquire horses to complete the GM's quest. She beats him in a matter of seconds.

* AceCustom: Her sword Loikayeska is custom-ordered, costing 20 times the price of a regular sword, and can cut through necks like a hot knife through butter.
* BloodKnight: For bonus points, she's an actual knight. As seen in the image quote, her favorite activity is slicing living flesh.
* CulturalRebel: She does not want to be the "happy housewife" because then she won't be able to enjoy cutting through living flesh, so she begged her father to let her become a knight. He agreed to keep her happy and out of trouble.
* CuteButPsycho: She has an unhealthy obsession with cutting flesh.
* DorkKnight: From a distance, she's the epitome of a KnightInShiningArmor. Up close, she's as goofy as all get out.
* EveryoneHasStandards: BloodKnight obsessed with cutting she may be, but she's a genuinely dedicated Knight who takes clear issue with the actions of the Kingdom of Deokk, such as them executing people of the Asteros religion and their conquering of other regions and forcing their inhabitants into slavery.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[LightNovel/KonoSuba Darkness]]. Both are blond (though Kahvel's hair is darker) Noblewomen who became [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights In Shining Armor]] wielding {{BFS}}s, but also go against their Knightly visage by veering in a certain direction in the CombatSadomasochist scale, with Kahvel being a BloodKnight obsessed with cutting while Darkness is TooKinkyToTorture and intentionally chose to be a Tank since it give her more opportunities to experience pain. For added bonus, she's voiced by Creator/CristinaVee, who voices Darkness.
* AFriendInNeed: Without her help, there's no way Yotsuya would have managed to rescue the rest of his party from bandits, or finished the GM assigned quest to get to the other side of the country in less than 35 days.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Aside from her love of cutting live flesh, she's a dirty blonde and a good, kind woman who protects the innocent, helps the helpless, and is otherwise morally upstanding.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Gets stabbed by a Gargoyle and falls into the water below. She survives though.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Literally. She's a knight, wears shining armor, and also lives up to the trope by helping the helpless, rescuing innocents, and smiting the guilty.
* MentorArchetype: She takes up training Yotsuya's party in how to handle the sword. As tough as her training is, this is something they all really, really need.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: She reveals that her kingdom has a ranking system for it's Knights, 3,000 in total, and she ranks 70th. When the others note how impressive this is, she mentions that her father ranks 2nd while her older brother ranks 8th, meaning she's just average in the grand scheme of things. The main reason she's so ahead of the party in combat skill is because she simply has more experience.
* PragmaticHero: While she would very much love to rescue the "heretics" Kamilto and crew are planning to execute, preferably by slicing through Kamilto's squad, she'd rather not start a war with the Deokk empire, because her country would lose, handily. So she listens intently to Yotsuya's plan... which wound up making Kamilto [[FateWorseThanDeath wish he had died.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: After completely trouncing Yotsuya in the martial arts tournament, she had absolutely no obligation to help him, especially as a noble's daughter and a high-ranked knight. She could have blown him off, but instead heard him out, took him to her captain when he came forward with how his three friends were being held by bandits for ransom, and mounted a rescue operation with a contingent of knights and then asked to join his party on their journey and train them all in the way of the sword in lieu of a reward.
* RescueRomance: Hinted to have grown feelings for Kazuya after she fishes her out of a lake and heals her stab wound, passing out in the process. She actually comes close to kissing him in his unconscious state before the other girls walk in and see.
* SingleStrokeBattle: Dished one of these out to Yotsuya in the first round of the tournament, beheading him in seconds.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: She ''will'' kill Kamilto the next time she sees him in revenge for her innocent subordinates who died in the death-trap filled dungeon he lured them all into.

! Antagonists:

[[folder: Vice Corporal Kamilto]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kamilto.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:I can't understand a word you're saying, but I know you're insulting my king!]] The leader of a squad transporting a group of death-row condemned "criminal heretics" from the faith of Asteros. He and his group take an immediate dislike to Yotsuya's party despite being rescued in episode 5.

* AnAxToGrind: As an executioner of heretics, he wields a large axe and is hinted to know how to use it.
* AndThenWhat: Supposing that the war goes well and Deokk manages to conquer the continent, what's going to happen when there's no one else to enslave? How is the "god king" going to keep his oath to give the widows, orphans, and crippled war-veterans one free slave per household then?
* CulturalPosturing: As part of his introductions, he goes out of his way to insult Kahvel's nation of origin, thinking his larger country is inherently superior. Kahvel responds in kind.
* CycleOfRevenge: Nobody knows who started it, but for generations his "King worship" faction and the Asterious "God and King" faction have been locked in a blood-feud where both sides are constantly vying to destroy everything precious to each other, for generations, the final straw being the toppling of some statues belonging to revered legendary "heroes" and the burning of some "holy texts."
* DespairEventHorizon: Invoked. Yotsuya schemed to drive him and his men to despair in revenge for the murder of Kahvel's subordinates, to at least delay, if not stop, a pending war between Deokk and Kahvel's home country, the latter of which would lose, handily, and to rescue the three "heretic" prisoners. [[spoiler: Yotsuya made this guy's task impossible by replacing the missionaries with mannequins, used one of Kamilto's own men in place of the pastor, and set them all on fire, using vengeance for Kahvel and two of his team-mates trapped in the maze Kamilto himself lured them into as a pretext. Now Kamilto has to answer to his "beloved" king, who isn't going to take his failure lightly.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The narrative is an eerie match to Japan's dark history of persecution of Christianity. The emperor, worshipped as a god, saw Christianity as synonymous with "treason," and his followers put more and more pressure on the church until the church had enough and fought back, at which time Imperial decree called them "evil" and purges were undertaken, leaving no house safe.
* EnemyMine: The entirety of episode 6 involves him and his squad loathing the fact that they're being escorted by Yotsuya's party, especially Kahvel, but seeing as they needed to deliver their prisoners alive to Rodoboro, they had no choice but to accept the escort, especially Yotsuya's healing magic. Of course, at the very first opportunity, he betrays, tricks, and traps them in a labyrinth full of death-traps.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Seeing them in dire straits in episode 5, Yotsuya's party rushes in to help them fight off the [Kobold] werewolves. The moment the monsters are defeated, they begin angrily glaring at the heroes and Kahvel, and it only gets worse from there.
* FreudianExcuse: As a small child, his father came home from war badly and permanently crippled. It's only because his country's king gave the family of every badly crippled or killed war veteran one free slave that he and his surviving relatives managed to avoid starving to death in abysmal poverty.
* TheFundamentalist: He and his squad worship their sovereign king like a god and will respond with lethal force against anyone who disagrees, the very first chance they get.
* MoralMyopia: Attacking and declaring war with every other nation? Well, the king has good intentions, so it must be okay. The attacked nations dare to fight back? They're "evil" and must be completely conquered, the citizens enslaved. After all, how are the families of the crippled and killed soldiers expected to survive otherwise?
* PragmaticVillainy: He allows the Heroes party to accompany his company, but only because they need the prisoners alive for the execution and Yatsuya is the only one capable healing magic. [[SubvertedTrope He is however]] quick to betray them and leave them to die when Tokitate gives him and his Kingdom a ReasonYouSuckSpeech and the others do a poor job at hiding their agreement with her.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Starting with the current king, each household in Deokk is entitled to one slave for each household as spoils of war. While this was [[FreudianExcuse done by the king to prevent widespread poverty]], [[JerkassHasAPoint and while Yotsuya and Shindo admit it makes sense from a logical standpoint]], [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse they still don't agree with them due to the]] MoralMyopia in their actions.
* TautologicalTemplar: Since he sees his king as an unflinchingly good man, then everything the king does must be unflinchingly good too, even if that includes conquering and enslaving every other country in the world.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: If you're not openly cheering for the country of Deokk and its king, especially the goal of TakeOverTheWorld, you are "evil" and must be slain.

* BookDumb: Keita dropped-out of middle school, so he doesn't have the same level of knowledge as the other players. Although he makes up for it with his StreetSmart]].

! Supporting Characters:

[[folder: The GM]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gm.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Hello, [Player Name] (hand on shoulder from behind). I will now explain the rules to.]] The entity that summons the cast to an alternate game-like world, gives out jobs by roulette, and quests.

--> Voiced by: Creator/ChiwaSaito

* {{Expy}}: Of [[LightNovel/KonoSuba Darkness]]. Both are blond (though Kahvel's hair is darker) Noblewomen who became [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights In Shining Armor]] wielding {{BFS}}s, but also go against their Knightly visage by veering in a certain direction in the CombatSadomasochist scale, with Kahvel being a BloodKnight obsessed with cutting while Darkness is TooKinkyToTorture and intentionally chose to be a Tank since it give her more opportunities to experience pain.