History Characters / PsychedelicaOfTheBlackButterfly

* IllGirl: [[spoiler:She was born with a frail constitution in life, which required expensive medicines. Eventually, she succumbed to her poor health.]]

* AbsoluteCleavage: His jumpsuit is open all the way to his navel.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Yamato literally has blue hair.

* YoungerThanHeLooks: He has the appearance of a dapper, older gentleman, but is a teenager like the rest of the cast.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Hikage" is a nickname. His real name is [[spoiler:something we never learn.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: They call her Usagi due to her rabbit mask. Her real name is [[spoiler:something we never learn.]]

* JapanesePronouns: Uses "atashi".

* JapanesePronouns: Uses "boku".

* JapanesePronouns: Uses "jibun".

* JapanesePronouns: Uses "ore".

* JapanesePronouns: Uses "ore".

* JapanesePronouns: Uses "watashi".

* JapanesePronouns: Uses "ore".

Though he is straightforward to the point of rudeness and appears to have zero concern for the feelings of others, he's very trustworthy and dependable, and often takes the lead in organizing things for the others.

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Very calm and collected, he tries to avoid conflict whenever he can. He is the de facto mediator of the group and is able to put out any fires caused by conflicting personalities.

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Super laid back, his constant string of wry jabs do little more than confuse those around him who don't quite get his sense of humor. He often uses jokes when around others to hide what he's truly thinking.

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A mysterious figure whose visage is hidden behind a fox mask. Though he has saved the group from monster attacks, no one is sure whether he is a friend or foe.

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* MadScientist: [[spoiler:While he was alive, he experimented and researched different types of black magic in a bid to resurrect his dead little sister.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Underneath his gentle, parental demeanor is a manipulative and selfish, if tragic, man obsessed with Ai. This side of him really come out in Monshiro's route and in the "Two in the Ravine" short story.]]

* FiveStagesOfGrief: Primarily Bargaining and some Denial. [[spoiler:In his own words, he's willing to trade anyone and anything for the chance to come back to life and be with Beniyuri. For this reason, he helps Hikage use and sacrifice others for the sake of completing the kaleidoscope. He lists off everything he will do for Beniyurr if she accepts him, and mentions their ChildhoodMarriagePromise as a reason she should. In Monshiro’s route, he tells Kazuya to trade places with him since he’s "better equipped" for Beniyuri. In his ending, he catapults himself and Beniyuri into Denial, living out a [[LotusEaterMachine fantasy of being married]]. In the Common route and Monshiro’s route, he reaches Acceptance, turning on Hikage to help the others escape.]]

* LovingBully: As a kid, he wasn't able to properly express his crush on [[spoiler:the heroine]] and instead bullied her. Now that he's a young adult, he feels pretty terrible about it.

* FiveStagesOfGrief: Primarily Anger and some Bargaining. [[spoiler:In life, he was stuck in Bargaining, selling his pride and doing everything he could to raise money for Usagi's medicine. When she succumbed to her illness, he obsessively researched black magic to bring her back, ultimately finding the kaleidoscope that created Psychedelica. In death, he went into Anger--he had lost his memories, but he knew that he ''hurt'', and everyone around him seemed able to move on peacefully, and he couldn’t figure out how to do the same because he was stewing in those negative feelings. So, he decides that he'll complete and use the kaleidoscope to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery make everyone else feel the same pain he does]]. In all routes save his own, his anger makes him go down swinging.]]

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Unlike the rest of the cast, he's pretty much defined by his relationship with Beniyuri. [[spoiler:This is deliberate and deconstructed, as he died when he was seven, was unable to process it, and clung to his hopes of returning to life so he could fulfill their ChildhoodMarriagePromise.]]

* FiveStagesOfGrief: Depression, and Denial in some bad endings. Before her amnesia, she was perfectly friendly but kept her emotional distance from people out of a desire to NeverBeHurtAgain. Her guilt over [[spoiler:her childhood tragedy]] keeps her from moving on from the past, and it's heavily implied that [[spoiler:she has stopped dating not because she still loves Natsuki, but because she feels it would be a betrayal to his memory]]. Even in the manor, she recalls that her greatest fear is losing those she cares about, and [[spoiler:her pent-up negative emotions put her on the brink of becoming a monster in the Common Route]].In every good ending, she overcomes this, while in bad endings she gets worse.

* JapenesePronouns: Uses "ore".

* JapensePronouns: Uses "ore".

* HelloInsertNameHere: The player can type in any name for the character's real self at the start of the game.

* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:He could have ousted Hikage just by taking off his mask, but he was afraid that if he did, the [[BreakingTheFellowship group was splinter]] and he'd be alone again.]]

* FiveStagesOfGrief: Primarily Anger and some Bargaining. [[spoiler:In life, he was stuck in Bargaining, selling his pride and doing everything he could to raise money for Usagi's medicine. When she succumbed to her illness, he obsessively researched black magic to bring her back, ultimately finding the kaleidoscope that created Psychedelica. In death, he went into Anger--he had lost his memories, but he knew that he ''hurt'', and everyone around him seemed able to move on peacefully, and he couldn’t figure out how to do the same because he was stewing in those negative feelings. So, he decides that when he completes the kaleidoscope, he'll use it to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery make everyone else feel the same pain he does]]. In all routes save his own, his anger makes him go down swinging.]]

* FiveStagesOfGrief: Denial. While his desire to become stronger was perfectly fine, he did so by completely rebranding his image and hiding things that didn't gel with it, such as his love of books. If anyone tries to bring up the boy he used to be, he brushes them off with comments about ThatManIsDead, and the more serious a matter is to him, the more he jokes about it like it's nothing. He expresses the hope that he doesn’t regain his memory because he doesn’t want to take the chance it might be full of painful reminders. In his bad ending, he [[spoiler:completely tunes out reality by creating a little world where it's just himself and Beniyuri, plugging their ears and closing their eyes at anything that could break the illusion]]. He can reach Acceptance outside his own route, but his good ending has him specifically vowing to face the fears and past he spent so long trying to run from.

* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Yamato (initially), Kagiha, Hikage, and Karasuba are all suspicious of him, due to his mask and his penchant for mysteriously appearing, and consider him creepy. He's really just a sweet, shy guy who desperately doesn't want to be alone but completely lacks social graces.

* CompulsiveLiar: [[spoiler:Describes himself as one in his ending. The abusive environment he grew up in forced him to mask his real feelings; his desire to keep Usagi from seeing his hatred for their parents worsened this; and by the time she died, the behavior had been so ingrained he just couldn't stop. His lies were so compulsive that he'd even lost his sense of self.]]

* {{Determinator}}: Shines through on Monshiro's route. [[spoiler:Doesn't matter how much the Abyss terrifies her, how dark it is, how small the odds of successfully navigating it are--she jumps in and walks through it until she finds him, then walks through it until they find a way out. The choice that leads to his True Ending also involves her continually reaching out for him, despite him being well out of sight, and the result? With [[MagicalAccessory the ribbon's help]] and her own sheer will, she defies the odds and ''successfully closes the distance between them''.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: From Chapter 6 on, her friends realize that they know something she doesn't and do everything they can to keep her from discovering what it is. [[spoiler:It's that she [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom involuntarily contributed to Natsuki's death and Kazuya's coma]].]] This only frustrates and hurts her.

* ParentalAbandonment: One of the flashback side stories has him mentioning that he lives with 'relatives' and doesn't know what happened to his parents.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To Hikage, who has been using him the same way he uses everyone else.]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:He could have ousted Hikage just by taking off his mask, but he didn't want to disrupt the bonds the group had formed.]]

* TheAtoner: Yamato desperately seeks forgiveness for [[spoiler:[[ItsAllMyFault his role in creating the events]] that led to Kazuya's coma and Natsuki's death.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:One fateful day at summer camp, he and the rest of the heroes got caught in a flood. While they were trying to travel to safety, he noticed that he'd lost Ai's ribbon, insisted that the others go on without him, and went back to get it. Ai and Natsuki followed him, and while they found the ribbon just fine, the delay made the waters even worse. He and Ai got pulled down, Natsuki drowned rescuing them, and Kazuya was left in a coma. He's not upset about what happened to him, just what happened to Natsuki.]]