History Characters / TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer

* PhysicalGod: Animus' AGodAmI shtick isn't just hot air. [[spoiler:Due to his powers, he's far older than most mortals, can breathe in space, create anything he wants, and has full control over his powers.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: He never wears them at any point. Instead, he just goes barefoot with the outfit he's always ever worn - his pajamas.

* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:It's implied near the end of the series that he eventually reincarnates into Akitani Inatika after he finally dies, making up for his karma of having repeatedly destroyed the Earth.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: He's never wears them at any point. Instead, he just going with the outfit he's always ever worn - his pajamas.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: It isn't mentioned that he doesn't ''like them'' per se, but he never, ever wears them, instead just going with the outfit he's always ever worn - his pajamas.

* BladeOnAStick: Doesn't actually wield one, but [[CallingYourAttacks names his special attack]] "Houtengeki" after an ancient military polearm.

Shea Moon the Snake Knight is far more open and forward than Hakudou, as he tries to encourage her to be open with her hobbies and share them with others, especially a certain bespectacled young college student who ends up catching her eye.

* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler:Ge eentually gets into a relationship with Hakudou.]]

* ClingyMacGuffin: He used for jokes when he keeps coming back after Yuuhi throws him out of the apartment.

* HeroSecretService: The job of the Beast Knights is not only to stop the mage from using the Biscuit Hammer on the world, but also to protect and serve the Princess and her Master until the end of their mission.

* SuperMode: Each Beast Knight can be upgraded to one of the three Mystical Beast Knights; Unicorn, Hraesvelgr, or Invisible. The beast becomes larger and more intimidating, while the knight becomes even stronger. [[spoiler:We get to see the forms of the Unicorn for Horse, Hraesvelgr for Owl and Crow, and Invisible for Snake and Lizard.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:In the last chapter, it's revealed Hisame and Hangetsu are the ancestors of Anima and Animus.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: Hangetsu, Yuuhi, and their partners are surprised to learn Sami's 16 years old at her birthday party, given how short and slender she is.

* ShipperOnDeck: Late in the series, she learns of Hakudou crush on Yuuhi and encourages her to act on it.

* TheGlassesComeOff: Only for practice against other knights [[spoiler:and the fight with Hakudou over who will earn the power of Invisible]]. He's not really BlindWithoutEm but he keeps them on in golem fights anyway because going without them would still be an impairment.

* HotTeacher: A beautiful professor in her mid-twenties. Hangetsu, in particular, is head over heels as soon as he meets her.

* OverprotectiveDad: Grandfather in this case. This turned into outright paranoia after Yuuhi's father was murdered, which he took out on Yuuhi in an absolutely nightmarish way. Yuuhi shows several signs of what might be PTSD at the start as a result.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:When realizing Taiyou is starting to have doubts about destroying the world, Loki tells him that he doesn't have to actually follow Animus like he told him to do, and he will support him nonetheless. He then breaks down crying, realizing that it is only natural that a kid such as himself would desire a future].]

* OverprotectiveDad: He acts like one with Subaru. In particular, he very much disapproves of Mikazuki, and doesn't mind voicing said disapproval in front of him, much to Subaru's consternation.

* DefusingTheTykeBomb: After hearing from Yuuhi that Ludo told him to beware the Owl Knight, Nagumo takes it upon himself to research Taiyou, just in case. While he doesn't find anything incriminating, he learns Taiyou doesn't have the best home life and often eats out by himself, so he decides to take him out to eat ramen, helping Taiyou learn that food tastes better when around friends. [[spoiler:Unbeknownst to Nagumo, he actually planted the seeds for Taiyou's eventual HeelFaceTurn]].

* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler:A throwaway line in the last chapter reveals he used his wish to win the lottery]].

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentarouKumagai (Japanese), Michael Stimac (English)

Hisame is Samidare's older sister, and at 27 years old the two have an 11 year gap between them. They get along well now, but that gap - made worse by Samidare's illness - was once nearly insurmountable. Hisame is a professor at a local university, where she also teaches a physics class for Yuuhi and is Mikazuki's academic advisor. She's not very fond of Yuuhi, thanks to his gloomy nature and his increasing closeness to Samidare, though she's not party to the real nature of their relationship.

* CoolBigSis: Hisame became this to Samidare after coming back from France, and she tries to be one for Yuuhi after begrudgingly accepting him into the household. As the story becomes more concerned with the fight and less with their personal lives, Hisame fades to the background, while Yayoi and Anima pick up a bit of the slack in her place.

Asahina Shigure is Samidare and Hisame's father. He is also a published author of action novels, with a sizable series under his belt. He stayed in Japan to raise Samidare for most of her life, but now travels extensively to research and find inspiration for his writing.

Asahina Haruko is Samidare and Hisame's mother. She is an accomplished and famous doctor, and threw all her energies into solving her second daughter's illness. Unfortunately, the best research opportunities were in a hospital in France, forcing her to live apart from Samidare and her husband, estranging mother and daughter as a result.

* DeadPersonConversation: He has one with Yuuhi in the endgame, briefly talking about the circumstances of his death and then welcoming him back into the Amamiya household before leaving. It's kept ambiguous whether or not Yuuhi actually talked to him or if it was just an illusion Anima made up.

* HotBlooded: He is always in the mood to rumble, and having a good time with the others.

* TheStoic: She very rarely emotes, although she wears a painted smile most of the time. [[spoiler:When Tarou dies]], [[NotSoStoic she begins to crack]] under the stress of losing him, culminating in the aforementioned RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Yuki's Red.
* TheSmartGirl: Nagumo acknowledges her as one of the smarter knights. She is the one who comes up [[spoiler:with a CombinationAttack using the domains of all remaining knights, which allows them to defeat the final and most powerful golem in just a few hits]].

* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: She vreates the Strongest Spear and Invincible Shield with Yukimachi.

* TheChampion: For Samidare, though it takes him a while to be able to live up to the title.
* ChivalrousPervert: There are times that he actually outright states he's about to do something perverted, and usually doesn't deny it when he does.

* PosthumousCharacter: By the time we get to learn anything about him, he's been long since killed by Skirophorion. He at least had the sense to write about his life's story in a novel he passed to Yuuhi.

Hakudou is a young woman in her early 20s who hides a terrible secret: [[ClosetGeek she still likes anime and manga]], and likes to {{Cosplay}} as a hobby. She is gentle and kind in manner, tall and pretty, and in many ways prime material as an ideal Japanese housewife. Just one who also practices swordplay on a regular basis and could probably thump most men she comes across. Many of the Beast Knights look up to her, and trust her combat abilities implicitly.

* ActionGirl: She's one of the better warriors among the knights, often fights the golems head on.

* TheAntiNihilist: She is of the mind that, since everyone dies eventually, people should make the most of their lives and die without regrets.

Shea Moon the Snake Knight is far more open and forward than Yayoi, as he tries to encourage her to be open with her hobbies and share them with others, especially a certain bespectacled young college student who ends up catching her eye.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Yayoi finds her something of an embarrassing mother figure. She certainly acts like one, with her constant prodding to get her and Yuuhi together.
* ShipperOnDeck: Shea tries and fails to get Yayoi and Yuuhi together.

* {{Synchronization}}: The attendants and their masters, upon making a pact, are tied to each other until the end of the master's life. This means that they'll also be able to share any pain the master gets, at least [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in the early series]], and disappear when their master dies.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: He really hates that Hangetsu insists on calling him Noko.

The golems are Animus's minions and his equivalent to the Beast Knights. Where the knights are granted roughly comparable powers and the ability to work together, the golems are (usually) sent out alone one after the other, as it takes Animus time to prepare the more powerful ones. Even so, the weakest are nothing to laugh at when the knights themselves are still just learning and at their most vulnerable.

* MissingMom: As a famous and highly-skilled doctor, when she isn't busy with researching a cure for Sami's SoapOperaDisease, she's busy with other patients. She visits when she can, but given her hospital is in France, that's not often.

* GruesomeGrandparent: "Make no enemies, they'll stab you in the back. Make no friends, they'll stab you in the heart. Including you, including me, all men are trash." This was repeated to young and impressionable Yuuhi three times a day for over ten years, sometimes while Yuuhi was ''bound in chains''.

* OverprotectiveDad: Grandfather in this case. This turns into outright paranoia after Yuuhi's father was murdered, which he took out on Yuuhi in an absolutely nightmarish way. Yuuhi shows several signs of what might be PTSD at the start as a result.

* ThemeNaming: [[spoiler:As Anima reveals to Yuuhi, each beast is a reference to one she and Animus thought they could see on the moon. Yuuhi is naturally rather surprised to hear this.]]

* StrongFamilyResemblance: She looks an awful lot like Haruko, save for the eye bags and shorter hair her mother has.

* LoveAtFirstPunch: To contrast him with Hangetsu falling in LoveAtFirstSight with Hisame. He claims that has has fallen in love with Samidare after she knocks him down, but while he seems to have a thing for her afterwards, he never really acts on it, other than betting a date with her with Yuuhi at one point.