History Characters / TheSecretWorldTokyoNPCs

* GrayEyes: Appropriate for a powerful psychic.

* PublicDomainCharacter: According to the Buzzing, Inbeda is {{Momotaro}} from the eponymous story, having invented both the persona and the story - which was actually inspired by a plot to get revenge on the Nine Houses and his brother. The end result was the death of the entire Oni warband sent to look for him - far from the merciful ending that appeared in the classic form of the story - followed by Inbeda disguising himself as a human and making up the story of Momotaro out of sheer boredom.

* AnimalMetaphor: Despite his nickname of Steely Dog, Tanaka is more often compared with much less impressive animals: in one entry alone, the Bees compare him to an insect, a mantis shrimp, and an owl - particularly in his tendency to vomit up "speeches filled with bones." Tanaka is most commonly compared to a mouse, apparently because of his desperate and futile attempts to manage a situation beyond his ability to control, being constantly dwarfed by the enormity of the crisis.

[[folder: Inhabitants of Tokyo]]

[[WMG:Masao Tanaka]]

* [[spoiler: AntagonisticOffspring: It turns out that Masao's daughter, Naonomi, is directly responsible for setting off the disaster that her father is struggling to deal with, having trained and directed John into the role of the suicide bomber who released the Filth into Tokyo. For his part, Tanaka still doesn't know, given that the private detective he sent in is getting absolutely nowhere and the players haven't broke the news to him yet.]]

* [[spoiler: OutlivingOnesOffspring]]: [[spoiler: The outro to "One Kill Ahead" features Masao's only daughter, Naonomi Tanaka, being shot dead by the Rabbit Killer. Admittedly, it's not known if he has any other children, and for the time being, Masao remains unaware of what's happened to Naonomi.]]

[[WMG:Harumi]]

[[WMG:Yuichi]]

* ShrinkingViolet: Very, ''very'' shy.
* [[spoiler: SuicideAttack]]: [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that the Fear Nothing Foundation had been grooming Yuichi into a suicide bomber for an attack on Orochi Tower; once he realized what he was actually being prepared for, he couldn't go through with it, abandoning his intended role and the Foundation once and for all. Unfortunately, he wasn't the FNF's only candidate...]]

[[WMG:Ricky Pagan (AKA: Ryuichi Sagawa)]]

[[WMG:Kaoru]]

* [[spoiler: EverybodyWantsTheHermaphrodite]]: [[spoiler: Subverted. Kaoru has been forced to endure a great deal of prejudice and cruelty from people who have learned her secret. So far, the only person who's displayed any sort of sexual interest after learning the truth is Ricky Pagan, but thanks to their disastrous breakup, Kaoru refuses to believe him.]]
* [[spoiler: {{Hermaphrodite}}: It's implied through several lines of dialogue that Kaoru is actually intersex. For example, Kaoru herself mentions that her traumatic "discovery" by the other children occurred while she was swimming, and Ricky Pagan claims ''not'' to have rejected her based on "what Ricky Pagan saw between her legs."]]

[[WMG:Jake Hama (AKA: The Love Hotel Detective)]]

[[WMG:Jung]]

[[WMG:The Rabbit Killer, AKA: The White Rabbit, AKA: [[spoiler:Uta Bloody Valentine]]]]

* [[spoiler:TheDividual]]:[[spoiler:TheReveal that there are three Rabbit Killers who appear to work eerily in sync suggests this trope is in play. The only discernible differences that can be seen are their [[WeaponOfChoice weapons of choice.]]]]

* [[spoiler:LiteralSplitPersonality]]: [[spoiler:A sufferer of dissociative disorder throughout her childhood, Uta eventually made her disorder a physical one with the help of Lilith and an Orochi laboratory - emerging as assassin triplets.]]

* [[spoiler:ManySpiritsInsideOfOne]]: [[spoiler: Born with no less than three distinct personalities as a result of her prenatal cannibalism, Uta was initially an example of this, though doctors unaware of the Secret World provided an official diagnosis of multiple personality disorder - leading her father to abandon her in an asylum. Then Lilith found her and decided to help the girl out.]]

* [[spoiler:[[TwoSiblingsInOne Three Siblings In One]]]]: [[spoiler: Despite having assimilated her two sisters in the womb, Uta found herself unexpectedly lumbered with her dead siblings' minds, manifested as independent personalities. Eventually, Lilith discovered her and decided to give Uta's other selves bodies of their own.]]

[[folder: The Jingu Clan]]
[[WMG: Common Tropes]]

[[WMG: Gozen]]

[[WMG: Akashi]]

[[folder: The House-In-Exile]]

* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Anti-Hero]]: [[spoiler: Normally opposed to accepting contracts that would oblige them to attack Tokyo or its infrastructure, the House-In-Exile decided to waive this rule for the sake of boosting their profits during lean times. So, they accepted several contracts from the Phoenicians, requiring them to assassinate a train conductor, the security guards at the metro control room, and the controller himself; though they were a little confused as to why the Phoenicians would want such mundane targets dead, Inbeda and Co accepted the money without asking questions... right up until a Filth bomb was detonated in the Tokyo subway. In a word, whoops.]]

[[WMG: Inbeda]]

* [[PajamaCladHero Pajama Clad Anti-Hero]]: Inbeda dresses exclusively in a huge bathrobe and a big fluffy pair of slippers - fitting for someone who's gotten accustomed to lounging around by the pool all day. [[spoiler: He even wears it into battle during the assault on Orochi Tower in Issue #11.]] And it's a very expensive bathrobe, as the Buzzing points out... a ''tiger-skin robe,'' no less!

[[WMG: Mask of Kan'ami]]

[[folder: The Korinto-Kai]]
[[WMG: Common Tropes]]

[[WMG: Daimon Kiyota]]

** [[spoiler: MyGrandsonMyself: Implied, in that he all but says this outright when he shows you an image of Ryu...and it's Daimon with a mustache.]]

[[WMG: Yamato]]

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler: Prior to the disaster, the Jingu Clan cooperated openly with the Fear Nothing Foundation, even borrowing vehicles from them in their periodic journeys up to Gozen's mountain retreat. Furthermore, neither Gozen nor Akashi noticed anything amiss about the FNF, even when ''Jake Hama'' recognized that the members were being brainwashed. And they ''still'' don't suspect the Foundation or the Morninglight of anything even now!]]

* KnightTemplar: Just as fanatical as the Templars, if not moreso; while the Jingu Clan maintain the moral highground over the other two factions in Tokyo, they're becoming increasingly blinded by their devotion to their war against the Oni, at one point going so far as to conduct drive-bys against the Bathhouse - not only wasting resources that could have been better spent fighting the Filth or the Nine Houses, but also risking the lives of the Bathhouse's innocent human staff in the process.

* {{Samurai}}: An entire clan of them updated for the modern era; though they do use guns in defence of the Diner, the majority of them abide by the traditional code of Bushido, wield Katanas, wear traditional robes, and abide by the traditional tenets of Bushido. For good measure, Akashi goes so far as to wear the iconic Samurai armour.

--> Yamato, who runs the Korinto-Kai? [...] Who sees the angles? Who hears the ball screaming in the machine? [...] Who rips the wings off [[ButterflyOfDoom butterflies?]] Who makes his ''own'' hurricanes? [...] When the thousand hells open, when the sky starts eating people, who'll protect you? Who do the demons look at and say, "FUCK! He's ''loony!"'' Who is going to drag this organization, '' kicking and screaming,'' into a new era? ''WHO,'' YAMATO? BEAT YOUR GUMS AND TESTIFY! '' '''[[SayMyName WHO!?]]''' ''

* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: The Mask indicates that he'd be happy to turn every single member of the Jingu Clan into a human centipede by running a length of barbed wire through their mouths and out their anuses. He'd also be happy to use the resulting human centipede for a mount.

* HellOnEarth: Firmly believes this is the case, and has been for many years, having used his exhaustive study of [[TakeThat American reality programs]] to determine that there is no longer any difference between Earth and Hell.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ricky rarely ever loses his grip on his persona, even in the apocalyptic aftermath of the Tokyo Incident; in just about every single line of dialogue, he remains brash, cool and thoroughly Elvis-like, only acknowledging the identity of Ryuichi Sagawa as an origin story. However, in the intro to "The Pagans," Ricky's confidence briefly fails him when he admits that he couldn't save his gang... and then the Black Signal tunes in with a BreakingSpeech, causing Ricky's identity to shift back into Ryuichi Sagawa - terrified, guilt-ridden and powerless.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Ricky generally refers to himself in the third person, though he does allow a few liberties when mentioning his former self. However, it's the use of "I" in a moment of stress that indicates that Ricky's persona might be in for a temporary breakdown.

** He's also a bit irritated when he realizes you're a Westerner, because he finds English - ''[[Main/HistoryOfEnglish English]]!'' - a boring language to speak.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Due to his experiences, he knows more than the people might realize at first. His quote above is almost the same as more conventional descriptions of the Filth, and the Vampire Squid Gods he mentions fit that the description as well.

--> Yamato, who runs the Korinto-Kai? [...] Who sees the angles? Who hears the ball screaming in the machine? [...] Who rips the wings off [[ButterflyOfDoom butterflies?]] Who makes his ''own'' hurricanes? [...] When the thousand hells open, when the sky starts eating people, who'll protect you? Who do the demons look at and say, "FUCK! He's ''loony!"'' Who is going to drag this organization, '' kicking and screaming,'' into a new era? ''WHO,'' YAMATO? BEAT YOUR GUMS AND TESTIFY! '' '''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion WHO!?]]''' ''

* BigLittleMan: First introduced holding an uzi to the player's head from behind a chained door, it's not until the camera shifts to the opposite side of the door that it becomes apparent that Harumi is actually a head shorter than the player - and much younger, too.

* NoExceptYes: How he describes his Pachinko machine, claiming that "it was not always a Pachinko machine... but it always was." Curiously enough, [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike the Buzzing use the exact same terms to describe it during the lore entry.]]

* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: [[spoiler: Subverted - but only ''just.'' Though "All Alone Together" leaves Harumi with the sobering knowledge that a huge chunk of her online friends have been killed in the aftermath of the Filth-bombing, she isn't the last of her group: Darkdeathevilman is alive and hiding in a dumpster, whilst Amaya has deserted her Orochi employers and left Tokyo altogether - apparently via Agartha - and can now be found seeking refuge at the Sunken Library.]]

->''It's not feng shui. It's not old men eating fortune cookies and shitting diarrhoea wisdom. It's not white folk miming spiritual depth in the New Age book isle. It's ripping your face off, leaping through a plate glass window because it turns the opposition's gills green! It's knowing exactly how many teeth, fingers, and toes you have to lose to get exactly what you want... and then anteing up!''

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: Finally confesses to his role in the Tokyo bombing in the intro to "The Manufactory," and though he seems a little more subdued than usual, Kiyota doesn't seem too repentant - especially considering that he'd already arranged a plan to ensure that the Filth could be cleansed from Kaidan. For good measure, he even dismisses the collateral damage of his scheme with a quip of "[[YouCantMakeAnOmlette You wanna party, sometimes you gotta blow out a whole lotta candles]]."]]

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* OddFriendship: Despite being just as opposed to chaos as the Templars and notably disapproving of Daimon Kyota's manic audacity, Gozen regards the Dragon with a surprising amount of respect; though she openly admits that the Jingu and the Dragon are nothing alike in terms of goal, she admires them for their dedication to the lifestyle of "a centipede, one hundred feet flailing in one hundred directions," a role she acknowledges must be difficult to play.

* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: Played with in Issue 12. In the Manufactory's introductory cutscene, he expresses some quiet regret for the results of the Bomb. His granting access to the dungeon is explained as his way of initiating his backup plan to cleanse Tokyo of the Filth.]]

* MotorMouth: Already a fast-talker by nature, he amplifies this tendency in order to intimidate Yamato in the opening to "The Pachinko Model." More specifically, he does so right in the middle of the Fugu Roulette game, at the very moment when Yamato is plucking up the courage to consume a portion of the possibly-lethal meal.
--> Eat! What are you waiting for? This is fun! Hurry, eat! Hurry hurry-hurry-hurry-hurryhurryhurryhurry'' '''HURRYYYYYYYYY!!''' ''

* FamousAncestor: [[spoiler: The Dragon claims that his father is none other than Music/ElvisPresley himself.]]

* BadassCrew: Even with their numbers whittled down to roughly ten Oni in total, even with the Filth milling in the streets outside the bathhouse, even with the armies of the Nine Houses amassing in the park behind them, the House-In-Exile's headquarters have yet to fall.

* CriticalStaffingShortage: The Tokyo Incident has left the House-In-Exile's membership seriously depleted, with many of them having died in combat with the Filth or the Nine Houses, and an entire squad being wiped out by the Rabbit Killer; as such, there's barely ten of them left to defend the bathhouse. However, [[ConservationOfNinjitsu these ten are more than tough enough to keep the bathhouse safe from attack.]]

* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: Played with in Issue 12. In the Manufactory's introductory cutscene, he expresses some quiet regret for the results of the Bomb. And, his giving access of the Manufactory dungeon is give the storyline context of furthering his backup plan to cleanse Tokyo of the Filth.]]

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: While previous masters of the Clan have affixed the title of "Gozen" to their own names, the current leader of the Jingu Clan is known by her title, an [[JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] commonly used to describe noblewomen.

* ButtMonkey: Just about every single scene Yamato participates in usually results in him being terrorized, mutilated, or just embarrassed.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [Issue #10 reveals that the lion's share of assassinations committed by the Rabbit Killer over the course of the last two issues were [[spoiler: all part of the Orochi Group's revenge on the Fear Nothing Foundation and the Morninglight]] - or, as Issue #11 clarifies [[spoiler: ''Lilith's'' revenge for the Morninglight's betrayal.]]

* [[spoiler:[[TwoSiblingsInOne Three Siblings In One]]]]: [[spoiler:Uta got her start in life as triplets in the womb, right up until the bigger of the three absorbed her sisters; however, her sisters lived on in her as separate personalities. Eventually, Lilith discovered her and decided to give Uta's other selves bodies of their own.]]