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* LoveMakesYouEvil: Her intense feelings for Katsuyuki, coupled with him already rejecting her by choosing Ruka in the beginning, drives her actions for most of the series. [[spoiler:She goes to far into thinking that if she can't have Katsuyuki, the one thing she's wanted all along, then she'll use her powers to infect the entire world and dominate it, so she'll at least have ''something''.]]

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* LoveMakesYouEvil: Her intense feelings for Katsuyuki, coupled with him already rejecting her by choosing Ruka in the beginning, drives her actions for most of the series. [[spoiler:She goes to so far into thinking that if she can't have Katsuyuki, the one thing she's wanted all along, then she'll use her powers to infect the entire world and dominate it, so she'll at least have ''something''.]]



* TragicVillain: Just a simple teenager that got infected with bacteria that gave her odd powers, and a broken heart that fueled her to use those powers in anger. [[spoiler:Becomes this completely towards the end of the series, when she reveals just how much she despises how much her hatred and desire to hurt people is taking up more of her control, obviously fighting to not hurt people anymore.]]

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* TragicVillain: Just She initially seems to really enjoy her abilities and power to turn people into her mindless puppets, using it to mentally torment her twinsister and her boyfriend, who chose Ruka over Rumi by confessing. She even goes to far as to cause harm to the boyfriend's family as a simple teenager middle finger for rejecting her. [[spoiler:Further into the story, Rumi becomes more open about how [[TheVirus the infection]] messed with her mind, and her pain over being rejected was twisted, to the point that got infected with bacteria she openly says that gave her odd powers, and a broken heart that fueled her to use those powers in anger. [[spoiler:Becomes this completely towards the end of the series, when she reveals just how much she despises how much her hatred and desire to hurt harm people is taking up more incessantly growing inside of her control, obviously fighting without her wanting it. The penultimate climax has Rumi outright make it clear that she's putting her last hope on a sense of returning normalcy onto a cure, only for that hope to not hurt people anymore.be shattered where the cure doesn't work.]]



* AngstySurvivingTwin: Played with, as Jean never knew his twinbrother because of vanishing twin syndrome. When Ruka talks about wishing she and Rumi had never separated in-utero to become twins, Jean in turns laments that he would have liked to have had his twin by his side.



* GreaterScopeVillain: The main conflict in the series is the love triangle between the twins and Katsuyuki, especially Rumi wanting to take him away from her twinsister, with a growing emphasis on the infection that caused their gaining of powers. But then Jean steps in and teams up with Rumi, inciting her growing desire to submit the world to her infection and becoming her puppets, he's the one that manages to come up with a prescription formula that can be turned into a cure or re-infection based on which twin's blood is added, and he injected several people with mutated strains and giving them each a piece of the prescription paper. Jean is basically the reason a good chunk of the second half of the series occurs.

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* GreaterScopeVillain: The main conflict in the series is the love triangle between the twins and Katsuyuki, especially Rumi wanting to take him away from her twinsister, with a growing emphasis on the infection that caused their gaining of powers. But then Jean steps in and teams up with Rumi, inciting her growing desire to submit the world to her infection and becoming her puppets, appearing shakes things up, being unclear about whose side he's the one that manages to come up with on and eventually works out a prescription formula for an injection that can be turned into a could cure or re-infection based re-infect other people. And when he's on which twin's blood is added, and death's door, he injected several people with mutated strains and giving them each a piece of scatters the prescription paper. to other people to make things more difficult. Jean is basically the reason a good chunk of for the second half of the series occurs.series.



* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: His powers first manifested when he at home, with his lack of control over them resulting in accidentally causing a fire that killed his family and lover.

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* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: His powers first manifested when he was at home, with his lack of control over them resulting in accidentally causing a fire that killed his family and lover.



* RedHerring: Just like Kirihara before her, she's portrayed as the fourth person to have received the prescription and the virus strain that gives her powers similar to the twins. The true infected is her dog Shin.

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* RedHerring: Just like Kirihara before her, she's portrayed as the fourth person to have received the prescription and the virus strain that gives her powers similar to the twins. The true infected is her dog dog, Shin.


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* AngstySurvivingTwin: After Chris dies while saving Ian, the latter is left mourning his twin and keeping his corpse in a comfortable bed. Ian himself dies shortly after.
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Characters appearing in ''Manga/UmiNoYamiTsukiNoKage''.

'''Warning!''' Due to the nature of certain trope names, there are potential spoilers. Read at your own discretion.

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!! Main Characters

[[folder:Ruka Kobayakawa]]

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Ruka was confessed to by Katsuyuki recently, but she ran off out of consideration for her sister. When the walls of the tomb collapsed and she inhaled the odd scent, she gained odd powers that wax and wane with the moon.\\
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Her specific infection works as an anti-body to Rumi's infection.
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* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler:The series ends with Rumi dead and Ruka mourning her lost twin.]]
* AttemptedRape: Several people attempt to rape her, usually as a form of punishment or torture, rather than wanting to have sex.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Vehemently just wants to return to how things were before she and her sister got infected by the bacteria in the tomb. She especially wants to go back to how her relationship with Rumi used to be.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:After mortally wounding Rumi in one final life-or-death fight, Ruka shoots her in the head.]]
* PreClimaxClimax: Attempts this with Katsuyuki prior to the final showdown with Rumi [[spoiler:because Ruka planned to die alongside her twin]]. But Katsuyuki doesn't go through with it because he knows what Ruka's planning.

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[[folder:Rumi Kobayakawa]]

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Rumi has held feelings for Katsuyuki for a long time, only to see him confessing to her twinsister. She gained odd powers after inhaling a scent in an ancient tomb, and is prepared to use them to obtain Katsuyuki, before her plans expand beyond him.\\
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Her specific infection allows her to put people under her control.
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* BedTrick: [[spoiler:She gets Katsuyuki drunk and slightly addled with sleeping pills, resulting in him mistaking her for Ruka and sleeping with her.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Her intense feelings for Katsuyuki, coupled with him already rejecting her by choosing Ruka in the beginning, drives her actions for most of the series. [[spoiler:She goes to far into thinking that if she can't have Katsuyuki, the one thing she's wanted all along, then she'll use her powers to infect the entire world and dominate it, so she'll at least have ''something''.]]
* MercyKill: What she considers her murder of [[spoiler:the little girl Makoto]], stating that she saved them from eventually realizing just what they had done.
* TragicVillain: Just a simple teenager that got infected with bacteria that gave her odd powers, and a broken heart that fueled her to use those powers in anger. [[spoiler:Becomes this completely towards the end of the series, when she reveals just how much she despises how much her hatred and desire to hurt people is taking up more of her control, obviously fighting to not hurt people anymore.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Kills Makoto after receiving the piece of prescription she held. Rumi considers it a mercy kill, though.]]

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[[folder:Katsuyuki Touma]]

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Katsuyuki is one of the best male athletes on the school's track and field club. He confessed his feelings to Ruka and waited for an answer, aware that she might hold back because of her twinsister.
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* AccidentalAdultery: [[spoiler:Feels ashamed about betraying Ruka, when he realizes that Rumi got him drunk and drugged and abused his altered state to sleep with him.]]
* DistressedDude: Gets kidnapped almost as often as Ruka does, usually by Rumi.
* IntimateHealing: Undresses an injured Ruka and wraps up in a blanket to share body warmth with her.

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[[folder:Jean A. Johnson ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]

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Jean was contacted by Yuuichirou Touma regarding the infection that Rumi and Ruka have been subjected to and he headed to Japan. He was curious about the infection and wished to study it. His exact motives and alignment always seem unclear.
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* CharacterTic: Twirls a strand of his hair around his finger when frustrated.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The main conflict in the series is the love triangle between the twins and Katsuyuki, especially Rumi wanting to take him away from her twinsister, with a growing emphasis on the infection that caused their gaining of powers. But then Jean steps in and teams up with Rumi, inciting her growing desire to submit the world to her infection and becoming her puppets, he's the one that manages to come up with a prescription formula that can be turned into a cure or re-infection based on which twin's blood is added, and he injected several people with mutated strains and giving them each a piece of the prescription paper. Jean is basically the reason a good chunk of the second half of the series occurs.
* HereditaryTwinhood: His town of Karelia had an 80% birth-rate of twins. Jean himself is part of a set of twins, though his is a case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_twin vanishing twin syndrome]], along with having a pair of twin sisters and twin cousins.
* IcyBlueEyes: His eyes are described as being an ice-blue color. It not only fits his very foreign appearance, but also matches his calculating personality.
* ProphetEyes: Gains them when he overuses his powers, with the color draining from his irises and rendering temporarily blind.
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking more in-depth about him is impossible without spoiling his growing role.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: His hometown of Karelia was taken over by the Soviet Union and become a communistic country, leaving him with no place to return to after becoming a refugee in the United Kingdom.

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!! The Prescription Holders

'''Unmarked Spoilers''' for all of these characters, simply because their existence proves that they have been infected by a strain of the twins' virus and have gained powers.

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[[folder:First Prescription Piece]]

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Makoto is the daughter of a couple running a small pension home. She's a little lonely because her parents are often busy running the pension and don't have time to play with her.
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* DeathOfAChild: Gets killed by Rumi after she gets the prescription piece.
* EnfantTerrible: Uses her powers to harm people that have hurt her feelings. It's clear that her young age means she really isn't aware that 'killing' people is bad.
* NoFullNameGiven: Her full name is never mentioned, she's only referred to by her first name Makoto.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Killed both of her parents when they wouldn't accept her with her new powers.
* TeleFrag: The common way she ends up killing people, shoving them into solid objects until they are dead.
* WeaponizedTeleportation: Her powers allow her to go through solid objects, just like the twins do, and she can shove other people and things into them, too.

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[[folder:Second Prescription Piece]]

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Kaoru Mizunagi is a university student that lost his family in a fire. He has a severe grudge against the twins, though the real target of his disgust lies with Jean Johnson.
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* CommonalityConnection: It gets mentioned several times that he and Rumi are very similar, with their actions being driven by a broken heart and not knowing how to deal with their emotions. Especially when Rumi calls him out on harming people around Ruka and Katsuyuki as simply venting, clearly remembering that she herself killed Katsuyuki's parents for the same reason.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses his telekinesis to move his earring around like a tiny, high-speed bullet.
* TheLostLenore: His lover Emiko, who was sleeping at his place when the fire started.
* {{Telekinesis}}: His powers allow him to manipulate things with his mind.
* TragicKeepsake: His ruby earring was intended to become part of a gift for Emiko, as it was her birthstone.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: His powers first manifested when he at home, with his lack of control over them resulting in accidentally causing a fire that killed his family and lover.

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[[folder:Third Prescription Piece]]

!! Takuya Kirihara

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Takuya is a motorbike racer and works several part-time jobs, intent on getting money to pay for his younger brother's many surgeries.
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* CoolBigBro: His younger brother sees him as one, although Takuya was cold to him until a while ago. He works hard to actually live up to his brother's ideal.
* RedHerring: Everything about him indicates that he's the owner of the third prescription piece, as well as being the one infected with the virus strain because of the leather gloves he wears while riding his motorcycle. It's actually Kyoko.

!! Kyoko Shiina

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Kyoko was a third year and senior to Katsuyuki and the twins in the track club, as well as Katsuyuki's previous girlfriend. She graduated and now is a medical student, learning at her father's hospital.
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* HeroicSacrifice: She teleports in front of Katsuyuki, who was about to get hit by a broken telephone mast and its electrical wires, to save him from eletrocution.
* HighVoltageDeath: Dies shortly after receiving an eletrical shock from getting hit by a broken power line.

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[[folder:Fourth Prescription Piece]]

!! Mayuka Morio

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Mayuka invited Rumi and Ruka to her mansion because she knew about them from Jean and requested to have a piece of the prescription. She makes things a game by telling them to search for the prescription in her house, with the winner being the first to find it.
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* GigglingVillain: She plays more of an antagonistic role than a full-on villain role, but that doesn't stop her from giggling a lot when entertained by their antics.
* ItAmusedMe: Her reason for getting Rumi and Ruka taken to her mansion and hiding the piece of prescription paper she has. It serves as a form of entertainment and game to her.
* RedHerring: Just like Kirihara before her, she's portrayed as the fourth person to have received the prescription and the virus strain that gives her powers similar to the twins. The true infected is her dog Shin.

!! Shin

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Mayuka's dog and considered her closest friend.
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* TheBeastmaster: His powers allow him to control other animals.
* CanineCompanion: He was Mayuka's for a long time, then started following Ruka around.
* MeaningfulName: Named after the red star in the Antares Scorpion constellation, which is 'Shin' and written with the kanji for Heart.

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[[folder: Fifth Prescription Piece]]

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Ian and Christian Johanson are identical twins and the cousins of Jean Johnson. They are marine biologists and assisted their cousin in many research matters.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: They are capable of using the powers from the other virus infected people holding prescription pieces.
* ChekhovsGunman: Both were shown on a family photo of Jean's early in the series and turn up towards the end with a much larger, adverserial role.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: They initially mess with the twins psychologically by dressing up to look like Jean, but drop the charade quickly. It's also revealed that they dressed up and did Jean's interviews for him when he was still alive, too.
* GemTissue: They've been experimenting on encasing living beings with pearl matter by placing them inside of oysters for prolong periods of time. They intend to do this with the twins, before sending them to the bottom of the sea to their dead cousin.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Averted, until Katsuyuki manages to leave a cut on Christian's forehead and he retains a scar. Christian actually mentions he's glad people are able to tell them apart now.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Their facial features are very similar to Jean's, which allows them to easily impersonate their deceased cousin with the minor addition of a blond wig.
* TakingTheBullet: Chris throws himself in front of Ian when Ruka shoots him.
* TragicKeepsake: Ian holds onto the two pearls he and Christian successfuly made. He drops them after his death, with Rumi and Ruka each taking one. One of them coats an old picture of Jean's sisters, the other coats the prescription piece they held onto.

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