History Creator / Charon

[[caption-width-right:350:A self-portrait, as seen in her works.]]

** Somehow inverted with former mascot, Misato "Misa", from Paranoia, where she made her debut in Menherafflesia [[spoiler: during the epilogue.]] This could count as an AscendedExtra, due to her prominent role in Charon's next game.
* CreatorsOddball:
** ''You, Me and Empty Words'' and ''VideoGame/TsukimiPlanet'' are stark contrasts to Charon's other works. The first game is based on a true story while the second one is a very tragic tale about someone dying. Both games are one of the few ones in Charon's game-making career that don't include a {{Yandere}}. They also don't carry the dark tone that the other games have.
** ''The Dark Side of Red Riding Hood'' is another game that stands out on Charon's list. It tells a variation of the ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' story, giving a DarkerAndEdgier look. It includes Red Riding Hood [[spoiler: killing her grandmother, getting lost, getting turned into a sex slave, being cannibalized and being sold for child labor.]]

* KidHero: Typically, the player characters are teenagers with a couple protagonists like Mitarou and Hotarou being actual kids.
* LastSecondEndingChoice: This creator is fond of using this trope.

* MultipleEndings: Her games have at least two endings available.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Some of the "Bad Ends" are actually the happier endings in comparison to the True Ends.
** Subverted with ''Makoto Mobius'', which has ''multiple'' Bad Ends and one True End. All the Bad Ends for that game are actually quite depressing. [[spoiler:Unless Watarou killed himself, neither Makoto nor his family would live in peace.]]
** Also subverted with ''Mikoto Nikki'', with the "Bad Ends" being the harsh endings instead of the True End. [[spoiler:The only way to turn things around was just to hug Mikoto to ensure everything's alright.]]
* OddNameOut: Recently, there are a few male leads that have names that don't end with "-tarou:"
** In Millefiori, the male lead and Rikana's friend is named Kojirou (though it's still pretty close to the fact his name has "-rou" in the end, without the "-ta-" in between).
*** The same goes for Blanco/[[spoiler:Shiro]] from Vanilla -Garden Of Judgement-.

* OnlySixFaces: It's pretty clear that Charon's characters are based off of character bases. They just have different hair and eye colors and hair styles.

** Mikoto can arguably be Charon's favorite character, due to the usage of her image on their logos.
** Prior to this, however, Misa of ''Paranoia'' was the frequent icon of Charon's - appearing a few times on several loading screens.

** The male character, if one is provided, have a name ending with "-tarou".

** Two types of endings are available: Bad and True.
** The game will have some influences drawn from other games and anime. A primary influence on her {{Yandere}} games is Manga/FutureDiary.
** Music from other games and/or anime is used.
** At least one character is a {{Yandere}} or psychologically-challenged.
** The protagonist will have a set of skills put in as a joke, one of which almost always being "Sniff."
* ShoutOut: Tends to do this with her games.
** Yanderella features a PsychoticLoveTriangle between a young man and two girls he knows. [[Anime/SchoolDays Never heard that before]].
** Mix Ore's Strawberry Milk Route uses the names [[VisualNovel/{{Clannad}} Nagisa and Sanae]].
** Makoto Möbius has Watarou constantly [[GroundhogDayLoop resetting time]] to save Makoto from dying, [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica does this remind you of a certain magic girl we know?]]
** The Dark Side Of Red Riding Hood had the titular heroine being told [[VideoGame/ThePath not to stray from the path...]] [[OhCrap Uh-oh...]]
** A couple of her games are a ShoutOut to ''Manga/FutureDiary''.
*** Nagisa from VideoGame/MixOre is a RoseHairedSweetie as well as a StalkerWithACrush for Kantarou. If her route is selected, she will MurderTheHypotenuse, Kantarou's real girlfriend, and will either pull a MurderSuicide on the two of them or just kill herself.
*** ''Mikoto Nikki'' has a girl with a DarkAndTroubledPast who has kept the corpses of her parents and another boyfriend, '''Yuki'''maru, in her bedroom closet. Even the title itself is similar to Mirai Nikki.
*** ''VideoGame/{{Yanderella}}'' features Yatarou proposing that he and Hinata get married when they're older in True End 2: Cinderella's Darkness. In the first part of the game, she even announces that she's Yatarou's bride-to-be.
*** In ''Makoto Mobius'', Watarou uses the Mobius curse to go back to the night that Makoto was supposed to die and find a way to save her. [[spoiler:To achieve the True End, Watarou has to stab himself with a kitchen knife and break the cycle. It kinda sounds like first world Yuno going to the second world to be with Yuki and committing suicide to make second world Yuki God.]]
* SmurfettePrinciple: Most of the player characters are male. ''VideoGame/{{The Dark Side Of Red Riding Hood}}'' focuses on Little Red Riding Hood, who is the only female protagonist, so far, in Charon's series.
* TogetherInDeath: Some {{Yandere}}s may try to pull a MurderSuicide so that this can happen for them and their loved one. The ending will determine if they succeed or not.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TsukimiPlanet'' has something like this happen except that the character isn't a {{Yandere}} and doesn't kill Utarou. He dies from an illness that shortens his life and she kills herself to be with him.]]
* StoryToGameplayRatio: A good portion of Charon's works are heavily story-centric with minimal to no actual gameplay. The "gameplay" focuses on moving the player character around a map and either selecting an item or going to a certain location. The only work that's styled more like a game is ''VideoGame/MikotoNikki'' where Matarou explores Mikoto's house and uncovers her diary scraps in specific areas.

** According to {{Word Of God}}, there were games that unfinished during development, such as ''Suicide Soda -Depressed World-'', ''Good Night Sleep'', ''I Will Curse You'' and '' The Dark Side Of Rapunzel''.
** She was also collaborating with the same maker who did ''Millefiori'' with another game called ''Shizuku Symmetry'', though only the BGM was available through Niconico.

Charon is a creator of [[FreewareGames freeware]], narrative-focused VisualNovel-like games, mostly made with UsefulNotes/RPGMaker, but sometimes with other engines like UsefulNotes/WolfRPGEditor as well.

* ''{{VideoGame/Yanderella}}''
** ''Yanderella Death Harem''
* ''VideoGame/MixOre''
** ''VideoGame/{{Millefiori}}''

** ''VisualNovel/DicePsycho''

** ''Matsuri Messias'' (Japanese only)
* ''VideoGame/MakotoMobius''
** ''Mikio Nightmare'' (A {{Doujinshi}} prequel to ''Makoto Mobius'')

* ''VisualNovel/YouMeAndEmptyWords''
** ''You Me And Secrets'' (Charon's first [[{{Eroge}} 18+ game]])
* ''VisualNovel/TheCradleOfRuin''
** ''Mikuri Sacramento'' (Japanese only)
* ''Fake World's End'' (Japanese only)

* ''Vanilla -Garden Of Judgement-''

* ''Tanoshi! Kantan Quiz'' (Charon's first MobilePhoneGame, Japanese only)
* ''Yumemi Melancholy'' (Charon's first WebGames, Japanese only)
* ''Haitoku Shirene'' (Japanese only)
* ''Kubitori Sarasa'' (Japanese only)

* ''Trauma Maid'' (Charon's first {{Crossover}} game with Tsubasa Haven, Japanese only)
* ''Healing Rain Sounds – Amaya Dori –''

Charon is currently having an ongoing WebAnimation called ''Yandere Opera'', which is available on her Website/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbQ0YJvzY8YGrh2nJMFFWIw?app=desktop here]].

* CharacterOverlap: As of {{VideoGame/Bokko Youchien}}, Charon had added characters from her previous works as cameos of some sort in her recent games.

*** [[spoiler: Angelica and her sister Demonica from The Cradle of Ruin also appear in Kaleido Stella.]]

* ''VideoGame/YouMeAndEmptyWords''

** ''Matsuri Meshia'' (Japanese only)

* ''The Cradle Of Ruin''

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most of her characters tend to have unusual hair colors like reddish-purple, blue, gray, purple, pink, and other colors.

* {{VideoGame/Yanderella}}
** Yanderella Death Harem
* VideoGame/MixOre
** VideoGame/{{Millefiori}}
* VideoGame/MikotoNikki
** VideoGame/BokkoYouchien
** Utsuro Nikki
* VideoGame/{{The Dark Side Of Red Riding Hood}}
** VideoGame/TheDarkSideOfHanselAndGretel
* VideoGame/ShihoriEscape
* VideoGame/TsukimiPlanet
* {{VisualNovel/Menherafflesia}}
** Mihomi Dream (Japanese only)
** VisualNovel/DicePsycho
** Nenene Noble (Japanese only)
** Matsuri Meshia (Japanese only)
* VideoGame/MakotoMobius
** Mikio Nightmare (A {{Doujinshi}} prequel to Makoto Mobius)

* VideoGame/YouMeAndEmptyWords
** You Me And Secrets (Charon’s first [[{{Eroge}} 18+ game]])
* The Cradle Of Ruin
** Mikuri Sacramento (Japanese only)
* Fake World’s End (Japanese only)
* PARANOIA (Japanese only)
* Vanilla -Garden Of Judgement-
* Kaleido Stella
* Tanoshi! Kantan Quiz (Charon’s first MobilePhoneGame, Japanese only)
* Yumemi Melancholy (Charon’s first WebGames, Japanese only)
* Haitoku Shirene (Japanese only)
* Kubitori Sarasa (Japanese only)
* Asami Escape (Japanese only)
* Trauma Maid (Charon’s first {{Crossover}} game with Tsubasa Haven, Japanese only)
* Healing Rain Sounds – Amaya Dori –

** The Dark Side Of Hansel and Gretel (Japanese only)

* Daisuki (Japanese only)

Charon is a creator of [[FreewareGames freeware]], narrative-focused VisualNovel-like games, mostly made with UsefulNotes/RPGMaker, but sometimes with other engines like Wolf RPG editor as well.

** Dice Psycho

** Dice Psycho (Japanese only)

* VideoGame/MakotoMobius
** Mikio Nightmare (A {{Doujinshi}} prequel to Makoto Mobius)

** Utsuro Nikki (Japanese only)

* Healing Rain Sounds – Amaya Dori – (Japanese only)

Charon is a creator of [[FreewareGames freeware]] VisualNovel-like games, mostly made with VideoGame/RPGMaker, but sometimes with other engines like Wolf RPG editor as well.

** Dice Psycho (Japanese only)
** Nenene Noble (Japanese only)

* Menherafflesia
** Mihomi Dream (Japanese only)