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1The characters in the Webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Girl Under Trial}}''.
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4!!Protagonists
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6[[folder: Park Gaeul]]
7!!Park Gaeul
8[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gaeul_3.png]]
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11 [[caption-width-right:350:With makeup]]
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13The main female protagonist. One night, where she had gone to her high school to get her sleeping pills she had forgotten there, she finds her crush Yoohyun in her classroom, near a window looking shocked. Gaeul looks down and sees the lifeless body of Yoohyeon’s secret girlfriend, Eun-seol. The next day, she promises to keep his secret, as long as he obeys her.
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15* AbusiveParents: Her father beats her regularly.
16* AffectionateNickname: Taeseok nicknamed her "four eyes". Gaeul obviously finds this nickname offensive but it is obvious that Taeseok calls her that way more out of endearment than out of malice.
17* BeautifulAllAlong: At the end of the chapter 44 she is revealed to be quite the beauty without her glasses and with some makeup on.
18* CharacterDevelopment: At the beginning she is selfish, superficial and self-absorbed but as time goes by she starts to feel remorse for her actions and is much less naive thanks to Hyomin.
19* ChickMagnet : Dude magnet in this case. Hyomin, Taeseok and Yoohyeon all ended up falling for her.
20* ColorMotif: Often depicted with a red background.
21* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Despite the fact that her relationship with Yoohyeon is based on blackmail she desperately wants him to love her which makes her weak to his manipulations.
22* FakeRelationship: Gaeul is known among her classmates for having a "fling" with Yoohyeon. Later on Hyomin and her pretend to be a couple to protect her from Yoohyeon.
23* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: At first Gaeul behaves very arrogantly towards Yoohyeon whom she believes to have under her control and scorns one of her friends for her lack of intelligence but she herself lacks self-confidence and hates herself.
24* InsecureLoveInterest: Gaeul feels this way for Yoohyeon and later on for [[spoiler:Hyomin]]
25* ReallyGetsAround: It is rumored that she asks boys out and that in return she sleeps with them because of her sudden involvement with Yoohyeon and Hyomin but in reality she didn't really date either of them.
26* LoveHungry: She has a crush on Yoohyeon, and when she saw him at a crime scene, instead of reporting him to the police, she blackmailed him so that he will be romantically involved with her.
27* LustObject: Gaeul is this to Taeseok when she is wearing make-up. Every time he meets "makeup" Gaeul he tries to hit on her.
28* SecretKeeper: She is this to Han Yoohyeon, at first by of her own free will and then [[spoiler:by force because Yoohyeon blackmails her by threatening to destroy her family.]]
29* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She ultimately chooses to be with Hyomin, easily the sweetest of her love interests.
30* TraumaCongaLine: Gaeul is physically abused by her father at home, and has been implied to have been bullied at school until high school.[[/folder]]
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32[[folder: Han Yoohyeon]]
33!!Han Yoohyeon
34[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/capture_8543.PNG]]
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36The main male protagonist. He is handsome and popular, but he has a secret: Eun-seol was his secret girlfriend, and was with her when she died.
37* TheAce: Yoohyeon is not only good-looking he is also a model student and a very popular youtuber. No wonder that for Gaeul he is at the top of the highschool's hierarchy.
38* BelatedLoveEpiphany: Realizes he has feelings for Gaeul after she starts dating Hyomin.
39* ChickMagnet: Unsurprisingly a lot of girls are attracted to him.
40* ColorMotif: Often depicted with a blue background.
41* CrazyJealousGuy: Zigzagged. It is highly debatable whether or not he has any kind of positive feelings towards Gaeul due to her blackmail however the "relationship" between Hyomin and Gaeul upsets him a lot. Averted once he genuinely falls in love with her, he just accepts her rejection and doesn't insist any further
42* TheDogBitesBack : After months of abuse at the hands of Jang Hana, he eventually [[spoiler:kills]] her.
43* EvilFormerFriend: He is this to Hyomin, as they were best friends in middle school until "something" happened and broke their friendship.
44* GracefulLoser: When Gaeul rejects him because she's with Hyomin, he takes it remarkably well.
45* UngratefulBastard: He wants to steal Gaeul from Hyomin despite the fact that Hyomin saved his life just to feel superior to him.
46* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Yoohyun sometimes acts very arrogant and seems to have a lot of self-esteem, but in truth he lacks self-confidence.
47* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial : As he tries to seduce Gaeul to get back at Hyomin, he insists in his heart that he could never really love Gaeul. He falls in love with her shortly afterwards.
48* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Most people who hear that he and Gaeul are flirting don't understand why Yoohyeon would be with someone like her.[[/folder]]
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51[[folder: Kang Hyomin]]
52!!Kang Hyomin
53[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/capture2_68.PNG]]
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55The second male protagonist. He is Eun-seol's half-brother and gets closer to Gaeul to try to discover the truth about his sister's death.
56* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: He gave one to Gaeul after becoming jealous.
57* CrazyJealousGuy: He becomes unusually aggressive when Taeseok tries to hit on Gaeul.
58* MenCantKeepHouse: His place is a mess and he doesn't really seem to want to clean it up.
59* MessyHair
60* NiceGuy: Hyomin is sincerely a good person and cares about the people around him even if he may seem rude at first.
61* LoveRevelationEpiphany: Hyomin realizes that he has feelings for [[spoiler:Gaeul]] after she confessed her love to him.[[/folder]]
62[[folder: Cha Taeseok]]
63!!Cha Taeseok
64[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/capture_298.JPG]]
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66A childhood friend of Hyomin. He befriends Gaeul after she returns his lost wallet.
67* AllGirlsWantBadBoys : He is clearly a textbook example of the «bad boy»cliché and a lot of girls are attracted to him. He is also one of the protagonist’s love interest
68* AttractivenessDiscrimination: He seems to sees "makeup Gaeul" only as a possible future sexual conquest and doesn't seem to really care about her or respect her, while with "glasses Gaeul" he is nice and seems to genuinely appreciate her. Note that he has no idea that "makeup Gaeul" and "glasses Gaeul" are the same person.
69* BecomingTheMask : He started to fake interest in Gaeul to understand why Hyomin likes her [[spoiler:and ended up falling for her too]]
70* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may look innocent when he is alone with Gaeul, but he is still a delinquent.
71* BrainlessBeauty: He is handsome, but he is clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed, as he totally fail to see that the pretty girl he is attracted to and the girl with glasses he befriended are the same person.He is also not good at all at school.
72* CoolBike: Taeseok drives one.
73* HumanizingTears : Taeseok is indeed a jerk and a bad person, but it's hard not to feel bad for him when he starts crying because Gaeul has rejected him.
74* KissingUnderTheInfluence: In episode 66, Taeseok kisses [[spoiler:Gaeul]] who is completely drunk to the point of being out of it.
75* LadykillerInLove: He has a lot of hookups with women he doesn’t seem to really care about but it is implied that he has genuine feelings for [[spoiler:Gaeul]]
76* OddFriendship: With Hyomin his childhood friend as they have little in common. Also with Gaeul.
77* SmokingIsCool: He is usually seen smoking a cigarette, which goes with his delinquent image.
78* NotGoodWithRejection: When he realises that Gaeul has chosen Hyomin over him, he gets into a violent fight with him, almost hitting him on the head with a metal bar.
79* TheCasanova: Taeseok flirts with many girls.

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