Characters / Maim de Maim

Main Characters

Satsuki Matoi

The main protagonist and Ryuko's older sister

Associated Tropes

• Adaptation Personality Change: You can't say Satsuki was the nicest person in canon, nor could you say she was most lighthearted, however, she most certainly is one of the nicest people here, along with being the one the more lighthearted. Likewise, she wasn't a stoner, either.
• Badass Pacifist: Played with in Satsuki's case, in that she is mostly pacifistic, as in not preferring to fight, however, if peace and diplomacy won't work, then she will resort to violence.
  • As of Chapter 22, she has officially foregone this trope as she is preparing to help raise an army for Nudist Beach to storm REVOCS owned Tokyo.
  • Chapter 25, however, has her reverting back to this policy after she snaps out of her tyrant-like mental state.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She may be the most levelheaded and nicest girl you could meet, but don't push her the wrong way
  • And if not her fighting on the battlefield you need to worry about, it's being in bed with her. For she openly disclosed that she may be THE naughtiest among her peers; perhaps more so than Ira and the guy's a total masochist.
• Break the Cutie: She goes through a nasty one, after confronting Dr. Batty about killing her ex, Masanori, finding out that he brainwashed Izanami into thinking she killed Masanori, and then having to face either of those two but she gets better
• Feel No Pain: Played With. Everything that Evelyn tried to do to kill her with, even going as far as throwing the latter into a furnace, had zero effect. However, earlier, during a bonding moment with Junketsu, she did react to being burned with an iron.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: A few exceptions aside, true to canon.
• Graceful Loser: She becomes this when she underestimated Uzu's unique fighting style which involves him blind-folding himself to see the world in its entirety. Rather than whining that she lost, Satsuki instead proposes that if Uzu was to sew his eyes shut, he could be even stronger than he already was.
• Naked People Are Funny: Her not wearing clothes and or being scantily clad can lead to some funny moments.
• Nice Girl: One of the nicest people one could hope to meet
• The Stoner: Satsuki was literally this throughout most of the fiction until Junketsu told her that the very last batch she acquired and ingested was salvia, which is far more dangerous than the real thing. Now upholding her promise to Junketsu, she's decided to quit for awhile.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: True to canon. Satsuki never had a problem with how much skin she shows, Kamui or otherwise.
  • However, when Satsuki finally snapped out of her tyrant-like mental state, she turned it up to eleven by ripping off her military like suit during dinner in full view for everyone to see, with naught but a Nudist Beach uniform underneath.

Ryuko Kiryuin

The former Student Council President and Satsuki's rival, who actually turns out to be her younger sister

Associated Tropes

• Adaptation Personality Change: To list what she isn't in canon, well, she wasn't A) a Spoiled Brat, B) an alcoholic, and C), tyrannical. However, true to canon, her negative attributes have mellowed out post Character Development.
• The Alcoholic: Is shown to be casually drinking alcohol throughout the fic, but doesn't become this full force until Chapter 22
• Brainwashed and Crazy: By way of being forced to wear a brainwashed Senketsu in Chapter 16. Through some help, she gets better.
• Cluster F-Bomb: More or less Ryuko's Verbal Tic
• Destructive Romance: Her and Uzu's relationship, which lead to the latter's breakup with her
  • Later on the fic, however, she patch things up with him and starts dating again in a much more normal matter, even becoming a Battle Couple in the process
• Drowning Her Sorrows: What she resorts to after Chapter 22
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male Averted in the case of a brainwashed Ryuuko and, naturally, it is seen as horrifying, especially when she has sex with a very reluctant Uzu.
• Facial Horror: When she had her jaw blown off with a shotgun blast.
• I Call It "Vera": She had a sword named "Bakuzan"
• Jerkass: She gets better.
• Jerkass Realization: As per chapter 22:
  "Everything that i've learned about lately has made me think of all the shit I've pulled on everyone and it makes me feel like a fucking monster. A fucking monster no better than the mother that created a chemically unbalanced older sister that had managed to reform, only to go crazy again when my mother...me and Satsuki's mother...decided that she wanted an extra helping hand and pulled strings to fuck Nui Harime over for her own selfish desires. The same mother that fucked with your head and made you a frothing lunatic that in turn, made me a sex crazed maniac that killed several people to satisfy whatever sick desires my mother implanted into you. The same fucking mother that killed one of my sister's father, who she already had ruined his reputation as a great man many years early. My mother...is the kind of monster I almost allowed myself to become...and I must find a way to atone for all the bullshit I made everyone else put up with from here on out. No more Ryuko Kiryuin, Tokyo's Number One Rich Bitch. That shit is old, old history as far as i'm concerned."
• Love at First Punch: Implied to be what eventually led her and Sanageyama to falling in love with each other.
• Perpetual Frowner: Chapter 22 implies this, as it's mentioned that she rarely smiles. Contrast that with Satsuki in the above, who's actually pretty cheerful.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: True to canon for sure except unlike canon, Ryuko here turns it up to eleven.
• Spoiled Brat: Exaggerated. In the earlier parts of the story, this trope may as well have been her name and she was a very hellish one.
• Woman Scorned: She does not take break up well.

Junketsu

Satsuki's kamui true to canon

Associated Tropes

• Ambiguous Gender: Averted, unlike canon, here he is reffered to as male.
• Innocent Inaccurate: Being that he enjoys being and is not injured by ironing, he figured Satsuki would, too, and apologizes when he sees that she's injured by it.
• Voice of Reason: Unlike Ryuuko and Senketsu, Satsuki actually listens to him

Senketsu

Ryuuko's kamui and Junketsu's brother

Associated Tropes

• Brainwashed and Crazy: By way of Ragyo and Nui inserting bad life fibers into him, which in turn brainwashes Ryuko upon being worn by her in Chapter 16. Through some help, he gets better.
• Long-Lost Relative: To Junketsu, who recognizes him upon seeing him again.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He tried this but he failed
• Voice of Reason: He tries to be this Ryuuko, only to have her never listen to him.

Nonon Jakuzure

Satsuki's best friend, whom she's been acquainted with since childhood.

Associated Tropes

• Childhood Friends / Heterosexual Life-Partners: She and Satsuki have not only been best friends since childhood, but are virtually inseparable, as shown throughout the fic
• Deadpan Snarker: Often makes witty observations towards nearly every situation she finds herself in, especially when it deals with her and Satsuki
• Executive Meddling: In-Universe example. Her short-lived orchestra conductor career in Chapter 9 suffered this tremendously when Ragyo Kiryuin would often book her in increasingly undesired concerts with material she wasn't fond of.
• Purple Prose: While she doesn't use a lot of big words, she seems to have a "poetic" way of speaking.

Secondary Characters

Shiro Iori

Satsuki's friend turned love interest

Associated Tropes

Ira Gamagoori

Houka Inumuta

Satsuki's hacker friend

Associated Tropes

• Affectionate Nickname: "Inu"
• The Cracker: True to canon
• Disappeared Dad: It's briefly mentioned is dad died before the fic started.

Uzu Sanageyama

One of Satsuki's friends and Ryuuko's ex-boyfriend

Associated Tropes

• Destructive Romance: His relationship with Ryuuko , which lead to him breaking up her in chapter 12
  • Later on the fic, however, he patches things up with Ryuko and start dating again in a much more normal matter, even becoming a Battle Couple with her in the process
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted, when a brainwashed Ryuuko has sex with him and he very much doesn't want to. It's also rather horrifying.
• Love at First Punch: Implied to be what eventually led him and Ryuuko to falling in love with each other.

Mako Mankanshoku

Ryuko's second in command and former student council vice president, also her best friend

Associated Tropes

• Genki Girl: True to Canon
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: A few exceptions aside, also true to canon.
• Odd Friendship: With Ryuko Kiryuin, when one really thinks about it, as Ryuuko was a spoiled brat and something of frowner, not quite as cheerful as Mako is, while Mako is rather nice (or nicer) and cheerful.

Maiko Ogure

Ryuko's other friend and former head of security

Associated Tropes

• Adaptational Heroism: In canon, she was one of the more antagonistic side-characters and tried to take Senketsu. Here, she's one of the allies.
• Eye Scream: She was on the receiving end of a really nasty one in chapter 18 her right eye got blown off by a shotgun shrapnel shell during her fight against some of Ragyo Kiryuin's troopers.

The Kiryuin Conglomerate

Ragyo Kiryuin

Head of the Kiryuin Conglomerate and CEO of the REVOCS Fashion Industry

Associated Tropes

• Abusive Parents: Played with. Ragyou, true to canon, however, she didn't entirely start out that way, actually, she got to be abusive in some ways after being exposed to the Original Life Fiber. However, before that she experimented on a ten year old girl. Interestingly, she did seem to be or was very close to being a good mother to Ryuuko, referring to her as her "darling sugar cube" and the like, then again...
• Adaptational Heroism: Still evil, but ultimately proves to be a better human being than her canon counterpart, showing some regret for her deeds.
• Berserk Button: Two things: Don't bring up and impersonate her parents and Don't bring up the Chancellor. However, for the latter she reacted mildly.
• Dark and Troubled Past: As we find out later, she also has one. To elaborate further, Ragyou's father, Gaoh, apparently passed away when she was in her teens (he was mentioned to have died before she met Soichiro) and, apparently, his experiments with life fibers lead to his demise, along with that of his wife's Dietricha, as the aftermath of one of such experiment left her with missing limbs, which life-fiber prosthetics were made to replace. Unfortunately, said limbs routinely left her with severe staph infections because they didn't sync with properly, which was mentioned to have physically aged her "worse than an average chain smoker". Years later, she's still torn up about that.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As shown best in Chapter 28, brainwashed by life fibers, megalomaniac, Mad Scientist, and villainous to a fault or not, she does love her children,...in her own sort of way.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Her recent conversation with The Chancellor seems to be laced with this, then again, the latter did screw with her head by impersonating her deceased father.
• Hands-Off Parenting / Doting Parent: In conjunction with and aside from letting Ryuuko do and get what what she wanted, she's practically all but absent and neither did she typically know what her daughter was up to.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She seemed to have a twinge of regret in chapter 22, during one of the few times she shows genuine emotion.
  "I don't know what is wrong with me. Part of me is feeling regret, sorrow and shame for the actions i've been inflicting upon others. However, I also feel a lot of pleasure and satisfaction towards said actions at the same time. Maybe...maybe what's happening to me is what happened to my father when he conducted the experiments that prematurely took his life from this world, which were the same experiments I tried all of my life to improve on. Maybe...maybe i'm ending up like my father, except I cannot bring myself to end my life like he did. Maybe...maybe that's why my mother stopped acting like a tulip in the meadows and started to act more like a soggy piece of seaweed that's been tainted by too much algae. Maybe...maybe I really am...a fucking bitch people in the paparazzi that raised an equally malicious fucking bitch that I called my daughter. Yet...I cannot help...cannot help but smile as I think of touching her...touching Satsuki...and touching Nui while reverted back to the woman Soichiro turned her into against my own benefit, which I managed to fix just by telling the pharmacy to stop giving her the meds that made her normal. Not for her own good...but for mine."
  • Chapter 30 really plays this as she apologizes for everything that's happened and regrets what turned out
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In the universe and out. Ryuuko and various other minor characters first notice her odd behavior. After the events in chapter fourteen, it also a tad strange if Ragyou shows any tinge of genuine emotion after.
• Spared By Adaptation: In the original, she kills herself, while, here, she surrenders and, willingly, goes to prison.

Rei Hououmaru

Chief Accountant of the REVOCS Fashion Industry

Associated Tropes

• The Dragon: True to canon. She does what Ragyo says, no questions asked.
• The Stoic: She doesn't tend to display any emotion outwardly, regardless.
• Those Two Guys: Mostly with Kuroido

Takiji Kuroido

Ragyo's personal butler

Associated Tropes

• Those Two Guys: With Rei, mostly

Nui Prime

Nui's split personality or, rather, another soul sharing a body with Nui's other half

Associated Tropes

• Split Personality: Was one until she got a separate body

Nudist Beach

Soichiro Matoi

Founder and Leader of Nudist Beach, and Satsuki and Ryuuko's father.

Associated Tropes:

• Good Parents: Well, he tries to be, though some the things he does can be considered questionable.
• Younger Than They Look: True to canon by means of disguise.

Aikuro Mikisugi,

Second-in-Command

Associated tropes:

• Large Ham: True canon and, in chapter 27, he was even called as such

Mitsuharu "Shogun Shoji" Jakuzure

Famous country renowned Wrestler now Self-Defense Teacher. Also Nonon's Dad.

Zusi Dreher-Jakuzure

Renowned and former Violinist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Also Nonon's Mom.

Kaneo "Pot King" Takarada

Satsuki's then drug dealer

Associated Tropes:

• I Call It "Vera": Has a shotgun he calls "Kaneda".
• The Stoner: Subverted. Although Kaneo sells and distributes pot, he doesn't actually smoke it himself on his free time.

Tokyo PD

Tsumugu Kinagase

An officer in love with his partner Nui

Associated Tropes:

• Spell My Name With An S: His name, for awhile, was misspelled as "Tsumuga"

Nui Harime

Tsumugu's partner and love interest harboring a Dark Secret

Associated Tropes:

• Adaptational Heroism: While she still can be evil, she's not even close to her canon counterpart's depravity.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: Her canon cheery, cutesy Faux Affably Evil demeanor is replaced by a genuinely sweet personality.
• Break the Cutie: She's had a really brutal and heartbreaking one
• Can't Have Sex, Ever: It's not that she physically can't and neither is she forbidden to, actually, according to chapter 27, as she explains, she's had boyfriends before, it's just that she could never get intimate with them because her body feels very cold, which, of course, freaked them out.
  Nui: "It's also why I never scored a full home run with some boyfriends and failed one night stands. We would start doing foreplay with each other and as soon as they felt my naked body, they would put their trousers back on, run the fuck away from me and never look back."
• Creepy Child: When she was a child, she was something of a little monster.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She has a very grim childhood in which she was a Creepy Child that went too far and created a flesh bound kamui made with the flesh of a ten year old girl she met in public. She eventually got out of the lifestyle and improved, but unfortunately in Chapter 15, the past came back to haunt her in such a hard way, it undid all of her improvements made since in a very depressing fashion.
• Driven to Suicide /Dying as Yourself: As an effort to keep her split personality from taking over, she attempts suicide more than once and fails.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Evil Split Personality, Dark and Troubled Past, and mental health issues aside, she is a very sweet person.
• Horrifying the Horror: When she was twelve, she did something that gave Ragyou, her mother, the one that created her, pause. To elaborated on what she did, well, she skinned another girl alive. What she did also horrified herself.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Nui gets two of these, one is from when she skinned a girl alive to make a kamui and another is after Ryuuko and Senketsu are brainwashed.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She pulled one of these in childhood.
• Split Personality: Said personalities are more akin to Two Beings, One Body, are often at odds with one another.
  • As of Chapter 25, the two halves now have their own separate bodies. Talk about duality.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: See Horrifying the Horror and Dark and Troubled Past

Chief Roland Burns

The Tokyo Bay PD chief.

Akito Inumuta

Roland's predecessor and former chief

Tabuchi Arms Tech

Gi Man

Founder and CEO(Formerly)

Associated Tropes

• Good Parents: Tries to be one, being caring and a little indulgent, but Ryuuko pretty much wanted none of it. By chapter 21, she's happy to see him.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Generally known as "Gi Man", until a certain chapter where find out his name is "Goro Inafume"
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He pulls one of these when he flees from Tokyo when things started going south

Miko Yukimura

A former employee turned soldier of Tabuchi

The Sadistic Seven

Five of the Seven from GasmaskAvenger's dA page ^note Dr. Richard Batty (top left), Kevin Casavantes (top right), Evelyn Adams-Nickelsen (middle left) Perry S. Harkin (middle right) and Steven F. Magnum (bottom)

Dr. Richard Batty

Someone who Ragyo knew from her past.

Associatated Tropes:

• Ax-Crazy: He seems to have a fondness for cutting people up.
• Deadly Doctor: Sort of a variant, as he takes the guise of a therapist when he does his crimes.
• The Dreaded: A general rule with this guy is to stay away from him.
• Killed Off for Real: Subverted
• Meaningful Name: "Batty" is another word for crazy or insane, which he definitely is.
• Red Baron: The "Staple-Eyed Gentleman"

Izanami Nishimura

From GasmaskAvenger's dA page

A woman who was set to be engaged.

Associated Tropes

• Break the Cutie: After her fiance's death and, unfortunately, this made her easier to manipulate.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: After she is convinced by Dr. Richard Batty that Satsuki killed her lover out of jealousy.

Evelyn Adams-Nickelsen

A woman who killed her husband to keep custody of her son.

Associated Tropes:

• Abusive Parents: Unclear, although her son, Simon, did ask his aunt, Marilyn if she'll be a better mother to him, so that has to beg a few questions.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She has a son to whom she cares about deeply
• Killed Off for Real: By her own hand no less.
• Lady in Red: According to GA's artwork of her, she wore a red jacket and matching lipstick
• Makeup Is Evil: According to GA's artwork of her, she wears a lot of makeup.
• The Sociopath: She has some shades of this, especially in regards to murdering her husband.
• Yandere: She's a maternal one, as one of the reasons she killed her husband, Darrel, was to keep him from getting custody of her son (the other reason because she felt like it, apparently)

Kevin Casavantes

A war veteran

Associated Tropes

• Heel–Face Turn: Following what Steven Magnum told him after he was willingly spared the same fate of a good portion of is cohorts.
• Last Stand: He even called his family to leave a final message saying that he loved the hell out of them; and he knew that he wouldn't last against the very person who made him into such a nutbar.
• Eagleland: Mixed flavor but Boorish, mostly. He's patriotic to a really big degree and is in general good natured, however, he's also hotblooded and Trigger-Happy, looking to snipe anyone in the name of "Mother America". This is best reflected in his way of speaking.
  To Evelyn about how he met Batty: "Nah, madame. They just recommended Dr. Batty for me when I nearly beat the Jesus out of Mr. Sandbox when he accidentally pissed on my wife's favorite rug one lazy Saturday afternoon. As Unamerican as pissing on hospitality can be, killing an innocent house pet is even more Unamerican to the point that if I did, I would've called my favorite vice president of the past decade to come on over to my ranch and kick me in the nards four times to feel the pain Jesus felt when he got nailed to the cross, because Jesus dying for our sins is very, very American."
• Even Evil Has Standards: His diatribes made Evelyn and Batty sick to their stomachs.
• Trigger-Happy: His behavior implies such and that was why he joined Dr. Batty's cause, as it meant "sniping people in the name of Mother America".

Udo Fassbender

A "human zombie" of from Germany

Associated Tropes:

• Dark and Troubled Past: He started off as a regular guy, until, someone shot him the neck and dumped him in a lake, before he was found by some (as he put it) "lunatics" who did stuff to him that we won't mention here (but it involved a woman named "Betty"), and the rest that wasn't really said, besides that it involved mysterious circumstances an a Groin Attack
• Groin Attack: He implies he was on the receiving end of one in his past, as he has a steel pipe doubling as what would be his unmentionables
• Feel No Pain: His past robbed him to feel pain, so he doesn't notice how his cigarette would be burning him.
• Funetik Aksent: When we first meet him, he speaks to Batty over the phone using this trope
  "Oh yez, Mr. Batty. It iz veddy gut to speak to you again. What are you up to at zist time of za day?"
• Killed Off for Real: In a Your Head A-Splode way Ch. 23
• No One Should Survive That!: How he became the "Human Zombie" is bit of Mind Screw in terms of how he even remembered, much less survived any of that.

Steven F. Magnum

A brunette guitar player who led a band called "Neutral Chili Tree"

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• Heel–Face Turn: After learning that was his own psychiatrist that killed Satsuki's ex-boyfriend, he begins to question the very value of the mission he joined in on.
• Hipster: He has some shades of this, with his interest in folk music, vinyl records, and his rather laidback but cultured approach to things.
• Shout-Out: His middle name "Frusciante" is a reference to the lead guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers

Perry S. Harkin

A wheelchairbound geriatric, who's morbidly obese

Associated Tropes:

• Cloudcuckoolander: If he's not senile, he's really, really strange, unnerving Dr. Batty even.
• Glasgow Smile: According to GA's official artwork of him, he has one for some reason.
• Hook Hand: He has hooks for both hands. The narration lampshades this by saying "picked up his phone through seemingly mysterious means".
• Killed Off for Real: Ryuko got rid of him by putting a foil-wrapped chicken in a microwave and turning it on
• Noodle Incident: What happened to this guy's hands?
• Super Wheelchair: According to Ch. 22, he has (or had) a high tech wheelchair of some kind with mounted weapons and software
• Trademark Favorite Food: Bagel bites. He won't stop to offer you any or talk about them, either.
• Unknown Character: Tying into Mysterious Past, we don't know much about this guy besides that he likes bagel bites and that he's killed two people (and a dog).

Other Characters

Henry Thompkins

An American transfer student at Honnoji Academy who's later sent to Honnoji Jail and befriends Maiko Ogure.

Associated tropes:

• Love Interest: Eventually, he becomes one to Maiko
• New Transfer Student: He started off as this
• Noodle Incident: He had some interaction with Ryuko that involved a conversation about how he (and a troupe of women) could take down Satsuki, participated in some scheme (with the student council) to fool everyone that marijuana was banned, and, somehow, got tossed in the jail by authorities (which may or may be related to the aforementioned). How any of that happened is a mystery.
• Original Character: He's not in the original show.

Ophelia "The Racket" Harrison

A character we meet in chapter 7. Currently, she is imprisoned at Honnouji Jail

Associated Tropes:

• Blue-and-Orange Morality: She's a cannibal and doesn't see herself as evil but she eats some of Laporte's corpse, stating he deserved to die, despite killing and eating other people prior for whatever reason. She also doesn't get how being cannibal makes her dangerous.
• I'm a Humanitarian: When we first encounter her in chapter 7, she had a half eaten hand in her mouth and her hotel room was covered in gore from previous victims.

Pierre Laporte

A French inmate of Honnouji Jail. In chapter 27 and 28, we find out his real name is Huey Trimple and that he's not French, actually, he's an American child predator.

Associated Tropes

• Beware the Silly Ones: As we find out...
• Cloud Cuckoolander: The other inmates consider or think of him as such, either way, he is just plain weird.
• Killed Off for Real: As of Chapter 27
• Luxury Prison Suite: How he sees Honnouji Jail and he insists that is. Sure, the jail isn't a hellhole and is a little permissive (with the wardens being so nice) but it's not as luxurious as he thinks it is.
• Noodle Incident: It's not made clear as to why he is in Honnouji Jail, however, we have a clue but it still remains as to whether or not his Porn Stash had anything to do with it.
• Porn Stash: He has one and its not the good kind.
• Unknown Character: Aside from what we see, there isn't much known about him, then again, considering what we found out, maybe that is for the best

The Chancellor

A mysterious individual that has unknown ties to the Kiryuin Clan.

Associated Tropes:

• Ambiguously Human: Just what the hell is she?! Apparently, a flashback to Ragyo's childhood seem to suggest that she's some sort of life fiber entity.
• The Dreaded: Whoever (or whatever) she is. From we get in chapter 22, Ragyou seems to not like interacting with her too much (which retroactively makes Ragyou's phone conversation with her ten chapters earlier look much harsher in hindsight). It's particularly telling if she warns Dr. Batty to steer clear of her.
• No Name Given /Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Chancellor is called, well, the aforementioned. Her name is never given. To top it off, in a flashback, she introduces herself as such.
• Unknown Character: The question that comes up with her is "Who or what is she?"