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Hundred Bravers

In general

Achilles' Heel: The only situation where their luck won't save them, is when they're facing other reincarnators since their luck cancels each other, forcing them to depend on their own skills to survive. This was taken advantage of by Murakami and the Eighth Guidance.
Adaptational Early Appearance: Many of them appear in the first chapter of the manga, long before they were introduced in the original novel.
Beware the Superman: Many nations across Origin distrust and fear the Bravers because of their 'cheat' abilities that are like nothing that's found in the world. That and the fact they have much higher affinities for the other magical elements than the average person.
Broken Pedestal: The people lost some trust after the exposure of Kanata Kaidou's crimes, but their popularity took an even bigger hit after Shade took control over Endou's body and published online he was receiving information from a demon.
Dwindling Party: Downplayed but present. They began as 100, but after the battle against the Eight-Guidance they were reduced to only 79 individuals, and it is certain their numbers will get smaller with time.
Genre Deconstruction: What happens when you give superpowers to a hundred random people in a literal Superpower Lottery? A couple go play superhero, several more try to use their powers for profit... and one of them decides to try to ascend to godhood and murders anyone who is no longer useful for his ambitions.
Heroes "R" Us: How they began, but soon enough grew powerful enough to be seen as a N.G.O. Superpower.
Logical Weakness: While their 'cheat' abilities may seem broken to outsiders, they all come with a Necessary Drawback that their enemies can take advantage of.
Meaningful Name: They give themselves titles corresponding to their individual "cheats", purposely choosing names from old, no longer practiced religions and myths, though some admitedly don't make sense without an explanation or don't actually describe their actual skill, be it because they don't actually know how it works or to hide what they can do.
Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The death of "The Undead" changed their focus from a rescue and relief organization to an anti-terrorism one. The exposure of Kaidou's crime showed the world they were far from perfect heroes, and the deaths of Machida and Shimada showed they could get killed. The utter failure to capture the Eighth Guidance and losing several members shattered their image of invulnerability.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Because of Amemiya's ineffective leadership and manipulation from the shadows, many members grew dissatisfied, leading to Murakami and his group's defection. Even afterwards, conflict with Amemiya's leadership is common.

Hiroto Amemiya/Braver

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Everyone! Gear up!

The leader of the Bravers organization. Originally confused with Vandalieu by Rodcorte, he was given Vandalieu's Blessings and Fortune. Currently married to Narumi and father of two.

Action Dad: Father of Hiroshi and Mei, and remains as the leader of the Bravers.
Armor-Piercing Attack: One of his "cheat" powers is the ability to ignore any defense when he's attacking. This has several drawbacks.
At Least I Admit It: He and Heinz have many parallels, but Hiroto does have a redeeming feature Heinz does not. Hiroto is willing to admit his flaws and address them, rather than trying to shift the blame and professing he's changed when he hasn't. Hiroto is also willing to face the consequences and the recriminations of his victims rather than getting defensive and and belligerent when they call him out. It's the primary reason Van is willing to let him redeem himself as opposed to singling him out for revenge.
Awesome, but Impractical: He has to limit his tactics to spamming his weakest attacks because his armor piercing ability has some rather huge drawbacks.
Born Lucky: Considering he obtained luck belonging to two people, it's obvious he's this.
Broken Pedestal: The exposure of Kanata's crimes and the death of "The Undead" made the public greatly lose trust in him and the group as a whole, far from the ideal heroes they once looked like.
Did Not Think This Through: After taking down "the Undead" and freeing the other victims of the so-called research facility, he had his Hundred Bravers turn over the victims to an international organization. This unnamed organization was just as desperate for results in Death Magic as the lab the poor kids taken out of, and put them through the same experience they were supposedly freed from. Now the kids don't trust anyone and turned to terrorism to retaliate, hating the Bravers who they see as killing their rescuer and abandoning them to hell after getting their nice heroic photo-op.
Failure Hero: None of his on-screen heroics have ever gone right.
- In his raid of the facility in the beginning of the story, he destroys "the Undead" rather than rescue him and winds up handing over the children who would later become the Eight Guiders over to another facility that would wind up treating them exactly like the facility "the Undead" tried to rescue them from, rightly earning their hatred.
- In his attempt to capture the Eight Guiders without killing them, his Bravers and the United Nations special forces teams all face massive casualties, and none of the Eight Guiders are taken alive.
- In his attempt to keep Pluto's corpse from becoming research materials to try and revive the death magic program, Murakami shows up with his "Get Out of Jail Free" Card, and the press, to take the corpse, intact, to a Federal Nation laboratory.
- In the end, he fails to save anyone and only manages to lessen the collateral damage from his own failures. It almost makes no sense that he is seen as the best hero in the world and manages to remain the leader of the Bravers.
Fatal Flaw: Hiroto's poor judgement, lack of foresight, and failure to learn from his mistakes makes him a General Failure Hero despite having great advantages. It's bad enough to the point that Hiroto is basically Origin's version of Heinz.
General Failure: After founding and putting himself in charge of the Bravers organization, he's just made one horrible decision after another.
1. Forcing the rest of the reincarnators to join by outing them, publicly, without regard for how that would screw up their lives. At least one person was disowned by their family as a result and multiple careers ended.
2. Instead of letting them decide how to best use their abilities, he would, far more often than not, use their abilities in a way that he personally thought would bring forth the best results and doesn't understand why this is a problem. Again, several of them started undergoing some form of mental breakdown, including Kanako and Joseph Smith.
3. The raid on the "Military Nation" lab researching Death Attribute magic ended up killing another reincarnator because he instantly began firing on an entity who was not attacking them as soon as it let its guard down. After learning the truth he still doesn't think he made the wrong call.
4. The above entity, Vandalieu as the Undead, was actually escorting a group of research subjects to safety. Hiroto promptly takes them into custody and hands them over to the first organization that offers to take care of them without checking whether they could be trusted. Naturally, they were a bunch of morally bankrupt scientists who experimented on them until the subjects broke free, forming a terrorist organization/cult afterwards known as the Eighth Guidance bent on taking down the Hundred Bravers.
5. Ignoring his misgivings that "Oracle" might be compromised, he leads the Bravers and several multi-national special ops forces into an obvious death-trap, leading to massive casualties. The only reason the aftermath didn't destroy the entire Origin United States is because Avalon wanted the United States humbled as part of his larger plans and goals, which includes monopolizing Death Magic.
Good Is Dumb: He's the typical heroic isekai lead who went from loser otaku to worldwide hero and tries to lead by example without compromising his morals and so on. However, not only does this often backfire where a more pragmatic or at least cautious approach would be more appropriate, he also consistently fails to learn from his experience or reevaluate his past decisions and see how they led him to the current non ideal situations.
Hero of Another Story: He's pretty much a stock isekai protagonist with massive transmigration buffs and has a successful career as what amounts to a professional superhero. However, at first we only see his mistakes and failures and later on mostly see him indirectly via his children, who are more directly involved with the actual protagonist.
His Story Repeats Itself: He's frequently thrown into situations where he needs to make some kind of important choice to keep people safe and screws it up in the same basic way: Assuming he knows what's best for everyone, going by his first instincts and making big decisions without thinking through the consequences. This leads to many deaths, defections and trauma among the reincarnators, trusting the wrong people, abandoning children to be human test subjects, ignoring obvious alarm signals and repeatedly shooting first and asking questions only much later, if ever.
Horrible Judge of Character: He was unable to see that the power they received could corrupt the other reincarnators, failing to notice Kanata was using his powers to commit many crimes, nor of Mari Shihouin's hatred for Kaidou that led her to kill him. He also just blindly assumed that the first strangers he handed off the Eight Guidance to would surely care about the children and take care of them, completely oblivious to the fact that most people just wanted to continue researching on them. He also can't read his "best friend" Hijiri worth a damn and blindly threw out all information on the Braver's abilities to reduce fear of them, seemingly blind to the fact that this would let military organizations know how to deal with them yet not reduce mistrust. After all, the Bravers aren't trustworthy.
Identical Stranger: Not only his name is almost identical to Van's old name, they also look very similar to each other.
Irony
- For someone with so much luck and blessings, he has had some serious difficulties saving people.
- For all his rejection of the Death attribute and belief that it shouldn't exist, his own daughter was born with it as well.
The Leader: And founder of the Bravers.
Logical Weakness: His [Ignore Defense] ability has some major weaknesses.
- It is not Friendly Fire Proof. So he has to be careful to not use attacks that catch him or his allies in the area of effect, as it will ignore all defenses.
- It can still be blocked when he's countered with an equal yet opposite attack.
- Even if it ignores defenses, his attacks still have to hit his target for the ability to take effect.
- If he misses his target, his attacks will ignore the defenses of whatever happens to be behind what he was attacking
Master of All: Not only he has his double fortune and cheat ability, he has affinity for every attribute in Origin except Death-attribute.
Mercy Kill: What he thought he was doing by destroying "The Undead." He didn't realize he was murdering a classmate and fellow reincarnator who was sane, not hostile and currently engaged in his own rescue attempt of the other captives in the research lab.
My Greatest Second Chance: He was a NEET back on Earth, so getting a second life was a huge wake-up call for him, creating the Bravers believing they should use their powers for the betterment of the world.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: While his intentions were good and he tried to be a good leader, by bringing all one hundred reincarnators together, he planted the seeds of conflict and dissatisfaction among them, which would lead to the deaths of several Bravers.
Spell My Name With An S: His name is actually Amamiya Hiroto and is pronounced the same as the protagonist. This is why Rodcorte got them confused: The only difference between their names is that they're written with different kanji. To make it easier to tell who is being talked about, translators call him "Amemiya" instead.
Stupid Good: His blind faith in people causes more harm than it does good. It alienates many of the Bravers and causes stupid, shortsighted decisions like turning the Eight Guidance over to another research lab because he simply assumed they'd be safe there.
Sympathetic P.O.V.: Inverted. Normally, an isekai story would have a character like him as the protagonist, follow his progress, and rarely show any negative consequences to his actions. Any less than brilliant decisions would turn out justified via pure luck or narrative convenience. However, without that protagonist filter, a lot of his seemingly intelligent and moral decisions have disastrous or at best unforeseen consequences. He really is trying his best and usually succeeds, but unfortunately we mostly see his failures.

Narumi Naruse/Angel

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One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. Her desire to meet Amamiya led to her search of other reincarnators and meeting Amemiya for whom she initially confused him with. They eventually married and became the mother of Hiroshi and Mei.

Alliterative Name: Narumi Naruse.
Class Representative: What she was on Earth.
Hair Antennae: The manga shows she has them both on Earth and in Origin.
Healing Hands: Knows how to use healing magic.
Locked Out of the Loop: Despite Amemiya, Endou, and Rikudou all realizing the truth after Amamiya's death, like most of the other Bravers she wasn't told that the "Undead" they killed was the exact same person she wanted to meet and thank for saving her. Though she more or less figures it out after finally meeting Bander on Origin, and attempts to apologize. As Van / Bander has basically no attachment anymore to his second life though, he outright tells her not to bother.
Logical Weakness: As long as she consider you an ally she will not shut you out of her telepathic network, meaning that Kanako's memory alteration skill is perfect to infiltrate it.
Mission Control: Her "cheat" allows her to create an untraceable and unhackable telepathic network in which those connected can share thoughts and feelings at her own discretion. It is shown that she can turn off certain aspects of her skill.
Rescue Romance: Averted. She initially approached Amemiya because she thought he was the one who tried to save her when the ferry collapsed... and then got into a fight with him instead when she realized he was not Amamiya. The two only ended up actually falling for one another and eventually marrying years later.

Junpei Murakami/Chronos

A teacher in Vandalieu's previous life's school, he, alongside the class he was responsible for, was killed during a terrorist attack and reincarnated in Origin. After defecting the Bravers, he joined the United Nations as an agent responsible for retrieving the corpses of the Eight Guidance for further experimentation on the death attribute. He was killed by the death attribute trapped inside Pluto's corpse.

Apathetic Teacher: This is how Vandalieu remembers him. While he did his job and never mistreated him, he was rather apathetic towards how his uncle and aunt seemed to abuse him.
Card-Carrying Villain: He doesn't even bother to deny how corrupt or criminal his actions have become by the end of his life in Origin. In fact, he revels in it.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: After setting up life in Origin, he shamelessly back stabs anyone and everyone he partners with the very first chance he gets. Eighth Guidance and "Avalon" counted on it.
Defector from Decadence: How he felt after leaving the Bravers, since some of them had become corrupt by their status and their humanitarian efforts had become killings against fellow human beings (even if they were against terrorism).
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
- When Death Scythe fails to kill Van, Murakami doubles down on his determination to kill Van because if he was in Van's position he would kill someone that could be a threat to himself like Murakami. He even became more determined due to this. He just doesn't trust Van's intentions enough to feel safe otherwise.
- Averted in one respect. "Odin" is confused by other reincarnators feeling attached to their new parents, likening himself to a brood parasite. Murakami does seem to understand this and just tells him that it doesn't matter if he understands or not, he just needs to realize that the others do feel that way or he might screw up.
Fatal Flaw: Literally. It's impatience. The primary reason he's such an apathetic, criminal jerk is that he always prioritizes short-term gain over long-term consequences, and thinks it's idiotic when others don't. Since he never addresses this flaw, it repeatedly catches up with him and makes him pay with a nice Karmic Death.
Got Volunteered: He didn't wanted to become a hero, but after his abilities were exposed by Amemiya, he had no other choice, and while at first he liked the attention, the exposure of Kanata's crimes disillusioned him with the organization, leading to his defection.
Jerkass: The guy was an apathetic prick back on Earth, and he simply embraced the worst parts of it after reincarnating in Origin and not being allowed to pursue his dreams again.
No Fair Cheating: He used his Time Master powers to cheat at the Origin equivalent of tennis. He grudgingly admits that Amemiya Hiroto making him a member of the Hundred Bravers is probably the only thing that kept him from winding up in some top-secret laboratory as an unwilling "test-subject" but still resents Hiroto for "ruining his dream."
Psychological Projection: He believes everyone he comes across is as morally bankrupt as he is, and will happily backstab, exploit, or murder him, given the ability and the chance. So when he hears that Vandalieu has the ability to destroy souls, and witnesses Rodcorte allow "Death Scythe" to attack Vandalieu, and do nothing to stop Vandalieu's retaliation, he becomes more determined to kill Vandalieu, not less.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: His belief that Van will hunt him down as a potential threat no matter what he does causes him to begin preparing to assassinate Van. His attitude predictably causes Van to start hunting him down as a potential threat.
That Man Is Dead: While he still goes by his name from Earth, he considers himself a new person, hence why he dislikes being addressed as sensei.
Too Dumb to Live: The most recent chapters reveal that his "grand plan" to deal with Vandalieu is to almost exclusively rely on Rodcorte to snatch up his soul and seal him should he and his group somehow manage to find a way to assassinate him, despite knowing from their experiences in Origin that Vandalieu can turn himself into an undead, almost instantly upon his death, their own first-hand experience showcasing Rodcorte's apathy and ineptitude, and the fact that they know Vandalieu is powerful enough to overwhelm Hihiryushukaka in open combat without any collateral damage to the city he lives in and calls home. What's worse is that his "back up plan" is that in the very likely event he and his group fail, he presumes that they can simply run away to try again later, and readers know Vandalieu doesn't play that game, it's only an insane level of Plot Armor that's kept Heinz alive so long.
Took a Level in Jerkass: He was apathetic as a teacher, but after being forced to join the Bravers and walk out of his dreams again, he started feeling no compunctions in killing the other reincarnators, nor does he have a problem with trying to kill Vandalieu if it means achieving a fourth life.
Unwitting Pawn: He was merely Rikudou's pawn to get rid of several troublesome Bravers and the Eighth Guidance.
Villains Want Mercy: He and his conspirators beg for mercy from Vandalieu when the battle is over and he's got them in his grasp, promising to simply flee to another continent and leave him alone. Vandalieu points to his history in Origin, his apathetic nature back on Earth, ignoring the abuse he received from his Evil Uncle, and the fact that he attacked on the side of Fitun, while the latter was targeting an entire city full of innocents as solid reasons to disbelieve his claims. Then Murakami and his bunch get their souls eaten.
Virtue Is Weakness: The fundamental reason he absolutely, positively refused Van's mercy or giving up on trying to kill him when the chance was offered is that he just can't stop himself from trampling others for his own gain and considered Van defending the city of Morski an act of utter idiocy. When the battle ends with him and his group on the losing end, he tries to take up Van's offer of mercy, but Van points out that the offer was a one-time deal and he foolishly turned it down, chomp, chomp.
Wrong Assumption: He thinks Hajime Fitun would have been overjoyed when he and his fellow "braver" assassins meddled in his fight with Vandalieu, trying to help murder the dhampir Demon King. Hajime Fitun is actually enraged at them for ruining his fun battle to the death, so when the tables are turned, he uses "Marionette" to keep them from running away and forces them to stay in the fight, making sure they die with him, permanently, when Van wins.

Kanata Kaidou/Gungnir

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. He was killed by Shihouin Mari after discovering that he sold her mother's organs. Agreed to kill Vandalieu in exchange of being reincarnated into a luxurious life by Rodcorte.

Alliterative Name: Kanata Kaidou
Asshole Victim: No one on either side of the fourth wall felt sorry for the way he died.
But Not Too Foreign: While he was half-Japanese, since his parents were both of asian descent, he looked mostly Japanese.
Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: While he was never a great person - he was murdered in revenge for harvesting and selling off the organs of an ally's mother - the reason he's as bad as he is in Lambda boils down to not taking the world seriously. The Status and Job systems comes across as jokes to him and leave him with the feeling that nothing in this world is real. The way to counter this would have been to actually grow up here and form some level of human connection to the people here, but he lacked the patience to take this approach and instead lived a short life full of nothing but instant gratification and the absolute fastest possible path to assassinating Van.
Deader than Dead: The first of the reincarnators to be permanently erased by Van.
Did Not Think This Through: Because he was so concerned with what he would do in his next life, he robbed, killed and raped without caring about the consequences, not taking into account all the experience Van had obtained in his years living on Lambda nor what were his specific skills. And because he didn't even bother to register and obtain a job, his parameters were actually pretty low. All of this led to his death and erasure.
Dying Declaration of Hate: He boasts that Rodcorte would happily resurrect him over and over again until he finally succeeds at killing Van... Until Van cracks his soul, and he starts to feel it shatter. Cue a massive Oh, Crap!.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He honestly can't understand why "Hannah" would want revenge for the death of her mother in Origin, not seeing his parents as parents, but simply as unwitting stooges.
Fatal Flaw: His selfishness and utter disregard for the lives of others. He treated his life in Origin as if they were role playing, and did completely careless and pointlessly evil actions on Lambda, which gave Van plenty of forewarning of his identity and abilities, leading to his erasure.
Hollywood Tactics: His initial demands to comply with Rodcorte's "request" to assassinate Van were sound precautions, and had he bothered to go with Rodcorte's advice to scout out Van through the adventurer's guild, he would have had much better chances. He threw out whatever advantage he had the moment he went Omnicidal Maniac and started robbing, raping, and killing everyone he came across, because he was so, so disgusted with the "backwater" world of Lambda.
Indy Ploy: His resurrection in Lambda and actions thereafter are all spur of the moment. He only has a vague idea of killing Vandalieu to complete his objective.
I Surrender, Suckers: When he comes face to face with Vandalieu, he fakes his surrender and falsely offers to defect, hoping to exploit an opening when Van lets his guard down. Unfortunately for him, Van saw the attack coming.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: As soon as he's reincarnated in Lambda, he saves a girl from some bandits, and immediately afterwards kills her because her name was the same as the identity Mari Shihouin used to kill him.
Karmic Death: He's held and slowly burned by the ghosts of the women he killed, all while Vandalieu tells him there's no more chances for him before destroying his soul. Levia then decapitates his soulless body.
Lack of Empathy: Because he only cared about getting reincarnated a fourth time after killing Van, he had no issues killing, raping and looting innocent people since he considered them "part of the game".
Logical Weakness: His [Gungnir] is indeed very versatile, but he can't bypass Spirit forms since it would also make his own spirit phase out of his body effectively killing him, nor he can designate the body of an enemy as target because he would be unable to harm them. He also can't make himself bypass the air since he still have to breath, nor the floor since he would continue plummeting to the core of the planet.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Not only he kills and robs innocent people, he rapes women just because he can. It's one of the reasons Van doesn't give him a quick death.
Stupid Evil: Carelessly robbed, killed and raped because he thought killing Vandalieu would be a piece of cake and there was no need to worry about what he did on that world. Not only a bounty was put on his head, the spirits of the people he murdered warned Van of his abilities and deeds.
Suicidal Overconfidence: He doesn't have a plan, and simply believes that he can kill Vandalieu once he meets him.
Wrong Genre Savvy: He's wholly convinced himself that he has Joker Immunity and could keep trying over and over again, and boasts about it as Van has him cornered. Van reminds him that reality doesn't have a "reset button" right before he becomes Deader than Dead.
You Killed My Father: On the receiving end when "Hannah" corners him and stabs him to death for the murder of her mother, whom she learned was killed and sold to organ smugglers, with one of her retinas winding up in a mafia boss.

Kanako Tsuchiya/Venus

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. She was made to join the Bravers after her mind altering ability ruined her idol career, eventually leading to her joining Murakami his group desertion. She was killed by the death attribute trapped inside Pluto's corpse. After reincarnating in Lambda, she decides to join Talosheim as she saw it as the safest option. Currently working as an idol while spreading Vida's word.

Ambiguously Brown: Gets dark brown skin after becoming a chaos elf, which understandably has no Earth-based equivalent.
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: She wanted to just use her abilities to become an idol, be rich and famous, and so on. She didn't even use her powers that unethically since she still had learn how to sing and dance and everything else, she just got to take a few shortcuts on the way to becoming popular. However, with Amemiya more or less forcing everyone to join the Bravers she grew resentful and eventually quit on hostile terms. Since Vandalieu doesn't give a damn about active heroics and finds having a missionary group to be more useful than a mediocre special agent, she's allowed to happily pursue being (basically) an idol again. Izumi and company also lampshade it, noting after seeing how much Kanako's idol activities have benefited Van on Lambda that she probably would have been far more valuable to the Bravers doing things like benefit concerts and PR than as the interrogator they forced her to be.
A Day in the Limelight: Side Chapter 30 - The Former Idol Who Likes Her Third Life - side tracks from Van to focus on Kanako, from the start of her dream of being an idol on Earth, to her life on Origin before being forced into the Bravers, and her current attempts to realize her dream once more on Lambda.
Defector from Decadence: Basically decides remaining with the Bravers and Rodcorte to be suicidal after seeing how powerful death-attribute magic in general and Van in particular are, and does everything in her power together with Doug and Melissa to avoid the other Bravers and defect to Van's side instead.
Fake Memories: Her abilities include the ability to implant memories and feelings on another person.
Freudian Excuse
- The first is that Amemiya Hiroto destroyed her life's dream and ruined most of her close relationships by announcing to the public that she had a special ability, which she publicly claimed was just a charm based ability. She acknowledges she deserved it a little, but since her dancing and singing were genuine and she wasn't brainwashing anyone this was a little harsh. Plus, again, ruined what she'd worked her entire life for.
- Second, her job in the Bravers was an interrogation specialist. Since just using Venus to charm people wasn't enough to make terrorists reveal all their secrets, she would copy their memories into her brain. Which is where the problems began: Copying the memories of the mentally unstable caused her to become a little bit more unstable herself every time.
- Third, to cope with that she would cut out her own memories on occasion, leaving a feeling of emotional numbness that made it difficult to react to things in a normal way.
Idol Singer: What she wanted to be on Earth, and which she achieved on Origin, before she was forced into the Bravers. After settling in on Lambda, she also begins to try to create the concept of idol concerts on Lambda and drag others into helping her spread this form of entertainment.
I Have No Son!: Unlike some of the other Hundred Braver defectors, Kanako did consider the people in both her previous lives to be her family. Unfortunately, her family in her second life disowned her for fairly petty reasons.
Informed Attribute: The story says that she's reformed without actually showing any evidence for it. Other characters vouch for her but by her own admission she's still fundamentally self-centered and doesn't feel like she'd behave any differently if push came to shove.
Know When to Fold 'Em: She considers Rodcorte's offer of wealth and fame and so on in exchange for killing Van, but after talking things out she comes to the conclusion that it will be impossible, especially since her ability is almost guaranteed to not work on him.
Licked by the Dog: Deeana grants Kanako her divine protection as a show of faith in Kanako's changed character.
Like Brother and Sister: Averted. She tries to get closer to Vandalieu by calling him "big brother" after she becomes one of Darcia's chaos elf "daughters", only for Van to find it creepy for one of his former classmates to be treating him like they're siblings all of a sudden.
Love Epiphany: Her guidance by Van takes a decidedly more romantic bent, with her beginning to find him quite handsome as soon as she's guided, despite Van's attempts to tell her to get a hold of herself. Meanwhile, the two people who were guided at the same time as her, Doug and Melissa, only begin to see Van as somewhat more charismatic. Afterwards, Kanako actively tries to pursue a relationship with Van.
Memory Gambit: She uses her ability on herself when Rodcorte isn't looking so that when she speaks to Van she'll have the strong urge to try to become one of Vida's races. This would keep her out of Rodcorte's surveillance network and keep her safer. However, to do so, she has to make it so that there's no reason why she would want to do this beyond just wanting to because Rodcorte would perform at least a cursory observation of her memories before sending her to reincarnate. Since Van had been intending to make the same condition for joining, this works out well.
Moral Pragmatist: She wants to entertain the masses by being an idol singer and dancer and will use the quickest method to get there. In Origin, she happily engaged in blackmail, letting shady "producers" and "directors" think she consented to a Casting Couch by altering their memories to supplant her face over the face of other "candidates" who did, and then going for their "little black books" while they were occupied, drowning in their own fantasies. Serving under Vandalieu gives her access to the stage without having to go through all that, so she happily does her best to carry his message to the people, wholeheartedly. Being in what passes for the lap of luxury in Lambda doesn't bother her a bit.
Noble Demon: She still considers herself a villain who simply has no reason to act out, but her friends and the gods have faith in her basic good nature. Right now she's just a performer and perfectly happy to get along with others.
Not in This for Your Revolution: She doesn't really care about the Vida/Alda conflict, but she still intends to take part in battle between performances. After all, if Van were to lose then her dreams of introducing idol culture would go up in smoke.
Our Elves Are Different: She chose to reincarnate as an elf because they have a longer lifespan. As a chaos elf, she gains some racial abilities such as minor shapeshifting and increased physical and magical ability as well as an indefinite lifespan.
Partial Transformation: Gains low-level shapeshifting abilities as a chaos elf. This allows her to alter her skin color to pass as a dark elf, or generate insect wings on her back to allow for limited form of flight. However, it doesn't allow her to completely change her appearance or body structure like a mimic or slime.
Retired Monster: Is perfectly content to once more live out her dream of being an idol, despite demonstrating little to no remorse over her betrayals or the people who died because of her attempts to get there again. However, the gods consider her reformed even if she doesn't, and the narration goes so far as to retcon her established backstory to make her less unsympathetic.
Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Zigzagged. In Origin, she tried to further her idol career by first copying other performers' works into her own brain, cultivating a few dedicated fans and then copying those fans' impressions into the minds of new audiences. She had to quit thanks to the Bravers organization forcibly recruiting her, which became a sore point for her. In Lambda, Van is fine with letting her be a performer as he uses her concerts as propaganda pieces preceded by sermons on Vida's church. It's not clear if she's still using her powers on the audience, but either way she seems happy about just dancing and singing on stage.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: She, Melissa, and Doug separate from Murakami's group with the intention of joining Vandalieu as soon as they reincarnate on Lambda. They think there's absolutely no chance of beating him and if they just try to hide he might think they're plotting against him, so they think the safest bet is just walking up to him, explaining themselves, and joining him. To make sure he would give them a chance, she signals that she was not involved in the attack by Konoe even as he's trying to stop Van's heart.
Two Girls and a Guy: Forms a three-man group with Doug and Melissa on Lambda.

Asagi Minami/Mage-Masher

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. Know to be extremely pushy when it comes to expressing his opinion, usually disregarding others' under the assumption his own is the right one. He was killed by Baba Yaga's suicide bombing. After being reincarnated in Lambda, he decides to met with Vandalieu and convince him to not used death attribute magic again. After being ignored by Vandalieu, he start investigating ways to seal his death attribute magic with the seal used on the Demon King.

All Crimes Are Equal: It is his fervent stance that if you're doing something he finds immoral, illegal, or repulsive, the context, nuance, and alternatives are irrelevant. You must be stopped, damn the consequences.
Anti-Magic: Hence why he's called 'Mage-Masher'.
Attention Whore: Among the most annoying of his traits is the irrational need to always be in the spotlight, a holdover from his time in athletic competitions. In combat, or organizations like The Hundred Bravers, this causes serious problems.
Black-and-White Insanity: If you happen to agree with him on most things, you're an unquestioned good guy and he's fun to hang out with. Disagree with him and he'll nag and hound you incessantly at best. This tendency only strengthened over time, such as demanding that Van give up Death Attribute magic when it's essential for not only his self defense and the defense of his people, but also the mere ability to maintain their current lifestyle or reproduce. He's so incredibly pushy that every defector from the Bravers, Vandalieu and likely a fair number of the other Bravers cannot stand the guy.
Crime of Self-Defense: His central philosophy!
- He was adamant that the Eighth Guidance must be exterminated, in its entirety, for the "crime" of escaping the so-called research labs, and resisting with deadly force against the very Bravers, of which he's a member, for trying to put them back in.
- After hearing that "Gungnir" was a Serial Rapist, serial murder, faked his surrender, and tried to murder Vandalieu on Rodcorte's orders, promising to resurrect, repeatedly, until he succeeded, raping, murdering, and stealing along the way, and actually seeing, with his own eyes, "Death Scythe" launch an unprovoked attack with lethal force, having his soul destroyed as a result of the rebound, it is Vandalieu that must be stopped.
- Upon meeting Vandalieu in Lambda, he still insists that Van's "Death Magic" ability must be sealed away, at all costs, only backing off when he realizes he doesn't have the means to actually try, and that there would be no need for Alda to launch a genocidal war against Van's kingdom, if said abilities were sealed away and Van can be locked away in the Border Mountains. He fervently refuses to acknowledge that Alda's genocidal war predates Van by at least 100,000 years, and it's not a lack of intent that's "keeping the peace," it's a lack of ability that's keeping Alda's followers at bay.
Dumbass Has a Point: In their final confrontation with the Eighth Guidance, Asagi repeatedly stated that capturing the Eighth Guidance alive, when the group has shown that they're willing to die, just to kill as many of the Hundred Bravers as possible, as part of a raid on Eighth Guidance's own turf, where the "terrorist" group has the home-field advantage, is an Impossible Task, and he's proven right.
Expy: He has many, many similarities to Kouki from Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest.
- He has to be the center of attention. If he's not, he has to lash out at the "evil" person or persons that he sees as stealing the attention from him.
- He always sees himself as the epitome of righteousness, so he believes that he has not just the right, but an obligation to "correct the mistakes" of others and insist on how they should live.
- If he sees others as the victims of abuse, persecution, or especially violence, he tells himself that they must have done something to deserve it, and so cracks down on them, rather than the ones doing the persecuting, unless the offenders come at him too, but even then still seeks to bring "justice" against the victims.
- He blindly pursues his idea of "justice," angrily rushing head-first into danger and refusing to consider the circumstances or consequences, even if they repeatedly blast him in the face.
Fatal Flaw: His self-righteousness and his insistence on treating all reincarnators as the exact same people they were on Earth. While they recognize the memories of the people they once were, acting as if their experiences on Origin didn't change them is something they find incredibly obnoxious about him.
Friendship Denial: On the receiving end. When he calls Vandalieu one of their 'buddies' from Earth, Van responds they were never close or anything resembling friends. He considers him a self-righteous pain in the ass at best.
Hate Sink: He's not a fundamentally bad person, but he's so pushy, stubborn and self righteous that the author, the audience and even most of the characters end up hating him.
Holier Than Thou: He has a lot of friends, but also a lot of enemies or people that find him incredibly annoying because of how pushy and condescending he is. He thinks he knows what's best for everyone and that his way is the only way. This was okay when he was just a student, but as an adult man with superpowers it's considerably more dangerous.
Hot-Blooded: He's known for his fierce temper and this reflects in his hair in the manga, which is pointy. This tendency of rushing in without thinking would lead to his death in Origin.
Hypocrite: Called on it by Rodcorte of all people! He tells him about how, by his own rules, he himself is also a criminal for killing terrorists and other criminals while working for the Bravers. Of course, he decides to ignore it too.
- Hitomi also calls him out on it after he tells Van that the gods of Lambda would never accept his actions, immediately pointing out that the gods are actually supporting him. He also doesn't seem to notice that being supported by Rodcorte, an outsider, means nothing in Lambda.
Ignored Epiphany: When given a Shut Up, Kirk! from Baba Yaga in Origin, he realizes that he doesn't have Omniscient Morality License and blaming the victims for fighting back is wrong, but once he's reincarnated in Lambda, he fervently believes he's righteousness incarnate, and he's got some kind of "sacred mission" to force his views on others, regardless of the consequences.
Insane Troll Logic: the person he has the biggest grudge against is Kanako of all people. Never mind Doug and Melissa also switched sides multiple times, Legion is the one who killed him on Origin, and Rikudou was the one who planned the whole thing. Kanako is the evilest in Asagi’s mind. The rest of the cast are pretty much all baffled by this, and Kanako herself tells others to let Asagi say whatever he wants about her, as it just makes him sound like a raving lunatic.
Knight Templar: He is not a bad person, but he has a strong tendency to force what he believes is right onto others and believes that this is the right thing to do. Hence why he's determined to stop Vandalieu from using his Death-Attribute magic, even if he knows that's what's allowing Talosheim to prosper.
The Lancer: He was functionally a foil for Amamiya back on Origin. While Amamiya was at his core something of an All-Loving Hero who put too much trust in people too fast and tried for perfect solutions, Asagi was hot blooded, aggressive and more pragmatic, though still with a strong sense of righteousness. It all came to an end when Amamiya's plan to deal with the Eighth Guidance got Asagi and numerous other Bravers killed exactly as Asagi had said it would.
Lovable Jock: How he was seen back on Earth, but Amamiya thought of him as annoying and pushy without understanding that he didn't need his guidance or pity.
Logical Weakness: His ability to negate attribute magic is indeed powerful, but it comes with critical weaknesses he discovers all too painfully.
- He can't negate magic within his own body, which is taken advantage of by Baba Yaga, who burns him from the inside out alongside her.
- In Lambda, Martial Skills don't use magic and as indicated by its name, No Attribute magic can bypass his cancelling.
No Man Should Have This Power: What he believes in relation to Death Attribute Mana. Unfortunately for him, Vandalieu doesn't care what he thinks.
Not Quite the Right Thing: When he's reintroduced in the story, he and a few others are doing their damnedest trying to find a way to seal away Vandalieu and negate his ability to use demon king fragments, and once they find it, spread the technology far and wide to all human nations, to keep Talosheim from being able to launch military action. What he absolutely refuses to acknowledge is that Talosheim is the victim of oppression and persecution, and sealing away their ability to fight back is enabling the act of full-blown genocide, to kill every last man, woman, and child who lives there.
Properly Paranoid: He knew Baba Yaga's surrender was probably bullshit, but because they were being filmed he couldn't just gun down a wounded little girl even if he knew better. Sure enough, despite all his precautions, she ends up burning them both to death.
Selective Obliviousness: Ask any adventurer, Alda acolyte, or even panhandler on the street, and they'd all agree that Alda's "righteous war" has existed for 100,000 years before Van even entered the picture. He ignores this testimony to delude himself into believing that the world was at peace before Van's "death magic" ability became known.
Suicidal Overconfidence: He relies way too much on his anti-magic abilities to deal with any and every situation. If he faces a mundane, non-magical threat, or someone finds a way around his ability, he finds himself way, way over his head, helpless.
Tautological Templar: Since he believes himself to have noble goals, he believes his methods are also inherently noble. There is no way to change his mind on this, at all, not even by killing him.

Mari Shihouin/Metamorph

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. She killed Kanata Kaidou because he had killed and then sold her mother's organs. After she was arrested, Hijiri Rikudou staged her death, and then brainwashed her to work for him.

Clone by Conversion: Forced by Hijiri to become his double and even brainwashed her to make her think she's him.
Girlish Pigtails: Her style in the manga.
Healing Factor: As a Required Secondary Power, oddly enough. Rikudou's brainwashing and gradual forced deterioration of her psyche and ego eventually lead to less of a fixation on the human form for shapeshifting, which allows her to effectively shapeshift spare body parts for herself. It's a pretty limited healing factor though due to conservation of mass working against her: She can make a new brain for herself if her head explodes, but only about twice before she's lost too much weight to use her ability anymore. This limitation is not immediately obvious, however, which intimidates her enemies.
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: One of Van's Spirit Clones is helping her repair her mind after unknowingly giving his blessing to her during a dream.
Sympathetic Murderer: None of the other Bravers blame her for murdering Kanata.
Voluntary Shapeshifter: Her Metamorph ability gives her the power to take someone's else form. It also allows her to perfectly replicate her target’s fingerprints, retinas and even their vein patterns.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Hijiri intends to use her as an experimental subject on his theory on how to obtain Death Attribute magic after she start showing signs of overcoming his brainwashing.
You Killed My Father: Kanata finished off her mother and sold her organs, so she disguised herself using her ability and killed him when he was alone. Kanata is genuinely shocked he would seek revenge against him.

Aran Machida/Laplace

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. Worked as part of the support team in the Bravers organization beside Izumi. Decided to become one of Rodcorte's Familiar Spirit after being killed by Murakami.

Awesomeness by Analysis: His cheat-like ability is [Calculator], which gives him a calculation ability that surpasses a supercomputer and even allows him to predict the future to an extent.
Beleaguered Assistant: Like Izumi and Endou, they greatly dislike Rodcorte's utter disregard for their opinions and his indifference to the lives of mortals. So much that they plan to betray him to the other gods.
Logical Weakness: His ability works best the more information he has, as such unknown factors can throw calculations into disarray.
Our Angels Are Different: After becoming Rodcorte's Familiar Spirit, he looks more like a typical angel with wings, a suit and a golden halo, unlike Izumi who looks almost the same while alive.
Sympathy for the Hero: Or Sympathy for the Devil depending on who you ask, but he and Izumi are genuinely sympathetic of Vandalieu's circumstances back on Earth and even admire a little his determination to keep going despite his awful childhood.

Izumi Shimada/Inspector

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. Worked as part of the support team in the Bravers organization beside Aran. Decided to become one of Rodcorte's Familiar Spirit after being killed by Murakami.

Beleaguered Assistant: Like Aran and Endou, they greatly dislike Rodcorte's utter disregard for their opinions and his indifference to the lives of mortals. So much that they plan to betray him to the other gods.
Living Lie Detector: Her [Inspector] skill takes it to the extreme by letting her know whether or not what she hear or see is the truth, making it so lie or illusion don't work on her. This led her grow really distrustful of people (since they always lied to her) and disappointed of the magic shows she liked (because she could see through the illusions used).
Logical Weakness: Kanako discovered that one could still lie to her by simply not telling her the whole truth, in her case, by just telling her that she 'made people like her more' with Venus. Not knowing it is a lie you are telling works too.
A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Effectively. She can see through all lies, illusions, forgeries and sleight of hand, which destroyed many of her relationships and left her rather isolated. Knowing what people really think isn't fun at all, especially for someone that was a fan of innocent things like stage magicians. However, if she doesn't ask important questions, she doesn't have to hear people lie to her, which is how she coped with it. This came back to bite her when she failed to ask Kanako questions that would reveal her Metaphorically True answer to 'what is your ability?'
Our Angels Are Different: After becoming Rodcorte's familiar spirit, she looks almost identical to how she appeared in Origin, albeit with a divine aura.
Sympathy for the Hero: Or Sympathy for the Devil depending on who you ask, but she and Aran are genuinely sympathetic of Vandalieu's circumstances back on Earth and even admire a little his determination to keep going despite his awful childhood.

Kouya Endou/Oracle

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. He was possessed by Shade and forced to commit suicide. Became one of Rodcorte's familiar spirits alongside Aran and Izumi.

Beleaguered Assistant: Like Aran and Izumi, he greatly dislikes Rodcorte's utter disregard for their opinions and his indifference to the lives of mortals. So much that they plan to betray him to the other gods.
Eyes Always Closed: His appearance in the manga.
How Do I Shot Web?: In Origin, he didn't know what actually supplied the answers to his questions, so he didn't know what information was reliable. He had no way of finding out either because if he asked he would get a different answer every time: The 'person' supplying the answers is the collective consciousness of mankind, but if they don't know something, they just make up an answer that they think sounds right. Since they didn't know what they were, they gave him a different answer every time he tried to find out.
Non-Indicative Name: His Oracle skill works more like accessing the collective consciousness of the souls within the transmigration cycle, which is more like an archive than a prophecy.
Seers: By accessing the collective consciousness of humanity, he can make some predictions based on what the souls know.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By asking "Oracle" the "how" not the "who" concerning The Undead, he wound up causing The Bravers to kill the protagonist. Once he figures it out, he's horrified.

Miyaji Konoe/Death Scythe

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. He deserted the Bravers organization since he was not allowed to use his power as he pleased. He was shot to death by Murakami after revealing that he was deemed too dangerous by the government to be left alive.

Combat Pragmatist: Instead of waiting to be reincarnated, he tries to attack Vandalieu from Rodcorte's Divine Realm. This would have worked given that Van couldn't fight back, but his Abyss skill reflects this type of attack, which eventually destroyed Konoe's soul.
Contract on the Hitman: Gets this treatment while in Origin.
Delinquent: What he was on Earth.
Hoist by His Own Petard: His attack on Van was going pretty well until he also tried attacking the people that were helping to keep him breathing. At this point, the amount of damage he was taking while attacking tripled, causing his soul to fall apart immediately.
Jerkass: Even on Earth he wasn't a nice person, and that didn't change after reincarnating in Origin.
Logical Weakness: His [Death Scythe] ability allows him to stop the body functions of anything he has eye-contact with, which is mostly useless against Undead who no longer have body functions he can stop. And since he typically targets the heart to kill people, it also doesn't work on Valkyrie since she has an artificial heart.
Unwitting Pawn: He was used by Rodcorte as cannon fodder to test if Vandalieu can hurt spirits while in a Divine Realm.

Melissa J. Sautome/Aegis

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. Deserted the Bravers with Murakami to join as an agent of the United Nations. She was killed by the death attribute trapped inside Pluto's corpse. She decide to follow Kanako after reincarnating in Lambda since her ability could do nothing to stop death attribute magic. Currently reluctantly working as part of Kanako's idol group.

But Not Too Foreign: She was born as a half-white, half-asian woman in Origin.
Defector from Decadence: Abandons any pretense to oppose Vandalieu and decides to immigrate to Talosheim alongside Doug and Kanako.
The Generic Guy: She has a complex over the fact her looks and personality don't particularly stand out. Kanako thinks she is much more of a diamond in the rough than Melissa does, however.
Know When to Fold 'Em: She defects to Van's side because she saw first hand how her ability interacts with death magic, meaning there's no way she could hope to stand against Van with Aegis.
Our Elves Are Different: She chose to reincarnate as an elf because they have a longer lifespan. As a chaos elf, she gains some racial abilities such as minor shapeshifting and increased physical and magical ability as well as an indefinite lifespawn.
Pragmatic Villainy: She joined the Bravers to ensure her protection from government agencies, left them because she felt they were putting her in harms way on the front lines too often due to her [Aegis] shield ability, and defected once again to Van's side after deciding allying with him was the best shot at securing her own safety.
Reluctant Fanservice Girl: She doesn't want anything to do with Kanako's idol dreams and dislikes the transformation equipment Van makes. However, she gets pressed into doing it briefly anyway in Morksi because there's no one else available to complete the idol group. The reaction from onlookers makes it clear that natives view the idol performances as falling somewhere between musical performances and strip shows.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: She, Kanako and Doug separate from Murakami's group with the intention of joining Vandalieu as soon as they reincarnate on Lambda. They think there's absolutely no chance of beating him and if they just try to hide he might think they're plotting against him, so they think the safest bet is just walking up to him, explaining themselves and joining him.
She Cleans Up Nicely: Indicated as such, anyway. While pretty much all the Bravers are good looking and elves are also almost all good looking, her beauty is of a plainer variety than girls like Kanako. However, Kanako herself thinks that Melissa would look fantastic with just a little bit of makeup to accentuate her charms.
Stone Wall: Her ability [Aegis], allows her to create an impenetrable barrier around herself or near her location, but never at the same time. Unfortunately for her, this barrier is considered a part of her in some ways, so when she tried blocking the death aura coming from Pluto's corpse she died instantly. Among the three defectors, her overall ability level is actually the strongest, though specialized purely in defense.

Doug Atlas/Hecatoncheir

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. Deserted the Bravers with Murakami to join as an agent of the United Nations. He was killed by the death attribute trapped inside Pluto's corpse. He decides to follow Kanako after reincarnating in Lambda since his ability could do nothing to stop death attribute magic. Currently working as Luciliano's lab assistant.

Afro Asskicker: Has a notorious afro and he's not bad at fighting.
Blood Knight: In Origin he was obsessed with fighting, though this impulse has weakened after he realized there are forces he stands no chance against after dying to Pluto's out of control death mana.
Defector from Decadence: Abandons any pretense to oppose Vandalieu and decides to immigrate to Talosheim alongside Melissa and Kanako.
Grievous Harm with a Body: During the fight against Fitun he uses his [Hecantoncheir] to wield Vandalieu's severed arm as a weapon. Van is rather nonchalant about it.
Human Sub Species: He eventually becomes a Dark Human, a new race that was born from Van's guidance and consuming enough of his blood.
Humble Pie: He used to be a fight fanatic, but the experience if being unable to fight or even flee from Pluto's death aura taught him there are forces in the world he simply cannot contend with.
Mind over Matter: His [Hecatoncheir] skill gives him a powerful telekinesis, Omnidirectional Perception and a "Force Vision" that allows him to switch between infrared, ultraviolet and Mana-detecting vision.
Only Sane Man: While he likes working at Luciliano's lab, he admits that is filled with a bunch of Mad Scientists.
Race Lift: On Earth he was a Japanese boy, but then he reincarnated onto Origin as a black man in its version of the United States.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: He, Melissa and Kanako separate from Murakami's group with the intention of joining Vandalieu as soon as they reincarnate on Lambda. They think there's absolutely no chance of beating him and if they just try to hide he might think they're plotting against him, so they think the safest bet is just walking up to him, explaining themselves and joining him.

Tatsuya Tendou/Clairvoyance

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. His ability Clairvoyance allows him to see into all sorts of directions, bypassing solid objects and magical barriers. He was assassinated by Ghost on Origin.

Alliterative Name: Tendou Tatsuya
Apologetic Attacker: Even though it wasn't his fault nor he was in control of his actions, he still apologizes for Konoe trying to kill Vandalieu using his Clairvoyance as medium. Van accepts his apology without issue.
Dying Moment of Awesome: In Origin, he took advantage of his last seconds while aware of being decapitated to flood the telepathic network he was in with hopefully-helpful Clairvoyance readouts, instead of calling for already-too-late help or begging for his life.
Logical Weakness: His Clairvoyance, as indicated by its name, can only transmit images, not sound or any other sense.
- It also can be used to see things that should not be seen, such as Vandalieu's mental encroachment skill empowered paintings and rock formations.
Only Sane Man: He and Shouko know Asagi's goal of trying to stop Vandalieu is probably doomed to fail, so they try to keep him under control.

Shouko Akaki/Ifrit

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. She was killed by the Counter of Ereshkigal. Currently working with Asagi and Tendou.

Death by Irony: It was noted to be ironic for her, someone code named Ifrit who could manipulate fire better than most fire mages, to be burned to death.
Hoist by Her Own Petard: Burned Ereshkigal to death in revenge for Asagi's death, only for Ereshkigal's Counter ability to throw it back at her, burning her completely.
Playing with Fire: Her 'cheat' is mastery over temperature and fire much greater than even the most experienced fire mages.
Only Sane Man: She and Tatsuya know Asagi's goal of trying to stop Vandalieu is probably doomed to fail, so they try to keep him under control.
Unstoppable Rage: Flew into one when she found out Asagi was dead. Unfortunately, 'unstoppable' in this case means not listening to her allies warning her that the situation is suspicious, causing her to trigger a trap and burn herself to death.

Mao Smith/Noah

One of the crewmen of the ship attacked by terrorist. Served as a pilot while working for the Bravers. Jack killed her by stabbing her in the neck in an attempt to kill the Bravers she was transporting with her ability. After reincarnating in Lambda, she decides to get away from the conflict and create a safe space for other reincarnators in an unnamed island nation.

Ace Pilot: In Origin she reincarnated into a family of military officers and became a pilot.
Hammerspace: Her ability [Noah], allows her to store objects and living beings within her space.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: She reincarnates as a dwarf in Lambda, but she's excellent at wind magic.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: As soon as she's reincarnated in Lambda, she takes a boat and leaves for an unnamed island nation away from the Bahn Gaia continent.

Hajime Inui/Marionette

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. Unlike the other Bravers, he didn't want a third life and would have preferred to reincarnate normally, but Rodcorte refused. His ability Marionette allows him to control the nervous system of those he touches.

The Call Knows Where You Live: Would have preferred to hide in a hole and wait out until the end of his life, unfortunately Fitun had other plans.
Dirty Coward: Acts all high and mighty when he thinks he has control over your body, but if you can fight back, he's a sniveling wreck. He also tries to hide rather than face Vandalieu.
Fusion Dance: With a hefty dose of Death of Personality, Fitun essentially rewrites his soul and slowly erodes his mind to turn him into a perfect vessel for his descent, to the point their names combine, becoming Hajime Fitun.
He-Man Woman Hater: Developed a fear of women after Kanako killed him. Fitun mentions that while he can tolerate women most of the time, Kanako and Isis have become his Trauma Button.
I Just Want to Be Special: On Earth he wanted nothing more than being noticed, which made him dependent on his ability in Origin. After being killed he changed to I Just Want to Be Normal, until Fitun convinced him to go back to special.
Insult to Rocks: When Vandalieu meets Hajime Fitun, he states that Fitun's soul smells delicious, like Hihiryushukaka's, while Hajime's smells unappetizing.
Irony: His ability allows him to control other people, but he's become Fitun's puppet, both literally and figuratively.
Logical Weakness: He can control the nervous system of people he comes into contact, which is useless against undead who have no nerve impulses he can manipulate. He was almost killed by Isis because of this, and one of the main reasons he fears trying to fight Vandalieu.
Never My Fault: When Fitun comes along promising a Deal with the Devil, he happily deludes himself into thinking Vandalieu is directly responsible for his suffering in Origin, and being forced to reincarnate on Lambda by Rodcorte. His own actions and decisions are irrelevant.
People Puppets: What his ability basically amounts to.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: His last appearance on Origin involves threatening one of the female Eight Guiders with repeated rape, even after he's turned her into a corpse, when he thinks he's disabled her with his ability.
Serial Rapist: When he just barely manages to escape the explosive blast as his target trips her Explosive Leash in his face, the narration notes that he did, in fact, use his ability to repeatedly rape women on Origin, having sex with them when they were paralyzed and unable to resist. When word gets to Vandalieu about this, he and his female allies are righteously pissed.
Trauma Button: As Fitun notes, the sight of Kanako and Isis are enough to paralyze him since they're the ones who ultimately killed him.
Unwitting Pawn: His crippling insecurity makes him very easy to manipulate. First he was deceived and led to his death by Murakami, and in Lambda he's become Fitun's anchor into the mortal world.
Villains Want Mercy: When Fitun's control falters, he tries to flee the battle-field. Vandalieu catches him. He then starts begging for mercy and forgiveness, trying to state that he can't be held responsible for his actions while under Fitun's control. Vandalieu points out his behavior in Origin, and states that if he had genuinely resisted Fitun's influence, maybe he'd be merciful, but since he sided with Fitun happily as long as things were going his way, only resisting when certain death was looming, he deserves no mercy.

Kaoru Gotouta/Super Sense

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. In Origin she was killed by Ghost, who bypassed her senses and injured her, allowing Ifrit to burn her to death. She remains with Murakami's group for a time after arriving to Lambda before going her own way.

Flat Character: She's mentioned alongside other members of Murakami's group, but almost nothing is known about her, like her personality and appearance.
Killed Offscreen: She was killed in Origin alongside Hazamada and Misa, but not even onscreen.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Though she initially goes along with Murakami in earnest, at some point she seemingly comes to the conclusion that there is no chance of victory and simply abandons him and the others after leaving an illusion to distract them. Her ability makes it basically impossible to track her down, so the remaining trio reluctantly realize that they have to let her go, especially since it's clear she won't defect to Van anyway.
No-Sell: Her senses are apparently not sharp enough to detect Ghost, who can almost completely erase his presence until he announces himself.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Leaves Murakami some time after Kanako's group runs away, although she doesn't go to Vandalieu's side either. It's later revealed she went to the same topical island nation as Mao.
Super-Senses: As her ability indicates, all of her five senses are much sharper than regular people, even with magic.

Akira Hazamada/Odin

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. In Origin Ghost bypassed his ability to see into the future, allowing Baba Yaga to burn him to death alongside Kaoru and Misa Anderson. He and Misa are the only Bravers that remain on Murakami's group at Lambda.

Combat Clairvoyance: His ability is to see into the future for a few seconds.
Flat Character: While a member of Murakami's group, almost nothing is known about him.
Killed Offscreen: He was killed alongside Kaoru and Misa, but not even onscreen.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Doug kills him by impaling from behind using Van's severed arm, which allows Van to devour his soul.
Lack of Empathy: One of the few things that give him characterization is that he doesn't understand why Mari or Vandalieu are so attached to their new parents in their second and third lives. Murakami tells him not to compare them to cuckoo birds.
Logical Weakness
- Turns out it doesn't matter if you can literally see into the future if you are unable to see your opponent in the first place.
- It also completely fails if the opponent can figure out how far ahead into the future you can see, and bluff you out based on that.

Misa Anderson/Sylphid

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. She was killed in Origin by Baba Yaga when she bypassed her vapor form by setting her on fire. She and Akira are the only remaining followers of Murakami's group.

Flat Character: Like Akira, practically nothing is known about her looks or personality, and it's not until chapter 228 that her point of view and personality are explored.
Killed Offscreen: She was killed alongside Hazamada and Kaoru, but not even onscreen.
Kill It with Fire: She's killed once and for all by Vandalieu's [Flaming Prison Death] which burns and devours her to the very soul without Murakami or Hazamada being able to do anything about it.
Logical Weakness
- She can turn into vapor and be practically invisible, but if she were to pass through a building, a small alteration in the air would be felt, which is where Vandalieu could detect and trap her. Recognizing this, she simply doesn't go inside any buildings when spying on him.
- Her vapor is odorless... which sticks out like a sore thumb when it's above a city.
Properly Paranoid: She was uneasy at the thought of approaching Vandalieu more closely or entering buildings, fearing even the smallest detection, which was completely warranted, since Vandalieu barely felt her presence and immediately began thinking in measures to get her.
Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: In Origin she was unable to transform her clothes, but in Lambda she can transform the clothes she's wearing and any objects she's carrying.
Stealth Expert: In Origin she wasn't capable of becoming completely invisible, only a barely noticeable mist, but in Lambda she can do so and thanks to Hazamada's smell, undetectable by scent and magic.

Hijiri Rikudou/Avalon

One of the students killed during a terrorist attack. He quickly deduced that "The Undead" was one of the reincarnators before anyone else did, now he continues to manipulate the events from the shadows against fellow Bravers.

Ambition Is Evil: Has been driven by his unbound ambitions ever since he arrived in Origin.
Awesomeness by Analysis: Deduced "Undead" was Amamiya Hiroto because he had wanted rice, which clued him he was of asian descent, most likely a reincarnator, probably Amamiya who was still missing.
Big Bad Wannabe: While he's a genuine threat to Amemiya Hiroto and the Bravers, his plans are destined to fail from the beginning given that he attracted the enmity of both the God of Origin and Rodcorte. Okay, sure, not really the end of the world, but then you have to remember that in his next life he won't have the advantage of a good public image and will be horribly outclassed with genuine gods and monsters running about. Every time he powers up or acts smug the story always has a sense of irony about it: He's only getting this far because "Banda" doesn't care enough to stop him. And Banda only has a fraction of Van's strength and only some of his abilities.
Diabolical Mastermind: Controls entire nations from the shadows.
Didn't See That Coming: Rikudou's game plan for the entire story was to use death-attribute research to make himself and his supporters immortal, and thus become a living god with his Unlimited Development and Increased Learning Speed abilities. He didn't anticipate that using death-attribute magic for that purpose effectively turned him into a god of death- and thus, once he rendered his supporters immortal (i.e. divorced from death) they immediately registered as so repellant to his senses that he forwent Pragmatic Villainy to just wipe all of them out.
False Friend: Pretends to be the best friend of Amemiya Hiroto and family. It's either working very, very well (in the eyes of Amemiya), or very, very poorly (nearly anyone other than Amemiya).
Fatal Flaw: Pride. His cheat is powerful and is even more so as he gets older but then he has desires for godhood and that is the beginning of his fall. When he eventually dies and is transported to Lambda he is incredibly outclassed by Vandalieu before being consumed by Guduranis after meeting Corrupted Edgar.
Godhood Seeker: Wants to evolve into a new type of human that transcends limitations and become a god in all but name.
Immortality Seeker: He wants to live forever so that his ability "unlimited growth" can make him a new god. Even Rodcorte has issues with that.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: He's obsessed with power and godhood in large part due to a secret inferiority complex over how plain his ability is. Yes, it's very powerful to be able to grow without limitation, but it lacks a lot impact compared to stuff like slowing down time or shutting off magic in the area. He also doesn't want to just be the best, he wants everyone to know that he's the best.
Karmic Death: Spent his entire existence in Origin using everyone around him as nothing more than tools for his own ascension. He gets consumed as a tool for the ascension of Guduranis.
Manipulative Bastard: Took advantage of Murakami's inconformity to manipulate him into defecting from the Bravers. He also manipulated the conflict between the Bravers, the Eighth-Guidance and Murakami's group, leading to all their deaths.
Simple, yet Awesome: His Increased Learning Speed and Unlimited Development is exactly that, meaning there's no limit of what he can learn in Origin, making him a super human in all but name.
The Starscream: Before the Undead appeared he was basically harmless and still a force for good. That being said, he did initially plan to take Amemiya's position in order to feed his own ego, but this probably would have only been better for Origin given Amemiya's incompetence.
Start of Darkness: While he always had an inferiority complex and a need to be seen as the best, he didn't actually have the intention of bothering anyone (mostly) until he realized that death attribute magic was both unique and could potentially make him immortal. This set off his full schemes when before he was perfectly content to just try and take over the Bravers. This would technically make him The Starscream, except that there's no indication he would have been violent about it and a lot of evidence to support the idea he would have done better than Amemiya.
Villain of Another Story: During his time on Origin, he is completely uninvolved with Lambda. This quickly changes after he dies.

Joseph Smith/Druid

Born Shiro Sumida, he was teacher of a different class when he died on Earth. Severely affected by the deaths of the Eighth-Guidance, after unknowingly receiving Vandalieu's guidance, his mind has eased up.

Cool Teacher: Unlike the apathetic Murakami, he's a Nice Guy who would have never hurt anyone on Earth.
Green Thumb: As indicated by his codename, Druid has the power to control plants, but he also has a degree of Aura Vision.
Martial Pacifist: Preferred not to fight and use his powers to help others and do supporting agricultural work, but that did not mean that he lacked the resolve to kill someone.
The Mentally Disturbed: Unsurprisingly he became haunted by what he witnessed and did, being unable to sleep without drugs, but thanks to Van he has recovered for the most part. The way he speaks after having his mental illness cured sounds very disturbing, however, which worries the people around him.
Restoration of Sanity: Not exactly the same sanity he previously had, but thanks to Vandalieu and his guidance he mostly recovers from his PTSD and becomes able of seeing Banda.
Secret-Keeper: He becomes the first adult aware of Banda's existence as well as Rikudou's actions.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Losing so many comrades took a toll on his mind, and was considering suicide, at least until Vandalieu eased his burden. He was getting therapy, but it seems to have only worked so far as keeping his mental state from deteriorating further rather than actually improving.

Hitomi Minuma/Gazer

The classmate that wound up becoming a member of the Eighth Guidance after being found in a research facility, and later came with them to Lambda to become a part of Legion. Her ability [Gazer], gave her limited glimpses into the future.

Blessed with Suck: Her precognition abilities are indeed a powerful asset, but she has no control over them. Being constantly subjected to horrific scenes of death and destruction while working with the Bravers caused her to turn to drugs and even try to kill herself to make it stop.
Driven to Suicide: Her "cheat" power gave her all sorts of horrific visions which were so bad, she tried to kill herself multiple times to make them stop, and was interrupted by Amemiya Hiroto every single time. She was eventually restrained in a hospital facility to keep her from harming herself. And after Eighth Guidance free her, she eventually joins them, and dies together with Jack.
Power Incontinence: On Origin, she had no control of her precognition, at all.
Precognition: Her "cheat" is the ability to see things that would happen around her in the future, though she had no control over when it would activate.
Together in Death: She died right after Jack when they killed Mao.
Took a Level in Cheerfulness: On Lambda, she's much, much happier being a part of Legion than she ever was as "Gazer" in Origin.
You Can't Fight Fate: Seeing horrible futures is bad enough by itself, but what made it worse is that nothing she did could actually change the futures she saw, leading to a nervous breakdown and eventual drug use.

Yuuri Samejima/Perseus

One of a group of three Bravers who refused outright to go against Van in his third life, refusing even to just avoid Vandalieu, instead choosing to reincarnate as a baby — the only way to re-write their name on the status page and permanently hide from him. Unfortunately, due to Rodcorte's scheming, he is reincarnated as a child of a noble that has come into conflict with Vandalieu before, sabotaging his chances of avoiding Vandalieu.

Oh, Crap!: Overhearing his parents talk about Vandalieu causes his memories of his first and second lives to return abruptly, causing a rather epic meltdown... which he can't do anything about, even express effectively, since he's less than a year old at the time. Indeed, it takes him several months after this for his memories to come back again, briefly, with him still unable to do anything about it.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Decides that Rodcotre's plan to kill Van is doomed to failure, and that trying to hide from Van isn't enough — so he decides to reincarnate as a child to get a new name and completely avoid Vandalieu outright.
You Can't Fight Fate: Despite reincarnating as a baby to avoid Vandalieu, said baby's family is immediately brought into the sphere of influence of Talosheim, meaning he not only didn't avoid Van, he's now a completely helpless child, too.
- Played with, as Rodcorte in his typical clueless jerkass fashion intentionally put him in the body of a child that would be raised to hate and fight against Vandalieu. What he didn't expect, due to not understanding humans at all and Vandalieu even less, was Van reaching out and recruiting said family instead of leaving them alone to fester in anger.

Jin Tanaka/Skanda

One of a group of three Bravers who refused outright to go against Van in his third life, refusing even to just avoid Vandalieu, instead choosing to reincarnate as a baby — the only way to re-write their name on the status page and permanently hide from him. Unfortunately, due to Rodcorte's scheming, he is reincarnated as the illegitimate child of human royalty of the Alda faction, meaning he is directly opposed to Vandalieu — making his hope of avoiding Van doomed to begin with.

Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction briefly upon meeting Vandalieu, but it fades as his body is not mature enough to contain an adult's persona and memories yet.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Decides that Rodcorte's plan is doomed to failure, so attempts to reincarnate as a child to avoid the entire conflict.
You Can't Fight Fate: Despite reincarnating as a baby, said baby's parent is human royalty that Vandalieu is directly opposed to... but he is immediately hidden so said royalty's bloodline will survive an upcoming civil war. This leads directly to his mother marrying into a group of Vida worshippers. His stepfather is an Abyssal Pure-breed Vampire directly connected to Vandalieu and a member of the Storm of Tyranny, his soon to be born sibling will be a Dhampir like Vandalieu, and his family has been migrated to Talosheim.
- Played with similar to his fellow Braver Yuuri Samejima, however, given that as immigrants welcome to Talosheim he and his family are quite unlikely to find themselves antagonizing (or be antagonized by) Vandalieu.

Kay Mackenzie/Urðr

One of a group of three Bravers who refused outright to go against Van in his third life, refusing even to just avoid Vandalieu, instead choosing to reincarnate as a baby — the only way to re-write their name on the status page and permanently hide from him. Like the other two who died at the same time, Mackenzie was intentionally placed by Rodcorte in a position to come into conflict with Van. In her case she was born as Katie Hartner, daughter of Lucas Hartner of the Hartner Duchy.

Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Can tell that Rodcorte's plan is doomed to failure, but cannot avoid being reincarnated in Lambda. She instead chooses to reincarnate as a baby for the most chance of being hidden from Vandalieu and the conflict.
This Is Going to Suck: Her reaction at recovering her past life memories and realizing she's the only one who can save her father Lucas from getting himself and the entire Duchy destroyed by Van.
You Can't Fight Fate: Rodcorte intentionally reincarnates her in a way that will make her likely to enter into conflict with Vandalieu.

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