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Lang Wu Yao
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Name: 浪巫謠 Làng Wū Yáo (ZH) / Rou Fu You (JA) / Wandering Sorcery Ballad (EN)
Title: 弦歌斷邪 Xián Gē Duàn Xié (ZH) / Genka Danja (JA) / Song That Dooms Evil (EN)note
天籟吟者 Tiān Lài Yín Zhě (ZH) / Tenrei Ginja (JA) / Court Virtuoso (EN)note
天籟吟者 Tiān Lài Yín Zhě (ZH) / Tenrei Ginja (JA) / Court Virtuoso (EN)note
Date of Birth: February 22.
Voiced by: Takanori Nishikawa, Nao Tōyama (child) (JA), Liu Ming-Yue (ZH)
A minstrel born and raised in Xi-You. He spent his childhood in the mountains with his mother, practicing songs and swords. The trained magical singing voice attracts those around him, and greatly disrupts his life. For more insight and his present self, see Lang Wu Yao.
- Disappeared Dad: His father is never mentioned or seen within the film and it is unknown if he is dead or he left Lang Wu Yao's mother before the story began. Season 3 finally reveals his father as the Demon Lord Azibelpher.
- It's All My Fault: He believes his voice killed his mother and he wasn't able to save her.
- Red Is Heroic: He sports the outfit he wears in the present after he gains his resolve to make his own decisions.
- Ship Tease: With Mu Tian Ming.
- Training from Hell: He had a difficult childhood and spent his entire life training and singing to push his limits by his mother. If he doesn't sing high enough, his mother beat him.
- Tragic Keepsake: The pipa is the last reminder of his mother after she died falling from a cliff.
Mu Tian Ming
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Name: 睦天命 Mù Tin Mìng (ZH) / Mutsu Ten Mei (JA) / Together Destined (EN)
Weapon Of Choice: Guqin hiding long and short swords
Weapon Name: 棲鳳箏 Qī Fèng Zhēng (ZH) / Seihousou (JP) / Phoenix Roost Zither (EN)
Hidden long sword: 凌風 Líng Fēng (ZH) / Ryoufuu (JP) / Soaring Phoenix (EN)
Hidden short sword: 飄羽 Piāo Yǔ (ZH) / Hyouu (JP) / Feather In the Wind (EN)
Hidden long sword: 凌風 Líng Fēng (ZH) / Ryoufuu (JP) / Soaring Phoenix (EN)
Hidden short sword: 飄羽 Piāo Yǔ (ZH) / Hyouu (JP) / Feather In the Wind (EN)
Discipline / Position: Musician
Date of Birth: November 9.
Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (JA)
She is Shang Bu Huan's partner in collecting swords across Xi-You and the first person to befriend Lang Wu Yao. Like Lang Wu Yao, she is a musician who is also talented in martial arts.
- Eye Scream: During her final battle with Huo Shi Ming Huang, Mu Tian Ming is blinded in both eyes. The leader of the Order of the Divine Swarm, Huo Shi Ming Huang, manages to strike her across the face with a sword, destroying Mu Tian Ming's eyesight.
- First Friend: She becomes Lang Wu Yao's first friend when they first meet.
- I Will Wait for You: Lang Wu Yao angrily tells Shang Bu Huan that she's waiting to see him again. He only says he can't return to her until his quest is complete.
- Love Triangle: It is clear that Lang Wu Yao has feelings for Mu Tian Ming, and resentment about her connection with Shang Bu Hua. For his part, Shang Bu Hua treats Mu Tian Ming as a valued friend, but nothing romantic. However an upset Lang Wu Yao, who follows Shang Bu Hua into exile, tells him that Mu Tian Ming is always thinking of Shang and waiting for his return. Shang Bu Hua answers he cannot return to Mu Tian Ming until he finds a cure to her blindness. This response upsets Lang Wu Yao, who immediately drops the subject to avoid getting angrier at Shang. The question unanswered, is Mu Tian Ming's feelings for the two. Is she only concerned for Shang as a treasured friend, or something more?
- Morph Weapon: Her guqin's plectrum hides both the dagger Piao Yu and the full-length sword Ling Feng which has a blade that is almost whiplike.
- Platonic Life-Partners: With Shang Bu Huan.
- Razor Wind: She is able to channel her qi through her guqin to turn its music into physical attacks.
- Ship Tease: With Lang Wu Yao.
- True Blue Femininity: She is dressed in blue, which symbolizes her beauty, caring, and kind personality.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The movie doesn't reveal what happened her and why she wasn't with Shang Bu Huan's original adventures in season 1, a fact Lin Xue Ya points out in The Stinger.
- It is confirmed in the season 3 that she's alive, although she was blinded in battle with Huo Shi Ming Huang.
Zhou Xun Yin
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Name: 咒旬瘖 Zhòu Xún Yīn (ZH) / Ju Shun In (JA) / Cursed Muted One (EN)
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (JA)
Lang Wu Yao's mother who is blind. She is a former member of the Xi-You Imperial Court. Taking pride in her son's singing voice, she brutally trains him in singing and in combat until Lang Wu Yao falls ill. When he recovers, his vocal pitch changed, sending her into a frenzy that led to her death by falling off a cliff. Her real name is Ling Mo Yan (聆莫言 Líng Mò Yán / Ryou Baku Gen), a former princess of the Xi You imperial court. She fell in love with someone not in her social standing, only to find out too late it was the demon lord Azibělpher in disguise, who blinded her and ultimately led to her being cast out of the Xi You court.- Abusive Parents: She horribly abuses Lang Wu Yao during his early childhood and forces him to sing and fight to his limits. She even beat him when he fell ill and lost his ability to sing. It might be her way of preparing her son for the future in case his Half-Human Hybrid nature is revealed, not that it makes it any less abusive.
- Disney Villain Death: After Lang Wu Yao underwent puberty and his voice changed, his blind mother wasn't able to recognize him. Her fear that her son was murdered and the murderer was after her next led her to fall off a cliff out of fear. With the revelation of Lang's father being a demon, it makes sense that she reacted this way.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her abusive and harsh treatment towards her son, she cares for him deeply. She can be seen taking care of him when he fell ill and before he was born, she ran away from the Imperial Court to live incognito so that they would not kill him for his half-demon lineage..
- Eye Scream: After Ling Mo Yan professes her love to her lover, Azibělpher reveals his true identity and slashes her across the eyes, blinding her.
- Freudian Excuse: She was seduced by a demon and wound up pregnant by him, and discovered the true nature of the man she thought she knew before her eyes got slashed. Then the Imperial Court wanted her child dead for being half-demon, which explains why she was the bitter, abusive woman we initially saw her as.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: In her youth, Ling Mo Yan had red hair and green eyes not unlike her son Lang Wu Yao, although Lang Wu Yao's hair is a more natural orange than Ling Mo Yan's burgundy hair.
- Stage Mom: Or Sing Mom, rather.
- You Don't Look Like You: In her first appearance in the second film, Lang Wu Yao's mother, she had white hair and wore plain clothes, but in Season 3, she has a completely different appearance including dark red hair, teal-green eyes and an elegant red outfit like her son. Even Lang Wu Yao still recognizes her even though she looks completely different. It is implied this is what she used to look like before she decided to change her looks in order to keep her identity a secret from the outside world, who wanted to kill her son for being half-demon.
Chao Feng
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Name: 嘲風 Cháo Fēng (ZH) / Chou Fuu (JA) / Deriding Wind (EN)
Discipline / Position: Princess
Date of Birth: November 9.
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (JA)
Princess of Xi-You. She is a cruel person that has musicians perform for her while being attacked by her soldiers as entertainment. After seeing Lang Wu Yao's performance, he is made the court virtuoso and is declared as her "songbird" for life. She is enraged when he leaves to pursue Shang Bu Huan and Mu Tian Ming and later joining them. She is also Huo Shi Ming Huang's daughter.- All Love Is Unrequited: She has strong romantic feelings for Lang Wu Yao, but he's not into her because she's an evil and cruel person.
- Bad Boss: She enjoys watching her henchmen be slaughtered in mass as much as watching performers die.
- Detect Evil: She can tell Lou Zhen Jie is a Yandere like herself, and therefore agrees to helping him because she can relate to such madness.
- Daddy's Little Villain: Being the daughter of Huo Shi Ming Huang, her misanthropic personality makes sense.
- Misanthrope Supreme: According to Shang Bu Huan, she is a misanthrope.
- No Sense of Personal Space: She has no problem getting close to Lang Wu Yao.
- Royal Brat: She's a sadist who enjoys watching musicians try to fight off her henchmen as they perform before ultimately getting killed for her own amusement. When Lang Wu Yao calls her evil, she agrees with him, but then says that as a princess, she's entitled to do what she wants anyway.
- Sadist: She enjoys seeing performers desperately try to finish their performance without missing a note before being killed by her henchmen. She is just as pleased to see her henchmen get slaughtered.
- Single Tear: Subverted. She sheds a single tear of happiness after Lang Wu Yao finishes his performance.
- Yandere: She acts kind and sweet to Lang Wu Yao, but she's very hostile towards anyone who isn't him. After he leaves, she orders her men to kill the people who capture him. By the time Lang Wu Yao unintentionally returns to her palace, Chao Feng stabs him on the his right side of his chest to make sure he will never leave her again. It's clear she did not take Lang Wu Yao's departure very well and swears she will take everything from Lang Wu Yao by killing him.
- Undying Loyalty: To her father, the Emperor of Xi-You, Huo Shi Ming Huang.
Tian Gong Gui Jiang
Name: 天工詭匠 Tiān Gōng Guǐ Jiàng (ZH) / Ten Kou Ki Shou (JA) / Heavenly Crafter (EN)
Voiced by: Kentarō Tone (JA), Liu Ming-Yue (ZH)
An accomplice of Shang Bu Huan and Mu Tian Ming. He is the creator of the Sorcerous Sword Index.- What Happened to the Mouse?: Like Lang Wu Yao and Mu Tian Ming, it is not revealed why Tian Gong Gui Jiang is not travelling with Shang Bu Huan as he escaped Xi-You for Dong-Li.
- Season 3 reveals he's alive and well, having founded his secret hideout the Odd Shop (鋳異坊 Zhù Yì Fāng [ZH] / Chuu I Bou [JA]) where he and Mu Tian Ming live.
