Characters / Trapped

Chae-ah Han

Chae-ah

• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She is a very reserved woman, and even though she has a temper, she does her best to keep it in check, making her appear more cold.
• Batman Gambit: After being kidnapped by Haewon while teaming up with Yunsu to kill him, she realizes that Yunsu has planned to have her kill Haewon for him. So she makes a gamble, betting that it was actually her blood he smelled the day she first stabbed Haewon. So she stabs herself, leading Yunsu to kill Haewon in a bloodthirsty haze and keeping her own hands clean.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: A very dark example with Chae-ah and Yunsu; they do bicker a lot, to the point more than a few readers have pointed out they're almost Like an Old Married Couple with a kid (Grimm), but their fights are often a matter of life or death.
• Broken Tears: Chae-ah sheds these during her Despair Event Horizon, after she keeps seeing Haewon everywhere, scaring her half to death.
• Crime of Self-Defense: The crime she committed that made her an ex-con involved her stabbing her abusive, yandere boyfriend with a knife.
• Despair Event Horizon: Chae-ah hits hers when her ex-boyfriend comes back into the picture and resumes stalking her, to the point she has a breakdown in the rain and makes a deal with Yunsu to get rid of him.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: How Chae-ah is unfairly seen by her family, due to being an ex-con from a Crime of Self-Defense.
• Fake Relationship When her abusive ex boyfriend, Haewon, comes back into the picture, Yunsu can't help but antagonize him by not only saying he and Chae-ah are dating, but that he's considering marrying her.
• Forced into Evil: Chae-ah is tricked by Yunsu into burying one of his kills, and he catches her on video doing it. This, combined with her past as an ex-con, is enough to blackmail her into being his accomplice.
• Good Is Not Soft: She is abrasive and tough, but she has to be when attempting to escape a murderous vampire. She even begins to partake in a Battle of Wits with him.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: She can appear temperamental and abrasive, but deep down she wishes her family actually cared about her and she’s truly afraid for her situation.

Yunsu Park

Yunsu

• Bloodlust: Yunsu’s eyes glow bright yellow whenever blood is spilled in his presence, like when Chae-ah purposefully cuts herself as an experiment.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Yunsu ends up promising to let Chae-ah go at one point, and since a vampire’s promise is binding, he can’t kill her, no matter what.
• Daywalking Vampire: He doesn’t seem to have any problems walking around in broad daylight.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For as cruel as Yunsu is, he genuinely does care about Grimm as a son figure.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Even Yunsu doesn’t like Haewon, Chae-ah’s Stalker with a Crush ex boyfriend.
• Evil Is Not Well-Lit: Yunsu is usually seen in shadows.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Yunsu looks quite beautiful, but deep down he’s a murderous, sadistic vampire.
• Fake Relationship: When Chae-ah's abusive ex boyfriend, Haewon, comes back into the picture, Yunsu can't help but antagonize him by not only saying he and Chae-ah are dating, but that he's considering marrying her.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Yunsu first came across Chae-ah the day she stabbed her abusive boyfriend, and becoming fixated on the scent of Haewon’s blood, which turns out to have been Chae-ah’s.
• Lesser of Two Evils: When Chae-ah is forced to decide between going along with Yunsu’s lies or reconnecting with her ex boyfriend. Neither option is good, as Yunsu is a murderous vampire and her ex is a stalker.
• Like a Son to Me: Yunsu genuinely does see Grimm as a son.
• Manipulative Bastard: The whole story starts with him tricking Chae-ah into burying one of his kills for him.
• Parents as People: Plays this role to Grimm; Grimm ‘’knows’’ that Yunsu killed his biological father, but Yunsu can’t bring himself to tell him that he did that because Seon begged him to kill him ‘’and’’ Grimm. Yunsu couldn’t kill Grimm.
• Religious Vampire: Yunsu regularly goes to Mass on Sundays, although whether he’s actually religious is left up in the air; it could just be part of his disguise.
• Slasher Smile: He grins these often, usually when he’s around blood.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Vampires’ eyes tend to glow bright yellow when they’re exposed to blood, and Yunsu is no exception.
• Vampiric Draining: What Yunsu does to his victims. He drinks their blood, quite naturally for a vampire.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Yunsu has fair skin, jet black hair, seems tall, and is definitely a looker.

Grimm

Grimm

• Creepy Child: Due to being a vampire and his association with Yunsu.
• Dhampyr: He’s revealed to be the son of a vampire and a human woman.