Characters with No Social Skills in Visual Novels.
- Ace Attorney:
- Vera Misham became a hikikomori of the highest caliber after she was traumatized by an attempted kidnapping as a child, which left her with severe agoraphobia. She and her father have lived in their apartment for all of her life. He only ever went outside when it was absolutely necessary, and she had never been outside her apartment after the aforementioned attempted kidnapping except for one time when she was taken to see a troupe of performing magicians whom she was a fan of. She doesn't speak or make facial expressions very much, instead conveying her emotions by drawing pictures on her art pad. She gains a newfound resolve to explore the world after she's declared "not guilty" of her father's murder and becomes Apollo and Trucy's friend.
- Of the main cast, Miles Edgeworth is this—he's blunt and tactless to almost everyone, Maya has to teach him that the appropriate reaction to someone getting you acquitted of murder is to say "thank you", and wouldn't notice someone hitting on him if his life depended on it.
- Kent from Amnesia: Memories is highly intelligent but so utterly lacking in social skills that he consults guidebooks on how to act in a romantic relationship, thinks a math workbook is a good gift for a girlfriend, and genuinely didn't realize that telling the girl he liked that it was her fault that her dog died and that death is an inevitable outcome not worth getting upset over might make her mad at him.
- Danganronpa:
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc:
- As shown in the page quote, Ishimaru is so wrapped up in being a good student that he's inexperienced with regular social interaction and makes his first real friend at his new school. It's too bad that friend is convicted of murder soon afterward.
- In fact, you could make a case for a lot of the students not having any. Toko Fukawa has a bad habit of thinking the worst of people while accusing them of thinking the worst of her. Celestia Ludenberg has difficulty relating to people and actually treating them like... well, people. Mondo Owada has a Hair-Trigger Temper which makes it hard to make friends and ends very tragically. You could even argue that Byakuya Togami is a case of this, given his inability to understand why Asahina would try to get herself convicted of her best friend's "murder", which would result in the execution of her and everyone else. And the less said about Hifumi Yamada, the better.
- Ironically, in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair both Gundham Tanaka and Kazuichi Soda are both like this, but choose to handle it entirely differently, with Gundham being a hammy Chuunibyou who talks in an extremely melodramatic fashion and dresses like a goth, while Kazuichi dresses like a delinquent and tries to act cool to cover up his dorky, easily-startled personality. The fact both of them have a Dark and Troubled Past and were bullied in their youth is a large contributing factor.
- In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Shuichi Saihara is good at reasoning and all that, but he isn't too good with socializing with others. Which also led to his fear of revealing the truth about murders. He makes friends, but he is still a Socially Awkward Hero. Of course, that friend of his was unjustly executed in the first trial. You also have Miu Iruma, who gives everyone insulting nicknames, makes a lot of sex jokes, and is generally a nuisance to everyone. Despite this, it is noted that Miu does not intend to cause offence (at least most of the time); she just says whatever comes to mind without filtering herself and she generally does not realise that she is acting in terrible taste, and even when she manages to avoid sounding insulting when trying to be nice, her social graces are lacking. For example, she invites Shuichi to her her lab and then walks off without waiting for a response, bakes some sweets with her hidden ingredients because she wants the person she likes to eat her, and gives him her panties and tells him that he has earned the right to date her. Then there's Ki-bo, who is a robot and thus rather oblivious to confusing human customs and tends to be treated as My Friends... and Zoidberg despite his friendly personality.
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc:
- The Fruit of Grisaia: Despite his many (semi) reasonable sounding monologues about how to deal with people (especially women), it is made clear numerous times that Yuuji is not exactly at the top of his game when it comes to social interactions. This usually comes out as Innocently Insensitive, thanks to his extremely blunt personality. At one time he meets Michiru, acting somewhat out of character, he immediately jumps to the logical conclusion of "must be that time of the month", and to put his question as delicately as he can, he whispers this into her ears:Yuuji: "Are you menstruating?"
- Little Busters!:
- Natsume Rin is incapable of having anything even remotely resembling a conversation with anyone except her brother and Childhood Friends, and even then, her behaviour seems extremely awkward at times. When someone who isn't her brother or childhood friend attempts to talk to her, she will either try to hide behind Riki's back or run away. If you make the right choices, however, she can get better.
- For a subtle example, Haruka tends to act very wild and weird and insensitive to other people. She admits in her route that this is because she hardly ever met any other kids her own age when she was a child, being forbidden from going to school, so she finds it hard to understand how she's expected to act in social situations.
- In Magical Diary, Toad and Snake Halls are reserved for "strange" characters, including melodramatic goths and basement-dwellers fascinated by watching mold grow. The semi-Secret Character Big Steve appears completely unable to deal with social situations or even talking to people unless it's about one of his odd favorite topics. Like coffee.
- My Magical Divorce Bureau features several people with poor communication (which is why they ended up in the titular divorce bureau). Lexis and Jeska stand out, particularly in their attempts to get closer to Lillum. Lexis thought that negotiating a contract with Lillum's minions was a good approach when trying to get a date, while Jeska, who wanted a pact, thought that trying to invoke Stockholm Syndrome was a good way of softening Lillum to the idea.
- Arcueid Brunestud, the vampire princess in Tsukihime, has an abnormal way of interacting socially. She was created as a living weapon. Despite living for centuries, she's only been awake for a year or so; and she tended to erase her memories when going back to sleep. While she does get some cultural information via psychic osmosis, she remains awkward.
- Umineko: When They Cry:
- Maria Ushiromiya. She acts much younger than her age of nine years, keeps using a Verbal Tic that annoys her mother and causes her to be bullied and friendless at school, and is a firm believer in the occult to the point that her bizarre reactions to the murders greatly disturb everyone else. Of course, she thinks that everyone will just be revived in the Golden Land later, but still. However, despite her strange behaviour she isn't actually evil, just very socially maladjusted.
- A scene in EP8 shows Bernkastel fretting with the simple act of calling someone with a phone, and how to speak with someone over it. This is at stark contrast with the overall much more serious mood of the scene, and particularly since she has always been shown as being in control and competent throughout the rest of the series.
