Officer Misako/Characters

Misako Irwa:

 * Animal Motifs: Big Badass Wolf
 * The Hero: Deconstructor Fleet abounds.
 * Balancing Deaths Books: Becomes this prior to her reincarnation. The Psychopomp takes.
 * after her initial reincarnation into a Future Badass. One eye is her original blue, the other eye is silver
 * Amazon Brigade: Her first team starts out like this, but soon they needed more males to back up their investigation, on Diaglo's insistence- this turns out to be a good thing in the long-run.
 * Characterization Marches On: She starts out very naive and easy-going and after a few missions...
 * Clueless Chick Magnet: Well, it's oblivious.
 * Cycle of Revenge:
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars:
 * Hitman With a Heart: She does her job because it's what she's best at- until she accidentally becomes  in end. This also makes Larosin desire her all the more
 * Identity Absorption: Oh gawd, please Divide By Zero!
 * Knight Templar: Becomes one of these after her 'accident' (FFUUUUUU-)
 * She fights monsters: The entire point of this series.
 * Stepford Smiler: Type C-ish
 * Reincarnation Romance: After she loses, the One out of pure pity, gave her a 'second chance' at life and 'revenge' and then she goes off Like a Badass Out of Hell!
 * End of the World Special:  Misako is given this choice by her deceased friend, what did she do with this power?!
 * Magic Feather: Surprisingly, this tactic works in class- and during work, and what motivates her? Her scar.
 * Refusal of the Call: She reluctantly does duties at first, then more clues are found and she eagerly investigates.
 * Refusing Paradise:  about to Go Mad From the Revelation and is all depressed.
 * Snipe Hunt: With Devlin by sorting out each of the 'clues'...
 * So What Do We Do Now?: After defeating the Big Bad...
 * The Masochism Tango:
 * Unwitting Pawn: Her plans actually further everyone else's plan, particularly Larosin's.
 * Samus Is a Girl: Happens when she goes on a 'date'...
 * Weirdness Magnet: Everything happens to her, everything.

Devlin Whirl:

 * Ambiguously Gay: Or not?
 * Sad Clown: His jokes hide his depression.
 * Incest Subtext: You can interpret his relationship with his sister any number of ways, including Squick...
 * Fish Out of Water:
 * My Invisibility is Lame: It's not. It's a Chekhov's Gun ability!.
 * Occult Police:
 * Plucky Comic Relief:
 * Submissive Badass: He lets his sister walk all over him, but he doesn't show anything that suggests any anger. Instead he works from the background and gathers information 'calmly' right to the very end.
 * My Sister's Missing: Pascha turns up right at the very end for the Grand Finale- several thousand years later- as a __________
 * With Catlike Tread: Very hard to do when he is accident-prone.

Vixen Foxtrot:

 * A God Am I: Literally becomes the Avatar of Time through  as she has a Psychic Link to the creature. "Misako" is understandably shocked at this outcome.
 * Animal Motifs: 'Falcon'
 * Agent Scully: The most 'normal' of the bunch- and the most skeptical.
 * Badass Normal
 * Badass Bookworm: She's more of this.
 * Barrier Maiden: She's got the power.
 * Blood Knight: Averted, slightly.
 * : This fact astounds everyone.
 * Only Sane Girl: It seems like she's the ONLY sane human sometimes, with all the others having a slight Dysfunction Junction.
 * Paradox Person: Becomes this by the finale.
 * The Glasses Come Off: Not really mentioned in-story, but she does wear reading glasses before fighting.
 * The Voiceless: During most of the epilogue, until she grants the final request.
 * We Slid for HOURS: While trapped in the slide, Vixen had time to start an argument and for Larosin to complain about perming treatment. Everyone talks during the slide.
 * Weirdness Censor: She acts like this until
 * Victory Is Boring: She tries to explain this concept to Misako, without success...

Diaglo Copenhagen:

 * Beware My Stinger Tail: His tail is... Unique
 * Genius Bonus: Diablo, Diago or a Diaglyptus beetle? All three are valid answers to his name alone.
 * Heroic Bastard: Secret Other Family anyone?
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love?: In his monologues he is literally clueless about this concept
 * Ineffectual Loner:
 * Mix and Match Critters: Monitor-Lizard + Moray Eel = Hybrid Monster? I know- (fuses) I had a lot of fun.
 * Nice Guy: To the point where even Stryker is questionable about his motives
 * Came Back Wrong: Very noticeable after the epilogue.
 * Cooldown Hug: Melkior hugs him to calm him down to 'sanity'
 * Surprise Incest: Almost does this- thankfully this was cut short.
 * Seen It All: By the epilogue Diaglo's seen everything-and is tired of it.
 * You Are Not Alone
 * Seen It All: By the epilogue Diaglo's seen everything-and is tired of it.
 * You Are Not Alone

The Mad Scientist

 * Deal With the Devil: He made multiple deals with several otherworldly forces for this result...
 * : He experimented on individuals and for science- some of the victims were college students. Unlike his young brother, he is also irredeemable- see Dark Secret below.
 * Dark Secret:  of his former assistant. Only the mother and child survived... This fact was actually not explained in-story, but in Backstory.
 * Harmful Healing: He puts most aliens in an And I Must Scream situation.
 * Science Is Bad: Taken to rather Narm levels. And he tends to Complement Our Navels a lot
 * Evil Is Hammy: About his experiments!
 * May Contain Evil: In futuristic 'Sweeney Todd' fashion
 * Playing With Syringes: He is an robotic expert after all.
 * Powered By a Forsaken Child: His industry runs on this with three test subjects.
 * Professor Guinea Pig: He tested most of his robotic inventions on himself.
 * Kill the Ones You Love:  Although he made up a blatant lie to cover that fact to Misako, she's not that fooled.
 * I Want My Jetpack: He wants cyborgs to be in fashion.
 * I Punished All Allies: He starts breaking all of Misako's allies bit by bit... Until Misako's whole group is reduced to a small number.
 * Immortality Immorality: Immortality as 'demonstrated' by his test subjects are less than desired in the long run-
 * The Fair Folk: Subtly implied, with his 'own' brother... which leads to one scary implication, ala the novel Perfume
 * The Bluebeard: His brother, the Black Prince. also the Mad Scientist sometimes lusts after certain males and under-aged aliens (aka Kaede)...

The Lightning Mage

 * Alternate Self: As a Hooker With a Heart of Gold much later on...
 * Animal Motifs: Bear
 * Blank Slate: An advantage Harlin quickly takes advantage of...
 * Broken Bird: Partly because of her Enemy Within.
 * In more ways than one. Applied constantly enough for her to make a few Face Heel Revolving Door during her extended lifespan.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen: To Misako and the others.
 * But the Enemy Within comes back MUCH later on.
 * Dual Age Modes: Uhhhh, Explanatory?
 * Evil Eye: When she gives the evil eye, you best watch out.
 * Fetish Fuel: Silver eyes, check. Violet Anime Hair? Check. Demonic Possession? CHECK.
 * Nightmare Fuel: In chapter 18...
 * Shout Out: She may be a Homage to the main character from Elfen Lied, if that's any indication.
 * I Am Who?:
 * The brother of the Mad Scientist made her into an unwilling pawn for his plans...
 * Lotus Eater Machine: She's put in a Lotus Eater Machine when the ghost possesses her
 * Red Eyes Take Warning: Her possessed eyes flare up when she's angry and the heroes hit her Berserk Button.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: How about 'Really  years old? yeah, she's ancient due to the Reset!
 * Squick:
 * Stepford Smiler: Type A
 * Same Character but Different:
 * Meaningful Rename: Justified because of her Wild Card characteristic...
 * Nanobots: The main reason for her so called.
 * The Assistant's Daughter: The wild goose-chase
 * Take Me Instead
 * You Got to Have Purple Hair
 * The Assistant's Daughter: The wild goose-chase
 * Take Me Instead
 * You Got to Have Purple Hair

Troper Works