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Pamela

The main character of the series, Pamela is a fortune-teller with penchant for attracting interesting clientele, mostly after midnight.

• Attempted Rape - suffers this a few times.
• Badass - This is mostly due to being immortal and thus able to brush off injuries, but she's got the attitude to match.
• Berserk Button - Does not like being called an old lady.
• Brown Eyes
• Death Seeker
• Determinator
• Fetch Quest - has to gather the beads of Belial's necklace for Belus.
• Good Thing You Can Heal - A few times. She has a distinctly nonchalant attitude about it.
• Iron Woobie
• Mama Bear - do not mess with people she cares about.
• Princess Curls - in a flashback.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old
• Relationship Sue - is likable in spite of this, but yeah.
  • So Beautiful Its a Curse - a few times.
• Shiny Midnight Black
• Sympathy for The Devil - In quite a few cases.
• Tarot Motifs - owns the eponymous Tarot Cafe.
• The First Cut Is the Deepest
• Tsundere - Type A.
• Unwitting Pawn
• Waif Prophet - Mostly in her early years, though she maintains her mysterious demeanor at times.
• Who Wants to Live Forever - though she eventually learns to live with it.

Belus

A business partner of Pamela's (or rather, the business partner). He's asked Pamela to gather the beads of a certain necklace for him.

• Affably Evil
• Big Bad
• Depraved Bisexual - had a previous relationship with Ash as well as being in love with Pamela.
• Evil Plan
• Fetish Fuel Station Attendant
• Green Eyes
• Heel Face Turn
  • Defeat Means Friendship
• Let's Get Dangerous
• Obfuscating Stupidity - He's fond of fooling around, but he's not afraid of getting serious when he has to.
• Satan
• Trickster Mentor
  • Evil Mentor
• What Is This Thing You Call Love
• White Haired Pretty Boy
• Yandere

Aaron

A sweet and innocent young boy who is taken in by Pamela. He also happens to be a werewolf.

• Abusive Parents - his father was physically abusive, and ended up selling him to a strange man for beer.
• Beware the Nice Ones
  • Crouching Moron Hidden Badass - occasionally has traces of this.
• Bi the Way
• Blue Eyes
• Cursed With Awesome
• Earn Your Happy Ending - does he ever.
• Hair of Gold
• Mayfly December Romance
• Moe
  • Adorkable
• Reincarnation Romance - with Nebiros.
  • Beta Couple
• The Woobie - you will want to hug him. A lot.

Ash

A mysterious boy who shows up at the shop one day. He strongly resembles someone from Pamela's past, and seems to carry many secrets.

• Attempted Rape - suffers this a few times.
• Bishonen
• Blue Eyes
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder - at one point it's literal.
• Depraved Bisexual
• Evil Redhead
• Go Mad From the Revelation
  • Despair Event Horizon - Belus is able to capture him because of this.
• Heel Face Turn
• Heroes Want Redheads
• James Bondage
• Jerkass Woobie - sure, he goes through hell, but in many ways, he's earned it.
• Love At First Sight - Implied to be a frequent target of this. It never ends well.
• Love Makes You Crazy
  • Love Makes You Evil
• Mind Screw - is pretty much this personified. Of course, he has some very good reasons for it...
• More Than Mind Control
• Reincarnation Romance - brutally subverted. He's in love with Belus instead.
• Unwitting Pawn
• Yandere

Alecto

A friend of Axis who seeks revenge for his death.

• Badass Longcoat
• Berserk Button - After Axis' death, the sight of Pamela (or even hearing her name) sends him into a rage.
• Bi the Way
• Black Best Friend - to Axis.
• Body Horror: Belial put curse worms. In. His. BODY.
• Ensemble Darkhorse
• Fate Worse Than Death
• Jerkass Woobie
• Kuudere - To Axis.
• Love Redeems - Heavily subverted. He actually gets worse after being told that when he falls in love, he'll die.
• Obfuscating Stupidity - and The Reveal of it is awesome.
• Our Dragons Are Different
• Scary Black Man - or rather, scary black dragon.
• The First Cut Is the Deepest - Although it's somewhat ambiguous as to whether this is regarding Axis or Pamela.
• Tear Jerker - He's the only one of the main characters who doesn't have a happy ending
• To Hell and Back
• Token Minority
• Too Cool to Live
• Tsundere - Type A to begin with, but he really goes into tsuntsun mode whenever he's around Axis.
• Unwitting Pawn

Cora

A fortune teller, like Pamela. Also called "The Queen of the Dead.

• Deal With the Devil
• Domestic Abuse - Ash, you bastard.
• Earn Your Happy Ending - she's finally able to reach Heaven after several centuries.
• Good All Along
• Gorgeous Period Dress - her hanbok.
• I Am Who - she's the reincarnation of Pamela's mother.
• Love Makes You Evil subverted!
• Waif Prophet - much more so than Pamela.
• White Haired Pretty Girl
• The Woobie - poor, poor Cora.

Axis

Pamela's first love. Despite (or perhaps because of) his brutal murder long ago, he holds sway over Pamela and Alecto.

• And I Must Scream
• Berserk Button - never hurt Pamela. Ever.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Bishonen
• Crouching Moron Hidden Badass - despite being a dragon, he manages to pull this off.
• Deal With the Devil
• Face Heel Turn - mostly with his reincarnation, Ash, but he shows more than a few signs of this right before his death.
• Heroes Want Redheads
• I Just Want to Be Normal
• Meaningful Name
• My God What Have I Done - at the time of his death.
• Our Dragons Are Different
• Royals Who Actually Do Something
• Who Wants to Live Forever