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== Tsukihime ==

=== Shiki Tohno{{spoiler|/Nanaya}} ===

 

{{quote|''"So you want to kill me, monster? Then we have something in common. Very well. Let's kill each other... Nero Chaos."''}}

 

An [[Ordinary High School Student]] and the protagonist of Tsukihime. When he was just a kid, Shiki was involved in a particularly nasty car accident that left him anemic and with a condition that allowed him to see mysterious lines everywhere. In a fit, he tries to claw his eyes out and eventually runs out into an open field where he meets Aoko Aozaki. The two of them spend a long time talking and she teaches him to respect life and his ability to cut anything apart by tracing the lines, which she calls the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. Her parting gift is his trademark pair of glasses.

Alternatively, Shiki returns to the Tohno mansion eager to renew his relationship with his sister and the other childhood friends he had who are now maids. However, he soon finds his family isn't all what it seems, and will have to face secrets about his family that connect them to the random murders occurring around the city. (This is the Far Side route.)

 

* [[Anti-Hero]]: {{spoiler|[[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V]] in Nanaya-mode.}}

* [[Badass]]: {{spoiler|Nanaya.}} Period.

* [[Enemy Without]]: {{spoiler|Nanaya. In addition, TATARI creates a copy of Shiki Tohno to fight Ryougi in MBAA. That Shiki, while being more mellow and true to Shiki's personality, is not really hesitant to use his Eyes.}}

* [[Evil Eye]]: his defining ability; the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception allow him to perceive the nature of death as lines and dots over ''everything''. Basically, he can kill ''anything'' under Gaia with a fruit knife.

** He actually takes after Ryougi more than he seems. While his "default" persona is most similar to Kokutou, his "stoic" mode is very similar to Ryougi's personality. Interestingly, the way he behaves around Arihiko is rather similar to how Ryougi behaves around Kokutou.

* [[Future Badass]]: His possible future as [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/melty_blood_act_2/c007.8/13.html Satsujinki], who can assassinate Dead Apostles in [[HSQ|SECONDS]].

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Not touched on much in the main game, but in Kagetsu Tohya it's said that Shiki's unusual relationship with the concept of death (and not just regarding his Mystic Eyes) subtly freaks out his more normal classmates. Except for Arihiko, who despite being a [[Muggle]] can actually relate due to events in his own past, and Satsuki, who senses something odd about Shiki, is unable to pinpoint what it is, but is nonetheless strangely attracted by it.

* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Almost all of the heroines are all virgins at the start of the story, even one that has lived very long time. Shiki? Nope, not a virgin. Just how much of a man is our hero? He lost his cherry at around age 13 or so. Before the events of the Visual novel, the Tohno-gland was working from the moment he was born I'll bet.

* [[Nice Guy]]: As long as something isn't [[Mind Rape|mind raping]] him into insanity.

** Not in bed though. While making love he turns to psychopath. Not gentlest lover.

* [[Not Afraid to Die]]: As a result of an intimate relationship with death.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: It takes Shiki a while to realize when a girl likes him, unless he's beat over the head with it.

* [[One-Hit Kill]]: [[Trope Pantheons/Life and Death|Co-deity of it]], along with [[Karano Kyoukai/Characters|Shiki Ryougi]].

* [[Reverse Grip]]: Once you see him reversing his grip on his knife, it means that {{spoiler|Nanaya}} is starting to take over.

** {{spoiler|Played with. The above holds true with the visual novel, but Shiki, in and out of Nanaya mode (and the Nanaya Shiki TATARI shadow) tend to swap grips depending on what suits them. His slashes tend to be reverse grip and his stabs tend to be normal grip in Melty Blood. Nanaya too.}}

* [[Tsundere]]: Towards Arcueid, and only towards her. Since she's a bit of a ditz, at first she thinks he hates her or is just mean to everyone. Upon being informed that he only treats her that way, she reacts in an oddly genre savvy manner by being pleased.

* [[Wall Crawl]]: Can do this when his Nanaya abilities come forth. Though, he himself [[Justified Trope|lampshades]] that even he can't [[Genre Savvy|crawl on the wall like a spider and defy gravity]], being only able to muster enough speed to go up the wall while moving through the hallway and taking a single step off the ceiling.

* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: In one side-story, Arihiko comments that Shiki gives off this "vibe" that repels anyone normal who are affected by death; but attracts people who are abnormal. Arihiko himself classifies himself as abnormal after watching his grandmother kill herself in order to save him when they were both trapped in a collapsed building. The only other classmate who was similar was Satsuki... Aoko actually warns him about becoming a [[Weirdness Magnet]], saying in regards to his Mystic Eyes that "special powers attract other special powers."

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Prolonged use of the Mystic Eyes puts an enormous strain on the human brain - perceiving death is ''not'' very conductive towards one's mental stability.

 

 

=== Arcueid Brunestud ===

 

{{quote|''"When everything's over, let's come here again, Shiki! It won't have any meaning, but I'm sure it will be really, really fun!"''}}

 

Often called the Princess of the True Ancestors or White Princess, Arcueid is a vampire born as a living weapon to hunt down and destroy the Dead Apostles, other vampires who used to serve her kind. For a long time she was kept asleep, only being woken up when there were targets around and kept completely ignorant of the need to drink blood until Roa came along. She has hunted him down ever since and killed him many times. She also shares a connection with Ciel and neither of them particularly like each other. Shiki was the first person to ever treat her as something more than a tool or a weapon; ironically it was his ''killing her'' that began their relationship.

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Action Girlfriend]]

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: In Ciel's route.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

** It's technically a secondhand reference, too. Shiki gets chunked into 18 pieces by Crimson Moon in Kagetsu Tohya, and Shiki's last living thought ([[Groundhog Day Loop|before time resets]]), is that she was trying to one-up him in revenge.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]

* [[Ditzy Genius]]: So we're told. The ditz part is undeniable, but the truth is that she's actually just lacking in social skills and common sense. Some side material in Kagetsu Tohya indicates that she's actually highly intelligent and able to learn just about anything she wants to instantly. Not that she ''should'' since it's dangerous for her.

* [[Drama-Preserving Handicap]]: The first one is that she's forced to maintain herself at 30% power all the time. The second is that Shiki forces her to waste most of ''that'' power. Third is the fact that by the way he did that she's recovering incredibly slowly. Arcueid is one of the absolute top tier characters in the Nasuverse, and that is saying something.

* [[Empathic Weapon]]: Her original purpose

* [[Enemy Without]]: {{spoiler|When the TATARI creates a copy of Red Arcueid and lets her loose. Fortunately for the other characters and the world, he had to weaken her to avoid losing control.}}

* [[Flanderization]]: She was perfectly capable of strategizing and even being a dead serious, outright scary combatant in the original story, but adaptations tend to focus almost entirely on her airheadedness.

* [[Flash Step]]: Can do this like most vampires, but not as fond of it as [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Red Arcueid]]. Perhaps due to her [[Willfully Weak|disadvantage]], or [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] status.

* [[Foreign Fanservice]]: So stunningly beautiful and cute she turned ''every'' head at Shiki's school the second she arrived there.

* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]

* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Green Lantern Ring]]: Her Marble Phantasm allows her to reproduce any phenomenon found in nature. However, this is limited to what is actually possible in nature and thus she cannot pull the tricks of a Reality Marble. The metaphor used is that in a bag of 99 black marbles and a single white one, her power lets her always get the white marble. A Reality Marble turns them all white instead, which is an 'impossible' trick.

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Heroic Willpower]]: After Shiki kills her, she's forced to resist her vampiric bloodlust on nothing more than her strength of will. It almost fails her several times, though. In the backstory too, as she's the only (known) True Ancestor to have retained her sanity after drinking blood.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Arc's naivety can result in very callous acts, ones she's not wholly aware are wrong. For example, asking her exhausted and dying familiar, Len, to give Shiki some nice dreams. She also has ''no'' concerns about killing ''anyone'' with her bare hands at the drop of a hat.

** There's also the time Shiki let her see his glasses when she became curious about them. She says she would have broken them (on a whim) but they were somehow constructed such that even Arcueid couldn't break them. It's [[Played for Laughs]] since she couldn't have gone through with it, but if she had...well, they're irreplaceable and the only thing preventing Shiki brain from frying from the strain of his [[Evil Eye]].

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]

* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: With Shiki, since they're the [[Official Couple]], due to their ''vastly'' different lifespans. Made worse by the fact that Shiki's lifespan is even shorter than normal humans. Given the circumstances at the end of Tsukihime, I doubt they would have much time together even if they do finally find peace. However, Arcueid mentions in several works that when Shiki gets close to death, she'd be tempted to turn him into a vampire to keep him alive. As she's shown to be willing to do this in the Ciel route... And finally, this may at least partially subverted as there are implications that Arcueid herself won't last nearly as long as she would have originally.

** [[Detached Sleeves]]

** [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]

* [[The Red Baron]]: Refereed to as "[[Woman in White|The White]] [[Badass Princess|Princess of The True Ancestors]]" by Dead Apostle Ancestors and her other foes. Can also double as an inverted form of [[The Dreaded]] for the majority of them.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Subverted; while she has red eyes, she means no harm to humans. It's the gold eyes you have to worry about.

* [[SNK Boss]]: In ''Actress Again'', {{spoiler|she has another new form called Shinzo Arcueid "Archetype: Earth", which is basically what would happen if she hadn't fallen for Roa's tricks.}}

** {{spoiler|Or if Roa was able to fix it like in his ending in ''Actress Again''; he "kills" her and she basically reboots to the default setting.}}

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Subverted. When she approaches Shiki day after he killed her with big smile, it seems like its the case, but it turns out her smile isn't fake at all. She really is sweet ray of sunshine.

* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: So, naturally, she doesn't get to use it.

 

=== Ciel ===

 

{{quote|''"Tohno-kun, you shouldn't say that. Please, listen to my selfishness. For once -- For once, I want to protect you out of my own will. If I don't do that, I'll never be able to face you with a smile from my heart."''}}

 

Ciel is one of Shiki's classmates and is a [[Sempai-Kohai|Sempai]] of sorts to his circle of friends {{spoiler|(thanks to her memory manipulation)}}, president of the Tea Ceremony Club (of which she is the only member) and a model student. She also leads a double life as an Executor for a super-secret branch of the Catholic Church called the Burial Agency. She has crossed swords with Arcueid on several occasions and warns Shiki to stay away from her, but at the same time they have a common objective that becomes clear as the story progresses. Ciel also seems to be hostile towards Akiha for reasons unknown{{spoiler|, mostly because she can sense the Tohno family's true nature even if she doesn't know all the details}}.

Ciel also hosts the [[Have a Nice Death|"Teach Me Ciel-sensei!"]] hint corners when the player meets a Bad End, in which [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity often ensues]] as she and other characters lecture the player on what they did wrong, fill in random plot tidbits, and cause general [[Mood Whiplash]].

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Action Girlfriend]]: In her own route.

* [[BFG]]: Ihe Seventh Holy Scripture.

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Ciel is half-French and half-Japanese.

* [[Church Militant]]: A servant of it.

 

=== Akiha Tohno ===

 

{{quote|''"Please don't say such foolish things. You are my only Nii-san. Now and back then, even if you forgot, from when we were little ---- To Tohno Akiha, you are my only Nii-san, Shiki."''}}

 

Shiki Tohno's younger sister. After their father, Makihisa, dies, Akiha becomes the new head of the family and invites Shiki to come back to the Tohno family mansion. This is where the game begins after the prologue. Shiki quickly realizes Akiha has changed dramatically from the little sister he grew up with, and has become very focused on etiquette and acting according to her station. She is quick to scold Shiki on numerous things, but he takes it in stride. Circumstances soon cause him to suspect Akiha is hiding many things about the family from him.

 

 

* [[A-Cup Angst]]

* [[Aggressive-Submissive]]: A very dominant young woman at first glance (almost creepily so early in her own route), she is actually waiting for Shiki to make the first move and turns into a total sub during the h-scene.

* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: Invoked by herself and very averted. She hates cats. Arcueid is probably responsible for that one.

* [[Lady of War]]

* [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls]]: played hilariously straight in ''Kagetsu Tohya'' - [[Baleful Polymorph|cat-Shiki]] ([[It's a Long Story]]) catches her in the act of writing fan-fiction about ''[[Shipping|her and Shiki]] [[Porn Without Plot|about to...]]'' well, it gets cut off, but you get the idea. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* {{spoiler|[[Murder the Hypotenuse]]}}: In Kohaku's route, {{spoiler|tries to kill Kohaku when she discovers her relationship with Shiki, also invoking [[If I Can't Have You]]. Interestingly, in the Good End Shiki realizes that the reason she didn't suceeed is because she wasn't really trying}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet]]: for Kohaku in Hisui's route, against SHIKI (''again''). In the True End she dies in a truly ''[[Tear Jerker|heart-wrenching]]'' scene; she escapes with her life in the Good End. Subverted in that Kohaku was ''counting'' on Akiha doing so and ''intentionally'' made an opening for SHIKI for the sake of her revenge.}}

* [[Transfer Student Uniforms]]: When Akiha transfers to Shiki's school in her route, she continues to wear her school uniform from her previous school. She remarks she has no intent to wear the new school uniform because she dislikes it and the old one suits her.

* {{spoiler|[[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]}}

 

=== Hisui ===

 

{{quote|''"Good morning, Shiki-sama"''}}

 

One of the servants at the Tohno family mansion, along with her twin sister Kohaku. On Shiki's return to the mansion, Hisui is assigned to be his personal servant. She is responsible for all of the cleaning in the mansion. She refuses to accept help from Shiki with her chores, or to talk with him [[Keigo|less formally]]. She personally wakes him up every morning and waits at the front entrance (or inside the lobby) for him to return from school. She is not help hired from outside the mansion, but was raised to be a maid there since her childhood.

 

* [[Blue Eyes]]: Blue-green.

* [[Can't Hold His Liquor|Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: At Shiki's welcoming party, she's the first casualty since she rarely drinks...even though she was drinking less heavily than anybody else. It eventually leads to a [[What Did I Do Last Night?]] moment for her and Shiki when [[Bedmate Reveal|he wakes up in bed with her]]. It turns out to have been perfectly innocent.

* {{spoiler|[[Genki Girl]]: She was actually supposed to be this before... well... things went to Hell. She gets it back in her Good Ending though.}}

* [[Hair Decorations]]: Wears a bonnet.

* [[Hikikomori]]: Hisui hasn't actually left the Tohno Mansion grounds in ''years'' {{spoiler|since she learned the truth of Kohaku's abuse.}} When she does so in Kagetsu Tohya, she's clearly very uneasy in crowds.

* [[Interface Screw]]: Her Last Arc in ''[[Melty Blood]]'' does negligible damage, but reverses an opponent's controls for about ten seconds.

* {{spoiler|[[Intimate Healing]]: Comes with being a Synchronizer.}}

 

=== Kohaku ===

 

{{quote|''"Yes. I liked this Kohaku the best, too."''}}

 

Hisui's twin sister and Akiha's personal servant. She is very cheerful and upbeat, in contrast to Hisui's stoic demeanor. She agrees to call Shiki [[Japanese Honorifics|-san, instead of -sama]] when he asks, and also lets him help her with her chores (as long as Akiha doesn't find out). She was also trained as Tohno Makihisa's personal doctor and holds a license to practice pharmacology. Like Hisui, she was also raised to be a maid for the Tohno family from her childhood.

 

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Cats, tying in with the witch theme that appears in ''[[Melty Blood]]'' and later routes. And in her route in the original game Akiha refers to her as a "dorobou neko" (usually translated as "cat thief" or "thieving cat") which is rougly the equivalent of the English phrase "homewrecker" when she discovers her relationship with Shiki.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Kohaku originally wasn't supposed to have her own route, but one was added at the last minute. This is why she only has one ending instead of two like all of the other heroines.

* {{spoiler|[[Feel No Pain]]: One of the first indications that Kohaku is a [[Stepford Smiler]] is when she cuts herself and doesn't realize she should attempt to bandage it in front of Shiki. Note that this is a psychological block more than a lack of nerve endings or anything physical. It's so effective that Kohaku claims she feels no pain even after ''stabbing herself'' in the ''heart'' and slowly bleeding to death.}}

* [[Flanderization]]: In Tsukihime, it's revealed that Kohaku is the only person with a television in the house. In ''Kagetsu Tohya'', it's revealed Kohaku owns a Playstation2 with several games for it (including Bloody Roar 3, [[Grand Theft Auto]], and Paperboy), as well as giving her a penchant for [[Cosplay]] as her alter egos [[Chinese Girl|''Mister Chin'']] and [[Cute Witch|''Broom Girl Magical Amber'']]. Some doujin authors have run with this and depicted Kohaku as an outright [[Otaku]] or [[Hikikomori]].

** Later works also greatly tend to overplay her manipulative/mad scientist-y behaviour. Remember that for most of Tsukihime, she was just a (supposedly) cheerful servant, not constantly seen plotting.

* {{spoiler|[[Forgotten Childhood Friend]]: [[Subverted Trope|However]], she technically isn't a childhood friend, so much as a girl from Shiki's childhood he saw from afar and only directly interacted with once that nonetheless had a large emotional impact on him.}}

* [[Supreme Chef]]: She sucks at cleaning, but is a ''wonderful'' chef. {{spoiler|(Even when she poisons her food!)}}

* [[Tag-Team Twins]]: Kohaku and Hisui can fight solo, or as a tag team in ''[[Melty Blood]]''.

* {{spoiler|[[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]}}

 

=== Satsuki "Sacchin" Yumizuka ===

 

{{quote|''"Tohno-kun, will you come and help me when I'm in a pinch?"''}}

 

Shiki's classmate who watched him from afar since she was young and had a crush on him. Her crush began when her sports club was trapped inside a room after-hours in the winter, and Shiki freed them (by 'killing' the lock). She liked him from that moment onward, but he never noticed her. One day she finally worked up the courage to walk home with Shiki, and convinced him to promise her: "If I'm ever in a pinch, you'll come and help me, right?" They soon part ways. {{spoiler|That's the last time she appears as a human. When she goes to investigate rumors about Shiki wandering around town late at night, SHIKI appears and bites her, turning her into a vampire. Most people simply die or possibly turn into a weak zombie when bitten, but Satsuki was a rare exception who became a vampire right away. In the Far Side routes, Shiki discovers what has happened to her and [[Downer Ending|kills her]].}}

Is alive in ''[[Melty Blood]]'', the specifics of which have much speculation. Has formed the "Back Alley Alliance" with Sion and Riesbyfe.

 

* [[Butt Monkey]]: In the original Tsukihime she was tragic. In side material, she's mocked mercilessly.

* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: VERY visible during Tsukihime and Kagetsu Tohya, but downplayed in Melty Blood.

* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: Her endings in the more recent ''[[Melty Blood]]'' games have things looking up somewhat for her, such as coming to terms with - and even accepting - her status as a Dead Apostle in ''Act Cadenza'', or welcoming Riesbyfe in the Back Alley Alliance in ''Actress Again''.

* [[Tragic Monster]]

** Her attacks look as weak as stumbling, non-uniform punches from a girl should, and one may be tempted to [[Idiot Ball|underestimate her]], but seeing one of her cute and flimsy looking wind-up punches connect with her opponent with a sound resembling ''thunder'' or a ''bomb going off'', [[Punched Across the Room|sending them across the area]] and smashing into a wall, or seeing her [[Shockwave Stomp|punch the ground so hard it shakes and tosses anything nearby into the air]] - with the accompanying thunder sound, will change that.

** Also shows a penchant for [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]] in one of Arc Drives in Melty Blood by holding the enemy in the air and letting go before releasing a barrage of punches that would make [[Fist of the North Star|Kenshiro]] proud and finishing with a [[Megaton Punch]] that only hits the ground below the opponent but is so strong that it '''still''' sends them flying into a wall.

 

=== Michael Roa Valdamjong ===

 

A high - ranking member of the Church, who fell in love with Arcueid upon first sight. However, as a human, he couldn't be with her forever. {{spoiler|So he tricked her into sucking his blood and making him a Dead Apostle, although he is not considered an official Dead Apostle. To preserve his life, he perfected the science of reincarnation. Whenever he dies, he reincarnates into a new person by taking over a victim's body when they reach a certain age. The exact science of this is vague, but he is able to control who he reincarnates as, and only chooses people with a high magic potential as well as a high position in human society. When Tsukihime begins, he has already reincarnated himself seventeen times. His private war with Arcueid has gone on for centuries.}}

 

* [[Big Bad]]: In ''Tsukihime'', only in the Near Side routes.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: In several story routes in ''Actress Again''. In Kohaku's route she trolls him (see the [[Crazy Awesome]] entry on the [[Melty Blood]] page); in White Len's she informs him with a smirk (right after he makes a "strong-eat-the-weak-law-of-nature" speech) that he is at the ''very bottom'' of the Back Alley Alliance.

 

=== Nrvnqsr "Nero" Chaos / Fabro Rowan ===

 

{{quote|''"Very well. I now recognize you as an obstacle to me."''}}

 

A man who became a Dead Apostle vampire through magical research. In order to prolong his immortality, he took the bodies of many different types of beasts and made them a part of himself. However, he kept doing this to the point his body now contains 666 different animals inside him (including mythological creatures). He has added so many other lives to his existence that he has lost his original personality and exists as an form of "chaos," which he likens to the primordial soup from which life formed. He intends to keep adding lives to himself to see the end result.

 

* [[Biological Mashup]]: his body is made out of 666 beasts fused together in a single being. They literally leap out of his body, and he states that until they've taken a form, even he doesn't know what creature will come out.

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: On the Far Side routes, there is no mention or other indication he ever existed. Presumably {{spoiler|Arcueid kills him by herself}} in these routes.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: He comes across a girl and consumes her merely for the sake of doing it during the fight against Shiki. {{spoiler|This later becomes a [[Tear Jerker]] of a fan written side-story in Kagetsu Tohya, when the girl is revived as a 'second' Nero Chaos who is unable to control their powers and is slowly dying.}}

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Shades of. His entire existence is basically one big experiment to him; he is fully aware that his personality is being destroyed by his unique nature, and rather than be worried about this, he's actually impatient to see what he'll become next.

* [[Nakama]]: Is stated to be 'friends' with Roa.

* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: The only way to destroy him is to take out all the 666 beasts at the same time, which is virtually impossible. {{spoiler|Unfortunately for him, he didn't count on Shiki's Mystic Eyes.}}

The real brother of Akiha Tohno. He was imprisoned when his demon-powers activated and he tried to kill Shiki when they were children. {{spoiler|He is kept in an underground prison for years and cared for by Kohaku. He kills Tohno Makihisa at Kohaku's direction, and later escapes into the city at night to kill random people. In the Near Side routes, he becomes possessed by Roa and loses his sense of personality. He maintains it in the Far Side routes. His goal is to kill Tohno Shiki and regain his place in the Tohno family.}}

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]: What he becomes after trying to kill Shiki.

* [[Blood Magic]]: {{spoiler|Can even shape into COUNTLESS BLADES. [[Memetic Mutation|Got enough]] [[Fate/stay night|swords, indeed.]]}}

 

=== Aoko Aozaki ===

 

{{quote|''"Hey boy, you're in my way."''}}

 

One of the three or four remaining Sorcerers, the users of True Magic/Sorcery (miracles unattainable by normal magecraft or science); her specialty is the Fifth Sorcery, ''Blue''. She met Tohno Shiki by chance after he was in the hospital. They formed a close bond, and she taught him many important things about life. Since she hates her name, Shiki decides to call her 'Sensei'. She provides him with the special glasses he has to block his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception ability. She then disappears. {{spoiler|She shows up in the epilogue to Tsukihime, where she tells Shiki he's become a fine young man and Shiki finally thanks her for being there for him.}}

 

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: To [[Kara no Kyoukai:|Touko]]. There is little love between the two sisters.

* [[Beam Spam]]: In ''[[Melty Blood]]''

** Seems to have been retconned into a magical hair color change as a result of overusage of magic {{spoiler|similiar to Shirou in ''[[Fate/stay night]]''.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Man Behind the Man]]: in ''[[Melty Blood]]'' ''REACT''.}}

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Her nickname is "Magic Gunner Blue" and she's indisputably the best at destroying things. Even ''Arcueid'' shows relief that she won't have to meet her.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]

The Head of the Tohno Family before he dies and his daughter Akiha takes over. His death sets in motion the events leading up to Tsukihime. Known to be both kind and very cruel at times.

 

* [[Best Served Cold]]: It is implied that the reason he went after the Nanayas is because Nanaya Kiri badly wounded him during a moment of berserker fury.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Literally. Kohaku narrates that Makihisa used to go around the mansion grounds kicking puppies during his "mood swings".

* [[The Mole]]: While being head of one of the strongest family of demon-hybrids, he worked with the demon-hunters.

* [[Posthumous Character]]

 

=== Arihiko Inui ===

 

{{quote|''"You're my dear friend, right? I'd exchange fists with even my parents, but I have a policy of not fighting with my friends. I'm the very model of chivalry."''}}

 

Shiki's best friend and rival. One of the few [[Muggles|muggle]] characters in the game.

 

* [[Delinquent]]: Pierced ears, incorrectly worn uniform, dyed hair, out late and often late to school...yeah, he fits.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Due to watching his grandmother commit suicide to save his life, he is not emotionally affected by death the way normal humans are. Likely why he's friends with Shiki.

 

=== Len ===

 

{{quote|''"............"''}}

 

A dream familiar owned by Arcueid. Her role in the original Tsukihime is to give Shiki an erotic dream as a reward for him destroying Nero. She has a shy personality, but is known to like to play tricks when she is bored. She's the star of Kagetsu Tohya, although this isn't apparent at first. She appears either as a small girl with elf ears or a black kitten. She loves sweets.

 

* [[Animal Motifs]]: A cat. More specifically, a black cat.

* [[Badass Adorable]]

An underclassman of Tohno Akiha's at her school. She technically first makes her appearance in the Tsukihime Plus-Disc, but she appears in Kagetsu Tohya as well. She has the power to see the future of others, but she can't seem to control it at will. Has the tendency to speak too quickly and say things she didn't mean to say, especially about Akiha, who she is afraid of.

 

* [[Audio Erotica]]: She notes in her narration that she has a thing for guys with nice voices. Naturally, hearing [[Chick Magnet|Shiki's]] voice over the phone makes her heart skip a few beats. This actually becomes an important clue in her Plus-Disc story {{spoiler|since the man she'd been meeting up with ''thinking'' he was Shiki didn't produce a similar reaction.}}

* [[Screw Destiny]]: She can and has changed the futures she's seen to achieve a more favorable outcome.

 

=== Shiki Nanaya ===

 

{{quote|''"You know where you're going? If it's hell, give the devil my regards."''}}

 

 

 

* [[Badass]]: Shiki at his best is never able to match up against him in Kagetsu Tohya. {{spoiler|Although Tohno wasn't able to use his eyes, which probably would have leveled the playing field. And those fights were him fighting against his nightmare inside a dream.}}

* [[Character Development]]: When he starts talking about his 'Pride as a Nanaya' in MBAA, you know he's changed alot.

* [[Common Knowledge]]: {{spoiler|Shiki Nanaya is ''not'' Shiki's Nanaya instincts give form. He is simply what Shiki fears he could have become.}}

* [[Disc One Final Boss]]

* [[Enemy Without]]

 

=== Kouma Kishima ===

 

{{quote|''"...Do as you wish. That is, if your tiny arms could pull it off."''}}

 

 

In [[Melty Blood]] he is revealed to be living as a hermit in the mountains, having decided to isolate himself from human society after Akiha decided to repent for her father's mistakes on time for Shiki's arrival on her mansion, by cutting ties with the Kishimas, forcing Kouma out.

 

* [[All There in the Manual]]: Most of Kouma's background and character, given he plays a very minor (or none at all) role in current events of the series.

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]

* [[Dramatic Wind]]: his idle animation in Melty Blood, it's not clear if it's his powers or the ambience, but there are wind currents available for his clothes and hair to be flapping in the breeze.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Kouma drops one when he is being beaten in Melty Blood, he really likes the action.

* [[Eye Scream]]: Had an eye put out by Kiri Nanaya when he was a child.

* [[Fingerless Gloves]]

* [[Implacable Man]]: His incarnation as Shiki's fear, Kouma doesn't utter a word, he keeps pushing foward as Shiki struggles to defeat him, plowing through trees like they were nothing. It's implied that the forest scenario of Shiki's fear might be a memory of what really happened when Kouma killed the Nanaya Family.

* [[Informed Attribute]]: The fact Kouma is taken a born insane, and still should be one to give meaning to his extreme control of his powers; this doesn't match to his actual characterization in Kagetsu Tohya and Melty Blood, in which he is a quiet, soft spoken individual, hell, he is even said to be fond of poetry; Kouma can't be said to be insane at all.

* [[Last of His Kind]]: The last Kishima, by his own doing no less.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]/[[Mighty Glacier]]: Depending on how you play him, but the story definitely places him as the former.

* [[Minor Injury Overreaction]]: During his fight with Kiri, he is silent and mostly unresponsive as the assassin continually attacks him, his weapons bouncing off with no effect. However, when Kiri's final strike to his neck manages to -actually- hurt him (and would have killed him if it had gone deeper), he goes on a batshit rampage and kills a good majority of the Nanaya clan by himself.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Kouma has been dubbed as ''Crimson Red Vermillion'' and ''Red Fierce God''.

* [[Power Dyes Your Hair]]: Extreme usage of his powers makes his hair go crimson red, the same as Akiha.

* [[Prophet Eyes]]: in Melty Blood, during his Arc Drives.

One of Tohno Akiha's roommates at her school. She is into punk rock and goes to a concert every week. When not at school, she dresses very masculine.

 

* [[Bifauxnen]]: Dresses as this unless she's in her school uniform. Shiki thinks she's a male when they first meet.

* [[Muggles|Muggle]]

 

The second of Tohno Akiha's roommates at her school. A bit of a [[The Ditz|ditz]]. She is able to handle Akiha easily because she is too oblivious to be intimidated by her. She goes by the nickname "Hanepin."

 

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: As stated above, she's immune to Akiha's intimidation because she doesn't even know she should be scared. Her general thought processes are a bit...odd - she has a habit of derailing conversations, much to her room mates' annoyance.

* [[Informed Attribute]]: You can't tell just from the character art, but Hanei officially has the largest breasts of all of the female characters in the Tsukihime-verse (beating out Arcuied and Aoko by two centimeters). There is no official [[Eroge|sex scene]] with her.

 

=== Tokie Jinan ===

 

* [[Girl Next Door]]

 

Father of Tokie, and a medical doctor. At the start of Tsukihime, he's officially retired. He had connections both to the Nanaya family and to the Tohno family. He knows a lot about demon-hybrids. He also taught medicine to Kohaku. According to Shiki, he is a [[Mad Doctor]]. He also taught Chinese martial arts to Miyako Arima.

 

* [[The Hyena]]

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Seems to approve of Shiki and his daughter.

Older adult sister of Arihiko. Has a similar gruff personality to her brother, but she has also grown fond of Shiki over the years. She has a smoking habit and is usually seen with a cigarette dangling from her mouth. She lives with Arihiko alone because both of their parents [[Parental Abandonment|are dead]]. It has long been a mystery to Shiki just what sort of job Ichiko does for the rent. {{spoiler|It's hinted she's an artist.}}

 

* [[In Game Nickname]]: Shiki refers to Ichiko as "Ichigo," when means "strawberry."

 

=== Nanako{{spoiler|/Seven}} ===

 

 

* [[Attending Your Own Funeral]]: Unlike most examples, she really ''was'' dead at the time. She rather enjoyed her send-off.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: She runs away from home to take refuge in Arihiko's house and escape Ciel's abuse. Considering how badly Arihiko treats her, she ''still'' doesn't want to go back home.

Head of the Kugamine family, which is another branch family of the Tohnos like the Arimas. Their family, like the Arimas, has very little demonic powers. However, the Kugamine family ''is'' incredibly rich. Tonami was a person living at the Tohno mansion as a freeloader before the events of Tsukihime, and he was engaged to Akiha. Once Makihisa died and Akiha became head of the family, she dissolved their engagement and kicked him out with all of the other relatives staying at the mansion before Shiki returned. He is fat, perverted, a [[Jerkass]], and downright creepy. He's basically put in the story as a joke whenever a character needs to deal with or beat up someone especially slimy.

 

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Apparently, he liked the idea. Akiha did not.

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]

* [[Upper Class Twit]]

 

 

=== Sion Eltnam Atlasia ===

 

{{quote|''"[[Memetic Mutation|All according to my calculations]]."''}}

 

 

Vampire Sion/Sion TATARI is story-wise an [[Alternate Continuity]] where Sion has succumbed to her vampiric impulses and is on the verge of succeeding Wallachia as the new TATARI; despite this [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|she can still fight her normal self]].

 

* [[Alchemy Is Magic]]: "Mental" Alchemy, where the lineage is constantly upgrading their bloodline to have higher cognitive abilities. Traditional alchemists also exist.

* [[Alternate Continuity]]: Within [[Melty Blood]] itself, one can play as "V. Sion/Sion Tatari" and "Normal Sion." Unlike other [[Evil Counterpart]] who are just Tatari Nightmares; Vampire Sion is an Alternate Continuity where she succumbs to the bloodlust. Compare "Evil Ryu" from ''[[Street Fighter]]''.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Kinda. Since ReAct, Vampire Sion picks up her parent vampire's habit of shouting Katto during battle. It's not as extreme as his case, but hey, she still has to grow into the role...

* [[Berserk Button]]: Implying that she has been careless annoys her.

* [[Magi Babble]]

* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]

* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Satsuki and Len - the "Back Alley Alliance!" Also with Akiha, once she reveals that she has a method to control Shiki.

** Sion tends to have a lot of these; she was also good friends with Riesbyfe Stridberg. Ordinarily, mages and the Church aren't on good terms.

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Girl]]: At times. Just... watch Satsuki's ending in ''Actress Again''!

* [[People Puppets]]: A use of Etherlite.

* [[Psychic Link]]: Etherlite is also capable of doing this; Sion's family are literally nicknamed "spiritual hackers" because of this.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Although it's braided up most of the time, its quite obvious her hair is really, really long if her winpose is any indication.

* [[Significant Anagram]]: Her family name of 'Eltnam' can be rearranged to form the word 'Mental', which is the school of Alchemy she practices.

* [[Split Personality]]: A really unique twist on this. She has multiple "rooms of thought" while most people have one, so she thinks of up to at least seven subjects at a time. It's the same personality, but it's thinking about seven different things at once with the same focus.

 

=== Miyako Arima ===

 

{{quote|''"I don't care for whatever plans you have for humanity, just give Onii-chan back!"''}}

 

The young (estimated twelve years old) daughter of the Arima family who Shiki lived with for many years. She rarely talked with Shiki, so he assumed she didn't like him. In fact, the opposite was true: she loved him very much, but was shy so she couldn't approach him. Instead, she would get embarrassed, tackle him, and then run away. She views the Tohno family as having 'kidnapped' Shiki and goes to 'rescue' him. She has a fascination with Chinese martial arts, and Wallachia increased her fighting ability.

 

* (Fake) [[Chinese Girl]]

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: In one of the stranger original arcs in ''[[Melty Blood]]'', the Tatari tried to focus on Miyako's fears. But something was radically different about her "pure heart" and instead of a temporary materialization, the "Influence of the Tatari" gave her [[I Know Mortal Kombat|Arcade-style KungFu]]. Her first impression of Kohaku was "Mad Scientist/Witch."

* [[Little Miss Badass]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: The style of Kung Fu that she uses is from the ''[[King of Fighters]]'' games; another indicator of the "fictional" origin of them. Fans have run with this, drawing pictures of her posing with the ''[[King of Fighters]]'' cast.

* [[Uh-Oh Eyes]]: Averted. Possibly the ''only'' person who doesn't have [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]], except possibly Hisui and Kohaku. Interestingly, she also avoids the Blue/Red paradigm, her eyes are green.

* [[The Unexpected]]: Shiki mentions maybe once in Tsukihime that the Arima family had a little girl, but gave zero details. Then Miyako appears as a full-fledged character with [[I Know Karate|insane fighting abilities]].

 

=== The Night of Wallachia (Tatari/[[Spell My Name with an "S"|TATARI]]) / {{spoiler|Zepia Eltnam Oberon}} ===

 

{{quote|''"Spin the vermin, reverse the guilt.

Reverse the birth, reverse the world.

Spin spin spinspinspinSPIN[[User:Dai-Guard|Dai-Guard]] ([[User talk:Dai-Guard|talk]])!"'' }}

 

The main villain of [[Melty Blood]], and the thirteenth of the Dead Apostle Ancestors. The Night of Wallachia or Tatari (literally "curse") is a is a vampire that turned into what is essentially a sentient phenomenon-slash-Reality Marble {{spoiler|thanks to the power of the Crimson Moon and Altrouge Brunestud}}. He manifests over a number of (possibly predetermined) places, then uses the rumors in those areas to create a form for himself on the full moon, which [[Jackass Genie|fulfills said rumors by sucking out every single drop of liquid from everyone in the area]] before vanishing. Then, years later, he reappears in another place. He is completely insane (evidencing disorganized schizophrenia through his speech patterns) and views most of what he does as a theater play; this is arguably because when he manifests a rumor he's takes on a personality appropriate to it- playing a role, as it were.

 

 

 

* [[Axe Crazy]]: ''[[Gratuitous English|"Katto! katto katto katto kattokattokattokattokatto]]''[[Gratuitous English|katto]] '''[[Gratuitous English|KATTO[[User:Dai-Guard|Dai-Guard]] ([[User talk:Dai-Guard|talk]])!!!]]'''"

* [[Big Bad]]: in ''Melty Blood''.

* [[Cryptic Background Reference]]: So what the heck is Program No. Six anyway?

* [[Enemy Without]]: He does not have a true form, he simply takes form according to the dominant fears and rumors in his "hunting grounds".

** The fact that he does this is the reason for {{spoiler|Red (Bousou/Berserk) Arcueid, stabby-mode Nanaya Shiki, Mecha Hisui, Magical Amber Kohaku, and possibly also Vermillion (Kurenai Seki Shuu) Akiha}} existing.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Both evil and maniacal.

** Don't forget the demented giggling.

* [[Jackass Genie]]: Hey, he just materializes as people's wishes. If people want a bumper crop, dead bodies for fertilizer. People want to be friends? Running in terror from him before they die is a great way to connect. People want the favor of their god? He'll become their god and favor them when they die for him. Really, he interprets every single wish as demand for a bloodthirsty rampage.

* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]

* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: It takes something really special that Shiki can't just hit his Death Spot and kill him.

** That may be a technical point. {{spoiler|Shiki's power doesn't work on imaginary/weirdly-existing beings, hence Nasu's clarification that he wouldn't be able to kill a Servant (therefore proving that the famous crossover doujin is on crack and then some...sigh); He's literally described as a phenomenon, so killing him would be like killing a storm, or an earthquake... Maybe. ...Goddamn it Nasu!}}

** To clarify, Shiki cannot kill beings outside of the Gaian cycle of life, as he himself is one of those beings. It's the reason why he can see death spots on living beings but lines on inorganic beings. It's easiest for him to comprehend death in beings most similar to himself, although he can still see death for anything under Gaian reality. TYPEs (the ultimate beings of each planet), beings like TATARI, and assumedly Servants, have a different concept of absolute death (Servants can die, but since they're stored in the Throne of Heroes, unless he can kill the record itself, Shiki can't "kill" them).

* [[Passing the Torch]]: Villainous version; {{spoiler|He wants Sion to be his successor.}}

* [[Reality Warper]]: Through his Reality Marble, he can manifest people's fears in the physical world.

 

=== White Len ===

 

{{quote|''"[[Baka|IDIOT!]] You super [[Running Gag|IDIOT!]] Incredible [[Rule of Three|IDIOT!]] Unbelievable [[Overly Long Gag|IDIOT!]] I won't forgive you [[Overused Running Gag|IDIOT!]]"''}}

 

A version of Len created by Aoko Aozaki from the remains of Wallachia after he was defeated. Said to contain all of Len's repressed bad emotions.

 

* [[An Ice Person]]: She uses Ice-based attacks.

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Much like Len, a Cat. Except, she's the white version.

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[Cats Are Mean]]

* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Sports this on in her more outspoken moments.

* [[Dark Magical Girl|White Magical Girl]]

* [[Dream Weaver]]: Just like Len, this is her specialty.

* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: For some of her attacks.

* [[Expy]]: In-story; she's based on the unused parts of Len's personality.

* [[Familiar]]: Obviously. {{spoiler|She forms a contract with Nanaya Shiki at the end of her Arcade Mode in Act Cadenza.}}

* [[Giggling Villain]]: She sure does giggle a lot.

* [[Horny Devils]]: Not exactly the horny type. But, since she's literally a more outspoken version of Len. Yeah...

* [[Jerkass]]: For most of the time.

 

=== Red Arcueid (Warcueid) ===

 

 

{{quote|''"[[Evil Laugh|Fufufufufu... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!]]"''}}

 

A tatari version of Arcueid that gave into her blood lust. She was created by Wallachia. As a consequence, she only has 1/3rd of the power of the real Arcueid because she would be too powerful for him to control at full power.

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Colony Drop]]: Her Arc Drive drops ''the friggin Moon'' onto her opponent.

* [[Enemy Without]]

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: Averted. Red Arc claims Arc is worse than she is.

{{quote|'''Red Arcueid''': You're quite the monster, Arcueid. Compared to you, I'm just a small fry!}}

* [[Evilly Affable]]: When she first runs into other characters, she can seem down right charismatic. Of course, her lack of Aruceid's [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|air-headed qualities]] can be a [[Obviously Evil|dead-giveaway]] to characters like [[The Hunter|Ciel]] who are just ''looking'' for a reason to attack Arcueid.

** And it doesn't take much to get Red Arcueid to snap straight into her [[Evil Laugh|crazy]] [[Put the Laughter In Slaughter|laughter]] anyway. Usually the others don't even get to point out that the jig is up after [[Trash Talk|she makes fun of them]] and she just starts [[Laughing Mad|laughing at things she said herself and at them]].

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|Gold Eyes, Red Schlera, Run For Your Life]]

* [[Villain Teleportation|Villain]] [[Flash Step]] [[Teleportation Spam|Spam]]: She can keep up with someone [[Run or Die|running for their life]] by simply [[Sexy Walk|walking]] after them like Arcueid, or even running, [[For the Evulz|if she's so inclined]], but she's extremely fond of this.

 

=== Cat-Arcueid (Neco-Arc, or just Neco) ===

 

Started as a parody version of Arcueid that served as Ciel's foil in the "[[Have a Nice Death|Teach Me Ciel-Sensei]]" hint corners when the player met a bad end in [[Tsukihime]].

 

* [[Beam Spam]]: Entirely possible for a player who's got fast-ass thumbs.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Her Last Arc summons ''Nasu himself'' and crushes her opponent with his giant mushroom avatar.

 

=== Cat-Arcueid Chaos (Neco-Arc Chaos) ===

 

Similar to Neco-Arc, he is a parody of Nrvnqsr "Nero" Chaos, and possibly Joji Nakata for that matter. He wants to be an actor, but never seems to be able to make it.

 

* [[Cloning Blues]]: In his secret Story Mode in ''Act Cadenza Ver. B'', he must fight 4 clones of himself as the mid-boss.

* [[Joke Character]]

 

=== Mecha-Hisui ===

 

A robotic version of Hisui created by Kohaku, most likely while under the influence of Wallachia. Her duty seems to be to guard the Tohno Mansion from intruders, of which there are a large amount. It's revealed that Kohaku had built an entire factory that mass produces these units.

 

* [[BFS]]: Big Effing ''Chainsaw'', therefore...

* [[Chainsaw Good]]

 

=== Riesbyfe Stridberg ===

 

A Church Executor, she was a close friend of Sion before dying at the hands of the Night of Wallachia in the incident that infected Sion with vampirism. {{spoiler|However, Wallachia absorbed her information, that is her memories and personality. Sion was able to steal this from Wallachia and save the information in 2 of the partitions of her brain; and then destroy him using a bullet she created from both her's and Riesbyfe's [[Empathic Weapon]] (which had Riesbyfe's soul). Later in the alternate future, Dust of Osiris used her timeline's version of that same information to recreate or copy her as a "Defense System Physical Spirit". In Sion's good ending, Sion is able to use her own mana to maintain Riesbyfe's current existence after Dust's defeat (much like a [[Fate/stay night|Servant]]). She appears to be effectively a part of the "Back Alley Alliance"}}

 

* [[Bifauxnen]]

* [[Church Militant]]

* [[Expy]]: Not particularly her character, {{spoiler|but her existence is very similar to the Servants of ''[[Fate/stay night]]''. She's a Defense System Physical Spirit created from the previous Tatari's perfect information of her after Oberon ate her.}}

** In the manga, she even boasts that she is Sion's Shield; a similar oath to the one that Saber made.

* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]

* {{spoiler|[[Phlebotinum Rebel]]: She was animated to protect Dust of Osiris.)}}

* [[Posthumous Character]]: She was member of the Church and mentioned as a companion of Sion's in the group that was sent to try to stop Tatari, and died trying to buy her time to escape. Sion was extremely close to her, and kept a memento of her at all times. {{spoiler|Then she appears in ''Actress Again'', reanimated by the Dust of Osiris.}}

* [[Shout-Out]]: In sixth chapter of ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]'', the headmaster of Reien Girl's Academy is stated to be "Mother Riesbyfe" and mentioned to have a large string instrument case in her office.

* {{spoiler|[[Staking the Loved One]]: Playing as her in ''Actress Again'' takes place in the Sion Tatari continuity, and she has to put down both V. Sion and The Dust Of Osiris; also Sion.}}

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

 

=== The Dust of Osiris ===

The [[Big Bad]] and [[Final Boss]] of ''Actress Again''. {{spoiler|The TATARI of a possible future, created from Sion's blood that was sucked by Wallachia. [[For Want of a Nail|It is effectively Sion as she would have been had she never been bitten by Wallachia or met Shiki]], a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]. When Arcueid pulled the Crimson Moon from a thousand years in the future to defeat Wallachia, the Dust of Osiris was able to follow it. Having felt that humanity was unsavable, she hoped to utilize the Philsopher's Stone, as well as a distorted space caused by the Crimson Moon's [[Time Travel]] to [[Kill All Humans]] and [[Fling a Light Into the Future|leave behind a record of their existence]], at least giving the lives of humanity significance. In all endings where she is fought she is defeated and vanishes; except V. Sion's where V. Sion absorbs her power.}}

 

* [[Beam Spam]]: One of her strongest attacks.

* [[Big Bad]]: in ''Melty Blood: Actress Again''

* [[Enemy Without]]

* [[For Want of a Nail]]: See [[Future Badass]] below.

* [[Future Badass]]: {{spoiler|She's an future version of Sion. Sort of. When Night of Wallachia drank Sion's blood; it hadn't fully "converted" it yet because it only existed for a few hours of a few days at a time every 30 years, plus he had stopped being a physical vampire. When Oberon's personality was destroyed, the non-vampiric blood took over the Tatari's magic. [[For Want of a Nail|It essentially acts as Sion would have acted had she not been attacked by Wallachia, not met Shiki, and stayed with Atlas.]]}}

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: well, it sure does seem she's riding one...

* [[Rio Natsuki]]

* [[SNK Boss]]: Picture a faster, more unpredictable [[Marvel vs. Capcom|Apocalypse]] and you've probably got it...

 

=== Shiki Ryougi ===

{{quote|''"I see... you're definitely some kind of imitation."'' [said to Shiki Tohno]}}

 

 

* [[Alternate Universe]]

* [[Crossover]]

 

=== Archetype:Earth ===

The original form of Arcueid, and the template for the vampires for planet Earth (thus an archetype, rather than Type like Brunestud and ORT below). However, in ''Current Code'', she doesn't actually exist as a separate character despite being playable, merely as Arcueid's personality.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]: Climax of her and Arcueid's plot in Current Code is this; with the winner coexisting with humanity or destroying it.}}

* [[Blow You Away]]

 

=== Brunestud of the Crimson Moon/Type-Moon ===

The first vampire. Crimson Moon Brunestud, also known simply as the Crimson Moon, is the Ultimate One of the Moon itself, the most powerful being on the planet (or in this case large celestial object) that embodies its will. When Gaia could not create an Ultimate One for itself, it called the Crimson Moon to Earth, allowing it to stay on the planet if Gaia could use the Crimson Moon as a template to create its own guardians. Thus the True Ancestors were born from Gaia, based off the Crimson Moon. However, from Gaia's perspective there were two problems with them: The first is that, having foresaw its death, the Crimson Moon could use the True Ancestors to reincarnate itself. [[Cloning Blues|Since the True Ancestors were supposed to be exact copies of the Crimson Moon]], [[Genetic Memory|this could be possible]]. The second flaw was that Gaia-created beings (like fairies) could not drink blood or they would [[Ax Crazy|go insane]]. Since the True Ancestors were Gaia-created beings, they could not drink blood either, but because they were copies of the Crimson Moon, they had an urge to drink blood that could not be controlled [[Willfully Weak|without using a large amount of their own power]]. This meant that True Ancestors who did drink blood and go crazy (also known as the Demon Lords) were more powerful than the sane ones (as the Demon Lords did not suppress their power). This is why Arcuied was created; she was born without an innate desire for blood, and so could fight the Demon Lords at full power.

 

Eventually, the Crimson Moon revealed that [[Take Over the World|it wished to create a kingdom on earth.]] Then its foreseen death came about, though unexpectedly. Zelretch used the Second True Magic [[Alternate Universe|to warp it to an Earth with nothing on it]], then [[Colony Drop|dropped the moon on it]]. [[Fighting a Shadow|However, as an Ultimate One, it still, in a sense, exists.]]

 

* [[Ambiguous Gender]]

* [[Cloning Blues]]: The True Ancestors are essentially it's imperfect clones.

** [[Humanoid Abomination]]: Possibly.

** [[Fighting a Shadow]]: In a sense; the Ultimate Ones still exist in some fashion even if their physical bodies are destroyed.

* [[Friendly Enemy]] / [[Go-Karting with Bowser]]: Has a conversation with Shiki in the guise of Arcuied in a dream in one of Kagetsu Tohya's side stories. Although it does shred Shiki into eighteen pieces after the first conversation, the next chat was far more cordial.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: The term "True Ancestor" is one to ''Castlevania''; ''Symphony of the Night'' which has a Dracula whose endboss form is called Shinso/True Ancestor Dracula.

 

=== Altrouge Brunestud ===

A vampire who is a mix of True Ancestor and Dead Apostle. She is called the "elder sister" of Arcueid because she is the only other thing in existence that can cause the Millennium Castle to appear, which earned her the 'Brunestud' title, and likely because she is older. [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Her normal form is as a 14 year old girl]], though she apparently has a second form as well. She has no role in Tsukihime, and is only mentioned in [[All There in the Manual|world-building asides]]. She has reportedly won a fight against Arcueid in the past (and is the reason Arcueid's hair is short), lost a fight to the first incarnation of Roa, and was responsible for giving Wallachia his powers. She controls [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Primate Murder]], [[Gaia's Vengeance|the Beast of Gaia]] (generally portrayed as a dog or wolf) and some other Dead Apostles apparently work as her flunkies.

 

* [[Ax Crazy|Ax Crazy?]]: Maybe, maybe not. All we know is Crimson Moon Brunestud calls her unstable. This may really be referring to her being a [[Half-Human Hybrid]].

* [[Badass Princess]]

* [[The Ghost]]

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Half True Ancestor, half Dead Apostle. [[Epileptic Trees|Fans speculate as to how]].

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: In-universe, she bears the title of Brunestud, so she's already marked as a potential vessel for the Crimson Moon. Out of universe, her 'pet' is named ''Primate Murder''.

* [[Oracular Urchin]]: She is said to have prophetic visions dictating the time of death for Dead Apostles. Since she normally [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|looks fourteen...]]

 

=== The Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors ===

The 27 most powerful and influential of the Dead Apostle vampires, recognized as such by the Church and the Mage's Association, with the ranking based primarily on how great a threat they pose to humanity. Whether they turned into vampires by having their blood sucked by other vampires or had their bodies warped by their own magecraft, they are those who have transcended the normal limits of humanity and are now effectively immortal. Succesion rites ensure that the number is kept constant at twenty-seven even if one is slain.

 

 

It should also be noted that Michael Roa Valdamjong, despite being an extremely powerful vampire, is explicitly excluded from the ranks of the Dead Apostles, with the given explanation that his 'goals' differ from theirs.

 

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Gransurg Blackmore is styled after a raven. His Reality Marble is even called 'Nevermore'.

* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Sumire, who is described as being constantly drunk.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Again, Sumire is described as being like a drunken older sister in Character Material. In Tsukihime 2 she was supposed to turn up and drunkenly annoy Shiki.

* [[Ravens and Crows]]: Gransurg Blackmore

* [[Red Baron]] / [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: [[Beyond the Impossible|They pretty much all have at least one of each]].

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: The Dark Six, aka. the first Dead Apostle. It's currently regenerating and summoning it is the focus of the Aylesbury Ritual.

* [[Sword and Gun]]: Enhance's fighting style.

* [[When Trees Attack]]: The Forest of Einnashe, a tree that ended up becoming a sentient, mobile, and bloodthirsty forest after absorbing the blood of a Dead Apostle that Arcueid had killed and failed to properly dispose of.

 

=== Kishua Zelretch Schweinorg ===

Wizard Marshall and the master of the Second Sorcery, which is also named after him (alternate name ''Kaleidoscope''), and deals with alternate universes. He vanquished the Crimson Moon, though the latter managed to suck his blood, turning him into a vampire.

 

Though listed as one of the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors he still is friendly to humanity at large, and has contacts with various characters across the [[Nasuverse|multiverse]]: [[Tsukihime|Aoko Aozaki, Arcueid Brunestud (to whom he acted as godfather)]] {{spoiler|and the [[Fate/stay night|Tohsaka family, Rin in particular.]] In fact, more than [[Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya|one Rin]]}}.

 

* [[Badass]]

** [[Badass Grandpa]]: Old enough that even as a vampire, he's starting to feel his age. And ''still'' one of the most powerful beings on the planet.

* [[Colony Drop]]: One of the few things we know he's done is taking Crimson Moon Brunestud, dragging it into an alternate reality with an empty Earth and ''dropping the moon on it.'' Dropping the moon on someone is badass enough, but he dropped it on ''TYPE-Moon'' itself. Which definitely makes him a

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]: Well, he's still a jerk, but he's a ''good'' jerk.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: His first name is sometimes romanized as 'Kischur.'

 

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