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* [[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.

* [[Expy]]: he's very similar in looks and personality to Mikiya Kokutou (and is voiced [[Kenichi Suzumura|by the same guy]]), and his power is similar to Shiki Ryougi's and they both got that power from traffic accidents (they share the same given name too). Both are characters from ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]'', an earlier Nasu work.

** 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]].

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* [[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]].

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: To Roa before killing him. It's even better in the manga {{spoiler|where he's casually ''killing Roa's magic'' and Roa is completely horrified and unable to understand.}}

* [[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.}}

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* [[Weak but Skilled]]: All Shiki has are his ability to detect dangerous non-humans, his eyes and a physique inherited from a clan of assassins. Yet he has killed dragons, unicorns and other monsters summoned by Nero Chaos, Nero himself, Roa, Tatari, the forest of Einnashe and has shown the ability to beat Satsuki, Ciel, SHIKI<ref>He has a different power set than Roa</ref> and Vermillion Akiha. He even took down Arcueid at the start of the story {{spoiler|and did a damn good job of doing it again at the end of Ciel's route.}} These are all heavyweights of the Nasuverse power tier and at their worst ''only'' ungodly killing machines.

* [[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."

* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: {{spoiler|Vermillion}} Akiha gasps out and says this after Shiki {{spoiler|Nanaya}} [[The Glasses Come Off|takes off his glasses]] {{spoiler|to fight her}} in the climax of Kohaku's route. {{spoiler|In the Bad End where he decides to kill her immediately, they were the last things she ever saw.}}

* [[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.

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

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

* [[Continuity Nod]] / [[In Joke]]: Arcueid's Last Arc, if used against Shiki, will hit him 18 times. A reference to how he originally cut her up into 17 different pieces.

* [[Continuity Nod]] / [[In-Joke]]: Arcueid's Last Arc, if used against Shiki, will hit him 18 times. A reference to how he originally cut her up into 17 different pieces.

** 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]]

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* [[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.

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: What she was before Shiki "broke" her.

* [[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.}}

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* [[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]].

* [[Magical Girl]] [[Parody]]: Phantasmoon, who becomes so by stealing [[Fate/stay night|Caster's]] staff.

* [[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.

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** [[Detached Sleeves]]

** [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]

* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: As Red Arcueid when [[Troll|trolling]] around [[For the Evulz]]. When she drops the facade and puts on her [[Game Face]], it evolves into a [[Slasher Smile]] complete with [[Put the Laughter In Slaughter|laughter]].

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Her original hair.

* [[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.

* [[Secondary Character Title]] While her actual name itself is not in the title, the title is a direct reference to her, the titular "Moon Princess."

* [[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.}}

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

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* {{spoiler|[[Broken Bird]]: Not apparent but there. Some of the things she says are very sobering even before her past is revealed, hinting on her personal experiences.}}

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

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

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* {{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.

* [[Tsundere]]: She's Type A in the Near Side routes, [[Kuudere]] in her own route, and Type B in Kohaku's route, verging on [[Yandere]] near the end.

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

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* {{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.

* [[Hates Being Touched]]: Goes along with [[Does Not Like Men]] above, though she [[Zig-Zagging Trope|zigzags]] a bit, probably [[If It's You It's Okay|because it's]] [[Chick Magnet|Shiki]].

* [[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.

* [[I Feel Angry]]: She can say this when she gets up in ''[[Melty Blood]]'' after being knocked over in her typical deadpan tone of voice.

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* [[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]]''.

* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: Kohaku's reaction to any hint that Shiki has taken advantage of Hisui.

* {{spoiler|[[Twin Switch]]: Used in Hisui's route and several others. Kohaku dresses as Hisui to feed Shiki poison in the form of medicine. Then she forcibly has sex with him to give him her [[Intimate Healing|synchronization power]]. It's revealed in the Plus-Disc that Kohaku has a special set of contact lenses which allow her to make her eyes look like Hisui's to complete the deception. <ref> Everytime Hisui says "my sister", it's actually Kohaku. Hisui only uses ''Nee-san'' to refer to her sister. Her eyes also become very dull.</ref> An unintended one has also occurred over the years when Kohaku started faking being a [[Genki Girl]] and Hisui took her place as the [[Emotionless Girl]] without Kohaku really being aware of it. Causes severes issues in Hisui route.}}

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

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* [[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]]

* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: Due to winning the [[Superpower Lottery]] out of nowhere, being such a young vampire, and being such a gentle person throughout her life. She lacks any real technique or hand to hand ability, instead relying on her instinct and raw power by throwing clumsy punches in [[Cute Bruiser|Cute]] [[Dojikko|Little]] [[Good Old Fisticuffs|Fisticuffs]] fashion, [[Wrestler in All of Us|grabbing her opponents]] and tossing them, or [[Meteor Move|jumping into the air with them and slamming them back into the ground]].

** 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.

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* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]

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

** Kagetsu Tohya has Shiki mentioning that he brought small animals to the mansion ''specifically to kill them.''

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

* [[Posthumous Character]]

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* [[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.}}

** {{spoiler|What makes this odd belief even more confusing is that Shiki's actual Nanaya mode is almost nothing like Shiki Nanaya.}}

* [[Disc One Final Boss]]

* [[Enemy Without]]

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A half-demon hybrid from the Kishima clan, a sub-family of the Tohno family. Very powerful, even relative to demon-hybrid standards. He only has one eye, as he lost the other one to Shiki's father. {{spoiler|He's responsible for killing Shiki's father Nanaya Kiri in an attack by the demon-hybrids on the demon hunter family Nanaya, on Makihisa Tohno's orders.}} Another representation of Shiki's fear in Kagetsu Tohya.

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.

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* [[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.

* [[Large and In Charge]]: The strongest half-demon hybrid in the series, and the last leader of the Kishima family.

* [[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''.

* [[Playing with Fire]]

* [[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.

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

* [[In Joke]] / [[Title Drop]]: Her family name of Tsukihime was given to her to draw more attention to her.

* [[In-Joke]] / [[Title Drop]]: Her family name of Tsukihime was given to her to draw more attention to her.

* [[Muggles|Muggle]]

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=== Tokie Jinan ===

Daughter of Sougen Jinan, who Shiki often visited for medical treatment when he lived with the Arima family. She was Shiki's [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|first]].

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An Alchemist of Atlas, (a magic organization in Egypt), Sion was from the disgraced line of Eltnam but quickly advanced through the ranks of Atlas due to her intelligence, earning the name Atlasia. At some point prior to Melty Blood, Sion accompanied Church Executor Riesbyfe Stridberg to investigate and destroy a Dead Apostle. However, the Apostle turned out to be The Night of Wallachia/TATARI who killed Riesbyfe and drank Sion's blood. Due to the odd nature of the Night of Wallachia, Sion [[Vampire Refugee|did not become a vampire immediately]], but she broke away from the Atlas in an attempt to discover the cure for vampirism, marking her as an enemy to both the Mage's Association and the Church. Having calculated that TATARI would appear in Misaki city eventually, she went there and encountered Shiki Tohno. After some persuasion they teamed up both to fight the Night of Wallachia and to see if Arcueid, who was close to Shiki, could assist in Sion's research. [[Multiple Endings|Although she had a number of different fates]] in the original [[Melty Blood]], she has canonically suppressed her vampiric impulses and is still continuing her research to cure vampirism.

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]].

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* [[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]]''.

* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: Alchemists of Atlas are even capable of predicting the future because of this; it's basically a form of [[wikipedia:~~Laplacechr(27)~~s demon|Laplace's Demon]].

* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: Alchemists of Atlas are even capable of predicting the future because of this; it's basically a form of [[wikipedia:Laplace's demon|Laplace's Demon]].

* [[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.

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* [[Magi Babble]]

* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: In Japanese, her name is pronounced shion. That's the name of a flower associated with memories. Sion can read and manipulate memories using her Etherlite.

* [[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.

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* [[Purple Eyes]]

* [[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.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: In Vampire Mode.

* [[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.

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

** Don't forget the demented giggling.

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Because he drinks so much blood it [[Tears of Blood|leaks from his blood filled eyes]] when he opens them.

* [[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]]

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* [[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.

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

* [[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.

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* [[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.

** The in-game move itself, when mastered, is extremely impressive to behold. [[Mirror Match|Two skilled Red Arcueids fighting each other]] resembles a fight from [[Dragonball Z]].

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

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** [[Humanoid Abomination]]: Possibly.

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

* [[Evil Eye]]: It has Rainbow Mystic Eyes that allow it to "crush reality".

* [[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]]

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* [[All the Myriad Ways]] / [[Alternate Universe]]: Has control over these.

* [[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.

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* [[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]]

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: [[Badass|Why, yes. Yes he did.]]

* [[Empathic Weapon]]: Created one known as the 'Kaleidostick'. Unfortunately, in addition to being sentient it's sort of a jerk and has a distinct taste for humiliating its wielders. {{spoiler|So rather than using it himself, he 'loans' it to apprentices. Poor Rin...}}

* [[For the Lulz]]: Giving your apprentice a magic wand which provides a lot of mana (among other things)? ''Tres cool.'' {{spoiler|Not telling her that said wand has a mind of its own and likes to force its wielder into embarrassing costumes? [[Hilarity Ensues]].}}

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