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{{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.

 

{{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.

** [[Detached Sleeves]]

** [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]

* [[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.

* [[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.

 

{{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}}.

 

{{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.

* [[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}}.

 

{{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.

 

{{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.

* {{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.}}

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

 

 

{{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]].}}

==== Voiced by: [[Hiroyuki Yoshino]] (JP - Anime), [[Kirk Thornton]] (EN - Anime) (anime), [[Ken Narita]] (JP - [[Melty Blood]], [[Carnival Phantasm]]) ====

 

 

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.}}

 

{{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.

* [[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.}}

 

{{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.}}

 

{{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.

 

{{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.

 

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

 

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.

==== Voiced by: [[Haruka Tomatsu]] (JP) ====

 

 

{{spoiler|The spirit that lives inside of Ciel's ultimate weapon, the Seventh Holy Scripture. She can manifest herself as a weapon, or as a cute horse-girl with blonde hair. She runs away from Ciel to Arihiko's house in Kagetsu Tohya, where he gives her the name "Nanako." (Previously she had only been referred to by Ciel as "Seven.") She is afraid of Ciel's angry side, but is also attached to her. She once was human, but was fused with the weapon to help unlock its potential.}}

 

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

 

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.

 

{{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.

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.

 

{{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.

 

{{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.

==== Voiced by: [[Ryoka Yuzuki]] (JP) ====

 

 

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]].

==== Voiced by: [[Joji Nakata]] ====

 

 

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.

==== Voiced by: [[Miyu Matsuki]] (JP) ====

 

 

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.

==== Voiced by: [[Akeno Watanabe]] (JP) ====

 

 

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"}}

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

 

 

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* [[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...]]