History Characters / HigurashiWhenTheyCryProtagonists

* TheCharmer: When Shion wants to be, she is very charismatic. This is especially clear in the Watanagashi chapter, where newcomer Keiichi has none of the locals' fear of her family, and she basically waltzes in and [[{{TheGadFly}} starts fucking with him.]]

** In Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen, [[spoiler:what starts her fall into madness is hearing about her twin sister's romantic woes as she's madly jealous that her sister's crush is around while her Satoshi is missing. At the end of both arcs, she stabs Keiichi because she couldn't stand leaving Mion's crush alive.]]

* BreakTheCutie: ''Meakashi-hen'' has her go through a hellish nightmare. [[spoiler:She's locked in a dungeon and her sister emotionally tortures her by [[ForcedToWatch forcing her to listen]] as she slowly and painfully kills their grandmother, the town's mayor, and Satoko while Mion can only scream and futilely beg Shion to stop. And just to top it off, Shion plans to subject Keiichi as a finisher.]] She's a sobbing wreck by the time [[spoiler:Shion finally kills her too]].

* BreakTheCutie: ''Meakashi-hen'' has her go through a hellish nightmare. [[spoiler:She's locked in a dungeon and her sister emotionally tortures her by [[ForcedToWatch forcing her to listen]] as she slowly and painfully kills their grandmother, the town's mayor, and Satoko while Mion can only scream and futilely beg Shion to stop.]] She's a sobbing wreck by the time [[spoiler:Shion finally kills her too.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Tatarigoroshi-hen is about the bubbly little prankster Satoko turning into a extremely depressed shell of herself because of her uncle returning to abuse her.

* BreakTheCutie: ''Meakashi-hen'' has her go through a hellish nightmare. [[spoiler:She's locked in a dungeon and her sister emotionally tortures her by killing their grandmother, the town's mayor, and Satoko while Mion can only scream and futilely beg Shion to stop.]] She's a sobbing wreck by the time [[spoiler:Shion finally kills her too.]]

* TooCleverByHalf: Keiichi is a swift thinker, is unquestionably BookSmart, and proves several times that he has a way with words few can match, but in several chapters he manages to either accidentally to play a big part in the inital push that causes the DisasterDominos of the plot to start falling or otherwise act as an UnwittingPawn to the ArcVillain, simply by overestimating his own skills and underestimating the complexity of the situtation, and insiting on handling his problems alone, even though it gets increasingly clearly that he is in over his head.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:In ''Watanagashi-hen'' and ''Meakashi-hen'', Shion plays him like a fiddle. He manages to fall completely for Shion's scheme to frame Mion as the perperator of her crimes, and, most crucially, she manipulates him into feeding her quite a bit of crucial information that allows her to remain one step in front up of everyone else, including giving up the fact that Rika is the biggest treat against her.]]

* TooDumbToLive: So your friend has just admitted to committing multiple murders, then suddenly decides she wants to go on a walk with you alone? Sure. Then said friend asks you if you want to see her sister, whom she has kidnapped? No problem. She leads you into a TortureCellar, admits to killing two of your closest friends, torturing her own sister, and said sister screams bloody murder at the sight of her? Everything's absolutely fine. Somehow he still manages to act surprised when he gets knocked out and wakes up strapped to one of the torture devices. Through dumb luck, he survives, and even though this friend ''explicitly warns him'' to stay away if he ever sees her again, he still trusts this friend enough to step out of his house and speak with her when she drops by in the middle of the night.

* JackOfAllStats: In ''Higurashi Daybreak'', he's this along with Nata Rena. He has decent running speed, plausible defence, great melee range and powerful range attacks that cover quite a distance. However, all three of his weapons lean slightly towards being a ranged moevest of varying styles, with the Baseball Bat being more BoringButPractical , the golf clubs going for more damage at expense of less control and the shovel has an emphasis on wide-spread keep-away tactics.

* DrowningMySorrows: [[spoiler:She drinks wine when she's depressed, despite being underage. She notes that it's quite easy to get drunk with her small frame. She knows she's fated to die anyway, so what harm could it do?]]

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: [[spoiler:Due to still being physically a preteen, she cannot achieve complete mental maturity despite being mentally over a hundred years old, simply because certain changes in the brain that occur during puberty haven't occured for her yet. A line in the visual novel suggests she hasn't even gotten her first period yet.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:''Watanagashi-hen'', he manages to fall competely for Shion's scheme as she manipulates him into be paranoid towards Mion and she makes him give up the fact that Rika is the one working against her.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:''Watanagashi-hen'', he falls competely for Shion's scheme to turn him against Mion.]]

* MaskOfSanity: Shion can act outwardly calm and composed for prolonged periods of time when the situation calls for it, but she is ''really'' messed up under the surface. Whenever she allows the mask to slip just a little bit, she quickly turns into a maniac, and when it entirely falls off she becomes LaughingMad.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:She spends most of ''Meakashi-hen'' (and by extension, ''[[PerspectiveFlip Watanagashi-hen]]'') seeking revenge on the Three Families for murdering Satoshi. It would be bad enough if they were merely innocent of his death, but it's worse than that- ''[[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated he's not even dead!]]'']]