History Characters / Nagabumi

* {{Bishonen}}: Implied during his youth. Since the story was told from his perspective, we never quite get a good description of his face, but judging from his two [[LoveInterests Love Interests's]] reaction when they gossiped behind him, he was this.

* DarkChick: Playfully inverted ''and'' played straight. Pink Dragon was a man, but was the most feminine-looking among them and mostly acted like a noblewoman through his life.

* AfterActionPatchUp: She nursed the Protagonist when he's injured fighting a student of Black Dragon, [[spoiler:ending in CoitusEnsues.]]

* VengefulWidow: Her husband was backstabbed by his own squad mate because said person desired her, and she retaliated by killing him in public after she became a prostitute to make ends meet.

* CharacterDevelopment: Almost merging with HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. In his youth, he's somewhat of a reckless martial artist that followed the conventional [[TheHero hero]] tropes. After another ten years of meditating and creating his two signature techniques, he mellowed out quite a bit, studying other contemporary arts like poetry and philosophy. Then, after an undisclosed TimeSkip, he reverted back to an arrogant martial artist that believed he had no equal, challenging people left and right, eventually slaughtering one hundred martial artists from all sects, good or evil, painting his current self as TheVillain from the common folks' perspective.

* AbsurdlySharpSword: The Golden Dragon Sword, so much so that the Protagonist resorted to stealing its sheath, the only material known to resist its sharpness, just to even up the odds against him. The blade itself was so thin it was almost like golden silk, and a good dose of internal energy was required just to keep it solid.

* BoringInvincibleHero: So far, he has never lost. ''Ever''.

* BackportedDevelopment: His story was mainly told through his act of writing down his experiences, from the time he was a baby to the present day, interceded by the happenings of the current era (when he's already 100 years old).

Characters from the Indonesian novel {{Nagabumi}}. Due to the multitude of countries the characters originate, their naming will follow their own local customs.

* MasterOfDisguise: Downplayed, certainly compared to his other skills. He could dress himself up good enough to fool normal people and pugilists, but face-to-face with a master or the [[SecretPolice secret police]], his cover was almost always blown. Plus, he seemed to be the only person in the world who [[TheNameless has no name]], and whenever he introduced himself as such, [[IdiotBall everybody knew who he was.]]
* TheNameless: Invoked by his own adoptive parents. They've always called him 'child', 'kid', and so on, and never gotten around to give him a name because of their aversion to name someone else's child. In honor of his parents, he decided to forgo his name as well, but his opponents and allies nicknamed him 'The Nameless Pugilist' as such. Even his ''technique'' was hit by this trope. [[spoiler:He was hesitant to give a formal name to the Formless Technique, since he considered it'd give it 'form', thus defeating the purpose he created the technique in the first place. Once again, it's his enemies who came up with the name 'Formless Technique', and sure enough, by giving it a name, they're stuck chasing a phantom 'form' that never existed in the first place, and in turn were never able to defeat it.]]

* BigBad: Black Dragon was this to the Protagonist, having been implied to be responsible for his parents' death.

* ColorMotif: Not her exactly, but her students wore all-white clothing and white longswords [[spoiler:because they are the current SecretPolice.]]
* GlassCannon: Her swordplay even gave the Protagonist some trouble, but he only needed one hit to down her. Granted, she was around 100 years old by that time, but still...

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge and RevengeBeforeReason: This happened twice during the story. [[spoiler: First, when words came that his parents were killed by [[BigBad Black Dragon]], he went out to fight the guy even though his training was still incomplete. Sure enough, he had enough trouble with just fighting a lone student of Black Dragon, and snapped out of it himself. The next time was when [[LoveInterests Amrita]] died during a revolution of her own country. Rather than finishing the revolution to grant peace to the land as she would've wanted, he instead chased down her killer by almost abandoning his then-current objective. Luckily, her lieutenant snapped him out of this one as well.]]

* AfterActionPatchUp: She nursed the Protagonist when he's injure fighting a student of Black Dragon, [[spoiler:ending in CoitusEnsues.]]

* AmbitionIsEvil: Black Dragon had a desire to not only rule the martial world, but also the kingdoms around him. so far, he hadn't done anything beyond standard evil jobs, such as murder, pillaging, rape, and so on, but it's implied in the future when the Protagonist faced off against him.

* CharacterDevelopment: Almost merging with HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. In his youth, he's somewhat of a reckless martial artist that followed the conventional [[TheHero hero]] tropes. After another ten years of meditating and creating his two signature techniques, he mellowed out quite a bit, studying other contemporary arts like poetry and philosophy. Then, after an undisclosed TimeSkip, he reverted back to an arrogant martial artist that believed he had no equal, challenging people left and right, eventually slaughtering one hundred martial artists from all sects, good or evil, painting his current self as TheVillainfrom the common folks' perspective.

[[folder:Cempaka]]

A female pugilist who was the closest the Protagonist had as a rival in his youth. A master of the Suksmabhuta (lit. ''spirit''; ''soul''; ''ghost'') school, the 'Invisible Soul Sword Style' , she crossed paths with him several times throughout his life. Her swordplay was recognized by the Protagonist as one of the top three styles he's ever faced, including his own.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Most of them couldn't understand why [[HumbleHero the Twin Dragons of Kledung Chasm]] declined to join their ranks and ruling the martial world alongside them.

* DualWielding: Not exactly, since the 'Twin Dragons Sword Technique' they created were originally performed by both of them, each holding one sword. However, after [[spoiler:their presumed death]], the Protagonist used this trope to maximize his mastery of his parents' sword technique.

[[folder:Hartini]]

* ColorMotif: Not her exactly, but her students wore all-white clothing and white longswords.

The leading eight pugilists of Indonesia. Combined, their martial and political might dwarfed even the kingdoms ruling Indonesia. They rule according to the eight cardinal directions: north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-west, west, and north-west.

The Protagonist's second love interest. A former prostitute, she was saved by him from bandits during a raid. [[spoiler:A few years later, she joined the Empire's SecretPolice, talented enough with martial arts and commanding skills to be captain despite her young age and gender. She ended up being the Protagonist's first student.]]

A female pugilist who was the closest the Protagonist had as a rival in his youth. A master of the Suksmabhuta (''spirit'', ''soul'', ''ghost'') sword techniques, she crossed paths with him several times throughout his life.

* AbusiveParents: Subverted, mostly because of the difference in culture. They train their techniques, as well as their son's, by ''throwing and passing him as a baby like a basketball across a rushing river.'' They didn't mean anything bad with it, because even the Protagonist viewed it as an [[AwesomeButImpractical Awesome, But Impractical]] training, but in modern context, that's just... stupid.
* [[ActionDad Action]] [[ActionMom Parents]]

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He might hide it behind his polite speech, but even during his early- to mid-twenties when he's at his calmest, he was this. This trope became exaggerated during his youth and after an undisclosed [[TimeSkip Time Skip]], almost to the point of being a [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonist]].

* BareFistedMonk: Though not always, this has become his preferred fighting style, since carrying weapons in the open was prohibited when he returned to the world after his meditation. He [[DualWielding dual wields]] in his youth, but eventually improved enough to be this as well, though he sporadically would use any weapon to gain an advantage.

* ChallengeSeeker: He would purposely hold back during fights that interested him (usually against a strong opponent or a strange technique) to analyze it. Averted during any other time, when he's a [[PragmaticHero Pragmatic Hero]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Almost merging with [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Heel-Face Revolving Door]]. In his youth, he's somewhat of a reckless martial artist that followed the conventional [[TheHero hero]] tropes. After another ten years of meditating and creating his two signature techniques, he mellowed out quite a bit, studying other contemporary arts like poetry and philosophy. Then, after an undisclosed [[TimeSkip Time Skip]], he reverted back to an arrogant martial artist that believed he had no equal, challenging people left and right, eventually slaughtering more than a few dozens martial artist from all sects, good or evil, painting his current self as [[TheVillain The Villain]] from the common folks' perspective.

* [[spoiler:CounterAttack: The crux of his second signature skill, Formless Technique. First, he analyzed the 'form' of the opponent's entire skillset, usually in the form of philosophy. Then, he thought of a counter-argument to said philosophy, allowing him to [[OneHitKill one shot]] his opponent in the next turn. This technique was ever-changing, depending on the opponent's 'form', and was thus dubbed by his opponents as 'Formless Technique'. Basically, this technique allowed him to kill his opponent just by '''''thinking'''''.]]
* DualWielding: His parents' original style, and the first martial art skills he learned, was the 'Twin Dragon Sword Technique'. It required not just wielding two weapons, but to be performed by a couple. He bypassed this requirement just by ''[[SuperSpeed moving so fast there's effectively two of him fighting at the same time.]]''

* [[spoiler:PowerCopying: The crux of his first signature skill, Mirror Image Technique. By deconstructing a move not by its concept, like most martial artists did, but by using three-dimensional coordinates and vectoring, he's able to instantly understand and improve on the technique he's observed. Plus, he's able to [[AttackReflector return]] said techniques, already modified and improved, in real time during a duel. So far, the only way to counter this technique was just to improvise one's own techniques at the same rate the Protagonist was copying them.]]

* [[spoiler:CounterAttack: The crux of his second signature skill, Formless Technique. First, he analyzed the 'form' of the opponent's entire skillset, usually in the form of philosophy. Then, he thought of a counter-argument to said philosophy, allowing him to [[OneHitKill one shot]] his opponent in the next turn. This technique was ever-changing, depending on the opponent's 'form', and was thus dubbed by his opponents as 'Formless Technique'.]]

* GuileHero: His entire fighting style was shaped around this trope. He often wasted time just to analyze his opponent's style and mindset, even though it's not sometimes necessary, to learn and improve on his own techniques. [[OneHitKill Before he killed them in the next instant, of course.]]

* AbusiveParents: Played with, mostly because of the difference in culture. They train their techniques, as well as their son's, by ''throwing and passing him as a baby like a basketball across a rushing river.'' They didn't mean anything bad with it, because even the Protagonist viewed it as an [[AwesomeButImpractical Awesome, But Impractical]] training, but in modern context, that's just... stupid.

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