Date A Live - Ratatoskr / Characters

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Ratatoskr

Ratatoskr (ラタトスク, Ratatosuku) is an organization created for the purpose of saving Spirits, the cause of spacequakes, through peaceful mean without killing the Spirits. As stated by Kotori, "The organization called <Ratatoskr> was an organization created for Shido's sake."

The organization known as <Ratatoskr> is only known (probably) by the upper level of the government and high ranking military officials. The <Ratatoskr> Command center is on the airship <Fraxinus>, while their headquarters is in an unstated location. Shido's younger sister, Kotori, is the commander of Ratatoskr.

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In General

Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Kotori's introduction of her crew indicates that romance is the last thing any of them should be giving advice on.
Greek Chorus: Their main role is to provide commentary during Shido's dates with Spirits.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They're a group of odd people that want to help save the Spirits and possess good technical skills, but have questionable dating advice.
Shipper on Deck: Their job is to give dating advise to Shido when he has to date a Spirit. They even vote which pickup line Shido needs to use during his date.
Kotori and the Fraxinus crew: [Cheering in unison] Ask her (Tohka) out! Ask her out! Ask her out!

Kotori Itsuka

Commander Kotori Itsuka

The commander of the airship Fraxinus. See her entry on the Itsuka Siblings page.

Reine Murasame

Voiced by: Aya Endo (Japanese), Barrett Nash (English), Iarel Verduzco (Latin-American Spanish)

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The analysis officer onboard the Fraxinus. She never gets Shido's name right, and his name is the only one which receives this treatment from her. Becomes Shido's assistant homeroom teacher and physics teacher early on, to facilitate his training. Always looks sleepy.

The Ace: The Reine Holiday short story reveals that Reine can play the violin better than a professional, conduct better medical treatment than even the official Ratatoskr medical officer, act as a translator, and even pilot a plane. Kotori even notes that she has no idea where Reine obtained these skills to begin with.
Artificial Human: Reine is actually a physically older clone of Mio who shares her will like the Nibelcole, created to facilitate the distribution of Sephira Crystals.
The Comically Serious: Her tone never changes (in no small part due to drowsiness), and she has quirks like spontaneously collapsing and her pathological inability to get Shidou’s name right.
Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Reine always has her eyes half-closed. Combined with her Exhausted Eye Bags, she looks like someone with chronic insomnia. According to Reine herself, she hasn't slept in 30 years.
Exhausted Eye Bags: One of three indications that makes her claims of not having slept in 30 years seemingly credible, with the others being putting unreasonable amounts of sugar in her coffee and downing an entire bottle of sleeping pills.
Foreshadowing: There are plenty of hints implicating her secret identity long before before her official reveal as the Phantom in Volume 16 and Mio Takamiya in Volume 17.
- Right after Shido goes unconscious after meeting Tohka for the first time, a mysterious voice can be heard in his dream. Reine was treating him when Shido woke up immediately after.
- Reine claimed that she hadn't slept for 30 years when she appears to be in her 20s, coinciding with the year when the First Spirit appeared.
- She was insistent on addressing Shido as Shin in-person, as he originally was named Shin prior to his reincarnation.
- She also downed an entire bottle of sleeping pills right after the above statement to no effect. This later becomes a subtle foreshadowing when Kotori revealed that Reine had administered fifty times the recommended dose of tranquilizer for her date and reassures that Spirits wouldn't die from drug overdoses.
- When Phantom is first seen conversing with Kurumi, she has full knowledge about her 12th Bullet which was never revealed to anyone.
- When Origami confronted Phantom after traveling to the past, she noted that her voice sounded familiar. Similarly, Shido confirmed that Phantom's voice was indeed the same as the mysterious voice back in Volume 1
- While Phantom doesn't speak in either of the two seasons of the anime or in the movie, she does speak in each of the extracanonical games that she's in, and it's in those games that reveal that she shares her voice actress with Reine.
- She had mentioned that she had a lover when she was inquired by Tamae near the end of Reine Marriage Hunt short story, and likewise also revealed it to the Spirits when they are purchasing chocolate ingredients for Valentine's Day in Volume 16. Interestingly, she had the intent to give Shido a chocolate gift herself, but refrained from doing so because he would be full from the chocolate received from them.
God Was My Co-Pilot: For most of the series, Reine is Kotori's coworker and Shido's assistant homeroom teacher, but doesn't seem to be special in any way until she's revealed to be the alter ego of the First Spirit, a being of pure magic that's powerful enough to easily take down the Spirits in the main cast.
Hair Color Spoiler: Kurumi's flashback in the fourth anime season shows Mio Takamiya has the same hair color as Reine, which gives away there's a connection between them before The Reveal.
Harem Nanny: While Ratatoskr in general is dedicated to helping Spirits, Reine is seen particularly often helping them adjust to everyday life. One noteworthy example is calming down the Spirits, who'd been de-aged by Natsumi and were pestering Shido like the children they now resembled, quickly accomplishing what Shido had failed to do on his own. She then has an odd response when he compares her to a mother.
Hidden Depths: There's something odd about how she didn't get injured when she and Origami were attacked by a Bandersnatch robot... Volume 16 reveals what it is by showing she and Phantom are the same person. Then Volume 18 tops that as she is actually Takamiya Mio's doppelganger and older alter ego.
Hyper-Competent Sidekick: She's the go-to person for helping Shido out, and will often do things necessary to help him in his mission to seal the Spirits powers. Though Kotori is on the ground occasionally, Reine is often the only one who provides support for Shido on the ground, while the rest of the Fraxinus crew provide typical Mission Control support aboard the ship.
Iconic Item: Reine always has a small teddy bear covered in stitches with her wherever she goes, either in the pocket of her outfit or in her cleavage if she has no where else to put it. Where she got it is revealed in Volume 17, where Shido had won it for her during her first date with him in the nearby town 30 years ago and has kept it fondly since.
In-Series Nickname: Shin for Shido. She doesn't seem to have any problem getting anyone else's name right. In Volume 17, it's revealed that it's the name she uttered of Shido's name when he first introduced himself to her 30 years ago.
The Insomniac: Reine claims that she hasn't had any decent sleep for 30 years, after consuming an entire bottle full of sleeping pills, saying they weren't effective enough. Even Shido wondered how it doesn't kill her. Might be Truth in Television. It's because she is actually the First Spirit, who had been working tirelessly to turn countless girls into Spirits in order to purify the Sephira Crystals. She also has Catapult Nightmares about Shinji's death if she ever tries to get some shut-eye.
Intergenerational Friendship: She's Kotori's Best Friend, even though the latter, mature as she is in her black ribbons, is barely into her teenage years.
Marshmallow Hell: Gave Shido this in order to calm down in Episode 10 after he became anxious unto the other people involved in the battle. It worked, almost like it hadn't been the first time she had done it. Kotori actively shoves him into Reine's chest in the first volume to gauge his compatibility with women, as well as early in Rinne Utopia to calm him down. Shido's embarrassed, but Reine's perfectly fine with it if it helps.
Meaningful Name: Has the number zero hidden in her name (as light novels are written vertically, 村雨令音, 雨 + 令 = 零, meaning zero). Ends up being more meaningful when it's revealed she is Phantom and the First Spirit's alter ego.
Mission Control: Zigzagged. She is occasionally aboard the Fraxinus, but of all the crew, she's the one that's most often in the field working with Shido, such as when he ran into the Yamai twins while they couldn't contact the Fraxinus due to interference from DEM.
Older Alter Ego: She is a doppelgänger of the First Spirit Mio, who is noted to look younger.
Only Sane Employee: Considering her commander's age and attitude, her vice-commander's masochism, and the rest of the crew's incredible incompetence. And even she is Not So Above It All at times, though it's more downplayed for her.
Shipper on Deck: In one episode, she plays therapist to Tohka to help her with her feelings for Shido.
Spit Take: A delayed one, when she first sees Shido and Tohka go on a date.
The Stoic: She rarely expresses emotion or energy, and most of her interactions are deadpan. Kotori even admits she had never seen her angry before after she shows rage to what DEM did to Mana's body.
Sweet Tooth: She puts mountains of sugar into her coffee (partly to stave off her drowsiness), and Kotori once bribed her with an offer of 10 limited edition cream puffs.
Team Mom: She acts as a surrogate mom towards some characters, mostly Shido, Tohka, and Yoshino. This is especially shown in the Valentine's Day Episode, where she helps the girls make chocolate for Shido and talks about her own love life to advise them.
Victoria's Secret Compartment: When she isn't wearing something with pockets, Reine carries her teddy bear in her cleavage.
Younger than She Looks: Reine looks really young for someone who's been more than 30 years old. Then again, her most noticeable features would be her baggy and sleepy eyes.

Kyouhei Kannazuki

Vice-Commander Kyouhei Kannazuki

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English), Raymundo Armijo (Latin-American Spanish, season 2-3), Rolando de la Fuente (Latin-American Spanish, season 4)

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Vice-commander of the Fraxinus, and a big masochist. When the crew has to make Dating Sim-esque choices, his choices, made purely to fuel his masochism, are the ones being shot down the most.

Despite his masochism, he's revealed to be very good at using the Realizer, which really came in handy when the Fraxinus got attacked. With this skill, he was the former ace and captain of the AST squad when Ryouko was new to the team. He defected to Ratatoskr to find a suitable master he can serve under, and he found one in Kotori. However, he left a wish to be reinstated in case he changed his mind.

Butt-Monkey: Kotori gives him the short end of the stick every single time, mainly due to his hammy and perverted demeanour.
The Captain: Formerly of the AST when Ryouko was just a recruit. Also, when Kotori places the Fraxinus under his command, he shows just how capable he is at directing the crew.
Chivalrous Pervert: He's quite dedicated to his commander Kotori, but at the same time has no qualms declaring his fantasies about her, which puts him on the receiving end of her sadistic streak.
Comedic Lolicon: He's very lustful toward little girls like Kotori, while expressing disgust toward large breasts. He actually got into a relationship with Tamae mostly because she has a childlike figure while legally an adult.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He acts extremely perverted, but when push comes to shove, he's a very competent commander and Kotori trusts him to lead if she's ever absent, as seen during the Arbatel's attack on the Fraxinus.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: He even admits to having crossdressed before.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Due to his Dating Sim-esque choices influenced by his own desires and tendencies to make things worse (Such as giving Shido a line to complement Kotori how well her swimsuit top looks on her chest.), he is seen as useless by the crew. When Kotori leaves for a meeting and leaves him in command, the rest of crew insists on her coming back as soon as possible. In fact when Kotori checks in with the crew and discovers something is wrong, her first assumption is that he's pissing everyone off. When he's seemingly killed in the Kotori Mystery short story, everyone aboard the Fraxinus admits to not liking him while trying to establish an alibi, and the reason Kotori thought he was dead in the first place was because Reine checked his pulse and said "Unfortunately"; she meant "Unfortunately, he's still alive".
Large Ham: He's the most bombastic member of the Fraxinus' crew, openly admitting his masochist tendencies and his desire to be punished by Kotori. Surprisingly, he shows scant moments of analytic calmness when the situation calls for it.
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His shoulder-length hair goes in hand with his effeminate looks.
Noodle Incident: While in the AST, he gave his subordinates Cool And Unusual Punishments. According to Ryouko, punishment for first timers was having to cosplay, second timers was having to cosplay and step on him. We don't find out what the punishment for third timers was; all we know is that it's one Ryouko really doesn't want to remember.
Number Two: To Kotori aboard the Fraxinus.
Suspiciously Specific Denial: In the filler Hot Springs Episode, when he's trying to convince Kotori to go to the hot spring to stay in top condition. Kotori doesn't buy it, of course, and makes him dig a hole and refill it over and over as punishment. As a Brick Joke, he digs up a hot spring at the end of the episode.
Kyouhei: I have no idea what you mean. I have no desire to install several surveillance cameras there. Would someone like me actually fill a hot springs with lenses so I could stare at every inch of that hard, tight body at my discretion, especially that backside?
Too Kinky to Torture: He might as well exist as Kotori's punching bag. Though he's not too big on the idea of castration or death.
Tranquil Fury: During the fight with the DEM ship in episode 4 of season 2, while he throws out some perverted dialogue, he is so eerily calm and issues orders so specific that the rest of the bridge gets a bit nervous. The fact that said orders also help them defeat the enemy ship helps.

Kyouji Kawagoe