Characters / What Is Written In Blood

''Original Characters’’

Angel

Erich’s “perfect weapon”. A sterile Diclonius queen with six vectors with a range of four meters. She prefers to integrate four of these vectors into her limbs to enhance her speed and strength, and rather than use her vectors to tear her victims apart like most Diclonius, she prefers using brutal hand to hand combat, knives, and what ever gun she’s happened to pick up. She’s killed multiple other Diclonius sipilets, most of whom were formerly Erich’s assassins, giving her lots of experience for Diclonius on Diclonius combat. Her origins are kept unknown, except for the fact she was captured after a mass killing in Zushi. Erich, the only person who she’s really close to, doesn’t even know much about her. She acts in ways that constantly confuse him and leave him scratching his head through out the story.

”no escape...”

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Angel’s weapon of choice will more often than not be a knife. The damage she dishes out with it is absurd

• Assassin Outclassin': Whether its Erich or Westmore sending highly trained SAT soldiers with a shit ton of weapons after her, she’s always come out on top.

• Ax-Crazy: She kills a lot of Erich's men just to make a statement, slaughters Ghost squad just to get to and horribly torture Celine for being Erich’s lover, tortures a random woman just to record the torture and show it to her family, butcher said family in gruesome ways just to make a point to Erich, slaughters another group of soldiers thereafter, hires a bunch of men to rape a prostitute for a full 24 hours, and kills an entire safe house full of soldiers and innocent civilians alike.

• Batman Gambit: She predicts Erich’s movements through out the story Until the end of chapter 31 that is.

• Beware the Nice Ones: When she’s first introduced to Kouta and Yuka, she shows genuine gratitude to them for giving her a place to stay. A few chapters later she’s shooting up the rest of the inn residents and holding the two hostage.

• Black-and-Gray Morality: Angel has rarely done anything that could be considered morally good throughout the story. Even in the rare event that she does, its because she has something else far worse in mind.

• Curb-Stomp Battle: Every fight she’s in, it is this. The exception are her fights with Lucy and later Bando.

• Cyborg: The bones in her limbs were replaced with surgical steel.

• Desperation Attack: In chapter 47 she uses what could be considered this. When she is losing her fight against Lucy she rips her vectors free from her limbs and concentrates them into a single powerful attack.

• Easily Forgiven: She’s butchered innocents in front of his eyes, killed his own men, and delivered his lover’s severed head to him, yet near the end, Erich seems to have forgiven her for all of this.

• Evil Counterpart: To Lucy.

• Evil Orphan: Her parents gave her away as payment for a long standing debt soon after she was born.

• Extreme Libido: Has been shown to be clear and willing to get down and do it with Erich and even Lucy, despite seeing the latter is already in a relationship. She also just straight up rapes the former.

• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She’s described as having an other worldly beauty to her; but on the inside, she’s a savage, murderous, mad woman.

• Forceful Kiss: Towards Erich after she butchered the family and slaughtered his men in chapter 25.

• Fragile Speedster: Since she uses her vectors to boost her speed and strength of her physical limbs, she can’t use them to block bullets as a Diclonius normally would.

• Full-Frontal Assault: In chapter 5, she kills a whole room of soldiers like this.

• Lack of Empathy: She murders masses of soldiers and innocent people in gruesome ways throughout the coarse of the story and in some cases, just laughs it off.

• Laughing Mad: She does this several times as she kills. In one instance, she does this after she coerces Erich into killing a little girl.

• Manipulative Bitch: She manipulates Yuka to be more forward with Kouta. This was so she could overhear the two converse about Kouta’s past, getting information they wouldn’t have told her.

• Naked on Arrival: Adhering to the Diclonius tradition, Angel is nude when she’s introduced.

• No Name Given: Conversed. No matter how many times Erich asks, she always sidesteps the question of what her true name is. This is almost inverted in chapter 47 when she’s about to reveal her name, but Erich silences her. We know it starts with a K followed by a Y at least.

• Nothing Left to Do but Die: Upon being fatally injured by Lucy, Angel decides to commit suicide alongside Erich.

• Please, Don't Leave Me: When Erich discards her in chapter 31, she begs him not to walk away.

• Rasputinian Death: Before dying, she’s beaten by Bando, shot in the shoulder by Mayu, burned by Lucy, has the muscles and limbs ripped from of her limbs, and then finally has her chest gorged out by Lucy and even that doesn’t do her in. She’s still able to give her Dying Declaration of Love to Erich before committing suicide with him.

• Sadist: So much so that she’s sexually turned on by torture. Even if she’s the one being tortured.

• Self-Applied Nickname: She insists her name is Angel, so much so that no one knows her real name.

• Super-Reflexes: She’s not only able to dodge bullets fired at point blank range, but in one instance, she’s caught one of those bullets in her hand.

• Teen Genius: She’s able to outsmart the Institute on multiple occasions. And she’s only 19.

• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: To Lucy in chapter 32

• Together in Death: Kills herself with Erich before either of them succumbs to their injuries.

• Too Kinky to Torture: When Erich tortures her, she always begs for more, as well as makes it known she is sexually turned on by it. In one instance, she implies she wants him to use a knife, rather than the Shock Collar she is typically tortured with.

• Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: In chapter 31, she reveals to Erich that she had lost her virginity when she was 7. Additionally, she started killing long before that. Whats worse is that she laughs these off as if they’re fond memories.

• Verbal Weakness: When faced to face with Lucy in chapter 47, Lucy threatens to kill Erich once she’s done with Angel. Lucy gets the result she had wanted through Angels eyes before the fight begins. Fear.

• Villainous Breakdown: After the events of chapter 31, she appears in the following chapter in a bit of a Tranquil Fury. This is only amplified when Lucy refuses to kill Kouta and Yuka which prompts her to viciously scream and attack the other Diclonius.

Erich Vanith

The Director of the Institute located in Rome, Italy. Manipulated and trained many of his Diclonius test subjects into assassins, though they would only remain loyal to him for so long, leading him to seek some way and someone to make a “perfect assassin” leading him to Angel. The reason being, he believes the world is destroying itself and he needed a powerful weapon to get himself into a position of power to stop that from happening.

"The "Diclonius Problem" is one of control. It is only a problem to the impotent leaders of the world because they fear losing control. We were created to facilitate that control upon the new species, but what becomes of us and the world if we give the Diclonius to them to use as they will? We all are historians as well as scientists. We've had to be in order to study the origins of these creatures, but because this is what we are, we see the path that the world is taking. Relations between countries are getting ever worse, religious zealotry is causing the deaths of millions, stubborn world leaders are refusing to come to compromises, wars are on the horizon, and some conflicts are already escalating into full blown warfare. Our world is burning around us, and we are being asked to stoke the flames…are we not?"

• Abusive Dad: Many of his Diclonius test subjects view him as a father figure. It doesn’t stop him from either torturing them to death in experiments or ordering Angel to kill them for her own training.

• Ambition Is Evil: Erich plans to make the perfect Diclonius assassin to overthrow the leaders of the world and seize power for himself and the other Institute Directors.

• Anti-Villain: His intentions are good, though his methods are downright egregious. When he finally realizes this he is left in a Despair Event Horizon for the rest of the story.

• Bad Boss: Seeing as he just throws his men at Angel knowing they don’t stand a chance against her and not really giving a shit, he can be considered this.

• Dying Declaration of Love: To Angel at the end of chapter 47. The two fantasize what life would have been like had hey realized their feelings sooner before committing suicide.

• Magnificent Bastard: Convinces the other Directors in on his plan to seize power from the worlds leaders. He’s also able to craft a believable lie to Kouta and Yuka in only a few seconds.

• Nothing Left to Do but Die: He seems to believe thats how its going to end for him near the end of the story. In Chapter 47, he’s wounded by Westmore and commit suicide alongside Angel.

• Taking You with Me: In Chapter 31, when he tries to blow up himself with a grenade, taking Angel with him. The plan doesn’t quite pan out.

• Together in Death: With Angel. Knowing she had to die, he just couldn’t go on without her, thus the two committed suicide together.

• The Corrupter: Before meeting Angel, he turned several Diclonius girls into his personal assassins.

• Wake-Up Call: He gradually realizes how horrible the things he’s done, or ordered others to do, are.

• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Rather than putting Westmore out of his misery, Erich decides to demand Westmore gives him his first name saying they should experience this moment as people, not entities. This buys Westmore time to shoot him.

Katsuo Rin (Ghost)

The sergeant of the Kamakura SAT forces and leader of Ghost squad. He was the sole survivor of a town that had 30 Diclonius sipelets simultaneously have their murderous instincts activate, from which he was saved by Ryota, who took him in like a son. He’s also got a rivalry with Bando going.

”I’m not the one who hit you...I just didn’t want there to be any blood on you that wasn’t shed by me.”

• Arch-Enemy: To Bando. It’s implied he loathed Bando even before the orders came down to kill him on sight.

• Attempted Rape: He tries to rape Mayu, but a call from Ryota interrupts him.

• Berserk Button: He’s angered when someone attacks his, or Ryota’s character. He’s also especially enraged when he’s interrupted during his torture sessions, especially by who he’s torturing.

• Cyborg: After his torture at Angel’s hands, he had his bones reinforced and nano machines added to his blood stream.

• Evil Counterpart: To Bando.

• Go Mad from the Revelation: After remembering he is a male Diclonius, he spends most of chapter 39 aimlessly walking like a zombie. It certainly doesn’t help that he also remembered that he was indirectly responsible for the slaughtering of his family as well as Kasumi.

• Hand Cannon: In chapter 21, Ghost is given a prototype pistol that is said to be able to blast through concrete with ease.

• Meaningful Rename: He calls himself Ghost to symbolize that he isn’t afraid of the Diclonius.

”You can’t hurt ghosts, and you can’t scare ghosts.”

• Number Two: To Ryota.

• Sadist: He enjoys torturing his prisoners. Diclonius especially.

• Self-Applied Nickname: He doesn’t seem too bothered by being called sergeant Rin, but he absolutely insists on being called Ghost.

• Sole Survivor: Of the massacre of his town as well as the slaughter of Ghost squad.

• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: In chapter 30, when Ryota asks about Arakawa’s interrogation, he calls him by his first name to which Ghost firmly corrects him.

Ryota

The commander of the Kamakura’s SAT forces and Bando’s and Ghost’s adoptive father. Fell in love with Bando’s biological mother, Rika, but failed to save her life from her abusive husband, Norio. Ever since, he’s been a broken shell of a man, drowning himself in his work. He believe’s his miserable life is a punishment for not only failing to save Rika, but failing to properly raise Bando.

“Whatever he chooses to do to the world is whatever is fated to happen to the world. One way or another, the events will come to pass, whether by his hand or another. All we can do is accept it and prepare to whether the storm."

• Heart Trauma: The death of Rika dictated how his life went up to the point the story begins.

• Not So Stoic: He drops his usual stoic demeanour around Arakawa or Bando.

• Old Soldier: He’s said to be in his sixties.

• Once Done, Never Forgotten: His failure to save Rika, his failure to properly raise Bando, the monster Ghost had become, the universe just loves throwing those back in his face every now and again.

• Rousing Speech: He gives one in chapter 44

• Shell-Shocked Veteran: The fact that he had to kill Diclonius children certainly didn’t help in regards to his mental health.

• Survivor Guilt: Deals with this after he arrived too late to save Rika.

• The Stoic: He’s a very serious person and only shows his emotions around Bando or Arakawa.

• To Be Lawful or Good: Favours good over lawful as he secretly assisted in helping a small number of people to escape Project Atavist He’s also willing to load phase two of Red Sky with Arakawa’s anti-virus knowing that doing so will out him as a traitor.

• Wake-Up Call: Arakawa is able to bring him out of his constant, self deprecating way of thinking.

Sato Daisuke

An Institute soldier. One of the many brought into the new Ghost squad. He was assigned to guard Nana after her recapture where the two got into a conversation and he began to sympathize with her. After she proved she would not kill him given the chance, he defected from SAT and helped her escape.

"I think fate shows us the door, but we're the ones who decide if we walk through."

• An Arm and a Leg: He losses both his arms after his encounter with Angel.

• Artificial Limbs: After having his arms shot off by Angel, he is given a new set of prosthetics

• Defector from Decadence: Upon listening to Arakawa’s torture and hearing Nana out, he defects from SAT. His decision is further cemented when Nana goes into detail about her time as a test subject at the Institute.

• Lima Syndrome: Develops this for Nana, which only grows after he defects and releases her.

• Rank Up: In chapter 47, Takashi refers to him as sergeant. Given that this is the first time he is referred to by that rank, and there was no time for him to be promoted between chapters, it is unknown if this is a mistake.

• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He gets cold feet listening to Arakawa’s torture, listening to innocent Nana pushes him over the edge to defecting.

• Walking Spoiler: Its difficult to discuss him without spoiling major events.

Yamaoka Takashi

An Institute soldier sent to kill Lucy among other soldiers during the anime’s finally. After Lucy spares his life, from herself, and then saves him from friendly fire. He gives her some advice when the two meet again and thereafter the two become something a-kind to friends. When the two meet again, he talks his squad down from shooting an injured Lucy and is able to set up a much needed talk between her and Erich. He’s promoted to sergeant to replace the now AWOL Ghost and ensures Lucy is safe when Erich leaves to confront Westmore.

"Monsters don't shed tears Lucy. That's why I still believe in you."

• Chekhov's Gunman: After his seemingly one off introduction in “I am What I am” he appears again in chapter 32 to stop the fighting between Lucy and the Kamakura division of SAT soldiers.

• Fire-Forged Friends: With Lucy, after the events of “I am What I am.”

• Hope Spot: For Lucy after the traumatic events of chapter 32.

• Made of Iron: In chapter 46 Nana watches him get shot by a fifty caliber machine gun, yet at the end of the chapter he seems fine.

• Rank Up: In chapter 32 he’s promoted to sergeant by Erich and in chapter 47 he refers to himself as commander since Ryota had died during the previous chapter.

• That's an Order!: He orders Nana not to rescue Bando seeing as she would just die trying to save him. She refuses and comes out alive along with Bando.