Sorimachi Ichizo

For as long as Sorimachi's known, he's made his path at the expense of others, stealing/murdering for a few coins here, a night's sleep there. To that alone he's devoted his wit and skill. Things like loyalty, justice, and honor never made any sense to him. Even harming those who've helped him to achieve a goal of his doesn't bear much weight on him, though he doesn't go out his way to be malicious and sadistic. Sorimachi overall is pretty polite to those he comes into contact with, and usually has a casual and chummy way of speaking. However, especially when engaged in the heat of a battle he has the tendency to cackle a lot like a weird eagle, like "kekekekekakaka!", like a madman. Overall Sorimachi is a laid-back yakuza who gets a kick out of the struggles in life, and seeing people so desperately struggle for their ideals. But even he has something he deems as evil: people who bring harm to others but don't even want to. There is no type of death he hates more than one brought by some asshole who didn't even want it. He believes if you're going to do something, especially if it's something that harms others, you better fully believe in what you're doing. And the thing is if you are the type of person he deems evil, he will stop at nothing to try to kill you. Sormachi's a disloyal dick, but also a resourceful, cunning, and sly man, who's been in the business of criminals for a long time. Sorimachi is a character from the game Fullmetal Daemon: Muramasa. "Sorimachi loves people. The farmers struggling to make it day to day, the shogunate officers growing fat off their blood, the corporate big shots with the government in their pockets, the brave rebeles who defy them all... Sorimachi loves each one. And because he loves them, he knows no greater joy than to live in their midst, exchanging banter, crossing blades, using and being used in turn. It doesn't matter who ends up face down in the mud or neck deep in a river. He loves every second. Sorimachi Ichizo hates no one. Not even Major Gargett, so sure of his own righteousness. He might think the major foolish, even mad, but Sorimachi does not hate him." But if there was one person he'd have disdain for... it'd be someone who's living their life doing the exact opposite of what they want to do in life. This is the idea that Sorimachi embodies. If you are gonna do something, do it with absolute conviction. His definition of evil is one who isn't doing what they want to and still takes away the lives of others whether good or evil, like Minato Kageaki.

Minato Kageaki

Minato Kageaki is most of the time serious, yet that can lead to him being so serious that he acts aloof and is socially unaware. He is very polite, even when talking to his enemies to find a way to solve the situation without violence. Except when it comes to killing, he is almost always very calm and levelheaded. Common Route Spoilers Ahead: Kageaki views himself as a demon undeserving of any pity or redemption for the atrocities he has committed and will continue to commit, and he believes "there are no heroes". However, he will continue to do whatever it takes to stop Ginseigo, although he won't kill unless ABSOLUTELY necessary. Ginseigo has an ability to put an "egg" inside of a tsurugi, and when this "egg" hatches, it will overtake the tsurugi and actually become another copy of Ginseigo, meaning the level of destruction and massacres that are caused by just one Ginseigo will double. This means he is forced to kill occasionally no matter what, which then of course leads to the law of balance requiring another sacrifice. Minato Kageaki is the protagonist of the visual novel Fullmetal Daemon: Muaramasa. (SPOILERS FOR THE GAME START HERE) Kageaki lives with a curse; for every person he kills which he deems evil, he is required to sacrifice another person whom he deems good, under the Law of Balance. While he's usually a good natured and righteous person, on occasions he is required to kill innocent people to maintain the law of balance. The very first "good" person he killed was actually his own mother, at the time not understanding the consequences of the Law of Balance. He pilots the cursed tsurugi Muramasa (which is what enforces the Law of Balance) in hopes to defeat the silver star Ginseigo. Ginseigo is actually piloted his sister Hikaru Minato, who was corrupted by the cursed tsurugi Ginseigo, leading her to become a near godly being who murders indiscriminately. Kageaki believes that this was his fault, and so seeks to murder her and her tsurugi Ginseigo to stop what he has caused. Furthermore, Kageaki believes he deserves death, and that his actions make him a demon, because murder is murder, no matter the circumstances. While he believes he deserves death, he can't let himself "have that release" until Ginseigo is stopped.

Ayane Ichijo

Ayane Ichijo is very serious and may seem cold and antisocial when first speaking to her, though she can be caring of those she deems good. She is one who wants to bring justice to this world, even acknowledging her way of killing those she deems evil is also evil in it of itself. While she normally seems very serious, in particular when facing a particularly vile person she becomes really fucking enraged, and although she has come to realize that murder is wrong, she will still not hesitate to take the life of someone she has deemed evil. This sort of raging contempt is reserved for those who are particularly cruel just because they feel like it, and she appears to feel cathartic bringing them to justice. This isn't exactly true when facing someone who isn't a heartless monster, though she will dole out justice if she needs to. As for her manner of speaking, she's mostly serious and to the point, without really speaking formally and can be said to have a slightly rough manner of speaking, though not excessively vulgar or anything. Or more specifically, she will make excessively vulgar threats and insults on those she believes are pure and complete evil. Ayane Ichijo is a character from Fullmetal Daemon: Muramasa, a hero of justice. She holds the idea that evil must be punished with death, and to improve the world it must be rid of all evil people. She follows this idea almost obsessively, dedicating her entire life to this pursuit of rising up against evildoers, despite her only being in highschool. Her father has instilled in her a sense of justice, and instilled in her the idea that you can not question why evil things are bad, believing that questioning why something is bad opens the door to justifying evil. Over time though this belief has been challenged, and she's realized that nobody is purely either good or evil, and that someone's good can turn out to be someone else's evil, meaning taking someone's life is also an act of evil. Even now knowing this, Ichijo doesn't falter in her pursuit of justice. Even if taking an evil person's life is evil, she will do it because otherwise, who else will bring them to justice? Furthermore, perhaps if someone like her kept punishing evil, then one day all of mankind will finally believe all evil actions have a price, and so evil will be eradicated.

Kei Sakurai

Kei Sakurai appears very stoic, level-headed, and serious most of the time, and the way she speaks reflects as such. However, when it comes to Tubal Cain or anything that destroys her dream of trying to revive her loved ones, she can break down and reveal her true self, as a lonely young girl who hasn't gotten over the deaths of her two loved ones. She is not exactly a good person and is complicit in the deaths of innocent people, but her nature is not evil and she would prefer to avoid bloodshed. Interestingly, one more thing mentioned about Kei is that she somewhat laments how she never got to have a try peaceful experience just living her life, so she actually enjoyed when she had gotten a chance to experience what being a normal girl is like when she went undercover at a high school to spy on Ren Fuji. Overall her personality can be said to be somewhat self-hating, Very Headstrong, very stoic/cold, and a bit sarcastic and condescending. Kei Sakurai is a character from the visual novel Dies Irae and one of the members of the Obsidian Table. She joined because she was promised if she did, she would be able to to revive her brother Kai Sakurai, and Beatrice Kercheisen her mentor and Kai's lover. For context for Dies Irae, the Obsidian Table is attempting to revive Lord Heydrich aka Reinhard, to do this they need a lot of sacrifices to take place in a city in Japan. People like Ren Fuji try to stop the table.

Yusa Doushin

Yusa Doushin's matter of speaking is usually pretty formal, grand, and welcoming, though this can take on a condescending and sadistic tone especially when he decides it's time for him to do something cruel. He acts pretty unseriously, is kinda arrogant, but he can also think very well under pressure even when he likes to have fun with his battles. Furthermore, he is capable of doing good sometimes (even if not out of a desire to particularly do good), and when an old friend he owed a favor died, he decided to take in the friend's sons and daughters, saying he did it because he felt like it. That said, even he gets bored if he's never challenged in life. He'd like to have an arch nemesis to challenge and fully reject him, to spice up his life and so that he can crush that person to show that he will never be brought to justice. He doesn't desire just anyone to oppose him, but wants someone to opposite him specifically out of a sense of justice, because he wants to truly see if evil actions will be paid back. Yusa Doushin is a character from the vn FMD: Muramasa, and one of Rokuhara's four generals. He is a "basara", who believes he is above life's rules. He lives primarily for his own self gratification. When he has a desire to do something, he does it regardless of the consequences. However, this also means that when he feels like he wants to, he will carve a mask out of his friend's face, or sexually assault a woman. This isn't to say he doesn't understand or respect others. He perfectly understands the emotions of people and what drives them, and is insightful to their many strengths and weaknesses and their humanities, being understanding of them. He even finds them admirable. However he just doesn't care even if he does cause them harm, because if he wants to do something them by all means he'll do it. However, he does actually want to be challenge rather than living a life of easy self gratification without resistance. That's why he finds Ayane Ichijo's existence fascinating, as a person who has sworn to kill him for justice, and he welcomes actually having someone to oppose him. Basically, he's a pure hedonist through and through, and likes to fuck with people, both physically and mentally.

Wilhelm Ehrenburg

Wilhelm is someone who never feels truly satisfied. No matter how much murder and fighting strong opponents he does, it never feels enough for him, unless he finds someone truly worthy to fight. So, he keeps seeking strong opponents to fight. He will respect strong opponents for showing him a good time, and respects those willing to put their lives at risk. Also very racist and kind of a womanizer.] Wilhelm has a very rough manner of speaking. He usually doesn't listen to what anyone says, and frequently calls people who he thinks less of as "Monkeys". He's also very egotistical as well. Note that even though he has a rough and informal way of speaking, he can still be articulate and formal as well when speaking to someone like Reinhard. So overall he's very indecent, pretty annoying, very murderous, able to think under pressure yet not exceptionally intelligent, and pretty selfish. To show how he always feels unsatisfied, he has a line that goes like "It's always like this. I can't get anything I want. Who's fault is it? What's the problem? What is it that I need to fix? Well fuckin hell, no point thinking on it in this fight". A character from Dies Irae, and one of the members of the Black Round Table (also called the Obsidian Round Table). A violent man who seeks out strong opponents to fight, and also speak in a very informal, rough, and egotistical way. I do respect those who are strong, and those who have a thrill for good fights. Overall is still very cruel, who will murder and do horrific acts like rape if he feel like it. Also kind of a womanizer. He was born on 1917 in Hanover, Germany. His family lived in destitute poverty, and was severely neglectful and abusive towards him. He was malnourished was forced to live in a box without a bed, hiding from his absusive father. Only coming out at night, forced to hunt for any sustenance. Bugs and Birds, he cared not what it was, as long as it had the nutrients he required. His life was nothing but hiding and hunting. An empty existence. As time passed he grew stronger, and more capable. But to did he get hungrier, and began to hunt for humans. Once his sister Helga discovered dead bodies, he killed her and his father. This bloodlust continued, only growing more and more intense. This formed into his wish to become a vampire in the night, able to more completely satiate his bloodlust.

Oshtor

In his "Oshtor" personality, he's very stoic, professional, courageous, and dignified. He is someone who'll use underhanded tricks to win if necessary, but can be honorable enough to engage in something like a duel if he has a respectable opponent. He speaks in a dignified and fairly formal manner, though also in a somewhat friendly tone too (although of course not really the friendly part when on the battlefield). In his "Ukon" personality he is loud, cheery, the very opposite of appearing dignified. He has a very warm and casual form of speech, and just seems the kinda guy you'd want to share a drink with. However even in his Ukon form he can act professionally when it fits the current situation. Oshtor is Yamato's general of the right, where Yamato is a fictional country in the story Utawarerumono. He's revered by many of the people of Yamato, as a stoic, composed, and compassionate leader that defends Yamato. But at the same time is another side of Oshtor. He occasionally takes on the identity "Ukon", an undercover identity he uses to help the Yamato kingdom in ways he can't as Yamato's Imperial Guard. Unlike his "Oshtor" persona, Ukon is a lot more free-spirited, speaks much more casually, less stoic and a bit more chummy/friendly, and speaks in a much more casual tone. It is said that Oshtor doesn't know which one represents the "real" him, and it's probably a mix of both. Although, it is said that his "Ukon" persona aligns more with what he admired within his own father, for how "Ukon" is more friendly with the people and not raised to a higher pedastal. Note that very few know about his alternate identity, and he tries to keep it a secret because otherwise what's the point of a secret identity?

Shishiku Otori

Shishiku is a brash and hot blooded man, but also a traditionalist who does things "by the book". He's hard working, competent, loyal, and believes in having "pure" bloodlines, so he treats the heirs or relatives of those he works for (such as Tokiharu's relatives or the shogun's) with utmost respect. He isn't exactly sadistic, but he will willingly do cruel actions if it's required of him, and he especially has no sympathy at all for those he views as enemies to the Rokuhara shogunate, having killed civilians who helped a rebellion. Interestingly he almost never curses, but he does frequently insult people with the words "worm", "cur", and "vermin". He's also someone so dedicated to Rokuhara that even as it's collapsing he refuses to give up, and no matter his own emotions he will dedicate his cause to Rokuhara and Yamato. But because of his dedication, he ignores the obvious truth that the Rokuharan government is bad for its people. Other than that, he can be described as somewhat optimistic, very brave, somewhat annoying, and is honestly an "evil" person. He is also fairly intelligent and cunning, and will use cheap and dirty tricks to win fights from his time as an assassin. He almost never talks casually, and he basically either talks angrily or professionally. Specifically professionally to those he respects, and then angrily to all others, especially if they're incompetent. He also doesn't attempt to understand the perspective of others, especially his enemies. (Note: I haven't played the true route yet, so lots of info may be missing.) Shishiku Otori is one of the four Rokuhara Generals, alongside Yusa Doshin, Raicho Imagawa, and Chachamaru Ashikaga, serving the shogun Moriuji Ashikaga. Rokuhara doesn't care much for the people and is pretty tyrannical. At the same time however, a group known as GHQ (an extension of the Britannia Empire, where the two big empires in the world currently are the Britannian Empire and the Russian Empire) is also vying for power to control Yamato through indirectly influencing the civilian population to believe that GHQ's control over Yamato would be better than Rokuhara's, such that the people would view it justified when GHQ declares war on Rokuhara. (nemesis route spoilers below) Shishuku Otori was originally an orphan brought in by Lord Tokiharu, with his original name being Arata. He was set to marry Kanae Otori. However, when Kanae's father Tokitsugu killed Tokiharu because of Tokiharu's warmongering, he staged a coup and assassinated Tokitsugu, partially for revenge, and partially because he believed Tokiharu was right.