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.

Tennouji Kotarou

Kotarou is a guy who can get along with almost anyone. He's also very adventerous and likes to get the ORS to explore new and interesting places. However he is also a bit of a lonely person as for so long he hasn't made real human connections, and also frequently gets lost in his own head, while sometimes questioning if he made the right decisions or not. However he is good at not letting this show to others. Creative, Arrogant, Forgiving, Very Adventurous Tennouji Kotarou is from the visual novel Rewrite. Kotarou used to feel that he hadn't made any true connections; he could talk easily with anyone, but he hadn't made any true friends, besides his childhood friend Kotori Kanbe. So, he decides that now in high school, he'll try again to actually make meaningful connections with other people. He acts like a goofball in high school, but he can lock in when things get serious. Kotarou used to live without any real connections, someone who could talk to anyone but never tried to get close and make meaningful relationships. As he grows up he regrets this, and decides that now in High School, he'll try to make meaningful relationships and find a place where he belongs. One way he does this is by forming the ORS (Occult Research Society), with 4 others. Those are his childhood friend Kotori Kanbe, Shizuru Nakatsu, Lucia Kotohana, Akane Senri, and Chihaya Ohtori. He starts this club so that by making a group that 5 people are a part of, he's able to bester foster connections with others as they have a place to meet up. As he says, without the ORS, eventually all the members would branch off as they don't have a common thing keeping them together.

Ooishi Kuraudo

(Spoilers below) Ooishi is somewhat sly/slimy. He uses polite language, though it will has a very slightly condescending tone if talking to a Hinamizawan. His way of speaking kinda beats around the bush and never gives away his true intentions. It's in general hard to tell what he's thinking. This manner of speaking goes away and he'll have an intimidating tone, however, when he's either accusing the Sonozakis or has caught somebody doing something bad. However while Ooishi seems like a bad dude, he is genuinely a good cop who wants to do right. He can be described as somewhat cunning, very brave (he confronted suspicious people who later sniped him in one of the alternate realities and took on kidnappers, of course he is a cop after all), fairly intelligent, appearing very friendly (if somewhat condescending to people he doesn't really consider his friends), and he walks a fine line between being ethical and unethical in his actions, although usually leaning more towards ethical. He is usually fairly calm, but he will use intimidation in the situations I mentioned before, and there are moments where he'll lose his cool such as when he's proven around about the Sonozakis. Also there is a song that goes like "Do you know oyashiro sama? yes, hinamizawa", and so if someone replies to him with the first line, he must reply with the second line. Ooishi Kuraudo is a character from the visual novel Higurashi: When They Cry, and is the police detective trying to solve the Hinamizawa murders. (Spoilers for Higurashi below). He is technically stationed to the neighboring town Okinomiya, though frequently gets assigned to patrol Hinamizawa too. He is a very sly and somewhat slimy cop, someone who is attempting to do what he believes is right but not always taking the ethical approach to do it. To begin, there have been a series of murders in nthe rural town of Hinamizawa, and each time the event occurs on the night of "Watanagashi", an annual cotton-drifting festival meant for the villagers of Hinamizawa to clear their sins. Each year, it's always been that one person dies on the night of Watanagashi, while another goes missing. It's also worth mentioning there was a political war where Hinamizawa's resident fought to not build a dam over Hinamizawa (as this would mean they had to leave), and the residents did resort to dirty tactics like throwing rocks and the dam construction workers and overall being hostile towards them. It's also worth noting the Hinamizawan residents worship a god they call "Oyashiro-sama", and they believe the murders are done by Oyashiro-sama.

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.