Hekikai no AiON/Characters
The characters of Hekikai no Ai ON include:
Seine Miyazaki
Miyazaki Seine is a 300 year old girl with an immortal body who Tatsuya invites to live in his home; before that she lived in a cardboard box in a park. In the first episode, Seine looks like a masochist because she seems to like being bullied. Actually, she becomes close to people who are infected by "mushis", a kind of parasitic, mind-controlling bugs, in order to hunt them. Her hunting ways go against the kind and pacifist Tatsuya's beliefs. Her motive is to avenge her foster father Shimon's death by killing the people of sea, the mermaids. She controls a black snake called Aion that lives inside her. Her weakness is her inabilty to swim.
- Action Girl
- Abusive Parents: Her second father
- Adventures in Coma Land
- Animal Motifs: Cats. So much that she portrayed as a Catgirl in an omake.
- Berserk Button: Shizuki and Yuzuki. Also anything mermaids relevant.
- Broken Bird: The first 4 years of her life were horrible, her Parental Substitute was killed in front of her and she had seem lots of people she cared about dying at their time
- Delinquent: She's seem as this by Tsukasa
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Seine is frequently called a witch instead of her real name.
- Evil Eye: While using Aion
- Eyes of Gold / Hazel Eyes: Normally
- Expy: of Karin, appearance only though
- Girl in a Box: Lived in a cardboard box prior to meeting Tatsuya.
- Haruka Tomatsu: Her Drama CD VA
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: with 19-years-old Tatsuya
- I Am a Monster
- I Gave My Word: When she found someone who ask her to stay by his/her side, she stays until the last day
- Immortal Life Is Cheap: / Good Thing You Can Heal
- Important Haircut: She used to had a mild example of Rapunzel Hair but she cut it when she ultimately decided follow the You Killed My Father path
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: or more like "Doesn't care fanservise girl".
- I Work Alone
- Kuudere
- Le Parkour: With Aion's help. Tatsuya even compare her with a jumping roofs's cat
- NEET: After Time Skip
- Not Growing Up Sucks: Seine had to hold up being in high school who knows how many times! She even complains about it while talking about her nth school's festival.
- Not So Stoic
- Parental Abandonment: She doesn't know anything about her biological parents
- Pettanko
- Power Tattoo
- Pretty Freeloader
- Really 300 Years Old
- Super Drowning Skills: Seine can't swim. Even in a kid's pool with floaters, she sink like a rock; and she fights the people of the sea. The irony.
- Teens Are Short: her height is 1.46m (4' 7")
- The Nose Knows: She claims infected humans have a different smell than normal humans and she with the time learned how distinguish it
- Tomboyish Sidetails
- When She Smiles: Just look at her. Tatsuya is out of breath
- You Gotta Have Green Hair
- You Killed My Father: Her Revenge motivation
- Zettai Ryouiki: Grade B and sometimes Grade A
Tatsuya Tsugawa
After the death of his parents in a car accident, Tatsuya tries to live to fulfill his father's last wish of becoming a "high caliber" man. After "saving" Seine from bullying, he insist on trying to help her, even after finding out the real goal of Seine. He is kind, optimistic and believes in other people's good side which is sometimes an obstacle in Seine's revenge. He is a bad cooker but somehow Seine is not bothered by his food. He has a crush on Seine and wants to be acknowledged as a "high caliber" man by her.
Four years later he starts going to University at the city.
- Accidental Pervert: Luckly for him, the girls are an Emotionless Girl and a Fish Out of Water
- Adorkable
- Alliterative Name
- Curtains Match the Window
- Bishounen: First the cute kid edition, then later the hot guy edition
- Break the Cutie: Let's just say chapter 15 wasn't very nice to him. He get better at the end of chapter 16 with Seine's help.
- Dogged Nice Guy: to Seine
- Dragged Into Drag: forced to dress up as a Meido as part of his class's cafe staff. And the girls rejoiced.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: He tries to take care of his house once since his uncles left: make meals, clean and stuff. Minato jokes that he acts like a wife.
- Journey to the Center of the Mind
- Lethal Chef: As Shizuki discovered. Only Seine is not bothered by his food
- Living Emotional Crutch: He became more or less this to Seine after his Journey to the Center of the Mind of Seine and learning why she's so broken. He promesed her to always be there for her and, as a bonus, he reminds her of a past friend.
- Kid with the Leash: He's also the only one able to control and stop Seine when she's in a rampage rage. Also, he could be this to Sheila too.
- Lonely Rich Kid: until Seine promeses him to stay.
- Love At First Sight: Probably, upon Seine.
- Mamiko Noto: His Drama CD VA
- Nice Guy: Initially
- The Messiah: He evolved to this, he stopped Seine of killing Sheila and convinced Sheila to desist in her revenge but...
- Stupid Good: Seriously Tatsuya Who in their sane mind puts a mermaid to live under the same roof as Seine just because you like them both!?
- The Messiah: He evolved to this, he stopped Seine of killing Sheila and convinced Sheila to desist in her revenge but...
- Parental Abandonment: His parents died a week before the start of the history
- Oblivious to Love
- One Head Taller -> Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: with Seine
- Secret Keeper
- Single-Target Sexuality: upon Seine
- Teens Are Short: 1.62m (5' 4") at the age of 16
- Water Works: He cries a lot
- You Are Not Alone: to Seine.
Nagisa Yoshiyuki
Nagisa is a girl in Tatsuya's class, a long time acquaintance, and would probably like to get closer to Tatsuya, but ever since Tatsuya found a lost puppy (soon to be Crokette) Nagisa has had violent allergic reactions when ever she is in Tatsuya's house. So she simply stays away from him, even though she loves him.
Four years later she works as a waitress in a cafe.
- Cannot Spit It Out: She just can't say: "Tatsuya, I Love You"
- Control Freak: Mild example. Since she is in charge or her house, she's very stric even with her father
- Damsel in Distress: when she was infected by Mushis
- Expy: Of Maki from Karin
- Eyes of Gold
- First-Name Basis: With Minato. She also uses to had this with Tatsuya, but since everybody thought she was taking advantage of him for being rich and her allergies, she's starting to keep her distance.
- They get back to the first name basis after the Mushi incident
- Hollywood Pudgy: She apparently consideres herself fat and she had taken summer diets that ultimately fail.
- Missing Mom
- Mood Swinger
- More Than Mind Control: When she was infected by Mushis they use her jealousy to Seine and her fear that Tatsuya knows she wanted his dog dead to break her will
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She fell for Tatsuya when he defended her from acussations of being a golddigger.
- Tomboyish Ponytail
- Unlucky Childhood Friend
- Vitriolic Best Buds / Ship Tease / Belligerent Sexual Tension: with Minato
- You Gotta Have Purple Hair
Shizuki
Shizuki is the older sister of the "Akuma Twins". Being the older, she is sarcastic, lazy and smart but she has a weak body (She can get sick and tired easily, she cannot swim in pools because of the chlorine and Tatsuya's food almost killed her). She has an immortal body and has lived for centuries. She gave immortal bodies to Seine and Shimon. Her former name was "Pistis Sophia" but she changed because it was "stupid". She is a Oyaji-con (she is attracted to "handsome" grown up men).
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: To Yuzuki. Also sometimes to Seine just to annoy her.
- Covert Pervert: she's an "Oyaji-con", she likes old, handsome men
- Different As Night and Day: with Yuzuki
- Identical Twin ID Tag: Shizuki is the one with the Long Black Dress
- Icy Blue Eyes
- Ill Girl: Her body is so weak that she can't swin in pools because of the chlorine, gets tired easily and Tatsuya's food almost killed her. Luckly she's immortal.
- Manipulative Bitch
- Meaningful Name: or ex name whatsoever. "Pistis Sophia" is the female divinity of gnosticism or an important Gnostic text that means "Faithful Wisdom"
- Shizuki means "Calm moon"
- Mission Control
- Multicolored Hair: Black with blonde bangs
- NEET: she does absolutlly nothing but eat and sleep. Justified for being an Ill Girl
- Noblewoman's Laugh
- Onee-Sama: to Yuzuki.
- Pointy Ears
- Pretty Freeloader
- Princess Curls
- Put on a Bus
- Really 700 Years Old
- Show Some Leg: in Volumen 4's index
- Spot of Tea
- Theme Twin Naming: With Yuzuki
- Tsurime Eyes
Yuzuki
Yuzuki is Shizuki's younger sister. She is the opposite side of her sister: her body has superhuman strength, she is diligent and a good cooker but is a little dumb. She is good hearted and satisfies her Onee-sama's orders. She also has an immortal body and has lived for centuries. She is a Lolicon (she get excited by children, especially girls) to the point to kissing every children on their mouth upon just seeing them.
- Boobs of Steel: the physically strongest character in the series and one of the bustiers
- Bridal Carry: Sometimes she carries Shizuki around like this
- Combat Stilettos
- The Ditz: Shizuki even said that Yuzuki is just a kindergarden's girl in her mind
- Different As Night and Day: with Shizuki
- Dumb Muscle
- Extreme Doormat / The Caretaker: to her sister
- Forceful Kiss: the way she express her love for little girls. Any little girl
- Identical Twin ID Tag: She's the one with the Little Black Dress Of Power
- Innocent Blue Eyes
- Lolicon: Played for Laughs and Les Yay
- Meaningful Name: Yuzuki means "Kind moon"
- Meido: She works as a maid in Tatsuya's house
- Multicolored Hair: Black with blonde bangs
- No Sense of Direction: She gets lost inside a school; mostly because of her ditzness and the insides of the school are too complex to her
- Pointy Ears
- Pretty Freeloader: But at least, she cleans and cook
- Princess Curls
- Put on a Bus
- Really 700 Years Old
- Supreme Chef / Team Chef
- Tareme Eyes
- Theme Twin Naming: With Shizuki.
Sheila
She was introduced as a new transfer student; and Tatsuya is given the assignment of teaching her sign language. The youngest of the mermaids; she is despised by all her older sisters except for Ariel. Seine thought she had killed her some 300 years before, but Ariel restored her body almost entirely, leaving her badly scarred about the neck and unable to talk, but with the ability to change herself to have legs and walk about on land. Her true goal is infect a lot of people to order to take revenge on Seine for leaving her without her voice. She falls in love with Tatsuya.
Four years later she stills meets Tatsuya as he promeses her for stop thinking of avenge herself but she's discovered by two of her sisters and leaves the sea in fear. Tatsuya took her into his house even though Seine is there; Seine allows she lives there but as a host against her sisters. She seems very jealous of Seine for being target of Tatsuya's affections.
- Anti-Villain: Type 2
- After 4 years, she evolved to Type 4 since she still hate Seine.
- Back from the Dead
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Sheila fell for Tatsuya because he was the only aside Ariel to show her kindness. Also, because of fear to loss him, she stopped thinking about avenging herself against Seine
- Big Breasts, Big Deal: Type 5
- Blue Eyes
- Cry Cute / Inelegant Blubbering: She does one or another
- Cute Mute
- Fish Out of Water: Quite literally; since she starts living in Tatsuya's house
- Forceful Kiss: The way she infects humans at land
- Girlish Pigtails: At school.
- Going Commando / Vapor Wear: She seem to doesn't know what a bra is or for what is used.
- Heroic RROD: If she overpushes herself, Sheila's body will start to painfully rot, because her body is a human corpse from neck down. She just can live safe in the sea
- Identical Stranger: with Tatsuya's mother, who happens to be called Umi. The reasons of this have not being revelated yet.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl
- In-Series Nickname: Shii-chan
- Non-Human Sidekick: Anna the sea slug was this for her, aside her only best friend
- Pretty Freeloader
- Our Mermaids Are Different
- Rapunzel Hair
- Scars Are Forever
- School Uniforms Are the New Black: Sheila is always showed wearing her uniform Justified; it seems to be her only wardrobe
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: See Because You Were Nice to Me above.
- Sprouting Ears: or Sprouting Dog Tail in her case
- Talking with Signs: She carries around a notebook where she writes what she wants to say; also, she learns some Hand Signals from Tatsuya
- The Woobie: All her sister but Ariel are total Jerkass towards her
- White-Haired Pretty Girl / Shy Blue-Haired Girl
Simon Magus
Simon was Seine's third foster father and the one person who showed her kindness when she was young. He was known as a magician in his time and was also known to be 1700 years old (about 300 years ago in present time of the story). He bore the "Aion" mark, just like Seine does at the present time, but he had it across the right shoulder, and was able to use Aion's power for his own, unknown, reasons. He died eaten by the mermaids
- Badass Grandpa
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Seine decided go with him because Simon was nicer to her than her current foster father
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: In comparison to the rest of the cast
- Cool Old Guy
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The child raising fanatic was Seine predecessor at hunting mermaids.
- Dissonant Serenity: Since he's Immortal and knows his wounds can't be fatal, he's always cheerful even in front of danger
- Eaten Alive
- Face Framed in Shadow: Until his formal introduction
- Hazel Eyes
- Parental Substitute: to Seine
- Posthumous Character
- Power Tattoo
- Really 1700 Years Old
- Scarf of Asskicking
- Spell My Name with an "S": Some translations write his name as "Shimon", being Shimon the japanese pronunciation of Simon.