Durarara/Characters/Novel Only

This is the novel-only character page for the many characters of Durarara:

Warning!! The examples below may include spoilers for the light novels, as well as the anime.
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Vorona


A former Mafiya assassin and Blood Knight that fled to Ikebukuro, taking a truck filled with guns along with her.

"Vorona: I fled. Parental ties, already severed. Next meeting, one of us will die. Pity, pity."
 * Absolute Cleavage: For some reason, [[media:0803f5520df7676030d36fe498ea89d4_2235.jpg|she always keeps her biker suit unzipped nearly all the way down...]]
 * You say that like it's a bad thing.
 * It will be if she's wearing it like that while riding her bike and she crashes. Road rash is not flattering (or pretty). Also, insect splatter.
 * There's no implication that she actually drives like that. Picturing her that way is simply Rule of Sexy, but it isn't as though she's been pictured driving that way.
 * Archnemesis Dad: Vorona and her father never did get along very well, but after stealing a truckload of illegal weapons from him, their relationship has turned ugly.

"Drakon: Vorona... has more loveliness, more intellect, and more knowledge at her disposal than anyone else in this place... at the same time, though, she's also an unstoppable and incorrigible fighting addict."
 * Ax Crazy
 * Badass: Vorona, upon first meeting Shizuo, immediately decided she had to fight him — so she stabbed him with a knife and shot him with a rifle. Shizuo threw her own motorcycle at her simply because her stabbing him reminded him of Izaya.
 * Badass Bookworm: Quite a literal example. She is a trained assassin but she also possesses an extensive knowledge and her favorite activity happens to be reading books.
 * Becoming the Mask: Seems to be heading in this direction when
 * Biker Babe: Even pictured with Celty [[media:Bikers_5240.png|here]].
 * Blondes Are Evil: Not an outright villain, but she gets pretty close, considering her lack of compunction for murdering people in cold blood.
 * Blood Knight: As a defense mechanism, Vorona is obsessed with killing strong people in order to prove her own strength, and to confirm human fragility by seeing how easy it is to take their lives. It's the reason she becomes Shizuo's kohai.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Break the Haughty: Her disgraceful loss to Akabayashi causes this. Prior to that, she was confident enough in her combat abilities to challenge insanely strong opponents, and then attempt to kill them to test human fragility. She wises up a little afterward.
 * Broken Ace: Often described as being incredibly beautiful and excelling at everything she does. Her only major flaw is her obsessive impulse to destroy strong people.

"Vorona: Why do I keep doing this even though I know Father will not praise me? Not because I want to be loved. It's very simple. The happiness. The delight. The pleasure. The bliss. The ecstasy."
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: Shows signs of this. She definitely wasn't too happy when Orihara twins hanged themselves onto Shizuo's arms.
 * Creepy Monotone: Most of the time. Only when something completely unexpected surprises her, like seeing a girl draw a sword from within her body or a man throw a car at her, does she actually break her usual tone of voice.
 * Cute Bookworm: Though more violent than the usual example.
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Dangerous Deserter: Not helped by the fact that she has a natural inclination towards Ax Crazy.
 * Dumb Blonde: Inverted. She sounds like a human Wikipedia when she's not itching to destroy something.
 * Emotionless Girl: Is usually deadpan, but not always, since she gets really excited when she's about to fight a strong opponent.
 * Foe Yay: With [[media:2010-04-24-270870_9769.jpg|Shizuo.]]
 * Freaky Is Cool: She reacts with sheer delight at the prospect of fighting monsters like Celty, Anri, and Shizuo in Ikebukuro.
 * Graceful Loser
 * Harmful to Minors: When she killed a robber at the young age of ten. The experience left her slightly traumatized, and resulted in her searching for more opponents in order to continue testing the fragility of human mortality.
 * In Love with Your Carnage: Her reaction when first encountering Shizuo could be described as, er, rather orgasmic.
 * Intelligence Equals Isolation: Spent her childhood alone because of her father's infamy, which had caused other children to avoid her. Not that she minded though, since she preferred reading textbooks over socializing.
 * Mad Mafioso's Beautiful Daughter
 * Meaningful Name: Her code name means 'crow' in Russian
 * Odd Couple: With Slon.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: Not even her father calls her by her real name.
 * Peek-a-Bangs
 * Pet the Dog: Her loud protests when she was told that Awakusu-kai were going to kill Slon show that she isn't that heartless.
 * Razor Floss: She uses steel threads to behead people in an ambush, although it doesn't quite work when she tries it on someone who's already missing one.
 * Sempai-Kohai: This happens when Vorona starts hanging around with Shizuo and Tom, though a bit one-sided. Shizuo (who doesn't recognize her as the person who stabbed him earlier because she was wearing a helmet) decides, quite happily, that she gets to be his Kouhai. Vorona agrees, while plotting to destroy him.
 * Ship Tease: With Shizuo.
 * Spock Speak/Strange Syntax Speaker: Her intonation of the Japanese language is flawless, but her word choice and syntax can get really weird. Averted in Russian though, which she speaks normally.
 * Stripperiffic: As mentioned earlier, Vorona's unzipped uniform is utterly impractical for riding a motorcycle, and is probably meant as pure Fan Service.
 * Sweet Tooth: Confessed herself as one after her answer to Shizuo's question about Siberia somehow turned into a monologue about various sorts of cakes.
 * Tyke Bomb: After she killed her first man at age 10, her father had train her to become a killing machine.
 * X Marks the Hero: She's not a hero, but she's got some sort of cross-like scar on her... [[media:durara_923.jpg|well, see for yourself.]]
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love?: Vorona has never loved a single human being, not even herself. The closest thing to 'love' she's ever felt is the love of facing a worthy opponent and then killing them.
 * Well Done Daughter Girl: Subverted. The first time her father showed any sort of outward affection for her was after she killed a burglar that broke into their house. She didn't realize it was because he was relieved that she was unharmed from the attack, so she used it to rationalize and justify her inherent murderous impulses. By the time she figured out the truth, she simply didn't care.

Slon
Vorona's longtime partner in crime. He ran away with her to Japan, where they were temporarily hired as mercenaries in Ikebukuro for Izaya and Yadogiri Jinnai. He is an enormous man with tremendous strength, although he isn't very intelligent.


 * The Big Guy
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Constantly Curious: Slon is just full of stupid, irrelevant questions.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Slon may be an idiot, but
 * Dumb Muscle
 * Hidden Depths: He can speak perfectly fluent Japanese, despite his idiocy. Even Vorona is surprised.
 * Husky Russkie
 * Meaningful Name: Slon means "elephant" in Russian.
 * Not Listening to Me, Are You?: "Am I... being ignored?"
 * Odd Couple: With Vorona.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname
 * Serious Business: Every. Single. Question. He. Asks.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: "I'm not moving an inch until I've solved the mystery of the male nipples! This is my war!!"
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: "I'm not moving an inch until I've solved the mystery of the male nipples! This is my war!!"

Chikage Rokujo


Leader of the Toramaru biker gang who comes to Ikeburo after some members of his gang were allegedly attacked by the Dollars and involved innocents in the crossfire. Also a shameless manwhore, and rarely seen without multiple women hanging off of him.

"Shizuo: Yeah. When I was about to punch him a fifth time he said "Ah, and I have girls willing to tend to me when I’m in the hospital bed. Are you jealous now?" ...Well, something like that. His tooth broke so I wasn’t able to hear very well."
 * Badass Biker: Leader of a bosozoku gang.
 * Bandaged Face
 * Berserk Button: Hurt a girl in any way and he will likely kick you in the nuts.
 * Biggus Dickus: Implied by one of his girlfriends.
 * The Casanova
 * Chivalrous Pervert: Gerneral horniness and complete irreverence for monogamy aside, Chikage is careful to make sure that he (or anyone else, for that matter) doesn't hurt women.
 * Cavalier Competitor: Very laid-back about fights even in his quest for vengeance.
 * Defiant to the End: In his fight against Shizuo

"Chikage: Hell if that wasn't the most enjoyable fight I've had in years. He was nicer than I expected, too."
 * The Dulcinea Effect
 * Ethical Slut
 * Fearless Fool: His very first order of business upon entering Ikebukuro? Picking a fight with Shizuo, hence the bandages.
 * Foe Yay: With Kadota, according to Erika.
 * Friendly Enemy: Despite a grudge over injuring some of Chikage's Toramaru pals (which is why he picked a fight in the first place), both Chikage and Shizuo are both tremendously civil about the affair. Shizuo even dropped him off at Shinra's after handing him his ass.


 * Graceful Loser: Not at all annoyed at getting the crap beaten out of him by Shizuo. He thought it was kinda fun, actually.
 * Harem Seeker: And a successful one at that.
 * Made of Iron: Shizuo notes that it took him four punches to finally render him unconscious.
 * Nice Hat
 * Sexy Man, Instant Harem: Is rarely seen without his many girlfriends.
 * Wife-Basher Basher: Do not hurt women in Chikage's presence.
 * Wouldn't Hit a Girl: And he does not take kindly to those that do.

Emilia Kishitani
A researcher from Nebula, and Shingen's new wife.


 * Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Presumably.
 * Foreign Fanservice
 * Funny Foreigner
 * Fun with Foreign Languages: Emilia's grammar is noted to be the worst of all the foreigners in the series, thus far, leading to comically inept and downright strange sentence constructions.
 * Green Eyes
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hot Scientist
 * Hot Step-Mom: Of Shinra.
 * Japanese Pronouns: Amusingly, she uses Shousei as her personal pronun.
 * Les Yay: She seems awfully eager to dissect Celty, and later waxes poetic about the Dullahan's beautiful egg-white skin.
 * Lethal Chef: She gets a -20% rating for her cooking!

Aoba Kuronuma


An unusually young-looking freshman that quickly latches onto Mikado.

"Gin: Let me see - after an awesome fight, they realized The Power of Friendship, and then a bunch of weird guys came and used hostages but bang! -- Light was everywhere, and we got a big fire too!
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: Mikado claims that if he were to dress up in a girl's uniform, no one would find out he was a male unless he spoke. Of course, this has to do with his childish looks.
 * Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks: Not only is it his favorite animal
 * Expy: Of Czeslaw Meyer.
 * Foe Yay/Ho Yay:
 * Freudian Excuse:
 * Hair Color Dissonance: He has black hair but many people draw him with blue hair instead.
 * Older Than They Look: Aoba's described as looking like a middle (or even elementary) school student.
 * Sempai Kouhai: Is Mikado and Anri's junior in school. Mostly just applies to Mikado, though.
 * Ship Tease: The kiss with  of all people.
 * Stepford Smiler:
 * Surrounded by Idiots: Is generally not impressed by the intelligence of his fellow members.
 * Foe Yay/Ho Yay:
 * Freudian Excuse:
 * Hair Color Dissonance: He has black hair but many people draw him with blue hair instead.
 * Older Than They Look: Aoba's described as looking like a middle (or even elementary) school student.
 * Sempai Kouhai: Is Mikado and Anri's junior in school. Mostly just applies to Mikado, though.
 * Ship Tease: The kiss with  of all people.
 * Stepford Smiler:
 * Surrounded by Idiots: Is generally not impressed by the intelligence of his fellow members.
 * Older Than They Look: Aoba's described as looking like a middle (or even elementary) school student.
 * Sempai Kouhai: Is Mikado and Anri's junior in school. Mostly just applies to Mikado, though.
 * Ship Tease: The kiss with  of all people.
 * Stepford Smiler:
 * Surrounded by Idiots: Is generally not impressed by the intelligence of his fellow members.

Aoba: ...I was a fool to send you on a spying mission."


 * They Are Not My Girlfriends: When members of refer to Mairu and Kururi as such.

Akane Awakusu


The ten-year old daughter of Mikiya and granddaughter of Dougen, who is the current head of the Awakusu-kai. After learning on the Internet that her family is running a criminal organization, she became heartbroken and ran away from home. She soon met Izaya, who tricked her into thinking Shizuo was an enemy, causing her to try and kill him with a modified stun gun. Afterward, when Shizuo rescued her from kidnappers, she realized he wasn't a bad person and befriended him.

"He couldn't help but notice the way this kid was smiling. It was innocent alright, but there was also something that reminded one of a kid stomping on ants for fun..."
 * Blinding Bangs: Her eyes aren't actually hidden by the bangs, but they're cut in a longish style that gives this impression at times.
 * Cheerful Child: Subverted. Her cute, innocent appearance was only used as a guise to get near Shizuo and zap him with her stun gun.
 * Creepy Child: Possibly, judging by her Troubling Unchildlike Behavior.
 * Daddy's Little Villain: Averted; she is horrified by her discovery of her family's criminal roots.
 * Deliberately Cute Child
 * Distressed Damsel
 * Fallen Princess: Self-imposed, after discovering her father was the head of a Yakuza organization and that pretty much every friend she has was really a terrified Yes-Man.
 * Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Tiny Girl to Shizuo's Huge Guy. Justified, considering their respective ages, though.
 * Intergenerational Friendship: With Shizuo, and also, Akabayashi.
 * Mafia Princess
 * Morality Pet: To Shizuo.
 * The Runaway: After discovering her father is in the Yakuza.
 * Technically a Smile: As Shizuo notices just before she tries to kill him.


 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: A mild version, but Akane wants to beat Shizuo and is currently attending the same gym as Mairu in order to learn how to fight properly. This is also the reason why she has a rivalry with Vorona.
 * The Rival: To Vorona. They're both vying over Shizuo for different reasons (i.e. either to kill or defeat him).
 * Token Mini-Moe: The only prepubescent in the entire cast, consisting of teenagers, adults, and one immortal.
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: The first thing she says to Shizuo is "Die!" and then she tries to electrocute him while smiling sweetly.
 * Unwitting Pawn: Another victim of Izaya's manipulation.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Her demure, obedient personality shows signs of this.

Akabayashi
A high-ranking executive of the Awakusu-kai. Akabayashi is easily recognizable by his gaudy sense of fashion and the large scar running through his right eye. He is known as the Red Demon of the Awakusu and has ties to Anri.


 * Adult Child: Subverted. His online handle is Gaki (which means brat), and he sometimes uses "Oi-chan" to talk about himself, but this isn't his true behavior, and it's all part of a disarming act.
 * Badass
 * Badass in a Nice Suit: Comes with the job. He likes wearing gaudy suits, though.
 * Badass Normal: Considered a superb street fighter and was able to knock out Vorona without breaking a sweat.
 * Handicapped Badass: He lost an eye, but is still in top-notch fighting form.
 * The Berserker: His backstory. He was a violent man in the past, but
 * Cane Fu: Carries around an ornamented cane for this purpose, since he doesn't need it for walking.
 * Cool Old Guy: Described as somewhere in his thirties to forties, but he is still one helluva good fighter.
 * Cool Shades
 * Defector From Decadence:
 * Evil Redhead: Subverted. Although he has red hair and is involved with a criminal organization, he's not only chivalrous but hates drug dealing and prostitution. He's also friendly to children.
 * Eye Scream:
 * Friend to All Children: He is fond of kids, and gets along pretty well with them.
 * Genius Bruiser: He's almost as tall as Aozaki is, but also intelligent and tech-savvy.
 * Glass Eye: After losing his right eye, he replaces it with this.
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a scar over his right eye.
 * In Love with Your Carnage: He fell in love with
 * Intergenerational Friendship: With Anri, who feels like a younger sister to him. Akane counts as well.
 * Last-Name Basis: His first name is unknown.
 * Meaningful Name: Part of his last name means red, which inspired his Badass Nickname.
 * Mistaken for Pedophile/Mistaken for Gay: Since he has no wife or girlfriend at his age, and because he is so good with kids, he gets labeled as one or the other, though he denies it.
 * Morality Pet: Anri. Anything involving her instantly becomes a personal concern for him, rather than work-related.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Often acts like he doesn't have a care in the world. Subverted because other members of the Awakusu-kai, like Shiki, distrust him for this very reason, and think he's hiding his true motives behind the facade.
 * Parental Substitute: For Anri, perhaps. After she became an orphan, he helped her sell the antiques in her parent's store to provide for her until she reaches eighteen.
 * Perpetual Smiler: Nearly always seen with a smile on his face, even as he is calmly beating up another man. Overlaps with Cheshire Cat Grin sometimes.
 * Red Baron: Nicknamed Awakusu's Red Demon.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Akabayashi is usually portrayed with scarlet irises (to match the hair) in fan works. His canon eye color hasn't been confirmed yet.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Demon to Aozaki's Blue Demon.
 * Sunglasses At Night: He wears colorful, expensive-looking sunglasses nearly all the time.
 * Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Played straight when he fought Vorona. While he defeats her effortlessly, he doesn't actually hurt her, which makes her loss even more crushing.
 * Yakuza

Aozaki
Another executive of the Awakusu-kai, he is known as the Blue Demon of the organization. Not much else is known about him, except that he has a rivalry with Akabayashi and is really big.


 * Badass in a Nice Suit: The suit he wears is apparently tailored to his height, and makes him look even more formidable.
 * The Brute: Aozaki is described as quite tall at 190cm, and looks pretty intimidating thanks to his broad shoulders and immense build. Naturally, this gives him an advantage while fighting.
 * Buffy-Speak: Occasionally lapses into this.
 * Last-Name Basis: His first name is unknown.
 * Meaningful Name: Part of his last name means blue, which inspired his Badass Nickname.
 * New Media Are Evil: Has a low opinion on new technology in general, unlike tech-savvy Akabayashi, meaning he makes no effort to keep himself updated.
 * Red Baron: Nicknamed Awakusu's Blue Demon.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Demon to Akabayashi's Red Demon.
 * The Rival: Dislikes Akayabashi, and holds a longstanding rivalry with him.
 * Yakuza

Eijirou Sharaku
Mairu's martial arts mentor. A lazy thirty year old man who is Mikage's older brother and has a grudge against Izaya. He is also a bit of a pervert.


 * Brilliant but Lazy
 * Chivalrous Pervert
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 * Dynamic Entry: Tries one against Izaya.
 * Knight Templar Big Brother: Tries to kill Izaya whenever he sees him for supposedly causing Mikage to drop out of high school.
 * Revenge by Proxy: Defied. Izaya invokes the trope by asking him why he isn't taking out his vendetta against him on one of his sisters, which Eijirou refuses to do because they're not like him, and Mairu is also one of his esteemed students.
 * Seen It All: His tired eyes and perpetually bored expression makes him appear this way.
 * Tranquil Fury
 * Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty: When he attacks Izaya from behind on a public road.
 * With Friends Like These...: His relationship with his sister is like this.

Mikage Sharaku
A character who was introduced in volume 9 as one of Izaya's followers for his new "army." For some reason, she dropped out of high school. She is also a mentor at the gym that Mairu regularly attends, along with her brother Eijirou.


 * Amazonian Beauty
 * Bare Your Midriff
 * Dynamic Entry: When she sends Eijirou sprawling to the ground with a roundhouse kick from behind.
 * Pettanko: According to her brother.
 * Sexy Mentor
 * Stripperiffic
 * Tomboy
 * Youngest Child Wins: The youngest of the Sharaku family, yet she has better martial arts skills than her older brother.
 * You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry: Unfortunately for him, Eijirou still manages to provoke her into a fit of rage.

Earthworm
A mysterious woman who works for the "Owner" of the Amphisbaena. She is incredibly sadistic and revels in torturing people, leaving them entirely at her mercy. She often begins with sensory deprivation by covering their heads with linen bags. Her current victim appears to be Izaya Orihara.


 * Absolute Cleavage: Her slinky black gown barely leaves enough to the imagination.
 * And Your Little Dog, Too: She orders her lackeys to kidnap Izaya's younger sisters and force him to hear their screams as they get tortured, too.
 * Blondes Are Evil
 * Evil Gloating: She seems to like taunting her victims and keeps talking to them even if they don't respond.
 * Giggling Villain
 * Lack of Empathy
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * No Sense of Personal Space
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: "Earthworm" is most likely a code name.
 * Opera Gloves
 * Psycho for Hire: A major case. She takes great pleasure in torturing others and was probably hired because she enjoys it so damn much. The moment when she has someone at her complete mercy is described as a feeling of pure bliss, and the only time when she feels truly alive.
 * Psychopathic Womanchild: She's somewhere in her twenties, but sounds like a teenager and acts disturbingly childish while torturing information out of someone.
 * Smug Snake: She thinks she knows everything about Izaya including the incident in middle school where Izaya apparently stabbed Shinra.
 * Torture Technician: Izaya isn't the first person who's been subjected to her brand of torture -- she's taken apart quite a few people before him, too. She is said to use her imagination to invent all sorts of new ways to make them suffer.
 * Villainous Breakdown:
 * Woman in Black: Played straight.
 * Woman in Black: Played straight.

Yodogiri Jinnai
The former head of Yodogiri Shining Corporation. Not much is known about him.

"Yodogiri Jinnai: Honestly, you need to stop that. A kid needs to learn to play only in his little garden...in Ikebukuro. Because If he runs outside, you never know when he might get hurt!"
 * : Possibly.
 * : Implied.
 * Evil Old Folks
 * Faux Affably Evil:
 * Knowledge Broker: He was the one who gave the information about Dullahans to Shingen.
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Master of Disguise
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech:

Lingerin Douglanikov
The leader of the weapon dealing organization that Vorona and Slon used to be part of. Gets along well with Drakon, Vorona's father, despite suffering frequent insults of his intelligence.


 * Badass: When you can take down at least thirty seven armored and fully armed illegal immigrants with nothing but your bare hands(Which happen to be stuck in a pair of jars), you are undeniably badass.
 * Brains and Brawn: The brawn to Drakon's brains.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: When first shown, his hands are stuck inside jars, due to holding onto the pistols inside. He seems utterly baffled as to how to get them out. But when the previously mentioned illegal immigrants rudely interrupt his conversation with Drakon, he apparently beats them to death with his feet and jarred hands.
 * Dumb Muscle: See above. He only gets the jars off when an enemy that was pretending to be dead attacks him, and he fires the pistol in the jar on instinct, killing the immigrant and breaking the jar. He was about to shoot the jar off his other hand before Drakon pointed out the detail that his hand was still in it.
 * Husky Russkie
 * The Mafiya
 * Those Two Bad Guys: With Drakon.

The Suicidal Girl
A young girl who formed a suicide pact with Izaya but was tricked by him.


 * Chekhov's Gunman: She appears in the first novel
 * Determinator:
 * Disproportionate Retribution:
 * Fan Nickname: Since her name was never revealed (see below), most fans simply refer to her as the Suicidal Girl.
 * Foe Yay: With Izaya
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
 * No Name Given: At least not in the novel.
 * Suicide Pact: Can you guess with who?