Haikane Tenryou/Tropes

Tropes/References involving Haikane Tenryou in the High School DXD: A Broken Key world. All tropes are taken from TV Tropes.

Haikane Tenryou provides examples of
Aint Too Proud To Beg: Considers grovelling/begging to be an actual strategy.

Ascend To A Higher Plane Of Existence: Human turned into devil.

Awesomeness By Analysis: Defeats enemies that are typically way stronger than him by taking in account of their habits and combat patterns.

Battle Couple: With Discua.

Blood Knight: Subverted. Rather talk it out than fight.

Break The Cutie: Used to be a hardworker, if not a bit over achieving boy. Due to his past, he turned cynical and sarcastic.

Brilliant, But Lazy: Rather sit down and go to bed than help solve the current problem, unless you're Discua.

Color Motif: Haikane tends to dress in blue. Particularly the darker shades of it.

Combat Pragmatist: Once he's in a fight, he will use anything to secure the win. Be it emotions, weapons or even cheating.

Cool Sword: One that counters the abilities of the Heavenly Dragons.

Deadpan Snarker: Any conversation he has with practically anyone has him voicing out his inner thoughts in sarcasm and snide remarks.

Dismotivation: Wants to keep his normal life forever due to past experiences with the supernatural.

Expy: Personality wise, he's really similar to Hachiman Hikigaya. Physically, he is based of Toya Kagari.

Foil: Is this to Discua. Discua is an extrovert, impulsive, selfish and out going, while Haikane is a loner, calm and mature.

First Person Smartass: In his thoughts.

Good Is Not Nice: Does this once to the Andras Household, gets declared as a stray even though Pseumonum knows of his intentions.

Heroes Prefer Swords: His main weapon is the Vorpal Sword, capable of negating any changes to a persons power level.

Hyper Competent Sidekick: He is one for Discua, for her High-class Devil and heir duties.

In Series Nickname: Called "Bakane" by Discua.



Nice Guy: When he isn't feeling like a sloth.

No Sympathy: Subverted, often has too much sympathy.

Master Swordsman: Due to his training in his Kyoto Faction days, Haikane is skilled enough with a sword to fight a mid-level Devil in a pure swordfight with little trouble, even as a human.

Oblivious To Love: Subverted. He realizes Discua's feelings but refuses to admit them out of embarrassment.

Odd Friendship: With Issei.

One True Pairing: With Discua.

Red Eyes, Take Warning: Only in his berserk mode. When in this mode, he's capable of fighting on par with a High-class devil as pure human, quite scary.

The Berserker: Has a berserk mode relating to the removal of his Sacred Gear.

The Nicknamer: Only in his brain, though.

Unreliable Narrator: Since the story is from his perspective, the reader has to filter out what is his personal bias to fact.

What Is This Feeling: He feels this way when he first meets Discua.

Winged Humanoid: Due to being a devil, he has wings.

Year Inside, Hour Outside: The mechanics of his main ability while sane, the APS. While not really an ability, while active, one second to Haikane is equivalent to a quarter of a minute in the real world.

Your Favourite: To his chosen beverage, Sprite. He drinks at least one everyday. Pseumonum has noticed the fact and refuses to drink the beverage.