List of Darker than Black characters

The following is a list of characters from "" which was created by Bones.

The Syndicate

At the beginning of the series, (childhood):Codename "Hei", the main protagonist, is an elite Contractor, with the Messier Code BK-201. Hei has a double persona in the series. In the general public he is referred to as (childhood): Hei's younger sister. Bai is the Contractor responsible for the disappearance of Heaven's Gate five years prior to the story's setting and had since vanished. The Messier code BK-201 belongs to her star. Bai's abilities are said to be vast, with generating abnormal electricity as only the tip of the iceberg. In addition to this, she also has the power of molecular reconstruction. Her remuneration is to sleep. At the time of the Heaven's War in South America, Hei was constantly together with Bai during their many operations, acting as a bodyguard of sorts. It was for Bai's sake that Hei originally joined the Syndicate. When the Heaven's Gate disappeared, Bai's power became Hei's, because - according to Amber - she continues to exist within him. Hei himself remains oblivious to the fact, until the very end. Her real name is revealed at the end: Xing.

PANDORA

A UN-founded research center. Initially established to find out the reason why Hell's Gate was in Tokyo, it's revealed that the Syndicate has sway with the organization and has plans to commit genocide against all Contractors by eliminating Hell's Gate.

;nihongo|Eric Nishijima|エリク・ニシジマ anime voices|Shinichiro Miki|Chuck Huber: A Japanese born overseas, he is a high-ranking official within PANDORA. He had influence over Japanese law enforcement over anything related to PANDORA. It is revealed that he is also a high-ranking official within the Syndicate and was placed in charge of destroying Hell's Gate after he had placed a termination for Hei, Mao, Yin and Huang. Hourai later shoots him after Hei destroys the Saturn Ring system.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

;nihongo|Nick Hillman|ニック・ヒルマン|Nikku Hiruman anime voices|Shigeru Nakahara:A scientist who Hei meets as he infiltrates Pandora. Nick and Hei become friends and both have a fascination with the "real sky". Nick turns out to be a contractor and is revealed to have the same ability as Hei. His remuneration is putting people's shoes on the ground upside-down next to each other. After he and Hei battle for the artifact known as the "meteor fragment" Nick disappears as soon as the artifact is activated. Apparently, the meteor fragment reacted with Hei and allowed him to make Nick's "dream" come true, which is to have a rocket (which looks very comical) to send both Nick (who became a young boy in his dream) and his sister to space. Nick's ability to have an ambition is a mystery even to himself since contractors shouldn't have emotion.;nihongo|Corinna Moku|カリーナ・モク|Karīna Moku anime voices|Sayori Ishizuka:A courier who exhibits erratic behavior after infiltrating Pandora. Murdered by Nick.

=Russian Intelligence (FSB)=

;nihongo|Bertha|ベルタ|Beruta anime voices|Ai Satō:Bertha is a large lady and a former opera singer. She is a contractor that is able to control the resonance of sound. By resonating a frequency that is the inverse of a target's resonance frequency, she can destroy a target. This can also cause other body problems, such as a heart attack, by matching the hearts resonance frequency. Bertha's remuneration is to place something in her mouth and then vomit it out; for example, she is shown paying by eating a handful of cigarettes and then spitting them up. Its does not have to be cigarettes but she recounts her past to Itzhak about how she had a baby, who unfortunately choked to death while ingesting one of Bertha's dropped cigarettes. Bertha is killed by Hei in trying to retrieve Yin.;nihongo|Itzhak|イツァーク|Itsāku anime voices|Yutaka Aoyama:Itzhak is a companion of Bertha. He is a contractor with the ability to capture the "specters" projected by Dolls. He steals many from the astronomy division's mediums. It appears that when he captures them he can also acquire knowledge from the controller of the specters. Itzhak's remuneration is writing poetry, although he is not very good at it, shown by Bertha commenting that it sounds like a girl wrote it, and that he should at least have it rhyme. (He responds that he had never done this before the contract). Itzhak is killed by Huang with a sniper rifle, but before his life ends, he releases all the specters that he had captured.

Notable Contractors

;nihongo|Mai Kashiwagi|柏木 舞|Kashiwagi Mai| anime voices|Megumi Nasu|Cherami Leigh:A high school student and the daughter of Kōzō Tahara. There is a significant emotional detachment between Mai and her father and Mai chose to adopt her deceased mother's maiden name. As a result of her father's attempts to subdue her Contractor powers, she became a Moratorium but eventually reverts to a Contractor. Her power allows her to create and manipulate fire. Her remuneration takes the form of humming a song. She seems to think of Hei as an older brother. She reappears as a contractor of the syndicate, protecting the Neptune anti-Gate particle accelerator, and incinerating Amagiri using her powers. She is crushed to death by falling debris from the Neptune system.;nihongo|Havoc|ハヴォック|Havokku| anime voices|Naomi Shindō:A Regressor who lost her powers and a significant portion of her memories after Heaven's Gate disappeared in South America, five years prior to the story's setting. She used to be one of the worst and most feared Contractors, rumored to have killed over 100,000 people during the South American War. Her former powers are unknown, but are said to be similar to creating a vacuum. ["Darker Than Black" episode 5] Her remuneration was to drink the blood of children. ["Darker Than Black" episode 6] Havoc, also known as Carmine, and Hei have some history together; this becomes apparent when Hei interrogates Havoc about the whereabouts of his missing sister Bai. Although Havoc is willing to help Hei in finding his sister, she later dies at the hands of November 11.;nihongo|Wei Zhijun|魏志軍（ウェイ・チージュン）|Wei Chījun|Wèi Zhìjūn anime voices|Takeshi Kusao:A Contractor by code VI952. Wei has an elvish appearance with narrow eyes, pointy ears and shoulder-length black hair. He attempted to overthrow and take over the mafia nihongo|Qing Long Tang|青龍堂（チンロンタン）|Chin Ron Tan|Qīng Lóng Táng by murdering many of its executives. Prior to this he acted as the body guard of the Qing Long Tang's leader's daughter, Alice Wang. His contract allows him to disintegrate anything his blood spills onto by snapping his fingers. Conveniently, his remuneration is shedding blood, allowing him to cut his heavily scarred arm so that he can spill or fling blood onto targets to use his power. ["Darker Than Black" episode 10] He is thought to have died after being electrocuted and beaten by Hei in a battle, however it is later revealed by Huang that his body mysteriously disappeared from the morgue. He later reappears as a member of the Evening Primrose, revealing a shorter haircut and a burn-like scar covering much of the left side of his face due to being electrocuted by Hei. He joined the Evening Primrose to get an opportunity for a rematch with Hei, who Wei states is the only person to have beaten him. Mao observes that Wei's desire to fight Hei due to feeling humiliated is very unusual for a Contractor, as there is a possibility he will die. ["Darker Than Black" episode 23] After being mortally wounded by Hei in a fight, he admits defeat and uses his ability to destroy both himself and the wall behind him, giving Hei access to Hell's Gate. ;nihongo|Alma|アルマ|Aruma anime voices|Urara TakanoA contractor who started her own religion intended for those like herself. Pursued by the Syndicate for killing one of their operatives, her congregation is in danger of being brought down. It is she who first brings to light what contractors really are and how they differ from normal humans, this truth being the reason why she started her religion. Her contract is the ability to transform her physical appearance to match a target exactly at the cost of her longevity. Thus, because of her skills, she had been utilized as an infiltrator and assassin. Though young in appearance to her followers, her true form is that of an elderly woman due to extensive use of her contract.;nihongo|Shihoko Kishida|岸田 志保子|Kishida Shihoko anime voices|Rumiko UkaiAn operative of the syndicate even longer than Huang, Shihoko is a contractor tasked with the job of infiltrating Alma's organization to gather intel for an eventual assassination. Years ago, she was tasked with assassinating Isozaki, Huang's partner when the two were detectives, after learning that he was linked to covering up a the murder of one of the syndicate's operatives. She had gotten very close to Huang in order to figure out which of the two was working for Alma's organization, leaving Huang with an emotional scar for many years. Her contract allows her to destroy the internal organs of an individual at the cost of regaining her human sensitivity for a short time. The remuneration can put her in a state of psychological shock due to the abrupt swing of emotion. She later commits suicide by jumping in front of a truck, saving Huang from being targeted by the Syndicate.

Mizukisō apartment

;nihongo|Misuzu Ōyama|大山 美鈴|Ōyama Misuzu anime voices|Chika Sakamoto|Julie Mayfield:Hei's landlady.

;nihongo|Toshiro Ōyama|大山 敏郎|Ōyama Toshirō :Misuzu's husband. He speaks very rarely and mostly tends his plants.

;nihongo|Babo|バボ:An undeveloped character with no lines throughout the entire anime.

;nihongo|Eileen|アイリーン|Airīn anime voices|Mitsuki Saiga:A dark skinned woman with orange hair who lives beneath Hei. She lived in the Phillippines before moving to Japan, and is in Japan to make money for her family back in her homeland. Eileen's job is unknown.

;nihongo|Luis|ルイス|Ruisu anime voices|Keiichi Nakagawa

;nihongo|Yoshua|ヨシュア anime voices|Kōhei Fukuhara

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