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Byokihime (病気姫)

Seeing a gap in the tvtropes pages, I decided to coin a term for my favorite character trope, and this is the byokihime (病気姫 lit. sickness princess)

Masculine alternative: byokiouji (病気王子 lit. sickness prince)

In order to be a byokihime, a character must:

• Be rich / be from a rich family

• Have some kind of life-altering illness or disability (including high support mental illness & disorder), especially if they have mobility aids

• Be cunning or manipulative

byokihime characters include:

• Galatea Claude (Identity V)

• Pfle (Magical Girl Raising Project)

• Monaca Towa (Danganronpa)

• Terano Totobami (Kakegurui)

• Sumireko Hanabusa (Akuma no Riddle)

• Dr. Rachel Claudius (God Eater 2)

byokiouji characters include:

• Eichi Tenshouin (Ensemble Stars)

• Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa)

• Frederick Kreiburg (Identity V)

• Rei Asaka (Oniisama e...)

• Louis Cyphre (Shin Megami Tensei)

• Amy Kiriwo (Mairimashite! Iruma-kun)

Here are some additional tropes that go hand in hand with this one, but they're not required

• The character has an affinity for dolls or a love of the arts in general (classical instruments, painting, acting, etc)

• The character has a parental figure that's heavily influencing or hurting them, either causing their disability or causing them to become cold/distant

• The character does not HAVE to be young, however most are

The point of me coining these terms isn't to alienate them for being disabled, I chose to do this because I'm disabled myself and see myself in these characters.

I use japanese terms because most of these characters are from anime & manga and also I couldn't come up with a clever name in english lmao. There's also a song called Diseased Princess (病気 in Japanese) by MASA WORKS DESIGN that I found in my research.

All terms that fall into this category: byokihime, byoukihime, byoki-hime, byouki-hime, byokiouji, byoukiouji, byoki-ouji, byouki-ouji, sickness princess, sickly princess, sickness prince, sickly prince, sitting princess, sitting prince (the latter two referring to wheelchair aid)

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