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This came up in a game on saturday:

Nids player attempts to use "It's after me" to reduce the Daemon princes leadership. The chaos player says he cannot do that as Death leapers ability targets "characters" and his Daemon prince is not a character it is a montrous creature.

Who is right here? RAI I say nids but RaW I'm leaning toward the chaos player

I'm assuming here that your reading of the 'It's After Me' rule specifically calls out enemy characters as being the one thing that can be affected.

BRB Pg.48 is fairly specific about what it means to be a character. Without the actual wording in front of me I'm a bit hesitant to say definitively what the answer is. I think that so long as the Daemon Prince is not typed as a 'character' in it's Unit Type entry, then no the Deathleaper would not be able to affect it. In other words, if it is only a MC then it can't be 'targeted' by It's After Me.

-Yad

Characters are either "upgrade" or "independent", the DP is neither.

Nosferatu is correct.

Yup, a DP is not a character.