History Characters / CookingCompanions

* EarnYourHappyEnding: After the ghosts of Anatoly, Karin and Gregor create a new timeline in which she becomes the last survivor, she kills the protagonist and makes sure they are gone for good. She then returns to the city, when she lives a happy life surrounded by family and friends.

* LackOfEmpathy: Seems to be incapable of empathising with anyone. Not only does he casually eat the people who come to their house, but doesn't seem to comprehend why this behaviour would bother others.

-->''BECAUSE INNOCENT LIVES GET CAUGHT IN YOUR MEDDLING! Konstancji....Ruslana....Kazimierz....TOHSE WERE PEOPLE, NOT....NOT...!''

* AssholeVictim: He was implied to have been one of the five people that the player murdered in one night...except that he was ''also'' a cannibalistic serial killer known as the "Butcher Of Zakopane" who had a kill count of at least 4 people.

* MoralityPet: The Protagonist seemed to be fond of him, to the point that they willingly sent him to the afterlife.

* PosthumousCharacter: Not only he was murdered long ago, but he ascended to the afterlife after the Protagonist released his soul.

The member of the Chompettes that's a bit...off, actually acknowledging the player's current circumstances instead of just being a comic relief.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: If the player intentionally stays silent in conversations and doesn't raise their RelationshipValues with anyone, he can convince them to spread their "culinary talents" across the world. He also expresses disappointment whenever the protagonist doesn't embrace their monstrous nature.

* WeWillMeetAgain: Inverted. Once the ghost handles over his drawings to Ryna, he says they will probably "NEVER" meet again.

* TheDreaded: The rest of the Chompettes dislike and fear him, which makes sense given that he was the one who murdered them.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The DLC is focused on her and her friends discovering the cabin and how they were murdered by the serial killer who later became Potato.

* StepfordSmiler: It's stated that when he was alive he used to tell jokes whenever he was nervous or scared. [[FridgeHorror Given he's always telling jokes as a Chompette....]]

* PoisonousFriend: If the player intentionally stays silent in conversations and doesn't raise their RelationshipValues with anyone, he can convince them to spread their "culinary talents" across the world. He also expresses disappointment whenever the protagonist doesn't embrace their monstrous nature.

* BookDumb: Tries to make himself seem smart and well-read, but is actually ''illiterate'' and incapable of simple addition. You can speak to him while he is pretending to read at one point, and he's actually holding the book upside-down and obviously has no clue what it says.

* GratuitousAnimalSidekick: Has a small creature sitting on his left shoulder. [[spoiler:It vanishes for good after Mariah leaves, and it is implied that the Protagonist killed it.]]

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* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler:Their arms are green and wrinkled, and they are heavily implied to be an immortal witch.]]
* TheFaceless: Their face is never seen, but we do get to see their arms when they [[spoiler:stab Karin to death. Judging by how wrinkled and green they look, the rest of the protag probably isn't a pleasant sight]].
* HateSink: [[spoiler:While Karin is the one murdering people she’s only doing it out of desperation, the protagonist on the other hand intentionally tricks vulnerable people into situations like this to murder and eat them.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:They get away with killing and eating the guests, and potentially hooks up with Karin... [[SubvertedTrope unless Mariah shanks them]]]].
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:The DLC adds an ending where [[KarmicDeath Mariah can stab them]] so she can escape the cabin]].
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:And they have been for a very long time.]]

** Becomes infatuated with Karin if they treat the other companions badly. [[spoiler: They even become a serial killer couple in one ending.]]
** [[spoiler: They also seem attracted to Mariah in the ending which she survives, expressing admiration over how she keeps her composture even after cannibalizing the other companions.]]

* PsychoKnifeNut: They're about as fond of knives as Karin is, just quieter about it. [[spoiler:It turns out that her knife actually belongs to them, and they later take it back with force.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: In [[spoiler:Karin's secret ending]] they join up as a serial killer couple.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[spoiler: Nobody seems too phased about them looking like a green and shriveled husk.]]
* VillainProtagonist: Hard to label them as anything but after [[spoiler:multiple counts of cannibalizing guests to their cabin]].
* WickedWitch: [[spoiler:Implied to be Literature/BabaYaga, who cannibalizes others to [[ImmortalityImmorality extend their life]].]]

* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:Being the first to leave the cabin and die, she's the only one of the main characters who manages to avoid losing their humanity to cannibalism.]]
* TheHeart: The kindest and most energetic of the group, and the ‘glue that holds the group together’. [[spoiler:No points for guessing who dies first in this game about turning on one another and reverting to animalistic tendencies.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:After the ghosts of Anatoly, Karin and Gregor create a new timeline in which she becomes the last survivor, she kills the protagonist and makes sure he's gone for good. She then returns to the city, when she lives a happy life surrounded by family and friends.]]
* MoralityChain: [[spoiler:The game takes a truly nightmarish turn when she dies, as consuming her corpse kicks off the SanitySlippage of the other characters.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Her secret ending involves her stabbing you to death with a maniacal grin on her face. Considering that you were a cannibalistic serial killer, she was entirely justified]].
* PluckyGirl: Mariah refuses to give up in tough situations. This is what makes her [[spoiler:the perfect candidate to put a stop to the Protagonist, as Anatoly and Gregor are too cowardly, while Karin breaks from the pressure.]]

* ShipTease: Possibly with Anatoly, given that his character description for the Kickstarter campaign mentions ‘letting Mariah have a taste’ rather than the protagonist presumably romancing him. [[spoiler:When she leaves, she also uses the excuse that she is the best swimmer among them, despite knowing that Anatoly is, in order to go instead of him.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When she confronts the player on the basement stairs [[spoiler:as a ghost]] she calls out their many misdeeds and the way they corrupted the other characters.
* TookALevelInCynicism: [[spoiler:Following the new timeline of the Nightmare Mode DLC, Mariah went from being a NiceGirl to being a cold and brutal AntiHero who kills the Protagonist to end their reign of terror.]]

* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Though being a staunch vegetarian, he succumbs to hunger, though he vomits after the fact.]]

* AbsurdPhobia: Is deathly afraid of ''marmots,'' which gets him teased quite a lot by the other cabin members early on. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the reason for this phobia is that they remind him of the time his friend was gored to death by a wild boar because he was distracted by a group of marmots.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: For Anatoly, as after Anatoly [[spoiler:leaves the cabin and drowns]] Gregor laments he "never got to tell [Anatoly] his true feelings. They also have cute pet names for each other. Gregor's feelings for Anatoly were since confirmed to be romantic by the developer in a Q&A.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:The result of Karin eviscerating him.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Though not exactly willingly.]]
* LastRequest: [[spoiler:To be covered with a blanket after Karin partially dismembers him alive. The player can [[MoralEventHorizon refuse]], of course. Regardless of your choice, he dies shortly afterwards.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Along with the protagonist, given that they cause Mariah, Anatoly, and Gregor to ‘leave the cabin’ and then eat their bodies. She also attacks the protagonist once they’re the only two left (if you don’t have all hearts with her) and eagerly becomes a serial killer duo if you do have all hearts.]]
* CrazySurvivalist: She is this trope more than the other members of the gang.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:This is not Karin's first close brush with starvation. When she was six, she nearly froze and starved to death with her parents. Her father managed to catch a mouse that he split into two for Karin and her mother to share.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:The day after Mariah leaves the cabin, Karin reveals that Mariah lied about being the best swimmer in the group in order to persuade them to let her risk her life to go get help. Since you all knew Anatoly was the best swimmer, Karin is mystified why Mariah would lie about that. Given that Mariah is close with Anatoly and is generally a good person, it's clear that she lied so he wouldn’t have to go.]]
* FieryRedhead: Redheaded and very blunt. She's also [[spoiler:the least perturbed by cannibalism]].
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Being raised with little food to eat, she learned to never throw anything away...]]
* TheGadfly: From day one, enjoys picking on others, particularly when she makes fun of Anatoly’s illiteracy and suggests that he read a picture book she found. [[spoiler:This progresses from teasing to outright manipulation and evil when she later bullies him into leaving the cabin.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Despite being TheFriendNobodyLikes, [[spoiler:she ultimately helps Anatoly and Gregor with the ritual to revive Mariah. Mariah appreciates the sentiment and mourns her along with the rest of her friends after she's brought back to life and killed the Protagonist.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:She takes to it quicker than the others, even beginning to enjoy it.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Even before [[spoiler:the first piece of human meat is in her mouth]], Karin generally acts like an unpleasant, cynical bully who brings down the mood of the cabin with her very presence. Anatoly even explains how she likes to find out other people's weaknesses to use against them.
* LiteralManeater: [[spoiler:A less monstrous example, but once she's really begun to enjoy eating human flesh, she throws Anatoly under the bus to get him to "leave the cabin" (read: die), chops Gregor up to eat him, and will later try to kill and eat the protagonist in most of the routes.]]
* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:She believes cannibalism is necessary for survival because they need all the food they can get.]]
* NightmareFace: Oh ''so many''.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:She believes necro-cannibalism is a practical method of surviving and they need to use whatever they can find. However, she dismembered Gregor as soon as she deemed him unsavable and decided to leave Anatoly to die when she realized that he wouldn't join them.]]
* PsychoKnifeNut: Her profile even lists one of her skills as "Has a knife". [[spoiler:You better watch out for it.]]
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: For the protagonist. Her route is the most explicitly romantic, and [[spoiler:one secret ending has the two of you in a happy relationship, surviving off travelers who come to the cabin]]!
* UnholyMatrimony: [[spoiler:In the ending where she falls in love with the protagonist, the story plays this for BlackComedy, speaking gleefully and sentimentally about years spent together butchering and eating people.]]
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:While she does start killing people she is ultimately another one of the Protagonists victims that’s implied to have lived a pretty hellish life before the events of the game.]]

The energetic leader of the Chompettes. [[spoiler:Used to be a girl named Celina, before being killed by the protagonist and turned into a Chompette.]]

* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: [[spoiler:When she was alive, she wore a green dress and a hair bun, resembling a cabbage.]]
* BerserkButton: She will shut up anyone who tries [[spoiler:to call the protagonist out for their past and current actions (like giving Raspberry a private dressing down for her behaviour towards them). She really doesn't want to talk about it, and does her best to move on and just have fun with everybody else. This frustrates Cabbage so much that she had to abruptly shut down a comedy contest and a teaching class due to Raspberry and Potato's insistence on chastising the protagonist.]]

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: [[spoiler:While it's evident she doesn't hold any grudge against the protagonist for murdering her, she makes it clear she and the other Chompettes will never forget what happened, and neither the protagonist should forget their past.]]

* TheLeader: Of the Chompettes. [[spoiler:She also used to be the leader of their gang when they were alive.]]
* MirrorCharacter: [[spoiler:Celina is this to Mariah. Both are cheerful, energetic and friendly to everyone. They also have HiddenDepths.]]
* TheResenter: [[spoiler:While she doesn't hold any grudges towards the Protagonist, she does resent Potato for killing her and her friends when they were alive.]]

The friendliest member of the Chompettes. [[spoiler:Used to be a boy named Oleg, before being killed by the protagonist and turned into a Chompette.]]

* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: [[spoiler:When he was alive, he had messy yellow hair and cried easily, resembling an onion.]]

* MirrorCharacter: [[spoiler:Oleg is this to Anatoly. Both are cowardly, lie about their intelligence and are close to the other male of their respective gangs.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He was implied to have been one of the five people that the player murdered in one night...except that he was ''also'' a cannibalistic serial killer known as the "Butcher Of Zakopane" who had a kill count of at least 4 people.]]
* BlackComedy: In the Chompette Comedy Competition, [[spoiler:he ''was'' going to tell some jokes at the expense of the atrocities committed by the protagonist (unlike the other Chompettes whose jokes were light-hearted), but Cabbage shuts him down quickly.]]
* TheDreaded: To the rest of the Chompettes, and with good reason.
* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler:Implied to be a fellow cannibal that ended up becoming a victim of the protagonist. One of the hidden notes is even a news story about a corpse that was found stuffed inside a barrel of potatoes, likely carried out by him.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The mention of the "Harris-Benedict equation" in his Kickstarter profile, which is an equation used to calculate a human's metabolic rate. [[spoiler:This is because knowing the equation comes in handy for knowing how long the characters will be able to go without food.]]
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: [[spoiler:Unlike the other characters in the DLC, he is the only one who isn't seen on-screen. We only see his silhoutte, and it shows he was quite a tall guy.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: And in [[PluckyComicRelief The Chompettes]] as well! The horror of the game begins to really shine through once you have him [[spoiler:explaining to you in scientific detail the process of starvation, and how much longer you'll be able to last on your dwindling supplies]].
* MirrorCharacter: [[spoiler:While the rest of the Chompettes mirror traits of the four Companions, Potato mirrors the protagonist themself, as a remorseless killer of innocent victims. He's however far more unhinged and taunting than the protagonist.]]
* PsychoKnifeNut: [[spoiler:He claims that the knife you find in the cabin was originally his, and he wants you to return it to him when you're done. As for the "psycho" part, he's heavily implied to have once been a SerialKiller.]]
* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler:If the player intentionally stays silent in conversations and doesn't raise their RelationshipValues with anyone, he can convince them to spread their "culinary talents" across the world.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:As a serial killer he had no objection killing children, as Celina, Ryna, Oleg, Bolek and Razael can attest to.]]

The sweetest, always-merry member of the Chompettes. [[spoiler:Used to be a girl named Ryna, before being killed by the protagonist and turned into a Chompette.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: The DLC is focused on her [[spoiler:and her friends discovering the cabin and how they were murdered by the serial killer who later became Potato]].
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: [[spoiler:As Ryna she was cold and withdrawn compared to the PerpetualSmiler Raspberry.]]
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: [[spoiler:When she was alive, she wore a frilly fuchsia dress, resembling a raspberry.]]
* DontYouDarePityMe: [[spoiler:She says this word for word to the protagonist if they apologize for murdering her.]]
* MirrorCharacter: [[spoiler:Ryna is this to Karin. Both are withdrawn, aloof and their experiences in the cabin broke them. They also make [[SlasherSmile disturbing faces]] after their true nature is revealed.]]

* StepfordSmiler: She never stops smiling, even when deadly serious. It becomes clear fairly early on that she is hiding some dark feelings despite her cheery exterior. [[spoiler:She's the most broken of the Chompettes, holding nothing but hate and contempt for the Protagonist.]]

* TheResenter: She's the most bitter towards the protagonist for killing her and her friends.

The jokester member of the Chompettes. [[spoiler:Used to be a boy named Bolek, before being killed by the protagonist and turned into a Chompette.]]

* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: [[spoiler:When he was alive, he was chubby and wore brown clothing, resembling a plump bread.]]
* BigFun: [[spoiler:Was this when he was alive.]]
* MirrorCharacter: [[spoiler:Bolek is this to Gregor. Both are chubby, optimistic and close to the other male of their respective gangs. They also lost a close friend in a traumatic incident.]]
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:It's stated that when he was alive he used to tell jokes whenever he was nervous or scared. [[FridgeHorror Given he's always telling jokes as a Chompette....]]]]

A lone chompette who appears in a secret ending. [[spoiler:Used to be a boy named Razael, Bolek's cousin.]]

* CheerfulChild: [[spoiler: Was this as Razael.]]
* FamilyThemeNaming: [[spoiler: When he and Bolek died, they became bread Chompettes.]]
* MoralityPet: [[spoiler: The Protagonist seemed to be fond of him, to the point he willingly sent him to the afterlife.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Not only he was murdered long ago, but he ascended to the afterlife after the Protagonist released his soul.]]
* TheUnseen: Despite being important as part of the Chompettes and the Protagonist's backstories, he's never seen as a Chompette [[spoiler: or as a human.]]

* DontYouDarePityMe: [[spoiler:She says this word for word to the protagonist if he apologizes for murdering her.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He was implied to have been one of the five people that the player murdered in one night...except that he was ''also'' a cannibalistic serial killer known as the "Butcher Of Zakopane" who had a kill count of 4 people.]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler:Their arms are green and wrinkled, and are heavily implied to be an immortal witch.]]

** Becomes infatuated with Karin if he treats the other companions badly. [[spoiler: They even become a serial killer couple in one ending.]]
** [[spoiler: He also seems attracted to Mariah in the ending which she survives, expressing admiration over how she keeps her composture even after cannibalizing the other companions.]]

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[spoiler: Nobody seems to phased about him looking like a green and shriveled husk.]]

* WickedWitch: [[spoiler:Implied to be Literature/BabaYaga, who cannibalizes others to [[ImmortalityImmorality extend her life]].]]

* TheSmartGuy: Seems competent and certainly looks the part. Somewhat subverted in that he can’t read or do simple math, although he still knows things about foraging and is emotionally intelligent.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Played with in that he isn't educated at all, but he still uses them to ''look'' more intelligent.

* TheHeart: The kindest and most energetic of the group, and the ‘glue that holds the group together’. [[spoiler:No points for guessing who dies first in this game about turning on one another and reverting to animalistic tendencies.]]

* WickedWitch: [[spoiler:Implied to be Literature/BabaYaga, who cannibalizes others to [[ImmortalityImmorality extent her life]].]]

* TookALevelInCynicism: [[spoiler:Following the new timeline of the Nightmare Mode DLC, Mariah went from being a NiceGirl to being a cold and brutal AntiHero who kills the Protagonist to end his reign of terror.]]

A lone chompette who appears in a secret ending. [[spoiler:Used to be a boy named Razael, Bolek's younger brother.]]

* TheUnseen: Despite being important as part of the Chompettes and the Protagonist's backstories, he's never seen as a Chmpette [[spoiler: or as a human.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:As a serial killer he had no objection killing children, as Celina, Ryna, Oleg, Bolek and his little brother can attest to.]]

A lone chompette who appears in a secret ending.

* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:The game takes a truly nightmarish turn when she dies, as consuming her corpse kicks off the SanitySlippage of the other characters.]]