History Characters / ForestOfDrizzlingRain

* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:She gets kidnapped by the Kotori Obake (original game)/God of the Forest (remake) after the museum segment, forcing Shiori and the others to go rescue her.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He is a cop who tries his best to aid Shiori. When [[spoiler:Sakuma]] goes missing, he tries his best to find her.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: She was never named in the original, but the remake gives her the name Tsuyu Kanzaki- connecting her to Shiori Kanzaki as her ancestor.
* NotMeThisTime: In the 2020 remake, she wasn't the one behind Sakuma's disappearance. Sakuma faked her kidnapping and then got captured for real by the God of the Forest.

* SatanicArchetype: His schemes give him a strong resemblance to Satan. He's a prideful {{Narcissist}} who was cast down from his exalted position because of how he treated his subjects. He then covertly spoke to mortals in their dreams to tempt them with power, only to subject them to hellish torment once they were under his thrall.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He is very rude, constantly requesting that Shiori leaves, only giving her unsatisfying answers and in general being unfriendly. Justified, she is in extreme danger, [[KeepingSecretsSucks but he can't tell her about it]], so [[ShooTheDog he tries to bully her away from the village]]. This jerkass act starts breaking when Shiori helps him save the museum from demolition.

* {{Jerkass}}: He is very rude, constantly requesting that Shiori leaves, only giving her unsatisfying answers and in general being unfriendly. Justified, she is in extreme danger, [[KeepingSecretsSucks but he can't tell her about it]], so [[ShooTheDog he tries to bully her away from the village]]. This jerkass act starts breaking when Shiori helps him save the museum from demolition.

A standoffish schoolgirl whom Shiori encounters in the museum. She's also the daughter of the Azakawa Village mayor.

* BigDamnHeroes: In every ending, she and Mochizuki [[spoiler:open the well and rescue Shiori (and Suga, if he is with her) just when the Kyoto Obake/Taking Spirit and/or the Child spirits are after them]].

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:In the 2022 remake, she is manipulated by the God's of the Forest into hearing voices so she'll enter the forest and abduct her.]]

[[folder:Yousuke Mochizuki]]

* TheDitz: Though he means well, he can be pretty scatterbrained and not good at his job.

* JerkassToOne: Sweet-talks children into entering the forest, but is particularly callous towards Suga, calling him names and saying he deserves to suffer. Justified, as he's the descendant of the Stone Guardian.

* NotMeThisTime: In the 2020 remake, she wasn't the one behind Sakuma's disappearance, that was the God of the Forest.

* StringyHairedGhostGirl: As a ghost.

* TragicDream: All he wants is to be reunited with his mother. Unfortunately their meeting is short and either he's forced to watch her to be torn apart by the spirits of the dead children or is forced to lose his memories about her. Poor kid.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Admits in the 2022 remake that he allowed his mother to kill children so that she'll have company. But after realizing that she'll never be satisfied and will continue hurting others is when he decides she had to be stopped.

* {{Greed}}: All he cares about is making money.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the original game, he was the GreaterScopeVillain responsible for turning an innocent village girl into the BigBad via his system of sex-slavery and was a HateSink with no redeeming qualities. The remake turns him into a victim of DemonicPossession by the God of the Forest, who does everything he originally did.

** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In Ending 1 it's implied he fades away and disappears, shown by the glowstones losing their power.

* HistoryRepeats: Long ago he was killed by the Stone Guardian to protect his sister Tsuyu. In the present he's killed by Suga to protect Shiori. Made more ironic in that they are their descendants.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Even though he's unpleasant, his desire to improve Azakawa Village is genuine. In the 2022 even after his resort plan is cancelled, he decides to find less harmful to get profit.

!Tsuya Kanzaki (Remake)

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In the remake, he is out to destroy Tsuyu, but it's only because he got cursed for tried to protect her from a snake, something that wasn't even in his control.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the remake, this to himself with the glowstones.

* HearingVoices: She often hears whispers from the Taking Spirit constantly reminding her of her [[DealWithTheDevil promise]].

* AgentScully: Dismisses the story of the Taking Spirit and the Stone Guardian as ancient tales.

* HateSink: In the original game, he only appears in one scene near the beginning, but establishes himself as a SmugSnake nonetheless. In said scene, he informs Suga, the manager of the local museum, that the government plans to demolish the museum to make room for land development. He proceeds to be rude and disrespectful to Suga, outright telling him he does not care if Suga ends up jobless, then when Sakuma objects, he tells her that her father would support the demolishment. Finally, when Shiori tells him that she is the heir to the museum and can shut him down, he rudely expresses disbelief before storming out in a huff. This is averted with his remake version, who lacks that particular appearance and improves by the end.

* GreaterScopeVillain: He is the one responsible for turning the unnamed woman/Tsuyu Kanzaki into the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit, as he killed her family, falsely accused her of crimes, then imprisoned and raped her.

* BiggerBad: He's responsible for the curse that drove the Stone Guardian to madness and kill Tsuyu, resulting in the creation of the Taking Spirit.

[[folder:Taking Spirit (spoilers)]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the original game, he was the GreaterScopeVillain responsible for turning an innocent village girl into the BigBad via his system of sex-slavery. The remake turns him into a victim of DemonicPossession by the God of the Forest, who does everything he originally did.

* ThePromise: She made one [[spoiler:with the Taking Spirit]] to [[spoiler:protect Suga from her]].

* ThePromise: He is indicated to have made one with the Taking Spirit, although the details are not clear.
* ShooTheDog: He tries to be mean to Shiori so that she will leave the village and not fall victim to the Taking Spirit or remember the [[DealWithTheDevil promise]] she made with her.

* SinsOfOurFathers: The Taking Spirit's hatred for the Stone Guardian is so great, she cursed him and everyone in his bloodline to have short and miserable lives. And Suga just happens to be his last known descendant.
* TheSpeechless: Due to the [[DealWithTheDevil promise]] he made with the Taking Spirit, he lost the use of his vocal chords, and writes on his memos to communicate. He does manage to call Shiori “Shii-chan” in the GoldenEnding, but goes back to his memos afterwards.

* BigDamnHeroes: In every ending, she and Mochizuki [[spoiler:open the well and rescue Shiori (and Suga, if he is with her) just when the Taking Spirit and/or the Child spirits are after them]].

* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:She gets kidnapped by the God of the Forest after the museum segment, forcing Shiori and the others to go rescue her.]]
* HearingVoices: She starts to hear the voices of the spirits halfway through, along with the voices of the night glowstones. The 2022 remake shows [[spoiler: it's the God of the Forest's doing.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Is manipulated by the God's of the Forest into hearing voices so she'll enter the forest and abduct her.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: In every ending, he and Sakuma [[spoiler:open the well and rescue Shiori (and Suga, if he is with her) just when the Taking Spirit and/or the Child spirits are after them]].

* BigBad: Has been kidnapping and murdering children for a long time and she's also the reason for Shiori having LaserGuidedAmnesia and Suga's miserable life.

* NotMeThisTime: She wasn't the one behind Sakuma's disappearance, that was the God of the Forest.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Asks the Stone Guardian to kill a snake because it frightened her. Said snake happened to be a god, which proceeds to curse them both and ruin their lives.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Is completely obsessed with avenging her family and her cruel fate even though the Stone Guardian is long gone. In the 2022 remake the White Child says that no matter how much she tortures the Stone Guardian's descendants and absorbs children, she'll never be satisfied.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Was friends with the Stone Guardian before the God of the Forest cursed them both.

[[folder:The First Stone Guardian (spoilers)]]
A man from a generational line of stone masons creators of the glowstones that protect Azakawa Village. Though revered as a hero, he is in fact the one who indirectly created the Taking Spirit.

* BigBrotherInstinct: The reason the events of the game happened? All he wanted was to protect his sister from a snake.
* DemonicPossession: Falls victim to this courtesy of the God of the Forest, acting possesive of Tsuyu and killing her husband and unborn child.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He is the one responsible for turning Tsuyu Kanzaki into the Taking Spirit, as he killed her family, falsely accused her of crimes, then imprisoned and raped her.
* HateSink: He is responsible for turning an innocent woman into the [[BigBad Taking Spirit]], as he had her imprisoned on false charges, killed her whole family, and raped her. Even after he comes to his senses, he blames Tsuyu for everything that went wrong in his life.
* ItsAllAboutMe: After the DemonicPossession wears off and realizes what he did to Tsuyu, he only feels bad for himself and not what he did to her.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Did this to himself with the glowstones.
* NeverMyFault: Fully blames Tsuyu for getting him cursed, stating that if he hadn't tried to help her this would've not happened.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The whole village reveres him as a hero, both back when he was alive and in the present day. However, he was really a tyrant who [[SinsOfOurFathers had the wives and children of criminals sold into sexual slavery]], and the Taking Spirit was one of his many victims. This is retconned in the 2022 remake.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Was friends with Tsuyu before the God of the Forest cursed them both.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He's out to destroy Tsuyu, but it's only because he got cursed for tried to protect her from a snake, something that wasn't even in his control.
* WouldHurtAChild: Killed Tsuyu's unborn child.
* {{Yandere}}: He lusted after Tsuyu Kanzaki much that he slaughtered her whole family to get to her.

The 2022 remake reveals he's an ancestor of Suga.

* NeverMyFault: Even in death, he still blames his actions on a "temporary lapse in judgment," blaming it on Tsuyu. To be fair, his lapse of judgement was due to the God of the Forest's curse.

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* AffectionateNickname: Shiori calls her "Miko".

A middle school girl whom Shiori encounters in the museum.

* HearingVoices: She starts to hear the voices of the spirits halfway through, along with the voices of the night glowstones.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: In the 2022 she says something along these lines to Shiori about her relationship with Suga.

* ToServeMan: Prefers young girls as HumanSacrifices. Shiori finds it the hard way in Ending 6.

[[folder:Suga Koutarou (spoilers)]]

[[folder:Sakuma Miyako]]

[[folder:Officer Mochizuki Yousuke]]

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* BigBad: She is the one who kidnaps Sakuma, forcing Shiori and the others to go rescue her, then tries to go after Shiori as well. She is also the reason for Shiori having LaserGuidedAmnesia.

* TragicMonster: She lost her whole family to the first Stone Guadian, then was locked up and raped by him for years. When she finally became a {{Youkai}}, she had gone insane, and her murdering of children is a severely misguided attempt to find children to replace hers.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Back when she was an ordinary woman, [[GreaterScopeVillain the first Stone Guardian]] had [[{{Yandere}} fallen in lust]] with her, [[MaliciousSlander tricked the village]] into viewing her as a monster, had her husband, child, and unborn baby killed, and kept her imprisoned as his personal plaything. This caused her to go insane and turned her into an evil {{Youkai}} who kills children to fill the void left by her own lost children.

* DemonicPosession: Falls victim to this courtesy of the God of the Forest, acting possesive of Tsuyu and killing her husband and unborn child.