History Characters / NightInTheWoods

* EvilUncle: [[spoiler:Beat up Gregg after Gregg lost some of his sheep. There were legal ramifications and he had to move away after that.]]

--> '''Mae:''' Gregg plays by his own rules.
--> '''Bea:''' Sometimes it feels like the world's playing by Gregg's rules.
--> '''Mae:''' Whoa.

* AlmightyJanitor: Potentially UpToEleven. [[spoiler:If he is supernatural and possibly God, then he is definitely almighty, if taking a form of a janitor for reasons.]]

* LikeIsLikeaComma: Consistently breaks up her sentences by saying "like."

* ToxicFriendInfluence: though he blames Mae for his behavior, he's the guy who keeps knives on hand, makes deals to break into abandoned grocery stores, tosses light bulbs around, and lets people shoplift at his work in exchange for favors. Mae is noticeably less of a delinquent when she hangs out with Bea.

* StaticCharacter: In a sense. Unlike the other major characters his personality never changes and unlike them you never get the impression that he's anything other than a well meaning oddball, with a fairly decent life. As Mae puts it in her monologue in the ending:
-->"You're stuck here, but you're the only one who isn't trapped."

* AdultFear:
** She blames herself for her parents' recent financial worries, since the mortgage they put on the house went to paying for college [[spoiler:and therapy for her mental breakdown as a kid, and not very good therapy at that. She is also horrified by the fact that there is someone potentially kidnapping people in town, including teenagers, and that no one will do anything about it]].
** Having dissociation act up during college is not a fun time. In fact, her first nightmare is her beating up a statue which later turns out to be [[spoiler:from the college that she saw every day and was scared of it as college increasingly became too much for her.]]

* AdultFear:
** She is afraid that she will never be able to be normal after being forced to run the hardware store. [[spoiler:It becomes more terrifying when she reveals that one of her coworkers is a sexual predator who has his eye on her, and even though she and her father both know it, they're powerless to fire him because he's their best repairman and losing him would probably ruin the business.]]
** During their graveyard jaunt, Mae asks her to name something scary. One of her possible answers is an angry landlord outside her apartment door, threatening to evict her.

* AdultFear: While he has less to worry about than the others, he still fears that he will ruin his relationship with Angus someday, and doesn't take nearly as many risks because he knows that being arrested will screw up their plans to move out of town.

* AdultFear: While he is mostly calm and rational, he begins to freak out a little when [[spoiler:he realizes someone is watching them when ghost hunting with Mae in the state park, and again when the gang believes that someone is following them after they flee the cultists.]]

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:His wife died from cancer]], and he spent so much money on [[spoiler:her medical care]] that he lost his house and had to move into a small, run-down apartment with his daughter. The aforementioned tragedies triggered an emotional breakdown from which he still hasn't recovered.
** There's also the fact that his daughter is working with someone who they both know is a sexual predator, and he can't fire him because he's their best repairman.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His fur is light blue.

* MulticoloredHair: If you look closely, you can see a reddish tint at the top of her hair spikes.

* DeadpanSnarker

* ThoseTwoGuys

* WhatAnIdiot: WordOfGod [[https://curiouscat.me/bombsfall/post/110402201 says]] Mae doesn't know that "you shouldn't microwave silverware."

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Implied. He is only remembered by the gang as being a friendly, normal guy. The cult says that he would never amount to anything except a "mile long list of kids without a father" and that he was making meth with his cousin, which is believed to set him on a path to being a criminal.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: Zig-zagged. Several years before, he realized that one of his employees was a sexual predator. Mr. Santello refused to let the man teach Bea how to drive and warned Bea never to be alone with the man. However, he did not fire said employee, as he is their best repairman, much to Bea's frustration.

* FanNickname / EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His name is never said in the game, fans usually call him either "Cabin Wolf" or "Coffin Wolf".

* JerkassHasAPoint: Unfortunately, they're right when they say that the gang won't ever be able to bring them to justice; if the gang told people what they saw, no one would ever believe them, and even if they did, they have no idea who the cultists ''are''. There's also the fact that the cultists [[ShameIfSomethingHappened know every single one of the main characters and where they live.]]

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: The cult would have gotten away with everything if Eide didn't just have to have his revenge for getting shot in the shoulder by Gregg. Because Eide attacked Mae, he got his arm and head lopped off by the falling elevator, leading to his own death. And even if Eide had somehow survived that, he trapped himself and the other cultists at the bottom of the mine with no way out. And all of this was after explicit orders by the rest of the cult to let Mae and the other kids go.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The cult has a strict set of rules regarding how they choose their sacrifices; specifically, they only choose people who aren't contributing to society and won't be missed. Anyone who doesn't fit those criteria is off-limits as far as they're concerned.

* KilledOffscreen: If the cave-in doesn't kill them, then them being trapped in a cave deep in the earth with no way out will.

* PragmaticVillainy: They have a strict set of rules on who can get kidnapped and who can't. They only kill people who, in their opinion, "won't be missed".

* {{Transgender}}: She's trans, and performed in a one-woman band called "Trans World Order Give Them Hell". Or "TWOGTH."

%%* TheSmartGuy

* NotSoDifferent: He and Angus both have a [[spoiler:DarkAndTroubledPast with someone in their family being abusive, which is one of the reasons they're together]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The majority of the cult refuse to kidnap and sacrifice anyone who is loved or productive. Considering they refuse to sacrifice Mae, a psychotic drop out, those are surprisingly high standards. Beyond that though, anything goes. [[InvertedTrope Then again]], they may not be targeting her because she is so well known throughout the town, and she has notable connections to other people, [[PragmaticVillainy making it hard to easily sacrifice her without people questioning it]].

* JerkassHasAPoint: Unfortunately, they're right when they say that the gang won't ever be able to bring them to justice; if the gang told people what they saw, no one would ever believe them, and even if they did, they have no idea who the cultists ''are''.

* PragmaticVillain: They have a strict set of rules on who can get kidnapped and who can't. They only kill people who, in their opinion, "won't be missed".

* FamousLastWords: "This house is haunted."

* {{Jerkass}}: He has burdened his daughter with the responsibility of running his business and seems oblivious to how unhappy this has made her. When she complains about work-related matters, he curtly reminds her that ''he'' owns the business and signs the checks, not her.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:If going down her route, the fight Mae has with her when visiting her apartment may seem to come out of the blue, but it does make sense in universe. While yes, Mae has been providing more fun and enjoyment into her life, she reminds her that these hangouts are only a small fraction of her own day and that she's been working the entire day beforehand every single time on about six hours of sleep. By contrast, the player is in control of Mae pretty much all the time, uses that time to just mess around, and by her mom's admission spends ''at least'' 10 hours a day asleep. So yeah, the hangouts are nice, but they mean a lot more to Mae than they do to her. They don't magically bring the joy back into her life.]]

* AGodIAmNot: The first thing it makes clear is that it is not God, and that it has witnessed the entire span of time and space and found nothing like a God. Mae continues calling it God anyway, because she has no other name for it.

** Even their jobs contrast: The family-owned, aged Ol' Pickaxe versus the new, flashy Snack Falcon. Gregg can slack off and even steal or destroy his employers' property with no concequences; Bae has to work herself to exhaustion and [[spoiler: can't fire an employee who wants to (or might even have) assaulted her because he's good at his job.]]

* TheDitz: She has her rare moments of cleverness, like the gall joke she tells to Bea and when she corrects Gregg on the pronunciation of "carpe diem." However, while Gregg is probably 'The Ditz' of the group, Mae is a very close second. For example, she doesn't know that whales are mammals, what the word "entrepreneur" means, and she egregiously writes "*You're* parents forgot you" in a journal entry. There are many more errors she makes in the game (some are listed in other tropes,) and her first college assignment work was posted by WordOfGod, which reveals terrible writing abilities: https://mobile.twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1232854262524383232 She attended Durkillesburg, but it is very likely a state college with a high acceptance rate. Also, she would have turned 21 years old by her fourth semester, which means she probably had to go to community college at 18 to scrape by on grades. Mae's mother says she had trouble with math growing up. Also, Mr. Chazokov calls her his "best worst student" to which she replies, "Yeah. Hated school."