History Characters / SmileForMe

* EasilyForgiven: Played with. When he apologizes in [[spoiler:the epilogue,]] nobody seems to react much to it aside from a brief acknowledgement... because they're surprised [[spoiler:that he's alive at all, given that he went (almost) completely no-contact for a full year after the Habitat.]]

* SandInMyEye: Pulls this when moved to tears for a second time in the epilogue, claiming it's just "liquid" his eyes make at random. Jimothan encourages him to be more open about his feelings in response.

* MissExposition: Comes across as this in the epilogue, where she brings the Habiticians up to speed on Flower Kid's endeavors since leaving the Habitat.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: It's implied that prior to the incident with Martha, Habit and Kamal were on surprisingly good terms - even when Kamal makes it clear that he's had enough of Habit for a good while, he seems confident that Habit still has a soft spot and can be reasoned with on some level, and in turn, [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/8ea547f21d479f4b65359bc57854e598/8cb7592d7dc557c2-8a/s500x750/c75164b9e039efc6ef229f765cf59abdff52483f.jpg it's revealed in Habit's final PSA]] that he still thinks of Kamal as a friend. There's also [[HoYay the trading card illustration]] mentioned under the entry for AmbiguouslyGay in Dr. Habit's character sheet.

* Letters2Numbers: He writes, types and speaks very much like someone sending a goofy text message. [[spoiler:He drops this quirk upon having his HeelRealization, implying it was another front.]]

* SecretKeeper: Becomes this to Flower Kid in [[spoiler:the bad ending, promising that he won't tell anyone that they murdered Habit.]] He also acts as this to [[spoiler:Habit]] in the epilogue, keeping

* ShipTease: With Jerafina - Lulia admits to finding her attractive, and if you give her a kiss from Jerafina, she exclaims that she'd "know those lips anywhere," and has to excuse herself, becoming incredibly giddy. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/smile-for-me/images/e/ea/Spaghettinight.png/revision/latest?cb=20190801021548 One of her trading cards]] even has them going on a date!

* AmicableExes: The epilogue reveals that after the events of the game, he made amends with Tiff and became good friends with her; they're now touring together.

* AmicableExes: The epilogue reveals that after the events of the game, she made amends with Ronbo and became good friends with him; they're now touring together.

* ShipTease: Thinks Lulia is pretty, asks Flower Kid to tell her she said hello, and one of the game's trading cards depicts them on a date.

* ShipTease: With Gillis - in the game proper, he isn't sure what to make of him (or rather, his scent) but a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/smile-for-me/images/a/ac/Sweatypoetry.png/revision/latest?cb=20190801020545 Steam trading card featuring the two of them]] has Randy in his ''lap'' with mood lighting that borders on sickeningly sweet.

* SecretKeeper: Becomes this to Flower Kid in [[spoiler:the bad ending, promising that he won't tell anyone that they murdered Habit.]]

* ShipTease: With Gillis - he isn't sure what to make of his scent, but firmly believes a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/smile-for-me/images/a/ac/Sweatypoetry.png/revision/latest?cb=20190801020545 Steam trading card featuring the two of them]] has Randy in his ''lap'' with mood lighting that borders on sickeningly sweet.

* AmbiguouslyGay: It's implied that [[spoiler: the reason his father beat him as a child was because of his more effeminate behaviors,]] but he never shows signs of attraction to anyone in the game proper. That being said, one of the Steam trading cards [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/smile-for-me/images/d/db/Valbentinesdaye.png/revision/latest?cb=20190801021451 has him sending a plethora of Valentine's Day gifts]] to Kamal, along with a framed photograph of himself apparently intended for Kamal to ''kiss'', according to the card's description (which is written in a more exaggerated version of [[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle Habitspeak]]):

* AmbiguouslyHuman: It isn't given much explicit notice, in favour of focusing on Habit's very human backstory and motives, but there is something strange about him. Even in a world where vampires exist, Habit is an oddity. He can't be photographed, only showing up as a silhouette with two red eyes and a large grin whenever the player tries. He is very, very tall (second only to Borbra and possibly Mirphy - Yugo Limbo [[https://twitter.com/yugsly/status/1182873187412922370?s=19 confirms him to stand at 7'4"]]) and has naturally "sharp" fingers that he's complained about on the official Twitter account. He has the ability to 'speak' emojis somehow. And of course, there's the fact that he is ultimately held back by morals instead of physical ability when it comes to [[spoiler: stealing other people's teeth and putting them in his own mouth]] since by the time you meet in person, he's amassed [[spoiler: three rows]] with no ill effects.

* FreudianExcuse: Habit's childhood didn't exactly give him a good frame of reference for what happiness was actually supposed to be. [[spoiler:His parents were a key factor in his descent into depression (and later, madness.) A younger Habit describes them as constantly sad in his diary, Habit's father in particular was physically abusive, and both parents pushed him into pursuing a medical career against his will - which turned out to be an utterly thankless line of work for him, even after a HopeSpot in which he ponders whether or not becoming a dentist will allow him to spread happiness.]] This, in combination with his pre-existing mental issues, eventually led to the creation of the Habitat.

* ICallItVera: During the game's introduction, Habit mentions someone named Martha assisting him in opening the Habitat - as it turns out, though, "Martha" is a machine in the carnival fashioned into the shape of a large, toothy grin, spewing an unidentified gas (likely [[spoiler:nitrous oxide]]) into the Habitat.

* IronicEcho: At the beginning of the game, he ends his introductory PSA with "Someday, you'll all smile for me," which hints at his more sinister nature. [[spoiler:And in the good ending, when saying goodbye to Flower Kid, he tells them "Make them smile. For me?" showing that once you strip away all the borderline insanity, Habit genuinely cares about making people happy for their own sake, even if he recognizes that attempting to gas 22 people with lethal levels of nitrous oxide to steal their teeth may not have been the best way of going about it.]]

* Letters2Numbers: He writes, types and speaks very much like someone sending a goofy text message. [[spoiler:Notably, he drops this quirk upon having his HeelRealization.]]

** Tiff Webber has a record contract with him, but makes it very clear that she wants out since she's limited to performing only a few songs - all teeth-related, of course. The only thing still keeping her in the contract is her guilt over leaving what is obviously a very emotionally unstable man to his own devices.
** Whatever he said to Wallus Breadbear prior to the events of the game, it was apparently humiliating enough to cause him to start living in a ''wall'' out of shame. Even now, the poor guy still seems deathly afraid of Habit - in one line of dialogue, he'll insist Habit is a bad boss before meekly asking the player not to tell him that he said that.
** Kamal Bora claims to have been fired for his poor dental hygiene, but not before Habit chewed him out quite thoroughly for it - conveniently forgetting that he left Kamal without anything ''to'' clean his teeth after a nervous breakdown involving heavy rain, a rusting Martha, and stealing every inhabitant's mandated toothbrush to clean her. It's particularly bitter in this case, as it's implied that the two were rather close prior to the Martha incident, despite Habit's less-than-pleasant oddities.

* PsychopathicManchild: His writing style is peppered with spelling errors and emoticons, he communicates with the Habiticians through videos using a puppet of himself, the graffiti self-portraits on the walls of the Habitat resemble something that you would see in a child's sketchbook, all of the songs he's prepared for Tiff as a part of their record contract are nursery rhymes that he edited to be about teeth (and he cries every time she tries to break off their contract) and so on and so forth. It's implied during a few moments that he may be forcing some of the more childish aspects of his personality... [[spoiler:but the "psychopathic" part kicks into high gear when it's revealed he plans to steal all the Habiticians' teeth for himself, and judging by the SlasherSmile he gives Flower Kid during the climax, revealing multiple rows of teeth, he's been at it for a while.]]
* SanitySlippage: Judging by [[spoiler:the crumpled up diary pages,]] Habit has never been the cornerstone of mental stability, but by the time the Habitat is up and running, he seems to have hit an all-time low. As the game progresses and you help more people, his mask of perpetual cheer begins to slip more and more, and his videos take on a more unnerving edge. His former assistant Kamal describes him as unhinged. Given that he watched Habit have a nervous breakdown and steal everyone's toothbrushes and toothpaste to clean "Martha" - a giant metal mouth with a toothy grin that had rusted in the rain - it's not surprising.

* AerithAndBob: The Habiticians range from having fairly normal names to names that sound just shy of normal, and even then you get names like Jerafina, Tim Tam, and Parsley thrown into the lot.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Her skin is gray. Trevor thinks it's evidence of vampires. According to Nat, he's half-right.

* JustifiedTutorial: She's the first one to greet Flower Kid when they wake up in the Habitat. The tutorial is a combination of scribbly on-screen commands from Dr. Habit and genuine questions from Nat like "can you bring me that flower?"

* NoodlePeople: Kind of looks like she's made of pipe cleaners.

* ShipTease: With Randy. Not much in the game itself aside from Randy claiming that Gillis has an "interesting flavour," but [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/smile-for-me/images/a/ac/Sweatypoetry.png/revision/latest?cb=20190801020545 their trading card]] has Randy sitting on his lap, in a warmly lit room, while Gillis looks nervous, but rather pleased. There's also the card's description:

* FunetikAksent: It contains a lot of Z sounds, whatever it is.

* NiceGirl: She's generally polite and friendly, even when annoyed or exasperated, has sung for Flower Kid's birthday, wonders if Ronbo's doing okay even after they've broken up, and the only reason she hasn't cancelled her contract is because she feels bad for leaving Habit, since he breaks down crying every time she tries.

* TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: When shown Parsley's photo, he admits that "he ain't much, but he's all I got," before coughing and presumably trying to think of something less sappy.

A poet and pickle enthusiast with a great sense of smell.

* ShipTease: With Gillis - he claims that Gillis smells good, and a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/smile-for-me/images/a/ac/Sweatypoetry.png/revision/latest?cb=20190801020545 Steam trading card featuring the two of them]] has Randy in his ''lap'' while Gillis looks nervous, but pleased.
* TheNoseKnows: He is obsessed with smells, and can smell people through pictures.

* AmbiguousGender: Is referred to with they/them pronouns, implying they may be nonbinary.

* AmbiguousSituation: How exactly he stopped being Dr. Habit's assistant isn't clear - if you shake your head "no" when Wallus asks you for a favor (while under the impression he's speaking to Kamal) he'll claim that he and Kamal quit together, but if you refuse Kamal's offer to tell you about the incident with Martha, he himself will say that Habit fired him. His feelings toward Dr. Habit himself are also hard to make sense of, since he seems to cycle between scorn, pity, and some semblance of genuine affection all within the same conversation (i.e. calling him a "big softie" only a few lines after saying he's unhinged.) Considering he was there for at least the last year or so of Dr. Habit's downward spiral, this is probably intentional.

* EveryoneHasStandards: He's not willing to deal with Dr. Habit face to face any time soon (nor is it clear just how much he knew about Habit's true plans) but he doesn't feel right about ignoring the issue completely, given that it's ''very'' likely that Habit could harm others or himself with how much his SanitySlippage has progressed. Despite his misgivings about the doctor, Kamal isn't particularly keen on either of those things happening, so he tries to appeal to Flower Kid's reputation as an altruistic do-gooder to get them to snap Habit out of it without anyone getting hurt. [[spoiler:It's possible to disregard this, as one of the game's endings involves you pushing Dr. Habit off of the balcony, where he falls to his death.]]

* NervousWreck: His introduction? An appearance in one of Dr. Habit's morning announcements, where he appears on-screen just as Dr. Habit describes the terrace as as a place where people "stand up high and think about not existing." And indeed, one of his most frequently used sprites has him in a TroubledFetalPosition. A layer of grime on his teeth makes it so that he's hardly able to focus until you manage to brush it off.

* SeriousBusiness: Why did he stop being Dr. Habit's assistant to begin with? Because Habit made fun of his teeth. Granted it was preceded by Kamal bearing witness to an inconsolable Dr. Habit having a nervous breakdown, and it's implied that it was not even close to the only instance of Kamal being caught up in Dr. Habit's strange and oftentimes irrational behavior, but compared to his coworkers' reasons for leaving or being dissatisfied with their jobs, it comes across as strikingly petty.

An overly optimistic man who's the owner and overseer of the Habitat. His main objective is to draw in as many estranged, traumatized, or otherwise depressed people as possible to the Habitat for the "Big Event".

* FreudianExcuse: Habit's childhood didn't exactly give him a good frame of reference for what happiness was actually supposed to be. [[spoiler:His parents were a key factor in his descent into depression (and later, madness.) A younger Habit describes them as constantly sad in his diary, Habit's father in particular was physically abusive, and both parents pushed him into pursuing a medical career against his will - which turned out to be an utterly thankless line of work for him, even after a HopeSpot in which he ponders whether or not becoming a dentist will allow him to spread happiness. A teenage Habit also writes about a bully named [[ChekhovsGun Martha]], but compared to his home life, it's only mentioned in passing.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: ...all the other characters "turn towards you" no matter where you stand. Mirphy finds it creepy and annoying.

* UnkemptBeauty: Well, she isn't exactly ''wrong'' about being a HotTeacher, but she has a scruffy way of getting dressed up, what with a low neckline on her dress and MessyHair. Not that this makes her any less attractive, though.

The creator and overseer of The Habitat. His main objective is to draw in as many estranged, traumatized, or otherwise depressed people as possible to the Habitat for the "Big Event".

A hippie artist who declares Mirphy Fotoparat his muse and tries to impress her with his paintings.

* CharacterDevelopment: Has one of the clearest arcs over the course of the game - he decides Mirphy is his muse and assumes she will love him if he paints the right thing, realizes he was thinking in an entitled and self-absorbed way, falls into a depression and questions if his work was any good in the first place, learns that several people around the Habitat like his work, and finally learns to live for himself and not to rely on others' approval. He even says, at the very end, that Flower Kid must be his real muse, because they're helped him grow so much as a person.

An poet and pickle enthusiast with a great sense of smell.

* FatherlyScientist: The Carlas refer to him as ‘dad’ and regard each other as siblings.

* RedIsHeroic: She sees herself as a hero and has red skin and a red boxing glove. In addition, she won’t accept Gillis’ mask until the player paints it red because green is “evil”.

RedIsHeroic: She sees herself as a hero and has red skin and a red boxing glove. In addition, she won’t accept Gillis’ mask until the player paints it red because green is “evil”.

* NotSoDifferent: With Habit. She’s implied to have AbusiveParents as he did, is revealed to be missing a tooth when her picture is taken [[spoiler:(Habit’s own biggest insecurity)]], and her name references flowers (Habit’s old passion). To top it all off, [[spoiler: the caption under her picture on Habit’s bulletin board says, "So strong. Little one understands. :-("]]

* NervousWreck: His introduction? An appearance in one of Dr. Habit's morning announcements, where he appears on-screen just as Habit describes the terrace as as a place where people "stand up high and think about not existing." And indeed, one of his most frequently used sprites has him in a TroubledFetalPosition. A layer of grime on his teeth makes it so that he's hardly able to focus until you manage to brush it off.

* SeriousBusiness: Why did he stop being Dr. Habit's assistant to begin with? Because Habit made fun of his teeth. Granted it was preceded by Kamal bearing witness an inconsolable Dr. Habit having a nervous breakdown, and it's implied that it was not even close to the only instance of Kamal being caught up in Dr. Habit's strange and oftentimes irrational behavior, but compared to his coworkers' reasons for leaving or being dissatisfied with their jobs, it comes across as strikingly petty.

The janitor of the Habitat. He's been living in the walls of the boiler room ever since Dr. Habit gave him a particularly nasty dose of public humiliation, and seems to know all the Habiticians.

* NervousWreck: His introduction? An appearance in one of Dr. Habit's morning announcements, where he appears on-screen just as Habit describes the terrace as as a place where people "stand up high and think about not existing." And indeed, one of his most frequently used sprites has him in a TroubledFetalPosition.
* RapidFireYes: Says this once you actually brush his teeth... and then apologizes for making things weird.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: It's implied that prior to the incident with Martha, Habit and Kamal were surprisingly close - even when Kamal makes it clear that he's had enough of Habit for a good while, he seems confident that Habit still has a soft spot and can be reasoned with on some level, and in turn, [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/8ea547f21d479f4b65359bc57854e598/8cb7592d7dc557c2-8a/s500x750/c75164b9e039efc6ef229f765cf59abdff52483f.jpg it's revealed in Habit's final PSA]] that he still thinks of Kamal as a friend. There's also [[HoYay the trading card illustration]] mentioned under the entry for AmbiguouslyGay in Dr. Habit's character sheet.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: It isn't given much explicit notice, in favour of focusing on Habit's very human backstory and motives, but there is something strange about him. Even in a world where vampires exist, Habit is an oddity. He can't be photographed, only showing up as a silhouette with two red eyes and a large grin whenever the player tries. He is very, very tall (second only to Borbra and possibly Mirphy) and has naturally "sharp" fingers that he's complained about on the official Twitter account. He has the ability to 'speak' emojis somehow. And of course, there's the fact that he is ultimately held back by morals instead of physical ability when it comes to [[spoiler: stealing other people's teeth and putting them in his own mouth]] since by the time you meet in person, he's amassed [[spoiler: three rows]] with no ill effects.