History Characters / TellMeWhy

* DesperatelySearchingForAPurposeInLife: It's clear she feels left behind, with her best friend and brother both having clear ideas of what they want to do with her lives while she's stuck with a half finished qualification in something she doesn't even enjoy. [[spoiler: Coupled with a dose of guilt because she feels like she not only stole Tyler's childhood from him by agreeing to let him take the fall for her, but also wasted it by not achieving anything notable with it.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: The twin's memories show her breaking down in the police carpark upon realising that Mary-Ann was dead, the twins were involved and she likely played a big part in what occurred, indirectly.]]

* NotSoDifferent: For all that they might hate her, both Alyson and Tyler inherited character traits from Mary-Ann. Tyler shares her environmentalist views, while Alyson seemingly has her artistic talent. [[spoiler: On a much darker level, Tyler also seems to have mood swings similar to hers, while Alyson starts to suffer from hallucinations and paranoia which Mary-Ann was implied to have suffered from in Chapter 3.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: PlayedWith in the story itself. A driving focus of the game is how people saw and interpeted her. Despite the twin's opinion on Mary-Ann, a lot of the residents of Delos Crossing still openly express disbelief that she would have purposely tried to [[spoiler: kill one of her children.]] [[spoiler: The final main choice boils down to whether they continue to believe that Mary-Ann was going to kill Tyler, or after learning more about her, her life and the circumstances of that night, whether they choose to accept that Mary-Ann loved them and that her death was a [[TragicMistake tragic mistake]].]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The game implies that Mary-Ann was planning to kill ''herself'' the night she died, and Tyler stumbling in on her shook her resolve.]]

* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: PlayedWith, and sort of Averted. The twins aren't able to publicly expose his infidelity and the fact he's their father, due to him threatening to reveal that Alyson killed Mary-Ann to the town... but he still loses his mayoral campaign and his wife a short while after their confrontation.]]

* NotSoifferent: For all that they might hate her, both Alyson and Tyler inherited character traits from Mary-Ann. Tyler shares her environmentalist views, while Alyson seemingly has her artistic talent. [[spoiler: On a much darker level, Tyler also seems to have mood swings similar to hers, while Alyson starts to suffer from hallucinations and paranoia which Mary-Ann was implied to have suffered from in Chapter 3.]]

* DoggedNiceGuy: It's pretty obvious he had feelings for Mary-Ann when she was still alive, but she never reciprocated. He's still not over her in the present.

* HeteronormativeCrusader: Implied. In the past she tried to convince Mary-Ann to send Tyler to conversion therapy. Going through her e-mails reveals she's still in contact with the group who runs the camp.

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: The game implies that Mary-Ann was planning to kill ''herself'' the night she died, and Tyler stumbling in on her shook her resolve.]]

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: The game implies that Mary-Ann was planning to kill ''herself'' the night she died, and Tyler stumbling in on her shook her resolve.]]

* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: PlayedWith, and sort of Averted. The twins aren't able to publicly expose his infidelity and the fact he's their father, due to him threatening to reveal that [[Blackmail Alyson killed Mary-Ann]] to the town... but he still loses his mayoral campaign and his wife a short while after their confrontation.]]

[[spoiler: * DrivenToSuicide: The game implies that Mary-Ann was planning to kill ''herself'' the night she died, and Tyler stumbling in on her shook her resolve.]]

** [[spoiler: Averted. ‘’He’’ believes he is this, and is oblivious that his wife knew about his affair with Mary-Ann until the twins tell him. In the epilogue it’s revealed Tessa has very publicly left him.]]

* KnightOfCerebus: He's by far the creepiest character in the Book of Goblins. Unlike the other villain characters, he's always portrayed as a deadly serious threat.

* TalkingAnimals: Aside from the Frog, who only gets the gift of speech later on, all of the animals in the forest can talk to the Princess and she understands them just fine.

A princess from a far away land who now lives in the forest with her animal friends.

A gigantic, chatty frog.

An evil witch who lives at the bottom of the lake in the form of a seal.

* AnimalMotif: Mooses. His counterpart in The Book of Goblins is the Stalwart Moose.

* TheDragon: In ''The Goblins Trick the Mad Hunter'' it's revelaed he works for another character called the Gold Lady. And she's powerful enough to take his hand away with him not being able to do anything about it.

[[folder:Sam]]

[[folder:Eddy]]

[[folder:The Bear]]

A generous pelican with a magical beak that never empties.

A righteous moose who teaches the Crafty Goblins how to fish.

[[folder: The Ice King]]
A powerful wizard who lives in a mountain.

* BigGood: He often acts as judge and jury for the forest's inhabitants and keeps watch over them in general.

[[folder: The Secret Keeper]]
A mysterious woman who accepts the secrets of others and releases them into the clouds.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: She looks like a normal human woman, but she has the power to take secrets other offer her and store them in the clouds. She also seems to have telepathic powers, as she takes secrets by way of directly looking into a person's head.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: She' a quiet, withdrawn, unassuming individual, but she was cunning enough to trick the Crafty Goblins and get away with it in the only story really featuring her.

[[folder: The Moon Hag]]
An evil witch who lives at the bottom of the lake in the form of a seal.

* WickedWitch: She's described as an ugly, mean old woman in several stories and the lake's bottom is littered with the corpses of her victims.

[[folder: The Mad Hunter]]
A merciless huntsman who pursues the Princess.

* AmbiguousSituation: Unlike the other characters, he doesn't seem to have a real-life counterpart in Delos Cross. The twins mention he was Mary-Ann's creation, implying she might have based him on someone in her past life. [[spoiler: Tyler briefly sees him in the woods while running away from Mary-Ann, grinning maniacally, but it's unclear if he was actually there or just a stress-induced hallucination.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: He's by far the creepiest character in the Book of Goblins. Unlike with the other villain characters, he's always portrayed as a deadly serious threat.
* SlasherSmile: In the few drawings he appears in, he's always presented with a huge, evil grin.

An old, slightly clumsy bear.

* {{Transgender}}: Tyler is a transgender man, and started his transition during his ten-year stay at the Fireweed
Youth Center.

[[folder: Mary-Ann Ronan]]

[[folder: Sam]]

[[folder: Eddy]]

[[folder: Tessa Vecchi]]

[[folder: Tom Vecchi]]

[[folder: Michael]]

[[folder: In General]]

[[folder: The Crafty Goblins]]
Two little Goblins who live under the Wise Princesse's house.

[[folder: The Wise Princess]]

[[folder: The Bear]]

* DoggedNiceGuy: He falls in love with the princess after rescuing her from the wolves and gives her many beautiful gifts to convince her to marry him. She has to reject him mutliple times until he gets the hint.

[[folder:The Twins]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: [[spoiler:Tyler, to the point where he decides to lie about killing their mother without hesitation to prevent Alyson from being punished.]]
* {{Transgender}}: Tyler is a transgender man, and started his transition during his ten-year stay at the Firecreek Youth Center.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: He expresses amazement how modern medicine can "make a woman look like a man" when he sees Tyler. He quickly backpedals when Tyler calls him out on it, but them puts his foot in his mouth again by telling Tyler that it's just hard for old guys like him to "understand".