History Characters / TellMeWhy

* HalfIdenticalTwins: Justified; they're genetically identical, but Tyler is {{transgender}}.

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

** InnocentlyInsensitive: One example of this is when he questions why anyone would eat canned ham, after seeing it in the Vecchi's shop. Alyson can gently point out to him that if you're poor and need food you don't really have a choice and ask if he's forgotten that since being at Fireweed, which causes Tyler to apologise.

* MaliciousMisnaming: In the past, the twins once called Sam "Stinky-pants Sam" after he was sprayed by a skunk that was stuck in their shed. Due to them being children, it was more mischievious than outright malicious.

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: 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.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: If Tyler refuses to cut him any slack during the conversation detailed under InnocentlyInsensitive, he'll genuinely grow to respect Tyler as a person and make sincere attempts to understand his gender identity. When he reappears later in the story he gifts Tyler a pocket knife, figuring that no-one ever thought to give him one (not that he would have been allowed one in a youth offenders' centre anyway...), but [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments insisting that it's an essential gift for any young man to receive from his surrogate father figure]].

* TransTribulations: Downplayed. Tyler realized he was trans from a very young age, but his mother seemingly didn't support it, denying his request to join the hockey team because it wasn't feminine enough for her tastes, misgendering him and refusing to give him a hair cut. He started transitioning for real after he was send to Fireweed's and it went very smoothly for the most part.

* AnimalMotif: Mooses. His counterpart in The Book of Goblins is the Stalwart Moose. In episode 2 he calls Alyson "little moose".

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The twins once imagined him hunting them down in their childhood - only for him to appear in the house for real. It's ambiguous if he was really there, or if the twins' imagination just ran a little wild that day.

* AmbiguouslyGay: He swoons over Idris Elba in one of his and Tyler's conversations and even seems to flirt with Tyler at some points.
** His sexuality is confirmed in chapter 2, wherein he discusses having dated guys, and expresses genuine interest in Tyler.
** [[spoiler: The player can choose as Tyler to either turn him down in Chapter 3, or reciprocate, and the two of them will share a kiss.]]

* AbusiveParent: She was extremely neglectful towards the twins and her steady refusal to accept help from anyone often resulted in her and her children being put in a bad spot. She was also incredibly jealous of the twins' close relationship, feeling like they were excluding her and did things like stealing a young Tyler's diary. She also tried to kill him with a shotgun the night of her death, presumably because he'd let Alyson cut his hair after she refused to do it. [[spoiler: Though the ending of Chapter 1 implies that might not exactly have been what happened after all.]]

* HalfIdenticalTwins: Justified; they're genetically identical, but Tyler is transgender.

* ImportantHaircut: A plot point. As a child, Tyler asked Alyson to cut his hair short in order to feel more like a boy. When he wanted to show the result to his mother, it resulted in her chasing him with a shotgun and [[spoiler:Alyson having no other choice but to stab her to protect him]], resulting to her death and their eventual ten-year separation.

* HappilyAdopted: By Eddy Brown, the Delas Crossing chief of police.

!Delos Cross

* AnimalMotif: Bears. He's gruff, burly and his counterpart in The Book of Goblins is the Old Bear.

* MaliciousMisnaming: In the past the twins once called him "Stinky-pants Sam".

* AffectionateNickname: Calls Alyson "little moose".

* BadBadActing: He calls himself "a terrible actor".

* BrutalHonesty: Tyler is very spontaneous in his words, not holding back despite some of the words he say might sound [[InnocentlyInsensitive harsher than he intends]].

* LovingBully: A sibling variant. He enjoyed needling and baiting Alyson when they were kids. He still sometimes does it in the present.

* TwinTelepathy: Shared when they were children, but disappeared for the duration of their decade-long separation.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Due to being a huge environmentalist, Tyler likes basically all animals. Even spiders, much to Alyson's chagrin.
* LovingBully: He enjoyed needling and baiting Alyson when they were kids. He still sometimes does it in the present.

* ApologisesALot: {{Downplayed}} with Alyson. When Tyler calls her out for this on the boat, she apologizes for that, too.

* PosthumousCharacter: She's been dead for ten years by the story's present.

* BigBrotherInstinct: [[spoiler:Tyler is and was very protective of Alyson, to the point where he decides to lie about killing their mother without hesitation to prevent Alyson from being punished.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The citizens of Delos Creek all admit to having been surprised to hear she was so against Tyler being a boy that she'd actually go so far as to try and kill him. [[spoiler: The fact that she has a guidebook on raising a transgender child in her room and got angry with Tessa for proposing a conversion camp heavily imply that she wasn't actually against it.]]

* 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 and potentially Alyson, being unable to cope with the thought they might be taken away from her; 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]].]]

[[folder:Michael]]

* [[spoiler: AccompliceByInaction: He was present the night Mary-Ann died. While he didn't actively do anything to cause Mary-Ann's death, he was an adult and in a position to help get her medical attention after she was stabbed, but chose to run away and leave her to die and the twins to deal with the fall-out.]]

* [[spoiler: DirtyCoward: Twice over. He ran away the night Mary-Ann was murdered, and kept quiet about what happened. When the twins confront him about their relation to him, and his actions that night, he threatens to let everyone know the truth behind how Mary-Ann died so that the twins won't threaten his mayoral election prospects.]]

* [[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 leaves him a short while after their confrontation.]]
* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather: The twins are the product of an affair with Mary-Ann. The only people who knew were him and Mary-Ann... and eventually Tessa.]]

An old, slightly clumsy, but kind-hearted bear.

A mysterious woman who accepts the bad memories of others in exchange for valuable items and releases them into the clouds.