History Characters / UntilDawn

* MonstrousHumanoid: They look human, but they have long, thin limbs and ugly sharp teeth. It makes sense seeing how these creatures were [[WasOnceAMan once human]].

* SuperPersistentPredator: They're definitely not the type to give up, and the fact that they're invulnerable to anything but fire helps on that. If several of them are in the same place, they will even fight each other to claim the prey, as seen when several of them invade the lodge near the end.

* SuperStrength: The main Wendigo, Hannah, displays this, especially when killing the teens or fighting the other Wendigos. The Asylum Wendigos seem to be somewhat less strong, as they're unable to break free of relatively simple restraints and Mike is able to (barely) survive a hand-to-hand encounter with them. The Stranger's diary also mentioned that he's been bitten by them many times, suggesting that he too has won hand-to-hand fights with them. It's most likely that Hannah is unusually strong because either: (1) The Wendigo spirit possessing her is indeed that of Makkapitew, the Alpha Wendigo, (2) Hannah is a much "younger" Wendigo than the miners who turned half a century ago, or (3) Hannah has been free to feed on the mountain's wildlife, and also her friends depending on the player's choices, for almost a year whereas the other Wendigos have been kept locked up and likely starving for a long time.

* SecretIdentityVocalShift: He speaks with a voice modulator device in his mask that makes him speak in a scary low-pitched tone not only to creep out the teenagers, but also to conceal his true identity: [[spoiler:Josh]].

->'''Played By:''' Creator/NicholeBloom (English), Veronika Sarkisova (Russian)

* DeathBySex: Depending on the player, he and Jess could be the only two characters to die for this very reason. {{Averted|Trope}} in terms of game design in regards to Mike, he's probably the most difficult character to kill and easiest character to save. Even moreso than [[FinalGirl Sam]]. [[spoiler:And due to PlotArmor, he certainly cannot die until long after attempting to have sex with Jess.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Pretty much her most prominent trait, as she is regularly defined by her self-centered and arrogant personality. Her "Charitable" trait is not only the lowest out of everyone, but the lowest rank of any trait overall.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Depending on how one plays, she can end up as this (particularly if her relationship with Matt increases). She does not hesitate to pull Matt up from the cliff if he attacks the deer and successfully climbs back up. If they remain on good terms and Emily survives, she either asks the police if Matt is okay and that she's his girlfriend (if he survives) or is deeply saddened about how she treated him (if he dies). She also expresses concern and shock upon hearing about Josh's apparent death, gets sad and distressed as she finds clues regarding Beth and Hannah in the mines, can comfort Ashley if [[spoiler:Chris was killed by the Wendigo on the way back to the lodge]], and expresses concern for Sam when she separates to search for Mike [[spoiler:though one can only see this last one if Ashley dies in Chapter 9.]]

* DeathBySex: The trope can be averted at the player's discretion, but she's potentially the killer's first victim, and is abducted shortly before attempting to have sex with Mike.

* BareYourMidriff: Her outfit after the TimeSkip includes a skin-tight t-shirt which exposes her navel and part of her [[GoofyPrintUnderwear underwear]].

* Agent Scully: During the basement segment, despite everything going on, he was skeptical and denied the possibility of the presence of ghosts.

* AmbiguouslyBi: He has a very apparent crush on Ashley, but there's his close friendship with [[ChildhoodFriends Josh]], and the fact that he admits out loud to Mike he finds he has "sheer good looks and muscles" that might indicate an attraction to guys as well.

* AsianAirhead: Despite her general behavior making her come across as a bitchy, high maintenance version of this, she averts it. If she gets in an argument with Jessica, she mentions her 4.0 grade average and being in the honor roll, and she can also be pretty resourceful on the fly while [[spoiler:escaping from the mines with the wendigos in hot pursuit.]]
* AsianAndNerdy: She's Asian-American and has a 4.0 grade average. Though she's far less likeable than more examples.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Gives one to Ashley [[spoiler:after she realizes that she won't turn into a Wendigo due to the bite, and that Ashley's panic almost led to Mike killing her]].
-->'''Ashley:''' Try to understand!\\
'''Emily:''' Understand the palm of my hand, ''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch!]]'' ''('''SLAP''')''

* AmbiguouslyBrown: It can be assumed Matt is a light skinned African-American or mixed euroepan/african-american heritage. His actor Jordan Fisher has multiple ethnicities being Nigerian, Cambodian, English, Tahitian, Italian, Greek and Scandinavian heritage. Its not likely Matt shares the same background as his actor all things considered.

* DeathBySex: Depending on the player, he and Jess could be the only two characters to die for this very reason. {{Averted}} in terms of game design in regards to Mike, he's probably the most difficult character to kill and easiest character to save. Even moreso than [[FinalGirl Sam]]. [[spoiler:And due to PlotArmor, he certainly cannot die until long after attempting to have sex with Jess.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: He seems to view [[spoiler: Jessica’s death in Chapter 4 as this. Blaming himself for not getting to her fast enough]].

* {{Sadist}}: {{Implied}}, depending on the choices you make. He will be taunting and sarcastic as he hurts [[spoiler:Josh whom he holds captive in a nearby shack when he thinks that he killed Jess]]. [[spoiler:If he shoots Emily, his honest and funny character trait meters will slightly increase. If the character info menus are anything to go by in this game, then Mike's either simply losing his marbles or he had murderous urges ''before'' the Wendigos showed up.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:A {{Downplayed}} example: Josh is set up as one of the eight main characters whom the player can control and try to condemn or save, but he's only actually playable during two brief sections towards the end of the game (not counting the ImagineSpot scenes in the psychiatrist's office), during which the player can't make any significant choices or impact the plot. His role in the game is very different to that of the other seven leads, and even his "good" ending doesn't result in him escaping with the rest of the group.]]

* SubterraneanSanityFailure: In the finale, Josh is dragged underground by the BigBad and trapped in the mines, resulting in a bevy of psychological problems catching up with him - not helped by the fact that Josh can earlier admit to being [[HatesBeingAlone terrified of isolation]]. Before long, he's started hearing voices, seeing visions of his dead sisters, and being menaced by giant illusory pig heads. [[spoiler: In the event that he survives the game, Hannah drags him even deeper into the mines, leaving him alone with the Wendigo's CannibalLarder - eventually driving him to succumb to his demons and begin his own transformation...]]

* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:His ultimate role in the game is such a twist that nearly all of his tropes have to include spoilers.]]

** [[spoiler: She'll also be insistent on leaving the lounge despite knowing there's a psycho on the loose and that Sam, who both she and Chris know is still in there, is in just as much danger as they are. Even Emily, who is outwardly mean to everyone, worried about Sam's safety after Josh's faked death.]]

* BoomHeadshot: Potential death for Ashley. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it turns out that, in fact, the gun was filled with blanks.]]

-->'''Ashley''': [''seeing Chris dressed as a monk''] Please tell me you're gonna take a vow of ''silence''.

** [[spoiler: There's also her behavior after Josh's faked death. When she and Chris become convinced that a psycho killer is roaming around, she repeatedly tries to convince him to escape with her despite knowing that Sam is still in the lounge, alive as far as they know, and in as much danger as they are, something Chris has to remind her of several times.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: A potential fate of Ashley's. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it turns out that, in fact, Ashley was never in danger of being sliced in half.]]

* NiceGirl: Downplayed. Ashley will worry about the well being of her friends, and seems to genuinely feel bad about [[spoiler:the prank that was pulled on Hannah.]] She seems generally cheerful and pleasant to be around, considering [[spoiler:what happened last year on the mountain.]] Notably, she is also the only member of the group to not pull any pranks on anyone during her stay on the lodge. [[spoiler: Later on in the game, her more selfish side comes out. If one were to express remorse about the prank pulled on Hannah, her honesty trait goes down, implying that she doesn't ''actually'' feel bad about it. She worries about her friends, but will try to convince Chris to leave the lounge with her despite knowing that Sam is still there and in as much danger as they are. She also wanted to send Emily out to her death due to unsubstantiated claims that the bite Emily received will turn her into a wendigo, which get disproved soon after. Said claims can lead to Emily's death if the player makes Mike shoot Emily. For the final nail in the coffin, while she'll make a show of trying to convince Chris to sacrifice her to save himself, if he actually attempts to shoot her during the Ashley vs Chris game, she'll hold a grudge against him and will allow him to be killed by a Wendigo.]]

* BodyMotifs: His head since [[spoiler: it's the main target of most of his potential deaths]].
* BoomHeadshot: Potential death for Chris. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it turns out that, in fact, the gun was filled with blanks.]]

* WouldNotHitAGirl: {{Invoked}}. If [[spoiler:Josh punches Ashley and gives her a black eye, Chris will return the favor later on and state this as the reason why.]]

* AlphaBitch: Emily fits this trope to an absolute T, even more than Jessica. In the past she and Jessica had a GirlPosse going on. She's still one in present time, quite in a class of her own. She's abrasive, domineering, high-maintenance, especially towards her current boyfriend Matt. [[spoiler: Even when she's about to fall off a tower, she will continue to fling insults at her boyfriend Matt, ''while the guy is trying to save her''.]] If she lives, she'll ask the police to beat Matt up. (However, this is if he didn’t max out their relationship; if he did, she shows concern for him.)

-->'''Ashley''': Try to understand!
-->'''Emily''': Understand the palm of my hand, ''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch!]]'' ['''''SLAP''''']

* EntitledBitch: For Emily to not throw Matt under the bus and lie to the police about him leaving her for dead during the Fire Tower collapse, Matt needs to build a high enough Relationship Value with Emily, even if it means bowing to her every wims and never calling her out on her horrid treatment towards Matt. This is especially infuriating when choosing to save Emily [[spoiler: will lead to Matt's death if he does not have the flare gun]], as Emily will ''still'' lie to the police if she feels that Matt wasn't a good enough boyfriend to her.

* UndyingLoyalty: Even though he can jump instead of trying to save Emily, his concern for her isn’t conditional. Unlike Emily, who will tell the police not to bother to look for him or even lie about him “basically murdering” her if their relationship was bad, Matt always shows concern for her and regret for being unable to save her after the tower fell, and he’ll be distressed if she dies regardless of how their relationship was like.

-->'''Matt''': [''annoyed''] Whatever you say, princess!

* OutOfFocus: She spends most of the game separated from the group after Chapter 4. She disappears for 4 chapters, until making a brief cameo in Chapter 9 [[spoiler: if the player kept her alive. She has one final sequence in Chapter 10 that she can potentially share with Matt where she escapes the mines]].

* DiesWideOpen: She stares at the camera with wide eyes after a bad fall from the cliff. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} once she's revealed to be NotQuiteDead]].

* HeroicWillpower: {{Implied}}, depending on how you interpret the actions of [[spoiler:Wendigo Hannah in the final sequence. Given the choice between attacking Sam or the wendigo that's about to kill her, she tackles the other wendigo in the air. Asserting her dominance as alpha wendigo, as we'd seen earlier, or the last vestige of her humanity coming to the fore to save her friend?]] Given how [[spoiler:infamously sadistic and gluttonous the wendigos are, the fact that she refrains from torturing or eating the bodies of her friends implies that not all of Hannah has been claimed by the Wendigo spirit possessing her. She may even show mercy to Josh, which would be anathema to a Wendigo, and there's not an instance in the game where she kills her crush Mike, though this may be casual or a consequence of the latter's PlotArmor]].

* SubterraneanSanityFailure: [[spoiler: After falling into the mines, Hannah ended up trapped there for several months, growing increasingly desperate as injuries, starvation, and being hopelessly lost in the tunnels took their toll. In the end, she dug up Beth's corpse and ate most of it, sparing the head out of sheer guilt. Before long, she became a Wendigo, her sanity [[ApocalypticLog noticeably]] disintegrating as her transformation got underway.]]

* AmbiguouslyBrown: It can be assumed Matt is a light skinned African-American or mixed euroepan/african-american heritage. His actor Jordan Fisher has multiple ethnicities being Nigerian, Cambodian, English, Tahitian, Italian, Greek and Scandinavian heritage. Its not likely Matt shares the same background as his actor all thinga considered.

* AnAxeToGrind: He is wielded with an axe at one point, though only attack elks with it (at the player's discretion), which ''can'' kill him if the player doesn't handle it well with the QTE's.

* AnAxeToGrind: In Chapter 2, Chris (or Matt) can find that an axe has been taken from its mount outside of the lodge, hinting that the Psycho has it. Later on, Matt finds it at the cable car and it turns out to be [[spoiler:a RedHerring with only limited use to the characters before disappearing from the story.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: Can kill Emily by shooting her through the eye. [[{{Sadist}} And will enjoy it if he does]].

->'''Played By:''' Galadriel Stineman (English), Lina Ivanova (Russian)

* CryCute: She can cry and be absolutely ''broken'' if Matt dies falling off the cliff.

* NiceHat: Wears a pink and black striped beanie that she never takes off, [[spoiler:with the only time that she's seen without it is if a wendigo catches and decapitates her.]]

* NiceHat: Wears a beanie.

* PluckyGirl: Jessica is the most energetic and fun-loving member of the group, at one point mocking Michael for being a "Debbie Downer". This goes out the window after her attack and, should she survive, she's left completed traumatized and broken.

* BettyAndVeronica: The kind Betty to Jess's alluring Veronica to Mike's Archie.

** He's the Archie to Emily's Veronica and Jess's Betty, and also to Sam's Betty and Jess's Veronica.
** He's the Veronica to Matt's Betty to Emily's Archie, as well as the [[BettyAndVeronicaSwitch Betty to Josh's Veronica]] to Sam's Archie.

* BettyAndVeronicaSwitch: He appears as the dorky Betty to Mike's ChickMagnet Veronica (to Sam's Archie) but it's revealed [[spoiler:to be the BitchInSheepsClothing Veronica to Mike's JerkWithAHeartOfGold Betty]].

* BettyAndVeronica: The alluring Veronica to Sam's NiceGirl Betty, as well as the excitable Betty to Emily's aloof Veronica (all to Mike's Archie).

* AndIMustScream: It's heavily implied the Wendigos have some of their humanities remaining in them, and worse yet that their souls might be stuck in the ravenous, ruthless beasts their bodies have become which are controlled by the Wendigo spirits. If Josh crying out Hannah's name causes the Hannah Wendigo to drag him off alive instead of killing him, then a ghostly female voice which appears to be Hannah's can be heard crying "HELP" amid the Wendigo's screech.

* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: If killed, the Wendigo spirit will just leave and be free to find a new host. The Stranger considers it preferable to capture Wendigos in cages and keep them there instead of killing them for this reason.

* BodyMotif: His head since [[spoiler: it's the main target of most of his potential deaths]].

* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler:Probably one of the most horrific forms of this trope. She survives the fall, but has to watch Beth die beside her. In spite of her broken leg, she manages to pay Beth due respect by dragging her body away from the site of their fall and burying her, even making her a makeshift gravestone -- but after almost a month without any food left, severe starvation drives Hannah to dig up and eat her beloved sister's mortal remains in desperation, which directly instigates Hannah's transformation into a Wendigo. Beth's head can be found almost perfectly preserved near the place they fell; as it hasn't been eaten yet like the rest of Beth, it seems even the wendigo version of Hannah wants something of Beth to stay with her.]]

* InformedAttribute: The Stranger, when aiming to impress upon Chris what they're up against, says that the Wendigos keep their victims alive as long as possible while feeding on them, first stripping off the skin and then eating the organs one at a time. Considering how quick and brutal the deaths they deal to our hapless heroes usually are, it may have been the Stranger trying to scare Chris into abandoning the search for Josh, or that maybe Hannah (who inflicts the majority of said deaths) is not a typical wendigo.

* SuperStrength: The main Wendigo, Hannah, displays this, especially when killing the teens or fighting the other Wendigos. The Asylum Wendigos seem to be somewhat less strong, as they're unable to break free of relatively simple restraints and Mike is able to (barely) survive a hand-to-hand encounter with them. The Stranger's diary also mentioned that he's been bitten by them many times, suggesting that he too has won hand-to-hand fights with them. It's most likely that Hannah is unusually strong because either: (1) The Wendigo spirit possessing her is indeed that of Makkapitew, the Alpha Wendigo, (2) Hannah is a much "younger" Wendigo than the miners who turned half a century ago, or (3) Hannah has been free to feed on the mountain's wildlife, and also her friends depending on the player's choices, for over a year whereas the other Wendigos have been kept locked up and likely starving for a long time.

* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler:She survives the fall, but has to watch Beth die beside her. In spite of her broken leg, she manages to pay Beth due respect by dragging her body away from the site of their fall and burying her, even making her a makeshift gravestone. Beth's head can be found almost perfectly preserved near the place they fell; as it hasn't been eaten yet like the rest of Beth, it seems even the wendigo version of Hannah wants something of Beth to stay with her.]]

* DiesWideOpen: She stares at the camera with wide eyes after a bad fall from the cliff. [[spoiler:Averted once she's revealed to be NotQuiteDead]].

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Starts the game off as a shy, smitten teenager and ends it [[spoiler:a murderous Wendigo that has possibly killed off all her friends in the span of one night.]]

* HeroicWillpower: Maybe, depending on how you interpret the actions of [[spoiler:Wendigo Hannah in the final sequence. Given the choice between attacking Sam or the wendigo that's about to kill her, she tackles the other wendigo in the air. Asserting her dominance as alpha wendigo, as we'd seen earlier, or the last vestige of her humanity coming to the fore to save her friend?]] Given how [[spoiler:infamously sadistic and gluttonous the wendigos are, the fact that she refrains from torturing or eating the bodies of her friends implies that not all of Hannah has been claimed by the Wendigo spirit possessing her. She may even show mercy to Josh, which would be anathema to a Wendigo, and there's not an instance in the game where she kills her crush Mike, though this may be casual or a consequence of the latter's PlotArmor]].

* NakedNutter: [[spoiler:As a Wendigo, Hannah Washington doesn't need clothes to protect herself from the cold, and unlike the rest of the pack, dresses only in a pair of black panties - marking her out as the most violent and fearsome of all the Wendigos at Blackwood Pines. Of course, given how her condition has distorted her physiology beyond all secondary sexual characteristics, it's impossible to tell that the monster is actually female until you notice Hannah's distinctive butterfly tattoo.]]

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:While the prologue shows her having [[DiesWideOpen died wide open]], it's actually revealed she didn't die from the fall, contrary to Beth, and spent months in the mines before having to eat her own sister for survival, which caused her transformation into a Wendigo]].

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Surprisingly averted. [[spoiler:At first once she is revealed to be the main wendigo preying on the friends, it is easy to assume she is hunting them down and killing them brutally out of revenge, especially because she is not following the wendigo's stated method of capture and attack. As she does not even recognize Josh until he says her name however, it can be assumed Hannah does not recognize her former friends, killing only out of the wendigo's murderous instinct. Their return to the mountain where they pranked her and caused the death of her sister and her own transformation wasn't even her plan for revenge but arranged by her brother, who didn't know that Hannah was still alive as a wendigo and would not have brought them there if he knew their lives were in danger.]]
* SayMyName: The key to saving [[spoiler:Josh. If he sees her butterfly tattoo on the wendigo's arm, he says her name aloud and the Hannah wendigo is able to finally recognize his voice. She'll drag him off deeper into the mines with him screaming in horror and anguish, but she does not kill him and he later turns up unharmed... cannibalizing the Stranger's head and transforming into a wendigo himself.]]

* ThickerThanWater: Both indicators that [[spoiler:something of the human Hannah's personality remains in the wendigo]] come from her attachment to her family -- she refrains from [[spoiler:eating Beth's rotten head even though it is easily within her reach in the mines and she is shown to be able to locate, identify, and rearrange still corpses, and she can recognize Josh, refrain from killing him, and take him with her if he recognizes her butterfly tattoo.]]

* ADogNamedDog: A wolf that Mike creatively named "Wolfie".

* AndIMustScream: An InformedAttribute is that they will keep their victims alive as long as possible while feeding on them, first stripping off the skin and then eating the organs one at a time. Considering how quick and brutal the deaths they deal to our hapless heroes usually are, it may have been the Stranger trying to scare Chris into abandoning the search for Josh, or that maybe Hannah (who inflicts the majority of said deaths) is not a typical wendigo.
** On another level, it's heavily implied Wendigos have some of their humanities remaining in them, and are stuck in the body of a ravenous, ruthless beast which are controlled by the Wendigo spirits.

* OffWithHisHead: Another effective way of killing them, [[KillItWithFire other than burning their skin]], is to behead them. Sam manages to save Mike from one by chopping its head off with a pipe or a shovel, which causes its spirit to vanish. Later, Wendigo Hannah asserts her dominance by ripping off another Wendigo's head in the final lodge cutscene.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Mike and Sam finds a place in the mines where Wendigos (most logically Hannah) hang the corpses of their victims and keep their decapitated heads in hanging cages. To make it ''worst'', it can also contain the bodies and heads of the characters the player failed to save throughout the game, just to twist the knife.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: If killed, the Wendigo spirit will just leave and find a new host, necessitating the Stranger to keep the Wendigos he captures in cages.
* SuperStrength: The main Wendigo, Hannah, displays this, especially when killing the teens or fighting the other Wendigos. The Asylum Wendigos seem to be somewhat less strong, as they're unable to break free of relatively simple restraints and Mike is able to (barely) survive a hand-to-hand encounter with them. The Stranger's diary also mentioned that he's been bitten by them many times, suggesting that he too has won hand-to-hand fights with them. It's most likely that Hannah is unusually strong due to being the host for the Alpha Wendigo, Makkapitew.