History Characters / WitheringHope

* ThreeAmigos: With Mitch and Ryan.

* ThreeAmigos: With Jerome and Ryan.

* ThreeAmigos: With Bart and Dave.

* ThreeAmigos: With Jerome and Mitch.

* ThreeAmigos: Supposedly with the spy and the third Despair.

* ThreeAmigos: With Steven and Dave.

* ThreeAmigos: With Steven and Bart.

--> It's virtually impossible to list tropes for these characters without spoiling everything or creating [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler Self Fulfilling Spoilers]] because of the large amount of surprising reveals and murderer/victim exclusive tropes this story contains.

* {{Asexuality}}: Revealed to be this in the alternate version of the story where the secrets are all revealed.

* {{Adorkable}}: When Seto sees that the third floor has a brewing room, he lets out an excited squeal.

The main {{Protagonist}} of the story. Prior to the game, he was possibly the most anti-social of the group, and seems to suffer from some social issues in a way. He is later revealed to be a former member of the Order of the Ender Dragon, and suffers from a lot of trauma due to this. He is currently one of the few survivors remaining.

* ComicalOverreaction: Bodil is a very anxious person...

* AxCrazy: Deconstructed. Slotty kills and tortures people without question for the sake of pleasing his master.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Implied to be kinda young, but Sky is married and has a kid!

it's ya boi.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Mitch and Jerome, and to a lesser extent Ryan, which is probably a big reason why they're all such close friends.

* ClearTheirName: Happens for most of the cast during class trials. Basically, if you're still alive by Chapter 4, you have been a suspect at some point.

* FireForgedFriends: While they were still on good terms before the story, Seto and Tyler begin to bond quite a bit after Sky's execution, to the point of the two having possibly become HeterosexualLifePartners.

* AHouseDivided: The nature of the game has this effect after the first murder. Monowither directly invokes this during Chapter 4, after revealing the existence of spies AND adding the danger of NG codes to the equation.

* TrueCompanions: By the end of Chapter 4, the last group of 6 survivors is very close.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Seto's father kills himself, Seto is adopted by a couple who turn out to be members of the Order of the Ender Dragon, his own uncle changes half of his soul into a killer, he is told for many years that he was never meant to exist, and after he escapes he is so traumatized that he lives by himself in the woods for a year.

->'''Tyler:''' Somehow I get the feeling that you're just being a perfectionist.\\

An evil drug cartel that Seto used to be a member of. Acts as the VillainOfAnotherStory for both Mitch and Ashley, and is responsible for a deep level of trauma inflicted on Seto's psyche.

* PosthumousCharacter: They have already dissolved by the time of the plot. Not like anyone is aware of this though.

* [[Adorkable]]: When Seto sees that the third floor has a brewing room, he lets out an excited squeal.

The Slotty Project was an experiment made by The Order of the Ender Dragon that was used in an attempt to convert a person's soul into an obedient servant who would carry out orders for one of the leaders of The Order, referred to as Master Hennessy. The poor soul who was the subject of this experiment was none other than Master Hennessy's own nephew and protagonist of the story, Seto. Seto was kidnapped by the Order as a child, no older than 7 at the time, and was forced to go through an extremely painful operation. The experiment has caused Seto years of seemingly endless trauma and left a somewhat noticeable scar on the back of his head (the reason he always keeps his hood up). The operation didn't fully work however, only leaving half of Seto's soul changed. This half is Slotty. Although having the mindset of a young child, (his mental age being equal to the time he has existed, essentially) Slotty willingly and happily carried out orders from Master Hennessy, torturing and murdering dozens of people. Although none of the events were at all Seto's fault, he still feels responsible for everything that happened, all because of Slotty sharing his body and Master Hennessy's hatred of him.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Mitch, the two most likely being the closest pair in the group; it is briefly mentioned at the end of Part 2 that he and Jerome were in a queer-platonic relationship.

!!!The Mastermind of Despair

[[folder:The Mastermind]]

* OffstageVillainy: We never actually see any of the terrible things they do, but they are talked about to a large extent by the people they have harmed.

Mitch's best friend prior to the events of the story, and possibly the nicest person of the main cast. Known for being a bacca, which is closely related if not exactly like a Wookie from Franchise/StarWars, Jerome was always willing to bring up morale during their time in the warehouse, and often tried to avoid drama. He is the victim of Chapter 2, being stabbed in the side by Mitch after an emotional outburst, soon dying in his friend's arms as he bled out.

The one behind the cast's imprisonment inside the warehouse, and the main antagonist of the story. He's very eager to see society's biggest hopefuls start killing each other, so he heaps psychological torture on the students at every turn. He constantly engages in forced black comedy during the situation, and gives a disturbing amount of attention to Seto, who he almost acts as if he's in love with at times. There's actually more than one Monowither: he's a series of highly-advanced robots, and can be instantly replaced if destroyed. He states that he's actually bound by the rules like everyone else, but he's willing to bend them for his own benefit to try to get rid of Steven, who was his biggest adversary due to being a spy for hope.

* BlackComedy: Dishes this out constantly. Averted in the fact that he's the only one who thinks it's actually funny.

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: If he thinks something is funny, you don't want to know, and if he has a joke in store for you, then you're basically doomed.

* ExactWords: Loves using this, claiming that he never ever lies. By Chapter 4 though, he starts lying regularly and abandons this.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He speaks in a very easygoing manner (but still refers to the prisoners very rudely), makes a lot of puns, and generally acts like an obnoxiously saccharine principal. It just underscores how incredibly screwed-up his entire personality is.