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5
6	!''My Roanoke Nightmare''
7	[[folder:In General]]
8	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/my_roanoke_nightmare.jpg]]
9
10	* ActingForTwo:
11	** {{Inverted}}. All of the characters introduced are played by ''two'' actors each: one in the "real" interview sections, one in the dramatic reconstructions.
12	** Also played straight with Lana Winters' return.
13	* DawsonCasting: All of the actors in the reconstruction are quite a bit older than the people they're playing.[[note]]Which is to say, the actors playing the actors in the reconstruction are quite a bit older than [[MindScrew the actors playing those "real" people they're supposedly playing]].[[/note]] Sarah Paulson is eight years older than Lily Rabe; Cuba Gooding Jr. is twelve years older than Andre Holland; and Angela Bassett is thirteen years older than Adina Porter.
14	* ShowWithinAShow: The characters played by Lily Rabe, Andre Holland, and Adina Porter are being interviewed for a reality ghost-hunting show entitled ''My Roanoke Nightmare''. Meanwhile, Sarah Paulson, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Angela Bassett play actors Audrey Tindall, Dominic Banks and Monet Tumusiime doing dramatic reenactments of the events being described.
15	[[/folder]]
16
17	!The Crew
18
19	[[folder:Sidney Aaron James]]
20	!!Sidney Aaron James
21	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/james_sidney_aaron.jpg]]
22	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Reality is what we make of it."'']]
23	->'''Played By:''' Creator/CheyenneJackson
24
25	The executive producer and interviewer of ''My Roanoke Nightmare'', who comes up with the idea to return to the house with the real subjects ''and'' the actors who played them.
26	----
27	* AuthorAvatar: It's easy to see him as a fictionalized take on Creator/RyanMurphy: energetic, pretentious and obsessive. Murphy isn't quite as overtly vicious as Sidney is, though.
28	* TheChessmaster: He's impressively good at his job... in a borderline sociopathic sort of way.
29	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He embodies every negative stereotype of the TV industry (reality TV in particular).
30	* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:He wanted the Butcher back, and good Lord, did he ever get her.]]
31	* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler:His stomach is sliced open by Agnes.]]
32	* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:He rightly denies Agnes the chance to return to the mansion for ''Return To Roanoke: 3 Days in Hell'' because she actually ''is'' unstable and attacked Audrey with a meat cleaver after the show wrapped for [[DisproportionateRetribution winning a Saturn Award]]. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted,]] in that Sidney served her a restraining order in a public and humiliating way to ''deliberately set her off'' in the hopes she would show up on set to terrorize the cast.]]
33	* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:He had hoped to send Agnes into a rage. It apparently never occurred to him that that rage might end up being directed at ''him''.]]
34	* ManipulativeBastard: The man has no scruples whatsoever about messing with people's lives and emotions in order to get more ratings.
35	* TheVoice: Until "Chapter Five".
36	[[/folder]]
37
38	[[folder:Diana Cross]]
39	!!Diana Cross
40	->'''Played By:''' Creator/ShannonLucio
41
42	Sidney's assistant.
43	----
44	* DoomedMoralVictor: She's the rational voice who questions Sidney's rampant egomania and is smart enough to flee when strange, horrific things begin happening on the set of ''Return to Roanoke''. [[spoiler: Naturally, she is killed right as she's driving out of the woods.]]
45	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Piggy Man kills her.]]
46	* OnlySaneWoman: The only person involved with the show to object to Sidney's many questionable decisions. She's also adamant about shutting down production as soon as the first person dies and bolts when Sidney refuses.
47	** A very minor example but during the interview with Shelby in "Chapter 6", she seems to be the only cast member to truly feel sorry for her.
48	* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Got killed immediately in the episode she appeared in by the Pig Man after trying to leave the house]].
49	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: She quits after all the weird shit that keeps happening at the house.
50	* TheWatson: Most of her dialogue is asking about Sidney's plans (so he can explain them) or voicing moral objections (so he can laugh them off).
51	[[/folder]]
52
53	[[folder:Alissa]]
54	!!Alissa
55	->'''Played by:''' Creator/ChelseaAlden
56	Sidney's assistant.
57	* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Her throat is slit by Agnes.]]
58	[[/folder]]
59
60	!! Subjects
61
62	[[folder:Shelby Miller]]
63	!!Shelby Miller
64	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahs_shelby_miller.png]]
65	->'''Played By:''' Creator/LilyRabe, Creator/SarahPaulson (as Audrey Tindall in the dramatizations)
66	Matt's wife who had a miscarriage after her husband was attacked and moved into the Roanoke House.
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68	* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: In "Chapter 8", where she stabs the Pig Man in the head ''seconds'' after him sneaking up on her and Dominic and slashes her way to the upper floor, all while bleeding and lethargic.]]
69	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: InUniverse. While Shelby is styled somewhat HollywoodHomely, her counterpart in the dramatizations is decidedly more glam-looking.
70	* TheAlcoholic: She drinks a lot of wine when Matt isn't around.
71	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:She slits her own throat after killing Matt.]]
72	* CrowbarCombatant: [[spoiler:She killed her husband with a crowbar when the latter announced he fell in love with Scàthach.]]
73	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Does this when the ghost colonists surround the house during Return to Roanoke.]]
74	* GranolaGirl: She's a professional yoga teacher who likes gluten-free cooking, and the "real" Shelby appears to wear minimal make-up for her TV appearance. Her clothes are also quite hippy-ish, though you only really see them properly in the reconstruction.
75	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Shelby gets hit with this hard [[spoiler: after she bashes Matt's brains in for scorning her in favor of Scáthach. She is overcome with guilt and horror at having savagely killed the man she loved.]]
76	* NervousWreck: According to Lee in a talking head, "My brother married one jumpy [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]." After [[spoiler:she kills Matt]], Shelby is reduced to hysterical sobbing for the rest of the episode.
77	* TheScrappy: InUniverse, Shelby became widely hated by the audience, becoming the target of the internet's ire.
78	* ScreamingWoman: She screams frequently, which is especially apparent in the promos.
79	* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: How she kills herself.]]
80	* TookALevelInBadass: Surviving the events of ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' definitely bumped her up a few levels. See ActionSurvivor above.
81	* TraumaCongaLine: This girl goes through absolute hell. [[spoiler: She and her beloved husband, Matt, are the victims of a violent assault, in the process causing her to miscarry their baby. They move down south away from the city for a fresh start, only to be terrorized by insane hillbillies and freakish ghosts that haunt the land in service of a witch. Shelby finds Matt having sex with the witch in the woods, only mitigated by the fact that he was (allegedly) entranced. She later gets her ankle smashed by a sledgehammer before she, Matt and Flora are nearly ritualistically murdered. Though she and Matt escape this ordeal, they become estranged from one another. Shelby has an affair with Dominic Banks (who played Matt in ''My Roanoke Nightmare''), after which she and Matt separate. She signs on to ''Return to Roanoke'' hoping to mend their relationship. Matt only starts to come around after Shelby is stabbed and nearly killed by Agnes. Then Shelby discovers him having sex with the hideous witch again, proclaiming his love for her, causing Shelby to snap and brutally murder Matt. She gets her ankle shattered again, and then is trapped by all the ghosts she previously escape. Heartbroken and with no way out, Shelby slashes her own throat.]]
82	* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler: Matt certainly did not see [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge that]] coming, and neither did we.]]
83	* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:Turns Lee in for sneaking off at the time of Mason's death]] after she finds Matt and Scáthach having sex at the end of "Chapter 3". After she realizes Matt was NotHimself, she regrets her actions and they reconcile. [[spoiler:It doesn't turn out so well when she finds him at it again after her own relationship with him has crumbled and [[MoreThanMindControl he tells her he only came back to the house because he wants to be with Scáthach]]; having herself only came back to try to reconcile again with ''him'', Shelby completely loses it and beats his head in with a crowbar.]]
84	[[/folder]]
85
86	[[folder:Matt Miller]]
87	!!Matt Miller
88	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahs_matt_miller.png]]
89	->'''Played By:''' Creator/AndreHolland, Creator/CubaGoodingJr (as Dominic Banks in the dramatizations)
90	Shelby's husband who was attacked on the street causing her wife to have a miscarriage from stress. He moves into the Roanoke Hoise with her.
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92	* AlliterativeName: '''M'''att '''M'''iller.
93	* BlackAndNerdy: He wears NerdGlasses and is a pharmaceutical sales rep.
94	* DissonantSerenity: When he [[spoiler:shows up for ''Return to Roanoke'']] his affect is creepily flat... except when he sees Dominic.
95	* BludgeonedToDeath: [[spoiler:His head is bashed in by Shelby after he has sex with Scáthach]].
96	* EyeScream: Matt fell victim to the Knockout Game and suffered a broken orbital socket, which swelled horribly.
97	* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: [[spoiler: How he dies.]] In very graphic detail.
98	* FootDraggingDivorcee: He wants to divorce Shelby after her affair with Dominic Banks but she wants to reconcile.
99	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Matt suffers a head injury early on, and Shelby is sick with grief fearing for his life. [[spoiler: Near the end, their relationship ends with Shelby obliterating Matt's head with a crowbar after he spurns her for Scáthach, only to kill herself out of guilt shortly after.]]
100	* TheLoad: In his own words, he is useless. It is only after he, Shelby and Flora are attacked by the Roanoke colonists and the Polk family that he finally TakesALevelInBadass.
101	* MoreThanMindControl: Scáthach takes an... [[AbhorrentAdmirer interest]] in Matt from the get-go, immediately thralling him into having rough sex with her in the woods during the search for Flora. Later on, she opens herself up to him mentally and reveals her [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds true history]] to him. When Matt returns to the house for [[spoiler: ''Return to Roanoke'', he's oddly stoic with a flat affect until he eventually reveals that he came back to the house ''specifically'' to reunite with Scáthach.]]
102	* NiceGuy: In the beginning, he's a normal, steady, fairly likable guy who just wants to start a happy life with Shelby.
103	* TinMan: He admits to Shelby in "Chapter 7" that since they lived at the house, he doesn't feel human anymore, which may account for his [[DissonantSerenity creepily]] stoic [[TheStoic demeanor]] in the second half of the season. That said, he has his NotSoStoic moments towards her and Dominic to indicate something of his old personality remains.
104	* TookALevelInBadass: Over the course of ''My Roanoke Nightmare'', Matt gradually asserted himself more in order to defend his wife and sister, standing up to ghosts and inbred psychopaths. Subverted in that Matt's braver moments usually [[NiceJobBreakingItHero only make his bad situation worse.]]
105	* TookALevelInJerkass: The traumatic events of ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' and Shelby's infidelity with the actor ''who played him'' in the television re-enactment seem to have turned Matt into a colder, more bitter person than the loving man portrayed in the beginning. [[spoiler: Although his changed behavior might also have something to do with Scáthach's corrupting influence.]]
106	* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: His marriage to a white woman does not endear him to the hillbilly Polk family.
107	* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:Shelby smashes his head into a bloody pulp with a crowbar.]]
108	[[/folder]]
109
110	[[folder:Lee Harris]]
111	!! Lee Harris
112	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahs_lee_miller.png]]
113	->'''Played By:''' Creator/AdinaPorter, Creator/AngelaBassett (as Monet Tumusiime in the dramatizations)
114	Matt's sister who moves into the Roanoke House because Shelby is seeing weird things.
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116	* ActionGirl: As a former trained police officer, she is better prepared than the others for the threats at the house. In "Chapter 5", she [[spoiler:[[CarFu rams the Pig Man with a car]] to [[BigDamnHeroes save Flora, Matt, and Shelby]]]], and in the second story arc, she comes back to the mansion with a gun in tow, and puts it to good use, even headshotting [[spoiler:Agnes Winstead.]] The next episode, she manages to [[spoiler:trick and kill Jether]] to escape being tortured and killed by them.
117	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: InUniverse. Much like Shelby, Lee's counterpart in the dramatizations is glammed up a bit from the real thing.
118	* TheAlcoholic: She's a recovering one.
119	* AntiHero: Lee is a courageous woman who is quick to aid people who are in trouble and often invokes the law. [[spoiler: She's also self-righteous, quick to judge others and [[{{Hypocrite}} a cold-blooded murderer]].]]
120	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: She point-blank refuses to believe that [[spoiler:Shelby killed Matt]]. For all that she despises her sister-in-law, she doesn't doubt that Shelby still loved Matt.
121	* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Essentially becomes a new Butcher.]]
122	* BigDamnHeroes: Returns just in time to [[spoiler: drive Matt, Shelby, and Flora away from the house]].
123	* TheBusCameBack: She returns to the house with the rest of the crew to film ''Return to Roanoke: 3 Days in Hell''.
124	* CassandraTruth: She spouts these in the final episode of Roanoke. During her final return to the grounds to look for Flora, she's practically screaming and yelling at the paranormal investigators to get out of there while they still can and they are all badly underestimating the house and the perils like she and everyone else did.
125	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Shot in the chest by Priscilla.]]
126	* ClearMyName: One of her reasons for agreeing to participate in ''Return to Roanoke: 3 Days in Hell'' is to defend herself against the lingering accusations that she was the one to kill Mason.
127	* CareerEndingInjury: Zig-zagged. She was shot during a drug bust, though she fully healed from it. What ended her career was the painkiller addiction she developed during the recovery process.
128	* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Becomes a servant of Scáthach in "Chapter 9".]]
129	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Willingly dies to save her daughter's life.]]
130	* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: She frames the Polk family for Mason's murder in the first half of the series. In the second half of the series, Lee is captured and tortured by the Polks.]]
131	* MamaBear: Will stop at nothing to find Flora and keep her safe. However, she is still far from a perfect mother and in "Chapter 8", [[spoiler:she reveals that she did kill Mason—Flora's own father—because he was going to take Flora away from her.]]
132	* MeaningfulName: She shares her name with a historian who wrote ''Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony''.
133	* MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:She reveals that she killed Mason during the events of ''My Roanoke Nightmare'', though it was under duress. However, during ''Return To Roanoke'' we discover that Matt isn't the only one Scáthach seems to be grooming - Lee was either influenced or outright possessed by the Celtic witch, driving her to kill Mason and Monet and nearly kill Audrey.]]
134	* ParentalNeglect: Her ex gave this as one of his reasons for divorcing her, since she forgot to pick up their daughter multiple times. He got full custody after their divorce.
135	* ParentsAsPeople: She thinks so.
136	-->'''Lee''': You know when you're drawing a cat or a house, and you picture that cat or that house in your mind, and it looks so perfect, but you can't get that your hand to live up to that picture in your head. That's what it's like to be a parent. You picture how you wanna be, and it's so wonderful and flawless; but you can't ever live up to that picture you imagined.
137	* PutOnABus: Arrested for abducting her daughter and allegedly murdering her husband, she's not present for the confrontation with the Butcher.
138	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Promises her daughter she will watch over Priscilla and willingly dies so that she may live, burning the house down in the process.]]
139	%%zce* SheWhoFightsMonsters: Invoked by Lana in describing her.
140	[[/folder]]
141
142	!Actors
143
144	[[folder:Agnes Mary Winstead]]
145	!!Agnes Mary Winstead
146	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahs_agnes.png]]
147	[[caption-width-right:350:The Woman Who '''Played''' the Butcher]]
148	->'''Played By:''' Creator/KathyBates
149
150	The actress who portrayed The Butcher on ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' who went off the deep end once the show ended.
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152	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: InUniverse. Agnes may be middle-aged and a bit matronly, but she's leagues ahead of [[spoiler: the True Butcher, who's is squat and mannish, with partially rotted and charred skin and thick, matted hair.]]
153	* BecomingTheMask: Poor Agnes took her sterling portrayal of the Butcher a little too far.
154	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Her head is chopped in half by The ''actual'' Butcher.]]
155	* DisproportionateRetribution: She attacks Audrey with a ''meat cleaver'' after "My Roanoke Nightmare" wraps up because Audrey won a Saturn Award for her role as Shelby... and her fan-favorite character The Butcher did not. This may actually have started her SanitySlippage detailed below.
156	* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:After all the carnage she rains down upon her former costars, she runs into the ''actual'' Butcher... who slams a cleaver down on her head.]]
157	* LostInCharacter: She is convinced that she is the Butcher.
158	* SanitySlippage: Assaulted bystanders on Hollywood Boulevard and was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' ended. After playing The Butcher, she seriously ''believes'' she's The Butcher.
159	* StepfordSmiler: Her enthusiastic gushing about her role hides some serious issues.
160	* TragicVillain: At the end of the day, Agnes is a woman who's been consumed by her mental illness, an illness that was exacerbated to breaking point by Sidney's cruelty. [[spoiler:It's heartbreaking as she rants to the camera, swinging from in-character psychosis to genuine remorse to uncertain terror and all the way around.]]
161	[[/folder]]
162
163	[[folder:Audrey Tindall]]
164	!!Audrey Tindall
165	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahs_audrey.png]]
166	[[caption-width-right:350:The Woman Who Was Born in the Wrong Times]]
167	->'''Played By:''' Creator/SarahPaulson
168
169	The actress who played Shelby on ''My Roanoke Nightmare''.
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171	* ActionSurvivor: Has developed into this by "Chapter 9", killing [[spoiler:an attacking Polk after covering herself by recording him saying he was going to kill her]], and fighting [[spoiler:Lee Harris]] off after the latter [[spoiler:kills Monet]]. She even survives [[spoiler:the last night of the Blood Moon]] while lying wounded at the bottom of the cellar and later manages to climb back up on her own strength. Seconds later, she [[spoiler:is finally killed when she tries to kill Lee and the police gun her down to protect Lee]].
172	* BornInTheWrongCentury: Even for an upper-class English actress, her dress sense and attitude are ridiculously old-fashioned.
173	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Shot by the cops after trying to shoot Lee.]]
174	* [[invoked]]FakeAmerican: Plays this on ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' -- she's actually English.
175	* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:After miraculously surviving Roanoke's hell, she gets gunned down by ''the police''.]]
176	* ItsAllAboutMe: Makes both [[spoiler:Shelby and Dominic's deaths]] about her.
177	* OldMaid: Very touchy about being on the wrong side of 30.
178	* PluckyComicRelief: Audrey's overly posh attitude and selfish remarks were a source of comedy in an otherwise very serious show.
179	* RomanceOnTheSet: Married Rory shortly after ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' ended.
180	* SmallNameBigEgo: Her first instinct when [[spoiler:she thinks she may die]]? Making a video to all of her fans.
181	* TeamMom: For all her self-absorption, she takes the initiative on treating Shelby and Lee's respective wounds, and tries to keep the group together.
182	[[/folder]]
183
184	[[folder:Rory Monahan]]
185	!!Rory Monahan
186	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahs_rory.png]]
187	[[caption-width-right:350:The Goofball Who Should’ve Looked Before He Leaped]]
188	->'''Played By:''' Creator/EvanPeters
189
190	The actor who played Edward Mott on ''My Roanoke Nightmare''.
191	----
192	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Stabbed by Miranda and Bridget.]]
193	* LeeroyJenkins: When Audrey is threatened, Rory needlessly rushes straight into danger by himself. [[spoiler: He gets killed.]]
194	* NiceGuy: Rory is funny, concerned for others and generally likable.
195	* PluckyComicRelief: He's a bit of a goofball, this guy.
196	* RomanceOnTheSet: Married Audrey shortly after ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' ended.
197	* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Falls victim to the "Real Life" Jane sisters and completes their "MURDER" lettering crime sphere]].
198	[[/folder]]
199
200	[[folder:Monet Tumusiime]]
201	!!Monet Tumusiime
202	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahs_monet.png]]
203	[[caption-width-right:350:The Former Alcoholic Who Should've Held Her Tongue]]
204	->'''Played By:''' Creator/AngelaBassett
205
206	The actress who played Lee Harris on ''My Roanoke Nightmare''.
207	----
208	* TheAlcoholic: She started drinking heavily after the show ended, to the point of being arrested. She is now legally prohibited from drinking.
209	* DirtyCoward: Desperately offered to [[spoiler:lead the Polks back to the house and help them murder Matt and Shelby]] to save herself and Audrey in "Chapter 8". Later, she left Audrey to [[spoiler:the Polks]] and showed no inclination to go back for her when trying to make her own escape.
210	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:She dies after Lee, who is possessed by Scáthach, shoves her through the upstairs railing and she falls onto the stem of the fallen chandelier below, which impales her through the chest.]]
211	* NeverMyFault: She blames Lee for her developing an alcohol problem, claiming that she only started drinking to try and get into character as Lee... despite the fact that Lee was still sober during the period covered by the reenactment.
212	* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:After watching a video confession from Lee that she murdered her husband, Monet and Audrey find Lee standing outside the door, holding a cleaver, first muttering incoherently to herself and then ranting about Monet and Audrey being unclean blood soiling the land. Monet goes ''right up to her'' and deliberately antagonizes her for no apparent reason, which gets her thrown from the top floor and fatally impaled.]]
213	[[/folder]]
214
215	[[folder:Dominic Banks]]
216	!!Dominic Banks
217	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahs_dominic.png]]
218	[[caption-width-right:350:The Jerk Who Payed For Playing The Villain]]
219	->'''Played By:''' Creator/CubaGoodingJr
220
221	The actor who played Matt Miller on ''My Roanoke Nightmare''.
222	----
223	* AmbitionIsEvil: Is happily willing to be a total asshole and screw with a married couple's relationship if it means a bigger profit or the promise of a spin-off series for himself.
224	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Has a soft voice and plays sympathetic Matt, but is a cocky and self-centered {{jerkass}} who tries to instigate drama at ''Return to Roanoke'' at Sidney's orders for the sake of screentime. Dominic gets into {{Cock Fight}}s with Matt to play up his affair with Shelby, enables Monet's alcoholism, and wakes Shelby up to lead her to Matt having sex with Scáthach, [[spoiler:the last of which results in Shelby snapping and killing Matt]]. He begins to defy this later in the series though; once the shit starts really hitting the fan, he becomes a much more compassionate and sane person. He even shows a much gentler side around the real Shelby. For all his faults, he knows when to cut the act.
225	* CardCarryingVillain: He knows that bad guys are more popular on reality shows, and gleefully states his intent to be a bastard on purpose.[[spoiler: Bites him in the ass later when Lee and Audrey refuse to believe Shelby killed her husband and committed suicide because of his card-carrying status and their understanding of Shelby's personality, which Audrey notes is too "self-centered" for her to commit suicide.]]
226	-->''"Hey, listen, if I got to play the dick in order for people to tune in for ratings, then that's what the hell I'm-a do. What's the bright side? Let me tell you what the bright side is. The bad guy is always the lead on every show."''
227	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Stabbed by the Piggy Man.]]
228	* GenreSavvy: He knows he's going to be made to look like a villain on the new show for sleeping with Shelby, so he embraces it, believing that he'll get a lot of publicity out of it.
229	* GoneHorriblyRight: Playing up the part of a mean, selfish, untrustworthy bad guy for fame and publicity comes back to bite him hard [[spoiler: when Lee and Audrey return to find Dominic alone in the house with Matt and Shelby's bloody corpses. They don't believe his (true) story about Shelby killing Matt and then herself, instead thinking he murdered them. They refuse to listen to his explanations and lock him out of the bedroom, where he is immediately stabbed to death by the Pig Man.]]
230	* HellBentForLeather: Wears leather.
231	* HiddenBadass: [[spoiler:He [[CurbStompBattle curbstomps]] the attacking Agnes with the help of a DynamicEntry and a window he smashes her head into to [[BigDamnHeroes save Shelby]].]]
232	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As much of an unapologetic prick as Dominic is, he comes to Shelby's rescue more than once and doesn't abandon her when it would be convenient for him to do so.
233	* ReplacementGoldfish: After her marriage to Matt fell apart in the wake of the show, Shelby hooked up with Dominic precisely because she thought he'd be a replacement for Matt. [[spoiler:After she kills Matt and has a mental breakdown over it prompting her to turn to him, and he sees the ghosts killing Agnes and realizes the Millers' story is true, he ironically seems to be falling into Matt's old role again.]]
234	[[/folder]]
235
236	[[folder:Dylan]]
237	!!Dylan
238	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahs_dylan.png]]
239	[[caption-width-right:350:The Former Navy SEAL Who Takes Acting Very Seriously]]
240	-->'''Played By:''' Creator/WesBentley
241
242	The actor who played Ambrose White on ''My Roanoke Nightmare''.
243	----
244	* BadassNormal: A former Navy SEAL with a long list of accomplishments. [[spoiler:Not that it helps him when one of the Polks gets the drop on him or when the colonists disembowel him.]]
245	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Disemboweled by The Butcher.]]
246	* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler:After being injured by the Polks, is dragged out and gutted by the colonists.]]
247	* NoManLeftBehind: Expresses this belief, though he very quickly redacts it when pointing out how reckless it is to just run into "enemy territory".
248	* PunchClockVillain: Was hired by Sidney to come back and scare the shit out of his former coworkers, but all in all isn't too bad of a guy. He just viewed it all as another acting gig.
249	* SeriousBusiness: Treats acting like this, showing up despite the lack of organization and complaining nonstop about how unprofessional he thinks Sidney is being [[spoiler:though to be fair, this is before he learns that the colonists and the Polks are real.]]
250	* WeHardlyKnewYe: We didn't even hear a last name for this guy.
251	[[/folder]]
252
253	[[folder:Ashley Gilbert]]
254	!!Ashley Gilbert
255	-->'''Played By:''' Creator/LeslieJordan
256
257	The actor who played Cricket Marlowe on ''My Roanoke Nightmare''.
258
259	* BackForTheDead: He reappears [[spoiler: in the season finale only to be killed off.]]
260	* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler:His stomach is sliced open by the Piggy Man.]]
261	* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: After nearly everyone involved in the first two reality shows got massacred at the Roanoke mansion, Ashley thought it would be a good idea to come back for the third. It wasn't.]]
262	* WrongGenreSavvy: When the Pig Man attacks, he tries to stop it by shouting "Croatoan" the way Cricket Marlowe, the character he played in ''My Roanoke Nightmare'', had done. [[spoiler: It apparently [[NoSell has no effect]], so nothing stops the Pig Man from gutting Ashley.]]
263	[[/folder]]
264
265	[[folder:Brian Wells]]
266	!!Brian Wells
267	->'''Played by:''' Creator/ChazBono
268	The actor who played Lot Polk in the reenactments.
269
270	* NiceGuy: Implied. He's the one we see officiating Audrey and Rory's wedding with a big sweet smile on his face and is clearly very happy for his two friends.
271	* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Much like William, he's one of the only re-enactment actors we meet outside of "My Roanoke Nightmare" that doesn't get killed. Likely due to being a minor character in the show and thus probably not asked to return for the sequel.]]
272	[[/folder]]
273
274	[[folder:William Van Henderson]]
275	!!William Van Henderson
276	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahs_william.png]]
277	[[caption-width-right:350:The Only Sane [[spoiler:(And Not Dead)]] Guy]]
278	-->'''Played By:''' Creator/DenisOHare
279
280	The actor who played Dr. Elias Cunningham on ''My Roanoke Nightmare''.
281
282	* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler: He's the ''only'' re-enactment actor who wisely declined Sidney's invitation back to the sequel, and naturally, he emerges as the only main character to survive the season.]]
283	* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Of the re-enactment actors we meet outside of ''My Roanoke Nightmare'', he is the only one who doesn't get killed.]]
284	[[/folder]]
285
286	!Polk Clan
287
288	[[folder:Mama Polk]]
289	!!Mama Polk
290	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mama_polk.png]]
291	[[caption-width-right:300:Big Mama the Chef]]
292	->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobinWeigert, Creator/FrancesConroy (in the dramatizations)
293
294	The matriarch of the Polk clan.
295	----
296	* AgonyOfTheFeet: She breaks [[spoiler: Shelby's ankle]] with a sledgehammer.
297	* BludgeonedToDeath: [[spoiler:Audrey kills her by smashing her face in with a hammer.]]
298	* CannibalClan: The Polks eat other people, and Mama is the cook.
299	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She might be psychotic, but she loves her children.
300	* EvenEvilHasStandards: DO NOT accuse her or her family of bestiality.
301	** As monstrous and inhumane as she is and how she treats Audrey, Monet and Lee, a line she tells Audrey about The Butcher implies that suffering at their hands is better than being sacrificed by the Colonists and The Butcher herself.
302	* EvilMatriarch: The Polks don't call her "Mama" for nothing.
303	* EvilOldFolks: Being rather old doesn't stop her from engaging in evil acts.
304	* HillbillyHorrors: She is the head of a backwoods clan of inbred cannibals.
305	* ParentalIncest: Chapter 8 implies she has sex with her children after they reach a certain age.
306	* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:She orders that Flora be locked in the truck so she won't have to witness Mama's mutilation of Shelby.]]
307	[[/folder]]
308
309	[[folder:Ishmael Polk]]
310	!!Ishmael Polk
311	->'''Played By:''' Creator/FrankCollison, Creator/GradyLeeRichmond (in the dramatizations)
312
313	Mama Polk's husband.
314	----
315	* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Audrey kills him by shooting him in the head]]
316	* TheDragon: To Mama Polk.
317	* HenpeckedHusband: There doesn't appear to be a whole lot to Ishmael besides being Mama Polk's henchman.
318	* NotHelpingYourCase: Audrey has him repeat his intention to kill her into her camera, which he gladly does. [[spoiler: She then shoots him in the face.]]
319	[[/folder]]
320
321	[[folder:Lot Polk]]
322	!!Lot Polk
323	->'''Played By:''' Creator/FrederickKoehler, Creator/ChazBono (in the dramatizations)
324	Mama Polk and Ishmael's son.
325	* AxCrazy: Just like the rest of his family.
326	* TheBrute: His main function in the family.
327	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Shot by cops after trying to kill Lee.]]
328	* OhCrap: When he sees the Colonists coming, he screams for Ishmael and then immediately heads for the hills on his truck, especially after Mama was killed by Lee and thus had no way of being protected anymore.
329	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: He tries to murder [[spoiler:Lee]] in order to avenge his family's deaths. [[spoiler:The police kills him before he can do it.]]
330	* SoleSurvivor: Of the Polk family. [[spoiler:Until he dies too.]]
331	[[/folder]]
332
333	[[folder:Jether Polk]]
334	!!Jether Polk
335	->'''Played By:''' Creator/FinnWittrock
336	The only member of the Polk family with redeeming qualities.
337	* AdaptedOut: In-universe, he's the only Polk not to be depicted in ''My Roanoke Nightmare'', and he's rather upset that he didn't get to be "on the TV" like the rest of the family.
338	* AffablyEvil: He feels some empathy towards Lee, and he genuinely doesn't want to hurt her.
339	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Lee kills him by stabbing him in the neck.]]
340	[[/folder]]
341
342	[[folder:Cain Polk]]
343	!!Cain Polk
344	->'''Played by: My Roanoke Nightmare:''' Creator/OrsonChaplin
345	A Polk cannibal.
346	* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Shot in the head by Matt.]]
347	[[/folder]]
348
349	!Dramatizations
350
351	[[folder:Elias Cunningham]]
352	!!Dr. Elias Cunningham
353	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elias_6.png]]
354	[[caption-width-right:350:The University Professor Who “Came for Dinner”]]
355	->'''Played By:''' Creator/RicSarabia, Creator/DenisOHare (as William Van Henderson in the dramatizations)
356	A professor who is driven insane by the spirits of the Roanoke House.
357	----
358	* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:The Polk family make jerky out of his limbs.]]
359	* AnnoyingArrows: Averted. [[spoiler:Nearly dies after being shot with arrows.]]
360	* ApocalypticLog: He left behind several videos of his ghostly encounters, which are found 17 years later by the Millers.
361	* BludgeonedToDeath: [[spoiler:His head is bashed in by a Polk.]]
362	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:After being shot with multiple arrows, his body is slowly cut apart for meat by a CannibalClan. He is finally killed when one of the Polks smashes his head with a hammer.]]
363	* MrExposition: Via both his videos and in person. He fills the Millers, and by extension the viewers, on what's really going on in the house.
364	* NotQuiteDead: Initially, it seemed that he was killed in 1997 by the Butcher, but it was later revealed that he was not, in fact, a ghost. [[spoiler:He later survives being hit by arrows through the intervention of the Polk family, only to be kept alive for meat before having his head caved in.]]
365	* TheProfessor: He was a professor at Bradley University.
366	* TrueCrime: He came to the farmhouse to do research on the Jane sisters.
367	[[/folder]]
368
369	[[folder:"Piggy Man"]]
370	!!"Piggy Man"
371	->'''Played by:''' Creator/MartiMatulis (real and My Roanoke Nightmare)
372	A ghost who has a pig's head. Originally a Roanoke colonist who was caught stealing from the colony's storerooms, he was forced to wear a pig's head before being burnt alive. Now one of the most active ghosts at Roanoke house.
373
374	* ChainedByFashion: Has manacles with short lengths of chain on his wrists, since he was tied up and burned for stealing.
375	* ContinuityNod: Though not named 'Piggy Man' in the show itself, the fact he's frequently seen in mirrors recalls the 'Piggy Man' Bloody Mary legend mentioned in Season 1. It's later confirmed that the urban legend is based on a Polk who went on a killing spree in Chicago, who was himself inspired to wear a pig's head because of the 'Piggy Man' ghost of Roanoke.
376	* DangerTakesABackSeat: Has a propensity for this: it's how he kills [[spoiler:Diana]] and he's later seen chilling in the back of Dylan's Uber, suggesting he kills the driver in the same way.
377	* MalevolentMaskedMen: Unlike the Minotaur, Piggy Man is clearly a human wearing a hollowed-out pig's head, though he still squeals like a real pig.
378	[[/folder]]
379
380	[[folder:The Jane Sisters]]
381	!!Miranda & Bridget Jane
382	->'''Played By:''' Creator/JennaDoolittle & Creator/AreanaCirina, Creator/MayaBerko & Creator/KristenRakes (in the dramatizations)
383	Two psychotic nurse sisters.
384	----
385	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: InUniverse. In the reconstruction they look like the young women they were when they died... not the moldering blackened corpses [[spoiler:who kill Rory]].
386	* AssholeVictim: Elias believes they fell victim to the more powerful evil at the house. Their fate is later shown firsthand.
387	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:One has her arms torn off by the Roanoke colonists and is left to bleed to death. Downplayed for her sister, who was decapitated. ]]
388	* {{Jerkass}}: They would be thoroughly despicable even if they weren't serial killers.
389	* LaughingMad: Killing reduces them to fits of uncontrollable giggling.
390	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: They are based on the real killer nurses Gwen Graham and Cathy Wood, who weren't sisters but [[PsychoLesbian lovers]].
391	* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler:How one is killed by the Butcher.]]
392	* PsychopathicWomanchild: When they decide it's murder time, they become a pair of gleeful children.
393	* SerialKiller: They target the elderly.
394	* SmugSnake: Act like domineering bullies towards their (totally helpless) victims, had major delusions of grandeur (at least according to Elias Cunningham) and [[EvilerThanThou were seemingly nothing to the real danger at Roanoke.]]
395	[[/folder]]
396
397	[[folder:Mason Harris]]
398	!!Mason Harris
399	->'''Played By:''' Creator/JoeAlvarez, Creator/CharlesMalikWhitfield (in the dramatizations)
400	Lee's ex-husband. Frustrated by his wife's lack of communication and emotional attachment, he files for divorce.
401	----
402	* BludgeonedToDeath: [[spoiler:Lee bashed his head in with a rock and if that didn't kill him, being set on fire did.]]
403	* DeathByAdaptation: In My Roanoke Nightmare, he looks like he was ritually sacrificed and burned to death. In one of the last episodes, we see [[spoiler: Lee]] bash his head in with a rock, which was probably what really killed him.
404	* JerkassHasAPoint: He may not look too sympathetic for keeping Lee from their daughter, but given that his ex-wife has serious drug and alcohol problems, in the past showed ParentalNeglect to the point of forgetting to pick Flora up from school, and Flora starts talking about death and being murdered after he lets her visit her, it's easier to see why Mason might be short on patience with Lee. Later, it turns out that [[spoiler:Lee actually killed him over this, so yeah, dude had his reasons to be wary of her.]]
405	* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:During the third episode, his body is found burned past the point of identification. It's confirmed to be him from his ring.]]
406	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:His ghost, still burned, made a very conspicuous appearance at the beginning of ''Return to Roanoke'', but never showed up again.]]
407	[[/folder]]
408
409	[[folder:Flora Harris]]
410	!!Flora Harris
411	->'''Played By:''' Creator/SimoneBaker, Creator/SaniyyaSidney (in the dramatizations)
412
413	Lee and Mason's daughter. Her disappearance at at the Roanoke house and the Miller's search for her is what leads to them discovering the horrors hidden within the haunted forest.
414	----
415	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: InUniverse. The dramaticized version of Flora is sweet, bubbly and loving to her parents, including her troubled mother Lee, but the real Flora is more reserved, cold and distant towards her. Justified, as she had only discovered that Lee murdered her father during her disappearance, and is understandably pissed towards her, but she also expresses more bitterness towards Lee when talking about her friend Priscilla, even confessing that she was 'happier with her' than she ever was with Lee.
416
417	[[/folder]]
418
419	[[folder:Cricket Marlowe]]
420	!!Cricket Marlowe
421	->'''Played By:''' Creator/LeslieJordan (as Ashley Gilbert in the dramatizations)
422
423	A psychic who assists the Millers in looking for [[spoiler: Lee's abducted daughter Flora]].
424	----
425	* CampGay: Very similar to his actor, Leslie Jordan. Everything he says provides the camp, and propositioning his male Uber driver confirms the gay.
426	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Disembowled by The Butcher.]]
427	* DirtyOldMan: Propositions an attractive Uber driver not even half his age for a "gay for pay" scenario. He does try to clarify it was "just a question."
428	* DodgyToupee: He wears a bizarre white helmet-cut wig.
429	* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler:At the hands of the Roanoke colonists.]]
430	* ISeeDeadPeople: He can communicate with the dead.
431	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Has a bitchy personality and understandably demands payment for his services, but he does genuinely want to help his clients.
432	* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Uses [[spoiler:Flora's abduction]] as an attempt to extort the Millers for money in return for his assistance, and outright admits that he's always paid for his services.
433	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Tries to save Flora at serious risk to his own life even when the Millers aren't around to see it.
434	[[/folder]]
435
436	[[folder:The Butcher]]
437	!!Thomasin White[=/=]The Butcher
438	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_butcher.png]]
439	[[caption-width-right:350:The '''Real''' Butcher]]
440	->'''Played By:''' Creator/SusanBerger, Creator/KathyBates (as Agnes Mary Winstead in the dramatizations)
441
442	The leader of the Roanoke colony and servant of Scáthach.
443	----
444	* AudibleSharpness: Her cleaver is sharp enough to make a noise just from being pointed at someone.
445	* BadBoss: [[spoiler:She brutally sacrificed some of her own people and later murdered every last one of them.]]
446	* BigBad: While she's technically just TheHeavy to Scáthach, the witch rarely gets involved in the actual torment. It's the Butcher who directly leads the colony and instigates the antagonism towards the Miller's.
447	* TheButcher: Is called as such, and wields a meat cleaver to kill people.
448	* TheDragon: To Scáthach.
449	* EvilMatriarch: She has led the ghosts of the lost colony with an iron fist for centuries.
450	* EvilOldFolks: She has grey hair, a son well into adulthood and yep, is very evil.
451	* TheHeavy: She is the direct main antagonist of the season, but Scáthach is confirmed to be the master of all of the colonists.
452	* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Thomasin White was the wife of Roanoke governor John White in real life, though it's unlikely that she sold her soul or engaged in human sacrifice.
453	* IOweYouMyLife: Scáthach saved her life after she was exiled from the Roanoke colony.
454	* OffingTheOffspring: She spared Ambrose the first time her rule was questioned, [[spoiler:but not the second. However, he returned as a ghost right afterwards, and they've been together ever since.]]
455	* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Throat slit by Sćathach.]]
456	* StoutStrength: She is powerful enough to [[spoiler: drive a cleaver straight through Agnes's skull all the way down to her nose, splitting her head partially in half, in one swing.]]
457	* WomanOnFire: [[spoiler:Her son Ambrose pulls both of them in a pyre to stop her from killing Flora.]]
458	* WouldHurtAChild: She can't have [[spoiler:taken Flora]]! If she had, the kid would have been flayed and burned alive. [[spoiler:She later does get her hands on Flora and nearly kills her, only for Priscilla to interfere.]]
459	** [[spoiler:Outright sacrificed Priscilla to Scáthach.]]
460	[[/folder]]
461
462	[[folder:Ambrose White]]
463	!!Ambrose White
464	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahs_ambrose.png]]
465	[[caption-width-right:350:The Rebellious Son]]
466	->'''Played By:''' Creator/JesseLaFlair, Creator/WesBentley (as Dylan in the dramatizations)
467
468	Thomasin White's son.
469	----
470	* AesopAmnesia: [[spoiler:He has a HeelFaceTurn and turns against his mother, but in all of his subsequent appearances, he's back to being as evil and subservient as ever.]]
471	* BigNo: Having enough of his mother's sadistic murders, Ambrose shouts this once [[spoiler:Thomasin was about to kill Flora.]]
472	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Finally gets sick of his mother killing everyone who steps foot on the land and turns on her, allowing Matt, Shelby, and Flora to escape.]]
473	* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Stabbed in the chest by his mother.]]
474	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Dismayed by his mother's "devil worship" and human sacrifice, he attempts to lead the colonists back to England.
475	* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Grabs his mother and jumps into a fire with her.]]
476	[[/folder]]
477
478	[[folder:Priscilla]]
479	!!Priscilla
480	->'''Played By:''' Creator/EstelleHermansen (in the dramatizations), Creator/SavannahLiles (real), Creator/AudreyCasson (Cracked reinactment)
481
482	A young girl and one of the Roanoke colonists.
483	----
484	* BigGood: The closest thing to one that this season will likely see. The most benign of the ghosts, she led the Millers to discover the root cellar (and thus led them to Elias), [[spoiler: abducted Flora to protect her from the Butcher, and is heavily implied to have orchestrated the other ghosts turning on the Butcher]].
485	* BludgeonedToDeath: [[spoiler:Her head is bashed in with a rock by The Butcher.]]
486	* WouldHurtAChild: On the receiving end, as she was [[spoiler: sacrificed to Scáthach]].
487
488	[[/folder]]
489
490	[[folder:Scáthach]]
491	!!Scáthach
492	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scathach.png]]
493	[[caption-width-right:350:The Witch Behind it All]]
494	->'''Played By:''' Unknown actress, Music/LadyGaga (in the dramatizations)
495
496	A Celtic witch who inhabits the woods around the house.
497	----
498	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: InUniverse. Scáthach may be a an uglied-up Music/LadyGaga (with bad skin, foul teeth, and Gollum-ish demeanor)... but she's still Music/LadyGaga. [[spoiler: The True Scáthach is more of a ''thing'' than a woman, who is made up to be [[{{Gonk}} absolutely repulsive]] and barely even ''human'', and her coupling with Matt produces unearthly shrieks.]]
499	* CharmPerson: One of her primary powers, she appeals to the baser natures of those she wants. She stoked Thomasin's anger at being exiled by her own son into outright murderous fury, leading her to make a DealWithTheDevil to bewitch those who have wronged her. Scáthach also seems to be grooming [[spoiler: the Miller siblings; Matt to be her consort, and Lee to become a new Butcher.]]
500	* DracoInLeatherPants: Appears far more ambiguous, and with some trace of redeeming qualities, in the re-enactment. Possibly because most of the testimony regarding her came from Matt, whom she enchanted.
501	* {{Druid}}: She is a witch brought up in Celtic traditions passed down from the ancient Druids.
502	* GreaterScopeVillain: She is the master of the Roanoke colony and the ghosts. However, besides seducing Matt and turning Lee into the new Butcher she isn't very involved in the present-day storyline, leaving the Butcher as TheHeavy.
503	* MeaningfulName: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scathach Scáthach]] is a prominent figure in Celtic mythology as a legendary warrior and trainer of heroes.
504	* {{Precursors}}: According to Ryan Murphy, the co-creator of ''American Horror Story''. Scáthach is the Original supreme witch, pre-dating the Salem witches by centuries.
505	* QuestionableConsent: Her sexual relationship with Matt seems to involve magical coercion to some extent.
506	* ReligionOfEvil: She's serving and worshiping the old gods of an ancient, evil religion predating Christianity.
507	* StalkerWithACrush: For Matt.
508	[[/folder]]
509
510	[[folder:Edward Mott]]
511	!!Edward Phillippe Mott
512	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edward_5.png]]
513	[[caption-width-right:350:The Social-Awkward Nobleman]]
514	->'''Played By:''' Creator/ElliotEhlers, Creator/EvanPeters (as Rory Monahan in the dramatizations)
515
516	The original owner of the house, a 18th-century nobleman, and an ancestor of [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakshow Dandy Mott]].
517	----
518	* AdaptationalHeroism: InUniverse. The reenactments make him out to be almost a NobleDemon. When Audrey, Lee and Monet encounter the ''actual'' Edward, he ''roars'' at them.
519	* TheBeard: The gay Mott kept a wife, but it's made abundantly clear that she was only there to provide him with an heir.
520	* BigFancyHouse: Had the house built originally to display his very large art collection as well as to get away from Philadelphia.
521	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: {{impaled\|with extreme prejudice}} and then [[ManOnFire burned alive]] by the Roanoke colonists.]]
522	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: He's in an openly homosexual relationship with a black man during the 18th century and he wonders why people are judging him.
523	* TheDandy: He's got the powdered wig and the frilly clothes to prove it. Hilariously, his last descendant was actually ''named'' "Dandy".
524	* DepravedHomosexual: Subverted; while he was flamboyantly gay and murderous, the one had very little to do with the other.
525	* DisproportionateRetribution: He locked almost his entire household in a cellar and left them to die after the Butcher destroyed his collection of artwork. It's implied that he likely would have let them out eventually, but [[spoiler:his death and his lover/servant fleeing]] prevented that.
526	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Was impaled shortly before his death by the Butcher and the colonists.
527	* ManOnFire: Was burnt alive by the colonists after being impaled.
528	* NoSocialSkills: According to the historian, Edward probably suffered from severe social anxiety. Matt and Shelby recall him frequently recoiling from them as he led them through the tunnels. The reason he saves them from the other spirits in the house isn't charity ''per se'', but that he doesn't want the number of other souls intruding on his privacy to increase.
529	[[/folder]]
530
531	[[folder:Margaret]]
532	!!Margaret
533	->'''Played by:''' Creator/IreneRoseen
534	A patient at the Roanoke house when it was a nursing home.
535	* BoomHeadshot: Shot in the head by [[spoiler:the Jane sisters.]]
536	[[/folder]]
537
538	[[folder:Gary Chen]]
539	!!Gary Chen
540	->'''Played by: My Roanoke Nightmare:''' Creator/HahnCho
541	A Chen family member.
542	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Murdered by The Butcher.]]
543	* ImmigrantPatriotism: He was dedicated to assimilating into American society.
544	[[/folder]]
545
546	[[folder:Daisy Chen]]
547	!!Daisy Chen
548	->'''Played by:''' My Roanoke Nightmare: Creator/BeckyWu
549	A Chen family member.
550	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Murdered by The Butcher.]]
551	* StringyHairedGhostGirl
552	[[/folder]]
553
554	[[folder:Grace Chen]]
555	!!Grace Chen
556	->'''Played by:''' My Roanoke Nightmare: Creator/MeganTruong
557	A Chen family member.
558	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Murdered by The Butcher.]]
559	* StringyHairedGhostGirl
560	[[/folder]]
561
562	[[folder:Amy Chen]]
563	!!Amy Chen
564	->'''Played by:''' My Roanoke Nightmare: Creator/MiyaCech
565	A Chen family member.
566	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Murdered by The Butcher.]]
567	* StringyHairedGhostGirl
568	[[/folder]]
569
570	[[folder:Guinness]]
571	!!Guinness
572	->'''Played by:''' Reenactment: Creator/HendersonWade
573	One of Edward's servants who was also his lover.
574	%%%* CharacterDeath: He is definitely not alive anymore.%%%%ZCE/How does he die?
575	[[/folder]]
576
577	!!Army of Roanoke
578
579	[[folder:Sophie Green]]
580	!!Sophie Green
581	->'''Played By:''' Creator/TaissaFarmiga
582
583	One of the co-founders of "Army of Roanoke", a ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' fansite, who decides to travel to the house in hopes of getting footage of the then-upcoming ''Return to Roanoke: Three Days in Hell'', which results in her and her friends stumbling upon Diana Cross's car.
584
585	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Impaled and burned alive.]]
586	* FanOfThePast: She and her friends are interested in the history covered by "My Roanoke Nightmare" (as opposed to the gore) although they do comment negatively on the patriarchy of the era.
587	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:She gets impaled on a stake before being burned alive by the colonists.]]
588	* TooDumbToLive: She insists on trying to rescue Audrey and Monet, despite having no skills relevant to the task of fighting [[spoiler:an AxCrazy Lee]], despite knowing that the cops were unlikely to rescue her or Todd because of how many Roanoke-related pranks they've had to deal with, and despite knowing that with the Blood Moon in place, she's likely to face the full wrath of the Roanoke colonists.
589	* WomanOnFire: [[spoiler:She and Todd are burned alive by the colonists.]]
590	[[/folder]]
591
592	[[folder:Todd Allan Connors]]
593	!!Todd Allan Connors
594	->'''Played By:''' Creator/JacobArtist
595
596	Another member of the "Army of Roanoke".
597	* GenreSavvy: After getting detained by the police for questioning about Diana Cross's car, he rants that the cops never believe that they're in a horror movie until it's too late.
598	* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Lee slits his throat.]]
599	* TooDumbToLive: He stumbles across [[spoiler:the possessed Lee]] in the woods, who's clearly not in [[spoiler:her]] right mind, and thinks it's a great time to gush over [[spoiler:her]]. [[spoiler:She stabs him to death.]]
600	[[/folder]]
601
602	[[folder:Milo]]
603	!!Milo
604	->'''Played By:''' Creator/JonBass
605
606	Another member of the "Army of Roanoke".
607	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Impaled and burned alive.]]
608	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:He gets impaled on a stake before being burned alive.]]
609	* ManOnFire: [[spoiler:He and Sophie are burned alive by the colonists.]]
610	[[/folder]]
611
612	!Other characters
613	[[folder:Doris Kearns Goodwin]]
614	!!UsefulNotes/DorisKearnsGoodwin
615	->'''Played by:''' Doris Kearns Goodwin
616
617	A historian.
618
619	* RealPersonCameo: An actual historian playing herself.
620	[[/folder]]
621
622	[[folder:Bob Kinnaman]]
623	!!Bob Kinnaman
624	->'''Played by:''' Creator/JamesMorosini
625
626	A host of Spirit Chasers.
627
628	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Arrows are shot in his chest by the Roanoke colonists.]]
629	* TooDumbToLive: Not only do he and his crew go to film in the area where several people were violently killed, supposedly by hostile ghosts, but they actually brag into the camera that they're trespassing after being denied permission to enter the place.
630	[[/folder]]
631
632	[[folder:Dave Elder]]
633	!!Dave Elder
634	->'''Played by:''' Creator/JoeSpellman
635	A host of Spirit Chasers.
636	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Choked by a Chen.]]
637	[[/folder]]
638
639	[[folder:Tracy Logan]]
640	!!Tracy Logan
641	->'''Played by:''' Creator/EmmaBell
642	A host of Spirit Chasers.
643	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Killed by The Butcher.]]
644	[[/folder]]
645
646	[[folder:Trixie Mattel]]
647	!!Trixie Mattel
648	->'''Played by:''' Creator/TrixieMattel
649	A drag queen performer, songwriter and TV personality who's best known for having participated in several editions of [=RuPaul=]'s Drag Race.
650	[[/folder]]
651
652	[[folder:Rhett Snow]]
653	!!Rhett Snow
654	->'''Played by:''' Creator/BillySnow
655	An Uber driver.
656	* TheDriver: He takes Cricket, and later Dylan, out to the mansion.
657	* NiceGuy: He describes being concerned for Cricket and Flora during the part of the hauntings he saw.
658	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / AmericanHorrorStoryRoanoke