[[folder: Main Characters]]

! Ellen
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* ActionGirl: For a slight and mild-mannered young woman, Ellen establishes herself early on by diving off the ferry and swimming to Doolin through hazardous waters, and she only gets tougher with the advent of her supernatural powers.
* AmnesiacHero: With GameplayGuidedAmnesia. This is the driving force of the plot, as Ellen returns to Doolin in an attempt to be reunited with her mother and recover her childhood memories.
* BadassCape: Styled after a soldier or Robin Hood in the case of the Battlefield Cloak, while her other Cloaks often have flowing elements, but ironically aren't cloaks at all.
* TheBeastMaster: Fully manifests her folk when she summons them, having them fight on her behalf.
* BraidsOfAction: Wears her long hair in a sensible braid while adventuring in the Netherworld or jumping off boats.
* CleavageWindow: A number of her cloaks sport these, including the [[http://folkloregame.wikia.com/wiki/File:Faerycloak-coneptart.jpg Faery cloak]]
* DamselInDistress: Briefly in [=HellRealm=]. Naturally it's Keat who ends up rescuing her, though who gets to fight the boss and who gets excused from the battle by said boss is up to who you're playing as.
* {{Determinator}}: This girl [[EstablishingCharacterMoment swims to Doolin]] when her ferryman refuses to take her.
* DimensionalTraveler: Between the human world and the Netherworlds.
* ElementalPowers: Ellen and Keats specialise in different elemental folk. Ellen has access to [[MakingASplash water]], [[BlowYouAway wind]] and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] powers, plus three varieties of NonElemental attack (the standard variety, Slash and Destroy). On top of that, three of her 'elements' are StatusEffects: Charm, Sleep and Bond, the latter of which traps the enemy with a sticky substance.
* FaceYourFears: But then you have to [[AmnesiacHero know what your fears are]] before you can face them.
* GirlyRun: Her standard running animation.
* TheIngenue: Belgae refers to her as a "dreamy eyed girl".
* MightyGlacier: What Ellen's combat style is. Her attacks with maxed out Folk typically do a fair amount more damage per hit than Keats using the same Folk without transformation. However her attacks usually use up a lot of energy and there's a higher start-up time before her Folk react. Additionally many of her Folk do single-shot attacks rather than the combos or spam-attacks that Keats get. In compensation, her Folk when summoned can be used to hide behind to act as a barrier against enemy attacks and her magical cloaks can reduce the damage from the appropriate attack.
* MysticalWhiteHair: [[MysticalWaif Special?]] Check. [[ReluctantWarrior Pure?]] Check. [[DimensionalTraveler Somehow connected to Death?]] Check.
* ParentalAbandonment: Grew up in an orphanage after leaving Doolin as a young child, the circumstances of which are pivotal to the plot.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Keats finds at one point in the game a portrait of a woman he believes to be Ellen. It's actually Ingrid, the portrait painted by her husband and Ellen's father.

! Keats
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* AgentScully: It takes a ''lot'' for him to actually accept the supernatural. Even when he travels to the worlds of the dead, he merely shrugs his shoulders and calmly assumes he must be going insane.
* BadassBookworm: Definitely does not look the type of guy to beat the crap out of demon souls with his bare hands...
* BadassLongcoat: Decorated with Celtic knots no less. It has a particularly good swish to it while he's tearing through the Netherworld.
* DeadpanSnarker: Usually has a jaded, sceptical or pithy comment for the events at hand, in contrast to Ellen.
* DimensionalTraveler: Between the human world and the Netherworlds.
* ElementalPowers: Lacks Ellen's extra {{Status Effect|s}} types of folk, but has access to the same NonElemental powers alongside his own specialties- [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[AnIcePerson ice]] and [[DishingOutDirt earth]].
* FightingSpirit: Tends to only partly manifest his folk as extensions of his own body while he fights.
* GuardianEntity: The Cloak of Sidhe transforms him to be Ellen's Guardian.
* IntrepidReporter: Arrives in Doolin after receiving an anonymous call about faeries, and embarks on a dangerous adventure to get the scoop- despite that he doesn't actually believe in the things he's chasing.
%%* MrFanservice
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The big reveal. Keats is a halflive, created from the last wish of Ellen's childhood friend, and thus a remnant of him. Halflives operate quite differently to the standard ghost, with elements of TheFairFolk.]]
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Even as a civillian, but they actually glow while in the Netherworld.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Can come off as this when faced with some of the more insufferable characters. His personality overall tends towards the cynical.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:When Keats finds out at the end of the game that ''he'' is a Halflife and the player discovers that he's not really a reporter at all, his "office" was just another part of the Netherworld, and the magazine he supposedly wrote for folded 17 years earlier. This is further enforced by one of the downloadable quests in which an outsider to the village couldn't see Keats because she didn't believe in magic.]]
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Complete with a tie. His outfit is somewhat of a blend of a sharp suit and an adventurer's gear, possibly odd for a reporter- [[spoiler:which makes sense, when you consider that his entire being is based on an idea of a cool adult, in a drawing by a young child.]]
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! Suzette

* AbusiveParents: Herve and her husband Renaldo's death unhinged Regine so much she either abused her daughter or thought in her insanity she was Herve.
* ParentalAbandonment: Suzette's father died before her birth and her mother has abandoned her prior to the game's events to follow an [[spoiler:unhinged plan to kill Ellen in revenge for Herve's death]].
* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler:The Dark Impulse quest-line serves to shed some light on the tragedy of her life. At the end, despite all she's done by that point, Ellen simply can't hate not have sympathy for her]].

! Ingrid

* InTheHood
* MissingMom
* StrongFamilyResemblance