[[folder:SIREN]]
!!Kyoya Suda
The main character, more or less. An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who comes to the Hanuda area to investigate an urban legend about a mysterious village and a massacre that supposedly took place there. He finds himself stranded in the mountains after his bike breaks down, stumbles upon a weird religious ceremony, and then gets shot by a cop who's apparently immune to getting run over by a truck. [[FromBadToWorse And that's just the beginning.]]

* ClothingDamage: He gets a bullethole in his shirt after being shot once in the prologue, and another one later after being shot ''again.''
* [[spoiler:FailureHero: He is unable to prevent Miyako's death from the ceremony.]]
* FragileSpeedster: He isn't very resiliant to damage and early on he has access to one of the weakest melee weapon, a fire poker. To compensate, he is one of the fastest characters.
** LightningBruiser: Upon taking a level in badass, he is able to use all three different weapon categories (melee, small firearm, rifle) well.
* TheHero
* HideYourChildren: His age was raised from 16 to 18 for the American release.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Doesn't have a lot of tact and tends to be brutally honest at times.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: The blood transfusion he receives from Miyako grants him immunity to becoming a Shibito at the cost of never leaving the underworld. Also, upon being shot a second time and is seperated from Miyako, he ventures the Shibito Nest with Yoriko in search for her.]]
* [[spoiler: WalkingTheEarth: It's implied that this is what he's been doing between the first and second games. Not much else he can do, being stuck in another dimension and all.]]

!!Tamon Takeuchi
A professor of folklore at the Josei University in Tokyo, but born and raised in Hanuda. Tamon travels to the area under the guise of researching local folklore, but is actually trying to uncover the truth about a landslide that killed his parents in the seventies in the very same village.

* BadassBookworm: He ''is'' a university professor who dons a cool revolver like nobody's business. He also comes with a .38 revolver and is not afraid to use it.
* TheLancer: To Kyoya to an extent, particularly when they briefly team up in day 3.
* LightningBruiser: Arguably the most durable and fastest character and comes equipped with a gun [[spoiler: and later a melee weapon]]. Ironically, he has the slowest Instant180DegreeTurn.
* {{Jerkass}}: He can be rather harsh with Yoriko.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: On the other hand, he is trying to protect her.
* ParentalAbandonment: His parents were buried under a landslide when he was just a child.

!!Yoriko Anno
A somewhat geeky and ditzy (at first) student of Tamon's who invites herself along on his trip to Hanuda. She secretly harbours a massive crush on him.

* HotForTeacher
* TheLoad: For Tamon during his levels.
* {{Meganekko}}
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Comes across as a bit of a whiny [[TheLoad Load]] early on in the game, but gets much more useful and likable later on.
* TooDumbToLive: Early on, when Tamon leaves her alone and tells her to stay put, she decides to go searching for something she dropped in a completely different area without any means of defending herself.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:By the end of the game her and Tamon's roles appear to be reversed, as she's the one taking charge and dragging his helpless ass along.]]

!!Kei Makino
Also referred to as "Leader Makino" because of his position as a priest for the local Mana religion. He is the identical twin brother of Shiro Miyata.

* ActualPacifist: Refuses to use a weapon at all, even if it means having to fend off a Shibito to save someone's life. [[spoiler: Near the end of the game, 'Kei' finally mans up and takes Tamon's .38 revolver to defend himself.]]
* FailureHero: He is unable to [[spoiler: protect Tomoko as he tries to escort her to safety, and could not protect Risa from Mina, twice. This indirectly causes Tomoko's and Risa's transformations into a shibito.]]
* TheChick: A male example, and one of the more prominent opposing traits to his brother.
* NonActionGuy
* SiblingYinYang: The kind-hearted, yet passive counterpart to the cold but effectual Shiro.
* [[spoiler:SinisterMinister: Despite his kind nature, his duties as a priest do include the occasional HumanSacrifice in the worship of a EldritchAbomination.]]
* [[spoiler:TwinSwitch: If you want to get technical, it's not much of a ''switch" per se, as he gets killed in the process...]]

!!Shiro Miyata
A handsome young doctor at the local clinic and Kei's identical twin brother. He's dating Mina Onda, the nurse who has gone mysteriously missing at the start of the game.

* CainAndAbel: Despite his success in his own field, Shiro's somewhat jealous of his brother's position in the community. [[spoiler:He eventually winds up killing him and masquerading as him.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]
* [[spoiler: MadScientist: Shiro seems a little too happy in cutting up the Onda sisters.]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate
* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath]]
* SiblingYinYang: The cold and competent opposite to his kind and ineffectual brother.
* SociopathicHero
* [[spoiler:TwinSwitch]]

!!Akira Shimura
A 70-year-old hunter who has lived his entire life in Hanuda. He goes around shooting shibito and dropping cryptic hints about what is going on.

* ColdSniper: He doesn't particulary care about meeting survivors and prefers his own company.
** FriendlySniper: He is, however, willing to save lifes if the opportunity comes along.
* CoolOldGuy
* GlassCannon: He is an expert at sniping and is never seen without his rifle, but because of his age, he is slow and has terrible endurance.
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: He tries to kill himself in an attempt to escape the curse. It doesn't work.]]

!!Hisako Yao
Also known as "Guide Hisako", being a high-ranking member of the enigmatic Mana Cult. She encounters Kyoya early on in the game and helps him gets his bearings in the tutorial stage.

* [[spoiler:AmnesiacDissonance: Has lived for so long that she's forgotten her task, which is why she helps Kyoya early on before remembering what she was supposed to be doing.]]
* [[spoiler:LockedIntoStrangeness: Upon her witnessing the death of her god, her hair turns white at the shock.]]
* [[spoiler:ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Thousands of years old, actually.]]

!!Miyako Kajiro
A 14-year-old girl born with a sixth sense but without eyesight, Miyako is supposed to be sacrificed in the Mana cult's ritual but is on the run from her fate. She meets and tags along with Kyoya, and the two form a close bond over the course of the story.

* BlindSeer
* [[spoiler:KillTheCutie: She is killed upon her capture and her forceful participation in the ceremony created by Hisako Yao and the Kajiro siblings.]]
* MysticalWaif
* TheLoad: She is arguably even moreso than Yoriko. Since she's blind, you have to stay close to her and occasionally turn back and look at her so she is able to follow you.
* WomanInBlack: Her black dress and black hair make a striking visual impression, but she doesn't actually fit the usual characterization.

!!Reiko Takato
A teacher at the Hanuda elementary school, who cares for her young pupil Harumi as if she was her own daughter.

* CoolTeacher: The fact that she is willing to protect her pupil Harumi at all costs definitely earns her this title.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* LightningBruiser: The strongest female character and has the fastest Instant180DegreeTurn. Her downside is her melee weapon, though powerful, is slow and difficult to use.
* MamaBear: Toward Harumi. [[spoiler:Even after being shibitofied.]]
* TheWoobie: Though not apparent at first, Reiko sees Harumi as a daughter [[spoiler: to cope with the loss of her own daughter, Megumi, after a freak summer break accident.]]

!!Harumi Yomoda
A 10-year-old elementary school student, whom Mrs Takato has taken under her wing.

* InfantImmortality: Unlike the other characters, she is never shown dying when a shibito catches up with her, merely cowering instead as the screen fades out. [[spoiler:She's also the only character who makes it out of the otherworld alive.]]
* OneHitpointWonder: One of the main contributors to the school stage's infamous status as the ScrappyLevel.
* ReplacementGoldfish: For Reiko's daughter.
* TheWoobie: Listen to her as she [[spoiler: loses her beloved teacher when she witnesses the aftermath of Reiko's HeroicSacrifice, and again when said teacher returns, but as a Shibito.]]

!!Risa Onda
Mina Onda's identical twin, who was born in Hanuda but has since then moved to Tokyo. She's come home to visit her sister, only to get caught up in the horrible wackiness that's going on.

* [[spoiler:CreepyTwins: With Mina, though only after they've both been shibitofied.]]
* FragileSpeedster: Has the worst endurance in the game, even compared to Tomoko who is a few years younger than her, and has access to the weakest melee weapon in the game.
* TwinTelepathy: There is definitely a connection between her and Mina. [[spoiler:It's implied that the reason Risa turns into a shibito is because her sister is infected as well.]]

!!Mina Onda
Risa's sister, Shiro's lover and a nurse at the Miyata clinic. She appears to have gone missing at the start of the game.

* [[spoiler:CreepyTwins: With Risa, though only after they've both been shibitofied.]]
* [[spoiler:PosthumousCharacter: She is dead before the start of the game, killed by Shiro. She doesn't stay dead for long...]]
* TwinTelepathy: There is definitely a connection between her and Risa.

!!Naoko Mihama
A former model and actress who hasn't been able to keep up with the competitive entertainment industry and has been reduced to B-list status. She's in Hanuda to film an episode for an occult TV series of questionable quality when she gets separated from her camera crew.

* BreakTheHaughty
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: She drowns herself in a pool of red water, having been driven mad by the events of the game.]]
* [[spoiler:LaughingMad: As a shibito.]]
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:"Eternal youth. Eternal youth. Eternal youth..."]]
** Later, she is constantly heard saying things like [[spoiler:"Won't you look at me?" and "Tell me I'm beautiful!" following her transformation into a shibito.]]
* MsFanservice: A few racy pictures of her can be found throughout the game as archive items.
* PrecisionFStrike: ''(as the fact that she's been separated from her crew sinks in)'' "''Shit''."
* RichBitch: Subverted. She's not actually rich, but [[StepfordSmiler she sure acts like she is]].
* WhiteDwarfStarlet

!!Tomoko Maeda
A young girl who had just run away from home when the whole of Hanuda went to hell. Now she's trying to reunite with her parents.

* HideYourChildren: Her age was raised from 14 to 16 in the US version.
* [[spoiler:TearsOfBlood]]
* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror: During her final stage, none of the shibito attack her. At the end of the mission you find out it's because she's already turning into one of them.]]
* TheWoobie: She spends most of her story arc separated from her parents, and returns to them [[spoiler: unknowingly as a Shibito, and is quickly rejected by her traumatised and terrified parents. Tomoko turns away, heartbroken.]]
** [[spoiler: The family is able to live together in the end, as shibito, so it thankfully gets better. [[ThatOneLevel Just not for Harumi.]]]]
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[[folder:SIREN 2]]

!!Mamoru Itsuki
A young journalist who arrives on Yamijima Island to gather material for an article for the mystery/science magazine "Atlantis". Can be considered the main character of the game.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He unintentionally [[spoiler: releases the Yamibito from the Underworld to the surface. With the help of Ikuko, he quickly seals the Underworld before too many gets out]].
* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler:Really? The whole "this enormous scale is from my mother" thing didn't tip you off at all that there might be something weird about Yuri? To be fair, it's possible she has some sort of clamouring powers.]]

!!Yuri Kishida
A mysterious, beautiful yet vaguely unsettling young woman whom Mamoru stumbles upon at the beginning of the game. She claims to be on the island looking for her mother.

* [[spoiler:HumanoidAbomination]]
* UncannyValleyGirl

!!Shu Mikami
A popular romance novelist whose sight has been impaired by a traumatic childhood event. Born and raised on Yamijima island, he is returning home in order to recover his lost memories. In-game, he is able to navigate around by sightjacking his [[StealthPun seeing-eye]] dog Tsukasa.

* CanineCompanion: Tsukasa, his seeing eye dog. [[spoiler: She gets transported to Soji later on.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: From the beginning the game makes it look like he's the main character. [[spoiler: He dies at the end of Chapter 1.]]
* [[spoiler:SpiritAdvisor: Becomes this to other characters once he is absorbed by Mother.]]
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath: With Kanae. [[MindScrew Or something like that]].]]
* TheWoobie

!!Ikuko Kifune
A teenaged girl who works on the docks and on the boat when it gets whisked away by the red tsunami. She has the ability to take control of the beings she sightjacks.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She's shown being bullied because of her psychic powers.
* CastFromHitPoints: Controlling a shibito exhausts Ikuko.
* PsychicPowers
** MindControl
** {{Telepathy}}
* TsunDere: Behaves like this towards Mamoru early on, softening up once she learns to trust him more.

!!Takeaki Misawa
A major in the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force who crash lands on the island in a helicopter along with Yorito Nagai. He is determined and experienced, but is constantly haunted by visions of a rescue operation he took part in years ago.

* BloodKnight
* [[spoiler:PsychicPowers]]
* SanitySlippage

!!Yorito Nagai
A private in the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force who crash lands on the island in a helicopter along with Takeaki Misawa. Young and inexperienced, Yorito can't help but follow Misawa's lead until the circumstances force him to man up and take charge of himself.

* [[spoiler:AFateWorseThanDeath: When the tangent dimension collapses, Yorito is unlucky enough to get thrown to a dimension full of yamibito.[[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Or maybe he just snaps.]]]]
* TheLancer: To Mamoru when they team up near the end.
* NewMeat: Starts out as this.
* TookALevelInBadass

!!Soji Abe
The flatmate of a murdered young woman called Ryuko Tagawa who is accused of killing her. He kidnaps clairvoyant Akiko Kiyota and persuades her to help him clear his name. His special ability in-game is setting down hunting traps, which immobilize the enemy and makes them take more damage.

* ClearMyName
* FaceOfAThug: Looks like your average delinquent, but is actually a rather friendly individual, if a little hot tempered.
* IdiotHero

!!Akiko Kiyota
The [[{{Clairvoyance}} clairvoyant]] who accompanies Soji to Yamijima Island, where she believes they'll be able to find some answers on what really happened to Ryuko. She can use her sightjacking skills to see flashbacks of past events.

* [[spoiler:GrandTheftMe: Her body gets hijacked by Kanae once she gets too absorbed in solving the mysteries of the past, leaving herself vulnerable to possession.]]
* PsychicPowers
** {{Clairvoyance}} with a side of Retrocognition.

!!Shigeru Fujita
An aging, unlucky police officer investigating rumors of activity on Yamijima Island. [[spoiler: After he dies, he returns as a 'mini-boss' Yamibito.]]

* BornUnlucky
* [[spoiler:CuriosityKilledTheCast]]
* DoomedHomeTown: He was born on Yamijima Island but left before the population vanished.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: After saving Ichiko, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she thanks him by killing him]].]]

!!Ichiko Yagura
A 14-year-old schoolgirl who finds herself wandering in the stranded Bright Win ferry with gaping holes in her memory.

* [[spoiler:TheCorruption]]
* [[spoiler:CreepyChild: Once she reveals her true nature.]]
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia
* {{Odango}}
* [[spoiler: TomatoInTheMirror]]
* TheWoobie

!!Kanae
A mysterious young woman from Shu's past.

* BurnTheWitch: The people of Yamijima island are utterly convinced that she is the harbinger of doom. [[spoiler: They were right.]]
* [[spoiler:HumanoidAbomination]]
* [[spoiler:MookFaceTurn: Her attachment to young Shu and her shame in killing his father enables her to escort him out of Yamijima island, away from the mob. Later on whilst possessing Akiko Kiyota, she helps Mamoru and Ikuko in their battle with Mother and delivers the first blow at the cost of her life.]]
* [[spoiler:MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Upon murdering Shu's father under the order of Mother, she soon becomes overwhelmed with guilt, rebels from Mother, and helps young Shu escape from Yamijima island.]]
* [[spoiler:SuspiciouslySimilarReplacement: In universe example. Kanae was created to resemble Shu's dead mother and manipulate him into releasing Mother. His father [[GenreSavvy finds her resemblance rather suspicious]].]]
* [[spoiler:VillainProtagonist]]

!!Tsuneo Ohta
The chief of Yamijima island, who suspects that Kanae has brought a curse upon his home, and rallies a mob to execute her.

* KickTheDog: Not only he brings a mob to hunt down Kanae, he and the villagers also targets a scared four-year-old Shu just because he is with her.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Tomoe Ohta
Tsuneo's daughter, who helps her father into finding the 'witch' that laid a curse upon Yamijima island.

* [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: She dies by falling off a bridge and is skewered by a sharp antenna of a roof.]]


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[[folder:SIREN: Blood Curse]]

!!Howard Wright
A 18-year old American boy who is living and studying in Japan. He is invited to the village by a mysterious e-mail from Sam Monroe.

* ActionSurvivor: He's a pretty standard slightly rebellious teenager and fits the description of the trope to a T, sans the stubble.
* TheChosenOne: Miyako marks him as one, and Seigo pretty much calls him this.
* {{Expy}}: A pretty direct one of Kyoya, as opposed to most of the other cast, who each share traits with multiple characters from the original game.
* TheHero
* GratuitousJapanese: Since he is currently living in Japan, he has picked up on a few Japanese phrases.
* StaticCharacter: We meet him saving Miyako from sacrifice. He spends the rest of the game doing either this or helping others (or killing shibito).
* TookALevelInBadass: By the end.

!!Melissa Gale
The divorced wife of Sam Monroe, mother of Bella Monroe, and the presenter of the TV crew that comes to Hanuda to investigate the legend of the vanished village.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Is not particulary friendly with her ex-husband initially especially when [[WhatanIdiot he brings their daughter to Hanuda]], but this all changes when they have a lead to finding their daughter, referring to his optimisim fondly.
* [[spoiler:BodyHorror: Eventually becomes the very same Maggot Shibito that had tried to kill her and her daughter in Episode 12.]]
* CompositeCharacter: A combination of Reiko, Mrs. Maeda and Naoko.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: Just like Reiko of Siren 1, Melissa sacrifices herself twice to save her daughter, once as a human, and again as a Maggot Shibito.]]
* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage: Being the sole survivor of her family in the first time loop, she still stays by her shibitofied daughter and husband side and is willing to kill anyone that comes between them.]]
* MamaBear
* RedOni: To her ex-husband's Sam Blue.

!!Sam Monroe
The divorced husband of Melissa Gale and father of Bella Monroe. He is a professor of folklore and comes to Hanuda with the TV crew to serve as their expert on the subject.

* Bookworm: His look and job suggests this.
* BlueOni: To his ex-wife's Melissa Red.
* CompositeCharacter: A combination of Tamon and Mr. Maeda.
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Considering he's willing to doom the whole cast into a StableTimeLoop so that his daughter "can exist forever"...]]

!!Bella Monroe
The young daughter of Sam Monroe and Melissa Gale. Sam brings her along to their trip to Hanuda, much to Melissa's horror.

* CatchPhrase: Her recurring cries of "no, no, no!" may as well be.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Played with. As a child, she qualifies.
* CompositeCharacter: A combination Harumi and Tomoko. [[spoiler:And Hisako, once she grows up...]]
* [[spoiler:NightmareFace: She eventually becomes a Brain Shibito in the first time loop, where her face appears very much like the base of a bug.]]
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Subverted as she is killed by a large falling log thrown by an off-screen Maggot Shibito, and reanimates as a Shibito. After the first time loop, this is played straight.]]

!!Sol Jackson
The cameraman of the TV crew documenting the mysteries of Hanuda.

* [[spoiler:BlackGuyDiesFirst: ''Twice.'' What the hell, game?]]
* StalkerWithACrush: He ''writes fanfiction'' about him and Melissa.

!!Seigo Saiga

* CompositeCharacter: Poor Seigo's probably got it the worst out of the ''Blood Curse'' cast, having to cover the roles of Akira, Shiro and Jun, with a little bit of Kei thrown in.
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: During the first time loop.]]
* HiddenDepths: At first glance he comes off as nothing but a sociopathic nihilist (combination of Shiro and Akira), but when you realize he does care for Yukie, his demeanor is more understandable.
* MoralityPet: His associate and nurse Yukie was meant to be this, but then came the ceremony and they needed a sacrifice of a young woman, and well...
* PerpetualExpression: His eyebrows don't seem to ever move from the somewhat serious, somewhat smug expression they give.

!!Amana

* [[spoiler:AmnesiacDissonance]]
* {{Expy}}: Of Hisako Yao.
* [[spoiler:VillainProtagonist]]
* Really700YearsOld: She ate the god hundreds of years ago, and looks like she's in her twenties.

!!Miyako

* {{Expy}}: Of [[CaptainObvious Miyako]]. Though she's not blind this time around.
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Just like the original Miyako, she is sacrified and thus killed in the second time loop.]]
* MysticalWaif: Her characterization in ''Blood Curse'' is closer to the archetype than it is in the original game.
* WomanInBlack

[[/folder]]