Characters / Acting Lessons

The cast is composed of the main character, his best friend Liam, the various women that the main character meets throughout the story, and some other minor characters.

Note: As with many character pages, simply knowing that a trope applies to a certain character can be a minor/major spoiler. As per the Spoiler Policy, the names of these tropes are left unmarked. However, spoiler information within these tropes (or others) is marked as best as possible.

Main Character (Jonas Redfield)

Main Character (Jonas Redfield)

The main protagonist of the story. After a failed relationship with his fiance leaves him as an empty shell of his old self, he finally manages to earn enough money to retire early. Then, everything changes when a young woman named Megan enters his life...

• A Lady on Each Arm: Double Subverted if you choose to seriously pursue both Megan and Melissa; at first it seems like Megan won't ever find out, but then Melissa tells Megan about your relations, leading you to think that the situation will end in a romantic and/or friendship breakup. However, after the three of you have an honest conversation about it, you all decide that it's best for you to date both of them in order for you all to realize what you really want.
  • If you do choose this route, you will have moments where you have both lying intimately next to you in your bed in sequential episodes.
• The Casanova: Subverted. Throughout the game, it seems at least somewhat possible for you to keep romancing/seeing multiple girls at once. However, for almost all possible endings, seeing other girls while explicitly dating one of them leads to one of the more bitter Bittersweet Endings.
• Did Not Get the Girl: Several of the potential endings have this, where you choose to be with either Megan or Melissa, but cheat on them at any point after you two start officially dating. You are eventually forgiven, however.
• Generic Name: Inverted. Your default name, Jonas Redfield, is a perfectly normal, plausible name for someone to have. Taken a step further given that you can change your name, whether it is to your own name or something different. In any case, an incredibly generic name is not enforced.
• The Everyman: Is an ordinary enough person to be relatable to most players. Emphasized due to the character's personality and interactions with other characters being entirely shaped by your choices.
• The Matchmaker: You can become this for Liam and Rena if you do not pursue her yourself and make it clear that you're okay with Liam dating a girl from your past.
• White Male Lead: Exactly What It Says on the Tin

Liam

Liam

• Baldness Means Sickness: He shaves his head bald once he finds out he has cancer.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After being diagnosed with cancer, Liam can finally overcome it all and even manages to find love with Rena (provided you didn't romance her yourself).
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: To Jonas, to the point they almost view each other as brothers. He even names his son after Jonas in the epilogue to Rena's route.
• Nice Guy: Despite his goofy antics, Liam clearly wants the best for his Best Friend and is always there to support him when he needs it.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He's more than willing to drop his goofiness whenever things are looking down for his best friend.
• Plucky Comic Relief: He is one of the main sources of comedy in the story, and tends to steal the spotlight.
• Sad Clown: He starts to become this after he's diagnosed with cancer.
• Troll: He normally likes pulling pranks on you, such as having your Embarrassing Nickname "Cum Slut" tattooed on your chest, or slipping Viagra into your beer.

The Girls

Megan

Megan

• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Melissa's Veronica.
• Childhood Friends: With Melissa
• Everyone Can See It: No matter which choices you pick throughout the game, you will always go somewhere with Megan, even if you break up with her or if she dies later on in the story. Many characters comment on how they can see the tension and love between you and Megan, with most assuming that you two are already dating.
• First Girl Wins: Played Straight if you choose to be with her. Even more so if you do not pursue any other girl throughout the game.
• Happily Married: One of the potential endings should you choose to be with her instead of one of the other girls.

Melissa

Melissa

• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Megan's Betty.
• Broken Bird: She was once as happy and full of life as any other girl but now, even if she isn't entirely depressed, has a more cynical, emotionally detached view on people and relationships.
• Childhood Friends: With Megan
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Played With if you don't reject her before Episode 4. She will confront you after spending time with Megan at the cabin, upset at you for never telling her you were seriously interested in Megan and for never noticing how she really felt about you. It doesn't affect any of the friendships between the three of you in the long run however.
• Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments, usually if you ask her a stupid question.
  Melissa: Why are you like this?
  You: What do you mean?
  Melissa: You know...
  You: Like a cum slut?
  Melissa: Yes, like a cum slut! I meant caring, you moron!
• Disappeared Dad: Her father died when she was very young.
• Friends with Benefits: Subverted. Your relationship with her, should you not reject her immediately, starts off like this, with her not inserting love and romance into the situation. However, later on, she becomes more loving, as you, Megan, and her own judgement/experiences with you eventually show her that it's okay to feel that way.
• Happily Married: One of the potential endings should you choose to be with her instead of one of the other girls.
• Inconvenient Attraction: If you defend Melissa from Peter's abuse and pursue her afterwards, Melissa will later make a move on you, potentially leading to sex. Because you defended her, and because of the way you treat her in general, she starts catching feelings for you, something that she wholly detests and denies to anyone who asks. This comes from not having a real loving family/friends besides Megan up until that point, and you becoming the second exception to that causes her to fall hard. At first, she has no idea how to make sense of her feelings. However, with your and Megan's help, she eventually realizes that it's not a bad thing to be in love, and becomes more romantic than she was previously.

Rena

Rena

• Last Girl Wins: Played Straight if you choose to be in a serious relationship with her, as she is the last "main" girl you meet.
• Third-Option Love Interest: Played With. While she is one of the three "main" girls that you can ultimately choose to seriously be with, the potential for a relationship with her is not explicitly stated until the near-end of the story, and even then you only see it if you have maintained a good relationship with her, not explicitly rejected her, and made certain other choices that don't seem to have a connection to that relationship when you're making them.
  • Played completely straight if you decide to be with her after initially dating both Megan and Melissa, as her relationship potential doesn't become apparent until long after the you begin dating Megan and Melissa.

Angela and Hedwig

Angela and Hedwig

• Three-Way Sex: One of the potential endings to your night out at Inferno. The others are having sex with only Angela, only Hedwig, neither, or never even getting physical at all by leaving early.

Leah

Leah

• Asshole Victim: If the MC has Peter’s gun with him, he shoots her in self-defense after she attempts to kill him and his love interest. Considering that she raped him, sabotaged Liam’s cancer treatment, and murdered either Megan or Melissa in cold blood, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.
• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Initially comes off as a sweet, if forward, nurse who just wants you to be healthy and safe. Reveals her true colors towards the end of Episode 7, making it clear that she's psychotically possessive and incredibly dangerous due to her extensive knowledge of sedatives and nursing practices.
• Big Bad: She turns out to be the main instigator of much of the tragedies in the MC's life, ranging from raping him in his sleep, to trying to get Liam killed, to murdering Megan or Melissa.
• Dating Catwoman: Although she is not revealed as evil until later in the story and there is no entirely negative relationship between you and her until then, she can be pursued from the very beginning of the game, with the potential for several dates.
• Evil All Along: And how. The “dream sex scene” with her in Episode 1 is revealed at the end of Episode 7 to not be a dream, but her raping the MC in his sleep. Liam’s cancer treatment abruptly stopped working because she was sabotaging it just so that he would eventually die and the MC would be left with no one else but her, and it all culminates with her setting the MC’s house ablaze and killing either Megan or Melissa off.
• Hate Sink: Once she’s revealed to be Evil All Along.
• Hospital Hottie: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Brutally deconstructed after Episode 7 reveals her to be Evil All Along.
• Karma Houdini: If the MC shot Peter in Episode 7 after assuming that he started the fire that killed either Megan or Melissa, he won’t have the gun with him when he goes to see her, and she’ll flee without suffering any consequences.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After it’s revealed that she started the fire that led to Megan’s or Melissa’s death, if the MC has Peter’s gun, he shoots her after she threatens to torture him and his love interest to death.
• Love Allegory: The lamb analogy in Episode 7.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: She does this by sneaking into the MC’s house, knocking Megan and Melissa out, and setting the MC’s house on fire, resulting in either one dying from the smoke.
• Spanner in the Works: If the MC cheated on Megan and/or Melissa at any point, her photos of him doing so end up destroying their relationship for good.
• Stalker with a Crush: Is seen stalking you, Megan, and Melissa in Episode 4 in your house. In Episode 8 you see that she has been stalking you since the beginning of the game, taking pictures of every sexual encounter you've had until that point.
• Walking Spoiler: It’s very hard to talk about her without revealing that she’s much more vile than she lets on.
• Yandere: Played for Drama from the end of Episode 7 onward.

Ana

Ana

• Disposable Fiancé: A female example of the trope. Type 4, with the breakup between you two being a major plot point throughout the story. Possibly inverted if you admit that the breakup broke you, have sex with her, and later tell her that you haven't moved on, ending with you two attempting to rekindle your relationship.
• Divorce Is Temporary: One of several potential endings if you have sex with her and make certain other choices in Episode 5.

Other Characters

Dick

Dick

• A Dick in Name: The rest of his tropes indicate why his name is Dick.
• Establishing Character Moment: He either tricks the MC into paying him for a fake number or yells at him to get out of the store.
• Hate Sink: Has no redeeming qualities and just serves to be an utter dickhead to everyone else around him.
• Kick the Dog: Blames Megan after she’s fired for apparently not following the store’s protocol and treats Rena like garbage, even after she gets back together with him.
• Jerkass: It says something when he goes out of his way to attack the MC with a baseball bat after hearing that Rena was with the MC at the camping trip.

Dr. Williams

Dr. Williams

Peter

Peter

• Abusive Parents: Regularly beats up Melissa’s mother and treats Melissa like absolute garbage, considering it “tough love” for her. He’ll also beat up Melissa if the MC resorts to violence when he calls Liam the N-word.
• Asshole Victim: Becomes one if he’s shot by the Corrupt Cop he’s working with. He also becomes this if the MC chooses to murder him after he’s presumed responsible for the house fire that kills Melissa or Megan.
• Attempted Rape: He tries to rape Megan when he breaks into the MC’s house and notices the key for his drug deal in her hand if Liam wasn’t there to stop him. Thankfully, she manages to escape the situation and turn the tables on him by tricking him into giving up his gun and flushing his wallet down the toilet.
• Freudian Excuse: Tries to pass off his physical and verbal abuse as “tough love”. Of course, it’s absolutely no excuse for just how abusive he is with it.
• Hate Sink: He’s an abusive stepfather to Melissa and a racist who has absolutely zero redeeming qualities. As if all of that wasn’t bad enough, he breaks into the MC’s home and potentially attempts to rape Megan.
• Jerkass: Constantly beating up Melissa’s mother and potentially Melissa, calling Liam the N-word, and being in league with a Corrupt Cop certainly makes him this.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: When he first meets Liam, he outright calls him the N-word. And he’ll do it again if Liam shows up to intervene when he breaks into the MC’s house.
• You Have Failed Me: Is on the receiving end of this if Liam didn’t show up to intervene when he breaks into the MC’s house. Without the key needed for his drug deal with the Corrupt Cop, the cop ends up declaring Peter a liability for his recklessness and shoots him on the spot.

Ms. Pearson

Ms. Pearson