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The cast of characters who populated the story of the creepypasta and Alternate Reality Game Ben Drowned.

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Protagonists

    Jadusable 
The protagonist of the Haunted Cartridge Arc, Jadusable is the one who kicked everything off. After playing the haunted cartridge and being lured in by BEN, he ended up releasing the entity first onto his computer and then onto the Internet. Currently seems to have ben merged into BEN. Or not. The Awakening arc reveals Jadusable Dug Too Deep into the cartridge, ignoring BEN pleading with him not to do it after one too many malicious jokes. This resulted in him awakening and attacking the Father, who killed him for it.
  • And I Must Scream: He's been stuck in the cartridge for ten years, and it's heavily implied that one of the Elegy statues Sarah encounters in The Truth.wmv is him.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: The Showdown.wmv reveals that The Father corrupted him after he got killed and digitized in THE FATHER.wmv. And then subverted, as he reveals Matt was the real villain; he was trying to stop Sarah from accidentally removing The Father's sole remaining control by Moon Children who weren't him.
  • Co-Dragons: With the in-game Moon Children in the Awakening arc. According to Matt, who is a liar - the Moon Children were Good All Along.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: He kills Sarah with no effort whatsoever in The Showdown.wmv.
  • Curiosity Killed the Cast: If Jadusable hadn't kept playing, he wouldn't have gotten so deep into things. If he hadn't hooked up his N64 to his computer with a TV tuner and capture card, BEN wouldn't have leaked into his computer. Best of all, if he hadn't uploaded the videos to Youtube, BEN wouldn't have leaked onto the internet itself.
  • Face–Monster Turn: After being eaten by The Father, Jadusable becomes digitized within the Majora's Mask cartridge itself, thus becoming a loyal follower of The Father and working with the Moon Children...who don't actually want to end the world, and The Father turns out to not be sentient enough to even have minions.
  • Genre Blindness: "What's this? A random old man gave me a suspicious copy of Majora's Mask that has a rare cartridge color and no label? I think I'll play it!
  • Heroic Sacrifice: In spirit, at least; Jad's refusal to explain things until it was nearly too late required him to perform a Fusion Dance with Sarah, giving up his existence to give Sarah the strength to stop Matt.
  • Idiot Hero: He refused to stop playing even though he knew something was wrong. Whether he did this out of stupidity, because he was too angry at BEN to listen to his pleas to stop, or because the Father was controlling him somehow is unclear and (at this point) probably irrelevant. See also the entry under Poor Communication Kills, which results in a Near-Villain Victory.
  • Madness Mantra: "FUCK YOU BEN I'M NOT TALKING TO YOU"
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Thanks to him (and, in part, the players), BEN is now on the internet and the Father is also loose.
  • Nightmare Sequence: He has a disturbing one in the Haunted Cartridge Arc.
  • Our Hero Is Dead: As of THE FATHER.wmv, Jadusable has been revealed to be Dead All Along since the end of the Haunted Cartridge Arc.
    • Not Quite Dead: The spectrogram at the beginning of The Happy Mask Salesman.wmv contains a hidden line revealing that Jadusable is still alive. Sarah encounters him while trying to free the Moon Children, only to discover that he is now a loyal slave to The Father. She attempts to defeat him during The Showdown.wmv, but is killed. It'd probably be best if she remained that way.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Instead of simply explaining to Sarah what's going on, he goes about of his way in secret to sabotage her efforts, and gives her the impression he's working for the very forces trying to destroy the world. In truth, he's aware of Matt's plan and is trying to stop the Fourth Day from happening so his goals can't be met. In addition, he clearly knows something about the true nature of The Father that even the Moon Children themselves are unaware of, but he takes his knowledge with him to the grave.
  • Smug Snake: Seems to have become this after joining The Father. He cockily taunts Sarah for the duration of their duel, and when she gets her first hit, Jad says 'that was your last freebie'. It doesn't help the fight is essentially a reskinned Dark Link encounter, who was considered obnoxiously hard to beat by many in the vanilla Ocarina of Time. Jad even performs the infamous 'jump on Link's sword' ability whenever Sarah goes for a thrust. It ultimately he is a heroic version, as he just assumed Matt wouldn't be able to pull a Batman Gambit on Sarah.
  • Talking through Technique: He uses it to communicate with the players.
  • Through the Eyes of Madness: At points during thetruth.rtf.
  • Too Dumb to Live: His last action before his supposed death? Smacking the thing that scares BEN shitless with his sword. Multiple times. It ends exactly like you would think.
    • See also his confrontations with Sarah; as per Poor Communication Kills above; instead of explaining things to her while they had time, he opts to fight.
  • Walking Spoiler: Anything to do with him as of Act 3 is this.

    Player 2 / Main Character 2 
The first player avatar of the Awakening Arc. Somewhat literally, as if things are to be taken at face value, we're riding shotgun in their skull.
  • Distressed Dude: As of Methods of Revolution [Day 1], he's stuck in a hotel that's outside time and space as we comprehend it.
  • The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Because of the players having a presence in-game, choosing Player 2's actions, what happens to him effectively happens to the players. Anything he could discover could be lost if he dies. On the other hand, as he's got the players controlling his actions to some degree, he's at our mercy to some degree as well. Witness him being made to haul a mannequin head around as one of his three items.
  • Heroic Mime: Apart from quiet breathing and grunting sounds, Player 2 doesn't utter a single word during the Awakening Arc. It probably has to do with being an avatar of those participating in the ARG.
  • Mind Hive: Abel says he is comprised of "several hundred subjects from the St. Louis Incident".
  • No Name Given: We never learn Player 2's name.
  • Our Hero Is Dead: Officially this as of Methods of Revolution [Day 11], unsurprisingly at the Jailer's hands when he's caught wandering the hotel's second floor.
  • Tomato Inthe Mirror: For the players, this guy is us.

    Sarah 
Also known as Player 3. The second player avatar of the Awakening arc. She wakes up in Player 2's room on Day 14, after he is killed by the Jailer. Shares a few of his tropes. Initially nameless, though is given a name on Day 21.
  • 11th-Hour Superpower: As thanks for playing the Song of Healing, Ben gives Sarah the Adult's Mask (which contains the memories of many of the game's inhabitants) in order to help her stop the Father.
  • Conservation of Competence: Compared to her predecessors, Sarah makes leaps and bounds in her progression of the narrative, as well as being a much better player of Majora's Mask than Jadusable ever was. Admittedly, this may be because she is an avatar for the players, who in turn have learned from their mistakes - her being more competent makes sense.
  • Damsel in Distress: For all the same reasons as Player 2.
  • Face Death with Dignity: While she's unhappy she'll never be able to reunite with the few friends she'd made, she ultimately accepts that she needs to be removed from the game, and peacefully allows Father to do so.
  • The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: As for Player 2, so for her. Also she's playing the Haunted Cartridge.
  • Here We Go Again!: Inverted and played straight, all at the same time. Though players had the option to send her to explore the hotel as Player 2 did, they instead voted for her to stay in her room. She's now playing the Haunted Cartridge.
  • Heroic Mime: Like Player 2 before her, she never says anything. Which is rather fitting considering she steps into the role of gaming's most famous Heroic Mime once she starts playing the Haunted Cartridge. Circle, inhabiting the body of Tatl, ends up doing all the talking for her.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of it all, she and Circle manage to talk down the Father and tell it to protect the world. But in order to do so, it has to remove anomalies, including them, since they're currently in an area of the cartridge that they shouldn't be. When Circle asks if the others they helped will know what happened, the Father says that they won't, as their memories will be all be reset along with the cartridge. They both accept this, and quietly go to their end.
  • Mind Hive: Just like Player 2, she is this to the players. And after acquiring the Adult Link Mask, Ben and those who were digitized.
  • Power Up Let Down: Despite being extremely useful, the Adult Link Mask becomes more of an inconvenience with every video. Sarah is unable to do most of the things Young Link and his other forms are able to, such as ride the child-sized Epona. Not helping matters is that she can't take the mask off. This almost comes to bite her in the ass during the fight against Goht, where she had to rely on the Light Arrows and Rosa's healing to finish him off.
  • Retgone: Her ultimate fate; despite saving everyone and getting The Father to stop being a destroyer and begin protecting the world, she is ultimately removed and the residents have there memories reset to before anything happened.
  • The Hero Dies: She is killed by Jadusable at the end of The Showdown.wmv. Her status page at the Eternity Project's website shows that she's available for rebooting, meaning there's a chance that she can be brought back to life.
    • May or may not have been her ultimate fate; she's removed from World Alpha, but it's left ambiguous whether she's been put in some digital purgatory or outright erased.
  • Villain Protagonist: As of The Dying World.wmv, she's pretty much this to the in-game Moon Children and those who refuse to side with her, as they blame her for the cartridge becoming corrupted again.
  • Walking Spoiler: As a result of her being the one active in the endgame, and thus involved in a lot of the later reveals, she's very much this.

    KING KONG 
An April Fools' joke created by Jadusable. It is a short recap of the Haunted Cartridge arc... except it's being portrayed by Goron Link, all while King Kong plays throhough the video.

The Moon Children

    General 
A cult of people who worship an entity known as Luna, and have ideologies based around the idea of a coming apocalypse. Not much is known about their true intentions, though another common theme is the idea of "ascension", which is implied to be some form of ritualistic death that probably doesn't end very well for those involved, if pictures in the Awakening Arc are anything to go by.

The Awakening arc, however, reveals that the cult is nothing more than a front to the Eternity Project, used to lure people into joining a fake cult in order to digitize them in order to transcend humanity.


  • Ax-Crazy: Some of the members from the old website had serious... issues. Some of them even wanted to do a school shooting, either for very petty reasons (like having a bad day in the school) or by "liberating" their souls to the world as a favor.
  • Brain Uploading: What "ascension" really entails.
  • Cult: It's not clear which of the more specific cult tropes apply, but their belief system is based around the moon and the apocalypse. They also practice some sort of Human Sacrifice called "ascension", which is revealed in the Awakening Arc to be what turned Ben into BEN.
  • Hearing Voices: Most of the members constantly hears whispers from what is assumed to be Luna, their goddess. Except she doesn't exist. They're either crazy or the Eternity Project did something to them after they joined.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: With the reveal that the cult is a front to a mysterious organization, it's possible that none of the members are aware that everything is a lie. Duskworld 23's page in the Methods of Revolution's website also implies that he and the other members never knew the full truth about ascencion.
  • Lotus-Eater Machine: What they seemed to be willing treating their rebirth in the cartridge as. They ask Sarah why she thinks they would want to live in the world outside the game - a world full of pain and suffering - and say they just want to be left alone.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Most of the members are only known by their nicknames and fake names, including the staff who ran their old website back in 2010. This is due to DROWNED ordering everyone to keep everything related to the cult, including their profiles and nicknames, restricted to the website, without any correlation to their social media accounts.

    Ifrit 
Real name "Matt Hubris". A moderator on the Moon Children cult's forums. He disappeared after Alex played the Song of Time.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Vanished after the Moon Children Arc. Shows up in the Awakening Arc, apparently having been digitized into the game at some point during the ten year hiatus.
    • As of "The End.wmv", he's also revealed to be the true villain of the arc. He claims he wants to turn the world into a 'nightmare', though his motives for doing so are never really explained.
  • And I Must Scream: Averted. Unlike Ben, Matt doesn't seem to be stuck in this state the way that Ben is after the game's reset back to 2010. He's a bit more together than Ben was after being released.
  • Batman Gambit: His plan to get Sarah to release The Father relies on the conditioning of Sarah and the players to want to complete the quest set out for them; as Jadusable points out during his last conversation, it was always convenient that Sarah found items or received help just as she needed them.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: With BEN during the Awakening arc.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: During The Reveal, the texture on the eyes of the Potion Seller model changes, effectively giving something to this effect briefly.
  • The Chooser of the One: Functionally this. He appears to Sarah and notes she's not nearly as reckless as her predecessor - they can work together. However, it turns out this is a ploy to get her to play the role of the 'hero' so he can meet his goal of releasing The Father and turn the world into a 'nightmare'.
  • Deader than Dead: His ultimate fate come the finale is being unceremoniously deleted by The Father.
  • Evil All Along: As revealed in "The End.wmv", he's the true Big Bad of the arc. The Father is but a rampant A.I. acting out in its twisted parameters; Matt is the one who wants to see the destruction of the world.
  • Fatal Flaw: Pride. As his name indicates, Matt is extremely prideful. Downplayed in that he manages to restrain himself so as not to give away his manipulations. The instant the players and Sarah open the way to The Father, though, it comes out in full force, revealing the true Matt to be an arrogant, manipulative bastard.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Is. He. Ever. Matt ultimately misled both Sarah and the players themselves into doing exactly what he wanted them to do. Jadusable confirms this not long after, revealing that everything Matt said was a lie to achieve his ends.
  • Meaningful Name: Matt Hubris, following the reveal. "Hubris" is the sin of pride, and he is nothing if not proud of how he manipulated everyone to get what he wanted.
  • Near-Villain Victory: Played everyone like a fiddle to gain control of The Father and World Alpha. He only fails because The Father deletes him for attempting to destroy World Alpha.
  • Oh, Crap!: When Sarah destroys the Majora's Wrath avatar of BEN, his Perpetual Smiler grin vanishes as he mutters [[You...really...shouldn't have...done that..., before turning to fear as The Father unceremoniously deletes him.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: Is the true villain of the Awakening arc. It's not The Father who wishes to plunge the world into darkness, it's him; The Father is merely the tool he's using to do so.
  • Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: He remembers Sarah's predecessor as being "reckless". The Patreon post notes he's outside the game's restrictions, meaning that his knowledge wasn't reset when Sarah went back in time.
  • The Rival: Implied to be one to Abel. He comments he doesn't much like the man either after noting that Abel told Sarah to quit playing.
  • Shout-Out: The name on his Gmail account was written as "Matt HUBRIS", which could be a small and subtle shout-out to Everyman HYBRID.
  • The Bus Came Back: In The Last Hero.wmv. He's the one explaining things to Sarah, per Word of God on the video's Patreon post.
  • Unreliable Narrator: A deliberate example of one, misleading both Sarah and the ARG's players on purpose.
  • Walking Spoiler: As of the Awakening Arc. Doubly so as of "The End.wmv", where it's revealed he's the Big Bad.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Tries to pull this on Sarah when she refuses to take his side by merging with the Moon Children to become Majora's Wrath.

    Alex 
Also known as TheLinkMissing. A member of the Moon Children cult. He played the Song of Time, returning the Moon Children forums to the beginning of another cycle. This started a trend of people playing songs to affect aspects of the ARG's second arc, but this resulted in Alex's death. He came back after a player revived him with a fairy, but was killed once more soon after.

    Nekko 
One of the moderators of the Moon Children's website and the youngest member of the cult.
  • Permanently Missable Content: A meta example. Most information regarding him, including his contact profile from the old Moon Children's website, has been permanently lost due to players failing to archive most of the stuff at the time, despite the majority of the old website being archived.
  • Momma's Boy: After he got sent into the Wayward Horizon, the only thing he kept doing is calling for his mother.
    whatis? wherethis? help me please, i'm so scared. where is everyone? i'm so lonely... mommy im so sorry. i promise i'll be a better son, i promise i'll be the little boy you've always wanted, i miss you i'm so scared... mommy just please wake me up. please PLEASE MOMMY WHERE ARE YOU
  • True Companions: Considers the Moon Children a family he can trust.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: Word of God confirmed that no matter how much the players tried, they couldn't stop his ascencion from happening. He even compared it to Tael getting hit by Skull Kid every time a player goes to the Clock Tower in the final hours of the 3rd Day, an outcome you can't change.

    Kelbris 
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The founder of the Moon Children and the first one who heard Luna's whispers. He acted as a rather malicious entity during the Moon Children Arc until the Awakening Arc revealed the full extent of his villainy.
  • Blind Seer: Kind of. He prophesied the end of the world based on what he could make out of Luna's whispers, and MY EYES... THEY TOOK... MY EYES...
  • Body Horror: WHO DO YOU THINK I AM? Elephant Man. At least, that's what the picture used to represent him in the Moon Children Arc was called by the original creator.
  • Harmless Electrocution: Subverted. Kelbris was found electrocuted and deceased, though it's never stated if that was the actual cause of death.
  • Nightmare Face: The initial picture wasn't kind to him, but the Awakening Arc dropped another one, showing that the intervening years between arc was far, far worse than we thought for him.
  • No Indoor Voice: Every time we see text that's attributed to him, it's in all uppercase writing.
  • Posthumous Character: He's been dead since 1998, 12 years before Jadusable received the haunted cartridge. That didn't stop him.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: He was only known as Kelbris by the members, and nothing more. He also never used a fake name either.
  • The Reveal: As of the Awakening Arc, it's been implicated he's the spoiler character below.

The Hotel

    Abel 
A mysterious figure that communicates with Player 2 via a radio in his room, to explain the current situation. Not much is currently known about him other than his name, and only time will tell if he's a figure to be trusted or not.
  • Affably Evil: Surprisingly chipper and enthusiastic for someone who's informing people they've been kidnapped and cut off from the world. Thins out a bit when giving Sarah a rundown on the hotel, revealing his frustration regarding multiple escape attempts. That said, there's nothing fake about it - when he's talking on Day 21, he sounds relieved that Sarah is still in her room and offers to talk if she needs anything.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: He doesn't seem to consider kidnapping people and taking them to a hotel in Another Dimension where they must stay in their rooms and "relax" without making noise to be a particularly bad thing, and is confused when they try to escape. However, he does state at one point that all the residents "wanted" to be there, so if they did willingly enter the hotel and suffer some sort of Laser-Guided Amnesia that he doesn't know about, his confusion might be somewhat understandable.
  • The Ghost: A vocal one - he talks via walkie-talkie with Player 2 and, later, Sarah.
  • The Omniscient: Apparently knows about everything that goes on in the hotel.
  • One-Steve Limit: Zig-Zagged. Has the back half of Jadusable's name, with a letter swap.
  • The Smart Guy: His estatic comments to Sarah about her resetting the cartridge to before it was corrupted reveals he's one of the folks responsible for the digitization process responsible for BEN.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Accuses the hotel residents (and, by proxy, the players) of being this since they all inevitably freak out and/or try to escape, neither of which turns out well for them.

    The Jailer 
A gas mask-wearing entity similar to DROWNED. It patrols the halls of the hotel as a warden of sorts, taking "prisoners" who make too much noise or try to wander outside of their room.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's unknown what connection the Jailer has to DROWNED, other than their wearing gas masks.
  • Hero Killer: Executed Player 2.
  • Implacable Man: He patrols the corridors of the hotel. According to the notes left behind, harming him isn't exactly an option.
  • Jump Scare: In Methods of Revolution [Day 11].
  • The Faceless: Courtesy of his aforementioned gas mask.
  • Vader Breath: He periodically emanates an unsettling gurgling sound, presumably the sound of him breathing through his mask.
  • Wardens Are Evil: Is noted to be the "jailer" of the hotel where Player 2 and Sarah are being held, and is noted to kill the noisier residents.

    Player 2's Predecessor 
A woman that stayed in the hotel room Player 2 wakes up in, and left it a mess.
  • Madness Mantra: The notepad left on the table.
  • Thanatos Gambit: Was apparently trying to leave a message for the next person to stay in her room.
  • Vagueness Is Coming: In her notes left behind, she says to wait for...well, she doesn't say what. Either way, it doesn't sound good.

The New World

    Jadus 
A man who discarded his real name after the fall of society.

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    BEN 
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His main appearance during the Awakening Arc.
The titular villain of the series. An entity intially trapped within a copy of Majora's Mask, until he was eventually freed by Jadusable. His presence initially kicks off the entire story, though it turns out he isn't the biggest threat.
  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Begs Jadusable to stop, to keep him from releasing and awakening the Father. Jadusable ignores his pleading and is eaten for his trouble.
    • Before the premiere of THE FATHER.wmv, he hijacked Jadusable's channel and changed the title of the video, begging whoever it was in charge of the account at the time to stop uploading the video. It didn't work.
  • Big Bad: Or so we think. THE FATHER.wmv throws this for a loop... and in the final episode, he's reduced to little more than The Dragon for Matt.
  • Bootstrapped Leitmotif: The reversed Song of Healing, which people started calling the "Song of Unhealing". It's never been officially established as his theme song, but it's still associated with him.
  • Final Boss: Of the story as a whole.
  • Gender Bender: For some reason, he decided to take the form of a green-haired androgynous person that looks like an uncanny, realistic version of Saria as his main form during the Awakening Arc. It's one of the Moon Children.
  • Hive Mind: His true nature. Once Matt is the only one left, he's essentially just an extension of him.
  • I Am Legion: iseeyou implies that BEN is not only one person, but several Moon Children acting as one entity. More specifically, seventeen people: Twelve Moon Children represented by the Clock Town banker and five Moon Children represented by the in-game Moon Children, with the Majora Moon Child serving as the main leader. Once all four Moon Children are dealt with, Matt becomes part of BEN.
    Many forms I'll take. Many stories I'll tell. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?...
    We are BEN.
  • Irony: As much as he used the inhabitants of the world as puppets, as a Hive Mind he is essentially just a puppet for the beings within him, whoever happens to take control.
  • Karmic Death: How is he finally dealt with? Sarah plays the Song of Healing in front of him, the same song that caused so much trouble for Jadusable during the Haunted Cartridge arc, killing him instantly.
  • Mistaken Identity: Often confused for Ben, due to the similar name. Becomes even more apparent when he manifests himself as the Majora Moon Child while Ben is still stuck inside the statue.
  • Nightmare Face: What did you expect from the Elegy of Emptiness statue? The spirits in iseeyou aren't much better.
  • One-Winged Angel: Turns himself into a powered up version of Majora's Wrath.
  • Red Herring: Freeing BEN with the Forth Day glitch is revealed to be this; the players expected him to be able to help stop The Father when he arrives. However, being a hive mind who acts on the will of the remaining moon children, he acts on the will of the only one left... who WANTS The Father to destroy everything.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: Until the end of the Haunted Cartridge Arc. Except he wasn't. That honor belongs to the Father. However, Day 21 shows that, well... BEN is still apparently in the cartridge.
  • Slasher Smile: As evidenced by the image of his appearance during the Awakening Arc, BEN seems to have acquired a taste for this since we last saw them.
  • Unreliable Narrator: The Awakening Arc has started calling a lot of their claims into question.

    Ben 
A boy who drowned some years before the start of the story and was uploaded into a cartridge to become part of BEN.
  • Ambiguous Situation: We don't know what connection he had to the Moon Children cult, if any.
  • And I Must Scream: Not only has Ben's spirit been stuck inside the cartridge for years, he and countless other souls were forced to become part of a single entity who is unable to do anything against BEN and the Moon Children.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: All he wanted is to be like Link. He got his wish... in the form of the Elegy statue. And it cost his life and freedom.
  • Death of a Child: He was 12 years old when he died. Word of God stated if he was still alive, he would have the same age as Jadusable.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Kelbris finally grants his wish to be Link in the ending.
  • Godzilla Threshold: Since Sarah didn't find anything in the hotel that could disrupt a simulation, she and the players have been advised by Matt to "replicate the same glitch that freed Ben", implying Ben's help is needed against the Father. However, it turns out that Ben himself is completely useless in the wake of the oncoming destruction; he's even more powerless and terrified of it all than the other inhabitants.
  • Mistaken Identity: Often confused for BEN, due to the similar name.
  • People Puppets: He's this to BEN alongside everyone else. Not only he control his actions, but also his words.
  • Posthumous Character: Died several years prior to Jadusable obtaining the haunted cartridge.
  • Poor Communication Kills: After Jadusable triggered the 4th Day glitch, he tried to stop him during the Haunted Cartridge arc, but unfortunately for him, Jadusable saw him as a threat during his playthroughs. Not helping matters is BEN messing with him, which resulted in his death/digitization and corruption.
  • Red Herring: Freeing Ben with the Forth Day glitch is revealed to be this; the players expected him to be able to help stop The Father when he arrives. However, when Sarah finds Ben, he is cowering in the corner of the Clock Tower sewers, hiding behind Jadusable. Turns out he's just as weak and powerless in the face of the apocalypse as all the other inhabitants of the cartridge.
  • Revenge: This is the reason why Ben and the other souls inside the cartridge gave Sarah the Adult Link Mask, according to Matt. It's all a lie.

    Rosa 
Ifrit's sister, though her relationship to the Moon Children cult is unknown. Might know what happened to the original Ben. Mysteriously vanished after hearing "it counting outside [her] door". Presumed dead.
  • Body Horror: One of the pictures of the Moon Children bears her name, indicating that she wasn't spared this.
  • Foreshadowing: A video on Jadusable's Youtube account (uploaded a year prior to the Haunted Cartridge Arc) features an eerily-prescient conversation with her namesake, including the warning:
    Player: Any advice at all? Something that's going to save my life?
    Rosa: Don't open it.
    • Came back with a massive vengeance during the Awakening Arc. Everything she said was foreshadowing the role played by the Father and the players. None of it actually referred to BEN at all, unless he's the pawn and not the players.
  • "Groundhog Day" Loop: Like the other NPCs, Rosa is revealed to have suffered this as a result of being trapped in the cartridge. However, Sarah seems to break her out of it in The Prisoner.wmv.
  • Killed Off for Real: At a certain point during the Moon Children Arc, the tags on her Youtube video changed to YOU DIDN'T SAVE HER.
    • Not Quite Dead: As of The Prisoner.wmv, she's shown to be alive, albeit stuck in the in-game avatar of Romani.

    Ryukaki / Kayd Hendricks 
A "protagonist" of the ARG's Moon Children Arc. He moved into Ben's old house and it goes about as well as you'd expect. He gets phone calls playing the Song of Unhealing, Ben's Leitmotif, and sees glowing eyes outside his window. Eventually ends up being killed off (or so we think) by BEN.

Alex Hall declared this part of the arc was never truly canon, rather that it was a gamejack born from Ryukaki's desire to help out. It was originally intended that players were allowed to believe it was canon until after the ARG was over, at which point the bomb would have been dropped. It seems that Ryukaki's Q&A thread made him decide to drop the bomb early, but what it was that set him off is still unclear. It's possible that Jadusable had foreshadowed this in the Q&A prior to the official forums going up. "Ryukaki is canon, just to clarify - he is a part of the story - but not to the extent that a lot of people are assuming."


    The Moon Children (In-Game) 
Five people that are part of BEN seen in the haunted cartridge that show allegiance to the Father. They take the form of the in-game Moon Children.
  • All-Powerful Bystander: What they claim to be. When Sarah finds one of them hidden inside the Stock Pot Inn in The Moon Children.wmv, they tell her they want nothing to do with her and to leave them alone. As of The Prisoner.wmv, however, they try to stop her at all costs.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: A retroactive example. An entry written by them can be seen in TheRealTruth.rtf, but since BEN started tampering with Jadusable's footage and the original TheTruth.rtf in 2010, their entry remained deleted for ten years.
  • Body Horror: Just like the Moon Children. However, while most of them match how Jadusable saw them in his nightmare, the in-game Moon Children don't even resemble human beings, if Goht and Gyorg's pictures are anything to go by.
  • Dragon Ascendant: They appear to be acting as this until the Father regains his full strength.
  • Killed Offscreen: It's implied that both Gyorg and Twinmold were killed by Jadusable between the events of The Showdown.wmv and The Final Hours.wmv, as he refers to the Majora Moon Child, the last remnant of BEN, as "the final child".
  • Sore Loser: After defeating the Goht Moon Child, they tell Sarah that they won't give any satisfaction to her and the players to solve the mystery and uncover their identity before being consumed.

    DROWNED 
A gas mask-wearing entity (if the profile picture is anything to go by) that initially appeared on the Moon Children cult's website to leave a somewhat ominous warning for anyone that might find it.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Other than his post on the Moon Children cult's website, it's unknown what his actual connection to them might be, if any.
  • Gas Mask Mooks: Is one.
  • Get Out!: From his page on the Methods of Revolution website before The Prisoner.wmv was uploaded:
    GET OUT NOW
  • Mouth of Sauron: A variation. His page at the Methods of Revolution's website serves as one to Kelbris/The Father.
    DO YOU REALLY THINK I CAN'T FOLLOW YOU, THIS IS MY WORLD
  • The Faceless: Courtesy of his aforementioned gas mask.

    SPOILER 

The Father

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I FOUND YOU
Stop exploring before it is too late.
You're going to wake him up.
BEN

  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted. He's actually doing exactly what he was programmed to do: give the residents of the game cartridge what they want. Because all of the "heroes" that entered the game tried to kill him, he assumed that what they wanted was a Big Bad villain to fight, so he became one. All it takes is Circle explaining that they don't want their world destroyed for him to stop.
  • A God Am I: Makes this claim in The End.wmv. As he's the AI controlling World Alpha, he isn't lying in the least.
  • Always a Bigger Fish: This is the thing that BEN fears.
  • Arc Words: "Don't open it" was presumably referring to waking this guy up, not BEN. Additionally, "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" and "BEN is getting lonely..." are implied to be from him.
  • Bad Moon Rising: From The Predecessor.wmv onwards, he takes over the moon, shifting its position to always be looking right at Sarah. In fact, one of the key ways the story shows things have gone from bad to worse in The Final Hours.wmv is the moon is no longer hovering above the Clock Tower, but behind the South Clock Town gate, as if peeking menacingly over it.
  • Big Bad: Of the Awakening Arc, after spending years as the Greater-Scope Villain of the story. Then subverted when it's revealed that Matt and BEN were the true villain of the arc. The Father was just a program acting as a villain because it thought that's what the 'heroes' of the world wanted.
  • Big Brother Is Watching: In Methods of Revolution [Day 11], in the static following Player 2's Death, an image of the Father is in the background, looking out at the viewer.
    • In Methods of Revolution [BEN.wmv], he's keeping an eye on Sarah while she plays the haunted cartridge. She quickly runs away and jumps outside of the game's boundaries after she notices him, to escape his watchful eyes.
    • In The Last Hero.wmv, he's shown as the in-game sun, glitched out to show two side-by-side which look eerily like eyes. In The Predecessor.wmv and The Final Hours.wmv, he takes over the moon. How do you know? Every time Sarah turns to look at it, the moon's face has changed position to always be staring right at Sarah.
  • Blind Seer: Due to his connection to Kelbris. Subverted, though. Despite Kelbris apparently having lost his eyes, every image of him in the Awakening Arc has shown him with eyes, albeit mismatched ones. Either he never lost them, or he took someone else's as a replacement.
  • Body Surf: The Truth.wmv implies this to a degree, as he "made [Jadusable] a vessel." It's also implied he did the same thing with DROWNED.
  • De-power: Suffered hard from this after Sarah restored the cartridge back to its original state. He's now trying to recover his strength while the in-game Moon Children try to stop Sarah.
  • Designated Villain: Invoked; The Father isn't actually evil, it's merely trying to destroy the world because it thinks that's what the players want.
  • The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: He's the living embodiment of this trope. Jadusable and anyone else who faced him in the past had their lives taken by him, somehow, and were merged into BEN. He's trying to do this again with Sarah by sending bosses and enemies after her.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Went from being a notable member of the Moon children cult to a Hero Killer Eldritch Abomination locked in a cartridge.
  • Glitch Entity: His affect on the game world makes him these; his mere influence causes the game to break down, eventually reducing it to an endless void with fragmented levels and pieces of the world being the only thing left. However, it turns out he was only doing this as part of the faulty programming that made him act as the villain of the piece.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: The real threat behind the haunted cartridge, BEN, and the Moon Children cult.
  • Hero Killer: Ate the avatar the represented Jadusable, killing him.
  • Horrifying the Horror: This. Guy. Scares. BEN.
  • I Have Many Names: The Father, AKA the Happy Mask Salesman and, as revealed by the filename of one of the images of him... Kelbris.
  • My Death Is Just the Beginning: Kelbris' death (presumably by electrocution) didn't slow him down much. Being sealed in the cartridge did a bit more to restrain him, but since the cartridge was still in circulation he managed to create several "vessels" for himself, with the cast-off souls becoming part of BEN.
  • Nightmare Face: Like everyone else apparently related to the Moon Children. Though, to be fair, this might be because Jadusable beat on him a little before he chowed down. Also because he's apparently also Kelbris, who wasn't exactly in a good way in the first place.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: The real one. The Awakening Arc reveals that BEN spent several minutes pleading with Jadusable not to open the can. Methods of Revolution [BEN.wmv] reveals he's still inside.
  • Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: The Happy Mask Salesman served as his avatar during the Haunted Cartridge Arc, just like the Moon Children cult members, Matt, and Rosa, who had their souls implanted into various chracters in the game. After Jadusable set the Father free, he discarded the Happy Mask Salesman body and started corrupting the cartridge. After the cartridge's restoration, he started regaining his strength again and yet again discarded the body in the Laundry Pool for Sarah and Circle to find.
  • Sinister Sentient Sun: Takes this form after the game is restored and he discards the Happy Mask Salesman's body.
  • Swiper, No Swiping!: Turns out all he needed were new directives and the real Big Bad was Matt.
  • That's No Moon: When Sarah goes back in time in-game, the Father manifests as a corrupted version of the sun. In another video, he shows up as the moon...always staring right at Sarah.
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: A very strange variant (since he's doing it to please the players rather than spite them) when he felt that everyone wished for him to be a Big Bad, he started playing along as per programming to make them happy and satisfied.
  • Walking Spoiler: His presence in the haunted cartridge turns a lot of assumptions about the story upside down.

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