The cast of Bury. Spoilers are unmarked.
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Main Characters
Coco Robin
The heroine of the game. A girl who wanders into an abandoned mansion looking for her book.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Coco was mistreated in the household due to her status as a bastard child. The tutor often scolded her, the servants berated her for everything and the pureblood daughters constantly mocked her and destroyed her things.
- Big Sister Instinct: Really wanted to be closer to the twins, who rejected her because she was a bastard child. As a ghost, she's very protective of the Little Boy.
- Country Mouse: She's from a rural area and considered something of a country bumpkin.
- Cute Ghost Girl: She is Dead All Along and a ghost who looks exactly like the cute girl she was in life.
- Dead All Along: Coco has been dead for 50 years. She's either unaware of her death or she's been denying it for quite awhile, or she just wants her notebook back before leaving the mortal plane. Either way, she's finally able to pass on in the Golden Ending after Lyell returns her precious notebook.
- Death of a Child: She fell down a well and died in the backstory.
- Heroic Bastard: She was born out of wedlock and was mistreated by her family for it. Nevertheless, she does try to protect the Little Boy and Lydell through the mansion and make sure they get out safely.
- Heroic Mime: Coco has no dialogue lines of her own; the player only learns what she says via occasional dialog options and other characters' responses. This is part of her character, as she is apparently a rather quiet person.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Between Coco and Lyell. It's complicated, since it's revealed that Lyell met Coco when he was a child and Coco has been around as a ghost for 50 years.
- Nervous Wreck: According to
Word of God in their blog, Coco tends to bit her lip and pull her apron when nervous. It just isn't too obvious in the game, due to having the same expression all the time.
Little Boy/Shorty
A little boy who Coco encounters in the mansion. He is looking for his father.
- Astral Projection: Of Lyell, though unintentionally done by him- the mansion’s magic did it.
- Cheerful Child: The Little Boy who happens to be the younger Lyell.
- Two Aliases, One Character: Turns out he is an astral projection of Lyell as a boy.
Lyell
A hooded man who Coco encounters in the mansion.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's very sarcastic and surly.
- I Hate Past Me: If the way he treats the Little Boy is any indication.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Between Coco and Lyell. It's complicated, since it's revealed that Lyell met Coco when he was a child and Coco has been around as a ghost for 50 years.
- Two Aliases, One Character: Turns out the Little Boy is an astral projection of him as a child.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The Little Boy is revealed to be younger Lyell and it's clear that he has changed into a much less colorful person than he was back then.
The Gardener
The mansion's gardener. He befriended Coco when she lived there.
- Brutal Honesty: Tells Coco that the twin sisters don't want to be friends with her and they never will.
- Connected All Along: He's Lyell's grandfather.
- Despair Event Horizon: Has a heart attack when he finds out that Coco is haunting the now abandoned mansion as a ghost.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Coco. She was a little girl while he was a teenager.
- Only Friend: Was this to Coco, since nobody else wanted to be friends with her because she was a bastard child.
- Posthumous Character: The heart attack caused his health to deteriorate and he's already dead by the time adult Lyell visits the mansion again.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His heart attack is what convinces Lyell to forget about Coco, with her having to wait for 10 more years until she can find her notebook.
- Strong Family Resemblance: His son (Lyell's dad) looks like him, but with longer bangs.
Nancy Etticoat
A woman wrapped in a white petticoat and bandages covering her whole face except for her red nose. She serves as the save point character.
- Big Good: She is the spirit looking out for Coco, Shorty, and Lyell, helping them through the mansion.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite her creepy appearance and nature, she doesn't harm any of the characters.
- Token Good Teammate: She is one of the only spirits who never harms the protagonists under any circumstances.
- Averted in the normal ending, where she doesn't let Coco see her corpse, making her unable to realize she's dead.
The Twin Sisters
Coco's twin sisters who bullied her for being a bastard child.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: According to Word of God in their blog, they're actually younger than Coco.
- Bratty Half-Pint: They bullied Coco for being a bastard child unlike them, eventually stealing her notebook and putting it in the well as a prank.
- Giggling Villain: Their giggle sometimes shows up in the mansion, despite them being absent.
- Regal Ringlets: Easy to miss, but they wear curly braids in the concept art.
- Small Role, Big Impact: They appear only briefly in flashbacks, but their theft of the notebook and hiding it in the well is what got Coco killed, setting up the plot.
- Single-Minded Twins: They look, talk, and act exactly the same (as mean bullies to Coco).
- Spoiled Brat: They're spoiled and egotistical.
Spirits
General
- Big Bad Ensemble: They are preventing Coco from leaving and getting back her notebook, and are working separately from each other.
The Fortune Teller
A masked fortune teller who blocks Coco's way to ask her to give him cherries so he may tell her fortune.
- Final Boss: The closest thing to one, as he is the last spirit who stands in the way of the notebook and can kill you, though you just need to find the cherry seeds and give them to him to pass.
- Fortune Teller: He tells fortunes using cherry seeds and asks Coco to give him some, though mainly using the "Tinker, Tailor" method and assuming that whatever he stops at must be what the person is (for example, he stops at "rich man" for Coco and assumes she must be rich, which is true as she is the daughter of a wealthy family).
The Slime
An upside-down slime monster who challenges Coco to a game of "Riddle Me, Riddle Me, Ree".
- Blob Monster: He is a big slime hanging upside down.
The Tiny Family
An old woman and her four tiny children who live in a blue slipper. Her children ran off, prompting her to ask Coco to find them.
- A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: Actually two boys, but you first have to find one of the boys- when you do, the next three children you must find in any order are a boy, girl, and baby.
The Three Ghosts
A trio of ghosts hanging out in the pool table room.
The Cat
A cat with a fiddle who wants to perform a song for Coco. Unfortunately, he has misplaced some items he needs.
- Forgetful Jones: Every time you talk to him, he will forget something. He first forgets the two items he needs for his performance, and you need to fetch them. He cannot even remember where the items are.
Betty Blue
A woman who is distraught because her artificial flower was destroyed.
- Bratty Half-Pint: She will yell at Coco even if she tries to comfort her.
- Death by Falling Over: She takes a Staircase Tumble and falls down, cracking her head, after Muffet does something offscreen to her.
Axe Woman/Lizzie Borden
An axe-wielding woman who attacks the main characters in the top-west hallway of the first floor.
- Advancing Boss of Doom: She chases after Coco, the Little Boy, and Lyell when they all come across her individually.
- Ax-Crazy: Literally, as she wields an axe and tries to kill the trio with it.
Georgie Porgie
A boy eating a pudding pie in the hallway to the kitchen. He will try to kiss Coco if she gets near him.
- Dirty Coward: He attacks Coco with his Kiss of Death if she comes to him alone, but if she is with the tall Lyell, he runs away.
- Kiss of Death: His kiss doesn't immediately kill Coco, but it does sap a bit of her health.
Little Miss Muffet
A four-armed girl drinking tea atop the foyer staircase.
- Attack Animal: If you choose to ignore Lyell's warning and disturb her, she commands her butterflies to kill Coco.
- Bratty Half-Pint: She insists on drinking her tea alone and will command her butterflies to kill Coco if she gets too close.
- Spider People: Implied by Lyell's observation that she has four arms, which likely means she has four legs as well. Ironically, she is still afraid of non-anthropomorphic spiders and will run away if you release one on her.
Blind Man
A man who had his eyes swiped from him by a mouse.
Plain Egg/Humpty Dumpty
An egg who wants to be higher.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He asks for the characters to take him and put him somewhere higher than where he is. They do, and he promptly falls off.
