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Drawtectives Detective Agency
Jancy True
Jancy True
"She's so fancy and so sad already."
A seasoned PI in her own right, Jancy is the head of the detective agency. She's constantly exhausted by the antics of her new hires. Her special ability is called Grateful Detective, which allows her to see if there are any clues or witnesses in a room.
- Covert Pervert: Admits to having tried out Gareville’s Dating Sim, for investigation purposes of course.
- Forgot the Call: After having her memory erased, she completely forgets about her profession and the missing people she's supposed to find, and settles down as a barista in Gareville.
- Handicapped Badass: While never commented on, Jancy has a cochlear implant, as can be seen whenever she's shown from the back. There's a bit of an Actor Allusion here too, as Julia Lepetit herself has some hearing issues.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Reluctantly admits to the Drawtectives that she keeps hiring them because she enjoys their company.
- Identity Amnesia: In Season Two, when the Drawtectives finally find her, she turns out to be working at a coffee shop under the name ”Fancy Brew”, with no memory of her previous life.
- She's Back: At the end of her Amnesia Episode in Season Two, she becomes fully herself again and joins the Drawtectives to get to the bottom of the mystery.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: She vehemently denies being in love with Joebeans, insisting that they're Just Friends (and colleagues, which would make the alternative inappropriate.) For what it's worth, they are seen seated together at the end of Season Two.
- Team Mom: To the point that she adresses her detectives as "children."
- Shout-Out: A pretty obvious one to Nancy Drew. She is also voiced in the style of Julia Child.
- Surrounded by Idiots:
- Is well aware of her department's incompetence, which caused her great grief.
- In Season Two, she’s one of the few Gareville residents who fully believe the Drawtectives, and quickly sets out to have her memories restored.
- Younger Than They Look: Claims to only be twenty-four, and that the stress of her job has merely aged her. She later says that she was just kidding, however.
Grendan Highforge
Grendan Highforge
Played by: Nathan Yaffe
"I think I fancy myself a bit of a pet detective."
A dwarf druid who, prior to applying for the detective job, was a dog walker. His name is constantly changing. Grendan's special ability is called Dog Whisperer, which allows him to get the truth out of a witness for 20 seconds. He has to use it on Sam Ug, who is being especially unhelpful.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: After adopting the Grandma moniker, the other detectives kinda go back and forth on what pronouns they use, while Grendan doesn't seem to care.
Nathan Yaffe has confirmed that his character is genderqueer, and their character card in Season Two shows that they accept any pronouns. - Becoming the Mask: "Grandma" starts out as simply a lighthearted corruption of Grendan's name. But the longer it is used, the more "Grandma Highforge" starts to genuinely adapt to the role.
- Constantly Changing Name: Gets several names over the course of the evening at Crescent Hill; Grendan, Grenda, G-Man, Grandma...
- Cool Shades: Wears these in Season One. They’ve been replaced with contacts by Season Two, mostly because Nathan Yaffe found them tedious to draw.
- Gender-Blender Name: After meeting Faucon (formerly Falcon) Grendan wonders what it would be like if he removed the last letter of his own name. York admits that he likes the name Grenda, and that it makes him feel warmer towards his partner. He still spells the name the same way, however.
- Insistent Terminology: Claims to be a "pet detective", but admits to being more of a dog walker in practice.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. Grendan shares a name with Grendan Fury, the front man of Freak Out at the Club.
- Rummage Sale Reject: He's not dressed for the high society setting of Season One... or any setting really. When Jancy first meets him, she immediately asks him just what he is wearing.
- He Cleans Up Nicely: For Season Two, Grendan takes a page out of York’s modeling look book and swaps out the shabby pants and shirt for a brand new romper. They also grow out their beard and start grooming it more throughly.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Well, he claims he can do this, at least.
Rosé
Rosé
Played by: Karina Farek
She got this job mostly because it looked good on her resumé.
A mysterious human rogue and thief. She lied a little on her resume, which is how she got the job. Her special ability, Millennial, gives her the... special ability to do the drawing challenge twice if she wants. She uses it to do the challenge Harper gave to York, which was to draw York as a kitten.
- Bag of Holding: Rosé carries all of the evidence from the case in the pockets of her dress, which she sewed in herself. She can even carry a large fox mask and a large raven mask in her pockets.
- Beware of the Nice Ones: You would never guess it from her demeanor, but Rosé claims to have participated in at least three knife fights.
- Blessed with Suck: As a millennial, her "special ability" is to do twice the work for half the payoff.
- Corrupt Cop: While the Drawtectives are all guilty of this, Rosé stands out in particular, enthusiastically discussing stealing with Ogalvy, and hoping that Lotta and Harper Justice bond over their shared criminality.
- Gentle Giant: She is canonically six feet tall, at least in platform boots.
- Improbable Age: Karina admits that if Rosé really is in her early twenties then that would make her too young to be a millenial. Given a Hand Wave when it’s pointed out that we don’t actually know what dating system the setting uses.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Steals some color pencils from Ogalvy in "exchange" for her knife, and later nabs two animal masks from the mansion.
- Only One Name: Though only because she's uncomfortable with giving away her full identity. Word of God is that Rosé isn’t even her real name, which she left behind along with (mostly) her life of crime.
- Reformed Criminal: She is a former delinquint who is now trying to keep a proper job and live an honest life... with rather mixed success.
- Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: While not actually shown in the series, it's indicated that the detective gig is merely her latest odd job she's picked up to pay her bills while studying.
Gyorik Rogdul AKA York
Gyorik "York" Rogdul
Played by: Jacob Andrews
"That's our boy. Our angry detective."
A half-orc ("hot orc") barbarian from the Northern tribes. He's visiting his human mother to learn more about human culture. York's special ability is called Miscommunication, which allows him to skip a drawing challenge through unintentionally intimidating a witness. He uses it to skip Harper's challenge of drawing himself as a kitten asking for milk on the grounds that he hates Harper.
- The Big Guy: He's about seven feet tall.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Like all orcs in this world, he has two stomachs, doesn't need to eat for two days after filling them, and empties them both simultaneously in a single swoop. Orc children are said to grow extraordinarily fast, only remaining babies for a few hours.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: Initially, but he lightens up over the course of Season One, to the joy of his fellow detectives.
- Fish out of Water: York has lived with the orcs for most of his life, and doesn't quite understand the customs of the "civilized world" quite yet.
- Genius Ditz: While not the brightest member of the group, he's the only one capable of doing maths (specifically division) and has a very deep understanding of the evils of privilege.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Human mother, orc father.
- He Cleans Up Nicely: In Season Two, York has found work as a model and thus become a rather Sharp-Dressed Man.
- Hopeless with Tech: Doesn't understand how camera or televisions work, thinking that the latter actually has tiny people inside them. (By the end of Season One, however, he's apparently learned enough about cameras to incorporate them into his drawings.)
- Insistent Terminology: He has technically murdered before, but they didn't call it murder back in the tribe. They called it "victory."
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Is absolutely delighted to learn that Faucon is the lead singer of Birds of Prey. Buzz also nets this reaction.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: York's people worship a creator deity named Julia. As in Julia Lepetit, the Real Life creator of Drawtectives.
- Never Learned to Read: Downplayed. He can read orc runes just fine but never bothered learning any other alphabets.
- Popcultural Osmosis Failure: In-Universe. He's not very familiar with local pop culture, as much of it never made it to his village. At least he has an excuse, unlike Grendan, who somehow seems to know even less about music.
- Really Royalty Reveal: Mentions in Episode Five that he's actually an orc prince, and that he once had to kill his own brother during an attempted coup.
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: Every outfit he wears is explicitly modified to have its sleeves removed. It is suggested that his arms are too muscular to fit them.
- Vague Age: Doesn't actually know how old he is. He can't count that far (but can do division).
Murder on Crescent Hill Characters
Sorin Justice
Sorin Justice
A portrait of Sorin (right) and his wife Lotta (left).
A human paladin captain who married into the Justice family. He is the father of Harper and Emery. Said to be very powerful and strong, but kindhearted. He was stabbed in the back in the master bedroom at a party, leading to his death. For reasons that should be obvious, he is not the killer.
- Benevolent Boss: Was this, by all accounts. The last thing he told his kitchen staff before his death is that they were all doing a great job.
- I'm a Humanitarian: York accuses him of this with no evidence whatsoever. Lotta is quite insistent that he wasn't.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: It's eventually revealed that the party was really a front for an emergency meeting regarding the threatening letter, which the killer then used as their chance to strike. This means that if Sorin hadn't arranged for said meeting, he might still have been alive.
- Paladin: Was a paladin captain in life, giving him many enemies who may have wanted him dead.
- Posthumous Character: He is the murder victim after all, so this isn't exactly surprising...
- Punny Name: His name is a pun on the phrase "soaring justice", while also being a pretty awesome name for a paladin. It also coincidentally sounds like "sore injustice", which might be a fitting description of his murder.
- Spell My Name With An S: His name is "Sorin" not "Soren".
Lotta Justice
Lotta Justice
"The only genuine character."
A tiefling from a socialite family. She's a former thief-turned-spy. She is not the killer.
- Black Widow: York accuses her of being this, but then concludes that she doesn't actually have any motive.
- Horned Humanoid: Much like Ryjinah, she looks mostly human except for her devil horns. She's a tiefling.
- Punny Name: Much like her late husband. Her name is slang for "lots of justice."
- Reformed Criminal: Is revealed to have been a former master thief who turned over a new leaf after getting together with Sorin. It may have helped that she was apparently a Well-Intentioned Extremist for the most part.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Leaves out a lot of information from her initial testimonial — everything concerning The Shadow Vault, for instance — later admitting that she didn't entrust that knowledge even to the law enforcement.
- The Spymaster: Is the centerpiece of a spy network — The Shadow Vault — mostly consisting of former criminals.
Flem Mucowsy
Flem Mucowsy
"Sorry 'bout the mucus."
A very sickly police officer. Not the killer.
- Punny Name: Plegmy and mucousy, which he is indeed.
- Working Through the Cold: He is so sick that a ghost is shown exiting his head!
Inna Urfass
Officer Inna Urfass
Hello!
An elf police officer the same rank as Flem Mucowsy. She's very happy with her position and doesn't want to leave it. She's intensely passionate about her job. Not the killer.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Rosé seems somewhat smitten by her during their first meeting.
- Punny Name: Her name is clearly based on the expression "in your face", which seems about right.
- Never Heard That One Before: After being told that her name sounds like "in your face." Subverted that she doesn't seem to be sarcastic.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Not exactly helped by her being able to move right up to you extremely quickly.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Inna only appears briefly in one episode, but she does supply the Drawtectives with a map of the mansion, and put all the guests in different rooms before that. Thus, the very premise of the show couldn't have happened without her.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's ever so slightly taller than York!
Tina Crusher
Tina Crusher
"Are you... Are you asking me if I crushed..."
A sensitive and kindhearted elf. Her purpose is to help the Drawtectives with getting a witness to re-question them, although they never end up doing this. Not the killer.
- The Artifact: Created for the sake of a game mechanic which was never fully implemented into the gameplay.
- Break the Cutie: She initially seems like a very pleasant woman, though she does not take Grendan's implicit accusation against her well. That it seemed to allude to her weight probably didn't help.
- The Butler Did It: Subverted, as she's not even a suspect. However, she is a butler, which leads to Grendan referencing this trope by immediately asking her if she's the killer. The accusation offends her deeply.
- Nice Girl: Described as such by Till Bogen. Sadly, she and Grendan really come off on the wrong foot.
- Red Herring: No, her name is not a clue to the murder. Sorin was very much not crushed to death.
Till Bogan
Till Bogan
"Alright, dude. Like, chill out."
A traffic cop who is incredibly chill. Not the killer.
- Closest Thing We Got: He's actually a traffic cop by trade, and was only assigned to the crime scene because they lacked manpower.
- Failed a Spot Check: Somehow didn't notice that there was a huge painting of Sorin and Lotta in the same room where the former was murdered.
- Human Notepad: Has written notes about the case on his own arm.
- Perma-Stubble: Probably because he hasn't had time to shave.
- Shout-Out: Named after both Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan.
- Surfer Dude: Talks like this, as part of the Bill and Ted Shout-Out.
Pierce Steel
Sergeant Pierce Steel
"I've been through a lot. That somehow makes my hand really big, but it's good for punching, you know?"
A sergeant with the police force and Large and in Charge of the B-squad. He's not very bright, but his drawing challenge was the only one actually related to the murder. He was once accused of a crime he didn' commit, but Jancy proved him innocent, and now he's a police officer. Not the killer.
- Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: Or rather, can't tell speculation from conclusions. He sets out to look for a woman named "Tulip", even though that was just a placeholder name Grendan came up with on the spot. Later, he starts looking for a Living Shadow, simply because Rosé drew the culprit as The Unseen.
- Dumb Muscle: Even stronger and denser than York.
- Frame-Up: Was the victim of one such, and hired by Jancy after being declared innocent.
- Giftedly Bad: His art is — very deliberately — significantly worse than that of any of the Drawtectives, or Julia's other drawings for that matter.
- Handicapped Badass: He's only seen from the waist up in the episode itself, but the reveal of his full character model shows that his left leg is prosthetic.
- Insane Troll Logic: He basically operates on this.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Acts entirely confident despite, quite frankly, having little understanding of how crime investigations are supposed to work.
- Large and in Charge: Of The B-Squad anyway.
- Large Ham: Combined with his manly persona, he leaves quite an impression.
- Neat Freak: Implied. When he sees a mess, he has to clean it up. Even if that mess is a crime scene.
- Pointy-Haired Boss: Honestly, how did this guy ever become sergeant?
Buzz
Buzz
"Buzz."
The tiniest, cutest, and best chef in the entire world. He provides the Drawtectives with a tiny key. Not the killer.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: With Don Jovi.
- The Cutie: The Drawtectives all get a case of Cuteness Proximity as soon as they lay their eyes on him.
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Ensemble Dark Horse: For the players themselves, who are all very reluctant to part with him. - Hidden Depths: Apparently partakes in bird watching during his spare time.
- Inspirationally Disadvantaged: His tiny height requires special accommodations (namely a box) for him to use the kitchen. This doesn't stop him from being an absolute beast of a chef.
- The Quiet One: We only hear Buzz say a few words, most of them being his own name.
- Supreme Chef: People will start loving him immediately after getting a taste of his food, if they didn't already do so just from looking at him. His food is so good it makes York and Grendan cry.
Don Jovi
Don Jovi
"I'm the tall one over here!"
A tall, slender elf who is interning as Buzz's assistant. His parents wanted him to be a model, but he wanted to be a chef. Not the killer.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Season Two establishes that Don uses he/they pronouns.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Whereas Buzz is the smallest thing the seven foot tall York has ever seen, Don stands almost eye-to-eye with him.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Sure, he seems like a great, chill guy, but he also refuses to provide information about a murder case to a group of investigative police officers unless they participate in his bizarre drawing challenge.
- Took a Level in Kindness: However, in Season Two he gives our protagonists a package of Polaris tickets for free, feeling that he oves them that.
- The Bus Came Back: Return in Season Two, working at the Moon Hoot bar.
- Country Mouse: Has a distinctive Southern accent.
- Ice-Cream Koan: Is full of these, and all of them have to do with horses.
- Older and Wiser: By Season Two, he has ended his apprenticeship and gotten a full-time job.
- Shout-Out: To Bon Jovi.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Is so happy about his internship that he doesn't care about not getting paid.
Avis and Ogalvy
Both Avis and Ogalvy
"A big round and a tiny loud."
A father and son duo confined to the conservatory for the duration of the investigation. They were not at dinner and were apparently at the scene of the murder right before the murder itself. Neither are the killer.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: They look pretty owl-like even underneath their masks, with chubby faces, big googly glasses, pointy beak-like noses and hairstyles resembling quills. This also applies to Avis's bosses, Jorgan and Borgan, and possibly to the whole company.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Don Jovi describes them as such, which is how the Drawtectives manage to find them. Of course, Ogalvy is Avis's kid, so this is to be expected.
- Bird People: Well, not really.
- Meaningful Name: Both of their names are bird-themed.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: They make no attempt to cover their clearly human hands. The Drawtectives realize that something is up pretty quickly.
- Red Herring: Questioning them doesn't bring the Drawtectives any closer to solving the case. Ogalvy is a petty thief, but ultimately seems to have nothing to do with the murder. Though as it turns out, they were invited specifically to throw the investigation off track.
- Spell My Name With An S: The official spelling used by Julia
is "Ogalvy" not "Oglevee".
Avis Smythe
"You know, my son is a very curious boy."
A nervous, sweaty personal injury accountant for Jorgen's and Borgen's.
- The Conscience: Is very apologetic about his son's behavior, and always tries to return the things he steals.
- Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal: Keeps insisting that Ogalvy is a "Good boy", and that it doesn't count as Stealing the Credit if he returns the stuff his son took later.
- The Mole: Is revealed to have been this for Jorgans and Borgans, deliberately working to Bring the company down.
- Nerd Glasses: Subverted. Avis is an accountant and certainly looks the part, but he's Only in It for the Money and never counts anything while off work.
- Nervous Wreck: He's constantly sweating due to his stressful accountant job. Having a kleptomaniac son and being interrogated by detectives can't help, either.
- Overt Operative: The Drawtectives question just how he managed to become ań informant, given what a Nervous Wreck he becomes as soon as he's caught in the act.
Ogalvy Eggman Smythe
"Who the hell are you guys? What do you want?!"
A small, loud child who likes stealing things. He gives the Drawtectives their drawing challenge between him and his father, Avis. He's apparently an avid fan of cartoons that feature giant sword-wielding women riding on trains, squat cowboys who ride equally squat "gun-horses", and Cerberus riding an athletic pennyfarthing.
- Amazon Chaser: A platonic, pre-pubescent example. For all of his flaws, he at least isn't sexist, as one of his favorite cartoon characters is a sword-wielding Action Girl.
- Bratty Half-Pint: He steals things (including the owl masks) because he feels like it, swears like a sailor and claims that the only reason he didn't kill Soren was because he's too short.
- Embarrassing Middle Name: His middle name is "Eggman".
- The Gambler: Claims that he's been sneaking away at night in secret to gamble.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Forms one with Rosé, who becomes a sort of surrogate Cool Big Sis to him. Doubles as a Villainous Friendship, as she also becomes The Mentor to him in his budding criminal career.
- Line-of-Sight Name: A meta example. The name "Ogalvy" came from an establishment — possibly a law firm — Julia Lepetit and Jacob Andrews happened to walk past, and was chosen simply because of how funny it sounded.
- Sticky Fingers: He steals Rosé's knife right out of her pocket. According to Avis, knife-collecting is a real problem that he has.
- Vague Age: He's five, or seven, or maybe eight. Neither he nor his father bothers keeping track.
Faucon
Faucon
She knows Lotta from the past, a little bit.
A very cool elf who fronts the band Birds of Prey. She's prone to casually bragging about her success. Not the killer.
- Awesome Mc Cool Name: Her birth name was "Falcon" (which the Drawtectives already thought was a pretty cool name) but she changed the spelling and made the "N" silent to make it "a little cooler".
- Celebrity Is Overrated: Downplayed. She doesn't actually regret her career choice, but she admits that the Paparazzi can be a pain sometimes, and doesn't really understand the appeal of autographs.
- Famed In-Story: She's the lead singer of the band Birds of Prey, which apparently created the only music which made it into York's orc village. She has also collaborated with the equally famous post-punk band You Son of a Bitch.
- Magical Native American: Seems to be influenced by this trope.
- Meaningful Name: Subverted. She's never had a falcon, though she did have a pet sparrow once, assuming that a bird hanging out at your window counts as a pet.
- Non-Idle Rich: While she is more than willing to talk about her career, she does it in a rather down-to-earth way.
- Odd Friendship: Forms one with York over their mutual love of Orcish soap operas.
- Only Sane Woman: One of the more normal witnesses our heroes interact with. The only reason she even lers them do a drawing challenge is because she heard that others did it and thought it sounded fun. The drawings also serve an understandable purpose (potential future cover art) and she promises to pay the detectives if their pieces are ever used.
- Promoted Fangirl: Was a big fan of various bands before starring her own and becoming a famous musician herself, even coming into contact with some of her idols.
- Ship Tease: Menions in a newspaper article that she just wants to wind down and relax with Tiny Cowboy — a character from Drawfee's random shape challenge — while her band is on a break.
- Spell My Name With An S: It's not Falco, it's Faucon. The "N" is silent.
Harper Justice
Harper Justice
"Parties suck. Especially rich people parties."
The obnoxious half-tiefling daughter of Sorin and Lotta. She doesn't like the rich and claims to not be herself, but she lives in a house her mother pays for. Supposedly was in the dining room the entire time. Not the killer.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- As douchy as she is, she still can't bring herself to make Grendan draw a crying dog.
- Susan Fontaine also mentions that she doesn't know if Harper would be capable of murder.
- Glory Seeker: Her brother speculates that her real reason for her illegal activities is to build up a reputation as a master criminal much like her mother. Given what we see of her, he's probably right.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Her father is a human paladin, her mother is a tiefling.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She has been arrested for intoxication before, and she's tipsy by the time our heroes meet her. (Hey, she needed something to deal with her stressful situation.)
- Hate Sink: She has few redeeming qualities, and doesn't even have any clues for the Drawtectives, but makes them draw for her anyway just because. Susan at least claims that she isn't always this bad, but that she is a mean drunk trying to deal with her loss in her own way.
- It's All About Me: Very, very full of herself.
- Just Like Robin Hood: Claims to be this, though in practice she just steals from the rich and keeps the loot, arguing that she is technically poor.
- The Napoleon: Harper is noted as being very short, only reaching to the shoulders of York, with Rosé also dwarfing her.
- No Sympathy: Is oddly conflicted that her father just died, feeling that he deserved it simply for being rich, but also feeling sad (apparently) because he WAS her dad.
- Punny Name: Her name is meant to be a pun on the phrase "harp on justice".
- Vague Age: Doesn't specify how old she is beyond being in her twenties. She hates other twenty-something-year-olds anyway, and wouldn't want to be associated with them. Of course, being half-tiefling makes the question of age more complicated.
Sam Ug
Sam Ug
"Y'all talkin' about my smoking?"
A thief-turned-spy who was at the party posing as a waitress. In reality she was some of the additional hired security for the party. not the killer.
- Animal Motifs: Her name is derived from Smaug from The Hobbit, and she has several dragon-like traits. Namely a lust for riches, a smoke-filled mouth and a thin, "slithering" body.
- Badass Longcoat: It's just a rental, though. She admits to not really owning any fancy clothing.
- Everyone Has Standards: While Sam is a former thief, she says that she's never murdered anyone and that she finds the idea quite disgusting.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Aside from having a criminal record, York looks down on her mostly for smoking tobacco, which his tribe only uses as cow fodder, the only drugs they accept being mushrooms. Sam does claim that she is planning to quit.
- Implausible Deniability: Refuses to admit to having a criminal past, even when presented with her own criminal records, which she claims could belong to any Identical Stranger who happens to have the same name.
- Overt Operative: She doesn't exactly dress like your typical waitress, with her Conspicuous Trenchcoat and all. The fact that she rented it specifically for the occasion just makes it better.
- Red Herring: What Grendan suspects she is and what she ultimately seems to be.
- Reformed Criminal: Originally a thief, Sorin gave her a second chance and hired her as a waitress for his party, though this turns out to be a cover. In truth, he hired her to spy on the guests and report any suspicious behavior to him. It obviously wasn't enough, as he still ended up being murdered.
- Right Hand Versus Left Hand: It takes quite some time for her to collaborate with the Drawtectives, or even explain that she's a spy working the same case. She explains that her past has left her with some trust issues.
- Stealth Pun: She's a suspect who later turns out to be a red herring, who is also the only character with red hair; in other words, she's a "red hair-ing."
Emery Justice
Emery Justice
He has been working out, in case you couldn't tell.
A half-tiefling and Harper's older brother, Emery is the son of Lotta and Sorin Justice. He's a ranger stationed out east. He was asked to come to the party as security. Is the killer.
- Animal Motifs: Subverted. The detectives try to compare him to a rhino, to make their earlier theory at least somewhat accurate, but even they amdit that this is a stretch.
- Archnemesis Dad: He has a very rough relationship with his father Sorin. Bad enough in fact that he was willing to stab him to death in an act of petty revenge.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Emery claims that most of Harper's weapons fall into this category, being fancy and expensive but not particularly effective in a real fight.
- …But He Sounds Handsome: His claim that whoever killed His dad must have been strong turns out to be a veiled pat on his own back. This comes back to bite him later, as it makes the investigators less suspicious of Avis.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: As Grendan points out, Emery's drawing requests are the complete opposite to those of his sister. Whereas she wanted the detective to put themselves through a Humiliation Conga, he wants them to create Wish-Fulfillment for himself.
- The Gambling Addict: He's trying to support his fortress with gambling, but has racked up quite a debt. He wrote the ransom note in a last, desperate attempt at paying it off.
- Half-Human Hybrid: His father is a human paladin, his mother is a tiefling.
- Hypocrite:
- Accuses York of making up his claims about the North, but it's not like his own stories are that much less outrageous.
- He also chides Harper for earning money dishonestly, despite relying on gambling, extortion and theft himself. The only real difference is that he at least tries to frame his Dirty Business as being Necessarily Evil, whereas Harper wants to be a criminal.
- Mr. Fanservice: He is quite a hunk and both Grendan and York pretty much start Eating the Eye Candy upon meeting him.
- Never My Fault: Refuses to take responsibility for any of his actions. He does not turn out his pockets when asked, and simply brushes off the fact that he's carrying stolen jewels in them. Even after admitting that yes, he did murder father, he still tries to justify it and put the blame on Sorin.
- Not So Stoic: Comes across as borderline emotionless at first (which he credits to his job requiring him to keep his cool even in stressful, dangerous situations) but he does have his limits, and minutes of pestering from our protagonists eventually manage to set him off.
- Obvious Judas: He is one of the guests our detectives are the most suspicious of. Indeed, it turns out that he was the one who did the deed, after all. In fact, this trope was the reason Jancy had already managed to solve the case to begin with.
- Overshadowed by Awesome:
- Growing up with celebrity parents and a spoiled sister eventually led to him journeying to the forests of the East after he came of age to make a name for himself.
- Also, York is not particularly impressed with Emery's ranger deeds, as they seem pretty tame compared to what daily life in the orc tribes is like.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Our protagonists accuse him of being The Sociopath, and given how entitled and unempathic he seems, they're probably right.
- Punch-Clock Hero: Makes it clear that improving his financial situation is very much a goal with his ranger career, and he dreams of one day retiring as "an old man with a bank account."
- Shout-Out: His name is derived from that of Amory Blaine from the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel This Side of Paradise.
Dr. Susan Fontaine
Dr. Susan Fontaine
"Another tiny friend."
A world-renowned doctor and surgeon, and an old acquaintance of the Justice family going back several decades. Also a big tea drinker. Not the killer.
- Cool Old Lady: Not only is she still working well into old age, she is also considered the foremost surgeon in the entire world.
- Fangirl: Her challenge simply involes the detectives drawing some celebrity fanart for her.
- Miniature Senior Citizens: She's even shorter than Grendan, and needs either a stool or somebody to hold her up while performing surgeries.
- Nice Girl: She's very helpful to the Drawtectives, hopes Avis will be able to get a new job now that his old firm seems to be closing down, and even shows some sympathy for Harper and Emeret Justice.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: She met the Justice family after treating Lotta's (unspecified) injuries from falling off a building, and also performed an autopsy on Sorin following his death.
- Only Sane Woman: Actually tells the detectives everything she knows upfront, only doing a drawing challenge later because they wanted to give her something in return.
- Ship Tease: Buzz has sent her a love letter asking her out on a date, and she actually seems a bit interested.
- Team Mom: Seems to be quite close to her interns. York also says that he'd like to think of her as (his second) honorary grandma, being perhaps the only witness to have been truly nice and helpful to him and his fellow investigators.
- Totally Radical: Tries using some cool kid slang in the hopes that our protagonists will find her hip.
- Unreliable Narrator: Our heroes get suspicious when her story doesn't match up with what the Justice children said. Somebody has to be lying...
Llarm Alassa
"He's a cool guy inn'he?"
A classy inventor and animatronics major specializing in security. Is constantly coming up with ideas for new designs, but apparently needs some help brainstorming now and again. Not the killer.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Is supposedly this, but he's currently suffering from inventor's block, and has to ask the Drawtectives for ideas. Most of his problems have fairly simple solutions, though.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Owns a 27-year old , orange-eyed black cat named Starryana Grande who won't leave his sleeping box, making the detectives question whether or not he's still alive.
- Punny Name: His name is likely derived from the phrase "false alarm."
- Robot Master: While we don't get to see any of his creations, he is said to be well-known for His mastery of animatronics as well as security systems.
- Stealing the Credit: Indicates that he's planning to do this with the suggestions made by detectives, but they call him out on it and he relents. Overall, he ends up being far more resonable than Allon Pihs was.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: The detectives all take a moment to admire his haircut and outfit.
- The Unpronounceable: York has a very hard times getting his name right, instead calling him "Marm."
One-Shot Stream Characters
Norm Elmahn
Norm Elmahn
"I am the first Norm."
A police officer who went to the park on his day off. He has a good track record with a several successful arrests (a fair amount of them involving Harper) and generally lives a modest, simple life. Did not steal the dog.
- Arch-Enemy: Has become this for Harper after arresting her numerous times. The dislike is entirely one-sided, however.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Even on his day off, he immediately rushes to help when hearing a loud explosion.
- The Generic Guy: Everything from his design, to his Meaningful Name to his daily routine pretty much embody Good Is Boring.
- Genius Bruiser: By Drawtectives standards at least. The simple fact that he's an avid reader is enough to intimidate our self-admittedly half-illiterate protagonists somewhat.
- The Ghost: In Season One. He appears in person in the one-shot stream.
- Hero of Another Story: He is a seasoned officer with many arrests under his belt. However, his onscreen appearance just has him present as a witness, with no further involvement in the case or even much additional information to contribute with.
- Last-Name Basis: His parents are on this to such an extent that he doesn’t even know their first names.
- Nice Guy: Is very friendly and affable to the Drawtectives, seemingly just because Good Feels Good.
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: There is no indication that he was in any way at fault during his previous squabbles with Harper. He even approached her in the park later to make sure that she was okay.
- Theme Naming: His siblings are named Norma, Norm Junior, and Norm Junior II.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Harper lost her dog in part because he ended up distracting her. Though Harper’s bad temper and some bad communication didn’t help.
Dax Hund
Dax Hund
"Everyone's leaving..."
An eccentric and somewhat confused man who went to the park to read the newspaper (or as he calls it, "the newspapie"). Doesn't understand why anybody would confuse him for a dog. Did not steal the dog.
- Ambiguously Gay: Seems to be quite smitten by Norm, calling him an ”Adonis”.
- Animal Motifs: Looks very doglike, to the point that Ogalvy seems to have confused him for Harper's actual dog. Grendan Highforge also pets him on the head before ending their session.
- Ears as Hair: Inverted. His long hair is designed to resemble dog ears.
- The Eeyore: Played With. He has the look and the personality, but doesn’t say anything particularly depressing.
- Insistent Terminology: Always refers to newspapers as ”newspapies.”
- Manchild: A bit, at least when it comes to his vocabulary.
- Mistaken Identity: It’s heavily implied that Ogalvy mistook him for Harold, a dog!
- Nerd Glasses: Wears a very distinctive pair, making it fairly easy to track down the thief who took his other ones.
- Properly Paranoid: It’s hard to fault him for being afraid of thieves when there were at least three of them in the park — operating completely independently of one another — when he went there. Even with his vigliance, he still ended up getting his glasses stolen.
- Red Herring: Harold was said to be much like a person, and this guy looks very dog-like. It really seems like a setup for some kind of weird Two Aliases, One Character twist, but the two of them really are completely unconnected, and just happened to visit the park at the same time by sheer coincidence.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Is completely oblivious to the fact that he looks very much like a dog.
Noah Crimnall
Noah Crimnall
"It's so nice to have a teacher in the room."
A prolific thief who has been pickpocketing park guests for quite some time now. He's very skilled at his illicit craft, being able to without notice steal things even from people he's having direct conversations with. Nevertheless, he still maintains that he didn't steal the dog. He didn't, but he is indirectly responsible for the its disappearance.
- Alternative Joke Interpretation: In-Universe, the Players point out that his name could be read as ”Not a criminal”, ”Know a criminal”, or ”No! A criminal!” None of them put him in a particularly good light.
- Faux Affably Evil: He’s so unhelpful and so obviously guilty that his attempts at playing innocent just comes across like him being a Smug Snake.
- Hate Sink: His actions may not be the worst in the series, but he’s such a Troll about them that the Players find him utterly unbearable, and have no interest in seeing a return appearance by the man.
- Implausible Deniability: Keeps denying that he is a thief, even as he continues to steal clothes and accessories from the detectives interrogating him.
- Ink-Suit Actor: DM Julia Lepetit — who designed and voiced all of the suspects — modeled his face after her own.
- It's All About Me: Like Harper, he assumes that Norm was at the park specifically to try and arrest him.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: His skills are so great that the Drawtectives wonder if he’s a magician. He claims that his job would get far easier if he was.
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: His repeated but relatively mild charges of theft end up uncovering the role he played in a traffic accident (which destroyed a car but fortunately didn’t kill anybody) caused by him to create a distraction.
- Not Me This Time: Despite his sizable criminal record, he really has no interest in stealing dogs. It’s not like you can pawn them.
- Red Herring: Quickly established as a master thief, but eventually turns out to have nothing directly to do with Harold’s disappearance.
- Sticky Fingers: He just can’t keep himself from stealing, even when it is to his own detriment.
The Celestial Spear Characters
Eugene
Eugene Finch
"Guys, I think he's stupid."
An amnesiac stranger that woke up on the Celestial Spear Express the same time as the Drawtective trio. He has no memory of who he is, including his own name.
- Achievements in Ignorance: If he really is Eugene, which he indeed turns out to be, then he unknowingly owns a business employing at least one “Talon Tscout” [sic].
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Is easily distracted by a camera at the movie set, and then by the sandwiches...
- Big Bad Friend: The possibility of him being this is brought up by his parents, though they all hope it isn’t the case. Turns out to be a Red Herring. The Celestial Spear was not an evil company until the real Big Bad took it over, erasing Eugene's memory in an attempt at getting rid of him.
- Cleavage Window: A Rare Male Example. The way his cloak opens and the fact he has no shirt on, save for the dress skirt that starts at his waist, leaves a wide section of his chest on full display.
- Genius Ditz: Terry claims that he used to be this before he lost his memory and just became The Ditz.
- I See Dead People: A newspaper article reveals that he used to be a practicing spirit medium and that his name really is Eugene Finch.
- Jumped at the Call: Gets along great with the Drawtectives, fully willing to join in on whichever hijinks they got planned.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Loves cats, to the point of moving his cat Felix's spirit into an expensive, elaborate animatronic body after Felix's death. He also remembers the code to Felix's room rather than his own, and Felix's appearance is what brings his memories back. Eugene's fondness for cats is also why Gareville is decorated with cat imagery in certain places, such as the circus ticket booth, since Eugene had a hand in designing it.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Meets the trio exclaiming he has no idea who he is, how he got here or what his name even is.
- The Man Behind the Man: Eventually turns out to be one of the main founders of Gareville, which he initially built to be a paradise for the recently deceased to haunt before they passed away properly.
- Manchild: Looks like a fully grown adult but his amnesia seems to have wiped out a huge chunk of basic human knowledge (like what a tiger or a pickle is), and approaches the world with a sense of wonder and newness. His easily distracted nature and willingness to let three adults (who are probably younger than him) adopt him as their child further enforce this trope.
- Mr. Exposition: A variation. Julia Lepetit often has him notice an unseen clue or make a much needed suggestion when trying to steer the investigation in the right direction.
- No Shirt, Long Jacket: A version of this. "Eugene" wears a high-collared, star-patterned cloak over what appears to be a sarong or kilt wrapped around his waist and with no apparent shirt that leaves his upper torso exposed.
- No Man Should Have This Power: By the end of Season Two, he's started having second thoughts about his Gareville project, after seeing what Leland did with it.
- No Name Given: Due to the Laser-Guided Amnesia above, this mysterious gentleman is unable to recall his name. The trio suggest Eugene after the person named in Rosé's Mysterious Note, which he takes quite a liking to. The trio agree if they find the actual Eugene then they'll switch to Twogene. He doesn't seem to mind that name either.
- Not Quite Dead: Played for Laughs. The Drawtectives all start treating him as though he was dead once the ”lucky” wheel at Club Vega displays him as such. When they can no longer ignore his insistences otherwise, they treat it like a miraculous resurrection. It is eventually revealed that he and many others in Gareville are spirits taken from their still-living bodies.
- Oh, Crap!: The moment he sees the Ticket Taker disintegrate a guy, he grabs the Drawtectives and darts into another cart, which turns out to contain Harvey Hornswoggle’s circus.
- Pimped-Out Cape: Wears one fancy enough to even impress York, who has become a model by this season.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: As he doesn’t remember his real name, he has no issues being called Eugene. As far as he knows, it’s perfectly possible that it could be his name and that he is the guy Rosé was supposed to contact. Indeed, this turns out to be the case.
- Vague Age: Lampshaded by him. He's unsure whether he is younger or older than the Drawtectives, who have adopted him as their child.
- Workaholic: His unfurnished office was designed with the idea in mind that he hadn’t finished it properly because he had put so much energy into working on the rest of Gareville.
Conrad Uctor
Conrad Uctor
"This train is more about the journey than it is about the destination."
The conductor of the Celestial Spear Express.
- Actually a Doombot: As it turns out the Conrad who Felix knocked out was actually a lifelike automaton.
- Be as Unhelpful as Possible: He only gives the passengers vague information without actually explaining anything about the train, this seems to be because he doesn’t actually know that much about it. It's a bluff. He's actually running the whole operation.
- The Dragon: Claims to be taking orders from somebody called Barry, who is eventually revealed to be nonexistent! Conrad himself is really Leland Bore, the true Big Bad of the season.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: At the end of Episode Three, he appears to have been Killed Offscreen by the Ticket Taker. Subverted in the final episode, where it turns out that he was just knocked out and imprisoned, and that wasn't even really him in the first place.
- Decomposite Character: More like decomposite job! While Conrad’s position as a conductor involves checking the passengers’s tickets, a seperate Ticket Taker is responsible for retrieving them at the end of the journey. The Drawtectives are very confused as to why one person couldn’t do both jobs.
- Foreshadowing: Him being the first person the Drawtectives see after waking up with amnesia was meant to hint that he was the one responsible for erasing their memories.
- Greed: He's Only in It for the Money, and he's not above resorting to some quite corrupt tactics to increase the profits.
- Lack of Empathy: Can be quite a Jerkass, according to Felix. Given that he has no qualms about using the souls of the dead as a power source, this is perhaps unsurprising.
- Meaningful Name:
- In classic Drawtectives fashion, he has a name that is a pun of his job description: in this case, he is the Celestial Spear's conductor. Double Subverted when it turns out that his real name is Leland Bore, which is also an example of this trope, if the critical response to his hypnotism shows is any indication.
- Pungeon Master: In fact, he takes the credit for coming up with just about everybody's Meaningful Name in Gareville.
- Mr. Exposition: To an extent. He does lay out the rules of the Celestial Spear to his passengers, but doesn’t explain what the train actually is or where it’s going. He makes up for it in the final episode, where he gives the Drawtectives quite a Motive Rant.
- Mundane Fantastic: Acts entirely blasé about the magical properties of the Celestial Spear, which are out there even by Drawtectives standards. Even by the end, it's clear that he mostly saw it as a money maker.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Everything about the Celestial Spear Express is rather seedy, but he seems to just be a guy doing his job. Subverted when it turns out that he has prematurely ended some passengers journeys without letting them enjoy the attractions they paid for, which is straight-up theft and fraud.Not to mention what he does to the passengers after their journey has ended...
- Railroad Employee Roundhouse: He is the train's conductor, and is in charge of checking tickets and interfacing with passengers. A Discussed Trope with Rosé who was under the misconception that he is the train's driver, which actually falls under the engineer's purview.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: Given that Gareville basically becomes a soul-powered money-making machine under his leadership — and that he implicitly punishes people simply for doing bad business — his takeover of Eugene's company counts.
The Ticket Taker
The Ticket Taker / Felix
"I told you guys it was the Grim Reaper!"
A mysterious figure responsible to collect the passenger’s tickets once the Celestial Spear Express reaches its destination. Will also prematurely end the journey of any rule breakers on the train.
- Badass Adorable: Underneath his helmet, he has a cute cat face, this hasn’t stopped him from (unknowingly) killing a lot of people.
- Brain Uploading: He's actually Eugene's cat Felix, brought Back from the Dead and put into a robotic body.
- Came Back Wrong: To some extent, mainly because his mechanical body doesn't allow him to feel things the same way, not to mention how... bizarre-looking it turned out. At least it gave him the ability to talk.
- Cyber Cyclops: The screw holding them together opens up to function as an eye.
- Deadly Euphemism: “Ending your journey” turns out to mean getting disintegrated into nothingness, as a poor, unnamed passenger became privy to.
- The Dog Bites Back: Joins forces with our heroes in no small part due to being mistreated by his boss.
- The Dreaded: The Drawtectives all end up becoming rather vary of them. This turns out to not be without reason.
- Good All Along:
- Turns out that he's is the Mysterious Informant who's been sending the Drawtectives clues throughout the season, though he wasn't trying to aid a criminal investigation as much as playing along with what he thought was just a fun game.
- He also complains about Conrad Uctor's Jerkass behavior, and implicitly helped some Gareville citizens avoid punishment by not telling him when their businesses were doing poorly.
- Grim Reaper: Resembles this, as the Drawtectives are quick to point out.
- Locked Out of the Loop: After being questioned by the Drawtectives, it turns out that he doesn't actually know what most of the magic in Gareville does, meaning that they have to take a peek into his boss's office. In fact, he’s so out of the loop that he didn’t even realize that Eugene was no longer meant to be on Leland’s side.
- Manchild: Comes across a bit like this, what with his naivitee, his love of playing games and the rather crude drawings littering his room. Granted, this might be more due to him being a cat than anything else.
- Mechanical Abomination: He’s basically a giant ticket clipper in a black trenchcoat.
- Double Subverted in the season finale, where it's revealed that he's actually a talking cat named Felix wearing a helmet, but then we learn that Felix is actually a ridiculously cat-like robot.
- Obliviously Evil: He's really a Nice Guy who is Just Following Orders, and never knew the true fate which awaited the spirits he banished.
- Psychopomp: The Drawtectives worry that the Taker will turn out to be something along these lines. They’re not entirely off the mark.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Turns out that he wears a fancy white shirt with a bowtie underneath his cloak.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Does this to our protagonists at the end of Episode 10.
Anne Daction
Anne Daction
"And... cut!"
The director assigned to Death of a Paladin, the movie adaptation of the latest best-selling novel. Has never heard of the Murder at Crescent Hill case, and is certain that any similarities are purely coincidental.
- Adaptation Displacement: In-Universe. She has no idea that her film is based on a true story, not helped by the author of the adapted book apparently claiming that it wasn’t.
- Failed a Spot Check: It really comes across like this after the reveal that Don Jovi — a witness in the case — provided catering on set, and for his part just assumed that the film was your standard Very Loosely Based on a True Story crime drama.
- Alliterative Name: Aside from her Punny Name mentioned below, she also styles herself as Director Daction.
- Alternate Universe: She might be from one where the Drawtectives are fictional characters. Either that or there is some Extra-Strength Masquerade going on. Word of God is that it’s the latter. Leland wrote the book (under the pseudonym “A. Writer”) and utterly botched the research.
- Deal with the Devil: Signing a contract with the Celestial Spear Express to push along her film career might count, though she seems to be unaware of their darker dealings.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: It’s implied that she’s had her mind meddled with somewhat, to keep her from realizing the truth of her movie production.
- Punny Name: Her name is a pun on the phrase "And... ACTION!", which should be rather familiar to anybody who has participated in or seen a movie shoot.
- She Also Did: In-Universe, her most notable previous film was Blarden State, which starred the first ever giraffe actor.
- Unwitting Pawn: She’s kept in the dark about the true scope of the project she’s joined. As far as she knows, it just amounts to getting visits from guests who have payed to get a behind-the-scenes look at her latest film.
- The Watson: By retelling the events of the first season to her, the Drawtectives also create a handy recap to new viewers.
- Weirdness Filter: Given what we know of the train, it’s quite possible that she has spent a month directing scenarios based on real events from the lives of her visitors, in which case she has completely failed to pick up on this.
Harvey Hornswoggle
Harvey Hornswoggle
Played by: Elyse Willems
"It's a circus to some, but a Celestial Spear experience to many others."
A former aerialist turned magician and ringmaster of his own circus.
- Alliterative Name: Harvey Hornswoggle.
- Ambiguously Bi: He seems to have no qualms with taking advantage of Mabel’s newly single status, but our heroes also speculate that he and the devil shown on his poster may have been an item. He also considers Grendan Highforge to be the most attractive member of the Drawtectives.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: His "staying underwater" trick seems far less impressive after The Reveal that everyone in Gareville are in a state where they don't need to breathe.
- Comforting the Widow: It’s implied that he may be planning to do this (or already has) with Mabel, one of his Lovely Assistants.
- Innocently Insensitive: Tries to be supportive by saying that you can achieve success no matter what you look like, repeatedly making it very clear that he considers York — a male model — and Rosé downright ugly.
- Ironic Fear: A former aerialist who is deathly afraid of heights. He thus had to perform all of his acts completely blindfolded.
- Jerkass to One: Harvey is genial with almost everyone he meets, except for York. Every time he addresses York he goes out of his way to insult his appearance and character.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: He has forgotten about most of his show, forcing the Drawtectives to draw his acts to try and refresh his memory.
- Magicians Are Wizards: He seems to be capable of performing actual magic.
- Meaningful Name: To hornswoggle is to "get the better of someone by cheating or deception," and a magician's main method of dazzling audiences involves tricking their senses through misdirection.
- No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Apparently never wrote down a schedule for his show, nor did he come up with any back-up acts. Granted, he probably wouldn’t remember even if he did.
- Renaissance Man: An aclaimed aerialist, magician, hypnotist and ringmaster.
- Repulsive Ringmaster: Played With. He can be somewhat of a Jerkass, and he may have signed up for the Celestial Spear Experience knowing what they did to their customers, but he still comes across as Affably Evil at worst.
Checkers
Checkers
"I'm very worried about Checkers."
A rude mime who works the front ticket booth at Harvey Hornswoggle's circus.
- Flipping the Bird: One of his only two gestures, the other being a non-committal shrug.
- Meaningful Name: Checkered patterns are usually black and white, appropriate for a mime who has a similar color scheme.
- Silent Snarker: Is extremely sassy to the Drawtectives without ever having to say a word.
- Ultimate Job Security: Checkers is incredibly rude to customers despite being the ticket taker, a job that requires at least surface level friendliness and also the requirement to speak to people. Bizarrely he is the highest paid employee at the circus, even above Harvey who is the owner.
Abayomi
Abayomi
"That's what a lot of people in bars say."
The owner of the Moon Hoot bar in Gareville.
- The Bartender: Runs the Moon Hoot, along with Don Jovi.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Neither she nor Don Jovi quite remember how they got to the city of Gareville. Rather worryingly, the contracts they signed gave their employers the right to alter their memories.
- Literal-Minded: Inverted. She seems convinced that ”the train” is some kind of metaphor, and not a very literal vehicle which brought the Drawtectives there.
- Ms. Exposition: She and Don give the Drawtectives a bit more to go on, such as the fact that all locations they’ve visited so far have been located in one city with no other connection to the outside world. She also confirms that the locals — including her — have had their memories tampered with.
- Ms. Fanservice: Before entering the door to her bar, Rosé suggests trying to seduce whomever they run into there. Meeting Abayomi only makes her more enthusiastic about this prospect.
- Nice Girl: Is perfectly amiable toward her customers and colleague.
- Odd Name Out: One of few Celestial Spear characters to *not* have a Punny Name. Word of God is that she found whichever name Leland Bore gave her to be stupid and renamed herself “Abayomi.” Whether or not this was also her original name is anybody’s guess.
Anna Log
Anna Log
"I just thought it would be different."
Owner of the Club Vega arcade, and an incredibly skilled mechanic and programmer.
- Ditzy Genius: Not to an extreme degree, but she is seemingly prone to odd ideas. She thinks making a whole animatronic specifically to peddle her scammy carnival games (which are all normal carnival games, but now your roll dice for results out of a desire for "fairness") is a reasonable idea, and is apparently so forgetful that she has to constantly write down important codes she needs to remember. When she found a strange drawing in her notes she needed to remember but didn't, she just made the drawing into a necklace for fun instead of trying to figure out what it was for.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Makes animatronics so lifelike they can be mistaken for real people in-universe, and can program them to the point they may or may not be capable of giving themselves free will, if the game animatronic is any indication.
- Nerd Glasses: Is a engineer and mechanic with round, golden spectacles.
- Never My Fault: Denies any and all claims that there’s anything scammy or manipulative about her business.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted with her and Anne Daction, whose only difference in first name is an A rather than an E. The Drawtectives even call her Anne instead of Anna multiple times on accident because of this.
- Punny Name: Anna Log, a pun off the word analog, which refers to machines with no digital/computer features.
- Robot Master: Has incredible mastery over creating animatronics, though her ability to keep them from turning on her is in question.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Anna Log is, much like Llarm Alassa from the first season, a brillant engineer capable of building complex animatronics specifically for use in security. note Despite working in the exact same (presumably very narrow) field, Anna claims to have no idea who Llarm Alassa is, and to have never of heard of him before.
- Ms. Exposition: Tells our heroes a bit more about Gareville. Apparently it has a population of a few thousand, and is run by somebody named Mayor Blue.
- Robot Me: A master at constructing Ridiculously Human Robots, some of which are said to be modeled after real people.
- Urban Fantasy: Drawtectives in general counts, but she is after all an elf who claims to be from Albuquerque. Our protagonists have no idea where that is.
Game Animatronic
Animatronic
"I'm an animatronic!"
- Ambiguous Situation: Karina Farek included him in the season finale group picture just because, even though it’s unexplained how he would have made it back to the world of the living. The players speculate that he may have just been a replica of another animatronic Anna built before going to Gareville.
- Do Androids Dream?: He personally insists that he’s not sentient, even though his strong opinions about the subject seem to imply otherwise.
- Expy: Voiced in the style of the talking vending machines from Bioshock.
- Lack of Empathy: Which makes him come off as quite a Jerkass.
- Large-Ham Announcer: Designed with such a personality, though he ended up douchier than expected.
- No Name Given: Known simply as the animatronic.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: Looks basically human, except for the giant coin sticking out of his head.
- Robotic Psychopath: Only to the extent of lacking empathy, though our heroes still worry that he will eventually end up leaving a trail of bodies behind.
Duke Kingston Munch
Duke Kingston Munch
Played by: Caldwell Tanner
Ruler and proprietor of the Joust Houst.
- Affably Evil: He styles himself as The Good King (despite being merely a duke) but he will feed any cheaters to his dragon.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: His baby photo shows him with a paper crown and a pacifier invoking his later moustache. And he clearly never lost his passion for sitting in his food.
- Big Eater: Is snacking on a turkey leg almost as big as him.
- Covert Pervert: Our heroes accuse him of being one, and he doesn’t exactly deny it.
- I Am Who?: His real name is Albert, but — given how young he’s indicated to have been during his kidnapping — it’s unclear if he knows that.
- According to DM Julia Lepetit, he was not taken as a baby (as that wouldn’t work with the timeline.) His parents just used an old picture for whatever reason. His memory issues are caused by the same Laser-Guided Amnesia as that of the other locals.
- Large-Ham Announcer: Is more than capable of filling this role.
- Mooning: After York dumps him out of his cup, it quickly becomes clear that he is wearing nothing to cover his bum with. As far as Kingston is concerned, this is just top of the line entertainment for the crowd.
- Reality Warper: His Infinity Stable can produce just about any mount imaginable, including ones which are rarely ever imagined.
- Self-Proclaimed Knight: As his ”knighthoods” are apparently given out to any contestants in his tournaments — and seems to come with no additional priveligies — they likely amount to this.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: His previous knights did not stage a walk-out, and he did not pee in the cup he’s asking his contestants to drink from.
The Bad Dragon
- Breath Weapon: Can breath both fire and water, and possibly ice cubes as well.
- The Dreaded: The Drawtectives are quickly intimidated by it, with Rosé declaring it a ”Bad Dragon.”
- Limited Animation: Portrayed by a background drawing which doesn’t move at all. Our heroes are initially uncertain if it’s even alive or just a decoration.
- Moral Guardian: Albeit with a bit of Blue-and-Orange Morality. It will judge and punish any creating or lewd behavior from the contestants or the host... with an immediate Child Unfriendly Death.
Aeris
Aeris
- Apologizes a Lot: After one of her games crashes. Fortunately her other one is perfectly playable.
- Fun Personified: Acts quite cheerful, though this is probably part of her marketing strategy.
- Longing for Fictionland: Admits that her games have a tendency to induce this.
- Out of Focus: Gets very little screen time or characterization, and is completely overshadowed by her own game NPCs.
Villainius
Villainius
Played by: SungWon Cho
The Big Bad, and the love interest, of the In-Universe video game Gods Punisher Final Quest: Tales of Stratus
- Ambiguous Situation: A man who looks very much like him is later shown as a costume performer in the real world. Was he in fact Real After All, or is this simply the actor who modeled (and possibly voiced) him In-Universe? According to illustrator Karina Farek, this is a different character named ”William Anius.”
- Antagonist in Mourning: Played for Laughs. He holds funerals for each and every rat he kills. There was no cementary in their spawn location until he started grinding there.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Invoked. The In-Universe player characters are sent to seduce him specifically because they used to be his childhood friends.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: Justified. He was deliberately created to be this for an In-Universe game with an Excuse Plot.
- Irony: Despite not actually being real, he and his fellow NPCs are quite fleshed out and — due to being played by a Guest Star — not bound by the will of the DM. Meanwhile, the real woman running the gaming hall is a pretty Flat Character created just to introduce the premise of the episode.
- Nerd in Evil's Helmet: Turns out to be a big fan of board games, owning thousands of them himself.
- Obviously Evil: Again, his name is Villainius!
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Definitely seems to have a fondness for this color schema.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Is bare chested under his shoulder pads.
- Whole Costume Reference: To Vaseraga of Gran Blue Fantasy.
Opticus Amicus
Optimums Amicus
An ally to the player characters. He assists them on their mission, trying to ensure its success.
- Annoying Video Game Helper: The players consider him to be this In-Universe. It doesn’t help that they had already figured out what to do, making his advice rather redundant.
- As You Know: Played for Laughs. He has apparently kept reminding the player characters about the plan every day for a month. Though as the game starts In Medias Res, he has to do it one more time to properly serve as Mr. Exposition.
- Behind The Back: None of the players notice him until they call him in.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Gets really fed up when the player characters don’t remember the plan. Of course, the players have never heard it before.
- Shipper on Deck: Insists that the player characters carry out their plan to voo Villainius. Meanwhile, they do everything they can to set him up with Liticus, feeling that they may get along since they’re both so annoying. They do.
Liticus Guysus
Liticus Guysus
A loyal servat of Villainius, and the biggest threat the player characters face on their mission.
- Behind The Back: Much like Optimus, he was apparently just standing around silently off-screen while our heroes talked to Villainius.
- The Dragon: Describes himself as his master’s Number Two. That said, this might be a position he shouldn’t take for granted...
- The Faceless: Never seen without his helmet.
- Ignored Enamored Underling: Declares in no uncertain terms that Villainius is his. Villainius however has his eyes dead set on our protagonists.
- Pair the Spares: Hooks up with Optimus when things don’t work out between him and his master.
- Punny Name: His name is a pun on ”little guys.”
- The Rival: Antagonizes the player characters from the very beginning, making it clear that he considers them to be this.
Sharron Lutz
Terry / Madame All / Madame Alm / Sharron Lutz
A fortune teller living a triple life as a receptionist and another fortune teller at her company, Alm & All’s.
- First-Name Basis: Straight-up tells the Drawtectives that they don’t need to know her last name.
- Meaningful Name: Unclear if it was this or an Accidental Pun, but York asks her if people often call her ”Miss Terry?”
- Not-So-Phony Psychic: Surprisingly, she does in fact have actual psychic abilities, but since her visions tend to be disappointingly vague (especially in Gareville, where her abilities seem to have diminished) she ”spices them up” with outright hoaxes.
- Only in It for the Money: Makes it very clear that she only works for cash, or ”alms” as she calls it.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Her guises as Madame All and Alm are simply hats shaped like a crescent moon and a hand, respectively. This isn’t exactly helped by her not even bothering to change up her voice, and certainly not by her mixing up the names of her various identities.
- Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: Used to research other planes of existence before coming to Gareville.
- The Woman Behind The Curtain: Quite blatantly so.
Joebeans
Joebeans
"Joebeans, Joebeans, Joebeans, Joebeans, please don't take my manchiatto."
The orc proprietor of the Joebeans coffee shop, named after herself.
- Advertised Extra: Presented as the episode’s main guest character in the thumbnail, but really plays more of a supporting role. This was probably done to hide the twist that her employee is none other than Jancy True.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: According to DM Julia Lepetit, she was designed to basically just look like a green Dolly Parton.
- Implied Love Interest: The Drawtectives are absolutely certain that she and Jancy would make a great couple. In Season Two, the pair are last seen sharing a table at the restaurant, but we don't know if they are Just Friends — as Jancy claimed earlier — or if they're in the middle of a Relationship Upgrade.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Outright says that she doesn’t remember much about her life before coming to Gareville.
- Meaningful Name: Of course, someone named ”Joebeans” just happens to own a coffee shop. This is treated as a complete coincidence In-Universe. It’s also meant to be a reference to the Dolly Parton song Jolene.
- Tomboyish Name: Often shortens her name to the traditionally masculine ”Joe”.
