The character sheet for Duskwood.
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The Group
Cleo
Hannah's best friend.
- Ambiguously Brown: Her skin tone and accent in her voice makes it possible that she's from a foreign descent.
- Brutal Honesty: She makes no bones about the fact that she feels Jessy hasn't been pulling her weight in the unofficial investigation.
- No Last Name Given: She's the only main character that we don't know the last name of.
- Running Gag: Breaking in. She does it whenever she feels inclined to.
Daniel "Dan" Anderson
Portrayed by: Christian Hauck
One of Hannah's friends.- Abusive Dad: He reveals in the last episode that his father was physically abusive and violent towards him and his mother.
- Big Damn Heroes: Performs one... while in a wheelchair, for god's sake, by shooting the Man Without A Face right as he was about to attack Jessy for the second time.
- Drowning My Sorrows: After which he hits the road. He gets into an accident.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dan is perhaps best described as abrasive, but he isn't a bad guy and does know how he comes off. He becomes friendlier as the story progresses, losing much of his jerk persona, though he remains blunt and somewhat insensitive.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The manly man to Thomas' sensitive, something that Dan points out and somewhat mocks Thomas for.
Jessica "Jessy" Hawkins
Portrayed by: Ivonne Scherer
One of Hannah's friends. She works for Richy at his family's garage, taking care of the office.- Ambiguously Bi: Considering the player can pursue her regardless of gender, though her preference is not stated.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She agrees to go on a date with Dan in Chapter 3, though she ultimately stands him up in favour of the player.
- Dude Magnet: Both Richy and Dan are interested in her, with Dan outright asking her on a date and Richy being able to admit that he has a crush on her. The player can also choose to flirt with her, though that could be a case of Even the Girls Want Her.
- Embarrassing First Name: Remember: Nobody calls her Jessica. Except for the hacker.
- Genki Girl: She's almost always upbeat, cheerful, and full of emojis.
- It's All My Fault: She blames herself for Dan's accident because she chose not to show up to the restaurant for their date.
- Only Known By Her Nickname
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: She and Richy have this dynamic.
Lilly Donford
Portrayed by: Amy Ewald
Hannah's younger sister. She used to work as a receptionist at Duskwood's motel.- All Girls Want Bad Boys: If her private conversation with Dan is anything to go by, they appear to be more than just friends.
- The Atoner: Somewhat during Episode 6, and fully so by the end of it, especially in regard to Jake. She apologizes to the player and resolves to do anything she can to protect Jake from any further consequences.
- Knight Templar Big Sister: Similar to Jake, though much less efficient. Publishing the video where she accuses the player and the hacker of being behind Hannah's disappearance turns out to be a huge fiasco that only nearly ruins the lives of two innocent people.
- Only Sane Man: In the beginning, at least. The few times she takes part in the group , she's the only one who thinks that things like threatening messages and phone calls from the kidnapper should be reported to the people officially investigating Hannah's kidnapping. You know, the police.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: After her group vote against the player fails and Lilly doxes them, the player can respond by holding their own vote to kick Lilly out of the group.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Says exactly this (minus the first two words) when she realizes that Jake, her own half-brother, may be gone for good because of what she did to him and the player. She becomes determined to help him.
- Out of Focus: She's introduced as Hannah's sister, but barely appears in the group chats, doesn't interact with the player, and has nearly no lines until she she shows up with a bang at the end of Episode 4. Even after that, though, she's still out of focus until she comes sharply into focus for the entirety of Episode 6. This is justified, as in the beginning Lilly is convinced that the group is only making things worse and she doesn't want to be involved out of fear for Hannah; after that, she's either left the group rather than being voted out, or doesn't want to be involved due to censure from the group and only shows up again because Jake forces her and the player to work together. This is exemplified by her not changing her avatar (which doesn't show her face so the player doesn't get to know what she looks like) until shortly after she posts her video, which is simultaneously a face reveal to the player.
- Revenge Before Reason: When the group vote doesn't result in the player being removed from the group, she reacts by doxing the player and the Hacker, publicly accusing them of murder and kidnapping with zero proof, which at best will do nothing to help the situation and at worst will ruin the lives of two innocent people and redirect the investigation away from the real perpetrator, thus endangering Hannah even further. If Lilly really believed that the player and the Hacker kidnapped Hannah, she would have gone to the police with it; instead, she all but admits that she just felt they deserved it.
Richy Roger
Portrayed by: Alex Friedland
One of Hannah's friends. He's Jessy's boss and works at his family's garage, which everyone called the Junkyard.- Alliterative Name: Richy Roger.
- Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments.Richy: [about why he's cleaning off the mark] I don't want customers to think they are getting a free curse with their oil change.
- Grease Monkey: He works at his family's garage, and is the one tasked with repairing Dan's car after the accident, as well as checking for brake tampering.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: He and Jessy have this dynamic.
- Stepford Smiler: Jessy says that he's the guy that keeps smiling and saying things will be fine, no matter what he's feeling personally.
- Uncertain Doom: At the end of Episode 7, Richy was attacked on the way from his cabin. The last thing the player sees was Richy's face on the ground, only time will tell whether he survived the attack. Becomes subverted when we find out that attack was faked by him to keep his identify as the kidnapper hidden.
Thomas Miller
Portrayed by: Dennis Scherer
Hannah's boyfriend, currently suspected by the police, and under suspicion by the group as a whole for his behaviour since Hannah's disappearance.- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The sensitive guy to Dan's manly, something that Dan points out and somewhat mocks Thomas for.
Other Major Characters
The Player
You, whose fall into the mystery of Hannah's disappearance after Thomas receives a text from her phone containing only your phone number.
- Deadpan Snarker: Some of the lines you can choose are pretty snappy.
- It's All My Fault: You can tell Jessy that you blame yourself for Dan's accident because either you didn't try to talk him out of driving drunk, or you weren't able to talk him out of it.
"The Hacker"/Jake
A hacker who contacts the player. He claims to have witnessed Hannah's kidnapping and wants to do whatever he can to help her. His name is Jake.
- Brainy Brunette: He's no slouch with computer skills, and he apparently has black hair.
- Creepy Good: He never changes his avatar from a Guy Fawkes mask, does various things that aren't exactly legal like spying on your conversations, and deters the group from kicking you out by glitching your (and their) phone and then speaking to them by way of a highly filtered voice and a glitching red eye. He is however ultimately on your side, and while his methods may be shady, they are very effective at what they do.
- Defrosting Ice King: He starts out very reserved, detached, and mysterious. As the player forms a bond with him, however, he starts opening up and becoming much warmer.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" : The group just calls him "the hacker" as they have no idea who he is. The player only knows him that way as well, and his name shows up in the messenger as ???. Unless the player flirts with him, which leads him to eventually reveal that his name is Jake; the app will change to reflect this.
- It's revealed that Lilly also knows his name, but she doesn't reveal how until Episode 6, where she tells the player that she found a bunch of old emails between Hannah and Jake in Hannah's inbox, and Hannah used to talk about a 'Jake' all the time. When those emails suddenly vanished around the time the Hacker showed up, Lilly put two and two together.
- Exact Words: The Hacker reassures the player that he isn't in a relationship with Hannah and that he doesn't know her personally. Jake is Hannah's half-brother, kiboshing the relationship part, and they only ever spoke online, so he's never actually met her.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Regarding the kidnapper. The Hacker reassures the player that there are lines the kidnapper won't cross (such as physically attacking someone) despite the fact that, you know, this person has already kidnapped someone and is at best "only" holding Hannah against her will, never mind anything else the kidnapper could have done or be doing to her. It is likely that no player was surprised when the kidnapper was willing to physically attack Jessy. The Hacker admits afterwards that he miscalculated.
- Knight Templar Brother: He's actually Hannah and Lily's half-brother, and he's willing to go to very big lengths to find Hannah and save her.
- Playful Hacker: On one hand, he's keeping an eye on private conversations both by reading text messages and listening in on phone calls, which is very illegal and highly unethical. That said, he claims he's only monitoring communications and hacking into data in order to help find Hannah, and that he doesn't enjoy doing it.
- He is wanted by the government for revealing things that some people would have preferred to be kept hidden.
- The Stoic: Unlike the other characters, who all often use emojis or exclamation points, the Hacker's texts are calm, composed, and methodical. Even when the player teases him, he's more hesitant than reactionary. He also uses old-school smileys instead of emojis, which gives him a more subdued feel even when he's expressing happiness or amusement.
- Trickster Mentor: His plan to force Lilly and the player to work together has shades of this. He cares deeply about them both and wants them to resolve their differences.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He's breaking more than a few laws and ethical standards in his drive to rescue Hannah. He also has no problem putting the group in danger if the payoff is finding Hannah; for instance, he tries to convince the player not to tell the group about the kidnapper sending live footage while stalking Cleo through the woods, because the Hacker is worried that the group will back off the investigation if they know.
Hannah Donford
A young woman who has been kidnapped.
- Beneath the Mask: Everyone who Hannah would describe her as a good, positive girl. No one ever suspected that she's dealing with depression due to the Dark Secret mentioned below.
- Damsel in Distress: Her kidnapping kickstarts the plot.
- Dark Secret: Signs point to her having one, considering the second document the player finds and the overwhelming feelings of guilt Hannah expresses in the first two of her discovered documents. This secret is revealed to be having accidentally run over a girl named Jennifer Hanson, killing her. Amy was in the car (that Richy gave to them) during said accident.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: She owns a cat, and everyone seems to agree that she's a good person.
The Kidnapper
The one responsible for Hannah's abduction.
- Big Bad: As far as we know, he's the reason that Hannah's gone missing and the main villain of the story.
- The Faceless: For obvious reasons, his face is never shown, even during a video call. Gets more literal when the Urban Legend of the Faceless Man is brought into the mix.
Alan Bloomgate
The police chief in Duskwood.
- Big Good: The closest thing the game has to one, being the police chief.
Minor Characters
Phil Hawkins
Jessy's older half-brother. He owns the Aurora bar.
- The Casanova: Phil's first reaction to a female player is to flirt with them, and Richy calls him a womanizer. He also assumed that Hannah wanted to meet him at his apartment to have sex with him, and apparently had no problem with that despite her having a boyfriend.
- Madonna-Whore Complex: He was perfectly willing to have sex with Hannah, having assumed that was why she wanted to meet at his apartment, but insists Hannah's not dating material and doesn't apologize for saying that Hannah's kidnapping was her own fault for being a flirt.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Downplayed. One private conversation you can spy on between Phil and Jessy has him ask her if there's anything going on between her and the player but as of now, he's yet to comment on it again.
- Slut-Shaming: He claims that Hannah would flirt with any man who came near her, and that she was just asking to be abducted with her behaviour.
Amy Bell Lewis
A girl in the same drawing class as Cleo.
- Driven to Suicide: You discover later that she committed suicide out of guilt due to her role in Jennifer's death.
Jennifer Hanson
A girl who was found dead in the forest ten years ago.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Her accidental death at the hands of the game is the whole catalyst behind the events of the game.
- Posthumous Character: She's long dead before the events of the game.
Michael Hanson
Jennifer's father and an acquaintance of Alan.
- Dead All Along: Alan reveals eventually that Michael is already dead in the present day, so he cannot be the kidnapper.
- Papa Wolf: He's very overprotective of his daughter.
- Red Herring: He's built up to be the Big Bad of the game, having kidnapped Hannah for killing his daughter years ago, but he's not.
