The small, yet colorful cast of Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon.
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Main Cast
Seto
Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)
"I just want someone...to be with."
The 15-year-old protagonist of Fragile Dreams. When his grandfather passes away, Seto inherits his blue stone and follows his instructions to locate a "red tower to the East" in hopes of finding other survivors.- Forceful Kiss: Between him and Crow
- Hates Being Alone: What motivates him to leave the observatory and head east to find other survivors.
- It May Help You on Your Quest: The blue stone in Seto's locket is practically useless. Word Of God
states it's a "high efficiency crystal computer" that enables Seto to see ghosts and spirits. - Parental Abandonment: He was living with his grandfather up until said grandpa died and we don't find out what happened to his parents. Adding to this, Seto's grandpa isn't even related to him.
Ren
Voiced by: Miku Yoshikawa (Japanese), Eden Riegel (English)
- Animal Motifs: Cats. In a few of the places she's in or near, she's seen with cats.
- Apocalypse Maiden: Shin intends to use Ren as the new "catalyst" of the Glass Cage, but it's ultimately stopped by Seto and Sai.
- Barefoot Poverty: Subverted. She is always barefoot, although rather than the conditions of the post-apocalyptic world, it emphasizes her ethereal nature.
- Floral Motifs: Tying into Floral Theme Naming, we get the subtle allusion to water lilies, a flower that's connected to hope.
- Hair Color Dissonance: Although the game clearly states Ren has silver hair, cut-scenes (animated and in-game) show it to be clearly white. Recall that Seto is the one who dubs the moon "silver", while Ren herself calls it "white", implying the dissonance comes from Seto's point-of-view, not the players.
- Killed Offscreen: Seto's narration at in the ending implies she died long before he does, when he says, it's been "countless summers" since he met her and the post-game manga mentions that Ren is an ill girl whose medicine is running out.
- Mysterious Waif: Ren fits the archetype - no back-story to explain her origins, no reason as to why Shin uses her to be the second catalyst for the Glass Cage, yet is the primary motivation for Seto to pursue her.
- Mystical White Hair: A mysterious figure for about three quarters of the game, as the only other human besides his grandfather that Seto has ever seen.
- Vapor Wear: She's visibly not wearing anything underneath her hospital gown-like dress.
Personal Frame
Voiced by: Umeka Shoji (Japanese), Nicole Balick (English)
"Hello, I am a Personal Frame, an interactive digital assistant equipped to respond to my user’s emotional state, whatever it may be."
An interactive digital assistant found in the subway tunnels, Personal Frame (or "PF") helps Seto in return for rescuing her from a lonely fate.- Killed Off for Real: Her batteries run out and Seto buries her.
- Talking Appliance Sidekick
Crow
Voiced by: Mie Sonozaki (Japanese), Steve Staley (English)
"Tally Ho!"
A mischievous boy Seto encounters at the abandoned amusement park, Crow directs him to a nearby dilapidated hotel where he might find Ren.- Deceptively Human Robots: Up until his last moments, you wouldn't have known he was a robot.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Seto holds Crow in his arms as Crow's batteries deplete.
- Forceful Kiss: He gives one to Seto because he thinks kissing is what friends do.
- Idiots Cannot Catch Colds: This is one of his taunts when he steals Seto's locket.
- Killed Off for Real: Similar to PF, his batteries run out, right as he was coming close to finding out information about his origins.
- Mouthy Kid: Although he's actually a nice guy.
- Robotic Reveal: The last time he sees Seto, he explains that he's a robot and that the two of them can't be friends because of that. In tears, Seto quickly tells him that they are friends and the skull ring is proof of that as he dies in Seto's arms, thanking him for being his friend.
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Subverted. He's more mischievous than sneaky.
Chiyo
Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese), Laura Bailey (English)
"No. I don't know you. You're a stranger. I don't trust you.
The spirit of a young girl dressed in a kimono who Seto meets in the abandoned hotel.- Cute Ghost Girl: Without a doubt.
- Ghostly Goals: When Seto returns her ring to her, she can finally die in peace.
- I Was Quite a Looker: The Chiyo Seto sees is her older self's spirit, implying that she really was pretty in her youth.
- Older Than She Looks: She's the spirit of a dying old woman.
- Tragic Keepsake: The ring she wants Seto to find belonged to her lost love.
Sai
Voiced by: Ryō Hirohashi (Japanese), Karen Strassman (English)
"Hey! Hey! What's your favorite food? I love cupcakes! Yum!"
A mysterious young woman that accompanies Seto and Crow on their journey.- Apocalypse Maiden: She was the "catalyst" during the first use of the Glass Cage.
- Cute Ghost Girl: As the game reveals, she was Dead All Along and followed Seto on his journey because she had nothing better to do, and she's pretty cute.
- Dead All Along: An odd case: the player gets a few clues, while Seto doesn't really notice and thinks the dead body is someone else's and not hers. This is hammered home at the end, when she says the below:"For good luck. Hahaha. I guess it’s pretty weird for a ghost to be talking about good luck. Come back alive, okay? And Seto... whatever you do, stop [Shin]."
- Driven to Suicide: It's not really clear, but it is implied retroactively when Seto first meets her: there's a syringe and vial in the room where her body is, and her death seems recent since her body isn't decomposed.
- Every Scar Has a Story: Hers are from being a human guinea pig in the creation of the Glass Cage.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has a stuffed (or inflated) pig on her right arm.
- Mysterious Waif: She just shows up out of nowhere, and her backstory is revealed much later.
- Noodle Incident: Two:
- How did she get into the KK Hotel where Seto first meets her? Not even the director (Kawashima) knows.
- How exactly did she die? The Glass Cage could be related to it, but it might not have directly played a part. Considering the room with her dead, intact body had a vial with a syringe, she must have survived for a little while after the Glass Cage catastrophe. It can't be conclusively ruled a suicide...
- Trademark Favorite Food: Cupcakes.
Shin (Unmarked Spoilers)
Voiced by: Toshio Furukawa (Japanese), Troy Baker (English)
"Language… is truly an ineffectual means of communication. And as such, humanity’s reliance on it will never grant them the evolution they desire."
The first test subject of the Glass Cage.- Alas, Poor Villain: His Psychic Powers brought him nothing but pain and misery.
- Dead All Along: Though we don't find this out until much later.
- Final Boss: He's the last obstacle to Seto's quest for Ren.
- Psycho Electro: A major aversion. While he does have Shock and Awe and he is the Big Bad, he's a very calm and collected person, and never seems particularly insane except for his irritation with verbal communication (which he mainly uses to deflect questions about his actions). He only freaks out during his Motive Rant, and Sai makes him pull a Heel–Face Turn in the middle of it following her Anguished Declaration of Love.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He agreed to let himself be the first test subject in the early stages of a project that would boost human empathy to the point where verbal language would be unnecessary. However, he only picked up on the selfish and negative emotions of those around him, leading him to believe that Humans Are the Real Monsters. He wants to activate the Glass Cage a second time to Put Them All Out of My Misery. All this is stopped when he learns that Sai was in love with him all along.
Other Characters
The Merchant
Voiced by: Tomohisa Aso (Japanese), Joe J. Thomas (English)
- Intrepid Merchant: He's different than most examples, as he mostly collects things to wake up his "Princess" but he does offer up his services upon meeting Seto and co. Since that encounter, he can be encountered almost everywhere when needed.
- Please Wake Up: The Merchant collects and scrounges around for anything shiny so his "princess" can smile again. Unfortunately, the "princess" died in her cradle; the Merchant doesn't even realize this when Seto wants to tell the truth. If it wasn't for Sai, the Merchant might've either completely broken down into despair, or possibly killed the boy on the spot.
- Undying Loyalty: To his Princess and, by extension, the family he was programmed for.
The "Princess"
An infant girl that the Merchant looked after, after a disaster devastated humanity.
- Death of a Child: The Merchant is unaware, thinking she is sleeping.
- Parental Abandonment: The disaster killed her parents.
- Posthumous Character: She died before the events of the game, and the Merchant isn't aware of this.
- Riddle for the Ages: It's not said how she died, but considering the setting of the game it was likely illness or starvation.
- Unknown Character: Besides her being a member of a human family that once employed the Merchant and her being long dead, there really isn't anything to know.
Grandpa
An old man that raised Seto.
- My God, What Have I Done?: It's implied that he had something to do with the Glass Cage project and regrets his role in it. According to Kawashima, Grandpa noticed something wrong and tried to back out of it.
- Parental Substitute: He raised Seto after something happened to the latter's parents (or family, since he's not related to Seto).
- Plot-Triggering Death: His death is what kicks off Seto's journey to the Tower.
- Tomato Surprise: It's implied that his personality was copied into an AI mainframe and became Shin, and Grandpa indirectly sent Seto to stop Shin. This isn't said in-game but in an interview with Kawashima.
