Characters / HoloFunk - Pre-6.0

Prior to update 6.0, HoloFunk was a Fusion Fic of hololive and Friday Night Funkin', as well as a Stealth Sequel to the latter game that made extensive use of Adaptation Tropes, other media sources, and Original Characters/Canon Foreigners. Many were originally planned to appear in the main story of the mod after being built up in supplementary material (assuming, of course, they weren't dead or incapacitated.)

This proved unsustainable, however, and all aspects of HoloFunk were changed to exclude the non-hololive aspects. For posterity, tropes exclusive to hololive characters prior to the retcon, including characters not associated with hololive and/or original to the mod's universe, are kept here.

For characters that only appear in The Dragon's Pizzeria, see its character page. For tropes separate or indistinguishable from the now Retconned version, see the main character page.

hololive Cast

Protagonists

Aloe Mano

Despite everything, it's still you.

^{Aloe in-game}

The heroine of the story, the succubus from Hololive's fifth generation who unfortunately graduated only a month after debuting. After a chance reunion with Nene, the two decide to get her career back on foot, but only then do her genmates understand the complicated chain of events that compelled her to leave in the first place...

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• Adaptational Nationality: Half-Irish. Not that it really matters, though, since Mamoru, who raised her from infancy, was pure Japanese.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In terms of the personality she presented in her brief run in hololive, Aloe was a succubus who, while not the most explicit case, lived up to her nature as a succubus, backed by a cocky and smug aura. In HoloFunk, she's far more anxious and nervous due to her troubled backstory, with her succubus-like personality trait being nonexistant while her smug demeanor at best shows in her more upbeat moments challenging the other holomems in rapping, assuming she's not just hiding what she feels.
• Age Lift: As this is an Alternate Continuity to hololive, Aloe is aged up from fifteen to nineteen years old. Despite her new age, one of her horns has yet to grow to signify her growing up to be a full-fledge succubus, leaving her insecure about her actual age, to the point of claiming to be younger than what's suggested.
• Backstory Horror: The real-world events that led to the original Aloe's graduation are replaced with a complicated traumatic backstory that involves Daddy Dearest systematically killing or breaking up all of her friends and family. This isn't even getting into the fact that the only other survivor of his antics, her own brother, has chosen to work for the bastard.
• Big Eater: A voracious appetite and serious sweet tooth are apparently part of her demon physiology (tying into the sin of gluttony), as well as the impossibly-fast metabolism to handle it all.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Most of what happens to Aloe that (very loosely) corresponds to reality happens while she's 19 instead of 15, due to an Age Lift. Turns out something else happened the day she turned 15 - namely, Daddy Dearest smiting her father Mamoru out of existence.
• Broken Bird: The sheer amount of loss in Aloe's life has left her a Sad Clown with lingering anxiety issues that only Nene is able to fix by bringing her back to the Holomems.
• Cain and Abel: Has a twin brother that exists only in this world. It's implied he may have returned to the Dearests to serve his father's killer as one of his depraved elites.
• Contrasting Sequel Protagonist: To Boyfriend (or Kenji, as the mod calls him.) Both are passionate musicians whose paths put them at odds with the Dearests. However, while Kenji scores with Girlfriend (or Hana) and succeeds in making a proper name for himself, even getting Hana away from Daddy Dearest when original canon catches up to them, no matter how hard Aloe tries, it all ends in death, destruction, and tears. Where Kenji has always averted the odds in his story, Aloe is a Broken Bird cast aside again and again by fate who is only just now finding the resolve to fight again.
• Curiosity Killed the Cast: Aloe trying to probe for Mamoru's whereabouts on her 15th birthday gets him killed shielding her from an explosion when she barges in on a confrontation between him and Daddy Dearest. Judging by the implication that the body count up to that point was all Dearest henchmen, it's likely he could have survived if Aloe stay put.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Was born to the previous Daddy Dearest, who was promptly killed by the one from FNF for position of the title. Then after a seemingly-normal life under her new father, the Dearests killed him with a grenade in front of her face. Then Aloe tried to get into entertainment twice, only for the Dearests to successfully leverage her into leaving both times. Then the Mano Kai wound up in a Succession Crisis after her brother left and pulled a Face–Heel Turn, causing her to run away for the surface after it was clear that they had no choice but to force the role of chairman on her. Compared to even the Dearests' victims from other mods, the poor kid has it rough.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Her human credentials and Earth residence were accidentally taken from a suicidal girl named Hibiki Fubunaga, who also happens to be a little too similar. Trying to clean up after the mess and break the news to Hibiki's father bites Aloe in the ass when she gets mistaken for the dead girl, and is far too nice to just admit the truth after that.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Both her biological and adoptive parents are dead and their absence is what causes everything around them to go straight to hell.
• Glamour Failure: Downplayed. While her Human Disguise as described below is quite good, it isn't quite what you would call perfect, with the true colors of her hair remaining as an off-color sheen that somebody sufficiently observant can easily use to determine something unnatural being at work.
• Human Disguise: Has the ability to cast a spell that hides her non-human features (her horns, tail and ears) and change her hair color to a more consistent blonde to blend in with human society. She later changes her hair color to black with a purple gradient.
• Identical Stranger: Learns the hard way that she not only resembles but also sounds like the freshly-dead Hibiki Fubunaga when she tries to break the news to Hibiki's father. This leads to a rather uncomfortable mix-up, speaking lightly.
• Magitek: One of the support spells she knows can break through at least some forms of cybersecurity, first being used to unlock a phone.
• Primary-Color Champion: Inverted; Aloe's appearance is predominately purple, while the chief physical trait that gives away the truth about her brother is a head of yellow hair.
• Sad Clown: Week 3's dialogue makes it obvious she's still hurting from her past despite the perpetual smug grin plastered on her animations. Both the more serious parts of the mod and the extended universe suggest she also suffers from chronic anxiety constantly complicated by being on the run for months or even years.
• Shout-Out: The in-universe reason for Aloe having tuned vocals (swallowing a tiny computer as a child) is an almost exact retread of the reason AGOTI originally sounded like a Sega Genesis.
• Sweet Tooth: Aloe has a pretty massive one, having a borderline obsession with honey in particular. She puts honey on damn near everything she eats, with the sole exceptions being drinks and pizza (the latter due to considering pizza to be Serious Business due to working at a pizza joint). Funnily enough, she had actually developed this borderline addiction before first watching DARLING in the FRANXX.
• The Needs of the Many: Aloe tries to tough out her hardships alone for fear of dragging her friends and by extension regular civilians into a fight that has for 19 years only concerned her and her family. The bulk of Week 3 and Week 4's story is her realizing that with the kind of people Hololive hires, she really doesn't need to worry about that.
• Thinking Up Portals: Apparently has access to this, though the only demonstration of this is to remove a corpse, with Aloe remarking even she doesn't know where it went. She also has access to a smaller portal spell that can be used as a sort of telescope.
• Yellow/Purple Contrast: Is on the heroic side of this trope with her missing brother. Aloe has purplish-pink hair and is on the side of good, with her actions flaunting the Urban Fantasy setting to the reader as she refers to her demonic traits and demonstrates the ability to use support magic. Her brother, on the other hand, has yellow hair, betrayed his family for their killers, and is implicated in a group that prefers to use more realistic forms of intimidation and violence despite also being demons.

Nene Momosuzu

Not to be confused with Pico's friend of the same first name.

^{Nene in-game on the speakers}

^{Nene as a playable character}

The airheaded visitor from another world, Nene's close friendship with Aloe is instrumental in getting her back into music.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: In this world, Nene left her home planet for Earth much earlier than in canon, but got stuck in the underworld in the process. Aloe isn't just her genmate, but a close friend from high school.
• Adaptational Name Change: "Momosuzu Nene" is a new identity. Her real name is Lin Taoling.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Her real last name, "Taoling," would be an accurate demonym for someone from her home planet of TaoTao.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Childish and impulsive, but managed to found a successful gang in high school.
• Fearless Fool: Not particularly wise, but is big on Undying Loyalty and persistence. Ironically, despite replacing Girlfriend in gameplay, she's much closer to Boyfriend in this regard.
• The Heart: Instrumental in getting Aloe out of her Broken Bird state and proving that A Friend in Need is very much a good thing to have even in insurmountable odds and invisible wars by convincing the duo's other genmates to support them in Week 4.
• Kleptomaniac Hero: Downplayed, but she still ends up taking a heart pendant from the Dearest Clan to gift to Aloe, resulting in Daddy Dearest calling a hitman on Aloe. Supplementary material suggests this is actually played straight, with her taking random items she finds if they looked cute to her.

Fubuki Shirakami

Not pictured: An emergency hamburger; detective skill to match the title of chief.

^{Fubuki in-game}

A new recruit in the Oozora Police who somehow convinced Subaru and company to let her start her own branch in detective work. Not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, most of Fubuki's campaign consists of her fumbling around in Aloe's steps, unaware she's answering to Daddy Dearest.

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• Locked Out of the Loop: Fubuki's route is intentionally written in such a way that it avoids any connection to the game's original story aside from the Dearests' necklace, and Fubuki herself is no closer to uncovering the truth of her case at the end of the story than she was at the beginning. The only hint something is truly amiss in the world of hololive is Coco telling Fubuki that her target might not be so bad after all.

Mio Ookami

Someone has to keep our friend out of trouble, after all.

^{Mio in-game}

Fubuki's old friend, the Oozora Police have put Mio on Fubuki's case to keep the ditzy fox in check. And by "keeping her in check," we mean "carrying her efforts hard."

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• Beleaguered Assistant: Isn't paid and works beneath her not-so-intelligent childhood friend. She tries not to admit it, but the work experience is, to put it lightly, frustrating.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Fubuki and Mio are Childhood Friends, yet Mio sounds legitimately exhausted just working with her during the first three weeks.

Supporting Cast

Gawr Gura

The 9000-something-year-old Atlantean who, in this continuity, is capable of far more than she lets on, as revealed by reading between the lines of The Dragon's Pizzeria.

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• Benevolent Boss: Gura is the CEO of Pizza Shark who devised a plan with Coco to use the influence of hololive to find four people on the brink of ruin and save them from total destitution.
• Connected All Along: In the mod, Watson and Gura seem fairly unconnected with the overall plot. The Dragon's Pizzeria all but states Gura is Coco's partner in founding the pizza franchise, which she serves as the CEO of^note The franchise is named Pizza Shark, Gura's favourite food is pizza, Darnell refers to her as a "little shark", her name, while censored, is shown to consist of a four-letter first name and a four-letter last name, and the pizza served is said to be "Atlantis-style".
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Gura's still just as loopy as ever, and the original's only company leadership role is more a joke about completely upending Aqua's relationship with Shion so that Gura can step in. So who'd expect it to be heavily implied that this version of her surpasses Kiara by being a serious restaurant CEO who cares about her workers?
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By hiring Kenji and Aloe, Gura is technically responsible for both vanilla FNF and the 5.0 in-game story ever happening to begin with.

Botan Shishiro

An ex-mercenary formerly nicknamed "Leone" in this world, Botan became a hololive talent to leave her old life as an assassin behind. But then it turns out a certain mob's kingpin still has her number back when she was a hitman...

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• Hitman with a Heart: More-so than who she's model-swapped with. She ended up getting blackmailed by Daddy Dearest to take up the contract to retrieve the heart pendant and assassinate the thieves. Upon realizing who her targets actually were does she immediately opt to spare her victim, even if she runs the risk of getting executed by the Dearest Clan for it, because she can't bring herself to murder a close friend and gen-mate.
• You Didn't Ask: Her response to Aloe talking about her backstory, basically asking why she didn't just get Cover to light up the Dearests with a fully-stocked Urban Fantasy arsenal. Unlike most uses of the trope, she isn't snarking and is genuinely wondering why her own friend doesn't seem to be trusting of her circle's capabilities. Aloe herself shoots back the stock "you wouldn't understand" response, and it takes a full week and all of HoloFive for Botan to finally get her point across.

Coco Kiryu

The chairman of the Kiryu Clan — for real, this time.

Aloe directly confronts her to make a deal regarding Botan's situation with the Dearests following the events of Week 3.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Zig-zagged. Coco is an actual drug trafficker and puts Kanata in charge of a front company in this world, but her devotion to Hololive and justice is genuine.
• Ascended Fanboy: This version of Coco got to learn the ropes of yakuza operations by working with her hero, the Dragon of Dojima himself. The story also alters the ending of Yakuza 6 slightly to pass the role of Kiryu Clan chairman to Coco, leading to the rise of the powerful operation it is now.
• Expy: Takes on aspects of Kiryu Kazuma, a character the real Coco is a huge fan of. It's implied to be justified by Kazuma himself existing in this world and teaching Coco a few tricks. The Dragon's Pizzeria later confirms that not only is this true, they are an actual teacher and student.
• A Friend in Need:
  • To Tokoyami Towa. She has her clan rid the Underworld district of Towa's missing posters made by Daddy Dearest to prevent him from knowing where his second daughter is.
  • The Dragon's Pizzeria reveals Aloe's working situation at Pizza Shark was also secretly the result of Coco pulling strings, making Kiryu Kazuma the manager so that she and her coworkers would have a safer place to be at. It is also implied she chose Kazuma because she knew his money was running out.
• Hunter of His Own Kind: The yakuza mobsters under her care are foreigners willing to rally to thwart the Dearests, who themselves are foreigners pressuring Japan's entertainment industry.

Kanata Amane

Kenji's cousin, owner of a paradoxically strong grip, and fifth chairman of the Kiryu Clan.

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• Related in the Adaptation: First cousin to Kenji, i.e. Boyfriend. Despite the degree of separation, he looks and dresses a lot like her.

Towa Tokoyami/Kaede Kurayami

A devil girl who insists that she isn't an angel. She's actually Daddy Dearest's second daughter and thus Girlfriend's sister, carrying some of their eccentricities.

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• Adaptational Name Change: "Tokoyami Towa" is just an alias, unlike some of the other talents as depicted in this universe. Her real name is Kaede Kurayami.
• Born of Heaven and Hell: Though her family really doesn't like to admit it or what led to her turning out that way (herself included), Towa is part angel. The only things stopping her from being a full-on Nephilim like IRyS are her height and "canon" demonstrating she lacks a destructive impulse.
• The Cameo: Her only appearance in HoloFunk version 5.0 is this: in the Week 2 Kurayami family portrait alongside Hana and their parents, and is one face among many in Week 5 watching the Takamori rap battle.
• Cerebus Retcon: This time around, she acts like she's part angel because she is, with Daddy Dearest being a Fallen Angel in serious denial about his lineage.
• Hidden Eyes: Her eyes are completely obscured, with the only hint of emotion present being a stoic frown.
• In the Blood: Got her repeated denial of her angelic lineage from her father, which is most definitely NOT a laughing matter for him.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Being The Runaway, she isn't fully aware of the Dearests' actions in the present day, even as she works alongside an actual yakuza boss mobilizing against them. Somehow, neither is her dad aware of where she works now.
• Missing Child: A variant to Daddy Dearest, as she left the family to pursue the entertainment industry without him knowing. Her disappearance eventually leads her father to put up missing posters of her in and around Makaicho. Lucky for her, the Kiryu Clan tears the posters down to prevent the wrong eyes from connecting the dots and compromising her whereabouts.
• My Hair Came Out Green: Zig-Zagged. Whereas her purple hair in canon is likely nothing more than standard anime-style multicoloured hair, supplementary material for this canon reveals her hair was originally black like Daddy Dearest's hair (pre-greying). After having settled for a bleached blonde prior to when she left the family, a botched attempt to make it Miku-esque blue resulted in her signature hair that she ultimately stuck to.
• The Napoleon: Preliminary sketches of her appearance in this universe depict her as even shorter than Kenji and Hana's Super-Deformed statures, despite a height difference of only 19 cm at worst. In spite of this, she's independent and obviously has something Daddy Dearest doesn't: a functioning, high-profile standing in the entertainment industry not inked in blood.
• Related in the Adaptation: The Dearests' family photo implies she's Hana/Girlfriend's sister and Daddy Dearest's second daughter, something later confirmed by the dev team.
• The Runaway: Left the Dearests long ago to pursue entertainment, eventually becoming a successful version of Aloe while somehow escaping her father's watch. Hana knows this, but won't tell the truth, knowing what might happen next if she does.

Spoiler Characters

Haato Akai/Haachama

The once-pure idol of Hololive's first generation, now the insane Wild Card Haachama who will do anything for kicks and work for anyone.

Well, at least it seems that simple, but maybe not...

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• Adaptational Dumbass: Haachama's insanity and dissociation is played up to a much more harmful degree in this universe, to the point where it makes her an active threat to her own friends and has erased much of her sense of morality.
• Adaptational Villainy: The original Haachama, while no doubt crazy, generally limited her murderous tendencies and psychological horror towards her Two Siblings In One twin sister Akai Haato, and her cooking was at best incompetent and disgusting and at worst featured the use of a long dead, dehydrated and packaged tarantula. Here, she has no qualms with serving the Big Bad, subjecting Aloe/Fubuki to a nightmarish dream sequence, and include humans and humanoids as ingredients for her dishes. That being said, it's less out of malice and more the fact that various context clues suggest she literally does not know any better anymore.
• Affably Evil: She remains as excited and chipper as ever, even as she attempts to turn her fellow talents into dishes. It's this trope and not its counterpart because she seems to be genuinely deranged enough to have no conception that what she's doing is wrong in any way.
• Ambiguously Human: Haachama seems human (albeit one with a serious dissociative disorder), but the fact that she can set up a Battle in the Center of the Mind whenever she pleases and without actually being physically present suggests that may not be the case.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Supplementary material suggests Haachama is so far gone at this point that she literally cannot tell right from wrong or friend from foe. Her cooperation with Daddy Dearest unnerves him and is done without Haachama ever recognizing him or the other talents as they really are.
• Flanderization: While her disastrous cooking skills do constitute a major part of her comedic appeal, and while she has alluded to eating humans and other sentient beings before, the mod reduces Haachama's personality and motivations solely to eating people. This seems to be on purpose to make her a closer match for the likewise man-eating Monster, whom she replaces in this mod.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Eats humans and humanoids rather than being a mundane Lethal Chef in this universe.
• Miles Gloriosus: Downplayed; while Haachama is absolutely a threat, it's been stated in external material that she has never actually succeeded in her plot to use Human Resources despite all her boasting.
• Offscreen Teleportation: Whereas most of the characters portraits move into frame upon arriving on the scene, in Week 5 Haachama's fades into view to highlight her "off" nature. Though, in this specific case, it could be Justified; Ina affirms that Haachama never appeared and that Aloe merely conked out, implying the encounter and following sequence is All Just a Dream ...from their perspective anyway.
• Sanity Slippage: She's long gone past this trope, being the emotionally distant Haachama rather than the Haato everyone knew beforehand.
• Wild Card: Her declining psyche has given her less qualms about who she'll work for and what she'll do for fun; case-in-point, she's encountered as the Big Bad's personal chef and is willing to butcher her kouhais for the sake of a meal.

Non-hololive characters

Original Friday Night Funkin' cast

Boyfriend/Kenji Tensei

As it turns out, the person most would probably know as "Boyfriend" does not exist in this world; rather, he is the product of an old PlayStation game that used the Dearests for the likenesses of his opponents. Predictably, the game's developers were chased out of the industry by the real deals.

Since Boyfriend isn't real, his role is filled by local Ascended Fanboy Kenji who is everything he is and isn't at the same time: a blue-haired introverted college dropout dating the Dearests' daughter and looking to climb the ladder in the music world, but also a young man who's street-smart, intelligible, and emphatically not a human. Oh, and he's also Kanata's cousin.

Though Kenji is no longer canon, his sprites are used for Boyfriend's default appearance in the current version of the game; this is also true for Girlfriend. As a result, any tropes found in their sprites apply to both versions of the characters.

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• Ascended Extra: Zig-Zagged. With the development and eventual deprecation of the 5.0 lore, he goes from being merely a lore character, to having an optional playable appearance alongside his significance in lore, to getting stripped of his significance while remaining playable in Freeplay.
• Ascended Fanboy: A huge fan of the original Boyfriend who ends up falling into the exact same backstory and position as him, and dresses the part out of both emulation and spite towards Daddy Dearest. More directly, he's also a huge fan of Aloe and not only becomes her coworker, but inadvertently helps her, together with Narumi and Kiryu, stay motivated long enough to get to 5.0's in-game story... not that he'd ever find out, unfortunately.
• The Cameo: Appears alongside Hana in Week 5 amongst the crowd watching the Takamori rap battle.
• Canon Foreigner: Subverted. At first, his implementation made it look like he was the only member of the original cast who's been replaced by a different person, but it turns out he seems to have lived through more events corresponding to the real FNF than the Boyfriend of his world's version of the game, effectively making him the same character put through a handful of Adaptation Tropes.
• Divergent Character Evolution: Was originally intended to be Boyfriend himself subject to the common headcanon that he's secretly an angel, but after the story was rewritten to make him (somewhat of) a different person, he began taking on traits that put him above Boyfriend's original personality in terms of competency.
• Gaining the Will to Kill: His breakup with Pico was more accurately Kenji damn-near murdering him over Pico trying to do the same just because he finally called him out on his bullshit. The problem is that Kenji's an angel who has never really stooped that low before, so there's more fear and dread than usual that this could send him off the deep end.
• Glamour Failure: Kenji does have a Human Disguise, but all it really does is hide his Uncanny Family Resemblance to Kanata and gets rid of the bling that runs in their family. His full head of silver and blue dual-tone hair doesn't change with it at all. Likely justified since Boyfriend's hair is also blue, so if he's going to cosplay (and ultimately become) the rapper, it doesn't really matter.
• Handicapped Badass: Deliberately very strongly implied to have the ADHD and autism of the original Boyfriend, but takes on a horde of thugs in his debut and both defeats them all and manages to heal completely. And of course, there's all of his accomplishments from both vanilla and modded to consider, amplified by how this version of him actually knows what he's doing is both dangerous and possibly stupid.
• Has a Type: He has a thing for redheads.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Though not past the line, the risk of this and the subsequent social and physiological punishment for doing so is why Gaining the Will to Kill is such an undesirable path for Kenji to take even when it's needed, unlike other mods where Boyfriend has zero qualms doing so if the end justifies the means.
• In the Blood: Just as unusually strong and ferocious as Kanata is when push comes to shove.
• Irony: He's an angel who becomes insatiably lustful on the clock at the sight of Hana, and thoroughly weirds out the succubus Aloe by doing so.
• Killer Yo-Yo: His halo is able to detach, and his unused attacking animations (meant to replicate those on the original Boyfriend's spritesheet) reveal he can fight with it by telekinetically controlling it as if it were a chakram on a string.
• Legacy Character: Blurs the line between merely adopting the original Boyfriend's mantle and actually being Boyfriend himself with how similar the two are on both backstory and appearance alone. To other characters in-universe, he's definitely the former and thus a proper example of the trope, though. Out-of-universe, he's pretty much the Boyfriend and no Show Within a Show is going to change that.
• Love at First Sight: He lays his eyes on Hana once and immediately becomes hopelessly in love with her.
• Meaningful Name: "Tensei" is Japanese for "heavenly star," which fits in nicely with his origins, aspirations, and role as Boyfriend's stand-in.
• Nepotism: Downplayed; it's implied he has his restaurant job because of Kanata pulling some strings for her cousin, but Kenji was rather down in the dumps before becoming Boyfriend either way, and all bets were off the moment the recruiting initiative pulled from recommendations from within Hololive.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Delivers a truly cathartic one to Pico once he has had enough of the kid's completely indefensible Lack of Empathy and accountability, which at the bare minimum ends with Pico dislocating both of his shoulders, getting a solid head injury, and having his face caved in over and over again.
• Origin Story: The Dragon's Pizzeria turns out to also be the story of how Kenji becomes this world's Boyfriend.
• Promoted to Playable: After he (or, well, the usual Boyfriend) got ditched from the status of protagonist for the streamer-safe version of the game in favor of Fubuki, Kenji finally makes his playable appearance as an unlockable character for freeplay mode in update 6.0.0. He even comes packaged with Hana, chillin' on the speakers as Girlfriend does.
• Related in the Adaptation: Kanata's first cousin, which mirrors how the original Boyfriend is Hatsune Miku's brother.
• The Unintelligible: Subverted; unlike Boyfriend, Kenji is entirely willing to speak plain language to strangers.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: His outfit and hair makes him look an awful lot like a genderbent version of his cousin Kanata.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: His pre-Boyfriend self was convinced he was living in a Slice of Life anime, and as a result unironically thought invoking the "toast-in-mouth" stock scene would be a surefire way to get girls. Hana does show up that day, but not because of Kenji's antics.

Girlfriend/Hana Kurayami

The Dearests' first daughter, who is in many ways just like the original, if a little smarter.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed; while Girlfriend was by no means evil in vanilla or the three mods that provide Hana's old bandmates, she did show a degree of complacency at the bare minimum in letting it happen. Here, if Hana's behavior around Towa is any indication, while she wasn't able to stop Whitty, Tabi, and AGOTI from being doomed to their canon backstories, she at least has enough of a spine to hide Towa and later run away herself before Daddy Dearest can hurt anyone else around them. As for Kenji, she doesn't need to worry about him.
• Big Brother Instinct: She cares about Towa's true passions and emphatically refuses to tell Daddy Dearest the truth about where she went.
• Canon Welding: Tabi and Carol are still around and are implied to have once again experienced the best and worst parts of their own mods because of Hana.
• Cerebus Retcon: It's implied she takes the events of Week 7 from the original game much more seriously than in canon, as it's because of the Tankmen that she decides to move out and live next to Kenji's Earth residence.
• Cool Shades: Sports a pair that showcase her red-highlighted eyes. Supplementary depictions of the missing posters for her and Towa/Kaede suggest they serve as a mask for her identity.
• In Spite of a Nail: The only member of the original cast who has no changes to their backstory or species themselves, despite her parents being involved in a bunch of original story events. The only major change Hana has compared to Girlfriend is being smarter than the latter to bring her in line with Kenji's own intelligence.
• Related in the Adaptation: Towa's sister in this world.

Daddy Dearest/Mr. Kurayami

The Big Bad and source of all of Aloe's troubles, this world's Daddy Dearest is a mob boss who hijacked The Irish Mob's operations in Japan and uses their muscle to place a stranglehold on the nation's entertainment industry.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Unique to this version of Daddy Dearest compared to other mods is his unrelenting persistence in hounding targets that aren't Boyfriend, repeatedly hatching more evil plans to deal with them if the ones before them fail. Even Tabi and A.G.O.T.I. get off easy in comparison by dint of their punishments being the only things the Dearests did to them; meanwhile for Aloe, it was the last thing in a string of repeated hits that finally take away everything she loves.
• Being Evil Sucks: Daddy Dearest has everything some of his other counterparts would want - fame, wealth, dead or miserable competitors - but lacks something they do: a stable connection with his children, who want nothing to do with him because of his wrongdoings. Not that he'd understand, though.
• Big Bad: He's the original Daddy Dearest; it wouldn't be a Friday Night Funkin' story featuring him without also being the central antagonist.
• Canon Welding: He and the other Dearests are associated with at least one of the goth kids.
• Deconstruction: Downplayed, but it's there. His comically heinous behavior universal to just about every single mod carries severe interpersonal consequences for him in this universe, as both of his kids no longer associate with him in a serious capacity due to his antics: Towa simply wanted to strike out on her own and had to run away from a person who likes inking those kinds of deals in blood, and supplementary notes imply Week 7 from the base game blew up in Daddy Dearest's face way more than in canon, costing him Hana's relationship.
• Demoted to Extra: Word of God confirms, as implied by the presence of Boyfriend and Girlfriend as optional toggles in Freeplay, he still exists in-universe, but as The Ghost with no traits related to 5.0 and no connection to the main plot what so ever.
• Enemy Mine: Not above using the police to take down his targets if their goals align. Just ask Tsume.
• Even Evil Has Standards: For someone who's portrayed as a complete bastard in just about any universe, he's decently pissed that Haachama is using her position as his personal chef to stalk off for Human Resources.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: It's been suggested he legitimately does not understand why Hana and Kaede/Towa left him, despite his never-ending list of transgressions that hit way too close to home.
• Evil Is Petty: The core of his operations revolves around manipulating Japan's entertainment industry not for a greater criminal cause (at least not one that any of our heroes know of), but rather pure unadulterated ego.
• Fallen Angel: Is really just this rather than an actual demon, but goes to great pains to hide it. It also explains why Towa is a Minion with an F in Evil.
• Hypocrite: If he doesn't want to admit he's a Fallen Angel, then why does he keep Holy Hand Grenades for the express purpose of killing demons?
• Last-Name Basis: Can only really be referred to by his last name when discussing him without mentioning the title, as his first name is a tightly-kept secret both in- and out-of-universe. And for good reason, because who the hell would take a dangerous demon/fallen angel mob boss by the name of Kouta seriously?
• Legacy Character: "Daddy Dearest" is just a title in this world, which Mr. Kurayami took for himself after slaying the previous holder. He's still the original demonic arse from FNF, though, just as a Japanese man.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Is somehow unaware that Towa works for Hololive, even accounting for her breaking away from the mob life and Hana's refusal to tell the truth.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Kurayami" is one of the most common Japanese words for "darkness."
• Related in the Adaptation: Implied and later confirmed through a family portrait to be Towa's father.
• Tom the Dark Lord: His real first name is "Kouta," a name more closely associated with heroic types in popular culture, and one of his stage names was "Krazy Kou."
• Villain Team-Up: Works with Cyclops, as shown in a cutscene showing him, Daddy Dearest, the henchmen, and an unidentified character (possibly Aloe's in-universe twin brother, given the horns and pink streaks of hair) together.

Pico Phillips

Kenji's ex, and the kid who single-handedly shut down a school shooting. Surprisingly, aside from being a Fallen Angel this time around and being taught by Botan, little has changed about him in this world.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: Kenji's remarks in The Dragon's Pizzeria indicate that even accounting for his mental issues, this version of Pico isn't meant to be a likable character compared to canon. He is described as willingly refusing help despite being lucid enough to know he has problems, and the reason Kenji broke up with him is implied to involve Pico saying Aloe deserved leaving the music industry just because she's a succubus. In other words, he's what the Virtual YouTuber fandom would call an "anti." As the story progresses, it also becomes clear that Pico legitimately enjoys killing and now thinks bullets are the best way to solve heated arguments.
• Allegorical Character: His jerkish characterization and laser-guided animosity towards Kenji and Aloe indicate he's meant to represent "antis," which is what the Virtual YouTuber fandom calls "haters."
• Asshole Victim: It is frequently made abundantly clear that Pico deserves everything that has happened to him since Pico's School, as no amount of trauma and injustice can excuse just how much of an unrepentant pile of shit he really is. Kenji points out that he doesn't even miss Heaven and not being a hitman, he just wants to have a convenient excuse to hurt others and get away with it.
• Boomerang Bigot: Despite being racist towards succubi, a type of demon, Pico himself is a Fallen Angel (albeit one strucken down on false charges) and is friends with Darnell, who is a very good example of why fallen angels are themselves considered demonic.
• The Cameo: Aside from Botan alluding to him as "an old collegue," his sole appearance in HoloFunk 5.0, aside being among the Week 5 crowd, is on a wanted poster in the background of Week 3, just like his canon FNF counterpart.
• Canon Welding: As Cyclops is an associate of the Dearests in this universe, the events of Pico's School remaining as-is and the consequences that befell him due to the failings of Heaven's justice system would make him a victim of Daddy Dearest by proxy.
• Clear My Name: Started taking contracts to kill demons for this. Then it quickly turned into something else.
• Composite Character: A mix of his vanilla self and the downfall his counterpart from Friday Night Funkin' Soft experiences. Moreover, the goth kids have some ties to the Dearests like in VS Cassandra which make them an active threat even after their initial defeat, though here it's on the business side of things rather than familial ties.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Most of his issues in this world now stem from Heaven's justice system turning against him despite saving his own school from the goth kids.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: Doesn't want treatment, rehabilitation, or any other sort of aid for his mental issues. Though a part of it is said issues clouding his judgement, Kenji implies the ego of his original personality is also heavily contributing to this, meaning Pico is just tarnishing his already-shattered reputation through recklessness.
• Fallen Angel: Got kicked out of Heaven due to a Frame-Up implicating him with the goth kids. This understandably served as his Cynicism Catalyst for this world, though a point is made that none of the above is what made Kenji dump him. And if he didn't do anything wrong then, his decisions now ensure no one will ever want him back.
• Fallen Hero: A classic Newgrounds hero turned to genuine sociopathy and bloodlust after injustice sets him down the wrong path.
• Fantastic Racism: Kenji describes him as having zero sympathy for Aloe just because she's a succubus, and that's why they aren't a couple anymore.
• Frame-Up: Was framed for Cassandra's actions, which led to his fall.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Yes, Pico was framed. Yes, he has severe PTSD from Pico's School. Yes, his family life sucks. No, that doesn't excuse the fact that he legitimately enjoys killing, that he's a humongous racist, that he may have forced his Nene and Darnell to kill with him, and that he wants Kenji to repay his attempts to help him in blood. The latter in particular leads Kenji to cash in Pico's Karma Houdini Warranty and beat the everloving shit out of him.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Slays demons through his mercenary job in hopes of validation, but given that this is the modern era, it's heavily rooted in Fantastic Racism, his own insanity, paranoia, and just not being a very pleasant individual overall.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite his different lineage and having a certain lioness to effectively raise him in his childhood, he otherwise remains mostly the same compared to vanilla in the present day. Quite humorously, though, Boyfriend's ex isn't him or an Expy.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: As The Exile for a school shooting he never committed, only stopped, the shell-shock and sudden disenfranchisement caused Pico to embrace evil. He acts as though he's in regular denial or that it's all just desperation, but is nearly killed the instant Kenji realizes it's all a farce.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Started killing for fun and profit, calling it a desperate Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job even though it clearly isn't. Kenji repeatedly tries to fix him, but he just keeps going back and getting away with it. Finally, Pico decides to dispose of him and gets a solid ass-whooping.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Tries to kill Kenji for rightfully pointing out that the only thing underneath his trauma is a bloodthirsty failure of a person who doesn't deserve an excuse. It doesn't work, because the next thing Kenji does is dislocate both of Pico's shoulders before absolutely pulverizing him.
• Mythology Gag: This isn't the first time an alternate version of Pico became an outcast for trying to stop a school shooting.
• The Sociopath: Pico is a Blood Knight whose only real emotions that aren't the joy of killing consist of childish tantrums every time someone figures out he's actually just a sad, racist asshole with a gun and rationale invalidated by his own ego, and manipulated Darnell and his Nene into becoming mercenaries as well.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: His current mindset is akin to that of a protagonist from a Shōnen themed around monster-hunting with Black-and-White Morality, along with some hints of the classic Clear My Name adventure. Unfortunately, this is an Urban Fantasy where all the races have learnt to get along, so instead of being brooding and cool, he's just batshit insane and more than a little bit of a Jerkass.

Others

Mamoru Mano

A concept sketch of a photo from a better time.

Former leader of the Mano Kai, who was initially a captive Daddy Dearest decided to use to take out the guy before him. Then he noticed two kids his mark left behind, and the rest was history... at least until the Dearests found out.

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• Cruel and Unusual Death: A hand grenade's bad enough of a way to go, but said grenade is explicitly a Holy Hand Grenade, meaning the poor guy was pretty much wiped out of existence in a rather painful fashion. In Mr. Kurayami's defense, he was out of bullets and didn't have a better option.
• Good Parents: Despite being a crime boss, he truly, truly loved Aloe and her brother.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Died shielding Aloe from an explosion of holy light.
• Hitman with a Heart: He went along with the little stunt Mr. Kurayami roped him into back in 2001, but after learning the mark had kids, he dropped everything to escape and raise them as his own.

The Sixth Henchman (unmarked spoilers)

You know what they say: better the devil you know than the devil you don't...

^{Click here to see his unmasked appearance}
It's what they'd call "you."

A mysterious figure lines Daddy Dearest's rogues gallery along with the original four backup dancers and Cyclops. What little physical traits are visible through the hood, though, are direct opposites of the corresponding traits in Aloe's appearance. Now what was that supplementary bit about Aloe having a brother who later went missing after all the crap the Dearests sicced on them, again?

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• Cold Sniper: His current situation is amoral (or at least seriously uncaring for Aloe and the Mano Kai in the short term) at best, and viewing his only appearance without the dialogue box reveals he is armed with a large sniper rifle.
• Et Tu, Brute?: The Mano Kai officially have him listed as MIA and have had their operations crippled because of his disappearance - he was supposed to become chairman after his father died, and Aloe isn't taking up the offer as plan B any time soon. What they don't know is that, whether willingly or by force, he's betrayed them all to join the group responsible for their nigh-extermination.
• Evil Twin: Aloe's literal fraternal twin who is both physically and morally her opposite.
• Face–Heel Turn: For whatever reason, he's decided working for the guy that killed his entire family to be a viable option. Whether he's been blackmailed, is plotting something else, or is just that much of a sellout is yet to be revealed.
• The Faceless: His only in-game appearance doesn't show his actual face, because his hair color and demonic features are already more than enough for an astute viewer to put two and two together. It's possible the demon in this art collaboration is his full appearance, as he shares the symmetrical horns and appears next to the 5.0 lore's depictions of Cyclops and Cassandra.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Of course the Mano Kai haven't been able to find him despite marks of his identity blatantly showing even through a cloak and total darkness. After all, why on Earth would you expect your immediate successor to peel off for the guy who murdered his own father?
• In the Hood: Only seen with a huge cloak that obscures his face, but shows just enough of his physical attributes to come to a particularly grim conclusion.
• Red Right Hand: Inverted; Aloe is the hero with a physical imperfection (asymmetrical horns) while her brother is the hidden villain with a standard appearance.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Aloe is a succubus with pink and cream yellow hair, asymmetrical horns, and is fighting back the Dearests with her friends. Her brother is an incubus with cream hair with a hint of pink, symmetrical horns, and works for the mob despite them being the reason his family's life has been a hellhole for nearly two decades.
• Walking Spoiler: As his existence is currently only mentioned in supplementary material, it's impossible to mention where he appears in-game without also spoiling an established setup for future weeks.