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In General
- Animate Inanimate Object: Literally every character in the game plays this trope, including Pierre and his family.
Pierre
The game's main protagonist, who was left home by his mother to house sit.
- The Protagonist: The player character of the game.
- The Reveal: The three main endings reveal that Pierre himself is a living object. A chair, to be exact.
- The Voiceless: Throughout the entire game, Pierre is never seen speaking.
Stooly
The house's stool.
- Best Friend: The "Bad Ending" reveals him to be this to Pierre, which makes killing him even worse.
- Breakable Weapons: Well, not really a weapon, but Stooly can be used only for a limited amount of times before he inevitably breaks.
- Deuteragonist: Technically can be considered this since he more likely than not will end up being the most used tool by the player due to him allowing to reach zones you normally couldn't reach.
- Suddenly Speaking: While Stooly usually only makes noises of exclamation when being stepped on by Pierre, he properly speaks in the "Bad Ending".
TV
The house's TV.
- Ambiguously Human: Well, Ambiguously Animate Inanimate Object in this case. While the TV might at first seem just a normal TV (beyond the fact he's alive, but that's far from weird for this game), the fact he can shoot a laser and the fact that destroying him doesn't seem to count as an actual death to him seem to hint that he might be more than just a living TV.
- Ambiguous Situation: When the TV destroys himself after Pierre completed job, is he really dead since he acts as if this wasn't him killing himself but merely going away? By proxy, if Pierre falls onto the TV after returning from the Moon, has he really killed him?
- Big Bad: The closest thing the game has to one, being the direct reason of the "Bad Ending" route since he's the one who tells Pierre to kill the other furniture.
- Faux Affably Evil: The TV acts friendly towards Pierre, but it's clear he knows what he's making him do is wrong and is manipulating him.
- For the Evulz: There seemingly is no reason for the TV asking Pierre to destroy the other furniture. Sure, it's possible that he's trying to get him in troubles with his mother or knew Pierre'd end up Purgatory, but even then there doesn't seem to be any real reason for this beyond him being an evil bastard.
- Karma Houdini: Ultimately counts as this since it's ambiguous whether he actually dies or not and, unlike Pierre, he doesn't end up in Purgatory.
Oscar the Trashcan/Keeper of Shadows
The house's trashcan.
- Affably Evil: He's pretty friendly towards Pierre and will let him enter and exit Purgatory any time. This changes in the Bad and Secret Endings however...
- Ambiguously Evil: While Oscar definitely enjoys trapping others in Purgatory, it's hard to tell whether he's really malicious or not, especially considering his intervention in the Bad Ending.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Oscar's morality is weird, to say the least. He'll gladly trap others in Purgatory but will let Pierre exit it any time. However, he will trap Pierre for all eternity if he attempts to enter the basement without having finished chores first and will do the same in the Bad Ending, having Pierre face the furniture he killed.
- Eldritch Abomination: Oscar might seem like a normal trashcan at first, but he's actually a shapeshifting, nighly-omnipresent entity that controls Purgatory.
- Even Evil Has Standards: In the "Bad Ending", he'll punish Pierre for his crimes by dragging him in Purgatory and having him judged by his victims.
