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Main Characters (Drevis Household and Visitors)
Aya Drevis
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The Player Character of the game, a young girl living at home with her father. When he gets kidnapped by the spirit of her mother, Aya must venture through the mansion and the zombies infesting it to save him.
- Affably Evil: Even as a doctor who is now killing her patients, she is kind and polite to them. She also treats her father's victims with kindness, hugging Collina instead of pushing her away in Blood Mode and treating them more fondly.
- Badass Adorable: She copes with the horrible situations she's put in better than most adults would, most of the time at least.
- The Bad Guy Wins: In the True End, she escapes the mansion and becomes a doctor that kills people. However, the 2020 remake clarifies that she doesn't have the same Lack of Empathy she had as a child, and she doesn't enjoy it like before.
- Berserk Button: She has one regarding the stealing of her mother's things. At first, she's terrified of Ines, one of the game's reawakened dead, but the moment she realizes Ines has stolen her mother's perfume, all of Aya's fear for her instantly disappears and she jumps at her to reclaim it.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: The 2020 remake shows that Robin was briefly adopted by the Drevis family before becoming another of Alfred's experiments. He interacted with Aya a few times, but she doesn't remember him at all until she sees his memories.
- Chainsaw Good: She gets a small one, though it can't be used to attack enemies.
- Character Development: In Blood Mode, adult Aya is shown to be very mature and empathetic, showing that despite being a killer, her experiences in the mansion did have a positive effect on her. She's very protective of Maria and speaks of Robin fondly (when, back in their youth, she couldn't even bother to remember him). Also, as a result of the nightmare she has, she has somewhat of a Heel Realization, regretting what she did to Jean and the others, and resigns herself to whatever karmic fate the gods have in store for her, and only asks of Maria that she be there with her when that happens.
- Children Are Innocent: Subverted. Over time, Aya has slowly been exhibiting more and more of the same behaviors her father had as a child, including killing animals. Part of why the Doctor wants to turn Aya into a doll is so that he can keep her "innocent" by preventing her from ending up like him.
- Creepy Child: She has a fascination with death and a disturbing lack of empathy (even her father is unnerved by it in the 2020 remake).
- Daddy's Girl: Despite the awful things her father has done, Aya still wants to save him from the curse. Even years after seeing his true colors, she still loves him as her father, but still wishes to achieve her own happiness.
- Determinator: She’s a little girl who’s willing to venture through a zombie-filled mansion to save her father. At one point, she collapses from exhaustion but is still thinking about trying to reach her father.
- Dies Wide Open: How she is killed in the bad ending: her father turns her into a doll, and she is seen posed with open eyes.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: After her corpse is made into a doll.
- Dull Surprise: The eyebrows on her Character Portrait don't always move with the rest of her expressions. note
- Face Death with Dignity: At the end of Blood mode, she's aware of how messed up she's become and decides to just resign herself to whatever karma that will hit her.
- Face–Heel Turn: Though already unstable, the True End has her outright become a Mad Scientist like her father. However, in the 2016 remake, an extra scene in the credits shows Aya hugging a doll and saying "We promised, so I can't ever forget." The 2020 remake reveals she's talking about Robin, and not what she does to people.
- Girly Run: Her running sprite in the remake holds up her arms when she runs.
- Girl with Psycho Weapon: Aya is as dangerously unstable as her other family members and gains a mini chainsaw. Although she doesn't use it on anyone, she does swing it very casually.
- Heel Realization: At the end of Blood Mode, she realizes why her father wanted to turn her into a doll (to keep her from becoming like him) and that she was an Unwitting Pawn to her mother, who went ahead and turned into a Serial Killer just like her parents. She tells Maria that she has resigned herself to what she predicts is a karmic fate coming for her soon, and only asks Maria to be there with her when that happens.
- Here We Go Again!: In Blood Mode, she ends up having her soul skirting between life and death by reliving the same night that happens in the game after impulsively eating a colorful apple given to her by an old lady in a black hood. Ogre even states that if she dies here, her body will die in the physical world. After getting her bearings together, she traverses through the recreation of the night again, but this time, however, she approaches this with a more empathetic, Older and Wiser outlook.
- Hollywood Genetics: Both of Aya's parents have brown hair, yet Aya's hair is black.
- Important Haircut: As an adult, she wears her hair above her shoulders, and proves to be a very empathetic person despite being a Serial Killer like her father.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Inherited from her mother.
- It Runs in the Family: If the player looks in Aya's drawers, they'll find dead animals. Later, they'll read excerpts of her father's diary and find out that he did the same thing before later killing his mother and other people. In the True Ending, we also see Aya has become a doctor, like her father.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Non-romantic version. The player can choose to let Monika's ghost take Aya's father away so she can be happy with him forever. Alas, this will leave Aya at Maria's mercy who will try and complete what her father could not.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: In the True End, she goes on to continue her father's work, and is not shown getting any comeuppance for it. However, Blood Mode torments her with a nightmare of Jean, her latest victim, and hints that a karmic fate is just around the corner.
- Lack of Empathy: She only cares for her parents and herself. This isn't necessarily a villainous trait, but rather a sign of her emotional immaturity. Part of the game is about her learning to understand the feelings of others, such as her father's victims or Maria's devotion to him. By Blood Mode, it's inverted as she's far from being unempathetic and has begun to feel for everyone, even her victims.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: In the True ending, as she has followed in her father's footsteps and she waits for ill people to come to her for treatment. Unlike her father, however, she treats them like people instead of as mere "parts", and her victims are anesthetized before she kills them, relieving them of the suffering her father would've inflicted on them.
- Like Father, Like Son: The true ending shows she's become a Mad Doctor and Living Doll Collector like her father. Also said by her father if the player reads his diary and finds out Aya's been killing animals and stuffing them in her drawers just like him: "Just like my old self... Killing solely out of interest. Then it must run in the family..." Also, despite her parents having a conflict over opposite paths they want her to take- with one wanting her to continue the family tradition while the other wants her to stay pure- she finds a compromise that satisfies both of them, much like Monika herself did with her grandparents who had the same situation.
- Little Miss Badass: She gets her own mini-chainsaw, although she never uses it to kill anyone.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Played with. She comes from a wealthy family but spends her entire childhood confined to her family's property. However, she doesn't think of herself as lonely.
- Mad Scientist: Becomes one in the True End, killing her patients and making dolls out of them.
- Morality Pet: To her father Alfred. In the True End, he's struggled with the decision of killing his daughter or letting her live, knowing full well that she will be just like him when she's an adult.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Blood Mode has the ghost/a vision of Jean, who she murdered in the original epilogue, confront her about it and write MURDERER in blood, resulting in Aya beginning to show regret for continuing the family tradition of turning people into dolls.
- Nom de Mom: The 2020 remake reveals Drevis is her mother's surname, Alfred had taken it when he married Monika. Justified, as her mother is the owner of a large company while Alfred was a peasant at best.
- Pimped-Out Dress: She gets one if her father succeeds in turning her into a doll.
- Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: How older Aya responds to her father in the Blood Mode, citing that not a day goes by that she doesn't miss Alfred or Monika. It gets subverted when she's reminded that Maria would be left behind alone.
- She Is All Grown Up: In two of the endings, Adult Aya and her clone are shown to be very attractive as adults, as commented on by her father.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior:
- Upon picking up a chainsaw, her first reaction is happy nostalgia. Also, she's oddly unbothered by the large number of dead animals hidden in the house, or with setting a giant monster on fire, or with her father's line of work in general. If the player continues reading Alfred's diary, it's revealed that Aya is the reason behind the dead animals and that she's slowly becoming more and more like Alfred when he was a child.
- It's also hinted that Aya herself killed the collection of rabbits with her little chainsaw (possibly accidentally however as Aya didn’t seem to be aware that her father gave her a new rabbit every time), along with the dead animals in her room and that her father really isn't happy with that which is why he plans to turn her into a doll. The 2020 remake reveals that Alfred tried for years to teach her that killing animals for fun is wrong, only for him to realize Aya was becoming unhinged due to her mother's manipulations. So he decides to turn her into a doll as a last resort.
- Unwitting Pawn: To Monika, who had been grooming her to take over the Drevis family Serial Killer tradition and protected her for this purpose.
- Villain Protagonist: Turns out she is just as vicious and insane as the rest of her family, as she has killed animals in the past, and eventually goes on to turn people into dolls as her father did.
- Walking Spoiler: It is difficult to discuss her without revealing that she is a Villain Protagonist who goes on to become a Mad Scientist like her father.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She gets at least two moments of this.
- Ogre questions how she can justify trying to save her father after all the pain and misery he's caused.
- In the new Blood mode, she gets a form of this from Jean, the patient who visited her in the epilogue. Now a ghost, she reminds Aya that she wanted to be a doctor like her and help others. Before she becomes an eyeless ghost and Aya is forced into a new room. Aya's face at least gives her a slight Oh, Crap! moment, if not a My God, What Have I Done?.
Dr. Alfred Drevis
Aya's father, a brilliant but unhinged scientist. Ever since he was a boy, he was obsessed with eternal beauty and sought a way to make beauty last forever, even after death. His solution was to turn people into living dolls. He gets kidnapped by the spirit of his wife, forcing Aya to save him.
- All There in the Manual: His name is revealed to be Alfred Drevis.
- Ax-Crazy: He kills people and turns them into dolls to satisfy his obsession with preserving beauty.
- Back from the Dead: The True ending has Ogre setting him up in a new lab, with an adult clone of Aya floating in a tank. It's also what possibly occurs in the Blood Mode, as he talks of missing her and how much he loves her even after years have passed and how she's obviously an adult now.
- The Bad Guy Wins:
- If the player gets the second bad ending, he succeeds in his twisted mission to turn Aya into a doll. He gets exactly what he wanted and gets away with it scot-free.
- Perhaps in a lighter way, he also succeeds even in the True Ending. He wanted Aya to be better than he was and not participate in his brand of cruelty. Though he fails in the latter, Aya has become more of an empathetic person as a doctor herself than he was.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: He killed animals as a child and graduated to people as an adult.
- Bad Samaritan: He lures homeless orphans into his home with a promise of food and shelter and uses them as test subjects for his experiments.
- Berserk Button: After Aya learns the truth about her mother's death and her father's intent to make her into a doll. This leads to him chasing after a terrified Aya with his chainsaw.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With his wife Monika. He created the zombies in the first place, and when Aya rescues him, he becomes the direct threat, chasing after her with a chainsaw to make her his doll.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: In the 2020 remake. Killing living beings in order to make them into dolls and preserve their beauty? Completely acceptable. Killing living beings for fun? No, that won't do!
- Chainsaw Good: His weapon of choice.
- Creepy Child: His diary entries say he was this. He even started killing animals and eventually moved onto killing people, starting with his mother. Seeing her beautiful dead face kickstarted his obsession of trying to preserve their beauty after death and led him to successfully turn people into dolls.
- Death Seeker: He's highly implied to be this in the 2020 remake, and is confirmed by Aya near the end of Blood Mode as another reason why he wanted to kill her. To not only prevent her from becoming like him but knowing that it would be very painful for Aya to live like this.
- Despair Event Horizon: As the 2020 remake shows further, he hit this after murdering his mother in a fit of rage, and wandered through life aimlessly as a Serial Killer before meeting Monika for the first time and finding purpose as a Living Doll Collector and a father to Aya.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The 2020 remake shows that he was unnerved with Aya's fascination with killing animals and her lack of empathy and tried many times to teach her that killing living beings for fun is wrong.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite it all, Alfred truly does love and care for his daughter. So much he'd want to kill her and turn her into a doll just to preserve her innocence and beauty and stop her from making his mistakes. He also does show some level of affection for his mother, even though he murders her, and Maria, his assistant.
- Evil Laugh: A pretty terrifying one.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Despite his insanity, he doesn't want Aya to go down the same Mad Scientist path as him. Unfortunately, he takes this trope to extremes by trying to kill her and turn her into a doll.
- Face Framed in Shadow: He's always seen with his entire forehead being shadowed, as his intentions are less than benevolent, at least in another person's eyes. In Blood Mode, nearly his entire face is in shadow.
- Herr Doctor: He is a wicked German doctor who turns people into dolls.
- Hidden Depths: Despite his willingness to kill people in many gruesome ways to make them into dolls and preserve their beauty, he isn't entirely devoid of empathy (his genuine love for Aya aside), as seen as he treated Ines and Robin with familial kindness and adopted them into the Drevis family despite killing them later on, being capable of recognizing the pain he puts his victims through and recognizing how bad his past habit of killing animals for fun was and hope that Aya wouldn't turn out the same way.
- Honor-Related Abuse: His whole reason for killing Aya is to keep her "pure".
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: At the end of Blood Mode, he finally accepts that Aya is like him, though just A Lighter Shade of Black and needs to be happy on her own, despite that it's not what he wants for her.
- Karma Houdini: In the second end, he turns Aya into a doll, while in the True End, he is rescued by Ogre.
- Knight Templar Parent: He wants to make his daughter into a doll to preserve her purity and innocence, to keep her from becoming like him.
- Like Father, Like Son: Reading his diary reveals that he has noticed just how much he and Aya have in common and is not happy about it.
- Living Doll Collector: His murder victims are turned into dolls. His ultimate goal in the game is to turn Aya into a doll and add her to his collection.
- Mad Artist: Turns his victims into dolls, viewing them as beautiful.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He is a doctor who takes pride in turning his patients into living dolls.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: His default expression, as his glasses completely cover his eyes. It gets subverted if Monika is banished, the left lens gets broken, and exposes his left eye.
- Self-Made Orphan: Killed his mother when he was a child.
- Serial Killer: How he was prior to meeting Monika.
- Slasher Smile: When he chases after Aya with his chainsaw.
- The Sociopath: Heavily implied that he may be this. Even as a little kid, he became addicted to killing and associating himself with beauty.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: In some weird, very twisted way. His reasoning behind wanting to turn Aya into a doll is his roundabout and horrible way to stop her from making his same mistakes and preserve what leftover innocence and purity she had left, as he noticed Aya exhibiting behavior similar to his as a child. Adding her to his doll collection was implied to be just a sweet side bonus.
- Would Hurt a Child: Up to and including his own daughter.
Monika Drevis
A beautiful, enigmatic woman who died prior to the start of the game, only to return as a spirit and capture her husband. Aya seems to rescue Alfred from her.
- All There in the Manual: Her name is revealed to be Monika Drevis.
- The Bad Guy Wins:
- In the first bad end, she is allowed by Aya to keep Alfred to herself.
- In the True End, though dead for real, she got what she wanted- for her daughter to continue her family honored traditions of carnage.
- Becoming the Mask: In the 2020 remake, her diary shows that she only viewed Alfred and Aya as a means to carry on the Drevis tradition, and used them as pawns for that purpose. But she slowly began to grow some genuine care for Aya, going out of her way to groom her while making sure she never suffered, and her jealousy at Alfred cheating on her with Maria seems to have been genuine. Notably, in the IF Mode, she tells Robin that she does not want Aya to see her the way she is now, hinting that she possibly feels remorse towards her actions.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With her husband Alfred. She encouraged his experiments in the first place, and leads the zombies in their invasion of the mansion while kidnapping Alfred to keep to herself.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The 2020 remake reveals she never cared about Alfred or Aya at all, just wanting to continue the legacy of the Drevis family.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You:
- When the adult Aya sees her memories, turns out the reason Monika didn't allow for her to be turned into a doll was so she would become an unhinged doctor like the rest of her family.
- Also the reason why she spared Maria and brought Robin back to life. Maria could take care of Aya while Robin would try to save her.
- Broken Pedestal: To Aya in the 2020 remake, once she finds out about her motivations.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She genuinely loves Alfred, seeking to pull him into the Other World to make him hers forever. She also cares for her daughter Aya, trying to save her from Alfred. Robin says that, even if Monika wasn't a good person in the end, that doesn't make her love for Aya any less real. Subverted in the 2020 Remake where it is revealed she never cared about Alfred or Aya, only that the carnage continues, but then Double Subverted when it turns out she did this to please her late grandfather, while relying on others to do the muscle work to also please her grandmother, who wanted her to not carry on the tradition. Also, as a spirit, her last line to Robin is to not let Aya see her like this, hinting that she is ashamed at what she became and has grown to truly love Aya.
- Family Honor: She has a big case of this, as Blood Mode reveals. Her family was into medical experimentation and torture to the point that it was seen as a family business. Her aunt was killed for trying to go against it, and Monika shames her for being vocal about it before her death. She also wishes to live by the wishes of her Grandparents, as while her grandfather wants her to continue the traditions, the grandmother wishes for them to stop and she feels conflicted on who to follow until she comes across Alfred and gets an out by letting him do the deeds. And the reason she wants to save Aya? Mainly so she can continue the traditions of the Drevis name.
- Fanservice Pack: In the 2016 release, her clothing shows a considerable more notable cleavage
. - He Knows Too Much: The If Scenario reveals she killed the family butler when he tried to run away from the house, horrified at Alfred's experiments. The 2020 remake reveals she participated in her aunt's death, after she tried to defect from the family out of disgust at their experiments.
- Hidden Eyes: Her ghost form.
- In Love with Your Carnage:
- A subsequent playthrough implies that Monika loved the horrifying experiments Alfred carried out. She also told Aya a rather disturbing story in one of the flashbacks.
- The 2020 remake implies she loved Alfred for how useful he was to her. Turns out Monika's grandfather tried to convince her to experiment on people, but her grandmother opposed it. Wanting to please both of them, she's delighted when she meets Alfred. Because if she provides the equipment for his experiments without personally involving herself in it, she'll be following her grandfather's will by proxy.
- Incurable Cough of Death: It's revealed early on she dealt with illness, and we see her coughing in a flashback. Subverted, since that's not what killed her- Alfred did.
- Karma Houdini: At the end of the series, Aya becomes a killer and carries on the Drevis legacy, just as Monika wanted.
- Lady Macbeth: It is implied and confirmed in Blood Mode that she was the one who influenced Alfred into doing his experiments.
- Mama Bear: Upon discovering her husband's plans to turn their own daughter into a doll, she calls him out on his insanity and declares that she's running away and taking Aya with her. Even in death, she still seeks to protect her daughter from her husband's plans. Subverted, however, as she isn’t protecting her out of love, but so that she can continue the murders.
- Manipulative Bitch:
- The dead butler in the If Scenario accuses Monika of being this, as she provided her house to Alfred in order to assist him with his killings, and encouraged Aya's growing psychotic tendencies. He also says she spared Maria because she already knew she will protect Aya after the doctor died and she sweet-talked Robin into doing what she wanted.
- Best seen in her interactions with Robin. After bringing him back to life and saying a few nice words to him, she has him completely wrapped in her finger.
- Nightmare Fetishist: She fell in love with Alfred after he refused to kill her. And if her diary is any indication, she was delighted to see that Aya was exhibiting the same psychopathic tendencies as her father.
- Stockholm Syndrome: According to her letters, Monika fell in love with Alfred after he refused to kill her. Averted, as the 2020 Remake shows that she only sees him as a way to preserve the Drevis legacy.
- Strong Family Resemblance: As seen in the gallery of the 2020 remake, it's clear that Aya is Monika's daughter due to their similar physical appearance.
- Walking Spoiler: You can't reveal much about her character without spoiling a whole lot of story.
- Woman Scorned: Subverted. At first, it seems she's returned from the dead to get revenge on her husband for cheating on her with Maria, but it turns out to be nothing to do with that. She just wants him to herself and does not care for revenge.
Maria
Alfred's assistant. They were having an affair while Aya's mother was alive. After Alfred gets kidnapped, she sometimes shows up to help Aya.
- The Bad Guy Wins: In the first bad end, she kidnaps Aya and prepares to continue doing what Alfred did.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Her driving motivation throughout the game- the reason she helps Alfred with his horrendous experiments is because he adopted her when she was a street urchin. Invoking this trope with her is the key to getting the true ending- Aya must bandage her when she is injured, and doing so will inspire Maria to save her from Alfred at a critical moment.
- Dragon Ascendant: If Alfred is brought to the Other World by Monika, Maria will turn Aya into a doll in his place.
- I Owe You My Life: Maria's devotion to the Doctor stems from the fact that he took her in off the streets when she was starving to death. Of course, he was really planning to use her as a test subject and only changed his mind when she proved useful as an assistant. If the player helps her in the real end, she develops this attitude towards Aya.
- Karma Houdini: In the true ending, she gets to live and go on helping Aya walk in her father's footsteps with no real punishment for helping him, and now her, in their evil quests.
- Living Emotional Crutch: The Blood Mode implies she's become this to the adult Aya.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: If Aya helps her during the chase with the doctor, she'll kill the doctor in order to protect Aya from him.
- Only One Name: Maria only provided her first name when she introduced herself to the Doctor. It’s unknown if she forgot it or even knew what it was.
- Parental Substitute: In the true ending, she ends up being the only parental figure for Aya. According to
Word of God, Aya sees her more as a big sister though. - Undying Loyalty: To the Doctor, and later Aya.
- Would Hurt a Child: Assists the Doctor in his experiments, which include children. In one ending, she is the one who turns Aya into a doll in order to continue the Doctor's work.
- Younger Than They Look: According to Word of God, she's 10 years older than Aya.
Ogre
A mysterious man who sometimes appears to Aya and offers her guidance and advice. His true motivations are unknown.
- Affably Evil: Despite being a demon who loves human foolishness, he is genuinely polite to Aya, Robin and everyone else he interacts with.
- The Bad Guy Wins: No matter which ending you get, he ensures that the doctor's work will continue. In the True End in particular, he recruits Alfred in helping him continue to spread strife among humans.
- Bald of Evil: He is bald and the demon that serves as the Greater-Scope Villain.
- Canon Immigrant: He is implied to be Onigawara.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Despite his hand in the whole mess, at one point he calls out Aya on wanting to rescue her father even after all the evil he did.
- Evil Wears Black: His attire is almost entirely black, consisting of a black three-piece suit with a black tie and black pants.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He gave Monika the power to curse the mansion, making him indirectly responsible for the events of the game. Nevertheless he stays in the sidelines, and the full extent of his involvement is unknown.
- It Amused Me: In the If ending, he explains to Robin that he observed/caused the events of the game because he enjoys "observing deranged humans."
- Karma Houdini: He never receives any sort of comeuppance for all the suffering he inflicted. In fact, no matter which ending you get, he ensures that the Doctor's work will continue.
- Not Quite Human: The If Ending reveals that he's a demon.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His red eyes emphasize his mysteriousness, and later he is revealed as a demon.
- Reused Character Design: His design is reused from Misao, where he plays a very similar role to his role in this game. It's implied they're the same person.
Robin
A seemingly undead boy that Aya encounters in the mansion. He occasionally shows up to help Aya, and is the protagonist of the short If Scenario.
- Creepy Child: Initially comes across as this, as he has a big hole where one of his eyes should be. However, he is actually a Nice Guy.
- Creepy Good: Despite how unsettling he is, he still wants to help Aya survive.
- Conveniently an Orphan: The reason Alfred took him in.
- Dead All Along: Inverted; he was alive the whole time. Why he was pretending to be a corpse is unclear.
- The 2020 remake explains why. He was killed by Alfred, but Monika brought him back to life so he could protect Aya.
- Eye Scream: He lost one of his eyes to Aya's father.
- Expy: His name and character design are a reference to a younger Dio Brando. Personality-wise, however, he is the complete opposite of the sociopathic Dio.
- Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Robin is very loyal to Monika and defends her when the dead butler states she's only manipulating him and everyone else. He's also unable to understand when Aya's doll tells him that she will murder people in the future, as he believes she'll change for the better after her experiences in the mansion.
- I Owe You My Life: The 2020 Remake reveals he's loyal to Monika after she brought him back to life. However, the Blood Mode implies she only did it so he could protect Aya.
- Innocently Insensitive: The first time Aya meets him, he scares her off because he fails to realize that the sight of someone missing an eye might frighten a normal person. The next time he runs into Aya, he has his eye bandaged. Justified, as Alfred had killed him by removing his eye, but was brought back to life by Monika. It's likely he didn't realize he had died at first.
- Named in the Sequel: His name is never mentioned in the original game, but many of the Niconico fans began calling him Dio after the character from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The name Dio stuck and was later added to his bio in the endgame material but was taken away in later updates. An article in the Steam shop for Mad Father and the game files for the 2020 Remake reveal his name is Robin.
- Token Good Teammate: He is the only one of the main characters (besides Snowball, an animal) who is morally good and not, in any way, responsible for the living doll experiments.
- Undying Loyalty: To Monika, as revealed in the If Scenario. So much that he was willing to help and protect Aya for her sake.
Snowball
Aya's pet rabbit.
- Bunnies for Cuteness: His and Aya's interactions are pretty adorable.
- Replacement Goldfish: Looking on a certain shelf reveals there's been an awful lot of Snowballs that Aya has previously killed.
- Righteous Rabbit: Belongs to Aya, the game's heroine.
- White Bunny: Hence his name.
Others
Mourning Mother
One of Dr. Drevis' test subjects Aya later rescues. Collina is her daughter.
- Damaged Soul: Very much so. She's murderous and can't think of anything but her missing daughter.
- Jump Scare: Get close to her without finding her daughter, we dare you.
- No Name Given: Her name is never stated in-game
- Tears of Blood: Seen on her close up.
Collina
Collina is one of Dr. Drevis' test subjects, whom Aya later rescues. She shows Aya her death by lethal injection at the hands of Alfred.
- All There in the Manual: Her name is never stated in-game. This is changed in the newest version though, where her mother calls out her name when they are reunited.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: She is topless but has no nipples.
- Cooldown Hug: In Blood Mode, adult Aya gives her this when meeting her again. In sharp contrast to their first meeting as she immediately shoves Collina to the ground after seeing her memories.
- Nightmare Face: The 2016 remake gives her this by having her pupils gone and a gaping mouth and the 2020 remake gives her black eyes to make it look like an Eyeless Face, making her agonizing death all the more apparent.
- Undead Child: Killed before the game began, she became a zombie.
- Undeathly Pallor: She's a sickly shade of blue, and it's implied from both this and her appearance that her manner of death was either lethal injection or strangulation. The cutscene she makes Aya experience leans towards the former.
Headless Man
One of Dr. Drevis' test subjects, Aya later rescues him in the game.
- Creepy Blue Eyes: One of his obvious features.
- Icy Blue Eyes: One of his obvious features.
- Naked First Impression: And he stays that way for the brief period of time Aya meets him.
- No Name Given: His name is never stated in-game.
- Occult Blue Eyes: One of his obvious features.
- Off with His Head!: How he died.
Old Man
A bald old man who's always seen in a curling position, mumbling about certain details about the Drevis family. When he was alive he used to be a butler working for the Drevis family.
- Bystander Syndrome: While he doesn't attack Aya, he doesn't care what happens to her either and condems her as a monster.
- He Knows Too Much: Was killed by Monika so he wouldn't leak out information about the killings.
- Grumpy Old Man: Spends all his time complaining about his demise and how crazy the Drevis are.
- I Was Quite a Looker: A twitter by the author show that he was quite good looking before becoming a shriveled zombie.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While he seems apathetic and callous, he's completely right about Monika using Robin to do her deeds and her grooming Aya to to continue her family honored traditions of carnage.
- No Name Given: His name is never stated in-game.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Tried to resign after finding out what Alfred did to the homeless people. However, Monika killed him before he could.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He's the one to give the implications that Monika isn't as nice as she seems.
Eyeless Girl
An eyeless girl Aya meets in the house.
- Eye Scream: Her eyes are gouged out pits before getting new ones.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Her new eyes are a similar shade to Aya and her mother.
- No Name Given: Her name is never stated in-game.
- Reused Character Design: Some people say her appearance resembles Viola from The Witch's House.note
Ines
One of Dr. Drevis's test subjects. She always approaches Aya with a strange and unsettling smile.
- Attractive Zombie: Unlike the others, she both looks like a zombie and is still pretty cute with her big eyes and smile.
- Big Sister Instinct: Because she thought of the Drevis family as her own, she does her best to help and protect Aya who she viewed as her little sister.
- Came Back Wrong: A possible explanation for her creepy behavior. Either that or she was driven mad by the Doctor's experiments before she died.
- Creepy Child: That creepy grin she always wears may make you shiver.
- Conveniently an Orphan: The reason Alfred took her in.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: In the 2016 remake, she dies in Aya's arms after the doll fatally injures her and shows her a vision of her past before she passes away.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: All she wanted was a family and eagerly accepts Alfred's offer to go to his household. Poor Ines thought she was going to be adopted and even bonded with baby Aya, treating her as a little sister. Then Alfred takes her to his basement...
- Stepford Smiler: Keeps on smiling despite the horrible torture she's been through. She's understandably quite damaged.
- Street Urchin: Was this before Alfred took her into the Drevis household. She thought she was going to be adopted, while in fact, he was going to experiment on her.
Jean Rooney
A patient who visits Aya's clinic in the True Ending and is presumably turned into a doll by her. Her spirit- or a vision of her- appears briefly in Blood Mode to torment Aya.
- Ambiguously Gay: She seemed quite smitten by Aya's What Beautiful Eyes! comment.
- Walking Spoiler: Her entire role is to deliver The Reveal that Aya is a Villain Protagonist who will continue her father's work.
Drevis Extended Family (2020 remake)
Monika's Grandfather
An unseen character who was the patriarch of the Drevis family, and was involved in their tradition of turning people into dolls to preserve their 'beauty'.
- Evil Old Folks: Even as an old guy, he was a Living Doll Collector like the rest of the Drevis family, and served as an Evil Mentor to Monika.
- Evil Mentor: He taught Monika everything she knows about the Drevis family tradition of turning people into dolls and groomed her into becoming his successor.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He carried on the Drevis tradition long before Monika and taught her everything she knows, passing on the tradition to her upon his death.
- Unknown Character: He raised Monika to become the villainess she is in-game, but is only mentioned by her in her diary.
- Unnamed Parent: Or grandparent, in this case. Monika only refers to him as Grandfather in her diary.
Monika's Grandmother
An unseen character who was the matriarch of the Drevis family. Unlike her husband, she disliked the family tradition and tried to caution her granddaughter not to follow in their footsteps.
- White Sheep: She and Monika's aunt are the only Drevis family members we know of that opposes the Living Doll Collector tradition.
- Unknown Character: Her promise to Monika was the reason she sought out to manipulate people into carrying on the Drevis tradition for her, but she is only mentioned in her diary and briefly seen as an unmoving NPC.
- Unnamed Parent: Or grandparent, in this case. Monika refers to her only as Grandmother in her diary.
Monika's Aunt
A member of the Drevis family is said by Monika to have hanged herself after opposing the Drevis family.
- Black Sheep: She's treated like this by the rest of the family (with the probable exception of Monika's grandmother) for going against their traditions. Of course... said, "traditions", happen to be converting people into dolls out of the notion to preserve their "beauty", making her a White Sheep instead.
- Driven to Suicide: She is implied to have hanged herself (the room where Monika talks about her has a noose and fallen-over chair) as a result of the harassment the rest of the Drevis family gave her for opposing their Living Doll Collector tradition… assuming that the family didn’t murder her and frame her death as a suicide, to keep her from exposing the family's secret.
- The Ghost: Like Monika's grandparents, she never appears on-screen.
- Unnamed Parent: Or aunt, in this case. She is only called Aunt by Monika in her diary.
