The cast of Pilgrim. Spoilers are unmarked.
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Main Characters
Akemi
- I really have no idea of what’s happening but, I have to bring Inago back!
The heroine of the game. A normal schoolgirl who was bullied in the past. She loves her sister Inago, and goes into the Other World to save her from Alice.
- Big Sister Instinct: Her entire motivation is to save her little sister Inago from Alice, who has kidnapped her to take her soul. She decides to brave through Alice's castle full of Surreal Horror and deadly traps just to save Inago. She is even willing to make a Heroic Sacrifice and let Alice take her soul if it means Inago gets to live.
- Cool Big Sis: Literal example. Her little sister Inago certainly looks up to her as a caretaker.
- Demonic Possession: Becomes Alice's new host body in the My Sister ending.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the My Sister ending, she allows Alice to take her soul in return for letting Inago live. She then becomes Alice's new host.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: One way for her to die in Storey 4 is getting impaled by giant spikes hidden in holes in the ground.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: After the Giant Cat (jokingly, or so he says) threatens to eat her, she grabs his paw and starts crushing it, threatening him for information on the Other World, Master Alice, and Inago's whereabouts. When he initially refuses, she crushes it some more, and again some more, until he coughs it all up.
- The Many Deaths of You: She can be trapped in a sticky substance, mauled by Giant Spiders and Creepy Cockroaches, attacked and her soul ripped out by Alice, Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by giant spikes, Swallowed Whole with an Overly-Long Tongue, Squashed Flat by a giant hand, and slashed by a Grim Reaper.
- One-Steve Limit: She shares name with Akemi, the main character from Ballad of Akemi (another game by Kona5). Curiously, Shigemi (another character from said game) appears here as a monster.
- Shameful Strip: Done to her by Suu and her Girl Posse back when Suu was alive.
- Squashed Flat: One way for her to die in Storey 5 is, in a hallway full of shadows, for her to stand under one of them, at which point a giant red hand will fall down and squash her.
- Swallowed Whole: One of the potential deaths in Storey 4 is getting dragged by an Overly-Long Tongue into a living wall with eyes and a mouth.
- Take Me Instead: In the My Sister ending, she allows Alice to take her soul in exchange for letting her little sister Inago escape the castle.
Inago
- I’m sorry, Akemi sister.. I didn’t know it’s gonna turn out like this..
The little sister of Akemi. She was taken by Alice into the Other World.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: She asked for Alice to stop Akemi's bullies from picking on her. Alice did — by killing them gruesomely and/or pushing them off the school building's roof.
- Damsel in Distress: The entire goal of the game is to rescue her from Alice, who wants her soul and has brought her to her castle in the Other World for this purpose.
- Deal with the Devil: Made one with Alice to ask her to do something about Akemi's bullies. She did not want Alice to kill them, but Alice did anyway.
- Unwitting Pawn: Alice made a deal with her just so she could kill Akemi's bullies and get their souls, then take Inago's as well.
Suu
- My name is Suu. No worry, I’m not your enemy. I can’t tell you more about me now. But when everything ends, I’ll tell you everything. So please, please trust me for the time being.
A mysterious girl who enters the Other World through a mirror in Storey 3. She seems to know Akemi, but refuses to elaborate. Still, she decides to help Akemi find Inago.
- And I Must Scream: After being killed by Alice, her soul was placed in a realm of eternal torment. She had to endure this for two years before Akemi busted her out.
- Asshole Victim: Subverted; at first, Alice having killed the Alpha Bitch who was bullying Akemi might seem like this, but The Reveal that the bully was Suu and that she was sentenced to two years of unending torment, as well as her having become The Atoner as a result, ultimately makes her a sympathetic victim.
- The Atoner: She deeply regrets being an Alpha Bitch while she was alive, and is helping Akemi rescue Inago from Alice to make up for her role in the mess.
- Alpha Bitch: While alive, she would bully Akemi along with her Girl Posse for supposedly picking on her junior.
- Dark Is Not Evil: As an undead, she has zombie-like pale blue skin and wears a black coat, and has black hair to match. Despite this, she has abandoned her past Alpha Bitch ways and is an ally to Akemi who wants nothing more than to help save her sister Inago from the bright and colorful Alice.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In both endings. In the My Sister end, she distracts the monster in Storey 5 and gets killed by it to save Akemi, while in My Brother, she gets in Alice's way and is killed by her to allow Akemi and Inago to escape.
- Samus Is a Girl: Akemi refers to her as a guy when first seeing her outstretched hand, and her Bifauxnen looks certainly do nothing to dispel that. But the true end reveals that she is the Alpha Bitch who bullied Akemi, now stuck in a dead body.
- Take Me Instead: In the My Brother ending, she allowes Alice to take her soul in exchange for letting Akemi and Inago live.
- Walking Spoiler: Her true identity — the Alpha Bitch who bullied Akemi while alive — is a major reveal.
Master Alice
- If you win my game, I’ll give you a chance to meet Inago.~ But if you lose... Your soul will be mine.~~
The owner of the castle and antagonist of the game. She is said to be the wealthiest resident of the Other World and got that wealth by making deals with people and taking their souls as payment, which she would then auction to the highest bidder. She wants to make Inago her latest victim, and challenges Akemi to scale her castle to find Inago. It's revealed that her real form is a red butterfly that symbiotically takes possession of the people she contracts with.
- Big Bad: She is the one holding Inago hostage at the top of the castle.
- Cute Is Evil: She looks pretty cute when not making her Nightmare Face, and she tends to act like a cutesy little girl, but she is a possibly demonic entity that steals souls.
- Demonic Possession: Does this to the people she contracts with. Her current body belongs to a girl named Mary, who made a deal with Alice to save her sick mother. In the My Sister ending, Alice moves to Akemi as her new body host.
- Disproportionate Retribution: As punishment for bullying Akemi, she kills the three bullies by pushing them off a building, then sentences the ringleader to eternal torment. Though she didn't do this out of any care for Akemi, but to exercise her sadism.
- Faux Affably Evil: She speaks and acts like a cute little girl, even when blatantly taunting her victims about the horrible fate she has in store for them.
- Greed: She is the wealthiest resident of the Other World, and got this by stealing and selling souls. Her entire motive — besides having sadistic fun — is to accumulate as much wealth as possible.
- Karma Houdini: In both endings.
- In the My Sister ending, Akemi makes a deal to save Inago and becomes Alice's new host body.
- In the My Brother ending, she fails to get Akemi and Inago's souls, and screams upon them getting away, but she is otherwise unharmed and will presumably continue her evil acts.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: She kills Akemi's three bullies and poses it as a suicide, but not out of any moral standards or revenge. She knew about the bullying, but didn't really care — the reason she killed them was because she made a deal with Inago to stop the bullies from picking on her sister Akemi in return for Inago's soul — and despite Inago not wanting them physically hurt, Alice decided to add their souls to her collection as well. Also subverted in the case of Suu, as Alice's fate for her is so extreme that it turns her into The Atoner and winds up making her sympathetic.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In the My Sister end, Akemi stabs her to death just as she was about to take Akemi's soul.
- Light Is Not Good: She is blonde and wears a bright blue dress and red bow, but is a Humanoid Abomination and the Big Bad who steals souls. Though the body is indicated to be not hers, but that of a girl she possessed.
- I Gave My Word: For some reason (even Nekaneminorpe admits she doesn't know why), she will not break any deals she makes with people. Though given how she constantly looks for loopholes in them, this seems to be more a case of Magically-Binding Contract than a genuine moral standard.
- Jackass Genie: She grants wishes to people in exchange for their souls, and in the case of Inago seems to have intentionally twisted her wish. Inago asked her to stop Akemi's bullies from picking on her. She asked for them to be dealt with in a peaceful manner, but because that technically wasn't part of the deal, Alice pushed the bullies off buildings, killing them.
- Moth Menace: Her real body is the red butterfly on her human host’s hair, and she is a sadistic Jackass Genie who steals souls.
- Nightmare Face: In the card game, if you lose to her, she charges at you with a bloodshot left eye and sharp-toothed Slasher Smile.
- Perpetual Smiler: She almost always has a wide grin on her face, which helps the Uncanny Valley Girl effect she has — the only time she loses it is in the endings where she is defeated.
- Sugary Malice: She always talks like a sweet little girl, even as she torments and taunts her victims of the horrible things she will do to them (like stealing their souls and sentencing them to eternal torment).
- The Symbiote: She is actually a demonic butterfly who took control of her current body via Symbiotic Possession. Easy to miss, but the face she makes if Akemi loses the card game shows she (or rather Mary's body) has red veins over the right side of her face, signaling Alice's control over her.
- Symbiotic Possession: She takes possession of the people she contracts with.
- Uncanny Valley Girl: While she sorta looks and acts like a normal girl, there is something distinctly off about her wide grin. This is because she is a Humanoid Abomination.
- Vague Age: She looks like a young girl, but being a resident of the Other World, her real age may be something completely different from human years. Further complicating this is the implication that her current body isn't hers, but one she stole via Demonic Possession.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: She does the typical "make a deal with soul as payment". One victim, Mary, wound up giving her body as well. However, sometimes she will also challenge her victims to a card game with their soul on the line — and always cheats. Either way, her victims wind up as grey, bleeding faces that she sticks on the walls of her castle, forever aware but unable to move.
Nekaneminorpe
- Yeah, Master Alice is my boss. But I’m supporting you too! Wish you save your sister soon!
A cyclops girl who serves Alice.
- Cute Monster Girl: She is a cyclops girl who has cute twintails and is relatively benevolent, especially in contrast to Master Alice.
- Cyclops: A Cute Monster Girl version of one.
- The Dragon: The highest servant of Master Alice and the penultimate obstacle to Akemi getting to her. Though she doesn't actively block Akemi's way and seems more interested in being friends (or 'sisters').
- Girlish Pigtails: Has pigtails and acts like a perky little girl, despite her Vague Age.
- Perky Female Minion: She is pretty quirky and gets along with Akemi and Suu, wanting the former to be her 'sister'. She also likes listening to Japanese children's songs.
- The Starscream: It is hinted that she helped Akemi knowing she would defeat Alice and overthrow her in the My Sister ending.
- Vague Age: She looks like a young girl, but being a resident of the Other World, her real age may be something completely different from human years.
Others
The Storey Doors
- Who are you huh? Why are you holding my eye huh? Well, I’ll let you pass.
A group of five living doors that block the way to Storeys 2-6.
- Ambiguous Gender: Being living doors, they don't seem to have any obvious gender identifiers.
- Animate Inanimate Object: They are a group of living doors that can talk to Akemi.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite the Uncanny Valley nature of their human-face-in-door appearances, they don't seem to be malevolent.
- I Warned You: The Storey 5 door will warn Akemi and Suu against entering Storey 5, saying it is dangerous. After they go in anyway, it will later tell Akemi and Suu, after they have first escaped from the Monster, that it told them Storey 5 was dangerous.Door: See, like I said, this place is dangerous.
Akemi: Come on, stop that. I knowww.
The Giant Cat
- What meow? What’s up meow? What are you looking at meow?
- Cats Are Mean: Downplayed. He wants to eat the sentient mouse next door and will threaten to eat Akemi once she helps him catch the mouse, but then says he was kidding, and aside from that he does not pose a treat to Akemi.
- Mega Neko: He is about as big as Akemi.
- Mr. Exposition: Once Akemi starts threatening him, he spills the beans on the situation — what the castle and Other World are, who Master Alice is, and where Inago is.
- Punch-Clock Villain: He is technically supposed to block Akemi's way on behalf of Alice, but doesn't seem interested in doing so.
- Verbal Tic: He always adds “meow” at the end of his sentences, though he strangely drops it when Akemi does her Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique on him.
- Talking Animal: He is a cat that can speak human language.
The Mouse
- I’ll never be caught by that cat! Haha!
A somewhat tall mouse residing in Storey 2.
- Genre Savvy: Using the cheese and mousetrap to catch him will not work — he will just mock Akemi for thinking it would.Catch me? With this kind of stupid mousetrap? You got more to learn I guess. By the way, thank you for the cheese.
Mary
- May 3
Mom is still sick. Although the doctor is saying she will recover soon, I feel that she is getting weaker and weaker.
A girl whose diary is found in Storey 4. Hinted to be another victim of Alice.
- Deal with the Devil: Indicated to have made one with Alice to save her terminally ill mom; afterwards, Alice came for her soul and subjected her to Demonic Possession.
- Demonic Possession: Alice is possessing her body.
- Nice Girl: From what we see in her diary, she was a normal girl who loved her mom and made the deal with Alice to save her.
- Posthumous Character: She's already dead and Alice is inhabiting her body.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She's been dead for years, but her appearance serves to reveal that Alice's real form is a red butterfly that inhabits the bodies of those she contracts with.
The Bullies
A duo of bullies who picked on Akemi for supposedly bullying their leader's junior. For the leader, see Suu.
- Asshole Victim: They bullied Akemi and helped Suu strip her naked, and presumably bullied her in other ways. As a result, Alice, having made a deal with Inago, decides to kill them and take their souls.
- Girl Posse: The two girls served as this to Suu, helping her strip Akemi and pick on her in other ways.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: We only see them in one scene, in which they never even speak, helping Suu bully Akemi before they are pushed off the building by Alice.
Inago's Bully
A girl who picked on Inago, forcing Akemi to call her out on her bullying. Instead, she told Suu that she was bullied by Akemi instead, resulting in Suu and her friends bullying Akemi and the events of the story.
- Crying Wolf: After Akemi tried to talk to her so she would stop bullying Inago, she told Suu that "Akemi had been bullying her", omitting the part about Inago.
- Karma Houdini: She never receives any comeuppance for her actions.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Her lie resulted in Inago contracting with Alice to get rid of her bullies and the events of the story.
The Monster
A humanoid monster that chases Akemi and Suu in Storey 5. She's actually Shigemi, a recurrent character from Kona5's games, a girl who was abducted by evil scientists and disfigured into a monster. It's unknown why she's working for Alice now, though.
- Advancing Boss of Doom: It chases Akemi and Suu in Storey 5, and they must escape to the entrance door.
- The Cameo: Shigemi is a character from Sukutte and Akemi-Tan.
- Happy Ending Override: Sukutte ends with Shigemi regaining her sanity and getting revenge on the scientists that mutated her. Now she's back as a mindless monster working for Alice.
- Samus Is a Girl
- Small Role, Big Impact: It only appears twice in Storey 5, but it is the catalyst for the route split. If it kills Suu, she winds up not being able to save Akemi from Alice.
