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Introduced in the original game
Tuan/Nathan
The protagonist of the game overall, though he does not become playable until Chapter 4. He is curious about the mysteries of the school and, after hearing about the incidents, decides to explore them himself.
- Adaptation Name Change: The remake changes his name from Tuan to Nathan.
- Cassandra Truth: In the True End, he finds out that Sang and the Headmaster were the culprits of the murders, he is forced to stab Sang in self-defense. Unfortunately, the Headmaster decides to use him as a scapegoat and blames him for all the murders. He's placed in an insane asylum afterwards.
- Decoy Protagonist: Nathan is still the protagonist, as in the original Seven Mysteries, but the story is more focused on Sang and Neal's friendship, and Neal becomes the protagonist for the final 3 chapters.
- Doomed Protagonist: He either gets murdered by Sang, succumbs to the curse and dies, is locked up in a mental ward, becomes consumed by darkness, or disappears.
- Nightmare Fetishist: He is very fascinated with creepy stories about the supernatural, so he decides to investigate more about the curse rumors.
- The Patient Has Left the Building: After being blamed by the Principal for all the murders in the school, Nathan is placed in an insane asylum. He escapes with Neal's help and spends the rest of the game running around in his hospital gown.
- Wrongfully Committed: The True End has Tuan/Nathan, who almost killed Sang in self-defense, get framed by the Headmaster for the murders they committed. He tries to explain about the hauntings of the school and how they tie into the murders, but is declared insane and institutionalized. In the remake, Neal eventually busts him out.
Sang Himmel
The protagonist of Chapter 1. A classmate of Tuan/Nathan. His character wildly differs between versions.In the original, he turns out to be the real killer of the students, having framed Thuy. He was originally doing this on his own, but the Headmaster found him out and blackmailed him into doing his own dirty work. He kills anyone who gets close to the secrets of the school.In the remake, he was once a lonely boy who befriended Neal, after all his other friendships ended up fading. But when they drifted apart, he turned to a demon to alleviate his suffering.
Tropes exclusive to his original self
- Ax-Crazy: Being a Serial Killer who takes joy in his killings.
- Co-Dragons: He and Linh serve the Headmaster and kill the students he wants them to.
- False Friend: Sang's modus operandi. He befriends new students and tells them about the curse, so that they'll investigate the school at night and met their demise at his hands. This is the fate of Loi and his friends at the beginning of the story.
- The Heavy: He is the one directly carrying out the murders of the students on behalf of the Headmaster, and kicked off the polt in the first place by killing the first seven students and Thuy. Notably, it is he who is the Final Boss in the Happy End, while the Headmaster is arrested with little fuss.
- Karma Houdini: With the exception of the Happy End, he never gets any comeuppance for murdering classmates and putting the blame on an innocent girl. He ends up repeating school just to continue his murdering spree.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He keeps My alive despite her being a transferred student because he only kills the students who transfer or get too close to the truth (that there's no curse and the deaths are Sang's doing). My believes it's a curse, so there is no need for Sang to kill her.
- Meaningful Name: Sang in French means "blood".
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: According to Linh, Sang started off killing because the Headmaster forced him to kill witnesses in an attempt to avoid shutting down the school, but after a while he began to enjoy it too much. After a while, Sang was just too far gone to stop. Linh's diary notes that he even repeated school just to keep on killing. Subverted as the end implies that Sang was the one killing the students supposedly Thuy murdered in the first place.
Tropes exclusive to his remake self
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In the original game, Sang was a stoic and sociopathic boy who lost his mind after he was forced by the Principal to murder students. Here, he's a kind-hearted yet isolated boy who's afraid of being alone and has a strong attachment towards his Only Friend Neal. And he only loses his mind to the curse after he feels abandoned by Neal.
- Cassandra Truth: Sang firmly believes Ginny was the one behind the mysterious accidents, disappearances, and murders at school, but nobody believes him. Granted, in this case he was only half-right; it wasn't Ginny, but the demon hanging around her that committed the murders.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Sang does not like other people talking to Neal and he becomes very anxious at the thought of being separated from him. Justified, as Sang was never able to make close friends in the past and was lonely for a very long time before meeting Neal.
- Demonic Possession: A victim of it, courtesy of the demon.
- Despair Event Horizon: When the mysterious deaths and disappearances started, Sang concluded Ginny was involved in them, since she transferred around the same time. He tells Neal about this, causing Neal to shrug it off and call Sang delusional. This made Sang feel abandoned by Neal and led him to make a pact with the demon.
- Driven to Suicide: When the school is set on fire, he decides to seal himself inside it out of guilt at what he has done. Though possibly subverted as it is indicated to be an illusion created by the demon.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: He wants a friend who will stick by him instead of leaving him when things start going wrong.
- Out-of-Character Alert: When the normally friendly and kind Sang starts talking to the Headmaster about his plan to kill students and keep the secrets of the school hidden, both the Headmaster and Neal notice how different he is acting and know something is wrong (in this case, Demonic Possession).
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Sang, afraid of losing his Only Friend, was tricked and possessed by a demon who forced him to murder other students. And he's completely aware of his actions, but since the demon controls his body, he's unable to stop.
My/Keira McDonnell
The protagonist of Chapter 2. A classmate of Tuan/Nathan.
- Adaptation Name Change: The remake changes her name from My to Keira McDonnell.
- Demoted to Extra: She is much less relevant in the remake compared to the original game. Whereas in the original she was the narrator telling the stories of the first three chapters, in the remake it is Nathan who takes on that role.
- Mr. Exposition: In the original game, she is the one who explains the illusions of the first three chapters.
- Not Quite Dead: She seems to fall from the ceiling and die, but Chapter 6 reveals her to still be alive. It was the illusions that made her appear dead.
Loi/David
The protagonist of Chapter 3. He tagged along with his friends one night to steal the Headmaster's money.
- Adaptation Name Change: The remake changes his name from Loi to David.
- Sanity Slippage: As a result of Thuy/Jilly's illusions, he winds up thinking all his friends are dead (and, in the original, that he killed them). When he meets his friends, very much alive, he is reduced to a screaming, babbling wreck.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The last we hear of him is him having been taken to the hospital to treat his injruies, but we learn nothing of how his mental state is doing.
Linh/Neal Foster
A friend of Sang. His character wildly differs between versions.In the original, he was blackmailed along with Sang after the latter convinced him to help kill Thuy. Unlike the Headmaster and Sang who are fully on-board with killing students, Linh is reluctant.In the remake, he is the protagonist of chapters 8-10. Once Sang's best and only friend, he left when Sang began saying that Jinny was killing the students. He deeply regrets abandoning Sang and wants to come back for him.
Tropes exclusive to his original self
- Co-Dragons: He and Sang serve the Headmaster and kill the students he wants them to.
- Token Good Teammate: Among the trio of culprits responsible for the murders, Linh is the only one who expresses distaste for what he is doing, whereas Sang is Ax-Crazy and enjoys it, and the Headmaster is the greedy mastermind. This leads him to want to transfer schools.
Tropes exclusive to his remake self
- The Atoner: His main motivation is that he wants to atone for abandoning Sang when he was becoming unstable. To that end, Neal rescues Nathan so he can lead him to Sang.
- Ascended Extra: In the original game, Linh was simple Sang's best friend who walked out from the school the moment Sang started enjoying murdering students. In the remake, not only is he much nicer and assertive, he's one of the protagonists and Sang's motivation to make a pact with the demon.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He feels great guilt over abandoning Sang in his most vulnerable time, something the demon taunts him with.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Neal has one and he's definitively badass, especially when he returns to the city in the timeskip to save Sang and Nathan.
- The Stoic: He is noted to always have an expressionless frown on his face. Sang even makes light fun of it by drawing a picture of Neal's face with that same frown.
Thuy/Ginny/Jinny Rose
A mysterious classmate who transferred from White Town beforehand. Her parents are divorced and her father got custody.
- Adaptation Name Change: The remake changes her name from Thuy to Ginny/Jinny Rose.
- Creepy Child: In a story full of emotional and moody teenagers, Ginny's otherworldly stoicism stands out. She's also weirdly knowledgeable about ghost stories, which creeps Sang out.
- Disc-One Final Boss: At first, it seems that she is the culprit of the murders, and as a ghost is the one who cursed the school. However, it was Sang/the demon who killed them, and she was framed.
- The Jinx: After Ginny was transferred to the school, deaths and disappearances started to occur, making Sang believe Ginny was behind them. So he killed her in order to stop the disappearances. Later in the game, the demon reveals he set up all these accidents and make Ginny seem as the culprit in order to broke Sang further.
- Shrinking Violet: When asked by her teacher to introduce herself, she can only give an “I....” before giving up.
- Tears of Blood: When Tuan encounters Thuy's spirit, she has this, complete with a Slasher Smile.
The Headmaster
The man who runs the school. His character wildly differs between versions.In the original game, it is he who is the mastermind of the plot. After Sang killed several students, he caught him, but decided to blackmail him into killing more students just to keep the original murders a secret, all so he could keep the school open and keep his job.In the remake, he is more of an unwilling accomplice to the demon.
Tropes exclusive to his original self
- Asshole Victim: Loi and his friends break into the school specifically to steal his money, and succeed in doing so. Given the fact that he kept that money by masterminding the murders of his own students, it's hard to feel bad for him.
- Big Bad: He is the one behind the murders, with Sang and Linh as his blackmailed Co-Dragons, killing anyone who gets too close to the hauntings of the school or is transferring out.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In Bad End 1, he acts like a Reasonable Authority Figure to Tuan, granting him his request to transfer out... for all of one minute, before trapping him there and ordering Sang to kill him.
- Evil Principal: He flat-out organizes the murder of his students if they get too close to the dark secrets of the school, and blackmails Sang and Thuy into being his muscle.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is only called the Headmaster.
- Karma Houdini: With the exception of the Happy End, he never gets any comeuppance for masterminding the murder of his students and, in the True End, putting the blame on an innocent boy.
- Non-Action Big Bad: He leaves the killing to Sang and Linh. Notably, in the good end, Sang is the Final Boss of sorts who gets a final battle with Tuan, while the Headmaster is arrested with little fuss.
Tropes exclusive to his remake self
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In the original, he was the mastermind of the murders who only cared for his school's reputation. In the remake, he is merely a blackmailed, reluctant helper to the demon-possessed Sang who expresses his distaste for what he is doing, much like Linh in the original game.
- The Dragon: In a reversal of his relationship with Sang in the original game, here he is the Demon-possessed Sang's assistant who helps him carry out the murders.
- Evil Principal: Downplayed as he's more of a pawn of the Demon who doesn't want to help out but is forced to
Introduced in The Last Page
Ryan Zinkgraf
A classmate of Neal.
- Nice Guy: He is nice to just about everyone, and according to Neal, people like him back.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Neal notes that even he, as energetic as he is, got quiet whenever Jinny showed up.
The Black Cat
A black cat that shows up occasionally to help Nathan and Neal.
Spoiler Character
The Demon
The true source of the curse. He is a malicious entity that feeds on weakness.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: He appears to Sang in a form identical to him, only with red eyes.
- Big Bad: Of The Last Page, as the one who cursed the school, committed all the murders, and possessed Sang.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Despite obviously being a demon, he is very good at acting like a caring friend to Sang, comforting him when Neal starts getting distant, and wants to save the town by convincing Sang to kill Jinny, the source of the murders; although he increasingly gets pushy, he does act understanding and gives Sang time to mull over his decision to potentially hand his soul over. But the minute Sang takes the deal, the demon tosses his pleasantries out the window, calling Sang an idiot for trusting him and falling for his Frame-Up of Jinny, and makes it clear that he only cares about humans as toys for him to play with and break.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Or Contrasting Remake Antagonist in this case. In the original, Sang and the Headmaster were fully human killers who were motivated by bloodlust and a desire to keep the school's reputation intact, respectively, and indirectly caused the curse of the school. The demon is, well, a demon who directly caused the curse and is much more of a supernatural threat.
- Demonic Possession: He can do this to anyone who allows him to do so. He mainly does it to Sang, but it is also hinted he did it to the Headmaster at one point while convincing Sang to take the special class, and he does it to Jinny in the Secret Ending.
- Exorcist Head: In one of the illusions in Chapter 10, if Neal goes through the center entrance before the side entrances, the demon appears at the back of the room and turns his head around to scare Neal.
- Manipulative Bastard: He takes advantage of Sang's loneliness and tricks him into thinking Jilly is the one behind the mysterious deaths, to convince Sang to give up his soul. He also blackmails the Headmaster by threatening to expose the murders and get the school shut down.
- Mind Rape: His illusions that he inflicts on the students are this.
- Our Demons Are Different: He has an incorporeal true form as a red orb/red strings of light. He can possess people, but only those who willingly allow him to.
- It Amused Me: His reason for causing the incidents is that he has grown bored with the "Groundhog Day" Loop and is killing people for fun. Even him helping Nathan in the Secret Ending is because he knows Nathan will have to make a Sadistic Choice between letting the loop continue or disappearing and hurting Sang and Neal, which he relishes.
- No Name Given: He is only called "the demon", and his text box simply says "Demon".
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When possessing Sang, he has red eyes.
- Soul Eating: He devours souls and loves doing so.
