Characters / The Guy Upstairs

Rozy

Rozy

• Boyish Short Hair: She has noticeably short hair, especially in comparison to her best friend Hawa. It used to be longer. Lucky for her, considering Adam's "type" consists of women with long, flowing hair.
• Embarrassing First Name: She hates being called Rozana, saying it sounds too old fashioned.
• Fiery Redhead: She has reddish brown hair and tends to react harshly, especially when it comes to Hawa’s safety.
• Friendless Background: Due to her introverted and paranoid nature, she never really wanted any friends until Hawa introduced herself to her.
• Mistaken for Gay: Rozy and Hawa are close enough that rumors of them being an item are common. At one point Ravi coldly shuts them down, although due to Malaysia’s treatment of homosexuality, it’s rather justified.
• Mysterious Past: We know next to nothing about Rozy, only that she has no parents, grew up in an orphanage, and doesn’t remember much of her childhood. She also has a scar on her stomach that Hawa says looks like a stab wound.
• Odd Couple: Rozy is tomboyish, paranoid, and not known to be friendly. Hawa is very feminine, rather naive, and incredibly popular. They’re best friends.
• Properly Paranoid: Rozy is noted by many to be very paranoid, especially in regards to Hawa's safety. However, she's completely right about Adam; too bad for her he seems to enjoy messing with her and making her look unreliable.
• Scars Are Forever: She has a scar on her stomach that Hawa notes looks like a stab wound. Rozy can’t remember where she got it, only saying it’s been around forever.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Played with. She’s very street smart, but almost too much; it comes across as incessant paranoia instead.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She’s very sweet with Hawa, but tends to be aloof with others. However, she is noted by her peers to be a nice person when they approach her with questions, so it seems she simply doesn’t actively seek out friends but isn’t opposed to them.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Implied to be the case; she admits she doesn’t have many memories of her parents or her childhood, and considering how paranoid she is, well…
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Rozy has short hair and tends to wear practical clothes and pants. She also has a gruff, paranoid personality. Hawa has long, flowing hair and dresses up often. She's also much sweeter and naive than Rozy is.

Hawa

Hawa

• Crush Blush: She begins to blush these quite frequently when around Adam.
• The Cutie: Very sweet, kind, and naive. Rozy is incredibly protective of her.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Hawa is noted to be a very good chef by Rozy.
• Genki Girl: Very much so. She’s pretty, cheerful, sweet, and popular for a good reason.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She very quickly begins to develop a crush on Adam.
• The Ingenue: Hawa is very sheltered and often has to be reminded about basic safety skills by Rozy.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: She has long hair and is noticeably more feminine than the short haired Rozy is.
• Odd Couple: Rozy is tomboyish, paranoid, and not known to be friendly. Hawa is very feminine, rather naive, and incredibly popular. They’re best friends.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Rozy has short hair and tends to wear practical clothes and pants. She also has a gruff, paranoid personality. Hawa has long, flowing hair and dresses up often. She's also much sweeter and naive than Rozy is.

Adam Bahri

Adam

• Animals Hate Him: In episode 15, Adam’s cat Milo walks up to him and he pets her. But then she suddenly hisses and scratches him on the hand.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: He has jet black eyes and is a serial killer. They become more shrunken and scary looking whenever he’s performing his kills.
• Blood Is the New Black: Both times we see Adam kill someone, he always ends up covered in his victim’s blood.
• Chick Magnet: Due to his looks and charms, Adam attracts quite a few women. All of this is very calculated on his end, so he can lure in more victims.
• Dark Is Evil: He has black hair and tends to wear black or dark clothing.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: As attractive as he is, one can’t help but feel there’s simply something off about him due to his black hair and eyes.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Hr is a handsome, charming man who has no problems winning people over. He’s also a serial killer who finds women pretty when covered in blood.
• Fan Disservice: In episode 14 and 15, we see him both with an unbuttoned shirt and shirtless. However, the appeal is greatly diminished by the fact both scenes take place when he’s killing a victim and later cleaning up the blood.
• Freudian Excuse: Lightly alluded to in episode 14; something happened in his past that makes him think that his intended victim giving him her phone number makes it okay for him to murder her. If she doesn’t, he backs off.
• Manipulative Bastard: He is doing an excellent job of making Rozy look unstable, first by taking the police to the apartment she claims she saw him murder someone in, only for it to be completely clean, with him having had no time to clean up beforehand. He also makes sure he’s Hawa’s Greb drive home, causing Rozy to panic all while never intending to hurt her in the first place.
• Nightmare Face: Oh man, he has so many of these, most notably in episode three before he performs his first on screen murder, and later when he’s in the elevator with Rozy and she sees a missing poster for the woman he killed.
• Psycho Knife Nut: Adam’s preferred weapon of choice is a knife, which he uses to kill the woman in episode 3 via slashed throat and repeated stabbings.
• Serial Killer: Episode 14 reveals that he is, indeed, a serial killer, with a preference for women with fair skin and long, dark hair.
• Stalker without a Crush: What he seems to be becoming towards both Hawa and Rozy. While Hawa fits the physical description of his victims, he seems to be developing more of an interest in Rozy.
• Theme Serial Killer: Adam’s type when it comes to victims consists of women with fair skin and long, dark flowing hair.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: He looks like an ordinary, if very handsome and charming, man. Too bad he’s also a serial killer.
• Would Hurt a Child: Adam’s first onscreen victim is a pregnant woman and her unborn child.
• Yandere: A very strange, twisted example. In episode 14, it’s noted by the narration that the more affection he feels for his targets, the stronger the urge to kill them is.