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The terribly unfortunate individual being sold to one of three psychopaths.- Featureless Protagonist: The only thing revealed about them is their name and gender, and that's entirely up to you to decide on.
- Gender-Inclusive Writing: You can choose whether your character is referred to as male, a female, or non-binary.
- The Many Deaths of You: Every route has more deaths than victories, and those deaths are always described in loving detail.
The Seller / Fox / Ren Hana
Click here to see him out of the shadows! (SPOILERS)
- Canon Character All Along: He's Ren Hana from Boyfriend To Death, and boy, has he come a long way from his timid beginnings...
- Faux Affably Evil: He's got a cheerful, if snide, demeanour during the auction portion of the game.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Ren has gone from the victim in the first Boyfriend To Death to the victimizer here in the twisted game of human trafficking.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He's the one selling you after all. The DLC promotes him to Big Bad status.
- Unusual Ears: Fox ears of all things. This is because he is the 47-year-old Ren Hana from the Boyfriend To Death series.
- Walking Spoiler: It's almost impossible to talk about him without spoiling the DLC.
Derek's Route
Derek Goffard
- Ax-Crazy: All of the gang (and the buyers) are this by default, but Derek tops them all in terms of the sheer energy he puts into his mindless sadism.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Despite being the one who buys you at the auction, he is not the primary threat to you, or even the leader of his group seemingly, with that honour going to Jack. You can even kill him outright at the halfway point if you have the knife, also making him a Disc-One Final Boss.
- Colour Motif: Red, reflecting his bloodlust and hot bloodedness.
- Hot-Blooded: Is noticeably quick to boil over compared to his buddies, which reflects in how Defying his will at all will get you immediately killed.
- No-Respect Guy: The interactions he has with his gang that aren’t related to their activities consists of Komodo and Dragon making fun of him for overspending on you. He’s also just left out in the open if you stab him but allow him to live, which leaves him injured and vulnerable for Machete to kill him.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He behaves more like a particularly surly teenager than the grow man he clearly is, and he throws tantrums whenever you don’t do what he wants.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Later in his route, depending on the choices you make, you may have the option to save his life from Machete. Your reward for this is an ending where he takes you back home with stated intent to torture you for as long as he wishes.
Jack / Dean
Click here to see him unmasked! (SPOILERS)
The leader of the gang in Derek’s route.
- Big Bad: The actual boss of the band of sadists in Derek’s route. getting a good or golden ending invariably leads to you having to face him no matter what as well.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Has silver locks and a yearning for cold blooded murder.
- Stalker with a Crush or Stalker without a Crush: It’s not entirely clear which he is, but Jaqueline says that he was constantly stalking her at her gym before kidnapping her, even working around her changing her schedule to do so. Where he falls on the spectrum of perverted to just wanting to kill her is never elaborated upon by either.
Komodo & Dragon / Michael & Jason
- Bantering Baddie Buddies: They’re inseparable and full of banter.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Their friendship is genuine despite their crimes, and Dragon will be utterly distraught if he accidentally kills Komodo, who, for his part, tries to dissuade his guilt as he’s dying.
- Fat and Skinny: Dragon is the fat. Komodo is the skinny.
- Human Sacrifice: In the hidden cave in the hill you’ll find a sacrificial altar. Time it right, and you’ll arrive before, during or after the two have tried to summon a demon this way, which translates, respectively, into you being sacrificed, you saving Tom for being sacrificed, or you coming across Tom's body.
Machete
- Scary Black Man: The only black member of the gang, and uniquely intimidating for his lack of over the top sadism.
- The Stoic: Is noticeably less enthusiastic about torturing a bunch of strangers than his compatriots, and is very terse and unemotional in all his scenes.
- Token Good Teammate: Downplayed. He still brought someone to the desert like the others and killed the group's first victim himself, but he still doesn’t actually seem to enjoy any of what he’s doing. It turns out he’s there to kill all of them to avenge his sister's death, and ends up saving the survivors in the golden ending.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: Even if he kills the gang and avenges his sister, he points out to the survivors that it wasn't going to make him feel better.
Jaqueline
- Action Girl: Downplayed She’ll tell you she took self defence courses, and it shows during the good ending, but before that point she’ll be just as helpless as the rest of the group.
- Hot-Blooded: She’s introduced openly struggling against Jack as he brings her to the camp, and she keeps that attitude up throughout.
Tom
- Big Beautiful Man: A pleasant young man with a prominent gut and squeamish demeanour, which is understandable considering the circumstances
- Nice Guy: Taking to him reveals him to be very nice, though that might be due to how talking to him requires you to save his life. Talking to him helps raise your sanity due to this.
Richard
- Despair Event Horizon: The dialogue he has in the hidden cave indicates he’s crossed it, and his actions reflect that. Talking to him actually lowers your sanity meter due to how negative he is.
- Dirty Coward: His first major action in the story is siccing Derek on you to save his own skin. Trying to jump Jack with him only results in the same thing happening.
Chamomile
- Cruel and Unusual Death: She dies horribly.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Introduced with the rest of the cast, only to be chosen to “set the mood”. You can learn later that she went to the same university campus as Tom, but that’s it.
Celia’s Route
Celia Lede
- A Lighter Shade of Black: Compared to Derek & Mason she’s actually the most reasonable buyer to deal with. This is reflected in how lenient she can be with restraining you (if you’re complying with her) and there’s even an ending where you can choose to stay with her and flee the police. Of course, the bar for what constitutes a light shade of black in this case is still firmly in vantablack territory.
- Awful Wedded Life: Celia has nothing good to say about her husband Harold, complaining at length about his philandering with younger women and about how all of them are “sheep.” Likewise, when Harold shows up, he’s immediately disparaging toward the whole operation she has going on, which isn’t uncalled for, but he’s more concerned about how it’ll reflect on him !
- Bad Boss: Implied by her disparaging remarks about her workers and also the fact that she’s keeping you captive in a Torture Cellar like office building.
- Big Bad: It’s her route after all, and she’s the only threat until Harold shows up.
- Colour Motif: Blue, reflecting her cold demeanour and frustration with her life.
- Females Are More Innocent: Calling her innocent is enough of a stretch it's about to snap under the torque, but it's kind of predicable the one female buyer would be the one you can actually reason with.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She’ll be set off at the slightest defiance to her will, which usually results in a messy death for you.
- High-Powered Career Woman: She is one, which provides her with the resources to pursue the extracurricular activity we see in the game. She’ll even talk with you about how difficult it is to be one, if she feels like it.
- Pragmatic Villainy: She bought you so she could torture you, yes, but she isn’t stupid enough not to immediately pull a gun and kill you the second she realizes you’re a threat to her. This is subverted if she catches you out in the hallway though, as she tries to shoot you in the leg to disable you, but doesn’t realize that she may hit the femoral artery, which is how you die.
Harold Lede
- Awful Wedded Life: Mainly due to his adultery, if Celia’s word is anything to go by.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: An adulterous sleaze who willingly kills you to cover up his wife’s activities so his name isn’t tarnished.
- Everyone Has Standards: Considering the other tropes on this page, you might not consider him the type to call the police in this type of situation, but that is exactly what he does. Very, very downplayed considering his other actions though.
- It's All About Me: The first thing in his mind when he sees a person tied up by his wife is how it will reflect on him.
- Jerkass Has a Point: It’s for entirely the wrong reasons, mind you, but he points out to Celia that keeping a person captive in an abandoned basement so you can torture them is going to look horrible if it gets out.
Mason's Route
Mason Heiral
- Arbitrarily Large Bank Account: The other two obviously have money to burn if they’re just outright buying people, but Mason ups the price to 760 of what has to be hundreds of thousands at least when he gets in a bidding war with Derek.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: A deer gets caught in one of the snares he sets up for you, which doesn’t stop him from gutting the poor thing alive.
- Big Bad: Of course, and unlike the other two, he is the only character in his route aside from the player character.
- Colour Motif: Green, reflecting his survivalist aesthetic and immense wealth.
- Evil Old Folks: Is visibly older than all of the other characters, which does nothing to dull his taste for hunting people like animals.
- Faux Affably Evil: He comes across as shockingly genial and patient (especially if you’ve gone through the other routes first) right up until he pulls a crossbow and tries to kill you with it.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: What sets Mason apart from the other two is that he cannot be reasoned with. He can’t be satiated like Derek or talked down like Celia. He brought you out into the woods for a very specific purpose and he’s not going to be swayed from it.
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Bought you specifically so he could hunt you for sport, snares and bear traps included.
??? / Lawrence Oleander
- Complete Immortality: Described to 'have never fully found his way to death'.
- Dem Bones: ??? is completely skeletal, aside from the bits of rotten flesh and gore clinging to him and what appears to be a mass in his ribcage resembling a heart.
- Skull for a Head: Has a deer skull for a head.
- Sinister Deer Skull: Same as above, with one antler broken off. It also glows blue.
- Was Once a Man: Heavily implied to be Lawrence Oleander, a path candidate from Boyfriend To Death.
