This is a list of characters who appear in The 25th Ward: The Silver Case, including returning characters from The Silver Case.
Unless stated otherwise, characters will be identified on their folders by their in-game labels.
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Ward 25 Heinous Crimes Unit (Correctness thread)
In General
The 25th Ward Heinous Crimes Unit
A police organization within Ward 25, and the successor to the Heinous Crimes Unit of Ward 24. Like their predecessors, they primarily operate by "processing" (read: extrajudicially murdering) criminals.- Darker and Edgier: While the HCU of Ward 24 were authorized to kill criminals, they also arrest criminals normally. The 25th Ward's HCU, on the other hand, is far more inclined to shoot first and ask questions later...especially if there are a ton of people trying to kill them, as seen in #01: "new world order".
- Locked Out of the Loop: Between them, the Regional Adjustment Bureau, and Tokio Morishima, the 25th Ward HCU has no awareness of the latter two at all, save for Kuroyanagi and Morishima sending each other messages behind Shiroyabu's and Uehara's backs. On the flipside, the RAB is actively tailing the HCU detectives, with Tsuki seeing them as terrible at their jobs.
Shiroyabu
Mokutaro "Shiro" Shiroyabu
- Abusive Parents: After Kusabi shoots him in the ear, he remarks that not even his mother ever shot him, implying that she has invoked physical harm on him in some other fashion in the past. Despite the implications, he seems to otherwise love his mother.
- Bald of Evil: Seems to have shaved his head after death-filing himself in "boys don't cry".
- Beneath the Mask: When he's introduced, he seems like a rather spineless Naïve Newcomer to the HCU. #03: "boys don't cry" reveals that he's actually pretty violent and prone to very petty outbursts when he isn't interacting with anyone he considers a coworker or superior.
- Butt-Monkey: He keeps getting himself in dangerous situations, making a fool out of himself or forced to do the boring jobs. This doesn't change even after he gets death-filed.
- Death Seeker: Starts thinking he is this as he keeps going to ATMs knowing an assasssin is waiting for him. The truth is that he is gaining bloodlust out of each encounter and is seeking hitmen so he can kill them.
- Decoy Protagonist: Even when you play as Uehara, Shiroyabu is the main lead for most of Correctness until he also gets put in the background around the time of #03: "boys don't cry".
- Disproportionate Retribution: When a patrolman scolds him for pretending to know what he is talking about, Shiroyabu straight up shoots him.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Kuroyanagi saddled Shiroyabu with "Jabroni", which he hates being called.
- In the Blood: His talent for violence, cold approach during the end of the game and functional immortality comes from his father Kamui Uehara.
- Momma's Boy: In #06: "white out", a prologue chapter added to the HD remake, a younger Officer Shiroyabu is excited to die in the line of duty so his mom gets taken care of by the government.
- One-Man Army: With Kuroyanagi's help, he takes on 200 deliverymen. He also survives multiple assassins in #03: "boys don't cry".
- Power Up Let Down: He still winds up getting made a fool and emasculated after death-filing himself.
- Sanity Slippage: Shiroyabu is pulled through the wringer during "boys don't cry". He is denied any help from his unit during his pursuit of Kurumizawa, and assassins are sent after him every time he tries to retrieve money at several different ATMs.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers a lot of them to assassins and delivery men he encounters during "boys don't cry" as he is sick of being left alone to fend of danger by himself.Shiroyabu: I take out two highly skilled professional criminals, and next up is Jiblin with his little knife.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: In #03: "boys don't cry", Shiroyabu becomes more frustrated than in "good looking guy" due to being short on money, having a bounty on his head, and Uehara being away so he can't vent about work to someone.
- White Hair, Black Heart: He proves to be a pretty violent and even petty man when left to his own devices, and his hair is notably pale. Though at the height of his madness and amorality, he loses all his hair.
- Would Hit a Girl: He sexually assaults the hitwoman instead of killing her like the others. It's not his standards being dropped or twisted as much as it is his psych is eroding.
Kuroyanagi
Shinko "Kuro" Kuroyanagi
- The Ace: Foul-mouthed and moody though she may be, she's a legitimately good investigator and very deadly combatant. She actually manages to track down Shiroyabu despite him pulling himself outside reality after death-filing himself, and most of the endings in #07: "black out" where you choose to fight her end with her quickly dispatching you.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She's from the Shelter Kids experiment in the 24th Ward. She also had, and still has, a few jobs in shady sex industries..
- Fair Cop: She's quite the looker despite her generally sour demeanor. She has used and still uses these looks in the sex industry.
- Killer Cop: She processed people acting out of line in the cyber cafe she works at. The unit chief Hatoba is fine with his detectives taking assassination contracts as long as it's not one of their colleague.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: She has a filthy mouth, and will lash in long rant of profanities if Shiroyabu pisses her off.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She shares a lot in common with Kusabi from The Silver Case. She is the vulgar, criminal-hardened partner that keep referring to her partner with a derogatory nickname, while being secretly much more aware of the situation than she lets on. Her character bio even has her known as "Japanese Dirty Harry", fitting her characterization much like it does Kusabi's before her.
Uehara
Uehara / Kamui Uehara
One of the Kamui Maspro and a new recruit of the Ward 25 Heinous Crimes Unit.- Decoy Protagonist: In the original release, he is only playable for three chapters of Correctness. #07: "black out" rectifies that, but the story is already over by then.
- The Quiet One: Doesn't talk to anyone until #07: "black out".
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He's so similar to Big Dick from The Silver Case, players can easily mistake this Uehara for Big Dick. #00: "prototype" has Sakura comment on Uehara's similarity to Big Dick; and #06: "white out" sees the player take control of Big Dick once again.
Hatoba
Hatoba
Chief of the Ward 25 Heinous Crimes Unit.- Da Chief: Is the leader of the new HCU in the 25th Ward.
Regional Adjustment Bureau (Matchmaker thread)
In General
Ward 25 Regional Adjustment Bureau
A government organization of glorified hitmen within the 25th Ward. They "adjust" people, criminals or not, who threaten the order of life in Ward 25.- Milkman Conspiracy: Works with the Federal Postal Service, deliverymen who are in reality a criminal syndicate called Okiai who wants to keep Ward 25 under their control.
- Mind Rape: They have tools to extract everything from a person's brain, which usually leave the victims in such a bad state their linguistic functions are so damaged they can't talk or write about what they experienced.
- Never Say "Die": The RAB agents call their assassinations "adjustments" In-Universe. Hatoba calls them out on it.Hatoba: That's why your soldiers are all pussies.
Tsuki
Shinkai Tsuki
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: Tsuki serves as the protagonist of the Matchmaker storythread, following him and his partner Osato as they maintain order in the 25th Ward via assassinations while remaining hidden from the Heinous Crimes Unit.
- Hopeless with Tech: He has not caught up with modern technology, like the jack-in locks for appartments.
- Remember the New Guy?: In "04: "the lunar orbit", Tsuki reveals to Osato that after the yakuza he worked for sold him out, he became a member of the Republic task force under Daigo Natsume. A training injury took him off of the active duty list around the time of Republic's destruction by Kamui (really Ayame, though Tsuki didn't know that), hence why he never appeared in the original game.
- Serious Business: He is annoyed by Osato's eating habits as he picks apart his food instead of eating it as a set. He goes so far as to spend a two nights with him about how to eat Mont Blanc properly. It's implied that he's projecting a bit of his younger self onto Osato, having similar tastes but being discouraged from eating particular foods because of how unmanly they were deemed.
Osato
Yotaro Osato
- Apocalypse Maiden: Due to being the illegitimate son of Sundance, he possesses a special dormant criminal "element". The Conspiracy wishes to harness his element in order to release a controlled version of criminal power into the 25th Ward.
- Cute and Psycho: He's a pretty feminine-looking man with a lot of innocent and dorky mannerisms that bely the fact that he often casually kills people without feeling a thing. He likely gets his capacity to kill from his illegitimate father, Sundance.
- The Gunslinger: He mentions that he practiced his Quick Draw a lot and it shows as he can gun down someone before Tsuki can react.
- Guns Akimbo: Wields two handguns.
- New Meat: Is a rookie in the RAB being guided by Tsuki.
- Poor Communication Kills: In the first Matchmaker chapter, he kills a diver after Tsuki orders him to escort the diver to the bureau. Osato assumed he meant "escort him to the next life" and shoots him in his own home. That would have been more forgivable if Tsuki hadn't briefed him about the plan to bring him to the bureau in the first place. Rightfully, Tsuki gives Osato an earful for screwing up so badly.
- Skilled, but Naive: He's undoubtedly a gifted killer, but that's balanced out by his tendency to misinterpret instructions, leap into situations without thinking, believe things at face value, and otherwise get distracted easily. It seems that Sundance's abilities as an assassin are In the Blood.
Placebo thread
Morishima
Tokio Morishima
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: As with the original Silver Case, Tokio serves as the protagonist of the Placebo storythread, following his own investigation on the same events that the HCU and the Regional Adjustment Buread are following.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Between the events in The Silver Case and his amnesia, he's an utterly broken individual who aimlessly drifts through life. In fact, he was found in a dire state at the chronological beginning of the story as a consequence of taking multiple drugs, possibly in an attempt to quiet the multiple dead voices haunting him constantly.
- Smoking Is Cool: Averted. Before his first proper chapter, he was told by his new "employer" to quit smoking, meaning he never uses his pack of Placebo cigarettes.
SPOILER CHARACTER
Yuki "YukiKazura" Shimohira
The protagonist of Placebo's Distant Epilogue, *06: "YUKI". A high-school student in Hinashiro City (from the Twilight Syndrome series), she becomes embroiled in quelling a lingering spirit haunting the train station.- And Now for Someone Completely Different: Takes Tokio's place as the protagonist of Placebo, while Tokio himself takes the role of supporting character.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Yuki Shimohira may be the offspring of a Shelter Kids subject, if her surname is anything to go by. Yuki never learns the significance of this, especially since its relevance to the story has receded in the year 2017.
