The cast of To the Moon and their associated tropes.
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The Crews of Sigmund Corporation
Dr. Eva Rosalene
Dr. Eva Rosalene
One of the two main recurring characters of the series. She is a Senior memory traversal agent for the Sigmund Corporation.- Batman Gambit: She hoped that even though she was moving River out of Johnny's memories, he'd still subconsciously want to meet her again and find a way to reintroduce her. She was right.
- Deadpan Snarker: Often offers dry witticisms in response to much of Neil's joking around.
- Everyone Went to School Together: One of the lesser but still significant reveals in Impostor Factory is that Eva and Neil aren't just coworkers brought together by their job, but childhood friends who've been together since elementary school, and they joined Sigmund together.
- Happily Married: With Neil, at least in perfect virtual world Faye creates where Quincy and Lynri resides.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Her defense for moving River—her legal contract is to get Johnny to the moon, and River is one of the obstacles in the way of that.
- Not So Above It All:
- As much as she serves as the Straight Man to Neil, even Eva joins in to his shenanigans once in a while. For example in Finding Paradise, Neil attempts to take a shortcut in making their patient happy — literally drawing a smile on his face with a marker. When Eva sees this, she expresses her disapproval... before putting one on his face with a red marker, as Colin's lips aren't black.
- She also revealed to be a huge Jellyfish lover. When in Colin's memory of him and Sofia's trip to the aquarium, she gets positively giddy when spotting a tank full of them. Her very enthusiastic reaction is so out of the blue that it manages to unnerve Neil a bit.
- Platonic Life-Partners: With Neil, who she's been close to since they were children. While not romantically attracted to him at all, when she discovers he's Secretly Dying in the "The Bestest Dancers" comic, she makes an oblique offer to spend as much of his remaining life as they can together, asking him to share in her retirement plans.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm, collected Blue to Neil's Red.
- Straight Man: To the more goofy and impulsive Neil. Eva is in contrast level-headed and tries to reign him in.
- The Spock: She prioritizes fulfilling her contract above sentiment, even if that means gambling with Johnny's memories of River.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Neil. They argue and clash a lot, but when she thinks he's in danger she tries to order him to save himself, only for him to angrily rebuke he's not leaving her. It's clear that deep down they do care about each other, having been friends since they were children.
Dr. Neil Watts
Dr. Neil Watts
One of the two main recurring characters of a series. He is a technical specialist for the Sigmund Corporation.- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Comically flippant, but more than competent at his job.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Frequently indulges in his own eccentricity like shouting Dragon Ball Z catchphrases while unlocking a memento or modifying his dream equipment to give himself a shonen-esque power-up complete with muscular, gold armor and a magical-girl Transformation Sequence.
- Everyone Went to School Together: He and Eva have known each other since elementary school.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: He cultivates this reputation amongst his colleagues at Sigmund, by being aloof, difficult, and an all-around gadfly. Though his coworkers don't seem to dislike him too much as several were slightly disappointed that he opted to skip the Christmas party.
- Happily Married: With Eva, at least in virtual world Faye creates where his parents resides.
- Hidden Depths: He reveals that he became a technical specialist to help dying people come to terms with their life, and leave this world peacefully. In fact, this is why he argues with Eva about erasing River from Johnny's memories, saying that they had a good life together, even if it was bittersweet.
- Ironically, even more hidden depths are uncovered in Impostor Factory when this is revealed to be a lie, or at least not the whole truth; he really joined Sigmund because it was the only way he would be able to get access to his late mother's memory technology.
- Iron Butt-Monkey: In Finding Paradise, he's on the receiving end of a lot of slapstick, including one Fission Mailed sequence. But since it's all a simulation, he's not actually getting injured.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He tries his best to hide it, but Neil clearly cares about his job and his patients.Neil: I don't know about you, Eva, but I took this job to help the geezers die happy!
- Like Father, Like Son: Imposter Factory reveals that Neil takes quite a lot after his father, Quincy, sharing his compassionate, optimistic personality, and his tendency to be goofy.
- Manchild: He acts really childish, despite being a fully grown man and a professional doctor to boot.Neil: "Loved playing cello as a kid" my arse. Liar liar pants on fire.
Eva: Wow, you belong at a grade school. - The McCoy: Contrasting Eva, he protests her plan to remove River from Johnny's memories because, even though it's giving him what he wanted by letting him go to the moon, it's still not the right thing to do.
- Milking the Giant Cow: It may be hard to see due to the small sprite, but he does enjoy making dramatic hand gestures.
- Nom de Mom: The original Quincy decided that his and Lynri's son should carry her surname rather than his, explaining why Neil's surname is Watts, rather than Reynard.
- Opaque Lenses: Whenever he isn't hamming it up, his glasses rarely show his eyes. When acting goofy they cross over into Opaque Nerd Glasses.
- Otaku: He loves to reference a lot of shows while being a Large Ham.
- Platonic Life-Partners: With Eva, who he's been together with since childhood. It's hinted that he may actually have feelings for her that are more than platonic (or at least, Faye certainly thinks so) as they marry and even have a child together in the "perfect life" Faye creates for the virtual Quincy and Lynri at the climax of Impostor Factory.
- Sad Clown: Has hints of this. He's a Deadpan Snarker who loves injecting levity into even the most serious of moments, but behind the mask, it's clear he's not a happy man. There are indications he is not on speaking terms with his family, he appears to have few - if any - friends outside of work (Eva pointedly asks him when was the last time he had dinner with anyone other than himself), and he takes strong painkillers to deal with the unknown hereditary condition that may eventually kill him as it did his mother.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Neil invokes this on purpose due to his Hammy tendencies.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: When the full truth about Johnny's past is revealed, he protests against Eva altering Johnny's memories by removing River from the equation despite that it is a part of the job that they are contracted to do and therefore legally obligated to perform. He believes that Johnny is better off with his original memories with River, instead of a new set without her that he will never be able to fully comprehend the true meaning of.
- Secretly Dying: The finale of Impostor Factory reveals that Neil inherited the same unknown condition that eventually took his mother's life when he was a child, possibly implying it to be the reason he takes painkillers. Roxie somehow finds out and tells Eva at some point, and she confronts him about it in the "The Bestest Dancers" comic.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: This glasses wearer is a doctor, programmer, and engineer of Sigmund Corp.
- Techno Wizard: His skills as a programmer let him implement the most amusing of functions on the memory machine.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Eva. They argue and clash a lot, but when she thinks he's in danger she tries to order him to save himself, only for him to angrily rebuke he's not leaving her. It's clear that deep down they do care about each other, having been friends since they were children.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: In the second main game, it is revealed that Neil is supposed to be acrophobic... presumably when he's not on a plane.
Dr. Roxanne Winters
Dr. Roxanne Winters
A technical specialist working for the Sigmund Corporation. Energetic and bubbly, yet extremely capable, she is considered one of Sigmund's top employees. Partners with Dr. Robert Lin. First introduced in the To the Moon Minisodes, she plays a much larger role in Finding Paradise.- Beneath the Mask: Proves that she's her ditzy personality doesn't extend to her competency when she confronts Neil over the modifications he's made to the Memory Transversal machine — instantly her carefree nature fades away and she becomes extremely serious.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite her somewhat ditzy personality, she is an extremely competent technician.
- Catchphrase: "Okie Dokie Pocky Loki!"
- Dumb Blonde: Subverted. She looks like one, and does deliberatly play into the stereotype a bit, but she's actually smarter than she looks.
- Genius Ditz: Is slightly scatterbrained and speaks in a somewhat childish manner, but is extremely good at her job.
- In-Series Nickname: Usually goes by "Roxy". Neil calls her "Rox", instead.
- Odd Couple: Is paired up with the stern and serious Robert Lin. Despite having polar opposite personalities and occasionally bickering with one another, they generally work well together and are considered to be Sigmund Corp's best employees.
Dr. Robert Lin
Dr. Robert Lin
A memory traversal agent working for the Sigmund Corporation. Stern and serious, Lin is a man of few words. He is proud of his work and takes it very seriously. Partners with Dr. Roxanne Winters. First introduced in the To the Moon Minisodes, he reappears in Finding Paradise.- Odd Couple: His partner is Dr. Roxanne Winters, a skilled-but-slightly-ditzy technician.
- Only Sane Man: Given that he is partnered with the more free-spirited Dr. Winters and frequently winds up interacting with Neil, he often plays this role.
- Right Behind Me: Expect him to show up behind Neil whenever the latter starts complaining about him.
- Spock Speak: He tends to always speak in a dispassionate and business-like manner. It stands out due to how bubbly Roxanne's dialogue is in contrast.
- The Stoic: Lin is known for his stern and serious nature.
Episode 1: To the Moon
John H. "Johnny" Wyles
John H. "Johnny" Wyles
The patient of episode 1. He is a dying old man whose final wish is to go to the moon. He does not remember his motives for it, but the doctors later find out.- Amnesiac Lover: He doesn't remember his and River's actual first meeting.
- Angsty Surviving Twin: The angst isn't particularly prominent, which is understandable given that he doesn't remember his twin brother any longer, but what angst there is it's justified, given that he's been groomed into being a replacement for his brother.
- Forgotten First Meeting: His mother's use of beta blockers on him accidentally blocked out his first meeting with River. She spends much of her later life trying to remind him of it, to no avail. It's only until the protagonists step in does he end up remembering anything.
- Happily Married: For all of the communication problems that he and River had — and it turns out it was neither of their faults — they had a lovely wedded life together. Johnny makes it clear he wouldn't trade the time they had together for anything, not even the moon. In fact, this is why Neil argues with Eva about erasing River, pointing out they were happy.
- Hidden Depths: It turns out he has some very good reasons for his love of the weird and unique. Namely, his mother's Parental Favoritism for his twin brother.
- I Just Want to Be Special: In contrast to River, who is naturally different from others, Johnny always wanted to be different from the rest.
- Innocently Insensitive: Frequently acts as one towards River, especially seeing as how he doesn't remember their first meeting, which ended up being so important to her. Justified as his memory was tampered with.
- In-Series Nickname
- Likes to be called Johnny even as an old man.
- His mother also uses the nickname "Joey", ostensibly after his grandfather. It's actually the name of his dead twin brother, who she may actually believe he is.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Invoked by his mother so he forgets about Joey's death. It turns out that is not so "laser-guided" after all, as he also forgets large parts of his early childhood, to the point where the Memory Transversal machine seriously struggles with recreating anything from it.
- Parental Substitute: Seems to become this to his caretaker Lily, and her two children.
- Repressed Memories: He took Beta Blockers, which wiped out the memories of the first few years of his life, including the existence of his twin brother and his first meeting with River.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He is frequently found eating pickled olives. He actually hated them when he was a kid, but started eating and acquiring a taste for them when his brother, who loved them, passed away.
- The Un-Favourite: Young Johnny believed his mother favored his brother over him. Given that she apparently has a breakdown following Joey's death and comes to believe that Johnny is Joey, he might be right.
- Unlucky Everydude: Poor Johnny just can't seem to catch a break. He loses his brother — and all memories of him — in early childhood; his own mother seems to love his brother more and uses him as a Replacement Goldfish following Joey's death; the girl he loves turns out to have Asperger Syndrome, making their relationship a challenging one, particularly as it pertains to communication; and despite his best efforts River refuses medical treatment for a fatal illness late in her life so that they can afford to watch over their dream house.
- Wistful Amnesia: Despite the fact that he forgot his first meeting with River, it kept affecting him on a subconscious level throughout his entire life; most notably it is the reason why he has the strange longing to go to the Moon that starts the plot.
River E. Wyles
River E. Wyles
John's wife who passed away a few years ago from an illness which she declined treatment for.- Cloudcuckoolander: Seems like this at first, considering her disorder and unexplained behavior. However, the latter definitely at least has its reasons in hindsight.
- Face Death with Dignity: She's pretty calm about her terminal illness, merely reminding Johnny about the lighthouse. The reason why River refuses to take the expensive medication is to save the lighthouse.
- Forgotten First Meeting: She never forgot their first meeting, but Johnny did. She spends much of her life trying to remind him of it.
- Hidden Depths: Her behavior at first seems random, bordering on nonsense. As the game progresses, the reasons for it become much more clear.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Implied in her first meeting with Johnny and the song "Everything's Alright".
- Important Haircut: When she suddenly cut her hair short, it turned out to be an attempt to remind John of the time they spent together as children, when she had short hair, and which he could not remember.
- Memento MacGuffin: She actually has several, namely those from her first meeting with Johnny. This includes a hackey sack and a stuffed platypus from the carnival.
- No Social Skills: Due to her Asperger Syndrome.
- The Quiet One: Deconstructed as her psychological state is explored and she's revealed to be a Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold for whom Hope Springs Eternal.
- Shrinking Violet: Gets mistaken for one due to her autism.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: The relationship between her and Johnny is the driving force of the game.
- Soap Opera Disease: All we know about her illness is that she made a ton of origami rabbits—apparently referring to the rabbit hit by a car at her wedding—before becoming bedridden with something expensive and ultimately fatal. It's not even clear if it was a physical disease or something along the lines of Death by Despair (or both).
- Tomboyish Ponytail: As a young adult.
Lily Quinn
Lily Quinn
John's caretaker whom he hired in his old age. Tommy Quinn
Tommy Quinn
Lily's son. He does not like turtles.- All in a Row: Can follow behind the player like this with his sister.
- Children Are Innocent: Played with. Lily considers lying to them about Johnny's death (as the kids may be gullible enough to believe it) but it is said that the children may find out anyways.
- Those Two Guys: Is often seen with his sister in most scenes.
Sarah Quinn
Sarah Quinn
Lily's daughter. She aspires to become a professional ice-cream taster.- All in a Row: Can follow behind the player like this with her brother.
- Children Are Innocent: Played with. Lily considers lying to them about Johnny's death (as the kids may be gullible enough to believe it) but it is said that the children may find out anyways.
- Those Two Guys: Is often seen with her brother in most scenes.
Nicolas "Nick"
Nicolas "Nick"
John's high school friend, whom he has been keeping in touch with even in his later years.- Childhood Friends: With John. Also acts as one with Joey as well in the final sequence.
- Lovable Jock: In High School, he was athletic, competitive, and would often poke fun at Johnny. However, there was no real malice behind anything he did, and Johnny only expressed annoyance at Nick dragging him off to Art class, which Nick loved but Johnny hated.
Isabelle "Izzy"
Isabelle "Izzy"
John's friend. She claims to have the same condition as River but had chosen since young to approach it in a different way.- Becoming the Mask: She, too, is heavily implied to have Asperger's, but of a less severe degree than River. In her younger days, she became an actress in order to help her appear more normal by acting on the stage. But this also caused her to act and pretend both on- and off-stage to be "normal", which eventually made her "forget" her real self. She claims her "normal" persona is what she used during her career as an actress, but not really her real self.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out Johnny on his decision to lie to River.
Joey Wyles
Joey Wyles
John's dead twin brother whom he could not remember the existence of due to the excessive consumption of Beta Blockers.- Accidental Murder: His mother accidentally ran over him when she was backing out of the driveway.
- Childhood Friends: In the final sequence, he becomes this with Johnny and Nick.
- Famed In-Story: In the final sequence, Johnny imagines him as a famous author when they grow up.
- Posthumous Character: Is long dead after the events of the story. In the final sequence Eva works to bring him back to life, but only in Johnny's memories.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He loved pickled olives, something Johnny actually hated as a kid until he lost his memories.
- Walking Spoiler: His entire existence spoils a great portion of the first game.
- Wham Shot: Him getting run over by his mother and then Johnny rushing to his side acts as one for the game. Up until that point there were only a few hints that Johnny had a twin brother, let alone a dead one.
A Bird Story
The Boy
The Boy
The main character of the story, the boy is a young child who lives predominately by himself, only receiving contact with his parents through notes they leave him each day.- No Name Given: In A Bird Story, at least.
- Unreliable Narrator: The story is told through his POV, so the Imagine Spots and reality blend together.
The Bird
The Bird
A bird found by the boy being attacked by a badger. He rescues it and nurses it back to full health.- All Animals Are Dogs: The boy teaches the bird to play fetch, although it isn't easy, as the bird continually tries to run away with the paper plane, or at one point, dunk it in the water, and use it as a boat!
- But Now I Must Go: A rare heartwarming example, as the bird eventually leaves to return to its family/friends, and when it returns to see the boy one last time, it is accompanied by another bird.
- Pet Baby Wild Animal: To the boy, who adopts it after he finds it being attacked by a badger.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: In an interesting take on the trope, it isn't the bird's appearance that makes it so adorable, it's his actions.
- Shoo the Dog: Near the end of the story. It does come back to see the boy one last time though.
The Vet
The Vet
A vet whom the boy goes to visit to help bandage and repair the bird's broken wing.- Big Bad Duumvirate: She ends up working together with the teacher to retrieve the bird near the end of the story.
- Hero Antagonist: She's the main antagonist of the story, but only because the boy perceived her that way. All she's trying to do is take in the bird so she can protect it.
The Teacher
The Teacher
The boy's teacher, who doesn't like him very much.- Big Bad Duumvirate: She works with the vet to take the bird back at the end of the story.
- Literal Metaphor: In the second class scene, she literally kicks him out of the classroom.
- Sadist Teacher: Probably not, but the boy certainly seems to think so.
Episode 2: Finding Paradise
Colin Reeds
Colin Reeds
The patient of episode 2. Another dying old man, his wish is vaguely to fix any regrets in his life, but he wants his memories of his family to be intact.- Abilene Paradox: In the end, Neil realizes that Colin's only real regret was the lingering guilt over the belief he pressured Sofia into accepting his soliciting of Sigmund Corp.'s services. In fact, Colin was actually by and large fundamentally satisfied with the life he had led, and his interest in Sigmund Corp. was really just a temporary whim from an elderly man who wondered how his life would have turned out if something had been different. Colin noticed that speaking about this idea created a rift between him and Sofia, and he eventually decided to go along with the procedure, simply because he was afraid that backing out would just make Sofia think he kicked up a lot of fuss about nothing and make matters worse. Neil's ultimate solution to the question of how fulfil Colin's wish of a life without regrets, is simply to remove the memory of Sigmund Corp.'s existence, so that to him the rift between him and Sofia never existed in the first place.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parent: Asher clearly loved him dearly, but it is also clear he both considered his father a little too much of a goof for his own good and maybe a just a little bit too doting. It is most notable from a memory where an elderly Colin tries to set his by now middle-aged son up with the daughter of a friend; Asher winces at the suggestion.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Colin had clear elements of this, especially as a kid, where he do to his absent parents and a general lack of friends spend a lot time daydreaming and otherwise getting caught up in his own imagination. He even retained some of this behavior for all of his life.
- Everyone Went to School Together: It is heavily implied that he was an old classmate of Johnny and River.
- Friendless Background: As a kid, Colin had trouble making friends with other kids, and spent a lot of time alone as a result.
- Happily Married: To Sofia. In fact, it was his fear that he had managed to drive a wedge between them by considering soliciting Sigmund Corp.'s services that constitutes the only actual regret of his life.
- I Want Grandkids: As an elderly man, Colin frequently vocalized a wish for his son to just settle down with a nice woman and start a family of his own already, even trying to set him up with the daughter of a friend.
- Mr. Imagination: Colin had a very active imagination, and he tends to embellish own his memories quite a bit, resulting in him being an Unreliable Narrator. His strong imagination is also what gives life (in a manner of speaking) to Faye.
- Nightmare Fetishist: He has a touch of this, being a life-long fan of horror movies. It also influences Faye's behavior, as she begins to behave quite a bit like a classic horror film monster when she attempts to scare Eva and Neil into getting out of Colin's mind.
- Security Blanket: His Rudog toy, which has a recurring role in many of his memories, and even doubled as a Companion Cube at times.
- Small Role, Big Impact: It is hinted in the game that Colin was the classmate who was sitting next to River before she and Johnny started dating during high school; the side comic Paper Memories confirms it and reveals he was the one who taught River how to make origami, inadvertently causing the Rabbit Origami mystery from the first chapter of the series.
- Unreliable Narrator: As in A Bird Story, and particularly in his earlier memories due to his particularly strong and somewhat over-active imagination. Colin's memories often flow in a pretty strange manner and even mix together at times, placing elements from his childhood into his memories as an adult and vice versa. Colin himself admits that he used to have trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Much of his childhood and adolescence was marred by the fact that his parents were too busy with their respective jobs to ever really be there for him.
Sofia Reeds
Sofia Reeds
Colin's wife. Initially against Colin's wish to use Sigmund Corp.'s services, she eventually relents as his time nears its end.- Beautiful Dreamer: Inverted. Sofia is pretty much always quite cool, graceful, and in control, but she tends to lose all those qualities whenever she's sleeping, usually snoring loudly while drooling and lying in a messy heap.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: At first she's rather cold, though still polite, towards Rosalene and Watts, but eventually acknowledges that they're simply there to do their jobs, and even warms slightly up to them.
- Happily Married: To Colin, and she has enjoyed his married life with him despite all the embarrassing moments.
- I Want Grandkids: Though a bit more subtle about it than Colin, she evidently frequently conspired with him in trying to getting Asher set up with a woman.
Faye
Faye
When traveling to Colin's childhood, Eva and Neil find out that he had a childhood friend named Faye, who accompanied him throughout his earlier years.- Animal Motifs: With birds, actually sprouting wings at one point and some key moments with her being punctuated with the bird sounds. It's implied she's at least partially based on the bird Colin befriended in A Bird Story.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Subverted. Eva and Neil think at first that she is in love with Colin; they theorize that Colin's feelings of regret stems from choosing Sofia over her and distancing himself from her. Turns out that they are wrong; she was an imaginary friend created by Colin as a way of coping with his immense feelings of abandonment and loneliness. When he met and befriended Sofia, he wasn't alone any more and therefore had no more need for an imaginary friend to compensate.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She's a cheerful, but wacky girl who partakes in a variety of shamelessly odd behaviors, which makes her an ideal foil to bring Colin out of his shy, modest shell. And that's probably why he imagined her that way.
- Domain Holder: As Colin's imaginary friend, she essentially controls everything in his mind.
- Fire-Forged Friends: In a sense with Neil. Faye starts off as antagonistic toward him alongside Eva in attempt to stop them from tampering Colin's mind. But after Neil eventually respecting her wish and allows her to finish the job for them, she noticably mellows down to him and eventually serves as his personal assistant in his own virtual world. (Or at least, a copy of her that Neil preserves)
- Guardian Entity: Colin created Faye to cope with his loneliness, and as such she feels responsible for protecting Colin from emotional harm, effectively making her this. The reason why she begins fighting Eva and Neil is because she believes that their intervention in Colin's mind will do him more harm than good.
- Hero Antagonist: She antagonizes Eva and Neil for a significant part of the second act, using both shock tactics and physical confrontation. However, this is only because she is fiercely protective of Colin and believes tampering with his memories isn't in his best interests.
- Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Well, actually the twist is that she is an imaginary friend. The problem is that Eva and Neil are facing her on her home turf, namely inside her creator's mind, which gives her both a great degree of autonomy as well as the ability to attack them.
- Shipper on Deck: In Impostor Factory, Faye is on board with Eva and Neil being a couple together, which is shown with how she made them married in Quincy and Lynri's new virtual world as well pretending to be Eva toward Neil to make confession, much to the latter's annoyance.Faye!Eva: Oh Neil, there you are! I just can't hold it in anymore... I must confess to you!
Neil: That's not funny.
Faye!Eva: It's a little funny... - Virtual Ghost: The ending of Episode 2 heavily implies that Neil has managed to preserve Faye, or at least a copy of her, for some unknown purpose. As of Episode X, it revealed that Faye has resurfaced as the Domain Holder of Neil's latest memory simulation and serves as his Virtual Sidekick to assists him in creating a perfect life virtual reality for his late mother, Lynri.
- Virtual Sidekick: After Neil preserves a copy of her at the end of Finding Paradise, he repurpose her as his personal assistant in the virtual world for his works.
- Walking Spoiler: It is hard to discuss Faye in any detail without giving away her true nature as Colin's imaginary friend.
Episode X: Impostor Factory
Quincy
Quincy Reynard
The Player Character of Impostor Factory.
- Future Me Scares Me: Subverted. After seeing the actions of the real Quincy, which from Digital Quincy's point of view takes place in his future, Digital Quincy admits that some of the real Quincy's choices might not have been the best ones, but he ultimately doesn't think he can actually fault him for making them.
- Genre Savvy: Upon approaching the mansion in the pouring rain at the beginning of the story, Quincy quietly remarks to himself that the scene he is seeing before him is how a lot horror stories tend to begin. Later, when he discovers that some sort of "Groundhog Day" Loop is going on with him, he immediately references the trope namer.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Gender-Inverted. It is indicated that the serious-minded and hard-working Lynri fell for him because of his free-spirited, impulsive and slightly goofy nature.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Neil Watts, with whom he shares his compassionate, optimistic personality, and his tendency to be goofy. Justified, as it is revealed at the end of the story that Quincy is Neil's father.
- Tomato in the Mirror: The player are not playing the role of the actual Quincy, they are rather playing as a digital construct of him created by Lynri, based on her own memory of his personality and without his real counterpart's memories. Then it is revealed that, on top of this, the Quincy he is based on is arguably not the original Quincy either...
- Unusual Euphemism: When he isn't Symbol Swearing, he tends to go "What the pug?!"
Lynri
Lynri Watts
A mysterious woman that Quincy encounters during his visit to the mansion. It turns out that she knows a quite bit more about the strange events than first she lets on...- All Work vs. All Play: Because of her illness, Lynri invests herself heavily into school work as a child, then into academic work as a young adult, and finally into her work, believing that is her only chance to create a legacy for herself, with her illness constantly hanging over her head. She rarely ever allows herself to take any time off for fun, something she expresses regret about later in life.
- Color Motif: Lynri is always wearing at least one lavender-colored article of clothing, referring to her association with the flower.
- Delicate and Sickly: Deconstructed. She has an incurable genetic disease that causes her to frequently pass out as a child. As she grows up, she pours everything into her research, which eventually plays a pivotal part in the development of the memory-transfer machines used throughout the game series. Instead of being "cute," Lynri grows colder and distances herself from the world in order to avoid getting attached to anything that could distract her from her illness-driven goal.
- Generation Xerox: When the truth is revealed, it turns out that her son, Neil, inherited her genetic disease, which lead him to take many decisions similar to Lynri's. In particular, the events of the game are caused by Neil himself, who is trying to give his parents the long, happy life they deserved.
- I Just Want to Be Special: When her father asks a young Lynri if she would rather be a lavender flower or a star, Lynri replies that she would like to be a star and shine as brightly as she can so that everybody can see the lavender. It is dramatically subverted after Tobias' condition gets worse, as Lynri admits to her father she actually said it to make him proud: she tried to leave her mark on the world because she knew her condition could have to lead her to premature death, but all Lynri really wanted was to be as ordinary as a lavender flower.
- Given Name Reveal: Her surname is cheekily kept under wraps for most of the story; whenever someone attempts to bring it up, they are cut off before they can say it. It isn't until the game's finale that we learn that it is Watts, and that her child in the prime reality is named Neil.
- Married to the Job: Despite her own better judgment and outspoken regret, she ends up neglecting her relationship with Quincy in favor of spending more and more time at work. After the death of Tobias, she throws herself completely into her work, and lets her relationship with Quincy die a quiet death.
- Outliving One's Offspring:
- Tobias' death breaks her completely. It marks the point where she gives up on having any kind of personal life, and instead dedicates the rest of her existence to her work.
- Inverted with the original Lynri, who went on to pass away in Neil's childhood.
- Posthumous Character: In the real world, the original Lynri already long passed away before the event of the game, which motivates her son, Neil to become who he is now and perfecting her research while at it.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Eva Rosalene. They are both two competent scientists who take their jobs seriously and are in charge to keep in line a more goofy and emotional male partner (Neil for Eva, Quincy for Lynri).
- Tomato in the Mirror: She is not the actual Lynri, but a digital construct created by Lynri's memories who was able to create a digital reality on her own thanks to the access to the technology she used to work with as a young woman. Other than that, her memories of her final years are extrapolated after the diverging point, where in the real world she chose to postpone her therapy to after the birth of her son, who survived until adulthood, while she died when he was still a child.
Tobias
Tobias Reynard
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: He is essentially a version of Neil that could have been if his parents had made another choice back in the day. The end result is that Tobias was ill for most of his relatively short life and died in his childhood.
- Hope Spot: At first his development looked normal, but then an unknown complication left him bound to a wheelchair and a ventilator.
- Named After Somebody Famous: His nickname is "Tobi", and according to Quincy, his last name is French for "fox". In other words, Neil's parents would've named him Toby Fox.
