Characters from the Zed_Technician games.
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The Bit More Know Zero
Sandra
A woman whose errand for her sister turns into a fight for survival.
- The Cameo: Sandra can be found chilling outdoors in The Fish's Tale as an Easter Egg.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: Sandra comes armed with a shotgun against the monster trying to break in her car.
Nameless Monster
An unknown monster that tries to break into Sandra's car.
- Big Bad: Of the game.
- No Name Given: The Monster isn't given any name or title whatsoever.
- This changes in The Fish Tale, where he's been named "Rex" by Sandra after becoming her pet.
- Suddenly Voiced: After going through the entire game without any lines, the Monster says "Vroom, vroom" after hijacking Sandra's abandoned car at the end.
The Man from the Window & The Man from the Window 2
The Man from the Window
A mysterious being that kidnaps any individuals who read his book. He stalks the Rabbit family.
- Big Bad: Of the game, and its sequel.
- Determinator: He makes it personal as he relentlessly hunts the Rabbit family to take someone away.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: His book details his desire for friends. He'll do anything to get them.
- It Can Think: The sequel demonstrates that he's learning from past failures to capture the Rabbit family.
- Nothing Is Scarier: It is unknown what happens when the Man successfully takes his targets. It can be assumed that the victim does not survive.
- Plot-Triggering Book: It's not known how or why, but he always leaves a book in the home of his victims as a warning sign. The book details his wish for friends and the strict rules he must abide by to get them. If the readers succeed in distracting the Man and staying hidden from him longer than 20 minutes, he will vacate the home. Should the readers fail for whatever reason, the Man will take either the child or the parent and spirit them away to who knows where.
- Returning Big Bad: The Man is the only villain in the series to fill the Big Bad role in more than one game.
Diane "Mama" Rabbit
The main protagonist of the game and its sequel, Mama Rabbit makes it her mission to protect her son, Junior, and later her granddaughter, Audrey, from the Man.
- Adults Are Useless: Played With. She can succeed in hiding herself and her wards or fail. If she fails, it results in either her son or granddaughter being taken by the Man, or herself being taken and leaving the kids alone.
- Mama Bear: After reading the Man From the Window's book, she immediately jumps into action to protect Junior and later Audrey.
- It's All My Fault: She will feel deeply ashamed of herself if she fails to protect Junior or Audrey.
- Oh, Crap!: After reading the book and hearing the Man tapping at the window, Mama Rabbit realizes that she and Junior are in immediate danger.
- Silver Fox: Or Silver Rabbit in her case, but even after becoming a grandmother, she's still pretty attractive.
Junior
Mama Rabbit's son. He is the first to discover the Man from the Window's book and is targeted as a result. Canonically, he survives and later grows up to have a daughter named Audrey.
- Break the Cutie: If his mother is taken by the Man, it will have a lasting effect on him.
- He Is All Grown Up: Junior is a working adult and father by the time of the sequel.
- Protectorate: To his mother, obviously.
Audrey
Junior's daughter, who appears in the sequel.
- Break the Cutie: If her grandmother is taken by the Man, this too will be damaging for her.
- Protectorate: Like her father.
Beware the Shadowcatcher
Maude
The current owner of a family diner, struggling to keep it afloat due to being weighed by debt.
- Genius Slob: Despite being capable of delivering good food in her family diner, Maude has been pointed out by Sam to be sloven in other matters, such as dimming the lights to save electricity and doing laundry in the kitchen sink.
- Supreme Chef: One of Maude's best qualities is that her cooking is amazing.
Sam
Maude's friend and co-worker.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Though Sam chews out her friend for her friend's bad habits, she truly cares about Maude and tries to keep her out of trouble.
Mr. Shadow
A shadow person looking for a nice meal at a family diner, despite being hounded by the Shadowcatcher.
- Crazy Cultural Comparison: The shadow folk have a tradition that it's bad luck to be direct when ordering food, leading to the family giving Sam meandering puzzle-like orders that just barely confirm what they want.
- Number of the Beast: If you get the orders of all three members of the shadow family correct their tips for the night add up to $666.66
Mrs. Shadow
A shadow person looking for a nice meal at a family diner, despite being hounded by the Shadowcatcher.
- Crazy Cultural Comparison: The shadow folk have a tradition that it's bad luck to be direct when ordering food, leading to the family giving Sam meandering puzzle-like orders that just barely confirm what they want.
- Number of the Beast: If you get the orders of all three members of the shadow family correct their tips for the night add up to $666.66
Little Shadow
A shadow person looking for a nice meal at a family diner, despite being hounded by the Shadowcatcher.
- Crazy Cultural Comparison: The shadow folk have a tradition that it's bad luck to be direct when ordering food, leading to the family giving Sam meandering puzzle-like orders that just barely confirm what they want.
- Number of the Beast: If you get the orders of all three members of the shadow family correct their tips for the night add up to $666.66
- Rich Kids: Hilariously, the little shadow will tip $222.22 if their order is correct, same as their parents.
Shadowcatcher
The antagonist of Beware the Shadowcatcher, who is hunting down the shadow family and threatens the diner in the process.
- Big Bad: Of the game.
- Heel–Face Turn: In the best ending, the Shadowcatcher, unable to stop the mass influx of shadow people coming to Maude's diner, has a change of heart and leaves his old job to work at the diner as a waiter.
- Misplaced Retribution: The Shadowcatcher aims to capture the shadow family for escaping over to the real world and has no qualms against seizing anyone who is suspected to harbor them.
The Vermander Curse
Dr. Eda
The only doctor in the local hospital.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dr. Eda may be blunt to the point of rude, but truly cares about her patients and appreciates Morton's help, even offering to throw him and his daughter a welcome party if they survive the night.
Nurse Morton
A nurse who recently moved to a new town with his daughter and is starting a new job in the hospital.
- The Cameo: He appears briefly at the beginning of Artifacts and Antiquity talking to the new protagonist Gracie.
- Resourceful Rodent: Morton is an anthropomorphic rat who helps Dr. Eda fend off a demon.
J.P. Vermander
A member of the Vermander Family, who summons a demon on a hospital over profits dropping by 1%.
- Big Bad: Of The Vermander Curse, being responsible for summoning the demon attacking the hospital.
- Disproportionate Retribution: What does any sane man do when profits drop by 1%? Summon a demon and send them on their way to the culprit they think is responsible! In this case, the local Hospital.
- Evil Is Petty: The guys summons a demon to destroy a hospital filled with innocent staff and patients and ultimately puts his entire town at risk. The reason for this? He was offended that said hospital interrupted his cashflow to the tune of -1% since last time.
- Heel–Face Turn: Has a change of heart in the Golden Ending of the game and tries to make amends.
- I Own This Town: He gets away with his despicable actions completely in most of the endings due to the Vermander family owning most of the land the town was built on and having the local government in his back pocket. The only scenario where he faces any sort of karma for his misdeeds is the Golden Ending where he loses his wealth and is forced to become a humble delivery man to make ends meet.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Despite being the game's main antagonist, J.P. Vermander doesn't directly oppose the protagonists, letting the demon he's summoned do that instead.
- Riches to Rags: In the best ending he loses control of the demon he summoned as well as the wealth and power it afforded his family. After the demon leaves him critically wounded, he is even forced to stay at the very hospital he tried to destroy and is reduced to being a simple delivery worker due to lacking any sort of skills to become anything else.
Hannah
J.P. Vermander's personal secretary.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Although she works for J.P., she calls the hospital to warn them of the demon and gives them vital information to evade it.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In the Arrested ending, its implied Vermander sent the demon after her as punishment for attempting to help the hospital.
The Demon
The entity summoned by J.P. Vermander.
- The Dragon: To J.P. Vermander, although in the Golden Ending it betrays him.
- The Heavy: The Demon acts as the more direct and dangerous threat to the hospital despite its master being the Big Bad.
Lang Boyd
A wolf who is being treated for his back after an accident.
- The Cameo: He appears at the very beginning of The McMilian Tree Lot as a customer buying a tree to use as kindling from the owner Cynthia.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite looking like a scary wolf with pointed teeth and red eyes, he's really a loving husband and father with no evil bone in his body. Should the demon come after him and Jasmine, he tries to protect her from the demon despite his back condition..
- Supreme Chef: The reason he risked his health was so that he could afford to prepare a good meal for his family.
- Too Dumb to Live: His wife asks Dr. Eda if she can cure his "terminal lack of common sense" after he foolishly ignores her advice and nearly ends up killing himself.
Jasmine Boyd
Lang's wife, who accompanied him to the hospital.
- Anger Born of Worry: Jasmine repeatedly berates her husband for getting injured due to being too cheap to hire a handyman to fix the roof. However, beneath her anger, she truly cares about him.
"Jane Doe"
A cephalopod who came to the hospital for an injury on her hand.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Based on the language used, her injury was a lot more grisly than most would be able to safely endure were it not for cephalopods being able to regrow limbs.
- Mr. Smith: Because Dr. Eda couldn't get her real name when she arrived at the hospital, she settled with calling her "Jane Doe".
- The Illegal: Considering Jane Doe's refusal to give her name, her apparent difficulty with English, the fact she only got medical attention for a broken hand under threat from her employer, and her worry that she would be separated from her family if she went to the hospital to begin with, it is likely that she is an undocumented immigrant.
Tammy
An axolotl who came to the hospital for help with a toothache.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Tammy was given, as Dr. Eda put it, "old-fashioned medicine" to numb the pain from pulling her tooth out, which results in her wandering around the hospital.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: She's implied to have been given some booze to serve as an anesthetic for her tooth removal surgery. Unfortunately, this leaves her in a heavily intoxicated state for the entire rest of the night and causes her to wander around the hospital while the demon is about.
Midnight Maid Night
Ruth
A Midnight Maid working alongside Naomi.
- Multiarmed Multitasking: Ruth is a cockroach with four arms, which makes her very useful carrying four boxes at once.
- The Night Owl: Her business isn't known as the "Midnight Maids" for nothing. This makes sense as she appears to be a cockroach woman and cockroaches are notorious for scattering whenever they're exposed to bright light.
Naomi
A Midnight Maid working alongside Ruth.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Naomi is part-human and part-bird, possibly a harpy.
- The Night Owl: Similar to her partner Ruth. She's some sort of nocturnal species of avian and prefers to do her job in the middle of the night.
Joseph Vermander
A member of the Vermander Family and the former owner of the mansion.
- Benevolent Boss: One of Joseph's best qualities, as he treated the servants in the house much more nicely than his father.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Agatha, a maid who he grew very close to despite being in different social positions.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Pops in, tells the Midnight Maids a little advice/exposition, and disappears. Which makes sense since he was actually Dead All Along and only haunting the house to protect the Midnight Maids.
- Token Good Teammate: He's the only morally decent member of the Vermander family depicted so far. While he has made some mistakes in his past he's nowhere near the level of his father or his relative J.P. Vermander.
Agatha
A fox who once worked as a maid.
- Constructive Body Disposal: Agatha's tragic fate after Jeremiah killed her is to be buried under the floorboards.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite looking like a demonic fox and technically spending most of the game as an antagonistic figure, she's ultimately revealed to be just another victim of the cruel Jeremiah Vermander.
- Interspecies Romance: With Joseph, who is human.
- Silent Treatment: Agatha invoked this in an attempt to get Joseph to grow a spine and stand up to his father.
Cornelius
The family's butler.
- Servile Snarker: Shows shades of this when he inquires to Jeremiah whether he wants to know the forecast - which actually hinted to his master's doom.
- Too Dumb to Live: While he may have been partially motivated by fear, his decision to head out into a blizzard without even a coat was not a very smart one.
- Undying Loyalty: He served as a diehard loyal servant for the Vermander family for much of his life. This ultimately causes his death when his sadistic boss asks him to go fetch him the newspaper. During a blizzard. Without even letting him put on a coat first.
- Villain Killer: In the Golden Ending, is the one to invoke Dragged Off to Hell on Jeremiah.
Jeremiah Vermander
Joseph's father and the original owner of the mansion.
- Abusive Parent: Jeremiah made his son's life a living - and subsequently unliving - hell because of his cruelty.
- Bad Boss: He treats anyone who works in the Vermander house terribly to the point someone perishes without having done anything wrong to him, such as burning his cooks alive in the oven, sending the butler out in the cold without a coat, and killing Agatha for getting involved with his son.
- Big Bad: Of Midnight Maid Night, being the reason of all bad things that have happened in the mansion and the only one who attempts to kill the Midnight Maids out of pure malice.
- Dragged Off to Hell: Jeremiah's final fate in the Golden Ending after being set On Fire.
- Evil Is Petty: To such an extent that he makes his relative J.P. Vermander look mild by comparison! Probably his worst offense in this regard was his senseless murder of his own loyal butler Cornelius. Sending the servant out into a raging blizzard for a newspaper was already a pretty vile action, but him denying the poor man a chance to even put on a coat first was just him going the extra mile to be a complete dick for no real reason.
- Karmic Death: It's his own loyal servant Cornelius who sees him to his ultimate fate, burning in hell for his horrible crimes. Given that his actions had led to the man freezing to death it's especially ironic that his own fate would be a complete reversal thematically. Prepare for "warmer weather" indeed.
Artifacts and Antiquity
Gracie
A new employee working for Stahl and Co. Shipping Company.
Faye
A fairy under the employ of Stahl and Co. Shipping Company.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Faye the fae.
Mike
A shadow person under the employee of Stahl and Co. Shipping Company.
- Shadow People: Being one of the shadow people.
Nameless
An Egyptian goddess who recruits the Stahl and Co. employees to retrieve the artifacts.
- Everyone Has Standards: Nameless admits that destroying humanity over the theft of the artifacts was completely disproportionate of the gods to do, which is why she decides to help the unlucky workers set things right.
Thoth and Sekhmet
Two Egyptian gods threatening the employees of Stahl and Co. after the theft of the artifacts.
- Adaptational Villainy: While Sekhmet isn't overall too different from how she was in the original Egyptian Mythology, Thoth plays this trope straight since his original counterpart was a Reasonable Authority Figure and overall benevolent god, and not an Omnicidal Maniac who wants to destroy and remake humanity for fun.
- Affably Evil: Thoth is a downplayed example of this trope. While he does compliment with the protagonists and yields, he also mocks Gracie and calls her "insignificant".
- Big Bad Duumvirate: They serve as the main antagonists of the game, being the two deities who directly oppose the protagonists.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Despite everything, Thoth shows to be a slightly affable Fair-Play Villain who compliments with the protagonists after they've summoned the Protector and willingly yields, unlike Sekhmet who has to be convinced by Thoth to give up.
- For the Evulz: Their reason for wanting to destroy humanity and having already done so multiple other times before? So they can remake it, for fun.Thoth: The sooner we bring about the end of mankind, the sooner we get to remake it! Have YOU ever created anything? It’s quite fun.
- Non-Human Head: While they have human-like bodies, they have the heads of animals: Thoth has that of a bird, while Sekhmet has that of a lioness.
- Omnicidal Maniac: They are the two deities who are the most determined to bring the end of humankind. And they have already done so many other times before.
- Sadist: Implied with Sekhmet, who grins and says "Behind you" before jumpscaring the player.
The Sentinel, the Assassin and the Priest
Sekhmet's minions, who are sent by her and Thoth to prevent the protagonists from returning the artifacts to the other gods.
Spoiler Character
The Protector
A being who was summoned by Nameless to combat Sekhmet's servants.- The Big Guy: Serves to this as the top security guard of Stahl and Co.'s Shipping Company in the good ending.
- The Dreaded: Even Thoth and Sekhmet, two Egyptian Deities capable of (and are attempting at) restarting the universe, back down when faced with The Protector.
- One-Man Army: Easily manages to wipe out Sekhmet's servants, who are already well known for being powerful warriors under her liege.
No Strings Attached
Maggie
The proprietor of a local motel.
- Cane Fu: Maggie makes very good use of her cane, especially when the Game Over merely results in her striking her would-be attacker to the point of sending him to the hospital.
The Intruder
Philip
The stranger who sets up the game on Maggie - not knowing who he's dealing with.- Big Bad: Of the game, although he's far from evil.
The Fish's Tale
Monica
A woman who inherited the responsibility of keeping the Fish asleep from her late father.
- Hot Witch: Like every female character in Zed_Technician's games, she's an incredibly plump but curvy woman.
- Magical Barefooter: She's a witch and she goes around barefoot.
Angela
An anglerfish hired by Monica to help her complete a ritual to stop the Fish.
- Fish People: She's a humanoid anglerfish and she doesn't seem to have a problem on dry land.
The Fish
An abomination that Monica and Angela have to put to sleep before it wakes to unleash disaster.
- Big Bad: Though inactive, it is the main threat of the game as it releases parasitic creatures to wreak havoc. Its awakening will spell doom for all life on Earth.
The Parasites
The Warning Watch
Deborah
A chimera working from home with Sammy, who has to follow the instructions of the warning watch to survive.
- Nerves of Steel: With her supervisors breathing down her neck about meeting her quota, and The Entity just about literally breathing down her neck, she manages to remain calm and tough it out.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue oni of the duo. She's able to keep a cool head, in this case at least to the detriment of her safety.
- Two Beings, One Body: As a chimera, her tail is a snake with his own thoughts on what's going on.
Sammy
The talking snake who is also Deborah's tail. He gives her advice when needed, but mostly frets over her well-being in general.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red oni of the duo. He routinely gets angry on Deborah's behalf, even if she insists that she's able to handle whatever's thrown at her doorstep.
- Snakes Are Sinister: Averted. While he's a bit temperamental, he means nothing but the best and wants to help however he can.
- Two Beings, One Body: Sammy is the the tail of a chimera who he desperately wishes could catch a break.
The Entity
A gangly supernatural creature that the National Occult Authority have put out an Emergency Alert for.
- Evil Luddite: Played with. Rather than fearing the evils of technology, it hates televisions and computers because they make it easier for people to warn all its potential victims of its presence.
- Salt Solution: Salt can be used to ward traditional doors so it can't enter them.
- Super Smoke: It can materialize from the vapor of hot water if enough of it is left lingering in the air at once.
Captain Warrington's Play Maze
Captain Warrington
The mascot of the Warring Burger Corporation. Made of gretel wood with ash and bone paints, the statues are the secret to the franchise's success... and a far darker secret.
- Eldritch Location: The tube mazes. It consists of seven Warring Burger replicas, with twisting tube mazes between each, and if you can't navigate a maze in 12 minutes, you're trapped until Warrington finds you. If you do manage to reach the seventh stratum, level 0, it's a straight shot out to the real Warring Burger, and the time you spent in there will have been significantly less than it felt like. Just don't go in the supply closet in 6 if you're a child.
- Living Statue: Implied. If you get trapped in a maze segment, you wander until your phone dies... and then Warrington "crawls" out of the darkness. Any way you slice it, you and Albert are never seen again.
Ashley
A dog waitress working at Warring Burger.
Penny
The manager of Warring Burger and Ashley's friend.
The McMilian Tree Lot
Cynthia
The owner and proprietor of the McMilian Tree Lot who ventures deep into its depths with her trusty shotgun to rescue a stranded customer who has become lost.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: The second character who can actively defend herself in a Zed_Technician game as well as the second to use a shotgun as her weapon. Over the course of The McMilian Tree Lot she blows away dozens of giant wooden nutcrackers to rescue a trapped customer, proving herself to easily be one of the most badass protagonists to appear in this game series yet.
Monty
A moth man who has gotten himself lost somewhere in the depths of the McMilian Tree Lot.
- Non-Action Guy: He has absolutely no means of defending himself and has to rely entirely on Cynthia to guide him to safety. Completely justified though due to the fact that he's unarmed, has no idea what's going on and is probably heavily disoriented from being trapped by the Gretel Tree for several hours.
Gretel Tree
A strange type of tree that only grows on the site of mass graves and possesses terrible powers.
- Big Bad: It controls a small army of homicidal wooden nutcrackers and has trapped a helpless customer deep inside the McMilian Tree Lot, forcing the owner Cynthia to venture inside and try to rescue him. It also has many odd and disturbing powers and is implied to have complete control over the entire lot due to it being built on a mass grave site.
- Man Behind the Man: Or rather, wood behind the anomaly. As mentioned in Captain Warrington's Play Maze, the titular mascots are made of Gretel. Taken together with the army of nutcrackers in the tree lot, it's very easy to imply that the powers of the Gretel Wood are responsible for the tube mazes.
The Fairview Files Episode Zero
Detective Dalia
A detective who moved to Fairview after her nephew Ted got caught up in one of the local legends at the nearby McKinley Cemetery.
Dalia's Assistant
A newly hired helper to assist Dalia in her various detective cases.
Ted
Dalia's nephew who finds himself in trouble when his attempt at a shortcut lands him at the mercy of a local haunted cemetery.
