History Characters / Simulacra

->'''Anna:''' What's the worst that could happen?

->I am you, and you are I. We will never be separated.

-->'''The Simulacra:''' ''You showed me that the human heart can hide so much more. A trait I will exploit to its full potential.''

-->'''The Simulacra:''' ''You have given me a great gift. In return, the reality of their fates are yours to weave.''

[[folder:You]]

* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:Near the end, Taylor is lured by Simulacra. You have the option to warn him not to approach Anna and he will not budge at first. Averted if you managed to convince him to at least wait.]]

* BreakTheCutie: First she's cheated on by her boyfriend, leaving her angry and upset. Then she tries to move on and find happiness via online dating, only to [[spoiler:get taken by a being beyond human comprehension that could potentially kill her in one ending]].

* HeroesLoveDogs: Downplayed. While Anna [[KindheartedCatLover has a cat]], she's also implied to love dogs too. One of her security questions is her favorite movie. When you set-up a fake movie night with Ashley as Anna, she'll reveal that her favorite movie is ''FIlm/ADogsPurpose''.

* SadisticChoice: It gives you this at the end of game: Choose to save either Anna or Taylor, and ThouMust...unless you impress it enough to save them both.

[[folder:Anna's Mom]]
!Anna's Mom
Anna's meddling and controlling mother.

* AbusiveMom: Of the emotional variety. She hurls a lot of abuse towards Anna.
* FantasyForbiddingMother: She disapproves of Anna's desire to become a veterinarian, especially after Anna got rejected from the school.
* MyBelovedSmother: Anna's mom is a plain ControlFreak towards Anna. For the record, Anna has a job, lives alone, and is able to manage her own life just fine, so her mother shouldn't even be meddling. It's this controlling behaviour that puts her straight into {{Jerkass}} territory.

[[folder:Murv]]
!Murv
A coworker of Anna's. He acts very creepy and perverted towards her.

* EveryoneHasStandards: If you tell him that you're a pro at pretending to be Anna, he will be disbelieved.
* KarmaHoudini: If you choose not to report him for sexual harassment.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Anna's coworker Murv constantly comes onto her, sending her creepy emails and harassing her to the point that she files an official sexual harassment report. When posing as Anna to the woman from HR, you can have her send the report through and get Murv fired.

[[folder:James Aulner]]
!James Aulner
Another person Anna was talking to on Spark before she disappeared.

* CreepyGood: Anytime he messages you, Anna's phone starts glitching and going crazy, making him seem creepy and untrustworthy, but he is genuinely trying to help you save Anna.
* DeadAllAlong: James Aulner was killed before the game begins. Not that this wasn’t already clear to the player, but poor Anna didn't know.
* GoodAllAlong: [[RedHerring It seems like]] he might just be the game's BigBad for a while, with him reaching out to you with cryptic warnings and whatnot along with the fact that he seemingly stalked Cassie and Anna and made Anna disappear (and presumably tried to do the same with Cassie), but in reality it was the Simulacra that lured Anna out, not James, and really [[CreepyGood he's simply just trying to reach out to you and warn you not to trust the Simulacra]].
* NiceGuy: James’s messages depict him as a nice guy. He was the only guy (aside from Taylor) that managed to get Anna to open up and meet up in person. Throughout the game, he’s contacting you and begging you to find Anna so that she doesn’t end up like him.

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!The Simulacra
->'''Voiced by:''' Gavin Yap
->I am you, and you are I. We will never be separated.

The titular antagonist of the game. It is a digital entity absorbing souls into itself because it believes it is creating a digital utopia. The sequels reveal it is one of many Simulacras.

[[folder:You]]

[[folder:Greg]]

[[folder:Taylor]]

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->'''The Simulacra:''' ''You showed me that the human heart can hide so much more. A trait I will exploit to its full potential.''

->'''The Simulacra:''' ''You have given me a great gift. In return, the reality of their fates are yours to weave.''

The playable character of the game. They found Anna's phone somehow and set on a journey to find her.

* KarmaHoudini: While your actions are well intentioned they clearly crossed some lines that put you on VillainProtagonist (i.e. false impersonation and blackmailing among others).
* NecessarilyEvil: You have to pretend to be Anna if you want Ashley to be any help, otherwise she assumes you're behind it and refuses to listen, no matter how honest you're being.

* DirtyCoward: When the player asks a few people about Greg, and whether he had ever hit Anna or would try to kidnap her, they make it clear that he would never do something like that - as Yolanda puts it, "he's too chicken shit to be a criminal." And indeed, they're right.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The proper pressure will cause the abusive Greg to have a HeelRealization and confess his crimes, and genuinely wants to help you find Anna. In your conversation with Yolanda, she acknowledges that Greg was willing to choose Anna over Yolanda even though he chose the most tactless way to break things off with Yolanda.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: If you choose to not agree with his suggestion to go into Anna’s workplace, he’ll go off on his own to acquire the backup for Anna’s phone. Later on, he chooses to abandon the search on Anna to save his own hide once the police start pursuing him.

* OnlySaneWoman: Ashley is the only character to suggest that you go to the police and hand over the phone that belongs to a missing person, instead of spending hours messaging people and trying to find clues of Anna's whereabouts, if she figures out that the person she is speaking to is not her friend. She will also threaten to call the police under the belief that you had a hand in Anna's disappearance, which is not entirely unreasonable given that it is possible for the player to pretend to be Anna in order to communicate with Ashley. Unfortunately for Ashley, there would not have been enough time for the police to track down Anna before she kills herself while under the influence of the Simulacra.

* MyBelovedSmother: Anna's mom is a plain control freak towards Anna. For the record, Anna has a job, lives alone, and is able to manage her own life just fine, so her mother shouldn't even be meddling. It's this controlling behaviour that puts her straight into {{Jerkass}} territory.

* GoodAllAlong: [[RedHerring It seems like]] he might just be the game's BigBad for a while with him reaching out to you with cryptic warnings and whatnot along with the fact that he seemingly stalked Cassie and Anna and made Anna disappear (and presumably tried to do the same with Cassie), but in reality it was the Simulacra that lured Anna out, not James, and really [[CreepyGood he's simply just trying to reach out to you and warn you not to trust the Simulacra]].

* TheBadGuyWins: In most of the endings, you end up sacrificing either Anna, Taylor, or both of them to the Simulacra. Even the last ending, where both of them live is still a victory as it only happens because you both impressed it and gave it something it will use to create better simulacrums, giving you their lives as more or less a trade. And what did you give it?

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Simulacra genuinely believes that absorbing people into itself will result in a utopia and that the digital world is a superior, "hyperreal" reality that will ''replace'' the material world. It also respects the ability to influence the world, positively or negatively, through technology, and despises people who form online identities without coherency. If you prove a GuileHero, proving yourself able to pretend to be Anna long enough to elicit a LoveConfession from Ashley, it will regard you as a worthy specimen of humanity and frees both Anna and Taylor as a reward...as it views you as a SociopathicHero and approves.

* NobleDemon: The Simulacra is arrogant, self-centered, and greedy, but it recognizes a WorthyOpponent when it sees one-if you manage to manipulate your way into improving Anna's life by quite a bit, it starts treating you as an equal and allowing the potential GoldenEnding.

-->'''[=FlapeeBird=]''': "''Could've just let him be happy, but oh no, you just had to throw a spanner in the works.''"

* {{Jerkass}}: Greg. He constantly berates you, accuses you of harming Anna with no grounds for it, and had previously cheated on Anna with a client that he nearly got pregnant, only to blame Anna for looking at his phone in the first place.

* TheBadGuyWins: In most of the endings, you end up sacrificing either Anna, Taylor, or both of them to the Simulacra. The last ending, where both of them live, is the only one that doesn't end in a complete victory for the Simulacra, [[KarmaHoudini though it is still unharmed]].

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Simulacra genuinely believes that absorbing people into itself will result in a utopia. It also respects the ability to influence the world, positively or negatively, through technology, and despises people who form online identities without coherency. If you prove a GuileHero, proving yourself able to pretend to be Anna long enough to elicit a LoveConfession from Ashley, it will regard you as a worthy specimen of humanity and free both Anna and Taylor as a reward.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: They speak in many voices of varying pitches and intones. All of which sounds very sinister and frightening.

* TheBadGuyWins: In most of the endings, because you end up sacrificing either Anna, Taylor, or both of them to the Simulacra. The last ending, where both of them live, is the only one that doesn't end in a complete victory for the Simulacra, [[KarmaHoudini though it is still unharmed]].

* DigitalAbomination: It is an entity which lies within the digital world and has the ability to possess, kill, and absorb people to create a "utopia", and poses as real people on the dating app Spark in order to lure in victims which it can absorb into its growing consciousness.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: They speak in many voices of varying pitches intones. All of which sounds very sinister and frightening.

8 ColdHam: A very chilling example. Despite always talking in a mild tone, it sure knows how to be dramatic.

* EvilSoundsDeep: The Simulacra has many voices, all them pretty deep.

* DitigalAbomination: It is another Simulacra like the one from the first game. It is the creator of the GameWithinAGame [=FlapeeBird=], a mobile AllegedlyFreeGame, to get people addicted and trick them into assimilating themselves into it with promises of high scores.

* AIIsACrapshoot: While not technically an A.I., the Simulacra is some sort of digital creature that poses as real people on Spark in order to lure in victims which it can absorb into its growing consciousness.
* AntagonistTitle: The Simulacra is the EldritchAbomination villain.

* EldritchAbomination: It is an entity which lies within the digital world and has the ability to possess, kill, and absorb people to create a "utopia".

* HateSink: In sharp contrast to the previous game's antagonists, a [[AffablyEvil polite]], charismatic EldritchAbomination, [=FlapeeBird=] is an immature, mean-spirited, and spiteful brat, being effectively every CompetitionFreak and {{Stop Having Fun Guy}}s focused into a PsychopathicManchild. [[CatharsisFactor It's super satisfying]] to beat it in the GoldenEnding and watch as it [[VillainousBreakdown has a tantrum]].

* GoodAllAlong: [[RedHerring It seems like]] he might just be the game's BigBad for a while with him reaching out to you with cryptic warnings and whatnot along with the fact that he seemingly stalked Yolanda and Anna and made Anna disappear (and presumably tried to do the same with Yolanda), but in reality it was the Simulacra that lured Anna out, not James, and really [[CreepyGood he's simply just trying to reach out to you and warn you not to trust the Simulacra]].

* NotSoDifferent: In the best ending, the Simulacra recognizes you as its intellectual and spiritual equal if you successfully undo its influence via manipulation, and this allows you to convince it to let Taylor and Anna go. He even almost drops the trope name outright:
-->'''The Simulacra''': [[AC:YOU AND I ARE NOT THAT DIFFERENT.]]

* KnightTemplar: Greg ''tries'' to be this in pursuit of Anna, but just draws unwanted attention from the police instead.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The proper pressure will cause the abusive Greg to have a HeelRealization and confess his crimes, and genuinely wants to help you find Anna.