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The Unnamed Human Protagonist (Subject 50499-A)

The nameless, voiceless POV character


  • Aggressive Submissive: Subject 50499-A becomes this, demanding that Ackt engage in risky mouthplay with them, even when she is increasingly apprehensive about it.
  • Audience Surrogate: Downplayed. While details of the character are left ambiguous to allow the audience to insert themselves into their shoes, it's clear that they have many character traits that the average viewer would not identify with, like being a submissive Nightmare Fetishist.
  • All-Loving Hero: It's quite clear that this guy has the patience of Job when dealing with the aliens. They genuinely love Acktreal despite the horrible things she said and did, and were even willing to sacrifice their own life in part 11 for the sake of the rest of the crew, though Kyra ended up doing so instead.
  • Ambiguous Gender: The gender of this character is mostly left up to the viewer to decide, though Tori does refer to them as "he" at some points.
  • Boldly Coming: sexual intercourse between him and Ackt is strongly implied in the last bit of Part 14.
  • Brown Note Being: Downplayed, but the rest of the crew theorize that there is something about humanity that is causing Acktreal to revert to a feral state of mind. This is pretty much confirmed in part 13 when Hiboritch weaponizes this against several space pirates
  • Decoy Protagonist: The only role they serve is as the Audience Surrogate. The true protagonist of the series is arguably Acktreal Domma herself.
  • Dissonant Serenity: Is rather calm during Ackt's third visit to them. Even she finds this rather unsettling.
  • Driven to Suicide: When Tori asks them why they don't miss home, they admit that they were severely depressed and suicidal, so whatever was going on at home, they weren't missing much.
    • Their actions during Ackt's second feral episode are implied to have been a suicide attempt, along with a Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Featureless Protagonist: The character is left as blank a slate as possible to increase audience immersion.
  • Fetish: They're highly implied to be a vorarephile, and have a thing for monstrous girls such as Ackt.
  • The Gadfly: It's apparent in part 2 that they're taunting Ackt because she is not permitted to legally eat them yet, and in part 3, they trick Ackt in putting her face up close to theirs so they can kiss her on the lips.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Attempts one during Ackt's second feral episode, by running off in order to get her to chase them instead of the crew.
  • Living MacGuffin: They become very important to the alien society after humans are given full rights as they want to make them an ambassador to Earth once they make official contact, Acktrealeven mentioning that they were the most important person on the ship. It's implied that this is due to the fact that they were still willing to forgive Acktreal and even love her despite what she did as which meant they would be willing to put in a good word for the society as a whole, Ackt even stating that they would have done anything to get them to say yes to their offer.
  • Manic Pixie Dream Guy: Strongly implied to be male, and is able to break through Ackt's overly serious exterior. He's also considerably more tolerant of Ackt's playful side, which she had long-buried to avoid angering her herbivorous peers.
  • Morality Pet: Their infatuation with Acktreal (which she reciprocates) is the reason why she changed her stance on humanity, from hoping they'll be legally classified as "livestock" so she can eat them to genuinely wanting to be equals to them. Sanity Slippage notwithstanding, she remains completely sincere about this.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: It's implied that they're severely guilt-ridden over triggering Ackt's feral episodes, especially after pressuring her into engaging in mouthplay, to the point where they run off during Ackt's feral episode in an apparent Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: While they are understandably apprehensive at first, Subject 50499-A is clearly intrigued when Ackt talks about wanting to eat them. Even when Ackt apologizes for this behavior and promises to not put any more humans in her mouth, Subject 50499-A convinces her to make an exception for them and continue the mouth-play with them. They spend a fair amount of time in part 8 explaining to her what "vorarephilia" is, and talks her into going further, deepthroating their entire body like what was done to Victoria.
  • No Name Given: They are only referred to as "human" or "the human" by the other characters, except for Tori, who refers to them by masculine pronouns.
  • Not Afraid of You Anymore: An interesting variation. By part 2, they seem very confident that they are sufficiently protected by the laws governing Ackt's society, and that the "breach of conduct" will fall through, granting them equal rights to her. They let their Nightmare Fetishist side show through, clearly enjoying the impromptu mouthplay from Ackt, and cheekily reminding her of their current species classification when she talks about the supposed inevitability of her eating them. They basically conquer her by proving too kinky to intimidate, and by their third meeting, she's nervous and jittery, and they are eerily calm.
  • The Quiet One: Zedjichs describes them as such.
  • Replacement Goldfish: The events in the prequel strongly imply that the reason why Ackt becomes so emotionally attached to Subject 50499-A is because her breakup with Kyra happened mere days before.
  • Silent Snarker / Deadpan Snarker: The "silent" part is downplayed in that they are obviously capable of speech, and do talk to the other characters, it just isn't heard in the audio itself. It's obvious from Ackt's reactions in part 2 that they are rather playful and flippant with her when she talks about wanting to eat them, cheekily reminding her of their current "unknown species" classification, and the fact that granting humanity equal (or at least protected) rights isn't ruled out yet.
  • Stockholm Syndrome: Tori accuses them of having this, when they tell her that they do not wish to go back home to Earth.
  • Swallowed Whole: During a (consensual) mouthplay session, they ask to have their body deepthroated like what was done to Tori. Ackt is very nervous about this but does so. Unfortunately, as she spits them out, she sinks into her first feral episode as a result.
  • Too Kinky to Torture: Ackt is clearly put off when they stop being frightened by her threats to eat them.
  • Undying Loyalty: To Acktreal Domma. Especially since the latter admits that they have a perfectly valid reason to despise her.
  • Unfazed Everyman: We can only make assumptions of their reactions to the various situations they are placed in, but the little we do know is that he comes to terms with being abducted by aliens surprisingly quick and is a shameless Nightmare Fetishist.
  • The Voiceless: They are obviously speaking to the other characters, as the other characters react to them as if they do, but it's not heard in the audio itself. This is, once again, for the purpose of increasing audience immersion.
  • The Xenophile: They're clearly fascinated by Acktreal and the other aliens.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Even though their voice is never heard in the audio, it's strongly implied that they say some variant of this to Acktreal at her lowest moments.

Victoria "Tori" (50499-B)

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"I don't want to trust anyone, but I have to, or else I'm going to lose my mind."
Voiced by: Moshi ASMR (Parts 6-9) Macalda Reye (Part 0)

The other human subject being tended to by Ackt. Murdered by Evianporial to induce a feeding frenzy from Ackt.


  • Bound and Gagged: Ackt resorts to restraining her in order to safely carry her to the holding bay.
  • Break the Cutie: is taken from her home and terrorized by Acktreal.
  • Brown Note Being: The crew theorize that there is something about her, along with Subject 50499-A, that is causing Acktreal to revert to a feral state of mind. More or less confirmed when the smell of either her blood or Subject 50499-A blood is shown to cause intense feral responses from Ackt.
  • Cool-Down Hug: Ackt does this with her after picking her up away from the door of the holding bay and attempts to explain herself.
  • Desecrating the Dead: Immediately after murdering her, Evianporial spreads her guts and blood around the holding bay in order to induce a feeding frenzy from Ackt. The crew unsuccessfully tries to clean her up before this happens, but during Ackt's second feral episode, they are forced to feed her corpse to Ackt in the desperate hope of calming her down.
  • Driven to Suicide: Downplayed, but during the meeting after Ackt's Heel–Face Turn, she asks Ackt to euthanize her. This is one of the things that really drills in how horrible she was to her.
  • Fantastic Racism: Barely hides her contempt for every alien on the ship, and straight-up insulted Zedjichs' appearance as she tried to comfort her. Understandable, since they did take her from her home against her will and potentially put her in harm's way.
Tori: I guess people can change....but [Ackt's] not a person! She's totally different from us!
  • Foil: To Subject 50499-A. Subject 50499-A is an Unfazed Everyman who was depressed and unhappy with his life before being abducted by aliens and has no desire to return to Earth. Tori is a frightened teen girl who had a normal, almost idyllic life with her family on Earth, and wants desperately to return home. Subject 50499-A is a xenophile who finds Acktreal attractive and doesn't seem bothered by the appearance of the other aliens, whereas Tori does not shy away from showing her discomfort with the other aliens, including the one who is trying to console her. Subject 50499-A is a Nightmare Fetishist who responds to Acktreal's taste-testing and threats to eat them with some degree of playful sassiness, whereas Tori found it traumatizing and refused to forgive Ackt for what she did.
  • I'm Not Hungry: Refuses the food offered by Ackt. The only "hospitality" that she accepts from her is being led to the flat beds so she can take a nap, partially so she can avoid talking to her.
  • No Sympathy: When she hears about Ackt's declining mental health and the possibility of her losing her job over it, she bluntly tells Zedjichs that she should have been medicated from the start. It isn't until Acktreal reveals that her venom glands had been removed in an apparent sabotage attempt does she show any possible sympathy.
  • Properly Paranoid: She is distrustful and outright vitriolic towards any alien she talks to while on the ship. Considering how Evian would later murder her and use her guts and blood as bait for Acktreal, she was kinda right to be suspicious.
  • Rejected Apology: Refuses to accept Ackt's apology for her abusive behavior.
  • Sacrificial Lamb: Is brutally murdered by Evianporial, her blood and entrails spread around the holding bay in order to induce a feeding frenzy from Ackt.
  • Silent Treatment: Refuses to speak to Acktreal whenever she can help it, and when she does, she's rather rude.
  • Swallowed Whole: While Ackt did fit Subject 50499-A head inside of her mouth as a taste test, she deepthroated Tori's entire body.
  • Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him: Refuses to speak to Acktreal out of fear that she'll misinterpret this as being "friends" with her but asks Subject 50499-A to ask how long they have been away from Earth.
  • Trauma Conga Line: Is taken away from her home and family, is verbally abused and terrorized by Acktreal, is further frightened after hearing about Ackt's first feral episode, is brutally murdered by Evianporial in an attempt to provoke a feeding frenzy from Ackt, and has her corpse desecrated by being fed to a feral Ackt in the desperate hope of calming her down.
    The Crew 

Acktreal "Ackt" Domma

Voiced by: Macalda Reye
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The titular alien, an Enxion. At first appears to be the main antagonist of the series, turns out to be the true protagonist of the series. The one who tends to Subject 50499-A the most often. The only carnivore aboard the ship, if you don't count Zedjichs, who is an insectivore.
  • Affably Evil / Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Invokes the trope in the first, second, and third videos, apparently aware that Subject 50499-A would almost certainly see her in an antagonistic, if not monstrous, light, due to her physical appearance AND her bluntness about her desire to eat them. Ultimately subverted in that she was never truly evil in the first place, just slowly going insane.
  • Alien Hair: Lampshaded by Ackt herself when she expresses amusement that Subject 50499-A keeps referring to it as "hair" when it's really sound-detecting flesh, made mostly of the same material that brains are made of but without the synapses. She even lets the human play with it as they sit in her lap.
  • Anti-Villain: A genuinely kind, loving soul who cares for her crewmates and test subjects, yet both are put in serious danger because of her increasingly deteriorating mental state.
  • Antagonist in Mourning: Downplayed, since Ackt felt genuine remorse for her abusive behavior towards Tori. She breaks down crying when she hears news of her death, and is horrified when she is told that she ate her corpse during her second feral episode
  • The Atoner: Is really guilt-ridden over her earlier behavior towards the two humans and decides to protect the two if they fail to earn equal rights under her society. She also admits that she has no idea how to prove to Tori that she has turned over a new leaf except to stop putting humans in her mouth (Subject 50499-A asks to be made an exception because they enjoy the mouthplay).
  • Ax-Crazy: Shows shades of this in the very first video but doesn't become readily apparent until part 8 when she has a full-blown feral episode.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: In the first episode, Ackt expresses frustration at not legally being allowed to eat humans while licking Subject 50499-A face. During her second feral episode, she is given Tori's remains to eat in an attempt to calm her down, and she's very unhappy about it when she becomes lucid again.
  • Berserk Button: by the time of part 14, the mere mention of Evianporial's name is enough to set her off on an angry tangent.
  • Blood Lust: When Hiboritch fails to properly clean himself while handling Tori's bloody corpse, she smells the blood on him, provoking a second feral episode more intense than the first.
    • Hiboritch later intentionally sets Ackt off in the presence of a pair of space pirates by slicing open Subject 50499-A's arm.
  • Cartesian Karma: Invoked when Ackt expresses concern that this could happen to her, even worse than simply getting fired. Even the very setup implies that she'll be punished for the things she did while feral, and therefore deprived of her moral agency. It's mercifully subverted, as the worst thing that happens to her is that she is barred from doing research on an R9 ever again, especially since she decided to resign even if they still let her do so. They still trust her enough to let Subject 50499-A live with her as long as she stays on her meds.
  • Chemically-Induced Insanity: It's clear that some chemical or another is driving Acktreal insane. The entire crew hypothesizes that it's hormones or pheromones coming from the two human test subjects. This is pretty much confirmed in part 13 when Ackt reveals what Oovoo said in part 12, that her reaction to human blood resembled an addiction.
  • Consuming Passion: During her feral episodes, she expresses romantic love for Subject 50499-A and a desire to messily devour them in the same breath. Even when she's not in a feral mood, she outright states that she's terrified of the possibility that she's in love with Subject 50499-A mostly because of her primal desires to eat them.
  • Cooldown Hug: After releasing Tori from her bonds after carrying her to the holding bay, Tori immediately sprints to the door and attempts to open it, prompting Acktreal to pick her up and cradle her firmly against her body while explaining the entire story to her. While Tori does calm down, she goes from being combative and feisty to giving her the Silent Treatment, still refusing to forgive her.
  • Cuteness Overload: Is briefly overcome by this in part 2 when she starts toying with Subject 50499-A, but quickly pulls herself out of it and tries to go back into Tsundere mode.
Ackt: Aw! I kinda wanna take you out of these restraints, but that would get me terminated. I just want to take you out and hold you, you're so small!
  • Driven to Suicide: She states her intention to throw herself out of the airlock in part 14. Subject 50499-A talks her out of it, and continues to distract her by talking about subjects like each of their childhoods.
    • Later, as she talks about Kyra's death, slowly realizes that was the reason why Oovoo did not tell her right away.
  • Easily Forgiven: Zigzagged. Subject 50499-A is very quick to forgive her, but Tori is not. In part 14, even Ackt surprised at how well the hospital personalle handled the incident, and they even trust her enough to allow Subject 50499-A to live with her as long as she stays on her meds. However, it could also be that they did because Subject 50499-A had enough leverage to force their hand in that direction, because they were desperate enough to do anything to appease him.
  • Emotional Regression: Implied during her second feral episode. She cries for her mother and complains loudly that she's having a bad dream, even as she is drooling and craving live meat to eat.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Has enough self-awareness to realize that visiting a test subject in the middle of the night solely to toy with them and taste-test them is highly inappropriate and does a brain scan on herself in an attempt to diagnose any mental problems. She's also very unsettled by Subject 50499-A's Dissonant Serenity in the third video, and playfully accuses them of being mentally ill when they tell her that they were turned on by her taste-testing and threats to eat them.
    • She is visibly disgusted and horrified when told that she ate Tori's corpse during a feral episode.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Massively downplayed, but she displays visible confusion when her herbivorous colleagues express joy at humanity's classification being temporarily upgraded to AUPL, or "protected animal." She herself also is happy about it, but for entirely different (possibly self-serving) reasons.
  • Gentle Giant: 11ft 4in, the largest crewmember, and a very gentle soul when not in a feral state of mind. She also reassures Subject 50499-A that she previously worked with other crewmembers who were around 20 to 30 feet tall, making HER the smallest crewmember during those missions, apparently minding the possibility that the human test subjects might be intimidated by not only her, but the other crew members, who also range between 11 and 7 feet in height, save for Oovoo and Kyra.
  • Good All Along: It's revealed that she was never truly evil, just slowly going insane ever since encountering the humans. Though coming clean to Subject 50499-A about her infatuation with them does give her the strength to resist her predatory urges, at least temporarily.
  • Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: It wasn't just the sheer depravity of Evianporial murdering Tori that she couldn't comprehend. Even after Kyra spells out his motivations for doing so to her (to trigger a feeding frenzy from her), she still cannot comprehend it, saying that it "doesn't make sense historically."
  • Heel–Face Turn: When she first meets the two humans, she mentions the legal status of humans under her government and seems very much biased in favor of them being classified as "animals" so she can legally eat them. As she spends time with Subject 50499-A, she sees them more as equals, and falls in love with Subject 50499-A, and resolves to protect them if they fail to get their rights.
  • Heel Realization: Has one in part 2 and does a brain scan on herself in an attempt to diagnose any mental problems.
  • Heroic Suicide: Almost follows through with throwing herself out the airlock for the sake of ensuring the survival of the rest of the crew, and especially Subject 50499-A, believing that their survival is more important than hers.
  • Heroic Willpower: Shortly after Evian abandons ship, she resolves to retain control of herself to prevent another feral episode until she can receive proper medical attention. Subverted as she has another one, and winds up eating Tori's corpse and killing Kyra, so she ends up confining herself to Subject 50499-A's old cell when she becomes sane again.
  • Human Pet: Mentions this possibility to Subject 50499-A as an option if they fail to get equal rights under her society's laws, but mostly as means to avoid an even worse fate as livestock. Later subverted when humanity does get their rights, and she talks about her other pet at home and Subject 50499-A interjects about what she said earlier.
Ackt: "I do have a pet already actually. You don't need to be mine anymore."
  • I Am a Monster: Ackt clearly believes this of herself after her first feral episode and admits that she wishes she were more human.
  • I Just Want to Be Beautiful: She sincerely believes that she is hideous or ugly from humanity's point of view and finds it difficult to believe Subject 50499-A when they reassure her that she's beautiful the way she is. In part 14 she reveals that she had a tendency to associate more with prey species over other predators since childhood which affected her self-perception well into her adult years.
  • I Love You Because I Can't Control You: It's strongly implied that one of the things she admires in Subject 50499-A is their lack of fear while around her, even when she attempts to scare them by threatening to eat them.
    • Only slightly subverted in that she also commends them for being compliant with her.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: Strongly implied to be the reason why she's so biased against new species, and why she's so cold and distant with them.
  • I Want My Mommy!: Screams for her mother in the midst of her second feral episode. Also, an indication of the memory loss she experienced during the episode, as she was raised by her grandparents.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She threatens to eat both Subject 50499-A and Tori when first meeting them, but eventually warms up to Subject 50499-A, and awkwardly tries to apologize to Tori for her behavior. Subject 50499-A accepts her apology, Tori does not.
  • Kind Restraints: Does this to Tori when transporting her to the holding bay out of fear that she will hurt herself or Ackt due to her feisty behavior and noncompliance.
    • Later does this to herself as she comes out of her second feral episode.
  • Lack of Empathy: Subverted. Even with her previous test subjects (which she did NOT abuse or threaten to eat), she feigns being a smug member of a superior alien race in order to emotionally distance herself from them, as she finds herself empathizing with them too strongly when they break down crying in her midst, and feels it interferes with her work.
  • Laughing Mad: She lets out short bursts of mad laughter during her second feral episode.
Acktreal Domma: It's you! Don't be scared of me! I can smell it!
  • Lima Syndrome: Develops this for Subject 50499-A. She also admits to Subject 50499-A that she empathizes with all of her test subjects but pretends not to.
  • Literal Maneater: Ackt is rather blunt about her desire to eat Subject 50499-A within minutes of meeting them. Even after her Heel–Face Turn, her irrational desire to eat them does not go away, much to her horror.
    • She finally gets her chance to feast on some human flesh during her second feral episode when the crew feeds her Tori's corpse in an attempt to calm her down. She is NOT happy about this.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: She believes that Kyra is still alive due to Subject 50499-A and Oovoo not having the heart to tell her that she actually killed and ate her. She doesn't find out the truth until part 14, when she and the rest of the crew are hospitalized.
  • Love Redeems: It is her infatuation with the Subject 50499-A that helps her give her the strength to resist her primal urges, at least temporarily until it gets bad enough that she finally gets the idea to lock herself up in the recently vacant testing cell until she can receive proper medical and psychiatric attention.
  • Motherly Scientist: After her Heel–Face Turn, she admits to Subject 50499-A that her cold behavior when first meeting them was because she prefers to remain emotionally detached from her job, due to it being difficult to deal with her test subjects panicking or crying in her presence. When she drops this act, she becomes very affectionate towards Subject 50499-A, and becomes genuinely worried at what might happen to them and Victoria if they fail to earn their rights.
  • Ms. Exposition: Due to the work being an audio play, Ackt serves this role more often than not.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Even in part 2 she is put off by her own behavior and does a brain scan on herself in an attempt to diagnose any mental issues. She's especially guilt-ridden over her abusive treatment of Tori.
    • Things only get worse for her as her craving for human flesh increases over the series, putting the human test subjects and her crewmates in danger.
  • My Greatest Failure: Ackt is very ashamed of her treatment of Tori and uses it as motivation to be nicer to any human she comes into contact with. Also, part of the reason why she's becoming increasingly uncomfortable with doing mouthplay with the one human who consents to it.
  • Non-Mammal Mammaries: Lampshaded by Ackt herself when she tells Subject 50499-A that they're not actually breasts, but venom glands. She also mentions that the males of her species have these as well.
  • Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: In part 1, she appears to be an Affably Evil or even Faux Affably Evil predator who monologues about how superior she is to humanity, and how it gives her the right to eat them. Her facade shows signs of cracking as early as part 2, when she seems to act like a stereotypical Tsundere when she all but admits to enjoying Subject 50499-A's company, then becomes defensive and angry when Subject 50499-A shows signs of being turned on by her taste testing them. In part 3, she finally admits her feelings for Subject 50499-A, and that she doesn't actually believe herself to be superior to humanity. Over the course of the series, it's revealed that she's an emotional wreck who is dealing with emotional strain, stemming from her having to deal with Evianporial's obnoxious behavior, her recent breakup with Kyra, and chemicals in the humans' blood driving her slowly insane.
  • No Social Skills: Ackt's social skills are absolutely ATROCIOUS, to the point where it doesn't even occur to her that telling her test subjects about the possibility of being graded as "livestock" is a really, really bad idea, no matter how she actually feels about it at the time.
  • Not So Stoic: The first few videos have Ackt attempting to give off a facade of being an emotionless, superior alien race. This slowly begins to crumble in the second video as she tries (and fails) to hide her romantic impulses for Subject 50499-A. Over the course of the series, Ackt is revealed to be an emotional wreck, stemming from insecurity, a painful breakup with Kyra, and Chemically-Induced Insanity. In part 14, she outright states that her stoic behavior was a complete facade, developed as a child when she got in trouble for not strictly adhering to social rules when interacting with herbivore species.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Both Acktreal and the rest of her crew note that it's extremely unusual for her to be behaving in the way she is with the human subjects. She is normally very cold and aloof with her subjects, not making things more difficult or unpleasant than they need to be for either party. It's extremely unusual that she would develop feelings for a subject, or threaten to eat anyone, including those of a species that her ancestors used to hunt for food. The crew concludes that there must be something genetic or hormonal in humanity that is causing Enxion species to potentially crave them as a food source, despite never encountering each other before.
  • Predator Turned Protector: She states her intention to do this after falling in love with Subject 50499-A.
  • Reluctant Psycho: She doesn't want to eat the human test subjects (at least not after her Heel–Face Turn in the third video) nor her crewmates, but her irrational instincts to do so are steadily building up, putting both in significant danger.
  • Resigned in Disgrace: Very much downplayed. Her employers are sympathetic to her plight and the fact that she had little to no control over her actions thanks to the chemical imbalances caused by the humans' pheromones. However, she resigns from being an R9 researcher ever again, and it's strongly implied that they would have terminated or demoted her anyway. Instead, she does planet-side research and analysis, ensuring that she doesn't come into contact with anything that could mess her up again.
  • Resist the Beast: Before her first feral episode, she's visibly fighting against it, and warns Subject 50499-A to back away from her slowly, and gives them instructions on how to shut the door on her with the keypad.
  • The Right of a Superior Species: Invokes this trope in the first three videos while conversing with Subject 50499-A, even using it as justification for her taste-testing him, since the "unknown species rights" classification only protected such species from exploitation or homicide. Ultimately subverted when she cracks in the third video and tells Subject 50499-A how she really feels, and genuinely hopes humanity earns equal rights to her. She also mentions that she only acts like a cold, smug, superior being around her test subjects in order to emotionally distance herself from them, because they frequently break down crying in her presence.
  • Safe, Sane, and Consensual: The justification that she and Subject 50499-A have for continuing their mouthplay sessions, even after she promised not to do it to any other human ever again. Unfortunately, this sets her feral instincts off. Zedjichs even goes as far as to tell her that it's probably not safe to do it even after she receives the required hormonal vaccines.
  • Second-Act Breakup: Ackt eventually decides it's not worth pursuing a relationship with Subject 50499-A if she can't get her predatory urges under control and tells Subject 50499-A that she wants to break up with them until she figures out what is going on.
  • Self-Restraint: Zedjichs suggests locking Ackt into the testing cell and strapping her down to the chair inside, but notes that she'll have to come out of her feral episode before that happens. Shortly after she eats Kyra, she finally calms down, and gets this same idea, strapping herself on the same chair that Subject 50499-A was confined to.
Acktreal Domma: You know where we are? This is your old cell; this was your old cell. I guess I'm in the chair now, getting-OW!-My brain poked...."
  • Snake People: Downplayed. She mentions that her biology is closer to that of snake than it is to a human despite her overall bodyshape. She also offhandedly remarks that her species don't give live birth like humans either, implying that Enxions lay eggs. Word of God also states that her jaws can split open to make it easier to swallow prey whole.
  • Space Madness: She sites this as a possible reason why she's acting so inappropriately around the human subjects, calling it "Deep Space Jitters." She also accuses Subject 50499-A of potentially having this when they tell her that they were turned on by her threatening to eat them.
  • Sympathetic Slave Owner: States her intention to purchase Victoria and Subject 50499-A if they fail to get their rights, but solely to protect them from a worse fate as livestock. Subverted as they do earn their rights, so she drops this issue.
  • To Serve Man: Her inexplicable, irrational desire to eat the humans on board is what drives the plot, try as she might to fight against it. The crew feeds her Tori's corpse in the hopes of calming her down in the midst of a second feral episode
  • Tragic Villain: A mild-mannered biologist who works with unknown species, suddenly is placed with a new species that acts like a Brown Note Being, slowly turning her back towards her savage, primal roots.
  • Tranquil Fury: She talks in a very quiet, angry tone of voice when she tells the space pirates that they can't take Subject 50499-A away.
  • Troubled Abuser: She was very good at doing her job and remaining emotionally detached from it, not putting her subjects through any more distress or suffering than necessary. It wasn't until the humans showed up that she began to engage in abusive behaviors like taste-testing them and threatening to eat them. It's highly implied that there is something hormonal or genetic with humanity that would slowly drive Enxions into a potential feeding frenzy, providing a reason why a reasonable scientist like her would start doing such horrible things to a test subject.
    • It's implied in the prequel that part of the reason for her abusive behavior was to blow steam off from the emotional pain of her recent breakup with Kyra
  • Unreliable Narrator: Ackt finds herself either lying or downplaying the truth on occasion:
    • In part 2, she reassures Subject 50499-A she's incapable of swallowing them whole. This is later proven to be false.
    • She claims that her multispecies society has few problems with racism or sexism. This is implied to be false when Evianporial outright betrays her because of her species. In part 13, Ackt admits that there's a great deal of racial tension between herbivore and carnivore species over the almost disastrous way in which they handled humanity. She is finally forced to admit that racism is still a serious problem in her society, as her own childhood was less than ideal for this very reason. And then in the hospital, a doctor gives Subject 50499-A an unsavory history lesson: Another species that gave off the same pheromones as humanity was specifically used as biological warfare in order to control and subjugate enxions.
    • In part 6, when Tori angrily exclaims that Ackt tried to eat her and that she had her all the way in her stomach, Ackt downplays it, claiming she only had her in her mouth, until part 7, when she musters the courage to admit that she did actually have Tori's upper body inside her stomach.
    • When telling Subject 50499-A about her relationship to Kyra, she downplayed how painful and abrupt the breakup actually was. Perhaps because she didn't want Subject 50499-A to think of themselves as a Replacement Goldfish.
  • Tsundere: Is rather cold with Subject 50499-A in her first meetings with them, even threatening to eat them and putting their head in her mouth to taste-test them. When they flirt with her during her third visit, she continues to brush them off by pretending that her society has no concept of romantic love.
  • What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Subverted. In part 3, she feigns ignorance of the concept of romantic or sexual love in a vain attempt to blow Subject 50499-A off when they flirt with her. She even makes up a story about how her society has a "breeding program" where baby-making is a loveless affair, involving only artificial insemination. This only seems to encourage Subject 50499-A, as if they wanted to reintroduce her to a concept her species supposedly left behind thousands of years ago.
  • When She Smiles: Meta version. The only video thumbnail or illustration where she is seen with a genuinely happy expression is the last few minutes of part 14. Her expressions in the other ones are either somber, fearful, or contorted with a combination of rage and ravenous hunger.
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: Acktreal tells Subject 50499-A that multi-species societies tend to be more stable and harmonious than single-species societies, and things like racism, sexism, or specism are almost nonexistent. While she does admit that she has to eat alone because her carnivorism makes the other crew members uncomfortable, she severely underestimated how much specism still plays a role in her society, with Evianporial outright betraying her because of her species. She later admits in part 14 that she was not treated particularly well as a child for being a carnivore.
  • Yandere: Threatening to eat someone within minutes of meeting them is definitely not a sign of a mentally stable, civilized being, whether or not they fit your standards for sapience. While Ackt does apologize to both her human subjects for this behavior, her mental state only further deteriorates the longer she spends with Subject 50499-A, especially when the latter persuades her to engage in more risky mouth-play, giving her more of a taste for human flesh and driving her further over the edge. This becomes especially apparent in her second feral episode.
    • Ultimately, she's a downplayed, if not subverted, example, as she is aware of the danger she poses to the person she loves, and is willing to do what it takes to protect them, even from herself.
  • You Taste Delicious: Tells this to Subject 50499-A as she licks their face in the very first video. She briefly admits to feeling conflicted because of this, because she already sees that humanity has potential to be equals to her.
    • Later says it again as she sinks into a feral episode, lamenting that her love interest tastes good enough to unearth long-neglected predatory instincts from a supposedly advanced alien race like her.

Zedjichs

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Voiced by: vividlyASMR (Part 9) Theo Lucia Audio (Part 10 onwards)
A Tazelite in charge of "abducting" specimens to study.
  • Armor-Piercing Question: When Tori demands to know why the crew can't just return her quietly to Earth, Zedjichs asks her what her explanation would be to the Earth authorities on why she went missing. She then explains that for Tori's own safety, they cannot return her until certain Earthly authorities get the story directly from the alien researchers.
  • Armor-Piercing Response: When Zedjichs states her refusal to check up on Ackt after she locked herself up in Subject 50499-A's former medical cell, Hiboritch asks her if she really thinks she's "that bad." Her response is, "Kyra Didn't!"
    • Also doubles as an Ironic Echo, since Ackt asks the same question about Kyra when she questions if she thought she was dangerous enough to justify removing her venom glands without her consent.
  • Everyone Has Standards: While she's very sympathetic to Ackt having a secret romantic relationship with Subject 50499-A, she expresses doubt that it's safe for Ackt to indulge in Subject 50499-A's vore fetishism, even after she is vaccinated against whatever human hormones are setting her feral instincts off.
Ackt: I promise I would never hurt you. It's just in my head. Just make sure to not run around me, and I can't let you inside my mouth again. At least for now.
Zedjichs: Um, I'm not so sure you should consider ever doing that again.
Zedjichs: "I can't do this anymore! Kyra's dead, Tori's dead, Evian fucked us all, and Ackt is going insane! It's just the four of us now!"
  • Kind Restraints: As Kyra is leading Ackt to Tori's corpse to feed it to her, she finally gets the idea to confine Ackt to Subject 50499-A's old testing cell. Ackt gets the same idea soon after devouring Kyra.
  • So Proud of You: Is visibly impressed with Subject 50499-A's bravery and loyalty to Ackt, both when they attempt a Heroic Sacrifice by running off to get a feral Ackt to chase them, then again when they volunteer to check up on Ackt to see if she's recovered from her feral episode.
  • Unscrupulous Hero: When she is introduced, she talks in a soft, almost motherly tone of voice to Victoria. During Ackt's second feral episode, she seems willing to kill Ackt by throwing her out of the airlock but is vetoed by Hiboritch.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Due to her position, she was likely the one who personally brought Tori and Subject 50499-A onto the ship in the first place.

Kyra

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Voiced by: vividlyASMR
Acktreal's childhood friend and ex-lover.
  • Amicable Exes: With Acktreal. However, the prequel reveals that Ackt understated how painful the breakup was for her, even if she still considers Kyra her friend
  • Break the Comedian: Is described by Acktreal as being a fun kind of person who doesn't take things very seriously. However, we never hear her crack a single joke or try to otherwise lighten things up, implying that this trope is in effect due to how bad things have gotten.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Is Eaten Alive by a feral Acktreal.
  • Eat Me: Subverted. Kyra doesn't intend to go inside of Acktreal to beat her up from the inside, but simply says, "Acktreal, eat me!" in order to get her to follow her to where Tori's remains are in the hopes that she'll eat that instead. She still gets Eaten Alive
  • Gay Guy Dies First: Downplayed, as Tori was the first casuality and Acktreal is also bisexual/lesbian, but she is the first crewmember to die and openly attracted to other females.
  • Not Enough to Bury: When Ackt finally remembers that she killed and ate her, she specifically laments that there's no body left to bury.

Hiboritch

Voiced by: Kenny-Os
The new guy, specializes in tech and mantainance.
  • Apologetic Attacker: Apologizes to Subject 50499-A immediately before stabbing them in the arm to intentionally induce a feral episode from Ackt, in order to dispose of a pair of space pirates.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Ackt knows him as a very nice, awkward person, so she's very shocked when he intentionally stabs Subject 50499-A in the arm to trigger a feral response from her in the hopes that she'll messily devour two space pirates.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Swiftly shoots down Zedjichs' suggestion to lure a feral Ackt into the airlock.
    • He is understandably disgusted with the crew's "plan B" to feed Tori's corpse to a feral Ackt, but is too desperate to see any alternative.
  • Gentle Giant: The third largest crewmember, and a more straightforward example than Acktreal, being described by Acktreal as a very gentle, yet socially awkward person.
  • Not So Above It All: Not even he is above laughing about Tori's abduction in the prequel. Makes you wonder how he felt about that when Ackt reveals they were wrong about humanity.
  • Oh, Crap!: When he forgets to clean himself after handling Tori's bloody remains, and the smell of said blood triggers another feral episode from Ackt.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Ackt describes him as an awkward, gentle kind of person, so she, along with the other crewmembers, are very shocked when he intentionally stabs Subject 50499-A in the arm in order to induce a feeding frenzy from Ackt and sets her on a pair of space pirates.
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner: To the space pirates before slicing open Subject 50499-A's arm and setting a feral Ackt on them. "See, they'd love to, but it seems there has been a sudden complication! Claws out, Ackt!"
  • This Is Going to Suck: When he is tasked with injecting Acktreal with a sedative as she's gone feral. It doesn't work.
  • The Unintelligible: Briefly due to a mishap with a translator implant. Very few words are intelligible when he tries to speak to Subject 50499-A and Ackt for the first time in English.

Oovoo

The Captain, so to speak.


  • Mister Big: A heroic variant, the smallest crewmember AND the leader.
  • Not So Stoic: They finally start showing emotion in part 13, when they're lashing out against everyone, especially Hiboritch after he intentionally triggered a feral response from Ackt in order to dispose of two space pirates
  • Starfish Alien: Is described as such in-universe and is the "least humanoid alien" on board.
  • The Unintelligible: Lacks the vocal cords to speak new languages, so speaks in a basic language that the other aliens can understand.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: They're clearly very upset and disgusted with Hiboritch when he intentionally sets off Ackt's third feral episode in order to kill off a pair of space pirates.

Evianporial

Voiced by: Spooky boy ASMR (Part 4) Captain Nemo VA (Part 10)
Same job as Acktreal. Is the true antagonist of the series and attempts to ruin Acktreal's life.
  • Ancient Conspiracy: Is apparently part of a cult that resides in deep space that hates Enxions and presumably other (likely carnivorous) species. Ackt is forced to take cold comfort in the fact that he can't show his face again, and that he'll rot with the others.
  • Evil Gloating: When he admits to the rest of the crew his plan to abandon them as a starving Acktreal goes feral and eats them, confident that there would be no witnesses alive to explain his hand in it. The rest of the crew is either too shocked or (in Ackt's case) too physically incapacitated to grab him and stop him from abandoning ship.
Ackt: You're going to be arrested!
Evianporial: No I not. Everyone will be dead before that happens!
Kyra: Not if we contact control!
Evianporial: I disabled the connection. You're not contacting anyone! She's going to starve, and it's going to feel like you're back with your ancestors pretty soon!
  • Evil Is Petty: It's implied in the prequel that part of his motivation is not just bigotry towards enxions like Acktreal, but also jealousy because she was picked to work with humans instead of him, as they were considered a high priority specimen. He instead works with the deep sea specimens.
  • Faux Affably Evil: When first introduced, he sounds cordial enough while conversing with Ackt in the sleeping quarters, and Ackt has a healthy amount of respect for him. However, this only serves to make his sudden betrayal of her even more shocking.
  • Hate Sink: The first truly malicious character in the series, especially compared to Ackt, who is a Tragic Anti-Villain at worst.
  • Hypocrite: In the prequel, he passively aggressively accuses Acktreal of being biased in favor of humanity being classified as "livestock". Later, after humanity gets full rights, and Ackt proves herself to be sympathetic to human rights, he would murder Tori in an attempt to trigger a feral response from Ackt, revealing he cares less about humanity's well-being and more about validating his own prejudices against Ackt.
  • Karma Houdini: Downplayed, almost to the point of subversion. No, Evianporial is never caught or punished for his actions, but he's forced into hiding in deep space, along with other criminals and pirates, and can never show his face in respectable society ever again.
  • The Klan: Is revealed to have been a member of such a group.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: When first bringing him up, Ackt describes Evianporial as a strict, yet reasonable person. After his second appearance, it becomes apparent he is anything but.
  • The Mole: It is revealed in part 14 that he was secretly a member of a cult that could best be described as an extraterrestrial version of the Ku Klux Klan.
  • Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Evianporial isn't exactly wrong in his sentiment that carnivore species are too biased in favor of new species being classified as livestock, and that it resulted in the standards being set too high just to satisfy them. But his membership in a hate group, and his willingness to murder Victoria just to set Ackt off, negates any valid point that he might have.
  • Stupid Evil: Both Ackt and Hiboritch describe him as such, noting that the only thing that needs to happen in order for his evil plan to fail is for the crew to survive long enough to testify against him in court.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a rather cruel one to Acktreal when he is exposed for illegally removing her venom glands.
Evianporial: "Acktreal Domma, you don't deserve your position! You jeopardized the entire mission! You think I didn't see them in the sleeping quarters? You didn't think I saw them under the bed? You snuck them out before they were approved! You're not fit to be working on an R9 Vessel!"
Ackt: (Sobbing)"I made a mistake!"
Evianporial: "And not only that, but you're feral!"
Ackt: "I'm not feral!"
Evianporial: "Yes you fucking are!"
  • Villain Has a Point: As elaborated on by Eravin Aumbra, there is a conspiracy amongst herbivores that carnivore species are so biased in favor of new species being classified as DLPP that they lobbied to set the standards for sapience too high, a sentiment that Evianporial obviously shares, a sentiment that the viewer would find difficult to argue with. However, the fact that he was willing to murder Victoria just to set Ackt off negates this.
  • Xanatos Speed Chess: Acktreal doesn't think he knew about the addictive effect humans have on Enxions when he first got on the vessel but changed his plans to take advantage of that fact later on.

    Collectors 

Thi-Karje and Sosoren

Voiced by: Macalda Reye and Techno Audio, respectively.
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I don't fucking care about any of the fucking laws concerning them!
Two space pirates who intended to steal the specimens on board, including Subject 50499-A, not caring that they were a free species at that point.
  • Asshole Victim: Hiboritch slices open Subject 50499-A's arm in order to set off a third feral episode from Ackt, and sets her on them. Ackt isn't even able to finish her meal by the time she passes out.
  • Death by Irony: They are collectors who steal specimens off of R9 shuttles to sell on a "Blood Market" and Thi-Karje seems very excited about the amount of money they'll get from Subject 50499-A. Moments later, Hiboritch intentionally draws blood from Subject 50499-A to trigger a feral episode, leading to both pirates being messily devoured.
  • Desecrating the Dead: Exaggerated when they die. As undignified as it is to have your corpse eaten by a hungry predator, at least Tori and Kyra had their bodies cleaned up when Ackt ate them both. Ackt wasn't even able to finish them off before passing out.
  • Hate Sink: They are both incredibly despicable space pirates who aren't above trafficking sapient species like humans. No one feels bad when Acktreal devours them both.
  • Paper Tiger: They (and Thi-Karje in particular) are quick to try and assert their dominance over the crew but they apparently didn't bring any weapons with them, seemingly only able to get away with it due to some law that forces crewmembers not to defend their specimens from collectors. As such, they are both quickly killed by a berserk Acktreal despite their earlier tough talk.
  • Psychopathic Womanchild: Thi-Karje basically has the mannerisms of a bratty teenage girl.
  • Salvage Pirates: When they first show up, the crew at first considers the possibility that their arrival could be good news. When they board the ship and start screaming at the rest of the crew, it becomes apparent, even before Thi-Karje turns her translator to English, that they intend to rob them of their biological specimens.
  • Spanner in the Works: They unintentionally end up ruining Evianporial's plan when the crew is able to use their ship's undamaged communications to call for help.

     Miscellaneous 

The Astronaut

An unnamed human astronaut, the POV character in the spinoff video, a different human than Subject 50499-A.
  • Audience Surrogate
  • Ambiguous Gender: The gender of this character is mostly left up to the viewer to decide.
  • Decoy Protagonist: The only role they serve is as the Audience Surrogate. The true protagonist of the particular video they show up in is Eravin Aumbra.
  • The Voiceless: They are obviously speaking to the other characters, as the other characters react to them as if they do, but it's not heard in the audio itself. This is, once again, for the purpose of increasing audience immersion.

Eravin Aumbra

Voiced by: Macalda Reye
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You're trying to anger me, aren't you? You're doing a damned good job!
An officer whose job it is to collect space junk and arrest pirates and other criminals in deep space. In the spinoff, she finds herself arresting a human astronaut in deep space, not realizing that she encountered a new species.
  • Dominatrix: She flat-out admits that she has her job because she's allowed to manhandle people while doing it. However, doing the same to a willing participant is a foreign concept to her, and it takes time for her to get used to it.
  • Everyone Has Standards: She admits to the Astronaut that she loves dominating them, but it's a guilty pleasure, as she realizes that the Astronaut needs to go get a job and socialize with other aliens than her, rather than remain dependent on her.
  • Fantastic Racism: Very much downplayed. She was one of Acktreal's childhood friends, but she doesn't exactly dismiss the possibility that carnivores are way too biased in favor of new species being graded as livestock for their own good, resulting in the standards for sapience being set unreasonably high. She even brings this up with her human captive, and it's unlikely that the viewer would disagree with such a notion, considering everything that happened in parts 1-14.
  • Foil: To both Ackt and Evianporial. While Ackt is heavily biased in favor of humanity being graded as DLPP and even gloats about it in her first meetings with her test subjects, Eravin has little stake in the matter, despite also being a meat eater (omnivore), and tries to skirt around the issue in an attempt to keep her human captive calm. In fact, she seems rather nervous for humanity's sake when she sees how primitive human technology is, and how ignorant they are. She also acknowledges that the same conspiracy theory that Evianporial subscribes to (carnivores lobbied for the standards of sapience to be set unreasonably high in order to get more food options) has merit, she does not let that get in the way of treating others fairly, especially since she was childhood friends with Ackt.
    • There's also her personality differences from Acktreal. Ackt was initially cold to Subject 50499-A as a way to emotionally distance herself and later reveals that she's much more soft-hearted in person and deeply insecure about her nature as a carnivore. Eravin initially comes off as more harsh and aggressive towards the Astronaut until she realizes they aren't a pirate but still comes off as more confident and assertive than Acktreal ever is. She's also very proud of her species and biology and becomes irritated when the Astronaut recoils when she unfurls her scent tongues.
  • Gentle Giant: Even taller than Ackt, and gentler than her, as she has far more control over her own actions than Ackt does.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Is only a jerk to the astronaut because she has no idea what humans are, and assumes that they are lying or playing dumb because they can't understand her or are confused by what she does. She first assumes that they are a weird hybrid because she can't even tell what they are just by looking at them. It's only after running DNA and blood tests on her captive that she realizes that she's dealing with an entirely new species and that their confusion and fear is completely genuine.
  • Noble Bigot with a Badge: She doesn't dismiss the idea that the standards for sapience in her society have been set too high because of lobbying by carnivores, and seems to think that said conspiracy theory has merit. However, she's more than happy to arrest members of anti-carnivore hate groups like Evianporial.
  • Police Brutality: Downplayed, but she frequently uses excessive force against suspects due to receiving incomplete information. She roughs up the human astronaut, not realizing that he was of a previously uncontacted and unknown species, and thus couldn't understand any of the warnings she gave before swooping in. In part 14 of the original series, it's also implied that she and the other officers mistook the R9 crewmembers for pirates due to Thi-Karjie's ship still being attached, and acted accordingly, though she doesn't have any qualms about "going in hot" and seems annoyed that her colleague wants to use sleeping gas.
    • She later admits that the reason why she loves her job is because it allows more leeway for her to manhandle smaller species, as it's considered extremely uncouth to pick up or grab smaller species in other circumstances, even if one's intentions were innocent.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: While she does have the unfortunate tendency to use excessive force against suspects, that's normally because of misunderstandings, like the Astronaut not being able to understand her warnings before she arrested them, or being given incomplete information when sent to rescue the R9 crewmembers in the original series. Once she realizes that the Astronaut is of a previously unknown and uncontacted species, she's far nicer to him, and even goes out of her way to find a loophole so she doesn't have to cryogenically imprison him. Unlike Ackt, she's not an idealist who ignores problems with her own society, and is more willing to admit that the standards for sapience may be excessively high, and doesn't hesitate to offer to protect the Astronaut when she brings it up.
    • In a later video, she takes issue with the Astronaut being overly attached to her, insisting that they need to interact with more people of different species, as she doesn't consider it healthy for them to be overly attached to her.
  • Stripperiffic: The last thing anyone would guess from looking at her is that she's some kind of officer or bounty hunter.
  • Sympathetic Slave Owner: Makes the same offer to the Astronaut that Ackt does towards Subject 50499-A (claim them as a pet) when she considers the possibility that humans might not meet her society's standards for sapience.

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