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Main Characters
Season 1
ENA (S1)
ENA
Masculine voice by:note Marc Rafanan ("Auction Day"), Gabe Velez ("Extinction Party" & "Temptation Stairway"), Griffin Puatu ("Power of Potluck")
Feminine voice by:note Lizzie Freeman
Drunk voice by: Sam Meza
Feminine voice by:note Lizzie Freeman
Drunk voice by: Sam Meza
"Ah, auction day... these are the utmost grand of days! This is going to be so, so 🔀 AWFUL! I think this is going to be the worst day of my life!"
The titular protagonist, an asymmetrical humanoid who alternates between depressed and happy with the drop of a hat.- The Alcoholic: When she starts acting drunk in "Extinction Party," Moony asks her if she's drunken "again," implying that this would be a regular occurrence for her.
- Big "NO!": She lets out a pretty glitched variation of this when Ulysses informs her she's trapped in The Great Runas' residence.
- Body Horror: During "Power of Potluck", the sad side of ENA is tethered to a sinister looking mask via a fleshy cord that ends with veins embedded in her face.
- Colour-Coded Emotions: ENA's two main moods are colored; yellow being her happiness/"drunkenness" and blue being her sadness/depressiveness.
- Death Seeker: Her sad side of herself asks other people to "put her out of her misery", and says "good" in response to being told she could die in the maze during "Extinction Party."
- Duality Motif: One side of ENA's body is blue and blocky (along with her torso), while the other side is yellow and smooth. With this, her hair and eyes are different for each side: her hair being long and straight for her blue side (which shows her ear) and a bob-cut for her yellow side (which covers her other ear), and her right eye being a diamond-shape and her left eye a semi-circle shape. Her socks are also different lengths, with her right one reaching towards her thigh and her left one reaching towards her ankle instead. When happy, her voice is primarily, but not strictly, more masculine, with her voice being more feminine when sad. She can turn into other forms that are based off her two sides with other dual-color alternatives. Additionally, she’s also a Mood-Swinger. At the end of "Temptation Stairway," the blue half becomes yellow with each successive shot and her hair becomes a fully symmetrical bob cut, though what was once the blue half remains blocky. Assuming "Power of Potluck" is a sequel, ENA's blue half has split off into some form of cheery, floating mask attached to her face by a tendril, while her yellow side becomes progressively more subdued throughout the short. By the end, Sad ENA has fully returned, and is yet again balanced with Happy ENA.
- The Eeyore: Usually cheerful, she unpredictably flip-flops between being The Pollyanna and this.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Her sad side speaks with noticeable rhotacism.
- Floating Limbs: None of her limbs are connected to her torso. This is most apparent with her arms and head, where her shoulders float disjointedly during some of her animations in "Extinction Party" and "Temptation Stairway," while her head floats towards the screen independent of her body at the start of her conversation with Ulysses in the latter. It's a bit more ambiguous with her legs, since she wears a skirt and we never see her in any other outfit.
- Four-Fingered Hands: Both her normal and polygonal hands have four fingers.
- Hyperactive Sprite: A number of her "Idle Animations" feature her waving her arms around in bizarre dance-like states.
- Hysterical Woman: ENA's sad side gives off the impression, being feminine presenting with the longer hair and in the first two ENA installments exclusively using the feminine voice. When it takes over, ENA's emotions rule over her, causing her to not want to do anything but wail. It also takes very little for ENA to become upset to begin with.
- Later-Installment Weirdness: In the first two shorts, ENA's voices were carefully separated—her happy side would speak with the masculine voice, while her sad side would speak with the feminine voice. "Temptation Stairway," however, has this changed, as both the masculine and feminine voices speak for either side multiple times throughout the video, possibly foreshadowing the disappearance of her blue half at the end. This is continued in "Power of Potluck", though she seems to separate her two sides evenly once again by the end.
- Mood-Swinger: Her mood changes frequently and often. These sides usually switch instantaneously.
- Nice Girl: ENA's happy side is a very thoughtful and caring person.
- Only Sane Man: Downplayed, but her happy side will occasionally display a certain lucidity concerning how bizarre the world around her is. Similarly, her "drunk" side outright called Moony out on how the jokes she makes don't make sense and wonders why everything in this world is so weird.
- Planet of Steves: "Temptation Stairway" confirms the existence of multiple ENAs, as the episode shows their drowning corpses in the Holy Code, glitching into blank mannequins.
- The Pollyanna: Her happy self has an incredibly optimistic and positive outlook on life, unlike her sad side.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Her happy side uses a certain predilection towards communicating herself using highly verbose sentences with archaic vocabulary. Sometimes crosses into Word-Salad Humor with sentences like "what conspiracies are we cooking on the menu today?"
- Split-Personality Merge: At the end of "Temptation Stairway," ENA's blue right side turns yellow. In "Power of Potluck," she instead has a mask sprouting out of her once-again-blue right side and while she remains "happy," she's far more subdued and it's heavily implied that she's still sad inside and is just trying to keep it locked away.
- Stepford Smiler: "Power of Potluck" has ENA trying to have fun, and during most of her interactions, her happy side is facing other characters. During her therapy session, the skull faced therapist notes that her happiness seems exaggerated, almost as if she doesn't want to acknowledge her sadness.
- Stress Vomit: Her sad side is prone to this as shown in "Auction Day" and "Temptation Stairway."
- Vague Age: While she wears an outfit based on a Peruvian school uniform, there is no indication whether she is a teenager or an adult. However,
Word of God has confirmed that ENA and the rest of the cast don't have specific ages. - Was Once a Man: It's implied that she was a blank mannequin before becoming who she is today.
Moony
Moony
Voiced by: Lizzie Freeman
"Wow! Look at the crowd today, ENA! Everyone's ugly..."
ENA's best (and only) friend, a girl who is shaped like the moon.- Big Ol' Eyebrows: She only has one eyebrow, but it is thick enough to still count.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Occasionally lets loose a sentence that will completely baffle even ENA, such as her joke about the Hourglass Dog "having something to say" in "Auction Day," or her remark about "the fisherman [becoming] the fished" in "Extinction Party."
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She comments on how ugly a crowd is in "Auction Day," her main concern when rocks are falling from the sky is fear that they'll cancel the auction, and even tends to show a bit of impatience with ENA, her best friend. That said, she does seem to value her friendship with ENA, being ecstatic at her gift in "Extinction Party" and outright telling ENA that her being trampled on gives her an advantage in their race in "Temptation Stairway."
- The Man in the Moon: She's a sphere with a crescent moon, and her face is displayed on the crescent moon half like in classic "man in the moon" depictions. Even the object lodged where her left eye should be serves as a Shout-Out to the famous moon of A Trip to the Moon.
- Noblewoman's Laugh: She makes this laugh in the first episode after making an incomprehensible joke about the Hourglass Dog, and again in the second episode when ENA finds her at the party.
- Only Sane Man: Ultimately subverted. Though she presents herself as the more down-to-earth (no pun intended) spectator to ENA’s bipolar eccentricities, she can be just a susceptible to circular logic and inexplicable mannerisms as her companion.
- Pretentious Pronunciation: Moony seems to have built up a habit of deliberately mispronouncing ENA's name starting from "Temptation Stairway" onward. First she pronounces it as "EYE-na", then "EH-na", and finally as "Jenna". "Power of Potluck" has her call ENA "EYE-na" once again.
- Skewed Priorities: When rocks begin to fall from the sky and start squishing the other auction-goers, she's more upset that it means they'll cancel the auction.
- Swiss-Army Appendage: The hole in her grey side has a different object slotted into it in each of her outings, such as a rock prism in "Auction Day," a mannequin limb at the start of "Temptation Stairway," and a shepherd's crook at the end of the same. We see the hole unoccupied while she's at home in "Extinction Party."
- Weight Woe: She claims that her wish to The Great Runas in "Temptation Stairway" was "to be thinner." This is apparently what caused her transformation after entering the Dead God Graveyard.
Season 2
ENA (S2)
The new ENA
Voiced by: Aleks Le (Salesperson), Nola Klop (Meanie)
"Let me ask you: what if I offer you something that could change your life forever? 🔀 HAHAHA!! Are you kidding?! I HATE THIS STUPID JOB!"
Another ENA who takes the role of the protagonist in Dream BBQ.- And Now for Someone Completely Different: She serves as the protagonist in Dream BBQ. This is probably because the previous ENA was trapped in The Great Runas at the end of Temptation Stairway with seemingly no way out until the next festival in another [unintelligible] years. note
- Colour-Coded Emotions: Like the previous one, this ENA's emotions are a certain color for each side: red means her "Salesperson" side and pale blue + yellow is her "Meanie" side.
- Duality Motif: Though she has three colors rather than two, she is still split into two parts of her: half of her face and body is red and smooth, and the other is divided between pale blue and yellow together and blocky (additionally, her torso being red and blocky). With this, her eyes are different shapes, being both triangles facing up and down, her socks being different lengths with one longer and the other shorter like S1 ENA, along with her masculine voice being associated on her left side and feminine for the right. All of this represents the two moods she swaps between.
- Fingerless Hands: Well, more like hand. Her left hand only has her thumb, making it look like she's wearing a mitten.
- Floating Limbs: To an even more extreme degree than her predecessor, since she lacks a neck and her torso and pelvis are detached.
- Four-Fingered Hands: This time, however, it's only her right hand (which is still polygonal).
- Mood-Swinger: Like the original ENA, she switches between two personalities, "Salesperson" and "Meanie".
Froggy
Froggy
Voiced by: Buchao
A strange Japanese man wearing a frog suit. Serves as the secondary protagonist of Dream BBQ.- And Now for Someone Completely Different: Replaces Moony as the secondary protagonist of Season 2.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To Moony, especially in his art style. While Moony was a 2D character in terms of animation, this guy is a low polygonal being.
- Frog Men: Wears a frog suit.
- Theme Naming: Just like Moony, his name ends with a "y."
Supporting Characters
Debuted in Auction Day
Hourglass Dog
Hourglass Dog
Appears in: Auction Day, Temptation Stairway
Voiced by: porkymoon (promotional material only)
A dog inside an hourglass being sold at the auction. In Temptation Stairway, a whole herd of them (sans hourglass) are being taken care of by the Shepherd. They are infinite in number and appear everywhere in the ENA universe.- Non-Standard Character Design: When it debuted in Auction Day, it was the only 3D character, with everyone else being 2D sprites. Subverted later on, when more 3D characters began appearing.
- Series Mascot: Alongside ENA herself.
Auctioneer
Auctioneer
Appears in: Auction Day
Voiced by: Alejandro "Ace" Fletes
"ALRIIIIGHT Y'ALLL~! WELCOME TO THE DAILY AUCTIONING~! SOOIE~! SOOOIEEE~!"
An enthusiastic auctioneer whose auction ENA and Moony go to. He is a puppet who seems to be controlled by a cassette tape- Character Catchphrase: He often says "Sooie, Sooie!" at the end of his sentences."
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is exclusively known by his occupation.
- Living Toys: He appears to be a sentient puppet, although it is unknown if his true self comes from the puppet or the cassette tape attached to it.
- Motor Mouth: Being an auctioneer, he is a very fast talker.
Headtombs
Headtombs
Appears in: Auction Day, ENA Day
Voiced by: Alejandro "Ace" Fletes
"One fatty catty!"'
Talking tombstones attending the auction."One fatty catty!"'
- Death from Above: Some are crushed by falling rain rocks, possibly fatally.
- Meaningful Name: Their name comes from them being tombstones with heads on them.
- Shout-Out:
- They are literal Talking Heads.
- Its design is seemingly inspired by the works of Zdzisław Beksiński, a Polish dystopian/surreaelist artist.
- Uncertain Doom: It is not shown whether any of the Headtombs crushed by rain rocks survived.
Debuted in Extinction Party
Keeper
Keeper
Appears in: Extinction Party
"Calculation Terminated. Shut up and go in peace."
The guardian who stands in front of the entrance to the 3D maze.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is a keeper (a guard) and that's what he's credited as.
- Living Statue: He is a sentient statue head with legs.
- Shout-Out:
- The colors of the legs match the Microsoft 2012 logo, the Microsoft Windows 3.1-7 logos, and the Google logo. The pop-up windows that appear around it reference Windows 95.
- The head is clearly Michelangelo's statue David. The use of the David head could also be a nod to the cover art of Floral Shoppe, which has become iconic as a representation of the Vaporwave music genre.
- Synthetic Voice Actor: His voice was created using Microsoft's Software Automatic Mouth (SAM) speech synthesizer.
- Waddling Head: It's a statue head on four hooved legs.
Merci
Merci
Appears in: Extinction Party, ENA Day
Voiced by: ChobiLuck
"그냥 도망가! 그리고 여기있는 모든 사람들에게서 아무것도 받지 마."translation
A mime who helpsnote ENA through the 3D maze. She communicates through "the body language of the gods", which in practice means her hands are mouths.- Bilingual Bonus: Anyone who can understand Korean can tell that she's being very rude and that the English subtitles don't match what she's actually saying.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: She speaks Korean with English subtitles. Except, the subtitles are blatantly wrong.
- Hand Puppet: She appears to be wearing one on each hand, which she speaks out of.
- Precision F-Strike: She calls ENA a "stuffy fuck" in Korean.
- Shout-Out: She partially resembles the mimes from Runescape. The pole she's holding might also be a reference to the Japanese stage play Bō Shibari ("Tied to a Pole").
- White Mask of Doom: Her mask resembles a bune mask, which is used in traditional Korean theatre.
Rubik
Rubik
Appears in: Extinction Party
Voiced by: Samuel Meza
"Can't you simpletons lend me some privacy? Fly away!"
A hollow dodecahedron that can turn into a Rubik's cube with a face. It's attached to a facated heptagon by pink and purple veins. Sets the current record for the shortest interaction in the series, lasting only 10 seconds."Can't you simpletons lend me some privacy? Fly away!"
- Grumpy Old Man: Although his age is unknown, he acts like a grumpy old man who wants privacy and is annoyed at anyone who tries to talk to him.
- Living Polyhedron: He's more accurately a living dodecahedron.
- Living Toys: He is a living Rubik's cube.
- Meaningful Name: Named after the Rubik's cube, can turn into a Rubik's cube.
- Shout-Out: His name and design are based on Rubik's cubes.
- Visual Pun: ENA calls Rubik quite "puzzling". A Rubik's cube is a type of puzzle.
Robert
Robert
Appears in: Extinction Party, ENA Day
Voiced by: Hanai Chihaya
"お友達の事はお忘れなさい。この廊下で起こっている事は、あまりにも恥ずかしい事だ!"translation
A man who either rides in a small, green UFO or is the UFO. He also helpsnote ENA find her way to Moony.- Bigger on the Inside: He's able to fit inside his UFO, which is basically a flying cooking pot.
- Bilingual Bonus: Anyone who can understand Japanese can tell that the English subtitles don't match what he's actually saying.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: He speaks Japanese with English subtitles. Except, the subtitles are blatantly wrong.
- Necktie Headband: Wears one. Combined with his swirly Blush Stickers and overall design, he looks like a stereotypical Japanese Salaryman who's had a bit to drink after work.
- Shout-Out: To Hiroshi Uchiyamada from Great Teacher Onizuka.
Debuted in Temptation Stairway
The Great Runas
The Great Runas
Appears in: Temptation Stairway
The door to The Great Runas's residence atop its transportation device
A well-known, god-like entity capable of granting wishes. The entity itself is never seen, only the entrance to its residence.
- Arc Symbol: The design on the door, resembling a pair of black, empty eyes streaming with tears, seems to represent the Great Runas and appears multiple times throughout its residence.
- Celestial Body: The gate seems to have some kind of banner or cape that contains a night sky full of stars.
- Eldritch Location: Its residence includes the Stairway Void, Mannequin Expanse, Hourglass Meadow, Desert, and Dead God Graveyard. All of these areas are distinct from each other, following little rhyme or reason, and are accessed non-linearly by passing through the Holy Code. Imagine wandering through all the old Windows screensavers and that'll basically sum up the experience.
- Expecting Someone Taller: Implied by Moony's comment, described below.
- The Ghost: Mentioned but is never seen. Instead, its door and transportation stand in for it. Moony apparently met the Great Runas to get her wish granted but apparently it "doesn't look all that handsome in person."
- Meaningful Name: Runas, as in "run as", a Windows command that allow users to run programs with different permissions than their current login.
- Shout-Out:
- Its design is heavily inspired by the works of Zdzisław Beksiński, a Polish dystopian/surreaelist artist.
- Its concept is inspired by El Señor de los Milagros, a painting that survived an earthquake in Lima, Peru in 1655. It is said to grant wishes to those who reach to him and, during October, a procession is held where the painting is taken through the streets of Lima on a pedestal decorated with flowers, similar to the Runas' transportation device. The Runas' Arc Symbol also matches the representation of El Señor de los Milagros as a crying figure.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Although it never appears, it drives the plot of "Temptation Stairway", as the episode focuses on ENA and Moony going to its realm to be granted a wish from it.
- The Tragic Rose: The bipedal vehicle has rose vines wrapped around it, with flowers blooming. Considering the theme of "desires never being fulfilled", they could symbolize the futility of achieving the climb and getting your wish granted.
Mannequins
Mannequins
Appears in: Temptation Stairway
Pale humanoid figures that look like artist mannequins. They seem animate and maybe even alive.
- The Blank: Due to being mannequins, they have no face.
- Despair Event Horizon: Many of them, found in the Mannequin Expanse, are in a Pose of Supplication and hitting the floor in seeming despair. This mirrors Ulysses' gesture from his interaction, where he says, "You will fail like the rest of them", implying that these mannequins either failed to reach the Great Runas or had their wishes granted but weren't gratified by it.
- Living Statue: While not exactly statues, they are sentient mannequins.
- Shout-Out: The dressed mannequin found in the Great Runas' Stairway Void resembles the Nopperabou Witches from Yume Nikki.
- Uncanny Valley: By nature of being mannequins, of course. The way that they move like they're being puppeted despite the implication that they're not inanimate and the fact that some of them are animated at a lower FPS adds to this.
Brick Frog
Brick Frog
Appears in: Temptation Stairway
Voiced by: Alejandro "Ace" Fletes
"Yes... My intro... it was very, very impressive... stunning..."
A frog shaped like a brick, found in the mannequin maze.- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Very minor. A more sadistic side is implied when he says he'd rather not climb the Great Runas because it's fun watching the bodies fall.
- Broken Record: Repeats words before continuing his sentence.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Performs rapid-fire kicks to snap ENA out of a mental breakdown.
- Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Averted. He wheezes, stutters, and drops his tone in the middle of sentences.
- Shout-Out: Brick Frog's voice is an audible nod to Kermit the Frog, and the frog parts of its body visually resemble Vibri.
- Stealth Pun: Brick Frog was named for the indentation on the side of a brick or the tool used to make it.
Merchant
Merchant
Appears in: Temptation Stairway
Voiced by: Sr. Pelo
"Turrón!"
A shadowy salesman made of three masks. He's selling items to commemorate the Great Runas race.- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is only credited as "Merchant", after his job/role. Considering how he's only named as Merchant rather than The Merchant, like The Shepherd is, maybe His Name Really Is "Barkeep".
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: He speaks Spanish with Mexican slang, accompanied by English subtitles.
- Large Ham: Starts out speaking a normal conversation and then: TURRÓN!
- Shout-Out:
- He re-enacts a part of Talking Heads' Once In A Life Time music video.
- The unicycle-riding person juggling Merchant's masks before he materialized is based off of the 1986 "juggler demo" for the Commodore Amiga line of computers.
- His mask resembles Peruvian Waq'ollos, which are often worn to represent the Qhapaq Q'olla merchant character. Regarding his overall appearance, he seems to have taken inspiration from the play The Neutral Mask On The Surface Of Skin.
- His appearance in the "New ENA Merch from Fangamer" promo resembles the turrón ads from El Chavo del ocho.
- The turrón he sells is a reference to the Turrón de Doña Pepa that's usually sold during the October celebration of El Señor de los Milagros, which is what the Great Runas is based on.
Ulysses
Ulysses
Appears in: Temptation Stairway
Voiced by: Edwyn Tiong
"The celebration is over, but it seems your greedy soul brought you here."
A steward to the Great Runas, presumably.- Be Careful What You Wish For: Implicitly warns ENA of this."But heed this warning: desires are never fulfilled nor quenched. You will fail like the rest of them."
- Broken Record: Tends to repeat phrases a few times before continuing his explanation.
- Electronic Speech Impediment: His voices glitch out, stutter, and are accompanied by an electronic buzz.
- Eye Motifs: Despite his eyes always being shut, as mentioned below, he has an eye theme in how his clothing buttons are designed.
- Eyes Always Shut: His eyes are always shut, which adds to his uncanniness.
- Floating Limbs: He has no arms, only floating hands/gloves.
- Shout-Out:
- His speech patterns is a send-up to The Master.
- A Twitch stream confirmed that his design was based on Lord Farquaad.
- Like a lot of characters, he re-enacts a part of Talking Heads' Once In A Life Time music video, in his case while he's telling ENA that she'll fail to reach the Great Runas.
- One of the images that appear in his hands is the Renaissance painting Inferno by Pieter Huys.
- Speaks in Binary: Informs ENA that the next celebration is in 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000translation years.ENA: That's a lot!
- Suddenly Shouting: He keeps a relatively conversational tone until ENA enters the Holy Code, at which he gutturally yells, "Punishment is imminent!"
- Uncanny Valley: Ulysses is intentionally uncanny and creepy. He has a human-like, low-poly rendered face, not helped by his erratic body movement and stilted, constantly shifting speech.
- Unmoving Plaid: His gloves. By default, they have the texture of an unmoving blue sky with clouds, although the image can change seemingly at will.
- Voice of the Legion: He has at least five distinct voices that he alternates between.
The Shepherd
The Shepherd
Appears in: Temptation Stairway
Voiced by: Emma Breezy
"Ещё один Эна-баламут." translation
A cat-like creature with the ability to morph into a low-poly tank who lives in a dome full of Hourglass Dogs. She apparently knows The Great Runas and gives away access to those she views as worthy of meeting the entity.- Because You Were Nice to Me: The Shepherd initially doesn't want anything to do with ENA, but after ENA gives her the turrón that she picked up from the merchant, she pays her back with a blood ID and instructions on where to go next.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: At first, she's outright hostile towards ENA, even whacking her a few times with her crook (which doesn't do much of anything). She immediately changes her tune, however, once ENA gives her the turrón.
- Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": She is simply referred to as The Shepherd in the credits. Though neither she nor ENA refer to herself as such.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: She speaks in Russian with English subtitles.
- Meaningful Name: While it's not sheep that she's looking over, what she does seem to be shepherding are Hourglass Dogs.
- Shout-Out:
- She re-enacts a part of Talking Heads' Once In A Life Time music video.
- Her design is based on the painting Picasso's Cat
◊. - Her tank resembles the one from the ZoneOut video game found in the TempleOS operating system.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Judging by her reaction, she seems to really like turróns.
- Voluntary Shapeshifter: She seems to have the ability to transform into a low-poly tank. Though it's not clear if she resides in the tank or if she literally becomes the tank.
- Wham Line: The quote provided at the top of this folder reveals that more than one ENA exists.
Mariya & Gabo
Mariya & Gabo
Appears in: Temptation Stairway
Mariya voiced by: Santou Kei
Gabo voiced by: Hanai Chihaya
Gabo voiced by: Hanai Chihaya
"Drink the blood and smoke the banana, yes."
"何よそです?!"translation
Mariya is the prismatic little entity being held by Gabo. They act as a pair of guardians to the Great Runas and stop ENA for identification."何よそです?!"translation
- Bilingual Bonus: Anyone who can understand Japanese can tell that Mariya is being very rude. Like, even worse than her tone implies.
- Funny Afro: Gabo wears a green afro wig.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: Mariya speaks Japanese with a Kansai accent, accompanied by English subtitles.
- Intentional Engrish for Funny: Gabo speaks in heavily accented English and uses nonsensical phrases.
- Losing Your Head: Mariya is just a head without a body sitting on a tray carried by Gabo. She can still talk and jump up and down a bit, though.
- Shout-Out:
- Gabo's line "drink the blood and smoke the banana" is a nod to the conversation with Dracula in Space Funeral.
- The way Gabo is holding Mariya on platter might be a reference to Guido Reni's painting Salome Bearing the Head of St. John the Baptist.
- Gabo's line "drink the blood and smoke the banana" is a nod to the conversation with Dracula
Phindoll
Phindoll
Appears in: Temptation Stairway
Voiced by: Sam Meza
"Hey! What's the data, theta? Hey, you're pretty acute for a newbie. But now's not the time for me to go off on a tangent."
A flying pink dolphin who lives in (or possibly even is) a Biblically-accurate angel. He serves as a gatekeeper on ENA's way to visit The Great Runas.- Friendly, Playful Dolphin: He's a floating pink dolphin and an all-around Nice Guy.
- Nice Guy: He's one of the only characters to be alarmed by ENA's mood swings, even calling off "the interview" out of concern for her mental well-being.
- Orphaned Setup: Phindoll begins telling a joke in "Temptation Stairway" about why camel aren't pro-wrestlers, but he suddenly spasms and yells, missing the punchline... until he reveals that was the punchline.
- Pungeon Master: Literally his first line (quote above) is him making several math-related puns.
- Shout-Out: A possible one to Fluid, a PS1 music game where you control a dolphin.
- Significant Anagram: His name is an anagram of "dolphin" with an extra "L".
- Vocal Dissonance: He's a cute pink dolphin but has the voice of a Totally Radical Surfer Dude.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: While he can't transform into people or other animals, he can morph and stretch his body into amorphous shapes at his own free will.
Volley
Volley
Appears in: Temptation Stairway
A silent, witch-like figure who appears after ENA stains the water red, as per Phindoll's instructions.
- Hidden Eyes: Volley's eyes are hidden in the shadow of their hat.
- Shout-Out: Named after the song Volley by Oriental Magnetic Yellow.
- The Voiceless: Doesn't speak when they appear.
Debuted in Power of Potluck
Mask
Mask
Appears in: Power of Potluck
Voiced by: Lizzie Freeman
"Fun! May I see it, please?"
A floating blue mask that's tethered to ENA's sad side, seemingly replacing it for the episode.- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The mask is even more enthusiastic than ENA's happy side, and it understands the way the people in the house have fun. However, ENA's happy side is only confused by everything she encounters. Only when she talks about it to the Therapist does she reach some kind of understanding and allow herself to emote naturally, which destroys the mask. This mirrors the neurodivergent practice of detachment and masking emotions, where one imitates certain mannerisms despite not understanding them the way allistic people would, as well as masking depression.
- Genki Girl: Very excited and fascinated by the contents of the house.
- Sanity Slippage: It looks jittery and unstable, visibly cracking when meeting the Therapist, implying that it can no longer suppress ENA's sad side. This is also the only time it expresses anything negative."Abysmal! Tastes like I'm in a real cosmic stew!"
- The Symbiote: It's attached to ENA's face via a fleshy cord, and literally drags her through the building in search of fun throughout the episode.
- Visual Pun: It's literally masking ENA's depressive moodswings by covering her sad side. Also when ENA destroys the mask at the end: it literally cracked.
Ivy
Ivy
Appears in: Power of Potluck
"What a stink! That is not the essence of merriness... Aren't you entertained enough?"
A rabbit-like lady who helps ENA find the First Act. She speaks using chiptune songs instead of a voice.- All There in the Manual: Since she has no voice actor, her name was only revealed in the soundtrack by the title of her introductory song.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Her paws are bare underneath her dress.
- Black Bead Eyes: Her expression temporarily shifts to this to show how unimpressed she is with ENA.
- Floating Limbs: More like Floating Body Sections. She has visible arms and legs, but her body is cut in half vertically, separating her face and the front of her body from the back. Each half has one arm and one leg, so they're still technically detached and floating. Her neck is also detached from her shoulders.
- Made of Bologna: Her cross-section shows that she's solid red on the inside, with strange "O"-shaped bones.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: She refers to her six children(?) as ENA's "siblings" in another example of this series' nonsensical dialogue.
- Rubber-Hose Limbs: Her arms are animated this way.
- Uncanny Valley: Her arms are too long for her body and her face is detailed in a way the rest of her is not. There's also the way the seperate halves of her move asynchronously.
- White Gloves: She wears these, which help her hands stand out against the dark hallway.
Weeping Statues
Weeping Statues
Appears in: Power of Potluck
"Sometimes, the most astonishing experiences are the ones we never expect. These tears are from joy."
Blue women with their upper arms and torsos hanging out from where they're embedded in a brick wall. They preclude the path to the Second Act. Instead of a voice, they "speak" by projecting a film reel of lips out their ears, which is accompanied by a rhythmic clattering noise.- Crying a River: The statues cry so much that even with a large drain in the floor, the room is rather flooded.
- Exotic Eye Designs: The second head's eyes look like a film reel. When she's talking, her eyes glow and spin.
- Nested Mouths: Her speech is three layers deep. The first head silently cries. The second head, which comes out of the first head's mouth, has projector screens for eyes. Those screens project the image of lips, and those are what talk.
- Tears of Joy: Apparently the reason for their endless crying.
Shadow People
"Shadow People"
Appears in: Power of Potluck
"You're up on stage, lady! This is it! You are part of the Third and Fourth Act!"
A pair of shadows cast by animate skeletons (or are they shadows controlling the skeletons?) that are a part of the Third and Fourth Act. Instead of a voice, they speak through Voice Grunting.- The Dividual: They're two individuals but they seem to either speak at the same time or use the same Voice Grunting. Either way, they're bundled together and treated as one entity, much like how Act III & IV are both together.
- Living Shadow: Combined with Dem Bones. Are the bones casting the shadow or are the bones a reflection of the shadows? Who knows.
The Therapist
The Therapist
Appears in: Power of Potluck
Voiced by: K Beau Foster
"I sense that there might be a touch of exaggeration to your joy."
The sole inhabitant of Act V. He helps ENA to find closure for her experiences in the house.- Body of Bodies: He is a skull made of smaller skulls. His hand, the only other part of him that we see, is also made of skulls.
- Epiphany Therapy: He helps ENA achieve one by getting her to express herself naturally and telling her that fun can be found in little moments and not necessarily in how she conforms with other people.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is credited as "The Therapist", although no one actually refers to him as such.
- Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Averted. He coughs, grunts, wheezes, and often has to pause during his speech to breathe.
To Debut in Dream BBQ
Coral Glasses
Coral Glasses
Appears in: ENA Day 2024, Dream BBQ
"I turned down another job opportunity to be here..."
A humanoid character with a growth of coral jutting out of her right eye.- In Place of an Eye: Coral Glasses has a gigantic, yellow coral reef growing out of her right eye.
- Meaningful Name: Her glasses appear to be attached to the coral growing(?) out of her face.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Her hair is black and her skin is ivory white.
- Shout-Out: To Kanamori Sayaka from Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Taski Maiden
Taski Maiden
Appears in: Dream BBQ
"I don care! I DON CARE!!! >:OO GO AWAY!!!"
A "little gremlin".- Bratty Half-Pint: From what has been shown so far, her personality seems to be leaning towards this.
- Girlish Pigtails: She either has four pigtails or two pigtails that split.
- Shown Their Work: Her design is based off of Chimú textile patterns.
- Repetitive Name: Taski means "girl" in Quechua, so her name translates to "Girl Girl".
Unnamed Clown
"Clown"
Appears in: Dream BBQ
A yet-to-be-named clown. There's something sinister about him.
- Floating Limbs: He has no neck, with his head floating above his shoulders.
- Monster Clown: In a Twitch stream, it was mentioned that his design is meant to be "unsettling", so this is invoked. How monstrous he is remains to be seen.
- Shout-Out: His design seems to be inspired by a minor character from the film Den-en ni Shisu (also known as Pastoral: To Die in the Country).
