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The Town

Boyd Stevens

One of the main protagonists. Boyd is the town sheriff, serving as the de-facto leader of those choosing to live there instead of the community house. He is a hard-working and compassionate individual that does whatever he can to balance maintaining order in the town and figuring out how to return everyone home.

Agent Scully: Lampshaded towards Jim.

"After everything you've been through, you *still* think this is a big game?.

Anti-Hero: He's gruff and somewhat volatile, but he's a genuinely well-meaning man dedicated to helping the townsfolk.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: His strong desire to save everyone and return them home has resulted in him neglecting his family and even lead to his wife going nuts and trying to kill everyone in a misguided attempt to escape.
Good Is Not Nice: He wants to keep everyone safe but came up with 'the box' as a deterrent against dangerous behaviour. He doesn't actually want to use it but ends up doing so with Frank but holds off on using it on Sara.
Heroic Host: In Season 2, Boyd is infected by Martin with some kind of blood-based parasite that gradually drives him insane with visions relating to a creepy ballerina coming after him. The only way to get rid of the parasite is by passing it onto someone else via blood transfer, which Boyd uses to kill one of the creatures.
Hypocrite: Somewhat justified. Boyd sentences a villager to death via "the box" for an honest mistake that resulted in the deaths of the man's family members, even though he attempted to go back on his decision later on. However, he eventually spares the life of a villager who murders four individuals and attempts to kill a fifth- which he tries to conceal from most of his followers. Regarding the latter point, he holds the double standard of demanding answers from others while refusing to disclose his decision regarding this individual. While he does all of this for the purpose of figuring out how to leave the region, his actions still contradict his own rules...and there are major consequences for this later on down the line.
The Leader: To paraphrase Father Khatri, the people trapped in the town were dying in droves and living in perpetual fear before Boyd showed up and took charge of the situation. Using his military experience to organize the survivors into pooling their resources, rounding up animals that could be used as livestock, and his discovery of the talismans that keep the monsters at bay, culminated in Boyd being named the de jure leader of the entire community as the town sheriff. However, The Chains of Commanding has clearly been taking its toll on Boyd's mental health, leaving him rather irritable when needing to interact with other people.
The Lost Lenore: His wife Abby underwent Sanity Slippage after their arrival in town, until finally he had to kill her to stop her shooting rampage.
My Greatest Failure: His wife's death. He was so focused on exploring the forest around the town that he failed to notice her Sanity Slippage until she went on a shooting rampage, and he had to kill her to protect their son from her.
Parental Substitute: Acts as a surrogate father to Kenny and takes him on as a deputy and protege Sheriff.
Senseless Sacrifice: He risks his life and stability of the village to venture out into the forest for answers on the nature of the region and the malevolent beings that haunt it, but winds up returning to the town with virtually no answers, as well as a community mess to clean up.
To Be Lawful or Good: His greatest personal challenge as the town sheriff is his struggle to uphold the Repressive, but Efficient laws he himself established for the sake of maintaining peace and security within the community, even if that means damning people he sympathizes with to a Cruel and Unusual Death as punishment for breaking those laws.

Tabitha Matthews

Portrayed By: Catalina Sandino Moreno

Jim's wife and Ethan and Julie's mother.

Ambiguous Situation: At the end of season 2 she seemingly escapes and wakes up in a hospital outside of the town and forest.
Friend to All Children: Tabitha loves kids and wants to save the strange ghost children trapped in a tower.
The Heart: A very caring person towards people who treat her and her family well. She also helps Victor come to terms with what happened to his mother and his sister Eloise.
Nice Girl: Generally nice and understanding towards her family and other people.

Jim Matthews

Portrayed By: Eion Bailey

Tabitha's husband and Ethan and Julie's father.

Agent Scully: Despite bearing witness to such inexplicable things like supernatural creatures that can shapeshift, being stuck in a place that is impossible to escape by normal means, and appliances running without any identifiable power source, Jim is absolutely unconvinced that there can be any explanation for things other than it being a government conspiracy. This seems to be averted, however, upon learning that the villagers actually killed one of the monsters.
Conspiracy Theorist: He starts sliding into this mindset in Season 2, when he convinces himself that the town and everything in it is a Government Conspiracy to study how people react to stress. In his case, it's because of his desperate need to rationalize the situation and his inability to simply accept the impossibility of everything involved in it.
Fatal Flaw: Jim is completely unable to accept anything less than a completely rational explanation for everything happening in the town, which drives him to take risks to find that explanation, such as continuing his investigation even after the storm seemingly caused by building the radio tower, or trusting the clearly unstable Randall.
Papa Wolf: Very protective of his family to the point where he comes close to harming Victor for potentially endangering Ethan.

Julie Matthews

Portrayed By: Hannah Cheramy

Jim and Tabitha's teenage daughter.

Age-Appropriate Angst: She intially wants to break away from her family and do her own thing. Circumstances such as the attack on Colony House, Jim getting trapped under the house and her Mother's brief disappearance convince her to stay with them though.
Ambiguously Bi: Was briefly attracted to Fatima and felt confused and jealous about her.
Break the Cutie: Goes through a lot of awful stuff over the course of the show.
Demonic Possession: Is possessed and tortured by the Cicadas but fortunately saved when Boyd destroys the music box.
Nice Girl: Like her mother she is generally nice to people.

Ethan Matthews

Portrayed By: Simon Webster

Jim and Tabitha's young son.

Creepy Child: Says odd things now and then.
Dreaming of Things to Come: He apparently saw Victor's room in a dream while he was injured before he even set foot in it.
Nested Story: He's very fond of a children's book called 'The Crominockle' that Jim and Tabitha read to him. The book may also be significant to events going on in the place.
Odd Friendship: With Victor.

Kenny Liu

Portrayed By: Ricky He

The town deputy and in some ways a surrogate son of Boyd.

Bisexual Love Triangle: With Kristi and Marielle.
The Determinator: Is scared out of his mind but pushes forward anyway.
Incompatible Orientation: Has unrequited feelings for Kristi, who is engaged to Marielle.
Parental Substitute: Boyd acts as a surrogate father to him, taking him on as a deputy and protege.
What the Hell, Hero?: To Boyd several times, particularly when he finds out he's been protecting Sara.

Tian-Chen Liu

Portrayed By: Elizabeth Moy

A motherly figure for the town and the head chef of the diner.

Friend to All Children: Fond of Ethan.
The Lost Lenore: Her husband Bing-Quian.
Supreme Chef: Makes a variety of delicious dishes with the limited ingredients they have.
Team Mom: A very caring and motherly person who is also stern when she needs to be.

Bing-Qian Liu

Portrayed By: Simon Sinn

Kenny's father who suffers from dementia.

The Lost Lenore: To Tian Chen.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the second episode.

Jade Herrera

Portrayed By: David Alpay

A computer genius who arrives in the town with his best friend.

Ambiguously Gay: Had a very close relationship with his friend who died and doesn't seem interested in any women.
Arc Symbol: Is obsessed with a strange symbol that appears in his visions as well as other places.
Character Catchphrase: "Fuck off"
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Was heavily into mind-altering drugs before getting stuck in the town.
Deadpan Snarker: Boy, is he. While Jade often uses this to mock others, it actually helps lighten the mood at times in a series that is otherwise completely serious.

*To Reid's apparition* "You died, right? Just making sure we're on the same page."

The Determinator: Absolutely nothing deters him from trying to figure out how to escape from the town, even in the face of things he cannot comprehend.
Hidden Depths: He's initially presented as an abrasive jerk who's rude to everyone he meets. However, he's incredibly intelligent and a tech genius, having built a billion dollar technology company from the ground up (something he often likes to brag about much to the chagrin of others), and is one of the few characters to try the hardest in finding a way to escape the town, by learning as much about the place as he possibly can. He can also play the violin beautifully.
Jerkass Has a Point: He calls the whole town out over seemingly giving up on trying to escape and becoming complacent in their present reality.
Jerkass with a Heart of Gold: Jade is a rich prick whose only concern is figuring out a way out of the town for his own sake, and expects everyone to do whatever he asks to help him. But he also strikes up an unlikely friendship with Tian and helps her deal with her husband's death, and shows sympathy for Victor after learning a bit of his Dark and Troubled Past.
No Indoor Voice: Talks CONSTANTLY.
No Social Skills: Jade is rude, foul-mouthed, arrogant, short-tempered, and belittling most of the time. As the series goes on, however, it becomes apparent that he may be genuinely unaware of how to actually relate to others. Later on, he lampshades this by admitting to Jim that he is not good at talking to people, stemming from growing up as a genius. Furthermore, he often calls people back when he pushes them away in an attempt to apologize and/or clarify on what he is actually trying to convey.
Pet the Dog: When he discovers a grieving Tian-Chan, he sheds his arrogance to empathize and comfort her. Also, he agrees to play a song on a violin that is emotionally important to Victor in an attempt to comfort him, although he explains this away holding up his end of a deal made between them.
Rich Genius: He is rich and has the knowledge to back it up, especially in regards to electricity in technology.
Suicide Mission: In the finale of season 2, he decides to venture underground in an attempt to figure out how to snap Julie and the others out of their trance, being fully aware that this would likely put him face-to-face with the monsters and possibly get him killed.
Suddenly Shouting: Does this a lot.
Sir Swearsalot: The most foul-mouthed character on the show.

Father Khatri

Portrayed By: Shaun Majumder

The town priest who acts as a confidant for many of the human inhabitants.

The Consigliere: To Boyd.
Good Is Not Nice: Is willing to do questionable things to keep order in the town like send Frank to the box and even protects Sara as he is convinced the voices in her head could help them get home.
My Greatest Failure: He ended up in the town right after his greatest failing. Namely, not protecting a young boy in his congregation from the boy's abusive father, who ended up beating him to death, followed by Khatri giving the man a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
Sinister Minister: Downplayed. He strongly encourages Boyd to go through with executing Frank as a warning to other would-be rule breakers, but this is a case of doing what has to be done for the good of the community.
Surprisingly Sudden Death: He is killed when one of the creatures quickly slashes his throat open as he tries to help survivors of an attack on Colony House.

Kristi Miller

Portrayed By: Chloe Van Landschoot

A young 3rd year medical student and the town Doctor.

Brainy Brunette: One of the most intelligent living humans in the place.
Break the Cutie: Starting in season 2 her drug-addict girlfriend shows up in the place and things gradually go downhill from here.
Bisexual Love Triangle: Centre of one between Kenny and Marielle.
Like a Surgeon: Not an official Doctor but often performs risky surgery, successfully.
Roadside Surgery: Does one on Ethan.

Sara Myers

Portrayed By: Avery Konrad

A women working at the diner as a waitress.

Anti-Villain: Murdered several people and was going to murder Ethan all because an entity convinced her that she could save her brother and bring everyone home by doing this.
The Atoner: Is trying to be one.
Hearing Voices: Sara hears voices which compel her to kill, but which clearly aren't hallucinations, as they know things that she herself couldn't possibly know, like when new cars will arrive, or where Father Khatri buried his secret bag.
My God, What Have I Done?: Sara's reaction when she accidentally kills her brother while trying to kill Ethan - especially after she reveals to Boyd that the reason she had murdered Toby and let the monsters in to slaughter the clinic's inhabitants was that they would kill Nathan if she didn't comply.
Nice Girl: Played with. She convinced the town she was one.

Nathan Myers

Portrayed By: Paul Zinno

Sara's protective brother.

Big Brother Instinct: When Sara told him about what she did he tried to protect her.

Tom

Portrayed By: Reid Price

A man who was trapped in the place around the same time as Donna, he started a bar in an abandoned gas station in the town.

The Bartender: Plays this role well.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Ends up victim to one of the creatures.
Nice Guy: He's a very friendly and jovial guy. This makes his death all the more tragic.
Smarter Than You Look: Actually quite educated and intelligent despite just being a bartender. He taught philosophy at a university before he ended up trapped in the place.
Surprisingly Sudden Death: While trapped under the rubble of Jim's house, a creature appears out of nowhere and pounces on him, and he screams to Jim for help. Jim, who is also trapped, can do nothing but stay quiet as the monster begins to devour his friend.

Colony House

Donna Raines

Portrayed By: Elizabeth Saunders

A tough southern lady who leads the people at Colony House.

Didn't Think This Through: In her desperation to get all of the bus passengers inside the diner before nightfall, she blows out the bus tyres with a shotgun to force them all inside. Predictably, this has the exact opposite effect of what she intended, as many of them scatter into the town, making them easy targets when the sun sets.
Good Is Not Nice: She's well intentioned but stern, aggressive, and foul-mouthed, she's also willing to tie down newcomers on their first night if she feels she can't stop them from getting themselves killed.
Green Thumb: Likes to garden, although probably for survival as the people need crops and plants to survive.
Iron Lady: A positive example.
My God, What Have I Done?: She blames herself for several of the bus passengers being killed by the creatures, citing her short-sighted decision to use a shotgun to force the passengers inside the diner and that she should have realised they'd run away. It's this that makes her realise that, despite her success in leading Colony House, she's not exactly cut out to take over Boyd's role for the town.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: 2nd most foul-mouthed person on the show after Jade.
Team Mom: A very tough one for Colony House.

Ellis Stevens

Portrayed By: Corteon Moore

Boyd's troubled teenage son, an artist who helped found Colony House with Donna and spends all his time there.

Adam and Eve Plot: Implied to be involved in one with Fatima based on a prominent painting he made that appears in the opening titles and Fatima's impossible pregnancy.
Age-Appropriate Angst: He's a young man going through a rough time in a horrible place.
Character Development: Begins the series as an angsty, aloof teen with Father issues but gradually matures, reconciles with his father and marries his true love.
Disowned Parent: Hates Boyd at the start of the show over what happened with Abby. He eventually accepts what happened and embraces his father again.
Troubled Teen: Ending up in such a horrible place is bad enough but he's also had to witness his mother lose her mind and go on a shooting spree and then see his dad kill her to save his life.

Fatima Hassan

Portrayed By: Pegah Ghafoori

A free-spirited woman who lives at Colony House, also Ellis's love-interest and later wife.

Adam and Eve Plot: Implied to be part of this with Ellis.
Break the Cutie: Starts off very positive and goes through multiple traumatic experiences throughout the show.
Ethical Slut: Has no problem making out with other women even though she's in love with Ellis
Mystical Pregnancy: Was apparently infertile before getting pregnant by Ellis in season 2.
Really Gets Around: Has had sexual relations with several female members of Colony House.

Victor

Portrayed By: Scott McCord, Eli Arsenault (Young)

The longest resident of the town.

Cloudcuckoolander: He is a very strange man, spending all his time drawing creepy pictures and measuring the trees to see if they've moved. Of course, his behavior is rather justified by the fact that he's been in the town longer than anyone, ever since he was a small child, so the accumulated trauma has clearly affected his development.
Mistaken for Pedophile: Victor gets this twice from Jim, who first thinks he's luring Ethan out into the woods to do something unsavory to him (and threatens to beat him for it until Victor retaliates by pulling a gun), and then the second when Julie talks about how she went to Victor's room during the monsters' attack on Colony House - she was actually up there because to escape the embarrassment of romantic rejection from Fatima.
My Greatest Failure: He used to have a sister named Eloise. The night that their mother and everyone else in town died, she made the two of them hide in the root cellar, but Eloise chased after her, and Victor was too scared to follow. He's been so traumatized by guilt over this that he repressed the memory for years.
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: He's this for the town, as he has been in the town the longest and seen horrible things such as a street full of eviscerated victims including his mother and sister, and communicates with the Boy in White and his dog. It's left him pretty traumatized and mentally childlike, although he occasionally shows moments of lucidity, like when he helps Julie escape Colony House when it's being attacked by the monsters.

Dale

Portrayed By: Cliff Saunders

One of the inhabitants of colony house, he has some issues and clearly has not adapted to the situation well.

Conspiracy Theorist: Comes up with silly theories for the place and makes some serious accusations of the new group from the bus.
Improperly Paranoid: Accuses the new group of trying to steal food.
Jerkass: Says insensitive things occasionally and accidentally stabs Ellis with a knife, almost killing him, due to his own stupidity and incompetence.
My God, What Have I Done?: Has this reaction after accidentally stabbing Ellis. They often butt heads, but he never meant him any real harm.

Kevin

A lonely and socially awkward man at Colony House who is tempted by one of the creatures.

Adorkable: He's not very smart and rather awkward but he's not a bad person.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Responsible for the monsters attacking and killing 14 people at Colony House.
The Woobie: An awkward and lonely man who only felt at peace with a monster who was manipulating him.
Too Dumb to Live: Got everyone killed with his selfish desires.

Trudy

Portrayed By: Cynthia Jimenez-Hicks

An eccentric young woman who lives at Colony House.

Asian Airhead: Likely puts on this persona as a coping mechanism.
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: She's quite immature and playful.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Dies at the hands of the creatures.

The Bus (SPOILER WARNING)

People who ended up in the place while travelling on a bus.

Tillie

Portrayed By: Deborah Grover

An odd old woman who was on the bus, she is rather upbeat and cheery in spite of everything going on.

Ambiguous Innocence: She seems friendly but there's something odd about her.
CloudCuckooLander: Seems to enjoy the place more than other people and is perpetually friendly and cheerful, even when not on morphine.

Bakta

Portrayed By: Angela Moore

The driver of the bus that came into town.

Drowning My Sorrows: Does this at the makeshift bar once it's sunk in what's happened to her and the bus passengers.
Heroic B So D: Has one when she sees the butchered, mutilated corpses of two of the passengers who fell victim to the creatures.
My God, What Have I Done?: Deeply regrets driving the bus and its passengers to the place, even though it wasn't really her fault.

Marielle

Portrayed By: Kaelen Ohm

Kristi's fiance who happened to be on the bus at the time. She is also a recovering drug addict who was on her way to rehab before ending up in the town.

Bisexual Love Triangle: In one between Kristi and Kenny.
Off the Wagon: She was on her way to a rehabilitation facility when she was travelling on the bus. At the makeshift hospital she succumbs to her addiction temporarily and takes some morphine donated by Tilly.

Randall

Portrayed By: A.J. Simmons

A young man who was on the bus who is very quick to anger.

Ax-Crazy: Has a hair-trigger temper and fights several people for slight infractions he comes close to torturing Donna due to his paranoia
Conspiracy Theorist: He is an even bigger one than Jim, not just latching onto his theory but taking it even further, becoming convinced that every death in the town is staged as part of the experiment and that virtually everyone except himself and Jim is in on it.
Jerkass: From the moment he arrives, Randall establishes himself as an unhinged douchebag with a serious temper problem. He insults, belittles and assaults most of the people he meets, and it results in Donna exiling him to the bus where he's most at risk from the creatures. Even then, they don't waste much time trying to get at him, as all he does is yell at them.

Elgin

Portrayed By: Nathan D. Simmons

A young man who had a premonition of the town in the form of a dream.

Nice Guy: A shy, awkward young man who just wants to get along with everyone.
Dreaming of Things to Come: He seems to have premonitions in his dreams and saw The Brundles before he ever visited it Unfortunately this ability has not been useful yet as he forgot one of his dreams before it could have been useful.

Reggie

Portrayed By: Zach Faye

A new resident of the town from the bus who ended up there with his wife Paula.

Ax-Crazy: Losing his girlfriend in a traumatic way messes him up and turns him into a sociopath. He murders the man guarding the guns of Colony House and then shoots Boyd with a shotgun with intent to kill because he believes he brought a curse to town.
The Lost Lenore: His girlfriend Paula becomes this to him.
Sanity Slippage: The Cicadas and the death of his girlfriend drive him crazy.

Former Residents (SPOILER WARNING)

Abby Stevens

Portrayed By: Lisa Ryder

Boyd's wife and Ellis's mother, who gradually went insane and finally snapped one day, going on a shooting spree in the town until Boyd killed her.

Ax-Crazy: She eventually went insane and could not handle her current situation so she went on a shooting spree, believing that killing everyone would "wake them up".
The Lost Lenore: Boyd misses her and deeply regrets what happened.
Posthumous Character: She's long dead by the time the show begins, having been shot dead by Boyd to protect Ellis after she went insane.
Semper Fi: A former marine.

Martin

Portrayed By: Robert Verlaque

A tortured old man that Boyd discovers in a strange dungeon.

Ambiguous Situation: It's unknown if Martin was actually real or not and not just a product created by the Bloodworms\Cicadas in order to infect Boyd. It's also unknown how much he was saying to Boyd was true or how he even ended up in the dungeon to begin with.
Cold-Blooded Torture: What the Bloodworms\Cicadas seemed to be doing to him.
Driven to Suicide: Asks Boyd to just kill him several times to stop what's happening.
Demonic Possession: If he was real then his behaviour once he started mentioning Abby was probably this.
Small Role, Big Impact: Only appears in one episode yet affects the entire plotline of season 2.

Christopher

Portrayed By: Thom Payne

A man who arrived at the town around the same time as Victor did.

Arc Symbol: Became obsessed with the same symbol Jade is seeing and started drawing it in places just like Jade is doing.
Ambiguous Situation: It is currently unknown what actually happened to him but seeing as he has appeared in Jade's visions it's quite likely he is still around in some form.
Faux Affably Evil: Victor mentions that he seemed nice at first and made people laugh, before he went crazy and started killing people.
Go Mad from the Revelation: He became obsessed with the symbol that Jade keeps seeing, somehow it eventually drove him to start killing people.

Victor's family

Victor's family:

Miranda

Portrayed By: Sarah Booth

Victor's mother who drove to the place with him and his sister.

Ambiguous Situation: It is unknown exactly what happened to her the night she was killed.
Friend to All Children: Implied to be one.
Good Parents: Was kind to Victor, he remembers her fondly.
Senseless Sacrifice: Tried to reach the tower where she believed the ghostly children are trapped, she was killed just as she was about to reach the farway tree leading there.

Eloise

Portrayed By: Ellie Cluett

Victor's long lost sister.

Ambiguous Situation: Victor never found her body.
My Greatest Failure: Victor repressed the memory of losing her, Victor's mother told him to protect her butshe went after their mother anyway and was never seen again.
Senseless Sacrifice: Disappeared going after her mother whom told her to stay with Victor.

Supernatural Elements (SPOILER WARNING!)

The Forest and Town

The setting of the show. A strange place that captures people who are driving from all over North America.

Bizarrchitecture: The town looks to be assembled from a few small buildings that were seemingly plucked at random. Notably, there's a sign for a motel and an empty pool nearby, but no actual motel building to go with them.
Closed Circle: If people try to drive through the roads they will end up back where they started.
Eldritch Location: It doesn't obey natural laws and seems to be capable of anything, including generating electricity from nowhere.
Everything Trying to Kill You: If the creatures don't get people trapped there there's also sanity sapping nightmares and visions as well as other cruel monsters in the forest.
Genius Loci: Seems to have a mind of its own and can change its weather and hurt the inhabitants when it chooses.
Intelligent Forest: It's implied that the forest is sentient.
Reality Is Out to Lunch: Impossible things happen in the place such as a source of electricty that seemingly comes from nowhere and magic trees that can teleport things to random locations.
Sadist: Assumed to be sadistic and enjoy inflicting suffering by some people trapped in it.
Sentient Cosmic Force: Implied to be this in some ways.

The Creatures

Monsters that can take the forms of various human beings.

Always a Bigger Fish: The creatures seem to know not to mess with the entity behind the Cicadas, Bloodworms and the Music Box. When that entity put Boyd, Jim, Randall and Donna in danger in Jim's wrecked RV they stood several meters away and watched instead of standing right outside and trying to lure them out as they usually do.
The Dreaded: Everybody in town is terrified of these things, and for very good reason. They're a race of merciless, nigh-unstoppable monsters that take great pleasure in killing and eating people. Fighting back is pointless, as they're invulnerable to physical harm as well as lethally strong, so anybody who wishes to survive the night just locks themselves indoors until they eventually go away in the morning.
Hidden Depths: The creatures may be bloodthirsty killers, but several times when they're not busy hunting people they're shown to have a mild, almost childlike curiosity about them. In Season 2, when Smiley boards the bus, he takes a moment to sit in the driver's seat and play around with the steering wheel and the various switches, clearly enjoying himself. Until he discovers someone hiding onboard that is....
Humanoid Abomination: They look like normal people, minus the creepy smiles they're always sporting. When they actually attack, they tend to revert to a more demonic appearance. They also have human internal organs, albeit dried up and desiccated.
Immune to Bullets: The monsters cannot be killed or even seriously hurt by conventional firearms. Boyd tried coating the bullets with bile from "Smiley" after the blood worms killed him. It didn't work.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: In their true form, the monsters have several rows of razor-sharp teeth.
Not So Stoic: Their grins and smiles fade when Boyd infects "Smiley" with his parasites and kills him.
Ominous Walk: It's noted that the creatures never run, even when in pursuit of prey.
Outdated Outfit: For unknown reasons many of them are dressed in 50s/60s style clothing, adding to their uncanny vibe.
Sadist: The creatures seem to enjoy inflicting pain and suffering upon their victims. Donna mentions that when they caught her sister, they tortured her for hours before skinning her alive. They also put a stick through Kelly's head, impaling her to a tree and forcing her to watch as they tortured her boyfriend to death.
Slasher Smile: The most unnerving physical characteristic of the creatures, unless they're in the middle of trying to trick someone or they've shifted to their full-on monster form.
Telepathy: They appear to be able to read people's minds in order to try and convince them that they know them so they will be more likely to let them into a secure place with a talisman.
Weaksauce Weakness: They cannot enter an enclosed space that has a talisman hanging up and can be killed by directly passing on bloodworm parasites to them.
Would Hurt a Child: The creatures establish how dangerous they are by brutally murdering a young girl and her mother in the pilot's Cold Open.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: They can take the forms of various human beings and are implied to be able to take the forms of objects such as a creepy puppet.

"Smiley"

Portrayed By: Jamie Mcguire

The most recurring creature seen so far. A jovial, perpetually smiling young man who treats hunting and killing as if it were a childish game.

Combat Sadomasochist: Seems to enjoy being hurt when Boyd takes a few swings at him.
Deadpan Snarker: A very dark example. When he discovers an elderly couple hiding on the bus, he almost lampshades how stupid their choice of hiding spot was before brutally murdering them.
Smiley: You picked a bad spot.
Death Wail: Gives a rather bone-chilling one as the blood worms take hold.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: The first of the creatures to be killed by a human. Boyd kills him by passing on his blood worm parasites to him through a cut to his neck.
Evil Redhead: Has red hair and is a literal monster.
Psychopathic Manchild: Speaks like a young boy and views hunting and killing like a game of hide and seek.

Jasmine

Portrayed By: Molly Dunsworth

A creature who seduces one of the Colony House members, Kevin, into opening the window and letting her and the other creatures in.

The Vamp: Seduces and brutally murders Kevin.
Proud Beauty: Stands in front of a mirror at one point and seems concerned with her appearance.

The Boy in White

Portrayed By: Vox Smith

A mysterious boy who only a select few can see.

Ambiguously Human: Both Sara and Victor don't believe he is actually a young human boy.
Ambiguous Innocence: It is unknown if he is helping people out of altruism especially once he throws Tabitha from the top of the Lighthouse.
Apologetic Attacker: Apologises to Tabitha just before pushing her out of the Lighthouse.
Creepy Child: Not malicious or harmful but certainly an unsettling appearance, particularly when he first appears to Ethan.
Loyal Animal Companion: The German Shepards that sometimes appear when he is around seem to follow him and do his bidding.
Mysterious Watcher: He's a figure whom only Victor, Ethan and Sara can see, and who seems to be trying to guide them in uncovering the town's secrets.

The Dogs

German Shepherds associated with The Boy in White who occasionally appear to help people.

Ambiguous Innocence: Like The Boy in White it's unknown what their true motivations are.
Heroic Dog: They seem to be there to help people like Boyd and Victor.
Loyal Animal Companion: To The Boy in White.

Spiders

Predatory spiders that attack Boyd in the forest.

All Webbed Up: Can create large white webs in the forest, fortunately they aren't very strong.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Try to use this on Boyd when they create a vision of Abby in distress to lure him in.

Blood Worms

Parasitic worms that Martin infected Boyd with.

Ambiguous Situation: Their previous host was an old, emaciated man named Martin in an inter-dimensional dungeon. It is unknown how they originally got into him and why Martin was there.
Body Horror: Occasionally appear wriggling underneath Boyd's skin.
Hell Is That Noise: Connected to the music box and the song it plays.
Sanity Slippage: They inflict pain, nightmares and hallucinations on Boyd that make him more irrational and irritable than usual.

The 'Children'

Creepy, ghostly children that Tabitha sees throughout season 2.

Ambiguous Situation: It is unknown exactly what they are or what role they play in the place.
Ambiguously Human: They look like filthy, possibly undead children.
Arc Symbol: They can be summoned by building a strange tower out of rocks or toy blocks.
Human Sacrifice: Jade has a vision of them possibly being the victim of this towards the end of season 2.
One-Word Vocabulary: The only word they can say is "Ankhooey".

Cicadas

Evil bugs resembling Cicadas that inflict nightmares on people that can kill them.

Arc Number: 3. They swarmed 3 people: Julie, Marielle and Randall and somehow took their souls to the dungeon where Boyd was at the start of season 2. They appeared to be torturing them and were going to kill them, their deaths would have heralded something worse but Boyd prevented it in time.
Arc Words: The nursery rhyme associated with them.
Bugs Herald Evil: Their presence brings even more misery to the town.
Chest Burster: What they do to one of their victims.
Cold-Blooded Torture: They're able to keep people in a strange, interdimensional dungeon where they're infected with bloodworms and tortured for years.
Demonic Possession: They possessed Julie, Marielle and Randall, making them catatonic and somehow keeping their souls in their strange dungeon to be tortured.
Hell Is That Noise: Connected to the music box and the song it plays. Being Cicadas they are also very noisy.
Metamorphosis Monster: Implied to be the next stage of the Bloodworms.
Your Mind Makes It Real: Can apparently kill people in their sleep.

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