Characters / Hunter The Parenting The Family

Main characters of Hunter: The Parenting, for other characters see here.

The Family

As a Group

• Adaptational Heroism: Kitten, Dorn, and the Emperor are the main protagonists of TTS and also good guys, but they also have raging flaws, notably the borderline abusive treatment of each other and raging xenophobia against anything non-human. Magnus, meanwhile, is a Daemon Primarch who embarked on a shaky road to redemption after the Emperor rescued him soul and body from Tzeentch's clutches. Here, they're much nicer than their TTS counterparts, if still eccentric at times.
• Adaptational Wimp: While undoubtedly a crew of clever badasses, the Family are all normal humans whereas their tabletop counterparts (and TTS counterparts) are post-human, genetically engineered, and incredibly powerful psykers and/or demigods. The only exception to this is Boy, who is still an ordinary human child like he was in TTS.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In TTS, Kitten and Magnus were, at best, Vitriolic Best Buds working together due to similar goals. Here, Kitten and Marckus are in a confirmed romantic relationship.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • Most of the Family have strong personalities, and they bicker and/or snark at each other constantly, but they also have quiet moments where it's clear they see each other as family deep down. Their relationship with Boy also brings out the best in them.
  • The fourth audiolog is dedicated to the family's relationships with each other. They all look after each other while taking care of Horse, and Door tells Marckus that even if he can't trust or forgive Big-D's terrible parenting, he should still have faith in his family.
• Badass Family: The main cast consists of Big-D, his sons Marckus and Door, grandson Boy, and son-in-law Kitten. They fought against a gang of Sabbat Vampires (with one of them having hypnotic powers) and won, though they didn't walk away unscathed. According to Big D his own father and siblings were Hunters as well and managed to take out a Methuselah.
• Badass Normal: This comes part and parcel with being a Hunter. These physically normal human beings roam around looking for monsters to kill using nothing but improvised weapons, the environment, their own wits, and a shotgun.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: They might be a group made up of a Large Ham who thinks it's a good idea to hunt vampires while high on DMT, a pair of nerds, and a man who thinks that the board-width of a picnic table is Serious Business, but they're all (with the obvious exception of Boy, being a small child) surprisingly competent vampire hunters.
• Cast of Expies: The main characters are all based on the main characters of the creators' most popular previous work, If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, with their personalities and relationships largely the same. The main changes being that Door is now actually Boy's father, and Kitten is Marckus' Fiancé and thus more closely tied to him than to Big-D.
• Dented Iron: Their fight against the tunnel vampires is not an easy one, and most of them are noticeably battered on the way out. The second episode shows them still bandaged and recovering from their wounds.
• Giver of Lame Names: It seems in this family, there's a 50/50 chance you end up with a standard if slightly unconventional name like "Markcus", or something just plain absurd like "Door" or "Boy".
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Big-D and his family were excommunicated from the Arcanum, and have a bad reputation among the elder members of the Yarmouth Chapter House. Outside of those aware of vampires, they are eccentric troublemakers who stockpile illegal guns and bombs, which gets them temporarily arrested. None of them are going to be getting any medals or appreciation for their hard work.
• Large and in Charge: Big-D's family genetics seem to predispose anyone descended from him to being enormous in some sense, be it Markcus managing to be taller than his own father, or Door managing to be the shorter brother and still looking like the largest due to his stocky frame.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Episode 2's eyecatch states that Big-D has sired many "ex-children" through multiple partners, revealing that Marckus and Door have lots of half-siblings, including a horse named... "Horse".
• Related in the Adaptation: Being based on the main cast of If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, their relationships with each other get changed up a bit.
  • Kitten is Big-D's son-in-law by virtue of being engaged to Marckus.
  • While Boy had been effectively adopted by the Imperial Palace in TTS (especially Rogal Dorn pretty much adopting him as his son to the point of reading him a bedtime story and being outright called 'Dadornable'), in HTP Boy is Door's biological son and a full member of the family from Episode 1.
• Too Much Information: The Family's collective reaction to Pyotr's gross misinterpretation of Kevin's "special interview" with Big-D is subtitled as "[collective trauma]".
  Pyotr: Kevin gets to FUCK?!
  The Family: (everyone shouts "No!" multiple times in horrified disgust)
• So Proud of You: Everyone congratulates Boy for firing the shot that saved Door and incapacitated Pyotr in Episode 3, even Big-D, despite his extensive facial injuries.
• Vampire Hunter: Hunters also go after other supernatural entities in the The World of Darkness besides vampires at times, but their focus so far has been on vampires.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Big-D is a Large Ham Cloudcuckoolander who's constantly high as a kite, while his sons (and son-in-law Kitten) are generally a lot more reserved, if only barely.

Big-D

"Big-D"/"Ditryck Tettela"/"Anthony Sausage"/"Kevin Wettsworth"

Learning to sublimate HATE in place of FEAR is part of becoming a well-adjusted adult! LIKE ME!!

Voiced by: SpeakerD

The "Leader" and patriarch of the family, who has headed the trip into facing the terrifying creatures of the night. Loosely based on The Emperor of Mankind and the Fabulous Custodes.

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• Absurdly Youthful Father: He's old enough to be a grandfather to an 11-year-old son. He looks much younger than Door, his son, and not particularly older than Marckus, his other son, who's around 30.
• Adaptational Badass: Zig-Zagged between this and Adaptational Wimp, by virtue of not being a a rotting corpse hooked to a life support chair for the past 10 thousand years. He's certainly fairly badass, but just by baseline human standards. He's a far cry from the Emperor's immeasurably potent Psychic Powers, much less his Physical God status pre-Horus Heresy.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: D is noticeably kinder, jollier, and willing to compliment his family compared to the Emperor. Notably, whereas the Emperor emotionally abuses Magnus and dismisses his studies as "dumb nerd shit", D seems to take pride in Marckus' studious nature and very much encourages it. In addition, while he is also keeping many of the details of the supernatural world from his allies the same way the Emperor did from the Primarchs, he doesn't hide the fact that he is hiding things, and gives a pretty good reason for doing so (that many of those forces wouldn't hesitate to have them Killed to Uphold the Masquerade) while promising that he will tell them what they need to know, but only when it becomes necessary for them to know it. Compared to how the Emperor handled keeping the secret of Chaos from his sons, Big-D comes across as far more reasonable and even-handed about things.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Big-D is shown to be bisexual (with lots of ex-wives and ex-husbands) when TTS!Emperor only ever showed interest in women (albeit in unhealthy ways).
• Alas, Poor Villain: Contrasting with his sons, especially Door, he's far more empathetic to vampires like Kevin, recognizing the sadness of their existence. He staunchly opposes vampire kind, and will do anything to stop them, but he also pities them.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: He's the father of Door and Marckus, but gets on their nerves with his antics thanks to the fact he's incredibly high-strung (and flat-out high) at all times. Marckus mentions to Kitten that he likes Big-D less than he loves Kitten.
• Ambiguously Brown: He has a noticeably darker skin tone than either of his sons, and Chapman describes him in the third audio log as looking "middle-eastern", but exact details remain up in the air. This ties into what scant details we have on D's predecessor, the Emperor's, backstory; what little can be surmised about the Emperor's origins is that he was born to one of the very early human civilizations around Turkey in roughly 8000 BC, meaning that he would've likely been of a swarthy complexion. This neatly matches Big-D (essentially the Emperor in his prime) having a similarly Middle-Eastern complexion and hair color, barring D's permanently white irises.
• Ambiguously Human: Due to being much Older Than He Looks, his astonishing depth and breadth of knowledge, and the sheer number of enemies he's fought, Big-D is speculated out-of- (by viewers) and in-universe (by Kevin) to be a supernatural entity himself, though he dodges the question when pressed.
• Antiquated Linguistics: He's sometimes prone to using strange archaic terms. For example in the third audiolog "Big-D's "Guide" to Avoiding Arrest", he refers to the force the cellar door could endure using minas as a unit of measure. Minas is an Antique (as in literally from Antiquity) unit of measure to measure the weight of gold and coins in the Near East and in Ancient Greece^note As the value of coins back then depended on their mass in gold and silver, minas are both an indicator of value and mass.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite having been in the Hunter business for decades and claiming to have fought every kind of supernatural creature in the World of Darkness, he apparently doesn't believe the Kuei-Jin are real, believing them to just be an LA vampire gang LARPing as "like 10 different asian cultures"^note Granted this is also a Take That! towards Kindred of the East so its either he genuinely doesn't believe in the Kuei-Jin or he's making fun of them.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He has a hard time staying fixated on a single topic, and often goes off into tangents or discussing something else with zero warning or reason. He lampshades this when talking to Kitten about ghost stories.
  Big-D: You have my incredibly variable attention!
• Badass Boast: When Kevin offers Big-D an offer to become his ally, Big-D responds by chuckling and giving a boast that left the wannabe sorcerer speechless for a few moments.
  Big-D: Why serve the First Murderer when I can kill him myself?
• Berserk Button:
  • He absolutely hates landlords and refers to them as parasites. He also attacks Kitten in the first audiolog thinking he was a landlord, and only calms down when Kitten points out he owns the house the Family's living in.
    Big-D: Housing is NOT a commodity!
  • Don't liken him to a gorilla. He is orangatan fan number one.
• Best Friends-in-Law: He seems to want this with Kitten, his son-in-law, but Kitten is rather uncomfortable with talking with him on more casual terms, perhaps out of politeness.
• Blood Knight: Downplayed. He is outright laughing when fighting Brok in episode 4, excited by an unexpected challenge. But considering his reactions to seeing Pyotr diablerize Ape and Shitbeard and break out or what he says about werewolves, his love for a good fight doesn't blind him to real dangers of the world he lives in.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: His sauce for his omelette includes tomato paste, honey, water, saurkraut, ketchup, tonkatsu & RBMK Nuclear Reactor Core Graphite.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": His belt buckle is, well, a big golden "D". He also has the same letter emblazoned on the back of his jacket.
• Bumbling Dad: Carrying over from TTS is his general ineptitude when it comes to raising his sons, who are both leagues more put-together than he is. Unlike his TTS self, he actually makes a concerted effort to be part of his children's lives even if his attempts at bonding are so bizarre that he makes things incredibly awkward for everyone.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The guy's a complete loon, but is a very capable hunter.
• Cloudcuckoolander:
  • Has shades of this, like thinking it would be a great idea to hunt vampires while high on DMT.
  Big-D: All right whatever, I don't respect Time, it's an odious concept, NOW LISTEN UP!
  • He seems to consider groundskeepers, gardeners and golfers to be supernatural creatures to hunt.
  • He attacks Kitten with a sword thinking he's an intruder in "his" home or the landlord. Keeping in mind that this is Kitten's house and he does not in fact charge them rent.
• Composite Character: While he's obviously the Emperor in face and physique pre-Horus Heresy, he's actually the Emperor and a couple of the Fabulous Custodes mashed together: He has the planning "skill" and zeal of the Emperor, but also the haughtiness (and a little bit of the dismissiveness of Boy) of Karstodes and the Sense Freak tendencies of Whammudes.
• Consummate Liar: Despite remaining his energetic self and practically frothing with rage and panic internally during the third audiolog, he's able to spin a story well-crafted enough to completely fool the police detective interviewing him. Even when caught out by an unexpected variable, he immediately weaves an even bigger lie that still lets him get away.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Let's face it: Big-D and the Emperor of Mankind could not possibly be more different.
  • The Emperor is a godlike psychic being who is interred on a massive life support machine. Big-D is (probably) a Badass Normal human who is very much alive and healthy.
  • The Emperor's default mood is at best "complaining about the galaxy going to hell" and speaks almost entirely through a monotone text-to-speech device. Big-D is a jolly Large Ham through and through.
  • The Emperor is, well, The Emperor of the galaxy-spanning Imperium of Man. Big-D is just a regular monster hunter currently living in Norfolk, England.
  • The Emperor's approach to his sons(Magnus in particular), is Tough Love at best, and at worst quite callous. Big-D, on the other hand, unabashedly praises his sons, son-in-law, and grandson whenever he gets a chance.
  • There are a few common factor between the two: Despite all their quirks and flaws, they are utterly impeccable leaders, they have a surprising amount of sympathy for non-humans (at least the friendly ones), and have a tendency to leave certain bits of information (albeit this time to protect his family).
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: The plot of episodes 2 and 3 would not happen has he just told Marckus what happens when a Vampire eats another Vampire. The first audiolog reveals he has very good reasons for this, however.
• Crazy-Prepared: The reason why he's high as a kite is because he loaded himself up on DMT, likely as a deterrent against blood-sucking vampires. This actually proves instrumental in defeating Kevin when he tries draining Big-D, as it leaves him vulnerable to getting staked in the eye by Kitten...though his statement "That is DEFINITELY why I did that" may imply this was actually just a useful coincidence he's going along with.
• Cutting Corners: His exact financial situation isn't clear (however, considering he apparently has no active income, we can assume his finances aren't great), but Big-D is a massive cheapskate whom, in one notable example, goes out of his way to try and get a blender for just 99 pence (which he only succeeds in doing through sheer luck and the involvment of a bizzare supernatural entity), even getting into an argument with Kevin over the matter, failing to concede that it is patently unrealistic. It's quite apparent that he'll go to ridiculous lengths to spend as little as possible, including outright theft (he straight up admits that he could just steal the blender he wants but he's actively trying to spite Kevin).
• Death by Genre Savviness: A non-lethal example. His tendency to keep his allies on the need-to-know basic regarding secrets of supernatural creatures is a smart thing to do in World of Darkness. In the case of Vampires, in particular, the first audiolog has him explain to Kitten why he needs to be extremely careful disclosing information about them, less he puts his family at risk with how seriously Vampires treat The Masquerade. However, he still makes mistakes and his decision to not disclose a certain piece of information has indirectly caused the events of the second and third episode, leading to a revitalized and empowered Pyotr being let loose in Kitten's house.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Big-D's Badass Boast to Kevin reveals that he intends to one day kill Caine, the First Murderer and progenitor of Vampirekind himself. Given how ancient Caine is (and how he is close to being a Physical God in the World of Darkness setting), Big-D's boast was crazy enough that it had Kevin sputtering that he is absolutely insane to try kill Caine. For comparison, many Hunters more powerful and experienced than Big-D have tried and failed to do the same.
• Dirt Forcefield: Downplayed — despite Kevin having dug into his neck and sucked enough blood out of him to render him delirious, he looks just as impeccable as he did when the episode started when the group's back at the bus while everyone else (aside from Boy, who was just held on Door's baby carrier) looks exactly like they should from having come out of a brutal fight. However, there was clearly blood dripping off him while the group charged to finish off Kevin so this trope may have been more due to Lazy Artist.
• Doting Grandparent: He is very affectionate to Boy, encouraging him to overcome his meekness and complimenting him on his first vampire kill (which was actually a group effort).
• Enemy Compassion: While he will happily put Vampires who are unrepentant in their evil like Pyotr and Apeboy out of commission, he has shown compassion to those that try to keep their humanity, such as Kevin or the old woman he walked to her final sunrise.
• Establishing Character Moment: Episode 1 has him calmly driving the Golden Goose to a forest in North Norfolk... only to reveal he's a Large Ham Cloudcuckoolander the moment he steps out the bus and opens his mouth. This establishes him as a Bunny-Ears Lawyer — he is a complete loon who's constantly high on DMT, but he's still a Hunter first and foremost with loads of experience and wisdom. The audiologs also show that he also sympathizes with the Vampires he hunts, seeing most of them as sick, desperate people who have lost their hope.
• Even the Guys Want Him: The eyecatch for Episode 2 explains that he has many ex-wives and ex-husbands.
• Excellent Judge of Character:
  • Combining his knowledge of Vampires, experience, and canny observations he makes a number of assumptions about Pyotr in the first audiolog, happening between episodes 1 and 2. Episode 2 proves him right on a lot of them, especially regarding Pyotr's opportunistic nature.
  • He does the same in the second audiolog, latching onto a few scant scraps of information to put together that Kevin is utterly miserable and misses being human.
  • He immediately pegs Polydora as much nastier than she seems. As we later learn, she's actually an agent of the local Regent.
  • He also picks up that Detective Chapman is a ghoul and that he would not only be an excellent addition to the team, but also very loyal.
• Experienced Protagonist: Eccentricities aside, he knows a thing or two because he's seen a thing or two. Big-D has encountered many supernatural entities in his career as a Hunter, and knows a great deal about their enemies. However, as he admits himself, letting your guard down against an inferior opponent can still be deadly even when you're as capable as he is. Also, just because D knows a great deal about the supernatural doesn't mean he passes that information along. In the second episode, his sons make a critical error that puts the whole household in danger because he never told them about what happens when vampires eat one another.
• Extreme Omnivore: His diet includes graphite from a soviet reactor core (presumably from Chernobyl, though he might have swiped some from other RMBK reactors when they were being decommissioned), carbon rods and sulfur. Alongside more normal ingredients like duck eggs. Subverted when it's revealed that the "omelette" isn’t for him; it's for Kevin. Big D thinks he'd probably die if he ate it, which is why it's perfect for torturing vampires.
• Face Death with Dignity: Even at the prospect of being killed by Kevin, D remains composed and tells his children that he's proud of them.
• Force Feeding: The ingredients of his omelette in Kitten and Big-D's Primer on the Supernatural and Local Folklore include graphite from a nuclear reactor, chlorine, and cyanide amongst other things. This isn't a meal for himself, but rather an interrogation method he plans to make Kevin eat.
• The Friend No One Likes: Audio Log 5 reveals that much of the Arcanum (an international Hunter group that specializes in documenting knowledge on the supernatural) can't stand him due to his eccentricities. In fact, according to Grime, some of the scholars within the Arcanum's British chapter are pushing for the organization to destroy any research he's contributed.
• Functional Addict: Downplayed. Despite his constant recreational drug use, he remains very competent and knowledgeable in his line of work. When it comes to his life outside of his work, well....
• Genius Ditz: He has a wide range of knowledge regarding the supernatural and can even get legitimately philosophical at times. He's also nearly permanently intoxicated, doesn't provide much if any stable income, and is a Bumbling Dad par excellence.
• Given Name Reveal: If the story he told Horse in the fourth audiolog was indeed referring to himself, or if it wasn't just an alias he was using, then D's real name is Ditryck Tettela.
• Hammerspace: His sword just sort of appears in his hand in Episode 3.
• He Knows Too Much: Indeed he does, which is why he's very cautious about what information he shares with his family, and when.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Violent, careless with his children (and grandchildren) and drug use, and hinted to be as much of a Fantastic Racist as his TTS counterpart. It's all played for laughs.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Besides his fists, his other weapon of choice in combat appears to be a rather large and ornate sword. He nearly attacks Kitten with it in the first audiolog, and said sword appears in person in "Hunter's Hunters Hunted". He brings it with him in "Feuds of our Fathers" and even uses it as he clashes with Remold (while the latter is armed with a cane).
• Hidden Depths:
  • He seems to be more clever than he lets on, given that he has figured out an unorthodox but effective way of countering a Kindred's Domination by wearing sunglasses and screaming at the top of his lungs while plugging his ears. He also gave himself Spiked Blood by getting himself high on drugs (though this may have been an unintended result he's willing to claim he intended). The Primer on the Supernatural and Local Folklore audiolog also shows he's actually quite philosophical in-between bouts of frothing madness and had an in-depth knowledge of various types of supernatural beings.
  • The second audiolog reveals him to be very wise and deeply empathetic, with a much more nuanced view of his enemies than Door; he can't bring himself to hate or kill Kevin after learning his story, fully understanding that Kevin did not choose to be a monster and resents everyone who trapped him in this miserable unlife. He also in the Halloween "A Life Well-Lived" short showed compassion to a vampirised Old Lady who had slaughtered her family in a feral blood-frenzy, understanding that she too is a victim in the tragedy due to her regret and the circumstances involved.
• Hippie Parents: He primarily lives out of a double-decker bus he's driven across five continents, regularly partakes in recreational drugs, is very open minded about sexuality in general, and absolutely detests government oversight, paying taxes, and landlords.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Downplayed, but he seems to think Kitten was the one who needed the warning to stay on guard when interrogating the Licks the most of the group. It indicates that the thought Marckus and Door may try to make Licks eat one another didn't occur to him, showing he underestimated the former's curiosity and latter's hatred for Vampires.
• I Have Many Names: Big-D is the "default" alias he uses, and that's what the credits stick to, but we see him use plenty other names, and over the series he also uses Kevin's name and ID when he feels he has to, since it's a "unused" alias. The use of said alias and others in his back pocket (both figuratively and literally) is a mixed bag, though it seems they're more worth it to him to use despite the spot of bother the use of Kevin's alias occasionally gets him in (mainly when Guy Chapman pokes a hole in his assumed identity and Remold Blacklaw gets a hold of Kevin's driver's license and somehow believes that Big-D is Kevin, much to everyone else's bewilderment), though it does help that as of the second part of the Blender Crusade the local Regent is too stupid to consider the possibility that one of his other identities is just another alias.
• I Have No Son!: Episode 2's eyecatch states he has many "ex-children", implying either he disowned them or they got sick of his antics and disowned him. Or they're dead. Probably because of his shenanigans.
• Ignored Epiphany: The fourth audiolog has him almost reach the conclusion that maybe he's done poorly as a father and a mentor. Unfortunately, his neighbor Kräkus chooses this moment to start screaming, and we all know how distractible Big-D is...
• Jerkass to One: Big-D is normally an eccentric and friendly Cloud Cuckoolander, even to his enemies, but he absolutely cannot stand Remold Blacklaw, and the feeling is very much mutual.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Just like his inspirator. Big-D is an arrogant, loud-mouthed junkie senior hunter, who does love his family and fights monsters not only for fun, but also to protect humanity. He sympathises with Kevin and treats him better after learning his tragic story.
  • In the episodes proper, he criticizes Marckus or complains about him every chance he gets. But in the audiologs, where Marckus can't hear him, he consistently praise him for his intellect and expresses how much he loves him. One gets the impression he is trying to push Marckus to become an ever better Hunter. Unfortunately, this method of parenting made Marckus believe his father loves him less than his own fiancé.
• Junkie Parent: Definitely qualifies with his habit including (so far) DMT and ayahuasca tea. Subverted in that he is comparatively functional and is very much not abusive.
• Keeping Secrets Sucks: The first audiolog reveals that he knows secrets others don't, and fears that his family will be killed off if said secrets are carelessly passed around. This is why he kept his family in the dark, even though it did lead to them making huge mistakes in the long run. In the fourth audiolog, he bemoans how his keeping secrets led to his sons instigating the events of Episode 3 because he didn't tell them what happens when Vampires feed on each other, and wonders if revealing his secrets to his sons actually would have benefited them in the long run.
• Large Ham: Big-D's voice actor is clearly having the time of his life with the character's bombastic personality. Fans of the WarHams and Rotgrind spinoffs will probably realize that Big-D has been written to capitalize on SpeakerD's ability to just go absolutely ham on the scenery at the drop of a hat.
  Big-D: We shall throw the boy into the dread inferno, and see his fearful hide, BURN AWAY IN THE CONFLAGRATION!
• Lethal Chef: His "special omelette" includes ingredients such as duck eggs, ketchup, garlic, sulfur, chlorine, reactor-grade carbon rods... Subverted in that it's not intended for human consumption but for torturing vampires.
• Let's Split Up, Gang!: Declares that the group should do this because it's scarier that way. Of course, considering the group are trying to find and kill vampires, there's some sense in making the vampires reveal themselves by letting them ambush the separated group members.
• Made of Iron: Kevin stabs him in the throat before proceeding to drink his blood and he doesn't even flinch. Hell, he barely even loses any blood from the neck wounds and looks right as rain.
• Mr. Fanservice: Wears short-shorts, a low-cut shirt, and has a few shots focusing on his ass. Though the fact he dresses that way in front of his children and grandchild just makes it seem more weird then seductive.
• Multiple-Choice Past: In the second audiolog he boasts at different times that he's been a Hunter since childhood or since the '90s. He gets mad when Kevin asks if he means the 1890s.
• Mythology Gag: In the fourth audio log, he bemoans his tendency to keep secrets from his own family out of good intentions, and how it led to a Vicious Cycle about his children failing or even dying because they were kept in the dark about things they should have known. In Warhammer 40,000, the Emperor keeping secrets from his sons is what contributed to several Primarchs eventually betraying the Imperium to side with the Chaos gods, sparking the Horus Heresy.
• Narcissist: One of D's flaws, like the Emperor, is an enormous ego that gives him a pathological inability to accept blame or being wrong.
• Nightmare Face: His face starts looking absolutely deranged after he reveals to Kevin he got himself high on DMT and starts laughing his head off.
• No Indoor Voice: He's prone to suddenly shouting when he gets excited or really dramatic.
• Noodle Incident: He claims that long ago, he and his father and siblings once defeated a Lasombra Methuselah, which causes Kevin to remark that he severely underestimated D's skill as a Hunter. More intriguingly he also claims to have killed the Harry Houdini in an outburst. On one side, Houdini was a vampire (a Tremere, fittingly), but then again considering this is Big-D, it may not be so simple. He also had to flee Bangladesh after killing a police chief.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: There are at least a few hints that some - not much, but some - of his zaniness is an act he puts on for one reason or another. At the very least, he has enough self-awareness to realize he is at least engaging in, as he puts it, 'relentless chicanery!' which can cause him to be viewed as... off-kilter.
• Oh, Crap!: In the first audiolog, he briefly drops the word "Tremere", and when Kitten repeats it back to him he briefly forgets he's not in public and freaks out, shrieking and flailing for half a second before remembering no one heard that. As he explains later, if they had been in public that could've gotten them killed.
• Older Than They Look: Big-D looks younger than his son Door and around the same age as Marckus. And if it's not just insane, detached ramblings, he's apparently been around since the Prohibition, or possibly even the European witch hunts. His stated skill at playing the Royal Game of Ur may make him Older Than Feudalism, since that game was first popularized in the third millennium BC, possibly putting his age on par with his Warhammer 40000 counterpart who was born in Anatolia at around 8000 BC.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Big-D is normally energetic, loud, and somewhat detached from reality. If he's ever quiet, completely lucid, or both, it's incredibly noteworthy.
  • He flips out on Marckus when he finds out that he'd let the vampires Diablerize one another, realizing the severity of the situation. Granted, Marckus had no idea of this particular aspect of vampires.
  • When talking about werewolves in the first audiolog, he makes it very clear that trying to fight a werewolf is a terrible idea, and that none of them besides maybe himself are ready to fight even one. No jokes, no drug induced rants, just a warning to avoid them at all cost and how to survive an encounter if forced to fight.
  • From the same audiolog is him discussing The Masquerade and once again, up until the very end there are no jokes or rants, just cold facts of how dangerous even knowing about Vampires is and how much at risk he may put everyone if he doesn't disclose what he knows with extreme caution.
  • Big-D is a seasoned, veteran hunter who confidently boasts about the many supernatural entities he has killed. With this in mind, whatever the hell the Blue Man is, the fact its transformation leaves Big-D absolutely terrified makes it very clear just how nightmarish the entity truly is.
  • In "A Life Well-Lived", he comes across a bloodied house with an old woman listening on the radio. The old woman tells him how her father went to war, her beloved went with another woman, her sire turning her into a vampire, how she slaughtered everyone in a blood frenzy, and about having death wish. Big-D was quiet throughout her whole story, and then helps her outside and and waited with her until morning so she can finally rest in peace.
• Open-Minded Parent: For all his irresponsibility, high-strung personality, and DMT addictions, he has no problems with one of his sons being engaged to another man and the other one being a bachelor raising a kid on his own. Episode 2's eyecatch reveals he himself has many ex-wives and ex-husbands, explaining why he's so tolerant of his sons' love lives.
• Only Known by Initials: Even Kitten doesn't know what D stands for.
  • The fourth audiolog has him mention the name "Ditryck Tettela" while talking to Horse. Whether that's really his name or just an alias he was using at the time is not elaborated on.
  • In the fifth audiolog, Brok's cronies refers to Marckus as "Marcky-D", so at the very least it's likely D is the initial of the family's surname.
• Papa Wolf: The reason why he never told his sons crucial details about the Vampires is because he rightly fears that the Vampires have eyes and ears everywhere — one careless slip of the tongue would get them all killed.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: He's seen using Kevin's ID in the third audiolog and the fourth proper episode. Surprisingly, despite looking nothing like Kevin, pre- or post-vampirization, people tend to buy it.
• Parental Favoritism: According to Episode 2's eyecatch, his favorite son is a horse named "Horse".
• Parents as People: Big-D, despite having loads of children, is not what one would call a perfect parent. He's a loud-mouthed DMT-junkie who gets on his sons' nerves, keeps vital secrets from them that ultimately costs everyone dearly, and openly favors his son Horse. However, Big-D genuinely loves his sons (and grandson), has no problem with their love lives, and praises and expresses for one of his sons, Markcus... when Marckus is not around or in earshot. It's heavily implied in both the main episodes and audio logs that his Hunter life has deeply affected him, and the fourth audio log has him confessing to Horse that he is frequently troubled over how to protect his family and whether his choices are the right ones. Meanwhile, we see the fallout of his actions in his sons, especially Marckus, who has started to resent Big-D to the point of distrusting his father and seeing him as a Manipulative Bastard who treats everyone like weapons in his war with Vampirekind. Even Door, who is otherwise loyal to Big-D and understands the latter's more questionable decisions, agrees that Big-D has made serious mistakes that he cannot condone.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: When told a local legend about a monstrous dog killing people, he is delighted by the idea of experimenting on it as it would be a victimless crime.
• Pet the Dog: In the "A Life Well-Lived" Halloween short, rather than condemning the Old Lady who had been turned into a vampire a slaughtered her family in a feral blood-frenzy, he quietly listened to her story and then help her end her monstrous existence peacefully by sunlight, recognising that in the end the Old Lady herself was just another victim in the tragedy.
• Poor Communication Kills: As episode 2 shows, he shares tendency of keeping secrets with his 40k counterpart, even when telling his sons Vampires get much stronger by feeding on other Vampires was probably a smart thing to do. In his defense, he probably thought that they wouldn't attempt it, has very good reasons to keep his cards close to his chest, and did give some warnings to Kitten. This ends up being deconstructed in the fourth audio log — Big-D muses to Horse whether keeping secrets is the right thing to do and how his family would fare after receiving his knowledge, while Marckus becomes deeply resentful and frustrated over being The Un-Favourite to the point of losing all trust in his father.
• Properly Paranoid: His general approach to life is that anyone who is not part of his hunter group/family is a Camarilla agent until proven otherwise. And in the third audiolog, he's proven right to do so, as the police officer interrogating him, Guy Chapman, is in fact a ghoul. And the manager of the 99p store in town is also connected to the Camarilla.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Chapter 4 shows that he's capable of throwing incredibly quick and powerful punches that could make Jonathan Joestar and Kenshiro proud.
• Real Men Wear Pink: In the first audiolog, he wears a pink nightgown.
• Really Gets Around: One eyecatch outright states that he has had many partners, both male and female, and fathered countless children.
• Serial Spouse: Episode 2's eyecatch reveals that he has a lot of ex-wives and ex-husbands.
• A Shared Suffering: In the second "The Probing of Kevin" audiolog, a huge factor in getting Kevin to open up about his history and (former) ties to the Camarilla involved Big-D sympathizing with the former's problems, like house ownership and having trouble in paying for basic necessities.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: His seriousness when discussing werewolves and the Masquerade in the first audio log coupled with a few sudden outbursts suggests he has had some very traumatic encounters with the supernatural.
• Silver Fox: He's old enough to have an eleven-year-old boy as his grandson, yet he's still very much in shape and probably the most attractive individual out of the entire group.
• Small Parent, Huge Child: Marckus is taller than him (and the rest of the Family for that matter), and while his other son, Door, isn't, he makes up for it in sheer bulk and muscle.
• Smarter Than They Look: Big-D looks like a man so musclebound he would fall into Dumb Muscle and half of the time he acts like a drug-addled Large Ham loon. Don't be fooled, Beyond the Large Ham lies a mind that is very well aware of not just the dangers of the supernatural towards his family, and how to navigate the world he finds himself in.
• Spiked Blood: A side effect of going on a hunt hopped up on DMT.
• Sticks to the Back: Big-D's large and rather elegant sword seems to stick to his back for much of Chapter 4, there appears to be no harnesses or anything on his jacket that show's how or why its there. Even before that in Chapter 3 he reaches to his back and somehow manages to summon the sword out of nowhere when he is about to aid Door.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: Big-D definitely came to the hunt high as balls specifically to intoxicate any vampire who got the jump on him. Definitely.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Despite his outspoken hatred for vampires, Big-D genuinely sees them as victims who often suffer a miserable unlife, forced to prey on others to prolong their own existences. He expresses sincere sympathy for Kevin after hearing his story of his human life was stolen from him and how he was essentially forced into slavery for the Camarilla, gaslit and mind-raped into eternal servitude by his masters. In the short "A Life Well Lived", he accompanies an old lady who was turned by her vampiric caretaker and wiped out her entire family in the resulting blood frenzy, and helped her end her own life by taking her outside just as the sun was rising.
• Sword and Fist: While he hasn't used both at the same time, he is shown to prefer fighting with either his fists or his sword (unless you count using a frying pan during his interrogation of Kevin).
• Underestimating Badassery: He discussed it in the first audiolog, trying to explain to Kitten how dangerous Vampires are — as he points out, he is the most experienced and dangerous member of the Family, and yet when he allowed himself to drop his guard down, he ended up held hostage by a relatively weak Vampire like Kevin.
• Unsatisfiable Customer: The Blender Crusade audiolog two-parter establishes him as a nightmare customer, not getting through his skull that he can't buy a blender for 99 pence.
• The Un-Smile: Due to him being constantly high, he's often sporting a rather deranged grin, showing that he's quite off his rocker. It becomes rather terrifying when he reveals to Kevin that he gave himself Spiked Blood. Episode 2's eyecatch has him looking fondly at Boy and Kitten as they bond over video games... before looking back at the viewers with his deranged grin again.
• The Worf Effect: Supposedly the most competent and capable of the lot, his fights against the Blacklaws Remold and Brok show he's incredibly fast and strong — but so far tends to get taken out of action pretty quick. This just means that everyone else has an opportunity to show off though.
• The World Is Just Awesome: Holds the view that even if the world is full of monsters, there is still joy in finding new things and knowing there is more to discover.
• You're Not My Father: Implied. Episode 2's eyecatch states he has many "ex-children", implying either they got sick of his antics and disowned him, or he disowned them.

Marckus

Marckus D.

But complaining about Marckus is allowed...

Voiced by: Zegram

One of "Big-D"'s children. He's a bookish type who's always coming up with grand plans to help fight the menaces of the World of Darkness, but often chooses extremely risky ways of doing so. Based on Magnus the Red.

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• Adaptational Heroism: While Magnus in TTS was on a bumpy road to some sort of redemption, he still had a history of atrocities committed as a Daemon Prince and a love for dangerous sorcery. Marckus, as far as we know, appears to be a heroic vampire hunter with a bit too unhealthy interest in the darker side of his research. In fact, he seems to be taking more from pre-Heresy Magnus.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: His relationship with Big D has the same frustration with his father's antics as Magnus and Emperor in TTS, but lacks the bitterness. Marcus also shows to be empathetic enough to be unsettled by things that probably wouldn't make Magnus flinch, like Vampires brutally beating and eating each other. Also, Magnus is a literal Daemon Prince that commanded the Legions of Hell.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Played with with Marckus. Magnus was hinted to be into men when he sounded disappointed that the other Custodians weren't all running around almost naked, whereas Marckus is openly gay and engaged to Kitten.
• Adaptational Wimp: In TTS, Magnus was a powerful sorcerer and Daemon Prince. Marckus, by contrast, is a normal human who has to rely on his wit and intelligence to win a fight.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: The Ꮆ卂爪乇尺 卩ㄖᗪ匚卂丂ㄒ audio log reveals that he has a naturally short attention span, heavily implied to be ADHD.
• Awesome, but Impractical: His stake jacket can stake a vampire easily, but as Door points out in Episode 1, it requires them to get within biting distance (and notably, only in front of him) to actually do anything. His face (as well as the rest of him) is thoroughly pulverized by the time Shitbeard finally takes the bait and he sets it off.
• Big Brother Instinct: He saves Door from Apeboy by blowtorching him in the face.
• Butt-Monkey: Of the family, he's the one most likely to suffer from Amusing Injuries — whether by his own hand, circumstances beyond his control, or both.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Kitten and Marckus started as childhood friends until Marckus moved away. They would reconnect later in life during a LAN party where Kitten "telefragged Markcus into a vicious need to prove his gamer superiority"; after 42 hours of digital combat, they got physical and eight years later, they are now engaged.
• Combat Pragmatist: While not necessarily combat-related, he is willing to play dirty when confronted by Brok Blacklaw, such as rigging a drinking game and tricking Brok into getting in trouble with his father.
• Consummate Liar: Implied in the third audiolog. While Big-D laments that Door is too uncreative to lie, Kitten too accommodating, and that Boy's innocence leads to at least one blunder, he places complete faith in Marckus’ ability to deceive the police. As best as we can tell, he was right to; Chapman doesn’t question Big-D's testimony at all, and D reasons that Marckus told the same story he did.
• Crazy-Prepared: As Door pointed out, Marckus rigging up those retractable stakes to his own jacket was impractical in a lot of ways, but it's still useful in situations where a vampire gets up close and personal with no time to draw a weapon. Marckus' stake jacket ends up saving his life when Shitbeard tries to bite him after pulverizing him.
• Doesn't Like Guns: A possible downplayed example. Marckus seems to prefer using his own ingenuity and inventions to take down vampires instead of guns. He doesn't react well in the 1st episode to being told by Door to use a gun instead of his "Stake Jacket". And in the second episode, when Door brings up that Marckus could have used the money on his gaming rig to buy a gun he brushes it off saying he needs it for when Team Fortress 2 comes out. Then again, it is hinted that Marckus didn't grow up in America like Door did so this could simply be the two having different attitudes on the necessity of using firearms in self-defense. In episode 3, when the situation with Pyotr gets serious he does accept Doors offer for a gun (albeit, a mis-fire puts him out of comission) and also agrees to let Door take him to the range to practice after it's all over.
• Dented Iron: He takes quite a beating from Shitbeard and Pyotr (not to mention falling from a 2 story house and having both of his legs shot with a revolver misfire), and for the rest of the current episodes has his face bandaged up and walking on crutches. That doesn't stop him from being a badass, though.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: The Ꮆ卂爪乇尺 卩ㄖᗪ匚卂丂ㄒ audio log implies that Marckus has ADHD, as he apologizes to Kitten for constantly being distracted with chores and household work.
• Everyone Has Standards: He may have been the one to suggest forcing the Licks to eat one another and with amusement commented on their fight, but when Pyotr started to sadistically beat Ape to death Markcus is visibly disturbed by it.
• Eye Scream: He tends to get punched in the face there a lot, and discounting that, got poked in the eye by a stray tree branch, albeit without any reaction beyond annoyance. Given his predecessor in TTS is a noted cyclops, this is likely a Mythology Gag.
• Fatal Flaw: Impulsiveness and Stubborness. For all his intelligence, he has a bad habit of going with the first plan that comes to mind without thinking through the potential consequences, and he tends to double down on his choice when someone tries to point out the flaws in his logic.
  • The events of Episode 3 happened partially because Marckus decided to let the captured Licks try and eat each other to see what would happen in Episode 2, which leads to Pyotr getting a massive power-up from diablerizing Aple and Shitbeard. In the same episode, after Pyotr breaks free of his imprisonment, Marckus attempts to escape the house by jumping out the window, ignoring Kitten's warnings. He ends up jumping out of the second story window with nothing to break his fall, which gets his legs broken and leaves him completely helpless in the ensuing cat and mouse game with the frenzied Nosferatu.
  • This comes up again in the "Marckus Goes Pubbing" audiolog. Marckus would've probably beaten Brok had he just waited for him to pass out, but he couldn't miss the opportunity to gloat about how easily he "beat" him. The only reason Marckus still came out on top is because Brok happened to drink an infected batch of alcohol, giving him salmonella poisoning, with all further attempts of revenge by Brok going hilariously wrong.
• For Science!: His reasons for making three captured Licks feed on one another was that they simply didn't knew what happens in such situation. He got more than he bargained for.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He's managed to rig up a contraption that would allow him to stake a vampire if they got near him. That's gotta take some engineering skills. He also carries other devices the group uses, name a blowtorch (his main weapon) and what looks like a bundle of glowsticks in case the group are in dark places. Chapter 4 has him make use of custom crutches that also act as grabber arms.
• Improvised Weapon: He tends to favor unorthodox weapons rather than more practical ones. Chapter 1 has him use a blowtorch against the Pyotr and Apeboy, while Chapter 4 has him use his man catcher crutches to fight, from choking out Brok a few times with the claws, throwing a bottle at Remold and getting into an improvised Blade Lock with the Blacklaw patriarch.
• Kill It with Fire: In the battle against the fledglings in Chapter 1 he uses a blowtorch against Apeboy and Pyotr, burning half of the former's face and destroying the eyes of the latter.
• Love at First Punch: A gamer variant. While he and Marckus have known each other since they were kids, they first met as adults when he tele-fragged Marckus at a LAN party. After 42 hours of digital combat, they got physical. While Marckus still yet to succeed at exploding him into pieces, they are very content with their relationship.
• Major Injury Underreaction: He gets poked in the eye by a tree branch, yet he's merely annoyed by this and rips off the branch.
• Manchild: Both his father and fiancé opine that Marckus is a big baby, in particular to his eating habits as he's very picky and gets annoyed if his food isn't exactly how he wants it — he wont eat porridge unless he has jam.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: During the fifth audiolog; a local bully ends up getting salmonella poisoning from a pint of brandy while trying to ruin Marckus and his friends’ night out for kicks, and when he pulled switchblades on them in anger one fell apart and the other sprung to pieces in his hand. Nothing is made explicit, but the mishap is somewhat reminiscent of a hex from the Sphere of Entropy.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His ill-advised experiment to see what happens when vampires eat each-other results in Pyotr diablerizing his fellow Licks, gaining a power boost he uses to break out of the heavily-fortified basement prison.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Deconstructed. While an experienced Hunter like the rest of the Family, he's still a normal human clashing with supernatural beings like vampires, and thus ends up getting thrashed in the process. The first time was from Shitbeard, but the second time was from Pyotr, who brutalizes him so badly that after Pyotr's defeat and death at the end, he's the only one lying down in Kitten's lap, too weak to even sit. And during his recovery, he's covered in the most bandages of the family afterwards and needed assistance from Kitten. As Marckus later recalls to his friend Harry, most of his injuries were inflicted to his face.
• One Head Taller: A same-sex variant. He towers over his fiancé, Kitten, who comes up to his shoulders.
• Opposites Attract: He and Kitten were childhood friends who later reconnected in adulthood, fell in love, and got engaged. While they're both gaming nerds and intelligent young men overall, he's rational and level-headed while Marckus is more impulsive and high-strung.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: He seems pretty happy with the knowledge Sabbath are basically vampire fascists, as it now makes everything the Family does to Vampires morally justified.
• Picky Eater: He has very particular eating habits, something that irritate Kitten and Big-D to no end.
  Kitten: Agh, God, Marckus won't eat his porridge without jam.
  Big-D: Gaargh, what a child! He wants his porridge, but only with jam! He'll eat the beans, but not the sprouts! He wants his leek soup, but with absolutely NO MARMITE!!
• Running Gag: Repeatedly gets poked in the eye as a nod to his 40k counterpart.
• Tap on the Head: Deconstructed. As Marckus recalls to his friend Harry, he received one face kick, thirty face punches, and thirty-three face stomps thanks to Shitbeard and Pyotr, equaling sixty-four head and face injuries in total over the course of three episodes. Because of this, almost his entire face and head are covered in bandages as he recovers. Harry is shocked that Marckus still managed to remember his name after all that trauma.
• Shared Family Quirks: Compare Marckus happily deciding everything he does to Sabbat is morally justified because they're Vampire fascists in second episode to Big D joyfully explaining why kicking and experimenting on a demonic, murderous dog is a victimless crime in the first audiolog. The apple may not have fallen as far from the tree as they both seem to think. Ꮆ卂爪乇尺 卩ㄖᗪ匚卂丂ㄒ shows that he has similar attention issues to Big D and can be just as much as a Large Ham when he channels his inner AVGN.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: In episode 2 Pyotr tries to tempt him into joining the vampires, revealing Sabbath's perspective on vampire society and promising him immortality. Marckus' response?
  Marckus: Well, it is tempting. You know what's more tempting, though? Having everything we do from here on out be morally justified.
  Pyotr: YES! Exactly! Liberate yourself, brother!
  Marckus: Because...
  Pyotr: YES!
  Marckus: We'll be doing it against a bunch of vampire fascists!
  Pyotr: YES! THE SABBAT ARE- oh. Okay.
  Shitbeard: FUCK! IT DIDN'T WORK, PYOTR!
• The Un-Favourite: While it's only alluded to in the main episodes proper, the fourth audiolog explicitly shows that Marckus is deeply frustrated with Big-D as a parent. He is angry with Big-D keeping secrets from everyone which directly contributed to Pyotr's escape and the events of Episode 3 and feels he and the rest of the Family only exist as weapons in Big-D's war against Vampirekind. When he discovers Big-D has been giving Horse better medical treatment (while he only got crutches made from Kitten's broken stilts for his legs), Marckus is infuriated enough to propose to Horse his idea of leading a revolution against Big-D for what he sees as blatant Parental Favoritism. While Big-D does love Marckus and in fact openly praises his red-headed son, the fact he only does so when he's alone and/or only with Kitten contributed to Marckus' overall feeling that Big-D likes his fiance more than him, not helped by how Kitten is apparently Big-D's confidant. It takes Door's prodding for Marckus to unleash his pent-up anger and resentment towards their father, and even Door, while understanding Big-D's more questionable decisions, agrees that Big-D made a lot of mistakes as a parent that he cannot condone. It's rather telling when he loves his fiance, half-brothers, and nephew and is willing to trust them, but refuses to trust Big-D.

Kitten

"Kitten"

What? I'll write that down... How many R's is that?

Voiced by: ThunderPsyker

Marckus' Fiancé. A local resident of Norfolk County, England who's extremely knowledgeable about local legends and folklore. Based on Kitten.

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• 24-Hour Armor: He's seen in his full outfit even as early in the morning during breakfast time, with a sleep mask fitted precisely for his goggles, implying he sleeps in his hoodie and outfit. Granted, compared to other examples of this trope, the outfit he usually wears looks comfortable enough to easily pass off as casual homewear or outright pajamas.
  Amanda:' Look at him, he's like a - soft pillow.
• Animal Motifs: Cats. His name is Kitten, he wears a cat-eared hoodie, and when he jumps a small meowing sound can be heard as he jumps into the hole leading to the Vampires' hideout. In the third episode he briefly takes a much more feline appearance, including running briefly on all fours while arching his back and hissing which allows him to escape being Buried Alive in a pit dug by Pyotr. Chapter 4 even has the sound effect of an angry cat playing as he gets increasingly agitated by the group splitting up right after they've discovered an unconscious Occam after being left on his own in the archives.
• Apologizes a Lot: He was implied to have this trait in the past in regards to talking about his encyclopedic knowledge in folklore, likely due to being self-conscious about it. When he embarrassedly apologizes for his Fiddler story in response to Marckus' playful ribbing, Marckus gently admonishes him for it, reminding him that "[they've] been over this" and assuring him he's always impressed by his storytelling.
• Badass Bystander: Before he met the rest of the Family as an adult, he happened upon a vampire devouring a fellow college student and managed to out-brawl and kill the monster without any combat training whatsoever. It was only years later that he was able to get some context as to just what had happened.
• Casting Gag: Him being a resident of Norfolk is a reference to his VA, ThunderPsyker, being from Norwich.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Kitten and Marckus started as childhood friends until Marckus moved away. They would reconnect later in life during a LAN party where Kitten "telefragged Marckus into a vicious need to prove his gamer superiority"; after 42 hours of digital combat, they got physical and eight years later, they are now engaged.
• Curious as a Monkey: Despite his cat motifs and name, Kitten is ravenous for new information, especially on vampires, and while he does occasionally have moral qualms with how that information is acquired, he's always eager to learn more.
• Everyone Has Standards: Like Marckus he too was disturbed by Pyotr brutally killing his fellow Licks.
• Expressive Mask: His mask often does very little to hide his expression, stretching to clearly show when he furrows his brow or opens his mouth wide, sometimes even including his teeth. And when he's feeling angry, his goggles outright morph to resemble a pair of furious eyes. This also extends to the ears on his hoodie, which move around like a cat's when he gets angry, curious, or worried.
• The Faceless: He hides his entire head under a hoodie, balaclava and ski goggles combo; while you see his expressions, his actual face is never seen. It references how Kitten always wears his helmet in TTS, even while stripped of the rest of his Custodian armor.
• Fantastic Racism: Downplayed compared to Door, but in the fourth audiolog he expresses the sentiment that vampires aren't the same people they were in life but "something else" wearing their corpse, something that is demonstrably untrue, just ask Kevin. This appears to be something Big-D told him to help him deal with having killed a vampire he liked before finding out what he was.
• Guilt by Association Gag: Non-comedic example. He is just as banned from the Arcanum as the rest of the Family, but unlike them he apparently did not do anything against the rules and was banned simply for being Marckus's lover.
• In the Hood: He wears a blue, cat-eared hoodie with the hood on at all times.
• King of Games: Is noted to be a very good deathmatch player, with one of his exploits letting him connect with Marckus. His teammates nicknamed him "Captain" for his skill in Team Fortress Classic. This is a Mythology Gag harkening back to Captain-General Kitten from TTS holding the same title.
• Love at First Punch: A gamer variant. He and Marckus first met as adults when he tele-fragged Marckus at a LAN party. After 42 hours of digital combat, they got physical. While Marckus still yet to succeed at exploding him into pieces, they are very content with their relationship.
• The Missus and the Ex: His current fiaance, Marckus, and his ex-girlfriend, Grimal, are best friends to the point of being somewhat comfortable making references to having sex with him to one another.
• Mix-and-Match Weapon: His vampire hunting weapon is an improvised gun-spear consisting of a large retractable stick with a flintlock pistol taped to the tip and a Wooden Stake for bayonet duct-taped to the pistol as well. No points for guessing what that weapon is supposed to be.
• Mr. Exposition: He's extremely knowledgeable about the surrounding area of his home, able to rattle off ghost stories and local tidbits at the drop of a hat.
• Nice to the Waiter: Is courteous to Amanda and Matilda when talking to them.
• One Head Taller: A same-sex variant. He's much shorter than his fiancé, Marckus, only coming up to his shoulders in height.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: While Word of God and official materials (eyecatches, blog posts, etc.) name him Kitten, he's never actually addressed by name by the other characters. He's always called things like Son-in-Law (Big D), Uncle-in-Law (Boy), and Companion/Luv (Marckus).
• Only Sane Man: He's definitely the most rational and level-headed of the group. Compare him to Marckus, who is intelligent but impulsive and high-strung; Door who is The Stoic and Literal-Minded, and treats anything construction-related as Serious Business; Boy who is a shy and meek kid afraid of everything; and Big-D who is constantly high.
  • In Chapter 4 he also gets frustrated numerous times that everyone keeps splitting up instead of staying together so the Ghoul can't pick them off.
• Opposites Attract:
  • He and Marckus were childhood friends who later reconnected in adulthood, fell in love, and got engaged. While they're both gaming nerds and intelligent young men overall, he's rational and level-headed while Marckus is more impulsive and high-strung.
  • There was also his past relationship with Grimal, who is the exact opposite of Kitten in behavior. Marckus lampshades this by admitting he couldn't believe it lasted more than a week.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a scathing one to Pyotr in episode 3, forcing him to acknowledge his own cowardice and blasting him for his treacherousness.
• The Storyteller: In both Chapter 1 and the first audiolog, he's recounting spooky tales from the local area, hypnotizing both Marckus and Big-D with the legends.
• Team Mom: In keeping with his previous depiction, Kitten still show shades of this. In the first audiolog he's making everyone's breakfast.
• Trauma Button: A humorous one is alluded to in audiolog 5 - Fist of the North Star. In Marckus' words, the time he dated Grimal, who cannot sleep without the series opening blasting on maximum volume, left him traumatized. That anime is banned in his house.
• Uke: Grimaline calls him one in Episode 4. He does fit the physical aspect of the archetype, being a physically small, cute-looking queer man, especially compared to the physically imposing Marckus, though in terms of personality and combat skills, he is actually the fighter to Marckus's intellectual.
• Why Are You Not My Son?: According to Marckus at least, "Big-D" likes Kitten more than Marckus. Marckus isn't exactly too bent up over it as he likes Kitten more than his father, so it evens out. It later turns out to be a result of Poor Communication Kills. Big-D is legitimately proud of his son, but he only ever confides in Kitten about it, leading Marckus to believe that Big-D favors Kitten over him due to Kitten being the confidant and not him.

Door

Door D.

No talk of British Royalty in front of Boy!

Voiced by: SuperAnchors

The other child of Big D, and the much more practical one of the two. He's a giant of a man who adores his child, and of course, well-crafted carpentry. Based on Rogal Dorn.

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• Alliterative Name: Possibly: in the fifth audiolog, Brok's cronies refers to Marckus, his brother, as "Marcky-D", implying the family name starts with a D.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When Kitten objects to his nonchalant attitude about Pyotr beating Ape to death, Door calls him out on his hypocrisy.
  Door: Didn't you say you wanted this one to die first?
  Kitten: I...
  Door: Isn't it a bit late to object now?
• Bayonet Ya: Carries a shotgun with a stake taped to it's barrel for vampire hunting.
• Boring, but Practical: His approach to fighting, involving blasting the vampires with a shotgun and then staking them while they're down. He also encourages this in general, saying that instead of his "stake jacket", Marckus should just bring a gun next time.
• Break Them by Talking: While Kitten definitely gets Pyotr's dandruff raised, his fate is sealed by Door of all people pointing out just how thin his margin for error actually is in his situation... which is just enough to tip him into a furious rage.
• Brutal Honesty: Just like his inspiration.
  Door: Boy, are you all right?
  Boy: YES! ARE YOU!?
  Door: NO!
• The Comically Serious: Much like Dorn from TTS, part of the show's humor comes from his stoicism and Literal-Minded perceptions of things.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Subverted. His ruthless behavior in episode 2 isn't really off from his 40k counterpart. It's that in 40k this is normal attitude and Dorn is surrounded with people who overshadow him in this regard. If anything, it’s Marckus and Kitten who show more softer side than their 40k counterparts, making Door stand out.
• Crazy-Prepared: He set up mines on Kitten's front lawn. They are the major reason why the hunters managed to kill Pyotr. Because he used to be an EOD Specialist in the army.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He used to be a Miner until something happened that is hinted to have involved Vampires, sparking his hatred of them. Episode 3 reveals he was a miner in an unconventional definition of the term, being an Explosives disposal expert and that he still has his old EOD gear.
• Deadpan Snarker: Door is blunt, as is usual for him.
  Door: (staring at what appears to be a trashy hobo dwelling) Looks no worse than Marckus's room.
• Death Glare: His normally dour expression turns angry when Big-D suggests (metaphorically) that they burn away Boy's fear, with his eyes becoming very slanted.
  • Gives a literal one to Pyotr during their standoff at the end of Episode 3.
• Demolitions Expert: To fight Pyotr, he dons a US Army EOD suit, which he says is from his old "mining days," indicating that Door is an EOD Technician.
• Eagle Land: Door is so against Britishisms that he refuses to use the metric system, follows Real Men Eat Meat extensively and even has his son sing the (not quite) American National Anthem every so often. Not to mention the fact that out of everyone he's the one who uses firearms and explosives extensively.
• Exact Words: He makes reference to the fact that he used to be a miner, and the obvious implication is that he has a secret stash of dynamite or something. But no, he was an EOD Technician. He laid and presumably defused Mines for a living.
• Fake Nationality: In-universe. Based on what Big-D says in the first audiolog, claiming that his own psychotic upbringing "turned him American", hence explaining his rather poor grasp on American culture.
• Fantastic Racism: He hates Vampires much more than rest of the Family, refusing to see them as anything but corpses and calling Marckus and Kitten out for being disturbed by the sight of Pyotr brutally beating and feeding on Ape.
  Door: You are pathetic. Blankbodies are parasites. You kill people and you eat them. To allow you persist is to abet genocide.
  Shitbeard: "ABET GENOCIDE"?! YOU ARE GENOCIDING US RIGHT NOW!
  Door: Your life has already ended, tick. I can't kill a corpse.
• Hand Cannon: Whips out a large revolver in his final fight with Pyotr; stating it's a .45 caliber during the back and forth with the Nosferatu.
• Hannibal Lecture: Once Marckus, Kitten and Boy are unsettled by the violent way in which Pyotr beats and feets on Apeboy and his own indifference to it, Door attempts to convince them of his worldview.
  Door: You are uncomfortable because the one dying seems so human. But I can assure you; he is no different from the creature eating him alive. All vampires are destined to become monsters. Each one slain is who-knows-how many lives saved. That is why I do not hesitate to cheer and make sport of their death, and why you shouldn't either.
• Hidden Depths: Underneath his usual stoic, no-nonsense demeanor, there's more to him than is initially assumed. For one, he's smart enough to use Exact Words regarding his "mining days" when he was actually a former EOD technician who laid and defused mines for a living to fool Pyotr and keep him from realizing the entire front yard was turned into a mine field trap just for him. He also has a few things he enjoys, like wrestling and construction, enough to put a genuine smile on his face. In the fourth audiolog, he's very empathetic towards Marckus' frustrations towards Big-D and, while understanding their father's more questionable decisions, agrees with his brother that he cannot condone Big-D's screw-ups as a parent.
• The Horseshoe Effect: Pyotr mockingly points out Door's insistence Vampires aren't human but walking corpses echoes the manner in which Vampire aristocrats of Clan Ventrue tend to distance themselves from humanity.
• Ignored Epiphany: There is a moment where Boy unknowingly warns him of giving in to his hatred of Vampires. Door ignores it.
  Boy: Say, do you think this is a solemn warning of what happens when one embraces their monster and loses their soul?
  Door: Uuh...No.
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: After Marckus' leg-breaking fall from the second-story window in Chapter 3, Door offers to throw down a gun for Marckus to protect himself with. Predictably, the loaded firearm goes off when it hits the ground, further injuring Marckus' legs.
• Literal-Minded: As always. When Big-D uses an elaborate metaphor about burning away Boy's fear, Door’s response is "We are NOT throwing my son into a fire."
• Made of Iron: The guy tanks a vampire both tearing a chunk of his neck off and then digging his claws into his shoulders before Door then turns the tables (literally).
• Meaningful Name: In terms of personality, he's blunt, flat, and wooden. Also ties into his love of construction, shared with his TTS predecessor.
  Door: (staring at picnic table) One of the greatest table-designs known to man. The unity of table and bench. Pure in function, yet handsome in its form.
• Mundane Object Amazement: That above quote says quite enough about his interests.
• Nature Lover: Something is Wrong with Horse reveals that his outdoorsman qualities extend to an appreciation for nature's beauty, thoroughly enjoying the smell of post-rainstorm forest as he takes Boy to bed and cheerfully theorizing they might see a rainbow in the morning.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Despite his stoic behavior, Door is not above joining Marckus on wrestling-style commentary as they watch Vampires murder one another and actually allows himself to smile. He even continues past what his brother finds comfortable.
  • He is outright ecstatic and brimming with pride when Boy lands the killing blow on Pyotr.
• Not So Stoic: While The Stoic with Tranquil Fury most of the time, Door does have moments of blatant anger. In Episode 2, when Pyotr interprets Kevin's "special interview" with Big-D as having sex, Door becomes angry enough to make his face turn red.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The fourth audio log shows how empathetic Door can be when he asks an upset Marckus if he's alright and offers his brother an ear. Marckus is absolutely stunned by this, and soon enough he vents to Door his frustrations with Big-D and how he is tired of being treated like The Un-Favourite by their father. All the while, Door patiently listens, never ridiculing or dismissing Marckus.
• Out of Focus: He and Boy are written out of Chapter 4 as the ghoul hunt begins. This was done as the writing team felt that they had too many characters to juggle and couldn't find anything to do with Door and Boy. Even after excluding them the team still felt they had too much and had to cut other planned aspects of the chapter.
• Papa Wolf: Even though he did bring Boy along for the monster hunt, Door is still very protective of his son, and is always quick to comfort him when he’s scared.
  • Door takes it to new heights during the very first episode, after having a chunk bitten out of his neck, partially drained of blood, stabbed and clawed in the back AND hurled against a wall, his first reflex is to check on Boy.
  • It's also played for laughs when Big-D suggests burning away Boy's fear, causing Door to glare and state threateningly, "We are NOT throwing my son into a fire."
  • Shown off again in Episode 3 where after Pyotr tosses Big-D out the second-story window, the first thing Door does is grab Boy protectively and run down the stairs.
• Parents as People: Door is a stern, no-nonsense man with very clear prejudices against Vampires and anything non-American, and has his son Boy on an all-meat diet that may not be good for him. Despite this, he deeply cares for Boy and is very protective of him. Whenever both of them are endangered, the first thing he does is check on Boy and make sure he's safe.
• Politically Incorrect Hero:
  • Door is a deeply proud American, to the point where he's very against Boy assimilating into any British culture. In Episode 2, whenever Kitten says something even vaguely British-related, Door urges Boy to loudly sing songs referencing America to purge the opposing culture out of his system.
  • More than any other family member, Door's hatred for vampires is visceral. At one point, Boy posits that treating every vampire like a monster will only lead to people like Door becoming no better than them, but Door remains obstinate.
• Punny Name: Door. It's both a very obvious reference to Dorn (whom he's an Expy of) and his dour personality.
• Real Men Eat Meat: Invoked. Door has his son eat exclusively meat, even if it doesn't do his digestive system any favors.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Appears to sport a solid crimson eye during his final fight with Pyotr in Episode 3. It's not clear whether it's a reflection of Pyotrs own eyes in his EOD faceplate or Door himself.
• Separated by a Common Language: The first episode intermission reveals that he does not understand nor care to understand the British-English dialect.
• Serious Business: As he is based on Rogal Dorn (or at least the TTS version of him), he is a stern, no-nonsense man who takes construction and measurements very seriously, as shown by his fascination with a picnic table in Episode 1. It's deconstructed as his fixations led to Boy nearly being preyed on by Pyotr while he was distracted.
• The Stoic: Much like Dorn, he has a rather dour expression. Part of the show's humor lends to this, making him The Comically Serious.
• Stout Strength: He's the shortest and widest of the two brothers, but that's due to being built like a brick house.
  • Having to lug around an EOD Suit during his "mining" days, it's no surprise. Those weigh just over 80lbs.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: His stance on vampires. They're already dead, and killing them prevents further harm coming to innocent people.
• When She Smiles: Gender-inverted. The times where he smiles can be counted on one hand, but when he does, it's usually during moments when he's emotionally invested in something, like watching vampires duking it out in a wrestling match or comforting Marckus during his lowest points.
• Younger Than They Look: He looks much older than his father and brother, especially since Big-D doesn't have ageing hairs.

Boy

"Boy" D.

i... i hate vampires so... so hecking much!

Voiced by: Nostalgia

Door's son and Big D's Grandson. Mostly along for the ride. He's not terribly brave, but he is good at carrying ice packs. Based on Boy.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: Boy from Text to Speech was a downtrodden, impoverished boy living in the Imperium of Man. Here, Boy is a full-fledged member of the family, being Door's son.
• all lowercase letters: His subtitles are all printed in lowercase, befitting his overall smallness in stature, world knowledge, etc.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: His bangs, the huge scarf that covers half his face, and his baggy clothes all lend to his shy and meek personality.
• Badass Adorable: Boy is adorable, that much is self-evident. But he's also training to be a Hunter, and even helps stake Kevin with the rest of his family. He later shoots Pyotr while the latter was in mid-jump, saving Door and causing the Nosferatu to land on another mine.
• Gosh Darn It to Heck!: Being a young kid, he expresses he hates vampires "so hecking much" at the end of Episode 1, upon which Door scolds him for his language. However, in Episode 3 after shooting and wounding an empowered Pyotr mid-jump, he proudly says he "shot a bitch", averting this.
• Junkie Prophet: A possible explanation for at least part of the thing with Horse. He mentions liking ayahuasca^note hallucinogenic tea served in native Brazilian religious ceremonies and chugs a bottle of absinthe^note liquor commonly (and falsely) believed to cause hallucinations while watching Horse before he starts seeing patterns in the blood splatters and Horse delivers a terrifying prophecy.
• Karmic Jackpot: In Episode 3, he saves Door from being attacked by Pyotr by shooting him while the latter was in mid-jump, causing Pyotr to land on another landmine that incapacitates him long enough to be incinerated by the morning sun. Not only do his family congratulate him for it, but Door also promises to bake him a meat cake with any flavor of his choosing as a reward. It's very satisfying for a child who, up until that point, had spent three episodes being absolutely terrified for his life.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Unlike his fearless, kooky, loud-mouth of a grandfather who enjoys hunting down Vampires, as well as his stoic and no-nonsense father who sees all Vampires as completely non-human, Boy is a meek, soft-spoken child who is constantly frightened by the monsters he encounters due to his family's Hunter lifestyle.
• Meaningful Name: Given who his father is in this universe, it's likely his name really is Boy, which also highlights his youthful innocence.
• Morality Pet: The adult members of the Family tend to have strong personalities that make them bicker with each other a lot, but they all soften up around Boy due to him being a child. This is exemplified in Door, who is extremely prejudiced against Vampires and disdains British culture, but is very protective of his son.
• Not So Above It All: Apparently, this eleven year old is a big fan of ayahuasca.
• Out of Focus: As mentioned above he and Door are written out early in Chapter 4.
• Pint-Size Powerhouse: According to the Episode 1 insert, he's grown quite powerful due to his diet of Meat, Butter, Coffee, and Egg-Milk. We get to hear more of this in the fourth audio-drama, where Boy empties a car full of dead boars all by himself seemingly without breaking a sweat.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": In Episode 1, as the Family traverses deeper into the dark woods, he quietly repeats "nonononononono" in utter terror. It increases once they encounter a huge hole.
• Security Cling: Being a young kid thrust into the Family's Vampire hunts, he frequently clings to the closest adult he can trust. Usually it's Door, his father, but in Episode 1 he also clings to Marckus after the Family finds a huge hole leading to the Licks' hideout. He also runs and clings to Door at the end of Episode 3 shortly after shooting Pyotr, likely to seek comfort over having shot someone for the first time.
• Seers: While the situation in which this came up is (as of this writing) hard to discern, possibly. Boy seemed to be a nascent Vision Hunter, given his spotting of odd, very familiar shapes of his house and family in the blood Horse was puking up (which might count as haruspicy if you stretch the definitions), and it was right after this that Horse started speaking to him, outright asking him what he saw and referring to him as "oracle" before imparting prophecy to him.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Of him and his family, he resembles Big-D the most, sharing his grandfather's black hair and penchant for wearing yellow clothes. Personality-wise, though, they're complete opposites.
• Support Party Member: He can't do any real damage due to the fact that he's 11, but he keeps ice packs around in case of injury. He does stake The Mighty Kevin, though. He actually gets the shot that actually puts Pyotr down for the count.
• Tagalong Kid: An eleven-year old on a vampire hunt doesn't sound like the best idea. At least Boy keeps ice packs prepared in case of injury.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Meat cake, especially venison-flavored. In Episode 3, when Door offers to make him one as a reward for helping take down Pyotr, Boy reacts just like how a kid would when offered dessert. It's deconstructed as in a previous episode, he mentions having "meat sweats" as a consequence of his all-meat diet.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Has a disturbing penchant for hard drink, claiming to "love" Ayahausca (a psychedelic drug) and his response to finding a bottle of Absinthe meant as medicine for Horse is to go "Bottoms up" and chug it.

Horse

NEIGH. ^{(POURS BLOOD.)} What Is It Thoust See..?

Voiced by: Ki McKenzie

Big-D's favorite son, introduced in the fourth audiolog. Yes, he is in fact an actual horse. His name is a reference to the Emperor's favorite son, Horus Lupercal (Pre-Horus Heresy, of course).

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• Adaptational Heroism: In Warhammer 40k mythology, Horus is basically Lucifer and Judas rolled into one and in TTS canon he is exclusively referred to by the Emperor as "FUCKING Horus", with all the fury a text-to-speech-device can muster. Horse is beloved and cared for by whole Family, entirely uninterested in Marckus's drunken ideas of rebellion against Big D and despite his nightmarish speech to Boy, seems to consider rest of the group his family, trying to warn Boy of the Gehenna and be Creepy Good at worst.
• Antiquated Linguistics: Horse speaks in a very archaic manner, and it's not just his prophecy; he calls Boy "mine nephew."
• Animalistic Abomination: He sure as hell isn't a normal horse.
• Artistic License – Biology: Horses are physically incapable of vomiting. It's why digestive upsets are so dangerous for them. Then again, this one most certainly isn't actually a member of the Equus Ferus Caballus species.
• Blood from the Mouth: Exaggerated. Horse keeps vomiting up blood, to the point of hilarity. And then it's suddenly a lot less funny when Boy starts seeing shapes in the sludge and Horse starts speaking.
• The Confidant: In his debut, he is used by several characters to unload emotional baggage in regards to their family.
• Creepy Good: He utters a prophecy of Gehenna while sporting glowing red eyes more at home in the skull of a serpent than a horse while blood pours from his mouth, which all leaves Boy justifiably terrified. But when he's not being a horrific agent of prophecy, he's a normal, lovable horse, and the affectionate way he refers to Boy as his nephew afterwards indicates that while he frightened the lad, he wasn't doing so out of malice.
• Delicate and Sickly: At the time of his introduction Horse is incredibly sick, constantly throwing up blood. Since horses can't actually vomit, this might be a hint that he's not what he seems.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Why yes, Horse is a horse. We think...
• Fantastic Racism: Apparently, Horse does not like Changelings all that much, calling them the derogatory slur 'Milklings' in his prophecy.
• Hellish Horse: His eyes turn into the Eye of Horus as he spews prophecies in a demonic voice.
• Invisible to Adults: While Horse himself is obviously visible to everyone, he only speaks when Boy is the only one who can hear him.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Was Horse actually speaking at the end? Or was Boy just hearing things due to having just downed a bottle of absinthe?
• Multiple-Choice Past: Big-D has apparently given several different backstories for Horse.
  • Marckus claims that Big-D "inherited" him from one of Big-D's exes, but he doesn't know which.
  • Big-D himself claims that Horse burst out of his skull like Athena.
  • Remold says that he was stolen from an old lady near Horsey Beach, which Kitten thinks is most likely, although he admits that Remold thought Big-D was the Devil before he was banned from the Arcanum.
  • His seemingly-supernatural nature raises even more questions about what he is and where he came from, and we have no answers on that front.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Marckus suggests to Horse that the two of them charge into Big-D's room for a revolution, in an obvious reference to the Horus Heresy.
  • Horse giving terrifying prophecies to Boy is another reference to Horus, except the roles are switched — in Warhammer 40k, it was the Chaos Gods who gave Horus a vision of his father, the Emperor of Mankind, being worshipped by the Imperium as a god, putting Horus on the path to becoming the Arch-Traitor. Here, it's Horse telling Boy his visions, leaving the poor kid catatonic in sheer terror.
• Parental Favoritism: He is Big-D's favorite child and the rest of the family knows it. His medicine cost 800 quid (not that he paid for it); for context, Marckus was given crutches fashioned from Kitten's broken stilts.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When he speaks to Boy, his eyes become a horrifying glowing red with reptilian pupils.
• Seers: However he knows it, the things he tells Boy sound a lot like a terrifying prophecy, albeit with a lot of Word-Salad Horror.
• Shadow Discretion Shot: In his introductory audiolog, his silhouette can be seen in the shed window along with the various characters who come to talk to him, and it can be seen distorting and growing when he begins to speak, accompanied by the sounds of cracking bones and shifting flesh.
• Suddenly Voiced: Played for Drama. When Door is asleep and Boy is the only one listening, Horse begins to speak horrifying prophecy while his eyes bulge and turn red.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The hunters have no issue talking to Horse like he's a member of their family. Considering that the last thing Horse does in the audiolog is call Boy "nephew," it seems the feeling is mutual.