Characters / Identity V Hunters Part 1

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Original Hunters

Leo Beck - The Hell Ember

Leo Beck - The Hell Ember

^{Click to see Leo without his mask}

^{Click to see pre-hunter Leo}

Leo Beck was once the owner of a small textile factory. After taking the advice of his friend Freddy Riley, he bought a small gun factory that was severely in debt. Before Leo realized the poor conditions of the factory, his wife and Freddy Riley made off with all his possessions and disappeared. Drowning in debt, Leo Beck burned down the factory.

Voiced by: Su Xin (Chinese)

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• Ambiguously Human: It is unclear if he survived the fire, and only became a hunter because he broke the rules in a past game, or if he died in the fire and was later resurrected as an undead being. The relations system and his 2021 letter confirm that he did indeed survive the fire.
• Amnesiac Resonance: The author of his 2021 letter reveals that, after surviving the fire, Leo apparently lost a majority of his memories. However, every December 21, he would become "unusually exuberant." While it was technically the day Leo set the arms factory on fire, it is also the birthday of his beloved daughter, Lisa.
• Covered in Scars: A physical reminder of him surviving the fire that he set in the Arms Factory.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Began to drink frequently after being tricked into debt by the man who seduced his wife.
• Doting Parent: He was and is extremely caring to his daughter, no matter what he has become.
• Enemy Summoner: Can summon minions in the form of a hellish version of himself or a pair of angry puppets.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Still cares about his daughter after becoming a Hunter.
• Face–Heel Turn: Was a pretty sweet guy in life, and supposedly joined the game as a Survivor, before his "punishment".
• Fate Worse than Death: After being tricked into debt by a trusted friend, who proceeded to steal his possessions and run off with his wife, and sending his beloved daughter to an orphanage, Leo seemingly tried to take his own life by burning down the arms factory he had been tricked into buying with him inside of it. Sadly, things only got worse from there. Left physically and mentally scarred from his near-death experience, Leo was later captured and subjected to a number of daily experiments, that are said to have killed eighty-five percent of the other test subjects, for ten years straight. Months later, through as of yet unknown circumstances, Leo becomes a Hunter and is presumably assigned to hunt his beloved daughter.
• Foil: To Freddy Riley/The Lawyer. Both of them were married to Martha Remington at one point and played a significant role in Emma Woods'/The Gardener's life. However, while Leo was a kind and caring father to Emma and said love of his daughter is one of his redeeming qualities as a Hunter, Freddy is a Survivor who is lacking in morals and is responsible for many of the hardships she faced in her life. In addition, Leo has a muscular build while Freddy is skinny.
• Gentle Giant: Before he became a hunter. He still shows signs of being one when he spares Emma and escape his programming as a hunter.
• Good Parents: Was and still is a kind and caring father to his daughter.
• Improbable Weapon User: His default weapon is a stuffed shark.
• It Is Dehumanising: He is referred to as an it by a researcher, seemingly working in the Sacred Heart Hospital, in his 2021 letter. To add to the dehumanisation, the letter ends with the researcher deciding to forgo from using Leo's given test subject name, "Cinder," and switch to referring to him by his subject number.
• Made of Iron: Said to have survived an experiment with an 85% chance of death with no problems, even before that he survived his suicide attempt where he basically burned himself alive.
• Manual Leader, A.I. Party: His unique ability "Awaken" allows Leo to create A.I controlled hellish clones of himself or wake up his puppets so they chase survivors.
• Morality Pet: His daughter Lisa/Emma Woods is this to him.
• Nice Guy: Was said to be this prior to becoming a Hunter.
• Textile Work Is Feminine: Averted. Leo is the most traditionally masculine hunter among the playable guys and his main talent is making leather crafts. His hunting items such as the shark mace and living puppets are mentioned as being his toy creations for Lisa. This is an important point of his character, as it is only when he abandons textile work to become a gunsmith that his life begins to go wrong.
• Tragic Villain: Swindled into poverty by someone be considered a friend, had his family torn apart and burned himself to death in his own factory.
• Unwitting Test Subject: His 2021 letter reveals that, shortly after burning down the arms factory, Leo was found and captured by an unspecified individual. Said individual would go on to subject Leo to daily experiments for, at least, ten years.
• We Used to Be Friends: Was close enough to Freddy Riley that he trusted the latter with providing him with financial advice. Riley chose to repay that trust by tricking Leo into debt and running off with his wife. Following his transformation into a Hunter, Leo is now obsessed with taking revenge on Riley.
• You Are Number 6: His 2021 letter reveals that, during his time being experimented on in the Sacred Heart Hospital, he was given the subject number, 1-12-22-13.

Joker - The Smiley Face

Joker - The Smiley Face

^{Click to see Joker without his mask}

Joker was once the star of the circus. His naturally sullen face made him the best crying clown. However, the advantage changed when the handsome smile clown Segi and the glamorous acrobat and actress Natalie joined the circus, and Joker realized it's time for him to change his "professional track". Obviously, after getting his eternal smile, Joker can go nuts in new comedy shows.

For tropes pertained to his Survivor identity switch, see Weeping Clown.

Inclination: A loose cannon on the verge of collapse.

Voiced by: Li Yuantao (Chinese, formerly)

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• All Love Is Unrequited: Had romantic feelings for a female acrobat/animal trainer by the name of Natalie (Margaretha Zelle) who appeared to be happily married to Sergi, the circus’ smiling clown, and who is said to have vanished from the circus one day, without a hint of a goodbye, much to Joker’s dismay.
  • However, the Weeping Clown's Background Story trailer seems to imply that Joker's feelings for her may not have been as unrequited as they initially seemed. This is assuming that Joker isn't an Unreliable Narrator.
• Ambiguously Evil: Like every other character connected to Hullaballoo Circus. Nearly every single hunter in the game appears to be a victim of circumstance, and Joker is shown to have noble qualities in his deductions (wanting to stop the abuse Natalie was suffering at the hands of either the circus owner or her husband). It is possible that his constant humiliation, dwindling fame and later facial scarring caused him to go mad and slaughter his former coworkers and anyone else who visited Moon River Park at the night of the tragedy. At the same time it is also possible that he had nothing to do with the Moon River Tragedy, and was actually transformed into a hunter for the purpose of giving the true murderer (and possibly also Mike) a karmic punishment.
  • One of his Deduction Star Event lines only make things more ominous, given that they appear to be his thoughts on the Moon River Tragedy. If so, are these lines a confession that he was responsible, or merely a sign that, although he was not involved and/or personally responsible, he was happy with what happened?
  Joker: The surrounding laughter, the released torch, and the burning rooftop. I was instantly relieved when as soon as that place went up in flames.
• Ambiguous Situation: Both Mike and Margaretha's 2021 Character Day letters imply that he was present in the manor prior to the beginning of the group's game. Does this confirm that, like Leo, he was once a Survivor that later became a Hunter? Or is it meant to imply that certain Hunters are allowed to converse with Survivors before the games officially begin?
  • Following the release of the "Weeping Clown" Survivor, the former interpretation turned out to be the case.
• Artificial Limbs: Replaced his lost legs with a wooden stick.
• Career-Ending Injury: After his face was disfigured by acid, the injuries were stated to be so bad that he could no longer work as the circus' Crying Clown.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Always smiling in a sadistic manner, like what his name suggests.
• Evil Redhead: Is a Hunter, a mass murderer and has red hair.
• Expy: Allegedly based on Javier, the protagonist of the 2010 Spanish film The Last Circus, being a former crying clown whose face is disfigured and who eventually becomes a psychotic murderer. The comparisons don't end there. In Joker's deductions, it is shown that he fell in love with a female member of the circus married to a smiling clown with a suspiciously similar name to the smiling clown from the film.
• Facial Horror: Never seen in-game, though. His face was badly burnt as a result of an apparent accident involving Mike Morton, to the point that it is said that it looked like his skin had corroded. The injuries were so bad that they led to him losing his job as a crying clown.
• Handicapped Badass: He has a prosthetic right leg and his face was apparently badly burnt by fire and/or acid. Doesn’t do anything to stop him from being a deadly hunter.
• I Hate Past Me: Heavily implied.
• Head Swap: He has a B-tier skin that transforms him into Zheng Kaisi’s “Super Clown” form from the movie Animal World.
• Kill and Replace: His 2021 Character Day letter implies that, on top of cutting off Sergi's face and wearing it as his own, he also stole Sergi's identity, either to disguise his true identity at the manor or to effectively become the smiling clown in every possible way.
• Laughing Mad: Coupled with sobbing in his lobby.
• Malevolent Masked Man: Wears a mask, one of which possesses a sadistic grin, and is a deadly hunter in a game of life and death.
• Monster Clown: Many of his costumes.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Serves as the mean to Murro and Violetta's nice and Margaretha and Mike's in-between during the preparation stages of Game 8.
• Sad Clown: His former role in the circus. He has since come to embrace a different role, however.
• Wolverine Claws: Wears a clawed glove on his right hand.
• You Are Number 6: He is referred to by his given serial number, 8-0-3 in his Experiment File and corresponding Experiment Files on survivors and hunters that participated in the same game as him.

Jack - The Ripper

Jack - The Ripper

^{Click to see Jack without his mask}

Before becoming "The Ripper", he was a student of James Whistler, a renowned artist influenced by Edgar Degas. Who would guess that a well-dressed gentleman during the day will, when darkness falls, walk into an alley and stalk poor women? As "The Ripper" gained infamy, the boundary between his two identities began to fade. Of course, before you see his true face, "The Ripper" is still happy to take a walk at night.

Inclination: An unfettered innate criminal?

Stage Cast:Narumatsu Yoshihiko

Voiced by: Li Yuantao (Chinese, formerly), Makoto Furukawa (Japanese), Michael Kohl (English)

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• Adaptational Badass: The real life Jack the Ripper, while still a brutal Serial Killer, was still a human being (therefore having human limitations) and could not turn invisible.
• Ambiguous Situation: Just what exactly is the Ripper? Is it a Split Personality, or is it the result of some form of Demonic Possession?
  • Keigan, interviewed in Jack's 2021 Character Day letter, recalls that Jack spoke in a manner akin to a song heard in London about White Sand Street. Is this just the clerk jumping to conclusions? Is it meant to imply that Jack heard a song inspired by the tragedies that occurred in White Sand Street, and merely took a liking to it? Or is it a sign that he may possess a much more closer connection to White Sand Street than previously thought?
• Ankle Drag: How he transports Survivors to rocket chairs when equipped with the Soul Devourer accessory.
• The Blank: His face lacks any features, besides sunken eye sockets and a pronounced nose. He usually covers it with a mask.
• Bridal Carry: He can do this with incapacitated Survivors if he is equipped with the Rose Cane or Blue Rose Cane accessories.
• Dissonant Serenity: Likes to hum and sing during games.
• Faux Affably Evil: A polite gentleman who also just so happens to be Ax-Crazy.
• Gollum Made Me Do It: His deductions imply that “The Ripper” is the violent and malevolent Split Personality of a painter.
• Head Swap:
  • He has a S-tier skin that transforms him into Isaac “Zac” Foster from Angels of Death.
  • He has two A-level skins that transform him into Edward Scissorhands’ protagonist of the same name.
  • He hás an A-tier skins that transforms him into Sonju from The Promised Neverland.
• Historical Domain Character: Take one guess who he’s based on.
  • His true identity is implied to be Walter Sickert, an eccentric painter with a habit of designing ghoulish work, who is believed by some to have been Jack the Ripper, or possibly an accomplice to their murders.
• Lean and Mean: Thinner than the other initial hunters and far more sadistic.
• Malevolent Masked Man: Always wears a white, blank mask to cover his also blank face in his default appearance. His other skins often stylize it, but some of them do take the mask off.
• Sadist: Enjoys seeing his victims suffer and shiver in fear.
• Serial Killer: The very same Ripper.
• Significant Reference Date: His Character Day is on August 7th, which was when Martha Tabram (a woman who might have been the real life Jack the Ripper's first victim) was murdered in 1888.
• Visible Invisibility: He goes "invisible," but still emits a red light and leaves a blur of motion around himself.
• Wolverine Claws: What is best to describe his left hand.
• You Are Number 6: He is referred to by his given serial number, 2-0-2 in his Experiment File and corresponding Experiment Files on survivors and hunters that participated in the same game as him.

2018

Bane Perez - The Gamekeeper

Bane Perez - The Gamekeeper

Bane Perez was in charge of the forest farm and patrol cabin at Oletus Manor. In his spare time he raised a black-nosed moose like a child. However, accidents always happen, and a new hunting season was coming. Bane was wondering how he could hide the black-nosed moose to ensure its safety, but he was too late. A team of fully armed poachers had already arrived.

The gunshots rang through the forest. When Bane arrived, he saw that the black-nosed moose had fallen to the ground. He recognized a familiar face from the poacher's team. It was a boy that he had rescued a few years prior. However, when Bane pleaded with him, they cruelly wanted to turn him into a Minotaur. They cut off his tongue and put the head of the black-nose moose on him. They locked him up with a steel-jaw leghold trap and began a massacre in the forest.

After the poachers had left, the dogs dragged Bane back to the manor, where he somehow recovered. No one thought that his humiliation would turn Bane into a demon. He was transformed into a Minotaur, and the mountain forest became his maze. Since that day, Bane shows no mercy to anyone who sets foot on his land.

Voiced by: Su Xin (Chinese)

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• Animal Lover: Bane loves animals and they seem to love him back, with many official artworks having random forest animals approach the intimidating Gamekeeper without much trouble. Humans seem to be the exception.
• Animal Motifs: Deers. If it isn't obvious from the large deer head he wears.
• Badass Normal: Bane has no supernatural powers or advanced technology like his fellow hunters, apparently just being a strong, well-equipped human being and as Naib and William find out the hard way that doesn't make him any less dangerous.
• Bear Trap: His passive ability allows Bane to place multiple bear traps around the map that do not harm survivors but temporarily immobilize them.
• Beast Man: Subverted and Exploited. At first sight Bane could easily be mistaken for a deer man, or a minotaur, but he is actually just an ordinary guy wearing a costume. Bane exploited this trope heavily, as he created the legend of the minotaur who protects his forest, and mercilessly destroys any invaders.
• Better with Non-Human Company: As mentioned above, Bane loves animals and even forest spirits seem to be friendly towards him. On the other hand, most humans in the Gamekeeper's presence are unlikely to have a pleasant experience.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Make no mistake, Bane has lost the ability to speak but he is still an extremely loud man, he loves to laugh evilly and even his emotes are quite dramatic, he also not only can but will destroy you if given the chance.
• The Brute: Bane is easily the physically strongest Manor worker, using no technology, magic or powers of any kind, and only relying on his Brute strength to immobilize and eliminate survivors.
• Companion Cube: Bane's unique pet, Possessed Deadwood, started out as an inanimate companion that Bane created out of loneliness. Somehow though it came to life after a spirit possessed it.
• Cynicism Catalyst: His betrayal and physical disfigurement at the hands of a boy he had once shown kindness mixed with the death of his "son" (a deer he raised since he was a baby) transformed him into a violent man who spares no one he considers a trespasser or a rule breaker.
• Et Tu, Brute??: He once chose to show mercy to a boy who had snuck into the forest, instead of delivering him to the authorities. Said boy chose to repay him for his kindness by helping a group of hunters murder and disfigure Bane.
• Face–Heel Turn: After his kindness toward a boy was betrayed and he was left injured, he lost all compassion.
• Improbable Weapon User: His default weapon is a purple fish-shaped hook.
• Forest Ranger: Both in the literal and fantasy sense. Bane is the guardian of the Darkwoods, the forests near the Manor and map of the final game, uses a bow, is friends with all living beings and communicates with forest spirits. This is exaggerated in his "Forest Guardian" skin which is literally green and made to look like a Treant. This costume can be found on the walls of Darkwoods.
• Green Means Natural: His "Forest Guardian" skin is green and the guardian of a Enchanted Forest.
• Handicapped Badass: Bane is mute and has a lame leg, he also describes himself as the strongest, and he's probably not wrong.
• Horns of Villainy: Bane is a worker at the Manor, has been described as a brutal executioner, and also wears a deer's head to hide his true identity.
• Pet the Dog: A literal Implied example. On the map where he lives, the Darkwoods, several guard dogs can be seen in cages, they are hostile to everyone except Bane, as a sign that he treats his dogs well.
• Meaningful Name: His name means "glorious defender". Fitting, considering his title and role prior to becoming a hunter.
• Nice Guy: In his backstory he was described as being quite friendly and kind, and even though he was strong he was never anything but kind even to the invaders. In the present day, he is definitely not this trope.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He never actually punished people who trespassed on the manor's land, letting them leave and showing mercy, this was repaid by being mutilated and left for dead by one of the invaders, a young boy.
• Scarily Competent Tracker: Downplayed. His kit is based on locating survivors he previously injured with his grappling hook or traps.. Every survivor pulled by Bane's hook has their location revealed to him twice every 60 seconds in case they escape.
• The Speechless: During the Manor massacre, Bane had his tongue ripped out and was declared unable to communicate verbally because of this.
• Stout Strength: Tied with Joker on his hunter form and Leo he is physically the largest hunter by body mass, and unlike most hunters he only uses basic equipment and his weight during the matches.
• Tragic Keepsake: The "Golden Horn" accessory, said to be the grafted from what remained of Black Nose.
• Tragic Villain: Despite showing kindness to a boy who had broken the law by breaking into the forest, he was later betrayed by the same boy, mutilated and left to die. He also had to watch his son die and had the carcass sewn onto his body, Burke of all people seems horrified at the extent of what happened to Bane.
• Villainous Friendship: According to his 2020 Character Day letter, he was friends, or at least on (potentially one-sided) friendly terms, with Burke prior to both of their transformation into hunters. His 2021 Character Day letter implies that the two were still on friendly terms following Bane's transformation into a Hunter, being probably the only human Bane does not distrust.
• You Will Not Evade Me: Carries a grappling hook with which he can pull survivors toward him. With more presence the hook itself deals damage.

Violetta - The Soul Weaver

Violetta - The Soul Weaver

Violetta was once a famous freak show performer, later reduced to performing in third-rate circuses after the audience lost interest in her. She's always wanted to get back on stage and once again become the much-anticipated star. With the help of a mechanic, Violetta installed flexible mechanical prostheses and a few sophisticated gadgets on herself and created a new show—Human Spider Show. Her old boss refused to let her perform, but Violetta didn't give up. She has accepted an invitation to perform, and is going to hold her comeback show at Oletus Manor. Of course, for safety reasons, audiences shouldn't watch it up close.

Inclination: A "tool" deceived by hope.

Voiced by: Wu Xiangtong (Chinese)

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• Abandon the Disabled: Was found in a basket left under a seat during a performance at a travelling show.
• Artificial Limbs: What she grafted onto herself in an attempt to become a Human-Spider.
• All Webbed Up: Can wrap Survivors in cocoons.
• All-Loving Hero: The person who writes her third letter thinks of her as this, describing her behavior as "blind kindness", It is unknown if this also applies to her hunter form.
• Ambiguous Situation: Weeping Clown's Worn Clothes, are covered in cobwebs. Turns out Joker was the teammate who tried to kill her, making a coincidence unlikely. Would Violetta have survived and taken revenge on Joker? Would she have retaliated against the aggression in some way? Or was this her way of being defiant even in death? Maybe we'll never know.
• Badass Adorable: Violetta's skins usually do not use her original plague doctor mask (including her worn clothes) but instead use an adorable puppet mask that combined with her gentle voice and friendly demeanor makes her an adorable woman even though he's a spider cyborg. She is also a hunter with a brutal method of elimination and blades instead of arms.
• Connected All Along: Her 2021 Character Day letter reveals that she eventually ended up in Hullabaloo Circus, and may have present during the Moon River Tragedy.
• Cool Mask: Wears one in her default skin.
• Creepy Good: A cyborg spider, who happens to be a hunter in the game, but also doesn't seem to have a bad bone in her body. At least before Joker attacks her.
• Cyborg: More steampunk than traditional examples, however.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Disliked that other members of the freak show treated her differently because they felt sorry for her. The fact that Max, the owner of the freak show, treated her exactly how he treated everyone else (badly) is what caused Violetta to warmly regard him as a father figure, despite her being well aware of his many flaws.
• Green-Eyed Monster: One of her main character traits, listed on her Character Day, is jealousy.
  • It’s implied that this may be the reason she dislikes the Ripper, feeling threatened by him apparently being considered the best hunter.
• The Grotesque: What the freak show advertised as, calling her a cross between a penguin and a man. For a period of time she served as their star attraction. Eventually, however, people began to regard her as a one-trick pony and lost interest.
• Historical Domain Character: Based on Aloisia Wagner, a stage performer born without arms or legs.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: An affable performer in real life. A dangerous hunter tasked with hunting other people in this game (though she does not appear to be malicious). Whether she actually ended up canonically hunting anyone is questionable, however, following revelations from the Time of Reunion event and her 2022 letter.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Her central motivation, and what caused her to make the decision to mechanically alter her body and come to the manor.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Affixed with mechanical limbs, and capable of hunting down Survivors.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Along with Murro, she serves as the nice to Joker's mean and Margaretha and Mike's in-between during the preparation stages of Game 8.
• Only One Name: Not given a surname. While, in reality, "Violetta" was really just a stage name for Aloisa Wagner, the deductions and letters tied to the game's version of Violetta imply that "Violetta" is her actual name. Her lack of a surname makes sense when one remembers that her parents abandoned her as a baby and that Max would have likely felt no need to give her a surname.
• Parental Abandonment: Her deductions reveal that she was left under a seat in a basket during a performance at the freak show.
• Projectile Webbing: Has the ability to shoot some of her webbing like a ranged weapon.
• Short Range Guy, Long Range Guy: Her gameplay is more focused on harming survivors at a certain distance, whereas her fellow Hunter - and former circus coworker - Joker needs to be close to the survivor to do something.
• Spider Limbs: Has these as her Artificial Limbs
• Spider People: Albeit a fake one.
• Tragic Villain: Born without arms and legs, tossed aside by her father figure when people lost interest in her and was later forced to graft mechanical limbs onto her body in order to continue making a living. Her deduction targets also reveal that she was abused at the circus where she performed. Practically nothing indicates that she is in any way malevolent; she just wants to be in the spotlight again.
• White-Dwarf Starlet: What she appeared to be on the verge of becoming.
• You Are Number 6: She is referred to by her given serial number, 8-0-1 in her Experiment File and corresponding Experiment Files on survivors that participated in the same game as her.

Michiko - The Geisha

Michiko Donald - The Geisha

The Geisha met Miles, a foreign army officer at a banquet where they fell in love soon after. They got married and returned to Miles' homeland together. His father was particularly vocal in his opposition to their marriage. He was cynical of her and hoped to drive her out of the family home. Not long after, Michiko mysteriously disappeared after Miles left on a business trip. Miles' father claimed that she had ran off with another man and urged his son to find another wife. Miles, however, started to search for his wife, Michiko, but no one knew where she went.

Stage Cast: Otaki Itsuki (Episodes 1-3); Nakano Aimi (Episode 4 - )

Voiced by: Huang Ying (Chinese), Yui Ishikawa (Japanese), Maya Aoki Tuttle (English)

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• Ambiguous Situation: Her 2020 Character Letter and the means through which she became a Hunter. Does the letter imply that her father-in-law sent her body to Eugene, who proceeded to dispose of it by throwing it into the lake where Hastur resided? Or was Eugene sent the hatpin (the implied murder weapon), which was later stolen by his niece when she ran off with Sergei, and purchased by the manor owner at an auction?
• Animal Motif: She has the alias "Red Butterfly", and her "Dancing in Misery" ability has her place butterflies on the map. It can be both Pretty Butterfly and Butterfly of Death and Rebirth,
• Black Eyes of Evil: She has eyes that are an empty, solid black, making even her "Beauty" form look unnerving.
• Combat Hand Fan: Attacks survivors with a bladed fan.
• Connected All Along: Her Character Day letter hints that either her body was (possibly) dumped in the lake where Hastur resided, or the murder weapon used to kill her was delivered to Margaretha's uncle Eugene (and later stolen and sold to the manor owner by Margaretha).
• Cool Mask: Upon entering her "Prajna" form, she puts on a Hannya mask. In her "Rashomon" skin, it’s a Noh mask.
• Don't Look At Me: Loses her abilities when stared at.
• Fragile Speedster : Downplayed Trope since hunters can't actually be harmed by survivors. Michiko is among the fastest hunters, even having the ability to walk through walls while moving, but the way her ability works makes her more susceptible to receiving stuns than other hunters.
• Geisha: It is her title and her job before she married Miles.
• Happily Married: Was this with Miles prior to her murder. Some of her quotes are directed towards him in a fond and longing tone, showing that even after all that happened to her, her love for him persists.
• Head Swap:
  • She has an S-tier skin that transforms her into Yuko Ichihara from ×××HOLiC
  • She has an A-tier skin that transforms her into Sae Kurosawa from Fatal Frame II.
• Meaningful Name: Her name means "beauty" in Japanese. Prior to her death she was said to be a beautiful dancer.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: Can phase through solid objects, floats in the air during her chase mode and can be seen rapidly moving around at such speed it looks like she is teleporting in one of her lobby animations.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Her lustrous black hair and fair skin gives her the exotic beauty of a traditional Japanese woman in an otherwise Western setting.
• Satellite Character: A curious case. She is the playable character, but most of her official content lore appears to come from the point of view of her husband Miles or Margaretha's uncle both NPC's.
• Shout-Out: Her background story is based on Madame Butterfly, where she represents Cho-Cho-San while her husband Miles represents B.F. Pinkerton. Unlike how Pinkerton treats Cho-Cho-San however, Miles and Michiko’s love was mutual and they were only be separated by Miles’ father.
• Team Mom: In the stageplay to the Hunters.
• Tragic Villain: Married her true love, Miles, then was killed by his disapproving father.
• Wight in a Wedding Dress: Her "The Bride" and "Shiromuku" skin evokes this imagery.
• Yakuza: Her "Blood Fan" skin was inspired by and designed after them, giving her a Dragon Lady look.

Hastur - The Feaster

Hastur - The Feaster

Once a messenger appeared clad in a yellow robe prophesying the catastrophic arrival of a dynasty; this messenger was known as the Feaster, Him who is not to be named. He is the embodiment of calamity and suffering, but those with curious hearts have always tried to seek Him out in the hope of being enlightened and learning the truth of the world.

Stage Cast: Hino Arata

Voiced by: Wang Yuhang (Chinese)

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Believe it or not. The original physical description of Hastur was said to be wearing a mask as His face would cause one to lose their sanity. Downplayed as He still very much looks like an Eldritch Abomination.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: A given, considering that He's a Lovecraftian entity.
• Combat Tentacles: His main ability.
• Death of the Old Gods: Implied. The residents of Lakeside Village never acknowledge Him by name (making it unclear if they even known it) and refer to Him as a water god; Hastur is technically the God of Shepherds and, occasionally, a god of air (the god of water being His brother Cthulhu, who it has been written that Hastur hates).
• Eldritch Abomination: Based on The King in Yellow.
• Emotion Eater: Feeds off of Survivor's fear to create tentacles.
• Extra Eyes: Most of His body is a writhing mass of eyes suspended in clouds of gas.
• Hidden Depths: He apparently enjoys mushroom pasta (with the mushrooms still alive and growing out of it), going by the Dish system.
• Humanity Ensues: Strangely enough, this happens in the 2020 Spring Festival artwork.
• In the Hood: Wears a big yellow cloak.
• Our Gods Are Different: Despite being a deity, who has come down to Earth to participate in the game, He is no more powerful than any other hunter.
• Significant Reference Date: Possibly. While his second letter implies that some sort of event related to him occurred sometime in January, his official Character Day (January 24) is also on the same date that Haita the Shepherd, the short story written by Ambrose Bierce from which the character of Hastur first originated, was published.

Xie Bian & Fan Wujiu - Wu Chang

Wu Chang - The White/Black Guards

Xie Bi'an and Fan Wujiu (the White and Black Guards) have always been like brothers. As they traveled to Nantai Bridge one day, they noticed it was going to rain. Xie told Fan to wait under the bridge while he returned home to get an umbrella. After Xie left, the rain began to pour and the river rose, but Fan, reluctant to break his promise, stayed under the bridge. Shortly after, Xie returned with the umbrella only to find that the bridge was now submerged and Fan nowhere to be seen...

Xie was so grieved that he had no choice but to live without Fan. No matter whether it was rain or shine, he carried the black umbrella of the day and wore white mourning clothes. He eventually committed suicide by hanging himself under the Nantai Bridge and left the black umbrella where Fan had stayed.

The umbrella was found by a merchant and placed in center of a hallway. Since then, his family has had strange things happen to them. The black umbrella in the room was often unsupervised. In the middle of the night, the sounds of men sighing fill the hall. Everyone said that White Guard's soul was in the umbrella. Merchants invited the Taoist to get rid of the umbrella to raise the spell on the town. Since then, the house has been calm and quiet. Soon after, the merchants went out, but on the way, they found that the country was in chaos, and that the umbrella was missing.

Stage Cast: Agata Goki (Black Guard) and Kunishima Naoki (White Guard)

Voiced by: Sun Ye (Chinese), Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Japanese)

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• Adaptational Villainy: In original Chinese myths, the Heibai Wu Chang were said to be in charge of guiding spirits to the underworld and judging them accordingly. Xie Bi'an would reward others for their good deeds while Fan Wujiu would punish unrepentant souls. In the game, the two of them hunt Survivors indiscriminately and while many of the Survivors have far from clean pasts, some of them actually feel remorse for their actions.
• Affably Evil: Xie Bi'an at least.
• Ambiguously Gay: Some official materials seem to imply this. Namely, Wu Chang's deduction star skin, based on the romance movie "Broken Blossoms", in which the story and fates of the male and female leads mirror Wu Chang's backstory.
• Aloof Ally: In the stageplay, Fan Wujiu/Black Guard is this to the other hunters although he's not as bad as Joseph [Photographer].
• Bash Brothers: They work together as government officers and as hunters.
• Bling of War: Their "Far East Wind" skin where they appear to be military men donning golden armors.
• Color Motif: White and black respectively
• The Dividual: Two men who share a soul, occupying the same umbrella.
• Driven to Suicide: In order to protect Xie Bi’an, Fan Wujiu chose to let himself drown under the Nantai Bridge, in the process posthumously taking the full blame for the incident that caused the two to be slighted by their corrupt governor. Xie Bi’an chose to join Fan, Together in Death, shortly afterwards.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Xie Bi'an Blames himself for Fan Wujiu's death, and that's why he's Driven to Suicide.
• Head Swap:
  • They have an A-tier skin that transform them into Cheng Xiaoshi & Lu Guang from Link Click.
  • They have an A-tier skin that transforms them into Fukata Ryuusuke & the Intersection Bishounen from Junji Ito's Lovesickness.
• Interface Screw: One of their abilities allows them to reverse a Survivor's movement directions while another one makes Survivors unable to interact with the environment.
• It's All My Fault: Xie Bi'an/White Guard blames Fan Wujiu/Black Guard's death on himself. His guilt is so strong that he genuinely believes that he's undeserving of love after what happened to Fan Wujiu.
• Lean and Mean: Tall, skinny, and deadly hunters.
• Letting His Hair Down: In their "Broken Blossoms" skin. Though with the implications, it's less for Fanservice and more of them mourning each other.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Both wear their hair in long braids, and are the first "pretty boy" hunters released in the game.
• The Lost Lenore: Fan Wujiu is a platonic (or maybe not) example of this to Xie Bi’an.
• Meaningful Name: The names Xie Bi'an and Fan Wujiu roughly translate to "those who make amends will always be at peace" and "those who commit crimes will have no salvation" respectively. In their lifetime, Xie was the more gentle and personable of the two and Fan's name could refer to their status as government officers or the fact that they hunt Survivors (Several of which have rather shady pasts).
  • Could also count as Ironic Name considering what happened to them.
• Parasol of Pain: Fights with an umbrella.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: Both are dead and based on spirits, but are completely solid.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: White Guard is the blue oni to Black Guard's red. Played With however in that Xie Bi'an is the more outgoing of the two and Fan Wujiu is more withdrawn.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Implied. Shortly after the merchant got rid of the umbrella, the country descended into chaos.
• The Scapegoat: It is implied that the local governor’s son was causing trouble at a tavern, and the two of them chose to intervene. As was their job as officers of government. Instead of punishing his son, the governor chose to cast the blame for the incident on his two officers, in order to ensure that his son stayed a free man.
• Sharing a Body: They can't be present together. They have one body and one umbrella. Slightly different from this trope as the un-present partner's soul seems to reside in the umbrella and not in the body, but the effect is similar. In the stage play, at least, it seems that the un-present partner can communicate with the present one. This is all true in the game canon as well, despite the fact that they are often shown together in official art.
• Significant Reference Date: Their Character Day is on the same day as the Ghost Festival (the fifteenth night of the seventh month in the Chinese Lunar calendar), which as the name suggests honors ghosts and allows them to visit the world of the living.
• Tragic Villain: Two noble government officers who were unfairly slighted by their own governor for selfish reasons. Fan Wujiu committed suicide in order to shoulder the blame, and Xie Bi’an joined him shortly after, hanging himself on the same bridge where Fan Wujiu drowned. Both of their souls were then trapped in an umbrella, left to wail in the night and apparently unable to reunite, or communicate with each other.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Fan Wujiu in the "Broken Blossoms", "Flying Guillotine" and "Far East Wind" skins.
• You Are Number 6: Their third letter reveals that the umbrella said to contain their souls was given the designation 5-0-3-U during Step 5 of the manor's experiments.

Joseph Desaulnier - The Photographer

Joseph Desaulnier - The Photographer

Joseph was forced to leave France and move to England with his parents. The pain of losing his twin brother caused Joseph to become absorbed with art. He hoped to save the live images of those people and objects to liven up his pictures. Joseph has become obsessed with parapsychology and hopes to make some interesting modifications to his camera. He started to tell his closest friends that he had found a way to capture souls in pictures. No one took him seriously, but then they started to notice that everyone whose picture was taken by Joseph disappeared one after another. When a panic-stricken mob forced their way into Joseph's residence, Joseph was nowhere to be seen. On the wall of his studio, however, were all kinds of lifelike portraits of people that seemed to be looking right at them.

Stage Cast: Igarashi Keisuke

Voiced by: Sun Ye (Chinese), Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese)

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• Accidental Misnaming: In the Comedy version of the stageplay, Aesop keeps calling him Jonathan.
• Aloof Ally: In the stageplay the Photographer is at least at first cold and distant to other hunters.
• And I Must Scream: The presumed state of the people he trapped in photographs.
• Angsty Surviving Twin: The pain of losing his twin brother caused Joseph to become absorbed with the conservation of life.
• Effeminate Voice: His voice is incredibly high-pitched and feminine while inside the Camera World. While this is most likely a way of depicting his preserved youth, it sounds almost more disturbing in comparison to his "Real-World" voice.
• Everything Sounds Sexier in French: His alluring foreign accent is said to have charmed people, which led to them agreeing to act as his models.
• Evil Old Folks: Somewhat averted, as he's quite youthful despite being in his mid-to-late sixties, but he has either grey hair, or a powdered wig for his bald head.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His voice while outside of the camera world is a raspy growl coupled with haggard, labored breathing.
• Freudian Excuse: The death of his twin brother at a young age caused him to become obsessed with the idea of finding a way to eternally preserve the lives of others. This ultimately led to him experimenting on people and trapping them in his photographs.
• Head Swap: He has an A-tier skin that transforms him into Peter Ratri from The Promised Neverland.
• Humanoid Abomination: Outside the Camera World, The Photographer’s body is riddled with cracks, as though it’s breaking apart. His voice is also rougher, in contrast to the soft voice he has inside the Camera World.
• The Juggernaut : Breaks pallets and vaults windows at incredible speed, and deals 1.5x damage with each strike.
• Little Bit Beastly: In his "Moonlight Gentleman" skin, he has wolf ears and a tail.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Has his hair tied in a ponytail, and is one of the pretty man in the manor.
• Magical Camera: The source of his powers.
• Mad Scientist: Seemingly developed his craft through experiments he conducted.
• Named After Someone Famous: Based on Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor credited with creating photography, and son of a wealthy family who fled France during the French Revolution.
  • Joseph's brother Claude, likewise, shares the same name as Niépce's real life older brother.
• Necromantic: After Claude's death, Joseph became obsessed with the idea of bringing him back, leading to his experimentation with photographs.
• Occult Blue Eyes: Hinting to be the result of either his experiments or the hallucinogenic drugs that the Survivors are under.
• Older Than He Looks: Appears to be a young man in his twenties. His backstory reveals that, by the time the people of the village began to suspect that he may have had something to do with the disappearances that had occurred in the village, he was an elderly man.
• Royal Rapier: Uses one as his main weapon
• Survivor's Guilt: Heavily implied in his 2020 Character Day letter.
• Time Master: Can return himself to an earlier space in time, and create a snapshot of the time that was, and interact with it.
• Villain Protagonist: He is a Hunter and is one of the two main characters of the stage play.
• Would Hurt a Child: His 2021 Character Day letter reveals that he used several children from his town as test subjects for his experiments.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Captured several people and trapped them in his photographs.

Burke Lapadura - The Mad Eyes

Burke Lapadura - The Mad Eyes

Burke is the eldest son of a construction worker who grew up playing amongst designs, various machines, and tools. By the time he was 20, he had already acquired local fame for his skills. Hired by a married couple, Burke arrived at Oletus Manor when it was still desolate, rundown and was responsible for most of the architectural designs. As per the wishes of his employer, he led his team of workers and expanded Oletus Manor. In his own time, he added his own touch to the manor, his devices, turning the manor into Burke's secret laboratory. It is said that even up until that unfortunate incident this crazy architect was still planning the addition of new devices.

Voiced by: Meng Xianglong (Chinese)

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• The Alcoholic: Constantly drinking in his idle and waiting animations. This is averted in his Backrift series skin, Measurer, which takes place in a universe where Burke never got to work at the manor, implying that this is one of the results of his trauma from the manor massacre.
• Artificial Limbs: His arm and leg are implied to have been injured during the Manor incident and he has replaced it with machinery. Much to his sadness they don't seem to be fully functional.
  Description of his Accessory "Violin": His right hand may not be fully functional, and his violin may have been slightly damaged in an incident, but Burke enjoys music still. Practice really does make perfect
• Child Hater: In his deductions he complains a lot about the young Orpheus and Alice, the children of the manor residents, for their constant interruptions in their work. That said, he doesn't hate them, and one of his biggest regrets was letting them be taken by the angry mob.
• Connected All Along: Bonbon's 2021 Character Day letter reveals that he was acquaintances with Mark Reznik, and received assistance from Mark's daughter, Tracy, in finalising the construction of one of his machines.
• Evil Old Folks: Werdly subverted. Despite the fact that he is a mad scientist, has a bad temper, constantly laughs evilly, and is generally a morally questionable scientist, Burke is a pretty decent guy who doesn't actually like being a hunter, but feels forced to villainy after failing to protect a family.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Can fly with his mechanical hammer in official materials and in his "Visit" motion, which he is unable to do during the match.
• Generation Xerox: His father had a career in construction work.
• Grumpy Old Man: He is old, and easily irritated.
• Mad Scientist: Burke has created a security system for the mansion, and he replaced some of his limbs with mechanical prosthetics.
• Meaningful Name: His name means "for the fortress" in French. His backstory implies that he made his former place of employment his own personal fortress following the murder of his employers.
• My Greatest Failure: Failed to protect the family he was working for from an angry mob. They were likely killed, which led to Burke entering the game as a hunter.
• Named After Someone Famous: Possibly inspired by Edmund Burke, a Canadian architect with parents who also had ties to the building industry.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: On top of being a skilled architect, Burke also constructed several machines, such as Guard 26 and, if Percy's trailer is both canon and to be take at face value, is capable of bringing someone back from the dead.
• Sinister Surveillance: Burke was the one who designed the mansion's security system and his skills involve using his cameras to locate survivors and activating fences in the area of these cameras.
• Tsundere: A platonic example. It's implied that, as much as he complained about the children of the manor, he did actually have a soft spot for them deep down.
• Uncertified Expert: His Character Day letter reveals that he likely never truly earned a degree.
• Villainous Friendship: Was friends with (or at least a close associate of) Bane according to the latter's Character Day letter. That said, neither of them were hunters at the time, so this trope is downplayed.
• Younger Than They Look: He doesn't look younger than 70, but materials say he physically should look like he's 52, thus making him (possibly) a middle-aged man.

2019

Yidhra - The Dream Witch

Yidhra - The Dream Witch

It is said that Yidhra has existed on earth before the emergence of the very first microorganism. As billions of years passed, Yidhra acquired a unique ability from the changes that took place around her, devouring creatures to acquire their characteristics. Yidhra can, therefore, divide herself into different aspects, though each part shares her consciousness. Merging themselves with Yidhra gifts her followers eternal life. She often hides her true form through powerful images, with only summoned followers being able to see it.

Voiced by: Zhou Shuai (Chinese), Masako Katsuki (Japanese)

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• Bad Boss: Towards her followers. In one of her idle animations, she is shown toying with one of them and knocking her down. During matches, she laughs when they are hit by a pallet.
• Blindfolded Vision: Wears a blindfold. This has no impact on her sight.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Arguably, given that she's an entity that doesn't operate my human rules. Worth to notice that even by Eldritch Abomination's standard, Yidhra still acts actively malicious and cruel compared to the other more neutral gods.
• Dark Is Evil: She is mischievous, cruel, and mocking, and tends to commit bad deeds for fun, matching her dark palette.
• Dream Weaver: It’s in the name.
• Eldritch Abomination: Based on an Outer God of the same name in the Cthulhu Mythos.
• Head Swap: She has two Skins that transform her into the Junji Ito character Kawakami Tomie. A S-tier that is the common Tomie Kawakami and an A-tier of her appearance in the chapters "Painter" and "Desire”.
• Hidden Depths: Despite being a deity like Hastur and thus having very vague deduction targets, she is actually connected to Evil Reptilian and is the reason why he became a hunter.
• Invisibility: Survivors cannot see her under any circumstance, only her followers.
• Jerkass Gods: Even with Blue-and-Orange Morality being taken into account, she comes off as sadistic and cruel.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Which emphasises her more eldritch nature in comparison to most of the other Hunters.
• Nightmare Face: In her concept art, she is shown to have sunken in purple eyes underneath her blindfold. She is also shown to be able to smile from ear to ear (in more of a Slasher Smile way than Cheshire Cat Grin) and her mouth is full of sharp teeth.
• Our Gods Are Different: Despite being a deity, who has come down to Earth to participate in the game, she is no more powerful than any other hunter. It may be intentional, since lorewise she is primarily a malicious observer rather than an outright attacker.
• Perpetual Smiler: Always wears a smile on her mouth.
• Puppeteer Parasite: Can leech onto Survivors to create Followers. These Followers are mindless individuals who all look the same, and only Yidhra herself can directly control their actions.
• Purple Is Powerful: Purple-skinned and one of the most powerful hunters lore-wise due to being a literal god.
• Snake People: Her lower body has the physical characteristics of a snake.
  • Snakes Are Evil: Is a contender for the title of most malevolent hunter, at least lorewise.

Robbie White - The Axe Boy

Robbie White - The Axe Boy

^{Click to see pre-hunter Robbie}

In one night, Robbie had lost his spacious house, comfortable bed, delicious food… and his parents. His life was replaced by endless work and an emotionless boss. But with help from his older sister Dolores, he gradually got used to the work in the yard and gardening became his new hobby. Not long after, the White Sand Street Orphanage was taken over by the church and the orphans did not need to work for a living. Robbie was somewhat disappointed about that. However, given that he and his sister no longer had to beg on the street and the nuns were providing warm food for everyone, Robbie’s little hobby seemed less important. After all, his life with his sister was back on the right track. And that was the last memory Robbie could recall. When he woke up under the juniper tree, his sister and the orphanage were nowhere in sight. The only thing left with him was the dead branch in his hand. Robbie could now continue doing his little hobby forever.

Stage Cast: Watabe Hiroki

Voiced by: Jin Na (Chinese)

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• Ambiguous Situation: Either he or his sister seemingly possessed violent tendencies, which the asylum staff attempted to keep at bay through the use of hydrotherapy. However, given that later Character Day letters would imply that the majority children from the orphanage weren't actually suffering from mental illnesses...
• The Baby of the Bunch: He is currently the youngest Hunter.
• Badass Adorable: Despite not having a head and being undead, he still manages to come off as endearing due to his childlike mannerisms such as wanting to eat some chocolate and even having an emote where he begs for candy. He also happens to be a Hunter who attacks Survivors with an ax.
• Children Are Innocent: Implied in his first deduction where he's asking his sister where their parents went.
• Children Forced to Kill: He is very young, but somehow was brought into this game of killing and for worst, becomes accustomed to it.
• Creepy Child: An undead, headless child who chases people down while wielding an axe.
• Death of a Child: He dies in his deductions after trying to climb through a broken window.
• Cynicism Catalyst: It is hinted that his tragic death caused his sister to snap and go on a rampage in the asylum, killing and injuring many of the other patients and staff.
• Enfante Terrible: Though it could be reasoned that the forces behind Oletus Manor are the only reason why he’s this.
• Head Swap: He has an A-tier skin that transforms him into Edward Mason from ''Angels of Death'’.
• The Heart: In the stageplay, he is this to the other hunters. Even Hastur/The Feaster indulges him!
• I Want My Mommy!: Sister, in this case, as revealed in the 2020 Deduction Star Event.
• Losing Your Head: Lacks a head. His deductions imply that he was beheaded by a broken window while sneaking into his sister's room.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: An undead headless child with ties to vengeful ghosts.
• Prone to Tears: Background material states that he's always crying.
• Sackhead Slasher: Wields an axe and wears a sack over his possibly missing head.
• Secretly Wealthy: Or, more specifically, secretly formerly wealthy. Robbie's 2021 Character Day letter implies that, rather than coming from a middle-class family like the rest of the children in the orphanage, Robbie and Dolores may have actually been born in a well-off family, as hinted from Dolores alluding to a family doctor.
• Significant Reference Date: His Character Day is on April 25th, which is when Arbor Day is celebrated in Germany (the country that The Brothers Grimm, the authors of The Juniper Tree, originate from). This goes with his tree motif.
• Sweet Tooth: Appears to be rather fond of chocolate. Which makes the fact that he is missing a head, and therefore can't eat any, even more tragic and depressing.
• Orphan's Ordeal: Following their parents' deaths, he and sister were sent to an orphanage where he was forced to work a living, while his sister begged on the streets. He was later committed to an asylum, and would frequently sneak out of his room in order to see his sister.
• Tragic Villain: Was an orphan at Kreacher's orphanage with his sister Dolores. Lost his head in some kind of accident (implied to have involved a broken window) after the orphanage was closed and he and his sister were transferred to the White Sand Street Asylum.
• Undead Child: A deceased child who has been resurrected and transformed into an undead Hunter.

Luchino Diruse - The Evil Reptilian

Luchino Diruse - The Evil Reptilian

Luchino was an outstanding scholar who was fascinated with reptiles. Not soon after getting a rare poisonous snake from his colleague, Luchino has suddenly vanished. In his room, people only found bloody scales on the ground. The strange thing is those giant green scales are rough and hard and don’t seem to belong to any known reptile.

For tropes pertaining to his Survivor identity switch, see Professor.

Inclination: A wary seeker and the only test subject in this group.

Stage Cast: Maugeen Kenji

Voiced by: Liu Yijia (Chinese)

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• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: His deductions imply that he studied his reptile subjects by testing their venom on himself. His lab's janitor, Darren Berglund's, comments imply that this would often leave his lab a mess. Regardless, he was still respected as an outstanding scholar.
  • He is also said to have been judged by his peers and the staff for believing in Darwin's theory of evolution (which was, at the time, thought of as ridiculous). Despite this, he was still considered a trusted official by his peers.
• Double Jump: And even triple jump at max presence.
• Evil Redhead: He has red hair and is an Evil Reptilian. His Professor persona is revealed to be an effect of his transformation and not his natural hair color.
• For Science!: The core motivation behind his studies. This had the downside of making him jump head first into situations that he knew would likely end badly
  • Even his transformation didn't stop him. Rather than despairing over what he had become, Luchino is implied to have instead have continued his work by attempting to study his own altered physiology.
• Head Swap: He has an S-tier skin that transforms him into Ryuk from Death Note
• Just Think of the Potential!: His studies were motivated by a desire to both better understand and even possibly change the world.
• Licking the Blade: Does this in most of his animations.
• Lizard Folk: To put it simply, he was transformed into a lizard-like reptilian.
• Nice Guy: Before his transformation he appeared to treat both his colleagues and members of the cleaning staff kindly. His 2021 Character Day letter indicates that he retained his kind nature even after his transformation was well underway.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: His 2021 Character Day letter implies that during his time at the Manor, he served as the Savvy Guy to Demi Bourbon's Energetic Girl.
• That Man Is Dead: He believes he is no longer the Luchino that used to be the Professor and claims to have abandoned all human limits, official materials however imply that deep down, he regrets going so far.
• Tragic Villain: Was a well-meaning scientist who was betrayed by one of his colleagues, who possessed an unclear connection to Yidhra. It's noted how he uses his knife to try and remove the scales from his body, but they always grow back.
• Was Once a Man: Used to be an all-around normal, albeit genius, scholar, before being betrayed by his own colleagues and transformed into a reptilian.
• You Are Number 6: He is referred to by his given serial number, 6-1-4 in his Experiment File and corresponding Experiment Files on survivors and hunters that participated in the same game as him.

Mary - The Bloody Queen

Mary - The Bloody Queen

Who would mention something so unpleasant as "bread" to such a sweet and lovely person? She has been surrounded by flowers, jewels and fancy clothes since she was born, pursuing fashion and beauty, and being born in a relaxed royal family gave her an inappropriate innocence, so much so that she was guillotined and still distressed. Long hair cut by the executioner. Staring face down at the reflection in the basin, she watched her dress gradually turn red. This was the last scene in Bloody Queen's memory.

Stage Cast: Daigo Cecile

Voiced by: Chen Tingting (Chinese), Rie Tanaka (Japanese, English Singing voice), Breanna MacDowell (English)

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• Ambiguously Bi: Her character deductions incorporate certain rumours about the nature of her relationship with princess Marie Lamballe, a close friend of Antionette's that was theorised to be her lover. At the same time the deductions also acknowledge Mary's relationship with her husband, and the birth of their children.
• Ambiguous Innocence: A lot of what is detailed about her in her character deductions are rumours and slander. As such it is hard to determine just what kind of person she was when she was alive. Even when she is implicated as not being the real Marie Antoinette, many rumors still surround her name.
• Ambiguous Situation: Both of her Character Day letters may potentially raise the possibly that she is not actually the real Marie Antoinette.
  • Both Time of Reunion and Ashes of Reunion would go on to imply that she is in fact a hallucination-produced spectre of Marie Antionette and/or Mary de Capet.
• Black Eyes of Evil: Her eyes are hollow, which both make her much more scary and allude to the fact that she’s already dead.
• Composite Character: Most of her character pretty much scream Marie-Antoinette, but her abilities seem to be based off of "Bloody Mary", a violent female ghost that can be summoned through a mirror according to occult lore.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Summons a mirror image of herself that follows her exact movements and attacks, albeit mirrored.
• Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: Her 'Salute' emote animation.
• Glass Weapon: Her default weapon is a long shard of glass.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Debatable during her lifetime but most definitely the case after becoming a Hunter.
• Head Swap: She has an S-tier skin that transforms her into Isabella from The Promised Neverland.
• Historical Domain Character: She is based off of Marie-Antoinette. Apparently
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: A lot of her skins feature Mary wearing elaborate dresses, most notably 'Bloodbath'. Even her default skin counts since it's still a very long (albeit rather simple) robe à l'anglaise.
• Mirror Self: Her main ability, and one of the first indications that she is not who she thinks she is.
• Off with Her Head!: Is in the receiving end of one. Unlike Robbie White/Axe boy, she retains her head (although some of her in-game animations imply that her head isn't exactly fixed to her neck). Except she actually died by hanging.
• Shared Identity:
  • Ashes of Memory reveals that, on top of being an implied drug-induced hallucination of the late queen of France, the Bloody Queen is also a drug-induced hallucination of the late Mary de Capet, former lady of Oletus Manor.
  • The brief glimpses we get of the the silhouetted figure she shifts into as Alice struggles to regain consciousness, implies that Frederick may also play the role of the Bloody Queen, or at least did during Alice's time being seemingly pursued by her at the Kreiburg Racecourse.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: In life, Mary seemed to be so pampered that she remained ignorant of the common folks’ suffering and how her luxurious lifestyle didn’t really help her image in their eyes. The moment she was put on the guillotine, she was still confused about why she was punished.
• Significant Reference Date: Her Character Day, November 2, is on the same day of the birthday of her real-life inspiration, Marie-Antoinette.
• Tea Is Classy: She mentions afternoon tea quite often in her quotes, stating that it is "a must, no matter what", which fits her character as a (former) queen.
• Took a Level in Badass: She's gotten much more stronger since the French Revolution, from a sheltered, defenseless aristocrat to personally and effectively hunting Survivors like a day job.
• Tragic Villain: Debatable, but she is based on Marie Antoinette, who was beheaded during the French Revolution. Her real life counterpart was largely a scapegoat toward ending the monarchy. Her "real self" plays this trope straight, being the spirit/hallucination of a depressed Austrian aristocrat who was the target of cruel rumors and Driven to Suicide.
• Unreliable Narrator: The way she narrated her story in Manor's Stormy Night "Surprise" Game made it sound more like she was preparing herself for an audience with her people as a sublime and beloved queen than the fact that she was about to be executed as an enemy of France. Her own Backstory tells it as this, as she is not the real Marie Antoinette
• White Hair, Black Heart: Has white hair and spends her time after death hunting down Survivors.
• White Shirt of Death: In her character trailer, her dress is originally colored white but dyed red by her own blood after her execution.

Bonbon - The Guard 26

Bonbon - The Guard 26

After twenty-five failed attempts, No. 26 was born on Burke's final endeavor and was once his proudest work. No. 26 exhibited a high level of autonomy, which significantly improved its work efficiency. It also allowed Burke to take breaks from work, avoid repetitive tasks, and invest time in new mechanical designs. Over time, No. 26 became sentient and even gave itself a name—Bonbon. Burke was angered by No. 26's declined efficiency due to its newfound sentience, so he replaced its central hub and wrote new programs for No. 26. Curiously, no matter how many times Burke replaced its central hub and modified its codes, the same phrase showed up after each reboot: "Nice to meet you, Bonbon."

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• Affectionate Nickname: His name, Bonbon, was given to him by Alice during her childhood, when she considered the robot a friend. Burke absolutely hates this nickname, but has been forced to accept it over time.
• Androids Are People, Too: The DeRoss family seemed to see him as an employee and Alice saw him as a friend, Burke hated that.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: His tastes in a nutshell.
  TALENTS: Exploding, Discus
  INTERESTS: Execution, Baking
• Artificial Intelligence: Created by Mad Eyes himself.
• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Despite being a robot, he's designed to look like he's wearing a button-up shirt, top hat, and red bowtie.
• Ascended Extra: Officially, he was created simply to be the crossover counterpart to Monokuma during the danganronpa collaboration, but ended up being an important part of the main series lore.
• Badass Adorable: An adorable robotic Penguin who loves finding trespassers on the property he's supposed to guard.
• Become a Real Boy: His S-level accessory implies that he wishes to be a human, but he knows it's impossible.
• Cartoon Penguin: Although he is not a real Penguin, he follows most of the requirements: Being a dark bird with white feathers, a natural “suit”, yellow beak and wearing a bow tie.
• Connected All Along: His 2021 Character Day letter implies that Tracy Reznik may have contributed to his creation. If this is indeed the case, it's very likely that assisting in his creation inspired her later work on her own personal bot.
• Cute Machines: An adorable and friendly Penguin robot who likes to dress fashionably, and is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain. Unfortunately he is programmed to kill if he considers you an invader.
• Fairy Tale Motifs: The Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz, he has a skin with a theme, he wants to be able to love and feel, and even has a golden heart on his body.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: Interacting with a young Alice De Ross and probably Orpheus, caused Bonbon, who was supposed to be just a guard/construction robot, to develop a personality of his own, much to Burke's frustration.
• Head Swap:
  • He has an S-tier skin that transforms him into Monokuma from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and another S-tier skin that transforms him into B-Duck
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Official materials portray him this way, with him being a guard who is ineffective in eliminating survivors or causing real problems.
• Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: An advanced robotic hunter apparently created by Burke decades before the 1900s. Also somehow managed to gain self-awareness, to the point that no matter how many times Burke rewrote his programming, he would always say the same phrase after reactivating: "Nice to meet you, I’m Bonbon".
• Killer Robot: A penguin robot wielding a blood-splattered spiked baton, what can it do with that thing?
• Lack of Empathy: Like Jack and Yidhra, he seems to take pleasure in hunting down survivors (one of his interests is executing people). In his case it is justified, as he was programmed to hunt invaders and is a robot.
• The Lost Lenore: Downplayed since she is still alive. Little Girl, the younger version of Alice is this to him. Bonbon seems to not fully understand what happened in the tragedy and thinks she just disappeared one day.
  Guard 26 Deduction Star Quote: Bonbon has an owner. Where did she go?
• Savage Spiked Weapons: His default weapon is a police baton with several nails stuck into it.
• Steampunk: A robot made by a mad inventor during the Victorian era.
• Time Bomb: His main ability. He can scatter bombs all around the map, creating one blazing hell when they explode at once.
• Tragic Robot: A guard robot, who was also considered a friend by the children of the DeRoss family, the same family he failed to protect during the massacre.