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Ann - The Disciple
Ann - The Disciple
Click to see pre-hunter Ann
When the epidemic disease stroke, disease remained cruel despite Ann’s devotion and generosity. Her only redemption in life would perhaps be the agile footsteps walking towards her ahead of the reaper and the non-human eyes staring at her at the end of the night when she was on the brink of death.
Voiced by: Mu Xueting (Chinese)
- Ambiguous Situation: Whether she is truly a nun is unclear. She was seen acting like one in her trailer, but in the game she actually wears funeral clothes (presumably from her father's funeral), In her lore she is never mentioned as being a nun, but that was clearly the intention her design tried to convey.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Her disease stricken eyes led to her being treated with mistrust and suspicion by the other villagers during the epidemic.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Or, at the very least, eyes that looked sinister enough that many believed to be the eyes of the Devil.
- Cats Are Magic: Apostle can ignore certain laws of physics and can search for and immobilize Survivors. He is also worshiped by a cult and is the reason why the dead Alva is a playable character today.
- Create Your Own Villain: She was blamed for a plague that broke out in the city she lived in, mistreated as a result of this belief, and ultimately killed. Her final deduction heavily implies that, upon obtaining supernatural abilities, she proceeded to release another plague on the same city, deliberately targeting those who had abused her.
- Deal with the Devil: Implied to have gone through with one prior to, or possibly after, her death. Your cat offered the same contract to Alva, although said by Netease itself in a different way.
- Ironic Name: Her name means "grace" in Hebrew, which was the opposite of what she received after being inflicted by disease.
- Long Neck: She has an abnormally long neck that adds in her inhuman creepiness. It seems to only become like that after she turned into a Hunter.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Is followed around by (what appears to be) her pet cat.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: She used to be a kind shepherdess and loves her cat, Apostle.
- Nuns Are Spooky: Although she does not appear to be a nun (her uniform is a funeral outfit), she gives the impression of one, which combined with her disturbing appearance makes her frightening to watch.
- Only One Name: Her deductions and Character Day letter make no mention of her surname.
- Tragic Villain: A seemingly innocent woman whose eyes were altered by a strange disease around the time that a plague broke out in her hometown. This caused people to believe that she was the one who spread the plague, which led to someone piercing a wooden stake through her heart and leaving her to die in the wilderness (and making her fresh pickings for the forces behind Oletus Manor).
- Then Let Me Be Evil: Treated like a monster in life for her unusual eyes, Ann was cruelly killed on the same day as her father's funeral, after being revived she decided to be the villain everyone wanted her to be.
- Undead Barefooter: She goes around barefoot, complementing her ragged attire and undead status.
Antonio - The Violinist
Antonio - The Violinist
Even at the height of his fame and addictions, the violinist Antonio did not abandon his unrestrained desire for music. He could see the rhythms of the whole world, which were controlled by ubiquitous strings.
Inclination: A "puppet" being manipulated.
Voiced by: Ma Yang (Chinese)
- The Alcoholic: One of his many vices. He's even found drowning his sorrows during the 2020 Christmas Event.
- Ambiguous Situation: Was his Deal with the Devil something he did of his own free will?
- For the matter, did he truly make a Deal with the Devil and become supernaturally gifted? Or did he only gain his in-game power after becoming a Hunter in the Manor?
- Deal with the Devil: A common theory among the general public on how he became so talented at music.
- Drowning My Sorrows: His quote in 2020 Christmas Event indicate this.Antonio: ... Don't get me wrong—I'm fine with spending Christmas Eve with alcohol.
- Gilded Cage: His musical talent proved to be so great that it was decided by government officials that Antonio's music should only be performed for and heard by the members of the royal family. In order to ensure that he remained as a symbol of the royal family's alleged superiority, Antonio was confined to the palace and, when attempting to leave, had all but a single string plucked off his violin.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: While rumours about Paganini’s apparent Satanic dealings have persisted for decades, there has never been evidence that they were in anyway true. Antonio's backstory implies that, in the universe of the game, said rumours had a degree of truth to them.
- The Hedonist: Was known to frequently gamble and indulge in other vices such as sex and wine.
- Musical Assassin: He can utilise his demonic power in his attacks by playing his violin.
- Named After Someone Famous: Named after the father of Niccolo Paganini, a famous and talented violinist (rumoured to have sold his soul to the Devil), who he is quite clearly based on.
- In the early stages of his development he was even named Paganini.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: A fictionalised version of the famous violinist Niccolo Paganini, a musician so skilled he was rumoured to have sold his soul to the Devil for his musical talent.
- Unsurprisingly, Antonio's Character Day is also the real life Paganini's birthday.
- Only One Name: His deductions and Character Day letter give no hint to his potential surname.
- Prehensile Hair: Which he uses to play the violin.
- Significant Reference Date: Like Mary, his Character Day (October 27) takes place on the same day as his real-life inspiration's date of birth.
- Sinister Schnoz: He has a rather prominent nose.
- Slasher Smile: His default expression.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Rare male example: he has black, really long hair that covers his face, pale skin and Slasher Smile.
- Tragic Villain: A talented violinist, inflicted with a number of physical illnesses and unable to see himself as anything other than a musician. Antonio was made a captive of the royal family and, in his desperation to regain his freedom, somehow ended up under the thrall of an unnamed entity/demon.
- You Are Number 6: He is referred to by his given serial number, 3-1-3 in his Experiment File and corresponding Experiment Files on survivors and hunters that made up the group of test subjects that failed to reach the game phase of the experiment during their iteration of Game 3.
Galatea Claude - The Sculptor
Galatea - The Sculptor
When she was young, Galatea always thought that she was her creator's masterpiece, that is until destiny played a sick joke on her. But she wasn't distraught. A genius sculptor can sculpt a perfect destiny for her.
Stage Cast: Yagi Mashiro
Voiced by: He Ruofan (Chinese), Haruka Tomatsu (Japanese), Courtney Lin (English)
- Ambiguously Gay: One of her likes is stated to be "Beautiful, Mature Women", with it being left vague wther this refers to romantic interest or something else. Many players have thus interpreted her as being sapphic.
- Black Eyes of Evil: She is implied to have manipulated several playable characters into committing horrendous acts and is a hunter who crushes survivors with statues and has completely dark eyes.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Possibly. Her sculpting abilities increased greatly after taking a commission from a wealthy gentleman but her family soon became concerned when they found out that she was talking to her sculptures.
- The Corruptible: It's likely she wouldn't have gone down such a dark path if she hadn't become acquainted with Baron DeRoss.
- Cute and Psycho: She is one of the more conventionally cute Hunters and she also murdered a person to make them into one of her works of art.
- Depraved Dwarf:
Word of God shows she was originally intended as such in her character art. However, it is unknown if this concept carried over, as her character model is actually taller than most female survivors now. It could be she was physically changed like the other Hunters by The Force of Oletus Manor. - Evil Cripple: She hunts Survivors while moving around in her wheelchair.
- The Fake Cutie: Her appearance is designed to appear almost harmless, while the other famale hunters are at least Femme Fatale and at most disturbing in appearance. That's her whole trick, she tries to seem like a cute and harmless girl, but is actually quite manipulative and cruel. Having manipulated Lily into murder her abusive father, Helena into apparently becoming a punisher and if Nightmare's trailer means anything, she may have had some influence on Orpheus' Start of Darkness
- Handicapped Badass: She became wheelchair-bound after going after a statue that her father threw off a terrace. Her condition does not make her any less dangerous though.
- Her deductions also imply that, prior to the previously mentioned event, Galatea was inflicted with an unspecified rare illness. It didn't appear to stop her from creating works of art.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Heavily implied.
- In the Blood: Her deductions reveal that she comes from a family of artists.
- Light Is Not Good: Galatea stands out among other hunters for having a palette mainly made up of light colors, while the others are associated with dark colors. She is also a manipulative girl, with a cruel skill that may or may not have manipulated Helena into killing Ada Mesmer.
- Living Statue: Can create these to pursue Survivors.
- Mad Artist: She is a sculptor who is malevolent, obsessive and psychotic. She also seemingly murdered her nurse and had her be put inside one of her sculptures.
- Meaningful Name: Her name means "she who is milk-white" in Greek and she is shown to be very pale.
- Named After Someone Famous: She shares a name with a famous statue that is said to have come to life in Greek Mythology.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Shares quite a few similarities with Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who spent a large portion of her life confined in an asylum, following her family's decision to have her institutionalised after allegedly witnessing her frequently demonstrate erratic behavior.
- Offscreen Teleportation: Interestingly, any time Galatea has to leave her wheelchair, she'll have it appear exactly where she needs it to be.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Like Geisha, she is able to phase through windows at will, and seems to be able to control objects with her mind. Rather than striking Survivors, she will throw her weapon, and it will come back to her. She also floats unnaturally anytime she climbs a ladder before landing back in her wheelchair.
Percy - The Undead
Percy - The Undead
Like many crazy inventors in the nineteenth century, Percy was obsessed with 'resurrection from the dead' and 'perfect humanity'. He used a corpse to create a monster, and was finally killed by this 'resurrection' monster. He entered the tomb with the secret records and instruments used to make monsters. However, on a stormy night, Percy's tomb was opened and the entire tomb was raided. Soon after, in the depths of the Oletus Manor, following a burst of painful and desperate wailing, a brand new 'perfect human' opened his eyes on Burke's operating table.
- Ambiguously Gay: His relationship with Mikhail. They were extremely close, and even part of Percy's motivation to revive the dead came from his desire to see Mikhail once again. Mikhail was also stated as being willing to die for Percy's experiment and is implied to be the one he used as the basis for his "monster".
- BFS: He uses a claymore to attack Survivors.
- Cool Old Guy: One of the oldest hunters and a powerful mad scientist who has practically discovered how to revive the dead.
- Connected All Along: Andrew Kreiss's first letter reveals that the bodies used in Percy's initial experiments were provided to him by the Gravekeeper.
- Expy: Of both Victor Frankenstein and his Monster.
- Genius Bruiser: A Mad Scientist who is probably only behind Burke intellectually and one of the physically strongest hunters.
- Head Swap: He has an A-tier skin that transforms him into Zazie from The Promised Neverland.
- Lost Lenore: His assistant Mikhail died in the name of Percy's experiments, making him a melancholy man even as a hunter.
- Mad Scientist: To be expected from a Victor Frankenstein expy.
- Named After Someone Famous: Very likely named after Percy Bysshe Shelley, the husband of the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (and who is said to have possessed a few similar characteristics to the protagonist of his wife's famous novel).
- Our Zombies Are Different: An Ex of Victor Frankenstein who was transformed into a monster. Percy declares that as a Undead he has become the perfect human.
2021
The Will Brothers - The Breaking Wheel
The Will Brothers - The Breaking Wheel
A trio of performance artists with odd figures showed up on the street. Covered in a bedspread and wearing masks, they're performing an uninspired drama while twisting their bodies into peculiar shapes.
Voiced by: Liu Yao (Chinese)
- All There in the Manual: Their individual names - Joking (the brother at the top), Pessimistic (the brother in the middle) and Reticent (the brother at the bottom) - are only mentioned in their deductions.
- Cool Mask: They wear theatre masks.
- Depraved Dwarf: All three of them have dwarfism and work together to hunt Survivors.
- Emotional Bruiser: Pessimistic Will, The Middle Brother, tends to cry emphatically while also performing some of the most debilitating attacks on Survivors using his unlocked Ranged Abilities.
- Giggling Villain: It is impossible not to hear their constant cackling, especially the youngest brother, Joking Will.
- Haughty "Hmph": Reticent Will gives an impressively grumpy "MEH" while the trio searches for Survivors.
- The Killjoy: Reticent Will, The Eldest Brother, tends to growl and scoff loudly while also tossing makeshift bear-traps at Survivors to either slow them down or halt their movements completely as a means of ending a chase faster.
- Parental Abandonment: The three brothers were abandoned by their parents at a young age.
- Rolling Attack: When entering "wheel form".
- Serial Killer: A trio of them; the brothers do a performance at night, and as soon as they are alone with the last spectator, they ask "Have you seen our parents?" Whatever the spectator responds with, it always ends with a pile of crushed, rotting human remains being hidden in the back alleys.
- Significant Reference Date: The brothers Character Day is on Saint Catherine's Day, which commemorates the martyrdom of Christian Patron Saint Catherine of Alexandria, who was set to be executed via a breaking wheel, only to be beheaded instead after the breaking wheel broke after she touched it. It is this said saint, as well as the events leading up to her death, that inspired the name of the theatre where the Will Brothers performed and, as their character trailer shows, their most common performance onstage.
- Status Infliction Attack: Their main ability is entering Wheel Form and running over Survivors to Pierce them with Splinters of wood and metal. These Piercings don't inhibit the Survivors in any way, rather, they add stacks of potential damage to them, meaning that with enough stacks of pierce, that Survivor is in danger of being instantly incapacitated when next hit by a regular Attack.
Grace - The Naiad
Grace - The Naiad
Click to see pre-hunter Grace
The unheard are doomed to be slaughtered, like fish in a net. It was only after grasping this harsh truth that Grace took up her harpoon.
Voiced by: Anqi Zhang (Chinese), Houko Kuwashima (Japanese)
- Ambiguously Human: Even before her transformation into a Hunter; her gill-like scars are shown to have been present on her neck since she was a young girl. She is also said to have felt more of a connection to the fish swimming in the water than she did to the humans in her village. Her first letter implies that she is a Deep One.
- Cute Mute: Is said to have never uttered a single word in her life and is one of the more innocent-looking Hunters, both before and after her transformation.
- Cute Monster Girl: Implied to be a deep one version of this trope, looking nothing like what you would expect from a sea monster. This is Downplayed in most of her skins that turn her into an ordinary human girl with a spear.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Can be briefly glimpsed during the official Time of Reunion announcement trailer, which premiered before the character was officially revealed.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has what seem to be scars on her neck that resemble gills.
- Mermanity Ensues: Her debut S-tier skin, Halberd of Silence, stands out among her skins for being a literal mermaid, rather than a humanoid girl with aquatic features.
- Mysterious Past: No hint is made as to why she was abandoned as a baby and left to float upstream in a broken fishing basket, nor is any explanation give for her gill-like scars.
- Moses in the Bulrushes: Was found in a broken fishing basket as a baby, after floating upstream near a fishing village.
- Only One Name: Despite seemingly being adopted by a local couple from the village, her deductions make no mention of her surname. This, of course, is to assume she was even given one.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: Implied to be the "mermaid" that is alluded to in the Time of Reunion announcement trailer.
- The Scapegoat: When disaster once again struck the fishing village she resided in, the villagers came to believe that their previous worship of Grace, brought about by the belief that it was her arrival in the village that had brought about the end of a previous disaster, had led to them inadvertently betraying the "true gods" who were punishing them for their heresy.
- The Speechless: Is said to have been unable to speak ever since she was a child. This led to her being isolated by her peers in the village as a result.
- Tragic Villain: Was sunk to the bottom of the lake by the people of her village after they became convinced that she was responsible for the fishing disaster that was plaguing them.
Philippe - The Wax Artist
Philippe - The Wax Artist
Click to see pre-hunter Philip
Philippe believes one's face and demeanor reflect evil and malice. This belief is not only his research thesis but also the essence of his aesthetic aspirations. After all, wax sculpting is an art born of science. Consider this—once his theory is finally confirmed, how many future criminals will be strangled in the cradle before being given a chance to taint the world?
Philippe was determined to eke out a career from his talent, and when an unexpected encounter led to a significant breakthrough in his research and craft, the beautiful world of his imagining seemed within reach. However, his world was turned upside-down, and his delusions of grandeur faded into the shadows. The price of his weakness and inaction was the loss of something irreplaceable—of the thing he held dearest.
Plagued with insurmountable guilt and remorse, Philippe convinced himself that the only way to repent for his failings was to move forward, in both life and art. Welcome to my waxwork exhibition... Please refrain from touching the models. Each group of sculptures tells a triumphant tale of good overcoming evil—a tale I hope we can all benefit from.
My dear guest, please don't be afraid. Come closer... Raise your head, and let me see your face.
Voiced by: Chen Haotian (Chinese), Michael Christopher (English)
- Art Attacker: Attacks survivors with jets of wax with the intention of immobilizing or injuring them if he has maximum presence.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Intentionally or not, he did destroy a lot of people’s lives, but it’s clear that he loves his sister above all else.
- Inconsistent Spelling: His official character trailer spells his name as "Philip" while other official sources spell his name as "Philippe".
- Mad Artist: He started off life as a misguided but relatively sane and esteemed wax artist, but once his sister died he became obsessive with his art and may or may not have created statues by encasing "criminals" in wax.
- Missing Mom: The siblings’ mom fell off the top of the building and died one day after going to work. It’s unclear if there was any complications behind her death, though the fact that they were warned to not look into her death or believe any rumors didn’t make it seem like a mere work accident.
- Monster Brother, Cutie Sister: Philippe currently has a monstrous appearance befitting a Hunter with purple skin, tattered clothes, and burn scars; whereas his sister is shown through the wax figure as a beautiful young woman with a peaceful and gentle expression.
- Named After Someone Famous: Likely named after Philippe Curtius, a Swiss physician and wax modeler.
- No Name Given: No hint is made of his sister's name in his deductions. Averted later as Word of God would later reveal it to be Christina.
- Obliviously Evil: His trailer and in-character replies from the official Japanese Twitter imply that he started his research for the purpose of stopping criminals before they could even do bad things in the first place and firmly believes he is "destroying evil", even though he was making people be judged despite their assertions of being innocent.
- Only One Name: He and his sister's family name is not given in his deductions.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Potentially. Philippe is a practitioner of physiognomy, a pseudoscience that links facial features with criminal behavior. If you pay attention in his trailer he uses a black man to exemplify this. It is unclear, however, if this is a sign that Philippe has racist beliefs or if this is just a coincidence.
- Revenge by Proxy: An apparent victim of this. His deductions imply that someone who had been wronged by Philippe murdered Christina in revenge while he was away.
??? - The Nightmare
"Orpheus" - The Nightmare
The raven is often associated with a bad omen, the feared reality revived through him. Perhaps, only "Orpheus" knows about him, the memory re-lived from a nightmare.
Voiced by: Liu Beichen (Chinese), Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese), Scott Whyte (English)
For more information about him and his other identities visit here
2022
Keigan Nicholas Keogh - The Clerk
Keigan Nicholas Keogh - The Clerk
Click to see pre-hunter Keigan
As she got older, Keigan came to understand that only the voices of people with "power" were heard. But it doesn't matter, now she is enough to be the one who can decide everything.
Voiced by: Sun Chang (Chinese), Lani Minella (English)
- Acrofatic: Downplayed. Keigan is a fat and powerful woman, and although she doesn't have great acrobatic skills, she has one of the highest movement speeds among the playable characters.
- Ambiguous Situation: Orpheus and Alice seem to believe that the "hunters" are drug induced distorted versions of different factors during the "Carnival Games" like the executioners or other survivors. Keigan, however, contradicts this idea, as she is the only experiment subject under the influence of the manor's drugs according to Jack's experiment file. How Keigan became a hunter and developed her "special abilities" is unclear.
- Cane Fu: Uses one as a melee weapon.
- Depending on the Artist: Some of her appearances in anniversary and promotional art depicts her a bit less monstrous looking.
- Doppelgänger Attack: Can create clones of herself to attack survivors in her movement range, although they only deal half as much damage as a normal attack.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Keigan first appears in Jack's second letter, where she acts as both the interviewer and interviewee recounting her encounter with the Ripper in the manor (something that her Background story trailer implies is something she may do on a common basis).
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Calling her evil might be an exaggeration, but Keigan is all but outright stated to have murdered her brother and is heavily implied to be associated with the people in charge of the manor. Nevertheless, her deductions imply that she genuinely cares about her sister-in-law and young nephew.
- Fighting Irish: Keigan is of Irish descent and has no problem attacking Survivors who cross her path.
- Gender-Blender Name: Her first and middle names are traditionally masculine, though "Keigan" has become a somewhat gender neutral name in current-day.
- Gonk: She exploits this trope. Formerly a Big Beautiful Woman, Keagan purposely modified her appearance so that she would not be considered attractive for an arranged marriage.
- High-Heel Power: Keigan is a strong woman, with inexplicable abilities, and whose high heels do not prevent her from being the fastest hunter.
- Hypocrite: She deemed her brother unfit to represent justice because he was taking bribes, but her solution to the problem was poison him. Her Background story trailer implies that deep down, she is aware that she is this.
- Hypocrite Has a Point: Even if her methods were somewhat morally questionable, it would be quite unlikely that anything else could be done about her brother, considering the laws of the time, his connections and the fact that she was a woman, it is extremely likely that her brother would become a Karma Houdini if she didn't act.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Her word-for-word justification for poisoning her brother, who was accepting bribes, and therefore unfit to be a judge (according to her).
- A Lighter Shade of Grey: Although Keigan is a genuinely well-intentioned woman and is shown to be quite kind, she undoubtedly used some morally questionable methods to get where she is today, having poisoned her brother due to the fact that he was a corrupt judge as she considered it unlikely that he would be affected by any consequences, as he had money and connections (which considering the world they live, isn't entirely wrong).
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: How she altered her appearance is never spelled out. It could be anything from plastic surgery, to legitimate supernatural means.
- Men Act, Women Are: Sadly, Keigan's freedom to speak her mind was expected to stay at the dinner table, while her brothers were encouraged to pursue their similarly career-orientated dreams.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: She has an unnatural amount of incredibly long, frightening teeth hidden under her frown.
- Named After Someone Famous: Named after William Nicholas Keogh, an controversial irish Judge and politician, who was frequently retrated in exagerated caricatures, very similar to Keigan's design.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Downplayed. While other humanoid hunters have their quirks, Keigan is the only character intentionally drawn to have an unrealistic design, having a noticeably large body but thin arms and legs with the intention of making her look like a caricature. She's also the only hunter to have visible normal eyes instead of black eyes note
- Perpetual Frowner: Aside from some official art, she almost never smiles.
- Promoted to Playable: First appears as the unseen author of Jack's second letter. Come the following year, Keigan was made a playable Hunter.
- Top-Heavy Guy: A rare female example; Her neck, chest, upper torso, and rump are quite large and bountiful, contrasting greatly with her thin limbs.
- Unseen No More: Keigan is first alluded to in Jack's second letter, and was added to the game as a playable character the following year.
- Vague Age: Said to be an older Huntress in her character design notes, but her actual age is not revealed, the fact that she became a judge at the end of deductions implies that she is at least 43 years oldnote .
- Voice of the Legion: As her Background story trailer goes on, the voices of her younger and older selves begin to merge together.Keigan: Justice needs obedience. Justice needs sacrifice. It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings!!
Alva Lorenz - The Hermit
Alva Lorenz - The Hermit
Click to see pre-hunter Alva
Alva Lorenz experienced two devastating fires in his life. The first fire took his friend and left behind an invention that brought only misfortune. The second fire burned away his guilt and gave him a new life. Alva came to the conclusion that no formula nor theory could predict human nature. Only his service could ever stand by his side.
Voiced by: Dong Shengzhang (Chinese), Kenjiro Tsuda (Japanese), Mike Smith (English)
- Broken Pedestal: Alva's assistant, Luca Balsa, idolized Alva, as revealed in the Prisoner's 1st Character Letter. However, after Luca suspected Alva of being a plagiarist, he lost all respect towards his former mentor.
- Deal with the Devil: Hinted at during his Background Story trailer and further explored in his Deductions.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Initially appears in Prisoner's character trailer, 2 years prior to his release. Additionally, a man of his description is described in Ann's 1st and 2nd Character Day letters.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Alva's first appearance in Luca's Character Trailer appeared very different to his appearance when he became playable.
- The Mentor: Took on Luca Balsa as a student. Many people believed that Luca was being trained to inherit Alva's mantle.
- Named After Someone Famous: First name comes from Thomas Alva Edison's middle name.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Initially based on Thomas Alva Edison, an American inventor.
- Promoted to Playable: First appears in Prisoner's character trailer before later being made playable.
- Shock and Awe: His power revolving around the concept of electricity, allowing him to create electromagnetic fields and even manipulate the movement and progress of ciphers around him.
- You Remind Me of X: Alva sees Luca as a reminder of Luca's father as seen visually in Alva's Character Trailer.
2023
Ithaqua - The Night Watch
Ithaqua - The Night Watch
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Click to see pre-hunter Ithaqua
Born as a twin son of the Norwell family in a town wracked by superstition, the boy was presumed stillborn by his family and was abandoned and left to rot in the wilderness during a raging blizzard. Found, revived and later raised by a suspected witch, the boy would remain unaware of his true origins up until the day that the magistrate's son - his face a mirror to that of the boy's - would lead a mob of villagers into the Icy Forest and take away his mother to be tortured. Though the boy would succeed in infiltrating the village and rescuing his mother, he would return to his home in the woods with a woman who could no longer recognise him and whose remaining life would prove to be short-lived. From that day forward, anyone who chose to enter the northern forest on a stormy night would find themselves prey to Ithaqua, the walking death.
Voiced by: An Zhi (Chinese)
- Always Identical Twins: Nathaniel Norwell, son of the local village's magistrate, is said to have been a dead-ringer to his long-lost twin brother; something that proved to be incredibly useful when the latter set out to rescue his mother.
- Ambiguous Situation: Concerning his "revival from the dead". Was his family simply too quick to write him off as stillborn and leave him to rot in the forest, only for the presumed witch to nurse him back to health via the use of body heat, or did he truly die and was in fact brought back to life by an actual witch?
- Happily Adopted: Upon being found abandoned in the forest during a blizzard, the boy was subsequently found by a red-haired and green-eyed suspected witch, who would go on to raise the boy as her own, teaching him how to read and write. Even after unwilling coming into contact with his biological family, the boy's loyalties remained with his adopted mother, a love that would persist long after she died from her wounds.
- Kill and Replace: Upon infiltrating the village, the boy murdered his long-lost twin and disguised himself as him, forging a suicide note in his brother's handwriting before escaping back to his forest home with his mother. The only person to suspect foul play was the town's magistrate, who was, nevertheless, incredibly reluctant to reveal his reasoning for his accusations.
- Only One Name: Having thought him dead, his family felt no need to give the boy his own name or consider him a part of the Norwell family. His deductions, likewise, make no mention of what his adopted mother may have named him. In the end, Ithaqua is both the only name he is known to possess and the only name he seemingly desires to be known by.
- Parental Abandonment: On account of his parents - or at the very least his father - presuming him dead at birth and leaving his "corpse" to rot in the forest, lest their family be accused of falling prey to a witch's curse.
Sangria - The Opera Singer
Sangria - The Opera Singer
Click to see pre-hunter Sangria
For years, Sangria's life was bathed in grey. Onstage she played the role of a tool as the theatre's means of making money; offstage she was little more than a toy for her father, to beat and abuse as he saw fit. It was not until that fateful day where she would encounter that stroke of red, bathed on the woman with a ram symbol painted between her brows, that all would be rewritten. Though her act of defiance led her back to that small closet from her childhood, the words of the lady in red allowed Sangria to understand a dark secret of mankind; there can be no rebirth without pain. On that silent night, when the throat of the "lamb" was slit and the sacred candlelight illuminated the face of the lady in red, everything that Sangria had wished for came true. Once the ritual to summon the "gods" was invoked, nothing would ever be the same. The cheers of the audience lit Sangria's heart ablaze; once the performance was complete, the theatre was left lifeless and in ruins. All that remained was a spotless cape hanging in the dressing room, and the ghostly shadow of a mountain ram.
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- Abusive Parents: Sangria's father was an opera house manager, and also a rather excessive drinker, whose belt was responsible for a great number of marks that covered his daughter's back. As a child, Sangria would often be forced to perform onstage, and be harshly punished if she either refused or failed to live up to her father's expectations. Her father's abuse of her did not cease once she had come of age, with him having no issue throwing her back into a small closet that she had frequently been locked in during her childhood for violating the rule prohibiting actors from becoming too close to members of the audience.
- Bifauxnen: Her design intent, Sangria is an actress who specializes in trouser roles (when a male character is played by a woman) and therefore has a slightly more androgynous design than most female hunters.
- Dark Is Evil: A hunter who walks in the shadows and can literally merge with it, as well as wearing completely dark clothing.
- Missing Mom: The only mention we have of Sangria's mother is Sangria's extended backstory noting how her mother drinking the contents of a stench-filled bowl set the stage for what would be Sangria's life prior to her fateful meeting with the lady in red.
- Self-Made Orphan: It is all but outright stated that Sangria murdered her father after years of suffering his abuse.
- Shadow Walker: Her main ability.
- Uncertain Doom: Her final deduction reveals that, at the end of her final performance, Sangria chose to leap into the suspiciously realistic flames that surrounded her, as told by apparent eyewitness accounts. In none of these accounts did Sangria walk out during the curtain call afterwards.
- Villain Teleportation: Can teleport to locations she has previously passed in her furtive mode.
Norton Campbell - The Fool's Gold
Norton Campbell - The Fool's Gold
Golden Luck slipped through Norton Campbell's grasp, incapable of mending his ever-shattered body, plunging him deeper into agony. He yearned for a chance to change his fate. Having awakened amidst the fiery ashes and ruins, our dear miner found himself reborn.
For further information, specifically related to his Survivor persona, see Prospector.
- Creepy Long Arms: His arms were shattered and then re-joined with magnetic rock, significantly extending them.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Prospector's hunter form was revealed around the time of Time of Reunion, in a video called "Time for hunting" but it was much more similar to Hell Ember than the design we have now.
- Meaningful Name: His title is a reference to what Benny refers to Norton as in the final line in a foreign translation of Norton's first letter - in reference to Norton's deceitful nature - after coming to the realisation that Norton had stolen his book of mining records and gone off to claim whatever he could find in the Golden Cave for himself after departing without a word and leaving Benny to rot.
- Powerful Pick: His default weapon is a pickaxe that he can throw and deal damage to survivors who are in contact with Unstable Ground.
- Same Character, But Different: As his name suggests, he is the hunter form of the Prospector.
2024
"Ivy" - The Shadow
"Ivy Lawson" - The Shadow
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When the day finally came to gaze into her sister's eyes, they closed forever. "Ivy" seemed destined to battle against fate. Where, then, would that ancient presence lead her?
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- Adaptational Jerkass: While the yithans are far from saints, they were never explicitly malicious and were mostly morally questionable scholars. "Ivy" however not only acts in an overtly malicious manner, but is quite happy to hunt survivors during the "carnival games".
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear how much of the Shadow we see is the real Ivy and how much is the Yith possessing her. Her trailer implies that Ivy is at least partially aware of what the Yith does with her body and is more than happy to have been possessed, while the description of her powers implies Ivy is no longer there.
- Angsty Surviving Twin: The materials describing her make it clear that she blames herself for the death of her conjoined twin sister, Edith, even though theoretically she could do nothing to stop it.
- Fan Disservice: She has a tiny waist, which may deceive at first glance as being something done to make her attractive, but upon closer examination, one notices that her body reaches Body Horror levels with how thin it is.
- Dark Is Evil: She is dressed in dark colors and is posessed by an malovelent extraterrestrial being, using its powers to torment Survivors. Fitting for a Hunter whose title is "The Shadow".
- Lean and Mean: Ivy is probably the thinnest hunter, even compared to the undead hunters, and is quite dangerous, seeming quite happy to have her body used by an amoral alien.
- Nightmare Face: Her face is shrouded in shadow and twisted to resemble that of a Yithian, with Survivors that stare at her face being afflicted with the "Corruption" status effect that culminates in them losing control of their character.
- Puppet Fighter: Both Ivy's main body and the Yithian spirit can be controlled by the player. The Yithian has the ability to latch onto Survivors but is unable to directly attack them, as well as being able to go through walls and pallets.
