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    Beniyuri 
Voiced by: Mai Nakahara
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The main protagonist. A girl whose greatest fear is having those she cares about taken away from her.
  • Canon Name: Her default true name, as indicated by a menu at the very start, is Ai Minato. However, it can be edited.
  • Childhood Friend Romance: If she pursues romance routes with Karasuba, Kagiha, Monshiro or Yamato
  • Childhood Marriage Promise: Beniyuri eventually remembers that she made one of these with Kagiha as a child.
  • Cool Big Sis: To her younger sister Haruka.
  • Cowardly Lion: She is self-admitted to be a coward who trembles at the notion of fighting monsters, but pulls through for the sake of her friends.
  • Curious as a Monkey: Hikage refers to her as "nosy", and her curiosity will lead her into a bad ending if she picks up the book in 4-8. It also partially caused the tragedy at summer camp; she really wanted to explore the manor, despite having been warned to stay away.
  • Determinator: Shines through on Monshiro's route. Doesn't matter how much the Abyss terrifies her, how dark it is, how small the odds of successfully navigating it are—she jumps in and walks through it until she finds him, then walks through it until they find a way out. The choice that leads to his True Ending also involves her continually reaching out for him, despite him being well out of sight, and the result? With the ribbon's help and her own sheer will, she defies the odds and successfully closes the distance between them.
  • Does Not Like Spam: Avoids eating green peas.
  • Dude Magnet: Par on course for an otome game heroine, Beniyuri manages to win the hearts of the boys in the game's story, and they've all expressed attraction to her even if you don't have Beniyuri pursue their respective routes. Her backstory reveals that she's been a dude magnet even as a kid, as all her male childhood friends were all in love with her one way or another.
  • First Friend: For Kazuya (Monshiro) and Aki (Karasuba).
  • Five Stages of Grief: Depression, and Denial in some bad endings. Before her amnesia, she was perfectly friendly but kept her emotional distance from people out of a desire to Never Be Hurt Again. Her guilt over her childhood tragedy keeps her from moving on from the past, and it's heavily implied that she has stopped dating not because she still loves Natsuki, but because she feels it would be a betrayal to his memory. Even in the manor, she recalls that her greatest fear is losing those she cares about, and her pent-up negative emotions put her on the brink of becoming a monster in the Common Route. In every good ending, she overcomes this, while in bad endings she gets worse.
  • Hello, [Insert Name Here]: The player can type in any name for the character's real self at the start of the game.
  • I Will Wait for You: Heartbreakingly done in Monshiro's bad end. She's the only one to wake up from Psychedelica and is teetering on the border between hope and despair, but ultimately vows to wait for him and her friends to wake up.
  • Important Hair Accessory: In Karasuba's True ending, she decides to finally put on the hairpin he bought for her, symbolizing that she was ready to put her past behind her and try being together with him.
  • It's All My Fault: Blames herself for the tragedy that happened 10 years ago.
  • Japanese Pronouns: Uses "atashi".
  • Lethal Chef: Her little sister Haruka teases her about burning frozen meals in one of her memories.
  • Locked into Strangeness: She's still a redhead in the real world, but it's a more realistic shade of auburn. In Psychedelica, her hair is an unnatural bright red, and then there's the kaleidoscope pattern somehow etched into it. In the endings where she returns to the real world, her hair goes back to normal.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: From Chapter 5 on, her friends realize that they know something she doesn't and do everything they can to keep her from discovering what it is. It's that she involuntarily contributed to Natsuki's death and Kazuya's coma. This frustrates and hurts her, but she ultimately comes to terms with it, though how so depends on route.
  • Missing Mom: Beniyuri eventually remembers that her mother died shortly after giving birth to her little sister.
  • Never Be Hurt Again: The "Real World" ending shows that she adopted this attitude after Natsuki drowned, Kazuya fell into a coma, and Takuya and Aki left; while perfectly friendly, she kept her emotional distance from people so she wouldn't have to feel the pain of loss and separation. In good endings, she's able to overcome this.
  • Nice Girl: She's sweet, gives people the benefit of the doubt, and just wants everyone in the group to get along. Flashbacks also show that she went out of her way to defend Aki (a stranger at the time) from bullies and was the first person to reach out to Kazuya.
  • Oblivious to Love: Justifiably so. All four of her childhood friends had crushes on her when they were kids, but she didn’t notice because 1) she was seven and 2) she was too busy reciprocating Natsuki’s crush.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: To the rest of the cast she is Beniyuri. The player can name her from the beginning.
  • Parental Substitute: Acted as this towards her younger sister Haruka, due to their mom's Death by Childbirth and the age gap between them.
  • Redheaded Hero: Our protagonist, Beniyuri, is a redhead.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: With Hikage, should his route be chosen. The segment of Beniyuri asking him questions each morning as he slowly grows more exasperated perfectly highlights it.
  • Stepford Smiler: Her frustration and hurt over being Locked Out of the Loop are covered up with cheerful fake acceptance. Her memories of her life before the manor show that it's not the first time she's used this as a coping mechanism, either; she pented up her pain over the loss of her mother and her childhood friends.
  • Sweet Tooth: The story shows at several points that she really loves sweets. On Hikage’s route, she wonders, in order, whether she could use the kaleidoscope to wish for a lifetime supply of chocolate chip ice cream, strawberry pastries, or to never gain weight again when eating sweets. It's partially to make him laugh, but partially genuine.
  • Tragic Keepsake: The ribbon that she got from her late mother. It's the same one Monshiro has.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: At summer camp, she urged her friends to explore a manor on a lake, despite the adults and Natsuki warning that the area wasn't safe. While they were there, it started to rain, then flood, and she and Kazuya got caught in the water. As a result, Natsuki drowned rescuing them, Kazuya was left in a coma, and Aki and Takuya moved away, leaving her alone, guilt-riden, and emotionally scarred.
  • You Are Worth Hell: She leaps into the Abyss to find Monshiro, even though she has no guarantee of finding him or even getting out.

    Hikage 
Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa
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The seeker after secrets
"Do not worry. We will get out of this place."
Though he is straightforward to the point of rudeness and appears to have zero concern for the feelings of others, he's very trustworthy and dependable, and often takes the lead in organizing things for the others.
  • The Ace: Hikage is too good at everything. People even ask him if there is anything he can't do. His response is "No." Turns out that his only weakness is not knowing how smartphones work, which makes sense once we discover that he died before the smartphones became widespread.
  • Abusive Parents: Hikage's stepmother hated him for being a illegitimate child. His real mother was not better.
  • Alas, Poor Villain: At the end of his route, when he accidentally shoots Usagi.
  • Ax-Crazy: Filled with hate to the world, he is not possession of all his marbles.
  • Beautiful Dreamer: Beniyuri notes this when she catches him sleeping on the couch in his route.
  • Berserk Button: Played for laughs. Don't compare him to a woman. Just... don't.
  • Big Bad: He's the master of the manor.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Cared deeply for his younger sister Usagi.
  • Break Them by Talking: Excels at this. He's able to crumble Karasuba's bravado and (depending on route) drive Kazuya into despair or Beniyuri to the brink of despair, with simply some well-placed words.
  • Brutal Honesty: He is straightforward to the point of rudeness and appears to have zero concern for the feelings of others.
  • Comically Serious: Sometimes Hikage seems to be too intense in his perfectionism.
  • Compulsive Liar: Describes himself as one in his ending. The abusive environment he grew up in forced him to mask his real feelings; his desire to keep Usagi from seeing his hatred for their parents worsened this; and by the time she died, the behavior had been so ingrained he just couldn't stop. His lies were so compulsive that he has even lost his sense of self.
  • Crazy-Prepared: At least that's what others think. Hikage really thinks ahead and plans for everything in advance.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: He was able to endure living in the slums, having an abusive step-mom, and the gradual loss of his home and wealth, but Usagi's death was the moment that broke him.
  • Dead All Along: He's been dead for around a hundred years.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Consider it a rare occasion when he goes more than a few sentences without saying something snarky.
  • Driven to Suicide: In both his backstory and his ending. In the former, it was out of despair for how twisted a person he had become; in the latter, it was to set Beniyuri and the others free.
  • Does Not Like Spam: As far as Hikage is concerned, shiitake mushrooms should not exist.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Hikage is a good-natured and dependable person until he is outed as the impostor. Then he drops all pretenses, shows no remorse and laughs maniacally.
  • Five Stages of Grief: Primarily Anger and some Bargaining. In life, he was stuck in Bargaining, selling his pride and doing everything he could to raise money for Usagi's medicine. When she succumbed to her illness, he obsessively researched black magic to bring her back, ultimately finding the kaleidoscope that created Psychedelica. In death, he went into Anger—he had lost his memories, but he knew that he hurt, and everyone around him seemed able to move on peacefully, and he couldn’t figure out how to do the same because he was stewing in those negative feelings. So, he decided that he'd complete and use the kaleidoscope to make everyone else feel the same pain he does. In all routes save his own, his anger makes him go down swinging.
  • Forceful Kiss: Takes this course of action with Beniyuri in his route to scare her into staying away from him. It works for a bit.
  • It's All My Fault: Blames himself for his younger sister's death.
  • Japanese Pronouns: Uses "boku".
  • The Leader: Plays this role for the group of heroes.
  • Mad Scientist: While he was alive, he experimented with and researched different types of black magic in a bid to resurrect his dead little sister.
  • Manipulative Bastard: He's been manipulating the cast, Kagiha, and countless unknowns, all to get the kaleidoscope.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: He completely and utterly breaks down in tears when he accidentally kills Usagi at the end of his route.
  • Not Himself: His childhood personality is completely different from his current one. That's because he is not, in fact, the child from the flashbacks.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: "Hikage" is a nickname. His real name is never revealed.
  • Put Them All Out of My Misery: His goal. He doesn't remember his life, but he is still full of the grief, anger, and hate that stained it. This, his frustration at his inability to leave Psychedelica, and his growing madness ultimately caused him to decide he'd use the kaleidoscope to make everyone else as miserable as he is.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: His butterfly mini-game art has him with one red eye. His right eye goes permanently red/fuchsia after he is revealed to be the master of the mansion.
  • Sanity Slippage: In his backstory. He slowly lost his grip on sanity after his beloved little sister died, obsessively researching black magic to try and resurrect her. After his suicide, it got even worse.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: With Beniyuri, should his route be chosen. The segment of Beniyuri asking him questions each morning as he slowly grows more exasperated perfectly highlights it.
  • A Sinister Clue: He's the Big Bad and a lefty.
  • Stay in the Kitchen: Tells Beniyuri that he considers all girls unreliable and in need of protection. Which makes sense considering what era he's actually from.
  • Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Check check check.
  • Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Check check check as well.
  • Tragic Villain: He was no saint in life, but Usagi's death pushed him off the deep end. He became obsessed with finding a way to bring her back to life, but when he found the kaleidoscope, killed himself out of shame for falling so far. He then woke up in Psychedelica with no memories but every ounce of the pain, grief, and madness he wasn't able to heal from. After watching others move on while he couldn't, he came to the conclusion that if he had to be in constant anguish, so did everyone else. While his route shows there are still glimmers of the kind brother he used to be and that he's not completely irredeemable, it's ultimately too late for him and the best he can do is set the cast free.
  • Tsundere: He is accused of being one, and in true Tsundere fashion, denies it while getting flustered. Then subverted upon The Reveal it’s all an act.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Japanese food.
  • Walking Spoiler: The two facts that he is the master of the manor and has been impersonating Kazuya give away huge swathes of the plot.

    Kagiha 
Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi
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The man with the helping hand
"This situation is really bad. We really need to work together, okay?"
Very calm and collected, he tries to avoid conflict whenever he can. He is the de facto mediator of the group and is able to put out any fires caused by conflicting personalities.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Underneath his gentle, parental demeanor is a manipulative and selfish, if tragic, man obsessed with Ai. This side of him really comes out in Monshiro's route and in the "Two in the Ravine" short story.
  • Dead All Along: Drowned 10 years prior to the beginning of the story.
  • Entitled to Have You: He has a habit of bringing up the childhood marriage promise he made with Ai as a reason they should be together and outright tells Kazuya that he (Kagiha) is "better equipped" to support Ai (who isn't even there to speak for herself).
  • Fallen Hero: In life, he was the calm voice of reason among his friends, the one who looked after them all and sacrificed himself to save Ai and Kazuya. In Psychedelica, he's spent ten years helping Hikage manipulate others, and is willing to sacrifice all his childhood friends to come back to life. He does redeem himself in the Common route and off-screen in Kazuya's, though.
  • Five Stages of Grief: Primarily Bargaining and some Denial. In his own words, he's willing to trade anyone and anything for the chance to come back to life and be with Beniyuri. For this reason, he helps Hikage use and sacrifice others for the sake of completing the kaleidoscope. He lists off everything he will do for Beniyuri if she accepts him, and mentions their Childhood Marriage Promise as a reason she should. In Monshiro’s route, he tells Kazuya to trade places with him since he’s "better equipped" for Beniyuri. In his ending, he catapults himself and Beniyuri into Denial, living out a fantasy of being married. In the Common route and Monshiro’s route, he reaches Acceptance, turning on Hikage to help the others escape.
  • Foil: To Monshiro. They both suffered a tragic accident in their youth, stayed in Psychedelica for ten years because of a promise they made to their childhood love, who is the same girl, and worked for Hikage. However, Kazuya quit when his morals wouldn’t let him keep tricking people, while Natsuki is all too willing to sacrifice anyone and everything for his goal. Kazuya looks suspicious but is actually on the heroes' side, while Natsuki is secretly on Hikage's. Finally, Kazuya is actually alive but thinks he's dead, and intends to use the kaleidoscope to send Ai and her friends back, whereas Natsuki knows he's dead and hopes to use the kaleidoscope to return to life.
  • Gentle Giant: Kagiha is the tallest in the group and is a Nice Guy.
  • Heel–Face Turn:
    • On the Common route, he sacrifices himself to stop Hikage.
    • An off-screen one happens in Monshiro's good ending. Takuya and Aki wake up at the very end, which they wouldn't have been able to do unless Kagiha gave them the last shard of the kaleidoscope.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: He worked for Hikage for ten years, knew what kind of person he was, and still believed him when he promised he could bring Kagiha back to life.
  • Japanese Pronouns: Uses "jibun".
  • Kick the Dog:
    • He's perfectly willing to stab all of his childhood friends in the back just so he has a shot with Ai.
    • He knew Kazuya was actually alive, but let him think otherwise for ten years.
    • On Monshiro's route, he tells Kazuya that You Should Have Died Instead. Making it even worse is that Natsuki doesn't say this because of the life he was unfairly robbed of, but because he's "better equipped" for Ai.
  • Manipulative Bastard: On Monshiro's route, he saves Kazuya from Hikage and plays up his fondness for their childhood past...specifically so he can twist the emotional knife that much deeper, driving Kazuya into despair. Then, when Beniyuri comes looking for Kazuya, Kagiha puts on a remorseful mask about how he couldn't save him and tries to dissuade her from rescuing him.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: In Kazuya's route, he helps Hikage emotionally break Kazuya so he'll fall into the Abyss, allowing Natsuki to 'take his place' and return to the real world with Beniyuri.
  • Nice Guy: Kagiha has a sweet and gentle personality and is the most non-confrontational young man out of all prisoners. Or so it would seem.
  • Oblivious Guilt Slinging: On Monshiro's route, before jumping into the Abyss, Beniyuri gives her hairpin to Kagiha so that the others will be able to complete the kaleidoscope if she doesn't return. When he asks why, she sincerely says she trusts him more than anyone. This visibly shakes him, as unbeknownst to her, he's the reason Kazuya is in the Abyss at all.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Kagiha's real name is Mizutani Natsuki.
  • Parental Abandonment: In a few of the side stories, he mentions that his parents are dead and he lived with relatives as a kid.
  • Real Men Cook: Helps Beniyuri with cooking and seems to be proficient in it.
  • Satellite Love Interest: Unlike the rest of the cast, he's pretty much defined by his relationship with Beniyuri. This is deliberate and deconstructed, as he died when he was seven, was unable to process it, and pinned everything he had on fulfilling their Childhood Marriage Promise.
  • Sweet Tooth: Fond of sweets.
  • Team Dad: Unlike the rest of the mansion's prisoners whom Beniyuri addresses with "-kun", Kagiha is addressed with "-san". Beniyuri says it is because he feels like the group's big brother. He does indeed play the heart and tries to make sure everyone remains relatively peaceful and eats their vegetables.
  • Tragic Villain: All his villainous actions are caused by his hopes of being able to return to life after drowning at seven.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Subverted. He knows Hikage is using him the same way he uses everyone else, he just doesn't care as long as his wish gets granted.
  • Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about him without mentioning one of the triple whammies that he's one of Ai's childhood friends, that he's dead, and that he's Hikage's ally.
  • We Used to Be Friends: His and Kazuya's friendship came to an end when they had a disagreement about working for Hikage: Kazuya left because he was unwilling to compromise his ideals, while Natsuki stayed because he wanted to come back to life by any means necessary. Now Kazuya is sad about how far his friend has fallen, while Natsuki is upset about what saving Kazuya cost him.
  • Younger Than He Looks: He has the appearance of a dapper, older gentleman, but is a teenager like the rest of the cast. This takes on a bit of a darker tone when you remember that he died at the age of seven.

    Karasuba 
Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara
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The one who hides behind a smile
"You're like an open book. Of course I'm going to make fun of you!"
Super laid back, his constant string of wry jabs do little more than confuse those around him who don't quite get his sense of humor. He often uses jokes when around others to hide what he's truly thinking.
  • Awesome by Analysis: He tries to avoid showing it off, but he's very observant. Most notably, he observes Hikage's and Monshiro's behaviors, compares them to the Kazuya he knew, correctly hypothesizes that Monshiro is the real Kazuya, and then privately tricks Hikage into an Out-of-Character Alert.
  • Badass Bookworm: Karasuba is good with the gun and likes reading hard books.
  • Bluff the Imposter: To confirm his guess about Hikage's identity, he pulls him aside in one of the short stories on the pretense of asking for love advice. After steering the conversation into their usual banter for a few minutes, he whiningly nags that surely Hikage must have liked a girl before. Hikage says no, which seals Karasuba's suspicions—the real Kazuya was in love with Ai.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: This silly, lackadaisical dude is the only character to correctly guess Hikage's and Monshiro's identities.
  • Deer in the Headlights: When Ai and Kazuya got pulled down by the flood, what did the rest of them do? Natsuki dove in to save them, Takuya ran for help, and Aki...just froze. His guilt over that spurred him into abandoning his "weak" self.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: While Hikage sports this as well, Karasuba is by far the worst offender. Everything from his hair to the way he wears his clothes, screams of asymetry.
  • Five Stages of Grief: Denial. While his desire to become stronger was perfectly fine, he did so by completely rebranding his image and hiding things that didn't gel with it, such as his love of books. If anyone tries to bring up the boy he used to be, he brushes them off with comments about That Man Is Dead, and the more serious a matter is to him, the more he jokes about it like it's nothing. He expresses the hope that he doesn’t regain his memory because he doesn't want to take the chance it might be full of painful reminders. In his bad ending, he completely tunes out reality by creating a little world where it's just himself and Beniyuri, plugging their ears and closing their eyes at anything that could break the illusion. He can reach Acceptance outside his own route, but his good ending has him specifically vowing to face the fears and past he spent so long trying to run from.
  • Forceful Kiss: Does this to Beniyuri in his bad ending.
  • Gut Feeling: Karasuba's intuition is almost psychic. He was able to correctly guess the characters knew each other in the real world, that there was an impostor among them, and, eventually, Monshiro's and Hikage's true identities.
  • Height Angst: Played for Laughs. Pretends to suffer from the inconveniences of tall height like Kagiha does to seem taller.
  • Hidden Depths: Karasuba may claim that he's shallow or unobservant, but Beniyuri catches him reading Dazai Osamu's "The Setting Sun". It is not an easy book, and not a cheerful one either. She's also surprised to find out Karasuba is an avid bookworm.
  • I Hate Past Me: He has nothing but disgust for his old self, who was a "weak" Shrinking Violet. This is due to feeling wretched about freezing in fear when his childhood friends were in danger.
  • Japanese Pronouns: Uses "ore".
  • Master Actor: He was able to act so natural while trying to Bluff the Imposter that Hikage, a skilled manipulator himself, didn't pick up on it.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: Beniyuri is tired of Karasuba's advances even in his own route. Poor girl can't catch a break.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: "Karasuba". He thinks it's cool and is worried his real name is less badass. His real name is Himeno Akira.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The sensitive guy to Yamato's manly man.
  • Shrinking Violet: In his youth, he was a timid and shy boy. After moving to a new school, he decided to put on the persona of a cocky flirt so he'd never get bullied again, and it eventually became second nature.
  • Smarter Than You Look: You'd be forgiven for completely buying his devil-may-care attitude and facade of being Book Dumb, but Karasuba is the most intelligent member of the cast save Hikage. He logically works out that Hikage isn't Kazuya, that Monshiro is, and ergo Hikage must be the master of the manor, shortly after regaining his memory.
  • That Man Is Dead: Karasuba prefers his mansion self to his real self. In real life, he tried to cast away his old "weak" and shy self and create a new persona of a cheerful playboy.
  • The Tease: The flirtatious one in the cast.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Karasuba and Yamato argue to the point of being annoying, but everyone seems to think they actually get along quite well.
  • Yandere: In his bad ending, it's heavily implied he did something to the rest of the group to ensure the hideout was only for him and Beniyuri. His lines are also very possessive, telling her to only look at and think only of him.

    Yamato 
Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya
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The short-tempered criminal
"People like you irritate the hell out of me."
Incredibly rude and belligerent, any argument with him is almost guaranteed to come to blows. Totally incapable of expressing his true feelings, he lives in a state of perpetual hostility.
  • And Then John Was a Zombie: And then Yamato turned into a monster.
  • The Atoner: Yamato desperately seeks forgiveness for his role in creating the events that led to Kazuya's coma and Natsuki's death.
  • Badass Bookworm: While his physique is something people usually notice first, he is also very intelligent and was able to get into a very good high school.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Yamato eventually remembers that his younger twin brother is in a coma outside the mansion and he wants to return to him. Even back in the world of the living, he diligently visits Kazuya every day in the hopes that he'll wake up one day.
  • Big Damn Heroes: He jumps in and drives Hikage off when the latter is about to kill Beniyuri in Chapter 5.
  • Does Not Like Spam: Hates sweets.
  • Five Stages of Grief: Depression. He wears his grief around his neck like a stone, quitting the sport he loved and giving up his dreams for the future out of a misplaced belief that he cannot have them while his brother is still in a coma. He loathes himself for inadvertently setting in motion the chain of events that caused said coma, as well as the resentment he feels towards Kazuya for 'chaining' him down. In his bad ending, he just sits and stews in a dark place of guilt, depression, and self-hatred forever. He can reach Acceptance outside his own route, but his good ending has him specifically vowing to forgive himself for the mistakes he made that day and start living again.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: As a child, he was jealous of his brother's easy friendship with the girl he liked.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Very irritable and snaps easily .
  • Height Angst: Played for Laughs. Pretends to suffer from the inconveniences of tall height like Kagiha does to seem taller.
  • Ineffectual Loner: In the first half of the game, Yamato just wants to be left alone and get out of the mansion as soon as possible.
  • Innocently Insensitive: He loudly scoffed at his friends for making a big deal out of "some lame ribbon", only for Aki to hiss that it's a Tragic Keepsake from Ai's mom. Cue horrified flinch from Takuya..
  • Japanese Pronouns: Uses "ore".
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His gruffness and curt behavior are because he's terrible with people, not because he's a dick. Underneath the rough edges, he's actually quite kind.
  • Loving Bully: As a kid, he had a crush on the same girl his brother did, but bullied her due to not being able to properly express his feelings. Now that he's a young adult, he feels pretty terrible about it.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name is Kando Takuya.
  • Real Men Cook: Turns out to like cooking.
  • Resentful Guardian: While Yamato does care for his brother, certain routes reveal that he holds some resentment towards him for having to look after him in the hospital. This makes him feel disgusted with himself, primarily since he blames himself for the incident that led to Kazuya falling into a coma in the first place.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man:
    • Manly man to Karasuba's sensitive guy.
    • Also with his brother. Flashbacks show that "Yamato" was loud, popular, and great at sports, but struggled to admit his feelings, while Kazuya was soft-spoken, artsy, and considered weird, but had a lot of emotional sensitivity.
  • Trauma Button: The reason he hates the sound of rain is because it reminds him of the day his little brother fell into a coma and his friend drowned. And he's trapped in a manor where it rains every night.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Jealous of how well Kazuya and Ai were getting along and too young to know of a healthy way to handle it, he loosened the ribbon around his brother's knee, hoping he would lose it and get in a fight with Ai. Kazuya lost it alright, went back to get it, got caught in a flood, almost drowned, and has been comatose ever since. Oh, and Natsuki did drown saving Kazuya. Takuya's carried the guilt and horror of this ever since.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Karasuba and Yamato argue to the point of being annoying, but everyone seems to think they actually get along quite well.

    Usagi 
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A mysterious young girl whose visage is hidden behind a rabbit mask. She claims to be working for the master of the mansion, and provides its current occupants with necessary supplies.
  • Animal Motifs: Rabbits.
  • Dead All Along: She died of illness some hundred years before the story began.
  • Five Stages of Grief: Acceptance. She expresses no regret or sadness over dying tragically young, simply joy that she had a good life. She lingers in Psychedelica out of her selfless desire to help her brother symbolically find his own Acceptance, rather than a selfish desire to cling to the past or an inability to process what happened to her. In Hikage's route, when she's shot by said brother, she's still at peace with it because she can go knowing he has finally been saved.
  • Go Out with a Smile: She is shown tearfully beaming in the CGI after Hikage shoots her, glad to see her beloved big brother regain his senses.
  • Japanese Pronouns: Uses "watashi".
  • Love Redeems: Invoked. She pushes Beniyuri to get together with Hikage on his route, hoping that romantic love will bring him back from the brink.
  • Morality Chain: She was the only reason Hikage could pretend to be a good person, and when she died, even the pretense vanished.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: They call her Usagi due to her rabbit mask. Her real name is never revealed.
  • Poor Communication Kills: She might have been able to stop Hikage if she'd simply revealed herself to him and reminded him of their past, but she was too afraid.
  • Shipper on Deck: Gets very excited at the prospect of Beniyuri having a thing for Hikage should his route be chosen. Given she's his sister and is hoping Love Redeems...
  • Shrinking Violet: Beniyuri notes that Usagi seems to shrivel up any time she speaks or has attention on her.
  • Taking the Bullet: Does this for Beniyuri at the end of Hikage's route.
  • Walking Spoiler: The reason she's working for the master of the manor is filled with spoilers.

    Monshiro 
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The enigma
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A mysterious figure whose visage is hidden behind a fox mask. Though he has saved the group from monster attacks, no one is sure whether he is a friend or foe.
  • Animal Motifs: His behavior is compared to animal-like several times in the story.
  • Dead All Along: Inverted. He thinks he drowned at summer camp, but he's actually been in a coma ever since.
  • Determinator: Refused to move on from Psychedelica and fought off monsters for ten years just so he could return Ai’s ribbon. Since (unknown to him) he was just in a coma in the real world, not dead, this means his determination and love literally helped him cling to life.
  • The Fettered: He quit working for Hikage due to his strong moral fiber, even though it meant braving Psychedelica alone and "losing" the chance to come back to life.
  • Five Stages of Grief: Acceptance. He is so at peace with his death that he's surprised to learn he's actually alive. He lingers in Psychedelica out of a selfless desire to fulfil The Promise he made to Ai, rather than a selfish desire to cling to the past or an inability to process what happened to him. Once he fulfils that promise, his goals shift to helping Beniyuri and the cast escape, aka symbolically find their own Acceptance. In Takuya's True Ending, he tells his brother that they both did stupid things that day and need to move past it. In his own route, he regresses into Depression upon receiving two Breaking Speeches from Hikage and Kagiha and is literally swallowed by the Abyss, where he tells Beniyuri to leave him. In his bad ending, he is unable to escape it or the belief that everyone would be better off without him, while in his good ending, he reaches out for hope again, returning to Acceptance and the real world both.
  • Foil: To Kagiha. They both suffered a tragic accident in their youth, stayed in Psychedelica for ten years because of a promise they made to their childhood love, who is the same girl, and worked for Hikage. However, Kazuya quit when his morals wouldn’t let him keep tricking people, while Natsuki is all too willing to sacrifice anyone and everything for his goal. Kazuya looks suspicious but is actually on the heroes' side, while Natsuki is secretly on Hikage's. Finally, Kazuya is actually alive but thinks he's dead, and intends to use the kaleidoscope to send Ai and her friends back, whereas Natsuki knows he's dead and hopes to use the kaleidoscope to return to life.
  • Go Mad from the Isolation: He gradually lost his memories during the decade he was trapped alone in Psychedelica, until all he could remember was that he had to return the ribbon to "her". Reuniting with Beniyuri/Ai and Yamato/Takuya brings them back.
  • Hates Being Alone: Despises it. He becomes very clingy once the group befriends him, especially to Yamato and especially to Beniyuri. Being completely alone for ten years will do that to you.
  • I Will Wait for You: He wandered Psychedelica for ten years on the hope that someday, Ai would find her way there.
  • Japanese Pronouns: Uses "ore".
  • The Lady's Favor: The purple ribbon he wears around his neck is Beniyuri/Ai's Tragic Keepsake. When they were kids, she gave it to him to bandage his knee, but he was put in a coma shortly after and was thus unable to return it. His wish to give it back to her fuelled his stay in Psychedelica, which also kept him alive in real life, and was ultimately the only thing he didn’t forget. And, implicitly because Clap Your Hands If You Believe is a thing in Psychedelica, the ribbon actually ended up acting as a protective charm, staving off the deep despair he felt. He's finally able to return it when she arrives in Psychedelica, and again if/when they wake up in the real world.
  • Last Kiss: Combined with First Kiss. In his route, he gives this to Beniyuri before allowing himself to fall back into the Abyss. In his bad ending, it might very well be their first and last, as he stays comatose; in his good ending, it's subverted, as he wakes up.
  • Left-Handed Mirror: He's a lefty, as indicated in several CGIs, which serves to contrast him against his right-handed Foil Kagiha.
  • Locked into Strangeness: He has white hair with two tufts that look like fox ears. He loses them upon returning to the real world.
  • Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Kagiha, Hikage, and initially Yamato and Karasuba are all suspicious of him, due to his mask and his penchant for mysteriously appearing, and consider him creepy. He's really just a sweet, shy guy who desperately doesn't want to be alone but completely lacks social graces.
  • Navel-Deep Neckline: His jumpsuit is open all the way to his navel.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: He hasn't been around people much, and is not sure how to behave.
  • One Side of the Story: Believes Hikage that nobody needed him and his precious big brother wished he never existed. That ends very poorly.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: "Monshiro". His real name is Kando Kazuya.
  • Poor Communication Kills: He could have ousted Hikage just by taking off his mask, but he was afraid that if he did, the group would splinter and he'd be alone again.
  • The Power of Love: His love for Ai literally kept his comatose body alive for ten years, as he refused to go to the afterlife until he had returned her ribbon.
  • The Promise: To return Ai's ribbon. He almost drowned going back for it, he waited in Psychedelica until he could return it, and it was all he remembered when he’d forgotten his name, his family, and his past.
  • Rescue Romance: He introduces himself by killing a monster that had been attacking Beniyuri (and Hikage), and is a Love Interest. His good end also has her rescuing him from the Abyss.
  • Socially Awkward Hero: When it comes to killing monsters, he can do so coolly and casually with nary a flicker of fear. Put him in a room of other people, and watch him flounder to find the right words or express confusion at social norms. That said, this is somewhat downplayed as he's not really bothered by his lack of social skills and far prefers being with other people, even if he has to struggle, than being on his own.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: One fateful day at summer camp, he and his friends got caught in a flood. While they were trying to travel to safety, he noticed that he'd lost Ai's ribbon, insisted that the others go on without him, and went back to get it. Ai and Natsuki followed him, and while they found the ribbon just fine, the delay made the waters even worse. He and Ai got pulled down, Natsuki drowned rescuing them, and Kazuya was left in a coma. He's not upset about what happened to him, just what happened to Natsuki.
  • Walking Spoiler: Fitting for someone described as "the enigma". Namely, him being the real Kazuya turns everything you thought you knew about him and Hikage completely on its head.
  • We Used to Be Friends: His and Natsuki's friendship came to an end when they had a disagreement about working for Hikage: Kazuya left because he was unwilling to compromise his ideals, while Natsuki stayed because he wanted to come back to life by any means necessary. Now Kazuya is sad about how far his friend has fallen, while Natsuki is upset about what saving Kazuya cost him.


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