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Clayborne Apartment

Kit Jennings

A former tenant of the Clayborne Apartment. He lived in Apartment 104. He is stabbed several times by the Druid, then accidentally hit by Amy Chao in her car, making him the first victim of the Druid, with the ensuing murders occurring on the anniversary of his death appearing to be connected to him.

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• Extreme Omnisexual: Kit, by his own admission, pretty much was trying to have sex with everyone, male or female. This leads to his murder by the Druid, who turns out to be his current suitor's jealous ex.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: The reason Kit was murdered. Noelle Samuels cheated on her boyfriend, Wyatt with Kit, leading him to create the Druid for stealing her away from him.

Connor Rijkers

Played by: Gabriel Darku

Jen’s brother, Justine and Amber’s son, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. He lives in Apartment 202, and is the superintendent of the building. He is one of two people working as the Druid, along with his sister, Jen, killing the people responsible for his mother’s suicide. He is pushed into the basement furnace by Angel.

Jen Rijkers

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Saadia’s best friend, Connor’s sister, Justine and Amber’s daughter, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. She lives in Apartment 202. She is one of two people working as the Druid, along with her brother, Connor, killing the people responsible for her mother’s suicide. She gets hit in the head with a fire extinguisher thrown by Saddia, causing her to fall and impale herself on her machete.

Justine Rijkers

Amber’s girlfriend, Jen and Connor’s mother, and a former tenant of the Clayborne Apartment. She lived in Apartment 202, and was Driven to Suicide after receiving death threats stemming from a mean tweet she made mocking Kit’s death. Her death drove her children, Jen and Connor, to become the Druid and kill everyone responsible, meaning it’s her death that’s driving the murder spree, and not Kit’s death like everyone thought early on.

Amber Ciotti

Justine’s girlfriend, Jen and Connor’s stepmother, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. She lives in Apartment 202. She is stabbed repeatedly by Jen, making her the thirteenth and final victim of the Druid.

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• Sanity Slippage: Amber is quite a functional woman before Justine's suicide, but afterwards? She became the local crazy woman, engaging in strange behavior, earning her the title of the "harmless crazy woman" of the apartments. Her claim that Jen and Connor are drugging her gains significant credence after their status as the Druid is uncovered, explaining why she's especially unwell..

Dan Olenski

Cassidy’s father, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. He lives in Apartment 108, and is a white supremacist. He eventually grows out of his ways, and is one of the two survivors of the massacre.

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• Angry White Man: Dan is a white nationalist whose racism primarily is motivated by seeing minorities as favored over white people. He gets better by the end.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Dan refuses to leave Saadia behind to get help, because she came back for him even after everything that he had said to her and her family.
• Break the Haughty: Dan starts out as a stereotypical Jerkass white nationalist of the worst kind who constantly insults the other characters for being non-white and pesters about minorities. After his daughter dies, he is shown to be genuinely distraught, and toward the last episodes, he and Angel end up prisoners in the same cave and forced to join forces in order to survive. They end up bonding, and this, completed with Saadia saving his life later, results in him learning to respect minorities and grow out of his racist ways.
• Everyone Has Standards: As much of an asshole as Dan is, he's devastated, traumatized, and horrified into tears seeing the bloody carnage in the furnace room.
• Hate Sink: Subverted in the last few episodes where he goes through tremendous Character Development as a result of losing his daughter to the murder spree and being forced into a survival situation with a polar rival in Angel. He ends up becoming a genuinely much better person through it all, completely shedding the hate.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Dan's daughter Cassidy is murdered by the Druid in the first episode. He tearfully identifies her body in his first major Pet the Dog moment.
• Pet the Dog: For all his flaws, Dan is shown to be genuinely distraught when his daughter is found dead. Also, one of the first signs of his Character Development is that he begins acting nicer toward Angel, especially after giving his respects to Angel after the former succumbs to his injuries after killing the Druid. In a less noticeable moment, Dan actively warns Angel of the visible gas coming into the room they're trapped in, even after Angel just beat Dan senseless.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Dan's less a villain, and more jerkass, but it still applies, nonetheless. Either way, he's a fiercely racist white nationalist who's antagonistic to everyone in the building for one reason or another and throws racial and ethnic slurs at everyone. Eventually, it leads to the Druid throwing him in a locked room with Angel who's everything he despises and beats the crap out of Dan... which backfires when being trapped with him leads to them bonding. As a result, Dan has a Heel–Face Turn and loses the racism, save for one little moment where he refers to Connor as "the black dyke's kid", which in the heat of the moment is just from him defaulting to familiar words.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Dan's main development as a character. He starts as an extremely racist white nationalist. He ends as a much nicer man, willing to risk his own life to help non-white gay man Angel kill Connor and refuses to leave immigrant Saadia behind.

Cassidy Olenski

Dan’s daughter, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. She lives in Apartment 108. She has her head dunked in a toilet full of acid that melts her face off, making her the third victim of the Druid.

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• Abusive Offspring: Cassidy is openly hostile to her father Dan, in no small part because he wasn't really a father to her for much of her life due to his supremacist views. She mentions that he seemingly forgot her birthday, and that she had to clean his vomit off the floor that morning.
• Everyone Has Standards: As much of an asshole as Cassidy is, she clearly does care for her friends. She cared for her friend Erica enough to warn her not to look at the viral image going to everyone's phones because it's her father, Frank Dixon's decapitated head.
• Really Gets Around: Cassidy, whose entire motivation seems to be about jumping anything with a penis big enough.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Cassidy throws a massively racist accusation at Saadia, claiming that her "friends" beheaded Frank Dixon, suggesting that Islamic terrorists like ISIS are the only ones who cut off people's heads. She's actually right that Saadia's friends killed Frank Dixon, it just has nothing to do with her religion or terrorism.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Contrasting from all her appearances, Cassidy was a sweet little girl. Flashbacks show her learning how to ride a bike with her father, and just being a regular girl, in stark contrast to the extremely promiscuous Alpha Bitch and Abusive Offspring she became in her high school years, mostly thanks to her father's supremacism.

Saadia Jalalzai

Jen’s best friend, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. She lives in Apartment 102 and is a kindhearted immigrant from Afghanistan. She is one of the two survivors of the massacre.

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• Establishing Character Moment: Saadia is leaving for school when she encounters the local racist Dan drunkenly struggling to unlock the wrong door. She's tempted to follow her parents' poisonous Bystander Syndrome teachings, but she ultimately chooses to help him to his own door and unlock it.
• Final Girl: While Dan survives with her, Saadia is the one who actually takes down Jen and saves Dan's life in the process.
• Hypocrite: Saadia is a mild case of it, as she calls out the Druid for murdering people complicit in their mother's suicide and for lying to her the whole time about it even though they're friends, when she was lying to them just the same, being too much of a coward to confess to them that she's the one who started the whole thing. It's downplayed because unlike Jen and Connor towards her, Saadia wasn't manipulating them.
• It's All My Fault: Saadia feels this way at the end of the season when she realizes she accidentally caused the second Druid's Start of Darkness. Dan reassures that it really wasn't her fault.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Saadia has this reaction in the season finale. Specifically, in the flashback where it's revealed that she was the first one to comment on Justine's post speaking ill of Kit's death. Her specific post wasn't cruel, just calling out Justine on being so callous about the violent death of a man who admittedly wasn't all that bad. But as she sees the increasing cruelty of the posts that succeeded her own, her reaction is quite clear that she knows she accidentally started something that can't be stopped.
• Nice Girl: Saadia in spades, so much so that Jen even says that she's "too nice". And Jen's righter than she realizes, because Saadia is such a good person that she couldn't understand why Justine would be so insensitive about Kit's death. She calls out Justine by commenting on her tweet... which is what led to the downward spiral that resulted in Justine's suicide and consequently the apartment building murders.
• Revenge Is Not Justice: Saadia subscribes to this belief. She doesn't believe that people like Cassidy deserve to die, and even calls people like her good people. She tells Jen that even if they were complicit in the pain that drove Justine to suicide, it doesn't justify murdering them.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Saadia reveals in the end of the season to a dying Jen that she was the one who called out Justine's tweet about Kit's murder, which led to others calling Justine out and kick-starting the events that lead to Justine's death and Connor and Jen's Start of Darkness.
• What You Are in the Dark: Absolutely nobody would have faulted Saadia if she had chosen to leave Dan behind with the Druid after everything he put her through. However, right when she's about to escape the building, she hears him screaming for help, and can't bring herself to leave him.

Violet Lickers

Joe’s wife, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. She lives in Apartment 208, and runs her own blog, using the Druid murders to attract attention. She is stabbed through the head while forced to record one final video, making her the ninth victim of the Druid.

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• Hate Sink: Violet, who more or less spends all the season being a lecherous bitch by "blogging" about tragedies and using anything she can just to get notoriety. As Joe points out, even her voice is irritating and affected. Not even her husband Joe is safe when she tricks him into having sex with her and then posting it online.
• Insistent Terminology: Violet insists on being treated and have her work referred to as "journalism", despite being actually closer to sheer tragedy and gore porn.
• Small Name, Big Ego: She considers herself a journalist and brags about how many followers she has. She's actually a talentless blogger, who has perhaps three real followers. The rest she has pay to follow her blog.
• Social Media Before Reason: Whenever someone tries to hold her back or warn her about the consequences of her blogs, she uses the argument that she is defending "journalism integrity".

Joe Lickers

Violet’s husband, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. He lives in Apartment 208, and is secretly having an affair with Angel. He is stabbed several times in the chest in front of Violet, making him the eight victim of The Druid.

Angel Lopez

Joe’s secret lover, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. He lives in Apartment 106. He pulls a Heroic Sacrifice pushing Connor into the basement furnace, burning to death himself, and making him the fourteenth victim, and the only one to not be killed by The Druid.

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• Taking You with Me: Angel manages to kill the Druid by pushing him in his own furnace, burning his own arms and killing himself in the process.

Frank Dixon

A married father, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. He lives in Apartment 212, but used to live in Apartment 201 before Justine’s suicide. He is beheaded with an axe, and has his head mounted on the hood of his car, making him the second victim of The Druid.

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• Domestic Abuser: Frank Dixon is very quickly established to be abusive towards his wife. But oddly, he doesn't seem to project this same abuse onto his daughter.

Kaili Greenberg

A teacher at Saddia and Jen’s school, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. She lives in Apartment 112. She is knocked unconscious in her car, tied to a table in her classroom, and dissected alive, making her the fifth victim of The Druid.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Heavily downplayed, and subjected to Unreliable Narrator. Jen thinks she was the fake kind of nice, and flashbacks show that she could be vindictive in a petty sort of way. But considering that Jen blames her (among others) for the death of her mom, it's safe to say her opinion of her is biased, to say the least.
• Danger Takes a Backseat: She's captured by the Druid this way. But what makes it unique is that Kaili actually noticed the danger, but assumed it was a prank and didn't pay much attention aside from telling them to get out. This seals her fate.
• Mama Bear: Kaili is one to her students, specifically to Saadia and Jen, or at least that's what's seen of her. Both girls are very traumatically terrorized by bullies at school. Kaili has none of it with either of the bullies, and very swiftly punishes them for their actions. At the same time, she consoles the two girls and encourages them to keep going forward. She even convinces Jen to stay and finish her biology final so that she can pass the course, as Jen wanted to just leave after what Charlie did.
• My Nayme Is: Ms. Greenberg's first name is Kaili. It's not an uncommon Hawaiian name, but for most westerners, it's a fairly unique spelling of the name.
• Nice Girl: She makes numerous efforts to give students a good environment at school and deals with bullies swiftly and effectively. She even takes a traumatized Jen aside in the hallways and encourages her to return to finish her biology final so that she can pass and graduate. She has a more vindictive streak as Kit learned when he asked for a ride after insulting her in the laundry room, but she still is an overall good woman. It doesn't spare her from a gory fate at the Druid's hands.

Amy Chao

Xander’s girlfriend, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. She lives in Apartment 216. She is drilled through the head with a power drill, making her the sixth victim of The Druid.

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• Jerk Ass Has A Point: She's blunt and unsympathetic when refusing to take down Justine's post, but in fairness, it wasn't her responsibility and it's not like she could have removed it from the internet entirely.
• Misplaced Retribution: Amy is murdered because she didn't help after Justine's post went viral and she started getting viciously harassed. Connor and Jen use this as a motive to kill her, save that even if Amy wanted to help, there's little she could have done. As she said, online is forever, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
• Oblivious to Love: Sexual attraction is more accurate. A shirtless Kit attempts to flirt with Amy, who remains completely oblivious to what he's doing. She doesn't figure it out when he asks if she's gay, and not even when he looks down at her groin saying he wants "to drill holes in everything". Kit has to literally spell it out for her that he's flirting with her, and she's shocked to realize that he was putting the moves on her. It's likely that she's asexual as she is seen reading an article about asexuality on her phone.

Xander Lemmon

Amy’s boyfriend, and one of the tenants of the Clayborne Apartment. He lives in Apartment 216, and runs the local coffee shop. He is beaten unmercifully with his coffee making equipment, and has his blood made into coffee, making him the fourth victim of The Druid.

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• Con Man: Of a sort. He will tell anyone who listens about how unique his ingredients are to justify his high prices, but it turns out he's lying through his teeth.
• Ironic Death: He runs a cafe and the tools of his murder are his own equipment.
• Jerkass: Starting a petition to kick Jen, Connor, Amber and Justine out of the apartment complex for a single social media post is a dick move, regardless of how insensitive the post was.

Wyatt

A former tenant of the Clayborne Apartment. He’s the one who killed Kit in retaliation for stealing his girlfriend Noelle, who he then killed one year later. However, even though he killed Kit and Noelle, he wasn’t responsible for any of the other murders.

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• Domestic Abuser: Even before Noelle cheated on him with Kit, he was very possessive of her and constantly stalked her.

Noelle Samuels

Kit’s girlfriend, and a former tenant of the Clayborne Apartment. She is hung upside down from a tree, has her throat slit, and has a plastic bag thrown over her head, causing her to bleed to death and drown in her blood, and making her the seventh victim of The Druid.

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• Death by Woman Scorned: Gender-Inverted. When Noelle and Wyatt reunite at Kit's memorial, she rejects him as she is still mourning Kit. He responds by becoming the Druid one last time to kill her, leading to his arrest.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: Wyatt is such an abusive boyfriend to her that she would rather choose Kit over him.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In hindsight, while Saadia is responsible for bringing the Druid back to life, the whole season would've never happened if Noelle hadn't cheated on her boyfriend.

Police

Detective Roberta Hanson

One of the two police detectives leading the investigation into the murders being committed by The Druid. She is axed several times in the back and head by Connor, making her the twelfth victim of The Druid.

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• Faux Action Girl: She carries a gun and is a member of the police, but ultimately goes down pretty easily to Connor.
• Police Are Useless: She fails to catch the first Druid even after an entire year, and got lucky when Wyatt killed again (and it's implied that he wanted to get caught). She's also constantly one step behind Jen and Connor throughout the entire season, with her discovery of the blood trail only getting her several axe wounds courtesy of Connor - who has this view of her.
• Smug Snake: She carries herself with an air of competency, but failed to catch the first Druid before he killed again, and was easily killed by the second and third.
• Too Dumb to Live: A murderous killer is on the rampage, having killed several people in less than twenty-four hours. You should definitely follow a blood trail without getting backup. What could possibly go wrong?

Detective Pujit Singh

One of the two police detectives leading the investigation into the murders being committed by The Druid. He has his faced pushed into the blades of a running blender, making him the eleventh victim of The Druid.

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• Satellite Character: Outside of him being Detective Hanson's partner in the police force, nothing about him is revealed.

Others

Charlie

One of Saadia and Jen’s classmates. Despite not being a tenant of the Clayborne Apartment, he is killed anyway when he has a large blade shoved down his throat, making him the tenth victim of the Druid.

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• Hate Sink: Charlie, who is a borderline sociopath and an annoying, constantly giggling asshole, mocking Saadia's heritage and insulting Jen about her mother's death. When his teacher asks him how he can take such enjoyment in making other people miserable, he says "That's easy, because it's fun!" He also comes onto Saadia very strongly at the party. It's not surprising that the Druid (later on revealed to be Connor and Jen) kills him.

Homeless man

A homeless man from some of the earlier episodes.

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• Jerkass: The homeless guy who appears in the first few episodes is a complete asshole, beating Angel for not giving him a cigarette, stealing food from the coffee shop and generally being unpleasant, sometimes violently so, toward anyone and everyone.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He's last seen being questioned by the police in Xander's shop, then he disappears from the story.

The Killer

The Druid (spoilers)

The main antagonist of the season. Having killed Kit Jennings a year earlier, they have returned to kill more victims, and most of them are people who have the unfortunate luck of living in the Clayborne Apartment. The identity was created by a man named Wyatt so he could kill Kit as revenge for stealing Noelle Samuels away from him, whom he also killed. The Druid who killed everyone else, however, was actually two other people: Jen and Connor Rijkers, who are exacting revenge on everyone they blame for their mother’s suicide.

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• Big Bad Ensemble: It's revealed that it's not the same Druid who killed Kit targeting the rest of the tenants; the original Druid is still in hiding, but turns out to not be after the other neighbors, just Kit, though they can be considered the Greater-Scope Villain since their crimes led to create the second Druid.

Wyatt

• Card-Carrying Villain: Once he is outed as the Druid, he proudly admits to it as he is arrested by Detective Roberta.
• Disc-One Final Boss: The Druid, who is revealed to be Wyatt, is apprehended and arrested for Kit Jennings's murder after being caught killing Kit's girlfriend, Noelle. However, he is not responsible for the other neighbors' murders.
• Greater-Scope Villain: His petty murder of Kit led to the tragic birth of his Copycat Killer, much to his excitement of being legendized.
• Not Good with Rejection: After Noelle rejected him for the last time, he brought back the Druid to murder her.
• Woman Scorned: Gender-Inverted. He is not the guy Noelle can cheat on, as she and Kit learn the hard way.

Connor and Jen Rijkers

• Alas, Poor Villain: For all the atrocities committed by the Druid, it's hard not to feel sorry for Jen as not only does she die murdered by her best friend Saadia, but she learns that, for all the people she slaughtered, Saadia herself- the one person she thought was innocent- unwittingly had caused her family all their misery.
• Antagonistic Offspring: Jen and Connor towards their stepmother Amber, openly blaming her for Justine's suicide, culminating in Jen violently murdering her.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: This Druid turns out to have an accomplice in the murders.
• Big Bad Friend: Saadia's school friends, Connor and Jen, turn out to be the Druid, though they were intending to use her as an alibi.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Despite their usual modus operandi of killing people viciously and in ways that ensure they will definitely be dead, the Druid just leaves Angel and Dan trapped inside the cave after gassing them and glues their faces together without even killing them- which eventually results in them escaping to strike back.
• False Friend: Saadia accuses Jen of being this upon realizing that the murders were all planned by her. Jen denies this profusely, claiming that she always saw Saadia as her best friend. It's eventually clear that Jen really did see Saadia as a good friend, just not enough to avoid manipulating and using her to make an alibi.
• Hypocrite:
  • Connor complains that the police are all over the recent string of murders because Cassidy was an attractive white girl. His point may have been valid were it not for the fact that he was responsible for her death.
  • Jen tells Saadia in one scene to be a best friend just like Jen had been a best friend for her. Said scene is when Jen reveals herself as one of the Druid murderers massacring every one of the apartment building residents... where she has already drugged Saadia, tied her to a chair, revealed that she was using Saadia for the perfect alibi, and then violently murdered Amber with Saadia witnessing it. Some friend.
• Jack the Ripoff: When it seems that the Druid has returned to murder everyone to cover up Kit's death one year later, it turns out to be two new ones working together with a different motive.
• Moral Myopia: The Druid's entire motivation. Specifically, Jen and Connor. The former repeatedly says that she and Connor are the victims, and that all these people were responsible for causing her mother's suicide. Saadia throws back that even though it's true, it doesn't justify Jen and Connor brutally murdering so many people. This is especially the case after Jen drugs Saadia, ties her to a chair, murders Amber in front of her, and then has the gall to say that Saadia should be a better friend to her. She also sees her brother Connor dead in the furnace and is profoundly angry and viciously (and partly correctly) blames the still-living Dan for it, and acts like he's the monster. This is after she had Dan's daughter Cassidy, and Angel's lover Joe murdered, and forced both of these men into extremely agonizing moments where they had to see their dead loved ones.
• Pet the Dog: The Druid kills Frank Dixon in the first episode but is never shown targeting his wife or daughter. This is because Jen and Connor, along with the rest of the apartment residents, were fully aware of Frank's abuse of his wife, and they chose not to kill either of them. It helps that they were sympathetic to Jen and Connor for losing their mother and weren't participants in the online abuse that lead to her suicide.
• Slasher Smile: Following their identity reveal, the Druid has a really unnerving smile. Jen specifically, with the way she maliciously snarls at Amber before butchering her.
• Villainous Breakdown: The Druid, Jen, pretty much devolves into a screaming rage after her accomplice/brother gets killed.