This is a character page for the horror-romcom visual novel series Sucker for Love. Spoilers unmarked!
Protagonists
You
The player character of Sucker for Love and First Date. He really wants to smooch an eldritch horror, so he obtained one of Muu's books fully intending to doom the world for a chance to get lucky.- Body Horror: A lot can happen to him while you try to woo the girls. In Ln'eta's scenario, his lower face will be replaced with tentacles, while in Estir's, his face fuses with the mask you are given. No small amount of it occurs in Nyanlathotep's route, but the most notable instance is his face becoming an empty pit with a single eye, much like Nyanlathotep herself.
- Inexplicably, if you wash your face immediately after summoning a cosmic horror, your arms will be covered in blood, and you are never told exactly why.
- It gets worse. If you wash your face after performing Ln'eta's Metamorphosis, it appears that the skin around your mouth has been shredded off. Attempting to perform Metamorphosis after Estir's second-act scene will force you to rip the masquerade mask off, taking your eyes with it.
- Expy: If and when you get a look at yourself in the mirror, you'll see he resembles Vincent Brooks quite a bit.
- Love Martyr: In one of the better endings with Estir, completing the ritual has her demand the protagonist serve her forever. He responds that tending to her every whim and being treated as little more than a slave is what he'd do in a normal human marriage anyway, so the protagonist happily turns this eternal servitude into a wedding. Estir, meanwhile, is confused beyond all belief.
- Loveable Sex Maniac: He's willing to end the world multiple times over to get a kiss from eldritch abominations. The final route reveals that he's motivated by pure lust which has helped him overcome even the toughest of challenges that he has faced.
- Nightmare Fetishist: The protagonist knew what he was getting into when he first got Ln'eta's book. You can reject the girls of course, but the protagonist seems to be much more interested in getting to know them despite their dangers to him and the waking world.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: He has no given name outside of the initial "D". Depending on the route taken, he will get a nickname starting with the same initial: "Darling" by Ln'eta, "Dearest" by Estir, or "Dog" by Nyanlathotep.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: And your entire apartment, apparently. While pursuing each route, your hair color and apartment theme changes to the dominant color of each cosmic entity: pink for Ln'eta, yellow for Estir, and blue for Nyanlathotep. Washing your face between routes removes the strange colors, among other things.
- Shout-Out: To Lovecraft himself - if the player decides to talk to Ln'eta more than once, she points out a black cat by the apartment. This cat belongs to his "asshole" neighbor that also has interest in the occult. Ln'eta asks what the cat's name is... and the player quickly asks to change the subject.
- The Peeping Tom: You can choose to look at Ln'eta while she's in the shower in both her own and in Estir's route. If you do, let's just say you won't be seeing a cute humanoid under the water. Still Worth It.
Stardust
The player character of Date to Die For. Brought back to her hometown by a letter from her missing parents, she soon finds herself pursued by the Cult of the Thousand and forced to summon the Black Goat of the Woods to survive.- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: The protagonist of First Date is a male Loveable Sex Maniac with no Backstory, motivated by lust to summon eldritch horrors in order to smooch them, with no regards to his own or the world's safety, being involved heavily in the affairs of both L'neta and Estir. Stardust is a female asexual with a personal backstory involving her hometown, who only summons Rhok'zan out of desperation, and only because the ritual book assures that the summoned eldritch god is "benign".
- Ignore the Fanservice: Being asexual, Rhok'zan's attempt at seducing her falls completely flat. Stardust even has the option of spraying Rhok'zan with a squirt bottle in response!
- Love at First Sight: This is her response to seeing Rhok'zan for the first time in the demo, much to the latter's exasperation.Stardust: g-girl... pretty!
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Her given name is unknown; she's only referred to by her parents' nickname for her, Stardust.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents were among the first disappearances in Sacramen-Cho. Rhok'zan eventually confirms them to have died in the Black Woods.
The Horrors
Ln'eta
- Voiced by: Michaela Laws
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Ln'eta seems to understand human concepts of morality, but she clarifies that she is not ending reality out of any kind of malice - to her, all of reality as we know it is All Just a Dream that, no matter how pleasant, she simply has to wake up from eventually.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: You'd do well not to mention any other woman when you're with her. Not even the other cosmic horrors, and especially not her sister, Estir.
- Cute Monster Girl: A cute and curvy Rose-Haired Sweetie Cthulhumanoid. At least, that's how the protagonist sees her...
- Dream Apocalypse: Waking her up will cause the universe to be destroyed. However, her love for you is so strong that you are practically the only thing carried over from her last dream.
- Expy: Of Cthulhu, a betentacled Old One dreaming under the sea that's the grandchild of Shub-Niggurath (Ln'eta is even the granddaughter of the Shub-Niggurath expy, Rhok'zan). The nature of her dream indicates she's also playing the role of Azathoth.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Her true form, as seen in the "AWAKE END", is a giant monster looking much like the classic portrayal of Cthulhu, towering over the city.
- Horrifying the Horror: Her initial reaction to learning the protagonist's intentions with her is to request to go back to millenniums of imprisonment.
Estir / "Missy"
- Voiced by: Kayli Mills
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: The protagonist manages to get Missy to reveal her true identity as the King in Yellow by tricking her into pronouncing a word that no human can: Worcestershire.
- Expy: Of Hastur, the King in Yellow, associated with a play of the same name that causes madness, and with the city of Carcosa.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: She's the planet-star Carcosa itself; the humanoid form the protagonist interacts with is a projection by the star's light.
- Divine Incest: If you decide to press Estir for information after learning she is related to Ln'eta, she admits that she is a product of this. She is technically Ln'eta's half-sister - they only share one parent, but they have the same grandparents, meaning their parents are related by blood. She equates her family to the Greek Pantheon, and reminds the protagonist that taboos for humans aren't the same as taboos for gods.
- God in Human Form: Estir initially presents herself as an eyepatched human girl named Missy in order to get near the protagonist and try to steal him away from Ln'eta, unaware at first that he's actually more attracted to fourth-dimensional beings with non-Euclidean forms.
- The Ojou: Owing to her being the ruler of Carcosa, Estir embodies multiple aspects of the trope such as having a notable Noblewoman's Laugh, her interests in high art like theatre, and her elegant body language.
- She Is the King: Estir is based off of Hastur, but she presents as a human woman and is described with she/her pronouns. Nonetheless, she refers to herself as the King in Yellow. Justified in that normal human concepts of gender most likely do not apply to her kind, to say nothing of the fact that the various deities you interact with can look however they like to the protagonist.
- Token Human: For the given value of the word human, but she's the only one of the heroines who takes a visibly human form.
Nyanlathotep / "Auntie Nyan Nyan"
- Voiced by: Lani Minella (First Date, Date to Die For)
She is confirmed to return in Date to Die For, though her role in the story is currently unknown.
- Cat Girl: But of course!
- Cyclops: She has only one visible eye.
- Expy: Of Nyarlothotep, the Crawling Chaos, Messenger of the Outer Gods, and God of 1000 forms, one of the most-utilized being that of an Ancient Egyptian Pharoah.
- Fanservice Pack: She is visibly more muscular in Date to Die For.
- Female Feline, Male Mutt: Invoked. Auntie Nyan Nyan herself is heavily cat themed, while the player character is depicted as a man that she likens to a dog.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: She boasts of having over a thousand forms. Thirty seven of which are catgirls.
- Horrifying the Horror: When you've bested every possible obstacle she can throw at you, she becomes terrified. She can't comprehend what emotional forces propelled you to survive Ln'eta's awakenings, strive to kiss both of her nieces, and still come after her. When you respond that you're only operating on Lust, and that you're still intent on smooching her, she screams.
- I Gave My Word: Say what you will about her, she keeps her promises. Should you do exactly as she says and perform the severance ritual, she will reward you with a smooch. Say no, however...
- Mythology Gag: Her ancient Egyptian get-up is a reference towards how one of the forms that Nyarlathotep, her inspiration, was an Egyptian Pharaoh.
- Paint It Black: Her hair and fur has become black by the time of Date to Die For.
Rhok'zan
- Voiced by: Kirsten Candelore
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Besides her Extra Eyes, she alludes to having multiple hearts, as well.
- Explosive Breeder: She has a thousand grandchildren, and doesn't mind adding one more to the list... at least, she wouldn't if Stardust wanted a child in the first place.
- Expy: Of Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with 1000 Young, and Cthulhu's grandmother. Rhok'zan is even the grandmother of the Cthulhu expy, Ln'eta.
- Extra Eyes: Those lines under her eyes? They're actually another pair of eyes, which open when she's surprised.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Her true body is the entirety of the Black Woods that are overgrowing Sacramen-Cho. When Stardust asks if it means her true appearance is just a regular tree, Rhok'zan replies that it's a really sexy tree.
- I Want Grandkids: Rhok'zan wants as many grandchildren as she can have, and takes it pretty hard when Stardust explicitly states she doesn't want children or the powers that would come with having them. She does eventually get over it, though, and apologizes for losing her composure.
- Stacy's Mom: Ticks all the boxes, being a mother-goddess of fertility and sex, and pretty much the platonic ideal of motherhood. Even her goat-woman form invokes many of the MILF traits. Unfortunately, her presence inspires such fanatical lust in her worshippers that she's trapped in Sacramen-Cho.
- Tsundere: Rhok'zan has been stuck for years being abused by the Cult of the Thousand and initially mistakes Stardust for another one, leading to her being extremely moody when you meet her and it quickly becomes embarrassed grumpy shyness when she realizes Stardust is romantically attracted to her. She warms up pretty quickly when she realizes Stardust actually freed her and isn't one of her followers, though.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: This is her reaction in the demo when she realizes that Stardust is experiencing Love at First Sight rather that fear or Sanity Slippage.Rhok'zan: OH MY GOD. I thought I was driving you insane!! All that sweating, and hyperventilating— it looked like you were going to throw up!
Stardust: Oh, that just happens when I talk to girls sometimes.
Rhok'zan: WHAT?!- She also reacts this way to Stardust believing that taking Rhok'zan as her "partner" entails a romantic relationship, as opposed to a sexual one.Rhok'zan: YOU THOUGHT — (cough) You thought, of the two definitions of 'partners', that a fertility goddess was referring to the platonic meaning?!
- She also reacts this way to Stardust believing that taking Rhok'zan as her "partner" entails a romantic relationship, as opposed to a sexual one.
Others
Muu
- Voiced by: Katy Johnson (Date to Die For)
- Expy: Of Mu, a mystical lost continent and source of civilization that appears in some Mythos stories.
- The Ghost: Never seen or interacted with in any of First Date's routes, although their presence is felt through the books. Averted in Date to Die For, where they do make a physical appearance.
- Invisibility Ink: Nyanlathotep's book seems normal at first, consisting only of the spell to sever ties with the supernatural. It's only when you put a black light to it that you see the rest of the book, which teaches you how to survive the curses Auntie Nyan Nyan will inflict on you.
