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The Protagonist
A young kid who was very impatient about their Christmas gifts. So much so, that they open one early, to find a Tattletail
- Ambiguous Gender: Due to being a Featureless Protagonist, the child's gender is never specified.
- Disappeared Dad: Their father is never mentioned throughout the story.
- Fake Memories: Given loads of them from Mama Tattletail in the Kaleidoscope DLC, but since she was so hostile to you before, you know there's no way these "taped over memories" are true.
- Featureless Protagonist: You never get to see their face. There are photos throughout the house that depict a boy and girl, one of whom is the protagonist, though it's left up to the player to imagine which one it is.
- Hollywood Giftwrap: Quite capable of re-wrapping up Christmas presents perfectly, in the dark and under stress.
- Kid Hero: Pretty obvious. Word of God is that they're intended to be somewhere from 8 to 10 years old.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Defeat Mama Tattletail, and the demonic entity will purge your memories of Christmas 1998 in Kaleidoscope where you think she's your best friend, and Purple Baby Tattletail was a boring educational toy.
- Present Peeking: Opens their present five days early, with unusually lethal results.
- Security Blanket: Carries baby Tattletail around with them everywhere.
- The Voiceless: They never once speak in the game.
Tattletails
Main Tattletail
Me Tattletail! Me love you!
The Tattletail that the Protagonist got for Christmas. He is purple, and quite annoying. He also needs to be taken care of quite a bit...
- Adorable Abomination: Unlike his mother, he's a genuinely nice thing underneath, despite being capable of the same things she is. He's quite adorable, annoying as he may be.
- Armless Biped: Just like the Furbies it's based on. Its egg-shaped body borders on Cephalothorax.
- Big Good: Having to care for him to stay alive aside, he assembles and leads a ritual used to ultimately defeat Mama Tattletail.
- Character Title: Appropriately, as the main mechanic of the game, he's the titular character.
- Creepy Good: He immediately warns you about how to avoid Mama and puts together a ritual with his siblings to banish her.
- Cute, but Cacophonic: Many players find him adorable. He also has a tendency to repeatedly shout if he's hungry, needs grooming, or if it's dark, which often gets on players' nerves, especially if Mama is nearby.
- Extreme Omnivore: The collectable Tattletail eggs are similar to owl pellets in that they contain anything Tattletail can't properly digest. Based on the ones you find, they'll try to eat anything small enough to fit in their mouth.
- Friend to All Children: Tattletail loves the child, and does not take kindly to Mama threatening them.
- Good All Along: Contrary to most expectations horror games like this have, he isn't malicious at all.
- Made of Indestructium: He's a very durable thing. The second night shows that putting himself through a washing machine's spin cycle was just for fun.
- Meaningful Name: Tattletail needs to be appeased to avoid him giving away your position to Mama with his complaints. The other Tattletails live up to their name as well, seeing as they'll tell Mama exactly which room you're currently in.
- Offscreen Teleportation: How he finds his way around.
- Oh, Crap!: When he realizes Mama is patrolling the house.
- Purple Is Powerful: His fur is purple, and he's an Adorable Abomination capable of Offscreen Teleportation.
- Scary Flashlight Face: It props your flashlight underneath itself when waking you up on Night Five.
Mama Tattletail
Mama's coming!
The mother of the Tattletails... and also the most malicious one.- Abusive Parents: Considering she keeps murdering all her children's friends.
- Adorable Abomination: What she looks like at first...
- Armless Biped: Again, thanks to being a Tattletail.
- Asshole Victim: She was banished by her own children to somewhere. Even they saw how monstrous she was.
- Ax-Crazy: You don't want to meet Mama, since she's hunting for the protagonist to kill them.
- Big Bad: She's the main threat of the game.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Her first scene establishes this. See Faux Affably Evil below.
- Child Hater: Terrorises children on Christmas? Yep.
- Cute Is Evil: A bit taller than the normal Tattletails, but shares their cuteness. However, her nature is much worse than her appearance lets on.
- Evil Matriarch: How her children view her, which they have every right to.
- Eye Scream: On the game's Steam page
, it's stated that Mama Tattletail ate a child's eyes right out of their head, and that's why she was discontinued. It's just a rumor, though. - Faux Affably Evil: Gives you a not-very-well-veiled threat when you first meet her. All in the guise of a sweet storyteller.
- Hated by All: Even her own children don't like her.
- Implied Death Threat: Her Establishing Character Moment has her tell a story that, out of context, is a simple story about sending children to bed. In context, however... well, she's making it clear that you won't escape that easily, and that if she finds you, she will murder you."The children thought that Mama would never find them as long as she couldn't see them. Turn the page. But Mama could still hear the children. The pitter-patter of their little feet led Mama right to them. Turn the page. Then Mama found the children, every last one, and put them right back to bed."
- Killer Teddy Bear: It's a child's toy that is capable of murdering children.
- Mama Bear: She's so overprotective that she tries to kill anyone who simply wants to play with her children. They don't seem fond of this behavior.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Traversing the Kaleidoscope in the expansion pack offers a cassette tape, which features a description of the Waydrives, the devices that are implied to give the Tattletails their "unique personalities". Just how it does this is unknown, so it's debatable on whether it's a case of A.I. Is a Crapshoot or Haunted Technology.
- Mechanical Abomination: Though Mama Tattletail has the appearance of an oversized Tattletail doll, she's actually a monstrous, murderous supernatural entity inhabiting a mechanical vessel. Her presence is accompanied by Ominous Visual Glitches and the whirring, grinding sound of her casetophone, and the closest thing she has to a true form is the VHS tape that you banish in the end. Besides her teleportation abilities, the "Kaleidoscope" expansion reveals that she can also modify memories.
- My Beloved Smother: How her children view her.
- My Death Is Just the Beginning: Destroy her VHS, and she'll erase your memories with said VHS in Kaleidoscope, forcing you to have a Journey to the Center of the Mind to retrieve them. But she won't let you go that easily.
- Offscreen Teleportation: How she mainly moves.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: Begs this in Kaleidoscope when you begin to escape her.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When her eyes are glowing red, you're screwed.
- The Storyteller: She's intended to be a Teddy Ruxpin-esque storytelling toy, with a read-along cassette tape. The story she tells on your first encounter with her is, naturally, a not-very-well-veiled threat.
- Token Evil Teammate: She's the only Tattletail that's actually evil.
- Villain Teleportation: Just like her children!
- Would Hurt a Child: Obviously, seeing as she's trying to kill a small defenceless child.
- Yandere: Don't even think of trying to play with her babies.
Boring Tattletail
Your Christmas gift in the Kaleidoscope update. It seems... off.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: That's an understatement.
- Captain Obvious: All of its facts.
- Cool Toy: Averted. Whereas baby talking purple Tattletail, for a toy of the late 90s, is technologically leaps and bounds ahead of anything we currently possess note , this toy... is the more realistic and less cooler product.
- Creepy Monotone: Has zero inflection in its voice.
